Four horsemen by Renegade inc - 2012
In 2012, the team behind Renegade Inc. released the seminal, Four Horsemen, a documentary film that went in search of the underlying causes of the 2008 financial crash. The film’s religious allegorical overtones depict a world of escalating violence, widespread poverty, environmental catastrophe and capitalism’s impending death.
The film contends that the driving force behind this doomsday scenario is a new morality in which the accumulation of wealth, self-interest and greed are celebrated and collective notions of society frowned upon. The documentary pointed out that if fundamental economic issues weren’t addressed, another economic depression would be all but inevitable. As such, the film can be seen, in 2020, as an insightful warning of things to come.
HSBC Money Laundering Scandal: U.S. Financial System Vulnerabilities - 2012
Money laundering has been an issue in Argentina, India, the United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland. Following search warrants and raids beginning in January 2013, in mid-March 2013 Argentina’s main taxing authority accused HSBC of using fake receipts and dummy accounts to facilitate money laundering and tax evasion.[105][106][107] On 19 July 2012, India investigated alleged violation of safety compliance, in which Indian employees were believed to be involved.[108]
On 9 November 2012, Indian activist and politician Arvind Kejriwal said he had details of 700 Indian bank accounts hiding black money with a total value of ₹60 billion (US$940 million) with HSBC in Geneva.[109] In June 2013, a media outlet in India did an undercover expose where HSBC officers were caught on camera agreeing to launder “black money.”
HSBC placed these employees on leave pending their own internal investigation.[110] In early February 2013, appearing before UK’s Parliamentary Banking Standards Commission, CEO Stuart Gulliver acknowledged that the structure of the bank had been “not fit for purpose.” He also stated, “Matters that should have been shared and escalated were not shared and escalated.”[111] HSBC has also been accused of laundering money for terrorist groups.[111][112]
Mike Maloney - Hidden secrets of money part 1 and 4 - 2012
Who owns the Federal Reserve? How does the Federal Reserve work? You are about to learn one of the biggest secrets in the history of the world… it’s a secret that has huge effects for everyone who lives on this planet.
Most people can feel deep down that something isn’t quite right with the world economy, but few know what it is. Gone are the days where a family can survive on just one paycheck… every day it seems that things are more and more out of control, yet only one in a million understand why.
You are about to discover the system that is ultimately responsible for most of the inequality in our world today. The powers that be DO NOT want you to know about this, as this system is what has kept them at the top of the financial food-chain for the last 100 years. Learning this will change your life, because it will change the choices that you make. If enough people learn it, it will change the world… because it will change the system .
For this is the biggest Hidden Secret Of Money. Never in human history have so many been plundered by so few, and it’s all accomplished through this… The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind.
Britain on the brink - European union - 2012
Citizenfour - 2014
Citizenfour uncovers the secret and illegal practices of the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programme using classified documents revealed by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. It aims to shed light on the indiscriminate invasion of the privacy of American citizens as well as those of other countries carried out by the NSA in a case that the shocked the world.
The film follows award-winning documentary maker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald as they receive unprecedented access to Snowden and classified evidence of the government’s spying. The events covered in Citizenfour occur over an intense eight-day period in a Hong Kong hotel room in 2013.
Poitras had been working on a documentary about the extent of the government’s surveillance for two years when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone claiming to have proof of the shocking and illegal practices of the NSA. Five months later after the email correspondence began, Poitras convinces Snowden to let her film their encounter in Hong Kong after Snowden made it clear that he intended to use his real identity as the source of the classified information.
Citizenfour manages to put the audience in the hotel room with Snowden showing them his motives for blowing the lid on the government conspiracy. It also takes them through the intense eight-day period where Snowden, Poitras, and Greenwald were forced to make important decisions about the story that would change the world. Lastly, it warns of the extent and dangers of unrestricted government surveillance.