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(Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche) Spirituality

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is a particular term which actually means

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a dealing with intuition.

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In the theistic tradition

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there is a notion of clinging into a word.

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A certain act is regarded as

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displeasing to our divine principles.

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A certain act is regarded as displeasing for the divine whatever.

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In the tradition of non-theism, however

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it is very direct

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that the case history is not particularly important.

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What is actually important is here and now.

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Now is definitely now.

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We try to experience what is available there, on the spot.

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There's no point in thinking that a past did exist

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that we could have now.

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This is now.

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This very moment.

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Nothing mystical, just now, very simple, straight forward.

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And from that nowness, however

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arises a sense of intelligence, always

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that you are constantly interacting with reality

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one by one, spot by spot, constantly.

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We actually experience fantastic precision, always.

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But we are threatened by the now

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so we jump to the past or the future.

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Paying attention to the materials that exist in our life

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all these choices take place all the time

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but none of them are regarded as bad or good per se.

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Everything we experience are unconditional experience.

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They don't come along with a label by saying

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"This is regarded as bad" or "This is good".

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We experience them but we don't actually pay heed to them properly.

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We don't actually regard that as we are going somewhere.

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We regard that as a hassle

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waiting to be dead.

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[Echoed: waiting to be dead]

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That's a problem. And that is not trusting the nowness properly

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that what is actually experienced now

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possesses a lot of powerful things.

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It is so powerful

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that we can't face it.

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Therefore, we have to borrow from the past, invite the future, all the time

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and maybe that's why we seek religion.

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Maybe that's why we march in the street.

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Maybe that's why we complain to society.

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Maybe that's why we vote for the presidents.

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It is quite ironical and very funny, indeed.

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ZEITGEIST

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(J. Maxwell) The more you begin to investigate

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what we think we understand, where we came from

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what we think we're doing

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the more you begin to see we've been lied to.

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We've been lied to by every institution. What makes you think

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for one minute, that the religious institution

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is the only one that's never been touched?

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The religious institutions of this world are at the bottom of the dirt.

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The religious institutions in this world are put there

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by the same people who gave you your government, your corrupt education

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who set up your international banking cartels.

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We have been misled away from the true and divine presence

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in the universe that men have called God.

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I don't know what God is but I know what He isn't.

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And unless and until you are prepared to look at the whole truth

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wherever it may go, whoever it may lead to

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the more you educate yourself, the more you understand

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where things come from, the more obvious things become

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and you begin to see lies everywhere. You have to know the truth

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and seek the truth and the truth will set you free.

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They must find it difficult...

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Those who have taken authority as the truth

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rather than truth as the authority.

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G. Massey, Egyptologist

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(G. Carlin) Because I have to tell you the truth, folks.

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When it comes to bullshit

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big time, major league bullshit

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you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises

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and exaggerated claims: religion!

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Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people

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that there's an invisible man living in the sky

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who watches everything you do, every minute of every day.

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And the invisible man has a special list of ten things

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he does not want you to do.

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And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place

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full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish

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where He will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke

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and scream and cry forever and ever until the end of time!

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But He loves you.

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[Laughter and applause]

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He loves you.

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He loves you and He needs money!

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He always needs money!

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He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise;

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somehow, just can't handle money!

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Religion takes in billions of dollars

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they pay no taxes and they always need a little more.

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Now, you talk about a good bullshit story.

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Holy shit!

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PART I:

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The Greatest Story Ever Told

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(P. Joseph) This is the sun.

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As far back as 10,000 BC

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history is abundant with carvings and writings reflecting people's respect

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and adoration for this object.

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And it is simple to understand why, as every morning

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the sun would rise, bringing vision, warmth and security

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saving man from the cold, blind, predator-filled darkness of night.

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Without it, the cultures understood, the crops would not grow

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and life on the planet would not survive.

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These realities made the sun the most adored object of all time.

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Likewise, they were also very aware of the stars.

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The tracking of the stars allowed them to recognize and anticipate events

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which occurred over long periods of time

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such as eclipses and full moons.

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They in turn cataloged celestial groups

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into what we know today as constellations.

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This is the cross of the Zodiac

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one of the oldest conceptual images in human history.

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It reflects the sun as it figuratively passes

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through the 12 major constellations over the course of a year.

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It also reflects the 12 months of the year, the four seasons

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and the solstices and equinoxes.

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The term Zodiac relates to the fact that constellations

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were anthropomorphized or personified as figures or animals.

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In other words, the early civilizations did not just follow the sun and stars

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they personified them with elaborate myths

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involving their movements and relationships.

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The sun, with its life-giving and saving qualities

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was personified as a representative of the unseen creator or God.

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God's Sun: the Light of the world, the Savior of human kind.

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Likewise, the 12 constellations represented places of travel for God's Sun

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and were identified by names, usually representing elements of nature

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that happened during that period of time.

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For example, Aquarius the water bearer, who brings the spring rains.

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This is Horus. He is the Sun God of Egypt of around 3000 BC.

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He is the sun, anthropomorphized and his life

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is a series of allegorical myths involving the sun's movement in the sky.

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From the ancient hieroglyphics in Egypt

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we know much about this solar messiah.

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For instance, Horus, being the sun or the light

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had an enemy known as Set who was the personification

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of the darkness or night

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and metaphorically speaking, every morning

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Horus would win the battle against Set, while in the evening

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Set would conquer Horus and send him into the underworld.

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It is important to note that 'dark vs. light' or 'good vs. evil'

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is one of the most ubiquitous mythological dualities ever known

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and is still expressed on many levels to this day.

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Broadly speaking, the story of Horus is as follows:

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Horus was born on December 25th of the Virgin Isis - Mary

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His birth was accompanied by a star in the east

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and upon his birth he was adored by three kings.

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At the age of 12, he was a prodigal child teacher.

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At the age of 30 he was baptized by a figure known as Anup

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and thus began his ministry. Horus had 12 disciples he traveled about with

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performing miracles such as healing the sick and walking on water.

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Horus was known by many gestural names such as The Truth

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The Light, God's Anointed Son, The Good Shepherd

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The Lamb of God and many others.

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After being betrayed by Typhon, Horus was crucified

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buried for 3 days and thus, resurrected.

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These attributes of Horus, whether original or not

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seem to permeate in many cultures of the world for many other gods

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are found to have the same general mythological structure.

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Attis of Phrygia, born of the Virgin Nana on December 25th

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crucified, placed in a tomb and after three days, was resurrected.

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Krishna of India, born of the Virgin Devaki

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with a star in the east signaling his coming.

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He performed miracles with his disciples and upon his death

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was resurrected.

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Dionysus of Greece, born of a virgin on December 25th

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was a traveling teacher who performed miracles such as turning water into wine.

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He was referred to as The King of Kings, God's only begotten son

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the Alpha and Omega and many others. Upon his death

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he was resurrected.

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Mithra of Persia, born of a virgin on December 25th

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had 12 disciples and performed miracles

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upon his death was buried for 3 days and thus resurrected.

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He was also referred to as the truth, the light and many others.

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Interestingly, the sacred day of worship of Mithra was Sunday.

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The fact of the matter is there are numerous saviors

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from different periods from all over the world

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which subscribe to these general characteristics.

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The question remains: why these attributes?

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Why the virgin birth on December 25th?

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Why dead for 3 days and the inevitable resurrection?

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Why 12 disciples or followers?

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To find out, let's examine the most recent of the solar messiahs.

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Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary on December 25th in Bethlehem.

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His birth was announced by a star in the east which Three Kings or Magi

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followed to locate and adore the new savior.

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He was a child teacher at 12. At the age of 30 he was baptized

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by John the Baptist and thus began his ministry.

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Jesus had 12 disciples which he traveled about with performing miracles

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such as healing the sick, walking on water, raising the dead.

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He was also known as the King of Kings, the Son of God, the Light of the World

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the Alpha and Omega, the Lamb of God and many others.

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After being betrayed by his disciple Judas and sold

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for 30 pieces of silver, he was crucified, placed in a tomb

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and after 3 days was resurrected and ascended into heaven.

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First of all, the birth sequence is completely astrological.

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The star in the east is Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky

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which on December 24th aligns with the 3 brightest stars in Orion's belt.

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These 3 bright stars in the Orion's belt are called today

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what they were called in ancient times 'The Three Kings'.

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And the Three Kings and the brightest star, Sirius

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all point to the place of the sunrise on December 25th.

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This is why the Three Kings follow the star in the east

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in order to locate the sunrise, the birth of the Sun.

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The Virgin Mary is the constellation Virgo also known as Virgo the Virgin.

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Virgo in Latin means Virgin.

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Virgo was also referred to as the House of Bread

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and the representation of Virgo is a virgin holding a sheaf of wheat.

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This house of bread and its symbol of wheat

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represents August and September, the time of harvest.

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In turn, Bethlehem literally translates to "house of bread".

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Bethlehem is thus a reference to the constellation Virgo

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a place in the sky, not on earth.

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There's another very interesting phenomenon

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that occurs around December 25th or the winter solstice.

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From the summer solstice to the winter solstice

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the days become shorter and colder.

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And from the perspective of the northern hemisphere

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the Sun appears to move south and gets smaller and more scarce.

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The shortening of the days and expiration of the crops

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when approaching the winter solstice symbolized the process of death

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to the ancients. It was the death of the Sun.

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And by December 22nd the Sun's demise was fully realized.

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For the Sun having moved south continually for six months

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makes it to its lowest point in the sky.

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Here a curious thing occurs:

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The Sun stops moving south, at least perceivably, for three days.

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And during this three day pause, the Sun resides in the vicinity

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of the Southern Cross, or Crux constellation.

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And after this time on December 25th

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the Sun moves one degree, this time north

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foreshadowing longer days, warmth and spring.

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And thus it was said: The Son died on a cross

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was dead for three days, only to be resurrected or born again.

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This is why Jesus and numerous other Sun gods

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share the crucifixion, three-day death and resurrection concept.

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It is the Sun's transition period before it shifts its direction back

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into the northern hemisphere, bringing spring and thus salvation.

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However, they did not celebrate the resurrection of the Sun

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until the spring equinox or Easter.

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This is because at the spring equinox, the Sun officially overpowers

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the evil darkness as daytime thereafter becomes longer in duration

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than the night and the revitalizing conditions of spring emerge.

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Probably the most obvious of all the astrological symbolism

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around Jesus regards the 12 disciples.

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They are simply the 12 constellations of the zodiac

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which Jesus, being the Sun, travels about with.

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In fact, the number 12 is replete throughout the Bible.

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Coming back to the cross of the zodiac, the figurative life of the Sun

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this was not just an artistic expression

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or tool to track the Sun's movement.

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It was also a pagan spiritual symbol

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the shorthand of which looked like this.

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This is not a symbol of Christianity.

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It is a pagan adaptation of the cross of the zodiac.

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This is why Jesus in earlier cult art is always shown

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with his head on the cross for Jesus is the Sun.

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The Son of God, the Light of the World, the risen Savior

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who will come again as it does every morning

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of the glory of God, who defends against the works of darkness

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as he is born again every morning

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and can be seen coming in the clouds

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up in heaven

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with his crown of thorns or sun rays.

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Of the many astrological/astronomical metaphors in the Bible

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one of the most important has to do with the ages.

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Throughout the scriptures, there are numerous references to the age.

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In order to understand this, we need to be familiar with the phenomenon

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known as the precession of the equinoxes.

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The ancient Egyptians, along with cultures long before them

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recognized that approximately every 2150 years

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the sunrise on the morning of the spring equinox

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would occur at a different sign of the zodiac.

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This has to do with a slow angular wobble

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that the Earth maintains as it rotates on its axis.

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It is called a precession because the constellations go backwards

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rather than through the normal yearly cycle.

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The amount of time it takes for the precession to go through all 12 signs

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is roughly 25,765 years.

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This is also called the great year

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and ancient societies were very aware of this

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and they referred to each 2150 year period as an age.

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From 4300 BC - 2150 BC, it was the age of Taurus, the Bull.

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From 2150 BC - 1 AD, it was the age of Aries, the Ram.

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And from 1 AD - 2150 AD, it is the age of Pisces

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the age we are still in to this day.

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And in and around 2150 we will enter the new age

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the age of Aquarius.

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The Bible reflects broadly speaking a symbolic movement

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through three ages while foreshadowing a fourth.

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In the Old Testament when Moses comes down Mount Sinai

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with the Ten Commandments, he is very upset

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to see his people worshiping a golden bull calf.

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In fact, he shattered the stone tablets and instructed his people

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to kill each other in order to purify themselves.

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Most Biblical scholars will attribute this anger to the fact that the Israelites

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were worshiping a false idol or something to that effect.

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The reality is, the golden bull is Taurus the Bull

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and Moses represents the new age of Aries the Ram.

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This is why Jews even today still blow the ram's horn.

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Moses represents the new age of Aries

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and upon the new age everyone must shed the old age.

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Other deities mark these transitions as well such as Mithra

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a pre-Christian god who kills the bull in the same symbology.

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Jesus is the figure who ushers in the age following Aries

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the Age of Pisces or the two fish.

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Fish symbolism is very abundant in the New Testament.

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Jesus feeds 5,000 people with bread and two fish.

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When he begins his ministry walking along Galilee

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he befriends two fishermen who follow him.

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And I think we have all seen the "Jesus fish" on the back of people's cars.

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Little do they know what it actually means.

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It is a pagan astrological symbolism

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for the Sun's kingdom during the age of Pisces.

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Also, Jesus' assumed birth date is essentially the start of this age.

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At Luke 22:10 when Jesus is asked by his disciples

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where the last Passover would be

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Jesus replies "Behold, when ye are entered into the city

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there shall a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water

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follow him into the house where he entereth in."

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This scripture is by far one of the most revealing

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of all the astrological references.

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The man bearing a pitcher of water is Aquarius

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the water-bearer, who is always pictured as a man

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pouring out a pitcher of water.

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He represents the age after Pisces

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and when the Sun (God's Sun) leaves the Age of Pisces (Jesus)

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it will go into the House of Aquarius, as Aquarius follows Pisces

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in the precession of the equinoxes.

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All Jesus is saying is that after the Age of Pisces

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will come the Age of Aquarius.

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We have all heard about the "End Times" and the end of the world.

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The cartoonish depictions in the Book of Revelation aside

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the main source of this idea comes from Matthew 28:20

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where Jesus says "I will be with you even to the end of the world."

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However, in the King James Version, 'world' is a mistranslation

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among many mistranslations.

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The actual word being used is 'aeon', which means 'age'.

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"I will be with you even to the end of the age."

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which is true, as Jesus' Solar Piscean personification will end

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when the Sun enters the Age of Aquarius.

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The entire concept of End Times and the end of the world

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is a misinterpreted astrological allegory.

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Let's tell that to the approximately 100 million people in America

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who believe the end of the world is coming.

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Furthermore, the character of Jesus being a literary

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and astrological hybrid is most explicitly a plagiarization

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of the Egyptian Sun-god Horus.

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For example, inscribed about 3500 years ago

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on the walls of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt

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are images of the enunciation

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the miracle conception, the birth

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and the adoration of Horus.

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The images begin with Thoth announcing to the Virgin Isis

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that she will conceive Horus

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then Kneph, the holy ghost, impregnating the virgin

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and then the virgin birth and the adoration.

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This is exactly the story of Jesus' miracle conception.

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The literary similarities between the Egyptian religion

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and the Christian religion are staggering.

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And the plagiarism is continuous.

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The story of Noah and Noah's Arc is taken directly from tradition.

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The concept of The Great Flood is ubiquitous throughout the ancient world

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with over 200 different cited claims in different periods and times.

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However, one need look no further for a pre-Christian source

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than the Epic of Gilgamesh, written in 2600 BC.

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This story talks of a great flood commanded by God

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an ark with saved animals upon it and even the release

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and return of a dove, all held in common with the Biblical story

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among many other similarities.

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And then there is the plagiarized story of Moses.

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Upon Moses' birth, it is said that he was placed in a reed basket

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and set adrift in a river in order to avoid infanticide.

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He was later rescued by a daughter of royalty and raised by her as a Prince.

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This baby in a basket story was lifted directly

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from the myth of Sargon of Akkad of around 2250 BC.

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Sargon was born, placed in a reed basket in order to avoid infanticide

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and set adrift in a river.

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He was in turn rescued and raised by Akki, a royal mid-wife.

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Furthermore, Moses is known as the Law Giver

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the giver of the Ten Commandments, the Mosaic Law.

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However, the idea of a Law being passed from God to a prophet

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up on a mountain is also a very old motif.

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Moses is just another law giver in a long line of law givers

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in mythological history.

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In India, Manou was the great law giver.

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In Crete, Minos ascended Mount Dicta

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where Zeus gave him the sacred laws.

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While in Egypt there was Mises, who carried stone tablets

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and upon them the laws of God were written.

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Manou. Minos. Mises. Moses.

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And as far as the Ten Commandments, they are taken outright

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from Spell 125 in the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

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What the Book of the Dead phrased "I have not stolen" became "Thou shall not steal".

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"I have not killed" became "Thou shall not kill".

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"I have not told lies" became "Thou shall not bear false witness"

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and so forth.

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In fact, the Egyptian religion is likely the primary foundational basis

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for the Judeo-Christian theology.

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Baptism, afterlife, final judgment, virgin birth

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death and resurrection, crucifixion, the Ark of the Covenant

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circumcision, saviors, Holy Communion

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Great Flood, Easter, Christmas, Passover

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and many more, are all attributes of Egyptian ideas

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long pre-dating Christianity and Judaism.

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Justin Martyr, one of the first Christian historians and defenders, wrote:

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"When we say that he, Jesus Christ, our teacher

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was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died

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and rose again, and ascended into Heaven

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we propound nothing different from what you believe

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regarding those who you esteem Sons of Jupiter."

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In a different writing, Justin Martyr said:

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"He was born of a virgin, accept this in common

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with what you believe of Perseus."

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It's obvious that Justin and other early Christians

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knew how similar Christianity was to the pagan religions.

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However, Justin had a solution.

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As far as he was concerned, the Devil did it.

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The Devil had the foresight to come before Christ

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and create his characteristics in the pagan world.

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(B. Hicks) Fundamentalist Christianity, fascinating!

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These people actually believe the world is 12,000 years old.

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I actually asked one of these guys "OK, dinosaur fossils?"

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He says "Dinosaur fossils?

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God put those here to test our faith!"

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[Laughter]

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"I think God put you here to test my faith, dude!"

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(P. Joseph) The Bible is nothing more than an astro-theological literary hybrid,

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just like nearly all religious myths before it.

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In fact, the aspect of transference of one character's attributes

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to a new character can be found within the book itself.

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In the Old Testament there's the story of Joseph.

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Joseph was a prototype for Jesus.

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Joseph was born of a miracle birth. Jesus was born of a miracle birth.

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Joseph was of 12 brothers. Jesus had 12 disciples.

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Joseph was sold for 20 pieces of silver.

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Jesus was sold for 30 pieces of silver.

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Brother Judah suggests the sale of Joseph.

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Disciple Judas suggests the sale of Jesus.

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Joseph began his work at the age of 30.

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Jesus began his work at the age of 30.

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The parallels go on and on.

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Furthermore, is there any non-Biblical historical evidence of any person

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living with the name Jesus, the Son of Mary

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who traveled about with 12 followers, healing people?

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There are numerous historians who lived in and around the Mediterranean

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either during or soon after the assumed life of Jesus.

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How many of these historians document this figure? Not one.

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However, to be fair, that doesn't mean defenders

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of the historical Jesus haven't claimed the contrary.

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Four historians are typically referenced to justify Jesus' existence.

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Pliny the younger, Suetonius and Tacitus are the first three.

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Each one of their entries consists of only a few sentences at best

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and only refer to 'Christus' or the Christ, which in fact is not a name

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but a title. It means 'The Anointed One'.

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The fourth source is Josephus and this source

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has been proven to be a forgery for hundreds of years.

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Sadly, it is still cited as truth.

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You would think that a guy who rose from the dead

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and ascended into Heaven for all eyes to see

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and performed the wealth of miracles acclaimed to him

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would have made it into the historical record.

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It didn't because once the evidence is weighed

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there are very high odds that the figure known as Jesus

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did not even exist.

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"The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun

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in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun

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pay him the adoration originally paid to the sun."

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Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

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(J. Maxwell) We don't want to be unkind, but we want to be factual.

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We don't want to cause hurt feelings

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but we want to be academically correct

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in what we understand and know to be true.

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Christianity just is not based on truth.

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We find that Christianity was in fact nothing more than a Roman story

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developed politically.

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(P. Joseph) The reality is, Jesus was the Solar Deity

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of the Gnostic Christian sect

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and like all other pagan gods, he was a mythical figure.

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It was the political establishment that sought to historize

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the Jesus figure for social control.

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In 325 AD in Rome, Emperor Constantine convened the Council of Nicea.

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It was during this meeting that the politically motivated

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Christian Doctrines were established

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and thus began a long history of religious bloodshed and spiritual fraud.

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And for over the next 1000 years, the Vatican

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00:38:03,702 --> 00:38:07,175
maintained a political stranglehold on all of Europe

493
00:38:07,315 --> 00:38:10,600
leading to such joyous periods as the Dark Ages

494
00:38:10,740 --> 00:38:15,435
along with enlightening events such as the Crusades and the Inquisition.

495
00:38:19,049 --> 00:38:22,680
Christianity, along with all other related theologies

496
00:38:22,820 --> 00:38:25,130
is a historical fraud.

497
00:38:25,270 --> 00:38:29,074
These religions now serve to detach the species from the natural world

498
00:38:29,214 --> 00:38:31,192
and likewise, each other.

499
00:38:31,332 --> 00:38:34,097
They support blind submission to authority.

500
00:38:34,237 --> 00:38:36,665
They reduce human responsibility to the effect

501
00:38:36,805 --> 00:38:40,770
that 'God' controls everything and in turn awful crimes

502
00:38:40,910 --> 00:38:44,668
can be justified in the name of a divine pursuit.

503
00:38:44,808 --> 00:38:49,735
And most critically, it empowers the political establishment

504
00:38:49,875 --> 00:38:54,711
who have been using the myth to manipulate and control societies.

505
00:38:55,468 --> 00:38:59,010
The religious myth is one of the most powerful devices ever created

506
00:38:59,150 --> 00:39:04,460
and serves as the psychological soil upon which other myths can flourish.

507
00:39:09,928 --> 00:39:15,319
(D. Griffin) A myth is an idea that, while widely believed, is false.

508
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,262
In a deeper sense, in the religious sense

509
00:39:22,378 --> 00:39:27,603
a myth serves as an orienting and mobilizing story for a people.

510
00:39:28,702 --> 00:39:33,877
The focus is not on the story's relation to reality but on its function.

511
00:39:34,677 --> 00:39:38,844
A story cannot function, unless it is believed to be true

512
00:39:38,984 --> 00:39:41,929
in the community or the nation.

513
00:39:42,366 --> 00:39:46,898
It is not a matter of debate if some people have the bad taste

514
00:39:47,038 --> 00:39:50,733
to raise the question of the truth of the sacred story.

515
00:39:50,873 --> 00:39:54,351
The keepers of the faith do not enter into debate with them.

516
00:39:54,491 --> 00:39:57,601
They ignore them or denounce them as blasphemers.

517
00:39:57,741 --> 00:40:01,403
It is wrong, blasphemous and sinful for you to suggest, imply

518
00:40:01,543 --> 00:40:03,816
or help other people come to the conclusion

519
00:40:03,956 --> 00:40:08,251
that the US government killed 3,000 of its own citizens.

520
00:40:10,646 --> 00:40:13,264
Part II:

521
00:40:13,404 --> 00:40:17,006
All the World's a Stage

522
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,091
(Man on phone) As if a demolition team set off...

523
00:40:54,231 --> 00:40:56,151
when you see demolitions of these old buildings.

524
00:40:56,291 --> 00:40:58,542
(Series of 3 reporters) It looks like one of those scenes

525
00:40:58,682 --> 00:41:00,724
of an old building being purposely blown up.

526
00:41:00,864 --> 00:41:03,564
Anybody who's ever watched a building being demolished

527
00:41:03,704 --> 00:41:06,403
on purpose knows that if you're going to do this you have to get

528
00:41:06,543 --> 00:41:09,834
at the under-infrastructure of a building and bring it down.

529
00:41:09,974 --> 00:41:12,866
The way the structure is collapsing, this was the result

530
00:41:13,006 --> 00:41:16,028
of something that was planned. It's not accidental

531
00:41:16,168 --> 00:41:18,940
that the 1st tower just happened to collapse and then the 2nd tower

532
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,193
just happened to collapse in exactly the same way.

533
00:41:22,333 --> 00:41:24,774
How they accomplished this, we don't know.

534
00:41:24,914 --> 00:41:27,962
(Fireman Casaliggi) The building collapsed to dust.

535
00:41:28,102 --> 00:41:31,961
You don't find a desk, you don't find a chair

536
00:41:32,101 --> 00:41:34,909
you don't find a telephone or a computer.

537
00:41:35,049 --> 00:41:37,633
The biggest piece of a telephone I found

538
00:41:37,773 --> 00:41:41,180
was half of the keypad and it was about this big.

539
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,073
- What happened to the concrete? - The concrete was pulverized.

540
00:41:44,213 --> 00:41:48,366
From river to river there was dust powder, two or three inches thick.

541
00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:51,540
The concrete was just pulverized!

542
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,406
(Man on phone) ...reminiscent of those pictures we've all seen too much

543
00:41:54,546 --> 00:41:57,635
on TV before when a building was deliberately destroyed

544
00:41:57,775 --> 00:42:00,500
by well-placed dynamite to knock it down.

545
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,256
- It's as if they had detonators... - Yes, detonators

546
00:42:03,396 --> 00:42:05,460
-...planned to take down the building, boom, boom...

547
00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:07,220
I heard a 2nd explosion.

548
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,300
There was a heavy-duty explosion.

549
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,300
There was a secondary explosion and then a subsequent collapse.

550
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,700
...explosion blew and then it knocked everybody over.

551
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,720
To me it sounded like an explosion.

552
00:42:16,860 --> 00:42:19,022
It sounded like gun-fire, bang-bang!

553
00:42:19,162 --> 00:42:21,340
And then all of a sudden three big explosions.

554
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,340
... and we heard big explosion coming down.

555
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,860
... and then the entire top of the building just blew up.

556
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,998
- We saw some kind of explosion. - By the force of the explosions... - big explosion...

557
00:42:30,138 --> 00:42:33,900
It blew us back into the 8th floor. - We got to the lobby, there was a big explosion.

558
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,500
The lobby looked as if a bomb had exploded there.

559
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,950
(Series of 7 witnesses) Huge explosion, now raining debris...

560
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,100
There's been a huge explosion!!!

561
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,060
Huge explosion that we all heard and felt.

562
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,020
We just witnessed some kind of follow up explosion...

563
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,020
We heard a very loud (It blasted!) explosion...

564
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,283
Smoke and secondary explosion in Tower One...

565
00:42:53,423 --> 00:42:57,251
That is another bomb going off. He thinks that there were actually devices

566
00:42:57,391 --> 00:43:01,278
that were planted in the building... planted in the building...

567
00:43:02,211 --> 00:43:04,907
The 9/11 Myth

568
00:43:05,047 --> 00:43:08,332
19 hijackers, directed by Osama bin Laden, took over 4 commercial jets

569
00:43:08,472 --> 00:43:11,970
and, while evading the Air Defense System (NORAD), hit 75% of their targets.

570
00:43:12,110 --> 00:43:14,961
In turn, World Trade Towers 1, 2 & 7 collapsed

571
00:43:15,101 --> 00:43:18,648
due to structural failure through fire in a 'pancake' fashion

572
00:43:18,788 --> 00:43:22,242
while the plane that hit the Pentagon vaporized upon impact

573
00:43:22,382 --> 00:43:25,131
as did the plane that crashed in Shanksville.

574
00:43:25,271 --> 00:43:29,673
The 911 Commission found that there were no warnings for this act of terrorism

575
00:43:29,813 --> 00:43:33,407
while multiple government failures prevented adequate defense.

576
00:43:33,547 --> 00:43:37,020
'no warnings'

577
00:43:39,961 --> 00:43:43,140
(C. Rice) I don't think anybody could have predicted

578
00:43:43,273 --> 00:43:45,360
that they would try to use an airplane as a missile

579
00:43:45,500 --> 00:43:47,411
a hijacked airplane as a missile.

580
00:43:47,551 --> 00:43:49,840
Nobody in our government at least, and I don't think the prior government

581
00:43:49,980 --> 00:43:52,250
could have envisioned flying airplanes into buildings.

582
00:43:52,390 --> 00:43:55,503
No specific threat involving domestic operations

583
00:43:55,643 --> 00:43:59,806
involving what happened obviously, the cities, airliners and so on.

584
00:43:59,946 --> 00:44:03,620
There were no warning signs that I'm aware of.

585
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:08,913
USAToday reports that in the 2 years before the attacks on September 11th

586
00:44:09,053 --> 00:44:13,620
NORAD conducted exercises using hijacked airliners as weapons.

587
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,940
And one target was the World Trade Center.

588
00:44:17,250 --> 00:44:21,750
Cover of FEMA response manual, 1997.

589
00:44:22,010 --> 00:44:26,238
Operation "Mascal", Oct. 2000, simulated a plane crash into the Pentagon.

590
00:44:27,702 --> 00:44:31,091
(Journalist) In confidential documents from the Philippines obtained by CNN

591
00:44:31,231 --> 00:44:35,713
the plan was clear: He will board any American commercial aircraft

592
00:44:35,853 --> 00:44:40,100
control its cockpit, and dive it at the CIA headquarters.

593
00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:43,700
Other buildings targeted included the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

594
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:48,380
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) received 52 warnings

595
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,738
about Al-Qaeda in the six months before 9/11

596
00:44:51,878 --> 00:44:54,279
and did not apparently heed them.

597
00:44:54,419 --> 00:44:56,741
(Journalist) The Pentagon reportedly does not want the public to hear

598
00:44:56,881 --> 00:44:59,594
next week's Senate Testimony about the former

599
00:44:59,734 --> 00:45:02,740
secret intelligence unit, known as 'Able Danger'

600
00:45:03,176 --> 00:45:06,964
And it identified Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 terrorists

601
00:45:07,104 --> 00:45:09,659
as members of an Al-Qaeda cell in Brooklyn, New York

602
00:45:09,799 --> 00:45:11,780
more than a year before the attacks.

603
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,900
And we found two of the three cells which conducted the 9/11 attacks.

604
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,966
(Journalist) Lt Colonel Anthony Shaffer, the first member of 'Able Danger'

605
00:45:18,106 --> 00:45:22,500
to go public, has now been told in writing by the Defense Intelligence Agency

606
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,597
that it can't speak to members of Congress or their staff without prior approval.

607
00:45:26,737 --> 00:45:29,346
This is an attempt to prevent the American people

608
00:45:29,486 --> 00:45:32,987
from knowing the facts about how we could have prevented 9/11

609
00:45:33,127 --> 00:45:36,140
and people are covering it up today.

610
00:45:36,606 --> 00:45:39,908
(Journalist) Security and counter-terrorism was blinking red

611
00:45:40,048 --> 00:45:43,960
in the words of George Tenet, that the warnings of an imminent attack

612
00:45:44,100 --> 00:45:47,489
were so severe that something dramatic should have been done.

613
00:45:47,629 --> 00:45:51,643
It was unparalleled. Instead, our president went on a month-long vacation.

614
00:45:56,158 --> 00:45:59,213
19 Hijackers

615
00:46:00,827 --> 00:46:05,454
(M. Meacher) The head of Pakistani intelligence (ISI) Mahmood Ahmed

616
00:46:05,594 --> 00:46:08,824
requested Omar Sheikh to wire

617
00:46:08,964 --> 00:46:12,700
$100,000 to Mohammed Atta who was the lead hijacker.

618
00:46:13,244 --> 00:46:17,540
(2 journalists) Hijacker Mohammed Atta received wire transfers via Pakistan.

619
00:46:17,895 --> 00:46:20,015
The man sending the money to Atta

620
00:46:20,155 --> 00:46:22,780
is believed to be Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.

621
00:46:23,121 --> 00:46:25,469
Omar Sheikh admitted he was supported

622
00:46:25,569 --> 00:46:28,820
by the Pakistani Government's intelligence service, the ISI.

623
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,953
No inquiry was ever made as to why General Ahmad ordered $100,000

624
00:46:33,093 --> 00:46:35,606
to be sent to Mohamed Atta.

625
00:46:35,746 --> 00:46:39,674
On the morning of September 11, government officials were having breakfast

626
00:46:39,814 --> 00:46:41,993
with General Ahmad in Washington.

627
00:46:42,133 --> 00:46:45,066
The 911 Commission deemed the financing of the attacks

628
00:46:45,206 --> 00:46:48,140
was 'of little practical significance' in their official report.

629
00:46:48,564 --> 00:46:51,885
(Journalist) As hard as this is to believe, that two of the alleged terrorists

630
00:46:52,025 --> 00:46:54,118
involved in what happened on Tuesday

631
00:46:54,258 --> 00:46:57,580
may have attended schools run by U.S. military.

632
00:46:57,896 --> 00:47:00,110
Evidence was also apparently planted.

633
00:47:00,250 --> 00:47:02,187
The passport of one of the hijackers

634
00:47:02,327 --> 00:47:04,939
on Flight 11 was allegedly found in the rubble.

635
00:47:05,079 --> 00:47:07,186
The hijacker's passport was found blocks

636
00:47:07,326 --> 00:47:09,580
from the World Trade Center crash site, if you can believe that.

637
00:47:10,023 --> 00:47:12,505
The 9/11 hijackers are alive and well

638
00:47:12,645 --> 00:47:15,353
that's according to the chief of Japan's Democratic Party

639
00:47:15,493 --> 00:47:17,820
who says 9/11 is a hoax.

640
00:47:18,277 --> 00:47:21,100
Several of these 19 men are still alive.

641
00:47:21,410 --> 00:47:24,116
"I couldn't believe it when the FBI put me on their list.

642
00:47:24,256 --> 00:47:27,147
They gave my name and my date of birth but I'm not a suicide bomber.

643
00:47:27,287 --> 00:47:29,630
I am alive. I have no idea how to fly a plane."

644
00:47:30,318 --> 00:47:33,861
At least 7 of the hijackers are still alive.

645
00:47:34,272 --> 00:47:38,633
The FBI has to this day not revised their list.

646
00:47:38,773 --> 00:47:43,420
At least 5 hijackers are reported as linked to US Military Institutions.

647
00:47:47,801 --> 00:47:50,323
Osama B. Laden

648
00:47:53,543 --> 00:47:57,220
Of course we're after Saddam Hussein, I mean bin Laden, he's...

649
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,338
(Journalist) In the early 80s bin Laden worked with operatives

650
00:48:00,478 --> 00:48:04,620
from US Intelligence, the Pakistani military and Arab states.

651
00:48:05,231 --> 00:48:10,185
January 2001. The Bush Administration orders the FBI

652
00:48:10,543 --> 00:48:14,145
and intelligence agencies to back off investigations

653
00:48:14,285 --> 00:48:16,401
involving the bin Laden family

654
00:48:16,541 --> 00:48:19,458
including two of Osama bin Laden's relatives

655
00:48:19,598 --> 00:48:22,851
who were living, guess where? In Falls Church, Virginia

656
00:48:22,991 --> 00:48:24,857
right next to CIA headquarters.

657
00:48:25,199 --> 00:48:28,167
When he was already America's 'most wanted criminal'

658
00:48:28,307 --> 00:48:32,199
he reportedly spent two weeks in the American hospital in Dubai

659
00:48:32,339 --> 00:48:36,420
was treated by an American doctor and visited by the local CIA agent.

660
00:48:36,910 --> 00:48:41,260
We have not seen one piece of evidence that links Osama bin Laden

661
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,020
directly to the planning stages of September 11th.

662
00:48:44,358 --> 00:48:47,384
(D. Griffin) This failure to provide proof was later said to be unnecessary

663
00:48:47,524 --> 00:48:51,263
because bin Laden, in a video allegedly found in Afghanistan

664
00:48:51,403 --> 00:48:54,580
admitted responsibility for the attacks.

665
00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:56,820
"I have carefully examined the Pentagon's translation

666
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,050
which is very problematic. At the most important pieces where it is held

667
00:48:59,150 --> 00:49:01,342
to prove the guilt of bin Laden, it is not identical with the Arabic."

668
00:49:01,482 --> 00:49:02,920
Arabist Dr. Abdel EIM Husseini

669
00:49:03,060 --> 00:49:05,573
"The American translators who listened to the tapes and transcribed them

670
00:49:05,713 --> 00:49:08,192
apparently wrote a lot of things in that they wanted to hear

671
00:49:08,332 --> 00:49:11,234
but cannot be heard, no matter how many times you listen to the tapes."

672
00:49:11,374 --> 00:49:13,470
Gernot Rotter, Prof. of Islamic Studies at University of Hamburg

673
00:49:14,010 --> 00:49:19,381
In 1976, Osama's older brother Saleem bin Laden

674
00:49:19,521 --> 00:49:22,299
hired a man in Texas by the name of Jim Bath

675
00:49:22,439 --> 00:49:26,328
to handle all the investments in the United States for the bin Laden family.

676
00:49:26,468 --> 00:49:29,775
Jim Bath also happens to be a personal, almost life-long friend

677
00:49:29,915 --> 00:49:33,140
and former international guard pilot, with George W. Bush.

678
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,289
The connections between the Bushes and the bin Ladens

679
00:49:36,429 --> 00:49:39,467
become much more clear when George Herbert Walker Bush

680
00:49:39,607 --> 00:49:44,431
made trips to Saudi Arabia in 1998 and 2000 to meet with

681
00:49:44,571 --> 00:49:49,714
the bin Laden family on behalf of a company called the Carlyle Group.

682
00:49:50,053 --> 00:49:53,414
On the morning of 9/11, the Carlyle Group was having a conference

683
00:49:53,554 --> 00:49:57,025
in Washington, which included Osama's older brother, Shafig bin Laden.

684
00:49:57,165 --> 00:50:00,205
The Carlyle Group is linked to the world's largest defense contractors

685
00:50:00,345 --> 00:50:03,660
which continue to reap massive profits off of the post 9/11 'War on Terrorism'

686
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,397
and Afghan/Iraq Wars.

687
00:50:09,070 --> 00:50:11,356
Pentagon

688
00:50:13,436 --> 00:50:17,660
(Reporter) How could anyone fly a 60 ton, 125 foot wide

689
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,860
44 foot tall plane through this obstacle course?

690
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,329
(D. Griffin) The aircraft before striking the Pentagon reportedly executed

691
00:50:24,469 --> 00:50:28,563
a 270 degree downward spiral

692
00:50:28,703 --> 00:50:32,207
and yet Hani Hanjour was known as a terrible pilot

693
00:50:32,347 --> 00:50:35,388
who could not safely fly even a small plane.

694
00:50:35,528 --> 00:50:38,653
"He didn't care about the fact that he couldn't get through the course."

695
00:50:38,793 --> 00:50:42,056
"I am still to this day amazed that he could have flown into the Pentagon... "

696
00:50:42,196 --> 00:50:45,309
- AZ Flight school employee (New York Times Report 5/4/2002)

697
00:50:46,810 --> 00:50:49,420
(Reporter) No seats, no luggage, no bodies.

698
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,540
Nothing but bricks and limestone.

699
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,522
(D. Avery) The official explanation is that the intense heat from the jet fuel

700
00:50:54,662 --> 00:50:58,492
vaporized the entire plane. Flight 77 had two Rolls Royce engines

701
00:50:58,632 --> 00:51:02,100
made of steel and titanium alloy and weighed 6 tons each.

702
00:51:02,463 --> 00:51:05,560
It is scientifically impossible that 12 tons of steel

703
00:51:05,700 --> 00:51:07,900
and titanium was vaporized by jet fuel.

704
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:12,632
We're also told that the bodies were able to be identified

705
00:51:12,982 --> 00:51:15,911
either by the fingerprints or by their DNA.

706
00:51:16,051 --> 00:51:20,391
So what kind of fire can vaporize aluminum and tempered steel

707
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,900
and yet leave human bodies intact?

708
00:51:23,218 --> 00:51:27,014
(Reporter) From my close-up inspection there's no evidence of a plane

709
00:51:27,154 --> 00:51:29,082
having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon

710
00:51:29,222 --> 00:51:32,406
and the only pieces left that you can see

711
00:51:32,546 --> 00:51:34,780
are small enough that you can pick up in your hand.

712
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,021
(D. Griffin) Shortly after the strike, government agents

713
00:51:37,161 --> 00:51:39,571
picked up debris and carried it off.

714
00:51:39,711 --> 00:51:42,871
The entire lawn was covered with dirt and gravel

715
00:51:43,011 --> 00:51:46,940
so that any remaining forensic evidence was literally covered up.

716
00:51:47,253 --> 00:51:49,887
The videos from security cameras which would show

717
00:51:50,027 --> 00:51:53,100
what really hit the Pentagon were immediately confiscated

718
00:51:53,414 --> 00:51:55,576
by agents of the FBI

719
00:51:55,716 --> 00:51:59,726
and the Department of Justice has to this day refused to release them.

720
00:51:59,866 --> 00:52:04,581
If these videos would prove that the Pentagon was really hit by a 757

721
00:52:04,721 --> 00:52:08,298
most of us would assume the Government would release them.

722
00:52:08,438 --> 00:52:10,820
[Request Denied]

723
00:52:15,642 --> 00:52:18,391
Shanksville

724
00:52:20,402 --> 00:52:23,734
- It looks like there's nothing there except for a hole in the ground.

725
00:52:23,874 --> 00:52:26,995
- Basically that's right, the only thing you could see from where we were

726
00:52:27,135 --> 00:52:30,408
was a big gouge in the earth and some broken trees.

727
00:52:30,548 --> 00:52:34,024
You could see some people working, walking around in the area

728
00:52:34,164 --> 00:52:36,523
but from where we could see there wasn't much left.

729
00:52:36,663 --> 00:52:39,621
- Any large pieces of debris at all? - No, there was nothing.

730
00:52:39,761 --> 00:52:42,580
Nothing that you could distinguish that a plane had crashed there.

731
00:52:43,338 --> 00:52:46,116
Commercial plane crash in Nigeria

732
00:52:48,855 --> 00:52:52,740
Flight 93 "Crash" in Shanksville

733
00:52:56,493 --> 00:52:59,759
The FBI and state police here have confirmed that they have cordoned off

734
00:52:59,899 --> 00:53:03,668
a second area about 6 to 8 miles away from the crater here.

735
00:53:03,808 --> 00:53:06,923
This is apparently another debris site.

736
00:53:07,063 --> 00:53:08,995
Why would debris be located 6 miles away?

737
00:53:09,135 --> 00:53:11,460
Could that have blown that far away? Seems highly unlikely.

738
00:53:18,137 --> 00:53:21,366
World Trade Towers 1, 2 & 7

739
00:53:23,987 --> 00:53:26,669
(D. Griffin) Pancake theory, according to which the fires

740
00:53:26,809 --> 00:53:29,519
while not melting the steel, heated it up sufficiently

741
00:53:29,659 --> 00:53:32,165
to cause the floors weakened by the airplane strikes

742
00:53:32,305 --> 00:53:36,000
to break loose from the steel columns and this started a chain reaction.

743
00:53:36,140 --> 00:53:39,749
- So, you would expect then from that theory, which is the official theory

744
00:53:39,889 --> 00:53:43,385
to see a whole stack of floors piled up on top of each other

745
00:53:43,525 --> 00:53:46,310
and then a spindle of core columns standing too.

746
00:53:46,450 --> 00:53:51,083
- The core of each of the Twin Towers consisted of 47 massive steel columns.

747
00:53:51,223 --> 00:53:53,752
If the floors had broken loose from them, these columns

748
00:53:53,892 --> 00:53:57,060
would have still been sticking up into the air, a thousand feet.

749
00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:59,900
The plane did not cut all those core columns.

750
00:54:00,415 --> 00:54:05,251
We designed the buildings to take the impact of the Boeing 707

751
00:54:05,632 --> 00:54:07,660
hitting the building at any location.

752
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:13,020
The building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners.

753
00:54:13,411 --> 00:54:16,971
- ...that the plane flew straight into the building. - Straight through, right.

754
00:54:17,111 --> 00:54:19,503
- So you're saying that the building was actually designed to cope

755
00:54:19,643 --> 00:54:23,300
with a hole like that and then still survive? - Yes, it was.

756
00:54:23,862 --> 00:54:26,644
- If you would drop, say a billiard ball

757
00:54:26,784 --> 00:54:29,692
from the top of the World Trade Center, 110 floors up there

758
00:54:29,832 --> 00:54:32,855
it would have taken 8 to 10 seconds to hit the ground

759
00:54:32,995 --> 00:54:35,140
encountering no resistance whatsoever.

760
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,038
(D. Avery) The Twin Towers came down in nearly free fall speed.

761
00:54:38,178 --> 00:54:42,847
200,000 tons of steel shatters and explodes outwards over 500 feet.

762
00:54:42,987 --> 00:54:45,950
- This means that floors shattered at an average rate

763
00:54:46,090 --> 00:54:48,309
of about ten floors per second.

764
00:54:48,449 --> 00:54:51,540
- There is no scenario for a pancake effect of buildings falling

765
00:54:51,810 --> 00:54:53,882
that allows them to fall at a rate of free fall.

766
00:54:54,022 --> 00:54:56,816
Now what can do that? What can move mass out of the way?

767
00:54:56,956 --> 00:54:58,110
Explosives.

768
00:55:05,526 --> 00:55:10,492
47 huge steel columns going up the core that are interconnected.

769
00:55:10,632 --> 00:55:14,755
How do you get them to fail simultaneously so the core disappeared?

770
00:55:14,895 --> 00:55:17,810
It looks like those core columns were cut.

771
00:55:17,950 --> 00:55:20,478
(Controlled demolition expert) We do this by cutting the beam

772
00:55:20,618 --> 00:55:23,478
at an angle.

773
00:55:27,296 --> 00:55:31,215
World Trade Center core column after the collapse.

774
00:55:32,866 --> 00:55:37,046
Notice the 'cut' shape and the melted... or 'molten metal'.

775
00:55:38,636 --> 00:55:41,439
(S. Jones) I started looking at the molten metal.

776
00:55:41,579 --> 00:55:45,499
All three buildings, both towers in the rubble, in the basement areas

777
00:55:45,639 --> 00:55:48,878
and Building 7, there were these pools of molten metal.

778
00:55:49,018 --> 00:55:51,168
For well over 6 weeks after the collapse

779
00:55:51,301 --> 00:55:53,838
hot spots of 2000°F were documented in the debris.

780
00:55:53,978 --> 00:55:56,820
That is 500°F hotter than jet fuel can burn

781
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,728
in the most controlled conditions.

782
00:55:59,868 --> 00:56:03,322
You'd get down below and you'd see molten steel

783
00:56:04,129 --> 00:56:07,344
molten steel running down the channel rails

784
00:56:07,870 --> 00:56:10,300
like you were in a foundry

785
00:56:10,807 --> 00:56:12,340
like lava of a volcano.

786
00:56:12,811 --> 00:56:16,219
(D. Avery) The molten steel was found 3, 4 and 5 weeks later

787
00:56:16,359 --> 00:56:18,264
when the rubble was being removed.

788
00:56:18,404 --> 00:56:22,140
He said that molten steel was also found underneath World Trade Center 7.

789
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,918
So I'm looking through the official reports. What do they say

790
00:56:25,058 --> 00:56:28,636
about the molten metal? They say nothing.

791
00:56:29,229 --> 00:56:32,140
Wait a minute. This is important evidence.

792
00:56:32,502 --> 00:56:34,761
Where did that come from?

793
00:56:36,647 --> 00:56:40,002
(S. Jones) Thermite is so hot that it will just cut through steel

794
00:56:40,142 --> 00:56:44,380
through structural steel, for example, like a knife through butter.

795
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:48,450
The products are molten iron and aluminum oxide

796
00:56:48,590 --> 00:56:51,446
which goes off primarily as a dust.

797
00:56:52,441 --> 00:56:54,380
You know, those enormous dust clouds?

798
00:56:54,736 --> 00:56:59,211
You can imagine, when you assemble these chemicals on a large scale.

799
00:57:02,136 --> 00:57:05,450
- So, professor Niels Harrit, you examined the rubble

800
00:57:05,590 --> 00:57:09,141
that came from the World Trade Center. What did you find in it?

801
00:57:09,281 --> 00:57:12,115
- In there, we find remains

802
00:57:12,255 --> 00:57:15,728
of what we characterize as a thermitic material.

803
00:57:15,868 --> 00:57:18,410
This is very energetic material

804
00:57:18,550 --> 00:57:22,302
which can be used either for melting iron

805
00:57:22,442 --> 00:57:26,022
or it can be designed as an explosive.

806
00:57:26,162 --> 00:57:29,872
The evidence for controlled demolition is overwhelming.

807
00:57:30,012 --> 00:57:33,651
I told you that the thermite reaction produced molten iron.

808
00:57:33,791 --> 00:57:39,324
Molten iron was in pools of molten iron in the rubble

809
00:57:39,464 --> 00:57:42,727
and the point is that the thermite kept on reacting.

810
00:57:42,867 --> 00:57:45,500
This was the witches' brew of thermite chemistry.

811
00:57:45,834 --> 00:57:49,870
Molten metal pools under both towers after they collapsed

812
00:57:50,010 --> 00:57:53,660
and Building 7, which wasn't even hit by a jet.

813
00:57:54,420 --> 00:57:56,434
(Reporter) Part of the problem is that most people

814
00:57:56,574 --> 00:57:58,790
simply don't know much about Building 7

815
00:57:58,930 --> 00:58:02,043
due to the extraordinary secrecy surrounding this collapse.

816
00:58:02,183 --> 00:58:05,300
(Reporter) This was a 47-story skyscraper.

817
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:08,962
This building fell at 5:25.

818
00:58:09,102 --> 00:58:11,046
(D. Griffin) It was not hit by a plane.

819
00:58:11,186 --> 00:58:14,217
This building had fires on only 2 or 3 floors.

820
00:58:14,357 --> 00:58:18,562
- ... and it was brought down by what we know was a controlled demolition.

821
00:58:18,702 --> 00:58:21,392
- Demolitions look just like that, kink in the middle

822
00:58:21,532 --> 00:58:25,300
and then that building just comes straight down almost at free fall speed.

823
00:58:28,691 --> 00:58:31,959
In 2005, The National Institute of Standards and Technology

824
00:58:32,099 --> 00:58:34,482
released its report on WTC Towers 1 & 2.

825
00:58:34,622 --> 00:58:37,820
The 10,000 page report does not address the actual collapse.

826
00:58:38,786 --> 00:58:42,210
In 2008, The National Institute of Standards and Technology

827
00:58:42,350 --> 00:58:44,401
released its report on WTC Tower 7.

828
00:58:44,541 --> 00:58:46,811
They did not analyze one piece of steel

829
00:58:46,951 --> 00:58:49,353
or test a controlled demolition hypothesis.

830
00:58:49,493 --> 00:58:52,687
Rather, they built a computer model with a predisposition

831
00:58:52,827 --> 00:58:55,218
that it was a 'fire-induced' collapse.

832
00:58:55,358 --> 00:58:57,820
The parameters used have not been released.

833
00:58:59,490 --> 00:59:03,408
While admitting there was a period of 'free fall' for 2.25 sec (8 floors)

834
00:59:03,548 --> 00:59:06,434
they provide no explanation as to how this is possible

835
00:59:06,574 --> 00:59:09,472
since their 'progressive collapse' theory is based

836
00:59:09,612 --> 00:59:12,404
on systemic collisions and triggered failures.

837
00:59:14,139 --> 00:59:17,081
The Law of Conservation of Momentum simply cannot allow

838
00:59:17,221 --> 00:59:20,641
for a 'progressive' movement through resistance

839
00:59:20,781 --> 00:59:23,277
at the rate of 'free fall'.

840
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:31,527
Did we review the sub-basement explosions

841
00:59:31,667 --> 00:59:34,835
which occurred moments before the first plane hit?

842
00:59:34,975 --> 00:59:39,819
Our office was on the B1 level. As I was talking to a supervisor at 8.46

843
00:59:39,959 --> 00:59:42,811
and all of a sudden we hear - BOOM!

844
00:59:42,951 --> 00:59:45,590
(William Rodriguez, 20 year employee of the WTC)

845
00:59:45,730 --> 00:59:48,340
An explosion so hard that pushed us upwards.

846
00:59:48,847 --> 00:59:53,629
And it came from the basement, between the B2 level and the B3 level.

847
00:59:53,769 --> 00:59:57,476
And when I went to verbalize, we hear - BOOM!

848
00:59:57,616 --> 00:59:59,940
The impact of the plane on the top.

849
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:04,230
(Reporter) It would appear as if there's more smoke coming from the ground...

850
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,980
I was down at the basement, came down, all of a sudden the elevator blew up.

851
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,134
And as we were coming out, we passed a lobby. There was no lobby

852
01:00:11,274 --> 01:00:13,508
so I believe the bomb hit the lobby first

853
01:00:13,648 --> 01:00:15,430
and couple of seconds, then the first plane hit.

854
01:00:15,570 --> 01:00:19,795
As I'm walking by the main freight car of the building in the corridor

855
01:00:20,089 --> 01:00:22,751
that's when I got blown.

856
01:00:22,891 --> 01:00:26,700
I mean, the impact of the explosion threw me to the floor

857
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:28,620
and that's when everything started happening.

858
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,192
All of a sudden a big impact happened again

859
01:00:31,332 --> 01:00:34,469
and all the ceiling tiles and light fixtures were falling down.

860
01:00:34,609 --> 01:00:38,620
You have to go clear across the hall from 1 to 2 World Trade Center

861
01:00:38,983 --> 01:00:41,210
and then all of a sudden it happened all over again.

862
01:00:41,350 --> 01:00:44,853
Something else hit us to the floor. Right in the basement, you felt it.

863
01:00:44,993 --> 01:00:47,921
Walls were caving in, everything that was going on...

864
01:00:48,061 --> 01:00:50,198
I know people that got killed in the basement.

865
01:00:50,338 --> 01:00:53,042
I know people that got broken legs in the basement.

866
01:00:53,182 --> 01:00:56,700
People got reconstructive surgery because the walls hit them in the face.

867
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:04,732
NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command)

868
01:01:06,392 --> 01:01:09,830
According to standard operating procedure, if an FAA flight control

869
01:01:09,970 --> 01:01:12,729
notices anything that suggests a possible hijacking

870
01:01:12,869 --> 01:01:15,910
controllers are to contact their superior. If the problem cannot be fixed

871
01:01:16,050 --> 01:01:18,534
within about a minute, the superior should ask NORAD

872
01:01:18,674 --> 01:01:20,888
the North American Aerospace Command to send up

873
01:01:21,028 --> 01:01:23,963
or scramble jet fighters to find out what is going on.

874
01:01:24,103 --> 01:01:25,868
NORAD then issues a scramble order

875
01:01:26,008 --> 01:01:28,797
to the nearest air force base with fighters on alert.

876
01:01:28,937 --> 01:01:32,695
Although interceptions usually occur within 10 or so minutes

877
01:01:32,835 --> 01:01:35,893
in this case 80 or so minutes had elapsed

878
01:01:36,033 --> 01:01:37,900
before fighters were even airborne.

879
01:01:38,268 --> 01:01:40,474
(Reporter) It's a mind-bending anomaly.

880
01:01:40,614 --> 01:01:44,916
Not a single US Air Force interceptor turns a wheel until it's too late.

881
01:01:45,056 --> 01:01:47,060
There are no jets at all.

882
01:01:47,432 --> 01:01:51,505
What if they were so confused, and had been so deliberately confused

883
01:01:51,645 --> 01:01:53,540
that they couldn't respond?

884
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:58,224
The reason that they didn't know where to go was because a number of conflicting

885
01:01:58,364 --> 01:02:02,297
and overlapping war game exercises were taking place

886
01:02:02,437 --> 01:02:05,548
that involved the insertion of false radar blips

887
01:02:05,688 --> 01:02:08,620
on the radar screens in the north-east air defense sector.

888
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:11,021
(FAA) "Hi, Boston Center TMU, we have a problem here.

889
01:02:11,161 --> 01:02:13,961
We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York

890
01:02:14,101 --> 01:02:17,700
we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there to help us out."

891
01:02:18,181 --> 01:02:21,540
(NORAD) "Is this real world or exercise?"

892
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,288
There was another exercise, "Vigilant Warrior"

893
01:02:24,428 --> 01:02:26,699
which was in fact according to a NORAD source

894
01:02:26,839 --> 01:02:30,266
a live-fly hijack drill being conducted at the same time.

895
01:02:30,406 --> 01:02:32,516
With only 8 available fighter aircraft

896
01:02:32,656 --> 01:02:34,865
and they have to be dispatched in pairs

897
01:02:35,005 --> 01:02:39,636
they were dealing with as many as 22 possible hijacks on the day of 9/11

898
01:02:39,776 --> 01:02:44,441
and they couldn't separate the war game exercises from the actual hijacks.

899
01:02:44,581 --> 01:02:48,012
In 2000, NORAD had 67 intercepts. 100% accuracy.

900
01:02:48,152 --> 01:02:51,500
On 9/11 they failed 4 times in one day.

901
01:02:52,338 --> 01:02:56,093
In at least one of the many war games going on the morning of 9/11

902
01:02:56,233 --> 01:02:59,460
planes being flown into buildings was a scenario.

903
01:03:04,702 --> 01:03:07,425
9/11 Commission

904
01:03:09,062 --> 01:03:12,924
Page 172: "The US Government has not been able to determine

905
01:03:13,064 --> 01:03:16,076
the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks.

906
01:03:16,216 --> 01:03:19,060
Ultimately, the question is of little practical significance."

907
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,219
The American authorities have not managed to trace

908
01:03:22,359 --> 01:03:25,988
the source of the funding and then the most amazingly

909
01:03:26,128 --> 01:03:29,700
disingenuous statement: "Ultimately, is it of little consequence".

910
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,255
It is of massive consequence!

911
01:03:32,395 --> 01:03:34,264
Doesn't it matter who paid for 9/11?

912
01:03:34,404 --> 01:03:37,161
(D. Griffin) The collapse of Building 7 has been recognized

913
01:03:37,301 --> 01:03:40,176
as especially difficult to explain.

914
01:03:40,316 --> 01:03:44,422
The 9/11 Commission Report implicitly admitted that it could not explain

915
01:03:44,562 --> 01:03:47,540
the collapse of this building by not even mentioning it.

916
01:03:48,024 --> 01:03:50,756
- Mr. President, why are you and the Vice President insisting on

917
01:03:50,896 --> 01:03:53,193
appearing together before the 9/11 Commission?

918
01:03:53,333 --> 01:03:56,340
- Because the 9/11 Commission wants to ask us questions.

919
01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:58,646
That's why we are meeting and I look forward to meeting with them

920
01:03:58,786 --> 01:04:00,829
and answering their questions.

921
01:04:00,969 --> 01:04:03,888
- The question was, why are you appearing together rather than separately

922
01:04:04,028 --> 01:04:06,407
which was their request?

923
01:04:06,547 --> 01:04:09,516
- Because it's a good chance for both of us to answer questions

924
01:04:09,656 --> 01:04:13,621
that the 9/11 Commission is looking forward to asking us

925
01:04:13,761 --> 01:04:16,871
and I am looking forward to answering them. Let's see.

926
01:04:17,011 --> 01:04:20,662
- Do you think they should be able to stand up and speak their own words?

927
01:04:20,802 --> 01:04:23,307
- They should go under oath. In public!

928
01:04:23,447 --> 01:04:26,310
When Bush and Cheney met with the 9/11 Commission, they did so

929
01:04:26,450 --> 01:04:29,024
only on their own terms: They appeared together.

930
01:04:29,164 --> 01:04:31,406
They were not under oath.

931
01:04:31,546 --> 01:04:33,856
No press or family members were allowed to attend.

932
01:04:33,996 --> 01:04:36,654
No recording of any kind was allowed.

933
01:04:36,794 --> 01:04:39,872
- Don't you think that the families deserve to have a transcript

934
01:04:40,012 --> 01:04:42,860
or to be able to see... - Adam, you asked me that question yesterday

935
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:45,462
and got the same answer.

936
01:04:45,602 --> 01:04:48,231
- The final report was a unanimous report.

937
01:04:48,371 --> 01:04:51,764
That means that if there was a single commissioner who had any objection

938
01:04:51,904 --> 01:04:55,434
about anything, that fact would be dropped from the report.

939
01:04:55,574 --> 01:04:59,378
- We have found out that he not only served on the transition team

940
01:04:59,518 --> 01:05:01,640
of the Bush Administration

941
01:05:01,780 --> 01:05:04,243
that he was a person who wrote a draft memo

942
01:05:04,383 --> 01:05:07,929
for the setup of the Bush Administration's National Security Council

943
01:05:08,069 --> 01:05:10,882
that he was an individual who wrote the preemptive war strategy

944
01:05:11,022 --> 01:05:13,182
that was eventually used for the war on Iraq

945
01:05:13,322 --> 01:05:16,220
that he's a close friend of Condoleezza Rice's.

946
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:18,060
We want him to resign.

947
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:21,027
There is literally nothing in the 9/11 Report

948
01:05:21,167 --> 01:05:23,580
that the Bush Administration did not approve of.

949
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:26,799
(D. Griffin) We can understand therefore why the Commission

950
01:05:26,939 --> 01:05:30,678
under Zelikow's leadership would have ignored all the evidence

951
01:05:30,818 --> 01:05:32,620
that would point to the truth

952
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:35,396
that 9/11 was a false flag operation

953
01:05:35,536 --> 01:05:38,482
intended to authorize the doctrines and funds

954
01:05:38,622 --> 01:05:41,620
needed for a new level of imperial mobilization.

955
01:05:48,065 --> 01:05:50,361
Terrorism

956
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,062
Terrorism: 1) Systematic use of terror

957
01:05:54,202 --> 01:05:59,460
manifesting itself in violence or intimidation, for generating fear.

958
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:03,109
Armed with knives. Armed with chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

959
01:06:03,249 --> 01:06:05,917
Fanatics. Terrorists. September 11th. September 11th. Killers.

960
01:06:06,057 --> 01:06:08,140
September 11th. Terrorists. Al Qaeda, Terrorists.

961
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,540
Nuclear weapons. Terror. 9/11. Terror. Evil.

962
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:15,492
September 11th. September 11th. The terrorists. War and danger.

963
01:06:15,659 --> 01:06:19,020
September 11th. Terrorism. Global terrorism. Terrorism. Terrorist

964
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,932
Terrorist. (Repeated 5 times)

965
01:06:22,072 --> 01:06:25,900
Terrorists. Terrorism. September 11th. Global terrorism.

966
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:30,069
Terrorism. Terrorism. Terrorists. September 11th. World terrorism.

967
01:06:30,209 --> 01:06:32,700
Terrorism. September 11th. Global Terrorism.

968
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:35,445
September the 11th. Terrorist. Terrorist. Terrorist. Terrorist.

969
01:06:35,612 --> 01:06:37,900
Weapons of mass destruction. September 11th.

970
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:42,286
September the 11th. The evil terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists Know!

971
01:06:42,653 --> 01:06:45,700
(Journalist) Terrorism. The words are hypnotically repeated:

972
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,859
Terrorism. Terrorists. Terrorist threat.

973
01:06:48,999 --> 01:06:52,580
And of course, "believed to be linked to al-Qaeda".

974
01:06:53,101 --> 01:06:56,246
But, it's the so-called 'War on Terrorism'

975
01:06:56,386 --> 01:06:59,114
that's in our faces practically 24/7

976
01:06:59,254 --> 01:07:01,740
as the inescapable focus of our existence.

977
01:07:02,156 --> 01:07:05,736
(D. Rumsfeld) One day our grandchildren will look back on this time and ask

978
01:07:05,876 --> 01:07:08,256
"How was the War on Terror won?"

979
01:07:08,550 --> 01:07:12,009
The entire US ruling class, ruling elite

980
01:07:12,149 --> 01:07:15,262
comes to see terrorism as the preferred means

981
01:07:15,402 --> 01:07:18,922
indeed the only means to provide social cohesion

982
01:07:19,062 --> 01:07:22,291
to provide an enemy image for the society, to keep it together.

983
01:07:22,431 --> 01:07:24,850
According to neocon theory from Carl Schmitt, you have to have

984
01:07:24,990 --> 01:07:27,233
an enemy image in order to have a society.

985
01:07:27,373 --> 01:07:30,655
A very dangerous thing because now it means that the entire social order

986
01:07:30,795 --> 01:07:33,897
the political parties, intellectual life, politics in general

987
01:07:34,037 --> 01:07:36,700
are all based on a monstrous myth.

988
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:39,775
[Echoed: monstrous myth]

989
01:07:44,268 --> 01:07:47,385
Terrorism: 2) Technique used by governments

990
01:07:47,525 --> 01:07:51,620
to manipulate public opinion in order to further an agenda.

991
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:54,359
Look, what the CIA has done in this country

992
01:07:54,499 --> 01:07:56,782
what they have done to us is unbelievable.

993
01:07:56,922 --> 01:07:59,183
Look at the terrorist acts that have occurred.

994
01:07:59,323 --> 01:08:01,500
The CIA is behind most if not all of them.

995
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:05,002
We had the Marine barracks, their embassy in Kenya.

996
01:08:05,781 --> 01:08:10,007
We had Pan Am 103. We had the USS Cole.

997
01:08:10,681 --> 01:08:14,980
We had Oklahoma City. We had the World Trade Center in 1993.

998
01:08:15,559 --> 01:08:19,583
...that helped the terrorists to blow up the World Trade Center the first time.

999
01:08:20,284 --> 01:08:23,120
They built the bomb. They got the driver's license.

1000
01:08:23,754 --> 01:08:29,274
The informer Emad A. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian Army officer

1001
01:08:29,414 --> 01:08:32,461
was given the assignment to put the bomb together

1002
01:08:32,601 --> 01:08:34,980
and he went to his FBI supervisor

1003
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,525
and he said "We're going to put a dummy bomb in here, right?"

1004
01:08:37,665 --> 01:08:40,340
and the FBI supervisor said "No, we're going to put a real bomb."

1005
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,601
(Journalist) FBI agents might have been able to prevent

1006
01:08:43,741 --> 01:08:47,564
last February's deadly explosion at New York's World Trade Center.

1007
01:08:47,704 --> 01:08:51,579
They discussed secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives

1008
01:08:51,719 --> 01:08:56,186
but they didn't, according to the FBI's own informant Emad Salem.

1009
01:08:56,326 --> 01:08:58,600
Unbeknownst to the FBI at the time

1010
01:08:58,740 --> 01:09:01,660
Salem recorded many of his conversations with his handlers.

1011
01:09:02,322 --> 01:09:06,286
Unfortunately for them, there were only six people killed

1012
01:09:06,426 --> 01:09:08,380
not enough to pass the legislation.

1013
01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:11,159
So, what happened is two years later

1014
01:09:11,299 --> 01:09:15,296
April 19, 1995 down comes Oklahoma City

1015
01:09:15,436 --> 01:09:18,554
the Murrah Building, 168 people killed.

1016
01:09:18,694 --> 01:09:21,660
One year later, the anti-terror legislation, which takes away

1017
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:25,299
many of our constitutional rights and civil liberties, is passed.

1018
01:09:25,845 --> 01:09:28,612
Madrid, 2004

1019
01:09:38,010 --> 01:09:42,749
7/7/2005 London: 3 trains and a bus were bombed, killing 56 people.

1020
01:09:45,268 --> 01:09:47,790
That morning, an "anti-terror exercise" just happened

1021
01:09:47,930 --> 01:09:49,989
to be taking place as well, dealing with...

1022
01:09:50,129 --> 01:09:52,242
THE EXACT SAME BOMBING SCENARIO

1023
01:09:52,342 --> 01:09:53,906
AT THE EXACT SAME TRAIN STATIONS

1024
01:09:54,046 --> 01:09:56,611
AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.

1025
01:09:56,751 --> 01:10:00,156
- ... because at half past 9 this morning, we were actually running an exercise

1026
01:10:00,296 --> 01:10:03,929
for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs

1027
01:10:04,069 --> 01:10:07,049
going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning

1028
01:10:07,189 --> 01:10:09,583
so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing upright!

1029
01:10:09,723 --> 01:10:13,950
- To get this straight, you were running an exercise to see how you would cope

1030
01:10:14,090 --> 01:10:16,900
with this and it happened while you were running the exercise? - Precisely!

1031
01:10:17,634 --> 01:10:21,299
Yeah... That's right. The exact same bombing at the exact same train stations

1032
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:23,484
at virtually the same time.

1033
01:10:23,624 --> 01:10:26,662
[We're] supposed to believe it was some kind of coincidence

1034
01:10:26,802 --> 01:10:30,261
that there was also an anti-terrorist drill going on on 7/7.

1035
01:10:30,401 --> 01:10:32,710
And again, just like on 9/11

1036
01:10:32,850 --> 01:10:35,283
they were talking about attacks on the same targets

1037
01:10:35,423 --> 01:10:38,766
the same kind of tube stations at exactly the same time

1038
01:10:38,906 --> 01:10:40,780
as the actual attack happened

1039
01:10:41,169 --> 01:10:44,564
providing some kind of cover for what must be

1040
01:10:44,704 --> 01:10:48,620
operations orchestrated in some way by the State.

1041
01:11:01,170 --> 01:11:03,434
(J. Maxwell) I am absolutely appalled

1042
01:11:03,574 --> 01:11:07,000
at how much people in this country do not think.

1043
01:11:07,397 --> 01:11:10,043
We are given to understand

1044
01:11:10,183 --> 01:11:13,734
that a guy out there up in the mountains

1045
01:11:13,874 --> 01:11:17,343
financed the most elaborate attack on this country.

1046
01:11:17,483 --> 01:11:20,860
(A. Jones) Do you think some people in a cave

1047
01:11:21,716 --> 01:11:24,081
were able to have NORAD stand down?

1048
01:11:24,221 --> 01:11:26,476
Do you think that people in a cave

1049
01:11:26,616 --> 01:11:28,847
were able to have all of this happen?

1050
01:11:28,987 --> 01:11:31,279
(J. Maxwell) And when I think about how many Americans

1051
01:11:31,419 --> 01:11:33,789
were killed in New York City

1052
01:11:34,419 --> 01:11:38,700
and believing as I do that this thing was a set-up job

1053
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:42,101
this is a textbook operation that Nazis used

1054
01:11:42,241 --> 01:11:45,398
and they've used it over and over again.

1055
01:11:45,538 --> 01:11:49,607
America has been suckered in one more time.

1056
01:11:52,558 --> 01:11:54,896
("Network" 1976) I don't have to tell you things are bad.

1057
01:11:55,044 --> 01:11:56,950
Everybody knows things are bad.

1058
01:11:57,090 --> 01:11:59,972
The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust.

1059
01:12:00,112 --> 01:12:02,573
Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter.

1060
01:12:02,713 --> 01:12:04,974
Punks are running wild in the street. There's nobody anywhere

1061
01:12:05,114 --> 01:12:08,386
who seems to know what to do and there's no end to it.

1062
01:12:08,526 --> 01:12:13,277
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat.

1063
01:12:13,417 --> 01:12:16,455
We sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us

1064
01:12:16,595 --> 01:12:20,132
that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes

1065
01:12:20,272 --> 01:12:23,176
as if that's the way it's supposed to be! We know things are bad.

1066
01:12:23,316 --> 01:12:25,554
Worse than bad, they're crazy!

1067
01:12:25,694 --> 01:12:28,780
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore.

1068
01:12:29,137 --> 01:12:32,288
We sit in the house and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller

1069
01:12:32,428 --> 01:12:35,916
and all we say is "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms.

1070
01:12:36,056 --> 01:12:39,448
Let me have my toaster and my TV, my steel-belted radials

1071
01:12:39,588 --> 01:12:41,731
and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone!"

1072
01:12:41,871 --> 01:12:45,882
Well I'm not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad!

1073
01:12:46,022 --> 01:12:48,171
I don't want you to protest, I don't want you to riot.

1074
01:12:48,311 --> 01:12:50,350
I don't want you to write to your Congressman because I wouldn't know

1075
01:12:50,490 --> 01:12:53,260
what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression

1076
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:56,077
and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

1077
01:12:56,217 --> 01:12:59,158
All I know is that first you've got to get mad!

1078
01:12:59,298 --> 01:13:02,270
You've got to say "I'm a human being, goddamn it!

1079
01:13:02,410 --> 01:13:04,663
My life has value!"

1080
01:13:38,963 --> 01:13:43,348
(Man on phone) There's smoke, real bad! 105, two tower.

1081
01:13:45,155 --> 01:13:48,445
It's real bad, it's black, it's arid.

1082
01:13:48,585 --> 01:13:51,923
My wife thinks I'm all right. I called and said I was leaving the building.

1083
01:13:52,063 --> 01:13:54,552
I was fine, and then BANG!

1084
01:13:55,730 --> 01:13:58,621
Three of us - two broken windows.

1085
01:13:58,761 --> 01:14:01,391
Oh God!

1086
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:32,459
(Charles Lindbergh, 1941) When hostilities commenced in Europe in 1939

1087
01:14:32,599 --> 01:14:37,442
it was realized that the American people had no intention of entering the war.

1088
01:14:38,030 --> 01:14:41,750
But they believed that this country could be enticed into the war

1089
01:14:41,890 --> 01:14:46,240
in very much the same way that it was enticed into the last one.

1090
01:14:46,380 --> 01:14:51,751
They planned, first, to prepare the United States for foreign war

1091
01:14:51,891 --> 01:14:54,859
under the guise of American defense.

1092
01:14:55,401 --> 01:14:58,341
Second, to involve us in the war

1093
01:14:58,481 --> 01:15:01,900
step by step, without our realization.

1094
01:15:02,040 --> 01:15:05,263
Third, to create a series of incidents

1095
01:15:05,403 --> 01:15:07,858
which would force us into the actual conflict.

1096
01:15:08,654 --> 01:15:12,681
These plans were, of course, to be covered and assisted

1097
01:15:12,821 --> 01:15:15,772
by the full power of their propaganda.

1098
01:15:17,004 --> 01:15:19,951
Our theaters soon became filled with plays

1099
01:15:20,091 --> 01:15:21,860
portraying the glory of war.

1100
01:15:22,717 --> 01:15:26,663
News reels lost all semblance of objectivity

1101
01:15:26,803 --> 01:15:28,797
and they have used the war

1102
01:15:28,937 --> 01:15:31,860
to justify the restriction of congressional power

1103
01:15:32,614 --> 01:15:35,409
and the assumption of dictatorial procedures

1104
01:15:35,549 --> 01:15:39,419
on the part of the President and his appointees.

1105
01:15:40,361 --> 01:15:43,561
A fear campaign was inaugurated.

1106
01:15:45,622 --> 01:15:49,660
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices

1107
01:15:50,267 --> 01:15:53,740
of other peoples, to lead our country to destruction.

1108
01:15:56,832 --> 01:15:59,267
Part III:

1109
01:16:01,047 --> 01:16:05,164
Don't Mind The Men Behind The Curtain

1110
01:16:08,192 --> 01:16:11,205
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government

1111
01:16:11,345 --> 01:16:13,740
owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility

1112
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,183
to the people." - Theodore Roosevelt

1113
01:16:16,323 --> 01:16:18,493
"The real menace of our republic is the invisible government...

1114
01:16:18,633 --> 01:16:20,910
The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually runs the US government

1115
01:16:21,050 --> 01:16:23,498
for their own selfish purposes." John F. Hylan

1116
01:16:23,638 --> 01:16:26,758
"The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers

1117
01:16:26,898 --> 01:16:29,800
has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

1118
01:16:29,940 --> 01:16:33,844
(P. Joseph) 1775, the American Revolutionary War began

1119
01:16:33,984 --> 01:16:36,576
as the American colonies sought to detach from England

1120
01:16:36,716 --> 01:16:38,690
and its oppressive monarchy.

1121
01:16:38,830 --> 01:16:41,180
Though many reasons are cited for the revolution

1122
01:16:41,440 --> 01:16:44,288
one in particular sticks out as a prime cause:

1123
01:16:44,428 --> 01:16:46,952
that King George llI of England outlawed

1124
01:16:47,092 --> 01:16:49,687
the interest-free independent currency

1125
01:16:49,827 --> 01:16:51,983
the colonies were producing themselves

1126
01:16:52,123 --> 01:16:56,103
in turn forcing them to borrow money from the Central Bank of England

1127
01:16:56,243 --> 01:16:59,455
immediately creating economic hardship and despair.

1128
01:16:59,595 --> 01:17:01,971
In the words of Peter Cooper, former vice-president

1129
01:17:02,111 --> 01:17:04,931
of the New York Board of Currency: "After Franklin had explained

1130
01:17:05,071 --> 01:17:07,850
to the British government as the real cause of prosperity

1131
01:17:07,990 --> 01:17:11,710
they immediately passed laws forbidding the payment of taxes in that money.

1132
01:17:11,850 --> 01:17:14,787
This produced such great inconvenience and misery to the people

1133
01:17:14,927 --> 01:17:17,477
that it was the principal cause of the revolution."

1134
01:17:17,617 --> 01:17:21,157
In 1783, America won its independence from England.

1135
01:17:21,297 --> 01:17:24,148
However, its battle against the central bank concept

1136
01:17:24,288 --> 01:17:27,260
and the corrupt, power-hungry mentality associated with it

1137
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:29,466
had just begun.

1138
01:17:29,606 --> 01:17:33,088
So what is a central bank? A central bank is an institution

1139
01:17:33,228 --> 01:17:36,827
that issues and regulates the currency of an entire nation.

1140
01:17:36,967 --> 01:17:39,993
Based on historical precedent, the typical powers inherent

1141
01:17:40,133 --> 01:17:44,145
in central banking practice include the control of interest rates

1142
01:17:44,285 --> 01:17:47,220
and the expansion and contraction of the money supply itself.

1143
01:17:47,928 --> 01:17:51,426
The Central Bank does not simply issue money to the government.

1144
01:17:51,566 --> 01:17:54,340
It loans it to them with interest.

1145
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:58,124
Then, through the mechanisms of increasing and decreasing the supply of money

1146
01:17:58,264 --> 01:18:02,734
the Central Bank essentially regulates the value of the currency issued.

1147
01:18:02,874 --> 01:18:07,029
It is critical to understand that the entire structure of this system

1148
01:18:07,169 --> 01:18:11,381
can only produce one thing in the long run: debt.

1149
01:18:11,521 --> 01:18:14,581
It doesn't take a lot of ingenuity to figure this scam out

1150
01:18:14,721 --> 01:18:18,108
for nearly every single dollar produced by both the Central Bank

1151
01:18:18,248 --> 01:18:22,471
and its regulated commercial banks is loaned at interest.

1152
01:18:22,611 --> 01:18:25,446
That means every dollar produced is actually the dollar

1153
01:18:25,586 --> 01:18:29,894
plus a certain percentage of debt based on that dollar.

1154
01:18:30,034 --> 01:18:33,110
And since the banking system has the monopoly of the production

1155
01:18:33,250 --> 01:18:35,934
of the currency and they loan each dollar out

1156
01:18:36,074 --> 01:18:38,747
with an immediate debt attached to it

1157
01:18:38,887 --> 01:18:42,420
where does the money to pay for the debt come from?

1158
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:44,478
It can only come from the banks again

1159
01:18:44,618 --> 01:18:47,666
which means the banking system has to perpetually increase

1160
01:18:47,806 --> 01:18:52,236
its money supply to temporarily cover the outstanding debt created

1161
01:18:52,376 --> 01:18:56,140
which in turn, since that new money is loaned out at interest

1162
01:18:56,506 --> 01:18:58,790
creates even more debt!

1163
01:18:58,930 --> 01:19:02,093
The end result of this system is essentially slavery

1164
01:19:02,233 --> 01:19:05,889
for it is technically impossible for a government and thus the public

1165
01:19:06,029 --> 01:19:09,533
to ever come out of the self-generating debt.

1166
01:19:10,747 --> 01:19:13,421
"And I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are

1167
01:19:13,561 --> 01:19:15,925
more dangerous than standing armies;

1168
01:19:16,065 --> 01:19:19,139
and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity

1169
01:19:19,279 --> 01:19:22,987
under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale"

1170
01:19:23,127 --> 01:19:26,522
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor (May 28, 1816)

1171
01:19:26,662 --> 01:19:29,787
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin.

1172
01:19:29,887 --> 01:19:33,548
The bankers own the Earth... If you wish to remain the slaves of bankers

1173
01:19:33,688 --> 01:19:37,420
and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money."

1174
01:19:37,680 --> 01:19:40,216
Sir Josiah Stamp, University of Texas speech, 1927

1175
01:19:40,356 --> 01:19:44,170
By the early 20th century, the US had already implemented and removed

1176
01:19:44,310 --> 01:19:47,690
a few central banking systems, which were maneuvered into place

1177
01:19:47,830 --> 01:19:49,807
by ruthless banking interests.

1178
01:19:49,947 --> 01:19:53,293
At this time, the dominant families in the banking and business world

1179
01:19:53,433 --> 01:19:57,797
were the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Warburgs, the Rothschilds.

1180
01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:01,417
In the early 1900's, they sought to push once again

1181
01:20:01,557 --> 01:20:05,343
legislation to create another central bank.

1182
01:20:05,483 --> 01:20:07,574
However, they knew the government and public

1183
01:20:07,714 --> 01:20:09,993
were very weary of such an institution.

1184
01:20:10,133 --> 01:20:13,900
They needed to create an incident to affect public opinion.

1185
01:20:14,375 --> 01:20:18,712
JP Morgan, publicly considered a financial luminary at the time

1186
01:20:18,852 --> 01:20:22,643
exploited his mass influence by reportedly creating rumors

1187
01:20:22,783 --> 01:20:26,322
that prominent banks in New York were insolvent, or bankrupt.

1188
01:20:26,462 --> 01:20:30,724
Morgan knew this would trigger mass hysteria and a systemic crisis.

1189
01:20:30,864 --> 01:20:33,877
And it did. The public, in fear of losing their deposits

1190
01:20:34,017 --> 01:20:36,042
immediately began mass withdrawals.

1191
01:20:36,182 --> 01:20:39,073
Consequently, the banks were forced to call in their loans

1192
01:20:39,213 --> 01:20:41,770
causing the recipients to sell their property

1193
01:20:41,910 --> 01:20:46,500
and thus a spiral of bankruptcies, repossessions, and turmoil emerged.

1194
01:20:47,178 --> 01:20:51,129
Putting the pieces together years later, Congressman Charles Lindbergh wrote:

1195
01:20:51,269 --> 01:20:55,001
"The King Bankers put in motion, in 1907, a great scheme.

1196
01:20:55,141 --> 01:20:57,204
They had gambled and speculated on Wall Street

1197
01:20:57,344 --> 01:21:00,907
until so many watered stocks and bonds had been manufactured...

1198
01:21:01,047 --> 01:21:03,142
The King Bankers knew the condition and informed

1199
01:21:03,282 --> 01:21:05,776
the favored of their friends what was to come.

1200
01:21:05,916 --> 01:21:09,542
There was to be a panic in the fall of 1907 that would be advertised

1201
01:21:09,682 --> 01:21:13,179
as the result of our bad banking and currency laws."

1202
01:21:14,211 --> 01:21:17,660
The Panic of 1907 led to a Congressional investigation

1203
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:19,989
headed by Senator Nelson Aldrich

1204
01:21:20,129 --> 01:21:22,525
who had intimate ties to the financial powers

1205
01:21:22,665 --> 01:21:26,138
and later became part of Rockefeller family through marriage.

1206
01:21:26,278 --> 01:21:29,094
The Commission led by Aldrich recommended a Central Bank

1207
01:21:29,234 --> 01:21:34,531
should be implemented so a panic like 1907 could never happen again.

1208
01:21:34,671 --> 01:21:37,962
This was the spark that the bankers needed to initiate their plan

1209
01:21:38,102 --> 01:21:41,807
and in 1910 a secret meeting was held at JP Morgan estate

1210
01:21:41,947 --> 01:21:44,552
on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia.

1211
01:21:44,692 --> 01:21:46,863
It was there where the Central Banking Bill

1212
01:21:47,003 --> 01:21:49,603
called 'The Federal Reserve Act' was written.

1213
01:21:49,743 --> 01:21:53,257
This legislation was written by bankers, not lawmakers.

1214
01:21:53,397 --> 01:21:56,486
This meeting was so secretive, so concealed from government

1215
01:21:56,626 --> 01:21:59,271
and public knowledge that most of the figures who attended

1216
01:21:59,411 --> 01:22:02,804
disguised their names when in route to the island.

1217
01:22:02,944 --> 01:22:05,362
After this bill was constructed, it was then handed over

1218
01:22:05,502 --> 01:22:10,256
to their political frontman, Senator Nelson Aldrich, to push through Congress.

1219
01:22:10,396 --> 01:22:14,385
In 1913, with heavy political sponsorship by the bankers

1220
01:22:14,525 --> 01:22:17,844
Woodrow Wilson became President, having already agreed to sign

1221
01:22:17,984 --> 01:22:21,380
the Federal Reserve Act in exchange for campaign support.

1222
01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:24,345
A few days before Christmas, when much of Congress

1223
01:22:24,485 --> 01:22:27,870
was at home with their families, the Federal Reserve Act was voted in

1224
01:22:28,010 --> 01:22:30,527
and Wilson made it law.

1225
01:22:30,667 --> 01:22:34,732
The night before its passage, Congressman Charles Lindbergh pleaded:

1226
01:22:34,872 --> 01:22:37,819
"This act establishes the most gigantic trust on Earth...

1227
01:22:37,959 --> 01:22:40,740
When the President signs this act, the invisible government

1228
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:44,410
by the money power will be legalized."

1229
01:22:44,550 --> 01:22:47,544
The public was told that the Federal Reserve System

1230
01:22:47,684 --> 01:22:51,712
was an economic stabilizer and inflation and economic crisis

1231
01:22:51,852 --> 01:22:53,681
were a thing of the past.

1232
01:22:53,821 --> 01:22:57,305
As history has shown, nothing was further from the truth.

1233
01:22:57,445 --> 01:23:00,621
The fact is the bankers now had a streamlined machine

1234
01:23:00,761 --> 01:23:03,101
for economic manipulation.

1235
01:23:03,436 --> 01:23:07,215
(From the movie 'Frankenstein',1931) It's alive!

1236
01:23:07,666 --> 01:23:13,291
For example, from 1914 to 1919, the FED substantially increased the money supply

1237
01:23:13,431 --> 01:23:16,580
resulting in extensive loans to small banks and the public.

1238
01:23:17,348 --> 01:23:21,813
Then in 1920, the FED deliberately contracted credit in an extreme way

1239
01:23:21,953 --> 01:23:25,083
thus resulting in banks having to call in large numbers of loans

1240
01:23:25,223 --> 01:23:30,910
and just like 1907, bank runs, bankruptcy and systemic collapse occurred.

1241
01:23:31,050 --> 01:23:35,117
Numerous competitive banks outside of the Federal Reserve System collapsed

1242
01:23:35,257 --> 01:23:39,712
further consolidating the monopoly of the money trust cartel.

1243
01:23:41,492 --> 01:23:44,990
Privy to this scheme, Congressman Charles Lindbergh pronounced:

1244
01:23:45,130 --> 01:23:48,691
"Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created.

1245
01:23:48,831 --> 01:23:51,578
The present panic is the first scientifically created one

1246
01:23:51,718 --> 01:23:55,369
worked out as we figure a mathematical equation."

1247
01:23:56,170 --> 01:23:59,583
However, the panic of 1920 was just a warm-up.

1248
01:23:59,723 --> 01:24:04,141
From 1921 to 1929 the FED again increased the money supply

1249
01:24:04,281 --> 01:24:08,268
resulting once again in extensive loans to the public and banks.

1250
01:24:08,408 --> 01:24:11,507
There was also a fairly new type of loan in the stock market:

1251
01:24:11,647 --> 01:24:13,924
the Broker Call Loan. Very simply

1252
01:24:14,064 --> 01:24:17,234
this loan allowed an investor to put down only a fraction

1253
01:24:17,374 --> 01:24:21,150
of the stock's value, with the rest being loaned from the broker.

1254
01:24:21,290 --> 01:24:24,153
This method was very popular in the roaring '20s

1255
01:24:24,293 --> 01:24:26,792
as everyone seemed to be making money in the market.

1256
01:24:26,932 --> 01:24:28,936
However, there was a catch to this loan.

1257
01:24:29,076 --> 01:24:33,461
It could be called in at any time, and had to be paid within 24 hours.

1258
01:24:33,601 --> 01:24:38,292
and the typical result was the selling of the stock purchased with that loan.

1259
01:24:38,924 --> 01:24:41,904
A few months before October in 1929

1260
01:24:42,044 --> 01:24:45,133
JD Rockefeller, Bernard Baruch, and other insiders

1261
01:24:45,273 --> 01:24:49,350
quietly exited the market, knowing the bubble created was about to burst.

1262
01:24:49,490 --> 01:24:54,500
On October 24th, 1929, the financiers who furnished the call loans

1263
01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:57,117
started calling them in, in mass.

1264
01:24:57,257 --> 01:25:01,482
This sparked an instantaneous massive sell-off in the already inflated market

1265
01:25:01,622 --> 01:25:04,764
as sell orders and margin calls were systemically triggered.

1266
01:25:04,904 --> 01:25:09,199
That then lead to mass bank runs, eventually collapsing thousands of banks

1267
01:25:09,339 --> 01:25:14,020
enabling the large banks to buy up the now failed ones at a discount.

1268
01:25:16,101 --> 01:25:17,960
But it didn't stop there.

1269
01:25:18,100 --> 01:25:20,511
Rather than expanding the money supply in order to recover

1270
01:25:20,651 --> 01:25:24,862
from this economic collapse, the FED actually contracted it

1271
01:25:25,002 --> 01:25:29,377
fueling one of the largest depressions in American history.

1272
01:25:30,264 --> 01:25:33,238
Outraged, Congressman Louis McFadden then Chairman

1273
01:25:33,378 --> 01:25:36,851
of the House Banking Committee filed petition for impeachment

1274
01:25:36,991 --> 01:25:39,865
against the Federal Reserve Board, stating:

1275
01:25:40,005 --> 01:25:42,027
"Mr. Chairman, we have in this country

1276
01:25:42,167 --> 01:25:45,168
one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known.

1277
01:25:45,308 --> 01:25:49,080
I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks.

1278
01:25:49,220 --> 01:25:52,171
This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people

1279
01:25:52,311 --> 01:25:56,209
of the United States... and has practically bankrupted our government.

1280
01:25:56,349 --> 01:26:00,023
It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates.

1281
01:26:00,163 --> 01:26:03,764
Through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board

1282
01:26:03,904 --> 01:26:09,254
and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it."

1283
01:26:09,394 --> 01:26:11,908
Having reduced the society to squalor

1284
01:26:12,048 --> 01:26:15,160
it was then decided that the gold standard should be removed.

1285
01:26:15,300 --> 01:26:18,820
In order to do this, they needed to acquire the remaining gold in the system.

1286
01:26:19,217 --> 01:26:22,893
Under the pretense of helping to end the depression

1287
01:26:23,033 --> 01:26:25,163
came the 1933 gold seizure.

1288
01:26:25,303 --> 01:26:28,664
Under the threat of imprisonment for 10 years, everyone in America

1289
01:26:28,804 --> 01:26:31,947
was required to turn in all gold bullion to the Treasury

1290
01:26:32,087 --> 01:26:35,790
essentially robbing the public of what little real wealth they had left.

1291
01:26:35,930 --> 01:26:39,107
At the end of 1933, the gold standard was abolished.

1292
01:26:39,247 --> 01:26:44,204
If you look at a dollar bill before 1933, it says it is redeemable in gold.

1293
01:26:44,344 --> 01:26:47,600
You look at the dollar bill today, it says it is legal tender

1294
01:26:47,740 --> 01:26:50,106
which means it is backed by absolutely nothing.

1295
01:26:50,246 --> 01:26:53,463
The only thing that gives our money value is the public faith

1296
01:26:53,603 --> 01:26:55,794
and how much of it is in circulation.

1297
01:26:55,934 --> 01:26:58,571
Therefore, the power to regulate the money supply

1298
01:26:58,711 --> 01:27:01,195
is also the power to regulate its value

1299
01:27:01,335 --> 01:27:05,903
which is also the power to manipulate and control entire economies.

1300
01:27:06,043 --> 01:27:09,092
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country

1301
01:27:09,232 --> 01:27:11,942
is absolute master of all industry and commerce."

1302
01:27:12,082 --> 01:27:14,210
James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States

1303
01:27:14,350 --> 01:27:16,360
It is important to clearly understand:

1304
01:27:16,500 --> 01:27:19,114
The Federal Reserve is a private corporation.

1305
01:27:19,254 --> 01:27:22,111
It is about as 'federal' as Federal Express.

1306
01:27:22,251 --> 01:27:24,900
It makes its own policies and is under little regulation

1307
01:27:25,160 --> 01:27:27,466
by the US government. It is a private bank

1308
01:27:27,606 --> 01:27:31,650
that loans all the currency at interest to the government

1309
01:27:31,790 --> 01:27:34,314
completely consistent with the central banking model

1310
01:27:34,454 --> 01:27:37,741
that the country sought to escape from when it declared independence

1311
01:27:37,881 --> 01:27:39,975
in the American Revolutionary War.

1312
01:27:40,115 --> 01:27:44,202
Going back to 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was not the only bill

1313
01:27:44,342 --> 01:27:47,233
pushed through Congress for the vested financial interests.

1314
01:27:47,373 --> 01:27:51,572
They also pushed its partner: the federal income tax.

1315
01:27:51,712 --> 01:27:55,655
First of all, the federal income tax is completely unconstitutional

1316
01:27:55,795 --> 01:27:58,263
as it is a direct, unapportioned tax.

1317
01:27:58,403 --> 01:28:01,331
And the required number of states needed in order to ratify

1318
01:28:01,471 --> 01:28:05,663
the amendment to allow the income tax was never legally met

1319
01:28:05,803 --> 01:28:08,632
and this has even been cited in modern court cases.

1320
01:28:08,772 --> 01:28:11,777
"If you were to go back and try to find and review the ratification

1321
01:28:11,917 --> 01:28:15,259
of the 16th amendment... you would find that a sufficient number of states

1322
01:28:15,399 --> 01:28:18,597
never ratified that amendment." - US District Court Judge JC Fox, 2003

1323
01:28:18,737 --> 01:28:22,635
Second, at the present day, roughly 25% of the average worker's income

1324
01:28:22,775 --> 01:28:24,790
is taken from them via this tax.

1325
01:28:24,930 --> 01:28:27,314
That means you work 3 months out of the year to fulfill

1326
01:28:27,454 --> 01:28:30,777
this tax obligation and where does that money go?

1327
01:28:30,917 --> 01:28:34,168
According to the Grace Commission Report of the '80s:

1328
01:28:34,308 --> 01:28:37,741
"100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest

1329
01:28:37,881 --> 01:28:41,230
on the federal debt and by federal government contributions

1330
01:28:41,370 --> 01:28:45,120
to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues

1331
01:28:45,260 --> 01:28:48,243
are gone before one nickel is spent on the services

1332
01:28:48,383 --> 01:28:50,860
which taxpayers expect from their government."

1333
01:28:51,231 --> 01:28:54,361
Today, the money Americans make working 3 months out of the year

1334
01:28:54,501 --> 01:28:57,335
goes almost entirely to the interest fees

1335
01:28:57,475 --> 01:29:00,505
charged for the debt-based fiat currency.

1336
01:29:00,645 --> 01:29:05,548
The fact is, the Federal Income Tax exists to feed the Federal Reserve

1337
01:29:05,688 --> 01:29:07,862
federal government money machine

1338
01:29:08,002 --> 01:29:11,217
making sure the interest payments are always there.

1339
01:29:11,357 --> 01:29:15,943
And 3) Even with the government claim as to the legality of the income tax

1340
01:29:16,083 --> 01:29:18,320
there is evidently no clear statute.

1341
01:29:18,460 --> 01:29:22,363
No law in existence that requires you to pay this tax.

1342
01:29:22,503 --> 01:29:25,736
(Former IRS agent) I really expected that of course there's a law

1343
01:29:25,876 --> 01:29:28,245
that you can point to in the law book

1344
01:29:28,385 --> 01:29:31,989
a code, that requires you to file tax return. Of course there is!

1345
01:29:32,302 --> 01:29:35,012
I was at that point where I couldn't find the statute

1346
01:29:35,152 --> 01:29:37,859
that clearly made a person liable

1347
01:29:37,999 --> 01:29:41,097
at least not me and most people I know

1348
01:29:41,237 --> 01:29:44,760
and I had no choice in my mind except to resign.

1349
01:29:44,900 --> 01:29:47,951
Based on the research that I did throughout the year 2000

1350
01:29:48,091 --> 01:29:50,645
and that I'm still doing, I have not found that law!

1351
01:29:50,785 --> 01:29:53,859
I've asked Congress, we've asked a lot of people in the IRS

1352
01:29:53,999 --> 01:29:57,274
the IRS Commissioners' helpers. They can't answer

1353
01:29:57,414 --> 01:29:59,898
because if they answer, the American people are going to know

1354
01:30:00,038 --> 01:30:01,985
that this whole thing is a fraud.

1355
01:30:02,119 --> 01:30:05,820
I haven't filed a federal income tax return since I left.

1356
01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:09,632
I have not filed a tax return since 1999.

1357
01:30:09,895 --> 01:30:12,988
(Joseph) Now, the control of the economy and the manipulation of society

1358
01:30:13,128 --> 01:30:18,110
for the vested financial powers is only a part of the game being played.

1359
01:30:18,410 --> 01:30:22,300
Another level is the business of war.

1360
01:30:22,639 --> 01:30:25,762
Since the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913

1361
01:30:25,902 --> 01:30:28,249
a number of large and small wars have commenced.

1362
01:30:28,389 --> 01:30:30,874
The three most pronounced might be World War I

1363
01:30:31,014 --> 01:30:33,393
World War 2 and Vietnam.

1364
01:30:33,533 --> 01:30:36,955
World War 1: In 1914 European wars broke out

1365
01:30:37,095 --> 01:30:39,155
centered around England and Germany.

1366
01:30:39,295 --> 01:30:41,784
The American public wanted nothing to do with the war.

1367
01:30:41,924 --> 01:30:45,409
In turn, president Woodrow Wilson publicly declared neutrality.

1368
01:30:45,549 --> 01:30:48,003
However, under the surface, evidence now shows

1369
01:30:48,143 --> 01:30:50,264
that the financial powers behind the Administration

1370
01:30:50,404 --> 01:30:53,500
were looking for any excuse it could to enter it.

1371
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:56,509
It is important to understand that one of the most lucrative things

1372
01:30:56,649 --> 01:30:59,048
that can happen for the bankers is war

1373
01:30:59,188 --> 01:31:02,735
for it forces the country to borrow even more money at interest

1374
01:31:02,875 --> 01:31:07,584
not to mention the profits generated through the financing of military productions.

1375
01:31:07,724 --> 01:31:10,387
In the words of two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner

1376
01:31:10,527 --> 01:31:14,843
Smedley D. Butler "War is a racket. It always has been.

1377
01:31:14,983 --> 01:31:18,126
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable

1378
01:31:18,266 --> 01:31:21,902
and surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope

1379
01:31:22,042 --> 01:31:25,075
and it is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars

1380
01:31:25,215 --> 01:31:27,660
and the losses of lives."

1381
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:31,864
Woodrow Wilson's top adviser and mentor was Colonel Edward House

1382
01:31:32,004 --> 01:31:34,054
a man found to have intimate connections

1383
01:31:34,194 --> 01:31:36,304
with the financial interests of the time.

1384
01:31:36,444 --> 01:31:39,462
In a conversation between Colonel House, Wilson's adviser

1385
01:31:39,602 --> 01:31:42,315
and Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary of England

1386
01:31:42,455 --> 01:31:45,950
regarding America and the war, Grey inquired:

1387
01:31:46,090 --> 01:31:48,458
"What will America do if Germans sink an ocean liner

1388
01:31:48,598 --> 01:31:51,625
with American passengers on board?" House responded:

1389
01:31:51,765 --> 01:31:54,783
"I believe that a flame of indignation would sweep the United States

1390
01:31:54,923 --> 01:31:58,987
and that by itself would be sufficient to carry us into war."

1391
01:31:59,127 --> 01:32:02,578
On May 7th 1915, a ship called the 'Lusitania'

1392
01:32:02,718 --> 01:32:06,075
was sent where German military vessels were known to be.

1393
01:32:06,215 --> 01:32:09,759
As likely expected, German U-boats torpedoed the ship

1394
01:32:09,899 --> 01:32:14,786
exploding stored munitions, killing 1200 people.

1395
01:32:14,926 --> 01:32:18,152
To further understand the obvious anticipation of this setup

1396
01:32:18,292 --> 01:32:22,034
the German Embassy actually put advertisements in the New York Times

1397
01:32:22,174 --> 01:32:25,938
telling people that if they boarded the Lusitania they did so at their own risk

1398
01:32:26,078 --> 01:32:29,267
as such a ship sailing from America to England through the war zone

1399
01:32:29,407 --> 01:32:31,495
would be liable to destruction.

1400
01:32:31,635 --> 01:32:34,610
In turn and as anticipated, the sinking of the Lusitania

1401
01:32:34,750 --> 01:32:38,128
created a wave of anger among the American population

1402
01:32:38,268 --> 01:32:42,239
and America entered the war a short time after.

1403
01:32:42,379 --> 01:32:44,534
Major General Smedley D. Butler summarizes

1404
01:32:44,674 --> 01:32:47,244
the monetary reality of World War I:

1405
01:32:48,441 --> 01:32:51,566
"Looking back, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in 1916 on a platform

1406
01:32:51,782 --> 01:32:54,834
that he had "kept us out of war". Yet, five months later he asked Congress

1407
01:32:54,974 --> 01:32:57,260
to declare war on Germany... The 4 million young men

1408
01:32:57,400 --> 01:33:00,033
who put on uniforms and marched or sailed away were not asked

1409
01:33:00,173 --> 01:33:02,396
whether they wanted to go forth to suffer and die.

1410
01:33:02,536 --> 01:33:05,448
Then what caused our government to change its mind so suddenly? Money.

1411
01:33:05,588 --> 01:33:08,396
An Allied Commission... came over shortly before the war declaration

1412
01:33:08,536 --> 01:33:11,483
and called on the President, who summoned a group of advisers.

1413
01:33:11,623 --> 01:33:14,464
The head of the Commission spoke. Stripped of its diplomatic language

1414
01:33:14,604 --> 01:33:17,379
this is what he told the President and his group: "There is no use

1415
01:33:17,519 --> 01:33:20,158
kidding ourselves any longer. The cause of the Allies is lost.

1416
01:33:20,298 --> 01:33:22,864
We now owe you American bankers, American munitions makers

1417
01:33:23,004 --> 01:33:25,680
American manufacturers, American speculators, American exporters

1418
01:33:25,820 --> 01:33:28,323
5 or so billion dollars. If we lose (and without the help

1419
01:33:28,541 --> 01:33:30,906
of the US we must lose), we, England, France and Italy

1420
01:33:31,046 --> 01:33:33,232
cannot pay back this money... and Germany won't."

1421
01:33:33,372 --> 01:33:36,251
It has been estimated by statisticians, economists and researchers

1422
01:33:36,391 --> 01:33:39,651
that the war yielded $16 billion in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires

1423
01:33:39,791 --> 01:33:43,045
and millionaires got that way. This $16 billion profits is not to be sneezed at.

1424
01:33:43,185 --> 01:33:45,243
It is quite a tidy sum. And it went to very few."

1425
01:33:45,383 --> 01:33:46,926
World War II

1426
01:33:47,066 --> 01:33:51,814
On December 7th 1941, Japan attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor

1427
01:33:51,954 --> 01:33:54,196
triggering US entry into that war.

1428
01:33:54,336 --> 01:33:57,163
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the attack was:

1429
01:33:57,303 --> 01:34:01,045
'a day that will live in infamy'. A day of infamy indeed

1430
01:34:01,185 --> 01:34:04,515
but not because of the alleged surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

1431
01:34:04,655 --> 01:34:07,444
After 60 years of surfacing information it is clear

1432
01:34:07,584 --> 01:34:10,385
that not only was the attack known well in advance

1433
01:34:10,525 --> 01:34:13,388
it was outright wanted and provoked.

1434
01:34:13,528 --> 01:34:17,686
In a journal entry by Roosevelt's Secretary of War Henry Stimson

1435
01:34:17,826 --> 01:34:21,974
dated November 25th, 1941, he documented a conversation

1436
01:34:22,114 --> 01:34:25,760
he had with Roosevelt: "The question was how we should maneuver them

1437
01:34:25,900 --> 01:34:29,579
into firing the first shot... " and in Congressional testimony

1438
01:34:29,719 --> 01:34:32,107
he later added: "It was desirable to make sure

1439
01:34:32,247 --> 01:34:35,867
the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt

1440
01:34:36,007 --> 01:34:38,038
as to who were the aggressors."

1441
01:34:38,178 --> 01:34:40,467
In the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor

1442
01:34:40,607 --> 01:34:42,671
Roosevelt had done almost everything in his power

1443
01:34:42,811 --> 01:34:45,750
to anger the Japanese, showing a posture of aggression.

1444
01:34:45,890 --> 01:34:48,898
He halted all of Japan's imports of American petroleum.

1445
01:34:49,038 --> 01:34:51,791
He froze all the Japanese assets in the United States.

1446
01:34:51,931 --> 01:34:55,443
He made public loans to Nationalist China and supplied military aid

1447
01:34:55,583 --> 01:34:58,223
to the British, both enemies of Japan in the war

1448
01:34:58,363 --> 01:35:01,984
which, by the way, was in complete violation of international war rules.

1449
01:35:02,124 --> 01:35:04,922
With numerous Japanese codes broken in advance

1450
01:35:05,062 --> 01:35:08,435
revealing the plan to attack, on December 7th 1941

1451
01:35:08,575 --> 01:35:13,747
Japan was allowed to attack Pearl Harbor killing 2400 soldiers.

1452
01:35:14,323 --> 01:35:17,971
Before Pearl Harbor, 83% of the American public wanted nothing to do

1453
01:35:18,111 --> 01:35:20,424
with the war. After Pearl Harbor

1454
01:35:20,564 --> 01:35:23,965
one million men volunteered for that war.

1455
01:35:27,207 --> 01:35:31,103
It is important to note, Nazi Germany's war effort was largely supported

1456
01:35:31,243 --> 01:35:34,516
by two organizations, one of which was called IG Farben.

1457
01:35:34,656 --> 01:35:37,964
IG Farben produced 84% of Germany's explosives.

1458
01:35:38,104 --> 01:35:40,490
One of the unspoken partners of IG Farben

1459
01:35:40,630 --> 01:35:44,599
was JD Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company in America.

1460
01:35:44,739 --> 01:35:48,623
The German Air Force could not operate without a special additive

1461
01:35:48,763 --> 01:35:51,289
patented by Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

1462
01:35:51,429 --> 01:35:54,704
The drastic bombing of London by Nazi Germany for example

1463
01:35:54,844 --> 01:35:58,612
was made possible by a $20 million sale of fuel to IG Farben

1464
01:35:58,752 --> 01:36:01,123
by the Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.

1465
01:36:01,263 --> 01:36:04,738
This is just one small point on the topic of how American businesses

1466
01:36:04,878 --> 01:36:07,757
funded both sides of World War II.

1467
01:36:07,897 --> 01:36:10,370
One other treasonous organization worth mentioning

1468
01:36:10,510 --> 01:36:13,226
is the Union Banking Corporation of New York City.

1469
01:36:13,366 --> 01:36:16,958
Not only did they finance numerous aspects of Hitler's rise to power

1470
01:36:17,098 --> 01:36:19,408
along with actual materials during the war

1471
01:36:19,548 --> 01:36:23,679
it was also a Nazi money laundering bank, which was eventually exposed

1472
01:36:23,819 --> 01:36:27,064
for having millions of dollars of Nazi money in its vaults.

1473
01:36:27,204 --> 01:36:30,384
The Union Banking Corporation of New York was eventually seized

1474
01:36:30,524 --> 01:36:33,437
for violations of the Trading with the Enemy Act.

1475
01:36:33,577 --> 01:36:37,007
Guess who the director and Vice President of the Union Bank was?

1476
01:36:37,147 --> 01:36:41,299
Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of former US President

1477
01:36:41,439 --> 01:36:44,939
George W. Bush and George HW Bush.

1478
01:36:46,052 --> 01:36:50,908
Vietnam: United States official escalation and entry in the Vietnam War

1479
01:36:51,048 --> 01:36:54,591
came after an alleged incident involving two US destroyers

1480
01:36:54,731 --> 01:36:58,959
being attacked by North Vietnamese PT boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.

1481
01:36:59,099 --> 01:37:01,532
This was known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

1482
01:37:01,672 --> 01:37:05,592
This situation was the catalystic pretext for massive troop deployment

1483
01:37:05,732 --> 01:37:09,700
and full fledged warfare. One problem, however

1484
01:37:09,855 --> 01:37:13,106
the attack on the US destroyers by Vietnamese PT boats

1485
01:37:13,246 --> 01:37:15,012
never happened.

1486
01:37:15,152 --> 01:37:18,699
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara stated years later

1487
01:37:18,839 --> 01:37:22,080
that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a 'mistake'

1488
01:37:22,220 --> 01:37:24,965
while declassified documents released years later show

1489
01:37:25,105 --> 01:37:28,625
that it was a farce, manipulated for the purposes of war

1490
01:37:28,765 --> 01:37:32,041
and once in the war, it was business as usual.

1491
01:37:32,181 --> 01:37:36,319
In October 1966, President Lyndon Johnson lifted trade restrictions

1492
01:37:36,459 --> 01:37:39,247
on the Soviet Block knowing full well that the Soviets

1493
01:37:39,387 --> 01:37:43,522
were providing upwards of 80% of North Vietnam's war supplies.

1494
01:37:43,662 --> 01:37:46,897
Consequently, the Rockefeller interests financed factories

1495
01:37:47,037 --> 01:37:49,849
in the Soviet Union, which the Soviets used to manufacture

1496
01:37:49,989 --> 01:37:53,049
military equipment and send it to North Vietnam.

1497
01:37:53,189 --> 01:37:55,944
However, the funding of both sides in this conflict

1498
01:37:56,084 --> 01:37:57,874
was only one side of the coin.

1499
01:37:58,014 --> 01:38:01,650
In 1985, Vietnam's Rules of Engagement were declassified.

1500
01:38:01,790 --> 01:38:05,834
This detailed what American troops were and were not allow to do in the war.

1501
01:38:05,974 --> 01:38:10,484
It included such absurdities as: North Vietnamese anti-aircraft missile systems

1502
01:38:10,624 --> 01:38:13,919
could not be bombed until they were known to be fully operational.

1503
01:38:14,059 --> 01:38:16,128
No enemy could be pursued once they crossed

1504
01:38:16,268 --> 01:38:18,168
the border of Laos or Cambodia.

1505
01:38:18,308 --> 01:38:21,439
Most revealing of all, the most critical strategic targets

1506
01:38:21,579 --> 01:38:26,132
were not allow to be attacked, unless initiated by high military officials.

1507
01:38:26,272 --> 01:38:29,961
Apart from these illogical limitations, North Vietnam was informed

1508
01:38:30,101 --> 01:38:33,430
of these restrictions and therefore could base entire strategies

1509
01:38:33,570 --> 01:38:35,915
around the limitations of the American Forces.

1510
01:38:36,055 --> 01:38:40,162
This is why the war went on for so long and the bottom line is this:

1511
01:38:40,302 --> 01:38:44,926
The Vietnam War was never meant to be won, just sustained.

1512
01:38:45,066 --> 01:38:49,633
This war for profit and resources resulted in 58,000 American deaths

1513
01:38:49,773 --> 01:38:53,180
and 3 million dead Vietnamese.

1514
01:38:54,482 --> 01:38:56,794
Where are we now?

1515
01:38:56,934 --> 01:39:00,489
September 11th was the jump-start for a hegemonic agenda

1516
01:39:00,629 --> 01:39:04,230
enabling the possibility of constant global warfare.

1517
01:39:04,370 --> 01:39:08,516
It was a staged war pretext no different than the sinking of the Lusitania

1518
01:39:08,656 --> 01:39:11,900
the provoking of Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin lie.

1519
01:39:12,040 --> 01:39:15,072
If 9/11 wasn't a planned war pretext

1520
01:39:15,212 --> 01:39:17,045
it would be an exception to the rule.

1521
01:39:17,185 --> 01:39:20,414
It has been used to launch two unprovoked illegal wars:

1522
01:39:20,554 --> 01:39:23,491
one against Iraq and one against Afghanistan.

1523
01:39:23,631 --> 01:39:27,038
However, 9/11 was the pretext for another war as well.

1524
01:39:27,178 --> 01:39:29,649
The war against you. The Patriot Act

1525
01:39:29,789 --> 01:39:32,523
Homeland Security, the Military Tribunals Act

1526
01:39:32,663 --> 01:39:35,723
and other legislations are all completely designed

1527
01:39:35,863 --> 01:39:40,238
to destroy your civil liberties and protect those in power.

1528
01:39:40,378 --> 01:39:43,694
Currently in the United States, unannounced to most Americans

1529
01:39:43,834 --> 01:39:47,897
your home can be searched without a warrant, without you being home.

1530
01:39:48,037 --> 01:39:52,186
You can in turn be detained indefinitely with no charges revealed to you

1531
01:39:52,326 --> 01:39:55,337
no access to a lawyer and legally tortured.

1532
01:39:55,477 --> 01:39:59,667
All under the suspicion that you might be a 'terrorist'.

1533
01:40:00,419 --> 01:40:02,710
If you need a painted picture of what is happening

1534
01:40:02,850 --> 01:40:05,659
let's recognize how history repeats itself.

1535
01:40:05,799 --> 01:40:09,704
In February 1933, Hitler staged the false flag attack

1536
01:40:09,844 --> 01:40:13,068
burning down his own German parliament building the Reichstag

1537
01:40:13,208 --> 01:40:16,072
blaming it on communist terrorists.

1538
01:40:18,262 --> 01:40:20,900
Within the next few weeks he passed the Enabling Act

1539
01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:23,608
which completely eradicated the German constitution

1540
01:40:23,748 --> 01:40:25,765
destroying people's liberties.

1541
01:40:25,905 --> 01:40:29,936
He then led a series of preemptive wars, all justified as necessary

1542
01:40:30,076 --> 01:40:33,660
to maintaining 'homeland security'.

1543
01:40:36,349 --> 01:40:40,030
An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child

1544
01:40:40,170 --> 01:40:42,918
of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure

1545
01:40:43,058 --> 01:40:45,964
our domestic security and protect our homeland.

1546
01:40:46,104 --> 01:40:48,830
George W. Bush?

1547
01:40:50,755 --> 01:40:53,660
Adolf Hitler

1548
01:40:53,971 --> 01:40:57,650
when announcing the Gestapo to the people.

1549
01:40:58,320 --> 01:41:03,857
On the matter of communism and its front organizations

1550
01:41:03,997 --> 01:41:07,379
should not obscure the issues!

1551
01:41:07,519 --> 01:41:10,417
Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists

1552
01:41:10,557 --> 01:41:13,379
and every government that supports them.

1553
01:41:16,572 --> 01:41:18,489
(P. Joseph) It's time to wake up.

1554
01:41:18,629 --> 01:41:21,196
The people in power go out of their way to make sure

1555
01:41:21,336 --> 01:41:24,606
you are perpetually mislead and manipulated.

1556
01:41:24,746 --> 01:41:26,821
The majorities' perception of reality

1557
01:41:26,961 --> 01:41:30,317
especially in the political arena is not their own.

1558
01:41:30,457 --> 01:41:34,634
It is shrewdly imposed upon them without them even knowing it.

1559
01:41:34,774 --> 01:41:37,982
For example, the public at large now believes the invasions of Iraq

1560
01:41:38,122 --> 01:41:40,980
and the Middle East, along with the resulting instability

1561
01:41:41,240 --> 01:41:44,570
are the consequences of political and military mistakes.

1562
01:41:44,710 --> 01:41:48,833
What the public fails to see is that the destabilization of the Middle East

1563
01:41:48,973 --> 01:41:51,888
is exactly what the Western interests want.

1564
01:41:52,028 --> 01:41:55,590
This war is to be sustained, so the region can be divided up

1565
01:41:55,730 --> 01:41:59,085
domination of the oil maintained, continual profits reaped

1566
01:41:59,225 --> 01:42:02,021
for defense contractors, and most obviously

1567
01:42:02,161 --> 01:42:06,285
permanent military bases established to be used as a launching pads

1568
01:42:06,425 --> 01:42:11,662
against other oil bearing, non-conforming countries, such as Iran.

1569
01:42:11,802 --> 01:42:14,562
For further implication that the Middle East destabilization

1570
01:42:14,702 --> 01:42:19,817
is purely intentional, in 2005, two elite British SAS officers

1571
01:42:19,957 --> 01:42:23,394
were arrested by Iraqi police after being caught driving around

1572
01:42:23,534 --> 01:42:28,189
in their car shooting at civilians while dressed up as Arabs.

1573
01:42:28,329 --> 01:42:31,103
After being arrested and taken to a jail in Basra

1574
01:42:31,243 --> 01:42:34,683
the British army immediately demanded the release of these men.

1575
01:42:34,823 --> 01:42:37,775
When the Basra government refused, British tanks came in

1576
01:42:37,915 --> 01:42:41,180
and physically broke out the men from the Basra prison.

1577
01:42:41,747 --> 01:42:45,991
(L. LaRouche) If you wish to destroy an area, how do you do it?

1578
01:42:46,131 --> 01:42:48,313
There are two ways: You can go in there and bomb it

1579
01:42:48,453 --> 01:42:50,459
but that is not very efficient.

1580
01:42:50,599 --> 01:42:53,610
What you do is you try to get the people in that area to kill each other

1581
01:42:53,750 --> 01:42:57,237
and to destroy there own territory, their own farms.

1582
01:42:57,377 --> 01:42:59,560
And that's what has been done in that area.

1583
01:42:59,700 --> 01:43:03,663
The way in which you destroy an opponent is by getting him

1584
01:43:03,803 --> 01:43:07,495
to destroy himself by dividing his ranks against one another.

1585
01:43:07,635 --> 01:43:10,885
Then you feed both sides, you have agents feeding both sides

1586
01:43:11,025 --> 01:43:14,646
inflaming both sides. And they kill each other off.

1587
01:43:14,786 --> 01:43:19,045
It's time that some of us woke up to this reality.

1588
01:43:19,185 --> 01:43:24,631
To understand that people who try to maintain empires and create empires

1589
01:43:25,053 --> 01:43:29,486
do it by manipulating the people they are trying to conquer.

1590
01:43:30,119 --> 01:43:32,849
(P. Joseph) You might want to ask yourself why the entire culture

1591
01:43:32,989 --> 01:43:37,257
is utterly saturated with mass media entertainment from all sides

1592
01:43:37,397 --> 01:43:40,066
while the educational system in America continues

1593
01:43:40,206 --> 01:43:42,270
its stupefying downward slide

1594
01:43:42,406 --> 01:43:44,741
since the US government decided to take over

1595
01:43:44,875 --> 01:43:48,454
and subsidize the public school system.

1596
01:43:49,286 --> 01:43:52,838
(J. Maxwell) What your government pays for, it gets.

1597
01:43:52,978 --> 01:43:57,539
When we understand that, then we look at government financed

1598
01:43:57,679 --> 01:44:02,052
institutions of education and see the kind of students

1599
01:44:02,192 --> 01:44:04,551
and the kind of education that is being turned out

1600
01:44:04,691 --> 01:44:07,363
by these government-financed schools

1601
01:44:07,503 --> 01:44:12,244
logic will tell you that if what is being turned out in those schools

1602
01:44:12,384 --> 01:44:17,401
was not in accord with what the state and the federal government wanted

1603
01:44:17,541 --> 01:44:19,901
then it would change it.

1604
01:44:20,041 --> 01:44:24,484
The bottom line is that the government is getting what they have ordered.

1605
01:44:24,624 --> 01:44:29,475
They do not want your children to be educated.

1606
01:44:30,307 --> 01:44:34,109
They do not want you to think too much.

1607
01:44:34,249 --> 01:44:36,582
That is why our country and our world

1608
01:44:36,722 --> 01:44:40,286
has become so proliferated with entertainments

1609
01:44:40,426 --> 01:44:43,299
mass media, television shows

1610
01:44:43,439 --> 01:44:47,036
amusement parks, drugs, alcohol

1611
01:44:47,176 --> 01:44:52,324
and every kind of entertainment, to keep the human mind entertained.

1612
01:44:52,464 --> 01:44:56,106
So that you don't get in the way of important people

1613
01:44:56,246 --> 01:44:59,025
by doing too much thinking.

1614
01:44:59,811 --> 01:45:02,977
You had better wake up and understand that there are people

1615
01:45:03,117 --> 01:45:05,896
who are guiding your life and you don't even know it.

1616
01:45:06,036 --> 01:45:09,053
We are in a lot of trouble!

1617
01:45:09,521 --> 01:45:11,571
Because you people

1618
01:45:11,711 --> 01:45:15,730
and 62 million other Americans are listening to me right now.

1619
01:45:15,870 --> 01:45:20,009
Because less than 3 percent of you people read books.

1620
01:45:21,059 --> 01:45:24,619
Because less than 15 percent of you read newspapers.

1621
01:45:24,759 --> 01:45:28,547
Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube.

1622
01:45:28,687 --> 01:45:33,381
Right now there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything

1623
01:45:33,521 --> 01:45:36,531
that didn't come out of this tube.

1624
01:45:36,671 --> 01:45:40,905
This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation.

1625
01:45:41,045 --> 01:45:45,962
This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers.

1626
01:45:46,102 --> 01:45:51,203
This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world

1627
01:45:51,343 --> 01:45:54,020
and woe is us if it ever falls in the hands of the wrong people.

1628
01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:56,542
And when the largest company in the world

1629
01:45:56,682 --> 01:46:00,938
controls the most awesome goddamn propaganda force

1630
01:46:01,078 --> 01:46:04,378
in the whole godless world who knows what shit

1631
01:46:04,518 --> 01:46:07,093
will be peddled for truth on this network.

1632
01:46:07,233 --> 01:46:10,287
So you listen to me. Listen to me:

1633
01:46:10,427 --> 01:46:12,893
Television is not the truth.

1634
01:46:13,033 --> 01:46:15,535
Television is a goddamned amusement park.

1635
01:46:15,675 --> 01:46:19,883
Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troop of acrobats

1636
01:46:20,023 --> 01:46:23,574
story tellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks

1637
01:46:23,714 --> 01:46:26,078
lion tamers and football players.

1638
01:46:26,218 --> 01:46:28,681
We are in the boredom killing business!

1639
01:46:28,821 --> 01:46:33,006
But you people sit there day after day, night after night

1640
01:46:33,146 --> 01:46:37,264
all ages, colors, creeds... We are all you know!

1641
01:46:37,404 --> 01:46:40,071
You're beginning to believe the illusions we are spinning here.

1642
01:46:40,211 --> 01:46:42,259
You are beginning to think the tube is reality

1643
01:46:42,399 --> 01:46:44,351
and that your own lives are unreal.

1644
01:46:44,491 --> 01:46:47,540
You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube

1645
01:46:47,680 --> 01:46:50,262
eat like the tube, raise your children like the tube

1646
01:46:50,402 --> 01:46:55,330
you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs!

1647
01:46:55,470 --> 01:46:58,116
In God's name you people are the real thing.

1648
01:46:58,256 --> 01:47:00,977
We are the illusion!

1649
01:47:03,696 --> 01:47:06,057
(P. Joseph) The last thing the power establishment wants

1650
01:47:06,197 --> 01:47:10,474
is a conscious informed public capable of critical thinking.

1651
01:47:10,614 --> 01:47:13,960
This is why a continually fraudulent zeitgeist is output

1652
01:47:14,100 --> 01:47:17,681
via religion, the mass media, and the educational system.

1653
01:47:17,821 --> 01:47:21,492
It is in their interest to keep you in a distracted naive bubble.

1654
01:47:21,632 --> 01:47:24,432
And they are doing a damn good job of it.

1655
01:47:25,890 --> 01:47:29,244
This is Aaron Russo, a filmmaker and former politician.

1656
01:47:29,384 --> 01:47:34,098
To his left is Nicholas Rockefeller of the Council on Foreign Relations.

1657
01:47:34,238 --> 01:47:37,124
After maintaining a close friendship with Nicholas Rockefeller

1658
01:47:37,264 --> 01:47:41,703
Aaron eventually ended the relationship, appalled by what he had learned.

1659
01:47:41,843 --> 01:47:45,768
(A. Russo) I got a call one day from an attorney woman I knew

1660
01:47:45,908 --> 01:47:48,625
and she said "Would you like to meet one of the Rockefellers?"

1661
01:47:48,765 --> 01:47:50,599
And I said "Sure, I'd love to."

1662
01:47:50,739 --> 01:47:53,599
And we became friends

1663
01:47:53,739 --> 01:47:56,470
and he began to divulge a lot of things to me

1664
01:47:56,610 --> 01:47:58,657
so he said to me one night:

1665
01:47:58,797 --> 01:48:02,015
"There's going to be an event, Aaron, and out of that event

1666
01:48:02,155 --> 01:48:04,571
you're going to see, we're going to go into Afghanistan

1667
01:48:04,711 --> 01:48:08,614
so we can run pipelines from the Caspian Sea. We are going to go into Iraq

1668
01:48:08,754 --> 01:48:11,292
to take the oil and establish a base in the Middle East

1669
01:48:11,432 --> 01:48:15,385
and we are going to go into Venezuela and get rid of Chavez."

1670
01:48:15,525 --> 01:48:19,401
The first two they have accomplished, Chavez they didn't accomplish.

1671
01:48:19,541 --> 01:48:23,076
And he said "You are going to see guys going into caves

1672
01:48:23,216 --> 01:48:27,410
looking for people they are never going to find. "

1673
01:48:27,550 --> 01:48:31,035
He was laughing about the fact that you have this war on terror

1674
01:48:31,175 --> 01:48:33,584
and there is no real enemy, he was talking about

1675
01:48:33,724 --> 01:48:36,789
how by having this war on terror you can never win it

1676
01:48:36,929 --> 01:48:39,470
because it is an eternal war.

1677
01:48:39,610 --> 01:48:42,592
So you can always keep taking peoples liberties away.

1678
01:48:42,732 --> 01:48:46,139
And I said "How are you going to convince people that this war is real?"

1679
01:48:46,279 --> 01:48:49,273
And he said "By the media, which can convince everybody that it's real. "

1680
01:48:49,413 --> 01:48:53,532
You just keep talking about things, you keep saying them over and over again

1681
01:48:53,672 --> 01:48:55,547
and eventually people believe it.

1682
01:48:55,687 --> 01:48:59,363
You created the Federal Reserve in 1913 through lies.

1683
01:48:59,503 --> 01:49:02,960
You create 9/11, which is another lie.

1684
01:49:03,100 --> 01:49:05,691
Through 9/11, then you are fighting a war on terror

1685
01:49:05,831 --> 01:49:08,891
and all the sudden you go into Iraq, which was another lie

1686
01:49:09,031 --> 01:49:11,178
and now they are going to do Iran.

1687
01:49:11,318 --> 01:49:14,335
It's all one thing leading to another, leading to another...

1688
01:49:14,475 --> 01:49:17,480
I would say to him "What are you doing this for? What's the point of this thing?

1689
01:49:17,620 --> 01:49:19,619
You have all the money you would ever want.

1690
01:49:19,759 --> 01:49:23,674
You have all the power. You're hurting people. It's not a good thing."

1691
01:49:23,814 --> 01:49:26,530
And he would say "What do you care about the people for?

1692
01:49:26,670 --> 01:49:29,340
Take care of yourself and take care of your family."

1693
01:49:29,480 --> 01:49:33,000
And then I said "So what are the ultimate goals here?"

1694
01:49:33,140 --> 01:49:36,198
He said "The ultimate goal is to get everyone in this world

1695
01:49:36,338 --> 01:49:38,838
chipped with an RFID chip.

1696
01:49:38,978 --> 01:49:42,638
And have all money be on those chips and everything on those chips

1697
01:49:42,778 --> 01:49:46,380
and if anybody wants to protest what we do, or violate what we want

1698
01:49:46,520 --> 01:49:48,489
we just turn off their chip."

1699
01:49:50,073 --> 01:49:53,103
(P. Joseph) How far will the sickness of power go?

1700
01:49:53,243 --> 01:49:55,572
To what lengths will those in control go

1701
01:49:55,700 --> 01:49:59,660
in order to maintain and preserve their positions?

1702
01:49:59,800 --> 01:50:04,338
We have a Florida family who are really pioneers in a brave new world.

1703
01:50:04,478 --> 01:50:07,292
They have volunteered to be the first ever

1704
01:50:07,432 --> 01:50:12,014
to have microchip identification devices implanted into their bodies.

1705
01:50:12,154 --> 01:50:17,236
After 9/11, I was really concerned with the security of my family.

1706
01:50:19,155 --> 01:50:22,350
I wouldn't mind having something planted permanently in my arm

1707
01:50:22,490 --> 01:50:24,784
that would identify me.

1708
01:50:24,924 --> 01:50:30,675
(P. Joseph) George Orwell in his famed and possibly prophetic work '1984', stated:

1709
01:50:30,950 --> 01:50:33,788
"Power is not a means, it is an end.

1710
01:50:33,928 --> 01:50:36,358
The object of persecution is persecution.

1711
01:50:36,498 --> 01:50:41,533
The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

1712
01:50:41,902 --> 01:50:45,325
Today, symptoms of a surveillance society continue to grow

1713
01:50:45,465 --> 01:50:48,073
as irrational fears of invisible enemies

1714
01:50:48,213 --> 01:50:52,733
coupled with rising economic instability spread across the globe.

1715
01:50:52,873 --> 01:50:56,430
It is under this guise of security that we can foreshadow a world

1716
01:50:56,570 --> 01:50:59,355
where everyone is tracked, everyone is on camera

1717
01:50:59,495 --> 01:51:02,186
and everyone is subordinated.

1718
01:51:03,461 --> 01:51:06,046
The most incredible aspect of all:

1719
01:51:06,186 --> 01:51:09,686
Such totalitarianism would likely not be forced upon the people.

1720
01:51:09,826 --> 01:51:12,221
Rather, the people will demand it.

1721
01:51:12,361 --> 01:51:15,965
For the social manipulation of society through the generation of fear

1722
01:51:16,105 --> 01:51:19,804
and division has completely inhibited the culture.

1723
01:51:19,944 --> 01:51:24,018
Religion, patriotism, race, wealth

1724
01:51:24,158 --> 01:51:28,436
class and every other form of arbitrary separatist identification

1725
01:51:28,576 --> 01:51:32,529
and thus conceit has served to create a controlled population

1726
01:51:32,669 --> 01:51:35,227
utterly malleable in the hands of the few.

1727
01:51:35,367 --> 01:51:37,655
'Divide and Conquer' is the motto

1728
01:51:37,795 --> 01:51:40,628
and as long as people continue to see themselves as separate

1729
01:51:40,768 --> 01:51:46,091
from everything else, they lend themselves to being completely enslaved.

1730
01:51:46,231 --> 01:51:50,759
However, if the people ever realized the truth of their relationship to nature

1731
01:51:50,899 --> 01:51:54,357
and the truth of their personal power to affect change

1732
01:51:54,497 --> 01:51:57,782
the entire manufactured zeitgeist that's preyed upon

1733
01:51:57,922 --> 01:52:01,066
would collapse like a house of cards.

1734
01:52:13,032 --> 01:52:16,763
(R. Alpert) The whole system that we live in

1735
01:52:16,903 --> 01:52:19,873
drills into us that we're powerless, that we're weak

1736
01:52:20,013 --> 01:52:23,760
that our society is evil, that it's crime ridden, etc.

1737
01:52:23,894 --> 01:52:26,202
It's all a big, fat lie!

1738
01:52:26,342 --> 01:52:29,681
We are powerful, beautiful, extraordinary.

1739
01:52:30,454 --> 01:52:35,241
There is no reason why we cannot understand who we truly are

1740
01:52:35,381 --> 01:52:39,193
where we are going. There is no reason why the average individual

1741
01:52:39,333 --> 01:52:43,926
cannot be fully empowered, we are incredibly powerful beings.

1742
01:52:45,302 --> 01:52:47,860
- I think I spent 30 years of my life

1743
01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:52,182
the first 30, trying to become something. I wanted to become good at things

1744
01:52:52,322 --> 01:52:55,330
I wanted to become good at tennis, school and grades

1745
01:52:55,470 --> 01:52:57,742
and everything I viewed in that perspective:

1746
01:52:57,882 --> 01:53:01,581
I'm not OK the way I am, but if I got good at things...

1747
01:53:02,099 --> 01:53:04,313
I realized that I had the game wrong.

1748
01:53:04,453 --> 01:53:07,721
The game was to find out what I already was.

1749
01:53:30,086 --> 01:53:32,160
(R. Albert) Now, in our culture we have been trained

1750
01:53:32,300 --> 01:53:34,731
for individual differences to stand out.

1751
01:53:34,871 --> 01:53:37,113
You look at each person and the immediate hit is:

1752
01:53:37,253 --> 01:53:40,149
brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer, poorer

1753
01:53:40,289 --> 01:53:42,974
and we make all these dimensional distinctions

1754
01:53:43,114 --> 01:53:45,716
put them into categories and treat them that way.

1755
01:53:45,856 --> 01:53:49,325
And we get so that we only see others as separate from ourselves

1756
01:53:49,465 --> 01:53:51,484
in the ways in which they are separate.

1757
01:53:51,624 --> 01:53:55,975
And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience

1758
01:53:56,115 --> 01:53:58,304
is being with another person and suddenly seeing

1759
01:53:58,444 --> 01:54:01,893
the ways in which they are like you, not different from you.

1760
01:54:02,033 --> 01:54:04,880
And experiencing the fact, that which is essence in you

1761
01:54:05,020 --> 01:54:07,698
and which is essence in me, is indeed one.

1762
01:54:07,838 --> 01:54:12,312
The understanding that there is no other. It is all one.

1763
01:54:16,151 --> 01:54:19,327
I wasn't born Richard Albert, I was just born as a human being

1764
01:54:19,467 --> 01:54:22,768
and then I learned this whole business of who I am

1765
01:54:22,908 --> 01:54:26,070
and whether I'm good or bad, achieving or not

1766
01:54:26,210 --> 01:54:28,650
all that's learned along the way.

1767
01:54:28,790 --> 01:54:33,823
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power

1768
01:54:33,949 --> 01:54:36,834
the world will know peace." - Sri Chinmoy Ghose

1769
01:54:44,617 --> 01:54:49,479
(C. Sagan) The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism

1770
01:54:49,619 --> 01:54:54,511
to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

1771
01:54:54,905 --> 01:54:57,374
A new consciousness is developing which sees the Earth

1772
01:54:57,514 --> 01:55:02,028
as a single organism and recognizes

1773
01:55:02,168 --> 01:55:05,454
that an organism at war with itself is doomed.

1774
01:55:38,040 --> 01:55:42,320
- Bill Hicks used to finish his shows with this:

1775
01:55:45,412 --> 01:55:48,159
"Life's like a ride in an amusement park

1776
01:55:48,299 --> 01:55:50,190
and when you go on it you think it's real

1777
01:55:50,330 --> 01:55:52,848
because that's how powerful our minds are.

1778
01:55:52,988 --> 01:55:55,264
The ride goes up and down and round and round

1779
01:55:55,404 --> 01:55:58,398
it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored.

1780
01:55:58,538 --> 01:56:01,839
And it's very loud and it's fun for a while.

1781
01:56:01,979 --> 01:56:05,034
Some have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question:

1782
01:56:05,174 --> 01:56:08,458
Is this real? Or is this just a ride?

1783
01:56:08,598 --> 01:56:10,942
And other people have remembered and they come back to us

1784
01:56:11,082 --> 01:56:14,711
and they say: 'Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid ever

1785
01:56:14,851 --> 01:56:17,444
because this is just a ride."

1786
01:56:18,111 --> 01:56:20,329
And we kill those people.

1787
01:56:20,469 --> 01:56:24,109
Shut him up I have got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up!

1788
01:56:24,249 --> 01:56:26,134
Look at my furrows of worry...

1789
01:56:26,274 --> 01:56:30,671
Look at my big bank account and my family. This has to be real.

1790
01:56:30,811 --> 01:56:34,603
It's just a ride. But we will kill those good guys who try and tell us that.

1791
01:56:34,743 --> 01:56:38,390
Have you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok...

1792
01:56:38,827 --> 01:56:41,532
But it doesn't matter, because it is just a ride

1793
01:56:41,672 --> 01:56:43,807
and we can change it anytime we want.

1794
01:56:43,947 --> 01:56:49,087
It is only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money.

1795
01:56:49,227 --> 01:56:51,493
Just a choice right now.

1796
01:56:51,633 --> 01:56:55,712
Between fear and love.

1797
01:57:15,476 --> 01:57:18,328
The Revolution is Now

1798
01:57:31,787 --> 01:57:35,241
For detailed sources, explanations and further information

1799
01:57:35,441 --> 01:57:39,238
regarding the content in this film, please download the free

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