Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, July 24, 2009
National Flu Helpline, a £70 per Person TamiFlu General Election Bribe? / Politics / Global Pandemic
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The National Flu helpline has now been online for more than 24 hours, and traffic levels suggest more than half of the british population has visited the site during this time, many of whom have gone on to obtain the requisite straight forward ant-viral authorisation within a few mouse clicks.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité – Providence, Miracle or What Really Happened / Politics / US Politics
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! Because, if you accepted the new information, you would have to admit you been ”had,” or ”conned,” in this case into shopping for stuff to trash the planet.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Massive New Jersey Corruption / Politics / Strategic News
By: Sarah_Jones
Three city mayors, two state politicians, several city councilmen and five rabbis were among 44 people arrested across New Jersey yesterday when federal agents cracked an alleged Sopranos-style crime ring accused of bribery, money laundering and trafficking body parts and counterfeit handbags.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Global Economic Crisis / Politics / Sovereign Wealth Funds
By: ProactiveInvestors
The global economic crisis has left many sophisticated institutional investors reeling. Most are yet to fully recover even though markets have clawed back some of their early losses. Worst hit are the hedge funds with exposure to financials and commodities.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Artificial Brain 10 Years Away / Politics / Strategic News
By: Sarah_Jones
A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Taser Hit Man Bursts Into Flames / Politics / Social Issues
By: Sarah_Jones
A man in Western Australia was engulfed in flames when police officers fired a Taser stun gun at him.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Will the Republicans Save Us? / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Laurence M. Vance writes: Now that the Democrats have regained complete control of the government, many conservatives are looking to the Republicans in Congress to save us from the socialism and fascism of the Democrats. As we saw when Clinton was president, many Republicans have started talking, and some have started acting, like the conservative advocates of liberty and less government they claim to be. Will the Republicans save us?
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Ron Paul: Wrong on the Economy, Wrong on Healthcare (Part 1) / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Stathis
While I do agree with Congressman Ron Paul's position on the Federal Reserve, this by no means should be used as a blanket endorsement of his political and economic views; and certainly not his views on healthcare.
The Federal Reserve mafia has been in control of America since inception. This cartel has worked particularly hard over the past two decades to gain control over the global banking system. So, you had better believe they aren't going away, nor is their control. They’re too powerful now, and they won’t allow anyone to get in their way. They control Washington. They control the media. They control economists. They control your lives.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Which Foreigners Got the Fed's $500 Billion / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Submissions
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Prescribing Cake to Cure the Health Care Crisis / Politics / US Politics
By: Walter_Brasch
Marie Antoinette, contrary to popular opinion, never said a solution for the starving masses of revolutionary France in the late 18th century was, "Let them eat cake." But, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) apparently said something close to it.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Bankrupt United States Ruling Over an Impotent World Prepping Israel for an Attack Against Iran / Politics / Middle East
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Japan did not spend years preparing her public case and demonstrating her deployment of forces for the attack. Japan did not make a world issue out of her view that the US was denying Japan her role in the Pacific by hindering Japan’s access to raw materials and energy.
Similarly, when Hitler attacked Russia, he did not preface his invasion with endless threats and a public case that blamed the war on England.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Healthcare is a Good, Not a Right / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Political philosopher Richard Weaver famously and correctly stated that ideas have consequences. Take for example ideas about rights versus goods. Natural law states that people have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A good is something you work for and earn. It might be a need, like food, but more "goods" seem to be becoming "rights" in our culture, and this has troubling consequences. It might seem harmless enough to decide that people have a right to things like education, employment, housing or healthcare. But if we look a little further into the consequences, we can see that the workings of the community and economy are thrown wildly off balance when people accept those ideas.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Russia, Ahmadinejad and Iran Reconsidered / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
At Friday prayers July 17 at Tehran University, the influential cleric and former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani gave his first sermon since Iran’s disputed presidential election and the subsequent demonstrations. The crowd listening to Rafsanjani inside the mosque was filled with Ahmadinejad supporters who chanted, among other things, “Death to America” and “Death to China.” Outside the university common grounds, anti-Ahmadinejad elements — many of whom were blocked by Basij militiamen and police from entering the mosque — persistently chanted “Death to Russia.”
Monday, July 20, 2009
Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire U.S. Treasury Department / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Joseph_Toronto
Sister Entities to Share Employees, Money - In what some on Wall Street are calling the biggest blockbuster deal in the history of the financial sector, Goldman Sachs confirmed today that it was in talks to acquire the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Germany And NATO's Nuclear Nexus / Politics / New World Order
By: Global_Research
Rick Rozoff writes: The reunification of Germany and the start of NATO's post-Cold War expansion, drive east and beginning of its transformation into a global military force occurred on the same day, October 3, 1990.
On that date East Germany was absorbed into the Federal Republic and simultaneously into NATO, the first of thirteen additions to the bloc from that time to the present year.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
China Al-Qaeda's Next Front? / Politics / Al-Qeeda
By: Pravda
Al-Qaeda posed a threat to China for the first time, promising to organize acts of terrorism against Chinese workers in Northern Africa in revenge for the death of Moslems-Uygurs, The Times wrote.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Paulson Admits Coercion in Handling of Economic Crisis / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is attempting to defend the indefensible: himself. He even claims to have "saved this nation from great peril." Please consider his preposterous claims as outlined in Paulson defends his response to economic crisis.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Mainstream Press Has Become Virtual "Escort Services" for Moneyed Elites / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Submissions
Raw Story writes: More and more mainstream media are brokering cozy relationships between politicians and lobbyists.
The various elite Washington news organizations that have become caught up in the so-called “pay-for-play” or “salon” scandal have now commenced a circular firing squad of sorts—in an effort to distance themselves from their peers whose conduct they are trying to paint as worse than their own.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
The Health Care Bill is a Prescription for Disaster / Politics / US Politics
By: Peter_Schiff
The health care bill unveiled this week by the House of Representatives (with the full support of the Obama administration) is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever drafted. If passed, it will reduce the quality and increase the cost of health care in America. But more importantly, it will severely undermine our already weak economy. To burden a country currently in the throes of a violent recession with such a bureaucratic albatross clearly illustrates the scarcity of economic intelligence in Washington.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Mainstream Media Pumping the Illusion of Green Shoots of Economic Recovery / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: Michael_T_Bucci
Record profits were posted by Goldman Sachs on July 14, and a surge in profits at J.P. Morgan Chase were reported two days later, along with reports that record bonuses will be paid out too. Meanwhile, RealtyTrac reported that home foreclosures had risen 15% in the first half of this year, year to year. Guess which headline appears at the top of the news and which headline gets blurred? (Answer: The financial firms' surging profits get top billing.)