Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Monsanto Connection / Politics / Agricultural Commodities
By: Robert_Singer
I recently published an article “Grandmother Scores Huge Victory over Monsanto”.
The article was a magnet for controversy because I claimed the best way to fight Monsanto and HR 875 was by growing your own food and saving seeds.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Bank Stress Tests are Not Stressful Enough / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: John_Browne
Last week, when the U.S. Treasury unveiled the basics of their lender "stress tests", the Fed concluded that "most U.S. banking organizations currently have capital levels well in excess of the amounts required to be well capitalized." Simultaneously, they also claimed that the banks needed more capital. Apparently the Fed has little understanding of irony.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
When Will the U.S. Budgetary Debate Turn into the Budgetary Diktat? / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Brady_Willett
Earlier this year, and based upon the observation that his administration had inherited a $1.3 trillion budget deficit, President Obama pledged to cut the budget deficit in half. Mr. Obama also talked tough about reining in the deficit longer-term:
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Flying Pigs, Mexico Swine Flu, Tamiflu and Factory Farms / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: F_William_Engdahl
If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labeled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the story goes, the outbreak of the deadly flu was first discovered in Mexico. According to press reports, after several days, headlines reported as many as perhaps 150 deaths in Mexico were believed caused by this virulent people-killing pig virus that has spread to humans and now is allegedly being further spread from human to human. Cases were being reported hourly from Canada to Spain and beyond. The only thing wrong with this story is that it is largely based on lies, hype and cover up of possible real causes of Mexican deaths. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Swine Flu: State of Emergency, Mexican-Style / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: Global_Research
Michael Werbowski writes: MEXICO CITY -- Last Thursday was first day of what now is the "made in Mexico" great global plague due to the swine flu outbreak. Towards midnight that day, health officials gave an impromptu press conference announcing schools and universities would be closed the following day, that is Friday. Most citizens of Mexico City (Capitalinos) were already asleep by then. The next day, those who didn't catch the late night or early morning newscasts brought their children to school, only to find notices informing parents of the school closures until May 6. On that Friday, the true dimensions and extent of the epidemic's outbreak began to be felt in the capital.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
United States Debt and Exporting of the U.S. Economy Abroad Silent Conspiracies / Politics / US Politics
By: Richard_C_Cook
I met Senator Ernest F. “Fritz” Hollings (D-SC) in 1985 in the aftermath of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. I had testified before the Rogers Commission after I leaked documents to the New York Times about NASA’s past knowledge of flaws with the O-ring joints whose failure caused Challenger to blow up. Later I told commission investigators and the press it was political pressure from the Reagan White House that likely caused NASA to overrule the engineers who tried to stop the launch.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Secretive Bank Stress Tests Heighten Stress for Investors / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: The bank stress test of the nation’s 19-largest financial institutions is a flawed exercise that threatens to elevate the very economic-system stress it was designed to relieve.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Swine Human Flu Hybrid Spreading Fast Towards Global Pandemic / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: Pravda
Today’s world is connected closely because of air travel. This makes everyone, no matter where they live, threatened as the disease easily travels from location to location virtually within hours. In nature, influenza viruses circulate continuously among animals, especially birds. Even though such viruses might theoretically develop into pandemic viruses, in Phase 1 no viruses circulating among animals have been reported to cause infections in humans. Now at Phase 4, it is not yet considered a pandemic but the potential does exist.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Latvia Claims $200 Billion For 84 Year of Russian Occupation / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
Latvia, one of the three Baltic States, a former Soviet republic, found a way out of the financial crisis. The country calculated the damage that the nation suffered from the Soviet occupation after WWII. Forty-eight years of Soviet power supposedly cost the country $200 billion. The amount includes Latvia’s costs for the loss of its independence, the deportation of the population, the ecological damage and even the Afghan war and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Latvia intends to collect the amount from Russia with the help of the European Union.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Manipulated Bank Stress Test Reveals Only One Bank in Trouble? / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: Only one of the 19 financial institutions that received a bank stress test would require additional capital, the controversial government initiative has reportedly concluded. The identity of the bank that is alleged to have failed the bank stress test was not revealed.
The bank-stress-test findings were reported yesterday (Sunday) by CNBC.com, which said it obtained the information from a source that it did not identify. The source did not identify the company, CNBC.com reported.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
China and Russia Sign Oil Deal as America Watches From the Sidelines / Politics / China Economy
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: BEIJING, The People's Republic of China - It's Day Two of my three-week trip here, and already I feel myself getting quickly reacquainted with this capital city. If you've never been here, it's hard to do this city justice with simple prose - and without sounding a bit cliché. Beijing - like much of emerging China - is special. And it deserves to be seen that way.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Is Swine Flu A Biological Weapon? / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: Global_Research
Paul Joseph Watson writes: There are some factors that suggest the swine flu killing people in Mexico may be a biological weapon, but obviously no such conclusion can be drawn at this time. The World Health Organization and the U.S. government have been quick to deny such claims [2].
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Condoleezza Rice Could Go on Trial For her Role in Torture / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Pravda
Barack Obama’s recent initiative to expose the information about CIA’s secret torture chambers has come into effect already. As it turned out, the information is directly connected with a person from the previous US administration. It goes about Condoleezza Rice. As National Security Advisor in 2002, Rice gave her personal approval to water tortures.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Swine Flu to Accelerate Collapse of Global Economy / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Pravda
Mankind has finally become aware that the financial crisis is not the most dangerous thing in the world. The world has come across a new danger – the swine flu virus. Many explain yesterday’s reduction of stock markets with the threat of the epidemic of the new disease. The struggle against the distribution of the new virus has made a number of countries ban the imports of pork. Russia introduced a ban too.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Energy Production and Going Green, Incompetent U.S. Intelligence Agencies / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: John_Mauldin
I send you Outside the Box each week not to make you comfortable but to make you think. Usually it is on some financial topic, but life is more than investments. Economics is not an isolated discipline (more like an art form I think) so we have to have a real understanding of the world around us. This week I offer two essays which made me both think and reflect. We live in a world which wants easy solutions to complex problems, and wish as we may, will not get easy solutions which will work.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
U.S. Treasury Smoke and Mirrors Turning Bankrupt Banks Solvent / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Paul_L_Kasriel
Preferred Equity into Common Equity – Accounting Alchemy? - Congress currently is in no mood to authorize more funds to help recapitalize the financial system. The Treasury says this will not be a problem. If financial institutions need additional capital from the taxpayers to remain solvent, the Treasury will simply shift the preferred shares it already owns in financial institutions to common equity shares. Voila - capital adequate financial institutions! Really?
Monday, April 27, 2009
Why Monetary Reform? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Richard_C_Cook
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Do Not Take a Swine Flu Vaccine, It Could Kill You! / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: Global_Research
I am making a plea to everyone who reads this, please, please DO NOT TAKE ANY VACCINE THAT IS PURPORTED TO 'PREVENT' THIS FLU.
Monday, April 27, 2009
How To Survive When the Economy Stinks / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: LewRockwell
Cristina C. Espina writes: So your economy stinks. It’s not as bad as you think. Really.Let me explain the view from several cultures away . . .
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
The Financial Barbarians at the Gate / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Submissions
Guns & Butter Interviews financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson.