Stacy Summary: Many user generated headlines today! Thanks especially to Mep for the many interesting links you provide in the comments sections. Finally, if anyone has the ability to watch & record Max’s latest PressTV appearance (you will need to be able to use crappy Microsoft product), please upload to Youtube and put link in comments section please!
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LOL! Toxic pig shit problem. That article is a couple years old, but I wish that the magazine would run it again, and add a Part 2 that covers the swine flu. It is one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever read. I suggested a Smithfield Foods boycott on Karmabanque (don’t know if I submitted it right), but honestly, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to eat pork again period.
BTW, Stacy, I was able to post links to Max’s HuffPost article tonight on their site. Finally.
Here is a link to an article I read a few monthas back. It’s amusing and amazing.
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1508/banking_with_beanies.html
@Mep – that’s good to know you finally were able to post a link to Max’s article. Do you have a link to your comment? I don’t really eat much meat anymore. Pork and chicken makes me think of all those factory farmed, cancer-ridden miserable lives of the animals and it makes me gag to even eat them. Fish are so toxic from all the mercury in the sea and plus the depletion of the global fish stock. So I have taken to mostly eating just fruits and vegetables.
stacy what about the truth about markets of this week.It aint up till now
and also please give some info about yourself .We all know a lot about max his entire bio thanks to wikipedia .We are very curious about you
@Manoj – Oh, sorry, should have posted earlier that there was no Truth About Markets this weekend as ResonanceFM had special programming this weekend. Will repost my bio somewhere too
@stacy –
( no truth about markets that sucks that rearlly sucks . please try to make it up with a tweet cast at least pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Anyway max and you should visit china take a trip starting from Hong kong->shenzhen->guangzhou->shanghai->beijing
Other than the flight expenses everything else would be really really cheap .i really wish to see max in china and tweetcasting from their infact u could make some sort of a 20 minute documentary of your travels in China and see how it is received i have a feeling it would be quite exciting .please consider this and max could go around asking cute chinese girls what they think about america and the 2 trillion bag of worms they are stuck with and so on it would be really really exciting project trust me travelling across china is dam cheap and it is ofcourse one of the most beautiful places on earth and is quite exciting other than a bit of pollution in cities which you will get used to in a while
Yes Stacy
How about a quick video with Max, i LOVE it when you knife the £!
Mike
@Manoj …..’very curios about Stacy’ – ‘Max interviewing cute chinese girls’ etc Are you under the covers playing with your laptop.
Stacy, the only way I know to post a link is to just link to my profile–which wouldn’t be fun to wade through. So here are a couple I was able to get though:
Employers Slashing Hours, Resorting To Once-Unthinkable Wage Cuts
Check out article and video on the American response to the crisis: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-keiser/pumping-and-dumping-the-4_b_191400.html
posted May 03, 2009 at 00:49:11
Employers Slashing Hours, Resorting To Once-Unthinkable Wage Cuts
“It’s funny that many Americans will call the French ‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys,’ and, yet, the French would never quietly slip away into the night to live in a carpark or a tent city while bankers get billions in taxpayer financed bonuses. So why do Americans go so quietly? ” Check it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-keiser/pumping-and-dumping-the-4_b_191400.html
posted May 03, 2009 at 01:54:25
It was a fitting topic, and most people were expressing a whole lot of outrage, so I tried to get Max’s blog some more views. Don’t know why it is, but before tonight, all of my attempts failed. I really thought some of the mods were censoring the link and any reference to Max Keiser.
Good for you for steering clear of meat! I think I enjoy it too much to ever quit eating it completely, but after that pig article, anything is possible.
While reading the Noami Klein article, I was struck with the thought that here is a president who had a campaign mostly paid for by students and ordinary folk who he then betrayed, the parallels with the banks and their bail out never occurred to me before.
@Max and Stacy
Mike Ruppert has resurfaced with a new book. He’s looking for interviews. He would be awesome for the new Oracle show (?) or a special TAM.
Contact him at [email protected].
You can download the clip of Max’s PressTV appearance from the following URL.
http://217.218.67.244:8181/getfile?file=program/4Corners/0501_4CR.wmv
@MrSupergeek
<< here is a president who had a campaign mostly paid for by students and ordinary folk who he then betrayed, the parallels with the banks and their bail out never occurred to me before.>>
Check ot this link … “Sold Out”
http://wallstreetwatch.org/reports/sold_out.pdf
230 pages .. half of which are detailed lists of campaign contributions …. which may or may not surprise you.
Enjoy !
as for the past times of the wonderful ‘Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan’ one of our glorious allies ,this low life piece of cowardly shit, he should be instantly euthanased ,certainly looks as though he has practisesd this kind of sickening behavior many times before,truely disgusting,hope that his next life is more worthwhile one, [wouldn't be hard after witnessing this ]impossible to find the words to describe such sickening behaviour.
anyone know if .wmv files can be viewed in youtube by Macs? I’ve been trying to figure it out. If I try to convert the .wmv file to mpeg4 it ends up as 50mb file from 6mb file.
thanks.
snoop diddy: YouTube converts all filetypes (wmv, mov, mp4) to the .flv format by default. Just upload your file at the highest quality possible and let the YouTube encoder do its best.
thanks very much Ptah.
The sheik likes to view the tapes privately as he slaps the monkey.
Max on 4 Corners (youtube)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnHH9q8t_K0
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I think the gap between our thoughts, words, actions, and what we would say we believe, is at the core of these issues. It is why I harp on Big Box store shopping. It’s also because as a poor person I struggle against that choice.
Acting in complicity with the very forces that seek to harm us, creates a rift inside us. It weakens our sense of identity and purpose. It lessens our likelihood to “rise up” and act in solidarity. Every time someone buys factory farm meat or shops at Walmart, they surrender a piece of themselves and finance their enemy.
I personally am very frustrated because I’ve sacrificed a lot and keep seeing people make absurd, outright dishonest arguments regarding Big Box store shopping. I don’t expect perfection in others, but I think they should be honest with themselves. The last person I saw say “I hate walmart but I shop there because I have to eat. My family has to eat.” was driving an SUV at the time.
Of course I’m not perfect either. I bought my last pair of shoes at Walmart which makes me a hipocrit. But I choose to live without a car and with 2 people so I can get by on $680-$730/month Canadian in a city. I choose to afford to shop first at a farmer’s market from responsible vendors, out of this small budget. I’m considering going vegetarian rather than buying factory farm food, because organic meat is so expensive. So it disappoints me when so many others don’t sacrifice, but frustrates me even more when they aren’t honest about their reasons. Is it so hard to say, “I don’t believe in human rights or much of anything but acting out of short-sighted greed and laziness?”
I hope eventually people will realize that it’s not that they can’t afford to shop elsewhere. It’s that we can’t afford to keep shopping at Big Box stores.
Daniel,
I’m a Wal-Mart hater. Haven’t stepped foot in one for over 10 years, and even give away Wal-Mart gift cards that relatives give me for Xmas. But I have a really hard time judging other people who shop there (and at other Big Box stores). People who do that (for the record, I am not implying you, so don’t think that for a second) generally make me sick, because they assume so much about those who do shop Wal-Mart. I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, and tend to believe that if people were educated enough to make the connections between shopping Wal-Mart and things like: having small businesses go bust, wages being driven down in entire communities, states being overwhelmed with Medicaid costs for low-wage/wage-slave workers, exploitation of people and children overseas, high trade deficits, environmental degradation, etc.–I believe that if people really understood that, they would do everything in their power to avoid shopping Wal-Mart or Big Box. So I don’t think it makes much sense to get upset at people who shop there. Doesn’t make sense to be upset with people who aren’t educated–either formally or informally. What I try to do is educate people around me–which is a pretty sensitive undertaking, b/c most immediately perceive me as coming down on them for not having a lot of money.
As an aside, it’s hard, even for me, to keep tabs on corporations and big businesses . . . to know what I’m supporting when I give them my money. Take Smithfield Foods, for instance. I’ve been an ally of Smithfield workers for years, but all that I really knew about was their terrible slaughterhouse working conditions and struggles to form unions. Only a couple of days ago did I learn about the toxic pig shit and the amount of environmental and human damage the corporation is responsible for. One of the most precious rescources that any of us have these days is time. And I think that besides those of us who don’t think to research corporations, there are many, too, who just lack the time to do it. (Which tends to be the case especially with people who work 3 jobs to make ends meet.)
Mep, I disagree because first I think people have a responsibility as adults to learn about and understand the world they live in, and second, so many people have tried to burst through their bubble only to be rebuffed. I think people who don’t know, don’t want to know. Therefor it’s entirely their responsibility that they don’t know, and entirely their responsibility that they fund and support the practices of those companies.
People can’t honestly say “I didn’t know.” because they heard of sweat shops and then didn’t bother to find out where and how their clothing purchases were made. They can only lie, or say, “I don’t want to know”, or “I didn’t bother to know”.
I try to love my enemies and see people in terms of having “bad/undesirable behavior” or “being not so far along in their journey”. But after all these years of standing up to bullies alone (not always standing up to them), and speaking to people who have their ears plugged. I honestly have to say I think the bankers are right.
Trying to influence people is more like throwing pebbles into mud than into a pool that creates waves. They don’t want to know. The people who cheated off my physics exams don’t want to hear a second of explanation of the WTC demolitions. You can pack a stadium of paying people for a hockey game, but you can’t pack the streets to protest an illegal war of aggression that will kill hundreds of thousands. Go bankers go!
BTW I haven’t yet “had the time” to find out where I can buy ethically made clothing. So with few exceptions, I don’t buy clothes. I’m sitting here wearing an ancient threadbare sweater and torn pants. They’re clean, but not pretty. So what?
If principles are measured by convenience they are not principles. Right and Wrong are not cheap candy coated chocolates in a little box. It’s called responsibility and sacrifice.
I should send some chocolates to bankers and sweat shop contractors. Make up for the support I haven’t given them. Let them know how much I appreciate them. Clearly I’ve been deluded thinking in terms of human rights and environmental stewardship. The bankers are right.
@Mep
I agree and always enjoy reading reading your comments, Daniel S. some of your comments really force me to think, I feel heartened to read your last post and can see you are moving in the right direction.
Here in London I shop at tesco more than I should, I don’t give myself a hard time about it as trying to get by when you aint rich limits some of the choices you are able to make, but let’s be honest you need to be rich to shop in a lot of the organic/wholefood type places. As a family we use farmers markets and look for bargains as much as possible. People do change, friends who previously survived on cola and burgers now eat healthily.
I don’t have a problem talking to people about the consumer choices they make when I’m out and about if you approach people with humour and a smile they are usually receptive to information. Some of my friends buy honey, royal jelly vitamins etc at wholesale prices and pass them on at a very small profit. More friends are growing food themselves, we have a small plot of land in a community garden where we grow herbs.
Most of us have part of the answer that’s good enough for me….This site has a lot of clues for us all, Max and Stacy….Thanks again.
http://www.760wjr.com/Article.asp?id=1301727&spid=6525
interesting radio interview regards to Chrysler…
Daniel,
While I agree with you that adults have a responsibility to educate themselves about the world, the simple fact of the matter is that many don’t–for whatever reason. (I’m sure that we all know people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and even 70s who just don’t have a clue.) Where I disagree is in lumping together all who don’t know as people who don’t want to know. That subset of people surely exists, but what you seem to be implying is that people not in the know just don’t care. I don’t think that one can care or not care about something that doesn’t even penetrate one’s consciousness to begin with. And I’m inclined to believe that plenty of folks fall into that category: it doesn’t occur to them to give any thought to their consumption habits. Critical thinking skills and access to information also come into play. People who aren’t educated beyond high school, and those at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder are more apt to lack both.
I’m like you when it comes to clothes: I hold onto things until they’re completely unwearable. Yesterday, I wore a shirt that my mother bought for me when I was in the 8th grade. I’m 30 now! (Luckily, my fiance accepts that about me and he doesn’t think I’m gross.) Here’s a fairtrade clothing site that you might want to check out: http://www.fairindigo.com/index.php/fair_trade/Men
And here’s a website that might help with your research: http://www.ethicalclothingonline.com/2009/05/
Mr. Supergeek,
Thanks; I enjoy your comments, too. Yes, people do change. A sister-in-law of mine just started buying organic milk b/c she learned about the pus, antibiotics, and other junk that gets into the regular milk. Now, she’s paying more attention to everything else that she buys. (Upon finding this out, I educated her about Monsanto so she’s boycotting them.)
A really positive sign in the US is the renewed interest in gardening. Part of this is absolutely b/c of the economy, but there is also a new awareness about food quality and ecology that seems to be taking root. Seed sales have skyrocketed and there are a lot of media reports about the how-to’s of gardening–which is really rare.
Abu Dhabi Royal family. Are these the same ones who own 1/3 of Barclays bank? Classy.
Wow- I know phrenology went out with over-the-counter cocaine, but one look at the Guardian’s picture of Sheikh Issa says, “Lookit me ma- I’m a sadist!”