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1 The following are notes taken on the video, Agenda 2. Every attempt was taken to capture the context of the video. The photos are screen captures from the video. Great care was taken to be accurate and in keeping with the video. If these notes are reproduced or added to They must be kept whole so the information remains in context. Roland Carrier 2 Contents Agenda 2, video notes ................................................................................................................................ 3 WHO IS OUR ENEMY ................................................................................................................................... 5 Why didn’t Communism die?...................................................................................................................... 6 Economic Espionage ................................................................................................................................... 8 Educational disinformation ....................................................................................................................... 10 Does education affect politics? ................................................................................................................. 11 Extremist assimilation ............................................................................................................................... 12 Evangelical subversion .............................................................................................................................. 14 Environmental brainwashing .................................................................................................................... 16 Electoral Manipulation ............................................................................................................................. 20 Where are we heading? ............................................................................................................................ 22 How do we take out Goliath? ................................................................................................................... 23 Electoral manipulation .............................................................................................................................. 23 Economic Espionage ................................................................................................................................. 24 Educational Disinformation ...................................................................................................................... 24 Extremist Assimilation .............................................................................................................................. 25 Environmental Brainwashing .................................................................................................................... 25 Evangelical Subversion .............................................................................................................................. 25 3 Agenda 2, video notes Agustin Blazque I did not believe that Communism would or G. Edward Griffin could take over Cuba. That will not happen That concept, collectivism, big government, is a here. No one would even dream that it could magnet for the predator class. happen. I see that same thing happening in the United Robin Eubanks States that is happening now. I am very The plans is to have everything in place by 2020 uncomfortable with this knowledge for I know what the end of it is. Waiting too long and Dr. David Noebel there will be nothing the American people can If we are that dumb and we allow this to do to keep Communism out. When this happen, we deserve everything we are going to happens, they will lose everything they own, get. Because we are going to get it right in the everything they know, and you cannot even neck. think that you will be safe in your own house. They will come and take everything, your guns, Dr. Alan Keys your way of life, everything. You will be a pawn We are headed into a nightmare that will make of the state. all of the atrocities of the twentieth century be a dress rehearsal. Trevor Loudon If America goes down economically, then the David McAlvany military goes down. If America goes down When people are afraid they ask government to militarily we all go down. The free world is do more not less. finished. It will be finished for a very long, long time. Brian Sussman Their theory is designed to scare the people to Kevin Swanson believe there is a crisis where there is no crisis. Everything practically is in a self-destruct mode. There is no crisis. Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin Benjamin Pinkevich We are in the most critical period since the We are losing more and more freedom because Revolutionary War. we are afraid. Dr. Hormoz Shariat Curtis Bowers If you are not alert you are not awake with what (The maker of this DVD. His narration will is happening. appear in these notes in italics) The left wants you to believe that catastrophe is Andy Miller just around the corner and the only way to I would just as soon see this country on its avoid it is to do EXACTLY what they say. knees than have everything “equalized.” Everything they do is just a Trojan horse of deceit. Carefully crafted to hide their real agenda of finishing America off. 4 Jim Simpson Curtis Bowers We have been their main stumbling block to I had no idea things I would discover about why world Communism since it first lifted its ugly America was collapsing from within would head. motivate me to take my life’s savings and make a film and I had never made a film before. My Curtis Bowers children prayed for the film daily and that the From the promotion of Islam to the propaganda finished film would win a cash prize. I thought it of climate change. From the deceit of common was a tall order, but it was not for God. core to the manufactured economic crisis. From their manipulation of the evangelical church to the unstainable debt burden. This DVD will show that the issues are simply being used as a smokescreen to hide the purposeful and premeditated treasonous attacks on the foundations of our freedoms. Star Parker The war on religion has just purged us from being able to determine right from wrong. Dr. Peter Hammond You know what Alexander Solzhenitsyn said about Russia? How the Communist took over If things are always moving in one direction in a Russia, “We forgot God.” unified fashion, there is a reason why. Consistency has never been a virtue of Curtis Bowers ignorance. Their stated agenda carved in stone on a During one of the many presentations of monument in Georgia and outlined in Agenda one person stood up and said that documents placed in the ark of hope is to wanted to congratulate us on our research. I eliminate 6.5 billion people by century’s end. want to tell you something. I am a professor at They will succeed if we do not stop them. this college, I am a Communist, and we will win because we are taking all of your children. Then Dr. Peter Hammond he walked out. This is not just a fight for the United States of A woman who was crying asked; How could he America, this is a fight for civilization itself. be at our community college? I replied to her, mam, he is in every school in Brian Sussman America. It is everything Karl Marx dreamed of before To win the battle of subversion it is imperative our very eyes. to know one thing, your enemy. A radical of the 1960 gave the key. The issue is never the issue. Dr. Alan Keys The issue is always the revolution. I think they have pushed us over the cliff. They use issues against us to destroy. America isn’t going to fall, we are falling. 5 WHO IS OUR ENEMY The goal is to transfer all of God’s authority from the family and church to the state. Those Curtis Bowers who work this effort are collectivist. 2500 hundred years ago Sun Su wrote: If you know yourself you will the battle 50% of G. Edward Griffin the time. Collectivism is a broad terminology that If you know your enemy you will win the battle includes Communism, Fascism, Nazism, 50% of the time. Socialism, left wing ism, liberalism. All of these But, if you know yourself AND your enemy you different words are different flavors of will win the battle 100% of the time collectivism. Collectivism is the concept is the state is all important. The individual must be Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin sacrificed for the greater good of the greater If you do not know who we are as a nation, our number. identity, you do not know our history, you do not really don’t understand the price that has Curtis Bowers been paid, and then anybody can lead you The end of collectivism is a system that takes astray. care its citizens from the cradle to the grave and that is Marxism. Curtis Bowers The people who do not understand this are the Once we understand who we are it will be easy people who believe that you can have big to identify our enemies they are those that are government without totalitarian methods and attacking the foundations we stand upon. history has shown us you cannot. Before the last 100 years of subversion, who David McAlvany were we? What made America the greatest From each according to his ability and to each country of all time? according to his need. That was the goal, God established three institutions, however, the problem is, and no one steps Family down. Once you have the power no one steps Church down. Reality, it is just a picture, no one ever State intended in stepping down. What made America great was that we G.
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