New book highlights how junk food makers get us hooked
Investigative reporter Michael Moss reveals just how low the processed food industry will go.
“I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”
— Socrates
Forecast II, 2010 - Allora & Calzadilla
The countdown
You’re very sure of your decision. You’re not second guessing it and you have no doubt. What you are trying to get to grips with is the magnitude and immensity of that decision.
Your mind will give you a few “grass is greener” scenarios but it doesn’t matter, you’re not tempted. You’ve just made the best decision of your life.
Breathing Earth
An awesome visual infographic showing birth/death rates per country + carbon emissions being emitted using data from the 2010 CIA World Data Factbook
The other women
One calls herself mother. The other totally consumes his being, or at least she used to. Her name is Depression. She puts up a good fight but I always win.
One I can handle. The other, I find harder to stomach. Guess who?
29 Stunning Staircase Images
Darren Rowse, digital-photography-school.comThere is something about a good staircase that seems to draw photographers to shoot it. Perhaps it’s the repetition and patterns in the steps or it could be the geometric shapes that often appear around them. Whatever it is – staircases present so…
Beautiful
“May your children die, you dogs”: As Gaza burns, Israelis bay for blood in streets of Tel Aviv | The Electronic Intifada
Not hyperbole: Is Israel an inchoate fascist state? There is certainly no iron law of history dictating that a social group which at one point may have been the victim of racist militarism could not then turn around at a later point in history and oppress others by employing racist militarism.
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“They don’t deserve to live, they need to die”
“May your children die, you dogs”
“Now we want to go back there [to Gaza] and kick out all the Arabs.”
“The people demand more shooting”
“Muhammad is dead”
These were some of the calls from a group of Israelis demonstrating in favor of Israel’s attack on Gaza in the streets of Tel Aviv last night.
Peaceful protests by Palestinian students at Israeli university were met with similar incitement.
In Tel Aviv, across the road, another group of Israelis protested against the assault. “We came here to say that we must end this war immediately,” Knesset member Dov Khenin of the communist Hadash party told the anti-war crowd, “every additional drop of blood is needless.”
The duelling demonstrations were filmed by David Sheen. While anti-war voices exist, there’s little doubt that much of the Israeli Jewish population stands behind Israel’s attack on Gaza, believing the government propaganda that Palestinians are firing rockets at Israel unprovoked while Israel seeks peace and quiet.
Among the pro-violence demonstrators was Baruch Marzel a notorious settler fanatic who frequently incites violence. “The enemy must be expelled and destroyed,” Marzel said, specifiying that Palestinians should be kicked out of Gaza so Israelis could re-settle there.
“You’re cross-dressers! You’re the Gay Pride March, that’s what you are,” shouted another war supporter at the peace demo, a call that was echoed by others.
One man warned fellow protestors, “They’re filming us, don’t curse” but that did not stop the violent calls. “Go to Gaza with the Muslims, you sons of bitches,” said one. “The people demand more shooting,” responding to calls for a ceasefire from the pro-violence demonstration across the road.
The calls for blood and violence in the streets echo incitement by Israeli government leaders. In recent days Israel’s “minister of home front defense” Avi Dichter called for Israel to “reformat” Gaza – wipe it clean – like a computer hard drive, except using bombs.
Israeli transport minister Israel Katz called for Israel to bomb Gaza so hard that the population would flee into Egypt, and for Israel to cut off water and electricity supplies.
In recent years investors have been piling into Lagos and Nairobi as if they were Frankfurt and Tokyo of old. Anaemic growth in the rich world has made sub-Saharan Africa an attractive destination for money and its managers.
Foreign direct investment has increased by about 50% since 2005.
Once regarded as casinos, local capital markets now seem less risky. J.P. Morgan has just added Nigeria to its government-bond index for emerging markets; South Africa had hitherto been the only African country on its list.
The American bank, the world’s biggest underwriter of emerging-market debt, predicts that adding Nigerian bonds to its benchmark will lure an extra $1.5 billion to the country.
New funds will pay for so far non-existent infrastructure on a continent with a land mass equivalent to that of China, India, Japan, America, Mexico and Europe combined (see map).
(via Africa’s economy: Bulging in the middle | The Economist)
If you get just one thing out of this, look at the map in awe
It's the FIRST TIME since 1988 that no presidential or VP candidate mentioned climate change during a debate.
Rather telling
Source:
think-progress
Notes: 271
10/23/12 — 9:36pm
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Australian artist Freya Jobbins creates plastic assemblages out of “pre-loved” dolls and other unwanted toys.
Freya says, “My work explores the relationship between consumerist fetishism and the emerging recycling culture within the visual arts. Due to our society’s overspending on children’s plastic toys, especially dolls, the materials for my assemblages are very accessible.”
More on her site here.
(via Junkculture)
See also: Earlier Unconsumption post on jewelry, made by Margaux Lange, from doll parts and sterling silver.
Where the World’s Millionaires Live—in 1 Graph
Today, the United States and Japan are home to about 7% of the world’s population, but more than 50% of the world’s millionaires.
Clothes Horses
Surely the point of modelling is to show the clothes in the best light and not to distract from the clothes. I’m there to see the clothes and not marvel at the sorcery that is propping up the emaciated figures parading in front of me. It’s tough enough pushing those inquiries out of my mind to focus on the clothes but last night at a bridal catwalk show we were repeatedly confronted with the sight of these emaciated puppets of sorcerers prancing down the catwalk in the most irritating manner. I think they were going for “elegant” and “ethereal” but ended up with “Olympics dressage horse”
Fail.
