07-03-2010, 07:39 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Thanks for this Austin. Palast rocks.
A few decades back, when I used to be in this sort of business, I saw this happen often --- the purchase of fire sale assets at cents on the dollar. Back then, the buyer usually had unusual access to movers and shakers in the debtor Sovereign nation that made it worth their while to buy otherwise worthless assets.
But the "game" has moved on.
No wonder they hide from public scrutiny.
So, A few people literally buy up and hold the paper on the whole world.....and then control what gets done there. No Country Left Behind - Intact.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass