Ron Paul / Tea Party Jibber Jabber

August 29th, 2010 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: Will the Koch-bots make of Ron Paul’s message to them? The likes of Koch Industries, who organized and financed the Palin/Beck fronted rally, rely on the continued ignorance of the heavy carbon taxes on Americans to finance the increasingly expensive military adventures abroad to secure oil reserves for the likes of their company. So how do you think Koch’s front group will respond? And do you think the Koch Party will fight to remove these taxes on the rest of the population that does not support the corporate welfare scheme for Big Oil?

“As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined.”

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[OTE70] On the Edge with Joern Berninger

August 28th, 2010 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary:  Interview with Joern Berninger from yesterday’s On the Edge, air date 27 August 2010. {Please note – Dr. Berninger had serious audio problems on his end, so that any time he spoke for more than 30 or so seconds the sound would become inaudible, so he kept his answers very short. This is why Max spoke more than usual!}

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No, It’s Not 1994, It’s 1984

August 28th, 2010 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary:  So the Koch Brothers’ Freedom Works (and, yes, they keep posting on our Youtube videos, comments similar to many ‘independent’ minded folks here) have hired the two most popular with the ‘grassroots’ demagogues, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.  The mission is to “Restore Honor” (perfect fascist propaganda tool to use such a vague concept as ‘honor’) and “Take Back the Country,” um, for the Republicans, known here as the Red Team: “What happens this year will make what happened in 1994 look like a Sunday picnic.” Anyone here attending the ‘grassroots for Joe SixPack’ shindig put together by the two brothers worth $35 billion?  Are you hoping to get ‘educated’ by Glenn Beck, cuz I hear that:

“He talks to you and not at you,” said Wojtowicz, who was meeting in Washington with about 40 members of the Chicago Tea Patriots group. “He’s giving you an education.”

In related news, as with the last time that fascism emerged out of economic depression, we once again find the Japanese. I just read an article in the Herald Tribune which is bizarrely not available anywhere online; so I will summarize and type in a few quotes here.  The title is “Venting frustration in Japan,” and it chronicles the rise of new extreme right groups in Japan  called the ‘Net right’ (for the fact that they organize via the internet) and that, unlike the Old Right groups, have stepped up personal confrontations in a manner that is unheard of in Japan.  From the article:

“the largest group appears to be the cumbersomely named Citizens Group That Will Not Forgive Special Privileges for Koreans in Japan, known here by its Japanese abbreviation, the Zaitokukai, which has about 9,000 members.”

One could also perhaps read the American version as “Citizens Group That Will Not Forgive Special Privileges for Mexicans, Blacks or Gays in America.”

The far right Japanese groups meet online and then hold noisy demonstrations in meat space; which often include confronting Korean or Phillipine school children, taunting them to go home.  More:

“Since first appearing last year, these protests have aimed at not just Japan’s half-million ethnic Koreans but also Chinese and other Asian workers, Christian churchgoers and even Westerners in Halloween costumes.  In that case, a few dozen angrily shouting demonstrators followed around revelers waving placards that said, “This is not a white country.”

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Citibank: The Domestic Goddess of Wall Street, It Cooks & Does the Laundry

August 28th, 2010 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary:  This story is getting big news today that Citibank cooks its books; Max, of course, said on the Keiser Report that Citi is a big laundromat; “the stock itself – most actively traded every day – is used as laundromat by insiders – trading billions of shares A DAY.”

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Guest Post: The Elites Have Lost The Right to Rule

August 27th, 2010 by Michael Krieger
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War is the growth hormone of the cancer that is big government.
- Alex Jones

A government always finds itself obliged to resort to inflationary measures when it cannot negotiate loans and dare not levy taxes, because it has reason to fear that it will forfeit approval of the policy it is following if it reveals too soon the financial and general economic consequences of that policy. Thus inflation becomes the most important psychological resource of any economic policy whose consequences have to be concealed; and so in this sense it can be called an instrument of unpopular, that is, of antidemocratic policy, since by misleading public opinion it makes possible the continued existence of a system of government that would have no hope of the consent of the people if the circumstances were clearly laid before them. That is the political function of inflation. When governments do not think it necessary to accommodate their expenditure and arrogate to themselves the right of making up the deficit by issuing notes, their ideology is merely a disguised absolutism.

- Ludwig von Mises [Read more →]

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Bernanke, Trichet Economic Paths May Diverge at Jackson Hole

August 27th, 2010 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: Loose money and cheap credit for the US, tighter policy for Europe?  Trichet should watch the Tuesday’s Keiser Report and he would know that the Greeks would say to him, “if you take away my bread, I will take you down.”

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[KR72] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Arctic Arms Race!

August 26th, 2010 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: We look at the scandals of security firms by day, terrorists by night and whether or not Erik Prince ‘needs a break from America,’ or broke America. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Paul McLeary, a journalist specializing in defense, intelligence and military, about the arms race in the Arctic.

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New Features on PirateMyfilm.com

August 26th, 2010 by maxkeiser
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PMF Fund Blog

New features on pmf!

We have released some new features on piratemyfilm over the last few days.

You can now view and search our member database via the member button in the main navigation bar.

On the members page you can order users by various parameters and you can click through to follow that user, allowing you to see their producer blogs on your profile page.

Other users can now follow you also. When a follow is mutual, it becomes a friendship!

Another big feature we have released is the ability to “follow” a project. This allows you to have a live feed of all the activity that is happening around your “followed projects”, so that you can see what is hot, and make reservations based on where the buzz is!

We are releasing more features over the next few weeks, so stay tuned!

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Ireland’s ‘Vicious Circle’ and Paid to Riot

August 26th, 2010 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: Okay Geek and Dork, your thoughts?  And h/t all who linked to the second article.

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Monocellular Jibber Jabber

August 25th, 2010 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary:  I haven’t had a jibber jabber thread in awhile; but I thought this story about a Japanese politician calling Americans monocellular was worth it just for the word alone.

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