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a new war. more all those stories since thirty minutes time after the kaiser report goes gunning for more shady finances. max kaiser this is the kaiser report yeah time magazine finally recognizing what everybody else already knows there's a global insurrection against bragger occupation stacy ever tell us more well max in order to talk about the story truck really i must have a little bit of this. to suit lose now this is it plain clothes sort of here because of course you can walk around new york city holding a can of kaiser's jet blue suit so take a look at the artwork here but the real cam looks like well a lot of people don't realize it's actually alphabet soup so you can spell out

david cameron as a schmuck why are enjoying some hearty broth well it is the favorite soup of the s.l.a. i don't know if their photo made it into the actual time magazine but of course they are part of the spirit of what time's person of the year is the protester from the arab spring to athens from occupy wall street to moscow a year after cheese and fruit vendor set himself ablaze is set to spread across the middle east to europe in the us reshaping global politics in redefining people power yes people power is on the march i think the arc of this whole movement is quite interesting it goes back really ten years twelve years of the anti-globalization movement which kind of petered out for lack of vision but then it was resurrected as this global insurrection against banker occupation or occupy wall street or the uprisings all across the middle east and north africa next year

in two thousand and twelve we're going to see the economies of scale kick in so all these millions tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people around the world to realize that collectively their purchasing power if channeled correctly can. top all these corporate and banker occupying forces don't you think yes and max you know the interesting thing watching this time news story being covered here in the us is that all the commentators several of them actually came up to the point where they couldn't mention the name banks or they couldn't they talked about the dictators that were overthrown in the middle east and then they got to the occupy wall street and they just couldn't say the name of what it was they couldn't name the culprit because it's like they are too scared of a really happening in their own country right the common theme throughout these countries are wall street and city of london banks third of course you don't hear about it in the city of london or in america because this is not the areas that

provide safe harbor for these financial terrorists so time magazine of course they want to get the commercial optic from spreading the member of global insurrection against banker occupation they want to sell some magazines but they don't have the journalistic integrity to point the finger and say it's all about goldman j.p. morgan barclays h.s.b.c. the true financial terrorists that are people are finding finally figuring out must come down well of course they have some photos of various protesters around the world and they also have that clenched fist image but they also look at that yellow dog that we call them in athens so they are inviting people out there to send me pictures of your and yellow dogs because i have one carry pierced giago harry so we had to have these you know it does very little mascot says we stormed the banks barricades of fraud yes well that's a fantastic idea everyone must have their own dog yes well actually my mind they

don't carry showed a sockpuppet called for a sign and look at he didn't do it this he's a very brutal jiao bulldog. in fact. in the next headline that's why i had to remove harry from the room course sign new and used client funds says duffy so m.f. global holdings ltd chief executive officer john chorus line knew that the company made a loan out of segregated customer accounts before it went bankrupt c.m.e. group incorporated chairman terence duffy told the senate does the whose company is and global regulator a principal exchange is the one and says yes well it's becoming clear stacey herbert is that once anyone puts money into a bank they no longer have the rights to that money it's now the right of the bank to control any money in the bank all of the protections for anyone who's putting

money in any of these banks or brokerage firms are now gone they're a blin aerated thanks to all the deregulation of the last ten years orchestrated by criminals like john karr's on the mass the important bit about this testimony from duffy is that john corey's line and only testify that earlier that day that he knew nothing about m.f. global taking segregated funds right they caught him lying under oath now typical a this would mean that there is some kind of penalties but since this is a wall street crime look for the supreme court to suddenly convene and rewrite all the criminal code pertaining to this case making this type of lying under all the legal for the benefit of national security you know the trustee james kids is also quoted in this article because he told the senate i don't think we're magically going to come to a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow whether or not they'll ever find the client

funds missing one point two billion he said or more he did say that both the commodities exchange act and the securities investor protection act. give priority to customers and if there is a shortfall there are provisions of both statutes that say other assets ought to be reached to cover those shortfalls he added however max and this is the important bit that other parties may see that issue as a matter of conflict i j.p. morgan and other creditors right this is the amazing thing of going back to the commodity futures modernization act of two thousand where they legalized derivative trading before that it was considered a form of gambling but they legalized derivatives trading it also gave banks that have huge derivatives positions like j.p. morgan the ability to claim that those derivatives possessions are existing outside or above any existing laws that would protect any current accounts by any customers

so derivatives the things that have destroyed the global economy are now preserved at the expense of all customer accounts and so mostly notional value of derivatives is ten times bigger than the global g.d.p. paying then every single customer account in every single bank account the world is really nothing more than a blank piece of paper with a bunch of symbols on it but it's not your money or your securities no no no those are now on the ownership side of banks like j.p. morgan who have no compunction about simply stealing it for national security well speaking of a steely fund for national security purposes and this global cash morgan presumed its own so it can pay the bankruptcy trustees so here you have james good j.p. morgan negotiating basically to keep the twenty five point three million dollars in cash held at j.p. morgan which is presumed to be m.f. global's but j.p.

morgan apparently credit deal with the trustee saying that they did have the cash and if global granted j.p. morgan alina all of the company's assets right so to. if you are going is cutting deals outside of the legal framework what's also amazing is that the silver that was in the m.f. global collectively all the one hundred forty thousand accounts that the quantity of silver disappeared from all those accounts but now magically has appeared on j.p. morgan's balance sheet as you know there are massively short somewhere they've been scrambling for a way to cover their short position rumor has it that just a few weeks ago was about to be busted and j.p. morgan technically had to go bankrupt so what do they do to prevent going bankrupt i've always said j.p. morgan is like enron one day to wake up it'll be worth zero in order to stop that from happening two weeks ago as it almost did two weeks ago zero j.p. morgan stock price they wanted to m.f. global accounts one hundred forty thousand of them they took to so many other commodities and just stole them that's their that's their response to their criminality and why they got away with it for national security there was

a brief headline that they might possibly face consequences i don't think it's real but this is from zero hedge j.p. morgan stop breaks down on news companies roll as if little lender to be productive so they post a picture of a bloomberg headline morgan actions as this lender likely to be proof says liquidator and if you see this there's a nice chart of the players and j.p. morgan share price but the liquidator of the end this little brokerage said that certain actions of j.p. morgan a lender to the brokers parents are likely to be the subject of investigation but max if you look at the stock chart it's fell less than three percent whereas goldman sachs fell over three percent at the same time so i think it's more an issue it's just the global financial system melting down not that there's ever going to be any justice for jamie diamond or any of their role and global fraud well all remember what happened over enron a few people want to jail one of the i think i was the chairman blows brains out

the so we have something to hope for let me just say that they were really hypothecation and hypothecation is going to be as important going forward. as they were special purpose entities account every member and ron had over seven hundred special purpose entities accounted for they had all the dead bodies of their balance sheet we don't hear about those anymore value about hypothecation of the casual infinite hypothecation through the bowels of the regulatory nonexistent city of london of course all leading to a j.p. morgan stock price of zero and then if there's any justice this like jeff skilling going to jail and the chairman of blow his brains out now speaking of bankers max i have this headline here beggars cost each one of us eight pounds forty for every pound they produce studies show so bankers can to day be exposed as a huge drain on society costing the rest of us eight pounds forty for every pound

they produce a study by say ten the new economics foundation found the average banker destroys forty two million pounds a year in value well creating just five million pounds well absolutely this is the biggest you know revelation that must bring shouted from rooftop to rooftop you know it costs seven eight times more in liabilities to keep these exotic pet banking fraudsters alive than any benefits accrued there are of not only don't they don't add any value and no jobs and no german g.d.p. growth they suck it out of the economy in a ratio of seven to eight to one what do you call that's a financial cancer that's not an industry well and this is why you have the global insurrection against banker occupation because in the mainstream media you just see the propaganda that enables these baxters so the media will tell the population that oh this banks deserves

a million pound bonus because he treated five million pounds and wealth so he's just taking a share of his contribution to society they fail to mention that. in making that five million pounds of value destroyed forty two million pounds so they never talk about the externalities they never talk about the externalities and this is what's causing the austerity to be imposed in places like the u.k. which i just saw in the u.k. people are now homeless rate is skyrocketing as well as a jobless rate so thanks to cameron has clocked all buddies in the city of london people are dying in the streets now that's the real cost big for bailing out real kleptomaniacs stays there and thanks so much for being kaiser report thank you all right don't go away much more coming your way so stay right there.

max kaiser welcome back to the cause or report time now to go to new york and speak with aaliyah mcgrath goodman alter all of the asylum the renegades who hijacked the world oil market les is also a journalist formerly with the wall street journal les welcome back to the kaiser report welcome x. happy holidays thanks so much now live time magazine has just named the protester

the person of the air the high price of oil of course contributed to global uprisings oil is still at one hundred dollars per barrel opec says it's due to speculators. it's due to supply constraints so who is right in this debate is it the speculators driving the price up or are we running out of oil well i think that i.e. a they don't really have. an axe to grind or an eye to save us or we say in the sense that they're just looking at what the fundamentals seem to be you know a pack usually has a slightly more complicated situation because they want to keep oil prices as high as possible without any backlash so for them to say it's the speculators this pretty convenient i don't completely disagree with them having said that. i believe they're both speaking to certain truths i don't know if it's proper to spend it all

the way one way or all the way another way all right let's talk about the strait of hormuz because now there's rumors that it may be closed obviously on the rumor the price spike three percent do you see the. viable risk going forward in the next couple of quarters from what you're hearing. a rumor that has some legs to it is this going to happen do you think i don't know i can't speak to that i do know that the strait of hormuz. and the oldest trick in the book whenever they're trying to push prices they always say something about hormuz so i don't know if you can just just based on the rumor is enough i haven't heard anything beyond the rumor myself and i don't know of any traders who felt strongly about it in fact yesterday when i spoke to fear about the they're mostly laughing because this is an old that's been in the market forever they're always scared of something happening or. whether or not that was going to happen i think remains to be seen right so the rumor result in the price spike of three percent which is an enormous intraday move

in any commodity and after reading your book the asylum talking about oil traders and a lot of the high jinks that goes on there how much of these rumors are just put into the marketplace by traders of speculators as a way to scare the markets and to make a good quick buck but i think the structure of the market is such now that that is very easy to do whereas in the past when you had the trading floor and then you had . and the like all trading from different locations but the each had their own sort of pool of information they would often start to break each other for example someone would start a rumor and then the trading floor would run with it and they would do a lot more investigating into it i think because now it's moved largely to the screen you don't have the same sort of shy and groups of people who are able to share information with each other which obviously had its own problems in the past because they were front running prices but now the problem is on the screen

a rumor can start and who's to say it's not true you don't have the large group of people often in these training trading floors you might have your office but it's really every man for himself. if they hear a rumor they're a lot less likely to be able to start to break it really quickly the way they used to be in the past. in the past you know they were pretty good at figuring out if it was something like a bank trying to start a story or if it was legitimate ok so if a training firm. unlimited credit unlimited margin at almost zero cost at almost zero cost and they are able to program algorithmically automatic trading to kick in and force prices to loom to levels worse human beings then react isn't it therefore true that most of the trading action today is by computer generated rumors to as a form of price propaganda just simply suck

a lot of human beings it's in making silly decisions well it's true that most of the trading now is electronic and as a result as you know it's easy to click your mouse and one of the traders who i spoke to this week he said you know member in the past when prices went up they would almost fight to go higher and then they would fall fast and he said these days what we're seeing is sort of the opposite effect with screen trading you see the price and fight to go down and he said as a result he actually feels that there is a lot more control over keeping prices propped up and in the past when it was a different sort of market and the structure was different wasn't just clicking a mouse in order to prop up the price it was not as easy to do that these days you see price jumps of three dollars yesterday five dollars sometimes even ten dollars you don't even have a war that is breaking out or an oil well that's exploded nothing like that in the past that's what it took to make prices to that exactly so it's no longer a case of price discovery it's price propaganda and as you just described we don't

have price discovery which is the balance of buyers and sellers we have computers predetermining the price at which they want. commodity to trade just talking a lot of stupid human beings and then that price is fixed by computers will have access to unlimited credit at almost zero cost let's talk about another major fraud m.f. global another major scandal how do other trainers in new york where you are. being wrong by one of their own because now we've got a broker dealer robbing other into broker dealers so the fraud has moved up from retell to institutional how do people feel about this in new york yeah it's funny in the same day that i keep my wall street out it's big you know sort of final rally i guess you could say they were having an occupy wall street bankruptcy court situation going on with a bunch of former traders and people in the futures market who were finding all

their assets frozen against them so it's definitely an issue of more wealthy people versus more wealthy people instead of the very lowly unfortunate people versus people so i think as you see people getting bolder yes they will move up the ladder you'll start to see more of this happening and the crux of this problem is americans are still largely self policing you had the chicago mercantile exchange policing m.f. global although they're making so much money off of global and now you have a situation where they weren't able to catch anything in time it doesn't seem like that artists were very good and yet you have these situations now where you have fairly wealthy people and hedge funds fighting to get money that was literally stolen from them by their broker so i mean yeah it's sort of a new world i mean one of the hedge fund managers i talked to said let this be a lesson that if anybody takes your money no one is going to help you and right now

there's a big struggle trying to figure out who's going to be helped if anybody well i mean learning a lesson from this it points to an obvious problem in the banks like. the morrigan feel that it's within their purview just simply take money out of people's accounts so that they don't suffer even a penny of loss even though they're the ones that took the risk so. it of course the defense from john chorus on m.f. global is that their self policing so that the congress will say in a hearing you broke the law and his defense is well we're self policing so what does that in i mean i mean does that what does that mean i mean is that a mass murderer can go down into a seven eleven and gunned down thirty people in his defense give me well i'm self policing so therefore it doesn't i just read it well it'll be a lot less people to worry about in terms of welfare it goes i'll be dead all right let's move forward so tell us about the article you wrote for forbes boy wonder global nightmare yes so and this stuff goes into what you were just saying one

hundred fifty years of futures trading we have never seen people who just had a brokerage account literally find their money taken from them so this is one of those people the thirty year old lawyer and he actually doesn't even practice law he has had fun that he's more self described techno geeks that has fun largely runs itself he hires traders and that's why he's able to go to bankruptcy court and take all the time to fight this he was able to get about eight thousand followers within two weeks other people also had their money then and what he's doing is pulling together people at northwestern where he graduated and a couple law firms that have m.f. global clients people out there whose money was taken and he's brought them all together and they're basically working around the clock to show that customer money should not be lumped into the larger state along with j.p. morgan and other creditors but some interest or trying to do including j.p. morgan bank of america and

a few people in the creditors community are trying to let the customer funds be lumped in with everyone else which isn't really fair because the customers didn't agree to lend money to m.f. global they felt that was their money where it should be more a. and is a creditor because they agreed to be a creditor so this man james could tulis the saying no way first this was literally taken from us and the problem is the bankruptcy doesn't really know anything about future it's just a bankruptcy judge it's just another case he has to figure out whether or not he's going to allow super superiority to the creditor to the customers and that's all being debated right now but there are a lot of people fighting. against banks are so lame aground goodman what chance does he have against going up against j.p. morgan and a trustee that has that close relationship to j.p. morgan it's a real david and goliath story i think. j.p. morgan has given a lot of business to the law firm of james good and the bankruptcy court and if you

look at the law firm's website it's just pages and pages of business from j.p. morgan so unfortunately it can't be really seen as a neutral. i mean who's former executive is now the head commissioner the watchdog agency in washington c c o c c trying to unravel and investigate what happened but everyone seems to have too many hands and too many. conflicts of interests and i don't think that's a good idea it seems like almost no one here seems clear other than this thirty year old lawyer who's just trying to get his money back and trying to make sure customers get their money back they just want what stares back they didn't ask for it to be taken it be like bank of america went bankrupt and all of our bank accounts just ordinary people's bank accounts were taken it's like that so let me get back to the oil first like i. said the production at current producing oil wells is declining generators seven percent a year and that's a newer sources of oil more expensive so we've got this peak oil peak energy

scenario playing out now your thoughts seems like the international energy agency they've never been right on every time. i think there's something to be said that the meter producing fields are producing last we wouldn't have we wouldn't have horizon with deep water drilling and we wouldn't have tar sands being exploited so heavily and if it wasn't that we were now scraping as hard as we could for every last fossil fuels we can get here these things are very expensive and you wouldn't be doing it if we still had low hanging fruit so we're obviously moving into a non low hanging fruit situation and any way you want to spend it that's obviously what's happening because the oil companies want to pay so much more to do things like shale and things like tar sands if they don't have to they would rather just drill somewhere easy well the great thing about fracking which is another result of having go peak oil is that a lot of the water is actually flammable so recipes like cherries to believe you can actually have the recipe explode spontaneously without actually having you know

to use anything but their water coming out of your tap so it's a recipe book about flaming water and i'm sure oprah winfrey will sell a million copies of that so this is america genius at work all right well liam a graph goodman that is all the time we have thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thanks for having me back happy holidays or that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and the herbert i would like my guest leah mcgrath goodman you can follow us on the report either twitter or facebook you can send me an e-mail as a reported r t t v are you until next time just as much as are saying by all. technology innovation. developments. we.

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