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You know, there's been a lot
of talk about Abraham Lincoln.
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But the president we need today
is not Abraham Lincoln.
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The president we need
today is Thomas Jefferson.
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He said that we needed
a revolution every generation.
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Thomas Jefferson said
you have to be ready
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in order to preserve
the vitality
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of your liberty
and your freedom
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to defend it not by
overthrowing anything else
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except for what you
have been holding in your head
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that may not be
applicable anymore.
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We've gotten very lazy.
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We're many generations overdue
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for a revolution
in our thinking.
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I'm not talking about
blood and violence;
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although I'm afraid
that's already happening.
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I'm talking about a revolution
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that's probably
the hardest kind,
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the kind that takes place
inside the human soul
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and the human mind,
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to be able
to tear everything down,
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throw everything out,
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and start with a completely
fresh piece of paper
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and say, "Okay, how do we
solve this problem?"
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Can you talk to me
a little bit, like...
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I mean, who are you?
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Listen, this is not a plan
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that would make sense to anybody
except God.
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You know, I gave up trying to
figure that out a long time ago.
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I was born into a family
deeply connected
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to the U.S.
intelligence community.
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My mother had been
a cryptanalyst
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at the Army Security Agency
and NSA in World War II.
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Her work product went
to the President Roosevelt
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and to Secretary of War Stimson
and Cordell Hull at State.
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My father was
an Air Force aviator
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who went to work
for Martin Marietta
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on contracts for the CIA
and the Air Force,
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namely the Titan IIIC
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which put out the CIA's
Keyhole spy satellites.
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At age 19 when I was interning
for LAPD,
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I was pulled into
the chief's office
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because somebody discovered
I had a Q clearance.
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I didn't know anything about it.
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I went home,
and I asked Dad he said,
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"Yeah, because you're my son,
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"and, you know,
they have to do that
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because I might leave
my briefcase open."
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But a Q was a secret
compartmentalized clearance
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above top secret.
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I went through UCLA
as a Republican
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who didn't like anything
about the war in Vietnam,
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who didn't like anything
about government
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with this naive belief that,
you know,
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you can get inside the system
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and change it from the inside.
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I became an L.A. policeman,
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worked in South Central
Los Angeles in The Jungle,
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and the CIA tried unofficially
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to recruit me
into an operation
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where they were smuggling drugs
into the country
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back in 1976, 1977,
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and I wouldn't get involved
in that.
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You know, I thought,
"Well, jeez, this must be
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"an isolated incident
of corruption.
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"This must be something
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"that everybody is gonna
want to correct right away.
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My God."
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And of course
that was a mistake.
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Basically my life disintegrated
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because I was betrayed
by a woman
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who worked for CIA,
who was my fianc�e,
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and when I said I wouldn't
get involved in drugs,
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she disappeared, and people
started shooting at me,
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and then it was
a matter of saving my life,
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and the tools which
I acquired to save my life then,
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which were, you know,
writing letters to congressmen,
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getting on the record,
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trying to get
newspaper stories written,
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those were survival skills,
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but it was also a part
of learning how things worked.
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I was a mapmaker if you will,
a cartographer,
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going out to try and map
how the world really worked
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as opposed to the way
we were told it worked.
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And the map that we have made
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has proved so startlingly
accurate over ten years
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whether they had to do
with gold prices
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or geopolitical developments
or economic events.
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The only thing that amazes me
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is the speed with which things
are falling apart,
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and that message now
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is the single most
important thing in my life.
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It's the only thing in my life,
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well, except for rock and roll
music, good music,
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playing with my dog,
and long walks on the beach.
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Rags, come here.
Rags, come here.
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I first became focused
on energy issues in late 2001,
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just maybe a month or two
after 9/11.
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I was contacted by a geologist,
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a brilliant guy named
Dale Allen Pfeiffer,
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who introduced me to the concept
of peak oil
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and the basic issues
about energy
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and helped me to realize
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that there was a great deal
of evidence in 2001,
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not only that peak oil
was very real
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but that government agencies
were acting
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and responding
as if it was very real.
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All plastic is oil.
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Most paints, all pesticides
are made from oil.
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Everything from toothpaste to
tooth brushes is made from oil.
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There are seven gallons of oil
in every tire.
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There is nothing anywhere
in any combination
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that will replace the edifice
built by fossil fuels.
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Nothing.
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Peak oil is probably now
very easy to explain,
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much easier
than it was a long time ago.
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People have felt what
$147 a barrel oil feels like.
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Essentially peak oil is like if
you know what a bell curve is.
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Goes up, comes down.
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Peak oil is the point
of oil production
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when you're at the top
of the bell curve.
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And essentially
what that means is,
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you've used up
half of the resource.
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In the case of oil or
any other substance like that,
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no matter how much money
you throw at it,
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you're never going
to be able to increase
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oil production above
where it was at peak.
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As of 2008, the International
Energy Agency has admitted
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that there is a global 9%
decline rate in oil production.
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That's the equivalent of
about 8 million barrels a day.
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There is no way, having plucked
all the low-hanging fruit
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and found the big reservoirs
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that we are gonna able
to offset a 9% decline rate.
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From a detective's standpoint,
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if you are trying
to assemble a case, you know,
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the multidimensional aspects
of a case...
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means, motive, opportunity...
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to understand what kind of force
drives events,
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peak oil was almost
with the stroke
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of, like,
a diamond cutter's knife
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the single piece which started
to make
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everything resonate
and make sense together.
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An economy
that runs on petroleum,
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some 20 million barrels of it
a day.
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You will recall that when the
Bush administration took office
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in January of 2001,
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a National Energy
Policy Development Group,
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the NEPDG, was formed
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and placed under
the exclusive, private,
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absolute control
of Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Its records were kept a secret,
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its minutes were kept a secret,
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seven pages were released
as a result of two lawsuits,
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and it clearly shows that that
task force was looking saying,
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"How much oil is there?
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Where is it?
Who owns it?"
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They knew that this was coming
for a long time.
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It has been known
that this event,
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this collapse,
this crash, was coming.
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Who they were,
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we can't even get information
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as to who was involved
and what they were doing.
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First of all, if you think
there might be oil someplace,
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then what you do is,
you go drill a test well.
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Then what you have to do
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is to take that one well
in the center,
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and then you drill a series
of appraisal wells
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around that well
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to determine where the oil field
might go.
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You don't know how much oil
you're gonna get,
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how deep it is, what kind of oil
it's gonna to be.
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There are many different grades
of oils,
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a lot of which
are more expensive to refine.
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So all of that has
to do with how long it takes
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to make something produce,
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how much energy do you get back
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for how much energy
you invested.
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When oil was seeping out
of the ground in Pennsylvania,
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you got a return of,
I don't know, 200 to 1.
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When you have to go offshore,
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to deep water drilling
in 15,000 feet of water
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and your first well costs
$150 million to build,
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all that's energy that's being
invested to get energy,
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and the moment you start
burning more energy
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to get a barrel of oil out
of the ground than it's worth,
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forget about it.
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The world's been
thoroughly explored
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over the last 120 years.
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There's no major
oil finds left.
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As a matter of fact,
no field the size of Ghawar,
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the largest field
in Saudi Arabia,
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has ever been discovered since.
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Saudi Arabia has 25%
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of the known oil reserves
on the planet.
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25%.
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Why, if Saudi Arabia has all
these untapped reserves on shore
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are they moving heavily
into offshore drilling?
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Now, if it's 5, 10, 50 times
more expensive
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to drill offshore
than on land,
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doesn't that tell you
that Saudi Arabia
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knows they've got
no more oil to find?
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It's axiomatic that if
Saudi Arabia has passed its peak
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and is in decline,
the whole planet is
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just because of the size
of the reserves that are there.
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Iraq is oil
that's not only accessible,
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it's right close
to the Persian Gulf,
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which means it's
a short distance to ships.
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They can put the pipelines.
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They can get that into
the global supply stream
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as everything else declines.
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And Iraq was all about the oil.
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A lot of people have admitted
that, and like, duh.
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11 days after 9/11,
when there was no clear evidence
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that Saddam Hussein had anything
to do with 9/11...
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of course, he didn't...
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the plans were started
to invade Iraq, of course.
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That was the objective,
get control of that oil.
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Because Saddam Hussein
had been talking about
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pricing his oil in Euros,
taking it away from the dollar.
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We got in there.
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We restructured everything.
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We put in a friendly government
using the U.S. dollar,
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and we assured
the oil companies
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their "fair access"
and fair share of Iraqi oil.
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International oil companies
into Iraqi oil fields
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We have no intention
of leaving Iraq.
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We're never gonna
leave Iraq.
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Going back to 2004,
we started building the largest,
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most permanent military bases,
three of them, in the world,
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plus the largest embassy
compound that's ever been built.
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We built an embassy compound
in Baghdad
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that's bigger than Vatican City.
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That's not a temporary deal.
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Nobody is gonna take
that oil.
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We are sitting on it.
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But there is not enough oil
in Iraq to change anything.
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Iraq probably has around
90 billion barrels
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of recoverable oil.
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That sounds like a lot of oil.
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But when you consider that in
2008 the world was consuming
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85 million barrels a day,
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that means
a billion barrels of oil
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only last for about 111/2 days,
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so that ain't that much oil.
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That's only the first
of the good things
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that will come to Iraq,
thanks to oil.
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They knew exactly
what was coming.
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That's what's in
the National Energy Policy
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Development Group report
that's been classified,
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because if that report
were declassified,
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we would be building scaffolds
to hang Dick Cheney
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and everybody in that
administration tomorrow.
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Let's assume
just for the sake of discussion
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that there's 600 billion barrels
in the Arctic.
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First of all, it happens
to be under the polar ice cap.
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That's a problem.
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The polar ice cap happens to be
on, what, 10,000,
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15,000 feet water.
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The problem with the polar ice
cap is, it floats; it moves.
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So you can't drill a well
on Tuesday
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and expect it to be in
the same place on Thursday.
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That's why a lot of conservative
think tanks and oil companies
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are cheering the melting
of the polar ice caps.
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Developing this tiny section
of ANWR,
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could eventually yield up
to a million...
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If there is oil in ANWR
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there's no more than about
a six-month supply
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for the entire United States.
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There are no pipelines
across a thousand miles
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of tundra that's melting due
to global warming,
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which means you can't sink pipes
to support
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a pipeline in tundra
that's turned to mud.
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There's no tanker routes,
the wells aren't drilled,
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and yet we are spending our
future as if that oil is there.
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We got to drop all this lying
right now.
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We don't need transparency
about anything
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other than about
how much oil is really left,
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because we don't know.
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Oil is a commodity;
it's an asset.
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You make loans based upon
what's in the ground,
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so you have all these
accounting terms:
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possible reserves,
proven reserves,
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ultimately recoverable reserves,
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verified reserves, estimated...
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But actual reserve estimates
are state secrets.
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The Saudis don't dare announce
that they've passed
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their peak of oil production.
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Why?
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They have a very
restive population
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that have been sold
an expectation
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of a rising standard of living,
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and the moment Saudi Arabia
acknowledges it's past peak,
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it may well have a revolution.
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Now, what happens if there's
a revolution in Saudi Arabia
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with 25% of the world's
known oil?
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Where is that oil going
to get replaced from?
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It can't be.
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Very complex problem.
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It's a very complex situation.
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Just start working now,
otherwise we won't have time.
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We're gonna be out
of oil within a few years.
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In doing this sort of pulling
archival footage for this film,
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I found at least ten examples
of people in the late '70s
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talking about,
this is the end of oil.
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This is, like,
end of a way of life,
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we are hitting a new era.
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This situation is destined
to continue.
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People look at that footage,
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and I think they can feel
that it's somewhat alarmist,
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given that we were able
to continue
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our way of life
for another 30, 35 years.
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Do you see any parallels
between that time and now?
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The '70s was really
a critical decade.
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In the '70s,
Marion King Hubbard,
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the original prophet
of peak oil,
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in late 1949 he did the math
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and said U.S. domestic oil
production will peak in 1970.
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So that's not some feat
of Nostradamus
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communicating with some entity.
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It's math; it's science;
it's simple.
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But in the '70s, M. King Hubbard
testified before Congress.
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That was 1974.
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In 1976,
President Jimmy Carter said,
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"Man, we cannot use as much
energy as we have been using."
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To use energy
more efficiently.
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That's when solar panels
went up.
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That's when he start... he knew.
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They have known in Washington.
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I have...
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I have published on my website,
as have others,
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declassified CIA documents
from 1976
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showing that CIA was perfectly
aware of peak oil.
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In those days, of course,
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when the situation appeared
to be normal,
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when people had jobs,
they had vacations,
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they had credit cards,
they had credit lines,
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everybody is talking about
growth, growth, growth,
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buy, buy, buy,
spend, consume, consume,
338
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and everything seemed
to be working,
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yeah, we were called alarmists.
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We don't live
in that world anymore.
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Americans were on the way
to owning millions of cars.
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800 million internal
combustion-powered vehicles
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on the planet.
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They all run on oil.
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It takes uncounted barrels
of oil
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to make those cars and engines
in the first place,
347
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and you cannot plug
any new technology
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into an internal combustion
powered engine.
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With seven gallons of oil
in every tire,
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nobody will ever make
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800 million new
internal combustion anything
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because there ain't gonna be
enough oil.
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Ethanol is an absolute...
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joke.
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First of all, a very brilliant
scientist, David Pimentel,
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took the concept of net energy,
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how much energy do you invest
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versus how much
do you get in return,
359
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and he concluded
about a decade ago, I guess,
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that it takes more energy
to make ethanol
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than you get from burning it,
which is absolute stupidity.
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Because you drive the
oil-powered machines, etcetera,
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you irrigate,
you use the fertilizers,
364
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you're burning all that oil
and natural gas to grow it.
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Then you make steam which is...
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which is more
hydrocarbon energy,
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you add more chemicals,
368
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and you come up with ethanol,
which you can put in a car.
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Now, the Bush administration
had announced a goal
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of having 15% of all fuel
in the United States
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made from ethanol, I think,
by the year 2015.
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They forgot to tell you that
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that would take all the arable
land used to grow corn to do it.
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Canadian tar sands is an oil.
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it is a very, very thick,
sticky, obnoxious substance
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that's mixed in with sand
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at levels 200, 300, 400,
500 feet in layers
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beneath the soil.
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This is in Alberta.
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And they literally strip mine
thousands of tons a day.
381
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They put them in these huge,
oil-powered dump trucks
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and drive them to a place
where they then wash the sand.
383
00:18:53,664 --> 00:18:57,656
They take millions and billions
of gallons of fresh water,
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which we're running
out of everywhere,
385
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and they boil it
by burning natural gas.
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00:19:02,572 --> 00:19:05,837
There is not
a possibility anywhere
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00:19:05,876 --> 00:19:07,867
that Canadian tar sand's
production
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will exceed maybe 3 million,
3.5 million barrels a day.
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The first thing
that the uneducated mind
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00:19:15,651 --> 00:19:17,141
that's in denial says,
391
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"Well, what about hydrogen?
392
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Can't we make electric cars?"
393
00:19:19,755 --> 00:19:21,245
Then I have to bring them back
to the fact
394
00:19:21,290 --> 00:19:23,257
that there's seven gallons
of oil in every tire,
395
00:19:23,291 --> 00:19:26,783
that there are thousands
of gallons of oil in every car,
396
00:19:26,828 --> 00:19:29,490
in the plastics, the paints,
the resins, everything.
397
00:19:29,531 --> 00:19:30,725
All of that is made by oil.
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The oil that's used
to manufacture the car
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00:19:32,433 --> 00:19:35,129
and ship it around, to heat
the metals, etcetera, etcetera.
400
00:19:35,169 --> 00:19:39,298
There will never be 800 million
electric powered vehicles,
401
00:19:39,339 --> 00:19:43,275
and electricity is not
an energy source.
402
00:19:43,310 --> 00:19:46,336
Electricity is generated
by burning
403
00:19:46,380 --> 00:19:49,349
or using some other kind
of energy.
404
00:19:56,022 --> 00:20:00,254
Today freedom and power
are woven together.
405
00:20:00,293 --> 00:20:04,285
The invisible battalions
of electric power...
406
00:20:07,365 --> 00:20:08,889
It's clear that electricity
407
00:20:08,934 --> 00:20:11,129
is the key
to industrial civilization
408
00:20:11,169 --> 00:20:14,070
in that it powers
our refrigeration.
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00:20:14,105 --> 00:20:16,665
It runs the water pumps
that pump water out
410
00:20:16,708 --> 00:20:19,267
of the New York subway
system every day.
411
00:20:19,310 --> 00:20:21,642
It allows us
to commute electronically,
412
00:20:21,679 --> 00:20:23,442
charge our cell phone batteries,
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00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,110
preserve food,
run operating rooms, etcetera.
414
00:20:30,955 --> 00:20:35,288
The subject
of alternative energies.
415
00:20:38,461 --> 00:20:43,091
There is no such thing
as clean coal,
416
00:20:43,132 --> 00:20:45,623
and there never ever will be.
417
00:20:45,668 --> 00:20:47,294
Why?
418
00:20:47,336 --> 00:20:50,066
Carbon sequestration
is enormously expensive.
419
00:20:50,105 --> 00:20:52,539
What it says essentially is,
you capture the CO2
420
00:20:52,574 --> 00:20:55,236
and any other
greenhouse gases emitted
421
00:20:55,277 --> 00:20:57,040
in the burning of the coal,
422
00:20:57,079 --> 00:21:01,310
you exert enormous amounts
of energy to compress it,
423
00:21:01,349 --> 00:21:04,978
then you move it over
enormously long distances,
424
00:21:05,019 --> 00:21:09,479
and you pump it into some
airtight chamber in the ground
425
00:21:09,523 --> 00:21:12,356
where somebody will figure out
with technology
426
00:21:12,393 --> 00:21:14,189
what to do with
the greenhouse gas in 10,000
427
00:21:14,227 --> 00:21:15,660
or 15,000 thousand years.
428
00:21:17,364 --> 00:21:19,559
Nuclear process
requires something
429
00:21:19,599 --> 00:21:21,760
like 10 to 13 years
of incubation
430
00:21:21,801 --> 00:21:25,259
to get the permitting done,
all the regulations satisfied,
431
00:21:25,305 --> 00:21:27,636
and the construction
of nuclear power plants
432
00:21:27,673 --> 00:21:30,005
is one of the most
energy-intensive processes
433
00:21:30,042 --> 00:21:31,270
in the world.
434
00:21:31,310 --> 00:21:33,244
The steel, the lead containment,
435
00:21:33,278 --> 00:21:36,805
the enrichment of uranium
is a horribly intensive process.
436
00:21:36,849 --> 00:21:38,817
You just don't throw
a rock of uranium in
437
00:21:38,851 --> 00:21:40,375
and start making nuclear energy.
438
00:21:40,419 --> 00:21:41,407
Can't do that.
439
00:21:42,954 --> 00:21:44,945
The first and obvious
problem with tidal energy is,
440
00:21:44,989 --> 00:21:49,688
it has to be generated
or collected near a coastline.
441
00:21:49,727 --> 00:21:52,218
Salt water
is extremely corrosive.
442
00:21:52,263 --> 00:21:57,256
There's an enormous energy cost
in manufacturing the machines.
443
00:21:57,300 --> 00:21:59,768
There are only two
alternative energies
444
00:21:59,803 --> 00:22:03,398
which can really have
an immediate impact,
445
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,431
an immediate benefit.
446
00:22:08,578 --> 00:22:11,569
Now, the problem with plans
like enormous wind farms
447
00:22:11,614 --> 00:22:14,981
in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado,
448
00:22:15,017 --> 00:22:16,644
the fundamental law
with electricity is,
449
00:22:16,686 --> 00:22:20,952
is that it's drawn off
right where it's used first.
450
00:22:20,990 --> 00:22:23,958
Yes, you can transmit
electricity over long distances,
451
00:22:23,992 --> 00:22:25,823
but people don't think
about the energy
452
00:22:25,860 --> 00:22:27,122
that goes into transformers,
453
00:22:27,162 --> 00:22:29,289
and how much copper
is in power lines,
454
00:22:29,330 --> 00:22:32,163
and all the maintenance
that has to go to that grid.
455
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,761
So when you see really
ridiculous commercials
456
00:22:35,804 --> 00:22:40,934
that say we could have a solar
array 96 miles in the desert,
457
00:22:40,974 --> 00:22:42,635
they don't even think about
the fact
458
00:22:42,676 --> 00:22:45,042
that that electricity is going
to get used in California
459
00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:46,944
before it goes any place else.
460
00:22:51,150 --> 00:22:52,913
Just, you know,
if you saw this movie
461
00:22:52,952 --> 00:22:54,852
and you didn't know
who you were,
462
00:22:54,887 --> 00:22:56,286
and you wanted...
463
00:22:56,322 --> 00:22:58,187
you were just curious
what your credentials are
464
00:22:58,224 --> 00:23:02,957
in terms of understanding
this information.
465
00:23:07,466 --> 00:23:11,664
I have a bachelors degree
in political science
466
00:23:11,703 --> 00:23:17,164
with honors from UCLA, 1973.
467
00:23:17,209 --> 00:23:21,838
Graduate of the Los Angeles
Police Academy, Valedictorian,
468
00:23:21,879 --> 00:23:24,814
class of 1173,
469
00:23:24,849 --> 00:23:29,718
was sent to do DEA Narcotics
Enforcement School by LAPD.
470
00:23:29,754 --> 00:23:33,348
I have 30 years of experience
as an investigative journalist.
471
00:23:33,389 --> 00:23:38,122
I've broken major scandals
that have had national impact.
472
00:23:38,161 --> 00:23:41,187
Of course, I got to know
many members of Congress.
473
00:23:41,231 --> 00:23:44,257
I had been trying to testify
for a long time,
474
00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:46,733
and actually I have
never testified in Congress.
475
00:23:46,769 --> 00:23:48,100
I did, at the request of
476
00:23:48,137 --> 00:23:49,934
the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence,
477
00:23:49,972 --> 00:23:51,564
submit written testimony,
478
00:23:51,607 --> 00:23:53,336
but after they read
the written testimony
479
00:23:53,375 --> 00:23:54,399
that I was going to submit,
480
00:23:54,443 --> 00:23:56,377
I never got a call to testify.
481
00:23:56,411 --> 00:23:57,878
I have written two books,
482
00:23:57,913 --> 00:24:00,779
one of which is in the
Harvard Business School library.
483
00:24:00,815 --> 00:24:04,410
I've lectured at universities
all over the country
484
00:24:04,452 --> 00:24:06,386
and in many countries.
485
00:24:06,420 --> 00:24:07,887
People wonder, you know,
486
00:24:07,922 --> 00:24:11,323
how this guy with
a bachelors degree from UCLA
487
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:12,553
came to know all this shit.
488
00:24:12,593 --> 00:24:16,892
Well, this comes from 30 years
of learning
489
00:24:16,930 --> 00:24:20,024
how to scan mainstream media
and read it,
490
00:24:20,066 --> 00:24:23,866
a way of finding stories
from around the world
491
00:24:23,904 --> 00:24:27,635
that tell you all the things
that are really going on
492
00:24:27,674 --> 00:24:31,200
that are not played
on the headlines...
493
00:24:31,243 --> 00:24:32,642
but they're the kind of stories
494
00:24:32,678 --> 00:24:37,377
that people who really make
decisions know how to look for...
495
00:24:37,416 --> 00:24:40,408
and then how to connect them,
496
00:24:40,452 --> 00:24:42,681
how to place the dots
close enough together
497
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,187
so that they can be connected.
498
00:25:01,672 --> 00:25:03,697
The soil is the place from which
499
00:25:03,740 --> 00:25:07,574
all plant matter
gets its nutrients,
500
00:25:07,611 --> 00:25:09,874
and if you keep sucking
the nutrients out,
501
00:25:09,912 --> 00:25:11,937
the soil is useless.
502
00:25:11,981 --> 00:25:15,747
For all of history,
the way the soil was replenished
503
00:25:15,785 --> 00:25:19,221
and the nutrients were returned
in some measure to the soil
504
00:25:19,255 --> 00:25:21,450
was that plant matter
was allowed to decay,
505
00:25:21,490 --> 00:25:24,617
to compost, to restock the soil.
506
00:25:24,659 --> 00:25:26,854
That's why crop rotation
is so important.
507
00:25:26,895 --> 00:25:28,487
You may have one crop
of celery
508
00:25:28,530 --> 00:25:31,988
which will suck certain
chemicals out of the soil.
509
00:25:32,033 --> 00:25:35,127
Another crop,
wheat or something else,
510
00:25:35,170 --> 00:25:37,763
may return those same chemicals
to the soil.
511
00:25:37,805 --> 00:25:40,069
So the soil maintains a balance.
512
00:25:45,946 --> 00:25:48,506
It's kind of sad,
because we as a species
513
00:25:48,549 --> 00:25:51,176
have become so disconnected
from the earth.
514
00:25:51,217 --> 00:25:53,242
We don't have any
real contact with the earth.
515
00:25:53,286 --> 00:25:55,220
We don't have any sense
of its functions,
516
00:25:55,255 --> 00:25:57,723
its feel, its nature,
its seasons, its timing.
517
00:25:59,959 --> 00:26:03,827
First of all, the topsoil
on which food is grown now
518
00:26:03,863 --> 00:26:07,696
is nothing more than a sponge
onto which we pour chemicals
519
00:26:07,733 --> 00:26:10,395
that we get from oil
and natural gas,
520
00:26:10,435 --> 00:26:12,096
and without those chemicals...
521
00:26:12,137 --> 00:26:14,105
the soil has been turned
into a junkie;
522
00:26:14,139 --> 00:26:17,768
the soil is worthless.
523
00:26:17,809 --> 00:26:19,708
So when you plant a crop now,
524
00:26:19,744 --> 00:26:22,372
what happens is you drive
an oil-powered machine.
525
00:26:22,413 --> 00:26:24,540
Drives along, and it plows.
526
00:26:24,582 --> 00:26:27,346
Then you drive another
oil-powered machine,
527
00:26:27,385 --> 00:26:30,081
and it drives along,
and it plants.
528
00:26:30,121 --> 00:26:31,645
And then you irrigate.
529
00:26:31,689 --> 00:26:32,712
Well, how do you irrigate?
530
00:26:32,756 --> 00:26:35,156
Well, that water is pumped
by pumps
531
00:26:35,191 --> 00:26:36,681
that are powered by electricity.
532
00:26:36,726 --> 00:26:38,353
Where's that electricity
come from?
533
00:26:38,395 --> 00:26:41,523
In the United States,
it's either coal or natural gas.
534
00:26:41,564 --> 00:26:43,225
So next thing you do
is come along,
535
00:26:43,266 --> 00:26:44,494
and you fertilize it.
536
00:26:44,534 --> 00:26:48,401
All commercial fertilizers
are made from ammonia,
537
00:26:48,437 --> 00:26:53,238
and the feedstock for ammonia
is natural gas.
538
00:26:53,275 --> 00:26:55,766
So you have ammonium nitrate
fertilizers
539
00:26:55,811 --> 00:26:58,780
that are then sprayed on
by another oil-powered vehicle.
540
00:26:58,814 --> 00:27:01,976
Then the crop dusters come along
that are powered by oil
541
00:27:02,016 --> 00:27:06,715
that spray pesticides that are
all made from petroleum.
542
00:27:06,754 --> 00:27:09,018
Then when it's time to harvest
the food, what do you do?
543
00:27:09,057 --> 00:27:10,615
You drive another
oil-powered machine,
544
00:27:10,658 --> 00:27:12,057
and you harvest it.
545
00:27:12,093 --> 00:27:14,993
You use another oil-powered
machine to drive it to a place
546
00:27:15,028 --> 00:27:16,552
where it's processed.
547
00:27:16,596 --> 00:27:18,587
Then you wrap it up in plastic,
which is oil,
548
00:27:18,632 --> 00:27:20,623
and you put it in
another oil-powered machine,
549
00:27:20,667 --> 00:27:22,692
and you drive it X number
of miles
550
00:27:22,736 --> 00:27:24,397
to a food distribution warehouse
551
00:27:24,438 --> 00:27:26,565
and an oil-powered machine
to your supermarket.
552
00:27:31,577 --> 00:27:33,704
The way food is grown, produced,
553
00:27:33,746 --> 00:27:35,304
and moved around
the world today,
554
00:27:35,348 --> 00:27:37,339
it's an enormous waste
of hydrocarbon energy
555
00:27:37,383 --> 00:27:39,078
which doesn't make sense.
556
00:27:39,118 --> 00:27:41,143
Why do we have strawberries
from Chile?
557
00:27:41,187 --> 00:27:42,949
Why do we have
spinach from China?
558
00:27:42,988 --> 00:27:45,081
Why do we ship anchovies
halfway around the world
559
00:27:45,123 --> 00:27:49,583
to be packaged in tin cans?
560
00:27:49,627 --> 00:27:54,326
There are ten calories
of hydrocarbon energy
561
00:27:54,366 --> 00:27:57,562
in every calorie
of food consumed
562
00:27:57,601 --> 00:27:59,034
in the industrialized world.
563
00:28:08,112 --> 00:28:12,047
Three times in my life
564
00:28:12,081 --> 00:28:18,145
I tried to walk away from,
forget about,
565
00:28:18,187 --> 00:28:20,451
the things
that I had seen
566
00:28:20,490 --> 00:28:24,425
that were so out of whack,
567
00:28:24,459 --> 00:28:28,122
that were so crazy,
that were so wrong.
568
00:28:28,163 --> 00:28:31,064
You know, and that is what
many people urged me to do.
569
00:28:31,099 --> 00:28:33,863
But what inevitably happened
every time
570
00:28:33,902 --> 00:28:38,770
I tried to walk away from this
path that I have walked
571
00:28:38,806 --> 00:28:40,330
was that everything else
in my life
572
00:28:40,374 --> 00:28:41,534
would be taken away from me
573
00:28:41,575 --> 00:28:44,772
so that this path
was the only thing left.
574
00:28:44,812 --> 00:28:47,178
I had no other choice.
575
00:28:47,214 --> 00:28:50,980
And, yeah, anger and resentment
do build up,
576
00:28:51,018 --> 00:28:54,578
especially when you see
and document as much corruption,
577
00:28:54,621 --> 00:28:55,849
as much dishonesty,
578
00:28:55,889 --> 00:28:59,552
as much illegality,
as much murder, as much betrayal
579
00:28:59,592 --> 00:29:05,120
as I have from people
who pretend to be otherwise.
580
00:29:05,164 --> 00:29:06,358
And I reached a point...
581
00:29:06,398 --> 00:29:10,198
it was about 1993
when I first became involved
582
00:29:10,235 --> 00:29:14,001
or learned of the murder
of Marine Colonel Jim Sabow
583
00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:16,030
at El Toro Marine Air Station.
584
00:29:16,075 --> 00:29:19,168
He was the chief of Air Ops,
and he had caught CIA C130s
585
00:29:19,210 --> 00:29:22,008
flying 2,000 and 3,000 kilos
of cocaine on to his base,
586
00:29:22,046 --> 00:29:24,446
and he was suicided.
587
00:29:24,482 --> 00:29:26,507
I crossed my own Rubicon
at that point.
588
00:29:26,551 --> 00:29:30,544
There was no turning
back for me,
589
00:29:30,588 --> 00:29:32,919
and I knew that wherever
this path was gonna go,
590
00:29:32,956 --> 00:29:34,116
I had to follow it.
591
00:29:38,762 --> 00:29:42,698
In the '80s, because I had
some skill as a writer,
592
00:29:42,732 --> 00:29:44,723
I started freelance writing.
593
00:29:44,768 --> 00:29:46,030
I got published a few times.
594
00:29:46,069 --> 00:29:49,697
I realized
that I could be a writer.
595
00:29:49,738 --> 00:29:54,903
I wrote about 109 mysterious
deaths or suicides
596
00:29:54,944 --> 00:29:57,276
in the U.S. military
in a very short period of time,
597
00:29:57,313 --> 00:30:01,214
and I found that most of those
were connected
598
00:30:01,249 --> 00:30:05,618
to covert operations
in one way or another.
599
00:30:05,653 --> 00:30:07,848
The next real evolution
came in 1996
600
00:30:07,889 --> 00:30:10,983
after my confrontation
with CIA Director Deutch,
601
00:30:11,025 --> 00:30:13,357
John Deutch
at Locke High School.
602
00:30:13,394 --> 00:30:16,794
You know, I remember standing up
saying something like,
603
00:30:16,830 --> 00:30:19,822
"I am a former Los Angeles
police narcotics detective.
604
00:30:19,867 --> 00:30:21,391
"I worked South Central
Los Angeles,
605
00:30:21,435 --> 00:30:22,868
"and I can tell you,
Director Deutch,
606
00:30:22,903 --> 00:30:24,530
"emphatically
and without equivocation
607
00:30:24,571 --> 00:30:27,096
"that the agency
has dealt drugs in this country
608
00:30:27,141 --> 00:30:28,130
for a long time,"
609
00:30:28,175 --> 00:30:30,870
and the room exploded.
610
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,576
I had been saying that CIA
was dealing drugs for 18 years.
611
00:30:36,616 --> 00:30:38,140
I mean, I'd been shot at for it.
612
00:30:38,184 --> 00:30:39,674
I'd been forced out of LAPD.
613
00:30:39,719 --> 00:30:40,708
I'd been trashed.
614
00:30:40,753 --> 00:30:42,152
I'd been called crazy.
615
00:30:42,188 --> 00:30:44,178
If, in the course
of the IG's investigations
616
00:30:44,222 --> 00:30:45,689
and Fred Hinson's work,
617
00:30:45,724 --> 00:30:49,182
you come across evidence
of severely criminal activity,
618
00:30:49,227 --> 00:30:53,994
will you tell
the American people the truth?
619
00:30:54,032 --> 00:30:57,432
We will bring the people
to justice
620
00:30:57,468 --> 00:30:58,765
and make them accountable.
621
00:30:58,802 --> 00:31:00,497
Like so often,
when they promise justice,
622
00:31:00,538 --> 00:31:01,527
there isn't any.
623
00:31:01,572 --> 00:31:03,472
It was whittled
and tweetered down.
624
00:31:03,507 --> 00:31:06,271
There were some
very mysterious deaths involved.
625
00:31:06,310 --> 00:31:08,335
Congressmen Julian Dixon,
who was at that meeting,
626
00:31:08,379 --> 00:31:12,747
had a very sudden
heart attack...
627
00:31:12,782 --> 00:31:16,115
which led to the publishing of
the first issue of my newsletter
628
00:31:16,152 --> 00:31:18,552
in May of 1998,
From the Wilderness.
629
00:31:18,588 --> 00:31:22,251
I sat down
and wrote a few pages out,
630
00:31:22,292 --> 00:31:23,623
like, eight pages I think.
631
00:31:23,660 --> 00:31:26,150
I mailed it to 68 names,
632
00:31:26,195 --> 00:31:27,787
and over the next
81/2 years,
633
00:31:27,829 --> 00:31:30,855
From the Wilderness grew
to have
634
00:31:30,899 --> 00:31:35,598
as many as 60 members
of Congress as subscribers,
635
00:31:35,637 --> 00:31:37,831
professors at universities
around the world,
636
00:31:37,872 --> 00:31:40,841
government officials.
637
00:31:40,875 --> 00:31:43,139
One of my first expos�s
after CIA and drugs
638
00:31:43,177 --> 00:31:45,543
was that I proved CNN
was absolutely lying
639
00:31:45,580 --> 00:31:49,107
in something called
the Tailwind Scandal of 1998
640
00:31:49,150 --> 00:31:50,947
where CNN had
correctly reported...
641
00:31:50,985 --> 00:31:52,849
their producer April Oliver
had reported
642
00:31:52,886 --> 00:31:55,684
that CIA had used sarin gas
in Laos
643
00:31:55,722 --> 00:31:56,711
during the Vietnam War,
644
00:31:56,756 --> 00:31:58,155
and Henry Kissinger
authorized it.
645
00:31:58,191 --> 00:32:01,319
Four different A-1
pilots who dropped the gas.
646
00:32:01,361 --> 00:32:03,352
In spite of
what the Pentagon said.
647
00:32:03,396 --> 00:32:05,296
CNN, you know, rolled over.
648
00:32:05,332 --> 00:32:06,525
Henry Kissinger called.
649
00:32:06,565 --> 00:32:10,831
Oliver was fired.
650
00:32:10,869 --> 00:32:14,965
Pat Tillman series
that I broke in my newsletter.
651
00:32:15,007 --> 00:32:18,465
All seven parts, that was what
broke the Pat Tillman expos�
652
00:32:18,510 --> 00:32:22,377
that brought down nine officers
or got them disciplined.
653
00:32:22,413 --> 00:32:25,940
The government violated
its most basic responsibility.
654
00:32:25,984 --> 00:32:29,249
But my
economic predictions then,
655
00:32:29,287 --> 00:32:30,276
we had it so right.
656
00:32:30,321 --> 00:32:32,152
The problems are several-fold
657
00:32:32,190 --> 00:32:33,884
behind the economic crash
that is coming
658
00:32:33,924 --> 00:32:37,860
that will be nothing
like we have ever seen before.
659
00:32:37,894 --> 00:32:42,888
In 2006, we said,
"Get out of debt right now.
660
00:32:42,933 --> 00:32:44,423
"Check your mortgage carefully,
661
00:32:44,468 --> 00:32:46,993
"especially if you have
an A.R.M.
662
00:32:47,037 --> 00:32:48,298
"Get into gold.
663
00:32:48,337 --> 00:32:50,999
"Reduce debt
as much as possible.
664
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,235
"Stay away from any kind
of financing
665
00:32:53,276 --> 00:32:54,675
and heavy credit card."
666
00:32:54,710 --> 00:32:56,735
We issued a whole series
of warnings.
667
00:32:56,779 --> 00:32:58,406
How many people have ever heard
of the fact
668
00:32:58,447 --> 00:33:00,813
that they're trading pools
of mortgage-backed securities?
669
00:33:00,850 --> 00:33:03,477
Like mutual funds,
but it's all mortgages.
670
00:33:03,518 --> 00:33:06,214
Those books are as cooked
as the books on Enron.
671
00:33:06,254 --> 00:33:07,881
But it was like 11, 12 days
672
00:33:07,922 --> 00:33:09,787
after we issued
that economic alert
673
00:33:09,824 --> 00:33:11,485
in the middle of running
the Tillman series
674
00:33:11,526 --> 00:33:13,460
that our offices
were burglarized.
675
00:33:13,495 --> 00:33:15,962
All seven computers smashed
676
00:33:15,996 --> 00:33:18,226
and a whole chain of events
took place up there
677
00:33:18,265 --> 00:33:21,894
which was... which actually
worked out okay,
678
00:33:21,935 --> 00:33:26,235
because I needed to evolve,
and I have since then.
679
00:33:31,744 --> 00:33:34,269
There was a period after,
you know, so many years
680
00:33:34,314 --> 00:33:37,374
of deliberate attempts
to sabotage my operations,
681
00:33:37,417 --> 00:33:41,319
four of which we connected in
one way or another to the FBI.
682
00:33:44,823 --> 00:33:47,553
I published that I had retired.
683
00:33:47,592 --> 00:33:51,358
I said officially
that I had retired.
684
00:33:51,396 --> 00:33:55,298
What I had... and at that point,
given the way I felt,
685
00:33:55,334 --> 00:34:01,499
that was
a pretty honest statement.
686
00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:03,234
I didn't know
that I would bounce back
687
00:34:03,274 --> 00:34:05,572
or that there was a third
or a fourth wind
688
00:34:05,609 --> 00:34:07,042
to come inside of me,
689
00:34:07,078 --> 00:34:11,878
but that also is the image
that I wanted out there
690
00:34:11,915 --> 00:34:13,314
just to take the heat off me
691
00:34:13,350 --> 00:34:16,217
at least until Bush and Cheney
got out of the White House,
692
00:34:16,252 --> 00:34:19,016
because that's where
the heat was coming from.
693
00:34:21,091 --> 00:34:22,319
From them personally?
694
00:34:22,359 --> 00:34:23,758
I mean,
from their administration,
695
00:34:23,793 --> 00:34:26,022
or, you know, the people
that ran the CIA,
696
00:34:26,061 --> 00:34:27,551
that ran the FBI?
697
00:34:27,596 --> 00:34:29,791
Who was that pressure
coming from?
698
00:34:29,832 --> 00:34:33,290
I have absolutely no doubt
that Richard Cheney
699
00:34:33,335 --> 00:34:37,135
and Donald Rumsfeld took an
intense personal interest in me
700
00:34:37,172 --> 00:34:38,798
and what my newsletter
had published
701
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,468
for all the years
of the Bush Administration.
702
00:34:41,509 --> 00:34:44,910
That's about as specific
as I care to get.
703
00:34:51,819 --> 00:34:55,982
There was a guy named
von Clausewitz
704
00:34:56,022 --> 00:34:58,582
who said that war
is a continuation of politics
705
00:34:58,625 --> 00:35:00,752
by other means.
706
00:35:00,794 --> 00:35:05,128
Politics is a continuation
of economics by other means.
707
00:35:09,301 --> 00:35:12,964
To understand all of this mess,
you need to understand one term.
708
00:35:13,005 --> 00:35:15,439
It's a big financial term that
is real simple to understand.
709
00:35:15,474 --> 00:35:17,442
It's called a derivative.
710
00:35:17,476 --> 00:35:21,969
A derivative is
any financial instrument
711
00:35:22,013 --> 00:35:24,846
which is derived
from the inherent value
712
00:35:24,883 --> 00:35:27,511
of something else
that is tangible.
713
00:35:27,552 --> 00:35:30,385
In other words,
an ear of corn has value.
714
00:35:30,422 --> 00:35:32,447
A barrel of oil has value.
715
00:35:32,490 --> 00:35:35,458
If you have a house
and a mortgage, that's fine.
716
00:35:35,492 --> 00:35:37,892
When you start doing
mortgage-backed securities,
717
00:35:37,928 --> 00:35:40,362
packaging, and bundling,
that's called a derivative.
718
00:35:44,668 --> 00:35:46,932
As of the start of the collapse,
719
00:35:46,970 --> 00:35:50,632
which let's peg
at September of 2008,
720
00:35:50,673 --> 00:35:54,541
there were derivatives
with a notional value,
721
00:35:54,577 --> 00:35:56,568
meaning that if you added up
all the pieces of paper,
722
00:35:56,612 --> 00:36:00,446
were worth $700 trillion.
723
00:36:00,483 --> 00:36:02,473
In other words,
if they all cashed out at once,
724
00:36:02,517 --> 00:36:04,747
you would need to have
$700 trillion in cash,
725
00:36:04,786 --> 00:36:06,549
and of course,
there isn't that much money.
726
00:36:10,792 --> 00:36:14,250
So with all of these hedges and
derivatives and puts and calls,
727
00:36:14,296 --> 00:36:15,353
those are all derivatives,
728
00:36:15,396 --> 00:36:17,523
and all these other things
they do,
729
00:36:17,565 --> 00:36:19,863
all they cared about was making
the minimum monthly payment
730
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:21,060
on the credit card bill.
731
00:36:21,101 --> 00:36:24,298
In other words, to service
the $700 trillion
732
00:36:24,338 --> 00:36:26,499
in notional-valued derivatives,
733
00:36:26,540 --> 00:36:28,940
they had to pay a certain amount
of cash every month,
734
00:36:28,976 --> 00:36:30,704
and God forbid they should
all come due.
735
00:36:30,743 --> 00:36:32,802
What's happening
with all of these bailouts,
736
00:36:32,846 --> 00:36:35,542
which are now around
$11 trillion
737
00:36:35,582 --> 00:36:38,415
if you add up
all the U.S. bailouts,
738
00:36:38,451 --> 00:36:42,410
they're chasing a $700 trillion
derivatives bubble
739
00:36:42,455 --> 00:36:45,184
down the drain.
740
00:36:59,370 --> 00:37:03,704
The people who have run
the monetary paradigm,
741
00:37:03,741 --> 00:37:06,801
the economic paradigm,
since money was first invented
742
00:37:06,844 --> 00:37:08,277
have wanted to mystify it
743
00:37:08,312 --> 00:37:09,802
and to make everybody believe
744
00:37:09,847 --> 00:37:12,940
that only some expert could
understand the mumbo jumbo
745
00:37:12,983 --> 00:37:15,543
of the priesthood of money.
746
00:37:15,585 --> 00:37:17,746
Three things only anybody
needs to know
747
00:37:17,787 --> 00:37:19,914
about the way money works
around the world today.
748
00:37:19,956 --> 00:37:21,583
One: fiat currency.
749
00:37:21,625 --> 00:37:22,614
What is money?
750
00:37:25,261 --> 00:37:29,254
If I were to take a bill
out of my wallet,
751
00:37:29,298 --> 00:37:32,358
and I reach in my wallet,
and I pull out this bill,
752
00:37:32,401 --> 00:37:33,834
it's $20.
753
00:37:33,869 --> 00:37:35,461
Wow. Okay.
754
00:37:35,504 --> 00:37:37,028
Can I eat it?
755
00:37:37,072 --> 00:37:38,266
Can I roll it up and chew it?
756
00:37:38,307 --> 00:37:40,069
Do I get calories and vitamins?
757
00:37:40,108 --> 00:37:41,234
No, I don't.
758
00:37:41,276 --> 00:37:43,107
Can I crumple it up,
759
00:37:43,144 --> 00:37:44,543
throw it in my gas tank?
760
00:37:44,579 --> 00:37:45,910
Is the car gonna go anywhere?
761
00:37:45,947 --> 00:37:48,711
No, it's gonna clog
the fuel injectors, maybe.
762
00:37:48,750 --> 00:37:50,684
This is only a symbol.
763
00:37:50,718 --> 00:37:52,378
This doesn't mean anything.
764
00:37:52,419 --> 00:37:53,408
It's fiat.
765
00:37:53,453 --> 00:37:54,715
It's created out of thin air
766
00:37:54,755 --> 00:37:56,746
because somebody turned on
a printing press.
767
00:37:56,790 --> 00:38:00,419
That's all it is.
768
00:38:00,460 --> 00:38:04,328
Before the great growth
of population
769
00:38:04,364 --> 00:38:06,923
which occurred
with the advent of oil
770
00:38:06,966 --> 00:38:10,197
came this revolution in
the monetary system as well.
771
00:38:10,236 --> 00:38:11,931
There was a time
when the pound sterling
772
00:38:11,971 --> 00:38:15,338
actually meant
a pound of sterling silver.
773
00:38:15,374 --> 00:38:17,342
There was only so much silver
out of the ground.
774
00:38:17,376 --> 00:38:18,365
It was tangible.
775
00:38:18,411 --> 00:38:19,673
You couldn't print silver.
776
00:38:19,712 --> 00:38:23,408
It was something real.
777
00:38:23,448 --> 00:38:25,678
You cannot print any more money
778
00:38:25,717 --> 00:38:28,845
than there is energy
to back it up.
779
00:38:28,887 --> 00:38:30,878
That simple.
780
00:38:34,425 --> 00:38:35,824
So we have fiat currency.
781
00:38:35,859 --> 00:38:38,851
Then we have something called
fractional reserve banking.
782
00:38:41,565 --> 00:38:45,399
If you were to bring me
a $10 deposit,
783
00:38:45,436 --> 00:38:49,132
I could make $90 worth of loans
784
00:38:49,172 --> 00:38:51,504
based on just having
that $10 in my drawer,
785
00:38:51,541 --> 00:38:53,771
because it's all calculated
on the premise
786
00:38:53,810 --> 00:38:55,243
that not everybody's
gonna come in
787
00:38:55,278 --> 00:38:56,438
and want their cash all at once.
788
00:38:56,479 --> 00:38:58,504
That's called a run on the bank.
789
00:38:58,548 --> 00:39:00,641
So they have calculated
the odds,
790
00:39:00,683 --> 00:39:04,413
much as Vegas odds makers do,
and said,
791
00:39:04,453 --> 00:39:06,921
"Okay, well, you know,
there are very little odds
792
00:39:06,955 --> 00:39:09,651
under normal conditions."
793
00:39:09,691 --> 00:39:16,425
When I lend now a total of $100
based on that $10 deposit,
794
00:39:16,464 --> 00:39:20,662
that's more money
that I create out of thin air.
795
00:39:20,701 --> 00:39:23,397
Well, gee, that means
that in order to pay off,
796
00:39:23,437 --> 00:39:26,565
whoever gets that money
has to make more money still
797
00:39:26,607 --> 00:39:28,507
to feed in at the bottom
to pay the bank
798
00:39:28,542 --> 00:39:31,567
so that the bank
can create still more money.
799
00:39:35,348 --> 00:39:36,975
You know, I think it's probably
pretty safe
800
00:39:37,017 --> 00:39:39,417
at this point in time with the
collapse of the U.S. economy
801
00:39:39,452 --> 00:39:41,920
to say that pretty much
everybody is understanding
802
00:39:41,955 --> 00:39:44,047
how compound interest works.
803
00:39:44,089 --> 00:39:46,853
The higher the interest rate
on your credit card,
804
00:39:46,892 --> 00:39:50,589
for those people who had 20%,
25% cards,
805
00:39:50,629 --> 00:39:52,995
that means they are creating
that much more money
806
00:39:53,032 --> 00:39:56,900
if they don't pay cash
every month.
807
00:39:56,935 --> 00:40:01,837
What I have just described
is a pyramid scheme.
808
00:40:01,873 --> 00:40:05,036
We live in
an infinite-growth paradigm
809
00:40:05,076 --> 00:40:06,873
which requires growth forever.
810
00:40:06,911 --> 00:40:09,812
It's not that Bernie Madoff
was a pyramid scheme
811
00:40:09,847 --> 00:40:12,872
or Stanford was
a pyramid scheme.
812
00:40:12,916 --> 00:40:15,282
The whole economy
is a pyramid scheme.
813
00:40:15,318 --> 00:40:18,287
The whole global economy
cannot be sustained.
814
00:40:18,321 --> 00:40:20,949
It requires infinite growth.
815
00:40:20,991 --> 00:40:24,983
But infinite growth collides
with finite energy.
816
00:40:25,027 --> 00:40:26,494
First law of thermodynamics,
817
00:40:26,529 --> 00:40:28,929
energy can neither be created
nor destroyed.
818
00:40:28,964 --> 00:40:30,124
The second law:
819
00:40:30,166 --> 00:40:32,327
energy converts
in only one direction:
820
00:40:32,368 --> 00:40:34,563
from usable to unusable.
821
00:40:34,603 --> 00:40:35,968
That's called
the law of entropy.
822
00:40:36,005 --> 00:40:37,131
Things break down.
823
00:40:37,173 --> 00:40:39,640
And in every energy transaction,
824
00:40:39,674 --> 00:40:42,302
some energy is always lost.
825
00:40:42,343 --> 00:40:43,810
So you have finite energy
826
00:40:43,845 --> 00:40:45,813
and you have
a financial paradigm
827
00:40:45,847 --> 00:40:47,474
which demands infinite growth,
828
00:40:47,515 --> 00:40:49,642
and we are at the point
of human history
829
00:40:49,684 --> 00:40:52,414
where the infinite growth
paradigm collides with something
830
00:40:52,454 --> 00:40:54,648
that is more powerful
than money is.
831
00:41:05,265 --> 00:41:10,930
By 2006, I knew that
the collapse was very imminent,
832
00:41:10,970 --> 00:41:13,404
that there would be a major
implosion of the U.S. economy.
833
00:41:13,439 --> 00:41:15,634
I actually missed it
by about a year,
834
00:41:15,675 --> 00:41:16,664
maybe a little bit more.
835
00:41:16,709 --> 00:41:18,142
I thought it was
gonna happen sooner,
836
00:41:18,177 --> 00:41:19,940
but it happened.
837
00:41:19,979 --> 00:41:21,912
And now that it is happening,
838
00:41:21,947 --> 00:41:23,710
these pieces are falling exactly
839
00:41:23,749 --> 00:41:26,809
as if everything else
we had written, said, done...
840
00:41:26,852 --> 00:41:27,978
all the peak oil activists,
841
00:41:28,019 --> 00:41:32,513
all the sustainability
advocates...
842
00:41:32,557 --> 00:41:34,854
our map was proving
deadly accurate.
843
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:48,136
Things don't break up;
they break down.
844
00:41:48,171 --> 00:41:52,130
When a government collapses,
what happens?
845
00:41:52,175 --> 00:41:53,608
Mail stops getting delivered.
846
00:41:53,643 --> 00:41:55,873
Air traffic controllers
don't get paid,
847
00:41:55,912 --> 00:41:57,277
so they don't go to work,
848
00:41:57,313 --> 00:41:59,645
which means planes don't fly.
849
00:41:59,682 --> 00:42:02,741
Bridges and highway inspections
don't get made.
850
00:42:02,785 --> 00:42:06,414
Food and Drug Administration
inspections don't get made.
851
00:42:06,455 --> 00:42:08,719
Maintenance is going
to be defrayed.
852
00:42:08,757 --> 00:42:11,885
Law enforcement stops working.
853
00:42:11,927 --> 00:42:13,121
I mean, it's no secret now.
854
00:42:13,162 --> 00:42:14,390
You see the headlines every day.
855
00:42:14,429 --> 00:42:18,057
California is bankrupt,
Michigan is bankrupt, Ohio.
856
00:42:18,099 --> 00:42:21,933
They're shutting down services
left and right.
857
00:42:21,969 --> 00:42:24,301
There are tent cities springing
up all over the country.
858
00:42:24,338 --> 00:42:26,568
There are homeless
displaced people.
859
00:42:26,607 --> 00:42:31,009
A great many billionaires,
who we would call the elites,
860
00:42:31,044 --> 00:42:34,673
a great many very, very wealthy
people are getting crashed,
861
00:42:34,714 --> 00:42:37,308
burned, and eaten alive.
862
00:42:37,350 --> 00:42:40,842
What you don't hear is the fact
that, all over the world,
863
00:42:40,887 --> 00:42:44,947
economies are collapsing much
faster than the U.S. economy.
864
00:42:47,326 --> 00:42:51,023
Britain is an absolute
basket case.
865
00:42:51,063 --> 00:42:55,523
There is a curtain of despair
descending
866
00:42:55,568 --> 00:43:00,129
across Eastern Europe.
867
00:43:00,171 --> 00:43:02,036
There's a revolution under way
in Greece.
868
00:43:02,073 --> 00:43:03,370
It's not riots.
869
00:43:03,408 --> 00:43:07,003
It's not civil unrest;
it's a revolution.
870
00:43:07,045 --> 00:43:09,138
Drug violence right across
the border in Mexico,
871
00:43:09,180 --> 00:43:10,511
this is all part
of the collapse.
872
00:43:10,548 --> 00:43:14,381
Pakistan, Afghanistan,
there's lots of violence.
873
00:43:14,418 --> 00:43:17,319
The people who have run
the planet to this point
874
00:43:17,354 --> 00:43:21,051
and who are running the planet
now are losing control.
875
00:43:29,065 --> 00:43:31,033
Have I ever been called
a conspiracy theorist?
876
00:43:31,067 --> 00:43:35,504
Of course I've been called
a conspiracy theorist.
877
00:43:35,538 --> 00:43:37,096
But I don't deal
in conspiracy theory.
878
00:43:37,139 --> 00:43:39,504
I deal in conspiracy fact.
879
00:43:48,583 --> 00:43:50,744
Somebody once said to me
a long time ago,
880
00:43:50,785 --> 00:43:53,753
and this was probably
back in '84,
881
00:43:53,787 --> 00:43:57,917
"Climb down off the cross,
asshole, we need the lumber!"
882
00:43:57,958 --> 00:43:59,653
I am not a Messiah.
883
00:43:59,693 --> 00:44:02,321
I am not responsible
for saving anybody.
884
00:44:02,363 --> 00:44:06,697
The only person I am
responsible for saving is me.
885
00:44:08,134 --> 00:44:11,001
What I see now is the end
of a paradigm
886
00:44:11,037 --> 00:44:13,904
that is as cataclysmic
as the asteroid event
887
00:44:13,940 --> 00:44:16,807
that killed almost all the life
on the Earth
888
00:44:16,843 --> 00:44:18,538
and certainly the dinosaurs.
889
00:44:18,578 --> 00:44:22,479
Now, the dinosaurs were
kings of their paradigm,
890
00:44:22,514 --> 00:44:24,482
and a paradigm is
what you think about something
891
00:44:24,516 --> 00:44:25,949
before you think about it.
892
00:44:25,984 --> 00:44:27,849
Somebody talks about money,
893
00:44:27,886 --> 00:44:31,151
and you automatically accept
without thinking
894
00:44:31,189 --> 00:44:34,249
that compound interest,
factional reserve banking,
895
00:44:34,293 --> 00:44:35,554
and fiat currency is okay,
896
00:44:35,593 --> 00:44:36,651
and we have to protect that,
897
00:44:36,694 --> 00:44:38,127
because if we don't
protect that,
898
00:44:38,162 --> 00:44:42,258
it's gonna be bad for us.
899
00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:44,427
If you know anything
about Darwinism,
900
00:44:44,468 --> 00:44:45,901
basically what it said was
901
00:44:45,937 --> 00:44:48,928
is that those species
that had evolved
902
00:44:48,972 --> 00:44:53,102
or were able to adapt
to changing circumstances
903
00:44:53,143 --> 00:44:54,440
were the ones that survived,
904
00:44:54,477 --> 00:44:55,910
and those that were not equipped
905
00:44:55,946 --> 00:44:59,177
or had been...
become evolutionary dead ends
906
00:44:59,215 --> 00:45:01,877
were destined to die.
907
00:45:01,918 --> 00:45:03,384
"Mike, you better be careful.
908
00:45:03,419 --> 00:45:07,219
It sounds like you're advocating
Social Darwinism."
909
00:45:07,256 --> 00:45:09,781
I'm not advocating
Social Darwinism.
910
00:45:09,825 --> 00:45:12,555
I am witnessing
actual Darwinism.
911
00:45:15,364 --> 00:45:19,459
If you are in a camp
with a bunch of campers
912
00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:21,968
and a bear attacks,
913
00:45:22,003 --> 00:45:24,938
you don't have to be faster
than the bear.
914
00:45:24,973 --> 00:45:27,908
You only have to be faster
than the slowest camper.
915
00:45:32,813 --> 00:45:39,742
There is one and only one
graph image
916
00:45:39,786 --> 00:45:42,220
that I have used
917
00:45:42,255 --> 00:45:47,954
in I would guess 60 to 70
lectures in eight countries,
918
00:45:47,994 --> 00:45:50,462
and that's a graph
of human population,
919
00:45:50,496 --> 00:45:54,057
and if one looks at that graph,
920
00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:56,898
what you see is human population
921
00:45:56,936 --> 00:46:01,929
roughly stable at around
a billion people or so
922
00:46:01,973 --> 00:46:04,134
with maybe a little bit more
at around the time of Christ.
923
00:46:04,175 --> 00:46:08,077
Then it stays pretty stable
until we get to the bubonic...
924
00:46:08,113 --> 00:46:11,548
it starts to rise some as some
primitive technology emerged,
925
00:46:11,582 --> 00:46:13,072
but then you get
to the Bubonic plague.
926
00:46:13,117 --> 00:46:14,709
There's a little dip.
927
00:46:14,752 --> 00:46:16,151
Then after the bubonic plague,
928
00:46:16,186 --> 00:46:20,088
you begin the start of what
we would call the Renaissance
929
00:46:20,124 --> 00:46:23,423
and the early stages
of the Industrial Revolution,
930
00:46:23,460 --> 00:46:25,950
the discovery of steam.
931
00:46:25,995 --> 00:46:29,294
The population starts
to go like this.
932
00:46:29,332 --> 00:46:30,424
The introduction of coal,
933
00:46:30,466 --> 00:46:32,491
the population
starts to go like this.
934
00:46:32,535 --> 00:46:36,335
But around 1900, around the turn
of the 20th century,
935
00:46:36,372 --> 00:46:39,534
what you see as oil
became ubiquitous
936
00:46:39,574 --> 00:46:43,101
was that the population
went like this,
937
00:46:43,145 --> 00:46:46,342
and it goes up
to 6.5 billion people.
938
00:46:46,381 --> 00:46:48,440
We may be at 7 billion people
939
00:46:48,483 --> 00:46:52,283
by the time anyone
sees this interview.
940
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:57,154
All of those people exist on
this planet only because of oil.
941
00:46:57,191 --> 00:46:58,522
That's it.
942
00:46:58,559 --> 00:47:01,392
So it's axiomatic
that if you take the oil away,
943
00:47:01,429 --> 00:47:03,624
the population
must go away also.
944
00:47:03,664 --> 00:47:06,861
In all of science,
in all of biology,
945
00:47:06,901 --> 00:47:09,664
there is no case
where any population,
946
00:47:09,702 --> 00:47:13,832
be it bacteria in a petri dish
or caribou in an Arctic island,
947
00:47:13,873 --> 00:47:16,671
runs into a set
of favorable circumstances
948
00:47:16,709 --> 00:47:21,645
and goes to that point
without an immediate crash down.
949
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:22,806
It's a law.
950
00:47:22,848 --> 00:47:24,281
It's a law
as fundamental as gravity.
951
00:47:24,316 --> 00:47:26,841
It's a law as fundamental
as thermodynamics,
952
00:47:26,885 --> 00:47:28,147
and if one thinks about it,
953
00:47:28,187 --> 00:47:31,088
it might also be viewed
as true of the stock market
954
00:47:31,123 --> 00:47:32,147
or the financial markets,
955
00:47:32,191 --> 00:47:33,180
which go like this,
956
00:47:33,225 --> 00:47:34,317
and when they go like this,
957
00:47:34,359 --> 00:47:35,723
they automatically go like this.
958
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,489
That's the history
of every bubble.
959
00:47:48,772 --> 00:47:55,200
I think it's a mistake
to ask, "If people,"
960
00:47:55,245 --> 00:48:01,980
and make all people
the same as one entity,
961
00:48:02,018 --> 00:48:04,451
if they will understand it.
962
00:48:04,487 --> 00:48:10,016
I don't care
if all people understand it.
963
00:48:10,059 --> 00:48:12,550
When you're faced
with an overwhelming,
964
00:48:12,595 --> 00:48:14,085
life-threatening crisis,
965
00:48:14,130 --> 00:48:17,656
as in the Titanic being hit
by an iceberg,
966
00:48:17,699 --> 00:48:20,395
and you happen to be aware
before anybody else is
967
00:48:20,435 --> 00:48:21,561
that the ship is gonna sink
968
00:48:21,603 --> 00:48:23,901
and there aren't
enough lifeboats
969
00:48:23,938 --> 00:48:26,065
and you know
how to build lifeboats
970
00:48:26,107 --> 00:48:28,041
and you tried
to deal with that
971
00:48:28,076 --> 00:48:31,738
in however long the Titanic
had before it went down,
972
00:48:31,778 --> 00:48:35,441
you're likely to run across
three types of passenger
973
00:48:35,482 --> 00:48:36,710
on the Titanic.
974
00:48:36,750 --> 00:48:38,684
You'll run across a type
975
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,415
that's basically
deer in the headlights.
976
00:48:41,455 --> 00:48:43,047
"Ship's been hit?
What does that mean?
977
00:48:43,090 --> 00:48:44,488
"What do I do?
I don't know what to do.
978
00:48:44,524 --> 00:48:45,513
"I don't where to go.
Should I do that?
979
00:48:45,558 --> 00:48:46,547
I don't know."
980
00:48:46,592 --> 00:48:47,581
That's one group.
981
00:48:47,627 --> 00:48:50,892
There's another group that says,
982
00:48:50,930 --> 00:48:52,557
"We get that the ship
is gonna sink.
983
00:48:52,598 --> 00:48:54,759
"We get that we're all gonna die
984
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,665
"unless we make some lifeboats
and do it fast.
985
00:48:56,702 --> 00:48:58,566
Show us what to do."
986
00:48:58,603 --> 00:49:00,195
Then you have a third group
that says,
987
00:49:00,238 --> 00:49:01,262
"This is the Titanic.
988
00:49:01,306 --> 00:49:03,831
"It's absolutely unsinkable.
989
00:49:03,875 --> 00:49:06,207
"Un-fucking-sinkable.
990
00:49:06,244 --> 00:49:08,041
"So we're going back to the bar
for a drink,
991
00:49:08,079 --> 00:49:11,071
and all you doomsday sayers
can actually just take a hike."
992
00:49:11,116 --> 00:49:13,242
Now, if you're the one who knows
how to build lifeboats,
993
00:49:13,284 --> 00:49:15,514
which group of people
are you gonna help?
994
00:49:19,523 --> 00:49:22,151
Certain things
are inevitable right now.
995
00:49:22,193 --> 00:49:25,458
FDIC insolvency,
I will tell you, is coming.
996
00:49:25,496 --> 00:49:28,191
Insolvency of
the Federal Reserve is coming.
997
00:49:28,231 --> 00:49:30,392
Federal Reserve can go bankrupt.
998
00:49:30,433 --> 00:49:32,594
T-bill defaults.
999
00:49:32,635 --> 00:49:35,627
We're looking
at major bankruptcy,
1000
00:49:35,672 --> 00:49:37,333
starvation, dislocation.
1001
00:49:37,373 --> 00:49:40,239
All these things
are already on the way.
1002
00:49:44,079 --> 00:49:45,376
Everything is
gonna break down
1003
00:49:45,414 --> 00:49:48,008
differently in different places.
1004
00:49:48,050 --> 00:49:50,143
The best that I can do
is give you some ideas
1005
00:49:50,185 --> 00:49:54,348
of some markers
that are gonna come.
1006
00:49:54,388 --> 00:49:58,051
The bumpy plateau has been
described by peak oil activists
1007
00:49:58,092 --> 00:49:59,923
and researchers
for many, many years,
1008
00:49:59,961 --> 00:50:02,259
and it's actually happening.
1009
00:50:02,296 --> 00:50:07,756
Basically you come up
the growth curve of oil prices,
1010
00:50:07,801 --> 00:50:11,794
and the oil prices go up until
you start running out of oil.
1011
00:50:11,838 --> 00:50:14,602
Then what happens is,
you have to destroy demand,
1012
00:50:14,641 --> 00:50:16,472
which is what's happening
with this collapse.
1013
00:50:16,509 --> 00:50:19,205
Demand gets destroyed;
the price of oil drops.
1014
00:50:19,246 --> 00:50:21,805
But as you start a recovery
you start back up again,
1015
00:50:21,847 --> 00:50:25,305
and you collide again
with the finite oil
1016
00:50:25,351 --> 00:50:26,875
and the rising energy prices,
1017
00:50:26,919 --> 00:50:28,318
which shuts
everything down again.
1018
00:50:28,354 --> 00:50:31,187
This is the bumpy plateau.
1019
00:50:31,223 --> 00:50:34,056
I think it's fairly certain
1020
00:50:34,093 --> 00:50:38,358
that the mortal blow to human
industrialized civilization
1021
00:50:38,396 --> 00:50:41,559
will happen
when oil prices spike again
1022
00:50:41,599 --> 00:50:43,999
and nobody can afford
to buy that oil,
1023
00:50:44,035 --> 00:50:46,469
and everything
will just shut down.
1024
00:50:50,407 --> 00:50:53,638
The collapse must happen fast
1025
00:50:53,677 --> 00:50:57,044
in order to leave
infrastructure standing.
1026
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,480
We have all heard the stories
about infrastructure, you know,
1027
00:50:59,516 --> 00:51:02,848
the sewers and the bridges
and the roads and all that.
1028
00:51:02,885 --> 00:51:04,216
Well, the point is,
1029
00:51:04,253 --> 00:51:08,713
is that as economic collapse
continues or accelerates,
1030
00:51:08,758 --> 00:51:14,128
those structures will fall
into more and more disrepair.
1031
00:51:14,163 --> 00:51:15,528
There's not gonna be
any money
1032
00:51:15,564 --> 00:51:17,326
or anything running
to fix those,
1033
00:51:17,365 --> 00:51:21,825
so what you want to have
is the change to a new paradigm,
1034
00:51:21,870 --> 00:51:23,701
getting the old one
out of the way
1035
00:51:23,738 --> 00:51:26,070
while there is still
infrastructure left
1036
00:51:26,107 --> 00:51:28,632
to start building something new.
1037
00:51:31,812 --> 00:51:34,645
We have to survive
the transition phase
1038
00:51:34,682 --> 00:51:36,081
of human civilization,
1039
00:51:36,116 --> 00:51:40,348
which I anticipate could last
anywhere between 20 years...
1040
00:51:40,387 --> 00:51:45,323
and oh, my God,
would that be fast and hard...
1041
00:51:45,358 --> 00:51:47,189
you know, to 50 years
or 100 years
1042
00:51:47,226 --> 00:51:51,925
before some kind of stable
civilization starts to emerge.
1043
00:51:51,964 --> 00:51:53,829
You need to survive
the transition phase.
1044
00:51:53,866 --> 00:51:55,163
So don't panic.
1045
00:51:55,201 --> 00:51:56,930
Don't freak out.
1046
00:51:56,969 --> 00:51:58,799
Use your heads.
1047
00:51:58,837 --> 00:52:02,500
Analyze your local situation
where you live,
1048
00:52:02,541 --> 00:52:04,509
don't worry about
rebuilding sewers.
1049
00:52:04,543 --> 00:52:07,239
You're gonna be able
to get water for a few years.
1050
00:52:09,314 --> 00:52:12,612
People say there's either oil
or no oil.
1051
00:52:12,650 --> 00:52:15,141
There's either food or no food.
1052
00:52:15,186 --> 00:52:16,676
And people say,
1053
00:52:16,721 --> 00:52:19,087
"Well, we're gonna have food
in the supermarkets on Tuesday,
1054
00:52:19,123 --> 00:52:20,522
and we're never gonna
see it again."
1055
00:52:20,558 --> 00:52:21,991
That's not the way
it's gonna happen.
1056
00:52:22,026 --> 00:52:26,189
As things break down,
we will see specific shortages
1057
00:52:26,229 --> 00:52:29,289
in specific areas
for periods of days
1058
00:52:29,332 --> 00:52:32,893
before it gets to the point
where there's nothing left.
1059
00:52:32,936 --> 00:52:35,530
So what you need to prepare for
is not the end result,
1060
00:52:35,572 --> 00:52:37,938
but you need to prepare
to survive the transition.
1061
00:52:40,876 --> 00:52:42,867
When people say, "Okay,
I'm gonna run for the hills.
1062
00:52:42,911 --> 00:52:44,105
"I'm gonna go build a cabin.
1063
00:52:44,146 --> 00:52:46,444
I'm gonna buy ten million cans
of baked beans."
1064
00:52:46,482 --> 00:52:48,382
Well, they're probably gonna be
the first to die.
1065
00:52:48,417 --> 00:52:50,351
Number one, it's too late.
1066
00:52:50,386 --> 00:52:51,944
If you don't know
how to live off the land,
1067
00:52:51,987 --> 00:52:54,250
and if you're not already
on the land right now,
1068
00:52:54,288 --> 00:52:55,482
don't even try to go,
1069
00:52:55,523 --> 00:52:57,787
because you're gonna
fail miserably,
1070
00:52:57,825 --> 00:52:59,315
and you might be shot
by the people
1071
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:00,987
who got there ahead of you.
1072
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:06,897
You know, the one factor
1073
00:53:06,934 --> 00:53:08,491
that you're not including
in some of this
1074
00:53:08,535 --> 00:53:11,663
is just sort of discounting
human ingenuity,
1075
00:53:11,705 --> 00:53:16,335
or our ability
to sort of problem solve.
1076
00:53:16,376 --> 00:53:22,211
Because my father was an Air
Force aviator combat veteran,
1077
00:53:22,248 --> 00:53:25,775
he was very much trained
in a military style
1078
00:53:25,818 --> 00:53:27,410
of decision making and analysis
1079
00:53:27,453 --> 00:53:30,581
where it's motivated
by life-and-death decisions,
1080
00:53:30,623 --> 00:53:33,114
where you are trained
how to think critically
1081
00:53:33,159 --> 00:53:35,649
and respond critically
in response to emergency.
1082
00:53:35,693 --> 00:53:38,491
So I was trained at an early age
1083
00:53:38,530 --> 00:53:41,294
in the skill
of critical thinking,
1084
00:53:41,332 --> 00:53:42,663
and maybe I have a gift
for it too.
1085
00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:44,031
I believe there are some people
1086
00:53:44,068 --> 00:53:46,366
who have a gift
for critical thinking.
1087
00:53:46,404 --> 00:53:48,167
In my own experience
on the streets
1088
00:53:48,206 --> 00:53:50,639
in South Central Los Angeles
as a cop,
1089
00:53:50,674 --> 00:53:52,198
there were quick decisions,
1090
00:53:52,242 --> 00:53:58,044
sometimes decisions
which changed people's lives
1091
00:53:58,081 --> 00:53:59,981
or could end people's lives,
1092
00:54:00,017 --> 00:54:03,611
and it gave me an ability
to respond and think
1093
00:54:03,653 --> 00:54:06,087
to separate the ice cream
from the bullshit.
1094
00:54:06,122 --> 00:54:08,750
Probably one of
the biggest impediments
1095
00:54:08,791 --> 00:54:10,691
I removed
to critical thinking was,
1096
00:54:10,726 --> 00:54:14,025
I stopped taking mainstream
media seriously a long time ago.
1097
00:54:17,899 --> 00:54:20,493
We were talking about
human ingenuity.
1098
00:54:26,241 --> 00:54:29,506
No amount of technology
and no amount of human ingenuity
1099
00:54:29,544 --> 00:54:32,068
can possibly overturn
the laws of physics,
1100
00:54:32,112 --> 00:54:35,104
the laws which govern
this planet.
1101
00:54:35,149 --> 00:54:38,448
Those are intractable,
immutable, real,
1102
00:54:38,486 --> 00:54:40,317
and science has never
been able to do that.
1103
00:54:40,354 --> 00:54:43,050
Man's great arrogance,
I believe,
1104
00:54:43,090 --> 00:54:45,114
and one for which
he is paying a price now
1105
00:54:45,158 --> 00:54:47,626
is to believe that mankind
really could become God
1106
00:54:47,660 --> 00:54:52,222
and even turn over and upset
and revoke somehow
1107
00:54:52,265 --> 00:54:53,664
the laws of the universe.
1108
00:54:56,369 --> 00:55:00,099
I am a great advocate of buying
and owning physical gold,
1109
00:55:00,138 --> 00:55:01,366
not paper gold.
1110
00:55:01,406 --> 00:55:03,431
You buy gold, you own it.
1111
00:55:03,475 --> 00:55:06,273
When hyperinflation occurs
after deflation here,
1112
00:55:06,311 --> 00:55:08,370
and all these trillions
of dollars come back
1113
00:55:08,413 --> 00:55:11,746
and we are wheeling wheelbarrows
of thousand dollar bills
1114
00:55:11,783 --> 00:55:14,717
to buy a loaf of bread,
1115
00:55:14,752 --> 00:55:17,050
the only thing people
will accept for goods
1116
00:55:17,088 --> 00:55:19,022
is gonna be gold.
1117
00:55:19,056 --> 00:55:20,182
Do whatever you can
1118
00:55:20,224 --> 00:55:22,454
to reinsulate your house
if you need to.
1119
00:55:22,493 --> 00:55:24,825
If you have a house,
if you have soil,
1120
00:55:24,862 --> 00:55:27,159
you immediately
get it off petrochemicals
1121
00:55:27,197 --> 00:55:29,427
and start learning
how to restore it.
1122
00:55:29,466 --> 00:55:32,230
What I do in the yard
where I am renting,
1123
00:55:32,269 --> 00:55:34,134
I'm mixing barbeque
and wood ash
1124
00:55:34,170 --> 00:55:35,865
and then I go out
and pee on everything,
1125
00:55:35,906 --> 00:55:37,396
because then you get
the root elements
1126
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,307
of ammonium-nitrate that
starts to bring the soil back.
1127
00:55:41,343 --> 00:55:45,780
If you are dependent upon
a cell phone, get a land line.
1128
00:55:45,814 --> 00:55:47,805
All the
telecommunications companies
1129
00:55:47,850 --> 00:55:49,841
that operate the satellites,
the cell towers,
1130
00:55:49,885 --> 00:55:51,318
the fiber optic cables,
1131
00:55:51,353 --> 00:55:54,015
and all this stuff that makes
your wonderful cell phone work
1132
00:55:54,056 --> 00:55:57,115
are cutting back on maintenance
as the stock market collapses,
1133
00:55:57,158 --> 00:56:00,491
and we're gonna see failures
in cell phone service.
1134
00:56:00,528 --> 00:56:04,988
A land line is a redundancy
that can help you.
1135
00:56:05,033 --> 00:56:09,366
Get books on first aid
and holistic medicine.
1136
00:56:09,403 --> 00:56:11,633
Moderate fresh water supply,
1137
00:56:11,672 --> 00:56:14,038
a reasonable amount
of food storage.
1138
00:56:14,074 --> 00:56:15,735
You can't store enough
to live on.
1139
00:56:15,776 --> 00:56:18,336
What you need to store is seeds.
1140
00:56:18,378 --> 00:56:20,938
Seeds that are not manufactured
by Monsanto,
1141
00:56:20,981 --> 00:56:22,311
that are not Frankenseeds,
1142
00:56:22,348 --> 00:56:24,873
that only work one time
you plant them
1143
00:56:24,917 --> 00:56:26,544
and then you got to go buy more.
1144
00:56:26,586 --> 00:56:29,419
You get good organic
whole seeds,
1145
00:56:29,455 --> 00:56:31,116
and you store them.
1146
00:56:31,157 --> 00:56:34,649
That could be a great
currency in the future.
1147
00:56:42,734 --> 00:56:44,224
Unlike the Great Depression,
1148
00:56:44,269 --> 00:56:46,169
this is a vastly
different scenario.
1149
00:56:46,204 --> 00:56:48,798
We do not have infinite
resources left to be tapped.
1150
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:52,673
We don't have lots of land,
we are at peak everything,
1151
00:56:52,710 --> 00:56:55,645
all the commodities,
everything else.
1152
00:56:55,679 --> 00:57:00,514
What they had in the 1930s that
my grandparents told me about
1153
00:57:00,551 --> 00:57:03,247
was the ability to grow food
right where they live,
1154
00:57:03,287 --> 00:57:05,618
and local food production
is perhaps
1155
00:57:05,655 --> 00:57:08,488
the most fundamental key
to human survival
1156
00:57:08,524 --> 00:57:11,652
in the collapse
of industrialized civilization.
1157
00:57:20,235 --> 00:57:23,500
We've had examples of what
happens when oil disappears
1158
00:57:23,538 --> 00:57:25,165
and how civilizations respond
1159
00:57:25,207 --> 00:57:26,731
and what works and what doesn't.
1160
00:57:26,775 --> 00:57:29,642
In 1991,
the Soviet Union collapsed,
1161
00:57:29,678 --> 00:57:32,202
and there were two nations
that were absolutely
1162
00:57:32,246 --> 00:57:34,942
and totally dependent upon
Soviet oil for their survival
1163
00:57:34,982 --> 00:57:36,347
because they had none:
1164
00:57:36,384 --> 00:57:38,978
Cuba and North Korea.
1165
00:57:39,020 --> 00:57:42,683
And what they did in response
to that was completely opposite,
1166
00:57:42,723 --> 00:57:45,190
and the proof, as the say,
was in the pudding.
1167
00:57:48,928 --> 00:57:53,297
North Korea was a rigid,
hierarchical, top-down,
1168
00:57:53,333 --> 00:57:57,167
Soviet-style,
bureaucratic regime
1169
00:57:57,203 --> 00:57:59,227
where everything came
from the central government.
1170
00:57:59,271 --> 00:58:03,298
They managed everything,
and North Korea starved.
1171
00:58:03,342 --> 00:58:08,803
I mean, it was... in human terms,
the suffering was amazing.
1172
00:58:08,847 --> 00:58:10,212
All of a sudden,
there's no oil.
1173
00:58:10,249 --> 00:58:11,273
There's no natural gas.
1174
00:58:11,316 --> 00:58:12,305
There's no fertilizer.
1175
00:58:12,351 --> 00:58:13,339
Cars don't run.
1176
00:58:13,384 --> 00:58:14,612
Trains don't run.
1177
00:58:14,652 --> 00:58:16,847
You get to a point where
you can run trains on some days
1178
00:58:16,888 --> 00:58:18,515
or generate electricity
on others,
1179
00:58:18,556 --> 00:58:20,319
but you can't do both
at the same time.
1180
00:58:24,796 --> 00:58:26,922
But the Cuban government
reverted
1181
00:58:26,963 --> 00:58:28,954
to one of the purest forms
of capitalism.
1182
00:58:28,999 --> 00:58:32,765
It said, "Everybody start
restoring the soil
1183
00:58:32,803 --> 00:58:33,792
"and grow food.
1184
00:58:33,837 --> 00:58:35,737
"You will grow food
where you live.
1185
00:58:35,772 --> 00:58:37,865
"If you find any piece
of arable land
1186
00:58:37,908 --> 00:58:39,876
"that is not being used,
you occupy it,
1187
00:58:39,910 --> 00:58:40,967
"and you start farming it,
1188
00:58:41,010 --> 00:58:43,376
and you start growing food
right now."
1189
00:58:43,412 --> 00:58:45,209
The Cuban government
did everything it could
1190
00:58:45,247 --> 00:58:48,375
to liberate local food growing,
1191
00:58:48,417 --> 00:58:49,406
and what happened was,
1192
00:58:49,452 --> 00:58:51,613
is after a very tough period,
1193
00:58:51,654 --> 00:58:56,113
the Cuban people were eating
better than they had ever eaten,
1194
00:58:56,157 --> 00:58:59,354
because they were free of
this whole agri-biz, you know,
1195
00:58:59,394 --> 00:59:00,986
Frankenfood nightmare.
1196
00:59:01,029 --> 00:59:02,519
Everything was organic,
1197
00:59:02,564 --> 00:59:05,727
and you had every square inch
in Havana that had soil,
1198
00:59:05,767 --> 00:59:10,999
on rooftops or in flower boxes,
was growing food,
1199
00:59:11,038 --> 00:59:12,869
and there was a degree
of sustainability.
1200
00:59:12,906 --> 00:59:14,533
Everything became organic,
1201
00:59:14,575 --> 00:59:17,544
and all you had to do
was separate the people
1202
00:59:17,578 --> 00:59:20,570
from the way money worked
and top-down control,
1203
00:59:20,614 --> 00:59:22,547
explain to them,
you grow it where you eat it,
1204
00:59:22,582 --> 00:59:23,571
and you're gonna make it,
1205
00:59:23,616 --> 00:59:25,345
and Cuba survived and thrived.
1206
00:59:29,589 --> 00:59:32,683
And that's the essence
of where everything is going to
1207
00:59:32,725 --> 00:59:34,693
in the new human paradigm.
1208
00:59:34,727 --> 00:59:36,717
Everything will be local.
1209
00:59:43,068 --> 00:59:45,559
Jack London was one
of my favorite writers,
1210
00:59:45,604 --> 00:59:48,664
and he wrote about animals
a lot.
1211
00:59:48,707 --> 00:59:50,264
One thing you know about animals
1212
00:59:50,307 --> 00:59:51,706
is that they all want to go home
1213
00:59:51,742 --> 00:59:53,505
when they know that
they're gonna face death.
1214
00:59:53,544 --> 00:59:55,603
They all want to be
in their tribe
1215
00:59:55,646 --> 00:59:58,274
or their pack or whatever it is.
1216
00:59:58,315 --> 00:59:59,782
They want to be
on familiar ground.
1217
00:59:59,817 --> 01:00:03,116
It's a natural animal instinct.
1218
01:00:03,154 --> 01:00:06,782
In Dubai, the economic crash
has hit so hard
1219
01:00:06,823 --> 01:00:09,986
that Indians who were living
and working in Dubai
1220
01:00:10,026 --> 01:00:11,425
lost their jobs,
1221
01:00:11,461 --> 01:00:13,691
and they just drove
to the Dubai airport
1222
01:00:13,730 --> 01:00:15,425
and abandoned their cars.
1223
01:00:15,465 --> 01:00:18,092
There was a story talking about
all the cars that were abandoned
1224
01:00:18,133 --> 01:00:22,035
as these Indians caught a
one-way ticket home to go home.
1225
01:00:22,070 --> 01:00:24,038
It's happening in Britain too.
1226
01:00:24,072 --> 01:00:26,939
You have lots of Poles
and Eastern Europeans,
1227
01:00:26,975 --> 01:00:28,806
who were the latecomers
into E.U.,
1228
01:00:28,844 --> 01:00:30,869
fleeing Britain to go home.
1229
01:00:30,913 --> 01:00:33,881
Now in some areas, and certainly
in the southern California basin
1230
01:00:33,915 --> 01:00:37,578
with 13, 14 million people
and a four-day food supply,
1231
01:00:37,618 --> 01:00:40,644
it's clear that people are going
to migrate out of this area,
1232
01:00:40,688 --> 01:00:42,121
because it's not sustainable.
1233
01:00:42,156 --> 01:00:44,784
We get most of our water
from Northern California.
1234
01:00:44,826 --> 01:00:47,919
That's a problem.
1235
01:00:47,961 --> 01:00:50,521
We get a lot of our electricity
from Hoover Dam
1236
01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:51,758
out in Las Vegas.
1237
01:00:51,798 --> 01:00:53,231
Hmm.
1238
01:00:53,266 --> 01:00:56,702
Phoenix, for God's sake,
Las Vegas,
1239
01:00:56,736 --> 01:00:59,102
those people have to
worry about where to go,
1240
01:00:59,139 --> 01:01:05,873
and community
is what will save us.
1241
01:01:05,911 --> 01:01:07,776
You are gonna have to do it
in conjunction
1242
01:01:07,813 --> 01:01:09,405
with your neighbors
and your family
1243
01:01:09,448 --> 01:01:11,973
and the people around you.
1244
01:01:12,017 --> 01:01:13,779
You will fail
as a rugged individual.
1245
01:01:13,818 --> 01:01:16,651
You will survive as a member
of a tribe or a family.
1246
01:01:20,558 --> 01:01:21,855
I have emotion about this.
1247
01:01:21,893 --> 01:01:24,794
I'm losing it.
1248
01:01:43,112 --> 01:01:46,639
We have waited...
1249
01:01:46,682 --> 01:01:51,449
have waited for so long
for somebody to listen to us.
1250
01:01:56,057 --> 01:01:58,958
When the mainstream press
and the government says
1251
01:01:58,994 --> 01:02:00,461
nobody could have
predicted this,
1252
01:02:00,495 --> 01:02:05,125
they're lying through
their fucking teeth.
1253
01:02:05,166 --> 01:02:08,135
We all saw exactly
what was gonna happen
1254
01:02:08,169 --> 01:02:09,760
and how it was gonna happen
1255
01:02:09,803 --> 01:02:12,533
and, remarkably,
when it was gonna happen.
1256
01:02:12,573 --> 01:02:14,200
None of us expected the collapse
1257
01:02:14,241 --> 01:02:16,141
to be as severe
as it's proving to be
1258
01:02:16,176 --> 01:02:18,644
or as fast
as it's proving to be.
1259
01:02:18,679 --> 01:02:20,203
But we've been screaming
for years,
1260
01:02:20,247 --> 01:02:21,942
and we've been watching
everything we said
1261
01:02:21,982 --> 01:02:22,970
come to pass,
1262
01:02:23,016 --> 01:02:28,818
and we have felt so angry.
1263
01:02:43,735 --> 01:02:46,795
I haven't lost
emotional connection to it.
1264
01:02:46,838 --> 01:02:50,103
What I have learned to do
over the course of my life
1265
01:02:50,142 --> 01:02:54,271
is to balance the...
1266
01:02:54,312 --> 01:02:58,408
the horror with love,
1267
01:02:58,449 --> 01:03:02,977
with play,
with making people smile.
1268
01:03:03,020 --> 01:03:04,782
I take my dog out for a walk,
1269
01:03:04,821 --> 01:03:08,450
and we count how many smiles
we can inflict
1270
01:03:08,491 --> 01:03:09,583
in the course of one walk.
1271
01:03:09,626 --> 01:03:11,059
I walk through downtown
Culver City,
1272
01:03:11,094 --> 01:03:13,892
and, you know, I usually
come home, you know, and say,
1273
01:03:13,930 --> 01:03:17,058
"That was 23 smiles
we created today."
1274
01:03:17,100 --> 01:03:19,033
And for some reason
at this moment in time,
1275
01:03:19,068 --> 01:03:21,036
that's a very precious
little treat for me.
1276
01:03:26,709 --> 01:03:30,440
There was a psychologist...
psychiatrist,
1277
01:03:30,479 --> 01:03:32,412
Elizabeth K�bler Ross,
1278
01:03:32,447 --> 01:03:35,416
who talked about
the five stages of grief,
1279
01:03:35,450 --> 01:03:36,439
and when you're hit with
1280
01:03:36,484 --> 01:03:39,783
an overwhelming
life-changing situation.
1281
01:03:39,821 --> 01:03:41,254
The first is denial.
1282
01:03:41,289 --> 01:03:42,688
"This can't possibly
be happening.
1283
01:03:42,724 --> 01:03:46,181
It's not true;
no, it's not happening."
1284
01:03:46,226 --> 01:03:48,888
And you stay in denial,
and you fight to stay in denial.
1285
01:03:48,929 --> 01:03:51,159
Then comes anger.
1286
01:03:51,198 --> 01:03:57,364
I really believe that mankind
is now entering just barely...
1287
01:03:57,404 --> 01:04:01,499
it has just barely crossed the
threshold of the anger phase.
1288
01:04:15,453 --> 01:04:17,284
We have to get through
the anger phase.
1289
01:04:17,322 --> 01:04:19,517
And how we get through
that anger phase
1290
01:04:19,557 --> 01:04:21,582
is going to be critical.
1291
01:04:21,626 --> 01:04:25,289
The way we're going
under current government
1292
01:04:25,330 --> 01:04:27,695
and monetary rule,
1293
01:04:27,731 --> 01:04:29,995
the only kind of anger
that's going to be produced
1294
01:04:30,034 --> 01:04:32,332
is the destructive kind,
1295
01:04:32,369 --> 01:04:35,998
borne of absolute frustration
and bitterness
1296
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,008
that nothing
that's being sold to us
1297
01:04:38,042 --> 01:04:39,134
as being a solution
1298
01:04:39,176 --> 01:04:42,804
is making us feel
any goddamn better.
1299
01:04:42,845 --> 01:04:44,244
Then, of course, after that,
1300
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:45,577
you know,
we have the bargaining.
1301
01:04:45,615 --> 01:04:48,709
Well, the bargaining
is kind of going on now too.
1302
01:04:48,751 --> 01:04:50,651
"Maybe I could've
done something different.
1303
01:04:50,686 --> 01:04:52,313
"Maybe I should have
thought of this.
1304
01:04:52,355 --> 01:04:55,414
Maybe if I do this now,
it won't be different."
1305
01:04:55,457 --> 01:04:57,288
Then you go through
the bargaining,
1306
01:04:57,325 --> 01:04:59,350
and you finally get to a place
of depression,
1307
01:04:59,394 --> 01:05:00,884
where it's really starting
to sink in,
1308
01:05:00,929 --> 01:05:02,521
and these are all
emotional stages
1309
01:05:02,564 --> 01:05:03,588
that one goes through
1310
01:05:03,632 --> 01:05:04,792
whether they're an individual
1311
01:05:04,833 --> 01:05:07,358
or a culture
or a civilization.
1312
01:05:07,402 --> 01:05:09,995
And the final stage
is acceptance,
1313
01:05:10,037 --> 01:05:11,470
and it's really only when people
1314
01:05:11,505 --> 01:05:13,905
have reached
the point of acceptance
1315
01:05:13,941 --> 01:05:15,932
that you can find those people
who are like
1316
01:05:15,976 --> 01:05:17,876
part of the ones
on the Titanic saying,
1317
01:05:17,912 --> 01:05:20,107
"Okay, show us
how to build a lifeboat."
1318
01:05:24,084 --> 01:05:26,314
You know, there's different
ways to look at...
1319
01:05:26,352 --> 01:05:28,081
you can find stories
that support arguments
1320
01:05:28,121 --> 01:05:29,452
that you want to make,
1321
01:05:29,489 --> 01:05:31,354
just because there's
different authors
1322
01:05:31,391 --> 01:05:33,256
that sort of support
your world view,
1323
01:05:33,293 --> 01:05:34,658
and there's other ones
that don't.
1324
01:05:34,694 --> 01:05:37,992
Is it possible to sort
of create a reality
1325
01:05:38,030 --> 01:05:41,397
based on picking news stories
that support your world view?
1326
01:05:48,774 --> 01:05:51,401
I don't do debates anymore,
1327
01:05:51,442 --> 01:05:53,342
and the reason why
I don't do debates anymore
1328
01:05:53,377 --> 01:05:56,574
is because I don't have to.
1329
01:05:56,614 --> 01:05:58,775
At some point, you have
to acknowledge the fact
1330
01:05:58,816 --> 01:06:00,477
that what I've been
writing about
1331
01:06:00,518 --> 01:06:01,712
and what I've been saying
1332
01:06:01,752 --> 01:06:04,186
is actually happening
all around us.
1333
01:06:04,222 --> 01:06:07,850
So why do I need
to debate anything?
1334
01:06:07,891 --> 01:06:09,984
Why does the peak oil movement,
1335
01:06:10,026 --> 01:06:12,426
why does
the sustainability movement,
1336
01:06:12,462 --> 01:06:14,726
need to debate anything?
1337
01:06:14,764 --> 01:06:16,527
Everything that we said
was gonna happen
1338
01:06:16,566 --> 01:06:18,829
is taking place right now.
1339
01:06:26,375 --> 01:06:31,836
Every aspect of human existence
is on the table.
1340
01:06:31,881 --> 01:06:35,441
As far as political parties go,
they're all anachronisms.
1341
01:06:35,483 --> 01:06:40,443
They're all products
of centuries gone by.
1342
01:06:40,488 --> 01:06:43,355
The human race now
is only going to be concerned
1343
01:06:43,391 --> 01:06:44,585
not with an ideology
1344
01:06:44,626 --> 01:06:46,320
but what allows them to survive.
1345
01:06:47,794 --> 01:06:50,854
Capitalism, socialism,
and communism are all terms
1346
01:06:50,898 --> 01:06:53,264
that need to be tossed
in the trash can immediately,
1347
01:06:53,300 --> 01:06:55,234
because all of them were created
1348
01:06:55,269 --> 01:06:58,796
on the assumption
of infinite resources.
1349
01:06:58,839 --> 01:07:02,330
Not one of those ideologies
that are now dead dinosaurs,
1350
01:07:02,375 --> 01:07:03,842
archaic fossils,
1351
01:07:03,876 --> 01:07:06,276
and no longer relevant
to our way of life,
1352
01:07:06,312 --> 01:07:09,372
not one of them recognizes
that there must be a balance
1353
01:07:09,415 --> 01:07:14,647
between growth and the resources
and the planet.
1354
01:07:14,686 --> 01:07:17,678
So forget the idea that you can
have as much as you want,
1355
01:07:17,722 --> 01:07:21,089
because until mankind
surrenders to the fact
1356
01:07:21,126 --> 01:07:22,957
that it lives
on a finite planet
1357
01:07:22,994 --> 01:07:25,224
and it must have balance
with that planet,
1358
01:07:25,263 --> 01:07:27,390
with the planet's resources,
with the animal life,
1359
01:07:27,432 --> 01:07:28,523
and all the other life,
1360
01:07:28,566 --> 01:07:30,966
there can be no happiness
for anything.
1361
01:07:31,001 --> 01:07:32,866
Anything.
1362
01:07:32,903 --> 01:07:35,770
It's all about
getting balance back.
1363
01:07:35,806 --> 01:07:40,266
And who sold me the idea
that it was my destiny to grow?
1364
01:07:40,311 --> 01:07:41,709
Nothing grows forever.
1365
01:07:41,744 --> 01:07:43,507
There's no such thing
as infinite growth.
1366
01:07:43,546 --> 01:07:45,036
It's not possible.
1367
01:07:45,081 --> 01:07:47,481
Look around at everything you
see around you that's living.
1368
01:07:47,517 --> 01:07:49,212
There is a cycle:
1369
01:07:49,252 --> 01:07:53,154
birth, growth, maturation,
decline, and death.
1370
01:07:53,189 --> 01:07:55,248
The challenge being faced
by the human race now
1371
01:07:55,291 --> 01:07:56,450
is either evolve or perish,
1372
01:07:56,491 --> 01:07:57,719
either grow up or die.
1373
01:07:57,759 --> 01:07:58,851
God doesn't care.
1374
01:07:58,894 --> 01:08:00,384
God's not gonna play babysitter
for us.
1375
01:08:00,429 --> 01:08:02,989
The challenge is either
you grow up and mature,
1376
01:08:03,031 --> 01:08:04,589
change your minds
and the way you think,
1377
01:08:04,633 --> 01:08:06,498
or you're gonna perish.
1378
01:08:06,535 --> 01:08:08,230
Everything is on the table now.
1379
01:08:08,270 --> 01:08:09,497
God is on the table.
1380
01:08:09,537 --> 01:08:12,836
Every religion in the world
is on the table now.
1381
01:08:12,873 --> 01:08:15,000
They'll all be measured
as standards by,
1382
01:08:15,042 --> 01:08:17,636
"This is reality, and this is
what the religion says,"
1383
01:08:17,678 --> 01:08:18,838
and every religion in the world
1384
01:08:18,879 --> 01:08:21,404
is gonna be under
a huge microscope.
1385
01:08:21,449 --> 01:08:23,348
This is gonna be
the greatest age of evolution
1386
01:08:23,383 --> 01:08:25,578
in human thinking
that's ever taken place.
1387
01:08:29,389 --> 01:08:30,651
You walk towards your fear.
1388
01:08:30,690 --> 01:08:31,918
You embrace your fear.
1389
01:08:31,958 --> 01:08:34,449
You don't try to hedge it,
1390
01:08:34,494 --> 01:08:36,928
that a part of real living
as a human being,
1391
01:08:36,963 --> 01:08:38,224
as a spiritual being,
1392
01:08:38,264 --> 01:08:41,529
is to embrace and encompass
your fear, your love,
1393
01:08:41,567 --> 01:08:43,967
and not run away from anything,
1394
01:08:44,003 --> 01:08:46,870
because that's
the life experience,
1395
01:08:46,905 --> 01:08:48,634
and it's in that richness
1396
01:08:48,674 --> 01:08:50,903
that I think we find
the most beautiful art,
1397
01:08:50,942 --> 01:08:52,375
the most beautiful music.
1398
01:08:52,410 --> 01:08:56,107
We find the richness of
what the human soul can offer,
1399
01:08:56,147 --> 01:09:01,483
and I see all that richness
buried under such bullshit.
1400
01:09:08,959 --> 01:09:11,325
Can you talk about
your own spirituality?
1401
01:09:11,361 --> 01:09:13,522
You talk about
a lot of different religions.
1402
01:09:13,563 --> 01:09:19,501
How do you define
your own spirituality?
1403
01:09:19,535 --> 01:09:23,164
I quote a Christian,
St. Timothy,
1404
01:09:23,205 --> 01:09:28,666
and I find it to be true
what he said,
1405
01:09:28,711 --> 01:09:33,647
that the love of money
is the root of all evil.
1406
01:09:33,682 --> 01:09:37,083
That's the end result of my
spiritual intellectual quest.
1407
01:09:37,118 --> 01:09:38,346
It is the end.
1408
01:09:38,386 --> 01:09:41,150
It is the fundamental truth
that I have verified
1409
01:09:41,189 --> 01:09:46,455
through three decades of
empirical, investigative, legal,
1410
01:09:46,493 --> 01:09:49,587
academic research,
1411
01:09:49,630 --> 01:09:51,723
trying to answer
some fundamental questions
1412
01:09:51,765 --> 01:09:54,529
about human existence
and why we behave the way we do,
1413
01:09:54,568 --> 01:09:55,762
why we think the way we do,
1414
01:09:55,803 --> 01:09:57,498
why we act the way we do.
1415
01:09:57,538 --> 01:09:59,506
The love of money
is the root of all evil,
1416
01:09:59,540 --> 01:10:00,699
and it is the love of money
1417
01:10:00,740 --> 01:10:03,402
which has the potential
to exterminate,
1418
01:10:03,443 --> 01:10:07,539
to render extinct
the entire human race.
1419
01:10:21,860 --> 01:10:24,454
All right,
so here we have this...
1420
01:10:24,496 --> 01:10:27,488
this likeable,
1421
01:10:27,532 --> 01:10:33,128
sincere guy
in the White House,
1422
01:10:33,170 --> 01:10:38,107
and he is as imprisoned
as we all are.
1423
01:10:38,142 --> 01:10:39,131
I need to cut.
1424
01:10:39,176 --> 01:10:40,837
I need to cut.
I need to cut.
1425
01:10:40,878 --> 01:10:44,142
I'm just having a real powerful
wave of emotion right now,
1426
01:10:44,180 --> 01:10:47,513
because a whole new realization
is opening to me
1427
01:10:47,550 --> 01:10:49,074
about what I'm actually saying,
1428
01:10:49,119 --> 01:10:50,916
and this is some
serious fucking shit,
1429
01:10:50,954 --> 01:10:54,412
so I got to get my head
around it for a second.
1430
01:10:54,457 --> 01:10:56,447
Fuck.
1431
01:10:59,395 --> 01:11:03,729
Okay, I'm ready.
1432
01:11:03,766 --> 01:11:05,097
He is a prisoner of government.
1433
01:11:05,134 --> 01:11:06,192
He's a prisoner of politics.
1434
01:11:06,235 --> 01:11:07,702
He's a prisoner of economics.
1435
01:11:07,736 --> 01:11:10,135
He's a prisoner of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York.
1436
01:11:10,171 --> 01:11:11,968
He's a prisoner
of the Federal Reserve.
1437
01:11:12,006 --> 01:11:15,237
He's a prisoner
of a governmental system
1438
01:11:15,276 --> 01:11:18,575
that's archaic
and not quickly responsive,
1439
01:11:18,613 --> 01:11:24,107
so we should not make
the success or failure
1440
01:11:24,151 --> 01:11:29,555
of human civilization
rest on his shoulders.
1441
01:11:29,589 --> 01:11:37,927
The only thing in the world that
you and I can possibly change
1442
01:11:37,963 --> 01:11:39,931
to give ourselves
a chance of survival
1443
01:11:39,965 --> 01:11:41,762
and to give our children
a chance
1444
01:11:41,801 --> 01:11:48,604
at some kind of human
civilized life is our minds.
1445
01:11:48,641 --> 01:11:54,306
You have to believe, not wish,
not hope, not pray, not beg.
1446
01:11:54,345 --> 01:11:56,677
You just have to believe
that there's a way out of it,
1447
01:11:56,714 --> 01:11:58,341
and you're gonna find it.
1448
01:11:58,383 --> 01:12:00,943
This is perhaps
the greatest part
1449
01:12:00,985 --> 01:12:02,384
of the American character is,
1450
01:12:02,420 --> 01:12:03,512
when we get pissed off
1451
01:12:03,555 --> 01:12:05,249
and we put our minds
to something
1452
01:12:05,289 --> 01:12:07,189
and we clearly understand
what needs to be done
1453
01:12:07,224 --> 01:12:08,452
and we believe in it,
1454
01:12:08,492 --> 01:12:10,858
we really can change things.
1455
01:12:10,894 --> 01:12:16,560
I plan on living joyfully and
happily for the rest of my life,
1456
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:18,363
a free man.
1457
01:12:18,402 --> 01:12:20,392
Shit.
1458
01:12:20,436 --> 01:12:22,961
How can you possibly say
there's no hope?
1459
01:12:23,005 --> 01:12:26,304
Just change your mind
and see what we see.
1460
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:28,071
Stop thinking like dinosaurs.
1461
01:12:32,248 --> 01:12:34,272
So do you feel that the work
that you do,
1462
01:12:34,316 --> 01:12:35,647
you're just gonna do it
1463
01:12:35,684 --> 01:12:37,675
regardless of what the
possible consequences are?
1464
01:12:37,719 --> 01:12:41,018
It just would be so much easier
to have walked away.
1465
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:54,597
If there was a German
in 1932, 1933,
1466
01:12:54,635 --> 01:12:56,762
who had the foresight
to look ahead
1467
01:12:56,804 --> 01:12:59,329
and to see what
the inevitable end result
1468
01:12:59,373 --> 01:13:02,068
of the Third Reich would be,
1469
01:13:02,108 --> 01:13:04,338
if there was somebody
who had seen that coming,
1470
01:13:04,377 --> 01:13:07,505
do you honestly think that
they could in good conscience
1471
01:13:07,547 --> 01:13:09,139
turn around
and walk away from it
1472
01:13:09,182 --> 01:13:11,912
and pretend it wasn't there?
1473
01:13:11,951 --> 01:13:15,113
When every passing day,
1474
01:13:15,153 --> 01:13:16,814
from the first election
of Adolf Hitler
1475
01:13:16,855 --> 01:13:18,686
as Chancellor in 1933,
1476
01:13:18,724 --> 01:13:22,319
to Kristallnacht,
to the Night of the Long Knives,
1477
01:13:22,361 --> 01:13:25,660
to Anschluss,
the occupation of Austria,
1478
01:13:25,697 --> 01:13:28,131
to Sudetenland, Poland,
1479
01:13:28,166 --> 01:13:30,895
as all of those things happened
that were right on the map,
1480
01:13:30,935 --> 01:13:33,802
how do you think that person
would have felt?
1481
01:13:33,838 --> 01:13:37,968
Do you think that person
could have walked away?
1482
01:13:38,009 --> 01:13:41,672
We are all collectively
as a species responsible
1483
01:13:41,712 --> 01:13:46,614
for what may be the greatest
preventable holocaust
1484
01:13:46,650 --> 01:13:49,118
in the history of planet Earth.
1485
01:13:49,152 --> 01:13:52,713
Our own suicide.
1486
01:13:52,756 --> 01:13:56,384
How do you walk away from that?
1487
01:13:56,425 --> 01:13:59,189
How do you sleep at night?
1488
01:13:59,228 --> 01:14:02,288
Who is anybody?
1489
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:07,665
Who are you to tell me
1490
01:14:07,703 --> 01:14:11,331
it would have been easier
to walk away?
1491
01:14:11,372 --> 01:14:12,999
You aren't in my skin.
1492
01:14:13,041 --> 01:14:15,532
It was never easier for me
to walk away
1493
01:14:15,577 --> 01:14:18,671
because to walk away
would have meant to compromise.
1494
01:14:18,713 --> 01:14:23,047
To walk away would have meant
selling out.
1495
01:14:27,854 --> 01:14:34,282
You know, I'm still a guy who,
30 years ago,
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01:14:34,328 --> 01:14:36,888
approached his government
as a citizen
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01:14:36,930 --> 01:14:39,489
asking for redress of grievance.
1498
01:14:39,532 --> 01:14:40,965
I caught the CIA dealing drugs.
1499
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:42,126
It's wrong.
1500
01:14:42,168 --> 01:14:43,635
Somebody needs
to talk about this,
1501
01:14:43,669 --> 01:14:46,365
and I'm still that same guy.
1502
01:14:46,405 --> 01:14:49,704
I'm still the 27-year-old
about to be promoted,
1503
01:14:49,742 --> 01:14:52,539
perfect record,
perfect rating report,
1504
01:14:52,577 --> 01:14:56,911
LAPD...
dedicated, clean LAPD cop.
1505
01:14:56,948 --> 01:14:58,472
He's still alive in me,
1506
01:14:58,516 --> 01:15:02,543
and he very much wants
some answers.
1507
01:15:23,473 --> 01:15:30,538
There is a legend or a fable
that really speaks to my life
1508
01:15:30,580 --> 01:15:31,911
about the 100th Monkey.
1509
01:15:41,823 --> 01:15:44,451
A long time ago
in the late '40s, early '50s
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01:15:44,493 --> 01:15:46,518
when atom bombs and H-bombs
were in vogue
1511
01:15:46,561 --> 01:15:49,723
with above-ground testing,
1512
01:15:49,764 --> 01:15:53,359
we set off an atom bomb
on an atoll in the Pacific,
1513
01:15:53,401 --> 01:15:55,198
and then we waited
a number of years,
1514
01:15:55,236 --> 01:15:57,602
because we wanted
to answer questions like,
1515
01:15:57,638 --> 01:15:59,902
"Gee, how soon after we
nuked something
1516
01:15:59,940 --> 01:16:03,102
would it be possible to get
any kind of life started again?"
1517
01:16:05,679 --> 01:16:07,169
So they went back
to this island,
1518
01:16:07,213 --> 01:16:09,909
and they decided
to repopulate it with monkeys,
1519
01:16:09,949 --> 01:16:12,349
and the monkeys ate coconuts.
1520
01:16:12,385 --> 01:16:14,376
Everything was pretty healthy
1521
01:16:14,421 --> 01:16:16,718
except for the fact that
the husks of the coconuts
1522
01:16:16,755 --> 01:16:21,658
were slightly radioactive.
1523
01:16:21,694 --> 01:16:25,528
So the scientists took
ten monkeys or so
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01:16:25,564 --> 01:16:28,397
and taught them
to wash the coconuts
1525
01:16:28,434 --> 01:16:31,960
in a fresh water stream
on the island
1526
01:16:32,003 --> 01:16:34,437
before they cracked them open
1527
01:16:34,472 --> 01:16:38,408
and turned the whole thing loose
to see what would happen.
1528
01:16:38,443 --> 01:16:39,740
Well, you know, pretty soon,
1529
01:16:39,777 --> 01:16:42,643
maybe 12 monkeys out of
a population of 10,000
1530
01:16:42,679 --> 01:16:44,112
were washing their coconuts
1531
01:16:44,147 --> 01:16:47,310
and then 20,
and then 47.
1532
01:16:49,419 --> 01:16:52,252
But a funny thing happened.
1533
01:16:52,289 --> 01:16:53,984
As soon as the 100th monkey
1534
01:16:54,024 --> 01:16:55,651
started washing
his coconut husk,
1535
01:16:55,692 --> 01:16:59,024
all 10,000 started
washing simultaneously.
1536
01:17:01,664 --> 01:17:04,633
I guess one way that I have
always looked at my life,
1537
01:17:04,667 --> 01:17:06,601
especially since
I clearly understood
1538
01:17:06,635 --> 01:17:12,732
what this issue was
in late 2001 is,
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01:17:12,774 --> 01:17:15,242
this is my quest
for the 100th monkey.
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