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Nov. 18, 2011 - InfoWars Special Reports
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It's very difficult to pick just one thing that tops the list of things that are happening in the world now.
I think an interesting thing to look at is America's foreign policy that really hasn't changed under Obama as was promised.
In fact, I think being that the Republicans in the 2012 race are focusing so much on the economy, it's kind of unspoken truth that Obama is a war president. He's not
someone who came in here and shut down Guantanamo Bay like he said he was going to.
I think one other interesting thing is the continued sort of push and pull between Republicans and Democrats
for show about what they're going to do about the Wall Street situation.
Occupy Wall Street has definitely had its impact on the process, but I think it's going to take a little bit more than just them.
They're going to need to push through specific policy or to pressure individuals who are in power enough to make a decision.
So I think between that internal struggle and the outward foreign policy issues, There's definitely plenty to worry about or concern yourself with if you look at the global field.
I've been visiting as many occupiers as I possibly can on the road for this Martyr Tour and I think one of the things that's most striking to me is how even though they're trying to work more and more cohesively on a strategy that's encompassing of the entire movement.
It's incredibly important that they not lose sight of the fact that
they do have internal problems within just that area, that they have problems that just fit that specific county
or region which they should deal with.
I think that's very important and I see them continuously doing that.
Whether it's homelessness, drug abuse, things that may not be solely relegated to where they're from, but that they have to deal with on a local level and not just a federal quote-unquote war on drugs, blanket on everything.
You know, it's very personable.
When people get help there, they're getting from someone whose first name they know.
When they're talking about these horrible issues of homelessness or homeless families, these are people that have also lost.
They're talking to people who can identify with their struggle, not some government agency that's faceless and really lives in a dimension without compassion.
Any group that poses a significant amount of collateral or can raise leverage against any government agency is going to try to be co-opted by just about anybody, whether it's far left or far right or what even designates that That title, you know, that's up for grabs, too, when it comes to these, because you may find factions of a group which are less inclined to be in line with the complete strategy, but say, okay, I've been working with this guy's, whether it's a left-wing group or a right-wing group for 10, 20 years, I haven't seen the results I want, here's the raw power and energy of a very, very active and aggressive group of people that are
aggressively and actively demonstrating, and yet they have not, like the police unfortunately,
have descended into violence and blind anarchy. I think when they see the power of that movement,
the nonviolent protests, but also the ability to confront government, that's something they
want to have in their arsenal of weapons. So why wouldn't anybody try and infiltrate
it? Whether it will be infiltrated, I think is another story. You know, we're talking
about a wide collective group of people, and this is, if anything else, regardless of what
people want to say about them, they're not stupid people at all. Some of them are very
educated, and when I say educated, it just doesn't mean that they paid an overpriced
bill for a piece of paper with their name on it.
Some of them are individuals that have built an incredible reserve of knowledge about the Fed, you know, about the history of the Fed.
When it started, how to get off of it, you know, people that have ideas about how to change the system, that I think, you know, bear mention, there should also be a conversation, I think, in private, you know?
Not all of the conversations that Republicans, Democrats, or even people who run this show or run any business happen completely in public.
Sometimes for the integrity and for the protection of the individuals that work for it, Sometimes for the protection of the message so it doesn't become marginalized, sabotaged, or diluted.
They do things behind closed doors.
And I told the people from the very beginning that those type of actions were going to need to take place.
Not in the vein of government secrecy to protect government.
But rather to make sure that innocent people don't end up being victimized.
I think it's important for people to realize that the only thing that this movement is really, really at its heart trying to do is make America a more honest country.
Is make America a less corrupt country.
You know, now of course there's always going to be some nut with a sign that says, you know, aliens are coming or repent, it's the last day.
But at the end of the day, we know what the core message of the Occupy People is.
So regardless of who has an issue with it or who has a problem with it, you know, you can reserve your commentary and your anger until the 2012 election when it really comes down to it, which we're right about at the doorstep of.
Well, I mean, I'm not an economist, so I can't tell people how to balance their budget, or I can't come with a bunch of promises that I'm not capable of fulfilling.
But I think what I can tell people is this, that in every situation where you have massive amounts of government corruption, you can't rely on the people who broke the system to fix it.
You know, you can't rely on overpaid Congress who doesn't really see a problem other than the fact that their constituency is angry, not actually the suffering of the people.
And I'm not going to speak for all of them, but for the vast majority that have done absolutely nothing.
It's funny that some of them want to blame the President as if they have some solution to the problem themselves.
I'm not saying that the President's way is the most efficient or the right way.
I'm just saying that they offer no other solution.
Even when we talk about any other topic, whether it's immigration, okay, deport 12 million people.
That's not feasible.
That's not possible.
It's physically impossible.
It would collapse the American economy.
It plays into the idea that you don't understand the history of this country because not all
European Americans came through Ellis Island.
Not all of this country was gotten through a legal means.
In fact, most of it was stolen land from Native American people that if you drive from Louisiana to Houston, you'll see they did absolutely nothing with.
So what's the point of stealing it from a bunch of people?
When I say stealing, I know that red-blooded Americans get angry.
Some of them get even have a violent response to it.
How could you say we stole anything?
No one in this country has ever done anything wrong.
Really?
Because we use nice words for things.
So when you say a pilgrim or a settler, you don't think of a land stealer, an invader, a robber, a thief.
You know?
I deprive the woman of her virginity.
No, you're a rapist.
That's what you are.
So I think when we get rid of the mythology of America, then we begin to understand a clearer reaction to it.
In terms of the Occupy Movement, I think that's something that's incredibly important.
Going back to the very beginning of how all this started, and seeing the different reaction that people have towards the fiscal crisis.
Some people say, oh, it's all these, you know, people who are living below their means, that tried to buy extra houses when they shouldn't have.
Oh, okay, you mean the uneducated class of individuals that As they're referred to by, you know, people on Fox or whatever that place the blame solely on them, or the predatory lenders who know everything about business, who've been doing this to people for 30 or 40 years.
Who's more to blame?
You know, the sucker who walks in thinking, damn, I'm gonna be able to give my family a nicer home, and here's a guy who's explaining it to me, and it all sounds like it's gonna work out, when in reality, here's this snake oil salesman, Telling you that everything's going to be great, and it's really not.
You know, at some point, if America truly is the country it is, it has to confront people like that.
It has to make sure that it doesn't allow its citizenry to be taken advantage of in that way.
There definitely are people that are fed up with how it is, so they're looking at alternative forms of media, whether
it's this or any other.
And at the same time, you have to realize, not every one source of media is, you know, the voice from the burning bush.
You know, at some point, it's incredibly important for people to watch this show, or to listen to any news outlet they might have heard, and cross-reference that information.
To do some heavy research, you know, not just to believe something insightful that's said, you know, because we fall in danger of having fear-mongering be a tool not just of the right or the left, but of the independent media sources.
You know, I think though that this program, others like this, and the ones that are appearing on cable television, or the ones that appear even as satire like the Daily Show, what's the whole point of it?
To ask questions that people aren't normally asking.
What's the point of this program?
To ask questions that you won't hear normally on mainstream media.
Now are people going to criticize it and say that it's conspiracy theory?
Sure!
Because they've never understood what a conspiracy really is.
You know?
They don't know that people got together behind closed doors to decide how their life would actually be.
The shape of their home, the shape of their neighborhood, the red line districts in many cities, which define how people are sectioned off based upon race and class.
Someone else who's not you, who didn't have a democratic process of election to have these issues pushed through, push them through.
If anything's, you know, a conspiracy, look at the war in Iraq.
A group of individuals who decide, okay, we're in Afghanistan, we've got bin Laden cornered, what we really ought to do is redeploy, you know, tens of thousands of troops to a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons, but that we're going to say has nuclear weapons.
That didn't work, so now we've got to come up with chemical weapons.
Now we're scrambling for different ideas.
You know, I hate to bring it back to that, but unfortunately, I think that people shouldn't be so afraid of, you know, a news outlet or a competitive, independent media source, as they should be afraid of just believing whatever they hear, or to be suckered into a quick solution to an issue, because there is none.
Most of these are multi-layered issues.
Not everybody is going to agree with every politician about everything, you know?
Like someone was interviewing me about Ron Paul, and I said, you know, there were some things about him that I really liked.
And then they said, well, what about this and that?
And I said, well, you know, that's a little, you know, idealistic.
And then I remember there were people that were angry because I didn't agree with everything he said.
Like, you know, how can a man agree with everything that, and no disrespect to him, but this is true.
He's a politician, you know?
lobbies, he has days in Congress, he argues bills, you know, he represents a constituency
that isn't me.
He represents them.
How am I going to agree with him about everything that's right for the people that live in his
part of America rather versus the people that live in mine?
Obviously they're different.
Or he would be the Congressman of Harlem.
Who, by the way, is a corrupt individual who happens to be a Democrat.
And I think that has no bearing on it.
Democrat or Republican.
I mean, people have gotten used to eating at the same trough.
No wonder they don't have any table manners.
I mean, it's just the way it is.
Applying Our vision of how the world would be on other people is absurd.
What if someone were to do that to us and come in here and say... I explain to people when they're a little confused about the black or Latino experience in America or in the hemisphere.
I say, imagine if someone really did invade the Middle East.
Not this thing that we did where we sent a proxy in to fight against other people,
or the Bush way where we take a few countries over, but really hard core old school from antiquity invasion.
The rape of women, the decimation of children, the destruction of religion,
the destruction of a people's culture.
To convince them that the Quran is a fraud.
To convince them that the Prophet Muhammad never existed.
That he's not a real figure in history.
Right?
Imagine someone doing that to America.
Coming here, convincing everybody, you know, Jesus Christ is a myth.
The Bible is a fairy tale.
You know, you're all going to worship a different God, the one that I designate.
You're also going to give your children to me.
Everything about you that made you an American is going to disappear.
Congratulations, you've just discovered the Black and Latino experience for 400 years.
That is the transfer of power.
But that's not all of our history.
That's not who we are as a people.
That's unfortunately a small period of time within our history.
Now drawing from that example, You can apply it to a much larger scale.
To show people, listen, if we're suffering here, in this particular point in America, That doesn't mean that we have to stay in that position forever.
There is an amount of organizing that we're capable of doing.
There are actions that can be taken.
I really won't like them to get violent because I know how easily that can turn into utter chaos.
But I'm telling you right now that if anything isn't done, That maybe that is the government's strategy, to push people towards absolute breaking point status, and then clamp down on them violently.
Which is what a lot of people feel like is going on.
If you see the Occupy protests, it's a blueprint for what people are worried about, who concern themselves with that.
The city, the state, the police in Oakland or in New York, goading the protesters, you know?
Pepper spraying women.
You know, at some point, people were going to break.
And yet they haven't.
You know, if you're going to call them violent protesters, I think it falls into a contradiction when you have 20 to 25 thousand people in a mob in downtown New York.
Hey, if we wanted to rip the city apart, we could have right then and there.
We didn't tear the city up.
Why?
Because we love the city.
We didn't ruin America.
Why?
Because we love America.
Obviously a lot more than the people who claim that they do simply because they wave a flag.
We want to make the country a more efficient place.
A better place.
We want people to invest in America.
And I think one of the greatest failures of American capitalism was just in investing in systems and institutions.
Those are great, but they have to also be matched with investing in people.
Huge bailout for institutions and banks.
None for people.
We give grants to universities.
We need more grants for students that want to stay here.
I think more than the message of materialism, what you're speaking about is the braggadocio attitude of hip-hop.
I think the message of materialism is one aspect of that.
To say that I'm better than you, I can say it in many ways.
I can beat you in a fight.
I'm stronger than you.
I'm bigger.
I have more people on the street.
I got more guns.
I have prettier women.
This has always been kind of a back and forth, kind of teasing.
Almost a vaudeville, but also taken very seriously in the streets when people put their reputation up on the line.
But I think having more money was something that came to the forefront as a part of the corporate involvement in hip-hop, and therefore them wanting to use that to be the ultimate trump card.
To say, okay, who's got more skills?
That's great, I'm glad that you can rap better than me, but I've got more money than you, so I'm better than you.
You know?
Or, you know, technically you can freestyle better than me, but my video's on MTV and yours isn't.
So I must be better than you.
You know what I mean?
It plays in every aspect of life.
Think about it.
Imagine if I'm a college professor.
Emeritus.
Harvard.
You know, I have wonderful ideas about the economy.
They just so happen to help my friends that are themselves working at Goldman Sachs or somewhere else.
You're a f****** camera dude, working for a show.
But you know what?
You've spent the last 20 f****** years.
Excuse my language.
Researching, digging through books, reading the history of America, reading the history of the economic collapses that have occurred throughout civilizations through the passage of time.
And you've amassed an incredible amount of knowledge and you present that.
Simply because I have more letters behind my name and I work for some fancy institution, people are going to believe me and they'll go so far as to ridicule you.
Which is what happens in hip-hop.
Doesn't matter how dope people are.
Doesn't matter if they're incredibly skilled.
I got more money than you.
So I win.
That's, that's not a corporate, I said so, I told you so.
I don't know what it is.
So I think it directly to that.
Why?
Because a corporation that makes 14 billion dollars a year, profit.
Mind you, I think you all out there know the difference between gross and net.
I don't mean gross, I mean net profit.
14 billion dollars.
They come back one year, instead of making 14, they make 13 million.
That company's looked at as a failure.
Failure?
You just made 13 billion dollars in a year!
How are you a failure?
Because you're not growing.
Because you're not expanding.
Because you're not buying people.
Because you're not taking more.
Because you're not more aggressive.
Because you're not living up to being the virus that we all thought you could be.
It's hard because I know a lot of my colleagues and these are people that are involved in hip-hop and may not be as political as myself, but they're also thinking minds.
These may be people who work regular jobs, but they're thinking minds and they think to themselves, what does my vote really count for?
And I say to them that they should start with a local election and look at the numbers.
Those numbers are decided by hundreds.
And in some cases, decided by tens.
And in some cases, decided by single-digit numbers.
I mean, even if you look at Minnesota, at the Al Franken situation.
Wasn't his vote like 127?
Some ridiculous number like that.
You can affect change in a certain way.
I think what they feel disenfranchised by is that The candidate that they elected had all these promises and none of them come through.
That, in essence, makes them feel more frustrated than anything else.
But I don't think they should stop voting for it.
I think though there should be severe campaign reform.
when i say severe i mean like we're talking limitations to
come up with billions and billions of dollars from other people
the amount of debates that need to happen the airtime that we afford individuals
the honest answers that we demand from people instead of allowing them to just
glance off you know i remember when even though he he's not
necessarily known as the world's most moral man but i remember when john
edwards uh... challenged president cheney in a debate very late i
thought he should have come out much earlier with this about him voting
against uh...
martin luther king jr. birthday and all these other things that kind of
exposed the week underbelly of the rights issues with race Not to say the left doesn't have them.
Because we all heard Harry Reid's comments about, you know, Obama being a quote-unquote, well-spoken Negro.
But, I mean, it definitely does expose the right's more difficult way of covering that up and saying, all right, well, why didn't you?
When he says, you know, I believe my record speaks for itself, you know, there was almost like, okay, well, we'll accept that.
And at some point, we don't need to accept that.
At some point, the voting audience has to say, no, I don't know that your record stands for itself.
Because I don't know what you're saying anymore.
You claim that there's still a presence of Al-Qaeda in Iraq?
Dude, we've gone over this, you know?
How many hearts do you need to have in your chest before you come up with the right answer?
At some point, you know, you just need to be honest with the American public and admit that you made a mistake.
That's also another issue.
They don't see accountability, so they feel uninspired to get behind a candidate.
When someone comes out and says, no, this was my fault, I did this.
Katrina, Bush, no accountability.
I'm sorry, I should have done more.
I thought it was all in Brownie's hands.
He was doing a heck of a job.
Well, he wasn't doing a heck of a job.
He wasn't doing any job.
And as a result, American citizens, you know, I know there are some people watching this that, you know, they would probably be less affected if they weren't American citizens, but as a person that believes in God and And really feels the pain of innocent people.
It doesn't matter if they were citizens or not, they were people who were dying because of the negligence and the corruption in the American system.
When you have an Arabian horse racer put in charge of FEMA, you know, when people see that happen, when they see that cronyism, that's when they get uninspired.
I would just tell them that if they don't vote, they're going to see more of the same.
The martyr doesn't come from the idea of needing to die for revolution.
It comes from the idea of needing to live for revolution.
You know, in the martyr, the martyr's perception in, for example, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, is that the revolutionary must become the martyr because there are parts of him that must die.
Selfishness.
The ego.
This is a process of death.
It's not like just one day he wakes up like, oh, you know, now I don't have any issues.
I could look past race and sexual orientation and class and get to the core problems that people have and how they need to be addressed.
That's a process.
That's a process that I've taken years and years to address.
Updating my music, updating my flow, updating my skills.
Updating the way my message gets across to people.
So I would say it's more based upon that.
Not the necessity to give your life in terms of killing yourself, or destroying yourself,
but of giving your life by dedicating yourself, by working hard.
And maybe not in a conventional way.
Maybe you are a revolutionary lawyer, a revolutionary doctor, an independent journalist.
and journalist. You know, maybe you offer health care to people in the hood. Maybe you
do take pro bono cases. Maybe you're a psychologist that deals with underprivileged children that
are the victims of abuse. I don't know. You can't save everybody, but you can save someone.
I'm not a psychologist. I'm a journalist. I'm a journalist.
I'm a journalist. I'm a You think Illuminati's just a fucking conspiracy theory?
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