Ezra Ho's Blog (16)

From Global Research:



The US, the self-proclaimed protector of human rights, has failed to vote in favor of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of

Indigenous Peoples.



Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) at the UN, Kenneth Deer, the representative of US and Canada

Mohawk Indians, said that Washington had refrained from recognizing the

UN declaration on… Continue

From Natural News:



Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (CIT) have developed a new solar cell technology that they say absorbs up to 96

percent of "incident" light. Experimental tests revealed that the new

cells operate at around a 90 percent quantum efficiency rate. Because

they are made of plastic, they could significantly reduce the overall

cost of photovoltaic cells as… Continue

When people try to address the issue of gender equality, it is usually discussed from the perspective of giving women so-called "equal opportunity" to participate in the social, political and economic life of a country. However, this view is flawed in that it does not recognise the fundamental reason why we have such a gender equality, how it could be responsible for promoting and reinforcing intransigent social problems like poverty and crime, and how we can achieve a better… Continue

As the article pointed out, the only obstacle to total energy independence is the political and economic barriers that exist because of the money system. Without a money system, the world would be much closer to eradicating imagined boundaries between countries that separates common Humanity.





From The Independent:

Europe could meet all its…

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Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent





How the hell can something as intrinsic to our survival be patented? Would we have to pay corporations to reproduce because we would be 'pirating' genes which they have patents on?



From: The New York Times:



"A federal judge on Monday struck down patents on two genes linked to breast and… Continue

The food of the future will not be another way for corporations to make a profit while they get millions of young people addicted to low-cost and highly toxic junk food. Food will promote life in its highest form. That would only be possible in a Resource-based Economy (RBE) envisioned by The Venus Project which I describe here,… Continue

I would describe Singapore as a "Corporate-Nation". Our culture is geared for results, meaning economic growth, and that is certainly evident in our rote-based education system. We are groomed to be efficient workers, where economic status through materialistic attributes takes precedent over any other value. And any deviation from the mainstream is very neatly swept under the carpet. Our only news agency, in fact all mainstream communication, has links with the ruling party, enabling a… Continue

Few people would consider the impact of money on our behaviour. Because it is so ingrained in almost every culture, unless you are talking about cultures not influenced by modern society, it has taken on almost religious proportions to most in that most people never question the existence of a monetary system and they think it has always existed and will exist indefinitely.



Since the objective of this mission is to come up with a new system of exchange, and while I have always… Continue

People need to realise that our system just is not designed to promote the human or environmental well-being. A problem only gets solved as long as it beings in profits and this is going to lead our planet and our society down the road to destruction.





From The Washington Times:



Some of the greenest technologies of the age,… Continue

In an age of technologically-created abundance, clinging to a system of monetary exchange and acquisition just serves to retard human progress. While a monetary system served society for thousands of years, facilitating the exchange of scarce goods and services, in this age, we have virtually no use for such a system in the face of increasing automation in all aspects of life. The future of money is a non-future.



Societies of the past needed… Continue

The year is 2020. On this day, the world is celebrating the anniversary of the day when political nationalism was dissolved in order for Humanity to take the next step in our evolution. With nations abolished, a global Resource-based Economy (RBE) was put into place, enabling everyone equal access to Earth's resources.



Across the world, people gathered in large auditoriums for the annual World Energy Symposium (WES). Unlike the exhibitions of the past, anyone is able to participate in… Continue

In a land-scarce country like Singapore, 80%-90% of the population are housed in high-rise apartment blocks called HDBs, after the government agency that manages them. Instead of thinking how to power individual consumer goods in our lives, In order to promote energy independence, I would like to propose making each HDB block a micro-generation source. Even as almost 100% of Singapore's power comes from fossil fuel, there is no concrete long-range plan to accomplish the transition to renewable… Continue

At present, about 80% of the world's energy consumption comes from fossil fuels, with only about 6-7% coming from renewable energy systems like biomass, wind, solar, wave etc. Given the current concerns about climate change and depleting fossil fuel supplies, we have a conflicting situation where developing countries are compelled by financial constrains to continue extracting fossil fuels while developed countries

attempt to shirk the financial burden of developing alternative energy… Continue

In 2020, I envision myself living in a self-sustained, technologically advanced city in a global resource-based economy (RBE). Politics and the notion of nationalism of the present have been long abolished, eradicating the present-day problems of corruption, crime, poverty and war. In its place, a global RBE, where decisions are arrived at through the integration of the world's knowledge databases, enables Humanity to use its amazing capabilities to solely advance the human and environmental… Continue

Jacque Fresco is my hero when it comes to social innovation.



An industrial designer and social engineer, Jacque Fresco has been promoting a general systems methodology in approaching and solving social problems. He recognises that unless everyone on Earth has access to the world's resources, there will continue to be inequality and poverty, which contributes to the increased likelihood of crime and war breaking out.



For the last thirty years, Fresco has headed an organisation… Continue

The action that related to me was "think like a child – children have no limit to their thinking". Let us not religiously cling to the belief that the problem can be solved while working within the system. We have to jump into a new paradigm in order to effectively solve the social problems of poverty, corruption, crime and war. To paraphrase Einstein, we cannot expect to solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it in the first place.



When we examine the world's… Continue