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Max Keiser on Racketeering and Roots of R3volution




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mad max is going to have his own TV show perhaps on HBO

It will be called On The Edge. Here is the pilot teaser....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo8GemDFwg0

actually it will be on Press TV

soon.

Max - imus, Circus

The anti-dote.

Few others, who see the big picture and the details, have tried as hard to draw popular attention to the Big Top.

Thumbs Up ! ......... for his antics.

For a change, one comes to bury Caesar not to praise him.

This was an intriguing

This was an intriguing discussion and highlights the perceptions of different political perspectives . each speaker seemed to have a good grasp of the problem yet their solutions were the same old. The two socialists blamed "capitalism" and wanted all the people taken care of by the government as the solution. This is where revolutions become dangerous, for while a radical overhaul may be necessary the "solution" may be worse.

I was also wondering if Max Keiser when he stated that the American and British education systems had been "privatized" if he meant taken on by the government. I have heard that in Britain they use the term private for what we call public schools. Otherwise I don't know what he is talking about in that regard.

While Max made some great points, especially against the bankers and the corrupt government collusion with wall street, I don't think he spoke up enough in defense of free markets and individual freedom against the socialist solutions. It appeared as if he was in agreement with them across the board which I am certain he is not in agreement with their solutions.

The American diplomat guy had some good things to add about the reality of world trade and competition with China. This is complicated and while an overhaul is needed, we must be wary of leaders and movements that might usurp the agenda toward socialism, communism, and tyranny.

I don't think Max is a

I don't think Max is a freemarket guy. It seems like to me that he's just pissed off! I know guys like him, worked on the inside, they've seen how corrupt the system is, they're angry about it, but they attack the branches instead of the roots.

I don't think Max has connected all the dots properly. I mean, don't get me wrong, he's a bright guy but he hasn't finished putting together the whole puzzle because he's too busy being the angry entertainer.

Great...

Always refreshing after having watched to much amreican tv to se dabates where people show respect and let each other talk without interruptions. Max is cool.

/Mike

Front Fell Off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg

Capitalism is certainly not the problem. Monopolization of

capital is. That is the essence of a 'Racket'.

"But corporate lawyers (acting as both attorneys and judges) subverted our Bill of Rights in the late 1800's by establishing the doctrine of "corporate personhood" -- the claim that corporations were intended to fully enjoy the legal status and protections created for human beings!" http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/

This would lead to the rise of 'corporate monopolies' and their trumping 'human rights' in the 20th century. This needed to be 'installed' to create all the 'front' corporations for the Federal Reserve later on.

Shift In Dialog

I highly commend that people here pay attention to this panel discussion. Mad Max ‘gets it’. Freedom will not be well served by simply aping the effete rhetoric of the paradigm which will increasingly be accused of getting us into this mess. The heat will be turned up … and should.

The revolution to be studied is the French Revolution of 1789. I don’t mean as model or ideal … I mean as a heads up.

And I don’t mean simply getting snarky like Burke, about what we all agree should be preferred outcomes. We will be experiencing a very dynamic situation. Conservative complacency will not prove to be the most effective way to keep from losing our heads in the commotion. Might things have trended differently if there were more than just a handful of LaFayettes, Paines, or Jeffersons around?

On corporatism, I agree it is high time we stepped outside Their box:

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/48360#comment-460793

Aren’t libertarians all about personal responsibility?

BTW, if one thinks Max’s rhetoric is excessive, I suggest some haven’t been paying attention.

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/55223

Why do they bash capitalism

Why do they bash capitalism when capitalism is apart of every form of government whether it be communism or anarchy?

The problem is not capitalism, the problem is government. The government allows corporations and banks to get away with corruption and fraud not capitalism or capital.

Governments allow businesses to grow large and unlawful, NOT capitalism. In a true freemarket, we would never have people like Bill Gates and Microsoft because the freemarket would never allow it--only the very visable hand of government allows these corporations to grow into monsters. This is what these "socialists" don't understand. Big governments are not the cure, they are the disease of a sick society.

As far as I can tell

we do not know what we would or would not have in a free market, but I think your wording undermines your point. Would it not be rather better to say governments take positive actions, they *act*, to create the framework in which corruption, monopoly, and megacorporations thrive. It is too kind, and a little misleading, to say simply that governments *allow* these things to happen.

My point is that governments

My point is that governments allow monster corporations to grow & thrive because they help these corporations bend, spin, change, and break the people's law. With a clear set of laws, a healthy & independent 3 branch government that is limited in size & scope, every company and corporation would be out in the freemarket & society to fend for its self.

Corporations like GE and Mansanto could never be the Goliaths that they are today without their handsomely paid lobbyists and our unfortunate corruptible government. It's clear now more than ever that corporations and banks hate the freemarket, like bears hate bees.

It's not the government's responsibility to take positive or negative action, only to enforce the law of the people--not the law of the corporations.

It's supposed to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the devious!

Frederick Bastiat's view is

Frederick Bastiat's view is that the purpose of the law is to defend the life, liberty, and property of the individual. It is a negative concept where "Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent. But when the law, by means of its necessary agent, force, imposes upon men a regulation of labor, a method or a subject of education, a religious faith or creed -- then the law is no longer negative; it acts positively upon people."
http://www.lexrex.com/informed/otherdocuments/thelaw/law12.h...

You said:
"It's not the government's responsibility to take positive or negative action, only to enforce the law of the people--not the law of the corporations."

I think it's important for us to know what we mean by "the law of the people" because when the law extends beyond protecting the life, liberty, and property of the individual its original purpose becomes corrupted.

Level the playing field with ROBERT'S RULES and a good recording device:
http://www.dailypaul.com/142513/roberts-rules-video-library
Alternative Cancer Therapies
http://www.dailypaul.com/226732/alternative-cancer-therapies...

Agreed but our

Agreed but our representatives took it upon themselves to pervert the individual's laws so to recognize the Corporation as an individual and this is where we start to reveal the root of our problems....

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Good point, bigsurjune

No matter what system, somebody will manage the capital. It comes down to people's internal demons. Do they trust some vision of a benevolent government "of the people," to control and solve everyone's problems, with fewer choices, a lower overall standard of living aiming to be more equitable; or are they willing to encourage a freer system -- lots of individuals and groups experimenting with entrepreneurship, a dynamic combination of local projects and trans-national trade, but disparity of benefits as free choice rewards those who make good choices and sends tough feedback to those who make poor choices.

Thank you

I will probably listen to this a few times because there are some very valid points being made.

The word "capitalism" , I have a problem with because NAFTA is not capitalism, and I wish Max could have taken the opportunity to teach the representative of the Left Party, what capitalism is and why the "Free trade" is not free trade or capitalism.

It also seems to me that what is clear in France, but not so clear in the USA, and apparently oblivious to the UK (by the questions asked in the debate) is the conservatives and liberals understand their "neoconservatives and neoliberals SOLD THEM OUT to the USA, who is beholden to China, Japan, UAE...

I hope more folks here watch this, I think it's important, and I guess what I liked best about it is I believe the USA economy is going to crash like Argentina, and now France, and the debate also said these crashes were like Argentina (and we all know that was a planned collapse).

WE ARE GOING TO WIN!

Too much naked socialism. It

Too much naked socialism. It bothers me that Max knows better but refuses to stand up because he is a liberal.

Ventura 2012