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Via translation, please consider The French fall into a "collective depression" The situation was already not good. And it gets worse again. Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), now talks of a "collective depression" in France
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The New York Times admitted in an early 2013 article titled, " In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype ," that: For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the most important political decisions in this country of 65 million people have been made from abroad, by a former prime minister who has been in self-imposed exile since 2008 to escape corruption charges. The country’s most famous fugitive,Thaksin Shinawatra, circles the globe in his private jet, chatting with ministers over his dozen cellphones, texting over various social media platforms and reading government documents e-mailed to him from civil servants, party officials say. The NYT piece would also report:  “He’s the one who formulates the Pheu Thai policies,†said Noppadon Pattama, a senior official in Mr.
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Via translation from Libre Mercado , please consider Spaniards, among Europeans expelled from Belgium’s abuse of social aid programs . The Aliens Office of Belgium withdrew permission of residence to 323 Spaniards in 2013 because they no longer meet the requirements, such as having an employment contract, being a student or have become self-employed, and thus prevent impose burdens exaggerated to the coffers of the Belgian Social Security.
Links Thailand: Anti-Regime Protesters Tell Their Side of the Story January 10, 2014  ( ATN ) – Akanat Promphan is a spokesman for Thailand’s current protests. He has created a series of brief videos  explaining the political conflict from the protesters’ point of view. Quite clearly, the message he is telling is different than what the Western press has attempted to claim
These threats come after Jatuporn’s promise to bring mobs to the city to confront protesters  – as well as numerous threats online by police themselves that they would use covert violence  to attack protesters if February 2, 2014’s sham elections  were disrupted. 4. January 11, 2014 : Perhaps the most troubling warning yet comes from the regime’s Western backers at the corporate-financier funded US think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).