FREE: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Greg Palast has made his important documentary free to view until Election Day.
I read the first edition of book in the dark days of the Cheney-Bush junta, now I'm psyched to see the movie.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida’s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans’ dark operation, Crosscheck, designed to steal a million votes by November.
Crosscheck is controlled by a Trump henchman, Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State who claims his computer program has identified 7.2 million people in 29 states who may have voted twice in the same election–a felony crime. The catch? Most of these “suspects” are minorities—in other words, mainly Democratic voters. Yet the lists and the evidence remain “confidential”.
Palast and his investigative side-kick Badpenny do what it takes to get their hands on the data, analyze it and go find some of these 7.2 million Americans tagged “suspects” and “potential duplicate voters” whose votes are threatened this November.
They hunt down and confront Kobach with the evidence of his “lynching by laptop.” Then they are off to find the billionaires behind this voting scam. The search takes Palast from Kansas to the Arctic, the Congo, and to a swanky Hamptons dinner party held by Trump’s sugar-daddy, John Paulson, a.k.a. “JP The Foreclosure King.”
Palast and Badpenny stake out top GOP donors, the billionaire known as “The Vulture” and the Koch brothers, whom Palast nails with a damning tape recording.
This real life detective story is told in a film noir style with cartoon animations, secret documents, hidden cameras, and a little help from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit detectives, Ice-T and Richard Belzer, Shailene Woodley, Rosario Dawson, Willie Nelson and Ed Asner, Palast and his associates expose the darkest plans of the uber-rich to steal America’s democracy.
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The Wealthers have already made the USA into a fake
democracy where elected officials disregard the stated will of the people with impunity. Even Jimmy Carter can recognize that.
If Greg Palast can remove the last vestiges of the charade then perhaps people will get serious about taking their country back from monopoly capital and the officials they control.
It's one thing not to count - be worthless unless our labor power is needed on a temporary basis - so anything to convince the holdout gullibles is a positive.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Thank you, Sandino!
This essay dovetails with what I've been saying for a while now: that we ordinary Serfs are not to blame for what is done in our names -- because the use of our national name is about as close as any Serf comes to having any control over who wields those powers to begin with.
I thank you again and again for providing this essay!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Thanks, Sandino. Hope to watch it tonight.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
the best election fraud info...
is from Palast. Thanks for the tip. I'll watch it soon.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
We just watched it for free, but damn, it was so good that ...
... we two former HS teachers on pension gonna donate some money to support it.
Done in the mocumentary style of Michael Moore but with more substance, as well as footage from the civil rights era that will poor shame on your cynicism and might just reinvigorate you to give what you got left for the left.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Thank you Hillary
without you I would have been freaking out about the breadth of disenfranchisement this film exposes.