Global financial crisis-On the Edge with Max Keiser-05-20-2011-(Part1)

[creations78]

AT LEAST WE CAN LAUGH AT HIS NAME,GOLDMAN SACKS,WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT IT CAN'T BE HIS REAL NAME+BERNIE MADEOFF,COME ON.P++S TAKING LITTLE OLD, MISERABLE,PARANOID.DULL LOOKING BALD MEN STEALING EVERYONES MONEY.

[bangal09]

Max Keiser have a boring tone and vocal.

[vaguedustin]

golden sacs

[graham640]

the current irish government are an evil bunch of fuckers

[graham640]

irish government and the eu are bastards and are squeezing irish and greek to get their recklessly invested money back on the back of the people screw the irish government and fuck the eu

[CivilizedMan444]

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[kittypie070]

@CivilizedMan444

The Great Pyramid!?

Fuck you.

[graham640]

@kittypie070 screw you and your pyramid i know what you are on about and you are even sicker then they are bollocks

[kittypie070]

@graham640

it's not MY pyramid you dumb fuck

[maxistsocialist]

I think that for a revolutionary change to succeed in any nation we need a society of loving people. but in countries were people are evil, the system that can succeed most is an oligarchic corrupt kleptocracy just like the oligarchic kleptocratic system we have in America right now

[maxistsocialist]

I was reading in the introduction of The Communist Manifesto about Marx saying that the English culture and Europeans around the 1800s were very advanced and he said that the Germans, French and English were open minded and united. But i don't understand what happened to the english people of today that they are not smart anymore like the british people of the 1800s.

[evilstoo]

Democracy Democracy Democracy!! ..... Capitalism is Socialism is Democracy is Fascism is Corporatism ..... They are the same thing - it is a rule by a minority over the majority thru fraudulent voting - 51% rule 49% - how do the 99% ever get their freedoms if the 1% that slides the vote is always manipulated by the RICH to get their own way .... the simple sheeple just need to put aside the TV and CGI Games, open their eyes and rebel, turn the government inside out and start over again....

[kev1776]

Paul Craig Roberts understands most Americans live in an Orwellian 1984 reality because corporately controlled public education and the media direct our lives. Like lab rats in a maze, we live for corporate pleasure within the box, struggling and blaming each other for our problems within the box. Meanwhile, outside the box, the multi-national corporations, the powerful families behind them, and their government accomplices laugh at our existence, as they get away with nearly anything they want.

[LiveFreeOrTheyDie]

We attacked Libya to 'protect the dollar'.

Consider:

The people of Libya:

Pay $0.01 per gallon for gas

Pay $0.01 per loaf of bread

Get free medical care

Get free education

Are paid $50,000 reward for marriage

Have the highest standard of living among N. African nations

How can we improve this system with bombs?

[sLdGlD]

The world is full of crap, it is based on deciet and people with guns that work for thier crimelords keep it that way. It's a war of the factions on the top and little people like you and me are just pawns for their fodder. However, just like ants, when we all act together, we can have freedom from this world of crap, 9-5, dead before 40 poor life.

[314per]

Good video. Dumb comments section (at least at the point I am reading it). Its hilarious how after the right wing screwed the world financially, they now blame the left for it. Also, only a crank would claim that a democracy and a republic are different kinds of government. The U.S. is a democratic republic, at least in principle.

[Greyswyndir]

@314per,

Nope, It's a Constitutional Republic, the old dead guys who created our nation called it that so it's pretty absurd for you to call it a "democratic" Republic. Our forefather's hated Democracy and called it "the worst form of government to ever exist". Do some research.

[Will224000]

@Greyswyndir ...we have lost our Republic and our Constitution is being gutted... we have an Oligarchy form of Govt. where the few that have the money control the illusion of of democracy and Republic... the only way back out of this abyss is with blood... the Rich need to abdicate or die...

[Greyswyndir]

@Will224000,

I use the term "Plutocracy" but it's all the same when you get right down to it. I even doubt the true intent of the founders. The Constitution, even though I agree with most of it, seems like a very deceptive document. It wasn't written for the people or by the people. It was written by the American aristocracy. I believe some of the forefathers were all about Freedom and Liberty, but I also believe a lot of them where part of the problem...

[Greyswyndir]

...Why did George Washington allow a Rothschild Central bank in the so-called "Land of the free and home of the brave"? Most people say Alexander Hamilton (Rothschild Agent) talked him into it. Maybe he did, I'm not sure? All I know is that at least half of the founders seemed to be fighting for the enemy rather for us. People like Franklin and Jefferson, though eloquent writers, were Deists. And that's fine, but I think they were more then just Deists. What about all those corpses they found...

[Greyswyndir]

...in Benjamin Franklin's back yard? The mainstream historians like to say that Franklin was probably studying the human anatomy but I don't think so. He belonged to the Hell Fire Club. I personally think he may have been a Luciferian. It wouldn't surprise me that's for damn sure. I think we should question everything at this point. I'm not patriotic in that sense, I don't worship men. I do believe in the high ideals America was supposed to stand for. And I love the Bill of Rights...

[Greyswyndir]

...and the Declaration of Independence. But I'm highly suspicious of the Constitution. Why did the founders make it so easy to misinterpret? If it had been written correctly none of this shit would be happening right now. I'm just sick of all the lies. Every war we've ever fought has been some sort of scam, usually to benefit the International bankers and there warped dream of a one world government. Well, they're about to get what they asked for...You know the old Chinese proverb...

[Greyswyndir]

...Be careful what you wish for.

Amen.

[Will224000]

@Greyswyndir...1... ...AM REV I was fought against the BANK OF ENGLAND (CITY OF LONDON)...

...AM REV II will be fought against the same same Entities (PERSONS) but on a Global scale...

...it is already starting to bud in the Middle East and Europe... America lags because we are mired in a complacency fostered by a comfy status quo that is going away very quickly... most of America has 'Stockholm Syndrome'... this is Class Warfare on a World-wide scale...

[Greyswyndir]

@Will224000,

I'm not so sure what's happening in the middle east is coming from below (the people). It could be one big intelligence agency coup for all we know. Brzezinski predicted all this and that makes me very suspicious, that guy seems to be the prophet of the elites. I say watch and wait and see what happens before we label these revolutions as genuine. What started the American Revolution was the Currency Act of 1763. Ben Franklin went to London and let the cat out of the bag.

[Greyswyndir]

...Which of course was an Act that the Rothschild dynasty fomented. So we agree.

[Will224000]

@Greyswyndir...2...

...the lynch pin is how our Military will respond when the blood hits the streets... AMERICORP is bolstering DHS and tightening the grip here at home... Wash just extended the UNPatriot Act... I am hoping that at least some of the Top Brass are OATH KEEPERS...

[Greyswyndir]

@Will224000,

Where in the hell are the oath keepers right now? What happened to them last week when the cops rubbed out that veteran in Arizona. So far Oath Keepers haven't kept their oath at all. How many illegal actions have they committed or allowed other officers to commit? When they're willing to uphold the whole Constitution then maybe my attitude will change, until then they are part of the problem. Let's hope there someone high in government planning to help us when TSHTF.

[canofcrass]

I retired in 2001 and was looking forward to living on a meager teachers pension of $1823/month for life, only to cash all in because of the feds obscene devaluation of the dollar, the funds being $500 billion underfunded and the state $100 billion in the red, unable to cover the pension pay out at some point in the next few years. Thank you Bernanke and Geithner, Congress for looking out for us little guys that worked an honest job for 20 years and entered into a contract in good faith. FUCK!

[yhwh97]

love my silver ! its steal at $35.00

[cdimmm]

Max is a shill, just look at the Chemtrail graphics behind his lying eyes

[SpiritLadyArtist]

Look up Zeitgeist Moving Forward a Movie for solutions. . Start thinking resource based economy. Google it.

[jrg8008]

It's the jews, stupid.

theoccidentalobserver . net

[jrg8008]

It was the Reagan administration, in which "Doctor" Roberts served, that started the process of repealing the Glass-Steagall act, which had been law since the FDR administration of the 1930s and which seperated the activities of banks from those of investment companies.

Reagan did this in order to gain favor with certain Wall Street investment interests in return for their financial support of his presidential campaigns.

This is where the current problems started.

theoccidentalobserver . net

[hume1234561]

ty max for having dr paul roberts back.

5 star interview.

[mwhod]

there has never been a democracy, only idiots think that, you have always lived under a corporate dictatorship under the thumb or the rich, the wealth of america has been transferred to the rich, and now there are too many people, not enough jobs, not enough money, so what is the answer, it sort of looks like your satanic masters are going to have to find a way to keep the sheep in the pens and get rid of many.

[CRYPTICmessenger]

Government of the BANKS, by the BANKS, for the BANKS !!!

[babaloo42]

I've been saying for a long time that the whole thing is a frog.

[TheTopBloke]

@babaloo42 A frog? WTF are you talking about?

[61damage]

So what is the 'Father of Supply Side Economics' doing objecting to the current mess anyway? 'Reaganomics' just means 'give the rich anything they want' anyway, so why's Max so hung up on this guy, who helped more than anybody to create the current disaster?

[harveybirdmannequin]

Do a show with a sociologist/economic historian. The people have to know what life used to be. The people don't know how much raping of the American people the banks, Wall St., MIC, and various corporations are doing to them.

They can't think in terms of money and other jargon. A respectable living is fresh food, a parent that can stay at home to raise the children not kids raised by TV in apartments, 40 hr work week, leisure time, affordable housing, education, medicine.

[saasaasaa010101]

Insightful as always

[mphello]

Roberts is a fucking piece-of-shit worthless moron if he actually was "the father of Reaganomics", as Max claims, and didn't think things in America would turn out this way under all the decades of anti-socialist and anti-communist and anti-liberal and anti-justice rhetoric.

[w0tm]

When will all realize true Conservatives are NOT Republicans. Republicans and Democrats are two shades of jet black. Dump the banksters! Lock'em up! Goldman Sachs, JPM, et al. What Ireland is doing is soon coming to the US. How can US pension holders be so dumb? Google "normalcy bias". Wikipedia has best explanation. Americans about to GIVE between 5 and 14 trillion dollars of their hard earned retirement $ to criminal gvt and WS Mafia banksters . Get out now! Pay the stupid 10% penalty!

[1977Melville]

@w0tm. The public is gradually waking up to this in the USA. Look at the way people are starting to entertain Ron Paul's ideas on liberty (e.g. end the drug wars)

[w0tm]

@1977Melville key word - "gradually" at this rate of "gradually" we'll all be dead collecting food stamps six feet under. Obama has billion dollar war chest plus 60 mil on food stamps growing every day. Won't bite hand that feeds it. As long as value remains in dollar Obama is prez for life H.J. Res. 5 Google it. 46% pay NO taxes but DO vote! You think people will vote to fix economy? Or remain on dole? Rip cord is crash of dollar. Bilion $ food stamp for coffee! $ crash is only hope.

[w0tm]

@1977Melville Got to admit - $40 billion a year war on drugs plus half of those locked up there for drugs.. This is CRAZY! A way to make population submissive to fascist gvt., Drugs were legal in 19th century. Minimal use back then. Little harm. Only became bad when made illegal. Same with prohibition. Alcohol and tobacco kills HUGE numbers.  I do NOT do drugs or even drink or smoke. But this is gvt control at its worst. $40 billion/yr wasted and wasted lives. Give up on minor drugs!

[koolchloe]

@w0tm Who are the true Conservatives? What platform do they offer a society of haves and have nots?

[w0tm]

@koolchloe @koolchloe I think I understand your comment -- if not, I apologize. I am a registered Republican and have been all of my voting life. I believe in what has been ascribed to various people -- including Thomas Jefferson "government that governs least governs best".

I probably put too much faith in the kindness of human nature if allowed to function. But it has been the "way of life" for 80+ years to "let government do it and that absolves me from helping my fellow man"

[w0tm]

@koolchloe A little known fact and kept quiet (why?) is that the American people give a higher percentage of their OWN money to PRIVATE charity than any other nation on earth. As socialism increases INDIVIDUAL charity decreases. Just a fact of life. A recent poll (polls get answers the pollsters want based on what questions are asked and how they are asked) showed 46% of American adults believe our tax policy is "about right". Not too surprising the percentage of adults who pay NO taxes is

[w0tm]

@koolchloe is (you guessed it) 46%! The only "tax" that would pay off our debt would be a 100% confiscation tax of those in the top 3% holders of wealth. Of course that would cause that wealth to be worth very little as who would be there to buy it other than foreigners? Raising taxes of the "working rich" is always the topic. Wealth confiscation is never mentioned. It's the 'working rich" who provide the jobs and spend most of the money. But they are pillared as being evil.

[w0tm]

@koolchloe Confiscating WEALTH of those who work as well as those who do not would briefly bring our national debt to zero but would then again climb very fast as few would work and even fewer would attempt to achieve ownership of material goods.  I read government "uses" almost 50% of the money paid in taxes before it is paid out again as "income redistribution". President Obama says he KNOWS raising taxes of "the working rich" DECREASES taxes paid the government but it is an issue of

[w0tm]

@koolchloe of "fairness" = not raising more tax income. That's been proven the few times it's been tried. Most recently in Russia where dropping from tax rate much lower than ours to a flat tax of 10% increased tax revenue by a factor of four times! You have to dig to find that fact in the media but it is there. If everyone paid SOME tax they would feel they had "ownership" of our country and economic system. As I say, 46% do not. In fact most receive government largess called

[w0tm]

@koolchloe many names. Over 50% of government spending goes to "entitlements". I am not a member of the "working rich".I am just the messenger."Shoot the messenger" if you wish but all I say is true.The "platform" should be simple.Make it as easy as possible (as few roadblocks as possible) for people to work and be self-supporting plus provide for those who cannot provide for themselves (i.e. a medical reason)."Income redistribution" is new (80yrs) and has brought us to where we are today.

[w0tm]

@koolchloe Unless you "know" someone or are a member of an "elite class" (working or not) your "field" is quickly being leveled so that virtually everyone will end up with a standard of living of where the bottom 10% are today. Many people voted for this as a way to "punish" those have more wealth than they do (fairly earned or not) and they are getting their wish much faster than I thought would happen. We will soon join other third-world nations where people are all "equal". Equally poor.

[koolchloe]

@w0tm with all due respect, please clarify who you believe voted for this outcome of suppressing voters rights, womens reproductive rights, to dissolve municipalities and replace local governments with hand picked representatives that were unelected by the people, who voted to end workers rights to collectively bargain?

[w0tm]

@koolchloe thank you for your civil response. I just do not understand so many on Youtube attacking others with curse words instead of discussing the issues. I did not mean to intimate this is something new. For 200 years a small group of "families" have endeavored to rule the world and all the people on it. Not any party or even "Conservative". Rothschilds, Rockefellers, etc. They pit all of us against one another for them to win! They own and control governments. A TRUE "Conservative" is

[w0tm]

@koolchloe someone who helps others in need who truly cannot help themselves. They do not covet that of others. They work to make the "pie" larger for eveyone - not "redistribute" existing wealth which always ends in making almost everyone poorer. We are rapidly reaching the end where representatives of the people have no power, our Constitution and Bill of Rights is being destroyed leaving us as a dictatorial fascist police state.This is NOT "CONSERVATISM". It is WARPED EVIL PROGRESSIVISM.

[w0tm]

@koolchloe to respond to your points 1. other than requiring voters prove they are citizens I am not aware of any suppression of voter rights 2. I personally believe abortion laws should be state laws 3. replacing elected reps with unelected "policy makers" have mostly been efforts of the left (not right) - I strongly disagree with the new laws by fiat (Executive Orders) that are now streaming from the White House in torrents 4. unions may still be formed but should not be required by law.

[ravioneu]

Always a pleasure to hear from Mr. Roberts. Smart guy.  And Max is great, too.

I always learn a lot from these two. And I trust them.

[beckweth]

Sorry sir - this is exactly the outcome of a Democracy. The US is suppose to be a Republic, by the way.

[saasaasaa010101]

@beckweth It is not democracy....Its only democracy in name...nothing else.

[shortist2003]

@beckweth I am certain Dr. Roberts is aware of the difference. The U.S. republic was established as a democratic form of government, not a pure democracy, which any knowledgable and truthful person knows is unworkable. Dr. Roberts is also using the sorry mantra of the current and all recent U.S. Administrations - the spread of democracy - as a means to explain what utter nonsense it is and has been.

[DominicJCircolone]

@shortist2003 A republican form of government is not and cannot be a democratic form of government. Saying such nonsense is akin to saying a kitty cat is a form of canine. Or a chicken is a form of fish. A constitutional republic grants the power to the INDIVIDUAL under the rule of law. All democratic forms of government amount to the rule of the majority. The founders knew about and despised all democratic forms of government. They tyranny of the majority is the worst. Wow, some people's kids!

[primomysterio]

@DominicJCircolone

usually when scholars refer to the u.s. as a

"democracy" they actually mean republic ... its the same way people call u.s.ers "americans"...its improper---yet the meaning is understood

[DominicJCircolone]

@primomysterio Hey, anonymous coward? Please tell us which scholars have allowed you to be their spokesperson so we can question them as to the veracity of your claim. I'm sure not one scholar wants this clown speaking for them. No one says democracy when they actually mean republic. The democracy lie is being spread for only one reason.

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution." - G.K. Chesterton

[shortist2003]

@DominicJCircolone You have no idea what you're talking about. "In common parlance a republic is a state that has a government indirectly controlled by the people. This is known as representative democracy." - William R. Everdell, A History of Republics and Republicans.

[DominicJCircolone]

@shortist2003 You and Mr. Everdell don't know what the founding fathers of the USA thought of democracies and why they added article IV section 4 to the Constitution. Just because you find some clown spreading false information does not mean I don't know what I'm talking about. Republics and democracies are dissimilar forms of government. People, especially teacher/historians, LIE! It's what they do for a living. The USA is not nor ever was any form of democracy. It is a constitutional republic

[DominicJCircolone]

John Adams: Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Thomas Jefferson: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.

So, we are supposed to believe they founded a democracy despite knowing that democracies are of evil? Just how stupid do people like Everdell think we are?

[DominicJCircolone]

James Madison: Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

John Quincy Adams: The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

But let's have a rep democracy anyway, right, Everdell? He's certainly mistaken!

[DominicJCircolone]

John Marshall: Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

James Madison: Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

Obviously, Everdell has an agenda for spreading the democracy lie. I will lend more credence to the US Constitution and to the words of those that gave it to us, than to some two bit teacher/historian that ignores the words of the founders.

[1BigCREE1Redtail]

@beckweth Correct!!! It was never intended to be anything but , A Constitutional Republic. Period.

[Greyswyndir]

@beckweth,

I said the same thing, Constitutional Republic, not some weak and deceptive "democracy". Why are democracies so dangerous? Because of the ignorant majority. People who don't know a damn thing shouldn't have the right to vote on anything of national importance. Most people are sadly misinformed and that's why democracy is dangerous. The people are fickle and their minds change like the wind blows. A Constitutional Republic protects the informed minority and guarantees private property

[CivilizedMan444]

@beckweth - America is not a Republic - it is, and always has been, an Elective Dictatorship. as created by its Founding Landlord Banksters.

[harveybirdmannequin]

Gold is useless and an old Jew trick. Silver which has industrial uses will be what brings down the banks and the system. We're calling their bluff.

The fact that people buy gold is the reason you have not seen severe real inflation yet. The Jew trick is to get people to put their money into a useless asset with no returns so there is no money velocity (no inflation).

If I'm a central bank with gold, when inflation gets WILD, I sell gold to stupid people and keep their money out of circulation.

[godseyeview]

@harveybirdmannequin gold has a ton of industrial uses especially in electronics. are u crazy?

[brossen99]

@godseyeview Yeah but only in minute quantities and platinum is better anyway.

[kdogg1000]

Paul Craig Roberts is one of the best.