The Choice is Ours (2016) by The Venus Project

Produced/Directed by Roxanne Meadows and Joel Holt
Script by Roxanne Meadows
Editor Joel Holt, assisted by Roxanne Meadows & Nathaniel Dinwiddie
Original Score by Kat Apple

This film series explores many aspects of our society. To rethink what is possible in our world, we need to consider what kind of world we want to live in. Although we refer to it as civilization, it is anything but civilized. Visions of global unity & fellowship have long inspired humanity, yet the social arrangements up to the present have largely failed to produce a peaceful and productive world. While we appear to be technically advanced, our values and behaviors are not. The possibility of an optimistic future is in stark contrast to our current social, economic, and environmental dilemmas. The Choice Is Ours includes interviews with notable scientists, media professionals, authors, and other thinkers exploring the difficulties we face.

Part I provides an introduction and overview of cultural & environmental conditions that are untenable for a sustainable world civilization. It explores the determinants of behavior to dispel the myth of “human nature”, while demonstrating how environment shapes behavior. The science of behavior is an important - yet largely missing - ingredient in our culture.

Part II questions the values, behaviors, and consequences of our social structures, and illustrates how our global monetary system is obsolete and increasingly insufficient to meet the needs of most people. Critical consideration of the banking, media, and criminal justice systems reveals these institutions for what they really are: tools of social control managed by the established political and economic elite. If we stay the present course, the familiar cycles of crime, economic booms & busts, war, and further environmental destruction are inevitable.

Part III explains the methods and potential of science. It proposes solutions that we can apply at present to eliminate the use of non-renewable sources of energy. It depicts the vision of The Venus Project to build an entirely new world from the ground up: a “redesign of the culture”, where all enjoy a high standard of living, free of servitude and debt, while also protecting the environment.

Part IV explains how it is not just architecture and a social structure that is in desperate need of change, but our values which have been handed down from centuries ago. They too need to be updated to our technological age, which has the potential to eliminate our scarcity-driven societies of today. Our problems are mostly of our own making, but we can still turn things around before the point of no return. It’s not too late for an optimistic outlook on the fantastic possibilities that lie before us.

Jacque Fresco-Futurist, Industrial Designer, Social Engineer, Founder of The Venus Project

Jeffery A. Hoffman Ph.D - Prof. Aeronautics & Astronautics MIT, Former NASA Astronaut

Henry Schlinger, Ph.D., BCBA-D - Prof. Psychology CAL State University

Abby Martin - Journalist & Host "The Empire Files"

Karen Hudes - Economist, Lawyer, World Bank Whistleblower

Erin Ade - Reporter & Host "Boom Bust" – RT

Paul Wright - Founder & Director of Human Rights Defense Center, Editor of Prison Legal News, Author

Dylan Ratigan - Author & TV Host "The Dylan Ratigan Show"

Mark Jacobson, Ph.d - Prof. Civil & Env. Engineering, Stanford University. www.thesolutionsproject.org

Erik Brynjolfsson, Ph.D - Prof. of Management-MIT Sloan School of Management, Dir. MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, Author

Lawrence M. Krauss, Ph.D - Foundation Prof. School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of Origins Project, Arizona State University. Author "A Universe from Nothing".

Paul Hewitt - Author "Conceptual Physics"

Roxanne Meadows - Co-Founder The Venus Project

*special thanks also to Alexander "Obraz" ...Obraz.io who created the many 2d motion depictions (plus the sound fx!) of concepts such as the "hamburgers and fried chicken" segment and many others which are Alexander's inimitable work style and atteniton to details where we needed very specific illustrations of key points.

The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable. Anything less will result in a continuation of the same catalog of problems inherent in today's world.
Learn more at www.thevenusproject.com

Human farming

The Story of Your Enslavement


Hier nochmals aus rein finanzieller Perspektive: http://meandthesociety.blogspot.com/2011/05/wie-funktioniert-geld.html

1.4 million sex slaves in the world today

aus Aljazeera: english.aljazeera.net/programmes/slaverya21stcenturyevil/2011/10/20111010134454998749.html



There are an estimated 1.4 million sex slaves in the world today; most of them are women, although there are some men and many thousands of children.

"They didn't listen. They kept bringing me clients and telling me that I had a huge debt towards them. For the fact they paid for my visa, passport and tickets." Dorina, a former sex slave from Moldova

These women do not voluntarily enter prostitution, but have been forced under the threat of violence to have sex with men who pay their 'owners'.
Sex slavery is present in every country of the world.
In some cases, categorised as 'domestic', women are sold into brothels within their own country. But international sex trafficking of women and children is on the rise.
In this episode, Al Jazeera's Rageh Omaar investigates the enslavement and trafficking of women from Moldova, the poorest country in Europe, to wealthier European countries, in particular to the red light district of Amsterdam, one of Europe's most profitable sex markets and a major international tourist attraction.

Zeitgeist Addendum

Bei all diesen Geldkritiken möchte ich gern auf diesen sehr fundamentalen Vortrag verweisen:
http://meandthesociety.blogspot.com/2011/02/grundkurs-marktwirtschaft.html

Das Problem ist nicht das Geld, sondern die ihm zugrunde liegende Vorstellung eines abstrakten Werts. Das Geld entsteht aus der Logik der Wertverwertung aka Marktwirtschaft, genau so deren Geldschöpfung durch Privatbanken und der Kredit. Die Marktwirtschaft könnte ohne eine solche Geldschöpfung und den Kredit gar nicht exisiteren: Hörst du hier

Zeitgeist: Addendum ist ein von Peter Joseph 2008 produzierter Film, der mit den Mitteln eines Dokumentarfilms Betrachtungen des 2007 erschienenen Films Zeitgeist, Der Film desselben Regisseurs vertieft und ergänzt.[1] Der Film behandelt das amerikanische Federal Reserve System, die CIA, Regierungsformen, Religionen und die Unternehmens- und Wirtschaftssituation der Welt an Beispielen der USA. Er schlussfolgert eine diesen Institutionen innewohnende Korruption, die der Menschheit insgesamt nur schädlich sein kann und abgelöst werden sollte. Der Film beschreibt das „Venus Project“ als nicht perfekte, aber heutzutage mögliche Lösung.

Dem Regisseur Peter Joseph zufolge versucht der Film die Ursachen der überall vorhandenen, gesellschaftlichen Korruption aufzudecken und gleichzeitig eine Lösung anzubieten. In dieser Schlussfolgerung betont der Film, dass jegliche Glaubenssysteme immer ein Bedürfnis von Abhängigkeit erzeugten. Es werden konkrete Möglichkeiten dargestellt, wie das derzeitige Geldsystem geschwächt werden kann. Der Film schlägt verschiedene Ansätze vor, die zu einer „sozialen Transformation“ führen sollen; unter anderem Boykott der großen Banken, die das Federal Reserve System ausmachen, Ausblenden der Mainstream-Massenmedien, Boykott des Militärs und Ausstieg aus der Energieabhängigkeit den großen Energiekonzernen gegenüber.

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Schmutzige Schokolade

Diese Dokumentation zeigt, dass die Schokoladen-Industrie Kinderhandel und Kinderarbeit zumindest duldet. Denn sonst müssten die Hersteller mehr unternehmen, und wirklich nur von Herstellern kaufen, bei denen garantiert keine Kinder arbeiten.
Ferrero, Guylian, Hofbauer, Lindt, Mars, Milka, Nestlé, Storck oder Suchard schneiden weiterhin bei Ökologie, Soziales und Tierschutz nur mit „Kritisch" oder „Ungenügend" ab.

http://www.thedarksideofchocolate.org/



Alternative Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=62B54258E85B0C2E

Working Man's Death

Workingman’s Death ist ein Dokumentarfilm von Michael Glawogger aus dem Jahr 2005. Er zeigt fünf Beispiele körperlicher Schwerstarbeit unter extremen Bedingungen an verschiedenen Orten der Erde.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workingman%E2%80%99s_Death

Working Man's Death - Ghosts


Working Man's Death - Lions


Working Man's Death - Brothers


Working Man's Death - Heroes


Working Man's Death - Zukunft und Epilog


hier noch eine Alternative Playlist auf deutsch mit Kommentaren: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D21CAE2350755B2

Wie viele Sklaven arbeiten für mich?

->>  http://www.slaveryfootprint.org/ 

Bei mir sinds 19...

Gem Slaves: Tanzanite's child labour

Gem Slaves: Tanzanite's child labour
Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place on earth where the precious stone tanzanite is mined. Every day thousands of children risk their lives in poorly constructed mine shafts for barely a meal a day. Despite efforts to curb this deadly practice, the global thirst for tanzanite continues to drive these children underground.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3195712197319927044

other short dok: http://www.irinnews.org/Film/?id=4119