Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Nothing in Washington Is Worth Your Money, Including the "think-tanks" / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
The Washington Beltway is a war zone. It is the battleground over what the United States government does and what it does not do. It does a great deal.
Conservatives send tens of millions of dollars each year to Beltway resistance organizations. Some of them are called think tanks. They are dedicated mainly to getting the federal government to do other things, or else to do evil things without spending as much money. These organizations promote this idea: "Running government like a business." Whenever you hear this, think of a serious business: Cosa Nostra.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
TSA, Promoting a Gestapo State Whilst Pretending to Oppose it / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Becky Akers writes: Nero fiddled while Rome burned. And Congress holds hearings on the TSA while the agency sexually assaults passengers, steals their valuables, torments children, the elderly and handicapped, and spits on the Constitution.
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Uncle Sam Is Choking on Data, The Totalitarian Moron / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
At the end of this report, I will provide a link to an article I published on steps that you can take to keep Web-based data-gathering companies from collecting data on your Web viewing activities.
You cannot stop this altogether. Too much data comes from your financial transactions. The FBI and other intelligence agencies are now buying data from private firms. In effect, they are outsourcing data-collection.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Consequences / Politics / US Politics
By: BATR
Now that Japan lowered its own taxes, the U.S. stands on top with the dubious distinction of having the highest corporate tax rates. Claims that, when you consider all the tax loopholes, subsidies, deductions and tricks, the effective rate is not really the 35% level seem less reassuring. However, if you view any tax policy that focuses upon revenue collection, you miss the entire significance of the dynamics in trade. The slogan "Free Trade" applied in real terms, means capitulation of domestic production and prosperity for the sake of maximum international return on equity. In essence, the global corporatist supersedes the home domicile country for the joy of worldwide plunder.
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Should the Government Remove Fuel Subsidies? / Politics / US Politics
By: Sam_Chee_Kong
Subsidy can be defined as a financial assistance to certain product or category of industry so that the price will be low, and hopefully continue to provide jobs and spin off other economic activity. Subsidies have been around for ages and it comes in many forms such as cash, labor, farm, export, consumption, education, housing and etc.
Fuel subsidy refers to the effort by the government to pay for the difference between the price of fuel in the pump and the actual cost of the product. So by paying the difference the government enables fuel to be sold at a lower price so that it will help ease the burden its people especially the lower income group.
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Monday, April 02, 2012
Ron Paul on The Supreme Court and Obamacare / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare law, focusing on the mandate requiring every American to buy health insurance or pay fines enforced by the IRS. Hopefully the Court will strike down this abomination, but we must recognize that the federal judiciary has an abysmal record when it comes to protecting liberty. It's doubtful the entire law will be struck down. Regardless, the political left will continue its drive toward a single-payer, government run health care system.
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Stormtroopin' USA, Redention, Indefinite Detention, Creeping Facism / Politics / US Politics
By: Richard_Mills
No term generates more confusion or misunderstanding than fascism, too many people believe that fascism exists solely in images on the History Channel - storm troopers pounding thundering jackboots down cobblestone streets of occupied countries while throwing up the Roman salute. But fascism is not defined by clothing, symbolism or salutes.
Fascism is a totalitarian system of government that bases its economy on capitalism, it's a marriage of government authority and military/police power managed by corporate influence.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
From Obamacare to Taxes: 5 Hot Topics Politicians Love to Lie About / Politics / US Politics
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Political lies are as old as the Republic, but that doesn't make the practice any less of an insult to the American people.
Whether they are about Obamacare or taxes, political lies are a special kind of deception.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The United States in Korea: A Strategy of Inertia / Politics / US Politics
By: STRATFOR
After U.S. President Barack Obama visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone on March 25 during his trip to South Korea for a nuclear security summit, he made the obligatory presidential remarks warning North Korea against continued provocations. He also praised the strength of U.S.-South Korean relations and commended the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed there. Obama's visit itself is of little importance, but it is an opportunity to ask just what Washington's strategy is in Korea and how the countries around North Korea (China, Russia, South Korea and Japan) view the region. As always, any understanding of current strategy requires a consideration of the history of that strategy.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
As the U.S. Constitution Burns, we sleep...then wake! / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_T_Bucci
Are Americans willing to surrender their constitutional protections in order to fight “terrorism”? Attorney General Erik Holder and President Obama believe they are willing, and continue to pave the way for dismantling our rights in the name of national defense.
From the Patriot Act to HR347 (acts of terrorism against Americans and the Constitution by this and past administrations), the American people have remained numb, dumb and compliant. When the Constitution, the legal foundation of law itself, is compromised and violated by the very branches of government to whom it is entrusted, all law is violated, and lawlessness prevails in its stead.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
To Where Our Oppositonal Culture Takes Us / Politics / US Politics
By: Ashvin_Pandurangi
"On approaching the other it has lost its own self, since it finds itself as another being; secondly, it has thereby sublated that other, for this primitive consciousness does not regard the other as essentially real but sees its own self in the other." –Hegel
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Government Lobster Trap: 'Why Congress Invented Tax-Deferred IRA Accounts' / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
I hope you're tucked in. Get used to the feeling of being tucked in. Don't you feel safer now? Settle down. I'll tell you a story.
Once upon a time, there were two United States Senators. One was a Democrat. The other was a Republican.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Apple Stock and U.S. Income Inequality / Politics / US Politics
By: EconMatters
Apple stock price rallied to $602.50 on March 21 partly due to the the company's decision to spread some of its huge pile of cash ($97.6 billion in cash equivalent with no outstanding debt at the end of 2011) in the form of dividend and a share buyback program.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Ascendence of Sociopaths in US Governance, How to Surive What's to Come / Politics / US Politics
By: Casey_Research
Doug Casey, Casey Research An International Man lives and does business wherever he finds conditions most advantageous, regardless of arbitrary borders. He's diversified globally, with passports from multiple countries, assets in several jurisdictions and his residence in yet another. He doesn't depend absolutely on any country and regards all of them as competitors for his capital and expertise.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Republicans and Democrats Both Want to Kill You! / Politics / US Politics
By: PhilStockWorld
What is happening to this country?
Robert Reich points out that, in announcing the Republicans’ new budget and tax plan Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said “We are sharpening the contrast between the path that we’re proposing and the path of debt and decline the president has placed us upon.” But the plan doesn’t do much to reduce the debt. Even by its own estimate the deficit would drop to $166 billion in 2018 and then begin growing again.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Spring Offensive / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
For years, in the last century, when I was in School and learning about the early days of journalism, we were taught that author Horace Greeley who founded the New York Herald Tribune, was famous for saying, “Go West Young Man And Grow Up With The Country.”
Monday, March 19, 2012
Ron Paul on Demolishing Due Process / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
It is ironic but perhaps sadly appropriate that Attorney General Eric Holder would choose a law school, Northwestern University, to deliver a speech earlier this month in which he demolished what was left of the rule of law in America.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Mounting Political Dissent in the Land of the Sheeple / Politics / US Politics
By: BATR
The long and sometime turbulent drama of political dissent in America is a continued theme in history of the country. Born out of a revolution and based on social principles of self-determination, the nation rustles with the internal conflict between individual liberty and the power of tyrannical elites. This struggle is the natural condition in any nation. How a society treats dissenters is a primary test for any government. Most states fail this assessment miserably. America's tolerance for peaceful dissent is in jeopardy, not solely from the current despotic regime in power, but from the flock of hungry government parasites that graze upon the public benefit programs that herd citizens into a crowd controlled environment.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Fall of the Law Writers / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Merrill
Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough." - Frédéric Bastiat, French Legislator
“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.” – US House Speaker Thomas B. Reed
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Obama Executive Order Blueprint for Peacetime Martial Law! / Politics / US Politics
By: Chris_Kitze
This Executive Order was posted on the WhiteHouse.gov web site on Friday, March 16, 2012, under the name National Defense Resources Preparedness. In a nutshell, it's the blueprint for Peacetime Martial Law and it gives the president the power to take just about anything deemed necessary for "National Defense", whatever they decide that is. It's peacetime, because as the title of the order says, it's for "Preparedness". A copy of the entire order follows the end of this story.