TURN OFF THE TV AND SETTLE IN: Three Documentaries that can help put this econ crises in perspective

[lxlxlxl]

If you are used to having problems/solutions tightly and neatly packaged for your consumption, then these three documentaries will do nothing for you.

Do not bring simple ideas of attaching person to problem, but instead recognize that the ideas-behind-the-action-behind-the-person-behind-the-capital is the issue.

I would love to post these in the video section but I guess I can't. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

1) The Mayfair Set by Adam Curtis
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=+%22%22]%3A+Mayfair+Set%22%22&__q=&btnG=Google+Search&lr=&dur=3&so=0&num=10#
The most amazing look at finance capital in the 80-90's; some in the UK and some in the US. The theme to take away is not the individual lives, actions or justifications of the people involved, but the simple fact that social movements and states ultimately run into the Market as the people that hold the money hostage. Even statesman cannot just sign away the market without making themselves politically vulnerable. Useful especially now that people are all of a sudden pissed at Obama for not taking on the market, while not realizing the amount of nationwide strikes, sacrifice, and fight that would entail.

2)The Prize
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=+%22the+Prize+-+Episode%22+site%3Agoogle.com+-Random&__q=+%22the+Prize+-+Episode%22+site%3Agoogle.com+-Random&btnG=Google+Search&lr=&dur=&so=0&num=10#
The ultimate crime novel without so many victims and criminals and myths it makes a Borges short story look like a children's novel. I know Yergin is such a pro-oil hack now, but at least he took the time to write a history of the industry.

3)Crash of 1929
Self Explanatory
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7233622324068640582&ei=-57WSJn3D5W6qAPCuNjGAg&q=1929+crash

I am working on putting up Chris Marker's Grin without a Cat. There is historical footage of the Vietnam War/Protests, Cuba, China, France, and everywhere in the 60's that people need to see.
It's everything they refuse to show on TV because they are scared careerists.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. I have the TV on but am watching my tape of the 1988 Democratic Convention

and it seems that little has changed in 20 years regarding the state of the people and what the Democratic Party is demanding. This year, they asked "What does Hillary want?" and 20 years ago, the same damn press asked "What does Jesse Jackson want?". A farmer was talking to (a then younger) correspondent Bill Plante about how 650,000 farmers had lost their farms in the last 10 years (from 1978 - 1988) and his expectation that another 650,000 were due to lose their farms in the coming decade.

Fast-forward to today, the country and the world have collapsed and are floundering around in the rubble. And the sponsors of that 1988 CBS broadcast? Citicorp and GM, 2 that currently have their hands out asking for gov't $$$.

Anyway, what is funny to watch are the commercials that I had taped - e.g., the "new" Frosted Mini wheats! :rofl:

[elkston]

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[lxlxlxl]

9. Awesome...you might like these...

Sounds like a cool tape to look through...unfortunately all I recorded when I was a kid was 96 Rockets.

This guy on Youtube puts up 50s/60s vintage news on youtube : Realagentofshield...you might enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/user/realagentofshield


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[Motown_Johnny]

2. Bookmarked for later consumption.. Sorry.. Football

[helderheid]

3. Kicked and rec'd - will start checking them out. Thanks!

[grasswire]

4. the hell with football

thanks for posting these -- I'll watch them this afternoon.

[lxlxlxl]

11. let me know what you think...

[Iterate]

5. Thanks. A good documentary makes for a good day

[AZBlue]

6. Thanks for the links!

Excellent info!!

[elkston]

8. Here's another good one I got turned on to by DU:

Money As Debt:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279

Describes visually and in very clear language how money is created and circulated in the modern banking system.

[lxlxlxl]

10. thanks...will check it out tonight!

.x.x.x.x.

[abumbyanyothername]

12. WOW Elkston!! This deserves its own thread.

and I am going to make it.

[stillcool]

13. thanks! I bookmarked so

I can watch tomorrow. I would love to get a handle on what the hell is going on, and so far everything I've read is not doing it.

[quantass]

14. k&r