Too Big to Jail

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24-0

This week the financial crisis finally went prime time in the form of a big budget HBO docudrama called “Too Big To Fail.”

It was a well-acted docudrama focused on the BIG men and some women in the banks and in government who tried to put Humpty Dumpty back together again up on that wall to prevent a total economic collapse when panic dried up credit and financial institutions faced failure.

Based on the work of a New York Times reporter, it offered a skillfully-made but conventional narrative which, like most TV shows, showcase events but miss their deeper context and background.

We heard all the explanations, save one.

More at the link --

[RandomThoughts]

1. Picked up the 8th needed of council of 9 yesterday.

Military section on board also. It was after post turning down Champagne, again. And the repeated acts of censorship.


Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs


Sara Bareilles, Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkOKCWDJ4iA

[canoeist52]

2. Danny Schechter has it right.

'But... what was missing was any notion of intentionality and premeditation, almost no mention of systemic fraud and CRIME, that one word that sums up what really happened for those millions of Americans who have lost jobs and homes."

http://plunderthecrimeofourtime.com/bio_danny.htm

I remember "Danny Schechter your news dissector" from the 70's on WBCN in Boston