Propaganda Alert: Wall Street "Exposé" Inside Job, Directed by CFR Shill

Admittedly though, you have to be quite naive to think that a genuine expose of Wall Street could even see the light of day in Hollywood, considering the corporate nature of media ownership. After a short Internet search, things begin to fall into place.

‘Inside Job’ is directed by Charles H. Ferguson. His past works include a film called ‘No End in Sight – The American Occupation of Iraq’ – a piece critical of the Bush administration’s management of the war in Iraq. So far, so good. Sort of. The alarming thing about Ferguson is his lifelong membership of the Council on Foreign Relations. See CFR’s private membership roster and Ferguson’s Wikipedia page.

CFR is a think tank which, in a nutshell, exists to shape the US international agenda in favour of its corporate members. CFR’s corporate roster is here, and it makes for some startling reading. The founding member corporations of CFR are as follows:

* Bank of America Merrill Lynch
* Chevron Corporation
* Exxon Mobil Corporation
* Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
* Hess Corporation
* McKinsey & Company, Inc.
* The Nasdaq OMX Group
(I’ve added the emphases for obvious reasons).

How can a ‘lifelong member’ of this global banking and Big Oil corporate cabal make such an exposé? Well, Ferguson’s membership of CFR does not constitute a conflict of interest as one might surmise. Instead, it illustrates his real motives; his film is not an exposé, it is a distraction.  link