A refreshingly non-mainstream media company, INFOWARS.COM, has released a new documentary in the tradition of other cult docs like Loose Change and Zeitgeist. The new film is called Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack Obama and the arguments it makes are mostly of the ruling class, anti-establishment kind. Read on for a review.
On the upside, the documentary isn’t brain-dead, and its producer, Alex Jones, host of the INFOWARS radio program, isn’t afraid to press difficult, common sense questions that are (unfortunately) typically beneath television news organizations. The documentary goes after Obama’s personality cult, the prejudices of his financial advisors, and the future of the USD given such huge federal deficits.
The film takes a libertarian/anti-governmental position on most issues and is generally less partisan than the title suggests. Many of the policies the film is expressly skeptical of, such as the Federal Reserve system, America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia and our current imperialist war relate equally, if not more so, to the former Bush Administration. Fall of the Republic is no Fox News. It has an agenda independent of the Donkeys and Elephants.
On the downside, the documentary falls easily into hyperbole, taking politicians’ sound bites and extrapolating familiar end-of-the-world scenarios such as the intentional creation of a corporation-run World Government with ambitious social engineering plans.
The most disappointing element is the film’s inability to draw any line between beneficial government action and more nefarious plots. The film criticizes corporate influence over the government, but fails to account for those within the government who are equally critical.
Al Gore, who often laments corporate lobbyists’ strength over the environmental movement, is the victim of some unfair video editing that implies he is a bumbler and a crook. The film refutes global warming, saying that CO2 reduction plans are a Malthusian trick to crash the economy and curtail our right to pollute the planet into its (our) grave.
Though some of the conclusions in Fall of the Republic are hastily reached, an open-eyed viewer can separate the wheat from the chaff, something that most news organizations no longer trust us to do.
Discuss
George Orwell on December 31, 2009, 11:58 AM
“Al Gore, who often laments corporate lobbyists’ strength over the environmental movement, is the victim of some unfair video editing that implies he is a bumbler and a crook.”
Hmmm……wonder if you changed your mind after the emails were leaked about the false science used to promote global warming? Sounds like you might be a little partisan yourself.
Or how about the Satellite error that “lost” 400% of the ice caps…it was a malfunction but yet global alarmists use this as fact still.
Or how about my favorite lie on how temps have been raising around the world…even though we have been cooling for 10 years.
How about France’s refusal to go along with the carbon tax because they find it Unconstitutional?
I agree some points in the film do go way over board, however, using the global warming lie it’s easy to put in place a world Government that distributes wealth, controls the masses (as far as what they can do) and make a killing off the middle class of the world.
You might want to go back to your review and edit it a little bit with the new light that has been shined on the great hoax called “Global warming” or climate change…..
I know, I know, it’s hard to swallow facts when the party you believe in so lockstep is being criticized but this is way past left and right politics, both parties are evil, both parties are trying to control your life….wake up or keep drinking the Al Gore kool-aid….it’s up to you.
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