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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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