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Tag Archives: Consumerism
I’m having a little issue with consumerism/marketing
As is everybody. I don’t watch TV very attentively. But it’s still there and a loving God in His infinite wisdom and mercy somehow neglected to give me earlids, so I can’t insulate myself from it and still remain in … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Culture, Headlines, Ideas, Labor Unions, Links, Local News, Monkeywrenching, News, Perspective, Philanthropy, Politics, Radio, Uncategorized, Ventures, War machine
Tagged 99%, Activism, Advertising, AIG, ALF, Army, Buy Nothing Day, Campaign, Capitalism, CIA, Consumerism, Corn, Corporate, Corporate Government, DIA, God, Government, History, Insurance, Jobs, Love, Madison, Marketing, Media, minimum wage, Neglect, revenue, Soda Pop, Sport, Wall Street, Weed, Workers, Working
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Hurricane Sandy – the real threat to US national security is ‘us’
The fool’s summary of what happened with Hurricane Sandy can be found in a scientifically infantile editorial today of the Denver Post where we, the general public, are all encouraged to be aware of the weather outside. OPINION Editorial: What … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged America, American, Business, Capital, Capitalism, climate, Climate Change, Colorado, Consumerism, Corporate, courage, Denver, Denver Post, EPA, Fury, Militarism, National Security, Nature, Sandy, Security, US militarism, weather, Winter
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Now MoJo throws Apple critic Mike Daisey under the bus in their exposé of Walmart Chinese shadow factories
Mother Jones is next to discredit Playwright Mike Daisey for his dramatization of Apple’s supply line abuses in China, right in the byline of Andy Kroll’s piece on Walmart’s shadow factory system in China, which they call their, haha, “fiction-free … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Abuse, Andy Kroll, Apple, Bear, China, Chinese, Consumerism, Energy, George, human rights abuse, Industry, Intel, Intelligence, Mike Daisey, Minnesota, Mother Jones, Sustainability, The Fed, Unitarian, Walmart, Western
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As NYPD destroys Occupy Wall Street, Americans get their own 9-11 moment, a state terrorist attack on their liberty.
UNOCCUPIED WALL STREET- NYPD goons put an end to the Zuccotti Park OWS rebel base tonight. Shall we declare it official, this night of the Occupy Wall Street Smack-down, that images of riot police are now ubiquitous as American Pie? … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged America, American, Americans, Capital, Capitalism, CIA, Consumerism, Denver, General Strike, Headlines, IRS, liberty, Nine Eleven, Nonviolence, NYC, NYPD, Occupy, Occupy Denver, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallstreet, police, Protest Police State, Resist, Riot Police, Rove, Strike, terror, terrorist, Troy, Violence, Wall Street
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Filipina teenage actress allegedly has Botox for role
That’s… taking things a bit far. OK, it’s taking things WAY too far. Teen actress Charice has “anti-aging” treatments including Botox, WHY? The encouraging of young girls as young as toddlers to wear makeup, when makeup is designed specifically to … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Abuse, Abusive, Advertising, ALF, Alfred Hitchcock, Alleged, Art, Botox, Brainwashing, Brave New World, Capitalism, CIA, Conditioning, Consumerism, Diet, Gasoline, Indoctrination, Marketing, Paralyzed, Pavlov, PLO, results, Sales, scam, scams, Tet, toxic
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What you CAN do about the gulf oil spil
We may be powerless to advise the experts or force the perps to walk the plank. And we are not to blame for the industrial orgy of consumerism foisted on our modern livestyles. But turning this around is up to … Continue reading
Posted in Sight-Bites
Tagged Biodiversity, BP, conservation, Consumerism, contamination, Disaster, diversity, Environment, Gulf, IRS, Milk, OAS, Oil Spill, pills, POW, power, shoe, Shoes, trial
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Federal HHS say government efforts haven’t decreased Juvenile Obesity
Probably because the Corporate shadow-government have spent thousands of times advertising Over Consumption, sedentary lifestyle choices (commercials which say to the kids “No, don’t turn off the TV and go outside, you’ll miss our Crap Entertainment and most importantly, you … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Advertising, AIG, America, Apple, Argument, AT and T, Bees, Campaign, Cars, CIA, Consumerism, Corporate, Corporate Government, Corporation, corporations, Driving, Earth, Earthquake, Food, Government, Haiti, Health, IFES, Indoctrination, Intel, Love, McDonalds, Nutrition, Obesity, Poverty, Rally, Rap, Republic, Republican, Safety, starvation, SUV, SUVs, The Nation, USA
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Who is that on the back of the poor?
Here’s a Christmas gift for your favorite First Worlder. Let them affix their mug behind the face of “Justitia,” the Western Goddess of Justice, carried by the laboring poor as she seeks to right inequity without relinquishing her station of … Continue reading
Posted in Sight-Bites
Tagged Art, artist, BOA, Christ, Christian, Christmas, climate, Consumerism, COP15, Copenhagen, Elitists, First World, Gates, God, Identity, Inequity, IRS, Justice, nothing, Survival of the Fattest, The West, US tour, Water, Western
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“You don’t want the hassle of saving money”
This according to a commercial for some sound system. You’re hit with the double whammy that you’re worth less (worthless?) as a human being if you don’t listen to your Televised Crap in high definition Sound. I have an Idea … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged ALF, America, ARN, CIA, Civilization, Consumerism, Fair and Balanced, Greed, Headlines, here's M, Levis, minimum wage, Money, Nature, poll, Polls, Rap, Resist, saving money, Stupid, Television, Video, youtube
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The war on Christmas they worry about
What it’s going to take to revisit 350ppm, to reverse climate change, is not carbon trading, wind turbines, miraculous scientific leaps, or a COP15 conference. The anti-technology has been known to us since sustainable times, when mankind didn’t have to … Continue reading
Posted in Info Virus
Tagged Buy Nothing Day, Christ, Christmas, climate, Climate Change, Conference, conservation, Consumerism, COP15, IRA, Technology, Trading, War, War on Christmas
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Black Friday is Buy Nothing Day
The big day is upon us, the Black Friday meme is in full force, doorbuster deals are pitched to begin as early as 4am. Everyone wants to catch the early worm shopper, and NMT is no exception. We call your … Continue reading
Posted in Info Virus
Tagged Abuse, Adbusters, Addiction, ARN, Arrest, Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Casualties, CIA, Consumerism, Cult, Culture, Ford, Marketing, Nature, nothing, NPR, Strike, Thanksgiving, trial, Union, Unions, Workers, Working, working class
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I knew Black Friday, and You Sir, are no Black Friday
If this year’s “Black Friday” fails to pull retailers out of their red ink, should the dubious protologism retire its presumption to speak for consumer confidence? I think it should. Wasn’t it really just an economist’s “for the Gipper” meme … Continue reading
Posted in Semantics
Tagged 1984, 2004, 2008, Affluenza, America, Anarchists, Armageddon, Army, ARN, Art, Assassination, Australia, Bailout, Beirut, Bing, Black Friday, Bombing, Bush, Buy Nothing Day, Canada, Capitalism, Chicago, Christ, Christmas, Civil War, Collapse, Colorado, Consumer Confidence, Consumerism, Crash, Crisis, Cuba, currency, Death, Denver, Detroit, DIA, Disaster, Dublin, Dust Bowl, Easter, Economy, Election, Euro, Europe, Evolution, Fire, fires, forest, France, French, Gaza, George, Germany, GIs, Gold, Good Friday, Ground Zero, Guatemala, Haymarket, Hiroshima, History, Hollywood, Homeland, IDF, India, IRA, Iran, Ireland, IRS, ISIS, Israel, Jew, Jews, John Kerry, Kerry, Kip, Lebanon, London, March, Massacre, Massacres, Media, Milk, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Norman, Norway, nothing, Notre Dame, Ohio, Opera, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pink, Poland, police, police assault, poll, population, Protest, protests, Racism, Rally, Recall, Revolution, Riots, Russia, Sabbath, Scotland, settlers, Shale Oil, shutdown, spin, Stock market, Strike, students, Subway, Suffrage, Supreme Court, Sustainability, Target, TB, Tehran, Temple, terror, terrorist, terrorists, Thanksgiving, Trading, Tribute, Union, USO, vacation, visits, Wall Street, War, Wednesday
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Simplifying the Omnivore’s Dilemma
The author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma put together a list of eating rules for the New York Times. From 2,500 submissions made by his readers, Michael Pollan gleaned 20. If I lob cheap laughs off the top, like “Don’t eat … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Apple, Art, Breakfast, Consumerism, Diet, Food, Fruit, Health, hunger, Left, Michael Pollan, New York, New York Times, poll, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Thinking
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The Red-listed fishy
Greenpeace is urging consumers to check whether their grocery stores are carrying red-listed seafood. These are species from fisheries endangered by depletion and susceptible to pirate fishing. Greenpeace’s idea? Report your grocer for stocking contraband. Try as you might to … Continue reading
The American dyslexia for economics
The interest rate for banks is down to zero. B of A and Citibank are still charging 39%. What again does economic news have to do with me? The biggest news on the economy was BREAKING NEWS a week … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged America, American, Americans, Apple, Art, autopsy, Bank of America, Banking, Banks, Books, Chicago, CIA, Citibank, Consumerism, Debt, depression, DIA, Driving, Earth, Economics, Economy, Employment, Fun, Headlines, Insurance, Interest, Jobs, Levis, Media, Parade, PLO, police, population, reality, recession, Riot Police, scam, spin, Statistics, Stock market, study, Television, Truth, unemployment, US economy, weather
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The Advent conspiracy
Consumerism allows people to create the illusion of giving without having to sacrifice anything personal. Buying loads of useless or unneeded crap, wrapping it up in mountains of toxic paper and ribbon, presenting it, often by mail, to recipients we … Continue reading
Walmart trampling is Black Friday PR
“BLACK FRIDAY” BREAKING NEWS- What do you make of the trampling of a Wal-mart worker by crazed bargain hunters at Long Island super center first thing on the day after Thanksgiving? Crazy shoppers, or beguilingly crazy bargains? Which most aroused … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Art, Black Friday, Capitalism, Consumerism, Crisis, Crow, economic crisis, Headlines, IRS, ISIS, Media, nothing, Public Relations, Savage, Thanksgiving, Walmart, White
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The Law of the Jungle
THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE Trade, within a society and between countries, is the exchange of goods and services produced by human beings. The owners of the means of production appropriate the profits. As a class, they are the leaders … Continue reading
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iN line for the iPhone
As one who doesn’t like to leave the house, I am a big fan of the internet. In truth, I can hardly speak a negative word about it. The web has given us unfettered access to news and information, consumer … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective, Ventures
Tagged AT&T, Beer, Bing, Bob Dylan, Camping, children, Consumerism, Dead Soldiers, Denver, Environment, Family, fast food, Food, Headlines, Health, internet, iPhone, IRS, Left, Love, Michael Jackson, Music, Pink, Precious, reason, soldier, Soldiers, The Grateful Dead, Truth, Water
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SUV sales crash, oil up, GM on verge of going under
I just put a bumper sticker on my car that states simply that ‘America needs an oil change’. That’s code for America needs a policy change on energy issues, which won’t be easy, because the US is still run by … Continue reading
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Tagged ALF, America, Bumper Sticker, Business, climate, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Gazette, Consumerism, Crash, Crisis, Detroit, Energy, Gazette, Global Warming, GM, IRA, Iran, ISIS, Madness, MAGA, Military, Oil prices, Pentagon, RAW, Sales, Sprawl, Stupid, SUV, SUVs, The Gazette, The Stupids, trial, War, welfare
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Living better at the expense of others
Perhaps you thought it couldn’t get worse. Colorado College hosts speakers who deny global warming, or dismiss the “one or two degrees.” They have speakers who champion imperialism by debt. Coming up, on February 26th at Packard Hall, CC has … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Capitalism, College, Colorado, Colorado College, Consumerism, Debt, Defense, exploitation, Global Warming, Greed, Imperial, Imperialism, Jens Galschiot, Labor Unions, Money, PLO, Public Relations, Survival of the Fattest, Walmart, War
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Greens and the energy companies
Everybody says they’re for helping out the environment these days, and yet nobody seems to be for protecting the environment that much. After all, who is going to say they are for dumping a pile of personal refuse into the … Continue reading
Tagged Afghanistan, Art, Business, Capital, Capitalists, Coal, combat, Consumerism, Corporation, corporations, Earth, Economics, Energy, Energy Corporations, Environment, Green Movement, Green Party, Greens, Intel, IRA, Iraq, Management, Money, nothing, Nuclear, Occupy, Orientation, poll, reason, Sales, Sport, super rich, transportation, War
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Buy Nothing Day 2004
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Tagged 2004, Adbusters, Buy Nothing Day, Consumerism, nothing
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