Ring of Power - Empire of the City

Why not finish out the month with another insanely long film?  This one is 5 hours long and contains...well just about everything Adam has ever talked about in the second half of the No Agenda Show, and then some.  If you do a YouTube search, each section listed below is pretty much available for individual viewing, but there is nothing  like clicking play at 8pm at night and having you brain melt out of your ears by 1am.  Thanks to producer Robert for sending this NA Films suggestion my way.

Here is the synopsis and descriptions for each part:


From the mystery religions of ancient Egypt to the Zionist role in 9/11, "Ring Of Power" unrevises 4000 years of revisionist human history with never - before - seen revelations. "Ring Of Power" puzzles together the pieces of a giant puzzle into one BIG PICTURE documentary series. 


Part I: 9/11 THE UNTOLD STORY (38 min.) Half the world believes Muslims were responsible for 9/11. The other half believes Israeli Zionists were responsible. Who’s right? 


Part II: HIDDEN EMPIRE (22 min.) The world’s most powerful empire is not the U.S.A. It is an empire that insiders call “Empire Of The City”.


Part III: TRAIL OF THE PHARAOHS (25 min.) Did the Biblical Abraham really live to be 175? Did Moses really turn staffs into snakes and rivers into blood?


Part IV: GOD AND THE QUEEN (30 min.) Genealogy charts show that British and French royalty are descendants of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ. Is it true?


Part V: ALL THE QUEEN’S MEN (22 min.) How rich and powerful is Queen Elizabeth II?


Part VI: THE GODFATHERS (30 min.) They scammed control of the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve, then they found GOD – Gold, Oil and Drugs.


Part VII: CHEATING AT MONOPOLY (52 min.) How many people would play a game of monopoly if the banker was cheating and fixing the rules? Over 6 billion.


Part VIII: ASSES OF EVIL (29 min.) The New World Order Mafia are invisible rulers who make puppets out of politicians, heroes out of villains and villains out of heroes.


Part IX: KING OF HEARTS (22 min.) The ultimate goal of “insiders” is to disarm the world and create one world empire under one world ruler. Who is he?


Part X: SOLUTIONS (28 min.) Protesting and writing letters to deaf politicians doesn’t work. What does work? 


I couldn't find too much on who made this film or where it originated from, but this synopsis was posted on several sites that are hosting the film.


The Producer is an experienced, award winning documentary filmmaker who, as a child, learned that her father was a member of the secretive cult of Freemasonry. She recalls many arguments between her parents over her father's secret meetings and the exclusion of women from the brotherhood. The Masonic ring that her father wore had been passed down from father to son over the generations. When she asked her father about the meaning of the letter "G" and the compass and square on his ring, she got no response. As an adult, she decided to investigate. That investigation grew into four years of intensive research into the identity and history of the diabolical globalists who she calls the "Ring Of Power". Their goal is one World Empire and one world ruler.

Ring of Power - Empire of the City (5:00:22):


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The Money Masters (1996)

This weeks Monday Movie might just test you patience, but, you will be rewarded if you make it all the way through.  The full title of the film is The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America.  If that doesn't intrigue you then try this description:

"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole...Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world's money...The Money Maters is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers."


If that short description intrigues you then make yourself a meal and hunker down for a 3:35:19 treat.



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A Face in the Crowd (1957)

This week we're going back to 1957.  Back when everyone in Gitmo Nation was fully addicted to the relatively new invention called Television.  A Face in the Crowd is second only to Network in my mind for most insightful fiction films about the power of the media (specifically television) to shape public opinion and steer all of us slaves in the direction the elites want us to go. 

Here is the synopsis of just Act I of the story (from the Book of Knowledge):
"In late 1950s America, a drunken drifter, Larry Rhodes (Andy Griffith), is plucked out of a rural Arkansas jail by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) to sing on a radio show at station KGRK. His raw voice, folksy humor and personal charm bring about a strong local following, and he lands a television show in Memphis, Tennessee under the stage name "Lonesome" Rhodes, given to him on a whim by Jeffries. With the support of the show's staff writer Mel Miller (Walter Matthau) and Jeffries, the charismatic Rhodes ad libs his way to Memphis area popularity. When he pokes fun at his sponsor, a mattress company, they fire him — but his adoring audience revolts, burning mattresses in the street. The sponsor discovers that Rhodes's irreverent pitches actually increased sales by 55%, and he is returned to the air with a new knowledge of his power of persuasion."

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2012 (2009)

A day late for the Monday Movie, so I'll make up for it with a drinking game to go along with this pick.  It will help.  Trust me. 

I've played with these rules three times and since the film is 158 minutes long, I say drink one shot of beer for each of the following rules.  If you drink anything stronger, No Agenda Films can not be held accountable for any drunk donating that happens.

One drink anytime...
1. Science confirms something.
2. A famous landmark and/or city is destroyed.
3. Someone physically runs from nature. (ex. "That earthquake is coming right for us!")
4. A pet is in jeopardy.
5. A sub-plot features a racial/cultural stereotype. (ex. the Indian scientists, the nerdy researcher, unemployed writer working part time job...)
6. Someone goes back to get someone.
7. There is a joke about an event that happens between 2009 and 2012.
8. Any character talks about counting down (to anything).
9. Woody Harrelson makes you think of Adam Curry.
10. Anyone slowly backs away from the camera in terrified awe.
11. Anyone watching the film with you says "What!?" out loud, that person has to finish their drink.

Actually, you can probably get drunk with just the trailer:


You have to love a trailer that not only includes every money shot in the film, but also ends with the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier slamming into the white house.  Why does Roland Emmerich hate the white house so much?


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NA Film Catch Up II

Thanks to the producer Kelly for catching John talking about The Last Starfighter on a December episode.  I've never seen this film, but just from trailer I can tell this needs to have a drinking game written for it.  Send any suggestions to theworldofcinema@gmail.com.  See next post for an explanation. 
Trailer:


John mentioned All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) on Episode 372 as a great war film.  It's also one of the few WWI films from Gitmo Nation. 
Trailer: (You'll be laughing by the 1:22 mark)


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NA Film Catch-Up

I fell behind on No Agenda episodes so this post covers several film recommendations from the shows 350 to 366.

The Vice Guide to North Korea


They Live


End:Civ (2011)


If there are any I missed that you remember, let me know at theworldofcinema@gmail.com

What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)

This is the last No Agenda Films Monday Movie before Christmas, so it's time for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping's (their name at the time of filming) holiday classic What Would Jesus Buy?. 

From the Book of Knowledge (aka Wikipedia):
The Church of Life After Shopping (formerly known as the Church of Stop Shopping) is an activist performance group based in New York City, led by Reverend Billy, the stage name of Bill Talen. Using the form of a revival meeting, on sidewalks and in chain stores, Reverend Billy and his gospel choir exhort consumers to abandon the products of large corporations and mass media; the group also preaches a broader message of economic justice, environmental protection, and anti-militarism, protesting sweatshops and the Iraq War. Though it continues its street theatre activities, the Church has also appeared on stage and has toured internationally.

Trailer:


For anyone following the Occupy movement, Reverend Billy was arrested (along with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges) for being part of a sit-in outside Goldman Sachs.



What Would Jesus Buy? DVD:



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Thrive (2011)

I've got an odd one for you this week.  I have not formulated my opinion on Thrive (2011), but the url for the films website gives me pause.  Then, I read the section called "The Problem/GLOBAL DOMINATION AGENDA" and I'm nodding my head in agreement.  So for now, I would recommend watching it for free and only buy a copy from the above site once you figure out if there is any value in this for you.


Full Video on Vimeo (although the link may not last for too long):

THRIVE - What on Earth Will it Take from THE CHURCH OF IMPACT on Vimeo.

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The Most Dangerous Man in America (2009)

Daniel Ellsberg recently spoke at the OccupyCal protest at UC Berkeley campus.  The former US military analyst was responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers (eventually partially published by the New York Times in 1971) and turning the tide of public sentiment against the Vietnam War.  At 80 years old he continues to be arrested for acts of civil disobedience (over 80 times and counting).

In 2009, Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith made a fantastic documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America,  about the publishing of the Pentagon Papers and Mr. Ellsberg's continues activism for a free and open democratic process within the US government.  The fact that this film now exists in the era of the WikiLeaks story make the film all the more illuminating and insightful to the idea of putting classified documents out in the public view so that the people will know what their government is doing in their name.

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Green Zone (2010)

November is Hollywood Propaganda Month here at No Agenda Films.

Director Paul Greengrass announced his intention to adapt Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran after Greengrass had completed The Bourne Ultimatum way back at the beginning of 2007.  In 2010, Green Zone finally came out in theatres.  Paul Greengrass is an interesting filmmaker for several reasons - he comes from a background as a journalist, he is very technically proficient within the film medium and he almost always makes film based on real events. 

His films include; Resurrected (about the Falklands war), Open Fire (about a true police manhunt), The One That Got Away (about Gulf War I), Bloody Sunday (about the 1972 Northern Ireland shootings), United 93 (about the plane that went down in Shanksville, PA on 9/11) and now Green Zone.  He also directed The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. 

Here are some thoughts from Mr. Greengrass on the making of Green Zone (found in the Book of Knowledge aka Wikipedia):

"Although Mr. Greengrass initially supported Tony Blair's justifications of the war, he became disillusioned over time. Greengrass carried out extensive research into the background to the conflict, reading left-wing journalists such as Bob Woodward, Seymour Hersh, James Risen, Thomas Ricks, and Ron Suskind, in addition to Rajiv Chandrasekaran, whose book he optioned. He has even compiled a document, How Did We Get It So Wrong?, detailing what he learned."


"Addressing some of the contentions in the film, Greengrass has said that the arguments about disbanding the Iraqi army portrayed in the film represent debates that actually took place by US policy makers. The issue of the culpability of the Fourth Estate, i.e. the mainstream (news) media, or MSM, in taking intelligence at face value, although embodied by a single character, represents a broad based failing in both the USA and UK, but for Greengrass the fault ultimately lay with those trying to manipulate them."

"Greengrass has said that both the Bourne films and Green Zone reflect a widespread popular mistrust of authority that was engendered by governments that have deliberately lied and have let their citizens down over the Iraq war.  The confusion surrounding the absence of WMD in Iraq also provided an ideal scenario for a thriller, in which the protagonist battles for the truth."

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Fair Game (2010)

November is Hollywood Propaganda Month here at No Agenda Films.

The second film for this month is a perfect double feature for last weeks film, Nothing but the Truth.  That film was fictionalized account of the Judith Miller / Valerie Plame affair that happened in 2003.  This weeks film, Fair Game (2010) is based on Valerie Plame's memoir and directed by Doug Liman (best know for starting the Bourne franchise by adapting The Bourne Identity).  As is the case with any "based on a true story" film, there are bound to be discrepancies.  The Book of Knowledge has some good details on a few of the potential inaccuracies in this film - here.  

Keep in mind that the use of the word "propaganda" here is a two fold application.  First, there is the literal definition of the word; "A concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people".  Second, I contend that when Hollywood (or any film producing entity) puts out a "based on a true story", "inspired by true events" or any variation thereof there is a motive behind the film to put an official version of a story into the public consciousness since more people will see a film than any other media associated with the actual event.

For more on Hollywood Propaganda try The World of Cinema podcast episode: Everything is Propaganda!

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Nothing but the Truth (2008)

November is Hollywood Propaganda Month here at No Agenda Films.

Our first pick comes from No Agenda producer John.  Nothing but the Truth (2008) was made three years after the real life incident involving the journalist Judith Miller and the outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent by Robert Novak.  This film was written and directed by Rod Lurie, whose previous film work speaks to his clear interests in the world of politics; Deterrence, The Contender and The Last Castle.

Here is the synopsis from The Book of Knowledge (aka Wikipedia):
Rachel Armstrong is an ambitious reporter for the Capital Sun-Times. When she discovers fellow soccer mom Erica Van Doren is working as a covert operative for the CIA and recently returned from Venezuela, where she was investigating an assassination attempt on the President of the United States, she confronts her and requests confirmation. Erica refuses to cooperate, but Rachel has no doubts about the veracity of the report, and her story becomes front-page news.

I'm using the term propaganda here since we're talking about a film that was made based on real events.  These types of projects always come with extra baggage since the film version usually ends up being the main source for information about the real events under question.  For example, how many people have seen the film JFK versus how many people have read one whole book about the same incident.  It's easier to watch a film than read a book.  However, in keeping with traditional Hollywood storytelling structure, there is far less complexity in any given Hollywood film than in most non-fiction books.

For more on Hollywood Propaganda try The World of Cinema podcast episode: Everything is Propaganda! 

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