Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Iran's Option In Case Of Attack On Its Nuclear Facilities / Politics / Iran
By: Global_Intel_Report
INCIDENT: Sources in the Gulf region report that Iran is preparing for a possible attack by Israel and/or the United States on one or more of its nuclear production units by stockpiling arms and munitions with its proxy militias in Kuwait and Bahrain. This comes as Bahrain arrests 23 opposition leaders accused of terrorism offences and hints that Iran is behind an alleged plot to overthrow the government.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Oliver Stone's New Wall Street Film Money Never Sleeps is Asleep / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Danny_Schechter
The lead headline in the New York Times is “EXTENSIVE FRAUD APPEARS TO MAR AFGHAN ELECTION.” The line below, “A BLOW TO CREDIBILITY,” as if anyone who follows Afghanistan, a country known for blatant and notorious corruption was at all surprised by this latest “blow.”
Today’s “blow” followed an earlier “blow” a few weeks back with the disclosure of the crash of the Kabul Bank with $300 billion still unaccounted for.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Russia to Spend Trillions on New Arms Race / Politics / Russia
By: Pravda
In the next ten years, Russia will spend up to 22.5 trillion rubles on armaments. It was planned that the state program will not exceed 13 trillion rubles. However, the Defense Ministry considered that these funds are insufficient. The new program is designed to bring the share of new technology, adopted in the RF, to 70-80%. Now the number is approximately 10%.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
SEC Denies China's Dagong of Market Entry After U.S. Debt Downgrade / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Dian_L_Chu
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday denied the application by China's largest credit rating firm--Dagone Global Credit Rating Co.--to become a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) in the U.S.
The SEC cited concern regarding cross boarder supervision since “It does not appear possible at this time for Dagong to comply with the record keeping, production, and examination requirements of the federal securities laws."
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Obama and Congressional Democrats Trying to Blackmail China / Politics / US Politics
By: Professor_Emeritus
President Obama has just issued a blackmail to Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China: "You immediately revalue the yuan or else..." According to an article of David E. Senger in The New York Times dated September 23, 2010, the two leaders met at the United Nations in New York and spent most of their two-hour session in a spare conference room, usually used by members of the Security Council, to discuss the currency issue. The session ended by Obama's issuing an ultimatum that is bound to be followed by trade war. Surely, this is a most unseemly use to which the sacred grounds of the Security Council, dedicated as it is to the maintenance of peace and prevention of war, have ever been put.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
The Richest People in America, The Forbes 400 List 2010 / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Tom Eley writes: While 2010 has seen the vast majority of the US population suffer the consequences of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression—mass joblessness, wage cutting, plummeting home prices, record foreclosures, and spending cuts by near-bankrupt states and cities—for the handful of plutocrats who control the nation’s wealth it has been a very good year indeed.
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Red Ed Miliband New Leader of the Labour Party / Politics / UK Politics
By: Pravda
Ed Miliband, 41, is the new leader of Britain's Labour Party, beating his brother, former Foreign Secretary David, in the final round of voting, having wooed the Left, promising to unite Labour after years of covert division between Blairites and Brownists, promising tax rises over public spending cuts and earning the label "Ed Red".
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
India's Commonwealth Games Fiasco, Shaky Foundations of a Cheap Labour Economy / Politics / India
By: Finian_Cunningham
As the Commonwealth Games open in Delhi, India, the controversy over sub-standard accommodation and facilities for the participating nations continues to rage.
Several weeks ago, visiting country delegates voiced concern over the shambolic state of the newly built facilities. Now, as the games open, the event promises to turn into an embarrassing fiasco for the Indian government, with glaring publicity on what is still being widely reported as filthy and shoddy conditions. Media reports say that cleaners and labourers are “working through the night” in order to salvage conditions at the so-called Games Village, where more than 7,000 athletes from over 70 countries are scheduled to stay for the 12-day sporting tournament.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
The Credit Meltdown and Wall Street's Shadow Banking System / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Ellen_Brown
While local banks are held in check by the new banking czars in Basel, Wall Street’s “shadow banking system” has hardly been curbed by regulators at all; and it is here that the 2008 credit crisis was actually precipitated.
The banking system’s credit machine is systemically flawed and needs a radical overhaul.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
It Is Official, The U.S. Is a Police State / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
On September 24, Jason Ditz reported on Antiwar.com that “the FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against the homes of antiwar activists in Illinois, Minneapolis, Michigan, and North Carolina, claiming that they are ‘seeking evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism.’”Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Ron Paul's Bill to Audit the Fed, A Red-Alert Threat to the Regime / Politics / Central Banks
By: Gary_North
"Show me the money!" Cuba Gooding made this phrase famous in the 1996 movie, Jerry McGuire. The phrase soon got into the language.
"Follow the money!" That came from the movie, All the President's Men. No one knows who said it. "Deep Throat" didn't. The screenwriter says that he does not know where he got it. It has entered the language.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
America Aping Britain’s Decline Through Free Trade / Politics / US Politics
By: Ian_Fletcher
One of the most inexcusable things about America’s ongoing economic decline by means of free trade is how clear the historical portents are. For example, we are today treading the same path trodden by a nation that Americans know reasonably well: Great Britain. It is easy to forget that until about 1850 Britain, not the U.S., was the world’s leading economic power. But then, of course, they blew it. There were, of course, many causes of this decline, but free trade was undeniably a major one. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The White House Bubble as Summers Backs his Bags and Says Good Bye to the Recession / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
As the November election approaches, the White House seems to be ending its Rip Van Winkle-like slumber and has begun crawling out of the bubble of its own making. Many fear it’s a bit late.
The shakeup of President Obama’s economic team is long overdue. As Larry Summers slithers back to Harvard to save his tenure and write his book, he is likely to be replaced by exactly the wrong kind of person—a business executive, appointed to try to appease the Repugs and the Right. (Summers was paid $586,996-a-year at Hahvard and picks up all kinds of consulting deals on the side from Wall Street.)
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
30 Trillion for Quantitative Easing (QE) 2? It's Time to Get Radical! / Politics / Quantitative Easing
By: Chris_Kitze
Yes, it's time to get radical on the economy and no, I'm not talking about going full Karl Marx -- the politicians in Washington appear well down THAT road.. The next set of bailouts could run $30 trillion (as I'll explain in a bit) and that's probably not the end of it because all the future government entitlements are well over $100 trillion. This is not only unaffordable, any attempt to make good on even a small portion of this is a fool's errand. In addition to attempting an impossible task that is doomed to fail, we're bailing out the wrong people! Hopefully, this article will get you thinking -- feel free to leave a comment and help our discussion.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Director of the Vatican Bank being investigated for money laundering / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Pravda
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, president of the Vatican Bank, known as the Vatican Institute for Religious Works (IOR), is being investigated by Italian courts for alleged money laundering. By order of Italian justice, the country's tax police seized 23 million euros, which were deposited in an account of the Credito Artigiano Bank S.P.A. (joint-stock company in Italian).
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
What Do Empires Do? / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Michael Parenti writes: When I wrote my book Against Empire in 1995, as might be expected, some of my U.S. compatriots thought it was wrong of me to call the United States an empire. It was widely believed that U.S. rulers did not pursue empire; they intervened abroad only out of self-defense or for humanitarian rescue operations or to restore order in a troubled region or overthrow tyranny, fight terrorism, and propagate democracy.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Mutant Rat Epidemic spreading Economic Black Plague, Part II / Politics / US Politics
By: D_Sherman_Okst
Brief Recap of : "Mutant Rat Epidemic Spreading Economic Black Plague - Part I"
The Slave-Release Program: For 227 days of every year Americans are slaves to the Public Debt Rat. So much for the the 13th Amendment or the Civil War of 1861-1865.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
U.S Government Tops in Google User Data Request - 4,287 in Six Months! / Politics / US Politics
By: Static_Chaos
In one of my posts published in April this year, I briefly mentioned that Google unveiled a “transparency tool” that gives information about requests it receives for user data or content removal from government agencies. The government data is recorded from around the world in an effort to shed light on censorship and flow of information according to Google.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Larry Summers’ End / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_L_Kasriel
There is something poetic, I suppose, about Larry Summers announcing his upcoming departure from the Obama administration on the last day of summer. The Obama administration has been accused of having a "tin ear" when it comes to its relations with the business community, perhaps because its principal economic advisers never had to "meet a payroll." As I recall, the administration that preceded the current one was loaded with "payroll meeters". Although that administration might have had superb relations with business, these good relations did not translate into great economic performance.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Vince Cable's Anti-Capitalism Conference Speech, From Mr Bean to Stalin / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
Coalition Government Business Secretary, Vince Cable attacks all aspects of capitalism from bank bonuses to executive pay. His speech included contradictory delusional statements such as capitalism kills competition as opposed to what ? Socialism ?
Full transcript of Vince Cables speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference below:
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