Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80058 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-12-12
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 105 minutes

Customer Reviews

power and money
A wake-up call, mainly about the US but still very interesting to us over here, especially since we also have a privately owned "central bank" - the so-called Bank of England, pulling off the same cons as the Federal Reserve Bank in the US.

The film starts as a personal investigation by Russo into the US tax system but quickly opens out, explaining how most of us don't understand the Ponzi scheme that is the national and world monetary system. We think that we borrow the money of savers and the bank makes its profit from the differential between the interest it pays to account holders and the interest it receives from borrowers. Not so.

The money deposited in banks is used to maintain the cash flow of demand accounts such as current and savings. It is held as a reserve to meet withdrawals. Borrowed money is created by the banks out of thin air. Banks can loan (create) ten times the amounts they hold. Although governments have the right to print money, banks create 97% of US and UK money supplies and governments borrow instead, causing huge problems to all of us (yes, this is deliberate). The crippler is that the bank doesn't create the interest we need to repay, so this giant Ponzi scheme has to crash at some point.

The film goes on to examine the fact that there is no law permitting the US government to collect income tax from individuals, only corporations, and they actually collect most taxes illegally. It also explains that most federal tax goes to all these privately held banks to pay interest on government borrowing and that community taxes look after necessities like roads, rubbish collection, and the like. It also covers some of the unlawful tactics practised by Inland Revenue in the US, which brazenly uses threats and duress despite the illegality of personal taxes.

Over here, it is legal for the UK government to tax both companies and individuals - however, the increasing controls created under the banner of "security" and "freedom" that the film goes on to cover apply almost identically to the UK. This second half of the film also talks about the future plans of those in power and the next stage of control they intend to establish. Don't bother with horror films, the real thing is with us.

This is an excellent film by Aaron Russo, who produced and directed several Hollywood films including The Rose, Trading Places and Teachers; who managed Bette Midler and Manhattan Transfer; and who died in 2007, of cancer. On youtube there is a half-hour interview with Russo, talking about this film, also worth watching. And if you want to know more, google an article called "The Great American Bubble Machine" by Matt Taibbi.

IRS like the Gestapo is above the U.S. Constitution
One of the companies that I did business with was ran by a man that actually did not pay income tax. He said it was a slippery road but with a good lawyer it was possible. One had to do their homework and be prepared with answers. He went as far as not letting the government force him to collect income tax on his employees. So far he has lasted several years. I still check now and then.

So as with such documentaries as "Waco - The Rules of Engagement "(1997,) and "The Siege at Ruby Ridge" (1996). We can only say "they should not have" and shake our heads; however her is a chance to act before it id too late "Freedomtofascism.com".

This documentary is a must see as we suspected it is them (federal reserve that is not federal) and that there National I.D. or our constitutional freedom. Aaron Russo makes several good points.
To re-enforce the points we hear from:

John Turner
Joseph R. Banister
Sherry Jackson
Charlie Beall
Peter Gibbons
G. Edward Griffin
Bob Schulz
Catherine Austin Fitts
Phil Hart
Larken Rose
Irwin Schiff
Vernice Kuglin
Tom Selgas
Edwin Vieira
David Champion
Jan Lindsey
Sheldon Cohen
Marcella Brooks
Franklin Sanders
Jennifer Long
John Colaprete
Edy Miller
Scotty Miller
Ricky Miller
Jennifer Miller
Ron Paul
Michael Ruppert
Bill Murphy
Peter Defazio
James Bovard
Katherine Albrecht
Rebecca Mercuri

A good book to read in this genre would be "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin.

He who makes the money...
This important new film documents how the privately run US Federal Reserve system is slowly destroying America, with massive knock on effects for the rest of the world. Think this sounds boring? Haven't got time to watch or just plain can't be bothered? You can't afford NOT to know what's been going on.