Corporatism

The Money Masters

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The Money Masters (1995) discusses the topics of money, debt, taxes and their development throughout the modern world. It criticizes the control aspects of modern centralized banking systems and regulation. The film uses as evidence the history of money and banking, showing the viewer how central banks came to be what they are today and how they operate.

It supports its assertions by references and quotations from past Presidents and major players in the banking industry. The documentary was released in 1995 and the film still has considerable popularity, gaining interest from an audience first introduced to this subject through other documentaries such as Zeitgeist.

“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole…

 

Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world’s money…” .

 

– Prof. Carroll Quigley renowned, late Georgetown macro-historian

 

Crude Impact

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Created on Thursday, 03 June 2010 09:13

It took hundreds of millions of years for petroleum to form on Earth. It took just 150 years for human beings to bleed the planet dry of roughly half of this oil. Arresting in its honesty and erudition, Crude Impact examines the prospect of ''world peak oil'', which is the point in time when the quantity of petroleum extracted from the earth begins to irreversibly decline.

The film highlights a vicious cycle of escalating dependency and need, as well as the behaviors and patterns fueling this cycle, such as consumer fetishism and the myth of endless supply, the tremendous rise in population and the demands of many more quickly industrializing nations.

It also surveys the devastating and far-reaching effects of the rampant pursuit of oil, including increasingly aggressive political turmoil, irreparable ecological damage, economic turbulence and gross human rights violations.

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The World According to Monsanto

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Created on Monday, 20 July 2009 11:37

‘The World According to Monsanto’ is an in-depth look at the history of one of the world's most dangerous and despised corporations and the serious issues swirling around genetically modified crops, which range from the implications for biodiversity and personal health, to the corporate control of our food and more.

 

The Tobacco Conspiracy

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Created on Sunday, 19 September 2010 12:15

Con·spir·a·cy

n. pl. con·spir·a·cies

1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

2. A group of conspirators.

3. Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.

4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design

 

‘The Tobacco Conspiracy’ describes the history of the tobacco industry’s lies and scams. From the US in 1953 to Africa today, the controversy between individual responsibility and corporate greed is portrayed in a lucid, undaunted manner. From scientific frauds to working with organized crime, the tobacco companies’ hidden agenda is shown more clearly than ever in this documentary. More than three years of investigating all over the world allowed Nadia Collot to decipher the attitudes of an industry that, in spite of many prevention campaigns, still expands its power at the cost of public health. Three aspects of industry behavior are studied:

 

1. Scientific subversion: proof of the manipulation of scientific evidence and buying out of scientists, to keep the controversy over the health issues related to smoking and environmental tobacco smoke under control.

 

2. Ideological subversion: whether it be through clever and disguised product placements on TV, creating its own biased health messages, implementing subtle and ingenious marketing tactics or using political lobbying maneuvers, the tobacco industry has gone to unbelievable lengths to do what it says it never would.

 

3. Economic strategies: infiltrating closed-market countries, trying to reach the young and the poor and smuggling are just some of the ways the industry has chosen to organize its international growth.