Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
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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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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
JFK ASSASSINATION: E. Howard Hunt's Death Bed Confession on CIA Assassination Squad / Politics / Conspiracy Theory
By: Submissions
The "deathbed confession" audio tape in which former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt admits he was approached to be part of a CIA assassination team to kill JFK was aired this weekend - an astounding development that has gone completely ignored by the establishment media.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
What Baby Boomers Should Do! / Politics / Demographics
By: Global_Research
Gary Corseri writes: In all fairness, one ought to spread the blame around: the editors of the Atlantic, and the mainstream media in general, are even more culpable than Michael Kinsley for promulgating the absurd fictions of Mr. K’s “The Least We Can Do”—the cover piece in the current issue of the once notable Atlantic.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
What's Going Wrong With America - Must Watch Video / Politics / US Politics
By: Videos
Bernie Marcus, the co-founder and former CEO of Home Depot spends 10 minutes discussing what's going wrong with America, as a consequence of Washington's anti-business, anti-hard work, anti-personal responsibility policies and rhetoric.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Banking System Collpase, on the Edge of The Precipice, Basel III / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Matthias_Chang
The Global Too Big To Fail Banks are so precarious that literally anything can trigger a collapse in the coming months.
I have read recent commentaries on Basel III posted to various renowned websites and financial publication, but they missed (or deliberately misled) the underlying message of the proposals, the implementation of which will be delayed till 2017 and some till 2019.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
U.S. Keynesian Socialist Central Planning or Life, Liberty, and Property / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Scott Lazarowitz writes: Here is a comparison of two Americas. The first one is our current America, a country whose federal government is based on a Constitution that gives the government powers it shouldn’t have, and gives the government various monopolies it shouldn’t have, and allows agents of the State to have the power of compulsion over others that no one should have, all of which have led to the grief we now face on a daily basis. The second America is much closer to what the Founding Fathers envisioned and what anyone who loves and desires Liberty would want. Like Greece and other countries, America must make a choice.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The Game is Changing and the U.S. is Now on the Defensive / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Intel_Report
The People’s Republic of China’s PLAN in the Indian and Pacific Oceans: The Game is Changing and the US is Now on the DefensiveTwo warships of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) docked at a port in Myanmar on August 29, 2010, in the first publicized PLAN ship visit — but not the first actual PLAN visit — to Myanmar.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Why Hyperinflation Isn’t Coming to the U.S. / Politics / HyperInflation
By: Mike_Stathis
For more than two years now, many Americans have heard warnings of hyperinflation from the large consensus of misguided individuals, whose agendas serve as the basis for their ridiculous claims.
Much of this nonsense has come from the gold bugs and perma-bears, although it is often difficult to distinguish between the two.
Sprouting from this group of fear-mongers is a larger number of naïve followers whose mission is to also be inducted into the media club, while they too profit from selling gold ads and other financial arrangements made with gold dealers.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Bernanke in Luck / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Axel_Merk
Ben had served his master for seven years, so he said to him, master, my time is up, now I should be glad to go back home to my mother, give me my wages. The master answered, you have served me faithfully and honestly, as the service was so shall the reward be. And he gave Ben a piece of gold as big as his head. Ben pulled his handkerchief out of his pocket, wrapped up the lump in it, put it on his shoulder, and set out on the way home.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A Change of Course in Cuba and Venezuela? / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Strange statements are coming out of Cuba these days. Fidel Castro, in the course of a five-hour interview in late August, reportedly told Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Julia Sweig of the Council on Foreign Relations that “the Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
The Real 'Merchants of Death' / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: FPIF
Conn Hallinan writes: Accused Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is a centerpiece for the book Merchant of Death and the model for the Hollywood movie The Lord of War. He is the archetypal bad guy. Washington apparently traded military hardware to the Thais to get him extradited from a Bangkok jail.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Inflation is Not a Concern, Exploiting Bernanke / Politics / Central Banks
By: Fred_Sheehan
It is unfortunate the media does not make better use of an accessible resource: itself. Newspapers and financial TV are generally content to report what is being said today with no reference to the past. There seems to be no memory. A recent instance is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's opinion that inflation is not a concern. In a sane world, his opinion would not matter much. We live in a more nonsensical atmosphere in which abstractions substitute for reality.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Fahrenheit 451, Those Who Don’t Build Must Burn / Politics / Social Issues
By: James_Quinn
"Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries of more. School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?” – Captain Beatty in Fahrenheit 451Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, September 20, 2010
U.S. Unemployment, Where are the Jobs? / Politics / Employment
By: Pravda
Most Americans don't really care about the economic minutiae that many of us who study the U.S. economy love to pour over. When it comes to the economy, the typical American citizen just wants to be able to get a good job, make a decent living and put bread on the table for the family. For generations, this arrangement has worked out quite well. The U.S. economy has provided large numbers of middle class jobs and the American people have worked hard and have helped this nation prosper like no other. But now people are starting to notice that something has shifted. Millions of people are looking around and are realizing that the jobs that are supposed to be there are not there anymore.
Monday, September 20, 2010
World's Highest Salaries are Paid in Zurich, Switzerland / Politics / Social Issues
By: Pravda
Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, has published an annual research called "Prices and Earnings," which compared world's largest cities on their costs of living, earnings, and internal purchasing capacities. Moscow was ranked 44th, 42nd and 39th among 73 other cities. The highest prices were registered in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Salaries are the highest in Zurich, where the purchasing capacity is also on a similar level.
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