Press TV's Kaneez Fatima discusses Austerity Measures with Max Keiser

[maxkeiser]

Run time: 04:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBpya55RnE   Posted on YouTube: October 01, 2010 By YouTube Member: Presstvupload Views on YouTube: 48   Posted on DU: October 01, 2010 By DU Member: maxkeiser Views on DU: 643

 

[trungpa ricochet]

1. To Max:

I basically agree with your analysis of international finance, and I think citizens of many countries have been bamboozled by banks and their lackeys in government. I left the USA a few years ago because I believe it is collapsing into a third-world police state. However, I wish you had a different venue for your comments, someone other than the Iranian State TV. The ayatollas are simply evil. The people of Iran deserve to be free. As valid as your opinion is, it is unfortunately tainted by Press TV. I can watch RT, even though sometimes it's amateurish, but It's hard for me to give Iranian TV my time. I bet you would agree with me in private, but perhaps feel that you don't have any options.

[tsuki]

2. If you have noticed, the Irani demonization has dialed down since

the Irani accepted applications from Goldman-Sachs and Citibank to open branches in Tehran. Who knows? The word may soon go out to our corporate media that Iran is our best friend, report, report, report. It worked for China.

[girl gone mad]

3. I agree..

I think Iran has figured out how to avert war.

[civilisation]

4. Exactly open debt markets,. . war averted!

They figured out that the fascist banksters that run the war machine, only want access to their resources, and the ability to steal from the people, using the corpo-banking pyramid-compound-interest debt-money system. All threats of war where about the inaccessibility of these economic assets. They could really care less if the ruling group gets to enforce any religious dogma they like, and impose a police state and violent crackdowns on free speech or any criticisms of their rule. It is, as it always has been, about power not freedom. Well freedom of capital,. when ever you hear these corpo-fascists speak the word "freedom" realize they are talking about freedom of capital NOT freedoms for people.

[tsuki]

5. Yep, you don't want drones in your city, open a Citibank ATM. nt

[maxkeiser]

6. clearly,

your view of iran is a bit warped. How do you reconcile the freedom of the press in iran vs. the lack of a free press in the U.S. - with your other views?

if there was a free press in the U.S. - the public would be informed about the depth of the financial problems sinking the U.S.

maybe your views of Iran are being filtered through an extremely biased U.S. press?

In my view, the most dangerous man in the world is Jim Cramer over at CNBC. Think about the tens of millions of Americans he helped destroy with his Wall St. propaganda. Shameful.

[BetterThanNoSN]

7. thank you Max...

maybe your views of Iran are being filtered through an extremely biased U.S. press?

Why do we Americans never stop to consider this? Take away what the govt. and right wing echo chamber tells us about Iran and we know exactly nothing about them. No wonder so many people blindly believe they want to 'wipe Israel off the map', never even knowing the context in which it was said. Or having the Orwellian view that a country with no nukes and a member of the NPT is clearly more dangerous to the world than a country with 100's of nukes and unwilling to sign onto the NPT.
Max, you are the damn man. You are days/weeks/months ahead of all the bozos out there analyzing economic information and laying it bare for all to see. I'm a regular viewer of your interviews and articles and you are priceless, keep up the rants, thanks, Joe NY

[maxkeiser]

8. notice the embedded propaganda points from the American 'free' thinker

this phrase from the previous post is the tipoff, |"The people of Iran deserve to be free."

this is a talking point created by U.S. propaganda that got picked up by the "liberal" blogosphere and repeated ad nauseum.

notice two key word elements:

'deserve' and 'free.'

In america, the way to get people to buy into a propaganda point is to tap into their sense of entitlement. A good example: 'L'oreal, because you're worth it' or any of the credit card ads that show americans shopping with money they don't have.

Americans have been brought up being told that the deserve and are entitled to mass riches with virtually no accountability. If you look at US propaganda you see the word 'deserve' a lot.

now, let's look at

'free'

as in, 'land of the free'

this always strikes a chord with Americans and can always be used to get them to think past what they see and hit the nationalist panic button.

as I have noted; iran has a free press - where I can speak freely about the global economy. Whereas I am not invited onto any MSM in the U.S. because that financial press space is monopolized by oligarchs and wall st. mullahs.

net, net, americans - on forum boards like this one - unknowingly, simply repeat spoon fed propaganda points when it comes to the genuinely important issues of the day like Iran - so - at the end of the day, there is no opposition at all. No 'left.' No liberal voice. No dissent. No freedom.