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Facebook Fraud – How Much of Facebook’s Ad Revenue is Legitimate? Ad revenue in the online world is based on clicks and impressions
Goldman Sachs CEO says China Growth to Have ‘Huge Consequences’ Globally Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Wall Street "Populism" Tramples Thailand’s Poor And how to pick them back up…Â February 10, 2014 ( ATN ) -The West has praised Thaksin Shinawatra and his "populist" policies for years as an example of very best of modern progressive principles in practice. Cheap loans, free computers, and rice subsidies were hailed as democracy in action by the Western media – and those who questioned the unsustainable, corruption and scandal fraught policies were swiftly condemned as "elitists" who rejected equality. The goal of these policies were never to lift up the poor, but rather install Thaksin Shinawatra into power long enough to uproot Thailand’s indigenous institutions and open the nation up to foreign corporate-financier and geopolitical exploitation
Via translation from Les Echos : An unprecedented month-long strike is the motto launched today by SNPL, the main union of French airline pilots. SNPL calls for a national strike on May 3 to 30. The union gave a final warning to the government regarding several subjects of discontent, but the main target is the Diard law limiting the right to strike by cabin crew
Month in, month out, recession or not, there has been a strong uptick in the number of healthcare and education jobs. Until now. A few charts will show what I mean.
Read this article: Nonfarm Payrolls +113,000, Median Bloomberg Estimate 180,000; Huge March 2013 Employment Revision
Read the original: Venezuela Gives Businesses Until Monday to Comply with "Fair Prices Act" or Face State Takeover
The inevitable shape-of-things-to-come has finally arrived in a major California city. I am pleased to report Voters in bankrupt San Bernardino sweep old guard from power .
Continued here: Thailand: The People Have Spoken – No Confidence in Regime or System