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The old appeals to racial,
sexual or religious chauvinism,

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to rabid nationalist fervor
are beginning not to work.

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

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All that's learned
along the way.

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It's just a ride...

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And we can change it
anytime we want.

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It's only the choice.

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

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I realised
I had the game wrong.

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The game was to find out
what I already was.

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We were seeing

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how very important it is

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to bring about,
in the human mind,

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the radical revolution.

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The crisis
is a crisis in consciousness.

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A crisis that cannot,
anymore,

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accept the old norms,

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the old patterns,

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the ancient traditions.

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And, considering
what the world is now,

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with all the misery,

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conflict,

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destructive brutality,

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aggression,

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and so on...

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Man...

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is still as he was.

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Is still brutal,

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violent,

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aggressive,

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acquisitive,

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competitive.

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and, he's built
a society

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along these lines.

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Society today,

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is composed of
a series of institutions.

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From political institutions,

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legal institutions,

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religious institutions.

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to institutions of social class,

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familiar values,

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and occupational specialization.

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It is obvious, the profound influence
these traditionalized structures have

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in shaping our understandings
and perspectives.

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

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directed by
and conditioned upon,

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there seems to be no system
as taken for granted,

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and misunderstood,

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as the monetary system.

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Taking on
nearly religious proportions,

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the established monetary
institution exists

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

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How money is created,

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the policies
by which it is governed,

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and how it truly
affects society,

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are unregistered interests of
the great majority of the population.

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

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In a world where
34,000 children die every single day

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from poverty
and preventable diseases,

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

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One thing is clear.

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Something is very wrong.

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And, whether we are
aware of it or not,

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the lifeblood of all of our
established institutions,

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and thus society itself,

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is money.

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Therefore, understanding this
institution of monetary policy

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

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Unfortunately, economics is often
viewed with confusion and boredom.

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Endless streams of financial jargon,
coupled with intimidating mathematics,

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quickly deters people
from attempts at understanding it.

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However, the fact is:

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

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Designed to conceal one of the
most socially paralyzing structures,

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humanity
has ever endured.

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

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the Federal Reserve,

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produced a document entitled
Modern Money Mechanics.

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This publication
detailed the

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institutionalized
practice of money creation,

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as utilized by
the Federal Reserve and

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the web of global commercial banks
it supports.

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On the opening page,
the document states its objective.

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The purpose
of this booklet is to

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describe the basic process
of money creation

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in a 'fractional reserve'
banking system.

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It then precedes to describe
this fractional reserve process

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through various
banking terminology.

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A translation of which
goes something like this:

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The United States government
decides it needs some money.

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So it calls up the Federal Reserve
and requests,

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say,
10 billion dollars.

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The FED replies,
saying:

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Sure, we'll buy ten billion
in government bonds from you.

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So the government takes
some pieces of paper,

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paints some
official looking designs on them

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and calls them
treasury bonds.

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

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and sends them over
to the FED.

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In turn,
the people of the FED

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drop a bunch of impressive
pieces of papers themselves.

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Only this time,
calling them Federal Reserve notes.

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Also designating a value of
ten billion dollars to the set.

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

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Once this exchange
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the government then takes the
ten billion in Federal Reserve notes,

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and deposits it
into an bank account.

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

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adding ten billion
to the US money supply.

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And there it is, ten billion
in new money has been created.

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Of course,
this example is a generalization.

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For, in reality, this transaction
would occur electronically,

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with no paper
used at all.

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In fact, only three percent
of the US money supply

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exists in
physical currency.

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The other 97 percent essentially
exists in computers alone.

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Now, government bonds are by design,
instruments of debt.

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And when the FED
purchases these bonds,

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with money it essentially
created out of thin air,

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the government is actually
promising to pay back

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that money to the FED.

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

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This mind numbing paradox,
of how money or value

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can be created
out of debt,

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

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So, the exchange
has been made.

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And now, ten billion dollars
sits in a commercial bank account.

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Here is where it gets
really interesting.

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For, as based on the
fractional reserve practice,

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that ten billion dollar
deposit

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instantly becomes
part of the bank's reserves,

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just as all deposits do.

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

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A bank must maintain
legally required reserves

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equal to a prescribed
percentage of its deposits.

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It then quantifies this
by stating:

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Under current regulations,

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the reserve requirement against most
transaction accounts is 10 percent.

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This means that with a
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ten percent,
or one billion,

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is held as
the required reserve,

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while the other nine billion is
considered an excessive reserve,

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and can be used
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for new loans.

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

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

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However, this is actually
not the case.

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What really happens,
is that the nine billion

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is simply created
out of thin air

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on top of the existing
10 billion dollar deposit.

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This is how the money supply
is expanded.

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As stated in
Modern Money Mechanics:

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Of course they,
the banks,

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do not really pay out
loans for the money

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they receive as
deposits.

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

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What they do
when they make loans

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is to accept
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loan contracts,

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in exchange for credits,
money,

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to the borrowers'
transaction accounts.

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

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simply because there is
a demand for such a loan,

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and that there is
a 10 billion dollar deposit

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to satisfy
the reserve requirements.

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Now let's assume that
somebody walks into this bank

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and borrows the newly available
nine billion dollars.

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They will then most likely
take that money and deposit it

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into their own bank account.

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The process then repeats.

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

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Ten percent is isolated, and in turn,
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or 8.1 billion is now availlable as
newly created money for more loans.

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

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creating an additional
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to 6.5 billion,
to 5.9 billion, etc.

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

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The average mathematical result
is that about 90 billion dollars

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can be created on top
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In other words, for every deposit
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about nine times that amount
can be created out of thin air.

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Money jitters.

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Ask the obliging Bank of America
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soothing instant money.

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

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So, now that we understand
how money is created

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by this fractional reserve
banking system.

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A logical, yet illusive question
might come to mind:

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What is actually giving this
newly created money value?

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The answer:
The money that already exists.

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

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

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And, as supply and demand
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Prices rise,

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diminishing the purchasing power
of each individual dollar.

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This is generally referred to
as inflation.

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And inflation is essentially
a hidden tax on the public.

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What is the advice
that you generally get?

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And that is,
inflate the currency.

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

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

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They say:
Lower the interest rates.

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

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When we create money out of thin air,
we have no savings.

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Yet there is
so-called capital.

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So, my question
boils down to this:

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

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That is,
increase in the supply of money,

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with more inflation.

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Of course, it can't.

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The fractional reserve system
of monetary expansion

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is inherently inflationary.

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For the act of
expanding the money supply,

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without there being

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a proportional expansion of goods
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will always
debase a currency.

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In fact, the quick glance
of the historical values

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of the US dollar,
versus the money supply,

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reflects this point
definitively,

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for the inverse relationship
is obvious.

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

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That is
a 96% devaluation

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since the Federal Reserve
came into existence.

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Now, if this reality of
inherent and perpetual inflation

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seems absurd and
economically self-defeating,

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hold that thought,
for absurdity is an understatement,

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in regard to how our financial system
really operates.

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For in our financial system,
money is debt,

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and debt is money.

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

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

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

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

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The more debt there is,
the more money there is.

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To put it a different way,
every single dollar in your wallet

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is owed to somebody
by somebody.

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For remember:

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

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

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including the government,

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there would not be one dollar
in circulation.

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In fact, the last time
in American history,

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the national debt
was completely paid off

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was in 1835,
after President Andrew Jackson,

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shut down the Central Bank
that preceded the Federal Reserve.

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In fact,
Jackson's entire political platform

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essentially revolved
around his commitment

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to shut down
the Central Bank.

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Stating that one point:

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

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are but premonitions of the fate
that awaits the American people,

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Should they be deluded into
a perpetuation of this institution

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or, the establishment
of another like it.

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Unfortunately,
this message was short lived.

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

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The Federal Reserve.

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And as long as
this institution exists,

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perpetual debt
is guaranteed.

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Now, so far we have
discussed the reality

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that money is created
out of debt through loans.

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These loans are based
on a bank's reserves,

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and reserves are derived
from deposits.

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And through this
fractional reserve system,

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any one deposit can create
9 times its original value.

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In turn, debasing the
existing money supply,

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raising prices in society.

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

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and circulated randomly
through commerce,

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people become detached
from their original debt.

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And a disequilibrium
exists,

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where people are forced
to compete for labor,

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in order to pull enough money
out of the money supply

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to cover
their costs of living.

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As dysfunctional and backwards
as all of this might seem,

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

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And it is this element
of the structure

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which reveals the truly fraudulent
nature of the system itself.

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The application of interest.

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When the government
borrows money from the FED,

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or when a person borrows
money from a bank,

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

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In other words, almost every
single dollar that exists

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

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But,

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if all money is borrowed
from the Central Bank

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and is expanded by
commercial banks through loans,

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only what would be refered
to as the principal

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is been created
in the money supply.

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

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Nowhere.

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It doesn't exist.

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The ramifications of this
are staggering,

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for the amount of money
owed back to the banks

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will always exceed the amount of money
that is available in circulation.

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This is why inflation is
a constant in the economy,

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For new money
is always needed

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to help cover the perpetual deficit
build into the system,

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caused by the need
to pay the interest.

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What this also means,

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is that mathematically,
defaults and bankruptcy

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are literally
built into the system.

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And there will always be
poor pockets of society

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that get the
short end of the stick.

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An analogy would be
a game of musical chairs,

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

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And that's the point.

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

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For, if you are unable
to pay for your mortgage,

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they will take
your property.

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This is particularly enraging
when you realize,

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that not only is such
a default inevitable

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due to the
fractional reserve practice.

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But, also
because of the fact

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that the money that
the bank loaned to you

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didn't even legally exist
in the first place.

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In 1969, there was a
Minnesota court case

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involving a man named
Jerome Daly,

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who was challenging the
foreclosure of his home by the bank,

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which provided the loan
to purchase it.

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His argument was that the mortgage
contract required both parties,

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being he and the bank,

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

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In legal language,
this is called consideration.

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

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For it was created
out of nothing,

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as soon as the loan agreement
was signed.

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Remember what Modern Money Mechanics
stated about loans?

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What they do,
when they make loans,

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is to accept promissory notes,
in exchange for credits.

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Reserves are unchanged
by the loan transactions.

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But, deposit credits
constitute new additions

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to the total deposits
of the banking system.

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In other words, the money doesn't
come out of their existing assets.

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

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except for a theoretical liability,
on paper.

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As the court case progressed,
the bank's president,

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Mr. Morgan,
took the stand.

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And in the judge's
personal memorandum,

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he recalled that the Plaintiff,
bank's president,

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admitted that, in combination
with the Federal Reserve Bank

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did create the money
and credits

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upon its books
by book-keeping entry.

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The money and credit
first came into existence

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when they created it.

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Mr. Morgan admitted that
no United States Law or Statute existed

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which gave him
the right to do this.

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

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

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He also poetically added:

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

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And,
upon this revelation,

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the court rejected the bank's claim
for foreclosure and Daly kept his home.

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The implications of this
court decision are immense.

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For every time
you borrow money from a bank,

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whether it is a mortgage loan
or a credit card charge,

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the money given to you
is not only counterfeit,

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it is a illegitimate form
of consideration.

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And hence,
voids the contract to repay.

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For the bank never had the money
as property to begin with.

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Unfortunately, such legal realizations
are suppressed and ignored.

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And the game of
perpetual wealth transfer

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and perpetual debt
continues.

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And this brings us to
the ultimate question:

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Why?

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During the
American Civil War,

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President Lincoln bypassed
the high interest loans

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offered by
the European banks

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and decided to do what
the Founding Fathers advocated.

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

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It was called
The Greenback.

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Shortly after this measure was taken,
an internal document

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circulated between private British
and American banking interests, stated:

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Slavery is
but the owning of labor

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and carries with it
the care of the laborers,

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while the European plan...

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is that capital shall control labor
by controlling wages.

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This can be done
by controlling the money.

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

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The fractional reserve policy,

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perpetrated by
the Federal Reserve

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which has spread,
in practice,

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to the great majority of banks
in the world,

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is, in fact,
a system of modern slavery.

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Think about it,
money is created out of debt.

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And what do people do
when they are in debt?

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They submit to employment
to pay it off.

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

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how can society
ever be debt free?

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It can't
and that's the point.

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

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with the perpetual debt and inflation
inherent in the system,

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

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

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00:23:35,981 --> 00:23:39,014
that keeps
the wage-slave in line,

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running on a hamster wheel,
with millions of others,

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00:23:42,988 --> 00:23:45,545
in effect,
powering an empire

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

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For,
at the end of the day,

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who are you
really working for?

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00:23:55,967 --> 00:23:56,789
The banks.

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00:23:57,669 --> 00:24:01,191
Money is created in the bank
and invariably ends up in a bank.

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00:24:01,426 --> 00:24:03,099
They are
the true masters,

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00:24:03,148 --> 00:24:06,926
along with the corporations
and governments they support.

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00:24:08,179 --> 00:24:12,030
Physical slavery requires
people to be housed and fed.

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00:24:12,065 --> 00:24:16,929
Economic slavery requires people
to feed and house themselves.

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00:24:18,256 --> 00:24:22,994
It is one of the most ingenious scams
for social manipulation ever created.

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00:24:22,994 --> 00:24:24,288
And at its core,

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00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:27,766
it is an invisible war
against the population.

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00:24:27,766 --> 00:24:32,052
Debt is the weapon used
to conquer and enslave societies,

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00:24:32,087 --> 00:24:35,162
and interest
is its prime ammunition.

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00:24:36,975 --> 00:24:40,867
And, as the majority walks around,
oblivious to this reality,

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00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:44,716
the banks, in collusion with
governments and corporations

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00:24:44,716 --> 00:24:49,074
continue to perfect and expand
their tactics of economic warfare,

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00:24:49,454 --> 00:24:52,524
spawning new bases,
such as the World Bank

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00:24:52,524 --> 00:24:54,993
and International Monetary Fund,

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00:24:54,993 --> 00:24:57,742
while also inventing
a new type of soldier.

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00:24:58,396 --> 00:25:01,609
The birth of
the economic hitman.

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We, economic hitmen,
really have been the ones responsible

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00:25:17,116 --> 00:25:19,985
for creating this
first truly global empire

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And we work
many different ways.

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But perhaps the most common
is that we will

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

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And then, arrange a
huge loan to that country

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from the World Bank
or one of it's sister organizations.

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00:25:40,239 --> 00:25:42,207
But the money never actually
goes to the country.

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00:25:42,242 --> 00:25:44,084
Instead it goes
to our big corporations,

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00:25:44,115 --> 00:25:46,190
to build infrastructure projects
in that country.

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00:25:46,225 --> 00:25:48,346
Power plants,
industrial parks, ports...

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00:25:48,346 --> 00:25:51,529
Things that benefit
a few rich people in that country.

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00:25:51,564 --> 00:25:53,390
In addition
to our corporations.

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00:25:53,785 --> 00:25:56,055
But really don't help
a majority of the people at all.

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00:25:56,084 --> 00:25:57,431
However,
those people,

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00:25:57,471 --> 00:26:00,484
the whole country is left
holding the huge debt.

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00:26:00,659 --> 00:26:03,695
It's such a big debt they can't repay
and that's part of the plan...

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00:26:03,695 --> 00:26:04,829
They can't repay it.

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00:26:04,829 --> 00:26:06,709
And so, in some point,
we economic hitmen,

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00:26:06,740 --> 00:26:07,999
go back to them and say:
Listen.

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00:26:08,099 --> 00:26:09,425
You owe us
a lot of money.

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00:26:09,464 --> 00:26:11,970
You can't pay your debts.
So, sell your oil,

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00:26:12,170 --> 00:26:14,117
real cheap
to our oil companies,

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00:26:14,152 --> 00:26:16,662
allow us to build a military base
in your country, or...

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00:26:16,975 --> 00:26:20,761
send troops in support of ours
to someplace in the world like Iraq,

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00:26:20,796 --> 00:26:23,523
or vote with us
on the next UN vote,

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00:26:23,682 --> 00:26:27,488
to have their
electric utility company privatized

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00:26:27,523 --> 00:26:29,611
and their water and
sewage system privatized

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00:26:29,641 --> 00:26:31,586
and sold to
US corporations or other

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00:26:31,616 --> 00:26:33,644
multi-national corporations.

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So there is a
whole mushrooming thing

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00:26:35,518 --> 00:26:38,597
and it's so typical the way
the IMF and the World Bank work.

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00:26:38,632 --> 00:26:40,800
They put
a country in debt,

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00:26:40,801 --> 00:26:42,438
and it's such a big debt,
they can't pay it,

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00:26:42,477 --> 00:26:44,769
and then you offer
to refinance that debt

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00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:47,027
and pay
even more interest.

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00:26:47,062 --> 00:26:49,861
And you demand

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00:26:49,975 --> 00:26:52,579
this quid pro quo,
what you call a conditionality

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00:26:52,579 --> 00:26:53,827
or good governance

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00:26:53,856 --> 00:26:57,359
which means basically that they got
to sell off their resources,

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00:26:57,983 --> 00:27:00,587
including many
of their social services,

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00:27:00,622 --> 00:27:03,210
their utility companies,
their school systems sometimes,

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00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,255
their penal systems,

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00:27:05,791 --> 00:27:09,098
their insurance systems,
to foreign corporations.

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00:27:09,133 --> 00:27:12,461
So it's a
double-triple-quadruple whammy!

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00:27:15,767 --> 00:27:19,971
The precedent for economic hitmen
really began back in the early 50's

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00:27:20,006 --> 00:27:22,374
when the democratically-elected
Mossadegh

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00:27:22,374 --> 00:27:23,854
who was
elected in Iran...

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00:27:23,894 --> 00:27:26,611
He was considered to be
the hope for democracy

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00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:27,734
in the Middle East
and around the world.

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00:27:27,775 --> 00:27:29,347
He was in Time Magazine's
Man of the Year.

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00:27:29,347 --> 00:27:31,862
But, one of the things
that he brought on

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00:27:31,892 --> 00:27:34,303
and began to implement
was the idea that

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00:27:34,334 --> 00:27:37,351
foreign oil companies needed
to pay the Iranian people

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00:27:37,351 --> 00:27:39,577
a lot more for the oil that
they were taking out of Iran

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00:27:39,627 --> 00:27:41,976
and the Iranian people
should benefit from their own oil.

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00:27:42,016 --> 00:27:43,509
Strange policy.

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00:27:44,295 --> 00:27:45,684
We didn't like that,
of course.

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00:27:46,015 --> 00:27:48,945
But we were afraid to do
what we normally were doing,

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00:27:48,965 --> 00:27:50,341
which was to
send in the military.

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00:27:50,969 --> 00:27:53,152
Instead we sent in
one CIA agent,

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00:27:53,183 --> 00:27:56,172
Kermit Roosevelt,
Teddy Roosevelt's relative.

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00:27:57,976 --> 00:27:59,992
And Kermit went in
with a few million dollars

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00:28:00,031 --> 00:28:02,175
and was very, very effective
and efficient

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00:28:02,215 --> 00:28:03,980
and in a short
amount of time,

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00:28:03,982 --> 00:28:07,361
he managed to get
Mossadeg overthrown

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00:28:07,719 --> 00:28:10,156
and brought in the Shah of Iran
to replace him,

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00:28:10,176 --> 00:28:12,100
who always was
favorable to oil.

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00:28:12,248 --> 00:28:14,059
And it was
extremely effective.

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00:28:17,896 --> 00:28:19,998
Mobs over
through Tehran.

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00:28:19,998 --> 00:28:22,364
Army officers shout that
Mossadeg has surrendered

491
00:28:22,415 --> 00:28:25,394
and his regime as
virtual dictator of Iran is ended.

492
00:28:25,570 --> 00:28:29,179
Pictures of the Shah are paraded through
the streets as sentiment reverses.

493
00:28:31,976 --> 00:28:33,729
The Shah
is welcomed home.

494
00:28:33,978 --> 00:28:36,821
So back here in the United States,
in Washington,

495
00:28:36,861 --> 00:28:40,471
people looked around and said:
Wow, that was easy and cheap.

496
00:28:40,618 --> 00:28:45,757
So this established a whole new way
of manipulating countries,

497
00:28:45,792 --> 00:28:47,080
of creating empire.

498
00:28:47,115 --> 00:28:51,596
The only problem with Roosevelt was
that he was a card-carrying CIA agent

499
00:28:51,596 --> 00:28:52,899
and if he'd been caught,

500
00:28:52,939 --> 00:28:55,778
the ramifications
could have been pretty serious.

501
00:28:55,967 --> 00:28:57,604
So very quickly,
at that point,

502
00:28:57,644 --> 00:29:00,246
the decision was made
to use private consultants

503
00:29:00,286 --> 00:29:02,876
to channel the money
through the World Bank

504
00:29:02,876 --> 00:29:05,282
or the IMF or one of
the other such agencies,

505
00:29:05,317 --> 00:29:08,467
to bring in people like me,
who work for private companies.

506
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,937
So that
if we got caught,

507
00:29:10,972 --> 00:29:13,743
there would be
no governmental ramifications.

508
00:29:21,993 --> 00:29:24,220
When Ărbenz became
President of Guatemala,

509
00:29:24,289 --> 00:29:28,082
the country was very much under
the thumbs of United Fruit company,

510
00:29:28,124 --> 00:29:29,746
the big international corporation.

511
00:29:29,776 --> 00:29:32,228
And Ărbenz ran on this ticket
that said:

512
00:29:32,278 --> 00:29:34,705
You know, we want to give the land
back to the people.

513
00:29:34,973 --> 00:29:36,083
And once
he took power,

514
00:29:36,144 --> 00:29:40,145
he was implementing policies
that would do exactly that,

515
00:29:40,145 --> 00:29:42,263
give the land rights
back to the people.

516
00:29:42,264 --> 00:29:44,331
United Fruit didn't like that
very much.

517
00:29:44,382 --> 00:29:46,925
And so, they hired
a public relations firm,

518
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,172
launched a huge campaign
in the United States,

519
00:29:49,207 --> 00:29:52,446
to convince the United States people,
the citizens of the United States,

520
00:29:52,498 --> 00:29:54,993
the press of the United States
and the congress of the United States,

521
00:29:54,993 --> 00:29:57,328
that Ărbenz
was a Soviet puppet

522
00:29:57,368 --> 00:29:59,534
And that if we allowed him
to stay in power,

523
00:29:59,564 --> 00:30:02,968
the Soviets would have a foothold
in this hemisphere.

524
00:30:03,003 --> 00:30:04,474
And at that point in time,

525
00:30:04,503 --> 00:30:06,461
there was a huge fear
on everybody's mind,

526
00:30:06,496 --> 00:30:08,406
of the Red terror,
the Communist terror.

527
00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:13,378
And so, to make a long story short,
out of this public relations campaign

528
00:30:13,378 --> 00:30:15,543
came a commitment
on the part of the CIA

529
00:30:15,584 --> 00:30:17,610
and the military
to take this man out.

530
00:30:17,682 --> 00:30:18,694
And in fact,
we did.

531
00:30:18,723 --> 00:30:22,464
We sent in planes, we sent in soldiers,
we sent in jackals,

532
00:30:22,499 --> 00:30:25,652
we sent everything in to take him out.
And did take him out.

533
00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:28,356
And as soon as he was
removed from office,

534
00:30:28,793 --> 00:30:32,367
the new guy that took over after him
basically reinstated everything

535
00:30:32,402 --> 00:30:33,998
to the big international
corporations,

536
00:30:34,033 --> 00:30:35,613
including United Fruit.

537
00:30:40,322 --> 00:30:42,554
Ecuador, for many many years
had been ruled

538
00:30:42,594 --> 00:30:46,999
by pro-US dictators,
often relatively brutal.

539
00:30:47,034 --> 00:30:49,981
Then it was decided they will
have a truely democratic election.

540
00:30:49,981 --> 00:30:53,674
Jaime Roldos ran for office
and his main goal,

541
00:30:53,709 --> 00:30:55,987
he said,
as president would be

542
00:30:55,987 --> 00:31:00,195
to make sure that Ecuador's resources
were used to help the people.

543
00:31:00,391 --> 00:31:02,660
And he won.
Overwhelming.

544
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,478
By more votes than anybody
had ever won anything in Ecuador.

545
00:31:05,997 --> 00:31:08,326
And he began to
implement these policies.

546
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,050
To make sure that the profits from oil
went to help the people.

547
00:31:12,285 --> 00:31:14,814
Well, we didn't like that
in the United States.

548
00:31:14,973 --> 00:31:19,477
I was send down as one of several
economic hitmen to change Roldos.

549
00:31:19,477 --> 00:31:21,254
To corrupt him.
To bring 'em around...

550
00:31:21,289 --> 00:31:22,981
To let him know...
You know.

551
00:31:22,981 --> 00:31:25,133
Okay, you know,
you can get very rich,

552
00:31:25,134 --> 00:31:27,285
you and your family,
if you play our game.

553
00:31:27,285 --> 00:31:31,091
But if you continue to try to
keep this policy you've promised,

554
00:31:31,826 --> 00:31:33,289
you're gonna go.

555
00:31:33,416 --> 00:31:34,666
He woudn't listen...

556
00:31:35,994 --> 00:31:37,549
He was assassinated...

557
00:31:39,664 --> 00:31:43,381
As soon as the plane crashed,
the whole area was cordoned off.

558
00:31:43,416 --> 00:31:47,145
The only people allowed there were
US military from a nearby base

559
00:31:47,180 --> 00:31:49,050
and some of
the Ecuadorian military.

560
00:31:49,085 --> 00:31:51,430
When an investigation
was launched,

561
00:31:51,465 --> 00:31:54,279
two of the key witnesses
died in a car accidents

562
00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:56,670
before they have
a chance to testify.

563
00:31:56,781 --> 00:31:59,779
A lot of very, very strange things
that went on around

564
00:31:59,984 --> 00:32:02,115
the assassination of
Jaime Roldos.

565
00:32:02,150 --> 00:32:05,790
I, like most of people who've
really looked at this case,

566
00:32:05,825 --> 00:32:08,564
have absolutely no doubt
that it was an assassination.

567
00:32:08,604 --> 00:32:11,566
And, of course, in my position
as an economic hitman,

568
00:32:11,601 --> 00:32:13,731
I was always expecting
something to happen to Jaime,

569
00:32:13,731 --> 00:32:15,180
whether it'd be
a coup or assassination,

570
00:32:15,231 --> 00:32:17,882
I wasn't sure, but that
he would be taken down because

571
00:32:17,969 --> 00:32:19,462
he was
not being corrupted,

572
00:32:19,502 --> 00:32:21,221
he would not allow himself
to be corrupted

573
00:32:21,261 --> 00:32:22,695
the way we wanted
to corrupt him.

574
00:32:27,478 --> 00:32:29,681
Omar Torrijos,
the president of Panama,

575
00:32:29,681 --> 00:32:31,863
was, you know,
one of my favorite people.

576
00:32:31,898 --> 00:32:32,784
I really really
liked him.

577
00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:34,121
He was very charasmatic.

578
00:32:34,151 --> 00:32:36,837
He was a guy who really
wanted to help his country.

579
00:32:36,988 --> 00:32:39,740
And when I tried to
bribe him or corrupt him, he said:

580
00:32:39,775 --> 00:32:40,710
Look, John...

581
00:32:40,992 --> 00:32:42,151
He called me Juanito...

582
00:32:42,186 --> 00:32:43,371
He said:
Look Juanito,

583
00:32:44,025 --> 00:32:47,554
I don't need the money.
What I really need is for my country

584
00:32:48,767 --> 00:32:50,130
to be treated fairly.

585
00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:53,078
I need for the United States
to repay the debts

586
00:32:53,113 --> 00:32:54,015
that you owe my people

587
00:32:54,050 --> 00:32:55,855
for all the destruction
you've done here.

588
00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,945
I need to be
in a position where

589
00:32:57,980 --> 00:32:59,890
I can help other
Latin American countries

590
00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:02,848
win their independence
and be free of this,

591
00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:05,784
of this terrible presence
from the north.

592
00:33:05,784 --> 00:33:07,796
You people are
exploiting us so badly.

593
00:33:07,986 --> 00:33:12,691
I need to have the Panama Canal back
in the hands of the Panamian people.

594
00:33:12,691 --> 00:33:13,889
That's what I want.

595
00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:17,996
And so, leave me alone,
you known, don't try to bribe me.

596
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:24,289
It was 1981 and in May,
Jaime Roldos was assassinated.

597
00:33:24,635 --> 00:33:26,907
And Omar
was very aware of this.

598
00:33:26,971 --> 00:33:28,973
Torrijos got his family together
and he said:

599
00:33:29,407 --> 00:33:32,677
I'm probably next,
but that's okay,

600
00:33:32,977 --> 00:33:35,980
because I've done
what I came here to do...

601
00:33:35,980 --> 00:33:37,982
I renegotiated the Canal.

602
00:33:38,082 --> 00:33:39,706
The Canal will now be
in our hands,

603
00:33:39,736 --> 00:33:42,383
we just finished negotiating
the treaty with Jimmy Carter.

604
00:33:45,790 --> 00:33:48,993
In June of that same year,
just a couple of month later,

605
00:33:48,993 --> 00:33:52,026
he also went down
in an airplane crash,

606
00:33:52,061 --> 00:33:56,545
which, there's no question,
was executed by CIA sponsored jackals.

607
00:33:56,968 --> 00:33:58,323
A tremendous
amount of evidence that

608
00:33:58,342 --> 00:34:02,874
one of Torijjos' security guards
handed him, at the last moment,

609
00:34:02,909 --> 00:34:04,976
as he was getting on the plane,
a tape recorder.

610
00:34:04,976 --> 00:34:07,611
A small tape recorder
that contained a bomb.

611
00:34:14,986 --> 00:34:16,960
It is intersting to me
how this

612
00:34:16,995 --> 00:34:19,991
system has continued
pretty much the same way

613
00:34:19,991 --> 00:34:21,156
for years,
and years, and years,

614
00:34:21,185 --> 00:34:23,872
except the economic hitmen have gotten
better and better and better.

615
00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:28,553
Then we coped with, very recently,
what happened in Venezuela.

616
00:34:28,966 --> 00:34:31,969
In 1998, Hugo Chavez
gets elected president,

617
00:34:31,969 --> 00:34:34,772
following a
long line of presidents

618
00:34:34,807 --> 00:34:36,032
who'd been very corrupt

619
00:34:36,082 --> 00:34:38,725
and basically destroyed
the economy of the country.

620
00:34:38,976 --> 00:34:40,978
And Chavez was elected
amidst all that.

621
00:34:41,546 --> 00:34:43,884
Chavez stood up
to the United States

622
00:34:44,048 --> 00:34:48,619
and he's done it primarily
demanding that Venezuelian oil

623
00:34:48,619 --> 00:34:51,467
be used
to help the Venezuelian people.

624
00:34:51,989 --> 00:34:54,915
Well... we didn't like
that in United States.

625
00:34:54,992 --> 00:34:57,483
So, in 2002,

626
00:34:57,895 --> 00:35:00,698
a coup was staged, which was
no question in my mind, in most

627
00:35:00,698 --> 00:35:03,498
other peoples' minds,
that the CIA was behind that coup.

628
00:35:08,973 --> 00:35:10,975
The way,
that that coup was fomented

629
00:35:10,975 --> 00:35:13,978
was very reflective of what
Kermit Roosevelt had done in Iran.

630
00:35:14,178 --> 00:35:16,981
Of paying people to go out
onto the streets,

631
00:35:16,981 --> 00:35:20,938
To riot, to protest, to say
that Chavez was very unpopular.

632
00:35:21,351 --> 00:35:23,521
You know, if you can get
a few thousand people

633
00:35:23,521 --> 00:35:27,612
to do that,
television can make it look like...

634
00:35:27,992 --> 00:35:31,021
It's the whole country
and things start to mushroom.

635
00:35:31,662 --> 00:35:34,678
Except in the case of Chavez,
he was

636
00:35:34,713 --> 00:35:37,682
smart enough and the people
were so strongly behind him,

637
00:35:37,717 --> 00:35:39,774
that they overcame it.

638
00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:44,976
Which was a phenomenal moment
in the history of Latin America.

639
00:35:49,413 --> 00:35:52,450
Iraq, actually,
is a perfect example of the way

640
00:35:52,450 --> 00:35:53,721
the whole system works.

641
00:35:53,771 --> 00:35:56,721
So, we, economic hitmen,
are the first line defense.

642
00:35:56,721 --> 00:35:59,690
We go in, we try to
corrupt the governments

643
00:35:59,690 --> 00:36:01,869
and get them
to accept these huge loans,

644
00:36:01,804 --> 00:36:04,563
which we then use as leverage
to basically own them.

645
00:36:04,896 --> 00:36:09,547
If we fail, as I failed in
Panama with Omar Torrijos,

646
00:36:09,582 --> 00:36:11,476
and Ecuador with
Jaime Roldos,

647
00:36:11,669 --> 00:36:13,635
men who refuse
to be corrupted,

648
00:36:13,771 --> 00:36:16,462
then the second line of defense
is we send in the Jackals.

649
00:36:16,497 --> 00:36:18,366
And the Jackals either
overthrow governments

650
00:36:18,401 --> 00:36:19,518
or they assassinate.

651
00:36:19,744 --> 00:36:22,502
And, once that happens
and a new goverment comes in it...

652
00:36:22,613 --> 00:36:23,981
Boy,
it's gonna toe the line

653
00:36:24,016 --> 00:36:26,858
because that new president knows
what will happen if he doesn't.

654
00:36:27,344 --> 00:36:30,988
In the case of Iraq,
both of those things failed.

655
00:36:30,988 --> 00:36:33,991
The economic hitmen were not able
to get through to Saddam Hussein.

656
00:36:33,991 --> 00:36:36,717
We tried very hard,
we tried to get him to accept a deal

657
00:36:36,749 --> 00:36:39,516
very similar to what
the House of Saud had accepted in

658
00:36:39,551 --> 00:36:41,649
Saudi Arabia,
but he wouldn't accept it.

659
00:36:41,999 --> 00:36:44,270
And so the Jackals
went in to take him out.

660
00:36:44,305 --> 00:36:46,764
They couldn't do it.
His security was very good.

661
00:36:46,971 --> 00:36:49,974
After all, he, at one time,
had worked for CIA.

662
00:36:49,974 --> 00:36:54,345
He'd been hired to assassinate
a former president of Iraq and failed,

663
00:36:54,345 --> 00:36:55,756
but he knew the system.

664
00:36:55,980 --> 00:36:58,996
So, in '91,
we send in the troops

665
00:36:59,031 --> 00:37:01,737
and we take out
the Iraqi military.

666
00:37:01,986 --> 00:37:03,988
So, we assumed
at that point that

667
00:37:03,988 --> 00:37:05,903
Saddam Hussein
is gonna come around.

668
00:37:05,990 --> 00:37:08,993
We could have take him out,
of course at that time,

669
00:37:09,427 --> 00:37:12,373
but we didn't want it.
He's the kind of strong man we like.

670
00:37:12,408 --> 00:37:15,564
He controls his people.
We thought he could control Kurds,

671
00:37:15,599 --> 00:37:18,461
and keep the Iranians in their border
and keep pumping oil for us.

672
00:37:18,496 --> 00:37:20,146
And that once
we took out his military,

673
00:37:20,181 --> 00:37:21,434
now he's gonna
come around.

674
00:37:21,973 --> 00:37:24,609
So, the economic hitmen
go back in in the 90's

675
00:37:24,609 --> 00:37:26,069
without success.

676
00:37:26,110 --> 00:37:27,572
If they'd had success...

677
00:37:27,607 --> 00:37:28,953
he'd still be
running the country.

678
00:37:29,003 --> 00:37:31,549
We'd be selling him
all the fighter jets he wants,

679
00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:32,961
and everything else
he wants,

680
00:37:33,041 --> 00:37:35,441
but they couldn't,
they didn't have success.

681
00:37:35,476 --> 00:37:38,744
The jackals couldn't take him out again,
so we sent the military

682
00:37:38,775 --> 00:37:40,992
in once again, and this time,
we did the complete job

683
00:37:40,992 --> 00:37:41,785
and took him out.

684
00:37:41,825 --> 00:37:44,020
And in the process,
created for ourselves some

685
00:37:44,150 --> 00:37:45,946
very, very lucrative
construction

686
00:37:46,548 --> 00:37:48,727
deals to
reconstruct the country

687
00:37:48,788 --> 00:37:50,467
that we'd
essentially destroyed.

688
00:37:50,468 --> 00:37:51,536
Which is
a pretty good deal

689
00:37:51,566 --> 00:37:53,736
if you own construction companies,
big ones.

690
00:37:54,972 --> 00:37:58,259
So, Iraq shows
the three stages.

691
00:37:58,976 --> 00:38:00,700
The economic hitmen
failed there.

692
00:38:00,778 --> 00:38:01,891
The Jackals failed there.

693
00:38:01,921 --> 00:38:05,550
And as a final measure,
the military goes in.

694
00:38:08,653 --> 00:38:10,988
And in that way,
we've really created an empire,

695
00:38:10,988 --> 00:38:14,225
but we've done it very, very subtly.
It's clandestine.

696
00:38:14,492 --> 00:38:16,994
All the empires of the past
were built on the military,

697
00:38:17,281 --> 00:38:18,974
and everybody knew
they were building them.

698
00:38:18,996 --> 00:38:20,430
The British knew they
were building them,

699
00:38:20,465 --> 00:38:23,509
the French, the Germans,
the Romans, the Greeks,

700
00:38:23,968 --> 00:38:26,671
and they were proud of it.
They always had some excuse like

701
00:38:26,671 --> 00:38:29,804
spreading civilization,
spreading some religion,

702
00:38:29,834 --> 00:38:32,708
something like that,
but they knew they were doing it.

703
00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:33,875
We don't.

704
00:38:33,978 --> 00:38:36,781
The majority of the people,
in the United States,

705
00:38:36,816 --> 00:38:41,510
have no idea that we're living off
the benefits of the clandestine empire.

706
00:38:41,686 --> 00:38:45,538
That today there is more slavery
in the world than ever before.

707
00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:49,285
Then you have
to ask yourself, well,

708
00:38:49,364 --> 00:38:51,334
if it's an empire,
then who is the emperor?

709
00:38:51,996 --> 00:38:55,966
Obviously our presidents of
the United States are not emperors.

710
00:38:55,966 --> 00:38:57,710
An emperor is someone
who is not elected,

711
00:38:57,710 --> 00:38:59,247
doesn't serve
a limited term,

712
00:38:59,641 --> 00:39:01,972
and doesn't report to anyone,
essentially.

713
00:39:02,004 --> 00:39:05,485
So you can't classify
our presidents that way.

714
00:39:05,976 --> 00:39:07,734
But we do have
what I consider to be

715
00:39:07,774 --> 00:39:10,981
the equivalent of the emperor and
it's what I call the corporatocracy.

716
00:39:12,316 --> 00:39:15,534
The corporatocracy
is this group of individuals

717
00:39:15,704 --> 00:39:17,321
who run
our biggest corporations.

718
00:39:17,321 --> 00:39:20,415
And they really act as
the emperor of this empire.

719
00:39:20,991 --> 00:39:23,854
They control
our media,

720
00:39:23,994 --> 00:39:26,332
either through direct ownership
or advertising.

721
00:39:26,497 --> 00:39:29,549
They control
most of our politicians

722
00:39:29,667 --> 00:39:31,354
because they finance
their campaigns,

723
00:39:31,525 --> 00:39:32,801
either through
the corporations

724
00:39:32,842 --> 00:39:34,279
or through
personal contributions

725
00:39:34,314 --> 00:39:35,755
that come out of
the corporations.

726
00:39:35,973 --> 00:39:36,974
They're not elected,

727
00:39:36,974 --> 00:39:38,776
then they don't serve
a limited term,

728
00:39:38,876 --> 00:39:40,260
they don't report to anybody,

729
00:39:40,578 --> 00:39:43,100
and at the very top
of the corporatocracy,

730
00:39:43,135 --> 00:39:44,447
you really can't tell

731
00:39:44,482 --> 00:39:46,584
whether the person is working
for a private corporation

732
00:39:46,584 --> 00:39:49,177
or the government because
they're always moving back and forth.

733
00:39:49,212 --> 00:39:53,391
So you know, you've got a guy who,
one moment is the president of

734
00:39:53,591 --> 00:39:55,555
a big construction company
like Haliburton,

735
00:39:55,827 --> 00:39:58,235
and the next moment, he's
Vice President of the United States.

736
00:39:58,329 --> 00:40:00,368
Or the President,
who was in the oil business.

737
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:03,455
And this is true whether you get
Democrats or Republicans in the office.

738
00:40:03,490 --> 00:40:07,118
You have this moving back and forth
through a revolving door.

739
00:40:07,471 --> 00:40:12,543
And in a way, our government
is invisible a lot of the time,

740
00:40:12,578 --> 00:40:15,326
and his policies are carried out
by our corporations

741
00:40:15,377 --> 00:40:18,033
on one level or another.
And then again,

742
00:40:18,482 --> 00:40:21,252
the policies of the government
are basically

743
00:40:21,352 --> 00:40:23,885
forged
by the corporatocracy,

744
00:40:24,021 --> 00:40:25,100
and then
presented to the government

745
00:40:25,119 --> 00:40:26,439
and they become
government policy.

746
00:40:26,469 --> 00:40:29,629
So, there's an incredibly
cozy relationship.

747
00:40:30,094 --> 00:40:31,996
This isn't a conspiracy theory
type of thing.

748
00:40:31,996 --> 00:40:33,715
These people don't have
to get together

749
00:40:33,864 --> 00:40:35,621
and plot to do things.

750
00:40:35,671 --> 00:40:39,570
They all basically work
under one primary assumption,

751
00:40:39,570 --> 00:40:42,490
and that is that
they must maximize profits,

752
00:40:42,706 --> 00:40:45,549
regardless of the
social and environmental costs.

753
00:40:50,981 --> 00:40:54,552
This process of manipulation
by the corporatocracy

754
00:40:54,552 --> 00:40:58,889
through the use of debt, bribery
and political overthrow is called:

755
00:40:58,989 --> 00:41:00,319
Globalization.

756
00:41:00,791 --> 00:41:04,695
Just as the Federal Reserve keeps
the American public in a postion

757
00:41:04,695 --> 00:41:07,528
of indentured servitude,
though perpetual debt,

758
00:41:07,563 --> 00:41:09,349
inflation and interest,

759
00:41:09,366 --> 00:41:13,287
the World Bank and IMF
serve this role on a global scale.

760
00:41:13,838 --> 00:41:15,592
The basic scam
is simple.

761
00:41:15,973 --> 00:41:18,711
Put a country in debt,
either by it's own indisgression,

762
00:41:18,746 --> 00:41:20,918
or through corrupting the leader
of that country,

763
00:41:21,570 --> 00:41:25,883
then impose conditionalities
or structual adjustment policies

764
00:41:25,918 --> 00:41:27,985
often consisting
of the following.

765
00:41:29,620 --> 00:41:30,925
Currency devaluation.

766
00:41:31,455 --> 00:41:35,173
When the value of a currency drops,
so does everything valued in it.

767
00:41:35,426 --> 00:41:38,996
This makes indigenous resources
available to predator countries

768
00:41:39,096 --> 00:41:40,873
at a fraction
of their worth.

769
00:41:42,399 --> 00:41:44,971
Large funding cuts
for social programs.

770
00:41:45,006 --> 00:41:47,839
These usually include
education and health care.

771
00:41:47,972 --> 00:41:51,044
Compromising the well-being
and integrity of the society,

772
00:41:51,079 --> 00:41:52,645
leaving the public vulnerable

773
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:53,978
to exploitation.

774
00:41:54,578 --> 00:41:57,075
Privatization of
state-owned enterprises.

775
00:41:57,381 --> 00:41:59,831
This means that
socially important systems

776
00:41:59,881 --> 00:42:01,619
can be purchased
and regulated

777
00:42:01,619 --> 00:42:03,988
by foreign corporations
for profit.

778
00:42:04,488 --> 00:42:08,187
For example, in 1999,
the World Bank insisted

779
00:42:08,222 --> 00:42:11,429
that the Bolivian government
sell the public water system

780
00:42:11,464 --> 00:42:16,352
of it's third-largest city to a subsidy
of the US-corporation Bechtel.

781
00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:17,807
As soon as this occured,

782
00:42:17,847 --> 00:42:20,971
waterbills for the already
impoverished local residents

783
00:42:20,971 --> 00:42:22,120
skyrocketed.

784
00:42:22,973 --> 00:42:25,976
It wasn't until after
full-blown revolt by the people

785
00:42:25,977 --> 00:42:28,593
that the Bechtel contract
was nullified.

786
00:42:32,082 --> 00:42:34,652
Then there is
trade liberalization,

787
00:42:34,652 --> 00:42:36,559
or the opening up
of the economy,

788
00:42:36,659 --> 00:42:39,329
through removing any restrictions
on foreign trade.

789
00:42:39,456 --> 00:42:43,233
This allows for a number of
abusive economic manifestations,

790
00:42:43,268 --> 00:42:45,566
such as
transnational corporations

791
00:42:45,567 --> 00:42:48,465
bringing in their own
mass-produced products,

792
00:42:48,465 --> 00:42:52,449
undercutting the indigineous production
and ruining local economies.

793
00:42:52,770 --> 00:42:54,609
An example is Jamaica,

794
00:42:55,072 --> 00:42:58,976
which after accepting loans and
conditionalities from the World Bank

795
00:42:58,976 --> 00:43:01,448
lost it's largest
cash crop markets

796
00:43:01,508 --> 00:43:04,149
due to competition
with Western imports.

797
00:43:04,982 --> 00:43:08,961
Today countless farmers are out of work,
for they're unable to compete

798
00:43:08,986 --> 00:43:10,887
with the large corporations.

799
00:43:11,989 --> 00:43:14,901
Another variation is
the creation of numerous,

800
00:43:14,936 --> 00:43:17,995
seemingly unnoticed,
unregulated, inhumane

801
00:43:17,995 --> 00:43:19,497
sweatshop factories,

802
00:43:19,972 --> 00:43:23,649
which take advantage of
the imposed economic hardship.

803
00:43:23,968 --> 00:43:26,697
Additionally,
due to production de-regulation,

804
00:43:26,732 --> 00:43:28,973
environmental destruction
is perpetual

805
00:43:29,008 --> 00:43:32,275
as a country's resources
are often exploited

806
00:43:32,310 --> 00:43:33,887
by the
indifferent corporations,

807
00:43:33,978 --> 00:43:37,364
while outputting large amounts
of deliberate pollution.

808
00:43:38,248 --> 00:43:41,646
The largest environmental lawsuit
in the history of the world,

809
00:43:41,681 --> 00:43:43,869
today is being brought
on behalf of

810
00:43:43,889 --> 00:43:48,826
30,000 Ecuadorian and Amazonian
people against Texaco,

811
00:43:48,861 --> 00:43:51,055
which is now owned by Chevron
so it's against Chevron,

812
00:43:51,095 --> 00:43:53,097
but for activities
conducted by Texaco.

813
00:43:54,253 --> 00:43:56,765
They're estimated to be
more than 18 times

814
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,673
what the Exxon Valdez dumped
into the Coast of Alaska.

815
00:44:00,971 --> 00:44:03,258
In the case of Ecuador,
it wasn't an accident.

816
00:44:03,374 --> 00:44:05,185
The oil companies
did it intentionally;

817
00:44:05,247 --> 00:44:07,713
they knew they were doing it
to save money

818
00:44:07,714 --> 00:44:10,510
rather than
arranging for proper disposal.

819
00:44:11,682 --> 00:44:15,841
Furthermore, a cursory glance at the
performance record of the World Bank

820
00:44:15,876 --> 00:44:18,878
reveals that the institution,
which publicly claims to

821
00:44:18,889 --> 00:44:21,979
help poor countries develop
and alleviate poverty,

822
00:44:21,993 --> 00:44:24,995
has done nothing but
increase poverty and the wealth-gap,

823
00:44:24,995 --> 00:44:27,437
while corporate profits soar.

824
00:44:27,631 --> 00:44:30,332
In 1960,
the income-gap between

825
00:44:30,367 --> 00:44:33,240
the fifth of the world's people
and the richest countries,

826
00:44:33,275 --> 00:44:35,657
versus the fifth
in the poorest countries

827
00:44:35,657 --> 00:44:37,155
was thirty to one.

828
00:44:37,408 --> 00:44:41,050
By 1998,
it was seventy-four to one.

829
00:44:41,779 --> 00:44:46,800
While global GNP rose 40%
between 1970 and 1985,

830
00:44:46,835 --> 00:44:50,805
those in poverty,
actually increased, by 17%.

831
00:44:50,988 --> 00:44:53,608
While from
1985 to 2000,

832
00:44:53,669 --> 00:44:58,723
those living on less than
one dollar a day increased by 18%.

833
00:45:00,416 --> 00:45:04,589
Even the Joint Economic Committee
of the U.S. Congress admitted

834
00:45:04,649 --> 00:45:09,378
that there is a mere 40% success rate
of all World Bank projects.

835
00:45:09,773 --> 00:45:14,813
In the late 1960's, the World Bank
intervened in Ecuador with large loans.

836
00:45:14,879 --> 00:45:19,983
During the next 30 years,
poverty grew from 50% to 70%.

837
00:45:19,983 --> 00:45:23,755
Under or unemployment
grew from 15% to 70%.

838
00:45:24,314 --> 00:45:28,992
Public debt increased from
240 million to 16 billion,

839
00:45:28,992 --> 00:45:34,866
while the share of resources allocated
to the poor went from 20% to 6%.

840
00:45:35,999 --> 00:45:40,718
In fact, by the year 2000,
50% of Ecuador's national budget

841
00:45:40,753 --> 00:45:43,587
had to be allocated
for paying its debts.

842
00:45:46,977 --> 00:45:50,189
It is important to understand:
the World Bank is,

843
00:45:50,229 --> 00:45:53,739
in fact, a U.S. bank,
supporting U.S. interests.

844
00:45:53,984 --> 00:45:57,387
For the United States holds
veto-power over decisions,

845
00:45:57,422 --> 00:45:59,940
as it is the
largest provider of capital.

846
00:46:00,264 --> 00:46:01,801
And where did
it get this money?

847
00:46:02,067 --> 00:46:02,911
You guessed it:

848
00:46:03,072 --> 00:46:04,555
It made it
out of thin air

849
00:46:04,625 --> 00:46:07,028
through the
fractional reserve banking system.

850
00:46:08,999 --> 00:46:13,789
Of the world's top 100 economies,
as based on annual GDP,

851
00:46:13,824 --> 00:46:15,804
51 are corporations.

852
00:46:15,904 --> 00:46:19,129
And 47 of that 51,
are U.S.-based.

853
00:46:19,577 --> 00:46:22,248
Walmart,
General Motors and Exxon,

854
00:46:22,318 --> 00:46:25,760
are more economically powerful
than Saudi Arabia,

855
00:46:25,810 --> 00:46:31,968
Poland, Norway, South Africa,
Finland, Indonesia and many others.

856
00:46:32,589 --> 00:46:35,882
And, as protective trade barriers
are broken down,

857
00:46:35,917 --> 00:46:39,574
currencies tossed together
and manipulated in floating markets

858
00:46:39,609 --> 00:46:41,864
and State economies
overturned

859
00:46:41,904 --> 00:46:47,572
in favor of open competition in
global capitalism, the empire expands.

860
00:46:49,506 --> 00:46:53,352
You get up on
your little 21 inch screen

861
00:46:54,788 --> 00:46:59,103
and howl about America
and democracy.

862
00:46:59,983 --> 00:47:03,987
There is no America,
there is no democracy.

863
00:47:04,721 --> 00:47:10,360
There is only IBM,
and ITT, and AT&T,

864
00:47:10,461 --> 00:47:15,489
and DuPont, Dow,
Union Carbide, and Exxon.

865
00:47:15,999 --> 00:47:19,116
Those are the nations
of the world today.

866
00:47:19,970 --> 00:47:22,861
What do you think the Russians talk
about in their counsels of state?

867
00:47:22,896 --> 00:47:24,018
Karl Marx?

868
00:47:24,274 --> 00:47:26,708
They get out their
linear programming charts,

869
00:47:26,921 --> 00:47:28,398
statistical decision theories,

870
00:47:28,433 --> 00:47:31,354
min and max solutions and
compute the price-cost probabilities

871
00:47:31,389 --> 00:47:34,334
of their transactions and investments,
just like we do.

872
00:47:34,985 --> 00:47:38,161
We no longer live in a world of
nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.

873
00:47:39,623 --> 00:47:43,673
The world is
a college of corporations,

874
00:47:44,693 --> 00:47:48,999
inexorably determined
by the immutable

875
00:47:48,999 --> 00:47:51,156
bylaws of business.

876
00:47:53,670 --> 00:47:57,047
The world is a business,
Mr. Beale.

877
00:48:27,471 --> 00:48:31,918
The World is being taken over
by a hand-full of business powers

878
00:48:31,953 --> 00:48:34,724
who dominate the natural resources
we need to live,

879
00:48:34,759 --> 00:48:38,257
while controlling the money
we need to obtain these resources.

880
00:48:38,292 --> 00:48:41,100
The end result
will be world monopoly,

881
00:48:41,481 --> 00:48:46,044
based not on human life,
but financial and corporate power.

882
00:48:46,990 --> 00:48:49,430
And,
as the inequality grows,

883
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,715
naturally, more and more people
are becoming desperate.

884
00:48:52,996 --> 00:48:56,967
So the establishment was forced
to come up with a new way to deal

885
00:48:57,002 --> 00:48:59,407
with anyone
who challenges the system.

886
00:48:59,971 --> 00:49:02,710
So they gave birth
to the 'Terrorist'.

887
00:49:03,356 --> 00:49:06,096
The term 'terrorist'
is an empty distinction

888
00:49:06,583 --> 00:49:08,762
designed for any person
or group,

889
00:49:08,797 --> 00:49:11,502
who chooses to challenge
the establishment.

890
00:49:11,748 --> 00:49:15,078
This isn't to be confused
with the fictional 'Al Qaida',

891
00:49:15,139 --> 00:49:18,088
which was actually
the name of a computer database

892
00:49:18,088 --> 00:49:21,347
of the U.S.-supported Mujahadeen
in the 1980's.

893
00:49:32,970 --> 00:49:39,418
In 2007, the Department of Defense
received 161.8 billion dollars

894
00:49:39,453 --> 00:49:42,602
for the so-called global war
on terrorism.

895
00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:45,715
According to the
National Counter-Terrorism Center,

896
00:49:45,750 --> 00:49:48,682
in 2004,
roughly 2000 people

897
00:49:48,717 --> 00:49:50,256
were killed internationally

898
00:49:50,490 --> 00:49:52,599
due to
supposed terrorist acts.

899
00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:55,451
Of that number,
70 were American.

900
00:49:55,993 --> 00:49:58,487
Using this number
as a general average,

901
00:49:58,487 --> 00:50:00,386
which is
extremely generous,

902
00:50:00,739 --> 00:50:03,473
it is interesting to note
that twice as many

903
00:50:03,508 --> 00:50:07,516
people die from peanut allergies a year,
than from terrorist acts.

904
00:50:09,072 --> 00:50:12,286
Concurrently, the leading cause
of death in America

905
00:50:12,321 --> 00:50:14,137
is coronary heart disease,

906
00:50:14,583 --> 00:50:17,757
killing roughly 450,000
each year.

907
00:50:18,419 --> 00:50:22,090
And in 2007,
the government's allocation of funds

908
00:50:22,125 --> 00:50:23,658
for research
on this issue

909
00:50:23,693 --> 00:50:25,462
was about
three billion dollars.

910
00:50:25,989 --> 00:50:29,197
This means, that the US government,
in 2007,

911
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,577
spent 54 times the amount
for preventing terrorism,

912
00:50:33,830 --> 00:50:36,078
than it spent for
preventing for the disease,

913
00:50:36,138 --> 00:50:40,590
which kills 6600 times
more people annually,

914
00:50:40,625 --> 00:50:42,367
than terrorism does.

915
00:50:45,976 --> 00:50:48,468
Yet, as the name
terrorism and Al Qaida

916
00:50:48,498 --> 00:50:51,528
are arbitrarilly stamped
on every news report,

917
00:50:51,548 --> 00:50:54,799
relating to any action
taken against US interests,

918
00:50:54,851 --> 00:50:56,441
the myth grows wider.

919
00:50:56,686 --> 00:50:59,523
In mid 2008,
the US Attorney General

920
00:50:59,523 --> 00:51:02,292
actually proposed,
that the US congress

921
00:51:02,292 --> 00:51:05,353
officially declare war
against the fantasy.

922
00:51:06,163 --> 00:51:11,635
Not to mention, as of July 2008,
there are now over 1 million people

923
00:51:11,635 --> 00:51:14,971
currently on
the US terrorist watch list.

924
00:51:16,973 --> 00:51:19,301
These so called
Counter-Terrorism Measures,

925
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,083
of course had nothing to do
with social protection

926
00:51:22,118 --> 00:51:25,882
and everything to do
with preserving the establishment

927
00:51:25,917 --> 00:51:28,659
amongst the growing
anti-American sentiment,

928
00:51:28,701 --> 00:51:31,202
both domestically,
and internationally,

929
00:51:31,815 --> 00:51:33,950
which is legitimately
founded on

930
00:51:33,970 --> 00:51:36,893
the greed-based
corporate empire expansion

931
00:51:36,993 --> 00:51:38,913
that is exploiting the world.

932
00:51:40,630 --> 00:51:45,068
The true terrorists of our world,
do not meet at the darks at midnight

933
00:51:45,168 --> 00:51:48,679
or scream Allah Akbar
before some violent action.

934
00:51:49,906 --> 00:51:53,908
The true terrorists of our world,
wear 5000 dollar suits

935
00:51:53,969 --> 00:51:58,891
and work in the highest positions
of finance, government and business.

936
00:52:02,586 --> 00:52:04,539
So, what do we do?

937
00:52:05,155 --> 00:52:07,747
How do we stop a system
of greed and corruption,

938
00:52:07,797 --> 00:52:09,822
that has so much
power and momentum?

939
00:52:09,993 --> 00:52:12,605
How do we stop this
aberrant group behavior,

940
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,156
which feels
no compassion,

941
00:52:14,164 --> 00:52:17,787
for say, the millions slaughtered
in Iraq and Afghanistan,

942
00:52:18,168 --> 00:52:20,451
so the corporatocracy
can control

943
00:52:20,491 --> 00:52:24,775
energy resources and opium production
for Wall Street profit.

944
00:53:16,993 --> 00:53:19,796
How do we stop a system
of greed and corruption

945
00:53:19,796 --> 00:53:21,743
that condemns
poor populations

946
00:53:21,802 --> 00:53:25,104
to sweatshop slavery
for the benefit of Madison Avenue?

947
00:53:25,969 --> 00:53:29,034
Or that engineers
false-flag terror attacks

948
00:53:29,069 --> 00:53:31,136
for the sake of manipulation?

949
00:53:31,641 --> 00:53:35,008
Or that generates
built-in modes of social operation,

950
00:53:35,043 --> 00:53:37,337
which are inherently
exploited?

951
00:53:37,981 --> 00:53:41,208
Or that systematicly reduces
several liberties

952
00:53:41,238 --> 00:53:43,030
and violates human rights,

953
00:53:43,065 --> 00:53:46,663
in order to protect itself,
from it's own shortcomings?

954
00:53:47,591 --> 00:53:50,627
How do we deal with the
numerous covert institutions,

955
00:53:50,627 --> 00:53:52,568
such as
the Council on Foreign Relations,

956
00:53:52,603 --> 00:53:53,993
the Trilateral Commission,

957
00:53:54,033 --> 00:53:55,217
and the Bilderberg Group

958
00:53:55,237 --> 00:53:57,667
and other undemocratically
elected groups

959
00:53:57,667 --> 00:54:02,021
which behind closed doors
collude to control the political,

960
00:54:02,022 --> 00:54:06,410
financial, social and environmental
elements of our lives?

961
00:54:06,977 --> 00:54:10,629
In order to find the answer,
we must first find,

962
00:54:10,664 --> 00:54:12,903
the true underlying cause.

963
00:54:12,983 --> 00:54:18,917
For the fact is, the selfish, corrupt,
power and profit-based groups

964
00:54:18,952 --> 00:54:21,671
are not the true source
of the problem.

965
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:24,280
They are symptoms.

966
00:54:40,977 --> 00:54:43,206
My name is Jacque Fresco.

967
00:54:43,980 --> 00:54:48,021
I'm an industrial designer
and a social engineer.

968
00:54:48,652 --> 00:54:51,040
I'm very much interested
in society

969
00:54:51,716 --> 00:54:56,619
and developing a system that might be
sustainable, for all people.

970
00:54:58,561 --> 00:55:02,090
First of all, the word 'corruption'
is a monetary invention,

971
00:55:02,167 --> 00:55:04,205
that aberrant behavior,

972
00:55:04,370 --> 00:55:08,057
behavior that's disruptive
for the well-being of people.

973
00:55:08,092 --> 00:55:11,496
Well, you're dealing with
human behavior.

974
00:55:11,661 --> 00:55:16,564
And human behavior appears to be
environmentally determined.

975
00:55:16,599 --> 00:55:21,243
Meaning, if you were raised by
the Seminole Indians as a baby,

976
00:55:21,278 --> 00:55:22,958
never saw anything else,

977
00:55:22,986 --> 00:55:25,076
you'd hold that value system.

978
00:55:25,111 --> 00:55:28,755
And this goes for nations,
it goes for individuals,

979
00:55:28,790 --> 00:55:32,191
for families, they try to
indoctrinate their children

980
00:55:32,638 --> 00:55:35,770
to their particular faith
and their country

981
00:55:35,771 --> 00:55:38,253
and make them feel like
they're part of that.

982
00:55:38,902 --> 00:55:43,598
And they built a society,
which they call established.

983
00:55:43,973 --> 00:55:46,758
They established
a workable point of view

984
00:55:46,793 --> 00:55:48,770
and tend
to perpetuate that.

985
00:55:48,978 --> 00:55:52,742
Whereas, all societies
are really emergent,

986
00:55:52,777 --> 00:55:54,081
not established.

987
00:55:54,651 --> 00:55:57,820
And so
they fight new ideas

988
00:55:57,821 --> 00:56:00,693
that would interfere
with the establishment.

989
00:56:01,658 --> 00:56:06,194
Goverments try to perpetuate
that which keeps them in power.

990
00:56:06,630 --> 00:56:11,550
People are not elected
to political office to change things.

991
00:56:11,601 --> 00:56:13,962
They are put there,
to keep things the way they are.

992
00:56:14,971 --> 00:56:19,687
So you see, the bases of corruption
is in our society.

993
00:56:19,843 --> 00:56:20,905
Let me make it clear.

994
00:56:20,945 --> 00:56:24,556
All nations then,
are basically corrupt

995
00:56:24,556 --> 00:56:28,140
because they tend to uphold
existing institutons.

996
00:56:28,175 --> 00:56:31,685
I don't mean to uphold
or downgrade all nations,

997
00:56:31,823 --> 00:56:36,476
but communism, socialism, fascism,
the free enterprise-system

998
00:56:36,534 --> 00:56:39,889
and all other sub-cultures
are the same.

999
00:56:39,996 --> 00:56:42,990
They are all
basically corrupt.

1000
00:56:44,435 --> 00:56:47,971
The most fundamental characteristic
of our social institutions

1001
00:56:47,971 --> 00:56:50,933
is the necessity
for self-preservation.

1002
00:56:50,974 --> 00:56:54,801
Whether dealing with a corporation,
a religion or a government,

1003
00:56:54,978 --> 00:56:58,545
the foremost interest is
to preserve the institution itself.

1004
00:56:58,982 --> 00:57:02,276
For instance, the last thing
an oil company would ever want

1005
00:57:02,286 --> 00:57:05,915
is the utilization of energy,
that was outside of it's control.

1006
00:57:05,989 --> 00:57:09,340
For it makes that company
less relevant to society.

1007
00:57:09,993 --> 00:57:14,800
Likewise the Cold War and the collapse
of the Soviet Union was, in reality,

1008
00:57:15,072 --> 00:57:16,858
a way to preserve
and perpetuate

1009
00:57:16,886 --> 00:57:20,816
the established economic and
global hegemony of the United States.

1010
00:57:22,972 --> 00:57:27,799
Similarly, religions condition people
to feel guilty for natural inclinations,

1011
00:57:27,977 --> 00:57:31,909
each claiming to offer the only path
to forgiveness and salvation.

1012
00:57:32,982 --> 00:57:35,901
At the heart of this
institutional self-preservation

1013
00:57:35,951 --> 00:57:37,860
lies the monetary system.

1014
00:57:37,987 --> 00:57:41,991
For it is money that provides
the means for power and survival.

1015
00:57:42,992 --> 00:57:44,779
Therefore,
just as a poor person

1016
00:57:44,828 --> 00:57:47,187
might be forced to steal,
in order to survive,

1017
00:57:47,430 --> 00:57:50,443
it is a natural inclination to do
whatever is needed

1018
00:57:50,462 --> 00:57:53,275
to continue
an institution's profitability.

1019
00:57:53,570 --> 00:57:57,974
This makes it inherently difficult
for profit-based institutions to change,

1020
00:57:58,009 --> 00:57:59,595
For it puts
in jeopardy,

1021
00:57:59,635 --> 00:58:02,309
not only the survival
of large groups of people,

1022
00:58:02,512 --> 00:58:05,171
but also the coveted,
materialistic lifestyles

1023
00:58:05,202 --> 00:58:07,890
associated with
affluence and power.

1024
00:58:08,918 --> 00:58:12,263
Therefore, the paralyzing necessity
to preserve an institution,

1025
00:58:12,345 --> 00:58:14,524
regardless of
its social relevance

1026
00:58:14,574 --> 00:58:18,178
is largely rooted
in the need for money or profit.

1027
00:58:23,733 --> 00:58:26,617
What's in it for me?,
is why people think.

1028
00:58:27,971 --> 00:58:31,191
And so if a man makes money
selling a certain product,

1029
00:58:31,474 --> 00:58:33,077
that's where
he's going to fight

1030
00:58:33,229 --> 00:58:37,744
the existence of another product
that may threaten his institution.

1031
00:58:39,749 --> 00:58:41,910
Therefore,
people cannot be fair.

1032
00:58:42,605 --> 00:58:45,008
And people do not
trust each other.

1033
00:58:45,043 --> 00:58:46,822
A guy will come over
to you and say,

1034
00:58:47,035 --> 00:58:48,755
I've got just the house
you're looking for,

1035
00:58:48,892 --> 00:58:50,149
he's a salesman.

1036
00:58:50,260 --> 00:58:53,138
When a doctor says,
I think your kidney has to come out,

1037
00:58:53,429 --> 00:58:56,000
I don't know if
he's trying to pay off a yacht

1038
00:58:56,478 --> 00:58:58,335
or that my kidney
has to come out.

1039
00:58:58,370 --> 00:59:02,241
It's hard in a monetary system
to trust people.

1040
00:59:02,972 --> 00:59:04,741
If you came into my store
and I said,

1041
00:59:04,741 --> 00:59:09,779
this lamp that I've got is pretty good,
but the lamp next door is much better,

1042
00:59:09,814 --> 00:59:12,797
I wouldn't be in business very long.
It wouldn't work.

1043
00:59:12,982 --> 00:59:15,449
If I were ethical,
it wouldn't work.

1044
00:59:16,085 --> 00:59:19,381
So when you say
industry cares for people,

1045
00:59:19,416 --> 00:59:20,710
that's not true.

1046
00:59:20,823 --> 00:59:23,064
They can't afford
to be ethical.

1047
00:59:23,826 --> 00:59:28,164
So your system is not designed
to serve the well-being of people.

1048
00:59:28,164 --> 00:59:33,536
If you still don't understand that,
there would be no outsourcing of jobs

1049
00:59:33,536 --> 00:59:35,373
if they cared
about people.

1050
00:59:35,772 --> 00:59:36,973
Industry does not care.

1051
00:59:36,973 --> 00:59:40,808
They only hire people because
it hasn't been automated yet.

1052
00:59:41,978 --> 00:59:44,561
So don't talk about
decency and ethics,

1053
00:59:44,952 --> 00:59:48,142
we cannot afford it
and remain in business.

1054
00:59:49,485 --> 00:59:53,489
It is important to point out that
regardless of the social system,

1055
00:59:53,489 --> 00:59:57,364
whether fascist, socialist,
capitalist or communist,

1056
00:59:57,694 --> 01:00:02,015
the underlying mechanism is still
money, labor and competition.

1057
01:00:02,999 --> 01:00:07,503
Communist China is no less
capitalistic than the United States.

1058
01:00:07,503 --> 01:00:09,604
The only difference is
the degree by which

1059
01:00:09,634 --> 01:00:12,023
the state intervenes
in enterprise.

1060
01:00:12,976 --> 01:00:17,547
The reality is that monetary-ism,
so to speak, is the true mechanism,

1061
01:00:17,547 --> 01:00:20,942
that guides the interests of
all the countries on the planet.

1062
01:00:21,818 --> 01:00:25,688
The most agressive and hence dominant
variation of this monetary-ism

1063
01:00:25,688 --> 01:00:27,533
is the free enterprise system.

1064
01:00:27,991 --> 01:00:32,121
The fundamental perspective as put
forth by early free market economists,

1065
01:00:32,156 --> 01:00:33,492
like Adam Smith,

1066
01:00:33,997 --> 01:00:38,022
is that self-interest and competition
leads to social prosperity,

1067
01:00:38,057 --> 01:00:40,514
as the act of competition
creates incentive,

1068
01:00:40,515 --> 01:00:42,995
which motivates people
to persevere.

1069
01:00:44,974 --> 01:00:46,895
However,
what isn't talked about,

1070
01:00:46,925 --> 01:00:49,297
is how a
competition-based economy

1071
01:00:49,332 --> 01:00:53,003
invariably leads to
strategic corruption, power,

1072
01:00:53,038 --> 01:00:54,384
and wealth consolidation,

1073
01:00:54,384 --> 01:00:59,522
social stratification,
technological paralysis, labor abuse

1074
01:00:59,522 --> 01:01:03,977
and ultimately a covert form
of government dictatorship

1075
01:01:03,993 --> 01:01:05,570
by the rich elite.

1076
01:01:07,630 --> 01:01:11,430
The word corruption is often
defined as moral perversion.

1077
01:01:11,701 --> 01:01:15,805
If a company dumps toxic waste
into the ocean to save money,

1078
01:01:15,805 --> 01:01:18,637
most people recognize
this as corrupt behavior.

1079
01:01:19,609 --> 01:01:20,898
On a more subtle level,

1080
01:01:21,477 --> 01:01:23,849
when Walmart moves
into a small town

1081
01:01:23,909 --> 01:01:25,982
and forces small businesses
to shut down,

1082
01:01:26,017 --> 01:01:27,701
for they are unable
to compete,

1083
01:01:27,984 --> 01:01:30,009
a grey area emerges.

1084
01:01:30,044 --> 01:01:32,540
For what exactly
is Walmart doing wrong?

1085
01:01:32,989 --> 01:01:36,428
Why should they care about the Mom
and Pop organizations they destroy?

1086
01:01:36,993 --> 01:01:39,015
Yet even more subtly,

1087
01:01:39,395 --> 01:01:43,766
when a person gets fired from their job,
because a new machine has been created,

1088
01:01:43,801 --> 01:01:45,655
which can do the work
for less money,

1089
01:01:45,968 --> 01:01:48,241
people tend to just
accept that as

1090
01:01:48,276 --> 01:01:49,561
the way it is,

1091
01:01:49,772 --> 01:01:54,334
not seen the inherent corrupt
inhumanity of such an action.

1092
01:01:54,977 --> 01:01:56,765
Because the fact is,

1093
01:01:56,979 --> 01:02:01,036
whether it is dumping toxic waste,
having a monopoly enterprise

1094
01:02:01,071 --> 01:02:03,051
or downsizing the workforce,

1095
01:02:03,086 --> 01:02:04,641
the motive is the same:

1096
01:02:04,987 --> 01:02:05,976
Profit.

1097
01:02:06,789 --> 01:02:10,758
They are all different degrees of
the same self-preserving mechanism,

1098
01:02:10,993 --> 01:02:15,556
which always puts the well-being
of people second to monetary gain.

1099
01:02:15,998 --> 01:02:21,537
Therefore, corruption is not
some byproduct of monetary-ism.

1100
01:02:21,637 --> 01:02:23,709
It is
the very foundation.

1101
01:02:24,674 --> 01:02:28,544
And while most people acknowledge
this tendency on one level or another,

1102
01:02:28,544 --> 01:02:32,582
majority remains naive as
to the broad ramifications

1103
01:02:32,815 --> 01:02:38,174
of having such a selfish mechanism
as the guiding mentality in society.

1104
01:02:38,454 --> 01:02:41,073
Internal documents show that
after this company

1105
01:02:41,074 --> 01:02:43,548
positively,
absolutely knew that

1106
01:02:43,583 --> 01:02:46,594
they had a medication that was
infected with the AIDS virus,

1107
01:02:46,662 --> 01:02:48,998
they took the product
off the market in the US,

1108
01:02:48,998 --> 01:02:51,968
and then they dumped it in France,
Europe, Asia and Latin America.

1109
01:02:52,003 --> 01:02:54,537
The US government
allowed it to happen.

1110
01:02:54,537 --> 01:02:56,758
The FDA allowed this
to happen

1111
01:02:56,849 --> 01:02:59,661
and now the government is
completely looking the other way.

1112
01:02:59,809 --> 01:03:04,714
Thousands of innocent hemophiliacs
have died from the AIDS virus.

1113
01:03:04,749 --> 01:03:07,992
This company knew absolutely
that it was infected with AIDS.

1114
01:03:08,062 --> 01:03:12,786
They dumped it because they wanted
to turn this disaster into a profit.

1115
01:03:14,824 --> 01:03:18,426
So you see,
you have built-in corruption.

1116
01:03:18,995 --> 01:03:20,876
We're all chiseling off
each other,

1117
01:03:21,330 --> 01:03:24,299
and you can't expect decency
in that sort of thing.

1118
01:03:28,404 --> 01:03:31,607
A feeling that they
don't know who to elect.

1119
01:03:31,607 --> 01:03:33,816
They think in terms
of a democracy,

1120
01:03:33,976 --> 01:03:37,752
which is not possible
in a monetary-based economy.

1121
01:03:38,748 --> 01:03:42,492
If you have more money to
advertise your position,

1122
01:03:42,527 --> 01:03:44,465
the position
you desire in government,

1123
01:03:44,854 --> 01:03:46,489
that isn't a democracy.

1124
01:03:46,589 --> 01:03:51,173
It serves those in positions
of differential advantage.

1125
01:03:51,208 --> 01:03:54,803
So it's always
a dictatorship of the elitist,

1126
01:03:54,997 --> 01:03:56,736
the financially wealthy.

1127
01:04:04,474 --> 01:04:06,499
It is
an interesting observation

1128
01:04:06,510 --> 01:04:09,347
to note how
seemingly unknown personalities,

1129
01:04:09,382 --> 01:04:12,893
magically appear on the scene
as presidential candidates.

1130
01:04:12,982 --> 01:04:14,744
Then before
you know it,

1131
01:04:14,951 --> 01:04:16,601
somehow you are left
to choose from

1132
01:04:16,641 --> 01:04:19,722
a small group of
extremely wealthy people

1133
01:04:19,757 --> 01:04:23,414
who suspiciously have
the same broad social view.

1134
01:04:24,627 --> 01:04:26,028
Obviously,
it's a joke.

1135
01:04:26,495 --> 01:04:28,764
The people placed on
the ballot are done so

1136
01:04:28,764 --> 01:04:31,868
because they have been
pre-decided to be acceptable

1137
01:04:31,903 --> 01:04:35,085
by the established financial powers,
who actually run the show.

1138
01:04:36,973 --> 01:04:41,578
Yet many who understand this
illusion of democracy, often think,

1139
01:04:41,778 --> 01:04:46,282
"If only we could just get our honest,
ethical politicians in power,

1140
01:04:46,482 --> 01:04:48,194
then we would be okay."

1141
01:04:48,851 --> 01:04:51,621
Well, while this idea of
course seems reasonable

1142
01:04:51,621 --> 01:04:54,489
in our established,
oriented world view,

1143
01:04:54,757 --> 01:04:58,188
it is unfortunately
another fallacy.

1144
01:04:58,995 --> 01:05:02,999
For when it really comes down
to what is actually important,

1145
01:05:02,999 --> 01:05:06,969
the institution of politics
and thus politicians themselves,

1146
01:05:06,969 --> 01:05:10,282
have absolutely
no true relevance

1147
01:05:10,293 --> 01:05:13,751
as to what makes
our world and society function.

1148
01:05:14,610 --> 01:05:17,880
It's not politicians
that can solve problems.

1149
01:05:17,980 --> 01:05:20,860
They have
no technical capabilities.

1150
01:05:20,983 --> 01:05:22,978
They don't know
how to solve problems.

1151
01:05:23,013 --> 01:05:27,194
Even if they were sincere,
they don't know how to solve problems.

1152
01:05:27,229 --> 01:05:31,580
It's the technicians that
produce the desalinization plants.

1153
01:05:31,994 --> 01:05:34,453
It's the technicians
that give you electricity.

1154
01:05:34,797 --> 01:05:36,266
That give you
motor vehicles.

1155
01:05:36,301 --> 01:05:39,181
That heat your house and cool it
in the summer time.

1156
01:05:39,368 --> 01:05:42,037
It's technology
that solves problems,

1157
01:05:42,137 --> 01:05:43,424
not politics.

1158
01:05:43,459 --> 01:05:47,877
Politics cannot solve problems
'cause they are not trained to do so.

1159
01:05:48,978 --> 01:05:52,002
Very few people today
stop and consider

1160
01:05:52,037 --> 01:05:55,436
what it is that actually
improves their lives.

1161
01:05:55,985 --> 01:05:58,321
Is it money?
Obviously not.

1162
01:05:58,587 --> 01:06:02,609
One cannot eat money or stuff money
into their car to get it to run.

1163
01:06:02,992 --> 01:06:04,632
Is it politics?

1164
01:06:04,994 --> 01:06:07,997
All politicians can do
is create laws,

1165
01:06:07,997 --> 01:06:10,595
establish budgets
and declare war.

1166
01:06:11,434 --> 01:06:12,425
Is it religion?

1167
01:06:12,702 --> 01:06:15,871
Of course not,
religion creates nothing except

1168
01:06:15,871 --> 01:06:19,010
intangible emotional solace
for those who require it.

1169
01:06:19,776 --> 01:06:23,310
The true gift that
we as human beings have,

1170
01:06:23,780 --> 01:06:26,574
which has been solely
responsible for everything

1171
01:06:26,609 --> 01:06:28,532
that has improved
our lives,

1172
01:06:28,985 --> 01:06:30,215
is technology.

1173
01:06:31,721 --> 01:06:32,998
What is technology?

1174
01:06:33,033 --> 01:06:34,750
Technology
is a pencil,

1175
01:06:34,891 --> 01:06:38,650
which allows one to solidify ideas
on paper for communication.

1176
01:06:38,995 --> 01:06:40,955
Technology
is an automobile,

1177
01:06:41,006 --> 01:06:44,336
which allows one to travel faster
than feet would allow.

1178
01:06:44,767 --> 01:06:46,970
Technology
is a pair of eye glasses,

1179
01:06:47,005 --> 01:06:49,548
which enables sight
for those who need it.

1180
01:06:50,973 --> 01:06:53,044
Applied technology
itself,

1181
01:06:53,085 --> 01:06:56,545
is merely and extension
of human attributes,

1182
01:06:56,545 --> 01:06:58,257
which reduces
human effort,

1183
01:06:58,365 --> 01:07:01,366
freeing humans from
a particular chore or problem.

1184
01:07:01,884 --> 01:07:05,361
Imagine what your life would be like
today without a telephone,

1185
01:07:05,554 --> 01:07:06,722
or an oven,

1186
01:07:06,722 --> 01:07:07,820
or a computer,

1187
01:07:07,990 --> 01:07:09,141
or an airplane.

1188
01:07:09,558 --> 01:07:12,241
Everything in your home,
which you take for granted,

1189
01:07:12,276 --> 01:07:13,315
from a doorbell,

1190
01:07:13,436 --> 01:07:14,497
to a table,

1191
01:07:14,497 --> 01:07:15,735
to a dishwasher,

1192
01:07:15,998 --> 01:07:17,047
is technology,

1193
01:07:17,268 --> 01:07:20,732
generated from
the creative scientific ingenuity

1194
01:07:20,767 --> 01:07:22,467
of human technicians.

1195
01:07:22,972 --> 01:07:26,266
Not money,
politics or religion.

1196
01:07:26,976 --> 01:07:29,436
These are
false institutions.

1197
01:07:29,979 --> 01:07:33,230
...and writing your
congressman is fantastic.

1198
01:07:33,583 --> 01:07:35,185
They tell you to write
to your congressman

1199
01:07:35,220 --> 01:07:36,587
if you want
something done.

1200
01:07:36,686 --> 01:07:40,571
The men in Washington should be
at the forefront of technology.

1201
01:07:40,790 --> 01:07:42,478
The forefront
of human study.

1202
01:07:42,692 --> 01:07:44,175
The forefront
of crime.

1203
01:07:44,394 --> 01:07:47,076
All the factors
that shape human behavior.

1204
01:07:47,530 --> 01:07:49,228
You don't have
to write your congressman.

1205
01:07:49,432 --> 01:07:53,202
What kind of people are they
that are appointed to do that job?

1206
01:07:53,969 --> 01:07:56,367
The future will have
great difficulty...

1207
01:07:56,972 --> 01:08:00,611
And the question that's raised
by politicians is:

1208
01:08:00,646 --> 01:08:02,524
How much
will a project cost?

1209
01:08:02,978 --> 01:08:05,856
The question is not
how much will it cost.

1210
01:08:05,981 --> 01:08:07,969
Do we have
the resources?

1211
01:08:08,431 --> 01:08:12,392
And we have the resources today
to house everyone,

1212
01:08:12,427 --> 01:08:14,818
build hospitals
all over the world,

1213
01:08:14,948 --> 01:08:17,214
build schools
all over the world,

1214
01:08:17,463 --> 01:08:19,535
the finest equipment
in labs

1215
01:08:19,586 --> 01:08:22,326
for teaching
and doing medical research.

1216
01:08:22,998 --> 01:08:27,214
So you see, we have all that,
but we're in a monetary system,

1217
01:08:27,403 --> 01:08:30,335
and in a monetary system,
there's profit.

1218
01:08:31,974 --> 01:08:35,978
And what is the fundamental mechanism
that drives the profit system

1219
01:08:35,978 --> 01:08:37,366
besides self-interest?

1220
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:41,667
What is it exactly that maintains
that competitive edge at it's core?

1221
01:08:41,984 --> 01:08:44,587
Is it high efficiency
and sustainability?

1222
01:08:45,421 --> 01:08:48,300
No.
That isn't part of their design.

1223
01:08:48,591 --> 01:08:50,936
Nothing produced
in our profit-based society

1224
01:08:50,987 --> 01:08:53,459
is even remotely sustainable
or efficient.

1225
01:08:53,596 --> 01:08:54,670
If it was,
there wouldn't be

1226
01:08:54,691 --> 01:08:58,489
a multi-million dollar a year
service industry for automobiles.

1227
01:08:58,768 --> 01:09:01,342
Nor would the average lifespan
for most electronics

1228
01:09:01,377 --> 01:09:02,772
be less than
three months

1229
01:09:02,807 --> 01:09:04,168
before they're obsolete.

1230
01:09:05,774 --> 01:09:06,973
Is it abundance?

1231
01:09:07,610 --> 01:09:08,652
Absolutely not.

1232
01:09:08,878 --> 01:09:11,801
Abundance, as based on the
laws of supply and demand,

1233
01:09:11,981 --> 01:09:13,732
is actually
a negative thing.

1234
01:09:13,983 --> 01:09:16,225
If a diamond company
finds ten times

1235
01:09:16,275 --> 01:09:18,857
the usual amount of diamonds
during their mining,

1236
01:09:18,988 --> 01:09:21,591
it means the supply of diamonds
has increased,

1237
01:09:21,626 --> 01:09:25,023
which means the cost and profit
per diamond drops.

1238
01:09:25,695 --> 01:09:29,515
The fact is: efficiency,
sustainability and abundance

1239
01:09:29,565 --> 01:09:31,645
are enemies of profit.

1240
01:09:31,967 --> 01:09:33,388
To put it
into a word,

1241
01:09:33,769 --> 01:09:38,025
it is the mechanism of scarcity
that increases profits.

1242
01:09:40,976 --> 01:09:42,265
What is scarcity?

1243
01:09:42,611 --> 01:09:44,902
Based on
keeping products valuable.

1244
01:09:44,980 --> 01:09:48,544
Slowing up production on oil
raises the price.

1245
01:09:48,984 --> 01:09:52,484
Maintaining scarcity of diamonds
keeps the price high.

1246
01:09:52,788 --> 01:09:55,932
They burn diamonds
at the Kimberly Diamond Mine.

1247
01:09:55,967 --> 01:09:57,078
They're
made of carbon.

1248
01:09:57,113 --> 01:09:58,671
That keeps
the price up.

1249
01:09:58,994 --> 01:10:02,998
So then, what does it mean
for society when scarcity,

1250
01:10:02,998 --> 01:10:06,071
either produced naturally
or through manipulation

1251
01:10:06,235 --> 01:10:09,174
is a beneficial condition
for industry?

1252
01:10:11,107 --> 01:10:13,704
It means that
sustainability and abundance

1253
01:10:13,744 --> 01:10:17,314
will never ever occur
in a profit system.

1254
01:10:17,426 --> 01:10:21,469
For it simply goes against
the very nature of the structure.

1255
01:10:21,784 --> 01:10:27,511
Therefore, it is impossible to have
a world without war or poverty.

1256
01:10:27,990 --> 01:10:31,794
It is impossible to
continually advance technology

1257
01:10:31,829 --> 01:10:34,430
to its most efficient
and productive states.

1258
01:10:34,997 --> 01:10:36,521
And most dramatically,

1259
01:10:36,999 --> 01:10:41,297
it is impossible to expect
human beings to behave

1260
01:10:41,332 --> 01:10:44,057
in truly ethical
or decent ways.

1261
01:10:50,779 --> 01:10:52,805
People use the word
'instinct'

1262
01:10:53,220 --> 01:10:56,614
because they can't account
for the behavior.

1263
01:10:56,986 --> 01:11:02,506
They sit back and they evaluate with
their lack of knowledge, you know,

1264
01:11:02,692 --> 01:11:04,605
and they say things like,

1265
01:11:04,994 --> 01:11:08,449
"Humans are built a certain way,
greed is a natural thing,"

1266
01:11:08,530 --> 01:11:10,523
as though they'd worked
for years on it.

1267
01:11:10,558 --> 01:11:13,647
And it's no more natural
than wearing clothing.

1268
01:11:13,969 --> 01:11:16,633
What we want to do
is to eliminate

1269
01:11:17,339 --> 01:11:19,476
the causes
of the problems.

1270
01:11:19,708 --> 01:11:22,180
Eliminate
the processes that

1271
01:11:22,778 --> 01:11:26,331
produce greed,
and bigotry, and prejudice,

1272
01:11:26,782 --> 01:11:30,275
and people taking advantage
of one another, and elitism.

1273
01:11:30,686 --> 01:11:35,576
Eliminating the need
for prisons and welfare.

1274
01:11:35,891 --> 01:11:37,479
We have always had
these problems because

1275
01:11:37,514 --> 01:11:39,790
we have always lived
within scarcity,

1276
01:11:39,995 --> 01:11:45,273
and barter, and monetary systems
that produce scarcity.

1277
01:11:45,303 --> 01:11:49,538
If you eradicate
the conditions that generate

1278
01:11:49,538 --> 01:11:52,076
what you call
'socially offensive behavior,'

1279
01:11:52,174 --> 01:11:53,534
it does not exist.

1280
01:11:53,976 --> 01:11:56,093
A guy says:
Well listen, are they in-born?

1281
01:11:56,545 --> 01:11:57,917
No, it's not.

1282
01:11:57,980 --> 01:12:00,940
There is no human nature,
there's human behavior,

1283
01:12:00,983 --> 01:12:03,786
and that's always been
changed throughout history.

1284
01:12:03,821 --> 01:12:06,118
You're not born
with bigotry,

1285
01:12:06,159 --> 01:12:09,403
and greed, and corruption,
and hatred.

1286
01:12:09,692 --> 01:12:12,257
You pick that up
within the society.

1287
01:12:13,729 --> 01:12:17,966
War, poverty, corruption,
hunger, misery, human suffering

1288
01:12:17,966 --> 01:12:20,404
will not change
in a monetary system.

1289
01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:23,883
That is, there will be
very little significant change.

1290
01:12:23,972 --> 01:12:27,755
It's going to take
the redesigning of our culture,

1291
01:12:27,776 --> 01:12:28,846
our values,

1292
01:12:28,977 --> 01:12:32,726
and it has to be related
to the carrying capacity of the earth,

1293
01:12:32,781 --> 01:12:37,377
not some human opinion,
or some politicians notions

1294
01:12:37,486 --> 01:12:39,314
of the way the world
ought to be.

1295
01:12:39,655 --> 01:12:44,482
Or some religion's notions
of the conduct of human affairs.

1296
01:12:44,993 --> 01:12:48,026
And that's what
The Venus Project is about.

1297
01:12:49,998 --> 01:12:52,937
The society,
that we're about to talk about,

1298
01:12:52,968 --> 01:12:57,973
is a society that is free
of all the old superstitions,

1299
01:12:57,973 --> 01:13:03,003
incarceration, prisons,
police, cruelty and law.

1300
01:13:03,172 --> 01:13:05,116
All laws will disappear

1301
01:13:05,247 --> 01:13:09,129
and the professions will disappear,
that are no longer valid,

1302
01:13:09,184 --> 01:13:12,988
such as stockbrokers,
bankers, advertising...

1303
01:13:12,988 --> 01:13:15,023
Gone!
Forever!

1304
01:13:15,058 --> 01:13:17,809
Because it's
no longer relevant.

1305
01:13:20,429 --> 01:13:23,009
When we understand
that it is technology

1306
01:13:23,044 --> 01:13:24,949
devised
by human ingenuity

1307
01:13:24,984 --> 01:13:28,102
which frees humanity
and increases our quality of life

1308
01:13:28,170 --> 01:13:32,003
we then realize, that the most
important focus we can have

1309
01:13:32,038 --> 01:13:36,182
is on the intelligent management
of the earth's resources.

1310
01:13:36,311 --> 01:13:38,548
For it is from
these natural resources,

1311
01:13:38,583 --> 01:13:41,877
we gain the materials
to continue our path of prosperity.

1312
01:13:42,784 --> 01:13:44,787
Understanding this,
we then see,

1313
01:13:44,822 --> 01:13:48,991
that money fundamentally exists
as a barrier to these resources,

1314
01:13:49,026 --> 01:13:51,884
for virtually,
everything has a financial cause.

1315
01:13:52,628 --> 01:13:55,378
And why do we need money
to obtain these resources?

1316
01:13:55,697 --> 01:13:58,513
Because of real
or assumed scarcity.

1317
01:14:00,469 --> 01:14:03,442
We don't usually pay
for air and tap water,

1318
01:14:03,505 --> 01:14:05,466
because it is
in such high abundance,

1319
01:14:05,507 --> 01:14:07,169
selling it
would be pointless.

1320
01:14:08,143 --> 01:14:10,412
So then,
logically speaking,

1321
01:14:10,447 --> 01:14:12,263
if resources
and technologies,

1322
01:14:12,303 --> 01:14:15,134
applicable to creating
everything in our societies

1323
01:14:15,217 --> 01:14:17,558
such as houses, cities
and transportation,

1324
01:14:18,223 --> 01:14:20,187
were in
high enough abundance,

1325
01:14:20,222 --> 01:14:22,625
there would be no reason
to sell anything.

1326
01:14:23,892 --> 01:14:26,509
Likewise,
if automation and machinery

1327
01:14:26,544 --> 01:14:28,548
was so technologically
advanced,

1328
01:14:28,597 --> 01:14:30,764
as to relieve
human beings of labor

1329
01:14:30,999 --> 01:14:33,009
there would be no reason
to have a job.

1330
01:14:33,669 --> 01:14:36,034
And with these social aspects
taking care of,

1331
01:14:36,338 --> 01:14:38,378
there would be no reason
to have money at all.

1332
01:14:40,275 --> 01:14:42,014
So the ultimate question
remains:

1333
01:14:42,978 --> 01:14:45,881
Do we on earth
have enough resources

1334
01:14:45,916 --> 01:14:47,486
and technological
understanding

1335
01:14:47,616 --> 01:14:50,269
to create a society
of such abundance,

1336
01:14:50,304 --> 01:14:53,849
that everything we have now
could be available without a price tag

1337
01:14:53,989 --> 01:14:56,720
and without the need for submission
through employment?

1338
01:14:58,527 --> 01:14:59,967
Yes, we do.

1339
01:15:01,196 --> 01:15:03,358
We have the resources
and technology

1340
01:15:03,365 --> 01:15:05,601
to enable this
at a minimum

1341
01:15:05,601 --> 01:15:09,130
along with the ability to raise
the standards of living so high

1342
01:15:09,438 --> 01:15:12,879
that people in the future will
look back at our civilisation now

1343
01:15:12,975 --> 01:15:17,914
and gawk at how primitive
and immature our society was.

1344
01:15:18,981 --> 01:15:20,852
What The Venus Project
proposes

1345
01:15:21,049 --> 01:15:23,096
is an entirely
different system

1346
01:15:23,218 --> 01:15:26,650
that's updated
to present day knowledge.

1347
01:15:26,989 --> 01:15:29,391
We've never given scientists
the problem of

1348
01:15:29,426 --> 01:15:33,956
How do you design a society which would
eliminate boring and monotonous jobs,

1349
01:15:33,996 --> 01:15:38,376
that would eliminate accidents
in transportation,

1350
01:15:38,634 --> 01:15:41,480
that would enable people
to have a high standard of living,

1351
01:15:41,803 --> 01:15:44,901
that would eliminate poisons
in our food,

1352
01:15:44,973 --> 01:15:48,663
give us other sources of energy,
that are clean and efficient.

1353
01:15:48,810 --> 01:15:50,608
We can do that
out there.

1354
01:15:56,018 --> 01:15:57,706
The major difference
between

1355
01:15:57,736 --> 01:16:00,713
a resource-based economy
and a monetary system,

1356
01:16:00,756 --> 01:16:04,515
is that a resource-based economy
is really concerned with people

1357
01:16:04,526 --> 01:16:05,441
and their well-being

1358
01:16:05,794 --> 01:16:08,848
where the monetary system
has become so distorted

1359
01:16:08,889 --> 01:16:12,289
that the concerns of the people
are really secondary,

1360
01:16:12,378 --> 01:16:13,579
if they're there
at all.

1361
01:16:13,869 --> 01:16:16,356
Products that are turned out
are for

1362
01:16:16,638 --> 01:16:18,142
how much money
you can get.

1363
01:16:18,173 --> 01:16:21,612
If there is a problem in society
and you can't earn money

1364
01:16:21,647 --> 01:16:24,367
from solving that problem,
then it won't be done.

1365
01:16:24,980 --> 01:16:27,558
The resource-based economy
is really not close

1366
01:16:27,593 --> 01:16:29,273
to anything
that's been tried.

1367
01:16:29,384 --> 01:16:32,337
And with all our technology today,
we can create abundance.

1368
01:16:32,438 --> 01:16:35,340
It could be used to improve
everyone's lifestyle.

1369
01:16:35,490 --> 01:16:38,894
Abundance all over the world,
if we use our technology wisely

1370
01:16:38,994 --> 01:16:40,497
and maintain
the environment.

1371
01:16:40,796 --> 01:16:42,671
It's a very different system

1372
01:16:42,798 --> 01:16:44,639
and it's very hard
to talk about

1373
01:16:44,767 --> 01:16:47,968
because the public is not
that well enough informed

1374
01:16:48,170 --> 01:16:50,491
as to the
state of technology.

1375
01:16:55,978 --> 01:16:59,217
At present,
we don't have to burn fossil fuels.

1376
01:16:59,581 --> 01:17:03,445
We don't have to use anything
that would contaminate the environment.

1377
01:17:03,652 --> 01:17:06,785
There are many sources
of energy available.

1378
01:17:07,990 --> 01:17:11,031
Alternative energy solutions
pushed by the establishment,

1379
01:17:11,131 --> 01:17:13,898
such as hydrogen,
biomass and even nuclear

1380
01:17:14,099 --> 01:17:16,495
are highly insufficient,
dangerous,

1381
01:17:16,565 --> 01:17:19,384
and exist only to perpetuate
the profit structure

1382
01:17:19,419 --> 01:17:20,599
the industry has created.

1383
01:17:21,370 --> 01:17:25,009
When we look beyond the propaganda
and self-serving solutions

1384
01:17:25,044 --> 01:17:27,275
put forth by
the energy companies,

1385
01:17:27,275 --> 01:17:29,745
we find a
seemingly endless stream

1386
01:17:29,780 --> 01:17:33,220
of clean, abundant and renewable energy
for generating power.

1387
01:17:34,449 --> 01:17:37,086
Solar and wind energy
are well known to the public.

1388
01:17:37,093 --> 01:17:40,205
But the true potential of these mediums
remains unexpressed.

1389
01:17:40,989 --> 01:17:43,249
Solar energy,
derived from the sun,

1390
01:17:43,292 --> 01:17:47,205
has such abundance,
that one hour of light at high noon

1391
01:17:47,462 --> 01:17:51,864
contains more energy than what
the entire world consumes in a year.

1392
01:17:51,967 --> 01:17:55,528
If we could capture one-hundreth
of a percent of this energy,

1393
01:17:55,971 --> 01:17:59,452
the world would never have
to use oil, gas or anything else.

1394
01:17:59,975 --> 01:18:02,250
The questioning
is not availability,

1395
01:18:02,411 --> 01:18:04,218
but the technology
to harness it.

1396
01:18:04,746 --> 01:18:06,882
And there are many
advanced mediums today

1397
01:18:06,982 --> 01:18:08,651
which could accomplish
just that,

1398
01:18:09,074 --> 01:18:10,543
if they were
not hindered

1399
01:18:10,594 --> 01:18:13,106
by the need
to compete for market share

1400
01:18:13,141 --> 01:18:15,757
with the established
energy power structures.

1401
01:18:16,992 --> 01:18:18,259
Then there's wind energy.

1402
01:18:18,827 --> 01:18:21,145
Wind energy has long been
denounced as weak

1403
01:18:21,396 --> 01:18:24,605
and, due to being location driven,
impractical.

1404
01:18:24,966 --> 01:18:26,401
This is
simply not true.

1405
01:18:26,768 --> 01:18:29,904
The US Department of Energy
admitted in 2007

1406
01:18:29,971 --> 01:18:34,831
that if wind was fully harvested
in just three of America's 50 states,

1407
01:18:34,976 --> 01:18:37,351
it could power
the entire nation.

1408
01:18:38,980 --> 01:18:43,134
And then there are the rather unknown
mediums of tidal and wave power.

1409
01:18:43,819 --> 01:18:46,821
Tidal power is derived
from tidal shifts in the ocean.

1410
01:18:46,988 --> 01:18:50,546
Installing turbines which capture
this movement, generates energy.

1411
01:18:51,159 --> 01:18:52,354
In the United Kingdom,

1412
01:18:52,394 --> 01:18:54,909
42 sites are currently noted
as available,

1413
01:18:55,130 --> 01:18:59,059
forecasting that
34% of all the UK's energy

1414
01:18:59,094 --> 01:19:01,451
could come
from tidal power alone.

1415
01:19:02,971 --> 01:19:07,104
Wave power, which extracts energy
from the surface motions of the ocean,

1416
01:19:07,476 --> 01:19:09,828
is estimated
to have a global potential

1417
01:19:09,859 --> 01:19:12,733
of up to
80,000 terawatt-hours a year.

1418
01:19:13,381 --> 01:19:17,419
This means 50% of
the entire planet's energy usage

1419
01:19:17,454 --> 01:19:19,749
could be produced
from this medium alone.

1420
01:19:21,523 --> 01:19:26,645
Now, it is important to point out
that tidal, wave, solar and wind power

1421
01:19:26,995 --> 01:19:30,284
requires virtually
no preliminary energy to harness,

1422
01:19:30,465 --> 01:19:35,317
unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass,
hydrogen and all the others.

1423
01:19:35,971 --> 01:19:37,955
In combination,
these four mediums alone,

1424
01:19:38,191 --> 01:19:40,369
if efficiently harnessed
through technology,

1425
01:19:40,409 --> 01:19:42,897
could power
the world forever.

1426
01:19:44,166 --> 01:19:45,135
That being said,

1427
01:19:45,174 --> 01:19:48,542
there happens to be another form
of clean renewable energy,

1428
01:19:48,577 --> 01:19:50,154
which trumps them all.

1429
01:19:50,752 --> 01:19:52,580
Geothermal power.

1430
01:19:53,421 --> 01:19:56,776
Geothermal energy utilizes
what is called heat mining,

1431
01:19:56,792 --> 01:19:59,122
which, through
a simple process using water,

1432
01:19:59,155 --> 01:20:02,116
is able to generate
massive amounts of clean energy.

1433
01:20:02,798 --> 01:20:06,150
In 2006, an MIT report
on geothermal energy

1434
01:20:06,401 --> 01:20:11,034
found that 13,000 zetajules of power
are currently available in the earth

1435
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:13,832
with the possibility of
2,000 zetajules

1436
01:20:13,872 --> 01:20:16,902
being easily tapable
with improved technology.

1437
01:20:17,679 --> 01:20:19,131
The total energy
consumption

1438
01:20:19,183 --> 01:20:20,758
of all the countries
on the planet

1439
01:20:20,798 --> 01:20:23,174
is about
half of a zetajule a year.

1440
01:20:23,485 --> 01:20:26,709
This means about
4000 years of planetary power

1441
01:20:26,759 --> 01:20:27,916
could be harnessed

1442
01:20:27,923 --> 01:20:29,374
in this medium alone.

1443
01:20:30,392 --> 01:20:33,017
And when we understand
that the earth's heat generation

1444
01:20:33,052 --> 01:20:34,239
is constantly renewed,

1445
01:20:34,529 --> 01:20:36,357
this energy
is really limitless.

1446
01:20:36,598 --> 01:20:38,252
It could be used
forever.

1447
01:20:39,601 --> 01:20:44,206
These energy sources are only a few
of the clean renewable mediums available

1448
01:20:44,306 --> 01:20:47,073
and as time goes on,
we will find more.

1449
01:20:47,342 --> 01:20:51,156
The grand realization is that
we have total energy abundance

1450
01:20:51,191 --> 01:20:53,226
without the need
for pollution,

1451
01:20:53,415 --> 01:20:57,221
traditional conservation,
or in fact, a price tag.

1452
01:20:59,621 --> 01:21:01,548
And what about
transportation?

1453
01:21:02,591 --> 01:21:04,419
The prevailing means
of transportation

1454
01:21:04,454 --> 01:21:07,376
in our societies
is by automobile and aircraft,

1455
01:21:07,662 --> 01:21:10,536
both of which predominantly
need fossil fuels to run.

1456
01:21:10,999 --> 01:21:14,336
In the case of the automobile,
the battery technology needed

1457
01:21:14,336 --> 01:21:17,718
to power an electric car that can go
over a hundred miles an hour,

1458
01:21:17,873 --> 01:21:20,181
for over two hundred miles
on one charge,

1459
01:21:20,216 --> 01:21:23,142
exists and has existed
for many years.

1460
01:21:23,177 --> 01:21:26,400
However, due to battery patents,
controlled by the oil industry,

1461
01:21:26,435 --> 01:21:29,156
which limits their ability
to maintain market share,

1462
01:21:29,191 --> 01:21:32,121
coupled with political pressure
from the energy industry,

1463
01:21:32,156 --> 01:21:36,189
the accessibility and affordability
of this technology is limited.

1464
01:21:36,992 --> 01:21:38,617
There is absolutely
no reason,

1465
01:21:38,652 --> 01:21:40,893
other than pure,
corrupt profit interests,

1466
01:21:40,996 --> 01:21:42,931
that every single vehicle
in the world

1467
01:21:42,966 --> 01:21:47,537
cannot be electric and utterly clean,
with zero need for gasoline.

1468
01:21:48,536 --> 01:21:49,819
As far as airplanes,

1469
01:21:49,971 --> 01:21:53,269
it is time we realize that
this means of travel is inefficient,

1470
01:21:53,304 --> 01:21:56,940
cumbersome, slow
and causes far too much pollution.

1471
01:21:57,712 --> 01:21:59,544
This is a MagLev train.

1472
01:21:59,981 --> 01:22:02,359
It uses magnets
for propulsion.

1473
01:22:02,784 --> 01:22:05,259
It is fully suspended
by a magnetic field

1474
01:22:05,309 --> 01:22:09,434
and requires less then two percent
of the energy used for plane travel.

1475
01:22:09,991 --> 01:22:12,586
The train has no wheels,
so nothing can wear out.

1476
01:22:12,994 --> 01:22:15,669
The current maximum speed of
versions of this technology,

1477
01:22:15,729 --> 01:22:18,151
of this technology,
as used in Japan,

1478
01:22:18,498 --> 01:22:20,725
is three hundred and sixty one
miles per hour.

1479
01:22:20,969 --> 01:22:24,717
However, this version of the technology
is very dated.

1480
01:22:25,707 --> 01:22:27,712
An organisation called ET-3

1481
01:22:27,761 --> 01:22:29,968
which has connections
with The Venus Project,

1482
01:22:29,978 --> 01:22:32,585
has established
a tube-based MagLev

1483
01:22:32,801 --> 01:22:36,067
that can travel
up to 4000 miles per hour

1484
01:22:36,102 --> 01:22:41,275
in a motionless, frictionless tube,
which can go over land or under water.

1485
01:22:41,990 --> 01:22:45,465
Imagine going from L.A to New York
for an extended lunchbreak

1486
01:22:45,894 --> 01:22:49,684
or from Washington D.C.
to Beijing, China, in two hours.

1487
01:22:49,998 --> 01:22:54,056
This is the future of continental
and intercontinental travel.

1488
01:22:54,470 --> 01:22:58,328
Fast, clean, with only
a fraction of the energy usage

1489
01:22:58,367 --> 01:23:01,010
we use today
for the same means.

1490
01:23:01,676 --> 01:23:03,906
In fact,
between MagLev technology,

1491
01:23:03,946 --> 01:23:06,982
advanced battery storage
and geothermal energy,

1492
01:23:07,549 --> 01:23:10,540
there will be no reason
to ever burn fossil fuels again.

1493
01:23:10,986 --> 01:23:12,606
And we can do this now,

1494
01:23:12,699 --> 01:23:16,351
if we were not held back
by the paralyzing profit structure.

1495
01:23:20,762 --> 01:23:24,137
Now America is inclined
toward fascism.

1496
01:23:24,299 --> 01:23:27,803
It has a propensity by
its dominant philosophy

1497
01:23:27,838 --> 01:23:31,400
and religion to uphold
to fascist point of view.

1498
01:23:31,706 --> 01:23:36,095
American industry is essencially
a fascist institution.

1499
01:23:36,444 --> 01:23:37,656
If you don't
understand that,

1500
01:23:37,686 --> 01:23:41,567
the minute you punch that time clock,
you walk into a dictatorship.

1501
01:23:41,750 --> 01:23:46,223
We're given notions
about the respectibility of work.

1502
01:23:46,488 --> 01:23:50,224
And I realy look at it
as being paid slavery.

1503
01:23:50,992 --> 01:23:52,248
You brought up
to believe that

1504
01:23:52,288 --> 01:23:55,303
you shall earn your living
by the sweat of your brow.

1505
01:23:55,485 --> 01:23:57,417
That holds people back.

1506
01:23:57,999 --> 01:23:59,565
Freeing people

1507
01:23:59,795 --> 01:24:03,527
from drudgery, repetitive jobs
which make them ignorant.

1508
01:24:03,672 --> 01:24:05,027
You rob them.

1509
01:24:05,974 --> 01:24:09,431
In our society, that is
a resourced-based economy,

1510
01:24:09,588 --> 01:24:11,691
machines free people.

1511
01:24:11,980 --> 01:24:14,482
You see,
we can't imagine that because

1512
01:24:14,483 --> 01:24:16,866
we've never known
that kind of world.

1513
01:24:21,456 --> 01:24:22,883
If we look back
at history,

1514
01:24:23,058 --> 01:24:26,370
we see a very clear pattern
of machine automation,

1515
01:24:26,405 --> 01:24:28,666
slowly replacing
human labour.

1516
01:24:29,330 --> 01:24:31,866
From the disappearance
of the elevator man

1517
01:24:31,901 --> 01:24:35,227
to the near full automation of
an automobile production plant,

1518
01:24:35,570 --> 01:24:40,341
the fact is, as technology grows
the need for humans in the work force

1519
01:24:40,341 --> 01:24:42,014
will continually be
diminished.

1520
01:24:42,811 --> 01:24:44,968
This creates
a serious clash,

1521
01:24:44,979 --> 01:24:49,747
which proves the falsness of
the monetary-based labor system,

1522
01:24:49,984 --> 01:24:53,521
for human employment
is in direct competition

1523
01:24:53,593 --> 01:24:55,536
with technological
developement.

1524
01:24:55,990 --> 01:25:00,241
Therefore, given the fundamental
priority of profit by industry,

1525
01:25:00,662 --> 01:25:03,460
people through time
will be continually layed off

1526
01:25:03,495 --> 01:25:05,285
and replaced by machine.

1527
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:10,006
When industry takes on a machine
instead of shortening the work day,

1528
01:25:10,041 --> 01:25:11,172
they downsize.

1529
01:25:11,207 --> 01:25:15,053
You loose your job
so you have a right to fear machines.

1530
01:25:15,643 --> 01:25:18,522
In a high technology,
resourced-based economy,

1531
01:25:18,980 --> 01:25:23,699
It is conservative to say that
about 90% of all current occupations

1532
01:25:23,752 --> 01:25:25,887
could be phased out
by machines,

1533
01:25:25,987 --> 01:25:29,670
freeing humans to live their life
without servitude.

1534
01:25:29,991 --> 01:25:32,588
For this is the point
of technology itself.

1535
01:25:32,994 --> 01:25:35,688
And through time,
with nanotechnology

1536
01:25:35,723 --> 01:25:38,106
and other highly advanced
forms of science,

1537
01:25:38,141 --> 01:25:41,631
it is not farfetched to see
how even complex

1538
01:25:41,661 --> 01:25:43,860
medical procedures
could be performed

1539
01:25:43,895 --> 01:25:45,047
by machines,
as well.

1540
01:25:47,068 --> 01:25:47,071
And based
on the pattern

1541
01:25:47,127 --> 01:25:50,738
with much higher success rates
than humans get today.

1542
01:25:51,746 --> 01:25:55,167
The path is clear,
but our monetary-based structure

1543
01:25:55,202 --> 01:25:59,274
which requires labour for income,
blocks this progress,

1544
01:25:59,309 --> 01:26:02,435
for humans need jobs,
in order to survive.

1545
01:26:02,991 --> 01:26:05,575
The bottom line is
that this system must go

1546
01:26:05,794 --> 01:26:07,740
or we will
never be free

1547
01:26:07,922 --> 01:26:10,880
and technology
will be constantly paralyzed.

1548
01:26:11,699 --> 01:26:14,039
We have machines
that clean out sewers

1549
01:26:14,336 --> 01:26:17,006
and frees a human being
from doing that.

1550
01:26:17,041 --> 01:26:22,224
So look at machines as
extensions of human performance.

1551
01:26:22,977 --> 01:26:27,831
Furthermore, many occupations today
will have simply no basis

1552
01:26:27,866 --> 01:26:30,547
to exist in a
resourced-based economy.

1553
01:26:30,785 --> 01:26:33,957
Such as anything assosiated
with the management of money,

1554
01:26:34,289 --> 01:26:37,344
advertising,
along with a legal system itself.

1555
01:26:37,992 --> 01:26:41,286
For, without money,
a great majority of the crimes

1556
01:26:41,321 --> 01:26:43,729
that are commited today,
would never occur.

1557
01:26:43,998 --> 01:26:45,594
Virtually,
all forms of crime

1558
01:26:45,645 --> 01:26:47,687
are consequence
in the monetary system,

1559
01:26:47,700 --> 01:26:53,618
either directly or by nevroses
inflicted through financial deprevation.

1560
01:26:53,975 --> 01:26:58,231
Therefore, laws themselves
could eventually become extinct.

1561
01:26:58,747 --> 01:27:03,169
Instead of putting up a sign:
'Drive carefully', 'Slippery when wet',

1562
01:27:03,228 --> 01:27:06,888
put abrasive on the highway,
so it is not slippery when wet.

1563
01:27:06,988 --> 01:27:09,244
And when a person
gets in a car that drunk

1564
01:27:09,279 --> 01:27:11,362
and a car oscillates
at great deal,

1565
01:27:11,397 --> 01:27:12,703
there's
a little pendulum

1566
01:27:12,994 --> 01:27:14,142
that swings up
and back

1567
01:27:14,182 --> 01:27:16,439
and that will pull the
car over the side...

1568
01:27:16,598 --> 01:27:17,761
Not a law.

1569
01:27:17,999 --> 01:27:18,968
A solution.

1570
01:27:19,003 --> 01:27:23,274
Put sonar and radar on automobiles
so they can't hit one another.

1571
01:27:23,371 --> 01:27:25,609
Man-made laws
are attempts

1572
01:27:25,807 --> 01:27:27,976
to deal with
occuring problems

1573
01:27:27,976 --> 01:27:30,450
and not knowing
how to solve them...

1574
01:27:30,490 --> 01:27:31,790
They make a law.

1575
01:27:32,681 --> 01:27:35,121
In the United States,
the most privatised,

1576
01:27:35,156 --> 01:27:36,795
capitalist country
on the planet,

1577
01:27:36,985 --> 01:27:38,901
it shall come
as no surprise

1578
01:27:38,987 --> 01:27:42,636
that it also has the largest
prison population in the world.

1579
01:27:42,991 --> 01:27:44,587
Growing every year.

1580
01:27:44,993 --> 01:27:47,996
Statistically, most of
these people are uneducated

1581
01:27:47,996 --> 01:27:50,922
and come from poor,
deprived societies.

1582
01:27:51,532 --> 01:27:53,428
And contrary
to propaganda,

1583
01:27:53,735 --> 01:27:55,913
it is this
enviromental conditioning,

1584
01:27:56,216 --> 01:27:59,364
which lures them into
criminal and violent behavior.

1585
01:27:59,974 --> 01:28:02,046
However,
society looks the other way

1586
01:28:02,081 --> 01:28:03,793
in regard
to this point.

1587
01:28:03,978 --> 01:28:07,982
The legal and prison systems
are just more examples

1588
01:28:07,982 --> 01:28:10,523
of how our society
avoids examining

1589
01:28:10,785 --> 01:28:12,658
the root causes
of behavior.

1590
01:28:12,987 --> 01:28:14,773
Billions are spent
each year

1591
01:28:14,852 --> 01:28:16,691
on prisons and police,

1592
01:28:16,691 --> 01:28:18,851
while only a fraction
is spent on

1593
01:28:18,886 --> 01:28:20,456
programs for poverty,

1594
01:28:20,618 --> 01:28:23,047
which is one of the most
fundamental variables

1595
01:28:23,048 --> 01:28:25,438
responsible for crime
to begin with.

1596
01:28:25,767 --> 01:28:28,377
And, as long as
we have an economic system,

1597
01:28:28,412 --> 01:28:29,974
which preferes
and in fact,

1598
01:28:30,009 --> 01:28:32,893
creates scarcity
and deprivation,

1599
01:28:32,994 --> 01:28:35,150
crime
will never go away.

1600
01:28:40,682 --> 01:28:45,182
If people have access
to the necessities of life

1601
01:28:45,217 --> 01:28:49,459
without survitude, debt,
barter, trade,

1602
01:28:50,892 --> 01:28:52,597
they'd behave
very differently.

1603
01:28:52,894 --> 01:28:56,957
You want all these things available
without a price tag.

1604
01:28:56,998 --> 01:29:00,435
Now then, you're not gonna
have a price tag,

1605
01:29:00,470 --> 01:29:02,155
what will
motivate people?

1606
01:29:02,870 --> 01:29:06,513
A man gets everything he wants,
he's just laying around in the sun.

1607
01:29:06,708 --> 01:29:09,027
This is the myth
they perpetuate.

1608
01:29:09,056 --> 01:29:11,845
People in our culture
are trained to believe

1609
01:29:11,979 --> 01:29:15,189
that the monetary system
produces incentive.

1610
01:29:15,450 --> 01:29:18,865
If they have access to things,
why should they want to do anything?

1611
01:29:18,986 --> 01:29:20,939
They would
loose their incentive.

1612
01:29:20,974 --> 01:29:24,442
That's what you're taught
to support the monetary system.

1613
01:29:24,477 --> 01:29:26,625
When you take money
out of the scenario,

1614
01:29:27,512 --> 01:29:31,388
there would be different incentives,
very different incentives.

1615
01:29:31,699 --> 01:29:34,947
When people have access
to the necessities of life,

1616
01:29:34,969 --> 01:29:36,586
their incentives change.

1617
01:29:36,671 --> 01:29:38,574
What about the moon
and the stars?

1618
01:29:38,973 --> 01:29:40,944
New incentives arise.

1619
01:29:40,975 --> 01:29:43,491
If you make a painting
that you enjoy,

1620
01:29:43,711 --> 01:29:47,259
you will enjoy giving it
to other people, not selling it.

1621
01:29:51,986 --> 01:29:55,330
I think most of the education,
that I've seen today is

1622
01:29:55,365 --> 01:29:58,559
essentially,
producing a person for a job.

1623
01:29:58,594 --> 01:30:01,374
It's very specialized.
They're not generalists.

1624
01:30:01,409 --> 01:30:04,245
People don't know a lot about
a lot of different subjects.

1625
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:06,968
I don't think you can
get people to go to war,

1626
01:30:06,968 --> 01:30:10,302
if they knew a lot
about a lot of things.

1627
01:30:10,337 --> 01:30:12,797
I think education
is mostly rote

1628
01:30:12,974 --> 01:30:16,566
and they're not taught
how to solve problems.

1629
01:30:16,601 --> 01:30:19,150
They're not given the tools,
emotionally,

1630
01:30:19,185 --> 01:30:20,962
or within
their own field,

1631
01:30:20,982 --> 01:30:23,281
of how to do
critical thinking.

1632
01:30:23,584 --> 01:30:26,890
In a resource-based economy,
the education would be very different.

1633
01:30:26,988 --> 01:30:30,913
Our society's major concern
is mental development

1634
01:30:30,992 --> 01:30:33,692
and to motivate
each person

1635
01:30:33,795 --> 01:30:35,913
to their
highest potential.

1636
01:30:35,997 --> 01:30:37,451
Because our philosophy is

1637
01:30:37,461 --> 01:30:40,091
the smarter people are,
the richer the world,

1638
01:30:40,126 --> 01:30:42,727
because everybody
becomes a contributor.

1639
01:30:42,970 --> 01:30:45,298
The smarter
your kids are,

1640
01:30:45,333 --> 01:30:47,098
the better
my life will be.

1641
01:30:47,133 --> 01:30:49,334
Because they'll be contributing
more constructively

1642
01:30:49,369 --> 01:30:52,125
to the environment
and to my life.

1643
01:30:52,165 --> 01:30:53,303
Because
everything that

1644
01:30:53,354 --> 01:30:56,503
we devise within
a resource-based economy,

1645
01:30:56,584 --> 01:30:58,239
would be applied
to society.

1646
01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:00,150
There would be nothing
to hold it back.

1647
01:31:04,425 --> 01:31:08,615
Patriotism, weapons,
armies, navies...

1648
01:31:08,696 --> 01:31:09,995
All that is a sign

1649
01:31:09,997 --> 01:31:12,574
that we're not
civilized yet.

1650
01:31:12,967 --> 01:31:14,558
Kids will ask
their parents:

1651
01:31:14,702 --> 01:31:18,404
"Didn't you see
the necessity of the machines?"

1652
01:31:18,973 --> 01:31:21,609
"Dad, couldn't you see
that war was inevitable

1653
01:31:21,644 --> 01:31:23,173
when you produce
scarcity?"

1654
01:31:23,978 --> 01:31:24,941
"Isn't it obvious?"

1655
01:31:24,981 --> 01:31:26,752
Of course,
the kid will understand

1656
01:31:26,981 --> 01:31:29,984
that you're pinheads;
raised merely to serve

1657
01:31:29,984 --> 01:31:32,112
the established institutons.

1658
01:31:32,147 --> 01:31:34,989
We're such in
an abominable, sick society,

1659
01:31:35,389 --> 01:31:37,392
that we won't make
the history book.

1660
01:31:37,427 --> 01:31:41,524
They'll just say that large nations
took land from smaller nations,

1661
01:31:41,696 --> 01:31:43,239
used force and violence.

1662
01:31:43,274 --> 01:31:45,646
You'll get history
talked about as

1663
01:31:45,967 --> 01:31:47,873
corrupt behavior
all the way along

1664
01:31:47,969 --> 01:31:50,463
until the beginning
of the civilized world.

1665
01:31:50,498 --> 01:31:52,803
That's when all the nations
work together.

1666
01:31:53,305 --> 01:31:54,829
World unification,

1667
01:31:54,976 --> 01:31:59,050
working toward common good
for all human beings

1668
01:31:59,085 --> 01:32:03,832
and without anyone being
subservient to anyone else.

1669
01:32:03,985 --> 01:32:06,590
Without
social stratification,

1670
01:32:06,721 --> 01:32:08,644
whether it be
technical elitism

1671
01:32:08,723 --> 01:32:10,561
or any other kind
of elitism,

1672
01:32:10,792 --> 01:32:13,066
eradicated from
the face of the earth.

1673
01:32:13,394 --> 01:32:17,457
The state does nothing
because there is no state.

1674
01:32:21,969 --> 01:32:24,017
The system I advocate,

1675
01:32:24,052 --> 01:32:27,772
a resource-based global economy,
is not perfect.

1676
01:32:27,975 --> 01:32:30,275
It's just a lot better
than what we have.

1677
01:32:30,411 --> 01:32:33,147
We can never achieve
perfection.

1678
01:32:50,998 --> 01:32:53,023
The social values
of our society,

1679
01:32:53,058 --> 01:32:55,394
which has manifested
in perpetual warfare,

1680
01:32:55,469 --> 01:32:56,370
corruption,

1681
01:32:56,370 --> 01:32:57,672
oppressive laws,

1682
01:32:57,672 --> 01:32:58,973
social stratification,

1683
01:32:58,973 --> 01:33:00,975
irrelevant superstitions,

1684
01:33:00,975 --> 01:33:02,790
environmental destruction,

1685
01:33:02,977 --> 01:33:07,659
and a despotic, socially indifferent,
profit-oriented ruling class,

1686
01:33:08,549 --> 01:33:11,659
is fundamentally the result
of a collective ignorance

1687
01:33:11,719 --> 01:33:15,867
of two of the most basic insights
humans can have about reality.

1688
01:33:16,624 --> 01:33:20,515
The emergent and symbiotic aspects
of natural law.

1689
01:33:21,829 --> 01:33:23,963
The emergent nature
of reality

1690
01:33:23,998 --> 01:33:26,768
is that all systems;
whether it is knowledge,

1691
01:33:26,803 --> 01:33:31,651
society, technology, philosophy,
or any other creation;

1692
01:33:31,973 --> 01:33:33,615
will,
when uninhibited,

1693
01:33:33,808 --> 01:33:36,453
undergo fluid,
perpetual change.

1694
01:33:36,978 --> 01:33:39,034
What we consider
commonplace today

1695
01:33:39,069 --> 01:33:41,992
such as modern communication
and transportation,

1696
01:33:42,383 --> 01:33:45,373
would have been unimaginable
in ancient times.

1697
01:33:45,987 --> 01:33:48,905
Likewise, the future
will contain technologies,

1698
01:33:48,990 --> 01:33:51,498
realizations
and social structures

1699
01:33:51,659 --> 01:33:54,280
that we cannot even fathom
in the present.

1700
01:33:54,862 --> 01:33:57,101
We have gone from
alchemy to chemistry,

1701
01:33:57,632 --> 01:34:00,561
from a geocentric universe
to a heliocentric,

1702
01:34:00,968 --> 01:34:03,778
from believing that demons
were the cause of illness

1703
01:34:03,971 --> 01:34:05,297
to modern medicine.

1704
01:34:05,973 --> 01:34:08,673
This development shows
no sign of ending,

1705
01:34:08,776 --> 01:34:11,407
and it is this awareness
that aligns us

1706
01:34:11,442 --> 01:34:14,003
and leads us
on a continuous path

1707
01:34:14,038 --> 01:34:15,823
to growth
and progress.

1708
01:34:16,884 --> 01:34:19,929
Static, empirical knowledge
does not exist.

1709
01:34:19,987 --> 01:34:24,103
Rather, it is the insight
of the emergence of all systems

1710
01:34:24,138 --> 01:34:25,626
we must recognize.

1711
01:34:26,494 --> 01:34:30,315
This means we must be open to
new information at all times,

1712
01:34:30,531 --> 01:34:33,100
Even if it threatens
our current belief system,

1713
01:34:33,135 --> 01:34:35,038
and hence,
identities.

1714
01:34:35,970 --> 01:34:39,544
Sadly, society today
has failed to recognize this,

1715
01:34:39,674 --> 01:34:43,174
and the established institutions
continue to paralyze growth

1716
01:34:43,211 --> 01:34:46,145
by preserving
outdated, social structures.

1717
01:34:46,781 --> 01:34:49,020
Simultaneously,
the population suffers

1718
01:34:49,055 --> 01:34:50,541
from a fear of change.

1719
01:34:50,818 --> 01:34:53,880
For their conditioning assumes
a static identity

1720
01:34:53,988 --> 01:34:55,945
and challenging
one's belief system,

1721
01:34:55,990 --> 01:34:59,127
usually results in
insult and apprehension.

1722
01:34:59,494 --> 01:35:03,661
For being wrong is erroneously
associated with failure.

1723
01:35:04,999 --> 01:35:08,807
When in fact to be proven wrong
should be celebrated.

1724
01:35:08,969 --> 01:35:12,630
For it is elevating someone
to a new level of understanding,

1725
01:35:12,773 --> 01:35:14,373
furthering awareness.

1726
01:35:15,209 --> 01:35:19,375
The fact is, there is no such thing
as a smart human being,

1727
01:35:19,680 --> 01:35:21,667
for it is merely
a matter of time

1728
01:35:21,682 --> 01:35:25,449
before their ideas are
updated, changed or irradicated.

1729
01:35:26,687 --> 01:35:30,143
And this tendency to blindly
hold on to a belief system,

1730
01:35:30,324 --> 01:35:34,031
sheltering it from new,
possibly transforming information

1731
01:35:34,295 --> 01:35:38,340
is nothing less than a form of
intellectual materialism.

1732
01:35:39,834 --> 01:35:42,706
The monetary system
perpetuates this materialism,

1733
01:35:42,770 --> 01:35:45,404
not only by it's
self-preserving structures,

1734
01:35:45,573 --> 01:35:48,182
but also throught the
countless number of people

1735
01:35:48,275 --> 01:35:50,211
who have been conditioned
into blindly,

1736
01:35:50,211 --> 01:35:52,431
and thoughtlessly,
upholding these structures,

1737
01:35:52,580 --> 01:35:57,358
therefore becoming, self-appointed
guardians of the status quo.

1738
01:35:57,985 --> 01:36:01,700
Sheep which no longer need
a sheepdog to control them.

1739
01:36:01,889 --> 01:36:03,404
For they control
each other,

1740
01:36:03,654 --> 01:36:07,078
by ostracizing those
who step out of the norm.

1741
01:36:07,995 --> 01:36:09,730
This tendency
to resist change

1742
01:36:09,730 --> 01:36:11,738
and uphold
existing institutions

1743
01:36:11,773 --> 01:36:14,063
for the sake of identity,
comfort,

1744
01:36:14,098 --> 01:36:15,535
power and profit,

1745
01:36:15,670 --> 01:36:17,676
is completely
unsustainable.

1746
01:36:17,972 --> 01:36:20,244
And will only produce
further imbalance,

1747
01:36:20,508 --> 01:36:21,617
fragmentation,

1748
01:36:21,709 --> 01:36:22,479
distortion,

1749
01:36:22,543 --> 01:36:23,549
and invariably,

1750
01:36:23,778 --> 01:36:24,860
destruction.

1751
01:36:27,315 --> 01:36:29,031
It's time to change.

1752
01:36:30,251 --> 01:36:31,990
From hunters
and gatherers,

1753
01:36:32,025 --> 01:36:33,773
to the agricultural revolution,

1754
01:36:33,988 --> 01:36:35,560
to the industrial revolution,

1755
01:36:35,790 --> 01:36:37,109
the pattern is clear.

1756
01:36:37,424 --> 01:36:39,627
It is time
for a new social system

1757
01:36:39,894 --> 01:36:42,756
which reflects the understandings
we have today.

1758
01:36:43,998 --> 01:36:45,866
The monetary system
is a product

1759
01:36:45,866 --> 01:36:46,947
of a period of time,

1760
01:36:46,967 --> 01:36:48,880
where scarcity
was a reality.

1761
01:36:49,403 --> 01:36:51,107
Now,
with the age of technology,

1762
01:36:51,142 --> 01:36:53,430
it is no longer relevant
to society.

1763
01:36:54,074 --> 01:36:57,431
Gone with the aberrant behavior
it manifests.

1764
01:36:58,979 --> 01:37:01,301
Likewise,
dominant world views,

1765
01:37:01,448 --> 01:37:02,910
such as theistic religion,

1766
01:37:03,010 --> 01:37:05,900
operate with
the same social irrelevancy.

1767
01:37:06,787 --> 01:37:11,892
Islam, Christianity, Judaism,
Hinduism and all of the others,

1768
01:37:11,992 --> 01:37:15,137
exist as barriers
to personal and social growth.

1769
01:37:15,796 --> 01:37:19,601
For each group perpetuates
a closed world view.

1770
01:37:19,967 --> 01:37:22,705
And this finite understanding
that they acknowledge

1771
01:37:22,970 --> 01:37:26,788
is simply not possible
in an emergent universe.

1772
01:37:28,976 --> 01:37:32,613
Yet, religion has succeeded
in shutting down the awareness

1773
01:37:32,713 --> 01:37:33,877
of this emergence

1774
01:37:33,981 --> 01:37:37,190
by instilling the psychological
distortion of faith

1775
01:37:37,225 --> 01:37:38,831
upon it's followers.

1776
01:37:38,866 --> 01:37:41,516
Where logic and new information
is rejected

1777
01:37:41,789 --> 01:37:44,890
in favor of traditionalized,
outdated beliefs.

1778
01:37:45,993 --> 01:37:47,647
The concept of God,

1779
01:37:47,995 --> 01:37:52,262
is really a method of accounting
for the nature of things.

1780
01:37:52,297 --> 01:37:54,969
In the early days,
people didn't know enough

1781
01:37:54,969 --> 01:37:56,941
about
how things formed,

1782
01:37:56,971 --> 01:37:58,361
how nature worked.

1783
01:37:58,505 --> 01:38:00,960
So they invented
their own little stories,

1784
01:38:01,576 --> 01:38:05,298
and they made God
in their own image.

1785
01:38:05,980 --> 01:38:07,767
A guy
that gets angry

1786
01:38:07,982 --> 01:38:10,043
when people
don't behave right.

1787
01:38:10,078 --> 01:38:12,522
He creates floods
and earthquakes

1788
01:38:12,987 --> 01:38:15,026
and they say
it's an act of God.

1789
01:38:16,791 --> 01:38:19,393
A cursory glance at
the suppressed history of religion

1790
01:38:19,493 --> 01:38:22,616
reveals that even
the foundational myths themselves

1791
01:38:22,697 --> 01:38:27,072
are emergent culminations
developed through influence over time.

1792
01:38:27,107 --> 01:38:30,346
For example, a cardinal doctrine
of the Christian faith

1793
01:38:30,371 --> 01:38:32,670
is the death and resurrection
of Christ.

1794
01:38:32,973 --> 01:38:36,431
This notion is so important
that the Bible itself states

1795
01:38:36,877 --> 01:38:38,659
"And if Christ be not risen,

1796
01:38:38,710 --> 01:38:42,675
then is our preaching vain
and your faith is also vain."

1797
01:38:44,618 --> 01:38:47,546
Yet it is very difficult
to take this account literally.

1798
01:38:47,688 --> 01:38:50,004
For not only is
there no primary source

1799
01:38:50,039 --> 01:38:53,137
denoting this supernatural event
in secular history,

1800
01:38:53,627 --> 01:38:56,978
awareness of the enormous
number of pre-Christian saviors

1801
01:38:56,997 --> 01:38:59,459
who also died
and were resurrected

1802
01:38:59,667 --> 01:39:03,961
immediately puts this story in
mythological territory by association.

1803
01:39:04,772 --> 01:39:06,167
Early church figures,

1804
01:39:06,202 --> 01:39:06,974
such as Tortullian,

1805
01:39:06,974 --> 01:39:10,246
went to great lengths
to break these associations,

1806
01:39:10,377 --> 01:39:14,675
even claiming that the Devil
caused the similarities to occur.

1807
01:39:14,882 --> 01:39:16,551
Stating in
the second century:

1808
01:39:16,684 --> 01:39:19,298
"The devil, whose business is
to pervert the truth,

1809
01:39:19,486 --> 01:39:22,772
mimics the exact circumstance
of the Divine Sacraments.

1810
01:39:22,990 --> 01:39:26,774
He baptizes his believers and
promises forgiveness of sins...

1811
01:39:26,794 --> 01:39:28,924
He celebrates
the oblation of bread,

1812
01:39:29,005 --> 01:39:31,402
and brings in the symbol
of the resurrection.

1813
01:39:31,999 --> 01:39:35,102
Let us therefore acknowledge
the craftiness of the Devil,

1814
01:39:35,202 --> 01:39:38,623
who copied certain things
of those that be Divine."

1815
01:39:39,974 --> 01:39:41,730
What is truly sad,
however,

1816
01:39:41,775 --> 01:39:45,152
is that when we cease the idea
that the stories from Christianity,

1817
01:39:45,187 --> 01:39:48,061
Judaism, Islam
and all the others

1818
01:39:48,096 --> 01:39:49,933
are literal history,

1819
01:39:50,284 --> 01:39:52,419
and accept them
for what they really are,

1820
01:39:52,459 --> 01:39:55,310
which are purely
allegorical expressions,

1821
01:39:55,345 --> 01:39:57,278
derived
from many faiths,

1822
01:39:57,992 --> 01:40:00,509
we see that all religions
share a common thread.

1823
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:03,621
And it is
this unifying imperative

1824
01:40:03,698 --> 01:40:06,176
that needs to be
recognized and appreciated.

1825
01:40:08,602 --> 01:40:11,761
Religious belief has caused
more fragmentation and conflict

1826
01:40:11,972 --> 01:40:13,745
than any other ideology.

1827
01:40:14,074 --> 01:40:18,373
Christianity alone has
34,000 different subgroups.

1828
01:40:19,980 --> 01:40:23,005
The Bible is subject
to interpretation.

1829
01:40:23,040 --> 01:40:24,885
When you read it,
you say,

1830
01:40:24,985 --> 01:40:28,777
"I think Jesus meant this.
I think Job meant that."

1831
01:40:28,789 --> 01:40:30,628
"Oh no!
He meant this."

1832
01:40:30,791 --> 01:40:34,398
So you have the Lutheran,
the Seventh-Day Adventist, the Catholic,

1833
01:40:34,895 --> 01:40:38,197
and a church divided
is no church at all.

1834
01:40:44,972 --> 01:40:47,435
And this point
on division,

1835
01:40:47,474 --> 01:40:50,784
which is a trademark
of all theistic religions,

1836
01:40:50,978 --> 01:40:53,885
brings us to our second failure
of awareness.

1837
01:40:53,981 --> 01:40:56,064
The false assumption
of separation

1838
01:40:56,099 --> 01:41:00,890
through the rejection of
the symbiotic relationship of life.

1839
01:41:01,989 --> 01:41:05,978
Apart from the understanding
that all natural systems are emergent,

1840
01:41:05,993 --> 01:41:09,163
where all notions of reality
will be constantly developed,

1841
01:41:09,198 --> 01:41:11,397
altered
and even eradicated,

1842
01:41:11,899 --> 01:41:15,869
we must also understand
that all systems are, in fact,

1843
01:41:15,969 --> 01:41:19,752
invented fragments,
merely for the sake of conversation.

1844
01:41:20,374 --> 01:41:24,021
For there is no such thing
as independence in nature.

1845
01:41:24,545 --> 01:41:26,937
The whole of nature
is a unified system

1846
01:41:26,987 --> 01:41:28,842
of interdependent variables,

1847
01:41:29,283 --> 01:41:34,388
each a cause and a reaction,
existing only as a concentrated whole.

1848
01:41:35,989 --> 01:41:39,122
You don't see the plug
to connect to the environment,

1849
01:41:39,157 --> 01:41:42,563
so it looks like we're free,
wandering around.

1850
01:41:42,663 --> 01:41:45,527
Take the oxygen away,
we all die immediately.

1851
01:41:45,532 --> 01:41:47,824
Take plant life away,
we die.

1852
01:41:47,868 --> 01:41:50,627
And without the sun,
all the plants die.

1853
01:41:50,709 --> 01:41:52,204
So we are connected.

1854
01:41:52,539 --> 01:41:55,500
We really must take into
account the totality.

1855
01:41:55,535 --> 01:41:57,978
This isn't just a human experience
on this planet,

1856
01:41:57,978 --> 01:41:59,414
this is
a total experience.

1857
01:41:59,449 --> 01:42:01,515
And we know we can't survive
without plants and animals.

1858
01:42:01,550 --> 01:42:04,376
We know we can't survive
without the four elements, you know?

1859
01:42:04,585 --> 01:42:08,314
And so, when are we gonna really
start taking that into account?

1860
01:42:08,655 --> 01:42:10,458
That's what it is
to be successful.

1861
01:42:10,491 --> 01:42:14,421
Success depends on how well
we're related to everything around us.

1862
01:42:15,696 --> 01:42:17,901
I'm very aware of
the fact that my grandson

1863
01:42:17,936 --> 01:42:19,392
cannot possibly hope

1864
01:42:19,767 --> 01:42:21,787
to inherit
a sustainable,

1865
01:42:21,837 --> 01:42:24,192
peaceful, stable,
socially just world

1866
01:42:24,227 --> 01:42:26,428
unless every child today
growing up

1867
01:42:26,463 --> 01:42:30,878
in Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia,
in Palestine, in Israel,

1868
01:42:30,978 --> 01:42:33,294
also has
that same expectation.

1869
01:42:33,981 --> 01:42:35,870
You gotta take care
of the whole community

1870
01:42:36,105 --> 01:42:38,346
or you're gonna have
serious problems.

1871
01:42:38,686 --> 01:42:42,454
And now we have to see that
the whole world is the community.

1872
01:42:42,690 --> 01:42:45,874
And we must all take care
of each other that way.

1873
01:42:45,993 --> 01:42:47,995
And it's not just
a community of human beings,

1874
01:42:48,030 --> 01:42:51,149
it's a community of plants
and animals and elements.

1875
01:42:51,184 --> 01:42:53,918
And we really need
to understand that.

1876
01:42:54,067 --> 01:42:55,969
That's what's
gonna bring us joy too,

1877
01:42:55,969 --> 01:42:56,671
and pleasure.

1878
01:42:56,970 --> 01:42:58,826
That's what's missing
in our lives right now.

1879
01:42:58,972 --> 01:43:00,632
We can call it
spirituality,

1880
01:43:00,974 --> 01:43:02,278
but the fact
of the matter is...

1881
01:43:02,443 --> 01:43:06,497
Joy comes from that
bliss of connectedness.

1882
01:43:06,513 --> 01:43:07,822
That's our godspirit.

1883
01:43:07,863 --> 01:43:09,591
That's that side
of ourselves

1884
01:43:09,616 --> 01:43:11,518
that really feels it,

1885
01:43:11,518 --> 01:43:13,222
and you can feel it
deep inside you.

1886
01:43:13,383 --> 01:43:15,060
It's this amazing,
wonderful feeling

1887
01:43:15,100 --> 01:43:16,343
and you know it
when you get it.

1888
01:43:16,378 --> 01:43:17,599
You don't get it
from money,

1889
01:43:17,991 --> 01:43:19,729
you get it
from connection.

1890
01:43:21,995 --> 01:43:24,745
Now if that isn't
a hazard to this country.

1891
01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:28,735
How are we gonna keep
building nuclear weapons,

1892
01:43:28,735 --> 01:43:29,873
you know
what I mean?

1893
01:43:30,871 --> 01:43:33,170
What's gonna happen
to the arms industry

1894
01:43:33,205 --> 01:43:35,333
when we realize
we're all one?

1895
01:43:36,310 --> 01:43:38,136
It's gonna fuck up
the economy.

1896
01:43:38,745 --> 01:43:40,914
The economy
that's fake anyway.

1897
01:43:49,423 --> 01:43:50,736
Which would be
a real bummer.

1898
01:43:51,692 --> 01:43:54,142
You can see why
the government's crackin' down...

1899
01:43:56,997 --> 01:43:59,837
on the idea of experiencing
unconditional love.

1900
01:44:10,978 --> 01:44:14,982
Once we understand that
the integrity of our personal existences

1901
01:44:14,982 --> 01:44:16,684
are completely dependent

1902
01:44:16,784 --> 01:44:19,989
on the integrity of
everything else in our world,

1903
01:44:20,024 --> 01:44:24,063
we have truly understood
the meaning of unconditional love.

1904
01:44:24,692 --> 01:44:28,780
For love is extensionality,
and seeing everything as you

1905
01:44:28,896 --> 01:44:32,309
and you as everything
can have no conditionalities,

1906
01:44:32,466 --> 01:44:36,249
for in fact,
we are all everything, at once.

1907
01:44:36,303 --> 01:44:38,972
If it's true that we're all
from the center of a star,

1908
01:44:38,972 --> 01:44:40,838
every atom on each of us
from the center of a star,

1909
01:44:40,873 --> 01:44:42,708
then we're all
the same thing.

1910
01:44:42,748 --> 01:44:43,707
Even a Coke machine

1911
01:44:43,757 --> 01:44:45,979
or a cigarette butt
in the street in Buffalo

1912
01:44:46,014 --> 01:44:47,781
is made out of atoms
that came from a star.

1913
01:44:47,816 --> 01:44:49,716
They've all been recycled
thousands of times,

1914
01:44:49,716 --> 01:44:50,854
as have
you and I.

1915
01:44:50,984 --> 01:44:54,185
And therefore,
it's only me out there.

1916
01:44:54,554 --> 01:44:56,107
So what is there
to be afraid of?

1917
01:44:56,142 --> 01:44:58,258
What is there
that needs solace seeking?

1918
01:44:58,258 --> 01:44:58,706
Nothing.

1919
01:44:58,746 --> 01:45:01,448
There's nothing to be afraid of
because it's all us.

1920
01:45:01,695 --> 01:45:04,733
The trouble is we have been
separated by being born

1921
01:45:04,768 --> 01:45:07,267
and given a name and an identity
and being individuated.

1922
01:45:07,302 --> 01:45:08,791
We've been separated
from the oneness,

1923
01:45:08,826 --> 01:45:09,970
and that's
what religion exploits.

1924
01:45:09,970 --> 01:45:14,027
That people have this yearning
to be part of the overall one again.

1925
01:45:14,062 --> 01:45:15,094
So they exploit that.

1926
01:45:15,129 --> 01:45:17,223
They call it God,
they say he has rules,

1927
01:45:17,577 --> 01:45:18,889
and I think it's cruel.

1928
01:45:19,079 --> 01:45:21,512
I think you can do it
absent religion.

1929
01:46:09,429 --> 01:46:11,354
It's time
to claim the unity.

1930
01:46:11,465 --> 01:46:14,407
Our outmoded social systems
have broken apart,

1931
01:46:14,768 --> 01:46:17,656
and work together
to create a sustainable,

1932
01:46:17,671 --> 01:46:20,666
global society,
where everyone is taken care of

1933
01:46:20,741 --> 01:46:22,767
and everyone
is truly free.

1934
01:46:23,343 --> 01:46:25,645
Your personal beliefs,
whatever they may be,

1935
01:46:25,696 --> 01:46:29,304
are meaningless when it comes
to the necessities of life.

1936
01:46:29,449 --> 01:46:31,591
Every human being
is born naked,

1937
01:46:31,651 --> 01:46:34,971
needing warmth, food,
water, shelter.

1938
01:46:34,988 --> 01:46:36,973
Everything else
is auxiliary.

1939
01:46:37,311 --> 01:46:39,739
Therefore, the most
important issue at hand

1940
01:46:39,893 --> 01:46:43,385
is the intelligent management
of the Earth's resources.

1941
01:46:43,897 --> 01:46:46,575
This can never be accomplished
in a monetary system,

1942
01:46:46,767 --> 01:46:50,034
for the pursuit of profit
is the pursuit of self-interest

1943
01:46:50,069 --> 01:46:52,432
and therefore,
imbalance is inherent.

1944
01:46:53,974 --> 01:46:56,937
Simultaneously,
politicians are useless.

1945
01:46:56,977 --> 01:47:01,493
For our true problems in life
are technical, not political.

1946
01:47:01,982 --> 01:47:04,979
Furthermore,
ideologies that separate humanity,

1947
01:47:05,014 --> 01:47:06,029
such as religion,

1948
01:47:06,064 --> 01:47:08,479
need strong reflection
in the community

1949
01:47:08,555 --> 01:47:12,305
in regard to it's value,
purpose and social relevancy.

1950
01:47:12,993 --> 01:47:14,409
Hopefully,
through time,

1951
01:47:14,444 --> 01:47:18,007
religion will loose it's materialism
and basis in superstition

1952
01:47:18,042 --> 01:47:21,154
and move into the useful field
of philosophy.

1953
01:47:21,535 --> 01:47:24,515
The fact is,
society today is backwards,

1954
01:47:24,638 --> 01:47:28,566
with politicians constantly talking
about protection and security

1955
01:47:28,742 --> 01:47:31,988
rather than creation,
unity and progress.

1956
01:47:32,712 --> 01:47:34,460
The US alone
now spends about

1957
01:47:34,510 --> 01:47:37,592
$500 billions dollars annually
on defense.

1958
01:47:37,784 --> 01:47:40,353
That is enough to send
every high school senior

1959
01:47:40,388 --> 01:47:42,559
in America
to a four year college.

1960
01:47:43,490 --> 01:47:45,946
In the 1940's,
the Manhattan Project

1961
01:47:45,992 --> 01:47:49,064
produced the first true
weapon of mass destruction.

1962
01:47:49,496 --> 01:47:55,342
This program employed 130,000 people,
at an extreme financial cost.

1963
01:47:55,769 --> 01:47:58,038
Imagine what our life
would be like today,

1964
01:47:58,073 --> 01:47:59,839
if that
group of scientists,

1965
01:47:59,973 --> 01:48:02,774
instead of working on
a way of killing people,

1966
01:48:02,976 --> 01:48:07,232
worked on a way to create
a self-sustaining, abundant world.

1967
01:48:07,747 --> 01:48:10,138
Life today
would be very, very different,

1968
01:48:10,173 --> 01:48:11,680
if that was their goal.

1969
01:48:13,987 --> 01:48:16,210
Instead of
weapons of mass destruction,

1970
01:48:16,456 --> 01:48:20,264
it is time to unleash
something much more powerful.

1971
01:48:20,994 --> 01:48:23,580
Weapons of Mass Creation.

1972
01:48:25,201 --> 01:48:27,967
Our true divinity is
in our ability to create.

1973
01:48:28,301 --> 01:48:32,274
And armed with the understanding of
the symbiotic connections of life,

1974
01:48:32,539 --> 01:48:36,128
while being guided by
the emergent nature of reality,

1975
01:48:36,376 --> 01:48:39,349
there is nothing
we cannot do or accomplish.

1976
01:48:41,248 --> 01:48:43,932
Of course,
we face strong barriers,

1977
01:48:43,984 --> 01:48:46,354
in the form of
established power structures,

1978
01:48:46,389 --> 01:48:48,249
that refuse to change.

1979
01:48:48,789 --> 01:48:51,430
At the heart of these structures
is the monetary system.

1980
01:48:51,625 --> 01:48:54,191
As explained earlier,
the fractional reserve policy

1981
01:48:54,326 --> 01:48:56,432
is a form of
slavery through debt,

1982
01:48:56,474 --> 01:49:00,408
where it is literally impossible
for society to be free.

1983
01:49:00,767 --> 01:49:04,013
In turn, free market capitalism,
in the form of free trade,

1984
01:49:04,048 --> 01:49:07,374
uses debt to imprison the world
and manipulate countries

1985
01:49:07,474 --> 01:49:11,678
into subservience to a handful of
large business and political powers.

1986
01:49:11,978 --> 01:49:14,347
Apart from
these obvious amoralities,

1987
01:49:14,382 --> 01:49:17,016
the system itself
is based on competition,

1988
01:49:17,051 --> 01:49:19,661
which immediately
destroys the possibility

1989
01:49:19,686 --> 01:49:22,893
of large scale collaborations
for the common good.

1990
01:49:22,989 --> 01:49:27,967
Hence paralyzing any attempt
at true global sustainability.

1991
01:49:28,995 --> 01:49:32,950
These financial and corporate structures
are now obsolete,

1992
01:49:32,999 --> 01:49:34,955
and they must be
outgrown.

1993
01:49:36,336 --> 01:49:38,134
Of course, we cannot be
naive enough to think

1994
01:49:38,169 --> 01:49:41,228
that the business and financial elite
are going to subscribe to this idea,

1995
01:49:41,374 --> 01:49:43,290
for they will lose
power and control.

1996
01:49:43,543 --> 01:49:47,026
Therefore, peacefully,
a highly strategic action must be taken.

1997
01:49:47,981 --> 01:49:50,607
The most powerful course
of action is simple.

1998
01:49:50,984 --> 01:49:53,407
We have to alter
our behavior to force

1999
01:49:53,442 --> 01:49:56,522
the power structure
to the will of the people.

2000
01:49:57,657 --> 01:50:00,305
We must stop
supporting the system.

2001
01:50:01,828 --> 01:50:03,997
The only way
the establishment will change

2002
01:50:04,032 --> 01:50:06,212
is by our refusal
to participate

2003
01:50:06,247 --> 01:50:10,554
while continuously acknowledging
its endless flaws and corruptions.

2004
01:50:10,971 --> 01:50:14,085
They're not gonna give up
the monetary system,

2005
01:50:14,120 --> 01:50:17,759
because of our designs
of what we've recommend.

2006
01:50:17,911 --> 01:50:19,641
The system
has to fail,

2007
01:50:19,780 --> 01:50:24,425
and people have to lose confidence
in their elected leaders.

2008
01:50:24,685 --> 01:50:27,035
That will be
a major turning point

2009
01:50:27,070 --> 01:50:32,002
if The Venus Project is offered
as a possible alternative.

2010
01:50:32,037 --> 01:50:34,708
If not,
I fear the consequences.

2011
01:50:34,995 --> 01:50:39,996
The trends now indicate
that our country is going bankrupt.

2012
01:50:40,031 --> 01:50:45,439
The probability is our country
will move toward a military dictatorship

2013
01:50:45,672 --> 01:50:49,648
to prevent riots
and complete social breakdown.

2014
01:50:49,976 --> 01:50:51,540
Once
the US breaks down,

2015
01:50:51,745 --> 01:50:54,598
all the other cultures
will undergo similar things.

2016
01:50:55,982 --> 01:50:58,259
As of now,
the world financial system

2017
01:50:58,294 --> 01:50:59,880
is on the brink
of collapse

2018
01:50:59,915 --> 01:51:01,851
due to
it's own shortcomings.

2019
01:51:01,988 --> 01:51:04,991
The Controller of Currencies
stated in 2003

2020
01:51:05,026 --> 01:51:07,394
that the interest
on the US National Debt

2021
01:51:07,429 --> 01:51:10,410
will not be affordable
in less than ten years.

2022
01:51:10,797 --> 01:51:14,262
This theoretically means
total bankruptcy for the US economy

2023
01:51:14,468 --> 01:51:17,048
and it's implications
for the world are immense.

2024
01:51:17,470 --> 01:51:20,008
In turn, the fractional reserve-based
monetary system

2025
01:51:20,043 --> 01:51:23,007
is reaching it's theoretical limits
of expansion

2026
01:51:23,042 --> 01:51:26,659
and the banking failures you are seeing
are just the beginning.

2027
01:51:26,980 --> 01:51:29,467
This is why
inflation is skyrocketing,

2028
01:51:29,749 --> 01:51:31,518
our debt is
at record levels

2029
01:51:31,618 --> 01:51:34,187
and the government and FED
are hemorrhaging new money

2030
01:51:34,287 --> 01:51:36,084
to bailout
the corrupt system.

2031
01:51:36,489 --> 01:51:38,458
For the only way
to keep the banks going

2032
01:51:38,493 --> 01:51:40,015
is by
making more money.

2033
01:51:40,050 --> 01:51:41,895
The only way
to make more money

2034
01:51:41,995 --> 01:51:44,298
is to create more debt
and inflation.

2035
01:51:44,431 --> 01:51:47,459
It is simply a matter of time
before the tables turn

2036
01:51:47,634 --> 01:51:50,238
and there's no one willing
to take new loans

2037
01:51:50,273 --> 01:51:54,554
while defaults grow as people are unable
to afford their current loans.

2038
01:51:54,808 --> 01:51:56,921
Then the expansion of money
will stop

2039
01:51:56,976 --> 01:52:00,713
and contraction will begin
on a scale never before seen,

2040
01:52:00,814 --> 01:52:04,099
ending a century long
pyramid scheme.

2041
01:52:04,417 --> 01:52:06,236
This has already begun.

2042
01:52:07,287 --> 01:52:11,082
Therefore, we need to expose
this financial failure for what it is,

2043
01:52:11,117 --> 01:52:13,468
using this weakness
to our advantage.

2044
01:52:13,793 --> 01:52:15,558
Here are
some suggestions:

2045
01:52:15,895 --> 01:52:17,709
Expose the banking fraud.

2046
01:52:17,997 --> 01:52:21,478
Citibank, JP Morgan Chase
and Bank of America

2047
01:52:21,513 --> 01:52:23,332
are the most
powerful controllers

2048
01:52:23,375 --> 01:52:26,029
within the corrupt
Federal Reserve system.

2049
01:52:26,064 --> 01:52:29,124
It's time to boycott
these institutions.

2050
01:52:29,576 --> 01:52:32,588
If you have a bank account
or credit card with any of them,

2051
01:52:32,846 --> 01:52:34,807
move your money
to another bank.

2052
01:52:34,981 --> 01:52:38,232
If you have a mortgage,
refinance with another bank.

2053
01:52:38,518 --> 01:52:40,621
If you own their stock,
sell it.

2054
01:52:40,887 --> 01:52:42,514
If you work for them,
quit.

2055
01:52:42,689 --> 01:52:44,791
This gesture
will express contempt

2056
01:52:44,826 --> 01:52:47,912
for the true powers
behind the private banking cartel,

2057
01:52:47,994 --> 01:52:49,903
known as
the Federal Reserve.

2058
01:52:49,996 --> 01:52:54,331
And create awareness about
the fraud of the banking system itself.

2059
01:52:54,567 --> 01:52:56,927
Two:
Turn off the TV news.

2060
01:52:56,970 --> 01:52:59,864
Visit the emerging,
independent news agencies

2061
01:52:59,899 --> 01:53:01,966
on the Internet
for your information.

2062
01:53:01,975 --> 01:53:06,498
CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX
and all the others

2063
01:53:06,546 --> 01:53:10,997
present all news pre-filtered
to maintain the status quo.

2064
01:53:11,032 --> 01:53:14,609
With four corporations owning
all major media outlets,

2065
01:53:14,721 --> 01:53:17,181
objective information
is impossible.

2066
01:53:17,216 --> 01:53:19,625
This is the true beauty
of the Internet.

2067
01:53:19,693 --> 01:53:21,895
And the establishment
has been losing control

2068
01:53:21,930 --> 01:53:24,208
because of this free flow
of information.

2069
01:53:24,631 --> 01:53:27,001
We must protect the Internet,
at all times,

2070
01:53:27,036 --> 01:53:29,737
as it is truly our savior
right now.

2071
01:53:30,770 --> 01:53:31,528
Three:

2072
01:53:31,871 --> 01:53:34,140
Don't ever
allow yourself,

2073
01:53:34,175 --> 01:53:37,278
your family
or anyone you know,

2074
01:53:37,313 --> 01:53:40,601
to ever
join the military.

2075
01:53:41,180 --> 01:53:43,573
This is
an obsolete institution

2076
01:53:43,683 --> 01:53:47,069
now used exclusively
for maintaining an establishment

2077
01:53:47,104 --> 01:53:48,690
that is no longer
relevant.

2078
01:53:48,988 --> 01:53:52,212
US soldiers in Iraq
work for US corporations,

2079
01:53:52,247 --> 01:53:53,207
not the people.

2080
01:53:53,426 --> 01:53:56,583
Propaganda forces us to believe
that war is natural

2081
01:53:56,730 --> 01:53:59,019
and the military is
an honorable institution.

2082
01:53:59,632 --> 01:54:00,956
Well if
war is natural,

2083
01:54:00,967 --> 01:54:04,149
why are there 18 suicides
every single day

2084
01:54:04,184 --> 01:54:05,605
by American veterans

2085
01:54:05,640 --> 01:54:07,732
who have post-traumatic
stress disorder?

2086
01:54:08,575 --> 01:54:11,304
If our military men
and women are so honored,

2087
01:54:11,411 --> 01:54:15,214
why is it that 25% of the
American homeless population

2088
01:54:15,249 --> 01:54:16,356
are veterans?

2089
01:54:18,004 --> 01:54:18,907
Four:

2090
01:54:18,985 --> 01:54:21,312
Stop supporting
the energy companies.

2091
01:54:21,454 --> 01:54:23,168
If you live
in a detached house,

2092
01:54:23,289 --> 01:54:24,578
get off the grid.

2093
01:54:24,757 --> 01:54:28,208
Investigate every means of
making your home self-sustainable

2094
01:54:28,243 --> 01:54:29,648
with clean energy.

2095
01:54:29,896 --> 01:54:32,600
Solar, wind
and other renewable energies

2096
01:54:32,635 --> 01:54:35,155
are now affordable
consumer realities,

2097
01:54:35,335 --> 01:54:38,909
and considering the never-ending
rising costs of traditional energies,

2098
01:54:38,972 --> 01:54:42,123
it will likely be
a cheaper investment over time.

2099
01:54:42,275 --> 01:54:45,009
If you drive,
get the smallest car you can

2100
01:54:45,044 --> 01:54:48,279
and consider using one of the many
conversion technologies

2101
01:54:48,314 --> 01:54:50,620
that can enable your car
to be a hybrid,

2102
01:54:50,655 --> 01:54:54,768
electric or run on anything
other than establishment fuels.

2103
01:54:54,988 --> 01:54:56,037
Five:

2104
01:54:56,072 --> 01:54:57,870
Reject
the political system.

2105
01:54:58,357 --> 01:55:01,897
The illusion of democracy
is an insult to our intelligence.

2106
01:55:01,995 --> 01:55:03,169
In a monetary system,

2107
01:55:03,204 --> 01:55:05,749
there is no such thing
as a true democracy,

2108
01:55:05,799 --> 01:55:07,137
and there never was.

2109
01:55:07,767 --> 01:55:09,394
We have
two political parties

2110
01:55:09,444 --> 01:55:12,592
owned by the same set
of corporate lobbyists.

2111
01:55:12,972 --> 01:55:15,863
They are placed in their positions
by the corporations,

2112
01:55:15,875 --> 01:55:19,393
with popularity artificially
projected by their media.

2113
01:55:19,779 --> 01:55:21,948
In a system
of inherent corruption,

2114
01:55:21,981 --> 01:55:24,244
the change of personnel
every couple of years

2115
01:55:24,284 --> 01:55:26,161
has very little relevance.

2116
01:55:26,519 --> 01:55:29,820
Instead of pretending that
the political game has any true meaning,

2117
01:55:29,989 --> 01:55:33,941
focus your energy on
how to transcend this failed system.

2118
01:55:35,995 --> 01:55:37,081
And six:

2119
01:55:37,116 --> 01:55:38,417
Join the movement.

2120
01:55:38,998 --> 01:55:41,440
Go to
TheZeitgeistMovement.com

2121
01:55:41,475 --> 01:55:44,905
and help us create the largest
mass movement for social change

2122
01:55:44,971 --> 01:55:46,815
the world
has ever seen.

2123
01:55:46,973 --> 01:55:49,609
We must mobilize
and educate everyone

2124
01:55:49,644 --> 01:55:52,801
about the inherent corruption
of our current world system,

2125
01:55:52,979 --> 01:55:56,013
along with the only true
sustainable solution,

2126
01:55:56,516 --> 01:55:59,302
declaring all the natural resources
on the planet

2127
01:55:59,485 --> 01:56:02,038
as common heritage
to all people,

2128
01:56:02,588 --> 01:56:06,214
while informing everyone
as to the true state of technology

2129
01:56:06,392 --> 01:56:08,106
and how we can
all be free

2130
01:56:08,148 --> 01:56:11,354
if the world works together,
rather than fights.

2131
01:56:12,665 --> 01:56:14,099
The choice
lies with you.

2132
01:56:14,334 --> 01:56:17,070
You can continue to be
a slave to the financial system

2133
01:56:17,170 --> 01:56:18,884
and watch
the continuous wars,

2134
01:56:18,947 --> 01:56:21,767
depressions
and injustice across the globe

2135
01:56:21,802 --> 01:56:24,747
while placating yourself
with vain entertainment

2136
01:56:24,778 --> 01:56:26,397
and materialistic garbage.

2137
01:56:26,980 --> 01:56:32,030
Or, you can focus your energy on true,
meaningful, lasting, holistic change

2138
01:56:32,065 --> 01:56:35,706
which actually has
the realistic ability to support

2139
01:56:35,741 --> 01:56:39,337
and free all humans
with no one left behind.

2140
01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:44,132
But in the end,
the most relevant change

2141
01:56:44,263 --> 01:56:46,901
must occur first
inside of you.

2142
01:56:47,534 --> 01:56:51,760
The real revolution
is the revolution of consciousness,

2143
01:56:51,971 --> 01:56:55,245
and each one of us
first needs to eliminate

2144
01:56:55,408 --> 01:56:57,989
the divisionary,
materialistic noise

2145
01:56:58,024 --> 01:57:01,274
we have been conditioned
to think is true;

2146
01:57:01,647 --> 01:57:04,616
while discovering,
amplifying and aligning

2147
01:57:04,784 --> 01:57:09,904
with the signal coming
from our true empirical oneness.

2148
01:57:11,658 --> 01:57:12,941
It is up to you.

2149
01:57:15,595 --> 01:57:20,068
What we are trying in all
these discussions and talks here,

2150
01:57:20,767 --> 01:57:26,413
is to see if we cannot radically
bring about a transformism of the mind.

2151
01:57:28,274 --> 01:57:30,473
Not accept things
as they are...

2152
01:57:33,813 --> 01:57:36,983
but to understand it,
to go into it, to examine it,

2153
01:57:37,018 --> 01:57:40,051
give your heart and your mind
with every thing

2154
01:57:40,086 --> 01:57:41,730
that you have
to find out.

2155
01:57:41,765 --> 01:57:43,845
A way of
living differently.

2156
01:57:48,895 --> 01:57:52,500
But, that depends on you
and not somebody else.

2157
01:57:53,766 --> 01:57:55,619
Because in this,
there is no teacher,

2158
01:57:55,868 --> 01:57:57,058
no pupil.

2159
01:57:57,770 --> 01:57:58,968
There's no leader,

2160
01:58:00,339 --> 01:58:01,588
there's no guru,

2161
01:58:01,974 --> 01:58:03,852
there's no master,
no savior.

2162
01:58:03,876 --> 01:58:06,398
You yourself are
the teacher and the pupil,

2163
01:58:06,433 --> 01:58:09,336
you're the master, you're the guru,
you are the leader...

2164
01:58:09,649 --> 01:58:11,310
You are everything!

2165
01:58:12,618 --> 01:58:13,324
And,

2166
01:58:15,288 --> 01:58:16,617
to understand...

2167
01:58:17,390 --> 01:58:19,552
is to transform
what is.

2168
02:01:48,028 --> 02:01:58,095
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2169
02:02:49,972 --> 02:02:59,023
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2170
02:03:02,798 --> 02:03:06,886
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2171
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