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• David Rothkopf talks about his book "Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making" He gives some shocking statistics about the distribution of wealth on our planet. (5:05) • From a BBC Documentary on how the Super Rich gamble on huge investments and then get bailed out by the rest of us if those investments fail. (5:00) • Economist Rick Wolff explains the recent mortgage default crisis in a very understandable way. Only someone who really knows what he is talking about can explain something like this to the average person. (12:47) • Noam Chomsky talks about the definition of socialism (4:41) • Ralph Nader talks about how mainsteam media news keeps us distracted from thinking about the real issues that affect our lives (3:49) • Dick Morris talks about "earmarks" which are grants that members of congress give out in return for votes. (0:49) • Amazing coincidences between stories in the Bible and astrology. (4:13) • William Tabb talks about how corporations are "investing" in governmental lobbying and getting a huge return on their investments (2:07) • Susan Faludi explains how the concept of manhood has broken down since World War Two (1:55) • 99% of all consumer goods bought by Americans are trashed withing six months of their purchase. What does this mean for the planet? (4:51) • The occupation of the Palestinian territories by Israel is presented in the US media in a biased fashion (3:44) • For decades Israel has been colonizing Palestinian land by building illegal settlements on that land (3:44) • The US invasion in Panama in 1989 was an illegal act. It was ignored or downplayed by the media. Why? (2:11) • Eli Lilly was about to lose its patent on prozac, so they changed its color, renamed it, and spent 30 million dollars advertizing a "new disease" (1:44) • Who goes to jail and who doesn't? How much is class and race a factor? (3:41) • Jazz wordsmith, Ken Nordine, gives consolation to those who feel alienated from the crowd (1:53) • Charles Bukowski talks about one of his jobs at a meat packing plant. (10:41) • Charles Bukowski reads his poem "The Crunch" (3:20) • How the ruling class in the US has used propaganda to keep the country in a continual state of war for the past 50 years (4:45) • Billy Gray from the 1950's show "Father Knows Best" apologizes for the pseudo reality portrayed in that TV series. (:54) • Paul Kivel talks about how the ruling class in America has set up a buffer zone to protect its wealth (6:03) • Paul Kivel talks about how not for profit organizations are controlled by the ruling class (4:53) • David Wilson talks about the economic causes behind the illegal immigrants coming from Mexico (1:02) • Jazz singer Mark Murphy reading from the last few paragraphs of "On the Road". This is one of the best readings from this book I have ever heard.
(1:02) • Richard Dawkins explains why astrology is a bad thing. It conditions your mind to think in terms of stereotypes, which is fertile ground for racism, sexism and all sorts of bigotry. (1:02) • Greg Palast talks about the real reason that Saddam Hussein had to brought down: He was tampering with the world's oil supply and affecting its price (2:19) • Angry reactions in 1975 to something very few people had: a phone answering machine (11:13) • Keith Oberman deconstructs the double speak of the George Bush Administration on Iraq (2:22) • Noam Chomsky takes a question from the audience in a debate with Alan Dershowitz. (3:02) • John Perkins gives a brief summary of his book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". (9:54) • Bill Moyers talks about how heartless investment bankers can be. (1:02) • From the documentary "Oil on Ice", a comparison between being addicted to oil and addicted to drugs. (0:19) • From the doucumentary "Oil on Ice", a reminder that oil companies own the oil that they drill and refine. They put it on the open market where it brings the highest price, not necessarily the US. (1:02) • From BBC News, a study from the Worldwide Fund for Nature predicting the depletion of the Earth's resources. (2:49)
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