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-THE OLD APPEALS

TO RACIAL, SEXUAL,
AND RELIGIOUS CHAUVINISM,

TO RABID NATIONALIST FERVOR
ARE BEGINNING NOT TO WORK.

-THE BUSINESS OF WHO I AM

AND WHETHER I'M GOOD OR BAD
OR ACHIEVING OR NOT --

ALL THAT'S LEARNED
ALONG THE WAY.

-IT'S JUST A RIDE, AND WE CAN
CHANGE IT ANY TIME WE WANT.

IT'S ONLY A CHOICE.

NO EFFORT, NO WORK, NO JOB,
NO SAVINGS OF MONEY.

-I REALIZED
THAT I HAD THE GAME WRONG.

THE GAME WAS TO FIND OUT
WHAT I ALREADY WAS.

[ STATIC HISSING ]

-WE WERE SAYING

HOW VERY IMPORTANT IT IS

TO BRING ABOUT IN THE HUMAN MIND
THE RADICAL REVOLUTION.

THE CRISIS...

...IS A CRISIS IN CONSCIOUSNESS.

A CRISIS

THAT CANNOT ANYMORE
ACCEPT THE OLD NORMS,

THE OLD PATTERNS,

THE ANCIENT TRADITIONS.

AND CONSIDERING
WHAT THE WORLD IS NOW,

WITH ALL THE MISERY, CONFLICT,

DESTRUCTIVE BRUTALITY,
AGGRESSION, AND SO ON...

...MAN IS STILL AS HE WAS.

HE'S STILL BRUTAL, VIOLENT,

AGGRESSIVE,
ACQUISITIVE, COMPETITIVE.

AND HE HAS BUILT A SOCIETY
ALONG THESE LINES.

[ ELECTRICITY CRACKLING ]

[ STATIC HISSING ]

-SOCIETY TODAY IS COMPOSED
OF A SERIES OF INSTITUTIONS...

...FROM POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS,
LEGAL INSTITUTIONS,

RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS,

TO INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIAL CLASS,
FAMILIAL VALUES,

AND OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALIZATION.

IT IS OBVIOUS
THE PROFOUND INFLUENCE

THESE TRADITIONALIZED STRUCTURES

HAVE IN SHAPING OUR
UNDERSTANDINGS AND PERSPECTIVES.

YET OF ALL THE SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS WE ARE BORN INTO,

DIRECTED BY,
AND CONDITIONED UPON,

THERE SEEMS TO BE NO SYSTEM

AS TAKEN FOR GRANTED
AND MISUNDERSTOOD

AS THE MONETARY SYSTEM.

TAKING ON
NEARLY RELIGIOUS PROPORTIONS,

THE ESTABLISHED MONETARY
INSTITUTION EXISTS AS ONE

OF THE MOST UNQUESTIONED FORMS
OF FAITH THERE IS.

HOW MONEY IS CREATED,

THE POLICIES
BY WHICH IT IS GOVERNED,

AND HOW IT TRULY AFFECTS SOCIETY

ARE UNREGISTERED INTERESTS

OF THE GREAT MAJORITY
OF THE POPULATION.

[ STATIC HISSING ]

IN A WORLD
WHERE 1% OF THE POPULATION

EARNS 40%
OF THE PLANET'S WEALTH...

IN A WORLD WHERE 34,000 CHILDREN
DIE EVERY SINGLE DAY

FROM POVERTY
AND PREVENTABLE DISEASES...

AND WHERE 50%
OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION

LIVES ON LESS THAN $2 A DAY...

ONE THING IS CLEAR --
SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG.

AND WHETHER WE ARE AWARE OF IT
OR NOT,

THE LIFEBLOOD OF ALL
OF OUR ESTABLISHED INSTITUTIONS,

AND THUS SOCIETY ITSELF,
IS MONEY.

THEREFORE, UNDERSTANDING THIS
INSTITUTION OF MONETARY POLICY

IS CRITICAL TO UNDERSTANDING WHY
OUR LIVES ARE THE WAY THEY ARE.

UNFORTUNATELY, ECONOMICS

IS OFTEN VIEWED
WITH CONFUSION AND BOREDOM.

ENDLESS STREAMS
OF FINANCIAL JARGON

COUPLED
WITH INTIMIDATING MATHEMATICS

QUICKLY DETERS PEOPLE FROM
ATTEMPTS AT UNDERSTANDING IT.

HOWEVER, THE FACT IS,

THE COMPLEXITY ASSOCIATED
WITH THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM

IS A MERE MASK

DESIGNED TO CONCEAL ONE

OF THE MOST SOCIALLY
PARALYZING STRUCTURES

HUMANITY HAS EVER ENDURED.

A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO,

THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE UNITED
STATES, THE FEDERAL RESERVE,

PRODUCED A DOCUMENT ENTITLED
"MODERN MONEY MECHANICS."

THIS PUBLICATION

DETAILED THE INSTITUTIONALIZED
PRACTICE OF MONEY CREATION

AS UTILIZED
BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE

AND THE WEB OF GLOBAL
COMMERCIAL BANKS IT SUPPORTS.

ON THE OPENING PAGE, THE
DOCUMENT STATES ITS OBJECTIVE --

"THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOKLET

"IS TO DESCRIBE THE BASIC
PROCESS OF MONEY CREATION

IN A FRACTIONAL RESERVE
BANKING SYSTEM."

IT THEN PROCEEDS TO DESCRIBE
THIS FRACTIONAL RESERVE PROCESS

THROUGH VARIOUS
BANKING TERMINOLOGY,

A TRANSLATION OF WHICH
GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
DECIDES IT NEEDS SOME MONEY,

SO IT CALLS UP
THE FEDERAL RESERVE

AND REQUESTS, SAY, $10 BILLION.

THE FED REPLIES, SAYING, "SURE.

WE'LL BUY $10 BILLION
IN GOVERNMENT BONDS FROM YOU."

SO THE GOVERNMENT
TAKES SOME PIECES OF PAPER,

PAINTS SOME OFFICIAL-LOOKING
DESIGNS ON THEM,

AND CALLS THEM TREASURY BONDS.

THEN IT PUTS A VALUE ON THESE
BONDS TO THE SUM OF $10 BILLION

AND SENDS THEM OVER TO THE FED.

IN TURN, THE PEOPLE AT THE FED

DRAW UP A BUNCH OF IMPRESSIVE
PIECES OF PAPER THEMSELVES,

ONLY THIS TIME CALLING THEM
"FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES,"

ALSO DESIGNATING A VALUE
OF $10 BILLION TO THE SET.

THE FED THEN TAKES THESE NOTES
AND TRADES THEM FOR THE BONDS.

ONCE THIS EXCHANGE IS COMPLETE,
THE GOVERNMENT

THEN TAKES THE $10 BILLION
IN FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES

AND DEPOSITS IT
INTO A BANK ACCOUNT.

AND UPON THIS DEPOSIT,

PAPER NOTES OFFICIALLY BECOME
LEGAL TENDER MONEY,

ADDING $10 BILLION
TO THE U.S. MONEY SUPPLY.

AND THERE IT IS -- $10 BILLION
IN NEW MONEY HAS BEEN CREATED.

OF COURSE, THIS EXAMPLE
IS A GENERALIZATION,

FOR IN REALITY, THIS TRANSACTION
WOULD OCCUR ELECTRONICALLY

WITH NO PAPER USED AT ALL.

IN FACT,
ONLY 3% OF THE U.S. MONEY SUPPLY

EXISTS IN PHYSICAL CURRENCY.

THE OTHER 97% ESSENTIALLY
EXISTS IN COMPUTERS ALONE.

NOW, GOVERNMENT BONDS ARE,
BY DESIGN, INSTRUMENTS OF DEBT,

AND WHEN THE FED
PURCHASES THESE BONDS

WITH MONEY IT ESSENTIALLY
CREATED OUT OF THIN AIR,

THE GOVERNMENT IS ACTUALLY
PROMISING TO PAY BACK THAT MONEY

TO THE FED.

IN OTHER WORDS, THE MONEY
WAS CREATED OUT OF DEBT.

THIS MIND-NUMBING PARADOX
OF HOW MONEY, OR VALUE,

CAN BE CREATED OUT OF DEBT,
OR LIABILITY,

WILL BECOME MORE CLEAR
AS WE FURTHER THIS EXERCISE.

SO, THE EXCHANGE HAS BEEN MADE,

AND NOW $10 BILLION SITS
IN A COMMERCIAL BANK ACCOUNT.

HERE'S WHERE IT GETS
REALLY INTERESTING,

FOR, AS BASED ON
THE FRACTIONAL RESERVE PRACTICE,

THAT $10 BILLION DEPOSIT

INSTANTLY BECOMES PART
OF THE BANK'S RESERVES,

JUST AS ALL DEPOSITS DO.

AND REGARDING
RESERVE REQUIREMENTS,

AS STATED
IN "MODERN MONEY MECHANICS,"

A BANK MUST MAINTAIN
LEGALLY REQUIRED RESERVES

EQUAL TO A PRESCRIBED PERCENTAGE
OF ITS DEPOSITS.

IT THEN QUANTIFIES THIS
BY STATING,

"UNDER CURRENT REGULATIONS,

"THE RESERVE REQUIREMENT AGAINST
MOST TRANSACTION ACCOUNTS

IS 10%."

THIS MEANS
THAT WITH A $10 BILLION DEPOSIT,

10%, OR $1 BILLION,
IS HELD AS THE REQUIRED RESERVE,

WHILE THE OTHER $9 BILLION IS
CONSIDERED AN EXCESSIVE RESERVE

AND CAN BE USED
AS THE BASIS FOR NEW LOANS.

NOW, IT IS LOGICAL TO ASSUME
THAT THIS $9 BILLION

IS LITERALLY COMING OUT OF THE
EXISTING $10 BILLION DEPOSIT.

HOWEVER,
THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT THE CASE.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENS
IS THAT THE $9 BILLION

IS SIMPLY CREATED
OUT OF THIN AIR

ON TOP OF THE EXISTING
$10 BILLION DEPOSIT.

THIS IS HOW THE MONEY SUPPLY
IS EXPANDED.

AS STATED
IN "MODERN MONEY MECHANICS,"

"OF COURSE, THEY," THE BANKS,

"DO NOT REALLY PAY OUT LOANS

"FROM THE MONEY
THEY RECEIVE AS DEPOSITS.

"IF THEY DID THIS, NO ADDITIONAL
MONEY WOULD BE CREATED.

"WHAT THEY DO
WHEN THEY MAKE LOANS

IS TO ACCEPT PROMISSORY
NOTES" -- LOAN CONTRACTS --

"IN EXCHANGE
FOR CREDITS" -- MONEY --

TO THE BORROWERS'
TRANSACTION ACCOUNTS."

IN OTHER WORDS, THE $9 BILLION
CAN BE CREATED OUT OF NOTHING

SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE IS A DEMAND
FOR SUCH A LOAN

AND THAT THERE IS
A $10 BILLION DEPOSIT

TO SATISFY
THE RESERVE REQUIREMENTS.

NOW, LET'S ASSUME THAT SOMEBODY
WALKS INTO THIS BANK

AND BORROWS
THE NEWLY AVAILABLE $9 BILLION.

THEY WILL THEN
MOST LIKELY TAKE THAT MONEY

AND DEPOSIT IT
INTO THEIR OWN BANK ACCOUNT.

THE PROCESS THEN REPEATS,

FOR THAT DEPOSIT BECOMES PART
OF THE BANK'S RESERVES.

10% IS ISOLATED,

AND, IN TURN, 90% OF
THE $9 BILLION, OR $8.1 BILLION,

IS NOW AVAILABLE AS NEWLY
CREATED MONEY FOR MORE LOANS.

AND, OF COURSE,
THAT $8.1 BILLION

CAN BE LOANED OUT
AND REDEPOSITED,

CREATING AN ADDITIONAL
$7.2 BILLION, TO $6.5 BILLION,

TO $5.9 BILLION, ET CETERA.

THIS DEPOSIT-MONEY-CREATION
LOAN CYCLE

CAN TECHNICALLY GO ON
TO INFINITY.

THE AVERAGE MATHEMATICAL RESULT
IS THAT ABOUT $90 BILLION

CAN BE CREATED ON TOP
OF THE ORIGINAL $10 BILLION.

IN OTHER WORDS,

FOR EVERY DEPOSIT THAT EVER
OCCURS IN THE BANKING SYSTEM,

ABOUT NINE TIMES THAT AMOUNT
CAN BE CREATED OUT OF THIN AIR.

-MONEY JITTERS?

ASK THE OBLIGING BANK OF AMERICA

FOR A JAR OF SOOTHING
INSTANT MONEY -- M-O-N-E-Y --

IN THE FORM
OF A CONVENIENT PERSONAL LOAN.

-[ GULPS ]

-SO, NOW THAT WE UNDERSTAND
HOW MONEY IS CREATED

BY THIS FRACTIONAL RESERVE
BANKING SYSTEM,

A LOGICAL-YET-ELUSIVE QUESTION
MIGHT COME TO MIND --

WHAT IS ACTUALLY GIVING
THIS NEWLY CREATED MONEY VALUE?

THE ANSWER --
THE MONEY THAT ALREADY EXISTS.

THE NEW MONEY
ESSENTIALLY STEALS VALUE

FROM THE EXISTING MONEY SUPPLY,

FOR THE TOTAL POOL OF MONEY
IS BEING INCREASED

IRRESPECTIVE TO DEMAND
FOR GOODS AND SERVICES.

AND AS SUPPLY AND DEMAND
FINDS EQUILIBRIUM, PRICES RISE,

DIMINISHING THE PURCHASING POWER
OF EACH INDIVIDUAL DOLLAR.

THIS IS GENERALLY REFERRED TO
AS INFLATION,

AND INFLATION IS ESSENTIALLY
A HIDDEN TAX ON THE PUBLIC.

-WHAT IS THE ADVICE
THAT YOU GENERALLY GET?

AND THAT IS INFLATE
THE CURRENCY.

THEY DON'T SAY,
"DEBASE THE CURRENCY."

THEY DON'T SAY,
"DEVALUE THE CURRENCY."

THEY DON'T SAY, "CHEAT
THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SAVED."

THEY SAY,
"LOWER THE INTEREST RATES."

THE REAL DECEPTION IS WHEN WE
DISTORT THE VALUE OF MONEY,

WHEN WE CREATE MONEY
OUT OF THIN AIR.

WE HAVE NO SAVINGS, AND YET
THERE'S SO-CALLED "CAPITAL."

SO MY QUESTION
BOILS DOWN TO THIS --

HOW IN THE WORLD

CAN WE EXPECT TO SOLVE
THE PROBLEMS OF INFLATION --

THAT IS, THE INCREASE
IN THE SUPPLY MONEY --

WITH MORE INFLATION?

-OF COURSE, IT CAN'T.

THE FRACTIONAL RESERVE SYSTEM
OF MONETARY EXPANSION

IS INHERENTLY INFLATIONARY,

FOR THE ACT
OF EXPANDING THE MONEY SUPPLY

WITHOUT THERE BEING
A PROPORTIONAL EXPANSION

OF GOODS AND SERVICES
IN THE ECONOMY

WILL ALWAYS DEBASE A CURRENCY.

IN FACT, A QUICK GLANCE

AT THE HISTORICAL VALUES
OF THE U.S. DOLLAR,

VERSUS THE MONEY SUPPLY,

REFLECTS THIS POINT
DEFINITIVELY,

FOR THE INVERSE RELATIONSHIP
IS OBVIOUS.

ONE DOLLAR IN 1913

REQUIRED $21.60 IN 2007
TO MATCH VALUE.

THAT IS A 96% DEVALUATION

SINCE THE FEDERAL RESERVE
CAME INTO EXISTENCE.

NOW, IF THIS REALITY OF INHERENT
AND PERPETUAL INFLATION

SEEMS ABSURD
AND ECONOMICALLY SELF-DEFEATING,

HOLD THAT THOUGHT,

FOR ABSURDITY
IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT

IN REGARD TO HOW OUR FINANCIAL
SYSTEM REALLY OPERATES.

FOR IN OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM,

MONEY IS DEBT,
AND DEBT IS MONEY.

HERE IS A CHART OF THE U.S.
MONEY SUPPLY FROM 1950 TO 2006.

HERE IS A CHART
OF THE U.S. NATIONAL DEBT

FOR THE SAME PERIOD.

HOW INTERESTING IT IS THAT THE
TRENDS ARE VIRTUALLY THE SAME,

FOR THE MORE MONEY THERE IS,
THE MORE DEBT THERE IS.

THE MORE DEBT THERE IS,
THE MORE MONEY THERE IS.

TO PUT IT A DIFFERENT WAY, EVERY
SINGLE DOLLAR IN YOUR WALLET

IS OWED TO SOMEBODY BY SOMEBODY.

FOR, REMEMBER, THE ONLY WAY THAT
MONEY CAN COME INTO EXISTENCE

IS FROM LOANS.

THEREFORE,
IF EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY

WERE ABLE TO PAY OFF ALL DEBTS,
INCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT,

THERE WOULD NOT BE
ONE DOLLAR IN CIRCULATION.

IN FACT, THE LAST TIME
IN AMERICAN HISTORY

THE NATIONAL DEBT
WAS COMPLETELY PAID OFF

WAS IN 1835,
AFTER PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON

SHUT DOWN THE CENTRAL BANK THAT
PRECEDED THE FEDERAL RESERVE.

IN FACT, JACKSON'S
ENTIRE POLITICAL PLATFORM

ESSENTIALLY REVOLVED
AROUND HIS COMMITMENT

TO SHUT DOWN THE CENTRAL BANK,
STATING AT ONE POINT...

UNFORTUNATELY,
HIS MESSAGE WAS SHORT-LIVED,

AND INTERNATIONAL BANKERS

PROCEEDED TO INSTALL
ANOTHER CENTRAL BANK IN 1913 --

THE FEDERAL RESERVE.

AND AS LONG
AS THIS INSTITUTION EXISTS,

PERPETUAL DEBT IS GUARANTEED.

NOW, SO FAR, WE HAVE DISCUSSED
THE REALITY THAT MONEY

IS CREATED OUT OF DEBT
THROUGH LOANS.

THESE LOANS
ARE BASED ON A BANK'S RESERVES,

AND RESERVES
ARE DERIVED FROM DEPOSITS.

AND THROUGH
THIS FRACTIONAL RESERVE SYSTEM,

ANY ONE DEPOSIT CAN CREATE
NINE TIMES ITS ORIGINAL VALUE,

IN TURN DEBASING
THE EXISTING MONEY SUPPLY,

RAISING PRICES IN SOCIETY.

AND SINCE ALL THIS MONEY
IS CREATED OUT OF DEBT

AND CIRCULATED RANDOMLY
THROUGH COMMERCE,

PEOPLE BECOME DETACHED
FROM THEIR ORIGINAL DEBT,

AND A DISEQUILIBRIUM EXISTS

WHERE PEOPLE
ARE FORCED TO COMPETE FOR LABOR

IN ORDER TO PULL ENOUGH MONEY
OUT OF THE MONEY SUPPLY

TO COVER THEIR COSTS OF LIVING.

AS DYSFUNCTIONAL AND BACKWARDS
AS ALL OF THIS MIGHT SEEM,

THERE IS STILL ONE THING WE HAVE
OMITTED FROM THIS EQUATION,

AND IT IS THIS ELEMENT
OF THE STRUCTURE

WHICH REVEALS
THE TRULY FRAUDULENT NATURE

OF THE SYSTEM ITSELF --

THE APPLICATION OF INTEREST.

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT
BORROWS MONEY FROM THE FED,

OR WHEN A PERSON
BORROWS MONEY FROM A BANK,

IT ALMOST ALWAYS HAS TO BE
PAID BACK WITH ACCRUED INTEREST.

IN OTHER WORDS, ALMOST
EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR THAT EXISTS

MUST BE EVENTUALLY RETURNED
TO A BANK

WITH INTEREST PAID, AS WELL.

BUT IF ALL MONEY IS BORROWED
FROM THE CENTRAL BANK

AND IS EXPANDED BY COMMERCIAL
BANKS THROUGH LOANS,

ONLY WHAT WOULD BE REFERRED TO
AS THE PRINCIPAL

IS BEING CREATED
IN THE MONEY SUPPLY.

SO, THEN, WHERE IS THE MONEY

TO COVER ALL OF THE INTEREST
THAT IS CHARGED?

NOWHERE.

IT DOESN'T EXIST.

THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS
ARE STAGGERING,

FOR THE AMOUNT OF MONEY
OWED BACK TO THE BANKS

WILL ALWAYS EXCEED
THE AMOUNT OF MONEY

THAT IS AVAILABLE
IN CIRCULATION.

THIS IS WHY INFLATION
IS A CONSTANT IN THE ECONOMY,

FOR NEW MONEY IS ALWAYS NEEDED

TO HELP COVER THE PERPETUAL
DEFICIT BUILT INTO THE SYSTEM

CAUSED BY THE NEED
TO PAY THE INTEREST.

WHAT THIS ALSO MEANS
IS THAT MATHEMATICALLY,

DEFAULTS AND BANKRUPTCY ARE
LITERALLY BUILT INTO THE SYSTEM,

AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE
POOR POCKETS OF SOCIETY

THAT GET THE SHORT END
OF THE STICK.

AN ANALOGY WOULD BE
A GAME OF MUSICAL CHAIRS,

FOR ONCE THE MUSIC STOPS,
SOMEBODY IS LEFT OUT TO DRY.

AND THAT'S THE POINT.

IT INVARIABLY TRANSFERS
TRUE WEALTH

FROM THE INDIVIDUAL
TO THE BANKS,

FOR IF YOU ARE UNABLE
TO PAY FOR YOUR MORTGAGE,

THEY WILL TAKE YOUR PROPERTY.

THIS IS PARTICULARLY ENRAGING

WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT NOT ONLY
IS SUCH A DEFAULT INEVITABLE

DUE TO
THE FRACTIONAL RESERVE PRACTICE,

BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF THE FACT

THAT THE MONEY
THAT THE BANK LOANED TO YOU

DIDN'T EVEN LEGALLY EXIST
IN THE FIRST PLACE.

IN 1969,
THERE WAS A MINNESOTA COURT CASE

INVOLVING A MAN
NAMED JEROME DALY,

WHO WAS CHALLENGING
THE FORECLOSURE OF HIS HOME

BY THE BANK WHICH PROVIDED
THE LOAN TO PURCHASE IT.

HIS ARGUMENT
WAS THAT THE MORTGAGE CONTRACT

REQUIRED BOTH PARTIES,
BEING HE AND THE BANK,

EACH PUT UP A LEGITIMATE FORM
OF PROPERTY FOR THE EXCHANGE.

IN LEGAL LANGUAGE,
THIS IS CALLED "CONSIDERATION."

MR. DALY
EXPLAINED THAT THE MONEY

WAS, IN FACT,
NOT THE PROPERTY OF THE BANK,

FOR IT WAS CREATED
OUT OF NOTHING

AS SOON AS THE LOAN AGREEMENT
WAS SIGNED.

REMEMBER WHAT "MODERN MONEY
MECHANICS" STATED ABOUT LOANS?

"WHAT THEY DO
WHEN THEY MAKE LOANS

IS TO ACCEPT PROMISSORY NOTES
IN EXCHANGE FOR CREDITS."

"RESERVES ARE UNCHANGED
BY THE LOAN TRANSACTIONS.

"BUT DEPOSIT CREDITS
CONSTITUTE NEW ADDITIONS

TO THE TOTAL DEPOSITS
OF THE BANKING SYSTEM."

IN OTHER WORDS, THE MONEY

DOESN'T COME OUT
OF THEIR EXISTING ASSETS.

THE BANK IS SIMPLY INVENTING IT,
PUTTING UP NOTHING OF ITS OWN,

EXCEPT FOR THEORETICAL LIABILITY
ON PAPER.

AS THE COURT CASE PROGRESSED,

THE BANK'S PRESIDENT,
MR. MORGAN, TOOK THE STAND,

AND IN THE JUDGE'S
PERSONAL MEMORANDUM,

HE RECALLED
THAT THE "PLAINTIFF" --

THE BANK'S PRESIDENT --

"ADMITTED THAT, IN COMBINATION
WITH THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK,

"DID CREATE THE MONEY AND CREDIT
UPON ITS BOOKS

"BY BOOKKEEPING ENTRY.

"THE MONEY AND CREDIT
FIRST CAME INTO EXISTENCE

"WHEN THEY CREATED IT.

"MR. MORGAN ADMITTED THAT
NO UNITED STATES LAW OR STATUTE

"EXISTED WHICH GAVE HIM
THE RIGHT TO DO THIS.

"A LAWFUL CONSIDERATION
MUST EXIST

"AND BE TENDERED
TO SUPPORT THE NOTE.

"THE JURY FOUND THAT THERE WAS
NO LAWFUL CONSIDERATION,

AND I AGREE."

HE ALSO POETICALLY ADDED,

"ONLY GOD CAN CREATE SOMETHING
OF VALUE OUT OF NOTHING."

AND UPON THIS REVELATION,

THE COURT REJECTED THE BANK'S
CLAIM FOR FORECLOSURE,

AND DALY KEPT HIS HOME.

THE IMPLICATIONS OF
THIS COURT DECISION ARE IMMENSE,

FOR EVERY TIME
YOU BORROW MONEY FROM A BANK,

WHETHER IT IS A MORTGAGE LOAN
OR A CREDIT-CARD CHARGE,

THE MONEY GIVEN TO YOU
IS NOT ONLY COUNTERFEIT,

IT IS AN ILLEGITIMATE FORM
OF CONSIDERATION

AND, HENCE,
VOIDS THE CONTRACT TO REPAY,

FOR THE BANK NEVER HAD THE MONEY
AS PROPERTY TO BEGIN WITH.

UNFORTUNATELY,
SUCH LEGAL REALIZATIONS

ARE SUPPRESSED AND IGNORED,

AND THE GAME OF PERPETUAL WEALTH
TRANSFER AND PERPETUAL DEBT

CONTINUES.

AND THIS BRINGS US
TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTION -- WHY?

DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR,

PRESIDENT LINCOLN
BYPASSED THE HIGH-INTEREST LOANS

OFFERED BY THE EUROPEAN BANKS

AND DECIDED TO DO WHAT
THE FOUNDING FATHERS ADVOCATED,

WHICH WAS TO CREATE

AN INDEPENDENT AND
INHERENTLY DEBT-FREE CURRENCY.

IT WAS CALLED "THE GREENBACK."

SHORTLY AFTER THIS MEASURE
WAS TAKEN,

AN INTERNAL DOCUMENT CIRCULATED
BETWEEN PRIVATE BRITISH

AND AMERICAN BANKING INTERESTS
STATED...

THE FRACTIONAL RESERVE POLICY

PERPETRATED
BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE

WHICH HAS SPREAD IN PRACTICE

TO THE GREAT MAJORITY
OF BANKS IN THE WORLD

IS, IN FACT,
A SYSTEM OF MODERN SLAVERY.

THINK ABOUT IT.

MONEY IS CREATED OUT OF DEBT.

WHAT DO PEOPLE DO
WHEN THEY ARE IN DEBT?

THEY SUBMIT TO EMPLOYMENT
TO PAY IT OFF.

BUT IF MONEY CAN ONLY BE CREATED
OUT OF LOANS,

HOW CAN SOCIETY
EVER BE DEBT-FREE?

IT CAN'T.

AND THAT'S THE POINT.

AND IT IS THE FEAR
OF LOSING ASSETS,

COUPLED WITH THE STRUGGLE

TO KEEP UP WITH
THE PERPETUAL DEBT AND INFLATION

INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM,

COMPOUNDED
BY THE INESCAPABLE SCARCITY

WITHIN THE MONEY SUPPLY ITSELF

CREATED BY THE INTEREST
THAT CAN NEVER BE REPAID

THAT KEEPS THE WAGE SLAVE
IN LINE,

RUNNING ON THE HAMSTER WHEEL
WITH MILLIONS OF OTHERS,

IN EFFECT POWERING AN EMPIRE

THAT TRULY BENEFITS ONLY THE
ELITE AT THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID.

FOR AT THE END OF THE DAY,
WHO ARE YOU REALLY WORKING FOR?

THE BANKS.

MONEY IS CREATED IN A BANK AND
INVARIABLY ENDS UP IN A BANK.

THEY ARE THE TRUE MASTERS,

ALONG WITH THE CORPORATIONS
AND GOVERNMENTS THEY SUPPORT.

PHYSICAL SLAVERY REQUIRES PEOPLE
TO BE HOUSED AND FED.

ECONOMIC SLAVERY REQUIRES PEOPLE
TO FEED AND HOUSE THEMSELVES.

IT IS ONE OF THE MOST INGENIOUS
SCAMS FOR SOCIAL MANIPULATION

EVER CREATED,

AND AT ITS CORE,

IT IS AN INVISIBLE WAR
AGAINST THE POPULATION.

DEBT IS THE WEAPON USED TO
CONQUER AND ENSLAVE SOCIETIES,

AND INTEREST
IS ITS PRIME AMMUNITION.

AND AS THE MAJORITY WALKS AROUND
OBLIVIOUS TO THIS REALITY,

THE BANKS, IN COLLUSION WITH
GOVERNMENTS AND CORPORATIONS,

CONTINUE TO PERFECT
AND EXPAND THEIR TACTICS

OF ECONOMIC WARFARE,

SPAWNING NEW BASES,

SUCH AS THE WORLD BANK
AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND,

WHILE ALSO INVENTING
A NEW TYPE OF SOLDIER --

THE BIRTH
OF THE ECONOMIC HIT MAN.

-WE ECONOMIC HIT MEN REALLY HAVE
BEEN THE ONES RESPONSIBLE

FOR CREATING
THIS FIRST TRULY GLOBAL EMPIRE.

AND WE WORK MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.

BUT PERHAPS THE MOST COMMON

IS THAT WE WILL IDENTIFY
A COUNTRY

THAT HAS RESOURCES OUR
CORPORATIONS COVET, LIKE OIL,

AND THEN ARRANGE A HUGE LOAN TO
THAT COUNTRY FROM THE WORLD BANK

OR ONE
OF ITS SISTER ORGANIZATIONS.

BUT THE MONEY NEVER ACTUALLY
GOES TO THE COUNTRY.

INSTEAD, IT GOES
TO OUR BIG CORPORATIONS

TO BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
IN THAT COUNTRY --

POWER PLANTS,
INDUSTRIAL PARKS, PORTS --

THINGS THAT BENEFIT A FEW
RICH PEOPLE IN THAT COUNTRY,

IN ADDITION TO OUR CORPORATIONS,

BUT REALLY DON'T HELP THE
MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE AT ALL.

HOWEVER, THOSE PEOPLE,
THE WHOLE COUNTRY,

IS LEFT HOLDING A HUGE DEBT.

IT'S SUCH A BIG DEBT
THEY CAN'T REPAY IT.

AND THAT'S PART OF THE PLAN --
THAT THEY CAN'T REPAY IT.

AND SO, AT SOME POINT,
WE ECONOMIC HIT MEN

GO BACK TO THEM AND SAY,

"LISTEN,
YOU OWE US A LOT OF MONEY.

"YOU CAN'T PAY YOUR DEBT,

"SO SELL YOUR OIL REAL CHEAP
TO OUR OIL COMPANIES.

"ALLOW US TO BUILD
A MILITARY BASE IN YOUR COUNTRY

"OR SEND TROOPS
IN SUPPORT OF OURS

"TO SOMEPLACE IN THE WORLD
LIKE IRAQ

"OR VOTE WITH US
ON THE NEXT U.N. VOTE

"TO HAVE THEIR ELECTRIC UTILITY
COMPANY PRIVATIZED

"AND THEIR WATER
AND SEWAGE SYSTEM PRIVATIZED

"AND SOLD TO U.S. CORPORATIONS

OR OTHER
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS."

SO THERE'S
THAT WHOLE MUSHROOMING THING,

AND IT'S SO TYPICAL
OF THE WAY THE I.M.F.

AND THE WORLD BANK WORK,

IS YOU PUT A COUNTRY IN DEBT,

AND IT'S SUCH A BIG DEBT
IT CAN'T PAY IT,

AND THEN YOU OFFER
TO REFINANCE THAT DEBT

AND PAY EVEN MORE INTEREST,

AND YOU DEMAND
THIS QUID PRO QUO,

WHICH YOU CALL A CONDITIONALITY
OR GOOD GOVERNANCE,

WHICH MEANS BASICALLY

THAT THEY'VE GOT TO SELL OFF
THEIR RESOURCES,

INCLUDING MANY
OF THEIR SOCIAL SERVICES,

THEIR UTILITY COMPANIES,
THEIR SCHOOL SYSTEMS SOMETIMES,

THEIR PENAL SYSTEMS,
THEIR INSURANCE SYSTEMS

TO FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.

SO IT'S A DOUBLE, TRIPLE,
QUADRUPLE WHAMMY.

THE PRECEDENT
FOR ECONOMIC HIT MEN

REALLY BEGAN
BACK IN THE EARLY '50s

WHEN DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED
MOSSADEGH,

WHO WAS ELECTED IN IRAN --

HE WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE HOPE

FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
AND AROUND THE WORLD.

HE WAS TIME MAGAZINE'S MAN
OF THE YEAR.

BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE'D
RUN ON AND BEGAN TO IMPLEMENT

WAS THE IDEA
THAT FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES

NEEDED TO PAY THE IRANIAN PEOPLE
A LOT MORE FOR THE OIL

THAT THEY WERE TAKING OUT
OF IRAN,

AND THE IRANIAN PEOPLE SHOULD
BENEFIT FROM THEIR OWN OIL.

STRANGE POLICY.

WE DIDN'T LIKE THAT, OF COURSE,

BUT WE WERE AFRAID TO DO
WHAT WE NORMALLY WERE DOING,

WHICH WAS TO SEND IN
THE MILITARY.

INSTEAD, WE SENT IN ONE C.I.A.
AGENT -- KERMIT ROOSEVELT --

TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S RELATIVE.

AND KERMIT WENT IN
WITH A FEW MILLION DOLLARS

AND WAS VERY, VERY EFFECTIVE
AND EFFICIENT.

AND IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME,

HE MANAGED
TO GET MOSSADEGH OVERTHROWN

AND BROUGHT IN THE SHAH OF IRAN
TO REPLACE HIM,

WHO ALWAYS WAS FAVORABLE TO OIL.

AND IT WAS EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE.

[ DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS ]

-MOBS OVERFLOW TEHRAN.

ARMY OFFICERS SHOUT
THAT MOSSADEGH HAS SURRENDERED

AND HIS REGIME AS VIRTUAL
DICTATOR OF IRAN IS ENDED.

PICTURES OF THE SHAH
PARADED THROUGH THE STREETS

AS SENTIMENT REVERSES.

THE SHAH IS WELCOMED HOME.

-SO, BACK HERE IN THE UNITED
STATES, IN WASHINGTON,

PEOPLE LOOKED AROUND AND SAID,
"WOW. THAT WAS EASY AND CHEAP."

SO THIS ESTABLISHED A WHOLE NEW
WAY OF MANIPULATING COUNTRIES,

OF CREATING EMPIRE.

THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH ROOSEVELT

WAS THAT HE WAS
A CARD-CARRYING C.I.A. AGENT,

AND HAD HE BEEN CAUGHT,

THE RAMIFICATIONS
COULD HAVE BEEN PRETTY SERIOUS.

SO VERY QUICKLY, AT THAT POINT,

THE DECISION WAS MADE
TO USE PRIVATE CONSULTANTS

TO CHANNEL THE MONEY THROUGH
THE WORLD BANK OR THE I.M.F.

OR ONE
OF THE OTHER SUCH AGENCIES,

TO BRING IN PEOPLE LIKE ME, WHO
WORKED FOR PRIVATE COMPANIES,

SO THAT IF WE GOT CAUGHT,

THERE WOULD BE
NO GOVERNMENTAL RAMIFICATIONS.

WHEN ARBENZ
BECAME PRESIDENT OF GUATEMALA,

THE COUNTRY
WAS VERY MUCH UNDER THE THUMBS

OF UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, THE BIG
INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS.

AND ARBENZ RAN ON THIS TICKET
THAT SAID, YOU KNOW,

"WE WANT TO GIVE THE LAND BACK
TO THE PEOPLE."

AND ONCE HE TOOK POWER,

HE WAS IMPLEMENTING POLICIES
THAT WOULD DO EXACTLY THAT --

GIVE LAND RIGHTS
BACK TO THE PEOPLE.

UNITED FRUIT
DIDN'T LIKE THAT VERY MUCH.

AND SO THEY HIRED
A PUBLIC-RELATIONS FIRM,

LAUNCHED A HUGE CAMPAIGN
IN THE UNITED STATES

TO CONVINCE THE UNITED STATES --

THE PEOPLE, THE CITIZENS
OF THE UNITED STATES,

AND THE PRESS
OF THE UNITED STATES,

AND THE CONGRESS
OF THE UNITED STATES

THAT ARBENZ WAS A SOVIET PUPPET

AND THAT IF WE ALLOWED HIM
TO STAY IN POWER,

THE SOVIETS WOULD HAVE
A FOOTHOLD IN THIS HEMISPHERE.

AND THAT, AT THAT POINT IN TIME,

WAS A HUGE FEAR
ON EVERYBODY'S MIND

OF THE RED TERROR
OR THE COMMUNIST TERROR.

AND SO TO MAKE
A LONG STORY SHORT,

OUT OF
THIS PUBLIC-RELATIONS CAMPAIGN

CAME A COMMITMENT ON THE PART
OF THE C.I.A. AND THE MILITARY

TO TAKE THIS MAN OUT.

AND, IN FACT, WE DID.

WE SENT IN PLANES.
WE SENT IN SOLDIERS.

WE SENT IN JACKALS.

WE SENT EVERYTHING IN TO TAKE
HIM OUT AND DID TAKE HIM OUT.

AND AS SOON AS HE WAS REMOVED
FROM OFFICE,

THE NEW GUY
THAT TOOK OVER AFTER HIM

BASICALLY REINSTATED EVERYTHING

TO THE BIG INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATIONS,

INCLUDING UNITED FRUIT.

ECUADOR, FOR MANY, MANY YEARS,

HAD BEEN RULED
BY PRO-U.S. DICTATORS --

OFTEN RELATIVELY BRUTAL.

THEN IT WAS DECIDED

THAT THEY WERE GONNA HAVE
A TRULY DEMOCRATIC ELECTION.

JAIME ROLDóS RAN FOR OFFICE,

AND HIS MAIN GOAL, HE SAID,
AS PRESIDENT

WOULD BE TO MAKE SURE
THAT ECUADOR'S RESOURCES

WERE USED TO HELP THE PEOPLE.

AND HE WON OVERWHELMINGLY

BY MORE VOTES THAN ANYBODY HAD
EVER WON ANYTHING IN ECUADOR.

AND HE BEGAN TO IMPLEMENT
THESE POLICIES

TO MAKE SURE
THAT THE PROFITS FROM OIL

WENT TO HELP THE PEOPLE.

WELL, WE DIDN'T LIKE THAT
IN THE UNITED STATES.

I WAS SENT DOWN AS ONE
OF SEVERAL ECONOMIC HIT MEN

TO CHANGE ROLDóS,
TO CORRUPT HIM,

TO BRING HIM AROUND,

TO LET HIM KNOW, YOU KNOW,
"OKAY. YOU KNOW,

"YOU CAN GET VERY RICH --
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY --

"IF YOU PLAY OUR GAME,

"BUT IF YOU CONTINUE

"TO TRY TO KEEP THESE POLICIES
YOU'VE PROMISED,

YOU'RE GONNA GO."

HE WOULDN'T LISTEN.

HE WAS ASSASSINATED.

AS SOON AS THE PLANE CRASHED,
THE WHOLE AREA WAS CORDONED OFF.

THE ONLY PEOPLE ALLOWED IN WERE
U.S. MILITARY FROM A NEARBY BASE

AND SOME
OF THE ECUADORIAN MILITARY.

WHEN AN INVESTIGATION
WAS LAUNCHED,

TWO OF THE KEY WITNESSES
DIED IN CAR ACCIDENTS

BEFORE THEY HAD
A CHANCE TO TESTIFY.

A LOT OF VERY,
VERY STRANGE THINGS THAT WENT ON

AROUND THE ASSASSINATION
OF JAIME ROLDóS.

I, LIKE MOST PEOPLE WHO HAVE
REALLY LOOKED AT THIS CASE,

HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT
THAT IT WAS AN ASSASSINATION,

AND, OF COURSE, IN MY POSITION
AS AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN,

I WAS ALWAYS EXPECTING SOMETHING
TO HAPPEN TO JAIME.

WHETHER IT BE A COUP
OR ASSASSINATION, I WASN'T SURE,

BUT THAT HE WOULD BE TAKEN DOWN

BECAUSE HE WAS
NOT BEING CORRUPTED.

HE WOULD NOT ALLOW HIMSELF
TO BE CORRUPTED

THE WAY
WE WANTED TO CORRUPT HIM.

OMAR TORRIJOS,
PRESIDENT OF PANAMA,

WAS, YOU KNOW,
ONE OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE.

I REALLY, REALLY LIKED HIM.
HE WAS VERY CHARISMATIC.

HE WAS A GUY WHO REALLY WANTED
TO HELP HIS COUNTRY.

WHEN I TRIED TO BRIBE HIM
OR CORRUPT HIM,

HE SAID, "LOOK, JOHN" --
HE CALLED ME "JUANITO" --

HE SAID, "LOOK, JUANITO,
I DON'T NEED THE MONEY.

"WHAT I REALLY NEED IS FOR
MY COUNTRY TO BE TREATED FAIRLY.

"I NEED FOR THE UNITED STATES

"TO REPAY THE DEBTS
THAT YOU OWE MY PEOPLE

"FOR ALL THE DESTRUCTION
YOU'VE DONE HERE.

"I NEED TO BE IN A POSITION

"WHERE I CAN HELP
OTHER LATIN-AMERICAN COUNTRIES

"WIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE

"AND BE FREE OF THIS TERRIBLE
PRESENCE FROM THE NORTH.

"YOU PEOPLE
ARE EXPLOITING US SO BADLY.

"I NEED TO HAVE THE PANAMA CANAL

"BACK IN THE HANDS
OF THE PANAMANIAN PEOPLE.

"THAT'S WHAT I WANT.

"AND SO LEAVE ME ALONE.

"DON'T --
YOU KNOW, DON'T TRY TO --

DON'T TRY TO BRIBE ME."

IT WAS 1981,

AND IN MAY,
JAIME ROLDóS WAS ASSASSINATED.

AND OMAR WAS VERY AWARE OF THIS.

TORRIJOS
GOT HIS FAMILY TOGETHER,

AND HE SAID, "I'M PROBABLY NEXT,
BUT IT'S OKAY

"BECAUSE I HAVE DONE
WHAT I CAME HERE TO DO.

"I RENEGOTIATED THE CANAL.

THE CANAL
WILL NOW BE IN OUR HANDS."

HE'D JUST FINISHED NEGOTIATING
THE TREATY WITH JIMMY CARTER.

IN JUNE OF THAT SAME YEAR,
JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER,

HE ALSO WENT DOWN
IN AN AIRPLANE CRASH,

WHICH, THERE'S NO QUESTION,

WAS EXECUTED
BY C.I.A.-SPONSORED JACKALS.

A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE

THAT ONE OF TORRIJOS'
SECURITY GUARDS HANDED HIM,

AT THE LAST MOMENT
AS HE WAS GETTING ON THE PLANE,

A TAPE RECORDER --

A SMALL TAPE RECORDER
THAT CONTAINED A BOMB.

IT IS INTERESTING TO ME
HOW THIS SYSTEM

HAS CONTINUED
PRETTY MUCH THE SAME WAY

FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS,

EXCEPT THE ECONOMIC HIT MEN

HAVE GOTTEN BETTER
AND BETTER AND BETTER.

THEN WE COME UP
WITH, VERY RECENTLY,

WHAT HAPPENED IN VENEZUELA.

IN 1998, HUGO CHAVEZ
GETS ELECTED PRESIDENT

FOLLOWING A LONG LINE
OF PRESIDENTS

WHO HAD BEEN VERY CORRUPT

AND BASICALLY DESTROYED
THE ECONOMY OF THE COUNTRY.

AND CHAVEZ WAS ELECTED
AMIDST ALL THAT.

CHAVEZ
STOOD UP TO THE UNITED STATES,

AND HE'D DONE IT PRIMARILY
DEMANDING THAT VENEZUELAN OIL

BE USED TO HELP
THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE.

WELL, WE DIDN'T LIKE THAT
IN THE UNITED STATES.

SO IN 2002, A COUP WAS STAGED,

WHICH --
THERE'S NO QUESTION IN MY MIND,

IN MOST OTHER PEOPLE'S MINDS,

THAT THE C.I.A.
WAS BEHIND THAT COUP.

[ INDISTINCT SHOUTING ]

[ GUNFIRE ]

THE WAY THAT THAT COUP
WAS FOMENTED WAS VERY REFLECTIVE

OF WHAT KERMIT ROOSEVELT
HAD DONE IN IRAN --

OF PAYING PEOPLE TO GO OUT
INTO THE STREETS TO RIOT,

TO PROTEST, TO SAY THIS CHAVEZ
WAS VERY UNPOPULAR.

YOU KNOW, IF YOU CAN GET A FEW
THOUSAND PEOPLE TO DO THAT,

TELEVISION CAN MAKE IT LOOK
LIKE IT'S THE WHOLE COUNTRY,

AND THINGS START TO MUSHROOM.

EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF CHAVEZ,
HE WAS SMART ENOUGH,

AND THE PEOPLE
WERE SO STRONGLY BEHIND HIM

THAT THEY OVERCAME IT,

WHICH WAS A PHENOMENAL MOMENT
IN THE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA.

IRAQ, ACTUALLY,
IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE

OF THE WAY
THE WHOLE SYSTEM WORKS.

SO, WE ECONOMIC HIT MEN
ARE THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE.

WE GO IN, WE TRY TO CORRUPT
THE GOVERNMENTS

AND GET THEM TO ACCEPT
THESE HUGE LOANS,

WHICH WE THEN USE AS LEVERAGE
TO BASICALLY OWN THEM.

IF WE FAIL, AS I FAILED
IN PANAMA WITH OMAR TORRIJOS

AND IN ECUADOR
WITH JAIME ROLDóS --

MEN WHO REFUSED
TO BE CORRUPTED --

THEN THE SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE
IS, WE SEND IN THE JACKALS,

AND THE JACKALS
EITHER OVERTHROW GOVERNMENTS,

OR THEY ASSASSINATE.

AND ONCE THAT HAPPENS
AND A NEW GOVERNMENT COMES IN,

BOY, IT'S GONNA TOE THE LINE

BECAUSE THE NEW PRESIDENT KNOWS
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF HE DOESN'T.

IN THE CASE OF IRAQ,
BOTH OF THOSE THINGS FAILED.

ECONOMIC HIT MEN WERE NOT ABLE

TO GET THROUGH
TO SADDAM HUSSEIN.

WE TRIED VERY HARD.

WE TRIED TO GET HIM
TO ACCEPT A DEAL VERY SIMILAR

TO WHAT THE HOUSE OF SAUD
HAD ACCEPTED IN SAUDI ARABIA,

BUT HE WOULDN'T ACCEPT IT.

AND SO THE JACKALS
WENT IN TO TAKE HIM OUT.

THEY COULDN'T DO IT.
HIS SECURITY WAS VERY GOOD.

AFTER ALL, HE HAD ONE TIME
WORKED FOR THE C.I.A.

HE'D BEEN HIRED TO ASSASSINATE
A FORMER PRESIDENT OF IRAQ

AND FAILED.

BUT HE KNEW THE SYSTEM.

SO, IN '91,
WE SENT IN THE TROOPS,

AND WE TAKE OUT
THE IRAQI MILITARY.

SO WE ASSUME AT THAT POINT

THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN
IS GONNA COME AROUND.

WE COULD HAVE TAKEN HIM OUT,
OF COURSE, AT THE TIME,

BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO.

HE'S THE KIND OF STRONG MAN
WE LIKE.

HE CONTROLS HIS PEOPLE.

WE THOUGHT
HE COULD CONTROL THE KURDS

AND KEEP THE IRANIANS
IN THEIR BORDER

AND KEEP PUMPING OIL FOR US.

AND THEN ONCE WE TOOK OUT
HIS MILITARY,

NOW HE'S GONNA COME AROUND.

SO THE ECONOMIC HIT MEN GO BACK
IN IN THE '90s WITHOUT SUCCESS.

IF THEY'D HAD SUCCESS, HE'D
STILL BE RUNNING THE COUNTRY.

WE'D BE SELLING HIM
ALL THE FIGHTER JETS HE WANTS

AND EVERYTHING ELSE HE WANTS.

BUT THEY COULDN'T.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE SUCCESS.

THE JACKALS
COULDN'T TAKE HIM OUT AGAIN.

SO WE SENT THE MILITARY IN
ONCE AGAIN,

AND THIS TIME, WE DID THE
COMPLETE JOB AND TOOK HIM OUT,

AND IN THE PROCESS,
CREATED OURSELVES

SOME VERY, VERY LUCRATIVE
CONSTRUCTION DEALS

TO RECONSTRUCT A COUNTRY
THAT WE'D ESSENTIALLY DESTROYED,

WHICH IS A PRETTY GOOD DEAL

IF YOU OWN CONSTRUCTION
COMPANIES -- BIG ONES.

SO, YOU KNOW,
IRAQ SHOWS THE THREE STAGES.

THE ECONOMIC HIT MEN
FAILED THERE.

THE JACKALS FAILED THERE.

AND AS A FINAL MEASURE,
THE MILITARY GOES IN.

AND IN THAT WAY,
WE'VE REALLY CREATED AN EMPIRE.

BUT WE'VE DONE IT
VERY, VERY SUBTLY.

IT'S CLANDESTINE.

ALL THE EMPIRES OF THE PAST
WERE BUILT ON THE MILITARY,

AND EVERYBODY KNEW
THEY WERE BUILDING THEM.

THE BRITISH
KNEW THEY WERE BUILDING THEM,

THE FRENCH, THE GERMANS,
THE ROMANS, THE GREEKS.

AND THEY WERE PROUD OF IT.

AND THEY ALWAYS HAD SOME EXCUSE,
LIKE SPREADING CIVILIZATION,

SPREADING SOME RELIGION,
SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

BUT THEY KNEW
THEY WERE DOING IT.

WE DON'T.

THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE
IN THE UNITED STATES

HAVE NO IDEA THAT
WE'RE LIVING OFF THE BENEFITS

OF A CLANDESTINE EMPIRE,

THAT TODAY THERE'S MORE SLAVERY
IN THE WORLD THAN EVER BEFORE.

AND THEN YOU HAVE
TO ASK YOURSELF,

"WELL, IF IT'S AN EMPIRE,
THEN WHO'S THE EMPEROR?"

OBVIOUSLY, OUR PRESIDENTS OF THE
UNITED STATES ARE NOT EMPERORS.

AN EMPEROR'S SOMEONE
WHO'S NOT ELECTED,

DOESN'T SERVE A LIMITED TERM,

AND DOESN'T REPORT TO ANYONE,
ESSENTIALLY.

SO YOU CAN'T CLASSIFY
OUR PRESIDENTS THAT WAY.

BUT WE DO HAVE WHAT I CONSIDER

TO BE THE EQUIVALENT
OF THE EMPEROR.

AND IT'S WHAT I CALL
THE CORPORATOCRACY.

THE CORPORATOCRACY
IS THIS GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS

WHO RUN
OUR BIGGEST CORPORATIONS,

AND THEY REALLY ACT
AS THE EMPEROR OF THIS EMPIRE.

THEY CONTROL OUR MEDIA

EITHER THROUGH DIRECT OWNERSHIP
OR ADVERTISING.

THEY CONTROL
MOST OF OUR POLITICIANS

BECAUSE THEY FINANCE
THEIR CAMPAIGNS,

EITHER THROUGH
THEIR CORPORATIONS

OR THROUGH
PERSONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

THAT COME OUT OF CORPORATIONS.

THEY'RE NOT ELECTED, AND THEY
DON'T SERVE A LIMITED TERM.

THEY DON'T REPORT TO ANYBODY.

AND AT THE VERY TOP
OF THE CORPORATOCRACY,

YOU REALLY CAN'T TELL
WHETHER THE PERSON'S

WORKING FOR A PRIVATE
CORPORATION OR THE GOVERNMENT

BECAUSE THEY'RE ALWAYS MOVING
BACK AND FORTH.

SO, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT A GUY
WHO, ONE MOMENT,

IS THE PRESIDENT
OF A BIG CONSTRUCTION COMPANY,

LIKE HALLIBURTON,

AND THE NEXT MOMENT, HE'S VICE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

OR THE PRESIDENT
WHO WAS IN THE OIL BUSINESS.

AND THIS IS TRUE WHETHER YOU
GET DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS

IN THE OFFICE.

YOU HAVE THEM
MOVING BACK AND FORTH

THROUGH THE REVOLVING DOOR.

AND IN A WAY, OUR GOVERNMENT
IS INVISIBLE A LOT OF THE TIME,

AND ITS POLICIES ARE CARRIED OUT
BY OUR CORPORATIONS

ON ONE LEVEL OR ANOTHER.

AND THEN AGAIN,
THE POLICIES OF THE GOVERNMENT

ARE BASICALLY FORGED
BY THE CORPORATOCRACY

AND THEN PRESENTED
TO THE GOVERNMENT,

AND THEY BECOME
GOVERNMENT POLICY.

SO IT'S
AN INCREDIBLY COZY RELATIONSHIP.

THIS ISN'T A CONSPIRACY-THEORY
TYPE OF THING.

THESE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO GET
TOGETHER AND PLOT TO DO THINGS.

THEY ALL BASICALLY WORK
UNDER ONE PRIMARY ASSUMPTION,

AND THAT IS THAT THEY
MUST MAXIMIZE PROFITS,

REGARDLESS OF THE SOCIAL
AND ENVIRONMENTAL COST.

-THIS PROCESS OF MANIPULATION
BY THE CORPORATOCRACY

THROUGH THE USE OF DEBTS,
BRIBERY, AND POLITICAL OVERTHROW

IS CALLED GLOBALIZATION.

JUST AS THE FEDERAL RESERVE
KEEPS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC

IN A POSITION
OF INDENTURED SERVITUDE

THROUGH PERPETUAL DEBT,
INFLATION, AND INTEREST,

THE WORLD BANK AND I.M.F. SERVE
THIS ROLE ON A GLOBAL SCALE.

THE BASIC SCAM IS SIMPLE --

PUT A COUNTRY IN DEBT
EITHER BY ITS OWN INDISCRETION

OR THROUGH CORRUPTING
THE LEADER OF THAT COUNTRY,

THEN IMPOSE CONDITIONALITIES OR
STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIES,

OFTEN CONSISTING
OF THE FOLLOWING --

CURRENCY DEVALUATION.

WHEN THE VALUE
OF A CURRENCY DROPS,

SO DOES EVERYTHING VALUED IN IT.

THIS MAKES INDIGENOUS RESOURCES
AVAILABLE TO PREDATOR COUNTRIES

AT A FRACTION OF THEIR WORTH.

LARGE FUNDING CUTS
FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS.

THESE USUALLY INCLUDE
EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE,

COMPROMISING THE WELL-BEING
AND INTEGRITY OF THE SOCIETY,

LEAVING THE PUBLIC
VULNERABLE TO EXPLOITATION.

PRIVATIZATION
OF STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES.

THIS MEANS
THAT SOCIALLY IMPORTANT SYSTEMS

CAN BE PURCHASED AND REGULATED
BY FOREIGN CORPORATIONS

FOR PROFIT.

FOR EXAMPLE, IN 1999,

THE WORLD BANK INSISTED
THAT THE BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT

SELL THE PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM
OF ITS THIRD-LARGEST CITY

TO A SUBSIDY
OF THE U.S. CORPORATION BECHTEL.

AS SOON AS THIS OCCURRED,
WATER BILLS

FOR THE ALREADY-IMPOVERISHED
LOCAL RESIDENTS SKYROCKETED.

IT WASN'T UNTIL AFTER A
FULL-BLOWN REVOLT BY THE PEOPLE

THAT THE BECHTEL CONTRACT
WAS NULLIFIED.

THEN THERE'S
TRADE LIBERALIZATION,

OR THE OPENING UP OF THE ECONOMY

THROUGH REMOVING ANY
RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN TRADE.

THIS ALLOWS FOR A NUMBER OF
ABUSIVE ECONOMIC MANIFESTATIONS,

SUCH AS
TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS

BRINGING IN THEIR OWN
MASS-PRODUCED PRODUCTS,

UNDERCUTTING
THE INDIGENOUS PRODUCTION

AND RUINING LOCAL ECONOMIES.

AN EXAMPLE IS JAMAICA,

WHICH, AFTER ACCEPTING LOANS
AND CONDITIONALITIES

FROM THE WORLD BANK,

LOST ITS LARGEST
CASH-CROP MARKETS

DUE TO COMPETITION
WITH WESTERN IMPORTS.

TODAY, COUNTLESS FARMERS
ARE OUT OF WORK,

FOR THEY ARE UNABLE TO COMPETE
WITH THE LARGE CORPORATIONS.

ANOTHER VARIATION
IS THE CREATION

OF NUMEROUS SEEMINGLY UNNOTICED,
UNREGULATED,

INHUMANE SWEATSHOP FACTORIES,

WHICH TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
THE IMPOSED ECONOMIC HARDSHIP.

ADDITIONALLY,
DUE TO PRODUCTION DEREGULATION,

ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION
IS PERPETUAL,

AS A COUNTRY'S RESOURCES
ARE OFTEN EXPLOITED

BY THE INDIFFERENT CORPORATIONS

WHILE OUTPUTTING LARGE AMOUNTS
OF DELIBERATE POLLUTION.

-THE LARGEST
ENVIRONMENTAL LAWSUIT

IN THE HISTORY
OF THE WORLD TODAY

IS BEING BROUGHT ON BEHALF

OF 30,000 ECUADORIAN AND
AMAZONIAN PEOPLE AGAINST TEXACO,

WHICH IS NOW OWNED BY CHEVRON --
SO IT'S AGAINST CHEVRON --

BUT FOR ACTIVITIES
CONDUCTED BY TEXACO.

THEY ESTIMATE IT TO BE MORE THAN
18 TIMES WHAT THE EXXON VALDEZ

DUMPED INTO THE COAST OF ALASKA.

IN THE CASE OF ECUADOR,
IT WASN'T AN ACCIDENT.

THE OIL COMPANIES
DID IT INTENTIONALLY.

THEY KNEW THEY WERE DOING IT
TO SAVE MONEY OUT THERE,

RATHER THAN ARRANGING
FOR A PROPER DISPOSAL.

-FURTHERMORE, A CURSORY GLANCE

AT THE PERFORMANCE RECORD
OF THE WORLD BANK

REVEALS THAT THE INSTITUTION,
WHICH PUBLICLY CLAIMS

TO HELP POOR COUNTRIES DEVELOP
AND ALLEVIATE POVERTY,

HAS DONE NOTHING BUT INCREASE
POVERTY AND THE WEALTH GAP

WHILE CORPORATE PROFITS SOAR.

IN 1960, THE INCOME GAP

BETWEEN THE 1/5 OF THE WORLD'S
PEOPLE IN THE RICHEST COUNTRIES

VERSUS THE 1/5 IN THE POOREST
COUNTRIES WAS 30 TO 1.

BY 1998, IT WAS 74 TO 1.

WHILE GLOBAL GNP ROSE 40%
BETWEEN 1970 AND 1985,

THOSE IN POVERTY
ACTUALLY INCREASED BY 17%.

WHILE FROM 1985 TO 2000,

THOSE LIVING ON LESS THAN ONE
DOLLAR A DAY INCREASED BY 18%.

EVEN THE JOINT ECONOMIC
COMMITTEE OF THE U.S. CONGRESS

ADMITTED THAT THERE
IS A MERE 40% SUCCESS RATE

OF ALL WORLD BANK PROJECTS.

IN THE LATE 1960s,

THE WORLD BANK INTERVENED
IN ECUADOR WITH LARGE LOANS.

DURING THE NEXT 30 YEARS,
POVERTY GREW FROM 50% TO 70%.

UNDER- OR UNEMPLOYMENT
GREW FROM 15% TO 70%.

PUBLIC DEBT INCREASED FROM
$240 MILLION TO $16 BILLION,

WHILE THE SHARE OF RESOURCES
ALLOCATED TO THE POOR

WENT FROM 20% TO 6%.

IN FACT, BY THE YEAR 2000,
50% OF ECUADOR'S NATIONAL BUDGET

HAD TO BE ALLOCATED
FOR PAYING ITS DEBTS.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND
THE WORLD BANK

IS, IN FACT, A U.S. BANK
SUPPORTING U.S. INTERESTS,

FOR THE UNITED STATES
HOLDS VETO POWER OVER DECISIONS,

AS IT IS THE LARGEST PROVIDER
OF CAPITAL.

AND WHERE DID IT GET THIS MONEY?

YOU GUESSED IT.

IT MADE IT OUT OF THIN AIR

THROUGH THE FRACTIONAL RESERVE
BANKING SYSTEM.

OF THE WORLD'S
TOP 100 ECONOMIES,

AS BASED ON ANNUAL GDP,

51 ARE CORPORATIONS,

AND 47 OF THAT 51
ARE U.S.-BASED.

WALMART,
GENERAL MOTORS, AND EXXON

ARE MORE ECONOMICALLY POWERFUL

THAN SAUDI ARABIA, POLAND,
NORWAY, SOUTH AFRICA,

FINLAND, INDONESIA,
AND MANY OTHERS.

AND AS PROTECTIVE TRADE BARRIERS
ARE BROKEN DOWN,

CURRENCIES TOSSED TOGETHER

AND MANIPULATED
IN FLOATING MARKETS

AND STATE ECONOMIES OVERTURNED

IN FAVOR OF OPEN COMPETITION
AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM,

THE EMPIRE EXPANDS.

-YOU GET UP
ON YOUR LITTLE 21-INCH SCREEN

AND HOWL ABOUT AMERICA
AND DEMOCRACY.

THERE IS NO AMERICA.

THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY.

THERE IS ONLY IBM AND I.T.T.
AND AT&T

AND DUPONT, DOW,

UNION CARBIDE, AND EXXON.

THOSE ARE THE NATIONS
OF THE WORLD TODAY.

WHAT DO YOU THINK THE RUSSIANS

TALK ABOUT
IN THEIR COUNSELS OF STATE --

KARL MARX?

THEY GET OUT
THEIR LINEAR-PROGRAMMING CHARTS,

STATISTICAL DECISION THEORIES,
MIN AND MAX SOLUTIONS,

AND COMPUTE
THE PRICE-COST PROBABILITIES

OF THEIR TRANSACTIONS AND
INVESTMENTS, JUST LIKE WE DO.

WE NO LONGER LIVE

IN A WORLD OF NATIONS
AND IDEOLOGIES, MR. BEALE.

THE WORLD
IS A COLLEGE OF CORPORATIONS

INEXORABLY DETERMINED

BY THE IMMUTABLE BYLAWS
OF BUSINESS.

THE WORLD IS A BUSINESS,
MR. BEALE.

-THE WORLD IS BEING TAKEN OVER
BY A HANDFUL OF BUSINESS POWERS

WHO DOMINATE THE NATURAL
RESOURCES WE NEED TO LIVE

WHILE CONTROLLING THE MONEY WE
NEED TO OBTAIN THESE RESOURCES.

THE END RESULT
WILL BE WORLD MONOPOLY,

BASED NOT ON HUMAN LIFE, BUT
FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE POWER.

AND AS THE INEQUALITY GROWS,

NATURALLY, MORE AND MORE PEOPLE
ARE BECOMING DESPERATE,

SO THE ESTABLISHMENT WAS FORCED
TO COME UP WITH A NEW WAY

TO DEAL WITH ANYONE
WHO CHALLENGES THE SYSTEM.

SO THEY GAVE BIRTH
TO THE TERRORIST.

THE TERM "TERRORIST"
IS AN EMPTY DISTINCTION

DESIGNED FOR ANY PERSON OR GROUP

WHO CHOOSES TO CHALLENGE
THE ESTABLISHMENT.

THIS ISN'T TO BE CONFUSED
WITH THE FICTIONAL AL-QAEDA,

WHICH WAS ACTUALLY THE NAME
OF A COMPUTER DATABASE

OF THE U.S.-SUPPORTED MUJAHIDEEN
IN THE 1980s.

IN 2007, THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE RECEIVED $161.8 BILLION

FOR THE SO-CALLED
GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.

ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL
COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER,

IN 2004, ROUGHLY 2,000 PEOPLE
WERE KILLED INTERNATIONALLY

DUE TO SUPPOSED TERRORIST ACTS.

OF THAT NUMBER,
70 WERE AMERICAN.

USING THIS NUMBER
AS A GENERAL AVERAGE,

WHICH IS EXTREMELY GENEROUS,

IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE

THAT TWICE AS MANY PEOPLE DIE
FROM PEANUT ALLERGIES A YEAR

THAN FROM TERRORIST ACTS.

CONCURRENTLY, THE LEADING CAUSE
OF DEATH IN AMERICA

IS CORONARY HEART DISEASE,

KILLING ROUGHLY 450,000
EACH YEAR.

AND IN 2007,

THE GOVERNMENT'S ALLOCATION OF
FUNDS FOR RESEARCH ON THIS ISSUE

WAS ABOUT $3 BILLION.

THIS MEANS
THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN 2007

SPENT 54 TIMES THE AMOUNT
FOR PREVENTING TERRORISM

THAN IT SPENT
FOR PREVENTING A DISEASE

WHICH KILLS 6,600 TIMES
MORE PEOPLE ANNUALLY

THAN TERRORISM DOES.

YET AS THE NAME "TERRORISM"
AND "AL-QAEDA"

ARE ARBITRARILY STAMPED
ON EVERY NEWS REPORT

RELATING TO ANY ACTION
TAKEN AGAINST U.S. INTERESTS,

THE MYTH GROWS WIDER.

IN MID-2008,
THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL

ACTUALLY PROPOSED
THAT THE U.S. CONGRESS

OFFICIALLY DECLARE WAR
AGAINST THE FANTASY.

NOT TO MENTION AS OF JULY 2008,

THERE ARE
NOW OVER 1 MILLION PEOPLE

CURRENTLY ON THE U.S. TERRORIST
WATCH LIST.

THESE SO-CALLED
COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES,

OF COURSE, HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH SOCIAL PROTECTION

AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH
PRESERVING THE ESTABLISHMENT

AMONGST THE GROWING
ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT

BOTH DOMESTICALLY
AND INTERNATIONALLY,

WHICH IS LEGITIMATELY FOUNDED

ON THE GREED-BASED
CORPORATE-EMPIRE EXPANSION

THAT IS EXPLOITING THE WORLD.

THE TRUE TERRORISTS OF OUR WORLD

DO NOT MEET
AT THE DOCKS AT MIDNIGHT

OR SCREAM "ALLAHU AKBAR"
BEFORE SOME VIOLENT ACTION.

THE TRUE TERRORISTS OF OUR WORLD
WEAR $5,000 SUITS

AND WORK
IN THE HIGHEST POSITIONS

OF FINANCE, GOVERNMENT,
AND BUSINESS.

SO, WHAT DO WE DO?

HOW DO WE STOP A SYSTEM
OF GREED AND CORRUPTION

THAT HAS
SO MUCH POWER AND MOMENTUM?

HOW DO WE STOP
THIS ABERRANT GROUP BEHAVIOR

WHICH FEELS NO COMPASSION
FOR, SAY, THE MILLIONS

SLAUGHTERED
IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

SO THE CORPORATOCRACY

CAN CONTROL ENERGY RESOURCES
AND OPIUM PRODUCTION

FOR WALL STREET PROFIT?

-OH, MAN!
ANOTHER ONE!

-HOW DO WE STOP A SYSTEM
OF GREED AND CORRUPTION

THAT CONDEMNS POOR POPULATIONS
TO SWEATSHOP SLAVERY

FOR THE BENEFIT
OF MADISON AVENUE?

OR THAT ENGINEERS
FALSE-FLAG TERROR ATTACKS

FOR THE SAKE OF MANIPULATION?

OR THAT GENERATES BUILT-IN MODES
OF SOCIAL OPERATION

WHICH ARE
INHERENTLY EXPLOITATIVE?

OR THAT SYSTEMATICALLY REDUCES
CIVIL LIBERTIES

AND VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS

IN ORDER TO PROTECT ITSELF
FROM ITS OWN SHORTCOMINGS?

HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THE NUMEROUS
COVERT INSTITUTIONS,

SUCH AS THE COUNCIL
ON FOREIGN RELATIONS,

THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION,
AND THE BILDERBERG GROUP

AND OTHER
UNDEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GROUPS,

WHICH, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS,

COLLUDE TO CONTROL
THE POLITICAL, FINANCIAL,

SOCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL
ELEMENTS OF OUR LIVES?

IN ORDER TO FIND THE ANSWER,

WE MUST FIRST FIND
THE TRUE UNDERLYING CAUSE,

FOR THE FACT IS,

THE SELFISH, CORRUPT
POWER- AND PROFIT-BASED GROUPS

ARE NOT THE TRUE SOURCE
OF THE PROBLEM.

THEY ARE SYMPTOMS.

-MY NAME IS JACQUE FRESCO.

I'M AN INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
AND A SOCIAL ENGINEER.

I'M VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN
SOCIETY AND DEVELOPING A SYSTEM

THAT MIGHT BE SUSTAINABLE
FOR ALL PEOPLE.

FIRST OF ALL,
THE WORD "CORRUPTION"

IS A MONETARY INVENTION --
THAT ABERRANT BEHAVIOR --

BEHAVIOR THAT'S DISRUPTIVE
TO THE WELL-BEING OF PEOPLE.

WELL, YOU'RE DEALING
WITH HUMAN BEHAVIOR,

AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR APPEARS TO BE
ENVIRONMENTALLY DETERMINED,

MEANING IF YOU WERE RAISED BY
THE SEMINOLE INDIANS AS A BABY,

NEVER SAW ANYTHING ELSE,
YOU'D HOLD THAT VALUE SYSTEM.

AND THIS GOES FOR NATIONS.

IT GOES FOR INDIVIDUALS,
FOR FAMILIES --

THEY TRY TO INDOCTRINATE
THEIR CHILDREN

TO THEIR PARTICULAR FAITH
AND THEIR COUNTRY

AND MAKE THEM FEEL
LIKE THEY'RE PART OF THAT.

AND THEY BUILD A SOCIETY,
WHICH THEY CALL ESTABLISHED.

THEY ESTABLISH
A WORKABLE POINT OF VIEW

AND TEND TO PERPETUATE THAT,

WHEREAS ALL SOCIETIES ARE REALLY
EMERGENT, NOT ESTABLISHED.

AND SO, THEY FIGHT NEW IDEAS

THAT WOULD INTERFERE
WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT.

GOVERNMENTS TRY TO PERPETUATE
THAT WHICH KEEPS THEM IN POWER.

PEOPLE ARE NOT ELECTED
TO POLITICAL OFFICE

TO CHANGE THINGS.

THEY'RE PUT THERE
TO KEEP THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE.

SO, YOU SEE, THE BASIS
OF CORRUPTION IS IN OUR SOCIETY.

LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR --

ALL NATIONS, THEN,
ARE BASICALLY CORRUPT

BECAUSE THEY TEND TO UPHOLD
EXISTING INSTITUTIONS.

I DON'T MEAN TO UPHOLD
OR DOWNGRADE ALL NATIONS,

BUT COMMUNISM,
SOCIALISM, FASCISM,

THE FREE-ENTERPRISE SYSTEM,
AND ALL OTHER SUBCULTURES

ARE THE SAME.

THEY ARE ALL BASICALLY CORRUPT.

-THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL
CHARACTERISTIC

OF OUR SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

IS THE NECESSITY
FOR SELF-PRESERVATION.

WHETHER DEALING
WITH A CORPORATION,

A RELIGION, OR A GOVERNMENT,

THE FOREMOST INTEREST IS TO
PRESERVE THE INSTITUTION ITSELF.

FOR INSTANCE, THE LAST THING
AN OIL COMPANY WOULD EVER WANT

IS THE UTILIZATION OF ENERGY
THAT WAS OUTSIDE OF ITS CONTROL,

FOR IT MAKES THAT COMPANY
LESS RELEVANT TO SOCIETY.

LIKEWISE, THE COLD WAR AND
THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION

WAS, IN REALITY, A WAY
TO PRESERVE AND PERPETUATE

THE ESTABLISHED ECONOMIC
AND GLOBAL HEGEMONY

OF THE UNITED STATES.

SIMILARLY, RELIGIONS

CONDITION PEOPLE TO FEEL GUILTY
FOR NATURAL INCLINATIONS,

EACH CLAIMING TO OFFER
THE ONLY PATH

TO FORGIVENESS AND SALVATION.

AT THE HEART OF THIS
INSTITUTIONAL SELF-PRESERVATION

LIES THE MONETARY SYSTEM,

FOR IT IS MONEY

THAT PROVIDES THE MEANS
FOR POWER AND SURVIVAL.

THEREFORE, JUST AS A POOR PERSON

MIGHT BE FORCED TO STEAL
IN ORDER TO SURVIVE,

IT IS A NATURAL INCLINATION
TO DO WHATEVER IS NEEDED

TO CONTINUE
AN INSTITUTION'S PROFITABILITY.

THIS MAKES IT
INHERENTLY DIFFICULT

FOR PROFIT-BASED INSTITUTIONS
TO CHANGE,

FOR IT PUTS IN JEOPARDY

NOT ONLY THE SURVIVAL
OF LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE,

BUT ALSO THE COVETED
MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLES

ASSOCIATED
WITH AFFLUENCE AND POWER.

THEREFORE,
THE PARALYZING NECESSITY

TO PRESERVE AN INSTITUTION,

REGARDLESS
OF ITS SOCIAL RELEVANCE,

IS LARGELY ROOTED IN THE NEED
FOR MONEY, OR PROFIT.

-"WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?"
IS THE WAY PEOPLE THINK.

AND SO, IF A MAN MAKES MONEY
SELLING A CERTAIN PRODUCT,

NATURALLY, HE'S GONNA FIGHT
THE EXISTENCE OF ANOTHER PRODUCT

THAT MAY THREATEN
HIS INSTITUTION.

THEREFORE,
PEOPLE CANNOT BE FAIR,

AND PEOPLE
DO NOT TRUST EACH OTHER.

A GUY WILL COME OVER TO YOU
AND SAY,

"I GOT JUST THE HOUSE
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR."

HE'S A SALESMAN.

WHEN A DOCTOR SAYS, "I THINK
YOUR KIDNEY HAS TO COME OUT,"

I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S TRYING
TO PAY OFF A YACHT

OR THAT MY KIDNEY
HAS TO COME OUT.

IT'S HARD IN A MONETARY SYSTEM
TO TRUST PEOPLE.

IF YOU CAME INTO MY STORE
AND I SAID,

"THIS LAMP THAT I'VE GOT
IS PRETTY GOOD,

BUT THE LAMP NEXT DOOR
IS MUCH BETTER,"

I WOULDN'T BE IN BUSINESS
VERY LONG.

IT WOULDN'T WORK.

IF I WERE ETHICAL,
IT WOULDN'T WORK.

SO WHEN YOU SAY, "INDUSTRY CARES
FOR PEOPLE," THAT'S NOT TRUE.

THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO BE ETHICAL.

SO YOUR SYSTEM IS NOT DESIGNED

TO SERVE
THE WELL-BEING OF PEOPLE.

IF YOU STILL
DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT --

THERE WOULD BE NO OUTSOURCING OF
JOBS IF THEY CARED ABOUT PEOPLE.

INDUSTRY DOES NOT CARE.

THEY ONLY HIRE PEOPLE 'CAUSE
IT HASN'T BEEN AUTOMATED YET.

SO DON'T TALK
ABOUT DECENCY AND ETHICS.

WE CANNOT AFFORD IT
AND REMAIN IN BUSINESS.

-IT IS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT

THAT REGARDLESS
OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM,

WHETHER FASCIST, SOCIALIST,
CAPITALIST, OR COMMUNIST,

THE UNDERLYING MECHANISM

IS STILL MONEY,
LABOR, AND COMPETITION.

COMMUNIST CHINA

IS NO LESS CAPITALISTIC
THAN THE UNITED STATES.

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE

IS THE DEGREE BY WHICH THE STATE
INTERVENES IN ENTERPRISE.

THE REALITY IS
THAT MONETARY-ISM, SO TO SPEAK,

IS THE TRUE MECHANISM
THAT GUIDES THE INTERESTS

OF ALL THE COUNTRIES
ON THE PLANET.

THE MOST AGGRESSIVE
AND, HENCE, DOMINANT VARIATION

OF THIS MONETARY-ISM
IS THE FREE-ENTERPRISE SYSTEM.

THE FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
AS PUT FORTH

BY EARLY FREE-MARKET ECONOMISTS
LIKE ADAM SMITH

IS THAT SELF-INTEREST
IN COMPETITION

LEADS TO SOCIAL PROSPERITY,

AS THE ACT OF COMPETITION
CREATES INCENTIVE,

WHICH MOTIVATES PEOPLE
TO PERSEVERE.

HOWEVER, WHAT ISN'T TALKED ABOUT

IS HOW
A COMPETITION-BASED ECONOMY

INVARIABLY LEADS
TO STRATEGIC CORRUPTION...

POWER AND WEALTH
CONSOLIDATION...

SOCIAL STRATIFICATION...

TECHNOLOGICAL PARALYSIS...

LABOR ABUSE...

AND ULTIMATELY A COVERT FORM
OF GOVERNMENT DICTATORSHIP

BY THE RICH ELITE.

THE WORD "CORRUPTION" IS OFTEN
DEFINED AS "MORAL PERVERSION."

IF A COMPANY DUMPS TOXIC WASTE
INTO THE OCEAN TO SAVE MONEY,

MOST PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THIS
AS CORRUPT BEHAVIOR.

ON A MORE SUBTLE LEVEL,

WHEN WALMART
MOVES INTO A SMALL TOWN

AND FORCES SMALL BUSINESSES
TO SHUT DOWN,

FOR THEY ARE UNABLE TO COMPETE,
A GRAY AREA EMERGES.

FOR WHAT EXACTLY
IS WALMART DOING WRONG?

WHY SHOULD THEY CARE

ABOUT MOM-AND-POP ORGANIZATIONS
THEY DESTROY?

YET EVEN MORE SUBTLY, WHEN A
PERSON GETS FIRED FROM THEIR JOB

BECAUSE A NEW MACHINE

HAS BEEN CREATED WHICH CAN DO
THE WORK FOR LESS MONEY,

PEOPLE TEND TO JUST ACCEPT THAT
AS THE WAY IT IS,

NOT SEEING THE INHERENT CORRUPT
INHUMANITY OF SUCH AN ACTION.

BECAUSE THE FACT IS, WHETHER
IT IS DUMPING TOXIC WASTE,

HAVING A MONOPOLY ENTERPRISE,

OR DOWNSIZING THE WORKFORCE,

THE MOTIVE IS THE SAME --
PROFIT.

THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT DEGREES

OF THE SAME
SELF-PRESERVING MECHANISM

WHICH ALWAYS PUTS
THE WELL-BEING OF PEOPLE

SECOND TO MONETARY GAIN.

THEREFORE, CORRUPTION IS NOT
SOME BY-PRODUCT OF MONETARY-ISM.

IT IS THE VERY FOUNDATION.

AND WHILE MOST PEOPLE

ACKNOWLEDGE THIS TENDENCY
ON ONE LEVEL OR ANOTHER,

THE MAJORITY REMAINS NAIVE
AS TO THE BROAD RAMIFICATIONS

OF HAVING
SUCH A SELFISH MECHANISM

AS THE GUIDING MENTALITY
IN SOCIETY.

-INTERNAL DOCUMENTS
SHOW THAT AFTER THIS COMPANY

POSITIVELY, ABSOLUTELY KNEW
THAT THEY HAD A MEDICATION

THAT WAS INFECTED
WITH THE AIDS VIRUS,

THEY TOOK THE PRODUCT
OFF THE MARKET IN THE U.S.,

AND THEN THEY DUMPED IT

IN FRANCE, EUROPE, ASIA,
AND LATIN AMERICA.

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN.

THE FDA ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN.

AND NOW THE GOVERNMENT

IS COMPLETELY LOOKING
THE OTHER WAY.

THOUSANDS
OF INNOCENT HEMOPHILIACS

HAVE DIED FROM THE AIDS VIRUS.

THIS COMPANY KNEW ABSOLUTELY
THAT IT WAS INFECTED WITH AIDS.

THEY DUMPED IT

BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO TURN
THIS DISASTER INTO A PROFIT.

-SO, YOU SEE,
YOU HAVE BUILT-IN CORRUPTION.

WE'RE ALL CHISELING OFF
EACH OTHER,

AND YOU CAN'T EXPECT DECENCY
IN THAT SORT OF THING.

AND FEELING THAT,
THEY DON'T KNOW WHO TO ELECT.

THEY THINK
IN TERMS OF A DEMOCRACY,

WHICH IS NOT POSSIBLE
IN A MONETARY-BASED ECONOMY.

IF YOU HAVE MORE MONEY
TO ADVERTISE YOUR POSITION --

THE POSITION
YOU DESIRE IN GOVERNMENT --

THAT ISN'T A DEMOCRACY.

IT SERVES THOSE IN POSITIONS
OF DIFFERENTIAL ADVANTAGE.

SO IT'S ALWAYS A DICTATORSHIP
OF THE ELITISTS,

THE FINANCIALLY WEALTHY.

-IT IS
AN INTERESTING OBSERVATION

TO NOTE HOW SEEMINGLY UNKNOWN
PERSONALITIES

MAGICALLY APPEAR ON THE SCENE
AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

THEN, BEFORE YOU KNOW IT,

SOMEHOW YOU'RE LEFT TO CHOOSE
FROM A SMALL GROUP

OF EXTREMELY WEALTHY PEOPLE

WHO SUSPICIOUSLY HAVE
THE SAME BROAD SOCIAL VIEW.

OBVIOUSLY, IT'S A JOKE.

THE PEOPLE PLACED ON THE BALLOT
ARE DONE SO

BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN
PREDECIDED TO BE ACCEPTABLE

BY THE ESTABLISHED
FINANCIAL POWERS

WHO ACTUALLY RUN THE SHOW.

YET MANY WHO UNDERSTAND
THIS ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY

OFTEN THINK,
"IF ONLY WE COULD JUST GET

"OUR HONEST, ETHICAL
POLITICIANS IN POWER,

THEN WE WOULD BE OKAY."

WELL, WHILE THIS IDEA,
OF COURSE,

SEEMS REASONABLE IN OUR
ESTABLISHED ORIENTED WORLD VIEW,

IT IS, UNFORTUNATELY,
ANOTHER FALLACY,

FOR WHEN IT REALLY COMES DOWN
TO WHAT IS ACTUALLY IMPORTANT,

THE INSTITUTION OF POLITICS AND,
THUS, POLITICIANS THEMSELVES,

HAVE ABSOLUTELY
NO TRUE RELEVANCE

AS TO WHAT MAKES OUR WORLD
AND SOCIETY FUNCTION.

-IT'S NOT POLITICIANS
THAT CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS.

THEY HAVE
NO TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES.

THEY DON'T KNOW
HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.

EVEN IF THE WERE SINCERE,

THEY DON'T KNOW
HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.

IT'S THE TECHNICIANS

THAT PRODUCE
THE DESALINIZATION PLANTS.

IT'S THE TECHNICIANS
THAT GIVE YOU ELECTRICITY,

THAT GIVE YOU MOTOR VEHICLES,

THAT HEAT YOUR HOUSE
AND COOL IT IN THE SUMMERTIME.

IT'S TECHNOLOGY THAT SOLVES
PROBLEMS, NOT POLITICS.

POLITICS CANNOT SOLVE PROBLEMS

'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT TRAINED
TO DO SO.

-VERY FEW PEOPLE TODAY
STOP AND CONSIDER WHAT IT IS

THAT ACTUALLY IMPROVES
THEIR LIVES.

IS IT MONEY?

OBVIOUSLY NOT.

ONE CANNOT EAT MONEY

OR STUFF MONEY INTO THEIR CAR
TO GET IT TO RUN.

IS IT POLITICS?

ALL POLITICIANS CAN DO

IS CREATE LAWS, ESTABLISH
BUDGETS, AND DECLARE WAR.

IS IT RELIGION?
OF COURSE NOT.

RELIGION CREATES NOTHING EXCEPT
INTANGIBLE EMOTIONAL SOLACE

FOR THOSE WHO REQUIRE IT.

THE TRUE GIFT
THAT WE AS HUMAN BEINGS HAVE

WHICH HAS BEEN
SOLELY RESPONSIBLE

FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAS IMPROVED
OUR LIVES IS TECHNOLOGY.

WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?

TECHNOLOGY IS A PENCIL
WHICH ALLOWS ONE

TO SOLIDIFY IDEAS ON PAPER
FOR COMMUNICATION.

TECHNOLOGY IS AN AUTOMOBILE

WHICH ALLOWS ONE TO TRAVEL
FASTER THAN FEET WOULD ALLOW.

TECHNOLOGY IS A PAIR OF
EYEGLASSES WHICH ENABLES SIGHT

FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT.

APPLIED TECHNOLOGY ITSELF

IS MERELY AN EXTENSION
OF HUMAN ATTRIBUTES

WHICH REDUCES HUMAN EFFORT,

FREEING HUMANS FROM
A PARTICULAR CHORE OR PROBLEM.

IMAGINE WHAT YOUR LIFE WOULD BE
LIKE TODAY WITHOUT A TELEPHONE

OR AN OVEN
OR A COMPUTER OR AN AIRPLANE.

EVERYTHING IN YOUR HOME
WHICH YOU TAKE FOR GRANTED,

FROM A DOORBELL
TO A TABLE TO A DISHWASHER,

IS TECHNOLOGY GENERATED FROM THE
CREATIVE SCIENTIFIC INGENUITY

OF HUMAN TECHNICIANS...

NOT MONEY, POLITICS,
OR RELIGION.

THESE ARE FALSE INSTITUTIONS.

-AND WRITING YOUR CONGRESSMAN
IS FANTASTIC.

THEY TELL YOU
TO WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN

IF YOU WANT SOMETHING DONE.

THE MEN IN WASHINGTON SHOULD BE
AT THE FOREFRONT OF TECHNOLOGY,

THE FOREFRONT OF HUMAN STUDY,
THE FOREFRONT OF CRIME --

ALL THE FACTORS
THAT SHAPE HUMAN BEHAVIOR.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO WRITE
YOUR CONGRESSMAN.

WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE THEY

THAT ARE APPOINTED
TO DO THAT JOB?

THE FUTURE
WILL HAVE GREAT DIFFICULTY.

AND THE QUESTION
THAT'S RAISED BY POLITICIANS IS,

"HOW MUCH
WILL THE PROJECT COST?"

THE QUESTION IS NOT,
"HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?"

"DO WE HAVE THE RESOURCES?"

AND WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TODAY
TO HOUSE EVERYONE,

BUILD HOSPITALS
ALL OVER THE WORLD,

BUILD SCHOOLS
ALL OVER THE WORLD,

THE FINEST EQUIPMENT IN LABS

FOR TEACHING
AND DOING MEDICAL RESEARCH.

SO, YOU SEE, WE HAVE ALL THAT,
BUT WE'RE IN A MONETARY SYSTEM.

AND IN A MONETARY SYSTEM,
THERE'S PROFIT.

-AND WHAT IS
THE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISM

THAT DRIVES THE PROFIT SYSTEM,
BESIDES SELF-INTEREST?

WHAT IS IT EXACTLY

THAT MAINTAINS THAT
COMPETITIVE EDGE AT ITS CORE?

IS IT HIGH EFFICIENCY
AND SUSTAINABILITY?

NO.
THAT ISN'T PART OF THEIR DESIGN.

NOTHING PRODUCED
IN OUR PROFIT-BASED SOCIETY

IS EVEN REMOTELY SUSTAINABLE
OR EFFICIENT.

IF IT WAS, THERE WOULDN'T BE

A MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR-A-YEAR
SERVICE INDUSTRY

FOR AUTOMOBILES.

NOR WOULD THE AVERAGE LIFE-SPAN
FOR MOST ELECTRONICS

BE LESS THAN THREE MONTHS
BEFORE THEY'RE OBSOLETE.

IS IT ABUNDANCE?

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

ABUNDANCE, AS BASED ON THE LAWS
OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND,

IS ACTUALLY A NEGATIVE THING.

IF A DIAMOND COMPANY

FINDS 10 TIMES THE USUAL AMOUNT
OF DIAMONDS DURING THEIR MINING,

IT MEANS THE SUPPLY
OF DIAMONDS HAS INCREASED,

WHICH MEANS THE COST AND PROFIT
PER DIAMOND DROPS.

THE FACT IS, EFFICIENCY,
SUSTAINABILITY, AND ABUNDANCE

ARE ENEMIES OF PROFIT.

TO PUT IT INTO A WORD,

IT IS THE MECHANISM OF SCARCITY
THAT INCREASES PROFITS.

-WHAT IS SCARCITY?

BASED ON KEEPING PRODUCTS
VALUABLE.

SLOWING UP PRODUCTION ON OIL
RAISES THE PRICE.

MAINTAINING SCARCITY OF DIAMONDS
KEEPS THE PRICE HIGH.

THEY BURN DIAMONDS
AT THE KIMBERLEY DIAMOND MINES.

THEY'RE MADE OF CARBON.

THAT KEEPS THE PRICE UP.

-SO, THEN,
WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR SOCIETY

WHEN SCARCITY,

EITHER PRODUCED NATURALLY
OR THROUGH MANIPULATION,

IS A BENEFICIAL CONDITION
FOR INDUSTRY?

IT MEANS THAT SUSTAINABILITY
AND ABUNDANCE

WILL NEVER, EVER OCCUR
IN A PROFIT SYSTEM,

FOR IT SIMPLY GOES AGAINST THE
VERY NATURE OF THE STRUCTURE.

THEREFORE, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE

TO HAVE A WORLD
WITHOUT WAR OR POVERTY.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTINUALLY
ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY

TO ITS MOST EFFICIENT
AND PRODUCTIVE STATES.

AND MOST DRAMATICALLY,

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE
TO EXPECT HUMAN BEINGS

TO BEHAVE
IN TRULY ETHICAL OR DECENT WAYS.

-PEOPLE USE THE WORD "INSTINCT"

BECAUSE THEY CAN'T ACCOUNT
FOR THE BEHAVIOR.

THEY SIT BACK, AND THEY EVALUATE

WITH THEIR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE,
YOU KNOW,

AND THEY SAY THINGS LIKE,
"HUMANS ARE BUILT A CERTAIN WAY.

GREED IS A NATURAL THING,"

AS THOUGH THEY'VE WORKED
FOR YEARS ON IT.

AND IT'S NO MORE NATURAL
THAN WEARING CLOTHING.

-WHAT WE WANT TO DO

IS TO ELIMINATE
THE CAUSES OF THE PROBLEMS,

ELIMINATE THE PROCESSES

THAT PRODUCE GREED
AND BIGOTRY AND PREJUDICE

AND PEOPLE TAKING ADVANTAGE
OF ONE ANOTHER AND ELITISM,

ELIMINATING THE NEED
FOR PRISONS AND WELFARE.

WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD
THESE PROBLEMS

'CAUSE WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED
WITHIN SCARCITY

AND BARTER AND MONETARY SYSTEMS
THAT PRODUCE SCARCITY.

-IF YOU ERADICATE THE CONDITIONS

THAT GENERATE WHAT YOU CALL
SOCIALLY OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOR,

IT DOES NOT EXIST.

A GUY SAYS,
"WELL, ISN'T THAT INBORN?"

NO, IT'S NOT.

-THERE IS NO HUMAN NATURE.

THERE'S HUMAN BEHAVIOR.

AND THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN CHANGED
THROUGHOUT HISTORY.

YOU'RE NOT BORN WITH BIGOTRY AND
GREED AND CORRUPTION AND HATRED.

YOU PICK THAT UP
WITHIN A SOCIETY.

-WAR, POVERTY, CORRUPTION,

HUNGER, MISERY, HUMAN SUFFERING

WILL NOT CHANGE
IN A MONETARY SYSTEM.

THAT IS, THERE WILL BE
VERY LITTLE SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.

IT'S GOING TO TAKE THE REDESIGN
OF OUR CULTURE, OUR VALUES.

AND IT HAS TO BE RELATED TO THE
CARRYING CAPACITY OF THE EARTH,

NOT SOME HUMAN OPINION

OR SOME POLITICIAN'S NOTIONS
OF THE WAY THE WORLD OUGHT TO BE

OR SOME RELIGIOUS NOTIONS
OF THE CONDUCT OF HUMAN AFFAIRS.

AND THAT'S WHAT
THE VENUS PROJECT IS ABOUT.

THE SOCIETY
THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT

IS A SOCIETY THAT IS FREE
OF ALL THE OLD SUPERSTITIONS,

INCARCERATION, PRISONS,
POLICE, CRUELTY, AND LAW.

ALL LAWS WILL DISAPPEAR.

AND THE PROFESSIONS
WILL DISAPPEAR

THAT ARE NO LONGER VALID,

SUCH AS STOCKBROKERS,
BANKERS, ADVERTISING --

GONE FOREVER
BECAUSE IT'S NO LONGER RELEVANT.

-WHEN WE UNDERSTAND

THAT IT IS TECHNOLOGY
DEVISED BY HUMAN INGENUITY,

WHICH FREES HUMANITY AND
INCREASES OUR QUALITY OF LIFE,

WE THEN REALIZE THAT THE MOST
IMPORTANT FOCUS WE CAN HAVE

IS ON THE INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT
OF THE EARTH'S RESOURCES,

FOR IT IS FROM THESE NATURAL
RESOURCES WE GAIN THE MATERIALS

TO CONTINUE
OUR PATH OF PROSPERITY.

UNDERSTANDING THIS, WE THEN SEE
THAT MONEY FUNDAMENTALLY EXISTS

AS A BARRIER TO THESE RESOURCES,

FOR VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING
HAS A FINANCIAL COST.

AND WHY DO WE NEED MONEY
TO OBTAIN THESE RESOURCES?

BECAUSE OF REAL
OR ASSUMED SCARCITY.

WE DON'T USUALLY PAY
FOR AIR AND TAP WATER

BECAUSE IT IS
IN SUCH HIGH ABUNDANCE,

SELLING IT WOULD BE POINTLESS.

SO, THEN, LOGICALLY SPEAKING,

IF RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

APPLICABLE TO CREATING
EVERYTHING IN OUR SOCIETIES,

SUCH AS HOUSES, CITIES,
AND TRANSPORTATION,

WERE IN HIGH ENOUGH ABUNDANCE,

THERE WOULD BE NO REASON
TO SELL ANYTHING.

LIKEWISE,
IF AUTOMATION AND MACHINERY

WERE SO TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED

AS TO RELIEVE
HUMAN BEINGS OF LABOR,

THERE WOULD BE NO REASON
TO HAVE A JOB.

AND WITH THESE SOCIAL ASPECTS
TAKEN CARE OF,

THERE WOULD BE NO REASON
TO HAVE MONEY AT ALL.

SO THE ULTIMATE QUESTION
REMAINS --

DO WE ON EARTH

HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCES
AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING

TO CREATE A SOCIETY
OF SUCH ABUNDANCE

THAT EVERYTHING WE HAVE NOW

COULD BE AVAILABLE
WITHOUT A PRICE TAG

AND WITHOUT THE NEED FOR
SUBMISSION THROUGH EMPLOYMENT?

YES. WE DO.

WE HAVE THE RESOURCES
AND TECHNOLOGY

TO ENABLE THIS AT A MINIMUM,

ALONG WITH THE ABILITY TO RAISE
THE STANDARD OF LIVING SO HIGH

THAT PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE

WILL LOOK BACK
AT OUR CIVILIZATION NOW

AND GAWK AT HOW PRIMITIVE
AND IMMATURE OUR SOCIETY WAS.

-WHAT THE VENUS PROJECT PROPOSES
IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SYSTEM

THAT'S UPDATED
TO PRESENT-DAY KNOWLEDGE.

-WE'VE NEVER GIVEN SCIENTISTS
THE PROBLEM OF,

"HOW DO YOU DESIGN A SOCIETY

"WHICH WOULD ELIMINATE
BORING AND MONOTONOUS JOBS,

"THAT WOULD ELIMINATE
ACCIDENTS IN TRANSPORTATION,

"THAT WOULD ENABLE PEOPLE TO
HAVE A HIGH STANDARD OF LIVING,

"THAT WOULD ELIMINATE POISONS
IN OUR FOOD,

"THAT WOULD GIVE US
OTHER SOURCES OF ENERGY

THAT ARE CLEAN AND EFFICIENT?"

WE CAN DO THAT OUT THERE.

THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN A RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY
AND A MONETARY SYSTEM

IS THAT A RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY

IS REALLY CONCERNED WITH PEOPLE
AND THEIR WELL-BEING,

WHERE A MONETARY SYSTEM
HAS BECOME SO DISTORTED

THAT THE CONCERNS OF THE PEOPLE
ARE REALLY SECONDARY,

IF THEY'RE THERE AT ALL.

THE PRODUCTS THAT ARE TURNED OUT

ARE FOR HOW MUCH MONEY
YOU CAN GET.

IF THERE IS A PROBLEM IN SOCIETY

AND YOU CAN'T EARN MONEY
FROM SOLVING THAT PROBLEM,

THEN IT WON'T BE DONE.

THE RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY

IS REALLY NOT CLOSE
TO ANYTHING THAT'S BEEN TRIED.

AND WITH ALL OUR TECHNOLOGY
TODAY, WE CAN CREATE ABUNDANCE.

IT COULD BE USED
TO IMPROVE EVERYONE'S LIFESTYLE.

ABUNDANCE ALL OVER THE WORLD

IF WE USE OUR TECHNOLOGY WISELY
AND MAINTAIN THE ENVIRONMENT.

-IT'S A VERY DIFFERENT SYSTEM,
AND IT'S VERY HARD TO TALK ABOUT

BECAUSE THE PUBLIC
IS NOT THAT WELL ENOUGH INFORMED

AS TO THE STATE OF TECHNOLOGY.

AT PRESENT, WE DON'T HAVE
TO BURN FOSSIL FUELS.

WE DON'T HAVE TO USE ANYTHING

THAT WOULD CONTAMINATE
THE ENVIRONMENT.

THERE ARE MANY SOURCES
OF ENERGY AVAILABLE.

-ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOLUTIONS
PUSHED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT,

SUCH AS HYDROGEN, BIOMASS,
AND EVEN NUCLEAR,

ARE HIGHLY INSUFFICIENT,
DANGEROUS,

AND EXIST ONLY TO PERPETUATE
THE PROFIT STRUCTURE

THAT INDUSTRY HAS CREATED.

WHEN WE LOOK
BEYOND THE PROPAGANDA

AND SELF-SERVING SOLUTIONS PUT
FORTH BY THE ENERGY COMPANIES,

WE FIND
A SEEMINGLY ENDLESS STREAM

OF CLEAN, ABUNDANT,
AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

FOR GENERATING POWER.

SOLAR AND WIND ENERGY
ARE WELL-KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC,

BUT THE TRUE POTENTIAL OF THESE
MEDIUMS REMAINS UNEXPRESSED.

SOLAR ENERGY DERIVED
FROM THE SUN HAS SUCH ABUNDANCE

THAT ONE HOUR OF LIGHT
AT HIGH NOON

CONTAINS MORE ENERGY

THAN WHAT THE ENTIRE WORLD
CONSUMES IN A YEAR.

IF WE COULD CAPTURE 1/100
OF A PERCENT OF THIS ENERGY,

THE WORLD WOULD NEVER HAVE TO
USE OIL, GAS, OR ANYTHING ELSE.

THE QUESTION, THEN,
IS NOT AVAILABILITY,

BUT THE TECHNOLOGY
TO HARNESS IT.

AND THERE ARE
MANY ADVANCED MEDIUMS TODAY

WHICH COULD ACCOMPLISH JUST
THAT, IF THEY WERE NOT HINDERED

BY THE NEED TO COMPETE
FOR MARKET SHARE

WITH THE ESTABLISHED
ENERGY POWER STRUCTURES.

THEN THERE'S WIND ENERGY.

WIND ENERGY HAS LONG BEEN
DENOUNCED AS WEAK,

AND DUE TO BEING
LOCATION-DRIVEN, IMPRACTICAL.

THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE.

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
ADMITTED IN 2007

THAT IF WIND WAS FULLY HARVESTED

IN JUST THREE
OF AMERICA'S 50 STATES,

IT COULD POWER
THE ENTIRE NATION.

AND THEN THERE ARE
THE RATHER UNKNOWN MEDIUMS

OF TIDAL AND WAVE POWER.

TIDAL POWER IS DERIVED
FROM TIDAL SHIFTS IN THE OCEAN.

INSTALLING TURBINES
WHICH CAPTURE THIS MOVEMENT

GENERATES ENERGY.

IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,

42 SITES ARE CURRENTLY NOTED
AS AVAILABLE,

FORECASTING THAT 34%
OF ALL THE U.K.'s ENERGY

COULD COME
FROM TIDAL POWER ALONE.

WAVE POWER,

WHICH EXTRACTS ENERGY FROM THE
SURFACE MOTIONS OF THE OCEAN,

IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE
A GLOBAL POTENTIAL

OF UP TO 80,000 TERAWATT HOURS
A YEAR.

THIS MEANS 50% OF
THE ENTIRE PLANET'S ENERGY USAGE

COULD BE PRODUCED
FROM THIS MEDIUM ALONE.

NOW, IT IS IMPORTANT

TO POINT OUT THAT TIDAL,
WAVE, SOLAR, AND WIND POWER

REQUIRES VIRTUALLY NO
PRELIMINARY ENERGY TO HARNESS,

UNLIKE COAL, OIL, GAS, BIOMASS,
HYDROGEN, AND ALL THE OTHERS.

IN COMBINATION,
THESE FOUR MEDIUMS ALONE,

IF EFFICIENTLY HARNESSED
THROUGH TECHNOLOGY,

COULD POWER THE WORLD FOREVER.

THAT BEING SAID,

THERE HAPPENS TO BE ANOTHER FORM
OF CLEAN, RENEWABLE ENERGY

WHICH TRUMPS THEM ALL --
GEOTHERMAL POWER.

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY UTILIZES
WHAT IS CALLED HEAT MINING,

WHICH, THROUGH A SIMPLE PROCESS
USING WATER,

IS ABLE TO GENERATE
MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF CLEAN ENERGY.

IN 2006, AN M.I.T. REPORT
ON GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

FOUND THAT 13,000 ZETTAJOULES
OF POWER

ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
IN THE EARTH

WITH THE POSSIBILITY
OF 2,000 ZETTAJOULES

BEING EASILY TAPPABLE
WITH IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY.

THE TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF
ALL THE COUNTRIES ON THE PLANET

IS ABOUT HALF OF A ZETTAJOULE
A YEAR.

THIS MEANS ABOUT 4,000 YEARS
OF PLANETARY POWER

COULD BE HARNESSED
IN THIS MEDIUM ALONE.

AND WHEN WE UNDERSTAND
THAT THE EARTH'S HEAT GENERATION

IS CONSTANTLY RENEWED,

THIS ENERGY IS REALLY LIMITLESS
AND COULD BE USED FOREVER.

THESE ENERGY SOURCES
ARE ONLY A FEW

OF THE CLEAN, RENEWABLE MEDIUMS
AVAILABLE.

AND AS TIME GOES ON,
WE WILL FIND MORE.

THE GRAND REALIZATION IS THAT
WE HAVE TOTAL ENERGY ABUNDANCE

WITHOUT THE NEED FOR POLLUTION,
TRADITIONAL CONSERVATION,

OR, IN FACT, A PRICE TAG.

AND WHAT ABOUT TRANSPORTATION?

THE PREVAILING MEANS OF
TRANSPORTATION IN OUR SOCIETIES

IS BY AUTOMOBILE AND AIRCRAFT,

BOTH OF WHICH PREDOMINANTLY NEED
FOSSIL FUELS TO RUN.

IN THE CASE OF THE AUTOMOBILE,

THE BATTERY TECHNOLOGY
NEEDED TO POWER AN ELECTRIC CAR

THAT CAN GO
OVER 100 MILES AN HOUR

FOR OVER 200 MILES ON ONE CHARGE

EXISTS AND HAS EXISTED
FOR MANY YEARS.

HOWEVER, DUE TO BATTERY PATENTS
CONTROLLED BY THE OIL INDUSTRY

WHICH LIMITS THEIR AVAILABILITY
TO MAINTAIN MARKET SHARE,

COUPLED WITH POLITICAL PRESSURE
FROM THE ENERGY INDUSTRY,

THE ACCESSIBILITY AND
AFFORDABILITY OF THIS TECHNOLOGY

IS LIMITED.

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON

OTHER THAN PURE, CORRUPT
PROFIT INTEREST

THAT EVERY SINGLE VEHICLE
IN THE WORLD

CANNOT BE ELECTRIC
AND UTTERLY CLEAN

WITH ZERO NEED FOR GASOLINE.

AS FAR AS AIRPLANES,

IT IS TIME WE REALIZE
THAT THIS MEANS OF TRAVEL

IS INEFFICIENT,
CUMBERSOME, SLOW,

AND CAUSES
FAR TOO MUCH POLLUTION.

THIS IS A MAGLEV TRAIN.

IT USES MAGNETS FOR PROPULSION.

IT IS FULLY SUSPENDED
BY A MAGNETIC FIELD

AND REQUIRES LESS THAN 2% OF THE
ENERGY USED FOR PLANE TRAVEL.

THE TRAIN HAS NO WHEELS,
SO NOTHING CAN WEAR OUT.

THE CURRENT MAXIMUM SPEED
OF VERSIONS OF THIS TECHNOLOGY

AS USED IN JAPAN
IS 361 MILES PER HOUR.

HOWEVER, THIS VERSION
OF THE TECHNOLOGY IS VERY DATED.

AN ORGANIZATION CALLED ET3,

WHICH HAS CONNECTIONS
WITH THE VENUS PROJECT,

HAS ESTABLISHED
A TUBE-BASED MAGLEV

THAT CAN TRAVEL
UP TO 4,000 MILES PER HOUR

IN A MOTIONLESS,
FRICTIONLESS TUBE

WHICH CAN GO OVER LAND
OR UNDERWATER.

IMAGINE GOING FROM L.A.
TO NEW YORK

FOR AN EXTENDED LUNCH BREAK

OR FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.,
TO BEIJING, CHINA, IN TWO HOURS.

THIS IS THE FUTURE

OF CONTINENTAL
AND INTERCONTINENTAL TRAVEL --

FAST, CLEAN, WITH ONLY
A FRACTION OF THE ENERGY USAGE

WE USE TODAY FOR THE SAME MEANS.

IN FACT,
BETWEEN MAGLEV TECHNOLOGY,

ADVANCED BATTERY STORAGE,
AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY,

THERE WOULD BE NO REASON
TO EVER BURN FOSSIL FUELS AGAIN.

AND WE CAN DO THIS NOW,

IF WE WERE NOT HELD BACK BY
THE PARALYZING PROFIT STRUCTURE.

-NOW, AMERICA
IS INCLINED TOWARDS FASCISM.

IT HAS A PROPENSITY BY ITS
DOMINANT PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

TO UPHOLD
THE FASCIST POINT OF VIEW.

AMERICAN INDUSTRY IS ESSENTIALLY
A FASCIST INSTITUTION.

IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT,

THE MINUTE
YOU PUNCH THAT TIME CLOCK,

YOU WALK INTO A DICTATORSHIP.

-WE'RE GIVEN NOTIONS ABOUT
THE RESPECTABILITY OF WORK,

AND I REALLY LOOK AT IT
AS BEING PAID SLAVERY.

-WE'RE BROUGHT UP TO BELIEVE
THAT YOU SHALL EARN YOUR LIVING

BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW.

THAT HOLDS PEOPLE BACK.

FREEING PEOPLE FROM DRUDGERY,

REPETITIVE JOBS
WHICH MAKE THEM IGNORANT,

YOU ROB THEM.

IN OUR SOCIETY -- THAT IS,
A RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY --

MACHINES FREE PEOPLE.

YOU SEE, WE CAN'T IMAGINE THAT

'CAUSE WE'VE NEVER KNOWN
THAT KIND OF WORLD.

-IF WE LOOK BACK AT HISTORY,

WE SEE A VERY CLEAR PATTERN
OF MACHINE AUTOMATION

SLOWLY REPLACING HUMAN LABOR,

FROM THE DISAPPEARANCE
OF THE ELEVATOR MAN

TO THE NEAR-FULL AUTOMATION

OF AN AUTOMOBILE
PRODUCTION PLANT,

THE FACT IS,
AS TECHNOLOGY GROWS,

THE NEED FOR HUMANS
IN THE WORKFORCE

WILL CONTINUALLY BE DIMINISHED.

THIS CREATES A SERIOUS CLASH,

WHICH PROVES THE FALSENESS OF
THE MONETARY-BASED LABOR SYSTEM,

FOR HUMAN EMPLOYMENT

IS IN DIRECT COMPETITION
WITH TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.

THEREFORE, GIVEN THE FUNDAMENTAL
PRIORITY OF PROFIT BY INDUSTRY,

PEOPLE THROUGH TIME
WILL BE CONTINUALLY LAID OFF

AND REPLACED BY MACHINE.

-WHEN INDUSTRY
TAKES ON A MACHINE,

INSTEAD OF SHORTENING
THE WORKDAY, THEY DOWNSIZE.

YOU LOSE YOUR JOB.

SO YOU HAVE A RIGHT
TO FEAR MACHINES.

-IN A HIGH-TECHNOLOGY,
RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY,

IT IS CONSERVATIVE TO SAY

THAT ABOUT 90%
OF ALL CURRENT OCCUPATIONS

COULD BE PHASED OUT BY MACHINES,

FREEING HUMANS TO LIVE
THEIR LIFE WITHOUT SERVITUDE,

FOR THIS IS THE POINT
OF TECHNOLOGY ITSELF.

AND THROUGH TIME,
WITH NANOTECHNOLOGY

AND OTHER HIGHLY ADVANCED FORMS
OF SCIENCE,

IT IS NOT FARFETCHED TO SEE HOW
EVEN COMPLEX MEDICAL PROCEDURES

COULD BE PERFORMED BY MACHINES,
AS WELL,

AND BASED ON THE PATTERN,

WITH MUCH HIGHER SUCCESS RATES
THAN HUMANS GET TODAY.

THE PATH IS CLEAR, BUT
OUR MONETARY-BASED STRUCTURE

WHICH REQUIRES LABOR FOR INCOME
BLOCKS THIS PROGRESS,

FOR HUMANS NEED JOBS
IN ORDER TO SURVIVE.

THE BOTTOM LINE
IS THAT THIS SYSTEM MUST GO,

OR WE WILL NEVER BE FREE,

AND TECHNOLOGY
WILL BE CONSTANTLY PARALYZED.

-WHEN YOU HAVE MACHINES
THAT CLEAN OUT SEWERS,

IT FREES A HUMAN BEING
FROM DOING THAT.

SO LOOK AT MACHINES AS
EXTENSIONS OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE.

-FURTHERMORE, MANY OCCUPATIONS
TODAY WILL HAVE SIMPLY NO BASIS

TO EXIST
IN A RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY,

SUCH AS ANYTHING ASSOCIATED
WITH THE MANAGEMENT OF MONEY,

ADVERTISING, ALONG WITH
THE LEGAL SYSTEM ITSELF,

FOR WITHOUT MONEY,

A GREAT MAJORITY OF THE CRIMES
THAT ARE COMMITTED TODAY

WOULD NEVER OCCUR.

VIRTUALLY ALL FORMS OF CRIME

ARE A CONSEQUENCE OF THE
MONETARY SYSTEM EITHER DIRECTLY

OR BY NEUROSES INFLICTED
THROUGH FINANCIAL DEPRIVATION.

THEREFORE, LAWS THEMSELVES
COULD EVENTUALLY BECOME EXTINCT.

-INSTEAD OF PUTTING UP A SIGN --
"DRIVE CAREFULLY.

SLIPPERY WHEN WET,"

PUT ABRASIVE IN THE HIGHWAY
SO IT'S NOT SLIPPERY WHEN WET.

AND IF A PERSON GETS IN A CAR
AND THEY'RE DRUNK

AND A CAR
OSCILLATES A GREAT DEAL,

THERE'S A LITTLE PENDULUM
THAT SWINGS UP AND BACK,

AND THAT'LL PULL THE CAR
OVER TO THE SIDE.

NOT A LAW -- A SOLUTION.

PUT SONAR AND RADAR
ON AUTOMOBILES

SO THEY CAN'T HIT ONE ANOTHER.

MAN-MADE LAWS ARE ATTEMPTS
TO DEAL WITH OCCURRING PROBLEMS.

AND NOT KNOWING HOW TO SOLVE
THEM, THEY MAKE A LAW.

-IN THE UNITED STATES,

THE MOST PRIVATIZED CAPITALIST
COUNTRY ON THE PLANET,

IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE

THAT IT ALSO HAS THE LARGEST
PRISON POPULATION IN THE WORLD,

GROWING EVERY YEAR.

STATISTICALLY,
MOST OF THESE PEOPLE

ARE UNEDUCATED AND COME
FROM POOR, DEPRIVED SOCIETIES.

AND CONTRARY TO PROPAGANDA,

IT IS
THIS ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING

WHICH LURES THEM INTO CRIMINAL
AND VIOLENT BEHAVIOR.

HOWEVER, SOCIETY LOOKS THE OTHER
WAY IN REGARD TO THIS POINT.

THE LEGAL AND PRISON SYSTEMS

ARE JUST MORE EXAMPLES
OF HOW OUR SOCIETY

AVOIDS EXAMINING
THE ROOT CAUSES OF BEHAVIOR.

BILLIONS ARE SPENT EACH YEAR
ON PRISONS AND POLICE,

WHILE ONLY A FRACTION IS SPENT
ON PROGRAMS FOR POVERTY,

WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST
FUNDAMENTAL VARIABLES

RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME
TO BEGIN WITH.

AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE
AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM WHICH PREFERS

AND, IN FACT, CREATES
SCARCITY AND DEPRIVATION,

CRIME WILL NEVER GO AWAY.

-IF PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS
TO THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE

WITHOUT SERVITUDE, DEBT,
BARTER, TRADE,

THEY BEHAVE VERY DIFFERENTLY.

YOU WANT ALL THESE THINGS
AVAILABLE WITHOUT A PRICE TAG.

NOW, THEN,
"YOU GOT TO HAVE A PRICE TAG.

"WELL,
WHAT WILL MOTIVATE PEOPLE?

"A MAN GETS EVERYTHING HE WANTS,

HE'LL JUST LAY AROUND
IN THE SUN."

THIS IS THE MYTH
THEY PERPETUATE.

PEOPLE IN OUR CULTURE
ARE TRAINED

TO BELIEVE THAT THE MONETARY
SYSTEM PRODUCES INCENTIVE.

IF THEY HAVE ACCESS TO THINGS,

WHY SHOULD
THEY WANT TO DO ANYTHING?

THEY WILL LOSE THEIR INCENTIVE.

THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TAUGHT
TO SUPPORT THE MONETARY SYSTEM.

-WHEN YOU TAKE MONEY
OUT OF THE SCENARIO,

THERE WOULD BE
DIFFERENT INCENTIVES --

VERY DIFFERENT INCENTIVES.

-WHEN PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS
TO THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE,

THEIR INCENTIVES CHANGE.

WHAT ABOUT THE MOON
AND THE STARS?

NEW INCENTIVES ARISE.

IF YOU MAKE A PAINTING
THAT YOU ENJOY,

YOU WILL ENJOY GIVING IT
TO OTHER PEOPLE, NOT SELLING IT.

-I THINK MOST OF THE EDUCATION
THAT I'VE SEEN TODAY

IS ESSENTIALLY PRODUCING
A PERSON FOR A JOB.

IT'S VERY SPECIALIZED.

THEY'RE NOT GENERALISTS.

PEOPLE DON'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT
A LOT OF DIFFERENT SUBJECTS.

I DON'T THINK YOU COULD GET
PEOPLE TO GO TO WAR

IF THEY KNEW A LOT
ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS.

I THINK
EDUCATION IS MOSTLY ROTE.

AND THEY'RE NOT TAUGHT
HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.

THEY'RE NOT GIVEN THE TOOLS
EMOTIONALLY

OR WITHIN THEIR OWN FIELD
OF HOW TO DO CRITICAL THINKING.

A RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY --

THE EDUCATION
WOULD BE VERY DIFFERENT.

-OUR SOCIETY'S MAJOR CONCERN
IS MENTAL DEVELOPMENT

AND TO MOTIVATE EACH PERSON
TO THEIR HIGHEST POTENTIAL,

BECAUSE OUR PHILOSOPHY IS,
THE SMARTER PEOPLE ARE,

THE RICHER THE WORLD

'CAUSE EVERYBODY
BECOMES A CONTRIBUTOR.

-THE SMARTER YOUR KIDS ARE,
THE BETTER MY LIFE WILL BE

'CAUSE THEY'LL BE CONTRIBUTING
MORE CONSTRUCTIVELY

TO THE ENVIRONMENT
AND TO MY LIFE,

BECAUSE EVERYTHING
THAT WE DEVISE

WITHIN A RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY
WOULD BE APPLIED TO SOCIETY.

THERE WOULD BE NOTHING
TO HOLD IT BACK.

-PATRIOTISM, WEAPONS,
ARMIES, NAVYS --

ALL THAT IS A SIGN
THAT WE'RE NOT CIVILIZED YET.

KIDS WILL ASK THEIR PARENTS,

"DIDN'T YOU SEE THE NECESSITY
OF THE MACHINES?

"DAD, COULDN'T YOU SEE
THAT WAR WAS INEVITABLE

"WHEN YOU PRODUCE SCARCITY?

ISN'T IT OBVIOUS?"

OF COURSE,
THE KID WILL UNDERSTAND

THAT YOU WERE PINHEADS

RAISED MERELY TO SERVE
THE ESTABLISHED INSTITUTIONS.

WE'RE SUCH AN ABOMINABLE,
SICK SOCIETY

THAT WE WON'T MAKE
THE HISTORY BOOKS.

THEY'LL JUST SAY
THAT LARGE NATIONS

TOOK LAND FROM SMALLER NATIONS,
USED FORCE AND VIOLENCE.

YOU'LL GET HISTORY
TALKED ABOUT AS CORRUPT BEHAVIOR

ALL THE WAY ALONG

UNTIL THE BEGINNING
OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD.

THAT'S WHEN ALL THE NATIONS
WORK TOGETHER.

WORLD UNIFICATION --

WORKING TOWARD COMMON GOOD
FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS

AND WITHOUT ANYONE BEING
SUBSERVIENT TO ANYONE ELSE.

WITHOUT SOCIAL STRATIFICATION,

WHETHER IT BE TECHNICAL ELITISM
OR ANY OTHER KIND OF ELITISM --

ERADICATED
FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

THE STATE DOES NOTHING
'CAUSE THERE IS NO STATE.

[ Echoing ] THERE IS NO STATE.

[ Normal voice ]
THE SYSTEM I ADVOCATE --

A RESOURCE-BASED GLOBAL
ECONOMY -- IS NOT PERFECT.

IT'S JUST A LOT BETTER
THAN WHAT WE HAVE.

WE CAN NEVER ACHIEVE PERFECTION.

-THE SOCIAL VALUES
OF OUR SOCIETY,

WHICH HAS MANIFESTED IN
PERPETUAL WARFARE, CORRUPTION,

OPPRESSIVE LAWS,
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION,

IRRELEVANT SUPERSTITIONS,
ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION,

AND A DESPOTIC,
SOCIALLY INDIFFERENT,

PROFIT-ORIENTED RULING CLASS

IS FUNDAMENTALLY THE RESULT
OF A COLLECTIVE IGNORANCE

OF TWO
OF THE MOST BASIC INSIGHTS

HUMANS CAN HAVE ABOUT REALITY --

THE EMERGENT AND SYMBIOTIC
ASPECTS OF NATURAL LAW.

THE EMERGENT NATURE OF REALITY
IS THAT ALL SYSTEMS,

WHETHER IT IS KNOWLEDGE,
SOCIETY, TECHNOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY,

OR ANY OTHER CREATION

WILL, WHEN UNINHIBITED,
UNDERGO FLUID, PERPETUAL CHANGE.

WHAT WE CONSIDER COMMONPLACE
TODAY,

SUCH AS MODERN COMMUNICATION
AND TRANSPORTATION,

WOULD HAVE BEEN UNIMAGINABLE
IN ANCIENT TIMES.

LIKEWISE, THE FUTURE
WILL CONTAIN TECHNOLOGIES,

REALIZATIONS,
AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES

THAT WE CANNOT EVEN FATHOM
IN THE PRESENT.

WE HAVE GONE FROM ALCHEMY
TO CHEMISTRY,

FROM A GEOCENTRIC UNIVERSE
TO A HELIOCENTRIC,

FROM BELIEVING THAT DEMONS
WERE THE CAUSE OF ILLNESS

TO MODERN MEDICINE.

THIS DEVELOPMENT
SHOWS NO SIGN OF ENDING,

AND IT IS THIS AWARENESS
THAT ALIGNS US

AND LEADS US ON A CONTINUOUS
PATH TO GROWTH AND PROGRESS.

STATIC, EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE
DOES NOT EXIST.

RATHER, IT IS THE INSIGHT

OF THE EMERGENCE OF ALL SYSTEMS
WE MUST RECOGNIZE.

THIS MEANS WE MUST BE OPEN
TO NEW INFORMATION AT ALL TIMES,

EVEN IF IT THREATENS
OUR CURRENT BELIEF SYSTEM

AND, HENCE, IDENTITIES.

SADLY, SOCIETY TODAY
HAS FAILED TO RECOGNIZE THIS,

AND THE ESTABLISHED INSTITUTIONS
CONTINUE TO PARALYZE GROWTH

BY PRESERVING
OUTDATED SOCIAL STRUCTURES.

SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE POPULATION
SUFFERS FROM A FEAR OF CHANGE,

FOR THEIR CONDITIONING
ASSUMES A STATIC IDENTITY,

AND CHALLENGING
ONE'S BELIEF SYSTEM

USUALLY RESULTS IN INSULT
AND APPREHENSION,

FOR BEING WRONG IS ERRONEOUSLY
ASSOCIATED WITH FAILURE,

WHEN, IN FACT, TO BE PROVEN
WRONG SHOULD BE CELEBRATED,

FOR IT IS ELEVATING SOMEONE
TO A NEW LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING,

FURTHERING AWARENESS.

THE FACT IS, THERE IS NO SUCH
THING AS A SMART HUMAN BEING,

FOR IT IS
MERELY A MATTER OF TIME

BEFORE THEIR IDEAS ARE UPDATED,
CHANGED, OR ERADICATED.

AND THIS TENDENCY TO BLINDLY
HOLD ON TO A BELIEF SYSTEM,

SHELTERING IT FROM NEW, POSSIBLY
TRANSFORMING INFORMATION

IS NOTHING LESS THAN A FORM
OF INTELLECTUAL MATERIALISM.

THE MONETARY SYSTEM
PERPETUATES THIS MATERIALISM

NOT ONLY BY
ITS SELF-PRESERVING STRUCTURES,

BUT ALSO THROUGH
THE COUNTLESS NUMBER OF PEOPLE

WHO HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED

INTO BLINDLY AND THOUGHTLESSLY
UPHOLDING THESE STRUCTURES,

THEREFORE BECOMING
SELF-APPOINTED GUARDIANS

OF THE STATUS QUO --

SHEEP WHICH NO LONGER NEED
A SHEEPDOG TO CONTROL THEM,

FOR THEY CONTROL EACH OTHER

BY OSTRACIZING
THOSE WHO STEP OUT OF THE NORM.

THIS TENDENCY TO RESIST CHANGE
AND UPHOLD EXISTING INSTITUTIONS

FOR THE SAKE OF IDENTITY,
COMFORT, POWER, AND PROFIT

IS COMPLETELY UNSUSTAINABLE

AND WILL ONLY PRODUCE FURTHER
IMBALANCE, FRAGMENTATION,

DISTORTION,
AND INVARIABLY DESTRUCTION.

IT'S TIME TO CHANGE.

FROM HUNTERS AND GATHERERS,
TO THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION,

TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION,

THE PATTERN IS CLEAR.

IT IS TIME
FOR A NEW SOCIAL SYSTEM

WHICH REFLECTS THE
UNDERSTANDINGS WE HAVE TODAY.

THE MONETARY SYSTEM IS A PRODUCT

OF A PERIOD OF TIME
WHERE SCARCITY WAS A REALITY.

NOW, WITH THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY,

IT IS NO LONGER RELEVANT
TO SOCIETY,

GONE WITH THE ABERRANT BEHAVIOR
IT MANIFESTS.

LIKEWISE, DOMINANT WORLD VIEWS,
SUCH AS THEISTIC RELIGION,

OPERATE WITH
THE SAME SOCIAL IRRELEVANCY.

ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM,
HINDUISM, AND ALL OF THE OTHERS

EXIST AS BARRIERS
TO PERSONAL AND SOCIAL GROWTH,

FOR EACH GROUP
PERPETUATES A CLOSED WORLD VIEW.

AND THIS FINITE UNDERSTANDING
THAT THEY ACKNOWLEDGE

IS SIMPLY NOT POSSIBLE
IN AN EMERGENT UNIVERSE.

YET RELIGION HAS SUCCEEDED

IN SHUTTING DOWN
THE AWARENESS OF THIS EMERGENCE

BY INSTILLING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL
DISTORTION OF FAITH

UPON ITS FOLLOWERS,

WHERE LOGIC AND NEW INFORMATION
IS REJECTED

IN FAVOR OF TRADITIONALIZED,
OUTDATED BELIEFS.

-THE CONCEPT OF GOD

IS REALLY A METHOD OF ACCOUNTING
FOR THE NATURE OF THINGS.

IN THE EARLY DAYS,
PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW ENOUGH

ABOUT HOW THINGS FORMED,
HOW NATURE WORKED,

SO THEY INVENTED
THEIR OWN LITTLE STORIES.

AND THEY MADE GOD
IN THEIR OWN IMAGE --

A GUY THAT GETS ANGRY
WHEN PEOPLE DON'T BEHAVE RIGHT.

HE CREATES FLOODS
AND EARTHQUAKES,

AND THEY SAY IT'S AN ACT OF GOD.

-A CURSORY GLANCE AT THE
SUPPRESSED HISTORY OF RELIGION

REVEALS THAT EVEN THE
FOUNDATIONAL MYTHS THEMSELVES

ARE EMERGENT CULMINATIONS

DEVELOPED THROUGH INFLUENCE
OVER TIME.

FOR EXAMPLE, A CARDINAL DOCTRINE
OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

IS THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION
OF CHRIST.

THIS NOTION IS SO IMPORTANT
THAT THE BIBLE ITSELF STATES...

YET IT IS VERY DIFFICULT
TO TAKE THIS ACCOUNT LITERALLY,

FOR NOT ONLY
IS THERE NO PRIMARY SOURCE

DENOTING THIS SUPERNATURAL EVENT
IN SECULAR HISTORY,

AWARENESS OF THE ENORMOUS NUMBER
OF PRE-CHRISTIAN SAVIORS

WHO ALSO DIED
AND WERE RESURRECTED

IMMEDIATELY PUTS THE STORY
IN MYTHOLOGICAL TERRITORY

BY ASSOCIATION.

EARLY CHURCH FIGURES,
SUCH AS TERTULLIAN,

WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS
TO BREAK THESE ASSOCIATIONS,

EVEN CLAIMING THAT THE DEVIL

CAUSED THE SIMILARITIES
TO OCCUR,

STATING IN THE 2nd CENTURY...

WHAT IS TRULY SAD, HOWEVER,
IS THAT WHEN WE CEASE THE IDEA

THAT THE STORIES
FROM CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM,

ISLAM, AND ALL THE OTHERS
ARE LITERAL HISTORY

AND ACCEPT THEM
FOR WHAT THEY REALLY ARE,

WHICH ARE
PURELY ALLEGORICAL EXPRESSIONS

DERIVED FROM MANY FAITHS,

WE SEE THAT ALL RELIGIONS
SHARE A COMMON THREAD,

AND IT IS
THIS UNIFYING IMPERATIVE

THAT NEEDS TO BE RECOGNIZED
AND APPRECIATED.

RELIGIOUS BELIEF HAS CAUSED
MORE FRAGMENTATION AND CONFLICT

THAN ANY OTHER IDEOLOGY.

CHRISTIANITY ALONE
HAS 34,000 DIFFERENT SUBGROUPS.

-THE BIBLE IS SUBJECT
TO INTERPRETATION.

WHEN YOU READ IT, YOU SAY,
"I THINK JESUS MEANT THIS.

I THINK JOB MEAN THAT."

"OH, NO.
HE MEANT THIS."

SO YOU HAVE THE LUTHERAN,

THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST,
THE CATHOLIC.

AND A CHURCH DIVIDED
IS NO CHURCH AT ALL.

[ Echoing ] AND A CHURCH DIVIDED
IS NO CHURCH AT ALL.

-AND THIS POINT ON DIVISION,

WHICH IS A TRADEMARK
OF ALL THEISTIC RELIGIONS,

BRINGS US TO OUR SECOND FAILURE
OF AWARENESS --

THE FALSE ASSUMPTION
OF SEPARATION

THROUGH THE REJECTION OF THE
SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP OF LIFE.

APART FROM THE UNDERSTANDING

THAT ALL NATURAL SYSTEMS
ARE EMERGENT

OR ALL NOTIONS OF REALITY

WILL BE CONSTANTLY DEVELOPED,
ALTERED, AND EVEN ERADICATED,

WE MUST ALSO UNDERSTAND
THAT ALL SYSTEMS

ARE, IN FACT, INVENTED FRAGMENTS

MERELY FOR THE SAKE
OF CONVERSATION,

FOR THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS INDEPENDENCE IN NATURE.

THE WHOLE OF NATURE

IS A UNIFIED SYSTEM
OF INTERDEPENDENT VARIABLES,

EACH A CAUSE AND A REACTION,

EXISTING ONLY
AS A CONCENTRATED WHOLE.

-YOU DON'T SEE THE PLUG
CONNECTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT,

SO IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE FREE,
WANDERING AROUND.

TAKE THE OXYGEN AWAY,
WE ALL DIE IMMEDIATELY.

TAKE PLANT LIFE AWAY, WE DIE.

AND WITHOUT THE SUN,
ALL THE PLANTS DIE.

SO WE ARE CONNECTED.

-WE REALLY MUST TAKE
INTO ACCOUNT THE TOTALITY.

THIS ISN'T JUST A HUMAN
EXPERIENCE ON THIS PLANET.

THIS IS A TOTAL EXPERIENCE.

AND WE KNOW WE CAN'T SURVIVE
WITHOUT PLANTS AND ANIMALS.

WE KNOW WE CAN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT
THE FOUR ELEMENTS, YOU KNOW?

AND SO, WHEN ARE WE GONNA REALLY
START TAKING THAT INTO ACCOUNT?

THAT'S WHAT IT IS
TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

SUCCESS DEPENDS ON HOW WELL WE
RELATE TO EVERYTHING AROUND US.

I'M VERY AWARE OF THE FACT
THAT MY GRANDSON

CANNOT POSSIBLY HOPE TO INHERIT

A SUSTAINABLE, PEACEFUL,
STABLE, SOCIALLY JUST WORLD

UNLESS EVERY CHILD TODAY

GROWING UP IN ETHIOPIA
AND INDONESIA AND BOLIVIA

AND PALESTINE AND ISRAEL
ALSO HAS THAT SAME EXPECTATION.

YOU GOT TO TAKE CARE
OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY,

OR YOU'RE GONNA HAVE
SERIOUS PROBLEMS.

AND NOW WE HAVE TO SEE THAT
THE WHOLE WORLD IS THE COMMUNITY

AND WE MUST ALL TAKE CARE
OF EACH OTHER THAT WAY.

AND IT'S NOT JUST A COMMUNITY
OF HUMAN BEINGS.

IT'S A COMMUNITY OF PLANTS
AND ANIMALS AND ELEMENTS.

AND WE REALLY NEED
TO UNDERSTAND THAT.

THAT'S WHAT'S GONNA BRING US
JOY, TOO, AND PLEASURE.

THAT'S WHAT'S MISSING
IN OUR LIVES RIGHT NOW.

WE CAN CALL IT SPIRITUALITY,
BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS,

JOY COMES FROM THAT BLISS
OF CONNECTEDNESS.

THAT'S OUR GOD SPIRIT.

THAT'S THAT SIDE OF OURSELVES
THAT REALLY FEELS IT.

AND YOU CAN FEEL IT
DEEP INSIDE YOU.

IT'S THIS AMAZING,
WONDERFUL FEELING.

AND YOU KNOW IT WHEN YOU GET IT.

YOU DON'T GET IT FROM MONEY.

YOU GET IT FROM CONNECTION.

-NOW, IF THAT ISN'T A HAZARD
TO THIS COUNTRY...

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HOW ARE WE GONNA KEEP BUILDING
NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

[ Laughing ]
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN
TO THE ARMS INDUSTRY

WHEN WE REALIZE WE'RE ALL ONE?

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IT'S GONNA FUCK UP THE ECONOMY!

THE ECONOMY THAT'S FAKE, ANYWAY.

[ Echoing ] THE ECONOMY
THAT'S FAKE, ANYWAY.

THE ECONOMY THAT'S FAKE,
ANYWAY.

THE ECONOMY THAT'S FAKE,
ANYWAY.

THE ECONOMY THAT'S FAKE,
ANYWAY.

[ LAUGHS ]

[ Normal voice ]
WHICH WOULD BE A REAL BUMMER.

I CAN SEE WHY THE GOVERNMENT'S
CRACKING DOWN

ON THE IDEA OF EXPERIENCING
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

-ONCE WE UNDERSTAND

THAT THE INTEGRITY
OF OUR PERSONAL EXISTENCES

ARE COMPLETELY DEPENDENT

ON THE INTEGRITY
OF EVERYTHING ELSE IN OUR WORLD,

WE HAVE TRULY UNDERSTOOD THE
MEANING OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE,

FOR LOVE IS EXTENSIONALITY,

AND SEEING EVERYTHING AS YOU
AND YOU AS EVERYTHING

CAN HAVE NO CONDITIONALITIES,

FOR, IN FACT,
WE ARE ALL EVERYTHING AT ONCE.

-IF IT'S TRUE THAT WE'RE ALL
FROM THE CENTER OF A STAR --

EVERY ATOM IN EACH OF US
FROM THE CENTER OF A STAR --

THEN WE'RE ALL THE SAME THING.

EVEN A COKE MACHINE

OR A CIGARETTE BUTT
IN THE STREET IN BUFFALO

IS MADE OUT OF ATOMS
THAT CAME FROM A STAR.

THEY'VE ALL BEEN RECYCLED
THOUSANDS OF TIMES,

AS HAVE YOU AND I.

AND THEREFORE,
IT'S ONLY ME OUT THERE.

SO WHAT IS THERE
TO BE AFRAID OF?

WHAT IS THERE THAT NEEDS
SOLACE-SEEKING? NOTHING.

THERE'S NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF
BECAUSE ITS ALL US.

THE TROUBLE IS,
WE HAVE BEEN SEPARATED

BY BEING BORN
AND GIVEN A NAME AND AN IDENTITY

AND BEING INDIVIDUATED.

WE'VE BEEN SEPARATED
FROM THE ONENESS,

AND THAT'S WHAT RELIGION
EXPLOITS --

THAT PEOPLE HAVE THIS YEARNING

TO BE PART
OF THE OVERALL ONE AGAIN.

SO THEY EXPLOIT THAT.
THEY CALL IT "GOD."

THEY SAY HE HAS RULES.

AND I THINK THAT'S CRUEL.

I THINK YOU CAN DO IT
ABSENT RELIGION.

-IT'S TIME TO CLAIM THE UNITY

OUR OUTMODED SOCIAL SYSTEMS
HAVE BROKEN APART

AND WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE
A SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL SOCIETY

WHERE EVERYONE IS TAKEN CARE OF
AND EVERYONE IS TRULY FREE.

YOUR PERSONAL BELIEFS, WHATEVER
THEY MAY BE, ARE MEANINGLESS

WHEN IT COMES
TO THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE.

EVERY HUMAN BEING IS BORN NAKED,

NEEDING WARMTH, FOOD,
WATER, SHELTER.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS AUXILIARY.

THEREFORE,
THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE AT HAND

IS THE INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT
OF THE EARTH'S RESOURCES.

THIS CAN NEVER BE ACCOMPLISHED
IN A MONETARY SYSTEM,

FOR THE PURSUIT OF PROFIT
IS THE PURSUIT OF SELF-INTEREST,

AND THEREFORE,
IMBALANCE IS INHERENT.

SIMULTANEOUSLY,
POLITICIANS ARE USELESS,

FOR OUR TRUE PROBLEMS IN LIFE
ARE TECHNICAL, NOT POLITICAL.

FURTHERMORE, IDEOLOGIES
THAT SEPARATE HUMANITY,

SUCH AS RELIGION, NEED STRONG
REFLECTION IN THE COMMUNITY

IN REGARD TO ITS VALUE,
PURPOSE, AND SOCIAL RELEVANCY.

HOPEFULLY, THROUGH TIME,

RELIGION WILL LOSE
ITS MATERIALISM

AND BASIS IN SUPERSTITION

AND MOVE INTO THE USEFUL FIELD
OF PHILOSOPHY.

THE FACT IS,
SOCIETY TODAY IS BACKWARDS,

WITH POLITICIANS

CONSTANTLY TALKING
ABOUT PROTECTION AND SECURITY

RATHER THAN CREATION,
UNITY, AND PROGRESS.

THE U.S. ALONE

NOW SPENDS ABOUT $500 BILLION
ANNUALLY ON DEFENSE.

THAT IS ENOUGH TO SEND EVERY
HIGH-SCHOOL SENIOR IN AMERICA

TO A FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE.

IN THE 1940s,
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

PRODUCED THE FIRST TRUE WEAPON
OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

THIS PROGRAM
EMPLOYED 130,000 PEOPLE

AT AN EXTREME FINANCIAL COST.

IMAGINE WHAT OUR LIFE
WOULD BE LIKE TODAY

IF THAT GROUP OF SCIENTISTS,

INSTEAD OF WORKING
ON A WAY OF KILLING PEOPLE,

WORKED ON A WAY TO CREATE A
SELF-SUSTAINING, ABUNDANT WORLD.

LIFE TODAY
WOULD BE VERY, VERY DIFFERENT

IF THAT WAS THEIR GOAL.

INSTEAD OF WEAPONS
OF MASS DESTRUCTION,

IT IS TIME TO UNLEASH
SOMETHING MUCH MORE POWERFUL --

WEAPONS OF MASS CREATION.

OUR TRUE DIVINITY
IS IN OUR ABILITY TO CREATE,

AND ARMED WITH THE UNDERSTANDING

OF THE SYMBIOTIC CONNECTIONS
OF LIFE

WHILE BEING GUIDED BY
THE EMERGENT NATURE OF REALITY,

THERE IS NOTHING
WE CANNOT DO OR ACCOMPLISH.

OF COURSE,
WE FACE STRONG BARRIERS

IN THE FORM
OF ESTABLISHED POWER STRUCTURES

THAT REFUSE TO CHANGE.

AT THE HEART OF THESE STRUCTURES
IS THE MONETARY SYSTEM.

AS EXPLAINED EARLIER,
THE FRACTIONAL RESERVE POLICY

IS A FORM OF SLAVERY
THROUGH DEBT,

WHERE IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE
FOR SOCIETY TO BE FREE.

IN TURN, FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM
IN THE FORM OF FREE TRADE

USES DEBT TO IMPRISON THE WORLD

AND MANIPULATE COUNTRIES
INTO SUBSERVIENCE

TO A HANDFUL OF LARGE BUSINESS
AND POLITICAL POWERS.

APART FROM
THESE OBVIOUS AMORALITIES,

THE SYSTEM ITSELF
IS BASED ON COMPETITION,

WHICH IMMEDIATELY DESTROYS
THE POSSIBILITY

OF LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATIONS
FOR THE COMMON GOOD,

HENCE PARALYZING ANY ATTEMPT

AT TRUE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY.

THESE FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE
STRUCTURES ARE NOW OBSOLETE,

AND THEY MUST BE OUTGROWN.

OF COURSE,
WE CANNOT BE NAIVE ENOUGH

TO THINK THAT THE BUSINESS
AND THE FINANCIAL ELITE

ARE GOING TO SUBSCRIBE
TO THIS IDEA,

FOR THEY WILL LOSE
POWER AND CONTROL.

THEREFORE, PEACEFULLY, A HIGHLY
STRATEGIC ACTION MUST BE TAKEN.

THE MOST POWERFUL COURSE
OF ACTION IS SIMPLE --

WE HAVE TO ALTER OUR BEHAVIOR

TO FORCE THE POWER STRUCTURE
TO THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

WE MUST STOP SUPPORTING
THE SYSTEM.

THE ONLY WAY
THE ESTABLISHMENT WILL CHANGE

IS BY OUR REFUSAL
TO PARTICIPATE,

WHILE CONTINUOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGING

ITS ENDLESS FLAWS
AND CORRUPTIONS.

-THEY'RE NOT GONNA GIVE UP
THE MONETARY SYSTEM

BECAUSE OF OUR DESIGNS
OR WHAT WE RECOMMEND.

THE SYSTEM HAS TO FAIL,

AND PEOPLE
HAVE TO LOSE CONFIDENCE

IN THEIR ELECTED LEADERS.

THAT WILL BE
A MAJOR TURNING POINT,

IF THE VENUS PROJECT IS OFFERED
AS A POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE.

IF NOT, I FEAR THE CONSEQUENCES.

THE TRENDS NOW INDICATE THAT
OUR COUNTRY IS GOING BANKRUPT.

THE PROBABILITY IS,

OUR COUNTRY MOVES
TOWARD A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

TO PREVENT RIOTS
AND COMPLETE SOCIAL BREAKDOWN.

ONCE THE U.S. BREAKS DOWN,

ALL THE OTHER CULTURES
WILL UNDERGO SIMILAR THINGS.

-AS OF NOW,
THE WORLD FINANCIAL SYSTEM

IS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE
DUE TO ITS OWN SHORTCOMINGS.

THE COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY

STATED IN 2003 THAT THE INTEREST
ON THE U.S. NATIONAL DEBT

WILL NOT BE AFFORDABLE
IN LESS THAN 10 YEARS.

THIS THEORETICALLY MEANS TOTAL
BANKRUPTCY FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY,

AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
FOR THE WORLD ARE IMMENSE.

IN TURN, THE FRACTIONAL-RESERVE-
BASED MONETARY SYSTEM

IS REACHING ITS THEORETICAL
LIMITS OF EXPANSION,

AND THE BANKING FAILURES YOU ARE
SEEING ARE JUST THE BEGINNING.

THIS IS WHY INFLATION
IS SKYROCKETING,

ALL DEBT IS AT RECORD LEVELS,

AND THE GOVERNMENT AND FED

ARE HEMORRHAGING NEW MONEY
TO BAIL OUT THE CORRUPT SYSTEM,

FOR THE ONLY WAY
TO KEEP THE BANKS GOING

IS BY MAKING MORE MONEY.

THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE MORE MONEY

IS TO CREATE
MORE DEBT AND INFLATION.

IT IS SIMPLY A MATTER OF TIME
BEFORE THE TABLES TURN,

AND THERE IS NO ONE
WILLING TO TAKE NEW LOANS,

WHILE DEFAULTS GROW

AS PEOPLE ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD
THEIR CURRENT LOANS.

THEN, THE EXPANSION OF MONEY
WILL STOP,

AND CONTRACTION WILL BEGIN
ON A SCALE NEVER BEFORE SEEN,

ENDING
A CENTURY-LONG PYRAMID SCHEME.

THIS HAS ALREADY BEGUN.

THEREFORE, WE NEED TO EXPOSE
THIS FINANCIAL FAILURE

FOR WHAT IT IS, USING THIS
WEAKNESS TO OUR ADVANTAGE.

HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS.

EXPOSE THE BANKING FRAUD.

CITIBANK, J.P. MORGAN CHASE,
AND BANK OF AMERICA

ARE THE MOST POWERFUL
CONTROLLERS

WITHIN THE CORRUPT
FEDERAL-RESERVE SYSTEM.

IT'S TIME TO BOYCOTT
THESE INSTITUTIONS.

IF YOU HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT OR
A CREDIT CARD WITH ANY OF THEM,

MOVE YOUR MONEY TO ANOTHER BANK.

IF YOU HAVE A MORTGAGE,
REFINANCE WITH ANOTHER BANK.

IF YOU OWN THEIR STOCK, SELL IT.

IF YOU WORK FOR THEM, QUIT.

THIS GESTURE WILL EXPRESS
CONTEMPT FOR THE TRUE POWERS

BEHIND
THE PRIVATE BANKING CARTEL

KNOWN AS THE FEDERAL RESERVE

AND CREATE AWARENESS

ABOUT THE FRAUD
OF THE BANKING SYSTEM ITSELF.

TWO -- TURN OFF THE TV NEWS.

VISIT THE EMERGING INDEPENDENT
NEWS AGENCIES ON THE INTERNET

FOR YOUR INFORMATION.

CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX,
AND ALL THE OTHERS

PRESENT ALL NEWS PRE-FILTERED
TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO.

WITH FOUR CORPORATIONS
OWNING ALL MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS,

OBJECTIVE INFORMATION
IS IMPOSSIBLE.

THIS IS THE TRUE BEAUTY
OF THE INTERNET,

AND THE ESTABLISHMENT
HAS BEEN LOSING CONTROL

BECAUSE OF THIS FREE FLOW
OF INFORMATION.

WE MUST PROTECT THE INTERNET
AT ALL TIMES

AS IT IS TRULY OUR SAVIOR
RIGHT NOW.

THREE -- DON'T EVER ALLOW
YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY,

OR ANYONE YOU KNOW
TO EVER JOIN THE MILITARY.

THIS IS AN OBSOLETE INSTITUTION
NOW USED EXCLUSIVELY

FOR MAINTAINING AN ESTABLISHMENT
THAT IS NO LONGER RELEVANT.

U.S. SOLDIERS IN IRAQ
WORK FOR U.S. CORPORATIONS,

NOT THE PEOPLE.

PROPAGANDA FORCES US TO BELIEVE
THAT WAR IS NATURAL

AND THE MILITARY
IS AN HONORABLE INSTITUTION.

WELL, IF WAR IS NATURAL,

WHY ARE THERE 18 SUICIDES
EVERY SINGLE DAY

BY AMERICAN VETERANS WHO HAVE
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER?

IF OUR MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN
ARE SO HONORED,

WHY IS IT THAT 25% OF
THE AMERICAN HOMELESS POPULATION

ARE VETERANS?

FOUR -- STOP SUPPORTING
THE ENERGY COMPANIES.

IF YOU LIVE IN A DETACHED HOUSE,
GET OFF THE GRID.

INVESTIGATE EVERY MEANS

OF MAKING YOUR HOME
SELF-SUSTAINABLE

WITH CLEAN ENERGY.

SOLAR, WIND,
AND OTHER RENEWABLE ENERGIES

ARE NOW
AFFORDABLE CONSUMER REALITIES.

AND CONSIDERING
THE NEVER-ENDING RISING COST

OF TRADITIONAL ENERGIES,

IT WILL LIKELY BE
A CHEAPER INVESTMENT OVER TIME.

IF YOU DRIVE,
GET THE SMALLEST CAR YOU CAN

AND CONSIDER USING ONE OF
THE MANY CONVERSION TECHNOLOGIES

THAT CAN ENABLE YOUR CAR
TO BE A HYBRID, ELECTRIC,

OR RUN ON ANYTHING
OTHER THAN ESTABLISHMENT FUELS.

FIVE --
REJECT THE POLITICAL SYSTEM.

THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY IS
AN INSULT TO OUR INTELLIGENCE.

IN A MONETARY SYSTEM,

THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS A TRUE DEMOCRACY,

AND THERE NEVER WAS.

WE HAVE TWO POLITICAL PARTIES

OWNED BY THE SAME SET
OF CORPORATE LOBBYISTS.

THEY ARE PLACED IN THEIR
POSITIONS BY THE CORPORATIONS

WITH POPULARITY ARTIFICIALLY
PROJECTED BY THEIR MEDIA.

IN A SYSTEM
OF INHERENT CORRUPTION,

THE CHANGE OF PERSONNEL
EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS

HAS VERY LITTLE RELEVANCE.

INSTEAD OF PRETENDING

THAT THE POLITICAL GAME
HAS ANY TRUE MEANING,

FOCUS YOUR ENERGY ON HOW
TO TRANSCEND THIS FAILED SYSTEM.

AND, SIX -- JOIN THE MOVEMENT.

GO TO thezeitgeistmovement.com

AND HELP US CREATE THE LARGEST
MASS MOVEMENT FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.

WE MUST MOBILIZE
AND EDUCATE EVERYONE

ABOUT THE INHERENT CORRUPTION
OF OUR CURRENT WORLD SYSTEM,

ALONG WITH THE ONLY TRUE
SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION --

DECLARING ALL THE NATURAL
RESOURCES ON THE PLANET

AS COMMON HERITAGE
TO ALL PEOPLE,

WHILE INFORMING EVERYONE AS
TO THE TRUE STATE OF TECHNOLOGY

AND HOW WE CAN ALL BE FREE
IF THE WORLD WORKS TOGETHER

RATHER THAN FIGHTS.

THE CHOICE LIES WITH YOU.

YOU CAN CONTINUE TO BE A SLAVE
TO THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM

AND WATCH THE CONTINUOUS WARS,
DEPRESSIONS, AND INJUSTICE

ACROSS THE GLOBE

WHILE PLACATING YOURSELF

WITH VAIN ENTERTAINMENT
AND MATERIALISTIC GARBAGE,

OR YOU CAN FOCUS YOUR ENERGY

ON TRUE, MEANINGFUL,
LASTING, HOLISTIC CHANGE

WHICH ACTUALLY HAS
THE REALISTIC ABILITY

TO SUPPORT AND FREE ALL HUMANS
WITH NO ONE LEFT BEHIND.

BUT IN THE END,

THE MOST RELEVANT CHANGE
MUST OCCUR FIRST INSIDE OF YOU.

THE REAL REVOLUTION IS
THE REVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS,

AND EACH ONE OF US

FIRST NEEDS TO ELIMINATE THE
DIVISIONARY, MATERIALISTIC NOISE

WE HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED
TO THINK IS TRUE

WHILE DISCOVERING, AMPLIFYING,
AND ALIGNING WITH THE SIGNAL

COMING FROM
OUR TRUE EMPIRICAL ONENESS.

IT IS UP TO YOU.

-WHAT WE ARE TRYING IN ALL
THESE DISCUSSIONS AND TALKS HERE

IS TO SEE IF WE CANNOT RADICALLY
BRING ABOUT A TRANSFORMATION

OF THE MIND.

NOT ACCEPT THINGS AS THEY ARE...

...BUT TO UNDERSTAND IT,
TO GO INTO IT, TO EXAMINE IT.

GIVE YOUR HEART AND YOUR MIND
WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE

TO FIND OUT
THE WAY OF LIVING DIFFERENTLY.

BUT THAT DEPENDS ON YOU
AND NOT SOMEBODY ELSE...

BECAUSE IN THIS,
THERE'S NO TEACHER, NO PUPIL.

THERE'S NO LEADER.

THERE'S NO GURU.

THERE'S NO MASTER, NO SAVIOR.

YOU YOURSELF
ARE THE TEACHER AND THE PUPIL.

YOU'RE THE MASTER.
YOU ARE THE GURU.

YOU ARE THE LEADER.

YOU ARE EVERYTHING.

AND...

TO UNDERSTAND
IS TO TRANSFORM WHAT IS.

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