BrookesNews 19th Aug 2008

BrookesNews Update

Georgia and Putin: The Silence of the Lambs

http://brookesnews.com/081808georgia.html

Russia invades Georgia and the world's moralists remain silent. The lying hypocrites that condemned the US and its allies for liberating Iraq now give their silent endorsement to Putin's invasion of a democracy. And what doesObama do? He asserts that Georgia is equally at fault. What a wimp. This should show Americans not only how dangerous Obama is but just how hollowand stupid is the Dem claim that the US needs to rely on 'world opinion' and the UN

Russian imperialism: the three word solution

http://brookesnews.com/081808georgiaputin.html

Russian economy is a one-trick pony. Crash oil prices and the Russian economy crashes. That's the necessary condition for putting an end to Russian barbaric belligerence

Oil Shale: Will Congress Cross The Jordan?http://brookesnews.com/081808shaleoil.html

The US has at least 2 trillion barrels of oil shale. This is more than seven times the amount of crude oil reserves found in Saudi Arabia and is enough to meet current U.S. demand for over 250 years. Yet Obama and his fellow Democrats are fighting to keep this vast resource out of reach of their fellow Americans

Deconstructing Obama

http://brookesnews.com/081808obamaentitlement.html

The Presidency of the United States of America is not now, nor should it ever be, an entitlement. Yet that is precisely how Obama, the Democrats and their media partners in dishonesty are treating it

Democrats and the windfall profits tax

http://brookesnews.com/081808demswindfallprofits.html

Regardless of what greedy, destructive tax-hungry Democrats think oil companies are owned by stockholders. Only about 1.5 percent of the stockholders are oil company executives. The rest of the stocks are owned by average Americans that have invested money in their mutual funds, retirement funds, 401K's, and individual accounts the stock market

The US economy: all the little things that go to make a recession

http://brookesnews.com/081808usmoneyrecession.html

The problem with the US economy is bad economics, not bad investment decisions, wild speculation, the housing boom, etc. The vast majority of economic pundits have only a dim understanding of the link between the money supply and America's current economic difficulties

Will the Reserve sink the Australian economy?http://brookesnews.com/081808recessionrba.html

Economic indicators are pointing to a recession. The blame for this situation rests not with the Labour Government but with the Reserve's lousy economics. Sad to say, the 'economics' that the bank practices is also the economic that our economic commentariat are forever preaching

US spending and lost innocence

http://brookesnews.com/081808blinderspending.html

The brilliant Professor Blinder (a former vice chairman of the Fed) has conjured up a scheme whereby the government buys clapped-out motors in order increase the spending power their former owners. That the problem in the first place was too much spending cannot penetrate Blinders Keynesian mindset