Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Internet Blogging Equated With High Treason in Many Countries / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
Being a blogger can be criminal even if bloggers do not attack the authorities of their countries. Any slip of the tongue or a side remark can be enough. This is a peculiar feature of authoritarian regimes that see the Internet as a threat to their existence. People may say anything they want on their blogs, and their points of view may not always coincide with the official point of view of a certain government.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Origins of the Swine Flu Pandemic May Not be Mexican Pigs / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: Global_Research
Michel Chossudovsky writes: The WHO announced on May 1st that it will be dropping the designation of "swine flu". The flu will henceforth be designated A H1N1, to be known more broadly as "the Mexican Flu", intimating that the disease originated in Mexico through human to human transmission.
Monday, May 04, 2009
The Geopolitics of Pandemics / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: STRATFOR
Word began to flow out of Mexico the weekend before last of well over 150 deaths suspected to have been caused by a new strain of influenza commonly referred to as swine flu. Scientists who examined the flu announced that this was a new strain of Influenza A (H1N1) derived partly from swine flu, partly from human flu and partly from avian flu strains (although there is some question as to whether this remains true). The two bits of information released in succession created a global panic.
Monday, May 04, 2009
The Real Undreported Pandemics, Not Fake Ones Like Avian and Swine Flu / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: Stephen_Lendman
In his April 29 Global Research.ca article, F. William Engdahl discussed "Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms" and shed light on the current swine flu hysteria - hyped by the same folks who engineered the 2006 (H5N1) Avian Flu scare that had more bark than bite. But it proved hugely profitable for drug makers like Roche and Gilead Sciences, the company Donald Rumsfeld led as chairman from 1997 - 2001 and remains a major shareholder. Although he won't discuss his "private finances," he's likely benefitting handsomely from the current panic.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Market-Long-Waves: Geithner's "Stressful" Katrina Bank Stress Test / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Andrew_Butter
The results of the Stress Tests are about to be released. The leaked news is that these won't be a "whitewash", but that's not the point, whatever they say, no one is going to believe them anyway.
So what IS the point?
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Flying Pigs and the World Health Organisation (WHO) / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: F_William_Engdahl
WHO takes a page from a Michael Crichton Novel - As the late great American poet Yogi Berra might have put it, ‘this just gets absurder and absurder.’ The international agencies supposedly responsible for monitoring worldwide dangers of new pandemic threats, the WHO and CDC are acting like the directors of a Hollywood ‘B’ grade sci-fi movie or the author of a copycat version of Michael Crichton’s Andromeda Strain novel. The global panic over outbreak of a new human-to-human Swine Flu pandemic is increasingly revealed as a likely operation in mass psychological terror whose only beneficiaries are the few global pharmaceutical giants that are in the business of peddling so-called ‘antiviral’ drugs—Roche, SmithKlineGlaxo and Novavax most prominently. The losers are the rest of us normal folks.
Monday, May 04, 2009
G20 Meeting Governmental or Mafia? / Politics / Global Financial System
By: LewRockwell
Do you remember the 1957 meeting of Mafia bosses in Apalachin, New York? About 100 of the Big Bosses met at the home (it must have been large!) of local Mafia chieftain Joe Barbara, and the local police became curious when they noticed numbers of expensive cars with out-of-town license plates at the Barbara home. The cops, acting on the principle of "arrest now, ask questions later," arrested as many of the men as they could catch, and a prosecutor named Milton Wessel subsequently tried them on conspiracy charges.
Monday, May 04, 2009
New Business Model Comes After Communism and Capitalism / Politics / Business
By: Pravda
Cage Innoye writes: In the article, “Diverse Economy is next after Capitalism and Communism” by this author, a thesis was put forward on a new system of business and finance. Here some basic questions are answered about the operation of such new economy and some suggestions are made.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Let Warren Buffett Buy Wells Fargo / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
Warren Buffet is the largest shareholder in Wells Fargo. He claims it is a "Fabulous Bank" and would like to buy it all. Is he serious or is he just talking up his shares?
Monday, May 04, 2009
Swine Flu: A Follow-up on Trading the Hype / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: Mike_Stathis
Last week I released a piece that no other (qualified) financial professional was willing to expose because (in my opinion) they don’t want the masses to know how event-driven media-hyped trading works. If everyone knew how the game is played, they wouldn’t be able to make the easy money. http://www.avaresearch.com/article_details-170.html
Monday, May 04, 2009
How America was ‘Sold Out’ for $5.2 Billion to the Financial Industry! / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Lorimer_Wilson
This article is a follow-up to my recent piece on “America’s Financial Oligarchy” which was a synopsis of Simon Johnson’s “The Quiet Coup” on how the financial industry has effectively captured our government. This follow-up article is an edit and review of a lengthy 231-page report prepared in March 2009 by the Consumer Education Foundation (see wallstreetwatch.org/reports/sold_out.pdf for the full report) on how, over the years, the ‘Money Industry’ as they refer to the financial oligarchy, sold out America to gain such control.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Privatise the NHS and Save the UK Economy from Bankruptcy / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The UK economy is on the fast track towards bankruptcy in that the level of borrowings is mushrooming out of control and those are the figures that the government is showing on its official balance sheet that has hidden the true extent of liabilities through accounting tricks that the government conjures to hide the truth of the dire state of the countries finances as the below graphs illustrate.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Rep. Wexler Announces Legislation for Select Committee to Investigate Bush Abuses—A Real Investigation or a Waste of Time? / Politics / US Politics
By: Richard_C_Cook
In a letter to voters, Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has announced his introduction of House Resolution 383 to establish “a bi-partisan Select Committee tasked with making comprehensive recommendations on our national security policy - including those covering laws on torture, FISA law violations, wiretapping, civil liberties protections, among others. This committee would have all of the power of a standing committee, including subpoena power.” Co-sponsors are Barbara Lee (D-CA) and John Conyers (D-MI). Conyers is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
Bernanke's Bank Bailout Plan is Stupidity Squared / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
John Mauldin's weekly E-Letter, Sell in May and Go Away, is a good read. My favorite portion of the E-Letter is the section "A Dangerous End Game". Let's take a look.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Wall Street Banks Trying to Rig Stress Test Results / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Global_Research
New York, New York: Dick Durbin knows his way around the Senate. He’s been there a long time, long enough to know how things really work. Over the years, the man from Illinois has come to realize that it’s not the elected officials who are in charge. Last week, he said it was the bankers “who run the place” acknowledging that Senators may be in office, but not necessarily in power.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Swine Flu Pandemic, the Solution to Global Warming? / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: LewRockwell
Tom Chartier writes:
Bart: "Dad, am I going to die?"
Homer: "Yes you are son!!!"
Saturday, May 02, 2009
The Flu Hysteria Agency, It Always Is 1918 at the CDC / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: LewRockwell
William L. Anderson writes:
Wherever one turns, whether it is on the broadcast news or the Internet, we are bombarded with Swine Flu stories. Government tells us not to "panic," while it simultaneously engages in activities meant to spread widespread fear.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
The State as an Economic Gangster, a Fistful of Dollars / Politics / Taxes
By: LewRockwell
Don Cooper writes: 1) The state as a well-oiled broken clock
My state’s Public Records Law, in short, allows any citizen to request and receive any and all information that is of public record in the state. So I did.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Labour Government Enslaves the British Tax Payer to a Decade of Paying for the Bankers Crimes / Politics / UK Debt
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Chancellor Alistair Darling in his recent budget started to come clean on the huge amounts of debt that the country will need to borrow on just its visible official balance sheet as illustrated by the below graph. However much talk by politicians and the mainstream media about how there will now need to be severe cuts in public spending and tax cuts to reduce the level of debt are partially in-correct, in that yes taxes will rise and public spending will be cut to stabilise the budget deficit, but the argument that the level of debt must be reduced is flawed and fly's in the face of over 300 years of history of debt accumulation since the founding of the Bank of England.
Friday, May 01, 2009
Great Economic Depression Silver Linings / Politics / Great Depression II
By: LewRockwell
John M. Peters writes: As the existing economic structure collapses, I see a return to ways of doing business which existed not only in my father’s time, but in my grandfather’s time. Although the transition will be painful the journey will be worth it. The shockwaves of the latest depression are wiping away the traditional pillars of the economic system. Here are just a few of the changes we can expect as the current economy grinds to a halt.
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