BrookesNews 25th June 2008

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The Democrats' socialist lunacy

http://brookesnews.com/082306demsocialism.html

Democrat congressmen Maxine Waters and Maurice Hinchey revealed theirsocialist agenda by calling for the nationalization of the oil companies.According to the ideology of this extreme leftwing duo nationalization wouldgive the state the power of controlling prices

Inflation and wages - another dangerous economic fallacy

http://brookesnews.com/082306inflation.html

Money is not neutral. This means is that attempts by central banks tostabilise prices distort the pattern of production and trigger off theso-called boom-bust cycle. From this we can deduce that even when the CPI isapparently stable inflation can still be rampant beneath the monetarysurface. Those who think otherwise have not learnt the fundamental lesson ofthe 1920s

The market created money, not the state

http://brookesnews.com/082306money.html

On the day a commodity becomes money it already has an establishedpurchasing power or price in terms of other goods. This purchasing powerenables us to set up the demand for this commodity as money. This in turn,for a given supply, sets its purchasing power on the day this commoditystarts to function as money

Green Oil

http://brookesnews.com/082306fontovaoil.html

A study by LSU's sea grant college shows that 85 percent of Louisiana'soffshore fishing trips involve fishing around these structures. The samestudy found 50 times more marine life around an oil production platform thanin the surrounding mud bottoms

Return of the dupes and the anti-anti-communists

http://brookesnews.com/082306anticommunism.html

The irony of journalists like Dana Milbank is that while they are laughingat the anti-communists, they seem to have no idea that the loudest howls oflaughter have always come from the communists who see such journalists asdupes

Unshackle American enterprise to increase oil supplies

http://brookesnews.com/082306oil.html

Democrats and other leftists seem incapable of learning simple economicfacts and continue to resist and oppose all efforts to make America oil selfsufficient and independent of foreign sources controlled by our enemies

The flawed and costly war

http://brookesnews.com/082306war.html

Barack Obama is out on the stump using the skills he learned as a 'communityorganizer' to try and woo support while talking about little of substance.He has the liberal psychobabble down pat and uses tried and true tactics anytime someone levies any criticism against him

Hugo Chávez, Colombia, and FARC

http://brookesnews.com/082306chavez.html

For months, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were thedarlings of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. H

From coal to fuel to oil

http://brookesnews.com/082306coaltooil.html

Apart from engendering economic turmoil and worries of many kinds, theskyrocketing price of oil has also done something momentously beneficial: Ithas created conditions for America's oil independence by making iteconomical to extract fuels from coal, our most abundant energy resource