[OTE12] On the Edge with Max Keiser – 31 July 2009

Posted on July 31, 2009 by stacyherbert| 75 Comments

Stacy Summary: With special guests, Dmitry Orlov and Dr. Housing Bubble!

To watch the whole episode on Blip, click here

75 Responses to [OTE12] On the Edge with Max Keiser – 31 July 2009

Mongo | July 31, 2009 at 11:48 am |

Great show!

As always, Max brings on the pain of reality for people.

btw, no MSM-offers yet?
Tim Gandee | July 31, 2009 at 12:00 pm |

Ha. Of course ther are no MSM (mandated subliminal messaging) offers. The mouth of the state does not deal in truth and good old MandS would subvert the darts of fear, control, and the power grab of the state and their financial terrorist buddies. To see On the Edge offered any sort of US MSM coverage would be like the Fed showing the People the Fed’s off-budget books, let alone their on-budget books for that matter.
Mike | July 31, 2009 at 12:05 pm |

I bet more people in the ussr were aware of the fact that the newspapers and tv news were full of shit!
Mr Unemployed | July 31, 2009 at 12:19 pm |

Although I always look forward to an OTE episode, I miss the good ol’ days of “The Oracle” with both Max and Stacy together in the same studio. Even those improvised webcam ‘casts were great!
Mike | July 31, 2009 at 12:23 pm |

Paulson to Advise Electric-Car Startup Coda on China Partners
By Craig Trudell

July 29 (Bloomberg) — Coda Automotive said former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will serve as an adviser to the startup electric-car maker on partnerships in China.

Paulson has “deep, personal relationships in China and unique insights into the country and its people,” the Santa Monica, California-based company said today in a statement. Coda also said Paulson invested in the company earlier this year, without giving details.
Ingvend Storrs | July 31, 2009 at 12:46 pm |

Uh, Hello! The feature that enables someone to listen in on conversations via one’s cell phone, even when it’s ‘off’, has been around for many years. It was passed into law under the Clinton Regime, I believe.

Wake up! Hello? Just because you and the Newz Fop started paying attention recently, doesn’t mean that it just now became Reality when you knew about it.

Next time it’s going to be a slap on the head… .
Ingvend Storrs | July 31, 2009 at 12:57 pm |

You might have investigated the Birth Certificate topic, before denigrating the issue. It is a legitimate issue and not a conspiracy-nervous-breakdown type topic.

More shooting from the hip, Max, not unlike Mr. Hip-Shooter himself, Alex Jones. How’s Alternative Media ever going to make a solid reputation with this kind of sloppy work?
Fibon 11235 | July 31, 2009 at 1:07 pm |

@Ingvend Storrs

When your cell phone WARMS in the middle of the night, and its off you know there were listening to you snore lol
Dedo | July 31, 2009 at 1:09 pm |

@Ingvend storrs,…yeah,.I was aware that persons could be listened to from their home phones with the receiver down, back in the eighties !
Try explaining to folk back then, you’d get the usual reaction,..
It’s well known in the industry that technology is at least 50yrs ahead of what is released to the public.
sharon | July 31, 2009 at 1:16 pm |

Great show and an excellent guest. But Max, you missed the all important question: How did the people react? Were there riots and demonstrations or mini revolutions? I feel I should know this as I was around at the time, but given the appalling msm coverage ww wouldn’t have known what was really going on.
Ingvend Storrs | July 31, 2009 at 1:20 pm |

Re: Fibon 11235

Shit dip idiot. Do some research, if you know what the word means. Otherwise, be a wis’n-acre anonymously via internet, moron.
Ingvend Storrs | July 31, 2009 at 1:26 pm |

Kudos on the Orlov and “Bubble’ interviews. Both are on target and insightful. (Kudos Dmitri!) Dead-on-balls accurate.

Btw, Fibon 11235, I don’t own a cell phone. I gave mine back about 9 years ago. After you pull your head out and do your own research, you’ll understand why. Well, maybe you’ll understand. (I’m not optimistic about you.)
Lord Rothschild | July 31, 2009 at 1:53 pm |

Top show.

Dmitri Orlov’s book:Reinventing Collapse (The Soviet Example and American Prospects) is worth a read.

There’s a video of a recent lecture he gave here.
Lord Rothschild | July 31, 2009 at 1:55 pm |

..and here’s the article that Max mentions:

Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
Sepp | July 31, 2009 at 2:31 pm |

Great show, especially the interview with Dmitry Orlov.
Greetings from Germany.
Mr Unemployed | July 31, 2009 at 2:37 pm |

@Ingvend Storrs
Lighten up on Fibon 11235, will ya?
You make a salient point about cell phones and privacy (lack thereof) but Fibon was just being sarcastic, I think. On one hand, this invasion of personal privacy should not stand but what can we do besides drop out of the system? On the other, unless you’re doing something illegal, who cares if it’s only being stored in some undisclosed CIA location and no human will probably ever hear it?
Mongo | July 31, 2009 at 2:39 pm |

The question remains, does Tyler Durden over at Zero Hedge EVER SLEEP!?!?!?!

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/dark-pools-refuse-go-quietly-dark-night

That guy punches through the eye-socket of Wall Street and the hits keep on commin’
kitty | July 31, 2009 at 2:56 pm |

One distopian nightmare I have is once every persons DNA is on record the council starts chasing people down for fines based on analysis of old bubble gum left on the pavement years past.

Or when a new regime takes over which has a whole new raft of thought crimes and wants to round up some scapegoats they use future super competent voice recognision progammes to go through all the old recordings and create ‘minority reports’ of deviants.

Cross reference who was behind you in the queque at Tesco from loyalty cards or bank cards. Start to decide some ‘deviant’ must have been a friend because you ended up in the same queque on a statistically frequent number of times.

A year ago a police spokesperson suggested ‘shopping’ anyone you knew who had more than one pay as you go phone i.e. 2 anonomously owned phones suggests a potential Terrorist.

So with some insane processing power to data mine all this old junk who knows? I put my bets on the bubble gum litter fines or else CV footage using facial recognision finding evidence of past contravention of the Public Indecency Act 2017, kissing in a public place whilst in charge of a Staffordshire Bull Terrior.
kitty | July 31, 2009 at 2:58 pm |

CV? (I am writing mine this week) but I meant CCTV
Jeannon Kralj | July 31, 2009 at 3:04 pm |

I was not impressed with Orlov. Guess I need to look him up and see just who he is and when he made what predictions. I do not see any postive environmental affects from a collapse. Humans are THE most important part of the environment and many of them will be homeless, starving, and in ill health and sooner death. U.N. Agenda 21 / sustainable development evil intends to collapse the US economy anyway, and they are well on their way to that.

As for the USSR collapse, I cannot see much comparison. After all, it is the Western oligarchs that totally created and funded USSR during its entire existence. Also, the same Russian elites/oligarchs are still running the show over there.

All of the world’s oligarch’s have the same goal, to collapse whatever national economies it sees necessary to put in their one world death and slavery system
Dedo | July 31, 2009 at 3:20 pm |

@Mr Unemployed,….Ref: On the other, unless you’re doing something illegal, who cares if it’s only being stored in some undisclosed CIA location and no human will probably ever hear it?

Eventually,..no one will care, total apathy is the goal,..which leads to total control of your life,… from what you eat, drink,..think,…behave,…how many children you have,,…wheather your actually fit to have children, what type,..then come sthe fines and punishments if you dissent,…Yeah who cares !!
Mongo | July 31, 2009 at 3:39 pm |

The question is, when this all collapses: What momentum will it have in relation to our ordinary lives? How fast will events occur and play out?
Mr Unemployed | July 31, 2009 at 3:45 pm |

@Dedo
I expected someone would bring up the concern that we need to draw a line somewhere ’cause eventually ‘minor’ invasions of privacy will surely get out hand and become tools of authoritarian governments. Do you care to respond to the other question in my post? Re: what can we do besides drop out of the system?
Mongo | July 31, 2009 at 4:00 pm |

Even Google is adapting to the US house market. When googling for “American house” this shows up.

http://www.hotgardens.net/Native_american_house_Phoenix.JPG
Dedo | July 31, 2009 at 4:08 pm |

Mr Unemployed,……..Behave, ..you really think anyone who has any real ideas to change the system would post them on a forum open to analysis, tut tut,…surely you’re not that naive ?
Mr Unemployed | July 31, 2009 at 4:48 pm |

@Dedo

(whispering) Actually I’m a cia operative and I was hoping that you would ‘spill the beans’ and let us know what the Rebels are up to.
Dedo | July 31, 2009 at 4:49 pm |

LOL,……
Dedo | July 31, 2009 at 4:52 pm |

Ditto!!
Mini US | July 31, 2009 at 5:13 pm |

Have a nice holiday Max and Stacy
You guys have been working hard for some time now.

I notice the Bank Bonus’ are getting into the MSM a lot more now…

http://business.smh.com.au/business/no-x2018rhyme-or-reasonx2019-to-bank-bonuses-20090731-e4cw.html

@All
Please leave the personal abuse at home folks.
Make your point and move on.
Its just boring!
Youri Carma | July 31, 2009 at 5:15 pm |

Dome hot chick finaly woke up but “Better late than never my mother used to say” and I can tell you she’s not the smartest girl out there. http://tinyurl.com/lnup99

My mother also used to say when I was choking on some chicken bone or somtin “Choke carefully now” than you know what kinda childhood I had.

@Ingvend Storrs

Haven’t a mobile phone for years now and I must say I like it very much and NO Brain Tumor..
Danny | July 31, 2009 at 5:15 pm |

A bit disappointed with the coverage on Obamas birth certificate. I’ve been following Phil Burg for a year now, long before this was openly discussed. Something just doesn’t fit with this; and only a receipt of birth has been produced not the actual birth certificate. I realise the gravity of the subject but is it any more ‘kooky’ than WTC7??

Otherwise, as always very informative. My sister, who lost her €30,000 deposit on a house is even starting to wonder ‘who is max keiser’- which is remarkable let me tell you! Enjoy your holidays- you both deserve it.

PS. Nice tie.
Mini US | July 31, 2009 at 5:22 pm |

@Max.
Great idea for the end.
The sunset lighting over the beach scene was a cracker!
Good on you guys for adding these little touches each week to improve the shows look.
Its not all about money(budget), sometimes imagination can fix things too.
Cheers.
Espen Goffeng | July 31, 2009 at 5:26 pm |

Love these shows.
Has he ever done anything on Remote Area Medical, operating in the US these days? It really shows how bad things have gotten.

I wish he`d be a bit careful, though. He reaches a lot of people, and these are volatile times,so he shouldn`t go overboard on shows like 911truth-birthermovement-governmentplantedswineflu-chemtrails-people like Alex Jones.
Mini US | July 31, 2009 at 5:28 pm |

@Your Carma
Oh oh! Max is in trouble. This chic is hot!
She is gonna take the world by storm. She can even add up!
Look out Max, with her insight your viewing may drop off markedly, esp while you’re away.
Ha!
Giuseppe Bagodonutti | July 31, 2009 at 5:36 pm |

RE:Cell-phone tapping

Dr. Timothy Leary, would say
“Assume they are listening, always”
and give them a good show…

And whenever possible,
feed them disinformation…
Youri Carma | July 31, 2009 at 5:37 pm |

Hooray! Hooray! It’s Holi-Holiday http://tinyurl.com/6lqoe5
Mep | July 31, 2009 at 5:50 pm |

@ Danny

Do you also think that the actual birth notices from Kansas newspapers are fake? Come on now. The entire strategy was designed to feed into the “he’s not one of us” paranoia campaign. Fits right in with the “he’s a Muslim; he’s a terrorist sympathizer; he doesn’t wear a flag pin; he won’t put his hand over his heart to say the pledge because he hates America; he took his oath over a Koran” crap. Republicans trying to paint Democrats as un-patriotic and un-American is an old strategy. They’re just getting more traction now amongst the racists of America who desperately need to believe that there is something that will disqualify a black man from being our President. Anything that hints at the “he’s not one of us” meme will be believed by those who NEED to believe that a black man is only leading the free world because of some illegitimate, nefarious reason.

@ All – On the townhalls in the US getting rancorous, there’s a good reason for that, and it’s not just that the country is going to hell and people are displeased.

The corporations are back at it. First, they created and helped stage the tea parties. Now, they’re astroturfing townhalls. They even give instructions about how best to cause a scene and be disruptive at the townhalls.

See here: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/31/recess-harassment-memo/

and here: http://sobeale.blogspot.com/2009/07/astroturfing-healthcare-reform.html
Quincy | July 31, 2009 at 5:59 pm |

Empty high rise in Florida.

Article: http://tinyurl.com/mtlmda

Video coverage: http://tinyurl.com/l4gkae
Scott from Oregon | July 31, 2009 at 6:04 pm |

http://www.startribune.com/business/51633817.html?elr=KArksi8D3PE7_8yc+D3aiUo8D3PE7_eyc+D3aiUeyc+D3aUUr

Got Credit Unions?
Youri Carma | July 31, 2009 at 6:38 pm |

The pumpers in the media will burn in Hell for dragging you (the sheeple) back into this market. Here’s the truth on GDP http://tinyurl.com/ks4ncu
Mini US | July 31, 2009 at 7:22 pm |

They laughed at him them and they’re laughing at him now.
Peter Schiff on CNBC talking about Goldman and JP Morgan.
Also BoA gets a mention.
All the cross shouting is hard to take but it shows how each person just pushes their own barrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsKGVcvQe_0&feature=channel_page
Youri Carma | July 31, 2009 at 7:46 pm |

CNBC With Dennis Kneale (what a jurk~!) (7/31) – Karl Denninger
http://market-ticker.org/archives/1281-CNBC-With-Dennis-Kneale-731.html
dan valley | July 31, 2009 at 8:00 pm |

People stop fighting…….Yeah the birth certificate is a legtimate issue however there is little we can do at this point…. you CAN participate in…….

Ron Paul’s Bill To Audit The Federal Reserve Now Has 279 Co-Sponsors in the House, and 20 Co-Sponsors in the Senate!

HR 1207 is now in the House Committee on Financial Services. This is THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP in this legislation! If it doesn’t get out of committee it will not come to a vote! There are 71 members on this committee and they are all listed below.

We need to let all members of the House Committee on Financial Services know that we want them to allow full House consideration of HR 1207 so it can move forward; we need them to support this. Now is the time.

Call their offices, write to them, email them. Let them know they need to support HR 1207. If you live in their district, let them know. Go to their office.

House Committee on Financial Services

Chairman Barney Frank, MA(not a co-sponsor)

Republican Members

Rep. Michele Bachmann, MN [co-sponsor]
Rep. Spencer Bachus, AL [co-sponsor]
Rep. J. Gresham Barrett, SC [co-sponsor]
Rep. Judy Biggert, IL [co-sponsor]
Rep. John Campbell, CA [co-sponsor]
Rep. Michael N. Castle, DE [co-sponsor]
Rep. Scott Garrett, NJ [co-sponsor]
Rep. Jim Gerlach, PA [co-sponsor]
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, TX [co-sponsor]
Rep. Lynn Jenkins, KS [co-sponsor]
Rep. Walter B. Jones , NC [co-sponsor]
Rep. Peter King, NY [co-sponsor]
Rep. Leonard Lance, NJ [co-sponsor]
Rep. Christopher Lee, NY [co-sponsor]
Rep. Frank D. Lucas, OK [co-sponsor]
Rep. Donald A. Manzullo, IL [co-sponsor]
Rep. Kenny Marchant, TX [co-sponsor]
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, MI [co-sponsor]
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, CA [co-sponsor]
Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, NC [co-sponsor]
Rep. Gary G. Miller, CA [co-sponsor]
Rep. Randy Neugebauer, TX [co-sponsor]
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, WV [co-sponsor]
Rep. Ron Paul, TX [sponsor]
Rep. Erik Paulsen, MN [co-sponsor]
Rep. Bill Posey, FL [co-sponsor]
Rep. Tom Price, GA [co-sponsor]
Rep. Adam Putnam, FL [co-sponsor]
Rep. Edward R. Royce, CA [co-sponsor]

Democratic Members

Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, NY
Rep. John Adler, NJ [co-sponsor]
Rep. Joe Baca, CA
Rep. Melissa L. Bean, IL
Rep. Michael E. Capuano, MA
Rep. Andre Carson, IN
Rep. Travis Childers, MS [co-sponsor]
Rep. William Lacy Clay, MO
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, MO
Rep. Joe Donnelly, IN
Rep. Steve Driehaus, OH
Rep. Keith Ellison, MN
Rep. Bill Foster, IL
Rep. Alan Grayson, FL [co-sponsor]
Rep. Al Green, TX
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, IL
Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, TX
Rep. Jim Himes, CT
Rep. Paul W. Hodes, NH
Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, PA
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, OH
Rep. Ron Klein, FL
Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, FL [co-sponsor]
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, MA
Rep. Dan Maffei, NY [co-sponsor]
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, NY
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, NY
Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, NY
Rep. Brad Miller, NC
Rep. Walt Minnick, ID [co-sponsor]
Rep. Dennis Moore, KS
Rep. Gwen Moore, WI
Rep. Ed Perlmutter, CO [co-sponsor]
Rep. Gary Peters, MI
Rep. David Scott, GA
Rep. Brad Sherman, CA [co-sponsor]
Rep. Jackie Speier, CA [co-sponsor]
Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez, NY
Rep. Maxine Waters, CA
Rep. Melvin L. Watt, NC
Rep. Charles Wilson, OH

Here’s a sample letter you can use:

HR 1207 (House)

Dear Representative,

Please co-sponsor and/or support HR 1207, an effort to audit the Federal Reserve.

Recently, it has come to light that there is little to no accountability to the people on the part of the Federal Reserve. While the citizens of this country are required by law to give an accounting of every penny they come in contact with, the Federal Reserve has never been held to the same standard. During this time of extreme economic crisis, the people deserve an accounting of where our money is going.

Currently there are 279 co-sponsors for this legislation, and it is enjoying bi-partisan support. Your efforts in supporting this important legislation would go a long way in proving to your constituents that you not only hold the Federal Reserve to the same standard as you do your constituents, but it would also show that you believe in transparency. Anything less than support for this resolution suggests that you are in favor of secrecy and a lack of accountability to the people who pay the bills. We pay the tab; we have a right to know where our money is going.

Unlike recent bills that you voted in favor of that had hundreds of pages and just a few hours to read, this bill can be read in under 5 minutes. I encourage you to take the time to read it, and then move to support it.

Thank you in advance for your attention on this important legislation. I have every expectation that you will do right by your constituents and support this measure.

Sincerely,
S 604 (Senate)

Dear Senator,

Please co-sponsor and/or support S 604, an effort to audit the Federal Reserve.

Recently, it has come to light that there is little to no accountability to the people on the part of the Federal Reserve. While the citizens of this country are required by law to give an accounting of every penny they come in contact with, the Federal Reserve has never been held to the same standard. During this time of extreme economic crisis, the people deserve an accounting of where our money is going.

Currently there are 20 co-sponsors for this legislation, and it is enjoying bi-partisan support. Your efforts in supporting this important legislation would go a long way in proving to your constituents that you not only hold the Federal Reserve to the same standard as you do your constituents, but it would also show that you believe in transparency. Anything less than support for this resolution suggests that you are in favor of secrecy and a lack of accountability to the people who pay the bills. We pay the tab; we have a right to know where our money is going.

Unlike recent bills that you voted in favor of that had hundreds of pages and just a few hours to read, this bill can be read in under 5 minutes. I encourage you to take the time to read it, and then move to support it.

Thank you in advance for your attention on this important legislation. I have every expectation that you will do right by your constituents and support this measure.

Sincerely,
Mini US | July 31, 2009 at 8:00 pm |

@Youri Carma
Dennis is a real Menace!
Why won’t people listen and learn?
Just Blah Blah Blah interruptions.
He asks Denninger to explain, then he just interrupts him so he can’t.
Hahahahahahahahhahaha.
When he see’s Denninger is making money he goes…”Oh!”

John Browne (top left) has a cool top lip!!!
Youri Carma | July 31, 2009 at 8:15 pm |

@Mini US

Yep, Dennis Kneale is a genuin jurk. Can’t believe people watch this anyways if it wasn’t for some truth speaking guests occasionaly.

In the ol days people use to stick a big sigar in these Cool top lippers http://tinyurl.com/l9wbtf
Mini US | July 31, 2009 at 8:23 pm |

Are the authorities REALLY doing something about market manipulation? Or is this juts manipulating the manipulators?

http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE56R3FL20090728
Mini US | July 31, 2009 at 8:27 pm |

The Land of the Free…..
Chavez is outta control folks.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/venezuelan-govt-shuts-34-radio-stations-20090801-e4v7.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8179438.stm
Mini US | July 31, 2009 at 8:33 pm |

Goldman Sachs should sponsor this pig.
Its a symbol.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/01/content_11807793.htm

Can someone with photoshop put Paulsons head on it?
Ok, just imagine then.
Youri Carma | July 31, 2009 at 8:35 pm |

A new Kremlin report on the shadowy Bilderberg Group, who this past week held their annual meeting in Greece, states that the West’s financial, political and corporate elite emerged from their conclave after coming to an agreement that in order to continue their drive towards a New World Order dominated by the Western Powers, the US Dollar has to be “totally” destroyed.

Even worse, a new US report on these secret Bilderberg meetings states: “Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin, whose information from inside Bilderberg has routinely proven accurate, states that the global elite’s plan to completely destroy the economy and ultimately lower global population by two thirds has stoked fears even within Bilderberg itself that the fallout from such chaos could ultimately result in the globalists losing their control over the world.”

FROM: The Royal Bildenbergs http://tinyurl.com/qy4xra
vagabond | July 31, 2009 at 8:42 pm |

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJYg04-goLs Max & Stcay ,..thankyou for this weeks show ,’ on the edge ‘ [ it' s as good as doing a course' ]. a ‘ bubble ”of a different kind ,.for people who are tired of all things english/american including the mess that is the economy . something French , Dominique A “Dans Un Camion” [ a video with special effects for people who like music video without special effects ]
BondiBhoy | July 31, 2009 at 9:04 pm |

I don’t think post-Soviet Russia is anything to aspire to if we’re looking at how the US & some western European countries might emerge from this mess. A tiny elite of multi-billionaire oligarchs who are in bed with the govt whilst the masses scrape a living. The Americans could also learn a few lessons on counter-insurgency from the Russian govts since Yeltsin. i.e. bomb & kill anything and everything that moves, incl. Russian citizens living in Chechnya. Yeah that gets the job done….for the moment

Max dont be so dismissive of the ‘birthers’. yes it’s likely he was born in Hawaii (based on BO’s birth being printed in two local papers at the time) but he still hasnt come out with the full length birth cert that people are demanding. The Congressman at that town hall meeting was roundly booed by the crowd when he dismissed her claim. I cant say if it was just a vocal minority but theres certainly a lot of Yanks out ther who do question BO’s birthplace
vagabond | July 31, 2009 at 9:06 pm |

@Stacy ..apologies for misspelling,
Aridzonan | July 31, 2009 at 9:34 pm |

Excellent show highlighting the parallels of the crony class. Where all of the real assets were sold off to their buds for pennies on the dollar ( remnants).

Debt kills countries. We are not immune..It will be interesting to see if we’ll be able to pull ourselves out of a national financial Katrina. All I can say is, we’re gonna have to save ourselves.. Start your SOC’s today (Self Organizing Collectives).. bon courage..
Fred's Family | July 31, 2009 at 9:36 pm |

I’m certain the people of the former USSR
were in much better shape to endure the hard times coming to the USA.
They lived through the Gulags, and watched the people being fed into the machine every day.
Stalin took all the guns away early on so resistance was futile.
Tough to say how the endgame will play out over in the States.
People here are soft but bred on guns and Hollywood action movies .
Mep | July 31, 2009 at 9:43 pm |

@ Dan. “Yeah the birth certificate is a legitimate issue” Ugh. Are you aware that one cannot get a US passport without a US birth certificate?

I’m sorry, but people who do not accept at this point that Obama is a natural born citizen have a couple screws loose. I find it pathetic that Hawaii had to go through the process of recently REASSERTING that Obama was born in Hawaii.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32180625/ns/politics-white_house/

Thing is, there is nothing that would prove to the people who do not believe he was born here that he was born here. Not even video of Obama’s parents having sex, a video of his mother giving birth, and lab tests proving paternity would suffice. Something would be “suspicious.”
Coby | July 31, 2009 at 9:45 pm |

After reading this article http://tinyurl.com/nzbnqx on technology and market trading I begin to believe that the markets analysts talk about is only one aspect of trading and how it influences economies. Technology may present another driving force behind market trends. The article gives some insight on how algorithms and technology run stock markets and trading transactions without any human oversight and in secrecy. The power and control of technology is amazing.
Scott from Oregon | July 31, 2009 at 10:05 pm |

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService4/idUSTRE56U4CU20090731

We don’t need no stinkin’ audit of the Fed…
TSGordon | July 31, 2009 at 10:08 pm |

Thank you Dmitry for the wake-up call. I live in Arkansas and have spent the past two years in organic gardening and food research. -Thus, we haven’t that far to fall. Still, I have to laugh at my cousins, who abandoned the farm and have flaunted their ‘new’ money for the past few years in the NY Social register. Soon, they won’t be able to afford that ‘slip-fee’ unless they have something more important to do than schmooze with the elites at these (LOL) ‘polo parties’ in Central Park.

I wouldn’t even pay $500. a month to live in NYC, LA, or SF about now.
Scott from Oregon | July 31, 2009 at 10:14 pm |

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north739.html

Ben Elmer Fudd Bernanke? What’s he worried about?
Scott from Oregon | July 31, 2009 at 10:17 pm |

http://subrealism.blogspot.com/

Poor Congress Critters can’t have a ‘normal’ town hall meeting anymore….

Are people getting a wee bit testy?
disorient | July 31, 2009 at 10:21 pm |

@ scotts post

the guy is owned obviously

“Two cheers for Goldman Sachs: James Pethokoukis”

http://in.reuters.com/article/economicNews/idINIndia-41194620090721?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=11584
TSGordon | July 31, 2009 at 10:27 pm |

@Scott. Thanks for sending me to Reuters. (Normally, I would object.) I know this is off topic, but I don’t care since it’s about finance and scandal. Annie Liebovitz. was my neighbor when I lived in Chelsea, my good friend was her rep, and a few years ago he got screwed out of about a year’s worth of commission.

It is seriously unimaginable to me that she would find herself $25M. in debt, knowing what I do about the photo-game. Unfathomable, yet befitting, since I have known two of her main teacher/mentors, (Jay Ahrend & Mike Dobo,) each of whom reported a sense of dismay at her for not acknowledging her roots, (aka Cindy Lauper vs the Hooters, -etc.)

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56T61X20090730
stacyherbert | August 1, 2009 at 12:37 am |

@Mr Unemployed – we begin recording a new show first week of September with Max and Stacy. More info coming soon . . . .
TSGordon | August 1, 2009 at 1:15 am |

Remember AIG? Hummm, how long do you suppose can they play ‘dodge the state regulatory agents?’ Seems to defy Max’s earlier point about ‘no such thing as naked credit default-swap,’ except this time it’s more like “pin the tail on the State’s Governor.”
TSGordon | August 1, 2009 at 1:22 am |

Hi Stacy, long time no see. Can’t wait ‘trill September, I’ll be hiding under a rock by then. Seriously, if you just double the official numbers, and deduct 18% from the corporate profit projections, throw-out about 25,000 workers from the financial & shipping sectors (did I read 60%+ of all urban post offices closing?,)–pretty soon you have Armageddon.

Wait, I have one final request. Can you please send me one of those wonderful macaroons everybody has been raving about in Paris? The ones that put that smirky grin on Amalie’s face about this time last year…
Jeannon Kralj | August 1, 2009 at 5:25 am |

Regarding the birth certificate issue. Fisrt of all, other babies born at that hospital at that time were given real birth certificates or what is referred to as a “vault certificate.” People who had babies at that hospital at that time were NOT only presented with “a certificate of live birth.” I think the hospital in their many public statements said one time recently that some birth certificates were lost. They also said that certificate of live birth is all that was issued on some births. Those lies have been abandoned for new lies.

Mike Rivero (WhatReallyHappened.com) and GCNlive.com show host gets crazy mad when a caller wants to mention this issue. He says it is one of many orchestrated distractions. He says it is a non-issue. He says we are being set up. He says at the appropriate time, the real birth certificate will be produced and this uproar will be used as the excuse to shut down “patriot” Internet talk radio. Mike says the only real issue is that the banksters are stealing everyone blind right now.

I do not agree with Mike. We are all “ambidextrous”, that is, we are able to investigate and look in to more two or more matters at once, and we all are able to prioritize the importance of all the different “issues” they throw at us. No, the birth certificate is not the most important matter, but it is way up near the top. If the Constitution and the rule of law in the USA were still in operation, this matter would have to be investigated properly and immediately, and it really should have been established and settled before he became a candidate. If he is not U.S. born, then he needs to be kicked out of office, maybe out of the country altogether, and every action he has taken becomes null and void and needs to be undone if possible. (The innocent people he is responsible for killing cannot be undone.)

Both of these articles contain photos of real birth certificates for Hawaii from 1961.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103898

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103898

I personally believe Obama is an entity groomed and orchestrated to be the puppet president for this time. His ancestry is so mysterious and undocumented, it is almost a joke. (There are articles on the web stating his mother was working for the CIA. Not an anomoly when viewing his and his “family’s” history.
Danny | August 1, 2009 at 5:36 am |

@Mep

there seems to alot of this ‘if you attack Obama you’re a racist’ crap floating around. He and the media are making it about race! What about this bull with that black professor and the white cop and the beers on the lawn? thats crap, spin and distaction. Again making it about race!

Whatever- fine. Prove me wrong. Just show us the birth certificate and all this can be ended immediately.
max keiser | August 1, 2009 at 6:27 am |

Isn’t the whole Obama birth certificate thing just FoxNews and Lou Dobbs playing the troll? The people going along with this become trolls themselves. Eventually, the troll-ponzi scheme dies and the whole ‘issue’ disappears.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll

what’s incredible to me is how these ‘stories’ disappear from our collective imaginations.

A year from now, or two years from now. 99% of the people who are pationatley caught up in this faux hysteria are not going to have any recollection of it at all…

As the bigger story of sinking into economic apocalypse will crowd out anything but how to survive stories.

re: mailpoop sent to GoldmanSachs idea.. I think this is a great campaign. Imagine if 1 ton of dog poo shows up at 85 Broad St. in a couple of weeks. America will be saved!!!!
Youri Carma | August 1, 2009 at 7:40 am |

@Mep

It’s always curious to see that people who can’t show any evidence play the”ad Hominem” card like: They are a cook or somtin.

Just show they evidence what’s so difficult about that?

Just show the ORIGINAL BLOODY BITH CERTIFICATE WE BLOODY WELL ALL HAVE TO SHOW THAT TO BIG BROTHER SO WHY NOT THE PRESIDENT?

People who can’t show evidence have qa screw lose are cooks and can’t be trusted they are liars.
max keiser | August 1, 2009 at 8:01 am |

I need some votes to keep this on front page

vote, vote, vote!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385×346270

thanks, thanks, thanks

also, we are back next week with edition 13 of ON THE EDGE for a special summer show!!!!!
Youri Carma | August 1, 2009 at 8:17 am |

@Maxkeiser

Like to vote but where is the vote button?
T | August 1, 2009 at 4:06 pm |

Dr Housing Bubble?
rokw4petrocollapse | August 1, 2009 at 7:54 pm |

Max, I don’t have a dog. I couldn’t send dog poop. So I sent my own poop. Does that still work?
NTM | August 1, 2009 at 7:59 pm |

http://market-ticker.org/archives/1282-GDP-And-Debt-In-Video-Attached-Images.html

Denninger GDP lecture.

thx

ntm
dan valley | August 2, 2009 at 8:15 am |

Regarding the birth certificate issue….one last time….We have a president that at the forefront of his rehtoric is the needless spending that he will end.,So why is he spending millions on a team of lawyers to keep from showing his birth certificate????????????????????????????????????????

Give me an answer that makes sense, and seems legitimate for the amt of headache it creates.