The bizarre business of intentional product failure: planned obsolescence
For at least a century many products have been purposefully designed to fail – so we can buy them again and again. This rather bizarre business of artificially shortened life cycles to create...
View ArticleHow come the stock market gets free advertising in the mainstream news (USA,...
One thing I noticed when I moved to the US – and to a lesser extend when I moved to Australia – was the consistent presence of share market information in the mainstream news in both radio and TV. Who...
View Article5 recommended video documentaries you may not see on TV (Set 1)
Here are some recommended videos which you will not likely see on television in many countries. You may find many of your own suspicions confirmed and possibly some new pieces of evidence and ideas....
View Article14 ideas how to reduce advertising and over-consumption
With the use of free Adblock plugins in internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome it has become easy to reduce advertising – at least on the Internet. Marketing, advertising,...
View Article7 techniques used by governments & media to push freedom smashing legislation
It is tempting to feel that we can never be safe enough. Any measure that increases our security must be a god thing right? Well, not exactly. I suspect many if not most of us would like to keep some...
View ArticleA cure for cancer will never happen unless..
One of the consequences of decades of growing corporatism – governments in bed with large corporations – is the unbelievable power of the pharmaceutical industry. Decide for yourself if the following...
View ArticleThe untold story of a rising species and its global destruction through...
The human species has always loved producing things. It loved it so much that it produced things to last only a short time so they could produce more things every year. To further advance the...
View ArticleLegendary US Foreign Policy Critic Noam Chomsky wins Sydney Peace Prize 2011
The $50,000 Sydney Peace award for 2011 goes to the veteran American linguist, social scientist, human rights campaigner and political activist for what the Foundation calls an unfailing moral courage...
View ArticleLife in the USA-2014: The real state of the union
Every January the US president gives a speech (or report) describing the current “State of the Union”. Originally it was aimed at the US congress, but since the advent of mass media it has been...
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