Titanic: The Real Story.

Today, 100-years ago, the "unsinkable" "Titanic", accompanied by an ostentatious display of fanfare, departed from the English port city, Southampton, on its ill-fated "maiden voyage". Why so many words enclosed by quotation marks? Read on - and watch - and you shall see.

Last month, I blogged about the social amnesia of the collective that followed the SS Eastland disaster, where  close to 1,000 people (wiping out 22 entire families) died within a span of 6-minutes, when the packed-to-the-gills, top-heavy streamlined ship tipped over in the Chicago River, merely 3-years after the sinking of the "Titanic". Well, it appears the deep-seated corruption that contributed to the Eastland horror show that dreadful morning, played an even bigger role on April 15, 1912 when 1,507 people lost their lives. Only, we certainly didn't forget this tragedy. Every single American over 6-years old can tell you exactly what happened that sorrowful day in history. Or, can they?

The following film is based on extensive research and includes evidence of both British and American inquiries, the eyewitness reports of survivors, newspapers of the day, photographs, film and radio broadcasts. The views and opinions are based on evidence and legitimate inference.

What you are about to see is a reconstruction of events behind the disaster and the reasons for it.

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The Titanic Movie You Never Saw, Nazi Style.

Titanic was a 1943 Nazi propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA. The film used the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a setting for an attempt to discredit British and American capitalist dealings and glorify the bravery and selflessness of Germanic men. The film is known for its extremely dark production history and, ironically, became the symbol of the corruption and "sinking" of the Third Reich itself.

Cult icon Sybille Schmitz, who would achieve everlasting fame twenty-seven years after her death when R. W. Fassbinder adapted her unhappy life into his famous film Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, has her most widely accessible role for today's audience in this film.

Titanic (In German with English subtitles):

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Holy Economic Plunder, Batman!

Hopefully President Barack Obama brings his bat cape, mobile and...oh yeah, Robin. Looks like he's going to need it because it appears we are under siege.

Was Paulson's "the sky is falling" reaction in September really an attempt to win the Academy Award for best actor in a real life drama? Sure seems that way.

President Bush and Mr. Paulson's calculated move to make "sweeping changes to two decades of tax policy" which "escaped the notice of lawmakers for several days, as they remained consumed with the controversial bailout bill" was not the act of panic stricken people trying to save the economy....that's for sure.

It's looking more and more like Paulson and Bush deliberately planned to send the economy plunging into the nearest iceberg, leaving we the people, to go down with the ship. (Remember all the people locked away in the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the Titanic - oh yeah, I think that's called the hull - that's us.)

"They basically repealed a 22-year-old law that Congress passed as a backdoor way of providing aid to banks." -- George K. Yin, the former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan congressional authority on taxes.

Keep in mind it is the job of leadership to qwell the panic, not create it, as Paulson did when addressing the American public, practically foaming at the mouth, telling us we must ACT NOW...right now, or ELSE! And then, he and his cohorts disappear into the "Riddle Factory" for a couple of days and present us with three pages stating that he must take over the world in order to save it.

In addition, keep in mind, there were warnings galore from the very highest levels of government, from non-profit organizations such as NACA Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America and from so many others like John Bogle, Daniel Schecter, Jared Bernstein, Naomi Klein, -- and speaking of icebergs, the names I just mentioned are only the tip.

No use, Joker! I knew you'd employ your sneezing powder, so I took an Anti-Allergy Pill! Instead of a SNEEZE, I've caught YOU, COLD! - Batman

Robin: "How about rushing the place, Batman?"
Batman: "Shh. I think not, Robin. All they've done so far is stolen a few items, attempted to kill you, me, and Batgirl. No, I think they plan something really big."

Obama better take his allergy meds!

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