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Friday, 28 October 2011

Do Zionists Control Wall Street? The Shocking Facts!

Teacher Patricia McAllister was crucified for daring to simply say outloud that Zionists controlled Wall Street while helping in an Occupy Wall Street demo in Los Angeles. She was fired for simply telling the truth. LA talk show host Bill Handel said on his show just a few days earlier, quote, "My Tribe Controls Wall Street why should I be upset about that?" Of course, he wasn't fired because he is part of the tribe that runs the media.
So, what are the facts? This video lays out the facts of the Zionist control of Wall Street and International finance like nothing else!

Like Dalits, the Kshatriyas & Vaishyas Should have Their own Priests

Like Dalits, the Kshatriyas & Vaishyas
Should have Their own Priests
 
    For thousands of years, the worst atrocities have been committed against the untouchable lower castes in India at the behest of the extremely arrogant Brahmins. Many Brahmins want to continue the highly divisive hereditary caste system because they staunchly believe that their caste is divine, and they must be worshipped as the Gods on Earth by all the other castes of the Hindu community. 
 
    The bigoted Brahmins still advocate and justify the discrimination based on the hereditary caste system, discrimination against women, untouchability, the Devadaasi system of prostitution and practice of adultery, polygamy, slavery, the custom of Satee, etc. They also continue to oppose the appointment of priests and teachers from the lower castes. Even today, many Brahmins refuse to accept reforms, which call for the eradication of many wrong beliefs and evil practices among the Hindus. 
 
    The bigoted Brahmins continue to believe in their own divinity and advocate the worship of Brahmins as the Gods on Earth who can treat all the working class people as Shudras or hereditary slaves. They also want all the Hindus to drink cow's urine and eat bullshit. In short, the bigoted Brahmins want to bring back the same old fascism and totalitarianism of their bigoted ancestors. If they have their way, such bigoted Brahmins can only bring many more misfortunes and disasters to India.  
 
Treacherous Divide & Rule Policy of Brahmins 
 
    For their own extremely selfish interests, many Brahmins have followed the Divide And Rule Policy ever since they created the caste system in ancient India many thousand years back. It does not matter for such selfish Brahmins whether the highly divisive caste system has always weakened the Hindu community and even brought India under the rule of foreigners for many centuries.
 
The caste system of the bigoted Brahmins had prevented the majority of the Vaishyas and Shudras from fighting against the invaders.
 
    Why are the Brahmins indulging in just empty talk about the teachings of the Bhaagvad Geeta, Puraans and Upanishads, when the lower castes among the Hindus have been terrorized for many centuries due to the extremely evil ideology of Brahminism?
 
Raavan Symbolizes Debauchery of Brahmins
 
    We must remember that in the great epic, Raamaayan, the most evil Brahmin King Raavan is described as the descendant of Brahma, whom all the Brahmins worship as their God and ancestor. The Brahmin King Raavan symbolizes the worst debauchees among the bigoted Brahmins who believe in and practise polygamy, abduction, rape, adultery, fraud, murder and other crimes.
 
    There are many cranks among the Brahmins who still want all the Hindus to believe that their debauchee Brahmin ancestors were responsible for saving and preserving the great culture and spiritual heritage of the Hindus! Could such debauchee Brahmins have provided the proper leadership to the Hindus? Yet, these Brahmin debauchees have the great gumption to give sermons on the lofty virtues and benefits of Brahmacharya, which is the name they use for celibacy that they themselves don't practise.   
 
Why did Godse kill Mahatma Gandhi?
 
    The whole world knows about the crime of the TERRORIST Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi. Many Brahmins still consider Nathuram Godse as one of the greatest patriotic heroes of India, whose idols are worshipped by the bigoted Brahmins, especially in the state of Maharashtra.
 
    We should note that Nathuram Godse was NOT the ONLY Brahmin who had conspired to kill Mahatma Gandhi. A number of bigoted Brahmins were part of the Nathuram Godse gang who had hatched the Brahmin conspiracy to murder Mahatma Gandhi.
 
    
The Brahmin Nathuram Godse could justify his killing of Mahatma Gandhi because the bigoted Brahmins believe that a Brahmin has every right to kill a lowly Bania or Vaishya for any reason. The bigoted Brahmins do not consider it a crime or sin for any Brahmin like Nathuram Godse to kill a Vaishya, even if he were great or important like Mahatma Gandhi. So, such Brahmins insist that the Indian Courts had wrongly ordered the hanging of a Brahmin like Nathuram Godse. 
 
     The blame for the Partition of India is still wrongly being put by the bigoted Brahmins on Mahatma Gandhi who was absolutely against the Partition of our country. The other top leaders of the Indian National Congress had actually decided to partition India without even consulting Mahatma Gandhi. The real facts of History prove that it was Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and other Congress leaders who forced Mahatma Gandhi to accept their decision to partition India.
 
    As the leader of the Interim Government and the Constituent Assembly, Jawaharlal Nehru was the main person who was legally responsible for the Partition of India, but the bigoted Brahmin Nathuram Godse could never even dream about killing another Brahmin like Nehru for the crime. After the Independence, the bigoted Brahmins decided that somebody had to be blamed for the Partition of India and must be killed for that crime.
 
    So the bigoted Brahmin Nathuram Godse chose to kill Mahatma Gandhi only because he was a lowly Vaishya who had become too important and too popular for the comfort of all the bigoted Brahmins. By killing Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse actually helped a fellow Brahmin, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to consolidate the rule of Brahmins over India.
 
    What can the Hindus of other castes expect from the Brahmins who  proudly worship the bigoted Brahmin Nathuram Godse who murdered Mahatma Gandhi? Many of the atrocities committed against the lower castes and outcastes are also a form of terrorism, which has been practised for thousands of years due to the evil ideology of the Brahmins.
 
    Even if they have the most pleasant manners, many Brahmins are mentally and ideologically some of the most merciless fascists and totalitarians in the world. Such cunning Brahmins know how to make use of their knowledge of Psychology to exploit the people of other castes.
 
    Like any other human being, Mahatma Gandhi too was not a perfect person. Even though he was called the Father of the Nation by his followers, Mahatma Gandhi could never have been perfect like what God is believed to be. One of his biggest faults was his inability to see through the flattery of the most cunning Brahmin like Jawaharlal Nehru, who knew how to use Gandhiji for achieving his own selfish goals. Jawaharlal Nehru had succeeded in using Mahatma Gandhi even to become the first Prime Minister of free India, though the majority of Congressmen had preferred Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a Kshatriya, for that post. 
 
    Some centuries back, the Brahmin Peshwas had usurped power from the Maratha kings who were the descendants of Chhatrapati Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire.
 
    With the help of their Divide And Rule Policy, the cunning and crafty Brahmins are always conspiring to grab power from the Kshatriyas and steal the wealth of the Vaishyas. The bigoted Brahmins believe that all the laws and regulations made by them are meant only for the other castes to follow. The same laws and regulations do not apply to the Brahmins who can break them at any time it suits them.
 
Brahmins worship Mass Murderer Parshuram
 
    How evil is the ideology of Brahminism can be very clearly understood from the story of the Brahmin called Parshuram, who had killed all the Kshatriyas of the world. According to Hindu mythology,  Maharishi Parshuram was a mass murderer and a TERRORIST who killed all the Kshatriyas 21 times. The bigoted Brahmins feel extremely proud while referring to the GENOCIDE of Kshatriyas committed by Maharishi Parshuram, whom the Brahmins consider as one of their greatest ancestors. Why do the Brahmins proudly worship their most ruthless mythological ancestor who had committed the total genocide of the Kshatriya caste?
 
    One can only guess how cruel and evil Brahminism can be from the story of the mass murderer Parshuram, who can be described as a demon many times more evil than even another monster Brahmin called Raavan. Should it be surprising to know why the Brahmins very proudly worship the monster Maharishi Parshuram as one of their most important Gods? 
 
    The bigoted Brahmins have been very cunning in comparing the extremely ruthless mass murderer Maharishi Parshuram with the most highly revered Hindu Gods like Raam and Krishna! After all, Maharishi Parshuram was a Brahmin who could commit mass murders, and still be considered right by the bigoted Brahmins, because the Brahmins believe that they can never be wrong. Is it not clear that the Brahmins believe in practising GENOCIDE? 
 
Bigoted Brahmins have planned
GENOCIDE of 400 million Hindus!
 
    Most of the Kshatriyas don't even know that many of the bigoted Brahmins are their enemies. Does the story of the mass murderer Maharishi Parshuram not indicate that the bigoted Brahmins are the worst enemies of the Kshatriyas? Unfortunately, most of the Kshatriyas have not yet realized that many Brahmins only have contempt and hatred for the Kshatriyas. There are many Brahmins who consider the Kshatriyas to be inferior human beings, and are constantly working against the Kshatriyas just like they are working against the interests of Vaishyas, Shudras and the untouchable outcastes.
 
    Recently, the bigoted Brahmins have come out with their most diabolical plan that can cause the world's worst GENOCIDE, in which the Brahmins want 400 million Hindus to die while killing 200 million Indian Muslims and Christians in a total communal war in India.
 
    When the bigoted Brahmins have hatched a massive conspiracy against the Hindus, Muslims and Christians of India, why should we miss the chance of making the whole world know the real nature of the extremely evil leaders of such Brahmins? We should get the bigoted Brahmins discredited and condemned by all the people of the world, including the majority of Hindus. The most dangerous criminals among the bigoted Brahmins must be fully exposed to prevent the start of a total communal war, which might cause the deaths of 600 million Indians.
 
Bigoted Brahmins Practise Character Assassination
 
    To denigrate the royal family of Marathas, some bigoted Brahmins had even dared to cast aspersions on the character of Jijabai, the revered mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji who had founded the Maratha empire. In recent times also, such Brahmins have deliberately and maliciously resorted to their evil practice of character assassination of the great leaders from other castes such as Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and many others. 
 
    Why do the dogmatic Brahmins claim that they have the right to insult all the Hindus of other castes and think that they are going to get away with all their nonsense? Why should such dogmatic Brahmins expect respect from others when they make derogatory comments about persons of other castes? We must expose them for their extremely offensive campaign of vilification and character assassination, which they have been continuing against others for a long time.
 
    To understand my point more clearly, you should read what a Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader, Prof (Dr) Radhasyam Brahmachari has said about the father of Raam who is the most revered God of the Hindus:
 
    "It also seems to me that Dasharath was not the biological father of Ram and his three brothers. Their biological father was Rishi Hrishyashringa."
 
    According to Prof Radhasyam Brahmachari, Raam and his three brothers were the illegitimate sons of a Brahmin called Rishi Hrishyashringa. Does he mean to say that the most revered God of the Hindus was a bastard son of some Brahmin called Rishi Hrishyashringa!  
 
    Why has he started a dangerous controversy, which can prove to be more explosive than the one created by some objectionable references in James Laine's book about Chhatrapati Shivaji, his mother Jijabai and the Brahmin called Dadoji Konddev?  
 
    While the controversy about the Brahmin Dadoji Konddev, caused by the Brahmins who assisted James Laine in writing his book, is mainly restricted to Maharashtra, the highly dangerous controversy that Prof Radhasyam Brahmachari has created about Raam's biological father is likely to affect all the Hindus of India and the rest of the world.
 
     Why should we not condemn such dogmatic Brahmins, who have criminal intentions, merely because they belong to the Brahmin caste? 
Bigoted Brahmins Deliberately Provoke Us
 
    The bigoted Brahmins cannot have the right to launch extremely offensive campaigns of vilification and character assassination against the Hindus of other castes. Two years back, I had advised them to stop their offensive tirade against me if they didn't want me to retaliate. Instead of listening to my advice, they just vilified me more and more, laughed at me and challenged my ability to do anything against them. By now, I have written many articles against the perverted beliefs and practices of the dogmatic Brahmins, which have already been published on many websites. I cannot withdraw my articles against the bigoted Brahmins because the articles are on the websites that belong to others. 
 
    The modern Hindus cannot accept the bogus belief of any Brahmin like Aditi Banerjee who, in her letter to the Hindu American Foundation, has falsely stated, "Manu . . . was our first law-giver and the forefather of all humans and all Hindus, and various of our Hindu scriptures." Who is Aditi Banerjee to claim that Manu was the forefather of all humans and all Hindus? Can she prove what she claims about Manu?
 
    Was Rishi Manu the biggest polygamist in History, due to which the Brahmins call him the forefather of all humans? During the time he lived, did all the women become the wives, keeps and prostitutes of Brahmin Manu? Were all the other men of Brahmin Manu's time only a pack of hijraas (eunuchs), who neither married any women nor produced any children? Or did the Brahmin called Rishi Manu kill all the other men and married all the women?
 
    Aditi Bannerjee should read the forwarded article, Excerpts from Ancient Brahmin Literature written by K. V. Narasimhan, to understand how the extremely evil Manu Smriti denigrates the women and the Shudras, who are described as hereditary slaves that cannot be freed from slavery. Manu Smriti contains some of the most rotten things any person can think of. The full article is being forwarded by a separate email.
 
    Aditi Banerjee has justified the primitive belief of dogmatic Brahmins, which explains that the lower castes suffer from the inequality based on hereditary discrimination because of the Karma of their previous births. That is the most well-known way that the bigoted Brahmins have been justifying the atrocities that are being committed against the lower castes for thousands of years. Such a hereditary discrimination, based on the belief in the principle of Karma of previous lives, is still being proudly considered by the bigoted Brahmins as the very foundation of Hinduism! Due to this false belief, the dogmatic Brahmins have been openly declaring that they shall never agree to any major reforms in the Hindu community.
 
    The following are some of the most atrocious Laws of Manu Smriti, and one from Atri Smriti, as mentioned in the Excerpts from Ancient Brahmin Literature:
A Brahman male can have any woman in the universe. (Manu XXVII-6 & 9).
 
A hundred-year-old Kshatriya must treat a ten-year old Brahman boy as his father. (Manu 11-135).
 
Those who educate Sudras and women will go to hell. (Manu III-156).
 
Sudras and women are unfit for education. It is not necessary that they should know the laws and codes, and hence need not be taught. Violaters will go to ASAMVRITA HELL. (Manu IV-78 to 81).
 
Killing a woman, a Sudra or an atheist is not sinful. Woman is an embodiment of the worst desires, hatred, deceit, jealousy and bad character. Woman should never be given freedom. (Manu IX-14, 17 and V-14, 47).
 
Women are the most faithless. (Manu XVII-12). 
 
A girl must be under the care of her father, in youth under the care of her husband, and in old age under the care of her sons. She should never be free and independent. (Manu V-148).
 
None of the acts of a woman can be taken as good and reasonable. (Manu X-4).
 
Even if someone frees a Sudra from slavery, he continues to be slave as he is created for slavery. Nobody has the right to free him. (Manu VIII-56 & 59).
 
A Brahman male by virtue of his birth becomes the first husband of all women in the 'universe'. (Manu III-14).
 
Five husbands to a Hindu woman (Atri Smriti-190):  
 
i. Soma (Moon)
ii. Gandharva
iii. Agni
iv. Brahman
v. Husband. 
 
A bride's first night is with Brahman as the first three are notional.
 
    According to the Laws of Manu, even forcible sex with any woman by a Brahmin cannot be considered a crime. Manu too must have raped many women as a habitual rapist, but he could not have been charged with any crime, as the Brahmins had the divine right to do anything and could not be punished. On the basis of the Laws made by Manu, the Brahmins were divine persons who were free to do anything. 
 
    According to the Laws of Manu, it can be argued that the Brahmin King Raavan did nothing wrong when he abducted Seeta, the consort of Bhagwaan Raam. It can also be argued that Bhagwaan Raam was wrong in killing the Brahmin Raavan for getting back his wife Seeta. The Brahmins consider themselves to be more divine than even the Gods and Goddesses! As a mere Kshatriya, even Bhagwaan Raam could be considered as inferior to the Brahmin Raavan, if the Laws of Manu were used!
 
    It should also not be surprising that many Brahmins still believe that Nathuram Godse had a divine right to kill any Vaishya like Mahatma Gandhi, and that the Indian Courts had no right to order the hanging of a Brahmin like Nathuram Godse. According to the Laws of Manu, a Brahmin cannot be punished for murdering a low-caste Vaishya. 
 
    How could any Brahmin like Nathuram Godse be punished for killing just one Vaishya when, according to the Hindu mythology, Maharishi Parshuram could exercise his divine right to commit the genocide of Kshatriyas by killing all the Kshatriyas 21 times! It also just did not matter how many Kshatriya women became widows due to the mass murders committed by the Brahmin Parshuram. 
 
    Should the modern Hindus still accept the extremely evil ideology of the bigoted Brahmins, which believes that the Brahmins are free to rape and kill because the Laws of Manu exempts them from being charged and punished for such crimes? Is there any sense left in the heads of those who believe in Brahminism?
 
Vedas, Upanishads, Vedangs,
Puraans are Plagiarized Works!
 
    The Brahmins publish many books and magazines, even on the internet, which are meant to serve the interests of ONLY their own caste. The Brahmins cannot have the sole right to publish their own views and still object to the other castes making their views known. The bigots among the Brahmins still wrongly believe that they have a monopoly over all the knowledge and information concerning all the Hindus.
 
    Why should the Brahmins have a monopoly over information when they are known to distort facts and falsify History on a massive scale? Even the Vedas, Upanishads, Vedangs and Puraans are highly plagiarized books that have collections or compilations of knowledge, which have been copied from the writings of Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, Buddhists, Dravidians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Jews, Christians, Babylonians, Mesopotamians, etc, without the writers of Vedas acknowledging all the original sources.
 
    The credit for the knowledge in the Vedas, Upanishads, Vedangs, and Puraans is given mainly to a few Rishis, Munis or the Brahmins who compiled the ancient books. The credit is not given to the thousands of original authors, scientists and mathematicians from the other castes, like the Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras of India, or from the different races and communities of other parts of the world. Can all the knowledge of the Vedas, Upanishads, Vedangs and Puraans be a monopoly of any single caste like that of the Brahmins?
 
    The worst victims of plagiarization by the Vedic writers were the Buddhist scholars, philosophers, mathematicians, medical scientists, astronomers, discoverers and other scientists. The Vedic Brahmins had cheated the Buddhist intellectuals on a massive scale in the world's largest and most glaring fraud of plagiarism. Practically, all the literary and scientific works of the ancient Buddhist intellectuals were misappropriated by the Vedic Brahmins.
 
    We should know that the numeral 'zero' was invented during the Buddhist rule in India. It seems that even the study and practice of Yoga was turned into a Science by the ancient Buddhists. Many of the ancient statues of Buddha show him meditating in yogic poses. The Science of Yoga could have been developed in the ancient Buddhist universities of India, which taught their students how to meditate. 
 
    The Buddhist scholars, philosophers, mathematicians and scientists were the greatest intellectuals of ancient India because the Buddhist Universities of that period were the best in the world. Students from all over the world had been coming to India to learn in the Buddhist universities.  
 
    Spiritually and intellectually, Buddhism was the greatest religion of ancient times, due to which it spread to many countries of Asia. But because of the belief of Buddhists in non-violence, the Buddhist kings got defeated in the wars imposed by the extremely violent foreign invaders, who finally succeeded in destroying the benign rule of Buddhists in India. The most glorious period of the Buddhist Civilization was also thus brought to an end in India.  
 
    It is not surprising that one of the greatest thinkers of modern India and the world, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Father of the Indian Constitution, became a Buddhist during the last part of his life. Following the example of Dr. Ambedkar, millions of low-caste Hindus have become new converts to the great religion of Buddhism. As Buddhism does not believe in the caste system, the new converts have found an easy way to escape from the evils of the caste system.
 
    The plagiarism by the Brahmins had gone unnoticed for many centuries because the Brahmins had written their books in Sanskrit, which is a language that the common Indians and foreigners had found very difficult to learn in a short time. Only the idle and parasitic Brahmins could easily spare a lot of time to learn that language. The use of Sanskrit was a very suitable means for the Brahmins to keep their act of massive plagiarism a secret for such a long period.
 
    We must also know that literally the word "Veda" can mean a "collection of knowledge" or "compilation of information." In practice, a Veda can mean a "book of knowledge." It is not necessary for the Vedas to be any sacred or divine books, which many Brahmins falsely claim. As knowledge can be good or evil, holy or unholy, the Vedas too contain some literary works that are good and also some other works that are evil. The Vedas contain prayers and praises to Gods and Goddesses, but they also contain curses and threats.
 
    Using the knowledge in the Vedas, the Brahmins can preach and practise discrimination based on the extremely evil caste system, untouchability, etc. The Brahmins are just trying to flatter their own caste, when they describe the Vedas as holy or divine books. It is the word "Divya" which means "Divine" in English. The Vedas were never named as Divya Veda, which can mean Divine Knowledge or Divine Books.
 
HAF should not Compromise on Appointment of Priests
 
    Should the dogmatic Brahmins believe that they have an absolute right to work against the interests of the majority of Hindus, Buddhists and other communities? Should all the Hindus accept the extremely evil Brahmin ideology, which is against the interests of Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Dalits? Should only the Brahmins have their own separate ideology based on their most evil caste system, which they are still propagating through their own institutions and temples by employing only the Brahmin teachers and the Brahmin priests? 
 
    Aditi Banerjee's extremely furious and vicious tirade against the Hindu American Foundation clearly indicates that the bigoted Brahmins are never going to accept the appointment of Dalit, Kshatriya and Vaishya priests in the temples under the control of Brahmins.
 
    The bigoted Brahmins consider all the other castes as inferior. The people of other castes should actually consider the Brahmins as inferior people because many of them are just useless and lazy parasites like the beggars, exploiters and extortionists, who still follow the perverted and primitive religious beliefs and practices of the Dark Ages of 5000 years back.
 
    The Kshatriyas and Vaishyas should be ready to learn some good things from the modern Dalit leaders who now have their own Dalit ideology, which they are spreading through Dalit teachers in Dalit schools and through Dalit priests in Dalit temples.
 
    The Kshatriyas too should follow their own Kshatriya Dharma, which they should spread through their own Kshatriya schools and Kshatriya temples, and they should employ Kshatriya teachers and Kshatriya priests for that purpose. Similarly, the Vaishyas can also follow their own Vaishya Dharma, spreading it through Vaishya schools and Vaishya temples, which should employ Vaishya teachers and Vaishya priests. Like the Dalits, the Kshatriyas and Vaishyas should recite their own prayers to their Gods and Goddesses.
 
    There shall then be no need for the Dalits, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas to deal with the bigoted Brahmin priests.
 
    To prevent discrimination against women, who form about 50 per cent of the Hindu population, the Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Dalits should also train and appoint many female priests. The leaders among the Hindu women can actually themselves take the initiative to start this work of training female priests on a large scale. The female priests should prove to be more suitable for catering to the religious needs of the female devotees belonging to the Hindu community.
 

Thursday, 27 October 2011

The arms firm behind the suppression of #OccupyOakland and Palestine's popular struggle

The arms firm behind the suppression of #OccupyOakland and Palestine's popular struggle

By Max Blumenthal - Wed, 2011-10-26 12:36- Gadfly
With the rise of the Occupy Wall Street, a new generation of mostly middle class Americans is learning for the first time about the militarization of their local police forces. And they are learning the hard way, through confrontations with phalanxes of riot cops armed with the latest in "non-lethal" crowd control weaponry. Yesterday's protests in Oakland, California were the site of perhaps the harshest police violence leveled against the Occupy movement so far. Members of the Oakland Police Department and the California Sheriff's Department attacked unarmed protesters with teargas canisters, beanbag rounds, percussion grenades, and allegedly with rubber bullets, leaving a number of demonstrators with deep contusions and bloody head wounds. It is not difficult to imagine such scenes becoming commonplace as the Occupy protests intensify across the country.
The police repression on display in Oakland reminded me of tactics I witnessed the Israeli army employ against Palestinian popular struggle demonstrations in occupied West Bank villages like Nabi Saleh, Ni'lin and Bilin. So I was not surprised when I learned that the same company that supplies the Israeli army with teargas rounds and other weapons of mass suppression is selling its dangerous wares to the Oakland police. The company is Defense Technology, a Casper, Wyoming based arms firm that claims to "specialize in less lethal technology" and other "crowd management products." Defense Tech sells everything from rubber-coated teargas rounds that bounce in order to maximize gas dispersal to 40 millimeter "direct impact" sponge rounds to "specialty impact" 12 gauge rubber bullets.
[Left: a teargas round fired at Occupy Oakland was manufactured in Casper, Wyoming, the home of Defense Technology]
Defense Tech's literature concedes that "information is somewhat difficult to obtain" on the damage its weapons can do to the human body. However, company researchers were able to determine that a beanbag round fired from a 12 gauge shotgun exerts the same kinetic impact as a .22 caliber bullet. "The result is blunt trauma with no penetration," Defense Tech researchers wrote. Wounds suffered yesterday by protesters in Oakland provided vivid confirmation of the conclusion.
Defense Tech products have injured numerous protesters attending the weekly demonstrations in Bilin, an occupied Palestinian village waging an unarmed struggle against Israel's confiscation of its farmland in order to build its separation wall. Jawaher Abu Rahme, a 36-year-old resident of Bilin, died this year of asphyxiation from Israeli tear gas rounds. Her brother, Bassem, was killed two years earlier when he was struck in the chest by a high velocity teargas shell (see video of his killing here). Activists arriving on the scene after Jawaher Abu Rahme's death found spent teargas shells marked with the Defense Tech label.
[Left: Occupy Oakland demonstrators retrieved a shotgun shell used to propel beanbag rounds and an alleged rubber bullet]
Some Occupy Wall Street activists have argued that Palestine must remain segregated from the movement's agenda. It is a distraction from the essential economic issues that drive the protests, they say, and turns the majority of Americans off. But the issue is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid now that the protesters are confronted with the very same weapons Israel uses to crush unarmed Palestinian resistance.
Defense Tech is owned by BAE Systems, a global weapons manufacturer with customers in more than 100 countries. BAE is currently trading at 280 pounds a share on the London Stock Exchange.

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Terror bursts Omar's remove-AFSPA bubble

Terror bursts Omar's remove-AFSPA bubble


Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:05
Rahul Datta | New Delhi
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Amid a renewed debate over the proposed withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from certain parts of the State, Kashmir Valley was rattled on Tuesday by at least four grenade attacks on security forces at different places within a span of four hours.
The attacks, coming just four days after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced his intentions of removing the controversial Act from at least four cities, including Srinagar, Budgam, Jammu and Samba, have only gone on to back the Army and Defence Ministry’s opposition to the proposed move primarily on the ground that such “enclaves” where the Act is not applicable will embolden the ultras to take shelter there.
The Defence Ministry’s reservations on the proposed plan, sources said, concurred with the Army’s view even as the State Government has taken the plea that these zones are peaceful and relatively free of terrorist violence. The State Government also held parleys with Central Government representatives, including the Cabinet Secretary and Home Secretary, over the last two days on the issue.
The Army maintains that creation of such enclaves will prove to be counter-productive as militants will take shelter in these pockets while the Army will not be able to take action against them in the absence of legal cover as provided by AFSPA. This act was promulgated in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990.
The Defence Ministry agreed with Army’s concerns as it is the premier agency now carrying counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations in the State.
Maintaining that Omar may have “compelling reasons”, Law Minister Salman Khurshid too on Tuesday said the Home Minister and the Defence Minister should “concur” on the issue and the Army should be taken on board before a final decision can be taken (on AFSPA withdrawal).
Elaborating upon the likely consequences of removing AFSPA from four zones, sources gave the example of Imphal. While the entire State of Manipur is covered by the act giving special powers and legal cover to the Army, the AFSPA is not imposed in Imphal.
Officials said this experiment was proving to be a problem for the security forces in the backdrop of ultras taking refuge in the State capital without fear of punitive action or arrest.
As regards Kashmir, they said sustained pro-active stance against Pakistan-backed terrorists has yielded positive results in the last two to three years as levels of violence have come down and infiltration from across the 750-km long Line of Control (LOC) is at an all-time low.
Given this scenario, any let-up and removal of AFSPA from certain towns of Jammu & Kashmir will weaken the hands of the Army and other security forces including the Border Security Force and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), they said.
Incidentally, the Army does not have presence in all the major towns of Jammu & Kashmir and law and order duties and counter-insurgency  operations are carried by the local police along with the CRPF. Counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations are carried out by the security forces under the Unified Command headed by Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister.
The Army operates in the hinterland and rugged mountainous terrain besides the manning the LOC.  Anticipating a spurt in violence and infiltrations bids before snow blocks all ingress routes for the militants, the Army has stepped up aggressive patrolling along the anti-infiltration fence.
Sources said the main objective of aggressive patrolling and real time intelligence based intelligence strikes is to neutralise the infiltrators within the two km of the LOC is militants manage to evade patrols.
Besides these measures, the security forces were denying hideouts to terrorists in remote villages during the winter months by intensifying patrolling and keeping the ultras on the run, they said.

Sadbhavana expenditure details denied to RTI activist

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-10-24/vadodara/30315897_1_rti-activist-information-reply

Sadbhavana expenditure details denied to RTI activist

TNN Oct 24, 2011, 01.46PM IST
Vadodara: Efforts to dig out information regarding expenses incurred during chief minister Narendra Modi's three-day Sadbhavana Mission in Ahmedabad last month by a city-based right to information (RTI) activist have not yielded any results. The applicant, Rohit Prajapati, alleged that the state government is deliberately avoiding giving any information by resorting to dilly-dallying tactics. The state home department in a recent reply to Prajapati has refused to provide most of the information sought by him.
Prajapati had filed an application under RTI on September 17 this year seeking information about the expenses incurred by the government in the event, who decided on holding such event, whether any resolution was moved in the cabinet and who had moved the resolution. He had also sought information about the meeting in which the decision was taken. "We had sent the application to the chief minister's office (CMO) but they forwarded it to the state home department after 20 days on October 7, 2011. We were informed that the home department will provide the information. However, on October 22, the home department replied that it doesn't have the information," Prajapati told TOI.
"The home department said in its reply that a number of departments including government, semi-government and board corporations were involved in the event and hence it does not have all the information. The department also cited a Centre's 2008 notification to refuse the information and said that the information doesn't exist and it will have to produce it," said Prajapati.
The home department has, however, stated that it will provide information that comes under its jurisdiction. The activist had also sought information on the number of police officials involved in the event apart from the areas from which they were summoned.
"The government doesn't want to part with the information related to expenses of the event. So it is resorting to delaying tactics and giving excuses. The home department and CMO are supposed to have every bit of information regarding the event. We have also sought names of the departments that were involved in the event," Prajapati said.
Upset with the government's reply, Prajapati is now planning to approach the state information commissioner.

The Mystery of Disappearances and Discovery of Mass Graves in Kashmir


The Mystery of Disappearances and Discovery of Mass Graves in Kashmir

October 25, 2011
Press Statement by PEOPLES UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES & PEOPLES UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS
PUCL and PUDR organised a meeting on 22 Oct, 2011 on “Enforced Disappearances and Discovery of Mass Graves in Kashmir”. Speakers included Khurram Parvez of International Peoples Tribunal on Kashmir (IPTK) and JKCCS, Paramjeet Kaur Khalra of the Khalra Mission from Punjab, and Supreme Court lawyer Nitya Ramakrishnan, and were presided over by law researcher Usha Ramanatham. Interventions were made by Justice Rajender Sachar, Vrinda Grover, Pushkar Raj and Gautam Navlakha among others. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the issues of disappearances, unidentified and mass graves in Kashmir earlier brought to light by the IPTK and recently corroborated by the findings of the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission, so as to decide the lines of intervention that Indian rights groups could follow to take the issues forward. The attempt was to share and learn from the Punjab experience of the mass unidentified cremations discovered by Jaswant Singh Khalra and the subsequent struggle for justice being waged by Paramjeet Kaur and the Mission.
The positive role played by the Kashmir SHRC was acknowledged. It was pointed out that however in the Punjab case the role of the NHRC became limited to identifying the dead and providing monetary reparation. The circumstances in which the killings and surreptitious disposal of bodies occurred, identifying the political reasons behind these and providing safeguards against future occurrence and punishing the guilty had not been addressed in Punjab. The meeting sounded a cautionary note that the same should not occur in Kashmir. An impassioned plea was made by Paramjeet Kaur of the need to not forget Punjab where justice was still awaited by the families of the victims. The issues emphasised by the speakers were:
1. The need to establish culpability and punish the guilty. In the last two decades no offending security personnel has been prosecuted in Kashmir eg prosecution of Major Avtar Singh accused in the Jalil Andrabi case still awaits sanction from the Defence Ministry despite his being declared a proclaimed offender by Interpol. It is a glaring legal lacuna that enforced disappearances are not a crime under Indian law. But the obvious inference to be drawn from killings and surreptitious burials on such a large scale, with the identities of both the killed and the killers being destroyed, is being perpetrated by the state and its agents. It was pointed out that the circumstances following the disappearance and leading up to the killing – ie wrongful detention, torture, non-production before a magistrate etc. all are crimes in themselves inviting investigation and prosecution.
2. The identification of the dead by tallying the identities of those reported missing against the bodies identified, or through DNA testing. This is an essential step so as to end the uncertainty of families, allow them to mourn their dead and perform the funeral rites with due love and respect. Usha Ramanatham pointed out the absence of a protocol to be followed for DNA testing given that people were being asked to give their DNA to a state that they did not trust, whose agencies were in fact the accused. Apprehensions were expressed about the misuse of the DNA of family members for purposes other than corroboration of identity, for creating secret databases as had been known to happen in the USA.
3. The assertion of the Indian government and the mainstream media that those buried in the unidentified graves were not civilians but militants and foreign militants, as if this mitigated the enormity of the discovery. It was emphasised that the existence of so many unidentified bodies in unmarked graves itself merited an investigation to establish the circumstances of the deaths and affix responsibility, irrespective of the identities of those buried.
4. The claim that there were no mass graves but only unidentified bodies is patently wrong since mass graves are presence of more than one body in a single cadaver with multiple such cadavers present in a graveyard or burial ground.
5. Reparation -Monetary compensation cannot supplant justice. Moreover reparation should extend beyond monetary compensation to social, emotional and psychological reparation.
6. Speakers reiterated that such enforced disappearances, targeted and mass killings, and secret disposal of bodies by security forces were not limited to Punjab and Kashmir, but also extended to Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, and could possibly be the future of Operation Greenhunt areas if due measures were not taken.
7. It was reiterated that the memory of the dead and the lessons of history not be forgotten. That the work of Jaswant Singh Khalra needs to be taken forward even as we awaken to the grim reality of Kashmir.
The following areas of intervention emerged at the end of the meeting:
i) That investigations be ordered into the enforced disappearances and unidentified graves in Kashmir (and cremations in Punjab),and the guilty punished.
ii) That India ratify the UN Convention on Enforced Disappearances to which it is a signatory.
iii) That India stop acting in derogation of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances (to which it is bound as a signatory) by providing complete legal and political impunity to security personnel under laws such as the AFSPA, thus violating various provisions of the Convention such as Article 6 which provides for the responsibility of the superior officer in enforced disappearances.
iv) That the Indian government amend the Prevention of Torture Bill of 2010, in keeping with the recommendations of the Rajya Sabha’s Select Committee eg regarding timebound sanction by the government for prosecuting govt officials together with reasons for refusal of sanction, and in keeping with the articles of the UN Convention on Torture to which too India is a signatory.
v) That we work in cooperation with the group/s in Kashmir who are engaged in this process before the SHRC in order that the ongoing SHRC process itself is strengthened.
Paramjeet Singh, Harish Dhawan
Secretaries PUDR

THE SECRET DIARY OF Digvijay Singh Henceforth the top rung of the Congress, including MPs, will have to become apolitical. Our leaders will simply not campaign for the Congress. They will campaign against the opposition. AJITH PILLAI

 
ILLUSTRATION BY SANDEEP ADHWARYU
THE SECRET DIARY OF
Digvijay Singh
Henceforth the top rung of the Congress, including MPs, will have to become apolitical. Our leaders will simply not campaign for the Congress. They will campaign against the opposition.

Those who matter in the Congress know of my strategy sessions with a clutch of chamchas at the tourist lodge, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. Last week I found myself with four friends eagerly awaiting Diggy raja’s latest gyan. So, after tucking into a palak pakoda, I started. “Gentlemen, as strategies go, we have to think differently, often indifferently. We have to also learn from others. Allow me to share with you Digvijay’s Autumn 2011 musings.” I waited for an applause. None was forthcoming, so I continued. “Henceforth the top rung of the Congress, including MPs, will have to become apolitical,” I pronounced, which made the quartet cock up their ears. “Digvijayji, how is that possible?” wondered one. “It’s simple,” I said in my Sunday-best baritone, “Our leaders will simply not campaign for the Congress. They will campaign against the opposition. Our message will be: don’t vote for BJP/CPI(M)/AIADMK etc. But we will never say vote for the Congress. Thus we will become apolitical—like Kejriwal and Team Anna.”
At this, Shumbunathji, who fancies himself to be a man of letters and science, warmed up. “See, what Digvijayji is implying is that when we campaign against the Left in Bengal and Mamata gains, then it is merely collateral benefit. We have not campaigned for her. And, as Antonio Stradivari, the 16th century philosopher, put it, ‘collateral advantage is directly proportional to the damage inflicted on the rival side.’” Stradivari? I hadn’t heard of him. However, later research on Google (the ultimate engine to divine the truth barring the holy books and Minerva Guide for IAS entrance) revealed he was only credited with crafting exquisite violins. But who cares—Digvijay hates violins and violence! Anyway, that apart, someone in my think-tank wondered if our plan could possibly backfire. “No,” I said emphatically. “See how the apolitical campaign of Team Anna succeeded in Hisar.”
Later, when I broached the idea to Soniaji and Rahulji, they said a committee will have to examine the gameplan. And the omnipresent Rajiv Shukla (a BCCI freak) insisted it must include cricket experts too. So, I found myself at the Taj Mumbai, closeted with Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar and a few nondescript AICC members. Ravi Shastri was first up: “Attacking the opposition instead of patting yourself can pay off. But I get the feeling you have to concentrate on the right areas.” Gavaskar chipped in: “In cricket, knowing the strength of the enemy, and attacking it, is more important. There is no point saying you have a great team when you don’t know where and who to hit.” The substance of what they said amouted to a two-thumbs up for my strategy.
I was pleased as Punch, basking in my moment of glory, when my critic and good friend in the AICC, Janardhan Dwivedi, characteristically tried to spoil my party: “Digvijayji, what’s so new? Isn’t this apolitical bit Team Anna’s original ?” Well, I guess it is. But when our pop music and movies are all plagiarised, why not some inspired politics too...?