CBC

May join Vancouver in putting limits on billboard ads to restrict 'visual pollution'

Historic Quebec City hopes to take down a modern roadside decoration – the ubiquitous billboard.

Reuters

CARACAS: Soaring food prices are a "massacre" of the world's poor and are creating a global nutritional crisis, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday, calling it a sign that capitalism is in decline.

What is the significance that oil is at 100 dollars a barrel, gold is at 1000 dollars an ounce and one Euro is nearing two dollars? There is the obvious pattern here of the Empire apparently hurting, but this is the fatal mistake that so many make - now and throughout history. When a tiger or an enemy is down or weak, it is often a time when he will hit you the hardest, throwing it all into the fray and risking and doing things unheard of.... And besides the "wounded" tiger has been faking all along and leading us all into this trap we now face: Death or Slavery.

Armed with nothing more than absolute faith, a robe and slippers Buddhist Monks have made their position known about the Constitutional Referendum. The stakes are very high. Knowing and surviving the consequences of September’s protest monks stand defiant and have gone on the offensive regardless of the risks.

So yea want to do something for the suffering of Burma. Like I said, the most powerful tool we have is the all mighty dollar. This is only a small list but as you soon will see, it has many strange bedfellows. List provided by Burma: On line News and Analysis. Comentaries by moi.

I’ve been very quiet about the political circus that prevails here in the good ole USA. Then I heard American talk show host Rush Limbaug’s blatantly racial and gender commentary alluding to the notion a woman or African American could not possibly be presidential material. I found it patently offensive, racist and bigoted. Though I’m no fan of any of the candidates I found Slimeball’s actions during the Democratic Primaries revolting and an affront to the whole democratic process. It’s my right not to like candidates and it’s my right not to vote for them but it’s no ones right to “rig” an election.

Economist who invented 'eco-footprint' analysis is not impressed.

By William E. Rees

There are plenty of things society could do to avert a full-blown ecological crisis but we don't do them and what we do do doesn't work. It seems that the ecologically necessary is politically unfeasible but the politically feasible is ecologically irrelevant.

They’re smaller, smarter, and feistier, and they number in the millions, but can D.I.Y. zines, blogs, and viral videos overthrow the corporate media dinosaurs?

Find out from Anne Elizabeth Moore and Franklin López as they brazenly celebrate independent media in Vancouver and world-wide. Anne is the Chicago-based author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity and the former editor of Punk Planet, the legendary punk zine that folded

Article by Tom Hodgkinson | The Guardian

Facebook is driven by the extreme philosophy of the very rich, that everything can and should be commodified. Including your friendships. Who's buying?

Paraphrasing the article: One of Facebook's biggest investors is Greylock Venture Capital. One of Greylock’s senior partners is also on the board of In-Q-Tel - the venture-capital wing of the CIA. In-Q-Tel, “identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions”.

WHAT’S YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION?
How About Making Some Simple Choices to Reduce Your Waste?

Curious about how much waste we create through our daily snack purchases?

Come check out an impressive trash-art installation that’ll show you!

Anarchist action figures were discretely placed on store shelves at Target and Wal-Mart stores across San Francisco, waiting for unsuspecting consumers to pick them up this holiday season.

[Thanks to the anonymous person who posted this. You made my day! -ron]

Annie Leonard

A new short film released today online takes viewers on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of this use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.

The Story Of Stuff Challenges American Consumerism Just In Time For The Holidays