70 responses so far ↓

• naomi

  Jan 17, 2010 at 2:59 pm

  

  @Mep

  I hear you. I feel exactly as you do.
• jim

  Jan 17, 2010 at 3:10 pm

  

  what seems to be mostly missing….is the apprehension that the STATE; a true criminal enterprise….is making the entirety of the non-state…..TOTALLY criminal…how Hobbesian, how perfectly convenient & quite profitable to boot.

  Now, one can actually appreciate the advantage of being categorized as a Person as opposed to be rendered a “citizen”. Persons are created by the Divine…..Citizens are incorporated by the Neo Divine…the Neo Omnipotent….the Neo Immutable.
• frances snoot

  Jan 17, 2010 at 3:16 pm

  

  What if you don’t see yourself as a ever being a rendered-citizen and you don’t believe in the Divine?
• joe shmoe

  Jan 17, 2010 at 3:28 pm

  

  ,,, Rully good shooo! and comments section today. These are the core issues, that can be taken on at this time. Shed light on it.
  The presidents have become less distinguishable for their conservative or democratic traditions: (just a simplified guideline: conserve= status quo, vs. democrats=humanist, agendas.)
  They have kinda merged into innocuous puppets, channeling alfred e. newman personas with a sheep skin cred. Each one takes it a bit further, Less substance, and more format, and rhetorical skills. W had skills… in fact, he must have been slick’s stealth understudy. (in the down home genre.)
  What is a Liberal, that and how many of em can fit on the head of a pin, can occupy a whole chapter.
  MM once achieved his thesis, (in my opinion) with the title, alone, ( the book: “The Media is the Message.) The title was the message. the book was a little dense.
  And that is to say: the MEDIA is the main show, with lots of sound and fury at each other the “Left and the Right” “wrestle”… just like wrestling on tv. Mostly fake, but they have to be athletic, like in the movie.
  Show some “Change that can be Believed in”, no, same old same ol. The media spins on but there’s no difference at all. The main hot line is the one to Wall street. as they say.

  Great insight there on last weeks show about the “financial services agreements” visa vis: prohibitions on the size of banks etc. As some of the best of media experts go on to debate the merits of Glass Stiegle, or re-regulations, that have no chance, under the WTO.
• jonz

  Jan 17, 2010 at 4:05 pm

  

  @Max
  talking about “you dont know who u can believe”

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDbJGcKftQY
• Stuart Doblin

  Jan 17, 2010 at 4:16 pm

  

  War is a MAN-ifestation of our collective individual consciousness’s in conflict. No one at — – Peace — – could conceive of war.

  The conflict is dis-associative, involving a split in Mind, it is therefore a psychotic condition (in need of therapy), which believes that safety/security/protection/care/and yes love, is found within attack (for example, spanking).

  In order to believe in the conclusion: attack/spanking equals safety/security/protection/care and love, you must also believe that those outside of you, will receive one-hundred-percent of your hate, and that none of what you offer will cycle back to you.

  The core question is thus: Can you give your fear/anxiety away? Is fear a transferrable commodity.

  Fear represents a delusional State of Mind, in which anger is the Primary Motivating Force in the relationship, transverse wise, a relationship based upon anger is the way to end relating/communication/extension, so a relationship whose means are all ends, ends up becoming endless, and also useless.

  War is useless and endless until we give up fear/anger/attack as faulty basis for a relationship and rely instead upon compassion/concern, and love.

  Seek only Love.
• david

  Jan 17, 2010 at 4:33 pm

  

  ‘Push the fat fuckers down the hill’… yer dead right, empathy me arse, anger, anger is our energy. Great show, and the last two as well, managing to tap a creative vein it would seem. Lord of the Flies, good Freudian film that.
  Saturdays TAM, Max should go down BBC White City and “have a go” off Paxman, I reckon Max’d knock the bolox off him. Kick him in the balls and when he’s down, kick him in the balls again.
• Mep

  Jan 17, 2010 at 4:52 pm

  

  @ joe schmoe – On puppets, Sibel Edmonds has been doing an excellent job on her blog in exposing the powerful and their assault on our liberties, national interest, etc.
• WL

  Jan 17, 2010 at 5:15 pm

  

  Ed Schultz admits White House texting MSNBC anchors during a show which he was a guest on. Ed is angry that the white House is critical of the HealthCare discussion appearing too liberal… The real outrage is that the White House is quarterbacking the media via direct texting the hosts. Liberal hypocrisy and double standards. Imagine the (rightfully so) outrage if FOX was caught doing this. They are all the same State controlled propaganda.

  Ed Shultz the Ying of Rush Limbaughs Yang

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC59K76LGK4

  SCHULTZ (08:12): So Mika starts looking at her Blackberry and so does Scarborough and obviously the White House is texting them or emailing them or whatever and they didn’t like the show. Because Arianna had been on there, I’m on there, Howard Dean had been on there and they wanted some balance.

  Now think about that – here’s the White House getting in contact with ‘Morning Joe’ because they’re afraid there’s too many lefties on the air! Now if that’s not sensitivity at its highest level, I don’t know what is! I told ya a few days ago they had rabbit ears! They don’t like anything that’s being said right now, they’re getting beat up!
• jim

  Jan 17, 2010 at 6:30 pm

  

  there is life; and there is existence. human beings & being human. uniformity & unity. organization & order. better & better off. utility & purpose.forensic & real. toleration & indifference.
• WL

  Jan 17, 2010 at 6:48 pm

  

  Ed Limbaugh Schultz

  on the Mass vote

  SCHULTZ (23:02): I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts I’d try to vote 10 times. I don’t know if they’d let me or not, but I’d try to. Yeah, that’s right. I’d cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. ‘Cause that’s exactly what they are.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB3j9fpTKkk
• jim

  Jan 17, 2010 at 7:17 pm

  

  most of what is considered “culture” these days…..is to take you in…while putting you as far “out”as possible….you are, they are….”better-off”…ig. that way……………
• Tofu Charlie

  Jan 18, 2010 at 12:09 am

  

  Hmm, “Burt Reynolds”? Seemed a bit unfair to Snoot, one of the few here who seems to put a lot of consideration into her comments…
• maxkeiser

  Jan 18, 2010 at 4:22 am

  

  what’s wrong with burt reynolds?
• WL

  Jan 18, 2010 at 8:41 am

  

  I thought Max called Snoot Bird Reynolds
• Ismael Ken

  Jan 18, 2010 at 9:09 am

  

  I think you should explore the role of Government further. In particular Max’s comment that he does not see the Libertarian point view. Max using the fact that the government built roads etc…as reasons for why governments are needed is not very convincing as one could mention as many if not more poor things the government has done.

  I think the point is that government has a propensity to be taken over by Big business (a distinction needs to be made from small to mid-size businesses who do not have access to the state and so have to compete freely). I can see how Libertarians can reach a conclusion that any authority is bad. Just substitute King for republic or democracy. Some have argued that a “GOOD” king works. And this is true, but rare and can lead to a tyrant. So the argument that a good government would work and could is true but can and often does lead to oligarchical states. I guess the point here is that yes a limited government works best, meaning limits need to be placed on what government, a monarchy, a republic, or a democracy can do for this to work. On the other hand, they are all susceptible to corruption or control of elites and this often happens (I believe Polybius discussed this). The problem comes in that to limit the bad that governments can do, you must limit the good as well. Eventually, elites can always lessen the limits as folks want the government to do good for them.
• Ismael Ken

  Jan 18, 2010 at 9:17 am

  

  OK, I would also like you to further explain how GREAT France is. I agree that the U.S. is no longer as pleasant and many social problems exist. France does have many qualities…I attended a french Lycee and was shocked when I attended U.S. university afterwards. However, france and certain French people are pretty blatantly racist towards French people of colonial origins. For full disclosure, I think you should mention this as this has been getting worse with many not able to get jobs even if qualified. Or is this not true? Thanks.
• Casper Studly

  Jan 18, 2010 at 7:44 pm

  

  @Photoception.. “Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert are CIA cyborgs”

  Ya, you miss the point. We’re ALL CIA cyborgs here. This is where we gets our secret orders. But you gots to know the code. Dig?

  Oh, oops. You not one of us? Hmm. Okay. Nevermind.
• D.K.

  Jan 21, 2010 at 3:22 pm

  

  I agree with Max. I have zero empathy for the people on the Detroit flight. Not one tear. Not one gasp.

  These people have nothing to do with me. They are flight safety statistics. I live with the fact, the fact, that all participation in the real world entails risk. I expect to see things like this happen given the 1000s of flights which occur each day. I know I won’t be on a flight with a bomb, ever. Neither will anyone reading this post., I promise. And you all know it.

  I do not need to be protected. I do not need to be comforted or made to feel secure. I am secure.

  What happened to the passengers on that Detroit flight must have been frightening for them. I repeat, for “them”. Not me. And nothing has changed.

  The American people can no longer tell the difference between what happens on TV and the reality of how things that do happen to them or will happen to them in the real-life physical 3-dimensional world.

  People today over-identify with things on TV and on the Internet. It’s become a disease, a kind of mental illness, an hysteria. People, please calm down. It’s not “your” football team that won the game. You didn’t win American Idol when your favorite got picked (stop crying you look ridiculous). You weren’t on that Detroit flight.

  The trauma of the event belong to the people on that plane and their loved ones. No one else. We should be aware of their suffering and acknowledge it with quiet respect and deep gratitude that it was not us.

  Shit happens to people, period.

  People sit their on their fat ass and “participate” in victories they watch on TV. After reloading the feed bowl, they return to their couch and wait (intentionally) for the chance to be “traumatized” by dangers and threats suffered by strangers at a safe distance.

  The American people over-identify with every scary thing they see on TV and demand to be protected from it. Its disgusting. Have we learned nothing about ourselves in the last 20 years?

  The worst part of it all is how certain things, like 9-11 cross the line into abomination. I am repulsed by the immoral grieving for ourselves, for the ghastly way we consider it “our” national loss. We are so busy remembering to “never forget” that we don’t have time to talk about or remember the victim’s families. Who ever talks abouts the rescue people who are now suffering from illnesses because they were trying to save people? Nobody. These are the victims, not you and i.

  The overt appropriation of other people’s misfortune so that we can be upset, so that our deadened nerves and soft minds can experience a feeling, any feeling, is a national shame. I could puke. When the audience watches all these large nationally televised tragedies (ususally as entertainment or distraction, mind you, if we’re honest) they forget that the loss belongs to other people, not themselves.

  It’s not empathy when it becomes the observer’s trauma. It’s psychic cannibalism.

  I am not afraid of flying. I do not need federal protection. Let the TSA go. Let me board my flight, with my family and friends saying goodbye to me at the gate, like I used to. Leave me alone. Do not scan me. Do not question me. I am not a criminal. Here’s a tip for carrying my bags, now be on your way.

  I don’t fear terrorism. I fear the people fighting terrorism “on my behalf”. Thanks, but no thanks.

  The odds of me being the Twin Towers on 9-11 or on a flight with a bomb were astronomical and remain so. If the billions of dollars and proliferation of security agencies have meant anything at all, the odds should actually be less at this moment.

  ENOUGH ALREADY.

  There is no danger for me and the Detroit incident has not changed that. Also, if I were to pretend I sincerely felt something for those people when I don’t I would be lieing. If I felt anything other than reserved regret and passing concern, I would have lost perspective and deserving the “protection” I received for that sloppy way of living my life.
• Ed

  Jan 24, 2010 at 2:46 pm

  

  @DK I will be quoting you to a well meaning fairly honest but very ignorant radio host – on LBC. He has totally bought into the fear & is all the better at spreading it as a result!
  @Mep I really value your comments your spot on!