Fix America

First, a little comedic relief from Erik Weiner and Chadd Gindin:

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The movie “Network“, written by Paddy Chayefsky, is best known for its “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” scene.  Network has received much recognition including a place in the Top 100 Greatest American Films as chosen by the American Film Institute.  Here is the movie in its entirety:

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The documentary “Control Room” discusses objectivism and bias of Al Jazeera and American news organizations.  Here is the documentary in its entirety:

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Related links:

• Network – DVD at Amazon
• Control Room – DVD at Amazon
  
• Good Night, and Good Luck – DVD at Amazon
• Deciding What’s News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time – book at Amazon
• The Nightly News Nightmare: Network Television’s Coverage of U. S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2000 – book at Amazon
  

In his talk, Our Future is Our History: Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, Professor Joseph Zornado talks about ideology and modern social constructionism.

Related Links:

• Inventing the Child by Joseph Zornado – book at Amazon
• 2050 Gods of Little Earth by Joseph Zornado – book at Amazon
• On Ideology by French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser – book at Amazon
• The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann – book at Amazon

These documentaries will provide context for later posts.

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The Corporation explores the nature and rise of the dominant institution of our time.

Related links:

• The Corporation – DVD at Amazon
• The Corporation – DVD rental from Netflix
• The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan – book at Amazon

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Century of Self is a four-part documentary explaining how those in power try to control the masses.

Related Links:

• Century of Self – DVD at Amazon
• The Century of the Self – DVD rental from Netflix
• The History Channel presents Mind Control: America’s Secret War – DVD at Amazon

In the last post, we learned about fractional reserved lending and the federal reserve. Here is an example of how our monetary policy is affecting us today, humorously delivered by Robert Newman’s History of Oil.

Related links:

• The Party’s Over: Oil, War And The Fate Of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg – book at Amazon
• Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet by Lester Russell Brown – book at Amazon
• The US Congress Committee on International Relations’ report Oil Fields as Military Objectives: A Feasibility Study – full text

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Here is Ron Paul explaining the same information to the House of Representatives. Ron Paul starts speaking two minutes into the video.

And here’s Ron Paul summarizing situation in 60 seconds.

The second video builds upon the information in the first. The information in both videos will be built upon in later posts.

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Money as Debt tells what money is and how it is being created.

Related links:

• Discussion of “Money as Debt” on Digg
• Official “Money as Deb” web site

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The Money Masters traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today, which has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money.

Related links:

• On the Horns of the Beast: The Federal Reserve and the New World Order by Bill Still (narrator of this video) – book at Amazon
• The New Economic Disorder by Larry Bates – book at Amazon

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Ron Paul discusses the origins, operations and results of the Federal Reserve System and fiat currency on the U.S. and global economy.

The above video is made of excepts from the documentary “Fiat Empire – Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution.” Watch most of the documentary here.

Let’s start off with an interview with Senator Collins from Australia.

I laugh harder every time I watch it.