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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abby Martin is an international known journalist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.69,0:00:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who hosted the known(?) Breaking the Set, on Russia Today.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.35,0:00:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She currently writes and directs a weekly documentary series called The Empire Files.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.31,0:00:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And tell us story(?) english.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.16,0:00:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She founded her own media organization, Media Roots,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.27,0:00:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sits on the board of Project Censored, one of the largest research groups in the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.72,0:00:26.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abby’s empathy, passion and editorial independence makes her unique and relatable voice
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.47,0:00:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to those seeking honest independent media.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.56,0:00:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The place is yours. Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.07,0:00:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much everyone for that,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.68,0:00:43.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and first of all, thank you so much for The Venus Project for hosting me at this amazing event.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.19,0:00:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And happy birthday to visionary Jacque Fresco.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.63,0:00:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a man who spent his entire life innovating for a better world,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.04,0:01:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i think we need to give him one more round of applause for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.70,0:01:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Happy 100th birthday!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.98,0:01:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a total honour to be asked to speak at the centennial celebration,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.53,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so thanks again.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is great to me that so many people here
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.37,0:01:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who already know my work from Russia Today, Breaking the Set.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.73,0:01:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My new show tells stories a little different from a little bit,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.84,0:02:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and less energy, but a little more depressing, maybe.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.58,0:02:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And i was (?) the Empire Files and i (?) tell a story (?).
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.96,0:02:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a weekly documentary series that provides (?) historical(?) and political contacts
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.60,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the most fascination that we face today.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which i think that is very important when we are looking at these issues in an isolated context,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.55,0:02:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,specially reacting to the mainstream media (?) new cycle(?).
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.76,0:02:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for the alliance for the brutal (?)cracy to the US funding(?) America,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.71,0:02:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each chapter the Empire Files related(?) there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.81,0:02:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another devastating effect of the militaristic imperialism.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.04,0:02:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was we check it out, if you have it yet, on YouTube. Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.94,0:02:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people are here because they are very currently aware already
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.47,0:02:48.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the crisis of the civilization that we face.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.79,0:02:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But i want to be (?) statistic that i think are really exemplified
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.15,0:02:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is everything that is wrong in the world we look in today.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.07,0:03:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the latest (?) study, 62 people now own more wealth
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.34,0:03:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than half than every body living on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.94,0:03:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about this statistic for one second.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.57,0:03:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,62 people, just 62 people own more than half of the world’s population.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.84,0:03:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gap between the richer and poorer is widening at an alarming rate.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.00,0:03:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The wealth of the poorest half 3.6 billion people, following by 1 trillion dollars since 2010.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.00,0:03:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at the same time, the wealth of the world’s richest 62 lucky mother fuckers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.32,0:03:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has increased by more than half of trillion dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.40,0:03:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These obscene trajectory proves that if people made more money does not trickled down,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.66,0:03:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead untapped trillions hold(?) offshore.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.52,0:03:49.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the US for the first time, were over 50 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.95,0:03:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over half of the public school students are living in poverty or food insecure.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.01,0:03:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about that too.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.00,0:04:00.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, how are teachers supposed to meat standardized testing requriements,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.63,0:04:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they are busy worried about whether or not are students eating food or wearing shoes.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.08,0:04:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead of organizing the help those most in need,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.00,0:04:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our rootless system criminalizes its poverty and homelessness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.89,0:04:17.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The extreme consequences of which we are plain(?) all around us,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.23,0:04:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,driving desperate people to commit violence, crimes and terrorism.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.72,0:04:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This growing dysfunction is built into an economical structure
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.94,0:04:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that institutionalized its barbarism at any quality(?).
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.17,0:04:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is not just a system in the abstract.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.00,0:04:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This global war installed its powerful rulers.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.00,0:04:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw the way it works first in during my carreer.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.01,0:04:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn’t start out wanting to be a journalist.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.71,0:04:49.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began as an anti-war activist and organized when were in college during the lead of the Iraq war.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.45,0:04:51.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But i quickly saw the issues i was (?) behind
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.89,0:04:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether(?) being distorted or completely ignored in the media.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.97,0:04:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what we see in the media is completely obedience
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.27,0:05:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the criminal and murderous of Bush administration,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.73,0:05:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,propelled me, forced me to act.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.21,0:05:07.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I though myself video production and put myself out of there in the community,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.63,0:05:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for San Diego and Oakland.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.70,0:05:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the first journalism and project that i founded called Media Roots.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.44,0:05:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, was not just one issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.11,0:05:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was every issue, because it all stands for the same criminal corrupt system.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.31,0:05:26.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From net neutrality to food justice, i wanted to build an under reported aggregate(?) of stories
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.31,0:05:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that impacted everyone because i was convinced that people (?) knew what is happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.36,0:05:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they only knew what this government was doing around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.42,0:05:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then of course it would organize to stop it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.00,0:05:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, in (?) masses today’s world, is a dumping challenge, given the state of journalism.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.06,0:05:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn’t take long your protocol awakening to realize that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.81,0:05:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the establishment press we have(?) all being trained to trust.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.50,0:05:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It exists just as not arm of the corporatocracy. Only utilized to maintain itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.03,0:05:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Didn’t start often that way, it started of as a free public service.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.12,0:06:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as the corporatocracy became more in (?),
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.14,0:06:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,telecom companies got hugely rich and profiting in (?) public air waves.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.00,0:06:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And begin (?)ing the (?) on the market, (?) up, just as we have seen in the average industry.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.58,0:06:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in 1980’s, 50 corporations controlled most news media in America.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.72,0:06:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By 1992, that number fallen to 2 dozen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.51,0:06:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And today, only 6 corporations control 90% of everything in America can see (?).
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.34,0:06:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About a 120 or so executives on the board of these 6 companies
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.00,0:06:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also are in a inter locking(?) positions in every industry,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.19,0:06:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from defense to pharmaceuticals, to banking.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.35,0:06:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A sign from this (?) conflict of interest lies on the problem of self centered share(?)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.61,0:06:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and advertise pressure which makes it(?) now works.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.97,0:06:53.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, who is heard of the TPP? I am sure many people. Okay, good job.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.41,0:06:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, of course, this hugely important so called free trade deal,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.00,0:06:59.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what people are calling (?) in steroids between all countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.73,0:07:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are completely (?) national sovereinghty undermining US laws,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.06,0:07:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,totally blacked out.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.00,0:07:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,100% on the mainstream media. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.61,0:07:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the corporate sponsors are under these negotiations in a secret deal.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.22,0:07:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,600 corporate advisers negotiating this deal (?) countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.55,0:07:21.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without any sort of a semblance of democratic participation from the people (?). Unbelievable.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.94,0:07:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Net neutrality, another important issue of our time, maintain the (?) nature of the web,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.58,0:07:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been totally sidelined by the same media companies,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.25,0:07:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,controlled by (?) telecommunication companies.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.05,0:07:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same companies that are trying to install a pay-to-play network on the internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.70,0:07:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people around the world maybe wondering how reality started bilionaire,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.22,0:07:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with zero political experience as this close to becoming
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.84,0:07:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a president of the United States of America, as (?).
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.61,0:07:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But i think a quick scan of our (?) media tells us one reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.86,0:08:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America’s salivating mainstream media (?) is (?) legitimizing Donald Trump
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.87,0:08:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by covering him 24/7, because he fears souls, baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.77,0:08:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And apparently such as fascism.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.82,0:08:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trump has been giving media coverage than hell Democratic campaigns combined,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.41,0:08:23.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,23 times more than Bernie Sanders. It is unbelievable.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.35,0:08:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The CBS had last (?) actually recently busted about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.42,0:08:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, Trump may not be good for America but he is damn good for CBS.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.40,0:08:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The money is rolling in. And this is fun.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.01,0:08:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is going to be a very good year for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.74,0:08:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sorry, is a terrible thing to say, but bringing on Donald, keep going.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.57,0:08:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The media may understand the consequences of promoting Trump’s xenophobic bigotry.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.45,0:08:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the short term profits from companies like CBS,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.62,0:08:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far out of the away of the dangers of the Trump’s presidency.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.70,0:09:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The corporate take over (?) has (?)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.39,0:09:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any (?)semblance with the democracy in this country.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.55,0:09:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For decades, journalists in DC have cared far more about their access,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.14,0:09:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but about their jobs.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.46,0:09:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw this in first hand in DC when i was an actually scolded by media officials
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.78,0:09:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for asking questions on soliciting to Rand Paul in congress.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.96,0:09:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When i first was a newbie, i got my official press badge,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.01,0:09:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i was, cool, now i just go ask and confront politicians in the hall of congress.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.57,0:09:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And very quickly, you know, the first person i saw walking on the hall was Rand Paul,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.43,0:09:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i asked my question, i said why did you endorse Matt Romney.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.56,0:09:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He ignored me, kept going, and i thought it was the end of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.09,0:09:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A week later, RT was starting to get calls from the congress press (?),
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.00,0:09:48.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to arrest me for stalking and harassment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.23,0:09:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, i wanted to put on air and they didn’t want to,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.00,0:09:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they were really caring(?) on audience about that time,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.00,0:09:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i was really new and really didn’t know what to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.00,0:10:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The charges were all basically empty threads.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.52,0:10:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they did call me into the office,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.88,0:10:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i sat down into an interrogation within the halls of congress,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.50,0:10:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with all that main bureau chief heads(?), from the corporate media networks,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.18,0:10:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they basically told me you don’t do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.07,0:10:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don’t come in here, and we were access that we worked for decades to maintain.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.86,0:10:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now it is my first lesson of how journalism actually worked in DC.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.00,0:10:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the media doesn’t only work to protect its bottom line.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.26,0:10:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also plays the key role in manufacturing consent for empire.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.50,0:10:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Conditioning us to believe that somehow be caused or (?) in a particular manner,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.05,0:10:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(?) that world game to go killing millions of people around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.07,0:10:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Displace mean countless millions more.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.80,0:10:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dictate the future for tenths of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.47,0:10:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every year around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.59,0:10:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even so called alternative press out like Vice and others promoted US empire American exceptional(?),
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.16,0:10:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have very dangerous notions that keeps society subservient.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.34,0:11:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The myth self justify untold criminal policies by nationalizing the war economy
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.98,0:11:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that runs on dept and destruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.98,0:11:10.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those in power have to have reasons to control the media, of course,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.17,0:11:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only told why white washed the long list of injustices and crimes they cared every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.85,0:11:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they can seal the cataclysmic course that is driving us down.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.32,0:11:28.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those in power doesn’t just control the media, of course. They control energy resources too.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.61,0:11:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under this system, the US continues to rely on the industry of imperialism all life on Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.78,0:11:36.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the latest UN report,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.77,0:11:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to avoid the worst predicted affects of climate change,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.95,0:11:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3/4 of non existent fossil fuels need to stay in the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.00,0:11:48.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That mean halt all production stopping right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.85,0:11:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is to avoid the worst effects, the worst effects.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.77,0:11:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the empires are doing the opposite of that. Chasing profits at any cost.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.98,0:12:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under Obama, the US was become the world’s largest oil and natural gas producer.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.00,0:12:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is outstanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.91,0:12:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US military is the biggest polluter on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.78,0:12:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have the example from all environmental legislation,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.01,0:12:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the clean air act to the Kyoto treaty.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.00,0:12:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With all interrogation about how the richest country in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.00,0:12:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could possibly pay for health care and education for its citizens.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.81,0:12:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little(?) as asked, about how we can possibly afford to maintain endless war occupation,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.35,0:12:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as the military budget that stands bigger than the next 7 countries combined.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.73,0:12:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is this system put the needs at the people and the environment first,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.00,0:12:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there would be very little dependency in such damaging field(?) source.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.04,0:12:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stand for engineers as you have seen in the documentary this morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.56,0:12:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if already developed the cost effect of state by state planned transition,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.61,0:12:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the entire US to renewable energy sources by 2050.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.40,0:12:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The money spent on the Iraq war 1, which killed 1 million people,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.02,0:13:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,5% of Iraq’s entire population, and planted the seeds for ISIS to flourish,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.40,0:13:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could have covered all global investments to halt climate change trends.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.56,0:13:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about that. The Iraq war could have halt the global climate change trend,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.42,0:13:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a cost of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.00,0:13:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is plenty of money to solve many of the pressing problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.42,0:13:22.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The issue is in resources. It is how they are being used.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.99,0:13:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, as much as Cuba criticized it’s never (?) achievements,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.35,0:13:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,i was able to spend weeks there, reporting and (?) fascinated that,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.83,0:13:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under a (?) economic embargo, this small island nation still able to produce,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.96,0:13:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of living comfortable(?) with most European(?) countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.36,0:13:44.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,High quality free education, high quality free health care,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.62,0:13:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a (?) more, as human rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.00,0:13:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to mention that completely green sustainable agricultural system.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.17,0:13:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amazingly, or not so amazingly, Cuba’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the entire hemispheres.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.44,0:14:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often enough, we have seen that people would have their basic human needs met,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.07,0:14:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are less likely to commit crimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.47,0:14:10.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you know, these (?) accomplishments were made
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.38,0:14:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an economy based on scarcity.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.49,0:14:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine what can be done in the richest country in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.86,0:14:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if people came first, not profits
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.33,0:14:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To continue to success the any nation (?) the global economical order,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.56,0:14:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even a small island nation like Cuba, poses a huge treat to the corporate hegemony.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.27,0:14:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is wide, this (?) this normalization process,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.00,0:14:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the US government is still spending countless millions on the ground for (?) there.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.94,0:14:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have seen how far their empire will blow, to crush any and all alternatives.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.87,0:14:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those in power also wield the most mass military in human history,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.87,0:14:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a way that (?) very real (?) ideas that provided an alternative to their system.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.06,0:14:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both in broad an (?) home.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.00,0:15:00.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the last century, (?) US government has done everything that is powered(?),
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.31,0:15:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to (?) out alternatives to its rule,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.00,0:15:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from ground up to to massive arrests of thousands of anarchists, socialists, lefts(?) in US,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.06,0:15:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making it illegal to even be a communist,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.00,0:15:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to carry on military interventions in over 70 nations just sent in world war 2,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.01,0:15:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,causing an untold(?) human misery, all in the name of fighting ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.32,0:15:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, the us empire has at least 900 military installations around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.06,0:15:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Pentagon does not even know,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.91,0:15:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they (?) military bases they have, what the number really is.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.28,0:15:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have (?) in almost every region on world to maintain an endless war of occupation.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.55,0:15:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was done(?) all it is(?).
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.00,0:15:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very rarely, sometimes, a glitch in the matrix provide a rare political opening for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.49,0:15:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those in power are also (?) elections, obviously,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.69,0:15:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a familiar through a college delegate process their own mission of third parties from the debates(?).
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.06,0:16:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Bernie Sanders has defined all odds,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.00,0:16:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he is bringing a message of occupy Wall Street,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.00,0:16:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a movement completely and radically marginalized in the mainstream, to the mainstream.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.18,0:16:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the entire nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.95,0:16:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His popularity, he is made it okay that criticizing capitalism.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.70,0:16:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For all the critiques on Bernie Sanders (?) policy (?) look.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.52,0:16:25.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His popularity is opening a path for us to criticize the system,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.93,0:16:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when just 5 years ago was unheard.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.78,0:16:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a huge thing for us now, according to a recent (?),
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.26,0:16:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,young people between ages of 18 and 29,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.61,0:16:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more favourably look at socialism than they do capitalism.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.89,0:16:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a huge feet(?) against the relentless propaganda campaign
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.87,0:16:46.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that existed for almost a century.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.91,0:16:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The two party dictatorship is unraveling fast.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.76,0:16:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having voters rejecting the candidates
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.76,0:16:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the establishment literally begging them to accept as amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.60,0:17:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only good things that comes from the corporate monopolies (?) like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.09,0:17:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those in power have an end game. It’s purely dystopic.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.06,0:17:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And right now there is a huge opportunity for change.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.00,0:17:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Real change. Real alternatives.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.71,0:17:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the voices in this room has so much potential to be heard right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.67,0:17:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is time to see the momentum (?), start building an Utopia we wish to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.20,0:17:28.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because in the words of Jacque Fresco,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.95,0:17:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you think we can’t change the world, it just means you are the ones that wont.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.14,0:17:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.