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Friday, November 25, 2011

More on Black Friday: legal - insane greed; illegal - speaking out about it

i don't know how the insanity of my country could be captured any better than this...

courtesy of twest young via kevin at firedoglake...

Labels: Black Friday, greed, insanity, materialism, Occupy, Occupy Christmas, OWS

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Let's make Black Friday "Buy Nothing Day"

from adbusters...

adbusters founder kalle lasn in the uk independent...

[A]ll our media and information delivery systems are infiltrated by pro-consumption messages, and that basically every aspect of our lives is controlled to some degree by this consumer machine. Consumption patterns in America have increased by 300 per cent since the Second World War, and the average American now consumes three times more than they did 50 years ago.