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[1] From: "Mohan" <devika@xlweb.com> Date: Wed Oct 12, 2005 Subject: Fw: Changing emblems devika@xlweb.com Changing emblems The government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed. Damn, it just doesn't get more accurate than that. ------------------------------ [2] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:14am Subject: Iraq Effect on Bushism suklasen Offline Send Message Edit Membership The Bush doctrine, before and after By Francis Fukuyama The Financial Times Published: October 10 2005 20:13 | Last updated: October 10 2005 20:13 The "Bush doctrine", as elaborated by George W.???‚¬??°Bush in earlier speeches as well as in the National Security Strategy of the United States in September 2002, was a logical and well thought-out response to the terrorist threat in the wake of September 11, 2001. A senior Clinton administration official once confided privately that in their eight years, the Clintonites never managed to produce a strategy of comparable sophistication. Nonetheless, in Mr Bush???‚¬?„?s second term, its key components lie in shambles. The doctrine is unlikely to have a lasting impact on US foreign policy in future administrations, Republican or Democrat. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0621d07c-39b7-11da-806e-00000e2511c8.html ------------------------------------- [3] From: SANSAD <sansad@sansad.org> Date: Thu Oct 13, 2005 Subject: Analysis of Pakistan earthquake Monday, October 10th, 2005 Tariq Ali speaks to Amy Goodman from Lahore on the Kashmir Earthquake Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/10/1335215 Moeen Cheema, professor of law and policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He is the head of the Adventure Society, an outdoor group that has travelled extensively throughout the region. Tariq Ali, author and activist. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics, including "Bush in Babylon" and "The Clash of Fundamentalisms." ------------------------ [4] MUMBAI'S POOR AND THE DISPLACED TO BE ON THE STREETS MARCH TO MANTRALAYA ON OCTOBER 17TH, 2005 SANDHURST ROAD STATION(11. A. M) TO AZAD MAIDAN (1 -6 p. m) Much more than the flood and the deluge, it's the demolition and displacement in the name of development that is causing havoc in Mumbai, the world-class financial capital. Almost all of the 60 % of Mumbai's population that is living in the poor localities (declared or un declared slums) but also the thousands of families who are on the banks of 'the now focused' MITHI RIVER, the small traders and shop keepers, other thousands who are being pushed out for the never ending projects of expansion of roads and transport infrastructure to airport- are under serious threat. While those 70.000 plus families who were forcibly evicted and made shelter less in the most brutal manner have been fighting a fierce battle, facing flood and force, staying put, re erecting their houses and bastis, others who are made to close down their small shops and traders in the 50 to 30 years old trading centres have also had to challenge the government, one way or the other. The government, through the MMRDA and other authorities is all out to snatch away the land occupied by the poor and lower middle class people, may those be in the dilapidated buildings or some of the old MHADA colonies and hand it over to the BIG BUILDERS allied with the local politicians and their parties. This is now obvious from the illegal and unjust ways and means adopted, the intimidation tactics, the open threats to send us to jail and teach a lesson, attempts to sabotage our meetings and forcible signatures being tried to be obtained, in one basti after another......... Following the monsoon flooding, the petitions filed in the court have brought in a few interim orders while a number of committees and commissions of inquiry are in place. But without anyone having reached it's conclusion, the politician-builder nexus is in a fast track, to restoring to perverted ways, using the Court and the Court order to vacate the land from the working classes the decades old occupants. The same is being handed over for building malls to other luxurious projects when the real estate is THE WAY to make money, the way similar to the one adopted while disposing off the mill lands in the heart of the City. While the intellectuals, the middle and upper class citizens including many an environmentalist and the concerned groups and organizations have kept quiet or remained ignorant of what is happening on the ground... in the bastis, on the river bank... those affected and threatened are raising, not only a voice against this repressive and oppression displacement for flawed development agenda, but questions related to the corruption at its peak, the corporatisation and the builder-savvy criminalisation of politics. These working class people in Mumbai, the slum dwellers, the unorganised sector workers, the hawkers and small traders, the fish workers are to march on the streets of Mumbai, in thousands. The March to Mantralaya will begin from the ground near old Derby Theatre, Sandhurst Road Station at 11 am on October 17th and reach Azad Maiden at 1 pm. Where a mass gathering and public meeting will be addressed by eminent activists and the affected people themselves. Courtesy:Ronald Rebello |
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