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Its most recent article, " Thai Power Firm’s Business Tactics ‘Use Burma’s Weak Laws’ ," is a typical representation of these efforts. It reports that:  One of the chief financiers of hydroelectric dams planned on Burma’s Salween River is accused of investing in countries where there is “oppression and limited transparency†in order to achieve its objectives
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215,000 Doctors (1 in 4 Nationally, 70% in California) Refuse Obamacare Patients Over Payment Issues Posted by Michael Shedlock at 7:28 PM Disclaimer: The content on this site is provided as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice. All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. The ideas expressed on this site are solely the opinions of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the opinions of sponsors or firms affiliated with the author(s)
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Today Walmart leapfrogged the pack with 20,000 items on sale for the holiday season .
Links Ukraine’s Elections: Stabilization Through Eradication November 1, 2014 ( Ulson Gunnar – NEO ) – Curiously, Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Foreign Minister and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office, congratulated Ukrainians for their elections  of the parliamentary assembly and hailed them as another important step toward "stabilization." It is a curious statement considering the nature of the elections themselves, carried out under the duress of deadly internal conflict, with multiple regions of the country not even participating in the elections and the intimidation and barring of opposition parties from participating in campaigning and polling. Despite claims of Ukraine’s elections leading to "stabilization," instead it appears they are leading to the rise in prominence of ultra-right Neo-Nazi parties like Svoboda whose supporters are pictured above.
Links US Destroying Syria’s Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting ISIS November 1, 2014 ( Maram Susli – NEO ) – The US is considering bombing pipelines in Syria, which it claims is in an attempt to cut off the huge profits being made by ISIS from captured oilfields. The Independent quotes  Julieta Valls Noyes, the deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs during a visit to London, that ISIS was making $2 million a day off oil sales and that the US would consider airstrikes as well as “kinetic strikes against some pipelines" and "actual physical action to stop the flowâ€
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