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It is Darkness all Over as the Marxist Gestapo in West Bengal Plays Black Magic of Hegemony Load Shedding and Nonstop Ethnic cleansing Continues!

by palashbiswas @ 2008-05-07 - 16:46:00

It is Darkness all Over as the Marxist Gestapo in West Bengal Plays Black Magic of Hegemony Load Shedding and Nonstop Ethnic cleansing Continues!

Stripping of women are permitted as per law of West Bengal!So is Ethnic Cleansing!

What a symbol? Gopalkrishna Gandhi will observe a two-hour voluntary power cut daily at the Raj Bhavan from Wednesday

Now it is a perfect BUSH BUDDHA PRANAB triangle to strngthen the ageold Brahminacal system in India!

Palash Biswas

Stripping of women are permitted as per law of West Bengal. Genocide is well justified everytime. Displacement and Refugee infux are normalities of day to day life in West Bengal.

It is Darkness all Over as the Marxist Gestapo in West Bengal Plays Black Magic of Hegemony Load Shedding and Nonstop Ethnic cleansing Continues!

Here you are !
What a symbol is this for Helpnessness!

In the context of the acute electricity shortage in this metropolis, West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi will observe a two-hour voluntary power cut daily at the Raj Bhavan from Wednesday.

“This decision follows Mr. Gandhi’s view that the Raj Bhavan need not be an exception to the city’s electricity supply situation,” a Raj Bhavan release said.

I am previleged to have some contacts with CPIM topguns, Committed Old cadres and the New generation gestapo leaders. India plays Nuclear mscles unaware of the physical geopolitics in South Asia and Indian Ocean. The Ruling class has been accustommed of playing blind to protect its intersts. It was the case while USSR intervened in Afganistan and Indian Polity allowed Osama Bin Laden grow with US support. Result: Khalistan Movement and Kashmir Turmoil.

Now, they depend to much on Indo US neo Strategic allaince and damn care for the risks! US apartheid white Imperialism with Manusmriti Based Hindutva and zionism with Intense Muslim hatred clears the deck for Shining sensex India annihilating everything Indigenous.

The ruling marxists are running the Government of India unconstitutionally as they have no political base out of three states. neither they enjoy the majority in the Parliament. But Marxists have been most successful in this Post Modern Neoliberal Globalistion Corporate manusmriti era as Jyoti Basu and Surjeet introduced the easiest avenue to hold the State Power without winning the national Parliamentary Elections except in three left ruled States!
Now it is a perfect BUSH BUDDHA PRANAB triangle to strngthen the ageold Brahminacal system in India!

US dictations being Final, India loses sovereignity and freedom. The Parliamentary democracy did nothing to free the eighty five percnt enslaved indigenous people but it played the Reservation and quota politics with fullest credit to create a class of betrayers, the Cremy layer. No scope is left for Equality despite the constitutional abolishment of untouchability. majoritoran Electral system has ensured opportunist clubbing of castes, communities, political parties and ideologies to take over. The marxists have encashed this system most thanks to bargaining capabilities of Basu and Surjeet.

The old committed party cadres as well as leaders including MPs and Ministers are pained to see deviation from Marxism and Leninism as are the Left Front Partners in West Bengal. But, the last three decade provided such a DUPLEX powerfed Lifestyale for the comrades , they may not risk their position for Ideology anymore. Every Post Modern marxist Cadre is ready to explain Marxism, Leninism and even maoism in the light of US Corporate imperilaist styled Capitalist Development and new Manusmriti apartheid Galaxy order.

OLd as well as New Party Comrades are well aware of the wrong. But the are never led by Ideology anymore. Rather interst groups with full media money and muscle power decide everything for them. They may despise the Non marxist elements, builders, MNCS, criminals, the Gestapo and the Culture of Genocide and gang Rape- but they are never ashamed of justifying all this as the precondition to hold the key of State Power.

Thus, the Ruling as well as Resisting Power targets the Indigenous Life and Livelihood to clear the decks for Capitalist Development in the line dictated by US Imperialism.

Killed are those who are enslaved, outclass, untouchables, OBC , tribals or muslims. Crocodiles have not to lose anything. They are playing just the Game of power Politics!

Sonia Gandhi, Dashmunshi, Medha, Mamata or non of the resisting Intellectuals is a liitle bit concerned with the suffering of the killed and displaced , uprooted indigenous people in Nandigram!

So, the great saga of Nandigram Insurrection continues with unilateral Killing culture!

Sporadic clashes continued in trouble-torn Nandigram on Wednesday with four activists of Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) allegedly beaten up by CPI-M activists and three others kidnapped in the run up to the May 11 panchayat election.Meanwhile, West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID)submitted its report on Wednesday on the alleged stripping of a 28-year-old woman who was forced to walk naked in a rally taken out by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres in East Midnapore's Nandigram area.
“I have completed my enquiry and submitted the report to the office of the West Bengal Director General of Police,” Inspector General (Special) of CID Sanjay Mukherjee told IANS.

He said that allegations of CPI-M atrocities on two more women in Nandigram have not been confirmed yet. “Since I was told to probe into a particular area, I cannot comment on anything else. I have already done my job and now it's the responsibility of the district police to look into other aspects of the allegation,” he said.

Anti-land acquisition group Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) members levelled fresh allegations on Tuesday that two more women were assaulted by CPI-M party men in the trouble-torn region.

BUPC activists said a 28-year-old woman was forced to strip in a CPI-M rally on Monday as she refused to take part in it. The incident sparked fresh tension in Nandigram that led West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to order a CID probe into the incident.

A team of state CID officials headed by Sanjay Mukherjee went to Nandigram, about 150 km from Kolkata, on Tuesday to investigate the matter.

The doctor, who is attending on the victim at Nandigram Hospital, confirmed sexual assault.

Fresh violence broke out in West Bengal's embattled Nandigram between supporters of the Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC), which is opposing land acquisition for industrialisation, and activists of the ruling CPI-M.Sources said both sides exchanged fire and hurled bombs at each other at a new area in Nandigram, where two BUPC members were injured.Violence was reported from Satengabari and Jambari area in Nandigram Block II. Todays Bengal is a lawless and cultureless state. They kicked out a helpless woman in the midnight from Bengal. Bengalis has degenerated into bestiality culture.

The countdown to the panchayat polls in Nandigram in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district has begun, as has a fresh wave of violence between the CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (Land Eviction Resistance Committee). But the odd skirmish or two, on for the last few days, assumed a whole new colour with the alleged stripping and molestation of a woman supporter of the BUPC on Monday evening. Trouble continued at Nandigram in West Bengal on Tuesday when a fresh attempt was made to cut off the area, allegedly by supporters of the Trinamool Congress-led Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh (Resistance against Land Eviction) Committee by digging up a road at different places.

The incidents were reminiscent of what happened last year when large areas turned inaccessible for several months after culverts were damaged and road links severed in the wake of clashes between BUPC and CPI(M) activists. The CPM cadre is at again;resorting to violence.Now they are armed and inflicting injuries on poor peasants.The central government is helpless at State terrorism unleashed by the cpm cadre aided and abetted by the left government.The apt and right thing to do is to impose President rule;but alas,this can not be because UPA government is surving with the support of leftparties who are in power in West Bengal and perpetrating state terrorism.The only way out is to defeatleftin panchayat elections.

Meanwhile, India today successfully test-fired its 3000 km range surface-to-surface nuclear capable Agni-III missile for the second time giving the country a capability to hit targets as far as deep inside China.It was the third test -- and the second successful one -- of the Agni III missile, which can hit targets deep inside China, a country India briefly fought in 1962 over border disputes that have not yet been resolved.

India has also built short-range missiles that can be fired at Pakistan, its nuclear-armed rival.

"It was a textbook launch," a government statement said.

On the other hand, African-American Barack Obama bagged the critical North Carolina primary on Wednesday and only lost narrowly in Indiana, building an unassailable lead against once sure-winner Hillary Clinton in the bitter Democratic White House race.

Refusing to bow out of the race despite losing her only chance to catch up with Obama, Clinton, 60, declared "it's full speed onto the White House".

Pointing that he was "less than 200 delegates away from the nomination", Obama, 47, told cheering supporters "there are those who were saying that North Carolina would be a game- changer in this election. But today what North Carolina decided is that the only game that needs changing is the one in Washington DC".

In North Carolina, Obama won 56 per cent of the vote to 42 percent for Clinton while in Indiana, she got 51 per cent to 49 per cent for her rival.

Obama won at least 94 delegates and Clinton at least 75 in the the last of the big-ticket states combined, with 18 still to be awarded, according to an Associated Press count.

The first time Senator from Illinois led with 1,840.5 delegates, including separately chosen party officials known as superdelegates. Clinton had 1,684 delegates.

Obama, who is bidding to be the first black president of the United States, was 184.5 delegates shy of the 2,025 needed to secure the Democratic nomination at the party's convention this summer in Denver.

With her loss in North Carolina, Clinton has little hope of narrowing the gap and almost no chance of winning enough elected delegates to overtake Obama.

The primaries now left are West Virginia (28 delegates) on May 13, Oregon (52) and Kentucky (51) on May 20, Puerto Rico (55) on June 1, Montana (16) and South Dakota (15) on June 3.

In New Delhi, Failing to make much headway in its talks on the India-US nuclear deal, the UPA-Left committee on the pact has decided to undertake another round of negotiations on May 28 even as it becomes increasingly clear that time is running out as the tenure of the Bush administration comes to an end.

The government indicated to the the Left parties that the nuclear deal was being squeezed for time and foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee told them during the eighth meeting of the committee that problems were only going to grow in the coming days.

In Washington, a state department official said they had received no confirmation or information to the effect that the deal was dead, and noted that another meeting of the UPA-Left panel had been scheduled later this month.

During Tuesday's meeting, Mukherjee cited the NAM countries who have called for complete prohibition on transfer of nuclear knowhow to those countries which were not signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Apparently trying to delink the 123 pact and the safeguards agreement with IAEA, Mukherjee requested the Left leaders that the government be allowed to get the deal ratified by the atomic watchdog board so that nuclear trade with France and Russia could be clinched.

But the Left did not relent. Instead, it raised a few more queries. The next meeting of the UPA-Left committee will take place on May 28. A top Left leader said, "The process of discussions will continue. There will be more meetings after the next date."

The Left parties will meet on May 23 to formalise their view on the government's latest proposal. The first thing the Left wants to know is "when specifically does the 123 agreement become a dead deal".

Also, the Left's queries on the safeguards agreement have not been squarely addressed though the government tried to answer them in detail during the meeting.

"We are not convinced by verbal assurances on our questions about the safeguards agreement. We want to see the text of the deal. The government says it is not possible to circulate the text since many countries are involved in it.

But we have asked them to paraphrase the text and show us. They have agreed. Let us see," a senior Left leader said. Another top leader said the government was keen to seek IAEA's approval of the safeguards agreement.

"They gave more information in response to our queries and even went into detail. We will give our response by the next meeting. Meanwhile, the government will clear our confusion," he said.

In Kolkata, the West Bengal government on Tuesday ordered a CID probe into the alleged stripping of three women supporters of the Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) in Nandigram.
"Though no official complaint has been lodged as yet, the CID inquiry has been ordered on the basis of media reports and political reaction to the alleged stripping at Nandigram yesterday," IGP (Law and Order) Raj Kanojia told reporters.Special IGP (CID) Sanjoy Mukherjee has reached Nandigram for the probe, he said.

Three women activists of Bhumi Ucchhed Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) claimed they were beaten up and stripped by CPM cadres in Nandigram for refusing to join Marxist rallies in the run-up to panchayat elections.

The women alleged that around 40 to 50 CPM activists came to their houses on Monday and threatened them with dire consequences if they failed to turn up for the meetings and gatherings organised by the party. “CPM cadres told us that we would have to vote for their party in the panchayat polls. When we refused to oblige, they started beating us. They even snatched our voter’s identity cards” they alleged.

CPM leaders denied the allegations, claiming it was part of a malicious campaign organised by the opposition to tarnish the party’s image ahead of the polls. East Midnapore district secretariat member of CPM, Ashok Guria, alleged that during clashes in the village, a BUPC party activist Sheikh Javed was shot at by rival party activists and therefore women present there ran in panic. “In such a situation, one or two of them might have fallen down and the incident was thoroughly distorted by opposition parties,” he claimed.

As clashes continued between CPM and BUPC members in Keyakhali, Maheshpur and Satengabari areas of Nandigram, opposition parties demanded postponement of panchayat elections in the area. Elections in Nandigram were originally scheduled on May 11.

State Congress president Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi has written letters to chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi, requesting them to urge the state election commission to hold elections in Nandigram only when the law and order situation improves. Trinamool Congress leaders also made a similar petition to the state election commissioner Ashok Gupta and the governor on Tuesday, in the wake of violence in the area.

In letters addressed to home minister Shivraj Patil, the West Bengal chief minister and the governor, Mr Dasmunsi has requested them to use their offices to advise the state administration to restore peace and normalcy in Nandigram.

“For this, postponement of the three-tier panchayat election is necessary. Following extreme violence in the area, we are apprehending a complete breakdown of state machinery in case elections are held. Therefore, we have asked the election commissioner to fix an alternative date of election in the said area after consulting all political parties” Dasmunsi said.

Ahead of panchayat polls in West Bengal, a group of city-based intellectuals Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the state election panel demanding immediate transfer of top officials of Nandigram in order to conduct free and fair elections in the trouble-torn region.

Trinamool Congress bloc president Abu Tayeb alleged that of the four, one was assaulted last night and two others were beaten up this morning at Keyakhali village. The other BUPC activist was injured at Kalicharanpur village today.

He also alleged that three BUPC workers were kidnapped by CPI-M activists. Police said one of them has been rescued.

Meanwhile, CPI-M's West Midnapore district secretary Ashok Guria claimed the kidnapped men were activists of his party but were campaigning in favour of Trinamool Congress.

Two of the injured have been admitted to Nandigram hospital while another has suffered serious neck injuries, BUPC sources said.

On the other hand, the local administration demolished three bamboo bridges allegedly being used by CPI-M cadres to launch attacks against BUPC workers.

The bridges over Talpatti canal connected CPI-M stronghold Khejuri and Adhikaripara and Garupara areas of Nandigram that saw clashes between the Left party and BUPC in the past few days.

Tension prevails in the area with 80 per cent of the shops remaining closed.

The Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) met the West Bengal Election Commission (WBEC) and demanded transfer of the Nandigram police station officer-in-charge, the East Midnapore district magistrate and police superintendent.

'We met state election commissioner Ashok Gupta and other officials. We have requested them to transfer Nandigram police station officer-in-charge Debashis Chakraborty, East Midnapore police superintendent S.S. Panda and district magistrate Anup Agarwal before the panchayat polls, scheduled to take place May 11 in Nandigram,' APDR member Sujato Bhadro told IANS.

He said: 'We gave a suggestion to the commission to form an independent body, without any political affiliation, which would visit the violence-hit areas in Nandigram during the panchayat polls and submit their report to the commission.'

'We, under the banner of Swajan, are ready to take that responsibility. But the EC must ensure that we will be allowed to move freely around Nandigram to monitor the situation there,' he said.

Swajan is an independent body of civil society formed by a number of eminent intellectuals including filmmaker Aparna Sen, theatre personality Shaonli Mitra and painter Subhaprasanna.

The platform has been launched to voice protests against the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-sponsored violence in Nandigram.

With panchayat polls round the corner, violence has reared its head in Nandigram once again. At least four anti-land acquisition Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) members and a CPI-M cadre were seriously injured in clashes in Nandigram block-I Sunday night.

The CPI-M supporters also drove out hundreds of BUPC members from their houses Monday, triggering fresh tension in the area.

'We don't think, if this violence continues in Nandigram, people would be able to freely cast their votes in the panchayat poll. We are extremely concerned about the democratic rights of the people living in the area,' Shaonli Mitra said.

The panchayat elections in West Bengal will be held May 11, 14 and 18. Counting would be taken up May 21.

Local Trinamool leader Abu Taher alleged that CPI(M) activists molested and tortured the woman who refused to take part in a CPI(M) procession. “She was stripped and paraded in public. She was also hit on her private parts,” he said.

Eyewitnesses alleged that the woman was chased by CPI(M) cadres for almost half a kilometre from Keyakhali to Brindaban Chowk on Monday. However, to protest the assault, she refused a sari offered by a police team later, following which she was again beaten up. Later, police admitted her to the Nandigram Hospital, where doctors confirmed she had been assaulted.

The CPI(M) however denied the allegations. The party alleged that it was the BUPC supporters who instigated the violence after attacking one of their campaign processions.

Earlier, BUPC activists attacked a CPI(M) poll procession, severely injuring CPI(M) activist Sheikh Javed. The CPI(M) supporters then retaliated and attacked a temporary relief camp, severely injuring some BUPC supporters, one of whom has been reported missing.

Even as the West Bengal government today ordered a CID inquiry into the alleged stripping of three women supporters of the Trinamul Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) in Nandigram violence continued in some areas, leaving at least six persons, including three women, injured. A few houses were ransacked at Satengabari, Balarampur, Satkhali and Raynagar villages by armed CPI-M cadres last night.
With more BUPC supporters taking shelter at the Nandigram BDO office premises today, the number of ousted people has gone up to 800. Tension prevailed at Balarampur and Ramchawk areas in Boyal-II gram panchayat around 12.30 pm when a police team went to pick up two BUPC youths from Ramchawk village. The villagers headed by women of Balarampur village gheraoed the police team for two hours and snatched away two youths from their custody. In presence of the police team, the villagers dug up the village road near Ramchawk bridge to prevent further raids by the police. A villager was allegedly beaten up by the police at Balarampur when they resisted police attempts to arrest two boys The home secretary told reporters in Midnapore today that the controversial Nandigram O-C will not be removed now. The Haldia SDPO has been asked to rein-in the O-C.

Postpone poll: Dasmunsi

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi demanded that next month’s panchayat polls in the areas falling within the jurisdiction of the Nandigram thana be deferred. For, elections might not be “peaceful and democratic” in view of the “extreme violence” there in the past two weeks. Nandigram goes to the polls on May 11.

He sent separate letters to the Governor, the Chief Minister and the State Election Commission Chairman. He said he had also apprised Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil of the developments at Nandigram.

“An all-party meeting should be called by the State government to decide on ways to improve law and order there,” said Mr. Dasmunsi, who is also the Pradesh Congress Committee president.

Fear of verdict: Biman Bose

However, Left Front Committee chairman Biman Bose ruled out postponement. Those who were afraid of facing the verdict of the people were making such demands, he said.

Meanwhile, the government, based on reports in a section of the media, ordered an inquiry by the Criminal Investigation Department into the alleged stripping of three BUPC women supporters during the recent trouble, Inspector-General (Law and Order) Raj Kanojia said.

A section of the city’s intellectuals called on State Election Commission authorities and demanded the transfer of the officer-in-charge of the Nandigram thana for his allegedly partisan conduct. “We are very concerned with the violation of human rights there and fear that the elections will not be democratic,” said Aparna Sen, film director and actor. Members of civil society planned to set up a team of independent observers to oversee the polls, she said.

Controversial Nandigram officer relieved from poll duty
Kolkata (PTI): The Officer-in-Charge of Nandigram police station Debashish Chakraborty who has been accused by Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee of supporting West Bengal's ruling CPI(M) was on Wednesday removed from panchayat election duties.

"The officer in charge will not have any role in the panchayat elections. He is not, however, being removed from Nandigram police station owing to technical reasons," West Bengal Chief Secretary Amit Kiran Deb told a press conference.

The BUPC had been demanding the removal of Chakraborty for some time, accusing him of blatantly supporting CPI(M) and shielding its cadre.

Admitting that there had been allegations against the officer, Deb said the decision to remove him from poll duties were taken after Home Secretary met BUPC leaders at Midnapore town during a review of the poll arrangements.

He, however, did not reply when asked what techical reasons prevented the government from removing the officer from the police station.

"The officer in charge of Nandigram police station cannot do anything that would change the election results. The O-C of a police station usually has a leadership role and that will be taken over by the SDPO. If anyone has a complaint, he can make it to the SDPO," the Chief Secretary said.

He said the sub-divisional police officer of Haldia will be posted at Nandigram police station during the elections to maintain law and order.

CPI(M) questions need for Governor's post but cites US for retaining it
Midnapore (PTI): Taking umbrage at Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi suffering a two-hour voluntary powercut at Raj Bhavan daily from on Wednesday, West Bengal's ruling CPI(M) on Wednesday questioned the necessity of the gubernatorial post.

The party, however, said if the Governor's post is to be retained it should be an elected one as in the USA.

"What is the necessity of the post of governor in this federal system? After 60 years of Independence, the time has come to think about the necessity of the post," state secretary of CPI(M) Biman Bose told a press conference at Priyakata here in West Midnapore district.

Bose, also the Left Front chairman, said, in his personal opinion, abolition of the post of Governor was necessary.

Asked how West Bengal government could abolish the Governor's post, Bose said "the issue will be raised in Parliament by our party MPs."

Speaking about Gandhi observing the voluntary powercut, he said,"the governor has said that he will observe a two-hour powercut at Raj Bhavan. Then why is he staying in a palatial building? A large number of people in West Bengal are living without shelter. He should move to a smaller building or a flat."

India among most attractive markets: Merrill Lynch
Mumbai (PTI): India is one of the most attractive markets in the world now because of its high domestic demand and economic growth, Merrill Lynch Chairman and CEO John A. Thain said on Wednesday.

"If you consider opportunity vis-a-vis risk, India is one of the most attractive markets in the world," Thain said here.

Because of its high demand, growth in economy, strength of corporates to go global and huge spending on infrastructure, India would be less affected to the US slowdown, he said.

Thain, however, said that a combination of falling home prices, rising food and energy prices and higher unemployment would result in a pull back of the US economy in the next six to 12 months.

Stating that Merrill Lynch believed that "genuine opportunity would come from outside the US," Thain said he was bullish about China, Russia and Brazil as well.

"China is also a very attractive market for us. But, China is more coupled with the US and that will have much more impact on the Chinese economy," he said.

"The degree of impact (of US slowdown) is different from different countries," Thain added.

CPI(M) enacting Nandigram II, says BJP
New Delhi (PTI): Claiming that the CPI(M) has let loose a reign of terror in Nandigram, the BJP on Wednesday demanded that Sunday's panchayat election in the troubled area be either postponed or held under the watch of armed forces.

The party accused the CPI(M) of "enacting Nandigram II" to influence the May 11 election in an effort to "legitimise its earlier recapture of the region in a blatant show of terror."

"More than 2,000 people who have refused to toe the CPI(M) line have been forced out of their homes. Opposition candidates and voters are being beaten by the CPI(M) cadre," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar alleged.

He alleged that the police is acting in tandem with CPI(M) cadres who have let loose a reign of terror in the area, while the state Election Commission has expressed its helplessness and CRPF is not allowed to operate.

"Nandigram II is yet another manifestation of the CPI(M)'s Stalinist designs. They want to win Nandigram at any cost to legitimise the earlier violent recapture of the region," he said and demanded that the polls be either put off or be held in the presence of armed forces.

"The CPI(M) terror is manifested when a woman from Nandigram was stripped and beaten up in public. The Left party has also not allowed Opposition candidates to file nomination papers in more than 4,000 seats," he alleged.

The Congress had on Tuesday demanded postponement of election in Nandigram because of violence but the ruling CPI(M) ruled out such a move.


 
 

Eat Your Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons, Mr President WAR George Bush! Darling Condy Imperialism Personified!

by palashbiswas @ 2008-05-04 - 18:45:26

Ruling Marxist hegemony in Bengal treats Gorkhaland as a foreign territory!

by palashbiswas @ 2008-04-30 - 20:10:50

Cheerleaders Strike Indigenous India with Mind control Terror

by palashbiswas @ 2008-04-25 - 16:13:35

Cheerleaders Strike Indigenous India with Mind control Terror

Palash Biswas

George Bush and Ronald Reagan have been the Most Successful Cheerleaders. And the success rate never trailed behind War Game Politics of US Weapon Industry Imperialist Manusmriti Apartheid Post Modern Galaxy Order Success! Cheerleaders successful team heritage is traced from Darling Madonna, Hellie Berry, Mariel Streep to Washington Red Sklin of IPL, the money spinning neo revolution of Indian Brahminical Ruling Class.

Cheerleaders may also be traced amongst all our Comrador Politicians of different colors who are also involved with XXX Cricket Carnival with a solid Agenda of Brain Washing to destroy the Disadvantaged Indigenous in this divided bleeding sub continent.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday met the Left leaders to discuss the price rise crisis and said that the government was taking all necessary steps to deal with the problem and that there was no need for political parties to indulge in scare-mongering.

Asking the political parties to avoid the temptation of politicising the misery of the people, Singh warned them against creating an environment of scarcity that would encourage speculators and hoarders.

Left as well as the Right belong to the Ruling Hegemony. Though UPA runs the government of India which controls the basic tool of mass destruction, the State Power. GOI is responsible to the Parliament, elected by Majoritorian Electoral system depriving the indigenous untouchable and tribal, rural and agrarian people the much wanted Political representation! Human and civil Rights nullified. nationalities massacred. Indigenous production system destroyed. The flow of Refugee Influx from Inside as well as Outside never stops as it helps the ruling Hegemony to consolidate the favourable vote bank with clubbing minorities and demographic readjustment. They call it power sharing. In fact the Parliamentary Political Power in this so called democracy is shared by ruling and resistant powergroups and Common Men have no participation in the affairs of Nation.Neo Liberal economic policy has made this divided Subcontinent a cluster of Colonies managed by MNCs. Nation withers away and so called Civil society with full fledged purchasing power takes over.

All this nonsense goes on the name of Public Interest, Development, Infrastructure, Growth Rate, Welfare State and Revolution , too. Every time ultimate victims have to be the Indigenous People consisting of Eighty Five percent Untouchables, Tribals, OBC and minorities specially Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and Anglo Indians plus converted christians!

This is the story of Sensex Shining India governed by the three percent caste Hindus politically, socially, culturally, economically and finally, administratively. Any resistance whatsoever is crushed mercilessly. This is the story of all development projects and shemes, foreign relations and collabrations, strategic regrouping, joint venture, SEZ drive, dual citizensship, Chemical Hubs, Nuclear power Plants, modified genetic Seeds, vaccination, privatization, disinvestment, CRS, VRS, Retail chain and so on. The stories climax in Telengana, Dhimri Block, Shrikakulam, NaxalBari, Nandigram, Kaling Nagar, marichjhanpi or anywhere else with the same result and it is Massacre! Genocide Infinite.

It is always reciprocal. Centre is run by UPA. States are governed by NDA or Left as well as UPA and UNPA. They defend the interstes of the Ruling Caste Hindu Hegemony collectively and the system of Enslavement continues.

They promote technology and English to disarm the disadvantaged unskilled indigenous agarrian communities and reserve all opportunities for the ruling Class. Constitutional resrvatin is a farce as Privatisation and neolibral policies have closed all doors of Employment. since the Indigenous production system is killed and also they killed the Constitution and Democracy as well, Indigenous People have no way of sustenance. Now the family Planning happens to be irrelevant as so many people die starving daily. Medical care and all types of social services are thus privatised and you need reasonable purchasing power to sustain yourself!

They never promote knowledge, mother language, indigenous culture, higher education , science and research. Trading is the only way to generate resources. Sales happne to be the only aveneue open for job besides outsourcing! Basic necessities are neglected. Coomodities as food and clothing, medicines and housing are so dearly that ordinary people may not survive. What about the displaced and ejected people from their roots, land, livelihood and life?

Information Technology is the topmost priority as it is the best tool for Mind Control system. Total Brain Washing. Total annihilation. IT happens to be the best Weapon of Mass Detruction. The campaign is led by the Toilet Media, run by MNCs and fed by FDI. Information Explosion transormed into total brain washing.

Cricket Carnival happens to be the most entertaing part of the Mind control Game subverting all issues relating to the suffering Indigenous disadvantaged eighty five percnt people of this subcontinent.

So, the political parties happen to the best Knight riders of Modern Times accompanied by Cheerleaders! Politicians are never behind this XXX Reality Show Live.

What Nautanke is this?

A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday .

Ban said the U.N and all members of the international community are very concerned, and immediate action is needed.

He spoke to reporters at U.N. offices in Austria, where he was meeting with the nation's top leaders for talks on how the United Nations and European Union can forge closer ties.

"This steeply rising price of food — it has developed into a real global crisis," Ban said, adding that the World Food Program has made an urgent appeal for additional $755 million.

"The United Nations is very much concerned, as all other members of the international community," Ban said. "We must take immediate action in a concerted way all throughout the international community."

Ban urged leaders of the international community to sit down together on an "urgent basis" to discuss how to improve economic distribution systems and the production of agricultural products.

For an alliance that lost to the Congress because of its hype on ‘India shining’, the unprecedented price rise has come as godsent to expose the government’s claim of being pro-aam admi and keep the issue alive for electoral gains in coming polls, starting with Karnataka.

As a show of unity on the issue, the MPs of the BJP-led NDA formed a human chain around in Parliament complex as Leader of Opposition LK Advani said, “The family budgets of not only the poor but even the middle classes have been badly eroded by the steep rise in the prices of cereals, pulses, vegetables, edible oil, sugar, milk, fruits and meat.”

He said, “If you can’t stop price rise then you should quit and the country should go to polls. The government’s failure is worse compounded by its apathy, insensitivity and lack of accountability.”

Calling the inflation a ‘silent tsunami’, Advani joined other NDA members, including leaders like Rajnath Singh, George Fernandes and Manohar Joshi, in forming the chain.

“I relate that situation to the current one where the common man is being denied the right to food due to price rise. The NDA will continue its agitation against inflation throughout the country in different forms,” Advani said. The NDA has already called for a general nationwide strike against inflation on May 2.

The issue figured in both Houses where the agitated Opposition raised slogans seeking to expose the UPA’s “aam aadmi” plank. Later both the Houses were adjourned for two hours as proceedings were disrupted.

In the Lok Sabha, the NDA MPs trooped into the well of the House shouting slogans denouncing the government — as the Question Hour was drawing to close.

Left leaders on Friday sharply reacted to the Prime Minister's Office statement asking parties not to politicise the price rise issue and said the government should not be "callous" towards people's miseries.

"This equally applies to the PMO because, by saying this, they are themselves politicising the issue. Government must eschew the irresponsibility of being callous towards the hardships of the people," said CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury here.

The CPI(M) leader, who along with other Left leaders met the Prime Minister on the price rise issue, was reacting to the PMO statement asking political parties to eschew the temptation of politicising the misery of the people and not to indulge in "scare mongering".

It also warned against creating an environment of scarcity that would only help speculators and hoarders.

In the same vein, CPI leader D Raja said price rise was not a result of "politicisation but a harsh reality facing the people. The government should take steps to mitigate the people's problems."

Describing the PMO statement as "very unfortunate", Yechury asserted that it was the duty of political parties to raise people's issues.

"If it means not to raise people's issues, we cannot take such an irresponsible step being a political party", he said.

Yechury's party colleague Basudeb Acharia was also critical of the government's approach on the price situation, saying it was "dithering and was reluctant to take any action on the issue also."

Acharia said the PMO statement "proves that the government is not serious enough on the matter. Rather, it is not at all serious with regard to the plight of the people."

Accusing the government of not taking any effective steps to control the prices, he demanded immediate restoration of foodgrains to Kerala where the PDS allocation had been slashed by as much as 86 per cent.

The CPI(M) leader also lashed out at the BJP on grounds that most members of the prime opposition party were absent from Parliament when a discussion was being held on price rise.

"Even the Leader of the Opposition (L K Advani) was not present. He has no time to attend the House", he said.

Referring to the PMO statement which said agriculture sector was "neglected" since 1996, he said the sector had been neglected since the economic reforms began in 1991.

"In the past four years of the UPA government, they have not taken enough steps to increase production and capital formation", the CPI(M) leader said.

"Now the Prime Minister is only hoping that a good monsoon will increase production and the agrarian crisis will be overcome. So, without taking any action, this is the expectation of the government", he said.

Asked to comment on government announcement that it would take a sense of the House on the Indo-US nuclear deal, he said, "they have already witnessed the sense of the House. Majority of the members in both Houses are against the deal".

He said there is no need for taking the House into confidence once again on the matter as the sense of the House is absolutely clear.

With the largest indigenous population in the world, India has often done little to protect the rights of these groups that have worked and lived off of communally shared forest lands for thousands of years. The Supreme Court of India has touted Public Interest Litigation -- PIL, also sometimes called Social Action Litigation -- as an effective tool for protecting the rights of the disadvantaged, especially indigenous groups. While this litigation is the judicial equivalent of class action suits in the United States, there are important differences. The Indian Court specifically has focused on the fundamental rights to life and equality. Fundamental rights guaranteed to all Indian citizens include life and equality. The Supreme Court has interpreted these two rights to include the right to work and live with dignity and liberty. Procedurally, the Court’s practice of PIL has relaxed the rules of ‘standing.’ It has effectively allowed persons or groups not personally involved in cases to bring suit on behalf of others, which makes for greater openness of the system.

Heere you are! a glimpse of Disadvantaged Indigenous India!

Three million indigenous rat-catching tribals in India suffer from poverty through use of an inefficient and hazardous traditional rat-catching method. New technology/plan is safer and more profitable!

There are about 300 million indigenous men, women and children worldwide. They are extremely diverse - more than 5,000 different groups of indigenous peoples live in more than 70 countries. They make up one third of the world's 900 million extremely poor rural people. In many countries, indigenous peoples are the most severely disadvantaged. They are often forced to live on the least productive terrain, denied rights to land, forests and other natural resources that they have managed sustainably for millennia, and marginalized by modern society.

Today, there is a growing consensus that accountability is crucial to poverty reduction, human development and human security. The human rights approach to poverty reduction emphasizes the obligations of governments and all partners in the development process and requires that they be held to account for their conduct in relation to international human rights. This has led to greater emphasis on the obligations of governments and UN agencies towards indigenous peoples.

And this?

Political parties must not politicise the misery of the people, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday after Left leaders met him to voice concern over rising food prices as inflation climbed from last week's 7.14 percent to 7.33 percent.

Manmohan Singh asked the delegation of Left leaders led by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) general secretary Prakash Karat not to create panic about food scarcity.

"Political parties must not politicise the misery of the people and indulge in scare mongering about food scarcity," said a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

"The government will take all steps to curb inflation. We expect normal monsoon to increase food output. Procurement of food grains is expected to go up," it added.

"Agriculture production was rising. It had gone down after 1996. The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government had taken several measures to step up production."

The Congress-led UPA has been hemmed in by criticism from all sides - its own allies as well as the opposition - for not being able to rein in rising food prices.

"We reiterated before the Prime Minister our demands to ban futures trading, slash duties on petroleum products, strengthen the public distribution system and punish hoarders," said Abani Roy, leader of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP).

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had on Thursday formed a human chain outside Parliament and accused the government of failing to bring down prices.

The Left parties last week addressed a public meeting with the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) here on rising prices.

Randeep Ramesh in Delhi reports for Guardian:

In boots and spangled shorts, the cheerleaders for India's premier cricket league have caused a furious debate over money and morality in a country where cricket is a religion and prudence a virtue.

Brought in to heighten the appeal of the new Twenty20 matches, the gyrating young cheerleaders have angered politicians, who say they are an affront to Indian culture, and some conservative players, who wonder why they are needed.

The cheerleaders have complained that lewd comments and ogling from spectators are proving at best a tiring distraction and at worst sexual harassment. "It's been horrendous," Tabitha, a cheerleader from Uzbekistan, told the Hindustan Times. "Wherever we go we do expect people to pass lewd, snide remarks but I'm shocked by the nature and magnitude of the comments people pass here."

There is little doubt of the stir that the cheerleaders have caused in the country where a Muslim female tennis star, Sania Mirza, was criticised for playing in short skirts and where actor Richard Gere caused a storm of protest by publicly kissing Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty.

Politicians in Mumbai have threatened to ban the cheerleaders from games, while teams have beefed up security.

"I think in the Indian context [cheerleaders] are seen as slightly sleazy which is not a reflection on the women but the perception [from Indian men]. So lewd comments, I am sorry to say, do not surprise me at all," said Mukul Kesavan, a cricket writer.

The Indian cricket league's success signals the country's new dominance, with top players earning £100,000 a week during the tournament.

Photos of dancing cheerleaders have made the front pages of Indian newspapers. Charu Sharma, chief executive of Bangalore Royal Challengers, defended importing American-style razzmatazz. "Let us not play this high-handed moral belief game. It is only small maverick groups that are making a noise," Sharma told Reuters.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/apr/25/cricket.india

Cheerleaders will not be banned during IPL cricket matches in Mumbai but they may have to shed their skimpy outfits with the police on Friday warning of action against the organisers if their shows are found to be vulgar.

As the police cleared the air on whether the scantily-clad cheergirls will be allowed to perform in a Navi Mumbai stadium on April 27 by imposing some conditions, the 'ban cheerleaders' chant grew loud with West Bengal joining Maharashtra in targeting the dancing beauties.

Senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu also joined the chorus of protests saying the dance was a "distraction and nonsense" as a debate raged over whether US-style cheerleaders had a role during cricket matches in the country.

"The girls are merely artistes who perform as per the instructions of organisers," Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Ramrao Wagh said, adding that a performance license has been granted to the organisers of the match between Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers to be held at Nerul's D Y Patil stadium.

In the event of the cheerleaders indulging in obscenity, Wagh said, the "license holders" (the organisers) will be prosecuted under various provisions of the Bombay Police Act for indecency in a public place and breach of license terms.

Wagh said the show should not be vulgar or obscene nor offend the dignity of women. He however said there have been no instructions from the government.

West Bengal Sports Minister Subash Chakravarty said the cheerleaders had no role and were out of context during sporting encounters and there was no need to import Western culture. Chakravarty, who was supported by PWD Minister Kshiti Goswami(RSP and Water Investigation Minister Nandgopal Bhttacharya(CPI), said he will take up the issue with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.

In the midst of controversy over the presence of cheerleaders at IPL matches, police on Friday said they could perform at the stadium in Navi Mumbai on April 27 but action will be taken against organisers if their act is found to be "vulgar" or "indecent".

"The girls are merely artistes who perform as per the instructions of organisers," Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Ramrao Wagh said, adding that a performance license has been granted to the organisers of the match between Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers to be held at Nerul's D Y Patil stadium.

In the event of the cheerleaders indulging in obscenity, Wagh said, the "license holders" (the organisers) will be prosecuted under various provisions of the Bombay Police Act for indecency in a public place and breach of license terms.

Wagh, however said they had not received any directions from the state government on the issue yet.

Maharashtra's Minister of State for Home, Siddhram Mhetre had on Thursday told reporters that the government will not allow the cheerleaders to perform as their acts are "absolutely obscene" and wondered why the organisers required "semi nude" women at cricket matches.

The minister had said strict action will be taken if the cheerleaders violated the norms of decency in their attire.

However, he had not specified if action will be taken against the artistes or the organisers.

Redskins cheerleaders train local girls

Friday, 25 April , 2008, 12:29
Last Updated: Friday, 25 April , 2008, 17:19

Bangalore: The svelte Washington Redskins Cheerleaders, who have created more than a stir with their presence in the Indian Premier League (IPL), will leave behind a bunch of girls trained by them to set up a permanent presence here.

The first ever Pro Cheerleader audition in India got started two days after their arrival here April 13 to create the first ever cheerleading squad in the country for Bangalore Royal Challengers, for their inaugural game April 18.

IPL: Full coverage

The Washington Redskins cheerleaders, known as the "First Ladies of Football" in the United States, have a squad of 12 Cheerleaders and two choreographers in India. They were scheduled to spend 18 days travelling across India with the Royal Challengers owned by Vijay Mallya.

Though the squad will leave India, Entertainment and Cheerleading Director Donald Wells and two-year veteran Sharica will be here for three more weeks, according to the Redskins website.

Are IPL cheerleaders a needless distraction?

Wells will then hand over the new squad to Stephanie Jojokian, Director and Choreographer of the Redskins cheerleaders, in mid-May. She will spend 10 days with the Bangalore cheerleaders. By the time this project is complete, the Redskins Cheerleading department will have spent over 10 weeks creating a new cheerleading world in India.

India warns cricket cheerleaders
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7366516.stm

Cheerleaders have been brought in from all over the world Pic: Sandipan Chatterjee/Indian Express

Indian police say the organisers of the new tournament transforming world cricket could be fined if cheerleaders are deemed to be dressed indecently.

The cheerleaders have been introduced into the Indian Premier League as part of moves to add glamour and entertainment to the game.

Some politicians say the cheerleaders are "vulgar and obscene".

Mumbai police say they will be checking that the cheerleaders' performances do not violate entertainment licences.

The cheerleading girls, wearing short skirts and low-cut tops, have been hired from around the world to perform during the matches which are also being heavily endorsed by leading Bollywood stars.

They include cheerleaders from the Washington Redskins.

'Lines of decency'

Ram Rao Vagh, the police commissioner for New Mumbai, a suburb of Mumbai, where the home team is hosting five matches starting on Sunday, told the BBC that they were not considering any action against the cheerleaders themselves.

What's wrong with cheerleaders? I am also a family person, I do not see anything negative in it

Shah Rukh Khan

"It is difficult to enforce moral policing, we cannot define vulgarity always. It is difficult to ascertain what is vulgar and obscene," Mr Vagh said.

But he said the organisers could be fined for violating the norms of the entertainment licence they had secured for allowing performances in the stadium.

Senior officers would decide whether the cheerleaders had crossed the "lines of decency".

A spokesman for the local team, the Mumbai Indians, said they were not worried.

"Our cheerleaders are properly dressed. They are within limits of what our culture permits. So we have no problems," Javed Akhtar told the BBC.

'Routine'

However, the junior interior minister of western Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, said the performances of cheerleading girls at the Indian Premier League matches were "absolutely obscene".

Cheerleaders have complained of sections of the crowd jeering at them Pic: Sandipan Chatterjee/Indian Express

"We live in India where womanhood is worshipped. How can anything obscene like this be allowed?," Siddharam Mehetre told the Press Trust of India news agency.

"This thing is meant for foreigners and not for us. Mothers and daughters watch these matches on television. It does not look nice."

Many others find the indignation misplaced, coming from a city, which is home to a thriving industry of Bollywood films where dance sequences featuring women in skimpy dresses are routine.

Bollywood actor, Shah Rukh Khan, who also owns one of the teams in the competition, is one of them.

"What's wrong with cheerleaders? I am also a family person, I do not see anything negative in it," he said.

The head of India's National Commission for Women said there was nothing wrong with the cheerleaders if it "just for adding entertainment to the game".

"It has to be presented in the right manner keeping Indian values intact," said Girija Vyas.

A former Bollywood actor and a politician belonging to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shatrughan Sinha said the cheerleaders were making a "mockery" of the game.

There have been reports in the Indian newspapers of cheerleaders complaining of sections of the crowd jeering at them and making lewd comments.

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Youth Cheerleaders during a football halftime show. Youth Cheer - high school ages and younger - make up the vast majority of cheerleaders and cheer teams.
Cheerleading is a sport[1][2][3][4] that uses organized routines made from elements of some tumbling, dance, jumps and stunting to direct the event's spectators to cheer on sports teams at games and matches and/or compete at cheerleading competitions. The athlete involved is called a cheerleader. With an estimated 1.5 million participants in allstar cheerleading (not including the millions more in high school, college or little league participants) in the United States alone, cheerleading is, according to Newsweek's Arian Campo-Flores, "the most quintessential of American sports."[1] The growing presentation of the sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On. Due in part to this recent exposure, there are now an estimated 100,000 participants scattered around the rest of the world in countries including Australia, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan,[5] the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. [1]

Contents
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1 History
2 Types of teams
2.1 School-sponsored
2.2 Youth league
2.3 All-Star cheerleading
3 Cheerleaders
3.1 Famous ex-cheerleaders
4 Cheerleading in popular culture
4.1 Movies and television
4.2 Video games
5 Sport debate
6 Dangers of cheerleading
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

History

Minnesota Gopher cheerleader Johnny Campbell
Cheerleading first appeared in the United States in the late 1880s with the crowd chanting as a way to encourage school spirit at athletic events. The first organized, recorded cheer was yelled "Ray, Ray, Ray! TIGER, TIGER, SIS, SIS, SIS! BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! Aaaaah! PRINCETON, PRINCETON, PRINCETON!" at Princeton University in 1884.[6] A few years later, Princeton graduate, Thomas Peebles introduced the idea of organized crowd cheering at football games to the University of Minnesota. However, it was not until 1898 that University of Minnesota student Johnny Campbell directed a crowd in cheering "Rah, Rah, Rah! Sku-u-mar, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!”, making Campbell the very first cheerleader and November 2, 1898 the official birth date of organized cheerleading. Soon after, the University of Minnesota organized a "yell leader" squad of 6 male students, who still use Campbell's original cheer today[6] In 1903 the first cheerleading fraternity, Gamma Sigma was founded.[7] Cheerleading started out as an all-male activity, but females began participating in 1923, due to limited availability of female collegiate sports. At this time, gymnastics, tumbling, and megaphones were incorporated into popular cheers.[7] Today it is estimated that 97% of cheerleading participants are female, but males still makeup 50% of collegiate cheering squads. [8]

Cornell University cheerleader on a 1906 postcard
In 1948, Lawrence "Herkie" Herkimer, of Dallas, TX and a former cheerleader at Southern Methodist University formed the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) as a way to hold cheerleading clinics. In 1949, The NCA held its first clinic in Huntsville, TX with 52 girls in attendance.[8] "Herkie" contributed many "firsts" to the sport including the founding of Cheerleader & Danz Team uniform supply company, inventing the herkie, (where one leg is bent towards the ground and the other is out to the side as high as it will stretch in the toe touch position)[9] and creating the "Spirit Stick".[7] By the 1960s, college cheerleaders began hosting workshops across the nation, teaching fundamental cheer skills to eager high school age girls. In 1965, Fred Gastoff invented the vinyl pom-pon and it was introduced into competitions by the International Cheerleading Foundation (now the World Cheerleading Association or WCA). Organized cheerleading competitions began to pop up with the first ranking of the "Top Ten College Cheerleading Squads" and "Cheerleader All America" awards given out by the International Cheerleading Foundation in 1967. In 1978, America was introduced to competitive cheerleading by the first broadcast of Collegiate Cheerleading Championships on CBS[6][7]

In the 1960's National Football League (NFL) teams began to organize professional cheerleading teams. The Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts) was the first NFL team to have an organized cheerleading squad.[10] It was the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders who gained the spotlight with their revealing outfits and sophisticated dance moves, which debuted in the 1972-1973 season, but were first seen widely in Super Bowl X (1976). This caused the image of cheerleaders to permanently change, with many other NFL teams emulating them. Most of the professional teams' cheerleading squads would more accurately be described as dance teams by today's standards; as they rarely, if ever, actively encourage crowd noise or perform modern cheerleading moves.

Cheerleaders warming up for competition
The 1980s saw the onset of modern cheerleading with more difficult stunt sequences and gymnastics being incorporated into routines. ESPN first broadcasted the National High School Cheerleading Competition nationwide in 1983. Cheerleading organizations such as the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors (AACCA) started applying universal safety standards to decrease the number of injuries and prevent dangerous stunts, pyramids and tumbling passes from being included in routines. [11] In 2003, the National Council for Spirit Safety and Education (NCSSE) was formed to offer safety training for youth, school, all star and college coaches. The NCAA requires college cheer coaches to successfully complete a nationally recognized safety-training program. The NCSSE or AACCA certification programs are both recognized by the NCAA.

Today, cheerleading is most closely associated with American football and basketball. Sports such as soccer, ice hockey, volleyball, baseball, and wrestling sometimes sponsor cheerleading squads. The ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2007 was the first international cricket event to have cheerleaders. The Florida Marlins were the first Major League Baseball team to have cheerleaders. Debuting in 2003, the "Marlin Mermaids" gained national exposure and have influenced other MLB teams to develop their own cheer/dance squads

Political parties and the Government, both sides of the Ruling Hegemony are playing for the gallery and it won`t change the situation! We have to feel the heat of Inflation. Only we!

by palashbiswas @ 2008-04-11 - 19:20:06

Political parties and the Government, both sides of the Ruling Hegemony are playing for the gallery and it won`t change the situation! We have to feel the heat of Inflation. Only we!

You should remeber the media hype on Electioneering Budgets!
What happened?
Are the common consumers relieved a little bit?
What happns to be the affairs of Indian economy?
The only scale entitled for shining India, the Sensex is falling apart.

No Family planning needed as starvation rates are so high! Medical care is privatised and no one without purchasing capacity may afford treatment nowadays. So happens to be the condition of education and employment. No way for sustaining onself these days. The ruling class is concerned for only previleged classes as security forces and government employees! Cremy layer is entertained at every level as political reservation continues with an infinite brokerproduction. SEZ drive launced Enblock Genocide of Indigenous people.

Palash Biswas

Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551
Email: palashbiswaskl@gmail.com

Inflation
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Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices over time. It may also refer to a rise in the prices of a specific set of goods or services. In either case, it is measured as the percentage rate of change of a price index.[1]

Mainstream economists believe that high rates of inflation are caused by high rates of growth of the money supply.[2] Views on the factors that determine moderate rates of inflation are more varied: changes in inflation are sometimes attributed to fluctuations in real demand for goods and services or in available supplies (i.e. changes in scarcity), and sometimes to changes in the supply or demand for money. In the mid-twentieth century, two camps disagreed strongly on the main causes of inflation at moderate rates: the "monetarists" argued that money supply dominated all other factors in determining inflation, while "Keynesians" argued that real demand was often more important than changes in the money supply.

There are many measures of inflation. For example, different price indices can be used to measure changes in prices that affect different people. Two widely known indices for which inflation rates are reported in many countries are the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures consumer prices, and the GDP deflator, which measures price variations associated with domestic production of goods and services.

According to official figures, inflation has touched a 40-month high of 7.41 per cent for the week ended March 29.
The Left parties today lashed out at the UPA government for its "failure" to check rising prices saying it stood helpless before the "monster of market forces" which was responsible for this situation.

I landed in Kolkata just after the demise of USSR. having been involved in nationality movements in Uttarakhand , jharkhand and chhattishgargh I became aware of the dangers ahead as the Indian nation never addressed the nationality question despite AFSPA reigning in Jammu and kashmir with entire North East including Assam. Moreover, continuous refugee influx accross the border and continuous minority persecution in East Bengal endangered the very existence of my community, the dalit Bengali Partition Victim refugees from erstwhile east Bengal and resettled countrywide deprived of citizenship, human rights and civil rights. I wanted to go back to roots. I opted for west Bengal leaving behind my North india base.

I have been dealing with the same people all these years for my Ration and essential commodities. I have detailed price lists since 1991. I don`t want to go to details. I am just asking all those persons who have monthly accounts with general stores and Kirana store or Mudikhana. Please analyse the price hyke syastematically with your personal and family experiencs. The game began with Neoliberal Open Market taking over traditional Market and Production system. The things changed dramatically. Welfare state vanished like a wild dream. public distribution ended. No market control. No Consumer safety. No quality or Price control. All these years, the Budget became quite irrelevant to the objective situation faced by Common man. Common Men deprived of purchasing power, displaced and uprooted from livelihood and native places were brutally ousted of the Sovereign market. sovereign Market took over the State power. MNCs are ruling.

You should remeber the media hype on Electioneering Budgets!
What happened?
Are the common consumers relieved a little bit?
What happns to be the affairs of Indian economy?
The only scale entitled for shining India, the Sensex is falling apart.

No Family planning needed as starvation rates are so high! Medical care is privatised and no one without purchasing capacity may afford treatment nowadays. So happens