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Hey guys, i’m Abby Martin, welcome to Breaking The Set.
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Well, the government has been scrambling recently to keep any more potential leakers under wraps.
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And now we know that the software they are using help pinpoint the troublemakers within their ranks.
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It’s the test called the cyber awareness challenging,
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and that is used it’s easy determine whether or not federal employees or contractors are considered to be a threat.
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Deaths gauges workers on several factors,
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how often they travel, their views on the government,
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and even their driving behavior.
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At you complete the test, the program terms if you’re considered a low, medium, or high-level threat.
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Well, while I’m glad I’m not one of the millions that works for the government.
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Is that pretty sure that the test i wouldn’t pass.
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As you can see right here, not only, by frequently travel outside the United States,
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but i’m facing hundreds of dollars in fines and speed trap tickets in DC,
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and i think we all know that I could just be slightly critical the US government.
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Look, this program is basically forcing workers to implicate themselves
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based on their personal beliefs and driving habits.
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But the real issue here is that this is just another tactic being used
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to squash any kind of dissent among workers.
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Thereby discouraging people to speak up or ever blow the whistle on government wrongdoing.
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But hey, what is exactly what the government wants?
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In fact, i wouldn’t be surprised to learn personal pilot program,
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was experimental one may be used to recognize and categorize
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every American in a different threat levels.
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Doesn’t quite feel like we are that far off from that being a reality.
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And that means there is lots of work to be done, guys.
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So join me, i’m just breaking the set.
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The revolutionary Albert Einstein once said,
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“We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.”
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Meaning, that we have to keep reinventing the wheel if we want a better society.
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And that is the driving force behind an organization called The Venus Project.
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It’s a movement offering architectural plan for human beings,
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technology, and nature to coexist a greater sustainable future.
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The man behind the project is Jacque Fresco.
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Is a self-educated industrial designer, engineer and futurist,
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who truly believes the ills of society can be cured
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only if we throw away the rules that govern it and ourselves.
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Fresco poses a question for us all:
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“or Humanity create the Paradise we know is possible,
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or will it drive itself into oblivion. The choice is ours.”
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And i spoke to him earlier, and i first asked him what drives this system into greed and war,
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and why have political social institutions evolved along with technology.
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Scarcity, or fear of the scarcity.
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Some might make people want to grab as much territory as i can,
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as much arable land as i can, as much water as i can.
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So, the needs of people have to do with their behaviour.
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A more scarcity, the more aberrant behaviour.
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What does the Venus Project proposed to redesign society in a way that is possible today?
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It’s the bringing all the nations together as one nation.
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And agreed to take care the earth. And everything on the earth.
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And then, the nature, to restore nature as near a natural condition as possible.
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And goes no dumping of toxic materials in the rivers or the oceans.
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Can you break down some of the specifics about the transportation and energy capabilities in said society?
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I would say the energy capabilities would be based on geothermal energy,
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to natural heat of the earth.
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When you rely on solar,
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if there are clouds on the way, you know there is much electric generator.
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But geothermal energy is a natural fuel under the ocean, and on the land.
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Now we can tap those, make steam,
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and it steams can turn the turbines, and generate power continuously,
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without worrying about whether sun is down or not.
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And what about transportation?
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Transportation would be like monorail.
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In other words, about 30 feet off the ground,
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so it doesn’t have to stop at every corner.
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I thought that something was really interested in one of your presentations talking about sea cities.
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Can you describe what those would look like?
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The city is circular, it is like a series of reems,
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emanating out from a central dome.
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The central dome will have the socially integrated computer.
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Which has it’s tenticles way out into the agricultural belt.
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And deep into the soil.
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So, if the water table drops, that unit can pump water on that.
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Where is man has to take too much time to decipher the conditions.
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Jacque, if all of these amazing technologies exist today,
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what is prohibiting them from flourishing right now?
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The established institutions.
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Once you’ve invested 10 million in oil platforms, you don’t want the electric car.
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You don’t want anything that interfere with your income.
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So we become self-centered that way.
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Is there anywhere in the world that is practicing a society
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such as the one that you are proposing right now?
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I would say that 90% of the societies are corrupted by scarcity.
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Now i can say there is any decent society in the world.
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Maybe, maybe Iceland might be okay.
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You said that all world systems thus far,
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communism, socialism, fascism and free-market enterprise evolved
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failed to eliminate racism, elitism and scarcity. Yes.
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Can you explain how your vision would eliminate those things?
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I’m trying. First of all,
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and money corrupts people on the, in all areas.
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You can pay off judges, senators, politicians, with the use of money.
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We must outgrow the need for money, and go on to a resource-based economy.
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We will make things available to people just like the public library.
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If you have difficulty understanding that, you can check out any book in the library,
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without payments of any kind, or going into debt of any kind.
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That isn’t the truth of whole society.
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The society generates debt and obligations, which people cannot fulfil.
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Jacque, you said that greed and an endless war
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are based on aberrant behavior, based on social conditioning alone.
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Would you say that the need for competition after reward
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is also based on our societal conditions? Yes.
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And that it is not innate with the human nature?
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No, there’s no such thing as human nature.
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Human nature, or human behavior, is shaped by culture.
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After all, what makes a person a patriot?
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The nazis were just as patriotic as the Americans.
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Propaganda makes them all aligned.
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I hate Americans and we hate the germans before the war.
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And the Japanese used the same technique,
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a propaganda, to get them again to want to do away with the Americans.
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It’s all environmentally determined.
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Every word you use you learn.
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Your mother said cup, table, like, papa, mama.
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Every word you use, and all the facial expressions come from movies,
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books that you read, role models that you look up to, and so.
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It seems to be nothing that humans can say.
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That doesn’t reflect that culture.
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When you are brought up in the south,
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and you hear all day long the same thing,
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I’m all get me in ?, and i am going to hang them up with ?.
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That is not inborn, that is learned in the south.
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So, there in areas of the south, uneducated regions of the south.
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Where do you think prejudice comes from?
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It isn’t inborn. Children will play with anybody.
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Afro-americans, chinese, japanese, filipinos,
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until mother says you are ?, you don’t play with catholics.
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She means well, but she doesn’t understand what he is doing.
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Jacque, i commend you for actually presenting solutions
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to the multitude of problems that we face in the world,
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the scarcity, the all the problems that we are facing,
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it seems really overwhelming,
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and I think it’s amazing that you’ve actually produce something that could be a solution.
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However, how can we insure that putting full trust in one concentrated planning system of society
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will work and not become corrupted?
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Because i missworried that we are not there yet,
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and that, i feel like that’s how socialisms failed in the past.
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If you do away with a scarcety, number one, and you do away with money,
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and make things available like a public library,
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make sure that the public library we have a camera center,
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where anyone can go in and check out the camera.
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Make sure there is camera center, there is music instruments,
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you can check out a violin, a saxophone, just like the public library.
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No payments of any kind.
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Now we have all those buildings around the central building.
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And that makes it impossible
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for people to take bribes or a break in the house, and steal anything.
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If you made goods and services available to people, they do not steal.
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There is no need for it.
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We need to reinvent our value system
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in order to share the resources of this planet.
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How much would you say that language
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and mental trappings of the social orders that have failed in the past,
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trap us, prevent us from being able to progress with the revolutionary ideas?
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Well, our language was designed hundreds of years ago.
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And that can not communicate with people.
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We know that because we have democrats, republicans, socialists, lutherans, catholics,
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and language is a terrible thing.
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It’s never been invented,
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so that people can drawn the same conclusions.
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You see language is subject to interpretation.
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When you read the bible, somebody says this is what Jesus amend.
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And the other person all know he meant something else.
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And a third person says you are both wrong, this is what he meant.
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That is why you have the lutheran, the 7th day adventists, the catholics,
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all only because the bible is subject to interpretation.
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And our language is terrible, because it is subject to interpretation.
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But there is a language that is not subject to interpretation.
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And that is the language used by engineers.
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When they talk to each other,
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they don’t say believe me, this is a song ?erial.
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They give you the specifications of what is in that metal,
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how much torsion load it can take, how much tension, how much compression.
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So engineers, when they talk to each other,
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they don’t say i think he means this or i think he means that.
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When you talk to normal people,
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they interpreted it in relation in relation to their background.
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That is a major problem.
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Yes. Math and science and these things are not really open for interpretation.
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That is mind-blowing to see the technologies that do exist that are available to us right now.
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Jacque Fresco, thank you so much for coming on explaining a little bit more about The Venus Project,
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everyone check it out.
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I’m taking a quick break, guys, but still had will talk about the tragic nuclear legacy of Japan, say 10.