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You know, there's been a lot
of talk about Abraham Lincoln.

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But the president we need today
is not Abraham Lincoln.

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The president we need
today is Thomas Jefferson.

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He said that we needed
a revolution every generation.

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Thomas Jefferson said
you have to be ready

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in order to preserve
the vitality

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of your liberty and your freedom

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to defend it not by
overthrowing anything else

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except for what you
have been holding in your head

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that may not be
applicable anymore.

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We've gotten very lazy.

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We're many generations overdue

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for a revolution
in our thinking.

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I'm not talking about
blood and violence;

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although I'm afraid
that's already happening.

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I'm talking about a revolution

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that's probably
the hardest kind,

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the kind that takes place
inside the human soul

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and the human mind,

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to be able
to tear everything down,

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throw everything out,

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and start with a completely
fresh piece of paper

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and say, "Okay, how do we
solve this problem?"

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Can you talk to me
a little bit, like...

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I mean, who are you?

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Listen, this is not a plan

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that would make sense to anybody
except God.

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You know, I gave up trying to
figure that out a long time ago.

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I was born into a family
deeply connected

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to the U.S.
intelligence community.

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My mother had been
a cryptanalyst

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at the Army Security Agency
and NSA in World War II.

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Her work product went
to the President Roosevelt

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and to Secretary of War Stimson
and Cordell Hull at State.

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My father was
an Air Force aviator

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who went to work
for Martin Marietta

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on contracts for the CIA
and the Air Force,

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namely the Titan IIIC

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which put out the CIA's
Keyhole spy satellites.

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At age 19 when I was interning
for LAPD,

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I was pulled into
the chief's office

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because somebody discovered
I had a Q clearance.

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I didn't know anything about it.

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I went home,
and I asked Dad he said,

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"Yeah, because you're my son,

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"and, you know,
they have to do that

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because I might leave
my briefcase open."

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But a Q was a secret
compartmentalized clearance

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above top secret.

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I went through UCLA
as a Republican

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who didn't like anything
about the war in Vietnam,

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who didn't like anything
about government

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with this naive belief that,
you know,

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you can get inside the system

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and change it from the inside.

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I became an L.A. policeman,

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worked in South Central
Los Angeles in The Jungle,

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and the CIA tried unofficially

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to recruit me into an operation

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where they were smuggling drugs
into the country

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back in 1976, 1977,

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and I wouldn't get involved
in that.

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You know, I thought,
"Well, jeez, this must be

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"an isolated incident
of corruption.

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"This must be something

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"that everybody is gonna
want to correct right away.

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My God."

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And of course
that was a mistake.

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Basically my life disintegrated

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because I was betrayed
by a woman

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who worked for CIA,
who was my fiancée,

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and when I said I wouldn't
get involved in drugs,

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she disappeared, and people
started shooting at me,

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and then it was
a matter of saving my life,

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and the tools which
I acquired to save my life then,

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which were, you know,
writing letters to congressmen,

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getting on the record,

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trying to get
newspaper stories written,

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those were survival skills,

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but it was also a part
of learning how things worked.

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I was a mapmaker if you will,
a cartographer,

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going out to try and map
how the world really worked

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as opposed to the way
we were told it worked.

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And the map that we have made

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has proved so startlingly
accurate over ten years

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whether they had to do
with gold prices

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or geopolitical developments
or economic events.

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The only thing that amazes me

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is the speed with which things
are falling apart,

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and that message now

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is the single most
important thing in my life.

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It's the only thing in my life,

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well, except for rock and roll
music, good music,

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playing with my dog,
and long walks on the beach.

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Rags, come here.
Rags, come here.

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I first became focused
on energy issues in late 2001,

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just maybe a month or two
after 9/11.

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I was contacted by a geologist,

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a brilliant guy named
Dale Allen Pfeiffer,

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who introduced me to the concept
of peak oil

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and the basic issues
about energy

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and helped me to realize

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that there was a great deal
of evidence in 2001,

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not only that peak oil
was very real

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but that government agencies
were acting

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and responding
as if it was very real.

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All plastic is oil.

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Most paints, all pesticides
are made from oil.

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Everything from toothpaste to
tooth brushes is made from oil.

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There are seven gallons of oil
in every tire.

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There is nothing anywhere
in any combination

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that will replace the edifice
built by fossil fuels.

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Nothing.

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Peak oil is probably now
very easy to explain,

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much easier
than it was a long time ago.

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People have felt what
$147 a barrel oil feels like.

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Essentially peak oil is like if
you know what a bell curve is.

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Goes up, comes down.

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Peak oil is the point
of oil production

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when you're at the top
of the bell curve.

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And essentially
what that means is,

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you've used up
half of the resource.

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In the case of oil or
any other substance like that,

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no matter how much money
you throw at it,

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you're never going
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oil production above
where it was at peak.

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As of 2008, the International
Energy Agency has admitted

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that there is a global 9%
decline rate in oil production.

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That's the equivalent of
about 8 million barrels a day.

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There is no way, having plucked
all the low-hanging fruit

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and found the big reservoirs

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that we are gonna able
to offset a 9% decline rate.

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From a detective's standpoint,

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if you are trying
to assemble a case, you know,

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the multidimensional aspects
of a case...

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means, motive, opportunity...

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to understand what kind of force
drives events,

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peak oil was almost
with the stroke

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of, like,
a diamond cutter's knife

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the single piece which started
to make

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everything resonate
and make sense together.

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An economy
that runs on petroleum,

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some 20 million barrels of it
a day.

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You will recall that when the
Bush administration took office

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in January of 2001,

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a National Energy
Policy Development Group,

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the NEPDG, was formed

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and placed under
the exclusive, private,

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absolute control
of Vice President Dick Cheney.

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Its records were kept a secret,

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its minutes were kept a secret,

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seven pages were released
as a result of two lawsuits,

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and it clearly shows that that
task force was looking saying,

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"How much oil is there?

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Where is it?
Who owns it?"

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They knew that this was coming
for a long time.

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It has been known
that this event,

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this collapse,
this crash, was coming.

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Who they were,

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we can't even get information

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as to who was involved
and what they were doing.

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First of all, if you think
there might be oil someplace,

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then what you do is,
you go drill a test well.

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Then what you have to do

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is to take that one well
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and then you drill a series
of appraisal wells

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around that well

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to determine where the oil field
might go.

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You don't know how much oil
you're gonna get,

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how deep it is, what kind of oil
it's gonna to be.

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There are many different grades
of oils,

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a lot of which
are more expensive to refine.

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So all of that has
to do with how long it takes

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to make something produce,

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how much energy do you get back

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for how much energy
you invested.

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When oil was seeping out
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you got a return of,
I don't know, 200 to 1.

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When you have to go offshore,

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to deep water drilling
in 15,000 feet of water

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and your first well costs
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all that's energy that's being
invested to get energy,

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and the moment you start
burning more energy

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to get a barrel of oil out
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forget about it.

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The world's been
thoroughly explored

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over the last 120 years.

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There's no major oil finds left.

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As a matter of fact,
no field the size of Ghawar,

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the largest field
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has ever been discovered since.

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Saudi Arabia has 25%

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of the known oil reserves
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25%.

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Why, if Saudi Arabia has all
these untapped reserves on shore

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are they moving heavily
into offshore drilling?

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Now, if it's 5, 10, 50 times
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to drill offshore than on land,

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doesn't that tell you
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knows they've got
no more oil to find?

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It's axiomatic that if
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and is in decline,
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just because of the size
of the reserves that are there.

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Iraq is oil
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it's right close
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which means it's
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They can put the pipelines.

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They can get that into
the global supply stream

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as everything else declines.

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And Iraq was all about the oil.

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A lot of people have admitted
that, and like, duh.

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11 days after 9/11,
when there was no clear evidence

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that Saddam Hussein had anything
to do with 9/11...

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of course, he didn't...

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the plans were started
to invade Iraq, of course.

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That was the objective,
get control of that oil.

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Because Saddam Hussein
had been talking about

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pricing his oil in Euros,
taking it away from the dollar.

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We got in there.

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We restructured everything.

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We put in a friendly government
using the U.S. dollar,

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and we assured the oil companies

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their "fair access"
and fair share of Iraqi oil.

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International oil companies
into Iraqi oil fields

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We have no intention
of leaving Iraq.

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We're never gonna leave Iraq.

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Going back to 2004,
we started building the largest,

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most permanent military bases,
three of them, in the world,

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plus the largest embassy
compound that's ever been built.

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We built an embassy compound
in Baghdad

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that's bigger than Vatican City.

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That's not a temporary deal.

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Nobody is gonna take that oil.

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We are sitting on it.

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But there is not enough oil
in Iraq to change anything.

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Iraq probably has around
90 billion barrels

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of recoverable oil.

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That sounds like a lot of oil.

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But when you consider that in
2008 the world was consuming

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85 million barrels a day,

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that means
a billion barrels of oil

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only last for about 111/2 days,

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so that ain't that much oil.

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That's only the first
of the good things

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that will come to Iraq,
thanks to oil.

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They knew exactly
what was coming.

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That's what's in
the National Energy Policy

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Development Group report
that's been classified,

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because if that report
were declassified,

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we would be building scaffolds
to hang Dick Cheney

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and everybody in that
administration tomorrow.

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Let's assume
just for the sake of discussion

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that there's 600 billion barrels
in the Arctic.

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First of all, it happens
to be under the polar ice cap.

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That's a problem.

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The polar ice cap happens to be
on, what, 10,000,

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15,000 feet water.

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The problem with the polar ice
cap is, it floats; it moves.

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So you can't drill a well
on Tuesday

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and expect it to be in
the same place on Thursday.

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That's why a lot of conservative
think tanks and oil companies

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are cheering the melting
of the polar ice caps.

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Developing this tiny section
of ANWR,

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could eventually yield up
to a million...

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If there is oil in ANWR

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there's no more than about
a six-month supply

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for the entire United States.

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There are no pipelines
across a thousand miles

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of tundra that's melting due
to global warming,

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which means you can't sink pipes
to support

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a pipeline in tundra
that's turned to mud.

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There's no tanker routes,
the wells aren't drilled,

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and yet we are spending our
future as if that oil is there.

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We got to drop all this lying
right now.

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We don't need transparency
about anything

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other than about
how much oil is really left,

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because we don't know.

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Oil is a commodity;
it's an asset.

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You make loans based upon
what's in the ground,

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so you have all these
accounting terms:

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possible reserves,
proven reserves,

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ultimately recoverable reserves,

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verified reserves, estimated...

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But actual reserve estimates
are state secrets.

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The Saudis don't dare announce
that they've passed

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their peak of oil production.

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Why?

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They have a very
restive population

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that have been sold
an expectation

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of a rising standard of living,

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and the moment Saudi Arabia
acknowledges it's past peak,

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it may well have a revolution.

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Now, what happens if there's
a revolution in Saudi Arabia

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with 25% of the world's
known oil?

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Where is that oil going
to get replaced from?

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It can't be.

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Very complex problem.

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It's a very complex situation.

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Just start working now,
otherwise we won't have time.

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We're gonna be out
of oil within a few years.

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In doing this sort of pulling
archival footage for this film,

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I found at least ten examples
of people in the late '70s

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talking about,
this is the end of oil.

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This is, like,
end of a way of life,

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we are hitting a new era.

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This situation is destined
to continue.

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People look at that footage,

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and I think they can feel
that it's somewhat alarmist,

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given that we were able
to continue

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our way of life
for another 30, 35 years.

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Do you see any parallels
between that time and now?

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The '70s was really
a critical decade.

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In the '70s,
Marion King Hubbard,

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the original prophet
of peak oil,

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in late 1949 he did the math

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and said U.S. domestic oil
production will peak in 1970.

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So that's not some feat
of Nostradamus

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communicating with some entity.

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It's math; it's science;
it's simple.

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But in the '70s, M. King Hubbard
testified before Congress.

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That was 1974.

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In 1976,
President Jimmy Carter said,

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"Man, we cannot use as much
energy as we have been using."

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To use energy more efficiently.

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That's when solar panels
went up.

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That's when he start... he knew.

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They have known in Washington.

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I have...

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I have published on my website,
as have others,

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declassified CIA documents
from 1976

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showing that CIA was perfectly
aware of peak oil.

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In those days, of course,

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when the situation appeared
to be normal,

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when people had jobs,
they had vacations,

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they had credit cards,
they had credit lines,

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everybody is talking about
growth, growth, growth,

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buy, buy, buy,
spend, consume, consume,

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and everything seemed
to be working,

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yeah, we were called alarmists.

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We don't live
in that world anymore.

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Americans were on the way
to owning millions of cars.

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800 million internal
combustion-powered vehicles

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on the planet.

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They all run on oil.

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It takes uncounted barrels
of oil

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to make those cars and engines
in the first place,

347
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and you cannot plug
any new technology

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into an internal combustion
powered engine.

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With seven gallons of oil
in every tire,

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nobody will ever make

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800 million new
internal combustion anything

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because there ain't gonna be
enough oil.

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00:17:23,934 --> 00:17:27,768
Ethanol is an absolute...

354
00:17:27,805 --> 00:17:28,965
joke.

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00:17:31,208 --> 00:17:33,938
First of all, a very brilliant
scientist, David Pimentel,

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took the concept of net energy,

357
00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:37,645
how much energy do you invest

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versus how much
do you get in return,

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and he concluded
about a decade ago, I guess,

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that it takes more energy
to make ethanol

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than you get from burning it,
which is absolute stupidity.

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Because you drive the
oil-powered machines, etcetera,

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you irrigate,
you use the fertilizers,

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00:17:55,599 --> 00:17:58,568
you're burning all that oil
and natural gas to grow it.

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Then you make steam which is...

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which is more
hydrocarbon energy,

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00:18:02,306 --> 00:18:03,705
you add more chemicals,

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00:18:03,741 --> 00:18:06,574
and you come up with ethanol,
which you can put in a car.

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00:18:06,610 --> 00:18:10,512
Now, the Bush administration
had announced a goal

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of having 15% of all fuel
in the United States

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made from ethanol, I think,
by the year 2015.

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They forgot to tell you that

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that would take all the arable
land used to grow corn to do it.

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Canadian tar sands is an oil.

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It is a very, very thick,
sticky, obnoxious substance

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00:18:33,404 --> 00:18:35,668
that's mixed in with sand

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at levels 200, 300, 400,
500 feet in layers

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beneath the soil.

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This is in Alberta.

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And they literally strip mine
thousands of tons a day.

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They put them in these huge,
oil-powered dump trucks

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and drive them to a place
where they then wash the sand.

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They take millions and billions
of gallons of fresh water,

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which we're running
out of everywhere,

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and they boil it
by burning natural gas.

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00:19:02,199 --> 00:19:05,464
There is not
a possibility anywhere

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00:19:05,503 --> 00:19:07,494
that Canadian tar sand's
production

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00:19:07,538 --> 00:19:10,974
will exceed maybe 3 million,
3.5 million barrels a day.

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The first thing
that the uneducated mind

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00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:16,769
that's in denial says,

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00:19:16,814 --> 00:19:18,042
"Well, what about hydrogen?

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00:19:18,082 --> 00:19:19,344
Can't we make electric cars?"

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00:19:19,383 --> 00:19:20,873
Then I have to bring them back
to the fact

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00:19:20,918 --> 00:19:22,886
that there's seven gallons
of oil in every tire,

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00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,412
that there are thousands
of gallons of oil in every car,

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00:19:26,457 --> 00:19:29,119
in the plastics, the paints,
the resins, everything.

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00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:30,354
All of that is made by oil.

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00:19:30,394 --> 00:19:32,034
The oil that's used
to manufacture the car

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00:19:32,062 --> 00:19:34,758
and ship it around, to heat
the metals, etcetera, etcetera.

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00:19:34,798 --> 00:19:38,928
There will never be 800 million
electric powered vehicles,

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00:19:38,969 --> 00:19:42,905
and electricity is not
an energy source.

402
00:19:42,940 --> 00:19:45,966
Electricity is generated
by burning

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00:19:46,010 --> 00:19:48,979
or using some other kind
of energy.

404
00:19:55,653 --> 00:19:59,885
Today freedom and power
are woven together.

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00:19:59,924 --> 00:20:03,917
The invisible battalions
of electric power...

406
00:20:06,997 --> 00:20:08,521
It's clear that electricity

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00:20:08,566 --> 00:20:10,761
is the key
to industrial civilization

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00:20:10,801 --> 00:20:13,702
in that it powers
our refrigeration.

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00:20:13,737 --> 00:20:16,297
It runs the water pumps
that pump water out

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00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:18,900
of the New York subway
system every day.

411
00:20:18,943 --> 00:20:21,275
It allows us
to commute electronically,

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00:20:21,312 --> 00:20:23,075
charge our cell phone batteries,

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00:20:23,113 --> 00:20:27,743
preserve food,
run operating rooms, etcetera.

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00:20:30,588 --> 00:20:34,922
The subject
of alternative energies.

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00:20:38,095 --> 00:20:42,725
There is no such thing
as clean coal,

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00:20:42,766 --> 00:20:45,257
and there never ever will be.

417
00:20:45,302 --> 00:20:46,929
Why?

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00:20:46,971 --> 00:20:49,701
Carbon sequestration
is enormously expensive.

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00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:52,174
What it says essentially is,
you capture the CO2

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00:20:52,209 --> 00:20:54,871
and any other
greenhouse gases emitted

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00:20:54,912 --> 00:20:56,675
in the burning of the coal,

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00:20:56,714 --> 00:21:00,946
you exert enormous amounts
of energy to compress it,

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00:21:00,985 --> 00:21:04,614
then you move it over
enormously long distances,

424
00:21:04,655 --> 00:21:09,115
and you pump it into some
airtight chamber in the ground

425
00:21:09,159 --> 00:21:11,992
where somebody will figure out
with technology

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00:21:12,029 --> 00:21:13,826
what to do with
the greenhouse gas in 10,000

427
00:21:13,864 --> 00:21:15,297
or 15,000 thousand years.

428
00:21:17,001 --> 00:21:19,196
Nuclear process
requires something

429
00:21:19,236 --> 00:21:21,397
like 10 to 13 years
of incubation

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00:21:21,438 --> 00:21:24,896
to get the permitting done,
all the regulations satisfied,

431
00:21:24,942 --> 00:21:27,274
and the construction
of nuclear power plants

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00:21:27,311 --> 00:21:29,643
is one of the most
energy-intensive processes

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00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:30,908
in the world.

434
00:21:30,948 --> 00:21:32,882
The steel, the lead containment,

435
00:21:32,916 --> 00:21:36,443
the enrichment of uranium
is a horribly intensive process.

436
00:21:36,487 --> 00:21:38,455
You just don't throw
a rock of uranium in

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00:21:38,489 --> 00:21:40,013
and start making nuclear energy.

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00:21:40,057 --> 00:21:41,057
Can't do that.

439
00:21:42,593 --> 00:21:44,593
The first and obvious
problem with tidal energy is,

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00:21:44,628 --> 00:21:49,327
it has to be generated
or collected near a coastline.

441
00:21:49,366 --> 00:21:51,857
Salt water
is extremely corrosive.

442
00:21:51,902 --> 00:21:56,896
There's an enormous energy cost
in manufacturing the machines.

443
00:21:56,940 --> 00:21:59,408
There are only two
alternative energies

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00:21:59,443 --> 00:22:03,038
which can really have
an immediate impact,

445
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,071
an immediate benefit.

446
00:22:08,218 --> 00:22:11,210
Now, the problem with plans
like enormous wind farms

447
00:22:11,255 --> 00:22:14,622
in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado,

448
00:22:14,658 --> 00:22:16,285
the fundamental law
with electricity is,

449
00:22:16,327 --> 00:22:20,593
is that it's drawn off
right where it's used first.

450
00:22:20,631 --> 00:22:23,600
Yes, you can transmit
electricity over long distances,

451
00:22:23,634 --> 00:22:25,465
but people don't think
about the energy

452
00:22:25,502 --> 00:22:26,764
that goes into transformers,

453
00:22:26,804 --> 00:22:28,931
and how much copper
is in power lines,

454
00:22:28,972 --> 00:22:31,805
and all the maintenance
that has to go to that grid.

455
00:22:31,842 --> 00:22:35,403
So when you see really
ridiculous commercials

456
00:22:35,446 --> 00:22:40,577
that say we could have a solar
array 96 miles in the desert,

457
00:22:40,617 --> 00:22:42,278
they don't even think about
the fact

458
00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:44,685
that that electricity is going
to get used in California

459
00:22:44,722 --> 00:22:46,587
before it goes any place else.

460
00:22:50,794 --> 00:22:52,557
Just, you know,
if you saw this movie

461
00:22:52,596 --> 00:22:54,496
and you didn't know
who you were,

462
00:22:54,531 --> 00:22:55,930
and you wanted...

463
00:22:55,966 --> 00:22:57,831
you were just curious
what your credentials are

464
00:22:57,868 --> 00:23:02,601
in terms of understanding
this information.

465
00:23:07,111 --> 00:23:11,309
I have a bachelors degree
in political science

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00:23:11,348 --> 00:23:16,809
with honors from UCLA, 1973.

467
00:23:16,854 --> 00:23:21,484
Graduate of the Los Angeles
Police Academy, Valedictorian,

468
00:23:21,525 --> 00:23:24,460
class of 1173,

469
00:23:24,495 --> 00:23:29,364
was sent to do DEA Narcotics
Enforcement School by LAPD.

470
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,995
I have 30 years of experience
as an investigative journalist.

471
00:23:33,036 --> 00:23:37,769
I've broken major scandals
that have had national impact.

472
00:23:37,808 --> 00:23:40,834
Of course, I got to know
many members of Congress.

473
00:23:40,878 --> 00:23:43,904
I had been trying to testify
for a long time,

474
00:23:43,947 --> 00:23:46,381
and actually I have
never testified in Congress.

475
00:23:46,417 --> 00:23:47,748
I did, at the request of

476
00:23:47,785 --> 00:23:49,582
the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence,

477
00:23:49,620 --> 00:23:51,212
submit written testimony,

478
00:23:51,255 --> 00:23:52,984
but after they read
the written testimony

479
00:23:53,023 --> 00:23:54,047
that I was going to submit,

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00:23:54,091 --> 00:23:56,025
I never got a call to testify.

481
00:23:56,059 --> 00:23:57,526
I have written two books,

482
00:23:57,561 --> 00:24:00,428
one of which is in the
Harvard Business School library.

483
00:24:00,464 --> 00:24:04,059
I've lectured at universities
all over the country

484
00:24:04,101 --> 00:24:06,035
and in many countries.

485
00:24:06,069 --> 00:24:07,536
People wonder, you know,

486
00:24:07,571 --> 00:24:10,972
how this guy with
a bachelors degree from UCLA

487
00:24:11,008 --> 00:24:12,202
came to know all this shit.

488
00:24:12,242 --> 00:24:16,542
Well, this comes from 30 years
of learning

489
00:24:16,580 --> 00:24:19,674
how to scan mainstream media
and read it,

490
00:24:19,716 --> 00:24:23,516
a way of finding stories
from around the world

491
00:24:23,554 --> 00:24:27,285
that tell you all the things
that are really going on

492
00:24:27,324 --> 00:24:30,851
that are not played
on the headlines...

493
00:24:30,894 --> 00:24:32,293
but they're the kind of stories

494
00:24:32,329 --> 00:24:37,028
that people who really make
decisions know how to look for...

495
00:24:37,067 --> 00:24:40,059
and then how to connect them,

496
00:24:40,103 --> 00:24:42,333
how to place the dots
close enough together

497
00:24:42,372 --> 00:24:43,839
so that they can be connected.

498
00:25:01,325 --> 00:25:03,350
The soil is the place from which

499
00:25:03,393 --> 00:25:07,227
all plant matter
gets its nutrients,

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00:25:07,264 --> 00:25:09,528
and if you keep sucking
the nutrients out,

501
00:25:09,566 --> 00:25:11,591
the soil is useless.

502
00:25:11,635 --> 00:25:15,401
For all of history,
the way the soil was replenished

503
00:25:15,439 --> 00:25:18,875
and the nutrients were returned
in some measure to the soil

504
00:25:18,909 --> 00:25:21,104
was that plant matter
was allowed to decay,

505
00:25:21,144 --> 00:25:24,272
to compost, to restock the soil.

506
00:25:24,314 --> 00:25:26,509
That's why crop rotation
is so important.

507
00:25:26,550 --> 00:25:28,142
You may have one crop of celery

508
00:25:28,185 --> 00:25:31,643
which will suck certain
chemicals out of the soil.

509
00:25:31,688 --> 00:25:34,782
Another crop,
wheat or something else,

510
00:25:34,825 --> 00:25:37,419
may return those same chemicals
to the soil.

511
00:25:37,461 --> 00:25:39,725
So the soil maintains a balance.

512
00:25:45,602 --> 00:25:48,162
It's kind of sad,
because we as a species

513
00:25:48,205 --> 00:25:50,833
have become so disconnected
from the earth.

514
00:25:50,874 --> 00:25:52,899
We don't have any
real contact with the earth.

515
00:25:52,943 --> 00:25:54,877
We don't have any sense
of its functions,

516
00:25:54,912 --> 00:25:57,380
its feel, its nature,
its seasons, its timing.

517
00:25:59,616 --> 00:26:03,484
First of all, the topsoil
on which food is grown now

518
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,354
is nothing more than a sponge
onto which we pour chemicals

519
00:26:07,391 --> 00:26:10,053
that we get from oil
and natural gas,

520
00:26:10,093 --> 00:26:11,754
and without those chemicals...

521
00:26:11,795 --> 00:26:13,763
the soil has been turned
into a junkie;

522
00:26:13,797 --> 00:26:17,426
the soil is worthless.

523
00:26:17,467 --> 00:26:19,367
So when you plant a crop now,

524
00:26:19,403 --> 00:26:22,031
what happens is you drive
an oil-powered machine.

525
00:26:22,072 --> 00:26:24,199
Drives along, and it plows.

526
00:26:24,241 --> 00:26:27,005
Then you drive another
oil-powered machine,

527
00:26:27,044 --> 00:26:29,740
and it drives along,
and it plants.

528
00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:31,304
And then you irrigate.

529
00:26:31,348 --> 00:26:32,388
Well, how do you irrigate?

530
00:26:32,416 --> 00:26:34,816
Well, that water is pumped
by pumps

531
00:26:34,851 --> 00:26:36,341
that are powered by electricity.

532
00:26:36,386 --> 00:26:38,013
Where's that electricity
come from?

533
00:26:38,055 --> 00:26:41,183
In the United States,
it's either coal or natural gas.

534
00:26:41,224 --> 00:26:42,885
So next thing you do
is come along,

535
00:26:42,926 --> 00:26:44,154
and you fertilize it.

536
00:26:44,194 --> 00:26:48,062
All commercial fertilizers
are made from ammonia,

537
00:26:48,098 --> 00:26:52,899
and the feedstock for ammonia
is natural gas.

538
00:26:52,936 --> 00:26:55,427
So you have ammonium nitrate
fertilizers

539
00:26:55,472 --> 00:26:58,441
that are then sprayed on
by another oil-powered vehicle.

540
00:26:58,475 --> 00:27:01,638
Then the crop dusters come along
that are powered by oil

541
00:27:01,678 --> 00:27:06,377
that spray pesticides that are
all made from petroleum.

542
00:27:06,416 --> 00:27:08,680
Then when it's time to harvest
the food, what do you do?

543
00:27:08,719 --> 00:27:10,277
You drive another
oil-powered machine,

544
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,719
and you harvest it.

545
00:27:11,755 --> 00:27:14,656
You use another oil-powered
machine to drive it to a place

546
00:27:14,691 --> 00:27:16,215
where it's processed.

547
00:27:16,259 --> 00:27:18,250
Then you wrap it up in plastic,
which is oil,

548
00:27:18,295 --> 00:27:20,286
and you put it in
another oil-powered machine,

549
00:27:20,330 --> 00:27:22,355
and you drive it X number
of miles

550
00:27:22,399 --> 00:27:24,060
to a food distribution warehouse

551
00:27:24,101 --> 00:27:26,228
and an oil-powered machine
to your supermarket.

552
00:27:31,241 --> 00:27:33,368
The way food is grown, produced,

553
00:27:33,410 --> 00:27:34,968
and moved around
the world today,

554
00:27:35,012 --> 00:27:37,003
it's an enormous waste
of hydrocarbon energy

555
00:27:37,047 --> 00:27:38,742
which doesn't make sense.

556
00:27:38,782 --> 00:27:40,807
Why do we have strawberries
from Chile?

557
00:27:40,851 --> 00:27:42,614
Why do we have
spinach from China?

558
00:27:42,653 --> 00:27:44,746
Why do we ship anchovies
halfway around the world

559
00:27:44,788 --> 00:27:49,248
to be packaged in tin cans?

560
00:27:49,292 --> 00:27:53,991
There are ten calories
of hydrocarbon energy

561
00:27:54,031 --> 00:27:57,228
in every calorie
of food consumed

562
00:27:57,267 --> 00:27:58,700
in the industrialized world.

563
00:28:07,778 --> 00:28:11,714
Three times in my life

564
00:28:11,748 --> 00:28:17,812
I tried to walk away from,
forget about,

565
00:28:17,854 --> 00:28:20,118
the things that I had seen

566
00:28:20,157 --> 00:28:24,093
that were so out of whack,

567
00:28:24,127 --> 00:28:27,790
that were so crazy,
that were so wrong.

568
00:28:27,831 --> 00:28:30,732
You know, and that is what
many people urged me to do.

569
00:28:30,767 --> 00:28:33,531
But what inevitably happened
every time

570
00:28:33,570 --> 00:28:38,439
I tried to walk away from this
path that I have walked

571
00:28:38,475 --> 00:28:39,999
was that everything else
in my life

572
00:28:40,043 --> 00:28:41,203
would be taken away from me

573
00:28:41,244 --> 00:28:44,441
so that this path
was the only thing left.

574
00:28:44,481 --> 00:28:46,847
I had no other choice.

575
00:28:46,883 --> 00:28:50,649
And, yeah, anger and resentment
do build up,

576
00:28:50,687 --> 00:28:54,248
especially when you see
and document as much corruption,

577
00:28:54,291 --> 00:28:55,519
as much dishonesty,

578
00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:59,222
as much illegality,
as much murder, as much betrayal

579
00:28:59,262 --> 00:29:04,791
as I have from people
who pretend to be otherwise.

580
00:29:04,835 --> 00:29:06,029
And I reached a point...

581
00:29:06,069 --> 00:29:09,869
it was about 1993
when I first became involved

582
00:29:09,906 --> 00:29:13,672
or learned of the murder
of Marine Colonel Jim Sabow

583
00:29:13,710 --> 00:29:15,701
at El Toro Marine Air Station.

584
00:29:15,746 --> 00:29:18,840
He was the chief of Air Ops,
and he had caught CIA C130s

585
00:29:18,882 --> 00:29:21,680
flying 2,000 and 3,000 kilos
of cocaine on to his base,

586
00:29:21,718 --> 00:29:24,118
and he was suicided.

587
00:29:24,154 --> 00:29:26,179
I crossed my own Rubicon
at that point.

588
00:29:26,223 --> 00:29:30,216
There was no turning
back for me,

589
00:29:30,260 --> 00:29:32,592
and I knew that wherever
this path was gonna go,

590
00:29:32,629 --> 00:29:33,789
I had to follow it.

591
00:29:38,435 --> 00:29:42,371
In the '80s, because I had
some skill as a writer,

592
00:29:42,405 --> 00:29:44,396
I started freelance writing.

593
00:29:44,441 --> 00:29:45,703
I got published a few times.

594
00:29:45,742 --> 00:29:49,371
I realized
that I could be a writer.

595
00:29:49,412 --> 00:29:54,577
I wrote about 109 mysterious
deaths or suicides

596
00:29:54,618 --> 00:29:56,950
in the U.S. military
in a very short period of time,

597
00:29:56,987 --> 00:30:00,889
and I found that most of those
were connected

598
00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:05,293
to covert operations
in one way or another.

599
00:30:05,328 --> 00:30:07,523
The next real evolution
came in 1996

600
00:30:07,564 --> 00:30:10,658
after my confrontation
with CIA Director Deutch,

601
00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:13,032
John Deutch
at Locke High School.

602
00:30:13,069 --> 00:30:16,470
You know, I remember standing up
saying something like,

603
00:30:16,506 --> 00:30:19,498
"I am a former Los Angeles
police narcotics detective.

604
00:30:19,543 --> 00:30:21,067
"I worked South Central
Los Angeles,

605
00:30:21,111 --> 00:30:22,551
"and I can tell you,
Director Deutch,

606
00:30:22,579 --> 00:30:24,206
"emphatically
and without equivocation

607
00:30:24,247 --> 00:30:26,772
"that the agency
has dealt drugs in this country

608
00:30:26,817 --> 00:30:27,817
for a long time,"

609
00:30:27,851 --> 00:30:30,547
and the room exploded.

610
00:30:33,557 --> 00:30:36,253
I had been saying that CIA
was dealing drugs for 18 years.

611
00:30:36,293 --> 00:30:37,817
I mean, I'd been shot at for it.

612
00:30:37,861 --> 00:30:39,351
I'd been forced out of LAPD.

613
00:30:39,396 --> 00:30:40,396
I'd been trashed.

614
00:30:40,430 --> 00:30:41,829
I'd been called crazy.

615
00:30:41,865 --> 00:30:43,856
If, in the course
of the IG's investigations

616
00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:45,367
and Fred Hinson's work,

617
00:30:45,402 --> 00:30:48,860
you come across evidence
of severely criminal activity,

618
00:30:48,905 --> 00:30:53,672
will you tell
the American people the truth?

619
00:30:53,710 --> 00:30:57,111
We will bring the people
to justice

620
00:30:57,147 --> 00:30:58,444
and make them accountable.

621
00:30:58,481 --> 00:31:00,176
Like so often,
when they promise justice,

622
00:31:00,217 --> 00:31:01,217
there isn't any.

623
00:31:01,251 --> 00:31:03,151
It was whittled
and tweetered down.

624
00:31:03,186 --> 00:31:05,950
There were some
very mysterious deaths involved.

625
00:31:05,989 --> 00:31:08,014
Congressmen Julian Dixon,
who was at that meeting,

626
00:31:08,058 --> 00:31:12,427
had a very sudden
heart attack...

627
00:31:12,462 --> 00:31:15,795
which led to the publishing of
the first issue of my newsletter

628
00:31:15,832 --> 00:31:18,232
in May of 1998,
From the Wilderness.

629
00:31:18,268 --> 00:31:21,931
I sat down
and wrote a few pages out,

630
00:31:21,972 --> 00:31:23,303
like, eight pages I think.

631
00:31:23,340 --> 00:31:25,831
I mailed it to 68 names,

632
00:31:25,876 --> 00:31:27,468
and over the next 81/2 years,

633
00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:30,536
From the Wilderness grew to have

634
00:31:30,580 --> 00:31:35,279
as many as 60 members
of Congress as subscribers,

635
00:31:35,318 --> 00:31:37,513
professors at universities
around the world,

636
00:31:37,554 --> 00:31:40,523
government officials.

637
00:31:40,557 --> 00:31:42,821
One of my first exposés
after CIA and drugs

638
00:31:42,859 --> 00:31:45,225
was that I proved CNN
was absolutely lying

639
00:31:45,262 --> 00:31:48,789
in something called
the Tailwind Scandal of 1998

640
00:31:48,832 --> 00:31:50,629
where CNN had
correctly reported...

641
00:31:50,667 --> 00:31:52,532
their producer April Oliver
had reported

642
00:31:52,569 --> 00:31:55,367
that CIA had used sarin gas
in Laos

643
00:31:55,405 --> 00:31:56,405
during the Vietnam War,

644
00:31:56,439 --> 00:31:57,838
and Henry Kissinger
authorized it.

645
00:31:57,874 --> 00:32:01,002
Four different A-1
pilots who dropped the gas.

646
00:32:01,044 --> 00:32:03,035
In spite of
what the Pentagon said.

647
00:32:03,079 --> 00:32:04,979
CNN, you know, rolled over.

648
00:32:05,015 --> 00:32:06,209
Henry Kissinger called.

649
00:32:06,249 --> 00:32:10,515
Oliver was fired.

650
00:32:10,553 --> 00:32:14,649
Pat Tillman series
that I broke in my newsletter.

651
00:32:14,691 --> 00:32:18,149
All seven parts, that was what
broke the Pat Tillman exposé

652
00:32:18,194 --> 00:32:22,062
that brought down nine officers
or got them disciplined.

653
00:32:22,098 --> 00:32:25,625
The government violated
its most basic responsibility.

654
00:32:25,669 --> 00:32:28,934
But my
economic predictions then,

655
00:32:28,972 --> 00:32:29,972
we had it so right.

656
00:32:30,006 --> 00:32:31,837
The problems are several-fold

657
00:32:31,875 --> 00:32:33,570
behind the economic crash
that is coming

658
00:32:33,610 --> 00:32:37,546
that will be nothing
like we have ever seen before.

659
00:32:37,580 --> 00:32:42,574
In 2006, we said,
"Get out of debt right now.

660
00:32:42,619 --> 00:32:44,109
"Check your mortgage carefully,

661
00:32:44,154 --> 00:32:46,679
"especially if you have
an A.R.M.

662
00:32:46,723 --> 00:32:47,985
"Get into gold.

663
00:32:48,024 --> 00:32:50,686
"Reduce debt
as much as possible.

664
00:32:50,727 --> 00:32:52,922
"Stay away from any kind
of financing

665
00:32:52,963 --> 00:32:54,362
and heavy credit card."

666
00:32:54,397 --> 00:32:56,422
We issued a whole series
of warnings.

667
00:32:56,466 --> 00:32:58,093
How many people have ever heard
of the fact

668
00:32:58,134 --> 00:33:00,500
that they're trading pools
of mortgage-backed securities?

669
00:33:00,537 --> 00:33:03,165
Like mutual funds,
but it's all mortgages.

670
00:33:03,206 --> 00:33:05,902
Those books are as cooked
as the books on Enron.

671
00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:07,569
But it was like 11, 12 days

672
00:33:07,610 --> 00:33:09,475
after we issued
that economic alert

673
00:33:09,512 --> 00:33:11,192
in the middle of running
the Tillman series

674
00:33:11,214 --> 00:33:13,148
that our offices
were burglarized.

675
00:33:13,183 --> 00:33:15,651
All seven computers smashed

676
00:33:15,685 --> 00:33:17,915
and a whole chain of events
took place up there

677
00:33:17,954 --> 00:33:21,583
which was... which actually
worked out okay,

678
00:33:21,624 --> 00:33:25,924
because I needed to evolve,
and I have since then.

679
00:33:31,434 --> 00:33:33,959
There was a period after,
you know, so many years

680
00:33:34,004 --> 00:33:37,064
of deliberate attempts
to sabotage my operations,

681
00:33:37,107 --> 00:33:41,009
four of which we connected in
one way or another to the FBI.

682
00:33:44,514 --> 00:33:47,244
I published that I had retired.

683
00:33:47,283 --> 00:33:51,049
I said officially
that I had retired.

684
00:33:51,087 --> 00:33:54,989
What I had... and at that point,
given the way I felt,

685
00:33:55,025 --> 00:34:01,191
that was
a pretty honest statement.

686
00:34:01,231 --> 00:34:02,926
I didn't know
that I would bounce back

687
00:34:02,966 --> 00:34:05,264
or that there was a third
or a fourth wind

688
00:34:05,301 --> 00:34:06,734
to come inside of me,

689
00:34:06,770 --> 00:34:11,571
but that also is the image
that I wanted out there

690
00:34:11,608 --> 00:34:13,007
just to take the heat off me

691
00:34:13,043 --> 00:34:15,910
at least until Bush and Cheney
got out of the White House,

692
00:34:15,945 --> 00:34:18,709
because that's where
the heat was coming from.

693
00:34:20,784 --> 00:34:22,012
From them personally?

694
00:34:22,052 --> 00:34:23,451
I mean,
from their administration,

695
00:34:23,486 --> 00:34:25,716
or, you know, the people
that ran the CIA,

696
00:34:25,755 --> 00:34:27,245
that ran the FBI?

697
00:34:27,290 --> 00:34:29,485
Who was that pressure
coming from?

698
00:34:29,526 --> 00:34:32,984
I have absolutely no doubt
that Richard Cheney

699
00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:36,829
and Donald Rumsfeld took an
intense personal interest in me

700
00:34:36,866 --> 00:34:38,493
and what my newsletter
had published

701
00:34:38,535 --> 00:34:41,163
for all the years
of the Bush Administration.

702
00:34:41,204 --> 00:34:44,605
That's about as specific
as I care to get.

703
00:34:51,514 --> 00:34:55,678
There was a guy named
von Clausewitz

704
00:34:55,718 --> 00:34:58,278
who said that war
is a continuation of politics

705
00:34:58,321 --> 00:35:00,448
by other means.

706
00:35:00,490 --> 00:35:04,824
Politics is a continuation
of economics by other means.

707
00:35:08,998 --> 00:35:12,661
To understand all of this mess,
you need to understand one term.

708
00:35:12,702 --> 00:35:15,136
It's a big financial term that
is real simple to understand.

709
00:35:15,171 --> 00:35:17,139
It's called a derivative.

710
00:35:17,173 --> 00:35:21,667
A derivative is
any financial instrument

711
00:35:21,711 --> 00:35:24,544
which is derived
from the inherent value

712
00:35:24,581 --> 00:35:27,209
of something else
that is tangible.

713
00:35:27,250 --> 00:35:30,083
In other words,
an ear of corn has value.

714
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,145
A barrel of oil has value.

715
00:35:32,188 --> 00:35:35,157
If you have a house
and a mortgage, that's fine.

716
00:35:35,191 --> 00:35:37,591
When you start doing
mortgage-backed securities,

717
00:35:37,627 --> 00:35:40,061
packaging, and bundling,
that's called a derivative.

718
00:35:44,367 --> 00:35:46,631
As of the start of the collapse,

719
00:35:46,669 --> 00:35:50,332
which let's peg
at September of 2008,

720
00:35:50,373 --> 00:35:54,241
there were derivatives
with a notional value,

721
00:35:54,277 --> 00:35:56,268
meaning that if you added up
all the pieces of paper,

722
00:35:56,312 --> 00:36:00,146
were worth $700 trillion.

723
00:36:00,183 --> 00:36:02,174
In other words,
if they all cashed out at once,

724
00:36:02,218 --> 00:36:04,448
you would need to have
$700 trillion in cash,

725
00:36:04,487 --> 00:36:06,250
and of course,
there isn't that much money.

726
00:36:10,493 --> 00:36:13,951
So with all of these hedges and
derivatives and puts and calls,

727
00:36:13,997 --> 00:36:15,055
those are all derivatives,

728
00:36:15,098 --> 00:36:17,225
and all these other things
they do,

729
00:36:17,267 --> 00:36:19,587
all they cared about was making
the minimum monthly payment

730
00:36:19,602 --> 00:36:20,762
on the credit card bill.

731
00:36:20,803 --> 00:36:24,000
In other words, to service
the $700 trillion

732
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,201
in notional-valued derivatives,

733
00:36:26,242 --> 00:36:28,642
they had to pay a certain amount
of cash every month,

734
00:36:28,678 --> 00:36:30,407
and God forbid they should
all come due.

735
00:36:30,446 --> 00:36:32,505
What's happening
with all of these bailouts,

736
00:36:32,549 --> 00:36:35,245
which are now around
$11 trillion

737
00:36:35,285 --> 00:36:38,118
if you add up
all the U.S. bailouts,

738
00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:42,113
they're chasing a $700 trillion
derivatives bubble

739
00:36:42,158 --> 00:36:44,888
down the drain.

740
00:36:59,075 --> 00:37:03,409
The people who have run
the monetary paradigm,

741
00:37:03,446 --> 00:37:06,506
the economic paradigm,
since money was first invented

742
00:37:06,549 --> 00:37:07,982
have wanted to mystify it

743
00:37:08,017 --> 00:37:09,507
and to make everybody believe

744
00:37:09,552 --> 00:37:12,646
that only some expert could
understand the mumbo jumbo

745
00:37:12,689 --> 00:37:15,249
of the priesthood of money.

746
00:37:15,291 --> 00:37:17,452
Three things only anybody
needs to know

747
00:37:17,493 --> 00:37:19,620
about the way money works
around the world today.

748
00:37:19,662 --> 00:37:21,289
Fiat currency.

749
00:37:21,331 --> 00:37:22,331
What is money?

750
00:37:24,968 --> 00:37:28,961
If I were to take a bill
out of my wallet,

751
00:37:29,005 --> 00:37:32,065
and I reach in my wallet,
and I pull out this bill,

752
00:37:32,108 --> 00:37:33,541
it's $20.

753
00:37:33,576 --> 00:37:35,168
Wow. Okay.

754
00:37:35,211 --> 00:37:36,735
Can I eat it?

755
00:37:36,779 --> 00:37:37,973
Can I roll it up and chew it?

756
00:37:38,014 --> 00:37:39,777
Do I get calories and vitamins?

757
00:37:39,816 --> 00:37:40,942
No, I don't.

758
00:37:40,984 --> 00:37:42,815
Can I crumple it up,

759
00:37:42,852 --> 00:37:44,251
throw it in my gas tank?

760
00:37:44,287 --> 00:37:45,618
Is the car gonna go anywhere?

761
00:37:45,655 --> 00:37:48,419
No, it's gonna clog
the fuel injectors, maybe.

762
00:37:48,458 --> 00:37:50,392
This is only a symbol.

763
00:37:50,426 --> 00:37:52,087
This doesn't mean anything.

764
00:37:52,128 --> 00:37:53,128
It's fiat.

765
00:37:53,162 --> 00:37:54,424
It's created out of thin air

766
00:37:54,464 --> 00:37:56,455
because somebody turned on
a printing press.

767
00:37:56,499 --> 00:38:00,128
That's all it is.

768
00:38:00,169 --> 00:38:04,037
Before the great growth
of population

769
00:38:04,073 --> 00:38:06,633
which occurred
with the advent of oil

770
00:38:06,676 --> 00:38:09,907
came this revolution in
the monetary system as well.

771
00:38:09,946 --> 00:38:11,641
There was a time
when the pound sterling

772
00:38:11,681 --> 00:38:15,048
actually meant
a pound of sterling silver.

773
00:38:15,084 --> 00:38:17,052
There was only so much silver
out of the ground.

774
00:38:17,086 --> 00:38:18,086
It was tangible.

775
00:38:18,121 --> 00:38:19,383
You couldn't print silver.

776
00:38:19,422 --> 00:38:23,119
It was something real.

777
00:38:23,159 --> 00:38:25,389
You cannot print any more money

778
00:38:25,428 --> 00:38:28,556
than there is energy
to back it up.

779
00:38:28,598 --> 00:38:30,589
That simple.

780
00:38:34,137 --> 00:38:35,536
So we have fiat currency.

781
00:38:35,571 --> 00:38:38,563
Then we have something called
fractional reserve banking.

782
00:38:41,277 --> 00:38:45,111
If you were to bring me
a $10 deposit,

783
00:38:45,148 --> 00:38:48,845
I could make $90 worth of loans

784
00:38:48,885 --> 00:38:51,217
based on just having
that $10 in my drawer,

785
00:38:51,254 --> 00:38:53,484
because it's all calculated
on the premise

786
00:38:53,523 --> 00:38:54,956
that not everybody's
gonna come in

787
00:38:54,991 --> 00:38:56,151
and want their cash all at once.

788
00:38:56,192 --> 00:38:58,217
That's called a run on the bank.

789
00:38:58,261 --> 00:39:00,354
So they have calculated
the odds,

790
00:39:00,396 --> 00:39:04,127
much as Vegas odds makers do,
and said,

791
00:39:04,167 --> 00:39:06,635
"Okay, well, you know,
there are very little odds

792
00:39:06,669 --> 00:39:09,365
under normal conditions."

793
00:39:09,405 --> 00:39:16,140
When I lend now a total of $100
based on that $10 deposit,

794
00:39:16,179 --> 00:39:20,377
that's more money
that I create out of thin air.

795
00:39:20,416 --> 00:39:23,112
Well, gee, that means
that in order to pay off,

796
00:39:23,152 --> 00:39:26,280
whoever gets that money
has to make more money still

797
00:39:26,322 --> 00:39:28,222
to feed in at the bottom
to pay the bank

798
00:39:28,257 --> 00:39:31,283
so that the bank
can create still more money.

799
00:39:35,064 --> 00:39:36,691
You know, I think it's probably
pretty safe

800
00:39:36,733 --> 00:39:39,133
at this point in time with the
collapse of the U.S. economy

801
00:39:39,168 --> 00:39:41,636
to say that pretty much
everybody is understanding

802
00:39:41,671 --> 00:39:43,764
how compound interest works.

803
00:39:43,806 --> 00:39:46,570
The higher the interest rate
on your credit card,

804
00:39:46,609 --> 00:39:50,306
for those people who had 20%,
25% cards,

805
00:39:50,346 --> 00:39:52,712
that means they are creating
that much more money

806
00:39:52,749 --> 00:39:56,617
if they don't pay cash
every month.

807
00:39:56,652 --> 00:40:01,555
What I have just described
is a pyramid scheme.

808
00:40:01,591 --> 00:40:04,754
We live in
an infinite-growth paradigm

809
00:40:04,794 --> 00:40:06,591
which requires growth forever.

810
00:40:06,629 --> 00:40:09,530
It's not that Bernie Madoff
was a pyramid scheme

811
00:40:09,565 --> 00:40:12,591
or Stanford was
a pyramid scheme.

812
00:40:12,635 --> 00:40:15,001
The whole economy
is a pyramid scheme.

813
00:40:15,037 --> 00:40:18,006
The whole global economy
cannot be sustained.

814
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,668
It requires infinite growth.

815
00:40:20,710 --> 00:40:24,703
But infinite growth collides
with finite energy.

816
00:40:24,747 --> 00:40:26,214
First law of thermodynamics,

817
00:40:26,249 --> 00:40:28,649
energy can neither be created
nor destroyed.

818
00:40:28,684 --> 00:40:29,844
The second law:

819
00:40:29,886 --> 00:40:32,047
energy converts
in only one direction:

820
00:40:32,088 --> 00:40:34,283
from usable to unusable.

821
00:40:34,323 --> 00:40:35,688
That's called
the law of entropy.

822
00:40:35,725 --> 00:40:36,851
Things break down.

823
00:40:36,893 --> 00:40:39,361
And in every energy transaction,

824
00:40:39,395 --> 00:40:42,023
some energy is always lost.

825
00:40:42,064 --> 00:40:43,531
So you have finite energy

826
00:40:43,566 --> 00:40:45,534
and you have
a financial paradigm

827
00:40:45,568 --> 00:40:47,195
which demands infinite growth,

828
00:40:47,236 --> 00:40:49,363
and we are at the point
of human history

829
00:40:49,405 --> 00:40:52,135
where the infinite growth
paradigm collides with something

830
00:40:52,175 --> 00:40:54,370
that is more powerful
than money is.

831
00:41:04,987 --> 00:41:10,653
By 2006, I knew that
the collapse was very imminent,

832
00:41:10,693 --> 00:41:13,127
that there would be a major
implosion of the U.S. economy.

833
00:41:13,162 --> 00:41:15,357
I actually missed it
by about a year,

834
00:41:15,398 --> 00:41:16,398
maybe a little bit more.

835
00:41:16,432 --> 00:41:17,872
I thought it was
gonna happen sooner,

836
00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:19,663
but it happened.

837
00:41:19,702 --> 00:41:21,636
And now that it is happening,

838
00:41:21,671 --> 00:41:23,434
these pieces are falling exactly

839
00:41:23,473 --> 00:41:26,533
as if everything else
we had written, said, done...

840
00:41:26,576 --> 00:41:27,702
all the peak oil activists,

841
00:41:27,743 --> 00:41:32,237
all the sustainability
advocates...

842
00:41:32,281 --> 00:41:34,579
our map was proving
deadly accurate.

843
00:41:42,925 --> 00:41:47,862
Things don't break up;
they break down.

844
00:41:47,897 --> 00:41:51,856
When a government collapses,
what happens?

845
00:41:51,901 --> 00:41:53,334
Mail stops getting delivered.

846
00:41:53,369 --> 00:41:55,599
Air traffic controllers
don't get paid,

847
00:41:55,638 --> 00:41:57,003
so they don't go to work,

848
00:41:57,039 --> 00:41:59,371
which means planes don't fly.

849
00:41:59,408 --> 00:42:02,468
Bridges and highway inspections
don't get made.

850
00:42:02,512 --> 00:42:06,141
Food and Drug Administration
inspections don't get made.

851
00:42:06,182 --> 00:42:08,446
Maintenance is going
to be defrayed.

852
00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:11,612
Law enforcement stops working.

853
00:42:11,654 --> 00:42:12,848
I mean, it's no secret now.

854
00:42:12,889 --> 00:42:14,117
You see the headlines every day.

855
00:42:14,156 --> 00:42:17,785
California is bankrupt,
Michigan is bankrupt, Ohio.

856
00:42:17,827 --> 00:42:21,661
They're shutting down services
left and right.

857
00:42:21,697 --> 00:42:24,029
There are tent cities springing
up all over the country.

858
00:42:24,066 --> 00:42:26,296
There are homeless
displaced people.

859
00:42:26,335 --> 00:42:30,738
A great many billionaires,
who we would call the elites,

860
00:42:30,773 --> 00:42:34,402
a great many very, very wealthy
people are getting crashed,

861
00:42:34,443 --> 00:42:37,037
burned, and eaten alive.

862
00:42:37,079 --> 00:42:40,571
What you don't hear is the fact
that, all over the world,

863
00:42:40,616 --> 00:42:44,677
economies are collapsing much
faster than the U.S. economy.

864
00:42:47,056 --> 00:42:50,753
Britain is an absolute
basket case.

865
00:42:50,793 --> 00:42:55,253
There is a curtain of despair
descending

866
00:42:55,298 --> 00:42:59,860
across Eastern Europe.

867
00:42:59,902 --> 00:43:01,767
There's a revolution under way
in Greece.

868
00:43:01,804 --> 00:43:03,101
It's not riots.

869
00:43:03,139 --> 00:43:06,734
It's not civil unrest;
it's a revolution.

870
00:43:06,776 --> 00:43:08,869
Drug violence right across
the border in Mexico,

871
00:43:08,911 --> 00:43:10,242
this is all part
of the collapse.

872
00:43:10,279 --> 00:43:14,113
Pakistan, Afghanistan,
there's lots of violence.

873
00:43:14,150 --> 00:43:17,051
The people who have run
the planet to this point

874
00:43:17,086 --> 00:43:20,783
and who are running the planet
now are losing control.

875
00:43:28,798 --> 00:43:30,766
Have I ever been called
a conspiracy theorist?

876
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:35,237
Of course I've been called
a conspiracy theorist.

877
00:43:35,271 --> 00:43:36,829
But I don't deal
in conspiracy theory.

878
00:43:36,872 --> 00:43:39,238
I deal in conspiracy fact.

879
00:43:48,317 --> 00:43:50,478
Somebody once said to me
a long time ago,

880
00:43:50,519 --> 00:43:53,488
and this was probably
back in '84,

881
00:43:53,522 --> 00:43:57,652
"Climb down off the cross,
asshole, we need the lumber!"

882
00:43:57,693 --> 00:43:59,388
I am not a Messiah.

883
00:43:59,428 --> 00:44:02,056
I am not responsible
for saving anybody.

884
00:44:02,098 --> 00:44:06,432
The only person I am
responsible for saving is me.

885
00:44:07,870 --> 00:44:10,737
What I see now is the end
of a paradigm

886
00:44:10,773 --> 00:44:13,640
that is as cataclysmic
as the asteroid event

887
00:44:13,676 --> 00:44:16,543
that killed almost all the life
on the Earth

888
00:44:16,579 --> 00:44:18,274
and certainly the dinosaurs.

889
00:44:18,314 --> 00:44:22,216
Now, the dinosaurs were
kings of their paradigm,

890
00:44:22,251 --> 00:44:24,219
and a paradigm is
what you think about something

891
00:44:24,253 --> 00:44:25,686
before you think about it.

892
00:44:25,721 --> 00:44:27,586
Somebody talks about money,

893
00:44:27,623 --> 00:44:30,888
and you automatically accept
without thinking

894
00:44:30,926 --> 00:44:33,986
that compound interest,
factional reserve banking,

895
00:44:34,030 --> 00:44:35,292
and fiat currency is okay,

896
00:44:35,331 --> 00:44:36,389
and we have to protect that,

897
00:44:36,432 --> 00:44:37,865
because if we don't
protect that,

898
00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:41,996
it's gonna be bad for us.

899
00:44:42,038 --> 00:44:44,165
If you know anything
about Darwinism,

900
00:44:44,206 --> 00:44:45,639
basically what it said was

901
00:44:45,675 --> 00:44:48,667
is that those species
that had evolved

902
00:44:48,711 --> 00:44:52,841
or were able to adapt
to changing circumstances

903
00:44:52,882 --> 00:44:54,179
were the ones that survived,

904
00:44:54,216 --> 00:44:55,649
and those that were not equipped

905
00:44:55,685 --> 00:44:58,916
or had been...
become evolutionary dead ends

906
00:44:58,954 --> 00:45:01,616
were destined to die.

907
00:45:01,657 --> 00:45:03,124
"Mike, you better be careful.

908
00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:06,959
It sounds like you're advocating
Social Darwinism."

909
00:45:06,996 --> 00:45:09,521
I'm not advocating
Social Darwinism.

910
00:45:09,565 --> 00:45:12,295
I am witnessing
actual Darwinism.

911
00:45:15,104 --> 00:45:19,200
If you are in a camp
with a bunch of campers

912
00:45:19,241 --> 00:45:21,709
and a bear attacks,

913
00:45:21,744 --> 00:45:24,679
you don't have to be faster
than the bear.

914
00:45:24,714 --> 00:45:27,649
You only have to be faster
than the slowest camper.

915
00:45:32,555 --> 00:45:39,484
There is one and only one
graph image

916
00:45:39,528 --> 00:45:41,962
that I have used

917
00:45:41,997 --> 00:45:47,697
in I would guess 60 to 70
lectures in eight countries,

918
00:45:47,737 --> 00:45:50,205
and that's a graph
of human population,

919
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,800
and if one looks at that graph,

920
00:45:53,843 --> 00:45:56,641
what you see is human population

921
00:45:56,679 --> 00:46:01,673
roughly stable at around
a billion people or so

922
00:46:01,717 --> 00:46:03,878
with maybe a little bit more
at around the time of Christ.

923
00:46:03,919 --> 00:46:07,821
Then it stays pretty stable
until we get to the bubonic...

924
00:46:07,857 --> 00:46:11,293
it starts to rise some as some
primitive technology emerged,

925
00:46:11,327 --> 00:46:12,847
but then you get
to the Bubonic plague.

926
00:46:12,862 --> 00:46:14,454
There's a little dip.

927
00:46:14,497 --> 00:46:15,896
Then after the bubonic plague,

928
00:46:15,931 --> 00:46:19,833
you begin the start of what
we would call the Renaissance

929
00:46:19,869 --> 00:46:23,168
and the early stages
of the Industrial Revolution,

930
00:46:23,205 --> 00:46:25,696
the discovery of steam.

931
00:46:25,741 --> 00:46:29,040
The population starts
to go like this.

932
00:46:29,078 --> 00:46:30,170
The introduction of coal,

933
00:46:30,212 --> 00:46:32,237
the population
starts to go like this.

934
00:46:32,281 --> 00:46:36,081
But around 1900, around the turn
of the 20th century,

935
00:46:36,118 --> 00:46:39,281
what you see as oil
became ubiquitous

936
00:46:39,321 --> 00:46:42,848
was that the population
went like this,

937
00:46:42,892 --> 00:46:46,089
and it goes up
to 6.5 billion people.

938
00:46:46,128 --> 00:46:48,187
We may be at 7 billion people

939
00:46:48,230 --> 00:46:52,030
by the time anyone
sees this interview.

940
00:46:52,067 --> 00:46:56,902
All of those people exist on
this planet only because of oil.

941
00:46:56,939 --> 00:46:58,270
That's it.

942
00:46:58,307 --> 00:47:01,140
So it's axiomatic
that if you take the oil away,

943
00:47:01,177 --> 00:47:03,372
the population
must go away also.

944
00:47:03,412 --> 00:47:06,609
In all of science,
in all of biology,

945
00:47:06,649 --> 00:47:09,413
there is no case
where any population,

946
00:47:09,451 --> 00:47:13,581
be it bacteria in a petri dish
or caribou in an Arctic island,

947
00:47:13,622 --> 00:47:16,420
runs into a set
of favorable circumstances

948
00:47:16,458 --> 00:47:21,395
and goes to that point
without an immediate crash down.

949
00:47:21,430 --> 00:47:22,556
It's a law.

950
00:47:22,598 --> 00:47:24,038
It's a law
as fundamental as gravity.

951
00:47:24,066 --> 00:47:26,591
It's a law as fundamental
as thermodynamics,

952
00:47:26,635 --> 00:47:27,897
and if one thinks about it,

953
00:47:27,937 --> 00:47:30,838
it might also be viewed
as true of the stock market

954
00:47:30,873 --> 00:47:31,897
or the financial markets,

955
00:47:31,941 --> 00:47:32,941
which go like this,

956
00:47:32,975 --> 00:47:34,067
and when they go like this,

957
00:47:34,109 --> 00:47:35,474
they automatically go like this.

958
00:47:35,511 --> 00:47:37,240
That's the history
of every bubble.

959
00:47:48,524 --> 00:47:54,952
I think it's a mistake
to ask, "If people,"

960
00:47:54,997 --> 00:48:01,732
and make all people
the same as one entity,

961
00:48:01,770 --> 00:48:04,204
if they will understand it.

962
00:48:04,240 --> 00:48:09,769
I don't care
if all people understand it.

963
00:48:09,812 --> 00:48:12,303
When you're faced
with an overwhelming,

964
00:48:12,348 --> 00:48:13,838
life-threatening crisis,

965
00:48:13,883 --> 00:48:17,410
as in the Titanic being hit
by an iceberg,

966
00:48:17,453 --> 00:48:20,149
and you happen to be aware
before anybody else is

967
00:48:20,189 --> 00:48:21,315
that the ship is gonna sink

968
00:48:21,357 --> 00:48:23,655
and there aren't
enough lifeboats

969
00:48:23,692 --> 00:48:25,819
and you know
how to build lifeboats

970
00:48:25,861 --> 00:48:27,795
and you tried to deal with that

971
00:48:27,830 --> 00:48:31,493
in however long the Titanic
had before it went down,

972
00:48:31,533 --> 00:48:35,196
you're likely to run across
three types of passenger

973
00:48:35,237 --> 00:48:36,465
on the Titanic.

974
00:48:36,505 --> 00:48:38,439
You'll run across a type

975
00:48:38,474 --> 00:48:41,170
that's basically
deer in the headlights.

976
00:48:41,210 --> 00:48:42,802
"Ship's been hit?
What does that mean?

977
00:48:42,845 --> 00:48:44,244
"What do I do?
I don't know what to do.

978
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:45,269
"I don't where to go.
Should I do that?

979
00:48:45,314 --> 00:48:46,314
I don't know."

980
00:48:46,348 --> 00:48:47,348
That's one group.

981
00:48:47,383 --> 00:48:50,648
There's another group that says,

982
00:48:50,686 --> 00:48:52,313
"We get that the ship
is gonna sink.

983
00:48:52,354 --> 00:48:54,515
"We get that we're all gonna die

984
00:48:54,556 --> 00:48:56,421
"unless we make some lifeboats
and do it fast.

985
00:48:56,458 --> 00:48:58,323
Show us what to do."

986
00:48:58,360 --> 00:48:59,952
Then you have a third group
that says,

987
00:48:59,995 --> 00:49:01,019
"This is the Titanic.

988
00:49:01,063 --> 00:49:03,588
"It's absolutely unsinkable.

989
00:49:03,632 --> 00:49:05,964
"Un-fucking-sinkable.

990
00:49:06,001 --> 00:49:07,798
"So we're going back to the bar
for a drink,

991
00:49:07,836 --> 00:49:10,828
and all you doomsday sayers
can actually just take a hike."

992
00:49:10,873 --> 00:49:13,000
Now, if you're the one who knows
how to build lifeboats,

993
00:49:13,042 --> 00:49:15,272
which group of people
are you gonna help?

994
00:49:19,281 --> 00:49:21,909
Certain things
are inevitable right now.

995
00:49:21,951 --> 00:49:25,216
FDIC insolvency,
I will tell you, is coming.

996
00:49:25,254 --> 00:49:27,950
Insolvency of
the Federal Reserve is coming.

997
00:49:27,990 --> 00:49:30,151
Federal Reserve can go bankrupt.

998
00:49:30,192 --> 00:49:32,353
T-bill defaults.

999
00:49:32,394 --> 00:49:35,386
We're looking
at major bankruptcy,

1000
00:49:35,431 --> 00:49:37,092
starvation, dislocation.

1001
00:49:37,132 --> 00:49:39,999
All these things
are already on the way.

1002
00:49:43,839 --> 00:49:45,136
Everything is gonna break down

1003
00:49:45,174 --> 00:49:47,768
differently in different places.

1004
00:49:47,810 --> 00:49:49,903
The best that I can do
is give you some ideas

1005
00:49:49,945 --> 00:49:54,109
of some markers
that are gonna come.

1006
00:49:54,149 --> 00:49:57,812
The bumpy plateau has been
described by peak oil activists

1007
00:49:57,853 --> 00:49:59,684
and researchers
for many, many years,

1008
00:49:59,722 --> 00:50:02,020
and it's actually happening.

1009
00:50:02,057 --> 00:50:07,518
Basically you come up
the growth curve of oil prices,

1010
00:50:07,563 --> 00:50:11,556
and the oil prices go up until
you start running out of oil.

1011
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,364
Then what happens is,
you have to destroy demand,

1012
00:50:14,403 --> 00:50:16,234
which is what's happening
with this collapse.

1013
00:50:16,271 --> 00:50:18,967
Demand gets destroyed;
the price of oil drops.

1014
00:50:19,008 --> 00:50:21,568
But as you start a recovery
you start back up again,

1015
00:50:21,610 --> 00:50:25,068
and you collide again
with the finite oil

1016
00:50:25,114 --> 00:50:26,638
and the rising energy prices,

1017
00:50:26,682 --> 00:50:28,081
which shuts
everything down again.

1018
00:50:28,117 --> 00:50:30,950
This is the bumpy plateau.

1019
00:50:30,986 --> 00:50:33,819
I think it's fairly certain

1020
00:50:33,856 --> 00:50:38,122
that the mortal blow to human
industrialized civilization

1021
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:41,323
will happen
when oil prices spike again

1022
00:50:41,363 --> 00:50:43,763
and nobody can afford
to buy that oil,

1023
00:50:43,799 --> 00:50:46,233
and everything
will just shut down.

1024
00:50:50,172 --> 00:50:53,403
The collapse must happen fast

1025
00:50:53,442 --> 00:50:56,809
in order to leave
infrastructure standing.

1026
00:50:56,845 --> 00:50:59,245
We have all heard the stories
about infrastructure, you know,

1027
00:50:59,281 --> 00:51:02,614
the sewers and the bridges
and the roads and all that.

1028
00:51:02,651 --> 00:51:03,982
Well, the point is,

1029
00:51:04,019 --> 00:51:08,479
is that as economic collapse
continues or accelerates,

1030
00:51:08,524 --> 00:51:13,894
those structures will fall
into more and more disrepair.

1031
00:51:13,929 --> 00:51:15,294
There's not gonna be any money

1032
00:51:15,330 --> 00:51:17,093
or anything running
to fix those,

1033
00:51:17,132 --> 00:51:21,592
so what you want to have
is the change to a new paradigm,

1034
00:51:21,637 --> 00:51:23,468
getting the old one
out of the way

1035
00:51:23,505 --> 00:51:25,837
while there is still
infrastructure left

1036
00:51:25,874 --> 00:51:28,399
to start building something new.

1037
00:51:31,580 --> 00:51:34,413
We have to survive
the transition phase

1038
00:51:34,450 --> 00:51:35,849
of human civilization,

1039
00:51:35,884 --> 00:51:40,116
which I anticipate could last
anywhere between 20 years...

1040
00:51:40,155 --> 00:51:45,092
and oh, my God,
would that be fast and hard...

1041
00:51:45,127 --> 00:51:46,958
you know, to 50 years
or 100 years

1042
00:51:46,995 --> 00:51:51,694
before some kind of stable
civilization starts to emerge.

1043
00:51:51,733 --> 00:51:53,598
You need to survive
the transition phase.

1044
00:51:53,635 --> 00:51:54,932
So don't panic.

1045
00:51:54,970 --> 00:51:56,699
Don't freak out.

1046
00:51:56,738 --> 00:51:58,569
Use your heads.

1047
00:51:58,607 --> 00:52:02,270
Analyze your local situation
where you live,

1048
00:52:02,311 --> 00:52:04,279
don't worry about
rebuilding sewers.

1049
00:52:04,313 --> 00:52:07,009
You're gonna be able
to get water for a few years.

1050
00:52:09,084 --> 00:52:12,383
People say there's either oil
or no oil.

1051
00:52:12,421 --> 00:52:14,912
There's either food or no food.

1052
00:52:14,957 --> 00:52:16,447
And people say,

1053
00:52:16,492 --> 00:52:18,858
"Well, we're gonna have food
in the supermarkets on Tuesday,

1054
00:52:18,894 --> 00:52:20,294
and we're never gonna
see it again."

1055
00:52:20,329 --> 00:52:21,769
That's not the way
it's gonna happen.

1056
00:52:21,797 --> 00:52:25,961
As things break down,
we will see specific shortages

1057
00:52:26,001 --> 00:52:29,061
in specific areas
for periods of days

1058
00:52:29,104 --> 00:52:32,665
before it gets to the point
where there's nothing left.

1059
00:52:32,708 --> 00:52:35,302
So what you need to prepare for
is not the end result,

1060
00:52:35,344 --> 00:52:37,710
but you need to prepare
to survive the transition.

1061
00:52:40,649 --> 00:52:42,640
When people say, "Okay,
I'm gonna run for the hills.

1062
00:52:42,684 --> 00:52:43,878
"I'm gonna go build a cabin.

1063
00:52:43,919 --> 00:52:46,217
I'm gonna buy ten million cans
of baked beans."

1064
00:52:46,255 --> 00:52:48,175
Well, they're probably gonna be
the first to die.

1065
00:52:48,190 --> 00:52:50,124
Number one, it's too late.

1066
00:52:50,159 --> 00:52:51,717
If you don't know
how to live off the land,

1067
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,024
and if you're not already
on the land right now,

1068
00:52:54,062 --> 00:52:55,256
don't even try to go,

1069
00:52:55,297 --> 00:52:57,561
because you're gonna
fail miserably,

1070
00:52:57,599 --> 00:52:59,089
and you might be shot
by the people

1071
00:52:59,134 --> 00:53:00,761
who got there ahead of you.

1072
00:53:05,374 --> 00:53:06,671
You know, the one factor

1073
00:53:06,708 --> 00:53:08,308
that you're not including
in some of this

1074
00:53:08,310 --> 00:53:11,438
is just sort of discounting
human ingenuity,

1075
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:16,110
or our ability
to sort of problem solve.

1076
00:53:16,151 --> 00:53:21,987
Because my father was an Air
Force aviator combat veteran,

1077
00:53:22,024 --> 00:53:25,551
he was very much trained
in a military style

1078
00:53:25,594 --> 00:53:27,186
of decision making and analysis

1079
00:53:27,229 --> 00:53:30,357
where it's motivated
by life-and-death decisions,

1080
00:53:30,399 --> 00:53:32,890
where you are trained
how to think critically

1081
00:53:32,935 --> 00:53:35,426
and respond critically
in response to emergency.

1082
00:53:35,470 --> 00:53:38,268
So I was trained at an early age

1083
00:53:38,307 --> 00:53:41,071
in the skill
of critical thinking,

1084
00:53:41,109 --> 00:53:42,469
and maybe I have a gift
for it too.

1085
00:53:42,477 --> 00:53:43,808
I believe there are some people

1086
00:53:43,845 --> 00:53:46,143
who have a gift
for critical thinking.

1087
00:53:46,181 --> 00:53:47,944
In my own experience
on the streets

1088
00:53:47,983 --> 00:53:50,417
in South Central Los Angeles
as a cop,

1089
00:53:50,452 --> 00:53:51,976
there were quick decisions,

1090
00:53:52,020 --> 00:53:57,822
sometimes decisions
which changed people's lives

1091
00:53:57,859 --> 00:53:59,759
or could end people's lives,

1092
00:53:59,795 --> 00:54:03,390
and it gave me an ability
to respond and think

1093
00:54:03,432 --> 00:54:05,866
to separate the ice cream
from the bullshit.

1094
00:54:05,901 --> 00:54:08,529
Probably one of
the biggest impediments

1095
00:54:08,570 --> 00:54:10,470
I removed
to critical thinking was,

1096
00:54:10,505 --> 00:54:13,804
I stopped taking mainstream
media seriously a long time ago.

1097
00:54:17,679 --> 00:54:20,273
We were talking about
human ingenuity.

1098
00:54:26,021 --> 00:54:29,286
No amount of technology
and no amount of human ingenuity

1099
00:54:29,324 --> 00:54:31,849
can possibly overturn
the laws of physics,

1100
00:54:31,893 --> 00:54:34,885
the laws which govern
this planet.

1101
00:54:34,930 --> 00:54:38,229
Those are intractable,
immutable, real,

1102
00:54:38,267 --> 00:54:40,098
and science has never
been able to do that.

1103
00:54:40,135 --> 00:54:42,831
Man's great arrogance,
I believe,

1104
00:54:42,871 --> 00:54:44,896
and one for which
he is paying a price now

1105
00:54:44,940 --> 00:54:47,408
is to believe that mankind
really could become God

1106
00:54:47,442 --> 00:54:52,004
and even turn over and upset
and revoke somehow

1107
00:54:52,047 --> 00:54:53,446
the laws of the universe.

1108
00:54:56,151 --> 00:54:59,882
I am a great advocate of buying
and owning physical gold,

1109
00:54:59,921 --> 00:55:01,149
not paper gold.

1110
00:55:01,189 --> 00:55:03,214
You buy gold, you own it.

1111
00:55:03,258 --> 00:55:06,056
When hyperinflation occurs
after deflation here,

1112
00:55:06,094 --> 00:55:08,153
and all these trillions
of dollars come back

1113
00:55:08,196 --> 00:55:11,529
and we are wheeling wheelbarrows
of thousand dollar bills

1114
00:55:11,566 --> 00:55:14,501
to buy a loaf of bread,

1115
00:55:14,536 --> 00:55:16,834
the only thing people
will accept for goods

1116
00:55:16,872 --> 00:55:18,806
is gonna be gold.

1117
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:19,966
Do whatever you can

1118
00:55:20,008 --> 00:55:22,238
to reinsulate your house
if you need to.

1119
00:55:22,277 --> 00:55:24,609
If you have a house,
if you have soil,

1120
00:55:24,646 --> 00:55:26,944
you immediately
get it off petrochemicals

1121
00:55:26,982 --> 00:55:29,212
and start learning
how to restore it.

1122
00:55:29,251 --> 00:55:32,015
What I do in the yard
where I am renting,

1123
00:55:32,054 --> 00:55:33,919
I'm mixing barbeque and wood ash

1124
00:55:33,955 --> 00:55:35,650
and then I go out
and pee on everything,

1125
00:55:35,691 --> 00:55:37,181
because then you get
the root elements

1126
00:55:37,225 --> 00:55:41,093
of ammonium-nitrate that
starts to bring the soil back.

1127
00:55:41,129 --> 00:55:45,566
If you are dependent upon
a cell phone, get a land line.

1128
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,591
All the
telecommunications companies

1129
00:55:47,636 --> 00:55:49,627
that operate the satellites,
the cell towers,

1130
00:55:49,671 --> 00:55:51,104
the fiber optic cables,

1131
00:55:51,139 --> 00:55:53,801
and all this stuff that makes
your wonderful cell phone work

1132
00:55:53,842 --> 00:55:56,902
are cutting back on maintenance
as the stock market collapses,

1133
00:55:56,945 --> 00:56:00,278
and we're gonna see failures
in cell phone service.

1134
00:56:00,315 --> 00:56:04,775
A land line is a redundancy
that can help you.

1135
00:56:04,820 --> 00:56:09,154
Get books on first aid
and holistic medicine.

1136
00:56:09,191 --> 00:56:11,421
Moderate fresh water supply,

1137
00:56:11,460 --> 00:56:13,826
a reasonable amount
of food storage.

1138
00:56:13,862 --> 00:56:15,523
You can't store enough
to live on.

1139
00:56:15,564 --> 00:56:18,124
What you need to store is seeds.

1140
00:56:18,166 --> 00:56:20,726
Seeds that are not manufactured
by Monsanto,

1141
00:56:20,769 --> 00:56:22,100
that are not Frankenseeds,

1142
00:56:22,137 --> 00:56:24,662
that only work one time
you plant them

1143
00:56:24,706 --> 00:56:26,333
and then you got to go buy more.

1144
00:56:26,375 --> 00:56:29,208
You get good organic
whole seeds,

1145
00:56:29,244 --> 00:56:30,905
and you store them.

1146
00:56:30,946 --> 00:56:34,438
That could be a great
currency in the future.

1147
00:56:42,524 --> 00:56:44,014
Unlike the Great Depression,

1148
00:56:44,059 --> 00:56:45,959
this is a vastly
different scenario.

1149
00:56:45,994 --> 00:56:48,588
We do not have infinite
resources left to be tapped.

1150
00:56:48,630 --> 00:56:52,464
We don't have lots of land,
we are at peak everything,

1151
00:56:52,501 --> 00:56:55,436
all the commodities,
everything else.

1152
00:56:55,470 --> 00:57:00,305
What they had in the 1930s that
my grandparents told me about

1153
00:57:00,342 --> 00:57:03,038
was the ability to grow food
right where they live,

1154
00:57:03,078 --> 00:57:05,410
and local food production
is perhaps

1155
00:57:05,447 --> 00:57:08,280
the most fundamental key
to human survival

1156
00:57:08,316 --> 00:57:11,444
in the collapse
of industrialized civilization.

1157
00:57:20,028 --> 00:57:23,293
We've had examples of what
happens when oil disappears

1158
00:57:23,331 --> 00:57:24,958
and how civilizations respond

1159
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:26,524
and what works and what doesn't.

1160
00:57:26,568 --> 00:57:29,435
In 1991,
the Soviet Union collapsed,

1161
00:57:29,471 --> 00:57:31,996
and there were two nations
that were absolutely

1162
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:34,736
and totally dependent upon
Soviet oil for their survival

1163
00:57:34,776 --> 00:57:36,141
because they had none:

1164
00:57:36,178 --> 00:57:38,772
Cuba and North Korea.

1165
00:57:38,814 --> 00:57:42,477
And what they did in response
to that was completely opposite,

1166
00:57:42,517 --> 00:57:44,985
and the proof, as the say,
was in the pudding.

1167
00:57:48,723 --> 00:57:53,092
North Korea was a rigid,
hierarchical, top-down,

1168
00:57:53,128 --> 00:57:56,962
Soviet-style,
bureaucratic regime

1169
00:57:56,998 --> 00:57:59,023
where everything came
from the central government.

1170
00:57:59,067 --> 00:58:03,094
They managed everything,
and North Korea starved.

1171
00:58:03,138 --> 00:58:08,599
I mean, it was... in human terms,
the suffering was amazing.

1172
00:58:08,643 --> 00:58:10,008
All of a sudden, there's no oil.

1173
00:58:10,045 --> 00:58:11,069
There's no natural gas.

1174
00:58:11,112 --> 00:58:12,112
There's no fertilizer.

1175
00:58:12,147 --> 00:58:13,147
Cars don't run.

1176
00:58:13,181 --> 00:58:14,409
Trains don't run.

1177
00:58:14,449 --> 00:58:16,649
You get to a point where
you can run trains on some days

1178
00:58:16,685 --> 00:58:18,312
or generate electricity
on others,

1179
00:58:18,353 --> 00:58:20,116
but you can't do both
at the same time.

1180
00:58:24,593 --> 00:58:26,720
But the Cuban government
reverted

1181
00:58:26,761 --> 00:58:28,752
to one of the purest forms
of capitalism.

1182
00:58:28,797 --> 00:58:32,563
It said, "Everybody start
restoring the soil

1183
00:58:32,601 --> 00:58:33,601
"and grow food.

1184
00:58:33,635 --> 00:58:35,535
"You will grow food
where you live.

1185
00:58:35,570 --> 00:58:37,663
"If you find any piece
of arable land

1186
00:58:37,706 --> 00:58:39,674
"that is not being used,
you occupy it,

1187
00:58:39,708 --> 00:58:40,766
"and you start farming it,

1188
00:58:40,809 --> 00:58:43,175
and you start growing food
right now."

1189
00:58:43,211 --> 00:58:45,008
The Cuban government
did everything it could

1190
00:58:45,046 --> 00:58:48,174
to liberate local food growing,

1191
00:58:48,216 --> 00:58:49,216
and what happened was,

1192
00:58:49,251 --> 00:58:51,412
is after a very tough period,

1193
00:58:51,453 --> 00:58:55,913
the Cuban people were eating
better than they had ever eaten,

1194
00:58:55,957 --> 00:58:59,154
because they were free of
this whole agri-biz, you know,

1195
00:58:59,194 --> 00:59:00,786
Frankenfood nightmare.

1196
00:59:00,829 --> 00:59:02,319
Everything was organic,

1197
00:59:02,364 --> 00:59:05,527
and you had every square inch
in Havana that had soil,

1198
00:59:05,567 --> 00:59:10,800
on rooftops or in flower boxes,
was growing food,

1199
00:59:10,839 --> 00:59:12,670
and there was a degree
of sustainability.

1200
00:59:12,707 --> 00:59:14,334
Everything became organic,

1201
00:59:14,376 --> 00:59:17,345
and all you had to do
was separate the people

1202
00:59:17,379 --> 00:59:20,371
from the way money worked
and top-down control,

1203
00:59:20,415 --> 00:59:22,349
explain to them,
you grow it where you eat it,

1204
00:59:22,384 --> 00:59:23,384
and you're gonna make it,

1205
00:59:23,418 --> 00:59:25,147
and Cuba survived and thrived.

1206
00:59:29,391 --> 00:59:32,485
And that's the essence
of where everything is going to

1207
00:59:32,527 --> 00:59:34,495
in the new human paradigm.

1208
00:59:34,529 --> 00:59:36,520
Everything will be local.

1209
00:59:42,871 --> 00:59:45,362
Jack London was one
of my favorite writers,

1210
00:59:45,407 --> 00:59:48,467
and he wrote about animals
a lot.

1211
00:59:48,510 --> 00:59:50,068
One thing you know about animals

1212
00:59:50,111 --> 00:59:51,510
is that they all want to go home

1213
00:59:51,546 --> 00:59:53,309
when they know that
they're gonna face death.

1214
00:59:53,348 --> 00:59:55,407
They all want to be
in their tribe

1215
00:59:55,450 --> 00:59:58,078
or their pack or whatever it is.

1216
00:59:58,119 --> 00:59:59,586
They want to be
on familiar ground.

1217
00:59:59,621 --> 01:00:02,920
It's a natural animal instinct.

1218
01:00:02,958 --> 01:00:06,587
In Dubai, the economic crash
has hit so hard

1219
01:00:06,628 --> 01:00:09,791
that Indians who were living
and working in Dubai

1220
01:00:09,831 --> 01:00:11,230
lost their jobs,

1221
01:00:11,266 --> 01:00:13,496
and they just drove
to the Dubai airport

1222
01:00:13,535 --> 01:00:15,230
and abandoned their cars.

1223
01:00:15,270 --> 01:00:17,898
There was a story talking about
all the cars that were abandoned

1224
01:00:17,939 --> 01:00:21,841
as these Indians caught a
one-way ticket home to go home.

1225
01:00:21,876 --> 01:00:23,844
It's happening in Britain too.

1226
01:00:23,878 --> 01:00:26,745
You have lots of Poles
and Eastern Europeans,

1227
01:00:26,781 --> 01:00:28,612
who were the latecomers
into E.U.,

1228
01:00:28,650 --> 01:00:30,675
fleeing Britain to go home.

1229
01:00:30,719 --> 01:00:33,688
Now in some areas, and certainly
in the southern California basin

1230
01:00:33,722 --> 01:00:37,385
with 13, 14 million people
and a four-day food supply,

1231
01:00:37,425 --> 01:00:40,451
it's clear that people are going
to migrate out of this area,

1232
01:00:40,495 --> 01:00:41,928
because it's not sustainable.

1233
01:00:41,963 --> 01:00:44,591
We get most of our water
from Northern California.

1234
01:00:44,633 --> 01:00:47,727
That's a problem.

1235
01:00:47,769 --> 01:00:50,329
We get a lot of our electricity
from Hoover Dam

1236
01:00:50,372 --> 01:00:51,566
out in Las Vegas.

1237
01:00:51,606 --> 01:00:53,039
Hmm.

1238
01:00:53,074 --> 01:00:56,510
Phoenix, for God's sake,
Las Vegas,

1239
01:00:56,544 --> 01:00:58,910
those people have to
worry about where to go,

1240
01:00:58,947 --> 01:01:05,682
and community
is what will save us.

1241
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,585
You are gonna have to do it
in conjunction

1242
01:01:07,622 --> 01:01:09,214
with your neighbors
and your family

1243
01:01:09,257 --> 01:01:11,782
and the people around you.

1244
01:01:11,826 --> 01:01:13,589
You will fail
as a rugged individual.

1245
01:01:13,628 --> 01:01:16,461
You will survive as a member
of a tribe or a family.

1246
01:01:20,368 --> 01:01:21,665
I have emotion about this.

1247
01:01:21,703 --> 01:01:24,604
I'm losing it.

1248
01:01:42,924 --> 01:01:46,451
We have waited...

1249
01:01:46,494 --> 01:01:51,261
have waited for so long
for somebody to listen to us.

1250
01:01:55,870 --> 01:01:58,771
When the mainstream press
and the government says

1251
01:01:58,807 --> 01:02:00,274
nobody could have
predicted this,

1252
01:02:00,308 --> 01:02:04,938
they're lying through
their fucking teeth.

1253
01:02:04,979 --> 01:02:07,948
We all saw exactly
what was gonna happen

1254
01:02:07,982 --> 01:02:09,574
and how it was gonna happen

1255
01:02:09,617 --> 01:02:12,347
and, remarkably,
when it was gonna happen.

1256
01:02:12,387 --> 01:02:14,014
None of us expected the collapse

1257
01:02:14,055 --> 01:02:15,955
to be as severe
as it's proving to be

1258
01:02:15,990 --> 01:02:18,458
or as fast
as it's proving to be.

1259
01:02:18,493 --> 01:02:20,017
But we've been screaming
for years,

1260
01:02:20,061 --> 01:02:21,756
and we've been watching
everything we said

1261
01:02:21,796 --> 01:02:22,796
come to pass,

1262
01:02:22,831 --> 01:02:28,633
and we have felt so angry.

1263
01:02:43,551 --> 01:02:46,611
I haven't lost
emotional connection to it.

1264
01:02:46,654 --> 01:02:49,919
What I have learned to do
over the course of my life

1265
01:02:49,958 --> 01:02:54,088
is to balance the...

1266
01:02:54,129 --> 01:02:58,225
the horror with love,

1267
01:02:58,266 --> 01:03:02,794
with play,
with making people smile.

1268
01:03:02,837 --> 01:03:04,600
I take my dog out for a walk,

1269
01:03:04,639 --> 01:03:08,268
and we count how many smiles
we can inflict

1270
01:03:08,309 --> 01:03:09,401
in the course of one walk.

1271
01:03:09,444 --> 01:03:10,877
I walk through downtown
Culver City,

1272
01:03:10,912 --> 01:03:13,710
and, you know, I usually
come home, you know, and say,

1273
01:03:13,748 --> 01:03:16,876
"That was 23 smiles
we created today."

1274
01:03:16,918 --> 01:03:18,852
And for some reason
at this moment in time,

1275
01:03:18,887 --> 01:03:20,855
that's a very precious
little treat for me.

1276
01:03:26,528 --> 01:03:30,259
There was a psychologist...
psychiatrist,

1277
01:03:30,298 --> 01:03:32,232
Elizabeth Kübler Ross,

1278
01:03:32,267 --> 01:03:35,236
who talked about
the five stages of grief,

1279
01:03:35,270 --> 01:03:36,270
and when you're hit with

1280
01:03:36,304 --> 01:03:39,603
an overwhelming
life-changing situation.

1281
01:03:39,641 --> 01:03:41,074
The first is denial.

1282
01:03:41,109 --> 01:03:42,508
"This can't possibly
be happening.

1283
01:03:42,544 --> 01:03:46,002
It's not true;
no, it's not happening."

1284
01:03:46,047 --> 01:03:48,709
And you stay in denial,
and you fight to stay in denial.

1285
01:03:48,750 --> 01:03:50,980
Then comes anger.

1286
01:03:51,019 --> 01:03:57,185
I really believe that mankind
is now entering just barely...

1287
01:03:57,225 --> 01:04:01,321
it has just barely crossed the
threshold of the anger phase.

1288
01:04:15,276 --> 01:04:17,107
We have to get through
the anger phase.

1289
01:04:17,145 --> 01:04:19,340
And how we get through
that anger phase

1290
01:04:19,380 --> 01:04:21,405
is going to be critical.

1291
01:04:21,449 --> 01:04:25,112
The way we're going
under current government

1292
01:04:25,153 --> 01:04:27,519
and monetary rule,

1293
01:04:27,555 --> 01:04:29,819
the only kind of anger
that's going to be produced

1294
01:04:29,858 --> 01:04:32,156
is the destructive kind,

1295
01:04:32,193 --> 01:04:35,822
borne of absolute frustration
and bitterness

1296
01:04:35,864 --> 01:04:37,832
that nothing
that's being sold to us

1297
01:04:37,866 --> 01:04:38,958
as being a solution

1298
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:42,629
is making us feel
any goddamn better.

1299
01:04:42,670 --> 01:04:44,069
Then, of course, after that,

1300
01:04:44,105 --> 01:04:45,402
you know,
we have the bargaining.

1301
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:48,534
Well, the bargaining
is kind of going on now too.

1302
01:04:48,576 --> 01:04:50,476
"Maybe I could've
done something different.

1303
01:04:50,511 --> 01:04:52,138
"Maybe I should have
thought of this.

1304
01:04:52,180 --> 01:04:55,240
Maybe if I do this now,
it won't be different."

1305
01:04:55,283 --> 01:04:57,114
Then you go through
the bargaining,

1306
01:04:57,151 --> 01:04:59,176
and you finally get to a place
of depression,

1307
01:04:59,220 --> 01:05:00,710
where it's really starting
to sink in,

1308
01:05:00,755 --> 01:05:02,347
and these are all
emotional stages

1309
01:05:02,390 --> 01:05:03,414
that one goes through

1310
01:05:03,458 --> 01:05:04,618
whether they're an individual

1311
01:05:04,659 --> 01:05:07,184
or a culture or a civilization.

1312
01:05:07,228 --> 01:05:09,822
And the final stage
is acceptance,

1313
01:05:09,864 --> 01:05:11,297
and it's really only when people

1314
01:05:11,332 --> 01:05:13,732
have reached
the point of acceptance

1315
01:05:13,768 --> 01:05:15,759
that you can find those people
who are like

1316
01:05:15,803 --> 01:05:17,703
part of the ones
on the Titanic saying,

1317
01:05:17,739 --> 01:05:19,934
"Okay, show us
how to build a lifeboat."

1318
01:05:23,912 --> 01:05:26,142
You know, there's different
ways to look at...

1319
01:05:26,180 --> 01:05:27,909
you can find stories
that support arguments

1320
01:05:27,949 --> 01:05:29,280
that you want to make,

1321
01:05:29,317 --> 01:05:31,182
just because there's
different authors

1322
01:05:31,219 --> 01:05:33,084
that sort of support
your world view,

1323
01:05:33,121 --> 01:05:34,486
and there's other ones
that don't.

1324
01:05:34,522 --> 01:05:37,821
Is it possible to sort
of create a reality

1325
01:05:37,859 --> 01:05:41,226
based on picking news stories
that support your world view?

1326
01:05:48,603 --> 01:05:51,231
I don't do debates anymore,

1327
01:05:51,272 --> 01:05:53,172
and the reason why
I don't do debates anymore

1328
01:05:53,207 --> 01:05:56,404
is because I don't have to.

1329
01:05:56,444 --> 01:05:58,605
At some point, you have
to acknowledge the fact

1330
01:05:58,646 --> 01:06:00,307
that what I've been
writing about

1331
01:06:00,348 --> 01:06:01,542
and what I've been saying

1332
01:06:01,582 --> 01:06:04,016
is actually happening
all around us.

1333
01:06:04,052 --> 01:06:07,681
So why do I need
to debate anything?

1334
01:06:07,722 --> 01:06:09,815
Why does the peak oil movement,

1335
01:06:09,857 --> 01:06:12,257
why does
the sustainability movement,

1336
01:06:12,293 --> 01:06:14,557
need to debate anything?

1337
01:06:14,595 --> 01:06:16,358
Everything that we said
was gonna happen

1338
01:06:16,397 --> 01:06:18,661
is taking place right now.

1339
01:06:26,207 --> 01:06:31,668
Every aspect of human existence
is on the table.

1340
01:06:31,713 --> 01:06:35,274
As far as political parties go,
they're all anachronisms.

1341
01:06:35,316 --> 01:06:40,276
They're all products
of centuries gone by.

1342
01:06:40,321 --> 01:06:43,188
The human race now
is only going to be concerned

1343
01:06:43,224 --> 01:06:44,418
not with an ideology

1344
01:06:44,459 --> 01:06:46,154
but what allows them to survive.

1345
01:06:47,628 --> 01:06:50,688
Capitalism, socialism,
and communism are all terms

1346
01:06:50,732 --> 01:06:53,098
that need to be tossed
in the trash can immediately,

1347
01:06:53,134 --> 01:06:55,068
because all of them were created

1348
01:06:55,103 --> 01:06:58,630
on the assumption
of infinite resources.

1349
01:06:58,673 --> 01:07:02,165
Not one of those ideologies
that are now dead dinosaurs,

1350
01:07:02,210 --> 01:07:03,677
archaic fossils,

1351
01:07:03,711 --> 01:07:06,111
and no longer relevant
to our way of life,

1352
01:07:06,147 --> 01:07:09,207
not one of them recognizes
that there must be a balance

1353
01:07:09,250 --> 01:07:14,483
between growth and the resources
and the planet.

1354
01:07:14,522 --> 01:07:17,514
So forget the idea that you can
have as much as you want,

1355
01:07:17,558 --> 01:07:20,925
because until mankind
surrenders to the fact

1356
01:07:20,962 --> 01:07:22,793
that it lives on a finite planet

1357
01:07:22,830 --> 01:07:25,060
and it must have balance
with that planet,

1358
01:07:25,099 --> 01:07:27,226
with the planet's resources,
with the animal life,

1359
01:07:27,268 --> 01:07:28,360
and all the other life,

1360
01:07:28,403 --> 01:07:30,803
there can be no happiness
for anything.

1361
01:07:30,838 --> 01:07:32,703
Anything.

1362
01:07:32,740 --> 01:07:35,607
It's all about
getting balance back.

1363
01:07:35,643 --> 01:07:40,103
And who sold me the idea
that it was my destiny to grow?

1364
01:07:40,148 --> 01:07:41,547
Nothing grows forever.

1365
01:07:41,582 --> 01:07:43,345
There's no such thing
as infinite growth.

1366
01:07:43,384 --> 01:07:44,874
It's not possible.

1367
01:07:44,919 --> 01:07:47,319
Look around at everything you
see around you that's living.

1368
01:07:47,355 --> 01:07:49,050
There is a cycle:

1369
01:07:49,090 --> 01:07:52,992
birth, growth, maturation,
decline, and death.

1370
01:07:53,027 --> 01:07:55,086
The challenge being faced
by the human race now

1371
01:07:55,129 --> 01:07:56,289
is either evolve or perish,

1372
01:07:56,330 --> 01:07:57,558
either grow up or die.

1373
01:07:57,598 --> 01:07:58,690
God doesn't care.

1374
01:07:58,733 --> 01:08:00,253
God's not gonna play babysitter
for us.

1375
01:08:00,268 --> 01:08:02,828
The challenge is either
you grow up and mature,

1376
01:08:02,870 --> 01:08:04,430
change your minds
and the way you think,

1377
01:08:04,472 --> 01:08:06,337
or you're gonna perish.

1378
01:08:06,374 --> 01:08:08,069
Everything is on the table now.

1379
01:08:08,109 --> 01:08:09,337
God is on the table.

1380
01:08:09,377 --> 01:08:12,676
Every religion in the world
is on the table now.

1381
01:08:12,713 --> 01:08:14,840
They'll all be measured
as standards by,

1382
01:08:14,882 --> 01:08:17,476
"This is reality, and this is
what the religion says,"

1383
01:08:17,518 --> 01:08:18,678
and every religion in the world

1384
01:08:18,719 --> 01:08:21,244
is gonna be under
a huge microscope.

1385
01:08:21,289 --> 01:08:23,189
This is gonna be
the greatest age of evolution

1386
01:08:23,224 --> 01:08:25,419
in human thinking
that's ever taken place.

1387
01:08:29,230 --> 01:08:30,492
You walk towards your fear.

1388
01:08:30,531 --> 01:08:31,759
You embrace your fear.

1389
01:08:31,799 --> 01:08:34,290
You don't try to hedge it,

1390
01:08:34,335 --> 01:08:36,769
that a part of real living
as a human being,

1391
01:08:36,804 --> 01:08:38,066
as a spiritual being,

1392
01:08:38,106 --> 01:08:41,371
is to embrace and encompass
your fear, your love,

1393
01:08:41,409 --> 01:08:43,809
and not run away from anything,

1394
01:08:43,845 --> 01:08:46,712
because that's
the life experience,

1395
01:08:46,747 --> 01:08:48,476
and it's in that richness

1396
01:08:48,516 --> 01:08:50,746
that I think we find
the most beautiful art,

1397
01:08:50,785 --> 01:08:52,218
the most beautiful music.

1398
01:08:52,253 --> 01:08:55,950
We find the richness of
what the human soul can offer,

1399
01:08:55,990 --> 01:09:01,326
and I see all that richness
buried under such bullshit.

1400
01:09:08,803 --> 01:09:11,169
Can you talk about
your own spirituality?

1401
01:09:11,205 --> 01:09:13,366
You talk about
a lot of different religions.

1402
01:09:13,407 --> 01:09:19,346
How do you define
your own spirituality?

1403
01:09:19,380 --> 01:09:23,009
I quote a Christian,
St. Timothy,

1404
01:09:23,050 --> 01:09:28,511
and I find it to be true
what he said,

1405
01:09:28,556 --> 01:09:33,493
that the love of money
is the root of all evil.

1406
01:09:33,528 --> 01:09:36,929
That's the end result of my
spiritual intellectual quest.

1407
01:09:36,964 --> 01:09:38,192
It is the end.

1408
01:09:38,232 --> 01:09:40,996
It is the fundamental truth
that I have verified

1409
01:09:41,035 --> 01:09:46,302
through three decades of
empirical, investigative, legal,

1410
01:09:46,340 --> 01:09:49,434
academic research,

1411
01:09:49,477 --> 01:09:51,570
trying to answer
some fundamental questions

1412
01:09:51,612 --> 01:09:54,376
about human existence
and why we behave the way we do,

1413
01:09:54,415 --> 01:09:55,609
why we think the way we do,

1414
01:09:55,650 --> 01:09:57,345
why we act the way we do.

1415
01:09:57,385 --> 01:09:59,353
The love of money
is the root of all evil,

1416
01:09:59,387 --> 01:10:00,547
and it is the love of money

1417
01:10:00,588 --> 01:10:03,250
which has the potential
to exterminate,

1418
01:10:03,291 --> 01:10:07,387
to render extinct
the entire human race.

1419
01:10:21,709 --> 01:10:24,303
All right,
so here we have this...

1420
01:10:24,345 --> 01:10:27,337
this likeable,

1421
01:10:27,381 --> 01:10:32,978
sincere guy in the White House,

1422
01:10:33,020 --> 01:10:37,957
and he is as imprisoned
as we all are.

1423
01:10:37,992 --> 01:10:38,992
I need to cut.

1424
01:10:39,026 --> 01:10:40,687
I need to cut.
I need to cut.

1425
01:10:40,728 --> 01:10:43,993
I'm just having a real powerful
wave of emotion right now,

1426
01:10:44,031 --> 01:10:47,364
because a whole new realization
is opening to me

1427
01:10:47,401 --> 01:10:48,925
about what I'm actually saying,

1428
01:10:48,970 --> 01:10:50,767
and this is some
serious fucking shit,

1429
01:10:50,805 --> 01:10:54,263
so I got to get my head
around it for a second.

1430
01:10:54,308 --> 01:10:56,299
Fuck.

1431
01:10:59,247 --> 01:11:03,581
Okay, I'm ready.

1432
01:11:03,618 --> 01:11:04,949
He is a prisoner of government.

1433
01:11:04,986 --> 01:11:06,044
He's a prisoner of politics.

1434
01:11:06,087 --> 01:11:07,554
He's a prisoner of economics.

1435
01:11:07,588 --> 01:11:09,988
He's a prisoner of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York.

1436
01:11:10,024 --> 01:11:11,821
He's a prisoner
of the Federal Reserve.

1437
01:11:11,859 --> 01:11:15,090
He's a prisoner
of a governmental system

1438
01:11:15,129 --> 01:11:18,428
that's archaic
and not quickly responsive,

1439
01:11:18,466 --> 01:11:23,961
so we should not make
the success or failure

1440
01:11:24,005 --> 01:11:29,409
of human civilization
rest on his shoulders.

1441
01:11:29,443 --> 01:11:37,443
The only thing in the world that
you and I can possibly change

1442
01:11:37,818 --> 01:11:39,786
to give ourselves
a chance of survival

1443
01:11:39,820 --> 01:11:41,617
and to give our children
a chance

1444
01:11:41,656 --> 01:11:48,459
at some kind of human
civilized life is our minds.

1445
01:11:48,496 --> 01:11:54,162
You have to believe, not wish,
not hope, not pray, not beg.

1446
01:11:54,201 --> 01:11:56,533
You just have to believe
that there's a way out of it,

1447
01:11:56,570 --> 01:11:58,197
and you're gonna find it.

1448
01:11:58,239 --> 01:12:00,799
This is perhaps
the greatest part

1449
01:12:00,841 --> 01:12:02,240
of the American character is,

1450
01:12:02,276 --> 01:12:03,368
when we get pissed off

1451
01:12:03,411 --> 01:12:05,106
and we put our minds
to something

1452
01:12:05,146 --> 01:12:07,046
and we clearly understand
what needs to be done

1453
01:12:07,081 --> 01:12:08,309
and we believe in it,

1454
01:12:08,349 --> 01:12:10,715
we really can change things.

1455
01:12:10,751 --> 01:12:16,417
I plan on living joyfully and
happily for the rest of my life,

1456
01:12:16,457 --> 01:12:18,220
a free man.

1457
01:12:18,259 --> 01:12:20,250
Shit.

1458
01:12:20,294 --> 01:12:22,819
How can you possibly say
there's no hope?

1459
01:12:22,863 --> 01:12:26,162
Just change your mind
and see what we see.

1460
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:27,929
Stop thinking like dinosaurs.

1461
01:12:32,106 --> 01:12:34,131
So do you feel that the work
that you do,

1462
01:12:34,175 --> 01:12:35,506
you're just gonna do it

1463
01:12:35,543 --> 01:12:37,534
regardless of what the
possible consequences are?

1464
01:12:37,578 --> 01:12:40,877
It just would be so much easier
to have walked away.

1465
01:12:45,219 --> 01:12:53,219
If there was a German
in 1932, 1933,

1466
01:12:54,495 --> 01:12:56,622
who had the foresight
to look ahead

1467
01:12:56,664 --> 01:12:59,189
and to see what
the inevitable end result

1468
01:12:59,233 --> 01:13:01,929
of the Third Reich would be,

1469
01:13:01,969 --> 01:13:04,199
if there was somebody
who had seen that coming,

1470
01:13:04,238 --> 01:13:07,366
do you honestly think that
they could in good conscience

1471
01:13:07,408 --> 01:13:09,000
turn around
and walk away from it

1472
01:13:09,043 --> 01:13:11,773
and pretend it wasn't there?

1473
01:13:11,812 --> 01:13:14,975
When every passing day,

1474
01:13:15,015 --> 01:13:16,676
from the first election
of Adolf Hitler

1475
01:13:16,717 --> 01:13:18,548
as Chancellor in 1933,

1476
01:13:18,586 --> 01:13:22,181
to Kristallnacht,
to the Night of the Long Knives,

1477
01:13:22,223 --> 01:13:25,522
to Anschluss,
the occupation of Austria,

1478
01:13:25,559 --> 01:13:27,993
to Sudetenland, Poland,

1479
01:13:28,028 --> 01:13:30,758
as all of those things happened
that were right on the map,

1480
01:13:30,798 --> 01:13:33,665
how do you think that person
would have felt?

1481
01:13:33,701 --> 01:13:37,831
Do you think that person
could have walked away?

1482
01:13:37,872 --> 01:13:41,535
We are all collectively
as a species responsible

1483
01:13:41,575 --> 01:13:46,478
for what may be the greatest
preventable holocaust

1484
01:13:46,514 --> 01:13:48,982
in the history of planet Earth.

1485
01:13:49,016 --> 01:13:52,577
Our own suicide.

1486
01:13:52,620 --> 01:13:56,249
How do you walk away from that?

1487
01:13:56,290 --> 01:13:59,054
How do you sleep at night?

1488
01:13:59,093 --> 01:14:02,153
Who is anybody?

1489
01:14:04,265 --> 01:14:07,530
Who are you to tell me

1490
01:14:07,568 --> 01:14:11,197
it would have been easier
to walk away?

1491
01:14:11,238 --> 01:14:12,865
You aren't in my skin.

1492
01:14:12,907 --> 01:14:15,398
It was never easier for me
to walk away

1493
01:14:15,443 --> 01:14:18,537
because to walk away
would have meant to compromise.

1494
01:14:18,579 --> 01:14:22,913
To walk away would have meant
selling out.

1495
01:14:27,721 --> 01:14:34,149
You know, I'm still a guy who,
30 years ago,

1496
01:14:34,195 --> 01:14:36,755
approached his government
as a citizen

1497
01:14:36,797 --> 01:14:39,357
asking for redress of grievance.

1498
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:40,833
I caught the CIA dealing drugs.

1499
01:14:40,868 --> 01:14:41,994
It's wrong.

1500
01:14:42,036 --> 01:14:43,503
Somebody needs
to talk about this,

1501
01:14:43,537 --> 01:14:46,233
and I'm still that same guy.

1502
01:14:46,273 --> 01:14:49,572
I'm still the 27-year-old
about to be promoted,

1503
01:14:49,610 --> 01:14:52,408
perfect record,
perfect rating report,

1504
01:14:52,446 --> 01:14:56,780
LAPD...
dedicated, clean LAPD cop.

1505
01:14:56,817 --> 01:14:58,341
He's still alive in me,

1506
01:14:58,385 --> 01:15:02,412
and he very much wants
some answers.

1507
01:15:23,344 --> 01:15:30,409
There is a legend or a fable
that really speaks to my life

1508
01:15:30,451 --> 01:15:31,782
about the 100th Monkey.

1509
01:15:41,695 --> 01:15:44,323
A long time ago
in the late '40s, early '50s

1510
01:15:44,365 --> 01:15:46,390
when atom bombs and H-bombs
were in vogue

1511
01:15:46,433 --> 01:15:49,596
with above-ground testing,

1512
01:15:49,637 --> 01:15:53,232
we set off an atom bomb
on an atoll in the Pacific,

1513
01:15:53,274 --> 01:15:55,071
and then we waited
a number of years,

1514
01:15:55,109 --> 01:15:57,475
because we wanted
to answer questions like,

1515
01:15:57,511 --> 01:15:59,775
"Gee, how soon after we
nuked something

1516
01:15:59,813 --> 01:16:02,976
would it be possible to get
any kind of life started again?"

1517
01:16:05,553 --> 01:16:07,043
So they went back
to this island,

1518
01:16:07,087 --> 01:16:09,783
and they decided
to repopulate it with monkeys,

1519
01:16:09,823 --> 01:16:12,223
and the monkeys ate coconuts.

1520
01:16:12,259 --> 01:16:14,250
Everything was pretty healthy

1521
01:16:14,295 --> 01:16:16,593
except for the fact that
the husks of the coconuts

1522
01:16:16,630 --> 01:16:21,533
were slightly radioactive.

1523
01:16:21,569 --> 01:16:25,403
So the scientists took
ten monkeys or so

1524
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:28,272
and taught them
to wash the coconuts

1525
01:16:28,309 --> 01:16:31,836
in a fresh water stream
on the island

1526
01:16:31,879 --> 01:16:34,313
before they cracked them open

1527
01:16:34,348 --> 01:16:38,284
and turned the whole thing loose
to see what would happen.

1528
01:16:38,319 --> 01:16:39,616
Well, you know, pretty soon,

1529
01:16:39,653 --> 01:16:42,520
maybe 12 monkeys out of
a population of 10,000

1530
01:16:42,556 --> 01:16:43,989
were washing their coconuts

1531
01:16:44,024 --> 01:16:47,187
and then 20, and then 47.

1532
01:16:49,296 --> 01:16:52,129
But a funny thing happened.

1533
01:16:52,166 --> 01:16:53,861
As soon as the 100th monkey

1534
01:16:53,901 --> 01:16:55,528
started washing
his coconut husk,

1535
01:16:55,569 --> 01:16:58,902
all 10,000 started
washing simultaneously.

1536
01:17:01,542 --> 01:17:04,511
I guess one way that I have
always looked at my life,

1537
01:17:04,545 --> 01:17:06,479
especially since
I clearly understood

1538
01:17:06,513 --> 01:17:12,611
what this issue was
in late 2001 is,

1539
01:17:12,653 --> 01:17:15,121
this is my quest
for the 100th monkey.