They propose a very closed market, where one world government (with some über computers) decide what is made and everything else the economy is supposed to do.

If they take away that freedom, what other freedoms that have nasty consequences could they obliterate? Free speech, for one.

Hi thunderios! Thanks for you opinion!

 

Some opinions consider the conspiracy theories aren't true at all, and are configured to wash brains and for catch up geek's attention, haha. However, there are some episodes very similar to 9/11 conspiracy theory in the world history. For instance, the emperor Nero burned the Coliseum and blamed the christians in order to start pursuing and killing them. I think this could be possible from the perspective of a group of power behind a government trying to take control of the economics and profits in a specific world market. But as there are no evidence to support this idea, you'll agree it's a conspiracy theory.

I've not seen 1 piece of compelling evidence that supports any 9/11 conspiracy theory, that didn't have a better alternate hypothesis.

 

I agree and I can't stress it enough. Question everything, no matter who says it. 

Yes, and a closed or well organized market is a good idea, because contemporary markets do not work at all. Billions of people have lack of food, because they don't have money for it, because they don't have opportunities to make it, because rich people make still more money and poor people still less. I think the Zeitgeist's system is better. It won't cause catastrophes like when paranoia of a few global wheat traders caused 33% rise of prices of everything in countries like Mozambique, which resulted in riots and police shooting real ammo into crowds, because they ran out of rubber bullets. 

Nope, resource-based economy introduced in Zeitgeist is an act of justice and love for mankind as a whole. It does not take anyone's freedom away, it rather restores the freedom of the have-nots for their fair share of global resources. Our freedom ends where someone else's freedom begins and restoring that equilibrium is nothing to be afraid of. 

Free speech for example has nothing to do with resources, nor with resource-based economy. Resource-based economy would not even restrict printing material, as long as it's produced on hemp paper, which is many times easier to produce in great amounts, compared to wood paper. 

My opinion is, that Zeitgeist solves technical problems by technical means, for example, intelligent distribution and processing of resources. As for our life style and leisure activities in such a brave new world, that is a different question altogether. Answer for it should be sought elsewhere and I just might know where.

Thunderios wrote:

I don't think it's happening right now. But Zeitgeits tells us that the whole economy should be revised. I don't think, though, that their revision of economy is a good one, since it will put the power over the entire earth in the hands of a small group of people, that are going to plan the whole economy. If are going to control our resources, they control everything we do. It does sound like a conspiracy theory, but if you give the entire economy to a few people, they will be corrupted.

The power over entire Earth already is in hands of a (relatively) small group of people. And it is no conspiracy, it is THE economic system we have today. It is the same system we had 200 years ago, it just reached it's limits, beyond which it stops working or making any sense at all. Making money out of nothing and using them to buy out limited resources globally is a telltale sign.

How else could one man suddenly get in control of global supplies of cacao? And I already mentioned the wheat incident. (which started with Putin's embargo on wheat due to wildfires) Really, it can't get any worse, some people are just hesitant because they're on the lucky continents. Once you realize that Earth is basically a big spaceship with limited supplies, and not a magic self-replenishing box of hamburgers and iPods, it will suddenly start making sense. Don't worry about free speech, flapping our jaws costs nothing, there's no need to restrict it.

By the way, I always wonder how many skeptical thinkers get Christians on trial any time they can, yet they accept blind expansion of capitalism and speculative economy without question. They may not believe in Yahweh, Jesus or Holy spirit, but it looks to me like they believe in the magic box of endless hamburgers and iPods, or that third world nations should put up with their poverty and not fly airplanes into our rich global trade buildings. It's hard to tell which belief is more irrational.

You should read dr. Raj Patel's book 

Stuffed and Starved  

Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System

And of course

The Value of Nothing

How to reshape market society and redefine democracy

 

 

I'm hesitant to take this advise. How can we know this is trustworthy?

Luminon, thanks for the post. I can't oppose to most of it. I think I'm going to read those books (after I finished my exams, that is).
The entire problem lies with emotions, I think. If humans didn't have their animal instincts to drive them to be greedy and stuff, we wouldn't have this. I think we should build perfectly rational robots, and have them take over, so we don't waste a lot of stuff, and at least our legacy will continue to exist.

 

 

 That's the spirit!

 

Yeah, instincts helped us to evolve. But as Luminon, I think the misdivision of the wealth caused the greed, the richness and poverty. Or at least make it harder between men and women. The adaptability will lead to help each other, as far as I know, because we aren't thinking to take off all the properties of the rest of the people but to have a chance for living with the most necessary things. The best thing would be prices never changed or, prices never existed.

Hi there!

Yeah, you aren't making a misjudgement. I had to use it in two different ways due the lack of evidence a conspiracy theory could have. I've already read the two links you posted and personally all the facts stated in those articles could be true if we consider most of the time the international policies of the U.S. have worked as empire's policies. You probable cannot think in an empire government nowadays due to the advances in the universal history. But for that reason this politic system needs always a plot, a smoke curtain in order to invade another country without the punishment of a commonwealth or international organisms as OAS or ONU.

Beside of the explanations about the objectives of Northwoods, another main goal was to stop the expansion of the communism. U.S. government always considered the "dominoes effect" that would convert all Central American nations in Cuba's allies. As they thought this in advance, they started to attack Cuba with a plot that wasn't completed at the end. However, during the 80's President Reagan and Carter fought the communism in the civil wars of Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador. In this period, they did it without reservations to the world because war was explicit. You can check it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_theory

This seems to be logical for me. But as we cannot demonstrate with very consistent evidence that there always are plots under a smoke curtain, the best attitude is being skeptic. We can consider the Cuba intervention wasn't real at all, and it has appeared nowadays for distracting our attention from something else. But there are no proofs.