Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined (2009)

From Jason Bermas (one of the Loose Change guys) comes this examination of 'the New World Order'. Culled from various conspiracy theories and seemingly calibrated to our times, there's a mixture of Bercher stuff here, anti-corporatism, anti-globalism, allegations of an occultic elite ect. Movie spends a lot of time at the beginning citing various political figures and the like who have used the term 'New World Order' from the progressive era on. Really 'New World Order' while a very loaded phrase to some, can also be seen as one that really means nothing, other then that the geopolitical situation changes from time to time and hence the phrase tends to get trotted out after major power shifts like the end of World War I, or the collapse of the Soviet Union. George Bush Sr. seemed to like to use the phrase, but it didn't really seem to mean anything more then Bill Clinton's 'Bridge to the 21st Century' did, just rhetorical boiler plat stuff. The implication, yea the main contention of the film is that there is a surprisingly gradualist, even meandering plot to enslave the worlds citizens, perpetrated over time by an elite through various overlapping think tanks and policy groups like the Trilateral Commission, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Bilderberg Group ect. I admit I actually spent some time thinking about this film, its implications could be scary, and some of the things it says about the general direction the world is taking is probably accurate, but I just have a hard time with the idea of a vast world governing conspiracy, especially one so esoterically showy and slow moving as here alleged. It's interesting though, I'll give it that. Thumbs: sideways.