Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008) - full transcript

The old appeals to racial,
sexual or religious chauvinism,

to rabid nationalist fervor
are beginning not to work.

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

All that's learned
along the way.

It's just a ride...

And we can change it
anytime we want.

It's only the choice.

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

I realised
I had the game wrong.

The game was to find out
what I already was.

We were seeing



how very important it is

to bring about,
in the human mind,

the radical revolution.

The crisis
is a crisis in consciousness.

A crisis that cannot,
anymore,

accept the old norms,

the old patterns,

the ancient traditions.

And, considering
what the world is now,

with all the misery,

conflict,

destructive brutality,

aggression,

and so on...



Man...

is still as he was.

Is still brutal,

violent,

aggressive,

acquisitive,

competitive.

and, he's built
a society

along these lines.

Society today,

is composed of
a series of institutions.

From political institutions,

legal institutions,

religious institutions.

to institutions of social class,

familiar values,

and occupational specialization.

It is obvious, the profound influence
these traditionalized structures have

in shaping our understandings
and perspectives.

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

directed by
and conditioned upon,

there seems to be no system
as taken for granted,

and misunderstood,

as the monetary system.

Taking on
nearly religious proportions,

the established monetary
institution exists

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

How money is created,

the policies
by which it is governed,

and how it truly
affects society,

are unregistered interests of
the great majority of the population.

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

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

from poverty
and preventable diseases,

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

One thing is clear.

Something is very wrong.

And, whether we are
aware of it or not,

the lifeblood of all of our
established institutions,

and thus society itself,

is money.

Therefore, understanding this
institution of monetary policy

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

Unfortunately, economics is often
viewed with confusion and boredom.

Endless streams of financial jargon,
coupled with intimidating mathematics,

quickly deters people
from attempts at understanding it.

However, the fact is:

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

Designed to conceal one of the
most socially paralyzing structures,

humanity
has ever endured.

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

the Federal Reserve,

produced a document entitled
Modern Money Mechanics.

This publication
detailed the

institutionalized
practice of money creation,

as utilized by
the Federal Reserve and

the web of global commercial banks
it supports.

On the opening page,
the document states its objective.

The purpose
of this booklet is to

describe the basic process
of money creation

in a 'fractional reserve'
banking system.

It then precedes to describe
this fractional reserve process

through various
banking terminology.

A translation of which
goes something like this:

The United States government
decides it needs some money.

So it calls up the Federal Reserve
and requests,

say,
10 billion dollars.

The FED replies,
saying:

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

So the government takes
some pieces of paper,

paints some
official looking designs on them

and calls them
treasury bonds.

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

and sends them over
to the FED.

In turn,
the people of the FED

drop a bunch of impressive
pieces of papers themselves.

Only this time,
calling them Federal Reserve notes.

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

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

Once this exchange
is complete,

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

and deposits it
into an bank account.

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

adding ten billion
to the US money supply.

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

Of course,
this example is a generalization.

For, in reality, this transaction
would occur electronically,

with no paper
used at all.

In fact, only three percent
of the US money supply

exists in
physical currency.

The other 97 percent essentially
exists in computers alone.

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

And when the FED
purchases these bonds,

with money it essentially
created out of thin air,

the government is actually
promising to pay back

that money to the FED.

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

This mind numbing paradox,
of how money or value

can be created
out of debt,

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

So, the exchange
has been made.

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

Here is where it gets
really interesting.

For, as based on the
fractional reserve practice,

that ten billion dollar
deposit

instantly becomes
part of the bank's reserves,

just as all deposits do.

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

A bank must maintain
legally required reserves

equal to a prescribed
percentage of its deposits.

It then quantifies this
by stating:

Under current regulations,

the reserve requirement against most
transaction accounts is 10 percent.

This means that with a
ten billion dollar deposit,

ten percent,
or one billion,

is held as
the required reserve,

while the other nine billion is
considered an excessive reserve,

and can be used
as the basis

for new loans.

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

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

However, this is actually
not the case.

What really happens,
is that the nine billion

is simply created
out of thin air

on top of the existing
10 billion dollar deposit.

This is how the money supply
is expanded.

As stated in
Modern Money Mechanics:

Of course they,
the banks,

do not really pay out
loans for the money

they receive as
deposits.

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

What they do
when they make loans

is to accept
promissory notes,

loan contracts,

in exchange for credits,
money,

to the borrowers'
transaction accounts.

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

simply because there is
a demand for such a loan,

and that there is
a 10 billion dollar deposit

to satisfy
the reserve requirements.

Now let's assume that
somebody walks into this bank

and borrows the newly available
nine billion dollars.

They will then most likely
take that money and deposit it

into their own bank account.

The process then repeats.

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

Ten percent is isolated, and in turn,
90 percent of the nine billion,

or 8.1 billion is now availlable as
newly created money for more loans.

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

creating an additional
7.2 billion

to 6.5 billion,
to 5.9 billion, etc.

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

The average mathematical result
is that about 90 billion dollars

can be created on top
of the original 10 billion.

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

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

Money jitters.

Ask the obliging Bank of America
for a jar of

soothing instant money.

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

So, now that we understand
how money is created

by this fractional reserve
banking system.

A logical, yet illusive question
might come to mind:

What is actually giving this
newly created money value?

The answer:
The money that already exists.

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

For the total pool of money
is being increased,

irrespective to demand
for goods and services.

And, as supply and demand
defines equilibrium,

Prices rise,

diminishing the purchasing power
of each individual dollar.

This is generally referred to
as inflation.

And inflation is essentially
a hidden tax on the public.

What is the advice
that you generally get?

And that is,
inflate the currency.

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

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

They say:
Lower the interest rates.

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

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

Yet there is
so-called capital.

So, my question
boils down to this:

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

That is,
increase in the supply of money,

with more inflation.

Of course, it can't.

The fractional reserve system
of monetary expansion

is inherently inflationary.

For the act of
expanding the money supply,

without there being

a proportional expansion of goods
and services in the economy,

will always
debase a currency.

In fact, the quick glance
of the historical values

of the US dollar,
versus the money supply,

reflects this point
definitively,

for the inverse relationship
is obvious.

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

That is
a 96% devaluation

since the Federal Reserve
came into existence.

Now, if this reality of
inherent and perpetual inflation

seems absurd and
economically self-defeating,

hold that thought,
for absurdity is an understatement,

in regard to how our financial system
really operates.

For in our financial system,
money is debt,

and debt is money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

is owed to somebody
by somebody.

For remember:

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

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

including the government,

there would not be one dollar
in circulation.

In fact, the last time
in American history,

the national debt
was completely paid off

was in 1835,
after President Andrew Jackson,

shut down the Central Bank
that preceded the Federal Reserve.

In fact,
Jackson's entire political platform

essentially revolved
around his commitment

to shut down
the Central Bank.

Stating that one point:

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

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

Should they be deluded into
a perpetuation of this institution

or, the establishment
of another like it.

Unfortunately,
this message was short lived.

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

The Federal Reserve.

And as long as
this institution exists,

perpetual debt
is guaranteed.

Now, so far we have
discussed the reality

that money is created
out of debt through loans.

These loans are based
on a bank's reserves,

and reserves are derived
from deposits.

And through this
fractional reserve system,

any one deposit can create
9 times its original value.

In turn, debasing the
existing money supply,

raising prices in society.

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

and circulated randomly
through commerce,

people become detached
from their original debt.

And a disequilibrium
exists,

where people are forced
to compete for labor,

in order to pull enough money
out of the money supply

to cover
their costs of living.

As dysfunctional and backwards
as all of this might seem,

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

And it is this element
of the structure

which reveals the truly fraudulent
nature of the system itself.

The application of interest.

When the government
borrows money from the FED,

or when a person borrows
money from a bank,

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

In other words, almost every
single dollar that exists

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

But,

if all money is borrowed
from the Central Bank

and is expanded by
commercial banks through loans,

only what would be refered
to as the principal

is been created
in the money supply.

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

Nowhere.

It doesn't exist.

The ramifications of this
are staggering,

for the amount of money
owed back to the banks

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

This is why inflation is
a constant in the economy,

For new money
is always needed

to help cover the perpetual deficit
build into the system,

caused by the need
to pay the interest.

What this also means,

is that mathematically,
defaults and bankruptcy

are literally
built into the system.

And there will always be
poor pockets of society

that get the
short end of the stick.

An analogy would be
a game of musical chairs,

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

And that's the point.

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

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

they will take
your property.

This is particularly enraging
when you realize,

that not only is such
a default inevitable

due to the
fractional reserve practice.

But, also
because of the fact

that the money that
the bank loaned to you

didn't even legally exist
in the first place.

In 1969, there was a
Minnesota court case

involving a man named
Jerome Daly,

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

which provided the loan
to purchase it.

His argument was that the mortgage
contract required both parties,

being he and the bank,

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

In legal language,
this is called consideration.

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

For it was created
out of nothing,

as soon as the loan agreement
was signed.

Remember what Modern Money Mechanics
stated about loans?

What they do,
when they make loans,

is to accept promissory notes,
in exchange for credits.

Reserves are unchanged
by the loan transactions.

But, deposit credits
constitute new additions

to the total deposits
of the banking system.

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

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

except for a theoretical liability,
on paper.

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

Mr. Morgan,
took the stand.

And in the judge's
personal memorandum,

he recalled that the Plaintiff,
bank's president,

admitted that, in combination
with the Federal Reserve Bank

did create the money
and credits

upon its books
by book-keeping entry.

The money and credit
first came into existence

when they created it.

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

which gave him
the right to do this.

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

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

He also poetically added:

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

And,
upon this revelation,

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

The implications of this
court decision are immense.

For every time
you borrow money from a bank,

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

the money given to you
is not only counterfeit,

it is a illegitimate form
of consideration.

And hence,
voids the contract to repay.

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

Unfortunately, such legal realizations
are suppressed and ignored.

And the game of
perpetual wealth transfer

and perpetual debt
continues.

And this brings us to
the ultimate question:

Why?

During the
American Civil War,

President Lincoln bypassed
the high interest loans

offered by
the European banks

and decided to do what
the Founding Fathers advocated.

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

It was called
The Greenback.

Shortly after this measure was taken,
an internal document

circulated between private British
and American banking interests, stated:

Slavery is
but the owning of labor

and carries with it
the care of the laborers,

while the European plan...

is that capital shall control labor
by controlling wages.

This can be done
by controlling the money.

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

The fractional reserve policy,

perpetrated by
the Federal Reserve

which has spread,
in practice,

to the great majority of banks
in the world,

is, in fact,
a system of modern slavery.

Think about it,
money is created out of debt.

And what do people do
when they are in debt?

They submit to employment
to pay it off.

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

how can society
ever be debt free?

It can't
and that's the point.

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

with the perpetual debt and inflation
inherent in the system,

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

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

that keeps
the wage-slave in line,

running on a hamster wheel,
with millions of others,

in effect,
powering an empire

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

For,
at the end of the day,

who are you
really working for?

The banks.

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

They are
the true masters,

along with the corporations
and governments they support.

Physical slavery requires
people to be housed and fed.

Economic slavery requires people
to feed and house themselves.

It is one of the most ingenious scams
for social manipulation ever created.

And at its core,

it is an invisible war
against the population.

Debt is the weapon used
to conquer and enslave societies,

and interest
is its prime ammunition.

And, as the majority walks around,
oblivious to this reality,

the banks, in collusion with
governments and corporations

continue to perfect and expand
their tactics of economic warfare,

spawning new bases,
such as the World Bank

and International Monetary Fund,

while also inventing
a new type of soldier.

The birth of
the economic hitman.

We, economic hitmen,
really have been the ones responsible

for creating this
first truly global empire

And we work
many different ways.

But perhaps the most common
is that we will

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

And then, arrange a
huge loan to that country

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

But the money never actually
goes to the country.

Instead it goes
to our big corporations,

to build infrastructure projects
in that country.

Power plants,
industrial parks, ports...

Things that benefit
a few rich people in that country.

In addition
to our corporations.

But really don't help
a majority of the people at all.

However,
those people,

the whole country is left
holding the huge debt.

It's such a big debt they can't repay
and that's part of the plan...

They can't repay it.

And so, in some point,
we economic hitmen,

go back to them and say:
Listen.

You owe us
a lot of money.

You can't pay your debts.
So, sell your oil,

real cheap
to our oil companies,

allow us to build a military base
in your country, or...

send troops in support of ours
to someplace in the world like Iraq,

or vote with us
on the next UN vote,

to have their
electric utility company privatized

and their water and
sewage system privatized

and sold to
US corporations or other

multi-national corporations.

So there is a
whole mushrooming thing

and it's so typical the way
the IMF and the World Bank work.

They put
a country in debt,

and it's such a big debt,
they can't pay it,

and then you offer
to refinance that debt

and pay
even more interest.

And you demand

this quid pro quo,
what you call a conditionality

or good governance

which means basically that they got
to sell off their resources,

including many
of their social services,

their utility companies,
their school systems sometimes,

their penal systems,

their insurance systems,
to foreign corporations.

So it's a
double-triple-quadruple whammy!

The precedent for economic hitmen
really began back in the early 50's

when the democratically-elected
Mossadegh

who was
elected in Iran...

He was considered to be
the hope for democracy

in the Middle East
and around the world.

He was in Time Magazine's
Man of the Year.

But, one of the things
that he brought on

and began to implement
was the idea that

foreign oil companies needed
to pay the Iranian people

a lot more for the oil that
they were taking out of Iran

and the Iranian people
should benefit from their own oil.

Strange policy.

We didn't like that,
of course.

But we were afraid to do
what we normally were doing,

which was to
send in the military.

Instead we sent in
one CIA agent,

Kermit Roosevelt,
Teddy Roosevelt's relative.

And Kermit went in
with a few million dollars

and was very, very effective
and efficient

and in a short
amount of time,

he managed to get
Mossadeg overthrown

and brought in the Shah of Iran
to replace him,

who always was
favorable to oil.

And it was
extremely effective.

Mobs over
through Tehran.

Army officers shout that
Mossadeg has surrendered

and his regime as
virtual dictator of Iran is ended.

Pictures of the Shah are paraded through
the streets as sentiment reverses.

The Shah
is welcomed home.

So back here in the United States,
in Washington,

people looked around and said:
Wow, that was easy and cheap.

So this established a whole new way
of manipulating countries,

of creating empire.

The only problem with Roosevelt was
that he was a card-carrying CIA agent

and if he'd been caught,

the ramifications
could have been pretty serious.

So very quickly,
at that point,

the decision was made
to use private consultants

to channel the money
through the World Bank

or the IMF or one of
the other such agencies,

to bring in people like me,
who work for private companies.

So that
if we got caught,

there would be
no governmental ramifications.

When ?rbenz became
President of Guatemala,

the country was very much under
the thumbs of United Fruit company,

the big international corporation.

And ?rbenz ran on this ticket
that said:

You know, we want to give the land
back to the people.

And once
he took power,

he was implementing policies
that would do exactly that,

give the land rights
back to the people.

United Fruit didn't like that
very much.

And so, they hired
a public relations firm,

launched a huge campaign
in the United States,

to convince the United States people,
the citizens of the United States,

the press of the United States
and the congress of the United States,

that ?rbenz
was a Soviet puppet

And that if we allowed him
to stay in power,

the Soviets would have a foothold
in this hemisphere.

And at that point in time,

there was a huge fear
on everybody's mind,

of the Red terror,
the Communist terror.

And so, to make a long story short,
out of this public relations campaign

came a commitment
on the part of the CIA

and the military
to take this man out.

And in fact,
we did.

We sent in planes, we sent in soldiers,
we sent in jackals,

we sent everything in to take him out.
And did take him out.

And as soon as he was
removed from office,

the new guy that took over after him
basically reinstated everything

to the big international
corporations,

including United Fruit.

Ecuador, for many many years
had been ruled

by pro-US dictators,
often relatively brutal.

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

Jaime Roldos ran for office
and his main goal,

he said,
as president would be

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

And he won.
Overwhelming.

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

And he began to
implement these policies.

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

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

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

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

To let him know...
You know.

Okay, you know,
you can get very rich,

you and your family,
if you play our game.

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

you're gonna go.

He woudn't listen...

He was assassinated...

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

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

and some of
the Ecuadorian military.

When an investigation
was launched,

two of the key witnesses
died in a car accidents

before they have
a chance to testify.

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

the assassination of
Jaime Roldos.

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

have absolutely no doubt
that it was an assassination.

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

I was always expecting
something to happen to Jaime,

whether it'd be
a coup or assassination,

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

he was
not being corrupted,

he would not allow himself
to be corrupted

the way we wanted
to corrupt him.

Omar Torrijos,
the president of Panama,

was, you know,
one of my favorite people.

I really really
liked him.

He was very charasmatic.

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

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

Look, John...

He called me Juanito...

He said:
Look Juanito,

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

to be treated fairly.

I need for the United States
to repay the debts

that you owe my people

for all the destruction
you've done here.

I need to be
in a position where

I can help other
Latin American countries

win their independence
and be free of this,

of this terrible presence
from the north.

You people are
exploiting us so badly.

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

That's what I want.

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

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

And Omar
was very aware of this.

Torrijos got his family together
and he said:

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

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

I renegotiated the Canal.

The Canal will now be
in our hands,

we just finished negotiating
the treaty with Jimmy Carter.

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

he also went down
in an airplane crash,

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

A tremendous
amount of evidence that

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

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

A small tape recorder
that contained a bomb.

It is intersting to me
how this

system has continued
pretty much the same way

for years,
and years, and years,

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

Then we coped with, very recently,
what happened in Venezuela.

In 1998, Hugo Chavez
gets elected president,

following a
long line of presidents

who'd been very corrupt

and basically destroyed
the economy of the country.

And Chavez was elected
amidst all that.

Chavez stood up
to the United States

and he's done it primarily
demanding that Venezuelian oil

be used
to help the Venezuelian people.

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

So, in 2002,

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

other peoples' minds,
that the CIA was behind that coup.

The way,
that that coup was fomented

was very reflective of what
Kermit Roosevelt had done in Iran.

Of paying people to go out
onto the streets,

To riot, to protest, to say
that Chavez was very unpopular.

You know, if you can get
a few thousand people

to do that,
television can make it look like...

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

Except in the case of Chavez,
he was

smart enough and the people
were so strongly behind him,

that they overcame it.

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

Iraq, actually,
is a perfect example of the way

the whole system works.

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

We go in, we try to
corrupt the governments

and get them
to accept these huge loans,

which we then use as leverage
to basically own them.

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

and Ecuador with
Jaime Roldos,

men who refuse
to be corrupted,

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

And the Jackals either
overthrow governments

or they assassinate.

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

Boy,
it's gonna toe the line

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

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

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

We tried very hard,
we tried to get him to accept a deal

very similar to what
the House of Saud had accepted in

Saudi Arabia,
but he wouldn't accept it.

And so the Jackals
went in to take him out.

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

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

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

but he knew the system.

So, in '91,
we send in the troops

and we take out
the Iraqi military.

So, we assumed
at that point that

Saddam Hussein
is gonna come around.

We could have take him out,
of course at that time,

but we didn't want it.
He's the kind of strong man we like.

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

and keep the Iranians in their border
and keep pumping oil for us.

And that once
we took out his military,

now he's gonna
come around.

So, the economic hitmen
go back in in the 90's

without success.

If they'd had success...

he'd still be
running the country.

We'd be selling him
all the fighter jets he wants,

and everything else
he wants,

but they couldn't,
they didn't have success.

The jackals couldn't take him out again,
so we sent the military

in once again, and this time,
we did the complete job

and took him out.

And in the process,
created for ourselves some

very, very lucrative
construction

deals to
reconstruct the country

that we'd
essentially destroyed.

Which is
a pretty good deal

if you own construction companies,
big ones.

So, Iraq shows
the three stages.

The economic hitmen
failed there.

The Jackals failed there.

And as a final measure,
the military goes in.

And in that way,
we've really created an empire,

but we've done it very, very subtly.
It's clandestine.

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

and everybody knew
they were building them.

The British knew they
were building them,

the French, the Germans,
the Romans, the Greeks,

and they were proud of it.
They always had some excuse like

spreading civilization,
spreading some religion,

something like that,
but they knew they were doing it.

We don't.

The majority of the people,
in the United States,

have no idea that we're living off
the benefits of the clandestine empire.

That today there is more slavery
in the world than ever before.

Then you have
to ask yourself, well,

if it's an empire,
then who is the emperor?

Obviously our presidents of
the United States are not emperors.

An emperor is someone
who is not elected,

doesn't serve
a limited term,

and doesn't report to anyone,
essentially.

So you can't classify
our presidents that way.

But we do have
what I consider to be

the equivalent of the emperor and
it's what I call the corporatocracy.

The corporatocracy
is this group of individuals

who run
our biggest corporations.

And they really act as
the emperor of this empire.

They control
our media,

either through direct ownership
or advertising.

They control
most of our politicians

because they finance
their campaigns,

either through
the corporations

or through
personal contributions

that come out of
the corporations.

They're not elected,

then they don't serve
a limited term,

they don't report to anybody,

and at the very top
of the corporatocracy,

you really can't tell

whether the person is working
for a private corporation

or the government because
they're always moving back and forth.

So you know, you've got a guy who,
one moment is the president of

a big construction company
like Haliburton,

and the next moment, he's
Vice President of the United States.

Or the President,
who was in the oil business.

And this is true whether you get
Democrats or Republicans in the office.

You have this moving back and forth
through a revolving door.

And in a way, our government
is invisible a lot of the time,

and his policies are carried out
by our corporations

on one level or another.
And then again,

the policies of the government
are basically

forged
by the corporatocracy,

and then
presented to the government

and they become
government policy.

So, there's an incredibly
cozy relationship.

This isn't a conspiracy theory
type of thing.

These people don't have
to get together

and plot to do things.

They all basically work
under one primary assumption,

and that is that
they must maximize profits,

regardless of the
social and environmental costs.

This process of manipulation
by the corporatocracy

through the use of debt, bribery
and political overthrow is called:

Globalization.

Just as the Federal Reserve keeps
the American public in a postion

of indentured servitude,
though perpetual debt,

inflation and interest,

the World Bank and IMF
serve this role on a global scale.

The basic scam
is simple.

Put a country in debt,
either by it's own indisgression,

or through corrupting the leader
of that country,

then impose conditionalities
or structual adjustment policies

often consisting
of the following.

Currency devaluation.

When the value of a currency drops,
so does everything valued in it.

This makes indigenous resources
available to predator countries

at a fraction
of their worth.

Large funding cuts
for social programs.

These usually include
education and health care.

Compromising the well-being
and integrity of the society,

leaving the public vulnerable

to exploitation.

Privatization of
state-owned enterprises.

This means that
socially important systems

can be purchased
and regulated

by foreign corporations
for profit.

For example, in 1999,
the World Bank insisted

that the Bolivian government
sell the public water system

of it's third-largest city to a subsidy
of the US-corporation Bechtel.

As soon as this occured,

waterbills for the already
impoverished local residents

skyrocketed.

It wasn't until after
full-blown revolt by the people

that the Bechtel contract
was nullified.

Then there is
trade liberalization,

or the opening up
of the economy,

through removing any restrictions
on foreign trade.

This allows for a number of
abusive economic manifestations,

such as
transnational corporations

bringing in their own
mass-produced products,

undercutting the indigineous production
and ruining local economies.

An example is Jamaica,

which after accepting loans and
conditionalities from the World Bank

lost it's largest
cash crop markets

due to competition
with Western imports.

Today countless farmers are out of work,
for they're unable to compete

with the large corporations.

Another variation is
the creation of numerous,

seemingly unnoticed,
unregulated, inhumane

sweatshop factories,

which take advantage of
the imposed economic hardship.

Additionally,
due to production de-regulation,

environmental destruction
is perpetual

as a country's resources
are often exploited

by the
indifferent corporations,

while outputting large amounts
of deliberate pollution.

The largest environmental lawsuit
in the history of the world,

today is being brought
on behalf of

30,000 Ecuadorian and Amazonian
people against Texaco,

which is now owned by Chevron
so it's against Chevron,

but for activities
conducted by Texaco.

They're estimated to be
more than 18 times

what the Exxon Valdez dumped
into the Coast of Alaska.

In the case of Ecuador,
it wasn't an accident.

The oil companies
did it intentionally;

they knew they were doing it
to save money

rather than
arranging for proper disposal.

Furthermore, a cursory glance at the
performance record of the World Bank

reveals that the institution,
which publicly claims to

help poor countries develop
and alleviate poverty,

has done nothing but
increase poverty and the wealth-gap,

while corporate profits soar.

In 1960,
the income-gap between

the fifth of the world's people
and the richest countries,

versus the fifth
in the poorest countries

was thirty to one.

By 1998,
it was seventy-four to one.

While global GNP rose 40%
between 1970 and 1985,

those in poverty,
actually increased, by 17%.

While from
1985 to 2000,

those living on less than
one dollar a day increased by 18%.

Even the Joint Economic Committee
of the U.S. Congress admitted

that there is a mere 40% success rate
of all World Bank projects.

In the late 1960's, the World Bank
intervened in Ecuador with large loans.

During the next 30 years,
poverty grew from 50% to 70%.

Under or unemployment
grew from 15% to 70%.

Public debt increased from
240 million to 16 billion,

while the share of resources allocated
to the poor went from 20% to 6%.

In fact, by the year 2000,
50% of Ecuador's national budget

had to be allocated
for paying its debts.

It is important to understand:
the World Bank is,

in fact, a U.S. bank,
supporting U.S. interests.

For the United States holds
veto-power over decisions,

as it is the
largest provider of capital.

And where did
it get this money?

You guessed it:

It made it
out of thin air

through the
fractional reserve banking system.

Of the world's top 100 economies,
as based on annual GDP,

51 are corporations.

And 47 of that 51,
are U.S.-based.

Walmart,
General Motors and Exxon,

are more economically powerful
than Saudi Arabia,

Poland, Norway, South Africa,
Finland, Indonesia and many others.

And, as protective trade barriers
are broken down,

currencies tossed together
and manipulated in floating markets

and State economies
overturned

in favor of open competition in
global capitalism, the empire expands.

You get up on
your little 21 inch screen

and howl about America
and democracy.

There is no America,
there is no democracy.

There is only IBM,
and ITT, and AT&T,

and DuPont, Dow,
Union Carbide, and Exxon.

Those are the nations
of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk
about in their counsels of state?

Karl Marx?

They get out their
linear programming charts,

statistical decision theories,

min and max solutions and
compute the price-cost probabilities

of their transactions and investments,
just like we do.

We no longer live in a world of
nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.

The world is
a college of corporations,

inexorably determined
by the immutable

bylaws of business.

The world is a business,
Mr. Beale.

The World is being taken over
by a hand-full of business powers

who dominate the natural resources
we need to live,

while controlling the money
we need to obtain these resources.

The end result
will be world monopoly,

based not on human life,
but financial and corporate power.

And,
as the inequality grows,

naturally, more and more people
are becoming desperate.

So the establishment was forced
to come up with a new way to deal

with anyone
who challenges the system.

So they gave birth
to the 'Terrorist'.

The term 'terrorist'
is an empty distinction

designed for any person
or group,

who chooses to challenge
the establishment.

This isn't to be confused
with the fictional 'Al Qaida',

which was actually
the name of a computer database

of the U.S.-supported Mujahadeen
in the 1980's.

In 2007, the Department of Defense
received 161.8 billion dollars

for the so-called global war
on terrorism.

According to the
National Counter-Terrorism Center,

in 2004,
roughly 2000 people

were killed internationally

due to
supposed terrorist acts.

Of that number,
70 were American.

Using this number
as a general average,

which is
extremely generous,

it is interesting to note
that twice as many

people die from peanut allergies a year,
than from terrorist acts.

Concurrently, the leading cause
of death in America

is coronary heart disease,

killing roughly 450,000
each year.

And in 2007,
the government's allocation of funds

for research
on this issue

was about
three billion dollars.

This means, that the US government,
in 2007,

spent 54 times the amount
for preventing terrorism,

than it spent for
preventing for the disease,

which kills 6600 times
more people annually,

than terrorism does.

Yet, as the name
terrorism and Al Qaida

are arbitrarilly stamped
on every news report,

relating to any action
taken against US interests,

the myth grows wider.

In mid 2008,
the US Attorney General

actually proposed,
that the US congress

officially declare war
against the fantasy.

Not to mention, as of July 2008,
there are now over 1 million people

currently on
the US terrorist watch list.

These so called
Counter-Terrorism Measures,

of course had nothing to do
with social protection

and everything to do
with preserving the establishment

amongst the growing
anti-American sentiment,

both domestically,
and internationally,

which is legitimately
founded on

the greed-based
corporate empire expansion

that is exploiting the world.

The true terrorists of our world,
do not meet at the darks at midnight

or scream Allah Akbar
before some violent action.

The true terrorists of our world,
wear 5000 dollar suits

and work in the highest positions
of finance, government and business.

So, what do we do?

How do we stop a system
of greed and corruption,

that has so much
power and momentum?

How do we stop this
aberrant group behavior,

which feels
no compassion,

for say, the millions slaughtered
in Iraq and Afghanistan,

so the corporatocracy
can control

energy resources and opium production
for Wall Street profit.

How do we stop a system
of greed and corruption

that condemns
poor populations

to sweatshop slavery
for the benefit of Madison Avenue?

Or that engineers
false-flag terror attacks

for the sake of manipulation?

Or that generates
built-in modes of social operation,

which are inherently
exploited?

Or that systematicly reduces
several liberties

and violates human rights,

in order to protect itself,
from it's own shortcomings?

How do we deal with the
numerous covert institutions,

such as
the Council on Foreign Relations,

the Trilateral Commission,

and the Bilderberg Group

and other undemocratically
elected groups

which behind closed doors
collude to control the political,

financial, social and environmental
elements of our lives?

In order to find the answer,
we must first find,

the true underlying cause.

For the fact is, the selfish, corrupt,
power and profit-based groups

are not the true source
of the problem.

They are symptoms.

My name is Jacque Fresco.

I'm an industrial designer
and a social engineer.

I'm very much interested
in society

and developing a system that might be
sustainable, for all people.

First of all, the word 'corruption'
is a monetary invention,

that aberrant behavior,

behavior that's disruptive
for the well-being of people.

Well, you're dealing with
human behavior.

And human behavior appears to be
environmentally determined.

Meaning, if you were raised by
the Seminole Indians as a baby,

never saw anything else,

you'd hold that value system.

And this goes for nations,
it goes for individuals,

for families, they try to
indoctrinate their children

to their particular faith
and their country

and make them feel like
they're part of that.

And they built a society,
which they call established.

They established
a workable point of view

and tend
to perpetuate that.

Whereas, all societies
are really emergent,

not established.

And so
they fight new ideas

that would interfere
with the establishment.

Goverments try to perpetuate
that which keeps them in power.

People are not elected
to political office to change things.

They are put there,
to keep things the way they are.

So you see, the bases of corruption
is in our society.

Let me make it clear.

All nations then,
are basically corrupt

because they tend to uphold
existing institutons.

I don't mean to uphold
or downgrade all nations,

but communism, socialism, fascism,
the free enterprise-system

and all other sub-cultures
are the same.

They are all
basically corrupt.

The most fundamental characteristic
of our social institutions

is the necessity
for self-preservation.

Whether dealing with a corporation,
a religion or a government,

the foremost interest is
to preserve the institution itself.

For instance, the last thing
an oil company would ever want

is the utilization of energy,
that was outside of it's control.

For it makes that company
less relevant to society.

Likewise the Cold War and the collapse
of the Soviet Union was, in reality,

a way to preserve
and perpetuate

the established economic and
global hegemony of the United States.

Similarly, religions condition people
to feel guilty for natural inclinations,

each claiming to offer the only path
to forgiveness and salvation.

At the heart of this
institutional self-preservation

lies the monetary system.

For it is money that provides
the means for power and survival.

Therefore,
just as a poor person

might be forced to steal,
in order to survive,

it is a natural inclination to do
whatever is needed

to continue
an institution's profitability.

This makes it inherently difficult
for profit-based institutions to change,

For it puts
in jeopardy,

not only the survival
of large groups of people,

but also the coveted,
materialistic lifestyles

associated with
affluence and power.

Therefore, the paralyzing necessity
to preserve an institution,

regardless of
its social relevance

is largely rooted
in the need for money or profit.

What's in it for me?,
is why people think.

And so if a man makes money
selling a certain product,

that's where
he's going to fight

the existence of another product
that may threaten his institution.

Therefore,
people cannot be fair.

And people do not
trust each other.

A guy will come over
to you and say,

I've got just the house
you're looking for,

he's a salesman.

When a doctor says,
I think your kidney has to come out,

I don't know if
he's trying to pay off a yacht

or that my kidney
has to come out.

It's hard in a monetary system
to trust people.

If you came into my store
and I said,

this lamp that I've got is pretty good,
but the lamp next door is much better,

I wouldn't be in business very long.
It wouldn't work.

If I were ethical,
it wouldn't work.

So when you say
industry cares for people,

that's not true.

They can't afford
to be ethical.

So your system is not designed
to serve the well-being of people.

If you still don't understand that,
there would be no outsourcing of jobs

if they cared
about people.

Industry does not care.

They only hire people because
it hasn't been automated yet.

So don't talk about
decency and ethics,

we cannot afford it
and remain in business.

It is important to point out that
regardless of the social system,

whether fascist, socialist,
capitalist or communist,

the underlying mechanism is still
money, labor and competition.

Communist China is no less
capitalistic than the United States.

The only difference is
the degree by which

the state intervenes
in enterprise.

The reality is that monetary-ism,
so to speak, is the true mechanism,

that guides the interests of
all the countries on the planet.

The most agressive and hence dominant
variation of this monetary-ism

is the free enterprise system.

The fundamental perspective as put
forth by early free market economists,

like Adam Smith,

is that self-interest and competition
leads to social prosperity,

as the act of competition
creates incentive,

which motivates people
to persevere.

However,
what isn't talked about,

is how a
competition-based economy

invariably leads to
strategic corruption, power,

and wealth consolidation,

social stratification,
technological paralysis, labor abuse

and ultimately a covert form
of government dictatorship

by the rich elite.

The word corruption is often
defined as moral perversion.

If a company dumps toxic waste
into the ocean to save money,

most people recognize
this as corrupt behavior.

On a more subtle level,

when Walmart moves
into a small town

and forces small businesses
to shut down,

for they are unable
to compete,

a grey area emerges.

For what exactly
is Walmart doing wrong?

Why should they care about the Mom
and Pop organizations they destroy?

Yet even more subtly,

when a person gets fired from their job,
because a new machine has been created,

which can do the work
for less money,

people tend to just
accept that as

the way it is,

not seen the inherent corrupt
inhumanity of such an action.

Because the fact is,

whether it is dumping toxic waste,
having a monopoly enterprise

or downsizing the workforce,

the motive is the same:

Profit.

They are all different degrees of
the same self-preserving mechanism,

which always puts the well-being
of people second to monetary gain.

Therefore, corruption is not
some byproduct of monetary-ism.

It is
the very foundation.

And while most people acknowledge
this tendency on one level or another,

majority remains naive as
to the broad ramifications

of having such a selfish mechanism
as the guiding mentality in society.

Internal documents show that
after this company

positively,
absolutely knew that

they had a medication that was
infected with the AIDS virus,

they took the product
off the market in the US,

and then they dumped it in France,
Europe, Asia and Latin America.

The US government
allowed it to happen.

The FDA allowed this
to happen

and now the government is
completely looking the other way.

Thousands of innocent hemophiliacs
have died from the AIDS virus.

This company knew absolutely
that it was infected with AIDS.

They dumped it because they wanted
to turn this disaster into a profit.

So you see,
you have built-in corruption.

We're all chiseling off
each other,

and you can't expect decency
in that sort of thing.

A feeling that they
don't know who to elect.

They think in terms
of a democracy,

which is not possible
in a monetary-based economy.

If you have more money to
advertise your position,

the position
you desire in government,

that isn't a democracy.

It serves those in positions
of differential advantage.

So it's always
a dictatorship of the elitist,

the financially wealthy.

It is
an interesting observation

to note how
seemingly unknown personalities,

magically appear on the scene
as presidential candidates.

Then before
you know it,

somehow you are left
to choose from

a small group of
extremely wealthy people

who suspiciously have
the same broad social view.

Obviously,
it's a joke.

The people placed on
the ballot are done so

because they have been
pre-decided to be acceptable

by the established financial powers,
who actually run the show.

Yet many who understand this
illusion of democracy, often think,

"If only we could just get our honest,
ethical politicians in power,

then we would be okay."

Well, while this idea of
course seems reasonable

in our established,
oriented world view,

it is unfortunately
another fallacy.

For when it really comes down
to what is actually important,

the institution of politics
and thus politicians themselves,

have absolutely
no true relevance

as to what makes
our world and society function.

It's not politicians
that can solve problems.

They have
no technical capabilities.

They don't know
how to solve problems.

Even if they were sincere,
they don't know how to solve problems.

It's the technicians that
produce the desalinization plants.

It's the technicians
that give you electricity.

That give you
motor vehicles.

That heat your house and cool it
in the summer time.

It's technology
that solves problems,

not politics.

Politics cannot solve problems
'cause they are not trained to do so.

Very few people today
stop and consider

what it is that actually
improves their lives.

Is it money?
Obviously not.

One cannot eat money or stuff money
into their car to get it to run.

Is it politics?

All politicians can do
is create laws,

establish budgets
and declare war.

Is it religion?

Of course not,
religion creates nothing except

intangible emotional solace
for those who require it.

The true gift that
we as human beings have,

which has been solely
responsible for everything

that has improved
our lives,

is technology.

What is technology?

Technology
is a pencil,

which allows one to solidify ideas
on paper for communication.

Technology
is an automobile,

which allows one to travel faster
than feet would allow.

Technology
is a pair of eye glasses,

which enables sight
for those who need it.

Applied technology
itself,

is merely and extension
of human attributes,

which reduces
human effort,

freeing humans from
a particular chore or problem.

Imagine what your life would be like
today without a telephone,

or an oven,

or a computer,

or an airplane.

Everything in your home,
which you take for granted,

from a doorbell,

to a table,

to a dishwasher,

is technology,

generated from
the creative scientific ingenuity

of human technicians.

Not money,
politics or religion.

These are
false institutions.

...and writing your
congressman is fantastic.

They tell you to write
to your congressman

if you want
something done.

The men in Washington should be
at the forefront of technology.

The forefront
of human study.

The forefront
of crime.

All the factors
that shape human behavior.

You don't have
to write your congressman.

What kind of people are they
that are appointed to do that job?

The future will have
great difficulty...

And the question that's raised
by politicians is:

How much
will a project cost?

The question is not
how much will it cost.

Do we have
the resources?

And we have the resources today
to house everyone,

build hospitals
all over the world,

build schools
all over the world,

the finest equipment
in labs

for teaching
and doing medical research.

So you see, we have all that,
but we're in a monetary system,

and in a monetary system,
there's profit.

And what is the fundamental mechanism
that drives the profit system

besides self-interest?

What is it exactly that maintains
that competitive edge at it's core?

Is it high efficiency
and sustainability?

No.
That isn't part of their design.

Nothing produced
in our profit-based society

is even remotely sustainable
or efficient.

If it was,
there wouldn't be

a multi-million dollar a year
service industry for automobiles.

Nor would the average lifespan
for most electronics

be less than
three months

before they're obsolete.

Is it abundance?

Absolutely not.

Abundance, as based on the
laws of supply and demand,

is actually
a negative thing.

If a diamond company
finds ten times

the usual amount of diamonds
during their mining,

it means the supply of diamonds
has increased,

which means the cost and profit
per diamond drops.

The fact is: efficiency,
sustainability and abundance

are enemies of profit.

To put it
into a word,

it is the mechanism of scarcity
that increases profits.

What is scarcity?

Based on
keeping products valuable.

Slowing up production on oil
raises the price.

Maintaining scarcity of diamonds
keeps the price high.

They burn diamonds
at the Kimberly Diamond Mine.

They're
made of carbon.

That keeps
the price up.

So then, what does it mean
for society when scarcity,

either produced naturally
or through manipulation

is a beneficial condition
for industry?

It means that
sustainability and abundance

will never ever occur
in a profit system.

For it simply goes against
the very nature of the structure.

Therefore, it is impossible to have
a world without war or poverty.

It is impossible to
continually advance technology

to its most efficient
and productive states.

And most dramatically,

it is impossible to expect
human beings to behave

in truly ethical
or decent ways.

People use the word
'instinct'

because they can't account
for the behavior.

They sit back and they evaluate with
their lack of knowledge, you know,

and they say things like,

"Humans are built a certain way,
greed is a natural thing,"

as though they'd worked
for years on it.

And it's no more natural
than wearing clothing.

What we want to do
is to eliminate

the causes
of the problems.

Eliminate
the processes that

produce greed,
and bigotry, and prejudice,

and people taking advantage
of one another, and elitism.

Eliminating the need
for prisons and welfare.

We have always had
these problems because

we have always lived
within scarcity,

and barter, and monetary systems
that produce scarcity.

If you eradicate
the conditions that generate

what you call
'socially offensive behavior,'

it does not exist.

A guy says:
Well listen, are they in-born?

No, it's not.

There is no human nature,
there's human behavior,

and that's always been
changed throughout history.

You're not born
with bigotry,

and greed, and corruption,
and hatred.

You pick that up
within the society.

War, poverty, corruption,
hunger, misery, human suffering

will not change
in a monetary system.

That is, there will be
very little significant change.

It's going to take
the redesigning of our culture,

our values,

and it has to be related
to the carrying capacity of the earth,

not some human opinion,
or some politicians notions

of the way the world
ought to be.

Or some religion's notions
of the conduct of human affairs.

And that's what
The Venus Project is about.

The society,
that we're about to talk about,

is a society that is free
of all the old superstitions,

incarceration, prisons,
police, cruelty and law.

All laws will disappear

and the professions will disappear,
that are no longer valid,

such as stockbrokers,
bankers, advertising...

Gone!
Forever!

Because it's
no longer relevant.

When we understand
that it is technology

devised
by human ingenuity

which frees humanity
and increases our quality of life

we then realize, that the most
important focus we can have

is on the intelligent management
of the earth's resources.

For it is from
these natural resources,

we gain the materials
to continue our path of prosperity.

Understanding this,
we then see,

that money fundamentally exists
as a barrier to these resources,

for virtually,
everything has a financial cause.

And why do we need money
to obtain these resources?

Because of real
or assumed scarcity.

We don't usually pay
for air and tap water,

because it is
in such high abundance,

selling it
would be pointless.

So then,
logically speaking,

if resources
and technologies,

applicable to creating
everything in our societies

such as houses, cities
and transportation,

were in
high enough abundance,

there would be no reason
to sell anything.

Likewise,
if automation and machinery

was so technologically
advanced,

as to relieve
human beings of labor

there would be no reason
to have a job.

And with these social aspects
taking care of,

there would be no reason
to have money at all.

So the ultimate question
remains:

Do we on earth
have enough resources

and technological
understanding

to create a society
of such abundance,

that everything we have now
could be available without a price tag

and without the need for submission
through employment?

Yes, we do.

We have the resources
and technology

to enable this
at a minimum

along with the ability to raise
the standards of living so high

that people in the future will
look back at our civilisation now

and gawk at how primitive
and immature our society was.

What The Venus Project
proposes

is an entirely
different system

that's updated
to present day knowledge.

We've never given scientists
the problem of

How do you design a society which would
eliminate boring and monotonous jobs,

that would eliminate accidents
in transportation,

that would enable people
to have a high standard of living,

that would eliminate poisons
in our food,

give us other sources of energy,
that are clean and efficient.

We can do that
out there.

The major difference
between

a resource-based economy
and a monetary system,

is that a resource-based economy
is really concerned with people

and their well-being

where the monetary system
has become so distorted

that the concerns of the people
are really secondary,

if they're there
at all.

Products that are turned out
are for

how much money
you can get.

If there is a problem in society
and you can't earn money

from solving that problem,
then it won't be done.

The resource-based economy
is really not close

to anything
that's been tried.

And with all our technology today,
we can create abundance.

It could be used to improve
everyone's lifestyle.

Abundance all over the world,
if we use our technology wisely

and maintain
the environment.

It's a very different system

and it's very hard
to talk about

because the public is not
that well enough informed

as to the
state of technology.

At present,
we don't have to burn fossil fuels.

We don't have to use anything
that would contaminate the environment.

There are many sources
of energy available.

Alternative energy solutions
pushed by the establishment,

such as hydrogen,
biomass and even nuclear

are highly insufficient,
dangerous,

and exist only to perpetuate
the profit structure

the industry has created.

When we look beyond the propaganda
and self-serving solutions

put forth by
the energy companies,

we find a
seemingly endless stream

of clean, abundant and renewable energy
for generating power.

Solar and wind energy
are well known to the public.

But the true potential of these mediums
remains unexpressed.

Solar energy,
derived from the sun,

has such abundance,
that one hour of light at high noon

contains more energy than what
the entire world consumes in a year.

If we could capture one-hundreth
of a percent of this energy,

the world would never have
to use oil, gas or anything else.

The questioning
is not availability,

but the technology
to harness it.

And there are many
advanced mediums today

which could accomplish
just that,

if they were
not hindered

by the need
to compete for market share

with the established
energy power structures.

Then there's wind energy.

Wind energy has long been
denounced as weak

and, due to being location driven,
impractical.

This is
simply not true.

The US Department of Energy
admitted in 2007

that if wind was fully harvested
in just three of America's 50 states,

it could power
the entire nation.

And then there are the rather unknown
mediums of tidal and wave power.

Tidal power is derived
from tidal shifts in the ocean.

Installing turbines which capture
this movement, generates energy.

In the United Kingdom,

42 sites are currently noted
as available,

forecasting that
34% of all the UK's energy

could come
from tidal power alone.

Wave power, which extracts energy
from the surface motions of the ocean,

is estimated
to have a global potential

of up to
80,000 terawatt-hours a year.

This means 50% of
the entire planet's energy usage

could be produced
from this medium alone.

Now, it is important to point out
that tidal, wave, solar and wind power

requires virtually
no preliminary energy to harness,

unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass,
hydrogen and all the others.

In combination,
these four mediums alone,

if efficiently harnessed
through technology,

could power
the world forever.

That being said,

there happens to be another form
of clean renewable energy,

which trumps them all.

Geothermal power.

Geothermal energy utilizes
what is called heat mining,

which, through
a simple process using water,

is able to generate
massive amounts of clean energy.

In 2006, an MIT report
on geothermal energy

found that 13,000 zetajules of power
are currently available in the earth

with the possibility of
2,000 zetajules

being easily tapable
with improved technology.

The total energy
consumption

of all the countries
on the planet

is about
half of a zetajule a year.

This means about
4000 years of planetary power

could be harnessed

in this medium alone.

And when we understand
that the earth's heat generation

is constantly renewed,

this energy
is really limitless.

It could be used
forever.

These energy sources are only a few
of the clean renewable mediums available

and as time goes on,
we will find more.

The grand realization is that
we have total energy abundance

without the need
for pollution,

traditional conservation,
or in fact, a price tag.

And what about
transportation?

The prevailing means
of transportation

in our societies
is by automobile and aircraft,

both of which predominantly
need fossil fuels to run.

In the case of the automobile,
the battery technology needed

to power an electric car that can go
over a hundred miles an hour,

for over two hundred miles
on one charge,

exists and has existed
for many years.

However, due to battery patents,
controlled by the oil industry,

which limits their ability
to maintain market share,

coupled with political pressure
from the energy industry,

the accessibility and affordability
of this technology is limited.

There is absolutely
no reason,

other than pure,
corrupt profit interests,

that every single vehicle
in the world

cannot be electric and utterly clean,
with zero need for gasoline.

As far as airplanes,

it is time we realize that
this means of travel is inefficient,

cumbersome, slow
and causes far too much pollution.

This is a MagLev train.

It uses magnets
for propulsion.

It is fully suspended
by a magnetic field

and requires less then two percent
of the energy used for plane travel.

The train has no wheels,
so nothing can wear out.

The current maximum speed of
versions of this technology,

of this technology,
as used in Japan,

is three hundred and sixty one
miles per hour.

However, this version of the technology
is very dated.

An organisation called ET-3

which has connections
with The Venus Project,

has established
a tube-based MagLev

that can travel
up to 4000 miles per hour

in a motionless, frictionless tube,
which can go over land or under water.

Imagine going from L.A to New York
for an extended lunchbreak

or from Washington D.C.
to Beijing, China, in two hours.

This is the future of continental
and intercontinental travel.

Fast, clean, with only
a fraction of the energy usage

we use today
for the same means.

In fact,
between MagLev technology,

advanced battery storage
and geothermal energy,

there will be no reason
to ever burn fossil fuels again.

And we can do this now,

if we were not held back
by the paralyzing profit structure.

Now America is inclined
toward fascism.

It has a propensity by
its dominant philosophy

and religion to uphold
to fascist point of view.

American industry is essencially
a fascist institution.

If you don't
understand that,

the minute you punch that time clock,
you walk into a dictatorship.

We're given notions
about the respectibility of work.

And I realy look at it
as being paid slavery.

You brought up
to believe that

you shall earn your living
by the sweat of your brow.

That holds people back.

Freeing people

from drudgery, repetitive jobs
which make them ignorant.

You rob them.

In our society, that is
a resourced-based economy,

machines free people.

You see,
we can't imagine that because

we've never known
that kind of world.

If we look back
at history,

we see a very clear pattern
of machine automation,

slowly replacing
human labour.

From the disappearance
of the elevator man

to the near full automation of
an automobile production plant,

the fact is, as technology grows
the need for humans in the work force

will continually be
diminished.

This creates
a serious clash,

which proves the falsness of
the monetary-based labor system,

for human employment
is in direct competition

with technological
developement.

Therefore, given the fundamental
priority of profit by industry,

people through time
will be continually layed off

and replaced by machine.

When industry takes on a machine
instead of shortening the work day,

they downsize.

You loose your job
so you have a right to fear machines.

In a high technology,
resourced-based economy,

It is conservative to say that
about 90% of all current occupations

could be phased out
by machines,

freeing humans to live their life
without servitude.

For this is the point
of technology itself.

And through time,
with nanotechnology

and other highly advanced
forms of science,

it is not farfetched to see
how even complex

medical procedures
could be performed

by machines,
as well.

And based
on the pattern

with much higher success rates
than humans get today.

The path is clear,
but our monetary-based structure

which requires labour for income,
blocks this progress,

for humans need jobs,
in order to survive.

The bottom line is
that this system must go

or we will
never be free

and technology
will be constantly paralyzed.

We have machines
that clean out sewers

and frees a human being
from doing that.

So look at machines as
extensions of human performance.

Furthermore, many occupations today
will have simply no basis

to exist in a
resourced-based economy.

Such as anything assosiated
with the management of money,

advertising,
along with a legal system itself.

For, without money,
a great majority of the crimes

that are commited today,
would never occur.

Virtually,
all forms of crime

are consequence
in the monetary system,

either directly or by nevroses
inflicted through financial deprevation.

Therefore, laws themselves
could eventually become extinct.

Instead of putting up a sign:
'Drive carefully', 'Slippery when wet',

put abrasive on the highway,
so it is not slippery when wet.

And when a person
gets in a car that drunk

and a car oscillates
at great deal,

there's
a little pendulum

that swings up
and back

and that will pull the
car over the side...

Not a law.

A solution.

Put sonar and radar on automobiles
so they can't hit one another.

Man-made laws
are attempts

to deal with
occuring problems

and not knowing
how to solve them...

They make a law.

In the United States,
the most privatised,

capitalist country
on the planet,

it shall come
as no surprise

that it also has the largest
prison population in the world.

Growing every year.

Statistically, most of
these people are uneducated

and come from poor,
deprived societies.

And contrary
to propaganda,

it is this
enviromental conditioning,

which lures them into
criminal and violent behavior.

However,
society looks the other way

in regard
to this point.

The legal and prison systems
are just more examples

of how our society
avoids examining

the root causes
of behavior.

Billions are spent
each year

on prisons and police,

while only a fraction
is spent on

programs for poverty,

which is one of the most
fundamental variables

responsible for crime
to begin with.

And, as long as
we have an economic system,

which preferes
and in fact,

creates scarcity
and deprivation,

crime
will never go away.

If people have access
to the necessities of life

without survitude, debt,
barter, trade,

they'd behave
very differently.

You want all these things available
without a price tag.

Now then, you're not gonna
have a price tag,

what will
motivate people?

A man gets everything he wants,
he's just laying around in the sun.

This is the myth
they perpetuate.

People in our culture
are trained to believe

that the monetary system
produces incentive.

If they have access to things,
why should they want to do anything?

They would
loose their incentive.

That's what you're taught
to support the monetary system.

When you take money
out of the scenario,

there would be different incentives,
very different incentives.

When people have access
to the necessities of life,

their incentives change.

What about the moon
and the stars?

New incentives arise.

If you make a painting
that you enjoy,

you will enjoy giving it
to other people, not selling it.

I think most of the education,
that I've seen today is

essentially,
producing a person for a job.

It's very specialized.
They're not generalists.

People don't know a lot about
a lot of different subjects.

I don't think you can
get people to go to war,

if they knew a lot
about a lot of things.

I think education
is mostly rote

and they're not taught
how to solve problems.

They're not given the tools,
emotionally,

or within
their own field,

of how to do
critical thinking.

In a resource-based economy,
the education would be very different.

Our society's major concern
is mental development

and to motivate
each person

to their
highest potential.

Because our philosophy is

the smarter people are,
the richer the world,

because everybody
becomes a contributor.

The smarter
your kids are,

the better
my life will be.

Because they'll be contributing
more constructively

to the environment
and to my life.

Because
everything that

we devise within
a resource-based economy,

would be applied
to society.

There would be nothing
to hold it back.

Patriotism, weapons,
armies, navies...

All that is a sign

that we're not
civilized yet.

Kids will ask
their parents:

"Didn't you see
the necessity of the machines?"

"Dad, couldn't you see
that war was inevitable

when you produce
scarcity?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

Of course,
the kid will understand

that you're pinheads;
raised merely to serve

the established institutons.

We're such in
an abominable, sick society,

that we won't make
the history book.

They'll just say that large nations
took land from smaller nations,

used force and violence.

You'll get history
talked about as

corrupt behavior
all the way along

until the beginning
of the civilized world.

That's when all the nations
work together.

World unification,

working toward common good
for all human beings

and without anyone being
subservient to anyone else.

Without
social stratification,

whether it be
technical elitism

or any other kind
of elitism,

eradicated from
the face of the earth.

The state does nothing
because there is no state.

The system I advocate,

a resource-based global economy,
is not perfect.

It's just a lot better
than what we have.

We can never achieve
perfection.

The social values
of our society,

which has manifested
in perpetual warfare,

corruption,

oppressive laws,

social stratification,

irrelevant superstitions,

environmental destruction,

and a despotic, socially indifferent,
profit-oriented ruling class,

is fundamentally the result
of a collective ignorance

of two of the most basic insights
humans can have about reality.

The emergent and symbiotic aspects
of natural law.

The emergent nature
of reality

is that all systems;
whether it is knowledge,

society, technology, philosophy,
or any other creation;

will,
when uninhibited,

undergo fluid,
perpetual change.

What we consider
commonplace today

such as modern communication
and transportation,

would have been unimaginable
in ancient times.

Likewise, the future
will contain technologies,

realizations
and social structures

that we cannot even fathom
in the present.

We have gone from
alchemy to chemistry,

from a geocentric universe
to a heliocentric,

from believing that demons
were the cause of illness

to modern medicine.

This development shows
no sign of ending,

and it is this awareness
that aligns us

and leads us
on a continuous path

to growth
and progress.

Static, empirical knowledge
does not exist.

Rather, it is the insight
of the emergence of all systems

we must recognize.

This means we must be open to
new information at all times,

Even if it threatens
our current belief system,

and hence,
identities.

Sadly, society today
has failed to recognize this,

and the established institutions
continue to paralyze growth

by preserving
outdated, social structures.

Simultaneously,
the population suffers

from a fear of change.

For their conditioning assumes
a static identity

and challenging
one's belief system,

usually results in
insult and apprehension.

For being wrong is erroneously
associated with failure.

When in fact to be proven wrong
should be celebrated.

For it is elevating someone
to a new level of understanding,

furthering awareness.

The fact is, there is no such thing
as a smart human being,

for it is merely
a matter of time

before their ideas are
updated, changed or irradicated.

And this tendency to blindly
hold on to a belief system,

sheltering it from new,
possibly transforming information

is nothing less than a form of
intellectual materialism.

The monetary system
perpetuates this materialism,

not only by it's
self-preserving structures,

but also throught the
countless number of people

who have been conditioned
into blindly,

and thoughtlessly,
upholding these structures,

therefore becoming, self-appointed
guardians of the status quo.

Sheep which no longer need
a sheepdog to control them.

For they control
each other,

by ostracizing those
who step out of the norm.

This tendency
to resist change

and uphold
existing institutions

for the sake of identity,
comfort,

power and profit,

is completely
unsustainable.

And will only produce
further imbalance,

fragmentation,

distortion,

and invariably,

destruction.

It's time to change.

From hunters
and gatherers,

to the agricultural revolution,

to the industrial revolution,

the pattern is clear.

It is time
for a new social system

which reflects the understandings
we have today.

The monetary system
is a product

of a period of time,

where scarcity
was a reality.

Now,
with the age of technology,

it is no longer relevant
to society.

Gone with the aberrant behavior
it manifests.

Likewise,
dominant world views,

such as theistic religion,

operate with
the same social irrelevancy.

Islam, Christianity, Judaism,
Hinduism and all of the others,

exist as barriers
to personal and social growth.

For each group perpetuates
a closed world view.

And this finite understanding
that they acknowledge

is simply not possible
in an emergent universe.

Yet, religion has succeeded
in shutting down the awareness

of this emergence

by instilling the psychological
distortion of faith

upon it's followers.

Where logic and new information
is rejected

in favor of traditionalized,
outdated beliefs.

The concept of God,

is really a method of accounting
for the nature of things.

In the early days,
people didn't know enough

about
how things formed,

how nature worked.

So they invented
their own little stories,

and they made God
in their own image.

A guy
that gets angry

when people
don't behave right.

He creates floods
and earthquakes

and they say
it's an act of God.

A cursory glance at
the suppressed history of religion

reveals that even
the foundational myths themselves

are emergent culminations
developed through influence over time.

For example, a cardinal doctrine
of the Christian faith

is the death and resurrection
of Christ.

This notion is so important
that the Bible itself states

"And if Christ be not risen,

then is our preaching vain
and your faith is also vain."

Yet it is very difficult
to take this account literally.

For not only is
there no primary source

denoting this supernatural event
in secular history,

awareness of the enormous
number of pre-Christian saviors

who also died
and were resurrected

immediately puts this story in
mythological territory by association.

Early church figures,

such as Tortullian,

went to great lengths
to break these associations,

even claiming that the Devil
caused the similarities to occur.

Stating in
the second century:

"The devil, whose business is
to pervert the truth,

mimics the exact circumstance
of the Divine Sacraments.

He baptizes his believers and
promises forgiveness of sins...

He celebrates
the oblation of bread,

and brings in the symbol
of the resurrection.

Let us therefore acknowledge
the craftiness of the Devil,

who copied certain things
of those that be Divine."

What is truly sad,
however,

is that when we cease the idea
that the stories from Christianity,

Judaism, Islam
and all the others

are literal history,

and accept them
for what they really are,

which are purely
allegorical expressions,

derived
from many faiths,

we see that all religions
share a common thread.

And it is
this unifying imperative

that needs to be
recognized and appreciated.

Religious belief has caused
more fragmentation and conflict

than any other ideology.

Christianity alone has
34,000 different subgroups.

The Bible is subject
to interpretation.

When you read it,
you say,

"I think Jesus meant this.
I think Job meant that."

"Oh no!
He meant this."

So you have the Lutheran,
the Seventh-Day Adventist, the Catholic,

and a church divided
is no church at all.

And this point
on division,

which is a trademark
of all theistic religions,

brings us to our second failure
of awareness.

The false assumption
of separation

through the rejection of
the symbiotic relationship of life.

Apart from the understanding
that all natural systems are emergent,

where all notions of reality
will be constantly developed,

altered
and even eradicated,

we must also understand
that all systems are, in fact,

invented fragments,
merely for the sake of conversation.

For there is no such thing
as independence in nature.

The whole of nature
is a unified system

of interdependent variables,

each a cause and a reaction,
existing only as a concentrated whole.

You don't see the plug
to connect to the environment,

so it looks like we're free,
wandering around.

Take the oxygen away,
we all die immediately.

Take plant life away,
we die.

And without the sun,
all the plants die.

So we are connected.

We really must take into
account the totality.

This isn't just a human experience
on this planet,

this is
a total experience.

And we know we can't survive
without plants and animals.

We know we can't survive
without the four elements, you know?

And so, when are we gonna really
start taking that into account?

That's what it is
to be successful.

Success depends on how well
we're related to everything around us.

I'm very aware of
the fact that my grandson

cannot possibly hope

to inherit
a sustainable,

peaceful, stable,
socially just world

unless every child today
growing up

in Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia,
in Palestine, in Israel,

also has
that same expectation.

You gotta take care
of the whole community

or you're gonna have
serious problems.

And now we have to see that
the whole world is the community.

And we must all take care
of each other that way.

And it's not just
a community of human beings,

it's a community of plants
and animals and elements.

And we really need
to understand that.

That's what's
gonna bring us joy too,

and pleasure.

That's what's missing
in our lives right now.

We can call it
spirituality,

but the fact
of the matter is...

Joy comes from that
bliss of connectedness.

That's our godspirit.

That's that side
of ourselves

that really feels it,

and you can feel it
deep inside you.

It's this amazing,
wonderful feeling

and you know it
when you get it.

You don't get it
from money,

you get it
from connection.

Now if that isn't
a hazard to this country.

How are we gonna keep
building nuclear weapons,

you know
what I mean?

What's gonna happen
to the arms industry

when we realize
we're all one?

It's gonna fuck up
the economy.

The economy
that's fake anyway.

Which would be
a real bummer.

You can see why
the government's crackin' down...

on the idea of experiencing
unconditional love.

Once we understand that
the integrity of our personal existences

are completely dependent

on the integrity of
everything else in our world,

we have truly understood
the meaning of unconditional love.

For love is extensionality,
and seeing everything as you

and you as everything
can have no conditionalities,

for in fact,
we are all everything, at once.

If it's true that we're all
from the center of a star,

every atom on each of us
from the center of a star,

then we're all
the same thing.

Even a Coke machine

or a cigarette butt
in the street in Buffalo

is made out of atoms
that came from a star.

They've all been recycled
thousands of times,

as have
you and I.

And therefore,
it's only me out there.

So what is there
to be afraid of?

What is there
that needs solace seeking?

Nothing.

There's nothing to be afraid of
because it's all us.

The trouble is we have been
separated by being born

and given a name and an identity
and being individuated.

We've been separated
from the oneness,

and that's
what religion exploits.

That people have this yearning
to be part of the overall one again.

So they exploit that.

They call it God,
they say he has rules,

and I think it's cruel.

I think you can do it
absent religion.

It's time
to claim the unity.

Our outmoded social systems
have broken apart,

and work together
to create a sustainable,

global society,
where everyone is taken care of

and everyone
is truly free.

Your personal beliefs,
whatever they may be,

are meaningless when it comes
to the necessities of life.

Every human being
is born naked,

needing warmth, food,
water, shelter.

Everything else
is auxiliary.

Therefore, the most
important issue at hand

is the intelligent management
of the Earth's resources.

This can never be accomplished
in a monetary system,

for the pursuit of profit
is the pursuit of self-interest

and therefore,
imbalance is inherent.

Simultaneously,
politicians are useless.

For our true problems in life
are technical, not political.

Furthermore,
ideologies that separate humanity,

such as religion,

need strong reflection
in the community

in regard to it's value,
purpose and social relevancy.

Hopefully,
through time,

religion will loose it's materialism
and basis in superstition

and move into the useful field
of philosophy.

The fact is,
society today is backwards,

with politicians constantly talking
about protection and security

rather than creation,
unity and progress.

The US alone
now spends about

$500 billions dollars annually
on defense.

That is enough to send
every high school senior

in America
to a four year college.

In the 1940's,
the Manhattan Project

produced the first true
weapon of mass destruction.

This program employed 130,000 people,
at an extreme financial cost.

Imagine what our life
would be like today,

if that
group of scientists,

instead of working on
a way of killing people,

worked on a way to create
a self-sustaining, abundant world.

Life today
would be very, very different,

if that was their goal.

Instead of
weapons of mass destruction,

it is time to unleash
something much more powerful.

Weapons of Mass Creation.

Our true divinity is
in our ability to create.

And armed with the understanding of
the symbiotic connections of life,

while being guided by
the emergent nature of reality,

there is nothing
we cannot do or accomplish.

Of course,
we face strong barriers,

in the form of
established power structures,

that refuse to change.

At the heart of these structures
is the monetary system.

As explained earlier,
the fractional reserve policy

is a form of
slavery through debt,

where it is literally impossible
for society to be free.

In turn, free market capitalism,
in the form of free trade,

uses debt to imprison the world
and manipulate countries

into subservience to a handful of
large business and political powers.

Apart from
these obvious amoralities,

the system itself
is based on competition,

which immediately
destroys the possibility

of large scale collaborations
for the common good.

Hence paralyzing any attempt
at true global sustainability.

These financial and corporate structures
are now obsolete,

and they must be
outgrown.

Of course, we cannot be
naive enough to think

that the business and financial elite
are going to subscribe to this idea,

for they will lose
power and control.

Therefore, peacefully,
a highly strategic action must be taken.

The most powerful course
of action is simple.

We have to alter
our behavior to force

the power structure
to the will of the people.

We must stop
supporting the system.

The only way
the establishment will change

is by our refusal
to participate

while continuously acknowledging
its endless flaws and corruptions.

They're not gonna give up
the monetary system,

because of our designs
of what we've recommend.

The system
has to fail,

and people have to lose confidence
in their elected leaders.

That will be
a major turning point

if The Venus Project is offered
as a possible alternative.

If not,
I fear the consequences.

The trends now indicate
that our country is going bankrupt.

The probability is our country
will move toward a military dictatorship

to prevent riots
and complete social breakdown.

Once
the US breaks down,

all the other cultures
will undergo similar things.

As of now,
the world financial system

is on the brink
of collapse

due to
it's own shortcomings.

The Controller of Currencies
stated in 2003

that the interest
on the US National Debt

will not be affordable
in less than ten years.

This theoretically means
total bankruptcy for the US economy

and it's implications
for the world are immense.

In turn, the fractional reserve-based
monetary system

is reaching it's theoretical limits
of expansion

and the banking failures you are seeing
are just the beginning.

This is why
inflation is skyrocketing,

our debt is
at record levels

and the government and FED
are hemorrhaging new money

to bailout
the corrupt system.

For the only way
to keep the banks going

is by
making more money.

The only way
to make more money

is to create more debt
and inflation.

It is simply a matter of time
before the tables turn

and there's no one willing
to take new loans

while defaults grow as people are unable
to afford their current loans.

Then the expansion of money
will stop

and contraction will begin
on a scale never before seen,

ending a century long
pyramid scheme.

This has already begun.

Therefore, we need to expose
this financial failure for what it is,

using this weakness
to our advantage.

Here are
some suggestions:

Expose the banking fraud.

Citibank, JP Morgan Chase
and Bank of America

are the most
powerful controllers

within the corrupt
Federal Reserve system.

It's time to boycott
these institutions.

If you have a bank account
or credit card with any of them,

move your money
to another bank.

If you have a mortgage,
refinance with another bank.

If you own their stock,
sell it.

If you work for them,
quit.

This gesture
will express contempt

for the true powers
behind the private banking cartel,

known as
the Federal Reserve.

And create awareness about
the fraud of the banking system itself.

Two:
Turn off the TV news.

Visit the emerging,
independent news agencies

on the Internet
for your information.

CNN, NBC, ABC, FOX
and all the others

present all news pre-filtered
to maintain the status quo.

With four corporations owning
all major media outlets,

objective information
is impossible.

This is the true beauty
of the Internet.

And the establishment
has been losing control

because of this free flow
of information.

We must protect the Internet,
at all times,

as it is truly our savior
right now.

Three:

Don't ever
allow yourself,

your family
or anyone you know,

to ever
join the military.

This is
an obsolete institution

now used exclusively
for maintaining an establishment

that is no longer
relevant.

US soldiers in Iraq
work for US corporations,

not the people.

Propaganda forces us to believe
that war is natural

and the military is
an honorable institution.

Well if
war is natural,

why are there 18 suicides
every single day

by American veterans

who have post-traumatic
stress disorder?

If our military men
and women are so honored,

why is it that 25% of the
American homeless population

are veterans?

Four:

Stop supporting
the energy companies.

If you live
in a detached house,

get off the grid.

Investigate every means of
making your home self-sustainable

with clean energy.

Solar, wind
and other renewable energies

are now affordable
consumer realities,

and considering the never-ending
rising costs of traditional energies,

it will likely be
a cheaper investment over time.

If you drive,
get the smallest car you can

and consider using one of the many
conversion technologies

that can enable your car
to be a hybrid,

electric or run on anything
other than establishment fuels.

Five:

Reject
the political system.

The illusion of democracy
is an insult to our intelligence.

In a monetary system,

there is no such thing
as a true democracy,

and there never was.

We have
two political parties

owned by the same set
of corporate lobbyists.

They are placed in their positions
by the corporations,

with popularity artificially
projected by their media.

In a system
of inherent corruption,

the change of personnel
every couple of years

has very little relevance.

Instead of pretending that
the political game has any true meaning,

focus your energy on
how to transcend this failed system.

And six:

Join the movement.

and help us create the largest
mass movement for social change

the world
has ever seen.

We must mobilize
and educate everyone

about the inherent corruption
of our current world system,

along with the only true
sustainable solution,

declaring all the natural resources
on the planet

as common heritage
to all people,

while informing everyone
as to the true state of technology

and how we can
all be free

if the world works together,
rather than fights.

The choice
lies with you.

You can continue to be
a slave to the financial system

and watch
the continuous wars,

depressions
and injustice across the globe

while placating yourself
with vain entertainment

and materialistic garbage.

Or, you can focus your energy on true,
meaningful, lasting, holistic change

which actually has
the realistic ability to support

and free all humans
with no one left behind.

But in the end,
the most relevant change

must occur first
inside of you.

The real revolution
is the revolution of consciousness,

and each one of us
first needs to eliminate

the divisionary,
materialistic noise

we have been conditioned
to think is true;

while discovering,
amplifying and aligning

with the signal coming
from our true empirical oneness.

It is up to you.

What we are trying in all
these discussions and talks here,

is to see if we cannot radically
bring about a transformism of the mind.

Not accept things
as they are...

but to understand it,
to go into it, to examine it,

give your heart and your mind
with every thing

that you have
to find out.

A way of
living differently.

But, that depends on you
and not somebody else.

Because in this,
there is no teacher,

no pupil.

There's no leader,

there's no guru,

there's no master,
no savior.

You yourself are
the teacher and the pupil,

you're the master, you're the guru,
you are the leader...

You are everything!

And,

to understand...

is to transform
what is.

Dedicated to:
The Zeitgeist Movement.