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Fanatic consumerism is also directly linked to world hunger, poverty, and suffering. According to Professor John Madeley of the London School of Economics, the global use of land for the cultivation of tobacco “denies 10 to 20 million people of food.” Furthermore, the 1998 Human Development Report revealed that rampant consumer culture inevitably leads to “circumstances that are exploitative of workers” and exerts negative psychological pressures on shoppers, leading them to make decisions that are financially harmful or even disastrous. For our daily extravagances—indeed, even...

Author: By Sabrina G. Lee | Title: The Casualties of Consumerism | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Simpson was more subdued on Monday when he journeyed to Manchester for his interview on a new evening television show featuring former daytime hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. They asked well-prepared questions about the case, and as soon as Simpson launched into equally well-prepared answers, the hosts began to badger him with more questions. Yet the only real surprise was registered by O.J. when the segment ended abruptly after just 12 minutes. "Oh, Jesus," muttered a befuddled Simpson. Next stop was the Oxford Union, the world's most famous student debating society. "We have a tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PURPOSEFUL TOURIST | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

Labor Minister Walter Bailey Madeley was helpless. The unrecognized native unions are not subject to anti-strike emergency regulations applicable to white workers in recognized unions. Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts intervened. By decree he forbade native workers to strike, made all labor disputes subject to compulsory arbitration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Black & White | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...General resigned with his entire Cabinet and in a passion. A short time previously he had met with refusal-blunt refusal-when he had demanded the resignation of his own Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, the Rt. Hon. Walter B. Madeley. Blast Madeley's impertinence! If he wouldn't resign alone, General Hertzog knew well enough how to force the fellow out by bringing down his whole Cabinet. The crash was called, last week, and for a very good reason, a "nigger crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Nigger Crisis | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Briefly, the Minister of Posts & Telegraphs had been showing himself entirely too considerate of blackamoor trade unions. In vain Big White General Hertzog and his Nationalist Party had threatened, fumed. Mr. Madeley as a member of the Labor Party could not see his way clear to upholding the Nationalist postulate that blackamoors must be "kept in their place," economically, politically. The crisis was precipitated when Minister Madeley received a Negro deputation from the Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union, officially, at the Ministry of Posts & Telegraphs. That reception brought General Hertzog's demand for the Minister's resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Nigger Crisis | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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