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Evidence shows Western consumption levels are unsustainable, their environmental effects alone proving hugely destructive. Radical lifestyle changes are thus essential to avoid serious, likely irreversible consequences.
(22) 1.2 Billion People in India to be Given Biometric ID Cards
They'll contain a person's name, age, birth date, fingerprints or iris scans, "though no caste or religious identification." Then in five years, a giant computer will hold data for half of them, receiving a 16-digit ID number by 2014 during the project's first phase.
Thereafter, its use will be required for all government and private services from drivers' licenses to hospitals to banking. Critics, however, balk, saying "the project will turn India into an Orwellian police state (able to) spy on citizens' private lives." Despite government denials, it may be precisely for that purpose.
Thus far not enacted, America's Real ID Act plans the same thing, widespread state opposition over the cost having stopped it up to now.
(23) Afghan War: Largest Military Coalition in History
Under NATO and other coalition contributors, the Afghan war is being waged by "the largest military coalition in history," overall including contingents from up to 50 nations as part of the US-led NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The war's only beneficiary is America and "a rapidly emerging global NATO" as its imperial strike arm.
(24) War Crimes of General Stanley McChrystal
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