Capitalism Hits the Fan Film Screening and Q&A with Professor Richard Wolff | The New School is another version that also screens a shortened version of his movie.

This video shows the 35 minute version of the movie from Wolff’s DVD. The DVD also has a 55 minute version. After the showing of the movie, Wolff talks and talks and talks for another hour or so. Some of it rehashes what was in my other post, but some of it covers new material that is just as shocking as the old material.

If you thought you learned it all from watching the other hour and 45 minutes, well you just have no idea.

Capitalism Hits the Fan – Richard Wolff is the item mentioned in the previous post Professor Victor Wallis Speaks on the “Roots of the Current Crisis.”

I have found many links and videos of Richard Wolf and his topic. This particular video was recorded at Brown University, Providence RI, December 12, 2009. I have watched about an hour so far of the 1 hour 45 minute video below. There are about 7 minutes of introduction before you get to Richard Wolff. This is so important that I wanted to post the video, even before I finished watching the whole thing.

Well, I have now finished the whole thing and all I can say is Wow!

I have never seen the root causes of our current societal situation put together in quite the way that Richard Wolff does. It makes a lot of sense. You may experience a number of Aha! moments. (I think I will just have to forgive a tiny bit of mathematical hocus-pocus that he used in the beginning to make one exaggeration.) (I know I am a sucker for a good sales pitch, but even if you don’t buy it, it ought to make you think. By the way, he is not necessarily selling you a solution, so there is nothing to buy.)

The YouTube video in Occupy Vancouver / TZM on NATIONAL CANADIAN TELEVISION!! (CTV) #occupyeverywhere offers the best explanation of the immediate purpose of the movement that I have heard. During yesterday’s general assembly at Occupy Worcester, I wish I had had these words to offer to explain our goals to this relatively new manifestation of the movement.

I’ll provide a rough transcript of the key part of the interview.

Raise awareness of the fundamental problems that plague our society from the social, economic, and political spheres to all the problems in society, the war, corruption, poverty, environmental destruction. Basically to open it upup a platform for people to discuss the root causes of the problems and pose possible alternatives.
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At this point it is basically about spreading awareness of these problems. There are many organizations who are going to be in attendance who are posing possible alternatives.

While the occupy movement explicitly doesn’t have one defined solution, it’s basically meant as a platform for other organizations to discuss their possibilities.

The interviewee mentions The Zeitgeist Movement. The link to their web page in the previous sentence will give you a starting point for more research on the movement.

The video below is Pt2 Gareth Porter: Critical two weeks missing from FBI account.

I blogged Part 1 in Alleged Iranian Assassination Plot Appears an FBI Sting.

The video in this post has a lot of speculation on what may be in the missing two weeks and why it may be missing. They don’t talk about the possibility that nothing happened in those two weeks. With that in mind, you have to treat this speculation as possibly being completely off the mark. If true, however, it puts a new twist on the story.