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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
is complete,

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the government then takes the
ten billion in Federal Reserve notes,

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and deposits it
into an bank account.

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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
ten billion dollar deposit,

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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
as the basis

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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
promissory notes,

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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,
90 percent of the nine billion,

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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
7.2 billion

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to 6.5 billion,
to 5.9 billion, etc.

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

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The average mathematical result
is that about 90 billion dollars

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can be created on top
of the original 10 billion.

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In other words, for every deposit
that ever occurs in the banking system,

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

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Money jitters.

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Ask the obliging Bank of America
for a jar of

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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
is being increased,

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irrespective to demand
for goods and services.

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And, as supply and demand
defines equilibrium,

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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
and services in the economy,

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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

00:19:15.492 --> 00:19:17.475
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,

00:20:33.831 --> 00:20:35.669
Mr. Morgan,
took the stand.

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And in the judge's
personal memorandum,

00:20:37.938 --> 00:20:40.790
he recalled that the Plaintiff,
bank's president,

00:20:40.825 --> 00:20:44.242
admitted that, in combination
with the Federal Reserve Bank

00:20:44.286 --> 00:20:46.195
did create the money
and credits

00:20:46.230 --> 00:20:48.833
upon its books
by book-keeping entry.

00:20:48.981 --> 00:20:51.072
The money and credit
first came into existence

00:20:51.091 --> 00:20:52.023
when they created it.

00:20:52.063 --> 00:20:56.532
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,

00:21:28.987 --> 00:21:31.593
the money given to you
is not only counterfeit,

00:21:31.634 --> 00:21:34.567
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.

00:21:41.967 --> 00:21:45.827
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

00:22:01.590 --> 00:22:03.531
offered by
the European banks

00:22:03.572 --> 00:22:07.096
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

00:22:19.300 --> 00:22:23.989
circulated between private British
and American banking interests, stated:

00:22:24.024 --> 00:22:26.397
Slavery is
but the owning of labor

00:22:26.438 --> 00:22:29.139
and carries with it
the care of the laborers,

00:22:29.348 --> 00:22:31.159
while the European plan...

00:22:31.210 --> 00:22:34.893
is that capital shall control labor
by controlling wages.

00:22:34.986 --> 00:22:37.804
This can be done
by controlling the money.

00:22:37.989 --> 00:22:42.505
It will not do to allow the Greenback,
as we cannot control that.

00:22:43.662 --> 00:22:45.615
The fractional reserve policy,

00:22:45.650 --> 00:22:47.697
perpetrated by
the Federal Reserve

00:22:47.732 --> 00:22:49.470
which has spread,
in practice,

00:22:49.501 --> 00:22:51.766
to the great majority of banks
in the world,

00:22:51.970 --> 00:22:55.815
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?

00:23:05.984 --> 00:23:08.865
They submit to employment
to pay it off.

00:23:08.987 --> 00:23:12.347
But if money only can only
be created out of loans,

00:23:12.524 --> 00:23:14.945
how can society
ever be debt free?

00:23:15.994 --> 00:23:18.359
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

00:23:22.968 --> 00:23:26.981
with the perpetual debt and inflation
inherent in the system,

00:23:27.016 --> 00:23:31.977
compounded by the inescapable scarcity
within in the money supply itself,

00:23:31.977 --> 00:23:35.981
created by the interest
that can never be re-payed,

00:23:35.981 --> 00:23:39.014
that keeps
the wage-slave in line,

00:23:39.985 --> 00:23:42.907
running on a hamster wheel,
with millions of others,

00:23:42.988 --> 00:23:45.545
in effect,
powering an empire

00:23:45.991 --> 00:23:49.784
that truly benefits only the elite
at the top of the pyramid.

00:23:50.996 --> 00:23:52.998
For,
at the end of the day,

00:23:52.998 --> 00:23:55.051
who are you
really working for?

00:23:55.967 --> 00:23:56.789
The banks.

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

00:24:01.426 --> 00:24:03.099
They are
the true masters,

00:24:03.148 --> 00:24:06.926
along with the corporations
and governments they support.

00:24:08.179 --> 00:24:12.030
Physical slavery requires
people to be housed and fed.

00:24:12.065 --> 00:24:16.929
Economic slavery requires people
to feed and house themselves.

00:24:18.256 --> 00:24:22.994
It is one of the most ingenious scams
for social manipulation ever created.

00:24:22.994 --> 00:24:24.288
And at its core,

00:24:24.396 --> 00:24:27.766
it is an invisible war
against the population.

00:24:27.766 --> 00:24:32.052
Debt is the weapon used
to conquer and enslave societies,

00:24:32.087 --> 00:24:35.162
and interest
is its prime ammunition.

00:24:36.975 --> 00:24:40.867
And, as the majority walks around,
oblivious to this reality,

00:24:40.979 --> 00:24:44.716
the banks, in collusion with
governments and corporations

00:24:44.716 --> 00:24:49.074
continue to perfect and expand
their tactics of economic warfare,

00:24:49.454 --> 00:24:52.524
spawning new bases,
such as the World Bank

00:24:52.524 --> 00:24:54.993
and International Monetary Fund,

00:24:54.993 --> 00:24:57.742
while also inventing
a new type of soldier.

00:24:58.396 --> 00:25:01.609
The birth of
the economic hitman.

00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:17.087
We, economic hitmen,
really have been the ones responsible

00:25:17.116 --> 00:25:19.985
for creating this
first truly global empire

00:25:19.985 --> 00:25:21.842
And we work
many different ways.

00:25:26.992 --> 00:25:29.071
But perhaps the most common
is that we will

00:25:29.122 --> 00:25:33.999
identify a country that has resources
our corporations covet, like oil,

00:25:33.999 --> 00:25:37.024
And then, arrange a
huge loan to that country

00:25:37.059 --> 00:25:40.204
from the World Bank
or one of it's sister organizations.

00:25:40.239 --> 00:25:42.207
But the money never actually
goes to the country.

00:25:42.242 --> 00:25:44.084
Instead it goes
to our big corporations,

00:25:44.115 --> 00:25:46.190
to build infrastructure projects
in that country.

00:25:46.225 --> 00:25:48.346
Power plants,
industrial parks, ports...

00:25:48.346 --> 00:25:51.529
Things that benefit
a few rich people in that country.

00:25:51.564 --> 00:25:53.390
In addition
to our corporations.

00:25:53.785 --> 00:25:56.055
But really don't help
a majority of the people at all.

00:25:56.084 --> 00:25:57.431
However,
those people,

00:25:57.471 --> 00:26:00.484
the whole country is left
holding the huge debt.

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...

00:26:03.695 --> 00:26:04.829
They can't repay it.

00:26:04.829 --> 00:26:06.709
And so, in some point,
we economic hitmen,

00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:07.999
go back to them and say:
Listen.

00:26:08.099 --> 00:26:09.425
You owe us
a lot of money.

00:26:09.464 --> 00:26:11.970
You can't pay your debts.
So, sell your oil,

00:26:12.170 --> 00:26:14.117
real cheap
to our oil companies,

00:26:14.152 --> 00:26:16.662
allow us to build a military base
in your country, or...

00:26:16.975 --> 00:26:20.761
send troops in support of ours
to someplace in the world like Iraq,

00:26:20.796 --> 00:26:23.523
or vote with us
on the next UN vote,

00:26:23.682 --> 00:26:27.488
to have their
electric utility company privatized

00:26:27.523 --> 00:26:29.611
and their water and
sewage system privatized

00:26:29.641 --> 00:26:31.586
and sold to
US corporations or other

00:26:31.616 --> 00:26:33.644
multi-national corporations.

00:26:33.792 --> 00:26:35.518
So there is a
whole mushrooming thing

00:26:35.518 --> 00:26:38.597
and it's so typical the way
the IMF and the World Bank work.

00:26:38.632 --> 00:26:40.800
They put
a country in debt,

00:26:40.801 --> 00:26:42.438
and it's such a big debt,
they can't pay it,

00:26:42.477 --> 00:26:44.769
and then you offer
to refinance that debt

00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:47.027
and pay
even more interest.

00:26:47.062 --> 00:26:49.861
And you demand

00:26:49.975 --> 00:26:52.579
this quid pro quo,
what you call a conditionality

00:26:52.579 --> 00:26:53.827
or good governance

00:26:53.856 --> 00:26:57.359
which means basically that they got
to sell off their resources,

00:26:57.983 --> 00:27:00.587
including many
of their social services,

00:27:00.622 --> 00:27:03.210
their utility companies,
their school systems sometimes,

00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:05.255
their penal systems,

00:27:05.791 --> 00:27:09.098
their insurance systems,
to foreign corporations.

00:27:09.133 --> 00:27:12.461
So it's a
double-triple-quadruple whammy!

00:27:15.767 --> 00:27:19.971
The precedent for economic hitmen
really began back in the early 50's

00:27:20.006 --> 00:27:22.374
when the democratically-elected
Mossadegh

00:27:22.374 --> 00:27:23.854
who was
elected in Iran...

00:27:23.894 --> 00:27:26.611
He was considered to be
the hope for democracy

00:27:26.611 --> 00:27:27.734
in the Middle East
and around the world.

00:27:27.775 --> 00:27:29.347
He was in Time Magazine's
Man of the Year.

00:27:29.347 --> 00:27:31.862
But, one of the things
that he brought on

00:27:31.892 --> 00:27:34.303
and began to implement
was the idea that

00:27:34.334 --> 00:27:37.351
foreign oil companies needed
to pay the Iranian people

00:27:37.351 --> 00:27:39.577
a lot more for the oil that
they were taking out of Iran

00:27:39.627 --> 00:27:41.976
and the Iranian people
should benefit from their own oil.

00:27:42.016 --> 00:27:43.509
Strange policy.

00:27:44.295 --> 00:27:45.684
We didn't like that,
of course.

00:27:46.015 --> 00:27:48.945
But we were afraid to do
what we normally were doing,

00:27:48.965 --> 00:27:50.341
which was to
send in the military.

00:27:50.969 --> 00:27:53.152
Instead we sent in
one CIA agent,

00:27:53.183 --> 00:27:56.172
Kermit Roosevelt,
Teddy Roosevelt's relative.

00:27:57.976 --> 00:27:59.992
And Kermit went in
with a few million dollars

00:28:00.031 --> 00:28:02.175
and was very, very effective
and efficient

00:28:02.215 --> 00:28:03.980
and in a short
amount of time,

00:28:03.982 --> 00:28:07.361
he managed to get
Mossadeg overthrown

00:28:07.719 --> 00:28:10.156
and brought in the Shah of Iran
to replace him,

00:28:10.176 --> 00:28:12.100
who always was
favorable to oil.

00:28:12.248 --> 00:28:14.059
And it was
extremely effective.

00:28:17.896 --> 00:28:19.998
Mobs over
through Tehran.

00:28:19.998 --> 00:28:22.364
Army officers shout that
Mossadeg has surrendered

00:28:22.415 --> 00:28:25.394
and his regime as
virtual dictator of Iran is ended.

00:28:25.570 --> 00:28:29.179
Pictures of the Shah are paraded through
the streets as sentiment reverses.

00:28:31.976 --> 00:28:33.729
The Shah
is welcomed home.

00:28:33.978 --> 00:28:36.821
So back here in the United States,
in Washington,

00:28:36.861 --> 00:28:40.471
people looked around and said:
Wow, that was easy and cheap.

00:28:40.618 --> 00:28:45.757
So this established a whole new way
of manipulating countries,

00:28:45.792 --> 00:28:47.080
of creating empire.

00:28:47.115 --> 00:28:51.596
The only problem with Roosevelt was
that he was a card-carrying CIA agent

00:28:51.596 --> 00:28:52.899
and if he'd been caught,

00:28:52.939 --> 00:28:55.778
the ramifications
could have been pretty serious.

00:28:55.967 --> 00:28:57.604
So very quickly,
at that point,

00:28:57.644 --> 00:29:00.246
the decision was made
to use private consultants

00:29:00.286 --> 00:29:02.876
to channel the money
through the World Bank

00:29:02.876 --> 00:29:05.282
or the IMF or one of
the other such agencies,

00:29:05.317 --> 00:29:08.467
to bring in people like me,
who work for private companies.

00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:10.937
So that
if we got caught,

00:29:10.972 --> 00:29:13.743
there would be
no governmental ramifications.

00:29:21.993 --> 00:29:24.220
When Ărbenz became
President of Guatemala,

00:29:24.289 --> 00:29:28.082
the country was very much under
the thumbs of United Fruit company,

00:29:28.124 --> 00:29:29.746
the big international corporation.

00:29:29.776 --> 00:29:32.228
And Ărbenz ran on this ticket
that said:

00:29:32.278 --> 00:29:34.705
You know, we want to give the land
back to the people.

00:29:34.973 --> 00:29:36.083
And once
he took power,

00:29:36.144 --> 00:29:40.145
he was implementing policies
that would do exactly that,

00:29:40.145 --> 00:29:42.263
give the land rights
back to the people.

00:29:42.264 --> 00:29:44.331
United Fruit didn't like that
very much.

00:29:44.382 --> 00:29:46.925
And so, they hired
a public relations firm,

00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:49.172
launched a huge campaign
in the United States,

00:29:49.207 --> 00:29:52.446
to convince the United States people,
the citizens of the United States,

00:29:52.498 --> 00:29:54.993
the press of the United States
and the congress of the United States,

00:29:54.993 --> 00:29:57.328
that Ărbenz
was a Soviet puppet

00:29:57.368 --> 00:29:59.534
And that if we allowed him
to stay in power,

00:29:59.564 --> 00:30:02.968
the Soviets would have a foothold
in this hemisphere.

00:30:03.003 --> 00:30:04.474
And at that point in time,

00:30:04.503 --> 00:30:06.461
there was a huge fear
on everybody's mind,

00:30:06.496 --> 00:30:08.406
of the Red terror,
the Communist terror.

00:30:08.973 --> 00:30:13.378
And so, to make a long story short,
out of this public relations campaign

00:30:13.378 --> 00:30:15.543
came a commitment
on the part of the CIA

00:30:15.584 --> 00:30:17.610
and the military
to take this man out.

00:30:17.682 --> 00:30:18.694
And in fact,
we did.

00:30:18.723 --> 00:30:22.464
We sent in planes, we sent in soldiers,
we sent in jackals,

00:30:22.499 --> 00:30:25.652
we sent everything in to take him out.
And did take him out.

00:30:25.990 --> 00:30:28.356
And as soon as he was
removed from office,

00:30:28.793 --> 00:30:32.367
the new guy that took over after him
basically reinstated everything

00:30:32.402 --> 00:30:33.998
to the big international
corporations,

00:30:34.033 --> 00:30:35.613
including United Fruit.

00:30:40.322 --> 00:30:42.554
Ecuador, for many many years
had been ruled

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by pro-US dictators,
often relatively brutal.

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Then it was decided they will
have a truely democratic election.

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Jaime Roldos ran for office
and his main goal,

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he said,
as president would be

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to make sure that Ecuador's resources
were used to help the people.

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And he won.
Overwhelming.

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By more votes than anybody
had ever won anything in Ecuador.

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And he began to
implement these policies.

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To make sure that the profits from oil
went to help the people.

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Well, we didn't like that
in the United States.

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I was send down as one of several
economic hitmen to change Roldos.

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To corrupt him.
To bring 'em around...

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To let him know...
You know.

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Okay, you know,
you can get very rich,

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you and your family,
if you play our game.

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But if you continue to try to
keep this policy you've promised,

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you're gonna go.

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He woudn't listen...

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He was assassinated...

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As soon as the plane crashed,
the whole area was cordoned off.

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The only people allowed there were
US military from a nearby base

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and some of
the Ecuadorian military.

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When an investigation
was launched,

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two of the key witnesses
died in a car accidents

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before they have
a chance to testify.

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A lot of very, very strange things
that went on around

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the assassination of
Jaime Roldos.

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I, like most of people who've
really looked at this case,

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have absolutely no doubt
that it was an assassination.

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And, of course, in my position
as an economic hitman,

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I was always expecting
something to happen to Jaime,

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whether it'd be
a coup or assassination,

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I wasn't sure, but that
he would be taken down because

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he was
not being corrupted,

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he would not allow himself
to be corrupted

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the way we wanted
to corrupt him.

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Omar Torrijos,
the president of Panama,

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was, you know,
one of my favorite people.

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I really really
liked him.

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He was very charasmatic.

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He was a guy who really
wanted to help his country.

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And when I tried to
bribe him or corrupt him, he said:

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Look, John...

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He called me Juanito...

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He said:
Look Juanito,

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I don't need the money.
What I really need is for my country

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to be treated fairly.

00:32:50.969 --> 00:32:53.078
I need for the United States
to repay the debts

00:32:53.113 --> 00:32:54.015
that you owe my people

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for all the destruction
you've done here.

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I need to be
in a position where

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I can help other
Latin American countries

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win their independence
and be free of this,

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of this terrible presence
from the north.

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You people are
exploiting us so badly.

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I need to have the Panama Canal back
in the hands of the Panamian people.

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That's what I want.

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And so, leave me alone,
you known, don't try to bribe me.

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It was 1981 and in May,
Jaime Roldos was assassinated.

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And Omar
was very aware of this.

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Torrijos got his family together
and he said:

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I'm probably next,
but that's okay,

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because I've done
what I came here to do...

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I renegotiated the Canal.

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The Canal will now be
in our hands,

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we just finished negotiating
the treaty with Jimmy Carter.

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In June of that same year,
just a couple of month later,

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he also went down
in an airplane crash,

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which, there's no question,
was executed by CIA sponsored jackals.

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A tremendous
amount of evidence that

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one of Torijjos' security guards
handed him, at the last moment,

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as he was getting on the plane,
a tape recorder.

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A small tape recorder
that contained a bomb.

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It is intersting to me
how this

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system has continued
pretty much the same way

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for years,
and years, and years,

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except the economic hitmen have gotten
better and better and better.

00:34:23.995 --> 00:34:28.553
Then we coped with, very recently,
what happened in Venezuela.

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In 1998, Hugo Chavez
gets elected president,

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following a
long line of presidents

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who'd been very corrupt

00:34:36.082 --> 00:34:38.725
and basically destroyed
the economy of the country.

00:34:38.976 --> 00:34:40.978
And Chavez was elected
amidst all that.

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Chavez stood up
to the United States

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and he's done it primarily
demanding that Venezuelian oil

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be used
to help the Venezuelian people.

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Well... we didn't like
that in United States.

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So, in 2002,

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a coup was staged, which was
no question in my mind, in most

00:35:00.698 --> 00:35:03.498
other peoples' minds,
that the CIA was behind that coup.

00:35:08.973 --> 00:35:10.975
The way,
that that coup was fomented

00:35:10.975 --> 00:35:13.978
was very reflective of what
Kermit Roosevelt had done in Iran.

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Of paying people to go out
onto the streets,

00:35:16.981 --> 00:35:20.938
To riot, to protest, to say
that Chavez was very unpopular.

00:35:21.351 --> 00:35:23.521
You know, if you can get
a few thousand people

00:35:23.521 --> 00:35:27.612
to do that,
television can make it look like...

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It's the whole country
and things start to mushroom.

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Except in the case of Chavez,
he was

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smart enough and the people
were so strongly behind him,

00:35:37.717 --> 00:35:39.774
that they overcame it.

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Which was a phenomenal moment
in the history of Latin America.

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Iraq, actually,
is a perfect example of the way

00:35:52.450 --> 00:35:53.721
the whole system works.

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So, we, economic hitmen,
are the first line defense.

00:35:56.721 --> 00:35:59.690
We go in, we try to
corrupt the governments

00:35:59.690 --> 00:36:01.869
and get them
to accept these huge loans,

00:36:01.804 --> 00:36:04.563
which we then use as leverage
to basically own them.

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If we fail, as I failed in
Panama with Omar Torrijos,

00:36:09.582 --> 00:36:11.476
and Ecuador with
Jaime Roldos,

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men who refuse
to be corrupted,

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then the second line of defense
is we send in the Jackals.

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And the Jackals either
overthrow governments

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or they assassinate.

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And, once that happens
and a new goverment comes in it...

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Boy,
it's gonna toe the line

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because that new president knows
what will happen if he doesn't.

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In the case of Iraq,
both of those things failed.

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The economic hitmen were not able
to get through to Saddam Hussein.

00:36:33.991 --> 00:36:36.717
We tried very hard,
we tried to get him to accept a deal

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very similar to what
the House of Saud had accepted in

00:36:39.551 --> 00:36:41.649
Saudi Arabia,
but he wouldn't accept it.

00:36:41.999 --> 00:36:44.270
And so the Jackals
went in to take him out.

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They couldn't do it.
His security was very good.

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After all, he, at one time,
had worked for CIA.

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He'd been hired to assassinate
a former president of Iraq and failed,

00:36:54.345 --> 00:36:55.756
but he knew the system.

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So, in '91,
we send in the troops

00:36:59.031 --> 00:37:01.737
and we take out
the Iraqi military.

00:37:01.986 --> 00:37:03.988
So, we assumed
at that point that

00:37:03.988 --> 00:37:05.903
Saddam Hussein
is gonna come around.

00:37:05.990 --> 00:37:08.993
We could have take him out,
of course at that time,

00:37:09.427 --> 00:37:12.373
but we didn't want it.
He's the kind of strong man we like.

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He controls his people.
We thought he could control Kurds,

00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:18.461
and keep the Iranians in their border
and keep pumping oil for us.

00:37:18.496 --> 00:37:20.146
And that once
we took out his military,

00:37:20.181 --> 00:37:21.434
now he's gonna
come around.

00:37:21.973 --> 00:37:24.609
So, the economic hitmen
go back in in the 90's

00:37:24.609 --> 00:37:26.069
without success.

00:37:26.110 --> 00:37:27.572
If they'd had success...

00:37:27.607 --> 00:37:28.953
he'd still be
running the country.

00:37:29.003 --> 00:37:31.549
We'd be selling him
all the fighter jets he wants,

00:37:31.549 --> 00:37:32.961
and everything else
he wants,

00:37:33.041 --> 00:37:35.441
but they couldn't,
they didn't have success.

00:37:35.476 --> 00:37:38.744
The jackals couldn't take him out again,
so we sent the military

00:37:38.775 --> 00:37:40.992
in once again, and this time,
we did the complete job

00:37:40.992 --> 00:37:41.785
and took him out.

00:37:41.825 --> 00:37:44.020
And in the process,
created for ourselves some

00:37:44.150 --> 00:37:45.946
very, very lucrative
construction

00:37:46.548 --> 00:37:48.727
deals to
reconstruct the country

00:37:48.788 --> 00:37:50.467
that we'd
essentially destroyed.

00:37:50.468 --> 00:37:51.536
Which is
a pretty good deal

00:37:51.566 --> 00:37:53.736
if you own construction companies,
big ones.

00:37:54.972 --> 00:37:58.259
So, Iraq shows
the three stages.

00:37:58.976 --> 00:38:00.700
The economic hitmen
failed there.

00:38:00.778 --> 00:38:01.891
The Jackals failed there.

00:38:01.921 --> 00:38:05.550
And as a final measure,
the military goes in.

00:38:08.653 --> 00:38:10.988
And in that way,
we've really created an empire,

00:38:10.988 --> 00:38:14.225
but we've done it very, very subtly.
It's clandestine.

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All the empires of the past
were built on the military,

00:38:17.281 --> 00:38:18.974
and everybody knew
they were building them.

00:38:18.996 --> 00:38:20.430
The British knew they
were building them,

00:38:20.465 --> 00:38:23.509
the French, the Germans,
the Romans, the Greeks,

00:38:23.968 --> 00:38:26.671
and they were proud of it.
They always had some excuse like

00:38:26.671 --> 00:38:29.804
spreading civilization,
spreading some religion,

00:38:29.834 --> 00:38:32.708
something like that,
but they knew they were doing it.

00:38:32.977 --> 00:38:33.875
We don't.

00:38:33.978 --> 00:38:36.781
The majority of the people,
in the United States,

00:38:36.816 --> 00:38:41.510
have no idea that we're living off
the benefits of the clandestine empire.

00:38:41.686 --> 00:38:45.538
That today there is more slavery
in the world than ever before.

00:38:47.992 --> 00:38:49.285
Then you have
to ask yourself, well,

00:38:49.364 --> 00:38:51.334
if it's an empire,
then who is the emperor?

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Obviously our presidents of
the United States are not emperors.

00:38:55.966 --> 00:38:57.710
An emperor is someone
who is not elected,

00:38:57.710 --> 00:38:59.247
doesn't serve
a limited term,

00:38:59.641 --> 00:39:01.972
and doesn't report to anyone,
essentially.

00:39:02.004 --> 00:39:05.485
So you can't classify
our presidents that way.

00:39:05.976 --> 00:39:07.734
But we do have
what I consider to be

00:39:07.774 --> 00:39:10.981
the equivalent of the emperor and
it's what I call the corporatocracy.

00:39:12.316 --> 00:39:15.534
The corporatocracy
is this group of individuals

00:39:15.704 --> 00:39:17.321
who run
our biggest corporations.

00:39:17.321 --> 00:39:20.415
And they really act as
the emperor of this empire.

00:39:20.991 --> 00:39:23.854
They control
our media,

00:39:23.994 --> 00:39:26.332
either through direct ownership
or advertising.

00:39:26.497 --> 00:39:29.549
They control
most of our politicians

00:39:29.667 --> 00:39:31.354
because they finance
their campaigns,

00:39:31.525 --> 00:39:32.801
either through
the corporations

00:39:32.842 --> 00:39:34.279
or through
personal contributions

00:39:34.314 --> 00:39:35.755
that come out of
the corporations.

00:39:35.973 --> 00:39:36.974
They're not elected,

00:39:36.974 --> 00:39:38.776
then they don't serve
a limited term,

00:39:38.876 --> 00:39:40.260
they don't report to anybody,

00:39:40.578 --> 00:39:43.100
and at the very top
of the corporatocracy,

00:39:43.135 --> 00:39:44.447
you really can't tell

00:39:44.482 --> 00:39:46.584
whether the person is working
for a private corporation

00:39:46.584 --> 00:39:49.177
or the government because
they're always moving back and forth.

00:39:49.212 --> 00:39:53.391
So you know, you've got a guy who,
one moment is the president of

00:39:53.591 --> 00:39:55.555
a big construction company
like Haliburton,

00:39:55.827 --> 00:39:58.235
and the next moment, he's
Vice President of the United States.

00:39:58.329 --> 00:40:00.368
Or the President,
who was in the oil business.

00:40:00.398 --> 00:40:03.455
And this is true whether you get
Democrats or Republicans in the office.

00:40:03.490 --> 00:40:07.118
You have this moving back and forth
through a revolving door.

00:40:07.471 --> 00:40:12.543
And in a way, our government
is invisible a lot of the time,

00:40:12.578 --> 00:40:15.326
and his policies are carried out
by our corporations

00:40:15.377 --> 00:40:18.033
on one level or another.
And then again,

00:40:18.482 --> 00:40:21.252
the policies of the government
are basically

00:40:21.352 --> 00:40:23.885
forged
by the corporatocracy,

00:40:24.021 --> 00:40:25.100
and then
presented to the government

00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:26.439
and they become
government policy.

00:40:26.469 --> 00:40:29.629
So, there's an incredibly
cozy relationship.

00:40:30.094 --> 00:40:31.996
This isn't a conspiracy theory
type of thing.

00:40:31.996 --> 00:40:33.715
These people don't have
to get together

00:40:33.864 --> 00:40:35.621
and plot to do things.

00:40:35.671 --> 00:40:39.570
They all basically work
under one primary assumption,

00:40:39.570 --> 00:40:42.490
and that is that
they must maximize profits,

00:40:42.706 --> 00:40:45.549
regardless of the
social and environmental costs.

00:40:50.981 --> 00:40:54.552
This process of manipulation
by the corporatocracy

00:40:54.552 --> 00:40:58.889
through the use of debt, bribery
and political overthrow is called:

00:40:58.989 --> 00:41:00.319
Globalization.

00:41:00.791 --> 00:41:04.695
Just as the Federal Reserve keeps
the American public in a postion

00:41:04.695 --> 00:41:07.528
of indentured servitude,
though perpetual debt,

00:41:07.563 --> 00:41:09.349
inflation and interest,

00:41:09.366 --> 00:41:13.287
the World Bank and IMF
serve this role on a global scale.

00:41:13.838 --> 00:41:15.592
The basic scam
is simple.

00:41:15.973 --> 00:41:18.711
Put a country in debt,
either by it's own indisgression,

00:41:18.746 --> 00:41:20.918
or through corrupting the leader
of that country,

00:41:21.570 --> 00:41:25.883
then impose conditionalities
or structual adjustment policies

00:41:25.918 --> 00:41:27.985
often consisting
of the following.

00:41:29.620 --> 00:41:30.925
Currency devaluation.

00:41:31.455 --> 00:41:35.173
When the value of a currency drops,
so does everything valued in it.

00:41:35.426 --> 00:41:38.996
This makes indigenous resources
available to predator countries

00:41:39.096 --> 00:41:40.873
at a fraction
of their worth.

00:41:42.399 --> 00:41:44.971
Large funding cuts
for social programs.

00:41:45.006 --> 00:41:47.839
These usually include
education and health care.

00:41:47.972 --> 00:41:51.044
Compromising the well-being
and integrity of the society,

00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:52.645
leaving the public vulnerable

00:41:52.680 --> 00:41:53.978
to exploitation.

00:41:54.578 --> 00:41:57.075
Privatization of
state-owned enterprises.

00:41:57.381 --> 00:41:59.831
This means that
socially important systems

00:41:59.881 --> 00:42:01.619
can be purchased
and regulated

00:42:01.619 --> 00:42:03.988
by foreign corporations
for profit.

00:42:04.488 --> 00:42:08.187
For example, in 1999,
the World Bank insisted

00:42:08.222 --> 00:42:11.429
that the Bolivian government
sell the public water system

00:42:11.464 --> 00:42:16.352
of it's third-largest city to a subsidy
of the US-corporation Bechtel.

00:42:16.500 --> 00:42:17.807
As soon as this occured,

00:42:17.847 --> 00:42:20.971
waterbills for the already
impoverished local residents

00:42:20.971 --> 00:42:22.120
skyrocketed.

00:42:22.973 --> 00:42:25.976
It wasn't until after
full-blown revolt by the people

00:42:25.977 --> 00:42:28.593
that the Bechtel contract
was nullified.

00:42:32.082 --> 00:42:34.652
Then there is
trade liberalization,

00:42:34.652 --> 00:42:36.559
or the opening up
of the economy,

00:42:36.659 --> 00:42:39.329
through removing any restrictions
on foreign trade.

00:42:39.456 --> 00:42:43.233
This allows for a number of
abusive economic manifestations,

00:42:43.268 --> 00:42:45.566
such as
transnational corporations

00:42:45.567 --> 00:42:48.465
bringing in their own
mass-produced products,

00:42:48.465 --> 00:42:52.449
undercutting the indigineous production
and ruining local economies.

00:42:52.770 --> 00:42:54.609
An example is Jamaica,

00:42:55.072 --> 00:42:58.976
which after accepting loans and
conditionalities from the World Bank

00:42:58.976 --> 00:43:01.448
lost it's largest
cash crop markets

00:43:01.508 --> 00:43:04.149
due to competition
with Western imports.

00:43:04.982 --> 00:43:08.961
Today countless farmers are out of work,
for they're unable to compete

00:43:08.986 --> 00:43:10.887
with the large corporations.

00:43:11.989 --> 00:43:14.901
Another variation is
the creation of numerous,

00:43:14.936 --> 00:43:17.995
seemingly unnoticed,
unregulated, inhumane

00:43:17.995 --> 00:43:19.497
sweatshop factories,

00:43:19.972 --> 00:43:23.649
which take advantage of
the imposed economic hardship.

00:43:23.968 --> 00:43:26.697
Additionally,
due to production de-regulation,

00:43:26.732 --> 00:43:28.973
environmental destruction
is perpetual

00:43:29.008 --> 00:43:32.275
as a country's resources
are often exploited

00:43:32.310 --> 00:43:33.887
by the
indifferent corporations,

00:43:33.978 --> 00:43:37.364
while outputting large amounts
of deliberate pollution.

00:43:38.248 --> 00:43:41.646
The largest environmental lawsuit
in the history of the world,

00:43:41.681 --> 00:43:43.869
today is being brought
on behalf of

00:43:43.889 --> 00:43:48.826
30,000 Ecuadorian and Amazonian
people against Texaco,

00:43:48.861 --> 00:43:51.055
which is now owned by Chevron
so it's against Chevron,

00:43:51.095 --> 00:43:53.097
but for activities
conducted by Texaco.

00:43:54.253 --> 00:43:56.765
They're estimated to be
more than 18 times

00:43:56.800 --> 00:44:00.673
what the Exxon Valdez dumped
into the Coast of Alaska.

00:44:00.971 --> 00:44:03.258
In the case of Ecuador,
it wasn't an accident.

00:44:03.374 --> 00:44:05.185
The oil companies
did it intentionally;

00:44:05.247 --> 00:44:07.713
they knew they were doing it
to save money

00:44:07.714 --> 00:44:10.510
rather than
arranging for proper disposal.

00:44:11.682 --> 00:44:15.841
Furthermore, a cursory glance at the
performance record of the World Bank

00:44:15.876 --> 00:44:18.878
reveals that the institution,
which publicly claims to

00:44:18.889 --> 00:44:21.979
help poor countries develop
and alleviate poverty,

00:44:21.993 --> 00:44:24.995
has done nothing but
increase poverty and the wealth-gap,

00:44:24.995 --> 00:44:27.437
while corporate profits soar.

00:44:27.631 --> 00:44:30.332
In 1960,
the income-gap between

00:44:30.367 --> 00:44:33.240
the fifth of the world's people
and the richest countries,

00:44:33.275 --> 00:44:35.657
versus the fifth
in the poorest countries

00:44:35.657 --> 00:44:37.155
was thirty to one.

00:44:37.408 --> 00:44:41.050
By 1998,
it was seventy-four to one.

00:44:41.779 --> 00:44:46.800
While global GNP rose 40%
between 1970 and 1985,

00:44:46.835 --> 00:44:50.805
those in poverty,
actually increased, by 17%.

00:44:50.988 --> 00:44:53.608
While from
1985 to 2000,

00:44:53.669 --> 00:44:58.723
those living on less than
one dollar a day increased by 18%.

00:45:00.416 --> 00:45:04.589
Even the Joint Economic Committee
of the U.S. Congress admitted

00:45:04.649 --> 00:45:09.378
that there is a mere 40% success rate
of all World Bank projects.

00:45:09.773 --> 00:45:14.813
In the late 1960's, the World Bank
intervened in Ecuador with large loans.

00:45:14.879 --> 00:45:19.983
During the next 30 years,
poverty grew from 50% to 70%.

00:45:19.983 --> 00:45:23.755
Under or unemployment
grew from 15% to 70%.

00:45:24.314 --> 00:45:28.992
Public debt increased from
240 million to 16 billion,

00:45:28.992 --> 00:45:34.866
while the share of resources allocated
to the poor went from 20% to 6%.

00:45:35.999 --> 00:45:40.718
In fact, by the year 2000,
50% of Ecuador's national budget

00:45:40.753 --> 00:45:43.587
had to be allocated
for paying its debts.

00:45:46.977 --> 00:45:50.189
It is important to understand:
the World Bank is,

00:45:50.229 --> 00:45:53.739
in fact, a U.S. bank,
supporting U.S. interests.

00:45:53.984 --> 00:45:57.387
For the United States holds
veto-power over decisions,

00:45:57.422 --> 00:45:59.940
as it is the
largest provider of capital.

00:46:00.264 --> 00:46:01.801
And where did
it get this money?

00:46:02.067 --> 00:46:02.911
You guessed it:

00:46:03.072 --> 00:46:04.555
It made it
out of thin air

00:46:04.625 --> 00:46:07.028
through the
fractional reserve banking system.

00:46:08.999 --> 00:46:13.789
Of the world's top 100 economies,
as based on annual GDP,

00:46:13.824 --> 00:46:15.804
51 are corporations.

00:46:15.904 --> 00:46:19.129
And 47 of that 51,
are U.S.-based.

00:46:19.577 --> 00:46:22.248
Walmart,
General Motors and Exxon,

00:46:22.318 --> 00:46:25.760
are more economically powerful
than Saudi Arabia,

00:46:25.810 --> 00:46:31.968
Poland, Norway, South Africa,
Finland, Indonesia and many others.

00:46:32.589 --> 00:46:35.882
And, as protective trade barriers
are broken down,

00:46:35.917 --> 00:46:39.574
currencies tossed together
and manipulated in floating markets

00:46:39.609 --> 00:46:41.864
and State economies
overturned

00:46:41.904 --> 00:46:47.572
in favor of open competition in
global capitalism, the empire expands.

00:46:49.506 --> 00:46:53.352
You get up on
your little 21 inch screen

00:46:54.788 --> 00:46:59.103
and howl about America
and democracy.

00:46:59.983 --> 00:47:03.987
There is no America,
there is no democracy.

00:47:04.721 --> 00:47:10.360
There is only IBM,
and ITT, and AT&T,

00:47:10.461 --> 00:47:15.489
and DuPont, Dow,
Union Carbide, and Exxon.

00:47:15.999 --> 00:47:19.116
Those are the nations
of the world today.

00:47:19.970 --> 00:47:22.861
What do you think the Russians talk
about in their counsels of state?

00:47:22.896 --> 00:47:24.018
Karl Marx?

00:47:24.274 --> 00:47:26.708
They get out their
linear programming charts,

00:47:26.921 --> 00:47:28.398
statistical decision theories,

00:47:28.433 --> 00:47:31.354
min and max solutions and
compute the price-cost probabilities

00:47:31.389 --> 00:47:34.334
of their transactions and investments,
just like we do.

00:47:34.985 --> 00:47:38.161
We no longer live in a world of
nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.

00:47:39.623 --> 00:47:43.673
The world is
a college of corporations,

00:47:44.693 --> 00:47:48.999
inexorably determined
by the immutable

00:47:48.999 --> 00:47:51.156
bylaws of business.

00:47:53.670 --> 00:47:57.047
The world is a business,
Mr. Beale.

00:48:27.471 --> 00:48:31.918
The World is being taken over
by a hand-full of business powers

00:48:31.953 --> 00:48:34.724
who dominate the natural resources
we need to live,

00:48:34.759 --> 00:48:38.257
while controlling the money
we need to obtain these resources.

00:48:38.292 --> 00:48:41.100
The end result
will be world monopoly,

00:48:41.481 --> 00:48:46.044
based not on human life,
but financial and corporate power.

00:48:46.990 --> 00:48:49.430
And,
as the inequality grows,

00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.715
naturally, more and more people
are becoming desperate.

00:48:52.996 --> 00:48:56.967
So the establishment was forced
to come up with a new way to deal

00:48:57.002 --> 00:48:59.407
with anyone
who challenges the system.

00:48:59.971 --> 00:49:02.710
So they gave birth
to the 'Terrorist'.

00:49:03.356 --> 00:49:06.096
The term 'terrorist'
is an empty distinction

00:49:06.583 --> 00:49:08.762
designed for any person
or group,

00:49:08.797 --> 00:49:11.502
who chooses to challenge
the establishment.

00:49:11.748 --> 00:49:15.078
This isn't to be confused
with the fictional 'Al Qaida',

00:49:15.139 --> 00:49:18.088
which was actually
the name of a computer database

00:49:18.088 --> 00:49:21.347
of the U.S.-supported Mujahadeen
in the 1980's.

00:49:32.970 --> 00:49:39.418
In 2007, the Department of Defense
received 161.8 billion dollars

00:49:39.453 --> 00:49:42.602
for the so-called global war
on terrorism.

00:49:42.980 --> 00:49:45.715
According to the
National Counter-Terrorism Center,

00:49:45.750 --> 00:49:48.682
in 2004,
roughly 2000 people

00:49:48.717 --> 00:49:50.256
were killed internationally

00:49:50.490 --> 00:49:52.599
due to
supposed terrorist acts.

00:49:52.990 --> 00:49:55.451
Of that number,
70 were American.

00:49:55.993 --> 00:49:58.487
Using this number
as a general average,

00:49:58.487 --> 00:50:00.386
which is
extremely generous,

00:50:00.739 --> 00:50:03.473
it is interesting to note
that twice as many

00:50:03.508 --> 00:50:07.516
people die from peanut allergies a year,
than from terrorist acts.

00:50:09.072 --> 00:50:12.286
Concurrently, the leading cause
of death in America

00:50:12.321 --> 00:50:14.137
is coronary heart disease,

00:50:14.583 --> 00:50:17.757
killing roughly 450,000
each year.

00:50:18.419 --> 00:50:22.090
And in 2007,
the government's allocation of funds

00:50:22.125 --> 00:50:23.658
for research
on this issue

00:50:23.693 --> 00:50:25.462
was about
three billion dollars.

00:50:25.989 --> 00:50:29.197
This means, that the US government,
in 2007,

00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:33.577
spent 54 times the amount
for preventing terrorism,

00:50:33.830 --> 00:50:36.078
than it spent for
preventing for the disease,

00:50:36.138 --> 00:50:40.590
which kills 6600 times
more people annually,

00:50:40.625 --> 00:50:42.367
than terrorism does.

00:50:45.976 --> 00:50:48.468
Yet, as the name
terrorism and Al Qaida

00:50:48.498 --> 00:50:51.528
are arbitrarilly stamped
on every news report,

00:50:51.548 --> 00:50:54.799
relating to any action
taken against US interests,

00:50:54.851 --> 00:50:56.441
the myth grows wider.

00:50:56.686 --> 00:50:59.523
In mid 2008,
the US Attorney General

00:50:59.523 --> 00:51:02.292
actually proposed,
that the US congress

00:51:02.292 --> 00:51:05.353
officially declare war
against the fantasy.

00:51:06.163 --> 00:51:11.635
Not to mention, as of July 2008,
there are now over 1 million people

00:51:11.635 --> 00:51:14.971
currently on
the US terrorist watch list.

00:51:16.973 --> 00:51:19.301
These so called
Counter-Terrorism Measures,

00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:22.083
of course had nothing to do
with social protection

00:51:22.118 --> 00:51:25.882
and everything to do
with preserving the establishment

00:51:25.917 --> 00:51:28.659
amongst the growing
anti-American sentiment,

00:51:28.701 --> 00:51:31.202
both domestically,
and internationally,

00:51:31.815 --> 00:51:33.950
which is legitimately
founded on

00:51:33.970 --> 00:51:36.893
the greed-based
corporate empire expansion

00:51:36.993 --> 00:51:38.913
that is exploiting the world.

00:51:40.630 --> 00:51:45.068
The true terrorists of our world,
do not meet at the darks at midnight

00:51:45.168 --> 00:51:48.679
or scream Allah Akbar
before some violent action.

00:51:49.906 --> 00:51:53.908
The true terrorists of our world,
wear 5000 dollar suits

00:51:53.969 --> 00:51:58.891
and work in the highest positions
of finance, government and business.

00:52:02.586 --> 00:52:04.539
So, what do we do?

00:52:05.155 --> 00:52:07.747
How do we stop a system
of greed and corruption,

00:52:07.797 --> 00:52:09.822
that has so much
power and momentum?

00:52:09.993 --> 00:52:12.605
How do we stop this
aberrant group behavior,

00:52:12.640 --> 00:52:14.156
which feels
no compassion,

00:52:14.164 --> 00:52:17.787
for say, the millions slaughtered
in Iraq and Afghanistan,

00:52:18.168 --> 00:52:20.451
so the corporatocracy
can control

00:52:20.491 --> 00:52:24.775
energy resources and opium production
for Wall Street profit.

00:53:16.993 --> 00:53:19.796
How do we stop a system
of greed and corruption

00:53:19.796 --> 00:53:21.743
that condemns
poor populations

00:53:21.802 --> 00:53:25.104
to sweatshop slavery
for the benefit of Madison Avenue?

00:53:25.969 --> 00:53:29.034
Or that engineers
false-flag terror attacks

00:53:29.069 --> 00:53:31.136
for the sake of manipulation?

00:53:31.641 --> 00:53:35.008
Or that generates
built-in modes of social operation,

00:53:35.043 --> 00:53:37.337
which are inherently
exploited?

00:53:37.981 --> 00:53:41.208
Or that systematicly reduces
several liberties

00:53:41.238 --> 00:53:43.030
and violates human rights,

00:53:43.065 --> 00:53:46.663
in order to protect itself,
from it's own shortcomings?

00:53:47.591 --> 00:53:50.627
How do we deal with the
numerous covert institutions,

00:53:50.627 --> 00:53:52.568
such as
the Council on Foreign Relations,

00:53:52.603 --> 00:53:53.993
the Trilateral Commission,

00:53:54.033 --> 00:53:55.217
and the Bilderberg Group

00:53:55.237 --> 00:53:57.667
and other undemocratically
elected groups

00:53:57.667 --> 00:54:02.021
which behind closed doors
collude to control the political,

00:54:02.022 --> 00:54:06.410
financial, social and environmental
elements of our lives?

00:54:06.977 --> 00:54:10.629
In order to find the answer,
we must first find,

00:54:10.664 --> 00:54:12.903
the true underlying cause.

00:54:12.983 --> 00:54:18.917
For the fact is, the selfish, corrupt,
power and profit-based groups

00:54:18.952 --> 00:54:21.671
are not the true source
of the problem.

00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:24.280
They are symptoms.

00:54:40.977 --> 00:54:43.206
My name is Jacque Fresco.

00:54:43.980 --> 00:54:48.021
I'm an industrial designer
and a social engineer.

00:54:48.652 --> 00:54:51.040
I'm very much interested
in society

00:54:51.716 --> 00:54:56.619
and developing a system that might be
sustainable, for all people.

00:54:58.561 --> 00:55:02.090
First of all, the word 'corruption'
is a monetary invention,

00:55:02.167 --> 00:55:04.205
that aberrant behavior,

00:55:04.370 --> 00:55:08.057
behavior that's disruptive
for the well-being of people.

00:55:08.092 --> 00:55:11.496
Well, you're dealing with
human behavior.

00:55:11.661 --> 00:55:16.564
And human behavior appears to be
environmentally determined.

00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:21.243
Meaning, if you were raised by
the Seminole Indians as a baby,

00:55:21.278 --> 00:55:22.958
never saw anything else,

00:55:22.986 --> 00:55:25.076
you'd hold that value system.

00:55:25.111 --> 00:55:28.755
And this goes for nations,
it goes for individuals,

00:55:28.790 --> 00:55:32.191
for families, they try to
indoctrinate their children

00:55:32.638 --> 00:55:35.770
to their particular faith
and their country

00:55:35.771 --> 00:55:38.253
and make them feel like
they're part of that.

00:55:38.902 --> 00:55:43.598
And they built a society,
which they call established.

00:55:43.973 --> 00:55:46.758
They established
a workable point of view

00:55:46.793 --> 00:55:48.770
and tend
to perpetuate that.

00:55:48.978 --> 00:55:52.742
Whereas, all societies
are really emergent,

00:55:52.777 --> 00:55:54.081
not established.

00:55:54.651 --> 00:55:57.820
And so
they fight new ideas

00:55:57.821 --> 00:56:00.693
that would interfere
with the establishment.

00:56:01.658 --> 00:56:06.194
Goverments try to perpetuate
that which keeps them in power.

00:56:06.630 --> 00:56:11.550
People are not elected
to political office to change things.

00:56:11.601 --> 00:56:13.962
They are put there,
to keep things the way they are.

00:56:14.971 --> 00:56:19.687
So you see, the bases of corruption
is in our society.

00:56:19.843 --> 00:56:20.905
Let me make it clear.

00:56:20.945 --> 00:56:24.556
All nations then,
are basically corrupt

00:56:24.556 --> 00:56:28.140
because they tend to uphold
existing institutons.

00:56:28.175 --> 00:56:31.685
I don't mean to uphold
or downgrade all nations,

00:56:31.823 --> 00:56:36.476
but communism, socialism, fascism,
the free enterprise-system

00:56:36.534 --> 00:56:39.889
and all other sub-cultures
are the same.

00:56:39.996 --> 00:56:42.990
They are all
basically corrupt.

00:56:44.435 --> 00:56:47.971
The most fundamental characteristic
of our social institutions

00:56:47.971 --> 00:56:50.933
is the necessity
for self-preservation.

00:56:50.974 --> 00:56:54.801
Whether dealing with a corporation,
a religion or a government,

00:56:54.978 --> 00:56:58.545
the foremost interest is
to preserve the institution itself.

00:56:58.982 --> 00:57:02.276
For instance, the last thing
an oil company would ever want

00:57:02.286 --> 00:57:05.915
is the utilization of energy,
that was outside of it's control.

00:57:05.989 --> 00:57:09.340
For it makes that company
less relevant to society.

00:57:09.993 --> 00:57:14.800
Likewise the Cold War and the collapse
of the Soviet Union was, in reality,

00:57:15.072 --> 00:57:16.858
a way to preserve
and perpetuate

00:57:16.886 --> 00:57:20.816
the established economic and
global hegemony of the United States.

00:57:22.972 --> 00:57:27.799
Similarly, religions condition people
to feel guilty for natural inclinations,

00:57:27.977 --> 00:57:31.909
each claiming to offer the only path
to forgiveness and salvation.

00:57:32.982 --> 00:57:35.901
At the heart of this
institutional self-preservation

00:57:35.951 --> 00:57:37.860
lies the monetary system.

00:57:37.987 --> 00:57:41.991
For it is money that provides
the means for power and survival.

00:57:42.992 --> 00:57:44.779
Therefore,
just as a poor person

00:57:44.828 --> 00:57:47.187
might be forced to steal,
in order to survive,

00:57:47.430 --> 00:57:50.443
it is a natural inclination to do
whatever is needed

00:57:50.462 --> 00:57:53.275
to continue
an institution's profitability.

00:57:53.570 --> 00:57:57.974
This makes it inherently difficult
for profit-based institutions to change,

00:57:58.009 --> 00:57:59.595
For it puts
in jeopardy,

00:57:59.635 --> 00:58:02.309
not only the survival
of large groups of people,

00:58:02.512 --> 00:58:05.171
but also the coveted,
materialistic lifestyles

00:58:05.202 --> 00:58:07.890
associated with
affluence and power.

00:58:08.918 --> 00:58:12.263
Therefore, the paralyzing necessity
to preserve an institution,

00:58:12.345 --> 00:58:14.524
regardless of
its social relevance

00:58:14.574 --> 00:58:18.178
is largely rooted
in the need for money or profit.

00:58:23.733 --> 00:58:26.617
What's in it for me?,
is why people think.

00:58:27.971 --> 00:58:31.191
And so if a man makes money
selling a certain product,

00:58:31.474 --> 00:58:33.077
that's where
he's going to fight

00:58:33.229 --> 00:58:37.744
the existence of another product
that may threaten his institution.

00:58:39.749 --> 00:58:41.910
Therefore,
people cannot be fair.

00:58:42.605 --> 00:58:45.008
And people do not
trust each other.

00:58:45.043 --> 00:58:46.822
A guy will come over
to you and say,

00:58:47.035 --> 00:58:48.755
I've got just the house
you're looking for,

00:58:48.892 --> 00:58:50.149
he's a salesman.

00:58:50.260 --> 00:58:53.138
When a doctor says,
I think your kidney has to come out,

00:58:53.429 --> 00:58:56.000
I don't know if
he's trying to pay off a yacht

00:58:56.478 --> 00:58:58.335
or that my kidney
has to come out.

00:58:58.370 --> 00:59:02.241
It's hard in a monetary system
to trust people.

00:59:02.972 --> 00:59:04.741
If you came into my store
and I said,

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,

00:59:09.814 --> 00:59:12.797
I wouldn't be in business very long.
It wouldn't work.

00:59:12.982 --> 00:59:15.449
If I were ethical,
it wouldn't work.

00:59:16.085 --> 00:59:19.381
So when you say
industry cares for people,

00:59:19.416 --> 00:59:20.710
that's not true.

00:59:20.823 --> 00:59:23.064
They can't afford
to be ethical.

00:59:23.826 --> 00:59:28.164
So your system is not designed
to serve the well-being of people.

00:59:28.164 --> 00:59:33.536
If you still don't understand that,
there would be no outsourcing of jobs

00:59:33.536 --> 00:59:35.373
if they cared
about people.

00:59:35.772 --> 00:59:36.973
Industry does not care.

00:59:36.973 --> 00:59:40.808
They only hire people because
it hasn't been automated yet.

00:59:41.978 --> 00:59:44.561
So don't talk about
decency and ethics,

00:59:44.952 --> 00:59:48.142
we cannot afford it
and remain in business.

00:59:49.485 --> 00:59:53.489
It is important to point out that
regardless of the social system,

00:59:53.489 --> 00:59:57.364
whether fascist, socialist,
capitalist or communist,

00:59:57.694 --> 01:00:02.015
the underlying mechanism is still
money, labor and competition.

01:00:02.999 --> 01:00:07.503
Communist China is no less
capitalistic than the United States.

01:00:07.503 --> 01:00:09.604
The only difference is
the degree by which

01:00:09.634 --> 01:00:12.023
the state intervenes
in enterprise.

01:00:12.976 --> 01:00:17.547
The reality is that monetary-ism,
so to speak, is the true mechanism,

01:00:17.547 --> 01:00:20.942
that guides the interests of
all the countries on the planet.

01:00:21.818 --> 01:00:25.688
The most agressive and hence dominant
variation of this monetary-ism

01:00:25.688 --> 01:00:27.533
is the free enterprise system.

01:00:27.991 --> 01:00:32.121
The fundamental perspective as put
forth by early free market economists,

01:00:32.156 --> 01:00:33.492
like Adam Smith,

01:00:33.997 --> 01:00:38.022
is that self-interest and competition
leads to social prosperity,

01:00:38.057 --> 01:00:40.514
as the act of competition
creates incentive,

01:00:40.515 --> 01:00:42.995
which motivates people
to persevere.

01:00:44.974 --> 01:00:46.895
However,
what isn't talked about,

01:00:46.925 --> 01:00:49.297
is how a
competition-based economy

01:00:49.332 --> 01:00:53.003
invariably leads to
strategic corruption, power,

01:00:53.038 --> 01:00:54.384
and wealth consolidation,

01:00:54.384 --> 01:00:59.522
social stratification,
technological paralysis, labor abuse

01:00:59.522 --> 01:01:03.977
and ultimately a covert form
of government dictatorship

01:01:03.993 --> 01:01:05.570
by the rich elite.

01:01:07.630 --> 01:01:11.430
The word corruption is often
defined as moral perversion.

01:01:11.701 --> 01:01:15.805
If a company dumps toxic waste
into the ocean to save money,

01:01:15.805 --> 01:01:18.637
most people recognize
this as corrupt behavior.

01:01:19.609 --> 01:01:20.898
On a more subtle level,

01:01:21.477 --> 01:01:23.849
when Walmart moves
into a small town

01:01:23.909 --> 01:01:25.982
and forces small businesses
to shut down,

01:01:26.017 --> 01:01:27.701
for they are unable
to compete,

01:01:27.984 --> 01:01:30.009
a grey area emerges.

01:01:30.044 --> 01:01:32.540
For what exactly
is Walmart doing wrong?

01:01:32.989 --> 01:01:36.428
Why should they care about the Mom
and Pop organizations they destroy?

01:01:36.993 --> 01:01:39.015
Yet even more subtly,

01:01:39.395 --> 01:01:43.766
when a person gets fired from their job,
because a new machine has been created,

01:01:43.801 --> 01:01:45.655
which can do the work
for less money,

01:01:45.968 --> 01:01:48.241
people tend to just
accept that as

01:01:48.276 --> 01:01:49.561
the way it is,

01:01:49.772 --> 01:01:54.334
not seen the inherent corrupt
inhumanity of such an action.

01:01:54.977 --> 01:01:56.765
Because the fact is,

01:01:56.979 --> 01:02:01.036
whether it is dumping toxic waste,
having a monopoly enterprise

01:02:01.071 --> 01:02:03.051
or downsizing the workforce,

01:02:03.086 --> 01:02:04.641
the motive is the same:

01:02:04.987 --> 01:02:05.976
Profit.

01:02:06.789 --> 01:02:10.758
They are all different degrees of
the same self-preserving mechanism,

01:02:10.993 --> 01:02:15.556
which always puts the well-being
of people second to monetary gain.

01:02:15.998 --> 01:02:21.537
Therefore, corruption is not
some byproduct of monetary-ism.

01:02:21.637 --> 01:02:23.709
It is
the very foundation.

01:02:24.674 --> 01:02:28.544
And while most people acknowledge
this tendency on one level or another,

01:02:28.544 --> 01:02:32.582
majority remains naive as
to the broad ramifications

01:02:32.815 --> 01:02:38.174
of having such a selfish mechanism
as the guiding mentality in society.

01:02:38.454 --> 01:02:41.073
Internal documents show that
after this company

01:02:41.074 --> 01:02:43.548
positively,
absolutely knew that

01:02:43.583 --> 01:02:46.594
they had a medication that was
infected with the AIDS virus,

01:02:46.662 --> 01:02:48.998
they took the product
off the market in the US,

01:02:48.998 --> 01:02:51.968
and then they dumped it in France,
Europe, Asia and Latin America.

01:02:52.003 --> 01:02:54.537
The US government
allowed it to happen.

01:02:54.537 --> 01:02:56.758
The FDA allowed this
to happen

01:02:56.849 --> 01:02:59.661
and now the government is
completely looking the other way.

01:02:59.809 --> 01:03:04.714
Thousands of innocent hemophiliacs
have died from the AIDS virus.

01:03:04.749 --> 01:03:07.992
This company knew absolutely
that it was infected with AIDS.

01:03:08.062 --> 01:03:12.786
They dumped it because they wanted
to turn this disaster into a profit.

01:03:14.824 --> 01:03:18.426
So you see,
you have built-in corruption.

01:03:18.995 --> 01:03:20.876
We're all chiseling off
each other,

01:03:21.330 --> 01:03:24.299
and you can't expect decency
in that sort of thing.

01:03:28.404 --> 01:03:31.607
A feeling that they
don't know who to elect.

01:03:31.607 --> 01:03:33.816
They think in terms
of a democracy,

01:03:33.976 --> 01:03:37.752
which is not possible
in a monetary-based economy.

01:03:38.748 --> 01:03:42.492
If you have more money to
advertise your position,

01:03:42.527 --> 01:03:44.465
the position
you desire in government,

01:03:44.854 --> 01:03:46.489
that isn't a democracy.

01:03:46.589 --> 01:03:51.173
It serves those in positions
of differential advantage.

01:03:51.208 --> 01:03:54.803
So it's always
a dictatorship of the elitist,

01:03:54.997 --> 01:03:56.736
the financially wealthy.

01:04:04.474 --> 01:04:06.499
It is
an interesting observation

01:04:06.510 --> 01:04:09.347
to note how
seemingly unknown personalities,

01:04:09.382 --> 01:04:12.893
magically appear on the scene
as presidential candidates.

01:04:12.982 --> 01:04:14.744
Then before
you know it,

01:04:14.951 --> 01:04:16.601
somehow you are left
to choose from

01:04:16.641 --> 01:04:19.722
a small group of
extremely wealthy people

01:04:19.757 --> 01:04:23.414
who suspiciously have
the same broad social view.

01:04:24.627 --> 01:04:26.028
Obviously,
it's a joke.

01:04:26.495 --> 01:04:28.764
The people placed on
the ballot are done so

01:04:28.764 --> 01:04:31.868
because they have been
pre-decided to be acceptable

01:04:31.903 --> 01:04:35.085
by the established financial powers,
who actually run the show.

01:04:36.973 --> 01:04:41.578
Yet many who understand this
illusion of democracy, often think,

01:04:41.778 --> 01:04:46.282
"If only we could just get our honest,
ethical politicians in power,

01:04:46.482 --> 01:04:48.194
then we would be okay."

01:04:48.851 --> 01:04:51.621
Well, while this idea of
course seems reasonable

01:04:51.621 --> 01:04:54.489
in our established,
oriented world view,

01:04:54.757 --> 01:04:58.188
it is unfortunately
another fallacy.

01:04:58.995 --> 01:05:02.999
For when it really comes down
to what is actually important,

01:05:02.999 --> 01:05:06.969
the institution of politics
and thus politicians themselves,

01:05:06.969 --> 01:05:10.282
have absolutely
no true relevance

01:05:10.293 --> 01:05:13.751
as to what makes
our world and society function.

01:05:14.610 --> 01:05:17.880
It's not politicians
that can solve problems.

01:05:17.980 --> 01:05:20.860
They have
no technical capabilities.

01:05:20.983 --> 01:05:22.978
They don't know
how to solve problems.

01:05:23.013 --> 01:05:27.194
Even if they were sincere,
they don't know how to solve problems.

01:05:27.229 --> 01:05:31.580
It's the technicians that
produce the desalinization plants.

01:05:31.994 --> 01:05:34.453
It's the technicians
that give you electricity.

01:05:34.797 --> 01:05:36.266
That give you
motor vehicles.

01:05:36.301 --> 01:05:39.181
That heat your house and cool it
in the summer time.

01:05:39.368 --> 01:05:42.037
It's technology
that solves problems,

01:05:42.137 --> 01:05:43.424
not politics.

01:05:43.459 --> 01:05:47.877
Politics cannot solve problems
'cause they are not trained to do so.

01:05:48.978 --> 01:05:52.002
Very few people today
stop and consider

01:05:52.037 --> 01:05:55.436
what it is that actually
improves their lives.

01:05:55.985 --> 01:05:58.321
Is it money?
Obviously not.

01:05:58.587 --> 01:06:02.609
One cannot eat money or stuff money
into their car to get it to run.

01:06:02.992 --> 01:06:04.632
Is it politics?

01:06:04.994 --> 01:06:07.997
All politicians can do
is create laws,

01:06:07.997 --> 01:06:10.595
establish budgets
and declare war.

01:06:11.434 --> 01:06:12.425
Is it religion?

01:06:12.702 --> 01:06:15.871
Of course not,
religion creates nothing except

01:06:15.871 --> 01:06:19.010
intangible emotional solace
for those who require it.

01:06:19.776 --> 01:06:23.310
The true gift that
we as human beings have,

01:06:23.780 --> 01:06:26.574
which has been solely
responsible for everything

01:06:26.609 --> 01:06:28.532
that has improved
our lives,

01:06:28.985 --> 01:06:30.215
is technology.

01:06:31.721 --> 01:06:32.998
What is technology?

01:06:33.033 --> 01:06:34.750
Technology
is a pencil,

01:06:34.891 --> 01:06:38.650
which allows one to solidify ideas
on paper for communication.

01:06:38.995 --> 01:06:40.955
Technology
is an automobile,

01:06:41.006 --> 01:06:44.336
which allows one to travel faster
than feet would allow.

01:06:44.767 --> 01:06:46.970
Technology
is a pair of eye glasses,

01:06:47.005 --> 01:06:49.548
which enables sight
for those who need it.

01:06:50.973 --> 01:06:53.044
Applied technology
itself,

01:06:53.085 --> 01:06:56.545
is merely and extension
of human attributes,

01:06:56.545 --> 01:06:58.257
which reduces
human effort,

01:06:58.365 --> 01:07:01.366
freeing humans from
a particular chore or problem.

01:07:01.884 --> 01:07:05.361
Imagine what your life would be like
today without a telephone,

01:07:05.554 --> 01:07:06.722
or an oven,

01:07:06.722 --> 01:07:07.820
or a computer,

01:07:07.990 --> 01:07:09.141
or an airplane.

01:07:09.558 --> 01:07:12.241
Everything in your home,
which you take for granted,

01:07:12.276 --> 01:07:13.315
from a doorbell,

01:07:13.436 --> 01:07:14.497
to a table,

01:07:14.497 --> 01:07:15.735
to a dishwasher,

01:07:15.998 --> 01:07:17.047
is technology,

01:07:17.268 --> 01:07:20.732
generated from
the creative scientific ingenuity

01:07:20.767 --> 01:07:22.467
of human technicians.

01:07:22.972 --> 01:07:26.266
Not money,
politics or religion.

01:07:26.976 --> 01:07:29.436
These are
false institutions.

01:07:29.979 --> 01:07:33.230
...and writing your
congressman is fantastic.

01:07:33.583 --> 01:07:35.185
They tell you to write
to your congressman

01:07:35.220 --> 01:07:36.587
if you want
something done.

01:07:36.686 --> 01:07:40.571
The men in Washington should be
at the forefront of technology.

01:07:40.790 --> 01:07:42.478
The forefront
of human study.

01:07:42.692 --> 01:07:44.175
The forefront
of crime.

01:07:44.394 --> 01:07:47.076
All the factors
that shape human behavior.

01:07:47.530 --> 01:07:49.228
You don't have
to write your congressman.

01:07:49.432 --> 01:07:53.202
What kind of people are they
that are appointed to do that job?

01:07:53.969 --> 01:07:56.367
The future will have
great difficulty...

01:07:56.972 --> 01:08:00.611
And the question that's raised
by politicians is:

01:08:00.646 --> 01:08:02.524
How much
will a project cost?

01:08:02.978 --> 01:08:05.856
The question is not
how much will it cost.

01:08:05.981 --> 01:08:07.969
Do we have
the resources?

01:08:08.431 --> 01:08:12.392
And we have the resources today
to house everyone,

01:08:12.427 --> 01:08:14.818
build hospitals
all over the world,

01:08:14.948 --> 01:08:17.214
build schools
all over the world,

01:08:17.463 --> 01:08:19.535
the finest equipment
in labs

01:08:19.586 --> 01:08:22.326
for teaching
and doing medical research.

01:08:22.998 --> 01:08:27.214
So you see, we have all that,
but we're in a monetary system,

01:08:27.403 --> 01:08:30.335
and in a monetary system,
there's profit.

01:08:31.974 --> 01:08:35.978
And what is the fundamental mechanism
that drives the profit system

01:08:35.978 --> 01:08:37.366
besides self-interest?

01:08:37.880 --> 01:08:41.667
What is it exactly that maintains
that competitive edge at it's core?

01:08:41.984 --> 01:08:44.587
Is it high efficiency
and sustainability?

01:08:45.421 --> 01:08:48.300
No.
That isn't part of their design.

01:08:48.591 --> 01:08:50.936
Nothing produced
in our profit-based society

01:08:50.987 --> 01:08:53.459
is even remotely sustainable
or efficient.

01:08:53.596 --> 01:08:54.670
If it was,
there wouldn't be

01:08:54.691 --> 01:08:58.489
a multi-million dollar a year
service industry for automobiles.

01:08:58.768 --> 01:09:01.342
Nor would the average lifespan
for most electronics

01:09:01.377 --> 01:09:02.772
be less than
three months

01:09:02.807 --> 01:09:04.168
before they're obsolete.

01:09:05.774 --> 01:09:06.973
Is it abundance?

01:09:07.610 --> 01:09:08.652
Absolutely not.

01:09:08.878 --> 01:09:11.801
Abundance, as based on the
laws of supply and demand,

01:09:11.981 --> 01:09:13.732
is actually
a negative thing.

01:09:13.983 --> 01:09:16.225
If a diamond company
finds ten times

01:09:16.275 --> 01:09:18.857
the usual amount of diamonds
during their mining,

01:09:18.988 --> 01:09:21.591
it means the supply of diamonds
has increased,

01:09:21.626 --> 01:09:25.023
which means the cost and profit
per diamond drops.

01:09:25.695 --> 01:09:29.515
The fact is: efficiency,
sustainability and abundance

01:09:29.565 --> 01:09:31.645
are enemies of profit.

01:09:31.967 --> 01:09:33.388
To put it
into a word,

01:09:33.769 --> 01:09:38.025
it is the mechanism of scarcity
that increases profits.

01:09:40.976 --> 01:09:42.265
What is scarcity?

01:09:42.611 --> 01:09:44.902
Based on
keeping products valuable.

01:09:44.980 --> 01:09:48.544
Slowing up production on oil
raises the price.

01:09:48.984 --> 01:09:52.484
Maintaining scarcity of diamonds
keeps the price high.

01:09:52.788 --> 01:09:55.932
They burn diamonds
at the Kimberly Diamond Mine.

01:09:55.967 --> 01:09:57.078
They're
made of carbon.

01:09:57.113 --> 01:09:58.671
That keeps
the price up.

01:09:58.994 --> 01:10:02.998
So then, what does it mean
for society when scarcity,

01:10:02.998 --> 01:10:06.071
either produced naturally
or through manipulation

01:10:06.235 --> 01:10:09.174
is a beneficial condition
for industry?

01:10:11.107 --> 01:10:13.704
It means that
sustainability and abundance

01:10:13.744 --> 01:10:17.314
will never ever occur
in a profit system.

01:10:17.426 --> 01:10:21.469
For it simply goes against
the very nature of the structure.

01:10:21.784 --> 01:10:27.511
Therefore, it is impossible to have
a world without war or poverty.

01:10:27.990 --> 01:10:31.794
It is impossible to
continually advance technology

01:10:31.829 --> 01:10:34.430
to its most efficient
and productive states.

01:10:34.997 --> 01:10:36.521
And most dramatically,

01:10:36.999 --> 01:10:41.297
it is impossible to expect
human beings to behave

01:10:41.332 --> 01:10:44.057
in truly ethical
or decent ways.

01:10:50.779 --> 01:10:52.805
People use the word
'instinct'

01:10:53.220 --> 01:10:56.614
because they can't account
for the behavior.

01:10:56.986 --> 01:11:02.506
They sit back and they evaluate with
their lack of knowledge, you know,

01:11:02.692 --> 01:11:04.605
and they say things like,

01:11:04.994 --> 01:11:08.449
"Humans are built a certain way,
greed is a natural thing,"

01:11:08.530 --> 01:11:10.523
as though they'd worked
for years on it.

01:11:10.558 --> 01:11:13.647
And it's no more natural
than wearing clothing.

01:11:13.969 --> 01:11:16.633
What we want to do
is to eliminate

01:11:17.339 --> 01:11:19.476
the causes
of the problems.

01:11:19.708 --> 01:11:22.180
Eliminate
the processes that

01:11:22.778 --> 01:11:26.331
produce greed,
and bigotry, and prejudice,

01:11:26.782 --> 01:11:30.275
and people taking advantage
of one another, and elitism.

01:11:30.686 --> 01:11:35.576
Eliminating the need
for prisons and welfare.

01:11:35.891 --> 01:11:37.479
We have always had
these problems because

01:11:37.514 --> 01:11:39.790
we have always lived
within scarcity,

01:11:39.995 --> 01:11:45.273
and barter, and monetary systems
that produce scarcity.

01:11:45.303 --> 01:11:49.538
If you eradicate
the conditions that generate

01:11:49.538 --> 01:11:52.076
what you call
'socially offensive behavior,'

01:11:52.174 --> 01:11:53.534
it does not exist.

01:11:53.976 --> 01:11:56.093
A guy says:
Well listen, are they in-born?

01:11:56.545 --> 01:11:57.917
No, it's not.

01:11:57.980 --> 01:12:00.940
There is no human nature,
there's human behavior,

01:12:00.983 --> 01:12:03.786
and that's always been
changed throughout history.

01:12:03.821 --> 01:12:06.118
You're not born
with bigotry,

01:12:06.159 --> 01:12:09.403
and greed, and corruption,
and hatred.

01:12:09.692 --> 01:12:12.257
You pick that up
within the society.

01:12:13.729 --> 01:12:17.966
War, poverty, corruption,
hunger, misery, human suffering

01:12:17.966 --> 01:12:20.404
will not change
in a monetary system.

01:12:20.439 --> 01:12:23.883
That is, there will be
very little significant change.

01:12:23.972 --> 01:12:27.755
It's going to take
the redesigning of our culture,

01:12:27.776 --> 01:12:28.846
our values,

01:12:28.977 --> 01:12:32.726
and it has to be related
to the carrying capacity of the earth,

01:12:32.781 --> 01:12:37.377
not some human opinion,
or some politicians notions

01:12:37.486 --> 01:12:39.314
of the way the world
ought to be.

01:12:39.655 --> 01:12:44.482
Or some religion's notions
of the conduct of human affairs.

01:12:44.993 --> 01:12:48.026
And that's what
The Venus Project is about.

01:12:49.998 --> 01:12:52.937
The society,
that we're about to talk about,

01:12:52.968 --> 01:12:57.973
is a society that is free
of all the old superstitions,

01:12:57.973 --> 01:13:03.003
incarceration, prisons,
police, cruelty and law.

01:13:03.172 --> 01:13:05.116
All laws will disappear

01:13:05.247 --> 01:13:09.129
and the professions will disappear,
that are no longer valid,

01:13:09.184 --> 01:13:12.988
such as stockbrokers,
bankers, advertising...

01:13:12.988 --> 01:13:15.023
Gone!
Forever!

01:13:15.058 --> 01:13:17.809
Because it's
no longer relevant.

01:13:20.429 --> 01:13:23.009
When we understand
that it is technology

01:13:23.044 --> 01:13:24.949
devised
by human ingenuity

01:13:24.984 --> 01:13:28.102
which frees humanity
and increases our quality of life

01:13:28.170 --> 01:13:32.003
we then realize, that the most
important focus we can have

01:13:32.038 --> 01:13:36.182
is on the intelligent management
of the earth's resources.

01:13:36.311 --> 01:13:38.548
For it is from
these natural resources,

01:13:38.583 --> 01:13:41.877
we gain the materials
to continue our path of prosperity.

01:13:42.784 --> 01:13:44.787
Understanding this,
we then see,

01:13:44.822 --> 01:13:48.991
that money fundamentally exists
as a barrier to these resources,

01:13:49.026 --> 01:13:51.884
for virtually,
everything has a financial cause.

01:13:52.628 --> 01:13:55.378
And why do we need money
to obtain these resources?

01:13:55.697 --> 01:13:58.513
Because of real
or assumed scarcity.

01:14:00.469 --> 01:14:03.442
We don't usually pay
for air and tap water,

01:14:03.505 --> 01:14:05.466
because it is
in such high abundance,

01:14:05.507 --> 01:14:07.169
selling it
would be pointless.

01:14:08.143 --> 01:14:10.412
So then,
logically speaking,

01:14:10.447 --> 01:14:12.263
if resources
and technologies,

01:14:12.303 --> 01:14:15.134
applicable to creating
everything in our societies

01:14:15.217 --> 01:14:17.558
such as houses, cities
and transportation,

01:14:18.223 --> 01:14:20.187
were in
high enough abundance,

01:14:20.222 --> 01:14:22.625
there would be no reason
to sell anything.

01:14:23.892 --> 01:14:26.509
Likewise,
if automation and machinery

01:14:26.544 --> 01:14:28.548
was so technologically
advanced,

01:14:28.597 --> 01:14:30.764
as to relieve
human beings of labor

01:14:30.999 --> 01:14:33.009
there would be no reason
to have a job.

01:14:33.669 --> 01:14:36.034
And with these social aspects
taking care of,

01:14:36.338 --> 01:14:38.378
there would be no reason
to have money at all.

01:14:40.275 --> 01:14:42.014
So the ultimate question
remains:

01:14:42.978 --> 01:14:45.881
Do we on earth
have enough resources

01:14:45.916 --> 01:14:47.486
and technological
understanding

01:14:47.616 --> 01:14:50.269
to create a society
of such abundance,

01:14:50.304 --> 01:14:53.849
that everything we have now
could be available without a price tag

01:14:53.989 --> 01:14:56.720
and without the need for submission
through employment?

01:14:58.527 --> 01:14:59.967
Yes, we do.

01:15:01.196 --> 01:15:03.358
We have the resources
and technology

01:15:03.365 --> 01:15:05.601
to enable this
at a minimum

01:15:05.601 --> 01:15:09.130
along with the ability to raise
the standards of living so high

01:15:09.438 --> 01:15:12.879
that people in the future will
look back at our civilisation now

01:15:12.975 --> 01:15:17.914
and gawk at how primitive
and immature our society was.

01:15:18.981 --> 01:15:20.852
What The Venus Project
proposes

01:15:21.049 --> 01:15:23.096
is an entirely
different system

01:15:23.218 --> 01:15:26.650
that's updated
to present day knowledge.

01:15:26.989 --> 01:15:29.391
We've never given scientists
the problem of

01:15:29.426 --> 01:15:33.956
How do you design a society which would
eliminate boring and monotonous jobs,

01:15:33.996 --> 01:15:38.376
that would eliminate accidents
in transportation,

01:15:38.634 --> 01:15:41.480
that would enable people
to have a high standard of living,

01:15:41.803 --> 01:15:44.901
that would eliminate poisons
in our food,

01:15:44.973 --> 01:15:48.663
give us other sources of energy,
that are clean and efficient.

01:15:48.810 --> 01:15:50.608
We can do that
out there.

01:15:56.018 --> 01:15:57.706
The major difference
between

01:15:57.736 --> 01:16:00.713
a resource-based economy
and a monetary system,

01:16:00.756 --> 01:16:04.515
is that a resource-based economy
is really concerned with people

01:16:04.526 --> 01:16:05.441
and their well-being

01:16:05.794 --> 01:16:08.848
where the monetary system
has become so distorted

01:16:08.889 --> 01:16:12.289
that the concerns of the people
are really secondary,

01:16:12.378 --> 01:16:13.579
if they're there
at all.

01:16:13.869 --> 01:16:16.356
Products that are turned out
are for

01:16:16.638 --> 01:16:18.142
how much money
you can get.

01:16:18.173 --> 01:16:21.612
If there is a problem in society
and you can't earn money

01:16:21.647 --> 01:16:24.367
from solving that problem,
then it won't be done.

01:16:24.980 --> 01:16:27.558
The resource-based economy
is really not close

01:16:27.593 --> 01:16:29.273
to anything
that's been tried.

01:16:29.384 --> 01:16:32.337
And with all our technology today,
we can create abundance.

01:16:32.438 --> 01:16:35.340
It could be used to improve
everyone's lifestyle.

01:16:35.490 --> 01:16:38.894
Abundance all over the world,
if we use our technology wisely

01:16:38.994 --> 01:16:40.497
and maintain
the environment.

01:16:40.796 --> 01:16:42.671
It's a very different system

01:16:42.798 --> 01:16:44.639
and it's very hard
to talk about

01:16:44.767 --> 01:16:47.968
because the public is not
that well enough informed

01:16:48.170 --> 01:16:50.491
as to the
state of technology.

01:16:55.978 --> 01:16:59.217
At present,
we don't have to burn fossil fuels.

01:16:59.581 --> 01:17:03.445
We don't have to use anything
that would contaminate the environment.

01:17:03.652 --> 01:17:06.785
There are many sources
of energy available.

01:17:07.990 --> 01:17:11.031
Alternative energy solutions
pushed by the establishment,

01:17:11.131 --> 01:17:13.898
such as hydrogen,
biomass and even nuclear

01:17:14.099 --> 01:17:16.495
are highly insufficient,
dangerous,

01:17:16.565 --> 01:17:19.384
and exist only to perpetuate
the profit structure

01:17:19.419 --> 01:17:20.599
the industry has created.

01:17:21.370 --> 01:17:25.009
When we look beyond the propaganda
and self-serving solutions

01:17:25.044 --> 01:17:27.275
put forth by
the energy companies,

01:17:27.275 --> 01:17:29.745
we find a
seemingly endless stream

01:17:29.780 --> 01:17:33.220
of clean, abundant and renewable energy
for generating power.

01:17:34.449 --> 01:17:37.086
Solar and wind energy
are well known to the public.

01:17:37.093 --> 01:17:40.205
But the true potential of these mediums
remains unexpressed.

01:17:40.989 --> 01:17:43.249
Solar energy,
derived from the sun,

01:17:43.292 --> 01:17:47.205
has such abundance,
that one hour of light at high noon

01:17:47.462 --> 01:17:51.864
contains more energy than what
the entire world consumes in a year.

01:17:51.967 --> 01:17:55.528
If we could capture one-hundreth
of a percent of this energy,

01:17:55.971 --> 01:17:59.452
the world would never have
to use oil, gas or anything else.

01:17:59.975 --> 01:18:02.250
The questioning
is not availability,

01:18:02.411 --> 01:18:04.218
but the technology
to harness it.

01:18:04.746 --> 01:18:06.882
And there are many
advanced mediums today

01:18:06.982 --> 01:18:08.651
which could accomplish
just that,

01:18:09.074 --> 01:18:10.543
if they were
not hindered

01:18:10.594 --> 01:18:13.106
by the need
to compete for market share

01:18:13.141 --> 01:18:15.757
with the established
energy power structures.

01:18:16.992 --> 01:18:18.259
Then there's wind energy.

01:18:18.827 --> 01:18:21.145
Wind energy has long been
denounced as weak

01:18:21.396 --> 01:18:24.605
and, due to being location driven,
impractical.

01:18:24.966 --> 01:18:26.401
This is
simply not true.

01:18:26.768 --> 01:18:29.904
The US Department of Energy
admitted in 2007

01:18:29.971 --> 01:18:34.831
that if wind was fully harvested
in just three of America's 50 states,

01:18:34.976 --> 01:18:37.351
it could power
the entire nation.

01:18:38.980 --> 01:18:43.134
And then there are the rather unknown
mediums of tidal and wave power.

01:18:43.819 --> 01:18:46.821
Tidal power is derived
from tidal shifts in the ocean.

01:18:46.988 --> 01:18:50.546
Installing turbines which capture
this movement, generates energy.

01:18:51.159 --> 01:18:52.354
In the United Kingdom,

01:18:52.394 --> 01:18:54.909
42 sites are currently noted
as available,

01:18:55.130 --> 01:18:59.059
forecasting that
34% of all the UK's energy

01:18:59.094 --> 01:19:01.451
could come
from tidal power alone.

01:19:02.971 --> 01:19:07.104
Wave power, which extracts energy
from the surface motions of the ocean,

01:19:07.476 --> 01:19:09.828
is estimated
to have a global potential

01:19:09.859 --> 01:19:12.733
of up to
80,000 terawatt-hours a year.

01:19:13.381 --> 01:19:17.419
This means 50% of
the entire planet's energy usage

01:19:17.454 --> 01:19:19.749
could be produced
from this medium alone.

01:19:21.523 --> 01:19:26.645
Now, it is important to point out
that tidal, wave, solar and wind power

01:19:26.995 --> 01:19:30.284
requires virtually
no preliminary energy to harness,

01:19:30.465 --> 01:19:35.317
unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass,
hydrogen and all the others.

01:19:35.971 --> 01:19:37.955
In combination,
these four mediums alone,

01:19:38.191 --> 01:19:40.369
if efficiently harnessed
through technology,

01:19:40.409 --> 01:19:42.897
could power
the world forever.

01:19:44.166 --> 01:19:45.135
That being said,

01:19:45.174 --> 01:19:48.542
there happens to be another form
of clean renewable energy,

01:19:48.577 --> 01:19:50.154
which trumps them all.

01:19:50.752 --> 01:19:52.580
Geothermal power.

01:19:53.421 --> 01:19:56.776
Geothermal energy utilizes
what is called heat mining,

01:19:56.792 --> 01:19:59.122
which, through
a simple process using water,

01:19:59.155 --> 01:20:02.116
is able to generate
massive amounts of clean energy.

01:20:02.798 --> 01:20:06.150
In 2006, an MIT report
on geothermal energy

01:20:06.401 --> 01:20:11.034
found that 13,000 zetajules of power
are currently available in the earth

01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:13.832
with the possibility of
2,000 zetajules

01:20:13.872 --> 01:20:16.902
being easily tapable
with improved technology.

01:20:17.679 --> 01:20:19.131
The total energy
consumption

01:20:19.183 --> 01:20:20.758
of all the countries
on the planet

01:20:20.798 --> 01:20:23.174
is about
half of a zetajule a year.

01:20:23.485 --> 01:20:26.709
This means about
4000 years of planetary power

01:20:26.759 --> 01:20:27.916
could be harnessed

01:20:27.923 --> 01:20:29.374
in this medium alone.

01:20:30.392 --> 01:20:33.017
And when we understand
that the earth's heat generation

01:20:33.052 --> 01:20:34.239
is constantly renewed,

01:20:34.529 --> 01:20:36.357
this energy
is really limitless.

01:20:36.598 --> 01:20:38.252
It could be used
forever.

01:20:39.601 --> 01:20:44.206
These energy sources are only a few
of the clean renewable mediums available

01:20:44.306 --> 01:20:47.073
and as time goes on,
we will find more.

01:20:47.342 --> 01:20:51.156
The grand realization is that
we have total energy abundance

01:20:51.191 --> 01:20:53.226
without the need
for pollution,

01:20:53.415 --> 01:20:57.221
traditional conservation,
or in fact, a price tag.

01:20:59.621 --> 01:21:01.548
And what about
transportation?

01:21:02.591 --> 01:21:04.419
The prevailing means
of transportation

01:21:04.454 --> 01:21:07.376
in our societies
is by automobile and aircraft,

01:21:07.662 --> 01:21:10.536
both of which predominantly
need fossil fuels to run.

01:21:10.999 --> 01:21:14.336
In the case of the automobile,
the battery technology needed

01:21:14.336 --> 01:21:17.718
to power an electric car that can go
over a hundred miles an hour,

01:21:17.873 --> 01:21:20.181
for over two hundred miles
on one charge,

01:21:20.216 --> 01:21:23.142
exists and has existed
for many years.

01:21:23.177 --> 01:21:26.400
However, due to battery patents,
controlled by the oil industry,

01:21:26.435 --> 01:21:29.156
which limits their ability
to maintain market share,

01:21:29.191 --> 01:21:32.121
coupled with political pressure
from the energy industry,

01:21:32.156 --> 01:21:36.189
the accessibility and affordability
of this technology is limited.

01:21:36.992 --> 01:21:38.617
There is absolutely
no reason,

01:21:38.652 --> 01:21:40.893
other than pure,
corrupt profit interests,

01:21:40.996 --> 01:21:42.931
that every single vehicle
in the world

01:21:42.966 --> 01:21:47.537
cannot be electric and utterly clean,
with zero need for gasoline.

01:21:48.536 --> 01:21:49.819
As far as airplanes,

01:21:49.971 --> 01:21:53.269
it is time we realize that
this means of travel is inefficient,

01:21:53.304 --> 01:21:56.940
cumbersome, slow
and causes far too much pollution.

01:21:57.712 --> 01:21:59.544
This is a MagLev train.

01:21:59.981 --> 01:22:02.359
It uses magnets
for propulsion.

01:22:02.784 --> 01:22:05.259
It is fully suspended
by a magnetic field

01:22:05.309 --> 01:22:09.434
and requires less then two percent
of the energy used for plane travel.

01:22:09.991 --> 01:22:12.586
The train has no wheels,
so nothing can wear out.

01:22:12.994 --> 01:22:15.669
The current maximum speed of
versions of this technology,

01:22:15.729 --> 01:22:18.151
of this technology,
as used in Japan,

01:22:18.498 --> 01:22:20.725
is three hundred and sixty one
miles per hour.

01:22:20.969 --> 01:22:24.717
However, this version of the technology
is very dated.

01:22:25.707 --> 01:22:27.712
An organisation called ET-3

01:22:27.761 --> 01:22:29.968
which has connections
with The Venus Project,

01:22:29.978 --> 01:22:32.585
has established
a tube-based MagLev

01:22:32.801 --> 01:22:36.067
that can travel
up to 4000 miles per hour

01:22:36.102 --> 01:22:41.275
in a motionless, frictionless tube,
which can go over land or under water.

01:22:41.990 --> 01:22:45.465
Imagine going from L.A to New York
for an extended lunchbreak

01:22:45.894 --> 01:22:49.684
or from Washington D.C.
to Beijing, China, in two hours.

01:22:49.998 --> 01:22:54.056
This is the future of continental
and intercontinental travel.

01:22:54.470 --> 01:22:58.328
Fast, clean, with only
a fraction of the energy usage

01:22:58.367 --> 01:23:01.010
we use today
for the same means.

01:23:01.676 --> 01:23:03.906
In fact,
between MagLev technology,

01:23:03.946 --> 01:23:06.982
advanced battery storage
and geothermal energy,

01:23:07.549 --> 01:23:10.540
there will be no reason
to ever burn fossil fuels again.

01:23:10.986 --> 01:23:12.606
And we can do this now,

01:23:12.699 --> 01:23:16.351
if we were not held back
by the paralyzing profit structure.

01:23:20.762 --> 01:23:24.137
Now America is inclined
toward fascism.

01:23:24.299 --> 01:23:27.803
It has a propensity by
its dominant philosophy

01:23:27.838 --> 01:23:31.400
and religion to uphold
to fascist point of view.

01:23:31.706 --> 01:23:36.095
American industry is essencially
a fascist institution.

01:23:36.444 --> 01:23:37.656
If you don't
understand that,

01:23:37.686 --> 01:23:41.567
the minute you punch that time clock,
you walk into a dictatorship.

01:23:41.750 --> 01:23:46.223
We're given notions
about the respectibility of work.

01:23:46.488 --> 01:23:50.224
And I realy look at it
as being paid slavery.

01:23:50.992 --> 01:23:52.248
You brought up
to believe that

01:23:52.288 --> 01:23:55.303
you shall earn your living
by the sweat of your brow.

01:23:55.485 --> 01:23:57.417
That holds people back.

01:23:57.999 --> 01:23:59.565
Freeing people

01:23:59.795 --> 01:24:03.527
from drudgery, repetitive jobs
which make them ignorant.

01:24:03.672 --> 01:24:05.027
You rob them.

01:24:05.974 --> 01:24:09.431
In our society, that is
a resourced-based economy,

01:24:09.588 --> 01:24:11.691
machines free people.

01:24:11.980 --> 01:24:14.482
You see,
we can't imagine that because

01:24:14.483 --> 01:24:16.866
we've never known
that kind of world.

01:24:21.456 --> 01:24:22.883
If we look back
at history,

01:24:23.058 --> 01:24:26.370
we see a very clear pattern
of machine automation,

01:24:26.405 --> 01:24:28.666
slowly replacing
human labour.

01:24:29.330 --> 01:24:31.866
From the disappearance
of the elevator man

01:24:31.901 --> 01:24:35.227
to the near full automation of
an automobile production plant,

01:24:35.570 --> 01:24:40.341
the fact is, as technology grows
the need for humans in the work force

01:24:40.341 --> 01:24:42.014
will continually be
diminished.

01:24:42.811 --> 01:24:44.968
This creates
a serious clash,

01:24:44.979 --> 01:24:49.747
which proves the falsness of
the monetary-based labor system,

01:24:49.984 --> 01:24:53.521
for human employment
is in direct competition

01:24:53.593 --> 01:24:55.536
with technological
developement.

01:24:55.990 --> 01:25:00.241
Therefore, given the fundamental
priority of profit by industry,

01:25:00.662 --> 01:25:03.460
people through time
will be continually layed off

01:25:03.495 --> 01:25:05.285
and replaced by machine.

01:25:05.800 --> 01:25:10.006
When industry takes on a machine
instead of shortening the work day,

01:25:10.041 --> 01:25:11.172
they downsize.

01:25:11.207 --> 01:25:15.053
You loose your job
so you have a right to fear machines.

01:25:15.643 --> 01:25:18.522
In a high technology,
resourced-based economy,

01:25:18.980 --> 01:25:23.699
It is conservative to say that
about 90% of all current occupations

01:25:23.752 --> 01:25:25.887
could be phased out
by machines,

01:25:25.987 --> 01:25:29.670
freeing humans to live their life
without servitude.

01:25:29.991 --> 01:25:32.588
For this is the point
of technology itself.

01:25:32.994 --> 01:25:35.688
And through time,
with nanotechnology

01:25:35.723 --> 01:25:38.106
and other highly advanced
forms of science,

01:25:38.141 --> 01:25:41.631
it is not farfetched to see
how even complex

01:25:41.661 --> 01:25:43.860
medical procedures
could be performed

01:25:43.895 --> 01:25:45.047
by machines,
as well.

01:25:47.068 --> 01:25:47.071
And based
on the pattern

01:25:47.127 --> 01:25:50.738
with much higher success rates
than humans get today.

01:25:51.746 --> 01:25:55.167
The path is clear,
but our monetary-based structure

01:25:55.202 --> 01:25:59.274
which requires labour for income,
blocks this progress,

01:25:59.309 --> 01:26:02.435
for humans need jobs,
in order to survive.

01:26:02.991 --> 01:26:05.575
The bottom line is
that this system must go

01:26:05.794 --> 01:26:07.740
or we will
never be free

01:26:07.922 --> 01:26:10.880
and technology
will be constantly paralyzed.

01:26:11.699 --> 01:26:14.039
We have machines
that clean out sewers

01:26:14.336 --> 01:26:17.006
and frees a human being
from doing that.

01:26:17.041 --> 01:26:22.224
So look at machines as
extensions of human performance.

01:26:22.977 --> 01:26:27.831
Furthermore, many occupations today
will have simply no basis

01:26:27.866 --> 01:26:30.547
to exist in a
resourced-based economy.

01:26:30.785 --> 01:26:33.957
Such as anything assosiated
with the management of money,

01:26:34.289 --> 01:26:37.344
advertising,
along with a legal system itself.

01:26:37.992 --> 01:26:41.286
For, without money,
a great majority of the crimes

01:26:41.321 --> 01:26:43.729
that are commited today,
would never occur.

01:26:43.998 --> 01:26:45.594
Virtually,
all forms of crime

01:26:45.645 --> 01:26:47.687
are consequence
in the monetary system,

01:26:47.700 --> 01:26:53.618
either directly or by nevroses
inflicted through financial deprevation.

01:26:53.975 --> 01:26:58.231
Therefore, laws themselves
could eventually become extinct.

01:26:58.747 --> 01:27:03.169
Instead of putting up a sign:
'Drive carefully', 'Slippery when wet',

01:27:03.228 --> 01:27:06.888
put abrasive on the highway,
so it is not slippery when wet.

01:27:06.988 --> 01:27:09.244
And when a person
gets in a car that drunk

01:27:09.279 --> 01:27:11.362
and a car oscillates
at great deal,

01:27:11.397 --> 01:27:12.703
there's
a little pendulum

01:27:12.994 --> 01:27:14.142
that swings up
and back

01:27:14.182 --> 01:27:16.439
and that will pull the
car over the side...

01:27:16.598 --> 01:27:17.761
Not a law.

01:27:17.999 --> 01:27:18.968
A solution.

01:27:19.003 --> 01:27:23.274
Put sonar and radar on automobiles
so they can't hit one another.

01:27:23.371 --> 01:27:25.609
Man-made laws
are attempts

01:27:25.807 --> 01:27:27.976
to deal with
occuring problems

01:27:27.976 --> 01:27:30.450
and not knowing
how to solve them...

01:27:30.490 --> 01:27:31.790
They make a law.

01:27:32.681 --> 01:27:35.121
In the United States,
the most privatised,

01:27:35.156 --> 01:27:36.795
capitalist country
on the planet,

01:27:36.985 --> 01:27:38.901
it shall come
as no surprise

01:27:38.987 --> 01:27:42.636
that it also has the largest
prison population in the world.

01:27:42.991 --> 01:27:44.587
Growing every year.

01:27:44.993 --> 01:27:47.996
Statistically, most of
these people are uneducated

01:27:47.996 --> 01:27:50.922
and come from poor,
deprived societies.

01:27:51.532 --> 01:27:53.428
And contrary
to propaganda,

01:27:53.735 --> 01:27:55.913
it is this
enviromental conditioning,

01:27:56.216 --> 01:27:59.364
which lures them into
criminal and violent behavior.

01:27:59.974 --> 01:28:02.046
However,
society looks the other way

01:28:02.081 --> 01:28:03.793
in regard
to this point.

01:28:03.978 --> 01:28:07.982
The legal and prison systems
are just more examples

01:28:07.982 --> 01:28:10.523
of how our society
avoids examining

01:28:10.785 --> 01:28:12.658
the root causes
of behavior.

01:28:12.987 --> 01:28:14.773
Billions are spent
each year

01:28:14.852 --> 01:28:16.691
on prisons and police,

01:28:16.691 --> 01:28:18.851
while only a fraction
is spent on

01:28:18.886 --> 01:28:20.456
programs for poverty,

01:28:20.618 --> 01:28:23.047
which is one of the most
fundamental variables

01:28:23.048 --> 01:28:25.438
responsible for crime
to begin with.

01:28:25.767 --> 01:28:28.377
And, as long as
we have an economic system,

01:28:28.412 --> 01:28:29.974
which preferes
and in fact,

01:28:30.009 --> 01:28:32.893
creates scarcity
and deprivation,

01:28:32.994 --> 01:28:35.150
crime
will never go away.

01:28:40.682 --> 01:28:45.182
If people have access
to the necessities of life

01:28:45.217 --> 01:28:49.459
without survitude, debt,
barter, trade,

01:28:50.892 --> 01:28:52.597
they'd behave
very differently.

01:28:52.894 --> 01:28:56.957
You want all these things available
without a price tag.

01:28:56.998 --> 01:29:00.435
Now then, you're not gonna
have a price tag,

01:29:00.470 --> 01:29:02.155
what will
motivate people?

01:29:02.870 --> 01:29:06.513
A man gets everything he wants,
he's just laying around in the sun.

01:29:06.708 --> 01:29:09.027
This is the myth
they perpetuate.

01:29:09.056 --> 01:29:11.845
People in our culture
are trained to believe

01:29:11.979 --> 01:29:15.189
that the monetary system
produces incentive.

01:29:15.450 --> 01:29:18.865
If they have access to things,
why should they want to do anything?

01:29:18.986 --> 01:29:20.939
They would
loose their incentive.

01:29:20.974 --> 01:29:24.442
That's what you're taught
to support the monetary system.

01:29:24.477 --> 01:29:26.625
When you take money
out of the scenario,

01:29:27.512 --> 01:29:31.388
there would be different incentives,
very different incentives.

01:29:31.699 --> 01:29:34.947
When people have access
to the necessities of life,

01:29:34.969 --> 01:29:36.586
their incentives change.

01:29:36.671 --> 01:29:38.574
What about the moon
and the stars?

01:29:38.973 --> 01:29:40.944
New incentives arise.

01:29:40.975 --> 01:29:43.491
If you make a painting
that you enjoy,

01:29:43.711 --> 01:29:47.259
you will enjoy giving it
to other people, not selling it.

01:29:51.986 --> 01:29:55.330
I think most of the education,
that I've seen today is

01:29:55.365 --> 01:29:58.559
essentially,
producing a person for a job.

01:29:58.594 --> 01:30:01.374
It's very specialized.
They're not generalists.

01:30:01.409 --> 01:30:04.245
People don't know a lot about
a lot of different subjects.

01:30:04.280 --> 01:30:06.968
I don't think you can
get people to go to war,

01:30:06.968 --> 01:30:10.302
if they knew a lot
about a lot of things.

01:30:10.337 --> 01:30:12.797
I think education
is mostly rote

01:30:12.974 --> 01:30:16.566
and they're not taught
how to solve problems.

01:30:16.601 --> 01:30:19.150
They're not given the tools,
emotionally,

01:30:19.185 --> 01:30:20.962
or within
their own field,

01:30:20.982 --> 01:30:23.281
of how to do
critical thinking.

01:30:23.584 --> 01:30:26.890
In a resource-based economy,
the education would be very different.

01:30:26.988 --> 01:30:30.913
Our society's major concern
is mental development

01:30:30.992 --> 01:30:33.692
and to motivate
each person

01:30:33.795 --> 01:30:35.913
to their
highest potential.

01:30:35.997 --> 01:30:37.451
Because our philosophy is

01:30:37.461 --> 01:30:40.091
the smarter people are,
the richer the world,

01:30:40.126 --> 01:30:42.727
because everybody
becomes a contributor.

01:30:42.970 --> 01:30:45.298
The smarter
your kids are,

01:30:45.333 --> 01:30:47.098
the better
my life will be.

01:30:47.133 --> 01:30:49.334
Because they'll be contributing
more constructively

01:30:49.369 --> 01:30:52.125
to the environment
and to my life.

01:30:52.165 --> 01:30:53.303
Because
everything that

01:30:53.354 --> 01:30:56.503
we devise within
a resource-based economy,

01:30:56.584 --> 01:30:58.239
would be applied
to society.

01:30:58.280 --> 01:31:00.150
There would be nothing
to hold it back.

01:31:04.425 --> 01:31:08.615
Patriotism, weapons,
armies, navies...

01:31:08.696 --> 01:31:09.995
All that is a sign

01:31:09.997 --> 01:31:12.574
that we're not
civilized yet.

01:31:12.967 --> 01:31:14.558
Kids will ask
their parents:

01:31:14.702 --> 01:31:18.404
"Didn't you see
the necessity of the machines?"

01:31:18.973 --> 01:31:21.609
"Dad, couldn't you see
that war was inevitable

01:31:21.644 --> 01:31:23.173
when you produce
scarcity?"

01:31:23.978 --> 01:31:24.941
"Isn't it obvious?"

01:31:24.981 --> 01:31:26.752
Of course,
the kid will understand

01:31:26.981 --> 01:31:29.984
that you're pinheads;
raised merely to serve

01:31:29.984 --> 01:31:32.112
the established institutons.

01:31:32.147 --> 01:31:34.989
We're such in
an abominable, sick society,

01:31:35.389 --> 01:31:37.392
that we won't make
the history book.

01:31:37.427 --> 01:31:41.524
They'll just say that large nations
took land from smaller nations,

01:31:41.696 --> 01:31:43.239
used force and violence.

01:31:43.274 --> 01:31:45.646
You'll get history
talked about as

01:31:45.967 --> 01:31:47.873
corrupt behavior
all the way along

01:31:47.969 --> 01:31:50.463
until the beginning
of the civilized world.

01:31:50.498 --> 01:31:52.803
That's when all the nations
work together.

01:31:53.305 --> 01:31:54.829
World unification,

01:31:54.976 --> 01:31:59.050
working toward common good
for all human beings

01:31:59.085 --> 01:32:03.832
and without anyone being
subservient to anyone else.

01:32:03.985 --> 01:32:06.590
Without
social stratification,

01:32:06.721 --> 01:32:08.644
whether it be
technical elitism

01:32:08.723 --> 01:32:10.561
or any other kind
of elitism,

01:32:10.792 --> 01:32:13.066
eradicated from
the face of the earth.

01:32:13.394 --> 01:32:17.457
The state does nothing
because there is no state.

01:32:21.969 --> 01:32:24.017
The system I advocate,

01:32:24.052 --> 01:32:27.772
a resource-based global economy,
is not perfect.

01:32:27.975 --> 01:32:30.275
It's just a lot better
than what we have.

01:32:30.411 --> 01:32:33.147
We can never achieve
perfection.

01:32:50.998 --> 01:32:53.023
The social values
of our society,

01:32:53.058 --> 01:32:55.394
which has manifested
in perpetual warfare,

01:32:55.469 --> 01:32:56.370
corruption,

01:32:56.370 --> 01:32:57.672
oppressive laws,

01:32:57.672 --> 01:32:58.973
social stratification,

01:32:58.973 --> 01:33:00.975
irrelevant superstitions,

01:33:00.975 --> 01:33:02.790
environmental destruction,

01:33:02.977 --> 01:33:07.659
and a despotic, socially indifferent,
profit-oriented ruling class,

01:33:08.549 --> 01:33:11.659
is fundamentally the result
of a collective ignorance

01:33:11.719 --> 01:33:15.867
of two of the most basic insights
humans can have about reality.

01:33:16.624 --> 01:33:20.515
The emergent and symbiotic aspects
of natural law.

01:33:21.829 --> 01:33:23.963
The emergent nature
of reality

01:33:23.998 --> 01:33:26.768
is that all systems;
whether it is knowledge,

01:33:26.803 --> 01:33:31.651
society, technology, philosophy,
or any other creation;

01:33:31.973 --> 01:33:33.615
will,
when uninhibited,

01:33:33.808 --> 01:33:36.453
undergo fluid,
perpetual change.

01:33:36.978 --> 01:33:39.034
What we consider
commonplace today

01:33:39.069 --> 01:33:41.992
such as modern communication
and transportation,

01:33:42.383 --> 01:33:45.373
would have been unimaginable
in ancient times.

01:33:45.987 --> 01:33:48.905
Likewise, the future
will contain technologies,

01:33:48.990 --> 01:33:51.498
realizations
and social structures

01:33:51.659 --> 01:33:54.280
that we cannot even fathom
in the present.

01:33:54.862 --> 01:33:57.101
We have gone from
alchemy to chemistry,

01:33:57.632 --> 01:34:00.561
from a geocentric universe
to a heliocentric,

01:34:00.968 --> 01:34:03.778
from believing that demons
were the cause of illness

01:34:03.971 --> 01:34:05.297
to modern medicine.

01:34:05.973 --> 01:34:08.673
This development shows
no sign of ending,

01:34:08.776 --> 01:34:11.407
and it is this awareness
that aligns us

01:34:11.442 --> 01:34:14.003
and leads us
on a continuous path

01:34:14.038 --> 01:34:15.823
to growth
and progress.

01:34:16.884 --> 01:34:19.929
Static, empirical knowledge
does not exist.

01:34:19.987 --> 01:34:24.103
Rather, it is the insight
of the emergence of all systems

01:34:24.138 --> 01:34:25.626
we must recognize.

01:34:26.494 --> 01:34:30.315
This means we must be open to
new information at all times,

01:34:30.531 --> 01:34:33.100
Even if it threatens
our current belief system,

01:34:33.135 --> 01:34:35.038
and hence,
identities.

01:34:35.970 --> 01:34:39.544
Sadly, society today
has failed to recognize this,

01:34:39.674 --> 01:34:43.174
and the established institutions
continue to paralyze growth

01:34:43.211 --> 01:34:46.145
by preserving
outdated, social structures.

01:34:46.781 --> 01:34:49.020
Simultaneously,
the population suffers

01:34:49.055 --> 01:34:50.541
from a fear of change.

01:34:50.818 --> 01:34:53.880
For their conditioning assumes
a static identity

01:34:53.988 --> 01:34:55.945
and challenging
one's belief system,

01:34:55.990 --> 01:34:59.127
usually results in
insult and apprehension.

01:34:59.494 --> 01:35:03.661
For being wrong is erroneously
associated with failure.

01:35:04.999 --> 01:35:08.807
When in fact to be proven wrong
should be celebrated.

01:35:08.969 --> 01:35:12.630
For it is elevating someone
to a new level of understanding,

01:35:12.773 --> 01:35:14.373
furthering awareness.

01:35:15.209 --> 01:35:19.375
The fact is, there is no such thing
as a smart human being,

01:35:19.680 --> 01:35:21.667
for it is merely
a matter of time

01:35:21.682 --> 01:35:25.449
before their ideas are
updated, changed or irradicated.

01:35:26.687 --> 01:35:30.143
And this tendency to blindly
hold on to a belief system,

01:35:30.324 --> 01:35:34.031
sheltering it from new,
possibly transforming information

01:35:34.295 --> 01:35:38.340
is nothing less than a form of
intellectual materialism.

01:35:39.834 --> 01:35:42.706
The monetary system
perpetuates this materialism,

01:35:42.770 --> 01:35:45.404
not only by it's
self-preserving structures,

01:35:45.573 --> 01:35:48.182
but also throught the
countless number of people

01:35:48.275 --> 01:35:50.211
who have been conditioned
into blindly,

01:35:50.211 --> 01:35:52.431
and thoughtlessly,
upholding these structures,

01:35:52.580 --> 01:35:57.358
therefore becoming, self-appointed
guardians of the status quo.

01:35:57.985 --> 01:36:01.700
Sheep which no longer need
a sheepdog to control them.

01:36:01.889 --> 01:36:03.404
For they control
each other,

01:36:03.654 --> 01:36:07.078
by ostracizing those
who step out of the norm.

01:36:07.995 --> 01:36:09.730
This tendency
to resist change

01:36:09.730 --> 01:36:11.738
and uphold
existing institutions

01:36:11.773 --> 01:36:14.063
for the sake of identity,
comfort,

01:36:14.098 --> 01:36:15.535
power and profit,

01:36:15.670 --> 01:36:17.676
is completely
unsustainable.

01:36:17.972 --> 01:36:20.244
And will only produce
further imbalance,

01:36:20.508 --> 01:36:21.617
fragmentation,

01:36:21.709 --> 01:36:22.479
distortion,

01:36:22.543 --> 01:36:23.549
and invariably,

01:36:23.778 --> 01:36:24.860
destruction.

01:36:27.315 --> 01:36:29.031
It's time to change.

01:36:30.251 --> 01:36:31.990
From hunters
and gatherers,

01:36:32.025 --> 01:36:33.773
to the agricultural revolution,

01:36:33.988 --> 01:36:35.560
to the industrial revolution,

01:36:35.790 --> 01:36:37.109
the pattern is clear.

01:36:37.424 --> 01:36:39.627
It is time
for a new social system

01:36:39.894 --> 01:36:42.756
which reflects the understandings
we have today.

01:36:43.998 --> 01:36:45.866
The monetary system
is a product

01:36:45.866 --> 01:36:46.947
of a period of time,

01:36:46.967 --> 01:36:48.880
where scarcity
was a reality.

01:36:49.403 --> 01:36:51.107
Now,
with the age of technology,

01:36:51.142 --> 01:36:53.430
it is no longer relevant
to society.

01:36:54.074 --> 01:36:57.431
Gone with the aberrant behavior
it manifests.

01:36:58.979 --> 01:37:01.301
Likewise,
dominant world views,

01:37:01.448 --> 01:37:02.910
such as theistic religion,

01:37:03.010 --> 01:37:05.900
operate with
the same social irrelevancy.

01:37:06.787 --> 01:37:11.892
Islam, Christianity, Judaism,
Hinduism and all of the others,

01:37:11.992 --> 01:37:15.137
exist as barriers
to personal and social growth.

01:37:15.796 --> 01:37:19.601
For each group perpetuates
a closed world view.

01:37:19.967 --> 01:37:22.705
And this finite understanding
that they acknowledge

01:37:22.970 --> 01:37:26.788
is simply not possible
in an emergent universe.

01:37:28.976 --> 01:37:32.613
Yet, religion has succeeded
in shutting down the awareness

01:37:32.713 --> 01:37:33.877
of this emergence

01:37:33.981 --> 01:37:37.190
by instilling the psychological
distortion of faith

01:37:37.225 --> 01:37:38.831
upon it's followers.

01:37:38.866 --> 01:37:41.516
Where logic and new information
is rejected

01:37:41.789 --> 01:37:44.890
in favor of traditionalized,
outdated beliefs.

01:37:45.993 --> 01:37:47.647
The concept of God,

01:37:47.995 --> 01:37:52.262
is really a method of accounting
for the nature of things.

01:37:52.297 --> 01:37:54.969
In the early days,
people didn't know enough

01:37:54.969 --> 01:37:56.941
about
how things formed,

01:37:56.971 --> 01:37:58.361
how nature worked.

01:37:58.505 --> 01:38:00.960
So they invented
their own little stories,

01:38:01.576 --> 01:38:05.298
and they made God
in their own image.

01:38:05.980 --> 01:38:07.767
A guy
that gets angry

01:38:07.982 --> 01:38:10.043
when people
don't behave right.

01:38:10.078 --> 01:38:12.522
He creates floods
and earthquakes

01:38:12.987 --> 01:38:15.026
and they say
it's an act of God.

01:38:16.791 --> 01:38:19.393
A cursory glance at
the suppressed history of religion

01:38:19.493 --> 01:38:22.616
reveals that even
the foundational myths themselves

01:38:22.697 --> 01:38:27.072
are emergent culminations
developed through influence over time.

01:38:27.107 --> 01:38:30.346
For example, a cardinal doctrine
of the Christian faith

01:38:30.371 --> 01:38:32.670
is the death and resurrection
of Christ.

01:38:32.973 --> 01:38:36.431
This notion is so important
that the Bible itself states

01:38:36.877 --> 01:38:38.659
"And if Christ be not risen,

01:38:38.710 --> 01:38:42.675
then is our preaching vain
and your faith is also vain."

01:38:44.618 --> 01:38:47.546
Yet it is very difficult
to take this account literally.

01:38:47.688 --> 01:38:50.004
For not only is
there no primary source

01:38:50.039 --> 01:38:53.137
denoting this supernatural event
in secular history,

01:38:53.627 --> 01:38:56.978
awareness of the enormous
number of pre-Christian saviors

01:38:56.997 --> 01:38:59.459
who also died
and were resurrected

01:38:59.667 --> 01:39:03.961
immediately puts this story in
mythological territory by association.

01:39:04.772 --> 01:39:06.167
Early church figures,

01:39:06.202 --> 01:39:06.974
such as Tortullian,

01:39:06.974 --> 01:39:10.246
went to great lengths
to break these associations,

01:39:10.377 --> 01:39:14.675
even claiming that the Devil
caused the similarities to occur.

01:39:14.882 --> 01:39:16.551
Stating in
the second century:

01:39:16.684 --> 01:39:19.298
"The devil, whose business is
to pervert the truth,

01:39:19.486 --> 01:39:22.772
mimics the exact circumstance
of the Divine Sacraments.

01:39:22.990 --> 01:39:26.774
He baptizes his believers and
promises forgiveness of sins...

01:39:26.794 --> 01:39:28.924
He celebrates
the oblation of bread,

01:39:29.005 --> 01:39:31.402
and brings in the symbol
of the resurrection.

01:39:31.999 --> 01:39:35.102
Let us therefore acknowledge
the craftiness of the Devil,

01:39:35.202 --> 01:39:38.623
who copied certain things
of those that be Divine."

01:39:39.974 --> 01:39:41.730
What is truly sad,
however,

01:39:41.775 --> 01:39:45.152
is that when we cease the idea
that the stories from Christianity,

01:39:45.187 --> 01:39:48.061
Judaism, Islam
and all the others

01:39:48.096 --> 01:39:49.933
are literal history,

01:39:50.284 --> 01:39:52.419
and accept them
for what they really are,

01:39:52.459 --> 01:39:55.310
which are purely
allegorical expressions,

01:39:55.345 --> 01:39:57.278
derived
from many faiths,

01:39:57.992 --> 01:40:00.509
we see that all religions
share a common thread.

01:40:01.120 --> 01:40:03.621
And it is
this unifying imperative

01:40:03.698 --> 01:40:06.176
that needs to be
recognized and appreciated.

01:40:08.602 --> 01:40:11.761
Religious belief has caused
more fragmentation and conflict

01:40:11.972 --> 01:40:13.745
than any other ideology.

01:40:14.074 --> 01:40:18.373
Christianity alone has
34,000 different subgroups.

01:40:19.980 --> 01:40:23.005
The Bible is subject
to interpretation.

01:40:23.040 --> 01:40:24.885
When you read it,
you say,

01:40:24.985 --> 01:40:28.777
"I think Jesus meant this.
I think Job meant that."

01:40:28.789 --> 01:40:30.628
"Oh no!
He meant this."

01:40:30.791 --> 01:40:34.398
So you have the Lutheran,
the Seventh-Day Adventist, the Catholic,

01:40:34.895 --> 01:40:38.197
and a church divided
is no church at all.

01:40:44.972 --> 01:40:47.435
And this point
on division,

01:40:47.474 --> 01:40:50.784
which is a trademark
of all theistic religions,

01:40:50.978 --> 01:40:53.885
brings us to our second failure
of awareness.

01:40:53.981 --> 01:40:56.064
The false assumption
of separation

01:40:56.099 --> 01:41:00.890
through the rejection of
the symbiotic relationship of life.

01:41:01.989 --> 01:41:05.978
Apart from the understanding
that all natural systems are emergent,

01:41:05.993 --> 01:41:09.163
where all notions of reality
will be constantly developed,

01:41:09.198 --> 01:41:11.397
altered
and even eradicated,

01:41:11.899 --> 01:41:15.869
we must also understand
that all systems are, in fact,

01:41:15.969 --> 01:41:19.752
invented fragments,
merely for the sake of conversation.

01:41:20.374 --> 01:41:24.021
For there is no such thing
as independence in nature.

01:41:24.545 --> 01:41:26.937
The whole of nature
is a unified system

01:41:26.987 --> 01:41:28.842
of interdependent variables,

01:41:29.283 --> 01:41:34.388
each a cause and a reaction,
existing only as a concentrated whole.

01:41:35.989 --> 01:41:39.122
You don't see the plug
to connect to the environment,

01:41:39.157 --> 01:41:42.563
so it looks like we're free,
wandering around.

01:41:42.663 --> 01:41:45.527
Take the oxygen away,
we all die immediately.

01:41:45.532 --> 01:41:47.824
Take plant life away,
we die.

01:41:47.868 --> 01:41:50.627
And without the sun,
all the plants die.

01:41:50.709 --> 01:41:52.204
So we are connected.

01:41:52.539 --> 01:41:55.500
We really must take into
account the totality.

01:41:55.535 --> 01:41:57.978
This isn't just a human experience
on this planet,

01:41:57.978 --> 01:41:59.414
this is
a total experience.

01:41:59.449 --> 01:42:01.515
And we know we can't survive
without plants and animals.

01:42:01.550 --> 01:42:04.376
We know we can't survive
without the four elements, you know?

01:42:04.585 --> 01:42:08.314
And so, when are we gonna really
start taking that into account?

01:42:08.655 --> 01:42:10.458
That's what it is
to be successful.

01:42:10.491 --> 01:42:14.421
Success depends on how well
we're related to everything around us.

01:42:15.696 --> 01:42:17.901
I'm very aware of
the fact that my grandson

01:42:17.936 --> 01:42:19.392
cannot possibly hope

01:42:19.767 --> 01:42:21.787
to inherit
a sustainable,

01:42:21.837 --> 01:42:24.192
peaceful, stable,
socially just world

01:42:24.227 --> 01:42:26.428
unless every child today
growing up

01:42:26.463 --> 01:42:30.878
in Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia,
in Palestine, in Israel,

01:42:30.978 --> 01:42:33.294
also has
that same expectation.

01:42:33.981 --> 01:42:35.870
You gotta take care
of the whole community

01:42:36.105 --> 01:42:38.346
or you're gonna have
serious problems.

01:42:38.686 --> 01:42:42.454
And now we have to see that
the whole world is the community.

01:42:42.690 --> 01:42:45.874
And we must all take care
of each other that way.

01:42:45.993 --> 01:42:47.995
And it's not just
a community of human beings,

01:42:48.030 --> 01:42:51.149
it's a community of plants
and animals and elements.

01:42:51.184 --> 01:42:53.918
And we really need
to understand that.

01:42:54.067 --> 01:42:55.969
That's what's
gonna bring us joy too,

01:42:55.969 --> 01:42:56.671
and pleasure.

01:42:56.970 --> 01:42:58.826
That's what's missing
in our lives right now.

01:42:58.972 --> 01:43:00.632
We can call it
spirituality,

01:43:00.974 --> 01:43:02.278
but the fact
of the matter is...

01:43:02.443 --> 01:43:06.497
Joy comes from that
bliss of connectedness.

01:43:06.513 --> 01:43:07.822
That's our godspirit.

01:43:07.863 --> 01:43:09.591
That's that side
of ourselves

01:43:09.616 --> 01:43:11.518
that really feels it,

01:43:11.518 --> 01:43:13.222
and you can feel it
deep inside you.

01:43:13.383 --> 01:43:15.060
It's this amazing,
wonderful feeling

01:43:15.100 --> 01:43:16.343
and you know it
when you get it.

01:43:16.378 --> 01:43:17.599
You don't get it
from money,

01:43:17.991 --> 01:43:19.729
you get it
from connection.

01:43:21.995 --> 01:43:24.745
Now if that isn't
a hazard to this country.

01:43:26.600 --> 01:43:28.735
How are we gonna keep
building nuclear weapons,

01:43:28.735 --> 01:43:29.873
you know
what I mean?

01:43:30.871 --> 01:43:33.170
What's gonna happen
to the arms industry

01:43:33.205 --> 01:43:35.333
when we realize
we're all one?

01:43:36.310 --> 01:43:38.136
It's gonna fuck up
the economy.

01:43:38.745 --> 01:43:40.914
The economy
that's fake anyway.

01:43:49.423 --> 01:43:50.736
Which would be
a real bummer.

01:43:51.692 --> 01:43:54.142
You can see why
the government's crackin' down...

01:43:56.997 --> 01:43:59.837
on the idea of experiencing
unconditional love.

01:44:10.978 --> 01:44:14.982
Once we understand that
the integrity of our personal existences

01:44:14.982 --> 01:44:16.684
are completely dependent

01:44:16.784 --> 01:44:19.989
on the integrity of
everything else in our world,

01:44:20.024 --> 01:44:24.063
we have truly understood
the meaning of unconditional love.

01:44:24.692 --> 01:44:28.780
For love is extensionality,
and seeing everything as you

01:44:28.896 --> 01:44:32.309
and you as everything
can have no conditionalities,

01:44:32.466 --> 01:44:36.249
for in fact,
we are all everything, at once.

01:44:36.303 --> 01:44:38.972
If it's true that we're all
from the center of a star,

01:44:38.972 --> 01:44:40.838
every atom on each of us
from the center of a star,

01:44:40.873 --> 01:44:42.708
then we're all
the same thing.

01:44:42.748 --> 01:44:43.707
Even a Coke machine

01:44:43.757 --> 01:44:45.979
or a cigarette butt
in the street in Buffalo

01:44:46.014 --> 01:44:47.781
is made out of atoms
that came from a star.

01:44:47.816 --> 01:44:49.716
They've all been recycled
thousands of times,

01:44:49.716 --> 01:44:50.854
as have
you and I.

01:44:50.984 --> 01:44:54.185
And therefore,
it's only me out there.

01:44:54.554 --> 01:44:56.107
So what is there
to be afraid of?

01:44:56.142 --> 01:44:58.258
What is there
that needs solace seeking?

01:44:58.258 --> 01:44:58.706
Nothing.

01:44:58.746 --> 01:45:01.448
There's nothing to be afraid of
because it's all us.

01:45:01.695 --> 01:45:04.733
The trouble is we have been
separated by being born

01:45:04.768 --> 01:45:07.267
and given a name and an identity
and being individuated.

01:45:07.302 --> 01:45:08.791
We've been separated
from the oneness,

01:45:08.826 --> 01:45:09.970
and that's
what religion exploits.

01:45:09.970 --> 01:45:14.027
That people have this yearning
to be part of the overall one again.

01:45:14.062 --> 01:45:15.094
So they exploit that.

01:45:15.129 --> 01:45:17.223
They call it God,
they say he has rules,

01:45:17.577 --> 01:45:18.889
and I think it's cruel.

01:45:19.079 --> 01:45:21.512
I think you can do it
absent religion.

01:46:09.429 --> 01:46:11.354
It's time
to claim the unity.

01:46:11.465 --> 01:46:14.407
Our outmoded social systems
have broken apart,

01:46:14.768 --> 01:46:17.656
and work together
to create a sustainable,

01:46:17.671 --> 01:46:20.666
global society,
where everyone is taken care of

01:46:20.741 --> 01:46:22.767
and everyone
is truly free.

01:46:23.343 --> 01:46:25.645
Your personal beliefs,
whatever they may be,

01:46:25.696 --> 01:46:29.304
are meaningless when it comes
to the necessities of life.

01:46:29.449 --> 01:46:31.591
Every human being
is born naked,

01:46:31.651 --> 01:46:34.971
needing warmth, food,
water, shelter.

01:46:34.988 --> 01:46:36.973
Everything else
is auxiliary.

01:46:37.311 --> 01:46:39.739
Therefore, the most
important issue at hand

01:46:39.893 --> 01:46:43.385
is the intelligent management
of the Earth's resources.

01:46:43.897 --> 01:46:46.575
This can never be accomplished
in a monetary system,

01:46:46.767 --> 01:46:50.034
for the pursuit of profit
is the pursuit of self-interest

01:46:50.069 --> 01:46:52.432
and therefore,
imbalance is inherent.

01:46:53.974 --> 01:46:56.937
Simultaneously,
politicians are useless.

01:46:56.977 --> 01:47:01.493
For our true problems in life
are technical, not political.

01:47:01.982 --> 01:47:04.979
Furthermore,
ideologies that separate humanity,

01:47:05.014 --> 01:47:06.029
such as religion,

01:47:06.064 --> 01:47:08.479
need strong reflection
in the community

01:47:08.555 --> 01:47:12.305
in regard to it's value,
purpose and social relevancy.

01:47:12.993 --> 01:47:14.409
Hopefully,
through time,

01:47:14.444 --> 01:47:18.007
religion will loose it's materialism
and basis in superstition

01:47:18.042 --> 01:47:21.154
and move into the useful field
of philosophy.

01:47:21.535 --> 01:47:24.515
The fact is,
society today is backwards,

01:47:24.638 --> 01:47:28.566
with politicians constantly talking
about protection and security

01:47:28.742 --> 01:47:31.988
rather than creation,
unity and progress.

01:47:32.712 --> 01:47:34.460
The US alone
now spends about

01:47:34.510 --> 01:47:37.592
$500 billions dollars annually
on defense.

01:47:37.784 --> 01:47:40.353
That is enough to send
every high school senior

01:47:40.388 --> 01:47:42.559
in America
to a four year college.

01:47:43.490 --> 01:47:45.946
In the 1940's,
the Manhattan Project

01:47:45.992 --> 01:47:49.064
produced the first true
weapon of mass destruction.

01:47:49.496 --> 01:47:55.342
This program employed 130,000 people,
at an extreme financial cost.

01:47:55.769 --> 01:47:58.038
Imagine what our life
would be like today,

01:47:58.073 --> 01:47:59.839
if that
group of scientists,

01:47:59.973 --> 01:48:02.774
instead of working on
a way of killing people,

01:48:02.976 --> 01:48:07.232
worked on a way to create
a self-sustaining, abundant world.

01:48:07.747 --> 01:48:10.138
Life today
would be very, very different,

01:48:10.173 --> 01:48:11.680
if that was their goal.

01:48:13.987 --> 01:48:16.210
Instead of
weapons of mass destruction,

01:48:16.456 --> 01:48:20.264
it is time to unleash
something much more powerful.

01:48:20.994 --> 01:48:23.580
Weapons of Mass Creation.

01:48:25.201 --> 01:48:27.967
Our true divinity is
in our ability to create.

01:48:28.301 --> 01:48:32.274
And armed with the understanding of
the symbiotic connections of life,

01:48:32.539 --> 01:48:36.128
while being guided by
the emergent nature of reality,

01:48:36.376 --> 01:48:39.349
there is nothing
we cannot do or accomplish.

01:48:41.248 --> 01:48:43.932
Of course,
we face strong barriers,

01:48:43.984 --> 01:48:46.354
in the form of
established power structures,

01:48:46.389 --> 01:48:48.249
that refuse to change.

01:48:48.789 --> 01:48:51.430
At the heart of these structures
is the monetary system.

01:48:51.625 --> 01:48:54.191
As explained earlier,
the fractional reserve policy

01:48:54.326 --> 01:48:56.432
is a form of
slavery through debt,

01:48:56.474 --> 01:49:00.408
where it is literally impossible
for society to be free.

01:49:00.767 --> 01:49:04.013
In turn, free market capitalism,
in the form of free trade,

01:49:04.048 --> 01:49:07.374
uses debt to imprison the world
and manipulate countries

01:49:07.474 --> 01:49:11.678
into subservience to a handful of
large business and political powers.

01:49:11.978 --> 01:49:14.347
Apart from
these obvious amoralities,

01:49:14.382 --> 01:49:17.016
the system itself
is based on competition,

01:49:17.051 --> 01:49:19.661
which immediately
destroys the possibility

01:49:19.686 --> 01:49:22.893
of large scale collaborations
for the common good.

01:49:22.989 --> 01:49:27.967
Hence paralyzing any attempt
at true global sustainability.

01:49:28.995 --> 01:49:32.950
These financial and corporate structures
are now obsolete,

01:49:32.999 --> 01:49:34.955
and they must be
outgrown.

01:49:36.336 --> 01:49:38.134
Of course, we cannot be
naive enough to think

01:49:38.169 --> 01:49:41.228
that the business and financial elite
are going to subscribe to this idea,

01:49:41.374 --> 01:49:43.290
for they will lose
power and control.

01:49:43.543 --> 01:49:47.026
Therefore, peacefully,
a highly strategic action must be taken.

01:49:47.981 --> 01:49:50.607
The most powerful course
of action is simple.

01:49:50.984 --> 01:49:53.407
We have to alter
our behavior to force

01:49:53.442 --> 01:49:56.522
the power structure
to the will of the people.

01:49:57.657 --> 01:50:00.305
We must stop
supporting the system.

01:50:01.828 --> 01:50:03.997
The only way
the establishment will change

01:50:04.032 --> 01:50:06.212
is by our refusal
to participate

01:50:06.247 --> 01:50:10.554
while continuously acknowledging
its endless flaws and corruptions.

01:50:10.971 --> 01:50:14.085
They're not gonna give up
the monetary system,

01:50:14.120 --> 01:50:17.759
because of our designs
of what we've recommend.

01:50:17.911 --> 01:50:19.641
The system
has to fail,

01:50:19.780 --> 01:50:24.425
and people have to lose confidence
in their elected leaders.

01:50:24.685 --> 01:50:27.035
That will be
a major turning point

01:50:27.070 --> 01:50:32.002
if The Venus Project is offered
as a possible alternative.

01:50:32.037 --> 01:50:34.708
If not,
I fear the consequences.

01:50:34.995 --> 01:50:39.996
The trends now indicate
that our country is going bankrupt.

01:50:40.031 --> 01:50:45.439
The probability is our country
will move toward a military dictatorship

01:50:45.672 --> 01:50:49.648
to prevent riots
and complete social breakdown.

01:50:49.976 --> 01:50:51.540
Once
the US breaks down,

01:50:51.745 --> 01:50:54.598
all the other cultures
will undergo similar things.

01:50:55.982 --> 01:50:58.259
As of now,
the world financial system

01:50:58.294 --> 01:50:59.880
is on the brink
of collapse

01:50:59.915 --> 01:51:01.851
due to
it's own shortcomings.

01:51:01.988 --> 01:51:04.991
The Controller of Currencies
stated in 2003

01:51:05.026 --> 01:51:07.394
that the interest
on the US National Debt

01:51:07.429 --> 01:51:10.410
will not be affordable
in less than ten years.

01:51:10.797 --> 01:51:14.262
This theoretically means
total bankruptcy for the US economy

01:51:14.468 --> 01:51:17.048
and it's implications
for the world are immense.

01:51:17.470 --> 01:51:20.008
In turn, the fractional reserve-based
monetary system

01:51:20.043 --> 01:51:23.007
is reaching it's theoretical limits
of expansion

01:51:23.042 --> 01:51:26.659
and the banking failures you are seeing
are just the beginning.

01:51:26.980 --> 01:51:29.467
This is why
inflation is skyrocketing,

01:51:29.749 --> 01:51:31.518
our debt is
at record levels

01:51:31.618 --> 01:51:34.187
and the government and FED
are hemorrhaging new money

01:51:34.287 --> 01:51:36.084
to bailout
the corrupt system.

01:51:36.489 --> 01:51:38.458
For the only way
to keep the banks going

01:51:38.493 --> 01:51:40.015
is by
making more money.

01:51:40.050 --> 01:51:41.895
The only way
to make more money

01:51:41.995 --> 01:51:44.298
is to create more debt
and inflation.

01:51:44.431 --> 01:51:47.459
It is simply a matter of time
before the tables turn

01:51:47.634 --> 01:51:50.238
and there's no one willing
to take new loans

01:51:50.273 --> 01:51:54.554
while defaults grow as people are unable
to afford their current loans.

01:51:54.808 --> 01:51:56.921
Then the expansion of money
will stop

01:51:56.976 --> 01:52:00.713
and contraction will begin
on a scale never before seen,

01:52:00.814 --> 01:52:04.099
ending a century long
pyramid scheme.

01:52:04.417 --> 01:52:06.236
This has already begun.

01:52:07.287 --> 01:52:11.082
Therefore, we need to expose
this financial failure for what it is,

01:52:11.117 --> 01:52:13.468
using this weakness
to our advantage.

01:52:13.793 --> 01:52:15.558
Here are
some suggestions:

01:52:15.895 --> 01:52:17.709
Expose the banking fraud.

01:52:17.997 --> 01:52:21.478
Citibank, JP Morgan Chase
and Bank of America

01:52:21.513 --> 01:52:23.332
are the most
powerful controllers

01:52:23.375 --> 01:52:26.029
within the corrupt
Federal Reserve system.

01:52:26.064 --> 01:52:29.124
It's time to boycott
these institutions.

01:52:29.576 --> 01:52:32.588
If you have a bank account
or credit card with any of them,

01:52:32.846 --> 01:52:34.807
move your money
to another bank.

01:52:34.981 --> 01:52:38.232
If you have a mortgage,
refinance with another bank.

01:52:38.518 --> 01:52:40.621
If you own their stock,
sell it.

01:52:40.887 --> 01:52:42.514
If you work for them,
quit.

01:52:42.689 --> 01:52:44.791
This gesture
will express contempt

01:52:44.826 --> 01:52:47.912
for the true powers
behind the private banking cartel,

01:52:47.994 --> 01:52:49.903
known as
the Federal Reserve.

01:52:49.996 --> 01:52:54.331
And create awareness about
the fraud of the banking system itself.

01:52:54.567 --> 01:52:56.927
Two:
Turn off the TV news.

01:52:56.970 --> 01:52:59.864
Visit the emerging,
independent news agencies

01:52:59.899 --> 01:53:01.966
on the Internet
for your information.

01:53:01.975 --> 01:53:06.498
CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX
and all the others

01:53:06.546 --> 01:53:10.997
present all news pre-filtered
to maintain the status quo.

01:53:11.032 --> 01:53:14.609
With four corporations owning
all major media outlets,

01:53:14.721 --> 01:53:17.181
objective information
is impossible.

01:53:17.216 --> 01:53:19.625
This is the true beauty
of the Internet.

01:53:19.693 --> 01:53:21.895
And the establishment
has been losing control

01:53:21.930 --> 01:53:24.208
because of this free flow
of information.

01:53:24.631 --> 01:53:27.001
We must protect the Internet,
at all times,

01:53:27.036 --> 01:53:29.737
as it is truly our savior
right now.

01:53:30.770 --> 01:53:31.528
Three:

01:53:31.871 --> 01:53:34.140
Don't ever
allow yourself,

01:53:34.175 --> 01:53:37.278
your family
or anyone you know,

01:53:37.313 --> 01:53:40.601
to ever
join the military.

01:53:41.180 --> 01:53:43.573
This is
an obsolete institution

01:53:43.683 --> 01:53:47.069
now used exclusively
for maintaining an establishment

01:53:47.104 --> 01:53:48.690
that is no longer
relevant.

01:53:48.988 --> 01:53:52.212
US soldiers in Iraq
work for US corporations,

01:53:52.247 --> 01:53:53.207
not the people.

01:53:53.426 --> 01:53:56.583
Propaganda forces us to believe
that war is natural

01:53:56.730 --> 01:53:59.019
and the military is
an honorable institution.

01:53:59.632 --> 01:54:00.956
Well if
war is natural,

01:54:00.967 --> 01:54:04.149
why are there 18 suicides
every single day

01:54:04.184 --> 01:54:05.605
by American veterans

01:54:05.640 --> 01:54:07.732
who have post-traumatic
stress disorder?

01:54:08.575 --> 01:54:11.304
If our military men
and women are so honored,

01:54:11.411 --> 01:54:15.214
why is it that 25% of the
American homeless population

01:54:15.249 --> 01:54:16.356
are veterans?

01:54:18.004 --> 01:54:18.907
Four:

01:54:18.985 --> 01:54:21.312
Stop supporting
the energy companies.

01:54:21.454 --> 01:54:23.168
If you live
in a detached house,

01:54:23.289 --> 01:54:24.578
get off the grid.

01:54:24.757 --> 01:54:28.208
Investigate every means of
making your home self-sustainable

01:54:28.243 --> 01:54:29.648
with clean energy.

01:54:29.896 --> 01:54:32.600
Solar, wind
and other renewable energies

01:54:32.635 --> 01:54:35.155
are now affordable
consumer realities,

01:54:35.335 --> 01:54:38.909
and considering the never-ending
rising costs of traditional energies,

01:54:38.972 --> 01:54:42.123
it will likely be
a cheaper investment over time.

01:54:42.275 --> 01:54:45.009
If you drive,
get the smallest car you can

01:54:45.044 --> 01:54:48.279
and consider using one of the many
conversion technologies

01:54:48.314 --> 01:54:50.620
that can enable your car
to be a hybrid,

01:54:50.655 --> 01:54:54.768
electric or run on anything
other than establishment fuels.

01:54:54.988 --> 01:54:56.037
Five:

01:54:56.072 --> 01:54:57.870
Reject
the political system.

01:54:58.357 --> 01:55:01.897
The illusion of democracy
is an insult to our intelligence.

01:55:01.995 --> 01:55:03.169
In a monetary system,

01:55:03.204 --> 01:55:05.749
there is no such thing
as a true democracy,

01:55:05.799 --> 01:55:07.137
and there never was.

01:55:07.767 --> 01:55:09.394
We have
two political parties

01:55:09.444 --> 01:55:12.592
owned by the same set
of corporate lobbyists.

01:55:12.972 --> 01:55:15.863
They are placed in their positions
by the corporations,

01:55:15.875 --> 01:55:19.393
with popularity artificially
projected by their media.

01:55:19.779 --> 01:55:21.948
In a system
of inherent corruption,

01:55:21.981 --> 01:55:24.244
the change of personnel
every couple of years

01:55:24.284 --> 01:55:26.161
has very little relevance.

01:55:26.519 --> 01:55:29.820
Instead of pretending that
the political game has any true meaning,

01:55:29.989 --> 01:55:33.941
focus your energy on
how to transcend this failed system.

01:55:35.995 --> 01:55:37.081
And six:

01:55:37.116 --> 01:55:38.417
Join the movement.

01:55:38.998 --> 01:55:41.440
Go to
TheZeitgeistMovement.com

01:55:41.475 --> 01:55:44.905
and help us create the largest
mass movement for social change

01:55:44.971 --> 01:55:46.815
the world
has ever seen.

01:55:46.973 --> 01:55:49.609
We must mobilize
and educate everyone

01:55:49.644 --> 01:55:52.801
about the inherent corruption
of our current world system,

01:55:52.979 --> 01:55:56.013
along with the only true
sustainable solution,

01:55:56.516 --> 01:55:59.302
declaring all the natural resources
on the planet

01:55:59.485 --> 01:56:02.038
as common heritage
to all people,

01:56:02.588 --> 01:56:06.214
while informing everyone
as to the true state of technology

01:56:06.392 --> 01:56:08.106
and how we can
all be free

01:56:08.148 --> 01:56:11.354
if the world works together,
rather than fights.

01:56:12.665 --> 01:56:14.099
The choice
lies with you.

01:56:14.334 --> 01:56:17.070
You can continue to be
a slave to the financial system

01:56:17.170 --> 01:56:18.884
and watch
the continuous wars,

01:56:18.947 --> 01:56:21.767
depressions
and injustice across the globe

01:56:21.802 --> 01:56:24.747
while placating yourself
with vain entertainment

01:56:24.778 --> 01:56:26.397
and materialistic garbage.

01:56:26.980 --> 01:56:32.030
Or, you can focus your energy on true,
meaningful, lasting, holistic change

01:56:32.065 --> 01:56:35.706
which actually has
the realistic ability to support

01:56:35.741 --> 01:56:39.337
and free all humans
with no one left behind.

01:56:40.760 --> 01:56:44.132
But in the end,
the most relevant change

01:56:44.263 --> 01:56:46.901
must occur first
inside of you.

01:56:47.534 --> 01:56:51.760
The real revolution
is the revolution of consciousness,

01:56:51.971 --> 01:56:55.245
and each one of us
first needs to eliminate

01:56:55.408 --> 01:56:57.989
the divisionary,
materialistic noise

01:56:58.024 --> 01:57:01.274
we have been conditioned
to think is true;

01:57:01.647 --> 01:57:04.616
while discovering,
amplifying and aligning

01:57:04.784 --> 01:57:09.904
with the signal coming
from our true empirical oneness.

01:57:11.658 --> 01:57:12.941
It is up to you.

01:57:15.595 --> 01:57:20.068
What we are trying in all
these discussions and talks here,

01:57:20.767 --> 01:57:26.413
is to see if we cannot radically
bring about a transformism of the mind.

01:57:28.274 --> 01:57:30.473
Not accept things
as they are...

01:57:33.813 --> 01:57:36.983
but to understand it,
to go into it, to examine it,

01:57:37.018 --> 01:57:40.051
give your heart and your mind
with every thing

01:57:40.086 --> 01:57:41.730
that you have
to find out.

01:57:41.765 --> 01:57:43.845
A way of
living differently.

01:57:48.895 --> 01:57:52.500
But, that depends on you
and not somebody else.

01:57:53.766 --> 01:57:55.619
Because in this,
there is no teacher,

01:57:55.868 --> 01:57:57.058
no pupil.

01:57:57.770 --> 01:57:58.968
There's no leader,

01:58:00.339 --> 01:58:01.588
there's no guru,

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there's no master,
no savior.

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You yourself are
the teacher and the pupil,

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you're the master, you're the guru,
you are the leader...

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You are everything!

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And,

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to understand...

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is to transform
what is.

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