Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy...

[bridgit]

Run time: 57:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_R_4JwEPyE   Posted on YouTube: March 24, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 14, 2007 By DU Member: bridgit Views on DU: 472

 
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Bio: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guests/1204.html
PS: Palast investigated Bush and the family long before Gorge Walter Bush jr. became president. Also you are welcome to research anything on your own on the internet.

Greg Palast (academic, investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering who turned his skills to journalism) has been following the Bush family around for years as an investigative reporter for the BBC. This is some of the information he has found, as recorded in his book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy".
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Personal comment: Credible, well researched documentary, you can watch it on Democracy Now!

or here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8187301869971500776 The last 5 minutes are missing.
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edkeller: Of all the shocking revelations in "Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2004)," the worst is that the country is not exposed to a credible presentation of those facts by our main stream media or by credible spokespersons. No contrary facts are presented - rather a dead(ly) silence. Does the Bush family (and more importantly the big money interests they represent), have our media so cowed that they are afraid of discussion, analysis or serious investigation of the massive corruption of those that put Pres. G.W. Bush in office or the empire building and money grabbing of he and his ilk??

So many Americans blindly see him as merely a not so intelligent plain folks guy who is at least honest and moral.
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messiercat: One thing this production exposes, and it does it very well, is the intricate process of government corruption. Corporate bribery, fixed elections, government policy making, wars of conquest all overlap to benefit the big players. A great way to deflect criticism is to inextricably wrap all this corruption up in a warm and fuzzy flag. Palast says right in the beginning that this isn't new, it's just that the Bushes and their cronies have taken it to a new level. Simply amazing that we as a people let them get away with it. Palast stays on topic as the viewer is guided through one machination after another, sort of an album of mob snapshots. The outside world seems only a backdrop, things and people and policies exist only to help the family agenda along. America equals Bushco©, we all live there, we just don't know it.'

[PDJane]

1. Sell them weapons..........

Then go to war to use up the weapons you sold them. Use the world bank and the IMF to funnel money from the poorest to the richest, watch while the whole world goes back to a feudal state and all those folks in the third world starve.......there is no morality in this anywhere.

[bridgit]

2. seems right to me, how does one's Uncle Buck make any money...

on so-called body armour unless someone runs in there with an explosive vile enough to tear it to shit so it will need to be replaced, or a pile of bombs that are going to what? just explode and re-order their own construction & deployment, no...

they need rumsfeld, cheney, bush, perle, kristol, wolfowitz, the bfee & a host of other puppets & players for such things = the war profiteers