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Bitcoin in India: Drivers and Barriers to Adoption

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“Bitcoin’s growth in 2013 has accelerated tremendously, driven largely by economic concerns which bitcoin is uniquely positioned to solve. This has been evidenced so far this year by conditions in Cyprus, China and Argentina, and has highlighted bitcoin’s potential in less developed nations likeKenya as well.  All of the countries listed above are known for high inflation rates, strict capital controls, or a combination of both – a scenario that is beginning to unfold in India. This analysis will address India’s current economic climate and the factors that would affect the population’s propensity to adopt bitcoin on a large scale.”

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-in-india-drivers-and-barriers-to-adoption/

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Jim Rogers: Need to abolish capital controls, cut public spending in India

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Jim Rogers: Need to abolish capital controls, cut public spending in India

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India’s Poorest Women Coerced Into Sterilization

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“When it comes to family planning, women are on the front lines in India, which has carried out about 37 percent of the world’s female sterilizations. Government-imposed quotas and financial incentives for doctors mean 4.6 million women were sterilized last year, many for cash payments and many in the unsanitary and rudimentary conditions that greeted Devi.  In neighboring China, the government has since 1979 used the threat of fines and the loss of social services to enforce rules that bar many urban couples from having more than one child. It now is beginning to ease the policy as the population ages and coastal regions face labor shortages.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-11/india-s-poorest-women-coerced-into-sterilization.html

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Tech-savvy Vietnamese coffee farmers brew global takeover

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“From high-tech Israeli irrigation systems to text message updates of global prices for the commodity, coffee farming in Vietnam’s Central Highlands has come a long way since the French first introduced the bean over a century ago.  By texting ‘CA’ to the number 8288 from any Vietnamese mobile phone, farmers almost instantly receive a message with the London prices of Robusta coffee beans and the New York price of Arabica beans.  In 20 years, Vietnam went from contributing less than 0.1 per cent of world production in 1980 to some 13 per cent in 2000 – staggering growth that has been partially blamed for the collapse of global coffee prices in the 1990s.  There is no tax on coffee exports.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/tech-savvy-vietnamese-coffee-farmers-brew-global-takeover/

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Nick Turse Describes the Real Vietnam War

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“Journalist Nick Turse describes his personal mission to compile a complete and compelling account of the Vietnam War’s horror as experienced by all sides, including innocent civilians who were sucked into its violent vortex. Turse, who devoted 12 years to tracking down the true story of Vietnam, unlocked secret troves of documents, interviewed officials and veterans — including many accused of war atrocities — and traveled throughout the Vietnamese countryside talking with eyewitnesses to create his book, Kill Anything That Moves. ‘American culture has never fully come to grips with Vietnam,’ Turse tells Bill, referring to ‘hidden and forbidden histories that just haven’t been fully engaged.'”

http://billmoyers.com/segment/nick-turse-describes-the-real-vietnam-war/

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Great is the Guilt of an Unnecessary War – Vietnam Edition

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“The Vietnam War ended forty years ago, but its toxic legacy lives on in children born decades after the conflict came to a close. One of them is 12-year-old Thi Ly, whose head is unnaturally large and visibly misshapen and her eyes are separated by an unusual distance and out of alignment. From the time she was an infant, Ly has been repeatedly hospitalized for numerous ailments. Her 43-year-old mother, Le Thi Thu, has similar deformities. Both of them are second-  and third-generation victims of exposure to dioxin as a result of the U.S. military’s use of a defoliant called Agent Orange that was used extensively over parts of southern Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.”

http://prolibertate.us/index.php/great-is-the-guilt-of?blog=7

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Dennis Rodman heads back to North Korea to see ‘friend’ Kim Jong-Un

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“Korean-American Kenneth Bae, 44, has been held prisoner in the North since November, and Rodman had said last week that he might seek the man’s release.  But speaking to reporters at Beijing airport en route to the North Korean capital, Rodman said ‘I haven’t been promised anything’ on Bae. ‘I’m just going to meet my friend Kim the marshal to start a new basketball league going,’ Rodman said. ‘I’m just trying to keep the communication job going.’  North Korea, which bans religious proselytising, said Bae was a Christian evangelist who brought in ‘inflammatory’ material.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/03/dennis-rodman-heads-back-to-north-korea-to-see-friend-kim-jong-un/

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Japan unveils $500 million ice wall plan for Fukushima water leaks

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“Tokyo on Tuesday unveiled a half-billion dollar plan to stem radioactive water leaks at Fukushima, creating a wall of ice underneath the stricken plant, as the government elbowed the operator aside.  Acknowledging global concerns over a so-far ‘haphazard’ management of the crisis by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his administration will step in with public money to get the job done.  Under the 47 billion yen ($470 million) scheme announced Tuesday, scientists will freeze the soil around the stricken reactors to form an impenetrable wall they hope will direct groundwater away from the plant.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/03/japan-unveils-500-million-ice-wall-plan-for-fukushima-water-leaks/

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Fukushima leak is ‘much worse than we were led to believe’

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“They are worried about the enormous quantities of water, used to cool the reactor cores, which are now being stored on site.  Some 1,000 tanks have been built to hold the water. But these are believed to be at around 85% of their capacity and every day an extra 400 tonnes of water are being added.  ‘The quantities of water they are dealing with are absolutely gigantic,’ said Mycle Schneider, who has consulted widely for a variety of organisations and countries on nuclear issues.  ‘What is the worse is the water leakage everywhere else – not just from the tanks. It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking out from the cracks all over the place. Nobody can measure that.'”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561

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Fukushima Radioactive Plume To Hit The US By Early 2014

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“The first radioactive ocean plume released by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster will finally be reaching the shores of the United States sometime in 2014, according to a new study from the University of New South Wales — a full three or so years after date of the disaster. Many researchers, and also officials from the World Health Organization, have argued that the radioactive particles that do make their way to the US will have a very limited effect on human health — as the concentration of radioactive material in US waters will be well below World Health Organization safety levels. But needless to say, there is some debate on this matter.”

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/02/fukushima-radioactive-plume-to-hit-the-us-by-early-2014/

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