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Cozi offers Family Life. Simplified.
It's easy to look back on 50's advertisements and see the toxic imagery -- subservient women and obedient children, usually enthralled to the virtues of a product. Most people underestimate the power of such images to normalize unhealthy attitudes. Fewer ... Read more
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Jerry Seinfeld Nails the Propaganda Industry
Jerry Seinfeld set a trap for the advertising industry, and they walked right into it. You may recall when Steven Colbert became a household name -- it was after his 2006 speech to the White House Correspondent's Dinner, in which he ... Read more
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Water Wars
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/us/new-mexico-farmers-push-to-be-made-a-priority-in-drought.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 This outlines the local situation reasonably well. A few of the early settlers here (fin d’ siecle) were farseeing and nailed down senior water rights for Carlsbad, which continues to be pretty strong in this department. As the droughts continue ... Read more
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The Ides of Spring
I never really got how we were supposed to be permanently worried about mid-March just because a Roman Emperor came to a bad end then. I blame Shakespeare. It's most definitely Spring here in Carlsbad, New Mexico. We got the greening ... Read more
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The Christmas Game Is Coming!
We recommend The Christmas Game, if you want take the commercialism out of Christmas. The Christmas Game organizes hundreds of activities into nine different categories: Traditions Togetherness Kindness Projects Learning Challenges Games Memories Presents Most families enjoy Christmas, and recognize the need to make their Christmas celebration less commercial. Many ... Read more
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Media Consolidation Infographic
Capitalism purports to offer the freedom to choose, but what it actually delivers is the illusion of choice. Nowhere is this more important than in mass media and public discourse, which of course has not only economic but also political ... Read more
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How The Plutocracy Actually Works
This is among the best concise explanations of how the plutocracy works:
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The One-Percent In Charts and Graphs
Here is a great slide show on the corporate crime that is the 1%:
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