Topic conspiracy
The Secret of the Seven Sisters
161 views
The Secret of the Seven Sisters is a four-part series examining the rise of a powerful cartel of seven companies that control the world's oil supply. The 'seven sisters' comprises Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP); Gulf Oil, Standard Oil of California (SoCal) and Texaco (now Chevron); Royal Dutch Shell; Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso) and Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), (now ExxonMobil). Prior to the oil crisis of 1973, the Seven Sisters controlled around 85% of the world's petroleum reserves, but in recent decades the dominance of the companies and their successors has declined. This series is about the power of oil, the conspiracy of business, and the control that oil provides the few...
Corporations On Trial
474 views
Corporations On Trial is a five-part series following just some of the many lawsuits being brought against multinational corporations for war crimes, conspiracy, corruption, assassinations, environmental devestation and payments to terrorists. Such serious charges have forced some of the world's largest companies to hire high-profile defence lawyers to protect public relations in cases often brought by plaintiffs who are barely literate. These five films reveal a growing anxiety about the power and influence of big business, as many multinational corporations have annual revenues greater than some countries' national budgets and indeed increasingly hold governments to ransom by their economic power. Around the world, ordinary people are fighting back and asking how many more times their interests should be sacrificed for corporate greed and shareholder profit...
The Big Fix
1.07K views
On April 22, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, run by oil giant BP, sunk into the Gulf of Mexico--creating the world's biggest and most catastrophic environmental crime in history. After 19,779,037,744 litres of crude oil and over 7,000,000 litres of chemical dispersant Corexit spread into the sea, the disaster was deemed over and all damage repaired. This was bullshit however. Film-makers Josh and Rebecca Tickell travel to the Gulf of Mexico to document first-hand the extent of environmental and community damage, continuing many years after the explosion. Beginning by tracing BP’s origins and fingerprints across decades of US manipulation in Iran, The Big Fix assembles an indictment of this monumental disaster by unpacking the workings of the complex oligarchies that put pursuit of profit over all other ends...
Murdoch’s Scandal
911 views
Over half a century, Rupert Murdoch's rapacious business audacity has built one of the world's most powerful and ubiquitous media empires. But with revelations of bribery, blackmail, collusion with police and government, wiretapping and other invasions on privacy, the empire seems to be showing cracks. The scandal has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic and also broken open the insular world of the Murdoch family, its news executives, and the vast political elite who court their favour. Murdoch's Scandal tells the story of the battle over the future of News Corporation and the challenging of the extensive media empire...
h2Oil
747 views
Canada is now the biggest supplier of oil to the United States, thanks to the Alberta tar sands -- a controversial billion-dollar project to extract crude oil from bitumen sands, using a very toxic process that has generated international cause for concern. Four barrels of glacier-fed spring water are used to process each barrel of oil, along with vast amounts of electricity. The waste water is dumped, filled with carcinogens and other chemicals, into leaky tailings ponds so huge that the piles can be seen from space. Downstream, people and communities are already paying the price with contaminated water supplies and clusters of rare cancers. Evidence mounts for industry and government cover-ups. In a time when wars are fought over dwindling oil and a crisis looms over access to fresh water, which will turn out to be more precious?
Taken For A Ride
2.55K views
Taken for a Ride details the conspiracy led by General Motors to buy up and dismantle public transport lines throughout the United States in the 1930s. Across the nation, tram and train tracks were torn up--sometimes overnight--and diesel buses placed on city streets. The highway lobby then pushed out a vast network of urban freeways that fuelled suburban development, increased auto dependence and elicited passionate opposition...
The Shock Doctrine
2.18K views
By comparing the confluence of ideas about modifying behaviour using shock therapy and other sensory deprivation alongside the "shock treatment" of modifying national economics using the teachings of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of economics, The Shock Doctrine presents the workings of global capitalism and details how the US, along with other western countries, has exploited natural and man-made disasters in developing countries to push through free market reforms from which they stand to benefit...
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
3.24K views
The Trials of Henry Kissinger examines the evidence of war crimes by Henry Kissinger during his time as the United States "National Security Advisor" and later Secretary of State for President Nixon and President Ford. Acting in the role of the prosecution, journalist Christopher Hitchens presents solid evidence of Kissinger's complicity in a series of war crimes involving Indonesia, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus, East Timor and many other countries...
Stealing A Nation
1.38K views
In the 1960s and 70s, British governments conspiring with American officials, secretly tricked into leaving and then expelled, the entire population of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean as to make way for a major American military base. Indeed from Diego Garcia, American military planes have since bombed Afghanistan and Iraq. Stealing A Nation documents the story of the islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and in the words of the British officials who left a 'paper trail' of what the International Criminal Court now describes as 'a crime against humanity'...
Collapse
1.51K views
Collapse is a documentary film exploring the theories, writings and life story of controversial author Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer turned investigative reporter who has authored books on the events of the September 11 attacks, documented widespread drug trafficking and other secret operations by the CIA, and written on the issue of peak oil and other energy issues. Using archival footage interspersed as illustration, Collapse explores Ruppert's conclusions that unsustainable energy and financial policies have led to an ongoing collapse of modern industrial civilisation...
How The US Funds The Taliban
952 views
Welcome to the wartime contracting bazaar in Afghanistan. It is a virtual carnival of characters with shady connections -- former CIA officials and ex-military officers joining hands with former Taliban and mujahedeen to collect US government funds in the name of the war effort. US military's contractors pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes. It is an accepted fact of the military logistics in Afghanistan that the US government funds the very forces American troops are fighting -- a deadly irony...
Bilderberg Group — Secret Rulers of The World
1.58K views
Investigative journalist Jon Ronson delves into the mysterious shadowy world of the Bilderberg Group. Could this elite circle, said to include Peter Mandelson, Denis Healey and Henry Kissinger, really be ruling the world? In Washington DC Jon meets Jim Tucker, the heroic trailblazer of the Bilderberg crowd, who has discovered the location of the next Bilderberg Group meeting. Jon joins him in a quest for the truth, which leads to confrontations with unwelcoming security guards and a leisurely car chase. Will they get to the bottom of the Bilderberg enigma?
Hacking Democracy
1.15K views
Filmed over three years, Hacking Democracy documents a group of American citizens investigating anomalies and irregularities with the electronic voting systems used during the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Presidential elections. The investigation revolves around the flawed integrity and security of the machines, particularly those made by the Diebold corporation. Could the elections have been rigged?
The Corporation
3.07K views
What kind of person is the corporation? Since the current day legal status of the corporation is a person, what would happen if it sat down with a psychiatrist to discuss its behaviour and attitude towards society, culture and the environment? Explored through specific examples, this film shows how the modern day business corporation has developed into the dominant institution of our time...
The World According to Monsanto
1.42K views
Monsanto seems to be stopping at nothing: Corn, Wheat, Soy Beans, Canola, Mustard, Okra, Bringe oil, Rice, Cauliflower -- once they have established the norm, all these seeds can be owned as their property, royalties will be collected and enforced by patent law. If Monsanto controls seed, they control food and they know it. It’s strategic. It’s more powerful than bombs, it’s more powerful than guns. This is their way to control the populations of the world...
Money As Debt
1.94K views
Money is a new form of slavery and is only distinguishable from the old slavery simply by the fact that it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master and slave. Debt in government, corporate and household has reached astronomical proportions. Where does all this money come from? How could there be that much money to lend? The answer is that there isn’t...
The Power of Nightmares
14.56K views
Is the threat of radical Islamism as a massive sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to 'unite and inspire' people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies?
Addicted to Money
2.47K views
We have not just been living through a global recession, but what amounts to the largest coordinated, economic crime in recent history. Now, having barely survived a complete collapse of the financial system, the global economy is tottering on the brink. We’ve reached the limits of what our desires demand of the planet and what it can deliver. But, by looking to past failed civilisations, can we learn what not to do with our future? Like the ancient Mayans, we’re reaching peak everything -- oil, land, population, climate, food and water and the question is whether we can manage the change. But as we embark on a quest for re-building a sustainable economy and a sustainable planet, is this crisis the wake-up call we desperately need to have? Do we need to turn eco-warriors into eco-capitalists and launch the next great bubble -- a Green Bubble?
Secrets of The CIA
339 views
From its origins as the Office of Strategic Services in the 1950s until present as the CIA, president Harry Truman's creation has been the object of mystery, thrills and fear to people all over the world with even the White House fearing the agency. With resources to assassinate political leaders, overthrow governments and start wars, Secrets Of The CIA documents these operations of the CIA from the perspective of ex-agents as they speak about their experiences working for the CIA, tell of what they were required to do in places like South America, Europe and in the United States, and how they enjoyed the work...
Truth, Lies and Intelligence
872 views
In March 2003 thousands of Australian troops and others were committed to fight a 'war' as part of a pre-emptive strike on the sovereign nation of Iraq, a country from whom there was no threat. Two years on, Australia has suffered its first casualty in the conflict while the American death toll stands at nearly two thousand, a result of an invasion which has all but destroyed a foreign nation and seen an estimated 100,000 of its civilians killed, millions made homeless, leaving a legacy of destruction and religious division instilled in its wake. Did Australia get it wrong? How could our Government have made such a catastrophic and historic 'error'?
Enron — The Smartest Guys In The Room
1.01K views
In 2001, the collapse of the Enron Corporation was of one of the largest business scandals in American history. The collapse resulted in criminal trials for several of the company's top executives, bringing the facts of exposure to Enron's involvement in the California electricity "crisis", where the company had rigged the market in order to generate huge speculative profits during the power shortages and blackouts of the time that effected millions of people...
Breaking The Silence
1.17K views
The discrepancies between the "war on terror" and the facts on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq are many. In 2001, as the bombs began to drop, George W. Bush promised Afghanistan "the generosity of America and its allies". Now, the familiar old warlords are retaining their power, religious fundamentalism is expanding its grip and military "skirmishes" continue routinely. In "liberated" Afghanistan, America has its military base and pipeline access, while the people have the warlords who are, as one woman says in the film, "in many ways worse than the Taliban" -- which, after all, is funded by the United States, remember?
Who Killed The Electric Car?
831 views
Why was the the electric vehicle made by General Motors destroyed in the late 1990s? Why did it receive only limited commercialisation despite being hugely popular? It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no exhaust and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors suddenly crush its fleet of EV-1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? Was it because of a lack of consumer confidence or conspiracy?
The Sydney Hilton Hotel Conspiracy
774 views
In 1978, Australia was shocked by the explosion of a massive bomb placed in a rubbish bin outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel in NSW. The perpetrators were never found. However, evidence that the Australian security and intelligence forces may have been responsible resulted in the NSW State Parliament unanimously calling for an inquiry in 1991 and then again in 1995. The Federal Government vetoed any inquiry. No investigation was held. The government then set-up the Australian Federal Police and increased support for "anti-terrorist measures"...
The Denial Stops Here
299 views
Michael Ruppert is an investigative journalist and peak oil advocate from the United States that has written and spoken extensively on the subject as well as many others. The Denial Stops Here collates presentations that he has made, tying together many different elements in the global picture, including: peak oil, global warming, the invasions of Iraq, economic turmoil, the effects of the 'housing bubble', economics of Africa, South America and China; the need for permaculture, sustainability and community reliance...
The Truth and Lies of 9/11
7.45K views
Michael Ruppert not only names Dick Cheney as the prime suspect in the mass murders of September 11 and states that not only was he a planner in the attacks, but also that on the day of the attacks he was running a completely separate Command, Control and Communications system which was superseding any orders being issued by the NMCC (the National Military Command Centre), or the White House 'Situation Room'...
Fabled Enemies
944 views
Fabled Enemies examines the US government's intelligence apparatus and its involvement in the events of September 11, 2001. Many questions surround the proceedings of that day. What were the precise actions of a shadow government operating in an underground bunker with Dick Cheney? Why did the FBI have their investigations into Bin Laden obstructed and shut down by George Bush before the attacks? Were the alledged hijackers trained at US military bases? Why was the military running exactly the same situation as 'war games' at exactly the same time of the attack?
Hijacking Catastrophe
427 views
Hijacking Catastrophe examines the evidence that neoconservatives used the September 11, 2001 attacks to usher in a new doctrine of expanding American power through military force under the guise of a "war on terror" and that the doctrine -- known as the Project for the New American Century -- had been laid out prior to 9/11 by its authors, which include Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush and Dan Quayle...