Jacque Fresco-The Great Depression

We have heard in the media that we are seeing unemployment that is reminiscent of the great depression. The homeless population is growing. The people are coming out of a long, deep coma and realizing that the system isn't perfect. You can work hard all your life, have a savings account, retirement account, college savings for the children, a mortgage that you are chipping away at month by month and suddenly....one day...you are told by the company that you have given your lifeblood to that they need to downsize. The shareholders are expecting a certain return and to reach that goal...well, you've got to go. How can this happen? You did everything that you were told and expected to do. What happened to the American dream? We are entering a great depression of own. When our descendants learn about this moment in history, will they feel pride or disgust at their ancestors? The decisions should be easy. Let's leave a better world for them.

Jacque Fresco talks a little about what he experienced during the great depression.

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The Venus Project-Changing Values, Self-Appointed Guardians, Democratic System

Occupy Wall Street has been going on for a few weeks now. Protests in Europe have been going on for much longer than that. The world is coming together for the same reason. Anger. Anger at the corporations that have laid off their workers to increase their profits. Anger at the banks. Anger at the 1% who control what is happening to the 99%. Anger at rising prices, the dismantling of education, the high unemployment of college graduates and youth. Righteous anger! Jacque Fresco talks about what happens when you go against the social "norm". This is very interesting since he predicted what is happening before it happened.

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The Venus Project-Resource Based Economy

I have grown up most of my life thinking (like all good Americans) that capitalism was the only way that society could exist. Without money, the world would come crashing down, the sun would burn out, the stars would fall from the sky, the oceans would dry up. But would it? For most people, no. Their lives would be better. Not only their lives but the lives of each succeeding generation.In this video, Jacque Fresco explains a resource-based economy clearly.

The term and meaning of a Resource-Based Economy was originated by Jacque Fresco. It is a holistic social and economic system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all of the inhabitants, not just a select few. The premise upon which this system is based is that the Earth is abundant with plentiful resource; our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival.

Modern society has access to highly advanced technology and can make available food, clothing, housing and medical care; update our educational system; and develop a limitless supply of renewable, non-contaminating energy. By supplying an efficiently designed economy, everyone can enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities of a high technological society.

A resource-based economy would utilize existing resources from the land and sea, physical equipment, industrial plants, etc. to enhance the lives of the total population. In an economy based on resources rather than money, we could easily produce all of the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all.

I Am Proud of Them!

This article is about the young people that have been protesting at Wall Street in New York. I am so glad that this next generation is angry about the legacy that has been left to them. I wish them the strength to carry on with this. I want them to know that there are those of us of the older generation that support them and are angry at what has happened because of the bad choices that we made, our parents made, our grandparents made....
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25 September 2011 Last updated at 06:06 ET

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Anti-Wall Street protesters arrested in New York

At least 80 people have been arrested during an anti-Wall Street march in New York's financial district.

Several hundred people took part in Saturday's march, which was intended to draw attention to "corporate greed and corrupt politics" in the US.

Participants carried banners supporting a range of other issues, including healthcare reform, an end to US wars and the scrapping of the death penalty.

The march came after a week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street campaign.

The loosely organised group says it is defending 99% of the US population against the wealthiest 1%, and had called for 20,000 people to "flood into lower Manhattan" on 17 September and remain there for "a few months".

Protesters, who are mostly young, initially numbered some 1,500 but their numbers had fallen to about 200 by Saturday's march.

There was a heavy security presence in the district, with police deploying nets to block off major roads including Fifth Avenue and to protect the New York Stock Exchange.

Corporate 'enemy'

One protester, 21-year-old Ryan Reed, said he joined in "because what I see - and what I feel most people in this country see - is an economy and a system that's collapsing".

"The enemy is the big business leaders of Wall Street, the big oil company leaders, the coal company leaders, the big military industrial leaders."

A number of placards also called for "justice for Troy Davies", the US man executed in Georgia last week amid widespread criticism.

Police said most of Saturday's arrests were for disorderly conduct and blocking traffic, but one person was charged with assaulting a police officer. One officer also suffered a shoulder injury, said police.

They have not commented on protest organisers' comments that there had been an "unprecedented level of police aggression" on display.

A statement on the Occupy Wall Street website said the protesters have "an interest in returning the US back into the hands of its individual citizens".

"Our nation, our species and our world are in crisis. The US has an important role to play in the solution, but we can no longer afford to let corporate greed and corrupt politics set the policies if our nation."

Inspired by urban occupations in cities including Madrid, Cairo and Tunisia, they have said they will camp out in Zuccotti Park, a private park near the financial district, until their demands are met.

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