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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Fwd: CC News Letter, 26 Sep - This Economic Collapse Is A 'Crisis of Bigness' ‎



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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' ‎
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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



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