Monthly Archives: January 2020

Complete Classic Movie: ’71 (2015)

After being accidentally abandoned on the streets of Belfast in 1971, a British soldier must survive the night within enemy lines. Stars: Jack O’Connell, Sean Harris

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Princes of the Yen: Central Bank Truth Documentary

“Princes of the Yen: Central Banks and the Transformation of the Economy” reveals how Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda and desire of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this. Based on a book by Professor Richard Werner, a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan during the 90s crash, during which the stock market dropped by 80% and house prices by up to 84%. The film uncovers the real cause of this extraordinary period in recent Japanese history.

America’s Great Divide: Steve Bannon, 2nd Interview | FRONTLINE (Video)

Steve Bannon is a media executive and political strategist. He served as executive chairman of Breitbart News, as an adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and later as chief strategist in the Trump White House.

Complete Classic Movie: Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood talent rep, loses his job because of his drinking. Despondent, he goes to Las Vegas to end his life in one final binge. But, on the Strip, his plans are interrupted when he meets Sera…a street-smart hooker. Ben and Sera’s chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as these two disenfranchised souls form a bond that is as mysterious as it is immutable.

William F. Buckley Jr. Interviews Charlton Heston: Is Hollywood a Lost Cause? (Video)

Episode S1066, Recorded on November 10, 1995

America’s Great Divide: Steve Bannon, 1st Interview | FRONTLINE (Video)

Steve Bannon is a media executive and political strategist. He served as executive chairman of Breitbart News, as an adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and later as chief strategist in the Trump White House.

Complete Classic Movie: Be Cool (2005)

Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thruman, Vince Vaughn, Harvey Keitel, Dwayne Johnson, Danny DeVito. Be Cool is the wildly hilarious tale about a gangster turned music mogul… and what it takes to be number one with a bullet. When Chili Palmer decides to try his hand in the music industry, he romances the sultry widow of a recently whacked music exec, poaches a hot young singer from a rival label and discovers that the record industry is packin’ a whole lot more than a tune!

Science Goes To DIE at UC-Berkeley – TFF Episode 112 (Video)

Janice Fiamengo is a retired professor of English from the University of Ottawa. She hosts The Fiamengo File, a YouTube series on Studio Brulé, in which she reveals the fraud of academic feminism by examining its tenets, bizarre obsessions, outlandish claims, and its impact on western culture.

Goldman to Refuse IPOs If All Directors Are White, Straight Men (Video)

The bank is the latest firm to eschew a lack of diversity in corporate governance.

The era of the white, all-male board is coming to an end.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Solomon issued the latest ultimatum Thursday from Davos. Wall Street’s biggest underwriter of initial public offerings in the U.S. will no longer take a company public in the U.S. and Europe if it lacks a director who is either female or diverse. Asia is not yet included in the firm’s new policy.

The mandate is the latest in a series of signals that non-diverse boards and management are unacceptable. BlackRock Inc. and State Street Global Advisors are voting against directors at companies without a female director. Public companies with all-male boards based in California now face a $100,000 fine under a new state law. 

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Complete Classic Movie: Dark Blue (2003)

Stars: Kurt Russell, Ving Rhames, Scott Speedman. A ruthess, veteran detective takes on a high-profile case while mentoring a rookie, facing the grim reality of police corruption and his own demons.

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