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UNITED RESISTANCE Wanted as They KILL Us for SPORT!
Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 224
Palash Biswas
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.
Chapter 18, Page 254 King Lear (IV, i)
Govt to review security arrangements in Nalco
8 May 2009, 2039 hrs IST, Rakhi Mazumdar
The Union ministry of mines has convened a top level meeting in Delhi on Friday to review security arrangements in National Aluminium Co Ltd (Nalco) following last month's Maoist attack on its prized bauxite mines at Damanjodi.
UCO Bank posts Rs.558 crore net profit
8 May 2009, 2024 hrs IST
City-based public sector bank UCO Bank posted a net profit of Rs.558 crore for the fiscal 2008-09 compared to Rs.412 crore last fiscal, a growth of 35.44 per cent, a top bank official said Friday.
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Advani in Bengal to canvass support for party candidates
08 May, 2009 [06:31 PM]
BJP's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani arrived in West Bengal to canvass support for party candidates in the last phase of Lok Sabha polls at three regions including Shradhananda Bazzar in Bara Bazaar and Dumdum central jail. Advani seemed confident of winning the elections this time. While talking to the press he said that with just one round of election left to decide the fate of the parties the BJP was quite confident of making it to the Top post.
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Hunt intensifies for post poll alliances
08 May, 2009 [12:04 PM]
The two major rivalries for India's throne - the Congress and the BJP - have now intensified their hunt for allies as the possibility of a....Read More
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Toddler killed
A two-year-old girl, Shania Khatoun, died of bullet wounds in Nandigram in an attack blamed on CPM activists out to punish Trinamul supporters who defied a diktat not to vote. Her mother was shot in the stomach and is in hospital.
At least seven other people died in Bengal in poll-related incid-ents.
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Lying in wait
Lying in wait
Election is a time of illusions, both for the rulers and the ruled
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Sonia Gandhi to campaign in Chennai
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Chennai (IANS): Congress president Sonia Gandhi will address an election rally here Sunday along with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Congress party members said Friday.
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Indian IT firms would not be impacted by the tax reform proposal of US President Barak Obama, Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor NR Narayana Murthy told President Pratibha Devisinh Patil on Friday.
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Congress sure of President inviting party to form govt.
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Pakistan is going through dangerous turmoil. The Taliban's capturing of Swat valley (April 2009) and other parts of Pakistan are accompanied by the news of their atrocities in the region, which not only include the brutal killing of innocent's citizens ...
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Malaysia to free 3 Indian activists from prison
Times of India - 8 hours ago
8 May 2009, 1128 hrs IST, AP PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia's government announced on Friday that it will release 13 people imprisoned without trial under a tough security law, including three ethnic Indian activists accused of inciting racial hatred.
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US introduces stricter screening for H1B; Indians may be hit
Daily News & Analysis - 1 hour ago
PTI Washington: Indian professionals aspiring to go to the US to work may now find it more difficult to get H-1B visas with Washington deciding on stricter screening following complaints of misuse of the facility.
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Achuthanandan asked to go? Politburo says it is rumour
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Calcutta Telegraph
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57% voter turnout in phase 4
Times of India - 8 hours ago
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Stringent security for Nandigram
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Poll peaceful, says EC
The Statesman - 17 hours ago
He, added that three people were arrested for poll related violence in Nandigram, while two others were arrested for ransacking a booth in Asansol. ...
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Horns locked over Nandigram turf
Times of India - May 3, 2009
And never before in their three decades of rule, has the Left Front faced a stiffer resistance till Nandigram erupted two years ago. ...
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PM tears into Left at rally in Kolkata
Hindustan Times - May 1, 2009
He in turn attacked the Left Front government for the violence that accompanied its land acquisition efforts at Singur and Nandigram. ...
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One dead in violence in West Bengal
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Kolkata: Trouble-torn Nandigram in West Bengal erupted on Thursday as gunfire and bombings marred the polling that began on a peaceful note. ...
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Small phase but high stakes in Round IV
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State of the Maoist state
Himal Southasian - May 2, 2009
When it comes to statecraft, the Maoist failure is evident in not being able to reach out to the political parties, civil society, the professional classes ...
Eminent Human Right activist, SUJATO BHADRA, based in Kolkata quotes the Great Poet SHAKESPEAR!
They Kill us for Sport!
Mr Bhadra calls for UNITED RESISTANCE against the Marxist Hegemony ruling Bengal for THREE DECADES! Well, his Face is pasted on the Parivartan chai HOARDING all over the city.
He has made the SOS call in his first Page write up in Dainik STATESMAN published today.
Mr Bhadra also quotes Rabindra Nath Tagore to invoke MUTINY Unprecedented!
We all know Mr Bhdra and his Pro activism!
But the hardcore REALITIES in Bengal, where all Productive as well as social Forces are marginalised and every SPACE for any SOCIAL MOBILISATION is DELETED with OVERWHELMING Brahaminical Marxist Fascist Imperialist BANGLA nationality, and the GENOCIDE culture, the REGIMENTED GESTAPO may not change despite the HOARDINGS of THIRTY ODD Intelligentsia and Civil society faces crying hard FREEDOM and CHANGE!
The Gas CHAMBER would NEVER VANISH nor the DEATH CHAMBER!
My dear friends, my WIFE SABITA is also AGITATED while I criticise the SACRED MOST Bangla Nationality Sentiment and INHERENT BRAHAMINICAL BENGALI Mindset and its unquestioned COLONIALISM.
She suggests my attempt for Social Mobilisation is nothing but HATE SPEECH.
My favourite Poet and writer, NABARUN BHATTACHARYA, always engaged in SUBALTERN writing and dealing the UNDER CLASSES, NEVER accepts his status as SUB ALTERN! He still believes in CLASS STRUGGLE and DESPISES AMBEDKAR IDEOLOGY as well as CASTEOLOGY!
Sabita herself hates MAYAWATI and feels herself above CASTE LINE!
I do not BLAME anyone but this is the General Mindset of Bengalies including Indigenous aboriginal and Minority Communities, SC, ST and OBC!
I understand that many of you may be TIRED of my CARPET BOMBING against the Manusmriti ZIONIST APARTHEID GLOBAL corporate hegemony of ILLUMINATI!
I have always been writing about the MOST LETHAL TRIO RULING India, the TRI IBLIS SATANIC AXIS of ADWANI BUDDHA and PRANAB!
The CPIM TV Channel telecasted ADWANI CAMPAIGN in Kolakta and around LIVE !
Why!
It is not just all about ELECTION Equation or VOTE BANK READJUSTMENT STRATEGIC management.
It is some Thing more! We have to try to UNDERSTAND!
DAINIK statesman also published an EDIT page article written by the GROUP Theatre ICON, Shaoli Mitra!
Shaoli Mitra! DI has rightly highlighted the CULTURE of TERROR and INTOLERANCE.
Shaoli Mitra! used the History of NAXAL REPRESSION in seventies and quoted incidents from BARANAGAR GENOCIDE in 1972!
GIRAFFE is a VEGETARIAN ANIMAL NON VIOLENT!
Why the Ruling Hegemony is afraid of the THIRTY ODD Giraffes while the MAJORITY SUPPORT is INTACT!
Bangla statesman also published an INTERVIEW of the NEPAL PRESIDENT, Dr. RAMBARAN Yadav!
Prominent Bangladeshi writer and human Right Activist HUMAYUN Kabir interviewed the PRESIDENT who JUSTIFIES his action to dismiss the PRACHAND action against the ARMY CHIEF!
We NEVER know the stance of the Bengali Intelligentsia and CIVIL SOCIETY on the events and developments in SOUTH ASIA and beyond.
My dear friends, for me , the CHANGE is not so LOCAL.
The RESISTANCE is not limited within nandigram, Singur or Lalgarh!
After all, what kind of CHANGE do we WANT?
Is this the CHANGE WANTED?
Kabir Suman hits the chord to make a dent in red fort
Abhisek Roychowdhury
KOLKATA, May 7: With the mercury level soaring, election campaign is gaining momentum at Jadavpur parliamentary constituency, which is traditionally considered a Left fortress. The sitting CPI-M MP, Mr Sujan Chakrabarty, seems quite confident as he locks horns with a political novice, but popular singer ~ Kabir Suman ~ who has set a new trend in Bengali songs.
Sociable and suave, Mr Chakrabarty has always been at the call of the electorate cutting across political affiliation. Be it a television debate or grievances of the students at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institution, Mr Chakrabarty has always been there to help sort out problems. He has been sitting with local people in some places and interacting with them. The scorching heat does not deter him from undertaking long walks to win the hearts of voters.
Last time, Mr Chakrabarty came out with flying colours by a margin of 78,193 votes. He has been emphasising on the emergence of a Third Front and industrialisation policy of the Left Front government in his campaign. Delimitation has brought about certain realignments with some new Assembly segments being included in the Jadavpur constituency.
Sonarpur, once a reserved constituency, has been bifurcated into Sonarpur north and Sonarpur south. Similarly, Baruipur, a general constituency, has been divided into Baruipur East (SC) and Baruipur West. Two Assembly constituencies Tollygunge and Bhangore have been new additions post delimitation.
Political observers feel that the Left candidate would get maximum votes from Baruipur and Sonarpur areas. As a Trinamul candidate was elected from the Bhangore Assembly seat, Kabir Suman may get a lead from here.
Suman, a new entrant in politics, is known for his Jiban Mukhi Gaan, a new variety of Bengali songs. Playing the guitar, Suman sings his popular numbers one after the other at election rallies in the sweltering heat.
He has been encouraged by the indomitable spirit of Miss Mamata Banerjee since the days of the uprising at Singur and Nandigram. He views Miss Banerjee as a symbol of resistance to oppression and injustice perpetrated by the ruling combine. He is undertaking road shows to make his point to voters.
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India chana futures lower on stocks
Fri May 8, 2009 2:29pm IST
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MUMBAI, May 8 (Reuters) - India chana futures were trading lower on Friday afternoon on higher output estimates and rising exchange warehouse stocks, analysts said.
Stocks at the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange warehouses have risen by 51 percent to 60,647 tonnes in the past two weeks, as per latest exchange data.
Traders are moving stocks into exchange warehouses before prices fall further on arrivals from a bumper crop.
According to the federal farm ministry estimates chana output may rise by 13.7 percent to 6.54 million tonnes in 2008/09 from 5.75 million tonnes a year ago.
"The medium term trend appears bearish," a Kotak Commodity Services Ltd analyst said.
At 2:16 p.m, June futures contract NCHM9 was down 0.98 percent at 2,319 rupees per 100 kg.
GUAR:
India guar futures were lower in afternoon trade on profit-taking after hitting strong technical resistance, analysts said.
Two analysts said June contract couldn't breach strong technical resistance at 1,855 rupees per 100 kg. Continued...
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Maoist leaflets found in West Bengal secretariat
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There was a stir in the West Bengal state secretariat Friday following the discovery of Maoist leaflets demanding unconditional release of 12 of their leaders.
The leaflets were found scattered in the press corner - located in the highest security zone close to the chief minister's office on the first floor of the Writers' Building - the state government secretariat.
The leaflets, in the name of the Maoists' spokesman Gour Chakraborty, carried photographs of the 12 leaders lodged in various jails of the country and demanded they be given status of political prisoners immediately.
Following the discovery, Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty called an emergency meeting and set up a committee to probe how the leaflets made it to the high-security zone.
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KOLKATA, May 7: The battle for the 17 Lok Sabha seats in the heartland of south Bengal which will finally decide whether the Red regime is on its way out or whether it's still invincible even after the Nandigram-Singur turmoil, was a bloody one. Widespread intimidation, violence, killing and booth-capturing marked the second phase of the state's polling spread over seven districts. The trail of violence left five political activists dead ~ four murdered, including a Trinamul man whose throat was slit in the Marxist stronghold of Burdwan ~ and another due to a cardiac arrest as he tried to escape the violence in Tamluk. A one-and-a-half- year-old child was also killed and her mother critically wounded in a late night attack by CPI-M cadres on Trinamul supporters at Satengabari, also in Tamluk. Two more voters were confirmed as having died during the poll process, one of heatstroke and the second of a suspected heart attack whilst he was in a polling booth.
Over 75 per cent votes, on an average, were cast in each district.
The most sensational feature of the fierce fight for capturing new political space and retaining old terrain was that the Trinamul-led Opposition took the battle into Burdwan ~ the traditional Red bastion that has weathered many storms unscathed and proved to be the Marxists' mainstay. Indiscriminate bombing and booth capturing marred the polls in the five districts of Burdwan, Murshidabad, Midnapore (East), Howrah and Birbhum, while stray incidents were reported from the remaining two ~ Nadia and Hooghly. Unnerved by the turn of events, the CPI-M alleged ~ a first, this ~ that there was "large-scale rigging" by the Trinamul in 58 booths in Nandigram and lodged a formal complaint with the Election Commission. Even if that was a disingenous allegation, it is a fact that the violence wasn't one-sided, as both Trinamul and the CPI-M activists had a free run flexing their muscles and firepower in areas they had an edge over their rival. This explained
why the two main contenders traded allegations of attacks and booth-capturing against each other. Significantly, Mr Pranab Mukherjee said if the Congress failed to muster the numbers "it would be sensible" to take support from the Left "in the interest of secularism". The most gruesome killing took place at Kanyapur in Asansol around 12.30 p.m, when a bomb injured a Trinamul supporter, Akshay Bauri (37) when he was waiting for his turn to vote in a queue outside a booth (No. 281/7). The assailants, alleged to be CPI-M activists, pounced on him as he lay on the ground and slit his throat.
Two policemen, Mr Dilip Ganguly and Mr Kalachand Mallik, also sustained splinter injuries during the attack. A polling officer of the booth, Mr Anath Bandhu Mondal, went missing in the melee. There was a free-for-all in Burdwan as the Congress candidate, Ms Nargis Begum, was allegedly assaulted at Bhatar.
At Khargram in Jangipur, from where external affairs minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, is seeking reelection, Kashinath Mondal (40), whom CPI-M claimed to be their activist, was killed in a bomb attack allegedly by Congress supporters. Clashes between CPI-M and Congress supporters were reported in Naodapara and Domkal in Murshidabad where at least thirteen persons were injured.
In Birbhum too, at least four Congress supporters were injured in a clash with CPI-M activists in Dubrajpur Rossa when CPI-M activists allegedly hurled bombs in Thupsara panchayat to capture booths. Only recently, the Trinamul had wrested this CPI-M stronghold. In Hooghly,(Continued from page 1)
CPI-M agents were not allowed to enter six booths in Jangipara ~ a Red citadel which holds the key to the Serampore Lok Sabha seat. The CPI-M demanded re-poll in two of these six booths ~ Kamdebpur and Bahana.
As poll drew to a close, a 20-year-old CPI-M activist, Manoar Zamadar, was shot dead from point blank range allegedly by Trinamul-backed goons outside his house at Chadrapur in Uluberia. He was returning home after casting his vote. Mir Yasin (46), brutally beaten up by CPI-M cadres when they attacked Trinamul supporters at Satengabari this afternoon, died at Tamluk district hospital tonight. Another Trinamul worker Bapan Das who was shot at by the CPI-M workers during the attack still missing, alleged Trinamul leaders. Armed CPI-M cadres attacked Satengabari for a second time late tonight, fatally wounding a one-and-half- year old girl, Shamia Khatun. Her mother Aleya Khatun also received bullet injuries and is in critical condition. At least seven people, including two women and a child, were critically injured during clashes between CPI-M and Trinamul supporters at different places in Howrah and Uluberia constituencies. Polling in Nadia was peaceful
except for a few voting machines giving trouble. A polling officer was allegedly trying to influence voters to press the button for the CPI-M candidate, Mrs Jyotirmoyee Sikdar.
Mr Debashis Sen, state chief electoral officer said polling was by and large peaceful barring a few stray incidents. Three people were arrested for poll-related violence in Nandigram and two others were nabbed for ransacking a booth in Asansol, he said. State home secretary, Mr Ardhendu Sen, said it was alleged that a political party couldn't engage polling agents in many booths of Nandigram in the morning. Later in the day, some polling agents did reach some of these booths. LF chairman Mr Biman Bose said the Trinamul chief's exhortation to voters to go to booths armed with cooking implements succeeded as the Trinamul rigged the elections. Miss Mamata Banerjee levelled the same charge against the CPI-M.
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The Telegraph tracked the polling day on either side of the great divide that symbolises this election: Nandigram and Singur. the stories of Sayra Bibi of Nandigram and Raj Kumar Jyoti of Singur
Age: 33
Village: Bainchabari, 3km from Nandigram town
Occupation: Tea seller
Loss: Husband Rejaul Sheikh, shot dead by CPM cadres during the "recapture" of Nandigram in
November 2007
Sayra Bibi
How her day started
Sayra Bibi wakes up at 4am, offers namaaz. On election day, she prays for her husband's departed soul. Does household chores
Was she looking forward to this day?
Yes. "Because I want to avenge my husband's death by defeating the CPM. My husband lost his life because of the land war. I hope the CPM loses, then at least I'll get some peace"
Another day but different too
Around 6.30am, Sayra Bibi has muri and tea with her four children. She then opens the tea shop she runs next to her house. Makes tea for the polling personnel of her booth, 200 yards from her house
Stepping out
Before leaving for the booth at 7.10am, she tells her children: "Pray that I can vote peacefully so that the CPM can be defeated. At least then, your father's soul can rest in peace"
On her way
"I consider myself lucky to be alive and around to cast my vote," she says. "I consider it providence that my children are all alive despite the attacks of the CPM goons"
Fellow voters
Sayra Bibi meets a few other women from the same village on their way to the booth. They embrace each other
The vote and after
"A mission accomplished," she declares after voting at 7.20am. "I am so relieved that I have been able to vote for my candidate. I am happy that there has been no violence in this booth and I have been able to cast my vote in peace"
Will her vote make a difference?
"It will make a huge difference as the person I have voted for will definitely win," Sayra Bibi says. "This will be a fitting reply to the CPM"
What if her candidate loses
"I am confident that my candidate will win," she says. "There is no doubt. If for any reason he does not, I will only curse my fate"
What now?
"This evening, I'll pray for my candidate, hope that he wins," Sayra Bibi says. "But tomorrow will be a normal day for me. I'll wait for the results now."
Age: 23
Village: Gopalnagar, Singur
Occupation: Trainee technician at Tata Motors plant in Pantnagar
Loss: Used to work at the Nano plant in Singur. The Rs 1,700 he got a month sustained him in Singur, but tough to make ends meet in Pantnagar
Raj Kumar Jyoti
How his day started
Jyoti wakes up at 6.30am, has tea, walks to nearby Sahanapara and buys a newspaper. Flipping through it, he chats with some friends. Returns home, changes and leaves again for Sahanapara, where his friends are waiting
Was he looking forward to this day?
Yes. "The dreams that I had been building crashed around me. This is why I have taken leave and come to Singur to vote for the CPM. I think we have been cheated by the Trinamul people. I was getting two free meals besides my salary. I was quite happy"
Stepping out
Jyoti catches up with friends on the situation in Singur. He asks them whether they had visited the Tata plant administrative office that is still functioning. They say there is no positive news of the Nano returning. Jyoti snacks on muri and ghugni before setting out to vote around 2pm. He walks to his booth, located in Gopalnagar
On his way
"The thought uppermost in my mind today is that there should be some hope that industry will come up in Singur. I see only desolation here. But I want to come back to Bengal, to my home in Singur," says Jyoti
Fellow voters
Jyoti runs into his uncle, Asit, on way to the booth, and Somnath Das, his batchmate at the Tata plant. "My uncle told me to vote for the CPM," Jyoti says. "I assured him that there was no need to tell me that. This time the vote is for industry in Singur"
The vote and after
"After I voted, my thoughts went back to the four months that I had spent in the Nano plant in Singur," Jyoti says. "There was food at home and hardly a worry"
Will his vote make a difference?
"I do hope that my vote will make a difference. My vote could ensure a return to the days of hope in Singur. Drops of water make a sea"
What if his candidate loses
"My candidate will never lose," Jyoti says. "But what I'm not certain about is if the Singur Assembly segment can give him a big lead"
What now?
"I'll discuss the polls with my friends in the evening."
REPORTING:IMRAN AHMED SIDDIQUI IN NANDIGRAM AND KINSUK BASU IN SINGUR.
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Unfamiliar feeling of voting against CPM
IMRAN AHMED SIDDIQUI IN NANDIGRAM
For three decades, land had bonded the likes of Subhasini Mali, Sudhir Pradhan and Arup Samanta to the CPM, a party that had taught them to "hold our heads high".
Today, the issue of land prompted them all to vote against the party, for the first time in a Lok Sabha election in 32 years.
"I voted for the Trinamul Congress not because I have developed a fondness for the party but because I have developed a hatred for the CPM, which once used to be pro-land," said Samanta, 55, a farmer from Sonachura.
Subhasini, 60, confessed to a "strange feeling", having just cast her vote for Trinamul. She had not voted in the last rural polls, which Trinamul had swept in Nandigram.
"Today is the first time in so many years that I have not voted for the CPM. But I have no regrets. Nobody should take loyalty for granted," she said standing before her hut in Sonachura.
Subhasini said that before the Left Front came to power in 1977, uncertainty ruled the lives of bargadars (sharecroppers) , who were at the mercy of rich farmers and landlords.
All that changed with Operation Barga, launched in the initial years of Left Front rule. Sharecroppers' right to work and their share of the produce became enshrined in law. Some, like Subhasini's family, rose to become land owners themselves.
"We are land owners now, but in those days many in Nandigram were sharecroppers. The communist government taught us to hold our heads high," she said. "But the same party and the same government have now become land grabbers. How can we forgive this, though they may have once come to the aid of many of us here?"
Subhasini said she had been among the protesters who blocked the entry of police on March 14, 2007, which led to firing and the death of 14 people. "I was lucky not to take a bullet hit," she said. "But I fell down in the melee and broke my arm. That was the first time I was exposed to the brutality of this government."
Her story is repeated by many in Nandigram, an Assembly segment that had given the CPM a lead of nearly 6,000 votes in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. The CPM had polled 68,122 votes then, compared with Trinamul's 62,439.
"It will be a different story this time," said farmer Sudhir Pradhan, 65, a resident of Gangra village. "This is because many people like me who have been die-hard CPM supporters today voted Trinamul."
Pradhan does not have anything against industrialisation but says a "balance" has to be struck between agriculture and industry.
"The question that needs to be asked today is why people who have traditionally voted for the CPM have suddenly, and so vehemently, turned against the party," Pradhan said, his voice rising in anger. "The CPM should have developed a consensus instead of bulldozing its way and turning land grabber."
The other word that has become a favourite to describe the ruling party in Nandigram is "arrogant". It's this that turned Samanta, 55, from a staunch CPM supporter to a Trinamul voter.
"The March 14 firing showed the cruelty and arrogance of the party and the government. I voted Trinamul because I want change," Samanta said.
Ashok Guria, the CPM's East Midnapore district secretary, admitted that many traditional party supporters had voted for the Opposition today.
"Yes, it's true," Guria said. "But this is because of a misinformation campaign against the party. We are definitely not land-grabbers. It's because of our land reforms that many sharecroppers are land owners today."
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Left's strength will remain intact in Bengal: Manik Sarkar
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75 per cent polling in West Bengal
Times of India - 22 hours ago
Of West Bengal's 42 seats, 14 went to the polls April 30, while 11 will vote in the last round May 13. The votes will be counted May 16.
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Bengal records 70-75% voter turnout in Phase II polls
Business Standard - 20 hours ago
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West bengal beat Assam in U-21 National Football Championship
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West Bengal records turnout of 75 per cent, Bihar 37 per cent
Hindustan Times - May 7, 2009
West Bengal recorded a high of 75 per cent and Bihar a low of 37 per cent voter turnout in the fourth round of the Lok Sabha elections. ...
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Ex-Bengal Levi Jones cancels Seattle visit
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Bengals sign Williams, backup RB
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East Bengal pins hope on youth
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Road construction using plastic waste begins in West Bengal
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No Sunil, Surkumar And Subrata For East Bengal - Subhash Bhowmick
Goal.com - May 6, 2009
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CPI(M) will lose despite indulging in violence: Mamata
Hindu - May 7, 2009
Kolkata (PTI) Accusing the CPI(M) of unleashing terror during the second phase of polling in West Bengal on Thursday, the Trinamool Congress said the Left ...
Trinamool threatening voters in Nandigram, claims CPI-M Hindustan Times
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Achuthanandan asked to go? Politburo says it is rumour
Bombay News - 5 minutes ago
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CPI-M supporter shot dead in Howrah
Press Trust of India - May 7, 2009
Howrah (WB), May 7 (PTI) A person claimed to be CPI(M) supporter was shot dead in suspected poll related violence at Amta in Howrah district today, ...
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Bengal CPI(M) declines to comment on Rahul's statement
Hindu - May 5, 2009
Kolkata (PTI) With Rahul Gandhi giving clear signals of working with the Left parties in the post-poll scenario, Bengal CPI(M) on Tuesday declined to ...
Rahul wooing Left upsets TC Zee News
Mamata declines comment on Rahul's overture to the left Press Trust of India
Left rebuffs Rahul, says no support to Congress Hindu
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Dum Dum readies for triangular contest
The Statesman - 17 hours ago
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Voter turnout pegged at over 70 per cent
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Lavalin: CPI(M) denies asking cabinet to accept AG decision
Hindu - May 4, 2009
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI) The CPI(M) in Kerala on Monday rebutted reports that it had directed the LDF cabinet to accept the legal opinion given by the ...
Fate of Lavalin case almost sealed Express Buzz
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Congress alleges booth capturing by CPI(M)
Indopia - May 7, 2009
... Sagardighi and Domkal in Murshidabad, the EC had done nothing. In Howrah too, the EC did nothing to prevent rigging by the CPI(M), he alleged. Source: PTI.
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CPI-M again attacks Manmohan on foreign policy
Thaindian.com - 6 hours ago
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has once again attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for what it calls his ...
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Violence mars poll in Murshidabad
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NSA against Varun invalid: UP advisory board
Times of India - 1 hour ago
NEW DELHI: The UP advisory board said on Friday that the use of the National Security Act against BJP leader Varun Gandhi, invoked for his alleged communal remark, was not valid.
NSA revoked against Varun Gandhi IBNLive.com
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Sonia Gandhi to campaign in Chennai
Hindu - 1 hour ago
Chennai (IANS): Congress president Sonia Gandhi will address an election rally here Sunday along with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Congress party members said Friday.
DMK is poll partner: Rahul Gandhi Daily News & Analysis
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BJP no longer has tag of north Indian party: Advani
Economic Times - 1 hour ago
During this one day visit to Tamil Nadu on Thursday, NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate and BJP's senior leader, LK Advani conveyed a strong message to the electorate in Tamil Nadu that it no longer has the tag of a north Indian party.
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Amar's statement laced with threats against me: Azam
Hindu - 3 hours ago
Lucknow (PTI) Azam Khan, the Muslim face of the Samajwadi Party, on Friday took strong exception to his estranged party colleague Amar Singh's reference about him during an election rally here, saying that it was laced with threats against him.
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Karat meets Naveen to explore non-Congress, non-BJP govt at Centre
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BHUBANESWAR: CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Friday met Orissa chief minister and the BJD president Naveen Patnaik here and held talks about formation of a non-Congress and non-BJP secular government at the Centre.
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Poll protesters hurt in Kashmir teargas firing
Reuters India - 1 hour ago
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - At least 30 people were injured when police in Srinagar fired teargas shells on Friday to disperse thousands of Muslims protesting the general election, police said.
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Obama tax move won't impact Indian firms, Murthy to president
Hindustan Times - 49 minutes ago
Indian IT firms would not be impacted by the tax reform proposal of US President Barak Obama, Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor NR Narayana Murthy told President Pratibha Devisinh Patil on Friday.
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Congress sure of President inviting party to form govt.
Hindu - 1 hour ago
New Delhi (PTI): With the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls scheduled to be out next weekend, Congress on Friday expressed confidence that the President would invite the single largest party or single largest "clear alliance" to form the new government.
57% voter turnout in phase 4 Times of India
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Achuthanandan asked to go? Politburo says it is rumour
Hindustan Times - 8 minutes ago
The rift between Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan and CPI-M state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan took an ugly turn on Friday with the party's state secretariat reportedly asking Achuthanandan to step down.
CPM Kerala unit tells Achuthanandan to step down IBNLive.com
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Karnataka brings acts of terror under KCOCA
Hindu - 5 hours ago
Bangalore (PTI): Acts of terrorism will now be categorised as organised crime and brought under the ambit of Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act (KCOCA) as per amendments to be brought through by an ordinance.
Government plans amendments to KCOCA Express Buzz
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Clashes continue in Nandigram
Sify - 2 hours ago
Kolkata: Clashes between Communist Party of India â€"Marxist (CPI-M) and rival Trinamool on Friday continued in the trouble-torn Nandigram in West Bengal`s East Midnapore district.
CPM seeks repoll in 58 Nandigram booths Times of India
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Medium to heavy turnout in Punjab
Hindu - 15 hours ago
CHANDIGARH: At least 65 per cent of the 52.7 lakh voters turned out to exercise their right to franchise for four of the 13 Lok Sabha seats from Punjab on Thursday.
Fate of Badal bahu sealed Times of India
Punjab & Haryana exercise franchise The Statesman
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Poll violence in Rajasthan
Hindu - 15 hours ago
A proud moment: Woman voters proudly showing their voter I-cards after casting their votes in Naraina village under the Jaipur parliamentary constituency in Rajasthan on Thursday.
Muslim absence worries Congress Times of India
Street caste battle shifts to booths Calcutta Telegraph
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SAD-BJP, CPM may face A tough time
Economic Times - 16 hours ago
NEW DELHI: The high voter turnout in Punjab (65%) and West Bengal (75%) during the fourth phase of polls on Thursday does not augur well for the NDA and the Left Front, the ruling alliances in these states.
Congress hopes to win 180 seats Daily News & Analysis
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Cong-NCP finalising modalities to form govt in Meghalaya
Hindu - 5 hours ago
New Delhi (PTI): The possibility of installation of a Congress-NCP ministry in Meghalaya, which is currently under President's rule following dismissal of the MPA government, brightened today with both parties finalising modalities to provide a stable ...
NCP-Cong may form govt in Meghalaya Economic Times
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Daily News & Analysis - 2 hours ago
PTI Patna: Businessmen of Patna have come out with a novel idea to create awareness about the voting rights of the people by offering gifts and discounts on purchases made by those who have cast their votes in the fourth and final phase of Lok Sabha ...
Lalu loses cool, people brave scorching heat for Shotgun Times of India
Poll day turns into holiday in Patna Calcutta Telegraph
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EC to send 6 teams to look into Bihar poll complaints
Press Trust of India - 1 hour ago
New Delhi, May 8 (PTI) In view of several complaints about poll irregularities, the Election Commission has decided to send today six teams to Bihar to look into those complaints received during the Lok Sabha elections.
Poll panel sends teams to Bihar to probe complaints SamayLive
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Buffalo's gain, Bangalore's loss
Express Buzz - 6 hours ago
US President Barack Obama's announcement on Monday that he intended fulfilling one of his pre-election promises by increasing taxes on the profits of those companies that create jobs outside America - in Bangalore not in Buffalo - is not yet law.
Nasscom changes stance on US visa issue Business Standard
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'Cong alaways ignored Dalits' interest'
Times of India - 17 hours ago
LUCKNOW: Launching a scathing attack on Congress at election meetings in Shahjahanpur and Lakhimpur Kheri, BSP national president chief minister Mayawati said that the Congress always ignored the interests of the Dalits.
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A little-known life behind the barrel
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Somewhere along the Manipur-Myanmar border, May 7: To any outsider it would appear like a regular army camp - complete with barracks, mess, parade ground, firing range, watchtowers and armed guards.
RPF Congress pledges to take revolution forward KanglaOnline
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Banks unveil cash-raising plans
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US bank Wells Fargo has said it plans to raise $7.5bn (£4.9bn) from selling new shares, a day after the US Treasury said 10 banks needed to boost reserves.
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Mkts surge 4.2% this week, BSE Metal Index up 14.5%
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The benchmark indices closed the week on a strong note; the Sensex and Nifty gained 4.2% each. The broader indices - Nifty Junior gained 4.2%.
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GE Shipping Jan-March net falls, outlook weak
Reuters India - 22 minutes ago
By Swati Pandey MUMBAI, May 8 (Reuters) - Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd (GESC.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) posted a 16 percent drop in quarterly net profit on lower earnings from ships and loss on sale of assets and has predicted bleak quarters ahead.
GE Shipping ends flat despite drop in Q4 net Business Standard
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AB net profit for Q4 up by 61.94 per cent
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8 May 2009, 1743 hrs IST, PTI HYDERABAD: The Andhra Bank registered a profit of Rs 201.21 crore for Q4 which is up by 61.94 per cent comparing to the same period last year.
Andhra Bank Jan-Mar net up 62 pct, beats forecast Reuters India
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Sell Bharati Shipyard, target of Rs 79: Emkay
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Emkay Global Financial Services has maintained its sell rating on Bharati Shipyard with a target price of Rs 79 in its May 08, 2009 research report.
No plans to take over Great Offshore's mgmt control: Bharati Economic Times
Bharati soars 13%, Great Offshore slips 3% Business Standard
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Rupee softens two paise to end at 49.28/29 vs dollar
Economic Times - 2 hours ago
8 May 2009, 1758 hrs IST, PTI MUMBAI: The rupee on Friday softened by just two paise to close at 49.28/29 against the dollar due to weak local equity markets, despite heavy capital inflows.
India Bonds Fall On Auction Results, Higher Inflation; Rupee Flat Wall Street Journal
Rupee down by 11 paise to 49.38 a dollar Times of India
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Inflation up to 0.70 per cent on rising food prices
Press Trust of India - 4 hours ago
New Delhi, May 8 (PTI) Continued rise in food prices pushed up inflation to 0.70 per cent, the increase being for the third week in a row, even as economists did not rule out the possibility of it turning negative soon.
Inflation rises to 0.70 per cent Hindu Business Line
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SBI may review interest rates on deposits by May end
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State Bank of India, the country's largest bank, may review interest rates on deposits by May-end. "We we will review interest rates at the end of May .
SBI may review rates by May-end Hindu
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Hyundai to shift i20 production from Chennai to Europe
Business Standard - 1 hour ago
Hyundai Motors India Ltd-the second largest car manufacturer in the country- is planning to shift the production of its premium hatchback i20 model for the export market from Chennai to Europe.
Hyundai decides to shift production of i20 to Europe Sify
Hyundai workers end strike Economic Times
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DLF may face Rs 400-crore tax blow
Economic Times - 4 hours ago
NEW DELHI: India's largest real estate company DLF will have to pay additional tax of Rs 300-400 crore to the government for the financial year 2005-06, after the Income-Tax (IT) department in a special investigation found that the realty company's ...
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Plan panel sees GDP growth at 7%-7.5%
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PTI Exuding confidence that India would continue its high-growth trajectory, Planning Commission member Kirit Parikh today said the country will clock at least 7-7.5 per cent GDP growth in the current fiscal.
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Tata Motors shed 4%
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Tata Motors touched a new low of Rs 262 and ended at Rs 268, down 4%. Around 715094 shares were traded throughout the day on the BSE.
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Talks with Diageo are very much on: Vijaya Mallya
Economic Times - 3 hours ago
8 May 2009, 1703 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Liquor major Vijaya Mallya on Friday reaffirmed that talks with the world's largest liquor manufacturer Diageo for selling stake in his group company United Spirits Ltd (USL) are on track.
Anti-trust issues delaying United Spirit-Diageo deal:Mallya Moneycontrol. com
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Indian banks can tackle asset bubble burst: Former RBI Guv
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Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) YV Reddy said he was pleased with India 's response to global financial crisis.
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Notice served on DLF's Bangalore project
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No big slowdown in healthcare demand in India: GE Healthcare
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PTI / Bangalore May 8, 2009, 16:15 IST Despite some pressures on the global healthcare market as a result of the economic downturn, there has not been much pressure on the Indian market, a top GE healthcare official said.
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Global financial wealth sees $28 trillion erosion amid slump
NEW DELHI: Ever since the credit crunch surfaced in late 2007, there has been a dramatic fall in the prices of financial assets amounting to a
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Five facts on stock falls total wealth erosion of $28 trillion across the world, economic forecasting consultancy Oxford Economics has said.
Oxford Economics estimates that the "total financial wealth has fallen some $28 trillion, or 14 per cent, from its peak. In absolute terms, this has taken wealth back to the level prevailing in third quarter of 2006."
However, the losses this time were rapid and much larger than seen when the dotcom bubble burst in 2000-02, it added.
In the US, financial wealth losses were huge at $8.1 trillion, thanks to the six consecutive quarters of declining financial wealth.
Substantial losses also occurred in the Eurozone and in emerging markets. "Wealth losses in both these areas have totalled around $11 trillion, equivalent to closer to 20 per cent of total financial wealth," the Oxford Economics report said.
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Though the losses in the Eurozone and emerging markets got exaggerated as the US dollar has gained grounds against the euro and many emerging market currencies. But even in local currency terms the losses have been substantial indeed.
Wealth losses were concentrated mainly in the household sector as the US household financial wealth losses have reached $11.4 trillion, Oxford Economics said.
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Sensex ends below 12000 as election result nears
8 May 2009, 1752 hrs IST, Mohammed Sabir, ET Bureau
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MUMBAI: Going against its overseas peers, the Indian stock market ended with losses Friday after profit booking emerged ahead of the election results. Traders ignored other global markets which were in the green after the US banks stress test came out with no major surprises.
The indices opened on a flat note mirroring the global markets and were range bound. Recovery in Asian stocks and positive European markets later was overlooked as investors were determined to book profits in an over-bought market. All the sectoral indices ended in the red with banks, metals and IT being the worst hit.
"Bearish sentiments ahead of election results could have led long traders to book profits after the Nifty hit immediate resistance of 3700. A lot of traders were waiting for a correction as the risk-reward ratio at current levels was not suitable," said Shrikant Chouhan of Kotak Securities.
Indian markets have witnessed a sharp rally in the recent weeks after revival in sectors like auto, cement and steel triggered hopes of an economic recovery.
The BSE Sensex closed at 11,876.43, lower by 240.51 points or 1.98 per cent from the previous close. The 30-share index moved between high of 12180.07 and low of 11765.06 intraday.
The Nifty ended at 3620.70, down 63.20 points or 1.72 per cent from Thursday's close. The NSE benchmark saw a high of 3711.25 and low of 3582.85 during the day.
"In case the market (Nifty) comes to 3500, which looks likely next week, one can initiate long positions and keep a target of 3800. At higher levels, they can again go short. A market friendly government at the centre will lead to another leg of bull-run rally. Looking at international markets, we may see correction in these markets next week," Chouhan added.
Fate of all political parties will be decided on May 16 when the people will give the verdict of who they prefer to form the central government.
Meanwhile, the wholesale price index based inflation rose for fourth consecutive week to 0.7 per cent for week ended April 25 against 0.57 per cent previous week.
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Lalgarh Movement – Mass uprising of tribal people in West Bengal
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Jobless? What jobless! A brief tour through the Economics Wonderland
By Debarshi Das, Sanhati
What we mostly find in India is not open unemployment but underemployment. This is principally because going without jobs is a luxury in a country having non-existent unemployment benefits. Employed kith and kin cannot be of much help either if one is jobless because the wage levels are barely enough to sustain one. However a person doing a job which neither she nor others consider gainful employment should not be counted as employed . Her right to labour and dignity is yet to be realised. As pressure of global capital tightens and the organised sector shrinks, workers are made to take up more and more of such unpaying and hazardous jobs, whose remuneration stagnates as the rest of the economy surges past. All this is perhaps not much surprising. What is amusing is the eagerness with which dominant economic tradition of the day ties itself in knots.
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Report of the All-India Fact-Finding Team on Lalgarh
Fact-finding team: Amit Bhaduri, economist, Professor emeritus, JNU; Madhu Bhaduri, womens' rights activist, IFS, former ambassador to Vietnam; Vidya Das, adivasi rights activist, Agragamee, Kashipur, Orissa; Gautam Navlakha, PUDR, consulting editor, EPW; Colin Gonsalves, supreme court lawyer, Human rights law network; Aseem Srivastava, economist, writer, activist; Kaustav Banerjee, economist, CSD, Delhi; Budhaditya Das, student, DU; Manika Bora, student, JNU; Sudipta, human rights activist, Adhikar, Asansol, West Bengal
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A photo essay on the de-industrializatio n of Bengal: Real estate SEZs over the ruins of factories
The real story behind the much-hyped industrialization of West Bengal is one of continuous de-industrializatio n, land grab and conversion to real estate. This essay captures the emerging Shriram Hitec city in Hind Motors. Included is an article on industries in the Barackpur-Kanchrapa ra belt.
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The Morichjhanpi massacre: When tigers became citizens, refugees "tiger-food"
The massacre in Marichjhapi, which took place under CPIM rule in Bengal between January 26 and May 16, 1979, has few parallels in the history of independent India. It holds fair comparison with the Jalianwala Bag massacre perpetrated by the British. The level of police brutality was horrific. The entire island of refugees was put under economic blockade from January, after the Left had come to power the previous year promising to champion the cause of the refugees. The blockade first starved out the population, and then the killings began.
West Bengal Policy Reversal and the Marichjhapi Massacre by Ross Mallick
When tigers became citizens, refugees "tiger-food" by Annu Jalais
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Capitalism Beyond the Crisis - Amartya Sen's article, and a critique
Capitalism Beyond the Crisis - Amartya Sen, Feb 15 2009
The Use and Abuse of Trust - comments on Sen's Capitalism Beyond the Crisis
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World Bank report: stop NREGA, promote migration and clustered growth
1. World Bank roots for urbanisation, migration - March 13, 2009
2. Migration to urban areas is good, says World Bank - March 13, 2009
3. Encourage clustered economic growth, World Bank tells India - March 13, 2009
4. NREGA is a barrier to economic development: World Bank - March 15, 2009
5. World Bank to clear $2.6 bn loan for India soon - March 15, 2009
Various schemes of the Indian government like NREGA, watershed programmes and schemes for development of small and medium towns are acting as "policy barriers to internal mobility", the bank said in its 'World Development Report' 2009.
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Gorkhaland and Lalgarh: dialogues, parallels, and a challenge to mainstream parties
By Koustav De, Sanhati
(1) The Gorkhaland movement: A short background (2) Gorkhaland leadership extends hand of solidarity for Lalgarh movement (3) Exchanging views: A challenge to vote equations (4) The State's divisive tactics (5) Looking forward
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Working Paper: Current crisis regime and impact on class struggle in India
This paper has been produced by Gurgaon Workers News, February 2009.
1. The character of the Shining India after the crash 1991
2. Landmarks of the current crisis in India. a) The Crisis Blow b) The state's reaction
3. Margins of the crisis regime in India a) The Social Unrest of the Rural World b) The Energy Crunch c) The Industrial Impasse d) The political consequences for the crisis regime
4. New frame-work and potentials for proletarian unrest
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Comprehensive documentary from Canvas on monopolistic aggression in retail, Bengal
Canvas Documentary on Big capital monopoly in retail, Bengal [Google Video, 47 mins, Bengali]
This documentary covers the continuous conversion of industrial land into real estate, and the monopolistic assault on retail in Bengal that threatens to render countless workers jobless. Contents: (1) Interviews with small traders, analysts, and activists (2) South City Mall (3) Barrackpore Nonachandanpukur Bazaar (4) Save Park Circus Market Committee (5) Panihati retailers (6) Gariahat hawkers (7) Bolpur retailers samiti (8) Voices against Metro Cash and Carry
Factory closures and plight of workers: A comprehensive summary of Bengal's industrial condition
Contents:
Section 1: Abstract
Section 2: Voices from below
Section 3: Sickness Profiles: National Tannery, Kolay Biscuit, Eastern Paper Mill and 14 others.
Section 4: Regional Roundup of Industrial Belts: Eastern fringes, B.T. Road, Dum-Dum Lake Town, Jadavpur-Tollygunj, Taratala, Beleghata
Section 5: Factsheets: Industrial policy summary, Efforts to combat sickness, Survey of 500 sick industries, Rajarhat township, "Excess" industrial land.
Section 6: Summary
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Death of small businesses in Bengal and India: a comprehensive study of retail monopoly
By Siddhartha Mitra and Debarshi Das, Sanhati. Translated from a FAMA study
Contents: 1. Introduction: the old versus the new market: the politics of change 2. The attempt to control small businesses 3. How the attack on small businesses has already impacted the rest of the world 4. What is the current situation of small scale retail in India 5. How this is all going to change 6. The death of small businesses and the false promise of new employment 7. Farmer suicides 8. Procuring the crops – the farmers are left out 9. Impact on the environment 10. That is why there is Nandigram, Khammam, Posco 11. Let us walk together
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Urban beautification: 5000 Dalits to be evicted from century-old community in Belgachhia, Howrah
They informed us that their predecessors have been staying in that area for more than 100 years.
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A collection of essays on the Mumbai terror attacks, 2008
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(1) Introduction - Shabnam Hashmi and Ram Puniyani (2) Terror: the aftermath - Anand Patwardhan (3) As the fires die: the terror of the aftermath - Biju Mathew (4) Hotel Taj: Icon of whose India? - Gnani Sankaran (5) Why the United States got it wrong - P. Sainath (6) The Monster in the Mirror - Arundhati Roy (7) Counter: Terrorism must not kill democracy - Praful Bidwai (8) Handling queries: democratic responses. Antuley remarks and the aftermath - Ram Puniyani (9) Need for a thorough investigation - Raveena Hansa (10) Terrorism, rule of law, and humna rights - K.G.Balakrishnan (11) Acts of terror and Terrorising Act: Unfolding Indian tragedy - Sukla Sen (12) Our politicians are still not listening - Colin Gonsalves (13) India's new anti-terror laws are draconian, say activists - Praful Bidwai (14) Terrorism: are stronger laws the answer? - Prashant Bhushan
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Forest Rights Act: general issues of implementation and performance of various states
Constant updates on the Forest Rights Act are available onforestrightsact. com
In December 2006, Parliament passed the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act. This historic legislation marks the first time in India's history that a law has been passed recognising the rights of forest communities. Implementation of the Act is an unfolding political struggle.
1. General issues in implementation across states
2. Detailed updates from various states as of December 2008
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30 years of destitution: India's largest energy hub and the people of Singrauli, U.P.
"Singrauli will turn into Singapore," - Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, 2008
Across the nation, up to 60,000,000 people are estimated to have been displaced by power, irrigation, mining and other development projects since independence.
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Return of the terror law: Implications for peoples movements and a petition
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Press Release from Kolkata activists: deep anguish over laws - Dec 24, 2008
Acts of Terror and Terrorising Act – Unfolding Indian Tragedy - Dec 19, 2008
Double-barrel strike on terror - Dec 16, 2008
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Airport cities: The new paradigm
One of the aspects of neoliberal accumulation in India and Bengal has been the steady creation of real estate enclaves, hubs, and gated cities. A new chapter in this process is the impending concept of airport cities, with the usual promises of job creation, downstream employment, and development. An idea imported from highly developed nations, the aerotropolis, as it is called, will demand the creation of attendent SEZs and the provision of infrastructure like water and electricity by local taxpayers. A land acquisition notice for an airport city in Andal (Burdwan, West Bengal) was served in December 2008.
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Notes from a ghost town: a day in the Naihati industrial region, Bengal
By Parimal Bhattacharya, Dec 2008
Every night, at 11 pm, Moumita Pan waits in the dark with her schoolbooks for the electric light to come on. A student of Class XI, she has to race through her studies before the light goes out again at two in the morning. Moumita is the only girl in the workers' quarters of the Jenson and Nicholson plant at Naihati, closed since 2004, who has cleared the Madhyamik and has not dropped out yet.
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16,632 farmer suicides in India in 2007
Suicides by farmers of Maharashtra crossed the 4,000-mark in 2007, for the third time in four years, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). As many as 4,238 farmers of the State took their lives that year, the latest for which data are available, accounting for a fourth of 16,632 farmer suicides in the country.
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Ominous developments in Orissa: Sangh Parivar critic arrested for writing book
Writing against Sangh Parivar and Brahmanism is 'inflamatory' or 'War agaisnt State' - The Orissa police proves it by arresting a Bhubaneswar based critic of Brahmanism and RSS. Mr.Lenin Kumar, editor, Nishan was arrested day before yesterdey for writing the book '"Dharma Naanre Kandhamalare Rakta Nadi".
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Anti-mining and anti-SEZ struggles in Salem, Tamil Nadu: A summary
Salem, in Tamil Nadu, South India, is the scene of mining operations and an impending SEZ site. Various players, from SAIL to the Jindals to the infamous Vedanta corporation, are vying for mining rights in the area. An IT SEZ is on the cards. Local struggle is developing.
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The Global Economic Crisis: a five-part study
By Dipankar Basu, Sanhati. This series will also appear parallely on Radicalnotes
The global economic crisis currently underway is, by all accounts, the deepest economic crisis of world capitalism since the Great Depression. It is necessary for the international working class to understand various aspects of this crisis: how it developed, who were the players involved, what were the instruments used during the build-up and what are it's consequences for the working people of the world. This understanding is necessary to formulate a socialist, i.e., working class, response to these earth shaking events. In a series of posts here on Radical Notes, I will share my understanding of the on-going crisis as part of the larger collective attempt to come to grips with the current conjuncture from a socialist perspective, to understand both the problems and the possibilities that it opens up.
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Dispossession of weavers in Varanasi and the need for an artisans movement
Varanasi in North India, which employed 700,000 people in handloom a decade back, now employs only 250,000, with 47 reported cases of suicide. In the face of liberalization, silk cloth imports, indiscriminate mechanization, loose control over cheap imitations, rising price of silk, etc. weavers, like other artisans, are being dispossessed. This article discusses the inefficacy of existing government schemes, and suggests ways forward, stressing the need for an artisans' movement in the country.
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Political Economy of Contemporary India: Some Comments on Partha Chatterjee's theoretical framework
Dipankar Basu and Debarshi Das, Sanhati. Open for comments.
Sifting through the divergent viewpoints thrown up by attempts to make sense of the recent political history of West Bengal, one is led to the conclusion that the tumultuous events have taken many, if not most, by surprise. With the benefit of hindsight one can probably say this: a combination of an insensitive state power, an arrogant ruling party, lapping-it-up corporate interests, and cheerleaders- of-corporate- sector-doubling- up-as-media orchestrated a veritable assault – a perfect storm. Yet the peasantry, initially without the guiding hand of a political party – indeed at times against the writ of the party – fought on. Through this episode Indian political economy seems to have stumbled upon the peasantry while it was looking for a short-cut to economic growth through SEZs.
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Probing the politics of the annual destitution of 4 million in Damodar valley flooding
By Santanu Sengupta, Sanhati. Translated fromShramikShakti Newsletter: August 2008. Open for comments.
The lower Damodar river valley in West Bengal is the home of the Damodar Valley Corporation or DVC, the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India, whose stated aims are flood control, irrigation and generation and distribution of electricity. It is also the site of horrendous annual flooding that has brought ruin to over 4 million people for over a generation. This article probes the disparity between the stated objectives of the project and its performance, and the dangerous politics of big dams that has wreaked havoc on the lives of millions in Bengal.
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Statement on Singur from Sanhati
October 12, 2008
Months of unflinching resistance by the people of Singur, especially landless labourers and marginal farmers, against the unjust and violent farm land acquisition by the West Bengal government has finally forced Tata Motors to withdraw its small car project from that area.
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A list of exploitative companies in North India, and what they do
This is a small but typical list of companies in the Gurgaon area of North India, which commit flagrant violations of existing labor laws and get away with impunity. Their practices are listed below, in the form of first-person reports from workers, gleaned from Gurgaon Workers News. In most cases the minimum wage for industrial helpers of Rs. 3510 is not paid. If it is paid, then the working-times are way beyond the fixed 8-hours day and 6-days week. In most cases the over-time exceeds the legal restriction – maximum 50 hours in three months - and is paid at single rate, though according to the labour law it should be paid double. Hardly any workers receive the Provident Fund (PF), nor do they get ESI, medical insurance, which they are entitled to by law.
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Farewell to the Tatas: Costs and benefits of the Tata-Singur Project, a detailed dissection of the deal
By Dipankar Basu, Sanhati. Open for comments
Costs: the total cost of the Tata-Singur project incurred by the exchequer, and hence ultimately the tax payers, will be approximately be Rs. 3000 crores on a net present value basis when we add up the costs pertaining to the land subsidy, the tax holidays, the soft loan, the real estate gift and the subsidized electricity using an interest rate of 11%. This is about 58% of the total realized industrial investment in the state of West Bengal in 2007.
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Responsible corporates? The crimes of the Tatas enumerated
Introduction 1. Helping Killer Carbide - the Dow Chemicals nexus 2. Bypassing Democracy (a) Dictating Indian Policy (b) Holding on to Corporatocracy (c) Business with Military Junta 3. Desecrating Tribal Lands (a) Parched Earth Tactics (b) Chrome Poisoning (c) Luxury Resort in Tiger Country 4. Violence and Massacres (a) Gua Massacre (b) Kalinganagar Massacre (c) Singur Oppression 5. Toxic Dumping (a) Saline waste (b) Hell on Earth (c) Mountains of Waste, Jugsalai (d) Joda Mines (e) Coal Slurry Dumping 6. Hazardous Incidents (a) Founder's Day Fire 7. Strong Anti-Labour Policies (a) Worker Suicides (b) Sub-contracting and Fostering Insecurity (c) Lay-offs (d) Union busting (e) Killings 8. A Historical Record as Collaborators of British Imperialism (a) Drug Running (b) Empress Mills (c) Fueling British Expansionism (9) Tatas opposed by the people
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The US financial crisis: locating the real locus of the debate with Rick Wolff
By Rick Wolff
In US capitalism's greatest financial crisis since the 1930s Depression, status-quo ideology swirls. The goal is to keep this crisis under control, to prevent it from challenging capitalism itself. One method is to keep public debate from raising the issue of whether and how class changes — basic economic system changes — might be the best "solution." Right, center, and even most left commentators exert that ideological control, some consciously and some not. Hence the debates where those demanding "more or better government regulation" of financial markets shout down those who still "have more confidence in private enterprise and free markets." Both sides limit the public discussion to more vs less state intervention to "save the economy." Then too we have quarrels over details of state intervention: politicians "want to help foreclosure victims too" or "want to limit financiers' pay packages" or want to "weed out bad
apples in the finance industry" while spokespersons of various financial enterprises struggle to shape the details to their particular interests.
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Who committed the real violence at Graziano Transmissioni?
Who committed the real violence at Graziano Transmissioni? - Kavita Krishnan
Graziano Workers Solidarity Forum formed
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Hidden Costs of the Tata-Singur Agreement
By Dipankar Basu, Sanhati. Open for comments.
The Tata Group of Companies is one of the largest business conglomerates in India today with about 100 large companies in its fold. With the might of the Indian State firmly behind it, monopoly capital in India has started a move to aggressively acquire foreign assets. This short note examines the true character of agreements like the one `struck' between the TML and the West Bengal government. It is important to understand how such `agreements' look like under a neo-liberal regime.
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The dislocation of 15 million fishworkers and environmental degradation: an introduction to ongoing changes in Coastal Zone Regulations
By Suvarup Saha, Sanhati. Open for comments.
Coastal Zone Regulations in India are currently being changed and manipulated. It is necessary to examine these changes closely and understand the political and economic currents that motivate them. The 8200 km long coastline of India provides livelihood to 15 million people and is one of the richest environments in the world - changes and amendments in protective regulations thus have widespread effects, effects which are being swept under the carpet by political parties, from the right to the parliamentary Left. This is an introduction to the issue.
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Perspectives on the U.S. financial crisis
The U.S. financial crisis: some views from Monthly Review
The Greed Fallacy: By Arthur MacEwan, Dollars and Sense
Hard Truths About the Bailout
Free market ideology is far from finished: By Naomi Klein
Crisis of Capitalism and the Left: By Emir Sader
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Understanding the demand for Gorkhaland : An introductory note
Open for comments
Voices for a separate state of Gorkhaland are once again echoing in the hills of Darjeeling and the surrounding areas. These developments are certainly disturbing for the uninformed Bengalis – they fail to understand why such a picturesque and otherwise "peaceful" place would like to secede from their province. They also feel sad at the thought of losing something so beautiful, something to be proud of. Sometimes, there is the knee-jerk reaction among some of them – a refusal to part with the region. With the state government and the mainstream media purposely continuing to feed on this ignorance and pride, it becomes important to put together a historical account of the developments in Darjeeling and thereby address questions regarding the right to self-determination of the people staying in this region. The hope is that such an introductory account of the evolving situation in Darjeeling would help the democratic-minded people to come to a
rational decision.
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Tales from the Gorkha region: crimes, oppression, and the fading memory of Baburam Dewan
By Siddhartha Mitra, Sanhati. Translated from ShramikShakti, June 2008
"Son, do not feel ashamed about my death; instead, feel proud of it, because this self-sacrifice of mine is for the greater good of the 6000 workers of the Chongtong tea-estate. We are still able to provide ourselves with two meals a day; but the thought of the frightening situation of the others in the tea-garden is making me unbearably anxious
– these were the words the Baburam Dewan wrote to his son in a letter just before he took his own life.
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The ongoing Singur siege: populist, social democratic, and horizontal responses to neo-liberalism
By Kuver Sinha, Sanhati. Open for comments
There is an ongoing siege in Singur, West Bengal, the site of the Tata Nano project. The Trinamul Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, has demanded that of all the land acquired by the State Government using the colonial Land Acquisition Act of 1894, 400 acres be returned to farmers who had been unwilling to sell. The Krishi Jomi Jibon Raksha Committee or KJJRC (Save Farmland Committee) is the broad umbrella organization carrying out the struggle. Various civil society groups have rallied behind this call, as have landed farmers, landless labourers, and sharecroppers of the area.
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Public health privatisation in Bengal
By Indira Chakravarthy, Guest Contributor.
As a complement to Dipankar Basu's piece on the "achievements" of the CPM government in West Bengal on the economic and social fronts (http://sanhati. com/front- page/857/), I would like to share a few facts/concerns about the health status of common people in W Bengal. Using publicly available data, Dipankar had demonstrated that West Bengal's growth story was rather unspectacular when compared to other Indian states. Now, I would like to raise a related but different question: has even this below-average "economic growth" translated into improvements in the social sector for the common people?
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A history of the brutal Rajarhat land acquisition, Bengal's new IT hub
By Santanu Sengupta, Sanhati. Translated from Rajarhaat - Uponogorir Ontorale Arto Manuher Kanna
Rajarhaat, near Kolkata, is Bengal's new IT hub and a hotspot for real estate investment. Within no time Rajarhat has become the hotbed of real estate investments with companies like DLF, Keppel Land, Unitech group, Singapore-based Ascendas, Vedic Realty, etc. coming in. Land prices have soared. The first phase of DLF's Rs 280 crore (Rs 2.80 billion) IT project has been operational since 2005 and a second IT park is on the cards. Wipro, Infosys, IBM - all the major IT houses are in operation here, on subsidized lands. A wireless hub is in the offing. Contrasting with Singur-Nandigram, official state versions have given the picture that Rajarhat's land acquisition from the mid 1990's onwards has been peaceful. This is an acount of the immense bloodshed that lay behind this acquisition, in a decade when the civil society and media wasn't interested.
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'Testing' Time for a 'Civil' Nuclear Deal: Reflections ahead of the NSG meet
By P.K. Sundaram, Guest Contributor. August 20, 2008. Open for comments.
India's desperate diplomacy prior to the NSG meet on August 21-22, 2008 reveals the not-so-hidden truth about the deal – at a time when there is a need for renewed focus on disarmament, India rehabilitates nuclear energy corporates in order to circumvent nonproliferation regime and secure its right to conduct nuclear tests. And it finds supports from the Bush nuclear strategy bent on reducing nonproliferation into counterproliferatio n.
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We have no value - sharecroppers and labourers in the ongoing Singur crisis
Reporting from Singur – Shamik Sarkar, Sanhati. 19th August, 2008. Comments enabled.
It has been over a year and a half that 997 acres have been sealed off by Tata's fences here. But many landowning farmers have not accepted compensation. In the last week of July, 2008, the Krishi Jomi Jibon Jibika Raksha Committee (Committee for saving farmland, life, and livelihood) gave the call to "outsiders working in Tata's plant" to leave Singur, "to protect the rights of unwilling farmers, Bargadars, and agricultural workers". After that, Trinamul leader Mamata Banerjee declared that there would be a continuous blockade of the project from August 24th. The pressure of the movement forced workers who had been coming to the site from outside to stop.
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What is the state of workers in the new industrial zones of Tamil Nadu?
This conversation with a worker from Tamil Nadu, appeared in Shramik Istahar, May 2008. It has been translated by Koel Das, Sanhati.
I was conversing with Sudhakarda. Sudhakar Raut, originally from Orissa, used to work in a reputed private engineering factory in West Bengal. He lost his job after being victimized in a lock-out while fighting against the injustice of the factory owner. I met him a couple of days back when he talked about his experiences over the last one year.
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Flashpoint Chengara - landless Dalits, the Left Democratic Front, and terror
A historic land struggle has been unfolding at Chengara in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, involving about 7500 families, which includes all sections of landless people, the majority of them being Dalits and Adivasis. Landless people have claimed land in the Chengara estate, a rubber plantation, which had been leased to the Harrison Malayalam Plantation by the government of Kerala. At present, the lease is invalid and the property has lapsed back to the government. The landless people who have flocked there from all parts of Kerala demand that this government land be redistributed to them. These marginalised people have thereby demanded a say in what must be done with government land in Kerala: given the present political and economic climate, the likelihood is that this land will be taken over by the state only to be assigned unconditionally, or with minimum conditions, to the multi-nationals.
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Dynamics of rural proletariat: labour shortage in agriculture, NREGA, aspirations, and the nouveau riche
Introduction: rural proletariat in Haryana and Punjab
Aspirations within misery: labour shortage in agriculture
The NREGA and the control of rural proletariat
The teenage guns of the nouveau riche
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Is tenant eviction at the heart of the Bengal government's new agrarian thinking?
By Shubhendu Dasgupta. Translated by Debarshi Das, Sanhati
One of the many aspects of the land reform programme was security for tenants. Those land owners who would not cultivate the land themselves, would lease out the same to the tenants. This is called tenancy cultivation – or "barga" cultivation in Bengal. Those who would lease in the land on barga cultivation would be called "bargadars".
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Aspects of Nuclear Power
1. Nuclear Reactor Hazards : Ongoing dangers of operating nuclear technology in the 21st century
2. Nuclear Power: no solution to climate change
3. Pros and cons of nuclear power
4. The nuclear 'solution' to climate change
5. The Nuclear crisis in France
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Nuclear Deal, 'National Interest' and the Indian Left
By P.K. Sundaram, Guest Contributor. Open for comments.
It is the Indian Left's concurrence, rather than its disagreement, with the idea of a nuclear future (including nuclear weapons) that has made its case weak and inaudible to the larger masses.
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Fighting Neoliberalism: Does West Bengal Show the Way?
By Dipankar Basu, Sanhati. Open for comments.
Mindless economic growth through unfettered operations of the "free" market, that is often portrayed in the mainstream media as a panacea for all of India's economic problems, has now been shown to be seriously flawed as a sensible strategy for economic development. Active, pro-people state intervention through sound policies is essential for making any meaningful dent on the problems facing our country today; and this includes, if historical experience is anything to go by, even the achievement of sustainable, broad-based economic growth. In every known case of successful industrialization and economic development, be it England or Continental Europe or USA or Japan or the East Asian tigers, the State has played a pro-active role in directing investments, mobilizing resources to finance that investment, protecting fledgling industries from undue competition from abroad, and so on; it is, therefore, inconceivable that any state, or the country for
that matter, can make that transition without State intervention through effective policies for agriculture and industry. State governments subscribing to this viewpoint would claim to have put this political philosophy into practice, especially the one in West Bengal.
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Behind the IAEA Safeguards Agreement: What the Nuclear Deal Entails
By M.V. Ramana, Guest Contributor.
With the submission of the safeguards agreement to the IAEA and the challenge to the government from the left parties, there is now renewed widespread debate about the nuclear agreement with United States. Much of the debate on the deal has been between what can be broadly called the nuclear hawks and the nuclear nationalists. The nuclear hawks believe India's nuclear programme is a great success and more than able to take care of itself. They see the deal as imposing unnecessary constraints on the programme and making more difficult the creation of the large nuclear arsenal, including thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), that they believe is essential for India to be a 'great power.'
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The Indo-US Nuclear Pact and the Hoax of Nuclear Power
The Indo-US Nuclear Pact and the Hoax of Nuclear Power - By Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
India's Nuclear History: A Brief Outline
Choosing the Wrong Future: The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal - By Andrew Lichterman and M.V. Ramana
Wrong Ends, Means, and Needs: Behind the U.S. Nuclear Deal With India - By Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana
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Class Struggle and Resistance in Zimbabwe
1. Revolutionaries, resistance and crisis in Zimbabwe – Munyaradzi Gwisai
2. His Excellency Comrade Robert: How Mugabe's ZANU clique rose to power – Stephen O'Brien
3. No to a government of national unity! Only united mass action will defeat Mugabe! – International Socialist Organisation of Zimbabwe
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Liberalism Betrayed? The Maoist Electoral Victory in Nepal
By Saroj Giri, Sanhati. Open for comments.
The workers chanted "Allende, the people are defending you: hit the reactionaries hard." The mood of the masses was militant. They were waiting for a lead that never came. - Tariq Ali, Allende's Chile
Is the Maoist victory in the Constituent Assembly elections in Nepal a challenge to the liberal consensus and hegemony or is it its expansion, or worse, its intensification, co-opting the Maoists in the process? It could be either, mostly depending on which way events unfold in the coming days. The 'meaning' of the Maoist victory calls for a critical examination even as it promises an interesting and politically salient expose of the intricacies and dangers of trying to beat liberal democracy in its own game. Liberals, both left-wing and right-wing ones, have welcomed the Maoist victory though with caution and sometimes clenching their teeth, as a victory of the ballot over the bullet and a step forward for democracy and peace in Nepal. Those on the revolutionary left have however hardly allowed their pleasant surprise at the results to underestimate the enormous risks of 'right-wing deviation' and capitulation that the present path entails for
the Maoists.
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The May 2008 Pogroms: xenophobia, evictions, liberalism, and democratic grassroots militancy in South Africa
By Richard Pithouse, Guest Contributor. Durban, 16 June 2008.
This essay examines the issues of xenophobia in present-day South Africa, in the light of the riots of May 2008. It starts by looking at eviction in the Harry Gwala settlement and the role of various poor people's movements like Abahlali baseMjondolo, Anti-Eviction Campaign, and the Landless People's Movement. It then looks at the riots, making the point that most areas under the control of militant organisations of the poor that have been in serious conflict with the state had no violence. The essay evaluates the ideas of Michael Neocosmos in theorizing xenophobia, coming to the conclusion that "For Neocosmos xenophobia and authoritarianism are a continuation of apartheid oppression that are, in the end, a product of liberalism. He proposes, against the state centric politics of liberalism, a recovery of popular emancipatory politics…[it] is the practical politics that was able to defend and shelter people targeted in the May pogroms, and has
previously, although covertly, offered the same protection from the state…"
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A man-made famine - India and the world in the Great Hunger of 2008
1. India's Emerging Food Security Crisis: The Consequences of the Neoliberal Assault on the Public Distribution System - Analytical Monthly Review
2. A man-made famine - Raj Patel, The Guardian
3. The World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions - Fred Magdoff, Monthly Review
4. Manufacturing a Food Crisis - Walden Bellow, The Nation
5. Global food crisis: 'The greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model' - Ian Angus, Socialist Voice
6. Soaring prices are causing hunger around the world - Washington Post Editorial
7. The World's Growing Food-Price Crisis - Time magazine
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Corporate encroachment and the Panchayat elections: A rural montage
By Shamik Sarkar, Sanhati. Open for comments.
I. Beliya village, Haruda, and promises of development
II. Singur, its sharecroppers and laborers, and the Opposition
III. Corporate hands in rural Bengal
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Human Rights Organization Masum under attack for coordinating People's Tribunal on Torture
June 12, 2008
Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) had organised a People's Tribunal on Torture (PTT) on 9-10 June. The police have started a case against MASUM claiming the tribunal to be illegal. On June 12 a huge police force raided MASUM's office (26 Guitendal Lane, Howrah 711101). To protest against this, a meeting has been planned at MASUM's office, today, on 13 June at 4pm. Please come and send this news to all.
Detailed report on incident from The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders.
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A brief overview of the Indian poverty debate
By Alita Nandi, Sanhati. Open for comments.
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In the early 1990s various liberalisation policies had been introduced in India and India had started to experience higher growth rates (compared to pre-liberalisation period). The official poverty estimates published by the Planning Commission showed a decline in absolute poverty levels from 36% in 1993-94 to 26% in 1999-00. The question that became important at this juncture was, "Did the advantages of this high economic growth reach all echelons of society, in particular the 'poor'?" And so the official reports at this time showing a reduction in absolute poverty levels created a stir. Some old issues about poverty measurement and some new ones were brought into the foreground and heavily debated and discussed. Here I attempt to trace out the key issues of this debate.
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Disadvantaged Social Classes in the Panchayat system: Social Democratic Half-truths
By Dipankar Basu, Sanhati. Open for Comments.
In a recent article in Macroscan, Jayati Ghosh (JG hereafter) has argued that West Bengal is a "pioneering state" with regard to panchayati raj institutions and other measures aimed at decentralization of state power in India. The author shows that when one uses the correct index in the analysis, these conclusions vanish into thin air - of the states studied, Maharashtra, for example, outperforms West Bengal in participation of disadvantaged classes in Panchayats, even though it has never had the benefit of a progressive, left-wing government. The author suggests that this may be due to a vibrant culture of grassroots social and political activism, nurtured and led in no small measure by the radical left.
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Talk To Naxals; Focus On Development, Land Reform
By Suhit Sen, The Statesman
A team of experts constituted by the Planning Commission has cottoned on to something the Prime Minister doesn't seem to comprehend. It has pointed out that Left-wing extremism is not just - we could go further and say not at all - a law-and-order problem. It is a phenomenon that arises from a complete lack of development, desperate poverty and the dehumanisation that arises from it, and injustice and inequality. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not agree, of course - not long ago he had characterised extremism as the most virulent disease that afflicted India's body politic and Naxals as the Public Enemy Number 1. He should take time off his admittedly onerous duties to pore over the report.
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On the Naxalite Movement: A Report with a Difference
An EPW commentary by Sumanta Banerjee on the recent Planning Commission Report, "which while meticulously arranging the latest facts and figures, rigorously examines the causes of the continuing economic exploitation and social discrimination in the adivasi and dalit-inhabited areas even after 60 years of independence. It is significant that this particular expert group was set up by the government in May 2006, in the background of increasing Naxalite activities in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa."
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Tumi Maharaj Sadhu hole Aaj! - Real estate land-acquisition in HindMotors
Leaflet from Gana Udyog
B.L.R.O. Srirampore: I won't commit this to paper. However, there is one set of rules for common people, another for the Birlas. I can't do much from my chair. We are servants who obey government directives. Decisions come from much higher up.
(1) Land-acquisition in HindMotors for real-estate: A Timeline
(2) Background
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Panchayat Election 2008 results and the future of the CPIM
By Pinaki Mitra, Sanhati. Open for comments.
This article analyses the reactions of the CPIM leadership to the recent election reversals, gleaning from the reactions certain classic maladies of the Party itself. It then looks back at the CPIM's history of compromises, ending with the dilemmas it now confronts.
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People strike back at CPIM's neoliberal policies: Tremor after tremor at the Panchayat Elections
Panchayat Elections 2008 Final Tally:
Panchayat Samiti: Total - 329. LF - 189, Opposition - 131, No Result - 9.
Gram Panchayat: Total - 3220. LF - 1585, Opposition - 1498, No Result - 137.
Brutalized Singur and Nandigram vote out CPIM's anti-people policies
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Enemies of the State - Women and men who choose the margins
Enemies of the State: Women and men who choose the margins - By Ashok Mitra
Mumbai's Rebels: Those Who Couldn't Remain Unmoved. Profiles of Anuradha Ghandy, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Shridhar Shrinivasan - By Bernard D'Mello
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Nandigram from May 5-11, 2008 - APDR report
Factsheet on incidents regarding Nandigram from May 5 to 11, 2008 - APDR report
Government vs. CRPF: Lakshman Seth and his arm-twisting - May 12, 2008
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Nandigram on the eve of the Panchayet Elections - A MASUM report
May 10, 2008. Click here for a cartoon of today's Nandigram!
On getting information of the continuing disturbances and police inaction in Nandigram, our fact finding team reached violence-torn Nandigram today and has gathered shocking information from the villagers. Since last night musclemen and goons alleged to be supporters of the largest ruling party CPI(M) flaunting red flags resorted to bloody violence in the area. These miscreants snatched away voter identity cards of many villagers and beat them mercilessly even on the mere suspicion of not being supporters of the ruling party.
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They insist your show must be cancelled! - cultural coercion in a post-Nandigram Bengal
By Tapas Sinha. Translated by Suvarup Saha, Sanhati
The phonecall came on the 10th of April. One of the organizers of the Champdanga Theatre Festival was on the line. On the receiving end was thespian Koushik Sen, who has been active in the civil society movement of Nandigram.
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Mahamichhil for Nandigram and reflections on the people's movement
Kolkata witnessed another Mahamichhil on May 9, 2008. To (a) protest against the reign of terror unleashed by the CPI(M) on the eve of the panchayat elections, aimed at cowing down voters all over the state, and (b) especially to condemn the atrocities being perpetrated by CPI(M) workers in collusion with the state police in Nandigram.
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Who is Ajay TG? Political arrests and the tightening noose
Update May 12, 2008: PUDR condemnation statement, Petition of solidarity
The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns the arrest of Ajay TG, widely recognized film maker, journalist and human rights activist by the Chhattisgarh police in Raipur on 4 May 2008 and calls for his immediate release.
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Bondimukti Committee members arrested for protesting political arrests
Bondimukti Committee members protesting against political arrests were attacked by police and have been fasting at College Square, Kolkata, from May 6 2008 in protest.
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No choice for forgotten Santhals in Bengal
By Shyam Sundar Roy
About 500 voters, belonging to over 160 Santhal families living under Shiromoni gram panchayat in Midnapore Sadar block, do not know which party to vote for in the ensuing panchayat elections, as they say none of them are ready to help them.
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From Chhattisgargh to Manipur: The many faces of Salwa Judum
Manipur will arm its civilians to fight militants: A Salwa Judum in the making? - May 3, 2008
Chhattisgargh's purification hunt - By Shubhranshu Choudhary
4 farmers commit suicide everyday in Chhattisgarh - the highest in the country - By Shubhranshu Choudhary
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The Panchayat elections and self-empowerment of the rural poor
This is a translated version of a leaflet from the Krishak Committee (KC), written and distributed at the advent of Panchayat elections in West Bengal. The Sharamik Sangram Committee (SSC), a small fraternal organisation of the Krishak Commitee, leads the union at Hindustan Lever.
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My Name is Radharani Ari and This is How My Consciousness Was Raised.
Honourable Chief Minister, I am the same Radharani Ari of Nandigram. How many more times will your cadres rape me?
Yes, I am the same person. The same Radharani Ari, resident of Nandigram Block, village – Gokulpur. Whether or not you remember me, I am not too sure, although by now the entire state of West Bengalhas heard about me. I did not catch the limelight due to some creditable act of mine but on account of my misfortunes. I am a housewife of, by now infamous, Nandigram.
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Looking back at Khejuri: Our men, their men – the straw men
This eyewitness account appeared in November 2007, and presents an alternative first-hand view of the highly publicised Khejuri camps. It has been translated by Atreyi Dasgupta, Sanhati.
…One of the little ones, when asked his name, immediately parroted, "We need industry, or else how can we have development". He was ten years old. His sister was just beside him, and she said, "We don't know how long we have to stay in this condition. If we ask these people, they say, everything will go back to normal in a few days. But where is that happening? You know didi, our friends in Nandigram told us that they have resumed their studies. What will we do?"
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Will the "Great Indian Middle Class" show up, please?
By Partho Sarathi Ray, Sanhati. Comments enabled
Where is the "Great Indian Middle Class"? Where are those conspicuously- consuming, frequently-flying, gizmo-toting, big car-driving, globalized offsprings of our jet-setting "new economy"? Don't we see them all around us: living in highrises with blue-tiled swimming pools, with people living a few miles away getting water once in three days, shopping in glittering malls built on the land of evicted slums, driving around in Toyotas and Chevrolets on roads choked with traffic? From all accounts, and appearances, we have reached the heady days when the Indian middle class has finally arrived. They are the ones who supposedly constitute one of the biggest markets in the world, for whom multinational corporations are falling over one another to invest in India, for whom our governments' policies are directed, for whom roads and airports are built, for they ARE the "people" of India. This great middle class is our hope, the engine of growth for
our economy. So - where is it?
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Does Land Still Matter?
By D. Bandyopadhyay
The national economy is growing at double digit rates but neither industry nor non-agricultural activities in rural India provide livelihood for millions of rural workers. The annual growth of agricultural output decelerated from 3.08 per cent pa during 1980-81 to 1991-92 to 2.38 per cent pa during 1992-93 to 2003-04. It is this failure that underlies the spurt in rural violence that has highlighted once again the issue of the poors' access to land, water, and forests. It is gradually being recognised that further deterioration of economic, social, and political conditions of the rural poor can neither be arrested nor reversed without a significant policy shift towards a comprehensive land reform program.
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Predatory Growth
By Amit Bhaduri
Over the last two decades or so, the two most populous, large countries in the world, China and India, have been growing at rates considerably higher than the world average. In recent years the growth rate of national product of China has been about three times, and that of India approximately two times that of the world average. This has led to a clever defence of globalisation by a former chief economist of IMF (Fisher, 2003). Although China and India feature as only two among some 150 countries for which data are available, he reminded us that together they account for the majority of the poor in the world. This means that, even if the rich and the poor countries of the world are not converging in terms of per capita income, the well above the average world rate of growth rate of these two large countries implies that the current phase of globalisation is reducing global inequality and poverty at a rate as never before.
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Sibpur BESU - Coercion to join the SFI - Terror and the administration- police-criminal nexus
The political landscape in colleges across West Bengal is barren - the SFI wins mainly uncontested almost everywhere, through an intricate mechanism of nepotism, selection and campus terror.
The students of Sibpur BESU are facing an assault of the college administration- local goons-police. The Vice-chancellor Nikhil Ranjan Banerjea is orchestrating the assault, the aim of which is to terrorize students into joining or supporting the students' wing of the major ruling party. It is not an accident that all those who are being arrested by the police are distinguished by their non-allegiance to this students' organisation.
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Stages of Revolution in the International Working Class Movement
By Dipankar Basu, Sanhati (Open for comments)
This article attempts to throw some light on the following two questions: (1) How does the classical Marxist tradition conceptualize the relationship between the two stages of revolution: democratic and the socialist? (2) Does the democratic revolution lead to deepening and widening capitalism? Is capitalism necessary to develop the productive capacity of a society? The answer to the first question emerges from the idea of the "revolution of permanence" proposed by Marx in 1850, accepted, extended and enriched by Lenin as "uninterrupted revolution" and simultaneously developed by Trotsky as "permanent revolution". This theoretical development was brilliantly put into practice by Lenin between the February and October revolutions in Russia in 1917. The answer to the second question emerges clearly from the debates on the national and colonial question in the Second Congress of the Third International in 1920. From this debate what emerges is
the idea of the democratic revolution led by the proletariat as the start of the process of non-capitalist path of the development of the productive capacity of society, moving towards the future socialist revolution. Rather than deepening and widening capitalism, the democratic revolution under the proletariat leads society in the opposite direction, in a socialist, i.e., proletarian direction. Promoting capitalism is not necessary for the development of the productive capacity of a country.
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Civil Liberties under Attack: The "Maoist" Scare and Mithu Ghosh
Today we are witnessing the sharpest assault on democratic rights since Emergency. And as before, the reason is an upsurge from below, in the current case in resistance to the imposition of neoliberal policies. A most ominous event is the recent arrest, by the police of CPI(M)-led left front government, of Mithu Ghosh, an activist of Sharamik Sangram Committee (SSC) and Krishak Committee (KC), along with a senior leader of Nandigram movement and his son on 12th February, 2008 from Sonachuda, Nandigram West Bengal. An allegation of Maoist link under section 120B, 121, 121A and 153 of IPC was charged.
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You see, we do back calculations here - Rural employment and Panchayet realities in Bengal
By Swati Bhattacharya. Translated by Debarshi Das, Sanhati
We want work, work, work, work and work. - Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Chief Minister, West Bengal
Anukul Das was from Sonaga village, Gosaba Gram Panchayat (South 24 Parganas District, the Sunderban region). He demanded the right to work for minimum hundred days from Panchayat. Presently he is in the Andamans seeking work. His wife Shikha Das says, he got only nine days of work in two years. So, he went to submit the application for unemployment dole with some other villagers. Panchayat did not want to accept to application, hence they forcibly submitted it. A few days later, works started in the area, and they did not find any. They were allotted works in Rangabelia, about four kilometres away. Cost of travelling to and fro is twenty two rupees per day. One hour by boat, one more on foot. It was absurd to accept such a proposal. Panchayat members had told them openly: you complained about us, we will provide no work to you.
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On the CPIM's draft political resolution
Capitalistic socialism: New Oxymoron - By Sankar Ray
Irony of recent history - A critique of the CPIM's draft political resolution - By Sankar Ray
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Citizens' Report on Nandigram with specific stress on gender violence
As a result of an initiative by women's groups, organizations and individuals, an 11-member team of citizens from Kolkata comprising teachers, social activists, researchers and students visited Nandigram on November 24, 2007. Concerned about the repeated disruption of peace in the region, the team decided to go to the affected areas and talk to the local people with the objectives of expressing solidarity with the survivors of violence, documenting people's needs in the current circumstances, and drawing up recommendations. One of the chief aims was also to investigate the nature and range of sexual violence and its use as a political weapon, towards pre-empting further such occurrences of violence against women.
Click here to read Independent Citizens' Report on Nandigram [.doc, English 330KB] »
Nude mentally challenged patients - Bengal's public healthcare at a time of private bonanza
It has been argued that big capital investment in West Bengal "creates a wonderful opportunity to make much larger investments in public education, healthcare, public transport, environmental protection, and other public goods." (Amartya Sen). On the other hand, the argument has been made that a government with a neo-liberal mindset does not care about people who, because of their purchasing power, are outside the market. If the government has money, it will make malls and flyovers, at the cost of public health. The problem is not one of intention but definition.
The situation in a state mental hospital, a mere 6 km from the seat of government at Writers Building in Kolkata, displays the typically dysfunctional nature of public healthcare, amidst all the rhetoric of development.
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Singur brutalizer gets medal, cadres get Nandigram land, cash incentives for officials: Laissez-faire in action
Friedmanite neo-liberalism advocates minimization of the involvement of the state. In reality, neo-liberal policies are imposed and facilitated by the state - from nepotism and incentives to disappearances and massacres.
1. Singur: IPS officer accused of torture awarded Seva medal by Chief Minister - March 3, 2008
2. Bengal govt to distribute vested Nandigram land to party supporters - February 27, 2008
3. Cash Incentives for Officials Who Take Initiative for Land Acquisition - February 2, 2008
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Economic Growth: A Meaningless Obsession?
By Amit Bhaduri, B.N. Ganguly Memorial Lecture; CSDS, Delhi, November 2006.
We are living in India at a time when the media is continuously transmitting confusing, even conflicting, economic signals. If we restrict ourselves to the English language print as well as electronic media, our comfort level is likely to be high. The economy is growing at a high rate, the stock market is booming, our foreign reserve is at a comfortably high level, and freer trade is bringing to our doors a variety of goods and services simply unimaginable even a couple of decades ago as a mark of the benefits of globalization. What is more, we are daily reminded that India is poised economically and politically as an emergent world power.
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Dankuni - Resistance to Massive Land Acquisition for Real Estate
The "development" process in West Bengal is taking place in a two stage mechanism - conversion of agricultural land into industrial land, and conversion of industrial land into real estate. Land acquisition in Dankuni clearly demonstrates how the aim of the "development" process is really the extraction of maximum profits by private enities from resources, in this case, land. Real estate provides the maximum profit, therefore functioning factories in Dankuni are being shut down to acquire land for a housing project by the powerful DLF group.
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Agro-Science Fair in Bolagarh, West Bengal
The 'Agricultural Science Fair 2008' was organized by Bolagarh Gana-Bijnan Samiti on 25-26 January, 2008 at the Jeerat Colony High School in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, India. Extensive discussions and programs were carried out on the role of multinationals like Monsanto in promoting genetically modified seeds, pesticides, and fertilizers. Alternative bio-friendly methods of agriculture were discussed.
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Anti-POSCO rally and program in Kolkata
February 13, 2008. Kolkata: A rally from College Square to Utkal Bhavan (an office of the Orissa govornment) took place and was followed by a mass-deputation in Utkal Bhavan against the proposed POSCO project in Jagatsingpur district, Orissa. The program was organised by 18 organizations. After a demonstration in front of Utkal Bhavan the protesters conveyed their solidarity to the POSCO movement in the form of a memorandum to the government of Orissa. The authorities at Utkal Bhavan received the memorandum on behalf of the government of Orissa. Afterwards, anti-POSCO activists including Biswajit Roy shared their experiences with political organisations and human rights activists at the Indian Radical Humanist Associations Hall in a discussion called Posco Ebong Tar Protirodh. Activists involved in the protest movement against illegal and extensive stone quarrying in Asansol and Birbhum were also present to express their solidarity to the people of
Orissa and speak about the conditions in the regions where they work.
The 18 organisations which organised the program were: APDR, Chhatra-Chhatri Sanhati Mancha, Little Magazine Samannay Mancha, Lok Seba Sangh, Nandigram Ganahatya Birodhi Prochar Udyog, Sahanagarikder Jukta Mancha, Hawker Sangram Committee, TASAM, USDF, NAPM, Sanhati Udyog, PaschimBanga Khetmazoor Samiti, Ganamukti Parishad, Janasangharsha Samiti, West Bengal Gandhi Peace Foundation, Bondi Mukti Committee, West Bengal Government Employees Union, and National Fishworkers Federation.
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Malnutrition death in Singur and the Nano-flyover syndrome
1. February 10, 2008 : Kalipada Majhi, a sharecropper rendered jobless in Singur after land acquisition, died from malnutrition.
2. In an article called The Nano-flyover Syndrome, Sunita Narain examines what subsidises the cheap Nano, and who actually pays.
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Tall Claims: Employment generated by Haldia Petrochemicals
By Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri and Purnendu Chakraborty
These articles calculate the actual employment figure in downstream units of HPL for 2005 to be less than 19,301. We are being asked to believe that, in 2 years, the figure has increased from less than 19,301 to 50,000+89,900, an increase of more than 7-fold. The figure of 89,900 is also suspiciously close to 89,895, which is the employment figure for ALL new projects implemented in the state between 1991-2002 (Source: Frontline). It seems that either 89,000 is a favourite number, or that all employment in the state has come from HPL.
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Burma's Freedom Fighters: From Port Blair to a Kolkata Jail
February 4th, 2008, marks the tenth anniversary of the illegal detention of 34 Burmese freedom fighters in Bengal. The Solidarity Committee for Burma's Freedom Fighters, whose members include Ashok Mitra, Lakshmi Sehgal, and others, carried out a Dharna in protest.
Personal accounts of prisoners and press release of the protest are included.
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Neoliberalism, the U.S. economic crisis, and the phases of capitalism
Neoliberal Globalization Is Not the Problem - By Rick Wolff
2008: The Demise of Neoliberal Globalization - By Immanuel Wallerstein
Putting the U.S. Economic Crisis in Perspective - By Leo Panitch
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Some critiques of CPI(M)'s 19th Congress and stance on capitalism
On Jyoti Basu's Embrace of Capitalism as the Only Road to Industrialisation - By P.J. James
CPI(M)'s 19th Congress: The Social Democrats Stand Further Exposed - By K.N. Ramachandran
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Study on Closed and Re-opened Tea Gardens in North Bengal
By Anuradha Talwar, Debashish Chakraborty, Sarmishtha Biswas
This study, dated September 2005, was conducted in the wake of the crisis in the tea industry in the Doars between 2002-2004.
Contents: (1) Conditions in re-opened gardens - wages, ration, hours of work, occupational health and safety, drinking water, electricity, housing, transport for school-children, medical facilities, creches, maternity benefits, fringe benefits, latrines and urinals (2) Conditions in closed and abandoned gardens (3) Workers' dues - tabled by tea estates, categorized under provident fund, gratuity, salary, and total dues (4) Opening agreements (5) Likely non-viability of plantations (6) Role of unions - CITU, UTUC, INTUC, WBTGEA (7) Role of government (8) Plantations Labour Act, 1951
Click here to read study on closed and re-opened ta gardens in North Bengal [PDF, English, 400 KB] »
ShramikShakti Newsletter - January-February 2008
Contents: (1) SEZs stopped in Goa (2) CPI(M) exults over the Nano (3) BJP in power in Gujrat and Himachal - effects on state and national politics (4) Dankuni - huge land acquisition plans (5) Civil society, Karl Marx, and the CPI(M) (6) Economic development and employment generation - a debate (part 2) (7) Vote-based front or unity of struggle? (8) Pollution of drinking water - in search of the source (9) Singur and the High Court verdict (10) Ganashakti's hypocrisy (11) GM crops - agricultural science meet in Bolagarh (12) Bolagarh - lessons from the polls (13) Movement in Kandi - protests against corruption in public distribution system and cal for permanent flood resistance measures (14) Benazir's death and contemporary Pakistan (15) HindMotors and the recent elections
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Posted by: "mary whalen" mary57whalen@yahoo.ca mary57whalen
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Let the people do what they want, you get Woodstock. Let the government do what it wants, you get WACO!....Mary.
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PASS IT
ON
TO A
MILLION
(BEST SEEN
WHEN OPENED FULL PAGE)
FOR
RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
ONLY
(FINAL REVISION)
THE U.S.
MILITARY
BY JACQUES HARDY
MANY IN THE U.S. KNOW WHAT
IS GOING ON...
BUT THEY PREFER TO
KEEP QUIET ABOUT IT
1. MY OPINION WHEN I WAS 14 YEARS
OLD.
I can still remember to this day wartime
days (1940) when I was living in Namur, Belgium, occupied by German
forces. At that time, I was a "patriot", strongly in favour of
anti-Nazi military forces. In fact in 1943, I joined the French
Resistance in Auvergne and happened to be part of the liberating forces of
1944. Anyway, I can still remember myself getting into Clermont-Ferrand on
top of an automobile and holding my Herstal gun. I was then 16 years
old. But surprise... it just happened that I neither killed nor even
shot at anybody !
In those days, I was what I know now as
being stupid: I believed everything I was told such as
that the Germans were the enemies while the Americans and the Britishers were
our friends. Eventually however, I began to change my mind... especially
when Charles de Gaulle was gunned down by a U.S. agent and even
more so when our Soviet hero Joseph Stalin as well as many
others were assassinated all over the Soviet Union by U.S. agents masquerading as "Russian
communists". They even killed one of my (communist) friends.
The important thing to understand at this
point is that we, all of us, when we are young, we are brainwashed
into thinking that side A is the very best while side B is the very
worst. O.K. so comes up a first question: What is side A and what is
side B. And there is a second simple question... which is NEVER
asked: WHY is this so ?
O.K. Let's now start from the
beginning: What are side A and B ?
Side A is actually though secretly,
THE INTERNATIONAL PLUTOCRACY,
the few who should be IMMEDIATELY exterminated BEFORE they exterminate us
all ! Fine and what is Side B ? Side B is made up of EVERY ORDINARY PERSON: those who are
dispossessed and rejected by the upper crust... hence by side A.
In other words it is the classical case of
the very, very few abusing and destroying the masses of naive
fools: the guys who stupidly believe what they are
told to believe.
Actually the entire U.S. system is a
demonstration of the fact that people who REFUSE TO
THINK are actually condemning themselves to a most horrible
death (this is coming... just be patient) and this by their very, very
own fault.
2. MY OPINION NOW
WHEN I AM 81 YEARS OLD
Now I have to admit, I have
totally changed my opinion. Because I have now travelled, not only
all over Europe (Germany, U.K., France, Holland, England, Denmark, Sweeden,
Russia and so on) but in Africa and especially North America... e.g.
the United States from California to Florida !
And this is the important part of it
all: Again and again, I have seen evidences proving that the United
States is not at all a democracy but a totalitarian
country where the government has all power and the population of
slaves have none. Worse yet, people in the U.S. are so perfectly
brainwashed and uneducated or deseducated, that they have a tendency to
believe that they are "citizens", living in "freedom".
The truth is that the situation was
similar 50 years ago but at that time nobody was really conscious of what was
going on. People in the U.S. started to wake up only a few years ago
when they saw the construction of hundreds of additional prisons, while people
started to disappear at the same time as other people died of
starvation. What happens is that before, people were conditioned to accept
and even support the brutality and murderous behaviour of the United States all
over the world. Now however that same brutality or ferocity is directed
against their own ordinary "citizens" and these find it difficult to
accept... but they have to, or else !
3. WHAT IS REALLY
HAPPENING ?
Why is this happening, first in the United
States and next gradually in all the other countries? Well just look at the
historical facts:
1. Gradually, governments have had greater and
greater power.
2. And the military too has had growing power
and brutality.
3. However, that great power belongs... not to
the government, not to the military but...
4. To the International Plutocracy, which now
controls the U.S. and most countries.
5. Meanwhile more and more people, especially
children are being murdered.
6. And this is the depopulation so needed by
the plutocracy.
7. But 100% guilty are the passive,
indifferent victims.
8. Remember: when your children will be
slaughtered, YOU will be guilty...
9. And deserving to be crucified as the reward
for your indifference.
You better THINK about it all and
understand that the victims have
their share of responsability in the destruction of our species... a destruction
which is only beginning. But you can relax, Hell is being
prepared and heated to receive you after your death. I guess after an
eternity in Hell, you will be well cooked and delicious to eat (with FRENCH
fries).
4. GUILTY
PARENTS
Indeed, observe carefully what is going on
in the world all through history and see that there has been two different types
of "civilization" and both were routine at different historic times. It is like
this:
POSITIVE TYPE. The mother is attentive to her
children, give them love, educate them, cultivate self-discipline and
will-power in them and lead them to a fully successful life.
NEGATIVE TYPE. The mother has no time for her
children who can thus FREELY grow up to become vicious, selfish, greedy
animals.
Unfortunately, there are not too many of
the positive type, the reason being that mothers are never taught to be mothers,
so they don't know what to do and how to do it. Therefore, most mothers
belong to the negative type. Therefore, they either produce no children at
all or else they produce little monsters which frequently grow up to become
first class criminals, the very, very best to become U.S. military terrorists: the very type we
have seen torturing children in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Latin America
and so on and on.
And that is how billions of people are now
praying God that He please destroys the U.S. in a hurry before the U.S. has
destroyed the entire world.
5. THE CHOICE:
SUICIDE OR EXECUTION
Because indeed when a country has reached
the degree of degeneration attained by the United States, no salvation can be
expected: both the United States and the world as a whole
will be totally destroyed. A surprising number of people living in the
U.S. have understood this and they are committing suicide in greater and
greater numbers, they and their entire family. But this is just one
possible solution. Another solution would be to execute the entire U,S.
terrorist government.. . but that takes courage !
Yet, there is still another
possibility: running away from the U.S. and going
to live in Asia, Africa, Latin America and so on. However this
is no real solution because sooner or later the plutocracy-run U.S. will
destroy the entire world (that is a promise).
6. SOME CRAZY MEN
& WOMEN
GET WHAT THEY
DESERVE.
And who are these crazy men and
women? Typically, it it those who...
1. Think that their race, whatever it may be,
is superior to all the others.
2. Want to become wealthy and powerful over all
others.
3. Accept to serve in the U.S. terrorist
military, there to commit all types of crimes.
Fortunately, they do get their
punishment as follows:
1. Some get killed while serving in the army or
soon after.
2. Almost all of them are poisoned by U.S.
poisoning of the air, water and food.
3. They are, almost all of them,
very sick and die soon.
But why is all this happening
? Because the United States is tightly controlled by the
International Plutocracy, which is numbering just a few thousand enormously
wealthy individuals. These need and want the earth completely depopulated
except for themselves.
Meanwhile their victims, the ordinary
people, have been so cleverly deseducated, brainwashed and made sick, that
they are unable to resist or fight back, so they just wait patiently
for their time to die. In fact, most of them hope to die soon or even
commit suicide.
7.
CONCLUSION
Unfortunately, to the question "What should be done" there is very
little one can say because it is past the time: it is
sort of too late. Fifty years ago, a world revolution would have saved us
all. But in those days, NOBODY - not even myself - was prepared to
fight. And now, those who understand what has to be done are too old to
fight. As to the young people, these have a very strong tendency to
understand nothing of what is going on and in addition, they don't want to
know... they are evil "patriots".
8.
OPINIONS
1.
Here is a most interesting article about the U.S. Military, written
by Dahr Jamail's dispatches <dahr_jamail_ dispatches@ dahrjamailiraq. com>.
Culture of
Unpunished Sexual Assault in U.S.
Military
by Dahr
Jamail
April 30th, 2009 | Inter Press Service
Marfa,
Texas — Sexual assault of women serving in the U.S. military, while brought
to light in recent reports, has a long tradition in that
institution.
Women in America were first allowed into the military during
the Revolutionary War in 1775, and their travails are as
old.
Maricela Guzman served in the Navy from 1998 to
2002 as a computer technician on the island of Diego Garcia, and later in
Naples, Italy. She was raped while in boot camp, but was too scared to talk
about the assault for the rest of her time in the
military.
In her own words she, "survived by becoming a workaholic. Fortunately or
unfortunately the military took advantage of this, and I was much awarded as
a soldier for my work ethic."
Guzman
decided to dissociate from the military on witnessing the way it treated the
native population in Diego Garcia. Post discharge, her life became
unmanageable. The effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from her
rape had taken a heavy toll.
After undergoing a
divorce, a failed suicide attempt and homelessness, she moved in with her
parents. A chance encounter with a female veteran at a political event in
Los Angeles prompted her to contact the veteran's administration (VA) for
help. She began seeing a therapist there who diagnosed her with PTSD from
her rape.
She told IPS that the VA denied her claim
nevertheless, "Because they said I couldn't prove it … since I had not
brought it up when it happened and also because I had not shown any deviant
behaviour while in the service. I was outraged and felt compelled to talk
about what happened."
Like countless others, Guzman
learned early that the culture of the military promoted silence about sexual
assault. Her experience over the years has convinced her that sexual violence is a systemic problem in the
military.
"It has been happening since
women were allowed into the service and will continue to happen after Iraq
and Afghanistan," Guzman told IPS, "Through the gossip mill we would hear of
women who had reported being raped. No confidentiality was maintained nor
any protection given to them making them susceptible to fresh
attacks."
"The boys' club culture is strong and the
competition exclusive," Guzman added, "To get ahead women have to be better
than men. That forces many not to report rape, because it is a blemish and
can ruin your career."
She is not hopeful of any
radical change in policy anytime soon, but, "One good thing that has come
out of this war is that people want to talk about this
now."
More than 190,000 female soldiers have served
thus far in Iraq and Afghanistan on the front lines, often having to
confront sexual assault and harassment from their own comrades in
arms.
The VA's PTSD centre claims that the incidence
of rape, assault, and harassment were higher in wartime during the 1991 U.S.
attack on Iraq than during peacetime. Thus far, the numbers from Iraq show a
continuance, and increase, of this disturbing trend.
The military is notorious for its sexist and misogynistic culture. Drill
instructors indoctrinate new recruits by routinely calling them "girl,"
"pussy," "bitch," and "dyke." Pornography is prevalent, and misogynistic
rhymes have existed for decades.
Understandably,
Department of Defense (DoD) numbers for sexual assaults in the military are
far lower than numbers provided by other sources, primarily because the
Pentagon only counts rapes that soldiers have officially reported. Even
according to the Pentagon, 80 percent of assaults go
unreported.
Pentagon spokesperson Cynthia Smith told
IPS, "We understand this is very important for everyone to get involved in
preventing sexual assault, and are calling on everyone to get involved, step
in, and watch each others' backs."
According to the
DoD Report on Sexual Assault in the Military for Fiscal Year 2007, "There
were 2,688 total reports of sexual assault involving Military Service
Members," of which "The Military Services completed a total of 1,955
criminal investigations on reports made during or prior to
FY07."
The criminal investigations yielded the
shockingly low number of only 181 courts martial. "We understand that one
sex assault is too many in the DoD," Smith told IPS, "We have an office
working on prevention and response."
A 1995 study
published in the Archives of Family Medicine found that 90 percent of female
veterans from the 1991 U.S. attack on Iraq and earlier wars had been
sexually harassed. A 2003 survey of women veterans from the period
encompassing Vietnam and the 1991 Iraq attack, published in the American
Journal of Industrial Medicine, found that 30 percent of the women soldiers
said they were raped.
In 2004, a study of veterans
from Vietnam and all wars since, published in the journal of Military
Medicine, found that 71 percent of the women were sexually assaulted or
raped while serving.
At the 2006 National Convention
of Veterans for Peace in Seattle, April Fitzsimmons, who early in her career
was raped by a soldier, met with 45 other female vets, and began compiling
information.
"I asked for a show of hands of women
veterans who had been assaulted while on duty, and half the women raised
their hands," Fitzsimmons told IPS, "So I knew we had to do
something."
She, along with other women veterans like
Guzman, founded the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) to help military
women who have been victims of sexual violence.
It is
an uphill battle for women in the U.S. military to take on the system that
clearly represses attempts to change it.
"When victims
come forward, they are ostracised, doubted, and isolated from their
communities," Fitzsimmons told IPS, "Many of the perpetrators are officers
who use their ranks to coerce women to sleep with them. It's a closely
interwoven community, so the perpetrators are safe within the system and can
fearlessly move free amongst their victims."
Fitzsimmons shared with IPS a view that underscores the gravity of the
problem.
"The crisis is so severe that I'm telling
women to simply not join the military because it's completely unsafe and
puts them at risk. Until something changes at the top, no woman should join
the military."
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Sidebar: Two
Testimonies
April
Fitzsimmons served in the Air Force from 1985 to
1989, as an intelligence analyst and intelligence briefer for a two-star
general. Early in her military career, another soldier sexually assaulted
her.
Nineteen years old at the time of her rape,
Fitzsimmons reported the assault, and named her perpetrator, who was removed
from the base. However, she declined the offer of counselling "because there
was a stigma attached to it," she told IPS.
"Those who
seek counselling are perceived to be at risk, as being too weak and
vulnerable and it would have meant forfeiting my top-secret clearance to
keep military intelligence classified," she explained.
Another reason for maintaining silence on the matter was that Fitzsimmons
was declared "airman (sic) of the year," in the European
command.
"I didn't want to lose that," she says, "I
wanted the whole thing to go away."
Fitzsimmons created a one-woman play, Need to Know, which has been running
for six years. In the play, she addresses her own sexual assault in the
military. When news of rapes and sexual assaults by U.S. soldiers in Iraq,
against both other soldiers and Iraqis began to surface, Fitzsimmons became
more active.
"After reading about the 14-year-old
Iraqi girl, Abeer Qasim Hamza, who was raped by several soldiers, and about
Suzanne Swift, a soldier who after being raped by another U.S. soldier went
AWOL (absent without leave) rather than redeploy with the command that was
responsible for allowing the rape to occur, I was convinced that there was a
cycle of sexual violence in the military that was neither being seen nor
addressed," she says.
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It is
not difficult to ascertain the reason for so few sexual assaults being
reported in the military. Jen Hogg of the New York Army National
Guard told IPS, "I helped a woman report a sexual assault while she was in
basic training. She was grabbed between the legs from behind while going up
stairs. She was not able to pinpoint the person who did
it."
Hogg explained that her friend was afraid to
report the incident to her drill sergeant, and went on to explain why, which
also sheds light on why so many women opt not to report being sexually
assaulted.
"During training, the position of authority
the drill sergeant holds makes any and all reporting a daunting task, and
most people are scared to even approach him or her," Hogg told IPS, "In this
case, the drill sergeant's response was swift but caused resentment towards
the female that made the report, because her identity was not hidden from
males who were punished as a whole for the one."
The
incident displays another tactic used in the military to suppress women's
reportage of being sexually assaulted - that of not respecting their
anonymity, which opens them up to further assaults.
"After this incident many of the males said harassing things to her as they
passed her during training, so much so that she regretted having addressed
the issue," Hogg continued, "You can be ostracised as the woman who had
dared to speak up. Women willing to speak up are trained to shut up, which
results in an atmosphere of silence. After my experiences in basic and
advanced individual training I never reported an incident again."
Hogg herself faced verbal sexual
harassment.
"When I removed my protective top in the
heat I would often hear comments such as 'where you been hiding them
puppies' in reference to my breasts."
Based on her
friends' experience, Hogg did not even consider reporting.
To make
matters worse, according to Department of Defense statistics, 84-85 percent
of soldiers convicted of rape or sexual assault leave the military with
honourable discharges. Not only are they not penalised, they are
honoured.
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SixPack
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AL MARTIN (AL MARTIN
RAW)
(4-27-09) The Obama Regime is lying. The banks lie,
and people don't understand why. What is the motivation? The motivation is
that the Obama Regime is scared shitless of telling the truth because if the
people knew just how close the United States, and by extension the rest of
the planet, is to utter economic collapse, their fear would become a
self-fulfilling prophecy.
Now they're
effectively sacrificing Joe SixPack. How? Because the Obama Regime's lies,
complicit with the lies of financial media's Great Market Shill Machine
brought in a record number of Joe SixPack 300 Share Buyers. This has taken
place within the last 3 months, from February to April
2009.
They've brought in Joe SixPack buying, and
this has been done in concert with the complicity of the investment banks
which are not selling stock. There's the key. Joe alone can't hold up the
equity market. He can only do so -- if selling is withheld. So what exactly
is the conspiracy?
The Obama Regime is encouraging
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US Used Small Nuclear Weapons in Iraq
http://conspiracypl anet.com/ channel.cfm? channelid= 137&contentid= 5941
by SUE
ARRIGO
(4-28-09) The CIA has tortured me in
Madrid now also, not surprisingly, but I am in good spirits nevertheless. I
still have hopes of meeting with the lawyer Gonzalo Boye and judge Baltasor
Garzon who are involved in the lawsuit against the Bush lawyers. But the
torture and brainwashing which accompanies it makes it harder for
me.
Meanwhile, I am reading about Universal
Jurisdiction and trying to put what I know in a framework which the Spanish
legal system can use. Here are some of my writings on the subject, perhaps
you will find out of it worth publishing.
Bush,
Jr. posted how to make nuclear weapons on a White House website in Arabic!
What follows are not national security secrets which tell Muslims how to
make weapons, but show the need for the US to use restraint in its policies.
This is what the citizens need to know to protect themselves from the
reckless endangering of the world by men drunk on power in high
places.
911 sent the world to war in the Middle
East.
The US and UK did not provide proof that the
Muslims listed as the hijackers committed the crimes. They did not do the
careful police work to track down just the guilty and punish them. It was
this failure to punish only the guilty after establishing their guilt in the
Courts which lead to the wars.
This failure to
confine punishment to the due process of international law was a crime which
undermined international law in practice in all countries. If the Spanish do
not try those in the US whose duty it was to ensure international law was
upheld, they allow themselves to be forced into war based on hearsay or
cooked intelligence.
That is, they allow their
national agenda to be hijacked based on the statements of foreign officials
without their having any way to verify those statements as the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
In
addition, by this failure to bring this to trials they allow their military
to be sent to war without the informed consent of their populace. This is a
violation of the democratic rights of the citizens to have their nation's
decisions made by the officials they elected.
Spain and other countries allow their citizens to be murdered in illegal or
unjust wars based on the unsubstantiated statements of foreign officials.
This is treason because it gives a foreign power the right in practice to
send the nation to war and kill its citizens without due democratic process
based on international law and standards of proof commensurate with the
risks of nuclear fallout and war.
The US and UK
used depleted uranium in Iraq. It is a third as radioactive as regular
uranium and tens of thousands of rounds of it the size of small cigars were
used per the official reports. In truth, the amount used was over 10 times
what the US and UK officials reported. Its half-life of the destructive
potential on the human DNA is more than 4.5 million
years.
Immediately the rate of dreadful birth
defects skyrocketed, and that is just the start of an upward curve over the
next 4.5 million years at a minimum. That curve is not linear. As the DNA
degenerates, the ability of the body to heal the DNA decreases and the
effects of the radioactivity is compounded over time, like a high interest
loan becomes unpayable.
The radioactive dust
from the use of depleted uranium in Iraq reached the UK as documented by Dr.
Busby and increased the level of radiation to dangerous levels. The response
of the US government was to order the radiation detectors in the UK to be
turned off for some weeks so that the public would not know the extent of
the danger they were subjected to against their
will.
In the US, those downwind of the Nevada
Test site will have many more cancers. Conservative and largely whitewashed
estimates are that there will be an additional 60,000 cases of thyroid
cancer due to the dust carried radiation. Since the cost of treatment of
each case of cancer can be expected to be over $100,000 USD, the cost will
be at a minimum $6 billion dollars in medical costs and much more in lost
productivity from thyroid cancer alone.
Birth
defects have a much higher lifetime cost and loss of productivity. The use
of depleted uranium is undoubtably a war crime of the greatest international
concern as the US continues to use depleted uranium in its military actions
in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now in Pakistan. It is equivalent to using 揹irty
bombs? It is the same as using nuclear bombs except for the initial
destructive blast of a few moments.
Since
soldiers return to their country of origin they bring back to that nation
their damaged DNA and health problems. That constitutes a serious threat to
the DNA of a nation and amount to a form of passive, though not necessarily
unintended form of genocide. I say not necessarily unintended because I
wrote reports to the Bush Administration in 2004 on the genocidal results of
using depleted uranium and was present at a Daily Intelligence Briefing of
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfled, and Tenet in which my report was
discussed.
Bush said, who cares? We will be dead
by the time people know the consequences. Cheney said, [and I typed the
transcript of the tape myself later so I heard it many times as my typing
skills are not so good], can we speed up the damage to their DNA to disable
them faster??
I replied, it is the children
having the birth defects and the leukemias.?
He said, can we suppress their whole society into
future generations this way??
I said, you will
be suppressing the whole world's DNA.?
Rumsfeld said, it doesn't matter that our troops come
home sick, it keeps them from protesting about their Post Traumatic Stress.
If anything we need them to come back sicker from unnameable conditions. We
don't want to have to compensate them for this. Can it be detected? Will
there be blowback on this, to our
Administration? ?
I replied, Yes, definitely.?
Cheney
said, I don't believe you. You are always trying to rain on our parade.
We will go ahead. Then realizing that was Bush's line to say, he elbowed him
lightly to get him to repeat it. Maybe Bush was on drugs like Librium for
his alcoholism because he said as the tape showed, our Parade. We will go
ahead like a parrot forced to repeat what Cheney said but with only a
limited memory and understanding of what
preceded.
I did check and found White
House Security Camera footage would showed Cheney handing Bush a Librium to
take before that meeting after Bush objected that he had already taken his
Librium that morning.
I thus wrote in my follow
up report to Tenet that Bush might not have been competent to make the
decision and that it required re-authorization before it could be considered
a valid order to continue the use of depleted
uranium.
However, to the best of my knowledge,
even after using every means available to me within the CIA, the Pentagon,
and the White House later (as a negotiator between Tenet and Cheney on who
would take the blame for not preventing 911), I was unable to find any
evidence that a subsequent more valid authorization of the use of radiation
in the war zones had occurred.
That conclusion
that the US was using the equivalent of nuclear weapons in terms of their
long term consequences without proper authorization from a mentally
competent Commander-in- Chief, or duly elected one given the election fraud
in 2000, [and in 2004], became the subject of a subsequent report I filed
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Acting DCI McLaughlin soon after Tenet
resigned.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff demanded
that the White House supply a new written authorization for the use of
so-called Depleted Uranium after realizing that it never had written
authorization before, only a verbal order conveyed by Cheney in early
2003. A written order was sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff with Bush's
stamped signature above Cheney's handwritten signature in summer
2004.
Acting DCI McLaughlin called Bush in my
presence to ask him if he had told Cheney to send that order to the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Bush said it was the first he heard of the order, then he
was heard to swear briefly at Cheney. He told McLaughlin that he would look
into it and call him back.
The White House phone
records show that less than a minute later he called David Rockefeller. The
CIA's tape of that call revealed that Bush asked David Rockefeller what the
White House's policy was on the use of depleted uranium.
Rockefeller was reticient to give full answer and just said, yes?
Bush asked him, you
mean we should use it??
Rockefeller again said just yes and then hung up on Bush.
Bush then went to speak to Cheney according to the
White House Security cameras which were clear in the matter. The CIA's
recording of that conversation showed that Bush asked Cheney when he had
given the order to use radiation in Iraq? Cheney did not give a
date.
Then Bush said, I never gave that
order. You have to take it back if you did that in my name. I am not going
to poison the fish that way?
Cheney said, there
are no fish in Iraq?
Bush said, yes, there are. And just as soon as it is
safe there, I intend to go fishing there. I want to be able to eat the fish
I catch there. You can't mess with my going fishing in the countries we
conquer.?
Cheney gave a non-committal answer.
Bush pushed him on it and said, Just because Rockefeller doesn't go fishing,
doesn't mean you have a right to take away my fishing
trips.?
Cheney said that he would find Bush a better
place to go fishing and Bush left his office.
McLaughlin with me in the room and the phone on speaker called Bush back
about 25 minutes after the first call. McLaughlin asked him point blank if
he had authorized the use of the depleted uranium. Bush said, No, but David
did and Cheney is going to let me go fishing
soon.?
Rockefeller was not a duly elected
official of the US populace.
Yet, the White House phone record and CIA tapes show
that Cheney called David Rockefeller within minutes and asked him to confirm
that he still wanted depleted uranium used in the war zones even though it
was not proving as effective as expected in disabling the Iraqi
populace.
Cheney complained to Rockefeller that
the expert Rockefeller sent up to the White House claimed that the Iraqis in
a large area where a new batch was to be used would all be disabled with
nausea and vomiting due to radiation illness, and that hadn't happened. [The
New batch was made by a Rockefeller subsidiary which Cheney owned
substantial shares in. ]
Rockefeller said, don't
worry, the long term results are good.?
Cheney asked him what long term results he was
speaking of. Rockefeller said, our profits, you
fool.?
Cheney asked him about another joint illegal
weapons venture they had going and that discussion lasted 20 minutes before
they returned to the topic of the authorization for the depleted uranium
use.
Rockefeller said, I don't want an
order just for depleted uranium, I want it to cover the use of nuclear
weapons.?
Cheney said, First strike??
And Rockefeller said Yes?
Cheney said, what if l have trouble getting Bush to
sign that?
Rockefeller said, for his drugs ?
Cheney said, he maxed out on that option already. It
doesn't work so well when he doesn't even remember signing something. It
comes back at us later ?
McLaughlin and I were
listening to this conversation live in his office. He was shaking his head
in disbelief. He said to me, I can't let this conversation go on, what
if the Russians or someone else gets hold of it [for blackmail].? He picked
up his phone and asked the CIA tech division to patch him into the call
between Cheney and Rockefeller.
By the time that
happened about 2 minutes later, Rockefeller had told Cheney several other
illegal things to do to try to coerce Bush into signing the order based on
fear and Cheney had agreed to do them.
When
McLaughlin cut into their conversation, he told them to discuss such things
in private, not by phone.
Cheney laughed and
said, for a moment I was afraid we were
busted.?
Rockefeller asked McLaughlin how much of the
conversation he had heard and McLaughlin lied and said he was so busy
patching in that he didn't have time to hear anything. That was not true as
CIA Tech Division did the patching and the conversation was played on
speaker the whole time while McLaughlin and I
waited.
His secretary was also in the room
waiting at that point for McLaughlin to make a decision on another matter
and he had told her to be quiet so he could concentrate on hearing the
conversation.
Rockefeller asked him how he knew
to interrupt their conversation and McLaughlin mentioned my name as the
remote viewer who brought it to his attention.
Rockefeller said, Torture her for it and stop monitoring my calls? and hung
up.
McLaughlin turned to me and said, You were
right. There is no valid order for the use of radiation or nuclear weapons
in the war zones.?
This was an important issue
because the White House had ordered the use of a new generation of small
nuclear weapons which didn't make mushroom clouds but still caused a nuclear
chain reaction to be used in Iraq---and the Pentagon had used
them.
The next week, after Rockefeller had me
tortured, I went back to the Joint Chiefs of Staff with a new report which
detailed that the order to use them was not valid, at best a new order would
be the result of coercion due to the duress Bush was scheduled to be put
under which was cruel and inhumane treatment at the very least. I played for
the Joint Chiefs of Staff the relevant parts of the CIA and White House
tapes.
My presentation took up about 20 minutes.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff were chagrined that they had acted without proper
orders. Bizarrely, one of them called Cheney during the meeting right after
my presentation and demanded that Cheney get them proper authority which
extended retroactively to cover the use of the nuclear
weapons.
In retrospect it appeared that the use
of the depleted uranium and the Rockefeller' s expert's story of the new
batch of it was to cover the detectable after effects of these new nuclear
weapons also made by a Rockefeller company. These new nuclear weapons were
small enough that the blast did not leave obvious distortions in
seismographic records.
However, both the
Pentagon and US Intelligence were concerned because the satellite images
showed tell tale signs of their use. That meant that any nation with
satellites which went within a wide swarth of Iraq might detect that the US
had used nuclear change reaction weapons in Iraq. Because of that the US had
sent diplomats out to about 20 of its Allies asking them to destroy their
satellite images for that day.
The CIA tried to
assess whether they had and I was asked to write a report on the subject. As
I had negotiated over intelligence matters with the Russians, I called a few
of them to ask if their satellite images had shown up anything unusual and
if they said Yes, I asked what they thought it was due
to.
Three of 4 of them unequivocally stated that
the US had used a nuclear weapon in Iraq. One of them went so far as to tell
me the precise make, model, and serial number of one of the devices used. I
was later to report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that he got it
right.
Over a dozen countries voiced an
objection, most of them by back channels. It was no great secret that the US
used nuclear weapons in Iraq, not just depleted uranium. But this
information has not been given to the public, such as in Spain, and that
omission deprives them of their democratic rights to make informed
decisions.
For example, the US often claims it
might have to go to war in Iran because the Iranians might be enriching
uranium and might in the future make a nuclear weapon. The public has not
been told that the US's plans to go to war in Iran include its using nuclear
weapons against Iran and that it has already used them in
Iraq.
If it knew that they likely would not
approve of the US going to war in Iran to get their oil. That would deprive
the Rockefellers of that oil, and so the Rockefellers have applied lots of
pressure to government officials throughout the world to keep secret the
truth in these matters.
However, officials doing
so are acting treasonously to follow the advice of a foreigner when it
negatively impacts the health of their countrymen and their freedoms and
democracy. Knowing the truth carries with it certain responsibilities -
including to act to protect the world from the use of nuclear weapons and
nuclear war.
Although civil law is largely silent on
crimes of omission, dereliction of duty is a serious military offense. I
assert that every nation has a duty to press criminal charges against those
that have used nuclear weapons and deleted uranium. Otherwise they are an
accessory to genocide, both ongoing and in the
future.
If a man lights a fuse wire connected to
dynamite, he is responsible for the explosion even if it is not 100% certain
that the fuse will set off the charge. The more likely the result of an
action or inaction is, the more culpability is
entailed.
The Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Bushes
and Skull and Bonesmen have started wars for profit for over 100 years, and
are positioned to make billions by making more wars. Their deeds have caused
not just a few terrorist incidents, but a whole century worth of global and
regional wars.
It is virtually certain that leaving
these pirates of intelligence agencies and National Treasuries at large and
in possession of waste sums of blood money will result in more and bigger
wars. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy warned of this. Since under the
influence of these pirates the US dropped atomic bombs on civilians in Japan
and in Iraq already and used depleted uranium in the former Yugoslavia,
Iraq, and Afghanistan, there is no room for false assurance that they will
not do it again given the risk of our annihilation from nuclear
warfare.
Every country in the world has a duty
to their citizens and to the future of their nation and the world to try
these pirates of nations for their crimes against
humanity.
Wars are started for profit. The profit is
made illegally by in effect holding a gun to the head of the taxpayer and
threatening to pull the trigger if they don't hand over their money. That
is, those planning the war have the media print propaganda; The Nicaraguans
are coming to kill you? The Panamians are coming to kill you under Noriega.?
The Iraqis are going to use WMD against you under Saddam.? The Iranians are
going to use a nuclear weapon against you if you don't let us go to war
against them.?
None of it was true, but it was a
credible threat to the public because the US high officials lied and said it
was and the public had no way of checking as the officials refused to
provide the evidence on false claims of National
Security.
This piracy of national agendas, this
terrorism of the public, is a crime against humanity! It is far worse than
the piracy of ships or aircraft or yelling Fire in a crowded movie theater.
Millions and millions of people have died from allowing this crime of
starting wars for profit to go unprosecuted.
When a person murders a single person to get their money, the law sentences
them to 20 years to life. When a leader of a nation has stock in weapons or
reconstruction or security companies that is a clear conflict of interest
which should result in jail time because the lives of millions are
threatened by this conflict of interest even before the lie to force the
nation to start war.
Even though the Courts
in the US were under the control of the US Supreme Court which was appointed
by the Shadow Government, the Courts in other nations must have known that a
serious conflict of interests was occurring in the
US.
In Canada, the newspapers reported that had
there been that kind of conflict of interests in Canada, those committing it
would have been put in prison. The Courts of other Nations had a duty to try
US officials for that conflict of interest as a war crime in the making.
That is, it was virtually inevitable that war would follow and when the
first talk of going to war occurred, the crime of that conflict of interest
was no longer a potential crime but the pre-meditation to commit mass murder
for profit.
When a person buys a life insurance
policy on their wive and then circulates rumors that she is so bad that she
should be killed, who is it who is so blind not to see that murder for
profit has been pre-mediated. Yet, the world allowed the Bush and Cheney
Administration with its ties to Carlyle, Halliburton, KBR, and oil companies
to not just circulate rumors that it intended to go to war against former
Bush, Sr. partner Saddam, but did not challenge the
lies.
The first Bush, Jr. Secretary of Treasury,
ONeil, is quoted in the book The Price of Loyalty as saying that at Bush,
Jr. first National Security Council Meeting in January 2001, the discussion
was how to go to war in Iraq without even providing evidence that Saddam was
bad.
In fact, the US government under Bush, Sr.
sold Saddam biological and chemical weapons to use against the Iranians.
Kissinger was quoted in former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark's book The
Fire This Time; US War Crimes in the Gulf as saying that he didn't want
either side to win in the Iraq-Iran war, he wished both sides to die in
large numbers.
It seems to me that letting men
intent on mass murder (as Kissinger as a follower of the Rockefeller
eugenics family was) make policies in a State is the same as giving a
murderer a license to practice medicine. Nor it is far worse as the people
of Laos and Cambodia found out, not to mention those of Argentina and Chile
under Operation Condor.
How many genocides
around the world do the Rockefeller and Rothschild Families need to start
before a court will try them for mass murder? The Kissingers, Bushes,
Cheneys, and Clintons are their handy front men. But at the CIA it was clear
who was giving the orders behind the scenes which made these genocidal
policies which endured regardless of whether the Democrats or the
Republicans were in office.
I have the
unfortunate experience of having been an intelligence/ sex slave to the
Rockefeller Family and many of their downline, the Bushes, Clinton,
Kissinger, Rove, McLaughlin, and others, so I know what they really think
and do behind the scenes. Perhaps I should just write down who was appointed
by the Rockefellers and Rothschilds to be Master each year by
way of introduction to this topic. I have started a file called My Slavery
to the New World Order of Satanists?
Was it legal for
anyone in the US to authorize the use of nuclear weapons? This is a very
important question; does a government or a Commander-in- chief have the right
to damage the DNA of the human race for at least 4.5 million years in an
exponentially increasing fashion as the resultant radiation would? I assert
that no one has the right to destroy the DNA of the human species, not even
to protect their nation from genocide!
I believe that
God can grant us the miracle of the restoration of the human DNA, but only
if we sincerely resolve never to use radioactive weapons again! If we do not
do that then, I believe the damage to the human DNA which is already in
progress from the radiation we have released onto the surface of the planet
is already not consistent with the survival of the human
race.
Knowing the accuracy of my war forecasting
abilities, the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS] asked me to write a
report in Summer 2004 on the consequences to the human race of the depleted
uranium which had already been used up to that date. The results already ,
without the need for any accuracy in forecasting at all, are perfectly
clear--defects in the DNA so severe as to make life on Earth a living Hell
of disability, pain, and mental retardation. Only those
people wanting to live without eyes, limbs, intelligence, and health need
apply to be born in the future to this planet--unless we have a miracle from
God.
The JCS wanted to know how soon the
birth defects would affect people in the US, not just in Iraq. I said, Go to
the homes of the veterans of Gulf War number 1 in 1991 and you can see that
you are too late in asking that question!?
They then wanted to know when their own
families would have birth defects. I listed 3 men sitting at the conference
table at that meeting with grandchildren or great grandchildren with damage
to their DNA so severe as to impair their futures. Two of those men had not
been to the Middle East at all, but they had lived on bases or commuted to
the Pentagon where soldiers returning from the US wars came
through.
The US is not decontaminating
the returning soldiers, planes, and equipment. It is acting as if the
problem does not exist. In truth there is no way to decontaminate when
soldiers are living in the fallout, eating the dust with their food, and
have the radiation incorporated into their bodies and their
bones.
US officials are just ignoring the
problem, not dealing with it intelligently. The only way to deal with it
intelligently is to prevent it.
It was a war crime to use depleted uranium; there
was no one on the planet who had a right to order its use! It is still being
used in the war zones, including now in Pakistan, because the New World
Order of Satanists wants to drastically reduce the
population.
That was why they developed
and used HIV as well. But as in the use of HIV they had high hopes that
Africa would be left quickly free of people and they would have the
resources.
David Rockefeller was upset that HIV
took so long to kill people. He thought that HIV and depleted uranium were
good solutions to over population; he was wrong. Each genocidal method
causes more problems than it solves. Like destroying a village in Vietnam to
save it from the Communists, depleted uranium destroys the future of humans
on the planet supposedly to save it by having fewer
people.
What good is having 500 million people
on the planet when they are all deformed mentally retarded mutants? The JCS
wanted to know when there would be no more intelligence regular humans
left.
There is a mathematical puzzle which asks,
If you take any two people on the planet, how many people are there in the
closest chain linking them by people having meet each other?? The answer is
about 5.
It is relevant because the answer to
connection by DNA is about 20. According to mathematical
modeling in another 7 generations, most people would be deformed or mentally
retarded and about 20 generation [less than 400 years], there would be no
more normal people.
That was the answer I
gave the JSC in Summer 2004. Much more depleted uranium has been used since
then because the White House and Pentagon refused to see the Light of Day
and kept on following the paths of Darkness.
Now
the answer is that in 15 generations it is likely there will be no normal
people left--even if they try to marry only healthy people. Dust travels.
Planes travel. People travel. Even if you closed all the airports and did
not let people travel across borders, it is too late. The Coalition of the
Willing should have been called the Coalition of Those Willing to Have their
DNA destroyed!
Even if all of those returned
soldiers were killed, something that the Pentagon
considered doing, the dust will still spread the radiation. The
Middle East is prone to dreadful sand storms. This is not at all like in
Japan where the radiation stayed in place and one could scrap off a layer of
dirt to rebury the radiation. And the US did not even try to clean up the
radiation.
Each round of depleted uranium looks
like a metal rod the size of a thin cigar. But most of it atomizes into hot
liquid and vapor when it is fired into something. It is not like you can
just go in and pick it up in a rod again and get most of it. Only about 11%
of it remains in pieces large enough to pick up.
That dust does not just travel 50 miles and then settle permanently down. It
is constantly being kicked up and moved further away. If one had tried to
clean it up in the first 2 days afterwards, you might have had a chance! The
movement of people and equipment accounts for only 4.3% of the dispersal of
the radiation! The US is adding much more than that amount every
year.
Estimated Number of Generations until human DNA
is unable to make intelligence normal people
Year
1945 115
Chernobyl 83
Bosnia 46
Kosovo
34
Afghanistan 2001 30
Afghanistan 2002 27
War Zones 2003 23
War
Zones 2004 20
War Zones 2005 19
War Zones 2006 18
War Zones 2007
16
War Zones 2008
15
Unless there is a miracle or a competent cleanup! Any cleanup would have to
start by ordering no more depleted uranium or nuclear weapons be
used.
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HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE? - Communiqué No. 69 - 6th May 2009 - A
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Subject: HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE? - Communiqué No. 69 - 6th May 2009 - Argentine Second Republic Movement
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Argentine Second Republic Movement
Press Communiqué No.
69 - 8th May 2009 - An Argentine View into World
Events
www.asalbuchi. com.ar - msra@fibertel. com.ar
HOW MUCH TIME DO WE
HAVE?
A good doctor is one who will tell
his patient what ails him, no matter how bad the news... A good
doctor begins by making a correct diagnosis of his
patient's condition. A
bad doctor, however, either cannot make a proper diagnosis
(because he lacks expertise) or, worst still, he hides
the truth afrom his patient...
When a dread disease patient is told what he is suffering
from, before actually accepting the envitable he first goes
through the stages of disbelief and
denial. There's disbelief when we hear the patient say
"this is not right: the doctor's made a
mistake!". But when the
dignosis of his illness is confirmed, then in dispair he goes info full denial
saying "Impossible! This can't be
happening to me!!".
A good doctor helps his
patient weather this painful process, guiding him towards acceptance of his predicament.
Only then can
the healing begin.
Something similar happens - albeit more abstractly
-, when the People are hit by social turmoil as a consequence of severe
crises arising from what Carl G. Jung called "epidemics of the mind and
soul".
Below, we address some key issues that we feel
reflect the fact that a cycle is coming to an increasingly abrupt end in the
whole world, even though the global media may be looking the other
way (i.e., hiding the
truth and generating smoke screens), most politicians hardly understand
what is going on (on account of their ignorance), the bulk of
the population in all countries see and feel this but cannot
rationalize what's happening (disbelief), and some
intelectuals may actually understand what's going on and where we're
being dragged, but find it too hard to accept (i.e.,
denial).
In our communiqué No. 52 of October 3,
2008 dealing with the Global Financial "crisis" that had then just
broken out, we said that there was no such "crisis". Rather, what began
Monday, September 15, 2008 was the beginning of a
terminal and irreversible collapse of the global financial
system, which is part of a controlled Model through
which other objetives will be achieved. Those
objective go far beyond merely financial goals: rather, they seek to advance
towards the next geopolitical stage in the "New World Order" (NWO).
And this is nothing more and nothing less than the
enthronement of a WORLD GOVERNMENT. At that time,
we also described the NWO Elite's three basic "Plans",
i.e.,:
- Plan "A" seeks to resolve the on-going
financial "crisis" through merely financial measures. It's not
working....
- Plan "B" will seek to resolve the
"crisis" by a comprehensive overhaul of the global financial system, which among
other factors will include introducing a New Dollar,
backed by "foolproof" gold bullion. This will allow the global elites
to transfer the bulk of Wall Street and European bankers' losses to other
geographies ( amongst them, China, which is one of the focus of present
crisis, as well as Latin America), and
- Plan "C" that will seek to "kick the
chessboard", so to speak, triggering a planetary war.
We believe that these three "Plans" are presently in
different stages of implementation: Plan "A" is
almost dead. Plans "B" and "C" are about to be
activated. Let' s see where we stand at
present....
1) WORLD GOVERNMENT
-
First, we must understand that "New World
Order (NWO)" is not an actual "stage" in the global political
structure but, rather, it's a generic term. Thus, we had
several "New World Orders" over the past century:
- in 1919, when World War I ended and the Council on
Foreign Relations (New York) and Royal Institute of International Affairs
(London) were created, as geopolitical controlling and planning organizations
bent on promoting Anglo-American- Zionist interests throughout the
world.
- in 1945, when the Post-World War II Bipolar World was
designed: i.e. , Bretton Woods, Yalta, the UN, the "cold war".
- in 1991, after the USSR was thrown into the dust bin of
History to make way for NWO "globalization" , as announced by George HW
Bush, Sr. (on 11-Sept.-1991! ), and
- in 2008, when now ambiguous and dying
"globalization" begins phasing out, to be replaced by something far
more ambitous: an authoritarian and mandatory World Government, as
announced in the London "Financial Times" on December8, 2008 by Gideon
Rachman.
Today we are undergoing the violent stage just prior
to imposition of World Government. Amongst its goals:
- Disolution and destruction of all National
Sovereignties (the demise of the Nation-State promoted by the CFR,
Trilateral and Bilderbergers)
- The Twilight of the United States of America as
the "indispensable" superpower (ergo, Obama was allowed into the
Oval Office)
- Drastic depopulation of the world
(pendemic hysteria)
- Total electronic surveillance and control of
surviving citizenry (Psywar drills that increasingly lower people's
resistance to inocculation) , and
- Monolithic centralization and strict
comprehensive control over politics, the economy, finance, the
military, culture, the media, technology and even religious
activities.
All of this CANNOT be achieved without war.
Thus, Plan "C" has just been activated.
2) CONFRONTATION WITH RUSSIA
AND CHINA -
Over the past months, China has been looking at the US and
the Wall Street parasites with an increasingly fixed and unblinking
gaze...
They want to know what is going to happen with the 1.7
Trillion Dollar-denominated Reserves that they are holding on to (some
Washington observers call this "The Chinese Nuclear
Bomb"). The US is not answering because they simply don't have any answer
to give...
Were China to make a "strong move" (such as changing their
US Dollar-denominated Reserves into Euros on very short notice), the effect
would lead to the collapse the US Dollar (for this Contingency they
have Plan "B" as described).
Actually, one of the main sources of financing of American
public deficits is, in fact, China which until recently had been soaking up
huge tranches of American Public Debt (today these needs are running as high as
u$s 170 billion a week!!).
The recent mysterious fly-over of Air Force One,
low over Manhattan in New York City, triggering panic and the evacuation of
the World Financial Center and other Manhattan
skyscrapers, seems to be linked to this: it appears that Obama and
some from his team had decided to meet with Trustees and representatives from
China and other foreign powers to try to reach some
agreement/solution. But Obama did not properly consult with "those
upstairs who have the final say", who then decided otherwise and
ordered Air Force One to land in Washington DC, doing that with a more
than threaterning demeanor. Fearing the worst, the Air Force One pilot
decided to protect his plane by having it "seen by millions" over the
skies of New York City, in such a way that the two F16 fighter jets
"escorting" him could do nothing "strange" (see the incredible low
fly-by videos on YouTube). Later
on, the missions of these foreign creditors of the US - Chinese
included - were involved in a confussing shoot-out with FBI operatives that left
several agents dead...
3) THE ISRAELI DETONATOR
-
The State of Israel continues moving forward with its
announced plans of unilateral attack on Iran. We have been informing about
this for more than two years now. This will be a premeditated,
unjustified, unilateral attack perpetrated by the State of Israel, the only
country in the Middle East that wields Weapons of Mass Destruction - 400 nuclear
artefacts ceded by the US -, and shows an unequivocable willingness to use
them. Naturally, their excuse is Iran's nuclear program. The London
"Times" newspaper, in its April 18,2009 edition informs that the
Israeli Air Force is fully ready to attack and are only waiting to
receive the green light from the new ultra-right wing Israeli primer
minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his even
more ultra-right wing foreign minister Avigdor
Lieberman, and the IDF high command (see article
"Israel stands ready to bomb Iran's nuclear
sites").
THAT will be the trigger for generalized war
involving WMD's - biological, chemical and nuclear. Israeli sources say
that they will attack Iran with or without the Obama Administration' s green
light, knowing full well that Zionist power in America
is above any Administration, whether Democrat or
Republican. Netanyahu will meet with Obama on May 18th. Either way,
once Israel attacks and Iran retailiates, the Obama Administration will be
FORCED by Zionist power structures in control of the US, to fight for
them (see "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy", Stephen Walt & John
Mearsheimer) . This was just been ratified by "The Daily Telegraph"
of 7th May.
Alas, as former Malaysian prime minister Mohamed Mahatir
declared in 2003, "Jews rule the world by proxy: they get others to fight and
die for them."
4) GEOPOLITICS FOR A
WORLD GOVERNMENT -
This "Israeli Detonator" goes hand in hand with the
repositioning of the US military along the lines suggested by Zbigniew
Brzezinski's geopolitical strategic thought, which calls for the US detaching
from the Iraqui mess and focusing on Afghanistan, Pakistan, the
Taliban and the Caspian Sea oil fields. Afghanistan is in a
horrific mess, with the Taliban having recovered the better part of that
country. Today, they stand a mere 160 kms from Islamabad, in
Pakistan, which too is in a horrific crisis. US bombs fall on
Afghanistan and Pakistan daily without their puppet governments doing anything
about it.
From their respective viewpoints and interests and with
varying criteria and levels of alarm, Iran, Russia and China closely
observe these threatening maneouvers (supplemented by NATO's dangerous
encircling strategy against Russia in Poland and other parts of
Europe). The three, however, recognize that they have
the same adversaries: The US (for Russia
and China), Israel and the US (for
Iran). A truly explosive formula, but a necessrary risk for the NWO elite
bent on enthroning World Government.
This ought to be a wake-up call for all countries
around the world. Red lights should be blinking and alarm bells ringing in
every nation, because World Government will not leave any country out; and
any country not wanting to "voluntarily join" this World Government geared on
US, UK and Israeli global interests, will be automatically branded a "Rogue
State", "antidemocratic" , "contrary to humanity", "anti-Semitic" , and when that
happens, we all know what comes next...
5) MORE AND MORE
BANKRUPTCIES: UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY FOR MILLIONS OF
WORKERS -
US and European banks are bankrupt, many major industries
are bankrupt (Chrysler being the latest to fall), global insurers and reinsurers
are technically broke, whilst most all financial institutions are technically
unsound, at best, and unviable at worst. First World Governments must bail
out company after company. Yet more proof that, when left to its own
dynamics, Extreme Capitalism leads to a Soviet-like system in which
the State takes over corporations ("too large to fail",
naturally) and runs the economy to protect the bankster
Nomenklatura. ..
Time and again, we see the same cycle: first
come decades of privatizing huge profits which flow
straight into the pockets of bankers, "investors", speculators and parasites of
all sorts, types and shapes, and then when the whole System comes crashing down
as happens now, the ensuing and predictable gigantic
losses are socialized by way of government funded bail-outs
with taypayer money, and irresponslble money printing to save those who should
sit in jail. Everybody else is left high and dry, and on their own.
The US-Dollar has been technically hyperinflated, even
though no one is saying "the king is nude!!"... Not yet,
anyway...
We now learn that recession in the US, Europe and Asia is
"much worse than thought and expected", so say the experts...
Millions loose their jobs and livelihood, millions loose
their homes and assets, millions loose their pensions and life's savings,
millions start taking to the streets: manifestations, "tea parties"...
Social War... Reprisal and repression.
6) FRAUD AND MORE FRAUD
-
"Wall Street Inversor" Bernard
Madoff (ex-president of NASDAQ y director of Yeshiva
Univerrsity in Tel Aviv) has become a symbol of the white collar Banker
Mega-fraud which is an integral part of the Extreme Capitalist system
(using the Ponzi Scheme Pyramid as its basic model), with his 70 billion dollars
stolen from other "investors" (ha!...they now seem
to have fallen into a modern version of cannibalism, taking bites amongst
themselves.. !).
We should, however, be "kinder" to Bernie Madoff
because he's taking all the blame and getting all the bad "Ponzi Schemer"
headlines, whilst the the truth is that the ENTIRE
global financial system is one vast Ponzi pyramid. This is
how CitiCorp (William Rhodes, Robert
Rubin), Bank of America, Goldman Sachs (Henry
Paulson, Timothy Geithner), Morgan Stanley,
AIG (Maurice Greenberg) and most all other global banks and
insurers operate all the time.
To get a better idea of what's really happening behind the
scenes, take a look at Freddie
Mac whose recently appointed 41 year old Chief Financial
Officer David Kellermann "commited
suicide". Russian intelligence sources, however, point to a
more credible cause of death linked to the fact that Kellermann appeared to have
discovered that Freddie Mac had syphoned over 50 billion dollars to Zionist
and Israeli interests and organizations, and he was about to become a
whistleblower going public with that explosive informatio n...
Bear in mind that when Freddie Mac collapsed late last year, one if
its directors was Rahm
Emanuel, today president Obama's dual-citizenship (Israeli
and US) chief-of-staff, also suspected of being an Israeli
Military Intelligence operative.
7) H1N1 SWINE FLU
"EPIDEMIC" -
This would seem to be yet another smoke screen imposed on
the world media's headlines, in order to keep the above dramatic events as
much out of the front pages and newscasts, as possible. So far, there
are only around 2000 H1N1 cases globally; of the 160
Mexican deaths originally reported by FoxNews a couple of weeks ago, we are now
down to around 30... The same goes for the rest of the
world. The media have gone into Hysteria Over-drive, generating what
one major risk consultancy has labelled "pandemic hysteria", to the great joy of
major Pharmaceutical Labs who are having near record sales of "Tamiflu" and
other Influenza medications. The NWO people were also able
to test and assess results of their PsyWar Operations, geared on
controlling large masses of people by instilling fear, so they
can be willingly inocculated. Face masks, quarantines, mass vaccinations,
cancelled flights, the whole circus of a global drill... as occured with
the Bird Flu scare, back in 2004 and 2005 (whatever became
of that??).
At some point, they will no doubt let loose some
synthetic "selective" virus which will target increasingly focused
social groups and types (was HIV a precursor?), because one of the key
objetives of World Government is to trigger
intensive depopulation of the world, as recommended by
Henry Kissinger's National Security Strategic Memoranum 200, back in
1974.
Finally, the seven issues we address above should not be
seen as isolated and unconnected. Rather, they are inter-related and
should be viewed holistically, as part of a much vaster strategy geared on
imposing World Government, one way or another... Addressing these and
other factors jointly, and projecting their medium- and long-term effects will
allow us to begin to understand what is really happening
in the world; which is a very different story than what we hear on CNN, FoxNews, the BBC, The New York Times, Washington Post,
Daily Telegraph, ABC, CBS or NBC...
In short, the key question we must ask should
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General Sees a Longer Stay in Iraq Cities for U.S. Troops 08 May 200
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Fri May 8, 2009 8:04 pm (PDT)
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*'I mean, I could give you a number today,' General Odierno said. 'It will
be different tomorrow, it will be different the next day. O.K.?' General
Sees a Longer Stay in Iraq Cities for U.S.
Troops<http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 05/09/world/ middleeast/ 09military. html>
* 09 May 2009 The top American general in Iraq said Friday that *one-fifth
of American combat troops would stay behind in Iraqi cities even after the
June 30 deadline* that the United States and Iraq had set for the departure.
The estimate by Gen. Ray Odierno, at a Pentagon briefing, was the most
specific yet for the extension of American combat operations in Baghdad and
Mosul. The general declined several times to put an actual number on the
combat troops who would remain in Baghdad and Mosul after June 30 because,
he said, *he did not know [!?] the precise number of troops there now*. [*If
Odierno doesn't know the number of troops serving in Iraq, he needs to
resign.*]
*Pentagon's Black Budget Grows to More Than $50
Billion<http://www.wired. com/dangerroom/ 2009/05/pentagon s-black-budget- grows-to- more-than- 50-billion/>--About
seven and a half percent of DoD's total spending now classified
* By Noah Shachtman 07 May 2009 The Pentagon wants to spend just over $50
billion on classified programs next year, newly-released Defense Department
budget documents reveal. "That�s the largest-ever
sum<http://www.aviation week.com/ aw/blogs/ defense/index. jsp?plckControll er=Blog&plckScri pt=blogScript& plckElementId= blogDest& plckBlogPage= BlogViewPost& plckPostId= Blog%3a27ec4a53- dcc8-42d0- bd3a-01329aef79a 7Post%3a07d043ca -ceaf-4d4b- a260-7a4c0f59d58 1>,"
according to Aviation Week�s Bill Sweetman, a longtime black-budget seer --
a three percent increase over last year�s total. It makes the Pentagon�s
secret operations, including the intelligence budgets nested inside,
"roughly equal in magnitude to the entire defense budgets of the UK, France
or Japan," Sweetman adds.
*Obama budget allocates $130 billion for 2
wars<http://www.google. com/hostednews/ ap/article/ ALeqM5jJEu96nl9e JY5OXXJX22C26wGD fQD981NCQ01>
* 07 May 2009 President Barack Obama's proposed defense budget includes $130
billion for the nation's two wars, a figure that may not be enough. Obama
sent to Congress on Thursday details of his proposed $664 billion Pentagon
spending plan for the budget year starting in October. It includes $534
billion for base 'defense' programs and $130 billion for overseas
operations, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
*US House committee approves $400 mn for Pakistan
counterinsurgency<http://www.newstrac kindia.com/ newsdetails/ 94897>
* 08 May 2009 A House of Representatives committee has approved $400 million
for a new Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund, but not before a key
member expressed doubts about US strategies in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The
$400 million requested by the Obama administration for the fund to bolster
efforts 'against' the Taliban and extremist groups forms part of the 2009
Supplemental Bill funding ongoing US military operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and supporting economic and other needs in Pakistan.
*Afghans riot over US air-strike
atrocity<http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ news/world/ asia/afghans- riot-over- airstrike- atrocity- 1681070.html>--Witnesses
say deaths of 147 people in three villages came after a
sustained bombardment by American aircraft*. 08 May 2009 Shouting *"Death to
America"* and "Death to the Government", thousands of Afghan villagers
hurled stones at police yesterday as they vented their fury at American air
strikes that local officials claim killed 147 civilians. The riot started
when people from three villages struck by US bombers in the early hours of
Tuesday, brought 15 newly-discovered bodies in a truck to the house of the
provincial governor. As the crowd pressed forward in Farah, police opened
fire, wounding four protesters.
*Huge U.S. camp arises in Afghan Desert of
Death<http://www.reuters. com/article/ worldNews/ idUSISL436438200 90507>
* 08 May 2009 A huge U.S. military camp is taking shape in the baking heat
of southern Afghanistan for thousands of extra U.S. troops charged with
defeating a resurgent Taliban. Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Camp
Leatherneck, with concrete blast walls and semi-cylinder sand-colored tents,
on Thursday as he surveyed preparations for what will be the biggest wave
yet in a year that is seeing U.S. troop numbers doubled. The camp is being
constructed in Helmand province next to a British base, Camp Bastion, as
Marines and other forces dramatically expand their presence in the most
violent area of Afghanistan.
*Four British soldiers killed in one day in southern
Afghanistan<http://www.telegrap h.co.uk/news/ newstopics/ politics/ defence/5295846/ Four-British- soldiers- killed-in- one-day-in- southern- Afghanistan. html>
* 08 May 2009 Two more British soldiers have been killed in Helmand,
southern Afghanistan, taking the number of UK service personnel killed in a
single day to four. The troops died in three separate incidents in Helmand
province on Thursday, taking the number of UK service personnel killed in
the country since 2001 to 157. It was the bloodiest day for British forces
in Afghanistan since June 17 2008, when four soldiers were killed.
*Iraqis demand death penalty for killer
GI<http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=94075& sectionid= 351020201>
* 08 May 2009 Steven Dale Green [has] been found guilty of 17 charges -
including rape, premeditated murder and obstruction of justice - while
bringing freedom to Iraq, but the US soldier is likely to escape the
harshest legal sanction - death - in the US. However, the friends and
relatives of Green's victims in the district of Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad,
are demanding that he pay with his life for those lives he took in cold
blood. On Thursday, a civilian court in Kentucky, USA, convicted Green of
being the leader of the rape of the 14-year-old Iraqi girl - Abeer Qassim
Hamza al-Janabi - in the town of about 50,000, and of murdering her and her
family members, including both her parents and her six-year-old sister, AFP
reports.
*U.N. experts prepare to investigate war crimes in
Gaza<http://www.reuters. com/article/ worldNews/ idUSTRE54738R200 90508>--Israeli
government official said last month Israel would not cooperate
with UN inquiry* 08 May 2009 International human rights experts examining
alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip said on Friday they planned to visit
soon, and renewed a call for Israel to support their investigation. An
Israeli government official said last month that the Jewish state would not
cooperate with the United Nations inquiry into violations by Israeli troops
and Hamas militants during the December 27-January 18 offensive in
Hamas-ruled Gaza.
*'Israel occupation worse than swine
flu'<http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=94054& sectionid= 351020202>--Protesters
wore protective masks and unfurled banners reading "put
an end to occupation flu."* 08 May 2009 Activists have taken up the cudgels
on behalf of a free homeland, claiming that the swine flu-ridden Palestine
would hurt less than the one under the occupation of Israel. On Friday, the
Palestinian and foreign activists in the West Bank village of Bilin renewed
their complaint of the Israeli occupation, AFP reported. "The world today is
extremely interested in swine flu because it has killed people but it has
forgotten that what we suffer from is worse," one protester, Abdullah Abu
Rahmeh was quoted as saying. "We are trying to draw the world's attention to
a virus that is much more dangerous than swine flu, the virus of the Israeli
occupation that has caused the deaths of thousands of Palestinians, " he
added.
*Top Pelosi Aide Learned of Waterboarding in
2003<http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2009/ 05/08/AR20090508 03967.html>
* 09 May 2009 A top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a CIA
briefing in early 2003 in which it was made clear that waterboarding and
other harsh techniques tortures were being used in the interrogation of an
alleged al-Qaeda operative, according to documents the CIA released to
Congress on Thursday. Pelosi has insisted that she was not directly briefed
by Bush regime officials that the practice was being actively employed. But
Michael Sheehy, a top Pelosi aide, was present for a classified briefing
that included Rep. Jane Harman ('D'-AIPAC), then the ranking minority member
of the House intelligence committee, at which agency officials discussed the
use of waterboarding on terrorism suspect Abu Zubaida.
*CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced
Interrogations' <http://voices. washingtonpost. com/capitol- briefing/ 2009/05/cia_ says_pelosi_ was_briefed_ on.html>
* 07 May 2009 Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying
that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002
about the use of harsh interrogation tactics torture against al-Qaeda
prisoners, seemingly *contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18
months* that she was never told that these techniques were actually being
used. In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified
briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss
(R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the
interrogation tactics.
*Holder cautious on U.S. interrogations
probes<http://uk.reuters. com/article/ worldNews/ idUKTRE5470B5200 90508>
* 08 May 2009 Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday vowed to move
cautiously and avoid partisan politics in deciding whether any Bush-era
officials should be prosecuted for justifying harsh interrogation
techniquestorture.
*Obama renews sanctions on
Syria<http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=94048& sectionid= 3510203>
* 08 May 2009 Despite recent attempts to improve relations with Damascus, a
senior official says the Obama administration has extended US sanctions on
Syria. Denouncing Damascus as a security threat which continued to dabble in
"arms trade" and espouse "terrorism", President Barack Obama signed an
executive order renewing the five-year-old sanctions for another year, the
State Department said Friday.
*Camp Lejeune breaks ground on barracks for
wounded<http://www.usatoday .com/news/ military/ 2009-05-08- camp-lejeune- wounded_N. htm>
* 08 May 2009 Marine officers at Camp Lejeune broke ground Friday on the
first of four new barracks for wounded Marines that will be built in a $25
million project at the base's Wounded Warrior Complex. The facility will be
built near Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune and feature 100 two-man rooms with a
living area and kitchenette, fitness and physical therapy rooms and private
counselor rooms. The wounded Marines currently live in 1940s-era barracks
that need regular upkeep.
*Air Force One Flyover Prompts a White House
Resignation* <http://voices. washingtonpost. com/44/2009/ 05/08/costs_ for_that_ air_force_ one_f.html>08
May 2009 The White House official who approved the Air Force One
flight
over New York City last month that frightened many and prompted building
evacuations resigned today after an internal White House investigation found
flaws in how the decision was made and passed on to other agencies. In his
resignation letter to President Obama, Louis Caldera, director of the White
House Military Office, wrote that the controversy had "made it impossible
for me to effectively lead the White House Military Office," which oversees
Air Force One and other presidential aircraft.
*Statue of Liberty's crown to re-open July
4<http://www.reuters. com/article/ domesticNews/ idUSTRE5472AD200 90508>
* 08 May 2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown, closed to the public since the
September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, will reopen on July 4,
U.S. Independence Day, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Friday.
*Chavez seizes oil service
firms<http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/world/ americas/ 8041366.stm>
* 08 May 2009 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has sent troops to take over
companies that provide services for the oil industry. "This is a
revolutionary offensive," he told workers near Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela's
main oil-producing area. Military vehicles were used as the state oil
company seized supply boats and two US-owned gas facilities.
*Government wants the military to run state
schools<http://www.dailymai l.co.uk/news/ article-1178508/ Right-fall- line-orrible- little-pupils- Government- wants-military- run-state- schools.html>--
Right then, fall into line you 'orrible little pupils!
* 08 May 2009 The Armed Forces will be drafted in to run state schools under
plans to drive up discipline and respect in classrooms. Ministers are in
talks with defence chiefs about taking over a handful of schools and turning
them into military academies. Alongside daily lessons, pupils would be
expected to take part in activities such as *drills, uniformed parades,
weapons handling* and adventure training.
*Milan public transport seats for Italians
only<http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=94082& sectionid= 351020606>--Candidate' s
proposal called 'racist' and compared to laws of former
fascist dictator Benito Mussolini** *09 May 2009 A right wing Italian deputy
says that public transport seats in his constituency of Milan should be
reserved for Italians only. "Reserve seats for people from Milan, like those
reserved for handicapped people and women. Because soon, if immigration does
not stop, they (local Italians) will become a minority to protect," said
Matteo Salvini, Milan town councillor and Vice-Secretary for the Northern
League, on Thursday.
*Australia has first case of new flu strain -
media<http://uk.reuters. com/article/ latestCrisis/ idUKSP427853>
* 09 May 2009 An Australian woman has tested positive for the new strain of
flu, the first confirmed case in the country, Australian Associated Press
quoted Queensland state's chief medical officer as saying on Saturday.
*Japan confirms 3 cases of new flu
strain<http://www.reuters. com/article/ latestCrisis/ idUST50010>
* 09 May 2009 Three Japanese males who had spent time in Canada have been
confirmed to have the new strain of flu, the first confirmed cases in the
country, a Health Ministry official said.
*Swine flu cases double in the
US<http://www.bangkokp ost.com/breaking news/142739/ swine-flu- cases-double- in-the-us>
* 08 May 2009 The United States announced Friday that the number of swine
flu cases within its borders had doubled almost overnight, while the death
toll in Mexico inched up. American health authorities said the number of
confirmed cases was now 1,639 in 43 states. The figure had been put at 896
only on Thursday.
*Local agencies prepare for H1N1
flu<http://www.nwobserv er.com/articles/ 2009/05/08/ news/doc4a0311b8 050ff225894829. txt>
* 08 May 2009 State and county agencies are preparing for the H1N1 flu,
commonly referred to as the swine flu, now that cases have been confirmed in
North Carolina. The Guilford County Department of Public Health scheduled
daily press conferences beginning on May 4 so the media could help get the
word out about the latest developments, but then discontinued them after
only two days.
*Quarantine for Afghanistan' s Only
Pig<http://thelede. blogs.nytimes. com/2009/ 05/08/quarantine -for-afghanistan s-only-pig/>--Last
week at the zoo in Kabul, Afghanistan' s only pig enjoyed his relative
freedom. This week he was placed in quarantine*. 08 May 2009 There are no
cases of swine flu in Afghanistan, but there is one victim: the country�s
only pig, whose lonely existence got somewhat lonelier this week, when he
was taken from the small, muddy enclosure he previously shared with deer and
goats at Kabul�s zoo and placed in quarantine. In an
interview<http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/south_ asia/8038368. stm>with the
BBC, the director of the zoo, Aziz Gul Saqib, explained that the
pig, named Khanzir (or "Pig" in Pashto), is in good health but had alarmed
some visitors.
*Bush EPA hid data on coal-ash risks, study
shows<http://wvgazette. com/News/ 200905070785>
* 07 May 2009 The Bush regime kept secret for nearly five years data that
showed increased cancer risks from drinking water polluted by coal-ash
impoundments, according to a new
report<http://wvgazette. com/static/ coal%20tattoo/ coalashreport. pdf>issued
Thursday. Under President [sic] Bush, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency officials never made public an October 2002 study that outlined
increased risks of as high as 1 in 50 additional cancer cases.
*Obama Administration Adopts Bush's Polar Bear Extinction Plan As Its
Own<http://www.biologic aldiversity. org/news/ press_releases/ 2009/esa- regulations- 05-08-2009. html>
* (Center for Biological Diversity) 08 May 2009 Secretary of the Interior
Ken Salazar announced today that he will not rescind a "special rule"
created by the Bush administration that sharply limits protections for
the polar
bear<http://www.biologic aldiversity. org/species/ mammals/polar_ bear/index. html>under
the Endangered Species Act. "For Salazar to adopt Bush's polar bear
extinction plan is confirming the worst fears of his tenure as Secretary of
the Interior," said Noah Greenwald, biodiversity program director at the
Center for Biological Diversity. "Secretary Salazar would apparently prefer
to please Sarah Palin than to protect polar bears."
*Obama Administration Maintains Bush-Era Policy on Polar
Bears<http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2009/ 05/08/AR20090508 02103.html>
* 08 May 2009 The Obama Administration has decided to keep a Bush-era policy
on polar bears -- declining to crack down on greenhouse-gas polluters on the
grounds that their emissions are helping shrink the bears' habitat on Arctic
sea ice, officials announced today.
*Interior will keep Bush's polar bear
rule<http://www.nytimes. com/gwire/ 2009/05/08/ 08greenwire- interior- will-keep- bushs-polar- bear-rule- 19116.html>--Interior
now forced to defend rule in court
* 08 May 2009 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that he will
retain the Bush regime's controversial rule [eliminating] polar bear
protections, rejecting special authority given to him by Congress and the
pleas of Democratic lawmakers, environmentalists and scientists to overturn
the regulation.
*U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 8.9%, but Pace of Losses
Eases<http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 05/09/business/ economy/09jobs. html>
* 09 May 2009 The government�s monthly employment report buoyed hopes that
the longest, most punishing recession since the Great Depression may be
relenting. Another 539,000 jobs disappeared from the economy in April, and
the unemployment rate jumped to 8.9 percent, its highest level in a quarter
century, the Labor Department reported Friday. Yet the deterioration was
milder than expected, prompting encouraging talk.
*Fierce California wildfire burns into fourth
night<http://www.reuters. com/article/ topNews/idUSTRE5 4602P20090509>
* 08 May 2009 A California wildfire burned for a fourth day on Friday above
the seaside town of Santa Barbara as firefighters hoped the weather would
help them gain a measure of control over the flames that have destroyed 75
homes.
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Afghanistan is likely to fail if militants continue to gain power in
Pakistan. During his 40-minute briefing, the commander of the US forces in
Afghanistan said, "Can you get to the right end-state in Afghanistan if you
have a deteriorating or failed state in Pakistan? The answer is probably
no."
*Military Implications of Pandemic
Flu<http://sitrep. globalsecurity. org/articles/ 090506329- military- implications- of-pande. htm>
* 06 May 2009 The Defense Department released its plan for pandemic
influenza in September 2006, but it is little more than a plan for planning,
and the critical Continuity of Operations (COOP) and Continuity of
Government (COG) documents in Annex G have not been publicly released. The
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Subject: simple summary of ongoing financial war: "The Raging Secret War Continues," by Benjamin Fulford (5/7/2009)
To: "SupremeLaw" <supremelaw@googlegr oups.com>
Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 7:49 PM
"The bottom line though, is that the Federal Reserve Board
is bankrupt and
all its owners can do is play for time and threaten to
spread diseases and start war."
http://www.rense. com/general85/ pcul.htm
The Raging Secret War Continues
By Benjamin Fulford
5-7-9
People trying to find out what is really happening with
the ongoing financial war appear to be confused these days. That is because
even at the very top of the world pecking order there is confusion. What
my direct sources -as opposed to internet sources like Casper, Heneghan,
Poof, Story, Rense, etc.-(my NSA sources tell me they are all reliable
but do get fed disinformation from time to time.) tell me is that a new
financial system has been set up but that the owners of the Federal Reserve
Board do not want to give up their dollar printing press. The result is
a stalemate that could drag on for a while yet. As time goes on, the owners
of the Fed are losing their power base as their global network is dismantled
bit by bit. However, these people ARE NEVER TO BE UNDERESTIMATED and could
do something really crazy.
The identities of the people at the top fighting the
Feds worldwide need to keep their names secret for protection.
There are several groups who have huge physical holdings
of gold and treasure who are united in opposing fiat based monetary systems
because the owners of the fiat system have tried to keep these physical
holdings out of the monetary system. If these treasures were recognized
by the global banking system it would mean a loss of power for the Rothschilds,
Papa Bush, Rockefeller and the other owners of dollar and Euro printing
presses. In other words, the Feds are being fought by Royal families and
industrialists who have real treasure or make real things.
The latest I have on the situation in China is this:
The Emperor's name is Chi Yuen Chin. He is a university professor. Remember,
he is a Manchu not a Ming emperor. It could be there are also Ming royal
family members with hidden treasure but I just do not know.He has truly
fabulous amounts of treasure. To give you an idea of how fabulous, think
about the national museum in Taiwan. There is a mountain behind the
museum filled with treasure (ceramics, gold, government bonds etc.). Every
year for the past 60 years they have changed the treasures displayed at
the museum. Despite this, they have not come even close to displaying everything
that is hidden in the mountain. And this treasure is just one of several
secret treasures hidden inside mountains. There are at least two of similar
size that I know about on mainland China. I do not know what the Emperor
Chin owns but it is apparently fabulous too. I also do not know what his
views are.
The treasures I know about can only be used to serve
the greater good as determined by a very secret but benevolent society.
This society supports the creation of a new monetary system that is more
fair to the people and living creatures of the planet.
There are other fabulous treasures in other parts of
the world too, such as the Thai Royal Family Treasure and the British Royal
Family Treasure.
Leaders of most of the countries of the world are also
now united against the Feds. The Feds still control about half the Pentagon,
a giant private army of mercenaries and spies, President Obama and his
hypnotized human sheep, most senior politicians and the supreme court.
Inside the US they are opposed by half of the pentagon, half or more of
the people in US government agencies, state leaders and much of the intelligentsia.
The bottom line though, is that the Federal Reserve Board
is bankrupt and all its owners can do is play for time and threaten to
spread diseases and start war.
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