The following video programs are not in any way affiliated with Piercing the Illusion but to understand how the current economic mess came to be these are mandatory stops in your journey to understanding.

Money as Debt.

These video animations tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created.  With this video you will piece the vale that politicians and bankers do not want you to see.  On line video may be available through this web site or you may purchase video here.

FIAT EMPIRE.   59 minutes

Find out why the Federal Reserve System is a the greatest scam in human history and is in violation of the U.S. Constitution.  Discover why experts agree the Fed is a banking cartel that benefits bankers and their clients in need of easy money and a Congress that would rather increase the National Debt than raise taxes.  Watch the Video

Aaron Russo's America: From Freedom to Fascism.    1 hour 49 minutes

The movie that arguably started the Tea Party movement!  The scariest damn film you may ever watch. It will leave you staggering, slack-jawed and trembling. Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.'  After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about what it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered.  Producer/director Aaron Russo and the folks at Cinema Libre Studio deserve to be heralded as heroes of a post-modern New American Revolution.  This is shocking stuff.  You'll be angry, you'll be disgusted, but you may actually break out in a cold sweat and feel a sickness deep in your gut.  Watch the Video

The man who predicted the current crisis and a parade of idiots

Peter Schiff is president of Euro Pacific Investments and has been a lonely voice predicting the economic disaster that is now unfolding.  In the video that follows some enterprising citizen strung together numerous TV segments in the last few years where various financial "experts" predicted the great times to come.  Notice how they react to Peter Schiff's accurate predictions of the future which is now the present.

Go to Peter Schiff's YouTube Channel to see and read more.