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  • I have this nagging feeling.

  • I have felt it for as long as I remember.

  • Seldom I have been able to articulate this feeling into thoughts,

  • so I could understand why I have this feeling,

  • let alone explaining this feeling to others.

  • The only thing I could make out of this feeling was:

  • "Something is wrong."

  • "Ashamed of being human"

  • I was born in late 1974

  • on an island way up in the north

  • called Iceland.

  • In my childhood, I was given an image of the world that was being fixed

  • after the horrific times of World War II,

  • with the leadership of the U.N. and the U.S.A.

  • At the time of my birth,

  • Iceland was an independent nation with its own fishing industry.

  • My Mom and Dad and my older sister

  • lived and worked in that industry.

  • By the year 2000 this industry was almost gone.

  • The quota regulations made sure

  • that the right to fish ended up in the hands of a very few people,

  • who then sold this right

  • to foreign companies for an incredible amount of money.

  • The right to fish; I would think that is my birth right.

  • Today the industry is dead,

  • just like with the car and steel industry in the U.S. and Europe.

  • Why is it in the West, most industry is going away?

  • After the Cold War

  • everything looked like we were going to have peace in our world

  • along with the freedoms we have.

  • Freedoms our earlier generations fought for.

  • We were free.

  • I believed this, I loved it.

  • I was going to have fun, and we had fun

  • for about a decade.

  • Then, one day happened

  • [Screaming]

  • - Holy fuck!

  • - Oh my God!!!, oh my God!!!, Jesus fucking Christ!!!

  • I was shocked, just like everyone else on this planet.

  • I was angry, seeing almost 3000 people being killed.

  • I saw it again, and again

  • because the media had nothing else to talk about

  • for the weeks in the aftermath.

  • I got hypnotized.

  • I felt hate, and more hate.

  • Hate towards those they told me, again and again, who were responsible.

  • Bin Laden and those terrorists in a far away land.

  • I said, "Lets just drop the bomb on those fuckers."

  • I was thinking like this for four years.

  • In the meantime, I moved to Denmark.

  • A nation with many immigrants from the Middle East.

  • I learned that

  • the image I had been given on the Muslim community was a lie.

  • The image I had was created from the mainstream media,

  • which was my only source of information at the time.

  • Then, in 2005, I got a connection to the Internet.

  • My first computer in 5 years.

  • I started searching for information connected to the date 9/11.

  • What I found was completely different

  • than what I learned from the mainstream media.

  • Many questions I heard for the first time.

  • Questions that I could not create on my own

  • just by reading the morning newspaper

  • or watching the nightly news.

  • Questions like:

  • Where was NORAD on this day?

  • Where is the airplane at the Pentagon?

  • Why is the hole in the Pentagon smaller than the airplane?

  • Why did the towers fall at free fall speed?

  • Why did Building 7 collapse?

  • The list is long.

  • With all the evidence I had seen on the 9/11 incident,

  • that broke down the official story in so many ways,

  • I started to believe my nagging feeling.

  • There is definitely something wrong.

  • I started to question everything.

  • I asked myself

  • if this 9/11 event is a conspiracy, what else is being hidden?

  • What other events or situations could be manipulated?

  • What if our whole society is there to serve the few?

  • My nagging feeling said yes.

  • J. Edgar Hoover said

  • "The individual is handicapped

  • by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous

  • he cannot believe it exists.

  • The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil

  • which has been introduced into our midst."

  • So I asked myself:

  • "What in our society has full power over my actions?"

  • I found one thing that has way too much power over my actions.

  • A power that decides if I can make a feature length film or not.

  • A power that decides if I go on vacation or not.

  • A power that decides if I sell myself or not.

  • A power that decides if I have a home or not.

  • A power that can decide if I eat or not.

  • This power is the monetary system.

  • Our money.

  • Everything rolls around it.

  • Everyone needs it.

  • And every decision in life today is made with the monetary situation in mind.

  • So I asked

  • "Where does the money come from?"

  • What is money?

  • At first, I believed that our government

  • is making this money for the people it serves.

  • I was wrong.

  • Then we have the money.

  • What you do is you go to the bank and you borrow money

  • that has never, does not, and will never exist, called credit

  • and then you mortgage your house to it,

  • you mortgage your car to it, your land to it, your business to it.

  • And if you don't pay back money that doesn't exist, called credit

  • then the people that have lent you that non-existent money

  • get your car, and your business, and your house.

  • I guess that makes sense.

  • And this money scam

  • where they get us into debt

  • by borrowing money that has never, does not, will never exist

  • is in the very DNA of society.

  • It controls choice, it controls maneuverability.

  • Or if we allow it to, controls society.

  • And who controls money, controls society.

  • Who controls money? A tiny few people.

  • As we'll see...But I don't even wanna talk about that!!!

  • Hey honey! Quick!

  • On the Jerry Springer show, this man is gonna hit his girlfriend! Quick, quick!

  • Watch this. Shut up.

  • For a long time, we have had two sets of laws:

  • the law of the land and the law of the water.

  • The law of the land is the law of any land,

  • and they are different between different places.

  • You can do certain things in Denmark that you cannot do in Russia,

  • and vice-versa.

  • The law of the water is called Maritime Admiralty Law.

  • These laws are above any law of any land.

  • These laws came about centuries ago

  • when ships sailed the seas with all sorts of goods between different places.

  • When our monetary system started to become worldwide

  • Maritime Admiralty Law became the law of banking.

  • They are also the laws of churches and courts.

  • When you stand inside a bank,

  • the laws you know in your land no longer apply.

  • There are different laws for you when you stand in a bank

  • or when you stand outside of it.

  • You can see in many banks and courts

  • the maritime flag of the nation it is in.

  • Maritime flags of nations on ships are there to tell what laws apply to that ship.

  • Same with a bank.

  • In the U.S., the maritime flag is almost the same flag as the U.S. flag.

  • The only difference is that this flag has a golden border.

  • Notice that every U.S. soldier has that flag on his arm

  • and not the regular U.S. flag.

  • This should tell you who those soldiers are really working for.

  • The world of admiralty is, it's a concept and it's a philosophy.

  • There's two kind of law in the world.

  • There's civil law and there's the law of water and money.

  • Well, we have our common law system

  • where collective groups of people come together and they agree

  • to follow particular behavioral patterns.

  • However, the banking system,

  • or the banksters, or gangsters or whatever you want to call them

  • have collectively, through thousands of years, have setup a situation

  • where they can manipulate people, to superimpose a legal system

  • that is not based entirely on law, it's based on commerce.

  • And so this artificial, let's pretend, construct

  • has basically been superimposed over our law of our land.

  • I learned the rules of modern banking.

  • It is called fractional reserve banking system.

  • Every bank in the world

  • only has to have a fraction of the amount

  • that the bank has in store to loan out to other people.

  • That is, a bank can loan out to you a hundred dollars

  • when it only has ten dollars in store.

  • And those ten dollars is other people's money

  • that they keep in their computer vaults.

  • Today we live with fiat money.

  • What does fiat money mean?

  • A currency that a government has declared to be legal tender

  • despite the fact that it has no real value

  • and is not backed by any reserves.

  • Historically, most currencies were based on physical commodities,

  • such as gold or silver.

  • But fiat money is solely based on faith; money as religion.

  • This money is printed by private organizations all over the world

  • and loaned to governments with interest.

  • This interest are the debt of most nations today.

  • This made me think.

  • Money is the main brainwash tool.

  • Mayor Rothschild said

  • "Give me control of a nation's money,

  • and I care not who makes the laws."

  • The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the U.S.A., is not federal.

  • It is a privately owned company, set up in England,

  • which nobody knows who owns.

  • Nor does it have any reserves.

  • Woodrow Wilson was the U.S. president that signed into law

  • the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.

  • Something he regretted later in his life.

  • Woodrow Wilson said on his deathbed

  • "I am a most unhappy man, I have unwittingly ruined my country.

  • A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.

  • Our system of credit is concentrated.

  • The growth of the nation, therefore and all our activities

  • are in the hands of a few men.

  • We have come to be one of the worst ruled,

  • one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments

  • in the civilized world.

  • No longer a government by free opinion.

  • No longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority.

  • But a government by the opinion and duress

  • of a small group of dominant men."

  • We are told that America is the land of laws, a nation built on laws.

  • And point of fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

  • America is run by people who are lawless.

  • We have no law in America and understand that.

  • The law is whatever the powers that be in power happen to say it is today.

  • Whatever they say it is, that's what the law is today.

  • And it may change tomorrow.

  • In 1933, the U.S.A became bankrupt in the middle of a depression,

  • which was created because of the Federal Reserve Act.

  • It is still bankrupt.

  • This creature, called the United States, is not a nation at all

  • but merely a corporation, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

  • This corporation was set up in England in 1868.

  • The President of the U.S.A. is a president of a privately owned company

  • that works under Maritime Admiralty Law.

  • All corporations have presidents, for they work under Maritime Admiralty Law.

  • Just this fact alone should tell the average human being

  • that we are not being told the truth.

  • We are being manipulated.

  • When the U.S.A. became bankrupt, the banks asked the U.S. government:

  • "How are you going to pay?"

  • "What is your collateral?"

  • The government answered back, "The people is our collateral."

  • Today, on the back of U.S. birth certificates are the markings of banks.

  • In other words, the banks own the people.

  • Minimum wage, what is it?

  • To me, it is the salary of a slave.

  • A slave needs to be kept alive and healthy so that the work can be done.

  • Today, I see people living a life where they work hard and long hours

  • but never get a paycheck that lasts them longer than towards the next paycheck.

  • The modern slave takes care of his own slavery.

  • The most hardworking slave is the one slave who believes he is free.

  • Tell the truth, don't be bullshitting people.

  • Like I said, there's enough bullshit as it is.

  • There's enough bullshit as it is.

  • In fact, there's just enough, did you know that?

  • There's just enough bullshit to hold things together in this country.

  • Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation.

  • Where would we be without our safe, familiar, American bullshit?

  • Land of the free, home of the brave, the "American Dream",

  • all men are equal, justice is blind, the press is free, your vote counts.

  • [Laughter]

  • Business is honest, the good guys win, the police are on your side

  • God is watching you, your standard of living will never decline

  • and everything is gonna be just fine.

  • The official, national bullshit story.

  • I call it "The American Okie Doke".

  • We are told we are free, but I do not feel like I'm free.

  • We are ruled by the rule of force.

  • Just look at what happens when you do not comply to your government.

  • When you don't pay your taxes.

  • Why do we keep playing the game?

  • I mean, would you play Monopoly with other people

  • when the bankers are always cheating?

  • That is what we do in real life.

  • Why do we accept it?

  • The whole core system, our whole monetary system

  • is based on ancient, esoteric principles. Your body's energy

  • it's a vessel. Your body's a vessel. You have blood vessels etc.

  • And you're traveling on the seas of commerce,

  • not really, because we're on land

  • but they superimpose the world of admiralty on us.

  • And anyone can verify this because the navy has surveyed all the land

  • in the continental United States.

  • And there's brass-capped high water marks in all the local towns and counties.

  • So they've, in a "lets pretend" game, they've said,

  • "We're all under water right now".

  • That's why they have jurisdiction of admiralty.

  • And it's... Unless you rebut that presumption

  • of jurisdiction or the admiralty realm. It shall reign supreme.

  • This monetary system

  • is the direct cause for about 20,000 people dying every day from hunger.

  • Twenty thousand people!

  • Why?!

  • Well today, our world is home to 6.7 billion people.

  • Humans currently consume 20% more natural resources

  • than the Earth can produce.

  • The West comprises only 10% of the world's population

  • but consumes 50% of the world's resources we produce.

  • And we release 80% of the world's pollutants.

  • Just this tells me how it can be that so many people suffer.

  • My lifestyle is a cause for this suffering.

  • And if only people in my society

  • would allow themselves to feel the pain of this suffering

  • and understand our connection to it,

  • then we would no longer accept the pain caused by our lifestyle.

  • War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change

  • in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change.

  • It's going to take the redesign of our culture, our values

  • and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the Earth.

  • Not some human opinion,

  • or some politician's notions of the way world ought to be.

  • Or some religious notions of the conduct of human affairs.

  • In East Germany, before the Berlin Wall fell

  • the idea was that everyone should hold a job

  • even though there weren't enough jobs for the people.

  • One man worked at the crossroad, controlling the streetlights.

  • All day he sat there, turning lights from red to green

  • and back to red again.

  • All day.

  • When the work day ended, he stood up,

  • pressed the automatic button, and went home.

  • What a waste.

  • It's not politicians that can solve problems;

  • they have no technical capabilities.

  • They don't know how to solve problems.

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

  • It's the technicians that produce the desalinization plants.

  • It's the technicians that give you electricity.

  • That give you motor vehicles,

  • that heat your house and cool it in the summer time.

  • It's technology that solves problems,

  • not politics. Politics cannot solve problems

  • because they're not trained to do so.

  • Technology is exactly the reason for Iceland's economy crashing in 2008.

  • The fishing industry died the same day

  • the fishing trawler fleet was replaced by fishing freeze trawlers in the 80s

  • Before that, the industry was kept alive

  • because the trawlers fished around Iceland

  • and brought the fish back to land, to be worked on by

  • people, packaging and freezing the product.

  • The freezing trawlers made it possible to work the fish and freeze it on board

  • with machines, making the industry on land obsolete.

  • This of course should have freed most Icelanders from their repetitive jobs

  • and give everyone a comfortable life.

  • But because of the quota regulations,

  • the right to fish is in the hands of the few.

  • Keeping the populations in heavy debt to the bankers.

  • Today, Iceland is in the process of losing its independence to the EU.

  • And the question that is raised by politicians is, "How much will a project cost?"

  • The question is not "How much will it cost?"

  • Do we have the resources?

  • And we have the resources today. To house everyone.

  • Build hospitals all over the world.

  • Build schools all over the world.

  • The finest equipment in labs for teaching and doing medical research.

  • So you see, we have all that. But we're in a monetary system

  • and in a monetary system, there's profit.

  • A monetary system is a slave system.

  • The money is the incentive for people to misuse their power.

  • Many problems of this world derive from the money.

  • Prostitution

  • Theft

  • Poaching

  • Human trafficking

  • Drug trafficking

  • Politicians

  • It is very easy through money to exclude an individual

  • from taking part in anything.

  • So, what is the answer?

  • Shit, hell that I know.

  • I'm just seeing the problem.

  • And the problem is a monumental one.

  • And I think that it will not be solved

  • while we hold on to the ideas of possessions

  • we have had created around us.

  • But then I get reminded by this quote by Arthur Schopenhauer:

  • "All truth passes through three stages.

  • First: It is ridiculed;

  • Second: It is violently opposed;

  • and Third: It is accepted as self-evident".

  • In fact I had a vision, of a way we could have no enemies ever again

  • if you're interested in this. Anybody interested in hearing this?

  • [Applause]

  • It's kind of an interesting theory and all we have to do is make one decisive act

  • and we can rid the world of all our enemies at once.

  • Here's what we do, you know all that money we spend

  • on nuclear weapons and defense every year?

  • Trillions of dollars.

  • Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world

  • which it would pay for many times over

  • not one human being excluded, not one

  • we could as one race, explore outer space together in peace

  • forever!

  • Thank you very much. You're great.

  • [Applauses and sound of gun shots]

  • John Lennon sang: "Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can".

  • After some time wondering on this idea of a world without possessions

  • I found The Venus Project.

  • I find it to be a brilliant idea.

  • A world where our economy is resource-based,

  • instead of our 'modern', growth-based economy.

  • Jacque Fresco is one of the greatest thinkers of our time.

  • He believes that technology can save us from this madness.

  • I suggest you Google and study it.

  • Already, today, technology is taking away jobs,

  • and when a machine takes my job in this growth-based economy

  • how can I support myself?

  • How am I supposed to sell myself for money?

  • Now, America is inclined towards fascism.

  • It has a propensity, by it's dominant philosophy and religion,

  • to uphold the fascist point of view.

  • American industry is essentially a fascist institution. If you don't understand that,

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

  • We're given notions about the respectability of work

  • and I really look at it as being paid slavery.

  • You get brought up to believe that you shall earn your living

  • by the sweat of your brow.

  • That holds people back.

  • Freeing people from drudgery, repetitive jobs, which make them ignorant.

  • You rob them.

  • In our society, that is, a resource-based economy,

  • machines free people.

  • You see, we can't imagine that,

  • because we've never known that kind of world.

  • What we wanna do is to eliminate the causes of the problems.

  • Eliminate the processes that produce greed and bigotry and prejudice

  • and people taking advantage of one other, and elitism.

  • Eliminating the need for prisons and welfare.

  • We have always had these problems

  • because we have always lived within scarcity

  • and barter and monetary systems that produce scarcity.

  • If you eradicate the conditions that generate

  • what you call "socially offensive behavior",

  • it does not exist.

  • The guy says: "Well, isn't that inborn?" No, it's not.

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

  • and that's always been changed, throughout history.

  • You're not born with bigotry and greed and corruption and hatred

  • you pick that up within the society.

  • Is there a hidden hand?

  • Is the world like this because someone wants it to be like this?

  • Or is it just one monumental coincidence?

  • What do you think?

  • www.thevenusproject.com

I have this nagging feeling.

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