US fiscal cliff, a political jockeying: Dr Paul Craig Roberts

US fiscal cliff, a political jockeying: Dr Paul Craig Roberts A former US Assistant Treasurer says the US Fiscal cliff is mainly hoax and that it amounts to a mere one tenth of the growth of the US public Debt per year….

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The Illusion of Reality

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Agenda Prevails Over Truth

In the Western world truth no longer has any meaning. In its place stands agenda. Agenda is all important, because it is the way Washington achieves hegemony over the world and the American people. 9/11 was the “new Pearl Harbor” that the neoconservatives declared to be necessary for their planned wars against Muslim countries. For the neoconservatives to go forward…

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The Greatest Gift For All

Christmas is a time of traditions. If you have found time in the rush before Christmas to decorate a tree, you are sharing in a relatively new tradition. Although the Christmas tree has ancient roots, at the beginning of the 20th century only 1 in 5 American families put up a tree. It was 1920 before the Christmas tree became…

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America Is Going To Crash Big Time

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was the guest in this Tuesday, Dec. 11th, 2012 edition of One-on-One with Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com. Dr. Roberts thinks there is “an impending collapse of the exchange value,” and the U.S. dollar could unexpectedly plunge in buying power. Dr. Roberts contends, “All of a sudden, people will walk into Walmart, as usual, and they’ll think…

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Going After Guns: ‘You can’t have police state & armed population’

Published on Dec 19, 2012 President Barack Obama has made a move towards stronger gun control in the U.S. The proposal comes after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school that took the lives of 26 people, including 20 children – READ MORE http://on.rt.com/9wffi0

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Paul Craig Roberts: GOP debate is an amazing collection of stupidity

Paul Craig Roberts: GOP debate is an amazing collection of stupidity Going After Guns: 'You can't have police state & armed population' President Barack Obama has made a move towards stronger gun control in the U.S. The proposal comes after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary schoo…

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Agenda Driven News

I have known for a long time that US news is agenda-driven. Tonight (December 18) I was made aware of the extent to which agenda-driven US news drives the news of the rest of the world. For reasons unbeknownst to me, Russia Today Moscow requested a live TV interview via Skype about the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings that killed 20…

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The Fiscal Cliff Is A Diversion: The Derivatives Tsunami and the Dollar Bubble

The “fiscal cliff” is another hoax designed to shift the attention of policymakers, the media, and the attentive public, if any, from huge problems to small ones. The fiscal cliff is automatic spending cuts and tax increases in order to reduce the deficit by an insignificant amount over ten years if Congress takes no action itself to cut spending and…

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: America is Going to Crash Big Time

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: America is Going to Crash Big Time http://usawatchdog.com/america-is-going-to-crash-big-time-paul-craig-roberts/ – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts thinks there is “an impending collapse of the exchange…

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Obdurate Washington

With its power declining, Washington was not able any longer to keep Russia out of the World Trade Organization. Congress showed its spite over its impotence by hooking the normalizing of trade with Russia to what is called the “Magnitsky rule.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20634768 Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian attorney who represented a British investment firm accused of tax evasion and fraud…

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More Phony Employment Numbers

Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) calls the government’s latest jobs and unemployment reports “nonsense numbers.” There are a number of ongoing problems with the released numbers. For example, the concurrent-seasonal factor adjustments are unstable. The birth-death model adds non-existent jobs each month that are then taken out in the annual downward benchmark revisions. Williams calculates that the job overstatement through November…

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Paul Craig Roberts on Ron Paul, Citizens United, the fiscal cliff, and America today

This article was reproduced with written permission from Joseph Cotto. This article first appeared: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2012/dec/5/paul-craig-roberts-ron-paul-citizens-united-fiscal/ FLORIDA, December 5, 2012 — Most pundits talk a good game about economics and politics. Few, however, are prepared to deliver anything beyond a superficial analysis of our time’s most controversial issues. At times it seems like peer pressure and the groupthink it breeds are…

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Bradley Manning: A Window Into The American Soul

Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United States.  Every member of the government and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution–not to the government or to the president or to a political…

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Our Collapsing Economy and Currency

Is the “fiscal cliff” real or just another hoax? The answer is that the fiscal cliff is real, but it is a result, not a cause. The hoax is the way the fiscal cliff is being used. The fiscal cliff is the result of the inability to close the federal budget deficit. The budget deficit cannot be closed because large…

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