Citizens Against Price Hikes

Annie Leonard has produced a compelling 20 minute video about the consumer economy. I suggest you watch it, if you haven’t seen it.
She goes through the Story of Stuff, the way that stuff is made, consumed and disposed of. Old notions of Stewardship, resourcefulness and thrift have been replaced by consume consume consume.
An article worth [...]

George Carlin on consumer capitalism, slave/wage labour and critical thinking.

Bill Bonner of the Daily Reckoning writes:

It is May Day in Europe. It is a holiday for almost everyone. But here at The Daily Reckoning ’s mobile headquarters, we keep reckoning day in and day out.
And what we reckon today is that two extraordinary things happened yesterday – related to one another and equally absurd.
Yesterday, [...]