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holy [\h__\h] people drinking a little drink

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smoking a little smoke from san diego

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i'm greg carl wood i finally got my

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computer working again sorry about not

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having a show last week but you know how

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everything is still going well i'm

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psyched about today's show we have james

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corbett of the corbett report

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and i'm sure a lot of listeners and

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conspiracy nuts will know of james

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because he's got one of the most popular

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podcasts for the current events in

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global politics that they don't want you

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to know about

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first we're going to run through a spot

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for the thc money bomb so i don't have

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to repeat myself

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every week and then my special lady is

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going to deliver this week's higher

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education so you don't have to listen to

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to the only real reason why you're here

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and that's the interview portion of the

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show this week

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with james corbett of the corbett report

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people i gotta tell you about a little

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something we're calling the thc money

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bomb the way it works is i'm gonna pull

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up all the donations i get before

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episode 85 and i'm gonna give half

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back to one of you listeners so if you

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can consider donating 5 or 10 bucks to

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you'll be supporting a show you love and

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know that half your donation is going to

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go to some random fairly like-minded

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hell it might even be you the more

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people we get involved the bigger impact

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we can collectively have

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i'm really sort of tired of just talking

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about community and helping people and i

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would rather just do it

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so if you're with me go to the

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highersidechats.com donate

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and to keep things kosher i must also

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add that you can get into the pool

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without a donation if five dollars is

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too much just send me a letter

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with your info to greg carl wood po box

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so there it is and if you've donated

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already thanks so much keep an eye on

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your paypal account i might just blow it

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up

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that's the thc money bomb boom

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hey everybody i'm tiny dancer and in a

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world full of secret agendas and

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corporate censorship

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it's hard to know what's what that's

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where your higher education comes in

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a recently published harvard university

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meta-analysis

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funded by the national institutes of

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health has concluded that children who

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live in areas with highly fluoridated

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have significantly lower iq scores than

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those who live in low fluoride areas

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from environmental health perspectives

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the researchers said quote

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fluoride may cause neurotoxicity in the

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studies showing the direct toxic effects

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of fluoride on your body it's truly

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remarkable that it's not considered

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and next over at godlike productions

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conspiracy forums have posed an

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interesting theory on paul walker's

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untimely death from the car crash on

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a conspiracy to supply victims of the

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relief and that it would make sense

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who knows and on the gmo front the gm

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this has been your higher education for

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little bit see james has been actively

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pursuing the truth on his show and

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today james is just going to share his

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educated opinions on a whole host of

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topics because there's a lot of

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these days i know i want to try to see

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this game a little more clearly and i

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think james is just the man to help me

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cut through that haze

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he's a pebble in the shoe of the

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well it's great to be here thank you so

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much for having me on today i'm a big

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when i want some straight talk i can get

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together yeah man i really value that

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get out of it some days but especially

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very everyone's very polite and very

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formal

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and uh and you don't usually get past

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that certainly when you're just here for

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a visit

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um so people have that impression of the

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of the country but

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there is a there is an undercurrent

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there's a there's cultures and

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subcultures that that occur here that

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you wouldn't necessarily see on the on

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the surface of society

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um because it is such a reserved culture

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but uh but there's a lot that's

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happening here and uh

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and it's an interesting place to be from

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that perspective especially

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you know during these times and all of

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the the craziness that's happening not

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only around the world but here in japan

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specifically

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yeah i'd assume that the people are

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probably a little less driven by

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hollywood marketing and consumerism i

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mean is that true

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yes and no um certainly it it's

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interesting

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um that they do have sort of their own

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culture industry here if you will um

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certainly the music industry is is very

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much uh j-pop oriented obviously so

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they have sort of their own little

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bubble here but um but there is still

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very i mean there's still a lot of crash

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uh crass commercialism

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and a lot of um pursuit of

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merchandise merchandise fetishism that

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goes on here and you know people

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still care about louis vuitton handbags

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and things like that so i mean

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i wouldn't say that there's there's a

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lack of that here there's certainly

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um a lot of it here but it is i mean

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it's a different

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there's a different inflection to it and

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i think that probably comes from

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just the history of the country

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especially over the past half a half

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century

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and uh the sort of the rise of the

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industrial japan and and sort of the

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rise of the japanese bubble back in the

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80s and then the popping of that in the

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last couple of decades of stagnation

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has really i think left its mark on on

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sort of the average japanese

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population but certainly i think if you

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look in the long-term historical trends

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this is a

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country in a culture that's just been

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under imperial conditioning for

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centuries and centuries now and uh and

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really i mean even in the last half

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century nothing has fundamentally

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changed with that

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all that happened really is that the uh

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the old feudal lords of

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of the past became the big mega

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corporations of today

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and people still continue to slave away

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for them and uh and pretty unquest

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unquestioningly to a large extent

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although that is changing and we have

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the younger generation that's growing up

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in a very different way than

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than their their elders did and sort of

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the lifelong employment and all of that

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of

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so it is a culture that's under that's

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undergoing huge changes right now and

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not necessarily for the better but

363
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not necessarily for the worse i think

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it's still up in the air to a large

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extent

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right on man yeah that's really

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interesting i guess you can't really get

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past the

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corporate overlords anywhere you go i

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wish i could just retreat to an area

371
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that was a little more remote a little

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more tropical but yet i still had

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a lightning speed internet connection

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that's all i want

375
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yeah i hear you on that front um i'd

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just like to go somewhere a little

377
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warmer

378
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i'm i am canadian but i've i've become a

379
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bit of a wussy for the last uh

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nine years ten years here so well i also

381
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wanted to ask you a bit about fukushima

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i hear a lot of armageddon level fear

383
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porn surrounding the disaster there

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as well as you know the polar opposite

385
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official story is that everything's fine

386
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but what's your assessment you obviously

387
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must feel pretty safe if it's where you

388
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live kind of right

389
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well yes i mean uh qualifiedly so i

390
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think you're exactly right that there

391
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seems to be that that absolute

392
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polarization in terms of coverage there

393
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are the people who say that there's

394
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nothing wrong and nothing could possibly

395
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be wrong with this situation it's all

396
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sunshine and lollipops and i'm so glad

397
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these uh

398
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these reactors melted down and then on

399
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the other side there is

400
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the the world is dead everyone is dead

401
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um japan is a nuclear wasteland we're

402
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all gonna die

403
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and i really um want to try to break

404
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that

405
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taking place there because a lot of room

406
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in the middle for i think a bit of

407
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reality and so

408
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so i have a website for people who don't

409
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know fukushima update.com

410
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where on maybe not a daily basis but

411
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several times a week anyway it's

412
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updating with stories about the latest

413
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from fukushima

414
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trying to really keep an eye on what's

415
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happening there not only specifically in

416
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terms of the fukushima plant itself but

417
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some of the other issues that

418
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surrounding that

419
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for example the japanese parliament just

420
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recently passed a bill

421
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a state secrets bill that's uh basically

422
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effectively banning

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um any type of leaks of what is termed

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classified information from within the

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government

426
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and a lot of people are speculating this

427
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is specifically um designed to try to

428
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suppress information about fukushima

429
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so um so that is a pretty worrying thing

430
00:13:07,350 --> 00:13:05,760
that's happened recently do you even

431
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have japanese senators coming out and

432
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saying this is a return to the type of

433
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fascism of years past so

434
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so pretty worrying development on that

435
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front and of course on the fukushima

436
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front there's a lot of

437
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things going on a couple of months ago

438
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the big stories that were breaking

439
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were basically um talking about the the

440
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leaks that were happening in

441
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some of the containment vessels that

442
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they have on site for some of the

443
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the basically waste water they're

444
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pumping water into the reactors

445
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obviously to keep them cool

446
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and that waste water is is uh is being

447
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collected and stored in these containers

448
00:13:40,949 --> 00:13:39,360
they found a bunch of leaks in these

449
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containers recently that was leaking

450
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radioactive water out onto the site and

451
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eventually of course into the ocean

452
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so that was a a pretty big deal a month

453
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or two ago

454
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and in the last week or two they've

455
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started the process

456
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of transferring some of the um the spent

457
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fuel

458
00:14:02,550 --> 00:13:59,519
so for people who don't know this is a

459
00:14:03,829 --> 00:14:02,560
ge mark 1 nuclear reactor and that

460
00:14:05,670 --> 00:14:03,839
design

461
00:14:07,030 --> 00:14:05,680
just bizarrely enough i mean it is a

462
00:14:09,110 --> 00:14:07,040
really bizarre system but

463
00:14:10,230 --> 00:14:09,120
the design basically has a spent fuel

464
00:14:12,230 --> 00:14:10,240
pool where they take the

465
00:14:14,150 --> 00:14:12,240
the spent fuel rods out and they put

466
00:14:14,629 --> 00:14:14,160
them in a pool of water to keep them

467
00:14:16,310 --> 00:14:14,639
cool

468
00:14:19,269 --> 00:14:16,320
that's situated directly above the

469
00:14:21,269 --> 00:14:19,279
reactor so uh suspended in the air there

470
00:14:22,710 --> 00:14:21,279
and um and of course during the

471
00:14:24,470 --> 00:14:22,720
earthquake and the tsunami and

472
00:14:28,150 --> 00:14:24,480
everything that happened there um the

473
00:14:31,670 --> 00:14:30,230
severely damaged it was listing for a

474
00:14:33,430 --> 00:14:31,680
time it looked like it was

475
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maybe on the verge of collapse they had

476
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to shore it up um

477
00:14:39,670 --> 00:14:38,079
and and eventually they started to

478
00:14:41,189 --> 00:14:39,680
construct these cranes and things that

479
00:14:42,550 --> 00:14:41,199
they were going to use to get the spent

480
00:14:43,829 --> 00:14:42,560
fuel out of there so that if the

481
00:14:44,790 --> 00:14:43,839
building does collapse or anything

482
00:14:47,269 --> 00:14:44,800
happens that

483
00:14:48,069 --> 00:14:47,279
it won't be a unthinkable nuclear

484
00:14:50,230 --> 00:14:48,079
disaster

485
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because uh the the term spent fuel might

486
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make people think that oh this is

487
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this is you know it's not radioactive

488
00:14:57,189 --> 00:14:55,519
anymore quite the contrary these

489
00:14:58,949 --> 00:14:57,199
spent fuel rods are still very much

490
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radioactive and if they were to break or

491
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if they were to lose containment in

492
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whatever way

493
00:15:06,550 --> 00:15:04,480
that would be a huge nuclear disaster so

494
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so it's a pretty precarious situation

495
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and so they've started the process of

496
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removing those fuel rods from reactor

497
00:15:13,670 --> 00:15:10,639
for

498
00:15:13,990 --> 00:15:13,680
spent fuel pool and that is a a lengthy

499
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and

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even under the best of times under ideal

501
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conditions they use uh computerized

502
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basically robotic cranes that are

503
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tuned to the millimeter to to do very

504
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precise moves to move these uh fuel rods

505
00:15:33,670 --> 00:15:32,000
but uh but obviously they can't really

506
00:15:34,710 --> 00:15:33,680
rely on that at this point because the

507
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uh the fuel

508
00:15:38,389 --> 00:15:36,800
containments the for these rods has been

509
00:15:39,590 --> 00:15:38,399
moved around in the in the earthquake

510
00:15:41,110 --> 00:15:39,600
and everything so

511
00:15:43,189 --> 00:15:41,120
it's it's gonna be a very difficult

512
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process and there are um something like

513
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1500 of these to remove and i think

514
00:15:50,949 --> 00:15:47,519
they've removed the first batch which is

515
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probably a few dozen so um yeah it's a

516
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very

517
00:15:55,749 --> 00:15:54,560
and i think they've only started to

518
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remove the easy ones

519
00:15:58,790 --> 00:15:58,079
so far and that went okay or so they're

520
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saying

521
00:16:01,749 --> 00:16:00,480
but uh interestingly enough if you look

522
00:16:02,870 --> 00:16:01,759
at some of the pictures and things that

523
00:16:05,189 --> 00:16:02,880
are coming out of there

524
00:16:06,949 --> 00:16:05,199
um apparently due to japanese law

525
00:16:08,470 --> 00:16:06,959
although i haven't been able to pinpoint

526
00:16:10,790 --> 00:16:08,480
exactly

527
00:16:12,790 --> 00:16:10,800
what what law this might pertain to but

528
00:16:14,550 --> 00:16:12,800
um they have to blur out certain areas

529
00:16:16,150 --> 00:16:14,560
of the photos so that you can't see

530
00:16:17,590 --> 00:16:16,160
some of the details of the cranes and

531
00:16:19,509 --> 00:16:17,600
things that they have in here

532
00:16:21,269 --> 00:16:19,519
so that you can't presumably i don't

533
00:16:21,990 --> 00:16:21,279
know do nuclear terrorism or something

534
00:16:23,829 --> 00:16:22,000
of that sort

535
00:16:25,590 --> 00:16:23,839
but it does certainly raise questions

536
00:16:27,269 --> 00:16:25,600
about you know what's in the blurred

537
00:16:29,430 --> 00:16:27,279
areas and what are what aren't they

538
00:16:31,509 --> 00:16:29,440
showing us about what's going on there

539
00:16:32,870 --> 00:16:31,519
that's funny i actually saw a video like

540
00:16:34,790 --> 00:16:32,880
that and i wondered

541
00:16:36,310 --> 00:16:34,800
because japanese also blur out their

542
00:16:37,110 --> 00:16:36,320
porn and i was like is this some type of

543
00:16:39,350 --> 00:16:37,120
phallus thing

544
00:16:41,110 --> 00:16:39,360
is that why you can't show it but yeah i

545
00:16:44,790 --> 00:16:41,120
guess that kind of makes sense

546
00:16:46,470 --> 00:16:44,800
man it seems like such a out of control

547
00:16:48,069 --> 00:16:46,480
disaster i mean what about this

548
00:16:49,670 --> 00:16:48,079
thing about west coast radiation

549
00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:49,680
concerns you think that's hype or is

550
00:16:54,310 --> 00:16:51,920
that legitimate

551
00:16:56,069 --> 00:16:54,320
uh that one's it's difficult to say but

552
00:16:58,310 --> 00:16:56,079
i did just posted up a

553
00:16:59,350 --> 00:16:58,320
uh a very very thorough article from

554
00:17:01,269 --> 00:16:59,360
washington's blog

555
00:17:03,030 --> 00:17:01,279
on fukushima update it's called what is

556
00:17:04,069 --> 00:17:03,040
the actual risk for pacific coast

557
00:17:05,669 --> 00:17:04,079
residents from fukushima

558
00:17:07,110 --> 00:17:05,679
radiation so people are interested i

559
00:17:08,870 --> 00:17:07,120
suggest they take a look at that it's

560
00:17:10,630 --> 00:17:08,880
extremely thorough and it goes through

561
00:17:12,870 --> 00:17:10,640
a lot of documentation a lot of

562
00:17:14,870 --> 00:17:12,880
scientists and scientific opinions

563
00:17:16,870 --> 00:17:14,880
that basically comes to the opinion that

564
00:17:18,069 --> 00:17:16,880
yes there is going to be an increase in

565
00:17:20,309 --> 00:17:18,079
in radioactivity

566
00:17:21,909 --> 00:17:20,319
in the pacific region in the west coast

567
00:17:23,669 --> 00:17:21,919
of the united states and that is going

568
00:17:26,069 --> 00:17:23,679
to be harmful to human health

569
00:17:27,429 --> 00:17:26,079
um and and it it's fairly well

570
00:17:28,630 --> 00:17:27,439
established i mean it's not really a

571
00:17:31,669 --> 00:17:28,640
point of contention

572
00:17:34,150 --> 00:17:31,679
um that any level of radiation is

573
00:17:35,510 --> 00:17:34,160
an unsafe level i mean it does increase

574
00:17:37,430 --> 00:17:35,520
the risk of cancer

575
00:17:38,549 --> 00:17:37,440
so um so there's no such thing as a safe

576
00:17:40,230 --> 00:17:38,559
level of radiation

577
00:17:42,310 --> 00:17:40,240
and uh that's something to keep in mind

578
00:17:45,430 --> 00:17:42,320
as basically the uh the

579
00:17:48,310 --> 00:17:45,440
first wave of fukushima uh remnants and

580
00:17:49,830 --> 00:17:48,320
and uh and and the radioactivity starts

581
00:17:51,669 --> 00:17:49,840
to make its way to the west coast and

582
00:17:53,350 --> 00:17:51,679
it's um i mean it's really

583
00:17:54,950 --> 00:17:53,360
just a question of time until it starts

584
00:17:56,070 --> 00:17:54,960
to be picked up but interestingly enough

585
00:17:57,590 --> 00:17:56,080
there is no u.s

586
00:17:59,909 --> 00:17:57,600
agency that actually monitors

587
00:18:01,590 --> 00:17:59,919
radioactivity off of the coast so

588
00:18:02,870 --> 00:18:01,600
there's uh people who are petitioning

589
00:18:03,590 --> 00:18:02,880
right now to try to get the government

590
00:18:05,669 --> 00:18:03,600
to monitor

591
00:18:07,110 --> 00:18:05,679
what's actually happening but uh i'm not

592
00:18:09,029 --> 00:18:07,120
exactly holding my breath that's gonna

593
00:18:12,630 --> 00:18:09,039
be happening anytime soon

594
00:18:15,669 --> 00:18:12,640
god man when you look at whether it's a

595
00:18:17,270 --> 00:18:15,679
plant meltdown or a weaponized atomic

596
00:18:19,590 --> 00:18:17,280
attack it's like

597
00:18:21,110 --> 00:18:19,600
is this technology even worth using when

598
00:18:23,430 --> 00:18:21,120
an area is gonna be just

599
00:18:25,029 --> 00:18:23,440
[\h__\h] for decades because you had uh

600
00:18:26,230 --> 00:18:25,039
one mistake you know one weather

601
00:18:28,549 --> 00:18:26,240
disaster

602
00:18:29,669 --> 00:18:28,559
right and and the answer is no i mean it

603
00:18:32,070 --> 00:18:29,679
really isn't worth using

604
00:18:33,590 --> 00:18:32,080
even from an economic standpoint um the

605
00:18:34,230 --> 00:18:33,600
the nuclear industry the way it's been

606
00:18:36,630 --> 00:18:34,240
designed

607
00:18:37,270 --> 00:18:36,640
doesn't even make economic sense um and

608
00:18:39,590 --> 00:18:37,280
nuclear

609
00:18:41,110 --> 00:18:39,600
reactors are not profitable and they

610
00:18:41,990 --> 00:18:41,120
would not be without heavy government

611
00:18:44,630 --> 00:18:42,000
subsidization

612
00:18:45,350 --> 00:18:44,640
in a number of different ways and this

613
00:18:48,390 --> 00:18:45,360
is just the

614
00:18:50,070 --> 00:18:48,400
the stark reality of the the nuclear

615
00:18:52,190 --> 00:18:50,080
industry as it's developed

616
00:18:54,470 --> 00:18:52,200
and as it's been developed um since the

617
00:18:55,510 --> 00:18:54,480
1950s really with the atoms for peace

618
00:18:57,750 --> 00:18:55,520
project and the

619
00:18:59,590 --> 00:18:57,760
all the propaganda that uh people had

620
00:19:01,270 --> 00:18:59,600
about the nuclear industry and nuclear

621
00:19:03,350 --> 00:19:01,280
energy oh it's going to be

622
00:19:04,870 --> 00:19:03,360
energy too cheap to meter or so they

623
00:19:07,110 --> 00:19:04,880
said and all of this kind of thing is

624
00:19:08,630 --> 00:19:07,120
the dawning of a new era for mankind and

625
00:19:10,390 --> 00:19:08,640
harnessing the power of the atom and all

626
00:19:11,270 --> 00:19:10,400
of that garbage propaganda that people

627
00:19:13,350 --> 00:19:11,280
were fed

628
00:19:14,390 --> 00:19:13,360
meanwhile in reality the entire nuclear

629
00:19:16,710 --> 00:19:14,400
industry uh

630
00:19:18,070 --> 00:19:16,720
as it's developed has been specifically

631
00:19:20,630 --> 00:19:18,080
designed around these

632
00:19:22,950 --> 00:19:20,640
uranium reactors that are great at pro

633
00:19:24,789 --> 00:19:22,960
at producing plutonium which can be used

634
00:19:27,510 --> 00:19:24,799
for the nuclear weapons industry

635
00:19:29,350 --> 00:19:27,520
which is precisely why the the types of

636
00:19:31,110 --> 00:19:29,360
designs for these types of reactors

637
00:19:32,950 --> 00:19:31,120
specifically have been developed

638
00:19:34,390 --> 00:19:32,960
and why they are so heavily subsidized

639
00:19:36,549 --> 00:19:34,400
by governments because

640
00:19:38,950 --> 00:19:36,559
nuclear energy industry is always just

641
00:19:41,669 --> 00:19:38,960
an adjunct to a nuclear weapons industry

642
00:19:42,630 --> 00:19:41,679
and even in a place like uh in japan

643
00:19:44,230 --> 00:19:42,640
where obviously

644
00:19:46,230 --> 00:19:44,240
they officially don't have nuclear

645
00:19:48,710 --> 00:19:46,240
weapons or a nuclear program

646
00:19:51,510 --> 00:19:48,720
the nuclear reactors here could be i

647
00:19:54,549 --> 00:19:51,520
mean spun on a dime to produce nuclear

648
00:19:55,830 --> 00:19:54,559
materials for for weapons and that's i

649
00:19:57,270 --> 00:19:55,840
mean that's the real point of the

650
00:19:57,990 --> 00:19:57,280
nuclear energy industry as it's

651
00:19:59,510 --> 00:19:58,000
developed

652
00:20:01,510 --> 00:19:59,520
and there are other ideas for other

653
00:20:02,230 --> 00:20:01,520
types of designs using other materials

654
00:20:05,270 --> 00:20:02,240
like liquid

655
00:20:07,350 --> 00:20:05,280
fluoride uh thorium reactors and others

656
00:20:08,230 --> 00:20:07,360
other such designs that would not have

657
00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:08,240
the types of

658
00:20:12,070 --> 00:20:09,760
problems that we see with uranium

659
00:20:13,669 --> 00:20:12,080
reactors but obviously the

660
00:20:15,590 --> 00:20:13,679
the time the money the effort the

661
00:20:16,230 --> 00:20:15,600
infrastructure has not been developed or

662
00:20:17,909 --> 00:20:16,240
built

663
00:20:19,590 --> 00:20:17,919
because it is it doesn't serve the

664
00:20:20,549 --> 00:20:19,600
nuclear weapons industry so i think at

665
00:20:22,070 --> 00:20:20,559
the end of the day

666
00:20:24,710 --> 00:20:22,080
this is what it's really about it's

667
00:20:25,350 --> 00:20:24,720
about um producing material for nuclear

668
00:20:26,950 --> 00:20:25,360
weapons

669
00:20:28,549 --> 00:20:26,960
and that's why we have these unsafe

670
00:20:30,710 --> 00:20:28,559
reactors and that's why they are

671
00:20:31,750 --> 00:20:30,720
all infesting all over these countries

672
00:20:33,830 --> 00:20:31,760
like japan and

673
00:20:35,270 --> 00:20:33,840
the united states and france and others

674
00:20:36,950 --> 00:20:35,280
and that's why it's going to be

675
00:20:40,149 --> 00:20:36,960
extremely difficult to get rid of them

676
00:20:42,390 --> 00:20:40,159
um if if that's even a possibility and

677
00:20:44,950 --> 00:20:42,400
last year the previous japanese

678
00:20:48,149 --> 00:20:44,960
government had um put out a commission

679
00:20:50,549 --> 00:20:48,159
committee to study the nuclear power

680
00:20:52,230 --> 00:20:50,559
in industry in japan and its future and

681
00:20:53,909 --> 00:20:52,240
they actually remarkably enough they

682
00:20:56,230 --> 00:20:53,919
came back with a recommendation

683
00:20:57,830 --> 00:20:56,240
to actually scrap nuclear energy in

684
00:20:59,190 --> 00:20:57,840
japan to get rid of it by the middle

685
00:21:02,390 --> 00:20:59,200
part of this century

686
00:21:03,750 --> 00:21:02,400
um and guess what the new uh government

687
00:21:05,510 --> 00:21:03,760
as soon as they came in the first thing

688
00:21:06,950 --> 00:21:05,520
they did is say well no we're gonna

689
00:21:08,789 --> 00:21:06,960
start up the reactors again and it's

690
00:21:09,909 --> 00:21:08,799
gonna be business as usual for nuclear

691
00:21:12,230 --> 00:21:09,919
energy industry

692
00:21:13,750 --> 00:21:12,240
so uh so i'm again it's uh it's a huge

693
00:21:14,950 --> 00:21:13,760
uphill battle to even contemplate

694
00:21:17,510 --> 00:21:14,960
getting rid of this

695
00:21:18,390 --> 00:21:17,520
these uh sores on the on the face of the

696
00:21:20,070 --> 00:21:18,400
planet

697
00:21:21,510 --> 00:21:20,080
man i really had no idea it was just

698
00:21:23,190 --> 00:21:21,520
such a a pr

699
00:21:26,390 --> 00:21:23,200
thing you know there also seems to be an

700
00:21:28,710 --> 00:21:26,400
element of you know do anything to avoid

701
00:21:29,669 --> 00:21:28,720
energy technologies outside of corporate

702
00:21:31,350 --> 00:21:29,679
control

703
00:21:33,110 --> 00:21:31,360
because there's just such a pr campaign

704
00:21:34,710 --> 00:21:33,120
that they're oh there are none they're

705
00:21:35,270 --> 00:21:34,720
not ready yet it's like well yeah

706
00:21:37,110 --> 00:21:35,280
anything

707
00:21:38,549 --> 00:21:37,120
you're not working on is probably not

708
00:21:40,230 --> 00:21:38,559
ready yet yeah

709
00:21:41,750 --> 00:21:40,240
well absolutely i mean that's that's one

710
00:21:42,390 --> 00:21:41,760
of the big factors certainly if the

711
00:21:44,390 --> 00:21:42,400
government's

712
00:21:46,070 --> 00:21:44,400
uh that that are spending so much money

713
00:21:48,070 --> 00:21:46,080
subsidizing nuclear energy

714
00:21:49,830 --> 00:21:48,080
uh the way it's developed at any rate uh

715
00:21:50,470 --> 00:21:49,840
spent even a fraction of that on some of

716
00:21:52,230 --> 00:21:50,480
the other

717
00:21:54,710 --> 00:21:52,240
possibilities that are out there we we

718
00:21:55,990 --> 00:21:54,720
would see some some drastic changes and

719
00:21:57,430 --> 00:21:56,000
i i think you're right i mean there's

720
00:21:59,669 --> 00:21:57,440
there's undoubtedly been a lot of

721
00:22:00,310 --> 00:21:59,679
suppression of various technologies that

722
00:22:02,950 --> 00:22:00,320
would

723
00:22:04,390 --> 00:22:02,960
uh unchain us from this ridiculous

724
00:22:06,789 --> 00:22:04,400
infrastructure we have that

725
00:22:08,789 --> 00:22:06,799
that that right now chains us to to

726
00:22:10,310 --> 00:22:08,799
these fossil fuels and nuclear

727
00:22:11,990 --> 00:22:10,320
energy and all of these other things

728
00:22:15,350 --> 00:22:12,000
which are just outdated

729
00:22:17,190 --> 00:22:15,360
energies that are obviously um extremely

730
00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:17,200
well liked by the powers that shouldn't

731
00:22:19,830 --> 00:22:18,880
be because they they are so easy to

732
00:22:21,430 --> 00:22:19,840
monopolize

733
00:22:23,110 --> 00:22:21,440
and obviously i mean we just have to

734
00:22:24,789 --> 00:22:23,120
look at you know the rockefeller family

735
00:22:26,230 --> 00:22:24,799
in the united states is the sort of

736
00:22:29,110 --> 00:22:26,240
prime example of

737
00:22:31,430 --> 00:22:29,120
how how the the monopolization of an

738
00:22:33,590 --> 00:22:31,440
energy resource can lead to

739
00:22:35,510 --> 00:22:33,600
uh unthinkable wealth which of course

740
00:22:35,909 --> 00:22:35,520
leads to unthinkable political power as

741
00:22:37,590 --> 00:22:35,919
well

742
00:22:40,070 --> 00:22:37,600
um as reflected in the rockefeller

743
00:22:42,310 --> 00:22:40,080
foundation and the remnants of that so

744
00:22:43,909 --> 00:22:42,320
so absolutely this is i mean there's

745
00:22:45,110 --> 00:22:43,919
been all sorts of suppression of other

746
00:22:47,029 --> 00:22:45,120
technologies and

747
00:22:49,110 --> 00:22:47,039
energies and i think we would be living

748
00:22:51,190 --> 00:22:49,120
on a very different planet if uh if only

749
00:22:54,630 --> 00:22:51,200
we could harness some of those energies

750
00:22:56,549 --> 00:22:54,640
totally agree man and you know on the

751
00:22:58,390 --> 00:22:56,559
subject of fukushima let's get a little

752
00:23:00,149 --> 00:22:58,400
crazy here you know and researchers in

753
00:23:02,149 --> 00:23:00,159
this alternative space

754
00:23:03,750 --> 00:23:02,159
they can make a conspiracy out of pretty

755
00:23:05,590 --> 00:23:03,760
much anything and uh

756
00:23:07,350 --> 00:23:05,600
i thought i'd ask you if you've seen any

757
00:23:10,870 --> 00:23:07,360
evidence at all to suggest

758
00:23:13,590 --> 00:23:10,880
that the tsunami

759
00:23:15,350 --> 00:23:13,600
or the uh earthquake that caused it you

760
00:23:16,950 --> 00:23:15,360
have have you seen any evidence to

761
00:23:19,669 --> 00:23:16,960
support the idea that that was some type

762
00:23:22,789 --> 00:23:19,679
of manufactured weather attack

763
00:23:25,029 --> 00:23:22,799
there was a uh an article that came

764
00:23:26,870 --> 00:23:25,039
out a couple of years ago in a

765
00:23:28,549 --> 00:23:26,880
scientific journal and i can't off the

766
00:23:29,190 --> 00:23:28,559
top of my head remember which journal it

767
00:23:30,870 --> 00:23:29,200
was or the

768
00:23:32,630 --> 00:23:30,880
the title of the article i did have it

769
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:32,640
linked up in a uh

770
00:23:35,990 --> 00:23:34,840
in a podcast episode that i did on

771
00:23:37,669 --> 00:23:36,000
fukushima

772
00:23:39,669 --> 00:23:37,679
um which off the top of my head i

773
00:23:40,789 --> 00:23:39,679
believe it was called what what caused

774
00:23:42,390 --> 00:23:40,799
the 311

775
00:23:44,070 --> 00:23:42,400
earthquake or something along those

776
00:23:45,350 --> 00:23:44,080
lines so people can find that in my

777
00:23:47,830 --> 00:23:45,360
podcast archives

778
00:23:49,990 --> 00:23:47,840
but that article actually talked about a

779
00:23:53,190 --> 00:23:50,000
um ionospheric disturbance that

780
00:23:54,390 --> 00:23:53,200
occurred in the area of that tohoku that

781
00:23:56,870 --> 00:23:54,400
area of japan

782
00:23:58,470 --> 00:23:56,880
shortly before the earthquake began

783
00:23:59,269 --> 00:23:58,480
which is interesting because there's

784
00:24:02,470 --> 00:23:59,279
more and more

785
00:24:03,750 --> 00:24:02,480
evidence now that uh that in that's

786
00:24:05,269 --> 00:24:03,760
popping up in the peer-reviewed

787
00:24:06,630 --> 00:24:05,279
scientific literature so this is not

788
00:24:08,710 --> 00:24:06,640
conspiracy theorizing

789
00:24:10,470 --> 00:24:08,720
that um that there are ionospheric

790
00:24:12,870 --> 00:24:10,480
disturbances that are happening before

791
00:24:14,549 --> 00:24:12,880
earthquakes um in various locales

792
00:24:15,350 --> 00:24:14,559
including of course in this particular

793
00:24:17,990 --> 00:24:15,360
instance

794
00:24:18,549 --> 00:24:18,000
now that is at at the very least it's

795
00:24:20,630 --> 00:24:18,559
certainly

796
00:24:21,990 --> 00:24:20,640
um uh consistent with the idea that

797
00:24:22,870 --> 00:24:22,000
there was some sort of ionospheric

798
00:24:24,870 --> 00:24:22,880
heating or

799
00:24:25,909 --> 00:24:24,880
some sort of harp-like device may have

800
00:24:28,310 --> 00:24:25,919
been used

801
00:24:29,669 --> 00:24:28,320
on on that area beforehand specifically

802
00:24:31,269 --> 00:24:29,679
to cause an earthquake which is what

803
00:24:33,510 --> 00:24:31,279
people have been talking about

804
00:24:35,190 --> 00:24:33,520
for for decades now with regards to harp

805
00:24:35,430 --> 00:24:35,200
and harp-like technologies that these

806
00:24:37,510 --> 00:24:35,440
are

807
00:24:39,510 --> 00:24:37,520
capable of causing earthquakes this is

808
00:24:41,590 --> 00:24:39,520
at least consistent with that i mean

809
00:24:43,269 --> 00:24:41,600
it's not conclusive i think but but um

810
00:24:45,029 --> 00:24:43,279
certainly worth looking into so

811
00:24:46,710 --> 00:24:45,039
yes i think there is some evidence that

812
00:24:48,789 --> 00:24:46,720
we could go along that route

813
00:24:49,990 --> 00:24:48,799
um unfortunately there are a lot of

814
00:24:51,430 --> 00:24:50,000
people out there who

815
00:24:53,590 --> 00:24:51,440
speculate on these types of things i

816
00:24:55,350 --> 00:24:53,600
think without knowing or understanding

817
00:24:56,950 --> 00:24:55,360
the science and i i don't pretend to be

818
00:24:58,950 --> 00:24:56,960
an expert on this science

819
00:25:00,070 --> 00:24:58,960
um i'm i'm just uh you know a former

820
00:25:01,430 --> 00:25:00,080
english teacher in japan

821
00:25:03,190 --> 00:25:01,440
so you know what do i know about the

822
00:25:04,870 --> 00:25:03,200
science of this but but i think there's

823
00:25:06,630 --> 00:25:04,880
a lot of people out there who go off

824
00:25:09,029 --> 00:25:06,640
have cocked with this type of thing and

825
00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:09,039
speculate um beyond the bounds of what i

826
00:25:13,110 --> 00:25:11,520
i think is warranted so so i think there

827
00:25:14,710 --> 00:25:13,120
is definitely something to pursue there

828
00:25:17,190 --> 00:25:14,720
but uh i i haven't seen anything

829
00:25:19,430 --> 00:25:17,200
definitive that shows so yes i mean this

830
00:25:21,750 --> 00:25:19,440
this was harp um i i don't think i've

831
00:25:23,830 --> 00:25:21,760
seen anything quite that definitive yet

832
00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:23,840
man i thought i expected you to uh shut

833
00:25:28,310 --> 00:25:25,200
that idea down now you got

834
00:25:29,110 --> 00:25:28,320
me you're keeping me guessing here i do

835
00:25:31,430 --> 00:25:29,120
that sometimes

836
00:25:32,870 --> 00:25:31,440
i keep you on your toes well another

837
00:25:35,029 --> 00:25:32,880
thing i hope we could do is

838
00:25:37,269 --> 00:25:35,039
kind of talk broadly about a couple

839
00:25:38,789 --> 00:25:37,279
different aspects of global politics and

840
00:25:39,510 --> 00:25:38,799
economics and kind of see what you

841
00:25:41,590 --> 00:25:39,520
thought

842
00:25:43,669 --> 00:25:41,600
it seems like the climate is pretty

843
00:25:45,430 --> 00:25:43,679
tense right now especially for people in

844
00:25:47,190 --> 00:25:45,440
europe and america we're used to living

845
00:25:48,310 --> 00:25:47,200
in the backyard of the all-powerful

846
00:25:50,230 --> 00:25:48,320
global elite

847
00:25:52,269 --> 00:25:50,240
you know we may not like the drone

848
00:25:54,710 --> 00:25:52,279
strikes and the slavery through dead and

849
00:25:56,230 --> 00:25:54,720
exploitation of poor nations but as long

850
00:25:57,669 --> 00:25:56,240
as we got cable and air conditioning

851
00:25:58,630 --> 00:25:57,679
we're not going to raise too much of a

852
00:26:00,549 --> 00:25:58,640
fuss

853
00:26:01,909 --> 00:26:00,559
that's just a sad reality but it seems

854
00:26:04,390 --> 00:26:01,919
now that uh

855
00:26:05,029 --> 00:26:04,400
our shadowy secret societies and closed

856
00:26:06,950 --> 00:26:05,039
door

857
00:26:08,950 --> 00:26:06,960
think tanks are losing a bit of their

858
00:26:10,310 --> 00:26:08,960
power the balance seems to be shifting a

859
00:26:12,470 --> 00:26:10,320
bit i don't know if it's just

860
00:26:14,149 --> 00:26:12,480
stage play to usher in a new world order

861
00:26:15,510 --> 00:26:14,159
or if the global elite really are losing

862
00:26:15,830 --> 00:26:15,520
their grip but what do you think about

863
00:26:19,190 --> 00:26:15,840
this

864
00:26:20,789 --> 00:26:19,200
james that's a good question i think it

865
00:26:23,510 --> 00:26:20,799
might be a little bit of both actually

866
00:26:23,909 --> 00:26:23,520
um i i definitely do see that there is

867
00:26:29,510 --> 00:26:23,919
an

868
00:26:31,269 --> 00:26:29,520
i'm biased in my opinion because i'm

869
00:26:33,350 --> 00:26:31,279
in the alternative media i'm working on

870
00:26:34,310 --> 00:26:33,360
this day after day i correspond every

871
00:26:36,149 --> 00:26:34,320
day with people who

872
00:26:38,070 --> 00:26:36,159
are of like mind so obviously i'm going

873
00:26:39,669 --> 00:26:38,080
to sort of be tainted in that in my

874
00:26:40,789 --> 00:26:39,679
perception of what the general feeling

875
00:26:42,789 --> 00:26:40,799
of the public is

876
00:26:45,029 --> 00:26:42,799
but having said that i think there are

877
00:26:46,789 --> 00:26:45,039
absolute identifiable signs that the

878
00:26:49,110 --> 00:26:46,799
the conversation is changing

879
00:26:50,870 --> 00:26:49,120
dramatically and i've seen this

880
00:26:52,390 --> 00:26:50,880
just in the in the six or seven years

881
00:26:54,789 --> 00:26:52,400
that i've been running my website

882
00:26:56,549 --> 00:26:54,799
back when i started um saying that 911

883
00:26:57,909 --> 00:26:56,559
was an inside job was just about one of

884
00:26:59,029 --> 00:26:57,919
the most transgressive things you could

885
00:27:01,510 --> 00:26:59,039
think of to say

886
00:27:02,070 --> 00:27:01,520
still really offend people um this day

887
00:27:04,390 --> 00:27:02,080
and age

888
00:27:06,230 --> 00:27:04,400
it's not only become sort of more more

889
00:27:08,470 --> 00:27:06,240
commonly accepted but but

890
00:27:10,149 --> 00:27:08,480
we're starting to see um even in quote

891
00:27:11,669 --> 00:27:10,159
unquote mainstream headlines we're

892
00:27:13,830 --> 00:27:11,679
starting to see more and more

893
00:27:15,269 --> 00:27:13,840
of this type of rhetoric starting to

894
00:27:17,350 --> 00:27:15,279
peek through and i noticed that

895
00:27:19,750 --> 00:27:17,360
especially after the boston

896
00:27:20,630 --> 00:27:19,760
marathon bombing um i noticed even on

897
00:27:22,630 --> 00:27:20,640
yahoo news

898
00:27:24,070 --> 00:27:22,640
on on the atlantic and uh other

899
00:27:25,909 --> 00:27:24,080
mainstream websites

900
00:27:27,669 --> 00:27:25,919
they had headlines like uh what is a

901
00:27:29,590 --> 00:27:27,679
false flag and was boston

902
00:27:31,110 --> 00:27:29,600
the boston marathon bombing one of them

903
00:27:32,230 --> 00:27:31,120
and obviously those types of articles

904
00:27:34,389 --> 00:27:32,240
poopoo the idea

905
00:27:35,909 --> 00:27:34,399
but that they're even raising the idea

906
00:27:38,070 --> 00:27:35,919
is pretty amazing i think

907
00:27:39,909 --> 00:27:38,080
and shows that we really have busted

908
00:27:40,710 --> 00:27:39,919
through a lot of the the rhetoric and

909
00:27:42,310 --> 00:27:40,720
and really

910
00:27:43,830 --> 00:27:42,320
i think edu started to educate the

911
00:27:44,950 --> 00:27:43,840
public at any rate that these types of

912
00:27:47,190 --> 00:27:44,960
things exist

913
00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:47,200
which is a good first step um obviously

914
00:27:50,470 --> 00:27:48,720
we have a long way to go but but it is a

915
00:27:52,950 --> 00:27:50,480
good first step and we are changing

916
00:27:53,830 --> 00:27:52,960
the nature of the conversation whether

917
00:27:58,389 --> 00:27:53,840
this is

918
00:28:00,870 --> 00:27:58,399
fact not even something that has been

919
00:28:01,590 --> 00:28:00,880
if not planned on at least uh foreseen

920
00:28:03,590 --> 00:28:01,600
by by

921
00:28:05,510 --> 00:28:03,600
the powers that shouldn't be is another

922
00:28:07,430 --> 00:28:05,520
debate entirely and we've seen for

923
00:28:08,950 --> 00:28:07,440
example in recent years um

924
00:28:10,710 --> 00:28:08,960
people like zbigniew brzezinski who

925
00:28:12,310 --> 00:28:10,720
people might know was uh jimmy carter's

926
00:28:13,269 --> 00:28:12,320
national security advisor and has

927
00:28:15,269 --> 00:28:13,279
basically been

928
00:28:16,310 --> 00:28:15,279
infesting the halls of power for for

929
00:28:17,990 --> 00:28:16,320
decades now

930
00:28:19,430 --> 00:28:18,000
um he's been going around for the last

931
00:28:20,950 --> 00:28:19,440
few years talking about the global

932
00:28:23,430 --> 00:28:20,960
political awakening and

933
00:28:25,269 --> 00:28:23,440
how um we've never before seen a

934
00:28:28,470 --> 00:28:25,279
globally politically aware

935
00:28:29,990 --> 00:28:28,480
and and interactive um connected uh

936
00:28:31,590 --> 00:28:30,000
global situation like what we have

937
00:28:33,350 --> 00:28:31,600
right now and people around the world

938
00:28:35,269 --> 00:28:33,360
rising up against oppression

939
00:28:36,549 --> 00:28:35,279
and it's interesting to see him talking

940
00:28:38,389 --> 00:28:36,559
about this and and

941
00:28:40,470 --> 00:28:38,399
everything but of course it means that

942
00:28:41,669 --> 00:28:40,480
obviously these people are not unaware

943
00:28:44,070 --> 00:28:41,679
of what's happening

944
00:28:45,029 --> 00:28:44,080
and i can't say that i i can't imagine

945
00:28:46,870 --> 00:28:45,039
that they haven't

946
00:28:48,549 --> 00:28:46,880
foreseen some of this and and perhaps

947
00:28:50,230 --> 00:28:48,559
even planned on it and you could even

948
00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:50,240
look at someone like big new brzezinski

949
00:28:53,669 --> 00:28:51,840
and some of his works like uh talking

950
00:28:54,870 --> 00:28:53,679
about the technotronic era which he was

951
00:28:57,190 --> 00:28:54,880
writing about 30

952
00:28:58,710 --> 00:28:57,200
30 plus years ago and basically

953
00:29:01,110 --> 00:28:58,720
foreseeing this whole era of the

954
00:29:03,029 --> 00:29:01,120
internet and and how that's changing

955
00:29:04,630 --> 00:29:03,039
basically the world and all of this um

956
00:29:06,789 --> 00:29:04,640
basically before even the internet

957
00:29:08,710 --> 00:29:06,799
existed or at least as we know it today

958
00:29:10,230 --> 00:29:08,720
so uh so definitely some interesting

959
00:29:12,789 --> 00:29:10,240
things are happening but

960
00:29:14,230 --> 00:29:12,799
i i i i wouldn't exactly say that it's

961
00:29:15,750 --> 00:29:14,240
going to be a straightforward narrative

962
00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:15,760
of people wake up and

963
00:29:18,870 --> 00:29:17,200
you know the power structure ends and

964
00:29:20,950 --> 00:29:18,880
everyone lives happily ever after

965
00:29:22,710 --> 00:29:20,960
there's obviously still um a huge

966
00:29:23,590 --> 00:29:22,720
struggle that's that's that's shaping up

967
00:29:25,350 --> 00:29:23,600
and in some ways

968
00:29:26,870 --> 00:29:25,360
i don't think we even have seen the

969
00:29:27,590 --> 00:29:26,880
beginnings of that struggle really

970
00:29:29,510 --> 00:29:27,600
happening yet

971
00:29:31,190 --> 00:29:29,520
um and it's going to be it's going to be

972
00:29:33,830 --> 00:29:31,200
an interesting uh decade or two

973
00:29:34,710 --> 00:29:33,840
as as we i think the 21st century starts

974
00:29:36,389 --> 00:29:34,720
to take shape and

975
00:29:38,549 --> 00:29:36,399
um we really start to understand what

976
00:29:40,710 --> 00:29:38,559
the the the narrative arc of that

977
00:29:42,950 --> 00:29:40,720
century is going to be but unfortunately

978
00:29:45,110 --> 00:29:42,960
i see it tending towards

979
00:29:46,470 --> 00:29:45,120
basically more of the same and i think

980
00:29:48,389 --> 00:29:46,480
that they're trying to build up right

981
00:29:50,549 --> 00:29:48,399
now for example china to basically be

982
00:29:52,230 --> 00:29:50,559
the soviet union of the past

983
00:29:54,230 --> 00:29:52,240
century and the kind of cold war

984
00:29:56,149 --> 00:29:54,240
mentality that that pervaded so much of

985
00:29:58,070 --> 00:29:56,159
the 20th century is shaping up once

986
00:29:59,269 --> 00:29:58,080
again with uh with china being the big

987
00:30:00,870 --> 00:29:59,279
boogie man here

988
00:30:02,789 --> 00:30:00,880
and just like the soviet union was

989
00:30:03,990 --> 00:30:02,799
largely built up and fostered and funded

990
00:30:06,789 --> 00:30:04,000
and protected by the

991
00:30:08,310 --> 00:30:06,799
the the western monopolist capitalists

992
00:30:10,470 --> 00:30:08,320
of the 20th century

993
00:30:12,149 --> 00:30:10,480
uh so too china has been specifically

994
00:30:12,710 --> 00:30:12,159
built up for that purpose for the 21st

995
00:30:14,470 --> 00:30:12,720
century

996
00:30:15,990 --> 00:30:14,480
and by many of the same people i mean it

997
00:30:18,389 --> 00:30:16,000
was rockefeller

998
00:30:20,549 --> 00:30:18,399
famously that preceded uh kissinger that

999
00:30:22,950 --> 00:30:20,559
preceded nixon to to open up china and

1000
00:30:25,590 --> 00:30:22,960
normalize relations back in the 1970s

1001
00:30:26,389 --> 00:30:25,600
and i i think we've seen since that time

1002
00:30:28,310 --> 00:30:26,399
just this

1003
00:30:30,230 --> 00:30:28,320
this very concerted effort to build

1004
00:30:32,149 --> 00:30:30,240
china into what it is today so i'm not

1005
00:30:33,510 --> 00:30:32,159
really buying this type of

1006
00:30:36,070 --> 00:30:33,520
um cold war rhetoric that they're

1007
00:30:38,470 --> 00:30:36,080
starting to to put out there but it

1008
00:30:39,750 --> 00:30:38,480
uh regardless of whether how much this

1009
00:30:41,430 --> 00:30:39,760
is just stagecraft

1010
00:30:43,110 --> 00:30:41,440
at any rate they are starting the

1011
00:30:44,310 --> 00:30:43,120
military build up and there are starting

1012
00:30:46,549 --> 00:30:44,320
to be these tensions

1013
00:30:47,350 --> 00:30:46,559
so uh uh unfortunately this looks like

1014
00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:47,360
it's gonna be

1015
00:30:50,710 --> 00:30:49,440
defining a lot of the 21st century for

1016
00:30:52,070 --> 00:30:50,720
us

1017
00:30:54,149 --> 00:30:52,080
yeah man that's actually a pretty great

1018
00:30:55,669 --> 00:30:54,159
analysis some things i hadn't thought

1019
00:30:58,389 --> 00:30:55,679
about you know we definitely

1020
00:31:00,389 --> 00:30:58,399
are facing some uncertain times and it

1021
00:31:02,710 --> 00:31:00,399
seems like every week i read something

1022
00:31:03,430 --> 00:31:02,720
about how close we are to world war

1023
00:31:04,870 --> 00:31:03,440
three

1024
00:31:06,710 --> 00:31:04,880
i mean do you think it that's all just

1025
00:31:07,430 --> 00:31:06,720
sensationalized hype or i mean do you

1026
00:31:09,750 --> 00:31:07,440
see a few

1027
00:31:11,269 --> 00:31:09,760
powder kegs around the planet that are

1028
00:31:12,870 --> 00:31:11,279
primed to go off i mean you talked about

1029
00:31:14,310 --> 00:31:12,880
china a bit um and how

1030
00:31:15,750 --> 00:31:14,320
we're being positioned against them but

1031
00:31:17,029 --> 00:31:15,760
what about what's going on in the middle

1032
00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:17,039
east right now

1033
00:31:20,950 --> 00:31:19,120
right well there are definitely powder

1034
00:31:22,630 --> 00:31:20,960
kegs and uh whether or not they're going

1035
00:31:23,509 --> 00:31:22,640
to go off is a different story but but

1036
00:31:25,590 --> 00:31:23,519
that they're there

1037
00:31:27,350 --> 00:31:25,600
and that they could go off is something

1038
00:31:29,430 --> 00:31:27,360
that should be at least concerning for

1039
00:31:31,029 --> 00:31:29,440
us we should be aware of them so

1040
00:31:32,630 --> 00:31:31,039
of course what's happening in the asia

1041
00:31:33,669 --> 00:31:32,640
pacific is something that i've got my

1042
00:31:35,590 --> 00:31:33,679
eyes on here

1043
00:31:36,950 --> 00:31:35,600
in japan but as you mentioned of course

1044
00:31:39,350 --> 00:31:36,960
the middle east always

1045
00:31:41,509 --> 00:31:39,360
a very volatile area and we've seen some

1046
00:31:43,190 --> 00:31:41,519
very interesting moves happening on that

1047
00:31:44,710 --> 00:31:43,200
particular piece of the geopolitical

1048
00:31:47,350 --> 00:31:44,720
chess board recently

1049
00:31:48,710 --> 00:31:47,360
in fact we saw um obviously not only

1050
00:31:51,029 --> 00:31:48,720
with this iranian deal

1051
00:31:52,470 --> 00:31:51,039
which supposedly is kind of diffusing

1052
00:31:55,029 --> 00:31:52,480
some of the tensions there and

1053
00:31:56,870 --> 00:31:55,039
and all of this but i uh i'm very much

1054
00:31:58,870 --> 00:31:56,880
on board with um sibel edmonds and

1055
00:32:01,509 --> 00:31:58,880
others who have been talking about how

1056
00:32:02,789 --> 00:32:01,519
this this deal is really perhaps just a

1057
00:32:04,950 --> 00:32:02,799
trapdoor that um

1058
00:32:06,230 --> 00:32:04,960
it's just a way of setting up a series

1059
00:32:07,909 --> 00:32:06,240
of expectations

1060
00:32:09,750 --> 00:32:07,919
that later on they'll be able to say

1061
00:32:11,669 --> 00:32:09,760
look iran didn't live up to this

1062
00:32:13,110 --> 00:32:11,679
expectation therefore we've tried our

1063
00:32:14,710 --> 00:32:13,120
best and now it's time to bomb the hell

1064
00:32:16,230 --> 00:32:14,720
out of them um that's always a

1065
00:32:17,509 --> 00:32:16,240
possibility and that's something that

1066
00:32:19,990 --> 00:32:17,519
i'm keeping my eye on

1067
00:32:21,750 --> 00:32:20,000
obviously israel not exactly happy that

1068
00:32:23,990 --> 00:32:21,760
uh that this is happening so

1069
00:32:25,590 --> 00:32:24,000
um they'll try to undermine it in any

1070
00:32:27,430 --> 00:32:25,600
way they can i have no doubt

1071
00:32:29,029 --> 00:32:27,440
so definitely some things to keep our

1072
00:32:31,190 --> 00:32:29,039
eye on with that and

1073
00:32:32,389 --> 00:32:31,200
on that particular note we've had

1074
00:32:35,590 --> 00:32:32,399
recently um

1075
00:32:37,990 --> 00:32:35,600
indications that saudi arabia has

1076
00:32:39,110 --> 00:32:38,000
basically bought nuclear weapons from

1077
00:32:43,269 --> 00:32:39,120
pakistan

1078
00:32:44,149 --> 00:32:43,279
ready for delivery whenever saudi arabia

1079
00:32:45,990 --> 00:32:44,159
sees fit

1080
00:32:48,310 --> 00:32:46,000
which is an extremely interesting

1081
00:32:50,630 --> 00:32:48,320
extremely worrying development because

1082
00:32:52,389 --> 00:32:50,640
um saudis are are using this as a way of

1083
00:32:53,669 --> 00:32:52,399
saying well if iran gets the bomb we'll

1084
00:32:55,750 --> 00:32:53,679
have it before them

1085
00:32:57,350 --> 00:32:55,760
um but obviously that's a huge

1086
00:32:58,230 --> 00:32:57,360
escalation in the situation in the

1087
00:33:00,870 --> 00:32:58,240
region

1088
00:33:02,789 --> 00:33:00,880
and interesting also on top of the fact

1089
00:33:04,230 --> 00:33:02,799
that saudi arabia seems to be moving out

1090
00:33:04,950 --> 00:33:04,240
from under the american military

1091
00:33:07,110 --> 00:33:04,960
umbrella

1092
00:33:08,230 --> 00:33:07,120
where it has been staunch staunchly and

1093
00:33:11,190 --> 00:33:08,240
sconced for the last

1094
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:11,200
four decades basically since um since

1095
00:33:13,750 --> 00:33:12,000
kissinger

1096
00:33:15,750 --> 00:33:13,760
set up the the petrodollar system

1097
00:33:17,990 --> 00:33:15,760
whereby the saudis would get american

1098
00:33:19,909 --> 00:33:18,000
military protection in return for

1099
00:33:21,669 --> 00:33:19,919
um funding their oil money uh sending

1100
00:33:23,029 --> 00:33:21,679
their oil funds back back through the

1101
00:33:25,269 --> 00:33:23,039
united states and

1102
00:33:26,630 --> 00:33:25,279
and into us treasuries so basically

1103
00:33:27,669 --> 00:33:26,640
we've had this system for the last four

1104
00:33:29,830 --> 00:33:27,679
decades where the entire

1105
00:33:31,750 --> 00:33:29,840
world system has as has functioned on

1106
00:33:32,870 --> 00:33:31,760
the premise that um oil would be priced

1107
00:33:34,310 --> 00:33:32,880
in u.s dollars

1108
00:33:36,389 --> 00:33:34,320
and those us dollars would make their

1109
00:33:37,990 --> 00:33:36,399
way back into u.s banks eventually

1110
00:33:39,909 --> 00:33:38,000
um that's that's been the system by

1111
00:33:41,830 --> 00:33:39,919
which um the the american dollar has

1112
00:33:43,190 --> 00:33:41,840
preserved its status as world reserve

1113
00:33:44,389 --> 00:33:43,200
currency despite the fact that there's

1114
00:33:46,549 --> 00:33:44,399
nothing behind it

1115
00:33:47,669 --> 00:33:46,559
that looks like it's breaking down and

1116
00:33:50,149 --> 00:33:47,679
now we've

1117
00:33:51,350 --> 00:33:50,159
seen for example saudi uh arabia turning

1118
00:33:53,669 --> 00:33:51,360
down a seat on the

1119
00:33:55,269 --> 00:33:53,679
u.n security council um a seat that

1120
00:33:56,789 --> 00:33:55,279
they'd been lobbying and petitioning for

1121
00:33:58,549 --> 00:33:56,799
quite vigorously and then they went and

1122
00:34:00,950 --> 00:33:58,559
turned it down once they got it

1123
00:34:01,669 --> 00:34:00,960
um saying that it was in protest of

1124
00:34:03,830 --> 00:34:01,679
america and

1125
00:34:04,870 --> 00:34:03,840
and the the types of america things that

1126
00:34:06,470 --> 00:34:04,880
america has been doing

1127
00:34:08,069 --> 00:34:06,480
for example not going in and bombing the

1128
00:34:09,030 --> 00:34:08,079
hell out of syria which is what saudi

1129
00:34:10,790 --> 00:34:09,040
arabia wanted

1130
00:34:12,149 --> 00:34:10,800
so so some interesting developments

1131
00:34:13,669 --> 00:34:12,159
there that shows that there's some

1132
00:34:14,710 --> 00:34:13,679
pretty drastic changes that are

1133
00:34:16,389 --> 00:34:14,720
happening right now

1134
00:34:18,470 --> 00:34:16,399
and again that plays into the whole

1135
00:34:20,310 --> 00:34:18,480
larger picture because um

1136
00:34:22,230 --> 00:34:20,320
we've just seen china become the world's

1137
00:34:24,470 --> 00:34:22,240
largest oil importer

1138
00:34:26,149 --> 00:34:24,480
not only on the fact that obviously

1139
00:34:27,750 --> 00:34:26,159
chinese demand for oil is growing but

1140
00:34:30,230 --> 00:34:27,760
also american demand for

1141
00:34:30,869 --> 00:34:30,240
import oil imports is diminishing

1142
00:34:33,190 --> 00:34:30,879
because

1143
00:34:33,990 --> 00:34:33,200
more of that demand is being fed by by

1144
00:34:35,750 --> 00:34:34,000
local supply

1145
00:34:37,669 --> 00:34:35,760
from that's being made available through

1146
00:34:38,950 --> 00:34:37,679
the uh the new fracking and other

1147
00:34:40,069 --> 00:34:38,960
technologies that are that are

1148
00:34:43,190 --> 00:34:40,079
increasing the oil

1149
00:34:45,190 --> 00:34:43,200
um basically domestic oil output so some

1150
00:34:46,869 --> 00:34:45,200
interesting things happening there and

1151
00:34:49,349 --> 00:34:46,879
what this means is that um the

1152
00:34:51,829 --> 00:34:49,359
projections are by 2018 something like

1153
00:34:52,869 --> 00:34:51,839
some ridiculous number 70 of world oil

1154
00:34:55,430 --> 00:34:52,879
imports are going to be

1155
00:34:55,909 --> 00:34:55,440
going to china so wow so pretty um

1156
00:34:57,670 --> 00:34:55,919
pretty

1157
00:34:59,349 --> 00:34:57,680
drastic changes that are happening and

1158
00:35:01,109 --> 00:34:59,359
that's going to really change i think

1159
00:35:02,069 --> 00:35:01,119
the situation in the middle east and i

1160
00:35:03,990 --> 00:35:02,079
think saudi arabia

1161
00:35:05,589 --> 00:35:04,000
might be sort of looking at which way

1162
00:35:06,950 --> 00:35:05,599
the wind's blowing and starting to move

1163
00:35:08,550 --> 00:35:06,960
out from under the american

1164
00:35:09,829 --> 00:35:08,560
umbrella and perhaps who knows maybe

1165
00:35:11,030 --> 00:35:09,839
they're going to be more on board with

1166
00:35:12,870 --> 00:35:11,040
the chinese and

1167
00:35:15,109 --> 00:35:12,880
again that just plays into the larger

1168
00:35:17,270 --> 00:35:15,119
picture of what we're talking about

1169
00:35:19,030 --> 00:35:17,280
yeah man you mentioned the u.s dollar as

1170
00:35:20,470 --> 00:35:19,040
the world's reserve currency i hear so

1171
00:35:23,270 --> 00:35:20,480
much talk about

1172
00:35:25,109 --> 00:35:23,280
uh the world switching off of that i

1173
00:35:27,910 --> 00:35:25,119
mean how would that really affect people

1174
00:35:30,870 --> 00:35:27,920
who live on the us dollar

1175
00:35:32,710 --> 00:35:30,880
well this is the thing from the u.s

1176
00:35:34,150 --> 00:35:32,720
perspective for an american

1177
00:35:35,670 --> 00:35:34,160
the fact that it's the world reserve

1178
00:35:37,430 --> 00:35:35,680
currency is not something that you see

1179
00:35:38,710 --> 00:35:37,440
in your day-to-day life but it affects

1180
00:35:41,510 --> 00:35:38,720
everything because

1181
00:35:42,069 --> 00:35:41,520
um not only obviously does it make um

1182
00:35:44,390 --> 00:35:42,079
the

1183
00:35:46,390 --> 00:35:44,400
imports cheap so you get cheap you know

1184
00:35:48,950 --> 00:35:46,400
chinese imports or or whatever the

1185
00:35:50,230 --> 00:35:48,960
slave labor market of the next slave

1186
00:35:53,510 --> 00:35:50,240
labor market might be

1187
00:35:55,589 --> 00:35:53,520
um but also it it affects um the the

1188
00:35:57,670 --> 00:35:55,599
american government's ability to

1189
00:35:59,829 --> 00:35:57,680
to completely fund whatever it's doing

1190
00:36:01,750 --> 00:35:59,839
and to to print off as much money as it

1191
00:36:02,310 --> 00:36:01,760
ever wants because people will always be

1192
00:36:04,710 --> 00:36:02,320
there

1193
00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:04,720
to buy american debt and that's that's

1194
00:36:07,109 --> 00:36:06,800
been the system that that has uh propped

1195
00:36:09,910 --> 00:36:07,119
up

1196
00:36:11,510 --> 00:36:09,920
and made possible this unbelievable

1197
00:36:14,230 --> 00:36:11,520
behemoth gigantic

1198
00:36:14,630 --> 00:36:14,240
un juggernaut of american military might

1199
00:36:16,790 --> 00:36:14,640
which

1200
00:36:17,910 --> 00:36:16,800
um so still continues to just

1201
00:36:20,390 --> 00:36:17,920
unbelievably dwarf

1202
00:36:21,750 --> 00:36:20,400
any other military on the planet um it's

1203
00:36:23,589 --> 00:36:21,760
not even close i mean every other

1204
00:36:25,990 --> 00:36:23,599
military combined still doesn't equal

1205
00:36:28,230 --> 00:36:26,000
the budget of the us military so

1206
00:36:29,109 --> 00:36:28,240
so we we have a situation where where

1207
00:36:31,349 --> 00:36:29,119
there's just this

1208
00:36:32,390 --> 00:36:31,359
unbelievable superpower that dominates

1209
00:36:33,910 --> 00:36:32,400
over the rest of the world

1210
00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:33,920
that has been specifically funded

1211
00:36:37,750 --> 00:36:35,760
because the american government

1212
00:36:39,349 --> 00:36:37,760
can print off as much money as it wants

1213
00:36:40,630 --> 00:36:39,359
and people will continue to buy their

1214
00:36:42,870 --> 00:36:40,640
debt and they can fund

1215
00:36:44,630 --> 00:36:42,880
whatever they want to do that it that

1216
00:36:46,310 --> 00:36:44,640
would come to an end if and when

1217
00:36:47,990 --> 00:36:46,320
the uh the dollar loses its world

1218
00:36:50,230 --> 00:36:48,000
reserve currency status

1219
00:36:51,750 --> 00:36:50,240
and the federal reserve can pick up the

1220
00:36:54,150 --> 00:36:51,760
slack by printing money out of

1221
00:36:54,870 --> 00:36:54,160
thin air and buying us debt but at some

1222
00:36:57,430 --> 00:36:54,880
at some point

1223
00:36:58,470 --> 00:36:57,440
that becomes just a a ridiculous game of

1224
00:37:00,790 --> 00:36:58,480
musical chairs

1225
00:37:02,630 --> 00:37:00,800
and uh and that that's an unsustainable

1226
00:37:04,470 --> 00:37:02,640
system that would fall apart

1227
00:37:06,230 --> 00:37:04,480
at some point i mean someone just has to

1228
00:37:07,990 --> 00:37:06,240
draw back the curtain and see that

1229
00:37:09,910 --> 00:37:08,000
there's uh there's no wizard of

1230
00:37:11,430 --> 00:37:09,920
oz there that it's just a little a

1231
00:37:12,950 --> 00:37:11,440
little man um

1232
00:37:14,630 --> 00:37:12,960
that that's what we'd be looking at in

1233
00:37:16,470 --> 00:37:14,640
that scenario and

1234
00:37:17,990 --> 00:37:16,480
um it is something that a lot of people

1235
00:37:19,670 --> 00:37:18,000
have been talking about and a global

1236
00:37:22,310 --> 00:37:19,680
currency reset kind of thing

1237
00:37:23,670 --> 00:37:22,320
um happening i i don't see that

1238
00:37:25,430 --> 00:37:23,680
happening in the near

1239
00:37:26,630 --> 00:37:25,440
immediate future i don't think this is

1240
00:37:28,150 --> 00:37:26,640
something we're going to be seeing you

1241
00:37:30,230 --> 00:37:28,160
know next year or something but

1242
00:37:31,829 --> 00:37:30,240
certainly in over the course of the next

1243
00:37:32,790 --> 00:37:31,839
decade we're going to start seeing that

1244
00:37:33,910 --> 00:37:32,800
transition

1245
00:37:36,069 --> 00:37:33,920
and it's a question of what will be

1246
00:37:36,870 --> 00:37:36,079
there to replace the the dollar as the

1247
00:37:38,790 --> 00:37:36,880
world reserve

1248
00:37:40,630 --> 00:37:38,800
at this particular moment there really

1249
00:37:42,550 --> 00:37:40,640
is nothing there that could

1250
00:37:44,069 --> 00:37:42,560
take over from the world the dollar is

1251
00:37:44,790 --> 00:37:44,079
the world reserve currency which is why

1252
00:37:45,750 --> 00:37:44,800
i think

1253
00:37:47,670 --> 00:37:45,760
it's not going to happen in the

1254
00:37:49,510 --> 00:37:47,680
immediate short term but we're starting

1255
00:37:52,470 --> 00:37:49,520
to see the moves toward

1256
00:37:53,030 --> 00:37:52,480
either creating some sort of um global

1257
00:37:55,829 --> 00:37:53,040
um

1258
00:37:56,310 --> 00:37:55,839
standard based on a basket of currencies

1259
00:37:58,310 --> 00:37:56,320
or

1260
00:38:00,550 --> 00:37:58,320
perhaps um perhaps something new will

1261
00:38:02,630 --> 00:38:00,560
come along and and who knows maybe a

1262
00:38:03,270 --> 00:38:02,640
bitcoin or a bitcoin type idea will take

1263
00:38:05,109 --> 00:38:03,280
over but

1264
00:38:07,109 --> 00:38:05,119
uh again i i don't think that's going to

1265
00:38:08,470 --> 00:38:07,119
happen in the near in the short term

1266
00:38:11,190 --> 00:38:08,480
i was actually going to say i was going

1267
00:38:13,030 --> 00:38:11,200
to uh jokingly say bitcoin as well i

1268
00:38:14,790 --> 00:38:13,040
mean it's kind of funny

1269
00:38:16,710 --> 00:38:14,800
you mentioned uh some type of world

1270
00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:16,720
standard this could be

1271
00:38:20,710 --> 00:38:18,640
an opportunity for the people to

1272
00:38:22,230 --> 00:38:20,720
actually make a decision about what the

1273
00:38:25,430 --> 00:38:22,240
world standard will be

1274
00:38:26,790 --> 00:38:25,440
if people decide to conduct business

1275
00:38:28,950 --> 00:38:26,800
with bitcoin i mean

1276
00:38:30,710 --> 00:38:28,960
you kind of can circumvent those central

1277
00:38:32,069 --> 00:38:30,720
banks and fractional reserve banking

1278
00:38:33,589 --> 00:38:32,079
system it would be really

1279
00:38:36,550 --> 00:38:33,599
interesting but it'd also be a tall

1280
00:38:39,030 --> 00:38:36,560
order yeah well a very tall order but

1281
00:38:40,150 --> 00:38:39,040
that ultimately this is where i see the

1282
00:38:42,310 --> 00:38:40,160
solutions to

1283
00:38:43,750 --> 00:38:42,320
these types of problems lie um they're

1284
00:38:45,349 --> 00:38:43,760
definitely not going to

1285
00:38:47,270 --> 00:38:45,359
uh solutions are not going to come from

1286
00:38:48,310 --> 00:38:47,280
down from on high they never have they

1287
00:38:50,630 --> 00:38:48,320
never will because

1288
00:38:52,150 --> 00:38:50,640
obviously the status quo wants to

1289
00:38:53,670 --> 00:38:52,160
maintain the status quo

1290
00:38:55,349 --> 00:38:53,680
yeah and they'll never do anything to to

1291
00:38:57,510 --> 00:38:55,359
fundamentally go against that but but i

1292
00:38:59,750 --> 00:38:57,520
think you're right i mean it has to be

1293
00:39:01,589 --> 00:38:59,760
some sort of citizen-led movement to to

1294
00:39:03,349 --> 00:39:01,599
get off of the system that we're on

1295
00:39:04,870 --> 00:39:03,359
and that is going to be an exceptionally

1296
00:39:06,310 --> 00:39:04,880
difficult process and it's going to be a

1297
00:39:07,750 --> 00:39:06,320
long one and it's going to be

1298
00:39:10,069 --> 00:39:07,760
um at first it's going to look

1299
00:39:10,390 --> 00:39:10,079
ridiculous and and and puny compared to

1300
00:39:14,230 --> 00:39:10,400
the

1301
00:39:16,390 --> 00:39:14,240
resources that that

1302
00:39:17,349 --> 00:39:16,400
national governments can can wield on

1303
00:39:19,990 --> 00:39:17,359
these issues

1304
00:39:20,630 --> 00:39:20,000
but um but we see little glimmers of

1305
00:39:23,349 --> 00:39:20,640
what could

1306
00:39:24,390 --> 00:39:23,359
possibly be and uh and one of them that

1307
00:39:26,950 --> 00:39:24,400
i point to uh

1308
00:39:28,390 --> 00:39:26,960
several times uh in in my podcast is

1309
00:39:30,230 --> 00:39:28,400
volos in greece

1310
00:39:32,069 --> 00:39:30,240
which is an area where obviously i mean

1311
00:39:33,829 --> 00:39:32,079
greece is just having ridiculous

1312
00:39:36,150 --> 00:39:33,839
economic problems because of

1313
00:39:37,030 --> 00:39:36,160
um their their their position they're in

1314
00:39:38,870 --> 00:39:37,040
the eurozone

1315
00:39:40,710 --> 00:39:38,880
yes um and the lack of euros that are

1316
00:39:42,630 --> 00:39:40,720
circulating around in the economy so in

1317
00:39:43,910 --> 00:39:42,640
volos they actually started their own

1318
00:39:46,310 --> 00:39:43,920
currency system

1319
00:39:46,950 --> 00:39:46,320
that's uh basically a a type of let

1320
00:39:50,150 --> 00:39:46,960
system

1321
00:39:50,950 --> 00:39:50,160
um where people uh donate or they they

1322
00:39:53,270 --> 00:39:50,960
they put in

1323
00:39:54,230 --> 00:39:53,280
hours of work and they get the

1324
00:39:57,510 --> 00:39:54,240
equivalent

1325
00:39:58,470 --> 00:39:57,520
in in this volos currency back and um

1326
00:40:01,190 --> 00:39:58,480
and then they can

1327
00:40:02,069 --> 00:40:01,200
facilitate exchanges with people in the

1328
00:40:04,150 --> 00:40:02,079
market there

1329
00:40:06,069 --> 00:40:04,160
um with this this currency that they've

1330
00:40:09,190 --> 00:40:06,079
essentially created themselves

1331
00:40:10,950 --> 00:40:09,200
and this is the type of idea which if

1332
00:40:13,190 --> 00:40:10,960
i i think we need to be enacting right

1333
00:40:14,630 --> 00:40:13,200
now not only in volos in greece but

1334
00:40:16,470 --> 00:40:14,640
but everywhere around the world we need

1335
00:40:17,750 --> 00:40:16,480
to be building up these types of systems

1336
00:40:20,870 --> 00:40:17,760
local exchanges

1337
00:40:22,870 --> 00:40:20,880
whatever we can as a type of alternative

1338
00:40:25,430 --> 00:40:22,880
that will still be there whenever

1339
00:40:27,670 --> 00:40:25,440
whatever collapse happens happens

1340
00:40:29,510 --> 00:40:27,680
these these uh alternatives will already

1341
00:40:31,510 --> 00:40:29,520
be there will already be functioning

1342
00:40:33,510 --> 00:40:31,520
people will already be used to them and

1343
00:40:33,990 --> 00:40:33,520
will be able to at least survive the

1344
00:40:36,550 --> 00:40:34,000
worst

1345
00:40:37,990 --> 00:40:36,560
of the the collapse um without these

1346
00:40:40,309 --> 00:40:38,000
alternative structures we are

1347
00:40:41,510 --> 00:40:40,319
completely at the whim of the powers

1348
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:41,520
that shouldn't be and whatever they

1349
00:40:44,230 --> 00:40:43,200
decide to do in those emergency

1350
00:40:46,550 --> 00:40:44,240
situations

1351
00:40:48,470 --> 00:40:46,560
and whatever fema roundups might occur

1352
00:40:49,990 --> 00:40:48,480
in the u.s i mean i don't i don't

1353
00:40:51,589 --> 00:40:50,000
tend to dwell on those types of things

1354
00:40:52,230 --> 00:40:51,599
but certainly the infrastructure is

1355
00:40:54,230 --> 00:40:52,240
there

1356
00:40:55,510 --> 00:40:54,240
for oh come to the camps we'll we'll

1357
00:40:57,030 --> 00:40:55,520
take good care of you during this

1358
00:40:58,470 --> 00:40:57,040
economic crisis and

1359
00:41:00,230 --> 00:40:58,480
i mean i think we all know what happens

1360
00:41:02,390 --> 00:41:00,240
from there so um so i think

1361
00:41:04,150 --> 00:41:02,400
we have to start looking at the ways

1362
00:41:05,910 --> 00:41:04,160
that we can build up alternative

1363
00:41:07,589 --> 00:41:05,920
currencies complementary currencies

1364
00:41:09,829 --> 00:41:07,599
these types of things um now

1365
00:41:12,390 --> 00:41:09,839
while we have this opportunity um before

1366
00:41:15,750 --> 00:41:12,400
it becomes too late to do so

1367
00:41:17,430 --> 00:41:15,760
yeah man economic collapse is a real big

1368
00:41:18,790 --> 00:41:17,440
concern to me right now it's like i can

1369
00:41:20,790 --> 00:41:18,800
see the storm coming

1370
00:41:21,990 --> 00:41:20,800
but i can't afford the umbrella you know

1371
00:41:25,109 --> 00:41:22,000
it's like what a

1372
00:41:26,630 --> 00:41:25,119
poor paycheck to paycheck smokes like me

1373
00:41:28,710 --> 00:41:26,640
do you know without much in the way of

1374
00:41:30,309 --> 00:41:28,720
resources i guess

1375
00:41:32,069 --> 00:41:30,319
looking to form an alternative currency

1376
00:41:33,510 --> 00:41:32,079
a local based currency system would

1377
00:41:34,150 --> 00:41:33,520
probably be the best approach you're

1378
00:41:36,230 --> 00:41:34,160
right

1379
00:41:37,750 --> 00:41:36,240
i i hope so i think that's the way to go

1380
00:41:39,030 --> 00:41:37,760
and and the thing that might surprise

1381
00:41:40,790 --> 00:41:39,040
many people is that a lot of these

1382
00:41:42,230 --> 00:41:40,800
already exist in their community it's

1383
00:41:43,750 --> 00:41:42,240
just a question of looking for them i

1384
00:41:45,270 --> 00:41:43,760
mean there are hundreds of these uh

1385
00:41:46,150 --> 00:41:45,280
complimentary currencies around the

1386
00:41:48,309 --> 00:41:46,160
united states

1387
00:41:50,550 --> 00:41:48,319
and some of them are quite um quite well

1388
00:41:52,309 --> 00:41:50,560
established by now in fact uh

1389
00:41:54,309 --> 00:41:52,319
one of the most famous is ithaca new

1390
00:41:56,470 --> 00:41:54,319
york where they have ithaca hours

1391
00:41:58,309 --> 00:41:56,480
and lots of local businesses in fact

1392
00:41:59,670 --> 00:41:58,319
even local credit unions and and some of

1393
00:42:01,829 --> 00:41:59,680
the banks and things

1394
00:42:03,829 --> 00:42:01,839
function with these ithaca hours it's a

1395
00:42:05,430 --> 00:42:03,839
pretty established system right now

1396
00:42:07,030 --> 00:42:05,440
and i think that's at least one model

1397
00:42:08,870 --> 00:42:07,040
that people could be looking for

1398
00:42:10,309 --> 00:42:08,880
but but again there's lots of different

1399
00:42:12,790 --> 00:42:10,319
models and and i'm not

1400
00:42:13,670 --> 00:42:12,800
a particular proponent of any one model

1401
00:42:15,349 --> 00:42:13,680
i think that

1402
00:42:17,109 --> 00:42:15,359
having a lot of different models is a

1403
00:42:18,150 --> 00:42:17,119
healthy way of doing it i'm all for

1404
00:42:20,150 --> 00:42:18,160
competition

1405
00:42:21,910 --> 00:42:20,160
and for having having a lot of different

1406
00:42:23,109 --> 00:42:21,920
backups because why put all your eggs in

1407
00:42:25,270 --> 00:42:23,119
one basket so

1408
00:42:26,630 --> 00:42:25,280
sure a lot of people are are into

1409
00:42:28,470 --> 00:42:26,640
bitcoin these days well

1410
00:42:30,550 --> 00:42:28,480
why not let's have some bitcoin let's

1411
00:42:32,230 --> 00:42:30,560
have some let's hour systems

1412
00:42:33,829 --> 00:42:32,240
let's have let's have other types of

1413
00:42:34,470 --> 00:42:33,839
systems and and let them compete with

1414
00:42:36,309 --> 00:42:34,480
each other

1415
00:42:38,069 --> 00:42:36,319
which is i i think the the healthy

1416
00:42:38,710 --> 00:42:38,079
alternative to the system we have which

1417
00:42:40,870 --> 00:42:38,720
is this

1418
00:42:42,390 --> 00:42:40,880
monopoly of federal reserve notes or

1419
00:42:43,510 --> 00:42:42,400
whatever it may be in whatever country

1420
00:42:45,829 --> 00:42:43,520
people are listening in

1421
00:42:46,870 --> 00:42:45,839
which is you know from the central bank

1422
00:42:49,030 --> 00:42:46,880
printed on high and

1423
00:42:50,470 --> 00:42:49,040
and you just have to you know take what

1424
00:42:51,990 --> 00:42:50,480
what what occurs with it

1425
00:42:53,750 --> 00:42:52,000
which of course is always going to be

1426
00:42:55,190 --> 00:42:53,760
inflation caused because of the money

1427
00:42:55,910 --> 00:42:55,200
printing that these governments do to

1428
00:42:58,309 --> 00:42:55,920
fund the

1429
00:42:59,270 --> 00:42:58,319
the adventurous wars of aggression

1430
00:43:01,750 --> 00:42:59,280
around the world

1431
00:43:03,829 --> 00:43:01,760
that they they wage and all of this uh

1432
00:43:05,990 --> 00:43:03,839
just horrific things that are done

1433
00:43:07,990 --> 00:43:06,000
on the back of these dollars and yen and

1434
00:43:09,589 --> 00:43:08,000
pesos and whatever that are printed by

1435
00:43:10,790 --> 00:43:09,599
these central banks that people don't

1436
00:43:12,390 --> 00:43:10,800
have any control over

1437
00:43:14,069 --> 00:43:12,400
well why would you want to sign up to a

1438
00:43:16,069 --> 00:43:14,079
system like that when you could be

1439
00:43:18,150 --> 00:43:16,079
uh exchanging with people in your own

1440
00:43:18,630 --> 00:43:18,160
community um in a completely different

1441
00:43:20,470 --> 00:43:18,640
system

1442
00:43:22,630 --> 00:43:20,480
why not why not put our time effort

1443
00:43:23,349 --> 00:43:22,640
resources and money into that type of

1444
00:43:24,710 --> 00:43:23,359
system

1445
00:43:26,630 --> 00:43:24,720
rather than feeding the beast that's

1446
00:43:28,790 --> 00:43:26,640
currently enslaving us

1447
00:43:30,150 --> 00:43:28,800
seems so simple man but so many people

1448
00:43:32,470 --> 00:43:30,160
just they they don't even

1449
00:43:35,430 --> 00:43:32,480
realize that they're uh they're enslaved

1450
00:43:36,950 --> 00:43:35,440
themselves it's a pretty sad predicament

1451
00:43:38,870 --> 00:43:36,960
and a lot of people i think don't want

1452
00:43:41,030 --> 00:43:38,880
to realize that because that's true

1453
00:43:42,470 --> 00:43:41,040
yeah i mean it's a lot of work let's not

1454
00:43:44,150 --> 00:43:42,480
let's not beat around the bush it's not

1455
00:43:46,230 --> 00:43:44,160
going to be an easy thing to to

1456
00:43:48,150 --> 00:43:46,240
transition off of these uh systems that

1457
00:43:50,470 --> 00:43:48,160
we've been placed into and it is a lot

1458
00:43:50,790 --> 00:43:50,480
easier just to to go along with the flow

1459
00:43:52,950 --> 00:43:50,800
oh

1460
00:43:53,990 --> 00:43:52,960
you know i get these dollars from my

1461
00:43:55,430 --> 00:43:54,000
employer every month

1462
00:43:57,030 --> 00:43:55,440
saying i can spend them anywhere why

1463
00:43:58,870 --> 00:43:57,040
would i why would i bother to

1464
00:44:00,309 --> 00:43:58,880
to try to find a different way of doing

1465
00:44:03,030 --> 00:44:00,319
this why would i care

1466
00:44:03,750 --> 00:44:03,040
about supporting local community

1467
00:44:05,589 --> 00:44:03,760
businesses

1468
00:44:07,430 --> 00:44:05,599
when you know walmart provides

1469
00:44:09,910 --> 00:44:07,440
everything i need for so cheap

1470
00:44:10,950 --> 00:44:09,920
and and a lot of people think that way

1471
00:44:13,190 --> 00:44:10,960
and and i can't

1472
00:44:15,670 --> 00:44:13,200
i can't necessarily blame them for that

1473
00:44:17,349 --> 00:44:15,680
i i don't like to blame the victims

1474
00:44:19,030 --> 00:44:17,359
for their own victimization and i think

1475
00:44:21,030 --> 00:44:19,040
a lot of people have just been

1476
00:44:22,470 --> 00:44:21,040
um steeped into this system for so long

1477
00:44:24,230 --> 00:44:22,480
that uh that they've

1478
00:44:25,670 --> 00:44:24,240
kind of forgotten the dangers of the

1479
00:44:27,349 --> 00:44:25,680
system that we're living in and

1480
00:44:29,270 --> 00:44:27,359
there are times when you see a glimmer

1481
00:44:31,109 --> 00:44:29,280
of that for example the 2008

1482
00:44:32,470 --> 00:44:31,119
lehman brothers collapse was a time when

1483
00:44:34,150 --> 00:44:32,480
i saw a huge

1484
00:44:35,829 --> 00:44:34,160
spike of people getting interested in

1485
00:44:37,190 --> 00:44:35,839
this and looking at my website and other

1486
00:44:38,870 --> 00:44:37,200
alternative websites

1487
00:44:40,470 --> 00:44:38,880
and you see that from time to time when

1488
00:44:41,990 --> 00:44:40,480
there's a big panic suddenly everyone

1489
00:44:43,910 --> 00:44:42,000
will turn to the alternative media and

1490
00:44:45,430 --> 00:44:43,920
start to realize what's going on but

1491
00:44:47,270 --> 00:44:45,440
it's it's incredible how quickly that

1492
00:44:49,270 --> 00:44:47,280
can get shut down and and now

1493
00:44:51,109 --> 00:44:49,280
after a few years of this ridiculous

1494
00:44:51,750 --> 00:44:51,119
quantitative easing um that we've been

1495
00:44:53,990 --> 00:44:51,760
under

1496
00:44:56,230 --> 00:44:54,000
and seeing the corporate profits rising

1497
00:44:57,910 --> 00:44:56,240
once again um that placates a lot of

1498
00:44:59,589 --> 00:44:57,920
people oh it's all okay what

1499
00:45:02,150 --> 00:44:59,599
you guys are just fear-mongering blah

1500
00:45:04,470 --> 00:45:02,160
blah blah and uh and when the next uh

1501
00:45:06,470 --> 00:45:04,480
crisis occurs they'll all be coming back

1502
00:45:07,670 --> 00:45:06,480
again and we'll start this again so

1503
00:45:09,589 --> 00:45:07,680
hopefully we can

1504
00:45:11,589 --> 00:45:09,599
at least lay the seeds right now for

1505
00:45:13,829 --> 00:45:11,599
people who um are not quite ready

1506
00:45:14,630 --> 00:45:13,839
to uh to flower with those seeds quite

1507
00:45:16,470 --> 00:45:14,640
yet

1508
00:45:18,710 --> 00:45:16,480
yeah man no one cares until it's too

1509
00:45:19,109 --> 00:45:18,720
late but i know you just got back from

1510
00:45:21,030 --> 00:45:19,119
this

1511
00:45:23,190 --> 00:45:21,040
open source conference in france

1512
00:45:24,950 --> 00:45:23,200
speaking on open source journalism and i

1513
00:45:26,470 --> 00:45:24,960
really love the idea of open source

1514
00:45:28,630 --> 00:45:26,480
everything you know the idea

1515
00:45:30,150 --> 00:45:28,640
of a resource-based economy that kind of

1516
00:45:30,950 --> 00:45:30,160
thing the venus project thing i'm sure

1517
00:45:32,230 --> 00:45:30,960
you're familiar with

1518
00:45:34,630 --> 00:45:32,240
do you think people are starting to come

1519
00:45:35,829 --> 00:45:34,640
around to those type of ideas more these

1520
00:45:37,750 --> 00:45:35,839
days

1521
00:45:39,430 --> 00:45:37,760
well as we were talking about before i

1522
00:45:41,190 --> 00:45:39,440
think there's a lot of flowering of

1523
00:45:42,630 --> 00:45:41,200
awareness at least of these types of

1524
00:45:43,990 --> 00:45:42,640
ideas and there is

1525
00:45:46,150 --> 00:45:44,000
a fundamental shift that's happening in

1526
00:45:47,910 --> 00:45:46,160
a certain percentage of the population

1527
00:45:49,430 --> 00:45:47,920
um again whether it's enough whether

1528
00:45:51,030 --> 00:45:49,440
whether or what kind of effect it will

1529
00:45:51,829 --> 00:45:51,040
ultimately have is still up in the air

1530
00:45:53,510 --> 00:45:51,839
but i think it's

1531
00:45:54,950 --> 00:45:53,520
it's something that we at least have

1532
00:45:56,710 --> 00:45:54,960
some determination over

1533
00:45:58,870 --> 00:45:56,720
depending on what we again we choose to

1534
00:46:00,390 --> 00:45:58,880
invest our time and our energies doing

1535
00:46:02,309 --> 00:46:00,400
and that's i mean that's the beauty of

1536
00:46:05,829 --> 00:46:02,319
the open source concept for me

1537
00:46:07,190 --> 00:46:05,839
which is um for people who don't know i

1538
00:46:08,950 --> 00:46:07,200
attended this conference it's called

1539
00:46:11,190 --> 00:46:08,960
fosa fossa 2013

1540
00:46:12,710 --> 00:46:11,200
in lille france and it's an interesting

1541
00:46:13,109 --> 00:46:12,720
open source conference because open

1542
00:46:14,870 --> 00:46:13,119
source

1543
00:46:16,550 --> 00:46:14,880
obviously usually people equate that

1544
00:46:19,109 --> 00:46:16,560
with open source software

1545
00:46:20,790 --> 00:46:19,119
and that really is kind of the basis of

1546
00:46:23,109 --> 00:46:20,800
this conference it is an open source

1547
00:46:24,950 --> 00:46:23,119
software conference and it's put on by a

1548
00:46:26,150 --> 00:46:24,960
technical institute a research institute

1549
00:46:29,109 --> 00:46:26,160
there in france

1550
00:46:30,710 --> 00:46:29,119
but um the the fossa is very interesting

1551
00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:30,720
because they're trying to expand

1552
00:46:34,870 --> 00:46:32,800
and and go out of the box in terms of

1553
00:46:35,670 --> 00:46:34,880
what their what their conception of open

1554
00:46:37,109 --> 00:46:35,680
source is

1555
00:46:38,790 --> 00:46:37,119
so every year they try to feature

1556
00:46:39,750 --> 00:46:38,800
something different this year they were

1557
00:46:42,230 --> 00:46:39,760
looking at open source

1558
00:46:43,990 --> 00:46:42,240
art and open source journalism and it's

1559
00:46:45,670 --> 00:46:44,000
just fascinating to see the ways that

1560
00:46:47,910 --> 00:46:45,680
open source as a concept can

1561
00:46:49,510 --> 00:46:47,920
can really take take root in different

1562
00:46:51,030 --> 00:46:49,520
subjects in different fields

1563
00:46:53,270 --> 00:46:51,040
and this is something that i've been

1564
00:46:53,829 --> 00:46:53,280
doing on my website since it's since its

1565
00:46:55,510 --> 00:46:53,839
inception

1566
00:46:57,349 --> 00:46:55,520
several years ago but it's not something

1567
00:46:58,150 --> 00:46:57,359
that i've had a lot of opportunity to

1568
00:47:00,470 --> 00:46:58,160
talk about or

1569
00:47:02,150 --> 00:47:00,480
or say why it's important and i think it

1570
00:47:02,870 --> 00:47:02,160
really is important to look at open

1571
00:47:05,030 --> 00:47:02,880
source uh

1572
00:47:06,550 --> 00:47:05,040
for example open source journalism like

1573
00:47:07,349 --> 00:47:06,560
what i'm attempting to do at any rate

1574
00:47:09,670 --> 00:47:07,359
which is

1575
00:47:11,750 --> 00:47:09,680
uh at some in some ways it's it's

1576
00:47:13,750 --> 00:47:11,760
extremely simple concept it's not it's

1577
00:47:15,990 --> 00:47:13,760
not really that revolutionary or it

1578
00:47:17,670 --> 00:47:16,000
shouldn't be that revolutionary for us

1579
00:47:19,750 --> 00:47:17,680
in this age of the internet where

1580
00:47:21,349 --> 00:47:19,760
everyone is instantly connected to more

1581
00:47:23,510 --> 00:47:21,359
information than has ever been available

1582
00:47:25,990 --> 00:47:23,520
to any human being in history before

1583
00:47:27,670 --> 00:47:26,000
it shouldn't be that mind-blowing that

1584
00:47:29,190 --> 00:47:27,680
um someone who's telling you

1585
00:47:30,470 --> 00:47:29,200
or trying to report the news will

1586
00:47:32,230 --> 00:47:30,480
actually link you to the source

1587
00:47:34,870 --> 00:47:32,240
documents that they're talking about

1588
00:47:35,270 --> 00:47:34,880
and yet that is a mind-blowing concept

1589
00:47:38,790 --> 00:47:35,280
if

1590
00:47:40,950 --> 00:47:38,800
mainstream media websites

1591
00:47:42,630 --> 00:47:40,960
and i've only noticed in the last really

1592
00:47:43,750 --> 00:47:42,640
in the last couple of years that

1593
00:47:46,150 --> 00:47:43,760
mainstream

1594
00:47:47,829 --> 00:47:46,160
sites have started putting hyperlinks in

1595
00:47:48,309 --> 00:47:47,839
their stories to some source documents

1596
00:47:50,069 --> 00:47:48,319
and things

1597
00:47:52,630 --> 00:47:50,079
i mean it's just ridiculous to look at

1598
00:47:54,630 --> 00:47:52,640
that so something that was one of the

1599
00:47:56,390 --> 00:47:54,640
i mean when i started the website from

1600
00:47:57,750 --> 00:47:56,400
the very first moment that i had the

1601
00:47:59,750 --> 00:47:57,760
idea for the website

1602
00:48:01,430 --> 00:47:59,760
it was always stuck in my mind um i

1603
00:48:01,910 --> 00:48:01,440
wanted to do a podcast and i thought

1604
00:48:03,510 --> 00:48:01,920
well

1605
00:48:05,430 --> 00:48:03,520
obviously this is the internet i'm going

1606
00:48:06,950 --> 00:48:05,440
to link to everything that i talk about

1607
00:48:08,549 --> 00:48:06,960
and that that was always something that

1608
00:48:11,190 --> 00:48:08,559
was important to me because

1609
00:48:11,990 --> 00:48:11,200
it's never been about me being this

1610
00:48:13,589 --> 00:48:12,000
objective

1611
00:48:15,190 --> 00:48:13,599
journalist who's going to tell you the

1612
00:48:16,950 --> 00:48:15,200
news because um

1613
00:48:19,349 --> 00:48:16,960
i don't think that there is any such

1614
00:48:22,150 --> 00:48:19,359
thing objectivity in journalism

1615
00:48:22,870 --> 00:48:22,160
is a pipe dream and uh and so it's not

1616
00:48:24,390 --> 00:48:22,880
about me

1617
00:48:27,109 --> 00:48:24,400
being on high telling people what to

1618
00:48:28,390 --> 00:48:27,119
think it's me sharing basically the the

1619
00:48:30,150 --> 00:48:28,400
information that i have

1620
00:48:32,150 --> 00:48:30,160
and the sources that i use to get that

1621
00:48:34,549 --> 00:48:32,160
information and people

1622
00:48:36,230 --> 00:48:34,559
absolutely i encourage always always

1623
00:48:37,750 --> 00:48:36,240
people be skeptical don't believe what

1624
00:48:38,470 --> 00:48:37,760
i'm saying please go and look at the

1625
00:48:40,230 --> 00:48:38,480
sources

1626
00:48:41,670 --> 00:48:40,240
and come to your own conclusions use

1627
00:48:42,870 --> 00:48:41,680
your own sources um

1628
00:48:44,950 --> 00:48:42,880
find your own path through this

1629
00:48:46,549 --> 00:48:44,960
information and uh and

1630
00:48:47,990 --> 00:48:46,559
if you value what i'm doing great

1631
00:48:49,670 --> 00:48:48,000
awesome then continue to

1632
00:48:52,230 --> 00:48:49,680
listen to my podcast or look at my

1633
00:48:52,950 --> 00:48:52,240
materials but um but i never want it to

1634
00:48:57,349 --> 00:48:52,960
be

1635
00:48:59,190 --> 00:48:57,359
the way that obviously the mainstream

1636
00:49:00,470 --> 00:48:59,200
media has always functioned because it's

1637
00:49:02,470 --> 00:49:00,480
always been about this

1638
00:49:03,910 --> 00:49:02,480
authority and objectivity and we're

1639
00:49:06,309 --> 00:49:03,920
telling you the news

1640
00:49:08,069 --> 00:49:06,319
um which is just a false paradigm and

1641
00:49:09,589 --> 00:49:08,079
people are starting to realize there's a

1642
00:49:10,069 --> 00:49:09,599
different way of looking at it now that

1643
00:49:11,430 --> 00:49:10,079
we're all

1644
00:49:13,270 --> 00:49:11,440
instantly connected through this

1645
00:49:15,349 --> 00:49:13,280
worldwide network and we can all

1646
00:49:16,630 --> 00:49:15,359
participate in the conversation

1647
00:49:18,710 --> 00:49:16,640
rather than just being passive

1648
00:49:20,309 --> 00:49:18,720
receptacles of information and it's a

1649
00:49:22,390 --> 00:49:20,319
it's a really hard

1650
00:49:24,150 --> 00:49:22,400
road to go to to get people to

1651
00:49:25,270 --> 00:49:24,160
understand that this is important and

1652
00:49:26,950 --> 00:49:25,280
why it's important

1653
00:49:28,870 --> 00:49:26,960
and why they shouldn't just be passive

1654
00:49:30,950 --> 00:49:28,880
receptacles for information

1655
00:49:32,870 --> 00:49:30,960
and uh it's strange to me that even some

1656
00:49:34,790 --> 00:49:32,880
people in my audience continue to

1657
00:49:36,549 --> 00:49:34,800
to basically uh kick back against that

1658
00:49:38,549 --> 00:49:36,559
idea and oh i just want to be

1659
00:49:39,910 --> 00:49:38,559
told the news i don't want to have to

1660
00:49:41,910 --> 00:49:39,920
look at it myself

1661
00:49:43,670 --> 00:49:41,920
and i understand again it's not easy to

1662
00:49:45,270 --> 00:49:43,680
do this but but i think it's our

1663
00:49:46,470 --> 00:49:45,280
responsibility if we care about the

1664
00:49:49,270 --> 00:49:46,480
world if we want

1665
00:49:51,030 --> 00:49:49,280
um to to shape a different world for for

1666
00:49:52,150 --> 00:49:51,040
our generation and future generations

1667
00:49:53,190 --> 00:49:52,160
we're going to have to put in a little

1668
00:49:55,910 --> 00:49:53,200
bit of effort

1669
00:49:56,950 --> 00:49:55,920
and and in previous generations that

1670
00:49:59,750 --> 00:49:56,960
effort might have been

1671
00:50:01,670 --> 00:49:59,760
fighting and dying in in wars and of

1672
00:50:02,150 --> 00:50:01,680
aggression and imperialism or what have

1673
00:50:03,829 --> 00:50:02,160
you but

1674
00:50:05,190 --> 00:50:03,839
uh here we are in this little bubble of

1675
00:50:07,670 --> 00:50:05,200
opportunity to

1676
00:50:09,670 --> 00:50:07,680
to really potentially change the world

1677
00:50:10,630 --> 00:50:09,680
just based on what we do on a daily

1678
00:50:12,710 --> 00:50:10,640
basis just

1679
00:50:14,549 --> 00:50:12,720
how we spend our time what we choose to

1680
00:50:16,069 --> 00:50:14,559
to think about and and spend our time

1681
00:50:19,349 --> 00:50:16,079
and money and energies on

1682
00:50:21,270 --> 00:50:19,359
and that's that's to me an exciting

1683
00:50:23,430 --> 00:50:21,280
exciting window of opportunity at any

1684
00:50:25,270 --> 00:50:23,440
rate and uh it's a question of

1685
00:50:26,870 --> 00:50:25,280
each of one of us out there basically

1686
00:50:28,710 --> 00:50:26,880
doing something with this information

1687
00:50:31,030 --> 00:50:28,720
rather than just sitting on it

1688
00:50:31,990 --> 00:50:31,040
amen man i agree it really does seem

1689
00:50:33,589 --> 00:50:32,000
like we're living in

1690
00:50:35,349 --> 00:50:33,599
two different worlds right now there's

1691
00:50:37,270 --> 00:50:35,359
uh you know the obviously the

1692
00:50:39,750 --> 00:50:37,280
typical reality but then the internet is

1693
00:50:42,390 --> 00:50:39,760
its own world with its own systems and

1694
00:50:43,670 --> 00:50:42,400
i think the the big struggle really is

1695
00:50:45,670 --> 00:50:43,680
going to be

1696
00:50:48,230 --> 00:50:45,680
corporate control coming in and

1697
00:50:49,030 --> 00:50:48,240
dominating the internet versus the open

1698
00:50:51,670 --> 00:50:49,040
source

1699
00:50:53,190 --> 00:50:51,680
domination of reality you know either

1700
00:50:55,270 --> 00:50:53,200
the internet culture is going to spill

1701
00:50:56,150 --> 00:50:55,280
over into reality or this these old

1702
00:50:58,069 --> 00:50:56,160
systems

1703
00:50:59,430 --> 00:50:58,079
the old corporate oligarchy is going to

1704
00:51:01,829 --> 00:50:59,440
dominate the internet i think that

1705
00:51:02,870 --> 00:51:01,839
really is the big struggle right there

1706
00:51:04,390 --> 00:51:02,880
i think you're right and i think you're

1707
00:51:06,549 --> 00:51:04,400
right to frame it that way because it's

1708
00:51:08,069 --> 00:51:06,559
not about the technology itself the

1709
00:51:10,470 --> 00:51:08,079
technology is just a tool

1710
00:51:11,589 --> 00:51:10,480
it it's passive it can be used for good

1711
00:51:14,309 --> 00:51:11,599
or or bad

1712
00:51:15,030 --> 00:51:14,319
and it really is about the the mindset

1713
00:51:16,950 --> 00:51:15,040
the culture

1714
00:51:18,549 --> 00:51:16,960
the the consciousness of the people who

1715
00:51:20,390 --> 00:51:18,559
are using this technology

1716
00:51:22,150 --> 00:51:20,400
and that's either going to be dominated

1717
00:51:23,990 --> 00:51:22,160
by that corporate model where

1718
00:51:25,589 --> 00:51:24,000
we are just passive recipients of

1719
00:51:28,630 --> 00:51:25,599
information we just sit there and

1720
00:51:31,030 --> 00:51:28,640
it gets fed into us or we start to to

1721
00:51:33,190 --> 00:51:31,040
really actively start to participate

1722
00:51:35,270 --> 00:51:33,200
in in the creation of the world around

1723
00:51:35,990 --> 00:51:35,280
us and we realize that we are all

1724
00:51:38,230 --> 00:51:36,000
creators

1725
00:51:40,390 --> 00:51:38,240
of the world um in in a certain key

1726
00:51:42,309 --> 00:51:40,400
sense we all create our reality by

1727
00:51:44,069 --> 00:51:42,319
acting on the world and it's a

1728
00:51:45,990 --> 00:51:44,079
fundamentally different mindset either

1729
00:51:48,069 --> 00:51:46,000
you are just a passive sponge to sit

1730
00:51:49,910 --> 00:51:48,079
there on a couch and soak in information

1731
00:51:52,549 --> 00:51:49,920
or you are someone who is actively

1732
00:51:53,270 --> 00:51:52,559
creating a community and participating

1733
00:51:54,870 --> 00:51:53,280
in that

1734
00:51:56,470 --> 00:51:54,880
and that's a very different mindset and

1735
00:51:58,390 --> 00:51:56,480
that that i think is something that

1736
00:52:00,470 --> 00:51:58,400
fundamentally the status quo

1737
00:52:02,870 --> 00:52:00,480
absolutely does fear it fears people who

1738
00:52:04,549 --> 00:52:02,880
see themselves as history's actors

1739
00:52:06,069 --> 00:52:04,559
rather than people who are just living

1740
00:52:08,710 --> 00:52:06,079
in some you know bubble of

1741
00:52:09,270 --> 00:52:08,720
of reality that's that happens to them

1742
00:52:11,109 --> 00:52:09,280
and uh

1743
00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:11,119
and again it's it's about it's just

1744
00:52:14,309 --> 00:52:12,640
about the consciousness and about the

1745
00:52:15,109 --> 00:52:14,319
way that people perceive themselves in

1746
00:52:16,790 --> 00:52:15,119
the world

1747
00:52:18,870 --> 00:52:16,800
and that's ultimately what i'm

1748
00:52:20,150 --> 00:52:18,880
attempting to do is to try to hopefully

1749
00:52:21,990 --> 00:52:20,160
facilitate that

1750
00:52:23,750 --> 00:52:22,000
that change in awareness the the

1751
00:52:25,190 --> 00:52:23,760
revolution of the mind that i think is

1752
00:52:25,990 --> 00:52:25,200
the the fundamentally important

1753
00:52:27,270 --> 00:52:26,000
revolution

1754
00:52:28,790 --> 00:52:27,280
because i don't think taking a

1755
00:52:30,069 --> 00:52:28,800
pitchforks to washington is going to

1756
00:52:31,030 --> 00:52:30,079
change anything i think it's going to

1757
00:52:32,549 --> 00:52:31,040
have to happen

1758
00:52:34,390 --> 00:52:32,559
when people start to fundamentally

1759
00:52:35,990 --> 00:52:34,400
change the way they live their lives on

1760
00:52:37,510 --> 00:52:36,000
a day-to-day basis and the way they

1761
00:52:39,670 --> 00:52:37,520
interact with people around them

1762
00:52:40,950 --> 00:52:39,680
that's where reality is and that's uh

1763
00:52:43,670 --> 00:52:40,960
that's where we have to

1764
00:52:45,349 --> 00:52:43,680
start and end and uh hopefully

1765
00:52:47,270 --> 00:52:45,359
ultimately we will get there but it's

1766
00:52:49,589 --> 00:52:47,280
not going to be an easy road

1767
00:52:51,030 --> 00:52:49,599
yeah man well said well hey james i know

1768
00:52:52,790 --> 00:52:51,040
you got to get out of here

1769
00:52:54,630 --> 00:52:52,800
it's been a real pleasure having you on

1770
00:52:55,190 --> 00:52:54,640
man can you tell the people where they

1771
00:52:56,710 --> 00:52:55,200
can

1772
00:52:58,950 --> 00:52:56,720
keep up with your work what you got

1773
00:53:01,030 --> 00:52:58,960
going on before i let you go

1774
00:53:02,390 --> 00:53:01,040
sure well i do a lot of different things

1775
00:53:04,309 --> 00:53:02,400
i write an editorial for the

1776
00:53:06,069 --> 00:53:04,319
international forecaster i do video

1777
00:53:08,950 --> 00:53:06,079
reports for grtv the

1778
00:53:10,589 --> 00:53:08,960
branch of globalresearch.ca i do a

1779
00:53:11,750 --> 00:53:10,599
weekly video report for

1780
00:53:14,790 --> 00:53:11,760
boilingfrogspost.com

1781
00:53:15,829 --> 00:53:14,800
and we're starting a new series with

1782
00:53:18,150 --> 00:53:15,839
boiling frogs post

1783
00:53:20,309 --> 00:53:18,160
myself sobel edmonds peter b collins and

1784
00:53:22,470 --> 00:53:20,319
uh surprise guests will be on

1785
00:53:24,309 --> 00:53:22,480
for a round table discussion it will be

1786
00:53:25,910 --> 00:53:24,319
a weekly series once it really gets

1787
00:53:27,510 --> 00:53:25,920
going um right now it's just gonna be

1788
00:53:28,069 --> 00:53:27,520
every every couple weeks or so as we're

1789
00:53:30,150 --> 00:53:28,079
starting to

1790
00:53:31,349 --> 00:53:30,160
to get that series going so a lot of

1791
00:53:33,030 --> 00:53:31,359
different things and then of course i

1792
00:53:34,710 --> 00:53:33,040
have my own podcasts and interviews and

1793
00:53:35,750 --> 00:53:34,720
articles and videos that come out on a

1794
00:53:37,589 --> 00:53:35,760
regular basis

1795
00:53:39,309 --> 00:53:37,599
the best way to follow my work is just

1796
00:53:41,750 --> 00:53:39,319
go to corbettreport.com

1797
00:53:42,230 --> 00:53:41,760
c-o-r-b-e-t-t report dot com and it's

1798
00:53:45,510 --> 00:53:42,240
all

1799
00:53:47,270 --> 00:53:45,520
different things that i'm doing so

1800
00:53:49,349 --> 00:53:47,280
um hopefully that's uh that's the one

1801
00:53:51,589 --> 00:53:49,359
stop shop and as i say i have other

1802
00:53:52,870 --> 00:53:51,599
websites like fukushima update.com and

1803
00:53:54,230 --> 00:53:52,880
things but that's all linked up from the

1804
00:53:57,030 --> 00:53:54,240
site as well

1805
00:53:58,950 --> 00:53:57,040
excellent well thanks james very

1806
00:54:00,549 --> 00:53:58,960
enlightening chat uh that about does it

1807
00:54:01,430 --> 00:54:00,559
for me keep fighting the good fight my

1808
00:54:03,190 --> 00:54:01,440
man

1809
00:54:05,349 --> 00:54:03,200
i appreciate it anytime you need me just

1810
00:54:07,510 --> 00:54:05,359
let me know alrighty have a good one

1811
00:54:09,430 --> 00:54:07,520
take care there you have it higher side

1812
00:54:11,109 --> 00:54:09,440
chatters thanks again please share the

1813
00:54:13,270 --> 00:54:11,119
show you can stay in touch with me on

1814
00:54:15,190 --> 00:54:13,280
twitter and facebook please review the

1815
00:54:16,150 --> 00:54:15,200
show where you can the stitcher awards

1816
00:54:20,309 --> 00:54:16,160
are coming up i

1817
00:54:21,910 --> 00:54:20,319
want to maybe try to get in on that

1818
00:54:24,230 --> 00:54:21,920
and you can still get in on the first

1819
00:54:24,950 --> 00:54:24,240
thc money bomb yourself where i've

1820
00:54:27,510 --> 00:54:24,960
thought out

1821
00:54:28,470 --> 00:54:27,520
what to me is a win-win situation for

1822
00:54:30,630 --> 00:54:28,480
everyone involved

1823
00:54:32,470 --> 00:54:30,640
check out conspiratees.net and let's

1824
00:54:34,390 --> 00:54:32,480
make this alternative culture

1825
00:54:35,750 --> 00:54:34,400
the mainstream culture thanks for