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Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:19 PM
Subject: CC News Letter, 26 Sep - This Economic Collapse Is A 'Crisis of Bigness'
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Countercurrents.org
Educate! Organize! Agitate!
No New Proposals From IMF On European Debt Crisis
By Barry Grey
http://www.countercurrents.org/grey260911.htm
The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington, DC concluded Sunday with no agreement on specific measures to avert a default by Greece and the threat of a new financial meltdown and global depression
UN Bid Heralds Death Of Palestine's Old Guard
By Jonathan Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook260911.htm
Events at the UN are creating a new clarity for Palestinians, reminding them that there can be no self-determination until they liberate themselves from the legacy of colonialism and the self-serving illusions of the ageing notables who now lead them. The old men in suits have had their day
This Economic Collapse Is A 'Crisis of Bigness'
By Paul Kingsnorth
http://www.countercurrents.org/kingsnorth260911.htm
Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened
Systemic Collapse: The Irony Of Rural Life
By Peter Goodchild
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild260911.htm
All of humanity is involved in a global collapse that ranges from natural-resource decline to the current obsession, the multi-trillion-dollar financial crisis. The only real solution will be for individuals to make a personal decision to move away from the cities, because ultimately that is the only way to provide self-sufficiency and independence from the global economy
Hypocrisy Of The 'Poverty Line': Seven Times Below
The Stipulated Minimum wage!
By Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr260911.htm
As a "living wage", at current wage rates declared under Minimum Wage Act, comes to Rs 247 per day for unskilled. Rs 32 touted by the Planning Commission as "below poverty line" is less than seven times the Minimum Wage which itself is a "subsistence wage". Thus Minimum Wage is seven times that of BPL rate
The Poverty Of Estimates
By Devinder Sharma
http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma260911.htm
Everyone seems upset. Ironically, more upset with the definition of the poverty line and the criteria that has now become the butt of a national joke, are the economists and of course some members of the high-profile National Advisory Council
Why Government Is Worried About The Poor?
By S. Mohammed Irshad
http://www.countercurrents.org/irshad260911.htm
Problems of new poverty estimation strategy
Desecrating Memory: The Paramakudi
Police Shootings
By V. Geetha
http://www.countercurrents.org/geetha260911.htm
Several amongst us might have heard of the horrific shootings that took place at Paramakudi and Madurai on September 11. Officially seven people died when police opened fire on dalits who had gathered to pay their respects to Immanuel Sekaran
Countercurrents And You !
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From: Countercurrents <editor@countercurrents.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:19 PM
Subject: CC News Letter, 26 Sep - This Economic Collapse Is A 'Crisis of Bigness'
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!
No New Proposals From IMF On European Debt Crisis
By Barry Grey
http://www.countercurrents.org/grey260911.htm
The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington, DC concluded Sunday with no agreement on specific measures to avert a default by Greece and the threat of a new financial meltdown and global depression
UN Bid Heralds Death Of Palestine's Old Guard
By Jonathan Cook
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook260911.htm
Events at the UN are creating a new clarity for Palestinians, reminding them that there can be no self-determination until they liberate themselves from the legacy of colonialism and the self-serving illusions of the ageing notables who now lead them. The old men in suits have had their day
This Economic Collapse Is A 'Crisis of Bigness'
By Paul Kingsnorth
http://www.countercurrents.org/kingsnorth260911.htm
Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened
Systemic Collapse: The Irony Of Rural Life
By Peter Goodchild
http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild260911.htm
All of humanity is involved in a global collapse that ranges from natural-resource decline to the current obsession, the multi-trillion-dollar financial crisis. The only real solution will be for individuals to make a personal decision to move away from the cities, because ultimately that is the only way to provide self-sufficiency and independence from the global economy
Hypocrisy Of The 'Poverty Line': Seven Times Below
The Stipulated Minimum wage!
By Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr260911.htm
As a "living wage", at current wage rates declared under Minimum Wage Act, comes to Rs 247 per day for unskilled. Rs 32 touted by the Planning Commission as "below poverty line" is less than seven times the Minimum Wage which itself is a "subsistence wage". Thus Minimum Wage is seven times that of BPL rate
The Poverty Of Estimates
By Devinder Sharma
http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma260911.htm
Everyone seems upset. Ironically, more upset with the definition of the poverty line and the criteria that has now become the butt of a national joke, are the economists and of course some members of the high-profile National Advisory Council
Why Government Is Worried About The Poor?
By S. Mohammed Irshad
http://www.countercurrents.org/irshad260911.htm
Problems of new poverty estimation strategy
Desecrating Memory: The Paramakudi
Police Shootings
By V. Geetha
http://www.countercurrents.org/geetha260911.htm
Several amongst us might have heard of the horrific shootings that took place at Paramakudi and Madurai on September 11. Officially seven people died when police opened fire on dalits who had gathered to pay their respects to Immanuel Sekaran
Countercurrents And You !
Click here to find out
how you can support CC
http://www.countercurrents.org/subscription.htm
You can unsubscribe from this news letter here
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