I’ve been a member of the movement for several years and have thought while listening to many of your show’s episodes how the topics on it apply directly to what the Zeitgeist Movement tries to address with the idea of a Resource Based Economy.

The idea is a culmination of many scientific and technological realities realized over many decades by many people. It was actually developed by industrial designer and futurist Jacque Fresco of The Venus Project which is his life’s work. The social design inspired filmmaker and social critic Peter Joseph to make the Zeitgeist Films and spawn the Zeitgeist Movement which now exists in dozens of countries across the globe.

I think since your show is all about the future, technology, science, transhumanism and social change it is a perfect forum to discuss the idea of a Resource Based Economy. I think the idea is the best path known right now to achieve a socially sustainable global economic model that provides abundance and equality to all people while allowing for a technologically advanced society that we would all benefit greatly from.

If you think this would make a good topic on your show, I may be able to arrange for Jacque Fresco or Peter Joseph to come on your show or I would be willing to at least come on and clarify what the Resource Based Economic model is. Please let me know if you and/or your producer is interested.

To find out more, go to:
http://www.thevenusproject.com
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
or search online for Resource Based Economy/Jacque Fresco.

Thanks for the great show and keep up the excellent work! A future optimist,

Clifton

We would like to be a part of this

HEL can cut through steel 20′/sec. Several physicists have written me it is impossible to cut basalt with Laser. At 150 KW perhaps it can be cut or vaporize. Now that sequestration will cut funds, perhaps one of the the companies, or the army forces can get a great deal of money with the pacific use of HEL. How can you ask them to test this idea at White Sands?

Thank you

My g-g-grandfather, Alexander Bass, represents the full embodiment of the American Dream, which wasn’t coined until 1931. Son of two to Robert and Anna Bass, immigrants from England, and active Moravians, settled in New Jersey and had two sons, Alexander and Albert. Alexander was a sugar technician to sugar estates in Cuba, and Albert was a worker. Alexander’s type of work was viewed as a way to end slavery, the average output of an average slave powered estate being 150 tons per season compared to 500 tons for a machine driven estate. As a result, his average salary in 1860, adjusted for inflation, consumer buying power, and wage earning power, in today’s dollars amounts to 5.2 million per year in dollars. After 1860, the average salary ranged from 8.34 – 17.4 million dollars per year.

Thus it is easy to see how Pioneer Ironworks was funded. An office building, for example, cost around 10 million dollars, or 4000 dollars. And of course, it made good business sense, if one could earn a salary like that, then why not be the technician for all the estates? And no better way existed back then than building and installing all the machines. They even built the locomotives. His son, William, managed the Ironworks, Humacao Sugar Company in New York and Puerto Rico, had two personal estates in the Dominican Republic, the Consuelo ingenio and Magdalena, for which the municipality of Consuelo got its name, ran and owned la Romana ingenio in the DR, and wrote nearly twenty books, ranging from politics, economics, sugar, and astronomy. He founded the first sugar labor union in 1920, and later lobbied for the sugar industry. His father, Alexander, founded the first Sugar Guild in Cuba, founded la Duquesa ingenio north of Santo Domingo with Frederick von Krosigh, and La Fe ingenio in Santo Domingo with Joseph Eleuterio Hatton, among others.

I use the Urban Rebounder, have done so for about 3 years, but no doubt there are cheaper but same quality rebounders out there.