1 00:00:00,136 --> 00:00:03,860 Hey guys, i’m Abby Martin, welcome to Breaking The Set. 2 00:00:03,860 --> 00:00:08,138 Well, the government has been scrambling recently to keep any more potential leakers under wraps. 3 00:00:08,138 --> 00:00:12,215 And now we know that the software they are using help pinpoint the troublemakers within their ranks. 4 00:00:12,215 --> 00:00:15,368 It’s the test called the cyber awareness challenging, 5 00:00:15,368 --> 00:00:19,239 and that is used it’s easy determine whether or not federal employees or contractors are considered to be a threat. 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,695 Deaths gauges workers on several factors, 7 00:00:21,695 --> 00:00:24,351 how often they travel, their views on the government, 8 00:00:24,351 --> 00:00:26,861 and even their driving behavior. 9 00:00:26,861 --> 00:00:31,092 At you complete the test, the program terms if you’re considered a low, medium, or high-level threat. 10 00:00:31,092 --> 00:00:35,599 Well, while I’m glad I’m not one of the millions that works for the government. 11 00:00:35,599 --> 00:00:38,953 Is that pretty sure that the test i wouldn’t pass. 12 00:00:38,953 --> 00:00:43,646 As you can see right here, not only, by frequently travel outside the United States, 13 00:00:43,646 --> 00:00:48,122 but i’m facing hundreds of dollars in fines and speed trap tickets in DC, 14 00:00:48,122 --> 00:00:52,786 and i think we all know that I could just be slightly critical the US government. 15 00:00:52,786 --> 00:00:55,944 Look, this program is basically forcing workers to implicate themselves 16 00:00:55,944 --> 00:00:58,962 based on their personal beliefs and driving habits. 17 00:00:58,962 --> 00:01:01,980 But the real issue here is that this is just another tactic being used 18 00:01:01,980 --> 00:01:04,998 to squash any kind of dissent among workers. 19 00:01:04,998 --> 00:01:09,522 Thereby discouraging people to speak up or ever blow the whistle on government wrongdoing. 20 00:01:09,522 --> 00:01:12,307 But hey, what is exactly what the government wants? 21 00:01:12,307 --> 00:01:15,250 In fact, i wouldn’t be surprised to learn personal pilot program, 22 00:01:15,250 --> 00:01:18,193 was experimental one may be used to recognize and categorize 23 00:01:18,193 --> 00:01:21,384 every American in a different threat levels. 24 00:01:21,384 --> 00:01:24,799 Doesn’t quite feel like we are that far off from that being a reality. 25 00:01:24,799 --> 00:01:27,799 And that means there is lots of work to be done, guys. 26 00:01:27,799 --> 00:01:30,399 So join me, i’m just breaking the set. 27 00:01:32,276 --> 00:01:36,768 .. i want you to watch you can never seen anything like this, i’m on travel... 28 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,892 Breaking News - Breaking The Set 29 00:01:43,707 --> 00:01:46,107 The revolutionary Albert Einstein once said, 30 00:01:46,107 --> 00:01:51,000 “We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.” 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,907 Meaning, that we have to keep reinventing the wheel if we want a better society. 32 00:01:54,907 --> 00:01:59,184 And that is the driving force behind an organization called The Venus Project. 33 00:01:59,184 --> 00:02:02,538 It’s a movement offering architectural plan for human beings, 34 00:02:02,538 --> 00:02:06,584 technology, and nature to coexist a greater sustainable future. 35 00:02:06,584 --> 00:02:09,261 The man behind the project is Jacque Fresco. 36 00:02:09,261 --> 00:02:12,686 Is a self-educated industrial designer, engineer and futurist, 37 00:02:12,686 --> 00:02:16,111 who truly believes the ills of society can be cured 38 00:02:16,111 --> 00:02:19,537 only if we throw away the rules that govern it and ourselves. 39 00:02:19,537 --> 00:02:22,461 Fresco poses a question for us all: 40 00:02:22,461 --> 00:02:26,429 “or Humanity create the Paradise we know is possible, 41 00:02:26,429 --> 00:02:30,661 or will it drive itself into oblivion. The choice is ours.” 42 00:02:30,661 --> 00:02:36,015 And i spoke to him earlier, and i first asked him what drives this system into greed and war, 43 00:02:36,015 --> 00:02:41,276 and why have political social institutions evolved along with technology. 44 00:02:42,476 --> 00:02:46,538 Scarcity, or fear of the scarcity. 45 00:02:46,538 --> 00:02:51,737 Some might make people want to grab as much territory as i can, 46 00:02:51,737 --> 00:02:57,183 as much arable land as i can, as much water as i can. 47 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:03,122 So, the needs of people have to do with their behaviour. 48 00:03:04,660 --> 00:03:07,875 A more scarcity, the more aberrant behaviour. 49 00:03:07,875 --> 00:03:14,645 What does the Venus Project proposed to redesign society in a way that is possible today? 50 00:03:17,046 --> 00:03:21,491 It’s the bringing all the nations together as one nation. 51 00:03:21,491 --> 00:03:27,537 And agreed to take care the earth. And everything on the earth. 52 00:03:27,537 --> 00:03:34,520 And then, the nature, to restore nature as near a natural condition as possible. 53 00:03:35,414 --> 00:03:41,061 And goes no dumping of toxic materials in the rivers or the oceans. 54 00:03:41,061 --> 00:03:47,599 Can you break down some of the specifics about the transportation and energy capabilities in said society? 55 00:03:48,491 --> 00:03:54,259 I would say the energy capabilities would be based on geothermal energy, 56 00:03:54,259 --> 00:03:57,075 to natural heat of the earth. 57 00:03:57,075 --> 00:03:59,783 When you rely on solar, 58 00:03:59,783 --> 00:04:04,307 if there are clouds on the way, you know there is much electric generator. 59 00:04:04,307 --> 00:04:11,429 But geothermal energy is a natural fuel under the ocean, and on the land. 60 00:04:11,429 --> 00:04:15,046 Now we can tap those, make steam, 61 00:04:15,046 --> 00:04:19,414 and it steams can turn the turbines, and generate power continuously, 62 00:04:19,414 --> 00:04:24,014 without worrying about whether sun is down or not. 63 00:04:24,014 --> 00:04:26,584 And what about transportation? 64 00:04:26,584 --> 00:04:30,091 Transportation would be like monorail. 65 00:04:30,091 --> 00:04:33,322 In other words, about 30 feet off the ground, 66 00:04:33,322 --> 00:04:36,000 so it doesn’t have to stop at every corner. 67 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,599 I thought that something was really interested in one of your presentations talking about sea cities. 68 00:04:41,599 --> 00:04:44,382 Can you describe what those would look like? 69 00:04:45,152 --> 00:04:49,906 The city is circular, it is like a series of reems, 70 00:04:49,906 --> 00:04:54,000 emanating out from a central dome. 71 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,092 The central dome will have the socially integrated computer. 72 00:04:58,092 --> 00:05:03,004 Which has it’s tenticles way out into the agricultural belt. 73 00:05:03,004 --> 00:05:05,393 And deep into the soil. 74 00:05:05,393 --> 00:05:09,907 So, if the water table drops, that unit can pump water on that. 75 00:05:09,907 --> 00:05:16,075 Where is man has to take too much time to decipher the conditions. 76 00:05:17,013 --> 00:05:20,584 Jacque, if all of these amazing technologies exist today, 77 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,000 what is prohibiting them from flourishing right now? 78 00:05:25,092 --> 00:05:27,323 The established institutions. 79 00:05:27,323 --> 00:05:34,046 Once you’ve invested 10 million in oil platforms, you don’t want the electric car. 80 00:05:34,046 --> 00:05:37,969 You don’t want anything that interfere with your income. 81 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,368 So we become self-centered that way. 82 00:05:42,368 --> 00:05:45,736 Is there anywhere in the world that is practicing a society 83 00:05:45,736 --> 00:05:49,106 such as the one that you are proposing right now? 84 00:05:49,491 --> 00:05:56,399 I would say that 90% of the societies are corrupted by scarcity. 85 00:05:57,630 --> 00:06:01,614 Now i can say there is any decent society in the world. 86 00:06:01,614 --> 00:06:08,276 Maybe, maybe Iceland might be okay. 87 00:06:08,276 --> 00:06:11,246 You said that all world systems thus far, 88 00:06:11,246 --> 00:06:16,660 communism, socialism, fascism and free-market enterprise evolved 89 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:21,723 failed to eliminate racism, elitism and scarcity. Yes. 90 00:06:21,723 --> 00:06:25,138 Can you explain how your vision would eliminate those things? 91 00:06:26,014 --> 00:06:29,460 I’m trying. First of all, 92 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:34,446 and money corrupts people on the, in all areas. 93 00:06:34,446 --> 00:06:39,429 You can pay off judges, senators, politicians, with the use of money. 94 00:06:39,429 --> 00:06:45,091 We must outgrow the need for money, and go on to a resource-based economy. 95 00:06:45,091 --> 00:06:49,984 We will make things available to people just like the public library. 96 00:06:49,984 --> 00:06:55,229 If you have difficulty understanding that, you can check out any book in the library, 97 00:06:55,229 --> 00:07:01,230 without payments of any kind, or going into debt of any kind. 98 00:07:01,230 --> 00:07:03,752 That isn’t the truth of whole society. 99 00:07:03,768 --> 00:07:10,414 The society generates debt and obligations, which people cannot fulfil. 100 00:07:11,523 --> 00:07:15,476 Jacque, you said that greed and an endless war 101 00:07:15,476 --> 00:07:20,076 are based on aberrant behavior, based on social conditioning alone. 102 00:07:20,076 --> 00:07:24,307 Would you say that the need for competition after reward 103 00:07:24,307 --> 00:07:29,996 is also based on our societal conditions? Yes. 104 00:07:29,996 --> 00:07:33,000 And that it is not innate with the human nature? 105 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,096 No, there’s no such thing as human nature. 106 00:07:36,096 --> 00:07:40,239 Human nature, or human behavior, is shaped by culture. 107 00:07:40,239 --> 00:07:43,491 After all, what makes a person a patriot? 108 00:07:43,491 --> 00:07:47,721 The nazis were just as patriotic as the Americans. 109 00:07:47,721 --> 00:07:50,522 Propaganda makes them all aligned. 110 00:07:50,522 --> 00:07:55,261 I hate Americans and we hate the germans before the war. 111 00:07:55,261 --> 00:07:58,446 And the Japanese used the same technique, 112 00:07:58,446 --> 00:08:03,261 a propaganda, to get them again to want to do away with the Americans. 113 00:08:03,261 --> 00:08:06,784 It’s all environmentally determined. 114 00:08:06,784 --> 00:08:09,969 Every word you use you learn. 115 00:08:09,969 --> 00:08:13,938 Your mother said cup, table, like, papa, mama. 116 00:08:13,938 --> 00:08:19,521 Every word you use, and all the facial expressions come from movies, 117 00:08:19,521 --> 00:08:24,692 books that you read, role models that you look up to, and so. 118 00:08:24,692 --> 00:08:27,615 It seems to be nothing that humans can say. 119 00:08:27,615 --> 00:08:30,000 That doesn’t reflect that culture. 120 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 When you are brought up in the south, 121 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,707 and you hear all day long the same thing, 122 00:08:36,707 --> 00:08:40,363 I’m all get me in ?, and i am going to hang them up with ?. 123 00:08:40,363 --> 00:08:43,758 That is not inborn, that is learned in the south. 124 00:08:43,758 --> 00:08:49,134 So, there in areas of the south, uneducated regions of the south. 125 00:08:49,134 --> 00:08:51,635 Where do you think prejudice comes from? 126 00:08:51,635 --> 00:08:56,046 It isn’t inborn. Children will play with anybody. 127 00:08:56,046 --> 00:09:00,000 Afro-americans, chinese, japanese, filipinos, 128 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:04,676 until mother says you are ?, you don’t play with catholics. 129 00:09:04,676 --> 00:09:08,773 She means well, but she doesn’t understand what he is doing. 130 00:09:08,773 --> 00:09:13,885 Jacque, i commend you for actually presenting solutions 131 00:09:13,885 --> 00:09:16,998 to the multitude of problems that we face in the world, 132 00:09:16,998 --> 00:09:20,461 the scarcity, the all the problems that we are facing, 133 00:09:20,461 --> 00:09:21,984 it seems really overwhelming, 134 00:09:21,984 --> 00:09:26,809 and I think it’s amazing that you’ve actually produce something that could be a solution. 135 00:09:26,809 --> 00:09:34,203 However, how can we insure that putting full trust in one concentrated planning system of society 136 00:09:34,203 --> 00:09:36,566 will work and not become corrupted? 137 00:09:36,566 --> 00:09:38,799 Because i missworried that we are not there yet, 138 00:09:38,799 --> 00:09:43,199 and that, i feel like that’s how socialisms failed in the past. 139 00:09:43,738 --> 00:09:48,892 If you do away with a scarcety, number one, and you do away with money, 140 00:09:48,892 --> 00:09:52,630 and make things available like a public library, 141 00:09:52,630 --> 00:09:56,122 make sure that the public library we have a camera center, 142 00:09:56,122 --> 00:09:58,953 where anyone can go in and check out the camera. 143 00:09:58,953 --> 00:10:02,706 Make sure there is camera center, there is music instruments, 144 00:10:02,706 --> 00:10:07,208 you can check out a violin, a saxophone, just like the public library. 145 00:10:07,208 --> 00:10:09,080 No payments of any kind. 146 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,599 Now we have all those buildings around the central building. 147 00:10:12,599 --> 00:10:14,999 And that makes it impossible 148 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,076 for people to take bribes or a break in the house, and steal anything. 149 00:10:20,076 --> 00:10:25,291 If you made goods and services available to people, they do not steal. 150 00:10:25,291 --> 00:10:27,388 There is no need for it. 151 00:10:27,388 --> 00:10:29,509 We need to reinvent our value system 152 00:10:29,509 --> 00:10:32,660 in order to share the resources of this planet. 153 00:10:32,660 --> 00:10:34,784 How much would you say that language 154 00:10:34,784 --> 00:10:38,645 and mental trappings of the social orders that have failed in the past, 155 00:10:38,645 --> 00:10:43,138 trap us, prevent us from being able to progress with the revolutionary ideas? 156 00:10:43,138 --> 00:10:47,178 Well, our language was designed hundreds of years ago. 157 00:10:47,178 --> 00:10:50,495 And that can not communicate with people. 158 00:10:50,495 --> 00:10:56,046 We know that because we have democrats, republicans, socialists, lutherans, catholics, 159 00:10:56,046 --> 00:10:58,446 and language is a terrible thing. 160 00:10:58,446 --> 00:11:00,723 It’s never been invented, 161 00:11:00,723 --> 00:11:04,999 so that people can drawn the same conclusions. 162 00:11:04,999 --> 00:11:09,153 You see language is subject to interpretation. 163 00:11:09,153 --> 00:11:13,583 When you read the bible, somebody says this is what Jesus amend. 164 00:11:13,583 --> 00:11:15,793 And the other person all know he meant something else. 165 00:11:15,793 --> 00:11:19,296 And a third person says you are both wrong, this is what he meant. 166 00:11:19,296 --> 00:11:24,952 That is why you have the lutheran, the 7th day adventists, the catholics, 167 00:11:24,952 --> 00:11:28,630 all only because the bible is subject to interpretation. 168 00:11:28,630 --> 00:11:33,046 And our language is terrible, because it is subject to interpretation. 169 00:11:33,046 --> 00:11:37,219 But there is a language that is not subject to interpretation. 170 00:11:37,219 --> 00:11:40,439 And that is the language used by engineers. 171 00:11:40,439 --> 00:11:42,336 When they talk to each other, 172 00:11:42,336 --> 00:11:45,707 they don’t say believe me, this is a song ?erial. 173 00:11:45,707 --> 00:11:49,029 They give you the specifications of what is in that metal, 174 00:11:49,029 --> 00:11:54,429 how much torsion load it can take, how much tension, how much compression. 175 00:11:54,429 --> 00:11:56,998 So engineers, when they talk to each other, 176 00:11:56,998 --> 00:11:59,885 they don’t say i think he means this or i think he means that. 177 00:11:59,885 --> 00:12:02,772 When you talk to normal people, 178 00:12:02,772 --> 00:12:05,661 they interpreted it in relation in relation to their background. 179 00:12:05,661 --> 00:12:07,736 That is a major problem. 180 00:12:08,752 --> 00:12:13,000 Yes. Math and science and these things are not really open for interpretation. 181 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:18,123 That is mind-blowing to see the technologies that do exist that are available to us right now. 182 00:12:18,123 --> 00:12:23,045 Jacque Fresco, thank you so much for coming on explaining a little bit more about The Venus Project, 183 00:12:23,045 --> 00:12:24,892 everyone check it out. 184 00:12:26,153 --> 00:12:32,015 I’m taking a quick break, guys, but still had will talk about the tragic nuclear legacy of Japan, say 10.