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In Debt We Trust

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In America's earliest days, there were barn-raising parties in which neighbors helped each other build up their farms. Today, in some churches, there are debt liquidation revivals in which parishioners chip in to free each other from growing credit card debts that are driving American families to bankruptcy and desperation. IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), … [Read more...]

What Would Jesus Buy?

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An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film also delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America’s mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture. From the humble beginnings of preaching at his portable pulpit on New York City … [Read more...]

Zeitgeist: Addendum

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After the first Zeitgeist Movie was released it was saddening how many people took at as the whole and complete truth without asking any further questions (particularly when the homepage of the films producer used to read "It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth"). The first part of the original movie made too much of the obvious fact that most monotheistic religions share lots of similar threads, building on what came before. Sure, many religious … [Read more...]

The Money Masters

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This very long (215 minutes) money documentary has lots of interesting history in it about the battle over the control of money and banking in the US. If I remember rightly the presenter proposes going back to the gold standard, but whilst that might be better than what we've got now, it doesn't really make much sense either (as nicely explained in Money as Debt) "The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in … [Read more...]

Coconut Revolution

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This is the amazing story of how a small island nation resisted against the might of corporate globalization and won. Bougainville, with a populations of only 160,000 has managed to close and keep closed one of the biggest mines in the world. They have held their ground for a decade with antique weapons and homemade guns. These people have taken on the biggest mining company in the world and won. … [Read more...]