Google Glass targeted as symbol by anti-tech crowd

“The $1,500 device, which displays Web content on a tiny screen, signals its wearer as a likely member of an affluent tech elite. And Glass also can discreetly shoot photos or video, which some people view as invasive.  That’s caused unease for some folks and, in some cases has led to arguments, altercations and even attacks against people wearing the technology.  It’s relatively new for Glass to be targeted, either over privacy concerns or as a presumed symbol of the tech industry as a whole.  In late February, a woman says she was attacked at a bar on San Francisco’s famous Haight Street after fellow patrons began heckling her and trying to rip Glass off of her face.”

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/14/tech/mobile/google-glass-attack/

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San Francisco split by Silicon Valley’s wealth

“Heated bidding wars — especially in a half-mile radius of shuttle bus stops — have broken out, causing rents to soar, even double in some cases. Along shuttle routes, trendy new restaurants that serve high-end food and spirits have taken the place of corner stores and mom-and-pop businesses. Anti-Google graffiti has turned up here, and activists recently held a small anti-gentrification rally at which they smashed a Google bus piñata. Ted Gullicksen, executive director of the San Francisco Tenants Union, said he fears that the techies are permanently inheriting the city and won’t pack up and leave as they did after the 2000 dot-com crash.”

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-silicon-valley-backlash-20130814,0,762467,full.story

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Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Amazon Dystopia

“In 1927, the American industrialist Henry Ford began building a private city—Fordlandia—in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon forest. His company had won title to nearly 2.5 million acres of land—over 3,800 square miles—for a planned rubber plantation and company town. Ford spent over $20 million (about $300 million in today’s dollars) putting in roads, water and power systems, rail lines, factories, offices, medical facilities, homes, schools, and stores.  Thousands of workers and their families flocked to Fordlandia. Soon, however, waves of rioting, looting, and burning roiled the city. Ford abandoned his namesake in 1945, leaving it to rot in the jungle.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/fordlandia-henry-fords-amazon-dystopia

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Craigslist mob steals nearly everything from foreclosed family’s home

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“A mob of people showed up at a home in Woodstock, Georgia on Wednesday, responding to a Craigslist ad that promised free items in the home’s small driveway. But when the man who posted the ad arrived at the sale, he discovered that the mob had barged inside the home and was taking everything the family owned.   Michael Vercher, whose family lived there for 20 years before recently losing the home to foreclosure, looked like he hardly knew what hit him. ‘They came in and just tore the place up.  Everyone was inside the house; they were taking out items. There were cars around the block. It was like ants in and out of the house.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/25/craigslist-mob-steals-nearly-everything-from-foreclosed-familys-home/

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Family orchard ransacked by hungry mobs after owners generously offer undersized peach crop free to public

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“A Colorado fruit orchard was ransacked by locals recently after its generous owners decided to open up their private peach grove to the public for a free picking. Don and Marilyn Schanaman were horrified to learn that their benevolent efforts to salvage an undersized peach crop resulted in what can only be described as utter savagery by the lowest members of society, who saw fit to harass the family and even damage their property after the peaches had all been picked.”

http://www.naturalnews.com/037612_orchard_hungry_mobs_free_food.html

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KFC and Pizza Hut closed in Nepal as staff threatens to kill branch managers

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“Devyani International, which operates outlets of KFC and Pizza Hut in Nepal and neighbouring India, wrote a letter to authorities announcing the immediate closure of its eateries in the capital Kathmandu.  KFC and Pizza Hut, Nepal’s only international fast-food chains, opened their first branches in the country three years ago, generating long queues of locals wanting to sample international cuisine.  Their arrival was seen as a sign of an improving environment for foreign firms in a country ravaged by bloody civil war between 1996 and 2006, when a peace deal was reached between Maoists and the government.” [Pearls to swine]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/kfc-and-pizza-hut-closed-in-nepal-as-staff-threatens-to-kill-branch-managers/

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