Four Horsemen

 The film Four Horsemen shows the main flaws in the economic system that have brought our society to the brink of disaster. The film criticizes the fractional reserve banking system, the debt based economy and political lobbying by banksand and how to improve it. It starts talking about the time that a succesful empire lasts. Empire lasts about 250 years, or 10 generations according to the film. There are six ages that define the duration of an empire. From the age of pioneers until the age of decadence goes the duration of an empire. 

If all the fundamental flaws continue increasing and being more evident the US empire will crash in matter of time and eventually collapse. The ecomic system and its flaws will be the one made the empire crash. And if this would happen in a future, it will affect the US directly. It will stop being the world first power, it will have tons of debts, and also it would stop sending and receiving all the things that make money for worldwide. It would be a total mess and the film shows the flaws in order to correct them.

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http://www.renegadeeconomist.com/blog/from-a-renegade-correspondent/the-four-horsemen-get-ready-for-the-stampede.html

Disaster in Chile

Chile has declared threen northern regions hit by 8.2 magnitude earthquake to be disaster areas. The past 1, of April, an earthquake hitted Chile and created a lot of disaster all across some regions of the country. Until now, at least 5 people are known to be dead beacuse of the quake and also a lot of poeple has been evacuated from different areas. Officials said the dead included people who were crushed and awfully killed by collapsing walls, and also died of heart attacks.

Becuase of this earthquake many other safety measures have taken actions like the Tsunami alert, because there was a posibility. There were waves up to 2.1 meters that have destroyed some things. The people on the coasts were evacuated to higher grounds. Even streets between Chile and Peru were desserted following the tsunami alert.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-26847827

Food Inc, Economic Hitman, Race.

The Food Inc, the Economic Hitmans, and the race videos are the ones that have all these similarities among them in order to show the similar aspects these 3 videos share and are discussing actually.Power is one main theme that relates each video to the other ones because it is a factor that can move out masses and chamge a lot of things in between the society. But in this distribution of power, there are some subgrouops in this theme such as Political Power, Social Power, and Economic Power.

The Political Power during this films is mostly shown by the companies of all this videos that are always trying to get through the governement of some other countries. They tell these countries that they will help them, the  countries accept, and after that, the whole country is in a huge debt. The Social Power is shown in the  race video, most of all, but it also is reflected in other societies of the other videos. For example the case of the white superiority that they believed that they were genetically better and some preserved that. And also, the Economic Power, that is totally involved in all of the videos. Like in the Food Inc video, all those corporations and entities hide all of their production processes to prevent the people really know how things are done. Huge debts, importatn decition making over poeple and even political entities.

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 http://videotecaalternativa.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/food_inc_en_espa%C3%B1ol.jpg

The plane crashed? Was it kidnapped?

The Malaysia flight 370 dissapeared weeks ago. This was a boeing 777 full of passagers that dissapeared from the phase of the earth. All the world was shocked because it was impossible that a huge plane dissapeared with no one knowing what happened or where it could be. All the scientists around the world started to investigate about the possible causes of this tradegy. Even the NASA decided to participate in this investigation. For everyone, it was incredible that a plane with the size of a 12 floor tower dissapeared and left no trace behind. 

For this tragedy many hypothesis were created in order to know what excactly happened to the plane. One of this hypotheis was that a meteriorite chrashed with the plane in which it caused to explote in the air. Other hypothesis said that the plane was kidnapped by a terrorist group during the flight. Even, some people believe that external creatures were involed in this tragedy. These hypothesis are still in test, but the world still does not know what really happened with this airplane. 

 

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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/files/2014/03/Boeing-777-Malaysia-Plane.jpg

Economic Hitman Reflection

Confessions of an Economic Hitman is an excellent book that shows us from the perspective of an EH, their vision of the world, their job, and their lives. The main character of the book is about to tell us how  his job was, and all the important events through history in a cronological order. John Perkins is the author and main character of this book. He is confessing how he and his partners impacted in other countries for example Panama and Ecuador.

This economic hitmans appeared in countries like Panama to make their dirty business. In Panama, the leader Omar Torrijos, stood strong in his position having great feedback of his people and support. The EHs wanted to negotiate the Panama Canal to get it back. Since Torrijos didn't wanted to negotiate with this people, he denied any proposal from the EHs and stood firm in his position. Because of his reaction, the EHs decided to do something. After some days, he died in an airplane crash "accident". Without doubt this accident was manipulated by the EHs of the U.S and the corporatocracy empire. And eventually, the next leader of Panama was controlled by the EHs for their benefit. 

Another country that was affected by this EHs was Ecuador. This case was really similar to the case of Panama and its leader. The United States wanted to intervene in Ecuador in other to get their oil. But the Ecuatorian leader, Jaime Roldos didn't want this foreign companies to practically "steal" their oil and for the explotation of the country. So, as the leader of Panama, he stood firm in his position and denied any negotiation with the EHs. After some days, another plane crash accident happened, eventually manipulated by the EHs. This were two of the many other countries that the Economic Hitmans impacted on.

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http://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/12/10/review-of-confessions-of-an-economic-hitman/

Lemon Tree Reflection

The movie Lemon Tree is an awesome film that shows and explains the situation in Israel and Palestine. The conflict that has been there since many years ago, is shown by both perspectives by this film. Salma is a Palestinian woman that lost his husband and the only thing that has left is a lemon tree grove near the barrier between Israeli and Palestinian lands.

The internal conflict of the movie starts because the secret service from an important minister tells him that the grove from Salma is considered a menace for him. Then everything starts flowing around this grove. And the grove little problem evolves into an international issue between Israelis and Palestinians. The grove news start appearing everywhere including television, radio, and even newspapers. Salma and her lawyer are in a legal fight between the Israeli courts and their are fighting back with each piece of evidence they can to support their ideas and save the grove. In the whole process they never fall back and only stood firm in their position. The most interesting thing in the movie is that even though they didn't won the fight, and could not prevent the grove from being cutted becuase of the injustice of those lands, they generated a big impact through the world and never surrendered. They created big impact because it was one of the first cases of that magnitude between Israelis and Palestinias. Also because it was one of the longests cases of this type ever existed.

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http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/04/17/arts/17lemon-600.jpg

Skateboarding blog.

Here is the link of a blog that I really like. http://skategypsy.blogspot.com/. Here you can find tons of cool stuff about skateboarding all around the world. Also you can find awesome images, videos, articles, etc..