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Holiday Lunacy: How Americans Are Conditioned to Buy Like Pavlov's Dogs When the Corporate Bells Ring

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Truth-Out - 12/05/13, JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

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Anyways, the point is that Americans are easy targets. The commercial world sells the illusion of happiness: the more you buy and have the happier you'll be, right? Wrong, observed the poet, Charles Bukowski:

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

But Americans fall for it every time, including the super rich who also believe that being happy has something to do with excessive wealth until they too fall into debt, not to mention how miserable they become from the ugly competition and the sick addiction to money and the material world.

Huge crowds rally for EU deal, build barricades in Ukrainian capital

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RT - 12/08/13

An aerial view shows Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square crowded by supporters of EU integration during a rally in central Kiev, December 8, 2013 (Reuters / Stoyan Nenov)

An aerial view shows Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square crowded by supporters of EU integration during a rally in central Kiev, December 8, 2013 (Reuters / Stoyan Nenov)

 

Ukrainian protesters blocked streets leading to government buildings with barricades, as tens of thousands rallied on Kiev’s Independence Square. The opposition hoped its pro-EU protest would attract 1 million people, calling it “The Million March.”

Nearly 100,000 protesters have gathered on Kiev’s center, according to police estimates. The opposition has claimed nearly 1 million people are taking part in the rally.

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NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

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The Washington Post - 12/10/13, By Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson, and Barton Gellman

A slide from an internal NSA presentation indicating that the agency uses at least one Google cookie as a way to identify targets for exploitation. (Washington Post)

A slide from an internal NSA presentation indicating that the agency uses at least one Google cookie as a way to identify targets for exploitation. (Washington Post)
 

The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.

Global Resistance and Rising Anarchism - The New Politics of the 21st Century

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Activist Post - 12/07/13, Devon Douglas-Bowers

These protests show that the people will not sit idly by and let the government serve them on a platter to corporations, or, even worse, neglect to uphold the promises they took to protect the population. These movements represent a mass awakening of humanity which has the potential to radically change the entire landscape of society on a global scale.

We must be willing to fight for as long as it takes to alter society so that rather than serving industry or a small societal elite at the expense of the many, society fosters a climate of peace: peace with each other, peace with the environment, and encourage education and cooperation for the good of all, while respecting the autonomy of the individual. Most importantly, though, we must foster peace within ourselves and not be afraid to engage with those in our immediate area on the issue; for if not, we will risk the continuation of this broken system and lose what may have been a great chance to change the current situation for the better.

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