Keiser Report: Cocaine Makes World Go Round

Stacy Summary: We interview James Howard Kunstler.

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  1. Illinois Brandon

    The US has alot of Geothermal potential too especially the Gulf Coast and the Southwest!

  2. Illinois Brandon

    I think there is a 50-50 shot that the Military takes over the US within 10 years. They may see themselves as the only thing that can hold the nation together. James Howard Kunstler is very smart guy and more people should listen to him.

  3. Andrew Stocks

    Your best programme ever ! Stacy was superb explaining Wachovia’s dirty big secret. Max was restrained with his rant against Buffett. No psychedelic trickery required Max. Just the facts Max and you are changing the World. Your guest was well informed and explained how we are going to be wrenched back to the 18th Century. I wonder if our current situation could be alleviated by ripping up the Antarctic Treaty and allowing a free-for-all in Antarctica. What price Greenland’s resouces ?

  4. @ Brandon

    Form what I understand; a lot of people in military are supporting RP… :)

  5. japan power

    now would it make me a jack ass to say that if we all went back to using gold and silver as money, than we would all go back to the 1800′s??? population decrease mission accomplished.

  6. t-rex and the slick pig

    by remote control, either way you have no money…. buy silver

  7. gordon lightfoot song SUNDOWN lyric:

    sometimes i think it’s a sin
    when i feel like i’m winnin’
    when i’m losin’ again

    http://youtu.be/eLcx4VCkJH0

  8. The new S.D.R. backed by coke

  9. what a bad joke …..the jokes on all of us

  10. Greetings from Argentine,
    Stacy and Max blow off the lid ONCE AGAIN with great reporting!!! This show deserves live tv coverage!
    Not only Lady Stacy Herbert steals the show, but she lays on the table a formidable set of femenine -but just as gutsy- cojones AND together with Max they do true heroic journalism. I´m so proud of Stacy and Max I´m buying 20 ounces of silver maples right now, even at record prices.
    Long live the SLA!!!

  11. Stacy:

    Great hard-hittng report. We’re pumping this.

    Regards,

    Dave Harrison
    http://www.tradewithdave.com

  12. Japan must keep and protect its Public Bank to fund with debt free money any hope of repair and redirection toward thermal.

    http://www.moneyaswealth.blogspot.com/

    Thursday, March 31, 2011

    Too Much Money is NOT The Cause of Hyperinflation!
    .
    Almost Every Phony Expert Says That Too Much Money is the Cause of Eventual Hyperinflation.

    It’s a Banker’s Lie.

    If there is hyperinflation, THIS will be the beginning of its cause!

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576235033771422402.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
    Fed Official Sees Rates Inching Up This Year

    Hyperinflation occurs when banks raise the interest rates into unpayable territory – mid to high triple digits. They do this knowingly and by design in order to CAUSE hyperinflation and crash an economy. Then they buy up the assets at pennies on the dollar, thereby consolidating control.

    ……………

    If hyperinflation is stoppable, reducible, then that is very good news and worthwhile.

    Public Banks everywhere!

    And, how can we create credit (leveraged to higher future values) with our so wonderful pieces of silver to fund farmers, tools for basic skills and a safer return to much of pre-oil times, but also with some new.

    Maybe some personal liability for promoters/builders/designers to reinforce or safely close down/contain infrastructure around nuclear plants. If everything collapses, and we don’t better secure these first…

    And, mines and pipe companies stop fracking and anything else that is too close to super-volcanoes and big subduction earthquake zones. But, perhaps also these mining companies should be able to increase their in situ value and become a business that can lend credit on a real value that is better left where it is undisturbed.

    ……………

    Also, I so agree that

    Japan’s Culture is Wonderful.

    The Great Wave off Kanagawa, by Hokusai

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa2.jpg

    ………………

    Run video with great low tech special effects. A video made after the earthquake:

    http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/23/music-video-with-sim.html

    Music video with simulated special effects
    Mark Frauenfelder at 1:41 PM Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011 

    [Video Link]
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwyCWHoNe2I

    Ayahiko Sato, a member of visual design unit in Japan called rakudasan wrote to me about this cool music video they directed for a 16-piece band called Gaka. The song is called Tsuchinoko. She said: “Now, as you know we are in critical situation by earthquake. However we think that what we can do is to get more attention for Japan and Japanese creativity. We need positive news to get energetic power, because we are showered with negative news.”

    This music video is called pantomime music video created with a help of performer called maimuima.

    Theme of this song is man powered techno music, so we decided to use pantomime to depict fun of man powered expression.

    We shot with a fixed camera and angle. Performer themselves’ movement change angles, speed and distance. Without using wire and CG, we succeeded shooting action scenes.

    About rakudasan: We do VJ in an unique style called Surrealistic Synchronization. It is the style that we select unrelated movie with music, but this makes unique and unusual togetherness and atmosphere in clubs.

    Gaka’s jam music and pantomime are not related, but we combined them to create this music video. This is our style.

    ………

    And, a greater appreciation to the ideas of Wabi-sabi.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi


    Wabi-sabi (侘寂?) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent and incomplete”.


    It is a concept derived from the Buddhist assertion of the Three marks of existence (三法印, sanbōin?), specifically impermanence (無常, mujō?).
Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, asperity, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.
“

    Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of traditional Japanese beauty and it occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West.”[1] “if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi.”[2]

    “[Wabi-sabi] nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”

  13. ZORRO LONDON

    So the Mexican Drug Cartels provide liquidity to prop up the already fucked up banks.

    Things are begining to make sense a little bit more as far as the token gesture security measures and immigration policy on the US / Mexican border that has allowed 13 MILLION ILLEGALS invade the US from the South alone.

    Such a sham border also allows an almost free flow of drugs in one direction and munitions in the other.

    To have a truly effective border would dilute the cartels getting their weapons, and the US and rest of the world getting its narcotics and profits.

    Plug that gap properly, and the banksters and financial institutions dont make their profits from kick backs.

    Funny how that Movie “Scarface!”……shows even back then how long this has been going on for.

    I mentioned only the other day that …how could the UK keep going economically in view it has nothing to sell other than second rate armaments to dictatorships and cashmere sweaters? I suggested almost jokingly that the UK economy was only afloat because of massive criminal money laundering. Little did I realise how close to the truth I was.

    So now honest peoples hard earned savings are being sacrificed because of a deal gone bad between the govt supported banksters and the organised crime syndicates.

    Well folks, looks like whoever picks up the pieces from this mess and takes control on behalf of the righteous, is going to have the guillotines working overtime to include all the conventional gangsters together with their NWO secret society friends.

    Strange isnt it how both the various organised crime mafiosi and the masons
    both have THE SAME versions of La muerta, hierarchical pyramid structures and vows of secrecy, and dispose of opponents without a moments hesitation.

    Not really, as they are the two humps on the same camel so to speak………….Z

  14. Good work on Wachovia

  15. don middleton

    oh my, people acting bad.

    Pollyanna falls on a pointy stick :)

    If people were angels, Max would have no show.

  16. @Max and Stacy

    Fantastic ‘connect the dots’ reporting. Nobody else does what you guys do, because most reporters don’t have the mental horsepower or the commitment.

    Just a great job all around!

  17. Check this out:

    CIA Whistleblower: Libya “Vampire War” is About Oil and Heroin

    http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/cia-whistleblower-libya-vampire-war-is-about-oil-and-heroin/

    Where’s Beard? I was telling him last night the bankers were like the Mafia, very dangerous people. Then he went all silent.

    So many people just don’t appreciate the nature of the kind of people at the top. Americans think they can be ‘reasoned with’and ‘petitioned’
    to listen to their complaints.

    What a joke! The elites are part Robber Barrons, and part street thugs with an education. They are capable of literally anything.

  18. hey! great show again! :-) …thanks!

    …but according to Lindsay Williams and the hints he´s getting from “theee Elite” ;-)
    the US allegedly IS indeed sitting on millions of tons of oil in Alaska and even about 2 trillion barrels under the Rocky mountains !!! :D … but as Lindsay says, they will not announce this or start drilling before Oil is at $ 200!
    I hope I got that right, at least thats what I understood in that AJ-Interview a few weeks ago. Anyone here, who can either confirm this, or rectify me ?

  19. Great show. Love Jim.

    Here’s a great article that ties into your drug segment:
    http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/cia-whistleblower-libya-vampire-war-is-about-oil-and-heroin/

  20. don middleton

    Let’s look at things.

    Sarkozy is a piece of “____” but is the direct resut of “guillotine”.

    So how long does it take for the new “boyz in charge” to emulate their replacements?

    So the SLA “wins”…….how long for the new guys to screw you over?

    What a load :(

  21. @Vonda

    Lindsay is a fraud.

    I’ve been in the oil business 25 years. Lindsay’s full of crapo.

  22. @ Vonda Bra

    I wouldn’t bet the ranch that what Lindsay Williams says is true. Lot’s of folks just don’t want to hear the words Peak Oil. BTW, even if that were true, $200/barrel price would be short lived.

  23. @Dave Harrison @Mark Lytle – thanks!

    @Vonda Bra – the problem with that theory is that if they had this alleged trillions of barrels and are holding back to announce it until oil hits $200, the price of oil would plunge over night on the announcement and would be down to less than $10 per barrel soon after the announcement; so he’s trying to say what? that they are conspiring to get the price to $200 so that they can sell this allegedly abundant oil at that price?

  24. @vonda

    The U.S. uses 20 million barrels of oil a day. A barrel of oil is 42 gallons of crude. A gallon od crude weighs 6-8 pounds.

    Therefore : (20million barrels * 42 gaalons per barrel * 7 pounds per gallon) / 2000 pounds per ton = 2,940,000 tons of oil per day

    So we burn 3 million tons of oil per day. So a ‘few million tons’ is a t best a few days worth.

    See the fraud in Lindsay? Totally misleading.

  25. I typed too quickly, my spelling was bad, but you get my point…

  26. Yep, if you design or look for the types of businesses that could best serve to launder illicit money, and then look at Buffet’s “investments” you see they’re one and the same. Gutsy show.

  27. @Everybody

    There are a lot of ‘pundits’ out
    there who claim ‘special knowledge’.

    Wit for them to toss a few numbers out. That’s when you can tell if these people are real. Do a little homework, most pundits are pushing
    an agenda there not speaking about.

    Alex Jones is a good and brave fellow, but he gets suckered in a lot. I think Lindsay might be the equivalent of a ‘troll’ or a ‘plant’. Alex should be very suspicious of anyone like Lindsay who claims to be or to have been ‘very close’ to the elites. What’s that say?

    He’s was one of them. Why should we trust him?

  28. typo : wit=wait

    Geez, my typing is bad today…

  29. I noted that James Kunstler is aware of the downside of Geothermal, if it’s used to a level where you cool the crust too quickly.

    Japan could use geothermal, if they don’t ‘over do it’. Don’t pack the wells too close together and extract too much heat…

  30. Countries that go to Alternative Energy should use a ‘diversified portfolio’ anyway. Some wind, some solar, some geothermal, some wave and tide.

    Gently sip energy from the earth, don’t gulp….try not to break anything…

  31. ZORRO LONDON

    @ Vonda Bra

    You sound like my kind of woman. You single?

    Lets turn this into a dating site ! He He…………..You show me your bullion….I’ll show you mine LOL……………….Z

  32. ZORRO LONDON

    @ Mark Lyttle

    Bad spelling……….thats my department !……….Regards………..Z

  33. And that’s what Hillary Clinton meant when she said the US could not legalize drugs because “there’s too much money in it” .

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/07/clinton-legalize-drugs-too-much-money/

  34. @Zorro

    I seem to type/spell/compose better at night. Afternoons, I’m all thumbs…

  35. @Shrapnel

    That’s just too funny. The elites have such a weird way of snitching on themselves. If you watch closely, they give themselves away, quite often..

  36. Mark Lytle, Stacy :-) , y´all …..thanks for your answers!

    Actually I really give a sh..t about what this Lindsay says all the time, only that he mentioned Kissinger and his deal with the middle east in the seventies, that somehow caught my attention … since then the oil was priced in Dollars … and that all these countries would default on the dollar, when it crashes…. and that then, one fine day, Barry Soetoro, announces these big US oil reserves and that they now can produce sell oil so much cheaper!!!
    Would someone who could announce anything like that not blind and fool all these retarded US-electorate once again ???? .. with all this prosperity crap and JOBS lies etc…. ???

    certainly only if these fields were true !!! ??? … L.W. was talking about TRILLIONS !
    Anybody else listenend to this interview to approve these numbers ?

    @ Mark Lytle –
    “Countries that go to Alternative Energy should use a ‘diversified portfolio’ anyway. Some wind, some solar, some geothermal, some wave and tide. Gently sip energy from the earth, don’t gulp….try not to break anything…”
    ABSOLUTELY !!! I agree!

    @ZORRO LONDON …thanks, yes currently single … but I like it! :-)

  37. @ Illanois Brandon
    I think Rome also went that way, not sure if I want the army running a nuclear power plant.

  38. @ Shrapnel

    I LOVE your avatar! :D

  39. MK,

    Glad you had Kunstler on. We may be rednecks down here in Texas but James has a good message if folks will listen.

    Keep up the good work.

  40. supplement:
    I mean, they bomb the middle east back to the stoneage now, once again calling it “fight for democracy” and humilitarian aid (!) …bust all their facilities and then come up with Plan B ???

  41. Gerrit Govaerts

    @Mark Lytle
    At the very best Lindsay W looks more like a usefull idiot to me ; if he has a contact in the “so called” elite , why would that contact person ever spill the beans for him , knowing full well that poor Lindsay will then go youtube with it and potentially crash the “elite’s” plan . Spreading disinfo is much more likely in that case .
    At worst the man sells snake oil , but my money is on a serious untreated personality disorder .

    On the thinning arctic ozon layer stuff , you do realize this is a side effect of GW ?
    I posted that a few days ago , but even Beardo did not take the bait ; and yeah where is Beardo ? Got some more questions on common stock as money and his theory of fascist gold and silver money

  42. just recieved this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUX-1BI_pvQ&feature=related

    Celente Rant!!!! :-) (4:12)
    I LOVE HIM!

  43. @Vonda Bra & Stacy

    yeah, I heard that interview and there’s a whole dvd thing on Youtube as well. I’ll dig for it.

    He says they are waiting for $150 $200 oil then they are going to mention this big find in Alaska and Montana they’ve been hiding. I got to tell you this Pastor Lindsey guy really draws stuff out – I’d let the vidz load so you can push ahead if you watch.

    Now I did mention in the past this geologist told me there’s tons of oil in Iowa – perhaps this is part of the plan [shrug]

    Anyway my first reaction was the same as Stacys, but I think that’s what they really want, $100 oil – least that’s what the Saudis want.

    My BS meter didn’t go up or down after listening; I don’t really care cause I want renewable regardless of how much oil they find.

    This pastor says this is what the “elites” told him and they have this special oath that says they have to tell the people what they are going to do before they do it – regardless how they announce their plans; TV movies print, like the TV series Rubicon. He says this is always how it’s done and points out dates in the past when he was told what was about to happen and then what happen shortly after. I’ll look for the link.

    Course I’m not sure how much wiggle room there is in these predictions – he said the stock market was going to crash on 3/11 but we ended up with Japan instead; which did made Japan’s market dive – course he didn’t say which market so…

    there you go

  44. Hey Max – love your show, but!…. go easy on Charlie Sheen – he’s one of us! He got sick and tired of all the bull*$&t and showed them the finger. It takes all types. Ok, he’s out there, but hey – he’s also buying silver! (maybe)

  45. John Q Public

    Hilaries Reality !!!
    Stacey + ,Max’s Latest RT Show.

  46. @Rian

    The military does run Nuclear power plants, all the time…Nuclear Submarines…

    @Illinois Brandon

    I agree with you, I just think it will happen faster. We’ll have our coup n less than 5 years.

    People will start rebelling much harder here in the U.S. as the austerity kicks in late this year and next.

    Watch the 10th Amendment movements explode.

    Expect the Establishment to react brutally at some point when they figure sweet talk no longer works.

    Watch conflicts between National Guard and Defcon military people.

    Watch for conflicts within the military, both guard and Defcon, when they’re asked to fire on American citizens (It will happen).

    Eventually the military turns on the elites, or, the elites subdivide as some won’t be able to stomach supporting the full tyranny.

    These are just my guesses, but the U.S, has such a Hypertrophic military, it would be unrealistic to assume they won’t be involved in the collapse process…

  47. Lindsey Williams – Middle East DVD Set – March 2011
    http://youtu.be/5fibJTbVAk4

  48. @Waldo

    Charlie Sheen is irresponsible.

  49. http://www.skolnicksreport.com/cocaccc.html
    COCA-COLA, THE CIA, and the COURTS
    Part One of a Series
    by Sherman H. Skolnick

  50. @ Jischinger
    –”and they have this special oath that says they have to tell the people what they are going to do before they do it – regardless how they announce their plans; TV movies print, like the TV series Rubicon. He says this is always how it’s done and points out dates in the past when he was told what was about to happen and then what happen shortly after. I’ll look for the link.” —
    well, thanks for checking!
    but thats exactely what I´ve heard and read numerous books also …. just couldn´t always keep track to verify all the stuff for myself …. maybe thats why it somehow caught my attention ??

    I´m not sure and really don´t know what to do with this L.W. ? There could be something to it, or maybe its all crap ? But who really knows?
    Maybe William Engdahl ??? or Tarpley ?

  51. Good show, good follow up on yer original story re:cocaine banking, yup best be careful if ye go sniffing around the fed.
    Your guests point about Japan letting go of industrialization, can’t see happening compleletly, but something marvelous could moprh out of it where it to happen.
    My only criticism were the cheap shots at Charlie Sheen, not wishing to appear overly pious but the man is obviously in a state of mental distress, a bit more compassion, y’know the ould saying there but for the grace of god go I, yadayadayda.

  52. Japan has the most advanced battery technologies in the world, including developments of hydrogen fuel cell and magnesium batteries which are ten times more efficient and powerful than lithium. Their leading technologies span a number of energy sectors from efficiency, waste 2 fuel to recuperation and recycling. Even with rolling black outs Japan will outperform technologically any number of countries, including the US in certain sectors.
    The 9 point earthquake harmed reactor 1 at Fukushima, the tsunami destroyed everything else and shutdown emergency measures.
    In February, Christ Church, New Zealand was devastated by an earthquake. New Zealand has one of the most advanced algae technologies in the world which in recent months identified 17 chemical elements from algae for production which are on the US Critical Element List for Industry.
    If Japan goes feudal, it will be more like people buzzing around in kimonos in the most sophisticated, highly-engineered vehicles on the planet, definitely not 18th century.
    The world is currently witnessing financial wars, currency wars, class wars, natural resource wars, etc, which maximizes the number of people being thrown off this planet.
    It does not have to be this way, technologies and policies can provide a stable, sustainable future.

  53. Even though I agree with most of what James Kunstler generally says, I think we will have both feudalism, and a least a large stub of the previous industrial age, coexisting.

    To go all the way back to horses, would require loss of all knowledge, and unless we have a Nuclear conflict or it’s equivalent, I’m thinking that won’t happen.

    Even with peak oil, there will be a lot of petroleum around in still a few places, and yes, you need fossil fuels currently to build windmills and solar cells, but I expect quite a bit more of that to be installed in the next few years. Some nations, primarily in Europe are so far along in their alternative energy portfolio that they can now seriously start to think about switching off their Nukes. They are and will be much more resilient to resource issues in the near future because of this and may maintain a larger percentage of their current economic and industrial systems, then places like the U.S. and Britain.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110323/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_germany_abandoning_nuclear_power

    In fact, if there’s to be a Renaissance, look to Germany, Spain, France, curiously, these are places where the first one flourished.

  54. @Mary, yeah I agree with you, maybe they’ll apply some of that bonsai thinking on a bigger scale (if ye get me drift). I read a nice little book some time back Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, there is a Japanese character who moves into a Paris apartment and carries out some renovations, one of which is the installation of sliding doors, the author describes beautifully how these doors are space saving, and less intrusive, there’s something almost organic about them, normal ‘European’ doors open inwards/outwards, taking up space.

  55. Hello Mark, how’s the craic, didn’t have a chance to check out yer vid yet, was saiving it for the week-end, did ye watch the one I sent ye, what d’ye think.

  56. I should add that France is still committed to Nuclear energy, but I expect that to change over time, as renewables get cheaper..

  57. @Gussy, i looked at it, I’m pretty familiar with that stuff.

    I know I seem very conservative to you, but I have in my lifetime seen man on the moon, supersonic flight, microchips, and heart transplants, so I know how things change.

    It’s just real important right now for every young person to learn the ‘hard stuff’, math and physics. Right now, most of the bright people are still going into Finance. This is an industry that will not create anything. Anything but trouble, that is. So it’s up to your group to rededicate yourselves to hard science so you can invent the next level of technology.

    Right now, new technology is all talk, no action. Sure, lots of Youtube videos, but no really new ‘stuff’ is being mass produced. I don’t count evolutions in iPads as ‘new’ or revolutionary.

    Your generation can change this from the people who are 30 – 40 years old, chasing Finance careers.

    The video set I sent you is one of the most painless physics sets I’ve ever seen, you should start with that. You will be then in a better position to evaluate other things you see on the web.

  58. Jeez Mark, don’t know what makes ye think I’m young (although I am flattered, then again I do recall what Machiavelli said ‘men must either be flattered or elimanated’), no it must be that young at heart thing, all in the mind and that sort of stuff.

  59. Yes yes, it’s all in the head.

  60. @all

    In my comments to Gussy, I don’t want to offend any of you in Finance, it has it’s place. I just am pointing out the imbalance of bright people in that field, which is leaving the technology field ‘starved’.

    We have more Youtube video about potential new tech, then wee have new tech, by a long shot, and many of these media presentations are sensationalist, not representing the true spirit of science…

    Also, as we all know, there has been considerable mischief done in Finance in the last few years, thus my comments…

  61. This just in, speaking of new technology:

    Rossi Cold Fusion Validated by Swedish Skeptic’s Society

    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/543/021/Rossi_Cold_Fusion_Validated_by_Swedish_Skeptics_Society.html

    Yet another test of Andrea Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat) has been performed on a 4.5 kW version near the University of Bologna. This time a new set of observers were present, one of which is the chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, who confirmed that Copper is being formed from Hydrogen and Nickel —

    Some well known players were present during the test. These include Andrea Rossi (the inventor of the E-Cat), Professor Sergio Focardi, Dr. David Bianchini, and of course Dr. Giuseppe Levi. Two guest observers were also present. One of the guest observers was Hanno Essen, associate professor of theoretical physics at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. He is also the chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society. The other guest observer was Professor Sven Kullander of Uppsala University. He is also chairman of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Energy Committee.

    Smaller System with Great Results

    The test was performed on a much smaller version of the E-Cat. The previous version of the E-Cat had a reactor volume of about one liter. This system has a reactor volume of only one twentieth of a liter. Four E-Cat systems were present, but only one was tested. The remaining units had their shielding and insulation removed. This allowed for their construction to be seen.

  62. @Max and Stacy

    Sure you don’t want to check this guy, Rossi out, quietly?

  63. gussy
    Apr 8, 2011 at 12:43 am

    I know you didn’t direct your video to me, but I was impressed by the visual effects and the message. Thank you!

  64. ernie mcdermid

    what if the bailout funds had gone to the taxpayers first. All credit card debt and morgages would be paid off. The taxpayer would be relativly debt free. The banks would have their bailout money. The economy would be much stronger.The borowed money would still be owed but the stronger economic footing would make it more likely that the economy would’t be the mess it is in,

  65. “The grandest of all human sculptures are, in fact, the work of the planet’s poorest people.

    Unable to find a job or a plot of land in the valley, the most disadvantaged people of the developing world carve mountains to grow their food.”

  66. This Italian inventor is showing us again how out of the box thinking is happening at the fringe of the American empire, not the center.

    The new Renaissance will be in Europe, just like the last one…

  67. railroad tycoon

    Cocaine money or lack of bringing down the system?

    A bit far fetched don’t you think? LOL

  68. AlienApeHybrid

    So THATS why all the money in the US has traces of cocaine,,it’s falling down from the rafters onto the printing presses. :)

  69. ZORRO LONDON

    @ Vonda Bra “Currently single and like it.”

    Hey hun……..so do I…my motto …why buy the book when you can go to the library!

    Have a good day…Z ….X (LOL)

    & Mark Lyttle

    Too much screen work i’snt doing my eyesight any good, hence me excuse….Z

    @ Max …if your listening……T-Shirts.

    From feedback we need girls and a boys versions.

    The design you posted was a big step in the right direction, and a good move given Summers coming. Rioting season!

    HOWEVER it DOES need some little fine tuning for the boys.

    The current version a bit too geeky

    Black and silver is an eye catching combination and simple. (No other colours)
    Its gotta look tough to get the street cred !

    Please ditch the arm patch thing unless it can be unpicked, the stars (looks juvenile) Might go down well in 1970s Estonia but not on the streets of London, NY or Chicago.

    You know that original “Bull sign on a shield” you have adopted is a WINNER, so that instead of that green and red crud, will look cool and credible.

    Once the troops have them in numbers, we can recognise each other in the street, and develop some further networking and pehaps friendships…………………..Z

  70. Fred Freedom

    Change the voting rule to one shareholder = one vote, and excessive executive pay would be gone almost overnight. With voting rigged to favor Dick Fuld and his ilk, the average shareholder stands no chance of limiting executive pay, resulting in the same vampires in office year after. True corporate democracy turns that model on its ear. Dick Fuld gets one vote, you get one vote.

    After limiting executive pay, I figure stockholders will immediately go after the low-hanging fruit: excessive payments for lobbying, and overseas outsourcing.

  71. he’d pass for Hitler with a hat on………….I don’t like Kunstler, he’s a racist.

  72. The drug money is blood money,buy silver and save lives .
    This is what the bankers get in to in order to live large,.mexicans diying every day…See the link.
    Caution this is extremely brutal.
    http://www.blogdelnarco.com/2011/04/aparecen-dos-hombres-desollados-en.html

  73. Stab at Charlie Sheen = not cool, guys.
    If nothing else he’s a genuine guy and frankly his bank account is probably “winning”. You wanted him on the show, right? Was that to dig it in further?

    Otherwise, really good show linking drugs to banks and good interview.

  74. Mr Karel
    Apr 8, 2011 at 7:51 am
    The drug money is blood money,buy silver and save lives .

    Then you don’t want to hear about the abuses in the mining industry :)

    Everything valuable to humans costs lives and is controlled by people you probably don’t want to know, basically.

  75. @mbridges, my pleasure.

  76. Terrific story and absoutely true about Cocaine Dealers running the Banks!
    I know, I used to work for most of them in New York, and it’s all happening.
    I don’t understand why the US government allows this as well as allowing mega crook firms like Goldman Sacs and J.P. Morgan hire our retired politicians and bank officers to work for them as “advisers” which they then use to learn “how to manipulate our governments and the markets”. Sacs and Morgan may not be paying them outright “bribes”, but hiring them is virtually the same thing. Why is it the US government watch dogs like the S.E.C, etc, not been on this to break up this outrageous farce and criminally?