Joe Rogan Experience #472 - Shane Smith

Arctic nations amassing weapons for resource competition

Arctic territorial claims enforced by military might

Tar sands extraction destroys freshwater and environment

Oil companies will destroy environment for profit

Fossil fuel industry pays for negative comments to suppress climate reporting

Climate change is 100% man-made and will continue for centuries

Fossil fuel and car companies knowingly fund climate denial

Afghanistan and Iraq wars fought for oil, veterans duped

Iraq invasion was for oil, not WMDs or terrorism

Afghanistan withdrawal will result in Taliban takeover and wasted resources

People are used for economic purposes by governments

Military exists to protect bankers and oil manufacturers

Government preys on patriotism to manipulate soldiers

Climate change poses existential risk even if probability is low

Texas drought forcing climate change deniers to reconsider

Republican congressman lost seat for accepting climate science

NSA mass surveillance creates police state

Mass surveillance in cities creates Orwellian police state

Total surveillance equals police state

Government-tech surveillance infrastructure is irreversible

Future surveillance technology will enable total monitoring

Future total information access will eliminate all privacy

Wealthy will purchase privacy protection technology

Money will become obsolete as information becomes freely accessible

Powerful interests sabotaging Bitcoin to protect traditional currency

Silk Road operator allegedly ordered murders to maintain business

US government seized billions in assets post-9/11 without due process

Government exploited 9/11 sympathy to seize assets

Government uses terrorism as pretext for asset seizure

Snowden and WikiLeaks revelations shocking public into awareness

Alex Jones accurately predicted government surveillance

Government wastes taxpayer money on failed projects

Afghanistan reconstruction funds wasted or paid to Taliban

Government acts with impunity, violating democratic principles

Grassroots media activism necessary to preserve democracy

Current wealth inequality exceeds pre-revolution aristocratic era

Wall Street allows unlimited loss write-offs unavailable to ordinary people

Taxpayer money wasted by government

CIA murdered children to cover up cocaine trafficking in Arkansas

Independent investigation found murdered children staged as train accident

CIA drug trafficker Barry Seal murdered before testimony

CIA connected to major drug traffickers in Arkansas

Arkansas governor became president through drug money

Clintons implicated in murders and multiple scandals

Vince Foster death staged as suicide, Clintons implicated

Politicians who wage war are murderers

Politicians eliminate witnesses to their crimes

Presidency is impossible job that destroys everyone

George H.W. Bush was CIA head, like Putin

Future scenario where no one wants to be president

Single president system is fundamentally flawed

President cannot compete with Putin's military advantage

Hypothetical assassination attempt on US president

No US president assassinated by foreign power

Putin's ideology is pro-Russia and anti-West

Russia blames America for all its problems

Putin aggressively reclaiming Soviet territories

Putin defiant toward West, beyond Cold War rhetoric

Russia reclaiming Soviet territories for strategic resources

All powerful nations engage in resource-driven imperialism

Consumer choices drive geopolitical power

Consumer spending patterns drive policy more than voting

Consumer boycotts can change corporate policy overnight

US controls Saudi oil production to manipulate prices

US oil manipulation of Saudi Arabia created Al-Qaeda resentment

Cities replacing police with mass surveillance technology

Overfishing destroying marine ecosystems globally

Fishing nations destroyed fish stocks, blame seals

Industrial fishing destroyed world's largest fish stocks

Corporations destroy species to meet global demand

Rising beef demand driving prices and environmental damage

Humanity chooses short-term consumption over long-term survival

Adults failing to make rational environmental choices

Humans won't change until environmental collapse is visible

Humans like addicts, need to hit rock bottom to change

Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps misrepresented Jesus

Islamic and Christian afterlife beliefs equally absurd

Middle Eastern people are backwards remnants of ancient civilization

Middle Eastern ideology is retarded ancient remnant

Three monotheistic religions fight over minor theological differences

Christian and Islamic afterlife beliefs equally ridiculous

72 virgins may actually mean 72 raisins

Politicians should have lived flawed lives like ordinary people

Squeaky clean politicians are either murderers or crazy

Politicians should admit to human flaws and mistakes

Sexual misconduct shouldn't disqualify politicians

Character attacks should be met with admission and defiance

Society expects politicians to be saviors

Politicians should represent flawed humanity

Voting system is recent invention, essentially popularity contest

Elections determined by name recognition, not merit

Both political parties controlled by same corporations

Hillary Clinton may be involved in infanticide

Hillary Clinton has health issues that may prevent candidacy

Democrats should embrace Clinton like Republicans embrace Reagan

Clinton's sexual misconduct understandable given circumstances

Clintons implicated in murders and multiple scandals

House of Cards accurately depicts real political PR warfare

All politicians are freaks and blameless

Clinton White Water scandal prevents political support

George H.W. Bush was CIA head, like Putin

Potential new war with Russia emerging

Climate change 60 years ahead of worst projections

Global environmental catastrophe inevitable, no action taken

Young scientist developed reactor to use nuclear waste

Hoping for technological solution to environmental crisis

Tech companies like Google have global ethics

Google committed to innovation despite censorship issues

Tech companies solving global problems through innovation

Parental love could solve world problems

Climate change debate is joke, must fight for children's future

NASA report predicts human civilization collapse

Scientists paid by Exxon suppress climate messaging

Single president system fundamentally flawed