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The Venus Project is pleased to introduce
some interviewees from our forthcoming series

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I'm Jeff Hoffman. I'm professor of aerospace engineering

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in the department of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

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Prior to coming here, I spent 25 years at NASA as a NASA astronaut

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and made five flights in various space shuttles.

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I was the first astronaut to log 1,000 hours on the space shuttle,

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and I was one of the crew in the rescue mission

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for the Hubble Space Telescope back in 1993.

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All over the world there are places where we can see the artificial borders

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that humans have put up and the different ways that we take care

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of the land on either side of the borders.

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So, it's like the many other impacts

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the Human race has had on our planet.

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It's a situation where we've affected our planet

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in ways that are visible from a cosmic perspective,

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and it should give us pause.

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I'm Karen Hudes. I'm known as the World Bank whistle-blower.

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I'm working with a team of other whistle-blowers,

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both from the World Bank and outside the World Bank,

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to tell you what's been hidden from you—deliberately hidden from you.

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The Federal Reserve system is a private system—it's not a central bank.

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And these bankers are all part of a system

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called 'The Bank for International Settlements'.

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They own 40% of the assets of the 43,000 companies

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that are traded on the capital market,

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and they pull down 60% of the annual earnings.

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They bought up all our media; and that media is hoodwinking the citizens.

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At the vanguard of this new wave of automation is the field of robotics.

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But instead of serving us, we find them competing for our jobs,

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and, according to MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee,

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one of the reasons for the jobless recovery.

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I’m Erik Brynjolfsson. I’m a professor at MIT

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and the director of the MIT initiative on the digital economy.

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Every new technology both destroys jobs and creates jobs.

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There are winners and there are losers.

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There’s disruption, and that’s certainly true with this wave,

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even as it creates record wealth.

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We’re now at $77 trillion with record productivity and record GDP.

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There are a lot of people who are actually worse off than they were before.

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My name is Abby Martin and I am a journalist for mediaroots.org

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and a host of Breaking The Set on RT America.

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The media’s morphed into just peddling the corporate interests

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of the money masters that control the political establishment.

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I don’t even consider us to live in a democracy at all;

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there’s a corporatocracy that’s running the planet,

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and under this corporatocracy, we have them (corporations)
using the state as a tool of the market.

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And so, we’re at a state now

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[where] all of their interests [are] bleeding into the media.

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My name is Paul Wright and I’m the executive director and the founder

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of 'The Human Rights Defense Center'.

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I’m also the editor of 'Prison Legal News',

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and I've published and edited three anthologies on mass incarceration,

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starting with 'The Celling of America: An Inside look at the U.S. Prison Industry',

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followed by 'Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor',

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and 'Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration'.

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Generally, the laws in this country are written by the wealthy and the powerful

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because, by definition, that’s who controls legislatures

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and the commanding heights of the power system in this country.

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The government is not a neutral agent;
it serves the class that holds power.

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My name is Mark Jacobson.

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I’m a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University,

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and I build computer models to simulate climates, air pollution, and weather

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on global, regional, and local scales.

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I also study and develop solutions to the problems of

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global warming, air pollution, and air-pollution health problems

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with the goal of trying to provide energy stability for years to come.

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There’s no technological or economic limitation to solving these problems;

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it’s a social and political issue, primarily.

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My name is Dylan Ratigan,

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I am the recently retired host of 'The Dylan Ratigan Show' on MSNBC.

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It was the highest rated non-primetime show on the network.

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Prior to that, I was the host and creator

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of a program on CNBC entitled 'Fast Money',

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which was the single highest-grossing, highest-rated

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show in the history of CNBC.

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I have resigned all those positions 18 months ago

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in order to follow the leadership

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of recently-returned Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans

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who have explained to me that the necessary solution to global conflict

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is the tactical application of global resource management,

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and I have devoted my life to helping them achieve that goal.

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My name is Erin Ade.

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I’m a reporter for RT television

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and host of 'Boom Bust', a financial and economic show on RT.

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Yes, there might be idealistic politicians who
got into the game to change the world, but,

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if they’re any good at their job,
they’re no longer changing the world;

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they’re serving the interests of their donors
to rise in the world of politics.

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That’s a scary reality because you can pay
your way into having laws implemented

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that serve you and your corporation
as you would like them to serve.

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I'm Paul Hewitt.

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I’m well-known for a textbook I’ve
written: 'Conceptual Physics'

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and also for screencasts that are on YouTube right now

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called 'Hewitt Drew-it! Physics'.

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Science has a self-correcting method

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of making sure that people give their best,
and honestly.

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Exceptions? Of course.

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Corruptions here and there? Of course.

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But in general, it’s the best way

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of looking and interacting with the world — rationality.

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What will Earth look like 50 years from now?

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It’s something scientists, sci-fi fans, and a lot of kids daydream about.

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But, there’s also a big dreamer right here in Florida

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who may just be the oldest living futurist.

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Jacque Fresco has a vision, a very serious vision, for the 21st century.

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It’s all in keeping with his life’s work:
The Venus Project.

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We’re not civilized yet.

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As long as we have prisons, police, armies, and navies, we’re not civilized.

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We want to build a world that takes care of everybody.

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Well, there’s no such thing as utopia;

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just a better system than this one.

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No [political] system on earth is any good; they are all corrupt.

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If you don’t want war and you don’t want hatred and unemployment,

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you have to change the way we think.

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You have to change the culture.

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Stay tuned for Episode 1
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