Zeitgeist: Addendum Page #7

Synopsis: Zeitgeist Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates a new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly influenced by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project.
Director(s): Peter Joseph
Production: Gentle Machine Productions
 
IMDB:
8.3
NOT RATED
Year:
2008
123 min
1,484 Views


"The truth is, there is no islamic army or

terrorist group called Al Qaide. And any

informed intelligence officer knows this. But

there is a propaganda campaign to make the

public believe in the presence of an identified

entity... The country behind this propaganda is the US."

Pierre-Henry Bunel

Former French Military Intelligence

In 2007, the Department of Defense received 161.8

billion dollars for the so-called global war on terrorism.

According to the national counter-terrorism center,

in 2004 roughly 2000 people were killed

internationally due to supposed terrorist acts.

Of that number, 70 were American.

Using this number as a general average,

which is extremely generous,

it is interesting to note that twice as many

people die from peanut allergies

a year than from terrorist acts.

Concurrently, the leading cause of death in America is

coronary heart disease, killing roughly 450,000 each year.

And in 2007, the government's allocation of funds for

research on this issue was about three billion dollars.

this means, that the US government, in 2007,

spent 54 times the amount for preventing terrorism,

than it spent for preventing for the disease, which kills

yet, as the name terrorism and Al Qaida

are arbitrarilly stamped on every news report

relating to any action - taken against US interests

the myth grows wider!

in mid 2008 the "US Attorney General"

actually proposed, that the US congress

officially declare war against the fantasy

not to mention as of July 2008,

there are now over 1 million people

currently on the US terrorist watch list

These so called "Counter-Terrorism Measures"

of course had nothing to do with social protection

- and everything to do with

preserving the establishment

amongst the growing Anti-American sentiment

both domestically and internationally

which is legitimately founded on the

greed based corporate empire expansion

that is exploiting the world

The true terrorists of our world,

do not meet at the darks at midnight

or scream "Allah Akbar" before some violent action

the true terrorists of our world,

wear 5000 dollar suits,

and work in the highest positions of finance,

government and business

So, what do we do ?

How do we stop a system of greed and corruption,

that has so much power and momentum

How do we stop this aberrant group behavior,

which feels no compassion

for say, the millions slaughtered

in Irak and Afghanistan

So the corporatacity can control energy

resources and opium production for Wall St. profit

Before 1980, Afghanistan produced

After the US/CIA backed Mujahideen won the Soviet/Afghan war.

by 1986 they were producing 40% of the world's heroin supply.

By 1988, they were producing

But then, something unexpected happened.

The Taliban rose to power, and by 2000 they

had destroyed most of the opium fields.

Production dropped from 3.000+ tons

to only 185 tons, a 94% reduction.

On Sept. 9th 2001, the full Afghanistan

invasion plans were on President Bush's Desk

Two days later they had their excuse

Today, opium productions in US controlled Afghanistan,

which now provides more than 90% of the world's heroin,

breakes new production records nearly every year.

How do we stop a system of greed and corruption

that condemns poor populations to "Sweatshop-Slavery"

for the benefit of Madison Avenue?

Or that engineers false-flag

terrorattacks for the sake of manipulation?

Or that generates "Build-in-Modes" of

social operation, wich are inherently exploited.

Or that systematicly reduces several

libertys, and violates human rights.

In order to protect it self,

from it's own shortcomings.

How do we deal with the numerous covert institutions?

Such as the Council on Foreign Relations? The

Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group?

and other undemocraticaly elected groups

which behind closed doors collude to control the political,

financial, social and enviromental elements of our lives.

in order to find the answer, we must

first find, the true undermind cause

For the fact is, the selfish, corrupt, power and profit

based groups are not the true source of the problem

They are symptoms!

Greed and Competition are not the

result of immutable human temperament

...greed and gear of scarcity are

in fact being created and amplified

the direct consequence is that we have to

fight with each other in order to survive

Bernard Liertaer-founder of the EU currency System

my name is Jacque Fresco, I'am an

industrial designer and a social engineer

I'am very much interested in society and developing

a system that might be standable for all people

first of all, the world corruption is a

monitory invention, that aberrant behavior,

behavior that's destructive for the well

being of people, or you dealing with human behavior

and human behavior appears

to be environmentally determinant

meaning, if you were raised by the seminole

indians as a baby, never saw anything else

you hold that system. And this goes for nations, for

individuals, for familys they try to indoctrinate their children

to their preticular faith in their country and

make them feel like their are part of the land

and they built a society,

which they call established

they established a workable point of

view and intend to perpetuate that

whereas, all societies are

really emergent, not established

and so they fight new ideas,

that would interfere with the establishment

Goverments try to perpetuate that which keeps them in power,

people are not elected to political office to change things

They are put there, to keep things the way they are.

so you see, the bases of corruption is in our society

Let me make it clear. All nations then are basically

corrupt because they tend to uphold existing institutions.

I don't mean to uphold, or downgrade all nations,

but communism, socialism, facism, the free

enterprise-system and all other sub-cultures are the same

they are all basicly corrupt

the most fundamental

characteristic of our social institutions

is an necessity for Self-Preservation, but they're

dealing with the cooperation from religion or goverment

the foremost interest is to preserve the institution itself

For instance the last thing an oil company would ever want

is the utilization of a energy that was outside of its control.

For it makes that company less relevant to society.

Likewise the cold war and the collapse of the

Soviet Union was in reality a way to preserve

and perpetuate the established economic

and global hegemony of the United States.

Similarly religions condition people to

feel guilty for natural inclinations,

each claiming to offer the only

path to forgiveness and salvation.

At the heart of this institutional

self-preservation lies monetary system.

For it is money that provides the means for power and survival.

Therefore, just as a poor person might

be forced to steal in order to survive,

it is a natural inclination to do whatever is

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Peter Joseph

Peter Joseph is an American independent filmmaker and activist. He is best known for the Zeitgeist film series, which he wrote, directed, narrated, scored, and produced. He is the founder of the related The Zeitgeist Movement. Other professional work includes directing the music video God Is Dead? for the band Black Sabbath more…

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