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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 (…)

Will Write For Food By David Glenn Cox
To whom it may concern,
I am looking for gainful employment. I have worked during my life doing painting and wallpapering. Not just throwing paint or slapping paper on walls but real quality work. I have done carpentry, building walls, decks, finishing basements. I have hung acoustical ceilings and doors, installed sinks. I’ve installed appliances and worked both hanging and finishing sheet rock. (…)

A key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays the blame for this state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.
Through numerous examples, (…)

A documentary exploring how the mass media shape public opinion on the ’War on Terror’ and economic Globalisation. Offers a wide range of viewpoints from broadcasters, journalists, alternative media activists, and news editors. We investigate the bias of Television news during the protest blockades of the IMF and the G8 summits.
Includes a shocking report on state suppression of alternative media in Europe. Discover how new technology, such as the internet and camcorders, is challenging (…)

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 (…)

Global Research, December 13, 2007 Dissent Magazine, Australia, Summer 2007/2008
By Carole SMITH
"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated."
"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the (…)

JKF Assassination
911 Operation
Which brings us to the present, and the following post on George Washington’s Blog: Former President of Italy: 9/11 was an Inside Job - “On November 30th, the former President of Italy, Francesco Cossiga, wrote in Italy’s largest newspaper:
"[Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the Qaeda September [attack] to the two towers in New York [claiming to be] the author of the attack of the 11, while all the [intelligence services] of America and Europe ... (…)

About 60 years have passed since our Palestinian catastrophe (Nakba). Palestinian people have passed through and tasted several sufferings and calamities, and the Gaza Strip, which includes about 1.5 million people, 75% of them refugees, got a big share of this suffering.
By the start of the 2nd Intifada in 2000, Israeli Occupation violated all the taboos international conventions and has tortured Palestinians severely.
In the meantime, the harsh siege imposed on the Gaza Strip has been (…)

At the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference June 22-24, 07, P.D.Scott (UC Berkeley, emeritus), said neo-con isolation and desperation may paradoxically increase the possibility of a domestic false flag terror attack on the U.S., to be staged in order to provide a last-ditch pretext to attack Iran. Prof. Scott cites Bilderberger Brzezinski’s Feb. 07 "deepening quagmire" warning to Congress of "...a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a ’defensive’ US military action against Iran (…)

Questions Linger After Hayden Testimony
Hayden Faces Questions on CIA Tapes Destruction As Ex-Agent Says Waterboarding OK’d at the Top
By PAMELA HESS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON
CIA Director Michael Hayden, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors Tuesday, failed to answer central questions about the destruction of secret videotapes showing harsh interrogation of terror suspects, the panel’s chairman said.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., called (…)