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  • Edemic Social Economic Illness - Buy worthless Junk @ 20% Interest
    14 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stop buying their corporate worthless junk and purchase education, critical thinking, and collective independent media so you can create real change. Ok fine.

  • The Overspent American: Why we want what we don’t need (a new documentary)
    15 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In this powerful new video, Juliet Schor scrutinizes what she calls "the new consumerism"—a national phenomenon of upscale spending that is shaped and reinforced by a commercially-driven media system. She argues that "keeping up with the Joneses" is no longer enough for middle and upper-middle class Americans, many of whom become burdened with debilitating debt as they seek to emulate materialistic TV lifestyles.
    Drawing on her academic research, Schor explains the cultural forces that (…)

  • MARKETERS ARE TARGETING KIDS AT DISTURBING YOUNG AGES
    14 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Alternet
    Marketers are targeting kids at disturbingly young ages, compromising the nation’s health, creativity and democracy
    By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. Posted December 13, 2007.
    Santa’s shopping is in full swing. Peak season for what I consider child abuse, family abuse and democracy abuse — marketing to children. I’m of the baby boomer generation. When I was a kid, there was Tony the Tiger hawking Frosted Flakes and little elves selling me cookies, but marketing to children was (…)

  • Western consumption may cause famines
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Western consumption may cause famines By Anita Purcell-Sjoelund in Sweden
    July 01, 2007 11:06pm
    FOOD production in developing countries will halve in the next 20 years unless wealthy nations lower their rate of consumption, a research group has warned.
    The livelihoods of more than three billion people in the world are being undermined by the wealth of the privileged few, said the director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, Johan Rockstroem.
    "The risk is that we might halve... (…)

  • Bigger is not always better
    4 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mary MacElveen
    Have you ever heard of the term, bigger is better? It can apply to many things we often take for granted. Should a large store open up within our community, we as human beings are curious and we will visit these larger stores at the expense of the smaller one we have always shopped at. This is the case as the smaller Waldbaums in Miller Place. It has now closed its doors. It could no longer compete with the Stop N Shop that was built in close proximity to it.
    Being (…)

  • Essential Treasures & Random Acts of Generosity
    9 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Friends, Family & Elfin Associates: Ministry of Mutation is proud to present our essential Wish List for the 2006-2007 Holiday Season. These treasures are collectible artifacts which should be shared with everyone (including yourself!) so surf on over to Amazon for a spree today! Aloha from Mauna Kea Mothership! He Changed Our World - Steve Irwin Memorial Tribute DVD Steve Irwin Average Customer Review: (7) The Best Gift for Kids! Every Young WildLife (…)

  • I Pledge Allegiance to the Corporations... Fascism the American Way
    17 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Miller
    Relentless indoctrination by a vast corporate media complex has convinced many that the United States of America is an exceptional nation. Charged with the sacred duty of preserving Pax Americana, the United States is purported to be the embodiment of the ideals of truth, justice and liberty for all.
    Before making firm intellectual commitment to such pleasant fictions, consider these questions:
    Why is it that virtually every liberal or progressive proposal for (…)

  • Blackspot shoes - with a hand drawn sweet spot for kicking corporate ass
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blackspot shoes - with a hand drawn sweet spot for kicking corporate ass
    http://adbusters.org/metas/corpo/blackspotshoes/aboutblackspot.php

  • Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott’
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, April 20, 2006 by the Financial Times Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott’ by Adam Thomson Millions of people throughout Mexico are threatening to turn their backs on US products and businesses on May 1 as part of a protest that is being dubbed “the great American boycott”.
    Teachers, telephone operators, housewives and farmers are just a handful of the groups that have decided on the boycott as a way to support Latin Americans living in the US who (…)

  • How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society (video)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Century of the Self
    How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.
    This a must watch video
    The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
    go to :
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/