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[1] From: Logically Genius <gurudatta_raut-socialengineer@yahoo.co.in> Date: Fri Aug 18, 2006 Subject: Re: [politics_in_india] THE MAN MADE FLASH FLOOD OF SURAT Now they want to spend millions on curtailing thoes floods. "dn.rath" <dn.rath@gmail.com> wrote: THE MAN MADE FLASH FLOOD OF SURAT- GUJARAT ------------- [2] From: DisarmamentTimes@aol.com Date: Thu Aug 17, 2006 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] The Gandhi Nobody Knows Richard Grenier I wonder why someone bothered to resurrect this article more than two decades after it was written and circulate it on this list. Bhaskar Menon -------------- [3] India Drowning In Pesticides By Vandana Shiva http://www.countercurrents.org/shiva170806.htm The issue of toxics and poisons in our food system has once again moved to the contre of national concern. CSE's study on pesticides in Coke and Pepsi shows that three years after the Joint Parliamentary Committee, no action has been taken by the cola giants ----------------- [4] From: Pradip Kumar Datta <pradip200@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Aug 17, 2006 Subject: NTPC in sight of Rs 20,000 cr Arunachal hydel project NTPC in sight of Rs 20,000 cr Arunachal hydel project Utpal Bhaskar / New Delhi August 14, 2006 NTPC Ltd is on the verge of signing it’s biggest power generation project, a Rs20,000-crore hydel project at Italin (4,000 Mw) in Arunachal Pradesh. In addition, the state government has agreed to sign an agreement with the company to set up another 500 Mw of hydel generation capacity at another location. "The decision on the memorandum of understanding was reached in a meeting held by the power ministry with the state government last month. The memorandum of understanding with the state government and NTPC is expected to be signed shortly," a company executive told Business Standard. This is the second major boost for developing hydropower in the state after Arunachal Pradesh’s arrangement with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation for setting up 10,500 Mw of hydropower capacity. NTPC currently has a hydel project that is under construction at Koldam (800 Mw) in Himachal Pradesh, which is expected to be completed by 2008. The single largest project NTPC has executed is the thermal-based Talcher (3,000 Mw) project in Orissa. In a separate development, the Arunachal Pradesh government has also agreed to enter into an agreement with North Eastern Electric Power Corporation for setting up 1,000 Mw of hydropower capacity in the state with an estimated investment of around Rs 5,000 crore. Arunachal Pradesh had earlier offered Hutang-I and II and Kalai-I and II for development to NTPC Ltd. http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=101464&leftnm=1&sub Left=0&chkFlg= --------------- [5] From: Pradip Kumar Datta <pradip200@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Aug 17, 2006 Subject: Major blast rocks Hindu temple in eastern India Major blast rocks Hindu temple in eastern India Wed Aug 16, 11:51 AM ET NEW DELHI (AFP) - A powerful blast ripped through a Hindu temple in the far eastern Indian state of Manipur and casualties were feared, reports said. AFP Photo: A survivor of a powerful bomb blast in a crowded Hindu temple is watched over... The major explosion hit a temple to Lord Krishna in the Manipur capital of Imphal, the Press Trust of India said on Wednesday. One television network reported at least two people were killed and 15 injured in the blast, and added that at least three foreigners were among those wounded. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060816/wl_sthasia_afp/indiaunrestblast_06081615512 2 ------------ [6] rkurian Date: Wed Aug 16, 2006 Subject: Muslim Myopia...Irshad Manji in the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/opinion/16manji.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewant ed=print The New York Times August 16, 2006 Op-Ed Contributor Muslim Myopia By IRSHAD MANJI New Haven LAST week, the luminaries of the British Muslim mainstream ??? lobbyists, lords and members of Parliament ??? published an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, telling him that the ???debacle??? of both Iraq and Lebanon provides ???ammunition to extremists who threaten us all.??? In increasingly antiwar America, a similar argument is gaining traction: The United States brutalizes Muslims, which in turn foments Islamist terror. -------------- [7] From: Rila Mukherjee <rila1@vsnl.net> Date: Wed Aug 16, 2006 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] [Fwd: Letter to newspapers] Good for you, Mukul ---------------- [8] From: Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Aug 16, 2006 Subject: US Health Department Admits Vaccines Behind Childhood Disorders. To: H E Sri A P J Abdul Kalam Azad, Hon'ble President of India, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. Dt: 16.08.2006 Most Revered Sir, Please accept my respectful pranam. I have been writing to you regularly regarding our suspicion that vaccines, and their ingredients, could be behind many of the autism related behavioral disorders and also neurological problems in children. The vaccine manufacturers as well as the US based CDC and FDA have been regularly denying this link. Recently a CDC Official resigned presumably because he did not support the coverup in this regard. And now the coverup has been exposed. As per a US govt led investigation, as early as 1991 doctors have expressed that the vaccine ingredients are a probable cause behind the many incurable illnesses that confront children today. Full article at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indiadebates ----------------- [9] From: Arif Khan <ank2000pk@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Aug 16, 2006 Subject: The UK Air Terror plot: what's really going on? Is it a Hoax? Inreasing number of political analysts in Muslim world think that UK air terror plot was a hoax to divert attention from Israel's barbaric attack on Lebanon. British and American as well as Pakistani officials have been fooled by Zionist secret agencies. Some Pakistani journalists also hint toward Indian involvement in thier attempts to prove Pakistan as a terrorist state. Pakistaanis agencies have been reported looking for the master mind who belongs to a banned militant group. That was involved in killing of Shia doctors and scholars and Iranina diplomats. They have been trying to fuel sectarian hatred and riots in Pakistan for which they are said to getting money from secret sources in Europe. The following articles also raises interesting questions? The UK Terror plot: what's really going on? By Craig Murray I have been reading very carefully through all the Sunday newspapers to try and analyse the truth from all the scores of pages claiming to detail the so-called bomb plot. Unlike the great herd of so-called security experts doing the media analysis, I have the advantage of having had the very highest security clearances myself, having done a huge amount of professional intelligence analysis, and having been inside the spin machine. So this, I believe, is the true story. None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time. In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases passports, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat rooms. What is more, many of those arrested had been under surveillance for over a year - like thousands of other British Muslims. And not just Muslims. Like me. Nothing from that surveillance had indicated the need for early arrests. Then an interrogation in Pakistan revealed the details of this amazing plot to blow up multiple planes - which, rather extraordinarily, had not turned up in a year of surveillance. Of course, the interrogators of the Pakistani dictator have their ways of making people sing like canaries. As I witnessed in Uzbekistan, you can get the most extraordinary information this way. Trouble is it always tends to give the interrogators all they might want, and more, in a desperate effort to stop or avert torture. What it doesn't give is the truth. The gentleman being "interrogated" had fled the UK after being wanted for questioning over the murder of his uncle some years ago. That might be felt to cast some doubt on his reliability. It might also be felt that factors other than political ones might be at play within these relationships. Much is also being made of large transfers of money outside the formal economy. Not in fact too unusual in the British Muslim community, but if this activity is criminal, there are many possibilities that have nothing to do with terrorism. We then have the extraordinary question of Bush and Blair discussing the possible arrests over the weekend. Why? I think the answer to that is plain. Both in desperate domestic political trouble, they longed for "Another 9/11". The intelligence from Pakistan, however dodgy, gave them a new 9/11 they could sell to the media. The media has bought, wholesale, all the rubbish they have been shovelled. We then have the appalling political propaganda of John Reid, Home Secretary, making a speech warning us all of the dreadful evil threatening us and complaining that "Some people don't get" the need to abandon all our traditional liberties. He then went on, according to his own propaganda machine, to stay up all night and minutely direct the arrests. There could be no clearer evidence that our Police are now just a political tool. Like all the best nasty regimes, the knock on the door came in the middle of the night, at 2.30am. Those arrested included a mother with a six week old baby. For those who don't know, it is worth introducing Reid. A hardened Stalinist with a long term reputation for personal violence, at Stirling Univeristy he was the Communist Party's "Enforcer", (in days when the Communist Party ran Stirling University Students' Union, which it should not be forgotten was a business with a very substantial cash turnover). Reid was sent to beat up those who deviated from the Party line. We will now never know if any of those arrested would have gone on to make a bomb or buy a plane ticket. Most of them do not fit the "Loner" profile you would expect - a tiny percentage of suicide bombers have happy marriages and young children. As they were all under surveillance, and certainly would have been on airport watch lists, there could have been little danger in letting them proceed closer to maturity - that is certainly what we would have done with the IRA. In all of this, the one thing of which I am certain is that the timing is deeply political. This is more propaganda than plot. Of the over one thousand British Muslims arrested under anti-terrorist legislation, only twelve per cent are ever charged with anything. That is simply harrassment of Muslims on an appalling scale. Of those charged, 80% are acquitted. Most of the very few - just over two per cent of arrests - who are convicted, are not convicted of anything to do terrorism, but of some minor offence the Police happened upon while trawling through the wreck of the lives they had shattered. Be sceptical. Be very, very sceptical. http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/index.html |
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