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October 29, 2012
Tax crackdowns are an emerging meme but this news, above, is especially egregious. The powers-that-be use a divide-and-conquer approach when it comes to much business and regulation. And this approach is increasing. The idea basically is to turn businesses into ...
October 26, 2012
No. It's just not true. There is no real recovery in Britain or anywhere else in the world, for that matter. The banking elites that caused this rolling depression are in full cry about the struggles they are taking to cure it. In doing so, they reinforce the m ...
October 26, 2012
The deaths in Afghanistan, after more than a decade of war, keep climbing. Our paradigm proves itself out daily. The West is not in Afghanistan to help its women. The West is not in Afghanistan because of its mineral wealth. The West is not in Afghanistan to cr ...
October 25, 2012
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard partially redeems himself with this article. After going through a bad patch when he loosed his inner Keynesian and inflicted it on innocent readers, he provides us with a fairly crisp perspective on the reality of Britain's stance versu ...
October 25, 2012
We're not surprised about this only because we've lost our capacity to be shocked. These days we're surprised only if our worst expectations are NOT fulfilled. Everything – and we do mean everything – in Western culture and corporate enterprise is bent towa ...
October 24, 2012
There are problems with Germany but the good news regarding China brings us back to emotional parity. This seems to be the gist, the dominant social theme of this Reuters article. We're supposed to be depressed about Germany but excited about China. The idea th ...
October 24, 2012
The idea of a debt jubilee is gaining more and more traction, as John Rubino observes (above) in a recent article posted at Dollar Collapse. Ron Holland has also just written a clear, bold article on a similar concept, debt repudiation, posted today at The Dail ...
October 23, 2012
This article at Slate illustrates the growing radicalization of the Fed conversation and also how words and premises make it increasingly difficult to discuss central banking logically. It is an analysis of whom Mitt Romney would pick for Fed Chairman if he bec ...
October 23, 2012
So here it comes. The powers-that-be have decided that they need to track user details on the Internet to prevent crime. We've reported for a while on private justice. Why is it that proponents of the state simply assume that crime is the state's business? Actu ...
October 22, 2012
The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has caught up to a working paper entitled "The Chicago Plan Revisited" issued by IMF staff members Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof. His summary: "Personally, I am a long way from reaching a conclusion in this extraordina ...
October 22, 2012
Can government "create" jobs? Free-market types believe it is impossible for government to generate employment, though politicians claim various kinds of job creation all the time. The New York Times thinks it can. Most of the time, analysis turns on government ...
October 19, 2012
Jim O'Neill, the Goldman Sachs creator of the term "BRICs," wants to convince us that the BRICs are not only magnificent engines of growth and prosperity but also the future of finance and investment. To this end, he attended the Telegraph's Festival of Busines ...
October 19, 2012
The West's fascination with numeracy continues. It surely is kind of power elite dominant social theme. We've written about this before, in fact. The elites search out a certain kind of intelligence and even select for it. In our view, this is the reason for th ...
October 18, 2012
What we consider to be the "phony" war on terror is the gift that keeps on giving to those who run our governments. The phony war on drugs only adds to the rationales for telling people what they can and cannot do with their resources. What is going on is a pat ...
October 18, 2012
The BBC is nothing that the market itself would ever create. At once vindictive and sanctimonious, BBC culture is that of entitlement: Every Briton is forced to pay an annual stipend for the privilege of viewing the BBC. It is held up as a beacon of good taste ...
October 17, 2012
So builders are busy again in the US. The Fed has been flooding the market with cheap money so we are not surprised. But there are ramifications. It certainly is a dominant social theme, however. The idea is that the economy went through a rough patch but that ...
October 17, 2012
It seems like Hillary Clinton's very own terrorist strike force is about to become a reality. We first wrote about this back in May. You can see the article here: "As Commandos Raid Tampa US State Department Demands Power to Declare War." Ms. Clinton was attend ...
October 16, 2012
We've written about copyright and its criminalization numerous times and this article on Geekosystems and the one it is based on at The American Assembly are no surprise: Illegal downloaders are apt to be large record purchasers. This simply makes sense. Those ...
October 16, 2012
People in the West would be shocked to know that their taxes had funded the wholesale poisoning of parts of the Middle East and Afghanistan but increasingly, that's how it seems. We've written about it before numerous times. The culprit is depleted uranium and ...
October 15, 2012
Reuters has posted an editorial from Frederick Kempe maintaining the importance of the upcoming US presidential elections. We've noticed more and more discussion of the importance of this presidential election. It is seemingly being positioned in the mainstream ...
October 15, 2012
Gaia Health is reporting on a 2010 study published in the Cochrane Collaboration Library that concluded the so-called influenza vaccine is ineffective and that studies regarding flu vaccines generally are flawed. The study cited harm from such vaccines that wen ...
October 12, 2012
France has a new war on its hands launched by "The Generation of National Identity." You can see the YouTube video below ... a professional presentation. This is possibly another dominant social theme taking shape. We see this as a kind of trilogy. First came W ...
October 12, 2012
The powers-that-be continue to propagate the idea that only by removing carbon dioxide from the air will mankind survive. The idea is that human based carbon emissions are clogging up the atmosphere and trapping warmth and moisture. Of course, when you look int ...
October 11, 2012
The Telegraph's Jeremy Warner, assistant editor, has written an interesting article about the IMF and its recent actions. We are not so adept at reading certain tea leaves (the IMF's, for instance) as Warner seems to be. But he does make a case – and if corre ...
October 11, 2012
We've written about the vendetta against Lance Armstrong before, and now the proverbial other shoe has dropped. The news is all over the Internet and presumably Armstrong will soon be stripped of various titles. It will be difficult to decide to whom those titl ...
October 10, 2012
Almost everything that appears on Bloomberg supports the idea of market failure. The animating perspective of Western mainstream media is that markets need "supervision." But rarely do we find this meme so bluntly presented as in this article excerpted above. I ...
October 10, 2012
As we analyze dominant social themes, we find the Lincoln meme to be ubiquitous. The idea, of course, is that transformative change comes from the state itself and those who are elected "leaders." The idea of transformative change is not restricted to "leaders" ...
October 09, 2012
The IMF is getting a good deal of play with a worried world forecast. The concern was stated in the IMF's "World Economic Report." Here's a quote: "A key issue is whether the global economy is just hitting another bout of turbulence in what was always expected ...
October 09, 2012
A new movie has been launched called "Argo" that purports to tell the story of a CIA-inspired rescue of some Canadians in Iran right after the revolution. It is a true story but the larger context is questionable. The whole war on terror, as many in the alterna ...
October 08, 2012
The Atlantic in its 21st century incarnation is a more predictably elitist publication than ever. These days, like the New Yorker, its editors have expanded its brief to include articles on various economic and military-related issues. But we don't find much th ...
October 08, 2012
According to this UK Telegraph columnist, India, Iran and Russia should be approached about supporting Kabul in its attempts to maintain a centralized government in Afghanistan. This is nothing more than a recipe for a civil war, however, and is line with other ...
October 05, 2012
The volatile global climate? It's enough to make someone believe in weather control via HAARP! That's how elite scarcity memes work, after all. Say the power elite wants to create a perception of energy scarcity ... We've written about this in the past. Liberta ...
October 05, 2012
This is a sad article posted at the Huffington Post but we have given this article a foolish and insensitive title to show how easy it is to get inured to this kind of police brutality. There is no other description for it but "brutality." Over and over – al ...
October 04, 2012
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is back with another try at organizing the world according to "monetarism." Long ago, we recall reading that this adept mainstream journo did NOT consider himself a monetarist, or Keynesian, or anything else mainstream but in this articl ...
October 04, 2012
We're trying not to become vested in these presidential debates emotionally or otherwise but it is easy to be intrigued because Obama has been such a terrible president. Watching Romney bounce up and down on top of Obama (figuratively, anyway) is like watching ...
October 03, 2012
Dominant Social Theme: Finally, someone is bringing these big banks to justice. Free-Market Analysis: The accusations of criminality against Wall Street mount. Occupy Wall Street plans demos and in the UK, the LIBOR "scandal" proceeds with regular declarations ...
October 03, 2012
But it will! The US government is the largest or at least most powerful patronage machine in the world. And nothing happens in politics, generally, that does not benefit one or more people at the expense of others. People act out of self-interest. In the PRIVAT ...
October 02, 2012
We cover elite promotions that support expansive government, and no single such meme is more important than the necessity for central banking. It is central banking that evidently and obviously funds the push toward world government. The same never-mentioned el ...
October 02, 2012
Another article on the death of democracy. We just mentioned this might be an emergent elite meme in a recent article entitled "Death of Democracy Propagated on Purpose?" The article we commented on then in the UK Telegraph was entitled, "Another chapter in the ...
October 01, 2012
It is really sad to watch what's going on in Europe. One can almost imagine reading the history books about this period and getting a completely different picture of what is going on than the reality that should be evident to anyone who has lived through this t ...
October 01, 2012
Why would the Vatican consciously ruin the paintings under its care? Our answer to this is a cynical one that has to do with the Vatican's apparent complicity in what is evidently and obviously a one-world government. Part of the Vatican power base is seemingly ...
September 28, 2012
Another startling article in the UK Telegraph, this one from columnist Sue Cameron. There's no dominant social theme we can determine directly from this brutal assessment of regulatory democracy. Are the larger powers behind the British Empire contemplating a n ...
September 28, 2012
Rather than being cowed by his arrest and imprisonment for supposedly encouraging illegal downloads of copyrighted material, Kim Dotcom is fighting back. Really, he doesn't have any choice. He has lost his company and most of his fortune. Additionally, the peop ...
September 27, 2012
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on Spain and what he provides us with is a look at the underbelly of Spanish despair that you won't read about in other similar mainstream reporting. What Evans-Pritchard provides us with, in fact, is the bloody sociopathic grin ...
September 27, 2012
Here's something we don't ordinarily see in the mainstream press: thoughtful, even courageous, reporting. The author of this article, Jon Matonis, has pointed out that where cryptography has succeeded, authoritarianism must eventually follow. In fact, his point ...
September 26, 2012
Bloomberg recently launched two articles that show us just how pervasive the meme of central banking is and how hard it is to eradicate. We can see an excerpt of one above. This article provides us with the insight that it takes a great man to move the levers o ...
September 26, 2012
The sobriquet "Happy Warrior" was actually applied by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to his friend and supporter, Al Smith, the influential and progressive governor of New York in the 1930s and 1940s. And while this article is about "luck," the photo ac ...
September 25, 2012
We have pointed out in numerous articles that the authoritarian evolution of the EU seems planned. In the past, top EU officials made plain statements that various crises could precipitate a political union. These people are not stupid. They are living and brea ...
September 25, 2012
The New York Times explains that the recent burning of the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya was a CIA disaster but how can this be when the West controls Libya via Qatar? One of the little-known facts about the Libyan invasion by the West (it was not an upri ...
September 24, 2012
More Fed promotions; it never ceases, of course. Control money and you control society. And those "in charge" have a vested interest in ensuring the social solvency of the Fed. We were on record years ago with the idea that the Fed had lost its moral authority ...