Here is the magnum opus : a two part series containing the most detailed presentation of the nature of the U.S. power structure ever seen on television.

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such as listing of big name participants in this discussion)



(AV-516 and 517 read more below such as listing of big name participants in this discussion) material gathered by Alternative Views producer Frank Morrow, author of " The U.S. Power Structure and the Mass Media ," plus relevant portions of previous programs.



Reality of ruling class institutions of power such as Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderbergers and Trilateral Commission .

Their personnel and policies dominate the US economic and political system, regardless of administration -- Democrat or Republication .



Also see LONGER discussion on Power Elite with William Domhoff.



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THE COMPANY AND THE COUNTRY: PHIL AGEE

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better to watch this than audio only

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(AV-540 and 541 below

Former CIA officer and best selling author Agee discusses his history in the CIA , and the CIA harassment of him after he quit the agency and decided to write his first book, "CIA Diary: Inside the Company." He also discusses current events and other CIA operations. November, 1995



Part 2: He recounts his years of being on the run in Europe , with the CIA trying to follow him and eliminate his story from being told . Agee tells about the "bugged" typewriter a CIA undercover agent gave him, and about the CIA's unsuccessful assassination attempt .

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De-ja vu . Life repeats itself. This scandal is like current events on Wall Street:



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Savings and Loan scandal.

below) (AV-410

A detailed picture of this complex situation of fraud and corruption, including CIA and Mafia roles in the scandal. Contrary to official estimates of the amount of the taxpayer bailout of the banks, the total bill will be at least one trillion dollars. April 21, 1990

more on S & L (banking) crisis:

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AV-423_S_and_L_UPDATE_2_1990.AVI

also on S & L (banking) crisis ( CIA shocker ):

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below)



(AV-483 and 484 read about ====================

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The United States can easily be turned into a fascist nation at the stroke of a pen under the provisions of the Federal Emergency Management Act .



What is being planned is cloaked in secrecy, but what has been revealed is frightening: suspension of our Constitutional rights; arrest of political dissenters without habeas corpus; and concentration camps, designed to hold millions of people, which are being readied all over the U.S.



Learn about TECHNOWAR_IN_VIETNAM below

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Even though these programs are 10 to 30 years old , the issues discussed are highly relevant to today's issues. Some of it is like watching a dejv vu experience , such as the discussions on Health Care, ongoing Wars and Covert Actions in the Middle East and Latin America, our relations with the Soviet Union , the Vietnam War in detail (including US soldiers used as "bait" on suicide missions) , CIA and covert operations, Lying Elites , the Federal Reserve and banking system through the Savings & Loan crisis with a govt bailout for the wealthy (with CIA and Mafia looting the money, illegal arms trade) , Iran-Contra treason, illegal immigration , and the American Power Structure in general, who are the people who run things, who are the Power Players and how do they attain those roles . A whole lot of background information which was suppressed at the time and is now forgotten. (In a free society, this show would have been nearly as popular and promoted as the old "FBI" show or cop shows or "24".)



Anything with John Stockwell is good.



Consider the old saying, "Do you think I was born yesterday?" describing naïveté. If you don't want to be "born yesterday" in your political views and understanding of the world, this collection is for you!



Many of these feature John Stockwell, a retired 13-year veteran of the CIA and retired US Marine. Cheers for Mr. Stockwell, whose book rights and profits were trampled by the Federal Govt. From what I've been told, off the record , Mr. Stockwell was apparently threatened or punished by the CIA many years ago, such that at some point he withdrew permission for his interviews to appear on television. Yet these are now placed in the public domain .

I invite Mr. Stockwell to contact me (i might be very slow to respond, anyone else use my personal email if you know it ). I also invite Frank Morrow, Doug Keller and others to contact me, if interested. I would love to speak with you and thank you for all you've done for us proles, and offer any support I can (probably not a lot).



Some of these might be useful for a high school or college project on government and media. I would invite anyone to download these and post on your own website or share on a bittorrent site.



Frank Morrow and his team are mostly Leftists, and more than a few explain and clarify what and Socialism-Marxism is and is not , as well as standing for democracy (farther to the Left than the corporate Democratic Party), but also included are discussions on news stories gleaned from The Spotlight , a Far Right publication that some people consider fascist (sometimes the only source for real information on Israel at the time), and a few interviews with conservative libertarian Ron Paul . Noam Chomsky considers himself a classic conservative who criticizes both the Liberal Establishment and Reactionary forces , against the template of the U.S. Constitution (itself a ruling class elite protection plan to limit popular influence). Another big source is Covert Action Quarterly , a defunct publication by former CIA officers.



Much of this is critical of the Reagan and Bush administrations, but it's not partisan bickering and does not wholly defend Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or other Democrats. Highlighted is the apparent role of Democrats in always "caving in to" or backing right wing and Republican demands, including silence on many issues, such as evidence of outright treason on the Iran Hostage Crisis which resulted in the 1980 election stolen from Democrats, i.e. they would rather lose an election than bust their "loyal opposition". It would have been exciting to see Morrow and various guest discuss Sept 11, but many videos reveal the outright criminality of the Bush family (Senior) and their various cronies.



I will add to this collection as time allows if more videos are added online.



THESE FILES COLLECTED FROM

Archive.org -- Alternative Views

http://www.archive.org/details/alternative_views (more details on that link)



Alternative Views is a public affairs program that produced 563 one-hour TV shows between September, 1978, and April, 1998. It's goal was to provide information and perspectives that either were not shown on the regular media or were greatly distorted by them. The show also provided a platform for other people to present their views and to play their documentaries that the Establishment media would not present. Alternative Views was distributed by mail to 85 cable systems that served over 250 cities and suburbs.



All copyrights are held by Frank Morrow Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States

See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

READ WHAT "CREATIVE COMMONS" AND "FAIR USE" MEANS :

YOU CAN'T SELL OR "MUTILATE" the content , and more.



TECHNICAL



DivX or Xvid inside an AVI "jacket" is the common "Podcast" format/codec for video, an early Mpeg-4 industry standard. Videos inside an MP4 jacket usually are made with a newer high-compression codec, which a slower CPU may have trouble decoding and processing without stuttering.



Many standalone home DVD players (one connected to your TV) can play DivX-AVI files simply burned as data files to a blank CD or DVD without actually "authoring" a DVD movie project. Check if your home DVD player says DivX on the front



. If so you can watch these in the living room with the family instead of on the computer screen. Maybe start with some " war porn " to get the kids interested , before the longer CIA and economy discussions. I converted these videos to AVI-DivX-3 video format and/or MP3 audio-only format and reduced them in size from 250mb to approximately 150mb, and 40mb for audio-only. (Several vids are around 200mb, due to more important visual content. One file is 384mb, because it's 2 hours instead of 1 hour.)



This reduction to about 288 kbps video (approx YouTube bandwidth) (and a few at 384 kbps) , from 512 kbps on Archive.org, is a compromise that does not seriously harm the quality, slight increase in blocky artifacts, because the original is like low quality VHS-tape for old television. Much of it is people talking in a studio , with facial expressions and gestures, occasionally showing some photos or drawings. Some video includes films by outside documentary makers, offered to Alternative Views .



If your Windows Media Player cannot play these , do not install a CODEC pack like K-Lite, instead get the free Xvid CODEC. Another choice is to install SMPLAYER or Videolan VLC, and set that in Preferences to play AVI files (uncheck "Windows" types). These two are nice standalone players which don't risk messing up Windows by embedding codec files in the core system. SMPLAYER and VLC have versions for Linux and Mac. Mac and Linux users can also use Quicktime and many other players.



Since these are "old school" DivX version-3, Avi format, these videos can easily be authored to a DVD using DVDFlick or DeVeDe or other free programs. I'm not positive how Windows Movie Maker treats multiple video files. You can author four or more 1-hour videos to a DVD project folder on your hard drive , then burn the VIDEO_TS folder to a blank DVD, choosing DVD movie burn format.



You really need to comprehend Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) to view your hard drives and folders, if you want to locate files and use them. Many people just click Web links, and have no comprehension of file management or how folders are organized.



I sometimes like to pack more onto a disk by "overburning" the DVD project to larger than the standard 4.8 GB size of most DVD blanks. Next, I use DVDShrink to reduce that to 4.8 GB. For obsessives, the next step can present the opportunity to use PGCEdit to fix minor "flaws" in the project folder created by DVDShrink, to quickly create a more standardized and reliable ISO "image" of a DVD on your hard drive. This temporarily uses another 4 GB of space, until the ISO file or the parent project folder is deleted.



Since DVDShrink analyzes the video stream for motion vs. static content before starting compression, it avoids injecting too much visual distortion if you don't go overboard with the oversizing and shrinking. Next, I burn the DVD project or ISO using ImgBurn . You may have Roxio, Nero, or other programs.



A few home DVD players won't play burned DVDs, probably due to defects. However -- this is more technical -- it's possible to download a "flash" utility from CDfreaks to update the chip-BIOS inside the burner with a modified BIN file. This allows you to set the burner to write a bit-set to the blank DVD that fools the home player into thinking it's a store-bought pressed DVD.



==================== Inside the CIA On Company Business Part 1 - The History [VHS]

Informative and disturbing (Amazon.com)

A bold and upfront explanation of the real aims of covert U.S. foreign policy since World War II. Directed by Allan Francovich, also director of Houses are Full of Smoke. After World War II, the CIA was established not so much to fight Communism, as was often stated, but rather to undermine or overthrow any government and foreign political movements that got in the way of U.S. business interests and U.S. access to these foreign countries' natural resources. Undermining economies, spreading propaganda, and intimidation through torture and assassination were our tactics. The `dirty work' was generally carried out by local criminals who had no idea why they were hired to do what they were doing. This way the CIA operatives kept their hands clean and were not the objects of retaliation.



Although we were much kinder on our allies (most of Western Europe) we did try very hard to destroy the European left, which was very strong after WWII. For example, the CIA hired the Corsican mafia to break up labor unions in Southern Italy because we felt the unions were becoming too powerful. The documentary is essentially narrated by former CIA agents who tell their stories, many of whom have also written books about their experiences with the agency.



The most controversial figure is Philip Agee who had his U.S. passport taken away for revealing the names of certain CIA agents (apparently this is an act of treason, although when the Bush administration did it to take revenge on Joe Wilson for telling the U.S. that Saddam Hussein was not a threat to U.S. security, it was ok). There is also an interview with a hired assassin, or mercenary, almost too strange to believe.

Inside the CIA, Vol. 2 - Assassination [VHS] From the Back Cover

The Central intelligence Agency is the government's most controversial branch-with a controversial mission to match. This clandestine mission to match. This clandestine organization'' secret methods and undefined goals have been the topic of much speculation…until now! Inside the CIA: On Company Business is a long and penetrating look inside one of the world's most powerful secret organizations. This long suppressed, award-winning tape shows you the CIA of today and its role in the political intrigues of the recent past. Part 2 - Assassination It's been a "Company" secret for many years…until this videotape! Assassination as a tool of our country's foreign policy has always been kept under wraps-until key ex-agents tell their shocking stories to our cameras. Now you can learn for the first time of plots by the CIA to murder the leaders of various governments around the world, including Fidel Castro.

Can't find Part 3







