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SERIOUS AND FUNNY ...
Videos on the Financial System, Empire, and Elites
This list of financial system videos includes funny and serious videos and animations about fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, elites, empire, the money power, big banks (banksters), bailouts, fraud, the wealth gap, ponzi economics and more.
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CIA ACCIDENTALLY OVERTHROWS COSTA RICA
Ostensibly from 1963, this funny CIA video explains that The Company's accidental overthrow of Costa Rica was due to "a little miscommunication" during coup operations in some other nearby Central American countries. Excellent satire from the Onion. Watch funny CIA video.
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THE GODAWFUL PARTICLE
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery—the long-sought particle that lies behind all things in our universe! Amazingly, it orbits in this pattern: $ Watch funny video about money.
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BANKSTERS WOO-HOO! ... EITHER WAY
Republicrats or Demopublicans, it does not matter. Either way, the public loses, and banksters get fatter. From Mark Fiore. Watch funny banksters video.
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DIE YOUNG, STAY PRETTY MUCH OFF SOCIAL SECURITY
The Ponzi-scheme design of Social Security has politicians and activists searching for solutions. Perhaps Americans should live faster, die younger! Watch social security satire video.
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BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
This mildly amusing music video suggests we should change "too big to fail" to "too big to bail" and break up mega-banks like Bank of America instead of letting their reckless behavior threaten the entire financial system. Watch funny video on too big to fail banks.
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ADOPT A BANKER
George has fallen on hard times. The bonus from his big-bank job isn't what it used to be, and the designer suits, sports cars, and magnums of champagne are getting harder to afford. Will you help? Watch funny banker video.
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BILLION DOLLAR BILL
In just two minutes, this animation sums up how the corporate-banking-warfare model is used to dominate and pillage the world. Hilariously accurate. Watch funny empire / foreign aid video.
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SUPER-PAC MAD-LIBS
Mark Fiore shows how the language of the political attack ad works, skewering the cretins on both sides who use such democracy-defacing tactics. Watch funny video about political attack ads.
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FINANCIAL SYSTEM VIDEOS
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THE SILVER BULLET AND THE SILVER SHIELD
The price of silver is manipulated and suppressed by those that control the fiat currency systems of the world. Those same forces are wrecking the planet and slowly reinstating a debt serfdom system. Silver plays an important role in the problem—and the solution. Watch video about silver manipulation.
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MAVs — BUG-BOT DRONES
MAVs are bird- or insect-sized drones that can be weaponized to kill using vectors like injectable poisons. Watch the demonstration video and read why all US citizens should be concerned about development of these killer bug-bots.
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THE MONEY MASTERS
This documentary shows how the modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The methodology has evolved over the last three centuries, and nation after nation, including the United States, has fallen prey to a cabal of international central bankers intent on being masters of the world. Watch The Money Masters free online.
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THE STORY OF CHANGE
Can right-minded shopping save the world? Nope. The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just, and fulfilling world. Watch video about true change.
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THE SECRET OF OZ
Bill Still produced the highly acclaimed 1996 documentary The Money Masters, which outlined the centuries-long domination of the banksters and predicted the economic events that have now beset the world He has condensed and updated the original 3.5 hour film and made it available for view for free online. The new movie is called The Secret of Oz. Watch money system video.
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THE GOOD LIFE
With today's financial tornadoes affecting average folks more and more, we're increasingly questioning "the system" and our role in it. This short animation uses a classic parable-style tale to look at the question, What does "enough" really mean? From Free Range Graphics and social-values business leader Mark Albion, who is author of More Than Money (subtitle: Questions Every MBA Needs to Answer: Redefining Risk and Reward for a Life of Purpose). Watch: The Good Life.
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Videos on Corporations, Globalization, Global Trade
Videos on Energy, Oil, Peak Oil, Resilience
Videos on General Environmental Issues
Videos on Media & Communications Issues
Videos and Audio on Transformation, Consciousness
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CATEGORY: HISTORY, FINANCIAL — 14.FEB.2015
Peak Prosperity
Either We Break the Bankster Alliances or They Will Break Us —
Nomi Prins reviews the historical circumstances that led to the formation of the big-bank-controlled Federal Reserve; that is, how the financial foxes were put in charge of the public's hen house. She then explains how many rich US elites in the late 1800s/early 1900s thought that keeping money flowing and not being too draconian helped the masses, which in turn helped the elites maintain the system that provided the wealth. But some bankers were not of a mind to play the game this way, and Louis Brandeis warned: "We must break the Money Trust or the Money Trust will break us." Nomi Prins says we are headed into a new era of high banker mischief, vast income gaps, and reckless behavior among leaders and elites. She says we must take heed of Brandeis' warning and take down the banker-corporate-politician-industrial complex.
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Original Show Pub Date: 31.Jan.2015
CATEGORY: MEDIA, EMPIRE — 13.FEB.2015
Democracy Now
Endless War, Endless War Spin —
As Obama talks about a new major cycle of the war on terror—this time against the Islamic State—Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy says Obama talks about not being interested in "endless war" but is doing more than any previous president to engage the US in exactly that. Solomon also says Brain Williams' worst lies about war were not his exaggerations of his personal experiences reporting from danger zones but rather his parroting the war propaganda of both the Bush and Obama administrations and his failure to challenge any aspect of the corrupt endless-war agenda. Of course, all the big names in media did the same. Finally, Solomon talks about the case of CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, who has been persecuted for exposing a dodgy CIA operation to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Original Show Pub Date: 12.Feb.2015 ~~ Original story titles ... Endless War? Obama Sends Congress Expansive Anti-ISIS Measure 6 Months After Bombing Began ~~ Brian Williams Suspended for False Iraq Tale, But Media's Real Scandal is the War Lies Spun Daily ~~ Was Jeffrey Sterling Trial a Gov't Effort to Divide Investigative Journalists & Whistleblowers?
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 11.FEB.2015
Uprising
Understanding the Roots of Terrorism—Theirs and Ours —
Much of President Obama's record-breaking defense budget proposal will fund proxy wars around the globe. The US is training and arming Sunni tribal groups in Iraq to fight ISIS, and it may soon begin supplying weapons to the Ukrainian military against Russia. Drone strikes continue to take their toll in Yemen and elsewhere. Meanwhile, a jingoistic film called ‘American Sniper’ glorifies killing and demonizes Muslims with virtually no historical context. Chris Hedges says most Americans accept the myth of American rightness and do-goodism while ignoring the obvious parallels in the terrorism practiced by the US and the terrorism practiced by ISIS and their ilk. He says the empire is not only busy abroad but is also quietly pre-positioning suppressive-force capabilities on the home front, in preparation for the inevitable pushback from the masses as their impoverishment worsens.
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Original Show Pub Date: 09.Feb.2015
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COLBERT PLATINUM — WEALTH UNDER SIEGE
As civilization teeters on the brink, the resilience-minded among us are installing solar panels, harvesting rainwater, and planting gardens. The uber-wealthy have different options, as Stephen Colbert explains in this funny collapse/bug-out video.
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THE STORY OF BROKE
Annie Leonard observes that it's "austerity for the masses" at the same time the 1% continue feeding at the trough. With smarter choices on how we spend the remaining public money, can all be well again? The fun graphics make this US money problems video quite tasty.
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DEBT DOWNGRADE DOOM
Four short funny clips that plumb the humorous depths of the falling US credit rating— from Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, as well as a hilarious piece from Robert B. Reich. Watch funny US debt downgrade videos.
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WHO KILLED ECONOMIC GROWTH?
Richard Heinberg and top animators have put together a very cool short video about the unavoidable end of the infinite growth paradigm. Watch video on infinite growth.
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ARE AMERICA’S RICH FALLING BEHIND THE SUPER-RICH?
This video short cleverly spoofs the typical debate about the gap between rich and poor by discussing "the growing gap between the rich and super-rich" — the haves and the have-mores...Watch funny video rich people.
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RECESSION GAME SHOWS
A cute animated riff on the recession as it might show up in popular TV game shows. From Walt Handelsman. Go there
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MONEY FOR NOTHING AND THE GENIUS OF GOLDMAN SACHS
A funny animation from Mark Fiore that takes high-parody pot-shots at the outrageousness of Goldman Sachs' continuing good fortune in spite of the ongoing economic meltdown that is trashing mainstreet and in spite of the fact that Goldman took billions in taxpayer dollars to keep from going out of business not that long ago. Watch funny goldman sachs video.
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NATION’S WEALTHY CRUELLY DEPRIVED OF TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS
Anytime someone compares low wages for working stiffs to ridiculous pay packages for CEOs, free-market flacks are quick to deride it as "class warfare." Of course, in reality, there is no class war. It's already over—and the rich won. But fret not: the poor still have an advantage in the fullness of their Christmas spirit, and all the high-tech toys and Tiffany baubles in the world can't touch that, right? Satire from The Onion. Go there
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GIVING IRAQ THE BIRD OVER OIL FORTUNE
A brilliant bit of satire from two British comedians named Bird & Fortune about the Iraq war, control of Iraqi oil, and (shhh!) permanent American military bases there. Via YouTube. Go there
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BAILOUTS, BOOSTERS & BUNKERS
Stephen Colbert proves that he is the modern master of satire....
BAILOUTS: After this funny
intro
to the "AIG bonus" fiasco, Colbert moves on to a VERY
funny segment
in which the proposed solution for miscreant CEOs is to have them enter into mortal combat in a Thunderdome — with gleeful, screaming taxpayers as spectators.
BOOSTERS: These days, apparently, the best that free-marketeers can come up with is tired references to Ayn Rand's polemic Atlas Shrugged, which
this
Colbert piece shrugs off quite nicely.
BUNKERS: Hey, we actually think SOME the scenarios explored in Glenn Beck's
"War Room" segments (video no longer available)
—catastrophic economic collapse, for instance—are not at all that far-fetched. But you just have to love Colbert's satirical treatment of Beck's schtick—first with this
intro,
then the Colbert Report's
"Dooooom Bunker".
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STIMULATE THIS, BRO!
A funny video about summer jobs for stupid, corrupt politicians; i.e. the best summer jobs for them, given their dumb, insensitive, venal behavior. Watch funny summer jobs animation.
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FUNNY BAILOUT BUFFET
Humor does not stop just because our elected leaders are selling us down the river. Here at GP, we're gonna laugh all the way to the poorhouse. Join in the grunting and guffawing with a couple funny 'net clips.
$1,000,000,000,000 Bailout
-- A faux, deadpan-humor White House press conference on the bailout....from Funny Or Die.
The Colbert Report
-- Edgy, funny: "Vladimir Putin's just jealous because America is winning the economic meltdown race."
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BAILOUT BONANZA
Four funny animations on the continuing bailout bonanza being enjoyed by Wall Street bankers, enabled by their government minions. Have you gotten your share of the bill for the golden fleecing yet? All from Flash master Mark Fiore.
-- Wall Street Executive Air
-- Zombie Bank
-- Hopping Mad
-- Leverage Me Tender
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FRONTLINE: THE CARD GAME
This PBS/Frontline episode gives a good tour of the credit card industry's abusive consumer practices and extensive political lobbying. Also covered are checking-account overdraft fees and payday lenders. Watch credit card debt video.
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THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
This marvelous documentary starts out as just another 9-11 conspiracy movie but quickly transitions to broader territory, showing that false-flag operations have been used by the US for over a century to ....
Read full review and/or watch The New American Century online for free.
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POST-CRASH INVESTMENT FOR A BETTER WORLD
Jeff Mulgan gives an 18-minute talk on the need for our modern civilization to invest in social progress as well as technical progress. In his own wonky way, what he's really talking about is the coming transformation of our society from one based on predatory capitalism to a more cooperative, mutually beneficial, more sustainable economic system. Watch sustainable investing video.
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SUPER RICH: THE GREED GAME
The global financial crisis is due to a pyramid scam executed on the grandest scale. But many of the perpetrators of the scam are walking away from the mess with millions and billions. This 1-hour
BBC documentary
reveals how the super-rich schemed to make the con game work—and how they are now relaxing in ostentatious mansions, private jets, and posh vacation spots, with the rest of us picking up the bill.
In the meantime, amidst ongoing multi-billion-dollar government bailouts, we ask: How can the current financial system be valid if it allows such things as companies that are "too big to be allowed to fail"?
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OIL, SMOKE & MIRRORS
This documentary is an excellent presentation of the facts that cast overwhelming doubt on the official story of 9/11, linking the event to a larger, unspoken geopolitical strategy that has its roots in Peak Oil, not Al Queda. This is must-see internet TV for any citizen of the US—and the world. Available free from Ronan Doyle via YouTube ...
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