Zeitgeist Essential Cut Remix Eng Fre Subtitles Part 1/2

Spirituality is a particular term which actually means: a dealing with intuition. In the theistic tradition there is a notion of clinging into a word. A certain act is regarded as displeasing to a divine principle... A certain act is regarded as pleasing for the divine... whatever. In the tradition of non-theism, however, it is very direct... that the case histories are not particularly important. What is actually important is Here and Now. Now is definitely now. We try to experience what is available there... on the spot. There is no point in thinking that a past did exist that we could have now. This is now. This very moment. Nothing mystical, just 'Now', very simple, straightforward. And from that Now-ness, however, arises a sense of intelligence always that you are constantly interacting with reality one by one. Spot by spot. Constantly. We actually experience fantastic precision, always. But we are threatened by the Now so we jump to the past or the future. Paying attention to the materials that exist in our life... all these choices take place all the time... but none of them are regarded as bad or good per se. Everything we experience are unconditional experiences. They don't come along with a label saying 'this is regarded as bad' or 'this is good'. But we experience them but we don't actually pay heed to them properly. We don't actually regard that we are going somewhere. We regard that as a hassle. Waiting to be dead. Waiting to be dead. That is a problem. That is not trusting the Now-ness properly; that what is actually experienced Now possesses a lot of powerful things. It is so powerful that we can't face it. Therefore, we have to borrow from the past and invite the future all the time. And maybe that's why we seek religion. Maybe that's why we march in the street. Maybe that's why we complain to society. Maybe that's why we vote for the presidents. It is quite ironical... Very funny indeed. This is the sun. As far back as 10 thousand B.C., history is abundant with carvings and writings reflecting peoples respect and adoration for this object. And it is simple to understand why as every morning the sun would rise, bringing vision, warmth, and security, saving man from the cold, blind, predator-filled darkness of night. Without it, the cultures understood the crops would not grow, and life on the planet would not survive. These realities made the sun the most adored object of all time. Likewise, they were also very aware of the stars. The tracking of the stars allowed them to recognize and anticipate events which occurred over long periods of time, such as eclipses and full moons. They in turn catalogued celestial groups into what we know today as constellations. This is the cross of the Zodiac, one of the oldest conceptual images in human history. It reflects the sun as it figuratively passes through the 12 major constellations over the course of a year. It also reflects the 12 months of the year, the 4 seasons, and the solstices and equinoxes. The term Zodiac relates to the fact that constellations were anthropomorphized, or personified, as figures, or animals. In other words, the early civilizations did not just follow the sun and stars, they personified them with elaborate myths involving their movements and relationships. The sun, with its life-giving and life-saving qualities was personified as a representative of the unseen creator, or God. "God's Sun," the light of the world, the savior of human kind. Likewise, the 12 constellations represented places of travel for God's Sun and were identified by names, usually representing elements of nature that happened during that period of time. For example, Aquarius, the water bearer, who brings the Spring rains. This is Horus. He is the Sun God of Egypt of around 3000 BC. He is the sun, anthropomorphized, and his life is a series of allegorical myths involving the sun's movement in the sky. From the ancient hieroglyphics in Egypt, we know much about this solar messiah. For instance, Horus, being the sun, or the light, had an enemy known as Set, and Set was the personification of the darkness or night. And metaphorically speaking, every morning Horus would win the battle against Set; while in the evening, Set would conquer Horus and send him into the underworld. It is important to note that "dark vs. light" or "good vs. evil" is one of the most ubiquitous mythological dualities ever known and is still expressed on many levels to this day. Broadly speaking, the story of Horus is as follows: Horus was born on December 25th of the *** Isis-Meri. His birth was accompanied by a star in the east, and upon his birth, he was adored by three kings. At the age of 12, he was a prodigal child teacher, and at the age of 30 he was baptized by a figure known as Anup and thus began his ministry. Horus had 12 disciples he traveled about with, performing miracles such as healing the sick and walking on water. Horus was known by many gestural names such as The Truth, The Light, God's Anointed Son, The Good Shepherd, The Lamb of God, and many others. After being betrayed by Typhon, Horus was crucified, buried for 3 days, and thus, resurrected. These attributes of Horus, whether original or not, seem to permeate in many cultures of the world, for many other Gods are found to have the same general mythological structure. Attis, of Phrygia, born of the *** Nana on December 25th, crucified, placed in a tomb and after 3 days, was resurrected. Krishna, of India, born of the *** Devaki with a star in the east signaling his coming, he performed miracles with his disciples, and upon his death was resurrected. Dionysus of Greece, born of a *** on December 25th, was a traveling teacher who performed miracles such as turning water into wine, he was referred to as the "King of Kings," "God's Only Begotten Son," "The Alpha and Omega," and many others, and upon his death, he was resurrected. Mithra, of Persia, born of a *** on December 25th, he had 12 disciples and performed miracles, and upon his death was buried for 3 days and thus resurrected, he was also referred to as "The Truth," "The Light," and many others. Interestingly, the sacred day of worship of Mithra was Sunday. The fact of the matter is there are numerous saviors, from different periods, from all over the world, which subscribe to these general characteristics. The question remains: Why these attributes, why the *** birth on December 25th, why dead for three days and the inevitable resurrection, why 12 disciples or followers? To find out, let's examine the most recent of the solar messiahs. Jesus Christ was born of the *** Mary on December 25th in Bethlehem, his birth was announced by a star in the east, which three kings or magi followed to locate and adore the new savior. He was a child teacher at 12, at the age of 30 he was baptized by John the Baptist, and thus began his ministry. Jesus had 12 disciples which he traveled about with performing miracles such as healing the sick, walking on water, raising the dead, he was also known as the "King of Kings," the "Son of God," the "Light of the World," the "Alpha and Omega," the "Lamb of God," and many others. After being betrayed by his disciple Judas and sold for 30 pieces of silver, he was crucified, placed in a tomb and after 3 days was resurrected and ascended into Heaven. First of all, the birth sequence is completely astrological. The star in the east is Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, which, on December 24, aligns with the 3 brightest stars in Orion's Belt. These 3 bright stars are called today what they were called in ancient times: The Three Kings. And the Three Kings and the brightest star, Sirius, all point to the place of the sunrise on December 25th. This is why the Three Kings "follow" the star in the east, in order to locate the sunrise... the birth of the sun. The *** Mary is the constellation Virgo, also known as Virgo the ***. Virgo in Latin means ***. Virgo is also referred to as the House of Bread, and the representation of Virgo is a *** holding a sheaf of wheat. This House of Bread and its symbol of wheat represents August and September, the time of harvest. In turn, Bethlehem, in fact, literally translates to "house of bread". Bethlehem is thus a reference to the constellation Virgo, a place in the sky, not on Earth. There is another very interesting phenomenon that occurs around December 25th, or the winter solstice. From the summer solstice to the winter solstice, the days become shorter and colder. And from the perspective of the northern hemisphere, the sun appears to move south and get smaller and more scarce. The shortening of the days and the expiration of the crops when approaching the winter solstice symbolized the process of death to the ancients. It was the death of the Sun. And by December 22nd, the Sun's demise was fully realized, for the Sun, having moved south continually for 6 months, makes it to it's lowest point in the sky. Here a curious thing occurs: The Sun stops moving south, at least perceivably, for 3 days. And during this 3 day pause, the Sun resides in the vicinity of the Southern Cross, or Crux, constellation. And after this time on December 25th, the Sun moves 1 degree, this time north, foreshadowing longer days, warmth, and Spring. And thus it was said: the Sun died on the cross, was dead for 3 days, only to be resurrected or born again. This is why Jesus and numerous other Sun Gods share the crucifixion, 3-day death, and resurrection concept. It is the Sun's transition period before it shifts its direction back into the Northern Hemisphere, bringing Spring, and thus salvation. However, they did not celebrate the resurrection of the Sun until the spring equinox, or Easter. This is because at the spring equinox, the Sun officially overpowers the evil darkness, as daytime thereafter becomes longer in duration than the night, and the revitalizing conditions of spring emerge. Now, probably the most obvious of all the astrological symbolism around Jesus regards the 12 disciples. They are simply the 12 constellations of the Zodiac, which Jesus, being the Sun, travels about with. In fact, the number 12 is replete throughout the Bible. Coming back to the cross of the Zodiac, the figurative life of the Sun, this was not just an artistic expression or tool to track the Sun's movements. It was also a Pagan spiritual symbol, the shorthand of which looked like this. This is not a symbol of Christianity. It is a Pagan adaptation of the cross of the Zodiac. This is why Jesus in early occult art is always shown with his head on the cross, for Jesus is the Sun, the "Sun of God", the "Light of the World", the "Risen Savior", who will "come again," as it does every morning, the "Glory of God" who defends against the "works of darkness", as he is "born again" every morning, and can be seen "coming in the clouds," "up in Heaven," with his "Crown of Thorns," or sun rays. And the plagiarism is continuous. The story of Noah and Noah's Ark is taken directly from tradition. The concept of a Great Flood is ubiquitous throughout the ancient world, with over 200 different cited claims in different periods and times. However, one need look no further for a pre-Christian source than the Epic of Gilgamesh written in 2600 B.C. This story talks of a Great Flood commanded by God, an Ark with saved animals upon it, and even the release and return of a dove, all held in common with the biblical story, among many other similarities. And then there is the plagiarized story of Moses. Upon Moses' birth, it is said that he was placed in a reed basket and set adrift in a river in order to avoid infanticide. He was later rescued by a daughter of royalty and raised by her as a Prince. This baby in a basket story was lifted directly from the myth of Sargon of Akkad, of around 2250 B.C. Sargon was born, placed in a reed basket, in order to avoid infanticide, and set adrift in a river. He was in turn rescued and raised by Akki, a royal mid-wife. Furthermore, Moses is known as the Law Giver, the giver of the Ten Commandments, the Mosaic Law. However, the idea of a Law being passed from God to a prophet, up on a mountain, is also a very old motif. Moses is just a law giver in a long line of law givers in mythological history. In India, Manou was the great law giver. In Crete, Minos ascended Mount Dicta, where Zeus gave him the sacred laws. While in Egypt there was Mises, who carried stone tablets and upon them, the laws of God were written. Manou, Minos, Mises, Moses. And as far as the Ten Commandments, they are taken outright from Spell 125 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. What the Book of the Dead phrased "I have not stolen" became "Thou shall not steal," "I have not killed" became "Thou shall not kill," "I have not told lies" became "Thou shall not bare false witness", and so forth. In fact, the Egyptian religion is likely the primary foundational basis for the Judeo-Christian theology. Baptism, afterlife, final judgement, *** birth, death and resurrection, crucifixion, the ark of the covenant, circumcision, saviors, holy communion, the great flood, Easter, Christmas, Passover, and many many more, are all attributes of Egyptian ideas, long pre-dating Christianity and Judaism. Justin Martyr, one of the first Christian historians and defenders, wrote: "When we say that he, Jesus Christ, our teacher, was produced without *** union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into Heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those who you esteem Sons of Jupiter." In a different writing, Justin Martyr said: "He was born of a ***, accept this in common, with what you believe of Perseus." It's obvious that Justin and other early Christians knew how similar Christianity was to the Pagan religions. However, Justin had a solution. As far as he was concerned, the Devil did it. The Devil had the foresight to come before Christ, and create these characteristics in the Pagan world. Fundamentalist Christianity, fascinating. These people actually believe the World is 12,000 years old. I actually asked one of these guys: "OK, dinosaur fossils?" He says: "Dinosaur fossils? God put those here to test our faith!" "I think God put you here to test my faith, dude!" The Bible is nothing more than an astro-theological literary hybrid, just like nearly all religious myths before it. In fact, the aspect of transference, of one character's attributes to a new character, can be found within the book itself. In the Old Testament, there's the story of Joseph. Joseph was a prototype for Jesus. Joseph was born of a miracle birth, Jesus was born of a miracle birth. Joseph was of 12 brothers, Jesus had 12 disciples. Joseph was sold for 20 pieces of silver, Jesus was sold for 30 pieces of silver. Brother "Judah" suggests the sale of Joseph, disciple "Judas" suggests the sale of Jesus. Joseph began his work at the age of 30, Jesus began his work at the age of 30. The parallels go on and on. Furthermore, is there any non-Biblical historical evidence of any person, living with the name Jesus, the Son of Mary, who traveled about with 12 followers, healing people and the like? There are numerous historians who lived in and around the Mediterranean either during or soon after the assumed life of Jesus. How many of these historians document this figure? Not one. However, to be fair, that doesn't mean defenders of the Historical Jesus haven't claimed the contrary. Four historians are typically referenced to justify Jesus's existence. Pliny the younger, Suetonius, Tacitus are the first three. Each one of their entries consists of only a few sentences at best and only refer to the Christus or the Christ, which in fact is not name but a title. It means the Anointed One. The fourth source is Josephus and this source has been proven to be a forgery for hundreds of years. Sadly, it is still cited as truth. You would think that a guy who rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven for all eyes to see and performed the wealth of miracles acclaimed to him would have made it into the historical record. It didn't because once the evidence is weighed, there are very high odds that the figure known as Jesus, did not even exist. We don't want to be unkind, but we want to be factual. We don't want to cause hurt feelings, but we want to be academically correct, in what we understand and know to be true. Christianity just is not based on truth. We find that Christianity was in fact nothing more than a Roman story, developed politically. "When hostilities commenced in Europe in 1939 it was realized that the American people had no intention of entering the war but they believed that this country could be enticed into the war, in very much the same way, that it was enticed into the last one They planned, first, to prepare the United States for foreign war, under the guise of American defense Second, to involve us in the war, step by step without our realization. Third, to create a series of incidences, which would force us into the actual conflict. These plans were, of course, to be covered and assisted by the full power of their propaganda, Our theaters soon became filled with plays, portraying the glory of war. News reels lost all semblance of objectivity. and they have used the war to justify the restriction of congressional power and the assumption of dictatorial procedures, on the part of the President and his appointees. A fear campaign was inaugurated. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices, of other peoples, to lead our country to destruction" 1775, the American Revolutionary War began, as the American colonies sought to detach from England, and it's oppressive monarchy. Although many reasons are cited for the revolution, one in particular sticks out as the prime cause: that King George III of England outlawed the interest free independent currency the colonies were producing and using for themselves, in turn forcing them to borrow money from the Central Bank of England, at interest, immediately putting the colonies into debt. In words of Peter Cooper Former Vice president of New York Board of Currency "After Franklin had explained ... to the British Goverment as the real cause of prosperity, they immediately passed laws, forbidding the payment of taxes in that money. This produced such great incovenience and misery to the people, that it was the principalcause of revolution." In 1783, America won its independence from England. However, its battle against the central bank concept and the corrupt, power hungry mentality associated with had just begun. So what is a Central Bank? A Central Bank is an institution that issues and regulates the currency of an entire nation. Based on historical precedent, the typical powers are inherent in central banking practice. Includes the control of interest rates, and the expansion and contraction of the money supply itself. Now, the central bank does not simply issue money to the government, it loans it to them with interest. Then, through the mechanizms of increasing and decreasing the supply of money, the central bank esentially regulates the value of the currency issued. It is critical to understand that the entire structure of this system can only produce one thing in the long run: Debt. It doesn't take a lot of ingenuity to figure this scam out. For nearlly every single dollar produced by both the central bank and it regulated commercial banks. Is loan at interest. That means every single dollar produced is actually the dollar, plus a certain percent of debt based on that dollar. And since abanking system has a monopoly over the production of the currency and they loan each dollar out with immediate debt attached to it, where does the money to pay for the debt come from? It can only come from the central bank again. Which means the central bank has to perpetually increase its money supply to temporarily cover the outstanding debt created, which in turn, since that new money is loaned out at interest as well, creates even more debt! The end result of this system is esentually slavery. For it is techniclly impossible for the government and thus the public, to ever come out of the self-generating debt. By the early 20th century, the US had already implemented, and removed a few central banking systems, which were swindled into place by ruthless banking interests. At this time, the dominant families in the banking and business world were: the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Warburgs, the Rothschilds. And in the early 1900's, they sought to push once again, legislation to create another central bank, However, they knew the government and public were weary of such an institution. So they needed to create an incident to affect public opinion. So, J.P. Morgan, publicly considered a financial luminary at the time, exploited his mass influence by repeatly creating rumors that a prominent bank in New York was insolvent, or bankrupt. Morgan knew this would trigger mass hysteria and systemic crisis. And it did. The public, in fear of losing their deposits, immediately began mass withdrawals. Consequently, the banks were forced to call in their loans, causing the recipients to sell their property, and thus a spiral of bankruptcies, repossessions, and turmoil emerged. Putting the pieces together years later, Congresman Charles Lindbergh wrote: "The King bankers put in motion. In 1907, a great scheme. Thay had gamled and speculated on Wall Street until so many watered stocks and bonds had been manufactuated. The King bankers knew the condition and informed the favored of their friends what was to come. There was to be a panic in the fall of 1907 that would be advertised as the result of our bad banking and currency laws" The Panic of 1907 led to a Congressional investigation, headed by Senator Nelson Aldrich, who had intimate ties to the financial powers, and later became part of the Rockefeller family through marriage. The Commission led by Aldrich recommended a Central Bank should be implemented, so a panic like 1907 "could never happen again". This was the spark the international bankers needed to initiate their plan. In 1910, a secret meeting was held at a J.P. Morgan estate on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. It was there that the central banking bill called the Federal Reserve Act was written. This legislation was written by bankers, not law-makers. This meeting was so secretive, so concealed from government and public knowledge, that the most of so figures who attended, disguised their names when in route to the island. After this bill was constructed, it was then handed over to their political front-man, Senator Nelson Aldrich, to push through Congress. And in 1913, with heavy political sponsorship by the bankers, Woodrow Wilson became President, having already agreed to sign the Federal Reserve Act in exchange for campaign support. And a few days before Christmas, when much of Congress was at home with their families, the Federal Reserve Act was voted in, and Wilson in turn made it law. The night before it passage Congressman Charles Lindbergh, ?? This act establishes the most gigantic trust on Earth ... "When the President signs this act, the invisible goverment by the money power ... will be legalized." Now, the public was told that the Federal Reserve System was an economic stabilizer. And inflation and economic crisis were a thing of the past. Well, as history has shown, nothing is further from the truth. The fact is the bankers now had a streamlined machine to economical manipulation. For example, from 1914 to 1919, the Fed ?? increased the money supply. Resulting in extensive loans to small banks and the public. Then in 1920, the Fed deliberatly contracted credit in extreme way. thus resulting in the supporting banks having to call in huge numbers of loans, and just like in 1907: bank runs, bankruptcy, and systamic colapse ocured. Numorous competitive banks outside of the Federal Reserve System collapsed. Further consolidating the monopoly to amoney trust cartel. Privy to this scheme, Congressman Lindberg pronaunced: "Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figure a mathematical equation." However, the panic of 1920 was just a warm-up. From 1921 to 1929, the Fed again increased the money supply, resulting once again in extensive loans to the public and banks. There was also a fairly new type of loan in the stock market. The broker call loan. Very simply, a loan allowed an investor to put down only a fraction of a stocks value, with the rest being loaned from the broker. This method was very popular in the roaring 1920's, as everyone seemed to be making money in the market. However, there was a catch to this loan. It could be called in at any time, and had to be paid within 24 hours. And the typical result was the selling of the stock purchased with that loan. So, a few months before October of 1929, J.D. Rockefeller, Bernard Baruck, and other insiders quietly exited the market, knowing that bubble created was about to burst. And on October 24.-th 1929 The financiers who furnished the call loans started to calling them in. In mass. This sparked an instantaneous massive sell-off in the already inflated market, as sell orders and margin calls were systemaclly trigerred. Than that lead to mass bankrupcy, eventually collapsing thousands of banks. Enabeling the large banks to buy out now the failed ones. At the discount. But that didn't stop there. Rather than expand the money supply to recover from this economic collapse, the Fed actually contracted it, fueling one of the largest depressions in history. Outraged, Congressman Louis McFadden, ? Chairman of House of Banking Comitte Filed a petition for ? against the Federal Reserve Board, Stating: "Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the World has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of United States ... And has practiclly bankrupted our Goverment. It has done this trough the defects of the law under which it operates. Trough the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board and trough the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it." Now, having reduced the society to squalor, it is than decided that the Gold Standard should be removed. In order to do this, they needed to acquire the remaining gold in the system. So, under the pretense of helping to end the Depression came the 1933 Gold Seizure. Under threat of imprisonment for 10 years, everyone in America was required to turn in all gold bullion to the Treasury, essentially robbing the public of what little wealth they had left. At the end of 1933, the gold standard was abolished. If you look at a dollar bill from before 1933, it says it is redeemable in gold. If you look at a dollar bill today, it says it is legal tender, which means it is backed by absolutely nothing. The only thing that gives our money value is the public fate and how much of it is in the circulation. Therefore the power to regulate the money supply is also the power to regulate its value, which is also the power to manipulate and control entire economies. It's important to clearly understand: The Federal Reserve is a private corporation. It is about as "Federal" as "Federal Express." It makes its own policies, and is under little regulation by the US government. It is a private bank that loans all the currency at interest to the government, completely consistent with central banking model that the country sought to escape from when it declared independence in the American Revolutionary War. for the vast financial powers is only a part of the game being played. Another level is bussines of War. Since the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913, a number of large and small wars have commenced. The 3 most pronounced were World War I, World War II, and Vietnam. World War I. In 1914, European wars broke out centered around England and Germany. The American public wanted nothing to do with the war, in turn President Wilson publicly declared neutrality. However, under the surface, evidence now shows that the financial powers behind the administration ware looking for any excuse they could find to enter it. It's important to understand that the most lucrative thing that can happen for international bankers, is war. For it forces the county to borrow even more money at interest. Not to mention the profit generated thru financing of the military productions. In the words of the 2 times Congresial Medal of Honour winner Smedley D. Butler "War is a racket. It is always has been. It is possibly the oldest, esily the most profitable, surlely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profit are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." Woodrow Wilson's top adviser and mentor was Colonel Edward House, a man with intimate connections with the financial intrests at the time. In a conversation between Colonel House, Wilson's Advisor, and Sir Edward Grey, The Foreign Secretary of England, regarding how to get America into the war. Grey inquired: "What will Americans do if Germans sink an Ocean Liner with American passengers on board?" House responded: "I believe that a flame of indignation would sweep the United States and that by itself would be sufficient to carry us into war." So, on May 7th 1915 a ship called the Lusitania was deliberately sent where German military vessels were know to be. And, as expected, German U-boats torpedoed the ship, exploding stored ammunition, killing 1200 people. To further understand the obvious anticipation of this setup, the German Embassy actually put advertisements in the New York Times, telling people that if they boarded the Lusitania, they did so at their own risk, as such a ship sailing from America to England through the war zone, would be liable to destruction. In turn and as anticipated, the sinking of the Lusitania created a wave of anger among the American population and America entered the war a short time after. World War 2. On December 7th 1941, Japan attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, triggering US into that war. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that the attack was a "day that will live in infamy". A day of infamy indeed, but not because of the alleged surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. After 60 years of surfacing information, it is clear that not only was the attack on Pearl Harbor known weeks in advance, it was outright wanted and provoked. In a journal entry, by Roosevelt's Secretary of War Henry Stimson, dated November 25th, 1941, he documented a conversation he had with Roosevelt: "The question was how should we maneuver them into firing the first shot. And in a Congresial testimony later he added It was desirable to make sure the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt as to who were the aggressors." In the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt did everything in his power to anger the Japanese, showing a posture of aggression. He halted all of Japans' imports of American Petroleum. He froze all the Japanese assets in the United States. He made public loans to Nationalist China and supplied military aid to the British, both enemies to Japan in the war... Which, by the way, was completely in violation of international war rules. And with numorous Japanese codes broken in advance revealing the plan to attack. On December 7th 1941, Japan was allowed to attacked Pearl Harbor, killing 2400 soldiers. Before Pearl Harbor, 83% of the American public wanted nothing to do with the war. After Pearl Harbor, 1 million men volunteered for that war. It is important to note, Nazi Germany's war effort was largely supported by two organizations, one of which was called I.G. Farben. I.G. Farben produced 84% of Germany's explosives One of the unspoken partners of I.G. Farben was J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company in America, In fact, the German Air Force could not operate without a special additive patterned by Rockefeller's Standard Oil. The drastic bombing of London by Nazi Germany, for example, was made possible by a 20 million dollar sale of fuel to I.G. Farben by the Rockefeller Standard Oil Company. This is just one small point on topic how American business funded both sides of World War 2. One other treasonous organization worth mentioning is the Union Banking Corporation of New York City. Not only did it finance numerous aspects of Hitler's rise to power, along with actual materials during the war, it was also a Nazi money laundering bank, which was eventually exposed for having millions of dollars of Nazi Money in its vaults. The Union Banking Corporation of New York was eventually seized for violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act. Guess who the director and vice-president of the Union Bank was? Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather, of former US presidents George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush Vietnam. The United States official escalation and entry to the Vietnam war, came after an alleged incident involving two US destroyers being attacked by North Vietnamese PT boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. This was known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. This situation was the catalystic pretext for massive troop deployment and full fledged warfare. One problem however. The attack on the US destroyers by Vietnamese PT boats... never happened. Former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, stated years later that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a "mistake", while declasified documents released years later show that it was a farse. Manipulated for purposes of war. Once in the war, it was business as usual. In October 1966, President Lyndon Johnson lifted trading restrictions on the Soviet Block, knowing full well that the Soviets were providing upwards of 80% of North Vietnam's war supplies. Consequently, Rockefeller interests financed factories in the Soviet Union, which the Soviets used to manufacture military equipment and send to North Vietnam. However, the funding of both sides of this conflict was only one side of the coin. In 1985, Vietnam's Rules of Engagement were declassified. This detailed what American troops were and were not allow to do in the war. It included absurdities like: North Vietnamese anti-aircraft missile systems could not be bombed until they were known to be fully operational. No enemy could be pursued once they crossed the border of Laos or Cambodia. And most revealing of all, the most critical, strategic targets were not allowed to be attacked, unless initiated by high military officials. Apart from these ilogical limitations, North Vietnam was informed of these restrictions and therefore could base entire strategies around the limitations of the American Forces. This is why the war went on so long and the bottom line is this: The Vietnam War was never meant to be won... Just sustained. This war for profit and resources resulted in 58,000 American deaths and 3 million dead Vietnamese. So, where are we now. September 11th was the jumpstart for a hergemonic agenda enabelin possibility of constant global warfare. It was a staged war pretext, no different than the sinking of the Lusitania, the provoking of Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin lie. In fact if 9/11 wasn't a planned war pretext, it would be an exception to the rule. It has been used to launch two unprovoked illegal wars. One against Iraq and one against Afghanistan. However, 9/11 was the pretext for another war as well. The war against you. The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, the Military Tribunals Act and other legislations, are all completely designed to destroy your civil liberties and protect those in power. Currently in the United States, unannounced to most Americans, your home can be searched without a warrant, without you being home, you can, in turn, be detained indefinetly with no charges revealed to you, no access to a lawyer and legally tortured. All under the suspicion that you might be a "terrorist". If you need a painted picture of what is happening, let's recognize how history repeats itself. In February 1933, Hitler staged a false flag attack, burning down his own German parliament building, the Reichstag, and blamed it on communist terrorists. Within the next few weeks, he passed the Enabling Act, which completely eradicated the German Constitution destroying people's liberties. He then let a series of preemptive wars all justified as necessary to maintaining "homeland security". Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them. It's time to wake up. The people in power go out of their way to make sure you are perpetually mislead and manipulated. The majorities perception of reality, especially in the political arena is not their own. It is shrewdly imposed upon them, without them even knowing it. For example, the public at large now believes the invasion of Iraq and the Middle East along with the resolting instability are consequences of the political and military mistakes. What the public fails to se, ofcourse, is that these destabilizizations of the Middle East are exactly what Western interest wants. This war is to be sustained, so the region can be divided up, domination of the oil maintained, continual profits reaped for the defense contractors and most obviously, permanent military bases established to be used as a launching pad against other oil bearing, non-conforming countries, such as Iran, For further implication, that the Middle East destabilization is purely intentional In 2005, 2 elite British SAS officers were arrested by Iraq police after being caught driving around in their car shooting at civilians, while dressed up as Arabs. After being arrested and taken to a jail in Basra, the British army immediately requested the release of these men. When the Basra government refused, British tanks came in and physically broke out the men from the Basra prison. If you wish to destroy an area, how do you do it? Well there are two ways: You can go in there and bomb it, and so forth, but that is not very efficient. What you do is try to get the people in that area to kill each other and to destroy there own territory, their own farms. And that's what has been done in that area. The way in which you destroy an opponent is get him to destroy himself, by dividing his ranks against one another. Then you feed both sides, you have agents feeding both sides, inflaming both sides. And they kill each other off. And it's time that some of us woke up to this reality. To understand that people who try to maintain empires and create empires, do it by manipulating the people they are trying to conquer. You might to ask yourself why the entire culture is utterly saturated with mass media entertainment from all sides, while the educational system in America continues it stupefying downward slide since the US government decided to take over and subsidize the public school system. What your government pays for, it gets. When we understand that, then we look at government financed institutions of education and see the kind of students and the kind of education that is being turned out by these government financed schools, logic will tell you that if what is being turned out in those schools was not in accord with what the state and the federal government wanted, then it would change it. The bottom line is that the government is getting what they have ordered. They do not want your children to be educated. They do not want you to think too much. That is why our country and our world has become so proliferated with entertainments, mass media, television shows, amusement parks, drugs, alcohol and every kind of entertainment, to keep the human mind entertained. So that you don't get in the way of important people by doing too much thinking. You had better wake up and understand that there are people who are guiding your life and you don't even know it." We are in a lot of trouble! Because you people and 62 million other Americans are listening to me right now. Because less than 3 percent of you people read books. Because less 15 percent of you read newspapers. Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers... This tube is the most awesome *** force in the whole godless world and woe is us, if it ever falls in the hands of the wrong people. And when the largest company in the world controls the most awesome *** propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what *** will be peddled for truth on this network! So you listen to me... Listen to me: Television is not the truth. Television is a *** amusement park, television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troop of acrobats, story tellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We are in the boredom killing business! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds... We are all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we are spinning here, you are beginning to think the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube... This is mass madness, you maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion! The last thing the power establishment wants is a conscious informed public, capable of critical thinking. This is why a continually fraudulent zeitgeist is output via religion, the mass media, and the educational system. It is in their interest to keep you in a distracted, naive bubble. And they are doing a damn good job of it. This is Aaron Russo, a filmmaker and former politician. To his left is Nicholas Rockefeller of the Council of the foregein relations. After maintaining a close friendship with Nicholas Rockefeller, Aaron eventually ended the relationship, appalled by what he had learn I got a call one day from an attorney I knew and she said: "Would you like to meet one of the Rockefellers?" And I said: "Sure I would love to." And we became friends and he began to divulge a lot of things to me, so he said to me, one night, he said: "There's going to be an event, Aaron, and out of that event, we are going to go into Afghanistan, so we can run pipelines from the Caspian Sea, we are going to go into Iraq to take the oil and establish a base in the Middle East and we are gong to go into Venezuela and get rid of Chavez." The first 2 they have accomplished, Chavez they didn't accomplish. And he said: "You are going to see guys going into caves looking for... looking for people they are never going to find." He was laughing about the fact that you have this war on Terror, and there is no real enemy. He was talking about how by having this war on terror you can never win it, because it is an eternal war, and so you can always keep taking peoples liberties away. And I said: "How are you going to convince people that this war is real?" And he said: "By the media, the media can convince everybody that it's real." You just keep talking about things and saying them over and over and over again and eventually, people believe it. You know, they create the Federal Reserve in 1913 through lies. They create 9/11, which was another lie. Through 9/11, then you are fighting a war on terror and all the sudden you go into Iraq, which was another lie, and now, they are going to do Iran. It's all one thing leading to another, leading to another, leading to another... I would say to him: "What are you doing this for? What's the point of this thing? You have all the money in the world you would ever want, you have all the power, you're hurting people. It's not a good thing." And he would say: "What do you care about the people for? Take care of yourself and take care of your family". And then I said: "So what are the ultimate goals here?" He said: "The ultimate goal is to get everyone in this world chipped with an RFID chip. And have all money be on those chips and have everything on those chips, and if anyone wants to protest what we do or violate what we want, we can just turn off their chip." How far would this sickness of power go?? To what lenghts will those in control go to maintene and preserve their positions We have a Florida family who are really pioneers in a brave new world. They have volunteered to be the first ever, to have microchip identification devices implanted into their bodies. After 9/11, I was really concerned with the security of my family. I wouldn't mind having something planted permanently in my arm, that would identify me. George Orwel. in his famed and posiblly propethic work 1984. stated:" Power is not a needs it is an end. The object of persecusion is the persecusion. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." Today, simptom of suveillance society continue to grow. As the irational fear of the invisionable enemies coupled, with raising economical instability spread across the globe. It is under discaise?? of securety that we foreshadow a world where everybody is tracked, where everybody is on camera. And everyone is subordinate. The most incredible aspect of all: Such totalitarian will likely not to be forced to the people, rather the people will demand them. For the social manipulation of society, through the generation of fear and division has completely inhibited the culture. Religion. Patriotism. Race. Wealth. Class. And every other form of arbitrary, separatist identification and thus conceit, has served to create a controlled population, utterly malleable in the hands of the few. Divide and Conquer is the motto, and as long as people continue to see themselves as separate from everything else, they lend themselves to being completely enslaved. However if people ever realize the truth of their relationship to nature, and the truth of their personal power to affect change. The entire manufactured Zeitgeist they prey upon, will collapse like a house of cards. "We were seeing how very important it is to bring about, in the human mind, the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness. A crisis that cannot, anymore, accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. And, considering what the world is now, with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression, and so on... Man is still as he was. Is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive. And, he's built a society along these lines." It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. J. Krishnamurti Society today, is composed of a series of institutions. From political institutions, legal institutions, religious institutions. To institutions of social class, familiar values, and occupational specialization. It is obvious, the profound influence these traditionalized structures have in shaping our understandings and perspectives. Yet, of all the social institutions, we are born into, directed by and conditioned upon, there seems to be no system as taken for granted, and misunderstood, as the monetary system. Taking on nearly religious proportions, the established monetary institution exists as one of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is. How money is created, the policies by which it is governed, and how it truly affects society, are unregistered interests of the great majority of the population. In a world where 1% of the population owns 40% of the planets wealth. In a world where 34.000 children die every single day from poverty and preventable diseases, and, where 50% of the world's population lives on less than 2 dollars a day... One thing is clear. Something is very wrong. And, whether we are aware of it or not, the lifeblood of all of our established institutions, and thus society itself, is money. Therefore, understanding this institution of monetary policy is critical to understanding why our lives are the way they are. Unfortunately, economics is often viewed with confusion and boredom. Endless streams of financial jargon, coupled with intimidating mathematics, quickly deters people from attempts at understanding it. However, the fact is: The complexity associated with the financial system is a mere mask. Designed to conceal one of the most socially paralyzing structures, humanity has ever endured. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1749-1832 A number of years ago, the central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, produced a document entitled "Modern Money Mechanics". This publication detailed the institutionalized practice of money creation as utilized by the Federal Reserve and the web of global commercial banks it supports. On the opening page the document states its objective. "The purpose of this booklet is to describe the basic process of money creation in a 'fractional reserve' banking system." It then precedes to describe this fractional reserve process through various banking terminology. A translation of which goes something like this: The United States government decides it needs some money. So it calls up the Federal Reserve and requests, say, 10 billion dollars. The FED replies saying: "sure, we'll buy ten billion in government bonds from you". So the government takes some pieces of paper, paints some official looking designs on them and calls them treasury bonds. Then it puts a value on these bonds to the sum of 10 billion dollars and sends them over to the FED. In turn the people of the FED drop a bunch of impressive pieces of papers themselves. Only this time, calling them Federal Reserve notes. Also designating a value of ten billion dollars to the set. The FED than takes these notes and trades them for the bonds. Once this exchange is complete, the government then takes the ten billion in federal reserve notes, and deposits it into an bank account. And, upon this deposit the paper notes officially become legal tender money. Adding ten billion to the US money supply. And there it is, ten billion in new money has been created. Of course, this example is a generalization. For, in reality, this transaction would occur electronically. With no paper used at all. In fact, only three percent of US money supply exists in physical currency. The other 97 percent essentially exists in computers alone. Now, government bonds are by design instruments of debt. And when the FED purchases these bonds with money it essentially created out of thin air, the government is actually promising to pay back that money to the FED. In other words, the money was created out of debt. This mind numbing paradox, of how money or value can be created out of debt, or liability, will become more clear as we further this exercise. So, the exchange has been made. And now, ten billion dollars sits in a commercial bank account. Here is where it gets really interesting. For, as based on the fractional reserve practice, that ten billion dollar deposit instantly becomes part of the bank's reserves. Just as all deposits do. And, regarding reserve requirements as stated in "Modern Money Mechanics": "A bank must maintain legally required reserves equal to a prescribed percentage of its deposits". It then quantifies this by stating: "Under current regulations, the reserve requirement against most transaction accounts is 10 percent". This means that with a ten billion dollar deposit, ten percent, or one billion, is held as the required reserve, while the other nine billion is considered an excessive reserve, and can be used as the basis for new loans. Now, it is logical to assume, that this nine billion is literally coming out of the existing ten billion dollar deposit. However, this is actually not the case. What really happens, is that the nine billion is simply created out of thin air on top of the existing 10 billion dollar deposit. This is how the money supply is expanded. As stated in "Modern Money Mechanics": "Of course they" - the banks - "do not really pay out loans for the money, they receive as deposits. If they did this, no additional money would be created. What they do when they make loans is to accept promissory notes" - loan contracts - "in exchange for credits" - money - "to the borrowers' transaction accounts." In other words, the nine billion can be created out of nothing. Simply because there is a demand for such a loan, and that there is a 10 billion dollar deposit to satisfy the reserve requirements. Now let's assume that somebody walks into this bank and borrows the newly available nine billion dollars. They will then most likely take that money and deposit it into their own bank account. The process then repeats. For that deposit becomes part of the bank's reserves. Ten percent is isolated and in turn 90 percent of the nine billion, or 8.1 billion is now availlable as newly created money for more loans. And, of course, that 8.1 can be loaned out and redeposited creating an additional 7.2 billion to 6.5 billion... to 5.9 billion... etc... This deposit money creation loan cycle can technically go on to infinity. The average mathematical result is that about 90 billion dollars can be created on top of the original 10 billion. In other words, for every deposit that ever occurs in the banking system, about nine times that amount can be created out of thin air. Money-Jitters. Ask the obliging Bank of America for a jar of soothing instant money. M-O-N-E-Y in the form of a convenient personal loan. So, now that we understand how money is created by this fractional reserve banking system. A logical yet illusive question might come to mind: what is actually giving this newly created money value? The answer: the money that already exists. The new money essentially steals value from the existing money supply. For the total pool of money is being increased irrespective to demand for goods and services. And, as supply and demand defines equilibrium, prices rise, diminishing the purchasing power of each individual dollar. This is generally referred to as inflation. And inflation is essentially a hidden tax on the public. What is the advice that you generally get? And that is, inflate the currency. They don't say: debase the currency. They don't say: devalue the currency. They don't say: cheat the people who are safe. They say: lower the interest rates. The real deception is when we distort the value of money. When we create money out of thin air, we have no savings. Yet there is so called "capital". So, my question boils down to this: how in the world can we expect to solve the problems of inflation? That is: increase in the supply of money, with more inflation." Of course, it can't. The fractional reserve system of monetary expansion is inherently inflationary. For the act of expanding the money supply, without there being a proportional expansion of goods and services in the economy, will always debase a currency. In fact, the quick glance of the historical values of the US dollar, versus the money supply, reflects this point definitively for inverse relationship is obvious. One dollar in 1913 required $21.60 in 2007 to match value. That is a 96% devaluation since the Federal Reserve came into existence. Now, if this reality of inherent and perpetual inflation seems absurd and economically self defeating. Hold that thought, for absurdity is an understatement in regard to how our financial system really operates. For in our financial system money is debt, and debt is money. Here is a chart of the US money supply from 1950 to 2006. Here is a chart to the US national debt for the same period. How interesting it is, that the trends, are virtually the same. For the more money there is the more debt there is. The more debt there is the more money there is. To put it a different way, every single dollar in your wallet is owed to somebody by somebody. For remember : the only way the money can come in to existence is from loans. Therefore, if everyone in the country were able to pay off all debts including the government, there would not be one dollar in circulation. "If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money." - Marriner Eccles - Governor of the Federal Reserve September 30th, 1941 In fact, the last time in American history the national debt was completely paid off was in 1835 after president Andrew Jackson shut down the central bank that preceded the Federal Reserve. In fact, Jackson's entire political platform essentially revolved around his commitment to shut down the central bank. Stating that one point: "The bold efforts the present bank has made to control the government... are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or, the establishment of another like it." Unfortunately this message was short lived. And the international bankers succeeded to install another central bank in 1913, the Federal Reserve. And as long as this institution exists perpetual debt is guaranteed. Now, so far we have discussed the reality that money is created out of debt through loans. These loans are based on a banks reserves, and reserves are derived from deposits. And through this fractional reserve system, any one deposit can create 9 times its original value. In turn, debasing the existing money supply raising prices in society. And, since all this money is created out of debt, and circulated randomly through commerce, people become detached from their original debt. And a disequilibrium exists where people are forced to compete for labor in order to pull enough money out of the money supply to cover their costs of living. As dysfunctional and backwards as all of this might seem, there is still one thing we have omitted from this equation. And it is this element of the structure which reveals the truly fraudulent nature of the system itself. The application of interest. When the government borrows money from the FED, or when a person borrows money from a bank, it almost always has to be payed back with a crude interest. In other words, almost every single dollar that exists must be eventually returned to a bank with interest payed as well. But, if all money is borrowed from the Central Bank and is expanded by commercial banks through loans, only what would be refered to as the "principal" is been created in the money supply. So then, where is the money to cover all of the interest that is charged? Nowhere. It doesn't exist. The ramifications of this are staggering, for the amount of money owed back to the banks will always exceed the amount of money that is available in circulation. This is why inflation is a constant in the economy, for new money is always needed to help cover the perpetual deficit build into the system, caused by the need to pay the interest. What this also means, is that mathematically defaults and bankruptcy are literally built into the system. And there will always be poor pockets of society that get the short end of the stick. An analogy would be a game of musical chairs, for the once music stops, somebody is left out to dry. And that is the point. It invariably transfers true wealth for the individual to the banks. For, if you are unable to pay for your mortgage, they will take your property. This is particularly enraging when you realize, that not only is such a default inevitable due to the fractional reserve practice. But, also because of the fact that the money that the bank loaned to you didn't even legally exist in the first place. In 1969 there was a Minnesota court case involving a man named Jerome Daly who was challenging the foreclosure of his home by the bank, which provided the loan to purchase it. His argument was that the mortgage contract required both parties, being he and the bank, each put up a legitimate form of property for the exchange. In legal language this is called consideration [a contract's basis. a contract is founded on an exchange of one form of consideration for another.] Mr. Daly explained that the money was, in fact, not the property of the bank. For it was created out of nothing as soon as the loan agreement was signed. Remember what "Modern Money Mechanics" stated about loans? "What they do, when they make loans, is to accept promissory notes in exchange for credits". "Reserves are unchanged by the loan transactions. But, deposit credits constitute new additions to the total deposits of the banking system." In other words, the money doesn't come out of their existing assets. The bank is simply inventing it, putting up nothing of it's own, except for a theoratical liability on paper. As the court case progressed, the bank's president Mr. Morgan took the stand. And in the judge's personal memorandum, he recalled that the Plaintiff - bank's president - admitted that, in combination with the Federal Reserve Bank did create the money and credits upon its books by bookkeeping entry. The money and credit first came into existence when they created it. Mr. Morgan admitted that no United States Law or Statute existed which gave him the right to do this. A lawful consideration must exist and be tendered to support the Note. The Jury found that there was no lawful consideration and I agree. He also poetically added, "Only God can create something of value out of nothing". And, upon this revelation the court rejected the bank's claim for foreclosure and Daly kept his home. The implications of this court decision are immense. For every time you borrow money from a bank, whether it is a mortgage loan or a credit card charge, the money given to you is not only counterfeit, it is a illegitimate form of consideration. And hence, voids the contract to repay. For the bank never had the money as property to begin with. Unfortunately such legal realizations are suppressed and ignored. And the game of perpetual wealth transfer and perpetual debt continues. And this brings us to the ultimate question: Why? During the American Civil War President Lincoln bypassed the high interest loans offered by the European banks and decided to do what the founding fathers advocated. Which was to create an independent and inherently debt-free currency. It was called "The Greenback". Shortly after this measure was taken, an internal document circulated between private British and American banking interests, stated: "...slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan... is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages. This can be done by controlling the money. It will not do to allow the Greenback... as we cannot control that." The fractional reserve policy, perpetrated by the Federal Reserve which has spread in practice to the great majority of banks in the world, is, in fact, a system of modern slavery. Think about it, money is created out of debt. And what the people do when they are in debt? They submit to employment to pay it off. But if money only can only be created out of loans, how can society ever be debt free? It can't and that's the point. And it is the fear of loosing assets, coupled with the struggle to keep up with the perpetual debt and inflation inherent in the system, compounded by the inescapable scarcity within in the money supply itself, created by the interest that can never be re-payed, that keeps the wage-slave in line, running on a hamster wheel, with millions of others, in effect powering an empire that truly benefits only the elite at the top of the pyramid. For, at the end of the day, who are you really working for? The banks. Money is created in the bank and invariably ends up in a bank. They are the true masters, along with the corporations and governments they support. Physical slavery requires people to be housed and fed. Economic slavery requires people to feed and house themselves. It is one of the most ingenious scams for social manipulation ever created. And at its core, it is an invisible war against the population. Debt is the weapon used to conquer and enslave societies, and interest is its prime ammunition. And, as the majority walks around oblivious to this reality, the banks in collusion with governments and corporations continue to perfect and expand their tactics of economic warfare, spawning new bases, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund [IMF], while also inventing a new type of soldier. The birth of the economic hitman. There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt. - John Adams - 1735-1826 We, economic hit men, really have been the ones responsible for creating this first truly global empire and we work many different ways. But perhaps the most common is that we will identify a country that has resources our corporations covet, like oil, and then, arrange a huge loan to that country from the World Bank or one of it's sister organizations. But the money never actually goes to the country. Instead it goes to our big corporations to build infrastructure projects in that country. Power plants, industrial parks, ports... Things that benefit a few rich people in that country. In addition to our corporations. But really don't help a majority of the people at all. However, those people, the whole country is left holding the huge debt. It's such a big debt they can't repay and that's part of the plan... They can't repay it. And so, in some point, we economic hit men, go back to them and say, "Listen, you owe us a lot of money. You can't pay your debt. So, sell your oil real cheap to our oil companies", "allow us to build a military base in your country", or "send troops in support of ours to someplace in the world like Iraq", or "vote with us in the next UN vote", to have their electric utility company privatized and their water and sewage system privatized and sold to US corporations or other multinational corporations." So there is a whole mushrooming thing and it's so typical the way the IMF and the World Bank work. They put a country in debt and it's such a big debt 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 what you call a "conditionality" or "good governance" which means basically that they got to sell off their resources, including many of their social services, their utility companies, their school systems sometimes, their penal systems, their insurance systems, to foreign corporations. So it's a double - triple - quadruple whammy! Iraq, actually, is a perfect example of the way the whole system works. So, we, economic hit men, are the first line defense. We go in, we try to corrupt the governments and get them to accept this huge loans, which we then use as leverage to basically own them. If we fail, as I failed in Panama with Omar Torrijos and Ecuador with Jaime Roldos, men who refuse to be corrupted, then the second line of defense is we send in the Jackals. And the jackals either overthrow governments or they assassinate. And, once that happens and a new goverment comes in it, boy it's gonna toe the line because that new president knows what will happen if he doesn't. In the case of Iraq, both of those things failed. The economic hit men were not able to get through to Saddam Hussein. We tried very hard, we tried to get him to accept a deal very similar to what the House of Saud had accepted in Saudi Arabia, but he wouldn't accept it. And so the jackals went in to take him out. They couldn't do it. His security was very good. After all, he, at one time, had worked for CIA. He'd been hired to assassinate a former president of Iraq and failed, but he knew the system. So, in '91, we send in the troops and we take out the Iraqi military. So, we assumed at that point that Saddam Hussein is gonna come around. We could have take him out of course at that time, but we didn't want it. He's the kind of strong man we like. He controls his people. We thought he could control Kurds, and keep the Iranians in their border and keep pumping oil for us. And that once we took this military, now he's gonna come around. So, the economic hit men go back in in the 90's without success. If they'd had success he'd still be running the country. We'd be selling him all the jet fighters he wants, and everything he wants, but they couldn't, they didn't have success. The jackals couldn't take him out again, so we sent the military in once again and this time we did the complete job and took him out. And in the process, created for ourselves some very-very lucrative construction deals to reconstruct the country that we'd essentially destroyed. Which is a pretty good deal if you own consturction companies, big ones. So, Iraq showes the three stages. The economic hit men failed there. The Jackals failed there. And as final mesure 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 empires of the past were built on the military, and everybody knew they were building them. The British knew they were building them, the French, the Germans, the Romans, the Greeks, and they were proud of it. They always had some excuse like spreading civilization, spreading some religion, something like that, but they knew they were doing it. We don't. The majority of the people, in the United States, have no idea that we're living off the benefits of the clandestine empire. That today there is more slavery in the world than ever before. Then you have to ask yourself, well, if it's an empire, then who is the emperor? Obviously our presidents of the United States are not emperors. An emperor is someone who is not elected, doesn't serve a limited term, and doesn't report to anyone, essentially. So you can't classify our presidents that way. But we do have what I consider to be the equivalent of the emperor and it's what I call the corporatocracy. The corporatocracy is this group of individuals who run our biggest corporations. And they really act as the emperor of this empire. They control our media, either through direct ownership or advertising. They control most of our politicians because the finance their campaigns, either through the corporations or through personal contributions that come out of the the corporations. They're not elected, then don't serve a limited term, they don't report to anybody, and at the very top of the corporatocracy you really can't tell whether the person is working for a private corporation or the government because their always moving back and forth. So you've got a guy who is one moment is the president of a big construction company like Haliburton, and the next moment he's Vice President of the United States. Or the President who was in the oil business. And this is true whether you get Democrats or Republicans in the office. You have this moving back and forth through a revolving door. And in a way, our government is invisible a lot of the time, and his policies are carried out by our corporations on one level or another. And then again, the policies of the government are basically forged by the corporatocracy, and then presented to the government and they become government policy. So, there's an incredibly cozy relationship. This isn't a conspiracy theory type of thing. These people don't have to get together an 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 : Globalisation Just as the Federal Reserve keeps the american public in a postion of indentured servetude, though perpetual debt, inflation and interest, the Worldbank and IMF serve this role on a global scale. The basic scam is simple. Put a country in debt you divide is own in disgression, or through corrupting the leader of that country, then impose "conditionalities" or "structual adjustment policies" often consisting of the following. Currency devaluation. When the value of a currency drops, so does everything valued in it. This makes indigenes resources available to predator countries at a fraction of their worth. Large funding cuts for social programs, these usually include education and healthcare, compromising the well-being and integrity of the society leaving the public vulnerable to exploitation. Privatization of state-owned enterprises. This means that socially important systems can be purchased and regulated by foreign corporations for profit. For example, in 1999, the Worldbank insisted that the bolivian government sell the public watersystem of it's third-largest city to a subsidy of the US-corporation "Bechtel". As soon as this occured waterbills for the allready impoverished local residents skyrocketed. It wasn't until after full-blown revolt by the people that the Bechtel-contract was nullified. Then there is trade liberalization or the opening up of the economy through removing any restrictions on foreign trade. This allows for a number of abusive economic manifestations, such as transnational corporations bringing in their own mass-produced products undercutting the indigenes production and ruining local economies. An example is Jamaica, which after accepting loans and conditionalities from the Worldbank lost it's largest cash crop markets due to competition with western imports. Today countless farmers are out of work for they're unable to compete with the large corporations. Another variation is the creation of numerous, seemingly unnoticed, unregulated, inhuman sweetshop-factorys, which take advantage of the imposed economic hardship. Additionally, due to production-deregulation, environmental destruction is perpetual as a country's resources are often exploited by the indifferent corporations while outputting large amounts of deliberate pollution. The largest environmental lawsuit in the history of the world, today is being brought on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorian and Amazonian people against Texaco, which is now owned by Chevron so it's against Chevron, but for activities conducted by Texaco. They're estimated to be more than 18 times what the Exxon Valdez dumped into the Coast of Alaska. In the case of Ecuador it wasn't an accident. The oil companies did it intentionally; they knew they were doing it to save money rather than arranging for proper disposal. Furthermore, a cursory glance at the performance record of the World Bank reveals that the institution, which publicly claims to help poor countries develop and alleviate poverty, has done nothing but increase poverty and the wealth-gap, while corporate profits soar. In 1960 the income-gap between the fifth of the world's people and the richest countries, versus the fifth in the poorest countries was thirty to one. By 1998, it was seventy-four to one. While global GNP rose 40% between 1970 and 1985, those in poverty actually increased, by 17%. While from 1985 to 2000, those living on less than one dollar a day increased by 18%. Even the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress admitted that there is a mere 40% success rate of all World Bank projects. In the late 1960's, the World Bank intervened in Ecuador with large loans. During the next 30 years, poverty grew from 50% to 70%. Under or unemployment grew from 15% to 70%. Public debt increased from 240 million to 16 billion, while the share of resources allocated to the poor went from 20% to 6%. In fact, by the year 2000, 50% of Ecuador's national budget had to be allocated for paying its debts. It is important to understand: the World Bank is, in fact, a U.S. bank, supporting U.S. interests. For the United States holds veto-power over decisions, as it is the largest provider of capital. And where did it get this money? You guessed it: it made it out of thin air through the fractional reserve banking system. Of the world's top 100 economies, as based on annual GDP, 51 are corporations. And 47 of that 51 are U.S.-based. Walmart, General Motors and Exxon, are more economically powerful than Saudi Arabia, Poland, Norway, South Africa, Finland, Indonesia and many others. And, as protective trade-barriers are broken down, currencies tossed together and manipulated in floating markets and State economies overturned in favor of open competition in global capitalism, the empire expands. You get up on your little 21 inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America, there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their counsels of state - Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, min and max solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. Taken cummulatively, the integration of the world as a whole, particularly in terms of economic globalization and the mythic qualities of "free market" capitalism, represents a veritable "empire" in its own right... Few have been able to escape the "structural adjustment" and "conditionalities" of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, or the World Trade Organization, those international financial institutions that, however inadequate, still determine what economic globalization means... Such is the power of globalization that within our lifetime we are likely to see the integration, even if unevenly, of all national economies in the world into a single global, free market system. The World is being taken over by a hand-full of business powers who dominate the natural resources we need to live, while controlling the money we need to obtain these resources. The end result will be world monopoly based not on human life but financial and corporate power. And, as the inequality grows, naturally, more and more people are becoming desperate. So the establishment was forced to come up with a new way to deal with anyone who challenges the system. So they gave birth to the 'Terrorist'. The term 'terrorist' is an empty distinction designed for any person or group who chooses to challenge the establishment. This isn't to be confused with the fictional 'Al Qaida', which was actually the name of a computer database of the U.S.-supported Mujahideen in the 1980's. "The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Quaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity... The country behind this propaganda is the US" - Pierre-Henri Bunel - Former French Military Intelligence In 2007, the Department of Defense received 161.8 billion dollars for the so-called global war on terrorism. According to the national counter-terrorism center, in 2004 roughly 2000 people were killed internationally due to supposed terrorist acts. Of that number, 70 were American. Using this number as a general average, which is extremely generous, it is interesting to note that twice as many people die from peanut allergies a year than from terrorist acts. Concurrently, the leading cause of death in America is coronary heart disease, killing roughly 450,000 each year. And in 2007, the government's allocation of funds for research on this issue was about three billion dollars. This means, that the US government, in 2007, spent 54 times the amount for preventing terrorism, than it spent for preventing for the disease, which kills 6600 times more people annually, than terrorism does. Yet, as the name terrorism and Al Qaida are arbitrarilly stamped on every news report relating to any action taken against US interests the myth grows wider. In mid 2008 the "US Attorney General" actually proposed, that the US congress officially declare war against the fantasy. Not to mention, as of July 2008, there are now over 1 million people currently on the US terrorist watch list. These so called "Counter-Terrorism Measures" of course had nothing to do with social protection and everything to do with preserving the establishment amongst the growing anti-American sentiment both domestically and internationally which is legitimately founded on the greed based corporate empire expansion that is exploiting the world. The true terrorists of our world, do not meet at the darks at midnight or scream "Allah Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world, wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business. So, what do we do? How do we stop a system of greed and corruption, that has so much power and momentum. How do we stop this aberrant group behavior, which feels no compassion for say, the millions slaughtered in Iraq and Afghanistan, so the corporatocracy can control energy resources and *** production for Wall St. profit. Before 1980, Afghanistan produced 0% of the world's ***. After the US/CIA backed Mujahideen won the Soviet/Afghan war, by 1986 they were producing 40% of the world's *** supply. By 1988, they were producing 80% of the total market supply. But then, something unexpected happened. The Taliban rose to power and by 2000 they had destroyed most of the *** fields. Production dropped from 3.000+ tons to only 185 tons, a 94% reduction. On Sept. 9th 2001, the full Afghanistan invasion plans were on President Bush's Desk Two days later they had their excuse Today, *** productions in US controlled Afghanistan, which now provides more than 90% of the world's ***, breakes new production records nearly every year. 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, wich are inherently exploited? Or that systematicly reduces several libertys and violates human rights, in order to protect itself, from it's own shortcomings. How do we deal with the numerous covert institutions, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group and the 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. "Greed and Competition are not the result of immutable human temperament... ...greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified... the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive. - Bernard Liertaer - Founder of the EU Currency System My name is Jacque Fresco. I'm an industrial designer and a social engineer. I'm very much interested in society and developing a system that might be sustainable, for all people. First of all, the word "corruption" is a monetary invention, that aberrant behavior, behavior that's disruptive for the well-being of people. Well you're dealing with human behavior. And human behavior appears to be environmentally determined. Meaning, if you were raised by the Seminole indians as a baby, never saw anything else you'd hold that value system. And this goes for nations, for individuals, for families they try to indoctrinate their children to their particular faith and their country and make them feel like their are part of that. And they built a society, which they call established. They established a workable point of view and tend to perpetuate that. Whereas, all societies are really emergent, not established. And so they fight new ideas, that would interfere with the establishment. Goverments try to perpetuate that which keeps them in power. People are not elected to political office to change things. They are put there, to keep things the way they are. So you see, the bases of corruption is in our society. Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutons. I don't mean to uphold or downgrade all nations, but communism, socialism, fascism, the free enterprise-system and all other sub-cultures are the same. They are all basically corrupt. The most fundamental characteristic of our social institutions is the necessity for self-preservation. Whether dealing with a corporation, a religion or a government, the foremost interest is to preserve the institution itself. For instance, the last thing an oil company would ever want is the utilization of energy that was outside of it's control. For it makes that company less relevant to society. Likewise the cold war and the collapse of the Soviet Union was, in reality, a way to preserve and perpetuate the established economic and global hegemony of the United States. Similarly, religions condition people to feel guilty for natural inclination, 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 lifestyle associated with affluence and power. Therefore, the paralyzing necessity to preserve an institution regardless of it's social relevance is largely rooted in the need for money or profit. "What's in it for me?", is why people think. And so if a man makes money selling a certain product, that's where he's going to fight the existence of another product that may threaten his institution. Therefore, people cannot be fair. And people do not trust each other. A guy will come over to you and say "I've got just the house you're looking for", he's a salesman. When a doctor says, "I think your kidney has to come out", I don't know if he's trying to pay off a yacht or that my kidney has to come out. It's hard in a monetary system to trust people. If you came into my store and I said "this lamp that I've got is pretty good, but the lamp next door is much better", I wouldn't be in business very long. It wouldn't work. If I were ethical, it wouldn't work. So when you say industry cares for people, that's not true. They can't afford to be ethical. So your system is not designed to serve the well-being of people. If you still don't understand that there would be no outsourcing of jobs if they cared about people. Industry does not care. They only hire people because it hasn't been automated yet. So don't talk about decency and ethics, we cannot afford it and remain in business. It is important to point out that regardless of the social system - whether fascist, socialist, capitalist or communist - the underlying mechanism is still money, labor and competition. Communist China is no less capitalistic than the United States. The only difference is the degree by which the state intervenes in enterprise. The reality is that "Monetary-ism", so to speak, is the true mechanism, that guides the interests of all the countries on the planet. The most agressive and hence dominant variation of this monetary-ism is the free enterprise system. The fundamental perspective as put forth by early free market economists, like Adam Smith, is that self interest and competition leads to social prosperity, as the act of competition creates incentive, which motivates people to persevere. However, what isn't talked about, is how a competition based economy invariably leads to strategic corruption, power and wealth consolidation, social stratification, technological paralysis, labor abuse and ultimately a covert form of government dictatorship by the rich elite. The word "corruption" is often defined as moral perversion. If a company dumps toxic waste into the ocean to save money, most people recognize this as "corrupt behavior". On a more subtle level, when Walmart moves into a small town and forces small businesses to shut down for they are unable to compete, a grey area emerges. For what exactly is Walmart doing wrong? Why should they care about the Mom and Pop organizations they destroy? Yet even more subtly, when a person get's fired from their job, because a new machine has been created, which can do the work for less money, people tend to just accept that as "the way it is", not seen the inherent corrupt inhumanity of such an action. Because the fact is, whether it is dumping toxic waste, having a monopoly enterprise or downsizing the workforce, the motive is the same : profit. They are all different degrees of the same self-preserving mechanism, which always put's the well-being of people second to monetary gain. Therefore, corruption is not some byproduct of monetary-ism, it is the very foundation. And while most people acknowledge this tendency on one level or another, majority remains naive as to the broad ramifications of having such a selfish mechanism as the guiding mentality in society. Internal documents show that after this company positively absolutely knew that they had a medication that was infected with the AIDS virus, they took the product off the market in the US, and then they dumped it in France, Europe, Asia and Latin America. The US government allowed it to happen. The FDA allowed this to happen and now the government is completely looking the other way. Thousands of innocent hemophiliacs have died from the AIDS virus. This company knew absolutely that it was infected with AIDS, they dumped it because they wanted to turn this disaster into a profit. So you see, you have built-in corruption. We're all chiseling off each other, and you can't expect decency in that sort of thing. ...a feeling that they don't know who to elect. They think in terms of a democracy, which is not possible in a monetary based economy. If you have more money to advertise your position, the position you desire in government, that isn't a democracy. It serves those in positions of differential advantage. So it's always a dictatorship of the elitist, the financially wealthy. "We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis Brandeis - Supreme Court Justice It is an interesting observation to note how seemingly unknown personalities magically appear on the scene as presidential candidates. Then before you know it, somehow you are left to choose from a small group of extremely wealthy people who suspiciously have the same broad social view. Obviously it's a joke. The people placed on the ballot are done so because they have been pre-decided to be acceptable by the established financial powers who actually run the show. Yet many who understand this illusion of democracy, often think "If only we could just get our honest, ethical politicians in power", then we would be okay. Well, while this idea of course seems reasonable in our established oriented world view, it is unfortunately another fallacy. For when it really comes down to what is actually important, the institution of politics and thus politicians themselves, have absolutely no true relevance as to what makes our world and society function. It's not politicians that can solve problems. They have no technical capabilities. They don't know how to solve problems. Even if they were sincere, they don't know how to solve problems. It's the technicians that produce the desalinization plants. It's the technicians that give you electricity. That give you motor vehicles. That heat your house and cool it in the summer time. It's technology that solves problems, not politics. Politics cannot solve problems 'cause they are not trained to do so. Very few people today stop and consider what it is that actually improves their lives. Is it money? Obviously not. One cannot eat money or stuff money into their car to get it to run. Is it politics? All politicians can do is create laws, establish budgets and declare war. Is it religion? Of course not, religion creates nothing except intangible emotional solace for those who require it. The true gift that we as human beings have, which has been solely responsible for everything that has improved our lives, is technology. What is technology? Technology is a pencil, which allows one to solidify ideas on paper for communication. Technology is an automobile, which allows one to travel faster than feet would allow. Technology is a pair of eye glasses, which enables sight for those who need it. Applied technology itself is merely and extension of human attributes, which reduces human effort, freeing humans from a particular chore or problem. Imagine what your life would be like today without a telephone, or an oven, or a computer, or an airplane. Everything in your home, which you take for granted, from a doorbell, to a table, to a dishwasher, is technology, generated from the creative scientific ingenuity of human technicians. Not money, politics or religion. These are false institutions. ...and writing your congressman is fantastic. They tell you, "write your congressman if you want something done". The men in Washington should be at the forefront of technology. The forefront of human study. The forefront of crime. All the factors that shape human behavior. You don't have to write your congressman. What kind of people are they that are appointed to do that job? The future will have great difficulty... and the question that's raised by politicians is: How much will a project cost? The question is not "how much will it cost". Do we have the resources? And we have the resources today to house everyone, build hospitals all over the world, build schools all over the world, the finest equipment in labs for teaching and doing medical research. So you see, we have all that, but we're in a monetary system, and in a monetary system there's profit. And what is the fundamental mechanism that drives the profit system besides self-interest? What is it exactly that maintains that competitive edge at it's core? Is it high efficiency and sustainability? No. That isn't part of their design. Nothing produced in our profit based society is even remotely sustainable or efficient. If it was, there wouldn't be a multi-million dollar a year service industry for automobiles. Nor would the average lifespan for most electronics be less than three months before they're obsolete. Is it abundance? Absolutely not. Abundance, as based on the laws of supply and demand, is actually a negative thing. If a diamond company finds ten times the usual amount of diamonds during their mining, it means the supply of diamonds has increased, which means the cost and profit per diamond drops. The fact is: efficiency, sustainability and abundance are enemies of profit. To put it into a word, it is the mechanism of scarcity that increases profits. What is scarcity? Based on keeping products valuable. Slowing up production on oil raises the price. Maintaining scarcity of diamonds keeps the price high. They burn diamonds at the Kimberly Diamond Mine. They're made of carbon. That keeps the price up. So then, what does it mean for society when scarcity, either produced naturally or through manipulation is a beneficial condition for industry? It means that sustainability and abundance will never ever occur in profit system. For it simply goes against the very nature of the structure. Therefore, it is impossible to have a world without war or poverty. It is impossible to continually advance technology to its most efficient and productive states. And most dramatically, it is impossible to expect human beings to behave in truly ethical or decent ways. People use the word instinct because they can't account for the behavior. They sit back and they evaluate with their lack of knowledge, you know, and they say things like "humans are built a certain way", "greed is a natural thing", as though they'd worked for years on it. And it's no more natural than wearing clothing. What we want to do is to eliminate the causes of the problems. Eliminate the processes that produce greed, and bigotry, and prejudice, and people taking advantage of one another, and elitism. Eliminating the need for prisons and welfare. We have always had these problems because we have always lived within scarcity, and barter, and monetary systems that produce scarcity. If you eradicate the conditions that generate what you call socially offensive behavior, it does not exist. A guy says: "well listen, are they in-born?" No it's not. There is no human nature, there's human behavior, and that's always been changed throughout history. You're not born with bigotry, and greed, and corruption, and hatred. You pick that up within the society. War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It's going to take the redesigning of our culture, our values, and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the earth, not some human opinion or some politicians notions of the way the world ought to be. Or some religion's notion of the conduct of human affairs. And that's what The Venus Project is about. The society, that we're about to talk about, is a society that is free of all the old superstitions, incarceration, prisons, police cruelty and law. All laws will disappear and the professions will disappear, that are no longer valid, such as stockbrokers, bankers advertising. Gone! Forever! Because it's no longer relevant. When we understand that it is technology devised by human ingenuity which frees humanity and increases our quality of life we then realize, that the most important focus we can have is on the intelligent management of the earth's resources. For, it is from these natural resources, we gain the materials to continue our path of prosperity Understanding this we then see, that money fundamentally exists as a barrier to these resources, for virtually everything has a financial cause. And why do we need money to obtain these resources? Because of real or assumed scarcity. We don't usually pay for air and tap water, because it is in such high abundance, selling it would be pointless. So then, logically speaking, if resources and technologies, applicable to creating everything in our societies such as houses, cities and transportation, were in high enough abundance, there would be no reason to sell anything. Likewise, if automation and machinery was so technologically advanced, as to relieve human beings of labor there would be no reason to have a job. And with these social aspects taking care of, there would be no reason to have money at all. So the ultimate question remains: Do we on earth have enough resources and technological understanding to create a society of such abundance, that everything we have now could be available without a price tag and without the need for submission through employment? Yes, we do. We have the resources and technology to enable this at a minimum along with the ability to raise the standards of living so high that people in the future will look back at our civilisation now and gawk 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 that would eliminate boring and monotonous jobs, that would eliminate accidents in transportation, that would enable people to have a high standard of living, that would eliminate poisons in our food, give us other sources of energy, that are clean and efficient. We can do that out there. A resource based economy. The major difference between a resource based economy and a monetary system is that a resource based economy is really concerned with people and their well-being where the monetary system has become so distorted that the concerns of the people are really secondary, it they're there at all. Products that are turned out are for: how much money you can get. If there is a problem in society and you can't earn money from solving that problem, then it won't be done. The resource based economy is really not close to anything that's been tried. And with all our technology today we can create abundance. It could be used to improve everyone's livestyle. 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. energy At present, we don't have to burn fossil fuels. We don't have to use anything that would contaminate the environment. There are many sources of energy available. Alternative energy solutions pushed by the establishment, such as hydrogen, biomass and even nuclear are highly insufficient, dangerous and exist only to perpetuate the profit-structure the industry has created. When we look beyond the propaganda and self-serving solutions put forth by the energy companies we find a seemingly endless stream of clean abundant and renewable energy for generating power. Solar and wind energy are well known to the public. But the true potential of these mediums remains unexpressed. Solar energy, derived from the sun, has such abundance, that one hour of light at high noon contains more energy than what the entire world consumes in a year. If we could capture 1/100th of a percent of this energy, the world would never have to use oil, gas or anything else. The questioning is not availability but the technology to harnesst 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 Americas 50 states it could power the entire nation. And then there are the rather unknown mediums of tidal and wave power. Tidal power is derived from tidal shifts in the ocean. Installing turbines which capture this movement, generates energy. In the United Kingdom 42 sites are currently noted as available, forecasting that 34% of all the UK's energy could come from tidal power alone. Wave power, which extracts energy from the surface motions of the ocean, is estimated to have a global potential of up to 80.000 terawatt-hours a year. This means 50% of the entire planet's energy usage could be produced from this medium alone. Now, it is important to point out that tidal, wave, solar and wind power requires virtually no preliminary energy to harness, unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass, hydrogen and all the others. In combination these four mediums alone, if efficiently harnessed through technology, could power the world forever. That being said, there happens to be another form of clean renewable energy, which trumps them all. Geothermal power. Geothermal energy utilizes what is called "heat mining". Which, through a simple process using water, is able to generate massive amounts of clean energy. In 2006, an MIT report on geothermal energy found that 13.000 zetajule of power are currently available in the earth with the possibility of 2.000 ZJ being easily tapable with improved technology. The total energy consumption of all the countries on the planet is about half of a zetajule a year. This means about 4000 years of planetary power could be harnessed in this medium alone. And when we understand that the earth's heat generation is constantly renewed, this energy is really limitless. It could be used forever. These energy sources are only a few of the clean renewable mediums available and as time goes on we will find more. The grand realization is that we have total energy abundance without the need for pollution, traditional conservation or, in fact, a price tag. And what about transportation? The prevailing means of transportation in our societies is by automobile and aircraft, both of which predominantly need fossil fuels to run. In the case of the automobile, the battery technology needed to power an electric car that can go over a hundred miles an hour for over two hundred miles on one charge, exists and has existed for many years. However, due to battery patents, controlled by the oil industry, which limits their ability to maintain market share, coupled with political pressure from the energy industry, the accessibility and affordability of this technology is limited. There is absolutely no reason, other than pure, corrupt profit interests, that every single vehicle in the world cannot be electric and utterly clean, with zero need for gasoline. As far as airplanes, it is time we realize that this means of travel is inefficient, cumbersome, slow and causes far too much pollution. This is a mag-lev train. It uses magnets for propulsion. It is fully suspended by a magnetic field and requires less then two percent of the energy used for plane travel. The train has no wheels, so nothing can wear out. The current maximum speed of versions of this technology, as used in Japan, is three hundred and sixty one miles per hour. However this version of the technology is very dated. An organisation called ET3 which has connection with the Venus project, has established a tube-based mag-lev that can travel up to 4000 miles per hour in a motionless, frictionless tube, which can go over land or under water. Imagine going from L.A to New York for an extended lunchbreak or from Washington D.C. to Beijing, China, in two hours. This is the future of continental and intercontinental travel. Fast, clean, with only a fraction of the energy usage we use today for the same means. In fact, between mag-lev technology, advanced battery storage and geothermal energy there will be no reason to ever burn fossil fuels again. And we can do this now, if we were not held back by the paralyzing profit structure. work Now America is inclined toward fascism. It has a propensity by its dominant philosophy and religion to uphold to fascist point of view. American industry is essencially a fascist institution. If you dont understand that, the minute you punch that time clock you walk into a dictatorship. We're given notions about the respectibility of work. And I realy look at it as being paid slavery. You brought up to believe that you shall earn your living by the sweat of your brow. That holds people back. Freeing people from drudgery, repetitive jobs which make them ignorant. You rob them. In our society, that is a resourced based economy, machines free people. You see, we can't imagine that because we've never known that kind of world. automation If we look back at history, we see a very clear pattern of machine automation slowly replacing human labour. From the disappearance of the elevator man to the near full automation of an automobile production plant, the fact is, as technology grows the need for humans in the work force will continually be diminished. This creates a serious clash, which proves the falsness of the monetary based labor system, for human employment is in direct competition with technological developement. Therefore, given the fundamental priority of profit by industry, people through time will be continually layed off and replaced by machine. When industry takes on a machine instead of shortening the work day, they downsize. You loose your job so you have a right to fear machines. In a high technology, resourced based economy, it is conservative to say that about 90% of all current occupations could be faced out by machines. Freeing humans to live their life without servitude. For this is the point of technology itself. And through time, with nano technology and other highly advanced forms of science, it is not far fetch to see how even complex medical procedures could be performed by machines as well. And based on the pattern with much higher success rates than humans get today. The path is clear but our monetary based structure which requires labour for income, blocks this progress, for humans need jobs in order to survive. The bottom line is that this system must go or we will never be free and technology will be constantly paralyzed. We have machines that clean out sewers and frees a human being from doing that. So look at machines as extensions of human performance. Furthermore, many occupations today will have simply no basis to exist in a resourced based economy. Such as anything assosiated with the management of money, advertising, along with a legal system itself for, without money, a great majority of the crimes that are commited today would never occur. Virtually all forms of crime are consequence in the monetary system, either directly or by nevroses inflicted through financial deprevation. Therefore laws themselves could eventually become extinct. Instead of putting up a sign "drive carefully slippery when wet" put abrasive on the highway, so it is not slippery when wet. And when a person gets in car that drunk and a car oscillates at great deal there's a little pendulum that swings up and back and that will pull the car over the side... Not a law. A solution. Put sonar and radar on automobiles so they can't hit one another. Man-made laws are attempts to deal with occuring problems and not knowing how to solve them - they make a law. In the United States, the most privatised, capitalist country on the planet, it shall come as no surprise that it also has the largest prison population in the world. Growing every year. Statistically, most of these people are uneducated and come from poor, deprived societies. And contrary to propaganda, it is this enviromental conditioning, which lures them into criminal and violent behavior. However society, looks the other way in regard to this point. The legal and prison systems are just more examples of how our society avoids examining the root-causes of behavior. Billions are spend each year on prisons and police, while only a fraction is spend on programs for poverty, which is one of the most fundamental variables responsible for crime to begin with. And, as long as we have an economic system, which preferes and infact creates scarcity and deprivation, crime will never go away. incentive If people have access to the necessities of life without survitude, debt, barter, trade, they'd behave very differently. You want all these things availabe without a price tag. Now then, you won't gonna have a price tag, what will motivate people? A man gets everything he wants, he's just lay around in the sun. This is the myth they perpetuade. People in our culture are trained to believe that the monetary system produces incentive. If they have access to things, why should they want to do anything? They would loose their incentive. That's what you're taught to support the monetary system. When you take money out of the scenario, there would be different incentives, very different incentives. When people have access to the necessities of life, their incentives change. What about the moon and the stars? New incentives arise. If you make a painting, that you enjoy, you will enjoy giving it to other people, not selling it. education I think most of the education, that I've seen today, is essentially producing a person for a job. It's very specialized. They're not generalists. People don't know a lot about a lot of different subjects. I don't think you can get people to go to war, if they knew a lot about a lot of things. I think education is mostly rote and they're not taught how to solve problems. They're not given the tools, homogenly or whithin their own field, of how to do critical thinking. In a resource based economy, the education would be very different. Our society's major concern is mental development and to motivate each person to their highest potential. Because our philosophy is the smarter people are the richer the world because everybody becomes a contributor. The smarter your kids are, the better my life will be. Because they'll be contributing more constructively to the environment and to my life. Because everything that we devise within a resource based economy would be applied to society, there would be nothing to hold it back. civilization Patriotism, weapons, armies, navies, all that is a sign, that we're not civilized yet. Kids will ask their parents: "Didn't you see the necessity of the machines?" "Dad, couldn't you see that war was inevitable when you produce scarcity?" Isn't it obvious? Of course, the kid will understand that you're pinheads - raised merely to serve the established institutons. We're such in an abominable, sick society, that we won't make the history book. They'll just say that large nations took land from smaller nations, used force and violence. You'll get history talked about as corrupt behavior all the way along until the beginning of the civilized world. That's when all the nations work together. World unification, working toward common good for all human beings and without anyone being subservient to anyone else. Without social stratification whether it be technical elitism or any other kind of elitism, eradicated from the face of the earth. The "state" does nothing because there is no "state". The system I advocate, a resource based global economy is not perfect, it's just a lot better than what we have. We can never achieve perfection. "My country is the world..." and my religion is to do good." - Thomas Paine - 1737-1809 The social values of our society, which has manifested in perpetual warfare, corruption, oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and a despotic, socially indifferent, profit oriented ruling class, is fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality. The emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law. The emergent nature of reality is that all systems - whether it is knowledge, society, technology, philosophy or any other creation - will, when uninhibited, undergo fluid perpetual change. What we consider commonplace today such as modern communication and transportation, would have been unimaginable in ancient times. Likewise, the future will contain technologies, realizations and social structures that we cannot even fathom in the present. We have gone from alchemy to chemistry, from a geocentric universe to a heliocentric, from believing that demons were the cause of illness to modern medicine. This development shows no sign of ending, and it is this awareness that aligns us and leads us on a continuous path to growth and progress. Static empirical knowledge does not exist, rather it is the insight of the emergence of all systems we must recognize. This means we must be open to new information at all times, even if it threatens our current belief system and hence, identities. Sadly, society today has failed to recognize this, and the established institutions continue to paralyze growth by preserving outdated social structures. Simultaneously, the population suffers from a fear of change. For their conditioning assumes a static identity and challenging one's belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension. For being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated. For it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. The fact is, there is no such thing as a smart human being, for it is merely a matter of time before their ideas are updated, changed or irradicated. And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system, sheltering it from new possibly transforming information is nothing less than a form of intellectual materialism. The monetary system perpetuates this materialism not only by it's self-preserving structures, but also throught the countless number of people who have been conditioned into blindly and thoughtlessly upholding these structures, therefore becoming self-appointed guardians of the status quo. Sheep which no longer need a sheep-dog to control them. For they control each other by ostracizing those who step out of the norm. This tendency to resist change and uphold existing institutions for the sake of identity, comfort, power and profit, is completely unsustainable. And will only produce further imbalance, fragmentation, distortion, and invariably, destruction. It's time to change. From hunters and gatherers, to the agricultural revolution, to the industrial revolution, the pattern is clear. It is time for a new social system which reflects the understandings we have today. The monetary system is a product of a period of time where scarcity was a reality. Now, with the age of technology, it is no longer relevant to society. Gone with the aberrant behavior it manifests. Likewise, dominant world views, such as theistic religion, operate with the same social irrelevancy. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and all of the others exist as barriers to personal and social growth. For each group perpetuates a closed world view. And this finite understanding that they acknowledge is simply not possible in an emergent universe. Yet, religion has succeeded in shutting down the awareness of this emergence by instilling the psychological distortion of faith upon it's followers. Where logic and new information is rejected in favor of traditionalized outdated beliefs. The concept of god, is really a method of accounting for the nature of things. In the early days people didn't know enough about how things formed, how nature worked. So they invented their own little stories, and the made god in their own image. A guy that get's angry when people don't behave right. He creates floods and earthquakes and they say it's an act of god. A cursory glance at the suppressed history of religion reveals that even the foundational myths themselves are emergent culminations developed through influence over time. For example, a cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith is the death and resurrection of Christ. This notion is so important that the Bible itself states "And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain" Yet it is very difficult to take this account literally, for not only is there no primary source denoting this supernatural event in secular history, awareness of the enormous number of pre-Christian saviors who also died and were resurrected immediately puts this story in mythological territory by association. Early church figures, such as Tortullian, went to great lengths to break these associations, even claiming that the devil caused the similarities to occur. Stating in the second century: "The devil, whose business is to pervert the truth, mimics the exact circumstance of the Divine Sacraments. He baptizes his believers and promises forgiveness of sins... he celebrates the oblation of bread, and brings in the symbol of the resurrection. Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil, who copied certain things of those that be Divine." What is truly sad however, is that when we cease the idea that the stories from Christianity, Judaism, Islam and all the others are literal history, and accept them for what they really are, which are purely allegorical expressions derived from many faiths, we see that all religions share a common thread. And it is this unifying imperative that needs to be recognized and appreciated. Religious belief has caused more fragmentation and conflict than any other ideology. Christianity alone has over 34,000 different subgroups. The Bible is subject to interpretation. When you read it, you say "I think Jesus meant this. I think Job meant that. Oh No! He meant this." So you have the Lutheran, the Seventh-day Adventist, the Catholic, and a church divided is no church at all. And this point on division, which is a trademark on 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 sake of conversation. For there is no such thing as independence in nature. The whole of nature is a unified system of interdependent variables, each a cause and a reaction, existing only as a concentrated whole. You don't see the plug to connect to the environment, so it looks like we're free... wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected. We really must take into account the totality. This isn't just a human experience on this planet, this is a total experience. And we know we can't survive without plants and animals. We know we can't survive without the four elements, you know? And so, when are we gonna really start taking that into account? That's what it is to be successful. Success depends on how well we're related to everything around us. I'm very aware of the fact that my grandson cannot possibly hope to inherit a sustainable, peaceful, stable, socially just world unless every child today growing up in Ethiopia, in Indonesia, in Bolivia, in Palestine, in Israel also has that same expectation. You gotta take care of the whole community or you're gonna have serious problems. And now we have to see that the whole world is the community. And we must all take care of each other that way. And it's not just a community of human beings, it's a community of plants and animals and elements. And we really need to understand that. That's what's gonna bring us joy too, and pleasure. That's what's missing in our lives right now. We can call it spirituality, but the fact of the matter is joy comes from that bliss of connectedness. That's our god spirit. That's that side of ourselves that really feels it, and you can feel it deep inside you. It's this amazing wonderful feeling and you know it when you get it. You don't get it from money, you get it from connection. "Now if that isn't a hazard to this country. How are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons, you know what I mean? What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all one? It's gonna *** up the economy. The economy that's fake anyway. Which would be a real bummer. You can see why the government's crackin' down... on the idea of experiencing unconditional love." "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - 1929-1968 Once we understand that the integrity of our personal existences are completely dependent on the integrity of everything else in our world, we have truly understood the meaning of unconditional love. For love is extensionality and seeing everything as you and you as everything can have no conditionalities, for in fact, we are all everything at once. If it's true that we're all from the center of a star, every atom on each of us from the center of a star, then we're all the same thing. Even a Coke machine or a cigarette butt in the street in buffalo is made out of atoms that came from a star. They've all been recycled thousands of times, as have you and I. And therefore, it's only me out there. So what is there to be afraid of? What is there that needs solace seeking? Nothing. There's nothing to be afraid of because it's all us. The trouble is we have been separated by being born and given a name and an identity and being individuated. We've been separated from the oneness, and that's what religion exploits. That people have this yearning to be part of the overall one again. So they exploit that. They call it god, they say he has rules, and I think it's cruel. I think you can do it absent religion. ...an extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among human societies would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities... Our lives, our past and our future are tied to the sun, the moon and the stars... We humans have seen the atoms which constitute all of nature and the forces that sculpted this work... And we, we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, we have begun at least to wonder about our origins... star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms, contemplating the evolution of nature, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet earth... Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. We speak for earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring. We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light. - Carl Sagan - 1934-1996 It's time to claim the unity our outmoded social systems have broken apart, and work together to create a sustainable, global society, where everyone is taken care of and everyone is truly free. Your personal beliefs, whatever they may be, are meaningless when it comes to the necessities of life. Every human being is born naked, needing warmth, food, water, shelter. Everything else is auxiliary. Therefore, the most important issue at hand is the intelligent management of the Earth's resources. This can never be accomplished in a monetary system, for the pursuit of profit is the pursuit of self interest and therefore imbalance is inherent. Simultaneously, politicians are useless. For our true problems in life are technical not political. Furthermore, ideologies that separate humanity, such as religion, need strong reflection in the community in regard to it's value, purpose and social relevancy. Hopefully, through time, religion will loose it's materialism and basis in superstition and move into the useful field of philosophy. The fact is, society today is backwards, with politicians constantly talking about protection and security rather than creation, unity and progress. The US alone now spends about $500 billions dollars annually on defense. That is enough to send every high school senior in America to a four year college. In the 1940's the Manhattan Project produced the first true weapon of mass destruction. This program employed 130,000 people, at an extreme financial cost. Imagine what our life would be like today if that group of scientists, instead of working on a way of killing people, worked on a way to create a self-sustaining abundant world. Life today would be very very different if that was their goal. Instead of weapons of mass destruction, it is time to unleash something much more powerful. Weapons of Mass Creation (WMCs). Our true divinity is in our ability to create. And armed with the understanding of the symbiotic connections of life, while being guided by the emergent nature of reality, there is nothing we cannot do or accomplish. Of course, we face strong barriers in the form of established power structures that refuse to change. At the heart of these structures is the monetary system. As explained earlier, the fractional reserve policy is a form of slavery through debt, where it is literally impossible for society to be free. In turn, free market capitalism in the form of free trade, uses debt to imprison the world and manipulate countries into subservience to a handful of large business and political powers. Apart from these obvious amoralities, the system itself is based on competition, which immediately destroys the possibility of large scale collaborations for the common good. Hence paralyzing any attempt at true global sustainability. These financial and corporate structures are now obsolete, and they must be outgrown. Of course, we can not be naive enough to think that the business and financial elite are going to subscribe to this idea for they will lose power and control. Therefore, peacefully a highly strategic action must be taken. The most powerful course of action is simple. We have to alter our behavior to force the power structure to the will of the people. We must stop supporting the system. The only way the establishment will change is by our refusal to participate while continuously acknowledging it's endless flaws and corruptions. They're not gonna give up the monetary system, because of our designs of what we've recommend. The system has to fail, and people have to lose confidence in their elected leaders. That will be a major turning point if The Venus Project is offered as a possible alternative. If not, I fear the consequences. The trends now indicate that our country is going bankrupt. The probability is our country will move toward a military dictatorship to prevent riots and complete social breakdown. Once the US breaks down, all the other cultures will undergo similar things. The whole system that we live in, drills into us that we are powerless, that we are weak, that society is evil, that it's crime ridden and so forth. It is all a big fat lie! We are powerful, beautiful, extraordinary. There is no reason why we cannot understand who we truly are; where we are going. There is no reason why the average individual cannot be fully empowered. We are incredibly powerful beings. I think I spent 30 years of my life, the first 30, trying to become something. I wanted to become good at things, I wanted to become good at tennis and school and grades. And everything I kinda viewed in that perspective, I'm not okay the way I am, but if I got good at things... I realized that I had the game wrong. The game was to find out what I already was. Now, in our culture we have been trained for individual differences to stand out. So you look at each person and the immediate hit is. Brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer, poorer... And we make all these dimensional distinctions, put them in categories and treat them that way. And get so we only see others as separate from ourselves in the ways in which they are separate. And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you, not different from you. And experiencing the fact that which is essence in you, which is essence in me, is indeed, One. The understanding that there is no other. It is all One. I wasn't born Richard Albert, I was just born as a human being and then I learned this whole business of who I am, and whether I'm good or bad, or achieving or not... All that's learned along the way. The old appeals to racial, *** and religious shovanism, to rabid nationalistic fervor, are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism, and recognizes, that an organism at war with itself is doomed. Bill Hicks used to finish his shows with this: Life's like a ride in an amusement park, and when you go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down and round and round, it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored. And it's very loud and it's fun for a while. Some have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real? Or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered and they come back to us and they say: 'Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid ever. Cause this is just a ride.' And we kill those people. Shut him up, I have got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my frowns of worry... Look at my big bank account and my family... This has to be real... It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And we let the demons run a muck... But it doesn't matter, because it is just a ride and we can change it anytime we want. It is only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a choice right now. Between fear, and love.