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europe's most indebted countries and britain have put prized assets up for grabs to bolster their credit worthiness so what exactly is on offer max tell us and rethink that well we know in greece we've already listed that last episode ireland has the national airline ports power stations energy suppliers transport systems sporting assets and even the irish national stud well thank you very much but i'm not for sale. whatever that is i assume it has something to do with horses that it's all about horse eamonn it k. and then spain is selling thirty percent of its state lottery now this is the biggest lottery in the world it's called el gordo it's been around for one hundred fifty one years but spain is not as badly indebted as other european countries but bond yields have soared so because of this they have to sell el gordo the company

recorded three billion euro net profit in two thousand and nine on sales of nine point eight billion euros meaning the sell off will reduce treasury income by about one billion euros a year ok so spain is now being attacked by the financial terrorist the people who sell short bonds to destabilize the country's finances in preparation of extracting wealth and they use of course naked short cells which are counterfeiting they sell things that don't exist it's a counterfeit operation so here you have the same people they've been emboldened and empowered because of their successful raid on ireland their successful raid on greece and. using more of their power and influence of couse that they got from acts of financial terrorism in those two countries now they're going after spain and harry made a good point the spanish lottery system is generating huge profits there's no need

to sell it but the movies in the us would be in the fitch or the rating agencies combined with the wall street banks and the hedge funds like john paulson and the wall street banks and the corrupt government officials in europe have colluded together obviously to impose draconian measures as a result of a racketeering charge a racketeering campaign to destabilize and confiscate this is you know terrorism but you know as i've said to people all along the fact that they don't rise up or revolt the joke's on you but this is the thing that we're seeing across europe people are giving up these nations are giving up income producing assets they're basically they they're tollbooths right these are tollbooths they give income to the government but first of all by giving that was over they reduce their revenue further destabilizing their own economies but it's

neo feudalism some outsider some lord somewhere else is basically collecting that revenue and it's going outside of the country so in the case of greece they're going to sell the state lottery for something like four hundred fifty million and it generates i believe nine hundred million in income now think of it in these terms if greece a state lottery were to simply list themselves on the deck that amount of income nine hundred million in income would be worth nine to fifteen billion as a stock equity offering on mazda take a company like groupon for example they're losing four hundred fifty million dollars a year they're going to go public on the nasdaq for twenty billion exactly so why doesn't greece just put up their national lottery on the nasdaq yet they're making nine hundred million simply lou. just on a trying to pull exchange it'll be worth thirty to forty billion well part of the reason of course is all these nations have i.m.f. loans not spain but greece and portugal do and they are required to only go

to the i.m.f. for any further loan if they're not allowed to raise money on their own unless the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. say do it this way required per some deals that were written and signed off by governments like in greece the drill is a treasonous is a treasonous what you would call it and the other thing about spain of course is why their bonds are being attacked by their sovereign debt is being attacked as people tell you well this is capitalism because basically the bondholders are assuming that even though the government has low debt just like ireland did before the crisis they're assuming that the government will be forced to take on the private debts of the banks i.e. the taxpayer will be forced to eat these bad debts of the spanish banks and therefore crumble their own economy it's not capital of things that has nothing to do with capitalism capitalism in first competition if you're not allowed to compete

because the state has orchestrated takeovers from foreign banks of your assets that's called an occupation that's like saying oh the people and dogs the problem is capitalism no the problems are being occupied well here's the evidence of course and this has been big news everybody has talked about it greeks sell off threat to sovereignty greece staved off the immediate threat of default at the weekend but now faces severe restrictions on that sovereignty and must push through a wave of privatizations a kin to the vast selloff of east german firms and the one nine hundred ninety s. after the fall of communism this is from a young claude young girl chairman of the euro group of finance ministers this is my thesis this is what i've been saying this is the underlying reality of the. all the european crises is germany is rising from the rubble of world war two and we're talking about the reappearance of the imperial germany or the fourth reich you have

or reunify germany who is now talking about greece as south germany. also actually when it's becoming just don't compare in south germany or greece with east germany they're simply saying well just like in east germany we took all the assets and we merge into one super power imperial conquer conquer conquer conquistador european threat as we have been in the past and the thing about the euro was supposed to eliminate the german imperial threat but they figured out a way around it is about the fact they orchestrated the whole thing as a way to reunify germany and then the time of greece being south germany so this guy let's call him junker because he's the junk bond salesman basically he said he's pushing junk on everybody he's taking the junk off. private bankers. holdings and transferring it to the national governments in the e.c.b. in the e.u. but he's likening what's going to happen to greece to the two had agency sell off of fourteen thousand east german assets between one thousand nine hundred one thousand nine hundred four but of course that was done in order to merge east

germany into west germany and there was you know two and a half million jobs were lost but there was also a transfer of technology from the likes of b.m.w. to the east which had. the peak of their income producing car manufacturing assets so there was a transfer there was something the east germans got back they got nice infrastructure built by the west german firms so where is greece being merged into and what are they getting back you know their game being merged into germany and they get back the privilege of not being killed by german army people with guns that's what they get in return what was the french banking system and cozy and they all concocted this for cock to plan which i guess was being read. s. and p. is counting as default but here's a country that have this revolution where heads were chopped off because of toll booths introduced everywhere in society so the french banking group one of their

plans was that the rollover of debt of the french sovereign bond holdings of greek debt would force them to reinvest seventy percent of that into greek bonds yielding at least five and a half percent but the greeks were forced to reinvest the money they got in this loan back into european aaa debt what paying like two percent so it's a wealth transfer it was a constant annual wealth transfer that's exactly right just adding more debt that's always been the solution sense the end of bretton woods in one nine hundred seventy one just add more debt and more debt as always going to go back to america because somehow they think that being part of the empire leaves them immune i mean western germany. west western west west germany that little less space between canada and mexico west west germany i think the people have an instinct that the i.m.f.

is going to come there and steal their assets so they're getting rid of the assets before the i.m.f. and the bankers can take it authorities offer five hundred dollars for tips and heist of dozens of hydrants so this is from riverside county in california which is having massive heat waves fire alerts everywhere water agency officials say that somebody stole more than sixty fire hydrants mammal covers and other pieces of utility equipment throughout riverside county yeah this is really where you see amazing force multiplier to use a jamie term where you've got the ecological restraints are causing global warming to kick in which would require the use and need of a fire hydrant to put. the fires are being created by manmade global warming which is being as gas exacerbated by the theft of the fire hydrants brought on by excessive credit creation by the central banks who are trying to bail out all these

banks around the world and those two are coming together and forcing the price of what the fire hydrants are made out of metal higher incentivizing people to steal them at the same time that global warming is increasing the rate of fires which of course will increase the rate of money creation it will create the price of fire hydrants and you get into a vicious cycle and pretty soon there won't be any fire i just left it on but max speaking of vicious cycles and money creation here's our final headline case for a balanced budget amendment charts of the day transfer payments medicare medicaid food stamps etc vs total government receipts so this is from michelle block but we're going to concentrate just on these transfer payments versus total government receipts chart one here is the personal current transfer receipts these are things like medicaid medicare and food stamps and you see that's almost two point four trillion dollars in the u.s. chart to federal government receipts so this is their income they collect that's

just over two point four trillion and then chart three is the personal transfers as a percentage of government receipts and you can see max that as a percentage it was under fifty percent in the sixty's and seventy's the glory days of america and then as a percentage went over that and now it's close to one hundred percent of all income to the government is paid out in food stamps and medicare and medicaid when i see the country has become basically a petting zoo. the people come to visit to pet the baboons in america and the money that they deposit at the zoo is used to feed the baboons so that's the business model of of america that's all they've got lumped as one big bamboo. but you wonder like. who is financing the rest of this who is the either american. they're living totally off the good kind rakes the greeks are financing the rest of the data transfer mechanism of imposing austerity measures in greece portugal and spain so the banks can keep the baboo in america open and of course there's china and

there's japan who are financing to the tune of two trillion a year all these debts of america so is it going to feed the american population in the petting zoo or the military operations around the world it looks like a worse situation than in greece all right thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max i'll go much more coming away so stay right there.

but going back to the kaiser report time now to go to new york and speak with dr michael hudson dr hudson welcome back to the kaiser reports thank you very much all right dr michael hudson let's get into grace and your thoughts on greece what's happening well it says if finances become the new mode of warfare there the financial times reported that one parliament passed the agreement to surrender to europe it was done to the smell of tear gas in the sign of sirens and the wall street journal had a very interesting article saying well now it's time for them to us the parthenon sell off the greek islands this is what in the past you need an army to achieve what today is being done now financial aid so finance and bankers are the new army

and instead of an army coming into seize the land which involves people dying you simply have the i.m.f. representatives and you buy out of the socialist party and tell them look just surrender give us your land give us your property this is phase two of the financialization progress program and i can't believe that this is going to actually succeed if a country is going to impose itself on poverty reduce its wages by thirty percent and forfeit the entire public sector to foreign creditors people should have a quote otherwise it's not legal there is no referendum. greece over whether people are going to actually democratic. acquiesce in a surrender and this means that when there is an election if there ever is reached and legally say look this was imposed upon us we didn't vote it's not democratic it's not binding and they can take back whatever is being given because certainly

there will be another the fault certainly the way to make sure there is it the fault has to follow the e.u. plan and the i.m.f. plan and impoverished the economy because impoverished economy makes it less able to pay not more able this is the one thing that the world has learned from the i.m.f. austerity program since the one nine hundred sixty s. and one nine hundred seventy s. and the 1980's ok so when you hear people debating this they bring up by slant they also bring up argentina they say can't make the comparison with iceland or argentina in iceland's case they say well you know as the crow now wasn't part of the euro greece is bound by the euro so how do you come back and talk about those concerns or those folks who say you can't really compare the the him well in greece joined the euro what it thought it was doing was joining a united europe and the idea of the united europe the european union was europe was

never going to go to war internally with each other again somehow the idea of european unity became i checked to surrender to a financial oligarchy and turn over all of property to bankers the wealthiest one percent of the pyramid and roll back the last thousand years to near feudalism greece didn't realize it was signing on to you know feudalism and that's what the european central bank is all about is not a central bank it doesn't do it a central bank does it doesn't finance government budget deficit which is what the bank of england new york federal reserve or u.s. federal reserve and other banks do. it simply stands by and forces government deficit to result in more and more debt to commercial banks so that instead of government deficits extending the economy with new investment and employment and up

for market demand a government deficit shrinks the economy by leading to foreclosures and forfeiture of the public domain forfeiture of houses and mass impoverishment that is not what greece thought it was siting on to so what it should do is saying. this is not the europe we thought we were getting we're withdrawing we just strain portugal and ireland withdraw just as ireland voted against the list and constitution and they should say this is nonsense this is war and we're calling out and we're putting our economy up for grabs for those countries probably in the break go block well except listen to their currency area because we're not going to stand for this ok so imagine germany they're germany is portraying themselves as the victim that the greece are feckless characters that don't pay their bills they're underwriting

their retirements and i want to feel sorry for germany and yet of course germany has benefited wild labor because during all of this it has kept the euro relatively cheap and euro and the germany is a huge export powerhouse such talk a little bit about this is germany the victim or is germany really the predatory both because the question you're really asking is what is germany is germany the banks or is germany industry in the population german banks recklessly lent out money as if the french banks to greece and are holding greek buns and a friend who knows the value we don't know how the german banks are valuing the great fun. center balance sheet right now and a german or french or other european bank can buy a greek government say fifty percent. pledge this to the european central bank and get a full euro as

a. full value on the dollar and get free money by speculating we don't know whether the german banks or the french banks are carrying this greek debt market value or a nominal face value so germany is itself is being sacrificed. to the banks and i don't think you can say that the interest of the banks of the one percent is the interest of germany unless you're redefining germany and redefining europe as a kind of neo feudal oligarchy society run by the back so that's why angela merkel herself is losing electoral support in germany the whole political spectrum in europe is being thrown into disarray by the fact that what do the words left and right main when you have the whole issue basically one of finance finance cuts across the political spectrum from left to right it cuts across the spectrum of

what is germany what is france what is europe and it really has put the class war back in business in a very different way than was for sane in times past it's a class for banks against all the rest of society trying to grab all of the property and the political spectrum hasn't been able to deal with it except that the socialist parties and social democratic parties and socialist international. president pop and radio is the head in greece around the far right of the political spectrum now and the old right wing parties the conservatives are moving to the left of the socialists everything is turned upside down by financial izing economies in this way so financial into. meringue has become the new means of production setting up the ancient class wars have re-emerged but the classes that are getting disenfranchised are not even aware of the fact that they're being occupied by these weapons of mass financial destruction these financially

engineered products it's a stealth coup they are the people in greece seem completely. they don't know that they're being attacked in this way well if you relate financial engineering to the means of production it doesn't create new means of production it strips excess and this is what's been happening in america since the one nine hundred seventy s. with each other takeovers the financial takeover is almost all of these take over. ended up impoverishing the companies you know a financial takeover followed by a white out of the corporate pension fund the employee stock ownership plans you have a white out of what these companies owed for pension. and you have really a luti by the financial sector this is not a production function this is a looting function and how that's look the financial sector is turned into today looting not financing the means of production right and that you could say that

these banks are however producing risk that's what the end product of their production is and they put it into the public domain but i want to ask you just to walk through kind of the global financial market here for a second let's say that the european banks they're buying greek debt they they stand to lose a lot of money if greece or when greece defaults however there's another wildcard here and that apparently the american banks have taken out insurance for the greek for the european banks and their bond holdings in the form of credit default swaps who actually stands to lose the most here they are been banks who own the bonds or the american banks who insured the bonds there are a lot of financial analysts that are asking that and what they have noticed is that justice is. you and the european central bank was to take a more lenient position to ireland you have u.s. treasury secretary geithner saying wait a minute take a hard line for a for ireland you have to crush it because we've the u.s.

banks financial casinos have insured irish debt same thing with greece it's the u.s. treasury that comes in and says wait a minute our financial system has turned into a i j we've insured the greek debt and we can't afford to take a loss so you're europeans have to take a loss you have to impoverish your later so that our financial well are well straight to see you know capitalist firms like goldman sachs can make a kelly and can't they can't pay their people one hundred million dollars a year in salary if you don't impoverished your labor we're making money off you and that's the financial system that's what we call stability so you may think it's our risk but it's not our risk if we're telling you what to do isn't what you were referring to risk isn't a risk if you let the u.s. treasury act is the battering ram for the wall street firms that insure the rest and say you think there's a risk we're going to make sure that all the rest is on that debtor and if the

debtor can't pay the creditors don't lose the insurance companies don't close because we're going to take it out of greece out of the parthenon give us your island give us your. ports and your water supply your sewer system for us to put tollbooths on the depth of that kind of risk that the u.s. is talking about is really what greece is risking is a lapse back into something worse than it suffered under the out of an empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is the i.m.f. solvent what you say solvent is that it was almost out of business two years ago when it had only turkey is the final client what is save the i.m.f. has been the wall street crisis that's. put it back into business essential is that a man of economy used to be a mess is called in. a firm would call in a group mafia assassins to kill the labor union organizers and

a company. that really is the i m s wrote it's the s.s. in the economy so it is a solemn well expect by the military. expect. the us government and the i.m.f. the very fact that they've appointed such an end and notorious anti-labor advocate is christine legarde british should just lead all the countries to say look your eerie formable we've got to start over again this is we're not going to stand for it right dr michael hudson we're going to leave it there thanks again for being on the geyser report thank you know it's a very pleasure to be here. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser a par with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i thank my guests dr michael hudson if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report in r t t v dot ru until next time this is max guys are saying.