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THE GREAT TPP DEATHTRAP FOR INDIA, CHINA & 10 OTHER MEMBER-NATIONS
The Great TPP Deathtrap for India, China & 10 Other Member-Nations The Terms of Destruction. The Clues are all there in Obamatrade and Obamacare. The truth emerges out of the shadows of secrecy… Let’s start here. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade treaty, coming down the homestretch toward ratification, involving 12 nations which account for […]
Unnatural Disaster: How Global Warming Helped Cause India’s Catastrophic Flood
Unnatural Disaster: How Global Warming Helped Cause India’s Catastrophic Flood The flood that swept through the Indian state of Uttarakhand two years ago killed thousands of people and was one of the worst disasters in the nation’s recent history. Now researchers are saying that melting glaciers and shifting storm tracks played a major role in the […]
Monsanto and the Subjugation of India
Monsanto and the Subjugation of India Control the Food, Control the State After a study of GMOs over a four-year plus period, India’s multi-party Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture recommended a ban on GM food crops stating they had no role in a country of small farmers. The Supreme Court appointed a technical expert committee […]
The senility of elites: coal mining must continue, no matter what the human costs
The senility of elites: coal mining must continue, no matter what the human costs The coal mine of Bihar, India. Photo by Nitin Kirloskar This post was inspired by a recent article about coal mining in India by David Rose in the Guardian about coal mining. In India, people are dying in the streets because of excessive heat […]
Meanwhile In India, It Is So Hot The Roads Are Melting, “One Billion People Impacted”
Meanwhile In India, It Is So Hot The Roads Are Melting, “One Billion People Impacted” While we patiently await Wall Street’s weathermen, formerly known as economists, to blame the next swoon in US GDP on California’s relentless drought, now in its fourth year, we wonder how many double seasonally-adjusted, pro-forma, non-GAAP GDP points India’s blistering […]
India Plans to Build 100 “Smart” Cities for the Elites
India Plans to Build 100 “Smart” Cities for the Elites Have you ever wondered what would happen if the rich kept getting richer? I’m not talking about the 1%. They mostly consist of upper-middle-class business owners and real estate agents. No, I’m talking about the 1% of the 1%. The real power behind the throne. […]
Ukraine “Loses” Five Indian Airplanes, Shake-Up of Secret Service and Army Underway
Ukraine “Loses” Five Indian Airplanes, Shake-Up of Secret Service and Army Underway Indian Planes go Missing in Kiev This is really too funny. As Sputnik reports, India has entered into a contract with a Ukrainian state-owned company to refurbish and upgrade its fleet of military transport planes. Now it has turned out that the company has […]
Who Benefits Most From Cheap Oil?
Who Benefits Most From Cheap Oil? We are living in a world obsessed with oil and its price movements. Some time back, when all the trade pundits were predicting a stable 100$ benchmark, the prices fell… and how! The current fall in the oil price has been particularly harsh and excruciating for some of the […]
As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, Two Towns Face the Fallout
As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, Two Towns Face the Fallout Recently, Buddhists at a nunnery in Zanskar Valley, a 30-mile-long alley of gray stone high in the Himalayas of northwest India, took the unprecedented step of planting an apricot tree. The valley is known as a “cold desert,” because just half an inch of rain falls a […]
“Colossal Defeat” For Obama As Australia Joins China’s Regional Bank
“Colossal Defeat” For Obama As Australia Joins China’s Regional Bank Having attacked its “closest ally” UK for “constant accomodation” with China, we suspect President Obama will be greatly displeased at yet another close-ally’s decision to partner up with the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). As The Australian reports, “make no mistake,” the decision by Australia’s Abbott […]
A Day In The Life Of A Falling BRIC
A Day In The Life Of A Falling BRIC It’s not that long ago, in 2001, that Jim O’Neill, then still with Goldman Sachs, coined the term BRICs, for the fast emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. O’Neill saw a global power shift from the west to these four nations happening. Fast forward […]
India Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate “Pre-Emptively” For Second Time In 2 Months
India Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate “Pre-Emptively” For Second Time In 2 Months In a surprise move, the RBI just cut its main interest rates for the second time in two months, taking it from 6.75% to 6.50%, in what the central bank calls a “pre-emptive” policy move, but what is in reality merely a […]
De-Dollarization: Russia Ratifies $100 Billion BRICS Bank
De-Dollarization: Russia Ratifies $100 Billion BRICS Bank A BRICS Bank – as an IMF alternative and to enable nations to become less dependent on the global reserve currency – was originally discussed at The BRICS Summit in 2012. Thenat the 2014 BRICS Summit, the framework for The BRICS Bank was approved as “a system of measures that would help prevent […]
Move Over Syriza and Podemos – Revolutionary Indian Political Party Sweeps New Delhi Elections
Move Over Syriza and Podemos – Revolutionary Indian Political Party Sweeps New Delhi Elections Critics say that Kejriwal has been acting like a political novice by releasing a slew of allegations that may not come to much. Khurshid, for once, has said that Kejriwal was “an ant taking on the might of an elephant”. Kejriwal […]
HSBC bank ‘helped clients dodge millions in tax’
HSBC bank ‘helped clients dodge millions in tax’ Banking giant HSBC helped wealthy clients across the world evade billions of pounds worth of tax, the BBC has learned. Panorama has seen accounts from 100,000 clients in more than 200 countries, leaked by a whistleblower in 2007. The documents include details of almost 7,000 clients based […]
