The untold story of a rising species and its early extinction by over-production

Oct 302011
 
The untold story of a rising species and its early extinction by over-production

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 keep pro­duc­ing even more things every year. To fur­ther advance the earthling's pas­sion for […]

A cure for cancer will never happen unless..

Oct 212011
 

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 state­ments are likely true or at least could be […]

List of shocking, current and proposed, freedom smashing legislation in the USA

Aug 242011
 
List of shocking, current and proposed, freedom smashing legislation in the USA

Free­dom smash­ing leg­is­la­tion / bills Cur­rently (Aug 2011) pro­posed bills to restore some lib­er­ties and aban­don some wor­ry­ing bills can be found at the end of the list. TERRORISM USA Patriot Act — Per­haps the great­est over­haul of per­sonal free­doms of Amer­i­can […]

Congratulations Sao Paulo, Brazil! Successfully fighting advertising and visual pollution for 4 years!

Aug 152011
 
Congratulations Sao Paulo, Brazil! Successfully fighting advertising and visual pollution for 4 years!

It has been over four years now that one of the biggest cities in the west­ern world has banned any form of out­door adver­tis­ing: Sao Paulo de Brazil. Bill­boards, out­door video screens and ads on buses and taxis as well […]

10+ effective ways to fight advertising (& over-consumption)

Aug 142011
 
10+ effective ways to fight advertising (& over-consumption)

With the use of free adblock plu­g­ins in inter­net browsers like Inter­net Explorer, Fire­fox or Google Chrome it has become easy to fight adver­tis­ing — at least on the Inter­net. Think of it, mar­ket­ing, adver­tis­ing, pub­lic rela­tion are mod­ern names […]

Riot criminality — a product of consumerism and social breakdown?

Aug 112011
 
Riot criminality - a product of consumerism and social breakdown?

Here is an excel­lent arti­cle on how con­sumerism should be con­sid­ered the true direct cause of riot crimes (and prob­a­bly many oth­ers). Con­sumerism, of course, could claim mar­ket­ing, adver­tis­ing and the media indus­try are its cul­prits. Then again, the media […]

Shocking! Governments only interested in getting us back to over-consumption

Aug 092011
 
Shocking! Governments only interested in getting us back to over-consumption

It's unbe­liev­able. We are fac­ing a seri­ous global cri­sis (global fiat money sys­tem col­laps­ing, resource and energy short­ages,..) and all our  coun­tries' lead­ers care about is to get us back to the self-destructive high-consumption mode that is actu­ally caus­ing all […]