2008-05-26 Richard Moore She stressed that the current food aid system must be well resourced, efficient, and flexible because “the capacity of the food aid system is being severely tested as the world tries to cope with this crisis, the recent disasters in Myanmar and China and ongoing humanitarian efforts.” “Furthermore, countries need to be … Read more
2008-05-26 Richard Moore The HAARP system is fully operational and in many regards dwarfs existing conventional and strategic weapons systems. While there is no firm evidence of its use for military purposes, Air Force documents suggest HAARP is an integral part of the militarisation of space. One would expect the antennas already to have been … Read more
2008-05-24 Richard Moore http://www.foreignpolicy.com/resources/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21008&sid=1dba58135f68ccc35c7f69da0212c381 http://tinyurl.com/5lp9ws National Endowment for Devouring Countries One of the American foundations which featured prominently in every color-coded “revolution” and every enforced regime change throughout the world during the past three decades, the allegedly non-government National Endowment for Democracy (NED), is currently charged of supporting at least three present day projects for … Read more
2008-05-24 Richard Moore http://www.dejanlucic.net/THE%20ROTHSCHILD%20OCTOPUS.html http://tinyurl.com/5rqwn7 [photos in original] THE ROTHSCHILD OCTOPUS Written by: Vlada Sindjelic Marxism, globalism, the new world order, liberalism…All these are euphemisms for a phenomenon embodied in the invisible empire of the Rothschil The Rothschilds do not die, they simply depart into history, and their place is inconspicuously taken by their sons … Read more
2008-05-24 Richard Moore Note: an interesting article, and it understates the nature of the tipping point, by not mentioning the effect on the production costs of food, and the additional effect on food prices due to the biofuel market. -rkm http://www.truthout.org/article/130-oil-is-that-a-tipping-point http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-econ24-2008may24,0,6841046,full.story Relentless rise in oil prices tests economy’s resilience After years of increases, some … Read more
2008-05-24 Richard Moore Part 4 of 4 – Afterword _______________ http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbardby Murray N. Rothba This first appeared in World Market Perspective (1984) and later as a monograph published by the Center for libertarian Studies (1995). Afterword By Justin Raimondo. Afterword By Justin Raimondo Murray Rothbard’s … Read more
2008-05-24 Richard Moore Part 3 of 4 _______________ http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbardby Murray N. Rothba This first appeared in World Market Perspective (1984) and later as a monograph published by the Center for libertarian Studies (1995). Afterword By Justin Raimondo. LBJ and the Power Elite Lyndon Johnson’s foreign … Read more
2008-05-24 Richard Moore Part 2 of 3 _______________ http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbardby Murray N. Rothba This first appeared in World Market Perspective (1984) and later as a monograph published by the Center for libertarian Studies (1995). Afterword By Justin Raimondo. The Round Table In England, Cecil Rhodes had … Read more
2008-05-24 Richard Moore Part 1 of 3 _______________ http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbardby Murray N. Rothba This first appeared in World Market Perspective (1984) and later as a monograph published by the Center for libertarian Studies (1995). Afterword By Justin Raimondo. Businessmen or manufacturers can either be genuine free … Read more
2008-05-24 Richard Moore Bcc: contributors _________ http://waccobb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=36543 _______________________________ Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 17:24:48 -0700 To: •••@••.••• From: Stewart Brand Subject: [SALT] Making money WITH the poor (Iqbal Quadir talk) Kevin Kelly’s summary: When Iqbal Quadir applied to US colleges from his home town in Bangladesh he was surprised to discover that not all American … Read more
2008-05-24 Richard Moore “The fact is that after September 11 [we did] whatever was legal in the face of not just the attacks of September 11, but the anthrax attacks that followed,” she said. She underscores here the Reichstag Fire nature of 9/11, its role in justifying whatever is done in its wake. -rkm __________ http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/rice-m24.shtml … Read more
2008-05-23 Richard Moore http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7417123.stm Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice By David Shukman Environment correspondent, BBC News Dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap has emerged from research during an expedition by the Canadian military. Scientists travelling with the troops found major new fractures during an assessment of the state of giant ice … Read more
2008-05-23 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/article/russian-chinese-leaders-denounce-us-missile-defense-plans Russian, Chinese Leaders Denounce US Missile Defense Plans Friday 23 May 2008 by: Agence France-Presse Beijing – Russia and China on Friday denounced US plans for a global missile defence shield and signed a billion-dollar nuclear contract as Russia’s new President Dmitry Medvedev made his diplomatic debut. Medvedev was in Beijing … Read more
2008-05-23 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/iraq-m23.shtml As Senate approves new war funding, US massacres Iraqi civilians By Joseph Kishore 23 May 2008 US helicopters massacred at least eight civilians, including several children, in an operation in northern Iraq on Wednesday. The civilians were killed when strafed or bombed by US helicopters, though there are conflicting accounts about … Read more
2008-05-23 Richard Moore http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/us/23raid.html Court Says Texas Illegally Seized Sect’s Children May 23, 2008 By RALPH BLUMENTHAL HOUSTON — A Texas appeals court ruled on Thursday that the state had illegally seized up to 468 children from their homes at a polygamist ranch in West Texas. The decision abruptly threw the largest custody case in … Read more
2008-05-23 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/pringle150508.htm Curtain Time For Barack Obama – Part I By Evelyn Pringle 15 May, 2008Countercurrents.org Republicans have enough damaging information against Barack Obama to knock him off the ballot before the November election. Those at the top of the Democratic Party know this by now and voters need to recognize that if … Read more
2008-05-23 Richard Moore http://www.cgfi.org/2008/05/05/satellite-indicates-23-year-global-cooling/ SATELLITE INDICATES 23-YEAR GLOBAL COOLING May 5, 2008 BY DENNIS T. AVERY CHURCHVILLE VA—Now it’s not just the sunspots that predict a 23-year global cooling. The new Jason oceanographic satellite shows that 2007 was a “cool” La Nina year—but Jason also says something more important is at work: The much … Read more
2008-05-23 Richard Moore http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/obamas-secret-war-profiteering-tax Obama’s Secret War Profiteering Tax By Greg Palast May 22nd, 2008 – 3:03pm ET By Greg Palast for TomPaine.com/OurFuture.org [New York, May 22, 2008.] I can’t make this up: In a hotel room in Brussels, the chief executives of the world’s top oil companies unrolled a huge map of the Middle … Read more
2008-05-23 Richard Moore http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=3eaf6fe9-4d74-4ef0-afe9-33f76f96dd0e U.S. war resister getting deported The Edmonton Journal Thursday, May 22, 2008 TORONTO / Corey Glass, a former U.S. National Guardsman who deserted to Canada in 2006 to avoid serving in Iraq, was told Wednesday that his application to stay in Canada has been rejected. A spokesperson for Citizenship and … Read more
2008-05-23 Richard Moore http://www.countercurrents.org/fletcher220508.htm A Tale Of Two Storms: Myanmar And New Orleans By Bill Fletcher, Jr. 22 May, 2008Black Commentator Sometimes you hear things that are so unbelievable that you wonder whether it was all in your imagination. That is precisely the way that i felt in listening to comments by the Bush administration on … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore Note: an interesting question re/this cyclone: was it caused by US weather intervention ala HAARP? -rkm http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/tort-m22_prn.shtml More threats of international intervention amid continuing Burmese cyclone disaster By our correspondent 22 August 2008 UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon is due to meet with Burmese leaders today in an effort to pressure them … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/tort-m22.shtml FBI agents created “war crimes file” documenting US torture By Joe Kay 22 May 2008 FBI agents who witnessed the torture of detainees at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba created what they called a “war crimes” file documenting what they had seen, according to a report released Tuesday … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore “To pull Syria out of the orbit of Iran and return it to the more pro-Western world of Egypt, Jordan and even Saudi Arabia would be a major victory for Israel.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/world/middleeast/22mideast.html May 22, 2008 Israel Holds Peace Talks With Syria By ETHAN BRONNER JERUSALEM — Israel and Syria announced on Wednesday … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore Note: This is an extremely interesting article. Somalia, along with Cuba and Venezuela, provides a very useful model of how decentralized societies can operate. Of course that puts it on the US enemies list. -rkm http://www.mises.org/story/2066 Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It Daily Article | Posted on 2/21/2006 by Yumi Kim Somalia … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore http://www.infowars.com/?p=2278 Government Insider: Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Pakistan Daily May 21, 2008 Keep in mind when reading this, that the man being interviewed is no two-bit internet conspiracy buff. Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades. This courageous man … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore http://www.counterpunch.org/model05212008.html May 21, 2008 Consciousness of Guilt Genocide in Iraq? By DAVID MODEL Despite the precipitous plunge in his popularity and growing criticism of his competency, character, and style, George W. Bush is not really that much different from other presidents with respect to his hegemonic ambitions or his proclivity to use … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/article/lebanese-political-factions-reach-agreement http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052100120.html Lebanon Accord Offers a Respite Essential Issues Still Unresolved By Anthony Shadid and Alia Ibrahim Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, May 22, 2008; A01 BEIRUT, May 21 — The agreement Wednesday to end an 18-month crisis that brought Lebanon to the brink of civil war has redrawn the map of … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3255.htm A Nazi in the (pocket) is worth four in the Bush (family) Part One – Part II ‘Frauds-R-Us’ Prescott Bush, granpa of Dubya The Nazi’s American Banker What is interesting about the history of the Bush family are the connections; Avril Harriman, Allen Dulles, the Rockefellers (the start of the oil connection), James … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/all-the-presidents-nazis_b_102022.html http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19949.htm All the President’s Nazis (Real and Imagined): An Open Letter to Bush By Larisa Alexandrovna Dear Mr. Bush, 19/01/08 “Huffington Post” — 15/05/08 — — Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust … Read more
2008-05-22 Richard Moore http://countercurrents.org/hassan210508.htm Myanmar: “Humanitarianism” As Fig Leaf By Ghali Hassan 21 May, 2008Countercurrents.org Once again, the drums of “humanitarianism” invasion are beating, as Western media and Western politicians began the familiar propaganda against Burma (Myanmar). Devastated by Cyclone Nargis in the Irrawaddy Delta and U.S.-imposed economic sanctions, Myanmar qualifies for U.S.-sponsored ‘Shock and … Read more
2008-05-21 Richard Moore http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2008/05/12551.php New Orleans Independent Media Center Neo-Liberalism, the SPP, and the assault on the Black Nation by Kali Akuno Tuesday, May. 20, 2008 at 6:22 PM The 4th SPP summit demonstrated to transnational capital how successfully a major US city and state can be transformed to realize profits. If transformation can be … Read more
2008-05-21 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/iran-m21.shtml Israeli press reports US pledge of war on Iran—is Bush preparing an October Surprise? By Bill Van Auken 21 May 2008 An Israeli press report that US President George W. Bush intends to launch a military attack on Iran before he leaves office at the beginning of next year prompted a … Read more
2008-05-21 Richard Moore http://links.org.au/node/423 A brief socialist history of the automobile By Rob Rooke No single commercial product in the history of capitalism has had a greater effect on the economy and politics than the automobile. No other product has been such a lever to increase consumption and increase markets in the developed world. It … Read more
2008-05-21 Richard Moore [Part 2] One list of current reasons for an Israeli nuclear capability is: • To deter a large conventional attack, • To deter all levels of unconventional (chemical, biological, nuclear) attacks, • To preempt enemy nuclear attacks, • To support conventional preemption against enemy nuclear assets, • To support conventional preemption against enemy non-nuclear (conventional, chemical, biological) … Read more
2008-05-21 Richard Moore ____________________________ Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Cook <•••@••.•••> Date: 8 May 2008 03:45:08 IST Subject: Israel’s Nuclear Capabilities This report by a U.S. Army researcher using unclassified sources takes us to 1999 in an assessment of Israel’s nuclear capabilities. The author states that Israel’s nuclear potency is equivalent to that of the … Read more
2008-05-21 Richard Moore http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/19/homeless.mom/index.html Mom forced to live in car with dogs Story Highlights Mother of three grown children says, “This is my life in this car right now” Santa Barbara, California, allows homeless to sleep in cars in 12 parking lots Affluent city has seen a rise in homelessness during California’s housing crisis Advocate: … Read more
2008-05-21 Richard Moore http://www.rense.com/general81/chemical.htm A Chemtrail Story From Gary Jacobucci 5-1-8 A Jeff, I live in the town of Wells, Nevada a town one square mile in size with a population of about 1,200. I made a trip to Reno on Feb, 11th of this year, driving from the east side of the state to the west. About half way … Read more
2008-05-20 Richard Moore “The Pentagon said a Navy aircraft on a counternarcotics mission had navigation problems that led it to stray into Venezuelan airspace on Saturday.“ – not likely, rkm http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008M.shtml http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1955667220080520 U.S. Navy aircraft violates Venezuela’s airspace Mon May 19, 2008 8:35pm EDT By Patricia Rondon CARACAS (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy jet violated … Read more
2008-05-20 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052008L.shtml http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/georgias-leader-vows-to-prevent-russia-reviving-the-soviet-union-831030.html Georgia’s leader vows to prevent Russia reviving the Soviet Union By Shaun Walker in Tbilisi Tuesday, 20 May 2008 Two photos stand out in the office of the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili – there’s an autographed one of him with his buddy, George Bush; then there’s the unsmiling one with … Read more
2008-05-20 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/afgh-m20.shtml The New York Times and Washington’s new prison in Afghanistan By Alex Lantier 20 May 2008 On May 17 the New York Times reported on plans for a new, US-run prison complex at Bagram air base north of the Afghan capital, Kabul. The prison complex would occupy 40 acres on the base, house … Read more