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...Relinquish power and return it to the people," protest leader Veera Musikapong shouted from a stage festooned in red banners as about 50,000 protesters erupted in cheers under a torrid midday sun at a major junction in the old quarter of Bangkok. Protest leaders have said that if the government refuses its ultimatum by Monday, they will set the demonstrators loose around the city, blocking traffic and surrounding key government buildings in an effort to force the Prime Minister to dissolve the House of Representatives and call a new election. (See "Thailand Braces For Anti-Government Protest...
Geldof's spirited denials (he called the BBC a "rotten old cherry" and said there was not a "shred" of evidence to support the claim) drew support from NGOs that worked in Ethiopia at the time, along with those who remember the miseries of the famine which killed hundreds of thousands of people, as well as the gumption Geldof showed by pulling together rock stars from the U.S and Britain to help feed the victims. In the days since, however, Geldof has raised eyebrows for his apparent refusal to acknowledge the possibility that money may have been skimmed...
...People think that Americans are notorious consumers and will shift very quickly back to their old habits, but we're not so sure about that," says Eshelman. He speculates that because of the number of jobs that would need to be added each month, it will likely take five to 10 years for employment to return to 2007 levels. In December 2009, the country's seasonally adjusted employment was at 129.5 million, down 8.5 million jobs from its peak in December 2007. Even if 150,000 jobs were added every month, it would take five years to return...
...There's anger because people feel it was unfair that people with low wages who pay their taxes are having to pay again," says Miltos, a 39-year-old who works for an environmental organization and declined to give his last name...
...intensity of the violence doesn't yet rival the worst of the riots that racked Greece in December 2008, when the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old boy sparked weeks of street protests and vandalism. But since the government announced the second round of austerity measures, the pace and scale of the protests have escalated. Polls also indicate that popular support for the government's handling of the crisis is slipping - a recent survey by the Sunday edition of To Vima, an Athens newspaper, for instance, showed that most Greeks think it will take a long time...