Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Western Civilization is Doomed / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: John_Kozy
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was a boy, I knew a man who repaired clocks and watches as a hobby. (Quartz watches had not yet been invented.) I often sat for hours in utter fascination watching him work. Then one day, I asked, "Frank, how do you know how to do that?" He answered, "Johnny, what man has done, man can do." Therein lies the fallacy of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Science and technology is a Pandora's Box. Once opened by one man, company, or country, what is emitted soon becomes everyone's.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Greece Driven Into Financial and Economic Crisis / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Global_Research
Prof. Ingo Schmidt writes: Neoliberal order reigns in the world. Stock markets are recovering from the crash in the fall of 2008. Private banks are no longer weighed down by bad loans that were added to public deficits. The latter were rising anyways because the economic crisis had sent tax revenues on a downward slide. Add further bailout money for financial companies and fiscal stimulus and you get a veritable fiscal crisis of the state.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Merrill Lynch Did a Deal ‘Precisely’ Like Goldman’s, Suit Asserts / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: ProPublica
Ryan Knutson writes: As we've been reporting, other banks did deals similar to the one at the center of the SEC's lawsuit against Goldman Sachs.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
What Really Triggered the Financial Crisis? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Mike_Whitney
The Shadow Banking System Blew Up
Do you understand the root-cause of the financial crisis? Not many people do, which is why congress' attempt to regulate the system will probably fail and there will be another crisis in couple of years.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War? / Politics / Mexico
By: Mike_Whitney
On Friday, two patrol cars were ambushed by armed gunman in downtown Ciudad Juarez. In the ensuing firefight, seven policemen were killed as well as a 17-year old boy who was caught in the crossfire. All of the assailants escaped uninjured fleeing the crime-scene in three SUVs. The bold attack was executed in broad daylight in one of the busiest areas of the city. According to the Associated Press:
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Imperial Crime and Complicity In Ancient Rome and Modern America / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Tim Case writes: "The punishment of the criminal is measured by the degree of astonishment of the judge who finds his crime incomprehensible." ~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche (1844–1900)
You would think that if the present administration with its adoring minions is going to rule by the Machiavellian code, as outlined in the The Prince, they would at least take to heart the admonition that "as princes cannot help being hated by someone, they ought, in the first place, to avoid being hated by every one, and when they cannot compass this, they ought to endeavor with the utmost diligence to avoid the hatred of the most powerful."
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
"Crowd-Sourcing" IBM to Cut 3/4 of its Permanent Staff by 2017? / Politics / Employment
By: Mike_Shedlock
Computer Weekly and its sister publication, Personnel Today, claim IBM crowd sourcing could see employed workforce shrink by three quarters
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Socialism vs Corporatism / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Lately many have characterized this administration as socialist, or having strong socialist leanings. I differ with this characterization. This is not to say Mr. Obama believes in free-markets by any means. On the contrary, he has done and said much that demonstrates his fundamental misunderstanding and hostility towards the truly free market. But a closer, honest examination of his policies and actions in office reveals that, much like the previous administration, he is very much a corporatist. This in many ways can be more insidious and worse than being an outright socialist.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Goldman Sachs Fraud Sparks The Next American Revolution / Politics / UK Politics
By: Midas_Letter
Allegations of fraud brought last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission is a shocking departure from the culture of collusion among the U.S. government and the nation’s top banks. That despite the position of this publication and myriad others broadly categorized as “fringe” who have consistently and vociferously objected to the two or more standards applied to organizations and individuals by a corrupt legal system.
Monday, April 26, 2010
U.S. Bankrupt Democracy, Government Bureaucracy Backfire / Politics / US Politics
By: Captain_Hook
As with Rome, that became the globally unchallenged center of power and finance in its time, so to is the American Empire visibly rotting from inside now as well, which will be its undoing. The elitists steer the bureaucracy to do their bidding in an effort to increase the power of the machine, and this can go on for some time, which it has.
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Epic Economic Battle of Our Time / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Mladjenovic
As we look at the headlines that are swirling around us…
“Potential for financial system crisis is still feared”
“Greece has continuing economic problems”
“The Federal government is considering Value-Added-Tax”
Monday, April 26, 2010
Six Wall Street Banks Control 60% of U.S. Gross National Product / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL. With all due respect, we can only wish those tea party activists who gathered this week were not so single-minded about just who's responsible for their troubles, real and imagined. They're up in arms, so to speak, against big government, especially the Obama administration. But if they thought this through, they'd be joining forces with other grassroots Americans who will soon be demonstrating in Washington and elsewhere against high finance, taking on Wall Street and the country's biggest banks. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, April 26, 2010
Time to Fight for Financial Reform or the Bankster's Go Free / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
The President has spoken, but the system is still broken. The SEC has come down on Goldman Sachs but the company is now mounting a no-expense spared defense.. Shocking disclosures of greed and fraud continue to trickle out from the Mammon factory and Babyloniaan leviathan that is Wall Street.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Growing Anger At Collapse of U.S.A. Standard of Living / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
Hiram Lee writes: A series of recent studies conducted by the Pew Research Center shed new light on the scope of the economic crisis in the US and the level of hostility the majority of the American population holds for the US government.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Politicians Attempt to Diffuse Goldman Sachs and Mega-Banks Financial Scandal / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Bob_Chapman
As the world faces an ongoing sovereign debt debacle we see an attempt to defuse an oncoming scandal involving Goldman Sachs, Paulson and perhaps others.
The collapse of the fiat money system is underway and each day picks up momentum. The only question is how long it can survive? In the interim we are faced with inflation and perhaps hyperinflation as the privately owned Federal Reserve and other central banks add stimulus and money and credit into their financial systems.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
VAT Tax The Worst Government Method of Looting the People / Politics / Taxes
By: Murray_N_Rothbard
One of the great and striking facts of recent months is the growing resistance to further taxes on the part of the long-suffering American public. Every individual, business, or organization in American society acquires its revenue by the peaceful and voluntary sale of productive goods and services to the consumer, or by voluntary donations from people who wish to further whatever the group or organization is doing. Only government acquires its income by the coercive imposition of taxes. The welcome new element is the growing resistance to further tax exactions by the American people.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Gerald Celente, Obama's Financial Reforms Just a Show / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Submissions
Wall Street regulation is the hot topic today; President Barack Obama gave a speech to the finance industry encouraging them to join him in reforming Wall Street. Gerald Celente says that there is a huge problem with Obamas Financial Reform bill because the same people that got us into this economic mess are the ones advising Obama.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Financial Markets Computerized Front Running Using High Frequency Trading Programs and Fraud / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Ellen_Brown
While the SEC is busy investigating Goldman Sachs, it might want to look into another Goldman-dominated fraud: computerized front running using high-frequency trading programs.
Market commentators are fond of talking about “free market capitalism,” but according to Wall Street commentator Max Keiser, it is no more. It has morphed into what his TV co-host Stacy Herbert calls “rigged market capitalism”: all markets today are subject to manipulation for private gain.
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
The Man Made Global Warming Hoax - Video / Politics / Climate Change
By: Submissions
WEARECHANGE Ottawa members went to the Ottawa Go Green Expo on March 21st - 22nd. It was an event catered to the Green movement showcasing green technologies and had environment activists as public speakers thoughout the event. WAC Ottawa had the chance to catch Severn Suzuki speech and ask a few questions regarding the IPCC and the Man Made Global Warming Hoax. The next day, we tried to confront Justin Trudeau about these questions.
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Liberté, Enlightenté, Entitleté / Politics / Conspiracy Theory
By: Robert_Singer
Warning: Reading the following may be hazardous to your mental health. The material herein has caused readers to experience Cognitive Dissonance (CD).
CD is the discomfort felt at the discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation that contradicts a strongly held belief system – It’s that queasy feeling that rises in your gut and screams, I DON’T BELIEVE THAT!