Chemical Ecology of marxist Anti Imperialism
Nonagenerian Patriarch Fielded to Save the Idelogical Mask and Party Discipline
Palash Biswas
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The Ambassador has only confirmed that US-India relations is broader, “for which Civil Nuclear is important, but only one part of the larger whole”. "123" to "456"
The BJP's efforts to play up the “Ram Setu” issue is nothing but bankrupt communal politics which once again confirms that the BJP has no constructive agenda to offer... Sethusamudram Project
RIL formulation for gas price agreed by EGOM is based on the linkage with international price of crude oil ... There is absolutely no justification for such linkage which is being made only to find a route to artificially inflate the price for windfall gain of the private company. On Gas Pricing
The announcement of the Act without its notification has led to a serious situation for tribals in many areas. Notify Forest Act Immediately
Open Letter to All MPs on the Nuclear Issue
The Polit Bureau, while demanding an end to the policy of import of wheat, urges upon the Government to unearth the stock of wheat cornered by the traders and increase the supply of wheat through the PDS. On the Import of Wheat at High Prices
Gas being a natural resource and a national property as well, It should not be left to market forces for determining prices. On Gas Pricing
This horrific attack underlines how certain terrorist groups are working to disrupt normal life and communal harmony. Hyderabad Bomb Blasts
The Central Committee does not want the current crisis to affect the government. However, this is contingent upon the government not proceeding further with the agreement. Central Committee Resolution
The Left parties can understand the setting up of a committee or any other mechanism .... But this can follow only when the next step at the IAEA is not taken. Left Parties Reiterate Opposition to Nuclear Deal
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Chemical Ecology of Marxist Anti Imperialism movement is not so scientific as the theory seems to be. The Marxists in India swim against the stream of history and care a little for eithr communist ideology or materialist interpretation of history. Ongoing standoff on Indo US Nuclear deal is an excellent case study to understand the chemical ecology of Marxist anti Imperilist movement in India, paradoxically, which enhances the post modern Brahminical Zionist Galaxy Order c olonising the Indian Ocean region with strategic regrouping in US lead. The Brahmins of Bengal are doing their best to save the deal. Capitalist Marxist Chief Minister of West Bengal creates a hypothesis of the interests of Bengal. Those interests are never against the US intersts! Now the Nonagerian patriarch is fielded to save the ideological mask and party organisation. The mask is represented by Parliamentry ramp show led by Party General Secretary Prakash Karat!
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday spoke to Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and invited her to visit him in New Delhi.Dr Singh said Williams was a "role model" for Indian children and a "source of inspiration" for Indian women, a Prime Mminister's Office spokesman said.Williams, who created a record of spending 195 days in space, arrived in Gujarat from Londonon Thursday. She is on a week-long visit to the home state of her father.
The astronaut visited the famous Sabarmati Ashram of Mahatma Gandhi on Thursday and will go to her ancestral home in Jhulasan on Friday.
The United States, which has been seeking early conclusion of the Indo-US nuclear deal, on Friday said it wanted to 'speed up' the process and was 'trying hard' to convince the Nuclear Suppliers Group to allow nuclear commerce with India.
What a country we have! We iconise Sunita Williams and indulge ourselves in a false anti imperialist movement just to readjust VOte Bank Mobilisation and the Islamophobia and intense dalit hatred, persecution of masses continue!We highlight false land movement, false dalit movement to subvert Dalit Muslim Insurrection and the social scenerio remains intact with infinite Brahminical hegemony which is well represented by Progressive, Left ruled Bengal!

Chemistry and Ecology helps us to promote the ecological assessment of changing chemical environment and in the development of a better understanding of ecological functions.Chemical form and state, as well as other basic properties, are critical in their influence on biological systems and that understanding of the routes and dynamics of the transfer of materials through atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic systems, and the associated effects, calls for an integrated treatment.And see, India is about to serve as host to a newly developed GMO eggplant, the first ever GMO foodcrop for India. The plant has been genetically modified to contain a pesticide that promoters hope will make it resistant to the fruit and shoot borer. Researchers admit, many questions about the new GMO food remain unanswered. No human trials have been conducted in the US or India.
Days after West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee pitched for nuclear power, veteran CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu echoed him by saying that the Indo-US nuclear deal was for atomic energy and hoped that the stand-off between the Left and the UPA government on the issue would ease.Reports NDTV.The UPA could take some relief after veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu on Friday echoed West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's sentiments on the need for nuclear energy.At a CII function last week, Buddhadeb had said nuclear energy is critical for the country's development, something that had brought out differences within the Left on the issue. IBNlive reports.Basu's comments on Friday were similar and are significant in view of the scheduled CPI-M politburo meeting in Kolkata later in September. The veteran leader is expected to try diluting party General Secretary Prakash Karat's hardline on the nuclear deal at the meet.
''The Indo-US nuclear deal is for nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is necessary and there is a need for nuclear power plants. With new industries mushrooming, the demand for power will increase,'' said Jyoti Basu, CPI(M) leader.He also expressed hope that the conflict between Left parties and the UPA government over the Indo-US nuclear deal would ease after the CPI-M's politburo and central committee meetings.He dismissed reports of any differences on the nuclear deal between the CPI(M)'s Bengal brigade and its central leadership.
Meanwhile, the Congress has released a booklet that rejects the Left's and Opposition's charges that the 123 agreement would affect India's ability to conduct an independent foreign policy and strategic programme.The 21-page booklet referred to the Hyde Act as only a US law, which is not binding on India, the party said that New Delhi is only committed to the terms and provisions of the 123 agreement.
What is going within USA? Let us know to understand the chemistry!
"I will not be quiet, I will fight back. I will keep speaking out until Congress forces an exit plan for this awful war."
This morning, the Senate didn't pass an exit strategy for Iraq. They didn't pass a bill to cover millions of uninsured Americans or combat the climate crisis. Instead they condemned MoveOn.org.
How runs the galaxy order?
The U.N. Security Council voted late Wednesday to extend the authorization of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan ahead of a high-level meeting Sunday that will focus on promoting national reconciliation in the country.- A key General Assembly committee rejected Taiwan's bid to join the United Nations on Wednesday, the 15th straight year the island has been thwarted in its attempt to become a member of the world body.

TOKYO - A fire broke out Thursday at a major nuclear power plant that was damaged in a July earthquake in northwestern Japan, but no radioactive material was leaked, plant officials said.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A strong undersea earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's Sumatra island Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Group of the chemistry and ecology of nature polymers was created in 1998 basing the Institute Science Committee decision. This group entered some people from the laboratory of cellulose and its derivatives chemistry and physics-chemistry leaded by professor G.A.Petropavlovsky. New days this group consists of 7 members, in this number 4 Ph. D. in chemistry. The group head senior scientific researcher, Ph.D. in chemistry Bochek Alexander M.

By scientific interests and carried out scientific investigations this group works in three directions which are strongly connected:
I - The investigation of solvatation and dissolution processes in polymer, physics-chemical properties of cellulose and its derivatives solutions and polymer blends in non-aqueous and aqueous-salt systems studying. The research works in physical thermoreversible gels based on cellulose derivatives and pectins in aqueous and non-aqueous systems for learning properties. The leader of direction Ph.D. Bochek A.M.
II - The synthesis of new cellulose derivatives, chemical modification of cellulose ethers and esters and physics-chemical properties investigation of solutions (in that LC solutions) and films obtained from them. The synthesis of chemical nets swelling in organic solvents. The leader of direction Ph.D. Kutsentko L.I.
III - The investigation of chitin from different origins and synthesis of new its derivatives. The synthesis of high-molecular cross-agents based on chitin and cellulose for making super-water absorbent. The leader of direction Ph.D. Nud'ga L.I.

Jyoti Basu said that the nuclear energy is required but it should not be equated with the Indo-US nuclear deal
The Indo-US nuclear deal is for nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is necessary and there is a need for nuclear power plants. With new industries mushrooming, the demand for power will increase," Basu said. He also expressed hope that the conflict between Left parties and the UPA government over the Indo-US nuclear deal would ease after the CPI-M's politburo and central committee meetings here.

"CPI-M's Politburo and Central Committee would meet in Kolkata from September 28 to October 1, which will be followed by a joint meeting of the UPA-Left committee on the nuclear deal. There could be some easing off of the situation," he added.He said problems have developed between the CPI-M and the UPA because the Common Minimum Programme was not being adhered to.

Asked whether he was for indigenous reactors or for foreign ones, Basu replied, "I'm not a technical person. I don't know which technology is appropriate."He also said that during his tenure as chief minister there was a proposal for setting up a nuclear power plant at Sagar in South 24 Parganas district.

"The Centre had told that nuclear power plants could not be set up at places where coal is available."

"We are against American imperialism, but we need foreign capital for industrialisation," Basu said.
The debate and discussions in India over the civilian nuclear deal will have to play its course and it is best that this process takes place without the involvement of third parties, especially the US, a senior American official has said.
Emphasising that the Indo-US deal is in the interest of both the countries, Richard Boucher, the top official in charge of south and central Asia, hoped that "they will go through this (debate) and continue towards implementation".
"The whole goal here is Indian kids can turn on the lights to do their homework... The sooner we get there, the sooner they are going to be able to turn on their lights."
"The debate in Indian Parliament and between the Indian political parties is one that probably best proceeds without the involvement of outsiders and without comment from the American Assistant Secretary of State," he said in an interactive session at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.
"The deal is a deal. We have been very public and transparent about how this was done and the understandings that have been reached. They are going to have this work this in the politics of india...We will see how this plays out."
Boucher said there are a few more "hurdles down the road" and a key one is India`s negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency on a safeguards agreement.
"But it is important to remember that India already has safeguard agreements with the IAEA on a number of its civilian nuclear facilities...There are examples and models. So we don`t think that it is an enormously difficult negotiation for them," he maintained.
The senior official said a lot of "good work" has been done on both sides to bring this agreement to a fruition and that the deal has been carefully negotiated to meet "our needs and their needs".
"We got a good agreement for both of us," Boucher said reminding the audience that in a democracy like India there is bound to be debate and discussion.
"Just as we have gone through our debate and discussion in our congress and will have to do some more, they have to do in their Parliament as well...They are going to have to go through that... We have come a long way because fundamentally this is a good deal," the official said.
"We have to believe, and I predict, that they will go through this and continue towards implementation."
In his opening remarks, Boucher said the US sees in India a "natural partner in almost every area" and that it is an "exploding" partnership based on the peoples.
"The US-India relationship is led by people. The governments are still in the process of catching up...The people-to-people relationship is what is going to make the difference," the senior official said.
Asked about India`s role in "managing" of the rise of China, he said, "We don`t pick. We can have good relations with China; we can have good relations with india; India can have good relations with China; and China with India".
"I think it is trying to work with both of them in areas they have capabilities, contributions, interests. I see it as maintaining the best possible relations with both," he said making the point that when it comes to India, it has enormous amounts to contribute, globally, regionally and economically.
"In the long run, we need to have good and solid relations," with both India and China, he maintained.
US hopes Indo-Iran ties won`t undermine other`s policies
"I think we understand that India is going to have ties with Iran. All countries in the region, in the neighbourhood are going to have some ties with Iran," the Boucher said.
"What we are hoping is that the ties can be sort of normal and not undermine one or the others` policies," Boucher said adding, "Iran`s behaviour in the region is often a very serious concern to us".
"I think frankly there is less there than announced or complained about. You have seen a certain number of exchanges, cadet visits... I wouldn`t say that you have seen anything significant in a military sense or in a strategic sense".
Boucher`s earlier comments two days ago that the onus is on New Delhi to explain its military relationship with Tehran irked the Left, with CPI saying that the us has no business to tell India "What it should do and what it should not do", while Defence Minister A K Antony maintained that "friendly relations with one country will not affect ties with others."
We have no master plan for India?
`There is no grand design for India. We are not trying to pull India into a strategic alliance. It`s a misconception,` US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence James Clad said at an interactive discussion on the India-US defence relationship. The discussion was organised by think tank Observer Research Foundation.
`The US has no master plan for the world and for India. We don`t have a plan to lure you into a subsidiary alliance. Nothing is further than the truth,` he stressed. `It`s not a static, but an evolving relationship,` he said.
`We are not seeking to pull you into an anti-Iranian alliance. We have different conceptions on Iran,` he said. `There is congressional concern. But it is for India to decide the relationship it wants to have with Iran,` Clad replied when queried on US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher`s remarks Wednesday.
Boucher asked the Indian government to explain `what is and what is not going on in its relations with Iran, as we are upfront in our relations with other countries like India.`
`We don`t see you as a small island in the Caribbean. India is increasingly a powerful presence in the world,` Clad said.

With the US Federal Reserve board announcing a 50-basis-point-cut in benchmark rates and setting off expectations in India of strong foreign institutional investment and foreign direct investment flows, the rupee has breached the Rs 40 mark, ...After the Sensex, it was the turn of the rupee to rise to dizzy heights. Raising concern among exporters and IT companies, the rupee on Thursday pierced through the psychological level of 40 and closed at a new nine-year high of 39.88 against the dollar. Though importers will benefit from the sharp appreciation of the rupee, it will bring down the earnings of exporters and IT companies.One the other hand,Small traders across India are angry and their ire is directed against big organised retail players like Reliance and Subhiksha. Traders have also managed to mobilise political support for their cause. After UP, MP and Jharkhand, protesting traders forced Reliance and Subhiksha stores in some parts of Delhi to close down.Just Last month UP chief Minister Mayawati ordered the closure of Reliance Fresh stores. And now, the leader of the Bhartiya Janshakti Party, Uma Bharti has written to Mukesh Ambani, giving him 2-weeks’ time to close down Reliance Fresh stores in Madhya Pradesh. Protests are gaining momentum after traders across Indore, Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Ranchi forced the closure of Reliance Fresh and Subhiksha stores. Protests are also expected to come up in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Dehradun.
“We want the government to have a shopping mall regulation act and a national policy for small traders,” said B L Kanchal, President, Rashtriya Vyapar Mandal.

While there is no policy for domestics organised retail, the government has commissioned local think-tank, ICRIER to study the impact of modern retail. The study that was based on a survey of over 2,000 Kirana Walas in more than 10 cities says, organized retail has only marginally impacted the profitability of small stores and hasn’t really led to job losses.The traders’ association now aims to increase their scale of protests. It will hold demonstrations outside all Reliance Fresh and Subhiksha stores in the NCR in November that will be followed by protests in top the 100 metros in December.Retail players have refused to comment but these incidents are likely to impact their expansion. For instance RIL has deferred its investment plans in West Bengal following the large-scale protests. With state governments backing small traders, the road ahead for retail giants will be anything but smooth.

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The government has refused permission to Malayalam TV channel Jeevan TV to continue uplinking in India as it reportedly violated guidelines by telecasting news and current affairs programmes. Kerala Law Minister M Vijayakumar today said the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government was not averse to an inquiry into the controversial ISRO Land Deal.
"There is need for nuclear power...foreign capital is also necessary since that will provide jobs to the youth. But this has nothing to do with our opposition(to nuclear deal)," Nonagerian marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu told reporters after attending the party's state Secretariat meeting.His comments came in the wake of criticism from some quarters that the CPI(M) was suffering from a contradiction while wooing US capital in West Bengal and sticking to the anti-America stand at the same time.Speculations of a possible ideological rift within the CPI(M) gained strength when the chief minister said at a CII meeting on September 17 that nuclear energy was essential to meet the country's power requirement and it was impossible to avoid the issue.Even though Mr Bhattacharjee said it was a controversial issue, he observed that the importance of nuclear energy should not be overlooked.However, Mr Basu scotched reports that Mr Bhattacharjee and his Bengal comrades were toeing a different line from what party General Secretary Prakash Karat had been following to precipitate the UPA-Left relation over the Indo-US nuke deal.
"There is no difference within us over opposition to the US. We go by our own principles. We consider imperialism and communalism as equal threats," he said.
Led by the CPI(M), the Left parties have been fiercely opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal alleging that it would endanger the country's sovereignty in certain areas.

Meanwhile, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat today indicated the withdrawal of support to the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre was not a simplistic issue.Talking to newspersons after an informal discussion with party colleagues at the CPI(M) headquarters in Chennai , Mr Karat disagreed with a suggestion that the fate of the UPA Government depended on him.When a reporter said there was general feeling that the fate of the UPA Government depended on one person -- Mr Karat-- the Left party leader said ''this is 24-hour channel politics and we don't believe in this''.
On BJP Leader L K Advani's remarks the DMK would be the second destabiliser of the UPA Government after the Left parties, he said the DMK was an important ally and very much part of the UPA Government. It would not destablise the government.
''I dont see how they are going to destabilise the UPA Government,'' Mr Karat said.
Setting to rest speculation that he had come down to chair the party's polit bureau meeting here, Mr Karat said as he had visited Madurai yesterday, he came to the city.
''Since some of us have come here for various programmes, we had exchange of views,'' he said adding the polit bureau would meet in Kolkota on September 28.
Besides Mr Karat, Senior Party Leaders including Mr Sitaram Yechury, Mr Brinda Karat, Mr R Umanath, Mr N Varadarajan, Mr K Varadarajan and Mr A K Padmanaban were present in the meeting.
Suspecting the ''true intentions'' of the government in setting up the UPA-Left Political Panel on the nuclear deal, the Left parties today charged the ruling coalition with following the instructions, guidelines and the schedule ''dictated'' by the US for operationalising the pact.
Talking to UNI, top leaders of the CPI, CPI(M) and RSP, however, made it clear that they are participating in the Political Panel's proceedings with all sincerity for a fruitful resolution of the differences between the Manmohan Singh Government and the Left parties over the Pact. However, they doubted the government's sincerity.
The Left leaders' comments came in the wake of a senior US official briefing the NSG on Nuclear deal with India at Vienna, US Ambassador David Mulford asking New Delhi to speed up the implementation of the 123 Agreement and the US plans to formally present the deal for an exception at the NSG meeting.
CPI leaders A B Bardhan and Shamim Faizi said it is obvious that the Bush administration has set a political time-table for the completion of the Indo-US nuclear deal before Mr George Bush became a ''lameduck President.'' ''This is why Mr Mullford and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Mr Richard Boucher are asking the government to operationalise the deal by the end of 2007,'' said the CPI leaders.
''It meant that the government should first conclude India specific safeguards Agreement with the IAEA,'' said Mr Bardhan adding that the Left had made it clear that until the 15 member Political Committee on the deal completes its work, the government should not take any step to operationalise the deal.
CPI(M) senior leader and party Deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Mohammad Salim said, ''the government should abide by its commitments made in Parliament and to the people of the country and the supporting Left parties, rather than following the instructions, guidelines and the time schedule as required and provided by the US administration.'' Referring to the developments in Vienna and ''compulsions'' of the government back home, it seems that the US administration had taken upon itself the Political Process Outsourcing (PPO) and the Diplomatic Process Outsourcing (DP0) on behalf of the willing sections of India, the CPI(M) leader observed.
Mr Salim reminded the government that it depended on their support for its survival and that it does not have the support for the deal either in or outside Parliament.He observed that back at home they( Indian lobyists for the deal) had taken upon themselves the PPO for the public relations work to hardsell the deal.
RSP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Abani Roy reiterated that if the government goes ahead with operationalising the deal, it would face ''serious political consequences,'' which would mean an ''automatic'' withdrawal of support to the 40 months old Manmohan Singh Government.
Mr Faizi said the government should not deceive the people by holding talks with the left and simulteneously take measures to operationalise the deal.
The next date for the Panel is scheduled for October 5 and that the Left is expected to submit additional notes emphasising their reservations over the deal, reminded Mr Faizi.
The CPI leaders said the 12-page UPA note harped on one point that the Hyde Act will become irrelevant once the 123 Agreement is operationalised, but it has been refuted by the US administration itself.
''Mr Boucher has asked India to come clean on its relations with Iran, however, the latter does not figure anywhere in the 123 Agreement,but it is definitely part of the Hyde Act,'' Mr Faizi said.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury has said in party mouthpiece Weekly 'People's Democracy' that the government should not ''succumb'' to the US pressure.
The CPI Weekly 'New Age' has asked the union ministers Kapil Sibal and P Chidambaram who are touted as ''corporate lawyers'' by the Left, to explain as to how Iran came in the picture while operationalising the 123 Agreement.
With the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in Kerala said to be in disarray due to factional feuds, "Arabikatha", a new Malayalam film, reveals the state of affairs through an intelligent presentation.
Making no qualms that the film projects the factionalism discreetly, veteran actor Sreenivasan, who plays the lead role in "Arabikatha", said the film does not make a direct attack on how the CPI-M is functioning, though he says the factionalism in the party hurts him.
"The objective of the film was to project the current day events of the CPI-M in a proper manner. I hail from Pattiyam in Kannur district, the stronghold of the CPI-M, and have received several calls from Kannur that this (showing the feud) was required," Sreenivasan told reporters here Sunday.
The film is directed by Lal Jose who has made popular blockbusters like "Meesha Madhavan" and "Classmates".
Sreenivasan plays the character of Cuba Mukundan, a staunch Leftist who is forced to work in Dubai due to ideological differences of opinion in his hometown.
The film portrays the travails of Keralites who work in difficult conditions in labour camps at Dubai where Mukundan finds solace when he meets a Chinese woman who comes from China to eke out a living.
Chang Shu Min, a Chinese actress, plays the role of the woman and Sreenivasan said that it was a nice experience to work with her.
"The world is progressing very fast but due to political opposition in Kerala, we are not keeping with the pace with which it is going ahead in other places. I hope that the party (CPI-M) would come out of its problems," said Sreenivasan.
The film has been scripted by Iqbal Kuttipuram. Cinematography is by Manoj Pillai. The cast also includes Samvritha Sunil, Jagathi Sreekumar, Indrajeet, Jayasurya, Saadiq, Suraaj, Nedumudi Venu and Salim Kumar.

With the Left allies stepping up the campaign against the Indo-US nuclear deal, the Congress has come out with a booklet rejecting charges that the agreement would affect India's ability to conduct an independent foreign policy and strategic programme. Putting forward its point of view in the key matter, the party has also denied that the 123 agreement would in any way affect India's right to conduct nuclear tests. The 21-page booklet brought out to counter "inadequate information, cynical criticism and partisan politics" said any informed discussion must trace India's "long and difficult" journey to attain nuclear self-reliance.
"This agreement is not at the cost of the autonomy of our strategic nuclear programme, our three-stage programme and our research and development activities," it said. Referring to the Hyde Act it said "it is only a US law. It is not binding on India. We have entered into a bilateral agreement with the US." Besides it said the Hyde Act is an "enabling legislation" passed in the US Congress.
"As far as India is concerned we are committed to the terms and provisions of the 123 agreement only," it said.

"What is required is to convince the NSG of the non-proliferation benefits of the deal," Richard J K Stratford, director at the Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs in the US State Department, told PTI.
"We are also putting forth India's case for clean and unconditional exemption, and we are trying hard on that," he said.
Asked whether there was a definite time-frame for getting the NSG to change its rules, Stratford said: "Yes, we have a time-frame and we have to focus on the non-proliferation benefits of the deal."
There were 100 people from 33 countries who attended the two-and-a-half-hour-long interaction.
Stratford said he gave the initial briefing on the 123 Agreement for 45 minutes and focussed primarily on 'really hard issues' the US and India resolved before finalising the pact.
He also gave all members copies of the 123 Agreement and explained to them various sections of the text.
"I explained to them how we resolved the issues and agreed to the text of the agreement," Stratford said.
India needs to firm up a safeguards agreement wit