Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Sunday, June 17, 2007
End the Violence in Iraq? End Our Occupation / Politics / Iraq War
Today, my first full day in Amman, Jordan started off sharply. I met the most important person I will meet during this trip. And I was the first American he has agreed to meet with.
This in itself shows that the winds are slowly changing as he himself pointed out during our conversation.
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Up and Down the Bush Philosophy / Politics / US Politics
Every president has a political philosophy that guides him and, sometimes, the nation.
George W. Bush believes he has divine inspiration to do what he wants to do, when he wants to do it, and to make his subjects adhere to whatever beliefs he holds for the moment. His political philosophy is a chunk of swiss cheese that is being forced down the throats of a lactose-intolerant nation.
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions / Politics / US Politics
The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll results vividly show a population incredibly dissatisfied with their nation's political system. In other countries in other times such a depressing level of confidence in government would send a signal to those running the government that a major upheaval is imminent. But not here in the USA. Why?Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Swan Song for the Democrats for Supporting the Iraq War / Politics / US Politics
The Democrats did us all a favor by giving Bush his Iraq war-money. After all, the Dems have supported the war from the very beginning. They deserve to be exposed as the phonies they really are.The truth is, no one is surprised by the recent vote. We have one party in America – "the War Party" – the Dems are just a junior partner in that system.
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Friday, June 08, 2007
Open Letter to Congressman Ron Paul / Politics / US Politics
You have acknowledged the appropriateness of amending the Constitution. In fact, you introduced legislation for an amendment that would stop giving automatic citizenship to babies born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents. You said: “Our founders knew that unforeseen problems with our system of government would arise, and that's precisely why they gave us a method for amending the Constitution. It's time to rethink birthright citizenship by amending the 14th amendment.”
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Bush's New Middle East - Interference in Lebanon / Politics / Middle East
It's hard to know what Bush hopes to accomplish by backing the bloody siege of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, but one thing is certain; things are never as they seem. In an interview on Democracy Now last week, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh stated that, Fatah al-Islam — the group of Sunni extremists inside the camp — were getting material support from the Saudis, the Bush administration and members of the Lebanese political establishment.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
How Will The Media Destroy Ron Paul? / Politics / US Politics
We all know the drill by now. Whenever a politician with character and principles throws his hat in the ring the media descends on him like feral hounds on a pork chop. It’ll be no different with Paul. The only difference this time is that we should all be aware of what’s really going on.
Did you see the Republican debates?
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
Ron Paul, Gold and “L'Infamie” / Politics / US Politics
William Guy Carr, in his book entitled Pawns in the Game , describes how the Powers That Be have throughout history tried to discredit people or institutions that have threatened their power. The strategy described by Mr. Carr is called l'infamie which is French for infamy. In Pawns in the Game Carr describes how campaigns of l'infamie were started against Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette during the French revolution and also against Tsar Nicholas II during the Soviet revolution of 1917. Human nature does not alter with the passage of time and with that in mind we have detected the following campaigns of l'infamie.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, May 24, 2007
China, U.S.: The Strategic Economic Dialogue as a Tool for Managing Relations / Politics / China Economy
As the forth largest economy in the world, the rapid growth of Communist China' military, and economic prominence has both perplexed and intrigued the United States. Stratfor analyst Rodger Baker addresses the two primary economic concerns troubling Washington and Wall Street alike: the Chinese-U.S. trade imbalance, and the floatation of the renminbi, currently pegged at 7.8 Yuan to the dollar, though allowed to fluctuate 2-3%.Washington has identified the currency dilemma as the primary obstacle to improved U.S.- Chinese relations, concluding that the removal of the currency peg will not only permit U.S. exports to be more competitive but also shrink the current trade imbalance.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Paulson’s Kabuki: Integrating China into the Neoliberal System / Politics / China Economy
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is a man who knows what he wants. And what he wants is to further integrate the Chinese market into the global system — the “American-run” system.To achieve that goal he has assembled a group of 10 cabinet-level officials—mostly from big-business – who will are expected to urge the Chinese delegation to implement "sweeping economic reforms" that will open up their market to U.S. investment.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Panorama: Wi-Fi – A Warning Signal / Politics / Social Issues
Wi-fi networks in schools can give off three times the height of the signal radiation of phone masts, a BBC Panorama investigation has discovered.
The Chairman of the Health Protection Agency, Sir William Stewart , calls for a review of the health effects of wi-fi in the programme, to be broadcast tonight on BBC One .
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Saturday, May 19, 2007
Tony Blair Scuttles for Cover as Green Zone and Basra Come Under Mortar Attack / Politics / Iraq War
Tony Blair made his final farewell visit to Iraq today as British Prime Minister. The Invasion of Iraq is seen as the primary reason of why he is now being forced from office. As in the past no apologies were forthcoming on the disastrous decision to follow the Bush Administration into Iraq in 2003 on the basis of flimsy if not completely false propaganda.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Britain's NHS - Free for ALL but Worthless for Many! / Politics / NHS
The NHS Hospitals and GP surgeries routinely discriminate against patients, the degree of discrimination varies but the end result is if you are a vocal white middle class non smoker then you will generally receive the best the NHS has to offer. On the other hand, if you are non-white, poor, disabled, obese, or a smoker then you will be discriminated against. So the politicians cry of free healthcare only applies to some and not to many !Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Delusional President, Insane Iraq War, Finding Hope In A Dismal World / Politics / US Politics
For so many, hope is down the drain. Hard to fault them. Abundant evidence shows our insane world sliding down a global cheese grater.Fish are dying in the Great Lakes. Bees have disappeared. Polar ice caps and glaciers worldwide are melting faster than ever. A global pandemic of a drug-resistant strain of TB is coming at us. Much of the U.S. food supply is highly vulnerable because of imports and totally inadequate government scrutiny. Politicians keep lying. Americans keep dying.
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
Is George Bush an Idiot ? / Politics / US Politics
We all have our favourtie bushism's, some say he is stupid, others say he is just inarticulate.
Watch the following 10 minute video clip and then participate in our vote.
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
When Doctors strike, Less People Die! / Politics / NHS
Rob Mackrill writes : When doctors in Israel took industrial action and went on strike back in 2000, it highlighted a strange phenomenon – when doctors go on strike, the death rate plummets.In this particular instance, the death rate fell by nearly 40% over the strike period. But it's by no means an isolated example.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
NGO Dinosaurs such as the IMF and World Bank / Politics / Global Financial System
Most NGO's (non governmental organizations, funded by groups of nations for common goals) such as the United Nations, OECD, World bank, the International Monetary fund were valuable contributors to world stability after world wars I and II. But for lack a mission now all have sunk into the depths of corrupt bureaucracies. They are comic book characters now slinking around the world serving up self aggrandizing and self serving goals. Just as Government programs everywhere never are ended decades after their usefulness has ended, but never die, these dinosaurs still roam the earth fighting extinction. They are politically correct as their original intentions/missions were so virtuous, so nobody calls a spade a spade in the politically correct press. Now they are big money machines with heavy strings attached, power and control strings.
Anybody that is involved with them are in it for the money and the money they graft off them is enormous. Any nation taking advice from the IMF is doomed to poverty and economic destruction, its prescriptions are recipes for disaster. Ask Russia , Argentina , Thailand and Brazil to name a few.
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
Vote, vote, vote for central banking! / Politics / Inflation
"...What if the 'first win' of globalization didn't go to China ? What if it went to central bank policy wonks instead – free to keep real interest rates low despite oil prices trebling...?"
TAX PAYERS in Britain were invited to vote early and often in today's local council elections. The French will get to choose between one bone-head and another this weekend, too.
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Monday, April 30, 2007
BBC Panorama questions MI5's defence of failure to prevent 7/7 bombers / Politics / Iraq War
Peter Taylor , reporting for BBC One 's Panorama programme, has uncovered evidence that questions the Security Service's claim that under the circumstances, it did all it could to prevent the 7/7 bombings.
In Panorama: Real Spooks , to be broadcast at the end of the Operation Crevice trial, he reveals that MI5 failed to pass on relevant details about the individuals who turned out to be Mohammed Siddeque Khan and his accomplice, Shezad Tanweer , to West Yorkshire Police Special Branch when it followed the pair in 2004. At the time, MI5 did not know their identities.
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Political Wrap - Time to talk with Iran, US Kansas City Mall Shooting and the Broken Olmert / Politics / Middle East
In a break from the stock market wraps.
Talking to the Iranians
America after nearly 30 years is being forced into direct talks with Iran. As Condoleza Rice mentioned on Sunday whilst referring to Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki. “I will not rule out that we may encounter one another, This isn't an opportunity to talk about US-Iran issues. This is really an opportunity for all of Iraq's neighbours to talk about how to stablise Iraq”