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[Blunderov] A hard look at "An Inconvenient Truth". Harsh, even. But then so is reality.
Subject: [SANE Views Vol.6, No.40] The Source of Hopelessness: A Review of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"
A Deeper Look at Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"
Catherine Austin Fitts served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. Catherine served as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush Administration and was the President and Founder of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. Catherine has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from The Wharton School, and studied Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Catherine serves on the board of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee and publishes a column, Mapping the Real Deal, in Scoop Media in New Zealand
"When I saw Al Gore's now famous environmental movie, I had mixed feelings: I was both moved and grateful for the film, but I also had a sinking feeling because I knew that Gore didn't go deeply enough into the problem. In the article below, Catherine Austin Fitts (Assistant Housing Secretary under Geo. H.W. Bush) continues where Gore left off, contending that the measures that we can take that Gore lists, while they can certainly help the environment, can't save it, because the root cause of the problem is what she calls our Tapeworm economic system (in which we all participate), and which all but guarantees environmental destruction. In short: if we hope to save the environment, we must stop feeding The Tapeworm. Fitts, by the way, although she was a dedicated Republican, is now what I would call a nonpartisan progressive, as critical of the Bush-Cheney administration as of the Clinton-Gore administration, and supportive of truly progressive politicians of any stripe. She talks straight talk. And, in my opinion, she is an economic genius. What she says below is relatively short, and an excellent read.
-- B. Brown - The Source of Hopelessness
From: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/072406_source_hopelessness.shtml
Also from: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00358.htm
The Source of Hopelessness: A Review of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"
by Catherine Austin Fitts
Solari, Inc.
July 24th 2006 - The day after 9-11, a person whom I respect and care about a great deal said to me, "George Bush was anointed by God for a time such as this." He then asked me what I thought. I said that I thought that the Bush family was anointed by financial fraud, narcotics trafficking, and pedophilia. Stunned, he said, "If that is true, then it's hopeless." I replied that things were far from hopeless, but that for me solutions started with faith in a divine intelligence rather than affirming a dependent relationship with organized crime.
Last week I had dinner with a wonderful couple -- activists in the San Francisco Bay Area-- and the woman told me how wonderful she thought Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth was. She then asked for my opinion. When I gave it, she said, "If that is true, then it's hopeless." We then proceeded to have a rich conversation about why folks who used to call themselves "liberal" or "progressive" are in the same trap as folks who use to call themselves "conservative. "
In order to respond to the problem of global warming, it is necessary to look at the ways that we as citizens support criminal activity by our government and how we as consumers, depositors and investors support the private banking, corporate and investment interests that run our government in this manner. This is easier said than done. When we 'get it' - i.e., that we have to withdraw from a co-dependent relationship with organized crime in order to save and rebuild our world - we can find ourselves struggling to envision the system-wide actions that are needed and feeling overwhelmed by the task of determining how to go about them personally and in collaboration with others.
My nickname for our current economic system is "The Tapeworm." http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0304/S00228.htm. For decades I have listened to Americans from all walks of life insist that we must find solutions within the system - i.e. within the socially acceptable boundaries laid down by the Tapeworm. Believing that our solutions for addressing global warming lie within the system defined by the Tapeworm goes hand in hand with obtaining our media from companies controlled by the Tapeworm, and having to choose from among leaders anointed by the Tapeworm, such as Al Gore. This belief is, in fact, the source of our hopelessness.
George Orwell once said that omission is the greatest form of lie. Gore's omissions in An Inconvenient Truth are so extraordinary that it is hard to know where to start.
Watching An Inconvenient Truth is more useful for understanding how propaganda is made and used than for understanding the risks of global warming (I am not qualified to judge the scientific evidence here -- I am assuming that Gore's presentation on global warming is sound).
The fundamental lie that Al Gore is telling comes from defining our problem as environmental -- in this case global warming, whereas our environmental problems -- as real and important as they are -- are but a symptom of the problem, not the problem. Gore defines our problem as "what." He is silent on "who." For example, Gore does not ask or answer:
Who is doing this?
Who has been governing our planet this way and why?
Cui bono? Who benefits?
Who has suppressed alternative technologies resulting in our dependency on fossil fuels? Why?
Who has generated how much financial capital generated from this damage?
How did things get this bad without our changing? How much was related to fear of and dirty tricks of those in charge?
How do we recapture resources that have been criminally drained and use them to invest in restoring environmental balance?
Utah Phillips once said, "The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses." In one sentence, Utah Phillips told us more about global warming than Al Gore has told us in a lifetime of writing and speaking, let alone in An Inconvenient Truth.
Needless to say, Gore offers no names and addresses. Gore's "who" discussion is limited to population. He seems to imply that the issue is the growth in population combined with busy people being shortsighted, leading to some giant incompetency "accident." That makes it easy to avoid digging into the areas that would naturally follow from starting with "who" - which should lead to dissecting the relationship between environmental deterioration and the prevailing global investment model that is such a critical part of the governance infrastructure and incentive systems.
Gore walks us through timelines showing the global warming of temperatures. By defining the problem as simply environmental damage, and shrinking the history down to temperatures, there is no need to correlate environmental deterioration with the growth of the global financial system and the resulting centralization of economic and political power. The planet is being run by people who are intentionally killing it. Their power is their ability to offer all of us ways of making money by helping them kill it. Hence, understanding how the mechanics of the financial system and the accumulation of financial capital relate to environmental destruction is essential. If we integrate these deeper systems into an historical timeline, authentic solutions will begin to emerge. But Gore omits the deeper systems and the lessons of how we got here and in so doing closes the door on transformation.
For example, there is no place on Gore's time line that shows:
the creation of the Federal Reserve:
the movement of currencies away from the gold standard:
the growth of non-accountable fiat currency systems:
the growth of consumer, mortgage and government debt;
the growth in the superior rights of corporations over people and living things;
the growth of "privatization" (which I call "piratization");
the subversive and sometimes violent suppression of renewable energy, housing and transportation technologies and innovations;
the growth of the offshore financial system and the use of that system to launder and accumulate vast sums of pirated capital accumulated through the onshore destruction of communities.
Understanding the fundamental imbalance of the corporate model -- where enterprises have the rights of personhood, but not the finite existence of people or the legal responsibilities and liabilities -- and the corporate model's economic dependence on subsidy that drives up debt, economic warfare and the destruction of all living things is a critical piece to developing actions to reverse environmental damage. Al Gore is a man that has made money for corporations his entire life. He is a member in good standing of the Tapeworm and his current lifestyle and this documentary are rich with the resources that corporations can provide. [During the 2004 presidential campaign, Bill Moyers, a staunch foe of the Republicans, said that one thing we don't need is another corporate Democrat (referring to Kerry). -- B. Brown]
There is also no personal accountability. Al Gore has not "come clean." There is no discussion of Gore's role in the Clinton Administration in facilitating worldwide economic centralization and warfare, and with it genocide and environmental destruction -- for example, there is no mention of The Rape Of Russia or the driving out of Washington of an investment model proposing to align places with capital markets to create a win-win economic model that he intimates is possible. For more, see my recently published case study on Tapeworm Economics, and the competition between two economic visions during the Clinton Administration, "Dillon, Read & the Aristocracy of Prison Profits".
The documentary ends with a long list of things that we can do. Many of these items are on my list. We all need to come clean in the process of evolving towards sustainability. However, without a new investment model and the governance changes that automatically follow, the result of An Inconvenient Truth is to teach us to be good consumers of global oil and consumer product corporations and banks and -- we are supposed to intuitively understand -- vote for Al Gore or the candidates he endorses. Gore draws us down a rabbit hole, which leaves us even more dependent on the people and institutions that created and profited from the problem in the first place. What that means is that the real solution will be significant depopulation. The viewer is left to preserve a bit of the shrinking American bubble to protect us from having to face the depopulation solutions underway (See above links on "The Rape Of Russia" and "Dillon , Read & The Aristocracy Of Prison Profits".)
The way a tapeworm operates inside our bodies is to inject a chemical into its host that makes it crave what is good for the tapeworm and bad for the host. An Inconvenient Truth is an injection from the Tapeworm. Don't see it and crave a new round of what has not worked before. Things are not hopeless. There is no need to waste time and money adoring and financing the people who are killing the planet, or counting on the politicians who protect them.
To get you started, let me recommend that you take the money and time that you would spend watching An Inconvenient Truth and invest it in reading or watching a few of many authentic leaders with useful maps and solutions that are leading to serious ecosystem healing and transformation:
Mind Control, Mind Freedom By Jon Rappoport http://jonrappoportstore.com/rappoport/product.php?productid=22&cat=1&page=1
Escaping the Matrix: How We the People Can Change the World
By Richard Moore
http://www.escapingthematrix.org
http://www.cyberproject.org
America: From Freedom to Fascism
A documentary by Aaron Russo
http://www.freedomtofascism.com
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org
What The Bleep Do We Know? A documentary by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente
http://www.whatthebleep.com
Messages from Water
http://www.hado.net
The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Bill Murphy, Chris Powell http://www.gata.org
Cynthia McKinney for Congress
http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com
Ron Paul for Congress
http://www.ronpaulforcongress.com
Can you imagine what these folks could do and what could happen if we all invested 2 hours each and the price of a movie theatre ticket in their work? Can you imagine what would happen if all the money donated to Al Gore and candidates like him were invested in authentic leaders and our access to them? I can - and the truth and beauty of that future fills my life and work with hope.
Catherine Austin Fitts is President of Solari and may be contacted at http://www.solari.com/
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