Sleepy Sunday. All that ‘be afraid’ stuff spouted by the Metropolitan Police who warned of violence and MI5 who said the ‘middle class would become the foot soldiers of those anarchists. Blah blah blah.
Max has a new piece coming out about Obama on HuffingtonPost soon . . . will keep you posted.
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Oh my, I can't hold back.
Flame on…
Bushie I object to your stupid and threatening objection.
Complexities of American Foreign policy, what is that, other than sheer lunacy?
Smack of propaganda, give me a break WAKEUP.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Bushie, than are dreamt of in your philosophy, sorry Wil.
Amerikan foreign lunacy, there is no policy, policy implies rules:
Eight Stupid American Foreign Policies:
1 Torture, after forcing the world to sign the Geneva Convention (rules of war) after WWII the US ignores its own rules and tortures people. What a great gift for the Taliban, America Tortures therefore so can we!
2 Throw out Habeas Corpus, after receiving this beautiful gift from mother Britain (Gore Vidal quote, first applied against nasty kings). A rule that the King/government can't arrest people without due process. The ignoring this US kidnaps people and children in a far off land and them plants them in Guantanamo for 7 years! Put on foreign soil, Cuba, so that the American Constitution doesn't apply. Giving free license to anyone in the world to kidnap and torture Americans, why because the US doesn't follow its own laws for foreigners, and guess what Americans are foreigners outside the US.
3 Spying on everyone on the planet and now US citizens, your foreign policy is now your national policy,
4 Kill the Brunswick Manifesto 1792, or is, it been around since Napoleon i.e. don’t kill foreign leaders. What you invade a sovereign nation then you put a bounty on the head of the leader and his family? Now anyone in the world can do the same to Americans because the Americans have broken a 200 year old tacit agreement between nations.
5 The gang that couldn't shoot straight, US invades wrong country. US invade Iraq a sworn enemy of the Al-Qaida who are in Afghanistan, dam straight that Foreign policy.
6. Never attack first, the moral high ground is held by the combatant with the most constraint… A rule that America judiciously followed in WWI and WWII, the world loved you for this. Now America attacks and invades sovereign nation no more moral high ground, the preemptive strike can now be used for any reason by anyone. Ooo I feel threatened, Bang your dead.
7 Dismantling a standing army and FIRING them. One of the greatest things the US did (sheer genius) after WWII is create the Marshall plan which allowed Europe and Japan to heal and not fester. Even after the American civil war the Lincon allowed the losing side to keep their dignity and arms. Every country in the world knows that the most powerful force is to co-opt the local forces, the Germans in Vichy France, the Romans, the Brits everywhere, but No that Moron Bremer III sent the Iraqi troops home. Didn’t anyone in the foreign office study any history, even a little bit?
8 Oh yea what happened to 'just war'? er all that oil? Foreign policy driven by greedy politics. You should read Smedley Butler the most decorated marine in US history:
""I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."
Flame off…
Cold war over, Cyber War Begins, Chinese hackers ‘using ghost network to control NATO computers’.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/ar…
i think it is time for Max to meet a professional photographe and put new good pictures og him on maxkeiser.net because it seems that graphistes and webmasters only use this picture of him with his impermeable beige because most others give the impression he just got out of bed…
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Don't forget the role of speed cameras in NZ.
However, NZ is not doing the same thing some US cities, counties and states are doing.
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New speed cameras on roads today
PHIL REID/The Dominion Post
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/795440
Lights, cameras, action: Senior Sergeant Martin Barber puts a new Australian speed camera system through its paces beside the motorway.
Motorists will be under the scrutiny of new hi-tech digital speed cameras from today.
The new cameras mean motorists will receive tickets through the mail faster and images will be of better clarity.
Forty-three cameras are being introduced nationwide in the next month, with three earmarked for use in Wellington, Porirua and the Hutt Valley.
The cameras were due to be introduced before Christmas but were delayed while protective surrounds were fitted to computer equipment. Despite the delay the news remains all bad for speedsters.
This was demonstrated by Senior Sergeant Martin Barber putting one of the new Australian cameras through its paces on the motorway north of Johnsonville yesterday.
During the past week, Mr Barber has put the Wellington region's six non-sworn police camera operators through the final stages of technical training.
He, like the manager of police calibration services Inspector Ron Phillips, is enthusiastic about the new high-clarity digital camera system.
Mr Phillips said that under the previous wet film system the operator had no idea of the quality of the photographs until the images were processed days after being taken.
"Under the new system the operator will be able to see the photographs as they are being taken and change the exposure to the ambient light."
The system will enable non-sworn police camera operators sitting in camera vehicles to enhance pictures showing number plates on the spot before filing them on DVD and lodging the pictures with the Police Enforcement Bureau at the end of each shift.
Speed cameras were introduced in 1993, boosting government coffers by about $350 million in the past decade.
A police spokesman declined to comment on the prospect of more tickets being issued as a result of better-clarity pictures.
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This is worth noting….
ANZ bought up the original NZ Postal Bank, and recently acquired The National Bank,
NZ has a new Postal Bank, but it is called Kiwi Bank.
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ANZ uses scheme to raise $1 billion in bonds
http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/anz-uses-scheme-r…
ANZ National has become the first New Zealand bank to use the government's wholesale guarantee to raise money offshore since the scheme was introduced last November.
The bank said that it had priced $US1 billion ($NZ1.76 billion) of three-year government guaranteed debt.
The medium term notes mature in April 2012 and have a cost of about 2.5% over the New Zealand wholesale curve inclusive of the guarantee fee and other conversion costs.
ANZ National chief executive Graham Hodges said the level of support for the offer was very encouraging for the bank and significant for New Zealand as a whole.
"We didn't actually need to go to the markets particularly, but we felt it was sort of important to put the guarantee out there and road test it.
"Because it's important to understand whether it functions properly or not, and it clearly does," he said.
The bank could have raised more, with demand higher in the fixed rate area, but at the pricing involved the bank had elected not to.
There was also demand for floating rates but it was decided to keep the issue fixed rate.
"It's not cheap money but in today's marketplace, my perspective in terms of running the bank is to make sure that we're well funded and sound in the sense of having a good structure around our funding," Hodges said.
That was "really important going forward because we do not quite know how long the instability in the credit markets will last".
ANZ National had already locked away funding for 2009 through other alternatives.
"What this does mean is that we can continue to run down our short term borrowings that we have had through the normal commercial paper markets," he said.
That would give the bank the capacity to draw back into the short term markets should the overall global position deteriorate. Those markets had generally remained open.
Credit markets for normal unguaranteed credit at term still remained "reasonably closed", Hodges said.
So without a guarantee, for terms of anything over two to three years it would be a struggle to do a deal except at prohibitive cost.
Max, why do you think France24 set you up for a debate with that supposed leftist central bank apologist? Although you are right on in your views, and your appearance was very entertaining and educational, it was never the less a waste of your talent to have a debate with that wet blanket.
Have you done something to upset France24 maybe?
I really enjoy Karmabanque radio programs on youtube. Thank you both. In your last program, you mentioned that money was sent, from London to the U.S., a few days before Madoff blew up, because the U.S. can "just carpet bomb any country that doesn't serve the bankers."
Since I posted on you site, in comments, Gen. Petraeus' speech on ForaTV regarding the middle east, I feel the need to say that summarizing U.S. use of force, as you did, was simplistic and false. You once quoted that Gaza was being bombed, because they did not participate in derivatives, which would have won them bailouts, instead. That was fine, because it was metaphorical, and true as such, and resulted from executive decision making, not military. In short, reverting to Vietnam pigeon-holing of the U.S. military makes you sound unaware of the true complexities of American foreign policy, and slanders an institution that is very powerful and looking for enemies everywhere. Do what you will, but I want make it clear that I object to one-liners against the U.S. and her military that smack of mere propaganda.