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The anti-economy - zeitgeist moving forward

Clip from the Official Online (Youtube) Release of "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" by Peter Joseph. Watch the full length film at: www.youtube.com On Jan. 15th, 2011, "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" was released theatrically to sold out crowds in 60 countries; 31 languages; 295 cities and 341 Venues. It has been noted as the largest non-profit independent film release in history. This is a non-commercial work and is available online for free viewing and no restrictions apply to uploading/download/posting/linking - as long as no money is exchanged. A Free DVD Torrent of the full 2 hr and 42 min film in 30 languages is also made available through the main website [below], with instructions on how one can download and burn the movie to DVD themselves. His other films are also freely available in this format. Website: www.zeitgeistmovingforward.com http
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Planned obsolescence conspiracy a lot bigger than light bulbs

In this video, I bring your attention to the excellent documentary called "The Light Bulb Conspiracy," available right here on Youtube. My advice: stop buying ALL of this crap, planned obsolescence or not.
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Built-in obsolescence

Limiting the active life of a product, a practice known as built-in obsolescence, is a key factor in the economics of a mass consumer society in which producers rely on future sales for their survival.
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Consumerism & planned obsolescence

Interviews For Understanding: Jeff meets Levi and discusses consumerism and whether or not companies deliberately design products to need frequent replacement (planned obsolescence). What would it be like to find a random stranger every day and talk to them about life and the issues of the day? I'm going to do just that. I'm Jeff 4 Justice and this is Interviews For Understanding. 2011 03-01 Jeff Interviews Levi
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Planned obsolescence the biggest deception in business part 1

Taken from the documentary Pyramids of Waste. Unfortunately the documentary was not all in English so I cut the scenes that were and the ones that were mainly about Planned Obsolescence.
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Mw3: ak 47 - planned obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence: to intentionally manufacture a flawed product designed in such a way to perpetually facilitate consumer demand. It's pretty scary stuff. Also there's Kalashnikovs and bitches galore. Please enjoy
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World's longest running light bulb (planned obsolescence)

Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence in industrial design is a policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become obsolete or nonfunctional after a certain period of time.Planned obsolescence has potential benefits for a producer because to obtain continuing use of the product the consumer is under pressure to purchase again, whether from the same manufacturer (a replacement part or a newer model), or from a competitor which might also rely on planned obsolescence.
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The light bulb conspiracy -- the untold story of planned obsolescence

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Planned obsolescence in it industry

www.techwench.com That shiny new iPhone 4 and Android phone you just buy are just garbage.
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The light bulb conspiracy

Available on DVD: www.videoproject.com The Light Bulb Conspiracy uncovers how planned obsolescence has shaped our lives and economy since the 1920's, when manufacturers deliberately started shortening the life of consumer products to increase demand. The film also profiles a new generation of consumers, designers and business people who have started challenging planned obsolescence as an unsustainable economic driver. The documentary begins by visiting the longest running light bulb in the world, which has burned continuously for over 110 years in Livermore, California. Initially, light bulbs were built to last. But the film finds historical evidence revealing how a cartel in the 1920's decided to produce bulbs limited to a maximum life of 1000 hours, making the humble light bulb one of the first examples of planned obsolescence and a model for increasing profits on other products. Shot over three years in Europe, the US and Ghana, The Light Bulb Conspiracy investigates the evolution and impact of planned obsolescence through interviews with historians, economists, designers and manufacturers, along with archival footage and internal company documents. The film profiles several well-known historical advocates -- Bernard London, who famously proposed ending the Great Depression by mandating planned obsolescence, and Brook Stevens, whose post-war ideas became the gospel of the 1950's and helped shape the throwaway consumer society of today. The Light Bulb Conspiracy also ...
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Deliberately designed to rust out fast?

This hose nozzle's exterior is visually designed to appear to have high quality luring customers into believing that the product will last a long time. The faulty component designed to fail quickly is hidden internally to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases. Exploiting customers is a risky strategy because consumers may decide to buy from competitors. This is a sure guarantee of future demise. In the United Kingdom, planned obsolescence engineered into products is considered a breach of customer rights. I think it's high time we get a little more united on this side of the pond.
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The lightbulb conspiracy [hd]

Pyramids of Waste (2010) also known as "The lightbulb conspiracy" is a documentary about the negative effects of consumerism and planned obsolescence. The light bulb conspiracy is a theory that the leading manufacturers of incandescent light bulbs have conspired to keep the lifetime of their bulbs far below their real technological capabilities. This way, they ensure the continuous demand for more bulbs and hence, long-term profit for themselves. Planned Obsolescence is the deliberate shortening of product life spans to guarantee consumer demand. As a magazine for advertisers succinctly puts it: The article that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business -- and a tragedy for the modern growth society which relies on an ever-accelerating cycle of production, consumption and throwing away. The Light Bulb Conspiracy combines investigative research and rare archive footage to trace the untold story of Planned Obsolescence, from its beginnings in the 1920s with a secret cartel, set up expressly to limit the life span of light bulbs, to present-day stories involving cutting edge electronics (such as the iPod) and the growing spirit of resistance amongst ordinary consumers. This film travels to France, Germany, Spain and the US to find witnesses of a business practice which has become the basis of the modern economy, and brings back disquieting pictures from Africa where discarded electronics are piling up in huge cemeteries for electronic waste. Disclaimer: I do not own ...
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Percieved obsolescence

A short movie starring the E/F format students of the Greener Earth cluster of Phillips Exeter Academy summer school. A comedy showing how the modern American consumer wastes because of common misconceptions.
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Built-in obsolescence

From: www.youtube.com [ PigMine is on FaceBook, please Like here: www.facebook.com ] February 20, 2011 - Limiting the active life of a product, a practice known as built-in obsolescence, is a key factor in the economics of a mass consumer society in which producers rely on future sales for their survival.FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.
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Pyaramids of waste (part 1/5)

Genre : Documentary Duration : 52 min Director : Cosima Dannoritzer Executive Producer : Joan Úbeda Language : Spanish This documentary uses the story of Planned Obsolescence (the deliberate shortening of product life spans by manufacturers to guarantee consumer demand) as a starting point to explore the argument that the world's current economic model is headed for a melting point because it faces an inbuilt contradiction: the planet's resources - energy and raw materials - are limited and thus cannot be consumed as if they were not.
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Planned obsolescence and its legal

Planned obsolescence.industrial design is a policy of deliberately planning or designing a product with a limited useful life, so it will become obsolete or nonfunctional after a certain period of time.[1] Planned obsolescence has potential benefits for a producer because to obtain continuing use of the product the consumer is under pressure to purchase again, whether from the same manufacturer (a replacement part or a newer model), or from a competitor which might also rely on planned obsolescence.[1]
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Roy casagranda on the philosophies of work and consumerism

The Twelfth Revolution lecture series presents, The Continuum of Work: The Philosophies of Plato, Marcuse, and Arendt. Hosted by Roy Casagranda, this lecture focuses on the consumer society and how planned obsolescence got us there. A ZGraphix production. Produced by Jeff Zavala. zgraphix.org
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Garrity says microsoft risks obsolescence without skype

May 10 (Bloomberg) -- David Garrity, principal at GVA Research LLC, discusses Microsoft Corp.'s agreement to buy Skype Technologies SA for $8.5 billion. Garrity speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg)
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The light bulb conspiracy (trailer)

Trailer for the documentary film THE LIGHT BULB CONSIPRACY by Cosima Dannortizer. on.fb.me
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From citizen to consumer: the war on you

Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew, used psychological theories to manipulate Americans in the 20th Century. ...The American business community was also very impressed with the [war] propaganda effort. They had a problem at that time. The country was becoming formally more democratic. A lot more people were able to vote and that sort of thing. The country was becoming wealthier and more people could participate and a lot of new immigrants were coming in, and so on. So what do you do? It's going to be harder to run things as a private club. Therefore, obviously, you have to control what people think. There had been public relation specialists but there was never a public relations industry. There was a guy hired to make Rockefeller's image look prettier and that sort of thing. But this huge public relations industry, which is a US invention and a monstrous industry, came out of the first World War. The leading figures were people in the Creel Commission. In fact, the main one, Edward Bernays, comes right out of the Creel Commission. He has a book that came out right afterwards called Propaganda. The term "propaganda," incidentally, did not have negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War that the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things. But in this period, the term propaganda just meant information or something like that. So he wrote a book called Propaganda around 1925, and it starts off by saying ...
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Pyaramids of waste (part 2/5)

Unfortunate consumer habits of america

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Pyaramids of waste (part 3/5)

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Obco services

We define ourselves through the objects we own. Using fire as a catalyst, Object Compression is a service that provides extreme synthesis of material possession, personal memory and inheritance of value beyond form and function. OBCO compresses the most valuable aspects of your objects into a single essential item, calling into question consumer culture, programmed obsolescence and the objects worth inheriting in the future. www.objectcompression.com
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Sustainability photo journal - who killed the crt tv ???

Who killed the CRT TV ? = Perceived Obsolescence Sustainability is a Movement in which we all must learn to take responsibility for human impact over the last 100 years. Now is the time when we must learn to let go of our consumer driven lifestyles, and work toward a future unconstrained by the limiting factors of today. One off the list of the many major environmental issues we face today include our current Economic principles and the "Capitalist & Consumer" driven society in we all live, and other emerging nations strive to achieve. The economic model we inherited from the post-war age; the age of civilized propaganda and the birth of "Public - Relations." Where in which, powerful governments and media learned to control the mass populous using "Psychoanalysis" to crack the code for controlling the average," dangerous and irrational human being." (Freud). Little know to the population; the theories of Sigmund Freud that have lead us into an era of marketing to our every whim and desire, thus fulfilling the transition into the age of the consumer. The use of "Psychoanalysis" lead to the development of way to market product to the mass public, through their unconscious desires. That public is our grandparents, our parents, and US TODAY. Now in the age of the "Consumer"... those masters of "Public - Relations" have developed a new tactic...when things still work fine, but they want to sell you the latest model... "Perceived Obsolescence" This makes "NEW" products; seem so ...
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Obsolescencia programada (sub español) [completo]

Documental tegnologico, de como los fabricantes crean productos con una Vida util limitada, para que se rompan antes de lo que podrian Durar. Y de como vivimos enfermos del Consumo. Emitido en 2011. www.rtve.es
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Купить, выбросить, купить / comprar, tirar, comprar

The Light Bulb Conspiracy. Эффект лампочки. Тайная история запланированного устаревания Документальный фильм. 2010 год. Режиссер Козима Данноритцер
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The right-wing turned america into a plutocracy

The "little guy" is the true consumer and wealth builder that contributes to the aggregate economy, not the elitists. There seems to be a built in obsolescence in American made products. Plus how modern day overrated, overpaid athletes have contempt for their fans who pay big bucks for tickets to support their huge salaries by charging them for autographs.Right-wing free market capitalism strikes again! Newsletter Censored Video Broadcast with James and The Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman, from the research center. In order to continue providing you with hard-hitting truth and news with our very informative videos, support this work by subscribing to Censored, from our website. www.myspace.com/megalife21, www.newslettercensored.com
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"the ouroboros"

The Ouroboros Tales ©2011 by Erik Kirton & Maya von der Nebel through Humankind's incompatibility to Nature, we've devised a new World, incompatible to us... and stand witness, as the Serpent we've created, devours it's own tail...
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Brooks stevens 1911-1995 designer selmckenzie selzer-mckenzie

Brooks Stevens 1911-1995 Designer SelMcKenzie Selzer-McKenzie Author D.Selzer-McKenzie Clifford Brooks Stevens (June 7, 1911-January 4, 1995) was an American industrial designer of home furnishings, appliances, automobiles and motorcycles — as well as a graphic designer and stylist. In 1944, along with Raymond Loewy and eight others, Stevens formed the Industrial Designers Society of America.[1] On his death in 1995, the New York Times called Stevens a "a major force in industrial design."[1] Stevens was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 7, 1911. Stricken with polio as a child, Stevens was encouraged by his father to practice drawing while confined to his bed, perhaps motivating his career in design. He studied architecture at Cornell University from 1929 to 1933, and established his own home furnishings design firm in 1934 in Milwaukee.[2] His son, Kipp Stevens, ran the Brooks Stevens Design Associates until late 2008 when he stepped down. In 1959, Brooks opened a 12500sf automotive museum in Mequon, Wisconsin, which became a repository for his own designs as well as others—and became a production facility in the late 1980s for the Wienermobile fleet. The museum closed in 1999, four years after his death.[3] Brooks Stevens died on January 4, 1995, in Milwaukee—survived by his wife Alice, sons Kipp, William and David, a daughter Sandra A. Stevens, and five grandchildren.[1] [edit] Planned obsolescence Though he is often cited[citation needed] with inventing the ...
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Alan watt cttm live on rbn: jan.12, 2009 part 5

cuttingthroughthematrix.com Alan Watt CTTM LIVE on RBN: Jan.12, 2009 Part 5 The Mass is Easy Prey for Men Like Edward Bernays: "From Standardized Consumer Directed by Stealth, Guided into 'The Century of The Self,' Items which Lasted, Now Gone, Oh Dismay, Thanks to Lehman Bros. and Edward Bernays, Advisor to Leaders, This Man with Babble, Had Secret Training in Managing Rabble, Planned Obsolescence Became the Rule, New is Better, The Object to Fool, Unconscious Desires, 'You Deserve It,' Throw Old Away, No Need to Preserve It, This Sigmund's Nephew Knew the Game, Treat People as Fools, All the Same, Fooled a Nation to War under Red Scare Pretense, Died Rich in Old Age, No Trace of Repentance"
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Why are we not using them......4 shipping

Why are we not using them......4 Shipping WAM-V Adaptable Surface Water Vessel www.wam-v.com Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel - is a new class of modularly designed ultralight flexible catamarans watercraft based on patented technology whereby the superstructure is flexibly connected to specially designed pontoons by using springs, shock absorbers and ball joint to lessen the stresses to structure, payload and crew. Those components that actually move in relation to one another to articulate the vessel and keep the propellers in the water at all times from the two engine pods, containing the propulsion and ancillary systems that are fastened to the hulls with special hinges. The payload module being attached to the frames of the superstructure can be switched with different type depending on the requirements purpose as a travelling platform in less than an hour. In other words The WAM-V™ is a transforming vessel for different uses. This design advantage of having low draft and soft hull allows operations in river deltas, shallow littoral waters and lagoons making it environmentally friendly. Another design advantages are that the two engine pods are mechanically separate from the main hulls and can be switched to other pods with a different propulsion system interchangeable as well such as from diesel to gas, from propellers to jets and from inboard to outboards. E/S Orcelle - Zero-emission Cargo Ship Technology www.2wglobal.com Not only achieves a high optimise use of ...
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An economy of waste -- the att u-verse consumerism example

What's your example of waste in the "economy?"
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Personal computer market in china 2011 - sample.mp4

The report begins with an introduction section comprising an overview of the personal computer (PC) sector including their usage in various aspects of modern life followed by brief information on various types of personal computers including the Desktop, Laptop, Notebook, Sub-notebook, Rugged PC, Netbook, Tablet PC and mobile PC devices. The market overview of the global personal computer market provides data on the rise in global PC shipments and global PC market structure, while comparing the market position of China and the US in the overall global PC market. Further, the report gives a detailed description of the domestic PC market, along with the industry/market size in terms of transaction volume and its growth. In addition, the section also mentions the PC sales for China and the US in terms of value and volume. Factors driving the growth of PC market in China covered in the report include increasing internet usage, huge consumer base, rising income, accelerating urbanization and changing lifestyle, untapped market potential, reduction in import duties, growing consumer goods retailing, growing online retailing and growing computer education are providing ample opportunities to the market. Players operating in the market also face challenges which are impeding their development and growth. Major challenges identified include rise in use of smartphones, rapid technology obsolescence, rapid price drops and low profit margins, challenges in overseas expansion and low ...
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¿qué necesitamos para ser consumidores responsables? amartya

¿Que necesitamos para ser consumidores responsables? Analizamos los pasos a seguir para ir construyendo un camino hacia la sustentabilidad. ¡MUCHAS GRACIAS JULIETA PINK! Realización: www.amartya.org.ar / www.implicate.org
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Story of stuff (2007, official version)

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. storyofstuff.org And, for all you fact checkers out there, http
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The story of stuff (2007) - teaser #2

The Story of Stuff www.storyofstuff.com will take you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of our use-it and lose-it approach to stuff. The movie is just the beginning of the story. Watch it, learn more and get involved here www.StoryofStuff.com
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Moving forward - the anti-economy

This video features a short segment of the movie Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, which you can watch here: www.youtube.com More information on the zeitgeist movies can be found here: www.zeitgeistmovie.com http
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Btv1 - ted - marcin jakubowski - global construction set [closed captioned]

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village. More information about the project can be found here : www.openfarmtech.org Look for this, as well as other fine music videos featuring new talent on BTV2... it's all about the music. - www.bahoudii.tv * with BahoudiiNET Closed Captioning *
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A search for solutions - an interview with matt berkowitz

forum.linguisticteam.org The Zeitgeist Movement: www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
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Trom: [2](b) consumption_(f)

You can see and download the whole TROM documentary from here : tromsite.com (HD) Description : TROM represents the biggest documentary ever created, but, also the only one that tries to analyse everything : from science to monetary system and real solutions to improve everyone's life. A new and real way to look about the world. " Before the Big-Bang, till present, and beyond."
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A cultural history of advertising: soap, sex & cigarettes

A video introduction to a cultural history of advertising. A college general education elective.
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Mr mondialisation - du "greenwashing" durable

!!! Notre DVD Gratuit ici : www.facebook.com Critique et limites du Développement Durable. Attention, il ne s'agit pas d'une critique de l'écologie ni des initiatives pour l'environnement. Il s'agit d'une critique du Développement Durable en tant que concept économique basé sur la croissance. Je vous laisse deviner pourquoi il ya deux fois la même citation... Envie de soutenir le mouvement ? aidez-nous via cette page : www.facebook.com Source plastiques dans l'océan : nature.ca
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Technology for planners | ceme

The following video module is part of our training series for the Certified Event Management Expert (CEME) program offered on our platform at BusinessTraining.com. BusinessTraining.com is part of the Global Training & Certification Institute (GTC Institute, LLC) that has provided practical industry-specific certification, training resources, and workshops to over 3000 clients within the United States, Europe and over 30 other countries. This video module is focused on providing specific examples of technologies needed for event planners. To learn more about the Certified Event Management Expert (CEME) program, visit our website at businesstraining.com
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The zeitgeist movement - futurists, technology and cultural lag

ZDay 2010 London: Ben McLeish gives a lecture on futurists, the current state of technology and the culture lag holding us back from developing fully and equally as a global society. Part of the Zeitgeist Movement Z-Day 2010 lectures in central London. Includes: A look at the work of , Cyclical consumption, Planned Obsolescence, The Sci-Fi Factor, Walter Benjamin and the Shock of the New via Angelus Novus, Evolutionary History from RNA to now, A Resource Based Economy, The Work of Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows. forum.linguisticteam.org The Zeitgeist Movement: www.thezeitgeistmovement.com Translations have been completed in: Français (French)
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Moving forward - project: earth

Peter joseph's "where are we now"

Peter Joseph's July 25th 2009 Zeitgeist Movement Lecture, given in London, UK. forum.linguisticteam.org The Zeigeist Movement: www.thezeitgeistmovement.com Translations have been completed in: Français (French)
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Peter joseph amp;#39;s response to stefan molyneux zeitgeist moving forward

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