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The Hot Dog Stand: How Much Would You Charge?

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These 10 Companies Control Basically Everything You Consume [GRAPHIC]

It may be obvious that Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes are both made by Kellogg's,... more

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40 Thousand Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally at Citi Field Stadium to Discuss of 'Filth of Internet'

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House Approves HR 4970, Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization - Here's How Your Pol Voted

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The Studs Terkel Centenary: Chicago Celebrates Legendary Studs Terkel

May 16th marks the 100th anniversary of Studs Terkel’s birth and an occasion to... more

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Chris Hedges and Michael Moore on Unfettered Capitalism

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Don’t shout at the telly: The Leveson Inquiry

In this gripping on the sofa discussion, volunteers raise questions on the press and... more

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Sociopathocracy

For around 13 years Andrew Steven Wordes, 53, had lived alone in the Roswell area... more

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What's a Liberal?

Progresshiv talks about what it means to be a liberal.

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How Long Is The Middle Class Going To Let The One Percent Control Us And 3/4 of US Wealth? | Charles E. Harvey For President 2012

The 45th President Can Be From the “Middle Class” It’s up to you

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Thom Hartmann: Time to Acknowledge the American Fear Machine

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Paradise or Oblivion

Paradise or Oblivion: http://youtu.be/KphWsnhZ4Ag

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What morals are most important to you?

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Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of Global/Regional Chapters, Project Teams, Annual Events, Media and Charity Work.

The Movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality.

Rather, The Movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure. While intermediate Reform steps and temporal Community Support are of interest to The Movement, the defining goal here is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions.

This "Resource-Based Economic Model" is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a Monetary or even Political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods Science has to offer, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profits, corporations and other structural and motivational components.

The Movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. In other words, the view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in Science and Technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications which could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population. In fact, so much so, that there is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crimes and many other money-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time.

The range of The Movement's Activism & Awareness Campaigns extend from short to long term, with the model based explicitly on Non-Violent methods of communication. The long term view, which is the transition into a Resource-Based Economic Model, is a constant pursuit and expression, as stated before. However, in the path to get there, The Movement also recognizes the need for transitional Reform techniques, along with direct Community Support.

For instance, while "Monetary Reform" itself is not an end solution proposed by The Movement, the merit of such legislative approaches are still considered valid in the context of transition and temporal integrity. Likewise, while food and clothes drives and other supportive projects to help those in need today are also not considered a long term solution, it is still considered valid in the context of helping others in a time of need, while also drawing awareness to the principle goal.

The Zeitgeist Movement also has no allegiance to a country or traditional political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and promoted are in the interest to help everyone on the planet Earth, not a select group.

http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmeIMjsen28&feature=player_embeddedFounded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization... more

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Why Venus and Zeitgeist Don't Have It Quite Right

I might presume that most of You are aware of the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist... more

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Living Without Money - Trailer

Is it possible to feel rich without possessions? Can you live happily without money?... more

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Introverts Run The World - - Quietly

The theory of evolution. The theory of relativity. The Cat in the Hat. All were brought to you by introverts.

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements -- from Steve Wozniak's invention of the Apple computer to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. And these introverts did what they did not in spite of their temperaments -- but because of them.

As the science journalist Winifred Gallagher writes: "The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal."

Introverts make up a third to a half the population. That's one out of every two or three people you know.

Yet our most important institutions -- our schools and our workplaces -- are designed for extroverts. And we're living with a value system that I call the New Groupthink, where we believe that all creativity and productivity comes from an oddly gregarious place.

Picture the typical classroom. When I was a kid, we sat in rows of desks, and we did most of our work autonomously. But nowadays many students sit in "pods" of desks with four or five students facing each other, and they work on countless group projects -- even in subjects like math and creative writing. Kids who prefer to work by themselves don't fit, and research by educational psychology professor Charles Meisgeier found that the majority of teachers believe the ideal student is an extrovert -- even though introverts tend to get higher grades, according to psychologist Adrian Furnham.

The same thing happens at work. Many of us now work in offices without walls, with no respite from the noise and gaze of co-workers. And introverts are routinely passed over for leadership positions, even though the latest research by the management professor Adam Grant at Wharton shows that introverted leaders often deliver better results. They're better at letting proactive employees run with their creative ideas, while extroverts can unwittingly put their own stamp on things and not realize that other people's ideas aren't being heard.

complete article here - http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/18/opinion/cain-introverts-power/index.html?npt=NP1The theory of evolution. The theory of relativity. The Cat in the Hat. All were... more

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The Hidden Side of Capitalism - Capitalism and the State

BY TELIS DEMOS ---------------- Long-distance rail travel is the last way to observe... more

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Electrogravitics - A Description of a Better Overunity ("Free Energy")

Electrogravitics... This technology was being developed and tested in all major... more

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Polyamory—relationships with multiple, mutually consenting partners—has a coming-out party.

Researchers are just beginning to study the phenomenon, but the few who do estimate... more

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