Vipps skal erstatte mennesker

Mat og Drikke Gruppen, som driver flere populære Oslo-restauranter – blant annet uterestauranten Lekter’n på Aker Brygge ersatter manuell bestilling. Dermed har vi så vidt jeg vet fått Vipps til konkret erstatning for mennesker. Hvem av State of Globes lesere synes det er greit? Når har det tydeligvis blitt slik at å taste på en …

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WATCH: The Century of the Self – Part 3: «There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads; He Must Be Destroyed.»

  In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. …

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I dag utgis verdens første mynt i Rettferdig gull

Paris/Oslo, 14. mai 2018 – Som følge av et norsk initiativ fra 2015, og i anledning hundreårsmarkeringen for avslutningen av første verdenskrig, gir det statlige franske myntverket i dag ut verdens første mynt i Rettferdig gull. Gjennom utgivelsen konkretiseres initiativet som det norske selskapet Samlerhuset tok for tre år siden sammen med organisasjonen Alliance for …

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Åpent brev om kontanter til Stortingets Finanskomite

Dette er min reaksjon på kontanters fremtidige rolle i den fremlagte Finansmarkedsmeldingen 2018 Hvem jeg er: Mitt navn er Hans Christian Færden, grunnlegger av folkebevegelsen «JA til kontanter». En bevegelse som var på ca. 43000 mennesker da jeg 15. april i år forlot ledelsen der, etter å ha blitt bedt om å lede utviklingen av …

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WATCH: The Century of the Self – Part 2: «The Engineering of Consent»

The Century of The Self This episode explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud’s ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses. Politicians and planners came to believe Freud’s underlying premise – that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational desires and fears. They were convinced that …

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WATCH: Anonymous – The Story of Aaron Swartz Full Documentary

Anonymous Official Published on Sep 6, 2014 This film follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz’s groundbreaking work in social justice and political …

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WATCH: The Century of the Self – Part 1: «Happiness Machines»

The Century of the Self The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need …

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WATCH: Documentary Everything Is A Rich Man’s Trick- JFK to 9/11

Storyline Documentary Films The assassination of President John F. Kennedy lingers as one of the most traumatic events of the twentieth century. The open and shut nature of the investigation which ensued left many global citizens unsettled and dissatisfied, and nagging questions concerning the truth behind the events of that fateful day remain to this …

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Albany Doctor Allegedly Ran Sick Human Experiments for Nxivm

A doctor described as the resident physician to the twisted upstate sex cult Nxivm has been charged by a state oversight board with illegally conducting human experiments. The action comes eight months after the state Health Department refused to act on a complaint from a former cult member who alleged that Dr. Brandon Porter, 44, …

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