{"id":332509,"date":"2017-10-28T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dirt-cheap-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2017-10-28T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T15:09:27","slug":"dirt-cheap-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dirt-cheap-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirt Cheap &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-659047\">\n<div class=\"clearfix post-info\">\n<p class=\"authors\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/gary-north\/?ptype=article\" title=\"Posts by Gary North\" rel=\"author\">Gary North<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garynorth.com\">GaryNorth.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">October 28, 2017<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"social-sharing\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"custom-buttons custom-buttons-merged\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a2a_button_email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2017%2F10%2Fgary-north%2Fdirt-cheap-roosevelts-farming-propaganda-film-of-1936%2F&amp;type=page&amp;linkname=Dirt+Cheap%3A+Roosevelt%27s+Farming+Propaganda+Film+of+1936&amp;linknote=\" title=\"Email\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><!--img src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/\/wp-content\/themes\/lrc\/images\/icons\/email.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Email\"--><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"print-page\"><!--img src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/\/wp-content\/themes\/lrc\/images\/icons\/print.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Print\"--><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/10\/gary-north\/dirt-cheap-roosevelts-farming-propaganda-film-of-1936\/\" data-a2a-title=\"Dirt Cheap\"><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2017%2F10%2Fgary-north%2Fdirt-cheap-roosevelts-farming-propaganda-film-of-1936%2F&amp;linkname=Dirt%20Cheap\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2017%2F10%2Fgary-north%2Fdirt-cheap-roosevelts-farming-propaganda-film-of-1936%2F&amp;linkname=Dirt%20Cheap\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter_tweet addtoany_special_service\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/10\/gary-north\/dirt-cheap-roosevelts-farming-propaganda-film-of-1936\/\" data-text=\"Dirt Cheap\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook_like addtoany_special_service\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/10\/gary-north\/dirt-cheap-roosevelts-farming-propaganda-film-of-1936\/\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plusone addtoany_special_service\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/10\/gary-north\/dirt-cheap-roosevelts-farming-propaganda-film-of-1936\/\"\/><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_120_16.png\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-content clearfix\">\n<p class=\"lead\">This 26-minute film is a classic example of subtle anti-free market propaganda. The Department of Agriculture produced it. It cost $6,000, which today would be the equivalent of $110,000. That was dirt cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Roosevelt liked it so much that he created a federal propaganda film department in 1938.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/blog\/buy-old-us-gold-coins\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=buy_old_us_coins\">Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/arRmz4kUisE\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1999, I published a brief account of the film and its background. It appeared in Chapter 33 of my book,\u00a0<i>Boundaries and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Leviticus<\/i>. I did not include it in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/9236.cfm\">the 2012 typeset edition<\/a>. I thought it was too obscure for an international audience. I keep it online, however, in its original typed format. It includes the footnotes. Access it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/freebooks\/docs\/html\/gnbd\/Chapter33.htm\">here<\/a>. It is my assessment of the applicability today of Leviticus 26:4: \u201cThen I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garynorth.com\/public\/17302.cfm\"><strong>Read the Whole Article<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-author-archives-link\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/gary-north\/\">The Best of Gary North<\/a>&#13;\n                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/10\/gary-north\/dirt-cheap-roosevelts-farming-propaganda-film-of-1936\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary North GaryNorth.com October 28, 2017 &#13; &#13; &#13; This 26-minute film is a classic example of subtle anti-free market propaganda. The Department of Agriculture produced it. It cost $6,000, which today would be the equivalent of $110,000. That was dirt cheap. Roosevelt liked it so much that he created a federal propaganda film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-332509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}