Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
How the Fed Helped Fund World War I / Politics / Fiat Currency
By: John_Paul_Koning
Governments can pay their bills in three ways: taxes, debt, and inflation. The public usually recognizes the first two, for they are difficult to hide. But the third tends to go unnoticed by the public because it involves a slow and subtle reduction in the value of money, a policy usually unarticulated and complex in design.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Don't Fool Yourself: America Is Now a Communist Nation / Politics / US Politics
By: DailyWealth
At last year's Alliance Conference, I urged folks to buy stocks – vehemently... It was the most bullish I've been in my entire life. But now I feel the opposite way. When the facts change, I change my mind. I never thought we'd see the government running $2 trillion deficits, taking over health care, owning all the banks...
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Triumph of Socialism / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: LewRockwell
Do you think ideas don't matter, that what people believe about themselves and their world has no real consequence? If so, the following will not bug you in the slightest.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Janet Tavakoli and Fox’s Liz MacDonald Discuss the Outlook for Future Financial Crisis Prosecutions / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Janet_Tavakoli
" Prosecutors are still licking their wounds today after the US losses criminal case against two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers for their role in the financial crisis last year. Now a jury acquitted them of all six counts of securities fraud this was a shock it shocked Wall Street when the verdict -- in. That these guys are walking -- angry investors get their pound of flesh from anyone. Shouldn't but let's get a topical issues better president -- technically structured finance and author dear mr. Buffett Janet welcome. I was telling you I'm great -- that we use surprised that a verdict."
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The Hasan Case Overt Clues and Tactical Security Challenges / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: STRATFOR
In last week’s global security and intelligence report, we discussed the recent call by the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir al-Wahayshi, for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets in the Muslim world and the West. We also noted how it is relatively simple to conduct such attacks against soft targets using improvised explosive devices, guns or even knives and clubs.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Buyer Beware, Climate Change and the Ventura Case Study / Politics / Climate Change
By: Nikki_Alexander
A seemingly wholesome local event recently led to some disturbing discoveries about a global GHG matrix that will affect people everywhere in all countries. Students from The Bren School of Environmental Science and Management (University of California Santa Barbara) gave a presentation to city planners and citizens on their "Ventura Case Study." Bren is working on this project for their client, AECOM, to calculate Ventura's baseline greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in preparation for compliance with federal and state regulations.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down - Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tobin Tax, Making Wall Street Pay Its Fair Share / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Ellen_Brown
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Hedge Fund Perps Walk Free From Financial Crisis Criminal Trial / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Danny_Schechter
Will Anyone Ever Go To Jail In Connection With Wall Street Crimes?
Danny Schechter Reports On How The Prosecutors Blew The First Big Case
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Who is to Blame for the Financial Crisis? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Global_Research
David Kerans writes: “I have no interest in spending all of our time relitigating the policies of the last eight years.… laying blame…. can distract us from focusing our time, our efforts and our politics on the challenges of the future.” --Barack Obama, speech on national security, delivered at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., May 21st, 2009
Monday, November 09, 2009
Healthcare Reform is Economic Malpractice / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
As Washington continues debating healthcare reform the rest of the country is primarily concerned about jobs and the economy. It is still uncertain what policies will be implemented, but I am certain about one thing: It will only further devastate our economy and our dollar.
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Why I Hate Doctors / Politics / Social Issues
By: LewRockwell
Burton S. Blumert writes: Burt: "You've been my physician for over 25 years. You can't just dump me like you would a broken heart-lung machine."
Doc: "There's no room for sentiment in medicine, and frankly, your quaint right-wing viewpoints aren't as interesting as they once were. I'm turning your medical records over to young Dr. Kaloofka from my office."
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Fall of Berlin Wall Triggered USSR Catastrophe / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
On November 9, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit Germany to participate in international events to celebrate the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The new generation of politicians will join the leaders of the Cold War era to celebrate the existence of undivided Europe, without any separating strips.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Mass shooting at Fort Hood and a bitterly blunt perspective / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_T_Bucci
In his November 7 essay "What Happened to the Stock Market Crash?", Nadeem Walayat invites the envy of most analysts published at his financial site, The Market Oracle, who discover how correct he was when they weren't. To a lay outsider like myself given to overdoses of metaphysics, I induce his methodology to be a variant of Taoism - just follow the path that is before you. It is revealing itself. Don't impose subjective emotions, beliefs, wishes, fears or desires upon it. It always speaks for itself and objectively about itself. Listen. Watch. Discern its message and essence. Then, work with it, not against it. (Not easy!)
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Rising Military Expenditure, The Coming U.S. Budget Attack / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
The United States is moving backwards…fast. State budget cuts are decimating essential health and social services; public education is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. To make matters worse, all of this is occurring when the loss of jobs stands at a twenty-six year high with no end in sight.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
It's Time to Rally for Financial Reform / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
To paraphrase Marat-Sade: ‘the Election came, and the election went, and unrest turned back into discontent.’
The Dems lost two Governors, one an unpopular former high honcho at Goldman Sachs, not exactly a populist crusader, and picked up one house seat in a Congressional District no oever heard about before.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
America the Betrayed / Politics / US Politics
By: Richard_C_Cook
If you want to get an idea of what America once was like, read the poems of Walt Whitman. Whitman was born in Long Island in 1819 and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. His family was poor, but even though he left school at the age of 11 he gave himself an education by reading and working in the printing shop of a newspaper until he gradually became a published writer. He worked as a teacher and news reporter and owned his own newspaper by the age of 20.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Central Banksterism / Politics / Central Banks
By: Gary_North
I have presented the basics of monetary theory, as developed by Austrian School economists. A distinct Austrian School theory of money goes back to Ludwig von Mises' book, The Theory of Money and Credit (1912). Mises amplified this theory over the years until its culmination in Human Action (1949). His disciple, Murray Rothbard, extended Mises' analysis in a series of books, most notably chapter 11 of Man, Economy, and State (1962), America's Great Depression (1963), What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1964), and The Mystery of Banking (1983).
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Regulatory Reforms of Systemically Important Too Big To Fail Financial Institutions / Politics / Market Regulation
By: RGE_Monitor
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Life and Debt Video / Politics / New World Order
By: Submissions
If you have ever wonderd what the IMF and the New world Order can do to a third world country, this one is for you. Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas.