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Former Financial Regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street A Counter to White-Collar Fraud

2011-10-20T23:08:57.467Z

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviews William K Black, Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. He talks about the betrayal of trust, through fraud, by the C-level executives of major U.S banks, and that the U.S. government can prosecute them, but hasn't yet.

The One Percent (Jamie Johnson Documentary)

2011-04-10T16:30:38.836Z

Also linked here on YouTube http://ow.ly/mHUcu
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries.

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www.theonepercentdocumentary.com

The American Ruling Class

2010-12-26T07:56:24.000Z

In this first of its kind "dramatic-documentary-musical", Lewis Lapham (former editor Harper's Magazine) takes two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power. The novice careerists must decide: should they seek to rule the world, or to save it? (2005)

The Ruling Class
"... not someone of the possessing class or the celebrity class, but someone with real power; a ruler."

"There is something fatally attractive about joining the ruling class, starting of course with the pay, but also with the prestige and the like. But fatally ought to go with attractive, in many cases, because it means for a large part you're getting ready to forget about half of what you learned at Yale or anywhere else, that there are obligations in this democratic republic which I still, perhaps naively, believe need to be factored in. I do not actually believe that society is best served by everybody running avidly after their own self interest. I particularly think: that it is betrayal when the best and the brightest decide that their being the best and the brightest means that they jump on the gravy train and tell everybody else kiss mine as I leave the room. If there is no last morality here to be offered, it is an individual question. The last thing people always say as they go out is not 'I wish I had had more money.' They're usually wishing something else, about what they did with their lives."

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundance of the poor." -Voltaire

Born Rich

2010-08-07T21:42:12.000Z

A documentary on children of the insanely rich. Directed by one of their own, Johnson & Johnson heir, Jamie Johnson.

Fascinating, and almost a fly on the wall peek into the lives and struggles of the elite

John Adams (HBO mini-series)

2010-08-07T21:32:20.000Z

The life of John Adams and the first 50 years of the United States. A superbly acted, excellent film about the struggles of the early American elite. Actor Paul Giamatti as John Adams. Film Won 4 Golden Globes. Another 32 wins, 19 nominations.

Shows insight into the elite battlefield and the sacrifices they make.

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