Ethos

“Our ethos is all that we currently hold to be true. It is what we act upon. It governs our manners,
our business and our politics.”

The object of this documentary is to look at the flaws in our system that allow these things to
happen and the mechanisms that actually work against us

POLITICS

“We define a candidate as being a serious or not by how much money they can raise, not by what
ideas they have, what their record in public service might have been. It’s all about money”
“We really don’t have an election anymore, we have an auction…”

● Bill Hogan

“It is so unrealistic to expect democracy to deliver representatives who will serve the people’s
interest when so much money is involved.”
“Having so much money in politics gives all the power to those with money…”
“Yes we are all still allowed to vote, but how free is our choice?”

● Woody Harrelson

“…certainly begs the question, what kind of democracy do we have”

*the film opens our eyes to how democracy really is being considered in the government…

CORPORATIONS
*discussed the power of corporations…
“Governments have become powerless compared to where they were before

“The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt” -
Henry Ford

BANKS
“…the power to control the money supply is in the hands of the Federal Reserve Bank… note
that it is not a government organization (*which is owned by a private banking cartel”
“…the truth is most of us will live from pay check to pay check…”

“…billions of dollars and profits flow into the hands of private bankers at our expense…”

“Whenever the government needs money it requests it from the Federal Reserve, but the Fed
doesn’t just give the money to the government, it adds interest…”

“…every dollar the government loans from the Federal Bank has to be paid back with interest.
This keeps the government under a continual stage of debt…”

“…all of our income taxes are paid back to the Federal Reserve to pay the debt of the
government…

“…their position of power and influence had become absolute.”

“Corporations- how they could make people want things they did not need, by linking products
to their own conscious desires…”
*Eddie Bernays

NIGHTMARE
A scenario of powerful group of businessmen with access to the White House who control the
media and who make obscene amounts of money whenever there’s war

War is profitable (36:01)

The Pentagon?
-intelligence

How industry and government are consulting and working with each other

We shall have a world government whether we like it or not. The only question is whether it will
be by conquest or consent.

● Paul Warburg

THIS SYSTEM CANNOT CONTINUE, so who will make the decision about who gets food to
eat or who goes hungry or who gets water to drink and who goes without. Because the idea of
allowing mindless corporations or wealthy elites to make decisions about population control is
TERRIFYING.
 ● Woody Harrelson

The great heroes of our time like Gandhi and Martin Luther King incredible though they were,
could not create change on their own only the will of the people can do that and together we can
accomplish anything.

Interestingly, the way to win back democracy and the wars and save our environment has just
one cure and it’s simple…

“Corporations undermine democracy and justice”

We became “The Consumer” which makes us “All Powerful”…

“…the way we spend our money can change everything…”

“No Company will continue a practice or a product that you the consumer will not buy… this
gives you ultimate power to change the world you live in”

“By spending your money wisely you can promote those companies that do business in a socially
responsible way… this is real power”

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TAKE RESPONSIBILITY ON YOUR SPENDING

PLOT

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