TheGuardian – Sweet Victory For Mexico Beekeepers As Monsanto Loses GM Permit – 19 August 2014

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Evidence convinced judge of threat posed to honey production in Yucatán – but firm will almost certainly appeal against ruling

Quote: A small group of beekeepers in Mexico has inflicted a blow on biotech giant Monsanto, which has halted the company’s ambitions to plant thousands of hectares of soybeans genetically modified to resist the company’s pesticide Roundup.

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TheGuardian – Seumas Milne – The Tide Is Turning Against The Scam That Is Privatisation – 11 July 2014

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The international revival of public ownership is anathema to our City-led elite. But it’s vital to genuine economic recovery

By Seumas Milne

Quote: Privatisation isn’t working. We were promised a shareholding democracy, competition, falling costs and better services. A generation on, most people’s experience has been the opposite. From energy to water, rail to public services, the reality has been private monopolies, perverse subsidies, exorbitant prices, woeful under-investment, profiteering and corporate capture.

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TheGuardian – The Open Source Revolution Is Coming And It Will Conquer The 1% – Ex CIA Spy – 21 June 2014

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By Nafeez Ahmed

The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer Earth Robert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity, is a man on a mission.

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TheGuardian – Prince Charles ‘Should Abdicate’ After Comparing Putin To Hitler, Says MP – 21 May 2014

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Labour MP Mike Gapes calls for prince to ‘abdicate and stand for election’ if he wants to make controversial statements

By Matthew Weaver, Rowena Mason and agencies

QUOTE: Prince Charles is facing a call for his abdication and a frosty response in Moscow after reportedly comparing Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler over Russia‘s annexation of Crimea.

(Lucas : If you read between the lines you see the tendency of the news and what is brought to you as important….. it is propaganda… just picked up this little sentence in red accentuated. Which Annexation? The EU/NATO/US wants you to belief the annexation story when the EU was pulling Ukraine into making it the debt dumb for the EU etc. And also remember that till late in the fifties Crimea was part of the USSR/ now Russia before it has been drawn into the Ukraine. So the story on both sides is going full propaganda mode… keep that in mind but also see what are facts and what not.)

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TheGuardian – Greece Seeks To Open Debt Relief Talks With Creditors – 5 May 2014

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Finance minister to raise subject with eurozone counterparts on Monday in further sign Europe’s economic crisis is receding

By Helena Smith in Athens

Quote: In a step likely to be hailed as further proof of Europe’s receding economic crisis, Greece is poised to formally open debt relief talks with its creditors.

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TheGuardian – MH370: Australia ‘Very Confident’ Pings Are From Black Box, Says Prime Minister – 11 April 2014

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By Tania Branigan

Australia is confident that search teams have located the missing Malaysian plane’s black box to “within some kilometres”, the prime minister, Tony Abbott, said on Friday.

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TheGuardian – Co-Op Bank Needs £400m As Losses Deepen – 24 March 2014

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Co-op Group, which owns just 30% of the bank, would need to put in more than £100m if it wanted to take part in the fundraisin

By Jill Treanor

QUOTE : The Co-operative Group is facing a demand to pump more cash to its troubled banking arm which risks being crippled by a new £400m bill to pay compensation for mis-selling to customers.

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TheGuardian – The Truth Is Out: Money Is Just An IOU, And The Banks Are Rolling In It – 19 March 2014

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The Bank of England’s dose of honesty throws the theoretical basis for austerity out the window

By David Graeber

QUOTE: Back in the 1930s, Henry Ford is supposed to have remarked that it was a good thing that most Americans didn’t know how banking really works, because if they did, “there’d be a revolution before tomorrow morning”.

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TheGuardian – HSBC Hands 239 Banker £1m-Plus As It Prepares For EU Bonus Cap – 24 February 2014

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Britain’s biggest bank gives top staff multimillion pound allowances to avoid the European Union bonus cap

By Jill Treanor – theguardian.com, Monday 24 February 2014 09.18 GMT

Quote: The bank’s chairman, Douglas Flint, who in the past has not qualified for bonus payments, is also in line for share awards because of his role in “intense regulatory change”. Flint can now get maximum pay of £4.6m a year, up from £2.4m.

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TheGuardian – China’s Princelings Storing Riches In Caribbean Offshore Haven – 22 January 2014

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Relatives of political leaders including China’s current president and former premier named in trove of leaked documents from the British Virgin Islands

By James Ball and Guardian US Interactive Team

More than a dozen family members of China’s top political and military leaders are making use of offshore companies based in the British Virgin Islands, leaked financial documents reveal.

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