Captured presidents, imploding LBOs

Posted on November 7, 2009 by stacyherbert| 47 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Some blog posts I am reading this morning.

And speaking of LBO deals going bust.  Can’t say we didn’t predict it would happen . . .

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  1. Dante | November 7, 2009 at 11:47 am |

    We discussed the purchase of International Monetary Fund gold by the Reserve Bank of India, the purchase of gold by the Sri Lankan central bank, the observation by Bloomberg News London bureau chief Mark Gilbert that pervasive government intervention has distorted all markets, and the continuing destruction of the middle class in the United States. You can listen to the interview at the King World News Internet site here:

    http://tinyurl.com/yhc4jfg

  2. Richard@lattitude30N | November 7, 2009 at 9:03 am |

    @Merci: “how far down…….”…..well that all depends on how much deprogramming you require….and other pertinent circumstances…FYI…”Don bag of chicken” is now in Belize….he was a thoughtful ( and sometimes still contributes ) contributor to this forum…Max and Stacy as you know have departed for Paris and are expats there….Ilya keeps talking about a villa on Isla Margarita,Venezuela….yet two Chavez soldiers were recently killed on the Columbian border…read several books: The Creature from Jekyll Island comes to mind…The Politics of Heroin in SE Asia ( maybe out of print by now ); subscribe to various websites: this one, maybe alex jone’s infowars.com, or jeff rense @ rense.com or halfpasthuman.com w/ Clif High or denninger’s blog, or the one by Jim Willey or even Peter Schiff( now he has become very mainstream>>>currently running for Senator from Conn….); or also anything that C.A. Fitts has to say @ solari.com but basically if and when you come to the conclusion a select elite have been performing mind control find a method to deprogram…yoga, meditation, thai chi, massage, find a love for nature, even certain natural ( yet currently unlawful ) hallucinogens….but above all find peace within and after you can differentiate the truth from the lie ( and the Big Lie )…you will IMHO be a better person for it…it’s an ongoing process, the opposing system of thought is an ever evolving snake that morphs whenever you least expect it…

  3. frances snoot | November 7, 2009 at 8:57 am |

    @WL;
    Just more money in some pot they can siphon. Looks like they are set to move the 401K’s into the empty social security pot. Sickening.

    Who’s paying for the illegals? Watch: citizenship requirements to change soon as well. It will be a privilege to be a citizen that one earns: not a right inherent from birth country.

  4. merci | November 7, 2009 at 8:36 am |

    @Merci: Do you think hope is foolish? What choice did we have? Palin??? OMG.

    To quote our Bonn…. ROFL, PMSL ;)

    Hope is not foolish, but it can lead one astray. As far as the vote, it was as much against the alternative as it was for Obama. As we now know, the candidates are basically the same and answer to the same masters.

    The illusion that we actually have a say seems daft and sadly comical now. Not too cynical, eh?

    Richard, The Matrix does describes it perfectly. I’ve swallowed the red pill and I have yet to hit the bottom of the rabbit hole. How much further down do we have to go before it is ALL clear?

    This here hole is deep :)

  5. WL | November 7, 2009 at 8:26 am |

    PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
    JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail
    Friday, November 06, 2009

    Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

    http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=153583

  6. Phil | November 7, 2009 at 8:02 am |

    PS@Option Trader Friday Outlook: Is the Dollar Going UUP?

    I’m surprised ZeroHedge isn’t onto to this ?
    Sure, they mentioned it .. but I think there’s more behind it !

    …The Shares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT) fund lit up our Heat Seeker tracking program today as new money streamed into the November 95 calls. Most of the large trades in the ETF priced for $0.35 to $0.40, and volume in the strike was more than twice open interest at 14,418 contracts….

    And this from us2u001@IV-PM board :

    … Strikes me there is concerted effort to rally the dollar, even to the point that the Treasury Department brought in independant financial bloggers a week ago for a 2 hour meeting and discussion. What do you suppose they were encouraging? Do you think any supporters of the Treasury now show up on these kind of BB’s given their new friends the bloggers are seen as a circle of influence?

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/171297-linkfest-for-treasury-blogger-meet-up

    If the Fed can print money with their pixels those pixels can just as easily buy options , piece of cake to prime the pump and convince the world they should remove their shorts from the dollar and quit buying gold. Trouble is the fundamentals just don’t work for them. We have been hearing this chant for a month now as the dollar goes sideways and gold continues higher. If sideways is the best you then the boys at the Treasury and Fed are not working hard enough !

    Seems to me the consensus is now that the dollar rally is overdue but it just isn’t happening. So get Goldman along with its surrogates and Deutsche Bank to send a message thru the options , just one more tool in the box.

    Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t , either way the Treasury will keep working at it. You can’t borrow trillions and sell Treasury bills without creating demand can you !

    http://www.investorvillage.com/iv2/smbd.asp?mb=144&mn=33298&pt=msg&mid=8154924
    …

    Try this link, if the IV doesn’t work directly :

    http://www.investorvillage.com/iv2/smbd.asp?mb=144#top

    Message #s 33298 & 33299

  8. Richard@lattitude30N | November 7, 2009 at 7:49 am |

    @Merci: no need to apologize…much like the Matrix and Neo…you may have wished you didn’t take the red pill..the rabbit hole goes deep and holding to any “construct” that keeps your world together and possibly realizing the “truth does not hold” may be difficult at times….use matchsticks if necessary…(HA! that was my comical nature)…be well

  9. frances snoot | November 7, 2009 at 7:42 am |

    I was a fool.

    @Merci: Do you think hope is foolish? What choice did we have? Palin??? OMG.
    Can’t you just imagine all the years of listening to her bright-as-bunny comments about foreign policy while McCain shirked about Corporate functions?

    I didn’t vote for anyone. Made me feel foolish as well.

  10. merci | November 7, 2009 at 7:38 am |

    Richard, I agree. I admit I was asleep, half way believing that this presidential campaign was somehow different. I was a fool.

    I come here to learn from Max and all the erudite comments that shed so much light on history and the present situation. I cannot say enough positive about your learned observations and appreciate you sharing them and educating.

    I am awake now and do not plan on slipping back into slumber. You and Frances snoot (and so many others here) are daily must reads to open the eyes, heart and mind.

    The information discussed here is important, beyond words and a source of sanity in attempting to put the puzzle together.
    I thank you for helping me understand.

  11. frances snoot | November 7, 2009 at 7:30 am |

    Sorry, Richard. Wrong interview. Becky was fluttering for Bill Gross. The other was a CNBC Exclusive interview. Can’t remember that reporters name, but same/same.

  12. frances snoot | November 7, 2009 at 7:29 am |

    @Richard@Lat30N:

    Ignoring the agenda allows the real operatives to continue paying the media shills. Did you notice the coy treacle-like attitude of Becky Quick towards Sir Evelyn. She wants her bread buttered on BOTH sides.

  13. frances snoot | November 7, 2009 at 7:25 am |

    @TJ:
    Are you sure, not boring?

    Hurrah!
    Do you get this sentence from Harrison:
    The Fed’s liquidity is still liquid.

    huh?

    Bribes are when one’s arm is twisted. Business lunches and dinners and gifts are called American niceties.

  14. Richard@lattitude30N | November 7, 2009 at 7:22 am |

    @frances snoot: ” to ignore an agenda is to allow it’s continued vigor”….well said….yet I suppose the word sinister comes to mind…just maybe they don’t know any different…maybe greed is such a pervasive mind warp that they have no choice but to fulfill the internal directive…I really am not versed in psychological positions which are innate or learned…so IMO, and not to condone their activities, the expression “go along to get along” just might prevail in some circles…

  15. frances snoot | November 7, 2009 at 7:21 am |

    @Mike/Liverpool:
    The same idea was said to be “introduced” by Ratigain. Here is the link to the blog from your article explaining it is not a new idea but the Tobin tax all along:
    http://blogs.news.sky.com/kleinman/Post:3761c750-5f65-4440-8011-7a011eaf4c2e

    The G20 is set to implement the guidelines ignored in the original Bretton Woods: sdr-system as reserve; international clearing union; manage deficits and surpluses through supranational controls.

    http://europenews.dk/en/node/26344

  16. Frank Hope | November 7, 2009 at 7:15 am |

    Good call Max. You’ve earned the right to say “I told you so!” in spades! I only became aware of this situation in the days leading up to the Great Bailout of ’08. You on the other hand were well ahead of the game. Some might call you a Doomsayer, but I would call you a Truthsayer. Well done! Please keep it up for the sake of all of us.

  17. Devon Hall | November 7, 2009 at 7:09 am |

    Hi Max you are one of the best. The world is on a knife edge of debt these wallstreet crooks turn us upside down and shaking every cents out of our pocket. If the world does not awake from its sleep they have already stripped us from skin to bone, they control our freedom, what we see, what we hear what we eat what we drink, if we do not stop them in their track we will not left with the very air to breethe

    Devon from jamaica

  18. TJ | November 7, 2009 at 7:08 am |

    @frances

    not boring ;-)

    Have you ever wondered at the difference between “unlawful payments” and bribes? JP Morgan shafted Jefferson County
    Alabama but apparently, they bribed no one. Go figure

  19. frances snoot | November 7, 2009 at 7:04 am |

    “So what we have here is a case of crony capitalism and kleptocracy, plain and simple – whether by design or not is immaterial. ”

    How so immaterial? If by design, then the powers behind the crimes had an agenda. The agenda would be extremely material to the American people since it seems not to play in the best interests of the taxpayers. To ignore an agenda is to allow its continued vigor.

  21. frances snoot | November 7, 2009 at 6:53 am |

    “The Obama Administration is captured.”

    Yes, but captured by whom?

    Harrison insists two Rasputins circle about Obama:

    “Fast-forward to Barack Obama’s presidency and you have an almost identical situation, this time with the economy instead of foreign policy and Tim Geithner and Larry Summers instead of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney…”

    In calling the criminals at two, Harrison completely ignores the G20 power structure which operates through coalition. But this follows from Harrison’s other faulty summation:

    “When historians look back at the Bush 42 presidency, it will be defined by 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While George W. Bush was politically pre-disposed to the Neo-con world view, it was really advice from Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld which made Afghanistan and Iraq possible.
    So, I see George W. Bush’s presidency as having been defined by foreign policy and the War on Terror and, by extension, on Rumsfeld and Cheney.”

    The Afghan debacle began with a UNSC mandate. Iraq also served coalition profit.
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece

    Decoupling American intent from G20 ambition is extremely myopic and can only serve the purpose of protecting foreign criminal interest.

  22. Phil | November 7, 2009 at 6:45 am |

    @Mike … “The money collected could be held in a global fund to bail out failed banks, Mr Brown suggested.”

    Brown doesn’t get it … we don’t want a “global” (central) bank that controls who is left holding the debt-bag = all taxpayers ! The FED is bad enough !

  23. Chris | November 7, 2009 at 6:42 am |

    Get this, a few days ago Max is interviewed on BBC advocating a tax on speculative lending/investments and now Brown makes same proposal:

    http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEbwLvzaLk04&pos=1

  24. Max Power | November 7, 2009 at 6:41 am |

    It is not so much that US elected officials are ‘captured’ by those they regulate … they are ‘enslaved’ by them.

    The 2 US political parties are little more than slave marts, without all the fun.

  26. Richard@lattitude30N | November 7, 2009 at 6:28 am |

    @merci: “he did have a choice in the matter”…well I guess you voted for him…and not to sound impolite: his hype….”HOPE”…and he is/was a good salesman/politician….my take is a more skewed view and since I glean from so many sources…it does appear that the NWO faction worldwide have an agenda…..my dear merci…it takes years of abuse to reach a conclusion that if someone from the government is speaking it is most likely a lie…it is my view that we have a captured government..it has been that way sometime after WWII and the NSA Act of 1947, and the CIA Act of 1949….and it may have deeper roots with the advent of the FED in 1913….Lyndon Larouche dates it to the 1400′s and advent of the Italian city state….the Dutch/Anglo-American empire is in a death throw with what in years past was defined as the ‘emerging third world nations”, now the BRIC countries, the Shanghai Coop, the So American socialist nations who have formed a Bank of the South, a ASEAN inner core of nations, and not to be outdone, an African Union ( as lead by Kafaffi )….and I suspect many subgroups…the American Empire hegemony is holding on for dear life…by being a killing machine…it already raised a war on it’s own citizens since 1970 ( War on Drugs) and incarcerated 2.2 million non violent offenders( or 70% thereof ); and several foreign wars too: Viet Nam, coups throughout the world ( ala John Perkins: C of an EHM); Somalia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, all the wars fought by Israel, etc. etc.etc…I could go on…all that’s good about being an American is almost washed away by the incessant military presence throughout the world…and now that it has been the “source” of the sub-prime ( and global financial )meltdown…the economic blight has spread worldwide too…I wake up today to flags at half mast…due to the actions of a lone gunman, a US GI major/psychiatrist who “cracked” under the strain…But if you read http://www.worldreports.org well maybe if it is true an underlying event took place @ Ft Hood involving a shadow world we mere citizens are mostly unaware of…

  27. Phil | November 7, 2009 at 6:28 am |

    Option Trader Friday Outlook: Is the Dollar Going UUP?

    …Sadly, Americans are fairly clueless about currency conversion and the gold bulls prey on that ignorance and put up all kinds of charts and draw trends and attempt to baffle you with statistics because they can be fairly confident that not for one moment are we going to step back and look at things from a global perspective. Oil is scammed in a similar fashion but, unlike oil, the gold market is heavily dependent on physical demand and they can only drive up the futures as long as they have fresh suckers to reel in; but the price of gold collapses like quite the house of cards as soon as anyone tries to unload their shiny bits of metal.

    That’s why you see non-stop advertising telling you to buy gold coins as an investment. The speculators need someone to take physical gold off the market, just like the Krugerrand craze that was used to drive up the price of gold. That’s why India’s purchase was such a relief and sent gold up 7.5% in the last 5 sessions – there had been a fear that the IMF would have to sell gold on the open market. China was originally targeted to be the gold buyer but the Yuan is pegged to the dollar and China had no interest in paying such a ridiculous price to store gold while India’s currency is just rolling off their 2-year high and they are using gold to lock in their gains….

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/171821-option-trader-friday-outlook-is-the-dollar-going-uup?source=email

    DB : “… due to investor demand … ” for a bullish US$ ?
    Is this another trick or what ?

  28. merci | November 7, 2009 at 6:01 am |

    Richard, thank you for summary….. yes, I am aware of what has been discussed here and that Max had expanded on so many issues not presented in msm. This is my “go to” site for the most comprehensive information.

    Was just referring to that particular article because the writer presented a naive? and somewhat (imo) shallow explanation. I no longer accept that capture alone addresses the big picture.

    Other presidents have had the will and found a way to impose corrective action. Are all the world governments captive? It would seem so. Something big is in the plans. I predict it will fail.

    p.s. I voted for Obama so I had a stake in seeing that he was successful and good for the country. Now I see he is just one of many who were selected as front men. He did have a choice in that matter.

  29. Richard@lattitude30N | November 7, 2009 at 5:59 am |

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/08/AR2009100804131.html?waporef=evri.widget.1

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110403791.html

    The first article was dated 10/09/09
    And the second noting a delay to release the FANNIE AND FREDDIE audit >>>long overdue>> both articles will most likely bear out that once again FHA is in arrears and in need of at least another $40 b Congressional bailout to meet the minimum reserves required by law..

  30. warburg sidney | November 7, 2009 at 5:54 am |

    Great stuff max,
    is there any news from that concerning Ukraine swineflu story? Odd how the whole things stays out of the MSM, so it is not part of the usual fear-mongering vaccine stuff!

  31. Richard@lattitude30N | November 7, 2009 at 5:39 am |

    @merci:”wrong advice”….you are correct…yet Max continues to yell out that it is a “controlled demolition”…and Bush and Obama are/were mere puppets…neither had a backbone to disagree with the oligarchs and their respective government minion…underlying most of Max’s videos and interviews is the theme that a “financial coup” has occurred…and that it is lead by “financial terrorists”…IMO he suggests to the listening public that neither administration’s head guy even raised a little finger in opposition to the WS overlords….in Bush’s regime the defense industry ( lead by Cheney/Rumsfeld ) controlled the budget >>>right until that October day in 2008 when Paulson emerged and extorted the Congress for $700 b….and continued into the Obama administration w/ Bernanke/Geithner/Sommers/Volker now following orders from the inner core (GS??JPMorganChase?? ) of the financial industry..Max in a prior post comments that in toto all the IRS revenue is divided between the DOD and the bailout to the TBTF banks…leaving zero for anything else…( except raising the debt level )….Just a synopsis of past posts…hope you have a better understanding of what has been “said” here for the last two years..

  32. TheBlackSwan | November 7, 2009 at 5:19 am |

    oh my sweet lord!
    Max & Super Stace. Look out for the stupendous Goldman Suchs PR puff piece in the Sunday Times this weekend its enough to make you wanna puke blood

  33. merci | November 7, 2009 at 5:13 am |

    Great video Max! Love the still pic of the locust and crown with ominous music playing.

    Re: the linked Credit Writedowns article , it does not ring true that this Administration was simply lead astray by the evil counterparts to Cheney/ Rumsfeld.

    Both Bush and Obama had plenty of opportunity to see the results of this “bad advice” and take steps to correct these massively destructive actions. The arguments set forth in that article do not answer or even address the larger questions.

    This meltdown is global. Countries are imploding in lock step. The financial industry is being allowed to dismantle and loot. The dimmest wit can see all this…..and yet, still nothing effective is being done and they are stetting taxpayers up for another bailout! This goes beyond capture and the simplistic and incredible argument that it was “wrong advice”. Please.

  36. Bonn | November 7, 2009 at 4:44 am |

    Pedalling of Financial Anti – matter causes Joblessness ROFL where buy People sell Debt from Company A to Company B. and Company B goes Bust cause Company C says By the Power of Battery Rating agency those Financial Anti Matter Derivatives are AAA rofl oh also please note * it has some assets worth -ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ which by USGAAP we dont have to tell u this Quarter AND Wink Wink i am also betting you go Belly up Next Quater Wink Wink ROFL

  37. Phil | November 7, 2009 at 4:41 am |

    @Bonn …. I should have known better !
    ;-)

    A typical Max Keiser line : Financial Anti- Matter
    LOL

  38. Bonn | November 7, 2009 at 4:35 am |

    sorry @ Phil

  39. Bonn | November 7, 2009 at 4:31 am |

    @ doomandbloom
    … Financial Anti- Matter

    Great line …

    IT IS MAX”S Line Doomandbloom
    not mine. :-)

  40. Phil | November 7, 2009 at 4:27 am |

    @Bonn … Financial Anti- Matter

    Great line …

    Max , you should used this one in your next video.
    It describes things perfectly .. LOL!
    ;-)

  41. doomandbloom | November 7, 2009 at 4:26 am |

    @Bonn

    I think we should request this track at all radio stations and MTV playlists….take this up the billboard charts :-) …

    as max would say RISE UP!!

  42. Bonn | November 7, 2009 at 4:25 am |

    Finally the World is gonna find out that they have been peddaling hot air and that there is nothing there behind these Financial Instruments. N will fall into thier own footprint like a controlled Demolition.ROFL.
    Financial Anti- Matter.

  43. Phil | November 7, 2009 at 4:18 am |

    The videos are nearly 2 years old. It’s a pity that all Max’s Videos do not get shown in MSM prime time . I suppose their excuse is “the people want circuses and wine” , rather than honest political information. But we knew that I suppose.
    Great work Max.

  44. Youri Carma | November 7, 2009 at 4:17 am |

    UK Headlines RBS 3 – 6 Nov 2009 http://tinyurl.com/yb35zom

  45. Bonn | November 7, 2009 at 4:15 am |

    @ doomandbloom
    ROFL Hey Nice idea too .Just F#$%K the Fed.
    The people should just start something alternative. Let em keep going Beserk. Alternative Govt. Backed with GOLD.They are anyway Senile half of congree and the Fed.They were premature out in 1776 thats all ROFL NWO lol how can anyone come up with this stupid idea.And Gordon Brown is also like yeah NWO.They are gonna go down in History as the most stupidest people on Earth.ROFL.Its gonna be like an Elephant stepping on a bug LOL

  46. doomandbloom | November 7, 2009 at 3:09 am |

    hey hey hey hey…fuck the fed…!! very catchy tune..by Neal Fox

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiTikduJ15Y