Recommended Gateway Pages

2.  Capitalism and How It Functions

***** George Carlin -- Who Owns America, 3 min, 1,200,000,views all site, says it all in under 4 minutes, at his best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK7FPSFdkEc the 8 minute version, watch both they are that good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dY4WlxO6i0&feature=related  Excellent  

*****  George Carlin—National press club  57 min, 1,400,000 views, delivery is great, as too the wit on the use of language by politicians to say little while making themselves look good—platitudes.  Then on American uses of euphemism and its insincerity.  Delivery is so polished that it makes the 57-minute worth-while—enjoyable.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc0ZHsoHAlE&feature=emb_rel_pause  Excellent

*****There is no free press under capitalism by Lucretia Report, 11 minutes.  The scandal orchestrated by the right-wing party leader of Austrian who through fake polls and news the party won the election and he became Prime Minister.  This method of operation is common, examples given, the conclusion is that the capitalist media has an agenda of profits first.  Though we all know this, using advertising techniques they seduce the majority of the populace to vote for the corporatist parties, take drugs, buy cars, drink beer, go to war, support globalization, the corporate honor system neoconservatism, etc.  Welcome to 1984 (Orwellian) as it is matures  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJFwJzKGbs EXCELLENT

*****Why China will be the Big Winner of the 2020 Crisis 17 min, Economics Explained, covers middle-income trap with wages and not being the cheapest.  China offers finish product, factories, and simplified tariffs vs using multiple part sources.  Second following west economic imperialism, China is with the Belt Road offering infrastructure building undercutting west deals, and when default instead of IMF sanctions, China takes back the port, dam (water electricity), etc.  This gives China a strong global market for resources and export. Their 4 gov banks are biggest in the world, they assures funds for the Silk Road loans and weather COVID crises.  Critical of media on China, logic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07eafPe7pY  EXCELLENT

***** The Four Horsemen, 99 min, 5,557,000 views, website: renegadeEconomist.com, uses interviews with a dozen giants of economics which describe the horrific effects of unregulated capitalism (neoliberalism).  The documentary is divided into four sections, the first of which is historically inaccurate.  That said, the rest of the documentary is done with exceptional insightful, thoughtful, well developed,  easy to understand, and concise. Quality sound and video, entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU Excellent

***** How do the WTO, World Bank and IMF work?  7 min, 69,000 views, Susan George (American and French political and social scientist) covers essential topics on the three financial organization that promote profits and globalization, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ952ba75Yk worth watching

***** War by Other Means—IMF, World Bank are Weapons of War, 52 min, 250,000 views, John Pilger (BBC documentary), explains economic imperials that burden 3^rd world nations with loans whose interest payments suck up dry the economy.  They then crash the economy, buy the nations assets at fire-sale prices, and make more loans after forcing the nation to install austerity programs that close hospitals to ensure that the nation can continue paying interest on all its loans.  In the Philippines 44% of gov. expenses go as interest payments (in US federal $850 billion). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY2rd2295hw  Excellent

***** The Corporation, 145 min, 276,000 views, 2003, over 26 international awards, Zeitgeist Films, grossed over 4.6 million world-wide. [1] It starts with Gen. Smedley Butler below) and the plot to overthrow FDR and set up a fascist government modeled on Italy (a model that is being installed now on a global scale).  It shows that the behavior of corporations fits the definition of a psychopath.   Quality production fit for wide theater distribution, which it didn’t get.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU Excellent

***** Capitalism vs. democracy, 29 min, 29,000 views in 9-day, Prof. Richard Wolff, a lecture, very organized using excellent example around the theme of the anti-democracy nature of capitalism, clearly sound, with subtitles to improve comprehension   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdPPfB636jg Excellent

***** Global  Capitalism, Prof. Richard Wolff, 102 min 7,160 views, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tw1ZU5gfpc, updated March 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF2g26mTV7w Highly recommended

***** How Reaganomics Killed America’s Middle Class, 57 min, 21 views, Richard Wolff, on Thom Hartmann Show 11/11/15, on Keynesian economics and its dismantling.  This history rewritten by the corporate media who wants us to believe that government is the problem, rather than turning corporations. You won’t understand today and the fixes without knowing Keynesian fix of the great depression and the subsequent prosperity, clear lecture, good sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdCNGkZoIZw  Excellent 

***** Financializing America with Randy Mandell  59 minutes, view 719, Randy Mandell, Pirate Television, the best explanation on financialization, its history, development, and consequences; essential to the understanding of the development of monopoly capitalism and its consequences.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su15pULEvzk Excellent lecture Highly recommended §

***** Heist: Who Stole the American Dream A must watch video on the corporate takeover of American and its consequences at http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/heist also on YouTube for $2.99 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP1PvD6onGo  Among the best, excellent

***** Corporate Fascism:  The Destruction of America’s Middle Class 102 min, 639,000 views, on corporate dominance of the US political process, the power of the Federal Reserve through issuance of credit, corporate agenda of globalization, and the consequences  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTbvoiTJKIs very good  

***** This is Called Marxism, Buddy!—Zeitgeist III, Moving Forward, 8 min, 10,000 views, from the 161- minute documentary.  Makes the point that the ruling class manipulates their media to create a set of beliefs supporting their values, well done wakeup call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w6XET9Y3ZE very good

***** Zeitgeist, the Movie, 111 min, 2,467,000 views, 2007, hard hitting, artsy movie, that has become a fixture of the documentary exposure among the dissident young.  Entertaining and  moving, an indictment of the corporate manipulated social system.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbIu8Zeqp0 Very good  

***** Zeitgeist 2:  Addendum, 109 min 4,090,000 views, similar to the first, entertaining, artsy and effective packaging on the evils of capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9TWRyfs  Very good  

Thrive:  What on Earth Will it Take 215 minutes, 7,600,000 views, by Ariel Thierman & Austin Wallacy, the corporate takeover and its consequences. The first 45 minutes starts with a contra-science new-age free energy claim, then corporate medicine which leads into the top of the financial pyramid, which explains with clarity the parasitic nature of finance/banking.  Finance’s power to control the economy entails that they are above government.  Thus, we need as a fix a fiat debt-free currency issued by government that serves the people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEV5AFFcZ-s Quality production okay

How Class Work: 13 min, 66,000 views Richard Wolff, on class of owners and workers and their roles.  A documentary with Wolff reading the script https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euH3pAuLuko very good

Walmart:  The High Cost of Low Prices 97 min 627,000 views, show how corporate chains stores do business by using the most successful of them as an example.  They catapult their lower purchase prices and wages to dominate the market.  Uses interviews extensively https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXmnBbUjsPs good

The One Percent, 76 min, 3,916,000 views,2011, exposure of the wealthy and their theory that justifies it, some muckraking, lots of interviews makes it a slow, could have done much more and poor analysis and lacks a fix makes it very popular with the common herd.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmlX3fLQrEc   So-so

The Men Who Made Us Spend  BBC series  all investigative reporting, entertaining and revealing Jack Peretti-- Episode 1 20 min, 31,000 views on sales techniques that work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFUt1iGxPvE&t=53s Episode 2, 59 min, 32,000 views, the use of fear to promote sales, including, water, drugs, cars, soap, etc., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q3eZNVK4AI  Episode 3  58 min, 21,000 views, on selling children and the lack of regulations  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsor4xDdfnU Very Good

***** Get your loved ones OFF statins - BBC  14 Min, 18,000 views, Jack Peretti, on the sales techniques that turned fear of not being normal and selling relief, started with Zantac by Glaxo selling a condition GRED, then progresses to cardiovascular disease into the biggest  blockbuster statins  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZQ2zmjzQY Excellent  

Note:  there are many more on the tobacco ethics and science used by pharma and food manufactures to make us the sickest population in history, example of capitalism--link. The average period of infirmity during life is 16.7 years a 2020 study published in the BMJ (British Medical Journal):  profits before people!!!

3.  Banking’s Economics, Fiat Currency and History

Four common errors, 1) when money flows into a bank from loans (including from the central bank) or from deposits, it is used as an asset to meet their requirement for assets, and then loaned out at least 10-fold greater amount—fractional reserve.  2) the GDP’s service sector includes the parasitic financial sector, which has grown from 5% of service to over 60% and healthcare is an additional 20%.  3) most of the loans goes to affiliates such as Blackrock which the banks own.  4) one of main investments is in stocks which allows the affiliates to control most of the corporations without exposing the role of the banks and its profits. 

***** The secret of Oz 117 minutes, over 1 million views 2010, narrated and written by Bill Stills, winner of best documentary in 2010.  Essentially the same as the Money Masters, with less details, and a better-quality video.  Exposes that the financial sector of our economy as the shadow government dictating global policies, the force behind globalizations, global and local economic crashes, and most wars.  The power to crash an economy by tightening credit is the club.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGyjUfDoN4&t=1492s

***** How the hell does our banking system works, 12 min, 55,000 view Richard Wolff on Thom Hartmann Show.  Covers the essentials on creating money on faith, federal reserve, etc.  The power to controls gov. is through the crash, Alternative of fiat currency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQN1ACDr-hQ Excellent  Wolf skips shadow banking, the profits made by banking, and they’re the power above government

***** The Money Masters 217 min, seen by 10s of millions, 1995, Bill Stills, a Libertarian account of the banking system.  I have spent hours confirming the suspect points of the film.  It was carried on independent PBS station in 2002 and in 2008.  Strong on history and education, it shows how the financial system functions to maximize profits, while pretending to provide essential services, and in so doing controls the economy.  The federal banks have the power to crash an economy through controlling the demand for federal debt obligations (mostly T-bills), this entails that they are above control.  The solution is to go from a debt-based currency (debt to national banks and member banks) to a fiat currency issued by government and free of interest payments.  Currently over $800 billion per year is paid on interest by the US government, plus a similar amount by states and local governments, and again by businesses and citizens. Over 50% of GDP consists of the financial sector. The film covers consequences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t0CkzD-Bv8.  Notes on film at http://www.skeptically.org/bhe/id3.html.   What the rulers hide, A must see   

Money as Debt, 42 min, 499,000 views, clearly explains the way money is created out of fractional deposit system in which the banks typically have 10% assets to issue a line of credit over 10-fold the amount deposited.  Though in cartoon form, it clearly explains the process starting with the money changers in Roman times.  Underscores the need for fiat money backed by the government with no debt payments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqvKjsIxT_8   very good

How The Federal Reserve Works (and Who Really Owns it) 10 Min Business Casual, the history of national banking, the events leading up to the 1913 passage establishing the Federal Reserve Banks (12 regionals).  It is very accurate historically and slanted, excludes the negative evidence, all left out.  Explains also how the bank works and its profits, misses its affiliates such as Blackrock profits.  Very informative sales pitch that should be watched to learn about banks and history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y0I-vVLBVQ Good

***** It’s our money anyway 8 min, 10,000 views, James Robertson on reclaiming on money and democratize our banking system, that way the government when it made loans would profit from it; thereby lowering taxes, and they should also tax the land/building and removal of resources from the land since both should be part of the public domain.  Very professional done, all the key points 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHs9xnuxLhU  Excellent

*****97% Owned: the cruel truth behind money credit and financial, 104 min, ENDEVER, Free Documentary, UK, on creating money (UK) and its national and international consequences, before 1844 private banks created debt based currency back by precious metals, now it is the national bank and without an asset requirement (the same in the US since 1971, requirement not enforced since 1914. then removed), the national bank loans it to the private banks that then expand debt.  They have a reserve requirement enforced.  Trillions flow into the market now.A carefully structured lesson, quality sound based on book Where does money come from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7-FmAfxMmQ Excellent  .   

**** Who controls all of our money? 22 min 5.28 M Cold Fusion TV, history of forming national bank, and who wrote it, its sales pitch. Top quality, not hedging fiat currency by Fed Reserve, and 10% on banks (which isn’t being enforced). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUhJTxK5mA    Excellent

Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis | Full VICE Special Report | HBO, 96 min 5,255,000, As expected given who speaks, all the big wigs from Presidents to President of the Federal Reserve, and 2 dozen others.  It is all about saving the banking structure, with the only fault is the housing bubble, with no fixes; a continuation of the corporate honor system (neoliberalism).  Very good on sound, pictures, but void of fixing the parasitic system, just preserving it by its high priests.  There is no free lunch, the cost of Wall Street, finances, etc. all paid for by labor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QozGSS7QY_U  History, insider, sucks

4. Politics Including Foreign Policy

***** The Shock Doctrine—The Harm of Capitalism, 79 min. 20,000 views, 2012; based on Naomi Klein’s book by that name.  It is about how unregulated capitalism uses adversity (shock) to dismantle government regulations and privatizing public services.  Neoliberal US government is preparing for an economic crash through what Klein calls the Pinochet (fascist) solution suppress subsequent civil unrest.  The US builds FEMA camps, funds corporate mercenary military, NSA spying, etc.  It is also about US militarism which promotes the corporate global takeover.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMV3FHLh1Ik excellent

***** Why We Fight, 100 minutes in 12 parts, 2005, answers why they hate us:  blowback for US policy. Imperialism/exploitation is the norm for nations.    A quality documentary, a lesson from history, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBoTaPwRuC0&list=PL5AF95E92DFE84597   Excellent

***** War by other means – IMF – World Bank ae weapons of war, 52 min, 14,100 views, John Pilger, BBC, on the use of finance and predatory capitalism to suck the poor nations dry.  It is on the new world order and economic imperialism.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79bZ71fUZRU  Excellent

*****The Untold History of the US—Bush and Obama Age of Terror, 59 min, 536,000,  views, on current US actions as top terrorist state.  A quality documentary full of facts such as that the US has a military presence in 151 of 192 UN member nations and nearly 1,000 foreign bases and has a $1.2 trillion budget. Uses news videos to do the talking with narration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_0S80jMeg0  Excellent

Evan Solomon Interviews Noam Chomsky on His Book 9/11, 41 min, 21,000 views, Canadian Broadcast Corporations, done around 2002.  Chomsky discusses two themes: U.S. as a terrorist state and manufacturing consent.  Chomsky lets the facts speak (most of which are absent from the US media, but known in Europe).   One of his best,   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPnLK9z1fI  very good

Manufacturing Consent, 168 minutes, 32,000 views, Prof. Noam Chomsky, covering Chomsky’s talks over 4 decades with supporting interviews and historical background footage, such as on the massacre in East Timor.  Shows how the press by lies and selective reporting manufactures consent; a bit long-winded, low budget, academic, but a very important message https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzufDdQ6uKg  very good

5. Banking, Shadow Banking, Government

*****Banks and the Fed 4 minutes, 51 views (Nov 2016) Prof Richard Wolf, exposes fake Congressional fixes which banking end runs, the system won’t fix itself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-sqEWO5_Rk  Excellent

***** The Money Masters 217 min, seen by 10s of millions, 1995, Bill Stills, a Libertarian account of the banking system.  I have spent hours confirming the suspect points of the film.  It was carried on independent PBS station in 2002 and in 2008.  Strong on history and education, it shows how the financial system functions to maximize profits, while pretending to provide essential services, and in so doing controls the economy.  The federal banks have the power to crash an economy through controlling the demand for federal debt obligations (mostly T-bills), this entails that they are above control.  The solution is to go from a debt-based currency (debt to national banks and member banks) to a fiat currency issued by government and free of interest payments.  Currently over $800 billion per year is paid on interest by the US government, plus a similar amount by states and local governments, and again by businesses and citizens. Over 50% of GDP consists of the financial sector. The film covers consequences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t0CkzD-Bv8.  Notes on film at http://www.skeptically.org/bhe/id3.html.   What the rulers hide, A must see   

***** The secret of Oz 117 minutes, over 1 million views 2010, narrated and written by Bill Stills, winner of best documentary in 2010.  Essentially the same as the Money Masters, with less details, and a better-quality video.  Exposes that the financial sector of our economy as the shadow government dictating global policies, the force behind globalizations, global and local economic crashes, and most wars.  The power to crash an economy by tightening credit is the club.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swkq2E8mswI  Excellent        

***** Shadow Banking:  The Ultimate Loophole of the Financial System (An Industry that owns the world): 12 min, Financial Affairs, what shadow banking (also called market based finance) is.  They are beyond regulations, thus, there isn’t accurate economic reports on each or all of them.  Only deposit banks are regulated (de facto, barely).  List a dozen types of their activities.  All the major deposit banks have shadow banking affiliates.  Quality material & sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-lwbR4vX8 Excellent Misses fiat currency which creates the world wide 600 Trillion  Mention only China, not EU, India, etc.

*****The Rothschild Family –  Puppet Masters – Worlds Only Trillionaires, 56 min, 1,100,000 views, on the banking family-- established in 1760--that rose to the top of the banking world.  This documentary builds upon The Money Masters, presenting more on the Rothschild and the bond market is the private banks such as the Bank of England have organized as to be draining the world economy, and this documentary sheds light upon a power that is above government.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WfqdcnjvlA  Delightful

***** International Monetary System – New Economic Slavery, 51 min, 119,000 views, on how banks make money out of buying treasury bonds, to which they loan our government (as does all central banks) money (credit) to which they receive interest payment.  Deposits are leveraged to create more loans at a ratio of 10 to 1.  This expansion of currency allows for a casino economy with rampant speculative investments.  Expansion of currency also entails inflation.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqZ6pnWM7o Very good

Glenn Beck Exposes the Private Fed; Gets Fired by Fox, Glenn Beck show 40 min, 2,860,000 views, he talks about the unmentionable, the power of banking  and the Federal Reserve, with two expert guests.  This program got him fired, lively--essential points. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5LK-jihgk Very good

***** How the hell does our banking system works, 12 min, 55,000 view Richard Wolff on Thom Hartmann Show.  Covers the essentials on creating money on faith, federal reserve, etc.  The power to controls gov. is through the crash, Alternative of fiat currency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQN1ACDr-hQ Excellent

In Debt We Trust Documentary 58 min, 90.000 views, on the predatory banking system which locks people into huge interest payments, human interest,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cltc4Og6HKo  good   

Money as Debt, 42 min, 499,000 views, clearly explains the way money is created out of fractional deposit system in which the banks typically have 10% assets to issue a line of credit over 10-fold the amount deposited.  Though in cartoon form, it clearly explains the process starting with the money changers in Roman times.  Underscores the need for fiat money backed by the government with no debt payments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqvKjsIxT_8   very good

How the rich get richer – money in the world economy 42 min, 689,000 views by DW (German gov.) well below others; however, has several important points:  one is that uncontrolled banks entail currency inflation and gains for those at the top, rely on  government bail them out if there is a crash.   Appears to have been done a couple of years after the crash, possible update in 2017; short interview, understates issues, skips others, boring but valuable,   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6m49vNjEGs   Okay

6.  Consequence of Self-Regulated Capitalism

Stealing Africa—Why Poverty?  58 min, 375.000 views; BBC:  how Zambia which is copper rich is one of the 20 poorest countries.  Show how multinational copper companies avoid paying taxes to Zambia.  It is a well done, entertaining investigative reporting.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYemuiAOfU Excellent

Palestine is Still the Issue, 53 min, 12,800 views; John Pilger, 2002, British Documentary maker shown on BBC.  Reveals what the European audiences knows:  that Israel is a terrorist state and arm of US policy, but American media portrays freedom fighters as terrorist; but who has invaded Palestine?  Israel’s atrocities and plan for expulsion of Palestinians are known to everywhere but, in the US—repeated UN resolutions vetoed by the US confirm this.  It is an effective, balanced, insightful denial of our media’s script on Israel.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnc6Kt-7vjc&index=3&list=PLkNybwM2FPClkBZPvM9L-14HBdPeIiq-5  Excellent

***** Silence of the Labs   45 min, 15,000 views, CBC; Canadian government’s war on science in the public’s interest.  What is true about Canadian government policy is even-more true for the US government and EU countries.  The science behind drug safety, effects of pollution, nutrition and all else that that effects corporations is being replaced by corporate tobacco science.  Government funded science has been manipulated in our corporatist state, as too the regulatory agencies such as the FDA.  When scientists write of conclusion contrary to tobacco science, listen and learn; because GMOs aren’t proven safe, and cholesterol does cause heart attacks.  A must see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms45N_mc50Y Excellent §

Utopia (The Secret Country) 110 min, 5,000 views John Pilger.  A black chapter in the history of Australian comparable to South Africa’s apartheid history.  Last half is on how, once uranium was discovered, the mining corporations used their power to obtain mineral rights from the aborigines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZRuJq1AKU   very good

The War on Democracy 96 min, 215,000 views, John Pilger, 2007.  On the US empire:  the reality denying the fantasy; about the South American pro-US governments. Extensive footage on Chavez populism in Venezuela and Pinochet’s Chile for comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHzc1h8k7o  very good

***** How the Biggest Banks Get Away with Fraud, 25 min, ColdFusion Show 4 examples criminal profits.  The first is Well Fargo, clerks creating dummy account for benefits, the executive looking skyward and profiting from stock options, 2^nd was Libor rigging, claiming the rate paid on loans by the Federal Reserve were inflated and then passing the fake rate to loan makers (all the major banks), the third was Chase Morgan trading in which trillions were made in future of precious metals by spoofing, purchase and sales of futures to create a belief in a market moving up or down. 2 & 3 were prosecuted but the fine is under 5% of profits. 4^th, ETN (Exchange Trade Notes) sold to clients like derivates and designed over time to lose value & profit banks. ETNs of future index, sold as insurance  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSh8eusFYL4 Excellent

§Who’s Spends Britain’s Billions 58, min, 40,000 views, on management consulting companies, what they charge local governments, then out-sourcing service and how things get worse than better, and costs go up.  A model for what happens in the US with the neoliberal makeover over government in our corporatist state. The conflict between profit and service.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00UFYU_Gr7w    Very Good

What everyone needs to know about the COVID 19  14 min, 982,000 views, 6 months, Noam Chomsky, born 1928, Bashes neoliberalism, which rules.  There is no concern for the public because profits come first, ergo, the knowledge of the virus goes back to 2000, but no financial reason to make a vaccine on the chance of a pandemic.  The government structure that funded the work on the polio vaccine--established under Roosevelt--has been dismantled.  He accepts that it is worse than influenza, and global warming, claims that the US is the force pushing global neoliberalism.  Quality video, good sound, WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT COVID-19 | Noam Chomsky - YouTube  Very Good

Avocado – a positive superfood trend? 28 minutes, DW, German gov. in English.  Corporate farms in Chile grow avocados, gain water rights, drain rivers, and lower water tables, which affects towns and small farms.  Water rights are a commodity defended by national government and praised by media.  Water becomes rationed, rates multiply.  This is the blueprint of corporate farms.  Missing in film on the requirements of free-trade agreements that is forced on Chile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05oMsK0-jjA&t=494s Very good

****8 What are We Waiting For 17 min, 68,000 views, 2006, BBC on CHP (combined heat & power) which is twice as efficient--or more--than the large power plants, and is used extensively in Demark, Netherlands and, Germany, but only 2 plants in the UK as of 2006.  The otherwise waste heat is used to heat the community—like the gas house in cities to supply heating.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klooRS-Jjyo Excellent

7. Political & Business History

***** The secret of Oz 117 minutes, over 1 million views 2010, narrated and written by Bill Stills, winner of best documentary in 2010.  Essentially the same as the Money Masters, with less details, and a better-quality video.  Exposes that the financial sector of our economy as the shadow government dictating global policies, the force behind globalizations, global and local economic crashes, and most wars.  The power to crash an economy by tightening credit is the club.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swkq2E8mswI

***** In Search of History - The Plot to Overthrow FDR, 41 min, 248,000 views, History Channel, 1996, on the plot to set up a fascist government like Germany and Italy by leading bankers and industrialists.  The plot was confirmed by a Congressional committee, but the principles were too big to be brought to justice.  A lesson for today:  the failed plot to establish a corporatocracy in 1933 was gradually implemented starting under President Nixon in 1970 and completed when the business wing of the Democratic Party put forth Clinton for President. Ten minutes have been clipped; the complete DVD is significant better, available on Amazon  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTdx6vEUtIA Excellent § 

***** The Whitehouse Coup (1933), 30 minutes each in 3 parts, 91,000 views, A 3-part BBC documentary on the Plot below.  BBC with Mike Thompson, confirms a fascist plot of business leader to overthrow FDR. It confirms the above documentary on fascism & corporations and plot to have Gen. Butler help.  Part 1, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXGUgFXoRu4.   Part 2, 9 min 36,000 view http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPb6ulVEK0&feature=related.  Part 3, 10 min, 26,000 views. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Mav69K2zkgw Excellent history lesson

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***** War is a Racket by Smedley Butler, 9 min, 433,000, the speech of Butler, taken from his writings, read by an actor who mirrors Butlers delivery and voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0&t=5s The “thug for Wall Street” exposes US policy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0 Excellent

***** Churchill and the Fascist Plot 45 min, 10,100 views, BBC top quality, on plot in 1940 to keep US neutral with stolen cables to Roosevelt revealing his plan to loan destroyers to Britain to destroy German subs, ruling class backs fascism like US Businessmen’s plot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjyiy471crw Excellent

***** The Obama Deception, 113 min, 14,300,000 views, Alex Jones, 2009, on the dream that failed, Obama is more of the same, and the power behind it, the organizations pushing for globalization.  Footage on the 2008 Bilderberg Meeting, which is a yearly planning meeting on globalization.  Shows how banking is first among them corporations, and their agenda.   What you won’t learn from the corporate media.  Find out why this video went viral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw  Excellent 

***** Wall Street Firms are now buy up family homes, 11 minm300,000 views in5 days  Cold Fusion   Explains how the current rise in prices of home during what should be a depression (COVID scare) started in 2008 with financial sector speculating in housing, with the current flood of money, investment housing is buy up homes, about 20% of market and rising.  Blames gov while it is the fraction reserve flood of funds about $40 trillion per year, that is driving this diversification of the market ($4 trillion times 10). They also buy up land and other assets in the 3^rd world, and US industries   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu4tC3px6mc  Excellent

Why Oil & Gas Prices are Dropping:  19 min 69,000 views, Richard Wolff, 12/14 on the history of oil power, and the change caused by US becoming a major oil producer--glut lowers price.  US saving on energy hides the  global depression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCW7lWZ5CiE Excellent

CBC Big Sugar, 44 min, 18,000 views, CBC; the political history of sugar from slavery to today’ their influence in colonial times to current, working conditions in the Dominican Republic; from slavery to wage slavery, a rush to the bottom.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHh5odELpi4.  Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlAqt1UiQP4 44 min 7,000 views on obesity, sugar consumption, and US support and influence in the UN, Very good, entertaining

Explained: The Russia-Ukraine Crisis, 9 min 22,000,000 views in 10 days, Gravitas, from India, very compact lets history talk:  the Ukraine and the power struggle between a large minority looking to Russia and a EU & NATO leaning majority.  Russa opposes the shift of the Ukraine from supporting Russia with treaty to joining Russia’s foe.  Clear, concise, balanced, no devils  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK-yJD_fAtk Very Good

***** How US policy created Putin 40 min 6,375,000 , 10/18 Valdimir Pozner, Reporter, Yale University, ,  with 2 professors and question period. Total time 113 min, first section is Pozner which I reviewed.  As expected, he uncovers Baker 1991 et al promise with the collapse of USSR, NATO will not go east.  There were 2 positions, one of containment, the other of cooperation, containment won out.  Signs of the first—Paul Wolfowitz document.  Putin tried to join NATO and the EU but was rebuffed in 2000.   Second was a promise of major financial aid.  Third was the bombing of Yugoslavia and the splitting off of Kosovar, and forth was Poland, Hungry, and Czechoslovak joining NATO and EU.  Fifth was Putin agreed to help fight terrorism, and allowed US to go into Afghanistan—no response. This change to a hard position by Putin  goes well with the following by Mearsheimer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ&t=1s Excellent

***** Ukraine-Russia 2022 Analysis, 23 min, 84,000 view 6 days Prof John Mearsheimer.  Consistent with other Professors who specialize in this area of politics—Russia and NATO.  It is again a case of the 800 pound gorilla blame the 100 pound chimp for being the aggressor.  Russia is rebuffing an EU & US move to put NATO with its atomic weapon in the Ukraine.  Russia considers this an extensional threat similar to the USSR putting missiles in CUBA.  There were clear warnings that Russia would again invade the Ukraine, as it did in 2008 for George and in 2014 for Crimea.  Ukraine was becoming a defacto member of NATO, promise of protection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mw9U62ZJU Excellent

*****On Realism and the Rise of China, 97 min 62,000 view, John Mearsheimer

*****How capitalism becomes fascism, 7 min, 15,000 views 2 weeks, Economics Prof Richard Wolff using historical examples to explain the evolution to fascism when capitalism is stressed.  The types of propaganda the ruling party generates while the government supports the capitalist system and suppresses opposition.  Wolff uses 3 parties that were fascist.  I don’t blame the mouthpiece, Wolff does.  I hold:  The economics doesn’t change--the financial banksters.  It is a way of preserving the shadow government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edN0SCV3DOU Excellent 

*****Fascism:  an analysis for today: 30 min 76,000 views 2 years, Prof Richard Wolff economists  Like the  above, the biggest capitalism is using the government to save them while the government claims to be saving the people from radicals, inferior race, wrong religion, etc. rather than that they are saving the existing order, the capitalist   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O05wS7w4aEw

Fascism, 29 min, 71,000 16-days, 2022 Prof. Richard Wolff, covers national debt, empty housing, rising Feds interest, tight money cause economic crash.  Then he discusses fascism, business community satisfied with parliamentary government, but when stressed by anti-capitalist, turns to fascism which ultimately protects capitalism and eliminate the critics, Trump distraction including his Jan 8^th riot, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTZEtFwUpbc&t=3s  very good

The end of a supper power:  The collapse of the Soviet Union, 54 Min 5,600,000 views 18 days, 2022,DW German Public broadcast, quality sound and vision, all interviews, balanced, but no mention of finances and just a couple of minutes n China and the New Silk road, lack of analysis, visually good, intellectual very weak.  Misses violation by NATO of 1991 agreement not to move east, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsPHKDuP-Hk fair

8. Depression, the spiral downward

The Fall 2007-2010 crash.  Economic depression exists when the GDP shrinks significantly, now called a recession, what will the call the 2020 crash?  The numbers are cooked because they included the profits of the parasitic financial sector.  The standard of lives overall is declining, while productivity of labor increases.  Workers produce more and get less.  The main causes of the last-3 economic crashes (1981, 2007, & 2020) are the need to inflate the casino economy by increasing government debt, which is used by the financial sector—their holdings in gov debt as the fractional assets for the issue of fiat currency.  One dollar in T-bill permits 10 dollars of fiat currency (that ratio isn’t enforced & repealed for the 12 Federal Reserve Banks).  The expansion of shadow banking to over 1,000 trillion in debt obligations needs a steady increase in debt base assets to inflate the market.  “Since 1854, the U.S. has encountered 32 cycles of expansions and contractions, with an average of 17 months of contraction and 38 months of expansion” (Wikipedia, Recession, Nov 2021.  Watch above The Secret of Oz to get a glimpse of the power of control the currency of a nation, done for the goal of every increasing profits.    Using real economy (productivity) the income of the bottom 90% has declined.  A depression is an economic contraction real economy, a recession is a significant decline, but not below zero.  

***** How money becomes worthless:  53 min, 503,000 views, Economical Documentary on the international financial system, Gold, Dollar, Money.  In 2008 the world experienced financial turmoil.  Markets crashed, stocks plummeted, and financial institutions.  Was the 2008 financial crisis solved by increasing debt?  The COVID virus was another over 4 trillion in US debt bought up by banking. Quality but three major errors, it blames government for banking including shadow banking, 2) misses neoliberalism, and the global financial unification, 3) the fiat currency used to buy up 3^rd world and 1^st world businesses, land, etc.  Governments issue currency, not just one nation is fix.  Wants gold backed currency, but there isn’t enough gold on a dolla- for-dollar ratio to supply global needs.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNIE7qUePq8 Excellent

*****Professor Richard Wolff: Coming Economic Crash Will be WORSE Than Great Depression  94,000 views in 12 hours, July 15^th, 13 min, on our economic crash.  The inflation of currency is going to the banks as it had in 2008, only this time the collapse is much greater.  We have a Hoover, with the 2 parties not willing to put the money in the hands of the consumers.  The banks want most of the stimulus package as they got in 2008. Without organized pressure we will likely get a Mussolini fix.  Maybe the banks will, as they did for Muslin and Hitler, bail us out in 2 years.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14zbZvXogoM Excellent

***** Overdosed:  The Next Financial Crisis, 46 min, 2,323,000 views, on the inflation of currency that got the world out of the 2008 crisis, is just a short-term fix:  expanding debt increases interest payments to banks.  Moreover, must of the funds go to speculation (shadow banking); this creates instability.   The banking solution isn’t a solution.  Quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE   very good

***** The Fall of the Republic, 144 min, 4,448,000 view on how the banksters and global corporations control the US economy and its politics, and their preparation for the collapse:  a sequel to the Obama Deception, gone viral.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU  Excellent

9.  Dumb Down of US Education, the Remake

As George Carlin said; The ruling class wants us to be dumb enough to put a nut on a bolt in the assembly line, and vote for the 2-party system,  The want us to be dumb consumers supporting monopoly capitalism and finance. 

The Powel Memorandum written in 1971 as a blueprint for how to defuse the mass uprising of the students in the 60s and 70s which found wide support.  It was a movement to build a just society, and therefor sought to change the existing power structure so as to place the well-being of the masses first—and idea championed by Jeremy Bentham, see utilitarianism. It supported managed capitalism and opposed US imperialism.   

Education 101:  The Dumbing Down of America 17 min, 3,413 views, covers key ways in which the power structure has changed the education in order to promote their goals, more quotes than evidence.  A bit dated but well done.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzFVMdEs3_c  very good

Charlotte Iserbyt - Deliberate Dumbing Down of the World, 10 min, 362,000 views, insider on the agenda of business and thus our government on education (they want workers not thinkers), Isberyt was the top educator in the Reagan Administration, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDyDtYy2I0M very good

The illusion of money, time & ego, 11 min,  4.2 M views 14 months, Alan Watts, on being a real person with inner piece, and thus not a self-centered capitalist.  Done 1970s, one of over 50 recorded talk with very good illustration supporting his talk, very good quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYSQ1NF1hvw Good

The False Idea of Who You Are -8 min, 526,000, 5 months, Alan Watts  on the unity of brain an self, which is all part of the universe we, proven a decade after he died by neuroscience, that muscle part the brain activates prior to awareness, his best  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yaBJVfyy00  very good