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Parliamentary Panel Rejects UID Bill
By Moneylife Digital Team
http://www.countercurrents.org/mdt081211.htm
The Standing Committee on Finance has rejected the UID Bill, which was aimed to enforce bio-metrics enabled Aadhaar identification system on all residents of India. In a major set-back to the Manmohan Singh led government, the Planning Commission and Nandan Nilekani, the former chief of Infosys
Saudi Prince Calls For Kingdom To Acquire WMDs
By John Daly
http://www.countercurrents.org/daly081211.htm
On 5 December Prince bin Turki al Faisal, speaking at the "The Gulf and the Globe" conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh urged the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to become a powerful regional bloc by establishing a unified armed force and defense structure and also acquire nuclear weapons
Declaration Of The Indigenous Peoples
Of The World To COP17
By IIPFCC
http://www.countercurrents.org/iipfcc081211.htm
Statement to the United Nations climate change meeting (COP17), adopted by the International Indigenous Peoples' Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC), December 3, 2011, Durban, South Africa
Pass The Buck And Ignore The Problem
By Marianne de Nazareth
http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth081211.htm
From being the eye of the storm, the global climate conference has fizzled into a pleasant draught of ritualistic yearly media attention and noone expects the 2011 Durban Summit to be anything but ineffectual. As the world's leaders exercise their muscles in a healthy game of passing the buck, time might be running short for those who cannot participate
What Peak Oil Looks Like
By John Michael Greer
http://www.countercurrents.org/greer081211.htm
One of the perennial themes of peak oil discussion over the last decade or so has been what the world will look like once the age of cheap abundant energy comes to a close. While the arguments are ongoing, the answer may already have arrived. With a tip of the hat to green economist Herman Daly, the Archdruid explains
Iran: Possible Implications Of An Oil Embargo
By Euan Mearns
http://www.countercurrents.org/mearns081211.htm
If armed conflict spreads, compromising oil exports through the Straights of Hormuz, oil exports from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Iraq and Iran will be affected. Data is not available for Iraq, but exports from Saudi, Kuwait, UAE and Qatar stood at around 12,805,000 bpd in 2010. The global net export market stood at around 35,173,000 and so these 4 countries alone account for around 36.4% of the global export market (excluding Iraq and Iran). Should these exports cease, albeit temporarily, the oil price will go through the roof, causing severe trauma to the global economy, including China
L.A. And Occupy L.A. Agree: It's Time To End
Corporate Personhood
By Brooke Jarvis
http://www.countercurrents.org/jarvis081211.htm
On December 3, just two days before Occupy L.A. was evicted by police, the General Assembly of the occupation passed a unanimous resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood. Today, the City Council of Los Angeles also voted, also unanimously, for a resolution making the same appeal
By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It":
Lost Verities And Dirty Hippies
By Phil Rockstroh
http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh081211.htm
At this point, the situation comes down to this: paradigm shift or perish. The hour is amenable to reevaluate, reorganize and re-occupy. Doing so will prove helpful in withstanding false narratives
Obama Raises The Military Stakes:
Confrontation On The Frontiers Of
China And Russia
By James Petras
http://www.countercurrents.org/petras081211.htm
The Obama regime has learned nothing: Instead he has turned toward greater military confrontation with global powers, namely Russia and China. Obama has adopted a provocative offensive military strategy right on the frontiers of both China and Russia
Towards A True Paradigm Shift In Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud
http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud081211.htm
It requires a generation of leaders with clean slates, revolutionary in their thinking, motivated by the single belief that no freedom can be achieved without true national unity, under a single flag. The allegiance must not lie with any particular faction, but to Palestine itself, and the only unifying slogan should be 'Freedom'
Defense Authorization Act Will Destroy Bill of Rights
By Sherwood Ross
http://www.countercurrents.org/ross081211.htm
The grim face of totalitarianism is emerging in the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) now before Congress. This bill is the last mile post on America's sad, well-traveled road to the butcher shop of dictatorship
A 'Thappad' (Slap) For Mr Subramaniam Swamy !
By Subhash Gatade
http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade081211.htm
The Harvard University faculty recently delivered its own 'slap' for one of its ex students who also happened to be its visiting faculty. In its recent meeting for the approval of the 2012 summer school course catalog it was decided to exclude Mr Swamy's Economics S -110 and Economics 1316 from the catalog and thus effectively removing him from the faculty
Arrest And Harassment of
Pastor C.M Khanna in Srinagar
Fact Finding Report
http://www.countercurrents.org/ffr081211.htm
Report Of The Fact Finding Team To Srinagar And Jammu [ 29 November- 3 December 2011 ] Regarding The Arrest And Harassment Of Pastor C.M Khanna Of All Saints Church, Srinagar
Corporate Lobbying Gaining Strength In India
By Devinder Sharma
http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma081211.htm
It is important for us to also know how much money has been spent by companies on influencing the Prime Minister's office and also on parliamentarians. After all, it is our future that is at stake
FDI Policy In Multi-Brand Retail
Favors The Big Multinationals
By Shekar Swamy
http://www.countercurrents.org/swamy081211.htm
The minimum amount fixed for foreign investment is $100 million (nearly Rs 500 crores). Only the big players in the retail business have this kind of capital. The Commerce Minister said that the big foreign retailers will invest not in millions but in billions. This is precisely the danger. Money power will take over a ready market, as it has happened in other countries
PUDR Denounces State Suppression Of
Democratic Organizations In The Name Of Maoism
By Harish Dhawan & Paramjeet Singh
http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr081211.htm
Minister Jitendra Singh stated that left-wing organizations like CPML-New Democracy and CPML-Liberation have an active presence in Delhi. Besides, Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), People's Democratic Front of India (PDF), Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) and Democratic Students Union (DSU) were also named as front organizations for Maoists
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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:25 AM
Subject: CC News Letter, 08 Dec - India- Parliamentary Panel Rejects UID Bill
To: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com
Dear Friend,
If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word.It's time humanity should come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter, http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents
In Solidarity
Binu Mathew, Editor,
Countercurrents.org
Educate! Organize! Agitate!
Parliamentary Panel Rejects UID Bill
By Moneylife Digital Team
http://www.countercurrents.org/mdt081211.htm
The Standing Committee on Finance has rejected the UID Bill, which was aimed to enforce bio-metrics enabled Aadhaar identification system on all residents of India. In a major set-back to the Manmohan Singh led government, the Planning Commission and Nandan Nilekani, the former chief of Infosys
Saudi Prince Calls For Kingdom To Acquire WMDs
By John Daly
http://www.countercurrents.org/daly081211.htm
On 5 December Prince bin Turki al Faisal, speaking at the "The Gulf and the Globe" conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh urged the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to become a powerful regional bloc by establishing a unified armed force and defense structure and also acquire nuclear weapons
Declaration Of The Indigenous Peoples
Of The World To COP17
By IIPFCC
http://www.countercurrents.org/iipfcc081211.htm
Statement to the United Nations climate change meeting (COP17), adopted by the International Indigenous Peoples' Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC), December 3, 2011, Durban, South Africa
Pass The Buck And Ignore The Problem
By Marianne de Nazareth
http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth081211.htm
From being the eye of the storm, the global climate conference has fizzled into a pleasant draught of ritualistic yearly media attention and noone expects the 2011 Durban Summit to be anything but ineffectual. As the world's leaders exercise their muscles in a healthy game of passing the buck, time might be running short for those who cannot participate
What Peak Oil Looks Like
By John Michael Greer
http://www.countercurrents.org/greer081211.htm
One of the perennial themes of peak oil discussion over the last decade or so has been what the world will look like once the age of cheap abundant energy comes to a close. While the arguments are ongoing, the answer may already have arrived. With a tip of the hat to green economist Herman Daly, the Archdruid explains
Iran: Possible Implications Of An Oil Embargo
By Euan Mearns
http://www.countercurrents.org/mearns081211.htm
If armed conflict spreads, compromising oil exports through the Straights of Hormuz, oil exports from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Iraq and Iran will be affected. Data is not available for Iraq, but exports from Saudi, Kuwait, UAE and Qatar stood at around 12,805,000 bpd in 2010. The global net export market stood at around 35,173,000 and so these 4 countries alone account for around 36.4% of the global export market (excluding Iraq and Iran). Should these exports cease, albeit temporarily, the oil price will go through the roof, causing severe trauma to the global economy, including China
L.A. And Occupy L.A. Agree: It's Time To End
Corporate Personhood
By Brooke Jarvis
http://www.countercurrents.org/jarvis081211.htm
On December 3, just two days before Occupy L.A. was evicted by police, the General Assembly of the occupation passed a unanimous resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood. Today, the City Council of Los Angeles also voted, also unanimously, for a resolution making the same appeal
By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It":
Lost Verities And Dirty Hippies
By Phil Rockstroh
http://www.countercurrents.org/rockstroh081211.htm
At this point, the situation comes down to this: paradigm shift or perish. The hour is amenable to reevaluate, reorganize and re-occupy. Doing so will prove helpful in withstanding false narratives
Obama Raises The Military Stakes:
Confrontation On The Frontiers Of
China And Russia
By James Petras
http://www.countercurrents.org/petras081211.htm
The Obama regime has learned nothing: Instead he has turned toward greater military confrontation with global powers, namely Russia and China. Obama has adopted a provocative offensive military strategy right on the frontiers of both China and Russia
Towards A True Paradigm Shift In Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud
http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud081211.htm
It requires a generation of leaders with clean slates, revolutionary in their thinking, motivated by the single belief that no freedom can be achieved without true national unity, under a single flag. The allegiance must not lie with any particular faction, but to Palestine itself, and the only unifying slogan should be 'Freedom'
Defense Authorization Act Will Destroy Bill of Rights
By Sherwood Ross
http://www.countercurrents.org/ross081211.htm
The grim face of totalitarianism is emerging in the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) now before Congress. This bill is the last mile post on America's sad, well-traveled road to the butcher shop of dictatorship
A 'Thappad' (Slap) For Mr Subramaniam Swamy !
By Subhash Gatade
http://www.countercurrents.org/gatade081211.htm
The Harvard University faculty recently delivered its own 'slap' for one of its ex students who also happened to be its visiting faculty. In its recent meeting for the approval of the 2012 summer school course catalog it was decided to exclude Mr Swamy's Economics S -110 and Economics 1316 from the catalog and thus effectively removing him from the faculty
Arrest And Harassment of
Pastor C.M Khanna in Srinagar
Fact Finding Report
http://www.countercurrents.org/ffr081211.htm
Report Of The Fact Finding Team To Srinagar And Jammu [ 29 November- 3 December 2011 ] Regarding The Arrest And Harassment Of Pastor C.M Khanna Of All Saints Church, Srinagar
Corporate Lobbying Gaining Strength In India
By Devinder Sharma
http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma081211.htm
It is important for us to also know how much money has been spent by companies on influencing the Prime Minister's office and also on parliamentarians. After all, it is our future that is at stake
FDI Policy In Multi-Brand Retail
Favors The Big Multinationals
By Shekar Swamy
http://www.countercurrents.org/swamy081211.htm
The minimum amount fixed for foreign investment is $100 million (nearly Rs 500 crores). Only the big players in the retail business have this kind of capital. The Commerce Minister said that the big foreign retailers will invest not in millions but in billions. This is precisely the danger. Money power will take over a ready market, as it has happened in other countries
PUDR Denounces State Suppression Of
Democratic Organizations In The Name Of Maoism
By Harish Dhawan & Paramjeet Singh
http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr081211.htm
Minister Jitendra Singh stated that left-wing organizations like CPML-New Democracy and CPML-Liberation have an active presence in Delhi. Besides, Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), People's Democratic Front of India (PDF), Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) and Democratic Students Union (DSU) were also named as front organizations for Maoists
Countercurrents And You !
Click here to find out
how you can support CC
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