2009-03-27 Richard Moore The passage of such shocking legislation with barely a whimper from political activist groups goes to show how well the corporate media has performed in camouflaging the legislation with flowery characterizations of helpful volunteerism, when in reality the bill creates the pretext for mandatory national service and the creation of a multi-million … Read more

2009-03-27 Richard Moore The basic fact of empire is centralization of power. This is where the militant gardeners really hit them where it hurts – in the pocket book. Decentralization is the word that causes trembling up and down the halls of the International Bank of Settlements. As the militant gardeners achieve power over their … Read more

2009-03-27 Richard Moore Far from al-Qaeda being vanquished and the threat to the United States diminished, the official said, “seven and a half years after 9/11, al-Qaeda’s core leadership has moved from Kandahar, in Afghanistan, to a location unknown in Pakistan . . . where we know they’re plotting new attacks” against this country and … Read more

2009-03-27 Richard Moore President Obama, who used the Internet as a prime driver of his successful campaign for office, turned to the Web yesterday to harness support for his economic agenda by hosting an electronic town hall meeting from the White House.      Starters: the objective is selling, not listening. Wireless microphone in hand, Obama paced … Read more

2009-03-27 Richard Moore Obama’s decision to go along with the military proposal for a “transition force” of 35,000 to 50,000 troops thus represents a complete abandonment of his own original policy of combat troop withdrawal and an acceptance of what the military wanted all along – the continued presence of several combat brigades in Iraq … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://solari.com/blog/?p=2293 The Fed Did Indeed Cause the Housing Bubble Catherine Austin Fitts  To: The Wall Street Journal Re: “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble” By: Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Dated: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Ladies and Gentlemen: In his article on your opinion page, “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble,” Alan Greenspan … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore In the al-Haramain case, Obama has not only maintained the Bush administration approach, but the dispute has intensified, with the Justice Department warning that if the judge does not change his mind, authorities could spirit away the top-secret documents. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032403501_pf.html Handling Of ‘State Secrets’ At Issue Like Predecessor, New Justice Dept. Claiming … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore In the letter, the two insurance industry groups said their members are willing to “phase out the practice of varying premiums based on health status in the individual market” if all Americans are required to get coverage. Although the letter left open some loopholes, it was still seen as a major development. … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.naturalnews.com/025925.html Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers – Will Suppression of this Science be Repeated? by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor  (NaturalNews) The world owes Fleischmann and Pons a huge apology: The cold fusion technology they announced in 1989 — which was blasted by arrogant hot fusion scientists as … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.alternet.org/story/133246 Brain-Dead Economic Reporting: If Wall Street Approves of Obama’s Plan, It Must Be a Winner! By Brad Reed, AlterNet Posted on March 25, 2009, Printed on March 26, 2009http://www.alternet.org/story/133246/ Our press corps has discovered an important scoop: Rich people approve of using taxpayer money to help rich people. Immediately after the … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/032409A http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jFL180sgT0Tc4CKGXoo6U3U59w_gD973RJ100 Court says US asked detainee to drop torture claim By DAVID STRINGER – 3 days ago LONDON (AP) — U.S. authorities asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture and agree not to speak publicly about his ordeal in exchange for his freedom, according to British court documents. A … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/032409VA http://fcw.com/articles/2009/03/23/web-diebold-admits-voting-system-flaws.aspx Diebold admits voting system flaws E-voting manufacturer says votes could be changed undetected Mar 23, 2009 Critics of electronic voting systems have had their warnings vindicated by two recent announcements. An official with Premier Election Systems, formerly known as Diebold, admitted that its audit log system was flawed enough that it would be … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/khan260309.htm The Zionist Crusade Against Palestinians By Mustafa Khan 26 arch, 2009Countercurrents.org The original crusades went on for two hundred years spread over several centuries of the Middle Ages. Another such albeit inverted crusade began with the birth of Israel and its unrelenting and merciless drive against the Palestinians in order to … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090325_obamas_toxic_advisers/ Obama’s Toxic Advisers Posted on Mar 24, 2009 By Robert Scheer Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont who is independent in spirit as well as party label, has placed a hold on President Obama’s nomination of Gary Gensler to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Sounds like a minor issue to get worked … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22280.htm America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout By Chris Hedges March 23, 2009 “TruthDig” — -In decaying societies, politics become theater. The elite, who have hollowed out the democratic system to serve the corporate state, rule through image and presentation. They express indignation at AIG bonuses and empathy with a working … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.newearthrising.org/2009/03/continued-industrial-capitalism-is-assured-death.asp New Green Deal or Not: Industrial Capitalism Is Assured Death A New Green Deal must do more than provide continued employment in the speculative, industrial growth machine that is consuming the Earth’s ecosystems By Dr. Glen Barry on March 21, 2009  Global ecological sustainability is imminently threatened by a massive ecological bubble. Global terrestrial, … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore “It’s all too much of a coincidence. What is happening is a dangerous and sinister attempt to criminalise efforts to build solidarity for the besieged people of Palestine to choose their own government.” http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/cana-m26.shtml Canada defends ban on British anti-war MP By Keith Jones  26 March 2009 Lawyers for British anti-war MP George … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/japa-m26.shtml Poverty, unemployment and homelessness hit Japanese workers By Carol Divjak  26 March 2009 Amid plummeting exports and a deep recession in Japan, hundreds of thousands of people are facing unemployment and poverty. With the IMF forecasting that output in the world’s second largest economy will fall by 5.8 percent this year, … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12870 Timothy Geithner’s toxic plan The last-ditch effort to save Wall Street will hurt taxpayers and still require another big bailout down the line By Dean Baker Global Research, March 23, 2009 The Guardian Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner‘s latest bank bailout plan is another Rube Goldberg contraption intended to funnel taxpayer dollars to bankrupt banks, without being … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.alternet.org/story/132862/ The Voters’ Uprising: President Obama What Are You Thinking? By Don Hazen, AlterNet Posted on March 23, 2009, Printed on March 26, 2009http://www.alternet.org/story/132862/ As each day’s events unfold, increasing numbers of people are getting angrier and angrier, demanding a government that represents their interests. Why? As Bill Greider so eloquently describes, … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore _______ From: Joost van Steenis <•••@••.•••> Date: March 26, 2009 11:59:43 AM GMT To: power elite <•••@••.•••> Subject: Iluminati No, Just THE Family! Amsterdam, March 27 2009    Dear reader,   I just finished digitalizing a study a few friends, including myself, carried out around 1980 about the power of the Dutch … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore In explaining why the large banks are receiving hundreds of billions worth of public funds for running their institutions into the ground, Obama said, “Here’s the problem. It’s almost like they’ve got—they got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger. You don’t want them to blow … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore The administration’s signature proposal is to vest a single federal agency with the power to police risk across the entire financial system.  … Geithner’s testimony will not identify which agency should hold those powers, but sources familiar with the matter said that the Federal Reserve, widely viewed as the most obvious choice, is … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/032509HA http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202429350261 Medicaid Suit Could Determine Who Decides Care: Doctor or State Alyson M. Palmer 03-25-2009 State governments and Medicaid plan administrators have shown keen interest in a case argued before Atlanta’s federal appeals court on Tuesday that could determine whether doctors or state officials get to decide how much medical care … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/military-industrial-complex-prepares-mass-graves-for-us-citizens/ Military Industrial Complex Prepares Mass Graves for U.S. Citizens Shepard Ambellas Infowars March 25, 2009 A usually quiet U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Cemetery, has been unusually active lately. The National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona is a beautiful 225 acre facility located in Phoenix. For the past 30-45 days in the … Read more

2009-03-26 Richard Moore http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2009/02/11/inside-source-reveals-fema-dhs-prepairing-for-mass-graves-and-martial-law-near-chicago/ http://tinyurl.com/bz5z3t Inside source reveals FEMA & DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law near Chicago February 11th, 2009 | Audio, Martial Law By: D. H. Williams @ 10:41 PM – EST An Indiana county municipal official in the vicinity of Chicago reveals the contents of his meetings with FEMA and the Department … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore http://www.opednews.com/articles/Movie-Review-The-Obama-De-by-John-Kusumi-090322-963.html Film Review: The Obama Deception By John Kusumi Alex Jones’ new documentary, The Obama Deception, packs a powerful punch. Jones is known as a conservative / libertarian talk show host, activist, and filmmaker, running InfoWars.com (and .net) and PrisonPlanet.com (and .tv) web sites. As one would expect from the title, Jones … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore Besides seizing a company outright, the document states, the Treasury Secretary could use a range of tools to prevent its collapse, such as guaranteeing losses, buying assets or taking a partial ownership stake. Such authority also would allow the government to break contracts, such as the agreements to pay $165 million in … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore This Senate delay was predicted in our earlier posting, this article by Barry Grey: Obama maneuvers to protect Wall Street bonuses http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/be9dd93b2519a7df?hl=en The Masters of the Universe are certainly the masters in Washington. rkm ___ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032303201.html Senate Will Delay Action on Punitive Tax on Bonuses By Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane Washington … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore http://tinyurl.com/4lc24e VIDEONETDAILYMilitant Obama youth march to ‘Alpha, Omega’ chantTeen boys in uniform drill, shout, profess, ‘Yes we can’ Posted: October 04, 2008 2:58 pm Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily ___________________________ subscribe mailto: •••@••.••• websites:  http://www.governourselves.org/ http://escapingthematrix.org/ http://cyberjournal.org recent archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newslog/messages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberjournal/messages old archives:  http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Moderator: •••@••.•••  (comments welcome)

2009-03-24 Richard Moore http://tinyurl.com/co5ezh OBAMA WATCH CENTRALHouse adopts plan for ‘volunteer’ corpsAlso requires new evaluation of ‘mandatory’ service for all Posted: March 19, 2009 4:58 pm Eastern By Bob Unruh© 2009 WorldNetDaily The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan to set up a new “volunteer corps” and consider whether “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=node/599 The City That Ended Hunger The City that Ended Hunger A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. by Frances Moore Lappé Published on Friday, March 13, 2009 by YES! Magazine “To search for solutions to hunger means to act … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/21-6 The Virtues of Public Anger and the Need for More by Glenn Greenwald With lightning speed and lockstep unanimity, opinion-making elites jointly embraced and are now delivering the same message about the public rage triggered this week by the AIG bonus scandal:   This scandal is insignificant.  It’s just adistraction.  And, most important of all, public … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/549204/-/rjjeryz/-/index.html Hungry or not, don’t force GM down our throats By ANURADHA MITTAL Posted Saturday, March 21 2009 at 13:14 The biotech industry is using the increase in global hunger as a tool to win support for GM crops. Its tactics of “poor washing” (we must accept genetic engineering to increase production and improve livelihoods of farmers) … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore http://www.naturalnews.com/025852.html (NaturalNews) The health community is up in arms over the discovery that a highly-respected and influential clinical researcher, Dr. Scott Reuben, fabricated the data used in over twenty pharmaceutical studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals. Read the full NaturalNews report on this topic here:http://www.naturalnews.com/025833.html These studies promoted the safety and “benefits” … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=385 Call on U.S. Government to Halt Ecologically Misguided Support for Large Scale Biofuel Since 23.03.09 27 people have participated in this protest action. Biofuel from food and already stressed ecosystems is immoral and unsustainable Please support US environmental and social justice groups calling upon the new Obama administration to halt financial … Read more

2009-03-24 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/tasr-m24.shtml Bay City, Michigan: Fifteen-year-old dies after Taser shooting By Tom Eley  24 March 2009 On Sunday, a Bay City, Michigan teenager died soon after police used a taser “stun gun” on him. Police were responding to a reported altercation between Brett Elder, 15, and another man early Sunday morning. Police claim … Read more

2009-03-23 Richard Moore http://www.opednews.com/articles/Seeds-of-Deception-10-pg-by-Rady-Ananda-090322-919.html Seeds of Deception: 10-pg summary by Author Jeffrey M. Smith By Rady Ananda Current bills in Congress are considered threatening to organic farmers and those who refuse to use genetically modified seeds or organisms.  A National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is proposed which many consider to be a privacy infringement, at … Read more

2009-03-23 Richard Moore In a chapter entitled “Local Is The New Global,” the author argues, with solid evidence, the reversal of globalization and why issues must now be addressed “with a shift toward regionalization and localization of economic activity and investment flows.” This may evolve quite naturally as myriad divisions globally erupt and reinforce the … Read more

2009-03-23 Richard Moore http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=3380 YES! Magazine YES! Online:  Path to a New Economy Too Big to Fail is Too Bigby David KortenDavid Korten responds to the first ever media interview given by a Federal Reserve Chairman. In a September 22, 2008 interview with Amy Goodman onDemocracy Now!, Senator Bernie Sanders famously said that if a bank “is … Read more