Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Iran, IAEA, Another War in the Works / Politics / Iran
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and the "Main Stream Media" about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to Iraq, that no such weapons existed.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Cap & Tax , The Sun Causes Global Warming and Cooling…Climate / Politics / Climate Change
By: Mark_B_Rasmussen
The Sun Causes Global Warming and Cooling…Climate Change!!
This is not my opinion; links to the most comprehensive and current scientific reports are included below.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The Real Reasons Behind Fed Secrecy / Politics / Central Banks
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week I was very pleased that the Financial Services Committee held a hearing on the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, HR 1207. The bill has 295 cosponsors and there is also strong support for the companion bill in the Senate. This hearing was a major step forward in getting the bill passed.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Geopolitical Intelligence Report, Obama's Move on Iran and Afghanistan / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, now-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said that like all U.S. presidents, Barack Obama would face a foreign policy test early in his presidency if elected. That test is now here.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Labour Government Benefits Culture Results in Rampaging Feral Youths / Politics / UK Politics
By: N_Walayat
The easy money for nothing benefits culture that Labour has implemented over its 11 year rule, which is in part to reward a large section of its natural voter pool has resulted in the expansion of the benefits culture far beyond that of the preceding decades where invariably the operative strategy in maximising the amounts claimed in benefits is to produce increasing number of children, with little if any effort put into raising a large proportion of the children into decent members of society but instead resulting in rampaging literally untouchable feral youths roaming the estates and city centres of Britain wreaking havoc amongst the rest of the population.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Founding Fathers Of Our New Country - Part2 / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
Civil Liberties
George Washington warned against the usurpation of civil liberties by those seeking power in his Farewell Address:
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Founding Fathers Of Our New Country / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” – George Washington“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” – George Washington
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Monday, September 28, 2009
World Health Organisation Admits No Deadly Mutation of H1N1 Swine Flu / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: F_William_Engdahl
The World Health Organization, the UN agency (ir-) responsible for declaring a Phase 6 “PANDEMIC” global alert over what it calls H1N1 Influenza A or Swine Flu, whose chief Dr Margaret Chan has repeatedly warned that while Swine Flu to date had been rather mild, that the emergency declaration was necessary because it “could mutate” aggressively into a deadly pandemic killing millions, now admits well into the flu season in the Northern Hemisphere that H1N1 has apparently not mutated.
Monday, September 28, 2009
National Parks, Another Scam of the Super-Rich / Politics / UK Politics
By: Gary_North
Ken Burns is at it again. This time, it is a PBS series on the national parks. He subtitles it "America's Greatest Idea."
The national parks are not America's greatest idea. They are the super-rich's greatest idea . . . for themselves.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
G20 Summit Disaster Movie Re-run / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Mike_Shedlock
Now that the G-20 economic summit is over, inquiring minds have a few questions on their minds:
1) Will the Group of 20 will be more effective because it includes important new players like India and Brazil, or will it simply be more unwieldy?
Saturday, September 26, 2009
The Hive is Alive? (Part II) / Politics / Chinese Stock Market
By: Chris_Wilson
As I pointed out in the first part of this series, every inflation advocate points to the demise of the west and the rise of Asia as a consequence of global trade imbalance and failed policies of the U.S. No one can argue the mistakes of our policy makers, but I say ‘not so fast’ on the rise of the Chinese. It amazes me that these same analysts who run down the U.S. actually believe that current growth in China is actually organic. How in the world do you think China went from being an export-driven economy to one that is completely independent of the contraction in the west? Man did that happen fast. Anyone who believes that China has turned its mostly underpaid citizenry into a robust middle class overnight is delusional.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
India Refuses to Sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
India refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the nation’s Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor said. The statement followed the UN Security Council’s approval of the resolution urging all countries to sign the treaty and refuse from their nuclear arms.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
G20 Barons Require A New Magna Carta for Our Times / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Submissions
Hugo Salinas Price writes: Magna Carta (1215) was the first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects (the barons) in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges.” (www.wikipedia.org)
Let us think of President Obama in the place of the English King, and the Group of G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa. this week as Obama’s Barons.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Death of the American Empire... / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Clive_Maund
The general public, who never understood the global financial crisis in the first place, have been hoodwinked into thinking it's over. It's not. None of the underlying structural abnormalities, distortions and excesses within the global financial system have been addressed and rectified, because to do so in a meaningful way would involve allowing a constructive depression to purge the system of dross and parasitic elements (like much of government itself) in what would amount to a teardown and rebuild.
Friday, September 25, 2009
G20, The Price of Pretense in Pittsburgh / Politics / Global Economy
By: Peter_Schiff
As another G20 meeting rolls around, this time on home soil, the time comes once again for the economically curious but politically unconnected to wonder what is really happening behind closed doors. But while admiring the pageantry, chuckling at the awkward group photos, and parsing the joint communiqués like newly found Dead Sea scrolls, the overwhelming majority of observers will miss the meeting's dominant theme: hypocrisy.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
U.S. Military Prepares for Afghanistan Defeat / Politics / Afghanistan
By: Pravda
American troops are at risk of being defeated in Afghanistan if additional troops are not sent, says the special report that has become available to the Washington Post.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Global Warming or Global Freezing, Is the Ice Really Melting? / Politics / Climate Change
By: F_William_Engdahl
President Obama just made a melodramatic appeal at the United Nations for global measures to dramatically curb what he called “the climate threat,” current euphemism for what is more popularly known as Global Warming, the theory that man-made CO2 emissions from cars, coal plants and other man-made sources are causing the earth to warm to the point the polar icecaps are irreversibly melting and threatening to flood a quarter or more of the earth’s surface.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Are You Economically and Mentally Independent / Politics / US Politics
By: Jerry_Salcido
Although America successfully seceded from the British Empire in 1776, today, more than 200 years later, it is in no way "independent." Its many dependencies include its reliance on debt to finance its operations; it looks to foreign manufacturers to provide basic goods; it is at the mercy of oil sheiks for its energy needs; and, it depends on global and regional organizations like the United Nations, NATO, and other entangling alliances to conduct diplomacy.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Climate Change, The Environmentalists Have it All Wrong! / Politics / Climate Change
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Human's driving climate change through the twin forces of pumping green house gasses into the atmosphere and burning of rain forests is a fact. The temperature continues to rise towards a tipping point when temperatures will accelerate towards a new equilibrium level far beyond current levels.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The Afghan Disaster, More Force, More Money, More Death / Politics / Afghanistan
By: LewRockwell
In the private sector, there is always a test of success. The business must make a profit. It can sustain some losses but the clock is always running on those. At some point, after all cuts have been made and costs are trimmed to a minimum, the business has to close shop. The summer of losses must become the autumn of profits, or else it's all over.
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