Year: 2019

Bcc: FYI Jan Slakov (aka rebel jan) wrote: Dear Richard and readers of the cyberjournal, Some of you may remember me, as back in the ‘90s I worked with Richard in moderating a “Renaissance” list through via Richard’s cyberjournal efforts. It’s interesting to see how our thinking has diverged over the years. It got to the point, … Read more…

Jackson David wrote: Dear Richard, So you have it all figured, have you l  And you didn’t need science, or even mathematics to prove it. Just your personal opinion based on a pattern that you claim to have detected in one set of measurements. You have no explanation for the pattern. That takes science, and mathematics.   Even … Read more…

There’s nothing complicated about understanding climate change. It’s just a matter of looking at the climate record, and noticing the obvious patterns. The records we will be looking at are from the official ice core data, which I downloaded from the NOAA website. First let’s look at the long-term record, covering the past 420,000 years. … Read more…

Claudia Rice wrote: Hi Richard- it seems many of us have hit the hard truth that mass societies get the perception management they deserve. That doesn’t mean however that there are not plenty of us out and about who question authority and form affinity groups of like minded folks. What seems certain to me is that the planet … Read more…

Bcc: FYI   Previous post: rkm: The story of my quest for understanding   —— yvonne ollivier wrote: Richard, I thank you for your thoughts. I do not recall where I first stumbled on your writing, but I am glad that I did. … Nice to hear from you yvonne. Permit me to excerpt the rest … Read more…

My career was in the software industry in Silicon Valley, working mostly for startups, and ending up at Apple and then Oracle. On my own time I read extensively about history and public affairs, wanting to understand how things really work in the world, how policies are really made and who benefits. Early on I … Read more…

Robin Upton wrote: Dear Richard, I don’t expect you’ve heard of me, but I’ve long been impressed by your  June 2000 essay, Escaping The Matrix. This came to my attention through a radio show, episode #87 of Unwelcome Guests. I now produce that show myself, and I just published a reworking of the original 2001 audio, expanded with supporting bits of … Read more…

Bcc: FYI Previous posting: more dialog: capitalism | climate —— Howard Switzer wrote: I agree the problem is elite rule but capitalism is how they rule because it is the private control of the creation of money (capital) for profit, issuing all money as interest bearing debt and you cannot pay off debt with debt so … Read more…

Bcc: FYI Previous posting: dialog re/ climate change —— Part 1: capitalism, elites, and democracy rkm posted: …I think it is a mistake to identify capitalism as ‘the’ enemy. Instead I suggest we need to identify elite rule as ‘the’ enemy… William Bowles responded: Richard, NOT capitalism? So who are the elites? Extraterrestrials? Come on Richard, there’s … Read more…

Bcc: FYI Greetings, I shared a temperature graph with my friend William Bowles, along with the claim that the past 200 years of warming has been entirely natural. He sent the following impassioned reply: Richard, your graph may or may not be correct but it completely misses the point that us socialists posit, namely environmental destruction … Read more…

Bcc: FYI Original article here. Peter Meyer wrote: Hi Richard, I read all the interview with Fusaro.  My overall reaction is that I’m insufficiently acquainted with political thought to be able to form an opinion on his views of the subjects discussed, but I am not inclined to disagree with them.  I perceive the effect of a global … Read more…

Greetings, I highly recommend this article, and I’d be interested in your comments. rkm _______ Interview With Fusaro: Fools On The Left Fight A Non-Existent Fascism And Accept The Market The sovereign nation states, in modernity, have not only been the places of imperialism, nationalism and wars, as the order of the dominant discourse repeats, which wants … Read more…

Bcc: FYI Original article: The Elite Plan for a New World Social Order When I earlier posted a critiqueof the ‘Green New Deal’, I expected to receive mixed reviews from readers. On the one hand, I believe the article is well documented and presents convincing evidence. On the other hand, in this era of a climate-crisis … Read more…

The Elite Plan for a New World Social Order Richard K. Moore – 1 February 2010Featured on other sites:   Global Research    New Dawn   Serendipity Visit my blog: cyberjournal.org The era of growth – capitalists vs. aristocracy When the Industrial Revolution began in Britain, in the late 1700s, there was lots of money to be made by investing in factories … Read more…

Original article: Word to the Wise: Beware the Green New Deal! by Geraldine Perry / April 4th, 2019 Tasha wrote: Oh No! Not another conspiracy!!!>>>???? TashaMaria Tromer I’m guessing that your comment is meant ironically Tasha. From our past correspondence I’m sure you’re aware that the whole system we live under is conspiracy to its … Read more…

Word to the Wise: Beware the Green New Deal! by Geraldine Perry / April 4th, 2019 Seemingly overnight, the Green New Deal has arrived. Given the sorry state of our environment, what possible objections could there be? In this case, plenty – and they all trace back to the Green New Deal’s deeply complex and surreptitious … Read more…