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Abby Martin is an international known journalist

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who hosted the known(?) Breaking the Set, on Russia Today.

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She currently writes and directs a weekly documentary series called The Empire Files.

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And tell us story(?) english.

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She founded her own media organization, Media Roots,

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and sits on the board of Project Censored, one of the largest research groups in the country.

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Abby’s empathy, passion and editorial independence makes her unique and relatable voice

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to those seeking honest independent media.

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The place is yours. Thank you.

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Thank you so much everyone for that,

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and first of all, thank you so much for The Venus Project for hosting me at this amazing event.

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And happy birthday to visionary Jacque Fresco.

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This is a man who spent his entire life innovating for a better world,

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and i think we need to give him one more round of applause for that.

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Happy 100th birthday!

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It’s a total honour to be asked to speak at the centennial celebration,

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so thanks again.

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And it is great to me that so many people here

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who already know my work from Russia Today, Breaking the Set.

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My new show tells stories a little different from a little bit,

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and less energy, but a little more depressing, maybe.

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And i was (?) the Empire Files and i (?) tell a story (?).

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It is a weekly documentary series that provides (?) historical(?) and political contacts

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to the most fascination that we face today.

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Which i think that is very important when we are looking at these issues in an isolated context,

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specially reacting to the mainstream media (?) new cycle(?).

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And for the alliance for the brutal (?)cracy to the US funding(?) America,

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each chapter the Empire Files related(?) there

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another devastating effect of the militaristic imperialism.

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So that was we check it out, if you have it yet, on YouTube. Thank you.

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Most people are here because they are very currently aware already

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after the crisis of the civilization that we face.

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But i want to be (?) statistic that i think are really exemplified

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that is everything that is wrong in the world we look in today.

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According to the latest (?) study, 62 people now own more wealth

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than half than every body living on the planet.

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Think about this statistic for one second.

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62 people, just 62 people own more than half of the world’s population.

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The gap between the richer and poorer is widening at an alarming rate.

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The wealth of the poorest half 3.6 billion people, following by 1 trillion dollars since 2010.

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And at the same time, the wealth of the world’s richest 62 lucky mother fuckers

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has increased by more than half of trillion dollars.

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These obscene trajectory proves that if people made more money does not trickled down,

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instead untapped trillions hold(?) offshore.

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In the US for the first time, were over 50 years,

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over half of the public school students are living in poverty or food insecure.

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Think about that too.

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I mean, how are teachers supposed to meat standardized testing requriements,

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when they are busy worried about whether or not are students eating food or wearing shoes.

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Instead of organizing the help those most in need,

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our rootless system criminalizes its poverty and homelessness.

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The extreme consequences of which we are plain(?) all around us,

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driving desperate people to commit violence, crimes and terrorism.

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This growing dysfunction is built into an economical structure

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that institutionalized its barbarism at any quality(?).

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But it is not just a system in the abstract.

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This global war installed its powerful rulers.

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I saw the way it works first in during my carreer.

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I didn’t start out wanting to be a journalist.

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I began as an anti-war activist and organized when were in college during the lead of the Iraq war.

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But i quickly saw the issues i was (?) behind

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whether(?) being distorted or completely ignored in the media.

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And what we see in the media is completely obedience

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to the criminal and murderous of Bush administration,

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propelled me, forced me to act.

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I though myself video production and put myself out of there in the community,

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for San Diego and Oakland.

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And the first journalism and project that i founded called Media Roots.

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You know, was not just one issue.

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It was every issue, because it all stands for the same criminal corrupt system.

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From net neutrality to food justice, i wanted to build an under reported aggregate(?) of stories

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that impacted everyone because i was convinced that people (?) knew what is happening.

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If they only knew what this government was doing around the world,

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then of course it would organize to stop it.

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But, in (?) masses today’s world, is a dumping challenge, given the state of journalism.

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It doesn’t take long your protocol awakening to realize that

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the establishment press we have(?) all being trained to trust.

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It exists just as not arm of the corporatocracy. Only utilized to maintain itself.

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Didn’t start often that way, it started of as a free public service.

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But as the corporatocracy became more in (?),

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telecom companies got hugely rich and profiting in (?) public air waves.

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And begin (?)ing the (?) on the market, (?) up, just as we have seen in the average industry.

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And in 1980’s, 50 corporations controlled most news media in America.

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By 1992, that number fallen to 2 dozen.

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And today, only 6 corporations control 90% of everything in America can see (?).

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About a 120 or so executives on the board of these 6 companies

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also are in a inter locking(?) positions in every industry,

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from defense to pharmaceuticals, to banking.

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A sign from this (?) conflict of interest lies on the problem of self centered share(?)

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and advertise pressure which makes it(?) now works.

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Right now, who is heard of the TPP? I am sure many people. Okay, good job.

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But, of course, this hugely important so called free trade deal,

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what people are calling (?) in steroids between all countries,

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they are completely (?) national sovereinghty undermining US laws,

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totally blacked out.

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100% on the mainstream media. Why?

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Well, the corporate sponsors are under these negotiations in a secret deal.

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600 corporate advisers negotiating this deal (?) countries,

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without any sort of a semblance of democratic participation from the people (?). Unbelievable.

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Net neutrality, another important issue of our time, maintain the (?) nature of the web,

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has been totally sidelined by the same media companies,

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controlled by (?) telecommunication companies.

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The same companies that are trying to install a pay-to-play network on the internet.

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Many people around the world maybe wondering how reality started bilionaire,

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with zero political experience as this close to becoming

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a president of the United States of America, as (?).

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But i think a quick scan of our (?) media tells us one reason.

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America’s salivating mainstream media (?) is (?) legitimizing Donald Trump

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by covering him 24/7, because he fears souls, baby.

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And apparently such as fascism.

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Trump has been giving media coverage than hell Democratic campaigns combined,

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23 times more than Bernie Sanders. It is unbelievable.

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The CBS had last (?) actually recently busted about this.

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He said, Trump may not be good for America but he is damn good for CBS.

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The money is rolling in. And this is fun.

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It is going to be a very good year for us.

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Sorry, is a terrible thing to say, but bringing on Donald, keep going.

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The media may understand the consequences of promoting Trump’s xenophobic bigotry.

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But the short term profits from companies like CBS,

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far out of the away of the dangers of the Trump’s presidency.

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The corporate take over (?) has (?)

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any (?)semblance with the democracy in this country.

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For decades, journalists in DC have cared far more about their access,

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but about their jobs.

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I saw this in first hand in DC when i was an actually scolded by media officials

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for asking questions on soliciting to Rand Paul in congress.

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When i first was a newbie, i got my official press badge,

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and i was, cool, now i just go ask and confront politicians in the hall of congress.

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And very quickly, you know, the first person i saw walking on the hall was Rand Paul,

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and i asked my question, i said why did you endorse Matt Romney.

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He ignored me, kept going, and i thought it was the end of it.

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A week later, RT was starting to get calls from the congress press (?),

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trying to arrest me for stalking and harassment.

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Yes, i wanted to put on air and they didn’t want to,

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because they were really caring(?) on audience about that time,

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and i was really new and really didn’t know what to do.

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The charges were all basically empty threads.

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But they did call me into the office,

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and i sat down into an interrogation within the halls of congress,

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with all that main bureau chief heads(?), from the corporate media networks,

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and they basically told me you don’t do that.

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You don’t come in here, and we were access that we worked for decades to maintain.

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And now it is my first lesson of how journalism actually worked in DC.

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You know, the media doesn’t only work to protect its bottom line.

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And also plays the key role in manufacturing consent for empire.

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Conditioning us to believe that somehow be caused or (?) in a particular manner,

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(?) that world game to go killing millions of people around the world.

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Displace mean countless millions more.

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Dictate the future for tenths of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people,

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every year around the world.

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Even so called alternative press out like Vice and others promoted US empire American exceptional(?),

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have very dangerous notions that keeps society subservient.

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The myth self justify untold criminal policies by nationalizing the war economy

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that runs on dept and destruction.

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Those in power have to have reasons to control the media, of course,

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not only told why white washed the long list of injustices and crimes they cared every day.

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But they can seal the cataclysmic course that is driving us down.

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Those in power doesn’t just control the media, of course. They control energy resources too.

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Under this system, the US continues to rely on the industry of imperialism all life on Earth.

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According to the latest UN report,

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in order to avoid the worst predicted affects of climate change,

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3/4 of non existent fossil fuels need to stay in the ground.

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That mean halt all production stopping right now.

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And that is to avoid the worst effects, the worst effects.

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But the empires are doing the opposite of that. Chasing profits at any cost.

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Under Obama, the US was become the world’s largest oil and natural gas producer.

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That is outstanding.

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The US military is the biggest polluter on the planet.

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You have the example from all environmental legislation,

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from the clean air act to the Kyoto treaty.

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With all interrogation about how the richest country in the world

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could possibly pay for health care and education for its citizens.

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Little(?) as asked, about how we can possibly afford to maintain endless war occupation,

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as well as the military budget that stands bigger than the next 7 countries combined.

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It is this system put the needs at the people and the environment first,

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there would be very little dependency in such damaging field(?) source.

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Stand for engineers as you have seen in the documentary this morning,

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if already developed the cost effect of state by state planned transition,

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the entire US to renewable energy sources by 2050.

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The money spent on the Iraq war 1, which killed 1 million people,

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5% of Iraq’s entire population, and planted the seeds for ISIS to flourish,

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could have covered all global investments to halt climate change trends.

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Think about that. The Iraq war could have halt the global climate change trend,

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just a cost of that.

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There is plenty of money to solve many of the pressing problems.

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The issue is in resources. It is how they are being used.

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You know, as much as Cuba criticized it’s never (?) achievements,

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i was able to spend weeks there, reporting and (?) fascinated that,

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under a (?) economic embargo, this small island nation still able to produce,

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instead of living comfortable(?) with most European(?) countries.

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High quality free education, high quality free health care,

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a (?) more, as human rights.

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Not to mention that completely green sustainable agricultural system.

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Amazingly, or not so amazingly, Cuba’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the entire hemispheres.

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Often enough, we have seen that people would have their basic human needs met,

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they are less likely to commit crimes.

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I mean, you know, these (?) accomplishments were made

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in an economy based on scarcity.

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Imagine what can be done in the richest country in the world

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if people came first, not profits

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To continue to success the any nation (?) the global economical order,

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even a small island nation like Cuba, poses a huge treat to the corporate hegemony.

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This is wide, this (?) this normalization process,

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the US government is still spending countless millions on the ground for (?) there.

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We have seen how far their empire will blow, to crush any and all alternatives.

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Those in power also wield the most mass military in human history,

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into a way that (?) very real (?) ideas that provided an alternative to their system.

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Both in broad an (?) home.

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Over the last century, (?) US government has done everything that is powered(?),

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to (?) out alternatives to its rule,

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from ground up to to massive arrests of thousands of anarchists, socialists, lefts(?) in US,

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making it illegal to even be a communist,

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to carry on military interventions in over 70 nations just sent in world war 2,

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causing an untold(?) human misery, all in the name of fighting ideas.

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Today, the us empire has at least 900 military installations around the world,

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the Pentagon does not even know,

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because they (?) military bases they have, what the number really is.

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They have (?) in almost every region on world to maintain an endless war of occupation.

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But it was done(?) all it is(?).

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Very rarely, sometimes, a glitch in the matrix provide a rare political opening for us.

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Those in power are also (?) elections, obviously,

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a familiar through a college delegate process their own mission of third parties from the debates(?).

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But Bernie Sanders has defined all odds,

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because he is bringing a message of occupy Wall Street,

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a movement completely and radically marginalized in the mainstream, to the mainstream.

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To the entire nation.

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His popularity, he is made it okay that criticizing capitalism.

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For all the critiques on Bernie Sanders (?) policy (?) look.

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His popularity is opening a path for us to criticize the system,

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when just 5 years ago was unheard.

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This is a huge thing for us now, according to a recent (?),

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young people between ages of 18 and 29,

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more favourably look at socialism than they do capitalism.

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It’s a huge feet(?) against the relentless propaganda campaign

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that existed for almost a century.

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The two party dictatorship is unraveling fast.

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Having voters rejecting the candidates

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that the establishment literally begging them to accept as amazing.

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Only good things that comes from the corporate monopolies (?) like this.

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Those in power have an end game. It’s purely dystopic.

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And right now there is a huge opportunity for change.

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Real change. Real alternatives.

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And the voices in this room has so much potential to be heard right now.

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It is time to see the momentum (?), start building an Utopia we wish to see.

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Because in the words of Jacque Fresco,

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if you think we can’t change the world, it just means you are the ones that wont.

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Thank you.