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"http://www.hermes-press.com/barbaric_annihilation.htm" <truth@r.us> wrote:

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"http://www.hermes-press.com/barbaric_annihilation.htm" <truth@r.us> wrote:

AMERICA: FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM
DEBUTS ACROSS THE NATION THIS WEEKEND!

NEW YORK, CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY, TAMPA, AUSTIN

Tickets on sale now! Details below.

See FTW Editor and Publisher Mike Ruppert and FTW Economic Guru Catherine
Austin Fitts interviewed extensively in this film. If you know someone who
is closed minded to the truth, AMERICA: FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM is the
perfect eye opener. Everyone – rich or poor – has an interest in protecting
their hard-earned money from the fraudulent income tax system. Aaron Russo
had the guts to make this film, now you have to get out there and support
it!

Read Mike Ruppert’s review of this documentary here:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031406_money_works.shtml

CBS News: "Four Stars (Highest Rating). The Scariest Damn Film You'll See
This Year"

AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM "FOUR STARS” (Highest Rating). The scariest damn
film you'll see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre,
slack-jawed and trembling. Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.' After
watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about
what it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered.
Producer/director Aaron Russo and the folks at Cinema Libre Studio deserve
to be heralded as heroes of a post-modern New American Revolution. This is
shocking stuff. You'll be angry, you'll be disgusted, but you may actually
break out in a cold sweat and feel a sickness deep in your gut; I would
advise movie theatre managers to hand out vomit bags. You may end up needing
one." --- Todd David Schwartz, CBS

AMERICA: FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/


New York

City Cinemas Village East
181 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
(212) 529-6998
Purchase tickets at: www.moviefone.com

*Friday 28th - Special Q & A with Filmmaker Aaron Russo at the Village East
Cinemas after the 7:30 show.

Loews 72nd St 1
1230 Third Ave. at 72nd St.
New York, NY 10021
800-FANDANGO #772
Purchase tickets at: www.fandango.com


Chicago Area

Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Century Shopping Centre
2828 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60657
(773) 509-4949
Purchase Tickets: www.landmarktheatres.com

* Friday 28th - Special Q & A with Mayoral Candidate Bill Dock Walls at the
Landmark Century Centre Cinema after the 7:05 show.

* Saturday 29th - Special Q & A with Filmmaker Aaron Russo, Mayoral
Candidate, Bill Dock Walls and Activist and Radio Talk Show Host Cliff Kelly
at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema after the 7:05 show.

AMC Loews Esquire 6
58 East Oak Street
Chicago, IL 60611
800-FANDANGO #719
Purchase tickets: www.fandango.com

AMC Cantera 30
28250 Diehl Rd.
Warrenville, IL 60555
(847) 765-7AMC
Purchase tickets: www.fandango.com

AMC Loews Streets Of Woodfield 20
601 North Martingale Road
Suite 105 in the Streets of Woodfield Mall
Schaumburg, IL 60173
800-FANDANGO #727
Purchase tickets: www.fandango.com

Kansas City Area

AMC Studio 30
119 St. at I-35
Olathe 12075 So Strang Line Rd
Olathe, KS 66062
(816) 363-4AMC
Purchase tickets: www.fandango.com

Austin Area
AMC Barton Creek Square 14
2901 Capital Of Texas Hwy.
Austin, TX 78746
(512) 306-9190
www.fandango.com

Tampa Area

AMC Woodlands 20
3128 Tampa Road
Oldsmar, FL 34677
(727) 771-2883
Purchase tickets: www.amctheatres.com

AMC Veterans 24
9302 Anderson Road
Tampa, FL 33634
(813) 243-4955
Purchase tickets: www.amctheatres.com

Until You Change the Way Money Works…

A Review of Aaron Russo’s America: From Freedom to Fascism

by
Michael C. Ruppert

© Copyright 2006, From The Wilderness Publications,
www.fromthewilderness.com. All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted,
distributed or posted on an Internet web site for non-profit purposes only.

March 14, 2006 1400 PST (FTW) - ASHLAND - No matter how you slice it, Aaron
Russo is in for a lot of mishegas.

A Jewish guy from Brooklyn who made good in the movie business winds up at
the end of this movie getting told by another Jewish guy who used to head
the Internal Revenue Service, “Gornished von hellfin.” Translated, the
Yiddish expression means, “Nothing can help you.” As former IRS Commissioner
Sheldon Cohen says it to Russo at the end of America: From Freedom to
Fascism, one thing is crystal clear, Cohen is speaking to everybody. Every
American of every religion, gender, color, stripe and cholesterol count is
directly, personally, and tangibly affected by the things that Russo so
compellingly shows us in this movie. What happens in between the beginning
and the end has nailed sneak-preview audiences in more than a dozen cities
to their seats in (according to Russo and others) larger numbers than those
for (gag) Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911.

Every showing has ended with a prolonged standing ovation.

Aaron Russo is an accomplished filmmaker (his films have six Oscar
nominations, a Tony, an Emmy and three Golden Globe awards in various
categories). His best-known films are Trading Places, The Rose, and Wise
Guys. An accomplished filmmaker has taken on a visceral issue that cuts
across every other social, racial, religious and political barrier in the
country: money.

The film introduces us to experts who have been long-time friends of mine
and FTW: Catherine Austin Fitts, Congressman Ron Paul, former IRS agent
Sherry Jackson, G. Edward Griffin and more. These are the monetary voices
that have been crying in the wilderness.

Framed around the efforts of We The People to pursue what is generally (and
incorrectly) labeled a class-action suit challenging the government’s
authority to impose a direct income tax, America starts with revelations
that are guaranteed to shock. The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution was
never ratified by a sufficient number of states and therefore is not law.
The Federal Reserve is a privately-owned bank that prints our money and
collects interest on the national debt. Nowhere in the IRS Code (huge as it
is) is there a specific law mandating that Americans actually pay an income
tax. We learn that the income tax is a “voluntary” contract accepted by most
Americans.

Voluntary?

Add to that the fact that the current income tax – in violation of the
Constitution – is neither direct or apportioned (an equal rate for every
citizen through all states and incomes), and it’s clear why audiences are
reacting. The capper is that Supreme Court decisions affirming the above are
routinely ignored by federal courts and lawyers have been fined for trying
to inject the Constitution and the Supreme Court into their arguments.

How rude! How did all this come to pass? Why does it continue? You need to
watch the movie to find out.

Whether a clearly uncomfortable Sheldon Cohen made his statement as a threat
or was merely expressing exasperation at the fact that Russo wasn’t leaving
without straight answers will be up to you to decide once you have seen
America: from Freedom to Fascism. Russo did leave without straight answers
because Cohen abruptly ended the on-camera interview. Gornished von hellfin.

Until just before he started work on this film Russo was what we long-time
activists not-so-politely referred to as brain dead. He was a successful
guy, making money, living a good life. There was no reason to start asking
questions. Then something caught his attention and he got off his butt. He
swallowed the red pill.

Although this not a movie about Jews, the fact that two Jewish men bookend
the drama as antagonists adds an extra and important dimension by showing us
that simple, easy answers are not an option here. It’s a movie about money
and we see clearly that the economic paradigm which rules us is much more
insidious, deep and personal than most of us had ever dared contemplate. The
movie forces us to look at ourselves.

In the end Aaron Russo does fall short because, not surprisingly, he fails
to come up with a quick, easy, silver-bullet solution that Americans have
been trained to expect. Is that his fault or ours? Filmmakers like Aaron
Russo have been wrongly perceived by many Americans as silver bullets in
their own right. Perhaps unintentionally, the film documents Russo’s
(continuing) discovery that the appearance of American democracy and
economic liberty is a cynical façade.

From FTW’s perspective, as we have said so consistently, until we change the
way money works, solutions to Peak Oil, food shortages, collapse and
sustainability remain unreachable from a national or cultural level because
it is simply more profitable to let people die and accelerate collapse
through excessive consumption than it is to behave like a species that
wishes to survive.

Like most who decide that something is really wrong and said, “I’m going to
do something about this”, Aaron Russo has pulled one worm out of the can and
is slowly realizing, even now, that with one worm, you get all the rest of
its cousins, aunts, nieces, nephews and parents. What should have been an
easy process of securing a distribution contract for a national theatrical
release is proving frustratingly difficult. Michael Moore got one. Why is
Russo having such a hard time? That is the difference between Michael Moore
and Aaron Russo. Moore takes on the peripheral, comfortable issues and
Russo, perhaps unknowingly went right for the beast’s heart.

Aaron Russo now has to face the fact that all major publicly-traded
corporations on the NYSE have a vested interest in preserving, rather than
changing, the system. If Russo persists in his quest for resolution and
understanding, he will come up against the fact that as much as $600 billion
a year in laundered drug money is necessary to keep things going; that it is
more profitable to kill than to save lives; that Peak Oil and energy
shortages are being worsened by the current financial mandate of infinite
growth.

Watching his increasing cognitive dissonance take a toll on his serenity is
painfully familiar to most of us. Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt,
thank you. Hang in there Aaron.

He should not be blamed if he decides to make a light-hearted musical next
time. Springtime for Hitler might be a good choice.

Until you change the way money works, you change nothing. Who is really
willing to do that?

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/072606_russo_debut.shtml

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Federal Reserve
2006 Members of the FOMC
Members (USA)
http://www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/

Ben S. Bernanke, Board of Governors, Chairman
http://www.federalreserve.gov/bios/bernanke.htm
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Timothy F. Geithner, New York, Vice Chairman
http://www.federalreserve.gov/bios/pres02.htm
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Susan Schmidt Bies, Board of Governors
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Jack Guynn, Atlanta
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Donald L. Kohn, Board of Governors
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Randall S. Kroszner, Board of Governors
http://www.federalreserve.gov/bios/kroszner.htm
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Jeffrey M. Lacker, Richmond
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Sandra Pianalto, Cleveland
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Kevin M. Warsh, Board of Governors
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Janet L. Yellen, San Francisco
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Alternate Members
Thomas M. Hoenig, Kansas City
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Cathy E. Minehan, Boston
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Michael H. Moskow, Chicago
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William Poole, St. Louis
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Christine M. Cumming, First Vice President, New York
First Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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