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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”.

 

Bankocracy: from the Venetian Republic to Mario Draghi and Goldman Sachs

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Source: Global Research - 11/26/13, Eric Toussaint

 

The Goldman Sachs Indictment

From the 12th century to the beginning of the 14th, the Knights Templar, present in much of Europe, had become the bankers for the powerful and had taken part in the financing of several crusades. At the beginning of the 14th century, they were the main creditors of the King of France, Philip the Fair.

Faced with a debt burden that was straining his resources, Philip the Fair eliminated both his creditors and his debt by demonising the Knights Templar, accusing them of many crimes |1|. Their Order was outlawed, the leaders executed and its assets seized. Its army (fifteen thousand men, including one thousand five hundred knights), its patrimony and its credits to rulers failed to protect it from the power of a State set on eliminating its main creditor.

Anti-government protesters break into Thai army compound

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Reuters - 11/29/13, By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Pracha Hariraksapitak
 

Anti-government protesters sit on the road outside the national police headquarters where they protest in Bangkok November 28, 2013. REUTERS-Damir Sagolj

Anti-government protesters sit on the road outside the national police headquarters where they protest in Bangkok November 28, 2013. Credit: REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

 

Anti-government protesters briefly forced their way into the compound of Thailand's army headquarters on Friday in a dramatic escalation of city-wide demonstrations seeking to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

"Don't wait for anyone. Every heart that loves this country must stand up together and execute our mission as one," Suthep told a crowd of 7,000 massed outside a state office complex.

More: Reuters

 

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