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Published on Thursday, November 19, 2009 by MSNBC
Naomi Klein on 'Vampire Banks': Turn The Lights On and They'll Turn to Dust
h/t Firedoglake.com (for the clip)
On MSNBC this morngin, Ryan Grim and Naomi Klein discuss FDL letter signed by Andy Stern, Richard Trumka, James Galbraith and others which accuses the Fed of "cronyism" and "massive secret bailouts" and calls for them to be audited.
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Show AllI'd sure like a little more of this morngin! it's the only relief proffered!! And you can take that to the Bernanke!!!
They get nothing from me.
I spend my two cents here.
Can I turn on the lights? Please?
i'll bring the hammer and silver spike and kill them for free!
naomi thanks again! imagine your naomi for a second
whenever you speak the banks shiver wondering what kind
of beat down is going happen next! if more of us stood
up like she does this wouldn't be happening now!
I sure would like to take a pair of handcuffs to the Bernanke and the Greenspan, and the Paulson, and the rest of their accomplices in the U.S. Congress, I wouldn't bet the house on it but it would make a hell'va picture.
It's nice to finally see some talk of Real economic problems, namely the FED on here at commondreams. And its also nice to see Naomi Klein talking sense again after hearing her agree with that obese capitalist Michael Moore who likes to bash capitalism while he is collecting millions of dollars off the capitalist selling of his movies.
Anyway, Ron Paul and one of the few sensible democrats in Alan Grayson are waging quite a battle to shed some light and truth on the "federal" reserve. It must be audited, that is only the start though. Once it is audited and all the truth is made public, then people who are unaware will realize we need to END the FED! Then we need to send Greenspan and Bernanke and Geithner and all these criminals who have been robbing the American people straight to prison, do not pass go!
google END the Fed. This coming sunday, November 22nd at 11 am all across America is going to be a Rally and March to END the FED - there will be speakers from NYC to Los Angeles and everywhere in between.
The "federal" reserve is printing money out of nothing, diluting the money supply and setting the stage for Hyper-Inflation and on top of a "Jobless Recovery" a declining Industrial and Manufacturing base in America in the midst of a Recession - We are getting ready to face the GREATER Depression. Unless of course, we END the FED, end all this insane Government Spending, END the endless WARS in the middle East and bring home ALL our troops from ALL Around the world.
Unless we do this, this country is going to suffer an economical collapse like never before.
And we will not be able to save the environment or any other issue facing the world.
END The FED!
The light switch is hidden also.
Agreed. End the FED!
Naomi Klein is great! She ran circles around Alan Greenspan on Democracy Now! - exposed him for the dufus he really was. And her book Shock Doctrine IMV displays an understanding of economics that leaves all the other so-called economics "experts" behind in the dust.
Wishful thinking but she'd be great to replace Geithner at the Treasury - such an appointment makes more sense to me than many of Obama's recent nominations. But I suspect that the job qualification require the replacement be a current or former member of the Goldman Sachs, Wall Street crowd.
I've never heard an original idea come out of Naomi Klein's mouth. It's just that she's better looking than William Greider.
Naomi Klein wrote the book Greider never dared to ...
"Disaster Capitalism" ...
This book is the quintessential take on neoliberalism and its ravaging of economies around the world ...
Read it ...
What you might discover is that all those dirty tricks being used on third world countries, are being used right here right now in the United States.
Must throw in a thumbs up for Dylan Ratigan ...
He has been the lone bright spot in the MSM covering the biggest heist in the history of the planet ...
This is more attitude than sense, which means it is part of the problem. Naomi Kline advertises Naomi Kline: Michael Moore advertises guess who----, none other than-----Michael Moore. It is the American phenomenon.
In fact this kind of patter is the safety valve that releases the pressure.
The truth is the USA is bust and no amount of make-up, clever remarks and patter is going to fix it. Accordingly as befits a crook, the USA is involved in blatant theft throughout the world. It has no intention of paying China or any other creditor other than with bog-roll dollars.
Get Real USA! It is time you put your fingers up the nostrils of your so-called government.
But you are dead anyway.
Hope you enjoyed the show.
I think you guys got it confused. The FED, K street, etc are not actually perpetrators in and of themselves. The are the facilitators for the 1% who wish to maintain their power and control. Replacing the FED without recognizing that the real men and women that control the banking and finance of the entire world, would just kick the problem down the road.