Stacy Summary: We talk about ‘free’ being the root of all evil, if you listen to Bono’s manager. Gordon Brown’s meltdown makes a suppository salesman look like a political giant. And Max recalls little Timmy Geithner stealing his toys in Flint Park.
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I remember a couple of good friends of mine who were from the outskirts of London and now living in California years back were esctatic when Labour made it into power…
I found them one afternoon strewn about on a pair of couches, drunker’n shit and spouting off such drunken inanities like “Today is a good day to die…” and “I ruv you Scotty… Did ya hear? Labour made it into powah!!”
It got pretty sloppy so I had to leave.
U2 were on The Late Late Show on Irish tv last week. Bono was on about Tony Blair and what great respect he has for him and his ‘humilaty’. He told stories of drinking wine at number 10 and getting lost. I was screaming at the tv!! “WAR CRIMINAL, DOWNING STREET MEMOS!!!!!!!!”
Pisses me off as I am a big fan of U2′s music.
Bono should stick to U2′ing and quite pretending to be a political shill. He is looking more and more like an ass everyday.
The Mad Ape
ummm quit not quite.
The Mad Ape
Australia divided over Chaser suspension
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/06/2591216.htm
Viewers were outraged at the skit, which satirised the Make-A-Wish Foundation on Wednesday night. (ABC TV: The Chaser’s War on Everything)
The ABC has been flooded with complaints after The Chaser’s War on Everything ran a skit satirising the Make-A-Wish Foundation on Wednesday night.
The public broadcaster has responded to public pressure, taking the show off air until June 24.
ABC managing director Mark Scott says editorial policies for the program will be reviewed during that time and the Chaser team will also have a chance to review their material.
Some fans are using microblog Twitter to express their outrage, labelling the move “complete insanity”.
“ABC should, to quote the PM, hang its head in shame,” @kev_martin tweeted.
“Holy crap people, get a sense of humour,” @brob1 said.
“Don’t agree with the show being taken off air either. You guys keep me laughing, keep up the good work!” @AstroGirl1979 said.
But other tweeps are backing the ABC’s suspension.
“Chaser team off air for 2 weeks for a skit that went wrong … somewhat deserved,” @sacharules said.
More backlash
ABC News Online has also received a flood of angry emails in response to The Chaser show.
“I would suggest give that team the sack and let them feel the real cold that life can dispense,” Rolf of Tocumwal in New South Wales said.
“I am actually surprised that such content went to air, whilst there is management with academic sense. And I hear now a comment has been, that the scene has been misinterpreted. I think that is an complete insult on the intelligence of the viewing public.”
Jim Moore of Mount Martha in Victoria did not see the episode but he is throwing his support behind the decision.
“Congratulations on deciding to take The Chaser off air for two weeks,” he said.
“Hopefully you decide to make it a permanent decision. I for one had made the decision not to watch the program this season or any future seasons.”
But Kerrie Evans of Largs Bay in South Australia says it is all a bit over the top.
“It is a total overaction to a short skit on Chaser,” she wrote.
“People are so precious and keen to be offended that all sense of humour is lost. You couldn’t get a dingo joke going nowadays! Bad taste it may be, but it’s hardly a national disgrace.”
Facebook group The Chaser’s War on Everything Appreciation Society, which has almost 90,000 members, has also received a wide range of responses.
“The ABC’s decision to ban [The Chaser] for two weeks sets a very dangerous precedent,” Christopher Nicholls wrote.
“The entire point of the program is to send everything up. Why? Because it allows us to question everything, rather than to just accept things – whatever they are!
“It’s not only important that we laugh at the serious, it’s vital for the health of society as a whole… Lay off ABC!”
But Scott Bulliman wrote on the group’s wall: “Guys – you owe everyone whose child has ever been through a serious illness an apology.”
‘We got it wrong’
The program’s makers say the skit which caused the suspension has been misinterpreted.
In a video statement issued to ABC News last night, the Chaser team says the sketch sending up the Make-A-Wish Foundation should not have gone to air.
But cast member Craig Reucassel says it was not meant literally.
“It was meant to be so over the top that people wouldn’t take it seriously, but we got it wrong and we didn’t convey that properly and we take full responsibility for that,” he said.
The show’s producer Julian Morrow says they take full responsibility for the offence caused, but they disagree with the suspension.
“The sketch was a very dark sketch, clearly too dark and we acknowledge the pain and the hurt it’s caused a lot of people,” he said.
The barcode turns 35 years old this week, prompting some retailers to look back and celebrate the ubiquitous symbol designed to help stores speed up the checkout process and keep inventory up to date.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/06/05/barcode-upc-retail-scan.html?ref=rss
The barcode, or the Universal Product Code (UPC) as it is more formally known, is made up of a row of 59 machine-readable black and white bars and 12 plainly readable digits. Both the bars and the digits communicate the same information — what the product is and who made it.
When a cashier scans that information, usually from a sticker on the product, the store’s main computer quickly looks up in its database the product’s price and transmits it to the cash register.
Today, barcodes are scanned more than 10 billion times a day on consumer packaged goods, apparel, hardware and food services, according to GS1 US, a non-profit organization that administers the UPC.
“The UPC made the modern retail store possible,” Rodney McMullen, vice-chair of The Kroger Co., said in a release.
The Kroger Co. operates more than 4,000 stores in different formats and under different names.
“[The UPC] allows us to carry tens of thousands of items in a given store and move shoppers through quickly while offering them many different ways to save money,” he said.
Originally developed to help supermarkets speed up the checkout process, the bar code was first used in 1974 in a Marsh Supermarkets store in Troy, Ohio, when a cashier scanned a package of Wrigley’s gum, according to GS1 US.
“Industry would not be as efficient without the UPC,” Sandy Douglas, president of Coca-Cola North America, and chair of the GS1 US board of governors, said in a release.
The organization marked the barcode’s 35 years earlier this week with a giant UPC-adorned birthday cake for more than 800 attendees at its annual conference in Florida.
According to ConsumerReports.org, the next generation of barcode labels will be even smaller and more capable. In January, barcodes will be able to transmit expiration or best-used-by dates.
Surplus:
I see tons of shit for sale when I drive around the burbs: boats, golf carts, motor-cycles etc. Every other house is having a garage sale, or is for sale itself.
Technology and advancement have led to a huge surplus of workers. I think the bubbles were intentionally cultivated in order to create artificial demand. Otherwise excess productivity would have created deflation.
Larchmont, NY — regime of the totally corrupt imperialists, geoinfo:
“A place Bertie Wooster’s American friends might live”…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larchmont_(NY)
Larchmont is a village in Westchester County, New York. The population was 6,485 at the 2000 census. As a village, it is located within the town of Mamaroneck. It is located on the shore of the Long Island Sound, about eighteen miles from Midtown Manhattan. Larchmont is served by the New Haven Line of the Metro-North Railroad.
In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Larchmont 11th on its list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States.
Originally inhabited by the Siwanoy (an Algonquian tribe), Larchmont was “discovered” by the Dutch in 1614. By 1720, few Siwanoy remained in the Larchmont area and the land had been largely bought up by British and Dutch settlers.
Larchmont’s oldest and most historic home, the “Manor House” on Elm Avenue, was built in 1797 by Peter Jay Munro.
Munro was the nephew of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and was later adopted by Jay. At the beginning of the 19th Century, Munro was active in the Abolitionist movement, helping to found the NY State Manumission Society, along with his uncle and Alexander Hamilton. Munro’s house faced towards the Boston Post Road (the back is now used as the front), which tended to generate a lot of dust in summer months.
To combat this, his gardener imported a Scottish species of larch trees that were known to be fast growing. These were planted along the front of the property, eventually giving the village its name. The Village of Larchmont was incorporated in 1891.
Before the advent of the automobile, Larchmont was a resort community serving wealthy New York City residents. Many of the Victorian “cottages” and a few of the grand hotels (such as the Bevan House and Manor Inn) remain to this day, though these have been converted to other uses such as private residences. The Larchmont Yacht Club hosts an annual Race Week competition (2007 marked the 110th running of this event).
It is adjacent to Manor Park, which was designed by Jeremiah Towle, an early summer resident of Larchmont Manor and an engineer. The Larchmont Shore Club (near the Larchmont Yacht Club) hosts an annual ‘Swim Across America’ challenge, across Long Island Sound.
Larchmont and neighboring Mamaroneck and New Rochelle are noted for their significant French American populations.
Stacy and Max: The segment on USA foodstamps was interesting..Here in Florida last December an additional 50,000 residents applied…..now what I summised was that after reaching the office and submitting the application, it might take some time before one actually is approved…now remember the applicant is already hungry when they reach the office…The other day one of my neighbors who related to me that he was on foodstamps ( $122 for the month ) had to also submit to 15 hours of community service!!!! Now I admit I have had to receive foodstamps in my life before ,BUT I don’t recall participating in community service hours…just the paranoia that they might find some “fraud” in the recipients monthly income reports and served an indictment has driven me from their door…regardless if I meet the requirements or not.
On another subject: I submit again the LyndonLarouchepac.com webcast:
http://www.larouchepac.com/lpactv?nid=10540
Great teamwork on TAM…have a great week, Richard@lattitude30N
Great show.
I knew Max was in favor of hashing problems out the old fashion way, in the chalice.
Keiser
This is how a PRO does it:-
http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/main.html
Mike
OT: In support of Max’s (regular) US Obesity statements
Health Statistics > Obesity (most recent) by country
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity
FWIW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYB0VW5x8fI
Sounds like TM and TMK have some similar idea’s and solution’s.
“…by putting the art pedal to the metal, we really, I think maximize our humanist and become much more necessary and much more incomprehensable to the machines”
peace
Radio show ok, just a bit of fun, driffs from boring to a good then back to boring……..reminds me of “Monty Python”……..odd good sketch….mostly silly.
But the TV things needs a “Normal” person…….who can ask the sort of questions that we ask. Thus you draw in “Normal” people to watch.
Look at Cramer in his “meltdown” clip………he was good but the girl was far better……..she set the stage for him.
(BTW NEVER TAKE ANY INVESTMENT ADVICE FROM CRAMER).
Mike
Latest from Downing St:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIomipDU0B8
Mike
@Mike/Liverpool
Yeah, Jim Puplava’s radio show (Financial Sense Newshour — usually three hours long) is AMAAAAZING. A bit straight, but fantastic guests.
Yes, this weeks was outstanding………………..he & his guests voiced everything i said on here all week……”They” are NOT GOING TO ALLOW GOLD OVER $1000 BECAUSE IF IT DID IT WOULD SIGNAL THE END OF THE $.
Mike
You have hunters, farmers and Eskimo’s. Eskimos have the advantage of living in a freezer. The only have to hunt a couple of days to put it outside their Igloos and eat the rest of the year.
The sun has no sunspots while it should have some by now. If you see one warn me. On this live sun spots spotting Nasa side you can count them. Like said 0 now.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mdi_igr/512/
The more CO2 the better plants grow. Actually we need more CO2 we live in a CO2 starved environment, so cut the crap on that.
Sunspot Plotter
(Fill in the year 2009 and you’ll see 0 sunspots:)
http://spaceweather.com/glossary/sunspotplotter.htm
NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming by Michael Andrews – June 4, 2009
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=15310
i love you guys…
Re: Obamas world trip.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5633751/obama-warns-nkorea-iran-nuclear-threat/
Is Obama expressing dangers of others nuclear power or the US’ nuclear power.
Remember they are gonna get desperate, probably more desperate than Iran or Korea. Iminant banckrupcy (usually) = war.
Obama – “Forgive debt or war will ensue – You choose”.
The new rogue state,
Is this scenario a possibilty?
NEO-FEUDAL CASINO GULAG PLANTATION ECONOMY
way to go MAX~~
“Gin, you know, it’s a hallucinogenic, especially after the 5th or 6th bottle…”
-King (Tim) Max Keiser VIII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat
Libertarian is not RIGHT wing, Stacy…
Libertarians on the Political Compass are right there in the SOUTH with Anarchists
The opposite of FASCISM / Authoritarian
The lateral axis is between Communism/Collectivism and Neo-Liberalism
Just FYI
Demolishing the US economy not too unlike demolishing Playa de Pals Radio Liberty Relay Station
(I assume the embedding will transfer)
Playa De Pals is now a Golf Course, with the Funksendhaus being a museum…
The embedding did not work so use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP240yRKO1c
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/027097.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aZjQKyLci1AM&refer=us
http://www.ronpaul.com/2009-06-03/ron-pauls-bill-to-audit-the-federal-reserve-now-has-182-co-sponsors/
O Fortuna O Fortune,
velut luna like the moon
statu variabilis, you are changeable,
semper crescis ever waxing
aut decrescis; and waning;
vita detestabilis hateful life
nunc obdurat first oppresses
et tunc curat and then soothes
ludo mentis aciem, as fancy takes it;
egestatem, poverty
potestatem and power
dissolvit ut glaciem. it melts them like ice.
Sors immanis Fate – monstrous
et inanis, and empty,
rota tu volubilis, you whirling wheel,
status malus, you are malevolent,
vana salus well-being is vain
semper dissolubilis, and always fades to nothing,
obumbrata shadowed
et velata and veiled
michi quoque niteris; you plague me too;
nunc per ludum now through the game
dorsum nudum I bring my bare back
fero tui sceleris. to your villainy.
Sors salutis Fate is against me
et virtutis in health
michi nunc contraria, and virtue,
est affectus driven on
et defectus and weighted down,
semper in angaria. always enslaved.
Hac in hora So at this hour
sine mora without delay
corde pulsum tangite; pluck the vibrating strings;
quod per sortem since Fate
sternit fortem, strikes down the strong man,
mecum omnes plangite! everyone weep with me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrML6s1wNHk
300 This is Sparta!!!!!!!!!!!!! O-Fortuna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yJTcllkMPA&feature=related
This was shot on the New England Throughway back in 1978 for the “King Keiser Show.” The toll booth in the vid. is next to New Rochelle, NY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etoac1lkG50
Stacy,
Some of us Brits hang out here:
http://cynicuseconomicus.blogspot.com
,.bob dylans comment on music of U2 ,.”… yeah,every knows their music , but it’s a pity no one will ever be able to play it …. ” , guess he was refering to U2s over use of complicated delayed effects on guitar ,split signals etc and grandiose vocals …[that said i like the guitar sound !] ,personally i never feel sorry for so called ‘celebrities’ of any kind, ian curtis included, why does bono always where those coloured glasses? [must be hard on his eye sight ?] why does the guitarist always wear that silly beanie ? if he is bald , that’s ok , no problem,all is forgiven.. surely they can afford to make their music for free ?,or at least do something worthwhile with their money ? show everyone else the way forward ,not backwards ?
M&S Great show..How is the novel coming along?
@Mike/Liverpool something like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHClYYNz7nk
@Ispice Interesting, but this guy just tells people to go play..Creating art is trying to achieve a goal by doing something that is pertinently incapable of achieveing it, and wallowing in the resulting desperation..Either that or knowingly fu*king people out of their money with (as a friend working at Sotherby’s once defined it ‘rubbish in an unexpected place’)
http://www.mygoldprediction.com coming soon..
@mike liverpool , as for the british pound [ i have spoken to my dog Jake , he appears to know as much about economics as anyone , so why not ?] english pound soon starting fitth way down[ next few weeks or sooner] failing total economic collapse that has either being delayed or postponed and everyone is hoping for will arrive sooner, the Pound and Euro should be at parity near end of the year,[ with euro rising pound falling ],also strengthening US dollar [mid to high eighties , even touching 90 ? anyway should be strong month for US dollar ? who knows ? as for gold and silver [ i have spoken to Bruno my cat he knows more about gold and silver than either of us ] not good for gold and silver ,both going down major interim lows [gold $800 silver $8 - $9 next few months.[ gold did not go as high as other precious metals [palladium etc ]so is about where it should be if it had after recent declines etc . but i guess we have all yet to find out ? hope this helps ? as it’s the best we can do .
@mike liverpool,.. Disclaimer : [slippery escape clause ]the advice /projections about pound/ gold /silver etc was provided by Bruno & Jake [ my dog and cat ] if you take such advice from a cat or a dog then you are like me a bit crazy, shine all you crazy diamonds !
If feudalism and religion evolved as a result of surplus we are in for a serious regression..
Meanwhile the people least likely to be awakened from their delusions are pummeled a little further into their fear addiction.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/06/newt-gingrich-americans-a_n_212235.html
Read a book about copywriting, the term ‘fudging’ appeared very usefull : capturing an audience through evoking fear, uncertainty and doubt..
What are the UK sites.
The radical democrats all subscribe to the indymedia sites be that .co.uk or .ie
but not too many ex stock brokers there
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
“DIRECT FROM EARTH, IT’S THE KING KEISER SHOW”
Nice CCM Space Helmet…
I prefer COOPER space helmets…
Then there are those JOFA lids all the Swedes wore…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE-4fVa_lRk
King Keiser’s Last show…
DEATH TO AMERICAN TELEVISION!!!!
Is that car an AMC Gremlin, or Ford Pinto ?
Stacy,
Tell Max that he was not on the Alex Jones show last week but rather he had Alex Jones on his show (12:54 in to audio clip). Funny how the tables have turned. (o;
awesome show. keep it up!
AMC Gremlin
clearly visible here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjSsDTf4JIM&feature=related
Love your show guys. Max, I love the way you analygies that demonstrate the severity of what we are going through. Stacey, you go a great job of steadying the Keiser juganought. GREAT JOB GUYS. Can’t wait for nex show.
Hunter gatherers did not have surplus but also it was impossible to Hoard food and use it as leverage to take advantage of other people.
Agriculture allowed surplus but also allowed hoarding of grain and to use it as leverage against a population that was increasingly dependant on it. It gave rise to the aberant situation in which the peasant harvests the food and gives it to the warlord, because that warlord has used the hoarded grain to pay thugs to keep the peasant in line and force the peasant to give out more of his grain. It gave rise to cities, specialization, armies, aristocracy(a parasitic class that feeds of the labor of others), organized religion (a counter part to the aristocracy, serving the need to justify aristocracy by an explanation other than ‘were just ripping you off’).
The industrial revolution allowed surplus of goods whose sale allowed industrialist to reap the rewards, but such rewards require markets and once a market is saturated you need to find new markets(colonialism) or to make the product obsolete/throwable because when everyone’s need is fulfilled th emachine stops. So when everyone has an old fashion razor you need to push razors with blades they throw away so they will ‘need’ to buy new blades.
Money is also in surplus, and being hoarded, and being leveraged/used to benefit from those that dont have it, even if these very people are the ones who made the money surplus possible in the first place, like the peasant forwarding the grain to the feudal lord thats using the grain to control both the peasant and the goons that keep him in line.