Economy
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Wal-Mart has become one of America’s most successful retail chains by offering everyday goods at low prices for working families. But just how is Wal-Mart able to charge less than many of their rivals, and what has their success done for their employees? Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes a look inside the discount retailer’s empire in Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and discovers a company short on scruples and long on shabby treatment of the people who work for them.
Controlling Our Food
The world according to Monsanto
French documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin has thoroughly researched her subject, conducting a three-year investigation in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Robin briefly explores Monsanto’s long history of producing toxic chemicals, such as PCBs and dioxin-laced Agent Orange, and interviews victims of the company’s chemical operations. But the film devotes more attention to Monsanto’s 20-year old genetically engineered seed empire. Hitherto unpublished documents and candid interviews with scientists, farmers and former U.S. government officials reveal a disturbing pattern of deceit, impunity and corruption. Robin reveals Monsanto’s astonishing influence on the U.S. government’s rubber-stamp regulatory process for GMOs, as well as its attempt to bribe Canadian government regulators to approve its bovine growth hormone product. The film also features interviews of U.S. farmers sued by Monsanto for the newly-minted “crime” of seed-saving, Indian farmers victimized by the company’s expensive Bt cotton seed, and South American farmers marginalized by massive expansion of Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” soybeans. Is Monsanto the clean, green company it claims to be, committed to solving world hunger? Or do its growing control of the world’s seed supply, its exorbitantly priced seeds and prosecution of farmers for saving them, and its commitment to spreading chemical-intensive agriculture around the world, portend instead a threat to the world’s food security? These are obviously important questions, and the little-known perspectives provided by Controlling our food: The world according to Monsanto are essential information for anyone who is genuinely seeking answers.Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates. Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary new film is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority. Alan Greenspan is not, we're told, happy about this 42-minute blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie could change America.
Firewall
In Defense of Nation State
We are already in the acute phase of a period of economic crisis, monetary and financial explosive on a global scale, such as the one that led the financial transatlantic cartel of the time to create the Bank for International Settlements in Basel and its "The cartel obligations". Each time the modern world has been grappling with the threat of a general disintegration of the international monetary and financial system in place, as is the case today, there has been a cascade of phenomena such as falls Governments, revolutions, the rise of fascist regimes and wars. That was the history of continental Europe, the Soviet border to Gibraltar, during the rise to power of fascist regimes of 1922-1945 in most countries. The fact that the Fed has intervened by providing tens of billions of dollars (or more) to save Bear Stearns is criminal at first sight. According to existing laws, this is probably a case of money laundering. That is the fundamental nature of the strategic threat that weighs on our republic today and other nations.
