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• frances snoot

  Nov 25, 2009 at 8:25 am

  

  @Phil:
  “BTW , our Chinese friends told us that rice is now far more expensive in China than in Germany !”

  Interesting. The horse of the Apocalypse representing famine is set to ride when a man’s whole day’s work is rewarded with a handful of grain. Quite the backdrop to what we are soon to experience with the currency volitility.
• buddhabob

  Nov 25, 2009 at 8:34 am

  

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/24/state-dinner-pictures-det_n_370024.html

  While Rome is burning we get this bullsh..

  What a joke. The ghetto outside is 2 blocks away for God’s sake.
• frances snoot

  Nov 25, 2009 at 8:34 am

  

  Forgive me my imaginative bent. The act of enlarging the sdr basket could be imagined to be a square around the circle: the square representing a fence controlled by the IMF/BIS and the circle the sphere of the globe. The endgame is balance of the feminine (nature) with the masculine (man). The power over that basket is and will be godlike. Here is a picture of what I imagine:

  http://arthistory.about.com/library/weekly/bl_leo_vitruvian_man.htm

  The fences that divided man as individuated will be removed with the collapse of the fractional reserve system of currency. With man at center of a fenced currency system, the ideal of balance is thought by those in power to be attainable.

  Death will be unavoidable outside the fence.
• Sam53

  Nov 25, 2009 at 8:41 am

  

  @stacy

  ‘light blue burka’

  I can loan you my dark blue one if you split the bag of gold with me!
• Phil

  Nov 25, 2009 at 8:48 am

  

  EU – An Open Conspiracy…

  Home affairs are now the EU’s business

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38InlHzQUXA&feature=sub
• Scott from Oregon

  Nov 25, 2009 at 8:55 am

  

  http://www.dailypaul.com/node/116021

  Audit of Fed Bill attached to empowerment of Fed legislation…
• warburg sidney

  Nov 25, 2009 at 8:57 am

  

  Max talking about hackers during the show….
  It was as if he wanted to get into that global warming email story…
  but he finally did not…..
  why?
  It is an interesting story that has many sides….
  Such as ethics in science….
• gb

  Nov 25, 2009 at 8:58 am

  

  @Max&Stacy, in case you missed this

  Britain’s new Internet law — as bad as everyone’s been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
  http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/britains-new-interne.html
• Youri Carma

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:02 am

  

  @Jim ODonnell @JJ Royal Canadian Mint Missing

  This is a lot of BS the frauded the system by double counting their gold which all central bankers did also in the Netherlands for instance. Central bankers always lie about gold & Interest rates.

  No it came out they call it a “mistake” the fraudulent central banksters. If a peasant makes a “mistake” he goes to jail but not these banksters.

  @Mongo

  Baltic Dry – don’t forget about this site: http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index.htm

  @Mini US “German sense of humour”

  What that supose to be? More pre-puberal infantile jokes about white under trousers and shit LOL
• Adam C

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:05 am

  

  CHANGE!!!

  “Change” by Dr. B
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrszafggqc8

  Dangerously close to your gold coin and toilet paper tricks, Max.
• maxkeiser

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:06 am

  

  Mister Keiser,

  As a French reporter, I prepare a serie of interviews about 911 for the webTv “La Télé Libre” directed by the famous political journalist, John Paul Lepers.
  We have already talked with Cynthia McKinney, former US presidential candidate and Niels Harrit, a scientist promoting the theory of “controlled demolition” of the World Trade Center.
  http://latelelibre.fr/index.php/2009/10/11-septembre-le-droit-au-doute-deff/

  We have also interviewed Jean-Charles Brisard, former financial expert for the 911 families
  http://latelelibre.fr/index.php/2009/11/11-septembre-pour-une-nouvelle-enquete/

  For our next report, dedicated to the 911 put options, I would like to ask you some questions about what and how did you learn about these matters. We can also talk about your project called” Baltimore jihadis” which seems to be directly related to that story.

  Could you be free for an hour these following days in Paris for this interview?
  Thanks for any answer.

  Best regards,

  Hicham Hamza
  http://latelelibre.fr
• Photoception

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:09 am

  

  Max you should consider the possibility of a liquidity crisis. The dollar, being the reserve currency, is key to global liquidity.

  Since everybody is short the dollar, and therefore short liquidity itself, we could have a catastrophe when people take profits. In the end, everybody has the same plan: sell their gold/assets when they feel they’ve made a satisfactory appreciation, for FIAT currency. It will be greed one minute, fear the next. If I had gold I wouldn’t have the conviction to still hold it today.
• James

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:10 am

  

  Ni hau Max and Stacey

  My Thankgiving dinner will be less expensive this year. I just bought a 15 pound turkey for 40 cents a pound. I am thankfull for that. I will need the savings to pay for the tax increase.

  I disagree that the problem is the fall of capitalism. The problem that we are experiencing is the fall of statism. All of the capitalists have moved to China long ago.

  tsi chen

  P.S. please excuse my pin yin. I’m still learning Mandarin.
• Youri Carma

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:11 am

  

  Yep, that’s right Max the Phone Flute – Pirates of silicon valley – Part 1 (from 5:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xflXMZL2stU

  The New Steve Jobs Flute
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDqE8rUuFw
• Justget Itright

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:11 am

  

  I am giving thought to converting to an Amish life style, with a Mexican twist, and a couple wind turbines and solar panels.
• Adam C

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:18 am

  

  The leak/hack story is kinda dead now. From here on in, it’s all about getting access to the ["deleted"] raw surface temperature data and resurrecting honest science.

  ‘…whatever one thinks of the morality of climate-change alarmism, it is important to understand that the people actively involved in this campaign honestly believe in their cause. This is not a movement that consciously seeks to deceive or which conspires to fiddle the figures. It is a lobby driven by powerful beliefs and convictions, which need to be taken seriously if the issues at stake are to be clarified and understood. — …focusing on the behind-the-scenes emailing and manoeuvring of crusading climate scientists – where now anti-greens accuse greens of being involved in a vast, top-secret conspiracy – may inadvertently reinforce the conspiratorial outlook that dominates the discussion of climate change. And such an outlook is inhospitable to intellectual clarification and the search for the truth. Those who are genuinely interested in furthering humanity’s understanding of the workings of the earth’s climate should resist the temptation to play the conspiracy card.’

  Spiked — We don’t need another conspiracy theory
  http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7748/

  Stay on target; science not rhetoric:

  Skeptics Handbook 1 & 2: http://bit.ly/5ilJaD
• Youri Carma

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:18 am

  

  Turkey Training for TnX Giv’N http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7q5IELpCY
• warburg sidney

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:25 am

  

  Science should be transparence and not act in secrecy, adam!
• Adam C

  Nov 25, 2009 at 9:45 am

  

  @warburg sidney

  We are not in disagreement.
• PaulH

  Nov 25, 2009 at 11:00 am

  

  @Justget Itright

  Me too. You may wish to consider one of these…

  http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com

  I have my eye on the Fencl.

  Here’s the tour :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRvsWuWNUM
• Mep

  Nov 25, 2009 at 12:32 pm

  

  @ James – My local grocery store(Wegmans) is determined not to be undersold–turkey is advertised at 49 cents per pound, but in the store, it’s 29 cents per pound w/ a $25 purchase. It’s supposed to be a limited, one-per customer thing @ the 29 cent/lb. price, but I’m reading that some locals have been able to get multiple turkeys at the checkout for that price. In contrast, their free range turkeys are in the neighborhood of $2.50-$3.00/lb. I spotted a 20 pounder for $59.

  @ Stacy – I like that you’ve already decided the color of burka that you’d like to wear into Afghanistan.
• norcalkid

  Nov 25, 2009 at 2:06 pm

  

  re: hackers, data storage and Afghanistan…
  The governments will never be able to keep up with the teenage hackers. My bets always go with the hackers, they have creativity and knowledge on their side. As to safe storage, get a bunch of cheap flash drives to backup your data. They are small and easily stored.
  No outside military entity has ever been able to “conquer” Afghanistan. Why does the Pentagon think it can “win” where other empires have failed? Morons. I invoke Santayana’s quote about learning from history.
• Mep

  Nov 25, 2009 at 2:10 pm

  

  @ Max – I don’t know that we have an accurate estimate of fuel costs in Afghanistan. $400/gallon has been commonly cited as the upper-end of what fuel costs. But if we believe Pentagon figures that the marines use 800,000 gallons per day, then the sticker price is $320 million/day JUST FOR the marines.

  http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/63407-400gallon-gas-another-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan?page=2

  Sickening, indeed.
• GGees

  Nov 25, 2009 at 2:47 pm

  

  Let the peasants eat cake!
• dan valley

  Nov 25, 2009 at 4:40 pm

  

  @ snoot…..Interesting. The horse of the Apocalypse representing famine is set to ride when a man’s whole day’s work is rewarded with a handful of grain. Quite the backdrop to what we are soon to experience with the currency volitility.
  ……most in china already work for a handful of grain…I see the BB peice is still ruminating with you.
• Karl Marx

  Nov 25, 2009 at 7:09 pm

  

  Thanksgiving in the Manhattan Colony

  In 1641 the Dutch governor Kieft of Manhattan offered the first “scalp bounty”–his government paid money for the scalp of each Indian brought to them. A couple years later, Kieft ordered the massacre of the Wappingers, a friendly tribe. Eighty were killed and their severed heads were kicked like soccer balls down the streets of Manhattan. One captive was castrated, skinned alive and forced to eat his own flesh while the Dutch governor watched and laughed. Then Kieft hired the notorious Underhill who had commanded in the Pequot war to carry out a similar massacre near Stamford, Connecticut. The village was set fire, and 500 Indian residents were put to the sword.

  A day of thanksgiving was proclaimed in the churches of Manhattan. As we will see, the European colonists declared Thanksgiving Days to celebrate mass murder more often than they did for harvest and friendship. [1]

  Transcript + podcast:

  http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/native-blood-the-myth-of-thanksgiving-2/
• Karl Marx

  Nov 25, 2009 at 7:37 pm

  

  Let’s be clear, obesity in Amerikkka is a phenomenon that’s developed out of class distinctions:

  * Access to nutritional foods is restricted whereas cheap processed foods are filled with only addictive ingredients appealing only to sensory inputs for the bottom line.

  * Irregular eating habits caused in the duration of time between when food stamps expire, going without cheap processed junk food, and gorging oneself after your “Quest” card is recharged.

  * Geography is another contributing factor that can both limit access and perhaps even inhibit or restrict ones ability to exercise, ie. getting shot, mugged, or raped are good deterrents.
• Mep

  Nov 25, 2009 at 11:29 pm

  

  @ Karl Marx – Yes, obesity and its health consequences (e.g., diabetes, heart problems) are absolutely tied to class. It’s a relatively hidden form of inequality. And when lack of access to health care is added into the mix, being poor or even lower-middle class in America can be a death sentence. However, there is evidence that obesity is rising for people of all income levels. I haven’t seen enough data to assess what the underlying factors are; my guess would be that it has a lot to do with the degradation of our food system (e.g. high fructose corn syrup and increased reliance on other sweeteners/additives; factory farming). It would be interesting to see whether increased work hours and time spent commuting are also implicated. That’s perfectly logical considering that the majority of people have been increasing time spent at work to make up for loss in wages, benefits, and purchasing power in general over the past 3 decades.