The Saddam execution certainly seems to be the heights of stupidity (in addition of course to being illegal but we know that already). Wont this send waves of anti-US flames across the middle east? And why only the middle east - there were protests in even India over it. This day has certainly provided a big fillip to the anti-US brigade. It is a very foolish and selfish (in addition to criminal) for the president of a country to initiate events which incite hatred against his own country. My sympathies with the people of the US.
Former Supreme Court judge, V.R. Krishna Iyer
"I respect the great American people but detest President Bush the bully. Iraq is a sovereign country. No other country can invade a sovereign nation under International Law except when international sanctions approved by the United Nations are permitted. President Bush violated international law when he militarily attacked Iraq for no reason except for freebooting and plundering its oil resources. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed by the American Military. This is atrocious. Saddam Hussein was the President of Iraq. He has perhaps committed crimes as President. It is for the people of Iraq to overthrow him, or remove his rule and not for America or its terrible President. A court trial was gone through. I regard it a farce. The death sentence was foregone since Bush wished it. The sentence by a counterfeit court cannot carry conviction especially because President Bush managed it all. Saddam Hussein's hanging is a brutal murder for which history will hold Bush guilty."
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
The hidden terrorist
Facts.
1. "Since January 2002, when the first Muslim men were flown from Afghanistan to Guantanamo, an estimated 14,000 men have been held. They have been hidden in prisons, army barracks, holes in the ground, private houses, hotels, and schools. Those responsible for them have been in overlapping chains of command, including the U.S. Department of Defence, the CIA, and the national intelligence services of many countries, such as Britain."
Links: http://www.cageprisoners.com/
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17965
1. "Since January 2002, when the first Muslim men were flown from Afghanistan to Guantanamo, an estimated 14,000 men have been held. They have been hidden in prisons, army barracks, holes in the ground, private houses, hotels, and schools. Those responsible for them have been in overlapping chains of command, including the U.S. Department of Defence, the CIA, and the national intelligence services of many countries, such as Britain."
Links: http://www.cageprisoners.com/
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=17965
India's mistakes (lesson: dont trust the US)
Mistakes:
1. trusted the US.
2. gave up her self-respect and sucked up to the US. 1 was a necessary (but definitely NEVER sufficient) condition for 2.
Consequences:
US, as expected by anyone who would have the slightest hint of the role US is looking to play in most other nations' futures, lands India in a hole.
Facts:
(From an article in The Hindu by Dr. M.R. Srinivasan - a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.)
1. India and US agree on a 'nuclear deal' - July 2005 and March 2006. People are gaga about it without realising the fine points and the probable consequences.
2. "Henry J. Hyde, United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006" deviates, very seriously and with dire consequences for India, from the agreements.
2a. The act contains a provision for the suspension of all cooperation were India to conduct a nuclear test in future. This comes from a country which is stockpiling nuclear weapons and developing new such weapons (e.g. the US is working on the design of a "Reliable Replacement Weapon" (RRW) to modernise its nuclear arsenal. Also, the US has signed but not ratified the CTBT - huh? just another instance of its many hypocrisies.). So, if India starts using imported reactors and imported fuel channeled through this deal, it shall be in no position to ever conduct a nuclear test again - when all and sundry may be doing it.
2b. In the previous agreements, the US insisted on India placing some of its reactors under voluntary "safeguards in perpetuity" in return for nuclear fuel supplies being maintained. It also agreed to work with other nuclear suppliers to enable India to secure nuclear fuel so that its nuclear power stations could continue to operate. The Hyde Act has reneged on this. The Act even calls upon the U.S. administration to work with the Nuclear Suppliers Group to ensure that India cannot get supplies of nuclear fuel if, for reasons contained in the Act, the U.S. is required to suspend supplies to India.
2c. "full civilian nuclear energy cooperation" was promised to India in July 2005 and India assumed that this term encompassed the fuel cycle, namely enrichment of uranium and reprocessing of spent fuel. Now, U.S. legislators have argued that the U.S. Atomic Energy Act of 1954 specifically forbids export of these technologies, as also heavy water production technology to other countries. (Thankfully, India has developed its own technologies in these three vital areas.) Apparently the US president is ignorant of his country's laws or the Americans have a very different (and twisted) definition of "full".
2d. With regard to the sequencing of actions, the understanding between India and the U.S. was that the approval of the U.S. Congress and removal of restrictions on nuclear trade with India would take place simultaneously with NSG clearance to make exemptions in favour of India and with India placing facilities designated as civilian by India under IAEA safeguards. The present Act requires India to have concluded "all legal steps prior to signature by the parties of an agreement requiring the application of IAEA safeguards in perpetuity... "; and also that "India and IAEA are making substantial progress toward concluding an Additional Protocol," among other conditions....In "Definitions," it is clearly stated that the "Additional Protocol" is to be based on the Model Additional protocol of the IAEA applicable to non-nuclear weapon states, which is highly intrusive... and many more conditions.
Another link:http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/16/stories/2006121616171500.htm
1. trusted the US.
2. gave up her self-respect and sucked up to the US. 1 was a necessary (but definitely NEVER sufficient) condition for 2.
Consequences:
US, as expected by anyone who would have the slightest hint of the role US is looking to play in most other nations' futures, lands India in a hole.
Facts:
(From an article in The Hindu by Dr. M.R. Srinivasan - a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.)
1. India and US agree on a 'nuclear deal' - July 2005 and March 2006. People are gaga about it without realising the fine points and the probable consequences.
2. "Henry J. Hyde, United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006" deviates, very seriously and with dire consequences for India, from the agreements.
2a. The act contains a provision for the suspension of all cooperation were India to conduct a nuclear test in future. This comes from a country which is stockpiling nuclear weapons and developing new such weapons (e.g. the US is working on the design of a "Reliable Replacement Weapon" (RRW) to modernise its nuclear arsenal. Also, the US has signed but not ratified the CTBT - huh? just another instance of its many hypocrisies.). So, if India starts using imported reactors and imported fuel channeled through this deal, it shall be in no position to ever conduct a nuclear test again - when all and sundry may be doing it.
2b. In the previous agreements, the US insisted on India placing some of its reactors under voluntary "safeguards in perpetuity" in return for nuclear fuel supplies being maintained. It also agreed to work with other nuclear suppliers to enable India to secure nuclear fuel so that its nuclear power stations could continue to operate. The Hyde Act has reneged on this. The Act even calls upon the U.S. administration to work with the Nuclear Suppliers Group to ensure that India cannot get supplies of nuclear fuel if, for reasons contained in the Act, the U.S. is required to suspend supplies to India.
2c. "full civilian nuclear energy cooperation" was promised to India in July 2005 and India assumed that this term encompassed the fuel cycle, namely enrichment of uranium and reprocessing of spent fuel. Now, U.S. legislators have argued that the U.S. Atomic Energy Act of 1954 specifically forbids export of these technologies, as also heavy water production technology to other countries. (Thankfully, India has developed its own technologies in these three vital areas.) Apparently the US president is ignorant of his country's laws or the Americans have a very different (and twisted) definition of "full".
2d. With regard to the sequencing of actions, the understanding between India and the U.S. was that the approval of the U.S. Congress and removal of restrictions on nuclear trade with India would take place simultaneously with NSG clearance to make exemptions in favour of India and with India placing facilities designated as civilian by India under IAEA safeguards. The present Act requires India to have concluded "all legal steps prior to signature by the parties of an agreement requiring the application of IAEA safeguards in perpetuity... "; and also that "India and IAEA are making substantial progress toward concluding an Additional Protocol," among other conditions....In "Definitions," it is clearly stated that the "Additional Protocol" is to be based on the Model Additional protocol of the IAEA applicable to non-nuclear weapon states, which is highly intrusive... and many more conditions.
Another link:http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/16/stories/2006121616171500.htm
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
How the US is driving Indian farmers (and many more) to suicide
ref: http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/13/stories/2006121303801000.htm
quoting:
The State (of Maharashtra) also admits that giant U.S. subsidies to that country's 20,000 cotton growers is hitting the millions of farmers in this region(maharashtra). Yet the Centre has not seen it fit to raise import duties. Which now stand at just ten per cent. And so India's cotton imports in seven years leading to 2005 were three times what they were in the preceding 25 years.
.....
The U.S. cotton crop last year was worth around $3.9 billion. But that nation's handouts to its growers the same year totalled $4.7 billion. Such subsidies have sunk global prices.
.....
"the numbers of suicides in the six districts continues to be in the range of 100 a month." The Maharashtra Government's own count for this year is more than 1,250 suicides. In just the six worst-hit districts.
quoting:
The State (of Maharashtra) also admits that giant U.S. subsidies to that country's 20,000 cotton growers is hitting the millions of farmers in this region(maharashtra). Yet the Centre has not seen it fit to raise import duties. Which now stand at just ten per cent. And so India's cotton imports in seven years leading to 2005 were three times what they were in the preceding 25 years.
.....
The U.S. cotton crop last year was worth around $3.9 billion. But that nation's handouts to its growers the same year totalled $4.7 billion. Such subsidies have sunk global prices.
.....
"the numbers of suicides in the six districts continues to be in the range of 100 a month." The Maharashtra Government's own count for this year is more than 1,250 suicides. In just the six worst-hit districts.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Interference rewards
too obvious to write. just consider the western nation (western europe mostly) interference with all other cultures from the americas to the africas to asia to the pacific.
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