War party / movie Customer Review: I’d love to see this with the “alternate” ending!
It is my understanding that this movie was filmed with another ending, which was in the original script. The “other” ending has the Governor surrendering to the Tribe. Of course, it ended up on the editing room floor. How about a DVD with this ending? Are you listening Corporate America?

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by Stephen Lendman Note: This is the third of a five-part seriesPart 1, Part 2, Part 3. The Preeminent Newspaper Dedicated to the Interests of Business and Industry - The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal began publishing in 1889 seven years after its parent Dow Jones & Company was founded in 1882 by Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser whose name never became prominent maybe because it wasn’t as catchy as the other two. For many years, the Journal had the largest newspaper circulation in the country until the forgettable USA Today overtook it. What USA Today didn’t overtake was this paper’s influence that reaches virtually all those holding positions of power and prominence in business and government and many beyond. It’s news pages also put out the kind of information its high-powered readers need to know and is usually out in front breaking stories regarding happenings in business and industry providing enough context to explain it well. It’s quite another story on the Journal’s editorial page where hard right opinion ideology nearly always trumps any attempt to stick to the facts, but it’s red meat for its adherents. The paper states its editorial philosophy up front as favoring “free markets” and “free people” that comes down to supporting all things good for the corporate community and all state policy doing the same, including waging wars of aggression when they’re good for business as they always are as long as they go as planned, and even if they don’t up to the point where policy followed looks to have more of a future profit downside than the bottom line benefits of the moment. Journal editorial writers also take a particularly belligerent stance against foreign leaders following an independent course, forgetting “who’s boss,” and being unwilling to serve our interests ahead of those of their own people. Case in point, and any of several stand out prominently - Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela under Hugo Chavez who on December 3 won a landslide reelection victory (greater than any in US history after 1820 when elections here became partisan contests regularly) under a model democratic process lauded by hundreds of independent observers from around the world (including the Carter Center in the US) and shaming the way elections are run in this country that reek with taint and fraud. But here’s what editorial writer Mary Anastasia O’Grady (whom this writer has clashed with before) had to say about it in her post-election December 8 article titled “The Best Election Money Could Buy,” a clear example of yellow journalism and disinformation dripping with the kind of vitriol and venom O’Grady excels in. She claims “Chavez supporters had more than once shot and killed unarmed civilians with impunity,” but doesn’t mention a shred of evidence to prove it because there is none and it never happened. She speaks of Chavez’s “feared National Guard pour(ing) out of a military vehicle….and armies of informal government enforcers known as chavistas (this writer is proudly one as it means someone supporting Hugo Chavez and his enlightened democratic and social policies)” on another side of a street. She refers to their presence as “lawlessness” ignoring the fact that the military was there in case of disorder, (there was none) and the chavistas were massed on the streets in a post-election joyous celebration unlike anything ever seen in the US. O’Grady likely couldn’t understand the people of Venezuela love their president and went to the streets to show it. O’Grady continued saying she “never believed Fidel Castro’s ‘mini-me’ would be defeated….even though there is scant evidence that a majority of Venezuelans back his socialist revolution.” Did this woman just arrive from another planet? The independent pre-election polls gave Chavez an insurmountable 30 point edge, and the final results independently judged free, fair and open gave him a smashing nearly two to one victory over his only serious opponent representing the interests of wealth and power the great majority of people in the country rejects that shows a clear endorsement of Chavez’s Revolution. Nonetheless, O’Grady wasn’t deterred claiming (with no evidence, of course) “a Chavez victory could (only) be had ‘legally’ through a combination of coercion, manipulation and the liberal use of state funds” - again editorial bombast that’s totally unfounded. O’Grady says nothing about opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, chosen in Washington, getting millions of US-funded covert dollar support, something that never would be tolerated here by a foreign government in a US election or a foreign corporation. She cites the “independent electoral watchdog group known as Sumate” for another phony complaint, again failing to disclose this organization was formed in 2002, is funded by the Bush administration to subvert the democratic process in Venezuela, and was involved in the signature collection process in the run-up to the failed recall election in 2004 trying to unseat Hugo Chavez.

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The World’s Reserve Currency
by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) The financial press reported last week that the euro, the new currency created only five years ago and used by most European nations, has supplanted the U.S. dollar as the most widely used form of cash internationally. There are now more Euros in circulation worldwide than dollars. This alone is not necessarily troubling, as the dollar remains the world’s most important reserve currency. About 65% of foreign central bank exchange reserves are still held in dollars, versus only about 25% in euros. And the European Central Bank faces the same inflationary pressures that our own Federal Reserve Bank Governors face, including a growing entitlement burden that threatens economic ruin as both societies age. European politicians want to spend money just as badly as American politicians, and undoubtedly will clamor to inflate - and thus devalue - the euro to fund their creaky social welfare systems. Still, the rise of the Euro internationally is another sign that the U.S. dollar is not what it used to be. There is increasing pressure on nations to buy and sell oil in euros, and anecdotal evidence suggests that drug dealers and money launderers now prefer euros to dollars. Historically, the underground cash economy has always sought the most stable and valuable paper currency to conduct business. More importantly, our greatest benefactors for the last twenty years - Asian central banks - have lost their appetite for holding U.S. dollars. China, Japan, and Asia in general have been happy to hold U.S. debt instruments in recent decades, but they will not prop up our spending habits forever.

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