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As a pilot in Vietnam in 1972, I realized we were not fighting to stop
communism. I realized we were fighting for oil and for big oil corporations.
Today, we are in the same war - different countries, same corporations.
In the 1980s, I became a founding board member of an organization
known as GENI (Global Energy Network International). The purpose of
GENI, a not-for-profit organ-ization, is to bring to the world the ideasofDr.
R. Buckminster Fuller, known as one of the greatest geniuses of our time.
According to Dr. Fuller, the world has the
technology to be energy self-sufficient,
which means non-polluting renewable
Instead of punishing
energy. The problem is the oil companies
would rather seethe price ofoil go up, and me for my poor
these companies yield a lot ofpower. spelling and radical
I supported Dr. Fuller's idea because if
ideas, Dr. Norton
GENI were a reality, the wealth of our
encouraged me to
world would increase, poverty would
decline,population growth would decline write. I finished his
and there would be a greater possibility of class withaB. More
world peace.
important than the
I resigned from the GENI board in
grade, Dr.N([lrton
1994. The organization is alive and well
today.Ifyou would like more information renewedn!ly
about GENI and its initiatives, you can go confidence in myself
to their Web site at GENLorg. The ideas
as a student ... and Dr.
are bold, worthy of consideration, and
Norton's confidence
would mean a completely different world,
if the world could see the benefit of in me as a student
cooperating, rather than fighting for that got me through
'i resources. those tough
While I may sound like a hypocrite or
a flip-flopper, I am still a capitalist. I still academic years.
tnake my money from oil, and I also
- Robert T. Kiyosaki
suPPOrt the eventual replacement of oil

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