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The Story of Cap & Trade

TruthUnion — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:00:08 +0000

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from whats really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about Cap & Trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.

http://www.storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/

The New World Order – They’re ****ed … and they know they are!

TruthUnion — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:00:38 +0000

Ian R. Crane is a veteran of a 20-year career in international oilfield services, which provided him with the opportunity to live and work in the Middle East (including during Gulf War One), mainland Europe and the USA. His experiences have led him to his current work in exposing the many layers of global deception – including Peak Oil. Having chaired the British 9/11 Truth Campaign for two years, Ian moved on to his now ongoing series of lectures and event-organising, including this spring’s AV2 Alternative View Conference. Clearly no stranger to controversy, in 2005 Ian recorded his DVD presentation ‘The 9/11-7/7 Connection’ at the 2005 Symposium. Ironically, at the exact time of this recording, John-Charles de Menezes was being assassinated at Stockwell Tube station. Over the past four years, Ian has continued to expose the outrageous excesses of ‘those who believe themselves to be the rightful rulers of a global fiefdom, ruling a planetary population of co-operative economic slaves’.

http://www.ianrcrane.co.uk/

TED: The Big Reboot

TruthUnion — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:00:40 +0000

Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot – or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be…different.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/juan_enriquez_shares_mindboggling_new_science.html

Meltdown

TruthUnion — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:00:13 +0000

Bestselling author and Mises Institute senior fellow Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., discusses the current economic crisis and why government intervention will only make things worse. Recorded at the University of Colorado, Boulder; 3 April 2009.

“We can probably expect an avalanche of books in the coming months that purport to tell us what happened to the economy and what we should do about it. They’ll be dead wrong, and most of the advice they provide will be dreadful. You can count on that.

“That’s why Meltdown is different. This book actually gets things right. It correctly identifies our problems, their causes, and what we should do about them. It treats the architects of this debacle not with the undeserved reverence they receive in Washington and on television, but with the critical eye that is so conspicuously missing from our supposedly independent thinkers in academia and the media. Tom Woods reserves his admiration for those few who, unlike the quacks who would instruct us now, actually saw the crisis coming, have a theory to explain it, and can show us the way out.” – Ron Paul

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Woods

http://www.thomasewoods.com/

Flashback 1994: Billionaire Sir James Goldsmith Predicts Future Economic Chaos

TruthUnion — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:12:51 +0000

In this 1994 interview with Charlie Rose, late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith – the real-life inspiration behind the character of British financier Sir Laurence Wildman in Oliver Stone’s classic film, “Wall Street” – predicts the economic turmoil that has stricken industrialized countries since the passage of GATT. It’s probably safe to say that the representative from Clinton’s economic council who debated him during this interview would not accept an offer to reengage with him on this issue again 15 years later, were Goldsmith still alive.

Goldsmith also briefly mentions the huge derivatives problem, noting that the world GDP was $30 trillion while the total market for derivatives was $90 trillion. RIP, Sir James Goldsmith. Respect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Goldsmith

Life, Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back

TruthUnion — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:00:41 +0000

In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gke59yRfyEU&feature=PlayList&p=FED912D76C988D03&index=1

http://rushkoff.com/2009/07/16/life-inc-dispatch-09-colbert-report/

Human Race Get Off Your Knees! The Peaceful Revolution That Will Set Us Free

TruthUnion — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:00:40 +0000

Acclaimed British writer and public speaker David Icke is one of the most controversial thinkers of our time. He has been researching with a dedicated passion and never ending thirst to uncover that which has been hidden from all of humanity leading him across the globe and back again in search of one thing…The Truth.

Selling out venues wherever he speaks, he presents for hours using hundreds of images. From his heart, experiences and research he will lift the veil connecting the dots, unraveling the mysteries, explaining the true nature of reality and answering the questions that never seem to have an answer.

Polished with humor and love, he fills the gaps with solutions. Thousands of people worldwide are now starting to see the conspiracy uncovered and this is increasing at an incredible rate as humanity experiences a shift in consciousness. The time is now for the human race to get off its knees and stand up. Make a stand and join us for a this amazing presentation.

PART 2

PART 3

http://www.davidicke.com/

The Crash of 1929

TruthUnion — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:00:45 +0000

By 1929, Charles Mitchell, President of the National City Bank (which would become Citibank), had popularized the idea of selling stock and high yield bonds directly to smaller investors. Mitchell and a very small group of bankers, brokers, and speculators manipulated the stock market, grew wealthy and helped create the economic boom of that fabulous decade. Their successes made them folk heroes of the day. The Crash of 1929 chronicles a fateful year through the words and experiences of the descendants of these titans of finance.

In 1929, while the market was rising, seemingly without limits, there were few critics. Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions — a “New Era” when everyone could be rich.

Instead it was the rich who became richer. Jesse Livermore, a Wall Street insider, drove around town in one of six yellow Rolls Royces. His daughter-in-law describes his two yachts, private railway car and five homes, including an apartment on Fifth Avenue he bought to have a place where he could change clothes for the theater.

Michael Meehan was the stock specialist who manipulated the glamour stock of the day, RCA, from $2.50 a share up to a peak of over $500 a share, making millions for the few who were in on the deal. William Durant, founder of General Motors, was called “King of the Bulls.” In October of 1929, he would lose millions in a desperate, single-handed effort to stop the stock market crash.

Before the crash, the success of these men convinced small investors that the stock market was a sure thing, that Wall Street was the smart place to put one’s money. The film features the recollections of people whose families experienced the crash. Groucho Marx’s son, Arthur, remembers how his famous father detested gambling, yet put his entire life savings in stocks.

The Crash of 1929 captures the unbounded optimism of the age, a time when the stock market epitomized the false promise of permanent prosperity.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/crash/storyHighlights/

The Warning

TruthUnion — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:00:40 +0000

As head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC], Brooksley Born became alarmed by the lack of oversight of the secretive, multi-trillion-dollar over-the-counter derivatives market. Her attempts to regulate derivatives ran into fierce resistance from then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and then-Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who prevailed upon Congress to stop Born and limit future regulation.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/interviews/born.html

Big Oil and The Armed Madhouse

TruthUnion — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:00:12 +0000

Alex Jones welcomes Greg Palast live in studio to discuss high crimes and misdemeanors of the corporate elite as exposed in Palast’s new bestselling book “Armed Madhouse: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal ‘08, No Child’s Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War.”

Palast covers the pre-9/11 plans to formulate policies for controlling Iraq’s oil fields and the cover-up surrounding them, the deliberate plan to engender chaos in Iraq, the state of journalism in America, and the slow slide to soft dictatorship. Palast’s analysis of the peak oil scam decimates the claims of those who say black gold is on its way out of existence and it should be regulated by oil companies who in their own documents have been caught creating artificial scarcity. The role of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez in oil politics is also covered.

http://www.gregpalast.com/