Tag: consumerism
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#MorningMonarchy: July 15, 2016
Hyperconsuming TV, staying silent and selling out + this day in history w/the Rosetta Stone and our song of the day by VHS on your Morning Monarchy for July 15, 2016.
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#DataDump: Glass, Kinect, Shady, Energy
Google Glasses Will Disappoint, AR Experts Warn // Whole Foods wants you to use Kinect-enabled shopping carts // James Bamford: Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap US for NSA // LHC reaches highest energy level ye // Just One More Game: Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’
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12/1 defcon: sopa, carrier iq & you
comedy of errors led to false ‘water-pump hack’ report* flashback: feds deny water utility hack* hackers target united nations development program website* crack this code & become a british spy* sopa on the ropes? bipartisan alternative to ‘net censorship emerges* critics line up to bash maker of secret phone-monitoring software* does your smartphone run carrier…
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11/24 newspurge: won’t start revolutions, but we’re giving it a whirl
9/11 updates: video: ron paul says flawed policies helped lead to 9/11* on 9/11, the US military was preparing for a simulated nuclear war* video: the curious case of united airlines flight 23 on 9/11* biowars/envirohealth: scientists mutate bird flu to make it more contagious – but critics claim the ‘bioweapon’ must be kept secret*…
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12/2 Newspurge: Watch Us Explode
Econocrash Updates: Iceland faring better than Ireland after letting banks fail* Fed employee pay freeze proposed to control deficit* Unemployment checks to 2m will stop without action* New data: foreign banks biggest recipients of fed money* Fed wants to strip a key protection for homeowners* 100s line up in Atlanta cold for help heating homes*…
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econocrash updates: black friday, back home & in the red
goodbye jobs, hello mom & dad, say young adults* fdic insurance fund closes quarter $8.2b in debt*fdic insurance fund falls into the red* dollars steepest drop since july*uk poised to lose jobs as £10bn nuclear power plant contract goes to US* german ‘robin hood’ borrowed from rich, loaned to poor*want a stock tip? buy stocks…
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at the base of the pyramid: creating the market for poor consumers
from wall st journal: Around the world, four billion people live in poverty. And Western companies are struggling to turn them into customers. For the past decade, business visionaries have argued that these people, dubbed the Base of the Pyramid, make up an enormous, untapped market. Some of the world’s biggest, savviest corporations have aimed…
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black friday/buy nothing day: zombie stampede & guns tax-free
predicting today’s zombie uprising,another cutting piece from the onion:wal-mart’s prices undercut by wal-mart dumpster 2 deaths result from wal-mart stampedefrom nydailynews: A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said. The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight…
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outrage over 99¢ game based on 9/11
from jersey journal: Crass commercialism of the holidays isn’t new. But it may have reached a new low at a Bayonne dollar store that offers a game that exploits one of the worst tragedies in the history of the United States. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, where more than 2,600…
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‘what would jesus buy?’
from raw story: With Americans expected to spend about almost $500 billion this Christmas, ABC’s ‘Nightline’ takes a closer look at one man trying spread the message that America is being crushed under the weight of consumerism. “We’re proceeding into the shopping season under an enormous misunderstanding. We think we are consumers at Christmas time,”…
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shopocalypse now
from the independent: He’s stormed everywhere from Starbucks to the Capitol preaching his gospel of Stop Shopping. As Morgan Spurlock brings the unorthodox anti-capitalist’s message to the world, David Usborne is granted an audience with the Reverend Billy… If you have ever seen the Rev, it is unlikely you will have forgotten him. Perhaps it…