Chronique de Rodrigue Tremblay

L’invasion de l’Europe par les transmigrations africaines et moyen-orientales illégales ne fait que commencer


Le chaos provoqué par des gouvernements malavisés dans certaines régions du monde est en train de se transformer en une tragédie globale. En effet, la déstabilisation et la destruction voulues de pays entiers et leur transformation en ‘no-man-lands’ anarchiques et sans frontières avec des moyens militaires sophistiqués ont pour conséquence à terme de provoquer des déplacements massifs de populations, du jamais vu depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale.

La Grèce et l’Euro : Une situation de dette excessive et improductive et d’implosion financière


L’organisme de prêt Standard & Poor’s a récemment dit la vérité en ce qui concerne la Grèce, à savoir que ce pays est en faillite financière. Aucun tour de main, aucune occultation, aucune réorganisation de la dette et aucune aide "innovante" ne pourra dissimuler le fait que les règles défectueuses qui régissent la zone Euro aient donné l’occasion à certains de ses 17 membres de succomber à la tentation d’un endettement excessif et improductif suivi d’un défaut de paiement de la dette accompagné d’une écrasante hausse des coûts d’emprunt.

Les bons et les mauvais côtés de la mondialisation économique globale*


« Les nations qui négocient ensemble se rendent réciproquement dépendantes : si l’une a intérêt d’acheter, l’autre a intérêt de vendre ; et toutes les unions sont fondées sur des besoins mutuels. » - Montesquieu, (Charles Louis de Secondat), (1689-1755) « Une entente commerciale [avec les Etats-Unis] pour harmoniser le commerce, la sécurité, ou les pratiques de défense signifierait, en bout de ligne, à oblige...

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Le « Grand dessein » des néocons américains

À l'origine des gaffes et incohérences apparentes de Barack Obama en politique étrangère

Suis-je seul à éprouver un certain malaise, en écoutant les discours de Barack Obama, et à avoir la sensation que nous avons devant nous un acteur qui joue le rôle d'un président américain et qui lit attentivement le script qu’on lui a remis ? De plus en plus, en effet, on a la nette impression que Barack Obama adopte la posture d’un George W. Bush mais cette fois-ci, démocrate. Ceux qui rédigent ses discours semblent avoir la même mentalité belliciste que ceux qui écrivaient les discours de George W. Bush ou ceux de Dick Cheney, douze ans auparavant.

Un jumeau de Stephen Harper

Philippe Couillard fait peur !

Nous sommes en face d’un politicien dont la pensée politique en est une du 19ème Siècle

Philippe Couillard fait peur « Depuis 1763, nous n’avons plus d’histoire, sinon celle, par réfraction, que nos conquérants veulent bien nous laisser vivre, pour nous calmer. Cette tâche leur est d’autant plus facile que nous sécrétons nos propres bourreaux. » Léon Dion (1922-1997) « Le laquais, en imitant les vices de ses maîtres, a l’impression de s’approprier leur puissance. »

For a Better Global Civilization*


Even though this may be a surprise to some, economists are very much concerned with the moral environment in which an efficient economy functions. That is because an environment of moral decay, corruption and savagery is not conducive to economic development, economic growth and economic progress in general. It is more a recipe for decadence, economic stagnation and poverty.

The Fed's Policy of Creating Inflation: A Massive Wealth Transfer


The current Fed board seems to believe that the Fed is more than a central bank, that it is a sort of a government unto itself that can both control monetary conditions and solve the structural problems in the real economy at the same time, irrespective of what the rest of the world thinks.

Save the Banks and Kill the Economy


"The problems we face today cannot be solved by the minds that created them." Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921 "I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained." U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, April 20 2007 "Providing assistance to banks and their borrowers can be counterproduct...

The Moral Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki


Since that fateful month of August 1945, humanity has embarked upon a disastrous nuclear arms race and is rushing toward oblivion with its eyes open and its mind closed.

A Long Economic Winter Ahead


Economic booms built on a mountain of debt, some of which is fraudulent and speculative debt, tend to end badly

The Bush-Cheney Gulf Coast Oil Spill of 2010


More often than not, the consequences of public policies, good or bad, are felt many years after they have been taken. The 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a good example. This disaster is, to a large extent, a consequence of the Bush-Cheney energy policy of 2001 and later.

Economic Bubbles and Financial Crises, Past and Present


I have spent some fifty years studying economic cycles and teaching international finance, but I had never seen the likes of what we witnessed and experienced over the last three years. That’s because such financial crises seem to happen 60 to 75 years apart.

Economy 2010: From the Scandalous Known Past to the Uncertain Future


What lessons can be drawn from the recent unhealthy and unpalatable past? And, what is in store for the near future, considering that hardly anything in the financial environment has changed? A crisis caused by a near total absence of financial regulation, by a too easy monetary policy and by too much debt, has been met with no additional financial regulation, by an even easier monetary policy and by even more debt.

The New Crusade: Imperial U.S. vs Political Islam


[The New Crusade: Imperial U.S. vs Political Islam By Rodrigue Tremblay ->//www.thenewamericanempire.com/author.html] "I am as intolerant of imperialistic designs on the part of other nations as I was of such designs on the part of Germany. The choice is between two ideals; on the one hand, the ideal of democracy, which represents the rights of free peoples everywhere to govern themselves, and, the ideal of ...

A Real Revolution in the Making in the U.S. Health Care Industry


“The conservative goal has been the "Third Worldization" of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-tr...

President Barack H. Obama, One Year Later: 'C' for Effort


"I don't want to just end the [Iraq] war, but I want to end the mind-set that got us into war in the first place." Presidential candidate Barack Obama, January 31, 2008 “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” Theodore Roosevelt (1882-1945), 26th US president “If we are strong, our character wil...

The Great Fed-Financed Dollar Decline and Stock Market Rally of 2009


"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd and longest-serving US president “This great and powerful force̵...

The Afghanistan-Pakistan War: Obama's Vietnam?


A solid majority of Americans (54 percent) now oppose President Obama’s Afghanistan-Pakistan War. In fact, among Democrats, only twenty-six (26) percent support such a foreign war. In other words, by enlarging this conflict, President Obama is governing as if the opinion of a majority of Americans and of his own political base did not matter. In a democracy, a politician can do that for a while, but not for very long.

Nothing in Sight to Replace the US Dollar as an International Reserve Currency


Add to that the illegal war of aggression that the Bush-Cheney launched against Iraq, a country that had not attacked the United States, and the lack of financial confidence in the USA is reinforced by a lack of political confidence.

We are in the Midst of the Great Baby-Boomers Economic Stagnation of 2007-2017


"Banking Establishments Are More Dangerous Than Standing Armies." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President "... a serious depression seems improbable; [we expect] recovery of business next spring, with further improvement in the fall." Harvard Economic Society (HES), November 10, 1929 "While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst -- and wit...

The Obama Enigma: Imperial Interventionism and Militarism


"We do not want a PAX Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children — not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not me...

Trade Protectionism and Worldwide Economic Contraction


When the economy is booming, foreign borrowings and imports of goods and services from other countries are most welcome. They allow for more spending without inflation and they raise living standards. It is a version of having your cake and eating it too. In an economic downturn, however, the political reflex of populist politicians is to turn protectionist and to become economic isolationists by raising trade barriers. In such an environment, foreign competition becomes a convenient scapegoat for the crisis, even though the causes of such crisis are most often purely domestic in nature.

The Mixed Economic Report Card on Obama's First 100 Days


Sometimes the real influence of close advisors on policies and decisions can be stronger than that of the President himself, the latter being busy making speeches, appearing on TV shows and traveling around the world.

The Dance of the Trillions to Shore up Banks, Bankers and Gamblers


But the banking crisis is of such a magnitude, and the damage done to the financial system so widespread, that each pumping of money into the system has never seemed to be enough. This is because numerous American financial institutions, and among the largest, have suffered multibillion-dollar losses, not only with subprime mortgages, but especially with large amounts of derivative products that have turned sour.

How Tinkering with Inflation Measurements May Have Led to the Current Financial Crisis


When the history of this financial and economic crisis is written, it shall be recorded that the Fed and other government agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), did little or nothing to prevent the debt pyramid from reaching the dangerous levels it attained and which is now crashing down, dragging down with it the entire U.S economy and most of the world economies.

Obama, like Bush, is Throwing Public Money into a Black Hole


“The [financial] crisis was not a failure of the free market system and the answer is not to try to reinvent that system. ...Government intervention is not a cure-all." President George W. Bush, Thursday November 13, 2008 "There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue." Andrew W. Mellon, Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury. September 1929 "While the crash only took p...

A Most Desperate Move by the Fed


"In a crisis, discount and discount heavily." Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), British economist "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." Thom...

The New Obama Administration: A Lot of More of the Same


Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ran a successful campaign on an anti-Iraq war, anti-Washington establishment and pro-change platform. With the assistance of a rapidly deteriorating economic situation, he prevailed in obtaining a clear governing mandate. Most Americans have no other choice than to want him to succeed in delivering on his promises. But the issuance of vague political promises and the hard reality of governing while relying on an efficient decision-making process, are two different things.

The Foreign Policy of an Obama Administration


“Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.” Bertrand Russell “In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 4, 1933) “I believe in a whole lot of things that make me ...

The U.S. 2008 Presidential Election: An Evaluation


"Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran." "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should.. ... I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." “I think that [to be rich] if you are only talking about income, how about $5 million?” John McCain, 2008 Republican presidential candidate "Our national leaders are s...

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