Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
European Governments Bow to the Banks / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Global_Research
Peter Schwarz writes: For over a year leading European politicians promised to regulate financial markets and rein in the activities of speculators in order to prevent a repetition of the international financial crisis. Now finally the mountain has moved and given birth to a mouse. The regulations agreed by the European heads of state and government at their conference a week ago in Brussels are even weaker than the noncommittal regulations adopted by the US.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Fed Market Manipulation, Surmounting The Main Threat To Profits And Protection / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.” - The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s
Saturday, June 27, 2009
How the Media Uses Buffett to Make Money / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Stathis
In the previous part of this article we saw how what Buffett invests in doesn’t matter to you.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Obama Gets Billions for ‘Pandemic’ Swine Flu / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: F_William_Engdahl
Buried amid news stories about World Breastfeeding Week, World Suicide Prevention Day and World Rabies Day, the WHO has a small item giving the latest supposed count of ‘laboratory confirmed H1N1 cases. It is something on the order of 55,000 persons worldwide since this April at a factory pig farm in Veracruz Mexico a small child got ill and the world was told of a deadly new ‘Swine Flu’ that was allegedly spreading from pig to person. Yet the US Government is gearing up as if it ere preparing for the new outbreak of the dreaded 1918 ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic. The reality does not support the government response. Is something else going on?
Friday, June 26, 2009
The Source of the Current Economic Crisis: "A Chicago State of Mind" / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Global_Research
Maidhc Ó'Cathail writes: Worried about the global economic crisis? It’s all in your head, says a leading financial expert.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Bernie Madoff, Will Other Financial Criminals Be Investigated And Prosecuted? / Politics / Scams
By: Global_Research
Danny Schechter writes: “indeed “ adverb
1 used to emphasize a statement or response confirming something already suggested : it was not expected to last long, and indeed it took less than three weeks | “She should have no trouble hearing him.” “No indeed.”
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Is Obama Pushing Us Toward State Controlled Capitalism? / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: With its regulatory overhaul of the U.S. financial system, the Obama administration has granted the federal government new powers to take over systemically important businesses, but has done so in a way that may well mask a potentially dangerous drift toward American state capitalism.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Bernanke Suffers From Selective Memory Loss; Paulson Calls Bank of America "Turd in the Punchbowl" / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's memory seems to be failing at an amazingly convenient time, for Bernanke. Please consider Bernanke Blasted in House.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Terminal Absence of Leadership / Politics / US Politics
By: Midas_Letter
James West writes: I like Barack Obama. I like his sincerity, his thoughtfulness, his compassion, and his humanitarian priority. I like his calm resolve, and his humility. But I don’t think he’s going to succeed in staunching the hemorrhaging of the global economy that is now approaching all published definitions of “depression”.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Who’s Really to Blame for the Crooked Financial System / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: It’s been in the news the last couple of days. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) bankers are headed for record bonuses. The Financial Times reports that bankers’ pay in the London market is already right back to 2007 levels and going higher. Banks are poaching each others’ best staff, and are offering huge pay packages to staffers willing to make the leap.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Bankster's Plan “Holiday” for September? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Global_Research
Kurt Nimmo writes: Bob Chapman’s influential International Forecaster is reporting on the possibility of a so-called “bank holiday” planned for late August or early September. According to Chapman’s sources, U.S. embassies around the world are selling dollars and stockpiling money from respective countries where they operate.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
BIS Global Big Brother, Trading Financial Stability for National Sovereignty? / Politics / Global Financial System
By: Global_Research
Ellen Brown writes: Buried on page 83 of the 89-page Report on Financial Regulatory Reform issued by the U.S. Administration on June 17 is a recommendation that the new Financial Stability Board strengthen and institutionalize its mandate to promote global financial stability. Financial stability is a worthy goal, but the devil is in the details. The new global Big Brother is based in the Bank for International Settlements, a controversial institution that raises red flags among the wary . . . .
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Obama Regulatory Reforms to Establish Banking Dictatorship / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Global_Research
Paul Joseph Watson writes: President Obama’s plan to give the privately-owned and unaccountable Federal Reserve complete regulatory oversight across the entire U.S. economy, which is likely to be enacted before the end of the year, will officially herald the beginning of a new form of government in the United States - an ultra-powerful banking dictatorship controlled by a small gaggle of shadowy and corrupt elitists.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Obama's Financial Reforms A Stealth Scheme for Global Monetary Control / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Stephen_Lendman
When politicians plan reform, it's wise to be skeptical and hold on to your wallets. So fixing the economy by bailing out Wall Street is wrecking it, and Obama's proposed health care reform taxes more, provides less, places profits above human need, avoids the most vital solutions, and leaves a broken system in place.
Monday, June 22, 2009
International Bailout Brings U.S. Closer to Economic Collapse / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week Congress passed the war supplemental appropriations bill. In an affront to all those who thought they voted for a peace candidate, the current president will be sending another $106 billion we don't have to continue the bloodshed in Afghanistan and Iraq, without a hint of a plan to bring our troops home.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Obama Capitulates to Wall Street, No Real Financial System Reform / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Global_Research
Prof. Michael Hudson writes: The story is worse than just “Pres. Obama labored, and brought forth a mouse.” He is morphing into Joe Lieberman in reaching across the aisle for Republican support – and no doubt future campaign contributions from the financial sector. There also is a touch of Boris Yeltsin in sponsoring a financial “reform” disturbingly similar to what advisor Larry Summers backed in Russia – relinquishing government power to a banking elite (the notorious “Seven Bankers” in post-Soviet Russia). The Financial Regulatory Reform proposal promotes Wall Street’s “product,” debt creation, at the expense of the economy at large, and lets financial chieftains continue to self-regulate the debt industry – and by the way, to keep all their gains from the past decade’s worth of fraudulent lending, scot-free.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order:" Part I / Politics / New World Order
By: Stephen_Lendman
For over 30 years, F. William Engdahl has been a leading researcher, economist, and analyst of the New World Order with extensive writing to his credit on energy, politics, and economics. He contributes regularly to business and other publications, is a frequent speaker on geopolitical, economic and energy issues, and is a distinguished Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
Monday, June 22, 2009
The West's Global Hegemony, the Columbus Era 1492–2009 / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: LewRockwell
Scott Kelly writes: On the evening of August 3, 1492, an Italian named Christopher Columbus departed from Palos de Frontera, Spain, in a flotilla of three ships. They were traveling under a Spanish flag and were headed west across the Atlantic Ocean. Their goal was to find a shorter passage to India.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
The Crime of Committing Sound Money / Politics / Fiat Currency
By: LewRockwell
Betsy Hansen writes: Until we abolish legal tender laws, all attempts on the part of entrepreneurs to set up gold and silver banking institutions will be labeled as "a tax evasion scheme to hide income."
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Obama Financial Reforms, On The Road To Change Or Perdition? / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Submissions
Danny Schechter writes: Stabilizing A Flawed System is Not The Same As Restructuring Or Remaking It
A recent study cited by the Editor of the Financial Times argues that we are now in a Depression although no one wants to use the term or face the music.
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