«Désentubages Cathodiques présente une sélection de décryptages en images des arnaques en tous genres du petit écran. Du mensonge à la mystification en passant par la manipulation et la fausse impartialité, c’est toute la logique de la désinformation et de l’abrutissement qui est mise à jour.»

la video: ubest1.com
encore: zalea.org

«THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks. This peer-to-peer special edition of the film is unique: it is preceded by an EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of the Yes Men impersonating the United States Chamber of Commerce.»

Source: vodo.net/yesmen
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«Une “découverte” époustouflante : un coffre-fort rempli de minerais dans les montagnes afghanes. Un prétexte pour y laisser une garde rapprochée ?
Du cobalt, de l’or (ben oui), du niobium (pour faire des aciers supraconducteurs, repassez donc votre bac de physique, c’est d’actualité) et du lithium. Enfoncée la Bolivie ! Le lithium, petit rappel, sert aux batteries. Celles de vos portables, mais aussi celles des futures voitures électriques…»

Source: agoravox.fr

«In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is more than 10 times that estimate. So what’s behind the ballooning figures? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme’s exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we’ll pay for many years to come..»

Source: good.is

«Foxconn is one of Apple’s main manufacturer contractors. Thousands of Mac minis, iPods, iPhones and iPads are assembled daily in the Shenzhen factory, which runs 24/7. The company also produces some products for Intel, Dell, and HP, among others.

After the sixth suicide attempt in April, Southern Weekly—described by The New York Times as China’s most influential liberal newspaper—sent a young reporter to sneak into the factory as a worker. At the same time, they sent a senior reporter to talk with Foxconn’s executives. Their mission: To discover what’s really going on in that factory, and find out the true reasons behind the suicides.»

Source: gizmodo.com

Update (29/o5/2o1o): Suicide-hit Foxconn factory to increase wages: The owner of a Chinese electronics factory where several employees have committed suicide is to increase wages by 20%.

«Since its incorporation just over five years ago, Facebook has undergone a remarkable transformation. When it started, it was a private space for communication with a group of your choice. Soon, it transformed into a platform where much of your information is public by default. Today, it has become a platform where you have no choice but to make certain information public, and this public information may be shared by Facebook with its partner websites and used to target ads..»

Source: eff.org
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«From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they’re about to do it again.

The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled-dry American empire, reads like a Who’s Who of Goldman Sachs graduates…»

Source: contreinfo.info

«An animated interview of John Perkins, author of ‘HoodWinked’ and ‘Confessions Of An Economic Hitman’»

Source: studiojoho.com

«Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of requests that we received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, with certain limitations. »

Source: Google Government requests

«After close to fifty years of hawking fatty food directly to kids, Ronald McDonald is being urged to retire. Close to 60 percent of Americans now feel the industry is responsible for the growing epidemic.

“This clown is no friend to our children or their health,” said Senior Organizer Deborah Lapidus of Corporate Accountability International. “No icon has ever been more effective in hooking kids on a harmful product. Kids have become more obese and less healthy on his watch. He’s a deep-fried Joe Camel for the 21st Century. He deserves a break, and so do our kids”.. »

Source: RetireRonald.org