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Let Paulson Go … And Free the Alternative Media, Too!
November 30, 2011
Here come the Pecora Hearings. The powers-that-be are efficiently and cold-bloodedly preparing the guillotine for Wall Street. Good! This is the reaction of the hitherto libertarian alternative media. Say what? Yup ... With the possible exception of Lew Rockwel ...
SEC to Beef Up Penalties in Defense of the Little Guy
November 30, 2011
All is going according to plan, so far as we are concerned. The powers-that-be are orchestrating a virtual orgy of anger against the securities industry and people are so angry with top honchos like Hank Paulson (of TARP fame) and Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman Sachs ...
Coordinated Central Bank Rescue: The Smell of Money
November 30, 2011
This is, of course, the Anglosphere power elite's fundamental dominant social theme. Our Money Power is good and we use it wisely and well on YOUR behalf. The "system" cannot be allowed to falter or fail. Not an inch of it. Of course, we ask, "Whose system is i ...
Terminology of the Day: Competitive 'Megapolitan'
November 30, 2011
A new one on us. We hate made-up words because the English language has lots of words to choose from. But the powers-that-be will continue to make up new ones in the hopes that the novelty will disguise the authoritarianism lurking behind. It's always the same ...
The Real Reason Bloomberg Sued to Open Up Fed Records?
November 29, 2011
Is the US gearing up for another "Pecora Hearing"? These hearings that began in 1932 in New York and Washington, DC gave us the current nonsensical regulatory regime that the US suffers from (and has exported to the wide world). Here at the Daily Bell, some of ...
Everything Wall Street Does Is Illegal?
November 29, 2011
Everything Wall Street does is illegal. This decision by Judge Rakoff is being heralded as a breakthrough in "cleaning up Wall Street." But Wall Street cannot be cleaned up. Regulations cannot clean up Wall Street. Laws cannot clean up Wall Street. Judges canno ...
The Folly of Sanctions
November 29, 2011
Many people have the misconception that sanctions are an effective means to encourage a change of behavior in another country without war. However, imposing sanctions and blockades are not only an act of war according to international law, they are most often t ...
Paris Hilton Buys a Ferrari: Off With Her Head
November 28, 2011
This remarkable squib of an article appeared in the Daily Mail on Sunday and at first we didn't believe what we were reading. It is a full-out "rich versus poor" article, the kind that might have been produced by a "Cold War" Politburo (were it to exist today i ...
A Good Man: Libertarian Mr. Bill Still Runs for President
November 28, 2011
Bill Still is one of those people you don't always hear about who's had a tremendous impact on the larger libertarian conversation taking place in the US and, in fact, throughout the West. Now he's running for the US presidency. Will he win? Probably not. ...
Robespierre's War on Terror
November 28, 2011
Dr. Bosworth has written a remarkable article about the Defense Authorization bill now wending its way through the US Congress (see above). He makes it very clear that he thinks this legislation is the formal forerunner to a kind of US police state, though we t ...
Just Because You Hurt Doesn't Mean You're Broken
November 28, 2011
Sometimes you can think that a problem you are having or the emotional pain you're experiencing is a symptom of some kind of psychological problem. But more often than not, what you're experiencing is part of the natural challenges of life. I don't mean to say ...
Rise of the Political Plumber … Wade House and His True Democracy Party
November 27, 2011
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Wade D. House. Introduction: First there was Joe the Plumber who became a down-to-earth conservative analyst of note by virtue of his blunt talk. Now there's Wade House, also a plumber, who has st ...
Is the Sovereign Debt Crisis a Replay of the Versailles Treaty?
November 26, 2011
Here at The Daily Bell we track dominant social themes of the Anglosphere power elite (the only elite that matters) and recently we've been pointing out that much of what is going on in the (Western) world is a repeat of the early 20th century. In an article en ...
Should the Government Step In?
November 25, 2011
One of the main emergent US dominant social themes is that the government and regulators must step in to clean up the market and make it safe for investors. The idea is that the larger modern marketplace is very necessary for the functioning of modern society a ...
'J. Edgar,' The Movie
November 25, 2011
J. Edgar helped create the current US penitentiary state because he had an unhappy childhood and lived a secret sexual life as an adult. Because of this, the Federal Bureau of Investigation came into being and was aggressively expanded. Because Hoover was "in t ...
Who Needs Austerity When Some Are Rich?
November 25, 2011
Portugal is broke but austerity measures there are protested persistently. Greece is in the same fix. And indeed in America, too, the Occupy Wall Street crowd appears to believe that if even a few folks are doing very well, no one need tighten his belt since al ...
Look for the Best in People and You'll Find It
November 24, 2011
Look for the best in people and you'll find it; look for the worst and you'll find that, too. How we view others can generate a self-fulfilling prophecy: you believe that they will behave in a certain way, or that you'll be affected by them in a certain wa ...
Winning? Ron Paul Helps Lead Mounting Opposition to SOPA Internet Censorship
November 24, 2011
For years, we've been trying to explain that the Internet is not going to be easy to remove or tame. Those enablers and associates of the Anglosphere power elite can try to shut it down but there seems to be a kind of hive mind at work that won't quickly allow ...
Stewart Rhodes Speaks of Daily Bell's Internet Reformation on Infowars
November 24, 2011
Stewart Rhodes appeared recently on the Alex Jones Infowars channel to explain the growing resistance to unconstitutional Fedgov activities. In the process, he pointed out that the modern-day "printing press" – the Internet – is providing people with inform ...
State Sovereignty: America's Final Solution to Tyranny
November 24, 2011
At the end of this article is a copy of the proposed state sovereignty amendment that Ron and Donnie Kennedy are promoting as the final solution to federal abuse. They believe that anything less will only continue the course of federal supremacy and the ultimat ...
Obama's Secret 'Green' Bank Exposed
November 23, 2011
It is not enough that the US Federal government is in cahoots with other countries to foist phony global warming policies on its long-suffering citizens. It has also set aside (according to Fox, see above) some $61 billion in assets in a secret government bank. ...
But is Everything Gonna Be All Right?
November 23, 2011
"How much pain have cost us, the evils that have never happened." – Thomas Jefferson Worrying about the many economic threats in the news today really is a waste of time. So many people come up to me depressed, concerned and frozen into a total inaction ...
Inequality
November 23, 2011
Much consternation is spent on income and related inequality. Or call it unequal advantages in life. As if it were some kind of moral or political imperative that we must all enjoy equal benefits and burdens, though few will say why that would be a good thing o ...
IMF Expands Lending Again Due to Phony Crisis
November 22, 2011
Again, the mission creep. It's no coincidence. The Anglosphere power elite regards every (self-created) disaster as an opportunity to extend its nascent world government. It's a kind of dominant social theme. The standing global economic armament has to ge ...
On the Super Committee
November 22, 2011
This week marks the deadline for the so-called congressional Super Committee to meet its goal of cutting a laughably small amount of federal spending over the next decade. In fact the Committee merely needs to cut about $120 billion annually from the federal bu ...
So Deep an Evil?
November 21, 2011
In our wanderings around the Blogosphere (and 'Net-iverse), it's become clearer and clearer to us that we live in a kind of matrix beyond our immediate control or perception. All we can do, like blind men, is continue to do our best to make out the shape of the ...
The European Union Uber Alles
November 21, 2011
(Translation: The EU Over All) "Consider that the entire Western world is outraged that the Greek prime minister announced that he is going to permit the Greek people to decide their own fate instead of having it decided for them by a handful of banksters, ...
Leon Louw on Sinking South Africa – and How Free-Market Thinking Can Help Recover Prosperity
November 20, 2011
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Leon Louw (left). Introduction: Leon Louw is an internationally recognized economic, political and environmental analyst known for his accurate forecasts. He has spoken in 30 countries and consult ...
Why Gold Sells Off and What Will Happen Next …
November 19, 2011
Reuters just published an interesting article that makes the following point: "As the Dow struggled over the past few weeks, gold has confounded market watchers by tracking equities, even as the European debt crisis escalated. U.S. December gold futures fell $3 ...
Economy Bounces Back?
November 18, 2011
We don't believe this. Do you? This is part of the larger directed history that we've been reporting, in our view. Suddenly the US numbers are showing an uptick. Really? Nope. It's just part of a larger narrative. The idea is apparently to re-elect Barack ...
Is the US Government Anti-Monopoly?
November 18, 2011
So you may have heard that the US Federal Government is opposed to monopolies and that is why the Department of Justice has its various rules against them. All those antitrust provisions are supposed to keep competition going and prevent any business from becom ...
Liberty and Willpower
November 18, 2011
"We're just showing the rich people that we can do what we want." – London rioter, in August This quote, and the people who acted it out – and who are acting it out presently in the "occupy" demonstrations right now in the US – show what liberty disc ...
Website Irony …
November 17, 2011
Hey, talk about irony. We'll get to that in one minute. We have to "set it up" first. Here we go ... Rense used to pick up some of our articles on occasion, but we figured that would stop once we started writing how people shouldn't refer to "Zionists" and ...
From Russia with Trepidations
November 17, 2011
The invitation was just too nice to turn down despite my increasing reluctance to do very long trips. (I did some such a while back, like twice to New Zealand and twice to Cape Town.) Back and knee troubles tend to impede such ventures these days. But my hosts ...
The Technocrat Meme Descends
November 16, 2011
The Guardian is schizophrenic on the issue of technocracy. They've run at least one article deriding the swelling technocratic priesthood and another one (see above excerpt) that supports it. To us, this talk of technocracy is an old, familiar dominant soc ...
What Is Naked Capitalism?
November 16, 2011
Naked Capitalism just picked up an article attacking DB as a "parody" of Austrian finance, so we thought we'd do a bit of research to find out why it posted the story. You can see our initial response here: Attorney Responds to the Daily Bell. The founder ...
Jobless Claims Down. Things Are Brighter?
November 15, 2011
This is a fairly obvious dominant social theme: President Barack Obama has the economy starting to hum just before election time. We would offer the perspective that this is yet more "directed history." The idea is to gradually build up the "successes" of the a ...
Hip Hop Comes To Pakistan
November 15, 2011
This is a dominant social theme we don't often mention (see above). It has to do with the attractiveness of US culture for young people around the world. This has been one of the power elite's most successful promotions. The TV programs and Hollywood movies mak ...
Attorney Responds To the Daily Bell
November 15, 2011
Mr. William Black has responded to an article of ours with one of his own, entitled "Best Satire of Faux Austrian Economics Ever." It touches on numerous dominant social themes of the power elite, which is what we regularly analyze. Overall Reaction: We we ...
Adbusters's Left-Wing Agenda – Exposed Again
November 15, 2011
Over at the Economic Policy Journal, we find an interesting article, "The Economists of 'Occupy Wall Street'," that shows us once again that the Occupy Wall Street movement has a specific left-wing agenda. It is actually part of a larger dominant social theme, ...
European Debt Crisis Threatens the Dollar
November 15, 2011
The global economic situation is becoming more dire every day. Approximately half of all US banks have significant exposure to the debt crisis in Europe. Much more dangerous for the US taxpayer is the dollar's status as reserve currency for the world, and the U ...
More From the Economist: Another Example of Elite EU Misdirection
November 14, 2011
This article from the Economist newspaper, one of the leading Anglosphere power elite mouthpieces, is not as it seems and in this article we shall show why. One of the dominant social themes of the elite is centralization, and this article endorses further EU c ...
Does Nazi Germany Dominate the EU?
November 14, 2011
The Anglosphere power elite is desperate to focus attention elsewhere than on its central-banking driven attempts to create world government. A big dominant theme that has emerged in the past two years is that Nazi Germans are driving the European Union. (See a ...
Mike Adams Recognizes the Internet Reformation, Too
November 14, 2011
Good-health warrior Mike Adams recently posted an article on how much people are learning about the societies they live in. (See excerpt above.) This story, unconsciously or not, reinforces a meme that DB has been presenting for nearly a decade now. What i ...
Broker Skips Real Truth of How He Lost His House
November 14, 2011
We are sorry that Mr. Carl Richards lost his house but we find his reasoning confusing. His lengthy analysis of how he ended up selling his house in Nevada and moving back to Utah does not contain a single word about central banking. This is a kind of domi ...
Government Power Undermines Empathy
November 14, 2011
The fundamental quality of human relationship is empathy. Empathy enables you to understand another person's situation, make sense of their behavior, and distance yourself from your own initial self-absorbed reaction to what other people do. It is a supreme exp ...
Mickey Huff on Project Censored, the Reality of World Government and the Masquerade of a 'Free Press'
November 13, 2011
The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Mickey Huff (left). Introduction: Mickey Huff is Associate Professor of History at Diablo Valley College and a Director of Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation. He has been interviewe ...
A Realistic Economic Bill of Rights Is Not Possible
November 12, 2011
Is an economic bill of rights possible? Ellen Brown thinks so. And her newest article, "Now Is the Time for an Economic Bill of Rights," is the lead story of the new Occupy Wall Street news feed at OWSnews.org. As with everything written by Ms. Brown, it i ...
Supremo Suddenly Worried About US Totalitarianism!
November 11, 2011
You see? We've warned about this. They're all on crack and sometimes one or another of them lets go with a windy whistle of a statement that reveals how mindless they actually are. In this case, it's Justice Stephen Breyer opining that the US is in danger of se ...
Greece Forms a Kind of Communist Government?
November 11, 2011
Oh, wow, a Greek unity government. Unity. A less polite term would be "communism" in our view – for we and thee, not of course for the top Greek elites. Communism. Sure. Or close to it ... The state runs most of Greece now one way or another. And a politburo ...
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