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emazur
02-18-2009, 06:26 PM
I put this together myself from various clips (including very recent stuff) and added a small bit of original material - I believe it's the best compilation of material yet to convince people about what's wrong with our economic and political system and what we can do about it.

*edit: now divided into 6 parts*

- the creation of money, inflation and hyperinflation
http://blip.tv/file/1800745/
- The Federal Reserve
http://blip.tv/file/1801125/
- the banking/political power complex
http://blip.tv/file/1802381/
- national debt, stimulus
http://blip.tv/file/1802594/
- the road to liberty
http://blip.tv/file/1802911/
- capitalism and the free market
http://blip.tv/file/1803164


It's my first video and it's not perfect, but I put many hours into it and I hope it will help advance our cause. Enjoy

emazur
02-18-2009, 10:22 PM
It's been several hours since I posted this but not 1 person has downloaded it yet as far as I can tell. C'mon people, I worked hard on this! Is the torrent at least working? I'll be more lenient about the direct download - go ahead and grab it even if you won't post a mirror

coyote_sprit
02-18-2009, 10:27 PM
The torrent is stalled. I'm gonna download directly and use that as a seed file. You might want to compress it and upload it to Google video, that's the preferred media for pro liberty videos I've noticed.

emazur
02-18-2009, 10:53 PM
Ok, thanks. I tried the torrent again and I think it's working now (I think the problem is that I didn't feed my own torrent into the software I created it with - the directions I read didn't say I needed to and I thought it would seed automatically). I think Google/youtube would flag it if I uploaded there, I asked around the other day about where I could upload it to for streaming was recommended to PM a couple members here, I haven't heard back from them yet so I'm just making the file available for download for now

PeacePlan
02-18-2009, 11:15 PM
I will download it tonight - the torrent is working but I need my bandwidth for now. In a couple hours I will start getting it from you and help you seed it for a couple of days. I only run my torrents when i get done using my puter so I will not be a constant feed but 12 hrs a day or so.

IMO you should have made this an avi file and not flv

Epic
02-18-2009, 11:51 PM
my utorrent program says it has no seeds...

emazur
02-18-2009, 11:52 PM
I made it flv b/c Adobe Premier Elements doesn't export divx or xvid (sucks, I thought it did before I bought it), but for someone who wants to stream it on their private website the flv file is premade and doesn't need reencoding (and the clips I used were mostly from low-medium quality videos, so a reencode from avi to flv for streaming wouldn't be doing the video quality any favors).

emazur
02-18-2009, 11:55 PM
my utorrent program says it has no seeds...

Not sure what the deal is - this is my first homemade torrent (made with utorrent) and it says it's seeding (but only 62 MB uploaded so far)

RonPaulVolunteer
02-19-2009, 01:08 AM
Please compress it in a standard format like H264 so that all other media creation apps can open it directly without conversion. If I want to put this on a DVD, I need to convert it. I'm not interested in any kind of .flv files sorry.

PeacePlan
02-19-2009, 01:31 AM
Not sure what the deal is - this is my first homemade torrent (made with utorrent) and it says it's seeding (but only 62 MB uploaded so far)


I am getting the rest of it now and there should be 2 of us seeding by morning..

emazur
02-19-2009, 02:01 AM
Please compress it in a standard format like H264 so that all other media creation apps can open it directly without conversion. If I want to put this on a DVD, I need to convert it. I'm not interested in any kind of .flv files sorry.

To my knowledge Adobe Premier Elements will not let me export into that format. I can export to DVD mpeg. If there is positive reaction to this video and a demand for a DVD MPEG I may do a fresh encode to that format later and upload it.


I am getting the rest of it now and there should be 2 of us seeding by morning..
Sounds good

coyote_sprit
02-19-2009, 02:08 AM
You might need an xvid codec. Get it from here
http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html

If not search for an FLV to MKV/AVI converter off of download.com.

emazur
02-19-2009, 02:25 AM
It doesn't matter, as far as avi's go Premier Elements will only export to DV AVI format. The other available export formats are FLV, MPEG, WMV, and Quicktime. If I wanted xvid/divx/h264 I'd have to do another conversion after exporting from Premier the highest quality MPEG (or I suppose DV AVI). Though actually I'm short on hard disk space now - all the compressed flv clips I used for this project I converted into lossless avi before importing them to Premier Elements, and those are taking up a ton of hard disk space

SweetMona
02-19-2009, 11:51 AM
It's been several hours since I posted this but not 1 person has downloaded it yet as far as I can tell. C'mon people, I worked hard on this! Is the torrent at least working? I'll be more lenient about the direct download - go ahead and grab it even if you won't post a mirror


Is this video programmable with subtitle/captioning? I would download it right away... ;)

UtahApocalypse
02-19-2009, 12:04 PM
if you want to upload a torrent it would be best to put it on a tracker such as Pirate Bay.

emazur
02-19-2009, 12:55 PM
if you want to upload a torrent it would be best to put it on a tracker such as Pirate Bay.

The directions I read said to include these trackers (I don't really know much about trackers) which I did:
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce


Is this video programmable with subtitle/captioning? I would download it right away...

I don't know (this is my first video) but I'd really appreciate if someone could watch the video and offer some feedback

RonPaulVolunteer
02-19-2009, 02:24 PM
H264 is MPG4. If you export as a QuickTime container, you will have the choice to save it s an MPG4, which is H264.

emazur
02-19-2009, 02:25 PM
bump. utorrent is showing that nobody is downloading this torrent. To my knowledge, nobody has watched it based on a complete lack of feedback. I won't let this video be ignored!

emazur
02-19-2009, 02:33 PM
H264 is MPG4. If you export as a QuickTime container, you will have the choice to save it s an MPG4, which is H264.

Looks like I can do that and I'll get crackin' on a fresh reencode (will be slow I think), but in the meantime could someone at least watch the freakin' video already posted and comment on it?

UtahApocalypse
02-19-2009, 03:02 PM
.flv??? No thanx when someone posts a .avi or .wmv I will have a look.

emazur
02-19-2009, 03:17 PM
I'm not understanding this hatred towards FLV. When someone posts a youtube link, does everyone here say "FLV? Forget it!"? The only difference is that I'm not posting a streaming video link b/c I think it will be taken down by the video sharing sites, but I offered a pre-made FLV file to those are willing to stream it on their private sites (before starting this thread, I started another thread and PM'ed a couple people who might be willing to do so but haven't heard back from them). And until it's streaming somewhere, you can just download and watch on players like VLC or Media Player Classic. So why all the negative? I worked hard on this video to advance our cause and even offered a direct download and even offered to post a fresh reencode in a more popular format if this got a good buzz, but nobody is watching the thing and utorrent is still telling me nobody is downloading. And yes I am making an h264 file as we speak but damn is it slow to encode in that format (Premier Elements is telling me 40 hours are left for the 640x480, 800k preset which I chose). So that won't be posted for a couple days, and I'm wondering if i should even bother b/c best I can tell not 1 person has watched it so far.

RonPaulVolunteer
02-19-2009, 03:23 PM
No one releases anything in .flv, which is why no one is watching it. It's also a VIEW ONLY format, so people that want to burn it as a DVD can not. H264/MPG4 can be read on all platforms, and opened natively in all the major video production apps WITHOUT conversion. It's the best all-round format.

emazur
02-19-2009, 07:32 PM
But I don't see everyone refusing to watch youtube b/c all the vids are in flv format, and many people download those flv's as well. For most people I don't think their intention is to make DVD's, they just want to watch the file and save it to watch on demand later.
But anyway, you people will get your wish and the quicktime file will be uploaded 2 days later (I added a few great clips to this revision, so it's even better), but in the meantime will some PLEASE watch the freaking flv and tell me what you think. If anyone doesn't know how to watch flv files, just download VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
works on windows/mac/linux.
And actually you can open the FLV files in some videoediting software without converting even if the app doesn't support importing of FLV. The app needs to support importing of .avs - which is just a text file for a "wrapper" for a program called Avisynth. You download Avisynth,
make a textfile with the extension .avs instead of .txt, and in that textfile give the path of the flv file. For example:
DirectShowSource("h:\youtube_vid.flv", fps =25.00)
and open that .avs file in Virtualdub or TMPEGenc or Adobe Premier (Premier requires a free plugin, but I've found it's not 100% reliable) or some others. To get the fps, you need to download a free program called Mediainfo, right click the flv and open with MediaInfo and it will tell you the fps

emazur
02-20-2009, 01:35 AM
Streaming video now available:
http://www.firstbastion.com/junostemple.html

Updated version of this video will be coming soon.

Chase
02-20-2009, 02:03 AM
I've started watching it, looks interesting.

emazur
02-20-2009, 01:05 PM
bump

emazur
02-20-2009, 06:05 PM
I'm gonna keep bumping this til at least 5 people watch and tell me what you thought of it

Feelgood
02-20-2009, 11:47 PM
Hoyl crap. A 1 gig FLV file? Wow! I was going to set it up to stream, but I guess you have that taken care of. :)

emazur
02-21-2009, 12:24 AM
Well it's streaming for now - if you're interested in streaming it I'd encourage you to do so (though actually I'll be making an updated version soon). But somebody please LMK what you think of the content!

emazur
02-21-2009, 01:03 AM
edit: sorry, double post

eric_cartman
02-21-2009, 03:59 AM
hey man... is the link to the streaming video the same as the 1gig torrent? same video and everything?

and what's the "updated version" ?

i'll watch it tomorrow during a big poker grind session. looking forward to it

emazur
02-21-2009, 04:10 AM
Yeah, the torrent is exactly the same as the streaming vid.

The updated version is about 3 or 4 mins longer with a few tweaks and includes clips of Ayn Rand warning of the dangers of socialism, regulation, government getting in bed with robber barrons, economic collapse; and former governor Gary Johnson saying we need to end the Fed. I will first upload it in Quicktime .mov format as requested (I would have done so already but it crashed during the encoding process), and then I'll do a fresh encode of the update in flv and stream that.

Glad you're interested, be sure to let me know what you think when you're finished.

emazur
02-21-2009, 05:08 PM
I haven't seemed to have gotten through to anyone yet so I guess I have to try and "sell" this grassroots video to what is supposed to be a grassroots movement. Here goes...

With the recent crisis, many people are upset with both the state of the economy, the bailouts, U.S. policies, and our politicians. Juno's Temple is my attempt to put it all together - not just for the sake of Ron Paul followers and Libertarians but for those who have been disenfranchised with the 2 major parties and are looking for answers. This video uses audio and video clips from everywhere under the sun, both from the underground and from mainstream sources that people find easier to trust.

Part I, The Creation of Money: Where does money come from? It's created out of thin air from the both Fed and the banking system! See and hear MANY clips from mainstream media such as PBS, Associated Press, and the Wallstreet Journal admitting as much, as well as Fed officials and top economists confirming it. There was so much that I didn't even need to include Ron Paul in Part I (but he will later on). By the end, nobody new to the subject should have any doubt that money is created out of thin air, and those who are not new to the subject have plenty of new sources they can refer to instead of just quoting Ron Paul. And Part I ends with a scary clip of just how much money has been created as of late and what the consequences might be.

Part II, The Federal Reserve. Opens with a music video about how the Fed destroys everything it touches - with pictures and quotes that will rile anyone up. Quotes from Bastiat's The Law that accurately describes how the Fed is a tool of plunder for the policymakers, Clinton's ex Secretary of Labor saying the Fed and the Treasury make policies for the benefit of Wall Street, Fucked-up quotes from Bernanke and Greenspan, the history of Jackson vs the central bank, the formation of the Fed at Jekyll Island, quotes from historical U.S. figures discussing an invisible government, and everyone who has been fighting the Fed since. Very fast paced (you'll probably need to watch it more than once - cramming the core issues of the Fed into a 5 minute music video was a challenge)

Then we have clips of everyone under the sun blaming the Fed for the crisis - Steve Forbes, Senator Jim Bunning, Peter Schiff, Max Keiser, Marc Faber, Thomas Woods, Jim Rogers, & Dennis Kucinich (again Ron Paul will come later). If you have a problem convincing people that the Fed caused the crisis b/c it seems Ron Paul is the only one saying so, you'll have plenty of ammo to convince the skeptics that maybe the Fed did cause the trouble. After the blame game, we've got clips from the JBS, G. Edward Griffin, Fiat Empire explaining what the Fed is, and then we've got Cody Willard on Fox saying we need to fight the Fed, and that transitions into TV news coverage from the End the Fed Rallies.

Part III - Government gets in bed with the big bankers and corporations. I'm quite proud of this section. Clips of Kucinich vs KashKari, Ron Paul dismissing Geithner, IMF guy saying the bankers trump the president ~ the problems with lobbyists, and Jim Rogers attacking the Fed, Geithner, and the solution of debt (the updated version I'm working on also has an Ayn Rand clip)

Part IV - Debt. Katie Couric discussing debt; the bullshit manner in which the stimulus bill was passed; a humor clip from Reason on the Stimulus; NPR describing J.M. Keynes in a negative manner, Cato Institute attacking the stimulus, Obama and Bush are the same on monetary policy, and several clips describing the devestating consequences of debt, and how children and future generations will be eating the cost. Anyone pro-stimulus or sitting on the fence should at least rethink their stance after watching this.

Part V - The Path to Liberty. How are the 2 parties doing? Judge Andrew Napolitano attacks both parties, followed by 'The Philosopy of Liberty' video, followed by Drew Carey introducing us to the 'Nanny State Nation', and my solution to the problem (Libertarians and Ron Paul).

Part VI - Capitalism and the free market. It is revealed that we don't have a free market and Greenspan himself confirms it. It is revealed that government regulators were part of the problem, and Ron Paul questions Paul Volker and Volker confirms that regulation isn't gonna solve anything. It's the system that's at fault, and we need to return to gold and silver as money. Then we look at how close we came to disaster (and that the government KNEW disaster was coming), and what the consequences would have been. We show banks being consolidated into fewer and larger entities, and this is what brought down Iceland, then we see a historical clip of Ron Paul showing that he's been on the ball for more than 20 years. Then a humor clip on fiat money, then Milton Friedman describing the benefits of capitalism, and finally... that revolution is the answer if that's what it takes.

So c'mon people, doesn't this sound like something worth watching? A large portion of these clips I found from my digg network, but a good chunk I found both myself and b/c of fellow RPF'ers and I even thanked you guys in the credits, but you continue to ignore this video. will you just please watch it and give your opinion? Like I said I worked hard on this to advance our cause, but I'm being ignored here. You've got a streaming video now, and a downloadable .mov file coming soon, so no excuses!

RonPaulVolunteer
02-21-2009, 07:02 PM
OK, I started watching the streaming version you put online. Honestly, I couldn't make it to the 6 minute mark, and you're lucky I made it through that BS music. You expect someone to sit through 3 hours of this? Fail!

emazur
02-21-2009, 09:00 PM
Well the first 6 mins are mostly still images with audio so I guess I can understand if it didn't do anything for you (though personally I feel most people don't know that money is created out of thin air and having a series of clips from different sources besides Ron Paul would help). Close to 99% of the rest is video - I would encourage anyone who wasn't thrilled with the beginning to skip ahead to a different part and if you still don't care for the content go ahead and stop watching. Personally, I give videos about 20 mins of my time before deciding whether or not to continue watching.
Alright, that's 1 opinion down, 4 more til I stop bumping this (remember this is my first video so this doesn't have much razzle dazzle and may seem amatuer, I'm mostly wanting to provide quality factual content on different topics to prove different points using various clips)

PeacePlan
02-21-2009, 09:16 PM
It is too long.............. and the wrong format. I suggest you make separate videos,,

Like creation of money, fed etc. Many people will not even watch a 30 minute vid and over 3 hrs is way too much.

JamesButabi
02-21-2009, 09:25 PM
Ive watched about half of it. Theres quite a bit of good information in this video. I just think it is poorly put together. Theres plenty of unnecessary clips in it, and it doesn't really follow an adequate progression thus far. I think you need to streamline it, take the best of the best clips, put them in an order that makes sense, and combine them with some type of direction of bullet points.

The beginning music is atrocious, and the horrible disco/techno music comes back around the 20 minute mark. That really needs to go, it doesn't fit at all.

emazur
02-21-2009, 10:13 PM
Ive watched about half of it. Theres quite a bit of good information in this video. I just think it is poorly put together. Theres plenty of unnecessary clips in it, and it doesn't really follow an adequate progression thus far. I think you need to streamline it, take the best of the best clips, put them in an order that makes sense, and combine them with some type of direction of bullet points.

The beginning music is atrocious, and the horrible disco/techno music comes back around the 20 minute mark. That really needs to go, it doesn't fit at all.

Appreciate the comment - if you finish the whole thing please LMK your overall impression. The 'good info though not well put together' statement doesn't really surprise me - I didn't do any hand holding ~ narration and just laid down one clip after another. Though I'd personally disagree that there was not adequate progression:
1) Money is created by nothing from the Fed and banking system, inflation is a risk

2a) The Fed caused the crisis by creating too much money out of nothing ~ lowering the interest rate
2b) What is the Fed and why we need to abolish it
2c) People's protests calling for Abolishing the Fed

3) The banking cartel (Fed) has gotten in bed with the government. Don't expect Congress to change anything - they're just making the problem worse and driving us deeper into debt

4) The stimulus demonstrates the kind of crap our government will do - pile more debt upon debt. Look at the consequences of debt - future generations will be expected to pay. Make a video saying "it's not my debt" as a start to fighting back

5) Fight back some more after learning what the parties are doing and after learning the philosophy of liberty. Ron Paul and/or the LP is the answer - they support liberty. People are switching over to liberty - you can too

6) Clearing up the misconceptions of an economy based on liberty.

A logical progression is it not?

As for the music, well everyone has different tastes, but the lyrics fit well in both cases (politicians - 'Who you gonna steal from?', the Fed - 'destroys everything' it touches)

Again, thanks for the input. 3 more reviews and I'll stop bumping

newbitech
02-21-2009, 10:27 PM
well i started watching last night got to about 30 minutes mark and the vid started going choppy like the server needed more bandwidth. I cache 1 gig in FF and it looked like I had about 60% loaded.

I tried to sit it out but couldn't so decided to restart. well of course the stream started loading again so the web page didn't check my browser cache first. I couldn't fast forward to the part I left off. Bummer cause I was really getting into it.

To be honest, I loved the music and the slides. I thoughts the words went to fast though, like the slides needed to be up longer. The format is really only good for inspiration purpose though to people who already know this stuff. I wouldn't recommend this format as an educational tool.

From what I saw though, I want to watch the whole thing. I love 3 hours jammed packed of truth about government and the world. I need to be deprogrammed from the early childhood brainwashing that the DoE so freely gave.

Productions like yours are the perfect deprogramming tools for people who have already learned and accepted the truth but just need that positive reinforcement. I really appreciate what you are doing. Having done videos for school project with the kids in my family, I know this stuff takes hours upon hours if not days. It looks like you have updated information and I look forward to playing out the rest of it.

Please split the file though or get your site handling caching properly if you are going to stream such a large file. And check your servers throughput as well!

emazur
02-21-2009, 11:06 PM
I didn't know you couldn't skip ahead like youtube - I'm new to having a website and just used the default streaming video tool that the host provides. If anyone knows of a better way for me to stream from my site, feel free to school me. Bandwidth usage shows 6500 MB over the last 2 weeks - I don't know if that's good or bad but my plan is labeled 'unlimited' though I've heard that can be misleading.
Glad you liked the slides and music, and I agree that the words go by too fast on the 2nd one (lot of history to cover in a short time, but usually the first sentence or 2 of each quote is enough to raise red flags about the Fed and those interested can go back later and rewatch that part).
I appreciate the good words - yes it did take several hours over several days to complete. I will work on cutting it down into separate videos and may encode them into smaller size to make streaming easier (but I have an offer for a mirror which I will take advantage of soon, and to avoid choppiness in the meantime it might be easier for you to just d/l the torrent which I'm still running)

eric_cartman
02-22-2009, 12:56 AM
kk... .started watching the video.

playing the saturday donkaments on pokerstars... wish me luck

eric_cartman
02-22-2009, 04:06 AM
finished watching your movie. you did a great job! i really enjoyed watching it. i had seen 75% of the video clips (but that's cause i watch a lot of econ youtube stuff)... but there were a bunch of video clips i had not seen... so it was good to see that stuff. how come no schiff though?

i liked how you had a lot of recent clips in there too. so it was pretty up to date. loved the "a new hope" segment in there... i hadn't watched that vid in many months.

the greenspan clip on john stewart was really good too... i had never seen that one before. anyways, great job. that looks like it must have taken a lot of work.

are you going to upload that to youtube in like 20 parts?

but that kept me entertained while i played poker. i made about $400 during the time it took me to watch your film... so that worked out well. i always seem to win when i watch pro-liberty stuff... maybe it puts me in a good and relaxed mood or something.

emazur
02-22-2009, 04:53 AM
Thanks cartman - yes it did take a lot of work. The Greenspan clip was certainly important to prove that we don't have a free market, and I'm glad I found that Volker clip explaining that regulation wasn't going to solve anything. That's a one-two knockout punch for 90% of the collectivists' arguments. And Schiff did get a few minutes in part 2: The Federal Reserve when he appeared on Max Keiser's show. I think youtube will take it down if I upload it there, but on the advice I received in another thread I'm currently uploading to blip.tv (this time in 6 parts, and this will be the updated version I mentioned earlier). Currently part 1 is up:
http://blip.tv/file/1800745/
BTW, congrats on the winnings

eric_cartman
02-22-2009, 06:19 AM
Thanks cartman - yes it did take a lot of work. The Greenspan clip was certainly important to prove that we don't have a free market, and I'm glad I found that Volker clip explaining that regulation wasn't going to solve anything. That's a one-two knockout punch for 90% of the collectivists' arguments. And Schiff did get a few minutes in part 2: The Federal Reserve when he appeared on Max Keiser's show. I think youtube will take it down if I upload it there, but on the advice I received in another thread I'm currently uploading to blip.tv (this time in 6 parts, and this will be the updated version I mentioned earlier). Currently part 1 is up:
http://blip.tv/file/1800745/
BTW, congrats on the winnings

oh ya... i forgot you had schiff on max keiser. that was a good clip too

emazur
03-02-2009, 05:44 PM
If anyone is still interested, it's now divided into 6 parts and on blip.tv, which has a better video player than before:
- the creation of money, inflation and hyperinflation
http://blip.tv/file/1800745/
- The Federal Reserve
http://blip.tv/file/1801125/
- the banking/political power complex
http://blip.tv/file/1802381/
- national debt, stimulus
http://blip.tv/file/1802594/
- the road to liberty
http://blip.tv/file/1802911/
- capitalism and the free market
http://blip.tv/file/1803164

If you like it (or parts of it), diggs appreciated:
http://digg.com/political_opinion/How_the_Fed_and_govt_are_destroying_US_how_to_figh t_em/who

It's supposed to be going up on ronpaularchives but I'm not sure when that's gonna happen