The economy is in a tailspin. Throughout the world, businesses are failing, families are losing their homes, their livelihoods, and their futures. Food riots are rampant in third world countries, and civil unrest is on the rise. The financial system and its so-called leaders are to blame. While they bail out the banks with taxpayer funds, they ignore the plight of millions of individuals. This is no mere recession. We're on the road to full scale global depression.

Since the industrial revolution, there has been a dupicitous relationship between governments and the banks who finance them. Governments enact the legislation that facilitates the banks' recurring cycles of credit expansion (from which they profit) and credit contraction (from which they profit through the firesale purchase of the assets of distressed companies). Increasingly, the levels of expansion and contraction are intensified, as the perpetrators master their manipulation of the global economic cycles.

Crime of the Century seeks to illuminate the players, the methods, the history and the present configuration of this perennial mechanism of financial disaster that prevents the average citizen from investing profitably, borrowing fairly, or even saving for retirement safely. We aim to stop this cycle of abuse through first the exposure of it in film, print and media, and then through the establishment of Global Citizens for Responsible Economic Policy, a non-profit organization that will lobby governments around the world for transparent and equitable monetary and economic policy.

We're not seeking an end to globalized trade - its been going on for hundreds of years. But we demand the return of responsible government to manage currencies and credit policy according to the theories of sound money and transparency.

The story will be told in the context of the historical role of gold as the global monetary standard, and its present rold as primary tool of currency manipulation. We will demonstrate how the United States Federal Reserve is in fact controlled by the major shareholders of the regional Federal Reserve Banks, privately owned and non-reporting institutions.

We will expose the opaque inter-relationships among banks, other financial institutions, government regulatory bodies and educational facilities that form the structure by which this unlawful activity is executed in a dimly hidden world of private dinners and priviledged memberships.

Over the last 150 years, the manipulation of gold by governments and banking has wreaked havoc with the increasingly globalized world economy, and evidence suggests that such manipulation is directly attributable to the increasing volatility of naturally occurring business cycles.

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***All donors will be acknowledged in the film's credit roll, and we will also give away 1,000 "I helped make Crime of the Century" T-shirts. Donors of $200 or more will also receive two free tickets to the theatrical presentation of the film in their area.

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In fact, organizations and individuals who have been lobbying for a more responsible framework for the global financial system have predicted, in writing, and as a matter of public record, the precise unfolding of events since the crisis began in 2007. This small group has been ignored and stigmatized as conspiracy theorists for most of their existence, and it is only now as the financial crisis intensifies that the truth behind these warnings is apparent.

Starting with the re-establishment of the gold standard under the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, the U.S. government, abetted by certain elite financial institutions, have positioned the U.S. Dollar as the world's de facto reserve currency through a focused and unwavering program of unlawful activities, despite the warnings and outcry of a small but persistent minority.

The domination of the monetary system by central bankers is now apparently at the root of this boom and bust cycle of "Bubbleomics", and only a return to the time-honored discipline enforced by an un-fettered gold standard can extricate humanity from this downward spiral. This film is intended as a catalyst to stir public awareness, debate and action.

Crime of the Century is a feature length documentary film that examines the myriad causes of the financial system collapse and undertakes a simple, fact-based explanation in layman's terms of the assorted complex tools fabricated by this elite cartel whose sole purpose is the concentration of greater wealth to a diminutive yet all-powerful minority.

Initially, it explores the historical role that gold has played in global economics since the onset of recorded history, and illuminates the methods and techniques various governments controlled by banking interests have deployed to portray this most basic form of money as just another commodity.

It demonstrates how through first the implementation of a U.S. Dollar biased gold standard and then the abolition of that standard this group has successfully saturated their ranks of accomplice banks with capital conjured from thin air, and created a regulatory environment that perfectly accommodated their criminal intentions.

It then moves on to simple explanations of the various financial instruments that have been developed in this un-regulated atmosphere designed to generate massive dollar transactions that are the mechanisms that transfer our wealth into the pockets of those running the scam.

Through interviews and historical footage, Crime of the Century demonstrates in no uncertain terms the factual existence of this scheme. Through the testimony of leading experts including ex-government managers, Nobel laureates and academic prfoessors, analysts, traders, CFO's, elite investors, bank industry insiders and the vociferous group of writers who have warning about this situation for years, irrefutable evidence of the corruption destroying our world under the banner of democracy is presented.

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Join us in our fight for the restoration of REAL democracy.

***All donors will be acknowledged in the film's credit roll, and we will also give away 1,000 "I helped make Crime of the Century" T-shirts. Donors of $200 or more will also receive two free tickets to the theatrical presentation of the film in their area.

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It examines and explores the contention of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee's basic premise that the price of gold has been suppressed by a complex scheme involving collusion among JP Morgan Chase, Barrick Gold Corporation, the International Monetary Fund, and various Central Banks around the world. While the obvious and superficial outcome is the artificially low price of gold for over twenty years, GATA contends that the effects of this scheme are exponentially more pernicious, amounting to nothing less than the undermining and corruption of the entire global financial and monetary systems.

James West, financial commentator and editor of MidasLetter.com, a newsletter that translates complex financial jargon into actionable investment strategies for Mom and Pop investors travels to the world's financial centers and interviews some of the most prominent members of the global financial community to elicit on camera evidence of the scheme which is finally coming undone with the collapse of the U.S. banking system and the resulting global recession, as the United States economy continues to crumble under an overwhelming economic meltdown that GATA says is directly attributable to the conspiracy.

Finally, some of the most recognized names in the business world are interviewed about their views of the source of the unfolding catastrophe, and their takes on the relationship of gold to the central banking systems of the world are elicited and juxtaposed against their ideas of what needs to change to ensure the emergence of a better global economy from the ashes of this one's demise.

The film's ultimate messages are:
1. Certain institutional and private organizations collude in tacit cooperation to aggravate the volatility of natural business cycles to maximize self enrichment;
2. The price of gold is artificially suppressed to facilitate the fraud being perpetuated by a global cartel of elite bankers and government, and on the eve of the largest financial collapse in human history, its ascendance as the preferred global currency is imminent;
3. Individuals in all nations can mitigate the destructive effects of the impending devaluation of the US Dollar by migrating any savings and investment to gold and silver, and lobbying actively to promote the implementation of a financial system that is more equitable and transparent for all.

Join us in our fight for the restoration of REAL democracy.