Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Bernanke's Self-Promotional Reappointment Campaign A Stunning Success / Politics / Central Banks
By: Mike_Shedlock
Ben Bernanke's self promotional media blitz culminating with Orwellian Madness "Bernanke Saved The World", was a stunning success for Bernanke in his bid to be reappointed Fed Chairman. Unfortunately, Bernanke's win is everyone else's loss.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Buzz over Bernanke Reappointment as Fed Chairman / Politics / Central Banks
By: Michael_Pento
Last week’s buzz in Jackson Hole Wyoming and around Wall Street is whether or not Banana Ben Bernanke should be reappointed to the Fed Chair. CNBC also held a panel discussing this issue with Bob McTeer (former President of the Dallas Fed). The consensus was that it was ridiculous not to have Barack Obama indicate he would serve another term as soon as possible. The agreed upon reason being that no one could do a better job than he has done.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Obama's Foreign Policy: The End of the Beginning / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
As August draws to a close, so does the first phase of the Obama presidency. The first months of any U.S. presidency are spent filling key positions and learning the levers of foreign and national security policy. There are also the first rounds of visits with foreign leaders and the first tentative forays into foreign policy. The first summer sees the leaders of the Northern Hemisphere take their annual vacations, and barring a crisis or war, little happens in the foreign policy arena. Then September comes and the world gets back in motion, and the first phase of the president’s foreign policy ends. The president is no longer thinking about what sort of foreign policy he will have; he now has a foreign policy that he is carrying out.
Monday, August 24, 2009
So-called Populist Revolt Against the Obama Health Care Proposals Stinks / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Richard_C_Cook
Is anyone more than a little curious about where the so-called “populist revolt” against the Obama administration’s health care proposals is coming from and who is paying for it? You know, the revolt where people scream and disrupt town hall meetings, brandish guns outside in the street, and label a public option that would help some of the 47 million without health insurance get treatment as “socialist”?
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Why the Federal Reserve Bank Must Die / Politics / Central Banks
By: James_Quinn
“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value ---- zero.” – Voltaire
“The Federal Reserve in collaboration with the giant banks has created the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen. The foolish notion that unlimited amounts of money and credit created out of thin air can provide sustainable economic growth has delivered this crisis to us. Instead of economic growth and stable prices, (The Fed) has given us a system of government and finance that now threatens the world financial and political institutions. Pursuing the same policy of excessive spending, debt expansion and monetary inflation can only compound the problems that prevent the required corrections. Doubling the money supply didn’t work, quadrupling it won’t work either. Buying up the bad debt of privileged institutions and dumping worthless assets on the American people is morally wrong and economically futile.” Representative from Texas Ron Paul questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Who Will Inherit Your Money When You Die? / Politics / Pensions & Retirement
By: LewRockwell
Gary North writes: "Tell me what country I will die in. I will never go there."
Men do not like to think about their inheritance. That's because of the word "die." This is why they delay writing a will. A will is like a road map to the border of the final country. "I will never go there."
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Pentagon Plans For Global Military Supremacy / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Global_Research
Rick Rozoff writes: From August 17-20 the annual U.S. Space and Missile Defense Conference was conducted in Huntsville, Alabama, which hosts the headquarters of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Among the over 2,000 participants were the Missile Defense Agency's new director, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. James Cartwright, commander of the Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command Army Lt. Gen. Kevin Campbell and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Administrator Charles Bolden Jr.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
British Mainstream Media Disinformation on H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic Government Mass Graves Plans / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: Global_Research
Michel Chossudovsky writes: An official UK government report --quoted extensively in Britain's tabloid media-- is warning the British public that there will be countless deaths in the case of a swine flu pandemic. According to the WHO, a Worlwide public health emergency situation will take place in the Fall.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Obama's Backroom Healthcare Deals Need Explaining / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Mike_Shedlock
With $900 billion to a $trillion dollars or more at stake, and everyone wanting three shares of the health care pie (while giving up nothing), it should not come as a surprise that 'Special interests' play both sides in health fight
Friday, August 21, 2009
Orwellian Madness, Bernanke Saved The World / Politics / Central Banks
By: Mike_Shedlock
The MarketWatch Headline Bernanke: We Saved The World is the height of Orwellian madness.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Global War and Dying Democracy: The Revolution of the Elites / Politics / New World Order
By: Global_Research
Andrew Gavin Marshall writes: This article is the 5th and final part in the series, "Global Power and Global Government," published by Global Research.
Part 1: Global Power and Global Government: Evolution and Revolution of the Central Banking System
Part 2: Origins of the American Empire: Revolution, World Wars and World Order
Part 3: Controlling the Global Economy: Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve
Part 4: Forging a “New World Order” Under a One World Government
Friday, August 21, 2009
SEC On Track To Adopt IVS: By-passing FASB, BIS, Congress And The Treasury? / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Andrew_Butter
Tyler Durden can always be counted on to be first off the block with a juicy bit of news, so it was no surprise that he broke the story about SEC's recent effort to re-start the job that they apparently abandoned some-time in mid 2000, namely protecting investors who put their money into entities they regulate from fraud (http://seekingalpha.com/article/157053-sec-to-demand-loan-loss-clarity-in-md-a-disclosure).
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Was the 2008 Financial Collapse An Inside Job? / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Robert_Singer
Maybe it’s the smoke from Mt. Vesuvius that keeps Arianna Huffington and the financial community from seeing that the economic collapse has nothing to do with the Fed "missing" the warning signs leading up to the October meltdown.
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” John F. Kennedy
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
American Spirit Emerging Against Socialist Obama Government Policies / Politics / US Politics
By: John_Browne
Despite growing concerns about the growth in Federal spending, voiced this week by none other than Warren Buffett, Washington seems determined to keep its foot on the money pumping accelerator for as long as it can. But even though Washington continues to ignore the realities, alarm bells are beginning to ring at town halls across the country.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Social Security Could Face Default Within Two Years / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are reading the details of an interview in the Tuscaloosa News with Congressman Spencer Bachus. Please consider Bachus discusses Social Security, health care.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
How The Shadow Banks Hijacked The Fed, The Law of ONE / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Andrew_Butter
The way it's supposed to work is that the way the Fed "controls" the US economy is mainly by adjusting short-term interest rates; lower rates and more money sloshes around the system and GDP goes up, but that can be inflationary, so the Fed keeps a wary eye on that, and if the dangerous iceberg of inflation is "spotted" it raises rates.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Crime of Big Government / Politics / Government Intervention
By: LewRockwell
David M. Woods writes: The following is a fictitious, but predictable conversation:
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Other guy: Well, I have a solution!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Baby Bush, the Worst President in History? / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Doug Casey writes: I recognize that I’ve antagonized many subscribers over the years with "Bush Bashing." In January, just after OBAMA!’s election, I said I wouldn’t mention Bush again, his departure having made him irrelevant. I only feel bad that he and his minions will apparently get away scot-free with their crimes; better they had all been brought up before a tribunal and tried for crimes against humanity in general and the U.S. Constitution in particular. But that is objectively true of almost all presidents since at least Lincoln.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Free Market as Regulator / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Since the bailouts last fall, lawmakers have been behaving as quasi-owners of the bailed-out banks and businesses, leading to calls for increased regulation of executive compensation and other wasteful expenditures. We have heard much about bonuses and executive pay packages that sound more like lottery winnings than an honest salary.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Health Care Reform or Welfare Program, Who Pays the Bill? / Politics / US Politics
By: Steve_Selengut
The White House has released another of its health care reform clarification emails--- there will be more. It seems strange to me that the focus is on insurance coverage rather than on the spiraling costs of health care itself.
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