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Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 5:04am

Something to keep in mind…


It becomes profitable to set new and unrealistic standards,
to generate a culture of comparison and inferiority.
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Because people who constantly feel inferior make
the best customers.
Marketing in our economy pushes insecurity onto us that is not helpful.
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It intentionally triggers inadequacies
or addictions within ourselves
to make more profit.
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How Your Insecurity Is Bought and Sold

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eva bartlett commits journalism in the donbass, ukraine

Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 3:00pm


‘Under Fire from Ukraine and Misperceived by the West, The People of the DPR Share Their Stories;  Eva Bartlett traveled to the besieged Donetsk People’s Republic to see firsthand how residents are faring amidst a western-backed Ukranian incursion’, by Eva Bartlett, Oct. 16, 2019 (CC w/ attribution)

As such, I’ll paste it all in…on Eva’s last journalism on Crimea, I’d called it ‘a labor of love’ to a commenter.  This one is a ‘labor of continuing fury’ given the testimonials.  It’s quite long, but again, all of a piece, even if a person is so sickened, outraged, and heart-and-soul pierced to need to walk away for a break, and then return.  (I’d needed to, myself.) By my reckoning, the least we can do is act as fair witnesses to what our ‘Democracy Loving’ nation (and related compromised NGOs)  has wrought.  Whether or not this is all new to you, or if you’d lived much of it vicariously online back in the day, it’s hard to imagine not being a different person after you finish it.

The NFL's ability to fleece taxpayers is over

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 12:15am

In the 21 years L.A. was without a professional football team, 22 new stadiums were built for 23 teams, with an average of $250 million apiece of taxpayer money for those stadiums.
It was a massive public subsidy for the billionaire team owners, that generated little or no public good.

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