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- The old appeals to racial, sexual and 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

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or achieving or not, 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. It's only a choice.

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No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money.

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-I realized that I had the game wrong

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that the game was to find out what I already was.

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-We were saying,

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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 along these lines.

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ZEITGEIST ADDENDUM

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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted

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to a profoundly sick society." J. Krishnamurti

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Society today 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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familial values

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and occupational specialization.

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It is obvious the profound influence

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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

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as one of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is.

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How money is created, 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 planet's 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

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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

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the lifeblood of all of our established institutions

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and thus society itself, 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

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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

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than those who falsely believe they are free."

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-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1749-1832

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-A number of years ago

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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

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of money creation as utilized by the Federal Reserve

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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

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the basic process of money creation

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in a 'fractional reserve' banking system."

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It then proceeds 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

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and requests, say, 10 billion dollars.

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The FED replies saying:

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"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

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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

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draw up 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 then takes these notes and trades them for the bonds.

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Once this exchange is complete

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the government then takes the ten billion in federal reserve notes

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and deposits it into an bank account.

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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

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with no paper used at all.

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In fact, only 3% of the 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 essentially created out of thin air

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the government is actually promising

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to pay back that money to the FED.

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

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This mind numbing paradox

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of how money or value can be created out of debt or a liability

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will become more clear as we further this exercise.

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So, the exchange has been made

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and now ten billion dollars sits in a commercial bank account.

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Here is where it gets really interesting.

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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 bank's reserves

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just as all deposits do.

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And, regarding reserve requirements

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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: "Under current regulations

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the reserve requirement against most transaction accounts is 10%".

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This means that with a ten billion dollar deposit

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10%, or one billion, 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 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.

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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-

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"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" -loan contracts-

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"in exchange for credits" -money-

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"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

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to satisfy the reserve requirements.

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

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and borrows the newly available nine billion dollars.

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They will then most likely take that money

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and deposit it into their own bank account.

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The process then repeats.

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For that deposit becomes part of the bank's reserves.

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10% is isolated and in turn 90% of the nine billion, or 8.1 billion

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is now available as newly created money for more loans.

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And, of course, that 8.1 can be loaned out and redeposited

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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

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can technically go on to infinity.

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The average mathematical result is that about 90 billion dollars

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can be created on top of the original 10 billion.

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In other words, for every deposit

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that ever occurs in the banking system

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about nine times that amount can be created out of thin air.

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Money-Jitters. Ask the obliging Bank of America

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for a jar of 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

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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

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irrespective to demand for goods and services.

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And, as supply and demand finds equilibrium, prices rise

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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?

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And that is, inflate the currency.

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They don't say: debase the currency.

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They don't say: devalue the currency.

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

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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.

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Yet there's so called "capital".

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So, my question boils down to this:

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How in the world can we expect to solve the problems of inflation

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that is the 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

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is inherently inflationary.

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For the act of expanding the money supply,

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without there being a proportional expansion of goods and services

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in the economy, will always debase a currency.

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In fact, a quick glance at the historical values of the US dollar

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versus the money supply, reflects this point definitively

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for the 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% devaluation

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since the Federal Reserve came into existence.

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Now, if this reality of inherent and perpetual inflation

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seems absurd and economically self defeating

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hold that thought, for absurdity is an understatement

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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 of 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

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is owed to somebody by somebody. For remember:

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The only way the money can come into existence is from loans.

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

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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

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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

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the national debt was completely paid off was in 1835

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after president Andrew Jackson shut down the central bank

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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 at one point:

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"The bold efforts the present bank has made to control the government

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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."

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Unfortunately his message was short lived,

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and the international bankers succeeded

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to install another central bank in 1913, the Federal Reserve.

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And as long as this institution exists, perpetual debt is guaranteed.

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Now, so far we have discussed the reality

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that money is created out of debt through loans.

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These loans are based on a bank's reserves

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and reserves are derived from deposits.

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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

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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

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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

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or when a person borrows money from a bank

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it almost always has to be paid back with accrued 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 paid as well.

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But, if all money is borrowed from the Central Bank

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and is expanded by commercial banks through loans

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only what would be referred to as the "principal"

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is being created in the money supply.

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So then, where is the money

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to cover all of the interest that is charged?

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Nowhere.

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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

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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

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to help cover the perpetual deficit built into 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

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defaults and bankruptcy are literally built into this system

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and there will always be poor pockets of society

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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's the point.

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

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For, if you are unable to pay for your mortgage

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they will take your property.

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This is particularly enraging when you realize

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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

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involving a man named Jerome Daly

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who was challenging the foreclosure of his home by the bank

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which provided the loan to purchase it.

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His argument was that the mortgage contract

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required both parties -being he and the bank-

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each put up a legitimate form of property for the exchange.

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In legal language this is called consideration:

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[ a contract's basis. a contract is founded on an exchange

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of one form of consideration for another. ]

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Mr. Daly explained that the money was, in fact

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not the property of the bank, for it was created out of nothing

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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

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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

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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.

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The bank is simply inventing it, putting up nothing of its own

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except for a theoretical liability on paper.

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As the court case progressed

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the bank's president Mr. Morgan took the stand

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and in the judge's personal memorandum, he recalled that

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the Plaintiff - bank's president - admitted that

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in combination with the Federal Reserve Bank

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did create the money and credit upon its books by book-keeping entry.

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The money and credit first came into existence when they created it.

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Mr. Morgan admitted that

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no US 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:

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"Only God can create something of value out of nothing".

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And, upon this revelation

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the court rejected the bank's claim for foreclosure

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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

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whether it is a mortgage loan or a credit card charge

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the money given to you is not only counterfeit

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it is an illegitimate form of consideration

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and hence, voids the contract to repay.

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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

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President Lincoln bypassed the high interest loans

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offered by the European banks

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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 circulated

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between private British and American banking interests, stated:

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"...slavery is but the owning of labor

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and carries with it the care of laborers.

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While the European plan

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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 which has spread in practice

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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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And 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 can't and that's the point.

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And it is the fear of losing assets

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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 the money supply itself

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created by the interest that can never be repaid

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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, who are you really working for?

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.

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The banks.

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

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They are the true masters

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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

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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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continue 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 Hit Man.

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"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.

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One is by sword. The other is by debt." - John Adams - 1735-1826

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-We economic hit men, really have been the ones responsible for creating

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this first truly global empire and we work many different ways.

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John Perkins Former Chief Economist for Chas. T. Main Inc. Author: Confessions of an Economic Hitman

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But perhaps the most common is that we will

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identify a country that has resources our corporations covet, like oil

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and then, arrange a huge loan to that country

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from the World Bank or one of its 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

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to built 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 the majority of the people at all.

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However, those people, the whole country is left holding a huge debt.

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

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that they can't repay it. And so, at some point

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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", or

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"send troops in support of ours to someplace in the world like Iraq"

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or "vote with us in the next UN vote", to have their

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electric utility company privatized and

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their water and sewage system privatized

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and sold to US corporations or other multinational corporations.

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So there is a whole mushrooming thing and

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it's so typical of 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 this quid pro quo

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which you call a "conditionality" or "good governance"

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which means basically that they've got to sell off their resources

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including many of their social services, their utility companies,

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their school systems sometimes, their penal systems

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their insurance systems, to foreign corporations.

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

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IRAN; 1953

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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 who was elected in Iran.

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He was considered to be the hope for democracy in the middle east

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

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one of the things that he ran on and began to implement was

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the idea that foreign oil companies needed to pay the Iranian people

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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...

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we were afraid to do what we normally were doing

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which was to send in the military. Instead we sent in one CIA agent

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Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt's relative.

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And Kermit went in with a few million dollars and

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was very, very effective and efficient and in a short amount of time

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he managed to get Mossadegh overthrown

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and brought in the shah of Iran to replace him

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who always was favorable to oil. And it was extremely effective.

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[ Revolt in Iran ]

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"Mobs overthrow Tehran.

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Army officers shout that Mossadegh has surrendered and his regime as

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virtual dictator of Iran is ended. Pictures of the Shah are paraded

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through the streets as sentiment reverses. The Shah is welcomed home."

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So back here in the United States, in Washington

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people looked around and said: "Wow, that was easy and cheap".

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So this established a whole new way

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of manipulating countries, of creating empire.

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The only problem with Roosevelt was that he was a

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card carrying CIA agent. And if he'd been caught

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the ramifications could have been pretty serious.

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

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use private consultants to channel the money through the

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World Bank or the IMF or one of the other such agencies

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

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So that if we got caught

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there would be no governmental ramifications.

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GUATEMALA 1954

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When Árbenz became president of Guatemala

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the country was very much under the thumbs of

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United Fruit company, the big international corporations

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and Árbenz ran on this ticket that said: "You know

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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

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would do exactly that, give the land rights back to the people.

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United Fruit didn't like that very much.

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And so, they hired a public relations firm, launched a huge campaign

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in the United States to convince the United States people

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the citizens of the United States, the press of the United States and

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the Congress of the United States, that Árbenz was a soviet puppet

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and that if we allowed him to stay in power

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the Soviets would have a foothold in this hemisphere.

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And that, at that point in time, was a huge fear on everybody's mind

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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

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00:30:22,145 --> 00:30:25,700
in jackals, we sent everything in to take him out. And did take him out.

518
00:30:25,850 --> 00:30:28,206
And as soon as he was removed from office

519
00:30:28,346 --> 00:30:32,600
the new guy that took over after him basically reinstated everything to

520
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,650
the big international corporations, including United Fruit.

521
00:30:40,510 --> 00:30:44,460
[Ecuador 1981] Ecuador, for many, many years had been ruled by pro-US dictators

522
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,660
often relatively brutal. Then it was decided they were gonna have

523
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:53,890
a truly democratic election. Jaime Roldós ran for office and his main goal

524
00:30:53,890 --> 00:30:57,620
he said, as president would be to make sure that Ecuador's

525
00:30:57,620 --> 00:31:02,710
resources were used to help the people. And he won. Overwhelming.

526
00:31:02,850 --> 00:31:05,560
By more votes than anybody had ever won anything in Ecuador.

527
00:31:05,750 --> 00:31:07,890
And he began to implement these policies.

528
00:31:08,030 --> 00:31:12,200
To make sure that the profits from oil went to help the people.

529
00:31:12,350 --> 00:31:14,730
Well, we didn't like that in the United States.

530
00:31:14,870 --> 00:31:19,500
I was sent down as one of several economic hit men to change Roldós.

531
00:31:19,650 --> 00:31:23,470
To corrupt him. To bring him around. To let him know, you know.

532
00:31:23,610 --> 00:31:27,120
"Ok, you know, you can get very rich, you and your family, if you play

533
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,210
our game. But if you continue to try to keep these policies you've promised

534
00:31:31,350 --> 00:31:34,620
you're gonna go." He wouldn't listen.

535
00:31:36,350 --> 00:31:38,500
He was assassinated.

536
00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:43,450
As soon as the plane crashed, the whole area was cordoned off.

537
00:31:43,890 --> 00:31:47,020
The only people allowed in were US military from a nearby base

538
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,970
and some of the Ecuadorian military.

539
00:31:49,110 --> 00:31:51,560
When an investigation was launched

540
00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:54,240
two of the key witnesses died in car accidents

541
00:31:54,380 --> 00:31:56,760
before they had a chance to testify.

542
00:31:56,900 --> 00:31:59,810
A lot of very, very strange things that went on around

543
00:31:59,950 --> 00:32:02,020
the assassination of Jaime Roldós.

544
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,950
I, like most people who've really looked at this case

545
00:32:06,090 --> 00:32:08,725
have absolutely no doubt that it was an assassination.

546
00:32:08,865 --> 00:32:11,620
And, of course, in my position as an economic hit man

547
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,680
I was always expecting something to happen to Jaime

548
00:32:13,820 --> 00:32:16,270
whether it'd be a coup or assassination, I wasn't sure, but that

549
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,810
he would be taken down, because he was not being corrupted, he would

550
00:32:19,950 --> 00:32:23,880
not allow himself to be corrupted the way we wanted to corrupt him.

551
00:32:24,921 --> 00:32:27,402
PANAMA 1981

552
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,030
Omar Torrijos, president of Panama

553
00:32:30,170 --> 00:32:33,060
was, you know, one of my favorite people. I really, really liked him.

554
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,700
He was very charismatic. He was a guy who really wanted to help his country.

555
00:32:36,940 --> 00:32:40,725
And when I tried to bribe him or corrupt him, he said: "Look, John"

556
00:32:40,865 --> 00:32:43,230
- he called me Juanito - He said: "Look Juanito,

557
00:32:43,370 --> 00:32:48,500
I don't need the money. What I really need is for my country

558
00:32:48,850 --> 00:32:52,890
to be treated fairly. I need for the US to repay the

559
00:32:52,890 --> 00:32:55,690
debts that you owe my people for all the destruction you've done here.

560
00:32:55,830 --> 00:33:00,000
I need to be in a position where I can help other Latin American countries

561
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,800
win their independence and be free of this

562
00:33:02,940 --> 00:33:05,780
of this terrible presence from the North.

563
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,660
You people are exploiting us so badly.

564
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,800
I need to have the Panama Canal back in the hands of the Panamanian people.

565
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:13,540
That's what I want.

566
00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:18,290
And so, leave me alone, don't, you know, don't try to bribe me".

567
00:33:18,430 --> 00:33:24,245
It was 1981 and, in May, Jaime Roldos was assassinated.

568
00:33:24,385 --> 00:33:26,800
And Omar was very aware of this.

569
00:33:26,940 --> 00:33:29,220
Torrijos got his family together and he said:

570
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,390
"I'm probably next, but it's OK

571
00:33:32,530 --> 00:33:35,920
because I've done what I came here to do

572
00:33:36,060 --> 00:33:38,210
I've renegotiated the Canal.

573
00:33:38,340 --> 00:33:40,960
The Canal will now be in our hands." He'd just finished negotiating

574
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:42,600
the treaty with Jimmy Carter.

575
00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:48,510
In June of that same year, just a couple of months later

576
00:33:49,190 --> 00:33:51,810
he also went down in an airplane crash

577
00:33:52,690 --> 00:33:56,800
which, there's no question, was executed by CIA sponsored jackals.

578
00:33:57,150 --> 00:33:58,390
A tremendous amount of evidence that

579
00:33:58,530 --> 00:34:03,080
one of Torijos' security guards handed him, at the last moment

580
00:34:03,220 --> 00:34:05,120
as he was getting on the plane, a tape recorder.

581
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,665
A small tape recorder that contained a bomb.

582
00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:14,750
VENEZUELA 2002

583
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,990
It is interesting to me how this

584
00:34:17,130 --> 00:34:19,940
system has continued pretty much the same way

585
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,300
for years and years and years, except the economic hit men

586
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,200
have got better and better and better.

587
00:34:24,350 --> 00:34:28,900
Then we come up with, very recently, what happened in Venezuela.

588
00:34:29,230 --> 00:34:32,270
In 1998, Hugo Chavez gets elected president

589
00:34:32,410 --> 00:34:34,700
following a long line of presidents

590
00:34:34,700 --> 00:34:37,720
who'd been very corrupt and basically destroyed the economy

591
00:34:37,860 --> 00:34:41,650
of the country. And Chavez was elected amidst all that.

592
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,200
Chavez stood up to the United States

593
00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:48,780
and he's done it primarily demanding that Venezuelan oil

594
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,200
be used to help the Venezuelan people.

595
00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:55,200
Well, we didn't like that in the United States.

596
00:34:55,450 --> 00:34:57,350
So in 2002

597
00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:00,500
a coup was staged, which there's no question in my mind

598
00:35:00,820 --> 00:35:04,600
and most other people's minds, that the CIA was behind that coup.

599
00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:11,380
The way that that coup was fomented

600
00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:14,650
was very reflective of what Kermit Roosevelt had done in Iran.

601
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,150
Of paying people to go out onto the streets

602
00:35:17,270 --> 00:35:21,570
to riot, to protest, to say that Chavez was very unpopular.

603
00:35:21,690 --> 00:35:25,020
You know, if you can get a few thousand people to do that

604
00:35:25,150 --> 00:35:29,050
television can make it look like it's the whole country

605
00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:31,500
and things start to mushroom.

606
00:35:31,870 --> 00:35:35,420
Except in the case of Chavez, he was smart enough

607
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:41,000
and the people were so strongly behind him, that they overcame it

608
00:35:41,209 --> 00:35:41,210
.

609
00:35:41,210 --> 00:35:45,500
which was a phenomenal moment in the history of Latin America.

610
00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:49,407
IRAQ 2003

611
00:35:49,820 --> 00:35:51,880
Iraq, actually, is a perfect example

612
00:35:52,020 --> 00:35:54,320
of the way the whole system works.

613
00:35:54,450 --> 00:35:57,010
So we, economic hit men, are the first line of defense.

614
00:35:57,130 --> 00:35:59,780
We go in, we try to corrupt the governments

615
00:35:59,890 --> 00:36:02,000
and get them to accept these huge loans

616
00:36:02,150 --> 00:36:05,020
which we then use as leverage to basically own them.

617
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,850
If we fail, as I failed in Panama with Omar Torrijos

618
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,920
and Ecuador with Jaime Roldós, men who refused to be corrupted

619
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,550
then the second line of defense is we send in the jackals.

620
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,760
And the jackals either overthrow governments or they assassinate.

621
00:36:19,870 --> 00:36:22,550
And, once that happens and a new government comes in

622
00:36:22,690 --> 00:36:24,700
boy it's gonna tow the line because

623
00:36:24,830 --> 00:36:27,600
that new president knows what will happen if he doesn't.

624
00:36:27,740 --> 00:36:31,090
In the case of Iraq, both of those things failed.

625
00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:34,220
The economic hit men were not able to get through to Saddam Hussein.

626
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,850
We tried very hard, we tried to get him to accept a deal

627
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,630
very similar to what the House of Saud had accepted in Saudi Arabia

628
00:36:40,750 --> 00:36:42,250
but he wouldn't accept it.

629
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,370
And so the jackals went in to take him out.

630
00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:47,170
They couldn't do it. His security was very good.

631
00:36:47,340 --> 00:36:50,120
After all, he at one time, worked for the CIA.

632
00:36:50,250 --> 00:36:54,670
He'd been hired to assassinate a former president of Iraq and failed

633
00:36:54,790 --> 00:36:56,700
but he knew the system.

634
00:36:56,850 --> 00:37:02,220
So, in '91, we send in the troops and we take out the Iraqi military.

635
00:37:02,339 --> 00:37:02,340
.

636
00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:04,000
So, we assume at that point

637
00:37:04,110 --> 00:37:06,370
that Saddam Hussein is gonna come around.

638
00:37:06,490 --> 00:37:09,600
We could have taken him out, of course at that time

639
00:37:09,730 --> 00:37:12,670
but we didn't want to. He's the kind of strong man we like.

640
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,680
He controls his people. We thought he could control the Kurds

641
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,660
and keep the Iranians in their border and keep pumping oil for us.

642
00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:21,950
And that once we took out his military, now he's gonna come around.

643
00:37:22,070 --> 00:37:26,170
So the economic hit men go back in in the 90's, without success.

644
00:37:26,299 --> 00:37:26,300
.

645
00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:29,270
If they'd had success he'd still be running the country.

646
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,950
We'd be selling him all the fighter jets he wants

647
00:37:32,070 --> 00:37:35,570
and everything else he wants, but they couldn't; they didn't have success.

648
00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:37,550
The jackals couldn't take him out again

649
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,600
so we sent the military in once again

650
00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:42,200
and this time we did the complete job and took him out.

651
00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:43,840
And in the process, created for ourselves

652
00:37:43,950 --> 00:37:47,700
some very, very lucrative construction deals

653
00:37:47,830 --> 00:37:50,480
to reconstruct the country that we'd essentially destroyed.

654
00:37:50,580 --> 00:37:52,080
Which is a pretty good deal

655
00:37:52,180 --> 00:37:54,900
if you own construction companies, big ones.

656
00:37:55,340 --> 00:37:58,830
So, Iraq shows the three stages.

657
00:37:58,950 --> 00:38:00,910
The economic hit men failed there.

658
00:38:01,030 --> 00:38:06,800
The jackals failed there. And as a final measure the military goes in.

659
00:38:08,820 --> 00:38:11,300
And in that way we've really created an empire

660
00:38:11,430 --> 00:38:14,710
but we've done it very, very subtly. It's clandestine.

661
00:38:14,850 --> 00:38:17,390
All empires of the past were built on the military

662
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,200
and everybody knew they were building them.

663
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,320
The British knew they were building them, the French

664
00:38:21,430 --> 00:38:24,310
the Germans, the Romans, the Greeks

665
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,580
and they were proud of it, and they always had some excuse

666
00:38:26,690 --> 00:38:30,250
like spreading civilization, spreading some religion

667
00:38:30,370 --> 00:38:33,150
something like that, but they knew they were doing it.

668
00:38:33,250 --> 00:38:34,750
We don't.

669
00:38:34,850 --> 00:38:37,900
The majority of the people in the United States have no idea

670
00:38:38,110 --> 00:38:41,750
that we're living off the benefits of the clandestine empire.

671
00:38:41,870 --> 00:38:47,600
That today there is more slavery in the world than ever before.

672
00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:49,700
Then you have to ask yourself;

673
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,270
well, if it's an empire, then who is the emperor?

674
00:38:52,390 --> 00:38:56,050
Obviously our Presidents of the United States are not emperors.

675
00:38:56,180 --> 00:38:58,050
An emperor is someone who is not elected

676
00:38:58,150 --> 00:39:00,050
doesn't serve a limited term

677
00:39:00,170 --> 00:39:02,180
and doesn't report to anyone, essentially.

678
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,976
So you can't classify our presidents that way.

679
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,110
But we do have what I consider to be the equivalent of the emperor

680
00:39:09,250 --> 00:39:12,150
and it's what I call the corporatocracy.

681
00:39:12,550 --> 00:39:15,820
The corporatocracy is this group of individuals

682
00:39:15,950 --> 00:39:17,330
who run our biggest corporations.

683
00:39:17,450 --> 00:39:21,450
And they really act as the emperor of this empire.

684
00:39:21,570 --> 00:39:23,930
They control our media

685
00:39:24,050 --> 00:39:26,560
either through direct ownership or advertising.

686
00:39:26,690 --> 00:39:29,760
They control most of our politicians

687
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,540
because they finance their campaigns

688
00:39:31,650 --> 00:39:34,480
either through the corporations or through personal contributions

689
00:39:34,599 --> 00:39:34,600
.

690
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,190
that come out of the corporations.

691
00:39:36,330 --> 00:39:39,030
They're not elected, then don't serve a limited term

692
00:39:39,149 --> 00:39:39,150
.

693
00:39:39,150 --> 00:39:40,850
they don't report to anybody

694
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,600
and at the very top of the corporatocracy

695
00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:45,390
you really can't tell whether the person

696
00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:47,490
is working for a private corporation or the government

697
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,580
because they're always moving back and forth.

698
00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:52,130
So, you know, you've got a guy who one moment

699
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:56,080
is the president of a big construction company like Halliburton

700
00:39:56,190 --> 00:39:58,520
and the next moment he's Vice President of the United States

701
00:39:58,650 --> 00:40:01,260
or the President who was in the oil business. And this is true

702
00:40:01,370 --> 00:40:03,580
whether you get Democrats or Republicans in the office.

703
00:40:03,699 --> 00:40:03,700
.

704
00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:07,571
You have this moving back and forth through a revolving door.

705
00:40:07,671 --> 00:40:12,843
And in a way, our government is invisible a lot of the time

706
00:40:12,950 --> 00:40:15,646
and its' policies are carried out by our corporations

707
00:40:15,746 --> 00:40:18,440
on one level or another. And then again

708
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,500
the policies of the government are basically

709
00:40:21,620 --> 00:40:25,200
forged by the corporatocracy, and then presented to the government

710
00:40:25,339 --> 00:40:25,340
.

711
00:40:25,389 --> 00:40:27,960
and they become government policy. So, there's an incredibly

712
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,005
cozy relationship.

713
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,060
This isn't a conspiracy theory type of thing. These people don't have to

714
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,860
get together and plot to do things.

715
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:36,001
.

716
00:40:36,140 --> 00:40:39,530
They all basically work under one primary assumption

717
00:40:39,670 --> 00:40:42,570
and that is that they must maximize profits

718
00:40:42,666 --> 00:40:42,667
.

719
00:40:42,710 --> 00:40:50,300
regardless of the social and environmental costs.

720
00:40:50,981 --> 00:40:54,410
-This process of manipulation by the corporatocracy

721
00:40:54,552 --> 00:40:58,850
through the use of debt, bribery and political overthrow is called

722
00:40:58,989 --> 00:41:00,851
Globalization

723
00:41:00,991 --> 00:41:04,650
Just as the Federal Reserve keeps the American public in a position

724
00:41:04,780 --> 00:41:09,366
of indentured servitude though perpetual debt, inflation and interest

725
00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:13,700
the World Bank and IMF serve this role on a global scale.

726
00:41:13,838 --> 00:41:15,850
The basic scam is simple.

727
00:41:15,973 --> 00:41:18,750
Put a country in debt either by its own indiscretion

728
00:41:18,876 --> 00:41:21,450
or through corrupting the leader of that country

729
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,150
then impose "conditionalities" or "structural adjustment policies"

730
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:29,189
often consisting of the following:

731
00:41:29,778 --> 00:41:31,400
Currency devaluation.

732
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,280
When the value of a currency drops, so does everything valued in it.

733
00:41:35,426 --> 00:41:38,950
This makes indigenous resources available to predator countries

734
00:41:39,050 --> 00:41:41,732
at a fraction of their worth.

735
00:41:42,399 --> 00:41:44,969
Large funding cuts for social programs.

736
00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:47,900
These usually include education and healthcare

737
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,110
compromising the well-being and integrity of the society

738
00:41:51,250 --> 00:41:53,978
leaving the public vulnerable to exploitation.

739
00:41:54,578 --> 00:41:57,240
Privatization of state-owned enterprises.

740
00:41:57,381 --> 00:41:59,920
This means that socially important systems

741
00:42:00,060 --> 00:42:04,450
can be purchased and regulated by foreign corporations for profit.

742
00:42:04,650 --> 00:42:08,157
For example, in 1999, the World Bank insisted

743
00:42:08,275 --> 00:42:10,000
that the Bolivian government sell

744
00:42:10,110 --> 00:42:13,267
the public water-system of its third-largest city

745
00:42:13,381 --> 00:42:16,600
to a subsidiary of the US corporation "Bechtel."

746
00:42:16,740 --> 00:42:18,600
As soon as this occurred, water bills

747
00:42:18,736 --> 00:42:22,700
for the already impoverished local residents, skyrocketed.

748
00:42:22,973 --> 00:42:26,140
It wasn't until after a full-blown revolt by the people

749
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:30,200
that the Bechtel contract was nullified.

750
00:42:31,982 --> 00:42:34,512
Then there is trade liberalization

751
00:42:34,652 --> 00:42:36,620
or the opening up of the economy

752
00:42:36,761 --> 00:42:39,420
through removing any restrictions on foreign trade.

753
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,993
This allows for a number of abusive economic manifestations

754
00:42:43,470 --> 00:42:45,520
such as transnational corporations

755
00:42:45,659 --> 00:42:48,320
bringing in their own mass-produced products

756
00:42:48,465 --> 00:42:52,810
undercutting the indigenous production and ruining local economies.

757
00:42:52,950 --> 00:42:55,190
An example is Jamaica;

758
00:42:55,330 --> 00:42:59,100
which, after accepting loans and conditionalities from the World Bank

759
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:01,500
lost its largest cash crop markets

760
00:43:01,629 --> 00:43:04,730
due to competition with Western imports.

761
00:43:04,982 --> 00:43:08,850
Today, countless farmers are out of work for they're unable to compete

762
00:43:08,986 --> 00:43:10,988
with the large corporations.

763
00:43:11,989 --> 00:43:14,700
Another variation is the creation of numerous

764
00:43:14,847 --> 00:43:19,950
seemingly unnoticed, unregulated, inhumane sweatshop-factories

765
00:43:20,090 --> 00:43:23,968
which take advantage of the imposed economic hardship.

766
00:43:24,110 --> 00:43:26,900
Additionally, due to production deregulation

767
00:43:27,047 --> 00:43:30,930
environmental destruction is perpetual, as a country's resources

768
00:43:31,060 --> 00:43:33,840
are often exploited by the indifferent corporations

769
00:43:33,978 --> 00:43:37,982
while outputting large amounts of deliberate pollution.

770
00:43:38,248 --> 00:43:41,820
-The largest environmental lawsuit in the history of the world

771
00:43:41,962 --> 00:43:43,840
today is being brought on behalf of

772
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,840
30,000 Ecuadorian and Amazonian people

773
00:43:46,991 --> 00:43:50,100
against Texaco, which is now owned by Chevron;

774
00:43:50,243 --> 00:43:54,000
so it's against Chevron, but for activities conducted by Texaco.

775
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,710
They're estimated to be more than 18 times

776
00:43:56,852 --> 00:44:00,890
what the Exxon Valdez dumped into the Coast of Alaska.

777
00:44:00,971 --> 00:44:03,660
In the case of Ecuador it wasn't an accident.

778
00:44:03,801 --> 00:44:06,350
The oil companies did it intentionally. They knew they were doing it

779
00:44:06,491 --> 00:44:11,058
to save money rather than arranging for proper disposal.

780
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,721
-Furthermore, a cursory glance

781
00:44:13,850 --> 00:44:15,860
at the performance record of the World Bank

782
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,860
reveals that the institution, which publicly claims to

783
00:44:18,989 --> 00:44:21,920
help poor countries develop and alleviate poverty

784
00:44:22,060 --> 00:44:25,200
has done nothing but increase poverty and the wealth-gap

785
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,460
while corporate profits soar.

786
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,360
In 1960, the income-gap between the

787
00:44:30,498 --> 00:44:33,200
fifth of the world's people in the richest countries

788
00:44:33,345 --> 00:44:37,100
versus the fifth in the poorest countries was thirty to one.

789
00:44:37,408 --> 00:44:41,400
By 1998, it was seventy-four to one.

790
00:44:41,779 --> 00:44:46,860
While global GNP rose 40% between 1970 and 1985

791
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,080
those in poverty actually increased by 17%.

792
00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:53,760
While from 1985 to 2000

793
00:44:53,904 --> 00:45:00,016
those living on less than one dollar a day increased by 18%.

794
00:45:00,550 --> 00:45:04,210
Even the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress

795
00:45:04,350 --> 00:45:07,360
admitted that there is a mere 40% success rate

796
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,800
of all World Bank projects.

797
00:45:09,940 --> 00:45:12,220
In the late 1960's, the World Bank

798
00:45:12,350 --> 00:45:14,940
intervened in Ecuador with large loans.

799
00:45:15,070 --> 00:45:19,800
During the next 30 years, poverty grew from 50% to 70%.

800
00:45:19,930 --> 00:45:24,380
Under or unemployment grew from 15% to 70%.

801
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:29,350
Public debt increased from 240 million to 16 billion

802
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,450
while the share of resources allocated to the poor

803
00:45:32,590 --> 00:45:36,000
went from 20% to 6%.

804
00:45:36,140 --> 00:45:40,900
In fact, by the year 2000, 50% of Ecuador's national budget

805
00:45:41,030 --> 00:45:45,000
had to be allocated for paying its debts.

806
00:45:47,330 --> 00:45:50,700
It is important to understand: The World Bank is, in fact

807
00:45:50,820 --> 00:45:54,150
a U.S. bank, supporting U.S. interests.

808
00:45:54,270 --> 00:45:57,700
For the United States holds veto-power over decisions

809
00:45:57,820 --> 00:46:00,300
as it is the largest provider of capital.

810
00:46:00,460 --> 00:46:02,310
And where did it get this money?

811
00:46:02,430 --> 00:46:04,700
You guessed it. It made it out of thin air

812
00:46:04,820 --> 00:46:08,000
through the fractional reserve banking system.

813
00:46:09,370 --> 00:46:13,890
Of the world's top 100 economies, as based on annual GDP

814
00:46:14,020 --> 00:46:19,700
51 are corporations and 47 of that 51 are U.S.-based.

815
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:24,760
Walmart, General Motors and Exxon are more economically powerful

816
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:29,290
than Saudi Arabia, Poland, Norway, South Africa

817
00:46:29,410 --> 00:46:32,710
Finland, Indonesia and many others.

818
00:46:32,850 --> 00:46:36,260
And, as protective trade barriers are broken down

819
00:46:36,380 --> 00:46:39,760
currencies tossed together and manipulated in floating markets

820
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:44,080
and State economies overturned in favor of open competition

821
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:48,900
in global capitalism, the empire expands.

822
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:54,700
-You get up on your little 21-inch screen

823
00:46:55,220 --> 00:46:59,990
and howl about America and democracy.

824
00:47:00,460 --> 00:47:04,700
There is no America, there is no democracy.

825
00:47:05,010 --> 00:47:10,600
There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T

826
00:47:10,730 --> 00:47:16,300
and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon.

827
00:47:16,550 --> 00:47:20,300
Those are the nations of the world today.

828
00:47:20,630 --> 00:47:22,920
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state?

829
00:47:23,060 --> 00:47:24,740
Karl Marx?

830
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,100
They get out their linear programming charts

831
00:47:27,220 --> 00:47:29,780
statistical decision theories, min and max solutions

832
00:47:29,900 --> 00:47:31,730
and compute the price-cost probabilities

833
00:47:31,850 --> 00:47:34,700
of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

834
00:47:35,180 --> 00:47:39,560
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.

835
00:47:39,700 --> 00:47:44,920
The world is a college of corporations

836
00:47:45,050 --> 00:47:53,300
inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business.

837
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,975
The world is a business, Mr. Beale.

838
00:47:58,970 --> 00:48:02,250
"Taken cumulatively, the integration of the world as a whole

839
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,900
particularly in terms of economic globalization

840
00:48:05,050 --> 00:48:07,550
and the mythic qualities of "free market" capitalism

841
00:48:07,700 --> 00:48:10,200
represents a veritable "empire" in its own right.

842
00:48:10,350 --> 00:48:12,850
Few have been able to escape the "structural adjustment" and

843
00:48:12,999 --> 00:48:13,000
.

844
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,500
"conditionalities" of the W.B, the IMF, or the WTO

845
00:48:15,650 --> 00:48:18,150
those international financial institutions that, however inadequate

846
00:48:18,300 --> 00:48:20,800
still determine what economic globalization means.

847
00:48:20,950 --> 00:48:23,600
Such is the power of globalization that, within our lifetime, we are likely to see

848
00:48:23,750 --> 00:48:26,249
the integration, even if unevenly, of all national economies in the world

849
00:48:26,249 --> 00:48:26,250
.

850
00:48:26,250 --> 00:48:28,250
into a single global, free market system."

851
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:32,300
-The World is being taken over by a handful of business powers

852
00:48:32,420 --> 00:48:35,170
who dominate the natural resources we need to live

853
00:48:35,290 --> 00:48:38,800
while controlling the money we need to obtain these resources.

854
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,960
The end result will be world monopoly

855
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:47,260
based not on human life but financial and corporate power.

856
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,420
And, as the inequality grows, naturally

857
00:48:50,540 --> 00:48:53,320
more and more people are becoming desperate.

858
00:48:53,450 --> 00:48:56,850
So the establishment was forced to come up with a new way

859
00:48:56,970 --> 00:49:00,210
to deal with anyone who challenges the system.

860
00:49:00,350 --> 00:49:02,973
So they gave birth to the "Terrorist."

861
00:49:03,780 --> 00:49:06,830
The term "terrorist" is an empty distinction

862
00:49:06,955 --> 00:49:09,130
designed for any person or group

863
00:49:09,250 --> 00:49:11,800
who chooses to challenge the establishment.

864
00:49:11,940 --> 00:49:15,270
This isn't to be confused with the fictional "Al Qaida"

865
00:49:15,390 --> 00:49:18,190
which was actually the name of a computer database

866
00:49:18,310 --> 00:49:21,992
of the U.S.-supported Mujahideen in the 1980's.

867
00:49:22,370 --> 00:49:24,700
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group

868
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,500
called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this.

869
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,700
But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe

870
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,300
in the presence of an identified entity...The country behind this propaganda is the U.S."

871
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,530
- Pierre-Henri Bunel, Former French Military Intelligence

872
00:49:33,630 --> 00:49:35,200
In 2007

873
00:49:35,340 --> 00:49:39,920
the Department of Defense received 161.8 billion dollars

874
00:49:40,045 --> 00:49:43,100
for the so-called global war on terrorism.

875
00:49:43,260 --> 00:49:46,040
According to the national counter-terrorism center

876
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:50,650
in 2004 roughly 2000 people were killed internationally

877
00:49:50,780 --> 00:49:53,050
due to supposed terrorist acts.

878
00:49:53,185 --> 00:49:56,270
Of that number, 70 were American.

879
00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:00,560
Using this number as a general average, which is extremely generous

880
00:50:00,700 --> 00:50:03,980
it is interesting to note that twice as many people die

881
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:08,940
from peanut allergies a year than from terrorist acts.

882
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,460
Concurrently, the leading cause of death in America

883
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:18,100
is coronary heart disease, killing roughly 450,000 each year.

884
00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:22,800
And in 2007, the government's allocation of funds for research

885
00:50:22,940 --> 00:50:25,840
on this issue was about three billion dollars.

886
00:50:25,980 --> 00:50:29,200
This means that the US government, in 2007

887
00:50:29,342 --> 00:50:33,760
spent 54 times the amount for preventing terrorism

888
00:50:33,900 --> 00:50:36,500
than it spent for preventing a disease

889
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:44,600
which kills 6600 times more people annually, than terrorism does.

890
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:50,100
Yet, as the name terrorism and Al Qaida are arbitrarily stamped

891
00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:54,710
on every news report relating to any action taken against US interests

892
00:50:54,851 --> 00:50:56,686
the myth grows wider.

893
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,720
In mid 2008, the US Attorney General actually proposed

894
00:51:00,860 --> 00:51:06,010
that the US Congress officially declare war against the fantasy.

895
00:51:06,159 --> 00:51:06,160
.

896
00:51:06,163 --> 00:51:11,635
Not to mention, as of July 2008, there are now over 1 million people

897
00:51:11,770 --> 00:51:15,400
currently on the US terrorist watch list.

898
00:51:16,973 --> 00:51:19,400
These so called "Counter-Terrorism Measures"

899
00:51:19,523 --> 00:51:22,250
of course, have nothing to do with social protection

900
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,850
and everything to do with preserving the establishment

901
00:51:25,982 --> 00:51:28,700
amongst the growing anti-American sentiment

902
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,730
both domestically and internationally

903
00:51:31,870 --> 00:51:33,680
which is legitimately founded on

904
00:51:33,812 --> 00:51:36,860
the greed-based corporate empire expansion

905
00:51:36,993 --> 00:51:39,600
that is exploiting the world.

906
00:51:40,630 --> 00:51:45,168
The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight

907
00:51:45,300 --> 00:51:49,760
or scream "Allah Akbar" before some violent action.

908
00:51:49,906 --> 00:51:53,977
The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits

909
00:51:54,100 --> 00:51:59,490
and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

910
00:52:02,586 --> 00:52:05,100
So, what do we do?

911
00:52:05,230 --> 00:52:07,840
How do we stop a system of greed and corruption

912
00:52:07,980 --> 00:52:09,850
that has so much power and momentum?

913
00:52:09,993 --> 00:52:14,164
How do we stop this aberrant group behavior, which feels no compassion

914
00:52:14,300 --> 00:52:17,968
for say, the millions slaughtered in Iraq and Afghanistan

915
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,350
so the corporatocracy can control

916
00:52:20,493 --> 00:52:26,292
energy resources and opium production for Wall St. profit?

917
00:52:27,978 --> 00:52:32,200
Before 1980, Afghanistan produced 0% of the world's opium.

918
00:52:32,350 --> 00:52:35,200
After the US/CIA backed Mujahideen won the Soviet/Afghan war

919
00:52:35,350 --> 00:52:38,450
by 1986 they were producing 40% of the world's heroin supply.

920
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:43,200
By 1999, they were producing 80% of the total market supply.

921
00:52:44,390 --> 00:52:47,998
But then something unexpected happened.

922
00:52:48,999 --> 00:52:53,600
The Taliban rose to power and by 2000, they had destroyed most of the opium fields.

923
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,900
Production dropped from 3000+ tons to only 185 tons, a 94% reduction.

924
00:52:57,270 --> 00:53:02,700
On Sept. 9th 2001, the full Afghanistan invasion plans were on President Bush's Desk.

925
00:53:02,979 --> 00:53:07,900
Two days later they had their excuse.

926
00:53:08,985 --> 00:53:11,500
Today, opium productions in US controlled Afghanistan

927
00:53:11,700 --> 00:53:14,300
which now provides more than 90% of the world's heroin

928
00:53:14,500 --> 00:53:17,000
breaks new production records nearly every year.

929
00:53:17,491 --> 00:53:19,650
How do we stop a system of greed and corruption

930
00:53:19,796 --> 00:53:23,260
that condemns poor populations to "Sweatshop-Slavery"

931
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,820
for the benefit of Madison Avenue?

932
00:53:25,969 --> 00:53:29,020
Or that engineers false-flag terror attacks

933
00:53:29,169 --> 00:53:31,500
for the sake of manipulation?

934
00:53:31,641 --> 00:53:35,100
Or that generates built-in modes of social operation

935
00:53:35,242 --> 00:53:37,840
which are inherently exploitative?

936
00:53:37,981 --> 00:53:41,400
Or that systematically reduces civil liberties

937
00:53:41,551 --> 00:53:42,880
and violates human rights

938
00:53:43,020 --> 00:53:46,990
in order to protect itself from its own shortcomings.

939
00:53:47,591 --> 00:53:50,627
How do we deal with the numerous covert institutions

940
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,600
such as the Council on Foreign Relations

941
00:53:52,758 --> 00:53:55,140
the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group

942
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,550
and other undemocratically elected groups

943
00:53:57,700 --> 00:54:01,920
which, behind closed doors collude to control the political

944
00:54:02,057 --> 00:54:07,050
financial, social and environmental elements of our lives?

945
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,720
In order to find the answer, we must first find

946
00:54:10,860 --> 00:54:13,100
the true underlying cause.

947
00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:15,040
For the fact is:

948
00:54:15,171 --> 00:54:19,160
The selfish, corrupt power and profit- based groups

949
00:54:19,298 --> 00:54:22,420
are not the true source of the problem.

950
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:24,995
They are symptoms.

951
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:30,200
"Greed and Competition are not the result of immutable human temperament...

952
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:34,300
...greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified...

953
00:54:34,500 --> 00:54:38,800
the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive.

954
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:40,977
- Bernard Liertaer - Founder of the EU Currency System

955
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,980
-My name is Jacque Fresco.

956
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:48,650
I'm an industrial designer and a social engineer.

957
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,000
I'm very much interested in society

958
00:54:52,130 --> 00:54:58,000
and developing a system that might be sustainable, for all people.

959
00:54:58,750 --> 00:55:02,350
First of all, the word "corruption" is a monetary invention

960
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,500
that aberrant behavior

961
00:55:04,620 --> 00:55:08,420
behavior that's disruptive to the well-being of people.

962
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,890
Well you're dealing with human behavior.

963
00:55:12,020 --> 00:55:16,640
And human behavior appears to be environmentally determined.

964
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:21,410
Meaning, if you were raised by the Seminole Indians as a baby

965
00:55:21,540 --> 00:55:25,320
never saw anything else, you'd hold that value system.

966
00:55:25,460 --> 00:55:30,160
And this goes for nations, it goes for individuals, for families.

967
00:55:30,290 --> 00:55:34,530
They try to indoctrinate their children to their particular faith

968
00:55:34,660 --> 00:55:39,150
and their country and make them feel like they're part of that.

969
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:44,220
And they build a society, which they call established.

970
00:55:44,350 --> 00:55:49,230
They established a workable point of view and tend to perpetuate that.

971
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:54,790
Whereas, all societies are really emergent, not established.

972
00:55:54,930 --> 00:55:58,070
And so they fight new ideas

973
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:01,800
that would interfere with the establishment.

974
00:56:01,950 --> 00:56:06,660
Governments try to perpetuate that which keeps them in power.

975
00:56:06,790 --> 00:56:11,720
People are not elected to political office to change things.

976
00:56:11,860 --> 00:56:15,400
They are put there to keep things the way they are.

977
00:56:15,660 --> 00:56:19,860
So you see, the basis of corruption is in our society.

978
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:24,650
Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically corrupt

979
00:56:24,790 --> 00:56:28,380
because they tend to uphold existing institutions.

980
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,890
I don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations

981
00:56:32,020 --> 00:56:36,660
but communism, socialism, fascism, the free enterprise-system

982
00:56:36,790 --> 00:56:40,360
and all other sub-cultures are the same.

983
00:56:40,490 --> 00:56:43,900
They are all basically corrupt.

984
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,400
-The most fundamental characteristic of our social institutions

985
00:56:48,530 --> 00:56:51,510
is the necessity for self-preservation.

986
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:55,320
Whether dealing with a corporation, a religion or a government

987
00:56:55,450 --> 00:56:59,200
the foremost interest is to preserve the institution itself.

988
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,400
For instance, the last thing an oil company would ever want

989
00:57:02,530 --> 00:57:06,350
is the utilization of energy that was outside of its control.

990
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:10,460
For it makes that company less relevant to society.

991
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,490
Likewise the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union

992
00:57:13,610 --> 00:57:17,230
was, in reality, a way to preserve and perpetuate

993
00:57:17,350 --> 00:57:22,800
the established economic and global hegemony of the United States.

994
00:57:23,430 --> 00:57:25,600
Similarly, religions condition people

995
00:57:25,730 --> 00:57:27,900
to feel guilty for natural inclinations

996
00:57:28,030 --> 00:57:32,470
each claiming to offer the only path to forgiveness and salvation.

997
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,200
At the heart of this institutional self-preservation

998
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,340
lies the monetary system

999
00:57:38,460 --> 00:57:43,000
for it is money that provides the means for power and survival.

1000
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,080
Therefore, just as a poor person

1001
00:57:45,190 --> 00:57:47,600
might be forced to steal in order to survive

1002
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,770
it is a natural inclination to do whatever is needed

1003
00:57:50,890 --> 00:57:53,620
to continue an institution's profitability.

1004
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,750
This makes it inherently difficult

1005
00:57:55,870 --> 00:57:59,960
for profit-based institutions to change, for it puts in jeopardy

1006
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,600
not only the survival of large groups of people

1007
00:58:02,730 --> 00:58:05,360
but also the coveted materialistic lifestyles

1008
00:58:05,490 --> 00:58:08,900
associated with affluence and power.

1009
00:58:09,090 --> 00:58:12,650
Therefore, the paralyzing necessity to preserve an institution

1010
00:58:12,780 --> 00:58:14,880
regardless of its social relevance

1011
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:20,000
is largely rooted in the need for money or profit.

1012
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,880
[ Industry ]

1013
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:27,800
- "What's in it for me?" is the way people think.

1014
00:58:28,270 --> 00:58:31,700
And so if a man makes money selling a certain product

1015
00:58:31,820 --> 00:58:35,720
naturally he's going to fight the existence of another product

1016
00:58:35,850 --> 00:58:39,300
that may threaten his institution.

1017
00:58:39,940 --> 00:58:42,900
Therefore people cannot be fair.

1018
00:58:43,030 --> 00:58:45,200
And people do not trust each other.

1019
00:58:45,330 --> 00:58:47,000
A guy will come over to you and say

1020
00:58:47,110 --> 00:58:50,370
"I've got just the house you're looking for."  He's a salesman.

1021
00:58:50,500 --> 00:58:53,610
When a doctor says, "I think your kidney has to come out."

1022
00:58:53,740 --> 00:58:56,570
I don't know if he's trying to pay off a yacht

1023
00:58:56,690 --> 00:58:58,550
or that my kidney has to come out.

1024
00:58:58,670 --> 00:59:02,900
It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

1025
00:59:03,275 --> 00:59:06,600
If you came into my store and I said, "This lamp that I've got

1026
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,920
is pretty good, but the lamp next door is much better."

1027
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,160
I wouldn't be in business very long.  It wouldn't work.

1028
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,500
If I were ethical, it wouldn't work.

1029
00:59:16,620 --> 00:59:20,920
So when you say industry cares for people, that's not true.

1030
00:59:21,060 --> 00:59:23,900
They can't afford to be ethical.

1031
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:28,480
So your system is not designed to serve the well-being of people.

1032
00:59:28,610 --> 00:59:33,820
If you still don't understand that there would be no outsourcing of jobs

1033
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:35,850
if they cared about people.

1034
00:59:35,980 --> 00:59:38,350
Industry does not care.  They only hire people

1035
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,900
because it hasn't been automated yet.

1036
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:45,020
So don't talk about decency and ethics.

1037
00:59:45,150 --> 00:59:49,300
We cannot afford it and remain in business.

1038
00:59:49,770 --> 00:59:53,690
-It is important to point out that regardless of the social system -

1039
00:59:53,820 --> 00:59:57,770
whether fascist, socialist, capitalist or communist

1040
00:59:57,900 --> 01:00:02,980
the underlying mechanism is still money, labor and competition.

1041
01:00:03,409 --> 01:00:07,612
Communist China is no less capitalistic than the United States.

1042
01:00:07,718 --> 01:00:09,250
The only difference is the degree

1043
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,700
by which the state intervenes in enterprise.

1044
01:00:13,020 --> 01:00:16,410
The reality is that "Monetary-ism", so to speak

1045
01:00:16,530 --> 01:00:19,170
is the true mechanism that guides the interests

1046
01:00:19,300 --> 01:00:21,890
of all the countries on the planet.

1047
01:00:22,110 --> 01:00:24,250
The most aggressive and hence dominant variation

1048
01:00:24,350 --> 01:00:28,390
of this monetary-ism is the free enterprise system.

1049
01:00:28,500 --> 01:00:30,365
The fundamental perspective, as put forth

1050
01:00:30,472 --> 01:00:33,920
by early free market economists like Adam Smith

1051
01:00:34,050 --> 01:00:38,310
is that self interest and competition leads to social prosperity

1052
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,950
as the act of competition creates incentive

1053
01:00:41,070 --> 01:00:44,700
which motivates people to persevere.

1054
01:00:45,300 --> 01:00:49,430
However, what isn't talked about, is how a competition based economy

1055
01:00:49,541 --> 01:00:52,315
invariably leads to strategic corruption

1056
01:00:52,420 --> 01:00:56,354
power and wealth consolidation, social stratification

1057
01:00:56,464 --> 01:01:02,200
technological paralysis, labor abuse and ultimately a covert form

1058
01:01:02,340 --> 01:01:06,800
of government dictatorship by the rich elite.

1059
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:11,800
The word "corruption" is often defined as moral perversion.

1060
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:15,680
If a company dumps toxic waste into the ocean to save money

1061
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:19,200
most people recognize this as "corrupt behavior".

1062
01:01:19,940 --> 01:01:23,710
On a more subtle level, when Walmart moves into a small town

1063
01:01:23,820 --> 01:01:26,326
and forces small businesses to shut down

1064
01:01:26,436 --> 01:01:30,300
for they are unable to compete, a grey area emerges.

1065
01:01:30,500 --> 01:01:33,160
For what exactly is Walmart doing wrong?

1066
01:01:33,290 --> 01:01:36,993
Why should they care about the Mom and Pop organizations they destroy?

1067
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:41,670
Yet, even more subtly, when a person gets fired from their job

1068
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:44,000
because a new machine has been created

1069
01:01:44,110 --> 01:01:46,200
which can do the work for less money

1070
01:01:46,330 --> 01:01:49,775
people tend to just accept that as "the way it is"

1071
01:01:49,885 --> 01:01:49,886
.

1072
01:01:49,905 --> 01:01:55,200
not seeing the inherent corrupt inhumanity of such an action.

1073
01:01:55,530 --> 01:01:59,310
Because the fact is, whether it is dumping toxic waste

1074
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:02,985
having a monopoly enterprise or downsizing the workforce

1075
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:06,800
the motive is the same: Profit.

1076
01:02:06,939 --> 01:02:06,940
.

1077
01:02:06,940 --> 01:02:11,070
They are all different degrees of the same self-preserving mechanism

1078
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:16,300
which always puts the well-being of people second to monetary gain.

1079
01:02:16,420 --> 01:02:21,800
Therefore, corruption is not some byproduct of monetary-ism

1080
01:02:21,930 --> 01:02:24,500
it is the very foundation.

1081
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,100
And while most people acknowledge this tendency

1082
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:30,447
on one level or another, the majority remains naive

1083
01:02:30,557 --> 01:02:32,810
as to the broad ramifications

1084
01:02:32,930 --> 01:02:35,435
of having such a selfish mechanism

1085
01:02:35,545 --> 01:02:38,300
as the guiding mentality in society.

1086
01:02:38,576 --> 01:02:40,100
-Internal documents show

1087
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:43,570
that after this company positively absolutely knew

1088
01:02:43,690 --> 01:02:46,700
that they had a medication that was infected with the AIDS virus

1089
01:02:46,831 --> 01:02:49,100
they took the product off the market in the US

1090
01:02:49,230 --> 01:02:52,210
and then they dumped it in France, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

1091
01:02:52,340 --> 01:02:54,720
The US government allowed it to happen.

1092
01:02:54,850 --> 01:02:57,030
The FDA allowed this to happen

1093
01:02:57,150 --> 01:02:59,770
and now the government is completely looking the other way.

1094
01:02:59,900 --> 01:03:04,840
Thousands of innocent hemophiliacs have died from the AIDS virus.

1095
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:08,250
This company knew absolutely that it was infected with AIDS,

1096
01:03:08,380 --> 01:03:14,000
they dumped it because they wanted to turn this disaster into a profit.

1097
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:19,000
-So you see, you have built-in corruption.

1098
01:03:19,140 --> 01:03:21,410
We're all chiseling off each other

1099
01:03:21,540 --> 01:03:25,700
and you can't expect decency or that sort of thing.

1100
01:03:26,302 --> 01:03:27,423
Politics

1101
01:03:28,730 --> 01:03:31,890
...a feeling that they don't know who to elect.

1102
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,110
They think in terms of a democracy

1103
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:38,200
which is not possible in a monetary based economy.

1104
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:42,550
If you have more money to advertise your position

1105
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:46,630
the position you desire in government, that isn't a democracy.

1106
01:03:46,749 --> 01:03:46,750
.

1107
01:03:46,750 --> 01:03:51,340
It serves those in positions of differential advantage.

1108
01:03:51,460 --> 01:03:56,400
So it's always a dictatorship of the elitist, the financially wealthy.

1109
01:03:56,519 --> 01:03:56,520
.

1110
01:03:56,900 --> 01:03:59,200
"We can either have democracy in this country or

1111
01:03:59,350 --> 01:04:02,100
we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,

1112
01:04:02,250 --> 01:04:04,600
but we can't have both." - Louis Brandeis - Supreme Court Justice

1113
01:04:04,728 --> 01:04:06,620
-It is an interesting observation

1114
01:04:06,740 --> 01:04:09,770
to note how seemingly unknown personalities

1115
01:04:09,900 --> 01:04:13,570
magically appear on the scene as presidential candidates.

1116
01:04:13,710 --> 01:04:16,375
Then before you know it, somehow you are left to choose

1117
01:04:16,500 --> 01:04:19,850
from a small group of extremely wealthy people

1118
01:04:19,980 --> 01:04:24,300
who suspiciously have the same broad social view.

1119
01:04:24,730 --> 01:04:26,580
Obviously it's a joke.

1120
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:28,760
The people placed on the ballot are done so

1121
01:04:28,890 --> 01:04:31,950
because they have been pre-decided to be acceptable

1122
01:04:32,070 --> 01:04:36,500
by the established financial powers who actually run the show.

1123
01:04:37,330 --> 01:04:41,860
Yet many who understand this illusion of democracy, often think

1124
01:04:41,980 --> 01:04:46,700
"If only we could just get our honest, ethical politicians in power,

1125
01:04:46,830 --> 01:04:48,830
then we would be okay".

1126
01:04:48,950 --> 01:04:51,610
Well, while this idea, of course, seems reasonable

1127
01:04:51,740 --> 01:04:54,960
in our established oriented world view

1128
01:04:55,090 --> 01:04:59,100
it is unfortunately another fallacy.

1129
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:02,900
For when it really comes down to what is actually important,

1130
01:05:03,112 --> 01:05:07,200
the institution of politics and thus politicians themselves

1131
01:05:07,390 --> 01:05:10,650
have absolutely no true relevance as to

1132
01:05:10,790 --> 01:05:14,500
what makes our world and society function.

1133
01:05:14,815 --> 01:05:17,980
-It's not politicians that can solve problems.

1134
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,700
They have no technical capabilities.

1135
01:05:20,850 --> 01:05:22,980
They don't know how to solve problems.

1136
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:26,990
Even if they were sincere, they don't know how to solve problems.

1137
01:05:27,130 --> 01:05:32,000
It's the technicians that produce the desalinization plants.

1138
01:05:32,150 --> 01:05:34,620
It's the technicians that give you electricity.

1139
01:05:34,770 --> 01:05:36,350
That give you motor vehicles.

1140
01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:39,160
That heat your house and cool it in the summer time.

1141
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:43,230
It's technology that solves problems, not politics.

1142
01:05:43,370 --> 01:05:48,000
Politics cannot solve problems 'cause they are not trained to do so.

1143
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,110
-Very few people today stop and consider

1144
01:05:52,250 --> 01:05:55,580
what it is that actually improves their lives.

1145
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,350
Is it money? Obviously not.

1146
01:05:58,500 --> 01:06:03,000
One cannot eat money or stuff money into their car to get it to run.

1147
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:05,220
Is it politics?

1148
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,890
All politicians can do is create laws

1149
01:06:08,030 --> 01:06:11,200
establish budgets and declare war.

1150
01:06:11,450 --> 01:06:13,540
Is it religion? Of course not.

1151
01:06:13,690 --> 01:06:15,780
Religion creates nothing except

1152
01:06:15,910 --> 01:06:19,600
intangible emotional solace for those who require it.

1153
01:06:19,850 --> 01:06:23,125
The true gift that we as human beings have

1154
01:06:23,780 --> 01:06:26,600
which has been solely responsible for everything

1155
01:06:26,730 --> 01:06:28,850
that has improved our lives

1156
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:31,590
is technology.

1157
01:06:31,790 --> 01:06:33,280
What is technology?

1158
01:06:33,530 --> 01:06:34,900
Technology is a pencil

1159
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:39,300
which allows one to solidify ideas on paper for communication.

1160
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:43,000
Technology is an automobile, which allows one to travel faster

1161
01:06:43,140 --> 01:06:44,640
than feet would allow.

1162
01:06:44,780 --> 01:06:47,200
Technology is a pair of eye glasses

1163
01:06:47,350 --> 01:06:50,600
which enables sight for those who need it.

1164
01:06:50,900 --> 01:06:56,300
Applied technology itself is merely an extension of human attributes

1165
01:06:56,430 --> 01:06:58,340
which reduces human effort

1166
01:06:58,469 --> 01:07:01,830
freeing humans from a particular chore or problem.

1167
01:07:01,970 --> 01:07:03,920
Imagine what your life would be like today

1168
01:07:04,060 --> 01:07:06,750
without a telephone, or an oven

1169
01:07:06,900 --> 01:07:09,500
or a computer, or an airplane.

1170
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:09,601
.

1171
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,235
And, everything in your home, which you take for granted

1172
01:07:12,375 --> 01:07:14,275
from a doorbell, to a table

1173
01:07:14,415 --> 01:07:17,440
to a dishwasher, is technology

1174
01:07:17,580 --> 01:07:22,900
generated from the creative scientific ingenuity of human technicians.

1175
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:26,540
Not money, politics or religion.

1176
01:07:26,690 --> 01:07:30,100
These are false institutions.

1177
01:07:30,390 --> 01:07:33,290
- ...and writing your congressman is fantastic.

1178
01:07:33,630 --> 01:07:36,710
They tell you to write your congressman if you want something done.

1179
01:07:36,850 --> 01:07:40,580
The men in Washington should be at the forefront of technology.

1180
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:42,600
The forefront of human study.

1181
01:07:42,740 --> 01:07:44,450
The forefront of crime.

1182
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,250
All the factors that shape human behavior.

1183
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:49,250
You don't have to write your congressman.

1184
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:53,900
What kind of people are they that are appointed to do that job?

1185
01:07:54,100 --> 01:07:56,400
The future will have great difficulty...

1186
01:07:57,100 --> 01:08:00,520
and the question that's raised by politicians is:

1187
01:08:00,660 --> 01:08:02,900
How much will a project cost?

1188
01:08:03,100 --> 01:08:05,900
The question is not "how much will it cost".

1189
01:08:06,100 --> 01:08:08,360
Do we have the resources?

1190
01:08:08,500 --> 01:08:12,400
And we have the resources today to house everyone,

1191
01:08:12,550 --> 01:08:15,200
build hospitals all over the world,

1192
01:08:15,340 --> 01:08:17,400
build schools all over the world

1193
01:08:17,540 --> 01:08:22,760
the finest equipment in labs for teaching and doing medical research.

1194
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:27,230
So you see, we have all that, but we're in a monetary system

1195
01:08:27,370 --> 01:08:31,500
and in a monetary system there's profit.

1196
01:08:32,150 --> 01:08:35,775
-And what is the fundamental mechanism that drives the profit system

1197
01:08:35,915 --> 01:08:37,780
besides self-interest?

1198
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:41,730
What is it exactly that maintains that competitive edge at its core?

1199
01:08:41,870 --> 01:08:45,260
Is it high efficiency and sustainability?

1200
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:48,730
No. That isn't part of their design.

1201
01:08:48,888 --> 01:08:50,970
Nothing produced in our profit based society

1202
01:08:51,100 --> 01:08:53,550
is even remotely sustainable or efficient.

1203
01:08:53,700 --> 01:08:56,450
If it was, there wouldn't be a multi-million dollar a year

1204
01:08:56,594 --> 01:08:58,760
service industry for automobiles.

1205
01:08:58,900 --> 01:09:01,300
Nor would the average lifespan for most electronics

1206
01:09:01,440 --> 01:09:04,950
be less than three months before they're obsolete.

1207
01:09:05,500 --> 01:09:07,500
Is it abundance?

1208
01:09:07,620 --> 01:09:09,000
Absolutely not.

1209
01:09:09,130 --> 01:09:11,660
Abundance, as based on the laws of supply and demand

1210
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:13,850
is actually a negative thing.

1211
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:15,500
If a diamond company finds

1212
01:09:15,630 --> 01:09:19,130
ten times the usual amount of diamonds during their mining

1213
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:21,430
it means the supply of diamonds has increased

1214
01:09:21,570 --> 01:09:25,650
which means the cost and profit per diamond drops.

1215
01:09:25,850 --> 01:09:29,550
The fact is: efficiency, sustainability and abundance

1216
01:09:29,700 --> 01:09:31,805
are enemies of profit.

1217
01:09:31,945 --> 01:09:33,460
To put it into a word

1218
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:39,580
it is the mechanism of scarcity that increases profits.

1219
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:42,700
-What is scarcity?

1220
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:44,800
Based on keeping products valuable.

1221
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:48,800
Slowing up production on oil raises the price.

1222
01:09:48,950 --> 01:09:52,545
Maintaining scarcity of diamonds keeps the price high.

1223
01:09:52,685 --> 01:09:56,045
They burn diamonds at the Kimberly Diamond Mine.

1224
01:09:56,185 --> 01:09:58,790
They are made of carbon. That keeps the price up.

1225
01:09:59,013 --> 01:10:03,223
-So then, what does it mean for society when scarcity

1226
01:10:03,363 --> 01:10:06,330
either produced naturally or through manipulation

1227
01:10:06,485 --> 01:10:09,800
is a beneficial condition for industry?

1228
01:10:11,550 --> 01:10:13,870
It means that sustainability and abundance

1229
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:17,458
will never ever occur in a profit system

1230
01:10:17,574 --> 01:10:21,780
for it simply goes against the very nature of the structure.

1231
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:28,110
Therefore, it is impossible to have a world without war or poverty.

1232
01:10:28,232 --> 01:10:31,625
It is impossible to continually advance technology

1233
01:10:31,765 --> 01:10:34,962
to its most efficient and productive states.

1234
01:10:35,102 --> 01:10:37,120
And, most dramatically

1235
01:10:37,250 --> 01:10:40,285
it is impossible to expect human beings

1236
01:10:40,415 --> 01:10:45,537
to behave in truly ethical or decent ways.

1237
01:10:45,913 --> 01:10:47,928
"Human nature

1238
01:10:47,928 --> 01:10:50,928
or human behavior? "

1239
01:10:50,933 --> 01:10:53,290
-People use the word instinct

1240
01:10:53,414 --> 01:10:57,370
because they can't account for the behavior.

1241
01:10:57,500 --> 01:10:59,785
They sit back and they evaluate

1242
01:10:59,915 --> 01:11:02,635
with their lack of knowledge, you know

1243
01:11:02,775 --> 01:11:05,080
and they say things like

1244
01:11:05,220 --> 01:11:08,275
"Humans are built a certain way. Greed is a natural thing"

1245
01:11:08,415 --> 01:11:10,680
as though they'd worked for years on it.

1246
01:11:10,820 --> 01:11:13,475
And it's no more natural than wearing clothing.

1247
01:11:14,500 --> 01:11:17,290
-What we want to do is to eliminate

1248
01:11:17,420 --> 01:11:19,770
the causes of the problems.

1249
01:11:19,900 --> 01:11:22,444
Eliminate the processes

1250
01:11:22,567 --> 01:11:26,570
that produce greed and bigotry and prejudice

1251
01:11:26,700 --> 01:11:30,852
and people taking advantage of one another and elitism

1252
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:35,800
eliminating the need for prisons and welfare.

1253
01:11:35,950 --> 01:11:37,550
We have always had these problems

1254
01:11:37,650 --> 01:11:41,360
because we have always lived within scarcity and barter

1255
01:11:41,500 --> 01:11:45,300
and monetary systems that produce scarcity.

1256
01:11:45,500 --> 01:11:49,461
-If you eradicate the conditions that generate

1257
01:11:49,580 --> 01:11:53,790
what you call socially offensive behavior, it does not exist.

1258
01:11:53,899 --> 01:11:53,900
.

1259
01:11:53,915 --> 01:11:57,800
A guy says: "Well, isn't that in-born?" No it's not.

1260
01:11:57,994 --> 01:11:57,995
.

1261
01:11:58,050 --> 01:12:01,045
-There is no human nature; there's human behavior,

1262
01:12:01,185 --> 01:12:03,910
and that's always been changed throughout history.

1263
01:12:04,050 --> 01:12:09,560
You're not born with bigotry and greed and corruption and hatred.

1264
01:12:09,700 --> 01:12:12,700
You pick that up within the society.

1265
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:17,865
-War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering

1266
01:12:18,005 --> 01:12:20,497
will not change in a monetary system;

1267
01:12:20,599 --> 01:12:24,180
that is, there will be very little significant change.

1268
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:28,860
It's going to take the redesign of our culture, our values

1269
01:12:28,950 --> 01:12:28,951
.

1270
01:12:28,980 --> 01:12:32,585
and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the earth

1271
01:12:32,725 --> 01:12:37,405
not some human opinion or some politicians notions

1272
01:12:37,545 --> 01:12:39,640
of the way the world ought to be

1273
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:44,120
or some religious notion of the conduct of human affairs.

1274
01:12:45,362 --> 01:12:48,205
And that's what The Venus Project is about.

1275
01:12:50,051 --> 01:12:53,060
The society that we're about to talk about

1276
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:58,200
is a society that is free of all the old superstitions

1277
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:03,180
incarceration, prisons, police, cruelty and law.

1278
01:13:03,321 --> 01:13:05,030
All laws will disappear

1279
01:13:05,170 --> 01:13:09,282
and the professions will disappear, that are no longer valid

1280
01:13:09,423 --> 01:13:12,882
such as stockbrokers, bankers, advertising.

1281
01:13:13,012 --> 01:13:15,140
Gone! Forever!

1282
01:13:15,285 --> 01:13:18,259
Because it's no longer relevant.

1283
01:13:20,540 --> 01:13:22,910
-When we understand that it is technology

1284
01:13:23,050 --> 01:13:24,875
devised by human ingenuity

1285
01:13:24,999 --> 01:13:28,210
which frees humanity and increases our quality of life

1286
01:13:28,350 --> 01:13:31,974
we then realize that the most important focus we can have

1287
01:13:32,132 --> 01:13:36,155
is on the intelligent management of the earth's resources.

1288
01:13:36,295 --> 01:13:39,550
For it is from these natural resources we gain the materials

1289
01:13:39,690 --> 01:13:44,740
to continue our path of prosperity. Understanding this we then see

1290
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:49,025
that money fundamentally exists as a barrier to these resources

1291
01:13:49,165 --> 01:13:52,402
for virtually everything has a financial cost.

1292
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,808
And why do we need money to obtain these resources?

1293
01:13:55,948 --> 01:13:59,197
Because of real or assumed scarcity.

1294
01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:03,585
We don't usually pay for air and tap water

1295
01:14:03,725 --> 01:14:05,540
because it is in such high abundance,

1296
01:14:05,670 --> 01:14:08,200
selling it would be pointless.

1297
01:14:08,340 --> 01:14:11,210
So then, logically speaking, if resources

1298
01:14:11,350 --> 01:14:15,260
and technologies applicable to creating everything in our societies

1299
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:19,470
such as houses, cities and transportation, were in high enough

1300
01:14:19,630 --> 01:14:22,850
abundance, there would be no reason to sell anything.

1301
01:14:24,331 --> 01:14:28,523
Likewise, if automation and machinery was so technologically advanced

1302
01:14:28,663 --> 01:14:31,010
as to relieve human beings of labor,

1303
01:14:31,150 --> 01:14:33,560
there would be no reason to have a job.

1304
01:14:33,700 --> 01:14:36,003
And with these social aspects taken care of,

1305
01:14:36,143 --> 01:14:39,199
there would be no reason to have money at all.

1306
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:42,760
So the ultimate question remains:

1307
01:14:42,900 --> 01:14:45,590
Do we on Earth have enough resources

1308
01:14:45,730 --> 01:14:47,500
and technological understanding

1309
01:14:47,640 --> 01:14:50,290
to create a society of such abundance

1310
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:53,975
that everything we have now could be available without a price tag

1311
01:14:54,115 --> 01:14:56,800
and without the need for submission through employment?

1312
01:14:58,527 --> 01:15:01,097
Yes, we do.

1313
01:15:01,251 --> 01:15:05,450
We have the resources and technology to enable this at a minimum

1314
01:15:05,589 --> 01:15:05,590
.

1315
01:15:05,590 --> 01:15:09,300
along with the ability to raise the standards of living so high

1316
01:15:09,438 --> 01:15:13,150
that people in the future will look back at our civilization now

1317
01:15:13,300 --> 01:15:18,030
and gawk at how primitive and immature our society was.

1318
01:15:18,971 --> 01:15:23,080
-What The Venus Project proposes is an entirely different system

1319
01:15:23,217 --> 01:15:23,218
.

1320
01:15:23,218 --> 01:15:26,800
that's updated to present day knowledge.

1321
01:15:26,989 --> 01:15:29,400
-We've never given scientists the problem of

1322
01:15:29,500 --> 01:15:31,300
how do you design a society which would

1323
01:15:31,500 --> 01:15:34,250
eliminate boring and monotonous jobs

1324
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:38,400
that would eliminate accidents in transportation

1325
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,660
that would enable people to have a high standard of living

1326
01:15:41,803 --> 01:15:44,840
that would eliminate poisons in our food

1327
01:15:44,973 --> 01:15:48,700
give us other sources of energy that are clean and efficient.

1328
01:15:48,810 --> 01:15:50,350
We can do that out there.

1329
01:15:51,980 --> 01:15:54,760
[A resource-based economy.]

1330
01:15:56,018 --> 01:15:57,620
The major difference between a

1331
01:15:57,756 --> 01:16:00,700
Resource-Based Economy (RBE) and a monetary system

1332
01:16:00,810 --> 01:16:05,650
is that a RBE is really concerned with people and their well-being,

1333
01:16:05,793 --> 01:16:05,794
.

1334
01:16:05,794 --> 01:16:09,400
where the monetary system has become so distorted that the

1335
01:16:09,522 --> 01:16:13,820
concerns of the people are really secondary, if they're there at all.

1336
01:16:13,969 --> 01:16:18,160
The products that are turned out are for how much money you can get.

1337
01:16:18,300 --> 01:16:20,430
If there is a problem in society and

1338
01:16:20,570 --> 01:16:24,840
you can't earn money from solving that problem, then it won't be done.

1339
01:16:24,980 --> 01:16:27,220
The Resource-Based Economy is really

1340
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:29,240
not close to anything that's been tried.

1341
01:16:29,384 --> 01:16:32,420
And with all our technology today we can create abundance.

1342
01:16:32,562 --> 01:16:35,350
It could be used to improve everyone's lifestyle

1343
01:16:35,490 --> 01:16:38,640
abundance all over the world if we use our technology wisely

1344
01:16:38,780 --> 01:16:40,740
and maintain the environment.

1345
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:44,820
-It's a very different system and it's very hard to talk about

1346
01:16:44,966 --> 01:16:44,967
.

1347
01:16:44,967 --> 01:16:48,030
because the public is not that well enough informed

1348
01:16:48,170 --> 01:16:51,330
as to the state of technology.

1349
01:16:51,530 --> 01:16:55,200
[Energy]

1350
01:16:55,978 --> 01:16:59,440
At present, we don't have to burn fossil fuels.

1351
01:16:59,581 --> 01:17:03,710
We don't have to use anything that would contaminate the environment.

1352
01:17:03,852 --> 01:17:06,989
There are many sources of energy available.

1353
01:17:07,990 --> 01:17:11,080
-Alternative energy solutions pushed by the establishment

1354
01:17:11,220 --> 01:17:14,300
such as hydrogen, biomass and even nuclear

1355
01:17:14,436 --> 01:17:17,540
are highly insufficient, dangerous and exist only

1356
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:20,969
to perpetuate the profit-structure that industry has created.

1357
01:17:21,370 --> 01:17:24,850
When we look beyond the propaganda and self-serving solutions

1358
01:17:24,973 --> 01:17:27,140
put forth by the energy companies

1359
01:17:27,275 --> 01:17:29,700
we find a seemingly endless stream

1360
01:17:29,845 --> 01:17:34,200
of clean, abundant and renewable energy for generating power.

1361
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:37,150
Solar and wind energy are well known to the public

1362
01:17:37,293 --> 01:17:40,900
but the true potential of these mediums remains unexpressed.

1363
01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:43,500
Solar energy, derived from the sun

1364
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:47,320
has such abundance that one hour of light at high noon

1365
01:17:47,462 --> 01:17:51,820
contains more energy than what the entire world consumes in a year.

1366
01:17:51,967 --> 01:17:55,830
If we could capture 1/100th of a percent of this energy

1367
01:17:55,971 --> 01:17:59,840
the world would never have to use oil, gas or anything else.

1368
01:17:59,990 --> 01:18:02,300
The question then, is not availability

1369
01:18:02,411 --> 01:18:04,600
but the technology to harness it.

1370
01:18:04,746 --> 01:18:06,840
And there are many advanced mediums today

1371
01:18:06,982 --> 01:18:09,080
which could accomplish just that

1372
01:18:09,220 --> 01:18:13,130
if they were not hindered by the need to compete for market share

1373
01:18:13,270 --> 01:18:16,300
with the established energy power structures.

1374
01:18:16,992 --> 01:18:18,700
Then there's wind energy.

1375
01:18:18,827 --> 01:18:21,396
Wind energy has long been denounced as weak

1376
01:18:21,430 --> 01:18:24,966
and due to being location driven impractical.

1377
01:18:25,100 --> 01:18:26,820
This is simply not true.

1378
01:18:26,968 --> 01:18:29,971
The US Department of Energy admitted in 2007

1379
01:18:30,100 --> 01:18:34,976
that if wind was fully harvested in just three of America's 50 states

1380
01:18:35,100 --> 01:18:37,979
it could power the entire nation.

1381
01:18:38,980 --> 01:18:41,100
And then there are the rather unknown mediums

1382
01:18:41,226 --> 01:18:43,670
of tidal and wave power.

1383
01:18:43,819 --> 01:18:47,000
Tidal power is derived from tidal shifts in the ocean.

1384
01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:51,159
Installing turbines which capture this movement generates energy.

1385
01:18:51,300 --> 01:18:55,000
In the United Kingdom, 42 sites are currently noted as available

1386
01:18:55,130 --> 01:18:59,020
forecasting that 34% of all the UK's energy

1387
01:18:59,161 --> 01:19:02,635
could come from tidal power alone.

1388
01:19:03,150 --> 01:19:05,310
Wave power, which extracts energy

1389
01:19:05,456 --> 01:19:07,330
from the surface motions of the ocean

1390
01:19:07,476 --> 01:19:10,020
is estimated to have a global potential

1391
01:19:10,158 --> 01:19:13,310
of up to 80,000 terawatt-hours a year.

1392
01:19:13,450 --> 01:19:17,430
This means 50% of the entire planet's energy usage

1393
01:19:17,570 --> 01:19:20,398
could be produced from this medium alone.

1394
01:19:21,500 --> 01:19:23,850
Now, it is important to point out that

1395
01:19:23,951 --> 01:19:26,800
tidal, wave, solar and wind power

1396
01:19:26,930 --> 01:19:30,320
requires virtually no preliminary energy to harness

1397
01:19:30,465 --> 01:19:35,830
unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass, hydrogen and all the others.

1398
01:19:35,971 --> 01:19:38,180
In combination, these four mediums alone

1399
01:19:38,318 --> 01:19:40,670
if efficiently harnessed through technology

1400
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,979
could power the world forever.

1401
01:19:44,100 --> 01:19:46,900
That being said, there happens to be another form

1402
01:19:47,043 --> 01:19:50,700
of clean renewable energy, which trumps them all.

1403
01:19:50,850 --> 01:19:53,200
Geothermal power.

1404
01:19:53,421 --> 01:19:56,810
Geothermal energy utilizes what is called "heat mining"

1405
01:19:56,950 --> 01:19:59,300
which, through a simple process using water

1406
01:19:59,420 --> 01:20:02,400
is able to generate massive amounts of clean energy.

1407
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:06,400
In 2006, an MIT report on geothermal energy

1408
01:20:06,530 --> 01:20:11,440
found that 13,000 ZJ of power are currently available in the earth

1409
01:20:11,570 --> 01:20:15,440
with the possibility of 2,000 ZJ being easily tappable

1410
01:20:15,570 --> 01:20:17,790
with improved technology.

1411
01:20:17,900 --> 01:20:20,860
The total energy consumption of all the countries on the planet

1412
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:23,560
is about half of a ZJ a year.

1413
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:27,020
This means about 4000 years of planetary power

1414
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:30,100
could be harnessed in this medium alone.

1415
01:20:30,480 --> 01:20:32,850
And when we understand that the earth's heat generation

1416
01:20:32,993 --> 01:20:36,500
is constantly renewed, this energy is really limitless.

1417
01:20:36,624 --> 01:20:39,236
It could be used forever.

1418
01:20:39,780 --> 01:20:41,897
These energy sources are only a few

1419
01:20:42,031 --> 01:20:44,360
of the clean renewable mediums available

1420
01:20:44,500 --> 01:20:47,500
and as time goes on, we will find more.

1421
01:20:47,620 --> 01:20:51,540
The grand realization is that we have total energy abundance

1422
01:20:51,670 --> 01:20:53,300
without the need for pollution

1423
01:20:53,430 --> 01:20:58,800
traditional conservation or, in fact, a price tag.

1424
01:20:59,770 --> 01:21:02,480
And what about transportation?

1425
01:21:02,620 --> 01:21:05,500
The prevailing means of transportation in our societies

1426
01:21:05,620 --> 01:21:07,595
is by automobile and aircraft

1427
01:21:07,722 --> 01:21:11,200
both of which predominantly need fossil fuels to run.

1428
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:14,250
In the case of the automobile, the battery technology

1429
01:21:14,350 --> 01:21:16,000
needed to power an electric car

1430
01:21:16,100 --> 01:21:17,900
that can go over a hundred miles an hour

1431
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:20,300
for over two hundred miles on one charge

1432
01:21:20,430 --> 01:21:23,350
exists and has existed for many years.

1433
01:21:23,480 --> 01:21:26,500
However, due to battery patents, controlled by the oil industry

1434
01:21:26,620 --> 01:21:29,520
which limits their availability to maintain market share

1435
01:21:29,650 --> 01:21:32,440
coupled with political pressure from the energy industry

1436
01:21:32,570 --> 01:21:37,000
the accessibility and affordability of this technology is limited.

1437
01:21:37,170 --> 01:21:38,676
There is absolutely no reason,

1438
01:21:38,792 --> 01:21:41,170
other than pure corrupt profit interests

1439
01:21:41,300 --> 01:21:43,320
that every single vehicle in the world

1440
01:21:43,450 --> 01:21:48,300
cannot be electric and utterly clean, with zero need for gasoline.

1441
01:21:48,740 --> 01:21:51,200
As far as airplanes, it is time we realize

1442
01:21:51,300 --> 01:21:54,360
that this means of travel is inefficient, cumbersome

1443
01:21:54,490 --> 01:21:57,750
slow, and causes far too much pollution.

1444
01:21:57,890 --> 01:22:00,000
This is a maglev train.

1445
01:22:00,130 --> 01:22:02,800
It uses magnets for propulsion.

1446
01:22:02,930 --> 01:22:05,500
It is fully suspended by a magnetic field

1447
01:22:05,620 --> 01:22:10,120
and requires less than 2% of the energy used for plane travel.

1448
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:13,300
The train has no wheels, so nothing can wear out.

1449
01:22:13,430 --> 01:22:17,000
The current maximum speed of versions of this technology

1450
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:21,400
as used in Japan, is three hundred and sixty one miles per hour.

1451
01:22:21,550 --> 01:22:25,500
However this version of the technology is very dated.

1452
01:22:25,890 --> 01:22:27,840
An organization called ET3

1453
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:30,120
which has connections with The Venus Project

1454
01:22:30,260 --> 01:22:33,000
has established a tube-based maglev

1455
01:22:33,130 --> 01:22:36,240
that can travel up to 4000 miles per hour

1456
01:22:36,390 --> 01:22:38,800
in a motionless, frictionless tube

1457
01:22:38,930 --> 01:22:41,900
which can go over land or under water.

1458
01:22:42,190 --> 01:22:45,900
Imagine going from LA to New York for an extended lunch break

1459
01:22:46,030 --> 01:22:50,410
or from Washington D.C. to Beijing, China, in two hours.

1460
01:22:50,550 --> 01:22:54,570
This is the future of continental and intercontinental travel.

1461
01:22:54,700 --> 01:22:58,511
Fast, clean, with only a fraction of the energy usage

1462
01:22:58,649 --> 01:23:01,670
we use today for the same means.

1463
01:23:01,810 --> 01:23:04,000
In fact, between maglev technology

1464
01:23:04,130 --> 01:23:07,760
advanced battery storage and geothermal energy

1465
01:23:07,890 --> 01:23:11,280
there will be no reason to ever burn fossil fuels again.

1466
01:23:11,420 --> 01:23:12,920
And we can do this now

1467
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:17,000
if we were not held back by the paralyzing profit structure.

1468
01:23:17,700 --> 01:23:19,800
[work]

1469
01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:24,320
-Now America is inclined toward fascism.

1470
01:23:24,460 --> 01:23:28,920
It has a propensity by its dominant philosophy and religion

1471
01:23:29,050 --> 01:23:31,770
to uphold the fascist point of view.

1472
01:23:31,900 --> 01:23:36,450
American industry is essentially a fascist institution.

1473
01:23:36,580 --> 01:23:39,860
If you don't understand that, the minute you punch that time clock

1474
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:41,700
you walk into a dictatorship.

1475
01:23:41,850 --> 01:23:46,640
-We're given notions about the respectability of work.

1476
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:51,080
And I really look at it as being paid slavery.

1477
01:23:51,210 --> 01:23:53,950
-You're brought up to believe that you shall earn your living

1478
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:58,250
by the sweat of your brow. That holds people back.

1479
01:23:58,390 --> 01:24:01,170
Freeing people from drudgery

1480
01:24:01,300 --> 01:24:03,860
repetitive jobs which make them ignorant.

1481
01:24:03,980 --> 01:24:05,970
You rob them.

1482
01:24:06,100 --> 01:24:09,800
In our society, that is a resource- based economy

1483
01:24:09,913 --> 01:24:12,450
machines free people.

1484
01:24:12,570 --> 01:24:14,540
You see, we can't imagine that

1485
01:24:14,660 --> 01:24:17,760
because we've never known that kind of world.

1486
01:24:17,900 --> 01:24:20,200
[automation]

1487
01:24:21,450 --> 01:24:23,280
-If we look back at history

1488
01:24:23,410 --> 01:24:26,600
we see a very clear pattern of machine automation

1489
01:24:26,730 --> 01:24:29,410
slowly replacing human labor.

1490
01:24:29,550 --> 01:24:31,940
From the disappearance of the elevator man

1491
01:24:32,060 --> 01:24:35,620
to the near full automation of an automobile production plant

1492
01:24:35,740 --> 01:24:38,320
the fact is, as technology grows

1493
01:24:38,460 --> 01:24:42,800
the need for humans in the work force will continually be diminished.

1494
01:24:42,929 --> 01:24:42,930
.

1495
01:24:42,930 --> 01:24:45,170
This creates a serious clash

1496
01:24:45,300 --> 01:24:50,350
which proves the falseness of the monetary-based labor system

1497
01:24:50,480 --> 01:24:53,720
for human employment is in direct competition

1498
01:24:53,850 --> 01:24:56,360
with technological development.

1499
01:24:56,500 --> 01:25:00,604
Therefore, given the fundamental priority of profit by industry

1500
01:25:00,743 --> 01:25:03,505
people through time will be continually laid off

1501
01:25:03,647 --> 01:25:05,900
and replaced by machines.

1502
01:25:06,038 --> 01:25:07,838
-When industry takes on a machine

1503
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:11,051
instead of shortening the work day, they downsize.

1504
01:25:11,201 --> 01:25:15,200
You lose your job so you have a right to fear machines.

1505
01:25:15,690 --> 01:25:18,940
-In a high technology, resource-based economy

1506
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:23,800
it is conservative to say that about 90% of all current occupations

1507
01:25:23,941 --> 01:25:25,952
could be phased out by machines.

1508
01:25:26,191 --> 01:25:29,639
Freeing humans to live their life without servitude.

1509
01:25:29,909 --> 01:25:32,938
For this is the point of technology itself.

1510
01:25:33,250 --> 01:25:35,577
And through time, with nanotechnology

1511
01:25:35,700 --> 01:25:38,146
and other highly advanced forms of science

1512
01:25:38,286 --> 01:25:43,004
it is not far fetched to see how even complex medical procedures

1513
01:25:43,144 --> 01:25:45,773
could be performed by machines as well.

1514
01:25:45,913 --> 01:25:49,410
And based on the pattern, with much higher success rates

1515
01:25:49,550 --> 01:25:51,213
than humans get today.

1516
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:55,270
The path is clear but our monetary-based structure

1517
01:25:55,410 --> 01:25:59,367
which requires labor for income, blocks this progress

1518
01:25:59,507 --> 01:26:02,814
for humans need jobs in order to survive.

1519
01:26:03,300 --> 01:26:05,636
The bottom line is that this system must go

1520
01:26:05,776 --> 01:26:07,660
or we will never be free

1521
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:11,187
and technology will be constantly paralyzed.

1522
01:26:11,850 --> 01:26:14,240
-We have machines that clean out sewers

1523
01:26:14,370 --> 01:26:17,118
it frees a human being from doing that.

1524
01:26:17,259 --> 01:26:22,563
So look at machines as extensions of human performance.

1525
01:26:23,447 --> 01:26:26,191
-Furthermore, many occupations today

1526
01:26:26,325 --> 01:26:30,860
will have simply no basis to exist in a resource-based economy

1527
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:34,283
such as anything associated with the management of money

1528
01:26:34,423 --> 01:26:37,729
advertising, along with the legal system itself.

1529
01:26:38,140 --> 01:26:41,386
For, without money, a great majority of the crimes

1530
01:26:41,526 --> 01:26:44,131
that are committed today would never occur.

1531
01:26:44,271 --> 01:26:46,491
Virtually all forms of crime are a consequence

1532
01:26:46,631 --> 01:26:50,240
of the monetary system, either directly or by neurosis

1533
01:26:50,384 --> 01:26:53,999
inflicted through financial deprivation.

1534
01:26:54,440 --> 01:26:58,649
Therefore, laws themselves could eventually become extinct.

1535
01:26:58,789 --> 01:27:01,860
-Instead of putting up a sign "Drive carefully

1536
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:05,040
slippery when wet," put abrasive in the highway

1537
01:27:05,180 --> 01:27:07,040
so it is not slippery when wet.

1538
01:27:07,180 --> 01:27:09,340
And if a person gets in car, they're drunk

1539
01:27:09,480 --> 01:27:11,367
and the car oscillates a great deal

1540
01:27:11,507 --> 01:27:14,240
there's a little pendulum that swings up and back

1541
01:27:14,380 --> 01:27:16,680
and that will pull the car over to the side.

1542
01:27:16,820 --> 01:27:18,741
Not a law... solution.

1543
01:27:19,212 --> 01:27:19,213
.

1544
01:27:19,230 --> 01:27:23,298
Put sonar and radar on automobiles so they can't hit one another.

1545
01:27:23,438 --> 01:27:25,753
Man-made laws are attempts

1546
01:27:25,893 --> 01:27:27,957
to deal with occurring problems

1547
01:27:28,197 --> 01:27:30,508
and not knowing how to solve them

1548
01:27:30,648 --> 01:27:32,254
they make a law.

1549
01:27:32,900 --> 01:27:35,010
-In the United States, the most privatized

1550
01:27:35,150 --> 01:27:38,999
capitalist country on the planet, it should come as no surprise

1551
01:27:39,300 --> 01:27:42,556
that it also has the largest prison population in the world

1552
01:27:43,151 --> 01:27:45,054
growing every year.

1553
01:27:45,194 --> 01:27:48,193
Statistically, most of these people are uneducated

1554
01:27:48,333 --> 01:27:51,300
and come from poor, deprived societies.

1555
01:27:51,630 --> 01:27:56,100
And, contrary to propaganda, it is this environmental conditioning

1556
01:27:56,412 --> 01:27:59,859
which lures them into criminal and violent behavior.

1557
01:27:59,999 --> 01:28:02,168
However society looks the other way

1558
01:28:02,308 --> 01:28:04,001
in regard to this point.

1559
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:07,837
The legal and prison systems are just more examples

1560
01:28:08,113 --> 01:28:10,659
of how our society avoids examining

1561
01:28:10,799 --> 01:28:13,103
the root causes of behaviour.

1562
01:28:13,203 --> 01:28:16,560
Billions are spent each year on prisons and police

1563
01:28:16,637 --> 01:28:16,638
.

1564
01:28:16,700 --> 01:28:20,640
while only a fraction is spent on programs for poverty

1565
01:28:20,782 --> 01:28:23,000
which is one of the most fundamental variables

1566
01:28:23,111 --> 01:28:25,672
responsible for crime to begin with.

1567
01:28:25,813 --> 01:28:28,289
And, as long as we have an economic system

1568
01:28:28,433 --> 01:28:30,850
which prefers and in fact creates

1569
01:28:30,999 --> 01:28:35,600
scarcity and deprivation, crime will never go away.

1570
01:28:36,600 --> 01:28:39,600
[incentive]

1571
01:28:40,700 --> 01:28:45,010
-If people have access to the necessities of life

1572
01:28:45,150 --> 01:28:49,600
without servitude, debt, barter, trade

1573
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:52,733
they behave very differently.

1574
01:28:52,861 --> 01:28:57,200
You want all these things available without a price tag.

1575
01:28:57,340 --> 01:29:02,360
Now then, "you gotta have a price tag, what will motivate people?

1576
01:29:02,500 --> 01:29:06,770
A man gets everything he wants, he'd just lay around in the sun."

1577
01:29:06,910 --> 01:29:09,160
This is the myth they perpetuate.

1578
01:29:09,300 --> 01:29:12,210
People in our culture are trained to believe

1579
01:29:12,350 --> 01:29:15,460
that the monetary system produces incentive.

1580
01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:19,140
If they have access to things, why should they want to do anything?

1581
01:29:19,300 --> 01:29:20,718
They would lose their incentive.

1582
01:29:20,838 --> 01:29:24,220
That's what you're taught to support the monetary system.

1583
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:27,570
-When you take money out of the scenario,

1584
01:29:27,716 --> 01:29:31,760
there would be different incentives, very different incentives.

1585
01:29:31,901 --> 01:29:34,824
-When people have access to the necessities of life,

1586
01:29:35,050 --> 01:29:36,550
their incentives change.

1587
01:29:36,650 --> 01:29:39,040
What about the moon and the stars?

1588
01:29:39,210 --> 01:29:41,200
New incentives arise.

1589
01:29:41,329 --> 01:29:43,471
If you make a painting that you enjoy

1590
01:29:43,486 --> 01:29:47,389
you will enjoy giving it to other people, not selling it.

1591
01:29:48,500 --> 01:29:50,985
[education]

1592
01:29:52,338 --> 01:29:56,200
-I think most of the education that I've seen today is essentially

1593
01:29:56,350 --> 01:29:58,620
producing a person for a job

1594
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:01,370
It's very specialized. They're not generalists.

1595
01:30:01,500 --> 01:30:04,530
People don't know a lot about a lot of different subjects.

1596
01:30:04,650 --> 01:30:07,400
I don't think you could get people to go to war

1597
01:30:07,530 --> 01:30:10,370
if they knew a lot about a lot of things.

1598
01:30:10,500 --> 01:30:13,420
I think education is mostly rote

1599
01:30:13,560 --> 01:30:16,430
and they're not taught how to solve problems.

1600
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:21,120
They're not given the tools, emotionally or within their own field

1601
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:23,750
of how to do critical thinking.

1602
01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:27,000
In a resource-based economy, the education would be very different.

1603
01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:31,170
-Our society's major concern is mental development

1604
01:30:31,300 --> 01:30:35,880
and to motivate each person to their highest potential.

1605
01:30:35,999 --> 01:30:36,000
.

1606
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:40,230
Because our philosophy is; the smarter people are, the richer the world

1607
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:42,970
because everybody becomes a contributor.

1608
01:30:43,290 --> 01:30:47,280
The smarter your kids are, the better my life will be.

1609
01:30:47,409 --> 01:30:47,410
.

1610
01:30:47,410 --> 01:30:49,350
Because they'll be contributing more constructively

1611
01:30:49,480 --> 01:30:52,120
to the environment and to my life.

1612
01:30:52,230 --> 01:30:56,750
Because everything that we devise within a resource based economy

1613
01:30:56,870 --> 01:30:59,999
would be applied to society, there would be nothing to hold it back.

1614
01:30:59,999 --> 01:31:00,000
.

1615
01:31:00,988 --> 01:31:04,000
[civilization]

1616
01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:08,620
Patriotism, weapons, armies, navies

1617
01:31:08,750 --> 01:31:13,060
all that is a sign that we're not civilized yet.

1618
01:31:13,199 --> 01:31:13,200
.

1619
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:14,860
Kids will ask their parents:

1620
01:31:14,980 --> 01:31:18,930
"Didn't you see the necessity of the machines?

1621
01:31:19,050 --> 01:31:21,930
Dad, couldn't you see that war was inevitable

1622
01:31:22,050 --> 01:31:25,240
when you produce scarcity? Isn't it obvious?

1623
01:31:25,370 --> 01:31:28,400
Of course, the kid will understand that you were pinheads,

1624
01:31:28,529 --> 01:31:28,530
.

1625
01:31:28,530 --> 01:31:32,400
raised merely to serve the established institutions.

1626
01:31:32,740 --> 01:31:35,610
We're such an abominable, sick society

1627
01:31:35,740 --> 01:31:37,680
that we won't make the history book.

1628
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:41,830
They'll just say that large nations took land from smaller nations

1629
01:31:41,950 --> 01:31:43,500
used force and violence.

1630
01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:47,100
You'll get history talked about as corrupt behavior

1631
01:31:47,230 --> 01:31:50,520
all the way along until the beginning of the civilized world.

1632
01:31:50,659 --> 01:31:50,660
.

1633
01:31:50,660 --> 01:31:53,520
That's when all the nations work together.

1634
01:31:53,660 --> 01:31:57,400
World unification, working toward common good

1635
01:31:57,530 --> 01:31:59,520
for all human beings

1636
01:31:59,645 --> 01:32:04,000
and without anyone being subservient to anyone else.

1637
01:32:04,150 --> 01:32:08,760
Without social stratification, whether it be technical elitism

1638
01:32:08,889 --> 01:32:08,890
.

1639
01:32:08,890 --> 01:32:13,570
or any other kind of elitism, eradicated from the face of the Earth.

1640
01:32:13,719 --> 01:32:13,720
.

1641
01:32:13,720 --> 01:32:18,010
The "state" does nothing because there is no "state".

1642
01:32:18,130 --> 01:32:21,500
Because there is no state...

1643
01:32:22,600 --> 01:32:26,600
The system I advocate, a resource based global economy

1644
01:32:26,730 --> 01:32:30,410
is not perfect, it's just a lot better than what we have.

1645
01:32:30,549 --> 01:32:30,550
.

1646
01:32:30,550 --> 01:32:33,990
We can never achieve perfection.

1647
01:32:41,650 --> 01:32:47,370
"My country is the world... and my religion is to do good."

1648
01:32:47,499 --> 01:32:47,500
.

1649
01:32:47,500 --> 01:32:51,000
- Thomas Paine - 1737-1809

1650
01:32:51,230 --> 01:32:53,160
-The social values of our society

1651
01:32:53,300 --> 01:32:56,350
which has manifested in perpetual warfare, corruption

1652
01:32:56,489 --> 01:32:56,490
.

1653
01:32:56,490 --> 01:33:01,220
oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions

1654
01:33:01,348 --> 01:33:01,349
.

1655
01:33:01,349 --> 01:33:01,350
.

1656
01:33:01,350 --> 01:33:03,970
environmental destruction, and a despotic

1657
01:33:04,090 --> 01:33:08,630
socially indifferent, profit oriented ruling class

1658
01:33:08,760 --> 01:33:11,810
is fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance

1659
01:33:11,950 --> 01:33:16,560
of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality.

1660
01:33:16,700 --> 01:33:21,200
The emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law.

1661
01:33:21,930 --> 01:33:25,410
The emergent nature of reality is that all systems

1662
01:33:25,550 --> 01:33:29,070
whether it is knowledge, society, technology

1663
01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:32,060
philosophy or any other creation

1664
01:33:32,190 --> 01:33:37,020
will, when uninhibited, undergo fluid perpetual change.

1665
01:33:37,159 --> 01:33:37,160
.

1666
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:39,150
What we consider commonplace today

1667
01:33:39,270 --> 01:33:42,510
such as modern communication and transportation

1668
01:33:42,640 --> 01:33:46,080
would have been unimaginable in ancient times.

1669
01:33:46,220 --> 01:33:49,050
Likewise, the future will contain technologies

1670
01:33:49,170 --> 01:33:51,620
realizations and social structures

1671
01:33:51,740 --> 01:33:54,850
that we cannot even fathom in the present.

1672
01:33:54,970 --> 01:33:57,710
We have gone from alchemy to chemistry

1673
01:33:57,830 --> 01:34:01,020
from a geocentric universe to a heliocentric

1674
01:34:01,140 --> 01:34:04,200
from believing that demons were the cause of illness

1675
01:34:04,330 --> 01:34:06,300
to modern medicine.

1676
01:34:06,420 --> 01:34:09,000
This development shows no sign of ending

1677
01:34:09,130 --> 01:34:12,710
and it is this awareness that aligns us and leads us

1678
01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:16,970
on a continuous path to growth and progress.

1679
01:34:17,099 --> 01:34:17,100
.

1680
01:34:17,100 --> 01:34:20,260
Static, empirical knowledge does not exist

1681
01:34:20,390 --> 01:34:24,220
rather it is the insight of the emergence of all systems

1682
01:34:24,350 --> 01:34:26,700
we must recognize.

1683
01:34:26,820 --> 01:34:30,660
This means we must be open to new information at all times

1684
01:34:30,790 --> 01:34:33,380
even if it threatens our current belief system

1685
01:34:33,500 --> 01:34:36,000
and hence, identities.

1686
01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:39,720
Sadly, society today has failed to recognize this

1687
01:34:39,850 --> 01:34:43,320
and the established institutions continue to paralyze growth

1688
01:34:43,460 --> 01:34:46,860
by preserving outdated social structures.

1689
01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:50,880
Simultaneously, the population suffers from a fear of change.

1690
01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:54,180
For their conditioning assumes a static identity

1691
01:34:54,300 --> 01:34:56,130
and challenging one's belief system

1692
01:34:56,260 --> 01:34:59,740
usually results in insult and apprehension.

1693
01:34:59,860 --> 01:35:05,310
For being wrong is erroneously associated with failure.

1694
01:35:05,450 --> 01:35:09,070
When in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated.

1695
01:35:09,190 --> 01:35:12,880
For it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding,

1696
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:14,975
furthering awareness.

1697
01:35:15,309 --> 01:35:19,700
The fact is, there is no such thing as a smart human being

1698
01:35:19,850 --> 01:35:21,700
for it is merely a matter of time

1699
01:35:21,820 --> 01:35:25,986
before their ideas are updated, changed or eradicated.

1700
01:35:26,687 --> 01:35:30,324
And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system,

1701
01:35:30,460 --> 01:35:34,495
sheltering it from new, possibly transforming information

1702
01:35:34,495 --> 01:35:38,999
is nothing less than a form of intellectual materialism.

1703
01:35:39,834 --> 01:35:42,840
The monetary system perpetuates this materialism

1704
01:35:42,970 --> 01:35:45,540
not only by its self-preserving structures

1705
01:35:45,673 --> 01:35:48,275
but also through the countless number of people

1706
01:35:48,380 --> 01:35:50,250
who have been conditioned into blindly

1707
01:35:50,380 --> 01:35:52,640
and thoughtlessly upholding these structures

1708
01:35:52,780 --> 01:35:57,840
therefore becoming self-appointed guardians of the status quo.

1709
01:35:57,985 --> 01:36:01,850
Sheep which no longer need a sheep-dog to control them.

1710
01:36:01,989 --> 01:36:03,910
For they control each other

1711
01:36:04,049 --> 01:36:07,750
by ostracizing those who step out of the norm.

1712
01:36:07,995 --> 01:36:11,500
This tendency to resist change and uphold existing institutions

1713
01:36:11,631 --> 01:36:11,632
.

1714
01:36:11,632 --> 01:36:15,700
for the sake of identity, comfort, power and profit

1715
01:36:15,700 --> 01:36:15,701
.

1716
01:36:15,830 --> 01:36:17,972
is completely unsustainable

1717
01:36:18,100 --> 01:36:20,508
and will only produce further imbalance

1718
01:36:20,508 --> 01:36:23,830
fragmentation, distortion, and invariably

1719
01:36:23,976 --> 01:36:23,977
.

1720
01:36:23,977 --> 01:36:23,978
.

1721
01:36:23,978 --> 01:36:25,980
destruction.

1722
01:36:27,515 --> 01:36:29,984
It's time to change.

1723
01:36:30,251 --> 01:36:31,950
From hunters and gatherers

1724
01:36:32,100 --> 01:36:33,988
to the agricultural revolution

1725
01:36:34,100 --> 01:36:35,850
to the industrial revolution

1726
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:37,424
the pattern is clear.

1727
01:36:37,570 --> 01:36:39,994
It is time for a new social system

1728
01:36:39,994 --> 01:36:43,470
which reflects the understandings we have today.

1729
01:36:44,170 --> 01:36:46,960
The monetary system is a product of a period of time

1730
01:36:47,099 --> 01:36:47,100
.

1731
01:36:47,100 --> 01:36:49,350
where scarcity was a reality.

1732
01:36:49,550 --> 01:36:54,140
Now, with the age of technology, it is no longer relevant to society.

1733
01:36:54,289 --> 01:36:54,290
.

1734
01:36:54,290 --> 01:36:58,120
Gone with the aberrant behavior it manifests.

1735
01:36:58,979 --> 01:37:02,900
Likewise, dominant world views, such as theistic religion

1736
01:37:03,050 --> 01:37:06,670
operate with the same social irrelevancy.

1737
01:37:06,809 --> 01:37:06,810
.

1738
01:37:06,810 --> 01:37:11,840
Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and all of the others

1739
01:37:11,980 --> 01:37:15,750
exist as barriers to personal and social growth.

1740
01:37:15,900 --> 01:37:19,820
For each group perpetuates a closed world view.

1741
01:37:19,967 --> 01:37:22,840
And this finite understanding that they acknowledge

1742
01:37:22,970 --> 01:37:27,440
is simply not possible in an emergent universe.

1743
01:37:28,940 --> 01:37:31,400
Yet, religion has succeeded in

1744
01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:33,840
shutting down the awareness of this emergence

1745
01:37:33,981 --> 01:37:38,820
by instilling the psychological distortion of faith upon its followers.

1746
01:37:38,959 --> 01:37:38,960
.

1747
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:41,680
Where logic and new information is rejected

1748
01:37:41,820 --> 01:37:44,992
in favor of traditionalized outdated beliefs.

1749
01:37:46,050 --> 01:37:48,100
-The concept of God

1750
01:37:48,250 --> 01:37:52,200
is really a method of accounting for the nature of things.

1751
01:37:52,400 --> 01:37:55,200
In the early days people didn't know enough

1752
01:37:55,350 --> 01:37:56,900
about how things formed,

1753
01:37:56,930 --> 01:37:58,450
how nature worked.

1754
01:37:58,555 --> 01:38:01,600
So they invented their own little stories

1755
01:38:01,750 --> 01:38:05,980
and they made god in their own image.

1756
01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:08,200
A guy that gets angry

1757
01:38:08,500 --> 01:38:12,840
when people don't behave right, he creates floods and earthquakes

1758
01:38:12,986 --> 01:38:12,987
.

1759
01:38:13,150 --> 01:38:15,990
and they say it's an act of God.

1760
01:38:16,950 --> 01:38:19,350
-A cursory glance at the suppressed history of religion

1761
01:38:19,493 --> 01:38:22,500
reveals that even the foundational myths themselves

1762
01:38:22,620 --> 01:38:27,190
are emergent culminations developed through influence over time.

1763
01:38:27,340 --> 01:38:30,371
For example, a cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith

1764
01:38:30,500 --> 01:38:32,820
is the death and resurrection of Christ.

1765
01:38:32,973 --> 01:38:36,550
This notion is so important that the Bible itself states

1766
01:38:36,877 --> 01:38:38,800
'And if Christ be not risen

1767
01:38:38,929 --> 01:38:44,480
then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain'.

1768
01:38:44,618 --> 01:38:47,850
Yet it is very difficult to take this account literally

1769
01:38:47,988 --> 01:38:49,900
for not only is there no primary source

1770
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:53,480
denoting this supernatural event in secular history

1771
01:38:53,627 --> 01:38:56,860
awareness of the enormous number of pre-Christian saviors

1772
01:38:56,997 --> 01:38:59,530
who also died and were resurrected

1773
01:38:59,667 --> 01:39:04,750
immediately puts this story in mythological territory by association.

1774
01:39:04,972 --> 01:39:07,300
Early church figures, such as Tertullian

1775
01:39:07,449 --> 01:39:07,450
.

1776
01:39:07,450 --> 01:39:10,377
went to great lengths to break these associations

1777
01:39:10,500 --> 01:39:14,860
even claiming that the devil caused the similarities to occur.

1778
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:16,540
Stating in the second century:

1779
01:39:16,684 --> 01:39:19,350
"The devil, whose business is to pervert the truth

1780
01:39:19,486 --> 01:39:22,850
mimics the exact circumstance of the Divine Sacraments.

1781
01:39:22,990 --> 01:39:26,850
He baptizes his believers and promises forgiveness of sins

1782
01:39:26,994 --> 01:39:29,100
he celebrates the oblation of bread

1783
01:39:29,241 --> 01:39:31,840
and brings in the symbol of the resurrection.

1784
01:39:31,990 --> 01:39:35,202
Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil

1785
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:39,190
who copied certain things of those that be Divine."

1786
01:39:39,974 --> 01:39:41,775
What is truly sad however

1787
01:39:41,900 --> 01:39:45,400
is that when we cease the idea that the stories from Christianity

1788
01:39:45,540 --> 01:39:47,982
Judaism, Islam and all the others

1789
01:39:47,982 --> 01:39:50,170
are literal history

1790
01:39:50,340 --> 01:39:52,630
and accept them for what they really are

1791
01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:57,460
which are purely allegorical expressions derived from many faiths

1792
01:39:57,660 --> 01:40:01,000
we see that all religions share a common thread.

1793
01:40:01,220 --> 01:40:03,480
And it is this unifying imperative

1794
01:40:03,620 --> 01:40:07,500
that needs to be recognized and appreciated.

1795
01:40:08,600 --> 01:40:11,885
Religious belief has caused more fragmentation and conflict

1796
01:40:12,180 --> 01:40:14,100
than any other ideology.

1797
01:40:14,250 --> 01:40:19,000
Christianity alone has 34,000 different subgroups.

1798
01:40:20,430 --> 01:40:23,400
-The Bible is subject to interpretation.

1799
01:40:23,530 --> 01:40:25,080
When you read it, you say

1800
01:40:25,220 --> 01:40:28,722
"I think Jesus meant this. I think Job meant that.

1801
01:40:28,840 --> 01:40:30,700
Oh No! He meant this."

1802
01:40:30,920 --> 01:40:34,910
So you have the Lutheran, the Seventh-day Adventist, the Catholic

1803
01:40:35,050 --> 01:40:38,600
and a church divided is no church at all.

1804
01:40:38,909 --> 01:40:42,749
And a church divided, is no church at all.

1805
01:40:45,400 --> 01:40:47,483
And this point on division

1806
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:51,090
which is a trademark of all theistic religions,

1807
01:40:51,230 --> 01:40:53,900
brings us to our second failure of awareness.

1808
01:40:54,050 --> 01:40:56,200
The false assumption of separation

1809
01:40:56,340 --> 01:41:00,826
through the rejection of the symbiotic relationship of life.

1810
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:06,320
Apart from the understanding that all natural systems are emergent

1811
01:41:06,460 --> 01:41:09,460
where all notions of reality will be constantly developed

1812
01:41:09,600 --> 01:41:11,980
altered and even eradicated

1813
01:41:12,120 --> 01:41:15,743
we must also understand that all systems are, in fact

1814
01:41:15,873 --> 01:41:20,000
invented fragments, merely for the sake of conversation.

1815
01:41:20,610 --> 01:41:24,000
For there is no such thing as independence in nature.

1816
01:41:24,630 --> 01:41:29,000
The whole of nature is a unified system of interdependent variables

1817
01:41:29,350 --> 01:41:35,158
each a cause and a reaction, existing only as a concentrated whole.

1818
01:41:36,150 --> 01:41:39,160
-You don't see the plug connected to the environment

1819
01:41:39,300 --> 01:41:42,690
so it looks like we're free,  wandering around.

1820
01:41:42,830 --> 01:41:45,496
Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately.

1821
01:41:45,600 --> 01:41:47,880
Take plant life away, we die.

1822
01:41:48,026 --> 01:41:50,710
And without the sun, all the plants die.

1823
01:41:50,850 --> 01:41:51,922
So we are connected.

1824
01:41:52,612 --> 01:41:55,385
-We really must take into account the totality.

1825
01:41:55,515 --> 01:41:58,050
This isn't just a human experience on this planet,

1826
01:41:58,180 --> 01:41:59,340
this is a total experience.

1827
01:41:59,454 --> 01:42:01,800
And we know we can't survive without plants and animals.

1828
01:42:01,900 --> 01:42:04,460
We know we can't survive without the four elements, you know?

1829
01:42:04,590 --> 01:42:08,661
And so, when are we gonna really start taking that into account?

1830
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:10,490
That's what it is to be successful.

1831
01:42:10,630 --> 01:42:14,900
Success depends on how well we relate to everything around us.

1832
01:42:15,640 --> 01:42:17,574
I'm very aware of the fact that my grandson

1833
01:42:17,714 --> 01:42:21,936
cannot possibly hope to inherit a sustainable

1834
01:42:22,015 --> 01:42:22,016
.

1835
01:42:22,076 --> 01:42:24,110
peaceful, stable, socially just world

1836
01:42:24,350 --> 01:42:26,664
unless every child today growing up in

1837
01:42:26,804 --> 01:42:31,260
Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia, in Palestine, in Israel

1838
01:42:31,400 --> 01:42:34,000
also has that same expectation.

1839
01:42:34,266 --> 01:42:36,400
You've got to take care of the whole community

1840
01:42:36,565 --> 01:42:38,650
or you're gonna have serious problems.

1841
01:42:38,838 --> 01:42:42,701
And now we have to see that the whole world is the community.

1842
01:42:42,908 --> 01:42:46,000
And we must all take care of each other that way.

1843
01:42:46,250 --> 01:42:48,200
And it's not just a community of human beings

1844
01:42:48,360 --> 01:42:51,306
it's a community of plants and animals and elements.

1845
01:42:51,455 --> 01:42:54,200
And we really need to understand that.

1846
01:42:54,450 --> 01:42:56,809
That's what's gonna bring us joy too, and pleasure.

1847
01:42:56,989 --> 01:42:56,990
.

1848
01:42:56,999 --> 01:42:59,024
That's what's missing in our lives right now.

1849
01:42:59,124 --> 01:43:02,350
We can call it spirituality, but the fact of the matter is

1850
01:43:02,415 --> 01:43:02,416
.

1851
01:43:02,500 --> 01:43:06,610
joy comes from that bliss of connectedness.

1852
01:43:06,750 --> 01:43:09,584
That's our god spirit, that's that side of ourselves

1853
01:43:09,724 --> 01:43:13,280
that really feels it, and you can feel it deep inside you.

1854
01:43:13,424 --> 01:43:16,340
It's this amazing wonderful feeling, and you know it when you get it.

1855
01:43:16,477 --> 01:43:16,478
.

1856
01:43:16,478 --> 01:43:16,479
.

1857
01:43:16,480 --> 01:43:20,200
You don't get it from money, you get it from connection.

1858
01:43:22,455 --> 01:43:22,456
.

1859
01:43:22,456 --> 01:43:25,483
-Now if that isn't a hazard to this country.

1860
01:43:26,694 --> 01:43:28,735
How are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons

1861
01:43:28,760 --> 01:43:30,994
you know what I mean?

1862
01:43:31,134 --> 01:43:33,620
What's gonna happen to the arms industry

1863
01:43:33,760 --> 01:43:36,389
when we realize we're all one?

1864
01:43:36,510 --> 01:43:38,780
It's gonna fuck up the economy.

1865
01:43:38,920 --> 01:43:46,982
The economy that's fake anyway.

1866
01:43:49,423 --> 01:43:51,372
Which would be a real bummer.

1867
01:43:51,650 --> 01:43:54,300
You can see why the government's crackin' down...

1868
01:43:57,074 --> 01:44:00,000
...on the idea of experiencing unconditional love."

1869
01:44:01,150 --> 01:44:03,649
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love

1870
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:06,859
will have the final word in reality."

1871
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:10,100
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - 1929-1968

1872
01:44:11,400 --> 01:44:15,050
-Once we understand that the integrity of our personal existences

1873
01:44:15,300 --> 01:44:17,660
are completely dependent on the integrity

1874
01:44:17,800 --> 01:44:20,062
of everything else in our world

1875
01:44:20,202 --> 01:44:24,700
we have truly understood the meaning of unconditional love.

1876
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:28,700
For love is extensionality and seeing everything as you

1877
01:44:29,000 --> 01:44:32,428
and you as everything can have no conditionalities

1878
01:44:32,568 --> 01:44:36,386
for in fact, we are all everything at once.

1879
01:44:36,550 --> 01:44:38,945
-If it's true that we're all from the center of a star

1880
01:44:39,085 --> 01:44:40,860
every atom in each of us from the center of a star

1881
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:42,850
then we're all the same thing.

1882
01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:45,802
Even a Coke machine or a cigarette butt in the street in Buffalo

1883
01:44:45,920 --> 01:44:47,810
is made out of atoms that came from a star.

1884
01:44:47,950 --> 01:44:49,770
They've all been recycled thousands of times

1885
01:44:49,900 --> 01:44:54,525
as have you and I. And therefore, it's only me out there.

1886
01:44:54,662 --> 01:44:56,210
So what is there to be afraid of?

1887
01:44:56,350 --> 01:44:58,292
What is there that needs solace seeking?

1888
01:44:58,364 --> 01:45:01,388
Nothing. There's nothing to be afraid of because it's all us.

1889
01:45:01,830 --> 01:45:04,698
The trouble is we have been separated by being born

1890
01:45:04,830 --> 01:45:07,367
and given a name and an identity and being individuated.

1891
01:45:07,500 --> 01:45:10,100
We've been separated from the oneness and that's what religion exploits.

1892
01:45:10,239 --> 01:45:10,240
.

1893
01:45:10,240 --> 01:45:14,050
That people have this yearning to be part of the overall one again.

1894
01:45:14,190 --> 01:45:17,577
So they exploit that. They call it god, they say he has rules

1895
01:45:17,700 --> 01:45:19,200
and I think it's cruel.

1896
01:45:19,400 --> 01:45:21,982
I think you can do it absent religion.

1897
01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:25,800
"An extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies

1898
01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:28,900
would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities.

1899
01:45:29,100 --> 01:45:32,500
Our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon and the stars...

1900
01:45:32,700 --> 01:45:37,200
We humans have seen the atoms which constitute all of nature and the forces that sculpted this work...

1901
01:45:37,399 --> 01:45:37,400
.

1902
01:45:37,400 --> 01:45:41,300
And we, we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos,

1903
01:45:41,500 --> 01:45:45,300
have begun to wonder about our origins...star stuff contemplating the stars

1904
01:45:45,499 --> 01:45:45,500
.

1905
01:45:45,500 --> 01:45:48,300
organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms,

1906
01:45:48,500 --> 01:45:51,400
contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path

1907
01:45:51,600 --> 01:45:54,500
by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet earth...

1908
01:45:54,700 --> 01:45:57,600
Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet.

1909
01:45:57,800 --> 01:46:00,700
Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves

1910
01:46:00,900 --> 01:46:03,800
but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring.

1911
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,850
We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light.

1912
01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:08,880
- Carl Sagan - 1934-1996

1913
01:46:09,429 --> 01:46:11,430
-It's time to claim the unity

1914
01:46:11,565 --> 01:46:14,780
our outmoded social systems have broken apart

1915
01:46:14,900 --> 01:46:18,850
and work together to create a sustainable, global society

1916
01:46:18,990 --> 01:46:23,099
where everyone is taken care of and everyone is truly free.

1917
01:46:23,337 --> 01:46:23,338
.

1918
01:46:23,343 --> 01:46:25,850
Your personal beliefs, whatever they may be

1919
01:46:25,979 --> 01:46:29,510
are meaningless when it comes to the necessities of life.

1920
01:46:29,649 --> 01:46:31,560
Every human being is born naked

1921
01:46:31,700 --> 01:46:35,130
needing warmth, food, water, shelter.

1922
01:46:35,270 --> 01:46:37,300
Everything else is auxiliary.

1923
01:46:37,450 --> 01:46:39,860
Therefore, the most important issue at hand

1924
01:46:39,993 --> 01:46:43,860
is the intelligent management of the Earth's resources.

1925
01:46:43,997 --> 01:46:46,830
This can never be accomplished in a monetary system

1926
01:46:46,967 --> 01:46:50,100
for the pursuit of profit is the pursuit of self interest

1927
01:46:50,240 --> 01:46:53,600
and therefore imbalance is inherent.

1928
01:46:53,974 --> 01:46:57,000
Simultaneously, politicians are useless

1929
01:46:57,140 --> 01:47:01,840
for our true problems in life are technical not political.

1930
01:47:01,982 --> 01:47:04,985
Furthermore, ideologies that separate humanity

1931
01:47:04,985 --> 01:47:04,986
.

1932
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:08,400
such as religion, need strong reflection in the community

1933
01:47:08,530 --> 01:47:12,750
in regard to its value, purpose and social relevancy.

1934
01:47:12,950 --> 01:47:14,461
Hopefully, through time

1935
01:47:14,461 --> 01:47:17,998
religion will lose its materialism and basis in superstition

1936
01:47:18,140 --> 01:47:21,600
and move into the useful field of philosophy.

1937
01:47:21,735 --> 01:47:24,600
The fact is, society today is backwards

1938
01:47:24,738 --> 01:47:28,660
with politicians constantly talking about protection and security

1939
01:47:28,790 --> 01:47:32,500
rather than creation, unity and progress.

1940
01:47:32,712 --> 01:47:34,500
The US alone now spends about

1941
01:47:34,622 --> 01:47:37,850
$500 billion dollars annually on defense.

1942
01:47:37,984 --> 01:47:41,050
That is enough to send every high school senior in America

1943
01:47:41,179 --> 01:47:43,680
to a four year college.

1944
01:47:43,810 --> 01:47:45,960
In the 1940s the Manhattan Project

1945
01:47:46,100 --> 01:47:49,560
produced the first true weapon of mass destruction.

1946
01:47:49,690 --> 01:47:55,630
This program employed 130,000 people, at an extreme financial cost.

1947
01:47:55,769 --> 01:47:59,973
Imagine what our life would be like today if that group of scientists

1948
01:48:00,110 --> 01:48:02,976
instead of working on a way of killing people

1949
01:48:03,100 --> 01:48:07,747
worked on a way to create a self-sustaining abundant world.

1950
01:48:07,890 --> 01:48:13,400
Life today would be very, very different if that was their goal.

1951
01:48:13,899 --> 01:48:13,900
.

1952
01:48:13,987 --> 01:48:16,320
Instead of weapons of mass destruction

1953
01:48:16,456 --> 01:48:20,790
it is time to unleash something much more powerful.

1954
01:48:20,994 --> 01:48:25,100
Weapons of Mass Creation (WMCs).

1955
01:48:25,500 --> 01:48:28,260
Our true divinity is in our ability to create.

1956
01:48:28,400 --> 01:48:32,639
And armed with the understanding of the symbiotic connections of life

1957
01:48:32,780 --> 01:48:36,240
while being guided by the emergent nature of reality

1958
01:48:36,376 --> 01:48:39,900
there is nothing we cannot do or accomplish.

1959
01:48:41,448 --> 01:48:43,850
Of course, we face strong barriers

1960
01:48:43,984 --> 01:48:48,780
in the form of established power structures that refuse to change.

1961
01:48:48,988 --> 01:48:48,989
.

1962
01:48:48,989 --> 01:48:51,490
At the heart of these structures is the monetary system.

1963
01:48:51,625 --> 01:48:54,140
As explained earlier, the fractional reserve policy

1964
01:48:54,280 --> 01:48:56,500
is a form of slavery through debt

1965
01:48:56,620 --> 01:49:00,630
where it is literally impossible for society to be free.

1966
01:49:00,767 --> 01:49:03,970
In turn, free market capitalism in the form of free trade

1967
01:49:04,100 --> 01:49:07,360
uses debt to imprison the world and manipulate countries

1968
01:49:07,474 --> 01:49:12,260
into subservience to a handful of large business and political powers.

1969
01:49:12,400 --> 01:49:14,300
Apart from these obvious amoralities

1970
01:49:14,400 --> 01:49:17,060
the system itself is based on competition

1971
01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:19,800
which immediately destroys the possibility

1972
01:49:19,920 --> 01:49:22,850
of large scale collaborations for the common good.

1973
01:49:22,989 --> 01:49:28,900
Hence paralyzing any attempt at true global sustainability.

1974
01:49:29,140 --> 01:49:33,050
These financial and corporate structures are now obsolete

1975
01:49:33,200 --> 01:49:35,850
and they must be outgrown.

1976
01:49:36,336 --> 01:49:38,330
Of course, we can not be naive enough to think that

1977
01:49:38,469 --> 01:49:41,240
the business and financial elite are going to subscribe to this idea

1978
01:49:41,374 --> 01:49:43,440
for they will lose power and control.

1979
01:49:43,543 --> 01:49:48,100
Therefore, peacefully yet highly strategic action must be taken.

1980
01:49:48,300 --> 01:49:50,840
The most powerful course of action is simple.

1981
01:49:50,984 --> 01:49:52,910
We have to alter our behavior

1982
01:49:53,050 --> 01:49:57,500
to force the power structure to the will of the people.

1983
01:49:57,800 --> 01:50:01,650
We must stop supporting the system.

1984
01:50:01,900 --> 01:50:04,010
The only way the establishment will change

1985
01:50:04,140 --> 01:50:08,100
is by our refusal to participate while continuously acknowledging

1986
01:50:08,220 --> 01:50:11,460
its endless flaws and corruptions.

1987
01:50:11,590 --> 01:50:14,100
-They're not gonna give up the monetary system

1988
01:50:14,230 --> 01:50:17,870
because of our designs or what we recommend.

1989
01:50:17,990 --> 01:50:19,870
The system has to fail

1990
01:50:19,980 --> 01:50:24,850
and people have to lose confidence in their elected leaders.

1991
01:50:24,970 --> 01:50:27,360
That will be a major turning point

1992
01:50:27,480 --> 01:50:32,120
if The Venus Project is offered as a possible alternative.

1993
01:50:32,250 --> 01:50:34,980
If not, I fear the consequences.

1994
01:50:35,100 --> 01:50:40,380
The trends now indicate that our country is going bankrupt.

1995
01:50:40,500 --> 01:50:43,217
The probability is our country will move

1996
01:50:43,357 --> 01:50:47,500
toward a military dictatorship to prevent riots

1997
01:50:47,620 --> 01:50:50,070
and complete social breakdown.

1998
01:50:50,200 --> 01:50:53,000
Once the US breaks down, all the other cultures

1999
01:50:53,120 --> 01:50:55,900
will undergo similar things.

2000
01:50:56,180 --> 01:50:58,360
-As of now, the world financial system

2001
01:50:58,480 --> 01:51:02,240
is on the brink of collapse due to its own shortcomings.

2002
01:51:02,370 --> 01:51:05,320
The controller of currencies stated in 2003

2003
01:51:05,450 --> 01:51:07,730
that the interest on the US national debt

2004
01:51:07,860 --> 01:51:10,960
will not be affordable in less than ten years.

2005
01:51:11,090 --> 01:51:14,550
This theoretically means total bankruptcy for the US economy

2006
01:51:14,670 --> 01:51:17,490
and its implications for the world are immense.

2007
01:51:17,630 --> 01:51:20,250
In turn the fractional reserve based monetary system

2008
01:51:20,370 --> 01:51:23,100
is reaching its theoretical limits of expansion

2009
01:51:23,240 --> 01:51:27,330
and the banking failures you are seeing are just the beginning.

2010
01:51:27,470 --> 01:51:31,550
This is why inflation is skyrocketing, all debt is at record levels

2011
01:51:31,679 --> 01:51:31,680
.

2012
01:51:31,680 --> 01:51:34,150
and the government and FED are hemorrhaging new money

2013
01:51:34,290 --> 01:51:36,540
to bailout the corrupt system.

2014
01:51:36,670 --> 01:51:38,580
For the only way to keep the banks going

2015
01:51:38,710 --> 01:51:40,400
is by making more money.

2016
01:51:40,520 --> 01:51:44,510
The only way to make more money is to create more debt and inflation.

2017
01:51:44,639 --> 01:51:44,640
.

2018
01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:47,687
It is simply a matter of time before the tables turn

2019
01:51:47,827 --> 01:51:50,430
and there's no one is willing to take new loans

2020
01:51:50,570 --> 01:51:52,850
while defaults grow as people are unable

2021
01:51:52,950 --> 01:51:54,950
to afford their current loans.

2022
01:51:55,060 --> 01:51:57,100
Then the expansion of money will stop

2023
01:51:57,230 --> 01:52:00,950
and contraction will begin on a scale never before seen

2024
01:52:01,070 --> 01:52:04,590
ending a century long pyramid scheme.

2025
01:52:04,720 --> 01:52:07,200
This has already begun.

2026
01:52:07,570 --> 01:52:11,110
Therefore, we need to expose this financial failure for what it is

2027
01:52:11,250 --> 01:52:13,950
using this weakness to our advantage.

2028
01:52:14,080 --> 01:52:16,030
Here are some suggestions:

2029
01:52:16,170 --> 01:52:18,100
Expose the banking fraud.

2030
01:52:18,230 --> 01:52:21,550
Citibank, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America

2031
01:52:21,680 --> 01:52:23,336
are the most powerful controllers

2032
01:52:23,458 --> 01:52:26,510
within the corrupt Federal Reserve system.

2033
01:52:26,650 --> 01:52:29,620
It's time to boycott these institutions.

2034
01:52:29,750 --> 01:52:32,850
If you have a bank account or a credit card with any of them

2035
01:52:32,990 --> 01:52:35,120
move your money to another bank.

2036
01:52:35,260 --> 01:52:38,560
If you have a mortgage, re-finance with another bank.

2037
01:52:38,690 --> 01:52:40,850
If you own their stock, sell it.

2038
01:52:40,980 --> 01:52:42,800
If you work for them, quit.

2039
01:52:42,920 --> 01:52:44,880
This gesture will express contempt

2040
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:48,150
for the true powers behind the private banking cartel

2041
01:52:48,270 --> 01:52:50,290
known as the Federal Reserve.

2042
01:52:50,420 --> 01:52:54,600
And create awareness about the fraud of the banking system itself.

2043
01:52:54,730 --> 01:52:57,120
Two: Turn off the TV news.

2044
01:52:57,260 --> 01:53:00,660
Visit the emerging independent news agencies on the internet

2045
01:53:00,780 --> 01:53:02,200
for your information.

2046
01:53:02,330 --> 01:53:06,650
CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX and all the others

2047
01:53:06,790 --> 01:53:11,150
present all news pre-filtered to maintain the status quo.

2048
01:53:11,290 --> 01:53:14,740
With four corporations owning all major media outlets

2049
01:53:14,870 --> 01:53:17,360
objective information is impossible.

2050
01:53:17,500 --> 01:53:19,600
This is the true beauty of the internet

2051
01:53:19,730 --> 01:53:21,880
and the establishment has been losing control

2052
01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:24,800
because of this free flow of information.

2053
01:53:24,920 --> 01:53:27,250
We must protect the internet at all times

2054
01:53:27,380 --> 01:53:29,969
as it is truly our savior right now.

2055
01:53:30,990 --> 01:53:37,330
Three: Don't ever allow yourself, your family or anyone you know

2056
01:53:37,469 --> 01:53:37,470
.

2057
01:53:37,470 --> 01:53:41,390
to ever join the military.

2058
01:53:41,520 --> 01:53:43,780
This is an obsolete institution

2059
01:53:43,910 --> 01:53:47,200
now used exclusively for maintaining an establishment

2060
01:53:47,330 --> 01:53:48,950
that is no longer relevant.

2061
01:53:49,080 --> 01:53:53,440
US soldiers in Iraq work for US corporations, not the people.

2062
01:53:53,579 --> 01:53:53,580
.

2063
01:53:53,580 --> 01:53:56,690
Propaganda forces us to believe that war is natural

2064
01:53:56,820 --> 01:53:59,710
and the military is an honorable institution.

2065
01:53:59,850 --> 01:54:01,350
Well, if war is natural

2066
01:54:01,460 --> 01:54:04,270
why are there 18 suicides every single day

2067
01:54:04,500 --> 01:54:08,560
by American veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder?

2068
01:54:08,699 --> 01:54:08,700
.

2069
01:54:08,700 --> 01:54:11,600
If our military men and women are so honored

2070
01:54:11,730 --> 01:54:18,200
why is it that 25% of the American homeless population are veterans?

2071
01:54:18,519 --> 01:54:18,520
.

2072
01:54:18,520 --> 01:54:21,400
Four: Stop supporting the energy companies.

2073
01:54:21,609 --> 01:54:21,610
.

2074
01:54:21,610 --> 01:54:24,810
If you live in a detached house, get off the grid.

2075
01:54:24,949 --> 01:54:24,950
.

2076
01:54:24,950 --> 01:54:28,350
Investigate every means of making your home self-sustainable

2077
01:54:28,480 --> 01:54:30,180
with clean energy.

2078
01:54:30,300 --> 01:54:32,750
Solar, wind and other renewable energies

2079
01:54:32,870 --> 01:54:35,360
are now affordable consumer realities

2080
01:54:35,480 --> 01:54:39,110
and considering the never ending rising costs of traditional energies

2081
01:54:39,240 --> 01:54:42,220
it will likely be a cheaper investment over time.

2082
01:54:42,350 --> 01:54:45,300
If you drive, get the smallest car you can

2083
01:54:45,430 --> 01:54:48,350
and consider using one of the many conversion technologies

2084
01:54:48,490 --> 01:54:50,620
that can enable your car to be a hybrid

2085
01:54:50,750 --> 01:54:55,200
electric or run on anything other than establishment fuels.

2086
01:54:55,510 --> 01:54:58,300
Five: Reject the political system.

2087
01:54:58,569 --> 01:54:58,570
.

2088
01:54:58,570 --> 01:55:02,110
The illusion of democracy is an insult to our intelligence.

2089
01:55:02,250 --> 01:55:05,880
In a monetary system, there is no such thing as a true democracy

2090
01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:07,950
and there never was.

2091
01:55:08,060 --> 01:55:09,660
We have two political parties

2092
01:55:09,780 --> 01:55:13,110
owned by the same set of corporate lobbyists.

2093
01:55:13,250 --> 01:55:15,900
They are placed in their positions by the corporations

2094
01:55:16,030 --> 01:55:19,850
with popularity artificially projected by their media.

2095
01:55:19,970 --> 01:55:22,070
In a system of inherent corruption

2096
01:55:22,190 --> 01:55:24,400
the change of personnel every couple of years

2097
01:55:24,520 --> 01:55:26,510
has very little relevance.

2098
01:55:26,650 --> 01:55:30,100
Instead of pretending that the political game has any true meaning

2099
01:55:30,230 --> 01:55:34,800
focus your energy on how to transcend this failed system.

2100
01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:39,100
And six: Join the movement.

2101
01:55:39,399 --> 01:55:39,400
.

2102
01:55:39,400 --> 01:55:41,500
Go to the thezeitgeistmovement.com

2103
01:55:41,630 --> 01:55:45,080
and help us create the largest mass movement for social change

2104
01:55:45,210 --> 01:55:47,340
the world has ever seen.

2105
01:55:47,470 --> 01:55:49,750
We must mobilize and educate everyone

2106
01:55:49,880 --> 01:55:53,260
about the inherent corruption of our current world system

2107
01:55:53,380 --> 01:55:56,700
along with the only true sustainable solution

2108
01:55:56,830 --> 01:55:59,630
declaring all the natural resources on the planet

2109
01:55:59,760 --> 01:56:02,620
as common heritage to all people

2110
01:56:02,750 --> 01:56:06,550
while informing everyone as to the true state of technology

2111
01:56:06,670 --> 01:56:10,210
and how we can all be free if the world works together

2112
01:56:10,350 --> 01:56:12,500
rather than fights.

2113
01:56:12,900 --> 01:56:14,330
The choice lies with you.

2114
01:56:14,450 --> 01:56:17,220
You can continue to be a slave to the financial system

2115
01:56:17,360 --> 01:56:21,841
and watch the continuous wars, depressions and injustice across the globe

2116
01:56:21,841 --> 01:56:24,978
while placating yourself with vain entertainment

2117
01:56:24,978 --> 01:56:26,980
and materialistic garbage;

2118
01:56:26,980 --> 01:56:31,985
or, you can focus your energy on true, meaningful, lasting, holistic change

2119
01:56:31,985 --> 01:56:35,755
which actually has the realistic ability to support

2120
01:56:35,755 --> 01:56:39,993
and free all humans with no one left behind.

2121
01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:44,263
But in the end, the most relevant change

2122
01:56:44,263 --> 01:56:47,734
must occur first inside of you.

2123
01:56:47,734 --> 01:56:51,971
The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness

2124
01:56:51,971 --> 01:56:55,408
and each one of us first needs to eliminate

2125
01:56:55,408 --> 01:56:57,977
the diversionary, materialistic noise

2126
01:56:57,977 --> 01:57:01,647
we have been conditioned to think is true;

2127
01:57:01,647 --> 01:57:04,984
while discovering, amplifying and aligning

2128
01:57:04,984 --> 01:57:09,989
with the signal coming from our true empirical oneness.

2129
01:57:11,758 --> 01:57:13,993
It is up to you.

2130
01:57:15,595 --> 01:57:20,967
-What we are trying in all these discussions and talks here

2131
01:57:20,967 --> 01:57:26,973
is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind.

2132
01:57:28,274 --> 01:57:31,978
Not accept things as they are

2133
01:57:33,813 --> 01:57:36,983
but to understand it, to go into it, to examine it

2134
01:57:36,983 --> 01:57:41,687
give your heart and your mind with everything that you have to find out

2135
01:57:41,687 --> 01:57:43,990
a way of living differently.

2136
01:57:48,995 --> 01:57:52,999
But, that depends on you and not somebody else.

2137
01:57:53,966 --> 01:57:55,968
Because in this there is no teacher

2138
01:57:55,968 --> 01:57:57,970
no pupil

2139
01:57:57,970 --> 01:58:00,339
there's no leader

2140
01:58:00,339 --> 01:58:01,974
there's no guru

2141
01:58:01,974 --> 01:58:03,976
there's no master, no savior.

2142
01:58:03,976 --> 01:58:09,649
You yourself are the teacher and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader

2143
01:58:09,649 --> 01:58:12,618
you are everything!

2144
01:58:12,618 --> 01:58:15,288
And

2145
01:58:15,288 --> 01:58:17,390
to understand

2146
01:58:17,390 --> 01:58:20,993
is to transform what is.