the video is well worth seeing, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:09 PM Subject: "An entire integrated system is at work" ( to extract and move debt? ) To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qI_P3pxze5w#t=19s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Ratigan#2011_rant 2011 rant On the August 10, 2011, broadcast of *The Dylan Ratigan Show<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dylan_Ratigan_Show> *, in a round table discussion of the market meltdown following the Budget Control Act of 2011<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011>, Ratigan went on a two-minute-long rant against what he perceived to be the state of politics in the United States government, saying: *"We've got a real problem! This is a mathematical fact! Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren't doing it, Republicans aren't doing it. An entire integrated system, financial system, trading system, taxing system, that was created by both parties over a period of two decades is at work on our entire country right now. And we're sitting here arguing about whether we should do the $4 trillion plan that kicks the can down the road for the president for 2017, or burn the place to the ground, both of which are reckless, irresponsible, and stupid."*[8] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Ratigan#cite_note-7> The video of his impassioned speech went viral<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_video> [9] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Ratigan#cite_note-8> and was praised by other media sources. TV Newser <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Newser> wrote that it was "a powerful, emotional editorial on the economy and Washington". [10] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Ratigan#cite_note-9> On a followup post on his website the day after he wrote that he had received a lot of positive mail from viewers, writing "I’m mad as hell. And according to the piles and piles of responses I got after my rant, so are you."[11]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Ratigan#cite_note-10> /// the guy speaking is : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Ratigan *" Ratigan served as the Global Managing Editor for Corporate Finance at Bloomberg News <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News>Service, and before that had covered Mergers and Acquisitions<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergers_and_Acquisitions>, the U.S. Stock Market <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Market> and IPOs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPO> . "* -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens