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Adam Curtis - The Living Dead
Posted January 22nd 2009 11:23PM



This documentary series by Adam Curtis examines how the government and media evoke people and events of the past to portray history in a way that supports their particular world view.

This episode examined how the various national memories of the Second World War were effectively rewritten and manipulated in the Cold War period. For Germany, this began at the Nuremberg Trials, where attempts were made to prevent the Nazis in the dock�principally Hermann G�ring�from offering any rational argument for what they had done. Subsequently, however, bringing lower-ranking Nazis to justice was effectively forgotten about in the interests of maintaining West Germany as an ally in the Cold War. For the Allied countries, faced with a new enemy in the Soviet Union, there was a need to portray WW2 as a crusade of pure good against pure evil, even if this meant denying the memories of the Allied soldiers who had actually done the fighting, and knew it to have been far more complex.


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Technocracy technate related video
Posted December 25th 2008 2:36PM

Energy Accounting is a method of keeping track of energy and the resource base. Energy certificates are a right of citizenship in a Technate. Thus sustainability becomes a real prospect. In a money system (Price System) sustainability is not possible, as all choice is arbitrated by profit or loss of debt tokens.



This video from the early 1980's gives a basic idea of some of the concepts of a scientific social design using energy economics... energy accounting is based on thermoeconomics also known as biophysical economics.
Energy Accounting
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Non-market economics
Thermoeconomics

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Horizon: Where's My Robot?
Posted December 21st 2008 11:14PM



Danny Wallace really wants a robot. He wants it to walk like him and talk like him. It's what scientists have been promising us for generations but it's a promise so far unfulfilled. Danny circumnavigates the globe searching for robot nirvana and trying to uncover how far away his dream is.

He discovers that the robotics world is as weird as it is insanely complicated. During his quest he meets a Japanese man who makes copies of himself and his daughter, an Italian who claims he's found the key to human intelligence in a video game and a Singaporean whose less than promising looking homage to Dusty Bin, might just turn out to be the robot of Danny's dreams.

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Posted November 16th 2008 9:54PM



I was recently fortunate enough to attend a lecture by Antonia Juhasz author of "The Tyranny of Oil" which details the atrocities committed by the petroleum industry and its historic connection to basically every major war in modern history.

I recommend reading the book, but the video "Blood and Oil" gives an overview of the same topic covered by "The Tyranny of Oil".

All of this is especially relevant as Chevron is currently in the middle of a land-mark trail for murdering Nigerian protesters in 1998.
The future... Technology/Technocracy
Posted October 21st 2008 7:21AM

Your smart car will shift shapes, you will fax three dimensional objects and intelligent machines will run your life if you let them.
Technology is pushing from every direction. Getting faster with each passing second.
Prepare yourself, the future is closer then you think -- Next World - Future Intelligence
Category: Science & Technology
Computers- Artificial Intelligence- Robots- Smart Cars- Machines- Future Technology- Software.

Click here to go to another vid. that gives a few incidentals regarding Technocracy technate design info. Technocracy Study Course related information.



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Zeitgeist Addendum
Posted October 10th 2008 12:02AM



If you haven't seen the first Zeitgeist Movie I highly recommend it. It attacks religion, politics, and economics by debunking the Jesus myth, shedding light on the attacks of 9/11, and establishing that all of the worlds problems stem out of fractional reserve banking. The new Zeitgeist Addendum video manages to surpass its predecessor in ways I really didn't anticipate. The first hour was very reminiscent of the first video, but at about 55 min in it turns in an entirely new direction that is absolutely in tune with Communist Robot. At that point you will hear Jacque Fresco paraphrasing Thorsten Veblen while indirectly referencing Technocracy and it continues on down that path for the remainder. The video even manages to give some helpful tips on how to fight the system, which is something many felt was lacking from the original. Bravo!

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Rodney Brooks: How Robots Will Invade Our Lives
Posted September 29th 2008 10:55PM



This TED Talk was done in 2003. It's amazing to see just how much of what was described and predicted has been fulfilled already. The technologies on display in this presentation have advanced considerably since this talk and the future of robotics is very much unfolding as predicted.

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Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Posted September 19th 2008 2:42PM



Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home. The documentary places the Bush Administration's false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the Cold War, and to expand American power globally by means of military force

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Norman Foster's Green Agenda
Posted September 4th 2008 9:09PM



In this amazing presentation Norman Foster gives a broad overview of his involvement in green design over the last few decades. He also points out the importance of better city planning and the ridiculousness of our enormously wasteful addiction to not only oil but to the entire automotive industry.

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Trans- humanism & existentialism
Posted August 31st 2008 9:06AM

What is a human..?. and how many add ons to a human, turn it into something else.?. Is it a fantasy of people to think that combination's of people and robots will be significantly different in thought and temperament... from now?
A cyborg will have thoughts feelings and emotions and existential dilemmas and also opinions. Opinions are never fact... so how is it that cyborgs and trans humanism are seen as some kind of perfecting mechanism of humans by many and the road to immortality by some? Everything dies... or gets the plug pulled from it at some point. So... will the human/cyborg condition change? No. Both will look for meaning, purpose, and beauty.



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