RAP NEWS 9 - the Economy - with Ron Paul & Peter Joseph

- JuiceMedia Rap News website: http://thejuicemedia.com - *free* high-quality MP3 and Lyrics download link: http://www.reverbnation.com/rapnews - - pls consider a donation if you download the mp3 - donation page: http://thejuicemedia.com/donate - Connect with us also on Farcebook: https://www.facebook.com/rapnews And Twitter: http://twitter.com/juicerapnews * RapNews - Episode 9: 2011 hits harder than a pre-apocalyptic hangover as "the economy" threatens to annihilate our stock-piles of imaginary, inflated wealth, spawning a battle of epic proportions as insurgent grassroots forces move in to #OccupywallStreet and coalitions of indignados hold their ground in Athens, Madrid and Tel Aviv, facing riotgear, batons and tazers which seek to prevent a more equal redistribution of the proverbial pie. ...But enough action and excitement! It's time for some heroic armchair philosophy: Join your affable host, Robert Foster, as he attempts to shine some light on this mysterious creature, "the economy". Is this the failure of capitalism that we are witnessing, or its triumph? Is it the end of the end of history, or yet another crazy chapter in the whimsical journey of the human experiment? For the occasion, we've pulled out the big guns: admittedly it was a tough choice deciding who to interview: we could've had Alan Greenspan on the show, or the Emperor himself, Milton Friedman; the first lady, Christine Lagarde; or financial buffs like Gerald Celente, Peter Schiff and Donald Trump. But to get the freshest juice we knew we had to go further - much further. Rap News 9 features two VIP Internet grandees who have uploaded gigabytes of truth via the one remaning free frequency - the internet - to feed a discerning and ravenous audience, hungry for answers: US Congressman, Ron Paul, and Zeitgeist film-maker, Peter Joseph. Whilst these two fine folk agree with each other on many things, fortunately, there's no shortage of issues to rap-battle about: Do we need to inject more paper into the financial furnace, or do we need a different fuel entirely - more gold and less lead? Some say we should ditch the entire engine and replace it with something entirely new - but with what exactly? Is the answer to our impeding economic demise contained in shiny new cybernated inventions, or might it actually require us to remember and look back to tried and tested models of economic organisation? Well, time's short so let the rhyme-rodeo begin as we blast off on a rollercoaster odyssey. It's the stupid Economy, in all its gory glory. **** Want to SUPPORT Rap News to keep broadcasting rhyme and reason on the only remaining free frequency?: http://thejuicemedia.com/donate - thank you to everyone who has donated already - massive respect! **** CREDITS: RN9 has been a herculean collaborative endeavour, for which we are hugely grateful to: Our ineffably awesome designer, Zoe Tame from http://visualtonic.com.au for creating all the original artwork, backgrounds and vectors; Zoe (VAL) and Ellen (Goldie) for yet more lingerie escapades; Lucy for VAL voice-over and Ming for big-gonad Trailer-Man voice; Dave Abbot for cutting-edge state-of-the art CGI effects, animations and exteme doses of patience; Rosie Dunlop for make-up mayhem and latex love; Trav and Nick for lights and logistical assistance; Milly Langworth and Gilles Gundermann for prop sourcing; Jason for not wigging out over the wigs; Lucy & Caitlin for ongoing support; and to all the people who write to us to ask us when the next episode is coming out :) **** BEAT: It's been a Frankensteinian effort on the part of our local musical luminaries for the production on this episode's beat: Dan West out at Tweak and Twang studios (http://tweakandtwang.org) for phat drum sequencing; Jonathan Dreyfus & Adrian Sergovich for wicked orchestrations; Julez for Zeitgeist instrumentation. Download the mp3 here: http://www.reverbnation.com/rapnews **** CAPTIONS & SUBTITLES: Many thanks to our French friends, Koolfy and Siltaar, for sync'ing English closed captions (these are coming soon). If you'd like to translate Rap News 8 into your language, please contact us via our website: http://www.thejuicemedia.com