Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
U.S. Energy Independence – The Big Lie / Politics / Crude Oil
By: James_Quinn
“We are the generation that will win the war on the energy problem and in that process, rebuild the unity and confidence of America.” - President Jimmy Carter, 1979
“We have it in our power to act right here, right now. I propose $6 billion in tax cuts and research and developments to encourage innovation, renewable energy, fuel-efficient cars, and energy-efficient homes.” - President Bill Clinton, 1998
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Monday, November 14, 2011
What Will The Next Phase of Occupy Wall Street Take Us? / Politics / US Politics
By: Danny_Schechter
A week ago, I produced a TV documentary on inside the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York. http://www.presstv.ir/Program/208834.html
It was already somewhat obsolete by the time it aired.
The Park, once a buzzing center of debate and open-air meetings has gone residential in the sense that virtually every square inch of what was a half-acre political terrarium is now dominated by tents, an effort to insure more protection from the elements and some better level of personal security. As private spaces proliferated, public space shrunk.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Will Fukushima $10 Trillion Nuclear Catastrophe Bankrupt Japan? / Politics / Japan Economy
By: Washingtons_Blog
I noted in April that a nuclear catastrophe could cost ten trillion dollars or more (many times more than the insurance which nuclear power operators are required to carry) … and could even bankrupt a country.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Time for an Economic Bill of Rights / Politics / US Politics
By: Ellen_Brown
Henry Ford said, “It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
We are beginning to understand, and Occupy Wall Street looks like the beginning of the revolution.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Europe’s Debt Crisis Spirals out of Control Towards Economic Collapse / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Bob_Chapman
As Chancellor Merkel and PM Sarkozy search for a solution that doesn’t exist they continue to lose credibility. Nothing of substance has been agreed upon that is legal and can be implemented. At the IMF Christina LeGarde is frantically waving her arms like a cheerleader telling anyone that will listen that if the six sovereigns in financial trouble are not aided the euro will fail and peace in Europe will disappear.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
All Wars are based on Deception / Politics / US Politics
By: Stephen_Lendman
In "The Art of War," Sun Tzu said "All wars are based on deception."
What worked in ancient times more than ever applies now, given instant ways of communicating globally and super-weapons Washington and Israel threaten to use like hand grenades.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Is It Really The 99%? / Politics / US Politics
By: EconMatters
It looks like the initial public support and sympathy for Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is starting to wear thin. From CNBC:
"Occupy Wall Street may claim small-business owners as members of the 99 percent, but from Oakland, Calif., to New York, many local enterprises are asking the protesters to pack up.
Read full article... Read full article.......the problem with the movement is that it is not hurting the big banks, but rather, it is hurting the small-business owners that are fighting to survive in a recession, says small-business owner Carol Bloom Stevens."
Saturday, November 12, 2011
G20 Breeding Ground of Corruption, Global Spring, the Time Is Nigh 2012-2021 / Politics / US Politics
By: Joseph_Russo
Following the absolute failure and systemic insolvency that shocked global economies in 2008-2009, people of The United States', and the World at large, missed an extraordinary opportunity to champion a revolutionary shift toward liberating global citizenry from the corrupt tyrannical grip of the evil twins who have implicit mastery and command over a sacred trinity of deceit, illusion, and destruction.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Financial Crisis Coup Continues / Politics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Andy_Sutton
Early last December, I wrote a piece entitled ‘Crisis or Coup?’ in which the anatomy of the 2008 financial crisis was analyzed in further detail and some conclusions drawn. These conclusions were drawn based on facts and actions, not opinions. It was obvious at the time that the USFed and our own government were acting not in the best interests of the people, but rather in the best interests of banks and large corporations. Crony capitalism, as it has often been called - where profits are kept and losses are written off or passed on to the ‘Plebeians’ of a particular society - ramped into high gear in the US. Remember the fact that the absurd financial structure that is in place was the ‘solution’ to a crisis, which had the fingerprints of the solution providers all over it.
Friday, November 11, 2011
We Must Crush the Army of Krugmanites into Submission - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Nouriel Roubini, Martin Wolf / Politics / Economic Theory
By: Mike_Shedlock
Two days ago, Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf made an attempt at Thinking through the unthinkable. The "unthinkable" was the breakup of the Eurozone.
Reflections on the Easily Thinkable
For starters, a eurozone breakup is hardly unthinkable given that no currency union in history has ever survived in the absence of a fiscal union, and the Eurozone has no such fiscal union
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Unity of Europe: Germany's Challenge? / Politics / Euro-Zone
By: DK_Matai
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of this century, we remember those who died in the two great wars so that we could all live freely. Just contemplate the super-symmetry and synchronicity of 11/11/11 at 11 o'clock. A hundred years will pass before that synchronicity will repeat. Will the legacy of those world wars still haunt us then?
Thursday, November 10, 2011
To Get Really Rich, Get Elected / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
Economic Collapse writes: Do you want to get rich? Just get elected to Congress. The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives are absolutely packed with wealthy people that are very rapidly becoming even wealthier. The collective net worth of the members of Congress is now measured in the billions of dollars. The people that we have elected to the House and Senate are absolutely swimming in money. Unfortunately, it is not easy to get elected to Congress. In this day and age you generally have to be heavily connected to those that are very wealthy to get into Congress because it takes gigantic amounts of cash to win campaigns. But if you can get in to the club, you pretty much have it made. The numbers that you are about to read are very difficult to believe and they should deeply sadden you. They show that Congress has become all about money. Congressional races are mostly financed by wealthy people, most of the people that we elect to Congress are very wealthy, and they rapidly get wealthier after they are elected. All of this money has turned our republic into something far different than our founding fathers intended.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
France and Germany Discuss Euro-zone Breakup Scenarios and Logistics of Denial / Politics / Euro-Zone
By: Mike_Shedlock
Realization the Eurozone is no longer tenable is at long last at hand. In fact, "intense discussions" have been underway for months but are just now admitted to by senior EU officials.
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
The High Cost of Nuclear Energy Freedom from Fossil Fuels / Politics / Nuclear Power
By: Walter_Brasch
For a few hours on the afternoon of Nov. 1, the people of southern California were scared by initial reports of an alert at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. An “alert” is the second of four warning levels.
Workers first detected an ammonia leak in a water purification system about 3 p.m. Ammonia, when mixed into air, is toxic. The 30 gallons of ammonia were caught in a holding tank and posed no health risk, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRC).
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Smart Meters and Dumb Technocrats / Politics / Energy Resources
By: Andrew_McKillop
At a time when public debt and deficits are out of control in the straight majority of OECD countries it
is almost touching that "energy crisis" still has a bit-part role in state and corporate attempts at finding
new ways to extract money from consumers and waste money on corporate kleptocrats. One of the
biggest current attempts is the Smart Grid-Super Grid duo. While the second is almost pure fantasy,
both technologically and financially, the first seems to offer attractive potential for gouging extra
revenue from electricity consumers, to "Save the Planet" by swelling electric power company revenues
and generating big ticket corporate spending on high tech gimmicks - 'Smart' Meters.
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Europe, the International System and a Generational Shift / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Change in the international system comes in large and small doses, but fundamental patterns generally stay consistent. From 1500 to 1991, for example, European global hegemony constituted the world’s operating principle. Within this overarching framework, however, the international system regularly reshuffles the deck in demoting and promoting powers, fragmenting some and empowering others, and so on. Sometimes this happens because of war, and sometimes because of economic and political forces. While the basic structure of the world stays intact, the precise way it works changes.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Wall Street Conspiracy to Bankrupt the United States / Politics / Conspiracy Theory
By: Videos
Jesse Ventura Massive ongoing consipracy of instutional corruption to bankrupt the nations of the world.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Ron Paul on President Obama Taking Executive Orders Too Far / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
These are frustrating times for the President. Having been swept into office with a seemingly strong mandate, he enjoyed a Congress controlled by members of his own party for the first two years of his term. However, midterm elections brought gridlock and a close division of power between the two parties. With a crucial re-election campaign coming up, there is desperation in the president's desire to "do something" in spite of his severely weakened mandate.
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Monday, November 07, 2011
A True Greek Tragedy - Odyssey of the EU / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: BATR
The cradle of democracy is under attack. The Inherent Autonomy of the human spirit is at stake. What was won at the Battle of Thermopylae, was lost in the banksters board rooms that control the EU. The fluidity of this definitive game of chicken, poses the beheading of the rooster and the scorching of all the hens. This journey into Land of the Lotus Eaters, not only needs to blind Polyphemus, but must destroy his New World Order father, Poseidon. The designed destruction of democratic authority is meant to eliminate any referendum on the EU despotism. The phony debt instruments caused the Greek default, that will soon spread the planetary misery, on the rest of us. Western civilization’s birth, owes homage to the Greek principle of individual autonomy. Its demise is a product of the inherent betrayal of humanity by the forces of financial exploitation, that exemplifies 1 Timothy 6:10, For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Democracy Isn't Dead Yet, Just the Euro as Greece Debt Crisis Epicentre Shifting to Italy / Politics / Global Debt Crisis
By: Ashvin_Pandurangi
"Canned laughter" is frequently used on TV shows to create the illusion of soothing, comedic value in the minds of the show’s viewers. Anyone who has watched a show with "canned laughter" is familiar with the logic. One of the characters says something or another that isn’t very interesting or funny, the laugh-track comes on and then we find ourselves forcing a smile or snicker as an almost "unconscious" reaction. Almost, but not quite, because many times we are still forced to face our participation in this contrived reality after the fact.Read full article... Read full article...