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Category Archives: CONSUMERISM
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Wall Street Excess Is Back
HUFFINGTON POST Wall Street bankers hiring a dwarf for an over-the-top bachelor party in Miami. Nieman Marcus selling out its 100 limited-edition $75,000 Camaros in three minutes. Socialites dropping $40,000 on a custom cellphone at a jewelry store in Chicago. … Continue reading
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Consumerism and Climate Change
These two articles in today’s NY Times point to the core contradiction of our times: U.S. Retail Sales Post Biggest Gain in 7 Months in October As Glaciers Melt, Science Seeks Data on Rising Seas We are still judging “success” … Continue reading
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Work Harder … Earn More Money … Buy More Things … Keep Going
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The Story of Stuff
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A Recipe for Fascism
By Chris Hedges TRUTHDIG American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational. On one side stands a corrupt liberal class, bereft of ideas and unable to respond coherently to the collapse of the global economy, the … Continue reading
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Crises of Capitalism
In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane.
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The Impossible Hamster
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New Ways Bankers Are Spying on You
By Karen Blumenthal WALL STREET JOURNAL Big Banker is watching you—more closely than ever. With lenders still skittish about making new loans, credit bureaus and others are hawking services that help banks probe deeply into your financial closet. The new … Continue reading
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They thought the party would last forever …
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My New Custom Giants Shirt
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The Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water
24/7 Wall St Some parts of the United States have begun to run low on water. That is probably not much of a surprise to people who live in the arid parts of America that have had water shortages for … Continue reading
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Voter Intimidation At McDonald’s: Employees Told That, Unless Republicans Win, They Won’t Get Raises Or Benefits
By Amanda Terkel HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — There may be something rotten at McDonald’s — and it’s not a year-old Happy Meal. The owner of a franchise in Canton, Ohio enclosed a handbill in employees’ paychecks that threatened lower wages … Continue reading
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Big Ideas that Change the World – Consumerism
A very nice documentary on consumerism and its discontents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ29DQvopZo (1/4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJWYWKNdq4Y (2/4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFTjqzqZ3zU (3/4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMvJ2giDmQ (4/4) Andy
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Ben Prince’s BIG RETURN
As part of Heather Sparks’ Big Return, Ben Prince contributed:
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Tropics in Decline as Natural Resources Exhausted at Alarming Rate
ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2010) New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50 per cent more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report … Continue reading
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