The Artist Against the System
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1 hour and 12 minutes
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117.309074
Summary
John Rappaport has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health. John has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
Transcript
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This is Radio 314 on the Red Ice Radio Network.
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I'm happy to present John Rappaport, who has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years,
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writing articles on politics, medicine, and health.
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John has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
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I was actually very excited that you agreed to come on because of your life experiences and your body of knowledge.
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So before we get into the question of who runs the world and what we can do about it,
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let's begin with your background and what sparked your awakening of what really lies beneath the surface.
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Okay, well, I started working as a reporter in 1982 in Los Angeles for L.A. Weekly.
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They were looking for an article of a certain kind,
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and I interviewed them, and they put it on the cover, and they paid me a check,
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So I continued to write articles for the weekly,
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and I found that I could publish articles in other newspapers and magazines,
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And then I saw that some of the material that I became interested in,
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you know, you can only cover stories for so long if you have some brain cells working
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I found that I had some difficulty with getting my stories into print,
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and, of course, people have to remember that in those days there was no web,
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and if you published a story, you know, you had to pitch it to an editor first,
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and then you'd get an assignment, and then you'd go write it, and you'd send it in,
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and this whole process, depending on whether you're writing for a newspaper or magazine,
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could take as long as, you know, a month or two before you actually saw your story in print.
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The first book came out in 1988 called AIDS, Inc., Scandal of the Century,
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and that was followed by a book about the Oklahoma bombing in 1995.
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And then I was working with a publisher, doing a lot of different things, including a radio show.
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And finally, in 2000, 2001, I decided, okay, it's time to find out what the web is really all about.
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And so I started my website, No More Fake News.
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And just the thrill of the word processing function of computers was enough to hook me.
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You know, I was basically a reporter with a typewriter, and so this was incredible.
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And then on top of that, the idea that I could actually publish my stories a few seconds after I wrote them
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and wouldn't have to worry about arguing with editors on content and subject, I was off and running.
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And that was just before 9-11, and I've been at it ever since.
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Well, you've conducted interviews with Matrix insiders, as you've called them,
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who know how the major illusions of our world are put together.
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But let's first define what the Matrix is, and then we can dive in and discuss what the major illusions are within it.
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It's like a tap dance between the world and people, we, who live in it.
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And there are various layers and levels, and you could make a list of subjects,
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and you would be looking at those levels on political, social, economic, military, intelligence, energy, medical, food,
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corporations, government, on and on, the players behind the scenes.
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And then, however, even deeper than that, and this is really the subject of one of my products called Collections,
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The Matrix Revealed, by what principles is reality itself defined for us?
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What are the artists, in heavy quotes, doing to design what most people take to be reality?
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So, this investigation, which lasted many years, really, even starting before I became a reporter,
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was looking at the displacement of power and energy away from the individual
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and onto a group or groups of people who had figured out a way to, as I used to put it,
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paint a gigantic mural and call it reality and thereby extract power from individuals.
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It can get a lot more complicated than that, but that's really where we would start.
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So, what are the ways in which these matrix craters manufacture reality?
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Well, this goes back as far as history, recorded, unrecorded on the planet.
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On one level, they are creating what I call a necessary illusion.
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They're saying to the populace, whether they're the priest class in ancient civilizations
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who have claims that they, you know, rule by divine right,
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or they have special knowledge of esoteric matters,
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They say, here is the way not only the world but the universe works
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And if you don't, then you'll never be able to see what's really going on.
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And once you do, then everything will be revealed to you.
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So, they begin sort of on that basis, of course.
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just like the events that we've seen in Aurora, in Sandy Hook, in Boston lately,
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to convince people that there are certain enemies out there that need to be conquered.
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In order for that to happen, everybody has to pull together and sacrifice
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But underneath that, what I discovered is something to me which is far more profound,
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and that is the replacement of the power of the imagination of the individual in various ways
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and the substitution for it of the imagination of people that are basically part of secret societies.
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And it's gotten to the point and has really been the case for a very long time
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where people don't even believe that imagination is very important
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or that it really has much of an impact on the world
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and that was a great deal of fun, but that's over.
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And my experience, many experiences, told me that it was quite the opposite.
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That the formula of the secret society, as I call it in my 1999 book,
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is to substitute the imagination of perverse artists
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the substitution of that for the limitless creative power of a person's own imagination,
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Most notably, I would say, in early, early Tibetan civilization.
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who doesn't want that power to leave their own hands.
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I mean, most of the people involved in, you know,
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And so they try to sniff which way the winds are blowing
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that there is manipulation and mind control going on.
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you will get vicariously a piece of that energy
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which is that the individual has unlimited energy
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And so the people who put together entertainment,
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their whole impetus is to blast you into a realm