1 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:13,800 I have this nagging feeling. 2 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,700 I have felt it for as long as I remember. 3 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:21,700 Seldom I have been able to articulate this feeling into thoughts, 4 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:23,800 so I could understand why I have this feeling, 5 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,500 let alone explaining this feeling to others. 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,500 The only thing I could make out of this feeling was: 7 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:33,500 "Something is wrong." 8 00:00:33,535 --> 00:00:36,000 "Ashamed of being human" 9 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,500 I was born in late 1974 10 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:42,000 on an island way up in the north 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,800 called Iceland. 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,500 In my childhood, I was given an image of the world that was being fixed 13 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:51,000 after the horrific times of World War II, 14 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,500 with the leadership of the U.N. and the U.S.A. 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 At the time of my birth, 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Iceland was an independent nation with its own fishing industry. 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,500 My Mom and Dad and my older sister 18 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:08,500 lived and worked in that industry. 19 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:13,000 By the year 2000 this industry was almost gone. 20 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,117 The quota regulations made sure 21 00:01:15,117 --> 00:01:19,350 that the right to fish ended up in the hands of a very few people, 22 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:21,400 who then sold this right 23 00:01:21,550 --> 00:01:26,850 to foreign companies for an incredible amount of money. 24 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,100 The right to fish; I would think that is my birth right. 25 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:34,500 Today the industry is dead, 26 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:39,000 just like with the car and steel industry in the U.S. and Europe. 27 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:44,000 Why is it in the West, most industry is going away? 28 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:47,000 After the Cold War 29 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,500 everything looked like we were going to have peace in our world 30 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:53,000 along with the freedoms we have. 31 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,500 Freedoms our earlier generations fought for. 32 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,000 We were free. 33 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:01,200 I believed this, I loved it. 34 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:06,000 I was going to have fun, and we had fun 35 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 for about a decade. 36 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,700 Then, one day happened 37 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,500 [Screaming] 38 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:14,500 - Holy fuck! 39 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:20,000 - Oh my God!!!, oh my God!!!, Jesus fucking Christ!!! 40 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:24,000 I was shocked, just like everyone else on this planet. 41 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:29,000 I was angry, seeing almost 3000 people being killed. 42 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:32,100 I saw it again, and again 43 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:34,900 because the media had nothing else to talk about 44 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:37,563 for the weeks in the aftermath. 45 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:40,000 I got hypnotized. 46 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,500 I felt hate, and more hate. 47 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:48,500 Hate towards those they told me, again and again, who were responsible. 48 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,500 Bin Laden and those terrorists in a far away land. 49 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,500 I said, "Lets just drop the bomb on those fuckers." 50 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:01,000 I was thinking like this for four years. 51 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:05,500 In the meantime, I moved to Denmark. 52 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:08,500 A nation with many immigrants from the Middle East. 53 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:09,661 I learned that 54 00:03:09,661 --> 00:03:13,700 the image I had been given on the Muslim community was a lie. 55 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:17,500 The image I had was created from the mainstream media, 56 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:21,000 which was my only source of information at the time. 57 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,300 Then, in 2005, I got a connection to the Internet. 58 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,000 My first computer in 5 years. 59 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:33,000 I started searching for information connected to the date 9/11. 60 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:36,817 What I found was completely different 61 00:03:36,967 --> 00:03:41,150 than what I learned from the mainstream media. 62 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:43,000 Many questions I heard for the first time. 63 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,926 Questions that I could not create on my own 64 00:03:45,926 --> 00:03:48,250 just by reading the morning newspaper 65 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,000 or watching the nightly news. 66 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:53,100 Questions like: 67 00:03:53,135 --> 00:03:55,700 Where was NORAD on this day? 68 00:03:55,900 --> 00:03:58,800 Where is the airplane at the Pentagon? 69 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Why is the hole in the Pentagon smaller than the airplane? 70 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,200 Why did the towers fall at free fall speed? 71 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,200 Why did Building 7 collapse? 72 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:11,700 The list is long. 73 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 With all the evidence I had seen on the 9/11 incident, 74 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,300 that broke down the official story in so many ways, 75 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:23,700 I started to believe my nagging feeling. 76 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,500 There is definitely something wrong. 77 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,500 I started to question everything. 78 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,500 I asked myself 79 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:39,000 if this 9/11 event is a conspiracy, what else is being hidden? 80 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:42,999 What other events or situations could be manipulated? 81 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:46,999 What if our whole society is there to serve the few? 82 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:50,000 My nagging feeling said yes. 83 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,500 J. Edgar Hoover said 84 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:55,500 "The individual is handicapped 85 00:04:55,636 --> 00:04:59,350 by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous 86 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:02,200 he cannot believe it exists. 87 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:07,350 The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil 88 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:11,500 which has been introduced into our midst." 89 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:14,700 So I asked myself: 90 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:20,000 "What in our society has full power over my actions?" 91 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:26,200 I found one thing that has way too much power over my actions. 92 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,000 A power that decides if I can make a feature length film or not. 93 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,300 A power that decides if I go on vacation or not. 94 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:39,000 A power that decides if I sell myself or not. 95 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,000 A power that decides if I have a home or not. 96 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:48,800 A power that can decide if I eat or not. 97 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:53,200 This power is the monetary system. 98 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,000 Our money. 99 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,800 Everything rolls around it. 100 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:59,500 Everyone needs it. 101 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:05,500 And every decision in life today is made with the monetary situation in mind. 102 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,300 So I asked 103 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:09,700 "Where does the money come from?" 104 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,300 What is money? 105 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:15,600 At first, I believed that our government 106 00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:20,300 is making this money for the people it serves. 107 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:22,500 I was wrong. 108 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:26,000 Then we have the money. 109 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:31,000 What you do is you go to the bank and you borrow money 110 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 that has never, does not, and will never exist, called credit 111 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,827 and then you mortgage your house to it, 112 00:06:37,827 --> 00:06:41,100 you mortgage your car to it, your land to it, your business to it. 113 00:06:41,250 --> 00:06:45,250 And if you don't pay back money that doesn't exist, called credit 114 00:06:45,250 --> 00:06:47,941 then the people that have lent you that non-existent money 115 00:06:47,941 --> 00:06:51,500 get your car, and your business, and your house. 116 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:53,300 I guess that makes sense. 117 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 And this money scam 118 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,563 where they get us into debt 119 00:06:58,563 --> 00:07:00,860 by borrowing money that has never, does not, will never exist 120 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 is in the very DNA of society. 121 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,900 It controls choice, it controls maneuverability. 122 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:10,500 Or if we allow it to, controls society. 123 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:13,122 And who controls money, controls society. 124 00:07:13,122 --> 00:07:14,860 Who controls money? A tiny few people. 125 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,800 As we'll see...But I don't even wanna talk about that!!! 126 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Hey honey! Quick! 127 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,800 On the Jerry Springer show, this man is gonna hit his girlfriend! Quick, quick! 128 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,500 Watch this. Shut up. 129 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,900 For a long time, we have had two sets of laws: 130 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:39,000 the law of the land and the law of the water. 131 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,100 The law of the land is the law of any land, 132 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:45,300 and they are different between different places. 133 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:49,000 You can do certain things in Denmark that you cannot do in Russia, 134 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 and vice-versa. 135 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,800 The law of the water is called Maritime Admiralty Law. 136 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,000 These laws are above any law of any land. 137 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:02,500 These laws came about centuries ago 138 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:08,000 when ships sailed the seas with all sorts of goods between different places. 139 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,300 When our monetary system started to become worldwide 140 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:17,000 Maritime Admiralty Law became the law of banking. 141 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:21,000 They are also the laws of churches and courts. 142 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,400 When you stand inside a bank, 143 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:29,000 the laws you know in your land no longer apply. 144 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 There are different laws for you when you stand in a bank 145 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,300 or when you stand outside of it. 146 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,000 You can see in many banks and courts 147 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,500 the maritime flag of the nation it is in. 148 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:51,000 Maritime flags of nations on ships are there to tell what laws apply to that ship. 149 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,100 Same with a bank. 150 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:59,600 In the U.S., the maritime flag is almost the same flag as the U.S. flag. 151 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:05,100 The only difference is that this flag has a golden border. 152 00:09:05,500 --> 00:09:10,700 Notice that every U.S. soldier has that flag on his arm 153 00:09:10,700 --> 00:09:13,300 and not the regular U.S. flag. 154 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,100 This should tell you who those soldiers are really working for. 155 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:24,000 The world of admiralty is, it's a concept and it's a philosophy. 156 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,731 There's two kind of law in the world. 157 00:09:25,731 --> 00:09:29,350 There's civil law and there's the law of water and money. 158 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:32,200 Well, we have our common law system 159 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,000 where collective groups of people come together and they agree 160 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,400 to follow particular behavioral patterns. 161 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:42,500 However, the banking system, 162 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:46,400 or the banksters, or gangsters or whatever you want to call them 163 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:51,150 have collectively, through thousands of years, have setup a situation 164 00:09:51,150 --> 00:09:58,000 where they can manipulate people, to superimpose a legal system 165 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,350 that is not based entirely on law, it's based on commerce. 166 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:06,740 And so this artificial, let's pretend, construct 167 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:13,350 has basically been superimposed over our law of our land. 168 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:16,000 I learned the rules of modern banking. 169 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,800 It is called fractional reserve banking system. 170 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,500 Every bank in the world 171 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:23,827 only has to have a fraction of the amount 172 00:10:23,827 --> 00:10:27,850 that the bank has in store to loan out to other people. 173 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:33,231 That is, a bank can loan out to you a hundred dollars 174 00:10:33,231 --> 00:10:37,650 when it only has ten dollars in store. 175 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:42,125 And those ten dollars is other people's money 176 00:10:42,125 --> 00:10:45,650 that they keep in their computer vaults. 177 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,200 Today we live with fiat money. 178 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,600 What does fiat money mean? 179 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,300 A currency that a government has declared to be legal tender 180 00:10:56,300 --> 00:11:00,631 despite the fact that it has no real value 181 00:11:00,631 --> 00:11:04,350 and is not backed by any reserves. 182 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:08,874 Historically, most currencies were based on physical commodities, 183 00:11:08,999 --> 00:11:11,150 such as gold or silver. 184 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:17,600 But fiat money is solely based on faith; money as religion. 185 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,750 This money is printed by private organizations all over the world 186 00:11:22,750 --> 00:11:26,300 and loaned to governments with interest. 187 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,900 This interest are the debt of most nations today. 188 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,700 This made me think. 189 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,800 Money is the main brainwash tool. 190 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:41,000 Mayer Rothschild said 191 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,571 "Give me control of a nation's money, 192 00:11:44,571 --> 00:11:50,000 and I care not who makes the laws." 193 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,900 The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the U.S.A., is not federal. 194 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,319 It is a privately owned company, set up in England, 195 00:11:59,319 --> 00:12:02,100 which nobody knows who owns. 196 00:12:02,250 --> 00:12:04,800 Nor does it have any reserves. 197 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,268 Woodrow Wilson was the U.S. president that signed into law 198 00:12:10,268 --> 00:12:13,650 the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. 199 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,700 Something he regretted later in his life. 200 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:19,500 Woodrow Wilson said on his deathbed 201 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:25,300 "I am a most unhappy man, I have unwittingly ruined my country. 202 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:31,000 A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. 203 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Our system of credit is concentrated. 204 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,132 The growth of the nation, therefore and all our activities 205 00:12:38,132 --> 00:12:40,850 are in the hands of a few men. 206 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 We have come to be one of the worst ruled, 207 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,884 one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments 208 00:12:47,884 --> 00:12:50,350 in the civilized world. 209 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:53,400 No longer a government by free opinion. 210 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:59,500 No longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority. 211 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:03,047 But a government by the opinion and duress 212 00:13:03,047 --> 00:13:06,047 of a small group of dominant men." 213 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:12,600 We are told that America is the land of laws, a nation built on laws. 214 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,700 And point of fact, nothing could be further from the truth. 215 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,100 America is run by people who are lawless. 216 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:25,500 We have no law in America and understand that. 217 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,300 The law is whatever the powers that be in power happen to say it is today. 218 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:36,400 Whatever they say it is, that's what the law is today. 219 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,000 And it may change tomorrow. 220 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:46,000 In 1933, the U.S.A became bankrupt in the middle of a depression, 221 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 which was created because of the Federal Reserve Act. 222 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:51,300 It is still bankrupt. 223 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:56,700 This creature, called the United States, is not a nation at all 224 00:13:56,700 --> 00:14:02,000 but merely a corporation, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 225 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,500 This corporation was set up in England in 1868. 226 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,000 The President of the U.S.A. is a president of a privately owned company 227 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,200 that works under Maritime Admiralty Law. 228 00:14:16,300 --> 00:14:23,000 All corporations have presidents, for they work under Maritime Admiralty Law. 229 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,871 Just this fact alone should tell the average human being 230 00:14:26,871 --> 00:14:29,350 that we are not being told the truth. 231 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:32,000 We are being manipulated. 232 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:37,500 When the U.S.A. became bankrupt, the banks asked the U.S. government: 233 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:41,000 "How are you going to pay?" 234 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,300 "What is your collateral?" 235 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,400 The government answered back, "The people is our collateral." 236 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,900 Today, on the back of U.S. birth certificates are the markings of banks. 237 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,000 In other words, the banks own the people. 238 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:02,500 Minimum wage, what is it? 239 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,400 To me, it is the salary of a slave. 240 00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:10,500 A slave needs to be kept alive and healthy so that the work can be done. 241 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:15,250 Today, I see people living a life where they work hard and long hours 242 00:15:15,250 --> 00:15:20,800 but never get a paycheck that lasts them longer than towards the next paycheck. 243 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,300 The modern slave takes care of his own slavery. 244 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:29,500 The most hardworking slave is the one slave who believes he is free. 245 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:32,500 Tell the truth, don't be bullshitting people. 246 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:36,500 Like I said, there's enough bullshit as it is. 247 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 There's enough bullshit as it is. 248 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,500 In fact, there's just enough, did you know that? 249 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:47,000 There's just enough bullshit to hold things together in this country. 250 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation. 251 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:58,300 Where would we be without our safe, familiar, American bullshit? 252 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:01,500 Land of the free, home of the brave, the "American Dream", 253 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:07,500 all men are equal, justice is blind, the press is free, your vote counts. 254 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:08,500 [Laughter] 255 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:14,850 Business is honest, the good guys win, the police are on your side 256 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:21,000 God is watching you, your standard of living will never decline 257 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000 and everything is gonna be just fine. 258 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,500 The official, national bullshit story. 259 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:30,500 I call it "The American Okie Doke". 260 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,500 We are told we are free, but I do not feel like I'm free. 261 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:38,000 We are ruled by the rule of force. 262 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,000 Just look at what happens when you do not comply to your government. 263 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:44,300 When you don't pay your taxes. 264 00:16:45,300 --> 00:16:48,800 Why do we keep playing the game? 265 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 I mean, would you play Monopoly with other people 266 00:16:52,012 --> 00:16:54,850 when the bankers are always cheating? 267 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,500 That is what we do in real life. 268 00:16:57,500 --> 00:16:59,100 Why do we accept it? 269 00:16:59,193 --> 00:17:03,002 The whole core system, our whole monetary system 270 00:17:03,002 --> 00:17:07,041 is based on ancient, esoteric principles. Your body's energy 271 00:17:07,041 --> 00:17:11,290 it's a vessel. Your body's a vessel. You have blood vessels etc. 272 00:17:11,290 --> 00:17:13,589 And you're traveling on the seas of commerce, 273 00:17:13,589 --> 00:17:15,680 not really, because we're on land 274 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,790 but they superimpose the world of admiralty on us. 275 00:17:18,790 --> 00:17:24,665 And anyone can verify this because the navy has surveyed all the land 276 00:17:24,665 --> 00:17:26,361 in the continental United States. 277 00:17:26,361 --> 00:17:30,900 And there's brass-capped high water marks in all the local towns and counties. 278 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:33,800 So they've, in a "lets pretend" game, they've said, 279 00:17:33,810 --> 00:17:34,900 "We're all under water right now". 280 00:17:35,068 --> 00:17:37,300 That's why they have jurisdiction of admiralty. 281 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,270 And it's... Unless you rebut that presumption 282 00:17:40,270 --> 00:17:46,000 of jurisdiction or the admiralty realm. It shall reign supreme. 283 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:48,397 This monetary system 284 00:17:48,397 --> 00:17:55,688 is the direct cause for about 20,000 people dying every day from hunger. 285 00:17:56,895 --> 00:18:00,192 Twenty thousand people! 286 00:18:00,703 --> 00:18:01,585 Why?! 287 00:18:02,445 --> 00:18:09,132 Well today, our world is home to 6.7 billion people. 288 00:18:09,829 --> 00:18:15,564 Humans currently consume 20% more natural resources 289 00:18:15,564 --> 00:18:17,900 than the Earth can produce. 290 00:18:18,118 --> 00:18:23,598 The West comprises only 10% of the world's population 291 00:18:23,598 --> 00:18:30,750 but consumes 50% of the world's resources we produce. 292 00:18:30,750 --> 00:18:35,788 And we release 80% of the world's pollutants. 293 00:18:36,694 --> 00:18:41,547 Just this tells me how it can be that so many people suffer. 294 00:18:42,824 --> 00:18:46,400 My lifestyle is a cause for this suffering. 295 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,255 And if only people in my society 296 00:18:50,255 --> 00:18:54,600 would allow themselves to feel the pain of this suffering 297 00:18:54,759 --> 00:18:57,476 and understand our connection to it, 298 00:18:57,500 --> 00:19:04,140 then we would no longer accept the pain caused by our lifestyle. 299 00:19:05,394 --> 00:19:11,431 War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change 300 00:19:11,431 --> 00:19:16,168 in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. 301 00:19:16,168 --> 00:19:21,044 It's going to take the redesign of our culture, our values 302 00:19:21,044 --> 00:19:24,800 and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the Earth. 303 00:19:24,945 --> 00:19:27,267 Not some human opinion, 304 00:19:27,267 --> 00:19:31,300 or some politician's notions of the way world ought to be. 305 00:19:31,516 --> 00:19:36,532 Or some religious notions of the conduct of human affairs. 306 00:19:38,227 --> 00:19:41,617 In East Germany, before the Berlin Wall fell 307 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:46,168 the idea was that everyone should hold a job 308 00:19:46,168 --> 00:19:50,301 even though there weren't enough jobs for the people. 309 00:19:50,801 --> 00:19:54,852 One man worked at the crossroad, controlling the streetlights. 310 00:19:54,852 --> 00:19:59,241 All day he sat there, turning lights from red to green 311 00:19:59,241 --> 00:20:00,960 and back to red again. 312 00:20:01,099 --> 00:20:02,329 All day. 313 00:20:03,803 --> 00:20:07,136 When the work day ended, he stood up, 314 00:20:07,136 --> 00:20:10,700 pressed the automatic button, and went home. 315 00:20:10,903 --> 00:20:12,105 What a waste. 316 00:20:12,105 --> 00:20:15,774 It's not politicians that can solve problems; 317 00:20:15,774 --> 00:20:18,200 they have no technical capabilities. 318 00:20:18,351 --> 00:20:20,487 They don't know how to solve problems. 319 00:20:20,487 --> 00:20:24,500 Even if they were sincere, they don't know how to solve problems. 320 00:20:24,644 --> 00:20:29,404 It's the technicians that produce the desalinization plants. 321 00:20:29,404 --> 00:20:32,120 It's the technicians that give you electricity. 322 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,094 That give you motor vehicles, 323 00:20:34,094 --> 00:20:36,690 that heat your house and cool it in the summer time. 324 00:20:36,834 --> 00:20:39,667 It's technology that solves problems, 325 00:20:39,667 --> 00:20:43,336 not politics. Politics cannot solve problems 326 00:20:43,336 --> 00:20:45,600 because they're not trained to do so. 327 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:51,625 Technology is exactly the reason for Iceland's economy crashing in 2008. 328 00:20:52,113 --> 00:20:54,806 The fishing industry died the same day 329 00:20:54,806 --> 00:21:01,100 the fishing trawler fleet was replaced by fishing freeze trawlers in the 80s 330 00:21:01,261 --> 00:21:04,141 Before that, the industry was kept alive 331 00:21:04,141 --> 00:21:06,570 because the trawlers fished around Iceland 332 00:21:06,715 --> 00:21:09,690 and brought the fish back to land, to be worked on by 333 00:21:09,690 --> 00:21:14,056 people, packaging and freezing the product. 334 00:21:14,218 --> 00:21:18,932 The freezing trawlers made it possible to work the fish and freeze it on board 335 00:21:18,932 --> 00:21:23,000 with machines, making the industry on land obsolete. 336 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:27,361 This of course should have freed most Icelanders from their repetitive jobs 337 00:21:27,361 --> 00:21:29,799 and give everyone a comfortable life. 338 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,655 But because of the quota regulations, 339 00:21:32,655 --> 00:21:35,500 the right to fish is in the hands of the few, 340 00:21:35,650 --> 00:21:39,760 keeping the populations in heavy debt to the bankers. 341 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:46,006 Today, Iceland is in the process of losing its independence to the EU. 342 00:21:46,006 --> 00:21:51,579 And the question that is raised by politicians is, "How much will a project cost?" 343 00:21:51,579 --> 00:21:54,969 The question is not "How much will it cost?" 344 00:21:54,969 --> 00:21:56,966 Do we have the resources? 345 00:21:56,966 --> 00:22:01,622 And we have the resources today. To house everyone. 346 00:22:01,622 --> 00:22:04,050 Build hospitals all over the world. 347 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,347 Build schools all over the world. 348 00:22:06,347 --> 00:22:11,479 The finest equipment in labs for teaching and doing medical research. 349 00:22:11,479 --> 00:22:16,401 So you see, we have all that. But we're in a monetary system 350 00:22:16,401 --> 00:22:19,200 and in a monetary system, there's profit. 351 00:22:22,369 --> 00:22:26,000 A monetary system is a slave system. 352 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:31,000 The money is the incentive for people to misuse their power. 353 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,450 Many problems of this world derive from the money. 354 00:22:34,900 --> 00:22:35,627 Prostitution 355 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,000 Theft 356 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:38,200 Poaching 357 00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:39,621 Human trafficking 358 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:40,922 Drug trafficking 359 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:42,800 Politicians 360 00:22:45,101 --> 00:22:49,303 It is very easy through money to exclude an individual 361 00:22:49,303 --> 00:22:53,000 from taking part in anything. 362 00:22:53,750 --> 00:22:56,600 So, what is the answer? 363 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:58,731 Shit, hell that I know. 364 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:01,193 I'm just seeing the problem. 365 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,500 And the problem is a monumental one. 366 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,500 And I think that it will not be solved 367 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:09,807 while we hold on to the ideas of possessions 368 00:23:09,807 --> 00:23:13,000 we have had created around us. 369 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:17,500 But then I get reminded by this quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: 370 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:22,000 "All truth passes through three stages. 371 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,500 First: It is ridiculed; 372 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:27,500 Second: It is violently opposed; 373 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:32,000 and Third: It is accepted as self-evident". 374 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000 In fact I had a vision, of a way we could have no enemies ever again 375 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,000 if you're interested in this. Anybody interested in hearing this? 376 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,150 [Applause] 377 00:23:40,250 --> 00:23:43,000 It's kind of an interesting theory and all we have to do is make one decisive act 378 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 and we can rid the world of all our enemies at once. 379 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,634 Here's what we do, you know all that money we spend 380 00:23:46,634 --> 00:23:48,600 on nuclear weapons and defense every year? 381 00:23:48,750 --> 00:23:50,250 Trillions of dollars. 382 00:23:50,250 --> 00:23:54,750 Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world 383 00:23:54,750 --> 00:23:57,750 which it would pay for many times over 384 00:23:57,750 --> 00:24:03,000 not one human being excluded, not one 385 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,500 we could as one race, explore outer space together in peace 386 00:24:07,500 --> 00:24:10,000 forever! 387 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Thank you very much. You're great. 388 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000 [Applauses and sound of gun shots] 389 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:26,000 John Lennon sang: "Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can". 390 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,500 After some time wondering on this idea of a world without possessions 391 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:33,000 I found The Venus Project. 392 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,500 I find it to be a brilliant idea. 393 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:39,500 A world where our economy is resource-based, 394 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:43,500 instead of our 'modern', growth-based economy. 395 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:48,500 Jacque Fresco is one of the greatest thinkers of our time. 396 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:52,500 He believes that technology can save us from this madness. 397 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:56,500 I suggest you Google and study it. 398 00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:00,500 Already, today, technology is taking away jobs, 399 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:06,750 and when a machine takes my job in this growth-based economy 400 00:25:06,750 --> 00:25:10,250 how can I support myself? 401 00:25:10,250 --> 00:25:14,500 How am I supposed to sell myself for money? 402 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:18,000 Now, America is inclined towards fascism. 403 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,500 It has a propensity, by it's dominant philosophy and religion, 404 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:25,500 to uphold the fascist point of view. 405 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:31,500 American industry is essentially a fascist institution. If you don't understand that, 406 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:35,500 the minute you punch that time clock, you walk into a dictatorship. 407 00:25:35,500 --> 00:25:40,500 We're given notions about the respectability of work 408 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:44,500 and I really look at it as being paid slavery. 409 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:47,481 You get brought up to believe that you shall earn your living 410 00:25:47,481 --> 00:25:49,300 by the sweat of your brow. 411 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:52,000 That holds people back. 412 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Freeing people from drudgery, repetitive jobs, which make them ignorant. 413 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 You rob them. 414 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,500 In our society, that is, a resource-based economy, 415 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:06,000 machines free people. 416 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,901 You see, we can't imagine that, 417 00:26:07,901 --> 00:26:10,800 because we've never known that kind of world. 418 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:16,500 What we wanna do is to eliminate the causes of the problems. 419 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:23,500 Eliminate the processes that produce greed and bigotry and prejudice 420 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:27,500 and people taking advantage of one other, and elitism. 421 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:32,500 Eliminating the need for prisons and welfare. 422 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:34,300 We have always had these problems 423 00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:36,800 because we have always lived within scarcity 424 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:42,500 and barter and monetary systems that produce scarcity. 425 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,473 If you eradicate the conditions that generate 426 00:26:46,473 --> 00:26:48,850 what you call "socially offensive behavior", 427 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 it does not exist. 428 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,750 The guy says: "Well, isn't that inborn?" No, it's not. 429 00:26:54,750 --> 00:26:58,000 There is no human nature, there's human behavior 430 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,500 and that's always been changed, throughout history. 431 00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:06,750 You're not born with bigotry and greed and corruption and hatred 432 00:27:06,750 --> 00:27:10,000 you pick that up within the society. 433 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Is there a hidden hand? 434 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Is the world like this because someone wants it to be like this? 435 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,750 Or is it just one monumental coincidence? 436 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:27,000 What do you think? 437 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:36,500 www.thevenusproject.com