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"Zeitgeist: Moving Forward"

"Zeitgeist: Moving Forward"

The Venus Project Coordinates: The Venus Project organization advocates what founder Jacque Fresco calls a resource-based economy. The projected plan is to combine Fresco's versions of sustainable development, energy efficiency, natural resource management, and advanced automation in a global socioeconomic system based on social cooperation and scientific methodology. Located in Venus, Florida, the Venus Project is in a 21.5-acre (8.7-hectare) facility.[1] History[edit] The Venus Project was founded in 1995 as a for-profit corporation by Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows in Venus, Florida.[2] A separate, nonprofit organization started by Fresco and his business partner Roxanne Meadows is Future By Design, founded in 2003.[3] Fresco lectures his ideas and gives tours of the Venus Project location.[4] Resource-based economy[edit] The term "resource based economy" is used by the Venus Project to describe a hypothetical economic system in which goods, services, and information are free. The Zeitgeist Movement[edit]

The Myth of Free Will, edited by Cris Evatt What Is Free Will? The free will myth says that humans are imbued with a “spirit” or “soul” or “some magical quality” that directs the brain’s decision-making circuitry. This ghostly, free-floating, supernatural agent can override our genes and conditioning. But how does a nonphysical spirit communicate with a physical body part? The free will myth also says, “You choose, therefore you have free will.” How Your Brain Chooses When you choose between a papaya and a banana, patterns of neural activity representing these two possibilities appear in the cortex. “Decision making is a competition, a dynamic process in which there are winners and losers. Who Says It's a Myth? The Bottom Line “The mind is what the brain does, and so every mental event, from falling in love to worrying about our taxes, is going to show up as a brain event.

ZMP DRUDGE REPORT 2013® Debunking Crackpot Science The Apollo 'hoax' Over 40 years after the first Apollo moon landing some people still claim it never happened, that it was all a hoax. And some do so quite stridently. I have long had an admittedly somewhat morbid fascination with the pathological reasoning processes that can produce such beliefs. Sometimes I wonder if they're just pulling our leg. Are they simply pretending to believe in these crackpot theories? The health and even the survival of any western democracy requires an educated and well-informed citizenry. Although our universities continue to produce many highly talented and skilled scientists and engineers to work on these problems, this is not enough. Most people admire the intellectual achievements of others and many are deeply inspired by them. Most Apollo deniers are remarkably unoriginal. If you find your blood pressure gets too high when reading the drivel put out by the hoax believers, these might help you unwind. Was the moon landing a hoax? xMax Tom Bearden's MEG

The Zeitgeist Movement The Venus Project Magniwork From PESWiki Page first featured June 2, 2009 The latest version of their plans as of June 28, 2009, is poorly explained. Contains no photos or video, no data, no clear schematic, no specific part numbers. Half the material is about conservation and grid, irrelevant to the plans. The first version of the Magniwork device was based on the Bedini SG circuit, and this photo they showed in their plans is actually a device by Rick Friedrich. [1]. SCAM: Bogus claim on plagiarized work AKA (Related Scams) FreePowerBluePrint.com Magnets4Energy.com Magnet4Power.com Other Affiliate Domains We've never seen videos, photos, data, or any other evidence that ANYONE has ever actually built a unit that really works. Magniwork puts for a set of plans for a free energy device they claim could be scaled to power an entire house. The video they feature in the opening of their site is of Lutec's technology, who tends to evade credible validation attempts. What's your experience? Official Scam Website Affiliate Sites

33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True Most people can’t resist getting the details on the latest conspiracy theories, no matter how far-fetched they may seem. At the same time, many people quickly denounce any conspiracy theory as untrue … and sometimes as unpatriotic or just plain ridiculous. Lets not forget all of the thousands of conspiracies out of Wall Street like Bernie Madoff and many others to commit fraud and extortion, among many crimes of conspiracy. USA Today reports that over 75% of personal ads in the paper and on craigslist are married couples posing as single for a one night affair. When someone knocks on your door to sell you a set of knives or phone cards, anything for that matter, do they have a profit motive? When 2 friends go to a bar and begin to plan their wingman approach on 2 girls they see at the bar, how often are they planning on lying to those girls? Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy. 1. 2. 4. 5. 7. 8.

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