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Ron Paul and the Future
August 28, 2012
One of the most thrilling memories of the 2012 campaign was the sight of those huge crowds who came out to see Ron. His competitors, meanwhile, couldn't fill half a Starbucks. When I worked as Ron's chief of staff in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I could only ...
Meaningless Words in Politics
August 28, 2012
As we enter the fall political season, we will hear a great deal of rhetoric from both major political parties and their many candidates for office. It's important for us to remember, however, that words can be made meaningless by misuse or overuse. And when we ...
Romney: Reappoint Bernanke After All …
August 27, 2012
The best metaphor we can come up with for Mitt Romney is that he reminds us of Linda Blair in the "Exorcist" movie. Remember that scene when her head rotates all the way round like it's not attached to anything? Well, that's Romney. With almost any issue he see ...
Steven Spielberg to Make Phony Movie of Fake Osama Death Book?
August 27, 2012
A former Navy Seal has written a book entitled No Easy Day about May 1, 2011 in Pakistan, when a group of Navy SEALS invaded the compound of the infamous terrorist Osama bin Laden and killed him. According to the official story, they took photos and DNA samples ...
Why Everybody's Going To War in the Middle East
August 27, 2012
"Everybody's going to war but we don't know what we are fighting for." – Nerina Pallot, from "Everybody's Gone to War" Iran Wants War Although a peaceful nation for hundreds of years, Iran was invaded and occupied by the Allies in both World War One and Two. ...
Socialism American Style
August 27, 2012
Mr. Milos Foreman is a renowned film director but not a good political economist. This is evident in his New York Times op-ed defense of Barack Obama from those who charge the president with being a socialist. (See his essay, "Obama the Socialist? Not Even Clos ...
Doug Casey on the 'Worsening Storm,' QE3 and the Hard Assets Alliance
August 26, 2012
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Doug Casey. Introduction: Doug Casey has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows, and has been the subject of articles in People, US, Time, Forbes, The Washington Post and numerous other publ ...
Lance Armstrong and Kim Dotcom … Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
August 25, 2012
Here at the Daily Bell we've always maintained that the dominant social theme of Western "justice" would be the last to tumble because it is bound to be ferociously defended. But just as many others memes have been debunked with startling speed over the past de ...
Is a State Run Gold Standard Really the Answer?
August 24, 2012
The problem with a state run gold standard is that the state is running it! Facetiousness aside, this article gives us the opportunity once again to analyze what a gold standard really is and how a free-market one might work. It is probably safe to say that wha ...
Putin Replaced by Politburo?
August 24, 2012
In a recent article we pointed out that we had a lot of trouble with the weird idea now popular in alternative media circles that Vladimir Putin is some sort heroic figure standing up to the West's central banking power elite. We focused on how Putin had enrich ...
America's Descent into Poverty
August 24, 2012
The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally. The country that exists today is not even a shell of the country into which I was born. In this article I will deal with America's economic coll ...
Ocean Health Index: Another Tool Aiding Elitist Domination, not Conservation
August 23, 2012
There is a new tool to calibrate the health of the oceans, and it's been written about by Stewart M. Patrick in his blog over at the Council on Foreign Relations entitled, "The Internationalist." The article itself is titled, "Sea Change: A New Tool for Measuri ...
Our Deal with CNN Plagiarist Fareed Zakaria
August 23, 2012
Plagiarism is another one of those 21st century transgressions that drives us a little crazy. It has to do with natural law mostly. Say you've been plagiarized by Fareed Zakaria. He's written a book and lifted a paragraph or two of your immortal prose – which ...
Another Attempt to Bluff Us All
August 23, 2012
Those aspiring to manage our lives, to take it over and run it according to their vision, never tire of trying to bluff us into letting down our guards. Now come Robert and Edward Skidelsky, in a book titled How Much is Enough? (Allen Lane, 2012), claiming that ...
Shrink YOUR Government
August 22, 2012
Here comes Lawrence H. Summers to tell us that shrinking the US federal Leviathan is at least improbable. Summers is very good at this kind of thing. After Milton Friedman passed away, he wrote an article entitled, "We're all Friedmanites Now." Of course, who r ...
Real Reason they Arrested Raub: Strip Him of His Right to Bear Arms
August 22, 2012
The real reason why they arrested former US Marine Brandon Raub and then confined him to a psychiatric ward is now emerging. It may be part of a deliberate Pentagon policy to declare people who are vets and concerned about eroding freedoms – as Raub obviously ...
What Jules Kroll Is Not Saying About Ratings Agencies
August 21, 2012
Jules Kroll is back in town. The man, who is really a myth, single-handedly invented private, white collar, corporate investigations. Now he wants to reinvent the US ratings agency industry. Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch Ratings ran into trouble after ...
Assange Fracas: All About Establishing Legitimacy of International Criminal Court?
August 21, 2012
Is the Julian Assange extradition standoff nothing more than a way of further establishing the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court? This could make sense. We've been puzzled with the way things have played out regarding Assange but now we believe we ...
Military Cuts: Don't Believe the Hype
August 21, 2012
Grover Norquist, the influential conservative activist, recently made some very frank and sobering remarks about the US military budget. Unlike many conservatives, Mr. Norquist understands that American national security interests are not served by the interven ...
Amerika's Future is Death
August 21, 2012
The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die. - Martin Luther King Conspiracy theories have now blossomed into what the smug presstitute media calls a "conspiracy culture." According to the presstitutes, Americans have to find some explanati ...
Cult of Putin Is Alternative Media Porn?
August 20, 2012
Somehow the idea has got around the alternative media that Vladimir Putin is some sort of protector of the West from its own globalist elites. We ran into this again when we published an article entitled "Kim Dotcom Resists, Pussy Riot Protests and the Insane C ...
Reality Check: The African Region that Western Elites have Subjected to War Is Now Larger than the Entire US
August 20, 2012
Reuters (above) tells us the Syria conflict as it stands now will end in a bloody stalemate. We're not sure that's going to be the case given how Libya ended up, but the Reuters story, like the rest of reporting surrounding these various wars, fails to give the ...
The Allure of Mandates
August 20, 2012
Peter Coy of Bloomberg/Businessweek is an avid fan of mandates (see his "The Case for Way More Mandates" 7/9-7/15, 2012, p. 24). That is to say he prefers forcing people to do what he thinks they should do rather than persuading them, kind of like what the USSR ...
Gerald Celente on the Upcoming Seed Event and Why People Need to Think for Themselves to Avoid a Replay of the 1930s
August 19, 2012
The Daily Bell is pleased to publish this exclusive interview with Gerald Celente (left). Introduction: Forecasting trends since 1980, Mr. Gerald Celente is publisher of the Trends Journal®, Founder/Director of the Trends Research Institute® and author of the ...
Nancy Grace Points the Way to Gold Confiscation?
August 18, 2012
We received a YouTube video address from a friend of the Daily Bell, and the power elite meme popped right out. At the end of this article, I'll provide a video address, so you can see for yourself how Nancy Grace positions this particular analysis of "justice. ...
Julian Assange's Directed History
August 17, 2012
Having pretty much pioneered the idea that Julian Assange is a patsy of a larger power elite directed history, it is incumbent on us logically to continue to make this case or to apologize, but we are not ready to apologize. It still seems to us this whole affa ...
Ecuador President Rafael We Are Not A Colony Correa Stands Up To The Jackbooted British Gestapo
August 17, 2012
A coward dies many deaths; a brave man dies but once. The once proud British government, now reduced to Washington's servile whore, put on its Gestapo Jackboots and declared that if the Ecuadorean Embassy in London did not hand over WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, B ...
Better Relationships, Better Health and Real Honesty
August 17, 2012
Americans lie an average of 11 times per week. This can take a toll on one's relationships, physical health and mental health. A study by Anita Kelly and Lijuan Wang of the University of Notre Dame looked at lying and quality of life. Over a ten-week period of ...
Britain's Tax Fugitives Program Should be Seen Within a Larger Aggressive Ambit
August 16, 2012
What's going on with Britain these days? As with America, its top government officials are getting increasingly aggressive when it comes to projecting power overseas. Now they're going to distribute "most wanted" posters of tax cheats. Being this is the 21st ce ...
New Book Further Confirms Eco-Affinity of Alternative Currency Proponents
August 16, 2012
Again, we seem to find a weird eco-authoritarian streak in top-level proponents of alternative currencies ... Why is Margrit Kennedy's new book being published by the Green eco-publisher New Society Publishers? We visited the page and found Al Gore prominently ...
The Left and Women's Reproductive Rights
August 16, 2012
At the outset I will declare my commitment to the right of women to terminate pregnancies prior to the time a human being has developed in their bodies (roughly the 25th week*). But then I am also someone who holds that every adult individual has a full, unalie ...
Is Washington Deaf As Well as Criminal?
August 16, 2012
The morons who rule the american sheeple are not only dumb and blind, they are deaf as well. The ears of the american "superpower" only work when the Israeli prime minister, the crazed Netanyahu, speaks. Then Washington hears everything and rushes to comply. Is ...
Competing Currencies and Ron Paul – Mismatch or Monetary Heaven?
August 15, 2012
Here comes Congressman Ron Paul pounding the drums for competing currencies. He's been called a dreamer, a schemer and worse but long ago we arrived at a somewhat similar vision. That doesn't mean your banking system doesn't arrive at a fully capitalized gold s ...
London Olympics … Boon or Boondoggle?
August 15, 2012
Oh, boy ... Boris (the "boy mayor") is excited about the money he has made for Britain, though exactly what constitutes "Britain" we're not quite sure. But Boris is convinced "Britain" will reap economic rewards for years. Boris is one of Britain's more freneti ...
Psychology and Fascism
August 15, 2012
"[Fascism] takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure.... Any rival identity is part of the 'problem' and th ...
What Did Rand Paul Gain?
August 14, 2012
Mitt Romney has picked the youthful warmonger Paul Ryan to be his running mate. From my point of view, this leaves the junior senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, standing near the altar like a jilted bridesmaid. Not a very pretty picture. And now what has Rand Pa ...
Strange Bedfellows: More Authoritarian Linkages to Paper Money …
August 14, 2012
Since we started looking, we keep coming up with linkages between those who espouse Greenbackerism, fiat credit systems, Georgism, etc. and various sorts of green eco-facilities and the United Nations in particular. You can see some of our articles here: "Paper ...
Legalize Competing Currencies
August 14, 2012
I recently held a hearing in my congressional subcommittee on the subject of competing currencies. This is an issue of enormous importance but unfortunately few Americans understand how the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department impose a strict monopoly on mon ...
Kim Dotcom Resists, Pussy Riot Protests and the Insane Clown Posse Sues … Internet Reformation Rolls
August 13, 2012
As the power elite that wants to run the world continues to race against time more and more brutally, what we call the Internet Reformation becomes ever more visible. It is becoming more visible because as the elites shove the world toward global governance, pe ...
Paper Money and the UN Perfect Together? More Currency and Credit Exchanges Supported by the UN
August 13, 2012
Why is there so much cooperation between what we call "paper money promoters," green movements and the UN? Last week we reported on this curious relationship, and since we were curious to see how much of a trend there was, we spent a little more time looking in ...
Currency and Credit Schemes Blow Up … and Go Green
August 13, 2012
The Australian recently reviewed a play (see above excerpt) focusing on the life and times of Australian Prime Minister John Curtin's early career. While Curtin is not of special interest to us, Major C.H. Douglas certainly is, as is the statement implying "how ...
The Olympics and Politics
August 13, 2012
Strictly speaking, sports and politics should be separate, just as should be religion and politics. Of course, folks with strong religious convictions will often be guided by these convictions as they make political choices. So people who hold to the pro-life o ...
Jeffrey Tucker on Laissez Faire Books, Intellectual Property Rights and 'Beautiful Anarchy'
August 12, 2012
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Jeffrey Tucker. Introduction: Jeffrey Tucker is executive editor of Laissez Faire Books and a widely published author, most recently of A Beautiful Anarchy, and speaker. You can contact him at t ...
Parting Company With Nigel Farage and Suggesting a New Role
August 11, 2012
"Only the living can kill the dead." – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Nigel Farage has provided us with an eye-opening interview over at Eric King's "King News." He makes some blunt statements, even for him. In this article, I'll take the opportunity first t ...
For Fraser Nelson, the Glass is Half Full, but Not for His Feedbackers
August 10, 2012
The Telegraph rarely disappoints, even when it seems to be trying to. In this case the culprit is Fraser Nelson, author of one of the more surprising articles we've read recently. Sorry, Mr. Nelson, but it really is over the top. More on that in a minute. Who i ...
Are 'Green' Reciprocal Exchange and Credit Systems Part of a Larger Elite Promotion?
August 10, 2012
In late July, SustainableCities reposted an article (excerpted above) about "sustainability" and how a progressive Bronx school educator was teaching young people to achieve it in their own communities. OK! Step back ... In our humble opinion, this has all the ...
The Dispossessed Majority
August 10, 2012
The bumper sticker on the beat-up pickup truck read: "Friends don't let friends vote Democrat." The driver was obviously not affluent. Yet, despite all the news about mega-trillion dollar bankster bailouts, mega-million dollar bonuses for financial crooks, and ...
Mastering Emotions
August 10, 2012
Sometimes what you feel is what makes life worth living: love, joy, ecstasy, delight, curiosity... Your emotions bring you these experiences and fill you with the meaning and motivation that bring that experience to life. Sometimes what you feel can throw you i ...
Cracking of the Euro-Elite … The Triumph of Hope?
August 09, 2012
Are the Eurocrats finally starting to crack? Otmar Issing, a notable pro-EU figure, has just released a book that promotes the possibility of a euro bust-up. This is a remarkable turn of events, in our view. It signals we may be correct about what we call the I ...
Modern Madness: Saudi Arabia Building Women-Only Cities
August 09, 2012
We read this article with growing disbelief. What kind of sick society builds separate CITIES for women? Well ... the Saudis do. But really, it ISN'T the Saudis. It's another group entirely. But first, more on this insane development. The article explains – i ...
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