Posts Tagged ‘propaganda’

Despite the Blitz, it’s ‘business as usual’ as England prepares for Christmas in this propaganda film intended for US audiences. It’s a Christmas of holly and barbed wire, guns and tinsel, yet the British, we are told, are determined to make it as cheerful as possible. “England is fighting for her life”, asserts the American narrator, but it is admiration rather than pity that the film seeks to evoke. The filmmakers achieve this with emotions bigger than most 10-minute films could contain …

that were in trouble were so because of government mandated and threatened actions. It was the government who ordered the banks to write bad mortgage loans to people who would not have otherwise received such loans. Because of their credit history or other financial reason would not have qualified. After years of writing these government forced bad loans the system collapsed, thus forcing the government to bail out these institutions that were in trouble because of Uncle Sam. Plus some …