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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.
See the rightmost column for additional categories of videos related to the financial system, empire, and elites.
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FINANCIAL SYSTEM VIDEOS
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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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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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FINANCIAL SYSTEM VIDEOS
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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 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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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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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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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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Videos on Corporations, Globalization, Global Trade
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The Lifeboat Hour
Hearts, Consciousness, and Shifting Paradigms — 29 Apr 2012 — Michael Ruppert explains why the solutions to the current meta-crisis reside not in finding new energy sources or electing different leaders, they lie deep in our hearts, deep in our consciousness, buried under the bogus paradigms that have our world spinning out of control but yet still have us in their thrall. The political struggles will continue, but nothing will change until the 100th monkey wakes up---until enough people discard everything they "know" to be true and accept the incoming wisdom of our expanding minds.
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The Growing US Surveillance State — 30 Apr 2012 — Former National Security Agency insider and now whistleblower William Binney discusses the illegal and anti-democracy activities going on in the NSA as well as the paltry oversight from Congress and the dirty tactics used against those speaking out about the increasingly broad monitoring of Americans. Also in the discussion are filmmaker Laura Poitras and computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum.
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The Greatest Truth Never Told
The Silver Bullet and the Silver Shield — 23 Apr 2012 — Chris Duane presents the evidence of the heavy manipulation and price suppression of silver by those that control the fiat currency systems of the world---the same forces that are wrecking the planet and slowly reinstating a system of debt serfdom. He explains that buying physical silver is a two-prong strategy against this trend: First, every ounce of physical silver purchased increases the pressure on the silver manipulators' leverage ratios. Second, owning physical silver, a traditional store of wealth, protects your assets.
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ABOUT FINANCIAL SYSTEM COLLAPSE, ELITES, EMPIRE, BANKSTERS, BAILOUTS, ECONOMICS
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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
—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 few 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 Daily Show
-- An edgy but funny rant that blasts just about everybody associated with passing the bailout.
The Colbert Report
-- More edgy, more funny: "Vladimir Putin's just jealous because America is winning the economic meltdown race."
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ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
In (dis)honor of the one-year anniversary of the start of the still-fetid financial fiasco, Jon Stewart offers a sizzling analysis of the president's tepid speech on the subject. Stephen Colbert marvels at the latest Wall Street "innovations"... and jousts with Michael Moore regarding democracy vs. capitalism. Watch funny videos - financial crisis.
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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. Also see: Catherine Austin Fitts' super-compact summary of how the Gurus of Greed engineered the grand looting over the last two decades:
Mortgage Market Musing.
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, WAR, AND THE MIDDLE EAST An excellent half-hour speech, Michael Klare explores the links between oil supplies, terrorism, war, and the history of oil development and colonialism. Every American should hear this speech. From E&E TV.
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You may also be interested in seeing the roundtable discussion from the conference at which the above speech was given. Participants included Richard Heinberg, Kenneth Deffeyes, and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.). From E&E TV.
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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 Google Video ...
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