ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM | Full Free Documentary | Social Pathology, Peter Joseph

[Music] the old appeals to racial sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work who i am and whether i'm good or bad or achieving or not all that's learned along the way just ride we can change it anytime we want it's only a choice no effort no work no job no savings of money i realized that i had the game wrong but the game was to find out what i already was uh [Music] we were saying how very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution [Music] the crisis [Music] 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 [Music] man he still as he was he's still brutal violent aggressive acquisitive competitive and he has built a society along these lines [Music] [Music] so [Music] society today is composed of a series of institutions from political institutions legal institutions religious institutions to institutions of social class familial values and occupational specialization it is obvious the profound influence these traditionalized structures have in shaping our understandings and perspectives yet of all the social institutions we are born into directed by and conditioned upon there seems to be no system as taken for granted and misunderstood as the monetary system taking on nearly religious proportions the established monetary institution exists as one of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is how money is created the policies by which it is governed and how it truly affects society are unregistered interests of the great majority of the population in a world where one percent of the population owns 40 percent of the planet's wealth in a world where 34 000 children die every single day from poverty and preventable diseases and where 50 of the world's population lives on less than two 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 proceeds to describe this fractional reserve process through various banking terminology a translation of which goes something like this the united states government decides it needs some money so it calls up the federal reserve and requests say 10 billion the fed replies saying sure we'll buy 10 billion in government bonds from you so the government takes some pieces of paper paints some official looking designs on them and calls them treasury bonds then it puts a value on these bonds to the sum of 10 billion dollars and sends them over to the fed in turn the people at the fed draw up a bunch of impressive pieces of paper themselves only this time calling them federal reserve notes also designating a value of 10 billion dollars to the set the fed then takes these notes and trades them for the bonds once this exchange is complete the government then takes the 10 billion in federal reserve notes and deposits it into a bank account and upon this deposit the paper notes officially become legal tender money adding 10 billion to the u.s money supply and there it is 10 billion in new money has been created of course this example is a generalization for in reality this transaction would occur electronically with no paper used at all in fact only 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 a liability will become more clear as we further this exercise so the exchange has been made and now 10 billion dollars sits in a commercial bank account here is where it gets really interesting for is based on the fractional reserve practice that 10 billion deposit instantly becomes part of the bank's reserves just as all deposits do and regarding reserve requirements as stated in modern money mechanics a bank must maintain legally required reserves equal to a prescribed percentage of its deposits it then quantifies this by stating under current regulations the reserve requirement against most transaction accounts is 10 this means that with a 10 billion deposit 10 percent or 1 billion is held as the required reserve while the other 9 billion is considered an excessive reserve and can be used as the basis for new loans [Music] now it is logical to assume that this 9 billion is literally coming out of the existing 10 billion deposit however this is actually not the case what really happens is that the 9 billion is simply created out of thin air on top of the existing 10 billion deposit this is how the money supply is expanded as stated in modern money mechanics of course they the banks do not really pay out loans from the money they receive as deposits if they did this no additional money would be created what they do when they make loans is to accept promissory notes loan contracts in exchange for credits money to the borrower's transaction accounts in other words the 9 billion can be created out of nothing simply because there is a demand for such a loan and that there is a 10 billion deposit to satisfy the reserve requirements now let's assume that somebody walks into this bank and borrows the newly available 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 10 is isolated and in turn 90 of the 9 billion or 8.1 billion is now available as newly created money for more loans and of course that 8.1 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 [Applause] so now that we understand how money is created by this fractional reserve banking system a logical yet elusive question might come to mind what is actually giving this newly created money value the answer the money that already exists the new money essentially steals value from the existing money supply for the total pool of money is being increased irrespective to demand for goods and services and as supply and demand finds equilibrium prices rise diminishing the purchasing power of each individual dollar this is generally referred to as inflation and inflation is essentially a hidden tax on the public what is the advice that you generally get and that is inflate the currency they don't say debase the currency they don't say devalue the currency they don't say cheat the people who are saved they say lower the interest rates the real deception is when we distort the value of money when we create money out of thin air we have no savings and yet there's so-called capital so my question boils down to this how in the world can we expect to solve the problems of inflation that is the increase in the supply money with more inflation of course it can't the fractional reserve system of monetary expansion is inherently inflationary for the act of expanding the money supply without there being a proportional expansion of goods and services in the economy we'll always debase a currency in fact a quick glance at the historical values of the u.s dollar versus the money supply reflects this point definitively for the inverse relationship is obvious [Music] 1.1913 required 21.60 in 2007 to match value that is a 96 devaluation since the federal reserve came into existence now if this reality of inherent and perpetual inflation seems absurd and economically self-defeating hold that thought for absurdity is an understatement in regard to how our financial system really operates for in our financial system money is debt and debt is money here is a chart of the u.s money supply from 1950 to 2006 here's a chart of the u.s national debt for the same period how interesting it is that the trends are virtually the same for the more money there is the more debt there is the more debt there is the more money there is to put it a different way every single dollar in your wallet is owed to somebody by somebody for remember the only way the money can come into existence is from loans therefore if everyone in the country were able to pay off all debts including the government there would not be one dollar in circulation in fact the last time in american history the national debt was completely paid off was in 1835 after president andrew jackson shut down the central bank that preceded the federal reserve in fact jackson's entire political platform essentially revolved around his commitment to shut down the central bank stating at one point 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 lichen unfortunately his 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 nine times its original value in turn debasing the existing money supply raising prices in society and since all this money is created out of debt and circulated randomly through commerce people become detached from their original debt and a disequilibrium exists where people are forced to compete for labor in order to pull enough money out of the money supply to cover their costs of living as dysfunctional and backwards as all of this might seem there is still one thing we have emitted from this equation and it is this element of the structure which reveals the truly fraudulent nature of the system itself the application of interest when the government borrows money from the fed or when a person borrows money from a bank it almost always has to be paid back with accrued interest in other words almost every single dollar that exists must be eventually returned to a bank with interest paid as well but if all money is borrowed from the central bank and is expanded by commercial banks through loans only what would be referred to as the principal is being created in the money supply so then where is the money to cover all of the interest that is charged nowhere it doesn't exist the ramifications of this are staggering for the amount of money owed back to the banks will always exceed the amount of money that is available in circulation this is why inflation is a constant in the economy for new money is always needed to help cover the perpetual deficit built into the system caused by the need to pay the interest what this also means is that mathematically defaults and bankruptcy are literally built into the system and there will always be poor pockets of society that get the short end of the stick an analogy would be a game of musical chairs for once the music stops somebody is left out to dry and that's the point it invariably transfers true wealth from the individual to the banks for if you are unable to pay for your mortgage they will take your property this is particularly enraging when you realize that not only is such a default inevitable due to the fractional reserve practice but also because of the fact that the money that the bank loaned to you didn't even legally exist in the first place in 1969 there was a minnesota court case involving a man named jerome daly who was challenging the foreclosure of his home by the bank which provided the loan to purchase it his argument was that the mortgage contract required both parties being he and the bank each put up a legitimate form of property for the exchange in legal language this is called consideration mr daley explained that the money was in fact not the property of the bank for it was created out of nothing as soon as the loan agreement was signed remember what modern money mechanics stated about loans what they do when they make loans is to accept promissory notes in exchange for credits reserves are unchanged by the loan transactions but deposit credits constitute new additions to the total deposits of the banking system in other words the money doesn't come out of their existing assets the bank is simply inventing it putting up nothing of its own except for 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 banks president admitted that in combination with the federal reserve bank did create the money and credit upon its books by bookkeeping entry the money and credit first came into existence when they created it mr morgan admitted that no united states law or statute existed which gave him the right to do this a lawful consideration must exist and be tendered to support the known 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 daley kept his home the implications of this court decision are immense for every time you borrow money from a bank whether it is a mortgage loan or a credit card charge the money given to you is not only counterfeit it is an illegitimate form of consideration and hence voids the contractor 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 [Music] 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 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 can only be created out of loans how can society ever be debt free it can't and that's the point and it is the fear of losing assets coupled with the struggle to keep up with the perpetual debt and inflation inherent in the system compounded by the inescapable scarcity within the money supply itself created by the interest that can never be repaid that keeps the wage slave in line running on the hamster wheel with millions of others in effect powering an empire that truly benefits only the elite at the top of the pyramid four at the end of the day who are you really working for the banks money is created in a bank and invariably ends up in a bank they are the true masters along with the corporations and governments they support physical slavery requires people to be housed and fed economic slavery requires people to feed and house themselves it is one of the most ingenious scams for social manipulation ever created and at its core it is an invisible war against the population debt is the weapon used to conquer and enslave societies and interest is its prime ammunition and as the majority walks around oblivious to this reality the banks in collusion with governments and corporations continue to perfect and expand their tactics of economic warfare spawning new bases such as the world bank and international monetary fund while also inventing a new type of soldier the birth of the economic 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 its sister organizations but the money never actually goes to the country instead it goes to our big corporations to build infrastructure projects in that country power plants industrial parks ports things that benefit a few rich people in that country in addition to our corporations but really don't help the majority of people at all however those people the whole country is left holding a huge debt it's such a big debt they can't be paid and that's part of the plan that they can't repay it and so at some point we economic hit men go back to them and say listen you lost a lot of money 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 some place in the world like iraq or vote with us on the next u.n vote to have their electric utility company privatized and their water and sewage system privatized and sold to u.s corporations or other multinational corporations so there was that whole mushrooming thing and it's so typical of the way the imf and the world bank work that you put a country in debt it's such a big debt it can't pay it and then you offer to refinance that debt and pay even more interest and you demand this quid pro quo which you call a conditionality or good governance which means basically that they've got to sell off their resources including many of their social services their utility companies their school systems sometimes their their their penal systems their insurance systems to foreign corporations so it's a it's a double triple quadruple whammy [Music] the president for economic hitman really began back in the early 50s when democratically elected mussodek who was elected in iran he was considered to be the hope for democracy in the middle east and around the world he was time magazine's man of the year but one of the things that he'd run on and began to implement was the idea that foreign oil companies needed to pay the iranian people a lot more for the oil that they were taking out of iran 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 mustadek overthrown and brought in the shah of iran to replace him who always was favorable to oil and it was extremely effective mobs overflow terrain army officers shout that masadek has surrendered and his regime as virtual dictator of iran is ended pictures of the shah paraded through the streets as sediment reverses [Music] the show 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 it had been caught the ramifications could have been pretty serious so very quickly at that point the decision was made to use private consultants to 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 worked for private companies so that if we got caught there would be no governmental ramifications when arvins became president of guatemala the country was very much under the thumbs of united fruit company the the big international corporations and our men's ran on this ticket that said you know we want to get the land back to the people and once he took power he was he was implementing policies that would that would do exactly that give land rights back to the people united fruit didn't like that very much and so they hired a public relations firm launched a huge campaign in the united states to convince the united states people the citizens of the united states and the press of the united states and the congress of the united states that our benz was a soviet puppet and that if we allowed him to stay in power the soviets would have a foothold in this in this hemisphere and that at that point in time was a huge fear on everybody's mind 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 in the military to take this man out and in fact we did we sent in planes we sent in we sent in soldiers we said 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 were going to have a truly democratic election jaime rodos 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 who'd ever won anything in ecuador and he began to implement these policies to make sure that the profits from oil went to help the people well we didn't like that in the united states i was sent down as one of several economic hit men to change roaldos to corrupt him to bring him around to let him know you know okay you know you can get very rich you and your family if you if you play our game but if you just if you continue to try to keep these policies you've promised you you're going to go he wouldn't listen he was assassinated as soon as the plane crashed the whole area was cordoned off the only people allowed in the u.s military from from a nearby base and some of the ecuadorian military when an investigation was launched two of the key witnesses died in car accidents before they had a chance to testify a lot of very very strange things that went on around the the assassination behind the world elves i like most people who've really looked at this case had 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 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 [Music] omar torrijos president of panama was you know one of my favorite people i really really liked him he was very charismatic he was a guy who really wanted to help his country 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 and be free of this of this terrible presence from the north that you people are exploiting it so badly i need to have the panama canal back in the hands of the panamanian people that's what i want and so leave me alone don't you know don't try to don't try to bribe me it was 1981 and in may jaime rodos was assassinated and omar was very aware of this torijo's got his family together and he said i'm probably next but it's okay because i've done what i came here to do i renegotiated the canal the canal will now be in our hands he just finished negotiating the treaty with jimmy carter [Music] in june of that same year just a couple of months later he also went down in an airplane crash which there's no question was executed by cia sponsored jackals tremendous amount of evidence that one of the one of torrey house's 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 [Music] it is interesting to me how this system has continued pretty much the same way for years and years and years except the economic hitmen have got better and better and better then we come up with very recently what happened in venezuela in 1998 uber chavez gets elected president following a long line of presidents who had been very corrupt and basically destroyed the economy of the country and chavez was elected amidst all that chavez stood up to the united states and he's done it primarily demanding that venezuelan oil be used to help the venezuelan people well we didn't like that in the united states so in 2002 the coolest age which is no question in my mind of most other people's 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 into the streets to riot to protest to say this chavez is 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 started 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 of defense we go in we try to corrupt the governments and get them to accept these huge loans which we then use as leverage to basically own them if we fail as i failed in panama with omar to rehost and ecuador with jaime rodos 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 government comes in boy it's going to tow the line because the new president knows what will happen if he doesn't in the case of iraq both of those things failed economic 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 had one time worked for the 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 assume at that point that saddam hussein is going to come around we could have taken him out of course at that time but we didn't want him he's the kind of strong man we like he controls his people we thought he could control the kurds and keep the iranians in their border and keep pumping oil for us and then once we took out his military now he's going to come around so the economic hitman go back in in the 90s without success if they'd had success he'd still be running the country we'd be selling him all the fighter jets he wants and everything else he wants but they could they didn't have success the jackals couldn't take him out again so we sent the military and 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 uh deals we had to reconstruct a country that we'd essentially destroyed which is a pretty good deal if you own construction companies big ones so you know iraq shows the three stages the economic hitman failed there the jackals failed there and there's 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 so the british knew they were building it the french the germans the romans the greeks and they were proud of it and they always had some excuse like spreading civilization spreading some religion something like that but they knew they were doing it we don't the majority of the people in the united states have no idea that we're living off the benefits of the clandestine empire that today there's more slavery in the world than ever before and then you have to ask yourself well if it's an empire then who's the emperor obviously our presidents of the united states are not emperors an emperor is someone who's not elected doesn't serve a limited term and doesn't report to anyone essentially so you can't classify a president's that way but we do have what i consider to be the equivalent of the emperor and it's what i call the corporatocracy the corporatocracy is this group of individuals who run our biggest corporations and they really act as the emperor of this empire they control our media either through direct ownership or advertising they control most of our politicians because they finance their campaigns either through their corporations or through personal contributions that come out of the corporations they're not elected and they don't serve a limited term they don't report to anybody and at the very top of the corporatocracy you really can't tell whether a person's working for a private corporation or the government because they're always moving back and forth so you know you've got a guy who one moment is the president of a big construction company like halliburton and the next moment he's vice president of the united states or the president who is in the oil business and and this is true whether you've got democrats or republicans in the office you have to moving back and forth through the revolving door and in a way our government is invisible a lot of the time and its policies are carried out by our corporations on one level or another and then again the policies of the government are basically forged by the corporate and then presented to the government they become government policy so it's an incredibly cozy relationship this isn't a conspiracy theory type of thing these people don't have to get together and plot to do things they all basically work under one primary assumption and that is that they must maximize profits regardless of the social and environmental 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 the position of indentured servitude through 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 its own indiscretion or through corrupting the leader of that country then impose conditionalities or structural adjustment policies often consisting of the following currency devaluation when the value of a currency drops so does everything valued in it this makes indigenous resources available to predator countries at a fraction of their worth large funding cuts for social programs these usually include education and 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 its third largest city to a subsidy of the u.s corporation bechdel as soon as this occurred water bills for the already impoverished local residents skyrocketed it wasn't until after a full-blown revolt by the people that the bechtel contract was nullified then there 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 indigenous production and ruining local economies an example is jamaica which after accepting loans and conditionalities from the world bank lost its largest cash crop markets due to competition with western imports today countless farmers are out of work for they are unable to compete with the large corporations another variation is the creation of numerous seemingly unnoticed unregulated inhumane sweatshop factories which take advantage of the imposed economic hardship additionally due to production deregulation environmental destruction is perpetual as a country's resources are often exploited by the indifferent corporations while outputting large amounts of deliberate pollution the largest environmental lawsuit in the history of the world today is being brought on behalf of 30 000 ecuadorian amazonian people against texaco which is now owned by chevron so today it's against chevron but for activities conducted by texaco estimated to be more than 18 times with exxon valdez dumped into the coast of alaska in the case of ecuador it wasn't an accident the oil companies did it intentionally they knew they were doing it to save money out there rather than arranging for a proper disposal furthermore a cursory glance at the performance record of the world bank reveals that the institution which publicly claims to help poor countries develop and alleviate poverty has done nothing but increased 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 30 to 1. by 1998 it was 74 to 1. while global gnp rose 40 between 1970 and 1985 those in poverty actually increased by 17 while from 1985 to 2000 those living on less than one dollar a day increased by 18 even the joint economic committee of the u.s congress admitted that there is a mere 40 success rate of all world bank projects in the late 1960s the world bank intervened in ecuador with large loans during the next 30 years poverty grew from 50 to 70 under or unemployment grew from 15 to 70 percent public debt increased from 240 million to 16 billion while the share of resources allocated to the poor went from twenty percent to six percent in fact by the year two thousand fifty percent 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 [Music] of the world's top 100 economies as based on annual gdp 51 are corporations and 47 of that 51 are u.s based walmart general motors and exxon are more economically powerful than saudi arabia poland norway south africa finland indonesia and many others and as protective trade barriers are broken down currencies tossed together and manipulated in floating markets and state economies overturned in favor of open competition and global capitalism the empire expands you get up on your little 21 inch screen and how about america and democracy there is no america there is no democracy there is only ibm an itt an at and dupont dao union carbide and exxon those are the nations of the world today what do you think the russians talk about in their council's estate karl marx they get out their linear programming charts statistical decision theories minimax 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 bill the world is being taken over by a handful of business powers who dominate the natural resources we need to live while controlling the money we need to obtain these resources the end result will be world monopoly based not on human life but financial and corporate power and as the inequality grows naturally more and more people are becoming desperate so the establishment was forced to come up with a new way to deal with anyone who challenges the system so they gave birth to the terrorist the term terrorist is an empty distinction designed for any person or group who chooses to challenge the establishment this isn't to be confused with the fictional al qaeda which was actually the name of a computer database for the u.s supported mujahideen in the 1980s [Music] 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 2 000 people were killed internationally due to supposed terrorist acts of that number 70 were american using this number as a general average which is extremely generous it is interesting to note that twice as many people die from peanut allergies a year than from terrorist x 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 a disease which kills six thousand and six hundred times more people annually than terrorism does yet as the name terrorism and al qaeda are arbitrarily stamped on every news report relating to any action taken against u.s interests the myth grows wider in mid-2008 the u.s attorney general actually proposed that the u.s congress officially declare war against the fantasy not to mention as of july 2008 there are now over 1 million people currently on the u.s terrorist watch list these so-called counter-terrorism measures of course have nothing to do with social protection and everything to do with preserving the establishment amongst the growing anti-american sentiment both domestically and internationally which is legitimately founded on the greed-based corporate empire expansion that is exploiting the world the true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight or scream allah akbar before some violent the true terrorists of our world wear five thousand 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 [Music] profit [Music] oh there's another one how do we stop a system of greed and corruption that condemns poor populations to sweatshop slavery for the benefit of madison avenue or that engineers false flag terror attacks for the sake of manipulation or that generates built-in modes of social operation which are inherently exploitative or that systematically reduces civil liberties and violates human rights in order to protect itself from its own shortcomings how do we deal with the numerous covert institutions such as the council on foreign relations the trilateral commission and the bilderberg group and other undemocratically elected groups which behind closed doors collude to control the political financial social and environmental elements of our lives in order to find the answer we must first find the true underlying cause for the fact is the selfish corrupt power and profit-based groups are not the true source of the problem they are symptoms my name is jacque fresco i'm an industrial designer and a social engineer i'm very much interested in society and developing a system that might be sustainable for all people first of all the word corruption is a monetary invention that aberrant behavior behavior that's disruptive to the well-being of people while you're dealing with human behavior and human behavior appears to be environmentally determined meaning if you were raised by the seminole indians as a baby never saw anything else you'd hold that value system and this goes for nations it goes for individuals for families they try to indoctrinate their children to their particular faith and their country and make them feel like they're part of that and they build a society which they call established they establish a workable point of view and tend to perpetuate that whereas all societies are really emergent not established and so they fight new ideas that would interfere with the establishment governments try to perpetuate that which keeps them in power people are not elected to political office to change things they're put there to keep things the way they are so you see the basis of corruption is in our society let me make it clear all nations then are basically corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutions i don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations but communism socialism fascism the free enterprise system and all other subcultures are the same they are all basically corrupt the most fundamental characteristic of our social institutions is the necessity for self-preservation whether dealing with a corporation a religion or a government the foremost interest is to preserve the institution itself for instance the last thing an oil company would ever want is the utilization of energy that was outside of its control for it makes that company less relevant to society likewise the cold war and the collapse of the soviet union was in reality a way to preserve and perpetuate the established economic and global hegemony of the united states [Music] similarly religions conditioned 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 that's 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 [Music] therefore people cannot be fair and people do not trust each other a guy will come over to you and say i got just the house you're looking for he's a salesman when the doctor says i think your kidney has to come out i don't know if he's trying to pay off a yacht whether 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 glance that i've got is pretty good but the lamp is 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 monetaryism so to speak is the true mechanism that guides the interests of all the countries on the planet the most aggressive and hence dominant variation of this monetaryism is the free enterprise system the fundamental perspective as put forth by early free market economists like adam smith is that self-interest in competition leads to social prosperity as the act of competition creates incentive which motivates people to persevere [Music] however what isn't talked about is how a competition-based economy invariably leads to strategic corruption power and wealth consolidation social stratification technological paralysis labor abuse and ultimately a covert form of government dictatorship by the rich elite the word corruption is often defined as moral perversion if a company dumps toxic waste into the ocean to save money most people recognize this as corrupt behavior on a more subtle level when walmart moves into a small town and forces small businesses to shut down for they are unable to compete a gray area emerges for what exactly is walmart doing wrong why should they care about mom and pop organizations they destroy yet even more subtly when a person gets fired from their job because a new machine has been created which can do the work for less money people tend to just accept that as the way it is not seeing the inherent corrupt inhumanity of such an action because the fact is whether it is dumping toxic waste having a monopoly enterprise or downsizing the workforce the motive is the same profit they are all different degrees of the same self-preserving mechanism which always puts the well-being of people second to monetary gain therefore corruption is not some byproduct of monetaryism it is the very foundation and while most people acknowledge this tendency on one level or another the majority remains naive as to the broad ramifications of having such a selfish mechanism as the guiding mentality in society internal documents show that after this company positively absolutely knew that they had a medication that was infected with the aids virus they took the product off the market in the 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 and that sort of thing and feeling that they don't know who to elect they think in terms of a democracy which is not possible in a monetary-based economy if you have more money to advertise your position the position you desire in government that isn't a democracy it serves those in position of differential advantage so it's always a dictatorship of the elitist the financially wealthy [Music] 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 four 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 plans 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 because they're not trained to do so very few people today stop and consider what it is that actually improves their lives is it money obviously not one cannot eat money or stuff money into their car to get it to run is it politics all politicians can do is create laws establish budgets and declare war is it religion of course not religion creates nothing except intangible emotional solace for those who require it the true gift that we as human beings have which has been solely responsible for everything that has improved our lives is technology what is technology technology is a pencil which allows one to solidify ideas on paper for communication technology is an automobile which allows one to travel faster than feet would allow technology is a pair of eyeglasses which enables sight for those who need it [Music] applied technology itself is merely an extension of human attributes which reduces human effort freeing humans from a particular chore or problem imagine what your life would be like today without a telephone or an oven or a computer or an airplane everything in your home which you take for granted from a doorbell to a table to a dishwasher is technology generated from the creative scientific ingenuity of human technicians not money politics or religion these are false institutions and writing your congressman is fantastic they tell you to write your congressman if you want something done the men in washington should be at the forefront of technology the forefront of human studies the forefront of crime all the factors that shape human behavior you don't have to write your congressmen what kind of people are they that are 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 and labs for teaching and doing medical research so you see we have all that but we're in the monetary system and in the monetary system there's profit and what is the fundamental mechanism that drives the profit system besides self-interest what is it exactly that maintains that competitive edge at its core is it high efficiency and sustainability no that isn't part of their design nothing produced in our profit-based society is even remotely sustainable or efficient if it was there wouldn't be a 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 it abundance absolutely not abundance as based on the laws of supply and demand is actually a negative thing if a diamond company finds 10 times the usual amount of diamonds during their mining it means the supply of diamonds has increased which means the cost and profit per diamond drops the fact is efficiency sustainability and abundance are enemies of profit to put it into a word it is the mechanism of scarcity that increases profits what is scarcity based on keeping products valuable slowing up production on oil raises the price maintaining scarcity of diamonds keeps the price high they burn diamonds at the kimberley diamond mines they're made of carbon that keeps the price up so then what does it mean for society when scarcity either produced naturally or through manipulation is a beneficial condition for industry it means that sustainability and abundance will never ever occur in a profit system for it simply goes against the very nature of the structure therefore it is impossible to have a world without war or poverty it is impossible to continually advance technology to its most efficient and productive states and most dramatically it is impossible to expect human beings to behave in truly ethical or decent ways people use the word instinct because they can't account for the behavior they sit back and they evaluate with their lack of knowledge you know and they say things like humans are built a certain way greed is a natural thing and so they've worked for years on it and it's no more natural than wearing clothing what we want to do is to eliminate the causes of the problems eliminate the processes that 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 the guy said well listen that inborn no it's not there is no human nature there's human behavior and that's always been changed throughout history you're not born with bigotry and greed and corruption and hatred you you pick that up within the society war poverty corruption hunger misery human suffering will not change in a monetary system that is there'll be very little significant change it's going to take the redesign of our culture our values and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the earth not some human opinion or some politicians notions of the way the world ought to be or some religious notions of the conduct of human affairs and that's what the venus project is about the society that we're about to talk about is a society that is free of all the old superstitions incarceration prisons police cruelty and law all laws will disappear and the professions will disappear that are no longer valid such as stock brokers bankers advertising gone forever because it's no longer relevant when we understand that it is technology devised by human ingenuity which frees humanity and increases our quality of life we then realize that the most important focus we can have is on the intelligent management of the earth's resources for it is from these natural resources we gain the materials to continue our path of prosperity understanding this we then see that money fundamentally exists as a barrier to these resources for virtually everything has a financial cost and why do we need money to obtain these resources because of real or assumed scarcity we don't usually pay for air and tap water because it is in such high abundance selling it would be pointless so then logically speaking if resources and technologies applicable to creating everything in our societies such as houses cities and transportation were in high enough abundance there would be no reason to sell anything likewise if automation and machinery 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 taken care of there would be no reason to have money at all so the ultimate question remains do we on earth have enough resources and technological understanding to create a society of such abundance that everything we have now could be available without a price tag and without the need for submission through employment yes we do we have the resources and technology to enable this at a minimum along with the ability to raise the standard of living so high that people in the future will look back at our civilization now and gawk at how primitive and immature our society was what the venus project proposes is an entirely different system that's updated to present-day knowledge we've never given scientists the problem of how do you design a society which would eliminate boring and monotonous jobs that would eliminate accidents and transportation that would enable people to have a high standard of living that would eliminate poisons in our food that give us other sources of energy that are clean and efficient we can do that out there the major difference between a resource-based economy and a monetary system is that a resource-based economy is really concerned with people and their well-being where a monetary system has become so distorted that the concerns of the people are really secondary if they're there at all the products that are turned out are for how much money you can get if there is a problem in society and you can't earn money from solving that problem then it won't be done the resource-based economy is really not close to anything that's been tried and with all our technology today we can create abundance it could be used to improve everyone's lifestyle abundance all over the world if we use our technology wisely and maintain the environment it's a very different system and it's very hard to talk about because the public is not that well enough informed as to the state of technology at present we don't have to burn fossil fuels we don't have to use anything that would contaminate the environment there are many sources of energy available alternative energy solutions pushed by the establishment such as hydrogen biomass and even nuclear are highly insufficient dangerous and exist only to perpetuate the profit structure that industry has created when we look beyond the propaganda and self-serving solutions put forth by the energy companies we find a seemingly endless stream of clean abundant and renewable energy for generating power solar and wind energy are well known to the public but the true potential of these mediums remains unexpressed solar energy derived from the sun has such abundance that one hour of light at high noon contains more energy than what the entire world consumes in a year if we could capture one hundredth of a percent of this energy the world would never have to use oil gas or anything else the question then is not availability but the technology to harness it and there are many advanced mediums today which could accomplish just that if they were not hindered by the need to compete for market share with the established energy power structures then there's wind energy wind energy has long been denounced as weak and due to being location driven impractical this is simply not true the 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 eighty thousand terawatt hours a year this means fifty percent 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 thirteen thousand zetta joules of power are currently available in the earth with the possibility of two thousand zetta joules being easily tappable with improved technology the total energy consumption of all the countries on the planet is about half of a zetta jewel a year this means about 4 000 years of planetary power could be harnessed in this medium alone and when we understand that the earth's heat generation is constantly renewed this energy is really limitless and could be used forever these energy sources are only a few of the clean renewable mediums available and as time goes on we will find more the grand realization is that we have total energy abundance without the need for pollution traditional conservation or in fact a price tag and what about transportation the prevailing means of transportation in our societies is by automobile and aircraft both of which predominantly need fossil fuels to run in the case of the automobile the battery technology needed to power an electric car that can go over 100 miles an hour for over 200 miles on one charge exists and has existed for many years however due to battery patents controlled by the oil industry which limits their availability to maintain market share coupled with political pressure from the energy industry the accessibility and affordability of this technology is limited there is absolutely no reason other than pure corrupt profit interest that every single vehicle in the world cannot be electric and utterly clean with zero need for gasoline as far as airplanes it is time we realize that this means of travel is inefficient cumbersome slow and causes far too much pollution this is a maglev train it uses magnets for propulsion it is fully suspended by a magnetic field and requires less than 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 as used in japan is 361 miles per hour however this version of the technology is very dated an organization called et3 which has connections with the venus project has established a tube based maglev that can travel up to 4 000 miles per hour in a motionless frictionless tube which can go over land or underwater imagine going from la to new york for an extended lunch break or from washington dc to beijing china in two hours this is the future of continental and intercontinental travel fast clean with only a fraction of the energy usage we use today for the same means in fact between maglev technology advanced battery storage and geothermal energy there would be no reason to ever burn fossil fuels again and we can do this now if we were not held back by the paralyzing profit structure now america is inclined towards fascism it has a propensity by its dominant philosophy and religion to uphold the fastest point of view american ministry is essentially a fastest institution if you don't understand that the minute you punch that time clock you walk into a dictatorship we're given notions about the respectability of work and um i really look at it as being paid slavery they're brought up to believe that you shall earn your living by the sweat of your brow that holds people back freeing people from drudgery repetitive jobs which make them ignorant you rob them in our society that is a resource-based economy machines free people you see we can't imagine that because we've never known that kind of world [Music] if we look back at history we see a very clear pattern of machine automation slowly replacing human labor from the disappearance of the elevator man to the near full automation of an automobile production plant the fact is as technology grows the need for humans in the workforce will continually be diminished this creates a serious clash which proves the falseness of the monetary-based labor system for human employment is in direct competition with technological development therefore given the fundamental priority of profit by industry people through time will be continually laid off and replaced by machine when industry takes on the machine instead of shortening the workday they downsize you lose your job so you have a right to fear machines in a high technology resource-based economy it is conservative to say that about 90 of all current occupations could be phased out by machines freeing humans to live their life without servitude for this is the point of technology itself and through time with nanotechnology and other highly advanced forms of science it is not far-fetched to see how even complex medical procedures could be performed by machines as well and based on the pattern with much higher success rates than humans get today the path is clear but our monetary-based structure which requires labor for income blocks this progress for humans need jobs in order to survive the bottom line is that this system must go or we will never be free and technology will be constantly paralyzed we have machines that clean out sewers it frees a human being from doing that so look at machines as extensions of human performance furthermore many occupations today will have simply no basis to exist in a resource-based economy such as anything associated with the management of money advertising along with the legal system itself for without money a great majority of the crimes that are committed today would never occur virtually all forms of crime are a consequence of the monetary system either directly or by neuroses inflicted through financial deprivation therefore laws themselves could eventually become extinct instead of putting up a sign drive carefully slippery when wet put abrasive in the highway so it's not slippery went wet and the person gets in a car that drunk and the car oscillates a great deal there's a little pendulum that swings up and back and that'll pull the car over the side not a law solution puts sonar and radar in automobiles so they can't hit one another man-made laws are attempts to deal with occurring problems and not knowing how to solve them they make a law in the united states the most privatized capitalist country on the planet it should come as no surprise that it also has the largest prison population in the world growing every year statistically most of these people are uneducated and come from poor deprived societies and contrary to propaganda it is this environmental conditioning which lures them into criminal and violent behavior however society looks the other way in regard to this point the legal and prison systems are just more examples of how our society avoids examining the root causes of behavior billions are spent each year on prisons and police while only a fraction is spent on programs for poverty which is one of the most fundamental variables responsible for crime to begin with and as long as we have an economic system which prefers and in fact creates scarcity and deprivation crime will never go away if people have access to the necessities of life without servitude debt barter trade they behave very differently you want all these things available without a price tag now then you've got to have a price tag what'll motivate people a man gets everything he wants he just lay around in the sun this is the myth they perpetuate people in our culture are trained to believe that the monetary system produces incentive if they have access to things why should they want to do anything they will lose their incentive that's what you're taught to support the monetary system when you take money out of the scenario there would be different incentives very different incentives when people have access to the necessities of life their incentives change what about the moon and the stars new incentives arise if you make a painting that you enjoy you will enjoy giving it to other people not selling it i think most of the education that i've seen today is essentially producing a person for a job it's very specialized they're not generalists people don't know a lot about a lot of different subjects i i don't think you could get people to go to war if if they knew a lot about a lot of things i think education is mostly rote and they're not taught how to solve problems they're not given the tools emotionally or within their own field of how to do critical thinking a resource-based economy the education would be very different our society's major concern is mental development and to motivate each person to their highest potential because our philosophy is the smarter people are the richer the world 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 to the environment and to my life because everything that we devised 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 were pinheads raised merely to serve the established institutions with such an abominable sick society that we won't make the history but that just say that large nations took land with smaller nations used force and violence you 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 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 [Music] 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 [Music] static empirical knowledge does not exist rather it is the insight of the emergence of all systems we must recognize this means we must be open to new information at all times even if it threatens our current belief system and hence identities sadly society today has failed to recognize this and the established institutions continue to paralyze growth by preserving outdated social structures simultaneously the population suffers from a fear of change for their conditioning assumes a static identity and challenging one's belief system usually results in insult and apprehension for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure when in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding furthering awareness the fact is there is no such thing as a smart human being for it is merely a matter of time before their ideas are updated changed or eradicated and this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system sheltering it from new possibly transforming information is nothing less than a form of intellectual materialism the monetary system perpetuates this materialism not only by its self-preserving structures but also through the countless number of people who have been conditioned into blindly and thoughtlessly upholding these structures therefore becoming self-appointed guardians of the status quo sheep which no longer need a sheepdog to control them for they control each other by ostracizing those who step out of the norm this tendency to resist change and uphold existing institutions for the sake of identity comfort power and profit is completely unsustainable and will only produce further imbalance fragmentation distortion and invariably destruction [Music] it's time to change from hunters and gatherers to the agricultural revolution 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 not available by instilling the psychological distortion of faith upon its followers where logic and new information is rejected in favor of traditionalized outdated beliefs the concept of god is really a method of accounting for the nature of things in the early days people didn't know enough about how things formed how nature worked so they invented their own little stories and they made god in their own image a guy that gets angry when people don't behave right he creates floods and earthquakes 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 vader yet it is very difficult to take this account literally for not only is there no primary source denoting the supernatural event in secular history awareness of the enormous number of pre-christian saviors who also died and were resurrected immediately puts the story in mythological territory by association early church figures such as tertullian went to great lengths to break these associations even claiming that the devil caused the similarities to occur stating in the 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 ablation 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 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 to loosen the seventh-day adventist the catholic and a church divided is no church at all 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 hole you don't see the plug connected to the environment so it looks like we're free wandering around take the oxygen away we all die immediately take plant life away we die and without the sun all the plants die so we are connected we really must take into account the totality this isn't just a human experience on this planet this is a total experience and we know we can't survive without plants and animals we know we can't survive without the four elements you know and so when are we going to really start taking that into account that's what it is to be successful success depends on how well we relate to everything around us i'm very aware of the fact that my grandson cannot possibly hope to inherit a sustainable peaceful stable socially just world unless every child today growing up in ethiopia in indonesia in bolivia and palestine and israel also has that same expectation you've got to take care of the whole community or you're going to 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 going to bring us joy to and pleasure that's what's missing in our lives right now we can call it spirituality but the fact of the matter is joy comes from that bliss of connectedness that's our god spirit that's that side of ourselves that really feels it and you can feel it deep inside you it's this amazing wonderful feeling and you know it when you get it you don't get it from money i get it from connection now if that isn't a hazard to this country how are we going to keep building nuclear weapons you know what i mean what's going to happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all one it's going to [ __ ] up the economy the economy that's fake anyway economy that's fake anyway the economy that's fake anyway the economy that's fake anyway the economy that's fake anyway which would be a real bummer you can see why the government's cracking down on the idea of experiencing unconditional love once we understand that the integrity of our personal existences are completely dependent on the integrity of everything else in our world we have truly understood the meaning of unconditional love for love is extensionality and seeing everything as you and you as everything can have no conditionalities for in fact we are all everything at once if it's true that we're all from the center of a star every atom in each of us from the center of a star then we're all the same thing even a coke machine or a cigarette butt in the street in buffalo is made out of atoms that came from a star they've all been recycled thousands of times as have you and i and therefore it's only me out there so what is there to be afraid of what is there that needs solace seeking nothing there's nothing to be afraid of because 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 [Music] [Applause] [Music] 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 needed 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 politicians are useless for our true problems in life are technical not political furthermore ideologies that separate humanity such as religion need strong reflection in the community in regard to its value purpose and social relevancy hopefully through time religion will lose its materialism and basis in superstition and move into the useful field of philosophy the fact is society today is backwards with politicians constantly talking about protection and security rather than creation unity and progress the us alone now spends about 500 billion dollars annually on defense that is enough to send every high school senior in america to a four-year college in the 1940s the manhattan project produced the first true weapon of mass destruction this program employed 130 000 people at an extreme financial cost imagine what our life would be like today if that group of scientists instead of working on a way of killing people worked on a way to create a self-sustaining abundant world life today would be very very different if that was their goal instead of weapons of mass destruction it is time to unleash something much more powerful weapons of mass creation our true divinity is in our ability to create and armed with the understanding of the symbiotic connections of life while being guided by the emergent nature of reality there is nothing we cannot do or accomplish of course we face strong barriers in the form of established power structures that refuse to change at the heart of these structures is the monetary system as explained earlier the fractional reserve policy is a form of slavery through debt where it is literally impossible for society to be free in turn free market capitalism in the form of free trade uses debt to imprison the world and manipulate countries into subservience to a handful of large business and political powers apart from these obvious immoralities 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 lead are going to subscribe to this idea for they will lose power and control therefore peaceful yet 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 going to give up the monetary system because of our designs or what we recommend the system has to fail and people have to lose confidence in their elected leaders that will be a major turning point if the venus project is offered as a possible alternative if not i fear the consequences the trends now indicate that our country is going bankrupt the probability is our country moves toward a military dictatorship to prevent riots and complete social breakdown once the 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 its own shortcomings the comptroller of currency stated in 2003 that the interest on the us national debt will not be affordable in less than 10 years this theoretically means total bankruptcy for the u.s economy and its implications for the world are immense in turn the fractional reserve based monetary system is reaching its theoretical limits of expansion and the banking failures you are seeing are just the beginning this is why inflation is skyrocketing all debt is at record levels and the government and fed are hemorrhaging new money to bail out the corrupt system for the only way to keep the banks going is by making more money the only way to make more money is to create more debt and inflation it is simply a matter of time before the tables turn and there was 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 jpmorgan chase and bank of america are the most powerful controllers within the corrupt federal reserve system it's time to boycott these institutions if you have a bank account or a credit card with any of them move your money to another bank if you have a mortgage refinance with another bank if you own their stock sell it if you work for them quit this gesture will express contempt for the true powers behind the private banking cartel known as the federal reserve and create awareness about the fraud of the banking system itself two turn off the tv news visit the emerging independent news agencies on the internet for your information cnn nbc abc fox and all the others present all news pre-filtered to maintain the status quo with four corporations owning all major media outlets objective information is impossible this is the true beauty of the internet and the establishment has been losing control because of this free flow of information we must protect the internet at all times as it is truly our savior right now three don't ever allow yourself your family or anyone you know to ever join the military this is an obsolete institution now used exclusively for maintaining an establishment that is no longer relevant u.s soldiers in iraq work for u.s corporations not the people propaganda forces us to believe that war is natural and the military is an honorable institution well if war is natural why are there 18 suicides every single day by american veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder if our military men and women are so honored why is it that 25 percent of the american homeless population are veterans four stop supporting the energy companies if you live in a detached house get off the grid investigate every means of making your home self-sustainable with clean energy solar wind and other renewable energies are now affordable consumer realities and considering the never-ending rising cost of traditional energies it will likely be a cheaper investment over time if you drive get the smallest car you can and consider using one of the many conversion technologies that can enable your car to be a hybrid electric or run on anything other than establishment fuels five reject the political system the illusion of democracy is an insult to our intelligence in a monetary system there is no such thing as a true democracy and there never was we have two political parties owned by the same set of corporate lobbyists they are placed in their positions by the corporations with popularity artificially projected by their media in a system of inherent corruption the change of personnel every couple of years has very little relevance instead of pretending that the political game has any true meaning focus your energy on how to transcend this failed system and six join the movement go to the zeitgeistmovement.com and help us create the largest mass movement for social change the world has ever seen we must mobilize and educate everyone about the inherent corruption of our current world system along with the only true sustainable solution declaring all the natural resources on the planet as common heritage to all people while informing everyone as to the true state of technology and how we can all be free if the world works together rather than fights the choice lies with you you can continue to be a slave to the financial system and watch the continuous wars depressions and injustice across the globe while placating yourself with vain entertainment and materialistic garbage or you can focus your energy on true meaningful lasting holistic change which actually has the realistic ability to support and free all humans with no one left behind but in the end the most relevant change must occur first inside of you the real revolution is the revolution of consciousness and each one of us first needs to eliminate the divisionary materialistic noise we have been conditioned to think is true while discovering amplifying and aligning with the signal coming from our true empirical oneness it is up to you what we are trying during all these discussions and talks here is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind not accept things as they are but to understand it to go into it to examine it give your heart and your mind with everything that you have to find out a way of living differently but that depends on you or not somebody else because in this there is no teacher no people there's no leader there's no guru there's no master no savior you yourself are the teacher and the pupil you're the master you are the guru you are the leader you are everything and to understand is to transform what is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Published: Fri Apr 02 2021