We discuss the career of actor Eddie Murphy and focus on 48 HOURS, BEVERLY HILLS COPS, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR and... of course... NORBIT.

Listen to exclusive episodes at www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub

Check out Justin's other podcast THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie) as well as Will's other podcast MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub
Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ
Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ

#250 - Eddie Murphy Can Turn It On and Off

Economist Michael Hudson continues his discussion of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire with a focus on US monetary imperialism; President Trump’s demand for lower interest rates undercuts America’s requirement for foreign investment to fund its domestic and balance of payments deficit, increases the carry trade and turns IMF and World Bank policies on the US; analysis of US economic domination of the world from its position as the world’s largest creditor post-WWI; analysis of US economic domination of the world from its position as the world’s largest debtor after the 1971 close of America’s gold window; emergence of the dollar-debt standard; how war has bankrupted the US; the difference between imperialism and super imperialism; US bribes foreign governments; China’s banking system; China and Russia stockpile gold as the world breaks out of dollar domination.

Aired:  June 26, 2019

Visit Guns and Butter at: www.gunsandbutter.org
Subscribe to our newsletter at: eepurl.com/bmg4zf

Guns and Butter 408

De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire - Dr. Michael Hudson, #408

Presentation by former Oklahoma state official, Charles Key, and investigative journalist, Chris Emery, on the April 19th, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.  Recorded in Washington, D.C. at the 9/11 Truth Convergence at American University.

Aired: August 17, 2005

Visit Guns and Butter at: www.gunsandbutter.org
Subscribe to our newsletter at: eepurl.com/bmg4zf

Program 73

The Oklahoma City Bombing:  Prelude To 9/11 -Charles Key and Chris Emery, #73

The insiders around Ronald Reagan including fixer Roy Cohn and Estee Lauder billionaire, Ronald Lauder; Cohn’s influential power within the media, both print and broadcast, including many of his famous friends; Ronald Reagan’s ties to organized crime through Lew Wasserman and talent agency MCA; Ronald Lauder’s connections to the Mega Group, the World Jewish Congress and Israel; Jeffrey Epstein’s Austrian passport; the White House Call Boys Network during Bush senior’s administration; savings and loan scandals; the Franklin Cover-Up; FBI protecting pedophile rings; the Clintons’ connections to Iran/Contra while in Arkansas; Jackson Stephens’ complex financial web, connections to the Rose Law Firm, BCCI and Systematics; speculation as to why Jeffrey Epstein re-arrested on July 7th; the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board SFFAS 56 – Classified Activities.

Aired: September 4, 2019

Visit Guns and Butter at: www.gunsandbutter.org
Subscribe to our newsletter at: eepurl.com/bmg4zf

Guns and Butter 411

From Reagan to Clinton: Organized Crime, Intelligence and Human Trafficking - Whitney Webb, #411

We discuss the broader geopolitical ramifications of the September 11th terrorist attacks, including the attack on Afghanistan, the Global War on Terror, and the Western Military Alliance support for the terrorists; attack on Afghanistan prepared long before 9/11; Osama bin Laden an intelligence asset; Bushes, et.al., business partners with the bin Ladens; earlier history of Afghanistan before the Soviet intervention; Afghanistan becoming a modern nation; US imperialism the destroyer of countries; assassination of the leader of the Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Massoud; the cultivation of opium poppy; Afghanistan a major transport corridor for oil and gas; mineral resources; Islamic fundamentalism a strategy of US intelligence to indoctrinate and recruit jihadists; extension of al Qaeda worldwide; US losing control of Afghanistan and Pakistan to China; pre-emptive nuclear war doctrine.

Aired: September 18, 2019

Visit Guns and Butter at: www.gunsandbutter.org
Subscribe to our newsletter at: eepurl.com/bmg4zf

Guns and Butter 413

The Post 9/11 Era - Michel Chossudovsky, #413

Douglas Valentine explains the 1960s CIA Vietnam torture and extermination program known as "Phoenix" which later went on to be perfected and deployed in war zones around the world after 9/11 and which has come home to roost in the United States through the creation of a permanent surveillance and police state under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, Fusion Centers, NSA bulk data collection, and numerous other programs. He explains how both political parties are two sides of the same coin and how the pandemic has advanced the interests of the security state.

*Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire:
SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics
PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics
Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate

Show Notes
USA Torture Vietnamese Phoenix Program (BBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMtD3pCch0s

Websites
Douglas Valentine http://www.douglasvalentine.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/doug.valentine.71
Doug Valentine BOOKS http://www.douglasvalentine.com/works.htm

About Douglas Valentine
Douglas Valentine is an American journalist and author of four works of historical non-fiction: The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, The Strength of the Wolf (winner of the Choice Academic Library Award), and The Strength of the Pack. His articles have appeared regularly in CounterPunch, ConsortiumNews, and elsewhere.

Portions of his research materials are archived at the National Security Archive (both a Vietnam Collection and a separate Drug Enforcement Collection), Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center, and John Jay College. He provided expert testimony at the King v Jowers trial on the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination at the request of the King family.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Doug Valentine: How the CIA's Phoenix Program Gave Birth to the Police State #163

On this week's,Global Research News Hour, we recall aspects of World War II which reveals the sordid aspects of Canada, the U.S. and the UK and their original support for the Nazis. In our first half hour, Richard Sanders discusses the former Prime Minister's high regard for Hitler and the anti soviet Eastern European Emigres who came to Canada. In our second half hour, Canadian Historian Jacques Pauwels explains how US and UK support for the Nazis affected the conference at Yalta and how the US altered its strategy in 1945 and beyond.

The Never Ending War During the Time We Should Never Forget

PB196 - DAP(sold)

Disquiet Junto Project 0469: [Missing in Caption]. The Assignment: Make music that pushes the constraints of descriptive television captions.

In one scene of this old war movie, the man is saying goodbye to go to another well-founded, short and successful war, and his wife is deeply worried.

The bells call to battle, the wife struggles to find parting words, and even the worn-out VHS tape is deeply moved.

Whispering provided by these two CC0 samples:
https://freesound.org/people/geoneo0/sounds/193818/
https://freesound.org/people/LadyImperatrix/sounds/503270/ <- the heartbreaking words!

Image based on David Monies: The Farewell
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monies-Farewell.jpg

More on this 469th weekly Disquiet Junto project:
https://disquiet.com/0469/
Project discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0469-missing-in-caption/

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

[overly heartbreaking farewell music] ____ [disquiet0469]

Artist, activist and filmmaker, John Parulis, recounts his early mystical attachment to the land; his immersion in the eastern mysticism movement in a San Francisco ashram; his recruitment into Greenspeace’s Rainbow Warrior trawler missions as a videographer; the mission to interfere with Japanese factory boat operations in the Bering Sea; a dangerous mission to Lorino in Soviet Siberia to expose an illegal Soviet whaling operation in order to save endangered whales; the mission to the South Pacific Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands to rescue indigenous people off of their island that had been irradiated by a huge nuclear test on Bikini Atoll; the mission to Moruroa Atoll to help indigenous people fight French underwater nuclear testing; Greenpeace infiltrated by French intelligence; the blowing up of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor.


Aired: October 7, 2020

Visit Guns and Butter at: www.gunsandbutter.org
Subscribe to our newsletter at: eepurl.com/bmg4zf

Guns and Butter 427

The Rainbow Warrior:  Early Campaigns - John Parulis, #427

On this week's Global Research News Hour, we dive even deeper down the rabbit hole of the COVID vaccines and the numerous fictions associated with the pandemic in order to effortlessly accomplish the dreaded Great Reset. In our first half hour, Dr Chris Shaw spells out his opposition to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines from a neuroscientific perspective. In our second half hour, after a brief review of many of the myths of the pandemic, we get the overview on the Great Reset from author Diana Johnstone author of the November article The Great Pretext...for Dystopia!

The Vaccines, The Plunder, and the Arrival of the Great Reset

Guns and Butter investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Show list: http://gunsandbutter.snappages.com/archived-show-list.htm.  

Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Guns and Butter reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state. Subscribe free to the newsletter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org/membership.htm