Brookes News 9th Dec 08

MOBILE, Ala. (May 28, 2008) The littoral combat ship pre-commissioning unit Independence (LCS 2) is the second ship in a new design of next-generation combat vessel for close-to-shore operations. The ship will have a crew of less than 40 Sailors and will be able to reach a sustained speed of more than 50 knots. The larger flight deck will accommodate 2 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters or one CH-53-class helicopter.

BrookesNews Update, December 09 2008



The country is in recession yet the commentariat still cannot spot what is wrong
http://brookesnews.com/080812ausrecession.html
Inspired by FDR, Obama and his fellow Dems promise a New Deal economic program that will pull the country out of recession and put it on the road to sustained economic growth. What dangerous nonsense. He knows nothing of the 1930s and even less about economics. I fear we may have the makings of an economic disaster


The country is in recession yet the commentariat still cannot spot what is wrong
http://brookesnews.com/080812ausrecession.html
If the commentariat had a grasp of basic capital theory they would be forced to conclude that directing spending to consumption will surely make matters worse because business spending is what keeps the economy afloat. Therefore an expansion in consumer spending could come at the expense of manufacturing


Happy Thanksgiving! from Fidel Castro's bomb squad
http://brookesnews.com/080812castrobombing.html
In 1962 Fidel Castro and Che Guevara planned a colossal terrorist attack on Manhattan on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Cuban agents were to use their cover as members of the Cuban mission to the United Nations to target Macy's, Gimbel's, Bloomindales and Manhattan's Grand Central Station with a dozen bombs and 1,102 pounds of trinitrotoluene (TNT). Fortunately J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI cracked the plot


Labour market reform and the Liberal Party's betrayal
http://brookesnews.com/080812labourmarkets.html
The Liberal Party under the leadership of the highly principled Malcolm Turnbull has declared labour market reform dead in the water. Well, no one ever lost money betting on that party's lack of principles. But what about sound economic policy


Associated Press's terrorist-linked photographer honored in NYC
http://brookesnews.com/080812associatedpressterrorism.html
Associated Press and its depraved media comrades honoured a man complicit in terrorist atrocities in Iraq. No surprise here. In Iraq Associated Press also collaborated with terrorists. This is the same bunch of vicious leftists that falsely accused President Bush of causing the subprime disaster. The one-party mainstream media really are the enemy


Bailout: The New American Business Model
http://brookesnews.com/080812planning.html
When the government steps in to own banks, automakers, and more, then we lose our freedom. We must stand united and demand a conservative approach from our elected leaders. No more bailouts. No more big government. No more socialism. This is still America, isn't it?


President-elect Barack Obama will hasten America’s decline
http://brookesnews.com/080812obamausdecline.html
Obama has promised that he will inflict green policies on us which the facts show to be disastrously ineffectual on every level in every country affecting both our economy which conventional wisdom says it is in the most precarious state of our lifetime and our way of life


Nonsense about deflation
http://brookesnews.com/080812deflation.html
Given the monetary conditions now prevailing, the greater threat by far is inflation, not deflation. And contrary to what the investment 'experts', the politicians, and the mainstream economists believe, inflation is not a benign element in the economy’s operation. It is a monetary cancer


I am sorry for what has happened to Americans
http://brookesnews.com/080812obama.html
Most Obama supporters are sold on the idea that 'change' is needed but ignore the reality of the kind of change Obama wants for all of us. Obama’s change drives us toward government control and intrusion into our lives beyond all comprehension of our founding fathers and of the governments we elected for the past two hundred years


Obama thinks he can 'jolt' the US economy out of recession. Fat chance — so tighten your seatbelts
http://brookesnews.com/080112obamastagnation.html
Obama's 'economic' thinking could crush manufacturing, cause unemployment and consumer prices rise, worsen the current account deficit, and sink the dollar depreciates. So how long it will be before the public realize that the brilliant Obama really is an empty suit?