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Interview with a film maker

Written by Mark White on August 11, 2012 - 0 Comments

a small undergarment business

a night club in Chicago

the city of Chicago was in flames

the year of the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968

Past Continuous Tense

I was having a concert at my club.

Present Continuous Tense

What are these paddy wagons doing here?

They are raiding me.

We are being raided.

Past Simple Tense

I didn’t quite understand it.

Then I moved back to new York where I met Bette Midler.

I produced the Rose and that led me to proding “Trading Places”.

It is the best Eddie Murphy movie.

I am very proud of my work that i have done as a film maker.

I was a pretty big silver and gold trader.

I always paid my taxes.

i took a legal tax deduction on my silver trade.

They claimed that it was now illegal.

But they made it retroactive.

You owe us six hundred thousand dollars.

We went to court.

The judge agreed with the IRS and said they could do it retroactively.
That was when i knew there is something wrong with the system.

How do you have penalties and interests on something when they retroactively change the law?

the IRS and the whole bankers scam .. and I want to discuss that with you here

The Banking System

In 1913 they bring the federal reserve system into being.

incorporated in Delaware

How are we going to pay them interest?

It was the Grace Commission Report.

They started taxing us.

Social security started.

The Currency System

no more cash

all money will be in those chips

total control

you can’t buy food

everything is in there

they want a one world government controlled by them

Can you be specific about when you met Rockefeller?

He had seen the video and wanted to meet me.
I met him and I liked him.
He was a very smart man.

He was the one who told me

we were going to invade iraq

and go after Chavez in Venezuala

there is going to be this war on terror

Existence

and there is no real enemy

Past Continuous Tense

he was laughing

the next lie was to go into Iraq

it is a fraud
it is a farce

THIS WHOLE WAR ON TERROR IS A FRAUD!

It emanates from 911.

Link to Vancouver Hearings on 911

As much as i like you Nick, your way is not my way.

I don’t believe in enslaving people.

What do you care about them?
What do you care about those people?

It was just a lack of caring.

It was just cold.

what is the point?
what is the end goal?

The end goal is to get everybody chipped.

We funded that.

There were two primary reasons.

We get the kids in school at an early age.

a noble thing

The truth is America has become a communist .. a socialist country …

my friendship with Nick Rockefeller ..

I was a guy who was very successful in the movie business

rather than me opposing them … to join them

KMA – kiss my ass

Why are you fighting for the people for?
what is that about?
The people have to be ruled.

I don’t believe that.
I believe God put me on this earth.

I don’t understand why you want to control everything.

So it is compartmentalised within the elite structure as well.

They think it is good for business.
They don’t know what is really happening.

What happened in 911 is a phony.

What did you think o the morning of 911.

I was actually in Tahiti.

I was in Tahiti.

I was asleep.

Nobody knows how Building Seven came down.

It is a phony.
It is a fraud.

Plot the Sequence

911 New York
Afghanistan
Iraq
Iran
Egypt
Libya
Syria

the fact is it all goes back to this war on terror

until we have a full investigation

find out why they shipped all the steel out so quickly

one of the things we discussed

reducing world population

want to reduce world population

reduce by a half

a real problem trying to solve the Israel problem

Adverb

unbelievable!

We have given these people the authority to create money.

It is only because they make money that they can have all this power?

Why does the American government borrow money from the banks when they can create it without paying interest.

It will create inflation.

You wouldn’t have debt and you wouldn’t have inflation.

the Federal reserve
the Bank of England
the Bundes Bank

One World Government

Written by Mark White on July 10, 2012 - 60 Comments

What do you think of the idea of one world government?

Do you think it is a good idea?

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One world government or one all powerful economic corporation?

Which is more powerful, the government or private companies?

What do you think?

Write your answer in the comments section at the bottom of this page.

An Interview with a Spanish journalist

Read the vocabulary and listen to the audio.

How much do you understand?
It is not necessary to understand a hundred per cent.

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

has been meeting

Noun Phrases

the Bilderbergers – a group of politicians and business people

the Venetian black nobility

the financiers of Hitler

Opposites

the domain of conspiracy theories – historical fact

Passive Voice

a counter attack on the principles on which the United States of America were founded

Noun Phrases

one world government
the new world order
the ideology of money
one world company limited

Comparatives

Financial concerns are far more powerful than any government on earth.

Present Continuous Tense

Europe is being directed through Brussels.

Noun Phrases

The Spanish constitution is subordinate to the European constitution.

one of the senior European Union representatives from Italy

Look at these past participles:

obviously surprised and astonished him

Noun Phrases

One World Company Limited

The European Presidents
the President of Canada
the sitting US President
top 50 or 60 CEOs of worlds leading corporations
all of the European royalty
the European Central Bank
the World Bank

Metaphor

mammoth representatives

Functions – An Apology

I am sorry … you are going to have to repeat that. there is a lot of noise here.

Adverbs

Obviously not literally but figuratively

Noun Phrase (plural)

curious Italian media representatives

Noun Phrase – singular and plural (mass noun)

the world scheme

Idioms and Adverbial Phrases

Russia is very much a part of it

or a victim of it

the oil price

a fall to about thirty dollars a barrel

China and Russia

Present Continuous Tense

if you can destroy the oil price and push it down, you are destroying the Russian economy

Gerund as adjective

fascinating theories

a figurative atomic bomb taking off in the European Parliament

Summer Solstice

Written by Mark White on June 21, 2012 - 0 Comments

A British comedian has a serious view

Written by Mark White on June 21, 2012 - 0 Comments

Is he a medical doctor?

Written by Mark White on May 30, 2012 - 1 Comment

Vocabulary

a doctor
a medical doctor

The Future – Future Tense

Written by Mark White on May 10, 2012 - 0 Comments

The Education System – The Education Paradigm

Written by Mark White on May 3, 2012 - 1 Comment

Let’s embrace the future together.

What do you think about education and study?
Do you agree with the viewpoint of the speaker?

Vocabulary

Metaphors

It is crucial – it is very very important.

Cruce – crux – cross

What does the word “paradigm” mean?

It means “way of looking at it” or “worldview”.

The Story – The Plot – Past Simple Tense

Written by Mark White on May 1, 2012 - 1 Comment

This story moves between past simple tense and present simple tense.

It describes events in past simple tense. It describes circumstances and situations in present simple tense.

phrases

I am afraid I would have to start

we do not really need a world government.

a single government elected by the people of the world

People are worried about the situation with Iran and some kind of wider conflict happening there

probably from the point of view of the United States is the thing that we would be most concerned about.

The current structure of world institutions is not fair.

Asians are sixty five per cent of the world population.

I think it is an issue that understandably and legitimately is raised by the nations with a smaller percentage

the world situation was a totally different one…

This should be addressed.

An Interview with Joseph Kony

Written by Mark White on March 18, 2012 - 3 Comments


The Invisible Children

Written by Mark White on March 18, 2012 - 3 Comments


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