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You know... There's been a lot of talk |
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But the president we need today |
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The president we need today |
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He said that we needed a revolution |
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Thomas Jefferson said you have to be ready in order to |
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to defend it, nothing by overthrowing anything else |
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that may not be applicable anymore. |
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We've gotten very lazy, where many generations |
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I'm not talking about blood and violence, |
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I'm talking about a revolution that's |
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The kind that takes place in the human soul, |
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To be able to tear everything down, |
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a completely fresh paper and say... |
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okay, how do we solve this problem? |
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Uhm, can you talk to me a little bit- |
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Who-who are you? |
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Listen, this is not a plan that would |
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You know, I gave up trying to figure |
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I was born into a family deeply connected to |
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the US intelligence community. |
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army security agency at NSA |
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Her work product went to |
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and to the secretary of war, Stimson, |
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My father was an airforce aviator who went to work for |
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namely the Titan III-c, which put up the |
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Uhm, at age 19, |
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I was pulled into the chief's office, because |
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I didn't know anything about it. |
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and he said, yeah, because you're my son |
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because I might leave my briefcase open. |
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But a cue was a secret, compartimentalized |
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I went through UCLA as a republican, |
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who didn't like anything about the war in Vietnam, |
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anything about government with this naive belief that you |
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I became an LA policeman. |
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Worked in South Central, Los Angeles, |
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unofficially, to recruit me into an operation where |
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back in 1976, 1977. |
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And I wouldn't get involved in that. |
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You know, I thought, geez, this must be |
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This must be something that everybody's |
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And of course that was a mistake. |
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Basically, my life desintegrated because |
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who was my fiancée. And when I said I wouldn't |
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and people started shooting at me. |
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And then, it was a matter of saving my life. |
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The tools which I acquired to save my life then, |
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getting on the record, |
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those were survival skills, but it was |
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I was a map maker, if you will, a cartographer. |
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Going out to try and map how |
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as opposed to the way we were told it worked. |
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And the map that we had made, |
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whether they had to do with gold prices, |
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or economic events. |
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The only thing that amazes me, is the speed |
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And that message now is the single |
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It's the only thing in my life. Well, except for |
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playing with my dog, |
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Rex, come here. |
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I first became focused on energy issues in late 2001. |
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Uhm, just at maybe a month or two after 9/11. |
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I was contacted by a geologist, |
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Dale Allen Pfeiffer, |
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who introduced me to the concept of peak oil, |
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and the basic issues about energy, and helped me |
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in 2001, not only that peak oil was very real, |
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but that government agencies were acting |
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All plastic is oil. Most paints, |
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Everything from toothpaste, to toothbrushes, |
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There are seven gallons of oil in every tire. |
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There is nothing anywhere, |
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the edifice built by fossil fuels. |
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Nothing. |
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Peak oil is probably now very easy to explain. |
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Much easier than it was a long time ago. |
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People have felt what 147 dollar |
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Essentially, peak oil is like |
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goes up, comes down. |
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you're at the top of the Bell curve. |
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And essentially, what that means, |
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Uhm, but in the case of oil, or any other substance |
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you're never gonna be able to increase |
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As of 2008, the international energy agency |
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decline rate in oil production. |
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That's the equivalent of about 8 million barrels a day. |
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There is no way, having plucked all the low |
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that we're gonna be able |
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From a detective stand point, |
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you know, |
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means, motive, opportunity, |
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Uhm, peak oil was almost with the stroke |
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the single piece which started to make everything |
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You will recall that when the Bush |
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a national energy policy development group, |
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was formed and placed under the exclusive, private, |
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Its records were kept a secret, |
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seven pages were released as a result of two lawsuits. |
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And it clearly shows that that taskforce |
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how much oil is there, |
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They knew that this was coming for a long time. It's been |
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Who they were. |
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as to who was involved. |
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First of all, if you think there might be oil someplace, |
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is you go drill a test well. |
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Then what you have to do, is to take |
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you drill a series of appraisal wells around that well |
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You don't know how much oil you're gonna get, |
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There are many different grades of oils, |
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So all of that has to do with how long |
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How much energy do you get back |
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When oil was seeping out of the ground in Pennsylvania, |
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When you have to go offshore, |
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drilling in 15,000 feet of water, |
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115 million dollars to build, all that's energy |
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And the moment you start burning more energy |
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than it's worth, |
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The world's been thoroughly explored |
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there's no new major oil finds left. |
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As a matter of fact, no field the size of Guar, |
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has ever been discovered since. |
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Saudi Arabia has 25% of the known |
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Twenty-five percent. |
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Why, if Saudi Arabia has all these |
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are they moving into offshore drilling? |
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Now, if it's 5, 10, 50 times more expensive |
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doesn't that tell you that Saudi Arabia |
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It's axiomatic that if Saudi Arabia |
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the whole planet is, just because of |
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Iraq is oil that's not only accessible, |
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which means it's a short distance to ships. |
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they can get that into the global supply stream. |
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As everything else declines. |
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And Iraq was all about the oil. You know, |
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Eleven days after 9/11, |
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Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11, |
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that the plans were started to invade Iraq. |
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That was the objective. |
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Get control of that oil. |
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Because Saddam Hussein had been talking about |
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We got in there, we restructured everything, |
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using the US dollar, |
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and we assured the oil companies their quote on quote |
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We have no intention of leaving Iraq. |
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Going back to 2004, we started building the largest, |
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plus the largest embassy compound |
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We built an embassy compound in Bagdad |
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That's not a temporary deal. |
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Nobody's gonna take that oil, |
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But there's not enough oil in Iraq |
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But Iraq probably has around |
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That sounds like a lot of oil. |
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But when you consider that in 2008, |
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that means a billion barrels of oil only lasts |
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So that ain't that much oil. |
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They knew exactly what was coming. |
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That's what's in the National Energy |
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that's been classified, because |
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we would be building scaffolds to hang |
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Dick Cheney and everbody |
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Let's assume just for the sake of discussion |
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First of all, it happens to be under the polar ice cap. |
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That's a problem. |
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The polar ice cap happens to be on, |
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The problem with the polar ice cap is, |
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So you can't drill a well on tuesday. |
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and expect it to be in the same place on thursday. |
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That's why a lot of conservative |
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are cheering the melting of the polar ice caps. |
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If there is oil in A.N.W.R., |
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than about a six month supply |
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There are no pipelines across the thousand miles |
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due to global warming, |
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pipes to support a pipeline |
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There's no tanker routes, |
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our future as if that oil is there. |
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We gotta drop all this lying right now. |
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We don't need transparancy about |
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because we don't know. |
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Oil is a commodity, it's an asset. |
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upon what's in the ground. |
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So you have all these accounting terms. |
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Possible reserves, proven reserves, |
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Verified reserves, estimated reserves... |
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But, actual reserve estimates are state secrets. |
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The Saudi's don't dare announce that they've |
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They have a very restive population, |
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rising standard of living and the moment |
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it may well have a revolution. |
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Now what happens if there's a revolution in Saudi Arabia, |
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where is that oil gonna get replaced from? |
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It can't be. |
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Very complex problem. |
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Just start working now, otherwise we won't have time. |
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They're gonna be out of oil within a few years. |
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And doing this sort of pulling archive |
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I found at least 10 examples of people |
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talking about this is the end of oil. |
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This is like end of the way of life, |
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This situation is destined to continue. |
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People look at that footage and I think that |
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given that we were able to continue |
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Do you see any parallels |
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The seventies was really a critical decade. |
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In the seventies, Marion King Hubbert, |
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in late 1949, he did the math |
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that said US domestic oil production |
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So that's not some feat of Nostradamus |
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It's math, it's science. |
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But in the seventies, M. King Hubbert |
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that was 1974. |
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man, we cannot use as much energy |
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That's when solar panels went up, that's when- |
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I have published on my website, |
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declassified CIA documents from 1976, |
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showing that CIA was perfectly |
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In those days, of course, |
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when people had jobs, they had vacations, |
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credit lines, everybody's talking about |
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and everything seemed to be working. |
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We don't live in that world anymore. |
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Americans were on the way to |
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800 million internal combustion powered vehicles |
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They all run on oil. |
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It takes uncounted barrels of oil, |
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to make those cars and engines |
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And you cannot plug any new technology into |
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an internal combustion powered engine. |
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With 7 gallons of oil in every tire, |
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800 million new internal combustion anything, |
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because there ain't gonna be enough oil. |
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Ethanol is an absolute |
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joke. |
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First of all, a very brilliant scientist, |
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how much energy do you invest, |
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and he concluded about a decade ago, |
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that it takes more energy to make ethanol, |
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which is absolute stupidity. |
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Because you drive the oil powered machines, et cetera, |
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you're burning all that oil and natural gas to grow it. |
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which is more hydrocarbon energy, |
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and you come up with ethanol, |
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Now the Bush administration had annouced |
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of all fuel in the United States made from ethanol, |
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They forgot to tell you that that would take |
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all the arable land used |
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Canadian tar sands is an oil. |
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It is a very, very thick, |
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that's mixed in with sand, |
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at levels two, three, four, five hundred feet |
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And they literally stripmine |
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They put them in these huge oil powered |
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they then wash the sand. |
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at which we're running out of everywhere, |
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There is not a possibility anywhere, |
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that Canadian tar sands production |
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three and a half million barrels a day. |
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The first thing that the uneducated mind |
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well, what about hydrogen. |
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And I have to bring them back to the fact |
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there are thousands of gallons of oil in every car, |
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Everything. All of that's made by oil. |
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and ship it around to heat the metals, et cetera. |
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There will never be 800 million |
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and electricity is not an energy source. |
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electricity is generated |
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some other kind of energy. |
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It's clear that electricity |
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in that it powers our refrigeration, |
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that pump water out of the New York |
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It allows us to communte electronically, |
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preserve food, run operating rooms, |
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The subject of alternative energies... |
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There is no such thing |
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as clean coal. |
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Why? Carbon sequestration |
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What it says, is essentially you capture the CO2 |
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in the burning of the coal, you exert |
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then you move it over |
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and you pump it into some airtight chamber |
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somebody will figure out with technology what to do |
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Nuclear process requires something |
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to get the permitting done, |
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and the construction of nuclear powerplants is |
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in the world. |
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The steel, the lead containment, the enrichment |
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You just don't throw a rock of uranium in |
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Can't do that. |
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The first and obvious problem |
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is that it has to be generated |
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Salt water is extremely corrosive. |
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in manufacturing the machines. |
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There are only two alternative energies, which can |
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Now, the problem with plans like |
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Colorado, ... |
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that it's drawn off right where it's used, first. |
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Yes, you can transmit electricity |
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people don't think about the energy |
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and how much copper's in power lines, |
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So, when you see |
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we could have a solar array |
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they don't even think about the fact that |
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in California before it goes any place else. |
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Just, uhm you know, if you saw this movie |
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and you wanted, you were just curious |
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understanding this information? |
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I have a bachelor's degree |
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with honors from UCLA, |
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Graduate of the Los Angeles police academy, |
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valedictorian, |
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Uhm, was sent to do DEA, |
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by LAPD. |
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I have 30 years of experience as an |
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I've broken major schandals, |
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Of course, I got to know |
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I've been trying to testify for a long time, |
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I have never testified in congress. |
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I did at the request of the senate |
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submit written testimony. |
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But after they read the written testimony that |
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I've written two books, |
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one of which is in the Harvard |
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Uhm, I've lectured at universities |
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and in many countries. |
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Uhm, people wonder how this guy with a |
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Well, this comes from thirty years |
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and read it. |
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A way of finding stories |
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that tell you all the things |
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that are not played on the headlines, |
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people who really make decisions |
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Uhm, and then how to connect them-, how to place |
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The soil is the place from which all plant matter |
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And if you keep sucking the nutrients out, |
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For all of history, the way that the soil was |
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returned in some measure to the soil, |
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was that plant matter was allowed to decay, |
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That's why crop rotation is so important. |
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celery, which will suck |
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Another crop, wheat or something else, |
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so the soil maintains a balance. |
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It's kind of sad, because we as a species |
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We don't have any real contact with the earth. |
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its nature, its seasons, its timing. |
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First of all, the top soil |
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is nothing more than a sponge, |
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that we get from oil and natural gas. |
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And without those chemicals, the soil has |
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Uhm, so when you plant a crop now, |
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It drives along and it plows. |
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and it drives along and it plants. |
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And then you irrigate. |
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That water is pumped by pumps |
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Where does that electricity come from? |
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So, next thing you do, is come along in your fertilizer. |
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and the feedstock for ammonia |
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So you have ammoniumnitrate fertilizers that are then |
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Then the cropdusters come along |
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that spray pesticides |
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Then, when it's time to harvest the food, |
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and you harvest it. |
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You use another oil-powered machine |
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Ahem, then you wrap it up in plastic, |
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oil-powered machine and you drive it |
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food distribution warehouse, |
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The way food is grown, produced and moved |
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waste of hydrocarbon energy, |
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Why do we have strawberries from Chili, |
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why do we ship anchovies |
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packaged in tin cans |
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There are 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy |
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calory of food consumed |
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Three times in my life |
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walk away from, forget about |
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the things that I had seen, |
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out of whack. |
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You know, and that's what many people urged me to do, |
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walk away from this path that I've walked, |
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taken away from me, so this path was |
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And uhm, yeah, anger and resentment |
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and document as much corruption, |
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as much murder, as much betrayal |
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pretend to be otherwise. |
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And I reached a point, it was about 1993, |
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of marine Colonel Jim Sabow |
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He was the chief of air ops and he had caught CIA |
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onto his base and he was suicided. |
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Uhm, I crossed my own Rubicon at that point, |
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And I knew that wherever this path |
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In the eighties, because I had some skill |
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I got published a few times. |
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I wrote about 109 mysterious deaths |
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in a very short period of time |
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connected to covert operations |
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The next real revolution came in 1996 |
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John Deutch at Locke highschool, |
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you know, and I remember saying up something like |
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Narcotics detective. |
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and I can tell you, director Deutch, |
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that the Agency has dealt drugs |
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And the room exploded. |
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I had been saying that CIA was dealing |
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I'd been shot at for, I'd been forced |
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If, in the course of the IG's investigations, |
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you come across evidence of severely |
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criminal activity, will you tell |
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We will bring the people to justice |
| 00:30:59 |
Like so often, when they promise justice, |
| 00:31:04 |
There were some very mysterious deaths involved. |
| 00:31:08 |
was at that meeting, |
| 00:31:13 |
which led to the publishing of the first issue |
| 00:31:18 |
From the Wilderness. |
| 00:31:23 |
8 pages, I think. |
| 00:31:27 |
and over the next eight and a half years, |
| 00:31:31 |
as many as 60 members of congress |
| 00:31:36 |
professors at universities around the world, |
| 00:31:41 |
One of my first exposés after CIA and drugs, |
| 00:31:46 |
in something called the Tailwind scandal |
| 00:31:50 |
where CNN had correctly reported, |
| 00:31:54 |
CIA had used sarin gas in Laos |
| 00:31:57 |
and Henry Kissinger authorized it. |
| 00:32:00 |
... were different A1 pilots, |
| 00:32:02 |
In spite of what the Pentagon said... |
| 00:32:04 |
CNN rolled over, Henry Kissinger called, |
| 00:32:11 |
Patt Tillman series that I broke |
| 00:32:17 |
that was what broke the Patt Tillman Exposé, |
| 00:32:22 |
... Patt Tillman, the governement violated |
| 00:32:27 |
But my economic predictions then... |
| 00:32:30 |
uhm, we had it so right. |
| 00:32:31 |
... problems are sevenfold behind the economic |
| 00:32:36 |
like we have ever seen before. |
| 00:32:38 |
In, uhm, 2006, |
| 00:32:43 |
Check your mortgage carefully, |
| 00:32:47 |
Get into gold, reduce debt as much as possible, |
| 00:32:54 |
and heavy credit card. |
| 00:32:57 |
... How many people have ever heard of the fact |
| 00:33:01 |
Like mutual funds, but it's all mortgages? |
| 00:33:04 |
Those books are as cooked |
| 00:33:07 |
But it was like 11, 12 days after we issued that |
| 00:33:12 |
that our offices were burglarized, |
| 00:33:16 |
Uhm, and a whole chain of events |
| 00:33:21 |
... which actually worked out ok, |
| 00:33:24 |
and I have since then. |
| 00:33:32 |
There was a period after so many years |
| 00:33:38 |
four of which we connected |
| 00:33:45 |
I published that I had retired. |
| 00:33:52 |
What I had... And at that point, given the way |
| 00:34:02 |
I didn't know that I would bounce back, or that |
| 00:34:08 |
but that also is the image that I wanted out there, |
| 00:34:14 |
at least until Bush and Cheney got out of the White House, |
| 00:34:22 |
From them personally, I mean, from their administration, |
| 00:34:28 |
who was that pressure coming from? |
| 00:34:30 |
I have absolutely no doubt that |
| 00:34:35 |
took an intense personal interest in me |
| 00:34:39 |
for all the years of the Bush administration. |
| 00:34:42 |
That's about as specific as I care to get. |
| 00:34:52 |
There was a guy named Von Clausewitz, |
| 00:34:57 |
who said that |
| 00:35:01 |
Politics is a continuation of economics |
| 00:35:10 |
To understand all of this mess, you need to understand |
| 00:35:15 |
that's real simple to understand, |
| 00:35:18 |
A derivative is any financial instrument |
| 00:35:25 |
of something else that's tangible. |
| 00:35:28 |
In other words, an ear of corn has value. |
| 00:35:33 |
If you have a house and a mortgage, that's fine. |
| 00:35:38 |
packaging and bundling, |
| 00:35:45 |
As of the start of the collapse, |
| 00:35:51 |
there were derivatives with a notional value, |
| 00:35:57 |
were worth 700 trillion dollars. |
| 00:36:01 |
In other words, if they all cashed out at once, |
| 00:36:05 |
and of course there isn't that much money. |
| 00:36:11 |
So with all of these hedges and derivatives and puts and calls, |
| 00:36:18 |
All they cared about was making the minimum |
| 00:36:21 |
In other words, to service the 700 trillion dollars |
| 00:36:27 |
they had to pay a certain amount of cash every month, |
| 00:36:31 |
What's happening with all of these bailouts, |
| 00:36:35 |
11 trillion if you add up all the US bailouts. |
| 00:36:39 |
They're chasing a 700 trillion dollar |
| 00:37:00 |
The people who have run the monetary paradigm, |
| 00:37:05 |
since money was first invented, have wanted to mystify it |
| 00:37:12 |
could understand the mumbo-jumbo |
| 00:37:16 |
Three things only anybody needs to know about |
| 00:37:20 |
One. Fiat currency. |
| 00:37:26 |
If I were to take a bill out of my wallet, |
| 00:37:33 |
it's 20 dollars. |
| 00:37:36 |
Can I eat it? Can I roll it up and chew it? |
| 00:37:39 |
Do I get calories and vitamins? |
| 00:37:42 |
Can I fumble it up, throw it in my gas tank? |
| 00:37:46 |
No, it's gonna clog the fuel injectors, maybe. |
| 00:37:49 |
This is only a symbol. |
| 00:37:54 |
It's created out of thin air, |
| 00:37:57 |
That's all it is. |
| 00:38:01 |
Before the great growth of population, |
| 00:38:08 |
came this revolution |
| 00:38:11 |
There was time when |
| 00:38:13 |
a pound of sterling silver. |
| 00:38:16 |
There was only so much silver out of the ground, |
| 00:38:20 |
it was something real. |
| 00:38:24 |
You cannot print anymore money |
| 00:38:29 |
It's that simple. |
| 00:38:35 |
So we have fiat currency. |
| 00:38:42 |
If you were to bring me in a 10 dollar deposit, |
| 00:38:47 |
90 dollars worth of loans. |
| 00:38:50 |
Based on just having |
| 00:38:52 |
because it's all calculated on the premise |
| 00:38:56 |
and want their cash all at once. |
| 00:38:57 |
That's called a run on the bank. |
| 00:38:59 |
So, they have calculated the odds, |
| 00:39:05 |
and said ok, well, very little odds |
| 00:39:10 |
When I lend now a total of 100 dollars |
| 00:39:17 |
that's more money |
| 00:39:21 |
Well gee, that means that, |
| 00:39:25 |
has to make more money still to feed it |
| 00:39:29 |
so that the bank can create still more money. |
| 00:39:36 |
You know, I think it's probably pretty safe |
| 00:39:40 |
to say that pretty much everybody is understanding |
| 00:39:45 |
the higher the interest rate on your credit card, |
| 00:39:49 |
you know, 20-25% cards, |
| 00:39:54 |
if they don't pay cash every month. |
| 00:39:58 |
What I have just described, |
| 00:40:02 |
We live in an infinite growth paradigm, |
| 00:40:06 |
which requires growth forever. |
| 00:40:10 |
or Stanford was a pyramid scheme, |
| 00:40:16 |
The whole global economy cannot be sustained, |
| 00:40:22 |
But infinite growth collides with finite energy. |
| 00:40:26 |
First law of thermodynamics, |
| 00:40:30 |
The second law, |
| 00:40:33 |
from usable to unusable, |
| 00:40:35 |
that's called the law of entropy, things break down. |
| 00:40:43 |
So you have finite energy and you have |
| 00:40:47 |
infinite growth and we're at the point of human history |
| 00:40:52 |
collides with something |
| 00:41:05 |
By 2006, I knew that the collapse was very imminent, |
| 00:41:12 |
of the US economy. |
| 00:41:15 |
maybe a little bit more. I thought it was |
| 00:41:20 |
And now that it is happening, these pieces |
| 00:41:25 |
had written, said, done. All the peak oil activists, |
| 00:41:32 |
Our map was proving deadly accurate. |
| 00:41:43 |
Things don't break up, |
| 00:41:48 |
When a government collapses, |
| 00:41:51 |
The mail stops getting delivered. |
| 00:41:54 |
Air traffic controllers don't get paid, so they |
| 00:41:59 |
Bridges and highway inspections don't get made. |
| 00:42:06 |
Maintenance is going to be defrayed, |
| 00:42:11 |
I mean, it's no secret now. |
| 00:42:14 |
California's bancrupt, Michigan's bancrupt, Ohio... |
| 00:42:22 |
There are tent cities springing up all over the country, |
| 00:42:27 |
The great many billionaires, who we would call the elites, |
| 00:42:34 |
crashed, burned and eaten alive. |
| 00:42:37 |
What you don't hear, is the fact that all |
| 00:42:42 |
much faster than the US economy. |
| 00:42:47 |
Brittain is an absolute basket case. |
| 00:42:51 |
There is a curtain of despair |
| 00:43:00 |
There's a revolution underway in Greece, |
| 00:43:03 |
it's a revolution. |
| 00:43:07 |
Drug violence right across the border in Mexico. |
| 00:43:09 |
This is all part of the collapse. |
| 00:43:14 |
The people who have run the planet to this point |
| 00:43:29 |
Have I ever been called a conspiracy theorist? |
| 00:43:35 |
But I don't deal in conspiracy theory, |
| 00:43:48 |
Somebody said to me a long time ago, |
| 00:43:53 |
climb down off the cross, asshole, |
| 00:43:57 |
I am not a messiah. |
| 00:44:02 |
the only person I'm responsible |
| 00:44:07 |
What I see now, is the end of a paradigm |
| 00:44:14 |
killed almost all life on the earth |
| 00:44:18 |
Now, the dinosaurs were kings of their paradigm. |
| 00:44:22 |
And a paradigm is what you think about, |
| 00:44:25 |
Somebody thinks about money, and you |
| 00:44:31 |
compound interest, fractional reserve banking |
| 00:44:35 |
because if we don't protect that, |
| 00:44:37 |
it's gonna be bad for us. |
| 00:44:41 |
If you know anything about darwinism, |
| 00:44:46 |
that had evolved, or were able to adapt to changing |
| 00:44:54 |
and those that were not equipped, or had become |
| 00:45:02 |
Mike, you better be careful, it sounds |
| 00:45:06 |
I'm not advocating social darwinism, |
| 00:45:09 |
I am witnessing actual darwinism. |
| 00:45:15 |
If you're in a camp with a bunch of campers, |
| 00:45:21 |
you don't have to be faster than the bear. |
| 00:45:26 |
than the slowest camper. |
| 00:45:32 |
There is one and only one |
| 00:45:41 |
in, I would guess, 60 to 70 lectures |
| 00:45:47 |
and that's a graph of human population. |
| 00:45:50 |
And if one looks at that graph, |
| 00:45:56 |
roughly stable at around |
| 00:46:01 |
Then maybe a little bit more, |
| 00:46:03 |
Then it stays pretty stable, until we get |
| 00:46:08 |
as some primitive technology emerged, |
| 00:46:11 |
but then you get to the Bubonic plague, |
| 00:46:14 |
Then after the Bubonic plague, you begin the start |
| 00:46:19 |
uhm, and the early stages |
| 00:46:23 |
Uhm, the discovery of steam, |
| 00:46:28 |
The introduction of coal, |
| 00:46:32 |
but around 1900, around the turn of the 20th century, |
| 00:46:39 |
was that the population went like this. |
| 00:46:46 |
we may be at 7 billion people |
| 00:46:51 |
All of those people exist |
| 00:46:58 |
So it's axiomatic that if you take the oil away, |
| 00:47:03 |
In all of science, in all of biology, |
| 00:47:09 |
be it bacteria in a petry dish, |
| 00:47:13 |
runs into a set of favorable circumstances |
| 00:47:17 |
without an immediate crash, |
| 00:47:21 |
It's a law. It's a law as fundamental as gravity, |
| 00:47:26 |
and if one thinks about it, it might also |
| 00:47:30 |
or the financial markets, which go like this, |
| 00:47:34 |
they automatically go like this. |
| 00:47:48 |
I think it's a mistake, |
| 00:47:52 |
to ask if people, |
| 00:48:02 |
if they will understand it. |
| 00:48:09 |
When you're faced with, uhm, with |
| 00:48:13 |
as in the Titanic being hit by an iceberg,. |
| 00:48:17 |
and you happen to be aware before anybody else is, |
| 00:48:21 |
and there aren't enough lifeboats, |
| 00:48:23 |
and you know how to build lifeboats, |
| 00:48:27 |
however long the Titanic had |
| 00:48:31 |
you're likely to come across three types |
| 00:48:36 |
You'll run across a type that's basically |
| 00:48:41 |
Ship's been hit, what does that mean? What do I do? |
| 00:48:46 |
That's one group. |
| 00:48:50 |
we get that the ship's gonna sink, we get that. |
| 00:48:55 |
and do it fast. Show us what to do. |
| 00:48:58 |
And then you have a third group, |
| 00:49:00 |
it's absolutely unsinkable. |
| 00:49:05 |
And, uhm, so we're going back to the bar for a drink |
| 00:49:10 |
Now, if you're the one who knows |
| 00:49:12 |
which group of people |
| 00:49:19 |
Certain things are inevitable right now. |
| 00:49:21 |
FDIC insolvency, |
| 00:49:25 |
Insolvency of the Federal Reserve, is coming. |
| 00:49:29 |
Uhm, Treasury bill defaults, uhm, we're looking at |
| 00:49:37 |
All these things are already on the way. |
| 00:49:43 |
Everything is gonna break down |
| 00:49:47 |
The best that I can do, is give you |
| 00:49:51 |
that are gonna come. |
| 00:49:53 |
The bumpy plateau has been described |
| 00:49:58 |
for many, many years. |
| 00:50:02 |
Basically, you com up |
| 00:50:07 |
and the oil prices go up, |
| 00:50:11 |
Then what happens, is you have to destroy demand, |
| 00:50:15 |
with this collapse. |
| 00:50:18 |
But as you start to recover, you start back up again |
| 00:50:24 |
And the rising energy prices, which shuts |
| 00:50:30 |
I think it's fairly certain that the mortal blow |
| 00:50:38 |
will happen when oil prices spike again, |
| 00:50:41 |
and nobody can afford to buy that oil, |
| 00:50:50 |
The collapse must happen fast, |
| 00:50:56 |
We've all heard the stories about infrastructure, |
| 00:51:02 |
Well, the point is that as economic collapse |
| 00:51:09 |
will fall into more disrepair. |
| 00:51:13 |
There's not gonna be any money or anything |
| 00:51:17 |
so what you want to have, |
| 00:51:20 |
getting the old one out of the way, |
| 00:51:23 |
while there's still infrastructure left |
| 00:51:31 |
We have to survive the transition fase |
| 00:51:36 |
could last anywhere between 20 years, |
| 00:51:40 |
would that be fast and hard... |
| 00:51:46 |
before some kind of stable civilization |
| 00:51:51 |
You need to survive the transition fase, |
| 00:51:56 |
Use your heads, analyze your |
| 00:52:02 |
don't worry about rebuilding sewers, |
| 00:52:09 |
People say, there's either oil, or no oil. |
| 00:52:15 |
And people say, well, we're gonna have food in the |
| 00:52:19 |
That's not the way it's gonna happen. |
| 00:52:23 |
we will see specific shortages |
| 00:52:28 |
before it gets to the point where there's nothing left. |
| 00:52:34 |
is not the end result, but you need to |
| 00:52:40 |
Uhm, people say, I'm gonna run for the hills, |
| 00:52:44 |
10 million cans of baked beans, well, |
| 00:52:47 |
Number one, it's too late. |
| 00:52:50 |
If you don't know how to live off the land, |
| 00:52:53 |
don't even try to go, |
| 00:52:57 |
and you might be shot by the people |
| 00:53:04 |
You know, the one factor that you're not including, |
| 00:53:10 |
uhm, or ability to sort of problem solve. |
| 00:53:15 |
Because my father was an airforce aviator, |
| 00:53:21 |
he was very much trained in a military style |
| 00:53:26 |
where it's motivated by life and death decisions, |
| 00:53:32 |
and respond critically |
| 00:53:35 |
So I was trained at an early age |
| 00:53:40 |
And maybe I have a gift for it too, I believe there are |
| 00:53:45 |
Uhm... And my own experience on the streets |
| 00:53:50 |
there were quick decisions sometimes, |
| 00:53:57 |
or could end people's lives... |
| 00:53:59 |
And it gave me an ability to respond |
| 00:54:03 |
the icecream from the bullshit. |
| 00:54:06 |
Probably one of the biggest impediments |
| 00:54:09 |
was I stopped taking mainstream media |
| 00:54:16 |
Uhm, we were talking about human ingenuity. |
| 00:54:25 |
No amount of technology |
| 00:54:28 |
can possibly overturn the laws of physics, |
| 00:54:31 |
the laws which govern this planet. |
| 00:54:33 |
Uhm, those are intracktable, immutable, real. |
| 00:54:39 |
Man's great arrogance, I believe, |
| 00:54:44 |
is to believe that mankind |
| 00:54:46 |
and even turn over and upset and revoke |
| 00:54:55 |
I am a great advocate of |
| 00:54:59 |
not paper gold. |
| 00:55:02 |
When hyperinflation occurs, after deflation here, |
| 00:55:07 |
and we are wheeling wheel barrels of |
| 00:55:13 |
the only thing people will accept for goods, |
| 00:55:18 |
Do whatever you can to reinsulate your house |
| 00:55:22 |
If you have soil, you immediately |
| 00:55:26 |
and start learning how to restore it. |
| 00:55:28 |
What I do in the yard that I'm renting, |
| 00:55:33 |
and then I go out and pee on everything, because |
| 00:55:37 |
that starts to bring the soil back. |
| 00:55:40 |
If you are dependent upon a cell phone, |
| 00:55:44 |
All of the telecommunication companies |
| 00:55:48 |
the cell towers, the fiberoptic cables and all the stuff |
| 00:55:53 |
are cutting back on maintenance |
| 00:55:56 |
and we're gonna see failures |
| 00:55:59 |
A landline is a redundancy |
| 00:56:03 |
Get books on first aid and holistic medicine. |
| 00:56:08 |
Moderate fresh water supply, |
| 00:56:13 |
you can't store enough to live on. |
| 00:56:17 |
Seeds that are not manufactured by Monsanto, |
| 00:56:22 |
one time you plant them, |
| 00:56:25 |
You get good organic, whole seeds |
| 00:56:30 |
That could be a great currency |
| 00:56:42 |
Unlike the great depression, |
| 00:56:45 |
We do not have infinite resources left to be tapped. |
| 00:56:47 |
We don't have lots of land. We don't have... We're |
| 00:56:54 |
And what they had in the 1930's, |
| 00:56:59 |
was the ability to grow food right where they live. |
| 00:57:02 |
And local food production is perhaps |
| 00:57:07 |
in the collapse of industrial civilisation. |
| 00:57:19 |
We've had examples of |
| 00:57:22 |
and how civilizations respond and what |
| 00:57:25 |
In 1991, the Sovjet-Union collapsed, |
| 00:57:30 |
that were absolutely and totally dependent upon |
| 00:57:35 |
Cuba and North-Korea. |
| 00:57:37 |
And what they did in response to that, |
| 00:57:41 |
and the proof, as they say, |
| 00:57:48 |
North-Korea was a rigid, hierarchical, top-down, |
| 00:57:56 |
where everything came from the central goverment, |
| 00:58:00 |
and North-Korea starved. |
| 00:58:02 |
I mean, it was... |
| 00:58:07 |
All of a sudden, there's no oil, |
| 00:58:10 |
there's no fertilizer, |
| 00:58:12 |
trains don't run, you get to a point |
| 00:58:16 |
and generate electricity on others, |
| 00:58:23 |
But the Cuban government reverted |
| 00:58:28 |
It said, everybody start restoring |
| 00:58:32 |
you will grow food where you live. If you find |
| 00:58:37 |
you occupy it and you start farming it |
| 00:58:42 |
The Cuban goverment did everything it could |
| 00:58:47 |
And what happened was, is, |
| 00:58:50 |
the Cuban people were eating better |
| 00:58:55 |
because they were free of this whole agro-biz, |
| 00:59:00 |
Everything was organic, and you had |
| 00:59:05 |
on rooftops, or flower boxes, |
| 00:59:10 |
And, there was a degree of sustainability, |
| 00:59:13 |
And all you had to do, was separate the people |
| 00:59:19 |
explain to them, you grow it where you eat it |
| 00:59:22 |
And Cuba survived. |
| 00:59:28 |
And that's the essence of where everything |
| 00:59:33 |
Everything will be local. |
| 00:59:41 |
Jack London was one of my favourite writers. |
| 00:59:43 |
And uhm, wrote about animals a lot. |
| 00:59:46 |
One thing you know about animals, |
| 00:59:49 |
when they know that |
| 00:59:51 |
They don't wanna be in their tribe, |
| 00:59:55 |
Uhm, they want to be on familiar ground, |
| 01:00:01 |
In Dubai, |
| 01:00:04 |
that Indians who were living and working in Dubai, |
| 01:00:12 |
abandoned their cars, and there was a story |
| 01:00:16 |
as these Indians caught a |
| 01:00:20 |
And it's happening in Britain too. |
| 01:00:24 |
who were the latecomers in the EU, |
| 01:00:29 |
In some areas, and certainly |
| 01:00:32 |
with 13 to 14 million people |
| 01:00:35 |
it's clear that people are |
| 01:00:38 |
as it's not sustainable. |
| 01:00:40 |
We get most of our water from Northern California. |
| 01:00:46 |
We get a lot of our electricity |
| 01:00:51 |
Phoenix, for god's sake, Las Vegas, |
| 01:00:57 |
and community is what will save us. |
| 01:01:04 |
You're gonna have to do it in conjunction with your |
| 01:01:10 |
You will fail as a rugged individual, you will |
| 01:01:18 |
I have emotion about this, |
| 01:01:41 |
We have waited, have waited for so long |
| 01:01:54 |
When the mainstream press |
| 01:01:57 |
nobody could have predicted this, |
| 01:02:03 |
We all saw exactly what was gonna happen, |
| 01:02:07 |
and remarkably, |
| 01:02:10 |
None of us expected the collapse to be as severe |
| 01:02:16 |
But we've been screaming for years, |
| 01:02:18 |
and we've been watching everything |
| 01:02:20 |
and we have felt so |
| 01:02:41 |
I haven't lost emotional connection to it. What I have |
| 01:02:50 |
the, uhm, the horror, |
| 01:03:01 |
I take my dog out for a walk and we count how many |
| 01:03:07 |
I walk through downtown Culver City and, |
| 01:03:11 |
oh, that was 23 smiles we created today. |
| 01:03:15 |
And for some reason at this moment in time, |
| 01:03:24 |
There was a, uhm, psychologist, psychiatrist, |
| 01:03:30 |
who talked about the five stages of grief. |
| 01:03:33 |
Uhm, and when you're hit with |
| 01:03:37 |
the first is denial. This can't possibly be happening, |
| 01:03:44 |
And you stay in denial, |
| 01:03:47 |
Then comes anger. |
| 01:03:49 |
I really believe that mankind is now entering |
| 01:03:57 |
the treshold of the anger fase. |
| 01:04:13 |
We have to get through the anger fase, |
| 01:04:17 |
is going to be critical. |
| 01:04:19 |
The way we're going under current |
| 01:04:25 |
the only kind of anger that's going to be produced, |
| 01:04:30 |
born of absolute frustration and bitterness that |
| 01:04:37 |
is making us feel any goddamn better. |
| 01:04:41 |
Then of course after that, we have the bargaining. |
| 01:04:46 |
Maybe I could've done something different, |
| 01:04:50 |
M-m-maybe if I do this now, |
| 01:04:54 |
Then you go through the bargaining and you finally get to |
| 01:04:58 |
And these are all emotional stages, |
| 01:05:02 |
an individual or a culture, |
| 01:05:05 |
And the final stage is acceptance. |
| 01:05:11 |
that you can find those people who are like |
| 01:05:16 |
okay, show us how to build a lifeboat. |
| 01:05:22 |
You know, there's different ways to look at- |
| 01:05:25 |
support arguments that you wanna make, |
| 01:05:29 |
that sort of support your world view, |
| 01:05:32 |
Is it possible to sort of create, |
| 01:05:36 |
based on picking new stories |
| 01:05:46 |
I don't do debates anymore. And the reason why |
| 01:05:54 |
At some point, you have to acknowledge the fact |
| 01:05:59 |
what I've saying, |
| 01:06:02 |
So why do I need to debate anything? |
| 01:06:05 |
Why does the peak oil movement, |
| 01:06:10 |
need to debate anything? |
| 01:06:12 |
Everything that we said was gonna happen, |
| 01:06:24 |
Every aspect of human existence is |
| 01:06:30 |
As far as political parties go, |
| 01:06:33 |
They're all products of centuries gone by. |
| 01:06:38 |
The human race now is only going to be concerned, |
| 01:06:42 |
but what allows them to survive. |
| 01:06:45 |
Capitalism, socialism and communism |
| 01:06:50 |
in the trash can immediately, |
| 01:06:51 |
because all of them were created |
| 01:06:56 |
Not one of those ideologies that are now |
| 01:07:01 |
are no longer relevant to our way of life. |
| 01:07:04 |
Not one of them recognizes |
| 01:07:08 |
growth, and the resources, |
| 01:07:13 |
Forget the idea that you can have |
| 01:07:15 |
because until mankind surrenders to the fact |
| 01:07:21 |
and it must have balance with that planet, |
| 01:07:24 |
with the animal life and all the other life, |
| 01:07:29 |
Anything. |
| 01:07:31 |
It's all about getting balance back. |
| 01:07:34 |
And who sold me the idea |
| 01:07:38 |
nothing grows forever, there's no such thing |
| 01:07:42 |
Look around at everything you see |
| 01:07:47 |
Birth, growth, maturation, decline and death. |
| 01:07:50 |
The challenge being faced by the human race now, |
| 01:07:54 |
Either grow up, or die. |
| 01:07:56 |
God's not gonna play babysitter for us. |
| 01:07:59 |
you grow up and mature, change your minds |
| 01:08:05 |
Everything is on the table now, God is on the table, |
| 01:08:11 |
They'll all be measured as standards by, |
| 01:08:15 |
And every religion in the world is |
| 01:08:19 |
This is gonna be the greatest age of evolution |
| 01:08:27 |
You walk towards your fear, you embrace your fear, |
| 01:08:32 |
that a part of real living as a human being, |
| 01:08:37 |
your fear, your love, |
| 01:08:39 |
and not run away from anything, |
| 01:08:44 |
And it's in that richness that, I think, |
| 01:08:49 |
the most beautiful music, we find the richness |
| 01:08:54 |
and I see all that richness buried under such |
| 01:09:06 |
Can you talk about your own spirituality? |
| 01:09:11 |
How do you define your own spirituality? |
| 01:09:17 |
I quote a Christian Saint, Timothy, |
| 01:09:21 |
and I find it to be true what he said, |
| 01:09:26 |
that the love of money is the root of all evil. |
| 01:09:31 |
That's the end result of my spiritual, |
| 01:09:35 |
It is the end, it is the fundamental truth |
| 01:09:40 |
of empirical, investigative, |
| 01:09:47 |
trying to answer some fundamental |
| 01:09:50 |
and why we behave the way we do, |
| 01:09:53 |
why we act the way we do. |
| 01:09:55 |
The love of money is the root of all evil, |
| 01:10:00 |
to exterminate, to render extinct |
| 01:10:19 |
Alright, so here we have this, uhm, this |
| 01:10:24 |
likable, sincere guy in the White House. |
| 01:10:31 |
And he is as imprisoned as we all are. |
| 01:10:36 |
I need to cut, I need to cut. |
| 01:10:39 |
I'm just having a real powerful wave |
| 01:10:42 |
Because I-, a whole new realization is opening |
| 01:10:47 |
and this is some serious fucking shit, |
| 01:10:52 |
Fuck. |
| 01:10:57 |
Okay, I'm ready. |
| 01:11:02 |
He's a prisoner of government, he's a prisoner |
| 01:11:05 |
he's a prisoner of the Federal Reserve bank of New York, |
| 01:11:13 |
archaic, and not quickly responsive, |
| 01:11:21 |
or failure of human civilization |
| 01:11:27 |
The only thing in the world that you and I |
| 01:11:36 |
to give ourselves a chance of survival |
| 01:11:40 |
some kind of human, civilized life, |
| 01:11:44 |
is our minds. |
| 01:11:46 |
You have to believe, not wish, |
| 01:11:52 |
you just have to believe that there's a way |
| 01:11:56 |
This is perhaps the greatest part |
| 01:12:00 |
When we get pissed off and we put |
| 01:12:04 |
what needs to be done. |
| 01:12:07 |
change things. |
| 01:12:09 |
I plan on living joyfully and happily |
| 01:12:14 |
A free man. |
| 01:12:16 |
Shit. |
| 01:12:21 |
Just change your mind and see what we see. |
| 01:12:24 |
Stop thinking like dinosaurs. |
| 01:12:30 |
So do you feel that |
| 01:12:31 |
you just kind of do it, regardless of |
| 01:12:36 |
It just would've been so much easier |
| 01:12:43 |
If there was a German |
| 01:12:48 |
in 1932, 1933, |
| 01:12:52 |
who had the foresight to look ahead and to see |
| 01:13:00 |
if there was somebody who had seen that coming, |
| 01:13:04 |
that they could in good conscience turn around |
| 01:13:09 |
When every passing day, from the first election |
| 01:13:16 |
to Kristallnacht, to the Night of the Long Knives, |
| 01:13:24 |
Sudetenland, Poland. As all of those things happened |
| 01:13:29 |
that person would have felt? |
| 01:13:36 |
We are all collectively as a species, |
| 01:13:42 |
preventable holocaust |
| 01:13:45 |
in the history of planet earth. |
| 01:13:51 |
How do you walk away from that? |
| 01:13:54 |
How do you sleep at night? |
| 01:13:57 |
Who is anybody? |
| 01:14:02 |
Who are you to tell me |
| 01:14:09 |
You aren't in my skin. |
| 01:14:13 |
because to walk away would have meant |
| 01:14:26 |
You know, I'm still a guy |
| 01:14:32 |
approached his goverment as a citizen, |
| 01:14:37 |
I cut the CIA deal in drugs, |
| 01:14:40 |
Somebody needs to talk about this. |
| 01:14:44 |
I'm still the 27 year old, |
| 01:14:48 |
perfect record, perfect rating report, |
| 01:14:55 |
He's still alive in me |
| 01:15:21 |
There is a legend, or a fable |
| 01:15:28 |
About the 100th monkey. |
| 01:15:39 |
Long time ago, in the late '40's, early '50's, |
| 01:15:44 |
with above ground testing, |
| 01:15:47 |
we set off an atom bomb |
| 01:15:51 |
And then we waited a number of years, |
| 01:15:56 |
how soon after we nuked something, |
| 01:15:58 |
to get any kind of life started again? |
| 01:16:03 |
So they went back to this island and |
| 01:16:08 |
And the monkeys ate coconuts. |
| 01:16:10 |
Everything was pretty healthy, except for the fact |
| 01:16:19 |
So the scientists took 10 monkeys or so, |
| 01:16:26 |
in the fresh water stream on the island |
| 01:16:32 |
and turned the whole thing loose |
| 01:16:35 |
Well, you know, pretty soon |
| 01:16:39 |
out of a population of 10 000 |
| 01:16:42 |
and then 20, |
| 01:16:47 |
But a funny thing happened. |
| 01:16:50 |
As soon as the 100th monkey |
| 01:16:53 |
all 10 000 started washing simultaneously. |
| 01:17:00 |
I-, I guess one way that I have always looked |
| 01:17:04 |
what this issue was in late 2001, |
| 01:17:11 |
is, this is my quest for the 100th monkey. |
| 01:18:03 |
Transcription by Kensei |
