2001-03-26 Richard Moore Friends, _Many people have written in response to the recent series of postings. Some are very encouraging, some are aghast, and some are unhappy with the way I’m running the list. I consider all of this a very good sign – the material is _getting to people. That’s the whole point. I … Read more…
2001-03-26 Richard Moore Friends, Please take a look at our updated, friendlier website – and if you like it spread the word… and of course your comments are more than welcome. The Guidebook is now complete, and the most recent series (re/The Takers) has been refined and posted as ‘Returning to Our Roots – the … Read more…
2001-03-23 Richard Moore ______________________________________________________________ Empowering the movement: unity through harmonization rkm – http://cyberjournal.org “…if the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds. Not by programs. By people with changed minds.” – Story of B, p. 73. “We don’t have to change HUMANKIND in order to survive. We only have to … Read more…
2001-03-20 Richard Moore 2b. A new economics & politics: starting with the community “The challenge before us is to reverse our present backward course and re-create ourselves as contributors to the advancement of life’s epic journey. It starts with choosing life as our guiding metaphor and continues with deepening our understanding of life’s ways in … Read more…
2001-03-19 Richard Moore ============================================================================ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:10:31 -0800 (PST) From: Jessica Markland <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: rkm> A change of vision: returning to the Garden To: •••@••.••• Dear Richard: I get so much out of your e-mails. Today I tried to get a copy of The Story of B. Local library is bringing … Read more…
2001-03-17 Richard Moore 2. Where do we go from here? 2a. A change of vision: returning to the Garden “Before our era, the chorus of distress that had assembled over the ten thousand years of our cultural life consisted of nine voices: war, crime, corruption, rebellion, famine, plague, slavery, genocide, and economic collapse. Beginning in … Read more…
2001-03-15 Richard Moore Friends, Thanks again to all of you who entered into the discussion about capitalism, elites, etc. It is by such interactive dialog that these ideas have been developed; I consider myself to be a scribe, part of a collaborative endeavor. Several people asked permission to publish that series in print or on … Read more…
2001-03-13 Richard Moore Bcc: contributors __________________ Dear friends, We got _lots of feedback on the three-part series I posted on capitalism, the rise of elites, and the opportunity offered by globalization. I hope the dialog continues… some strong viewpoints have come out, and these topics are of central importance in understanding our circumstances and our … Read more…
2001-03-09 Richard Moore Globalization: a unique opportunity for humanity to change course In many ways there is nothing unique or new about globalization. The centralization of power, and the monopolization of markets, is now occurring on a global scale – but the process is very much the same as what occurred earlier in each major … Read more…
2001-03-08 Richard Moore __________________________________________________________________ The birth of capitalism The story of capitalism begins in the late 1700s in Scotland and northern England, with the birth of the Industrial Revolution. Several particular ingredients came together there, which collectively launched the world onto its current path. One of those ingredients was an impressive series of mechanical inventions … Read more…
2001-03-08 Richard Moore The rise of capitalist elites Central to Smith’s model of a market economy was the condition that all buyers and sellers must be small. In this way, prices could not be influenced by individual actors, but would reach a fair and reasonable level – through fair competition between sellers, and comparison shopping … Read more…
2001-03-07 Richard Moore ============================================================================ The Institute of Science in Society http://www.i-sis.org/ No 7/8 February 2001 The New Thought Police Suppressing Dissent in Science http://www.i-sis.org/sciencewar-pr.shtml Mae-Wan Ho and Jonathan Mathews report on the seamless way in which the corporations, the state and the scientific establishment are co-ordinating their efforts to suppress scientific dissent and force feed … Read more…
2001-03-05 Richard Moore ============================================================================ From: “Boudewijn Wegerif” <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: SV: cj,rn> recap of rkm’s ‘philosophy’ Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:33:03 +0100 Hi Richard, I would like to send your open letter to my WHAT IS GOING ON friends of truth list, as follows — okay? If YES, please pass the text of … Read more…
2001-03-01 Richard Moore Friends, For about ten years I was part of a sufi study group led by Jim Fadiman, an rn subscriber and co-founder of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in Menlo Park, California. The group had a reunion last month, which I was unable to attend, and here is a letter I sent … Read more…
2001-02-28 Richard Moore ============================================================================ From: Robert Weissman <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: [corp-focus] Cuban Impressions Sender: •••@••.••• List-Subscribe: <http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/corp-focus>, <mailto:•••@••.•••?subject=subscribe> List-Id: Sharp-edged commentary on corporate power <corp-focus.lists.essential.org> List-Archive: <http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:21:10 -0500 (EST) Cuban Impressions By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Our first, short visit to Cuba has left us impressed with … Read more…
2001-02-26 Richard Moore ============================================================================ Delivered-To: moderator for •••@••.••• Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 13:07:39 -0500 From: Nurev Ind Research <•••@••.•••> To: [lots of folks] Subject: US crews involved in Colombian battle] US crews involved in Colombian battle http://thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=49768 Jeremy McDermott In Medellín US PERSONNEL have become involved in fighting in Colombia’s 37-year civil war for … Read more…
2001-02-23 Richard Moore ============================================================================ Delivered to: •••@••.••• Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:01:55 -0500 To: •••@••.••• From: Snezana Vitorovich <•••@••.•••> Subject: Iraque:The Great Cover Up I know this is a long message but we all have interest in this topic .The same story is repeating in Yugoslavia. IRAQ: THE GREAT COVER-UP John Pilger: 19 Jan. … Read more…
2001-02-23 Richard Moore ============================================================================ From: •••@••.••• Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:13:49 EST Subject: Social Construction of Terrorism To: •••@••.••• Sender: •••@••.••• Greetings, For anyone interested in the issue of the social construction of terrorism may find this short piece of interest. Khaldoun Samman ————————————————— On Sunday, Prof. Ehud Sprinzak, the so-called “expert on extremist … Read more…
2001-02-20 Richard Moore ============================================================================ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:58:26 -0400 X-Sender: •••@••.••• Mime-Version: 1.0 To: “Bruna’s list” <•••@••.•••> From: •••@••.••• (Jan Slakov) Subject: Chossudovsky: Bagdhad bombing & globalization From: “Janet M Eaton” <•••@••.•••> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:13:54 +0000 Subject: Bombing of Bagdad helps Wall Street -Chossudovsky War and globalization go hand in … Read more…
2001-02-19 Richard Moore This is a kind of cross-over piece, sort of right-wing, and sort of not. If you lose interest in the Oklahoma stuff, fast forward to “GENETIC ENGINEERING ENDANGERING ALL LIFE ?” Ice nine may have been only science fiction, but biotech has the same potential dangers. regards, richard ============================================================================ From: “Boudewijn Wegerif” … Read more…
2001-02-17 Richard Moore Ted, Thanks for this. rkm http://cyberjournal.org ============================================================================ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:56:13 -0500 To: •••@••.••• (Richard Moore) [and others] From: ted lumley Subject: Signs of the coming revolution. dear all, an excerpt from an interesting article in the Utne Reader, along with some appended thoughts; #5 Signs of the Coming Revolution … Read more…
2001-02-16 Richard Moore The list archives hadn’t been updated since 18 Dec, and they ended with ‘ENVISIONING A SUCCESSFUL MOVEMENT’. Since then the ‘envisioning’ has progressed considerably. The archives are now current. rkm ps> actually, now that this has been posted, they’re out of date again.
2001-02-15 Richard Moore ============================================================================ From: “Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space” <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: RE: How do we keep our movment from getting hijacked? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:22:17 -0500 Richard, Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy and appreciate reading your peices. Bruce Gagnon ============================================================================ From: “John … Read more…
2001-02-12 Richard Moore 2/12/2001, X asked me off list: > Unfortunately, most of the time, the people who start movements are replaced by people who hijack the movement …which leaves me with a question — is it possible to create a mass movement that can’t be hijacked? Dear X, Please understand that when I started … Read more…
2001-02-10 Richard Moore Friends, There’s a beautiful, meditative spot in County Wicklow called ‘The Meeting of the Waters’, where four rivers all merge together. I think of that spot as a symbol for what has been happening over the past three weeks, since I posted “A Harmonization Movement?”. That attracted attention from like-minded people, and … Read more…
2001-02-07 Richard Moore Dear cj, This article examines the ‘Anti-Terrorist Act of 1996’, revealing it for what it is: the establishement of a fascist police state. One might wonder how such a Bill got passed in the first place, and why there was virtually no debate. I looked back over my Guardian Weeklys, in the … Read more…
2001-02-04 Richard Moore Dear cj, The Harmonization Movement seems to be getting underway… but of course it’s always been underway – that is after all the way of nature. What’s happening now is that some of the tributaries of the flow are beginning to come together, with the self-awareness of ‘movement’. One of the folks … Read more…
2001-02-02 Richard Moore ============================================================================ Delivered-To: •••@••.••• From: “Marty Jezer” <•••@••.•••> To: “Marty Jezer” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Friday’s Commentary: Bingo, Bango, Bongo Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:38:20 -0500 From the Brattleboro (VT) Reformer, 2/2/2001 As always, feel free to re-post this commentary on the internet. (Commercial websites should contact me). If you wish to stop receiving … Read more…
2001-01-30 Richard Moore ============================================================================ Delivered-To: moderator for •••@••.••• From: •••@••.••• Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:20:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: Preparing for War in Space? http://www.herald.com/thispage.htm?content/today/opinion/digdocs/037340.htm Published Friday, January 26, 2001 Miami Herald by Ira Chernus Rumsfeld preparing for war in space? Last century, in times of peace, U.S. military researchers were busy inventing new weapons … Read more…
2001-01-27 Richard Moore Friends, I’ve gotten lots of feedback, and now I’m in the process of revising the Guidebook and integrating the material from the Manifesto. The thesis of this section is that globalization has sown the seeds of the regime’s destruction. Perhaps you can think of other examples to include, and of course critique … Read more…
2001-01-24 Richard Moore Dear cj, The tempo is picking up re/ the Harmonization Movement, as a consequence of the publication of “Manifesto for Global Transformation”. Harmonization seems to be developing between my own efforts, those of Tom Atlee (http://www.co-intelligence.org), John Bunzl (http://www.simpol.org), Anup Shah (http://www.globalissues.org), and others. I don’t want to always cross-post items between … Read more…
2001-01-23 Richard Moore (Bcc: some colleagues) 1/22/2001, Richard N Hutchinson wrote to social-movements: > And whether “effective decentralized counter-measures” are possible to the end of totally wiping out hierarchy remains an open question. Yes, this is the open question, and it’s an important one. Your intuition and experience tells you that hierarchy is efficient, and … Read more…
2001-01-22 Richard Moore Friends, After posting the ‘Manifesto for Global Transformation’, I was struck by a certain irony. Here I am proposing a harmonization process as the basis of both the movement and the new society – and yet, my own behaviour tends to be argumentative and confrontational more than it is harmonizing. Am I … Read more…
2001-01-19 Richard Moore Friends, Over the past month or two I’ve been sharing with you sections of the Guidebook as they were drafted. Your feedback and responses have been most appreciated. The first chapter, about the world today, was a refinement of earlier ideas, and I’m fairly satisfied with that chapter as is. There were … Read more…
2001-01-16 Richard Moore 1/16/2001, Jay Fenello wrote to FixGov: > Is it possible to have good without evil? Good question. Here are some thoughts about how that might relate to our issues… And Jay, I’d like to hear your thoughts on this question. — Perceptually, there can be no light without dark. That is, we … Read more…
2001-01-16 Richard Moore 1/16/2001, Boles (office) wrote to WSN: > In that case, when does US military power *begin* to decline? Ten years from now? Twenty? What about what’s going on now and in the foreseeable future? Dear M. Boles, I suggest that the scenarios which offer the greatest insight are those involving the U.S. … Read more…
2001-01-13 Richard Moore ============================================================================ Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:01:23 -0800 From: David C. Korten Organization: PCDForum To: “Richard K. Moore” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: -> Dispensing with hierarchy <- Richard: This is a brilliant response–deep, poetic, and profound. Thanks for sharing it. David Korten ============================================================================ From: •••@••.••• Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:38:23 EST Subject: … Read more…
2001-01-12 Richard Moore Dear Warren, I’d like first to say that when my investigation began, I presumed that ‘representative hierarchical authority’ would necessarily characterize any possible solution to achieving meaningful popular sovereignty. Since then I’ve learned two things. The first is that there can be no hierarchical solution. I learned that it is the inherent … Read more…
2001-01-10 Richard Moore 1/10/2001, Petros Haritatos wrote to wsn, cj, rn: > May I point out to RKM a blind spot in his strategy? …. I would like to focus on the proposed agent of change, … a massive, global, grass-roots movement > For argument’s sake, let us assume that this “new agent” (socialist or … Read more…
2001-01-10 Richard Moore Friends, This section, ‘Fundamental principles of a livable world’ turned out to be a biggee – weighing in at nearly 5,000 words. Many threads come together in this section and the synergy between them was well worth developing. Every piece of the revolution interacts here – the goals, the organizing principle, the … Read more…