"As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger."
What Motivates Me?.....
Below are a few links and short videos that have become the backbone and driving force behind my artwork. This is what inspires me to share my understanding of the world and help spread the awareness of a more sustainable and safer world for all of Earth's inhabitants.
We have now an Eastbourne Website that incorporates all of the principles and visions presented here, as well as current projects and events. Please Click Here To visit.
We have now an Eastbourne Website that incorporates all of the principles and visions presented here, as well as current projects and events. Please Click Here To visit.
My attempt to have a little fun while explaining the ideas and concepts of an "RBE". The full version of the "Resource Based Economy / Zeitgeist Movement Game" is just under two hours. This edited version is 50 minutes, and covers most of the "questions", but with less detail. If you're interested in seeing the full version, the playlist begins here -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqTrKS...
Jacque Fresco coined the term "Resource Based Economy" and goes into detail with this train of thought on his website. Please visit, and check out the "Paradise or Oblivion" video on the homepage. "The Venus Project" - http://www.thevenusproject.com/ The Zeitgeist Movement supports this train of thought... http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com ... and Peter Joseph does a great job of explaining this stuff. If you haven't seen his videos, here are a few for starters. "Arriving at a RBE -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVPz7u... "Where Are We Now?" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O67AZ... "Where Are We Going?" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxPPnC... His two documentary-films related to the RBE are Must See! Zeitgeist Addendum -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKX9T... Zeitgeist, Moving Forward -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZ... Many other sites are supporting the ideas and concepts of a Resource Based Economy, such as... The Freeworld Charter - http://www.freeworldcharter.org/en A Resource Based Economy - http://www.theresourcebasedeconomy.com/ |
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Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916), is an American self-taught structural designer, architectural designer, concept artist, educator, and futurist. Fresco writes and lectures his views of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management, cybernetic technology, advanced automation, and the role of science in society. With his colleague, Roxanne Meadows, he is the founder and director of The Venus Project.As an outspoken social critic, Fresco advocates global implementation of a socioeconomic system of social cooperation, technological automation, and scientific methodology, which he refers to as a 'resource-based economy.'
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The Venus Project
The term and meaning of a Resource Based Economy was originated by Jacque Fresco. It is a holistic socio-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.
Best Speech You Will Ever Hear!Gary Yourofsky's entire inspirational speech held at Georgia Tech in summer of 2010. Listen to this amazing speaker who will blow away the myths, fill your mind with interesting facts, and help you make ethical choices for a healthy heart and soul. His charismatic and straightforward style is one of a kind - a must-see for anyone who cares about nonhuman animals or wishes to make the world a better place.
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EarthlingsEARTHLINGS is the single most powerful and informative documentary about society's tragic and unforgivable use of nonhuman animals, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix with soundtrack by Moby. Directed by Shaun Monson, this multi-award winning film by Nation Earth is a must-see for anyone who cares about nonhuman animals or wishes to make the world a better place.
PLEASE: don't run from reality, watch the film and share your thoughts with other viewers in the comments section. Thank you. |
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The Story of Stuff is a short polemical animated documentary about the lifecycle of material goods. The documentary is critical of excessive consumerism and promotes sustainability.
Filmmaker Annie Leonard wrote and narrated the film, which was first launched online on December 4, 2007. |
In the mid-1800s, corporations began to be recognized as individuals by U.S. courts, granting them unprecedented rights. The Corporation, a documentary by filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott and author Joel Bakan, delves into that legal standard, essentially asking: if corporations were people, what kind of people would they be? Applying psychiatric principles and FBI forensic techniques, and through a series of case studies, the film determines that this entity, the corporation, which has an increasing power over the day-to-day existence of nearly every living creature on earth, would be a psychopath. The case studies include a story about how two reporters were fired from Fox News for refusing to soft-pedal a story about the dangers of a Monsanto product given to dairy cows, and another about Bolivian workers who banded together to defend their rights to their own water supply. The pervasiveness of corporate influence on our lives is explored through an examination of efforts to influence behavior, including that of children. The filmmakers interview leftist figures like Michael Moore, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klein, and Noam Chomsky, and give representatives from companies Burson Marsteller, Disney, Pfizer, and Initiative Media a chance to relay their own points-of-view. The Corporation won the Best Documentary World Cinema Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
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HUMANHUMAN the film REDUX is a refined, shorter version of Human the film that has been cut down where possible yet still maintaining the message of the original film. It has been compiled using youtube, news archive and other footage sources, it looks at the different aspects of the system we live and work in including the government, politics, money, war, healthcare and other social issues. this film is about the world in which we reside and the systems that govern it. We are all Human and this film is for you.
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Cancer is Big BusinessThe very first time that I saw this video, I actually shed tears just because this show how we so called human are wicked than the Lion preying over a poor cattle kid. The worst is we are preying over ourselves. We turn our beautiful world to survival of the fittest.
I don't know how long this video will be here for but if you can Download it and I will post a direct link that you can get this video if you can't get it from here or you can simply email me [email protected] and I will be glad to send you the link |
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I made this video with some clips I don't own the rights to, but it's for a good cause. We all need to learn to share, after all, to survive...
CLIPS: Fight Club, Any Given Sunday, collaborativeconsumption.com / All Rights Reserved. SONGS: Bob Marley, "Rat Race" - Tupac Shakur, "Changes" & John Lennon "Imagine" / All Rights Reserved. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sustain... |
You’ve probably come across the fracking in the news recently and wondered if the reality is as ugly as the word. Maybe you’ve heard about the new natural gas boom and wondered what shale gas and coalbed methane mean for our energy needs.
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A resourced based economy model is hitting the main stream media! This reached the number 1 most shared/visited BBC page over the bank holiday!
"Would you want to live in a city where the main aim of daily life is to improve personal knowledge, enjoy hobbies, or solve problems that could be common to all people in order to improve the standard of living for everyone?" |
Equilism: 21st Century Economy
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Owned and Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and their methods of control. But the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the normal rules of social interaction, causing excitement in those who are not served by the current system... and fear in those who are pampered by it.
This documentary attempts to present these events using the video, audio and written content uploaded to the internet by the collective human consciousness comprised of every individual participant. |
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This song, by The Manic Street Preachers is about the Spanish civil war, and the idealism of people from around the world who volunteered to join the International Brigade Franco's fascist army, hence the line, "So if I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists." More recent anti-terror campaign posters have also drawn inspiration from this - in 2001 posters were strewn all over the area near to Wales' National Assembly buildings in Cardiff concerning the war on Iraq, with the caption: "If you tolerate this, your children will be next... And if your children tolerate this, there's NO TELLING WHO'LL BE NEXT!"
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A very rare French Film with subtitles. (Full film below) You can watch the YouTube video’s below, or you can download a high quality version of the film from the following link: http://greenbeautiful.szm.com From that site it is available in the MP4 version as well as DVD quality version which has been split into 16 .rar files. I have scoured the Internet to see whether it is available on DVD with English subtitles, but so far I have been unsuccessful in locating a copy. In my opinion, The Green Beautiful is quite possibly one of the nicest films ever made. A simply delightful, witty and endearing film that leaves you feeling uplifted, inspired and highly motivated. Written and directed by Coline Serreau released in 1996. The message the film portrays about how detached we have become from nature and our roots is brilliant in its simplicity and power. Even though the film was made in 1996, this is still by far one of my most favourite inspirational videos to date. Banned You may be surprised to learn that it was unofficially prohibited throughout the EU by media holders. Since 1995 it hasn't been shown on TV except a couple of times very late at night and never on mainstream channels. |
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so here I am
standing alone in the open. i'm here with a message hoping to repair what's broken. nature is struggling humanity's not on track. we've got our heads in the sand and our pride intact. we seek fulfillment through wealth but do we achieve it? we want prosperity through consumerism but is it worth it? have we actually found freedom? or have we lost it? because all we do is follow a system and never really challenge it. can you relate to that? or is the world too blind to see? i'd always seek the truth but care what my peers thought of me. i saw a different perspective and struggled by the hour. see i knew ignorance was bliss but knowledge could give me power. so now i call for humanity not just for one nation. i'm opposing separation and standing up to segregation whether religious or atheist, in essence we're the same stereotypes are man-made, and it was man who created the game but are we actually ready to accept this and wake up? can we put our naivety on the line, or are we always going to collide? are we ready to make a difference? do we venture into the unknown? or do we stay in our comfort zones and keep on taking the easy ride? because at sea it ships that are safest at shore but no, that's not what ships were made for. so ask yourself this: why are you really here? you may find that deep but my question really is sincere. for my generation are we mislead as a youth? do we rub off our true purpose due to false misleading truth? are we prone to propaganda? are we prone to wrong information? are we taught to judge each other based on religion sex, race, culture, class, nation the list goes on. the moral of this poem may be hard to grasp. I know it's not something usually heard and it's not your average task. but the point is to stop damaging what we cannot re-create we shouldn't prioritize selfish desires, and let them decide our fate however let me tell you, in no way am i perfect and in no way am i better than you I mean yea i wrote this message myself, but it applies to myself too so it's time to start improving and it's time to start speaking because resources are lowering and poverty is increasing we allow cities to get larger, buildings to get taller but trees to get shorter and forests to get smaller we're an ingenious species, we could easily change everything but we're made to think different due to decades of conditioning we conform to education to confirm our own security yet it's a biased institution that makes wisdom hold obscurity is it actually correct? and does it actually judge intelligence? or is it just listening to our elders, and improving our obedience? are possessions an illusion of worth? are we tricked in our thinking? are we trying to buy wholeness and are we trying to buy meaning? do they always give joy? do they distract us from reality? do they determine our identity and do they alter our morality? I mean what are our goals? this really isn't a joke can happiness be superficial and our routine a hoax? do we live for the wrong things? whilst the right things choke? is mainstream tv legit or can it dictate our attractions? does it actually bring us together or does it separate us into factions? we categorize each other via a social hierarchy but status is made by humans, so who really are we? is ego destroying eco? are the real problems disguised? do we really know the truth or does our society feed us lies? are we actually filling our voids? and does money hold any true weight? could we drop our precious comforts to renew our planet's state? it really is time to stop living our lives in a shell because doing nothing for others, is the undoing of ourselves we're all from the same source, so let's see it for what it's worth we only have one home and that home is planet earth So are our laws actually just? or can power avoid the prison? are our governments really innocent or are they flawed in their decisions? do they actually care for all life? or only for their own health? do their motives come from morals? or do they just want power and wealth? they try to justify a war on terror but it's lasted for over a decade it's caused a million deaths so don't you think they've overstayed? is patriotism necessary? can't we see it's prejudicial? have we forgotten our common grounds and have we forgotten what's artificial? I mean am I truthfully British? am i really european? am i actually a western person? or am i just a human being? see the media highlight the smallest of tragedies in first world countries but fail to cover that over 90 million worldwide have died from hunger in 12 years so where do our priorities lie? Britain, China, Russia, America, France. Syria, Iran Israel, Jordan, Iraq. whether western or middle east everyone deserves peace. no more national wars no more bodies deceased. let's come together as one and keep humanity in one piece. so are we going to be responsible? are we going to take a stand? are we going change our ways and play our cards on the other hand? I'm not saying I have all the answers and I'm not forcing any suggestions i'm just saying it's about time we see differently and it's about time we ask some questions so what will you do? how much will you allow? this is my call for humanity, to create a change and the time to start, is now |
By Mitchell Parsons
http://resourcemagonline.com/2014/02/jamie-dunmore-my-call-for-humanity/ Amongst all the pictures of food and nonsense on Facebook sometimes a gem will pop up and remind me why I keep using my account. Thanks to my Facebook friend, Hanna who posted Jamie Dunmore’s video saying, “Stop scrolling and watch this” … I stopped scrolling and watched it… (thanks Hanna). I immediately contacted Jamie asking to interview him… Self-described as “an aspiring Public Figure/Speaker/Activist that’s trying to expand human consciousness.”, Jamie Dunmore’s spoken word video, “My Call For Humanity” impressed and moved me. It gave me much to think about. Things I wish more people would think about. |