Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Buyer Beware, Climate Change and the Ventura Case Study / Politics / Climate Change
By: Nikki_Alexander
A seemingly wholesome local event recently led to some disturbing discoveries about a global GHG matrix that will affect people everywhere in all countries. Students from The Bren School of Environmental Science and Management (University of California Santa Barbara) gave a presentation to city planners and citizens on their "Ventura Case Study." Bren is working on this project for their client, AECOM, to calculate Ventura's baseline greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in preparation for compliance with federal and state regulations.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down - Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tobin Tax, Making Wall Street Pay Its Fair Share / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Ellen_Brown
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Hedge Fund Perps Walk Free From Financial Crisis Criminal Trial / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Danny_Schechter
Will Anyone Ever Go To Jail In Connection With Wall Street Crimes?
Danny Schechter Reports On How The Prosecutors Blew The First Big Case
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Who is to Blame for the Financial Crisis? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Global_Research
David Kerans writes: “I have no interest in spending all of our time relitigating the policies of the last eight years.… laying blame…. can distract us from focusing our time, our efforts and our politics on the challenges of the future.” --Barack Obama, speech on national security, delivered at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., May 21st, 2009
Monday, November 09, 2009
Healthcare Reform is Economic Malpractice / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
As Washington continues debating healthcare reform the rest of the country is primarily concerned about jobs and the economy. It is still uncertain what policies will be implemented, but I am certain about one thing: It will only further devastate our economy and our dollar.
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Why I Hate Doctors / Politics / Social Issues
By: LewRockwell
Burton S. Blumert writes: Burt: "You've been my physician for over 25 years. You can't just dump me like you would a broken heart-lung machine."
Doc: "There's no room for sentiment in medicine, and frankly, your quaint right-wing viewpoints aren't as interesting as they once were. I'm turning your medical records over to young Dr. Kaloofka from my office."
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Fall of Berlin Wall Triggered USSR Catastrophe / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Pravda
On November 9, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit Germany to participate in international events to celebrate the 20th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The new generation of politicians will join the leaders of the Cold War era to celebrate the existence of undivided Europe, without any separating strips.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Mass shooting at Fort Hood and a bitterly blunt perspective / Politics / US Politics
By: Michael_T_Bucci
In his November 7 essay "What Happened to the Stock Market Crash?", Nadeem Walayat invites the envy of most analysts published at his financial site, The Market Oracle, who discover how correct he was when they weren't. To a lay outsider like myself given to overdoses of metaphysics, I induce his methodology to be a variant of Taoism - just follow the path that is before you. It is revealing itself. Don't impose subjective emotions, beliefs, wishes, fears or desires upon it. It always speaks for itself and objectively about itself. Listen. Watch. Discern its message and essence. Then, work with it, not against it. (Not easy!)
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Rising Military Expenditure, The Coming U.S. Budget Attack / Politics / US Politics
By: Global_Research
The United States is moving backwards…fast. State budget cuts are decimating essential health and social services; public education is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. To make matters worse, all of this is occurring when the loss of jobs stands at a twenty-six year high with no end in sight.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
It's Time to Rally for Financial Reform / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
To paraphrase Marat-Sade: ‘the Election came, and the election went, and unrest turned back into discontent.’
The Dems lost two Governors, one an unpopular former high honcho at Goldman Sachs, not exactly a populist crusader, and picked up one house seat in a Congressional District no oever heard about before.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
America the Betrayed / Politics / US Politics
By: Richard_C_Cook
If you want to get an idea of what America once was like, read the poems of Walt Whitman. Whitman was born in Long Island in 1819 and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. His family was poor, but even though he left school at the age of 11 he gave himself an education by reading and working in the printing shop of a newspaper until he gradually became a published writer. He worked as a teacher and news reporter and owned his own newspaper by the age of 20.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Central Banksterism / Politics / Central Banks
By: Gary_North
I have presented the basics of monetary theory, as developed by Austrian School economists. A distinct Austrian School theory of money goes back to Ludwig von Mises' book, The Theory of Money and Credit (1912). Mises amplified this theory over the years until its culmination in Human Action (1949). His disciple, Murray Rothbard, extended Mises' analysis in a series of books, most notably chapter 11 of Man, Economy, and State (1962), America's Great Depression (1963), What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1964), and The Mystery of Banking (1983).
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Regulatory Reforms of Systemically Important Too Big To Fail Financial Institutions / Politics / Market Regulation
By: RGE_Monitor
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Life and Debt Video / Politics / New World Order
By: Submissions
If you have ever wonderd what the IMF and the New world Order can do to a third world country, this one is for you. Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
States Should Cut Wall Street Out! Own Your Own Bank / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Ellen_Brown
Pouring money into the private banking system has only fixed the economy for bankers and the wealthy; it has not done much to address either the fundamental problem of unemployment or the debt trap so many Americans find themselves in.
President Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan has so far failed to halt the growth of unemployment: 2.7 million jobs have been lost since the stimulus plan began. California has lost 336,400 jobs. Arizona has lost 77,300. Michigan has lost 137,300. A total of 49 states and the District of Columbia have all reported net job losses.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Representative Issa's Letter to William Dudley Requesting AIG Bailout Disclosure / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Mr. William C. DudleyPresident
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045
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Monday, November 02, 2009
Obama and the U.S. Strategy of Buying Time / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Making sense of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy at this moment is difficult. Not only is it a work in progress, but the pending decisions he has to make -- on Iran, Afghanistan and Russia -- tend to obscure underlying strategy. It is easy to confuse inaction with a lack of strategy. Of course, there may well be a lack of strategic thinking, but that does not mean there is a lack of strategy. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 02, 2009
Government Statistics and Lies / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
There has been a lot of talk in Washington recently about senior citizens, mostly about how various healthcare reform models would help or hurt them. But there is another critical issue that has quietly devastated seniors financially over the last few decades. It concerns how the cost of living is calculated. How does the administration justify not giving a cost of living increase to Social Security recipients this year? According to the official Consumer Price Index calculation, life has gotten cheaper for the first time in decades. If the government can show statistically that the cost of living has gone down, not up, then they can make the case for not giving a cost of living increase to social security recipients. But does this match reality? Using older calculations of CPI, the cost of living has actually increased - by roughly 5%.
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Monday, November 02, 2009
The Ayn Rand Cult / Politics / Social Issues
By: Murray_N_Rothbard
In the America of the 1970s we are all too familiar with the religious cult, which has been proliferating in the last decade. Characteristic of the cult (from Hare Krishna to the "Moonies" to EST to Scientology to the Manson Family) is the dominance of the guru, or Maximum Leader, who is also the creator and ultimate interpreter of a given creed to which the acolyte must be unswervingly loyal. The major if not the only qualification for membership and advancement in the cult is absolute loyalty to and adoration of the guru, and absolute and unquestioning obedience to his commands.