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Napoleon Bonaparte’s pistols sold in France for 1.7 mn euros by auctioneers

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Paris (AFP) – Two pistols that Napoleon Bonaparte once intended to use to kill himself were sold in France on Sunday for 1.69 million euros ($1.8 million), the auction house said, with the government insisting that they stay in the country as national treasures. The French government insisted that the pistols remain in France as…

“It’s Not Socialism”: China is a Capitalist Cheap Labour Economy, Based on Exceedingly Low Wages

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Unlimited Reserves of Cheap Labor: 292 Million “Internal Migrant Workers” – BY MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY IntroductionMost analysts and historians fail to understand that starting in the early 1980s, China had become a full fledged capitalist country. There are powerful US business interests including Big Pharma, major hi-tech companies, banking institutions which are firmly entrenched inside China….