Stacy Summary: We are on the Edirol at the cafe. Topics of conversation: French socialist reaction to ketchup spills; MPs expenses and tax avoidance; Adam Curtis; cars driving past; and we play part of our interview with Michael Hudson.
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Fine and funny stuff, and pretty amazing for being fully off-the-cuff, but if you state that “Marxism” is not an -ism, because Marx was only a critic of capitalism, then call something “Marxist” about a minute later, then I’m confused.
I felt I had to point out the logical inconsistency’s when you suggested govt as the best way to bring projects together and make things happen. Describing the free market as only capable of such things, to a limited extent.
You said, (29.30) ‘large scale projects that need cooperation over huge distances are totally better off being managed by a centralised govt’, such as the postal service and public transportation.
Now, whilst listening to this I was waiting for a public bus for some 40 minutes to take me to work, that supposedly runs every 8 minutes. So in fairness, my coffee spat out of my mouth at your suggestion.
My question is, since when has govt been about cooperation? In every case it uses force, mainly law of course. But if they ever need to get anything off the ground large scale, they go to the private sector and they pay around 400% more than any private individual or company would pay for the same thing.
Sure you could try and get a bereaucrat to do it, but can you imagine a civil servant organising the Olympic games?
Come on Max.. I agree that the oligarchs are indeed parasites that use the free market to their own aims, but whom enabled them? The free market is just a simple buy and sell transaction between two people. People will vote with their wealth. But who controls the wealth? Certainly not JP Morgan, as they just suck richly off of the states tit, enabled by corrupt politicians. I couldnt help but point this out to you.. Peace to both you and Stacy..
It never ceases to amaze me the sheer amount of rabid right-wing shock jocks / pundits in the US. I mean, Hannity and O’Reilly on Fox News are bad enough, bullying and shouting down guests who have the temerity to challenge their views but then you have the likes of Savage who brings it to an even higher level of fascist, hate filled diatribe. This guy called for 100 million Muslims to be eradicated just so as to reduce their number down from a billion. Even if it was just an off the cuff remark, I’m sure all of his supporters were applauding. When millions of Americans hold similar views, it cant be long before a gang even more violent and repulsive than the Bush regime takes power in the States.
FYI… ” Gold Battle…Thrilla In Manilla! ”
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/thomsons052909.html
Talks about the Bond market , and Gold.
PS: ….
when “everybody” says Buy …. be careful of course !
One may either submit personal power to environmental forces or take control of one’s own life. It doesn’t matter how oppressive the situation may be (take Victor Frankl…)
The highest form of revolution is revolution of the self.
I see no need to *join* any mob or uprising. Rather, I may choose to collaborate creatively with people who I see are doing interesting and worthwhile things. The world turns.
Thanks for your efforts, Max and Stacey, I enjoy the show.
(grin)
Wow nearly 60 comments already. I remember the days when I used to feel shy to write a comment, cos there was no one else here !
Susan Boyle only got second place on ‘britains got talent’,these kind of stories usually end badly,lets hope it gets better….?
This may be of interest to some people. The top mercury polluters in the USA are predominantly the gold mining companies according to this link. And I thought it was the coal power plants… nope. In 2006 the cost to mine 1 ounce was $250. I wonder what it would cost them per ounce to not pollute…
http://tinyurl.com/top100mercury
Painting the tape = Deus ex machina = pinnochio’s nose
= Uncle Sam’s Band of Bangsters.
What happens when Uncle Sam’s woody gets cut off?
What Was THAT? (Friday Market Close)
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1072-What-Was-THAT-Friday-Market-Close.html
Question:
- If I say something, do I have to mind whether I repeat a copyrighted sentence?
- Equally, If I open my mouth, is what I say copyrighted?
- Is a transcript of me talking copyrighted in my name or the writer?
-What is the smallest copyrighted sentence?
@Max, you might like Manara bande dessinees (the early works), he has great stories, one in which a machine creates all books..
The trap talks about freedom, which is the primary reward in our nervous system (deeming your behaviour, whatever it is, adequate). It is a non specific term that achors ‘reward’ given by us to ourselves. The operative part in ‘I want you to be free’ is ‘I want’. Freedom can not be granted by a power that remains present.
The problem with weird sience is that it usually takes going into a trance to grasp its concepts, which eliminates a lot of practical objections (like the simple empirical test iamongst the secretaries) and fosters acceptance only in its scientific context.
Hitler is said to have wanted his supportes to march in file and stand in nice rows and columns because he was scared of masses of unorganized individuals. Social theories do the same. They may or may not be correct, but they externalize responsibility and simplify choices.
Hi. Just arrived here. Isn’t 40MB for an mp3 file huge ? What gives ?
Many people don’t even have a tribe but a small fragment of one instead. The problems are with large powerful tribes that have global footprints. It isn’t reasonable to expect people who were weak enough to be dumbed-down and isolated to take information and form a tribe that is strong and intelligent enough to fight back effectively.
They’re trained to be selfish infantilized cowards that raise their hands to ask for permission before emptying their bladders. They would need permission to revolt. They’d need ads in magazines and on tv showing how you’re not a real man or woman unless you’re revolting, and see? the latest hypersexual child-woman or ape-male celebrity is wearing a Revolt Wardrobe. Paris Hilton could endorse a pink beret if she still looked 12 but now she’s surely too old.
Someone would have to make it sexy to get brain-damaged by police or prison guards, raped in prison, or tortured… for nothing. Then a few cows would finally start jumping the fence. Unfortunately, they’d still be stupid cows.
Adam Curtis has some good points, but as with Chomsky and Bill Maher, he is yet another lackey of the oligarchs posing as the brainiac sage for the people, then does the oligarchs’ bidding when he insists Muslims perpetrated 9/11 and 7/7 despite the mountain of evidence proving otherwise. In this way he is more insidious than Fox News, because average Joes think he’s of good will.
Here’s an interview of Curtis where he complains of the dirty masses and their “new democracy” called the Internet:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/adam_curtis_interview/
Hey, if Peter Schiff can get himself on Glen Beck, why can’t you?
Maybe you can make him cry or whimper or something.
It would be cool.
Lost Vegas…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFTZ3flsipE
Max Keiser!
Typical Liberal US-Sociopath, who is daily brabbleing the most ridiculous theories on the media, wants to punish Michael Wiener (Savage) and in doing so is against freedom of speech.
How funny!
btw, at least savage, although a super zionist, makes some sence and has courage – LOL!
Republican IT guru who painted the tape for 2004 Bush election died in mysterious plane crash Dec 08.
Michael Connell was the subject of a lawsuit involvement in a ploy to “flip” votes from then Kerry to Bush. He was about to testify, investigator Arnebeck warned the Justice Department that Connell’s safety was in jeopardy earlier this year. In July, he wrote an email to Attorney General Mukasey, requesting witness protection for the GOP operative.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Killed_GOP_pilot_suspected_plane_had_1222.html
Watch for a controlled demolition, planes falling, if the Wallstreet IT peeps start to leak.
@Phil: thanx for the amplification/modification…frankly I was merely pointing out that I and several folks have suggested that the numbers don’t crunch…even viewed C-SPAN over the weekend here; and Jack Welch ( ex-GE CEO) pointed out to Austin Goolesby( Obama’s economic adviser) the eventual recovery was based on a 6% GDP rate increase continuously for several years even though the recent past showed only 3% when the economy was rather robust….I point out that the just the treasury auctions seem “unsustainable”( to quote the Prez)…and this $2 tr is for this year when it appears that an equal amount must be raised over a protracted series of years…So I guess if we went along with WMD’s in Iraq; well I guess the magic of numbers will be acceptible too…
@Max: thank you for your programs and I look forward to many more…I appreciate your earnest concern for the first amendment…and copyright law…I am reminded of MaxHeadroom-the old British TV program that had the “BLANKS” telecast pirate news to their listeners….so from one blank to another–ALOHA, as always, richard@lattitude30N
@Richard@lattitude30N
May I add some small enhacements to your original post :
….as PUBLIC water and food sources decrease via CORPORATIZATION…
….mass folia and fauna extinctions continue IN THE NAME OF “PROFIT FOR THE FEW” ! …
….and the potential PROBABLY MAN_MADE biological A-H1N1 pandemic…
….$1200 trillion BACKROOM derivatives that the Swaps and Derivative International Association require we NOW honor!…
IMO the 3 biggest drivers of this madness are :
#1 the Debt industry (banks)
#2 the weapons industry
#3 the drugs industry ( including the “legal” ones of course )
Deek Jackson addresses these on a regular basis via Youtube “FKNNewz” ( http://www.fknnewz.com ) with much cynicism and success.
Bob Chapman is – I’ve been told – known as one of the “crazies” but spouts much truth. We need these types of radical thinkers / speakers ( “Coincidence” Theorists ) to ooze out the things that people would normally never dare talk about ( break some taboos ).
.. which is why I add such links here … as frightening or seemingly unrealistic as they may appear.
And yes … the US lost it in 1913 IMO !
And last point … Banks produce NOTHING, but use THE MONEY WE ORIGINALLY GAVE BIRTH TO IN PRODUCING REAL PRODUCTS to fleece us via Keynsian Economics, Sealed and Approved by conspiring Governments.
JMHO FWIW
“example: the NYT, after sitting on wireless wiretapping story should not be allowed to refer to themselves as a news service. They are complicit in human rights violations and should be held accountable.”
Which brings up corporate personhood. Who’s the they of the NYT, now its just some paper.
Also on the subject of human rights violation, what about the right to food? Its international law, yet 1 billion are malnourished. 1 person per second die, around 60% of all deaths.
All of our rights and freedom are connected.
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Good show today, thanks again M&S!
The notable thing about the right-wing talk media pundits is how they split from the US right’s political leadership over bailouts and bonuses for AIG. It shows the politicians posturing as populists against the new administration while their media cohorts still sing for the corporate bosses:
The Plum Line – Greg Sargent’s blog
Split Emerging Between Conservative Media And GOP Leadership On AIG Mess
GOP Congressional leaders have roundly condemned AIG and its executives, as part of a strategy to position themselves as heroic defenders of the taxpayers and to paint the Obama administration as weak and ineffectual. Mitch McConnell recently blasted AIG’s bonuses as an “outrage.” John Boehner said that the “American people are rightly outraged.” And Eric Cantor bemoaned the “stunning lack of accountability” on AIG’s part.
But increasingly, leading conservative media figures are moving in a different direction: Defending AIG.
Rush Limbaugh recently said: “I am all for the AIG bonuses” and attacked the Obama administration for trying to undo them. He also blasted Dem efforts to get the names of the AIG bonus recipients as “McCarthyism.”
Fox News followed suit, also comparing Dems to “Joe McCarthy.” And Sean Hannity has now derided efforts to tax the execs by saying: “In other words, we’re going to just steal their money.”
There’s not really a direct contradiction between the GOP leaders’ professed outrage over the bonuses and the conservative media’s condemnation of efforts to recoup them. But the conservative attack on Dems is rooted in free market orthodoxy, which GOP leaders have implicitly ditched in order to get outraged.
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They explicitly ditched it when Paulson told Bush Jr that the ‘house of cards’ was coming down unless they abandoned the ‘free’ market: state bailouts for the banks and fixed ‘market’ prices, charging it to future taxpayers and debasing the currency they rely on for wages/savings/pensions.
Both Republicans and Democrats, and in the UK both Labour and Conservatives, have abandoned any pretence of supporting ‘free market’ capitalism. In crisis, they capitulated and retreated to corporatism – the fusion of state and corporate power.
They’ve set out to prove Marx wrong:
Capital Vol. III Part V
Chapter 30. Money-Capital and Real Capital. I.
“In a system of production, where the entire continuity of the reproduction process rests upon credit, a crisis must obviously occur — a tremendous rush for means of payment — when credit suddenly ceases and only cash payments have validity. At first glance, therefore, the whole crisis seems to be merely a credit and money crisis. … At the same time, an enormous quantity of these bills of exchange represents plain swindle, which now reaches the light of day and collapses; furthermore, unsuccessful speculation with the capital of other people; finally, commodity-capital which has depreciated or is completely unsaleable, … The entire artificial system of forced expansion of the reproduction process cannot, of course, be remedied by having some bank, like the Bank of England, give to all the swindlers the deficient capital by means of its paper and having it buy up all the depreciated commodities at their old nominal values. …
…This fictitious money-capital is enormously reduced in times of crisis, and with it the ability of its owners to borrow money on it on the market. However, the reduction of the money equivalents of these securities on the stock exchange list has nothing to do with the actual capital which they represent, but very much indeed with the solvency of their owners.”
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Our corporatist oligarchy are going to have a go, their own wealth depends upon it, and see how long they can screw taxpaying workers to foot the bill.
The new boss will be the same as the old boss, only carrying a bigger stick.
I have forgotten to thank Max & Stacy cause it’s because of them that I really have a feelin now that I finally am beginning to get some grip on this “Wall street way of thinking”
@anders brile Yep, but I can assure Max & Stacy that inside the Cafe is much better. Less noisy garbage trucks and less smoke in your eyes since the smokers are all banned outside. So, let’s make it a rule – Smokers Outside and Non-Smokers inside.
We’ll change that in winter time so Non-Smokers can get some of this free healthy air also since they are the health freaks. So, don’t us a Mobile Phone either Folks like I do cause it’s bound to give you a brain tumor.
So, remember Wintertime Non-Smokers outside and Summertime Non-Smokers banned inside. If we all stick to these rules and not to the law of the jungle with non-smokers just walking everwhere they want, the world would be a much better place for all of us.
“”None of the corporate owned shock jocks of the right or left are fighting the copyfight so it’s ludicrous to mention their names in the same breathe as having anything to do with free speech. They are, by definition, nothing more than propagandists pushing imprisoned speech for the benefit of corrupt copyright wardens.””
You’re setting up a false choice here. Those who create intellectual property NEED some copyright protection, the question becomes, “How much is fair?”
That’s a separate issue from keeping speech “free”.
Your issue is with media DOMINANCE, not free speech. Your complaint should not be whether Savage should be told to shut up, but that he has a large platform in which to foment.
So the issue isn’t really about speech at all, but corporate hegemony and market share…
You can be a staunch supporter of free speech and still be against market control.
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I disagree
why split hairs?
the root of the problem is copyright law
there will be no free speech without copyright reform
and let’s begin by scraping the current system.
without free speech there is no free press
without free press there is no democracy
without democracy there is no america
without america there is no context to argue in favor or against any subtleties regarding how controlled speech, corporate speech, so-called free speech, advertising, propaganda, and/ or fairness fits into the mix.
America’s public, democratic domain is no more.
We are starting from scratch.
What kind of country to you want?
It’s time to start again.
1) net neutrality YES
2) copyright rolled back to 14 years YES (that’s my compromise to 0 years)
3) corporate speech does not qualify for free speech YES
4) public airwaves are owned by the public – not corporations YES
5) free access to internet – subsidized access to computers and internet FOR ALL – YES
6) Google’s monopoly on info. busted YES
7) critical stories in the public interest NOT revealed by news services that go by that name – lose the ability to call themselves news services.
example: the NYT, after sitting on wireless wiretapping story should not be allowed to refer to themselves as a news service. They are complicit in human rights violations and should be held accountable.
Werry nice feeling with the cafe atmosphere!
@Phil: thanx for the Bob Chapman http://www.internationalforecaster.com article. What is clear to me is that this very serious and drawn out scenario is going to continue for a very long time….So the “kings are in the counting houses counting all their money (bullion?)”..while the population of 6.75b people are scratching out a paltry existence as taxes rise and fees too,as water and food sources decrease..mass folia and fauna extinctions continue…where we wait for the autumn and the potential biological A-H1N1 pandemic…oh yeh and somehow containing that malaria outbreak in Eastern Cambodia that is drug resistant too and that one in Africa too…and let’s not leave out the 2012 scenario to boot…How many Black Swans are hovering just beyond the horizon???? The financial ones seem miniscule….except this blog is focussed on the wild transference of wealth to the very few; and in the mean time coining a few pence along the way as the market permits….buy commodiites, buy gold..buy silver and then what? Bob Chapman always also suggests buy food, water filters, guns and ammo….I like him as a trends forecaster along with Gerald Celente and Peter Schiff ( sorry Peter about your dad being imprisoned )….yeh prison s**ks; and you too Max….and yes “war is a racket” and we have watched the continual siphoning of the proceeds since 1913 of at least two generations of wealth channeled to the wealthy…or as Jeffrey Wigand put it: ” cigarettes were a delivery system for nicotene” much like the many funded US government agencies are “delivery systems” of wealth transferance away from the taxpayers to the tax scofflaws…Also very evident is that the treasury auctions are in jeapardy–why else is our boyTim G. in China today? Craig Paul Roberts former Reagan era Under Secr. of the Treasury said some time ago: never has there been $2tr in bond/bill sales over a year’s period …what are the odds for their success? And that’s just the US auctions!!!! And let’s forget the Alt-A mortgages that have yet to reset( an amount far greater than the sub-prime defaults)!!! And then th commercial RE and also the student and auto loan defaults. I pointed out on theThom Hartman radio program last October when he had Ravi Bhatra on, that there isn’t nearly any collateral to pay down $1200 trillion derivatives that the Swaps and Derivative International Association require we honor!!!! It would require a$1 tr per week bailout for each week for 20 years!!!!! carry M & S..as always, richard@lattitude30N
“”None of the corporate owned shock jocks of the right or left are fighting the copyfight so it’s ludicrous to mention their names in the same breathe as having anything to do with free speech. They are, by definition, nothing more than propagandists pushing imprisoned speech for the benefit of corrupt copyright wardens.”"
You’re setting up a false choice here. Those who create intellectual property NEED some copyright protection, the question becomes, “How much is fair?”
That’s a separate issue from keeping speech “free”.
Your issue is with media DOMINANCE, not free speech. Your complaint should not be whether Savage should be told to shut up, but that he has a large platform in which to foment.
So the issue isn’t really about speech at all, but corporate hegemony and market share…
You can be a staunch supporter of free speech and still be against market control.
@Mr Supergeek – No probs!
@david – Don’t know what’s up with Resonance this weekend. I’ll get to the bottom of it! Hope you enjoyed it.
@MC – Thanks!!!!!!!
I wonder if that worked???
if not
here’s a link to THE TRAP (part 1)
which Max mentions.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=404227395387111085
The more that any event is anticipated, the less likely it will occur.
The International Forecaster
Gold To Stand Against Big Devaluations
Posted: May 30 2009
http://www.theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Gold_To_Stand_Against_Big_Devaluations
Sounds very much like … “Max in print” !
PS:
The US$ crash keeps on getting predicted by various people as well as a default of the Comex and LME.
One day , these guys might get lucky … and get the “day” right !
@AJFA You’ve got an important point there which I tried to express by translating some Ol Dutch proverb: “Only after the calf has drowned the well is drained” meaning what people failed to see earlier they’re bound to recognize later when the consequences become stunningly clear.
I wonder if the mob will produce some Robin Hood’s so that from the bottom up a new clear voice for the elite will emerge. like Max, I am very skeptical about that. So, first some more veals have to drown themselves by stepping into these deep dark pools, unfortunately, before the little mob starts using their voice. In California and Holland marijuana gets taxed but cocaine, the elite drug, is still untaxed?
I sometimes try to get into the scale of this fraud my mind gets warped of the finding of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? When you go on the Leiden streets for instance people are totality unaware and in a happy, still have work, good weather happy mood which suppose to make me happy.
@ Max
It was a great show, I enjoyed it as I always had. The term proposed by you “The Perpetual State of Constant Revolution” is great and what is interesting to note here is that the same idea was given by an Indian revolutionary Shaheed Bhagat Singh (1907-1931) who was executed by then British Government. He stated that ” The Tree of Independence, constantly need the blood of revolutionaries” It was so because he thought otherwise true independence of humans starts to rot in the absence of revolution.
Bhagat Singh did not believe in Gandhian philosophy and viewed that Gandhian politics will replace one set of exploiters by another. It’s irony that Mahatama Gandhi didn’t take any initiative to stop his execution.
Very Famous Slogan given by him was
“Inquilab Zindabad” (Long live the revolution)
If anybody want to read more about him can Google his name or link to wikipedia is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagat_Singh
Very disappointed at what’s been said between minute; 17:35 and 19:34.
I guess is right what they say, If it’s too good to be true, it probably is
Jim Willie’s radio broadcast is also interesting.
http://www.contraryinvestorscafe.com/broadcast.php?media=245
@Max I don’t think Gates’s motivation is financial, it is strategic.
The war camps are forming, US/UK, EU/BRIC/UAE and China. China can sink any US navy ship at any time, its subs have proven to be able to move undetected.
People really are to complacent for their own good.
@Max,
part of the whole concept of supporting free speech is that you defend the free speech of those who are against free speech.
p.s. love you both, could never thank you enough for all the info.
In the US, hard right views are countered in the name of “Fair and Balanced™” ( or whatever voluntarily implemented policies US media outlets adhere to in order to maintain the appearance of “neutrality”) with an equally power-serving punditocracy – most of whom are droning, fact-deficient bores, lacking any conviction, and openly subservient to the powerful interests who sign their paycheques. The better ones are relegated to Comedy Central where the laugh track in the background has the psychological effect of instilling the notion that non-rightwing viewpoints are the stuff of comedy and “fake” news – good for a viral video on your Facebook page (if the copyright cartel doesn’t sue you for copyright infringement, that is) but otherwise inconsequential.
Even if the Fairness Doctrine was re-enacted into law, America’s thoroughly entrenched Coke vs Pepsi political monoculture would render it a continuation of the status-quo, where war mongers from both parties could publicly debate the virtues of invading this Muslim country as opposed to invading another Muslim country. Or invading several of them at the same time. Which oil rich nation is more deserving of our bombs is what differentiates the “experts” and commentators on the right vs the ones on the so-called left.
The only way to transform the current system is to grant Al-Jazeera a broadcasting license. Once American news organizations are actually forced to compete in the marketplace of ideas, they might just change their tune without having to be legally forced to under the vague guidelines of a law that no longer reflects the political reality of the US, but would instead further entrench the powerful, non-competing interests of the two party system. If Al-Jazeera was to increase its market share by providing American viewers with accurate news, trenchant analysis, and an agenda based simply on an adherence to truthfulness (as it does now in other parts of the world) perhaps then Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert would be hired as financial experts by a competing cable network, anxious to boost its ratings.
@Ryan .. ” while the rulers loot the state in the background.”
The “rulers” meaning the Political Establishment I guess you mean ?
And yes, you are spot on .
The German State’s “establishment” is incredibly big and costly. It makes the recent “UK Politician’s expenses” look like a joke.
Prof. Dr. Hans Herbert von Arnim describes in his book “Das System” just how large it is and how is developed.
http://www.hfv-speyer.de/vonArnim/system.htm
Here is some information in English on him :
http://www.hfv-speyer.de/vonArnim/InformationinEnglish.htm
… “Self Service in Brussels” …
How alliances of political parties in the European Parliament want to enrich themselves by using tricks and dodges and thereby violate current EU-law
Hans Herbert von Arnim
http://www.hfv-speyer.de/vonArnim/Veroeffentlichungen/Translation%20of%20article%20in%20Focus%2040(2007).pdf
Of course people should be out on the streets but the truth is
the majority of us are powerless, it’s not the condecending notion that we are ‘sheeple’ ,a term loved by the right wing mysanthropes.
Even in the affluent west the mass of people have little influence over policy, yet now the mask has slipped and there is a disjunct between the politcal class who try to justify why the ecomony should be run the way it is being run and the rest, while the rulers loot the state in the background.
I’m not sure what Max’s position is, a truth teller when no-one is listening, at the moment his dissidence has no consequences for him personally, he probably still plays the stock market. Play the upside and play the downside. Attentiste or Prophet.
You need to denounce WikiLeaks for its lack of wanting leaks relating to the 2007-Present finance system crisis.
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Draft:The_Most_Wanted_Leaks_of_2009
By my estimate some 150 TB (yes, Terrabytes) of leakable material needs to be leaked as it relates to this crisis.
Even your US internet webhost came up in the text of some of the leak related materials…
That parabolic move at 3:45 Friday was hilarious… Nothing new. Big block buyer comes in near the close to paint the tape *yawn*… So what else is new?
Jeff Macke may have been coked out of his mind when he crashed and burned live on CNBC last week, but he was absolutely right: what we’re seeing now is pure lunacy.
Anyhow, I’m taking a much needed vacation in a couple weeks, and my friend picked up a UK-Spain flight without checking with me. Turns out we’re flying Ryanair! Haven’t commented on here in a while, but thought you guys might get a kick out of that.
@Max, I don’t buy you have no stake in the outcome. You would be trekking trough Myanmar with Stacey or sipping Pina Collada in Cuba if it wasn’t for this damn reptilian oligargy.
If you had to make a list of the most effective consumer boycott targets, what would be the top five?
If you there is no truth, you should support the dynamism of free speech. It is another story when there is an organization with a purpose, lets say a ‘Rush Limbaugh Latina Bashing Society’. Imho uglyness is in the eye of the beholder, and talking can not be a criminal act in itself.
I completely agree there should be more consideration for the gustatory qualities of sounds and images in public life. I am a proponent of a ‘G’-rating for items on TV and internet, so I can watch and eat without being disgusted (‘warning, the following images may destroy your appetite’).
Tried to calculate the banks profits from their credit cards debts, comes to about 230 Billion USD if they themselves lend at 5%, 560 if the lend at 0%?
Dude, inflation even hitting prisons.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2IYIJc1f00&NR=1
@max keiser
Max, are you a still a US Citzen ?
( I seem to remember you saying you were in an older video ; or maybe I’m getting mixed up with Jim Rogers ?).
I am not anti US as such, but consider it to be one of the most dangerous places to live .. they used to call it the Wild West .. I would double that “Wild” now.
Does anyone know what happened to the guy who lived across the road from OJ Simpson ? .. the guy that got 50 years for stealing Free Willie 2 and Cinderella Videos worth 152$ ?
Has his case been reviewed yet ?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/28/60II/main527248.shtml
Maybe “Copywrong” offenders could get similar treatment based on the “3 Strikes and you’re out” US Law ?
;-(
You can’t be critical of the intentions of the fairness doctrine or equivocate on ‘what qualifies as propaganda’ in a corporate media bell jar such as the U.S.
There is no free speech worthy of the name in the US, period.
Because the very nature of intellectual property laws make it impossible.
…except for p2p file swapping, and open-source software that try mightily to fight against the mullahs of American Media, but this reality is never mentioned in terms of free speech rights.
Anyone who wants to be considered a supporter of free speech must take a firm stand against the current copywrong system or continue as a clown in the media circus.
None of the corporate owned shock jocks of the right or left are fighting the copyfight so it’s ludicrous to mention their names in the same breathe as having anything to do with free speech. They are, by definition, nothing more than propagandists pushing imprisoned speech for the benefit of corrupt copyright wardens.
Have been reflecting on your investment strategy, not so much contrarian as misanthropic, novel, foolproof and no doubt very profitable.
If memory serves me correctly, Avigdor Liebermann was in London about the same time the UK unveiled its latest anti-hate speech law. Curiously, the openly racist, firebrand Foreign Minister (who has called for the violent expulsion of Palestinians from Israel among other genocidal initiatives) is exempt from this law. Worse, the irony here (Britain’s leaders hosting and toasting a psychopathic, power-wielding thug seeking legitimacy for his government’s apartheid-like regime) seems lost on those who applaud the decision to ban Michael Weiner aka Michael Savage from Britain. It’s absurd, in my view, to single out one blowhard demagogue as a threat to national security, while allowing a truly dangerous individual like Liebermann to defile the world stage.
It’s doubtful that many British people are even familiar with the American radio host, while the name Avidgor Liebermann is chillingly familiar to most Muslims around the world. Mr Weiner’s obscurity in the UK was surely a factor in singling him out as a way to deflect criticism of the new law, which is to suppress political Islam, and not, contrary to its claims of “equal” intolerance to hate speech, “fairly” applied across the board to ensure public safety.
I agee that Michael Wiener is a worthless sack of dog shit whom any sane society would relegate to its fringes, rather than elevate as a “personality”. (A “personality”, it should be noted, is sub-species of “celebrity”, which just reinforces the notion that the British gov’t scapegoated this irrelevant demagogue to downplay its own racist agenda).
In a truly just world, Mike Wiener would be salvaging littered beer cans for a recycling facility run by a local mental health organization and living on the Spam sandwiches provided to him by soup kitchen volunteers after serving a lengthy sentence as a child touching, cheque forging wife beater brought up on charges of solicitation in truck stop toilet stall. In the same world, Avigdor Liebermann would be sitting in a Hague prison cell awaiting sentencing for crimes against humanity. Or at least languishing on life support after being bitten by a feral circus monkey in his former Russian homeland.
Damn Funny ….
Warning : from APRIL 16th. … ONLY A JOKE
i.e. DON’T PANIC !
Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JBsGn6XtaM&feature=channel
Look at this
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/gold/mis-200902-gold.pdf
last page export of gold in 2008 2900mt
.You guys remind me of the old days, back when I hung out with smart bastards and we all got stoned…
I found the show very interesting, there is no lack of sincerity and honesty. Yet I found something of the cultural divide between old
Europe and New America. The conquest of New America over
Old Europe, not withstanding. That which is disenfranchised has the same stature in the West as the Red Indians.
On the most basic philosophical level, Man has been regarded as social animal, primarily. It took the dark ages, and the “age of
reason”. The Renaissance , the Enlightenment , and the Reformation to leave renew that place. The height of old Europe, in that it was the age of Reason was symbolised in Marx.
His idea of scientific socialism was a powerful force against old feudal notions, and the sanctification of wage slavery, developed by the industrial revolution.
What was different from the American revolution was that Private property was the enemy of freedom.
Ultimately, private property, never left its status as the dominant mode of ownership. Social ownership found mostly a lasting residue in the welfare state.
Alas, Cooperation and competition are not enemies, they are only enemies if they are separated like twins at birth and taught to fight one another.
Man is social and only free as his conscience and obligations are matched. It is freedom from obligation that robs man of his sense of worth.
The truth is has both the absolute and relative but more so it is concrete.
No matter how much history has let us down, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Revolution needs revolutionary situations. No one writes better on this than those who have been through revolutions.
Although the heart is needed.
I like this song, the ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVq573HE0bA
http://witsend26.blogspot.com/2009/01/pickled-marijuana-for-sale.html
The article Max was distracted by….????
This show is most enlightening
in regards to Max’ disposition.
Max, I have to agree with you…
If the people are not going to RISE UP
and put their power where their money is,
then there is no option for personal financial survival
other than to WORK THE OLIGARCHS’ SYSTEM
(Unless you want to go hunt squirrels and make a house out of Corrugated Steel Deck.)
If you can’t manipulate it,
then flow with it…
use it to your benefit
don’t be a martyr.
WOW
I heard a BLEEP
that’s a first
“Scumbags”?
Survive
to rise
again
“So,uh, how much time we got left?” – King Max Keiser VIII
Max, your characterization of the US media/political atmosphere is not merely wrong, it’s actually the opposite of what is true. MSNBC has ratings that rival or surpass Fox’s. Opinion polls show the public overwhelmingly supports (the superficial rhetoric of) Obama and the Democrats.
The Fairness Doctrine is the ultimate claim of intellectual ownership, intellectual property. Implicitly, it censors ideas which don’t fit into the false left/right dichotomy, i.e. any ideas which serve the non-bankster majority.
Ironically, you hold political opinions which the Dept. of Homeland Security recently defined as belonging to ‘right wing extremists.’
Granted, I’m definitely a Max & Stacy fan, and this is probably the first time I’ve ever defended one of Ronald Regan’s policy decisions.
If the government must be involved in censoring political media, how about an “Honesty Doctrine?” I’m thinking, every time a politician says something that contradicts indisputable truth, it gets beeped out like profanity does.
Y’all keep up the good work.
Dearest Max,
how can you fail to see that any law used to shut up savage will be used against you (and alex jones, etc.) someday? plus, don’t you think people have to figure out for themselves is someone is a “bonehead”?
also, who decides what is propaganda and what is not?
isn’t advertising really propaganda? or history books, which usually have a slant? or tv programs and hollywood b.s.? what is NOT propaganda in some way?
Cable is VERY well respected in Blighty:-
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1189798/Fingers-till-Darling-says-Vince-Cable.html
Mike
Re: Mike’s link, Darling’s Balls & Brown’s Cable its all gone a bit Carry On, ooh matron.
@Stacy
Have you guys considered inviting Reverend Billy as a phone-in guest for a show?
What about George Ure? The web-bot thing he talks about is usually interesting, and he’d probably have something to say about “revolution” and societal collapse.
Big News from London:-
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6396042.ece
Mike
Like Alex Jones, Pravda will happily exaggerate and sensationalize facts for their readers.
Terrorist for driving my Car Keiser?
How many times have you been in plane?
Mike
The up tick rule. I thought there had to be an up tick, before you could short the stock(?) Wouldn’t painting the tape, ending on an up tick, allow shorting the next day?
Postal service is better run by the Government? You’re saying Fedex and UPS is not as effective as the U.S. Postal Service???Are you sure about that?
Sounds like you’ve had a tough week.
that’s the best and most interesting “The Truth About Markets” show l have heard to date…great work guys! Stay in cafes…it works!
Mark
John Pilger does great documentaries as well, the info is out there all people need to do is put it together. Its the incredulity of the whole situation that hides the overall madness..
Do you believe this??
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520331,00.html
Was going to leave a sarky comment along the lines of ‘a strong sense of deja vu’ but have read Mr Supergeek. This is about the 3rd or 4th week on the trot that the broadcast from Resonance has been ballsed up, ye’d wanna have a word in their shell-like and tell ‘em to sort it fawkin’ out, slags.
Anyway I’m now sitting comfortably and am looking forward to the show. Pax.
Cheers I really enjoy how quickly the shows are posted, especially as resonance seem to have played last weeks show tonight by mistake…