Archives Bellaciao EN 1999-2016

Edemic Social Economic Illness - Buy worthless Junk @ 20% Interest

2008-03-14T19:44:52Z

Stop buying their corporate worthless junk and purchase education, critical thinking, and collective independent media so you can create real change. Ok fine.

- contributions / Conso-Adv

The Overspent American: Why we want what we don't need (a new documentary)

2007-12-15T06:28:45Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Conso-Adv, Cinema-Video

MARKETERS ARE TARGETING KIDS AT DISTURBING YOUNG AGES

2007-12-14T09:29:00Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Conso-Adv

Western consumption may cause famines

2007-07-06T21:09:07Z

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... (…)

- contributions / Conso-Adv, Food, Environment

Bigger is not always better

2007-02-04T10:13:49Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Conso-Adv, Mary MacElveen

Essential Treasures & Random Acts of Generosity

2006-12-09T00:50:16Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Conso-Adv

I Pledge Allegiance to the Corporations... Fascism the American Way

2006-10-17T20:29:57Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Conso-Adv, Democracy, USA, Jason Miller

Blackspot shoes - with a hand drawn sweet spot for kicking corporate ass

2006-09-11T07:02:24Z

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

- contributions / Conso-Adv

Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott'

2006-04-20T19:44:32Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Conso-Adv, Demos-Actions, The "without" - Migrants, USA, South/Latin America

How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society (video)

2006-04-07T21:09:25Z

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/

- contributions / Conso-Adv, USA, UK