philip rizk's List: our neoliberal moment

• in Portugal and Spain. That would be a combination of a defunct labour market and massive indebtedness of the private sector.
• instead of solving those structural problems, the two countries last week responded with a fiscal tightening
• governance reform proposal by the European Commission
• it placed too much emphasis on fiscal policy and not enough on growth
• despite the shiny new umbrella, not much will have changed.

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• Thirty-seven percent say they have a negative reaction and the rest aren’t sure.

• Li Hai's death, and those of his colleagues, have raised questions about working conditions in Chinese factories, with labour activists alleging that long hours, low pay and high pressure make for an unbearable working environment.
• "Every shift we finish 4,000 Dell computers, all the while standing up," one Foxconn worker told China Labour Watch for a recent report.
• workers were reacting to feeling as if they were machines or spare parts.
• The Foxconn 'jumping' incident is a call for life."
• shift typically lasts between 10 and 12 hours

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• The film was edited and produced in Iceland where Assange spends a lot of his time and which last week prepared the most radical and liberal freedom of information legislation anywhere in the world.

• Venezuela's economy is the worst performing in Latin America this year
• problem exacerbated by a drop in oil output since 2008, power outages and soaring inflation.