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October 27, 2011
In order to begin this essay with a degree of coherence, I need first to discuss two types of liberty. The one kind I will designate as metaphysical liberty; it means the capacity for initiating, starting or being the first cause of movement supposedly possesse ...
October 26, 2011
Occupy Wall Street is a populist movement, not a radical one. The powers-that-be are trying their best to position it this way in our view – in opposition to the anti-government Tea Party. This has significant ramifications not only for the movement but for t ...
October 26, 2011
A major dominant social theme of the Anglosphere power elite is that government can HELP private markets function better. This is simply not true, as every law is a price fix, redistributing income and depriving true wealth producers of the wherewithal to creat ...
October 26, 2011
When it comes to China the Anglosphere power elite has done an unusually bad job. On the one hand, China is to be painted as a great adversary of the West. On the other, it must be seen as participating in the larger set of dominant social themes that the elite ...
October 26, 2011
Perhaps the most disturbing element of the death of Muammar Gaddafi was its public spectacle. So many shaky videos of the 60-year-old straggly-haired Gaddafi being punched, shoved, bloodied and even sodomized have emerged that we long ago gave up keeping track. ...
October 26, 2011
On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli put forth a marvelous patriotic rant for several minutes declaring that Americans should stand up and protest the Obama administration's outrageous socialist policies. And he promised to organize a Chicago Te ...
October 25, 2011
This article, posted to MarketWatch, is a good example of how a dominant social theme – retirement – is being repositioned because it hasn't proven out in reality. The new retirement, we learn, is work related. You'll retire, but you'll still work. From our ...
October 25, 2011
This article (excerpted above) provides us with a good postmortem of the foolish biofuels industry. We knew these boondoggles wouldn't work because they didn't work in the 1970s either, the last time the business cycle turned and gave us a big bull market in me ...
October 25, 2011
We have long noted that a strategy of the US Democrats is to create a comparison between President Barack Obama and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It is a cynical ploy and actually runs much deeper than surface comparisons.
Paul Moreno, a professor of history ...
October 25, 2011
Are we headed toward world war? Dr. Christoff Lehmann seems to think so. He comes with significant credentials, at least if his Internet bio is to be believed. And regardless of the credibility of Christoff himself, the current global environment is poisonous. ...
October 25, 2011
If you thought the "Transportation Security Administration" would limit itself to conducting unconstitutional searches at airports, think again. The agency intends to assert jurisdiction over our nation's highways, waterways, and railroads as well. TSA launched ...
October 24, 2011
Leftist commentator and "Young Turk" Cenk Uygur has announced the formation of Wolf-PAC to campaign for a constitutional convention. His call to action was featured on the AmpedStatus website run by David DeGraw, one of the original founders of the Occupy Wall ...
October 24, 2011
We have identified direct democracy and transparency as two dominant social themes that the power elite wishes to use to promote global governance. This Der Spiegel article is a perfect expression of the transparency meme.
Where is the transparency meme co ...
October 24, 2011
This article, comparing Pat Buchanan's presidential effort to the presidential candidacy of Republican-Libertarian Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), is noteworthy because it treats Ron Paul seriously; however, we tend to disagree with it because of the sneaking s ...
October 24, 2011
Nearly a year ago now we posted an article "Western Elites Secretly Still Building Islam" and we see no reason to re-evaluate this supposition. Thanks to the Internet Reformation, the Anglosphere power elite is under pressure as never before. And the best way t ...
October 24, 2011
Despite what Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio has reportedly believed throughout much of his political career, it seems that his parents didn't flee Fidel Castro's communist Cuba for political freedom in the US. What some media appear to have "revealed" i ...
October 22, 2011
The Federal Reserve needs more transparency, as noted in a report last week from the Government Accountability Office, a "nonpartisan" research division of Congress. But this is nothing but an elite limited hangout. In this article I'll try to explain why.
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October 21, 2011
Congressman Ron Paul, the beautiful light of a new century, has written a wonderful article in the Wall Street Journal making the powerful point that central banks FIX the price of money. Perhaps we like the article so much because this is the analogy that we r ...
October 21, 2011
The Bank for International Settlements is the organizing force behind central banking around the world. In this article from the Dow Jones newswire, excerpted above, we can see that the BIS is an authority on central banking, reporting on currency flows and the ...
October 21, 2011
Over at AmpedStatus, Charles Hugh Smith has some words of wisdom for the burgeoning protest movement Occupy Wall Street. He has some specific advice for protestors on how to opt out of the system and since it is a long article we will boil it down below, as the ...
October 21, 2011
Washington's Blog is out with an interesting analysis suggesting a partnership between the US Tea Party, which is anti-government, and Occupy Wall Street, which seems to support certain kinds of big government and is firmly anti-Wall Street.
In this DB art ...
October 21, 2011
The "occupy" protest movement is thriving off the claim that the 99% are being exploited by the 1%, and there is truth in what they say. But they have the identities of the groups wrong. They imagine that it is the 1% of highest wealth holders who are the probl ...
October 21, 2011
"I just don't trust that people are smart enough to make the right choices. Do you really think that there are enough intelligent people to have this kind of freedom?" This is a sentiment that I've heard many times from seemingly goodhearted people on the left. ...
October 20, 2011
Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters magazine, based in Vancouver, B.C. – the magazine that issued the call for the initial Occupy Wall Street protests – has called on people to protest the upcoming G20 while demanding a one-percent tax on financial transaction ...
October 20, 2011
We long ago predicted the tribes of Europe would revolt once the reality of the European Union's dysfunction and corruption became clearer. What we didn't anticipate was the degree of control the Anglosphere power elite would exercise – or try to exercise.
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October 20, 2011
Anyone who observes the directed history of the Anglosphere power elite for even a short period of time will soon become aware that one of the methodologies of control is the Hegelian dialectic. Control the right and left sides of the debate and the narrative i ...
October 20, 2011
The US Senate is at it again, complaining about Homeland Security and its increasingly Draconian and authoritarian ways. The mavens at Homeland Security have provided American citizens who choose to fly with a Hobson's Choice: They can either be poisoned, appar ...
October 20, 2011
"There is gold in them thar hills!" Occasionally we read in various columns of mainstream journalists that the Chinese have shot themselves in the foot when they (in violence of Friedmanite precepts) failed to revalue their currency upwards. The world will reta ...
October 20, 2011
A reader recently asked me why I was "so bullish on the (US) dollar." I'd like to comment on that to avoid any possible confusion or misunderstanding.
Am I bullish on the dollar? The answer depends, as so often, on the time horizon we are referring to. Thu ...
October 19, 2011
It's getting surreal out there. David DeGraw, the self-titled founder of the Occupy Wall Street movement has now brought on board Bill Black, an American lawyer, academic, author and a former bank regulator to serve as Occupy Wall Street's litigation arm.
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October 19, 2011
It's been a while since we noticed a Gideon Rachman/Financial Times article, but this is a quite powerful one. Richman sees the decline of America as inevitable – not the product of warmongering and monetary debasement but simply a kind of "turning of the tid ...
October 19, 2011
Of course, the Federal Reserve chairman is the consummate "yes man" in so many ways. He provides a "yes" to the global elite that uses him as a polished promoter of the destructive meme of central banking, and he is a "yes man" for those who want to keep intere ...
October 19, 2011
For a number of decades now the leaders of the Tory wing of the British electorate have been playing a kind of game in which they pretend to be against British involvement in the European Union while secretly supporting it.
Over and over, the Tory leadersh ...
October 19, 2011
At the outset it needs to be noted that whatever is called the social contract, it is not actually a contract, which is "an agreement entered into by two or more parties with the serious intention of creating a legal obligation or obligations, which may or may ...
October 19, 2011
The Empty Suit...In the wake of the recent New Hampshire debate televised on Bloomberg October 11th, one has to conclude that Rick Perry's star is not just fading; it has crashed into that horrible fate known as FIP (flash in pan). He desperately needed to thro ...
October 18, 2011
This is a good analysis from John Kemp of Reuters about an upcoming legal confrontation between free markets and regulation. He perceives it as a struggle between over-reaching regulation and market forces. The confrontation has been set up by the imposition of ...
October 18, 2011
Like a bad guest at a dinner party, Milton Friedman won't go away. Now he is returning in the guise of the anonymous "Washington" writer for the Economist newspaper. Just like Friedman, he has the idea that central banking can be run scientifically. In fact it ...
October 18, 2011
Is Occupy Wall Street directed history and is David DeGraw its pied piper? His lead article today at AmpedStatus, his flagship media website, features the arrest of Dr. Cornel West. Who is Dr. West? Here's Wikipedia:
West has called the U.S. a "racist patr ...
October 18, 2011
The Obama administration has sent Green Berets to Uganda to help fight the Lord's Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony. Who is Kony? According to the Post, a "self-styled prophet, who mixes Christian mysticism with politics, he is believed hiding along the Sudan ...
October 18, 2011
Amid the din of economic nonsense being bandied about since the collapse of the housing bubble and the steep ramping up of our national debt, there has been the persistent refrain that Washington should be run more like a business. If only more business people ...
October 18, 2011
The downgrading of US debt this summer didn't have huge economic consequences, but the psychological ones were truly devastating for the national elites who have run this country for nearly a century. For a State that regards itself as infallible, it was a huge ...
October 17, 2011
Speaking of Assange-the-Messiah and his visitation to St. Paul's, we've recently received incessant calls from several paranoid friends. To stop the barrage, we've combine their rants into one narrative as follows ...
"I dunno why you never take my calls, ...
October 17, 2011
Ellen Brown, Alex Jones and others have done much good work to ensure people know the Fed is "private" not public" – and the latest action by the Fed in attacking Alex Jones is another indication of the essentially private nature of the US central bank. Here' ...
October 17, 2011
One gets the feeling the Republican Party would rather run a dog for president than Ron Paul. And yet ... by almost every reasonable account, the libertarian congressman from Texas is still in contention to win the Republican nomination. He's got popular suppor ...
October 17, 2011
The Wall Street Journal's weekend interview, conducted with Mortimer Zuckerman by James Freeman, comes to the conclusion that US President Barack Obama doesn't lie enough. That's not Zuckerman's conclusion, that's ours.
The interview is also a warning to O ...
October 16, 2011
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an interview with Sheldon Richman (left). Sheldon is editor of The Freeman, published by The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York, and serves as senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is th ...
October 15, 2011
Slovakia has now approved European debt-crisis bailout fund, but the problems Europe is experiencing are similar to those faced by America in the grip of the Fed's immense bailouts of the past two years. Increasingly, these are seen as morally repugnant by citi ...
October 15, 2011
So Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts candidate for the US Senate, says "there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody." And so she is said to reject that it is possible for Americans to become wealthy "in isolation." (As if someone defended that ...
October 14, 2011
Peter Wallison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has had a high profile of late, publishing several articles in the Wall Street Journal (see excerpt above) blaming government rather than ...
October 14, 2011
Among the not-so-private problems afflicting the generally hopeful movement of Occupy Wall Street is the schism between the libertarian wing and what might be called the "statist" element of the movement.
The Occupy Wall Street forum, offered at its websit ...
