hello and welcome to jack 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 vani will bring us the weekly offensive and correspondent and 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 our through connection 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 he lived an 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 1st end up working with gary. getting to know

his work well actually i found 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 that funding for a feature film that will transport people into a positive future and he said go if 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 got a copy earlier it's a phenomenal story and i should just throw action drama this would make a great movie and so i got a story of life story rights we 1st a screenplay which sony pictures loved and they actually met him for a half hour but it was too expensive it was like blockbuster sized budget you know airplanes he was shot down bomber planes big stage production numbers so we probably went with exactly great and we just had a really amazing footage of him as an actor you know you've seen britannica and

right now doing a story a riveting probably joyous way that the audiences just went crazy and then mostly after he passed we got to see the rock i read this but it just so thrilling that is finally get out of the world but then he started all of them research at oh my god we've found a credible cargoes and we're going to every step of this incredible journey with eleanor roosevelt and our and our hearts to move and our nice albert einstein said this is the guy he said it grasped he knew the way that humanity would die by its own hands when you do 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 build a lot like i was talking about and the areas not right not this down a lot that you know the new i cannot do world order and he said to. me do the words of power and trying to control your life. well he really is going to

be a 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 renounced his 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 starred in the 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 jerry actually gave something precious his american citizenship you didn't consider it now so that is a legal term you use when you when you we're here when you get about your national citizenship to come or also the world to me when he left the embassy that they said there's no such thing 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 wanted to raise its sovereignty the higher level you want to follow what america's founders when they raised their sovereignty from virginia and maryland and so i'm afraid the united states says we have to raise our sovereignty to the local level that doesn't mean you're limited to maryland and virginia and all that we would still have our countries are rich cultures even think we're protected we've all have our incredible diversity have protection a lot of illegal at the low level you know it's an incredible fact realized when he was in this bomber plane and he was killing civilians on the ground in his own brother was you know and he was heard say why am i telling these people because they're on the wrong side or something physical i never nice people and then he realized he said why wasn't i arrested for killing those people why weren't the people who killed my brother arrested and here let's just go there's no law outside

of nations it's not illegal to kill people every single country says it's illegal what happened he went to paris and asked for an official get this in ship and france said you know what you can't you know you have to eat nobody can be here without papers well you and those meeting in paris that year and so they had declared the public police station local international territory for the duration of the un session so you're right there in camp that i said ok and i'm going to go up there there was this done down 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 things sparked such a you know albert albert schweitzer of a movie called star. and he always

practically actually runnable french intellectuals bases. and 20000 people rallied with and as the december night as demanding that the u.n. recognize the 'd 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 crisis think this isn't illegal to you know our sovereignty and so i stepped aside a stain and then it gets passed unanimously and that this kind of document is beginning to develop a lot of how we got to stick the environment there and so on and we've got a good team and the team has to be not guns and bombs but the people and then forcing 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 made a law you just knew except as part of

a pattern you don't need enforcement in every place you need to accept a system of law that standards that we all live by and once we have this kind of system. we have people inside all in this problem facing our planet credibly invented species and we can solve the all environmental problems we just need the tools and back and to do it and we lacked out of that fighting back in these boxes called nation states why don't why is everybody in your opinion cling to these ideas that these days is just so important and you know if someone is born across that low. 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 record 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 given

that we get together with larger and larger units there with our plan that gives us more security than just being alone we get together our plans get together for my tribe were more or more a state to try to form a nation that we're more safe the problem is we haven't stepped up to the next level. and we're all we're all safe with it so we're still stuck at that level i was you know back in 7876 it was incredible invention to send people by of course by me to a distant city to the present us and post president create a democratic system but kerry says in the movie that now 5. we can all be in the same room the globe we don't want the same thing we want a safe use your kids we want clean air agree we want to be secure we want to be able to practice and have our beliefs and not have others forced upon us and that long as our belief and 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 i have something 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's a clear line out it's just on public broadcasting stations all over the country you can click there and find out when it's being shown your area or it's not shown you can get the t.v. and it'll tell you how you can get it in your area and that's anything to watch the film right there the world is my country that's a waste of your p.b.s. page and i'm sure you get it so you know where this amazing story is 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 can you talk about the world past for program and how it's helped people through the decades. well the interesting thing about the past is that it has spanned spam by 100 and over i'm going to 80 the world's 186 nations in the us and so on and almost all nations but most of that was in the past don't happen so it really depends on the board are used to be much more i think widely accepted then after 911 where there's been much tougher controls and even with many national 'd forests you can't travel to other places and and and it's much more much more restricted what it does 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 an indication document you know if you don't have an identity in so many places and even get medical care your kids can kinda school so as soon as a document and now they're working on making a digital identity even more power working with people the ballot that because we've seen so much need for. testing 1000000 stateless 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 a member of this union and that probably maybe your country now. you have a passport or you know i met with land last burgas who left the scene revolution that he was the 1st 1st head of. land and he said garry world passport 2 weeks after he left and he was so thrilled because now i. will not ask for independence the married. women were.

also all. over the story and by the way. people all over have used this passport. around the world so it's a great a great way to identify. now these are all just step outside the borders because really hard once we do stuff that's when we are you know you. know i 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 powerful movement a powerful idea this film is incredible the world is my country dot com is where people can get it and i can't thank you enough for the time really appreciate it

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welcome back i'm still lou camp and now here's naomi here vani with the weekly offensive. oil companies are getting enthusiastic about stopping climate change a little too enthusiastic exxon and mounts it has a low carbon strategy unit does that mean they're going to retire the oil rigs no no no they found a way to keep them bumping 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. monitise 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 this is a fee and task to pump out carbon from the ground release it into the air or 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 is it technology is not very cost effective when you compare it to another carbon capture and technology trees but don't worry you can still pay money to have c o 2 removed from the air in your name you'll just pay $5.00 times more for it again believe it even still the trees the 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 sucking 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 bear for billionaires 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 couples who rely on the fiction that there is tons of bisexual unicorns who are just so happy and super chill about being the 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 as a stanford university professor scientists agree that while projects like $100000000000.01 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 2 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 actually pump the c o 2 in an oil well to make the oil less dense so it'll flow to the top will will be 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 or 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 decurtis sation through c o 2 capture was more oil exactly what we didn't need when the push to decarbonise started in 2008 will companies like exxon one hundred's 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 dishonest 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 in the form of a bundle of sage the size of the washington monument and after a 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 don't the group to dig into it here's our very own intelligence failure correspondent and usually. 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 goober 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 intel union right to work laws institute financial penalties on employers that retaliate against workers who were going to britain lawyers 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 in just about every other 1st world country senators can only do so much delay that's why american capitalists are fast to work pulling their levers in the news industry and social media trying to convince the public that the pro act will cause a recession 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 and

anti-union propaganda thick but 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 which 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 lurie's point than forbes lets on turns out in a 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 freelance strikes can have a serious impact sometimes 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 enjoying groups like freelancers for the proactive it will be very bad news for the scores of millionaires billionaires corporate lobbies and coke funded astroturf organizations 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 in the offspring they got to keep them separate perfect record i mean originally with redacted tonight and i'm still a show but we have a new redacted tonight tomorrow and since we're heavily suppressed online the best way to keep up with our new content is to join our free email list just text the

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