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The Business of War: SOFEX

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Created on Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:33

SOFEX is one of the places where the world's generals go to buy everything from handguns to laser-guided missile systems. It stands for "Special Operations Forces Exhibition Conference" and it's essentially a trade-show where just about anyone with enough money, can buy the most powerful weapons in the world. To quote this video's presenter: "It's the business of war. All the generals coming with billions upon billions of dollars of taxpayer money (yes, your money too), to buy weapons, to fuck shit up."

What should be more than obvious to you, after you've watched this video, is that peace is very bad for business.

And people still wonder why the world is in the state it's in.

 

Our System, Our Structure, Our Illusion

Corporatism, Other Topics, The New World Order
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Created on Saturday, 19 February 2011 19:47

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! 

 

– Leonardo da Vinci

‘Our System, Our Structure, Our Illusion’ (2010) by Dominoes Falling Productions is a feature-length documentary made from a collage of clips from many sources. Although the film presents an alternative outlook on contemporary society in the UK and the US, parallels can be made to nearly every society that exists today.

The documentary challenges established beliefs and structures of the system, as well as people's attachment to the roles they play in it.

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

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Created on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:10

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold is a documentary about branding, advertising, and product placement, that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising, and product placement.

After watching this movie you might actually notice the subtle, insidious advertising which is omnipresent in our society. Director/presenter Morgan Spurlock rubs your face in it and exposes some of the inner-workings of the advertising industry.

The film begins with Spurlock discussing just how ubiquitous commercials have become in our lives, particularly the phenomenon of product placement in films. His contention in this film is that even tiny independent documentaries could pay for themselves if they too jumped on the endorsement bandwagon. And so the film chronicles his pursuit of just about any company willing to finance his film.

Since a lot of the documentary features talking heads, among them Noam Chomsky and Quentin Tarantino, it's a little repetitive at times, but it's mostly a good look at the extent to which commercialism saturates our lives. (Imdb.com)