Ο Max Keiser για την Ελληνική οικονομική κρίση: - Απαλλαχτείτε,όπως οι Ισλανδοί, από τους οικονομικούς τρομοκράτες...


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«Απαλλαγείτε από τους οικονομικούς τρομοκράτες»
ΜΑΞ ΚΑΪΖΕΡ, 50 ετών, παρουσιαστής και παραγωγός τηλεοπτικών και ραδιοφωνικών προγραμμάτων, οικονομικός αναλυτής και επιχειρηματίας.
Αρθρογραφεί τακτικά ως μπλόγκερ στο ενημερωτικό portal Huffington Post και εμφανίζεται συχνά στο αγγλόφωνο κανάλι του «Αλ Τζαζίρα». Πριν από λίγες μέρες κλήθηκε εκεί για να σχολιάσει τα της κρίσης της ελληνικής οικονομίας και της στάσης των ευρωπαϊκών χωρών, ιδίως της Γερμανίας. Το σχετικό βίντεο ήδη κυκλοφορεί στο You Tube και μάλιστα έχει γίνει υποτιτλισμός στα ελληνικά. (Εμείς, το βρήκαμε χθες στο site του Mediasoup.gr)
 Παραθέτουμε μερικά αποσπάσματα από τα λεγόμενά του:
**ΤΟ ΧΡΕΟΣ που έχει σήμερα η Ελλάδα, και που πράγματι έχει παραλύσει τη χώρα, ήταν το ίδιο, ως ποσοστό του ΑΕΠ, και το 2000. Γιατί δεν είχε αποκαλυφθεί τότε; Γιατί η Goldman Sachs, σε συνεργασία με την ελληνική κυβέρνηση, απέκρυψαν πολλά δισεκατομμύρια από το χρέος, παραποίησαν τα πραγματικά στοιχεία. Αυτό, λοιπόν, είναι το πρόβλημα. Και τώρα, για να επανορθώσει το λάθος, η ελληνική κυβέρνηση έστειλε τους πράκτορές της (σ.σ.: μάλλον εννοεί από το Σώμα Δίωξης Οικονομικού Εγκλήματος) για να διερευνήσουν τι ακριβώς συνέβη και έβαλε πρώην τραπεζίτη της Goldman Sachs ως επικεφαλής αυτής ακριβώς της έρευνας.
* Η ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗ, όπως παρουσιάζεται τώρα, είναι εντελώς γελοία. Εχουμε Ελληνες και ξένους αναλυτές, που λένε ότι θα πρέπει να παρθούν κι άλλα, πιο αυστηρά μέτρα, να επιβληθούν κι άλλοι φόροι και να παταχθεί η διαφθορά. Την ίδια στιγμή, η Goldman Sachs, που τους συμβούλευσε να ακολουθήσουν τον δρόμο της διαφθοράς (σ.σ.: με τα παραποιημένα στοιχεία), πέρυσι πλήρωσε μόλις 1% σε φόρους! Δηλαδή, για να πάρουν δωράκια τα golden boys της Goldman Sachs, θα ζητήσετε τώρα από τον ελληνικό λαό να πληρώσει περισσότερους φόρους; Θα πάρει αποζημίωση ο ελληνικός λαός για όσα του προκάλεσε η Goldman Sachs; Ή μήπως έχει ο λαός μετοχές της και πρέπει να φορολογηθεί;
* ΕΙΝΑΙ ΨΕΜΑ ότι δεν υπάρχει άλλη επιλογή (σ.σ.: από τη σκληρή δημοσιονομική πολιτική και τα πολύ αυστηρά μέτρα). Λύση είναι η εξέγερση του κόσμου. Να απαλλαγεί από τις κυβερνήσεις και τους πολιτικούς που έπαιξαν το παιχνίδι της διαφθοράς. Ακούω να λένε διάφοροι για το Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο. Σιγά μην, πηδήξει η Ελλάδα από το τηγάνι για να πέσει στη φωτιά! Αφού το ΔΝΤ ΕΙΝΑΙ η Goldman Sachs. ΕΙΝΑΙ η Wall Street. Ολοι, ίδια κλίκα! Οσον αφορά τη Γερμανία, μην ξεχνάτε ότι είναι η υπ. αριθμόν 2 εξαγωγική δύναμη στον κόσμο. Δεν πολυσκοτίζονται οι Γερμανοί εάν πέσει το ευρώ. Και γι' αυτό χρησιμοποιούν την Ελλάδα ως εξιλαστήριο θύμα. Τους ακούμε συνεχώς να λένε, «κοιτάξτε την κακιά Ελλάδα. Κοιτάξτε πού κατάντησε το ευρώ», και άλλα τέτοια, αλλά δεν λένε ότι οι ίδιοι επωφελούνται αφάνταστα από αυτή την κατάσταση.
ΟΛΟΙ ΞΕΡΟΥΜΕ ότι οι επαγγελματίες κερδοσκόποι έχουν ποντάρει δισεκατομμύρια δολάρια στην πτώση του ευρώ. Η χώρα που θα επωφεληθεί περισσότερο από αυτό είναι η Γερμανία. Και μεταχειρίζεται την Ελλάδα, και τον καημένο τον λαό της, που υποβάλλεται σε σκληρότατα μέτρα λιτότητας -τα οποία δεν έχουν καμία σχέση με την ουσιαστική μεταρρύθμιση της οικονομίας- για να πετύχει αυτό το πράγμα.
 Οι Ελληνες, που έγιναν λουκάνικα που περνούν από τον τραπεζικό μηχανισμό της Wall Street, θα πρέπει να απαγορεύσουν στην Goldman Sachs να έχει οποιαδήποτε επιχειρηματική δραστηριότητα στη χώρα τους. Να απαγορεύσουν και σε όλες τις εταιρείες της Wall Street που παίζουν τέτοια παιχνίδια. Διώξτε τους. Απαλλαγείτε από όλους αυτούς τους οικονομικούς τρομοκράτες, αλλιώς θα συνεχίζετε να χάνετε δουλειές, να μένετε άνεργοι και να βλέπετε το βιοτικό σας επίπεδο όλο να πέφτει.
ΧΡ.ΜΙΧΑΗΛΙΔΗΣ
Ελευθεροτυπία
23/3/2010

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Για τον Max Keiser: 
Max Keiser
 ( Wikipedia)
Max Keiser (born January 23, 1960) is a film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader. Keiser is the host of On the Edge, a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran's Press TV.[1] He also hosts Keiser Report, a financial tabloid, that broadcasts on RT (formerly Russia Today). [2] Keiser hosted the New Year's Eve special, The Keiser's Business Guide to 2010 for BBC Radio 5 Live. [3]
Keiser formerly hosted The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News. Previously he produced and appeared regularly in the TV series People & Power on the Al-Jazeera English network. He also presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM. Max writes for The Huffington Post.[4]
In addition to his broadcasting work, Keiser is known for his invention of "Virtual Specialist Technology" - a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

  Early career
Keiser has been involved with markets and finance for 25 years. He started his career as a stock broker on Wall Street after graduating from New York University.

  Hollywood Stock Exchange
Keiser is the creator, co-founder and former CEO of HSX Holdings/Hollywood Stock Exchange, later sold to Cantor Fitzgerald [5]. Max co-created the Hollywood Stock Exchange with Michael R. Burns[6]. The Hollywood Stock Exchange allows traders to exchange virtual securities such as "MovieStocks", and "StarBonds" and convertible virtual currency, the Hollywood Dollar.
Keiser is also the co-founder of HSX films that went on to make almost a dozen films, including "Mixed Signals," "Six-String Samurai," "Dancer, Texas Pop. 81," and "girl." The company then sold to Ignite Entertainment/Lionsgate.

  Broadcasting career
Keiser presented "Rumble at the Box Office"[7] for NBC's Access Hollywood. He also produced and hosted the weekly talk show, Buy, Sell, Hold for CBS radio's KLSX in Los Angeles. Currently, he presents, The Truth About Markets on Resonance 104.4 FM in London and on RDU 98.5 in Christchurch, New Zealand.

 People & Power
Keiser produced ten short documentary films covering aspects of financial markets for Al Jazeera's series People & Power[8].
Films include Rigged Markets[9], Money Geyser[10], Death of the Dollar[11], Peaked[12], Extraordinary Antics[13], Savers vs Speculators[14], Banking on It[15], Private Finance or Public Swindle?[16], Focus on Locusts[17]

 The Oracle with Max Keiser
A pilot episode was produced for Al-Jazeera English titled The Oracle. This was developed into a series for [18] BBC World News. The series first aired on January 9 2009 and explores financial current affairs from the perspective of prediction markets. It is intended to be a humorous take on financial news before it happens. It aired for ten episodes.

  On The Edge with Max Keiser
A weekly financial commentary show which started in 2009 and is broadcast on Press TV, with weekly appearances by financial commentator Stacy Herbert and featuring interviews with well known alternative economists.

  Financial punditry
Keiser has appeared as a financial pundit on a number of news-networks. His appearances are remarkable for the often incendiary nature of his remarks. For example, Keiser called for a "fatwa" against Hank Paulson[19] on Al Jazeera in response to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). In a later-broadcast Keiser was seen ranting "Paulson Stinks"[20].

  Predictions
Throughout Keiser's shows he has been known for making predictions:
In the September 2004 issue of The Ecologist magazine, Keiser correctly predicted the 2008 collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when he wrote, "My guess is that the two stocks that look the likeliest to implode at the hands of derivative-wielding Wall Street financial types (and other fundamentalists) preying on a US economy made weak by cheap money are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."[21]
In 2006 he correctly predicted that sub-prime mortgage-backed securities would be the cause of recession by 2008.[18][dead link][citation needed]
In 2007 correctly predicted the break-down of Iceland's economy in 2008.[22]
In July 2008, he incorrectly predicted that the 2008 U.S. presidential elections would be delayed due to "global financial crisis." [23]

  Activism
Karmabanque was a hedge fund founded by Keiser which sought to profit from any decline in equity-value of companies who are susceptible to boycott from environmental groups.[24] The hedge fund's progress was followed monthly in the Ecologist Magazine, edited by Zac Goldsmith.[25] Its targets included Coca-Cola[26] and McDonalds. The Karmabanque hedge fund project was designed to simultaneously short-sell companies while funnelling profits from this activity into environmental and ethical-business pressure groups which further act to drive the price down. Describing the project, Keiser states "The Internet allows people, activists, from all over the world to gather, or swarm, and hit a company where it hurts most -- in their stock price."[27]
In the Al-Jazeera short-film Extraordinary Antics[28] Keiser travels to Milan and Venice Italy to find out how CIA agent Robert Seldon Lady and his fellow agents spent $500,000 on a procedure known as extraordinary rendition - a practice which is believed to be illegal and may have caused an Egyptian citizen, who had been granted asylum in Italy, to be allegedly abducted in order to face torture in Cairo. The CIA faces prosecution for the case.[29]

  Criticism
Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center branded Keiser as "a new kind of terrorist"[30] - specifically referring to Karmabanque, a project instigated by Keiser and his partner Stacy Herbert to de-stabilize the share-price of certain companies susceptible to boycott by encouraging pressure-groups to use short-selling strategies.
The Guardian newspaper, in an editorial titled "Mad Max," described Keiser's Karmabanque hedge fund as "fantastical scheme" and accused him of trying to exist "beyond the normal forces and controls of society."[31]
Keiser drew criticism at the 2000 ShowBiz Expo in Las Vegas when he said of media content that "Everything is inescapably going to a price point called free." In response Kevin Tsujihara, exec V.P. of New Media at Warner Bros., commented that "Piracy.com" will be the victor if superior content is available on sites supported by advertisements.[32]
Professor of Economics Catherine Lubochinsky in a debate involving Keiser on September 18, 2007, criticized Keiser's predictions that British house-prices would drop by double-digits and that the entire banking system would collapse. In a programme discussing the failure of the Northern Rock Lubochinsky responded that the Keiser's first prediction was implausible[33][unreliable source?] because "people still need to live somewhere" and simply dismissed the latter.
In 2005 Steven Milloy, the "Junk Science" commentator demanded that Keiser be removed from the panel of the Triple Bottom Line Investing conference, where he was scheduled to appear. Milloy accused Keiser of making threats[34] against his organization and petitioned[35] sponsors Calvert Investments and KLD Research & Analytics to withdraw from the project. Robert Rubenstein founder of conference organiser Brooklyn Bridge stated that Keiser's comments “do not constitute a threat to person or property and are not related to the conference or the content that will be presented there”.
Referring to Keiser's Karmabanque project a RyanAir spokeswoman said "Since they put Ryanair on their list, our share price has gone up by 10 per cent. We are always delighted to be part of a list which includes Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Wal-Mart."[36], however on the same day The Hindu published an article in which Howard Millar, Ryanair deputy chief executive admitted that his company may be vulnerable to environmental pressure groups: "I am concerned that there is a continuing media campaign and the concern is that people might say 'maybe I will not fly on holiday and maybe I will make a different choice'."[37]

  See also
Error accounts a term often mentioned by Max Keiser
Central bank or Reserve bank often cited as causes of the late 2000s recession
Gold standard where paper currency is backed up by the value of Gold
Hollywood Accounting
Biography portal

 References
^ http://www.presstv.ir/programs/ Press TV website, program list
^ http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Programmes/Keiser_Report.html
^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pgpkc
^ Collection of articles
^ HSX: History, HSX
^ Keiser holds US patent for the 'Virtual Specialist Technology" on which the Hollywood Stock Exchange operates.
^ http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-11-16/news/access- denied/
^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445169/
^ http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2007/05/2008525185835422616.html
^ http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2007/08/200852518466637279.html
^ http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2007/12/20085251836767319.html
^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1171052/
^ Extraordinary Antics, Aljazeera English
^ Savers vs Speculators, Aljazeera English
^ Banking on It, Aljazeera English
^ http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2008/03/2008525185553743197.html
^ http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2007/12/2008525173528498404.html
^ a b http://www.bbcworldnews.com/Pages/Programme.aspx?id=246
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZiWd0bGAdc
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRe0lIbSeaE
^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-keiser/artificially-low-interest_b_111343.html
^ Keiser discusses Iceland and his BBC World series, The Oracle, With Max Keiser [1]
^ The Black-Scholes Atomic Debt Bomb & 7 Predictions, Huffington Post
^ Hedge Fund Shorts Its Way into Political Activism, CBS Marketwatch
^ Boycott Coca Cola: Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?, The Ecologist Magazine
^ Campaign aims to hit Coke where it hurts, Guardian
^ Hedge Funds Banking on Social and Moral Issues, Washington Post
^ Extraordinary Antics, Part 1
^ The CIA in the Dock, Der Spiegel
^ Eco imperialism and the drive to destroy the free-market
^ Mad Max, Guardian
^ For some, Internet Offers Free Ride, Variety
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-nDIjPmb9U
^ http://www.freeenterpriseactionfund.com/release101005.htm
^ http://www.clear-profit.com/samplestories/cpoct0506.htm
^ http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83266
^ http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/006200706020340. htm

 External Links
MaxKeiser.com Max Keiser's website
MaxKeiserTV Max Keiser's Youtube channel