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Are Americans Abandoning Their Televisions?

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Source: AlterNet - 11/27/13, Zaid Jilani

 

The internet is disrupting video entertainment as we know it.
 
 
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The television has long been a central fixture of the American home, starting with the introduction of basic newscasts and baseball games in the 1930s, and slowly evolving into a place where families could gather to watch films, sitcoms and premium cable channels. But data on television ratings show that Americans are increasingly turning off their televisions, as numbers show plummeting viewership.

Thailand: Protesters Want Oil Back for Thai People

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Alt Thai News - 11/28/13, Tony Cartalucci

 

Image: 1000's of protesters descend on Thai oil giant PTT's headquarters in Bangkok this week - demanding it be re-nationalized after its privatization under Thaksin Shinawatra, part of a larger plan to sellout Thailand's infrastructure and natural resources to foreign corporations - the same corporations backing Thaksin's sister, Yingluck Shinawatra as she prepares for her brother's return to power.

 

Sunken City Named Heracleion Discovered After 1500 Years

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A Sunken City Named Heracleion
Gets Discovered After 1500 Years
 

Source: Around The World - 11/22/13, by Kam


Found a Goddess statue underwater

Heracleion, a much prosperous and a known city had been engulfed underwater 1500 years ago. This grand city had also been mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian. He had told a wonderful tale of Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, who had launched a thousand ships, travelled to Heracleion, then a port of ‘great wealth’, with her glamorous Trojan lover, Paris.

 

Found a Goddess statue underwater

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Figures reveal top British bankers' salaries soared by more than a THIRD in 2012

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Britain's banks show they have learned nothing as figures reveal top bankers' salaries soared by more than a THIRD in 2012

Mail Online - 11/29/13, Matt West

Bonus culture: There have been numerous protests against the amount bankers are paid in bonuses in the past but the EBA data suggests they have achieved nothing

Bonus culture: There have been numerous protests against the amount bankers are paid in bonuses in the past but the EBA data suggests they have achieved nothing
 

Pope Francis: Capitalism is “a new tyranny”

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Salon - 11/26/13, Katie Mcdonough

 

Pope Francis: Capitalism is
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Pope Francis on Tuesday called capitalism “a new tyranny” and very explicitly called on global leaders to act on poverty and growing inequality.
 


Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.

 

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