red-pill news, 22 April 2008

2008-04-22

Richard Moore

Friends,
I can’t keep up with all the good articles that come my way, but here are a few that help reveal what’s really going on these days. In some cases, when you follow the URL, you’ll need to click on – Show quoted text – in order to view the article.
Let me first share a few of my own conclusions, for which some corroborating evidence can be found in these articles (and for which much other evidence has been previously posted).
rkm
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re/Tibet
The uprising in Tibet is another one of those CIA-sponsored ‘colored revolutions’, whose goal is to destabilize Russia and China. The Dali Lama gets most of his funding from right-wing sources, particularly the CIA. The Western media is presenting a biased and distorted view of the situation, as usual, and sheep all over the world have been inspired to protest Baa Baa against ‘brutal China’. It is true of course that the Chinese government has no regard for human rights — it’s a concept that’s foreign to them — but the suppression in Tibet is child’s play compared to what the Israelis do routinely to the Palestinians, or what US & British troops do routinely to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Protests would be much more appropriate at Israeli embassies around the world, and at every public appearance of US or British officials.
re/Global credit crisis
Economists, so-called, talk about ‘economic cycles’ as if they were a law of nature. In fact, economic cycles are simply the story of how financial elites maintain their wealth and power in a capitalist system. It’s a two-part game that I refer to as Bubble & Burst. It’s a game that’s been played for centuries, and the last big session most of us know about was the Great Depression of the ’30s. 
     The first part of the game starts when credit is loosened up by the big banks, and loans are easy to get at low interest rates. Businesses borrow and expand, hiring more people, and the economy rises — a hot air balloon heated up by the flames of debt. Consumers start borrowing and spending, businesses prosper and hire more people, the upward bubble feeds on itself. Meanwhile the big banks are accumulating huge portfolios of loans that they’ll be collecting on for decades to come. The upward spiral is of course accompanied by inflation and over-production, and eventually the growth cannot be maintained. The economy runs out of steam, and the big banks shift into the second part of the game.
     In part two, credit is tightened, interest rates are raised, and the bubble bursts. Depending on the scale of the game, this period is called a slowdown, a recession, a depression, or a collapse. For the big banks and investors, this is a period of ownership consolidation and monopolization. Debt-ridden businesses and properties are picked up for a fraction of their real value. Many loans must of course be written off, which the banks love to whine and cry about, but those losses are peanuts compared to the loans that do get paid off. And the value of that loan portfolio is much larger than it would have been without the bubble — part one of the game. Small banks fail, and those are picked up by the bigger banks, further concentrating financial control into a few elite hands.
     While the people and governments are left to deal with the collapse scenario, the big banks and investors are busy counting their money, picking up bargains, and planning the next round of the game. We are now in what may be the last round of that game because economic growth has finally surpassed the ability of the Earth to support it. Rather than fix the system that causes all these problems, financial elites want to hold on to their power and to the capitalist system that supports it. Global starvation, genocide, and misery are the inevitable result, and that’s why Western nations are gradually, or not so gradually, being turned into fascist dictatorships (dressed in sheep’s clothing), with militarized police trained to suppress populations.
     
-rkm

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May Day labor action for withdrawal from Iraq

Friends, The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has called for a strike on May 1, 2008, against the Iraq War. The article in the ILWU publication, Dispatcher, “Stop work meetings on May 1 will focus on Iraq War” announces the action. See at – Sun, Apr 13 2008 1:52 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/d521321a8d9dafe4?hl=en

Prince Philip: We Need To ‘Cull’ Surplus Population

Prince Philip, In His Own Words: We Need To ‘Cull’ The Surplus Population Prison Planet| June 10 2004 Here is a re-cap of some of the things “HIS ROYAL VIRUS”, Prince Philip has said in public concerning “culling the population” Reported by Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), August, 1988. – Mon, Apr14 2008 1:55 am 
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:05 PM …Hi As usual the author points to the malaise but attributes the blame to Britain, or more specifically, the City. It is my opinion that Britain was long ago enslaved to the bankers, none of whom were -Mon, Apr 14 2008 2:36 am 

http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/593d8125c28b6346?hl=en

Joe Bageant: Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown

Sent: 04/13/2008 3:40 AM … From the blog of the author of Deer Hunting with Jesus Click here: Joe Bageant: Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown Joe Bageant | February 8, 2006 | Category: Essays Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown Now shut up and buy something – Mon, Apr 14 2008 2:42 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/2961dc7dfd79f173?hl=en

Wall Street czars depopulating the world-

Subject: Wall Street czars depopulating the world Date: 14 April 2008 05:19:09 IST Everyone should read this ..then what? Our governments do not care what we think. S Wall Street Czars depopulating the World Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:48:55 By Afsaneh Ostovar, Press TV, Tehran – Mon, Apr 14 2008 3:11 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/95d9e3656bb0463d?hl=en

Drug trade linked to Bush family

This is only the tip of the iceberg. The international drug trade has been runby Britain and American governments ever since Queen Victoria forced China to allow opium imports, in order to improve Britain’s balance of payments deficits. -rkm 
Well worth a careful read! – Mon,Apr 14 2008 3:21 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/97031a47db11d7e5?hl=en

World Bank to Meet as Rising Food Prices Spark Unrest

Putting Africa into further debt to produce export crops will just make matters worse, as the World Bank well knows. -rkm [link]. 7d6f503b9f24bfbd98721fd2c3ea3c 61.01.html – Mon, Apr 14 2008 3:58 am 
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/a6a6318227388e11?hl=en

William Rivers Pitt: review of PNAC control of US policy

Project Update By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Columnist Monday 14 April 2008 In the Persian Gulf region, the presence of American forces, along with British and French units, has become a semi-permanent fact of life. Though the immediate mission of those forces is to enforce the – Mon,Apr 14 2008 8:02 am 
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/dc97ad536937cbf6?hl=en

China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp

“The CIA’s involvement in channeling covert support to the Tibetan secessionist movement goes back to the mid-1950s. The Dalai Lama was on the CIA’s payroll from the late 1950s until 1974” China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: – Mon, Apr 14 2008 7:29 pm http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/176dde1240d1a54e?hl=en

Rabbi Yisrael Rosen: All of the Palestinians must be killed

“All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts.” This was the religious opinion issued one week ago by Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute, a long- established religious institute attended by students and soldiers in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank. – Mon, Apr 14 2008 8:17 pm 
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/b003d9dc6bfc1437?hl=en

German Foreign Ministry: manipulating Tibet

movement-coming-years.html Roadmap for the Tibet Movement for the Coming Years The original article can be found here: PHPSESSID=684b76isvufldpj15fa7 8t7rv2 LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) – Conference reports and the research of a – Mon, Apr 14 2008 10:59 pm http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/15d3a834fadd0cfb?hl=en

“Mortgage Aid” – a conspiracy to save those who created the crisis-
Friends, Notice that all of these proposals involve using our money to pay offall of those bad loans that should never have been made in the first place. Thus the banks at fault get paid back first, and then perhaps the suffering home buyers might get a benefit as well, if the program is administered properly (and how many ever are?). – Wed, Apr 2 2008 2:10 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/f14b833bebd0206f?hl=en

Engdahl: Washington Plays ‘Tibet Roulette’ with China-

Risky Geopolitical Game: Washington Plays ‘Tibet Roulette’ with China By F. William Engdahl URL of this article: Global Research, April 10, 2008 Washington has obviously decided on an ultra-high risk geopolitical game with Beijing’s by fanning the flames of violence in Tibet just – Fri, Apr 11 2008 4:57 pm http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/7e0360e490a6bd8a?hl=en

The Agenda Behind The Anti-Sadr Agenda

“So, who can be expected to gain from exacerbating the intra-Shi’ite conflict?Most obviously, the U.S. as the occupying power. As qualified Iranian sources have stressed to this author, Iran’s power lies in its ability to promote and mediate cooperation among all these factions, as dramatically demonstrated in its mediating the end – Thurs, Apr 17 2008 4:01 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/bc94a5a36f178aac?hl=en

Tibet: Fake Videotape used by CNN-

Western Media Fabrications regarding the Tibet Riots Fake Videotape used by CNN By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: Global Research, April 16, 2008 On the day of the Lhasa Riots (March 14, 2008), there is evidence of – Thurs, Apr 17 2008 5:27 pm http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/9aa96ad1163b992d?hl=en

James Petras: Venezuela : Democracy, Socialism and Imperialism

Venezuela : Democracy, Socialism and Imperialism by Prof. James Petras Global Research, April 17, 2008 Introduction Venezuela ‘s President Hugo Chavez remains the world’s leading secular, democratically elected political leader who has consistently – Sat, Apr 19 2008 6:01 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/223675e088fd7242?hl=en

Bad Patents, Evil Corporations and the Rise of Intellectual Imperialism

by Mike Adams (NaturalNews) It is a defining characteristic of Western civilization that power-hungry men seek to declare ownership over all things they discover. For most of human history, such ownership efforts were
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/1595c97a7a4343d0?hl=en

German Foreign Ministry: manipulating Tibet-

movement-coming-years.html Roadmap for the Tibet Movement for the Coming Years The original article can be found here: PHPSESSID=684b76isvufldpj15fa7 8t7rv2 LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) – Conference reports and the research of a – Mon, Apr 14 2008 10:59 pm http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/15d3a834fadd0cfb?hl=en

US provoking Iran to aid ‘insurgents’

BAGHDAD — A series of conflicts with insurgent groups along Iran’s borders maybe impelling Tehran to back its own allies in Iraq in what it regards as a proxy war with the U.S., according to security experts and officials in the U.S., Iran and Iraq. – Wed, Apr 16 2008 1:07 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/e3138d6dbbc0c869?hl=en

Brown ‘standing firm’ on rescuing banks

Downing Street said the talks – with bosses from Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC, RoyalBank of Scotland and Nationwide – were not a crisis summit and had been in theprime minister’s diary for some time.  Brown ‘standing firm’ on economy Gordon Brown interview in full – Wed, Apr 16 2008 1:28 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/8879a36e6a56a1a7?hl=en

SPP New Orleans People’s Summit – Response to NAFTA plus

April 21 – 23, 2008 o New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 
To: •••@••.••• People´s Summit New Orleans- response to NAFTA + (SPP) Linking the Gulf Coast struggle to the fight for the survival of communities in Mexico, Canada, Quebec & the rest of the United States – Wed, Apr 16 2008 1:33 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/34659e32cf30dc53?hl=en

McCain promises to further wreck economy

But a major component of his economic plan — like those of Presidents Bush andReagan — centered on tax cuts. Besides making the Bush income tax cuts permanent and reducing corporate taxes to 25 percent from 35 percent, Mr. McCain called for eliminating the alternative minimum tax and doubling the value of exemptions for – Wed, Apr 16 2008 2:04 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/ce86878833e10c8a?hl=en

The Agenda Behind The Anti-Sadr Agenda

“So, who can be expected to gain from exacerbating the intra-Shi’ite conflict?Most obviously, the U.S. as the occupying power. As qualified Iranian sources have stressed to this author, Iran’s power lies in its ability to promote and mediate cooperation among all these factions, as dramatically demonstrated in its mediating the end – Thurs, Apr 17 2008 4:01 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/bc94a5a36f178aac?hl=en

Fw: MNN Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed-
Breaking News: Location of Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed for the First Time; Independent Tribunal Established – Fri, Apr 11 2008 9:00 pm http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/3b163fc08ba9a0f3?hl=en

Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House

World Socialist Web Site WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House By Joe Kay 12 April 2008 Senior Bush administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney andSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice, participated in White – Sat, Apr 12 2008 2:45 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/447a4ceec17fb4b3?hl=en

Glen Barry: Ecological Collapse: Mother of All Bubbles-

The converging mortgage, financial, food, fuel and climate crises are all symptoms of a massive global ecological bubble Ecological overshoot whereby humanity exceeds the Earth’s carrying – Sat, Apr 12 2008 2:59 am 
The treat to the occupation comes of course from the people of Iraq, who like people everywhere struggle against brutal foreign invaders. Meanwhile, the US blames the resistance on whomever it wishes to attack next. -rkm AR2008041101606.html – Sat, Apr 12 2008 3:34 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/de26033dc7d923a6?hl=en

MidEast Dispatches: From One Dictator to the Next-

** Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches ** ** Visit the Dahr Jamail website [link]** Dahr Jamail’s new book, /Beyond the Green Zone/ is NOW AVAILABLE! “International journalism at its best.” –Stephen Kinzer, former bureau chief, New York Times; author /All the Shah’s Men/ “Essential reading for anybody whowants to know what is really – Sat, Apr 12 2008 6:51 am 
http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/856a8741c3aa519c?hl=en

Ellen Brown: Credit Default Swaps: Evolving Financial Meltdown

Derivative Disaster Du Jour By Dr. Ellen Brown URL of this article: Global Research, April 11,2008 Author’s website wwwwebofdebt.com/ When the smartest guys in the room designed their credit default – Sat, Apr 12 2008 6:57 am 
The Wisdom Fund Iraqis Pay? The Arrogance of the U.S. by Enver Masud [Enver Masud is the founder and CEO of The Wisdom Fund.] The war ended with the toppling of Saddam’s statue, the Iraqis want them out, and now the occupiers, having destroyed much of Iraq, have the arrogance to ask Iraqis to pay for the occupation and – Sun, Apr 13 2008 1:38 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/011fbfa06d51e5dc?hl=en

May Day labor action for withdrawal from Iraq

Friends, The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has called for a strike on May 1, 2008, against the Iraq War. The article in the ILWU publication, Dispatcher, “Stop work meetings on May 1 will focus on Iraq War” announces the action. See at – Sun, Apr 13 2008 1:52 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/d521321a8d9dafe4?hl=en
US Gestapo is now operational
Three States Subjected To “Martial Law Sweeps”
sweeps that result in hundreds of citations for traffic violations

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