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Zeitgeist Addendum

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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
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    due to the
    fractional reserve practice.
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    But, also
    because of the fact
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    that the money that
    the bank loaned to you
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    didn't even legally exist
    in the first place.
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    In 1969, there was a
    Minnesota court case
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    involving a man named
    Jerome Daly,
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    who was challenging the
    foreclosure of his home by the bank,
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    which provided the loan
    to purchase it.
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    His argument was that the mortgage
    contract required both parties,
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    being he and the bank,
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    each put up a legitimate
    form of property for the exchange.
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    In legal language,
    this is called consideration.
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    Mr. Daly explained that the money was,
    in fact, not the property of the bank.
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    For it was created
    out of nothing,
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    as soon as the loan agreement
    was signed.
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    Remember what Modern Money Mechanics
    stated about loans?
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    What they do,
    when they make loans,
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    is to accept promissory notes,
    in exchange for credits.
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    Reserves are unchanged
    by the loan transactions.
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    But, deposit credits
    constitute new additions
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    to the total deposits
    of the banking system.
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    In other words, the money doesn't
    come out of their existing assets.
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    The bank is simply inventing it,
    putting up nothing of it's own,
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    except for a theoretical liability,
    on paper.
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    As the court case progressed,
    the bank's president,
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    Mr. Morgan,
    took the stand.
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    And in the judge's
    personal memorandum,
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    he recalled that the Plaintiff,
    bank's president,
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    admitted that, in combination
    with the Federal Reserve Bank
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    did create the money
    and credits
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    upon its books
    by book-keeping entry.
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    The money and credit
    first came into existence
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    when they created it.
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    Mr. Morgan admitted that
    no United States Law or Statute existed
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    which gave him
    the right to do this.
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    A lawful consideration must exist
    and be tendered to support the Note.
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    The Jury found that there was
    no lawful consideration and I agree.
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    He also poetically added:
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    Only God can create something of value,
    out of nothing.
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    And,
    upon this revelation,
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    the court rejected the bank's claim
    for foreclosure and Daly kept his home.
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    The implications of this
    court decision are immense.
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    For every time
    you borrow money from a bank,
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    whether it is a mortgage loan
    or a credit card charge,
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    the money given to you
    is not only counterfeit,
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    it is a illegitimate form
    of consideration.
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    And hence,
    voids the contract to repay.
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    For the bank never had the money
    as property to begin with.
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    Unfortunately, such legal realizations
    are suppressed and ignored.
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    And the game of
    perpetual wealth transfer
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    and perpetual debt
    continues.
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    And this brings us to
    the ultimate question:
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    Why?
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    During the
    American Civil War,
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    President Lincoln bypassed
    the high interest loans
  • 22:02 - 22:04
    offered by
    the European banks
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    and decided to do what
    the Founding Fathers advocated.
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    Which was to create an independent
    and inherently debt-Free currency.
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    It was called
    The Greenback.
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    Shortly after this measure was taken,
    an internal document
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    circulated between private British
    and American banking interests, stated:
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    Slavery is
    but the owning of labor
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    and carries with it
    the care of the laborers,
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    while the European plan...
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    is that capital shall control labor
    by controlling wages.
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    This can be done
    by controlling the money.
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    It will not do to allow the Greenback,
    as we cannot control that.
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    The fractional reserve policy,
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    perpetrated by
    the Federal Reserve
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    which has spread,
    in practice,
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    to the great majority of banks
    in the world,
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    is, in fact,
    a system of modern slavery.
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    Think about it,
    money is created out of debt.
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    And what do people do
    when they are in debt?
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    They submit to employment
    to pay it off.
  • 23:09 - 23:12
    But if money only can only
    be created out of loans,
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    how can society
    ever be debt free?
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    It can't
    and that's the point.
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    And it is the fear of loosing assets,
    coupled with the struggle to keep up
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    with the perpetual debt and inflation
    inherent in the system,
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    compounded by the inescapable scarcity
    within in the money supply itself,
  • 23:32 - 23:36
    created by the interest
    that can never be re-payed,
  • 23:36 - 23:39
    that keeps
    the wage-slave in line,
  • 23:40 - 23:43
    running on a hamster wheel,
    with millions of others,
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    in effect,
    powering an empire
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    that truly benefits only the elite
    at the top of the pyramid.
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    For,
    at the end of the day,
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    who are you
    really working for?
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    The banks.
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    Money is created in the bank
    and invariably ends up in a bank.
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    They are
    the true masters,
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    along with the corporations
    and governments they support.
  • 24:08 - 24:12
    Physical slavery requires
    people to be housed and fed.
  • 24:12 - 24:17
    Economic slavery requires people
    to feed and house themselves.
  • 24:18 - 24:23
    It is one of the most ingenious scams
    for social manipulation ever created.
  • 24:23 - 24:24
    And at its core,
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    it is an invisible war
    against the population.
  • 24:28 - 24:32
    Debt is the weapon used
    to conquer and enslave societies,
  • 24:32 - 24:35
    and interest
    is its prime ammunition.
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    And, as the majority walks around,
    oblivious to this reality,
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    the banks, in collusion with
    governments and corporations
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    continue to perfect and expand
    their tactics of economic warfare,
  • 24:49 - 24:53
    spawning new bases,
    such as the World Bank
  • 24:53 - 24:55
    and International Monetary Fund,
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    while also inventing
    a new type of soldier.
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    The birth of
    the economic hitman.
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    We, economic hitmen,
    really have been the ones responsible
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    for creating this
    first truly global empire
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    And we work
    many different ways.
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    But perhaps the most common
    is that we will
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    identify a country that has resources
    our corporations covet, like oil,
  • 25:34 - 25:37
    And then, arrange a
    huge loan to that country
  • 25:37 - 25:40
    from the World Bank
    or one of it's sister organizations.
  • 25:40 - 25:42
    But the money never actually
    goes to the country.
  • 25:42 - 25:44
    Instead it goes
    to our big corporations,
  • 25:44 - 25:46
    to build infrastructure projects
    in that country.
  • 25:46 - 25:48
    Power plants,
    industrial parks, ports...
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    Things that benefit
    a few rich people in that country.
  • 25:52 - 25:53
    In addition
    to our corporations.
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    But really don't help
    a majority of the people at all.
  • 25:56 - 25:57
    However,
    those people,
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    the whole country is left
    holding the huge debt.
  • 26:01 - 26:04
    It's such a big debt they can't repay
    and that's part of the plan...
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    They can't repay it.
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    And so, in some point,
    we economic hitmen,
  • 26:07 - 26:08
    go back to them and say:
    Listen.
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    You owe us
    a lot of money.
  • 26:09 - 26:12
    You can't pay your debts.
    So, sell your oil,
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    real cheap
    to our oil companies,
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    allow us to build a military base
    in your country, or...
  • 26:17 - 26:21
    send troops in support of ours
    to someplace in the world like Iraq,
  • 26:21 - 26:24
    or vote with us
    on the next UN vote,
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    to have their
    electric utility company privatized
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    and their water and
    sewage system privatized
  • 26:30 - 26:32
    and sold to
    US corporations or other
  • 26:32 - 26:34
    multi-national corporations.
  • 26:34 - 26:36
    So there is a
    whole mushrooming thing
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    and it's so typical the way
    the IMF and the World Bank work.
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    They put
    a country in debt,
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    and it's such a big debt,
    they can't pay it,
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    and then you offer
    to refinance that debt
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    and pay
    even more interest.
  • 26:47 - 26:50
    And you demand
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    this quid pro quo,
    what you call a conditionality
  • 26:53 - 26:54
    or good governance
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    which means basically that they got
    to sell off their resources,
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    including many
    of their social services,
  • 27:01 - 27:03
    their utility companies,
    their school systems sometimes,
  • 27:03 - 27:05
    their penal systems,
  • 27:06 - 27:09
    their insurance systems,
    to foreign corporations.
  • 27:09 - 27:12
    So it's a
    double-triple-quadruple whammy!
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    The precedent for economic hitmen
    really began back in the early 50's
  • 27:20 - 27:22
    when the democratically-elected
    Mossadegh
  • 27:22 - 27:24
    who was
    elected in Iran...
  • 27:24 - 27:27
    He was considered to be
    the hope for democracy
  • 27:27 - 27:28
    in the Middle East
    and around the world.
  • 27:28 - 27:29
    He was in Time Magazine's
    Man of the Year.
  • 27:29 - 27:32
    But, one of the things
    that he brought on
  • 27:32 - 27:34
    and began to implement
    was the idea that
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    foreign oil companies needed
    to pay the Iranian people
  • 27:37 - 27:40
    a lot more for the oil that
    they were taking out of Iran
  • 27:40 - 27:42
    and the Iranian people
    should benefit from their own oil.
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    Strange policy.
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    We didn't like that,
    of course.
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    But we were afraid to do
    what we normally were doing,
  • 27:49 - 27:50
    which was to
    send in the military.
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    Instead we sent in
    one CIA agent,
  • 27:53 - 27:56
    Kermit Roosevelt,
    Teddy Roosevelt's relative.
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    And Kermit went in
    with a few million dollars
  • 28:00 - 28:02
    and was very, very effective
    and efficient
  • 28:02 - 28:04
    and in a short
    amount of time,
  • 28:04 - 28:07
    he managed to get
    Mossadeg overthrown
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    and brought in the Shah of Iran
    to replace him,
  • 28:10 - 28:12
    who always was
    favorable to oil.
  • 28:12 - 28:14
    And it was
    extremely effective.
  • 28:18 - 28:20
    Mobs over
    through Tehran.
  • 28:20 - 28:22
    Army officers shout that
    Mossadeg has surrendered
  • 28:22 - 28:25
    and his regime as
    virtual dictator of Iran is ended.
  • 28:26 - 28:29
    Pictures of the Shah are paraded through
    the streets as sentiment reverses.
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    The Shah
    is welcomed home.
  • 28:34 - 28:37
    So back here in the United States,
    in Washington,
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    people looked around and said:
    Wow, that was easy and cheap.
  • 28:41 - 28:46
    So this established a whole new way
    of manipulating countries,
  • 28:46 - 28:47
    of creating empire.
  • 28:47 - 28:52
    The only problem with Roosevelt was
    that he was a card-carrying CIA agent
  • 28:52 - 28:53
    and if he'd been caught,
  • 28:53 - 28:56
    the ramifications
    could have been pretty serious.
  • 28:56 - 28:58
    So very quickly,
    at that point,
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    the decision was made
    to use private consultants
  • 29:00 - 29:03
    to channel the money
    through the World Bank
  • 29:03 - 29:05
    or the IMF or one of
    the other such agencies,
  • 29:05 - 29:08
    to bring in people like me,
    who work for private companies.
  • 29:09 - 29:11
    So that
    if we got caught,
  • 29:11 - 29:14
    there would be
    no governmental ramifications.
  • 29:22 - 29:24
    When Ărbenz became
    President of Guatemala,
  • 29:24 - 29:28
    the country was very much under
    the thumbs of United Fruit company,
  • 29:28 - 29:30
    the big international corporation.
  • 29:30 - 29:32
    And Ărbenz ran on this ticket
    that said:
  • 29:32 - 29:35
    You know, we want to give the land
    back to the people.
  • 29:35 - 29:36
    And once
    he took power,
  • 29:36 - 29:40
    he was implementing policies
    that would do exactly that,
  • 29:40 - 29:42
    give the land rights
    back to the people.
  • 29:42 - 29:44
    United Fruit didn't like that
    very much.
  • 29:44 - 29:47
    And so, they hired
    a public relations firm,
  • 29:47 - 29:49
    launched a huge campaign
    in the United States,
  • 29:49 - 29:52
    to convince the United States people,
    the citizens of the United States,
  • 29:52 - 29:55
    the press of the United States
    and the congress of the United States,
  • 29:55 - 29:57
    that Ărbenz
    was a Soviet puppet
  • 29:57 - 30:00
    And that if we allowed him
    to stay in power,
  • 30:00 - 30:03
    the Soviets would have a foothold
    in this hemisphere.
  • 30:03 - 30:04
    And at that point in time,
  • 30:05 - 30:06
    there was a huge fear
    on everybody's mind,
  • 30:06 - 30:08
    of the Red terror,
    the Communist terror.
  • 30:09 - 30:13
    And so, to make a long story short,
    out of this public relations campaign
  • 30:13 - 30:16
    came a commitment
    on the part of the CIA
  • 30:16 - 30:18
    and the military
    to take this man out.
  • 30:18 - 30:19
    And in fact,
    we did.
  • 30:19 - 30:22
    We sent in planes, we sent in soldiers,
    we sent in jackals,
  • 30:22 - 30:26
    we sent everything in to take him out.
    And did take him out.
  • 30:26 - 30:28
    And as soon as he was
    removed from office,
  • 30:29 - 30:32
    the new guy that took over after him
    basically reinstated everything
  • 30:32 - 30:34
    to the big international
    corporations,
  • 30:34 - 30:36
    including United Fruit.
  • 30:40 - 30:43
    Ecuador, for many many years
    had been ruled
  • 30:43 - 30:47
    by pro-US dictators,
    often relatively brutal.
  • 30:47 - 30:50
    Then it was decided they will
    have a truely democratic election.
  • 30:50 - 30:54
    Jaime Roldos ran for office
    and his main goal,
  • 30:54 - 30:56
    he said,
    as president would be
  • 30:56 - 31:00
    to make sure that Ecuador's resources
    were used to help the people.
  • 31:00 - 31:03
    And he won.
    Overwhelming.
  • 31:03 - 31:05
    By more votes than anybody
    had ever won anything in Ecuador.
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    And he began to
    implement these policies.
  • 31:09 - 31:12
    To make sure that the profits from oil
    went to help the people.
  • 31:12 - 31:15
    Well, we didn't like that
    in the United States.
  • 31:15 - 31:19
    I was send down as one of several
    economic hitmen to change Roldos.
  • 31:19 - 31:21
    To corrupt him.
    To bring 'em around...
  • 31:21 - 31:23
    To let him know...
    You know.
  • 31:23 - 31:25
    Okay, you know,
    you can get very rich,
  • 31:25 - 31:27
    you and your family,
    if you play our game.
  • 31:27 - 31:31
    But if you continue to try to
    keep this policy you've promised,
  • 31:32 - 31:33
    you're gonna go.
  • 31:33 - 31:35
    He woudn't listen...
  • 31:36 - 31:38
    He was assassinated...
  • 31:40 - 31:43
    As soon as the plane crashed,
    the whole area was cordoned off.
  • 31:43 - 31:47
    The only people allowed there were
    US military from a nearby base
  • 31:47 - 31:49
    and some of
    the Ecuadorian military.
  • 31:49 - 31:51
    When an investigation
    was launched,
  • 31:51 - 31:54
    two of the key witnesses
    died in a car accidents
  • 31:54 - 31:57
    before they have
    a chance to testify.
  • 31:57 - 32:00
    A lot of very, very strange things
    that went on around
  • 32:00 - 32:02
    the assassination of
    Jaime Roldos.
  • 32:02 - 32:06
    I, like most of people who've
    really looked at this case,
  • 32:06 - 32:09
    have absolutely no doubt
    that it was an assassination.
  • 32:09 - 32:12
    And, of course, in my position
    as an economic hitman,
  • 32:12 - 32:14
    I was always expecting
    something to happen to Jaime,
  • 32:14 - 32:15
    whether it'd be
    a coup or assassination,
  • 32:15 - 32:18
    I wasn't sure, but that
    he would be taken down because
  • 32:18 - 32:19
    he was
    not being corrupted,
  • 32:20 - 32:21
    he would not allow himself
    to be corrupted
  • 32:21 - 32:23
    the way we wanted
    to corrupt him.
  • 32:27 - 32:30
    Omar Torrijos,
    the president of Panama,
  • 32:30 - 32:32
    was, you know,
    one of my favorite people.
  • 32:32 - 32:33
    I really really
    liked him.
  • 32:33 - 32:34
    He was very charasmatic.
  • 32:34 - 32:37
    He was a guy who really
    wanted to help his country.
  • 32:37 - 32:40
    And when I tried to
    bribe him or corrupt him, he said:
  • 32:40 - 32:41
    Look, John...
  • 32:41 - 32:42
    He called me Juanito...
  • 32:42 - 32:43
    He said:
    Look Juanito,
  • 32:44 - 32:48
    I don't need the money.
    What I really need is for my country
  • 32:49 - 32:50
    to be treated fairly.
  • 32:51 - 32:53
    I need for the United States
    to repay the debts
  • 32:53 - 32:54
    that you owe my people
  • 32:54 - 32:56
    for all the destruction
    you've done here.
  • 32:56 - 32:58
    I need to be
    in a position where
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    I can help other
    Latin American countries
  • 33:00 - 33:03
    win their independence
    and be free of this,
  • 33:03 - 33:06
    of this terrible presence
    from the north.
  • 33:06 - 33:08
    You people are
    exploiting us so badly.
  • 33:08 - 33:13
    I need to have the Panama Canal back
    in the hands of the Panamian people.
  • 33:13 - 33:14
    That's what I want.
  • 33:14 - 33:18
    And so, leave me alone,
    you known, don't try to bribe me.
  • 33:18 - 33:24
    It was 1981 and in May,
    Jaime Roldos was assassinated.
  • 33:25 - 33:27
    And Omar
    was very aware of this.
  • 33:27 - 33:29
    Torrijos got his family together
    and he said:
  • 33:29 - 33:33
    I'm probably next,
    but that's okay,
  • 33:33 - 33:36
    because I've done
    what I came here to do...
  • 33:36 - 33:38
    I renegotiated the Canal.
  • 33:38 - 33:40
    The Canal will now be
    in our hands,
  • 33:40 - 33:42
    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,
  • 33:49 - 33:52
    he also went down
    in an airplane crash,
  • 33:52 - 33:57
    which, there's no question,
    was executed by CIA sponsored jackals.
  • 33:57 - 33:58
    A tremendous
    amount of evidence that
  • 33:58 - 34:03
    one of Torijjos' security guards
    handed him, at the last moment,
  • 34:03 - 34:05
    as he was getting on the plane,
    a tape recorder.
  • 34:05 - 34:08
    A small tape recorder
    that contained a bomb.
  • 34:15 - 34:17
    It is intersting to me
    how this
  • 34:17 - 34:20
    system has continued
    pretty much the same way
  • 34:20 - 34:21
    for years,
    and years, and years,
  • 34:21 - 34:24
    except the economic hitmen have gotten
    better and better and better.
  • 34:24 - 34:29
    Then we coped with, very recently,
    what happened in Venezuela.
  • 34:29 - 34:32
    In 1998, Hugo Chavez
    gets elected president,
  • 34:32 - 34:35
    following a
    long line of presidents
  • 34:35 - 34:36
    who'd been very corrupt
  • 34:36 - 34:39
    and basically destroyed
    the economy of the country.
  • 34:39 - 34:41
    And Chavez was elected
    amidst all that.
  • 34:42 - 34:44
    Chavez stood up
    to the United States
  • 34:44 - 34:49
    and he's done it primarily
    demanding that Venezuelian oil
  • 34:49 - 34:51
    be used
    to help the Venezuelian people.
  • 34:52 - 34:55
    Well... we didn't like
    that in United States.
  • 34:55 - 34:57
    So, in 2002,
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    a coup was staged, which was
    no question in my mind, in most
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    other peoples' minds,
    that the CIA was behind that coup.
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    The way,
    that that coup was fomented
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    was very reflective of what
    Kermit Roosevelt had done in Iran.
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    Of paying people to go out
    onto the streets,
  • 35:17 - 35:21
    To riot, to protest, to say
    that Chavez was very unpopular.
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    You know, if you can get
    a few thousand people
  • 35:24 - 35:28
    to do that,
    television can make it look like...
  • 35:28 - 35:31
    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,
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    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
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    the whole system works.
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    So, we, economic hitmen,
    are the first line defense.
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    We go in, we try to
    corrupt the governments
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    and get them
    to accept these huge loans,
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    which we then use as leverage
    to basically own them.
  • 36:05 - 36:10
    If we fail, as I failed in
    Panama with Omar Torrijos,
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    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.
  • 36:20 - 36:23
    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.
  • 36:27 - 36:31
    In the case of Iraq,
    both of those things failed.
  • 36:31 - 36:34
    The economic hitmen were not able
    to get through to Saddam Hussein.
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    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
  • 36:40 - 36:42
    Saudi Arabia,
    but he wouldn't accept it.
  • 36:42 - 36:44
    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.
  • 36:50 - 36:54
    He'd been hired to assassinate
    a former president of Iraq and failed,
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    but he knew the system.
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    So, in '91,
    we send in the troops
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    and we take out
    the Iraqi military.
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    So, we assumed
    at that point that
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    Saddam Hussein
    is gonna come around.
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    We could have take him out,
    of course at that time,
  • 37:09 - 37:12
    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,
  • 37:16 - 37:18
    and keep the Iranians in their border
    and keep pumping oil for us.
  • 37:18 - 37:20
    And that once
    we took out his military,
  • 37:20 - 37:21
    now he's gonna
    come around.
  • 37:22 - 37:25
    So, the economic hitmen
    go back in in the 90's
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    without success.
  • 37:26 - 37:28
    If they'd had success...
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    he'd still be
    running the country.
  • 37:29 - 37:32
    We'd be selling him
    all the fighter jets he wants,
  • 37:32 - 37:33
    and everything else
    he wants,
  • 37:33 - 37:35
    but they couldn't,
    they didn't have success.
  • 37:35 - 37:39
    The jackals couldn't take him out again,
    so we sent the military
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    in once again, and this time,
    we did the complete job
  • 37:41 - 37:42
    and took him out.
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    And in the process,
    created for ourselves some
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    very, very lucrative
    construction
  • 37:47 - 37:49
    deals to
    reconstruct the country
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    that we'd
    essentially destroyed.
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    Which is
    a pretty good deal
  • 37:52 - 37:54
    if you own construction companies,
    big ones.
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    So, Iraq shows
    the three stages.
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    The economic hitmen
    failed there.
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    The Jackals failed there.
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    And as a final measure,
    the military goes in.
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    And in that way,
    we've really created an empire,
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    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,
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    and everybody knew
    they were building them.
  • 38:19 - 38:20
    The British knew they
    were building them,
  • 38:20 - 38:24
    the French, the Germans,
    the Romans, the Greeks,
  • 38:24 - 38:27
    and they were proud of it.
    They always had some excuse like
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    spreading civilization,
    spreading some religion,
  • 38:30 - 38:33
    something like that,
    but they knew they were doing it.
  • 38:33 - 38:34
    We don't.
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    The majority of the people,
    in the United States,
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    have no idea that we're living off
    the benefits of the clandestine empire.
  • 38:42 - 38:46
    That today there is more slavery
    in the world than ever before.
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    Then you have
    to ask yourself, well,
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    if it's an empire,
    then who is the emperor?
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    Obviously our presidents of
    the United States are not emperors.
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    An emperor is someone
    who is not elected,
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    doesn't serve
    a limited term,
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    and doesn't report to anyone,
    essentially.
  • 39:02 - 39:05
    So you can't classify
    our presidents that way.
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    But we do have
    what I consider to be
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    the equivalent of the emperor and
    it's what I call the corporatocracy.
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    The corporatocracy
    is this group of individuals
  • 39:16 - 39:17
    who run
    our biggest corporations.
  • 39:17 - 39:20
    And they really act as
    the emperor of this empire.
  • 39:21 - 39:24
    They control
    our media,
  • 39:24 - 39:26
    either through direct ownership
    or advertising.
  • 39:26 - 39:30
    They control
    most of our politicians
  • 39:30 - 39:31
    because they finance
    their campaigns,
  • 39:32 - 39:33
    either through
    the corporations
  • 39:33 - 39:34
    or through
    personal contributions
  • 39:34 - 39:36
    that come out of
    the corporations.
  • 39:36 - 39:37
    They're not elected,
  • 39:37 - 39:39
    then they don't serve
    a limited term,
  • 39:39 - 39:40
    they don't report to anybody,
  • 39:41 - 39:43
    and at the very top
    of the corporatocracy,
  • 39:43 - 39:44
    you really can't tell
  • 39:44 - 39:47
    whether the person is working
    for a private corporation
  • 39:47 - 39:49
    or the government because
    they're always moving back and forth.
  • 39:49 - 39:53
    So you know, you've got a guy who,
    one moment is the president of
  • 39:54 - 39:56
    a big construction company
    like Haliburton,
  • 39:56 - 39:58
    and the next moment, he's
    Vice President of the United States.
  • 39:58 - 40:00
    Or the President,
    who was in the oil business.
  • 40:00 - 40:03
    And this is true whether you get
    Democrats or Republicans in the office.
  • 40:03 - 40:07
    You have this moving back and forth
    through a revolving door.
  • 40:07 - 40:13
    And in a way, our government
    is invisible a lot of the time,
  • 40:13 - 40:15
    and his policies are carried out
    by our corporations
  • 40:15 - 40:18
    on one level or another.
    And then again,
  • 40:18 - 40:21
    the policies of the government
    are basically
  • 40:21 - 40:24
    forged
    by the corporatocracy,
  • 40:24 - 40:25
    and then
    presented to the government
  • 40:25 - 40:26
    and they become
    government policy.
  • 40:26 - 40:30
    So, there's an incredibly
    cozy relationship.
  • 40:30 - 40:32
    This isn't a conspiracy theory
    type of thing.
  • 40:32 - 40:34
    These people don't have
    to get together
  • 40:34 - 40:36
    and plot to do things.
  • 40:36 - 40:40
    They all basically work
    under one primary assumption,
  • 40:40 - 40:42
    and that is that
    they must maximize profits,
  • 40:43 - 40:46
    regardless of the
    social and environmental costs.
  • 40:51 - 40:55
    This process of manipulation
    by the corporatocracy
  • 40:55 - 40:59
    through the use of debt, bribery
    and political overthrow is called:
  • 40:59 - 41:00
    Globalization.
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    Just as the Federal Reserve keeps
    the American public in a postion
  • 41:05 - 41:08
    of indentured servitude,
    though perpetual debt,
  • 41:08 - 41:09
    inflation and interest,
  • 41:09 - 41:13
    the World Bank and IMF
    serve this role on a global scale.
  • 41:14 - 41:16
    The basic scam
    is simple.
  • 41:16 - 41:19
    Put a country in debt,
    either by it's own indisgression,
  • 41:19 - 41:21
    or through corrupting the leader
    of that country,
  • 41:22 - 41:26
    then impose conditionalities
    or structual adjustment policies
  • 41:26 - 41:28
    often consisting
    of the following.
  • 41:30 - 41:31
    Currency devaluation.
  • 41:31 - 41:35
    When the value of a currency drops,
    so does everything valued in it.
  • 41:35 - 41:39
    This makes indigenous resources
    available to predator countries
  • 41:39 - 41:41
    at a fraction
    of their worth.
  • 41:42 - 41:45
    Large funding cuts
    for social programs.
  • 41:45 - 41:48
    These usually include
    education and health care.
  • 41:48 - 41:51
    Compromising the well-being
    and integrity of the society,
  • 41:51 - 41:53
    leaving the public vulnerable
  • 41:53 - 41:54
    to exploitation.
  • 41:55 - 41:57
    Privatization of
    state-owned enterprises.
  • 41:57 - 42:00
    This means that
    socially important systems
  • 42:00 - 42:02
    can be purchased
    and regulated
  • 42:02 - 42:04
    by foreign corporations
    for profit.
  • 42:04 - 42:08
    For example, in 1999,
    the World Bank insisted
  • 42:08 - 42:11
    that the Bolivian government
    sell the public water system
  • 42:11 - 42:16
    of it's third-largest city to a subsidy
    of the US-corporation Bechtel.
  • 42:16 - 42:18
    As soon as this occured,
  • 42:18 - 42:21
    waterbills for the already
    impoverished local residents
  • 42:21 - 42:22
    skyrocketed.
  • 42:23 - 42:26
    It wasn't until after
    full-blown revolt by the people
  • 42:26 - 42:29
    that the Bechtel contract
    was nullified.
  • 42:32 - 42:35
    Then there is
    trade liberalization,
  • 42:35 - 42:37
    or the opening up
    of the economy,
  • 42:37 - 42:39
    through removing any restrictions
    on foreign trade.
  • 42:39 - 42:43
    This allows for a number of
    abusive economic manifestations,
  • 42:43 - 42:46
    such as
    transnational corporations
  • 42:46 - 42:48
    bringing in their own
    mass-produced products,
  • 42:48 - 42:52
    undercutting the indigineous production
    and ruining local economies.
  • 42:53 - 42:55
    An example is Jamaica,
  • 42:55 - 42:59
    which after accepting loans and
    conditionalities from the World Bank
  • 42:59 - 43:01
    lost it's largest
    cash crop markets
  • 43:02 - 43:04
    due to competition
    with Western imports.
  • 43:05 - 43:09
    Today countless farmers are out of work,
    for they're unable to compete
  • 43:09 - 43:11
    with the large corporations.
  • 43:12 - 43:15
    Another variation is
    the creation of numerous,
  • 43:15 - 43:18
    seemingly unnoticed,
    unregulated, inhumane
  • 43:18 - 43:19
    sweatshop factories,
  • 43:20 - 43:24
    which take advantage of
    the imposed economic hardship.
  • 43:24 - 43:27
    Additionally,
    due to production de-regulation,
  • 43:27 - 43:29
    environmental destruction
    is perpetual
  • 43:29 - 43:32
    as a country's resources
    are often exploited
  • 43:32 - 43:34
    by the
    indifferent corporations,
  • 43:34 - 43:37
    while outputting large amounts
    of deliberate pollution.
  • 43:38 - 43:42
    The largest environmental lawsuit
    in the history of the world,
  • 43:42 - 43:44
    today is being brought
    on behalf of
  • 43:44 - 43:49
    30,000 Ecuadorian and Amazonian
    people against Texaco,
  • 43:49 - 43:51
    which is now owned by Chevron
    so it's against Chevron,
  • 43:51 - 43:53
    but for activities
    conducted by Texaco.
  • 43:54 - 43:57
    They're estimated to be
    more than 18 times
  • 43:57 - 44:01
    what the Exxon Valdez dumped
    into the Coast of Alaska.
  • 44:01 - 44:03
    In the case of Ecuador,
    it wasn't an accident.
  • 44:03 - 44:05
    The oil companies
    did it intentionally;
  • 44:05 - 44:08
    they knew they were doing it
    to save money
  • 44:08 - 44:11
    rather than
    arranging for proper disposal.
  • 44:12 - 44:16
    Furthermore, a cursory glance at the
    performance record of the World Bank
  • 44:16 - 44:19
    reveals that the institution,
    which publicly claims to
  • 44:19 - 44:22
    help poor countries develop
    and alleviate poverty,
  • 44:22 - 44:25
    has done nothing but
    increase poverty and the wealth-gap,
  • 44:25 - 44:27
    while corporate profits soar.
  • 44:28 - 44:30
    In 1960,
    the income-gap between
  • 44:30 - 44:33
    the fifth of the world's people
    and the richest countries,
  • 44:33 - 44:36
    versus the fifth
    in the poorest countries
  • 44:36 - 44:37
    was thirty to one.
  • 44:37 - 44:41
    By 1998,
    it was seventy-four to one.
  • 44:42 - 44:47
    While global GNP rose 40%
    between 1970 and 1985,
  • 44:47 - 44:51
    those in poverty,
    actually increased, by 17%.
  • 44:51 - 44:54
    While from
    1985 to 2000,
  • 44:54 - 44:59
    those living on less than
    one dollar a day increased by 18%.
  • 45:00 - 45:05
    Even the Joint Economic Committee
    of the U.S. Congress admitted
  • 45:05 - 45:09
    that there is a mere 40% success rate
    of all World Bank projects.
  • 45:10 - 45:15
    In the late 1960's, the World Bank
    intervened in Ecuador with large loans.
  • 45:15 - 45:20
    During the next 30 years,
    poverty grew from 50% to 70%.
  • 45:20 - 45:24
    Under or unemployment
    grew from 15% to 70%.
  • 45:24 - 45:29
    Public debt increased from
    240 million to 16 billion,
  • 45:29 - 45:35
    while the share of resources allocated
    to the poor went from 20% to 6%.
  • 45:36 - 45:41
    In fact, by the year 2000,
    50% of Ecuador's national budget
  • 45:41 - 45:44
    had to be allocated
    for paying its debts.
  • 45:47 - 45:50
    It is important to understand:
    the World Bank is,
  • 45:50 - 45:54
    in fact, a U.S. bank,
    supporting U.S. interests.
  • 45:54 - 45:57
    For the United States holds
    veto-power over decisions,
  • 45:57 - 46:00
    as it is the
    largest provider of capital.
  • 46:00 - 46:02
    And where did
    it get this money?
  • 46:02 - 46:03
    You guessed it:
  • 46:03 - 46:05
    It made it
    out of thin air
  • 46:05 - 46:07
    through the
    fractional reserve banking system.
  • 46:09 - 46:14
    Of the world's top 100 economies,
    as based on annual GDP,
  • 46:14 - 46:16
    51 are corporations.
  • 46:16 - 46:19
    And 47 of that 51,
    are U.S.-based.
  • 46:20 - 46:22
    Walmart,
    General Motors and Exxon,
  • 46:22 - 46:26
    are more economically powerful
    than Saudi Arabia,
  • 46:26 - 46:32
    Poland, Norway, South Africa,
    Finland, Indonesia and many others.
  • 46:33 - 46:36
    And, as protective trade barriers
    are broken down,
  • 46:36 - 46:40
    currencies tossed together
    and manipulated in floating markets
  • 46:40 - 46:42
    and State economies
    overturned
  • 46:42 - 46:48
    in favor of open competition in
    global capitalism, the empire expands.
  • 46:50 - 46:53
    You get up on
    your little 21 inch screen
  • 46:55 - 46:59
    and howl about America
    and democracy.
  • 47:00 - 47:04
    There is no America,
    there is no democracy.
  • 47:05 - 47:10
    There is only IBM,
    and ITT, and AT&T,
  • 47:10 - 47:15
    and DuPont, Dow,
    Union Carbide, and Exxon.
  • 47:16 - 47:19
    Those are the nations
    of the world today.
  • 47:20 - 47:23
    What do you think the Russians talk
    about in their counsels of state?
  • 47:23 - 47:24
    Karl Marx?
  • 47:24 - 47:27
    They get out their
    linear programming charts,
  • 47:27 - 47:28
    statistical decision theories,
  • 47:28 - 47:31
    min and max solutions and
    compute the price-cost probabilities
  • 47:31 - 47:34
    of their transactions and investments,
    just like we do.
  • 47:35 - 47:38
    We no longer live in a world of
    nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.
  • 47:40 - 47:44
    The world is
    a college of corporations,
  • 47:45 - 47:49
    inexorably determined
    by the immutable
  • 47:49 - 47:51
    bylaws of business.
  • 47:54 - 47:57
    The world is a business,
    Mr. Beale.
  • 48:27 - 48:32
    The World is being taken over
    by a hand-full of business powers
  • 48:32 - 48:35
    who dominate the natural resources
    we need to live,
  • 48:35 - 48:38
    while controlling the money
    we need to obtain these resources.
  • 48:38 - 48:41
    The end result
    will be world monopoly,
  • 48:41 - 48:46
    based not on human life,
    but financial and corporate power.
  • 48:47 - 48:49
    And,
    as the inequality grows,
  • 48:49 - 48:53
    naturally, more and more people
    are becoming desperate.
  • 48:53 - 48:57
    So the establishment was forced
    to come up with a new way to deal
  • 48:57 - 48:59
    with anyone
    who challenges the system.
  • 49:00 - 49:03
    So they gave birth
    to the 'Terrorist'.
  • 49:03 - 49:06
    The term 'terrorist'
    is an empty distinction
  • 49:07 - 49:09
    designed for any person
    or group,
  • 49:09 - 49:12
    who chooses to challenge
    the establishment.
  • 49:12 - 49:15
    This isn't to be confused
    with the fictional 'Al Qaida',
  • 49:15 - 49:18
    which was actually
    the name of a computer database
  • 49:18 - 49:21
    of the U.S.-supported Mujahadeen
    in the 1980's.
  • 49:33 - 49:39
    In 2007, the Department of Defense
    received 161.8 billion dollars
  • 49:39 - 49:43
    for the so-called global war
    on terrorism.
  • 49:43 - 49:46
    According to the
    National Counter-Terrorism Center,
  • 49:46 - 49:49
    in 2004,
    roughly 2000 people
  • 49:49 - 49:50
    were killed internationally
  • 49:50 - 49:53
    due to
    supposed terrorist acts.
  • 49:53 - 49:55
    Of that number,
    70 were American.
  • 49:56 - 49:58
    Using this number
    as a general average,
  • 49:58 - 50:00
    which is
    extremely generous,
  • 50:01 - 50:03
    it is interesting to note
    that twice as many
  • 50:04 - 50:08
    people die from peanut allergies a year,
    than from terrorist acts.
  • 50:09 - 50:12
    Concurrently, the leading cause
    of death in America
  • 50:12 - 50:14
    is coronary heart disease,
  • 50:15 - 50:18
    killing roughly 450,000
    each year.
  • 50:18 - 50:22
    And in 2007,
    the government's allocation of funds
  • 50:22 - 50:24
    for research
    on this issue
  • 50:24 - 50:25
    was about
    three billion dollars.
  • 50:26 - 50:29
    This means, that the US government,
    in 2007,
  • 50:29 - 50:34
    spent 54 times the amount
    for preventing terrorism,
  • 50:34 - 50:36
    than it spent for
    preventing for the disease,
  • 50:36 - 50:41
    which kills 6600 times
    more people annually,
  • 50:41 - 50:42
    than terrorism does.
  • 50:46 - 50:48
    Yet, as the name
    terrorism and Al Qaida
  • 50:48 - 50:52
    are arbitrarilly stamped
    on every news report,
  • 50:52 - 50:55
    relating to any action
    taken against US interests,
  • 50:55 - 50:56
    the myth grows wider.
  • 50:57 - 51:00
    In mid 2008,
    the US Attorney General
  • 51:00 - 51:02
    actually proposed,
    that the US congress
  • 51:02 - 51:05
    officially declare war
    against the fantasy.
  • 51:06 - 51:12
    Not to mention, as of July 2008,
    there are now over 1 million people
  • 51:12 - 51:15
    currently on
    the US terrorist watch list.
  • 51:17 - 51:19
    These so called
    Counter-Terrorism Measures,
  • 51:19 - 51:22
    of course had nothing to do
    with social protection
  • 51:22 - 51:26
    and everything to do
    with preserving the establishment
  • 51:26 - 51:29
    amongst the growing
    anti-American sentiment,
  • 51:29 - 51:31
    both domestically,
    and internationally,
  • 51:32 - 51:34
    which is legitimately
    founded on
  • 51:34 - 51:37
    the greed-based
    corporate empire expansion
  • 51:37 - 51:39
    that is exploiting the world.
  • 51:41 - 51:45
    The true terrorists of our world,
    do not meet at the darks at midnight
  • 51:45 - 51:49
    or scream Allah Akbar
    before some violent action.
  • 51:50 - 51:54
    The true terrorists of our world,
    wear 5000 dollar suits
  • 51:54 - 51:59
    and work in the highest positions
    of finance, government and business.
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    So, what do we do?
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    How do we stop a system
    of greed and corruption,
  • 52:08 - 52:10
    that has so much
    power and momentum?
  • 52:10 - 52:13
    How do we stop this
    aberrant group behavior,
  • 52:13 - 52:14
    which feels
    no compassion,
  • 52:14 - 52:18
    for say, the millions slaughtered
    in Iraq and Afghanistan,
  • 52:18 - 52:20
    so the corporatocracy
    can control
  • 52:20 - 52:25
    energy resources and opium production
    for Wall Street profit.
  • 53:17 - 53:20
    How do we stop a system
    of greed and corruption
  • 53:20 - 53:22
    that condemns
    poor populations
  • 53:22 - 53:25
    to sweatshop slavery
    for the benefit of Madison Avenue?
  • 53:26 - 53:29
    Or that engineers
    false-flag terror attacks
  • 53:29 - 53:31
    for the sake of manipulation?
  • 53:32 - 53:35
    Or that generates
    built-in modes of social operation,
  • 53:35 - 53:37
    which are inherently
    exploited?
  • 53:38 - 53:41
    Or that systematicly reduces
    several liberties
  • 53:41 - 53:43
    and violates human rights,
  • 53:43 - 53:47
    in order to protect itself,
    from it's own shortcomings?
  • 53:48 - 53:51
    How do we deal with the
    numerous covert institutions,
  • 53:51 - 53:53
    such as
    the Council on Foreign Relations,
  • 53:53 - 53:54
    the Trilateral Commission,
  • 53:54 - 53:55
    and the Bilderberg Group
  • 53:55 - 53:58
    and other undemocratically
    elected groups
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    which behind closed doors
    collude to control the political,
  • 54:02 - 54:06
    financial, social and environmental
    elements of our lives?
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    In order to find the answer,
    we must first find,
  • 54:11 - 54:13
    the true underlying cause.
  • 54:13 - 54:19
    For the fact is, the selfish, corrupt,
    power and profit-based groups
  • 54:19 - 54:22
    are not the true source
    of the problem.
  • 54:23 - 54:24
    They are symptoms.
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    My name is Jacque Fresco.
  • 54:44 - 54:48
    I'm an industrial designer
    and a social engineer.
  • 54:49 - 54:51
    I'm very much interested
    in society
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    and developing a system that might be
    sustainable, for all people.
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    First of all, the word 'corruption'
    is a monetary invention,
  • 55:02 - 55:04
    that aberrant behavior,
  • 55:04 - 55:08
    behavior that's disruptive
    for the well-being of people.
  • 55:08 - 55:11
    Well, you're dealing with
    human behavior.
  • 55:12 - 55:17
    And human behavior appears to be
    environmentally determined.
  • 55:17 - 55:21
    Meaning, if you were raised by
    the Seminole Indians as a baby,
  • 55:21 - 55:23
    never saw anything else,
  • 55:23 - 55:25
    you'd hold that value system.
  • 55:25 - 55:29
    And this goes for nations,
    it goes for individuals,
  • 55:29 - 55:32
    for families, they try to
    indoctrinate their children
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    to their particular faith
    and their country
  • 55:36 - 55:38
    and make them feel like
    they're part of that.
  • 55:39 - 55:44
    And they built a society,
    which they call established.
  • 55:44 - 55:47
    They established
    a workable point of view
  • 55:47 - 55:49
    and tend
    to perpetuate that.
  • 55:49 - 55:53
    Whereas, all societies
    are really emergent,
  • 55:53 - 55:54
    not established.
  • 55:55 - 55:58
    And so
    they fight new ideas
  • 55:58 - 56:01
    that would interfere
    with the establishment.
  • 56:02 - 56:06
    Goverments try to perpetuate
    that which keeps them in power.
  • 56:07 - 56:12
    People are not elected
    to political office to change things.
  • 56:12 - 56:14
    They are put there,
    to keep things the way they are.
  • 56:15 - 56:20
    So you see, the bases of corruption
    is in our society.
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    Let me make it clear.
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    All nations then,
    are basically corrupt
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    because they tend to uphold
    existing institutons.
  • 56:28 - 56:32
    I don't mean to uphold
    or downgrade all nations,
  • 56:32 - 56:36
    but communism, socialism, fascism,
    the free enterprise-system
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    and all other sub-cultures
    are the same.
  • 56:40 - 56:43
    They are all
    basically corrupt.
  • 56:44 - 56:48
    The most fundamental characteristic
    of our social institutions
  • 56:48 - 56:51
    is the necessity
    for self-preservation.
  • 56:51 - 56:55
    Whether dealing with a corporation,
    a religion or a government,
  • 56:55 - 56:59
    the foremost interest is
    to preserve the institution itself.
  • 56:59 - 57:02
    For instance, the last thing
    an oil company would ever want
  • 57:02 - 57:06
    is the utilization of energy,
    that was outside of it's control.
  • 57:06 - 57:09
    For it makes that company
    less relevant to society.
  • 57:10 - 57:15
    Likewise the Cold War and the collapse
    of the Soviet Union was, in reality,
  • 57:15 - 57:17
    a way to preserve
    and perpetuate
  • 57:17 - 57:21
    the established economic and
    global hegemony of the United States.
  • 57:23 - 57:28
    Similarly, religions condition people
    to feel guilty for natural inclinations,
  • 57:28 - 57:32
    each claiming to offer the only path
    to forgiveness and salvation.
  • 57:33 - 57:36
    At the heart of this
    institutional self-preservation
  • 57:36 - 57:38
    lies the monetary system.
  • 57:38 - 57:42
    For it is money that provides
    the means for power and survival.
  • 57:43 - 57:45
    Therefore,
    just as a poor person
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    might be forced to steal,
    in order to survive,
  • 57:47 - 57:50
    it is a natural inclination to do
    whatever is needed
  • 57:50 - 57:53
    to continue
    an institution's profitability.
  • 57:54 - 57:58
    This makes it inherently difficult
    for profit-based institutions to change,
  • 57:58 - 58:00
    For it puts
    in jeopardy,
  • 58:00 - 58:02
    not only the survival
    of large groups of people,
  • 58:03 - 58:05
    but also the coveted,
    materialistic lifestyles
  • 58:05 - 58:08
    associated with
    affluence and power.
  • 58:09 - 58:12
    Therefore, the paralyzing necessity
    to preserve an institution,
  • 58:12 - 58:15
    regardless of
    its social relevance
  • 58:15 - 58:18
    is largely rooted
    in the need for money or profit.
  • 58:24 - 58:27
    What's in it for me?,
    is why people think.
  • 58:28 - 58:31
    And so if a man makes money
    selling a certain product,
  • 58:31 - 58:33
    that's where
    he's going to fight
  • 58:33 - 58:38
    the existence of another product
    that may threaten his institution.
  • 58:40 - 58:42
    Therefore,
    people cannot be fair.
  • 58:43 - 58:45
    And people do not
    trust each other.
  • 58:45 - 58:47
    A guy will come over
    to you and say,
  • 58:47 - 58:49
    I've got just the house
    you're looking for,
  • 58:49 - 58:50
    he's a salesman.
  • 58:50 - 58:53
    When a doctor says,
    I think your kidney has to come out,
  • 58:53 - 58:56
    I don't know if
    he's trying to pay off a yacht
  • 58:56 - 58:58
    or that my kidney
    has to come out.
  • 58:58 - 59:02
    It's hard in a monetary system
    to trust people.
  • 59:03 - 59:05
    If you came into my store
    and I said,
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    this lamp that I've got is pretty good,
    but the lamp next door is much better,
  • 59:10 - 59:13
    I wouldn't be in business very long.
    It wouldn't work.
  • 59:13 - 59:15
    If I were ethical,
    it wouldn't work.
  • 59:16 - 59:19
    So when you say
    industry cares for people,
  • 59:19 - 59:21
    that's not true.
  • 59:21 - 59:23
    They can't afford
    to be ethical.
  • 59:24 - 59:28
    So your system is not designed
    to serve the well-being of people.
  • 59:28 - 59:34
    If you still don't understand that,
    there would be no outsourcing of jobs
  • 59:34 - 59:35
    if they cared
    about people.
  • 59:36 - 59:37
    Industry does not care.
  • 59:37 - 59:41
    They only hire people because
    it hasn't been automated yet.
  • 59:42 - 59:45
    So don't talk about
    decency and ethics,
  • 59:45 - 59:48
    we cannot afford it
    and remain in business.
  • 59:49 - 59:53
    It is important to point out that
    regardless of the social system,
  • 59:53 - 59:57
    whether fascist, socialist,
    capitalist or communist,
  • 59:58 - 60:02
    the underlying mechanism is still
    money, labor and competition.
  • 60:03 - 60:08
    Communist China is no less
    capitalistic than the United States.
  • 60:08 - 60:10
    The only difference is
    the degree by which
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    the state intervenes
    in enterprise.
  • 60:13 - 60:18
    The reality is that monetary-ism,
    so to speak, is the true mechanism,
  • 60:18 - 60:21
    that guides the interests of
    all the countries on the planet.
  • 60:22 - 60:26
    The most agressive and hence dominant
    variation of this monetary-ism
  • 60:26 - 60:28
    is the free enterprise system.
  • 60:28 - 60:32
    The fundamental perspective as put
    forth by early free market economists,
  • 60:32 - 60:33
    like Adam Smith,
  • 60:34 - 60:38
    is that self-interest and competition
    leads to social prosperity,
  • 60:38 - 60:41
    as the act of competition
    creates incentive,
  • 60:41 - 60:43
    which motivates people
    to persevere.
  • 60:45 - 60:47
    However,
    what isn't talked about,
  • 60:47 - 60:49
    is how a
    competition-based economy
  • 60:49 - 60:53
    invariably leads to
    strategic corruption, power,
  • 60:53 - 60:54
    and wealth consolidation,
  • 60:54 - 61:00
    social stratification,
    technological paralysis, labor abuse
  • 61:00 - 61:04
    and ultimately a covert form
    of government dictatorship
  • 61:04 - 61:06
    by the rich elite.
  • 61:08 - 61:11
    The word corruption is often
    defined as moral perversion.
  • 61:12 - 61:16
    If a company dumps toxic waste
    into the ocean to save money,
  • 61:16 - 61:19
    most people recognize
    this as corrupt behavior.
  • 61:20 - 61:21
    On a more subtle level,
  • 61:21 - 61:24
    when Walmart moves
    into a small town
  • 61:24 - 61:26
    and forces small businesses
    to shut down,
  • 61:26 - 61:28
    for they are unable
    to compete,
  • 61:28 - 61:30
    a grey area emerges.
  • 61:30 - 61:33
    For what exactly
    is Walmart doing wrong?
  • 61:33 - 61:36
    Why should they care about the Mom
    and Pop organizations they destroy?
  • 61:37 - 61:39
    Yet even more subtly,
  • 61:39 - 61:44
    when a person gets fired from their job,
    because a new machine has been created,
  • 61:44 - 61:46
    which can do the work
    for less money,
  • 61:46 - 61:48
    people tend to just
    accept that as
  • 61:48 - 61:50
    the way it is,
  • 61:50 - 61:54
    not seen the inherent corrupt
    inhumanity of such an action.
  • 61:55 - 61:57
    Because the fact is,
  • 61:57 - 62:01
    whether it is dumping toxic waste,
    having a monopoly enterprise
  • 62:01 - 62:03
    or downsizing the workforce,
  • 62:03 - 62:05
    the motive is the same:
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    Profit.
  • 62:07 - 62:11
    They are all different degrees of
    the same self-preserving mechanism,
  • 62:11 - 62:16
    which always puts the well-being
    of people second to monetary gain.
  • 62:16 - 62:22
    Therefore, corruption is not
    some byproduct of monetary-ism.
  • 62:22 - 62:24
    It is
    the very foundation.
  • 62:25 - 62:29
    And while most people acknowledge
    this tendency on one level or another,
  • 62:29 - 62:33
    majority remains naive as
    to the broad ramifications
  • 62:33 - 62:38
    of having such a selfish mechanism
    as the guiding mentality in society.
  • 62:38 - 62:41
    Internal documents show that
    after this company
  • 62:41 - 62:44
    positively,
    absolutely knew that
  • 62:44 - 62:47
    they had a medication that was
    infected with the AIDS virus,
  • 62:47 - 62:49
    they took the product
    off the market in the US,
  • 62:49 - 62:52
    and then they dumped it in France,
    Europe, Asia and Latin America.
  • 62:52 - 62:55
    The US government
    allowed it to happen.
  • 62:55 - 62:57
    The FDA allowed this
    to happen
  • 62:57 - 63:00
    and now the government is
    completely looking the other way.
  • 63:00 - 63:05
    Thousands of innocent hemophiliacs
    have died from the AIDS virus.
  • 63:05 - 63:08
    This company knew absolutely
    that it was infected with AIDS.
  • 63:08 - 63:13
    They dumped it because they wanted
    to turn this disaster into a profit.
  • 63:15 - 63:18
    So you see,
    you have built-in corruption.
  • 63:19 - 63:21
    We're all chiseling off
    each other,
  • 63:21 - 63:24
    and you can't expect decency
    in that sort of thing.
  • 63:28 - 63:32
    A feeling that they
    don't know who to elect.
  • 63:32 - 63:34
    They think in terms
    of a democracy,
  • 63:34 - 63:38
    which is not possible
    in a monetary-based economy.
  • 63:39 - 63:42
    If you have more money to
    advertise your position,
  • 63:43 - 63:44
    the position
    you desire in government,
  • 63:45 - 63:46
    that isn't a democracy.
  • 63:47 - 63:51
    It serves those in positions
    of differential advantage.
  • 63:51 - 63:55
    So it's always
    a dictatorship of the elitist,
  • 63:55 - 63:57
    the financially wealthy.
  • 64:04 - 64:06
    It is
    an interesting observation
  • 64:07 - 64:09
    to note how
    seemingly unknown personalities,
  • 64:09 - 64:13
    magically appear on the scene
    as presidential candidates.
  • 64:13 - 64:15
    Then before
    you know it,
  • 64:15 - 64:17
    somehow you are left
    to choose from
  • 64:17 - 64:20
    a small group of
    extremely wealthy people
  • 64:20 - 64:23
    who suspiciously have
    the same broad social view.
  • 64:25 - 64:26
    Obviously,
    it's a joke.
  • 64:26 - 64:29
    The people placed on
    the ballot are done so
  • 64:29 - 64:32
    because they have been
    pre-decided to be acceptable
  • 64:32 - 64:35
    by the established financial powers,
    who actually run the show.
  • 64:37 - 64:42
    Yet many who understand this
    illusion of democracy, often think,
  • 64:42 - 64:46
    "If only we could just get our honest,
    ethical politicians in power,
  • 64:46 - 64:48
    then we would be okay."
  • 64:49 - 64:52
    Well, while this idea of
    course seems reasonable
  • 64:52 - 64:54
    in our established,
    oriented world view,
  • 64:55 - 64:58
    it is unfortunately
    another fallacy.
  • 64:59 - 65:03
    For when it really comes down
    to what is actually important,
  • 65:03 - 65:07
    the institution of politics
    and thus politicians themselves,
  • 65:07 - 65:10
    have absolutely
    no true relevance
  • 65:10 - 65:14
    as to what makes
    our world and society function.
  • 65:15 - 65:18
    It's not politicians
    that can solve problems.
  • 65:18 - 65:21
    They have
    no technical capabilities.
  • 65:21 - 65:23
    They don't know
    how to solve problems.
  • 65:23 - 65:27
    Even if they were sincere,
    they don't know how to solve problems.
  • 65:27 - 65:32
    It's the technicians that
    produce the desalinization plants.
  • 65:32 - 65:34
    It's the technicians
    that give you electricity.
  • 65:35 - 65:36
    That give you
    motor vehicles.
  • 65:36 - 65:39
    That heat your house and cool it
    in the summer time.
  • 65:39 - 65:42
    It's technology
    that solves problems,
  • 65:42 - 65:43
    not politics.
  • 65:43 - 65:48
    Politics cannot solve problems
    'cause they are not trained to do so.
  • 65:49 - 65:52
    Very few people today
    stop and consider
  • 65:52 - 65:55
    what it is that actually
    improves their lives.
  • 65:56 - 65:58
    Is it money?
    Obviously not.
  • 65:59 - 66:03
    One cannot eat money or stuff money
    into their car to get it to run.
  • 66:03 - 66:05
    Is it politics?
  • 66:05 - 66:08
    All politicians can do
    is create laws,
  • 66:08 - 66:11
    establish budgets
    and declare war.
  • 66:11 - 66:12
    Is it religion?
  • 66:13 - 66:16
    Of course not,
    religion creates nothing except
  • 66:16 - 66:19
    intangible emotional solace
    for those who require it.
  • 66:20 - 66:23
    The true gift that
    we as human beings have,
  • 66:24 - 66:27
    which has been solely
    responsible for everything
  • 66:27 - 66:29
    that has improved
    our lives,
  • 66:29 - 66:30
    is technology.
  • 66:32 - 66:33
    What is technology?
  • 66:33 - 66:35
    Technology
    is a pencil,
  • 66:35 - 66:39
    which allows one to solidify ideas
    on paper for communication.
  • 66:39 - 66:41
    Technology
    is an automobile,
  • 66:41 - 66:44
    which allows one to travel faster
    than feet would allow.
  • 66:45 - 66:47
    Technology
    is a pair of eye glasses,
  • 66:47 - 66:50
    which enables sight
    for those who need it.
  • 66:51 - 66:53
    Applied technology
    itself,
  • 66:53 - 66:57
    is merely and extension
    of human attributes,
  • 66:57 - 66:58
    which reduces
    human effort,
  • 66:58 - 67:01
    freeing humans from
    a particular chore or problem.
  • 67:02 - 67:05
    Imagine what your life would be like
    today without a telephone,
  • 67:06 - 67:07
    or an oven,
  • 67:07 - 67:08
    or a computer,
  • 67:08 - 67:09
    or an airplane.
  • 67:10 - 67:12
    Everything in your home,
    which you take for granted,
  • 67:12 - 67:13
    from a doorbell,
  • 67:13 - 67:14
    to a table,
  • 67:14 - 67:16
    to a dishwasher,
  • 67:16 - 67:17
    is technology,
  • 67:17 - 67:21
    generated from
    the creative scientific ingenuity
  • 67:21 - 67:22
    of human technicians.
  • 67:23 - 67:26
    Not money,
    politics or religion.
  • 67:27 - 67:29
    These are
    false institutions.
  • 67:30 - 67:33
    ...and writing your
    congressman is fantastic.
  • 67:34 - 67:35
    They tell you to write
    to your congressman
  • 67:35 - 67:37
    if you want
    something done.
  • 67:37 - 67:41
    The men in Washington should be
    at the forefront of technology.
  • 67:41 - 67:42
    The forefront
    of human study.
  • 67:43 - 67:44
    The forefront
    of crime.
  • 67:44 - 67:47
    All the factors
    that shape human behavior.
  • 67:48 - 67:49
    You don't have
    to write your congressman.
  • 67:49 - 67:53
    What kind of people are they
    that are appointed to do that job?
  • 67:54 - 67:56
    The future will have
    great difficulty...
  • 67:57 - 68:01
    And the question that's raised
    by politicians is:
  • 68:01 - 68:03
    How much
    will a project cost?
  • 68:03 - 68:06
    The question is not
    how much will it cost.
  • 68:06 - 68:08
    Do we have
    the resources?
  • 68:08 - 68:12
    And we have the resources today
    to house everyone,
  • 68:12 - 68:15
    build hospitals
    all over the world,
  • 68:15 - 68:17
    build schools
    all over the world,
  • 68:17 - 68:20
    the finest equipment
    in labs
  • 68:20 - 68:22
    for teaching
    and doing medical research.
  • 68:23 - 68:27
    So you see, we have all that,
    but we're in a monetary system,
  • 68:27 - 68:30
    and in a monetary system,
    there's profit.
  • 68:32 - 68:36
    And what is the fundamental mechanism
    that drives the profit system
  • 68:36 - 68:37
    besides self-interest?
  • 68:38 - 68:42
    What is it exactly that maintains
    that competitive edge at it's core?
  • 68:42 - 68:45
    Is it high efficiency
    and sustainability?
  • 68:45 - 68:48
    No.
    That isn't part of their design.
  • 68:49 - 68:51
    Nothing produced
    in our profit-based society
  • 68:51 - 68:53
    is even remotely sustainable
    or efficient.
  • 68:54 - 68:55
    If it was,
    there wouldn't be
  • 68:55 - 68:58
    a multi-million dollar a year
    service industry for automobiles.
  • 68:59 - 69:01
    Nor would the average lifespan
    for most electronics
  • 69:01 - 69:03
    be less than
    three months
  • 69:03 - 69:04
    before they're obsolete.
  • 69:06 - 69:07
    Is it abundance?
  • 69:08 - 69:09
    Absolutely not.
  • 69:09 - 69:12
    Abundance, as based on the
    laws of supply and demand,
  • 69:12 - 69:14
    is actually
    a negative thing.
  • 69:14 - 69:16
    If a diamond company
    finds ten times
  • 69:16 - 69:19
    the usual amount of diamonds
    during their mining,
  • 69:19 - 69:22
    it means the supply of diamonds
    has increased,
  • 69:22 - 69:25
    which means the cost and profit
    per diamond drops.
  • 69:26 - 69:30
    The fact is: efficiency,
    sustainability and abundance
  • 69:30 - 69:32
    are enemies of profit.
  • 69:32 - 69:33
    To put it
    into a word,
  • 69:34 - 69:38
    it is the mechanism of scarcity
    that increases profits.
  • 69:41 - 69:42
    What is scarcity?
  • 69:43 - 69:45
    Based on
    keeping products valuable.
  • 69:45 - 69:49
    Slowing up production on oil
    raises the price.
  • 69:49 - 69:52
    Maintaining scarcity of diamonds
    keeps the price high.
  • 69:53 - 69:56
    They burn diamonds
    at the Kimberly Diamond Mine.
  • 69:56 - 69:57
    They're
    made of carbon.
  • 69:57 - 69:59
    That keeps
    the price up.
  • 69:59 - 70:03
    So then, what does it mean
    for society when scarcity,
  • 70:03 - 70:06
    either produced naturally
    or through manipulation
  • 70:06 - 70:09
    is a beneficial condition
    for industry?
  • 70:11 - 70:14
    It means that
    sustainability and abundance
  • 70:14 - 70:17
    will never ever occur
    in a profit system.
  • 70:17 - 70:21
    For it simply goes against
    the very nature of the structure.
  • 70:22 - 70:28
    Therefore, it is impossible to have
    a world without war or poverty.
  • 70:28 - 70:32
    It is impossible to
    continually advance technology
  • 70:32 - 70:34
    to its most efficient
    and productive states.
  • 70:35 - 70:37
    And most dramatically,
  • 70:37 - 70:41
    it is impossible to expect
    human beings to behave
  • 70:41 - 70:44
    in truly ethical
    or decent ways.
  • 70:51 - 70:53
    People use the word
    'instinct'
  • 70:53 - 70:57
    because they can't account
    for the behavior.
  • 70:57 - 71:03
    They sit back and they evaluate with
    their lack of knowledge, you know,
  • 71:03 - 71:05
    and they say things like,
  • 71:05 - 71:08
    "Humans are built a certain way,
    greed is a natural thing,"
  • 71:09 - 71:11
    as though they'd worked
    for years on it.
  • 71:11 - 71:14
    And it's no more natural
    than wearing clothing.
  • 71:14 - 71:17
    What we want to do
    is to eliminate
  • 71:17 - 71:19
    the causes
    of the problems.
  • 71:20 - 71:22
    Eliminate
    the processes that
  • 71:23 - 71:26
    produce greed,
    and bigotry, and prejudice,
  • 71:27 - 71:30
    and people taking advantage
    of one another, and elitism.
  • 71:31 - 71:36
    Eliminating the need
    for prisons and welfare.
  • 71:36 - 71:37
    We have always had
    these problems because
  • 71:38 - 71:40
    we have always lived
    within scarcity,
  • 71:40 - 71:45
    and barter, and monetary systems
    that produce scarcity.
  • 71:45 - 71:50
    If you eradicate
    the conditions that generate
  • 71:50 - 71:52
    what you call
    'socially offensive behavior,'
  • 71:52 - 71:54
    it does not exist.
  • 71:54 - 71:56
    A guy says:
    Well listen, are they in-born?
  • 71:57 - 71:58
    No, it's not.
  • 71:58 - 72:01
    There is no human nature,
    there's human behavior,
  • 72:01 - 72:04
    and that's always been
    changed throughout history.
  • 72:04 - 72:06
    You're not born
    with bigotry,
  • 72:06 - 72:09
    and greed, and corruption,
    and hatred.
  • 72:10 - 72:12
    You pick that up
    within the society.
  • 72:14 - 72:18
    War, poverty, corruption,
    hunger, misery, human suffering
  • 72:18 - 72:20
    will not change
    in a monetary system.
  • 72:20 - 72:24
    That is, there will be
    very little significant change.
  • 72:24 - 72:28
    It's going to take
    the redesigning of our culture,
  • 72:28 - 72:29
    our values,
  • 72:29 - 72:33
    and it has to be related
    to the carrying capacity of the earth,
  • 72:33 - 72:37
    not some human opinion,
    or some politicians notions
  • 72:37 - 72:39
    of the way the world
    ought to be.
  • 72:40 - 72:44
    Or some religion's notions
    of the conduct of human affairs.
  • 72:45 - 72:48
    And that's what
    The Venus Project is about.
  • 72:50 - 72:53
    The society,
    that we're about to talk about,
  • 72:53 - 72:58
    is a society that is free
    of all the old superstitions,
  • 72:58 - 73:03
    incarceration, prisons,
    police, cruelty and law.
  • 73:03 - 73:05
    All laws will disappear
  • 73:05 - 73:09
    and the professions will disappear,
    that are no longer valid,
  • 73:09 - 73:13
    such as stockbrokers,
    bankers, advertising...
  • 73:13 - 73:15
    Gone!
    Forever!
  • 73:15 - 73:18
    Because it's
    no longer relevant.
  • 73:20 - 73:23
    When we understand
    that it is technology
  • 73:23 - 73:25
    devised
    by human ingenuity
  • 73:25 - 73:28
    which frees humanity
    and increases our quality of life
  • 73:28 - 73:32
    we then realize, that the most
    important focus we can have
  • 73:32 - 73:36
    is on the intelligent management
    of the earth's resources.
  • 73:36 - 73:39
    For it is from
    these natural resources,
  • 73:39 - 73:42
    we gain the materials
    to continue our path of prosperity.
  • 73:43 - 73:45
    Understanding this,
    we then see,
  • 73:45 - 73:49
    that money fundamentally exists
    as a barrier to these resources,
  • 73:49 - 73:52
    for virtually,
    everything has a financial cause.
  • 73:53 - 73:55
    And why do we need money
    to obtain these resources?
  • 73:56 - 73:59
    Because of real
    or assumed scarcity.
  • 74:00 - 74:03
    We don't usually pay
    for air and tap water,
  • 74:04 - 74:05
    because it is
    in such high abundance,
  • 74:06 - 74:07
    selling it
    would be pointless.
  • 74:08 - 74:10
    So then,
    logically speaking,
  • 74:10 - 74:12
    if resources
    and technologies,
  • 74:12 - 74:15
    applicable to creating
    everything in our societies
  • 74:15 - 74:18
    such as houses, cities
    and transportation,
  • 74:18 - 74:20
    were in
    high enough abundance,
  • 74:20 - 74:23
    there would be no reason
    to sell anything.
  • 74:24 - 74:27
    Likewise,
    if automation and machinery
  • 74:27 - 74:29
    was so technologically
    advanced,
  • 74:29 - 74:31
    as to relieve
    human beings of labor
  • 74:31 - 74:33
    there would be no reason
    to have a job.
  • 74:34 - 74:36
    And with these social aspects
    taking care of,
  • 74:36 - 74:38
    there would be no reason
    to have money at all.
  • 74:40 - 74:42
    So the ultimate question
    remains:
  • 74:43 - 74:46
    Do we on earth
    have enough resources
  • 74:46 - 74:47
    and technological
    understanding
  • 74:48 - 74:50
    to create a society
    of such abundance,
  • 74:50 - 74:54
    that everything we have now
    could be available without a price tag
  • 74:54 - 74:57
    and without the need for submission
    through employment?
  • 74:59 - 75:00
    Yes, we do.
  • 75:01 - 75:03
    We have the resources
    and technology
  • 75:03 - 75:06
    to enable this
    at a minimum
  • 75:06 - 75:09
    along with the ability to raise
    the standards of living so high
  • 75:09 - 75:13
    that people in the future will
    look back at our civilisation now
  • 75:13 - 75:18
    and gawk at how primitive
    and immature our society was.
  • 75:19 - 75:21
    What The Venus Project
    proposes
  • 75:21 - 75:23
    is an entirely
    different system
  • 75:23 - 75:27
    that's updated
    to present day knowledge.
  • 75:27 - 75:29
    We've never given scientists
    the problem of
  • 75:29 - 75:34
    How do you design a society which would
    eliminate boring and monotonous jobs,
  • 75:34 - 75:38
    that would eliminate accidents
    in transportation,
  • 75:39 - 75:41
    that would enable people
    to have a high standard of living,
  • 75:42 - 75:45
    that would eliminate poisons
    in our food,
  • 75:45 - 75:49
    give us other sources of energy,
    that are clean and efficient.
  • 75:49 - 75:51
    We can do that
    out there.
  • 75:56 - 75:58
    The major difference
    between
  • 75:58 - 76:01
    a resource-based economy
    and a monetary system,
  • 76:01 - 76:05
    is that a resource-based economy
    is really concerned with people
  • 76:05 - 76:05
    and their well-being
  • 76:06 - 76:09
    where the monetary system
    has become so distorted
  • 76:09 - 76:12
    that the concerns of the people
    are really secondary,
  • 76:12 - 76:14
    if they're there
    at all.
  • 76:14 - 76:16
    Products that are turned out
    are for
  • 76:17 - 76:18
    how much money
    you can get.
  • 76:18 - 76:22
    If there is a problem in society
    and you can't earn money
  • 76:22 - 76:24
    from solving that problem,
    then it won't be done.
  • 76:25 - 76:28
    The resource-based economy
    is really not close
  • 76:28 - 76:29
    to anything
    that's been tried.
  • 76:29 - 76:32
    And with all our technology today,
    we can create abundance.
  • 76:32 - 76:35
    It could be used to improve
    everyone's lifestyle.
  • 76:35 - 76:39
    Abundance all over the world,
    if we use our technology wisely
  • 76:39 - 76:40
    and maintain
    the environment.
  • 76:41 - 76:43
    It's a very different system
  • 76:43 - 76:45
    and it's very hard
    to talk about
  • 76:45 - 76:48
    because the public is not
    that well enough informed
  • 76:48 - 76:50
    as to the
    state of technology.
  • 76:56 - 76:59
    At present,
    we don't have to burn fossil fuels.
  • 77:00 - 77:03
    We don't have to use anything
    that would contaminate the environment.
  • 77:04 - 77:07
    There are many sources
    of energy available.
  • 77:08 - 77:11
    Alternative energy solutions
    pushed by the establishment,
  • 77:11 - 77:14
    such as hydrogen,
    biomass and even nuclear
  • 77:14 - 77:16
    are highly insufficient,
    dangerous,
  • 77:17 - 77:19
    and exist only to perpetuate
    the profit structure
  • 77:19 - 77:21
    the industry has created.
  • 77:21 - 77:25
    When we look beyond the propaganda
    and self-serving solutions
  • 77:25 - 77:27
    put forth by
    the energy companies,
  • 77:27 - 77:30
    we find a
    seemingly endless stream
  • 77:30 - 77:33
    of clean, abundant and renewable energy
    for generating power.
  • 77:34 - 77:37
    Solar and wind energy
    are well known to the public.
  • 77:37 - 77:40
    But the true potential of these mediums
    remains unexpressed.
  • 77:41 - 77:43
    Solar energy,
    derived from the sun,
  • 77:43 - 77:47
    has such abundance,
    that one hour of light at high noon
  • 77:47 - 77:52
    contains more energy than what
    the entire world consumes in a year.
  • 77:52 - 77:56
    If we could capture one-hundreth
    of a percent of this energy,
  • 77:56 - 77:59
    the world would never have
    to use oil, gas or anything else.
  • 78:00 - 78:02
    The questioning
    is not availability,
  • 78:02 - 78:04
    but the technology
    to harness it.
  • 78:05 - 78:07
    And there are many
    advanced mediums today
  • 78:07 - 78:09
    which could accomplish
    just that,
  • 78:09 - 78:11
    if they were
    not hindered
  • 78:11 - 78:13
    by the need
    to compete for market share
  • 78:13 - 78:16
    with the established
    energy power structures.
  • 78:17 - 78:18
    Then there's wind energy.
  • 78:19 - 78:21
    Wind energy has long been
    denounced as weak
  • 78:21 - 78:25
    and, due to being location driven,
    impractical.
  • 78:25 - 78:26
    This is
    simply not true.
  • 78:27 - 78:30
    The US Department of Energy
    admitted in 2007
  • 78:30 - 78:35
    that if wind was fully harvested
    in just three of America's 50 states,
  • 78:35 - 78:37
    it could power
    the entire nation.
  • 78:39 - 78:43
    And then there are the rather unknown
    mediums of tidal and wave power.
  • 78:44 - 78:47
    Tidal power is derived
    from tidal shifts in the ocean.
  • 78:47 - 78:51
    Installing turbines which capture
    this movement, generates energy.
  • 78:51 - 78:52
    In the United Kingdom,
  • 78:52 - 78:55
    42 sites are currently noted
    as available,
  • 78:55 - 78:59
    forecasting that
    34% of all the UK's energy
  • 78:59 - 79:01
    could come
    from tidal power alone.
  • 79:03 - 79:07
    Wave power, which extracts energy
    from the surface motions of the ocean,
  • 79:07 - 79:10
    is estimated
    to have a global potential
  • 79:10 - 79:13
    of up to
    80,000 terawatt-hours a year.
  • 79:13 - 79:17
    This means 50% of
    the entire planet's energy usage
  • 79:17 - 79:20
    could be produced
    from this medium alone.
  • 79:22 - 79:27
    Now, it is important to point out
    that tidal, wave, solar and wind power
  • 79:27 - 79:30
    requires virtually
    no preliminary energy to harness,
  • 79:30 - 79:35
    unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass,
    hydrogen and all the others.
  • 79:36 - 79:38
    In combination,
    these four mediums alone,
  • 79:38 - 79:40
    if efficiently harnessed
    through technology,
  • 79:40 - 79:43
    could power
    the world forever.
  • 79:44 - 79:45
    That being said,
  • 79:45 - 79:49
    there happens to be another form
    of clean renewable energy,
  • 79:49 - 79:50
    which trumps them all.
  • 79:51 - 79:53
    Geothermal power.
  • 79:53 - 79:57
    Geothermal energy utilizes
    what is called heat mining,
  • 79:57 - 79:59
    which, through
    a simple process using water,
  • 79:59 - 80:02
    is able to generate
    massive amounts of clean energy.
  • 80:03 - 80:06
    In 2006, an MIT report
    on geothermal energy
  • 80:06 - 80:11
    found that 13,000 zetajules of power
    are currently available in the earth
  • 80:11 - 80:14
    with the possibility of
    2,000 zetajules
  • 80:14 - 80:17
    being easily tapable
    with improved technology.
  • 80:18 - 80:19
    The total energy
    consumption
  • 80:19 - 80:21
    of all the countries
    on the planet
  • 80:21 - 80:23
    is about
    half of a zetajule a year.
  • 80:23 - 80:27
    This means about
    4000 years of planetary power
  • 80:27 - 80:28
    could be harnessed
  • 80:28 - 80:29
    in this medium alone.
  • 80:30 - 80:33
    And when we understand
    that the earth's heat generation
  • 80:33 - 80:34
    is constantly renewed,
  • 80:35 - 80:36
    this energy
    is really limitless.
  • 80:37 - 80:38
    It could be used
    forever.
  • 80:40 - 80:44
    These energy sources are only a few
    of the clean renewable mediums available
  • 80:44 - 80:47
    and as time goes on,
    we will find more.
  • 80:47 - 80:51
    The grand realization is that
    we have total energy abundance
  • 80:51 - 80:53
    without the need
    for pollution,
  • 80:53 - 80:57
    traditional conservation,
    or in fact, a price tag.
  • 81:00 - 81:02
    And what about
    transportation?
  • 81:03 - 81:04
    The prevailing means
    of transportation
  • 81:04 - 81:07
    in our societies
    is by automobile and aircraft,
  • 81:08 - 81:11
    both of which predominantly
    need fossil fuels to run.
  • 81:11 - 81:14
    In the case of the automobile,
    the battery technology needed
  • 81:14 - 81:18
    to power an electric car that can go
    over a hundred miles an hour,
  • 81:18 - 81:20
    for over two hundred miles
    on one charge,
  • 81:20 - 81:23
    exists and has existed
    for many years.
  • 81:23 - 81:26
    However, due to battery patents,
    controlled by the oil industry,
  • 81:26 - 81:29
    which limits their ability
    to maintain market share,
  • 81:29 - 81:32
    coupled with political pressure
    from the energy industry,
  • 81:32 - 81:36
    the accessibility and affordability
    of this technology is limited.
  • 81:37 - 81:39
    There is absolutely
    no reason,
  • 81:39 - 81:41
    other than pure,
    corrupt profit interests,
  • 81:41 - 81:43
    that every single vehicle
    in the world
  • 81:43 - 81:48
    cannot be electric and utterly clean,
    with zero need for gasoline.
  • 81:49 - 81:50
    As far as airplanes,
  • 81:50 - 81:53
    it is time we realize that
    this means of travel is inefficient,
  • 81:53 - 81:57
    cumbersome, slow
    and causes far too much pollution.
  • 81:58 - 82:00
    This is a MagLev train.
  • 82:00 - 82:02
    It uses magnets
    for propulsion.
  • 82:03 - 82:05
    It is fully suspended
    by a magnetic field
  • 82:05 - 82:09
    and requires less then two percent
    of the energy used for plane travel.
  • 82:10 - 82:13
    The train has no wheels,
    so nothing can wear out.
  • 82:13 - 82:16
    The current maximum speed of
    versions of this technology,
  • 82:16 - 82:18
    of this technology,
    as used in Japan,
  • 82:18 - 82:21
    is three hundred and sixty one
    miles per hour.
  • 82:21 - 82:25
    However, this version of the technology
    is very dated.
  • 82:26 - 82:28
    An organisation called ET-3
  • 82:28 - 82:30
    which has connections
    with The Venus Project,
  • 82:30 - 82:33
    has established
    a tube-based MagLev
  • 82:33 - 82:36
    that can travel
    up to 4000 miles per hour
  • 82:36 - 82:41
    in a motionless, frictionless tube,
    which can go over land or under water.
  • 82:42 - 82:45
    Imagine going from L.A to New York
    for an extended lunchbreak
  • 82:46 - 82:50
    or from Washington D.C.
    to Beijing, China, in two hours.
  • 82:50 - 82:54
    This is the future of continental
    and intercontinental travel.
  • 82:54 - 82:58
    Fast, clean, with only
    a fraction of the energy usage
  • 82:58 - 83:01
    we use today
    for the same means.
  • 83:02 - 83:04
    In fact,
    between MagLev technology,
  • 83:04 - 83:07
    advanced battery storage
    and geothermal energy,
  • 83:08 - 83:11
    there will be no reason
    to ever burn fossil fuels again.
  • 83:11 - 83:13
    And we can do this now,
  • 83:13 - 83:16
    if we were not held back
    by the paralyzing profit structure.
  • 83:21 - 83:24
    Now America is inclined
    toward fascism.
  • 83:24 - 83:28
    It has a propensity by
    its dominant philosophy
  • 83:28 - 83:31
    and religion to uphold
    to fascist point of view.
  • 83:32 - 83:36
    American industry is essencially
    a fascist institution.
  • 83:36 - 83:38
    If you don't
    understand that,
  • 83:38 - 83:42
    the minute you punch that time clock,
    you walk into a dictatorship.
  • 83:42 - 83:46
    We're given notions
    about the respectibility of work.
  • 83:46 - 83:50
    And I realy look at it
    as being paid slavery.
  • 83:51 - 83:52
    You brought up
    to believe that
  • 83:52 - 83:55
    you shall earn your living
    by the sweat of your brow.
  • 83:55 - 83:57
    That holds people back.
  • 83:58 - 84:00
    Freeing people
  • 84:00 - 84:04
    from drudgery, repetitive jobs
    which make them ignorant.
  • 84:04 - 84:05
    You rob them.
  • 84:06 - 84:09
    In our society, that is
    a resourced-based economy,
  • 84:10 - 84:12
    machines free people.
  • 84:12 - 84:14
    You see,
    we can't imagine that because
  • 84:14 - 84:17
    we've never known
    that kind of world.
  • 84:21 - 84:23
    If we look back
    at history,
  • 84:23 - 84:26
    we see a very clear pattern
    of machine automation,
  • 84:26 - 84:29
    slowly replacing
    human labour.
  • 84:29 - 84:32
    From the disappearance
    of the elevator man
  • 84:32 - 84:35
    to the near full automation of
    an automobile production plant,
  • 84:36 - 84:40
    the fact is, as technology grows
    the need for humans in the work force
  • 84:40 - 84:42
    will continually be
    diminished.
  • 84:43 - 84:45
    This creates
    a serious clash,
  • 84:45 - 84:50
    which proves the falsness of
    the monetary-based labor system,
  • 84:50 - 84:54
    for human employment
    is in direct competition
  • 84:54 - 84:56
    with technological
    developement.
  • 84:56 - 85:00
    Therefore, given the fundamental
    priority of profit by industry,
  • 85:01 - 85:03
    people through time
    will be continually layed off
  • 85:03 - 85:05
    and replaced by machine.
  • 85:06 - 85:10
    When industry takes on a machine
    instead of shortening the work day,
  • 85:10 - 85:11
    they downsize.
  • 85:11 - 85:15
    You loose your job
    so you have a right to fear machines.
  • 85:16 - 85:19
    In a high technology,
    resourced-based economy,
  • 85:19 - 85:24
    It is conservative to say that
    about 90% of all current occupations
  • 85:24 - 85:26
    could be phased out
    by machines,
  • 85:26 - 85:30
    freeing humans to live their life
    without servitude.
  • 85:30 - 85:33
    For this is the point
    of technology itself.
  • 85:33 - 85:36
    And through time,
    with nanotechnology
  • 85:36 - 85:38
    and other highly advanced
    forms of science,
  • 85:38 - 85:42
    it is not farfetched to see
    how even complex
  • 85:42 - 85:44
    medical procedures
    could be performed
  • 85:44 - 85:45
    by machines,
    as well.
  • 85:47 - 85:47
    And based
    on the pattern
  • 85:47 - 85:51
    with much higher success rates
    than humans get today.
  • 85:52 - 85:55
    The path is clear,
    but our monetary-based structure
  • 85:55 - 85:59
    which requires labour for income,
    blocks this progress,
  • 85:59 - 86:02
    for humans need jobs,
    in order to survive.
  • 86:03 - 86:06
    The bottom line is
    that this system must go
  • 86:06 - 86:08
    or we will
    never be free
  • 86:08 - 86:11
    and technology
    will be constantly paralyzed.
  • 86:12 - 86:14
    We have machines
    that clean out sewers
  • 86:14 - 86:17
    and frees a human being
    from doing that.
  • 86:17 - 86:22
    So look at machines as
    extensions of human performance.
  • 86:23 - 86:28
    Furthermore, many occupations today
    will have simply no basis
  • 86:28 - 86:31
    to exist in a
    resourced-based economy.
  • 86:31 - 86:34
    Such as anything assosiated
    with the management of money,
  • 86:34 - 86:37
    advertising,
    along with a legal system itself.
  • 86:38 - 86:41
    For, without money,
    a great majority of the crimes
  • 86:41 - 86:44
    that are commited today,
    would never occur.
  • 86:44 - 86:46
    Virtually,
    all forms of crime
  • 86:46 - 86:48
    are consequence
    in the monetary system,
  • 86:48 - 86:54
    either directly or by nevroses
    inflicted through financial deprevation.
  • 86:54 - 86:58
    Therefore, laws themselves
    could eventually become extinct.
  • 86:59 - 87:03
    Instead of putting up a sign:
    'Drive carefully', 'Slippery when wet',
  • 87:03 - 87:07
    put abrasive on the highway,
    so it is not slippery when wet.
  • 87:07 - 87:09
    And when a person
    gets in a car that drunk
  • 87:09 - 87:11
    and a car oscillates
    at great deal,
  • 87:11 - 87:13
    there's
    a little pendulum
  • 87:13 - 87:14
    that swings up
    and back
  • 87:14 - 87:16
    and that will pull the
    car over the side...
  • 87:17 - 87:18
    Not a law.
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    A solution.
  • 87:19 - 87:23
    Put sonar and radar on automobiles
    so they can't hit one another.
  • 87:23 - 87:26
    Man-made laws
    are attempts
  • 87:26 - 87:28
    to deal with
    occuring problems
  • 87:28 - 87:30
    and not knowing
    how to solve them...
  • 87:30 - 87:32
    They make a law.
  • 87:33 - 87:35
    In the United States,
    the most privatised,
  • 87:35 - 87:37
    capitalist country
    on the planet,
  • 87:37 - 87:39
    it shall come
    as no surprise
  • 87:39 - 87:43
    that it also has the largest
    prison population in the world.
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    Growing every year.
  • 87:45 - 87:48
    Statistically, most of
    these people are uneducated
  • 87:48 - 87:51
    and come from poor,
    deprived societies.
  • 87:52 - 87:53
    And contrary
    to propaganda,
  • 87:54 - 87:56
    it is this
    enviromental conditioning,
  • 87:56 - 87:59
    which lures them into
    criminal and violent behavior.
  • 88:00 - 88:02
    However,
    society looks the other way
  • 88:02 - 88:04
    in regard
    to this point.
  • 88:04 - 88:08
    The legal and prison systems
    are just more examples
  • 88:08 - 88:11
    of how our society
    avoids examining
  • 88:11 - 88:13
    the root causes
    of behavior.
  • 88:13 - 88:15
    Billions are spent
    each year
  • 88:15 - 88:17
    on prisons and police,
  • 88:17 - 88:19
    while only a fraction
    is spent on
  • 88:19 - 88:20
    programs for poverty,
  • 88:21 - 88:23
    which is one of the most
    fundamental variables
  • 88:23 - 88:25
    responsible for crime
    to begin with.
  • 88:26 - 88:28
    And, as long as
    we have an economic system,
  • 88:28 - 88:30
    which preferes
    and in fact,
  • 88:30 - 88:33
    creates scarcity
    and deprivation,
  • 88:33 - 88:35
    crime
    will never go away.
  • 88:41 - 88:45
    If people have access
    to the necessities of life
  • 88:45 - 88:49
    without survitude, debt,
    barter, trade,
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    they'd behave
    very differently.
  • 88:53 - 88:57
    You want all these things available
    without a price tag.
  • 88:57 - 89:00
    Now then, you're not gonna
    have a price tag,
  • 89:00 - 89:02
    what will
    motivate people?
  • 89:03 - 89:07
    A man gets everything he wants,
    he's just laying around in the sun.
  • 89:07 - 89:09
    This is the myth
    they perpetuate.
  • 89:09 - 89:12
    People in our culture
    are trained to believe
  • 89:12 - 89:15
    that the monetary system
    produces incentive.
  • 89:15 - 89:19
    If they have access to things,
    why should they want to do anything?
  • 89:19 - 89:21
    They would
    loose their incentive.
  • 89:21 - 89:24
    That's what you're taught
    to support the monetary system.
  • 89:24 - 89:27
    When you take money
    out of the scenario,
  • 89:28 - 89:31
    there would be different incentives,
    very different incentives.
  • 89:32 - 89:35
    When people have access
    to the necessities of life,
  • 89:35 - 89:37
    their incentives change.
  • 89:37 - 89:39
    What about the moon
    and the stars?
  • 89:39 - 89:41
    New incentives arise.
  • 89:41 - 89:43
    If you make a painting
    that you enjoy,
  • 89:44 - 89:47
    you will enjoy giving it
    to other people, not selling it.
  • 89:52 - 89:55
    I think most of the education,
    that I've seen today is
  • 89:55 - 89:59
    essentially,
    producing a person for a job.
  • 89:59 - 90:01
    It's very specialized.
    They're not generalists.
  • 90:01 - 90:04
    People don't know a lot about
    a lot of different subjects.
  • 90:04 - 90:07
    I don't think you can
    get people to go to war,
  • 90:07 - 90:10
    if they knew a lot
    about a lot of things.
  • 90:10 - 90:13
    I think education
    is mostly rote
  • 90:13 - 90:17
    and they're not taught
    how to solve problems.
  • 90:17 - 90:19
    They're not given the tools,
    emotionally,
  • 90:19 - 90:21
    or within
    their own field,
  • 90:21 - 90:23
    of how to do
    critical thinking.
  • 90:24 - 90:27
    In a resource-based economy,
    the education would be very different.
  • 90:27 - 90:31
    Our society's major concern
    is mental development
  • 90:31 - 90:34
    and to motivate
    each person
  • 90:34 - 90:36
    to their
    highest potential.
  • 90:36 - 90:37
    Because our philosophy is
  • 90:37 - 90:40
    the smarter people are,
    the richer the world,
  • 90:40 - 90:43
    because everybody
    becomes a contributor.
  • 90:43 - 90:45
    The smarter
    your kids are,
  • 90:45 - 90:47
    the better
    my life will be.
  • 90:47 - 90:49
    Because they'll be contributing
    more constructively
  • 90:49 - 90:52
    to the environment
    and to my life.
  • 90:52 - 90:53
    Because
    everything that
  • 90:53 - 90:57
    we devise within
    a resource-based economy,
  • 90:57 - 90:58
    would be applied
    to society.
  • 90:58 - 91:00
    There would be nothing
    to hold it back.
  • 91:04 - 91:09
    Patriotism, weapons,
    armies, navies...
  • 91:09 - 91:10
    All that is a sign
  • 91:10 - 91:13
    that we're not
    civilized yet.
  • 91:13 - 91:15
    Kids will ask
    their parents:
  • 91:15 - 91:18
    "Didn't you see
    the necessity of the machines?"
  • 91:19 - 91:22
    "Dad, couldn't you see
    that war was inevitable
  • 91:22 - 91:23
    when you produce
    scarcity?"
  • 91:24 - 91:25
    "Isn't it obvious?"
  • 91:25 - 91:27
    Of course,
    the kid will understand
  • 91:27 - 91:30
    that you're pinheads;
    raised merely to serve
  • 91:30 - 91:32
    the established institutons.
  • 91:32 - 91:35
    We're such in
    an abominable, sick society,
  • 91:35 - 91:37
    that we won't make
    the history book.
  • 91:37 - 91:42
    They'll just say that large nations
    took land from smaller nations,
  • 91:42 - 91:43
    used force and violence.
  • 91:43 - 91:46
    You'll get history
    talked about as
  • 91:46 - 91:48
    corrupt behavior
    all the way along
  • 91:48 - 91:50
    until the beginning
    of the civilized world.
  • 91:50 - 91:53
    That's when all the nations
    work together.
  • 91:53 - 91:55
    World unification,
  • 91:55 - 91:59
    working toward common good
    for all human beings
  • 91:59 - 92:04
    and without anyone being
    subservient to anyone else.
  • 92:04 - 92:07
    Without
    social stratification,
  • 92:07 - 92:09
    whether it be
    technical elitism
  • 92:09 - 92:11
    or any other kind
    of elitism,
  • 92:11 - 92:13
    eradicated from
    the face of the earth.
  • 92:13 - 92:17
    The state does nothing
    because there is no state.
  • 92:22 - 92:24
    The system I advocate,
  • 92:24 - 92:28
    a resource-based global economy,
    is not perfect.
  • 92:28 - 92:30
    It's just a lot better
    than what we have.
  • 92:30 - 92:33
    We can never achieve
    perfection.
  • 92:51 - 92:53
    The social values
    of our society,
  • 92:53 - 92:55
    which has manifested
    in perpetual warfare,
  • 92:55 - 92:56
    corruption,
  • 92:56 - 92:58
    oppressive laws,
  • 92:58 - 92:59
    social stratification,
  • 92:59 - 93:01
    irrelevant superstitions,
  • 93:01 - 93:03
    environmental destruction,
  • 93:03 - 93:08
    and a despotic, socially indifferent,
    profit-oriented ruling class,
  • 93:09 - 93:12
    is fundamentally the result
    of a collective ignorance
  • 93:12 - 93:16
    of two of the most basic insights
    humans can have about reality.
  • 93:17 - 93:21
    The emergent and symbiotic aspects
    of natural law.
  • 93:22 - 93:24
    The emergent nature
    of reality
  • 93:24 - 93:27
    is that all systems;
    whether it is knowledge,
  • 93:27 - 93:32
    society, technology, philosophy,
    or any other creation;
  • 93:32 - 93:34
    will,
    when uninhibited,
  • 93:34 - 93:36
    undergo fluid,
    perpetual change.
  • 93:37 - 93:39
    What we consider
    commonplace today
  • 93:39 - 93:42
    such as modern communication
    and transportation,
  • 93:42 - 93:45
    would have been unimaginable
    in ancient times.
  • 93:46 - 93:49
    Likewise, the future
    will contain technologies,
  • 93:49 - 93:51
    realizations
    and social structures
  • 93:52 - 93:54
    that we cannot even fathom
    in the present.
  • 93:55 - 93:57
    We have gone from
    alchemy to chemistry,
  • 93:58 - 94:01
    from a geocentric universe
    to a heliocentric,
  • 94:01 - 94:04
    from believing that demons
    were the cause of illness
  • 94:04 - 94:05
    to modern medicine.
  • 94:06 - 94:09
    This development shows
    no sign of ending,
  • 94:09 - 94:11
    and it is this awareness
    that aligns us
  • 94:11 - 94:14
    and leads us
    on a continuous path
  • 94:14 - 94:16
    to growth
    and progress.
  • 94:17 - 94:20
    Static, empirical knowledge
    does not exist.
  • 94:20 - 94:24
    Rather, it is the insight
    of the emergence of all systems
  • 94:24 - 94:26
    we must recognize.
  • 94:26 - 94:30
    This means we must be open to
    new information at all times,
  • 94:31 - 94:33
    Even if it threatens
    our current belief system,
  • 94:33 - 94:35
    and hence,
    identities.
  • 94:36 - 94:40
    Sadly, society today
    has failed to recognize this,
  • 94:40 - 94:43
    and the established institutions
    continue to paralyze growth
  • 94:43 - 94:46
    by preserving
    outdated, social structures.
  • 94:47 - 94:49
    Simultaneously,
    the population suffers
  • 94:49 - 94:51
    from a fear of change.
  • 94:51 - 94:54
    For their conditioning assumes
    a static identity
  • 94:54 - 94:56
    and challenging
    one's belief system,
  • 94:56 - 94:59
    usually results in
    insult and apprehension.
  • 94:59 - 95:04
    For being wrong is erroneously
    associated with failure.
  • 95:05 - 95:09
    When in fact to be proven wrong
    should be celebrated.
  • 95:09 - 95:13
    For it is elevating someone
    to a new level of understanding,
  • 95:13 - 95:14
    furthering awareness.
  • 95:15 - 95:19
    The fact is, there is no such thing
    as a smart human being,
  • 95:20 - 95:22
    for it is merely
    a matter of time
  • 95:22 - 95:25
    before their ideas are
    updated, changed or irradicated.
  • 95:27 - 95:30
    And this tendency to blindly
    hold on to a belief system,
  • 95:30 - 95:34
    sheltering it from new,
    possibly transforming information
  • 95:34 - 95:38
    is nothing less than a form of
    intellectual materialism.
  • 95:40 - 95:43
    The monetary system
    perpetuates this materialism,
  • 95:43 - 95:45
    not only by it's
    self-preserving structures,
  • 95:46 - 95:48
    but also throught the
    countless number of people
  • 95:48 - 95:50
    who have been conditioned
    into blindly,
  • 95:50 - 95:52
    and thoughtlessly,
    upholding these structures,
  • 95:53 - 95:57
    therefore becoming, self-appointed
    guardians of the status quo.
  • 95:58 - 96:02
    Sheep which no longer need
    a sheepdog to control them.
  • 96:02 - 96:03
    For they control
    each other,
  • 96:04 - 96:07
    by ostracizing those
    who step out of the norm.
  • 96:08 - 96:10
    This tendency
    to resist change
  • 96:10 - 96:12
    and uphold
    existing institutions
  • 96:12 - 96:14
    for the sake of identity,
    comfort,
  • 96:14 - 96:16
    power and profit,
  • 96:16 - 96:18
    is completely
    unsustainable.
  • 96:18 - 96:20
    And will only produce
    further imbalance,
  • 96:21 - 96:22
    fragmentation,
  • 96:22 - 96:22
    distortion,
  • 96:23 - 96:24
    and invariably,
  • 96:24 - 96:25
    destruction.
  • 96:27 - 96:29
    It's time to change.
  • 96:30 - 96:32
    From hunters
    and gatherers,
  • 96:32 - 96:34
    to the agricultural revolution,
  • 96:34 - 96:36
    to the industrial revolution,
  • 96:36 - 96:37
    the pattern is clear.
  • 96:37 - 96:40
    It is time
    for a new social system
  • 96:40 - 96:43
    which reflects the understandings
    we have today.
  • 96:44 - 96:46
    The monetary system
    is a product
  • 96:46 - 96:47
    of a period of time,
  • 96:47 - 96:49
    where scarcity
    was a reality.
  • 96:49 - 96:51
    Now,
    with the age of technology,
  • 96:51 - 96:53
    it is no longer relevant
    to society.
  • 96:54 - 96:57
    Gone with the aberrant behavior
    it manifests.
  • 96:59 - 97:01
    Likewise,
    dominant world views,
  • 97:01 - 97:03
    such as theistic religion,
  • 97:03 - 97:06
    operate with
    the same social irrelevancy.
  • 97:07 - 97:12
    Islam, Christianity, Judaism,
    Hinduism and all of the others,
  • 97:12 - 97:15
    exist as barriers
    to personal and social growth.
  • 97:16 - 97:20
    For each group perpetuates
    a closed world view.
  • 97:20 - 97:23
    And this finite understanding
    that they acknowledge
  • 97:23 - 97:27
    is simply not possible
    in an emergent universe.
  • 97:29 - 97:33
    Yet, religion has succeeded
    in shutting down the awareness
  • 97:33 - 97:34
    of this emergence
  • 97:34 - 97:37
    by instilling the psychological
    distortion of faith
  • 97:37 - 97:39
    upon it's followers.
  • 97:39 - 97:42
    Where logic and new information
    is rejected
  • 97:42 - 97:45
    in favor of traditionalized,
    outdated beliefs.
  • 97:46 - 97:48
    The concept of God,
  • 97:48 - 97:52
    is really a method of accounting
    for the nature of things.
  • 97:52 - 97:55
    In the early days,
    people didn't know enough
  • 97:55 - 97:57
    about
    how things formed,
  • 97:57 - 97:58
    how nature worked.
  • 97:59 - 98:01
    So they invented
    their own little stories,
  • 98:02 - 98:05
    and they made God
    in their own image.
  • 98:06 - 98:08
    A guy
    that gets angry
  • 98:08 - 98:10
    when people
    don't behave right.
  • 98:10 - 98:13
    He creates floods
    and earthquakes
  • 98:13 - 98:15
    and they say
    it's an act of God.
  • 98:17 - 98:19
    A cursory glance at
    the suppressed history of religion
  • 98:19 - 98:23
    reveals that even
    the foundational myths themselves
  • 98:23 - 98:27
    are emergent culminations
    developed through influence over time.
  • 98:27 - 98:30
    For example, a cardinal doctrine
    of the Christian faith
  • 98:30 - 98:33
    is the death and resurrection
    of Christ.
  • 98:33 - 98:36
    This notion is so important
    that the Bible itself states
  • 98:37 - 98:39
    "And if Christ be not risen,
  • 98:39 - 98:43
    then is our preaching vain
    and your faith is also vain."
  • 98:45 - 98:48
    Yet it is very difficult
    to take this account literally.
  • 98:48 - 98:50
    For not only is
    there no primary source
  • 98:50 - 98:53
    denoting this supernatural event
    in secular history,
  • 98:54 - 98:57
    awareness of the enormous
    number of pre-Christian saviors
  • 98:57 - 98:59
    who also died
    and were resurrected
  • 99:00 - 99:04
    immediately puts this story in
    mythological territory by association.
  • 99:05 - 99:06
    Early church figures,
  • 99:06 - 99:07
    such as Tortullian,
  • 99:07 - 99:10
    went to great lengths
    to break these associations,
  • 99:10 - 99:15
    even claiming that the Devil
    caused the similarities to occur.
  • 99:15 - 99:17
    Stating in
    the second century:
  • 99:17 - 99:19
    "The devil, whose business is
    to pervert the truth,
  • 99:19 - 99:23
    mimics the exact circumstance
    of the Divine Sacraments.
  • 99:23 - 99:27
    He baptizes his believers and
    promises forgiveness of sins...
  • 99:27 - 99:29
    He celebrates
    the oblation of bread,
  • 99:29 - 99:31
    and brings in the symbol
    of the resurrection.
  • 99:32 - 99:35
    Let us therefore acknowledge
    the craftiness of the Devil,
  • 99:35 - 99:39
    who copied certain things
    of those that be Divine."
  • 99:40 - 99:42
    What is truly sad,
    however,
  • 99:42 - 99:45
    is that when we cease the idea
    that the stories from Christianity,
  • 99:45 - 99:48
    Judaism, Islam
    and all the others
  • 99:48 - 99:50
    are literal history,
  • 99:50 - 99:52
    and accept them
    for what they really are,
  • 99:52 - 99:55
    which are purely
    allegorical expressions,
  • 99:55 - 99:57
    derived
    from many faiths,
  • 99:58 - 100:01
    we see that all religions
    share a common thread.
  • 100:01 - 100:04
    And it is
    this unifying imperative
  • 100:04 - 100:06
    that needs to be
    recognized and appreciated.
  • 100:09 - 100:12
    Religious belief has caused
    more fragmentation and conflict
  • 100:12 - 100:14
    than any other ideology.
  • 100:14 - 100:18
    Christianity alone has
    34,000 different subgroups.
  • 100:20 - 100:23
    The Bible is subject
    to interpretation.
  • 100:23 - 100:25
    When you read it,
    you say,
  • 100:25 - 100:29
    "I think Jesus meant this.
    I think Job meant that."
  • 100:29 - 100:31
    "Oh no!
    He meant this."
  • 100:31 - 100:34
    So you have the Lutheran,
    the Seventh-Day Adventist, the Catholic,
  • 100:35 - 100:38
    and a church divided
    is no church at all.
  • 100:45 - 100:47
    And this point
    on division,
  • 100:47 - 100:51
    which is a trademark
    of all theistic religions,
  • 100:51 - 100:54
    brings us to our second failure
    of awareness.
  • 100:54 - 100:56
    The false assumption
    of separation
  • 100:56 - 101:01
    through the rejection of
    the symbiotic relationship of life.
  • 101:02 - 101:06
    Apart from the understanding
    that all natural systems are emergent,
  • 101:06 - 101:09
    where all notions of reality
    will be constantly developed,
  • 101:09 - 101:11
    altered
    and even eradicated,
  • 101:12 - 101:16
    we must also understand
    that all systems are, in fact,
  • 101:16 - 101:20
    invented fragments,
    merely for the sake of conversation.
  • 101:20 - 101:24
    For there is no such thing
    as independence in nature.
  • 101:25 - 101:27
    The whole of nature
    is a unified system
  • 101:27 - 101:29
    of interdependent variables,
  • 101:29 - 101:34
    each a cause and a reaction,
    existing only as a concentrated whole.
  • 101:36 - 101:39
    You don't see the plug
    to connect to the environment,
  • 101:39 - 101:43
    so it looks like we're free,
    wandering around.
  • 101:43 - 101:46
    Take the oxygen away,
    we all die immediately.
  • 101:46 - 101:48
    Take plant life away,
    we die.
  • 101:48 - 101:51
    And without the sun,
    all the plants die.
  • 101:51 - 101:52
    So we are connected.
  • 101:53 - 101:56
    We really must take into
    account the totality.
  • 101:56 - 101:58
    This isn't just a human experience
    on this planet,
  • 101:58 - 101:59
    this is
    a total experience.
  • 101:59 - 102:02
    And we know we can't survive
    without plants and animals.
  • 102:02 - 102:04
    We know we can't survive
    without the four elements, you know?
  • 102:05 - 102:08
    And so, when are we gonna really
    start taking that into account?
  • 102:09 - 102:10
    That's what it is
    to be successful.
  • 102:10 - 102:14
    Success depends on how well
    we're related to everything around us.
  • 102:16 - 102:18
    I'm very aware of
    the fact that my grandson
  • 102:18 - 102:19
    cannot possibly hope
  • 102:20 - 102:22
    to inherit
    a sustainable,
  • 102:22 - 102:24
    peaceful, stable,
    socially just world
  • 102:24 - 102:26
    unless every child today
    growing up
  • 102:26 - 102:31
    in Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia,
    in Palestine, in Israel,
  • 102:31 - 102:33
    also has
    that same expectation.
  • 102:34 - 102:36
    You gotta take care
    of the whole community
  • 102:36 - 102:38
    or you're gonna have
    serious problems.
  • 102:39 - 102:42
    And now we have to see that
    the whole world is the community.
  • 102:43 - 102:46
    And we must all take care
    of each other that way.
  • 102:46 - 102:48
    And it's not just
    a community of human beings,
  • 102:48 - 102:51
    it's a community of plants
    and animals and elements.
  • 102:51 - 102:54
    And we really need
    to understand that.
  • 102:54 - 102:56
    That's what's
    gonna bring us joy too,
  • 102:56 - 102:57
    and pleasure.
  • 102:57 - 102:59
    That's what's missing
    in our lives right now.
  • 102:59 - 103:01
    We can call it
    spirituality,
  • 103:01 - 103:02
    but the fact
    of the matter is...
  • 103:02 - 103:06
    Joy comes from that
    bliss of connectedness.
  • 103:07 - 103:08
    That's our godspirit.
  • 103:08 - 103:10
    That's that side
    of ourselves
  • 103:10 - 103:12
    that really feels it,
  • 103:12 - 103:13
    and you can feel it
    deep inside you.
  • 103:13 - 103:15
    It's this amazing,
    wonderful feeling
  • 103:15 - 103:16
    and you know it
    when you get it.
  • 103:16 - 103:18
    You don't get it
    from money,
  • 103:18 - 103:20
    you get it
    from connection.
  • 103:22 - 103:25
    Now if that isn't
    a hazard to this country.
  • 103:27 - 103:29
    How are we gonna keep
    building nuclear weapons,
  • 103:29 - 103:30
    you know
    what I mean?
  • 103:31 - 103:33
    What's gonna happen
    to the arms industry
  • 103:33 - 103:35
    when we realize
    we're all one?
  • 103:36 - 103:38
    It's gonna fuck up
    the economy.
  • 103:39 - 103:41
    The economy
    that's fake anyway.
  • 103:49 - 103:51
    Which would be
    a real bummer.
  • 103:52 - 103:54
    You can see why
    the government's crackin' down...
  • 103:57 - 104:00
    on the idea of experiencing
    unconditional love.
  • 104:11 - 104:15
    Once we understand that
    the integrity of our personal existences
  • 104:15 - 104:17
    are completely dependent
  • 104:17 - 104:20
    on the integrity of
    everything else in our world,
  • 104:20 - 104:24
    we have truly understood
    the meaning of unconditional love.
  • 104:25 - 104:29
    For love is extensionality,
    and seeing everything as you
  • 104:29 - 104:32
    and you as everything
    can have no conditionalities,
  • 104:32 - 104:36
    for in fact,
    we are all everything, at once.
  • 104:36 - 104:39
    If it's true that we're all
    from the center of a star,
  • 104:39 - 104:41
    every atom on each of us
    from the center of a star,
  • 104:41 - 104:43
    then we're all
    the same thing.
  • 104:43 - 104:44
    Even a Coke machine
  • 104:44 - 104:46
    or a cigarette butt
    in the street in Buffalo
  • 104:46 - 104:48
    is made out of atoms
    that came from a star.
  • 104:48 - 104:50
    They've all been recycled
    thousands of times,
  • 104:50 - 104:51
    as have
    you and I.
  • 104:51 - 104:54
    And therefore,
    it's only me out there.
  • 104:55 - 104:56
    So what is there
    to be afraid of?
  • 104:56 - 104:58
    What is there
    that needs solace seeking?
  • 104:58 - 104:59
    Nothing.
  • 104:59 - 105:01
    There's nothing to be afraid of
    because it's all us.
  • 105:02 - 105:05
    The trouble is we have been
    separated by being born
  • 105:05 - 105:07
    and given a name and an identity
    and being individuated.
  • 105:07 - 105:09
    We've been separated
    from the oneness,
  • 105:09 - 105:10
    and that's
    what religion exploits.
  • 105:10 - 105:14
    That people have this yearning
    to be part of the overall one again.
  • 105:14 - 105:15
    So they exploit that.
  • 105:15 - 105:17
    They call it God,
    they say he has rules,
  • 105:18 - 105:19
    and I think it's cruel.
  • 105:19 - 105:22
    I think you can do it
    absent religion.
  • 106:09 - 106:11
    It's time
    to claim the unity.
  • 106:11 - 106:14
    Our outmoded social systems
    have broken apart,
  • 106:15 - 106:18
    and work together
    to create a sustainable,
  • 106:18 - 106:21
    global society,
    where everyone is taken care of
  • 106:21 - 106:23
    and everyone
    is truly free.
  • 106:23 - 106:26
    Your personal beliefs,
    whatever they may be,
  • 106:26 - 106:29
    are meaningless when it comes
    to the necessities of life.
  • 106:29 - 106:32
    Every human being
    is born naked,
  • 106:32 - 106:35
    needing warmth, food,
    water, shelter.
  • 106:35 - 106:37
    Everything else
    is auxiliary.
  • 106:37 - 106:40
    Therefore, the most
    important issue at hand
  • 106:40 - 106:43
    is the intelligent management
    of the Earth's resources.
  • 106:44 - 106:47
    This can never be accomplished
    in a monetary system,
  • 106:47 - 106:50
    for the pursuit of profit
    is the pursuit of self-interest
  • 106:50 - 106:52
    and therefore,
    imbalance is inherent.
  • 106:54 - 106:57
    Simultaneously,
    politicians are useless.
  • 106:57 - 107:01
    For our true problems in life
    are technical, not political.
  • 107:02 - 107:05
    Furthermore,
    ideologies that separate humanity,
  • 107:05 - 107:06
    such as religion,
  • 107:06 - 107:08
    need strong reflection
    in the community
  • 107:09 - 107:12
    in regard to it's value,
    purpose and social relevancy.
  • 107:13 - 107:14
    Hopefully,
    through time,
  • 107:14 - 107:18
    religion will loose it's materialism
    and basis in superstition
  • 107:18 - 107:21
    and move into the useful field
    of philosophy.
  • 107:22 - 107:25
    The fact is,
    society today is backwards,
  • 107:25 - 107:29
    with politicians constantly talking
    about protection and security
  • 107:29 - 107:32
    rather than creation,
    unity and progress.
  • 107:33 - 107:34
    The US alone
    now spends about
  • 107:35 - 107:38
    $500 billions dollars annually
    on defense.
  • 107:38 - 107:40
    That is enough to send
    every high school senior
  • 107:40 - 107:43
    in America
    to a four year college.
  • 107:43 - 107:46
    In the 1940's,
    the Manhattan Project
  • 107:46 - 107:49
    produced the first true
    weapon of mass destruction.
  • 107:49 - 107:55
    This program employed 130,000 people,
    at an extreme financial cost.
  • 107:56 - 107:58
    Imagine what our life
    would be like today,
  • 107:58 - 108:00
    if that
    group of scientists,
  • 108:00 - 108:03
    instead of working on
    a way of killing people,
  • 108:03 - 108:07
    worked on a way to create
    a self-sustaining, abundant world.
  • 108:08 - 108:10
    Life today
    would be very, very different,
  • 108:10 - 108:12
    if that was their goal.
  • 108:14 - 108:16
    Instead of
    weapons of mass destruction,
  • 108:16 - 108:20
    it is time to unleash
    something much more powerful.
  • 108:21 - 108:24
    Weapons of Mass Creation.
  • 108:25 - 108:28
    Our true divinity is
    in our ability to create.
  • 108:28 - 108:32
    And armed with the understanding of
    the symbiotic connections of life,
  • 108:33 - 108:36
    while being guided by
    the emergent nature of reality,
  • 108:36 - 108:39
    there is nothing
    we cannot do or accomplish.
  • 108:41 - 108:44
    Of course,
    we face strong barriers,
  • 108:44 - 108:46
    in the form of
    established power structures,
  • 108:46 - 108:48
    that refuse to change.
  • 108:49 - 108:51
    At the heart of these structures
    is the monetary system.
  • 108:52 - 108:54
    As explained earlier,
    the fractional reserve policy
  • 108:54 - 108:56
    is a form of
    slavery through debt,
  • 108:56 - 109:00
    where it is literally impossible
    for society to be free.
  • 109:01 - 109:04
    In turn, free market capitalism,
    in the form of free trade,
  • 109:04 - 109:07
    uses debt to imprison the world
    and manipulate countries
  • 109:07 - 109:12
    into subservience to a handful of
    large business and political powers.
  • 109:12 - 109:14
    Apart from
    these obvious amoralities,
  • 109:14 - 109:17
    the system itself
    is based on competition,
  • 109:17 - 109:20
    which immediately
    destroys the possibility
  • 109:20 - 109:23
    of large scale collaborations
    for the common good.
  • 109:23 - 109:28
    Hence paralyzing any attempt
    at true global sustainability.
  • 109:29 - 109:33
    These financial and corporate structures
    are now obsolete,
  • 109:33 - 109:35
    and they must be
    outgrown.
  • 109:36 - 109:38
    Of course, we cannot be
    naive enough to think
  • 109:38 - 109:41
    that the business and financial elite
    are going to subscribe to this idea,
  • 109:41 - 109:43
    for they will lose
    power and control.
  • 109:44 - 109:47
    Therefore, peacefully,
    a highly strategic action must be taken.
  • 109:48 - 109:51
    The most powerful course
    of action is simple.
  • 109:51 - 109:53
    We have to alter
    our behavior to force
  • 109:53 - 109:57
    the power structure
    to the will of the people.
  • 109:58 - 110:00
    We must stop
    supporting the system.
  • 110:02 - 110:04
    The only way
    the establishment will change
  • 110:04 - 110:06
    is by our refusal
    to participate
  • 110:06 - 110:11
    while continuously acknowledging
    its endless flaws and corruptions.
  • 110:11 - 110:14
    They're not gonna give up
    the monetary system,
  • 110:14 - 110:18
    because of our designs
    of what we've recommend.
  • 110:18 - 110:20
    The system
    has to fail,
  • 110:20 - 110:24
    and people have to lose confidence
    in their elected leaders.
  • 110:25 - 110:27
    That will be
    a major turning point
  • 110:27 - 110:32
    if The Venus Project is offered
    as a possible alternative.
  • 110:32 - 110:35
    If not,
    I fear the consequences.
  • 110:35 - 110:40
    The trends now indicate
    that our country is going bankrupt.
  • 110:40 - 110:45
    The probability is our country
    will move toward a military dictatorship
  • 110:46 - 110:50
    to prevent riots
    and complete social breakdown.
  • 110:50 - 110:52
    Once
    the US breaks down,
  • 110:52 - 110:55
    all the other cultures
    will undergo similar things.
  • 110:56 - 110:58
    As of now,
    the world financial system
  • 110:58 - 111:00
    is on the brink
    of collapse
  • 111:00 - 111:02
    due to
    it's own shortcomings.
  • 111:02 - 111:05
    The Controller of Currencies
    stated in 2003
  • 111:05 - 111:07
    that the interest
    on the US National Debt
  • 111:07 - 111:10
    will not be affordable
    in less than ten years.
  • 111:11 - 111:14
    This theoretically means
    total bankruptcy for the US economy
  • 111:14 - 111:17
    and it's implications
    for the world are immense.
  • 111:17 - 111:20
    In turn, the fractional reserve-based
    monetary system
  • 111:20 - 111:23
    is reaching it's theoretical limits
    of expansion
  • 111:23 - 111:27
    and the banking failures you are seeing
    are just the beginning.
  • 111:27 - 111:29
    This is why
    inflation is skyrocketing,
  • 111:30 - 111:32
    our debt is
    at record levels
  • 111:32 - 111:34
    and the government and FED
    are hemorrhaging new money
  • 111:34 - 111:36
    to bailout
    the corrupt system.
  • 111:36 - 111:38
    For the only way
    to keep the banks going
  • 111:38 - 111:40
    is by
    making more money.
  • 111:40 - 111:42
    The only way
    to make more money
  • 111:42 - 111:44
    is to create more debt
    and inflation.
  • 111:44 - 111:47
    It is simply a matter of time
    before the tables turn
  • 111:48 - 111:50
    and there's no one willing
    to take new loans
  • 111:50 - 111:55
    while defaults grow as people are unable
    to afford their current loans.
  • 111:55 - 111:57
    Then the expansion of money
    will stop
  • 111:57 - 112:01
    and contraction will begin
    on a scale never before seen,
  • 112:01 - 112:04
    ending a century long
    pyramid scheme.
  • 112:04 - 112:06
    This has already begun.
  • 112:07 - 112:11
    Therefore, we need to expose
    this financial failure for what it is,
  • 112:11 - 112:13
    using this weakness
    to our advantage.
  • 112:14 - 112:16
    Here are
    some suggestions:
  • 112:16 - 112:18
    Expose the banking fraud.
  • 112:18 - 112:21
    Citibank, JP Morgan Chase
    and Bank of America
  • 112:22 - 112:23
    are the most
    powerful controllers
  • 112:23 - 112:26
    within the corrupt
    Federal Reserve system.
  • 112:26 - 112:29
    It's time to boycott
    these institutions.
  • 112:30 - 112:33
    If you have a bank account
    or credit card with any of them,
  • 112:33 - 112:35
    move your money
    to another bank.
  • 112:35 - 112:38
    If you have a mortgage,
    refinance with another bank.
  • 112:39 - 112:41
    If you own their stock,
    sell it.
  • 112:41 - 112:43
    If you work for them,
    quit.
  • 112:43 - 112:45
    This gesture
    will express contempt
  • 112:45 - 112:48
    for the true powers
    behind the private banking cartel,
  • 112:48 - 112:50
    known as
    the Federal Reserve.
  • 112:50 - 112:54
    And create awareness about
    the fraud of the banking system itself.
  • 112:55 - 112:57
    Two:
    Turn off the TV news.
  • 112:57 - 113:00
    Visit the emerging,
    independent news agencies
  • 113:00 - 113:02
    on the Internet
    for your information.
  • 113:02 - 113:06
    CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX
    and all the others
  • 113:07 - 113:11
    present all news pre-filtered
    to maintain the status quo.
  • 113:11 - 113:15
    With four corporations owning
    all major media outlets,
  • 113:15 - 113:17
    objective information
    is impossible.
  • 113:17 - 113:20
    This is the true beauty
    of the Internet.
  • 113:20 - 113:22
    And the establishment
    has been losing control
  • 113:22 - 113:24
    because of this free flow
    of information.
  • 113:25 - 113:27
    We must protect the Internet,
    at all times,
  • 113:27 - 113:30
    as it is truly our savior
    right now.
  • 113:31 - 113:32
    Three:
  • 113:32 - 113:34
    Don't ever
    allow yourself,
  • 113:34 - 113:37
    your family
    or anyone you know,
  • 113:37 - 113:41
    to ever
    join the military.
  • 113:41 - 113:44
    This is
    an obsolete institution
  • 113:44 - 113:47
    now used exclusively
    for maintaining an establishment
  • 113:47 - 113:49
    that is no longer
    relevant.
  • 113:49 - 113:52
    US soldiers in Iraq
    work for US corporations,
  • 113:52 - 113:53
    not the people.
  • 113:53 - 113:57
    Propaganda forces us to believe
    that war is natural
  • 113:57 - 113:59
    and the military is
    an honorable institution.
  • 114:00 - 114:01
    Well if
    war is natural,
  • 114:01 - 114:04
    why are there 18 suicides
    every single day
  • 114:04 - 114:06
    by American veterans
  • 114:06 - 114:08
    who have post-traumatic
    stress disorder?
  • 114:09 - 114:11
    If our military men
    and women are so honored,
  • 114:11 - 114:15
    why is it that 25% of the
    American homeless population
  • 114:15 - 114:16
    are veterans?
  • 114:18 - 114:19
    Four:
  • 114:19 - 114:21
    Stop supporting
    the energy companies.
  • 114:21 - 114:23
    If you live
    in a detached house,
  • 114:23 - 114:25
    get off the grid.
  • 114:25 - 114:28
    Investigate every means of
    making your home self-sustainable
  • 114:28 - 114:30
    with clean energy.
  • 114:30 - 114:33
    Solar, wind
    and other renewable energies
  • 114:33 - 114:35
    are now affordable
    consumer realities,
  • 114:35 - 114:39
    and considering the never-ending
    rising costs of traditional energies,
  • 114:39 - 114:42
    it will likely be
    a cheaper investment over time.
  • 114:42 - 114:45
    If you drive,
    get the smallest car you can
  • 114:45 - 114:48
    and consider using one of the many
    conversion technologies
  • 114:48 - 114:51
    that can enable your car
    to be a hybrid,
  • 114:51 - 114:55
    electric or run on anything
    other than establishment fuels.
  • 114:55 - 114:56
    Five:
  • 114:56 - 114:58
    Reject
    the political system.
  • 114:58 - 115:02
    The illusion of democracy
    is an insult to our intelligence.
  • 115:02 - 115:03
    In a monetary system,
  • 115:03 - 115:06
    there is no such thing
    as a true democracy,
  • 115:06 - 115:07
    and there never was.
  • 115:08 - 115:09
    We have
    two political parties
  • 115:09 - 115:13
    owned by the same set
    of corporate lobbyists.
  • 115:13 - 115:16
    They are placed in their positions
    by the corporations,
  • 115:16 - 115:19
    with popularity artificially
    projected by their media.
  • 115:20 - 115:22
    In a system
    of inherent corruption,
  • 115:22 - 115:24
    the change of personnel
    every couple of years
  • 115:24 - 115:26
    has very little relevance.
  • 115:27 - 115:30
    Instead of pretending that
    the political game has any true meaning,
  • 115:30 - 115:34
    focus your energy on
    how to transcend this failed system.
  • 115:36 - 115:37
    And six:
  • 115:37 - 115:38
    Join the movement.
  • 115:39 - 115:41
    Go to
    TheZeitgeistMovement.com
  • 115:41 - 115:45
    and help us create the largest
    mass movement for social change
  • 115:45 - 115:47
    the world
    has ever seen.
  • 115:47 - 115:50
    We must mobilize
    and educate everyone
  • 115:50 - 115:53
    about the inherent corruption
    of our current world system,
  • 115:53 - 115:56
    along with the only true
    sustainable solution,
  • 115:57 - 115:59
    declaring all the natural resources
    on the planet
  • 115:59 - 116:02
    as common heritage
    to all people,
  • 116:03 - 116:06
    while informing everyone
    as to the true state of technology
  • 116:06 - 116:08
    and how we can
    all be free
  • 116:08 - 116:11
    if the world works together,
    rather than fights.
  • 116:13 - 116:14
    The choice
    lies with you.
  • 116:14 - 116:17
    You can continue to be
    a slave to the financial system
  • 116:17 - 116:19
    and watch
    the continuous wars,
  • 116:19 - 116:22
    depressions
    and injustice across the globe
  • 116:22 - 116:25
    while placating yourself
    with vain entertainment
  • 116:25 - 116:26
    and materialistic garbage.
  • 116:27 - 116:32
    Or, you can focus your energy on true,
    meaningful, lasting, holistic change
  • 116:32 - 116:36
    which actually has
    the realistic ability to support
  • 116:36 - 116:39
    and free all humans
    with no one left behind.
  • 116:41 - 116:44
    But in the end,
    the most relevant change
  • 116:44 - 116:47
    must occur first
    inside of you.
  • 116:48 - 116:52
    The real revolution
    is the revolution of consciousness,
  • 116:52 - 116:55
    and each one of us
    first needs to eliminate
  • 116:55 - 116:58
    the divisionary,
    materialistic noise
  • 116:58 - 117:01
    we have been conditioned
    to think is true;
  • 117:02 - 117:05
    while discovering,
    amplifying and aligning
  • 117:05 - 117:10
    with the signal coming
    from our true empirical oneness.
  • 117:12 - 117:13
    It is up to you.
  • 117:16 - 117:20
    What we are trying in all
    these discussions and talks here,
  • 117:21 - 117:26
    is to see if we cannot radically
    bring about a transformism of the mind.
  • 117:28 - 117:30
    Not accept things
    as they are...
  • 117:34 - 117:37
    but to understand it,
    to go into it, to examine it,
  • 117:37 - 117:40
    give your heart and your mind
    with every thing
  • 117:40 - 117:42
    that you have
    to find out.
  • 117:42 - 117:44
    A way of
    living differently.
  • 117:49 - 117:52
    But, that depends on you
    and not somebody else.
  • 117:54 - 117:56
    Because in this,
    there is no teacher,
  • 117:56 - 117:57
    no pupil.
  • 117:58 - 117:59
    There's no leader,
  • 118:00 - 118:02
    there's no guru,
  • 118:02 - 118:04
    there's no master,
    no savior.
  • 118:04 - 118:06
    You yourself are
    the teacher and the pupil,
  • 118:06 - 118:09
    you're the master, you're the guru,
    you are the leader...
  • 118:10 - 118:11
    You are everything!
  • 118:13 - 118:13
    And,
  • 118:15 - 118:17
    to understand...
  • 118:17 - 118:20
    is to transform
    what is.
  • 121:48 - 121:58
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  • 122:50 - 122:59
    Dedicated to:
    The Zeitgeist Movement.
  • 123:03 - 123:07
    Join TheZeitgeistMovement.com
    and change the world today!
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