Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
The Twin Demons of War and Central Banking / Politics / Central Banks
By: LewRockwell
The 20th century was the century of total war. Limitations on the scope of war, built up over many centuries, had already begun to break down in the 19th century, but they were altogether obliterated in the 20th. And of course the sheer amount of resources that centralized states could bring to bear in war, and the terrible new technologies of killing that became available to them, made the 20th a century of almost unimaginable horror.
Friday, September 28, 2012
All Fiat Currency Economies Turn To Banana Republics: America is Next / Politics / Fiat Currency
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
America, The Next Banana Republic America will become a great nation again when We The People grow a set and admit that we have been duped, abused and used like pawns on a chessboard… when liberals and conservatives alike finally admit that “their guys”are no different from the other on the REAL issues confronting our nation
Friday, September 28, 2012
There's Only One Way Forward For Europe, And This Isn’t It / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Raul_I_Meijer
As Groucho once put it: "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
Vaclav Klaus is perhaps the only man out there I've seen so far who says the right things. Well, other than myself, that is. Chest thumping? I'm just worried, and increasingly so, by the level of complacency I witness every single day in whatever it is I see and read about Europe (I read a lot).
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Mario Monti Says No ECB PIIGS Bond Buying Due to Lack of Conditionality / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Bloomberg
BLOOMBERG TV EXCLUSIVE: Mario Monti, Prime Minister of Italy, spoke with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker in New York today about considering another term after elections. He discussed why the EU's new bailout fund hasn't been used yet, saying "because it is being finalized. And in particular I think there is still some refinement ongoing on the precise nature and modalities of the conditionality that would have to be associated to the European Central Bank intervening in the markets to buy the bonds of a specific country."
Friday, September 28, 2012
Christine Lagarde On The U.S. 'Fiscal Cliff' / Politics / US Debt
By: Ian_R_Campbell
I suggest you read an article published last Friday by The Telegraph which reports on remarks made and concerns expressed by International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde with respect to the rapidly approaching January 1 (now only three months away) U.S. Federal spending cuts and taxes increases that are then due automatically to come into force.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Netanyahu Warns of Attack on Iran, Confesses to Israel Nuclear Arsenal at UN / Politics / Middle East
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled out a chart to describe the threat that Israel's nuclear arsenal of at least 200 nuclear missiles poses to the middle east and wider world at the UN General Assembly.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
The Good the Bad and the Ugly Truth about the JOBS Act / Politics / Employment
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: I'm not just talking about the upcoming election and who is promising to do more to stimulate the economy. The entire future of America depends on job creation.
There are good and bad reasons why there aren't enough jobs.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
The New Quantum Renaissance / Politics / Science
By: DK_Matai
We are at the beginning of a new renaissance that explores the quantum nature of our shared reality. This new age is fast forwarding us to an era of Quantum engines, devices and systems which are beginning to deliver nascent solutions in:
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Qatar: Rich and Dangerous / Politics / Middle East
By: OilPrice_Com
The first concern of the Emir of Qatar is the prosperity and security of the tiny kingdom. To achieve that, he knows no limits.
Stuck between Iran and Saudi Arabia is Qatar with the third largest natural gas deposit in the world. The gas gives the nearly quarter of a million Qatari citizens the highest per capita income on the planet and provides 70 percent of government revenue.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Oil Shocks From The Lost Ark / Politics / Crude Oil
By: Andrew_McKillop
TIME WAS
On Sept 24, 2012 Bloomberg ran an article probably written way back in the 20th century - perhaps 1974 - but strangely lost in transmission to Bloomberg's editorial offices. For reasons best known to Bloomberg, it decided to publish this article unchanged with all its original, laughable errors.
The article by Jeff Rubin starts by telling us that "for most of the last century" (probably not the 19thC), cheap oil powered global economic growth. Rubin adds that when oil prices doubled, and then doubled again, this "permanently shackles the growth potential of the world’s economies". He adeptly forgot to mention that when oil prices halved, and halved again little or nothing happens to un-shackling economic growth.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Banksters Buying Love / Politics / US Politics
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Remember Tim Pawlenty, the former two-time Governor of Minnesota?
Remember when he made a bid for the Presidency this go-round, but bowed out after a poor showing in Iowa?
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Romney and the Neocons Courting Nuclear Disaster / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Eric Margolis writes: Chinese and Japanese vessels prowl menacingly in the sea around the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands as Beijing and Tokyo exchange threats.
A few wrong moves could spark a clash between China and Japan that would likely draw in Tokyo’s ally, the United States, which, under a 1960 defense treaty, is bound to defend Japan if it is attacked.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Contest for East Asian Supremacy, Understanding the China-Japan Island Conflict / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Sept. 29 will mark 40 years of normalized diplomatic relations between China and Japan, two countries that spent much of the 20th century in mutual enmity if not at outright war. The anniversary comes at a low point in Sino-Japanese relations amid a dispute over an island chain in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and Diaoyu Islands in China.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Bernanke Declares War on Canadian Economy / Politics / Quantitative Easing
By: Mike_Shedlock
The financial world cheered when Bernanke announced QE3 until it works (which is essentially forever, because it never will work).
Bruce Stewart, writing for the Winnipeg Free Press, is one of few who figured out QE for what it really is: A Beggar-Thy-Neighbor competitive currency debasement policy hoping to sink the US dollar.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Quantum Entanglement -- Beyond Cause and Effect -- Towards the Future? / Politics / Science
By: DK_Matai
Faster Than the Speed of Light
Quantum Entanglement is at the heart of understanding how significant events across the universe operate at the macro- and micro- level in split-second synchronised unison despite considerable distance between them. Quantum Entanglement suggests that information is exchanged faster between Quantum Entangled (QE) particles than the speed of light, which was deemed impossible per Einstein's special theory of relativity.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Japan Steps Away from Nuclear Power / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: OilPrice_Com
As Japan and France move away from nuclear energy, is it the endgame for nuclear proponents?
As the world slouches into the 21st century, one of the global economic realities is that more and more developing nations, much less the "First World," are competing for fossil fuel resources whose production is rising more slowly than demand.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Ron Paul - Interest Rates Are Prices / Politics / US Interest Rates
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
One of the most enduring myths in the United States is that this country has a free market, when in reality, the market is merely the structural shell of formerly free institutions. Government pulls the strings behind the scenes. No better illustration of this can be found than in the Federal Reserve's manipulation of interest rates.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Nuclear Iran Persian Gulf Challenge Looms Large / Politics / Iran
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes:
My meetings and media interviews continue here in London. But this morning I want to fill you in on one of the more interesting briefings I have ever held.
Last night, Marina and I had the distinct pleasure of dining with Khaled Duwaisan, Kuwait's Ambassador to the Court of St. James and the longest-serving foreign emissary in London.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Arab Spring - Arab Winter / Politics / Middle East
By: Andrew_McKillop
The so-called Arab Spring of 2011 has rapidly mutated into a dark and chilling winter scenario of spreading civil war, shia-sunnite conflict and other ethnic-based strife, and rapidly intensifying economic meltdown in the Arab and Muslim world. The latest manifestations include the Mahomet insult saga, supposedly opposing the progressive, lay-minded, open society West against entrenched religious-minded conservatism and fundamentalism in the Arab world, and the long-running mass bloodshed of the Syrian civil war.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Solitary Purdah, The Sovereign Man is the Real Prisoner / Politics / Social Issues
By: BATR
According to establishment officials, the concept of the Sovereign Man philosophy is a direct threat to the authority of the State. Depending upon your perception of reality and the degree of legitimacy for government, given to the prevailing order, fundamental inalienable rights of the individual may vary widely. In the extreme, government statists consider most if not all natural rights as capricious and arbitrary, if conflicts challenge the dictates of the regime. This unending and interminable struggle to defend undeniable individual basic rights drives bureaucrats to use unconscionable measures to coerce citizen compliance.
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