Comments on: Max Blog: UK Pirate Party receiving over 100 new members per hour

By: T

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:34:36 +0000

Yes, I know that’s a silly question. But then again, in this Global Depression (send a memo to Geithner and Bernanke re: this), you need all the comedy you can get.

By: T

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:33:38 +0000

Any chance the Pirate Party will come to the States?

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:34:54 +0000

“The dollar’s destiny lies with Congress.”

Last sentence of Warren’s op-ed essay. Is Buffet trying to scapegoat Congress by laying the blame for a collapse dollar at their door?

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:28:44 +0000

@Mini:
Warren Buffet…what’s his real name?

By: Mini US

Mini US — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:42:54 +0000

@Black Douglas
Good questions one and all.
I just watched the Soros I/V which then led me to watch similar I/V’s with Buffett, Branson, etc.
The general consensus seems to be……
Aaaaaaraggghhhhhhh!!!!
1. Deflation – Current
This is so the wealthy can buy up cheap assets. ie China stockpile. Commodities may not seem so cheap now but wait a year or two, look back and you will see.
2. Some sort of $US collapse gradual or sudden(its already happening)
3.Call it what you like Inflation/Hyperinflation/Stagflation. They all have the word ‘flation’ in them. That is prices going up.
Peter Schiff describes it as Hyperinflation during a depression. Sounds bad huh?
Warren Buffett says “We will get through it as we have in the past”.
Sure Warren, can I come for dinner at your place while all this is going on?

By: geopol

geopol — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:05:35 +0000

“The story is told that after he had been deported to Italy, Lucky Luciano granted an interview in which he described a visit to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. When the operations of floor specialists had been explained to him, he said, ‘A terrible thing happened. I realized I’d joined the wrong mob’” (1Ney, 8).

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:28:41 +0000

@BlackDouglas:
My question: What happens to the currency if the Fed is declared insolvent due to an audit?

Hyperinflation happens when money vectors rapidly through the real economy.

But a dollar devaluation would produce the same results.

The FDIC will be doing more than the Fed anyway with bank closures and guaranteed deposits. The money does not exist in a fund; the Treasury market is dead; so won’t the aide given to depositers be inflationary? (Fed will be printing money) Looks like a bonanza of bank closures are looming with the commercial real estate collapse.

The Fed won’t buy any more treasuries after October (above board anyway):
http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/pomo_faq.html

Consumer panic or currency devaluation?

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:19:04 +0000

@BlackDouglas:
George Soros interview to answer your question about mopping:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHV0KBtOnXs

By: stacyherbert

stacyherbert — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:54:07 +0000

@Mother Earth – the single biggest cost in any documentary style production will be the travel to and from locations and interviewees; it’s really difficult to cut costs on that any further than flying on dodgy airlines and hiring dilapidated rental cars and staying in fleabag hotels

By: Douglas aka Thunder Preacher

Douglas aka Thunder Preacher — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:34:21 +0000

@AM

Join the Pirate Party and try to steer its bow into the right direction! I agree with you. I think that a true pirate party should be a breeding place of ideas on (m)any issues and have the liberty to put those ideas forward into the commons and interact in the pirating of those ideas.

@Max & Jan

Thanks for the support! We have no time to waste.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:32:56 +0000

German Weimar Republic in the early 1920s and the U.S. – Troubling similarities

There’s a possibility of something similar (but not as severe) happening in the U.S. – we’d rather at least mention it than not.
The parallel to the German war reparations is the derivatives area today.
Don’t shoot the messenger, we didn’t invent the facts below.

http://www.nowandfutures.com/us_weimar.html
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VERY good read … and useful comparison IMO !

By: BlackDouglas

BlackDouglas — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:31:29 +0000

Anyone on the hyperinflation argument -

I have listened to Marc Faber and many others talk about ‘hyperinflation’ coming because of all the printed money. It’s not getting out of the banks though. They are keeping it because they need to improve their balance sheets. So, I’m not sure there’ll be hyper-inflation in the real economy.

Perhaps it may come from overseas bond-holders selling and then getting out and then buying foreign currency. That total is around 3-4 trillion, no? Can that me ‘mopped up’ with interest rate hikes?

The problem with this is that the ordinary taxpayer can’t afford these hikes and who are actually being starved of cash.

So, are we not looking at a devaluation rather than hyperinflation?

By: AM

AM — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:19:50 +0000

Although this sound great: 1. The reform of Copyright and Patent Laws 2. The protection of our Right to Privacy 3. The protection of our Right to Freedom of Speech ‘

I’m really turned off by the statement; It says it will remain neutral on all other issues outside of these three concerns.

So the banksters may still steal our money? the military industrial complex may still kill people for profits? Monsanto/other biotech companies can still poison our foods?
and so on…

What kind of political party says; neutral on issues outside this.
Might as well not started an POLITICAL party, i totally agree that copyrights restricts humanity. That freedom of speech should be protected and our privacy too, but that’s not all that has to be done… Big Big turn off, was almost convinced to actually vote/stand behind an political party.
The pirate party can have power if enough people vote for them, yet again why would anyone vote for an party that limits itself to 3 issues. Max for EU central bank president!

By: max keiser

max keiser — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:11:52 +0000

Douglas aka Thunder Preacher
Aug 19, 2009 at 5:55 am

Anyone interested in a Dutch pirate party? We need one urgently as this country is trying to be the best in class again to fight piracy. It is time for some creative people to rule this bastion of conservatism that this country is!

YES!

this is what the anti-globalization movement was/is supposed to be. IP laws are the lynch pin issue. Before the public domain can be reclaimed from the energy, pharmaceutical, military, agricultural monopolists it must be reclaimed from the copyright cartel.

We need room to think. This free space to conceive and communicate ideas has been infected with toll booths and propaganda.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:52:43 +0000

I wish to create a film about my new religion. I call it capitalism(TM). I wonder how piratemyfilm can help? The basic tenets are here:
http://GoldmanSachs.TK

By: Youri carma

Youri carma — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:49:05 +0000

MOVIE POSTER Brezinski – Obama unleash Dark Forces, Ron Paul is the Force! http://tinyurl.com/mwsbx6

By: Jan Pompe

Jan Pompe — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:20:12 +0000

Yess Douglas, I will join! Keep me posted!
Jan.

By: Dedo

Dedo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:01:48 +0000

Most of you have probably read this, but for those who haven’t take a peek:

http://www.mega.nu/ampp/swfqw.html#metatop

By: Douglas aka Thunder Preacher

Douglas aka Thunder Preacher — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:55:32 +0000

By: doomandbloom

doomandbloom — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:37:05 +0000

ausum..

guess u are right @dan valley!

By: Mini US

Mini US — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:34:45 +0000

@Frances Snoot
Hey there.
Looks like Warren Buffett can see a big future in ETS, Carbon Trading, etc. and can’t wait to get his mits on it.
The only way business was ever gonna do anything about the planet was to make money out of it…..and Govts are complying with their wishes.
Another chapter in market distortion and manipulation for the benefit of the few in the name of saving the planet. Its sickening.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJ0rDI2fay9CB4ngpuR84UrEmyfwD9A5QKI80

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:28:46 +0000

Max: “Obamas a bum – three strikes your out!”

John Pilger tends to agree – calling him a ‘corporate marketing creation’ (que A Century of Self)

http://tiny.cc/Hj4dv

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:09:12 +0000

Interesting. Warren Buffet has an op-ed with the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/opinion/19buffett.html?pagewanted=1&sq=gusher&st=cse&scp=1

By: Mother Earth

Mother Earth — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:06:46 +0000

@Youri

Beep… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e86Yd2r02Gk

By: Youri carma

Youri carma — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:50:02 +0000

Sattelite connection split channels best when Sats reachable, hacking possible splits needed.

If not available good ol Trucker 27 MC or FM gear best. Pirated FM no problem so widely spread. Can’t stop anymore.

Nor can do.