The Art of Burning Banks

Posted on September 5, 2011 by maxkeiser| 68 Comments

Teaser from our interview with Alex Schaefer, artist of ‘Chase Burning.’

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68 Responses to The Art of Burning Banks

  1. Flopot | September 5, 2011 at 8:10 pm |

    Brilliant stuff. Even the act of painting the bank was a WORK OF ART in itself. He was an outstallation. Looking forward to this KR.

  3. Chervonets | September 5, 2011 at 8:13 pm |

    We don’t really hate banksters, do we? They are still human, aren’t they?

  5. 8Ball | September 5, 2011 at 8:27 pm |

    We live in a hopelessly corrupted system… Discussing the details may help one feel better but it does little to correct the situation.

    The USG is now preparing some show prosecutions of the banksters in an effort to placate the electorate before the 2012 election. Do not be fooled, nothing will change until the whole thing crashes and burns.

    As Mike Maloney said: “If the system crashes it will not matter if you are rich”… paraphrase. We will all be grabbing for the same life preserver

  6. davem | September 5, 2011 at 8:35 pm |

    @Flopot For me the art here is the performance – the act of sitting in front of the bank and painting it burning. It’s provocative, and suggests wishful thinking. Not sure if the Police would respond here in London, but in the US they obviously do. I think it’s a nice idea. Maybe a bit of voodoo going on – I haven’t heard the interview yet, maybe he says these things. Would be interesting to arrange a large art class, all sitting in front of the bank, doing burning paintings at same time!

  7. ZORRO LONDON | September 5, 2011 at 8:42 pm |

    8 BALL……Yep, this a token gesture and nothing more.

    I actually think this is an indicator as to how close to the edge we are, that the authorities feel the need to present the electorate with this bit of utter symbolic theatre.

    The fragile and crumbling banking sector is clear to be seen, and this move has been done in the full knowledge of the impact on what little so called confidence there is.

    The dam wall is going to go, whether they arrest or incarcerate a token few or not, and they know it!

    Such legal cases, invariably go on for many years, and at the end of it all, what do you get but a watered down token verdict, that usually results in some unknown miscreant being used as a scapegoat. And soon after that their sentence appealed and is cut to something akin to spitting on the sidewalk.

    There are thousands involved who will need to be brought to justice. Actually 10s of thousands!

    Now call me a bleeding heart liberal if you like, but no sentence should start at less than 25 years with no possibility of parole or that good behaviour crap.

    Treason and mass murder should carry the heaviest penalties of course………….Z

    To blunt, this shows how much the politicians are now absolutely shitting themselves, and seeking to distance their complicity with their brotherhood buddies.

    They now can see that mob with pitchforks clearly in their minds, and they know its going to very ugly indeed………..Z

  8. Palantír | September 5, 2011 at 8:48 pm |

    On the topic of burning banks…

    Just saw this trailer video by Anonymous regarding September 17 Wall Street (posted 30 Aug. on youtube)

    Occupy Wall Street – Sep17
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSpM2kieMu8

  9. MirrorMirror | September 5, 2011 at 8:49 pm |

    It’s all happening at ZH :

    BIG PIS: The CEO Of Europe’s Most Troubled Bank, Dexia, Quits As Contagion Tsunami Sweeps Over Belgium

    +

    To Celebrate Labor Day, Italian Unions Occupy Milan Stock Exchange

    http://www.zerohedge.com/

  10. Chervonets | September 5, 2011 at 8:50 pm |

    Amazing that the faith of the Euro is now in the hands of a judge call Andrew Foxhole (Andreas Vosskuhle). Don’t expect something explicit, he is sitting in his legal trench, only objective is to defend the reputation of the court.

    When he is going to allow the bailout on political grounds, he is like this:
    http://tinyurl.com/3josfl5

  11. Chervonets | September 5, 2011 at 8:56 pm |

    @MirrorMirror
    Thanks for the links.

    I think the court will simply say now and the ECB will start printing, the Germans will control the printing with saying they might leave the Euro. Or the court says a bit of a yes, with some some restrictions that are basically also a no, because time runs out and the ECB just has to print.
    In both scenarios they will be working on what they really want to achieve, political integration of Europe. First thing they insist on is German tax collectors in Greece. When they agree to this, Greece gets Eurobonds for 5%, nothing to say anymore and the European Fourth Reich run by Brussels is born.

  12. Evolutis | September 5, 2011 at 9:00 pm |

    The art of SIMPLE … Lots of effort but This is NOT a job for money
    Simple: nature provides 2 constantly moving, components to work with [1] information [2] energy
    Simple: Energy gets things done…requires specific action.
    Simple: Information needs to “transfer” to get at energy.
    Simple: the on /off switch required; critical thinking.
    Simple: an if. … Then function logic key … If there is no SIMPLE way then full stop! The critical thinking aspect needs time, tinkering and a reset. Patience.
    Simple: You consult with nature, the ART is Simple, life works.
    All simple, all stackable, all repeatable, dependable, all dirt cheap; problem solving[critical thinking] ability, the only ticket to play. No money required.

    Complex: in above statements, replace “information,” with “misinformation” and add the concept of money as power, a far different environment.
    Complex: present a contrast in environments. Over time U end up with the logic that “I need to kill u to get what I need” There is no simple way, misinformation trumps information, no transfer no access to energy, u will go to war….FULL STOP.

  13. MirrorMirror | September 5, 2011 at 9:01 pm |

    @Chervonets … Links / my pleasure.

    Just like – the gutless – politicians , the Court will find a way to wiggle out of any responsibility, putting the ball back in the politicians court.
    This will go on while the EU thinks “great, things will slowly but surely develop our way”.
    Buit before the “slowly but surely ” happens … the markets will break the Euro in a day. Then comes Lagard Lagarde to rescue us … LOL.

  14. MirrorMirror | September 5, 2011 at 9:06 pm |

    Deutsche Bank boss warns crisis could kill weak banks

    http://www.euronews.net/2011/09/05/deutsche-bank-boss-warns-europe-crisis-could-kill-weak-banks/

    This is apparently what scared the German market …. apart from Italy’s CDS prices.

  15. ZORRO LONDON | September 5, 2011 at 9:14 pm |

    @ Mirror Mirror, theres is paper talk now in the UK press that the UK has no option but to start printing.

    Pattern emerging eh…. the last stand at the OK corral.

    Food riots definately on the cards now.

    Here in the UK, so many will now be faced with the choice between heating OR eating this winter. Lets hope its a mild winter.

    @ Plantir

    “Anonymous”….where have you been!….hybernating? or on holiday…..this is very old news.

    At least you spotted it.

    Regrettably I will be on the wrong coast of the USA on the 17th.

    No harm in reminding the troops though.

    Z

  16. MirrorMirror | September 5, 2011 at 9:31 pm |

    90% of the Germans do NOT want a bigger rescue fund

    90 Prozent wollen keinen größeren Rettungschirm

    http://www.welt.de/themen/Euro-Krise/

    http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article13585947/90-Prozent-wollen-keinen-groesseren-Rettungschirm.html

    The Poll Numbers come from EMNID .

    “repräsentativen Umfrage ” … Representative Poll of Young Companies

  17. giavellireport | September 5, 2011 at 9:59 pm |

    GiavelliReport discuses the collapse and the federal reserve with financial insider “GreenThroat”

    http://giavellireport.com/2011/09/05/happy-serf-day/

  18. Palantír | September 5, 2011 at 10:02 pm |

    @Zorro London – well to me it was new news, I got aware of the Sep 17 event thorough The Keiser Report E177 but didn’t know about the Anonymous trailer to promote the protest at Wall Street Sep 17 before today. But yes, a week on the internet is a loooong time so as you say it quickly becomes “very old news”. :)

  19. Palantír | September 5, 2011 at 10:03 pm |

    *through

  21. 8Ball | September 5, 2011 at 10:21 pm |

    AGW is akin the “War on Terror”… an undefinable enemy that can be used as an excuse for the expenditure of vast amounts of money on the creation of programs that are designed to “combat” it. Wake up…

  22. dan | September 5, 2011 at 10:23 pm |

    Why is it that silver is trading at radically higher prices?

  23. 8Ball | September 5, 2011 at 10:34 pm |

    A good review of the spirit that we all need to beat the “system”…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcx9BJRadfw

  24. death to the NWO | September 5, 2011 at 10:43 pm |

    So I hate the banks , I hate O Banana , I hate wars , I hate APARTHEID , I hate pigs in uniform , So what ?

  25. 8Ball | September 5, 2011 at 10:48 pm |

    Pastor Manning… “You can’t touch that” “America is being divided…”

    A curse that money will not remove…
    http://atlah.org/2011/09/02/obama-can-never-be-black-says-julian-bond-naacp/

  26. Happy Dick | September 5, 2011 at 11:05 pm |

    Flouride issues wuth drinking water
    IF YOU HAVE A CHILD, PLEASE WATCH THIS then share it!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmuDzgp5p7s&feature=player_embedded

    likely link to hyperactivity in children

  28. 8Ball | September 5, 2011 at 11:21 pm |

    The guy looks like someone we all know…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsVOi3U9vaQ&NR=1

  29. Najam | September 5, 2011 at 11:35 pm |

    see, you will enjoy – Andy Warhol’s poster of the “Bank, pretty as a pigture, huh” -
    http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=5849

  30. Specky4eyes | September 5, 2011 at 11:48 pm |

    Britain has just had two consecutive bad winters. Lots of snow. Another one is definitely a strong possibility. All the wild trees and shrubs are heavy with fruit which is usually a sign that winter will be hard.

    Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
    Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
    For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
    Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6. The Bible. http://www.needgod.com

  31. Specky4eyes | September 5, 2011 at 11:57 pm |

    Do any of you know who has shares in this bank? (Other than the central banks)

    http://www.bis.org/

  32. Dave Harrison | September 6, 2011 at 12:05 am |

    This report fails to recognize “the majority.” This is merely a “minority report” on plein air terrorism.

    See Something… Paint Something:

    http://tradewithdave.com/?p=7866

    Dave Harrison
    http://www.tradewithdave.com

  33. acudoc | September 6, 2011 at 12:08 am |

    Only internet e-banks 100% backed by silver and gold will preserve the division of labor in the coming years.

    And that is good news: there is an incremental way out of this mess that the authorities may be relatively slow to clamp down on. That means we must protect the internet at all costs as the Statists and their puppetmasters, the Banksters, will eventually make a play to bring the net completely under their control, once they fully realize how decentralizing the phenomenon of the internet is. Our job is to make sure their efforts are too little and too late.

  34. ageofreisling | September 6, 2011 at 12:24 am |

    Protect the “internet” good luck with that. All the
    “Big picture” people are talking “fiscal Union”
    and “globalisation” check Nytimes headlines
    this morning, more like”faecal union”

  35. SilverPorno | September 6, 2011 at 12:47 am |

    @Happy Dick

    Good post!

  36. Happy Dick | September 6, 2011 at 12:51 am |

    Denninger
    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/marketticker/2011/09/05/grill-em-in-the-bunker
    (if interested … scroll down to the bunker on-demand and click play arrow)

  37. Happy Dick | September 6, 2011 at 12:55 am |

    @Silver P … just helping each other to see and learn the truth.
    Much have I learned from ya’ll!

  38. Najam | September 6, 2011 at 12:59 am |

    Attn: Max & Stacy,
    please upload a hilarious painting by Andy Warhol, call – the
    “Bank, pretty pigture”, – (its a painted pig), you / many will enjoy it,
    here is the link -
    http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=5849
    or -
    http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/g-vivant/cabinet/00411464/p-aw-3.jpg

  40. YoLithos | September 6, 2011 at 1:05 am |

    What about bankers handing out toxic burning money? And people – men, women, children – catching fire, keeling over and spasming into death? Would that be ok? Bankers running about with flaming morgages and gallons of derivatives setting fire – sorry, F.I.R.E. – to houses, schools, créches, hospitals, jobs, and the now taboo police or zombie government of willing Renfields? Would that be ok?

    I hope he registers copybiquity and licenses T-Shirts by the millions of copies. Don’t forget the silver rain, now.

  41. SilverPorno | September 6, 2011 at 1:27 am |

    @Happy Dick

    Speaking of truth, listen here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G-7-ZiiM-o

    This is true intelligence. As with all truth, there is no punchline.

  42. ageofreisling | September 6, 2011 at 1:43 am |

    @silverporno
    Yes it does get a little raucous with all these other
    ” somebodies’”

  43. Keehotee | September 6, 2011 at 1:54 am |

    Words of a prophet.

    “We’re all Hitler inside, we’re all Christ inside”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqau8U1j5s&feature=related

  44. SilverPorno | September 6, 2011 at 2:17 am |

    @ageofreisling

    hahaha. well said.

  46. foober | September 6, 2011 at 2:53 am |

    I am getting the feeling were right at the edge of the big slide Down. Things are starting to fall apart and not be lied about anymore. YOu can only prop up an world economy on so many lies. And its looking like the lies can’t hold back reality much more.

  47. ageofreisling | September 6, 2011 at 3:32 am |

    @ Kehotee
    Ok but is there a solution? Garlic? amulets and declarations
    of faith on a chain? or toss a coin and go with the flow?
    mr “H” was a doer’ gotta give him that…

  48. bleep | September 6, 2011 at 4:28 am |

    The light in his paintings is handled well.

  49. jischinger | September 6, 2011 at 4:33 am |

    right now the painting on ebay is going for about 3.5 ounces of gold

  50. jischinger | September 6, 2011 at 4:43 am |

    just thinking for a moment in ancient cultures people were given dwellings as members of the tribe, the only way to lose it was to be exiled

    it wasn’t until the industrial age that we sent people to the poor house or tossed them in the street

    clean shelter is a basic human need – housing should be a right

  51. 8Ball | September 6, 2011 at 5:39 am |

    By mid-century, people were beginning to question the success of the poorhouse movement. Investigations were launched to examine the conditions in poorhouses. They had proven to be much more expensive than had been anticipated. And they had not significantly reduced the numbers of the “unworthy poor” nor eliminated the need for “outdoor relief”. [ This was public assistance given to those living outside the poorhouses. It was given somewhat grudgingly to those considered to be (perhaps!) more "worthy" poor --who might only briefly and temporarily require assistance to procure food or fuel or clothing when they fell on very short-term hard times.]

    http://www.poorhousestory.com/history.htm

  54. ZORRO LONDON | September 6, 2011 at 7:04 am |

    @ Plantir

    You are right, things are developing so fast, and there is so much info to digest.

    I hope I didnt sound to harsh. Thats the trouble on here you cannot hear intonation.
    Thought you had been away on holiday or something?

    On this site are clearly some of the most well informed free thinkers on the planet.

    Pity its a microscopic percentage of humanity.

    @ Happy Dick

    Thanks for the weather update for the UK. Not too promising.

    Approximately 40,000 elderly die EVERY single year in the UK from hypothermia.

    Its a national scandal in a so called 1st world “civilised” lol country. Imagine a soccer stadium full of dead people !

    And people wonder why I get so angry on here.

    Inflation, austerity etc. are going to guarantee more unnecessary deaths in this wonderful Kingdom of ours, where Royalty visit the poor to say, Oh hello peasants, how are you? Then get back in their limos to dive off to a gala banquet.

    And of course the peasants bow and continue to worship.

    This winter I know folks (not just the elderly now) that will have a choice between either freezing or eating. Many will die.

    And of course its going to get much much worse.

    I am sure the picture is the same all over the world, especially when I see the terrible scenes in places like Detroit.

    Forget sending Christmas cards, send an email with a few kind words, and stick the money in the charity box for the elderly. Check on your old neighbours, make sure they have food in the fridge. Most are too proud to accept, so think of a good cover story if you donate a box of food.

    Z

  55. Youri Carma | September 6, 2011 at 7:21 am |

    GOLD JUST REACHED THE OL ALL TIME HIGH OF $1,913.50 OZ ON AUGUST, 23 http://charts.kitco.com/KitcoCharts/

  57. Youri Carma | September 6, 2011 at 7:52 am |

    GOLD NEW ALL TIME HIGH AT $1,919.50 oz http://www.goldprice.org/spot-gold.html

  58. Youri Carma | September 6, 2011 at 7:56 am |

    “Heeee everybotty!!! I am from Holland. Isn’t that weird!!?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwB0ZJbwmpw

  59. Youri Carma | September 6, 2011 at 8:08 am |

    Youri Carma’s Clip _- ANCIENT GOLD -_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyF0DuSococ

  60. Youri Carma | September 6, 2011 at 8:10 am |

    $1,920.05 oz

  61. Youri Carma | September 6, 2011 at 8:42 am |

    $1,920.50 oz

  63. Keehotee | September 6, 2011 at 8:59 am |

    @ ageofreisling

    The answer is love – just like John said. A very subversive idea that psychopaths have no answer for.

  64. Specky4eyes | September 6, 2011 at 9:28 am |

    1 John 4:10
    Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

  65. Keehotee | September 6, 2011 at 9:40 am |

    Thanks Specky – I was talking about John Lennon, but that works too.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIfHsYWeC1Y

  66. Specky4eyes | September 6, 2011 at 10:18 am |

    Youri, that’s a very interesting recording. I’ve never heard that before. It seems he could see part of the problem but I think he makes the mistake of believing that man can find the solution within himself. The heart of man’s problem is his own heart.
    Jeremiah 17:9″The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it”
    Only God, the creator of the universe, can change that heart.
    Psalm 51:10
    “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”

    …and he does that by the imputation of righteousness. You see it’s not gold deposited in my bank account that will solve the problem. It’s the righteousness of Jesus Christ accredited to me and my sin transferred to Him that every man needs. What we see in the economic and political spheres is merely a symptom of human depravity. It’s also an example of God turning us over to our own sinful desires, judgement.

    But if you think the situation we find ourselves in now is fearful, think about that day when God will come Himself and judge the world in
    righteousness. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

    It’s time to repent and believe in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of sins.

  67. Specky4eyes | September 6, 2011 at 10:29 am |

    Swap Keehotee for Youri above

  68. Anna-Marie Crampton | September 8, 2011 at 12:28 am |

    ‎1 hour 30 mins to go…. and still the high bidder on ebay…… Chase banking and burning banks by Alex Schaefer. This is too much… who would have thought… little ol’ me! LA Weekly says, “The irony is, only a banker could afford to bid for this painting”, WRONG! I am not a banker. I am a concerned Brit who thinks the banks have got it coming!! Oh well, whatever the outcome now, it’s been soooo much fun! :) )