Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Obama Is a Predator Drone / Politics / US Politics
"The intent of the committee is to neuter the United States of America. They've done it by rewarding a pacifist." ~ Rush Limbaugh
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Why the Fed Needed Congress to Authorise Bailouts? / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
I have been wondering why the Fed needed the Congress to authorize bailouts, when they could already create money at will.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Obama and the Nobel Prize, When War becomes Peace / Politics / US Politics
When war becomes peace,
When concepts and realities are turned upside down,
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Latin America’s Twenty-First Century Socialism in Historical Perspective / Politics / Emerging Markets
The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism (21cs). Prominent writers, academics and regime spokespeople celebrated a totally new variant of socialism, as completely at odds with what they dubbed as the failed 20th century, Soviet-style socialism. The advocates and publicists of 21cs claims of a novel political-economic model rested on what they ascribed as a radical break with both the free market neo-liberal regimes which preceded, and the past “statist” version of socialism embodied by the former Soviet Union as well as China and Cuba.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Obamacare Will Raise Average Policy By Thousands Of Dollars / Politics / US Politics
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Five Top Reasons for The Health Care Crisis / Politics / US Politics
1. In 1942 Congress made health care insurance for company employees non taxable unlike wages. Beyond the tax disadvantage created for individuals seeking health insurance, this law left few reasons for companies to even offer policies to individuals let alone lifetime policies.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Peter Schiff, You Are Wrong on Health Care in the U.S / Politics / US Politics
The Market Oracle provides an invaluable service to the world. A visitor to the Market Oracle site is treated to a wide ranging scope of insight into financial and economic issues in virtual real time by insightful and accredited contributors. We are treated to contributions from the likes of Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Mike Shedlock, Mike Stathis, Jim Willie and John Mauldin (to name a few). Market direction analysis by Nadeem Walayat is second to none. Peter Quinn’s lyrical musings on the tragic fate of the American society is always entertaining (notwithstanding my personal disagreement with some of Peter’s negativity).
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Destroying the U.S. Economy / Politics / US Politics
Bob Ford writes: When the rewards for legitimate investments are zero and the penalties for bad investments are zero, a life style has been created in a dimension completely removed from that of the ordinary citizen. Wall Street operates in a zero regulation environment. There is no upper limit or lower limit on anything. It is perfectly acceptable to destroy an entire country, not just its economy. Fraud and deception quickly reduce the money of depositors and investors to zero, and place it in the hands of bankers and top level corporate management.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
American's Gambling $100 Billion in Casino's Like Rats in a Cage / Politics / Social Issues
The world is a vampire, sent to drain
secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
and what do I get, for my pain
betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
even though I know-I suppose I'll show
all my cool and cold-like old job
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Michael Moore and Sean Hannity Spar Over Capitalism / Politics / US Politics
Michael Moore and Sean Hannity Spar Over Capitalism 10 minute video
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
The Untold History of The Project for the New American Century / Politics / New World Order
This film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders themselves admitting it.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Peter Schiff Call to Action to Win U.S. Senate Seat / Politics / US Politics
Dear Friends,
Through my weekly commentaries, I have always tried to share my honest insight into the behavior of markets and recommend strategies to help people preserve their wealth. As investors, many readers have benefited from my advice; but as Americans, they are frustrated that they have to look abroad for decent returns because Washington continues making a mess of things at home. I am too.
Friday, October 09, 2009
In Defense of Capitalism: a True Love Story / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
My writing is a byproduct of my investment process, I think through writing. I don’t do movie reviews and don’t watch Michael Moore’s movies. A Denver Post reporter invited me to a private showing of Moore’s latest flick last Monday Capitalism: a Love Story, it stirred up a lot of memories and I recently finished reading Atlas Shrugged which had a great impact on me. A combination of all those things motivated me to write this.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Big Boys and Their Synthetic Political and Financial Toys / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
It was a story about a man who plunged from an escalator at The Pier Shops at Caesars in Atlantic City that raised my curiosity. He was the second man to die on that same escalator.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Barrack Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Being First Black President / Politics / US Politics
The Nobel committee awarded the peace prize for - "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".
The normal expectation is for someone to be awarded the prestigious Nobel peace prize AFTER they have contributed in a major way towards making peace, which I just do not see when looking back on Barrack Obama's first 10 months Presidency.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Technically Bankrupt Iceland Parliament Proposes Debt Default Solution / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Reykjavik , Iceland , Oct. 7 – A leading member of the Icelandic parliament called Monday night for the country to declare a debt moratorium and stop attempting to pay the $6 billion which the British and Netherlands governments are seeking to extort from Iceland with the help of the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission in Brussels. This dramatic call was issued by Birgitta Jónsdóttir, the chairman of the parliamentary faction of The Movement in the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. Birgitta Jónsdóttir was speaking during a special session of the Althing called to address the rapidly deteriorating economic and financial position of Iceland, one year after the collapse of the three hot-money offshore banks, Landsbanki, Kaupthing, and Glitnir.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
United States On the Fast Track to Socialism / Politics / Economic Stimulus
The economic meltdown has put the country on the fast track to socialism, but through a series of tiny steps. One need only to examine the supposed victories in the war on depression to see how this is happening. The latest is the claim that the Obama administration has successfully renegotiated many mortgage obligations in a way that allows people to keep their homes.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
The Global Warming Scam / Politics / Climate Change
L: [Phone rings. It’s Doug Casey, whose gravelly, "Lobo, let’s talk!" always makes me smile.] Hi Doug! What’s on your mind?
Doug: Global warming. People like my fanatical neighbors here in Aspen seem perfectly willing to undo centuries of progress because they are completely delusional about global warming. The People’s Republic of Aspen is an epicenter of political correctness.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
Let’s Take Back Columbus Day / Politics / US Politics
More than a century ago, America celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage of discovery by hosting an enormous world’s fair on the shores of Lake Michigan. This “World’s Columbian Exposition” featured statues of the great explorer, replicas of his three ships, and commemorative stamps and coins. Because Columbus Day was a patriotic holiday--it marked the opening chapter in American history--the newly written Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in schools on October 12, 1892.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
Bankster's Bait and Switch Fractional Reserve Banking System / Politics / Global Financial System
The phrase "bait and switch" refers to a sales practice of advertising a desirable item at a low price to get potential buyers into a showroom. Then the salesman tells the shopper that the firm has run out of the sought-after item. The salesman then uses his sales skills to sell the shopper a more expensive item.
This practice is illegal. It is a form of fraud. It steals time from the shoppers.
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