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Synopsis: The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society. Four Horsemen is free from mainstream media propaganda, doesn't bash bankers, criticize politicians or get involved in conspiracy theories. The film ignites the debate about how we usher a new economic paradigm into the world which, globally, would dramatically improve the quality of life for billions.
Genre: Documentary, News
Director(s): Ross Ashcroft
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
97 min
1,913 Views


Perhaps there's this feeling of helplessness

because we don't understand

what the real problem actually is.

Cleansing a few bad apples

will not rectify the flaws at the heart

of the western economic system

a system that should be protecting people

is in fact the very thing

that is enabling our four horsemen

to ride with such vengeance

The modern day Four Horsemen

our repatious financial system,

escalised organised violence,

abject poverty for billions,

and the exhaustion of the earths resources

are riding roughshored over those

who can least afford it

They gallop unchallenged

because the cognitive map

that has been put in place by

our schools and universities and our media

does not encourage us to question

accepted norms.

Instead there is apathy.

In a sense i think we're a rather

depressed society,

we've got used to that there's nothing

that can be done,

there is no alternative.

That we're never gonna deal

with these environmental problems

and we live in a dog eat dog society and that's it.

I think what we have to take away from this

is a recognition

that most of these problems

can be very substantially improved

by making our societies more equal,

reducing the income differences,

and that also helps us to solve

the environmental problems

we can reach a society that is

qualitatively better for all of us

All the apathy is sort of engineered

because we don't have any discussion of this

in the public media

hardly by surprise the public media are owned by

the real estate and the financial interrests

and they're not going to explain to people

the integration between the financial,

insurance and real estate sectors the fire-sector

There's this disinformation going on

passing the buck

denying what the real driving factors are

All of these are common strategies

in fact even in education

you can see that banks have helped to

set up universities, they funded them.

They fund think tanks,

they have educational foundations,

they own newspapers.

All of this stuff is going on as a

kind of propaganda excersise

so that the people

won't actually work out what the problem is.

You should not assume because...

...you dont have a background in

economics and law,

that this issue is to complex to you

They're not complex at all,

it's very simple,

it's about power and about democracy

and you understand that just as well as I do.

One source of this disinformation

is the neoclassical school of economics

These economists and academics

have been successful in

convincing the world that their models

we're gospel

but just as Gutenbergs printing press

was revolutionary

in the 16'th century,

today we're at the dawn of

internet enlightenment which

will remove the cloud of ignorance upheld

by academic and media gatekeepers.

Education can be a form of mass mind control,

and it's astonishing that today

neo classical economics

continues to be taught in all ivy

league universities

I do get letters from students in

economics departments

from other universities

they're in to some graduate program

or something

and they say;

"You know I just read such and such as you wrote"

This is the kind of thing that interrests me,

"I am stuck in this program here in which"

"I can't even talk about that,

what is your advise?"

"What can I do?"

What they're teaching you

is what you're going have to oppose

A lot of it, well some of it is useful,

so go ahead and learn it.

and the other reason for learning the rest of it, is...

Know your enemy.

An individual might not be able

to change the system

but they can change themselves

If we're not offered proper education,

we must begin our own

and a good place to start

is to become re-aquainted with

the classical economists

and with something that so few question,

but that affects us all,

our system of money

If the monetary system of

the world is not reformed

then we're heading to the end

of industrial civilisation

I won't say that we're going to

the end of humanity,

but it's just going to be an absolute

collapse of our world as we have known it

Because it can't function on FIAT money.

None of those who are responsible for this

want to admit it, but that is the fact

The FIAT system of money is a man made law,

and it has been abused.

Is there a form of money whose

law is not set by man?

When you look at natural law and gold,

I sort of describe gold as being

a natural form of money

All of the gold that has been mined

throughout history,

still exists in an above ground stock

at the size of about

two and a half olympic size swimming pools

if you put all that gold together in one place

The key is this that this above ground

stock of gold

grows about 1,75 percent per annum

which is approximately equal to

new world population growth

and approximately equal to new wealth creation

So the net result of this is that

you have this very good consistency in

golds purchasing power over long periods of time

because the supply demand equation

is very much in balance

To achieve human liberty

you really need to have sound money

and gold is the only way to do that

because only gold is outside of

the control of the politicians

With modern man made monetary processes

a chronic excess of debt

is built up at every level of society

debt is now regarded as normal...

..it isn't.

It's a form of slavery!

But how much do we question our debt?

and what should we now do about it?

The classic example,

most recently of a debt cancellation

was the German economic miracle in 1947

The Allies canceled all domestic and

international german debts

except for the debts that

employers owed their employees

for the previous few weeks.

And except for a basic working balance

that everybody

was able to keep in the bank

in order to buy food for the next few weeks or so.

Essentially you would follow the five or six pages

that the currency reform of 1947 did in germany.

You would start with a clean slate,

that means that everybody would own

their own property free and clear.

And the problem here is

that you would wipe off the savings

that are the counterparts of that

That actually would not be such a bad thing

if you look at the fact that the

wealthiest 1% of the Americans

have concentrated an enormous

amount of wealth in their own hands,

more than any earlier time

since statistics have been kept.

Our system of taxation also needs addressing

currently we're taxed on what we produce

perhaps it would be more progressive

to tax on what we consume

How many american people realise that

the founding fathers never intended

for americans to be taxed on their labour

in other words they we'ren't ment to pay income tax

The tax system that was exported from brittain,

a relic of colonialism, has duped the world.

The most important element of the tax system

is to do what everybody expect

it to be done in the 19'th century

and that is to base the tax system on land taxation,

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Ross Ashcroft

Ross Ashcroft is a British filmmaker, broadcaster and businessman. He is the host of the Renegade Economist show. more…

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