Russia Today is
one of the few decent news stations left in the media, and its financial
correspondent is Max Keiser; his programmes like the Keiser Report, which he presents almost daily with his wife Stacey
Herbert, are very interesting and alternative compared to the finance coverage
you'll see on the BBC or CNN. He's very radical indeed compared to most other
popular economists; he's a very harsh critic of state bailouts and "austerity
measures" (a very creative Orwellianism that!) and he's not scared to use
words like "banksters". He supports the Gold Standard system and he's
very keen to endorse BitCoin. He's even created his own currency called MaxCoin. He has called for the arrest,
imprisonment, and even execution... jokingly of course... of the heads of the
major banks. His style is loud, humourous and lighthearted, but with a tone of
bittersweet pessimism sometimes bordering on the apocalyptic. See here for his
website: http://www.maxkeiser.com/. In
April this year he appeared at a live event in Parliament which was hosted by
George Galloway, and it attracted a huge audience and was filmed, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CioqqfBdX6g.
An acquaintance of mine attended this event and told me what
the atmosphere was like. A lot of the audience in the queue outside were
wearing Guy Fawkes masks; how Parliamentary security handled that I can't
imagine. Max has long been predicting that most of the currencies that exist in
the world today will collapse in the very near future, a "financial
holocaust" that will cause millions to die through poverty and suicide.
Karen Hudes sees it as a "currency war", see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/world-bank-whistleblower.html,
Keiser sees it as a currency Armageddon. At the moment there's a battle going
on between the UK
Prime Minister David Cameron and the Germans in the European Central Bank over
the role the Bank of England is playing in Britain
and Europe . Max blames the Bank of England for various
finanncial scandals and crimes like the 2008 crash, drug money laundering, the
Lehman Brothers collapse and even the massive fraud committed by Bernie Madoff.
Max claims that: "This is what David Cameron doesn't seem to be able to
see!" I wonder if perhaps David Cameron does see it, but just doesn't give
a damn; perhaps it's what he wants. The current national debt of the UK
is 700% of its gross domestic product, double what it was before the 2008 bailout,
whereas forecasts expect the national economy to grow at between 2.7 and 2.8%
this year. "How can you have capitalism without capital?" as Max
says. Good question! The problem is that debt, in the form of "credit
bonds" is now almost unbelievably treated as an asset, see here for more
details: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/give-me-back-my-debt.html.
It turns out that one of Gordon Brown's most significant acts as Chancellor of
the Exchequer was to sell 60% of British gold stocks in 2002 at a discount
price; again, I don't see this as accidental. Max suggests that it might have
been a precursor to the 2008 bailout because the meagre revenue from the sales
was used to prop up an ailing New York bank, but this bank remains anonymous
(pun intended!). However he has uncovered new evidence that leads him to think Germany
now have all that gold; this makes a joke out of Cameron's current spat with Germany .
This means in any coming currency collapse Britain
will be hit particularly badly and it could be that this was planned as long
ago as 2002. The UK Government has since 1982 been buying more and more bonds,
a massively expanding market in which prices are rising hundreds of percent,
seeing as it has no real capital. This policy is based on fear, according to
Max. I'd say it's based on a deliberate plot to commit financial suicide. Bonds
are a huge bubble whose value can wither to virtually nothing almost instantly;
Max advises anybody who owns any private ones to sell as soon as possible; and
if you have a pension invested in them, forget retiring! However, almost
paradoxically, states around the world have recently been buying gold,
especially China ;
the UK is an
exception. Has the penny dropped that they need a buffer when the bond bubble
pops? Or are the Iluminati simply placing the next generation of winners and
losers on the starting grid for the world to come after that pop? Maybe this
all ties into the gold price manipulation Karen Hudes talks about, see the link
above. Max simply suggests raising interest rates to deter governments from
borrowing any more; at the moment they're often offered huge loans
interest-free. This will of course increase banking profits, but he sees this
as a temporary situation. He compares it to a medicine that makes you sick, but
does you good.
The effect this will have on the general population will be
devastating. Max says pension accounts are being raided at the moment and we
know banks are imposing "levies" in some countries, I consider this
legalized bank robbery, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-bank-robbers-of-cyprus.html.
Food and fuel prices will rise as the government desperately tried to save the
doomed bond market. We have nothing else to fall back upon because all the real
capital, in the form of gold, resources and industrial profit, has gone. Max
comes across as a libertarian and sees this mess emerging out of an attempt to
regulate capitalism and to "eliminate the boom-bust cycle". However
this is a sign that he still sees everything going on as somehow inadvertent, a
terrible mess that nobody expected. What if it is intentional, an act of economic
vandalism at the most fundamental level? Why? To deconstruct the entire
economic system as we know it and rebuild it in a new form. This nightmarish
vision is not inevitable and I think Max understands that; he becomes more hopeful
towards the end of his address. The disaster that might come hinges completely upon our abdication and cooperation. The
solution to this looming crisis is the same one I've suggested many times
before: We, the people, have to take sovereign control of our own economic lives
through independent banking, LETS schemes, small local currencies and sensible
economic structures such as a small business basis and workers cooperatives.
See here for more
detail: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/the-oxford-pound.html.
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