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That being said,

Judy Wood is compromised.

Check this out:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sottnet/2013/05/05/no-ordinary-inside-job-the-911-psy-ops

Hard to listen to, but also telling.

I'd guess that Wood was descended upon and driven around the bend after coming forth with a few good insights. At this point, she's completely lost the thread and is currently playing the part of a managed tar ball. No mastery over herself. A sad, but all too common story. People catch hold of the truth, get a bit of public exposure and they either die in car wrecks, or if they're mentally unstable and don't have a strong support network, they get mind-raped and redirected for cointelpro purposes. Wood sounds like she's about two inches from total breakdown in that interview, and a good portion of the material in her book is just plain wrong. A great way to bury those insights which do have value.

An object lesson in the MIC damage control systems at work.

Also, Santilli is one creepy dude.

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,31273.0.html

If you'd like to hear more, or encourage participation yourself, here is a source with about five thousand people getting started on it.

Forty years ago, most people would have laughed at the notion that people would be able to make 2D typeset documents at home other than by laboriously retyping them until they were perfect. Now, laser printers are given away for free with some new computers. That was something I talked about on a panel here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fastforwardradio/2009/08/12/the-end-of-scarcity-and-the-age-of-abundance-

I agree that we will not see utopia (to begin with, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so people will never agree 100%), but we can make things a lot better materially than they are now for most people. And we can create related social changes that will be positive and liberating connected to increased abundance (like moving beyond authoritarian workplaces).
http://www.whywork.org/rethinking/whywork/abolition.html
http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/buddhist_economics/english.html

There is tremendous waste in the current system. As Bob Black suggests above, a huge amount of effort goes into guarding things, not production. Even occupations like sales clerk, lawyer, accounting, and teacher are mostly about guarding. About 1% of the US workforce produces all the food (and most of that goes into meat production we don't strictly need). About 12% of the US work force is involved with making things (a little more if you include construction) and that number has been falling even without off-shoring through improved productivity. The rest is services that are mostly optional or connect back to guarding. We have long been heading for a post-scarcity society, but our political ideology in the USA is wrapped up in scarcity and guarding and fighting over who gets something while others get next-to-nothing. So, we do ironic things as a society like create military robots to enforce US economic ideals on other countries that involve forcing people to work for capitalists, rather than just build factory robots to do the work using the same technology. Or we ironically build nuclear missiles to fight over oil and land, rather than using the same technology to produce power or produce new habitats in space.

How could this work technically and socially? One example from Marshall Brain:
http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna5.htm
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"It works like this. Let's say that you own a large piece of land. Say something the size of your state of California. This land contains natural resources. There is the sand on the beaches, from which you can make glass and silicon chips. There are iron, gold and aluminum ores in the soil, which you can mine, refine and form into any shape. There are oil and coal deposits under the ground. There is carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen in the air and in the water. If you were to own California, all of these resources are 'free.' That is, since you own them, you don't have to pay anyone for them and they are there for the taking."
"If you have a source of energy and if you also own smart robots, the robots can turn these resources into anything you want for free. Robots can grow free food for you in the soil. Robots can manufacture things like steel, glass, fiberglass insulation and so on to create free buildings. Robots can weave fabric from cotton or synthetics and make free clothing. In the case of this catalog you are holding, nanoscale robots chain together glucose molecules to form laminar carbohydrates. As long as you have smart robots, along with energy and free resources, everything is free."
Linda chimed in, "This was Eric's core idea -- everything can be free in a robotic world. Then he took it one step further. He said that everything should be free. Furthermore, h

Here's an interesting interview of the inventor:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thespiritualenvoy/2009/03/12/The-Spiritual-Envoy-Eva-Ravenwood-and-Scott-Brusaw-of-Solar-Roadways

Hi Linux or FreeBSD or was it Michael More or Egil or one of your other many handles?

Paranoia is a survival trait, I am a pirate by nature and we are all paranoid by nature, and talk about it via pirate radio. The one thing we are not are jokes, that is what the Kurobots are. They are jokes if they think smoking a joint or two and getting laid will make all of their problems and troubles just magically go away.

I am results oriented, I do not smoke, I do not drink (except a bit of Rum or Rum Lite aka Diet Coke, heh), and I don't need sex either. I am a rebel, a pirate, a ninja, a space pirate ninja, but one thing I am not is a joke or loser. I do not give up and I do not die and as you may have learned I am very hard to kill. Many have tried, all have failed.

You pathetic kurobots have given up trying, you smoke dope, you have sex with anything living or dead, you abuse any drug or booze you can get your hands on, but at the end of the day you have nothing to show for it. Your problems are obvious, and that is why you are the joke! Because there are more to two sides to every story but either you fight and become a pirate like me, or give up and join them and become a socialist zombie or liberal nazi or Kurobot whatever you call yourselves.

This has gone on for almost forever and if you refuse to learn from your failures and mistakes and the failures and mistakes of others in history you will end up just like them! As for me, my pirate life gives me freedoms and liberties and a good feeling better than any drug, sex, drink, smoke, or video game.

You call it paranoid fringer joke, I call it stating the obvious and knowing what is coming before it happens. When 2017 gets here, you'll see that I wasn't so paranoid and I am not the one who was a joke.

TFA says the debate will be hosted at BlogTalkRadio. Fine, but WTF is up with the meta tags on that page? Representative samples include:

• AfroNerd
• Field Negro
• smart mobs
• commercial space flight
• pornography

No one says a blog has to stay on-topic, of course, but that's... diverse.