http://www.thedailybell.com/rss.xml News and Analysis, Editorials and Exclusiv Interviews en Copyright 2011, The Daily Bell info@fafmt.li (Ricardo Faria) Wed, 16 May 2012 18:00:00 GMT The Daily Bell RSS News Feed System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.thedailybell.com/3893/Merkel-Admits-the-Entire-EU-Is-Nothing-But-a-Large-Promotion German Chancellor Angela Merkel has just made an astounding statement. In a press conference with new president Francoise Hollande, she said, "People who have a common currency ... Wed, 16 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3893/Merkel-Admits-the-Entire-EU-Is-Nothing-But-a-Large-Promotion http://www.thedailybell.com/3894/Time-Magazine-Fed-is-Responsible-for-the-JPMorgan-Blow-Up- Another limited hangout from a mainstream publication. In this case, Time magazine. This is how the game works. One never calls for the end of central banking ' only for central ... Wed, 16 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3894/Time-Magazine-Fed-is-Responsible-for-the-JPMorgan-Blow-Up- http://www.thedailybell.com/3892/Ron-Holland-Greece-Dump-the-EU-Now-For-An-Economic-Recovery "Attempts to form a government in Greece collapsed on Tuesday, jolting financial markets at the prospect leftists opposed to the terms of an EU bailout could sweep to victory in ... Wed, 16 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3892/Ron-Holland-Greece-Dump-the-EU-Now-For-An-Economic-Recovery http://www.thedailybell.com/3891/Joel-F-Wade-Mastering-Happiness-is-Mastering-Life I study, speak about and write about happiness. I do this all the time. It's my life's work. I coach people to help them to live a happier life and I teach groups of people how ... Wed, 16 May 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3891/Joel-F-Wade-Mastering-Happiness-is-Mastering-Life http://www.thedailybell.com/3889/Oh-the-Horror-Greek-Gov-Collapses So the Greek government has collapsed ... again. Reuters (above) makes it sound like a national tragedy. But maybe we are missing something here. Didn't the Greek government ... Tue, 15 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3889/Oh-the-Horror-Greek-Gov-Collapses http://www.thedailybell.com/3888/Is-Ron-Paul-Dead-Yet-Alice-Drop-a-House-on-Him- Has libertarian Congressman Ron Paul really dropped out of the GOP race? Is it really the end? Seems hard to think so. But the media will have its day. There's no way not to ... Tue, 15 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3888/Is-Ron-Paul-Dead-Yet-Alice-Drop-a-House-on-Him- http://www.thedailybell.com/3890/VIDEO-Put-the-Harridan-Away The other shoe has dropped. Britain is quite mad. Rebekah Brooks is not going to be prosecuted for phone tapping but for covering it up. But, really ... Thanks to what we've ... Tue, 15 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3890/VIDEO-Put-the-Harridan-Away http://www.thedailybell.com/3887/Ron-Paul-The-Fed-Mend-It-or-End-It Last week I held a hearing to examine the various proposals that have been put forth both to mend and to end the Fed. The purpose was to spur a vigorous and long-lasting ... Tue, 15 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3887/Ron-Paul-The-Fed-Mend-It-or-End-It http://www.thedailybell.com/3884/Drop-the-Cash-From-Helicopters Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has gotten to the heart of the matter in a recent article on monetary contraction (see above). He rightly points out that less money is circulating but ... Mon, 14 May 2012 00:24:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3884/Drop-the-Cash-From-Helicopters http://www.thedailybell.com/3885/Thank-Goodness-for-Regulation Paul Krugman is out with another weary defense of massive financial regulation. The US Leviathan is in the process of strip-searching seniors and infants at airports for reasons ... Mon, 14 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3885/Thank-Goodness-for-Regulation http://www.thedailybell.com/3886/JPMorgan-Has-Lost-US-2-Billion-Now-Its-Time-for-the-Volcker-Rule Even the 'Net alternative media seems attracted by this "rule" that the former Federal Reserve Chairman is flogging. But we can't help recall that virtually all his life Volcker ... Mon, 14 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3886/JPMorgan-Has-Lost-US-2-Billion-Now-Its-Time-for-the-Volcker-Rule http://www.thedailybell.com/3866/Tibor-Machan-Revisiting-a-Confusion-About-Basic-Rights In his book Basic Rights (Princeton, 1970), Henry Shue argued that there is no valid distinction between negative and positive rights; his argument has recently resurfaced among ... Mon, 14 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3866/Tibor-Machan-Revisiting-a-Confusion-About-Basic-Rights http://www.thedailybell.com/3878/Anthony-Wile-Thomas-H-Naylor-on The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas H. Naylor. Introduction: Thomas H. Naylor, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, is a ... Sun, 13 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3878/Anthony-Wile-Thomas-H-Naylor-on http://www.thedailybell.com/3883/Anthony-Wile-Treasuries-and-Derivatives-Blow-Up-So-Where-Do-You-Go- Here's some interesting news along the lines of "man bites dog." According to a recent Reuters article, US financial advisors are actually growing leery of US Treasury bonds. ... Sat, 12 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3883/Anthony-Wile-Treasuries-and-Derivatives-Blow-Up-So-Where-Do-You-Go- http://www.thedailybell.com/3879/SPs-Wall-of-Debt-Warning-is-Phony-as-They-Come As the power elite that wants to run the world grows more crazed and desperate, their bought-and-paid-for financial facilities and media mouthpieces become crazier, too. That's ... Fri, 11 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3879/SPs-Wall-of-Debt-Warning-is-Phony-as-They-Come http://www.thedailybell.com/3880/Now-Cometh-the-Eurozone-Recession- If the Eurozone is not to be condensed and held, then by God, let loose the hounds of Hell. That would seem to be the next step in the European Union saga. There was, of course, ... Fri, 11 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3880/Now-Cometh-the-Eurozone-Recession- http://www.thedailybell.com/3881/The-Euro-Is-Finished-And-What-Comes-Next- The power elite that we cover as part of our brief to understand the Way the World Really Works focuses apparently on the goal of world government. It follows many paths to get ... Fri, 11 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3881/The-Euro-Is-Finished-And-What-Comes-Next- http://www.thedailybell.com/3882/VIDEO-Is-Ron-Paul-Actually-Winning-the-Delegate-Count Citizen reporting continues to make the point that GOP libertarian Congressman Ron Paul has remained in the US presidential race not just to "make a point" but because he ... Fri, 11 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3882/VIDEO-Is-Ron-Paul-Actually-Winning-the-Delegate-Count http://www.thedailybell.com/3875/Desperate-Argentina-Now-Seen-Begging-for-Oil-Investment Are Argentina's top officials having second thoughts about their expropriation of Spain's Argentine oil-producer? It would seem that way from the above news report via Merco ... Thu, 10 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3875/Desperate-Argentina-Now-Seen-Begging-for-Oil-Investment http://www.thedailybell.com/3876/Italian-Voters-Reject-Austerity-Too The powers-that-be run the world's mainstream media and they are now spending a great deal of time reporting on the end of austerity in the EU. Greece, Italy, Spain and even ... Thu, 10 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3876/Italian-Voters-Reject-Austerity-Too http://www.thedailybell.com/3877/US-Car-Sales-Are-Up-Is-the-Recession-Really-Over So sales of American cars are going up. That's great. But we still end up feeling like there's a great big promotion going on. It's what we call a dominant social theme aimed, ... Thu, 10 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3877/US-Car-Sales-Are-Up-Is-the-Recession-Really-Over http://www.thedailybell.com/3862/Tibor-Machan-Left-LibertarianismAn-Oxymoron Let me state up front that I reject any division of libertarianism into left and right wings. To do so is nearly akin to dividing it into high and low, yellow and blue, or round ... Thu, 10 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3862/Tibor-Machan-Left-LibertarianismAn-Oxymoron http://www.thedailybell.com/3872/Biggest-Question-Will-Germany-Adjust-or-Will-Euro-Die Our favorite mainstream economic reporter, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, is out with a good analysis of the current, brewing dissolution of the euro and the EU (see above). It ... Wed, 09 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3872/Biggest-Question-Will-Germany-Adjust-or-Will-Euro-Die http://www.thedailybell.com/3873/Catch-These-Corporate-Bribers-and-Put-Them-in-Jail There is a manufactured "surface" conversation in this world and then there is reality. The reality is that a secretive power elite has taken over the West, seeks to rule the ... Wed, 09 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3873/Catch-These-Corporate-Bribers-and-Put-Them-in-Jail http://www.thedailybell.com/3874/Directed-History-of-Coming-Depression-Grinds-On We've been banging on about a worldwide slump for years now, ever since it occurred to us that once Europe and the US "went out" in 2008, from an economic standpoint, the BRICs ... Wed, 09 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3874/Directed-History-of-Coming-Depression-Grinds-On http://www.thedailybell.com/3867/Joel-F-Wade-Resilience-and-Success A happy, successful life does more than make you feel good. It also serves to strengthen you, and to open your mind to options and opportunities that you would otherwise not ... Wed, 09 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3867/Joel-F-Wade-Resilience-and-Success http://www.thedailybell.com/3868/Ron-Paul-Energizer-Bunny-of-US-Politics-for-Good-Reason Ron Paul, libertarian-conservative candidate for US president just won't quit. In fact, he keeps grabbing delegates and is threatening to deprive putative GOP nominee Mitt ... Tue, 08 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3868/Ron-Paul-Energizer-Bunny-of-US-Politics-for-Good-Reason http://www.thedailybell.com/3869/Face-of-US-100-Billion-Facebook-Specialty-Is-Pilfering-Client-Data-While-Instagram-Is-a-Craft-Package We've been clear about our disbelief regarding Facebook and its US$ 90 billion valuation, which is apparently about to go up to US$ 100 billion or so based on the company's ... Tue, 08 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3869/Face-of-US-100-Billion-Facebook-Specialty-Is-Pilfering-Client-Data-While-Instagram-Is-a-Craft-Package http://www.thedailybell.com/3870/UN-Claims-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Faces-Dramatic-Crisis-as-New-Nation-State-Is-Formed The power elite is supporting a new nation in sub-Saharan Africa. Actually, the French and European Union are said to be against the new country that will basically take the ... Tue, 08 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3870/UN-Claims-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Faces-Dramatic-Crisis-as-New-Nation-State-Is-Formed http://www.thedailybell.com/3864/Ron-Paul-Enduring-Commitments-Abroad Last week President Obama made a surprise pre-dawn trip to Afghanistan to mark the one year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden and to sign a document further ... Tue, 08 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3864/Ron-Paul-Enduring-Commitments-Abroad http://www.thedailybell.com/3871/VIDEO-Biggest-Find-Since-Dead-Sea-Scrolls Here at the Daily Bell we mostly cover the workings of the top elites that are trying to build world government. Most of what we discuss has some connection to this larger ... Tue, 08 May 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3871/VIDEO-Biggest-Find-Since-Dead-Sea-Scrolls http://www.thedailybell.com/3863/Is-RBC-the-New-Business-Cycle Megan McArdle is out with an interesting rumination about the business cycle. It's not merely a theoretical examination, however. Who is she? From The Atlantic: "Megan McArdle ... Mon, 07 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3863/Is-RBC-the-New-Business-Cycle http://www.thedailybell.com/3865/EU-Bust-as-Internet-Reformation-Rolls-On- Here at the Daily Bell one of the things we are (modestly) known for is our perspective that the Internet and the information it distributes would have a huge impact on Western ... Mon, 07 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3865/EU-Bust-as-Internet-Reformation-Rolls-On- http://www.thedailybell.com/3861/Tibor-Machan-The-Face-of-Egalitarianism A few weeks ago they ran the famous Oxford v. Cambridge rowing race on the Thames but a fanatical egalitarian, Mr. Trenton Oldfield from Australia, ruined it for everyone by ... Mon, 07 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3861/Tibor-Machan-The-Face-of-Egalitarianism http://www.thedailybell.com/3860/ The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Mish Shedlock. Introduction: Mike "Mish" Shedlock blogs at Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis, for which he ... Sun, 06 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3860/ http://www.thedailybell.com/3859/Anthony-Wile-Civilized-People-Dont-Buy-Gold "Civilized people don't buy gold," Munger told CNBC yesterday in an exclusive "sit down" interview. It wasn't some off-the-cuff remark, either, as he went on to remind us that ... Sat, 05 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3859/Anthony-Wile-Civilized-People-Dont-Buy-Gold http://www.thedailybell.com/3858/Ron-Holland-New-Private-Equity-Opportunities-Are-Coming-Thanks-to-the-JOBS-Act An exceptional entrepreneurial company structure tainted unfairly by the actions of misnamed leveraged private equity buyout firms. "Their new label became 'private equity,' a ... Sat, 05 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3858/Ron-Holland-New-Private-Equity-Opportunities-Are-Coming-Thanks-to-the-JOBS-Act http://www.thedailybell.com/3855/Selective-Doubt-at-the-Milken-Money-Conference Michael Milken was a Wall Street legend in the 1980s when he made junk bonds into a form of popular financing. He was the black knight on a white horse, teaching Wall Street and ... Fri, 04 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3855/Selective-Doubt-at-the-Milken-Money-Conference http://www.thedailybell.com/3856/Bank-of-England-Draws-Lessons-From-the-Idiocy-of-the-2000s So the wheel keeps on turning, even after it has delinked from the axle. Monopoly-fiat central banking is not so arcane as it used to be: It's price fixing and it doesn't work. ... Fri, 04 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3856/Bank-of-England-Draws-Lessons-From-the-Idiocy-of-the-2000s http://www.thedailybell.com/3857/The-Volcker-Rule-Advances Here it comes. Another elite dominant social theme designed to support the idea that wise regulation can make a big and positive difference in the world. This is surely a ... Fri, 04 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3857/The-Volcker-Rule-Advances http://www.thedailybell.com/3851/Tibor-Machan-Rich-Bashing-Is-Unjust-and-Vicious The casual manner in which President Obama proposes that various progressive tax measures be implemented against the so-called rich ' ones who earn more than two million a year ... Fri, 04 May 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3851/Tibor-Machan-Rich-Bashing-Is-Unjust-and-Vicious http://www.thedailybell.com/3854/Joel-F-Wade-The-Physical-Case-for-Happiness We are all familiar with the basic guidelines for good health: exercise, eat right - more fruits and veggies, less red meat, more fish, fewer calories, more fiber, less sugar, ... Fri, 04 May 2012 00:03:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3854/Joel-F-Wade-The-Physical-Case-for-Happiness http://www.thedailybell.com/3850/The-Obama-Recovery-Persists-At-Least-Until-After-the-Election-and-Then-Watch-Out Just in time for Barack Obama's re-election, as we've pointed out previously, the entire American economy is taking a tremendous uptick. We know this is so because we read about ... Wed, 02 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3850/The-Obama-Recovery-Persists-At-Least-Until-After-the-Election-and-Then-Watch-Out http://www.thedailybell.com/3852/Now-Bolivia-Seizes-Oil-Open-Season-on-Western-Assets-or-Something-Even-More Historical events tend to move in cycles. This is because the world seems to be in the grip of a kind of directed global convulsion leading to greater world government. We seem ... Wed, 02 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3852/Now-Bolivia-Seizes-Oil-Open-Season-on-Western-Assets-or-Something-Even-More http://www.thedailybell.com/3853/Almost-Psychic-Andreessen-Most-Clairvoyant-Person-Since-Pythia-or-Not Marc Lowell Andreessen has always been at the forefront of the "technology revolution" and has made a lot of money by doing so. Now he is really excited about small phone-'Net ... Wed, 02 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3853/Almost-Psychic-Andreessen-Most-Clairvoyant-Person-Since-Pythia-or-Not http://www.thedailybell.com/3846/The-Velocity-of-Money-Is-Coming-Along-With-Big-Price-Inflation Axel Merk of Merk Funds is out with another good analysis of the tremendous monetary inflation now inherent in the Western dollar reserve system and its eventual impact. We have ... Tue, 01 May 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3846/The-Velocity-of-Money-Is-Coming-Along-With-Big-Price-Inflation http://www.thedailybell.com/3847/Britain-Slows-in-Slump Only 100 years ago there were very few central banks in the world. Today there are perhaps 150 of them, many reporting to the main Bank for International Settlements in ... Tue, 01 May 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3847/Britain-Slows-in-Slump http://www.thedailybell.com/3848/The-Caro-Come-Down- Robert Allan Caro once wrote a brilliant book about Robert Moses, who is a seminal planning figure in modern America life. The book Caro wrote about Moses is justifiably ... Tue, 01 May 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3848/The-Caro-Come-Down- http://www.thedailybell.com/3849/Building-the-Private-Warfare-State What we call the Internet Reformation has given us a good perspective on how the West's military-intel-industrial complex foments conflicts and then monetizes them. We've ... Tue, 01 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3849/Building-the-Private-Warfare-State http://www.thedailybell.com/3845/Ron-Paul-The-Costs-of-War This month Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced the addition of some 1,900 mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers to its existing ... Tue, 01 May 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3845/Ron-Paul-The-Costs-of-War http://www.thedailybell.com/3841/Austerity-Staggers-Germany-Blows-Up Here's another winning analysis from UK Telegraph columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in our view. As spectacularly wrong as he was about Spain avoiding a collapse (and we called ... Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3841/Austerity-Staggers-Germany-Blows-Up http://www.thedailybell.com/3843/India-Falters-Global-Depression-On-Tap There is a big argument in the Western world, and especially in the US and Britain over the issue of public versus private monopoly-fiat (central banking) money. In this article ... Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3843/India-Falters-Global-Depression-On-Tap http://www.thedailybell.com/3842/Canada-Introduces-Plastic-Cash-Say-How-About-Trying-a-Little-Gold-and-Silver Used to be that money was at least in part gold and silver, circulating as gold and silver or as bank notes that represented gold and silver. At the height of the free-banking ... Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3842/Canada-Introduces-Plastic-Cash-Say-How-About-Trying-a-Little-Gold-and-Silver http://www.thedailybell.com/3844/Let-Mitt-Romney-Be-Romney-and-the-US-Shall-Be-a-Better-Place An argument could be made that US President Barack Obama is typical of the kinds of rulers that the modern power elite is trying to install around the world. Bloodless, ... Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3844/Let-Mitt-Romney-Be-Romney-and-the-US-Shall-Be-a-Better-Place http://www.thedailybell.com/3834/Tibor-Machan-Fox-TV-versus-The-New-York-Times My team of media researchers is on vacation just now, so I have to do this by myself, based on my non-scientific study of the journalistic lay of the land. What I have concluded ... Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3834/Tibor-Machan-Fox-TV-versus-The-New-York-Times http://www.thedailybell.com/3837/Anthony-Wile- The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Charles W. Johnson. Introduction: Charles Johnson is a web developer, a prolific left-libertarian writer and ... Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:12:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3837/Anthony-Wile- http://www.thedailybell.com/3840/Anthony-Wile-If-Attacks-on-Libertarianism-Get-Problem-Wrong-Can-the-Solution-Be-Correct The alternative media shop Truthout has posted an article intended to "stimulate a healthy dialogue about whether there is a conservative political tradition that can actually ... Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3840/Anthony-Wile-If-Attacks-on-Libertarianism-Get-Problem-Wrong-Can-the-Solution-Be-Correct http://www.thedailybell.com/3838/Spains-Collapse-is-No-Little-Thing Is Spain beginning to collapse and, perhaps, the EU with it? For well over a thousand years, Spain has been at the epicenter of Europe and its fate has provided a bellwether for ... Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3838/Spains-Collapse-is-No-Little-Thing http://www.thedailybell.com/3839/Chile-Worries-About-Potential-Argentine-Military-Provocations The southern half of South America is bracing for an Argentine devaluation. People are readying for the worst. Last time it happened was more than ten years ago, around the turn ... Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3839/Chile-Worries-About-Potential-Argentine-Military-Provocations http://www.thedailybell.com/3836/Joel-F-Wade-The-Banality-of-Tyranny German-Jewish (and eventually naturalized American) philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) outraged the Left with her definitive account of modern tyranny, The Origins of ... Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3836/Joel-F-Wade-The-Banality-of-Tyranny http://www.thedailybell.com/3832/IMF-Taxpayers-Dont-Let-Them-Fail-Spanish-Banking-on-Brink- Once again the cry goes up to preserve the banking sector. Is this necessary? In a free-market economy such failing institutions would shut down of their own accord. But that's ... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3832/IMF-Taxpayers-Dont-Let-Them-Fail-Spanish-Banking-on-Brink- http://www.thedailybell.com/3833/Transformational-President-Romney-Not Romney is not going to be a transformational president. Let's make that clear right away. But this squib of an article that has received wide play on the Internet makes that ... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3833/Transformational-President-Romney-Not http://www.thedailybell.com/3831/Where-Do-We-Go-From-Here-in-the-Freedom-Movement The Feds Prepare for Social Unrest . . . Shouldn't You? Join Senator Rand Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Tom Woods, Peter Schiff and John Browne plus over 150 other speakers for ... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3831/Where-Do-We-Go-From-Here-in-the-Freedom-Movement http://www.thedailybell.com/3835/VIDEO-A-Rainbow-for-Obama So ... this photo is all the over 'Net ' the rainbow at the wingtip of Air Force One. We've had trouble all along with this Obama-as-messiah thing, and believe it to be a kind ... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3835/VIDEO-A-Rainbow-for-Obama http://www.thedailybell.com/3828/Tibor-Machan-The-Economic-Tyranny-of-the-Interstate-Commerce-Clause Here is an instructive comment from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the recent oral arguments presented about Obamacare: "People who don't participate in this ... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3828/Tibor-Machan-The-Economic-Tyranny-of-the-Interstate-Commerce-Clause http://www.thedailybell.com/3827/Is-the-Euro-Slowly-Dying Quietly, the euro may be dying. Or at least the top men in various countries may be taking steps to create room for its removal. We can see from the above excerpt that various ... Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3827/Is-the-Euro-Slowly-Dying http://www.thedailybell.com/3829/Is-the-Tea-Party-Waning This article from the Economist ' a full-fledged mainstream mouthpiece ' predicts, hopefully, the demise of the Tea Party movement in the US. But those who run the Economist and ... Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3829/Is-the-Tea-Party-Waning http://www.thedailybell.com/3830/VIDEO-The-Cashless-Meme-Rolls-Along NMATV, the Taiwanese company that broadcasts "animation news," has composed a segment devoted to the "cashless" society. Interestingly, this presentation is not pro- or anti- ... Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3830/VIDEO-The-Cashless-Meme-Rolls-Along http://www.thedailybell.com/3824/The-Trap-Is-Sprung-Obama-as-East-West-Savior What we have here is what we've long anticipated, the end of one war and the beginning of a resurgent Barack Obama who may act as a peacemaker between East and West. This ... Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3824/The-Trap-Is-Sprung-Obama-as-East-West-Savior http://www.thedailybell.com/3825/Crime-Is-Up-Worldwide-UN-Intends-to-Provide-a-Solution This is one of the oldest and hoariest of elite memes. It is the idea that only government can protect individuals from crime. It is an elite meme because elites have always ... Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3825/Crime-Is-Up-Worldwide-UN-Intends-to-Provide-a-Solution http://www.thedailybell.com/3826/VIDEO-Did-Saints-General-Manager-Eavesdrop-Is-That-a-Crime This drives to the heart of what we've argued regarding regulation and criminality. There are plenty of ways to eavesdrop on people now and these methods will surely be used as ... Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3826/VIDEO-Did-Saints-General-Manager-Eavesdrop-Is-That-a-Crime http://www.thedailybell.com/3822/Ron-Paul-CISPA-is-the-New-SOPA Earlier this year, strong public opposition led by several prominent websites forced congressional leaders to cancel votes on two bills known in Washington as "SOPA" and "PIPA." ... Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3822/Ron-Paul-CISPA-is-the-New-SOPA http://www.thedailybell.com/3819/EU-Unraveling-Now-Its-Hollands-Turn Like some kind of rolling contagion, the insolvency affecting the Southern PIGS is spreading northward toward the supposedly solvent part of the EU. Now it's Holland's turn. We ... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3819/EU-Unraveling-Now-Its-Hollands-Turn http://www.thedailybell.com/3823/Germany-Stands-Athwart-the-European-Crackup-Shouting-Stop In another article today we discuss the impending dissolution of the Dutch government over the issue of EU-imposed "austerity." There is no social consensus in Holland currently ... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3823/Germany-Stands-Athwart-the-European-Crackup-Shouting-Stop http://www.thedailybell.com/3821/Taxes-vs-Fed-Whats-to-Blame The above article excerpt would seem to put the "fiscal versus monetary" argument into perspective. It is an argument that, in our view, defines the modern state and what's ... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3821/Taxes-vs-Fed-Whats-to-Blame http://www.thedailybell.com/3820/Is-the-Case-Against-Megaupload-Coming-Apart We along with many others questioned the original premise when this occurred. The US justice system ' really, the West's ' has increasingly imposed punishment before the crime ... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3820/Is-the-Case-Against-Megaupload-Coming-Apart http://www.thedailybell.com/3807/Tibor-Machan-Altruism-Isnt-Generosity A big error has haunted humanity for centuries: it's the equivocation between generosity and altruism. The former is a virtue any decent human being will practice: It asks of ... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3807/Tibor-Machan-Altruism-Isnt-Generosity http://www.thedailybell.com/3813/Anthony-Wile-Richard-Abel-on-his-New-Book-About-the-Man-Who-Changed-the-World-Johannes-Gutenberg The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Richard Abel. Introduction: Richard Abel attracted our attention because of a book entitled The Gutenberg ... Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3813/Anthony-Wile-Richard-Abel-on-his-New-Book-About-the-Man-Who-Changed-the-World-Johannes-Gutenberg http://www.thedailybell.com/3818/Anthony-Wile-Is-Zimmerman-Americas-Dreyfus I've been tracking the George Zimmerman case and it does seem to have some surface parallels to the infamous Dreyfus Affair. For those of you who may not know, Dreyfus was a Jew ... Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3818/Anthony-Wile-Is-Zimmerman-Americas-Dreyfus http://www.thedailybell.com/3817/Tibor-Machan-Zimmermans-Apology The shooter of Trayvon Martin is now said by many to have apologized. All over the media this is being reported, even on Fox TV news, even though he did nothing of the sort. To ... Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3817/Tibor-Machan-Zimmermans-Apology http://www.thedailybell.com/3814/Spain-Bans-Cash They are not even making a pretense anymore that the West is run via market economies. As we have long predicted, the phony "sovereign debt" crisis in Europe is being used to ... Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:57:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3814/Spain-Bans-Cash http://www.thedailybell.com/3815/Huge-Water-Resource-Found-in-Africa-World-Bank-Steps-In We've charted this elite meme for several years ' water scarcity. The powers-that-be create fear-based scarcity promotions and then propose globalist solutions. Water scarcity ... Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3815/Huge-Water-Resource-Found-in-Africa-World-Bank-Steps-In http://www.thedailybell.com/3816/Does-the-CDC-Tell-the-Truth-About-Vaccines-and-Immunizations The vaccine wars are heating up and now the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stepped in to let us know that measles is on the rise. Should we believe it? ... Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3816/Does-the-CDC-Tell-the-Truth-About-Vaccines-and-Immunizations http://www.thedailybell.com/3812/Ron-Holland-The-JOBS-Act-Washington-Takes-One-Step-Back-Toward-Capitalism I know my editorial credibility and reader confidence will suddenly collapse when this goes to print but I have some good news out of Washington and Congress. Yes, I know what ... Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3812/Ron-Holland-The-JOBS-Act-Washington-Takes-One-Step-Back-Toward-Capitalism http://www.thedailybell.com/3811/BIS-Western-Central-Banks-Suck-but-the-Asian-Ones-Are-Pretty-Good What kind of snow are they eating in Switzerland? Monopoly private/public central banking has been a failure wherever it has been tried. The reason is very simple. Those who are ... Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3811/BIS-Western-Central-Banks-Suck-but-the-Asian-Ones-Are-Pretty-Good http://www.thedailybell.com/3808/Time-Magazine-Predicts-Many-Cars-to-be-Unaffordable-by-2025 We've been tracking the Western war on cars and this article in Time magazine raises the offensive a notch. The idea is that by making cars electric, you limit range and ... Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3808/Time-Magazine-Predicts-Many-Cars-to-be-Unaffordable-by-2025 http://www.thedailybell.com/3809/Is-the-Vaccine-Industry-Beginning-to-Fail It began as a tiny drip-drip-drip when one of the Kennedys got angry and claimed in an article that vaccines had health consequences. And then there was the sad saga of Dr. ... Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3809/Is-the-Vaccine-Industry-Beginning-to-Fail http://www.thedailybell.com/3810/The-Illuminati-Strikes-Again-April-19th-and-20th-Are-Fraught April 19th and 20th are bad days, from a freedom standpoint. Here's a list of April 20th's historical sad and bad events, courtesy of Ghoulpool.com: 1792 ' France declares war ... Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3810/The-Illuminati-Strikes-Again-April-19th-and-20th-Are-Fraught http://www.thedailybell.com/3806/Tibor-Machan-Paradoxes-about-Intruding-on-Nature Whether this is deliberate I don't know, but many movies made for children these days have strong moralistic messages that say: "We human beings are the scourge of the ... Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:04:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3806/Tibor-Machan-Paradoxes-about-Intruding-on-Nature http://www.thedailybell.com/3805/Occupy-Wall-Street-Emerges-as-Pro-Taxation This article from Dissent magazine was also carried by Truthout, which is a leading alternative media news source, though one that focuses on a leftist interpretation of modern ... Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3805/Occupy-Wall-Street-Emerges-as-Pro-Taxation http://www.thedailybell.com/3804/UNs-International-Baccalaureate-Program-Under-Attack-in-NH There is a public debate going on in New Hampshire over whether or not to ensure that the UN's International Baccalaureate "Programme" does not have a long tenure in New ... Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3804/UNs-International-Baccalaureate-Program-Under-Attack-in-NH http://www.thedailybell.com/3802/Bequest-of-Chicago-Free-Market-Boys-is-Chile-Violence Are the Chile Dam protests symptomatic of deeper dysfunction? There are plenty of reports of protests over the dam that the Chile Supreme Court just approved (see excerpt ... Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3802/Bequest-of-Chicago-Free-Market-Boys-is-Chile-Violence http://www.thedailybell.com/3801/Did-US-Expect-Taliban-Attacks The news today is all about Australia leaving Afghanistan earlier than planned, or so Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says. But there are several crosscurrents taking ... Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3801/Did-US-Expect-Taliban-Attacks http://www.thedailybell.com/3803/VIDEO-GSA-More-Distractions In this video below (with terrible subtitles) the Young Turks' Cenk Uygur makes a point that we would make about two recent pieces of news. The point he makes is that the GSA ... Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3803/VIDEO-GSA-More-Distractions http://www.thedailybell.com/3800/Ron-Paul-Professor-Obama-Gets-an-F Last week President Obama made some rather shocking comments at a press conference regarding the Supreme Court's deliberation on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection ... Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3800/Ron-Paul-Professor-Obama-Gets-an-F http://www.thedailybell.com/3798/IMF-Exploits-Euro-Crisis-to-Create-Global-Money-Power Almost unnoticed, the world's leaders now speak in terms of trillions rather than billions (or millions) as they used to, and the IMF and central banks are leaders in this trend ... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:08:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3798/IMF-Exploits-Euro-Crisis-to-Create-Global-Money-Power http://www.thedailybell.com/3797/FDA-Protects-Drug-Companies-Again We have just written several articles on regulation and suddenly we see our points in action. In the excerpt (above) we observe quite clearly what we call "regulatory capture." ... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3797/FDA-Protects-Drug-Companies-Again http://www.thedailybell.com/3795/Merck-baldness-drugs-destroy-sperm-cause-infertility-and-ejaculation-disorders-even-after-you-stop-using-them Hey, men! Looking for a way to ruin your sex life and become infertile? Try Propecia or Proscar, two drugs from the vaccine giant Merck, whose top vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice ... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:07:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3795/Merck-baldness-drugs-destroy-sperm-cause-infertility-and-ejaculation-disorders-even-after-you-stop-using-them http://www.thedailybell.com/3799/TSA-Creates-Privileged-Flyers-as-Part-of-Larger-Ruling-Class Is the TSA's efforts to create a privileged "flying class" part of a larger elite strategy to create a group of entitled corporate and government workers? We've written about ... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:06:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3799/TSA-Creates-Privileged-Flyers-as-Part-of-Larger-Ruling-Class http://www.thedailybell.com/3793/Tibor-Machan-On-Misreading-Sunstein A while back The New York Times Magazine ran what amounts to a puff piece about Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein, President Obama's long-time friend, former colleague and one ... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:05:00 GMT http://www.thedailybell.com/3793/Tibor-Machan-On-Misreading-Sunstein