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* […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]