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Christmas number 1

2009-12-15T11:20:17.687Z

Living in a Capitalist World an xmess song n dance.

American Casino Official Trailer

2009-12-11T12:58:17.454Z

I don't think most people really understood that they were in a casino says award-winning financial reporter Mark Pittman. When you're in the Streets casino, you've got to play by their rules. This film finally explains how and why over $8 trillion of our money vanished into the American Casino.

For chips, the casino used real people, like the ones we meet in Baltimore. These are not the heedless spendthrifts of Wall Street legend, but a high school teacher, a therapist, a minister of the church. They were sold on the American Dream as a safe investment. Too late, they discovered the truth. Cruelly, as African Americans, they and other minorities were the prime targets for the sub-prime loans that powered the casino. According to the Federal Reserve, African-Americans were four times more likely than whites to be sold sub-prime loans.

We meet the players. A banker explains that the complex securities he designed were fourth dimensional and sold to idiots. A senior Wall Street ratings agency executive describes being ordered to guess the worth of billion dollar securities. A mortgage loan salesman explains how borrowers incomes were inflated to justify a loan. A billionaire describes how he made a massive bet that people would lose their homes and has won $500 million, so far.

Finally, as the global financial system crumbles and outraged but impotent lawmakers fume at Wall Street titans, we see the casinos endgame: Riverside, California a foreclosure wasteland given over to colonies of rats and methamphetamine labs, where disease-bearing mosquitoes breed in their millions on the stagnant swimming pools of yesterdays dreams.

Filmed over twelve months in 2008, American Casino takes you inside a game that our grandchildren never wanted to play.--© Official Site

Title: American Casino (Official Trailer 1)
Theatrical Release: Sep 4, 2009 Limited
Starring: Ben Bernanke, Sheila Dixon (Mayor of Baltimore) Phil Gramm, Henry Paulson, Henry Waxman (all as themselves)
Director: Leslie Cockburn
Writer: Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn
Genre: Documentary
Produced : Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn
Associate Producer: Tao Ruspoli
Soundtrack Listing: "Everybody's Broke" Herbie Hancock, "I Ain't Got No Home" Bruce Springsteen, "The Party's Over" Blossom Dearie
Production Companey: Table Rock Films
Distrubtor: Argot Pictures 2009

American Tent Cities

2009-12-11T12:50:02.930Z

some 1,200 people are living in a growing tent city outside the California capital Sacramento, as more and more people are left homeless by the housing crisis. The UKs Daily Mail on Friday detailed the community, noting echoes of the Depression era. There are an estimated 2,000 people living in such communities around Sacramento, with foreclosure and jobless rates skyrocketing.

Smaller tent cities had been reported in Los Angeles and New Orleans over the last year, but a new photo essay, published by MSBNC, highlights both the magnitude of the Sacramento tent city and its comparison to Depression-era tent cities that emerged as homelessness became a pervasive national crisis.

The news is jolting to many who are worried that the spreading foreclosure crisis and collapse in real estate values, in combination with a faltering job market, could push families with underwater mortgages into homelessness. California is one of the wealthiest states and one of the worlds largest economies, and pressure for serious efforts to combat the economic crisis is mounting.

The Lighthouse Family -- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

2009-12-09T21:16:45.969Z

wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains holding me
I wish I could say all the things that I should say
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear

I wish I could share
All the love that's in my heart
Remove all the bars that keep us apart
And I wish you could know how it is to be me
Then you'd see and agree that every man should be free

I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be if I found I could fly
Well I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea
And I'd sing cos I know how it feels to be free

I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains holding me
And I wish I could say all the things that I wanna say
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear

One love one blood
One life you've got to do what you should
One life with each other
Sisters, brothers

One love but we're not the same
We got to carry each other Carry each other
One One One One One...

I knew how it would feel to be free
I knew how it would feel to be free

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wish_I_Knew_How_It_Would_Feel_to_Be_Free_(song)

Killing Joke - Democracy

2009-12-08T20:57:01.807Z

You have a choice, we are your voice
Red, blue or yellow.
We will blow away the green
Another five lane motorway
(You'll never get a referendum anyway)
Funny handshakes. insider dealing
Et in arcadia. arcadia ego
Backhanders and salamanders
A powerhouse that is morally
Mechula

I'm sorry democracy is changing
I'm sorry democracy is changing

I'm not a slogan or a badge
Or a cross in the ballot box
Neither values or objectives
You do not represent my deepest
Thoughts and wishes
Education in obsolete skills
Stereotyping and media projection
Industrial psychologists
Plan a campaign that is financed by
Big business

You have a choice, we are your voice
Red, blue or yellow.
We will blow away the green
Another five lane motorway
(You'll never get a referendum anyway)

Title track from the 1996 album