according to josh. come along for the. hello and welcome to redacted tonight v.i.p. camp today on the show what if there were no borders what if we weren't citizens of this country or that country but instead just citizens of the world would it and most wars are nations one of the key reasons we don't have peace we never seem to have peace well an amazing human being named gary davis thought so and he made it his life's mission to make us all citizens of the world there's a new documentary out about the man and the movement titled the world is my country

and the director arthur connecticut is here to speak with me about it plus they only care of bonnie will bring us that weekly offensive and correspondent anders levy breaks down the law is about the new labor bill called the pro act but 1st here now is my interview with the director of the world is my country arthur connects thanks for taking the time to be here and thoroughly appreciate it. so i just watched your new documentary the world is my country the story of gary davis who passed away in 2013 but obviously it's a wonderful and inspirational story shame to say i didn't know much about him before the movie but before i watched it but you have that extraordinary life in which he tried to unite the world by eliminating nation states and thereby eliminating war and after he saw the horrors of world war 2 he declared he was simply a citizen of the world so how did you for. first and working with gary davis or

getting to know his work well actually i had known gary for some years because of the world class or event that interested me and that i had and i actually was working with this time around silicon valley trying to get some funding for a feature film that we transport people into a positive future and he said well you want to do a film about a positive future why don't you read my dad's book my country is the world and i read the book out of copyright it's a phenomenal story and i should just throw action drama this is make a great movie and so i bought a story of life story rights we 1st had a screenplay which sony pictures loved and they actually met them for a half hour but it was too expensive it was like blockbuster sized budget you know airplanes he 'd was shot down bomber planes picks page production numbers so we probably went with exacting great and we just credibly amazing footage of him as an

actor you know you've seen britannic and broad right now doing a story in a riveting friday joyous way that the audience was just going crazy over and then mostly after he passed we got to see the rough guide for this but it just so thrilled about a story we finally get out of the world but then they started all of them research and all my god we found a credible cargoes and went to every step of this incredible journey with eleanor roosevelt and our and our community who and our nice albert einstein said this is the guy he said it very grasped he knew the way that humanity would die by its own hands or continue to exist and einstein said he was going to vote the rest of his life at that period in trying to build a way that we can love and i was talking about and the areas i write this down were a lot of that you know the new and not the world order and he said the u.s. didn't do the hordes of powered by. or

a wise. but he really is and that is. where our great people power but just a backup for a minute for people to don't know the story in the 1940 s. and fifty's after being a bomber in world war 2 gary davis renounces american citizenship declared he was a citizen of the world and it then created a lot of problems for him such as the kind of incredible to mind when he was trapped on the line between germany and france neither country letting him in but it also starts in international kind of movement of to follow his lead can you talk a little about that movement and what it meant. yes i 1st of all i want to say gary actually gave something precious is american citizenship even consumer right now so that is a legal term you use when you when you we're here when you get your national citizenship to come or also the world to me when he left the embassy that they said there's no

such thing as there is now but he officially gave up national citizenship and he said he said it's an act of love for america because he cares about america and he was a racist sovereignty the higher level he wanted to follow what america's founders when they raised their sovereignty from virginia and maryland and so on to create the united states he said we have to raise our sovereignty to the local level that doesn't mean you're going to maryland and virginia and all that you know we will still have our countries and our rich cultures and even think we're protected we don't have our incredible diversity we have protection a lot of illegal at the lower level you know it's an incredible fact realized when he was in this bomber plane and he was killing civilians on the ground and his own brother was you know and her and shake why am i telling these people because they're on the wrong side of some invisible alliance with the steeple and then he realized he said why wasn't i arrested for killing those people why weren't the

people arrested and you're right just because there's no law outside of nations it's not illegal to kill people every single country says illegal what happened he went to paris and asked at this to get this citizenship and then said you know what you can't you know you have to eat nobody can be here without papers well the u.n. does meeting in paris that year and so they had to clear the polling station at a local international territory for the duration of the u.n. session so we were right there in camp that said ok. we're going to go out there there was going to go on. and he says look at this point. there you will be. back so very likely go with humor and joy as he did this it credible mission that way that things spark such a you know albert albert schweitzer of a movie john posts are. devoted and he always

practically actually. mentioned a lecture those bases. and 20000 people rallied with at the velodrome on december 9th. demanding that the u.n. recognize the rights of humanity and the very next day december 10th the soviets who had been added to the blocking eleanor roosevelt universal declaration of human christ think this is an illegal to use in our sovereignty and so i stepped aside of spain and then it gets passed unanimously and that is kind of getting documented beginning to develop world law and how we're going to stick to environmental laws there and so on and we've got to give them the teeth has to be not guns and bombs but the people 'd kind of enforcing it with our consumer power our economic power our recognition a lot you know you don't you know you don't run stop signs because. it's illegal you can get killed and so i'm going to allow you to do you accept as part of

a pattern you don't meet in person in every place you need to accept a system of law that standards that we all buy and once we have this kind of system . we the people can solve all in this problem facing our planet credibly invented species and we can solve the all environmental problem my tools and they're going to do it and really liked out of that fighting back in these boxes of nation states why why is everybody in your opinion cling to these ideas that they just this is so important and you know if someone is born across the. fine then they're completely different than me and i should have no problem with dropping bombs on them even babies and elderly because they were born on that other side of the line like is it is it is it a fear of what we're trying to deal with me or is it mr erected anger towards problems in people's lives why do so many people cling to our imaginary nation

national lines. well i i think it all starts with you know 1st of all if you can sort of get together with larger and larger units you get together with our plan that gives us more security than just being alone we get together our plans get together form a tribe or more or a state to try to get the other for my nation that we're more safe the problem is we haven't stepped up to the next level. and we are all we're all safe with that so we're still stuck at that level that was you know back in 7076 it was incredible invention to send people live or somebody to a distant city to to represent us and post-processing create a democratic system but gary says in the movie that now. we can all meet in the same room the global room we want the same thing we want a safe to use your kids we want clean air. we want to be secure we want to be able to practice to have our beliefs and not have. and as long as our belief in focusing

on others and then destroying others are violating the world law which is to say you know you can't be oppressing others but as long as you're just within your community having your different types of questions that should be protected and that's of course what the universe creation of human rights says and that's what he is hoping you can inspire the world to realize today and that's why i do hope people will come to to that world is my country. that it's like they're finding out it's just on public broadcasting stations all 'd over the country you can click there and find out when it's being shown in your area or it's not shown you can get to t.v. and tell you how you can get into your area and that's anything to watch the film right there the world is my country that's a waste 'd of your p.b.s. station and your yes with eliot so you know we're in this amazing story and for

those who are interested you can also still get a world power. as for which gary davis helped create you held it up earlier the world passport so anyone can apply for one of these and millions of people there and there it is and millions of people of have done so over the years to talk about the world past for program and how it's helped people through the decades. well the interesting thing about the past 4 is that it has spanned spam by 100 and over 180 of the worlds 186 nations in the us and so on and almost all nations but most of that was in the past don't happen but it really depends on the board it used to be much more i think widely accepted then after 911 when there's been much tougher controls and even with many national forests you can travel to other places and and and it's much more much more restrictive what it has to do it does 2 things

3 things 1st of all it gives you a chance to identify with humanity as a whole and secondly it's and dedication document you know if you don't have an identity as so many places even get medical care your kids can send the school so as soon as they document and now they're working on making a digital identity they have even more power working with people that the ballot that because we've seen so much need for. testing millions saying 'd this people need this need some identity and they can't get it and you see how countries change you know used to be you know member in this union that probably maybe your country now. have a passport or you know i met with lance last spurious who left the scene revolution that he was the 1st 1st we had a. man and he said gary passport 2 weeks after he left and he was so thrilled because. that was not

a passport independent that we. were. all. under the story and by the way. people all over have used this past. hour. around the world so it's a great a great way to fire. these are all just step outside the borders because really at heart works we do stuff that's when we are you know you. think it's still important you've done for so many people like you said helping them get married or. get their kids registered so many things that that that document has been important for sell it really is a powerful a powerful movement a powerful idea this film is incredible the world is my country dot com is where

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oil companies are getting enthusiastic about stopping climate change a little too enthusiastic exxon announce it has a low carbon strategy unit does that mean they're going to retire there or will rigs no no no they found a way to keep pumping instead exxon is offering to clean our air shell and exxon are looking to profit from capturing customers carbon emissions which sounds a lot like if chipotle a monetized diarrhea the technology they're using to clean up their mess is called carbon capture and storage it's a process in which carbon is removed from the air and stored in the ground which on its face seems like a sisyphean task to pump out carbon from the ground release it into the air suck it out of the air and then return it to the ground but fossil fuel companies see it another way it's an honorable burial for oil returning it to its home however this technology is not very cost effective when you compare it to another carbon

capturing technology trees. but don't worry you can still pay money to have c o $2.00 removed from the air in your name you'll just pay $5.00 times more for it i can't believe that they even sold the trees marketing plan. while exxon hopes to profit eventually they are asking for a little help to get their little project off the ground and in the air exxon proposed a giant 100000000000 dollar hub to capture carbon dioxide emissions along the u.s. gulf coast and sexes but warned that government funding would be required to pay for and develop it so if i understand correctly carbon capture is a highly technical yet earth friendly way for the fossil fuel industry to capture our wallets some people call it a vacuum for the air but it's so much more than that it's like one of those dyson vacuums that has all these unnecessary attachments end up on your floor and become

fatal hazards for you and your children and carbon removal pilot studies air pollution increased because of the fuel required to power the technology so carbon capture is doing its job just as well as this high tech garbage truck amazing i mean it works kind of. just to give you a sense of where we are with c o 2 stocking technology the high priest of innovation even on months announced he was going to give $100000000.00 to inventors that can come up with a new way to capture carbon so to be clear we're in the barefoot billionaire sweepstakes phase of the science it's not even a serious enough ensure for shoes some scientists call it unicorn technology because it doesn't even exist yet on a large scale yet we're relying upon it this is just like open couples who rely on the fiction that there is tons of bisexual unicorns who are just so happy and super

chill about being a 3rd there's maybe one or 2 in your metropolitan area let's be serious environmentalists say about the faith and hoovering the air technology will only serve to distract from cheaper proven and faster ways of reducing carbon emissions like wind solar or not turning the amazon rain forest into a tennis court transitioning energy infrastructure away from fossil fuels as well as planting trees and reducing deforestation is a much better way to address carbon emissions says a stanford university professor signed his agree that while projects like $100000000000.01 the exxon is proposing have proved to be expensive failures but carbon capture can be useful on a small scale to prevent emissions at the source of heavy industry of like steel or cement making carbon capture technologies can scrub c o 2 out of polluters emissions so that it doesn't enter the atmosphere in the 1st place it's not new technology it's been around since the 1970 s.

because you have to scrubbing can be an effective way to increase oil production which scientists now advise against so what's the best use of c o 2 or no well it's to actually pump the c o 2 in an oil well to make the oil was good so it'll float to the top of the world more productive so this is called enhanced oil recovery the oil. companies love this because they actually can then take the c o 2 and then increase their oil production which means we'll burn even more c o 2 burn more oil for transportation and other uses that will result in even more air pollution and global warming so all we got from promoting deaker position through c o 2 capture was more oil exactly what we didn't need when the push to decarbonise started in 2008 well companies like exxon $100.00 of millions of dollars in tax breaks for simply making their business more efficient however we're not even sure they've been capturing and keeping the carbon underground because the government

probe found companies claiming carbon capture tax credits didn't follow the e.p.a. requirements so we know at least oil companies have been dishonest about carbon capturing this honest about the effects of climate change this honest in the misinformation campaigns they've waged over the years against climate science knowing it was true and now were supposed to trust them with $100000000000.00 i mean how do they have the gall to ask do they think we're stupid. you know what they're probably right exxon could probably sell us a green technology in the form of a bundle of sage the size of the washington monument and after it burns would be like the air feels so clean now retrofitting coal fired plants to have carbon capture technology seems like a good solution in the short term but it locks us in with an industry that has not

only been polluting but lying about it we don't have to totally abandon the 2nd ology could prove to be useful in the future but we don't have to help the fossil fuel industry stay in business with this so if you google the new labor build the pro act the 1st to link is an ad that will tell you the pro act will destroy america's labor knowers the 2nd link is from n.p.r. telling you the pro act will protect workers' right to join a union and actually fight back against corporate rulers they don't use those words so who's telling the truth to dig into it here's our very own intelligence failure correspondent and there's really. roughly one 3rd of americans do good work as either their primary or secondary job one of the

advantages of this kind of work touted by companies like and grub is flexibility when you work for one of these apps you have the flexibility to work a minimum wage job take care of your crying baby make it to bankruptcy court on time pick up your car before it gets repossessed and squeeze in 2 hours of making deliveries that mostly consist of you sitting around waiting to get aside enough orders to hit $7.00 on your check next week but soon all of this could change the pro-west which stands for protecting the right to organize and much to my dismay not pick aling rarified octopi is a bill that recently passed the house of representatives it would assure in several huge changes to labor law in america the bill would effectively end anti-union right to work laws institute financial penalties on employers that retaliate against workers who were going to rehab it employers captive audience meetings and bar employers from permanently replacing strikers if the senate isn't careful workers in the united states could end up having the same rights and standard of

living as they do and just about every other 1st world country senators can only do so much delay that's why american capitalists are fast at work pulling their levers in the news industry and social media trying to convince the public that the pro act will cause a recession mass unemployment and make millions of people lose their health care as if those things aren't already happening anyway now normally bosses would be laying on the red baiting an anti-union propaganda think that's gotten harder to do especially during the pandemic. that's why the ruling class is trying a new strategy appealing to freelancers are you a nuber driver a writer a musician a newer driver likes to call himself a writer slash musician well look out because the pro act is coming for your livelihood the outrage has been directed at the pro x. a.b.c. test which legally defines what a freelancer is sounds simple enough simple as a.b.c.

but if you ask concern journalists on the freelance beat like those salt of the earth folks over at forbes magazine this provision would be a disaster just listen to university of illinois professor michael arroyo who says that the law would possibly limit work for women retirees college students and other similar demographics if companies are forced to turn independent contractors into official employees with official benefits both just hire less people in the 1st place sounds bad in that context but something tells me there might be a little bit more to lose points than forbes lets on turns out in the subsequent interview he says that the forbes column misrepresents his views when an employer is unionized they typically don't start hiring more people he says in other words it is employers who threaten jobs he explains not the program doesn't it just feel great to live in a country where companies get to hold the economy hostage the 2nd they're asked to treat workers with a shred of dignity. the truth is though none of that actually applies to the pro

act since it would not in fact change the employment status of freelancers the only thing the law would alter is whether freelancers engaged in concerned activity are protected by the national labor relations or protections that $1099.00 workers currently lack right now with freelancers want to unionize or go on strike current labor law leaves them seriously at risk they can even get charged with price fixing free land strikes can have a serious impact and just remember the graphic design shortage of 2002 thousands of business cards had to stay blank if too many independent contractors find out about this in join groups like freelancers for the pro act it will be very bad news for the scores of millionaires billionaires corporate lobbies and koch funded astroturf organizations are trying like hell to make sure this bill never becomes law and that the labor movement never rises again that's why they're pumping rules of money

into a misinformation campaign to deceive and divide the working class in the words of the great scholars and the offspring they got to keep them separate perfect record i mean originally with rebecca to the end i'm still a show but we have a new redacted tonight tomorrow and since we're heavily surprised online the best way to keep up with our new content is to join our free email list just text the word redacted to 33777 or internationally go to leave camp dot com until next time goodnight keep private.

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