Topic corruption
The Big Fix
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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
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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...
Taken For A Ride
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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...
Dirty Money
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"In the late 1990s, the Reserve Bank of Australia thought it was on a winner. The bank had developed the technology to create revolutionary polymer bank notes. The Reserve decided to set up a subsidiary company called Securency, that it would part-own with private interests, to sell the technology to the world. It had just one problem -- getting access to other central bank officials to pitch the idea. So, instead of making bank-to-bank representations, Securency decided to employ middle-men to make 'connections' with relevant officials"...
Capitalism Is The Crisis
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The 2008 'financial crisis' was a systemic fraud in which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions of public dollars all over the world. No one was jailed for this massive crime, the largest theft of public money in history. Instead, the rich forced working people across the globe to pay for their 'crisis' through punitive 'austerity' programs that gutted public services and repealed workers' rights. Capitalism Is The Crisis shows this very nature of the global economy, visits the protests against it, revealing revolutionary paths for the future. Special attention is devoted to the situation in Greece, the 2010 G20 Summit protest in Toronto, Canada, and the remarkable surge of solidarity in Madison, Wisconsin...
The New Rulers of The World
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The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one big global village, where national borders and national identities no longer matter. But what is globalisation? And where is this global village? In some respects you are already living in it. The clothes in your local store were probably stitched together in the factories of Asia. Much of the food in your local supermarket will have been grown in Africa...
Breaking The Bank
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In September 2008 when the American economy was on the verge of melting down, the then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, his former protégé John Thain (CEO of Merrill Lynch), and Ken Lewis (CEO, President, and Chairman of the Bank of America) secretly cut a deal to merge Bank of America and Merrill Lynch -- in the midst of stock collapse; a rocky merger; the worst fourth-quarter losses in at least 17 years; a stockholder revolt and an urgent need to raise more capital despite a $45 billion "bail-out" from the federal government...
Good Cop, Bad Cop
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The Australian Federal Police -- the glamour police force that was set-up after the Sydney Hilton Hotel Bombing in 1978 -- has enjoyed consistent showers of praise by politicians and the public ever since it's inception. However, the once-lionised AFP is now being ridiculed for bungling, excessive secrecy and collusion after the "catastrophic failings" of the "terrorism case" against Dr Mohammed Haneef. But the Haneef case is just a symptom of the "deep cultural problems that beset the AFP"...
Enron — The Smartest Guys In The Room
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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...
Stretching The Law
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For 20 years the NSW Crime Commission went about its business with drugs quietly. When it scored a bust, it stood back and let politicians and the police bask in credit. But all that changed with the sensational arrest of the commission's assistant director, Mark Standen, on charges of trafficking drugs. His spectacular downfall threw a spotlight onto the Crime Commission's remarkable array of powers and how it abuses them. Secret hearings, witnesses compelled to answer questions, broad powers of search and surveillance, no independent review process...
The Sydney Hilton Hotel Conspiracy
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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 Mexicans
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The Mexicans reports on the history of political repression and corruption in Mexico, a country dominated to this day by its close neighbour--the United States.