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The old appeals to racial, sexual or religious chauvinism,

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to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work.

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The business of who I am and whether I'm good or bad, or achieving or not,

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all that's learned along the way.

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It's just a ride

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and we can change it anytime we want.

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It's only the choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money.

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I realised I had the game wrong.

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The game was to find out what I already was.

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We will see

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how very important it is

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to bring about, in the human mind,

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the radical revolution.

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The crisis is a crisis in consciousness.

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A crisis that cannot, anymore,

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accept the old norms,

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the old patterns,

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the ancient traditions.

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And, considering what the world is now,

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with all the misery,

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conflict,

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destructive brutality,

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aggression,

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and so on...

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Man

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is still as he was.

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Is still brutal,

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violent,

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aggressive,

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acquisitive,

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competitive.

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And, he's built a society

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along these lines.

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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Society today,

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is composed of a series of institutions.

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From political institutions,

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legal institutions,

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religious institutions.

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To institutions of social class,

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familiar values,

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and occupational specialization.

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It is obvious, the profound influence these traditionalized structures have

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in shaping our understandings and perspectives.

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Yet, of all the social institutions, we are born into,

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directed by, and conditioned upon..

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There seems to be no system as taken for granted,

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and misunderstood,

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as the monetary system.

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Taking on nearly religious proportions,

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the established monetary institution exists as one of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is.

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How money is created,

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the policies by which it is governed,

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and how it truly affects society,

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are unregistered interests of the great majority of the population.

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In a world where 1% of the population owns 40% of the planets wealth.

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In a world where 34.000 children die every single day

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from poverty and preventable diseases,

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and, where 50% of the world's population lives on less than 2 dollars a day...

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One thing is clear.

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Something is very wrong.

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And, whether we are aware of it or not, the lifeblood of all of our established institutions,

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and thus society itself,

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is money.

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Therefore, understanding this institution of monetary policy

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is critical to understanding why our lives are the way they are.

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Unfortunately, economics is often viewed with confusion and boredom.

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Endless streams of financial jargon, coupled with intimidating mathematics,

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quickly deters people from attempts at understanding it.

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However, the fact is:

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The complexity associated with the financial system is a mere mask.

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Designed to conceal one of the most socially paralyzing structures,

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humanity has ever endured.

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1749-1832

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A number of years ago, the central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve,

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produced a document entitled "Modern Money Mechanics".

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This publication detailed the institutionalized practice of money creation

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as utilized by the federal reserve and the web of global commercial banks it supports.

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On the opening page the document states its objective.

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The purpose of this booklet is to describe the basic process of money creation

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in a fractional reserve banking system.

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It then precedes to describe this fractional reserve process

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through various banking terminology.

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A translation of which goes something like this:

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The United States government decides it needs some money.

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So it calls up the federal reserve and requests say 10 billion dollars.

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The FED replies saying: "sure, we'll buy ten billion in government bonds from you".

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So the government takes some pieces of paper,

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paints some official looking designs on them, and calls them treasury bonds.

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Then it puts a value on these bonds to the sum of 10 billion dollars

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and sends them over to the FED.

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In turn the people of the FED drop a bunch of impressive pieces of papers themselves.

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Only this time, calling them federal reserve notes.

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Also designating a value of ten billion dollars to the set

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The FED than takes these notes and trades them for the bonds.

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the government than takes the ten billion in federal reserve notes,

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and deposits it into an bank account.

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And, upon this deposit the paper notes officially become legal tender money.

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Adding ten billion to the US money supply.

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And there it is! Ten billion in new money has been created.

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Of course, this example is a generalization.

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For, in reality, this transaction would occur electronically. With no paper used at all.

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In fact, only three percent of US money supply exists in physical currency.

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The other 97 percent essentially exists in computers alone.

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Now, government bonds are by design instruments of debt.

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And when the FED purchases these bonds

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with money it essentially created out of thin air,

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the government is actually promising to pay back

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that money to the FED. In other words, the money was created out of debt.

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This mind numbing paradox, of how money or value

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can be created out of debt,

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or a liability, will become more clear as we further this exercise.

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So, the exchange has been made. And now, ten billion dollars sits in a commercial bank account.

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Here is where it gets really interesting. For, as based on the fractional reserve practice,

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that ten billion dollar deposit

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instantly becomes part of the banks reserves.

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Just as all deposits do.

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And, regarding reserve requirements as stated in " Modern Money Mechanics":

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"A bank must maintain legally required reserves

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equal to a prescribed percentage of its deposits".

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It then quantifies this by stating:

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the reserve requirement against most transaction accounts is ten percent".

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This means that with a ten billion dollar deposit,

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ten percent, or one billion,

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is held as the required reserve.

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While the other nine billion is considered an excessive reserve,

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and can be used as the basis

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for new loans.

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Now, it is logical to assume, that this nine billion

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is literally coming out of the existing ten billion dollar deposit.

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However, this is actually not the case. What really happens, is that the nine billion

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is simply created out of thin air

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on top of the existing 10 billion dollar deposit.

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This is how the money supply is expanded.

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As stated in "Modern Money Mechanics":

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"Of course they" the banks, "do not really pay out loans for the money, they receive as deposits.

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If they did this, no additional money would be created.

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What they do when they make loans

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is to accept promissory notes

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- loan contracts -

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in exchange for credits - money - to the borrowers transaction accounts.

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In other words, the nine billion can be created out of nothing.

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Simply because there is a demand for such a loan,

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and that there is a 10 billion dollar deposit to satisfy the reserve requirements.

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Now let's assume that somebody walks into this bank and

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borrows the newly available nine billion dollars.

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They will then most likely take that money and deposit it

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into their own bank account.

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The process then repeats.

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For that deposit becomes part of the banks reserves.

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Ten percent is isolated and in turn 90 percent of the nine billion,

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or 8.1 billion is now availlable as newly created money for more loans.

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And, of course, that 8.1 can be loaned out and redeposited creating an additional 7.2 billion

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to 6.5 billion... to 5.9 billion... etc...

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This deposit money creation loan cycle can technically go on to infinity.

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The average mathematical result is that about 90 billion dollars can be created on top of the original 10 billion.

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In other words: For every deposit that ever occurs in the banking system, about nine times that amount can be created out of thin air.

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Money-Jitters. Ask the obliging Bank of America for a jar of

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soothing instant money.

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M-O-N-E-Y in the form of a convenient personal loan.

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So, now that we understand how money is created by this fractional reserve banking system.

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A logical yet illusive question might come to mind:

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what is actually giving this newly created money value?

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The answer: the money that already exists.

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The new money essentially steals value from the existing money supply.

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For the total pool of money is being increased irrespective to demand for goods and services.

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And, as supply and demand defines equilibrium,

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prices rise, diminishing the purchasing power of each individual dollar.

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This is generally referred to as inflation.

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And inflation is essentially a hidden tax on the public.

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What is the advice that you generally get? And that is, inflate the currency.

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They don't say: debase the currency. They don't say: devalue the currency.

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They don't say: cheat the people who are safe. They say: lower the interest rates.

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The real deception is when we distort the value of money.

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When we create money out of thin air, we have no savings. Yet there is so called "capital".

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So, my question boils down to this: how in the world can we expect to solve the problems of inflation?

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That is: increase in the supply of money, with more inflation.

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Of course it can't.

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The fractional reserve system of monetary expansion is inherently inflationary.

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For the act of expanding the money supply, without there being a

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proportional expansion of goods and services in the economy,

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will always debase a currency.

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In fact, the quick glance of the historical values of the US dollar, versus the money supply,

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reflects this point of definitively.

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For inverse relationship is obvious.

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One dollar in 1913 required $21.60 in 2007 to match value.

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That is a 96 percent devaluation since the Federal Reserve came into existence.

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Now, if this reality of inherent and perpetual inflation seems absurd and economically self defeating.

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Hold that thought. For absurdity is an understatement in regard to how our financial system really operates.

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For in our financial system money is debt,

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and debt is money.

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Here is a chart of the US money supply from 1950 to 2006.

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Here is a chart to the US national debt for the same period.

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How interesting it is, that the trends, are virtually the same.

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For the more money there is the more debt there is.

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The more debt there is the more money there is.

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To put it a different way. Every single dollar in your wallet is owed to somebody by somebody.

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For remember : the only way the money can come in to existence is from loans.

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Therefore, if everyone in the country were able to pay off all debts including the government,

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there would not be one dollar in circulation.

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"If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money."

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- Marriner Eccles - Governor of the Federal Reserve September 30th, 1941

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In fact, the last time in American history the national debt was completely paid off

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was in 1835 after president Andrew Jackson shut down the central bank that preceded the Federal Reserve.

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In fact, Jackson's entire political platform essentially revolved

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around his commitment to shut down the central bank.

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Stating that one point: "The bold efforts the present bank has made to control the government... are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people

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should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution

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or, the establishment of another like it." Unfortunately this message was short lived.

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And the international bankers succeeded to install another central bank in 1913,

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the Federal Reserve. And as long as this institution exists

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perpetual debt is guaranteed.

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Now, so far we have discussed the reality that money is created out of debt through loans.

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These loans are based on a banks reserves,

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and reserves are derived from deposits. And through this fractional reserve system,

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any one deposit can create 9 times its original value.

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In turn, debasing the existing money supply raising prices in society.

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And, since all this money is created out of debt,

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and circulated randomly through commerce,

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people become detached from their original debt.

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And a disequilibrium exists where people are forced to compete for labor

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in order to pull enough money out of the money supply

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to cover their costs of living.

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As dysfunctional and backwards as all of this might seem,

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there is still one thing we have omitted from this equation.

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And it is this element of the structure

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which reveals the truly fraudulent nature of the system itself.

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The application of interest.

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When the government borrows money from the FED, or when a person borrows money from a bank,

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it almost always has to be payed back with a crude interest.

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In other words, almost every single dollar that exists

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must be eventually returned to a bank with interest payed as well.

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if all money is borrowed from the Central Bank, and is expanded by commercial banks through loans,

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only what would be refered to as the "principal"

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is been created in the money supply.

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So then, where is the money to cover all of the interest that is charged?

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It doesn't exist.

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The ramifications of this are staggering.

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For the amount of money owed back to the banks will always exceed the amount of money that is available in circulation.

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This is why inflation is a constant in the economy.

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For new money is always needed to help cover the perpetual deficit build in to the system.

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Caused by the need to pay the interest.

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What this also means, is that mathematically the defaults and bankruptcy

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are literally built into the system.

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And there will always be poor pockets of society that get the short end of the stick.

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An analogy would be a game of musical chairs:

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For the once music stops, somebody is left out to dry.

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And that is the point.

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It invariably transfers true wealth for the individual to the banks.

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For, if you are unable to pay for your mortgage, they will take your property.

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This is particularly enraging when you realize, that not only is such a default inevitable

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due to the fractional reserve practice. But, also because of the fact

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that the money that the bank loaned to you

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didn't even legally exist in the first place.

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In 1969 there was a Minnesota court case involving a man named Jerome Daly

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who was challenging the foreclosure of his home by the bank, which provided the loan to purchase it.

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His argument was that the mortgage contract required both parties,

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being he and the bank, each put up a legitimate form of property for the exchange.

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In legal language this is called

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consideration [a contract's basis. a contract is founded on an exchange of one form of consideration for another.]

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Mr. Daly explained that the money was, in fact, not the property of the bank.

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For it was created out of nothing as soon as the loan agreement was signed.

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Remember what "Modern Money Mechanics" stated about loans?

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What they do, when they make loans, is to accept promissory notes in exchange for credits.

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Reserves are unchanged by the loan transactions.

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But, deposit credits constitute new additions to the total deposits of the banking system.

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In other words, the money doesn't come out of their existing assets. The bank is simply inventing it, putting up nothing of it's own,

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except for a theoratical liability on paper.

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As the court case progressed, the bank's president Mr. Morgan took the stand.

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And in the judge's personal memorandum, he recalled that the Plaintiff - bank's president - admitted that, in combination with the Federal Reserve Bank did create the money

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and credits upon its books by bookkeeping entry.

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The money and credit first came into existence when they created it. Mr. Morgan admitted that

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no United States Law or Statute existed which gave him the right to do this.

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A lawful consideration must exist and be tendered to support the Note.

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The Jury found that there was no lawful consideration, and I agree.

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He also poetically added, "Only God can create something of value out of nothing".

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And, upon this revelation the court rejected the bank's claim for foreclosure, and Daly kept his home.

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The implications of this court decision are immense.

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For every time you borrow money from a bank, whether it is a mortgage loan or a credit card charge,

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the money given to you is not only counterfeit, it is a illegitimate form of consideration.

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And hence, voids the contract to repay. For the bank never had the money as property to begin with.

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Unfortunately such legal realizations are suppressed and ignored.

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And the game of perpetual wealth transfer and perpetual debt continues.

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And this brings us to the ultimate question:

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Why?

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During the American Civil War President Lincoln bypassed the high interest loans

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offered by the European banks, and decided to do what the founding fathers advocated.

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Which was to create an independent and inherently debt-free currency.

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It was called "The Greenback".

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Shortly after this measure was taken, an internal document

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circulated between private British and American banking interests, stated:

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"...slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers,

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while the European plan... is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages.

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This can be done by controlling the money.

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It will not do to allow the Greenback... as we cannot control that."

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The fractional reserve policy,

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perpetrated by the Federal Reserve

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which has spread in practice to the great majority of banks in the world,

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is, in fact, a system of modern slavery.

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Think about it, money is created out of debt.

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What the people do when they are in debt?

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They submit to employment to pay it off.

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But if money only can only be created out of loans,

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how can society ever be debt free?

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It cant, and that´s the point.

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And it is the fear of losing assets, coupled with the struggle to keep up,

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with the perpetual debt and inflation inherent in the system,

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compounded by the inescapable scarcity, within in the money supply itself

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created by the interest that can never be re-payed,

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that keeps the wage-slave in line,

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running on a hamster wheel, with millions of others,

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in effect powering an empire

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that truly benefits only the elite at the top of the pyramid.

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For, at the end of the day,

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who are you really working for?

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The Banks !

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Money is created in the bank, and invariably ends up in a bank.

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They are the true masters, along with the corporations and governments they support.

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Physical slavery requires people to be housed and fed.

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Economic slavery requires people to feed and house themselves.

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It is one of the most ingenious scams for social manipulation ever created.

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And at its core,

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it is an invisible war against the population.

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Debt is the weapon used to conquer and enslave societies,

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and interest is its prime ammunition.

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And, as the majority walks around oblivious to this reality,

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the banks in collusion with governments and corporations

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continued to perfect and expand their tactics of economic warfare,

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spawning new bases, such as the World Bank

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and International Monetary Fund [IMF],

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while also inventing a new type of soldier.

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The birth of the economic hitman.

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There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt.

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- John Adams - 1735-1826

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We, economic hit men, really have been the ones responsible for creating this first truly global empire

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and we work many different ways.

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But perhaps the most common is that we will identify a country that has resources our corporations covet, like oil,

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and then, arrange a huge loan to that country from the World Bank or one of it's sister organizations.

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But the money never actually goes to the country.

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Instead it goes to our big corporations to build infrastructure projects in that country.

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Power plants, industrial parks, ports...

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Things that benefit a few rich people in that country.

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In addition to our Corporations.

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But really don't help a majority of the people at all. However, those people,

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the whole country is left holding the huge debt.

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It's such a big debt they can't repay, and that's part of the plan...

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They can't repay it.

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And so, in some point, we economic hit men, go back to them and say, "Listen,"

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"You owe us a lot of money. You can't pay your debt. So, sell your oil"

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"real cheap to our oil companies,"

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"allow us to build a military base in your country,"

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"or send troops in support of ours to someplace in the world like Iraq, or vote with us in the next UN vote,"

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to have their electric utility company privatized

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and their water and sewage system privatized and sold to US corporations or other

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multinational corporations."

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So there is a whole mushrooming thing, and it's so typical, the way the IMF and the World Bank work.

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They put a country in debt, and it's such a big debt it can't pay it,

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And then you offer to refinance that debt, and pay even more interest.

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And you demand

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this quid pro quo what you call a "conditionality" or "good governance"

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which means basically that they got to sell off their resources,

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including many of their social services, their utility companies, their school systems sometimes,

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their penal systems,

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their insurance systems, to foreign corporations.

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So it's a double - triple - quadruple whammie!

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The precedent for economic hit men really began back in the early 50's

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when the democratically elected Mossadegh

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who was elected in Iran... He was considered to be the hope for democracy

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in the middle east and around the world. He was in Time-Magazine's "Man of the year".

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But... one of the things that he brought on and began to implement was the idea that

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foreign oil companies needed to pay the Iranian people a lot more for the oil that they were taking out of Iran

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and the Iranian people should benefit from their own oil. Strange policy.

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We didn't like that of course. But we were afraid to do what we normally were doing, which was to send in the military.

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Instead we sent in one CIA agent, Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt´s relative.

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And Kermit went in with a few million dollars, and was very very affective, and efficient and in a short amount of time,

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he managed to get Mossadeg overthrown

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and brought in the shah of Iran to replace him, who always was favorable to oil. And it was extremely effective.

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"Mobs over through Tehran.

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Army officers shout that Mossadeg has surrendered and his regime as virtual dictator of Iran is ended.

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Pictures of the shah are paraded through the streets as sentiment reverses.

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The shah is welcome home.

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So back here in the United States, in Washington, people looked around and said: "wow, that was easy and cheap".

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So this established a whole new way of manipulating countries, of creating empire.

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The only problem with Roosevelt was that he was a card carrying CIA agent

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and if he'd been caught, the ramifications could have been pretty serious.

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So very quickly, at that point, the decision was made to use private consultants

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to channel the money through the world bank or the IMF or one of the other such agencies,

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to bring in people like me, who work for private companies.

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So that if we got caught, there would be no governmental ramifications.

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When Árbenz became president of Guatemala, the country was very much under the thumbs of United Fruit company

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and the big international corporations. And Árbenz ran on this ticket that said: "you know, we want to give the land back to the people".

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And once he took power, he was implementing policies that would do exactly that,

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give the land rights back to the people. "United Fruit" didn't like that very much.

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And so, they hired a public relations firm, launched a huge campaign in the United States,

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to convince the United States people, the citizens of the United States,

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the press of the United States and the congress of the United States,

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that Árbenz was a soviet puppet

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and that if we allowed him to stay in power, the Soviets would have a foothold in this hemisphere.

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And at that point in time there was a huge fear on everybody's mind, of the red terror, the communist terror.

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And so, to make a long story short, out of this public relations campaign

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came a commitment on the part of the CIA and the military to take this man out.

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And in fact, we did. We sent in planes, we sent in soldiers, we sent in jackals,

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we sent everything in to take him out. And did take him out.

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And as soon as he was removed from office,

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the new guy that took over after him basically reinstated everything to the big international corporations,

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including United Fruit.

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Ecuador, for many many years had been ruled by pro-US dictators, often relatively brutal.

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Then it was decided they will have a truely democratic election.

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Jaime Roldos ran for office and his main goal, he said, as president would be

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to make sure that Ecuador's resources were used to help the people.

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And he won. Overwhelming.

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By more votes than anybody had ever won anything in Ecuador.

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And he began to implement these policies.

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To make sure that the profits from oil went to help the people.

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Well... We didn't like that in the United States.

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I was send down as one of several Economic Hitman to change Roldos.

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To corrupt him. To bring 'em around... To let him know... You know.

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"Ok, you known, you can get very rich, you and your family, if you play our game."

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"But if you continue to try to keep this policy you've promised, you're gonna go."

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He woudn't listen...

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He was assassinated...

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As soon as the plane crashed the whole area was cordoned off.

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The only people allowed there were US military from a nearby base

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and some of the Ecuadorian military.

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When an investigation was launched,

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two of the key witnesses died in a car accidents

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before they have a chance to testify.

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A lot of very-very strange things that went on around

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the assassination of Jaime Roldos.

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I, like most of people who've really looked at this case,

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have absolutely no doubt that it was an assassination.

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And, of course, in my position as an economic hitman,

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i was always expecting something to happen to Jaime,

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whether it'd be a coup or assassination, i wasn't sure, but that he would be taken down, because

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he was not beeing corrupted, he would not allow himself to be corrupted the way we wanted to corrupt him.

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Omar Torrijos, the president of Panama,

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was, you know, one of my favorite people. I really really liked him.

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He was very charasmatic. He was a guy who really wanted to help his country.

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And when I tried to bribe him or corrupt him, he said: "Look, John"…

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- he called me Juanito -

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He said: "Look Juanito, I don't need the money. What I really need is for my country

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to be treated fairly.

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I need for the US to repay the depts that you owe my people for all the destruction you've done here.

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I need to be in a position where I can help other latin american countries

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win their independence and be free of this,

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of this terrible presence from the north.

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You people are exploiting us so badly.

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I need to have the Panama Canal back in the hands of thr Panamian people.

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That's what I want.

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And so, leave me alone, you known, don't try to bribe me».

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It was 1981, and, in May, Jaime Roldos was assassinated.

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And Omar was very aware of this.

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Torrijos got his family together and he said:

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«I'm probably next, but that's OK,

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because I've done what I came here to do

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I renegotiated the Canal.

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The Canal will now be in our hands, we just finished negotiating the treaty with Jimmy Carter.

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In June of that same year, just a couple of month later,

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he also went down in an airplane crash,

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which, there's no question, was executed by CIA sponsored jackals.

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A tremendous amount of evidence that

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one of Torijjos' security guards handed him, at the last moment,

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as he was getting on the plane, a tape recorder.

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A small tape recorder that contained a bomb.

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It is intersting to me how this

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system has continued pretty much the same way

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for years, and years, and years, except the economic hit men have gotten better and better and better.

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Then we coped with, very recently, what happened in Venezuela.

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In 1998, Hugo Chavez gets elected president,

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following a long line of presidents

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who'd been very corrupt and basically destroyed the economy of the country.

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And Chavez was elected amidst all that.

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Chavez stood up to the United States

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and he'd done it primarily by demanding that Venezuelian oil

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be used to help Venezuelian people.

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Well... we didn't like that in United States.

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So, in 2002,

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a coup was staged, which was no question in my mind, in most

483
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000
other peoples minds, that the CIA was behind that coup.

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00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,000
The way, that that coup was fomented

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was very reflective of what Kermit Roosevelt had done in Iran.

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Of paying people to go out onto the streets,

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00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,000
to riot, to protest, to say that Chavez was very unpopular.

488
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
You know, if you can get a few thousand people

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00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,000
to do that, Television can make it look like

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it's the whole country  and things start to mushroom.

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Except in the case of Chavez, he was

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smart enough and the people were so strongly behind him,

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that they overcame it.

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Which was a phenomenal moment in the history of Latin America.

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00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Iraq, actually, is a perfect example of the way

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the whole system works. So, we, economic hit men, are the first line defense.

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00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,000
We go in, we try to corrupt the governments

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00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,000
and get them to accept this huge loans,

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00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000
which we then use as leverage to basically own them.

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If we fail, as I failed in Panama with Omar Torrijos and Ecuador with Jaime Roldos,

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00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000
men who refuse to be corrupted,

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00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,000
then the second line of defense is we send in the Jackals.

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And the jackals either overthrow governments or they assassinate.

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And, once that happens and a new goverment comes in it,

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00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,000
boy it’s gonna toe the line

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00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
because that new president knows what will happen if he doesn't.

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00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000
In the case of Iraq, both of those things failed.

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00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
The economic hit men were not able to get through to Saddam Hussein.

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00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,000
We tried very hard, we tried to get him to accept a deal very similar to what the House of Saud had accepted in

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00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Saudi Arabia, but he wouldn't accept it.

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And so the jackals went in to take him out.

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They couldn't do it. His security was very good.

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00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,000
After all, he, at one time, had worked for CIA.

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00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,000
He'd been hired to assassinate a former president of Iraq, and failed,

515
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000
but he knew the system.

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00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,000
So, in '91, we send in the troops

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and we take out the Iraqi military.

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00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000
So, we assumed at that point that

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Saddam Hussein is gonna come around.

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00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000
We could have take him out of course at that time,

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00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
but we didn't want it. He's the kind of strong man we like.

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00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000
He controls his people. We thought he could control Kurds,

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00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:20,000
and keep the Iranians in their border and keep pumping oil for us. And that once we took this military,

524
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000
now he's gonna come around.

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00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000
So, the economic hit men go back in in the 90's

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00:37:24,907 --> 00:37:26,453
without success.

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00:37:26,553 --> 00:37:27,918
If they'd had success

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00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
he'd still be running the country. We'd be selling him all the jet fighters he wants,

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00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:35,000
and everything he wants, but they couldn't, they didn't have success.

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00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000
The jackals couldn't take him out again, so we sent the military

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in once again and this time we did the complete job

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00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,000
and took him out. And in the process, created for ourselves some

533
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000
very-very lucrative construction

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00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000
deals to reconstruct the country that we'd

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00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000
essentially destroyed. Which is a pretty good deal if you own

536
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,000
consturction companies, big ones.

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00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,000
So, Iraq showes the three stages.

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00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000
The economic hit men failed there.

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00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,000
The Jackals failed there. And as final mesure the military goes in.

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00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000
And in that way we’ve really created an empire,

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00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000
but we’ve done it very very subtly. It’s clandestine.

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00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
All empires of the past were built on the military,

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00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000
and everybody knew they were building them.

544
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:24,000
The British knew they were building them, the French, the Germans, the Romans, the Greeks…

545
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,000
and they were proud of it. They always had some excuse like

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00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:31,000
spreading civilization, spreading some religion, something like that,

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00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
but they knew they were doing it.

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00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,000
We don't.

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00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000
The majority of the people, in the United States,

550
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,000
have no idea that we’re living off the benefits of the clandestine empire.

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00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,000
That today there is more slavery in the world than ever before.

552
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Then you have to ask yourself, well… if it’s an empire, then who is the emperor?

553
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Obviously our presidents of the United States are not emperors.

554
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,000
An emperor is someone who is not elected, doesn’t serve a limited term,

555
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000
and doesn’t report to anyone, essentially.

556
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,000
So you can’t classify our presidents that way.

557
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:11,000
But we do have what I consider to be the equivalent of the emperor, and it’s what I call the Corporatocracy.

558
00:39:12,722 --> 00:39:16,145
"The Corporatocracy is this group of individuals

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00:39:16,245 --> 00:39:17,569
who run our biggest corporations.

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00:39:17,669 --> 00:39:20,910
And they really act as the emperor of this empire.

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00:39:21,010 --> 00:39:23,982
They control our media,

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00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,000
either through direct ownership or advertising.

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00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000
They control most of our politicians

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00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,000
because the finance their campaigns,

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00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000
either through the corporations

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00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,000
or through personal contributions

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00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000
that come out of the the corporations.

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00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,000
They're not elected,

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00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,000
then don't serve a limited term,

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00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,000
they don't report to anybody,

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00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000
and at the very top of the Corporatocracy you really can't tell

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00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
whether the person is working for a private corporation

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00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,000
or the government because their always moving back and forth.

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00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,000
So you've got a guy who is one moment is the president of

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00:39:53,665 --> 00:39:56,028
a big construction company like Haliburton,

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00:39:56,128 --> 00:39:58,531
and the next moment he's Vice President of the United States.

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00:39:58,631 --> 00:40:00,445
Or the President who was in the oil business.

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00:40:00,630 --> 00:40:03,690
And this is true whether you get Democrats or Republicans in the office.

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00:40:03,790 --> 00:40:07,581
You have this moving back and forth through a revolving door.

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00:40:07,681 --> 00:40:12,851
And in a way, our government is invisible a lot of the time,

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00:40:12,951 --> 00:40:15,654
and policies are carried out by our corporations

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00:40:15,754 --> 00:40:18,388
on one level or another. And then again,

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00:40:18,488 --> 00:40:21,264
the policies of the government are basically

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forged by the Corporatocracy,

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00:40:24,331 --> 00:40:25,395
and then presented to the government

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00:40:25,495 --> 00:40:26,619
and they become government policy.

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00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,000
There is an incredibly cozy relationship.

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00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,000
This isn't a conspiracy theory type of thing.

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00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
these people don't have to get together

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00:40:34,093 --> 00:40:36,502
an plot to do things. They all

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00:40:36,602 --> 00:40:39,680
basically work under one primary assumption,

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00:40:39,780 --> 00:40:42,718
and that is that they must maximize profits

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00:40:42,818 --> 00:40:46,214
regardless of the social and environmental costs."

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00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000
This process of manipulation by the corporatocracy

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00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,000
through the use of debt, bribery and political overthrow is called :

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00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Globalisation

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Just as the Federal Reserve keeps the american public in a postion

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00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:10,000
of indentured servetude, though perpetual debt, inflation and interest

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00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,000
the Worldbank and IMF serve this role on a global scale.

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00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
The basic scam is simple :

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Put a country in debt you divide is own in disgression

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00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000
- or through corrupting the leader of that country -

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00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000
than impose "conditionalities" or "structual adjustment policies"

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00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
often consisting of the following :

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00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000
currency devaluation

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00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,000
When the value of a currency drops, so does everything valued in it.

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00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,000
This makes indigenes resources available to predator countries

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00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000
at a fraction of their worth.

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00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,000
Large funding cuts for social programs,

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00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,000
these usually include education and healthcare,

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00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:53,000
compromising the well-being and integrity of the society leaving the public vulnerable

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00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,000
to exploitation.

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00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Privatization of state-owned enterprises.

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00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,000
This means that socially important systems can be purchased and regulated

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00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000
by foreign corporations for profit.

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00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:10,000
For example in 1999 the Worldbank insisted that the bolivian government sell

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00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:17,000
the public watersystem of it's third-largest city to a subsidy of the US-corporation "Bechtel".

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00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,000
As soon as this occured waterbills for the allready impoverished local residents

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00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,000
skyrocketed.

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00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:29,000
It wasn't until after full-blown revolt by the people that the Bechtel-contract was nullified.

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Then there is trade liberalization

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00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:40,000
or the opening up of the economy through removing any restrictions on foreign trade.

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00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,000
This allows for a number of abusive economic manifestations,

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00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:49,000
such as transnational corporations bringing in their own mass-produced products

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00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,000
undercutting the indigenes production and ruining local economies.

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00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,000
An example is Jamaica,

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00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,000
which after accepting loans and conditionalities from the Worldbank

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00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:04,000
lost it's largest cash crop markets due to competition with western imports.

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00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,000
Today countless farmers are out of work for they're unable to compete

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00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000
with the large corporations.

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00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:18,000
Another variation is the creation of numerous, seemingly unnoticed, unregulated, inhuman

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00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:24,000
sweetshop-factorys, which take advantage of the imposed economic hardship.

633
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:29,000
Additionally, due to production-deregulation, environmental destruction is perpetual

634
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:34,000
as a country's resources are often exploited by the indifferent corporations

635
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,000
while outputting large amounts of deliberate pollution.

636
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:47,000
The largest environmental lawsuit in the history of the world, today is being brought on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorian and Amazonian people against

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00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:53,000
Texaco, which is now owned by Chevron so it's against Chevron, but for activities conducted by Texaco.

638
00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:01,000
They're estimated to be more than 18 times what the Exxon Valdez dumped into the Coast of Alaska.

639
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:10,000
In the case of Ecuador it wasn't an accident. The oil companies did it intentionally; they knew they were doing it to save money rather than arranging for proper disposal.

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00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:19,000
Furthermore, a cursory glance at the performance record of the World Bank reveals that the institution, which publicly claims to

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00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:25,000
help poor countries develop and alleviate poverty, has done nothing but increase poverty and the wealth-gap.

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00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,000
while Corporate profits soar.

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00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:37,000
In 1960 the income-gap between the fifth of the world's people and the richest countries, versus the fifth in the poorest countries was thirty to one.

644
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,000
By 1998, it was seventy-four to one.

645
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:51,000
While global GNP rose 40% between 1970 and 1985, those in poverty actually increased, by 17%.

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00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:59,000
While from 1985 to 2000, those living on less than one dollar a day increased by 18%.

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00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:10,000
Even the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress admitted that there is a mere 40% success rate of all World Bank projects.

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00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:20,000
In the late 1960's, the World Bank intervened in Ecuador with large loans. During the next 30 years, poverty grew from 50% to 70%.

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00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:29,000
Under or unemployment grew from 15% to 70%. Public debt increased from 240 million to 16 billion,

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00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:36,000
while the share of resources allocated to the poor went from 20% to 6%.

651
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:44,000
In fact, by the year 2000, 50% of Ecuador's national budget had to be allocated for paying its debts.

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00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:54,000
It is important to understand: the World Bank is, in fact, a U.S. bank, supporting U.S. interests.

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00:45:54,000 --> 00:46:00,000
For the United States holds veto-power over decisions, as it is the largest provider of capital.

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00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:07,000
And where did it get this money? You guessed it: it made it out of thin air through the fractional reserve banking system.

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00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:20,000
Of the world's top 100 economies, as based on annual GDP, 51 are corporations. And 47 of that 51 are U.S.-based.

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00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:33,000
Walmart, General Motors, and Exxon, are more economically powerful than Saudi Arabia, Poland, Norway, South Africa, Finland, Indonesia, and many others.

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00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:42,000
And, as protective trade-barriers are broken down, currencies tossed together and manipulated in floating markets, and State economies overturned

658
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:48,000
in favor of open competition in global capitalism, the empire expands.

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00:46:50,000 --> 00:47:00,000
You get up on your little 21 inch screen and howl about America and democracy.

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00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:04,000
There is no America, there is no democracy.

661
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:16,000
There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbine, and Exxon.

662
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:20,000
Those are the nations of the world today.

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00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:25,000
What do you think the Russians talk about in their counsels of state- Karl Marx?

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00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,000
They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision

665
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:34,000
theories, min and max solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do.

666
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,000
We no longer live in a world of Nations and Ideologies, Mr. Beale.

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00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:49,000
The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable

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00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,000
bylaws of business.

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00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,000
The world is a business Mr. Beale.

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00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,000
Taken cummulatively, the integration of the world as a whole,

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00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,000
particularly in terms of economic globalization

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00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,000
and the mythic qualities of "free market" capitalism,

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00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,000
represents a veritable "empire" in its own right...

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00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,000
Few have been able to escape the "structural adjustment" and "conditionalities"

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00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,000
of the World Band, the International Monetary Fund,

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00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,000
or the World Trade Organization, those international financial institutions that,

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00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,000
however inadequate, still determine what economic globalization means...

678
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Such is the power of globalization that within our lifetime we are likely to see the integration,

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00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,000
even if unevenly, of all national economies in the world into a single global, free market system.

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00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:34,000
The World is being taken over by a hand-full of business powers who dominate the natural resources we need to live,

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00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:38,000
while controlling the money we need to obtain these resources.

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00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:47,000
The end result will be world monopoly based not on human life but financial and corporate power.

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00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:53,000
And, as the inequality grows, naturally, more and more people are becoming desperate.

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00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,000
So the establishment was forced to come up with a new way to deal

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00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:03,000
with anyone who challenges the system. So they gave birth to the 'Terrorist'.

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00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:12,000
The term 'terrorist' is an empty distinction designed for any person or group who chooses to challenge the establishment.

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00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:21,000
This isn't to be confused with the fictional 'Al Qaida', which as actually the name of a computer database of the U.S.-supported Mudjahedeen

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00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,000
in the 1980's.

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00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:28,000
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Quaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this.

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00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,000
But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity...

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00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,000
The country behind this propaganda is the US" - Robin Cook - Former British Foreign Secretary

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00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:43,000
In 2007, the Department of Defense received 161.8 billion dollars for the so-called global war on terrorism.

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00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:53,000
According to the national counter-terrorism center, in 2004 roughly 2000 people were killed internationally due to supposed terrorist acts.

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00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,000
Of that number, 70 were American.

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00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:03,000
Using this number as a general average, which is extremely generous, it is interesting to note that twice as many

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00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:07,000
people die from peanut allergies a year than from terrorist acts.

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00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:18,000
Concurrently, the leading cause of death in America is coronary heart disease, killing roughly 450,000 each year.

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00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:26,000
And in 2007, the government's allocation of funds for research on this issue was about three billion dollars.

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00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:34,000
This means, that the US government, in 2007, spent 54 times the amount for preventing terrorism,

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00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:43,000
than it spent for preventing for the disease, which kills 6600 times more people annually, than terrorism does.

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Yet, as the name terrorism and Al Qaida

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00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:55,000
are arbitrarilly stamped on every news report relating to any action - taken against US interests

703
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,000
the myth grows wider.

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00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,000
In mid 2008 the "US Attorney General"

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00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,000
actually proposed, that the US congress

706
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,735
officially declare war against the fantasy

707
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:11,000
not to mention as of July 2008, there are now over 1 million people

708
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:15,000
currently on the US terrorist watch list.

709
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:22,000
These so called "Counter-Terrorism Measures" of course had nothing to do with social protection

710
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:26,000
- and everything to do with preserving the establishment

711
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,000
amongst the growing Anti-American sentiment

712
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,000
both domestically and internationally

713
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:37,000
which is legitimately founded on the greed based corporate empire expansion

714
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,000
that is exploiting the world.

715
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,000
The true terrorists of our world, do not meet at the darks at midnight

716
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,000
or scream "Allah Akbar" before some violent action.

717
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:54,000
The true terrorists of our world, wear 5000 dollar suits

718
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:59,000
and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

719
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,955
So, what do we do ?

720
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:10,000
How do we stop a system of greed and corruption, that has so much power and momentum

721
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:15,000
How do we stop this aberrant group behavior, which feels no compassion

722
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,000
for say, the millions slaughtered in Irak and Afghanistan

723
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:25,000
So the corporatacity can control energy resources and opium production for Wall St. profit.

724
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:31,000
Before 1980, Afghanistan produced 0% of the world's opium.

725
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:38,000
After the US/CIA backed Mujahideen won the Soviet/Afghan war. by 1986 they were producing 40% of the world's heroin supply.

726
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:43,000
By 1988, they were producing 80% of the total market supply.

727
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,000
But then, something unexpected happened.

728
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:55,000
The Taliban rose to power, and by 2000 they had destroyed most of the opium fields. Production dropped from 3.000+ tons to only 185 tons, a 94% reduction.

729
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:01,335
On Sept. 9th 2001, the full Afghanistan invasion plans were on President Bush's Desk

730
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,465
Two days later they had their excuse

731
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Today, opium productions in US controlled Afghanistan,

732
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:17,000
which now provides more than 90% of the world's heroin, breakes new production records nearly every year.

733
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,000
How do we stop a system of greed and corruption

734
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:24,000
that condemns poor populations to "Sweatshop-Slavery" for the benefit of Madison Avenue?

735
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:31,000
Or that engineers false-flag terror attacks for the sake of manipulation?

736
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:38,000
Or that generates built-in modes of social operation, wich are inherently exploited?

737
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:43,000
Or that systematicly reduces several libertys, and violates human rights,

738
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:47,000
in order to protect itself, from it's own shortcomings.

739
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,000
How do we deal with the numerous covert institutions,

740
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:57,000
such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg Group, and the other undemocratically elected groups

741
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:06,000
which behind closed doors collude to control the political, financial, social and environmental elements of our lives?

742
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:13,000
In order to find the answer, we must first find, the true underlying cause.

743
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:19,000
For the fact is, the selfish, corrupt power and profit based groups are not the true source of the problem.

744
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,000
They are symptoms.

745
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:30,000
"Greed and Competition are not the result of immutable human temperament...

746
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,000
...greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified...

747
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,000
the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.

748
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,000
- Bernard Liertaer - Founder of the EU Currency System

749
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,000
My name is Jacque Fresco.

750
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:48,000
I'm an industrial designer and a social engineer.

751
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:57,000
I'm very much interested in society and developing a system that might be sustainable, for all people.

752
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:08,000
First of all, the word "corruption" is a monetary invention, that aberrant behavior, behavior that's disruptive for the well-being of people.

753
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:17,000
Well you're dealing with human behavior. And human behavior appears to be environmentally determined.

754
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:23,000
Meaning, if you were raised by the Seminole indians as a baby, never saw anything else

755
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,000
you'd hold that value system.

756
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:32,000
And this goes for nations, for individuals, for families they try to indoctrinate their children

757
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:38,000
to their particular faith, and their country and make them feel like their are part of that.

758
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,000
And they built a society, which they call established.

759
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:49,000
They established a workable point of view and tend to perpetuate that.

760
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:54,000
Whereas, all societies are really emergent, not established.

761
00:55:55,000 --> 00:56:01,000
And so they fight new ideas, that would interfere with the establishment.

762
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:12,000
Goverments try to perpetuate that which keeps them in power. People are not elected to political office to change things.

763
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,000
They are put there, to keep things the way they are.

764
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,000
So you see, the bases of corruption is in our society.

765
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:28,000
Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutons.

766
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:40,000
I don´t mean to uphold or downgrade all nations, but communism, socialism, facism, the free enterprise-system and all other sub-cultures are the same.

767
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,000
They are all basically corrupt.

768
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,000
The most fundamental characteristic of our social institutions

769
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:51,000
is the necessity for self-preservation.

770
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:55,000
Whether dealing with a corporation, a religion or a government,

771
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:59,000
the foremost interest is to preserve the institution itself.

772
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:06,000
For instance, the last thing an oil company would ever want is the utilization of energy that was outside of it's control.

773
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:10,000
For it makes that company less relevant to society.

774
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:15,000
Likewise the cold war and the collapse of the Soviet Union was, in reality,

775
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:21,000
a way to preserve and perpetuate the established economic and global hegemony of the United States.

776
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:28,000
Similarly, religions condition people to feel guilty for natural inclination,

777
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,000
each claiming to offer the only path to forgiveness and salvation.

778
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:38,000
At the heart of this institutional self-preservation lies monetary system.

779
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:42,000
For it is money that provides the means for power and survival.

780
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:48,000
Therefore, just as a poor person might be forced to steal in order to survive,

781
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:54,000
it is a natural inclination to do whatever is needed to continue an institutions profitability.

782
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:58,000
This makes it inherently difficult for profit-based institutions to change,

783
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:03,000
for it puts in jeopardy not only the survival of large groups of people,

784
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:08,000
but also the coveted materialistic lifestyle associated with affluence and power.

785
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:13,000
Therefore, the paralyzing necessity to preserve an institution

786
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:19,000
regardless of it’s social relevance is largely rooted in the need for money, or profit.

787
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,000
“What’s in it for me?, is why people think.

788
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:32,000
And so if a man makes money selling a certain product,

789
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:38,000
that’s where he’s going to fight the existence of another product that may threaten his institution.

790
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:45,000
Therefore, people cannot be fair. And people do not trust each other.

791
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,000
A guy will come over to you and say "I’ve got just the house you’re looking for"…

792
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,000
he’s a salesman.

793
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,000
When a doctor says ‘I think your kidney has to come out’,

794
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:59,000
I don’t know if he’s trying to pay off a yacht or that my kidney has to come out.

795
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,000
It’s hard in a monetary system to trust people.

796
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,000
If you came into my store and I said

797
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:10,000
‘This lamp that I’ve got is pretty good, but the lamp next door is much better’,

798
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:13,000
I wouldn’t be in business very long. It wouldn’t work.

799
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,000
If I were ethical, it wouldn’t work.

800
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:21,000
So when you say industry cares for people… that’s not true.

801
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,000
They can’t afford to be ethical.

802
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:29,000
So your system is not designed to serve the well-being of people.

803
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:34,000
If you still don’t understand that there would be no outsourcing of jobs

804
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,000
if they cared about people.

805
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:37,000
Industry does not care.

806
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:41,000
They only hire people because it hasn’t been automated yet.

807
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:49,000
So don’t talk about decency and ethics, we cannot afford it and remain in business.

808
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:54,000
It is important to point out that regardless of the social system;

809
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:58,000
whether fascist, socialist, capitalist, or communist;

810
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:02,000
the underlying mechanism is still money, labor, and competition.

811
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:08,000
Communist China is no less capitalistic than the United States.

812
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:13,000
The only difference is the degree by which the state intervenes in enterprise.

813
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:18,000
The Reality is that "Monetary-ism", so to speak, is the true mechanism,

814
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:21,000
that guides the interests of all the countries on the planet.

815
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:26,000
The most agressive and hence dominant variation of this monetary-ism

816
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,000
is the free enterprise system.

817
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:32,000
The fundamental perspective as put forth by early free market economists,

818
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,000
like Adam Smith,

819
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:38,000
is that self interest and competition leads to social prosperity,

820
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:43,000
as the act of competition creates incentive, which motivates people to persevere.

821
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:49,000
However, what isn't talked about, is how a competition based economy

822
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:55,000
invariably leads to strategic corruption, power an wealth consolidation,

823
01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:00,000
social stratification, technological paralisis, labor abuse

824
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:04,000
and ultimately a covert form of government dictatorship

825
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,000
by the rich elite.

826
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:12,000
The word "Corruption" is often defined as - moral perversion -

827
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:16,000
If a company dumps toxic waste into the ocean to save money,

828
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,000
most people recognize this as "corrupt behavior".

829
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:22,000
On a more subtle level,

830
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:28,000
when Walmart moves into a small town and forces small businesses to shut down for they are unable to compete,

831
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:30,000
a grey area emerges.

832
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,000
For what exactly is Walmart doing wrong?

833
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:37,000
Why should they care about the Mom and Pop organizations they destroy?

834
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:40,000
Yet even more subtly,

835
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:44,000
when a person get's fired from their job, because a new machine has been created,

836
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,000
which can do the work for less money,

837
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,000
people tend to just accept that as

838
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,000
"the way it is",

839
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:55,000
not seen the inherent corrupt inhumanity of such an action.

840
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,000
Because the fact is,

841
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:03,000
whether it is dumping toxic waste, having a monopoly enterprise or downsizing the workforce,

842
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,000
the motive is the same :

843
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:06,000
profit.

844
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:11,000
They are all different degrees of the same self-preserving mechanism,

845
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:16,000
which always put's the well-being of people second to monetary gain.

846
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:22,000
Therefore, corruption is not some byproduct of monetary-ism,

847
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,000
it is the very foundation.

848
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:29,000
And while most people acknowledge this tendency on one level or another,

849
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:33,000
majority remains naive as to the broad ramifications

850
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:39,000
of having such a selfish mechanism as the guiding mentality in society.

851
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:44,000
Internal documents show that after this company positively absolutely knew that

852
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:47,000
they had a medication that was infected with the AIDS virus,

853
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,000
they took the product off the market in the US,

854
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:52,000
and then they dumped it in France, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

855
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,000
The US government allowed it to happen.

856
01:02:55,000 --> 01:03:00,000
The FDA allowed this to happen, and now the government is completely looking the other way.

857
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:05,000
Thousands of innocent hemophiliacs have died from the AIDS virus.

858
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:08,000
This company knew absolutely that it was infected with AIDS,

859
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:13,000
they dumped it because they wanted to turn this disaster into a profit.

860
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:19,000
So you see, you have built-in corruption.

861
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:22,000
We’re all chiseling off each other,

862
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:25,000
and you can’t expect decency in that sort of thing.

863
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,000
…a feeling that they don’t know who to elect.

864
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,000
They think in terms of a democracy,

865
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:38,000
which is not possible in a monetary based economy.

866
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:42,000
If you have more money to advertise your position,

867
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,000
the position you desire in government,

868
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,000
that isn’t a democracy.

869
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:51,000
It serves those in positions of differential advantage.

870
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:55,000
So it’s always a dictatorship of the elitist,

871
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,000
the financially wealthy.

872
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,000
"We can either have democracy in this country or

873
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,000
we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,

874
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,000
but we can’t have both.” - Louis Brandeis - Supreme Court Justice

875
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:10,000
It is an interesting observation to note how seemingly unknown personalities

876
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:13,000
magically appear on the scene as presidential candidates.

877
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,000
Then before you know it,

878
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:20,000
somehow you are left to choose from a small group of extremely wealthy people

879
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:24,000
who suspiciously have the same broad social view.

880
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:27,000
Obviously it’s a joke.

881
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:29,000
The people placed on the ballot are done so

882
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,000
because they have been pre-decided to be acceptable

883
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:36,000
by the established financial powers who actually run the show.

884
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:42,000
Yet many who understand this illusion of democracy, often think

885
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:47,000
"If only we could just get our honest, ethical politicians in power",

886
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:49,000
then we would be okay.

887
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,000
Well, while this idea of course seems reasonable

888
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,000
in our established oriented world view,

889
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:59,000
it is unfortunately another fallacy.

890
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:03,000
For when it really comes down to what is actually important,

891
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:07,000
the institution of politics and thus politicians themselves,

892
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:14,000
have absolutely no true relevance as to what makes our world and society function.

893
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:18,000
It’s not politicians that can solve problems.

894
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:21,000
They have no technical capabilities.

895
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,000
They don’t know how to solve problems.

896
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:27,000
Even if they were sincere, they don’t know how to solve problems.

897
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:32,000
It’s the technicians that produce the desalinization plants.

898
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:35,000
It’s the technicians that give you electricity.

899
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,000
That give you motor vehicles.

900
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,000
That heat your house, and cool it in the summer time.

901
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:44,000
It’s technology that solves problems, not politics.

902
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:48,000
Politics cannot solve problems ’cause they are not trained to do so.

903
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:52,000
Very few people today stop and consider

904
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:56,000
what it is that actually improves their lives.

905
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:59,000
Is it money? Obviously not.

906
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:03,000
One cannot eat money, or stuff money into their car to get it to run.

907
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,000
Is it politics?

908
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,000
All politicians can do is create laws,

909
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:11,000
establish budgets, and declare war.

910
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:13,000
Is it religion?

911
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,000
Of course not, religion creates nothing except

912
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:19,000
intangible emotional solace for those who require it.

913
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:24,000
The true gift that we as human beings have,

914
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:29,000
which has been solely responsible for everything that has improved our lives,

915
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:31,000
is technology.

916
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,000
What is technology?

917
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,000
Technology is a pencil,

918
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:39,000
which allows one to solidify ideas on paper for communication.

919
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:45,000
Technology is an automobile, which allows one to travel faster than feet would allow.

920
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:50,000
Technology is a pair of eye glasses, which enables sight for those who need it.

921
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:57,000
Applied technology itself is merely and extension of human attributes,

922
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:02,000
which reduces human effort, freeing humans from a particular chore or problem.

923
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:06,000
Imagine what your life would be like today without a telephone,

924
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:07,000
or an oven,

925
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:08,000
or a computer,

926
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,000
or an airplane.

927
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:14,000
Everything in your home, which you take for granted; from a doorbell,

928
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:15,000
to a table,

929
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:16,000
to a dishwasher,

930
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:23,000
is technology, generated from the creative scientific ingenuity of human technicians.

931
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:27,000
Not money, politics, or religion.

932
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,000
These are false institutions.

933
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:34,000
…and writing your congressman is fantastic.

934
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:37,000
They tell ya, "write your congressman if you want something done".

935
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:41,000
The men in Washington should be at the forefront of technology.

936
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,000
The forefront of human study.

937
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,000
The forefront of crime.

938
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:48,000
All the factors that shape human behavior.

939
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:50,000
You don’t have to write your congressman.

940
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:54,000
What kind of people are they that are appointed to do that job?

941
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,000
The future will have great difficulty…

942
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:01,000
and the question that’s raised by politicians is:

943
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,000
How much will a project cost?

944
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,000
The question is not "how much will it cost".

945
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:09,000
Do we have the resources?

946
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:13,000
And we have the resources today to house everyone,

947
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:16,000
build hospitals all over the world,

948
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:18,000
build schools all over the world,

949
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:23,000
the finest equipment in labs for teaching and doing medical research.

950
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:28,000
So you see, we have all that, but we’re in a monetary system,

951
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:31,000
and in a monetary system there’s profit.

952
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:36,000
And what is the fundamental mechanism that drives the profit system

953
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:38,000
besides self-interest?

954
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:42,000
What is it exactly that maintains that competitive edge at it’s core?

955
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:45,000
Is it high efficiency and sustainability?

956
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,000
No. That isn’t part of their design.

957
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:54,000
Nothing produced in our profit based society is even remotely sustainable or efficient.

958
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:59,000
If it was, there wouldn’t be a multi-million dollar a year service industry for automobiles.

959
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:03,000
Nor would the average lifespan for most electronics be less than three months

960
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,000
before they’re obsolete.

961
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,000
Is it abundance?

962
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:09,000
Absolutely not.

963
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:12,000
Abundance, as based on the laws of supply and demand,

964
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,000
is actually a negative thing.

965
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:19,000
If a diamond company finds ten times the usual amount of diamonds during their mining,

966
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:22,000
it means the supply of diamonds has increased,

967
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:26,000
which means the cost and profit per diamond drops.

968
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:30,000
The fact is; efficiency, sustainability, and abundance

969
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:32,000
are the enemies of profit.

970
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:34,000
To put it into a word,

971
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:38,000
it is the mechanism of scarcity that increases profits.

972
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,000
What is scarcity?

973
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:45,000
It’s based on keeping products valuable.

974
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:49,000
Slowing up production on oil raises the price.

975
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:53,000
Maintaining scarcity of diamonds keeps the price high.

976
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:57,000
They burn diamonds at the Kimberly Diamond Mine. They’re made of carbon.

977
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,000
That keeps the price up.

978
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:03,000
So then, what does it mean for society when scarcity,

979
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:07,000
either produced naturally or through manipulation

980
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:10,000
is a beneficial condition for industry?

981
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:18,000
It means that sustainability and abundance will never ever occur in profit system.

982
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:22,000
For it simply goes against the very nature of the structure.

983
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:28,000
Therefore, it is impossible to have a world without war, or poverty.

984
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:32,000
It is impossible to continually advance technology

985
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:35,000
to its most efficient and productive states.

986
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,000
And most dramatically,

987
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:40,000
it is impossible to expect human beings

988
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:41,000
to behave

989
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:45,000
in truly ethical or decent ways.

990
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:57,000
People use the word instinct because they can’t account for the behavior.

991
01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:03,000
They sit back and they evaluate with their lack of knowledge, you know,

992
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,000
and they say things like

993
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:09,000
"humans are built a certain way", "greed is a natural thing",

994
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:11,000
as though they’d worked for years on it.

995
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,000
And it’s no more natural than wearing clothing.

996
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:18,000
What we want to do is to eliminate

997
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,000
the causes of the problems.

998
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,000
Eliminate the processes that

999
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:27,000
produce greed, and bigotry, and prejudice,

1000
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:31,000
and people taking advantage of one another, and elitism.

1001
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:36,000
Eliminating the need for prisons and welfare.

1002
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:40,000
We have always had these problems because we have always lived within scarcity,

1003
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:46,000
and barter, and monetary systems that produce scarcity.

1004
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:50,000
If you eradicate the conditions that generate

1005
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:53,000
what you call socially offensive behavior,

1006
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:54,000
it does not exist.

1007
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,000
A guy says: "well listen, are they in-born?"

1008
01:11:57,000 --> 01:11:58,000
No it’s not.

1009
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:01,000
There is no human nature, there’s human behavior,

1010
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:04,000
and that’s always been changed throughout history.

1011
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:10,000
You’re not born with bigotry, and greed, and corruption, and hatred.

1012
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:13,000
You pick that up within the society.

1013
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:18,000
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering

1014
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:21,000
will not change in a monetary system.

1015
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,000
That is, there’ll be very little significant change.

1016
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:28,000
It’s going to take the redesigning of our culture,

1017
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:29,000
our values,

1018
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:33,000
and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the earth,

1019
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:38,000
not some human opinion or some politicians notions

1020
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:40,000
of the way the world ought to be.

1021
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:45,000
Or some religion’s notion of the conduct of human affairs.

1022
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:48,000
And that’s what The Venus Project is about.

1023
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:53,000
The society, that we're about to talk about,

1024
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:58,000
is a society that is free of all the old superstitions,

1025
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:03,000
incarceration, prisons, police cruelty and law.

1026
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:06,000
All laws will disappear

1027
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:10,000
and the professions will disappear, that are no longer valid,

1028
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:13,000
such as stockbrokers, bankers advertising.

1029
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:14,930
Gone! Forever!

1030
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:19,000
Because it's no longer relevant.

1031
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:23,000
When we understand that it is technology

1032
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,000
devised by human ingenuity

1033
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:29,000
which frees humanity and increases our quality of life

1034
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:32,000
we then realize, that the most important focus we can have

1035
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:37,000
is on the intelligent management of the earth's resources.

1036
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:42,000
For, it is from these natural resources, we gain the materials to continue our path of prosperity

1037
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,000
Understanding this we than see,

1038
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:50,000
that money fundamentally exists as a barrier to these resources,

1039
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:53,000
for virtually everything has a financial cause.

1040
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:56,000
And why do we need money to obtain these resources?

1041
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:59,000
Because of real or assumed scarcity.

1042
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:04,000
We don't usually pay for air and tap water,

1043
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,000
because it is in such high abundance,

1044
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:09,000
selling it would be pointless.

1045
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,000
So then, logically speaking,

1046
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:16,000
if resources and technologies, applicable to creating everything in our societies

1047
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:20,000
such as houses, cities and transportation, were in high enough abundance,

1048
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:23,000
there would be no reason to sell anything.

1049
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:29,000
Likewise, if automation and machinery was so technologically advanced,

1050
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:31,000
as to relieve human beings of labor

1051
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:34,000
there would be no reason to have a job.

1052
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:37,000
And with these social aspects taking care of,

1053
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:40,000
there would be no reason to have money at all.

1054
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:43,000
So the ultimate question remains:

1055
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,000
Do we on earth have enough resources

1056
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,000
and technological understanding

1057
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:50,000
to create a society of such abundance,

1058
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:54,000
that everything we have now could be available without a price tag

1059
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:58,000
and without the need for submission through employment?

1060
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,000
Yes, we do.

1061
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,000
We have the resources and technology

1062
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:06,000
to enable this at a minimum

1063
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:10,000
along with the ability to raise the standards of living so high

1064
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:13,000
that people in the future will look back at our civilisation now

1065
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:18,000
and gawk how primitive and immature our society was.

1066
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:22,000
What the Venus Project proposes

1067
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,000
is an entirely different system

1068
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:27,000
that's updated to present day knowledge

1069
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:30,000
We've never given scientists the problem of

1070
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:34,000
how do you design a society that would eliminate boring and monotonous jobs,

1071
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:39,000
that would eliminate accidents in transportation,

1072
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:42,000
that would enable people to have a high standard of living,

1073
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:45,000
that would eliminate poisons in our food,

1074
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:49,000
give us other sources of energy, that are clean and efficient.

1075
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:51,000
We can do that out there.

1076
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:53,000
A resource based economy.

1077
01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:01,000
The major difference between a resource based economy and a monetary system

1078
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:05,000
is that a resource based economy is really concerned with people

1079
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,000
and their well-being

1080
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:14,000
where the monetary system has become so distorted that the concerns of the people are really secondary, it they're there at all.

1081
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:17,000
The products that are turned out are for:

1082
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,000
how much money you can get.

1083
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:25,000
If there is a problem in society and you can't earn money from solving that problem, then it won't be done.

1084
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:30,000
The resource based economy is really not close to anything that's been tried.

1085
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:36,000
And with all our technology today we can create abundance. It could be used to improve everyone's livestyle.

1086
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:39,000
Abundance all over the world if we use our technology wisely

1087
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:41,000
and maintain the environment.

1088
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,000
It's a very different system

1089
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,000
and it's very hard to talk about

1090
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:49,000
'cause the public is not that well enough informed

1091
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:52,000
as to the state of technology.

1092
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:53,115
Energy

1093
01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:00,000
At present, we don't have to burn fossil fuels.

1094
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:04,000
We don't have to use anything that would contaminate the environment.

1095
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:07,000
There are many sources of energy available.

1096
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:12,000
Alternative energy solutions pushed by the establishment, such as

1097
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:17,000
hydrogen, biomass and even nuclear are highly insufficient, dangerous

1098
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:21,000
and exist only to perpetuate the profit-structure the industry has created

1099
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:25,000
When we look beyond the propaganda and self-serving solutions

1100
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:28,000
put forth by the energy companies

1101
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,000
we find a seemingly endless stream

1102
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:34,000
of clean abundant and renewable energy for generating power.

1103
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:41,000
Solar and wind energy are well known to the public. But the true potential of these mediums remains unexpressed.

1104
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:44,000
Solar energy, derived from the sun,

1105
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:48,000
has such abundance, that one hour of light at high noon

1106
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:52,000
contains more energy than what the entire world consumes in a year.

1107
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:56,000
If we could capture 1/100th of a percent of this energy,

1108
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:00,000
the world would never have to use oil, gas or anything else.

1109
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:03,000
The questioning is not availability

1110
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,000
but the technology to harnesst it.

1111
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,000
And there are many advanced mediums today

1112
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,000
which could accomplish just that,

1113
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:13,000
if they were not hindered by the need to compete for market share

1114
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:16,000
with the established energy power structures.

1115
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:19,000
Then there's wind energy.

1116
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:22,000
Wind energy has long been denounced as weak

1117
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:25,000
And due to being location driven, impractical.

1118
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,000
This is simply not true.

1119
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:30,000
The US department of energy admitted in 2007

1120
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:35,000
that if wind was fully harvested in just three of Americas 50 states

1121
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:38,000
it could power the entire nation.

1122
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:44,000
And there are the rather unknown mediums of tidal and wave power.

1123
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:47,000
Tidal power is derived from tidal shifts in the ocean.

1124
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:52,000
Installing turbines which capture this movement, generates energy.

1125
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:56,000
In the United Kingdom 42 sites are currently noted as available,

1126
01:18:56,000 --> 01:19:02,000
forecasting that 34% of all the UK's energy could come from tidal power alone.

1127
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:08,000
Wave power, which extracts energy from the surface motions of the oceans,

1128
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:14,000
is estimated to have a global potential of up to 80.000 terawatt-hours a year.

1129
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:20,000
This means 50% of the entire planets energy usage could be produced from this medium alone.

1130
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:27,000
Now, it is important to point out that tidal, wave, solar and wind power

1131
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:31,000
requires virtually no preliminary energy to harness,

1132
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:36,000
unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass, hydrogen and all the others.

1133
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:41,000
In combination these four mediums alone, if efficiently harnessed through technology,

1134
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:44,000
could power the world forever.

1135
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:51,000
That being said, there happens to be another form of clean renewable energy, which trumps them all.

1136
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:53,000
Geothermal power.

1137
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:57,000
Geothermal energy utilizes, what is called "heat mining".

1138
01:19:57,000 --> 01:20:03,000
Which, through a simple process using water, is able to generate massive amounts of clean energy.

1139
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:07,000
In 2006, an MIT report on geothermal energy

1140
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:12,000
found that 13.000 zetajule of power are currently available in the earth

1141
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:18,000
with the possibility of 2.000 ZJ being easily tapable with improved technology.

1142
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:22,000
The total energy consumption of all the countries on the planet is about

1143
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:24,000
half of a zetajule a Year

1144
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:28,000
This means about 4000 years of planetary power could be harnessed

1145
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:30,000
in this medium alone.

1146
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:35,000
And when we understand that the earth's heat generation is constantly renewed,

1147
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,000
this energy is really limitless.

1148
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:39,000
It could be used forever.

1149
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:45,000
These energy sources are only a few of the clean renewable mediums available

1150
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:48,000
and as time goes on we will find more.

1151
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:54,000
The grand realization is that we have total energy abundance without the need for pollution

1152
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:59,000
traditional conservation or, in fact, a price tag.

1153
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:02,000
And what about transportation?

1154
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:08,000
The prevailing means of transportation in our societies is by automobile and aircraft,

1155
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:11,000
both of which predominantly need fossil fuels to run.

1156
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:14,000
In the case of the automobile, the battery technology needed

1157
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:18,000
to power an electric car that can go over a hundred miles and hour

1158
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:20,000
for over two hundred miles on one charge,

1159
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:23,000
exists and has existed for many years.

1160
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:29,000
However, due to battery patents, controlled by the oil industry, which limits their ability to maintain market share,

1161
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:32,000
coupled with political pressure from the energy industry,

1162
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:37,000
the accessibility and affordability of this technology is limited.

1163
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:41,000
There is absolutely no reason, other than pure, corrupt profit interests,

1164
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:44,000
that every single vehicle in the world cannot be

1165
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:48,000
electric, and utterly clean, with zero need for gasoline.

1166
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:50,000
As far as airplanes,

1167
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:53,000
it is time we realized that this means of travel is inefficient,

1168
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:58,000
cumbersome, slow and causes far too much pollution.

1169
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:00,000
This is a mag-lev train.

1170
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:03,000
It uses magnets for propulsion.

1171
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:06,000
It is fully suspended by a magnetic field

1172
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:10,000
and requires less then two percent of the energy used for plane travel.

1173
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:13,000
The train has no wheels, so nothing can wear out.

1174
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:17,000
The current maximum speed of versions of this technology,

1175
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:21,000
as used in Japan, is three hundred and sixty one miles per hour.

1176
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:25,000
However this version of the technology is very dated.

1177
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:30,000
An organisation called ET3 which has connection with the Venus project,

1178
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:36,000
has established a tube-based mag-lev that can travel up to 4000 miles per hour

1179
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:42,000
in a motionless, frictionless tube, which can go over land or under water.

1180
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:46,000
Imagine going from L.A to New York for an extended lunchbreak

1181
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:50,000
or from Washington D.C. to Beijing, China, in two hours.

1182
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:55,000
This is the future of continental and intercontinental travel.

1183
01:22:55,000 --> 01:23:01,000
Fast, clean, with only a fraction of the energy usage we use today for the same means.

1184
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:07,000
In fact, between mag-lev technology, advanced battery storage and geothermal energy

1185
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:11,000
there will be no reason to ever burning fossil fuel again.

1186
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:17,000
And we can do this now, if we were not held back by the paralyzing profit structure.

1187
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:20,000
Work

1188
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:25,000
Now America is inclined towards fascism.

1189
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:32,000
It has a propensity by its dominant philosophy and religion to uphold to fascist point of view.

1190
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:37,000
American industry is essencially a fascist institution.

1191
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:42,000
If you dont understand that, the minute you punch that time clock you woke into a dictatorship.

1192
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:47,000
We're given notions about the respectibility of work.

1193
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:51,000
And I realy look at it as being paid slavery.

1194
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:56,000
You brought up to believe that you shall earn your living by the sweat of your brow.

1195
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,000
That holds people back.

1196
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,000
Freeing people

1197
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:04,000
from drudgery, repetitive jobs which make them ignorant.

1198
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:06,000
You rob them.

1199
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:10,000
In our society, that is a resourced based economy,

1200
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:12,000
machines free people.

1201
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:17,000
You see, we can't imagine that because we've never known that kind of world.

1202
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:20,000
automation

1203
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:26,000
If we look back at history, we see a very clear pattern of machine automation

1204
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:30,000
slowly replacing human labour.

1205
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:32,000
From the dissapearence of the elevator man

1206
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:36,000
to the near full automation of an automobile production plant.

1207
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:41,000
The fact is, as technology grows the need for humans in the work force

1208
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,000
will continually be diminished.

1209
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:45,000
This creates a serious clash,

1210
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:50,000
which proves the falsness of the monetary based labor system.

1211
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:56,000
For human employment is in direct competition with technological developement.

1212
01:24:56,000 --> 01:25:01,000
Therefore given the fundamental priority of profit by industry,

1213
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:06,000
people through time will be continually layed off and replaced by machine.

1214
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:10,000
When industry takes on a machine instead of shortening the work day,

1215
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:16,000
they downsize. You loose your job so you have a right to fear machines.

1216
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:19,000
In a high technology, resourced based economy,

1217
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:24,000
it is conservative to say that about 90% of all current occupations

1218
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:26,000
could be faced out by machines.

1219
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:30,000
Freeing humans to live their life without servitude.

1220
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:33,000
For this is the point of technology itself.

1221
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:38,000
And through time, with nano technology and other highly advanced forms of science,

1222
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:46,000
it is not far fetch to see how even complex medical procedures could be performed by machines as well.

1223
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:51,000
And based on the pattern with much higher success rates than humans get today.

1224
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:55,000
The path is clear but our monetary based structure

1225
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:59,000
which requires labour for income, blocks this progress.

1226
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:03,000
For humans needs jobs in order to survive.

1227
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:06,000
The bottom line is that this system must go

1228
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:11,000
or we will never be free and technology will be constantly paralyzed.

1229
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:17,000
We have machines that clean out sewers and free as a human being from doing that.

1230
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:22,000
So look at machines as extensions of human performance.

1231
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:31,000
Furthermore, many occupations today will have simply no basis to exist in a resourced based economy.

1232
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:38,000
Such as anything assosiated with the management of money, advertising along with a legal system itself.

1233
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:44,000
For without money, a great majority of the crimes that are commited today would never occur.

1234
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:54,000
Virtually all forms of crimes are consequence in the moneatry system, either directly or by nevroses inflicted through financial deprevation.

1235
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:59,000
Therefore laws themselves could eventually become extinct.

1236
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:07,000
Instead of putting up a sign "drive carefully slippery when wet" put abrasive on the highway, so it is not slippery when wet.

1237
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:09,000
And when a person gets in car that drunk

1238
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:11,000
and a car oscillates at great deal

1239
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:13,000
there's a little pendulum

1240
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:17,000
that swings up and back, and that will pull the car over the side...

1241
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:18,000
Not a law.

1242
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:19,000
A solution.

1243
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:24,000
Put sonar and radar on automobiles so they can’t hit one another.

1244
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,000
Man-made laws are attempts

1245
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:28,000
to deal with occuring problems

1246
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:31,000
and not knowing how to solve them -

1247
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:33,000
they make a law.

1248
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:37,000
In the United States, the most privatised, capitalist country on the planet,

1249
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:39,000
it shall come as no surprise

1250
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:43,000
that it also has the largest prison population in the world.

1251
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:45,000
Growing every year.

1252
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:48,000
Statistically, most of these people are uneducated

1253
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:50,855
and come from poor, deprived societies.

1254
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:54,000
And contrary to propaganda,

1255
01:27:54,000 --> 01:28:00,000
it is this enviromental conditioning, which lures them into criminal and violent behavior.

1256
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,000
However society, looks the other way

1257
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:04,000
in regard to this point.

1258
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:08,000
The legal and prison systems are just more examples

1259
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:11,000
of how our society avoids examining

1260
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:13,000
the root-causes of behavior.

1261
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:15,000
Billions are spend each year

1262
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,000
on prisons and police,

1263
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:19,000
while only a fraction is spend on

1264
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:21,000
programs for poverty,

1265
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:26,000
which is one of the most fundamental variables responsible for crime to begin with.

1266
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:29,000
And, as long as we have an economic system,

1267
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:31,000
which preferes and infact creates

1268
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:36,000
scarcity and deprivation, crime will never go away.

1269
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:39,000
incentive

1270
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:45,000
If people have access to the necessities of life

1271
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:50,000
without survitude, debt, barter, trade,

1272
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:53,000
they'd behave very differently.

1273
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:57,000
You want all these things availabe without a price tag.

1274
01:28:57,000 --> 01:29:03,000
Now then, you won't gonna have a price tag. What will motivate people?

1275
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:07,000
A man gets everything he wants, he'll just lay around in the sun.

1276
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:09,000
This is the mist they perpetuade.

1277
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:12,000
People in our culture are trained to believe

1278
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:16,000
that the monetary system produces incentive.

1279
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:19,000
If they have access to things, why should they want to do anything?

1280
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:21,000
They would loose their incentive.

1281
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:25,000
That's what you're taught to support the monetary system.

1282
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:27,000
When you take money out of the scenario,

1283
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:32,000
there would be different incentives, very different incentives.

1284
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:35,000
When people have access to the necessities of life,

1285
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:37,000
their incentives change.

1286
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:39,000
What about the moon and the stars?

1287
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:41,000
New incentives arise.

1288
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:44,000
If you make a painting, that you enjoy,

1289
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:47,000
you will enjoy giving it to other people, not selling it.

1290
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:51,000
education

1291
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:59,000
I think most of the education, that I've seen today, is essentially producing a person for a job.

1292
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:02,000
It's very specialized. They're not generalists.

1293
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:07,000
People don't know a lot about a lot of different subjects. I don't think you can get people to go to war,

1294
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:10,000
if they knew a lot about a lot of things.

1295
01:30:10,000 --> 01:30:13,000
I think education is mostly rote

1296
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:17,000
and they're not taught how to solve problems.

1297
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:21,000
They're not given the tools, emotionally or whithin their own field,

1298
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:24,000
of how to do critical thinking.

1299
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:27,000
In a resource based economy, the education would be very different.

1300
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:31,000
Our society's major concern is mental development

1301
01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:34,000
and to motivate each person

1302
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,000
to their highest potential.

1303
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:40,000
Because our philosophy is to smarter people are the richer the world

1304
01:30:40,000 --> 01:30:43,000
because everybody becomes a contributor.

1305
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:46,000
The smarter your kids are,

1306
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:47,000
the better my life will be.

1307
01:30:47,000 --> 01:30:51,000
Because they'll be contributing more constructively to the environment

1308
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:54,000
and to my life. Because everything that we

1309
01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:57,000
devise within a resource based economy

1310
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:59,000
would be applied to society, there would be nothing

1311
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:00,000
to hold it back.

1312
01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:03,000
civilization

1313
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:09,000
Patriotism, weapons, armies, navies,

1314
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:10,000
all that is a sign,

1315
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:13,000
that we're not civilized yet.

1316
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:15,000
Kids will ask their parents:

1317
01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:19,000
"Didn't you see the necessity of the machines?"

1318
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:22,000
"Dad, couldn't you see that war was inevitable

1319
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:24,000
when you produce scarcity?"

1320
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:27,000
Isn't it obvious? Of course, the kid will understand

1321
01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:30,000
that you're pinheads - raised merely to serve

1322
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:32,000
the established institutons.

1323
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:35,000
We’re such in an abominable, sick society,

1324
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:38,000
that we won’t make the history books.

1325
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:42,000
They’ll just say that large nations took land from smaller nations,

1326
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:43,000
used force and violence.

1327
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:46,000
You’ll get history talked about as

1328
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:48,000
corrupt behavior all the way along

1329
01:31:48,000 --> 01:31:51,000
until the beginning of the civilized world.

1330
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:53,000
That’s when all the nations work together.

1331
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:55,000
World unification,

1332
01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:59,000
working toward common good for all human beings

1333
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:04,000
and without anyone being subservient to anyone else.

1334
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:07,000
Without social stratification

1335
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:09,000
whether it be technical elitism

1336
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,000
or any other kind of elitism,

1337
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:14,000
eradicated from the face of the earth.

1338
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:18,000
The ’state’ does nothing because there is no ’state’.

1339
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:24,000
The system I advocate,

1340
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:28,000
a resource based global economy is not perfect,

1341
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:31,000
it’s just a lot better than what we have.

1342
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:34,000
We can never achieve perfection.

1343
01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:45,000
“My country is the world…

1344
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:48,000
and my religion is to do good.”

1345
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:50,000
- Thomas Paine - 1737-1809

1346
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:53,000
The social values of our society,

1347
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:56,000
which has manifested in perpetual warfare,

1348
01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:57,000
corruption,

1349
01:32:57,000 --> 01:32:58,000
oppressive laws,

1350
01:32:58,000 --> 01:32:59,000
social stratification,

1351
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:01,000
irrelevant superstitions,

1352
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,000
environmental destruction,

1353
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:08,000
and a despotic, socially indifferent, profit oriented ruling class;

1354
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:12,000
is fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance

1355
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:16,000
of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality.

1356
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:21,000
The emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law.

1357
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:24,000
The emergent nature of reality

1358
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:27,000
is that all systems - whether it is knowledge,

1359
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:32,000
society, technology, philosophy, or any other creation -

1360
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:34,000
will, when uninhibited,

1361
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:37,000
undergo fluid perpetual change.

1362
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:39,000
What we consider commonplace today

1363
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:43,000
such as modern communication and transportation,

1364
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:46,000
would have been unimaginable in ancient times.

1365
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:49,000
Likewise, the future will contain technologies,

1366
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:52,000
realizations, and social structures

1367
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:55,000
that we cannot even fathom in the present.

1368
01:33:55,000 --> 01:33:58,000
We have gone from alchemy to chemistry,

1369
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:01,000
from a geocentric universe to a heliocentric,

1370
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:04,000
from believing that demons were the cause of illness

1371
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:06,000
to modern medicine.

1372
01:34:06,000 --> 01:34:09,000
This development shows no sign of ending,

1373
01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:12,000
and it is this awareness that aligns us

1374
01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:14,000
and leads us on a continuous path

1375
01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:16,000
to growth and progress.

1376
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:20,000
Static empirical knowledge does not exist,

1377
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:24,000
rather it is the insight of the emergence of all systems

1378
01:34:24,000 --> 01:34:26,000
we must recognize.

1379
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:31,000
This means we must be open to new information at all times,

1380
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:34,000
even if it threatens our current belief system, and hence,

1381
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:35,000
identities.

1382
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:40,000
Sadly, society today has failed to recognize this,

1383
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:44,000
and the established institutions continue to paralyze growth

1384
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:47,000
by preserving outdated social structures.

1385
01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:51,000
Simultaneously, the population suffers from a fear of change.

1386
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:54,000
For their conditioning assumes a static identity

1387
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:56,000
and challenging ones belief system,

1388
01:34:56,000 --> 01:35:00,000
usually results in insult and apprehension.

1389
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:04,000
For being wrong is erroneously associated with failure.

1390
01:35:05,000 --> 01:35:09,000
When in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated.

1391
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:13,000
For it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding,

1392
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:15,000
furthering awareness.

1393
01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:20,000
The fact is, there is no such thing as a smart human being,

1394
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:22,000
for it is merely a matter of time

1395
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:26,000
before their ideas are updated, changed, or irradicated.

1396
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:31,000
And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system,

1397
01:35:31,000 --> 01:35:35,000
sheltering it from new possibly transforming information

1398
01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:39,000
is nothing less than a form of intellectual materialism.

1399
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:43,000
The monetary system perpetuates this materialism

1400
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:46,000
not only by it’s self-preserving structures,

1401
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:49,000
but also throught the countless number of people

1402
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:51,000
who have been conditioned into blindly

1403
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,000
and thoughtlessly upholding these structures,

1404
01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:58,000
therefore becoming self-appointed guardians of the status quo.

1405
01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:02,000
Sheep which no longer need a sheep-dog to control them.

1406
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:08,000
For they control each other by ostracizing those who step out of the norm.

1407
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:10,000
This tendency to resist change

1408
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:12,000
and uphold existing institutions

1409
01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:14,000
for the sake of identity, comfort,

1410
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:16,000
power and profit

1411
01:36:16,000 --> 01:36:18,000
is completely unsustainable;

1412
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:21,000
and will only produce further imbalance,

1413
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:22,000
fragmentation,

1414
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:23,000
distortion,

1415
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:24,000
and very invariably,

1416
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:26,000
destruction.

1417
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:30,000
It’s time to change.

1418
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:32,000
From hunters and gatherers,

1419
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:34,000
to the agricultural revolution,

1420
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:36,000
to the industrial revolution,

1421
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:38,000
the pattern is clear.

1422
01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:40,000
It is time for a new social system

1423
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:43,000
which reflects the understandings we have today.

1424
01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:46,000
The monetary system is a product

1425
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:47,000
of a period of time

1426
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:49,000
where scarcity was a reality.

1427
01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:51,000
Now, with the age of technology,

1428
01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:54,000
it is no longer relevant to society.

1429
01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:58,000
Gone with the aberrant behavior it manifests.

1430
01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:02,000
Likewise, dominant world views,

1431
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:04,000
such as theistic religion, operate with

1432
01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:07,000
the same social irrelevancy.

1433
01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:12,000
Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and all of the others

1434
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:16,000
exist as barriers to personal and social growth.

1435
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:20,000
For each group perpetuates a closed world view.

1436
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:23,000
And this finite understanding that they acknowledge

1437
01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:27,000
is simply not possible in an emergent universe.

1438
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:33,000
Yet, religion has succeeded in shutting down the awareness

1439
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:34,000
of this emergence

1440
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:37,000
by instilling the psychological distortion of faith

1441
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:39,000
upon it’s followers.

1442
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:42,000
Where logic and new information is rejected

1443
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:45,000
in favor of traditionalized outdated beliefs.

1444
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:48,000
The concept of god,

1445
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:52,000
is really a method of accounting for the nature of things.

1446
01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:55,000
In the early days people didn’t know enough

1447
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:57,000
about how things formed,

1448
01:37:57,000 --> 01:37:59,000
how nature worked.

1449
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:02,000
So they invented their own little stories,

1450
01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:06,000
and the made god in their own image.

1451
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:08,000
A guy that get’s angry

1452
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:10,000
when people don’t behave right.

1453
01:38:10,000 --> 01:38:13,000
He creates floods, and earthquakes,

1454
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:16,000
and they say it’s and act of god.

1455
01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:20,000
A cursory glance at the suppressed history of religion

1456
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:23,000
reveals that even the foundational myths themselves

1457
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:27,000
are emergent culminations developed through influence over time.

1458
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:31,000
For example, a cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith

1459
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:33,000
is the death and resurrection of Christ.

1460
01:38:33,000 --> 01:38:37,000
This notion is so important that the Bible itself states

1461
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:43,000
"And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain"

1462
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:48,000
Yet it is very difficult to take this account literally,

1463
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:54,000
for not only is there no primary source denoting this supernatural event in secular history,

1464
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:57,000
awareness of the enormous number of pre-Christian saviors

1465
01:38:57,000 --> 01:39:00,000
who also died and were resurrected

1466
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:04,000
immediately puts this story in mythological territory by association.

1467
01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:06,000
Early church figures,

1468
01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:07,000
such as Tortullian,

1469
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:11,000
went to great lengths to break these associations,

1470
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:15,000
even claiming that the devil caused the similarities to occur.

1471
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:17,000
Stating in the second century:

1472
01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:20,000
"The devil, whose business is to pervert the truth,

1473
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:23,000
mimics the exact circumstances of the Divine Sacraments.

1474
01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:27,000
He baptizes his believers and promises forgiveness of sins…

1475
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:32,000
he celebrates the oblation of bread, and brings in the symbol of the resurrection.

1476
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:36,000
Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil,

1477
01:39:36,000 --> 01:39:39,000
who copied certain things of those that be Divine."

1478
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:42,000
What is truly sad however,

1479
01:39:42,000 --> 01:39:45,000
is that when we cease the idea that the stories from Christianity,

1480
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:48,000
Judaism, Islam and all the others

1481
01:39:48,000 --> 01:39:50,000
are literal history,

1482
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:53,000
and accept them for what they really are,

1483
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:58,000
which are purely allegorical expressions derived from many faiths,

1484
01:39:58,000 --> 01:40:01,000
we see that all religions share a common thread.

1485
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:04,000
And it is this unifying imperative

1486
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:07,000
that needs to be recognized and appreciated.

1487
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:12,000
Religious belief has caused more fragmentation and conflict

1488
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:14,000
than any other ideology.

1489
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:19,000
Christianity alone has over 34,000 different subgroups.

1490
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:23,000
The Bible is subject to interpretation.

1491
01:40:23,000 --> 01:40:25,000
When you read it, you say

1492
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:29,000
"I think Jesus meant this. I think Job meant that.

1493
01:40:29,000 --> 01:40:31,000
Oh No! He meant this."

1494
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:35,000
So you have the Lutheran, the Seventh-day Adventist, the Catholic,

1495
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:39,000
and a church divided is no church at all.

1496
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:48,000
And this point on division,

1497
01:40:48,000 --> 01:40:51,000
which is a trademark on all theistic religions,

1498
01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:54,000
brings us to our second failure of awareness.

1499
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:56,000
The false assumption of separation

1500
01:40:56,000 --> 01:41:01,000
through the rejection of the symbiotic relationship of life.

1501
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:06,000
Apart from the understanding that all natural systems are emergent,

1502
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:10,000
where all notions of reality will be constantly developed,

1503
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:12,000
altered, and even eradicated;

1504
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:16,000
we must also understand that all systems are, in fact,

1505
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:21,000
invented fragments, merely for sake of conversation.

1506
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:25,000
For there is no such thing as independence in nature.

1507
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:30,000
The whole of nature is a unified system of interdependent variables,

1508
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:35,000
each a cause and a reaction, existing only as a concentrated whole.

1509
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:39,000
You don’t see the plug to connect to the environment,

1510
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:43,000
so it looks like we’re free… wandering around.

1511
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:46,000
Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately.

1512
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:48,000
Take plant life away, we die.

1513
01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:51,000
And without the sun, all the plants die.

1514
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:53,000
So we are connected.

1515
01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:56,000
We really must take into account the totality.

1516
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:58,000
This isn’t just a human experience on this planet,

1517
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:00,000
this is a total experience.

1518
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:02,000
And we know we can’t survive without plants and animals.

1519
01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:05,000
We know we can’t survive without the four elements, you know?

1520
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:09,000
And so, when are we really going to start taking that into account?

1521
01:42:09,000 --> 01:42:11,000
That’s what it is to be successful.

1522
01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:15,000
Success depends on how well we relate to everything around us.

1523
01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:18,000
I’m very aware of the fact that my grandson

1524
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:20,000
cannot possibly hope

1525
01:42:20,000 --> 01:42:22,000
to inherit a sustainable,

1526
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:24,000
peaceful, stable, socially just world

1527
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:27,000
unless every child today growing up in

1528
01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:31,000
Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia, in Palestine, in Israel

1529
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:34,000
also has that same expectation.

1530
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:37,000
You gotta take care of the whole community

1531
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:39,000
or you’re gonna have serious problems.

1532
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:43,000
And now we have to see that the whole world is the community.

1533
01:42:43,000 --> 01:42:46,000
And we must all take care of each other that way.

1534
01:42:46,000 --> 01:42:48,000
And it’s not just a community of human beings,

1535
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:51,000
it's a community of plants and animals and elements.

1536
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:54,000
And we really need to understand that.

1537
01:42:54,000 --> 01:42:56,000
That’s what’s gonna bring us joy too,

1538
01:42:56,000 --> 01:42:57,000
and pleasure.

1539
01:42:57,000 --> 01:42:59,000
That’s what’s missing in our lives right now.

1540
01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:01,000
We can call it spirituality,

1541
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,000
but the fact of the matter is

1542
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:07,000
joy comes from that bliss of connectedness.

1543
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:08,000
That’s our god spirit.

1544
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:10,000
That’s that side of ourselves

1545
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:12,000
that really feels it,

1546
01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:14,000
and you can feel it deep inside you. It's this

1547
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:17,000
amazing wonderful feeling, and you know it when you get it.

1548
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:18,000
You don’t get it from money,

1549
01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:20,000
you get it from connection.

1550
01:43:22,000 --> 01:43:25,000
"Now if that isn’t a hazard to this country.

1551
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:29,000
How are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons,

1552
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:31,000
you know what I mean?

1553
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:33,000
What’s gonna happen to the arms industry

1554
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:36,000
when we realize we’re all one?

1555
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:39,000
It’s gonna fuck up the economy.

1556
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:42,000
The economy that’s fake anyway.

1557
01:43:50,000 --> 01:43:52,000
Which would be a real bummer.

1558
01:43:52,000 --> 01:43:55,000
You can see why the government’s crackin’ down…

1559
01:43:57,000 --> 01:44:00,000
on the idea of experiencing unconditional love.”

1560
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:06,000
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."

1561
01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:09,000
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - 1929-1968

1562
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:15,000
Once we understand that the integrity of our personal existences

1563
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:17,000
are completely dependent

1564
01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:20,000
on the integrity of everything else in our world,

1565
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:25,000
we have truly understood the meaning of unconditional love.

1566
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:29,000
For love is extensionality and seeing everything as you

1567
01:44:29,000 --> 01:44:33,000
and you as everything can have no conditionalities,

1568
01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:37,000
for in fact, we are all everything at once.

1569
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:39,000
If it’s true that we’re all from the center of a star,

1570
01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:41,000
every atom on each of us from the center of a star,

1571
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:43,000
then we’re all the same thing.

1572
01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:46,000
Even a Coke machine or a cigarette butt in the street in buffalo

1573
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:48,000
is made out of atoms that came from a star.

1574
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:50,000
They’ve all been recycled thousands of times,

1575
01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:51,000
as have you and I.

1576
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:55,000
And therefore, it’s only me out there.

1577
01:44:55,000 --> 01:44:59,000
So what is there to be afraid of? What is there that needs solace seeking?

1578
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:02,000
Nothing. There’s nothing to be afraid of because it’s all us.

1579
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:05,000
The trouble is we have been separated by being born

1580
01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:08,000
and given a name and an identity and being individuated.

1581
01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:09,000
We’ve been separated from the oneness,

1582
01:45:09,000 --> 01:45:10,000
and that’s what religion exploits.

1583
01:45:10,000 --> 01:45:14,000
That people have this yearning to be part of the overall one again.

1584
01:45:14,000 --> 01:45:18,000
So they exploit that. They call it god, they say he has rules,

1585
01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:19,000
and I think it’s cruel.

1586
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:22,000
I think you can do it absent religion.

1587
01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:25,000
…an extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies

1588
01:45:25,000 --> 01:45:28,000
would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities…

1589
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:31,000
Our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon and the stars…

1590
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:34,000
We humans have seen the atoms which constitute all of nature

1591
01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:36,000
and the forces that sculpted this work…

1592
01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:40,000
And we, we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos,

1593
01:45:40,000 --> 01:45:42,000
we have begun at least to wonder about our origins...

1594
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:46,000
star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms,

1595
01:45:46,000 --> 01:45:50,000
contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet earth…

1596
01:45:50,000 --> 01:45:53,000
Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. We speak for earth.

1597
01:45:53,000 --> 01:45:56,000
Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves

1598
01:45:56,000 --> 01:45:59,000
but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring.

1599
01:46:00,000 --> 01:46:04,000
We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light.

1600
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:08,000
- Carl Sagan - 1934-1996

1601
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:12,000
It’s time to claim the unity

1602
01:46:12,000 --> 01:46:15,000
our outmoded social systems have broken apart,

1603
01:46:15,000 --> 01:46:18,000
and work together to create a sustainable,

1604
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:21,000
global society, where everyone is taken care of

1605
01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:23,000
and everyone is truly free.

1606
01:46:24,000 --> 01:46:26,000
Your personal beliefs, whatever they may be,

1607
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:30,000
are meaningless when it comes to the necessities of life.

1608
01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:32,000
Every human being was born naked,

1609
01:46:32,000 --> 01:46:35,000
needing warmth, food, water, shelter.

1610
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:37,000
Everything else is auxiliary.

1611
01:46:37,000 --> 01:46:40,000
Therefore, the most important issue at hand

1612
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:44,000
is the intelligent management of the Earth’s resources.

1613
01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:47,000
This can never be accomplished in a monetary system,

1614
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:50,000
for the pursuit of profit is the persuit of self interest

1615
01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:53,000
and therefore imbalance is inherent.

1616
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:57,000
Simultaneously, politicians are useless.

1617
01:46:57,000 --> 01:47:02,000
For our true problems in life are technical not political.

1618
01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:05,000
Furthermore, ideologies that separate humanity,

1619
01:47:05,000 --> 01:47:06,000
such as religion,

1620
01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:09,000
need strong reflection in the community

1621
01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:13,000
in regards to it’s value, purpose and social relevancy.

1622
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:15,000
Hopefully, through time,

1623
01:47:15,000 --> 01:47:18,000
religion will loose it’s materialism and basis in superstition

1624
01:47:18,000 --> 01:47:22,000
and move into the useful field of philosophy.

1625
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:25,000
The fact is, society today is backwards,

1626
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:29,000
with politicians constantly talking about protection and security

1627
01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:33,000
rather than creation, unity and progress.

1628
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:38,000
The US alone now spends about $500 billions dollars anually on defense.

1629
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:43,000
That is enough to send every high school senior in America to a four year college.

1630
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:46,000
In the 1940’s the Manhattan Project

1631
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:50,000
produced the first true weapon of mass destruction.

1632
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:56,000
This program employed 130,000 people, at an extreme financial cost.

1633
01:47:56,000 --> 01:48:00,000
Imagine what our life would be like today if that group of scientists,

1634
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:03,000
instead of working on a way of killing people,

1635
01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:08,000
worked on a way to create a self-sustaining abundant world.

1636
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:12,000
Life today would be very very different if that was their goal.

1637
01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:17,000
Instead of weapons of mass destruction,

1638
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:21,000
it is time to unleash something much more powerful.

1639
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:25,000
Weapons of Mass Creation (WMCs).

1640
01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:29,000
Our true divinity is in our ability to create.

1641
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:33,000
And armed with the understanding of the symbiotic connections of life,

1642
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:37,000
while being guided by the emergent nature of reality,

1643
01:48:37,000 --> 01:48:40,000
there is nothing we cannot do or accomplish.

1644
01:48:42,000 --> 01:48:44,000
Of course, we face strong barriers

1645
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:47,000
in the form of established power structures

1646
01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:49,000
that refuse to change.

1647
01:48:49,000 --> 01:48:52,000
At the heart of these structures is the monetary system.

1648
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:54,000
As explained earlier, the fractional reserve policy

1649
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:57,000
is a form of slavery through debt, where

1650
01:48:57,000 --> 01:49:01,000
it is literally impossible for society to be free.

1651
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:04,000
In turn, free market capitalism in the form of free trade,

1652
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:08,000
uses debt to imprison the world and manipulate countries

1653
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:12,000
into subservience to a handful of large business and political powers.

1654
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:15,000
Apart from these obvious amoralities,

1655
01:49:15,000 --> 01:49:17,000
the system itself is based on competition,

1656
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:20,000
which immediately destroys the possibility

1657
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:23,000
of large scale collaborations for the common good.

1658
01:49:23,000 --> 01:49:28,000
Hence paralyzing any attempt at true global sustainability.

1659
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:33,000
These financial and corporate structures are now obsolete,

1660
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:35,000
and they must be outgrown.

1661
01:49:37,000 --> 01:49:42,000
Of course, we can not be naive enough to think that the business and financial elite are going to subscribe to this idea

1662
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:44,000
for they will lose power and control.

1663
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:47,000
Therefore, peaceful and highly strategic action must be taken.

1664
01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:51,000
The most powerful course of action is simple.

1665
01:49:51,000 --> 01:49:57,000
We have to alter our behavior to force the power structure to the will of the people.

1666
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:01,000
WE MUST STOP SUPPORTING THE SYSTEM.

1667
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:04,000
The only way the establishment will change

1668
01:50:04,000 --> 01:50:07,000
is by our refusal to participate while

1669
01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:11,000
continuously acknowledging it’s endless flaws and corruptions.

1670
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:14,000
They’re not gonna give up the monetary system,

1671
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:18,000
because of our designs of what we’ve recommend.

1672
01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:20,000
The system has to fail,

1673
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:25,000
and people have to lose confidence in their elected leaders.

1674
01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:27,000
That will be a major turning point

1675
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:32,000
if The Venus Project is offered as a major alternative.

1676
01:50:32,000 --> 01:50:35,000
If not, I fear the consequences.

1677
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:40,000
The trends now indicate that our country is going bankrupt.

1678
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:46,000
The probability is our country will move towards a military dictatorship

1679
01:50:46,000 --> 01:50:50,000
to prevent riots and complete social breakdown.

1680
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:52,000
Once the US breaks down,

1681
01:50:52,000 --> 01:50:55,000
all the other cultures will undergo similar things.

1682
01:50:56,000 --> 01:50:59,000
As of now, the world financial system is on the brink

1683
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:02,000
of collapse due to it’s own shortcomings.

1684
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:05,000
The comptroller of currencies stated in 2003

1685
01:51:05,000 --> 01:51:08,000
that the interest on the US national debt

1686
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:11,000
will not be affordable in less than ten years.

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01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:15,000
This theoretically means total bankruptcy for the US economy

1688
01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:18,000
and it’s implications for the world are immense.

1689
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:20,000
In turn the fractional reserve based monetary system

1690
01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:23,000
is reaching it’s theoretical limits of expansion

1691
01:51:23,000 --> 01:51:27,000
and the banking failures you are seeing are just the beginning.

1692
01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:30,000
This is why inflation is skyrocketing,

1693
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:32,000
our debt is at record levels

1694
01:51:32,000 --> 01:51:35,000
and the government and FED are hemorrhaging new money

1695
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:37,000
to bailout the corrupt system.

1696
01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:39,000
For the only way to keep the banks going

1697
01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:40,000
is by making more money.

1698
01:51:40,000 --> 01:51:42,000
The only way to make more money

1699
01:51:42,000 --> 01:51:45,000
is to create more debt and inflation.

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01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:48,000
It is simply a matter of time before the tables turn

1701
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:50,000
and there's no one is willing to make new loans

1702
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:55,000
while defaults grow as people are unable to afford their current loans.

1703
01:51:55,000 --> 01:51:57,000
Then the expansion of money will stop

1704
01:51:57,000 --> 01:52:01,000
and contraction will begin on a scale never before seen.

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01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:05,000
Ending a century long pyramid scheme.

1706
01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:07,000
This has already begun.

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01:52:08,000 --> 01:52:11,000
Therefore, we need to expose this financial failure for what it is,

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01:52:11,000 --> 01:52:14,000
using this weakness to our advantage.

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01:52:14,000 --> 01:52:16,000
Here are some suggestions:

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01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:18,000
Expose the banking fraud.

1711
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:22,000
Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, and Bank of America

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01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:26,000
are the most powerful controllers within the corrupt Federal Reserve system.

1713
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:30,000
It’s time to boycott these institutions.

1714
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:33,000
If you have a bank account or credit card with any of them,

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01:52:33,000 --> 01:52:35,000
move your money to another bank.

1716
01:52:35,000 --> 01:52:39,000
If you have a mortgage, refinance with another bank.

1717
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:41,000
If you own their stock, sell it.

1718
01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:43,000
If you work for them, quit.

1719
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:45,000
This gesture will express contempt

1720
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:48,000
for the true powers behind the private banking cartel

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01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:50,000
known as the Federal Reserve.

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01:52:50,000 --> 01:52:55,000
And create awareness about the fraud of the banking system itself.

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01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:57,000
Two. Turn off the TV news.

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01:52:57,000 --> 01:53:02,000
Visit the emerging independent news agencies on the internet for your information.

1725
01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:07,000
CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX and all the others

1726
01:53:07,000 --> 01:53:11,000
present all news pre-filtered to maintain the status quo.

1727
01:53:11,000 --> 01:53:15,000
With four corporations owning all major media outlets,

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01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:17,000
objective information is impossible.

1729
01:53:17,000 --> 01:53:20,000
This is the true beauty of the internet.

1730
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:22,000
And the establishment has been losing control

1731
01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:25,000
because of this free flow of information.

1732
01:53:25,000 --> 01:53:27,000
We must protect the internet at all times,

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01:53:27,000 --> 01:53:30,000
as it is truly our savior right now.

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01:53:31,000 --> 01:53:32,000
Three.

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01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:34,000
Don’t ever allow yourself,

1736
01:53:34,000 --> 01:53:41,000
your family, or anyone you know, to ever join the military.

1737
01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:44,000
This is an obsolete institution

1738
01:53:44,000 --> 01:53:47,000
now used exclusively for maintaining an establishment

1739
01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:49,000
that is no longer relevant.

1740
01:53:49,000 --> 01:53:52,000
US soldiers in Iraq work for US corporations,

1741
01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:54,000
not the people.

1742
01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:57,000
Propaganda forces us to believe that war is natural

1743
01:53:57,000 --> 01:54:00,000
and the military is an honorable institution.

1744
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:01,000
Well if war is natural,

1745
01:54:01,000 --> 01:54:04,000
why are there 18 suicides every single day

1746
01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:06,000
by American veterans

1747
01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:09,000
who have post-traumatic stress disorder?

1748
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:12,000
If our military men and women are so honored,

1749
01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:15,000
why is it that 25% of the American homeless population

1750
01:54:15,000 --> 01:54:17,000
are veterans?

1751
01:54:18,000 --> 01:54:19,000
Four.

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01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:22,000
Stop supporting the energy companies.

1753
01:54:22,000 --> 01:54:24,000
If you live in a detached house,

1754
01:54:24,000 --> 01:54:25,000
get off the grid.

1755
01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:28,000
Investigate every means of making your home self-sustainable

1756
01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:30,000
with clean energy.

1757
01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:33,000
Solar, wind, and other renewable energies

1758
01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:36,000
are now affordable consumer realities,

1759
01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:39,000
and considering the never ending rising costs of traditional energies,

1760
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:43,000
it will likely be a cheaper investment over time.

1761
01:54:43,000 --> 01:54:45,000
If you drive, get the smallest car you can

1762
01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:48,000
and consider using one of the many conversion technologies

1763
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:51,000
that can enable your car to be a hybrid,

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01:54:51,000 --> 01:54:55,000
electric, or run on anything other than establishment fuels.

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01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:56,000
Five.

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01:54:56,000 --> 01:54:58,000
Reject the political system.

1767
01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:02,000
The illusion of democracy is an insult to our intelligence.

1768
01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:06,000
In a monetary system, there is no such thing as a true democracy,

1769
01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:08,000
and there never was.

1770
01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:13,000
We have two political parties owned by the same set of corporate lobbyists.

1771
01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:16,000
They are placed in their positions by the corporations,

1772
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:20,000
with popularity artificially projected by their media.

1773
01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:22,000
In a system of inherent corruption

1774
01:55:22,000 --> 01:55:25,000
the change of personnel every couple of years

1775
01:55:25,000 --> 01:55:27,000
has very little relevance.

1776
01:55:27,000 --> 01:55:30,000
Instead of pretending that the political game has any true meaning

1777
01:55:30,000 --> 01:55:34,000
focus your energy on how to transcend this failed system.

1778
01:55:36,000 --> 01:55:37,000
And six.

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01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:39,000
Join the movement.

1780
01:55:39,000 --> 01:55:42,000
Go to the thezeitgeistmovement.com

1781
01:55:42,000 --> 01:55:45,000
and help us create the largest mass movement for social change

1782
01:55:45,000 --> 01:55:47,000
the world has ever seen.

1783
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:50,000
We must mobilize and educate everyone

1784
01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:53,000
about the inherent corruption of our current world system…

1785
01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:57,000
along with the only true sustainable solution,

1786
01:55:57,000 --> 01:56:00,000
declaring all the natural resources on the planet

1787
01:56:00,000 --> 01:56:03,000
as common heritage to all people,

1788
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:07,000
while informing everyone as to the true state of technology

1789
01:56:07,000 --> 01:56:12,000
and how we can all be free if the world works together rather than fights.

1790
01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:15,000
The choice lies with you.

1791
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:18,000
You can continue to be a slave to the financial system

1792
01:56:18,000 --> 01:56:22,000
and watch the continuous wars, depressions and injustice across the globe

1793
01:56:22,000 --> 01:56:25,000
while placating yourself with vain entertainment

1794
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:27,000
and materialistic garbage;

1795
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:32,000
or, you can focus your energy on true, meaningful, lasting, holistic change

1796
01:56:32,000 --> 01:56:36,000
which has the realistic ability to support

1797
01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:40,000
and free all humans with no one left behind.

1798
01:56:41,000 --> 01:56:45,000
But in the end, the most relevant change

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01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:48,000
must occur first inside of you.

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01:56:48,000 --> 01:56:52,000
The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness,

1801
01:56:52,000 --> 01:56:56,000
and each one of us first needs to eliminate

1802
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:58,000
the divisionary, materialistic noise

1803
01:56:58,000 --> 01:57:02,000
we have been conditioned to think is true;

1804
01:57:02,000 --> 01:57:05,000
while discovering, amplifying, and aligning

1805
01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:10,000
with the signal coming from our true empirical oneness.

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01:57:12,000 --> 01:57:14,000
It is up to you.

1807
01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:21,000
“What we are trying in all these discussions and talks here

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01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:27,000
is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformism of the mind.

1809
01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:32,000
Not accept thing they are…

1810
01:57:34,000 --> 01:57:37,000
but to understand it, to go into it, to examine it,

1811
01:57:37,000 --> 01:57:42,000
give your heart and your mind with every thing that you have to find out.

1812
01:57:42,000 --> 01:57:44,000
A way of living differently.

1813
01:57:49,000 --> 01:57:53,000
But, that depends on you and not somebody else.

1814
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:56,000
Because in this there is no teacher,

1815
01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:58,000
no pupil,

1816
01:57:58,000 --> 01:58:01,000
there’s no leader,

1817
01:58:01,000 --> 01:58:02,000
there’s no guru,

1818
01:58:02,000 --> 01:58:04,000
there’s no master, no savior.

1819
01:58:04,000 --> 01:58:10,000
You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you’re the master, you’re the guru, you are the leader,

1820
01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:13,000
you are everything!

1821
01:58:13,000 --> 01:58:16,000
And,

1822
01:58:16,000 --> 01:58:18,000
to understand

1823
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:21,000
is to transform what is.