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Threads: The Future The Venus Project
Threads: The Future The Venus Project
Threads: The Future The Venus Project
1 10/09/08
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Contents Editorial -A Note From My Desk Page One -The Venus Project Page Two -The Venus Project Contd -Heavy Metal Machines Page Three -Tell Me Lies Page Four -Worlds tallest Lego Tower -In the News A NOTE FROM MY DESK: fter a two week hiatus, Threads is back! I am for the most part moved into my new apartment and things are nice. I can finally relax and work at my own pace. I finally have a desk technically two, so now this note really is coming from my desk. I do not have a couch or a TV for my living room though. Makes me wonder how Im going to gather ideas now thankfully I have the Internet to help in that regard. I need to start utilizing my resources and begin getting stories on my own. It may be a week or so before that happens. I hope my readers enjoy this issue, it is for you, you know!.
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Above: a future home by Jacque Fresco, Below: a MagLev train that could reach speeds of 4000mph
The Venus Project has developed an essential blueprint for a future free of money, government, war and religion. The belief is that the ills of society have direct roots in the monetary system. Fresco believes discarding the monetary-istic ideal in the current society that has a focus on profit and a dependency on money that doesn't exist will free all people from an enslavement of debt and move into a world of creation and global sustainability. "All the limitations imposed upon us by our present-day monetary system could be surpassed by adopting a global consensus for a worldwide resource-based economy, in which all the planetary resources are viewed and treated as the common heritage of all the earths inhabitants. In this manner, the earth and our technological procedures could provide us with a limitless supply of material goods and services without the creation of debt or taxation whatsoever." states Fresco in his essay on the Venus Project's website. [emphasis his] In the two hour movie put out by the Venus Project entitled "Zeitgeist; Addendum", the group illustrates and examines the current global stock market crisis that is taking place. With the DOW falling below 10,000 on Monday, for the first time since October 2004, and other markets falling throughout the world, including the Asian and European markets, and other nations such as Canada heading towards a recession, Iceland facing bankruptcy and Brazil and Argentina
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Jacque Fresco
"In today's culture of profit, we do not produce goods based on a human need. We do not build houses based on population needs. We do not grow food to feed people. Industry's major motivation is profit," states Fresco. In a resource based economy, this issue of doing something for profit rather than the good of the people will be removed. The new culture will encourage focusing technology do help other people. Although the Venus Project may sound rather Utopian or Orwellian, Fresco insists this is not the case, but rather the next step in human development. He feels that the collapse of the monetary system is at hand and people will begin to lose their faith in it and insist on moving towards a new society. The group insists that the strongest barrier between progress and cultural stagnation is money. The people with money direct the rest of culture generally in the pursuit of more money while the people without money are towed along and crushed in the monetary systems underbelly. The message that the Venus Project would like to get out is that money is not a necessity in society, as Fresco says; "it appears that the real wealth of any nation is in its natural resources and its people who are working toward a more humane life-style through the elimination of scarcity." use. The average earthworm would die in the conditions these superworms thrive. This discovery may make it easier to clean up land that has been contaminated by heavy mining. The worms could be beneficial in clean up processes but are still less efficient than the modern industrial clean up processes, however they will be important in diagnosing the metal concentrations in contaminated lands.
Lead researcher Mark Hodson of the University of Reading in England has been studying these heavy metal tolerant worms, and to put it lightly, these aren't your average earthworms. The worms according to Hodson, produce a special protein that "wraps up" the metal they happen to be eating, making it safe for the metal to pass through the worm. Once passed through the worms, the metal excrement is then easier for plants to
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Defensive lying is typically done for self-preservation, malicious lying is done to cause harm. Malicious lying is not always committed by a person, it is also committed by large corporations and governments. Malicious lying can be done through coercion, propaganda and other deceptive practices, there is always a desired outcome by the party doing the
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