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If the sea performs less
Asia is particularly vulnerable to global warming
Palash Biswas
Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551
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Two Indians on Time`s global "Heroes of Environment" list

Domestic wind power firm Suzlon Energy chief Tulsi Tanti, along with Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology`s D P Dobhal, have made to a list of Global Environment Champions prepared by the Time magazine. Tanti and Dobhal are the only two Indians on the list, which includes other prominent names like Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US Vice-President Al Gore, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prince Charles of Wales and former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev. The magazine said its `Heroes of the Environment` list is focused on those who are making efforts to address the pressing questions of sustainability. While Tanti, Chairman of Suzlon Energy, the fourth largest wind turbine maker in the world has been named as one of the `moguls and entrepreneurs`, Dobhal, a glaciologist, is part of the scientists and innovators category. The magazine has described Dobhal as the one scaling "the shrinking glaciers of the Himalayas to track the globe`s warming in real time".
"The environment isn`t bound by borders on the map and neither are our heroes. So we selected candidates from developed countries, where environmentalism has had time to take root, and from developing nations, where tomorrow`s green battles will be fought", the magazine said in the cover story of its latest Asia edition.
Pointing out that Tanti is all the more convinced that wind is the energy of the future and that his firm would help in launching the industry into the mainstream, he is quoted as saying, "green business is good business. But it`s not just about making money. It is about being responsible". According to the magazine, Tanti settled down on wind power by buying two turbines to meet the energy needs of his textile company in late 90s. Later, in 2001, Suzlon sold off its textile-manufacturing firm and entered into the field of wind turbine generators. "If wind was the answer to Suzlon`s energy needs”, asked Tanti, “then why couldn`t it fuel the growth of other industries?", the report added.
Dobhal, a glaciologist at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology which studies the Himalayan glaciers, makes use of bamboo sticks to measure the rise and fall of glacial mass. "Because I am a government servant, whatever I do I`m doing it for my country. Glaciers are the best indicator we have", he is quoted by the magazine. His work is all the more important since Himalayan glaciers have been studied by less scientists compared to that of glaciers in Alps, the Rockies and the Arctic, points out the report.
"You don`t have to be an environmentalist to be a hero of the environment. The threats that face the planet are so varied from widespread species extinction to dwindling natural resources that we`ll need front-line activists and boardroom tycoons in equal measure," says the magazine.

If the sea performs less well as a carbon sponge, or "sink" according to the technical jargon, more CO2 will remain in the atmosphere, thus accelerating the greenhouse effect.
The world's oceans may be losing their ability to soak up extra carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, with the risk that this will help stoke global warming, two new studies say.Absorption of atmospheric CO2 by the North Atlantic plunged by half between the mid-1990s and 2002-5, British researchers say in a paper published in the November issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research.The data comes from sensors lowered by a container ship carrying bananas, which makes a round trip from the West Indies to Britain every month. It has generated more than 90,000 measurements of ocean CO2.The finding touches on a key aspect of the global warming question, because for decades the ocean has been absorbing much of the CO2 released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels.-Meanwhile, Firefighters battled into the night Monday to tame wildfires in California that sparked mass evacuations, drove Hollywood stars from their million-dollar homes and killed one person, authorities said.
Ute Schuster, who led the research with Professor Andrew Watson of the University of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences, admitted she was astonished by the data.
"Such large changes are a tremendous surprise. We expected that the uptake would change only slowly because of the ocean's great mass," Schuster was quoted by the university in a press release Monday as saying.
Research last year pointed to rising acidification of the oceans as a result of CO2 uptake, highlighting the risk of carbon saturation as well as a looming peril for biodiversity.
Schuster was cautious about drawing too swift a conclusion from the new research.
"Perhaps this is partly a natural oscillation or perhaps it is a response to the recent rapid climate warming," she said.
"In either case, we now know that the sink can change quickly and we need to continue to monitor the ocean uptake."
Meanwhile, The head of a UN climate panel that shared the Nobel Peace Prize warned Friday that Asia was particularly vulnerable to global warming, with the continent set for more disasters unless action is taken.Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warned that fighting greenhouse gasses entailed more than adopting new technologies, with individuals required to change their lifestyles.
"Asia being the rapidly growing continent with the largest share of the human population located over here, clearly vulnerabilities in Asia are going to be of importance," Pachauri told an environmental conference in Tokyo.
The Indian scientist said Asia risked floods and diminished access to fresh water and food supply if global warming continued unabated.
"Poor communities are of course at the highest risk," he said, explaining that they did not have the capacity to adapt to climate change.
"In the case of coastal areas, flooding of the residences of millions of people could take place in South, Southeast and East Asia."
He warned that the vital agricultural production of Asia's densely populated delta regions would be in jeopardy if temperatures kept rising.
Pachauri's panel, a network of 3,000 experts regarded as the world's top scientific authority on global warming, shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president turned environmental activist Al Gore.
Pachauri applauded the Nobel committee, which announced the award a week ago, for linking climate change to peace and stability in the world.
"I thought the Nobel Peace Prize committee has taken some of these factors into account," he said.
"We already have several areas of the world where there is intense competition for water resources. If these become more scarce, then the danger of conflict obviously will increase, substantially."
The brutal conflict in Darfur has sometimes been referred to as the world's first war triggered by climate change. UN statistics show that rainfall has diminished 40 percent in the Sudanese region over the past two decades, causing drought and intense friction over access to the land.
At the two-day conference sponsored by Global Environmental Action, a group created by Japanese politicians, business leaders and scholars, Pachauri applauded Japan for taking an initiative in battling climate change.
"One of the major findings we have is the importance of lifestyle changes," he said. "This problem cannot be treated as one which requires (a) technological fix only.
"(There) has to be a change in human behaviour. And I think in this regard I must say Japan is setting an outstanding example," he said.
He applauded Japan's "Cool Biz" campaign, in which politicians and bureaucrats are encouraged to shun their usual jackets and ties in the summer to cut down on air-conditioning.
"The time has come for us to drastically shift our lifestyle in a way that is more friendly to the earth to become a sustainable society," Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda told the conference.
Japan was host of the 1997 negotiations that drafted the Kyoto Protocol, which mandates cuts in greenhouse gases by developed countries, and the country has sought a leading role in drafting the successor to the landmark treaty.
Sunderbans in danger, locals turn climate refugees
Bahar Dutt / CNN-IBN
Sunderbans (West Bengal): Is global warming for real? As the world debates climate change and global warming join us on a special journey as we transverse through the Sunderbans Delta and find out how wildlife and people are coping with quite literally living on the edge.

Hard to access and a difficult terrain to live in, Sunderbans is home to over 54 species of mangroves - the only flora that can survive in these saline waters.

This is a world heritage site and now it's a climate change hotspot. There's a crisis brewing here which may seem local but its causes are global.

As sea levels rise as many as 6000 people have been relocated and two islands in the Sunderbans already submerged due to climate change.

“I lost everything. That part is the tiger reserve. But the river comes in- it destroyed my house it also destroyed our crops as the water is so saline. Earlier it did not flood so often but now it seems it is flooding ever so often,” says a resident of the area, Suryakant Moundal.

Moundal is a distressed man. He does not know about climate change. What he does know is that the frequency with which he has to move has gone up and that the river now destroys his home with greater frequency.

“We are from santhal tribe. We have lost everything. Where do we go? There is no land on the island it is already taken,” says another local.

Any island you visit on the Sunderbans tells the same story. People have their own coping strategies. Some have put these bamboo structures to prevent the mud from falling, others have just got used to moving home more often. So what has made this world heritage site more vulnerable to climate change?

“Sunderbans is a delta, the river always used to flood but now if you look many islands are disappearing fast, in fact two of the islands are already submerged. If you look at these satellite images you will see the difference,” WWF Senior Coordinator Dr Prakash Rao.

The waters that bring life are also the waters that take it away. Scientists estimate with rising sea levels there will be cascading effects.

While 60 per cent of Mangrove species will be destroyed, the habitat of the endangered species like the Royal Bengal tiger will be wiped out.

Once saline water moves in to the islands, crops will be destroyed.
Eco-tourism project for Sunderbans
Buddhadeb Halder
KOLKATA, Oct. 13: It was quite a few months ago, the West Bengal chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee spoke of his plans to develop eco-tourism in the Sunderbans without disturbing wildlife. Though, it is still far from implementation, there has been some progress in this regard. World Tourism Organisation, an UN affiliated body, has already come out with a preliminary concept paper on the project.
"Now a master plan has to be made on how we can move ahead as regards development of eco-tourism in that place. On the basis of that plan further assessments of fund requirement and project implementation modalities can be chalked out", Mr Bijoy Chatterjee, additional chief secretary, tourism department, told The Statesman. The global body is very willing to prepare the master plan. But, it is an expensive affair. Preparation of the master plan will cost around $5 lakh. The fund has to be approved by the Centre. He, however, added that the Centre was also very keen on the project.
Mr Chatterjee said a team of World Tourism Organisation is coming to the state towards the end of this month to prepare a master plan for the development of beach tourism in West Bengal and Orissa.
The team will stay for around one month in the state and pay onsite visits across the entire coastal area to carry out a study. On the basis of the study developmental work can be taken up, Mr Chatterjee said.
The state has recently received Rs 20 crore from the Centre to implement infrastructure development projects at different tourism circuits. "The Centre has recently sanctioned funds for developing three circuits which include Jhargram, Bolepur-Shantiniketan-Bakreshwar-Nalhati and Bakkhali-Frejergange circuit.

http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/science/ nature/7053057. stm
*Europe floats future space ideas*
*A mission could be launched before the end of the next decade to put a
balloon on Titan, the hazy Saturnian moon.*
The balloon is one of several ideas being considered by the European Space
Agency as it sketches out where its science should be focussed in future.
Other proposals include an X-ray telescope that flies in two parts; and a
sample-return mission to an asteroid.
All the ideas will be subjected to further study; and are likely to evolve
as international partners get involved.
Eventually, two missions will be selected, one to fly no earlier than 2017
and the other no earlier than 2018.
Esa's future-scoping project is known as Cosmic Vision. It assesses the big
questions currently in space science and then tries to find mission
architectures that can best deliver the answers.
There are two categories: large (L-Class), which will cost Esa something in
the region of 650m euros; and medium (M-Class), which is projected to cost
the agency about 300m euros.
For the big missions, international partnerships are necessary because the
costs involved are so great. A recent US space agency (Nasa) report found
that no meaningful mission to the Saturnian system could be undertaken for
less than $1bn (700m euros) and would in all events cost considerably more.
The Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 candidates will undergo an internal review in
Esa before contracts are awarded to industry to carry out feasibility
studies.
The L-Class candidates include:
- *Laplace*: This mission would go to Jupiter and its moons. A key
target of interest would be the icy moon Europa which is thought to harbour
an ocean under its icy crust. The mission would deploy three orbiting
platforms to perform coordinated observations of Europa, the other Jovian
satellites, Jupiter's magnetosphere and its atmosphere and interior.
- *Tandem*: The mission would explore both Titan and Enceladus, the
other Saturnian moon currently fascinating scientists. The mission would
carry two spacecraft - an orbiter and a carrier to deliver an
instrument-carrying balloon and three probes on to Titan.
- *Xeus*: This next-generation telescope would study the X-ray
Universe. It comes in two parts: a mirror satellite and a detector satellite
which have to be flown in formation with extreme precision.
- *Spica*: The Japanese are proposing an L-Class mission which would
launch a telescope to study the cosmos at far infrared wavelengths. If
Europe became involved, it would bring expertise and technology developed
for its own Herschel telescope due to launch next year.
The M-Class candidates include:
- *Cross-scale: *A swarm of 12 spacecraft to make simultaneous
measurements of plasma (charged gas) surrounding Earth.
- *Marco Polo: *A sample-return mission to a near-Earth object. It
would consist of a mother satellite which would carry a lander, sampling
devices, re-entry capsule as well as instruments.
- *Dune and Space: *These are two mission ideas before Esa that would
tell us more about the mysterious "dark matter" and even stranger "dark
energy" that seem to dominate our Universe but which have proven
frustratingly difficult to explain with current observation technologies.
- *Plato: *A mission to find and study planets beyond our Solar
System. It would be capable of observing rocky (similar to Earth) exoplanets
around brighter and better characterised stars than its predecessors, such
as the recently launched Corot mission.
At the end of the assessment process, it is likely Esa will select just one
L-Class and one M-Class to take forward to full development and launch.
One complicating factor is the desire to loft an observatory into space that
can test a key prediction of Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
- by making a detection of gravitational waves.
Europe and the US are together developing a mission known as Lisa which
would detect these "ripples" in the fabric of space-time - but it is proving
an immense challenge from a technological standpoint.
Whether or not one of the L-Class missions listed above gets to be developed
may depend on how well, or not, progress is made on Lisa (Laser
Interferometer Space Antenna).
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
Gravitational waves are an inevitable consequence of the Theory of General
Relativity
They describe the gravity force as distortions made by matter in the fabric
of space-time
Any moving mass will produce waves; they are expected to propagate at the
speed of light
Detectable sources to include exploding stars, merging black holes and
neutron stars
If Lisa is made to work, it would see remnant radiation from the Big Bang
itself

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[Previous lead stories:] WTC contractors with mob ties, fraud: Daily
News probe 09 Sep 2007 Seven contractors cited for everything from mob
ties to tax fraud to fatal accidents are getting a slice of the $16
billion reconstruction at Ground Zero, a Daily News investigation has found.
All of the companies work for the Port Authority, the Dormitory
Authority or the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. on taxpayer-funded
contracts worth millions of dollars.
New bin Laden video identifies 9/11 hijacker BBC revealed 'alive and
well' on 23 Sept. 2001 by Lori Price 11 Sep 2007 New bin Laden video
surfaces (CNN) 11 Sep 2007 A new video purportedly featuring an
introduction from al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] leader Osama bin Laden appeared on the
Internet Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks
on New York and Washington. In the video's introduction, a voice
identified as bin Laden's praises 9/11 hijacker Waleed al-Shehri, from Saudi
Arabia. He sat in seat 2B on American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed
into World Trade Center's north tower. [See: Hijack 'suspects' alive
and well (BBC) 23 Sep 2001 Another of the men named by the FBI as a
hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up
alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of
having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed
Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately
crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11
September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers
and on television around the world. He told journalists there that he
had nothing to do with the attacks on New York and Washington, and had
been in Morocco when they happened.
http://www.nytimes. com/aponline/ world/AP- UN-Climate- Summit.html? hp
September 25, 2007
World Leaders Meet for UN Climate Talks
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:07 a.m. ET
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- With tales of rising seas and
talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first
United Nations climate summit sought Monday to put new
urgency into global talks to reduce global-warming
emissions.
What's needed is ''action, action, action,''
California's environmentalist governor, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, told the assembled presidents and
premiers.
The Bush administration showed no sign, however, that
it would reverse its stand against mandatory emission
cuts endorsed by 175 other nations. Some expressed
fears the White House, with its own forum later this
week, would launch talks rivaling the U.N. climate
treaty negotiations.
President Bush didn't take part in the day's sessions,
which drew more than 80 national leaders, but attended
a small dinner Monday evening, a gathering of key
climate players hosted by Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon.
Ban set the day's theme in his opening address,
declaring that ''the time for doubt has passed'' on
the issue of global warming. At the day's end, he said
he believed the scores of speeches showed a ''major
political commitment'' to success in the global talks.
Throughout, in remarks clearly aimed at Washington,
the U.N. chief described the U.N. negotiating umbrella
as ''the only forum'' where the issues can be decided.
Ban organized the one-day summit to build momentum for
December's annual climate treaty conference in Bali,
Indonesia, when Europe, Japan and others hope to
initiate talks for an emissions-reduction agreement to
succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.
The 175-nation Kyoto pact, which the U.S. rejects,
requires 36 industrial nations to reduce carbon
dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. It set an
average target of a 5 percent cut below 1990 levels by
2012 for emissions from power plants and other
industrial, agricultural and transportation sources.
Advocates for emissions reductions say a breakthrough
is needed at Bali to ensure an uninterrupted
transition from the 1997 Kyoto pact to a new,
deeper-cutting regime, something that almost certainly
would require a change in the U.S. position.
The chief U.N. climate scientist, Rajendra Pachauri,
told the summit of the mounting evidence of global
warming's impact, including the accelerating rise in
sea levels as oceans expand from heat and the runoff
of melting land ice.
''The time is up for inaction,'' he said.
A Pacific islander, President Emanuel Mori of the
Federated States of Micronesia, told the summit that
encroaching seas are already destroying crops,
contaminating wells and eating away at his islands'
beaches.
''How does one explain to the inhabitants that their
plight is caused by human activities done in faraway
lands?'' he asked.
The United States has long been the world's biggest
emitter of greenhouse gases.
Bush objects that Kyoto-style mandates would damage
the U.S. economy and says they should be imposed on
fast-growing poorer countries like China and India in
addition to developed nations. He instead is urging
industry to cut emissions voluntarily and is
emphasizing research on clean-energy technology as one
answer.
On Thursday and Friday, Bush will host his own
Washington climate meeting, limited to 16 ''major
emitter'' countries, including China and India, the
first in a series of U.S.-led gatherings expected to
focus on those themes.
''The Washington meeting is a distraction, '' Hans
Verolme, climate campaigner for the Worldwide Fund for
Nature, told reporters. U.S. leaders ''need to show
they are serious and implement domestic legislation to
reduce emissions,'' he said.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking at the
summit, put the Washington meetings in a different
light, describing them as designed ''to support and
help advance the ongoing U.N. discussion.' '
Late Monday, U.N. chief Ban was asked by reporters
about Bush's position during the dinner discussions.
''He made it quite clear that what he's going to do is
help the United Nations effort,'' he replied.
Japan's envoy, former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori,
said Tokyo believes the separate U.S. talks will
''contribute to achieving consensus'' in the U.N.
process, in which all agree that China, India and
others must eventually accept emission limits. German
Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Washington sessions
show ''the Americans are back in the climate
process.''
But Japan and others, to one degree or another,
stressed that all nations -- including the United
States -- must accept emission targets.
To try to spur global negotiations, the European
Union, which must reduce emissions by 8 percent under
Kyoto, has committed to a further reduction of at
least 20 percent by 2020.
Speaking for the EU, French President Nicolas Sarkozy
told Monday's summit that ''all the developed
countries and the largest emitters'' must commit to a
50 percent reduction by 2050. He also said the U.N.
negotiating process is the only ''efficient and
legitimate framework.''
Schwarzenegger told delegates that U.S. states are
embracing emissions caps even if the Bush
administration isn't. California's Republican governor
and Democrat-led legislature have approved a law
requiring the state's industries to reduce greenhouse
gases by an estimated 25 percent by 2020.
''California is moving the United States beyond debate
and doubt to action,'' Schwarzenegger said. ''What we
are doing is changing the dynamic.''
In a summit luncheon speech, former Vice President Al
Gore, a leading climate campaigner, painted a dire
picture of changes already under way because of global
warming, including last week's scientific report that
the Arctic ice cap this summer shrank to a
record-small size.
''We cannot continue a slow pace,'' Gore said,
proposing that heads of state meet every three months
beginning in 2008 to ensure the world is doing all it
can to meet the threat.

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THE EASY ROAD TO
SELF-DESTRUCTION
BY JACQUES HARDY

THIS (STRONG) ARTICLE COULD SAVE THE U.S.A. FROM SELF- DESTRUCTION !

Everyone will agree that strange things are going on in this (sick) world and, not surprisingly, even stranger is the meaning of it all and where is it supposed to lead! I am just like you, I hesitate, I am not too sure of what conclusion to draw. But let's try to review the whole matter from A to Z and see if there is a way to avoid the automatic self-destruction of our decadent species. Decadent? Well if you compare the different historical periods, starting from day one... when we climbed down our trees and lost our tail, which was the time when we were peaceful and quiet until today when our species has become, not only greedy and barbaric but incredibly brutal, sadistic and uncivilized, we have to conclude that we are making great regress which the Washington brainwashers are calling "Progress".

I am starting to write this in Qc., Canada on September 9th, 2007 and plan to finish it in Leningrad, Russia, on October 15, 2007, assuming I am still alive and in one piece by that time (Let's be optimist).

But this plan had to be all changed as you will see explained at the other end in chapter 14. IMPORTANT AND URGENT !

1. SYSTEMATIC BRAINWASHING

The crimes constantly committed by the United States in Iraq, including the murder of over one million Iraqi women, children and old people, many of them after the most horrible torture, are indeed dreadful and shameful but there is something highly positive in this case! THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS ABOUT IT although too few are aware that the very same diabolical behaviour has been followed by the United States... not just against Iraq and Vietnam but against most other Asiatic countries, and not only in Asia but in Latin America, Africa, Europe... and most incredibly, against ITSELF... and by "itself" I definitely don't mean ONLY New Orleans. In fact using their notorious principle of CRIMINAL FREEDOM they behaved that way everywhere and all the time. Yet they invariably got away with it all, thanks to their highly skilled and successful brainwashing of the fools the world over by a tightly controlled, well paid media (press, radio and TV).

Indeed until now, the Evil Empire succeeded in hiding those criminal activities thanks to a highly refined psychological manipulation of people the world over. This was accomplished because ALL NEWSPAPERS, RADIOS, TELEVISION AND OTHER MEANS OF INFORMATION, INCLUDING SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES are tightly controlled and generously paid by the International Plutocracy (including the Zionists)... not just in the U.S. but in almost the entire world. I am not going to explain HOW people got to know the truth because anybody who can still think knows exactly what happened.

As the situation stands right now and taking the United States as a great example, 2/3 of that population KNOWS what is going on, though they do not revolt because they are scared of Uncle Sam's fantastic power: the power to spy, control and assassinate "as needed"... That is the modern International Plutocracy at work. They only number about a thousand, yet they own everything and by the looks of things they are also succeeding in their notorious "Agenda".

What about the 1/3 of the population who are "patriots" and make believe that they don't know nor understand anything, what about them? As I have shown previously, these criminal perverts will be the first to perish. They will pay dearly for their "patriotic" crimes and their make-believe stupidity.

2. MODERN TIMES

First let's define the meaning of the word "modern": It means the present time. However, during the 19th Century, modern meant better than before while now it means worse than before, the reason for this being that the intellectual and moral condition of the human species has gradually deteriorated to a simply frightening degree. Worse yet, if you are aged 60 or over, you know exactly the difference between us, educated and cultivated old guys and the frightful, almost criminal ignorance and foolishness of the "modern" youth.

This circumstance is not at all accidental. It was all along planned that way by the plutocracy which, being perfectly educated, was well aware that the easiest, surest way for them to remain in control of this entire planet was to make sure that people were thoroughly DESEDUCATED, as well as given full FREEDOM to cultivate their stupidity and multiple vices. They were also made to regard THINKING as a form of TERRORISM. In addition, just observe the known fact that well over 60% of the U.S. population are suffering from obesity, from lung cancer caused by the U.S.M.I.C. and falsely attributed to tobacco. And also from AIDS, drug poisoning or from different forms of mass murders. All this was planned that way long ago by the extremely wealthy few.
How could this happen? ONLY ONE WAY... Psychological manipulations or more exactly intensification of the following six easy fields:
(1) Deseducation
(2) Criminal freedom
(3) Agnosticism
(4) Mental deterioration
(5) Acute selfishnes
(6) Acute greed
Now you have to admit that the destruction of human society is really easy. Therefore it is likely to succeed because the worst is that even those who are fully aware of all this just don't dare do anything and prefer to wait until they can't stand it any more and THEN they do something drastic but counterproductive.

3. RELIGIONS AND ATHEISM

When I was young... before World War 2, I can still remember that the majority of people belonged to one or another religion. Each religion was based on the belief in a supreme power, God or Allah for instance. Atheism was not too successful. Now I have to confess: I am not much of a believer myself (shame on me). I figure that if there was a God, surely he would have long ago totally destroyed the atheistic, anti-human, anti-everything United States. Except that - just maybe - the USA is under the special protection of Satan (as George used to be called).

Anyway, as an expert on the subject - Jesuit-educated no less - my experience and studies have taught me that religions are simply the means to fool and control the masses. And you have to give them that, they succeed pretty well... although they fail in some cases... In my case for instance, they had to kick me out of school because - they said - my thinking had been spoiled by my living a few years (during the 2nd world war) in Clermont-Ferrand, in Auvergne. This, they said, had turned me into an anarchist, a renegade.

True enough when I was a little boy, I attended mass every single day but by the time I was 13 years old and I had seen the reality of war and the behaviour of priests and popes and other such greedy, selfish garbage, I became a "skeptic" or doubter. My opinion now - at soon 8

Posco will "certainly" come up near Paradip!

Palash Biswas
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Newspapers had reported that the South Korean steel major preferred to shift the project to some other place rather than risk a bloodbath over the US$12bn project .POSCO on Monday denied newspaper reports that it was contemplating shifting its proposed Orissa steel plant to other location due to stiff opposition from local people and political parties. The Chief Minister also assured all support to POSCO in implementing the project. Doubts over the POSCO plant have grown in the recent past following protests by local villagers and abduction of company officials twice in the past fortnight by anti-project groups. The 12 million tons per year project has been delayed because POSCO has yet to secure a mining license and the land in Orissa hasn't been fully cleared of occupants. On the other hand, India's communists on Friday warned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against allowing land grabs in eastern India for steel giant POSCO's proposed plant.Amusingly the communists are dying for all coors of Capital in West Bengal ruled by Left for thirty years at a run!.The South Korean firm has re-emphasized that it plans to complete the deal. But India's difficult foreign investment atmosphere could convince POSCO that the project is not worth the effort.

"We don't have any plans to change the location for the steel mill in India," Ko Min Jin, spokeswoman for the Pohang, South Korea-based company, said. "The report is not true."
Doubts over the POSCO plant have grown in the recent past following protests by local villagers and abduction of company officials twice in the past fortnight by anti-project groups.
The 12 million tons per year project has been delayed because POSCO has yet to secure a mining license and the land in Orissa hasn't been fully cleared of occupants.
Local news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted POSCO spokesperson Sashank Patnaik as saying that the Board of Directors preferred to shift the project to some other place rather than risk a "bloodbath" over the US$12bn project.
"POSCO has come here to do business and not to create social disturbance like what happened at Kalinga Nagar in Orissa's Jajpur district and Nandigram in West Bengal," the POSCO told PTI.

Asserting that the proposed steel plant by Posco will "certainly" come up near Paradip, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday said his government has not received any proposal from the company for its relocation.
"POSCO project, which involved the highest ever FDI in the country, will lead to infrastructures such as railway lines, highways and port, thereby creating employment opportunities for the youths and generating revenue for the State," Patnaik said.
"No such plan (for relocation) has been given to the state government ... There is no possibility of shifting (the site)," he told reporters in Bhuvneshwar.
A senior official of the company had hinted yesterday that it would prefer to relocate its proposed plant than invite a "bloodbath" as witnessed at Kalinganagar, Singur and Nandigram.
Patnaik said he had met Board of Directors of POSCO in New Delhi on October 19 and it had sounded "very positive" about the project.
The government would give all support to POSCO for setting up its proposed 12 MTPA mega steel plant near Paradip, he said reiterating his willingness to have a dialogue with anti-POSCO agitators.
POSCO officials said in Seoul during the day that the company remains committed to its investment plan despite protests by local residents and politicians.
POSCO and protests have been going hand in hand for the last two years - from land acquisition to mining rights to roadblock on infrastructure.Now, POSCO India has said it’s committed to its stand of building its plant in India, Orissa, but may opt out to avoid any bloodbath in the state.
In 2005, world's third-largest steel maker POSCO had signed a contract to build a $12 billion integrated steel complex in Orissa, the largest single foreign investment in India.POSCO spokesperson clarified that the company will review the law and order condition in the state every month and will take a decision after that.

“If the people don’t support then we will opt out, since we have the support of the people so the company committed to the project,” said POSCO Spokesperson, Sashank Patnaik
On October 27 there will be a rally by the locals to remove any barricades in the path of the project.

There have been at least four such incidents of kidnapping and illegal detention in the past six months, and it has become so routine now that no cases were registered by the state administration till the hostages are released. The state government was remarkably relaxed about the incident -- as it was a second Saturday, a government holiday, there was no official to tell the POSCO brass what was going on.
It is for Orissa that this very finance minister had warm words of praise just last year. Speaking at Bhubaneshwar, Chidambaram hailed Orissa as one of the best states for investment. The Congress, which is not in power in Orissa and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future, was privately acid about the finance minister's endorsement of the Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government.
And that is what seems to be the problem. Extraneous factors, including the weaknesses of the finance minister's own party in the state, are keeping Patnaik in power. And all the indications are that despite a lower than average performance as a government (in which other state would its most prominent investors be kidnapped four times?) Patnaik may be looking at a third term as chief minister.
When the BJD-BJP coalition came to power first in 2000, it had to do little to establish its credentials. There were so many corruption charges against the discredited J B Patnaik government that when Naveen Patnaik began a cleanup operation, and even put bureaucrats behind bars, it took very little effort on his part to earn the image of a corruption-free administration.
Patnaik was ruthless and savage in establishing his leadership in the party. He dropped ministers against whom there was even a whisper of corruption, using this as a way to fell opponents with a smile. State elections were due in 2005; he advanced them to coincide with general elections in 2004. He fought this round on the back of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's popularity and the advantages accruing from the Congress's installation of J B Patnaik as PCC chief just before the elections. For reasons that are not clear to anyone, the people of Orissa voted for Vajpayee, the leader and BJD, the party. The BJP's tally suffered and Patnaik became even more powerful.
In his second term, Patnaik focused on getting investment for the state. POSCO, Arcelor Mittal, Tata Steel [Get Quote] came and money began pouring in. Now, Patnaik needed the bureaucracy to manage the flow of money and get things done. Today, there have been incidents when ministers have written notes seeking transfer of officials and the secretary has overruled this.
The South Korean company's plans to invest in a 12-billion-dollar steel hub in the state of Orissa have been stymied by opposition from villagers who say they will be unable to earn a living if they lose their land to the project.
"It is reported that the bosses of POSCO have now approached you in this matter," said A.B. Bardhan, a senior communist leader, in a letter to the prime minister.
"Any repressive action to force acquisition of land for the steel project could be counterproductive," he wrote, according to a Press Trust of India news agency report.
India's communists, key allies of the ruling Congress party, appear to be trying to influence policy with new vigour after apparently forcing the government to back away from a controversial nuclear deal with the United States.
Now they appear to be taking on the government's policy to encourage infrastructure investment by handing over swathes of rural land to private companies as tax-free havens for industrial projects.
Bardhan said the villagers' opposition to the project was "justified" and acquiring the land by force would lead to a "bloodbath," the PTI report said.
"Tension is now mounting because of the threatened police action to help POSCO forces enter into the area. Contingents of police have surrounded the area and preparations are going on for this purpose," he warned.
POSCO expected the state government of Orissa to acquire 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) of land on its behalf, much of it forest, the report said.
The POSCO steel plant is India's single largest foreign investment project ever and fits into a long-standing Indian strategic initiative to become a heavyweight in the steel industry. With an industry dominated by Indian steel tycoons Ratan Tata of Tata Group and Lakshmi Mittal of Arcelor Mittal, India is now the seventh-largest crude steel producer in the world, as well as the largest producer of iron.
POSCO is the world's third-largest steelmaker and aims to increase its steel production substantially through foreign investment projects in India, Vietnam, Mexico and Thailand. For its part, the Indian government is eager to boost its steel production and attract more foreign investment through such a lucrative partnership.
But among the project's most daunting challenges are India's farming and village communities. With the help of India's powerful communist parties, farmers and villagers have achieved explosive successes during the past two years in staving off foreign direct investment (FDI) projects that threaten to seize their land. The series of violent riots that has taken place during the past year in West Bengal state over the building of a Tata Motors small-cars factory provides a dramatic example of this phenomenon. The POSCO project, which is expected to displace some 4,000 villagers, also has sparked such unrest.
During the past 27 months, villagers in Orissa have erected bamboo barricades to prevent POSCO and state officials from setting foot on the land designated for the plant. Though on paper the state government says it has given more than 1,100 acres of land to the company, the government so far has handed over only 193 acres out of the 4,004 acres required for the project. And the anti-plant protesters also have stepped up their campaign. During the week of Oct. 7, villagers abducted four POSCO officials, only releasing them after local police intervened and promised the villagers that POSCO officials would not enter the area.
POSCO has developed a high tolerance for violent and drawn-out labor protests from its experience in South Korea. But in India, foreign companies like POSCO will find it increasingly difficult to fall back on government assistance to help quell these vibrant protest movements. India's FDI policy can be extremely short-sighted and inconsistent, with most political leaders far more concerned with re-election than with long-term economic strategy. Unwilling to sacrifice votes from India's large and impoverished farming community, the government has sought to distance itself from the ugliness that surrounds FDI projects and land acquisitions in order to save political face. Recent revisions to India's deeply flawed special economic zone (SEZ) policy include measures under which SEZ planners themselves, not the government, will be responsible for negotiating land seizures directly with local communities.
This places an immense burden on corporations to ensure that their plans get implemented (which often involves buying off local police). Indians in general are highly suspicious of government compensation schemes and are more than likely to fight to protect their land.
Further complicating matters, Orissa is in Naxalite country. Indian Maoist rebels, known as Naxalites, are most active in the country's eastern states of Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh -- where 70 percent of India's coal reserves and 55 percent of its iron ore are located. This means most of the new steel plants are being built in Naxalite-infested areas. Recognizing the growth of India's burgeoning steel industry, India's Naxalite rebel movements now are focused on attacking steel mills, and they have publicly announced this strategic shift.
POSCO is a resilient company and is not risk-averse, provided it can get its work done. But if delays persist in India (and they probably will), POSCO might have to close up shop and move its steel plants to a more favorable investment climate, such as Vietnam.

AP violates status quo on water dispute issue
Statesman News Service
PARALAKHEMUNDI, Oct. 21: Has the Andhra Pradesh government gone back on its promise of maintaining status quo on the issue of river water dispute with Orissa over irrigation projects on the Mahendrataneya and the Vamsadhara rivers?
Fear of the people who use the water of these rivers for irrigation, especially in Gajapati and Rayagada, is turning out to be true, as the online tender for the construction of a dam which will block the inflow of the Mahendrataneya river was finalised yesterday.
A dam project of Rs 180 crore is being planned at Melliyaputti village, about 10 km from here.
According to sources, the Andhra Pradesh government is in no mood to relent to the requests of the Orissa government which has managed to get a status quo on all river issues along the Andhra Pradesh-Orissa border from the Central Water Commission.
Similarly, requests to stop work on the Vamsadhara stage 2 project at Hiramandalam, about 20 km from here has not been heeded, alleged the locals.
Farmers who depend on the Vamsadhara and the Mahendrataneya rivers fear that any obstruction on the flow of water would leave them in distress.
All the political parties have opposed the move of the Andhra Pradesh government and demanded an immediate intervention by the state government.
It may be noted that attempts by the Andhra Pradesh government to push the Vamsadhara project had been successfully stalled by the locals and subsequently the Orissa government.
The chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik had raised objections to the “unilateral’ decisions taken by the Andhra Pradesh government on inter-state river projects and also drawn attention to the violation of bilateral agreements.
Mr Patnaik had also warned that Orissa would move to the court if the CWC does not intervene.
The Orissa government has been referring to bilateral agreements since the early sixties.
In subsequent official level meetings, both the states agreed to consult each other while designing irrigation projects on these rivers.
Following repeated objections by the Orissa government, the CWC had ordered status quo till joint verification and requisite steps are taken.

How Tata & Ambani Corrupted Indian Judiciary?
Are Consumers Terrorists?

I started investigation in to the BRPL/BYPL/NDPL loot in Delhi “With Magnifying Glass” after news appeared wherein Supreme Court has asked NCDRC “Are electricity users consumers” which is clipped here.

http://www.ficci. com/media- room/speeches- presentations/ 2007/july/ rakeshmehta. pdf
http://www.ficci. com/media- room/speeches- presentations/ 2007/july/ ajaydhagat. pdf

The first document was the presentation of Rakesh Mehta former MCD chief who turned a blind eye to unauthorized Commercial Complexes coming up on main roads and even highways in grossest violations of building byelaws. But what I found was even more stunning.

BRPL/BYPL/NDPL so thoroughly corrupted our Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Legislature and entire judiciary as if judges of the Supreme Court are mere toys.

It will shock our founding father who liberated India after centuries of slavery that in few decades just two Ambani and Tata could enslave us 1.15 billion Indians.

Over Rs.10,000 Per Consumer On Metering

Infrastructure Investment 2002-2007 In Rs. Crores
Item/ Years BYPL BRPL NDPL G. Total
“B” Items 733 1354 870 2957
Total 1158 1822 1314 4294

BRPL/BYPL/NDPL has 2.6 million consumers but in the name of Infrastructure development these Discoms invested over 70% of public money on “Accessories” of power system like you have music system or leather seat covers etc that contributes little to car performance.

Under category “B” items like METERS, SCADA, HVDC, GIS and IT, I don’t find much capital investment in these except Meters.

Even after extorting Rs.10,000 per consumer under “B” these crooks believe our Politicians, Judges and Bureaucrats are all idiots who help them to institute false and fabricated cases when actually 25 brand new and accurate meters could be provided to each consumer with the king of money fraudulently wasted on public account.

With the kind of money I would have provided “Flawless Power System”.

But difference in case wasteful expenditure is that consumers shall be billed for it in tariff for lifetime.

Over Rs.10,000 per consumer was wasted on basically unproductive investment when they actually test checked all consumer meters in first two months itself.

Even more starling is the fact that politicians like Madan Lal Khurana and Sheila Dixit promoted corruption and unauthorized and illegal colonies.

On page 5 you will find the T&D losses shot up from 20% to 50% within two years from 1992-95 when Madan Lal Khurana became first chief minister of Delhi winning on promise of regularizing illegal colonies, industries, shops and providing water and electricity.

Are Consumers Terrorists?

In the second document you will find that GOI has provided CISF force to professional thugs Ambanis and Tatas.

Apart from raids 20-100 per day when well armed police assist raiding parties of discoms FABRICATED bills are raised more than the purchase price of the residential properties when no case is made out in case of legal consumers.

Discoms don’t consider load factor in assessing load that is only 11% and then multiply it with six months at five times normal tariff that eventually case 400 Times Inflated DAE billing where none exists. 6X5X9X1.5 = 405 – nine times load and 1.5 tariff charged at highest tariff slab.

With the kind of money – Rs 3000 crores it would be possible to read and check meters every day. Meter readers are paid only 0.40p or just one cent per reading.

For 2.6 million consumers daily meter reading cost shall be Rs.10.4million or Rs.370 crores annually- interest on Rs.3000 crores plus cost of Terrorist Raids would definitely be more.

Bunch of extreme idiots make a fool of our entire system.

75,000 Raids But Only 119 Cases Finalized In Five Years.

Over 75,000 raids were conducted but only 5830 cases of them were referred to Special Courts out of that only 119 were finally concluded.

Entire judicial system may have to be engaged to deal with bogus cases.

Ravinder Singh October22, 2007
Progressingindia07@ yahoo.com

Are electricity users consumers, asks SC

TIMES NEWS NETWORK October20, 2007 Delhi P-10

New Delhi: Electricity users probably constitute one of the largest chunks of all consumers but the Supreme Court found that the law was not clear whether they could move a consumer forum for speedy redressal of disputes with power distributors.
Looking at the large number of complaints against power distributors by electricity users, it asked the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) to decide whether consumers of electricity could be classified as ‘consumers’ under the Consumer Protection Act (CPA).

What came in the way of the apex court accepting electricity users as consumers was the provisions of Electricity Act, 2003, which bars jurisdiction of civil courts from entertaining any disputes relating to power supply to consumers, terming them as technical matters.
Setting aside an NCDRC verdict which gave relief to a resident of Jharkhand by treating him as a consumer of electricity without examining the effect of the 2003 law, a Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and P Sathasivam asked NCDRC to examine afresh whether a consumer of electricity was a consumer under the CPA.
The dilemma before the court was that while section 2(o) of the CPA defined service to include any service with regard to banking, financing, insurance, transport, processing, supply of electrical energy and entertainment, the provisions of Electricity Act, 2003, barred jurisdiction of civil courts in matters relating to unauthorised use of electricity, tampering of meters and distribution and calibration of meters, these being technical in character.
It said, “In view of the fact that the National Commission has not addressed the question whether consumers of electricity are covered by the definition of ‘consumer’ as defined in Section 2(o) of the Consumer Protection Act, we set aside the NCDRC order and remit the matter to the National Commission for a positive finding on the aspect.”
This is a repeat of a post that I originally submitted in Feb. 2006.
entitled 'Re: Socialists of the world, Unite!' The reason for this re-
posting is that I was doing some further research on the subject of
industrialized agriculture. (I am currently reading Upton
Sinclair's 'The Jungle' whilst simultaneously reading 'The Omnivors
Dilema' by Michael Pollan.) As such I was revisiting my original post
to gather information (the table in the index)when it occured to me
that not one fellow socialist had replied to my original post.
It further occured to me that as current postings appear to be
somewhat long on 'how many angels can dance on a pinhead' and
somewhat short on any substantive discourse( my subjective opinion-ha
ha ha)that I would recycle this post.
Anyhoo, I simply want to throw this back into the ring to see if
the underlying idea behind Pieter Lawrence's posting--finding
socialist solutions to capitalist problems without producing some
(dreaded) blueprint for future socialists to follow, would galvanize
socialists to both that idea as well as to emphasising our prime
objective: disseminating socialist ideas and making socialists.
here we go......
============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ==
Re: Socialists of the world, Unite!
Pieter Lawrence, in his excellent post (29587) suggested that a
good way for socialists to educate the world about socialism would
be to demonstrate how much of a difference socialism could make to
present day society, rather than to simply speculate over some future
society.
PL wrote:
"… Positive, practical socialism should be the main content of our
case and without it our movement cannot expect to make progress…but
let me… giv(e) an example of the work that can be done. Probably
the worst problem suffered by humanity is poverty and malnutrition.
It's getting worse. In 1975 435 million people were seriously
undernourished. In 2000 this number had risen to 825 million.
The basis of food production is cereal production (and has been
since the agricultural revolution) We can say what is current world
cereal production. We can project a figure by which it should be
increased. We could propose the world organisation required to get
this done.."
Paul Azzario (Wageslave) replies:
As Pieter Lawrence suggested using agriculture as an example, I have
been researching world agricultural statistics using the United
Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation' s excellent statistical
data program `FAOSTAT'. This data base is astonishing in its size, as
it encompasses every nation and every crop produced on the planet.
With this data base you can determine almost any agricultural
statistic that you can conceive. I wanted to determine the
global production yield of selected major crops in comparison to the
area of land needed to grow 'feed' for agricultural herd animals.
My hypothesis is that we could eliminate human starvation by
replacing the amount of crop lands dedicated to growing feed for
livestock with land to grow food directly for human consumption.
Secondly, if this was possible, how much would we need to
reduce land used for animal `feed' in order to eradicate human
starvation.
Firstly I would like to point you to a chart that I have compiled of
my research. It is located at:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/WSM_ Forum/files/
scroll all the way to the end. (World Agricultureal Production)
I would also like to make the following caveats. I am not an
agricultural expert, so I am just putting this data out there for
future debate. I have a feeling that some of the data will be
incorrect for various reasons. The most obvious (to me) being that
the data for certain crops like sunflower seed cakes, and indeed
all `cake' crops, may well turn out to be simply by-products of
other crops e.g. sunflower oil. I am not sure of this, as I was
unable to find whether these two crops would constitute `double
accounting' where it comes to calculating total land area usage.
>
Explanation of the table:
Col.1 is the name of the crop
Col.2 is the total metric tonnage produced in 2002.
Col.3 is the total metric tonnage of that crop produced specifically
for animal `feed'
Col. 4 is the percentage of feed produced per crop
Col. 5 is the total area of the crop
Col. 6 is area of each crop grown
The total at the bottom of col.5, (1,175,935,500 hectares)
represents 76.33 % of all arable land and land used for permanent
crops in 2002 (1,540,572,000 ha.)
As can be seen, there are a total of over 523 million hectares
of farm land devoted purely to growing animal food, or 44.49% of all
total farmland! Put another way, this is more than all the land used
to grow the entire worlds supply of the following crops: Wheat,
Barley, Corn (Maize), Soybeans, Oats and Potatoes!
Whilst I am not suggesting that socialism will mandate
vegetarianism, I am suggesting that socialism will be able to feed
all of humanity by simply decreasing our meat and dairy production.
If we were to cut land use for animal feed by 30 percent for
instance, we would be able to double world production of
corn and oats.
The beauty of this demonstration, as Pieter Lawrence stated, is
that this is not some utopian, futuristic ideal, but a concrete
example of how socialism would change things for the better in the
here and now should society be re-organised to reflect the emphasis
of human need as opposed to the bank accounts of a handfull of muli-
billionaires.
It is this that Mike Lepore stated that we should be
publicising to the media in order to promote socialism as a
practical alternative, and it is exactly this that I stated (in
concurrence) as a way of unifying the various factions within
socialism by means of emphasising the `macro-socialist' ideas as
opposed to squabbling over the `micro-socialist' details that
the neophyte is unable to understand.
Yours for Socialism;
Paul Azzario.
Reliance Power set to become second largest power generator
Economic Times - 8 hours ago
14 Oct, 2007, 1139 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Global investment banking major UBS has said Anil Dhirubhai Ambani firm Reliance Power was well positioned to become country's second largest power generator, valuing the firm between Rs 71800 to 92100 crore.
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4 POSCO employees held hostage, freed
The president of the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti said on Saturday that the four employees of the POSCO-India, who were taken hostage at Dhinkia village, were released after a police officer gave in writing that the company officials would not come to the area without informing the administration.
Those detained were: K.S. Choi and S.H. Nam, Senior General Managers; T.J. Ahn, General Manager; and Deepak Ojha, Assistant Manager.
The Samiti said the officials were taken hostage when they were inspecting the site for the captive earmarked for the company’s captive port near Jatadhari mouth, the company said the executives had gone to inspect the probable route of the electrical tower to be constructed in the area between the IOCL and the POSCO-India project site.
This is not the first incident villagers detained POSCO employees.

Four employees of POSCO-India were taken hostage by villagers opposing the company’s 12 million-tonne capacity steel plant project in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa on Saturday morning.
They were, however, released following police intervention.
The four executives of POSCO-India, including three Korean nationals, were taken hostage along with their car and its driver around 10.30 a.m.
Their detention at Dhinkia village ended at 4.30 p.m. after the officer in-charge of the Kujang police station, Amarendra Panda, reached the spot and discussed the issue with leaders of the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti.
The organisation has been spearheading an agitation against the project on the ground that it would displace hundreds of families and affect their livelihood sources.
“We condemn the incident...This sort of activity will demotivate the investors and have an adverse impact on foreign investments, which will not be in the larger interest of the people and the State,” the company said in a statement here.
11 construction workers at POSCO plant site held captive

Bhubaneswar, Oct 14: Eleven persons, hired to construct a wooden bridge in the proposed POSCO plant site, were being held captive for past five days, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) claimed on Sunday.
"We have held ten workers and a driver, who were engaged by the rural development department for building a wooden bridge near the site for POSCO`s proposed steel plant, as captive," near Paradip, said PPSS president Abhaya Sahu over phone.
Though the police had no idea about the exact number of people detained by the activists, officials said negotiations were on with the captors to get them released.
"Efforts are on to ensure safe release of those held by PPSS activists... Talks are on. Though nobody approached us, we came to know of the detention of some people from certain sources," said superintendent of police, Jagatsinghpur, Y K Jethwa. "We hope they will be freed soon".
Four senior officials of the steel company, including three South Koreans, were released yesterday following assurance by authorities not to allow POSCO officials to enter the area.
Sahu said the eleven persons, who belong to Salepur area in Cuttack district, had no links with POSCO and were engaged by the rural development department to build the bridge, aimed at providing easy access to officials of the steel giant to the proposed plant site.
Claiming that the workers and carpenters were safe and in good health, Sahu said "we will release them only after the dumped wooden logs and other construction materials for building the bridge are removed from the area."
Expressing hope that the materials would be removed in a day or two, he said PPSS would not allow any official of POSCO-India or government to enter the area in connection with the proposed steel plant.
"We feel a bridge in the area would enable POSCO people to reach the proposed site without passing through stretches where people are up in arms against the project," he said.
POSCO, which plans to set up a Rs 52,000 crore Greenfield steel project with 12 MTPA capacity plant and a captive port, has been facing stiff resistance from PPSS activists opposing land acquisition moves for the past two years.

BHUBANESWAR: The Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti, billed as one of India's most aggressive anti-land acquisition organisations, was born around the same time when Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik inked the deal with the South Korean company on June 22, 2005.
Since then, the samiti has been opposing the acquisition of 4,004 acres of land in the area for the much-touted Posco plant. "I formally started the first 'jana jagaran' rally on July 11, 2005. With a microphone mounted on a trolley-rickshaw and accompanied by around 10 people, I moved from village to village sensitising people what the project was all about," said samiti president Abhaya Sahoo.
"I wonder how the government is so insensible to overlook what the villagers say. We are not irrational," he said. Sahoo said the police so far had registered 61 cases against him and 78 cases against the samiti. "Let the government do whatever it wants. We are not going to give an inch of land for the Posco project," he said.Howeve

A Full Century after Bobby Jindal Emerges as Black Governor
Palash Biswas
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Email: alashchandrabiswas@gmail.com">palashchandrabiswas@gmail.com
A full century after the first Indian immigrants to the US were driven out of the country after what came to be known as the Bellingham riots, a conservative American state has elected an Indian-American as Governor. Bobby Jindal, a boyish 36-year-old US-born son of Indian immigrants won more than 50% of the primary votes in a field of 12 candidates to break a host of records, including becoming the first Indian-American to hold Governor’s office. Jindal will also become the youngest current Governor in the country when he is sworn into office in January, and the first member of an ethnic minority to become the chief executive of a historic state that, when purchased by Thomas Jefferson from Napoleon in 1803 for $15 million nearly doubled the size of the US and gave birth to 15 other states.
Republican U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana on Saturday to become the first Indian-American to lead a U.S. state.With most of the precincts counted, Jindal, 36, had 54 percent of the vote to win without a runoff in Louisiana's electoral system, where candidates of all parties run in a single primary.His nearest competitor, Democrat Walter Boasso, received just 18 percent of the vote.The Oxford-educated Jindal will replace Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat who did not run again after she was widely criticized for bungled recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Blanco narrowly defeated Jindal in the 2003 election.
Well, we have to welcome Bobby Jindal but at the same time it also enhances the growing NRI lobby working in USA and making the most impact on policy making of Government of India.
A 10-member delegation of Indian-Americans, who lobbied hard in the US in favour of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, is meeting leaders of Left parties and BJP to impress upon them the benefits of the agreement. The delegation led by United States India Political Action Committee (USINPAC) Chairman Sanjay Puri will meet Tuesday with union ministers, and the central leadership of main opposition BJP. The delegation, comprising top politically active businessmen, is also expected to meet leaders of Left parties and explain to them the potential the deal holds for India's future.
Is this a mere coincidence?
Just think!
"The deal has a great potential to ensure India's energy security and also benefit its economy," Puri told PTI. He said the delegation will also try and understand the position of various political parties on the nuclear deal and the reasons for their opposition to it.
The USINPAC has been vociferously lobbying for the Indo-US nuclear deal with key policy makers and office bearers of the American establishment and have provided an impetus to the process of the deal getting through in the US Senate.
Puri, however, said USINPAC wants to steer clear of any interference in the decision-making process in India.
The USINPAC chairman met US Ambassador to India David C Mulford this afternoon as also some key officials in the Prime Minister's Office.
The left parties, who believe that the deal compromises India's independent foreign policy, expect the Government to tell them that the deal is off, while the Prime Minister has been saying that he is hopeful of a consensus in favour of the agreement.

Bobby Jindal, an Oxford-educated son of Punjabi immigrants who scripted history by winning the Louisiana Governor race, faces daunting challenges ahead when he takes over one of the poorest and most uneducated states of the United States from incumbent Kathleen Blanco. Jindal campaigned as a cautious reformer, promising a more ethical government, with greater transparency from lobbyists and legislators. But he faces significant challenges as he takes over what is now one of the poorest, most uneducated and most unhealthy state of the US, by a number of important measures.
Born on June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge in Louisiana, Republican Jindal, a rising star of President George W Bush's party, impressively defeated his opponents in the gubernatorial poll in a state that usually picks its leaders from deep in the rural hinterland and has not had a non-white head since the reconstruction era.
Jindal, who was twice elected to two-year term each for Congress from Louisiana's first Congressional district based in the suburbs of New Orleans, is currently a member of the House of Representatives and would retain the post till January next when he assumes the charge as Governor in January next, the youngest person to hold the post in the country.
He faces significant challenges as the Chief Executive of Louisiana, a state which was devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Incumbent Blanco had faced severe criticism for her handling of the situation in the aftermath of the hurricanes.
Jindal, who was born as a Hindu but converted to Catholicism, attended high school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. In 1991, he graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with honours in biology and public policy. Afterwards, he received a master's degree in political science from New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Jindal is the second Indian-American to serve in Congress after Dalip Singh Saund, a Democrat who represented California's 29th District from 1957 to 1963.
He was chosen by Scholastic Update magazine as "one of America's top 10 extraordinary young people for the next millennium."
In 1997, he married Supriya Jolly and the couple has three children - Celia, Shaan, and Slade.
While running for the top state post, Jindal did not have the support of a majority of Blacks, about a third of the population, who usually vote Democratic.
Yet Jindal, with his decisive victory on Saturday, appears to have overcome a significant racial hurdle that blocked him in 2003.
Jindal made a particular campaign target of conservative northern and eastern parishes of Louisiana by visiting them frequently and bringing his brand of devout Christianity to their rural churches. His social-conservative message teaching "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution in public schools and total ban on abortion would have been welcome in these areas.
Jindal’s election marks a high-point in the history of Indian immigration to America, which began at the turn of the 19th century. The first regular immigrants from Punjab reached British Columbia and the Pacific northwest and moved down south to California, which would eventually elect the first Indian-American – Dalip Singh Saund — to Congress in 1956. Jindal became only the second person of Indian origin to be elected to Congress — from Louisiana — in 2004.
In 1907, racist whites rioted against "Hindus" (as even Sikhs were called) in the town of Bellingham in Washington state, causing many to flee the country and staunched immigration for a while. Today, that now-liberal state, home to Microsoft and Boeing, has a well-settled Indian immigrant population.
Louisiana, in the deep south, is of different timbre in a different corner of the country, which makes Jindal’s election all the more remarkable.
MALERKOTLA (SANGRUR): It was Dussehra but Sazida Colony here was celebrating for another reason as well. Bobby Jindal, who has his roots in this village, created history on Saturday when he was elected Governor of Louisiana, the first Indian-origin governor in the US. In fact, the moment the news broke on television channels, Jindal’s ancestral village in Khanpur erupted in celebrations, with relatives and friends distributing sweets and dancing bhangra to dhol beats. "Uncle (Bobby Jindal’s father) called early in the morning to inform us about this historic win,"said Semi Jindal, son of late Bachna Ram Jindal, the younger brother of Jindal’s father. After that call early Sunday morning, their phone has not stopped ringing.
An ecstatic Vijay Laxmi, Jindal’s paternal aunt, said, "By becoming governor, Bobby has done the unthinkable. Who could have imagined an Indian would become the Governor of an American state?"
From: KMGuru
Amar Jindal, Bobby's father was a coworker and friend of mine. At a young age, Bobby (or Piyush) was a normal kid. Then we moved out of Baton Rouge. people change when they convert to another religion. But I doubt he would be a nutcase because their mean opponents would have brought that up.
A lot of whites and some blacks voted for him. As long as he turns around the state...more power to him. In Louisiana, Indians are considered colored people...same level as blacks. May be that will change too.
You know, he could be eligible for the presidency if Hillary Clinton screws up the country like Kathleen Blanco did to Louisiana!
From: Vikas
Jindal's opponents lost precisely because they focused too much on his image of an ultra conservative catholic who hates protestants -- instead of debating his plans, policies and intentions for Louisiana. "Image" is a word that originates from "Imagine". Images, good or bad, try to tap on people's emotions. That's politics, naturally.
But in politics, as in advertising, playing on negative images is a slippery field. Instead of building your own positive image, if you focus too much on crafting your competitor's negative image, you are only revealing that you are terrified of your competitor and hopelessly obsessed with him. This is the mistake that the BJP made with Sonia Gandhi and paid such a high price that they will not forget in this lifetime at least.
The intelligent voter must not be swayed by images alone. Choosing the right candidate is tough business -- whether in politics, in business, or in private life. You have to make an unemotional assessment, considering all the strengths and weaknesses of your subject.
Whether it is choosing your political representative, your key employee, or your life-partner, the decision must be well-considered, comprehensive and judicious -- and not just influenced by his external image alone. You must think critically before deciding because you are putting a lot on stake by entrusting your future in the hands of that person.
Bobby Jindal won the elections, not on any religious plank, but on the solid plank of "ethics reforms". At the same time, he did not get entangled with his multi-millionaire opponents, as they got with him. Given below is an excerpt from a politically brilliant, no-nonsense speech of Jindal, where he unveiled his "ethics reform" plank before the public for the first time.
This ace of a speech is full of substance, and yet hits out against his opponents in an indirect manner. Infact his indirectness manages to portray that he treats his opponents as nothing but a waste of time, and he consigns them to the garbage bin effortlessly instead of dirtying both his hands and feet with them. On top of it all, as a masterstroke, he almost pre-empts his opponents to come out with "nasty attacks" against him. (And the fools did not disappoint him.)
Note: One may also try to replace the word "Louisiana" with "India" in this speech, and enjoy the fun of similarities:
QUOTE:
"It is time for all of Louisiana to band together and declare war on corruption. This is not political rhetoric. This is serious business.”
“Changing the political culture in Louisiana is job one. If we fail to do this, we fail. It is that simple. This is where real change begins. Corruption in Louisiana is a tradition that must be put to rest -- once and for all. For too long, corruption in our state has eroded the confidence of businesses, deterred investment in Louisiana and hurt our economic development. Corruption may be part of our past, but it will not be part of our future. Some say that this is a nice goal, but it can’t be done. While I understand why folks may be skeptical, I completely reject the notion that we can’t clean up our government. If we can’t clean up our own government, then shame on us. We can, and if you elect me, we will.”
“By unveiling this plan today, I am in all likelihood putting a target on my back. They will try to beat me…Look for the nasty attacks from faceless folks coming soon. But know this -- we will not be stopped. Some who work in and around government will hate my plan. Some who have enriched themselves from government will oppose it. They may not say so in public….but it will be very unpopular in certain circles.”
“I want to highlight my five pillars of ethics reform….First, you cannot be a lobbyist and a legislator. This also means you cannot do ‘other work’ for firms that just happen to lobby; and you cannot have family members that lobby. Second, we must require full financial disclosures for legislators. We will never have any meaningful reform without this. Third, you can either serve in government or you can do business with the government, but you can’t do both. Fourth, we need to shine the light of day on all lobbying activities. People have a right to know who is lobbying for whom and what is being spent. Fifth, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. Slaps on the wrist don’t deter corruption. Real penalties will.”
“This year’s legislative session was a total disaster when it comes to ethics reform. They found the time to pass the largest budget in our state’s history, and to include a record number of earmarks for pet projects all over the state. But they were unable to squeeze in any meaningful ethics reform. And the one thing they did pass -- ethics training…they forgot to fund. These folks will not police themselves. The public will have to demand reform and require reform. The time is now.”
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U.S. Military Killed in Action In
Iraq: 10/21/07: 1
Current Total: 3,860

Wounded 10/11/07 to10/17/07: 105
Wounded Total (to 9/12/07):28, 276

Killed in Action, September 2007: 66
Wounded, August 2007 Total: 725

Sensex gains 54 pts, closes at 17,614

The Supreme Court again disapproving the use of musclemen by financial institutions for recovery of their dues, today issued notices to the state of West Bengal, Magma Leasing ltd, a Kolkata based financing company and the principal debtor Sunil Khosla on a petition filed by surety guarantor Anil Khosla seeking criminal action against the Magma Leasing Ltd for harassing him.

Madhya Pradesh Assembly Opposition Leader Jamuna Devi today suggested the ruling BJP government to take the Opposition into confidence before the two-day Global Investors Meeting that gets underway in Indore on October 26.

All eyes are on the P-Notes situation and how things will evolve until October 25. At a crucial conference call between the SEBI and the FIIs today, registration norms for FIIs and how they can be facilitated and speeded up, will be discussed.
India's stock market watchdog said on Monday it had enough responses from foreign and domestic investors to move ahead with plans to restrict the use of surrogate investment notes by foreigners.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman M. Damodaran told a televised videoconference that the application process to register as a foreign investor took just a few weeks and media reports it had 500-600 applications pending were exaggerated.

Participatory notes, or P-notes, are issued by foreign investors (FIIs) registered in India to investors overseas and offer the buyer anonymity.

SEBI said last week it wanted to see notes on underlying derivatives phased out over 18 months and for sub-accounts to wind up their positions altogether. It also planned to place restrictions on issuance of fresh notes on cash positions.

"We believe that the responses we have on board at this point of time are adequate for us to take the process forward," Damodaran said.

SEBI is due to meet on Oct. 25 when it is expected to finalise the proposals outlined last week.

Damodaran said some FIIs registered in India had set up proprietary sub-accounts to handle their P-note programme.

Proprietary sub-accounts wanting to convert to FIIs must send SEBI a letter of intent within 24 hours of the videoconference indicating they would apply to convert. They should get the completed application to the watchdog within a week, he said.

The benchmark Sensex on Monday ended 54 points higher in highly volatile trade, salvaged by investors` interest in banking stocks ahead of RBI`s October 30 review of the monetary policy. The BSE Sensex moved between 17,704.83 and 17,171.45 before ending the day at 17.613.99, a net rise of 54.01 points or 0.31 per cent over Friday`s close. The Sensex had lost 1,599.69 points or 8.39 per cent in last four sessions after SEBI brought out a discussion paper with a proposal to curb participatory notes (P-notes), an investment tool used by foreign investors not registered with the regulator. The broader S&P CNX Nifty of the NSE, however, fell by 31.30 points or 0.60 per cent to close at 5,184.00.

High volatility was largely attributed to approaching expiry of derivatives series, which forced investors either to roll over positions to next series or square-off positions before end of the contract on October 25, market players said. The market also had some soothing impact of reports that SEBI is considering a proposal to allow proprietary sub- accounts to issue P-Notes. FIIs were believed to be engaged in roll over in the F&O after pulling out Rs 1,751 crore in the last two days. Bank shares were in the limelight scoring handsome gains ahead of the RBI`s quarterly policy review on October 30 while refinery and IT shares suffered a setback on selling.

Meanwhile,Blue chip stocks took a hammering as Friday's sharp falls on Wall Street spread to the London market in an echo of the Black Monday crash almost 20 years ago to the day.The FTSE 100 Index dropped 101.8 points into the red by mid-session trading after a troubled market opening, which saw the Footsie fall nearly 2% in the first few minutes.The benchmark index was mirroring heavy overnight falls in Asia, with global markets reacting to a significant sell-off in America late last week on the 20th anniversary of Black Monday.

In London, miners and housebuilders were among the hardest hit amid fears of further trouble in the credit markets and the US economy, sparked off by Friday's 367-point fall on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.The top share index shed nearly 1.4 percent by mid-session on Monday following a global equities decline on renewed concerns that a U.S. housing slump would hamper growth in the world's largest economy.Led by commodities and banks, the FTSE 100 was down 90.3 points at 6,437.8 at 11:44 a.m., but well off its day's low of 6,413.4. The benchmark index lost 1.2 percent on Friday -- the 20th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash known as "Black Monday".

European shares also traded lower by midday, while the widely watched iTraxx Crossover index, made up of 50 mostly "junk"-rated credits, widened versus Friday's close.

"The market hates uncertainty and this question of full fallout from the subprime crisis isn't known," said Richard Hunter, head of UK equities at Hargreaves Lansdown.

Hunter added that one-third of FTSE 100 companies had significant contributions from their U.S. operations. "Whatever is happening in the U.S. economy can't just be ignored or swept under the carpet elsewhere," he said.

U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday to mark their biggest fall in two months, weighed by Caterpillar's warning that the housing slump was infecting the wider economy, while Asian shares also fell overnight.

Miners were the biggest sectoral losers, shaving 28 points off the index, as metal prices fell. Seven out of eight FTSE 100 listed miners were among the index's top 10 losers.

BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Xstrata, Vedanta Resources, Kazakhmys, Antofagasta and Lonmin lost between 3.9 and 4.8 percent.

A series of downgrades from Citi also weighed on the sector.

In the oil and gas sector, BP dipped 0.3 percent, Royal Dutch Shell slipped 0.4 percent and Tullow Oil dropped 4.3 percent.

Banks were the other standout losing sector, with Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, HBOS, Lloyds TSB, Standard Chartered and Alliance & Leicester all down.

Barclays and RBS had joined other global banks this month by lining up a $30 billion (14.7 billion pound) facility from the U.S. Federal Reserve to rescue customers with short-term liquidity problems.

Volatile shares in Northern Rock, Britain's most prominent casualty of the global credit squeeze, gained 3.8 percent.

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National Guard Faces Call-Ups for 2008, '09
By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 18, 2007; Page A19
The Pentagon this week plans to alert at least seven National Guard units to be ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008 and 2009 as the military's reserve forces are increasingly called upon to relieve the strain on active-duty troops, officials said yesterday.
The call-ups are aimed at preparing forces to replace the approximately 13,000 Army National Guard troops in four brigades that will begin flowing into Iraq , Kuwait and Afghanistan over the next two months. In addition, they will help ease the burden on active-duty troops that has grown with the increase of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, the officials said. Currently, there are about 170,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and 26,000 in Afghanistan .
"All the active component brigades have been used as part of the surge, and the requirements are not going away," a National Guard official said. "You create holes when you surge units forward, and someone has to fill them," said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the Pentagon had not yet alerted the units.
If Guard units are not called up as replacements, the Army will lengthen deployment times for active-duty soldiers beyond 15 months, or cut back their time at home to less than a year, the official said.
Officials declined to specify which National Guard combat brigades and other units would be called up, saying they want to notify families before an announcement. The plans to alert the Guard units were first reported by the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, a U.S. commander in Iraq said that the first of five Army brigades to be withdrawn would result from a shift in Northern Iraq where a brigade would expand its territory to cover a portion of Diyala province when another brigade leaves in December.
The National Guard troops will perform combat patrols, secure convoys and guard detainees, among other missions, officials said.
In January, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced that the Pentagon would lift some restrictions on Guard and reserve call-ups and allow some reserve units to be remobilized sooner than planned -- meaning more involuntary call-ups for individuals. Meanwhile, he reduced the length of the mobilizations for reservists to a maximum of a year at a time, in contrast to the 16 to 24 months that had become standard.
National Guard leaders welcomed the change, because it allows them to remobilize entire units, rather than calling up individuals from a variety of units in a piecemeal fashion.
Nevertheless, the 12-month cap on Guard deployments means that the Army can expect to have those units in Iraq or Afghanistan for about nine months, as they need time to train. That, in addition to other factors, makes it difficult for National Guard combat brigades to serve interchangeably with active-duty Army brigades, and has created new frustrations for Guard leaders.
Guard combat brigades heading to Iraq in coming months, for example, have not been assigned as single unit to patrol large areas but, instead, have been parceled out to perform many smaller missions under the command of active-duty units.
For example, the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Indiana National Guard was asked to break up into 21 security companies rather than to deploy as a unified force, a decision that hurts the unit's cohesion, said Maj. Gen R. Martin Umbarger, adjutant general of the Indiana National Guard. The Army has worked to keep the brigade leadership intact, even if the missions remain dispersed, Guard officials said.

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Scuffle but No Arrests at Protest
Small Crowd Gathers Day After Violence in Georgetown
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 21, 2007; C03

White-helmeted D.C. police briefly scuffled with protesters yesterday
during a demonstration outside the World Bank, but no one was seriously
injured or arrested, officials and protesters said.

The confrontation came after violence erupted Friday during a protest in
Georgetown. Objects were thrown at store windows, newspaper boxes were
overturned and a police officer was pushed from a scooter, authorities
said. Yesterday was quieter.

About 500 demonstrators marched from Franklin Square, near the White
House, to World Bank headquarters, at 18th and H streets NW. The
protesters, a mix of students, community activists and black-clad
anarchists, denounced the policies of the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund, which are holding meetings this weekend.

The event was peaceful except for a tense moment in Edward R. Murrow
Park, across from the bank, where the march ended. As delegates arrived
for the meetings mid-afternoon, several anarchists charged the police
line, according to officials and two demonstrators. Baton-wielding
police raced in, shoving protesters and snatching their signs. A crowd
massed, shouting "Our streets! Our streets!"

"They charged the police line," said D.C. Assistant Police Chief Patrick
Burke, head of the homeland security bureau. "Police lines cannot be
broken."

A protester who identified himself as Bob Exe, 20, said police struck
him on the shoulder and nose with batons. The District resident, who had
stuck a tissue into his bloodied nose, said no one charged the line but
there "might have been some pushing." He acknowledged that the
demonstrators had been trying to block delegates from reaching the World
Bank.

Yesterday's event was a faint echo of the anti-globalization protests
that brought huge crowds to the city in past years. In 2000, about
20,000 demonstrators converged on Washington, disrupting parts of
downtown and clashing with police.

At protests two years later, D.C. police came under strong criticism for
arresting hundreds of peaceful demonstrators without warning. The
District has since paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal
settlements and adopted new protocols to prevent abuse of police power.

Two protesters were arrested Friday night and charged with assaulting
police officers.

Hundreds of D.C. police were on the streets for yesterday's protests,
including SWAT teams. Some protesters yelled insults at police, but
others said they had decided not to use violence.

"We've got immigrants and others we don't want to put in danger," said
Luke Kuhn, 42, a self-described anarchist from Montgomery County.

Other protesters warily eyed the anarchists, who wore bandannas over
their faces and waved black flags.

"This is not the usual environment to see us in, surrounded by people in
balaclavas," said Ben Margolis, 27, a British demonstrator with the
group Global Call to Action Against Poverty. "We're here to demonstrate
the passion of civil society. We call on the Bank and Fund to become
more transparent and promote good governance and end the negative
conditions they put on their loans."

This weekend's demonstrations were organized by the loose-knit October
Coalition and drew people critical not only of the international
institutions but also of gentrification, U.S. immigration policies, D.C.
school vouchers and consumption of meat.

An organizer, Sameer Dossani, acknowledged that the crowd was small
compared with past years. He attributed the turnout to the scheduling of
a variety of antiwar and other demonstrations this month in the District
and other cities.

"It's good a lot of things are happening. But we do take away from one
another a little bit," he said.

DEAR REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE DIANA DEGETTE

Please impeach this criminal government, and bring to justice all these out-of-control NWO-nazis and conspirators.

All of the crimes and violations of a NUREMBERG-type TRIAL have been, and are, being committed.

Below is my CASE SUMMARY. I have been, and am being, psycho-physiologically butchered. Attached are 100 more CASE SUMMARIES of similar DIRECTED ENERGY AND NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS TORTURE AND ABUSE VICTIMS.

Some of these DIRECTED ENERGY AND NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS TORTURE AND ABUSE CASES detail the most extreme and totalitarian violations of human rights in human history, including the most horrendous incidences of psychological torture, rapes, sexual abuse and other mental and physical mutilations. There are many others, all over the world, who are being subjected to similar torture and abuse

There is massive ignorance and secrecy regarding this, and victims such as I are being subjected to uncontrolled and unacknowledged torture and mental and physical destruction. This has remained completely unreported and undiscussed publicly.

Your attention is urgently needed to halt these atrocities, and bring these extremist elements to justice.

Please assist urgently.

Sincerely
John Finch
5/8 Kemp St, Thornbury, Vic 3071, Australia
TEL: 0424009627 EMAIL:johnfinch@excite.com

TARGETED INDIVIDUAL and a member of THE WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE AND ABUSE USING DIRECTED ENERGY AND NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS

PS. Please contact me for further information

MY DIRECTED ENERGY AND NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS TORTURE AND ABUSE CASE SUMMARY

I sent a series of human rights activist emails to public authorities and forums beginning in 2003 up to 2006. I came to the attention of an extremist US security organisation in 2004 for this exercising of my democratic right to free speech and since then I've had my human rights, liberty and privacy completely violated and ALL aspects and degrees of my human freedom, individuality and mental and physical integrity and health profoundly assaulted, tortured and wrecked.

Using "star wars" and directed energy weapons technologies coupled with advanced neuro and medical science (psychotronics), and also using nanotechnology and holography technologies (or some such technical combinations) these people have the ability to :-

a. place a human subject under continuous surveillance, no matter where he/she is, from remote locations.

b. continuously monitor a human brain from remote locations, including thought, reaction, motor command, auditory event and visual image reading.

c. continuously input directly into a human brain from remote locations, including the ability to override, control and alter consciousness, and to introduce voices, noises, other disturbances, images and "dreams" into the brain.

d. directly interfere with, abuse, torture and hit bodies - including performing advanced medical procedures - and objects - from remote locations

e. directly interfere with, alter, insert etc. data, files, communications and legal evidence from remote locations - even during transmission

f. make live TV, and other screens and monitors, two-way - for surveillance, invasion of privacy etc..

g. control the flow of information and orchestrate the media worldwide.

By these means I have been :-

1. continuously - 24 hours a day 7 days a week mentally and physically monitored. (2004-present)

2. subjected to sleep deprivation torture. (2005)

3. continuously subjected to sensory and mental torture by being verbally and aurally abused, goaded, disturbed and engaged with - directly into the brain. This takes the form of a running commentary with a personally codified system of comments and responses to my thoughts, activities and biorhythms - both straightforwardly and with echo, repetition and distortion effects. This sensory and mental torture directly into the brain has varied from extreme causing near-complete mental breakdown and desperation, to loud, intensive and continuous, to milder. It is all, however, unignorable and inescapable, and it has profoundly degraded and wrecked my mental and physical life and being. (2004/2005-present)

4. repeatedly and relentlessly subjected to electrical abuse and torture on the genitals - electric currents are applied to my genitals at different intensities and positions, often continuously for extended periods of time. This ranges from mildly disturbing to extremely torturous. The cumulative affect is sickening and constant mental and physical stress and tension. This electrical abuse and torture on the genitals is applied at any time of the day or night. I am often woken up by the application of electric currents to my genitals - night after night after night. My genitals have also been liposuctioned, collagened, vasectomied, and my scrotum subjected to repeated reductions and enlargements. Also my nipples are often "electrocuted", and more recently what feels like my semen glands, and other internal organs are also being intensively "electrocuted"(2005-present)

5. continuously subjected to multiple nightly neurological experiments and interventions - night after night after night 2,3,4,5 or more times per night artificial "dreams" are introduced into my brain and therein experienced and processed "organically" (?). This has resulted in mentally and psychically exhausting, degrading and wrecking me. I haven't had an uninterrupted nights sleep in over 2 years. (2005-present)

6. subjected to "deep" neurological interventions on my brain creating a lasting "lobotomised" effect. Repeatedly subjected to multiple other experiments and interventions on other areas of my brain. (2005-present)

7. subjected to various other mental, physical and social tortures, degradations and dirty tricks. This includes being extensively publically exhibited via internet and TV which has greatly magnified the complete violation of my privacy. (2004-present)

As an ancillary to these each and every night I am repeatedly put to sleep, woken up, made to go to the toilet, and mentally mood and temper controlled on waking. Other nights I am given erections, and occasionally voided of semen (my sperm production has been stopped). I am being used like a lab rat. This regime has been ongoing now since 2005.

Each and every waking hour I am thought and image read, and continuously subjected to the various forms of sensory and mental torture by being verbally and aurally abused, goaded, disturbed and engaged with - directly into the brain. Coupled with the various forms of genital abuse and torture. This regime has been ongoing now since 2005.

Thus my human rights, liberty and privacy have been completely violated and ALL aspects and degrees of my human freedom, individuality and mental and physical integrity and health profoundly assaulted, tortured and wrecked in this ongoing totalitarian nightmare.

There is massive ignorance and secrecy regarding these technologies and victims such as I are being subjected to uncontrolled and unacknowledged torture and mental and physical destruction. This has remained completely unreported and undiscussed publicly. Despite, since 2004, continually appealing for help to Government Representatives, Government Officials, Government Agencies, Military, Security, International Organisations, Human Rights Organisations, Universities, Scientific and other Institutions, and the International Media I have received virtually no help, or even acknowledgement, from anyone at all! Both the technologies and the perpetrators of these atrocities remain secret and unprosecuted!

For anyone at all concerned about human rights, liberty, democracy, privacy and ALL aspects and degrees of human freedom, individuality and mental and physical integrity and health this uncontrolled and unacknowledged technology and abuse is intolerable!

As such

-we would call for an acknowledgement of such technology at a national and international level. Politicians, scientists and neurologists, neuroscientists, physicists and the legal profession should, without further delay, demand public debate on the existence and deployment of psychotronic technology; and for the declassification of information about such devices which abuse helpless people, and threaten democratic freedom.

-Victims' accounts of abuse should be admitted to public account, and the use of psycho-electronic weapons should be made illegal and criminal.

-The medical profession should be helped to recognise the symptoms of mind-control and psychotronic abuse, and intelligence about their deployment should be declassified so that this abuse can be seen to be what it is, and not interpreted automatically as an indication of mental illness.1

Because -

-The calculated and technological entry into another person's mind is an act of monumental barbarism which obliterates- perhaps with the twiddling of a dial - the history and civilisation of man's mental development. It is more than an abuse of human rights, it is the destruction of meaning. For any one who is forced into the hell of living with an unseen mental rapist, the effort to stay sane is beyond the scope of tolerable endurance. The imaginative capacity of the ordinary mind cannot encompass the horror of it. We have attempted to come to terms with the experiments of the Nazis in concentration camps. We now have the prospect of systematic control authorised by men who issue instructions through satellite communications for the destruction of societies/individuals........2

Please assist urgently.
REFERENCES FROM ABOVE - 1, 2 - On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology,
Carole Smith, Journal of Psycho-Social Studies , Vol 2 (2) No 3 2003

AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO THESE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY!

DEAR SIR/MADAM

What is going on in the world?

How could we possibly know?

Government Representatives, Government Officials, Government Agencies, Military, Security, International Organisations, Human Rights Organisations, Universities, Scientific and other Institutions, and the International Media are complicit and/or acquiescent to the general climate of secrecy, misinformation, omission and cover-up.

In the past decade "terrorists" have killed perhaps 30,000 people - "The Wars on Terror" have resulted in the deaths of well over a million people and the ongoing destruction of several societies – a veritable Moslem Holocaust, other brutal, brazen and extensive violations of human rights worldwide, the erosion of civil liberties, and the complete control and management of information and the media worldwide.

That there exists types of weapons and technologies that can be used to remotely create and foment terrorism, sectarian wars, evidence of planned terrorist acts etc., and to remotely cause crashes, "accidents" and killings, is not even publicly acknowledged – let alone investigated, questioned or analysed.

That there exist Orwellian technologies and Dr Mengeles (aka Dr Cameron/Dr Delgado) – type butchers extensively operating– controlling, brutalising, deforming and terrorising civilians and, almost undoubtedly, combatants worldwide is not even publicly acknowledged – let alone investigated, questioned or analysed.

That there exists a massive, coordinated propaganda machine – that makes Goebbels look like a mere dictatorial editor - controlling and managing the output of information and media is not even publicly acknowledged – let alone investigated, questioned or analysed.

That there exists a global surveillance and monitoring system that can be used to see and hear through almost any str