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March 14, 2022 - The Liberty Broadcast
01:39:42
Robert F Kennedy Jr. & others Speaking at United We Stand during SXSW
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You have things about yourself that you didn't know.
So I listened to that little voice in my head and ran for office, was elected, and being a three-term incumbent.
And when I came into office, the first thing, I wanted to make a big difference.
Like, if I'm going to leave the private sector, if I'm going to take a huge pay cut and sacrifice this for my family, why am I doing this?
Why did I have that feeling?
And it became apparent very quickly to me why.
And the reason why I felt that I needed to do this was because someone within government needs to do the decentralization, just like the previous two panelists have talked about.
If you think about it, how do you prove your identity?
You prove your identity with all documents that came from the government.
A birth certificate.
A marriage certificate, a driver's license, a passport, everything that an institution uses for you to prove who you are comes originally from the government.
And as we head into the scary era of ESG and social credit scores and cancel culture, we need to ensure that that same government that gave us these documents can't erase those documents.
And the way you do that...
That is with exactly what these two gentlemen talk about, and that is decentralization.
So in 2019, when I was sworn into office, I actually launched the first marriage license that is registered on the blockchain.
Oh, right on!
So we launched this in 2019.
We went full-scale in January of 2020.
Everyone thought I was crazy because I had a solution looking for a problem.
And then COVID hit, and we promptly processed 20,000 marriage licenses because we were the only people in the country that could issue a marriage license.
Wow.
So that's a big part of it, is getting identity documents on the blockchain.
Even if they are issued by the government, once they're on the blockchain, That's an immutable record that can't be erased if they don't like your politics.
So I think that's very important.
Absolutely.
And then...
So that's kind of my big push, is to continue to decentralize government records so that they can't be erased.
The second thing that I did is as a...
I was formerly before I was a commissioner, I was a county clerk, and I ran the last election.
And so we facilitated the first presidential vote on the blockchain in history.
And I do have to say that that vote was passed for Brock Pierce and Carla Ballard.
It came through our county and we have created an NFT of it.
But I think that's really important because as we go through the look...
The best way to root out the corruption in our society is through transparency.
The best disinfectant is sunlight, and sunlight is information.
You know, in 2016, we had half the country arguing that that election was corrupt, and then now in 2020, we've flipped and the other half of the country is arguing that there was corruption in the election because their guy didn't win.
And I think what's really important is that whether or not you're happy about who won, if we use this decentralized system...
The worst thing that we can do is federalize elections.
We need to implement all of these at the county level.
As many of your identity documents, voting documents, as many of the important things need to happen at that local level.
Which is why instead of jumping in and running for Congress, where you get a lot of fame and fortune, I ran for a local level.
Because that's where we really need to implement this.
So decentralization is how we've done that.
and we've done that through identity and voting.
Love that.
And look how it's going to be the way to name your candidates.
We got Brian Christensen.
Founder of Block Cities, welcome.
Virtual Art, you're going to upgrade the physical world?
How are you going to do that?
That's what we're working on.
So for a while now, we've been building out a toolkit really for upgrading the planet.
Can you tell the audience who you are?
They didn't hear me on this one.
Yeah, Brian Christensen, BlockCities.com is the platform that we built.
Basically what we've done is we've built a virtual Earth for the purpose of upgrading the physical planet.
Right now...
There's a lot going on.
Our current trajectory is obviously not sustainable.
This is obvious.
And so the only way that we're going to be able to reorient that trajectory is by having the tools and collaborating in such a way that we can actually bring outcomes about.
Within that, voting is a very powerful mechanism.
And I would say that within the realm of voting, there's actually an evolution that we'll see in that realm to where there's actually different hybrids or different types of voting.
One of which would be like an actionable voting, which we call quadratic voting.
It's a way of being able to propose a solution in the real world in such a way where it's like you put your money where your mouth is, buy a bunch of votes, invite your friends to do the same, funds are then held in escrow, and then professionals can bid out the completion of this thing that you're actually throwing out there.
And so being able to take these more complex You know, arenas and being able to actually use technology in such a way that can bring about a physical outcome that actually serves us, you know, as a planet.
You know, that's really what I'm focused on building.
And I feel like, at the end of the day, there's a lot of things, if we don't address...
The root issues, you know, to some of the problems.
We could dance around it all day, you know, and so really getting to the root and then being able to have these technologies emerge that serve us, you know, that allow us to bring about the outcomes that we want and that we're capable of bringing about, you know, that's really what I've been focused on building.
So who out there wants to own their own data?
Did I get all hands?
I think, I think.
All right, we've got Brittany Kaiser here, the founder of Own Your Own Data.
Welcome, Brittany.
I'm so happy to be here with all of you guys and see so many beautiful souls all around me.
So many of you, it's been a little while.
So beautiful.
My name is Brittany Heiser.
I'm the co-founder of the Own Your Data Foundation.
My co-founder, Natalie, is here with me, where we teach digital literacy.
And I was also the very proud campaign manager of Barack and Carla's presidential run as well.
And I'm an activist in the data protection, privacy, and digital asset and cryptocurrency space.
I sit on the We have a number of congressional subcommittees where we work on legislation and regulatory work, specifically helping bridge the gap between What most legislators and politicians know about technology and what the technologists that are building a lot of the cutting-edge solutions in this space have to teach them.
So I'll help work on and help write and pass the 22 laws that we now have in Wyoming for the blockchain industry and help 16 other states and 20 other countries start adopting similar legislation so that we actually have ownership over not just our personal We're not personal data, but our blockchain tokens, our time, our attention, and the value that we produce while using I was supposed to be on the earlier panel.
I feel like this is actually the panel I'm supposed to be on because I spend most of my energy making sure that these cutting-edge technologies that solve a lot of the fundamental problems of how our society infrastructure was improperly built, our societal infrastructure really can be completely reimagined.
I think over the past few years, especially during the coronavirus shutdown, we have seen that Our ability...
To organize and make decisions in a decentralized manner has become greater and really grown at an exponential pace.
Where, you know, three years ago when we started working on the DAO law in Wyoming, it was hypothetical conversations with members of Congress about why a DAO would ever be a better decision-making infrastructure than the way that they currently make decisions in Congress.
And that was very special, talking about hypothetical DAOs and getting them to work with I'm writing the first DAO LLC law, where explaining decentralized voting and consensus mechanisms and the ability to design away bureaucracy would be a platform of the future that everyone would eventually need to use.
That went into enactment in July 1st of last summer, and that was the first time that we started to see massive DAO projects popping up all over the world and being able to, for instance, fundraise tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in a few days for all people that believe for a certain cause.
And I think a great example of that has been what the crypto community has been able to do for Ukraine over the past two weeks.
We've donated over $200 million, which means that we have surpassed both what the European Union gave in humanitarian aid as well as the United Kingdom.
Thank you.
Massive.
And so now a sovereign government like Ukraine, which has the highest amount of crypto adoption and where a lot of the biggest crypto platforms and networks that we all know and love have been built by Ukrainians, now the community has been able to rally around and actually provide decentralized crowdsourced humanitarian aid in larger amounts than most international organizations and governments.
For that to be the case and to be able to prove this out at a macro level, which we all thought, you know, we're going to do all these smaller DAO projects and then build up to things.
And then for everything from Ukraine DAO to the Ukrainian government opening up 12 different crypto wallets to accept aid directly is just completely amazing.
So, you know, I spend as much time as possible as an activist in this space and, you know, working with people like DeeSpun, I'm excited by Brian's company, Proud to Work with Uhura, to really make sure that these technologies have universal adoption globally and that they're specifically designed to protect and empower individual rights.
And the more rights that we have, The more ways of protecting them easily, the more we're able to participate and be a great citizen and be a member of society that is engaging at higher levels than just dealing with constant roadblocks and bureaucracy and technology that doesn't work for us.
You know, right now we work for technology.
It needs to be the other way around.
Yes.
Can I ask you a question real quick?
How long was that process from when you started the Wyoming Dow Laws still getting it passed?
So, about three years is when we started it.
The first bills we passed three months after they were introduced.
So, we're on the live stream and I'm going to keep going because no one can hear that.
So, we've got about ten minutes left.
And, you know, Technology for Independent Future, I want to say what we're talking about today here is new technological solutions, you know, enable new forms of civic participation and governance.
And devoted to improve governance, the independent sector is committed to increasing transparency and accountability of elected representatives as well as positively engaged by the people.
So really, that's what we have going on here at this panel.
And I want to throw a question out there.
Whoever wants to answer it, what are the tech solutions that have the greatest implications on better governance?
We can keep it to a minute or two.
Tops.
I think the number one is Web 3 in this idea of decentralization.
Last week, I was sitting down with United States Senators Rand Paulins and Mike Lee from Utah, and both of whom were on the ballot this year, and one of the things they've been fighting since they've been in the United States Senate is there's a presidential directive from the 1930s that would give, in case of an emergency, the President of the United States the ability to shut down communications.
Now, that directive was designed to shut down, like, telephone communications.
But it, in theory, could apply to the internet.
And so, the more that we can decentralize, and not just decentralize, but distribute the internet, which is what Web3 does, would give it the ability so that even if there was a presidential directive, they couldn't do it.
Brian and I were talking just the other day, and one of the things he talked about that he's building into Accurate AI is this idea that built into the technology needs to be a lack of control.
That needs to be from the ground up.
Let me add a couple quotes to that, because decentralized, well, that's kind of something I've been working on for like six years.
The physical layer is ultimately the fundamental layer of the internet.
You cut the cord.
It doesn't matter how decentralized, your fancy stuff is on top of that.
You're not going to get packaged, right?
So the physical layer needs to be recessed.
The physical layer needs to be decentralized, right?
And then as far as like, you know, the heads, right?
I'm noticing a lot of decentralized organizations still have corporate structures, typical corporate structures, right?
Look at the theory.
They had the data.
If you look at Bitcoin, you know the main point of centralization, the central point of failure is development.
And that also fundamentally comes down to the social architecture.
In all of that, right?
They're still heads and that's why we really need to go all the way down to the very base of it, right?
The decentralized web is cool and I see a lot of it where you've got immutable file systems, you've got IPFS, you know, decentralized search.
We're building all these immutable layers on top of a physical layer that we don't own.
We don't own the IP addresses.
They can be deallocated.
They're actually also rudimentary stored in routers so they can be hacked, they can be retraced.
I mean, and there's all these funky protocols on top of like BGP to make it work because it wasn't really designed for consumer adoption.
It was just something that they used on ARPANET in 1969.
It evolved into ACP IP in the 80s.
And then they're like, hey, let's commercialize it.
And they're like, wait, people aren't going to want to type in numbers.
Oh, let's create a domain name system.
It was a reactive architectural development.
So at this time, seeing all these problems, we need to fundamentally reimagine everything in order to do it correctly because we need to augment it to the next level.
And that includes everything, right?
Like social structures, I know it feels great to be the man and to be the CEO.
But at some point, we all need to find ways to not be that.
We need to take the heads off of all of it so everything becomes a starfish.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Decentralization, I think, is a fantastic tool for it.
And I think there's a second one, and that the risk of sounding self-serving, I'll say AI directed learning.
Look, our founding fathers spoke about this, that for a democracy to stay healthy, it requires an intelligent, educated, and knowledgeable population.
So education is at the foundation for having a healthy country and a healthy world.
There was a study recently that just got published a couple months ago that looked at the kids around the world and their ability to understand logic and be able to have a high level of reading comprehension.
And what they found is that in the United States, over 90% of high school students Cannot differentiate between fact and opinion when they're reading content.
Guys, that's a problem.
You can't have a healthy democracy if your population can't have basic reading comprehension and logic.
And so education is foundational to enable a healthy society.
In fact, Ray Dahlia, who runs Bridgewater, the biggest hedge fund in the world, He just wrote a book called Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order.
He had his people study all of the variables that determine the rise and fall of civilizations and empires.
And all the 18 variables that they deciphered, education is the first one that will determine the fall of a country.
I just want to add one thing, too, really quick.
Two minutes.
Okay, this is going to be...
The founding fathers said...
That our country and our constitution is designed for religious and moral and just people, which they are correct, but it wasn't designed for a malicious world that we live in right now.
And so that's one thing that's just a design flaw of the United States, is it's designed for people have to be good.
But we have to assume that people are not going to be good when we're designing a system.
You just brought that up.
I just had to add that.
Sorry.
Alright, this one's for you, Brittany, Bryan.
We're going to be wrapping up here in just one minute.
So, Brittany, Bryan, and really just like, what are the developmental elements around the technologies you see our independent movement must get right culturally?
Please.
So, I think we're going to be talking about the One of the things that's important is, and it's pretty basic, but intuitive design.
One of the things is, the less intuitive things are, the more education is required in order to be able to understand how to utilize this app.
So, having, obviously, a usefulness to the thing that you're designing, but then also a very intuitive design that just takes the user naturally to the end objective that you're bringing to.
But taking a step back a little bit, there's a lot of different things that we can focus on.
There's a very powerful story that I heard that actually based my entire company off of over the last little bit, which is a guy by the name Carl Rodenhamble back in the day.
And it was the very first example of a real-world distributed ledger system that happened right after the Great Depression.
And basically it's just a little point system where people could work and then they got their points and then they could spend their points within the system and spend it on healthcare, automotive, you know, nursery, whatever it was, but being able to actually Take your time and human energy and then be able to spend it in other ways as a result of earning something.
It's collaboration at its finest.
And unless we develop these technologies that allow for more efficient collaboration together, you know, nothing else really matters.
You know, Brittany, I'm going to spin the question here real quick.
What sort of technology do we need to have and maybe need to repeat it for the live stream?
You know, in order to elect independent candidates or an independent presidential candidate 2024-2028 vice-presidential as well.
Absolutely.
Can you repeat the question?
Yeah, and so it's one of the most important technologies that we should be using to actually be able to elect more independent candidates and eventually look to be able to get an independent president in the White House.
Which I think a lot of us have asked ourselves this question and been working hard to see that goal eventually materialize.
And what we do know is that the majority of this country is independent.
Because most people have even opted out of the system, right?
They do not vote for Democrats or Republicans, the majority of us in this country.
So I'm going to combine a few of the things that were said in answer to, you know, what are the best technologies that we need to be using, and that's both education, so that people understand that they have access to these types of candidates, You have to be educated in order to understand why there are certain people with certain beliefs that are actually looking out for empowering individuals and protecting people's rights.
That requires a level of education.
But we also need to be providing people with that basic access.
We've talked about universal earned income.
We've talked about well-designed, easy-to-use apps.
You don't need to be very technical in order to get access.
If everyone had a universal earned income and was able to follow their passion and have time for education, then I think all of these people that are not currently even participating in the political system And so,
some of the most important technologies that exist right now are starting to come out all over the crypto space, which is being able to earn an income for owning your data, your time, your attention and that just by participating in a community, by opening an app, all of a sudden you're earning enough money every single day to at least Buy groceries with.
To take care of yourself and your family.
Your basic needs meet your basic human rights.
And then you can concentrate on everything else.
So I really think it's the universal earned income, staking, airdrops, apps that make that easy for anyone to go and earn enough money to protect their own human rights.
And that is going to be the most revolutionary part of the use cases of these technologies.
And once people take care of those rights, then we can think about voting on DAOs, voting for independent candidates, et cetera, and so forth.
But let's make sure everyone's basic needs and human rights are met.
so that we can see that type of evolution We're wrapping up the panel.
So this is our panel on technology for independent future.
Thank you so much.
I do have to take a moment to go into one paragraph.
Green Equal Elections is in the process of launching our blockchain election system app, poweredbynexus.io.
It's designed to promote transparency in the U.S. electoral process, inspire individuals to run for office, empower voters with information about the electoral system, and educate them all about their candidate voices.
So this will launch into our presidential debate in 2024.
So thank you, Colin, for spearheading.
Thank you.
It leads here to the town.
We're talking about united independence, right?
So let's think differently, right?
We can't solve the problem with the same problem in thinking, so we need to think differently.
So as we go away from this, start thinking about those types of things.
How can we organize things differently?
One quick example: We vote.
We have a vow in my family.
My kids will rule.
Try it.
It works.
It changes everything.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
I thought the rest of it was the second.
I don't know.
I think it's real.
I just don't know.
I think they were just done for the weekend.
Let me check this.
So awesome.
Hello, guys.
Yo.
Amazing.
Come on.
Come on.
Oh, that's cute.
Oh, that's cute.
I can still feel the energy behind here.
Oh, that was beautiful.
Is there a real question right now about what just happened?
Like, all these beautiful people are here for you and for all of us.
There's so much information, so much knowledge, there's so much grit, there's so much talent and energy.
All here for all of us.
Oh, man.
Let's get the show going.
I've got to go.
They want to give a video to the artist, the artist, the artist, the artist, Luke, Colin.
He's going to play a video of an other kind of movie as a documentary.
It's a spoken word, and he's going to tell you about this.
Beautiful brother, known him for a while.
I haven't worn this like in years.
I brought this from him from Peru that he got.
He has an ancient heart, and he's going to give you some love, all right?
All right.
Thank you, guys.
What's up, everybody?
So, can I just get a show of hands if you guys are excited to replay?
Individual and planetary sovereignty.
Right here.
So, I'm passionate about where the individual path connects with the we, where the I meets the we.
I think this is the cutting edge of our time.
You're about to see the spoken word piece that I shot in Bali during the pandemic with my brother Ika Darville, who's a B-list celebrity on Netflix, and shot by my brother Pete Longwood, who's worked with a lot of really renowned authors and speakers.
This is an unreleased piece in We're sitting here first before it goes live on the 22nd of this month.
So thanks for tuning in.
Just inviting a moment of presence to receive this piece of art.
Thank you so much.
turn the volume up please Fact check your fact checkers.
Oligarchies have been playing chess.
Fact checkers.
Follow the number.
Fact checks, all record.
Fact check, big media, big pharma, big tech.
All weapons.
Overwhelming evidence.
Inconvenient truths like Building 7 and 9 /11.
Victims made wrong by politicians and celebs.
Stay glorified among systems still oppressive.
Social media snatching attention, bipartisan politics funneling our focus into polarized segments like two sports teams playing under the same management.
Alternative narratives offering a perspective.
Illuminating the potential for insidious agendas, get ridden off as conspiracies.
It's like we got a compound fracture inside of our society.
Both sides are persecuting.
Fung for being so strong that obviously they're the ones who's moving No more public forums, just a place of shame and scorn.
No more discussions, critical thinking, or the art of debate.
There's a whole lot of wrong making.
A whole lot of blame.
Defended, racist, divided states.
Are we awake?
Getting the jab might be kind of like getting warm blankets with smallpox and in the middle of January a native lands back before Uncle Sam fully landed.
No, I'm not a denier.
I'm just confused why so many would side with the colonizer as if Pfizer and these other companies actually give a f*** about anything other than their numbers.
And no, I'm not anti that.
I'm pro-observation.
I got no tin hats.
I'm just asking questions, seeking answers, taking time, attacking each other's characters for differing paradigms, lack spine.
Do what's good for you.
I'm going to do what's mine.
And all this virtual signaling, becoming so glorified, purpose-driven minds just got homogenized.
And yes, we are a village, but that takes self-ownership, self-responsibility, autonomy, not codependency or deferring to all authorities, absolute authority.
Because really?
There's only one authority, that's source, not man.
If we're so afraid of death, we stop living.
How is that the plan?
That's not a place I'm trying to find the human spirit.
And yes, I've lost friends and family many times, for many reasons, for many circumstances, including this.
But a world where we've been taught to fear each other in this way, Makes that threat endless.
And if this was indeed lab created, how does that change things?
The last two years have been strange days, drowning in information, sound bites, and skewed data, flip-flops, neuro-linguistic programming.
Maybe we don't know everything.
There's a lot of disillusionment coming for a lot of souls who gave an awful lot of power away to things outside themselves.
And that's on either side of the fence.
If nature provides everything we need, and we need her, she doesn't necessarily need us.
While we were locked up inside, glued to our TVs, she's out here waiting for all of us to get free.
Maybe the real disease is that we wandered a bit too far from the garden for the sake of the modern, and the constant progress and profit at all costs might actually be the problem.
Then the great pause came.
Maybe we were never taught what true health actually is, bombarded with poison since we were kids, and science in the form that it's taking may not be the answer for everything, for everyone.
People neglected, like children under toxic parenting, lockdown, go to your room, you're grounded for existing on this would-be prison planet that's still a garden.
You don't need to wait for a pardon.
You're a part of something bigger than all of this.
Wow.
Wow!
Thank you guys so much.
We started here first at United We Stand.
And united we stand.
So I want to give an invitation to y 'all this Wednesday at Casa de Luz.
We're doing another screening with BTS.
Break out some sense-making as a community.
I think it's really important that one thing that COVID showed us is that we need to meet in small groups and build impermeable coherence.
And then we start to meet each other and these concentric rings of coherence start to meet.
This is how we gradually tip the scales.
I want you to text or call someone that you love that you lost through the pandemic based on ideology or belief and let them know that you still love them.
Thank you very much.
Upstairs.
Good luck, brother.
Yeah, that's a lot of work and a lot of energy.
Gotta give love to the people who are sharing their hearts.
If you're talking right now, if you're not in the front right now, then I'll really put you in a position to take a breath and come to the front.
Anybody?
Because this is the moment.
This is the beautiful moment to be happening right now.
And if you're here and you're present right now and you're in your heart, I really invite you to come as close as possible and take as much time and space for yourself to listen to the words.
One, just the introduction of this beautiful sister who's about to show up, who's been, for the last 25 years, giving all her soul, all her heart, and all her love for you, for the children, for the community.
And I really give you...
Hold up.
Can we just get one breath together?
If anybody's talking, just like...
Stop talking for one second.
Just for one second for yourself.
Just be the child that you all are.
For yourself right now.
Just be one minute.
Just give yourself time and space to love yourself right now.
For you to be showing up here right now.
For all of this.
For all that you are going to ripple out into the world right now by being here.
Okay?
Just give that soul to yourself.
You deserve it.
We all deserve it.
Alright?
Oh.
This gathering and this day is all devoted to the self-government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Our speaker today has, in a sense, been closer to the presidency of the United States than even some presidents.
His father and uncle both gave their lives in the service of this country.
His uncle is our 35th president.
And his father as first, the United States Attorney General, and later as the probable president in 1968.
Like his father, he is also a lawyer, an environmental lawyer, who has always pointed out that polluters always choose a soft target of poverty.
He has, in recent months, helped expose the massive disparities in health care for the poor in America.
Much of his father shocked the nation in a similar way when he said in 1967, I have seen children in Mississippi starving, their bodies so crippled from hunger, and their minds have been so destroyed for their whole life that they will have no future.
The Constitution says that we are to promote the general welfare of ourselves and our posterity.
Posterity means not only the future, people.
But the future world, the environment that will be here when we are no longer here.
That's where his life efforts have been concentrated.
Our speaker is also an expert at whitewater rafting.
He also trains falcons.
He's not afraid of understanding natural processes and he's not afraid of investigating and exposing unnatural processes when that becomes necessary to do to promote a healthy And prosperous future.
He has served 30 days in a maximum security prison in Puerto Rico for trespassing at Camp Vieques, a U.S. naval training facility, shutting down the live fire exercises there for three hours, standing in the line of fire for what is right.
That's a prime example of the commitment that created nonviolent direct action on the service of truth.
Requires.
Freedom and equality now for our natural posterity have been not only his lifelong concerns, but his lifelong companions.
Please join me in recognizing and welcoming Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for supporting this organization and I don't understand.
I want to start by apologizing for my voice, which is pretty ragged today, but usually it clears up a little while I talk.
Hopefully that'll happen today.
Christina asked me to talk about the issue of governance, and I thought that We've got to make a theme of this idea of America as an exemplary nation.
And the first person to suggest that theme was the governor of Massachusetts, Jonathan Winthrop, and I think it was 1636.
He gave a very, very famous speech, one of the most important speeches in American history, standing on the deck of the Sloop Barbella, where the Puritans had just crossed.
To land that they had fairly brought from the Indians.
And that wouldn't last long.
But he pointed up at these green landscapes that had a urgency and fertility and richness that was unknown in Europe.
And he said that this nation would be a city on a hill.
It would be a lamp to all the other nations of mankind about what human beings could achieve if they maintain their focus on a spiritual mission.
And he warned against the seduction of real estate and disappearing or giving in to our carnal ambitions with the wealth that this land could produce.
And somehow that prediction turned out to be very prescient.
In 1776, we became the first democracy since the ancient Greeks.
At the beginning of the Civil War in 1860, there were six democracies on Earth, all modeled after our Earth.
Today, there are 148.
It is the predominant model for governance in the planet.
And it was modeled by our country.
And today, over the last 20 months, we have watched a collapse of that model.
We've seen a central template, the fulcrum, for American democracy, of course, the United States Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights.
And we've seen a complete evisceration of It's been part of, weirdly, this kind of global coup d 'etat.
Against liberal democracies in Europe and Asia and Africa and every continent.
It happened suddenly as all these nations pivoted in lockstep and began dismantling institutions that guarantee of personal freedom that will honor our individuality and our individual choices and began clamping down.
The instrumentalities of totalitarianism and authoritarian rule.
In our country, over the last 20 months, we watched virtually all the rights that are guaranteed by our Constitution to keep the motion.
They started out, of course, with freedom of speech.
Washington, Jefferson Adams, Franklin said that they put Freedom of speech in the First Amendment because it was the right that all other rights depend upon.
If a government can silence its critic, it can commit any kind of atrocity.
And I grew up in a family where it was just understood that the free fall of information was absolutely critical to our democracy, that ideas had to be debated, that they had to triumph.
In the marketplace of debate, and that government policies, ultimately in a perfect system, would be guided by that process.
And we just got rid of it.
We turned our decision-making over to a really, not just a technocracy, but a single app or app chick, Tony Fauci, who has...
In an office for 50 years, had never won an election, and he obliterated all the safeguards of regulatory governments.
They got rid of freedom of speech in conjunction, in partnership with...
Let me say this first.
Let's make this an underlying point.
The policies that they gave us were cataclysmic for public health.
We had, in our country, we were supposed to, again, be the template for global public health policies.
And we had the worst outcome of any country in the world.
America has 4.2% of the global population.
We had 20%.
Of the COVID casualties.
How is that a success story?
How do we claim to be impossible?
Even if you look at casualties per million, COVID deaths per million, our record was 2,800, more than 2,800.
Compare that to a country like Nigeria, which had a COVID death rate of 14 per million.
We did 2,000 times almost less than we had.
And what's the difference between Nigeria and our country?
The average in Africa, I think, is about $168 per million.
These countries didn't even have a pandemic.
We were told by Bill Gates and Tony Fauci at the beginning of this crisis that we had to really look out for all the people in Africa and South Asia.
Because they were going to be the ones that really suffered from COVID-19.
We had to get them the vaccines quickly.
Oh, what happened?
We didn't do that.
Nigeria's vaccination rate of 1.5% for a single vaccine.
And almost nobody got two vaccines.
They got 1.5% and they had a death rate of 14 per million.
How do we explain that?
There are explanations that have nothing to do with policy.
African countries have younger populations, and COVID-19 was a death of old people.
That alone does not explain this giant delta between us and them.
The same thing happened in Singapore, countries with the oldest population, like Japan, which I think had 11 per million.
China has three per million.
One of the things these countries did was they made ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine an early treatment available to all their people.
The Chinese published a protocol in March 2020 for hydroxychloroquine and a bunch of other early treatment.
They immediately ended the pandemic in their country.
This is happening in Nigeria.
Nigeria has the advantage of having the highest malaria burden on Earth.
Twenty-seven percent of the world's malaria cases come from Nigeria.
The entire population is on hydroxychloroquine.
Nigeria also has the highest burden for river blindness.
So half the population is also on hygrinectomy.
And you can see this in country after country after country.
The nations that adopted an early treatment avoided the pandemic.
In the state of Uttar Pradesh, in India, the pandemic began.
They abandoned Tony Fauci's protocols and they ended up, they were able to obliterate the pandemic overnight.
Why don't we do that in this country?
Well, there's a little-known federal law that says that if there is an approved medication, approved for any purpose, and it's effective against the target disease, then it's illegal to give an emergency use authorization to any vaccine that targets that disease.
But Tony Fauci and the medical cartel had to destroy public acts as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, or this huge $98 billion vaccine project that they forced upon us would have ended $2 billion based on unmarketing.
And all that money would have gone away because they couldn't give us emergency use of their vaccination vaccine, so they had to get rid of it.
And we ended up with these cataclysmic results that did not help public health in the process.
They had to have sense.
This was not a public health response to this crisis, to a health crisis.
It was a militarized police response.
It was a monetized response.
And it started out by dismantling our constitution.
They got rid of freedom of speech.
And it was also a war on the poor.
If you look, you know, my party are liberal Americans and healthy people.
Then the lockdown was kind of a pajama party, you know, with DoorDash deliveries and with the kids experimenting with remote education.
For the poor, it was a nightmare.
They shut down the schools, which was, for many children, the only hot lunch they received.
In Harlem, they went in and they padlocked the basketball courts.
The only addition.
The death rate among blacks was double or triple incompetent of what the death rate was for whites in Bel Air or Greenwich.
The only indicator of public health that actually improved during the pandemic for poor people is we saw dramatic declines in child abuse.
Why is that?
Because child abuse is reported in the schools.
And when you close the schools and lock the kids at home with their abusers, as we do that, it looks great.
In the 1990s, the Clinton administration persuaded the World Economic Forum in Davos, persuaded the people of Africa and Asia to join the project for Globalization.
They went to those nations and they said, if you sign on to globalization, we are going to raise you out of poverty.
We're going to obliterate poverty in our nations and improve your standard of living.
Here's what you have to do.
Step away from your traditional crops, from sorghum, from barley, from cassava, from plantains.
Get rid of them and plant GMO corn.
And we will make sure that we will provide buyers McDonald's, Kraft, Cargill, Monsanto.
And they signed on.
And what happened when we declared a lockdown?
We unplugged them from globalization.
That corn was left rotting from the docks.
And $200 million, $130 million.
People around the club were pushed into food insecurity and probably 10 or 20 million children died.
Far more than COVID-19.
And even the New York Times reported that 10,000 African children with excess were dying per month of starvation.
Many, many more people than died of COVID ended up dying from starvation.
But they were poor people.
And they went pretty much unnoticed.
And today, it's the poor who are being told to wear masks.
We started this.
And reminding them of their powerlessness, their obedience, and the anonymity of poverty.
And children, the most powerless people.
And, you know, we started this with this wonderful poem.
You have to think about the fact that the ambition of every totalitarian regime in history has been to abolish self-expression, abolish dissent by all forms of self-expression.
When Stalin and Hitler had simultaneously went into the Republican Romania, the Ukraine, Czech, and the Iraqi, they both had identical orders to their front line.
Enforcers, witches, to kill the poets, to kill the artists, to kill the university professors, to kill the writers, to kill all the leadership, to what Stalin said, decapitate those societies.
Because they wanted to make them slaves.
And they didn't want people who could address these cultural claims.
And it was a concerted project.
And the ambition of every totalitarian regime is to end self-expression.
And what is the best way to do that?
Put masks on people compulsory and obliterate the purpose of the 48 muscles that God and evolution equipped us with in our faith so that we could communicate skepticism, irony, love, empathy, compassion.
Happiness.
And tell kids, you don't need to learn that language anymore.
And we learn language by watching other people speak.
These kids today missed two years of that.
And each impediments have exploded now.
Children, according to Brown University, have lost 22 IQ points.
Young children.
And older children have also lost IQ.
We've seen these explosions in suicide.
One out of every two black children has had suicidal ideation.
We've seen alcoholism, alcohol deaths, drug addiction, drug addiction, all of these endings of mental health that are exploding in poor communities.
And it's gone pretty much on.
Notice the cost of this evolution and economic.
We closed down a million businesses.
Sixty percent of black-owned businesses with three generations of investment will never reopen.
And we turned that business over to Amazon and Facebook.
The people who were censoring us, who were censoring our many criticism of these government countermeasures, they were the ones who were the primary beneficiary.
We created 500 new billionaires with the lockdowns.
We had the biggest shift in wealth in human history, $3.8 trillion of poor and working people to the very rich.
And the people who are censoring us were the people who were inheriting all that wealth.
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, Mike Bloomberg, and all the other ones.
And so you had this conglomeration of Pharmaceutical officials of these internet titans who promised us that the very internet they were creating for us were going to democratize the planet and it's now turned out to be the primary weapon and instrument of totalitarian control.
They lied and they made themselves rich doing it.
And this was the outcome.
This is what they gave us in two years.
They did it by obliterating our Constitution, by getting rid of freedom of speech, initially.
As soon as they succeeded in doing that, what did they do?
They closed all the churches in our country.
These little islands of dissent, of independent thought, all of them closed.
Get the liquor stores open as essential businesses.
I don't have any objection to that.
The liquor stores are not in the Constitution.
The churches are.
And by the way, there is no pandemic exception in the United States Constitution.
And it's not because the framers didn't know about a pandemic.
It was a pandemic.
It was an epidemic during the Revolutionary War that froze.
The armies of New England, Washington's army, were two months in the state of Maine and elsewhere.
There was another pandemic in the southern armies, the armies of Virginia, of malaria.
So they knew that decimated Washington's troops.
So they knew about the dangers of the pandemic, but they made a choice.
We're not going to put that in the Constitution.
There is no exception.
And what did they do?
They came after the freedom of assembly of all the intelligence agencies.
You know, the way to close up you, you control the population, most effectively to isolate people.
That advised them to tell families, if you can't see your grandmother, you're going to separate from your children.
And to push people apart, to make them wear masks, and make them stay away from each other.
The freedom of assembly is a very, very potent power of democracy, so they got rid of that.
And they went after jury trials.
The Seventh Amendment says no American shall be deprived of his right to a trial before a jury of his peers in cases or controversies exceeding $25 in value.
That's all it says.
It doesn't say unless there's a pandemic or unless there's a war.
It said it began a problem.
What's the first thing they did?
They passed the CARES Act and the PREP Act that said that any of these corporations that claim to be promoting a countermeasure, you cannot sue them no matter how reckless their conduct, no matter how negligent they are, no matter how premature injury or death, no matter how toxic.
They're products that are mandated.
Products that are so toxic that these companies said, "We are not going to allow you to give these to anybody unless you give complete immunity from liability." And so they got it.
And this is where we've ended up.
They've abolished jury trials.
But no matter how badly those companies behave, you cannot sue them.
There's no economic incentive for them to give us safe products.
None.
Then they went after the prohibitions against warrantless searches and seizures with all of this track-and-trade surveillance.
Demands that we give people our private medical records and give them to the government that they'd be allowed to find them.
And then you got rid of the, probably the most important, after free speech, most important, that is due process of law.
Oh, they closed a million businesses without due process, without just compensation.
Imagine that.
They shut down not just one business.
Every business in the country, except the ones they wanted, the big guys who are going to crush Main Street, who are going to crush all the Olympic businesses, the Democratic businesses.
They keep Walmart open, and they shut down Main Street.
Amazon.
They give Amazon a gift of shutting down a million of its competitors.
Well, Amazon censors books and videos that tell people what's really going on.
They got criticized by government policies.
They got rid of due process of the law.
So you understand what due process means in this context.
If you're an agency, if you...
If you want to pass a law and Congress votes it in, they can do anything they want.
Because we elected them, and so they're subject to Democratic recall.
But there's a whole different set of rules if you're a regulatory agency.
There's a lot of questions about a regulatory agency.
Is we're even constitutional?
Well, Congress, how can you have an unelected person?
Making rules and regulations.
So Congress and the courts said, okay, we're going to allow them to do it, but they have to include democracy.
And I've spent 40 years suing these companies for doing, you know, sweetheart deals and favors for polluters who captured these agencies, invariably, and to give them permits to do something that's very illegal.
Without going through due process.
What due process means is they have to publish the rule.
Think about this.
Do you ever see a published rule on masks or lockdowns?
They have to publish the rule.
Everybody can see it.
Then they have to do an environmental impact statement that lifts all the science that they're relying on.
That shows that there's no alternative.
That shows and does a risk assessment on anybody who's going to be hurt, anybody who's going to be benefiting, and then justify the rule.
It has to do an economic impact statement that shows all the costs.
It has to do a regulatory impact statement that justifies the rule against other regulations, and then there's a 30- or 40-day notice and comment period where everybody who's affected gets to comment, and the government has to answer or respond to every one of those comments.
Then there's a public hearing, which is an adjudicatory hearing with the judge, where I can go and call Tony Fauci and say, "Show me the science," he could lie on, and I can cross-examine him.
I can bring my scientists, and they can cross-examine him.
It's a debate.
None of that happened.
Just one guy who won weeks as masks don't work.
privately and publicly and a month later says out and on and a week after that put two of them on.
He never cited one study for any of this stuff.
He said I'm the science.
You don't need science.
I am the science.
Oh, what happened?
How did they do this?
How did they all pivot and lock stuff and do the same thing in 148 democracies right in the world?
If you read how much...
Can you give me a time check here?
Am I over already?
Keep going.
Thank you.
If you look at my book, look.
The last chapter, which a lot of people don't get to because it's a long friggin' book.
The last chapter to me is the most alarming.
And what the last chapter starts with is Event 201.
You all know what Event 201 is.
Right in your hand, you know what Event 201 is.
So, Event 201 was a tabletop simulation of a coronavirus pandemic that, interestingly, occurred in October 19th, 2019.
At that time, here's what the intelligence agency is now saying, that the coronavirus most likely is a lab in Wuhan in September 12th, 2019.
That's at least when the Chinese realized it.
Why do they think that?
For a whole lot of indicia.
First of all, that night, at midnight, Chinese military kicked the door down on the path, went in, removed 22,000 coronavirus samples, which have never been seen since.
They removed from the public pages and website all of the literature on pain and function studies.
They put a military official in charge of the lab.
Two weeks later, three of the technicians in the lab ended up in a hospital in Wuhan with symptoms that looked like coronavirus.
There was chatter on September 12th, overwhelming.
Coming from Wuhan, people wondering where to get masked and talking about the symptoms of diarrhea, jets, etc.
We now associate with coronavirus.
Aerial satellite photos of the hospital parking lots and there are many, many other additions.
They think it escapes September 12th.
So, more than a month later, you have a simulation in New York City where people from the pharmaceutical industry, from the government, from the social media companies, are simulating...
A coronavirus pandemic that kills 60 million people.
And who are the sponsors of that?
The World Economic Forum, Bill Gates, Johns Hopkins Center for Security, which Bill Gates and NIH have given them over $40 million.
George Ayo, who is the head of the Chinese CDC.
What is he doing there?
Clearly, he knows what happened on September 12th.
And Averill Haynes, who is the deputy director of the CIA.
The National Security Agency, and she's the number one spy in our country, and she is President Biden's chief advisor on coronavirus.
Why?
Does the CIA, a public health agency, what were they doing at this?
The interesting thing is you can go and look at it on video, strangely, and YouTube is still allowing people to view it, and you'll see something interesting, which is nobody's talking about public health.
They're not talking about how do we stop vitamin D and zinc.
How do we isolate the zinc, which is what you always do during pandemic, and all the manuals for handling pandemic, you isolate the zinc.
You protect the vulnerable.
You let society keep going.
And nobody was talking about how do we use all these generous social media companies to create a grid to connect 11 million public health physicians around the globe so that when they figure out protocols that are working against coronavirus in Zambia and Argentina and Bangladesh and Europe They can instantly communicate them to the rest of the world and doctors all over the world.
At NIH, they'll be making protocols to improve treatment.
None of that ever happened.
They never talked about any of those.
Instead, what do they talk about?
How do you impose?
How do you militarize the response?
How do you use the pandemic as a pretest to clamp down to authoritarian controls?
How do you force people into lockdowns, into mass with no science?
The last seminar, number four, is most interesting because it's how do you get mainstream and social media companies to censor information?
Avril Haines says we need to flood the zone with propaganda.
We need to censor the dissent.
This is the CIA director.
Many of the other people there say we particularly need to censor any discussion and speculation that this may have come from a lab leak.
This is October of 2019.
They're already planning to suppress and censor any discussion of a lab leak.
You know, in March, I said...
Congress should investigate whether this was a lab leak that was paid for by Tony Fauci.
I didn't say it was.
It's that Congress should investigate.
I had 800,000 followers at the time.
And they said we went off of Instagram.
We're speculating about that.
They're all marching according to the plan.
Now, what I found when I did the research, which I outlined, is that event 201 was not a one-off event.
They have been doing these events virtually every year, and I go through each one of them.
From 2001, since the Anthrax attacks, which, guess what?
The Anthrax attacks were three months after 9-11.
They wanted to go to war with Iraq, and they wanted to pass the Patriot Act.
And 9-11 wasn't good enough because they could not connect them to the Saddam.
Oh, an anthrax attack happens fortuitously, three weeks later, which they just modeled in one of these pandemic simulations.
Two months before that, Tony Fauci and the CIA.
And then it happens.
And then we pass the Patriot Act overnight.
Who do they give the anthrax?
Who do they send it to?
Two senators.
Patrick Lee and Harry Hart, the two senators who had vocally demanded debate on the Patriot Act and it shut them up.
And the FBI did an investigation of where the anthrax come from because they all said it came from Saddam.
And then we went to war and we passed the Patriot Act.
The FBI completed its investigation.
They said...
His anthrax had a fingerprint, and it could only come from one of three places, and all of them are U.S. military labs, unlike the Army or the intelligence agencies.
They kept doing these, and most of them were classified.
They involved hundreds of thousands of people.
They were doing organizing.
Firefighters, police officers, first responders, utility employees, and defense contractors.
Year after year, after year.
In the U.S., simultaneously, Canada, all over Europe and Australia.
Drilling them, each one of them.
It has nothing to do with public health.
It's all about, here's what you do when there's a pandemic.
You can never get a democracy and glad that was authoritarian controls.
What it looks like they were doing was they were introducing this idea to our government and key regulatory officials.
That policemen were being told, "Here's what you're doing," and any of them said, "This is weird.
Everybody else is doing it." So 20 years later, after 20 years of doing these things, they all knew exactly what to do.
And the series was called Operation Lockstep.
And if you look at what they had in common, each one of them would have a celebrity who gave the imprimatur of legitimacy.
Madeleine Albright would be there.
Gary Hart was...
One of them, they had Congressman, Senator Sam Nunn, who was the head of the Defense Committee, and Bill Gates, many of them, and Tony Fauci.
What else is in common?
Each one of them had high-level CIA officials, or NQTEL, which is the CIA officials.
And each one of them, the script was written by the intelligence agencies.
Oh, I'm being given a signal to stand down now.
We need to know that, you know, these...
Can I tell you one other thing?
Yes.
Yes.
Which is, if you look at the strategies they've used with this pandemic, they're all strategies that have been developed for many, many years by the intelligence agencies and the CIA, and maybe because of my families.
I wrote a book called American Validism on my family's 60-year battle with the CIA.
And because of this relationship, I've made a lifetime study of how they operate.
I have all the CIA manuals for individual control and for mass control of populations.
During the '50s, '60s, and '70s, they had a series of...
Programs that have a lot of names, the most commonly known ones are Operation Artichoke and MK Ultra.
And what they were doing was trying to figure out how to manipulate the individual people to make the Manchurian candidates to turn them into a status, into unwilling a status.
And how do you manipulate a large population?
They were experimenting with hypnosis for the cycle active drugs like LSD.
With isolation, with sensory deprivation, with propaganda and division, dividing people, the most powerful forces they unleashed was dividing people by getting people to focus on what's different.
Republicans, Democrats maximize religious, non-religious.
But how do you shatter a society?
How do you destroy an economy in order to create dependence and chaos that makes people, and how do you create fear and manipulate it to disable the capacity for critical thinking and to make people retreat into the safety of a powerful authoritarian force?
This is what you're modeling again and again.
And one of the things that they talked a lot about is what we call the Stockholm Syndrome.
Or you can lock people up, take a whole society captive, and it induces a dependence and a love and a belief in their captors, who they believe that their obedience and compliance is the only way to safety, the only way to survive them.
They become enraged, angry with anybody who angers the captives.
They become the enemies.
Anybody who questions them becomes the enemies.
One of the most interesting connections that I made in the book is that it was a study called the Milgram experiment which I was able to connect to the MK Ultra program.
The Milgram experiment was an experiment in the mid-60s by a Yale associate professor named Stanley Milgram and he recruited By the way,
all of these experiments were being done by the CIA, were being done at universities, 83 universities in the US, Canada, and Central America, mainly Guatemala, which was a U.S. state, a basal state, since the coup that we made against democracy, they were against Jake over our pens in 1954, so that's where they were doing this.
This one was at Yale.
Stanley Milgram recruited participants, subjects from every clock of life.
There were construction workers, students, acts, whites, business people, etc.
He would put the subject in a room with a guy who was supposedly a doctor.
He was an actor, too, or he was Milgram.
The subject would be set at a table where he would be told to turn a dial.
That would give, they were told, an electric shock to a person who was tied to a chair in the next room.
That person was an actor who was a confederate in experience.
And when you turned up the dial, they could hear him screaming and pleading and crying and struggling and begging.
And the doctor would repeatedly tell them, turn it up, turn it down, turn it higher, turn it even higher, turn it down.
These subjects, many of them were pleading and crying themselves, "Do the doctor, don't make me do it." 67% of them were persuaded on orders from the doctor to turn it up to 450 volts, which it was marked on the dial, "potentially fatal." Wow.
67%.
And Milgram concluded, A figure in authority, particularly a doctor, somebody dressed as a doctor, is able to dismantle and disable our most closely-out values thing and get people to do things they know in their heart is wrong,
including ignore the US Constitution and all these other things.
You know, the bad news is that I think we're in the middle of a huge Milgram experiment.
And instead of Milgram, we've got Tony Fauci, the doctor, who's telling people the Constitution doesn't marry him.
I am the science.
And the good news is that 33% of the people got up and walked out and refused to obey.
The people in this audience, you are the 33%.
Our job now is to fight off totalitarianism until we can wake up our brothers and sisters and to not criticize them, to not fight with them, because that's what they want.
They want division.
But to convert them.
The conversions all come from their side to our side.
Nobody goes back into the matrix.
Once you wake them up, they stay awake.
And, you know, our job is to pick them up.
And we're in an arms race now.
They have all these new instrumentalities of totalitarianism, vaccine-packed sports, 5GD, which is, you know, surveilling all of us all, collecting our data.
These low-altitude, 415,000 low-altitude satellites that look at every inch of the Earth every day.
Facial recognition, the capacity the Canadians already show to shut down your bank account.
Digitalized currency, programmable currency, if facial recognition spots you and you're not wearing your mask, your credit card will stop working in, except in Austin, within a mile of your home, as they already do in China.
And they have these capacities to control populations without ever charging you.
They never charge any of those truckers with a crime.
They shut off all their bank accounts.
Think about that.
And so this is what all these instrumentalities, I call them, turn-key totalitarianism.
They are putting in place something that when they want to make the turn, all they have to do is walk in and switch it all on.
And we're an arms race with them.
We're on the street, but nobody knows it.
Because they don't show it.
You see a million people in Vienna, in France, in Australia.
Nobody who looks at CNN even knows what's happening.
They are able to obliterate this then through control of the media.
And we need to build our movement before they get that system into place.
That is your mission.
Thank you very much.
Yo, get up.
Get up.
Get up.
Just get up.
No, you gotta come closer.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yes!
Can you all put your hands in the air?
All hands in the air.
Hands in the air.
We like to note there's a lot of people who are afraid of themselves in this world.
And a lot of people afraid to see how divine they are.
And how connected we all are.
And a lot of those people put their fear onto this man.
Okay?
And so today, in this moment, we're going to give our grace and the divine, the Kua 'e, the God in us and the protection in all of us and all our ancestors, all of us, to support the bravery and the courage this man is walking in each step and each breath that he takes.
He will change his battlefield into a playground.
And we shall all play.
Alright?
We have some beautiful performers that are about to perform.
But first, we're gonna give the stage To the woman who presented and created this beautiful event, Christina Tobin.
You ready?
Take another breath, take another awareness.
Because remember women, I mean, because we all have masculine and feminine in us, but like women, it's really time for you to like hold your position and see.
Like what she's creating and what she's doing and how that you all have the ability to show up and be contained and be loved with all these beautiful people.
So like, just be present, be in your most divine space to hear the words of this beautiful woman and the courage that she has to hope.
I want to thank everyone for coming here today and joining us for wherever else you are watching this.
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Pete Seeger wrote a song once.
To everything, there is a season.
That's what people called it.
And it's about time.
That there is a time for every purpose.
But that song, but that's actually not the song's name.
The name of the song is Turn, Turn, Turn.
Now if you look at that song, it all quotes from the Bible.
Pete Seeger only wrote the title in six additional words.
I swear it's not too late.
Turn, turn, turn.
I swear it's not too late.
The last verse of the song says to everything, turn, turn, turn.
There's a season and a time.
To every purpose.
Under heaven.
A time to gain.
A time to loss.
A time to rend.
A time to sow.
A time for love.
A time for hate.
A time for peace.
I swear it's not too late.
I believe that.
There is a Lakota proverb that says true peace between nations will only happen when there is true peace within people's souls.
We have to turn towards the truth, away from the lies, turn towards equality, away from inequality, turn towards justice, away from injustice, turn towards peace instead of war.
We have to turn ourselves around to find our way back home.
Where is home?
Home is where your heart is.
Free and Equal Elections believes that self-government is the heart of this nation.
We believe that it is our job to provide every tool possible to make the process of self-government smooth.
Not chaotic.
Clear.
Not combulated.
Free.
Not chained to party, price, or personality.
New technologies are emerging, ready to be used.
That means for the first time in this world, history, we can join the righteous aspirations of people across the planet and achieve simultaneous fundamental change, change that otherwise takes decades or centuries and a few months or even a few days.
Blockchain voting can transform our voting system and bring transparency to the electoral process.
Future plans include integrating app voting functionality using alternative voting methods like Great Choice Voting or Love Fair Vote.
Who loves Fair Vote?
I love them.
A great organization.
Creating a blockchain voting election app powered by Nexus Earth that can promote transparency, that is, and empower voters with information about all their electoral choices.
If we work together, If united we stand, that is what we can't accomplish.
We are not just leveling the playing field for elections.
We are elevating and equalizing the elections beyond itself, beyond party and partisanship.
And that's how we get back to a truthful local and national government.
I believe that these can be heroic times.
And I know that there are those who may not see that potential now.
So I'd like to point to some people that embody the sea crystal of the immediate and the future solution to the challenge of free and equal self-government.
I want to acknowledge Amelia Powers Gardner, Utah County Commissioner.
She says something about government you don't hear from elected officials.
Amelia says that if a government agency hasn't innovated in the last decade, they are not saving taxpayer dollars.
They are costing you by not innovating.
I think that she and other candidates like her deserve a free and equal chance of winning an upcoming election and a platform that allows voters real access to her message.
I want to acknowledge everybody that helped out today.
From our production team to our co-host, our producer, Jason Halper, production, Lucas Harper, Jared Pesci, our MC, John Nash, our co-host, thank you very much, Independent National Union, Ahura AI, thank you so much.
There's so many more.
We definitely want to thank Miles and Bailey at the venue here, ATX.
Thank you so much, the venue.
We couldn't have done this without them.
I want to thank all of you and others sometimes overlooked or forgotten who choose of their own free will to be the change we want to see.
The people have to be the government they want to see.
People think that government is about elections.
Government is about solutions.
What makes our free and equal family unique is that we believe that independent people that practice self-government are the solution.
And they are here with us today.
I want to finally point out how happy I am to have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with us.
Woo!
Woo!
Thank you.
His father and uncle, President John F. Kennedy stood up against war and for peace to save the planet from nuclear war 60 years ago.
Back in October 1962, many feared that it was already too late.
They dared to dialogue with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev.
It turned out Khrushchev was just as opposed to blowing up the planet as Robert and John Kennedy were.
The fact that Robert Kennedy Jr. stands here with us today fulfills the wish that his father made for our country on April 4th, 1968.
When he told an Indianapolis inner-city audience that Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King had just been killed.
He said, "What we need in the United States is not division.
What we need in the United States is not hatred.
What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom and compassion towards one another and a feeling of justice towards those who still suffer within our country." Whether they be white or they be black, let us dedicate ourselves to what Greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Where does the straight come to do, excuse me, when it comes to self-government?
You can't teach what you don't know.
You can't walk where you don't go.
John Lennon put it this way.
You can learn how to be you in time.
It's easy.
All you need is love.
That's the heart of self-government, love of the people, love of the human race, love of problem solving, and solution giving.
Hoping when all hope is gone, believing and being different by making a difference.
To quote Christopher Life, The Independent National Union.
Governance is the focus on how we make sense together.
Media, narrative, dialogue.
How we make decisions together.
Voting.
How we determine what is legal.
Legislative activism.
How we determine who represents the public elections.
And how we create transparency and accountability to our elected officials.
But who is we?
Is we the two-party system?
There are more people in this country that consider themselves to be independent, and there are more people that are uninvolved in any way than those people who are stuck with the two-party system.
I think we, as all of those people, the dispossessed, the unregistered, the unrepresented, in other words, the silenced majority that have the right to hear their own voice.
We are resolved.
That free and equal elections will stand for what the ancestors of all backgrounds that preceded us, known and unknown, celebrated and unsung, have so nobly advanced.
When Pete Seeger used to sing, "We shall overcome," he would often add the words, "We are not afraid." When I hear those words, and I often think about Amelia Boynton Robinson of Selma, The mother of the Senate Voting Rights Movement, whom I had the privilege to meet in 2015, the same year she died.
Amelia campaigned for the right to vote from 1920, the first year women were allowed to vote, right up until 2015.
95 years.
I feel that.
No one else in the United States history has been able to do that.
Amelia, who was never elected to office, Who was left for dead on the Selma Bridge in 1965, changed voting rights in America by choosing self-government?
That's a powerful woman.
So I want to leave you with something she said to me about determination.
It was short, simple, and powerful.
Be sure you're right, then go ahead.
I know that Amelia is right because I know that love can conquer fear.
Love is our way home.
Freedom and equality flow from love.
The politics of love vanishes the politics of fear.
Love is all you need.
Be sure that you are right.
Then go ahead.
During your life, never stop dreaming.
No one can take away your dreams.
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