Nuclear Strike Against the Legacy of Non Violence and Peace

Nuclear Strike Against the Legacy of Non Violence and Peace

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TopNews Sonia Gandhi launches Rs 23 bn housing project
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THE WINNER: Manmohan Singh will, in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections, occupy centre stage. New Delhi: The passing of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal by the US Senate has done a great deal to increase the Prime Minister's standing within his own party.


Bush ready to sign nuclear bill into law
Lalit K Jha
Thursday, October 02, 2008, (New York)
US President George Bush is now assured of leaving the White House with his personal stamp on America's foreign policy.

Just like Richard Nixon, the US President from 1969 to 1974, is known for forging a new relationship with China, Bush would now be remembered for bringing India on board.

He is likely to put his permanent seal on this Indo-US relationship by signing into law the Indo-US Nuclear Cooperation approval and Non-proliferation Enhancement Act. The bill was ratified by the Senate late on Wednesday night (US time) by a landslide margin of 86 votes to 13 and in the US House of Representatives a couple of days ago by two-third majority.

"I look forward to signing this bill into law and continuing to strengthen the US-India strategic partnership," Bush said a statement which was issued soon after the bill crossed its last legislative hurdle from the Senate.

Administrative sources told NDTV.com that the bill could be signed into law as early as this week itself or by next week at the most. Bush had initially hoped to sign the deal last week when the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met him at the White House on September 25.

At a time, when nothing seems to be going right for the US President be it the financial crisis or the war against terror in Iraq and Afghanistan with the passage of the bill, Bush can now have a sigh of relief that he has been successful in initiating and completing a major foreign policy landmark in the US history.

"This legislation will strengthen our global nuclear nonproliferation efforts, protect the environment, create jobs, and assist India in meeting its growing energy needs in a responsible manner," Bush said.

The agreement ends a three-decade ban on US nuclear trade with India; it opens up opportunities for American businesses to engage with India in nuclear trade worth billions of dollars.
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Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi was the best depiction of Bapuji!Many would support. others may choose the simplest way of Munna Bhai, the gandhigiri!but the fact remains that the best-portrayed image of Gandhi was by the British actor Ben Kingsley, in Richard Attenborough’s 1982 film Gandhi, which also won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. The film not only spoke about Gandhiji’s personal or political life during the independence movement but also depicted the growth of Gandhi as a political leader and national hero who became an inspiration for all the generations.

Sony Max screened the film `Gandhi’ today on 12 AM Noon.Not very late, Indian TV Channels broke the ultimate News! The NUKE Deal got through US Senate and Barrack Obama as well as Mc Cain Voted for! As expected, US democracy has fooled itself. In spite of clearance from both Senate & House, Indo-US nuke deal stands non- ratified. This deal is not even worth the paper it is printed on.
Incompetent members of House & senators who cannot silence worthless
gay-lobby of US are passing silly resolutions. This simply means that
American policy makers are NOT part of US democracy. Only kids across
the globe will take American democracy seriously.

What a tribute to Gandhi!

I am not a Gandhian any way. I never consider him the Father of the Nation. for me, he was the destroyer of the Indian geopolitics! The supreme architect of Indian Brahminical Hegemony which incidentally realigned in US lead completing the Phoenix circle of Mansmriti based Post Modern Sensex Brahminical Hindutva, Zionism and White Apartheid!The coincidence, thus, seems quite interesting for me!

Rather I am stunned to see the manner of Indian ruling class to pay a tribute to the legacy of Non Violence and Peace, in fact, prefaced by lord Buddha!

The United Nations General Assembly today decided to observe the International Day of Non-Violence each year on 2 October – the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, who helped lead India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Introducing the resolution adopted by the 192-member body, Anand Sharma, India’s Minister of State for External Relations, said the idea originated at an international conference on “Peace, Non-Violence and Empowerment – Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century” convened in New Delhi in January this year.

The late leader’s “novel mode of mass mobilization and non-violent action” brought down colonialism, strengthened the roots of popular sovereignty, of civil, political and economic rights, and greatly influenced many a freedom struggle and inspired leaders like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Sharma stated.

The Assembly, “desiring to secure a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence,” invited States, UN bodies, regional and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals to commemorate the Day, including through education and public awareness.

In a further effort to promote a culture of peace and cultural diversity, the Assembly also decided to recognize the year from 12 September 2007 to 11 September 2008 as “the year commemorating the Ethiopian Millennium.”

Highlighting the significance of the event, Ethiopian Ambassador Negash Kebret Botora, said it is “not only for celebrating the unique and distinct nature of our system of calendar” but also “helps promote and further strengthen cultural understanding among the people of the world.”

The Assembly began its work today by extending its condolences to the family of former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, who died yesterday, as well as to the Government and people of Austria.

Leading the Assembly’s remembrance of Mr. Waldheim, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to him and all his predecessors, who have served in what has been called “the most impossible job on earth.”
15 June 2007

Majority Leader Reid, a Nevada Democrat, exercised his authority to
attach the bailout plan to an unrelated piece of legislation already
on the Senate calendar, a bill that mandated equal treatment by
healthcare insurers for mental and physical illnesses. This
parliamentary maneuver allowed the Senate to evade the constitutional
requirement that all spending legislation originate in the lower
house.

This fragrant disregard for the constitution that is designed to
protect the rights of the citizens is the in keeping with the program
of the the Democrats, a program of cow-towing to the diktats of big
business at the expense of those they have been charged to represent.

The US is not a Democracy, it is a plutocracy, headed by a parasitic,
criminal cabal of murders, thieves and thugs, on both side of the
house.

Buoyed by the ban on smoking in public places that went into force across the country on Thursday, a jubilant Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said his next big wish is to see a ban on all tobacco products. According to Ramadoss, Jharkhand, Delhi and Chandigarh are some states which have already begun implementing the ban. A pet project of Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, the ban on smoking would cover hotels, restaurants, pubs, offices and even international airports.

While a majority of states are enthusiastic about implementing the ban, few like Maharashtra and Bihar have shown reluctance in doing so. The ban has evoked mixed response from smokers and non-smokers with some calling it a “draconian” measure while others consider it a “god-send” gift that may help them in bringing down the intake of nicotine and reduce cutting a hole in their wallets. Ramadoss, however, said the states have been given two options -- one is to use the money for tobacco control programme and the other is to deposit it in the state treasury in line with the fine amounts for traffic violations.


Any violation of the ban is a punishable offence with fine up to Rs 200. The Centre, meanwhile, is also not “so sure” about the implementing agencies of the ban. While anybody can complain to authorities concerned if a person is found smoking, there is no hard and fast rule as to where the Rs 200 fine would be deposited.

Which is more polluting Nuclear Energy or smoking?

What they have done to the nation shifting the war zone exclusively in Indian geopolitics, the South Asia!

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that Gandhiji's ideology of non violence could be the best answer to the global terrori
sm.

Modi, who was at Gandhiji's birth place Porbunder on the occasion of his 139th birth anniversary, said, "we should follow the path of Gandhiji and adapt his non-violence against the global terrorism."

Terrorism has no limits and has spread to every corner of the world, Modi said, adding the world could be freed from it only by adapting Gandhiji's ideology of non-violence.

The Gujarat government has decided to develop rural areas in the state on lines with the Gandhiji's thoughts and has given the villages latest technologies and blood bank facilities, he said.

The Chief Minister laid foundation stone of new collector office in Porbunder, to be constructed with a cost of Rs six crore, and also unveiled statues of Gandhiji and Kasturba at Sandipani ashram.

Labelling terrorists as "enemies of the country" and terrorism a "national problem", Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said their designs would not succeed and also warned those making political mileage out of the issue.
Speaking at a rally in Panipat on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, Sonia Gandhi said, "Lakhs of freedom fighters laid down their lives in the freedom struggle... But today some people through terrorism are killing several innocent people and creating an atmosphere of terror."

Taking a strong stand against terrorism, Gandhi said, "They (terrorists) want to end social unity and brotherhood.

Such people are enemies of society and the country. Such activities should be rooted out. This is a national problem and everybody should come together to fight it."


In Delhi, the ban on smoking in public places is already there. The administration has fined 1,131 people for smoking in the capital till July 31 this year.

In a tongue and cheek comment, Shah Rukh Khan on Thursday said, “it is a good step to make sure that the country is smoke free. Better step would be to ban cigarettes, make them illegal and hang anyone who is smoking. We cannot do that as we are a democratic country.”

However, he said he think that everybody should follow the ban. “I hope everyone call upon their good self to do it.

I myself would try my best,” he added.

Asserting that the smooth passage of the Indo-US nuclear deal in the US Congress was a vindication of its stand, India on Thursday said t
he step had corrected a "historical wrong".

"A truly historical moment in terms of ending the long, long isolation of India not just in terms of nuclear commerce but in terms of high-technology denial," Indian ambassador to the US Ronen Sen said after the deal cleared its last legislative hurdle is the Senate.

"A sense of vindication for India and a correction of a historic wrong," he said.

Sen said it was a "remarkable day" with 86 out of 100 Senators supporting the bill."It shows the solid bi-partisan support at the time of great divisiveness in this country.

"It is a historic moment and personally for me it is a deep sense of gratification...the leadership shown by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh."

In Washington:The US Congress on Wednesday approved a landmark deal ending a three-decade ban on US nuclear trade with India, handing a victory to President George W Bush on one of his top foreign policy priorities.
Final approval came as the Senate voted to ratify the deal, 86-13, sending the legislation to Bush to sign into law. The Senate's move came just ahead of an expected trip to India this weekend by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Bush said he looks forward to signing the bill into law.

"This legislation will strengthen our global nuclear nonproliferation efforts, protect the environment, create jobs, and assist India in meeting its growing energy needs in a responsible manner," Bush said in a statement.

In New Delhi: Hailing the passage of the Indo-US nuclear deal by US Congress, India on Wednesday said the world at large has now recognised it as a nuclear power.
"The world needs India as India needs the world. It's something which we have understood but the world at large has now recognised...We are now a recognised nuclear power," National Security Adviser M K Narayanan said.

With the Senate overwhelmingly voting a bill rejecting all killer amendments, the US Congress has put its stamp of approval on the nuclear deal, paving the way for the implementation of the major initiative between the two countries.

The deal, entered into between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W Bush in 2005 and which nearly brought down the UPA Government, was approved by the Senate with 86 voting for and 13 against with bi-partisan support after rejecting the killer amendments moved by two Democratic Senators.

With the Senate vote, the deal is now ready for signing by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when she arrives in New Delhi on her rescheduled trip on Saturday with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.



Finally, it's done: India back on the nuclear train
2 Oct 2008, 1110 hrs IST, Chidanand Rajghatta,TNN

WASHINGTON: Three decades of nuclear apartheid that New Delhi had been subjected to, ended, appropriately enough, on Gandhi Jayanti (day) in India. E
jected from the train of nuclear elites and their submissive groupies following its experimental 1974 nuclear test, and hounded and ostracized since then for its infractions, including the five 1998 tests, India has got back on board, with a helping hand from Uncle Sam.

The final Senate vote on Wednesday that approved the US-India civilian nuclear agreement was a foregone conclusion, as was the thumping 86-13 margin. But what was striking was the across the board support that found even rival presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, besides a host of heavyweights on both sides of the aisle such as Hillary Clinton, Richard Lugar, and Joe Biden, backing the deal on what was a momentous day for more than one reason. ( Watch )

That the Senate took up the nuclear deal vote on the same day it considered the monumental financial rescue package was a testament to both its own sense of sense of occasion and the Bush administration's relentless pursuit of a strategic objective despite overwhelming domestic distraction.

But on both counts, history was made. One vote overturned three decades of nuclear prejudice; another upturned an even longer run of unfettered capitalism. Never before had the Senate, sometimes described as the most powerful club on earth, essayed such a double deal.

The successful vote also capped a rare foreign policy triumph for an administration that is otherwise set to bow out of office in disrepute. Bush himself was quick to congratulate the Senate for its vote. "This legislation will strengthen our global nuclear nonproliferation efforts, protect the environment, create jobs, and assist India in meeting its growing energy needs in a responsible manner," he said in a statement immediately after the vote.

The President is expected to sign the bill into law, possibly as early as Thursday or Friday. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a former Stanford University provost who scripted the Bush administration's strategic shift towards India that led to the deal, will arrive in New Delhi on Saturday to sign the inter-governmental instruments that will operationalize the deal.
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is whether society should be organized on the basis
of private ownership of the means of production
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In Washington:The US Congress on Wednesday approved a landmark deal ending a three-decade ban on US nuclear trade with India, handing a victory to President George W Bush on one of his top foreign policy priorities.
Final approval came as the Senate voted to ratify the deal, 86-13, sending the legislation to Bush to sign into law. The Senate's move came just ahead of an expected trip to India this weekend by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Bush said he looks forward to signing the bill into law.

"This legislation will strengthen our global nuclear nonproliferation efforts, protect the environment, create jobs, and assist India in meeting its growing energy needs in a responsible manner," Bush said in a statement.

In New Delhi: Hailing the passage of the Indo-US nuclear deal by US Congress, India on Wednesday said the world at large has now recognised it as a nuclear power.
"The world needs India as India needs the world. It's something which we have understood but the world at large has now recognised...We are now a recognised nuclear power," National Security Adviser M K Narayanan said.

With the Senate overwhelmingly voting a bill rejecting all killer amendments, the US Congress has put its stamp of approval on the nuclear deal, paving the way for the implementation of the major initiative between the two countries.

The deal, entered into between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W Bush in 2005 and which nearly brought down the UPA Government, was approved by the Senate with 86 voting for and 13 against with bi-partisan support after rejecting the killer amendments moved by two Democratic Senators.

With the Senate vote, the deal is now ready for signing by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when she arrives in New Delhi on her rescheduled trip on Saturday with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

In washington:The landmark India-US civil nuclear deal received a resounding 86-13 approval from the Senate, but not before Secretary of State Condolee
zza Rice had assured that a nuclear test by India will result in "most serious consequences".

As the Senate began a debate on the approval legislation on Wednesday Rice sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying the Bush Administration would prefer a "clean legislation" with no fresh amendments, but also held out an assurance that a test by India would entail automatic cut-off of US cooperation besides several other sanctions.

"I understand that some Senators have questions about the impact of an Indian nuclear test on this initiative," wrote America's top diplomat who has been leading the administration's all out push to get the deal done at the earliest.

"We believe the Indian Government intends to uphold the continuation of the nuclear testing moratorium it affirmed to the United States in 2005 and reiterated to the broader international community as recently as September 5, 2008," Rice said.

Appreciating Reid's consideration of the Bill "within such an extraordinary time-frame", Rice said they wouldn't be asking for such exceptional action if they did not believe it was necessary to complete an initiative on which both the Administration and the Congress have worked very hard and on a thoroughly bi-partisan basis since 2005.

Meanwhile at the White House, spokesman Tony Fratto made it a point to tell reporters that President George Bush engaged as he was in telephonic conversations with lawmakers to win Congressional passage for the administration's $700 financial rescue plan, was also paying attention to the deal.

"And also one other thing to point to: This evening there will also be votes on the India civil nuclear agreement, and so we'll be paying attention to those votes also," he said.

At the State Department, Spokesman Sean McCormack said before the vote: "We have been working quite closely with both sides, the House and the Senate. The House has acted and it is now for the Senate to consider the measure."

"We would urge the passage of the legislation, as we have done in the past.

We think it's an important legislation that's good for the United States. It's good for the global non-proliferation regime, and it's good for the US-India relationship," he said.

There had been "No, no change of heart. No," on the part of administration on the deal said McCormack in reply to another question.

Asked if Rice had many phone calls to the lawmakers Wednesday, he said: "I don't believe that there were any phone calls today. But she's been quite active in working this issue over the past ..."

"We're hoping - we're hopeful for a positive vote. But again, each individual senator is going to have to express their views through their vote. And we hope the final tally is one that allows the legislation to pass," McCormack said.


The Bush administration says the pact will secure a strategic partnership with the world's largest democracy, help India meet its rising energy demand and open up a market worth billions.

But critics say the deal does grave damage to global efforts to contain the spread of nuclear weapons, by letting India import nuclear fuel and technology even though it has tested nuclear weapons and never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

"The US-Indian Agreement for Nuclear Cooperation is, nonetheless, a nonproliferation disaster," said Daryl Kimball, head of the Arms Control Association.

"Contrary to the counterfactual claims of proponents and apologists, it does not bring India into the "nonproliferation mainstream."

The ACA is a non-partisan Washington-based arms control policy organization.

India has a yawning energy deficit, and the accord opens up this market worth billions to American companies such as General Electric and Westinghouse Electric, a unit of Japan's Toshiba Corp.

Rice spent much of the past month in an all-out effort to persuade Congress to approve the pact, which the Bush administration says will transform the US-India relationship. Bush wanted the deal approved before leaving office in January; Congress is expected to adjourn soon for elections.

The accord enjoys bipartisan support in Congress, where many lawmakers favored it as a way to create jobs in the US civil nuclear industry while cultivating the small but affluent Indian-American community.

Critics said the deal was deeply unwise, overturning decades of US policy of refusing to sell nuclear technology to nations lacking full safeguards against that technology's diversion into nuclear weapons programs.

IRAN CONCERNS

"Why are we rushing to pass this gravely flawed agreement?" demanded Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, before the vote. There was nothing in it, he said, to prevent India from resuming nuclear testing. India, which first detonated a nuclear device in 1974, last tested in 1998.

The deal would also weaken US efforts to deny Iran a nuclear weapon, Harkin said. He said Indian entities already had sold sensitive missile technologies to Iran, which the Bush administration suspects is pursuing a nuclear bomb.

But supporters said they expected India to move quickly to negotiate a new safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

"The benefits of this pact are designed to be a lasting incentive for India to abstain from further nuclear weapons tests and to cooperate closely with the United States in stopping proliferation," Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar said.

Before approving the pact, the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico and Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, both Democrats, making clear that another Indian nuclear test would lead to termination of the deal.

Lugar argued the amendment was unnecessary, saying India had been warned repeatedly that the consequences of another test would be "dire": US nuclear trade would be cut off.

The deal could open up around $27 billion in investments in 18-20 nuclear plants in India over the next 15 years, according to the Confederation of Indian Industry.

But there is global competition. France announced on Tuesday that it had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with India, and Russia is already building two 1,000 megawatt reactors in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Local media say India's monopoly Nuclear Power Corp has tentatively picked four suppliers, including Westinghouse Electric and France's Areva, for planned new projects.

India is also reported to be negotiating with General Electric, Japan's Hitachi Ltd and Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom.





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Basic facts about Indo-US nuclear deal
2 Oct 2008, 0725 hrs IST,REUTERS
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to approve a deal that would end a three-decade ban on U.S. civil nuclear trade with India.


Overturning a 34-year-old ban, it allows India access to US civil nuclear fuel and technology although it has never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, conducted nuclear tests in 1974 and 1998, and has not ruled out doing more.

India must separate its civil and military nuclear facilities, and submit civil facilities to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency. * The agreement means other countries can sell India nuclear technology and fuel. France signed such a deal this week.

Why is it controversial?

Critics say it undermines the NPT, membership of which has long been the guideline for the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) export cartel to provide civilian nuclear assistance.

Critics also say it undercuts Washington's efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear programme and opens the way for a potential arms race in South Asia between India and Pakistan.

India says 14 of its 22 nuclear facilities are civilian. The pact could make bomb-making easier at the other eight, as civilian nuclear fuel needs will be met by the United States.

Who will benefit?

US and European companies that supply nuclear technology and help build reactors. The deal could open up around $27 billion in investment in 18-20 nuclear plants over the next 15 years, according to Confederation of Indian Industry.

By 2030, the economic benefits that will accrue to India's economy as a result of nuclear trade could touch $500 billion, says Imagindia Institute, an Indian lobby group.

India. It becomes a de facto nuclear power. New Delhi even says it still can test nuclear weapons if it needs to, although a waiver of NSG rules adopted to allow trade with India indicates this would be cut off if India tested again.

India's economy. It relies on imported oil for some 70 per cent of its energy needs and the government says nuclear power will help feed its rapidly expanding economy.

Washington. The deal will mean deeper ties between Washington and Delhi just as India starts to embrace the West. It is not just about friendship -- the United States, for example, may now have a better chance of winning a $10 billion fighter deal from India, the world's biggest arms contract.

Who won't benefit?

Pakistan , India's nuclear rival, has sought a similar deal with Washington but was refused because of a poor non-proliferation record. As a result, Islamabad has talked of expanding nuclear cooperation with China. Pakistan has not signed the NPT.

China. Some analysts see the India deal as part of attempts by the United States to counterbalance China's influence in Asia.

The environment. The deal will still have a minimal impact on India's power industry. Dirty coal-fired power stations and hydroelectric dams will continue to account for the lion's share of its power generation.

Is the deal popular in India?

Polls show most Indians are far more worried about the economy and inflation than some abstract nuclear deal.

The powerful communists withdrew their support for the Congress-led government over the deal, saying it made India a pawn of Washington. Hindu nationalists also oppose the deal, saying it limits India's ability to test nuclear weapons.

Nevertheless, the deal is seen as one of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's biggest achievements in four years in power.

Fresh violence in Kandhamal, curfew reimposed
2 Oct 2008, 0120 hrs IST, Sandeep Mishra,TNN

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BHUBANESWAR: Curfew was reimposed in nine major locations in Kandhamal on Wednesday amid fresh attacks on Christian prayer halls in some parts of theSinged By Communal Fire. (TOI)
riot-ravaged district.

Police, for the first time since the violence erupted, arrested a number of saffron leaders of the region, giving rise to tension and protests in different areas.

Stray incidents of violence continued and an enraged mob of around 100 tribals damaged at least 16 houses and a prayer hall in worst-hit Raikia area, said official sources.

At least four houses were gutted at Beheragaon. Torching of some houses was also reported from Gochhapada, while some agitated locals protesting against arrests gheraoed the police station at Tumudibandh.

Another church attacked in TN

COIMBATORE : Another church in Tamil Nadu came under a spell of stone pelting by miscreants — this time, in communally sensitive Coimbatore. The glass door of Scion Assembly of Church in Kuppanur near Perur in rural Coimbatore was damaged on Tuesday evening.

This is the sixth incident of stone pelting on churches in Tamil Nadu in the aftermath of attacks on Christians and churches in Orissa and Karnataka. Last week, the statue of infant Jesus kept at a church in Dharapuram in Erode was damaged barely a couple of days after the statues of Mary were desecrated in Nagercoil and Madurai.

According to the Perur DSP, Kumarasamy, a local ‘‘rowdy, Mayilsamy, was taken into custody.


N-deal with India unbelievable mistake: Dorgan
Lalit K Jha
Wednesday, October 01, 2008, (New York)

Opposing the nuclear bill and proposing killer amendments, two Senators Byron L Dorgan and Jeff Bingaman on Wednesday said on the floor of the Senate that the Indo-US civilian nuclear bill is an unbelievable mistake on the part of the Bush Administration.

"This agreement is an unbelievable mistake. We are saying to India it is okay if you produce additional nuclear weapons if we cannot see them. I think that is almost unbelievable," said Senator Dorgan moving the amendment on the bill that he said allows India to build on its nuclear arsenal behind a curtain.

The Dorgan-Bingaman amendments to make several changes in the Indo-US nuke deal, quite unacceptable to New Delhi, which relates to what happens if India decides to detonate a nuclear weapon. The Dorgan section of this bill states that the US will not conduct trade in nuclear technology with India if they detonate a nuclear weapon.

The second part of the amendment moved by Bingaman requires the US President to certify to Congress that the US-supplied technology is not what has enabled India to go forward with detonation of a nuclear weapon.

Third part of the amendment requires that if India tests a nuclear weapon, the US will not enable other countries to further India's nuclear program. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the amendments and the bill later in the day. Opposing the bill, Senator Bingaman said by modifying US nonproliferation laws for India in a circumstance where India has not signed the NPT, the US is not only sending wrong signal to Iran, which is a signatory and desires to have its own nuclear program, but also sending the wrong signal to North Korea, to Pakistan, to Israel all of which are not signatories to the NPT.

"It's entirely conceivable that India may want to improve their nuclear weapons now that they have access to advanced technology from this nuclear suppliers group. Certification that we provide for in this amendment would force the President to ensure ahead of time that appropriate export controls are in place to begin with," Bingaman argued.

"Country should exhibit its leadership, its world leadership that is required of this country to not only stop the spread of nuclear weapons but to begin marching back to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, at this exact time this government, this administration and this Congress is saying to an ally, we will give you the green light to produce more nuclear weapons even though you have never signed the NPT," Dorgan said.

"That is almost unbelievable to me," Dorgan said in a charged speech in which he questioned the decision of the Bush Administration to rush this bill.

"No one can stand up in this discussion and say this agreement doesn't allow a country that has refused to sign the nonproliferation treaty; this does not allow them to produce them. It does on its face. Everyone knows it. Everyone wants to pretend that it doesn't exist. This is a horrible mistake," he said.

"I am enormously surprised after so many decades of talking seriously about nuclear nonproliferation that we reward those countries that misuse nuclear technology to secretly produce nuclear weapons and now say to them, and secretly test nuclear weapons, and now say to them, by the way, here's your reward, an agreement by which you can continue to do that, an agreement which is written in a way that says, we will allow you to produce more nuclear weapons and, by the way, if you test, we won't even put in the test that we will nullify it," Dorgan argued.

Dorgan said the message coming out of the deal is: ""You can misuse American nuclear technology and secretly develop nuclear weapons. You can test the weapons. You can build a nuclear arsenal in defiance of the UN resolutions, and you will be welcomed as someone exhibiting good behavior with an agreement with the US." "What kind of message is that?" he asked.

"What message does that sell to others -- tell to others who want to join the nuclear club? If we don't find a way to begin systematically reducing the number of nuclear weapons and stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and trying to find every way to prevent a nuclear weapon from ever again being exploded in anger on this planet, one day we will ruefully regret what we have done here," Senator Dorgan said.

Expressing his doubt over India's intentions, Senator Dorgan said: "What we have discovered about India, a respected ally of ours, a trading partner of ours, a country that we hold in high esteem, we have discovered that they misused American nuclear technology to secretly develop their own nuclear weapons."

"We've discovered that they tested those nuclear weapons. They have defied the UN resolutions and international sanctions. And now we have discovered that an agreement has been reached with the government of India that all will be forgiven," he alleged.

"We'll sign a new agreement with you that I believe unwinds and undoes the entire architecture of nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. All will be forgiven. In fact, what we will do is we will say to you that you can create nuclear power plants because you need nuclear power and our corporations and international corporations can sell -- this is about business or a lot of business -- can sell to you the technology and the construction materials to produce nuclear power plants," Dorgan said.
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Dean Baker writes that the bailout fails to recognize the roots of the economy's current problems; Dennis Kucinich discusses the need for Plan B on the bailout; regulator warns that McCain is repeating Keating era economic mistakes; Homeland Security's satellite-surveillance program moves forward despite domestic privacy concerns; US financial crisis threatens UN goals of reducing poverty worldwide; and more ... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org

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Dean Baker | Bailout Fails to Recognize Housing Bubble
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Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: "The near hysterical discussion (count the times 'Great Depression' appears in news stories) of the bailout still largely fails to recognize the roots of the economy's current problems in the collapse of the housing bubble. Much of the discussion assumes that the problem is just bad subprime loans and that house prices will bounce back once the credit markets are working properly."

Rep. Dennis Kucinich Rejects $700 Billion Bailout
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Amy Goodman, for Democracy Now!, interviews Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who said: "We're the Congress of the United States; we're not the board of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs is struggling to survive. And, you know, their former chief is now the head of the US Treasury. He's in a position to be able to direct assets in a way that would help enhance his own financial standing. I mean, that's a clear conflict of interest. And, you know, that's something that needs to be said."

McCain Repeating Keating Era Mistakes, Regulator Warns
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Seth Colter Walls, The Huffington Post: "As the stock market recovers from its biggest single-day drop since the crash of 1987, a former federal regulator who had a front-row view of John McCain's role in the Savings and Loan scandal says he is repeating some of the same mistakes."

Satellite-Surveillance Program to Begin Despite Privacy Concerns
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Siobhan Gorman, The Wall Street Journal: "The Department of Homeland Security will proceed with the first phase of a controversial satellite-surveillance program, even though an independent review found the department hasn't yet ensured the program will comply with privacy laws."

No "Bailout" for the World's Poorest
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Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service: "As a spreading financial crisis threatens to deepen the economic recession in the United States, the news of an unprecedented 700-billion-dollar bailout package reverberated through the corridors of the United Nations last week as over 100 world leaders gathered in New York for the annual talk-fest: the 63rd session of the General Assembly."

VIDEO | Rep. Dennis Kucinich Rejects $700 Billion Bailout
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Amy Goodman, for Democracy Now!, interviews Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who said: "We're the Congress of the United States; we're not the board of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs is struggling to survive. And, you know, their former chief is now the head of the US Treasury. He's in a position to be able to direct assets in a way that would help enhance his own financial standing. I mean, that's a clear conflict of interest. And, you know, that's something that needs to be said."

US backs down, will give Cuban journalists visas

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has reversed itself and decided to allow two journalists for the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina to return to their posts at the United Nations, the State Department said Wednesday.

The department's original decision to deny re-entry to husband and wife team Tomas Granados Jimenez and Ilsa Rodriguez Santana had drawn condemnation from the press advocacy groups Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, and the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

"In accordance with our U.N. headquarters agreement, we have decided to issue visas to the two individuals in question," the department said in a footnote to the transcript of spokesman Sean McCormack's daily briefing.

McCormack had said he had been told that visa matters were confidential but added: "I think that they have appealed the decision, and I think that appeal is being considered right now."

The couple have covered the United Nations for Prensa Latina since 2005. They have been on leave in Cuba. The agency said U.S. authorities in Havana had not explained why their return entry permission was rejected.
ACTION ALERT

October 2008



Stand up against intervention in El Salvador
Salvadoran Foreign Minister calls for more U.S. involvement in Latin America


El Salvador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marisol Argueta, has publicly urged the U.S. government to help prevent the leftist FMLN party from winning next year’s presidential election in El Salvador. Act now to ensure that the U.S. does not repeat its electoral intervention of 2004.

Call your Congressional Representatives TODAY to insist they make a commitment to free and fair elections in El Salvador. Congress must refute the ruling ARENA party’s call for intervention by declaring its neutrality and willingness to maintain a positive relationship with any government freely elected by the Salvadoran people.

In a speech on September 18 at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank in Washington, D.C., Argueta called on the U.S. government to be more active in Latin America, lest countries such as El Salvador elect “dangerous populists” in upcoming elections. Along with her open-ended exhortation for the U.S. to “do more” to prevent an opposition government from being elected, she specifically lobbied for the U.S. to pass immigration reform legislation and to increase its funding for El Salvador’s police. For a summary of Argueta’s speech, go here: http://www.aei.org/events/filter.,eventID.1794/summary.asp

The panel discussion in which Argueta took part was moderated by Roger Noriega, who himself perpetrated electoral intervention in El Salvador while serving as Assistant Secretary of State in 2004. At the time, Noriega publicly threatened that U.S. relations with El Salvador would be ruptured in the case of an FMLN victory at the polls. Such threats led many Salvadorans to fear that their relatives in the U.S. – whose remittances make up nearly 20% of the Salvadoran economy – would be deported if the FMLN were elected.


TAKE ACTION!


1) Call your Congressional Representative using the following number and ask to be connected to your Representative’s office: (202) 224-3121. See below for sample script.

2) Sign the petition calling upon Salvadoran President Saca to ensure that government employees do not use their positions to influence the results of upcoming elections: http://www.share-elsalvador.org/

3) Sign onto CISPES’ “People’s Pledge to Defend Free & Fair Elections in El Salvador” and accompany the Salvadoran people by standing in solidarity with them during their struggle for REAL democracy. Go to www.cispes.org/pledge2009

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You can use the following script to talk to your Congressional Representative. Call (202) 224-3121.

1. I am calling to urge Representative ___________ to publicly support democracy in El Salvador by declaring that Congress will not seek to influence the results of the 2009 elections.

2. In speech on September 18, El Salvador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs called upon the U.S. to help ensure that the opposition FMLN party does not win the country’s March 2009 presidential election.

3. In 2004, officials from the Bush Administration and some Members of Congress publicly threatened that the election the FMLN’s presidential candidate would jeopardize the relationship between the U.S. and El Salvador. In one glaring example, Congressman Tom Tancredo threatened that the U.S. would restrict the money that Salvadoran immigrants living in the U.S. send home, but only if the FMLN’s candidate were to be elected.

4. This statement, among others, caused many Salvadorans to vote out of fear of U.S. retaliation, rather than as their own convictions led them. As someone who believes in democracy, I want to make sure the U.S. does not intervene in El Salvador’s elections again in 2009.

5. It is extremely important that Members of Congress stand up for the Salvadoran people’s right to freely elect their government, without foreign manipulation. I am calling on Representative ____________ to declare neutrality toward the 2009 Salvadoran elections, and to assert that Congress is willing to seek a positive relationship with any government freely elected by the Salvadoran people. We are also interested in having your office co-sponsor a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice U.S. calling for neutrality in the Salvadoran elections.

NOTE:

If your representative’s office agrees to make a statement or co-sponsor the letter, ask for the contact information of the person that the letter should be sent to. Then contact Burke Stansbury at burke@cispes.org to pass on the contact information and Representative’s name. We will follow up with that Representative.
Now, Ramadoss wants to ban tobacco products

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Posted: Oct 02, 2008 at 1830 hrs IST
Chennai, October 2: Buoyed by the ban on smoking in public places that went into force across the country on Thursday, a jubilant Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said his next big wish is to see a ban on all tobacco products.
Ramadoss, who persisted with his dream of enforcing the ban on smoking, unfazed by criticism from top Bollywood actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan to members of civil society, took part in the campaign to publicise the salient provisions of the law banning smoking in public places.
Distributing pamphlets highlighting the ban to passengers at a bus terminus here, Ramadoss said "my intention and my aim is to make India a tobacoo-free nation. But I do not have the power to do so."
He said 152 countries had signed a WHO-supported international agreement to ban the production of tobacco products in a phased manner.
"Though we wish to ban the production of tobacco-related products, we cannot do it immediately. We have to take into consideration thousands of farmers who are cultivating tobacco. We have to provide them with alternative employment before introducing such a ban," he said.
Kandhamal: Police crack down heavily on arsonists
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Posted: Oct 02, 2008 at 1700 hrs IST
Phulbani (Orissa), October 2: Additional para-military force was rushed to Orissa's riot-hit Kandhamal where police cracked down heavily on arsonists and abettors, even as curfew was relaxed in all nine areas of the district on Thursday.
“Curfew was relaxed in all nine police station areas during the day as no untoward incident took place. Night curfew will, however, remain in force,” Kandhamal District Collector Krishna Kumar said adding police were asked to remain alert to any eventuality.
Ten more companies of CRPF, sent by the Centre, came to Kandhamal in phases for deployment in sensitive areas. with this, as many as 46 companies of para-military forces are engaged in fighting Kandhamal violence, he said.
According to police, about 48 people, including some belonging to the Sangha Parivar, were arrested following a tough strategy adopted by the new director general of police Manmohan Praharaj, camping in the trouble-torn district since Wednesday.
Besides taking stock of the situation last evening at the district headquarters town here, the DGP on Thursday visited G Udaygiri and Raikia areas that witnessed violence recently.
“Containing violence is the first priority for me,” Praharaj told reporters adding that persons, irrespective of their religion, would be booked if they were found to be involved or instigating others for violence.
With the arrest of 48 persons since Tuesday, the total number of arrests in Kandhamal district has increased to 337.
This apart, order had been issued asking all licensed gun holders to surrender weapons at their respective police stations in the wake of violence for over a month.
Senate 'Bailout' Bill a Bizarre Blend Indeed
By Marc Sheppard
Call it what you will, but the $700,000,000,000 credit rescue Bill that passed the Senate last night is one strange piece of lawmaking. Take one part Monday's failed H.R. 3997 and soften it to liberal pleasure. Now add it to a mental health parity measure that's languished on Capitol Hill so long it's got Paul Wellstone's name in its main title. Add a one-year patch to the alternative minimum tax, a dash of disaster relief for Hurricane Ike victims, and a green energy Bill that might well have otherwise been adorned with veto ink - now stir well, and Voilà!

The "bailout plan" itself, H.R. 5685 (the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008) , is being bundled as an amendment to H.R.1424, a Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) Bill that modifies sections of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 "to require equity in the provision of mental health and substance-related disorder benefits under group health plans." The pure perfection of their fit is surely undeniable to all but the most cynical.

According to the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Bill passed the House and was received in the Senate in March of this year. Oddly enough, Wednesday was the first time it was ever brought to the Senate floor for consideration.

The new Bill also snuck in Charlie Rangel's (D-NY) H.R. 6049 (the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008) which had already added the ‘Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008'' in addition to "Heartland and Hurricane Ike Disaster Relief" to its broadly green legislation. Simpatico measures, to be sure.

Rangel's Bill had passed both houses -- the Senate just last month -- but had been awaiting President Bush's signature, which, according to a Statement of Administration Policy, was far from a slam dunk. The Bill includes a hodgepodge of green initiatives, including a "Carbon Audit of the Tax Code" which states that:

"The Secretary of the Treasury shall enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to undertake a comprehensive review of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to identify the types of and specific tax provisions that have the largest effects on carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions and to estimate the magnitude of those effects."

Apropos indeed.
From: Travis
Subject: Ideas for a Plan to Solve the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 4:15 AM

Ideas for a Plan to Solve the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Rene Guerra

Years of malicious policies by the Democrats and stupid mistakes by home buyers have created an economic nightmare in America , but $700 billion ---and probably more--- in new debt for worthless mortgages, and a systemic drift toward socialism and autocratism is not the answer.

The solution to the problem cannot be worse than the problem itself; it cannot be a bailout that wastes taxpayer money, foments socialism and implants autocratism. It has to be a workout based on free-entrepreneurialism, which is one of the greatest assets of America . A partial plan is presented at the bottom.

The problem must be solved at its superficial manifestations and at its roots. Furthermore, the solution must also include prophylactic measures that prevent similar problems in the future. To that effect, a brief review of the origin and development of the crisis fits here.

On the one side, the Democrats craftily perverted and inversed the pro-free enterprise goals of the Bill Clinton administration Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) of 1992 into a piñata in the housing market, where credit unworthy individuals were given mortgage loans that they couldn't pay; "Ninja" loans, were called those "instruments" of credit that in essence was bad paper, mere Monopoly money.

"Ninja = a member of a Japanese feudal organization practicing clandestine activities."

In a jujitsu-like massive operation, the Democrats used the pro-capitalism momentum-generating-power of GLBA to create critical conditions that would eventually lead to pushing America further toward socialism. The genuine intention of GLBA is to promote capitalism but the Democrats maneuvered to use GLBA to promote capitalism's antithesis: socialism.

"Jujitsu: a Japanese martial art mainly consisting of cleverly attacking an opponent by using his/her strength and weight to her/his disadvantage, rather than engaging in attacking him/her directly."

Using GLBA as the lever and the Carter Administration Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 as the fulcrum, the Democrats created a clever mechanism to manipulate the housing market into a great chaos, conducive ultimately to socialism. And, in the process, it conduced as well to the enrichment of some Democrat apparatchiks, such as Jamie Garolick (the very one who built the walls between the national security agencies, which contributed heavily to 9/11), Franklin Raines, James Johnson, Penny Pritzker and others who, by the way, are very close to the Obama campaign.

Add to it that Senate Banking Commission Chairman Christopher John Dodd (aka Chris Dodd) became the largest beneficiary of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac political contributions, followed by none else than Barack Hussein Obama, in second place.

Using CRA and GLBA, the Democrats pushed Fanny and Freddy to in turn push banks to make Ninja loans like in giving away candy in a piñata party. Fanny and Freddy bought the phony paper by boxcar loads. The big investment-banks (Lehman Brothers and the rest here in the U.S.A. and abroad, went into a piranha frenzy buying the worthless paper from Fanny and Freddy, in the illusion that if the two Fs were selling them in their condition of Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE), they had to be good . . . although they neither looked nor were good, at all.

On the other side, hundreds of thousands of entirely credit unworthy, giddy homebuyers jumped into the occasion and gingerly applied and obtained their Ninja loans. They perfectly knew that they couldn't pay those loans; however, they went ahead with it. The realtors who sold them the homes knew it too; however, they went ahead with it. The banks that made the loans knew it too; however, they went ahead with it.

The bubble that Ninja-ism ---along with other causes that would take too long to discuss here--- had contributed to create in the housing market had to burst. And, in the aftermath, the Democrats would push for the statization of the resulting failing financial entities under the disguise of a bailout that taxpayers would pay for. Pure socialism, the end result would be.

Duplicitously clever creatures, the Democrats indeed are; they make the American people pay from their own pockets for the yoke ---socialism--- that they will be enslaved with.

Thanks to true conservatives ---that is, conservative talk show radio anchors, some conservative columnists, some Fox Business Channel and Fox Business Channel anchors, and hundreds of conservative bloggers and Internet journalists--- Americans are aware of what is going on and have, by the tens of millions, realized that the entire thing is the duplicitous socializing work of the Democrat Party.

We need not a solution to the crisis, but the proper solution. That is, we need a solution based on workout rather than bailout. What we need is a solution based on free-entrepreneurialism, not in socialism.

The stronghold in the crisis resides in the fact that the failing financing institutions ---having mal-invested huge resources in worthless Ninja mortgages--- have run out of cash to cope with their other financial operations and with their obligations. Most of their cash is captive by worthless paper; they need cash; they are suffering a lethal lack of liquidity.

That's the problem . . . on the surface.

But the underlying problem must be addressed and corrected as well, and that problem resides in the intrusion of the government in the realms of the private sector. And that governmental intrusion materializes, in this particular case, through Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, and in general, through other GSEs.

GSEs lend themselves to political manipulation and cronyism, and therefore, to corruption and unaccountability. As long as GSEs exist, they will keep being fertile ground for the generation of crises like the one the Democrats created with Ninja-ism. We must make sure that similar crises don't repeat in the future.

Borrowing heavily from the "Commonsense Plan" that conservative author and TV and Radio Show anchor Dave Ramsey has posted on his website, and expanding with the help of commonsense ideas from others and from my own, I have compiled a partial plan to solve the liquidity problem and the root problem of the mortgage sub-prime meltdown.

No bailout at all is included, and the plan is rich in measures that stimulate the economic growth we need to work our way out of this mire. Serious measures to prevent similar problems in the future are included.

I call it "Commonsense Plan++", meaning that it is Ramsey's plan plus some other goodies that bite hard, and you can find it below.




Commonsense Plan++
To Solve the Current Finance Crisis

I. INSURANCE

A. Insure the subprime bonds/mortgages with an underlying FHA-type insurance. Government-insured and backed loans would have an instant market all over the world, creating immediate and needed liquidity.

B. In order for a company to accept the government-backed insurance, they must do two things:

1. Rewrite any mortgage that is more than three months delinquent to a 6% fixed-rate mortgage.

a. Roll all back payments with no late fees or legal costs into the balance. This brings homeowners current and allows them a chance to keep their homes.

b. Cancel all prepayment penalties to encourage refinancing or the sale of the property to pay off the bad loan. In the event of foreclosure or short sale, the borrower will not be held liable for any deficit balance. FHA does this now, and that encourages mortgage companies to go the extra mile while working with the borrower—again limiting foreclosures and ruined lives.

2. Cancel ALL golden parachutes of EXISTING and FUTURE CEOs and executive team members as long as the company holds these government-insured bonds/mortgages. This keeps underperforming executives from being paid when they don't do their jobs.

C. This backstop will cost less than $50 billion—a small fraction of the current proposal.

II. MARK TO MARKET

A. Remove mark to market accounting rules for two years on only subprime Tier III bonds/mortgages. This keeps companies from being forced to artificially mark down bonds/mortgages below the value of the underlying mortgages and real estate.

B. This move creates patience in the market and has an immediate stabilizing effect on failing and ailing banks—and it costs the taxpayer nothing.

III. CAPITAL GAINS TAX

A. Remove the capital gains tax completely. Investors will flood the real estate and stock market in search of tax-free profits, creating tremendous—and immediate—liquidity in the markets. Again, this costs the taxpayer nothing.

B. This move will be seen as a lightning rod politically because many will say it is helping the rich. The truth is the rich will benefit, but it will be their money that stimulates the economy. This will enable all Americans to have more stable jobs and retirement investments that go up instead of down.

IV. BUSH TAX CUTS

A. Make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Much more money will be available to invest and stimulate the economy to grow.

B. Same as in III B above

V. TAX MISCELLANEA

A. Lower business taxes considerably, say, to no more than 10%.

B. Abolish the death tax.

C. Ban federal and state tax hikes for at least 10 years.

F. Similar as in III B above

V. GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND SIZE

A. Cut government spending drastically, by at least 5% (about $140 Billions at minimum).

B. Reduce the civilian size of government (126 in 1808; 2,720,688 in 2006; no one knows in 2008, not even the U.S. Office of Personnel Management knows) drastically, by at least 5%.

C. Ban earmarks for at least 10 years.

D. This will reduce the budget deficit and will lower the need of further taxation.

VI. GENERAL

A. Give the President line-item veto powers.

B. Name a special prosecutor ---with subpoena and Federal Grand Jury convening powers--- to investigate any wrongdoing by officials ---and indict them if necessary--- of failing financial institutions tangled in the crisis, including Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac.

C. Create and install a Subprime Mortgage Meltdown Commission ---not a sham like the 9/11 one--- with subpoena power, to investigate the whole affair, from its origin to the meltdown itself.

D. Privatize Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac.

E. Ban the creation of new Government Sponsored Enterprises and wean any existing GSEs from the government.

G. Remove Christopher John "Chris" Dodd and Barnett "Barney" Frank from their positions as heads of, respectively, the Senate Banking Commission, and the House Financial Services Commission, for their grossly complicit dereliction in the matter.
As to the "bailout" provisions themselves, in addition to establishing the "Troubled Asset Relief Program (‘TARP') to purchase troubled assets from financial institutions," the Senate version "raises the debt ceiling from $10 trillion to $11.3 trillion" and adds a number of sections the left had been insisting on. These include foreclosure mitigation efforts, executive compensation and corporate governance, and recoupment from the financial industry of losses to the taxpayer. Additionally, the FDIC insurance limit would be temporarily increased to $250,000.

This strange amalgam was passed by the Senate last night 74-25. It now moves back to the House, for consideration today, where opportunists get another shot at marking it up further with extraneous pet-projects at the bargaining table.

There was genuine concern voiced that provisions added to appease the left might send congressmen on the right who voted "Aye" on Monday running for the hills on Friday.

There were similar concerns expressed about the reverse dilemma arising.

But if there was any real give on the part of Senate Democrats in modifying this "emergency" Bill, it sure as hell escapes me.

What a mess.

Marc Sheppard is a frequent contributor to American Thinker and welcomes your comments.
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Latin America Economic Boom Threatened as Credit Freeze Deepens
By Joshua Goodman and Sebastian Boyd
Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Latin America's fastest economic expansion in 30
years may be coming to an end as the global credit crunch stunts
investment and squeezes demand for the region's commodities.
``We're in a serious economic crisis,'' Colombian Vice President
Francisco Santos said in an interview in his Bogota office.
``Financing is going to get scarcer and scarcer, and that means that
investment is going to be difficult to attract.''
The region's growth in 2009 may be cut to less than 3.3 percent, from
4.6 percent this year, according to economists at Barclays Capital.
The slowdown will make it harder to further reduce poverty that's
fallen to its lowest levels since before the ``Lost Decade'' of the
1980s in which countries borrowed more than they could repay.
The crisis will test Latin America's decade-old commitment to debt
reduction and open markets. Mexico this week shelved plans to
privatize an airport, citing the U.S. crisis, while Costa Rican
President Oscar Arias warned the country's growth rate may halve as
investment drops. In Brazil, lending that has powered the country's
fastest expansion in more than a decade is drying up, said Ricardo
Espirito Santo, head of the Brazilian unit of Portugal's Banco
Espirito Santo SA.
``The last four or five years were very good for Latin America, but
that cycle is coming to an end,'' said Rodrigo Valdes, chief Latin
America economist at Barclays Capital in New York. ``We expect a
deceleration in practically all economies.''
Cutting Forecasts
Brazilian economists lowered 2009 growth projections to 3.6 percent on
Sept. 26, from 4 percent two months earlier, according to a central
bank survey. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut its forecast for Latin America's
largest economy to 3.2 percent from 3.8 percent.
Mexico, the second-biggest economy, may expand 2.5 percent next year,
according to the average estimate of 33 economists surveyed by the
central bank, which released its report yesterday. They had previously
forecast 3 percent.
The region has posted average growth of 5.5 percent a year during the
past five years, a pace not seen since 1970 to 1974, according to
International Monetary Fund statistics.
Latin America may also see a drop in remittances from emigrants living
in the U.S. Money transfers from Mexicans living outside the country
dropped a record 12.2 percent in August, the central bank said
yesterday. Remittances accounted for almost 3 percent of Mexico's
gross domestic product last year.
``Mexico is very tied to the U.S., and they're going to get
hammered,'' said Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Washington- based
Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Plane Purchases Suffer
Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA, the world's fourth- largest
aircraft maker, said last week that tightening credit markets are
making plane purchases difficult for some buyers.
Brazil's Localiza Rent a Car SA, the region's biggest car- rental
company, delayed this week a 300 million real ($157.6 million) bond
sale because of ``adverse market conditions.''
Central banks are injecting liquidity as foreign credit lines dry up.
Chile's central bank canceled planned purchases of dollars and opened
up a $500 million foreign currency swap window as the cost of
borrowing dollars climbed.
``Local banks had counterparties overseas who provide them with
dollars, but those banks have failed, been bought or tightened
credit,'' said Ricardo Gomez, head of fixed-income sales and trading
at Larrain Vial SA in Santiago.
Commodity Rout
Prices for commodities such as soy, gold, copper and oil, which helped
fund the region's boom, have fallen 28 percent since their July 2
high, according to the RJ/CRB Commodity Price Index. Should prices
return to their 10-year average, Latin America's balanced budgets
would quickly revert to a deficit of 4.1 percent of gross domestic
product, Morgan Stanley said in a Sept. 29 report.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has relied on oil to fund his
``21st-century socialism,'' said the U.S. crisis will hit the region
with the force of a ``hundred hurricanes'' and that ``no country can
say it won't be affected.''
Venezuela is the country most vulnerable to a commodity slowdown,
having seen its terms of trade, a measure of export earnings, more
than double since 2001, according to a study by Brazil's national
development bank. Brazil and Mexico's trading terms improved less than
the 22 percent regional average, according to the same study based on
United Nations data.
``The big question for Latin America is how long and deep is this
cyclical downturn going to be, and how much is it going to reduce
commodity prices,'' said Nicholas Field, who helps oversee about $18
billion in emerging-market equities at London- based Schroders Plc.
Building Reserves
Analysts including Paulo Leme, chief Latin American economist at
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. say the slowdown may be milder than in
previous crises. Many regional governments have used revenue from the
commodity boom to pay down debt and build reserves.
The eight largest South American economies shrank their debt as a
proportion of gross domestic product from 2001 to 2008, according to
Merrill Lynch research. Merrill expects growth to slow to 3.4 percent
next year from 4.6 percent in 2008.
``It was a good ride,'' said Gray Newman, chief Latin American
economist at Morgan Stanley in New York. ``But the era of abundance is
over.''
To contact the reporters on this story: Joshua Goodman in Rio De
Janeiro at jgoodman19@bloomberg.net; Sebastian Boyd in Santiago at
sboyd9@bloomberg.net
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Mergers and Acquisitions `Frozen' Amid Credit Market Turmoil
By Ambereen Choudhury and Elisa Martinuzzi

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The pace of mergers and acquisitions declined 28
percent this year as the credit crisis checked companies' ability to
fund deals, and the U.S. and European economies teetered on the brink
of recession.

Companies announced takeovers valued at $2.37 trillion in the first
nine months of the year, down from the record $3.29 trillion in the
year-earlier period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The
value of U.S. mergers dropped 35 percent, while dealmaking in Europe
and the Middle East declined 28 percent, the data show. Only takeovers
in Asia, excluding Japan, increased, showing an 11 percent gain.

The collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market has roiled credit
markets globally, leaving companies unable to get funding from banks
to finance deals. In the past month, firms from Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc. to Washington Mutual Inc. have failed, spurring the U.S.
Senate to pass a $700 billion financial-market rescue package last
night to avert a recession.

``The M&A market is all but frozen while politicians around the world
grapple with the economic crisis,'' said Simon Collins, head of
corporate finance at KPMG. ``With the debt market virtually
inaccessible, deal paralysis has also spread into sectors such as
energy, which were until recently considered resilient to the world's
economic woes.''

Xstrata Plc scrapped its 5 billion-pound ($8.8 billion) hostile bid
for Lonmin Plc, the world's third-largest platinum producer on Oct. 1,
blaming ``extreme'' turmoil in financial markets and concern over
financing for the deal for the collapse.

`Keen To Do Deals'

Fortis, bailed out by the governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and
Luxembourg, scrapped the 2.15 billion-euro ($3 billion) sale of half
its asset management arm, citing the credit crisis.

``There are plenty of people keen to do deals,'' said John Tattersall,
a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in London. ``But acquisitions
need bank funding in many cases, or share prices that are higher.''

Banks and insurers have booked more than $588 billion in losses and
writedowns since the global credit crisis began about 13 months ago.
That's forced them to merge with competitors or sell shares,
cushioning a bigger fall in deal-making.

Bank of America Corp.'s $40.4 billion takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co.
and Lloyds TSB Group Plc's $23.5 billion purchase of British mortgage
lender HBOS Plc lead $169 billion of deals in the industry in
September alone. Banks also make up almost half of the money raised in
share sales this year, Bloomberg data show.

IPOs Decline

The decline in stock markets this year has made it less lucrative for
companies to sell shares in initial public offerings. Stock offerings
fell 28 percent to $398.5 billion in the first nine months of the
year, Bloomberg data show. The MSCI World Index has dropped 25 percent
in the same period, its first decline in six years.

IPOs fell more than half in the period to $84.7 billion. Companies
from Salvatore Ferragamo SpA, the Italian maker of luxury shoes once
worn by Greta Garbo and Marilyn Monroe, and Poland's Enea SA, a state-
owned power group, have delayed IPOs until markets improve.

``Last time we had a similar decline in IPO business it was in 2001,
and it took two years to recover,'' said Gil Forer, global director of
IPO initiatives at Ernst & Young LLP in London. ``The uncertainty and
instability in the market make it difficult for companies'' to sell
stock.

The U.S. Senate passed the rescue package yesterday. The bill's
supporters cited the record 778-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial
Average after the House of Representatives' 228-205 defeat of the
legislation Sept. 29 as evidence of the urgency to stabilize the
banking system.

``My gut feel is that dealflow will turn up in first quarter next
year,'' Tattersall said. ``But when and by how much depends on
rebuilding confidence.''

To contact the reporters on this story: Ambereen Choudhury in London
at achoudhury@bloomberg.net; Elisa Martinuzzi in Milan at
emartinuzzi@bloomberg.net

Honda, Nissan Join U.S. Slump as Asian Carmakers Fall (Update1)
By Alan Ohnsman and Mike Ramsey

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co., the only
big automakers to add U.S. sales through the first eight months of the
year, couldn't escape an industrywide plunge in September as the
credit crisis deterred buyers.

Sales for Asia-based brands fell 30 percent, led by Toyota Motor
Corp.'s 32 percent tumble, Honda's 24 percent drop and a 37 percent
decrease for Nissan. Toyota and Honda haven't posted declines that
large since the 1980s.

The results dragged U.S. market share for Japanese and South Korean
automakers to the lowest since April 2007 after lenders tightened
standards and bank failures chilled demand. Last month's total was
39.9 percent, down from 42.1 percent a year earlier, according to
industry-research firm Autodata Corp.

``The best thing we can say about September is it's over,'' Don
Esmond, senior vice president of Toyota's U.S. sales unit, said in a
conference call yesterday. ``We're seeing buyers on the sidelines,
hanging onto their wallets.''

Industrywide sales fell for an 11th straight month, the longest slide
in 17 years. Visits to dealerships fell more than 50 percent in the
last 10 days of September, after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
collapsed and debt markets seized up, said CNW Marketing Research of
Bandon, Oregon.

Toyota declined 1.6 percent to 4,390 yen as of 9:05 a.m. in Tokyo.
Honda dropped 1.6 percent to 3,090 yen and Nissan shed 1.6 percent to
685 yen.

Credit Crisis

Fallout from the credit crisis overwhelmed the advantages held by the
Asian brands through August, when rising fuel prices caused buyers to
shun the light trucks of Detroit automakers in favor of the smaller,
more-efficient vehicles that dominate Asian brands' lineups.

Overall sales of new vehicles dropped 27 percent last month, Woodcliff
Lake, New Jersey-based Autodata said. It was the biggest monthly drop
since January 1991, according to Ward's AutoInfoBank in Southfield,
Michigan.

Billionaire Warren Buffett, the world's preeminent stock picker, said
the U.S. economy is ``flat on the floor'', in a television interview
with Charlie Rose that was to air late yesterday on PBS.

Economic Fear

``In my adult lifetime I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful,
economically, as they are now,'' said Buffett, chairman of Omaha,
Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Toyota, second in U.S. sales behind General Motors Corp., sold 144,260
vehicles, down from 213,042 a year earlier. It was the biggest
percentage decline since July 1987, Bob Carter, vice president of the
company's U.S. sales unit, said yesterday.

Sales fell across the company's Toyota, Lexus and Scion brands, with
the exception of two models: the revamped Sequoia and Lexus LX 470
large sport-utility vehicles that have been available for less than a
year.

Toyota's Esmond said the Toyota City, Japan-based automaker had no
plans to further curtail North American output beyond the previously
announced production halt for Tundra large pickups and Sequoias from
Aug. 8 through November to reduce inventory.

U.S. market share for Toyota, Asia's biggest automaker, was 15 percent
last month, down from 16.2 percent a year earlier.

Honda's Slide

``It's a credit story industrywide,'' said analyst Tom Libby, at
market-research firm J.D. Power & Associates in Troy, Michigan.
``There is a psychological impact of all the news about banks in
trouble.''

Honda, which hasn't had a full-year U.S. sales decline since 1993,
sold 96,626 vehicles, compared with 127,200. The drop was the biggest
for the Tokyo-based company since November 1981.

``Customers just weren't coming into dealerships,'' Honda spokesman
Chris Martin said in an interview yesterday.

Honda's market share last month was 10 percent, up from 9.7 percent a
year earlier.

Even companies with compelling new products aren't finding buyers,
said Jesse Toprak, director of industry analysis for automotive
research firm Edmunds.com in Santa Monica, California.

``The main reason for the decline is the lack of consumer
confidence,'' Toprak said in an interview. ``A lot of consumers have
the ability and desire to make a purchase, but are going to wait and
see how things turn out.''

Nissan, Hyundai

Nissan, Japan's third-largest carmaker, sold 59,565 autos, compared
with 94,269 a year ago. The Rogue small SUV and new GT- R sports coupe
were the only models to post gains for the Tokyo- based automaker.

The company had 6.2 percent of new-vehicle sales last month, down 1
percentage point from September 2007.

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest automaker, reported a 26
percent drop in sales. The Seoul-based company sold 24,765 vehicles,
down from 33,214 a year earlier.

Hyundai's market share was 2.6 percent, up 0.1 point, Autodata said.

Kia Motors Corp., a Hyundai subsidiary, sold 17,383 vehicles, down 28
percent. Ford-affiliated Mazda Motor Corp. said it sold 16,169 autos,
a 36 percent decline.

Among smaller brands, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Subaru unit had a
12 percent drop. Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s sales fell 39 percent and
Suzuki Motor Corp. said its sales dropped 47 percent.

To contact the reporters on this story: Alan Ohnsman in Los Angeles at
aohnsman@bloomberg.net; Mike Ramsey in Southfield, Michigan at
mramsey6@bloomberg.net
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Bush Had No Plan to Catch Bin Laden After 9/11
Monday 29 September 2008
by: Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service
Washington - New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the first weeks after 9/11.
That failure was directly related to the fact that top administration officials gave priority to planning for war with Iraq over military action against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
As a result, the United States had far too few troops and strategic airlift capacity in the theatre to cover the large number of possible exit routes through the border area when bin Laden escaped in late 2001.
Because it had not been directed to plan for that contingency, the U.S. military had to turn down an offer by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in late November 2001 to send 60,000 troops to the border passes to intercept them, according to accounts provided by former U.S. officials involved in the issue.
On Nov. 12, 2001, as Northern Alliance troops were marching on Kabul with little resistance, the CIA had intelligence that bin Laden was headed for a cave complex in the Tora Bora Mountains close to the Pakistani border.
The war had ended much more quickly than expected only days earlier. CENTCOM commander Tommy Franks, who was responsible for the war in Afghanistan, had no forces in position to block bin Laden's exit.
Franks asked Lt. Gen. Paul T. Mikolashek, commander of Army Central Command (ARCENT), whether his command could provide a blocking force between al Qaeda and the Pakistani border, according to David W. Lamm, who was then commander of ARCENT Kuwait.
Lamm, a retired Army colonel, recalled in an interview that there was no way to fulfill the CENTCOM commander's request, because ARCENT had neither the troops nor the strategic lift in Kuwait required to put such a force in place. 'You looked at that request, and you just shook your head,' recalled Lamm, now chief of staff of the Near East South Asia Centre for Strategic Studies at the National Defence University.
Franks apparently already realised that he would need Pakistani help in blocking the al Qaeda exit from Tora Bora. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld told a National Security Council meeting that Franks 'wants the [Pakistanis] to close the transit points between Afghanistan and Pakistan to seal what's going in and out', according to the National Security Council meeting transcript in Bob Woodward's book 'Bush at War'.
Bush responded that they would need to 'press Musharraf to do that'.
A few days later, Franks made an unannounced trip to Islamabad to ask Musharraf to deploy troops along the Pakistan-Afghan border near Tora Bora.
A deputy to Franks, Lt. Gen. Mike DeLong, later claimed that Musharraf had refused Franks's request for regular Pakistani troops to be repositioned from the north to the border near the Tora Bora area. DeLong wrote in his 2004 book 'Inside Centcom' that Musharraf had said he 'couldn't do that', because it would spark a 'civil war' with a hostile tribal population.
But U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin, who accompanied Franks to the meeting with Musharraf, provided an account of the meeting to this writer that contradicts DeLong's claim.
Chamberlin, now president of the Middle East Institute in Washington, recalled that the Pakistani president told Franks that CENTCOM had vastly underestimated what was required to block bin Laden exit from Afghanistan. Musharraf said, 'Look you are missing the point: there are 150 valleys through which al Qaeda are going to stream into Pakistan,' according to Chamberlin.
Although Musharraf admitted that the Pakistani government had never exercised control over the border area, the former diplomat recalled, he said this was 'a good time to begin'. The Pakistani president offered to redeploy 60,000 troops to the area from the border with India but said his army would need airlift assistance from the United States to carry out the redeployment.
But the Pakistani redeployment never happened, according to Lamm, because it wasn't logistically feasible. Lamm recalled that it would have required an entire aviation brigade, including hundreds of helicopters, and hundreds of support troops to deliver that many combat troops to the border region - far more than was available.
Lamm said the ARCENT had so few strategic lift resources that it had to use commercial aircraft at one point to move U.S. supplies in and out of Afghanistan.
Even if the helicopters had been available, however, they could not have operated with high effectiveness in the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border region near the Tora Bora caves, according to Lamm, because of the combination of high altitude and extreme weather.
Franks did manage to insert 1,200 Marines to Kandahar on Nov. 26 to establish control of the airbase there. They were carried to the base by helicopters from an aircraft carrier that had steamed into the Gulf from the Pacific, according to Lamm.
The marines patrolled roads in the Kandahar area hoping to intercept al Qaeda officials heading toward Pakistan. But DeLong, now retired from the Army, said in an interview that the Marines would not have been able to undertake the blocking mission at the border. 'It wouldn't have worked - even if we could have gotten them up there,' he said. 'There weren't enough to police 1,500 kilometres of border.'
U.S. troops probably would also have faced armed resistance from the local tribal population in the border region, according to DeLong. The tribesmen in local villages near the border 'liked bin Laden,' he said 'because he had given them millions of dollars.'
Had the Bush administration's priority been to capture or kill the al Qaeda leadership, it would have deployed the necessary ground troops and airlift resources in the theatre over a period of months before the offensive in Afghanistan began.
'You could have moved American troops along the Pakistani border before you went into Afghanistan,' said Lamm. But that would have meant waiting until spring 2002 to take the offensive against the Taliban, according to Lamm.
The views of Bush's key advisers, however, ruled out any such plan from the start. During the summer of 2001, Rumsfeld had refused to develop contingency plans for military action against al Qaeda in Afghanistan despite a National Security Presidential Directive adopted at the Deputies' Committee level in July and by the Principles on Sep. 4 that called for such planning, according to the 9/11 Commission report.
Rumsfeld and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz resisted such planning for Afghanistan because they were hoping that the White House would move quickly on military intervention in Iraq. According to the 9/11 Commission, at four deputies' meetings on Iraq between May 31 and Jul. 26, 2001, Wolfowitz pushed his idea to have U.S. troops seize all the oil fields in southern Iraq.
Even after Sep. 11, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Vice President Dick Cheney continued to resist any military engagement in Afghanistan, because they were hoping for war against Iraq instead.
Bush's top secret order of Sep. 17 for war with Afghanistan also directed the Pentagon to begin planning for an invasion of Iraq, according to journalist James Bamford's book 'Pretext for War'.
Cheney and Rumsfeld pushed for a quick victory in Afghanistan in NSC meetings in October, as recounted by both Woodward and Undersecretary of Defence Douglas Feith. Lost in the eagerness to wrap up the Taliban and get on with the Iraq War was any possibility of preventing bin Laden's escape to Pakistan.
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Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book, 'Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam', was published in 2006.
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British Envoy Says Mission in Afghanistan is Doomed, According to Leaked Memo
Wednesday 01 October 2008
by: Charles Bremner and Richard Beeston, The Times UK
The official version of the US-led campaign in Afghanistan received a blow today with a leaked report that the British Ambassador in Kabul believes that US strategy is wrong and the war is as good as lost.
The potentially explosive views were published by Le Canard Enchaîné, a respected French weekly, which said that they were direct quotations from a diplomatic cable written by François Fitou, the French Deputy Ambassador in Kabul.
Mr Fitou reported to President Sarkozy's office and his own Foreign Ministry that Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British Ambassador, believed that "American strategy is destined to fail" in Afghanistan, according to the newspaper.
It published a reproduction of what it said was the coded cable, in which the French diplomat summarised the ambassador's main points from a September 2 meeting.
"The current situation is bad. The security situation is getting worse. So is corruption and the Government has lost all trust. Our public statements should not delude us over the fact that the insurrection, while incapable of winning a military victory, nevertheless has the capacity to make life increasingly difficult, including in the capital.
"The presence - especially the military presence - of the coalition is part of the problem, not the solution. The foreign forces are ensuring the survival of a regime which would collapse without them. In doing so, they are slowing down and complicating an eventual exit from the crisis (which, moreover, will probably be dramatic)."
The French diplomat sent the cable to brief President Sarkozy and Bernard Kouchner, the Foreign Minister, ahead of meetings with Britain and other Nato allies over the Afghan deployment. The French deployment of some 3,000 troops there has become intensely unpopular since 10 soldiers were killed in an ambush near Kabul in August.
The allies have been thrown on the defensive over the past 18 months by the resurgence of the Taleban rebel forces, who have moved close to Kabul, where the Government of President Karzai is struggling to establish its authority.
Sir Sherard, 53, was also quoted as saying that while Britain had no alternative to supporting the United States, the Americans should be told to change strategy.
Reinforcing the military presence against the Taleban insurrection would be counter-productive, he said, according to Le Canard. "It would identify us even more clearly as an occupying force and it would multiply the number of targets (for the insurgents)," he was quoted as saying.
The allied governments should start preparing public opinion to accept that the only realistic solution for Afghanistan was to be ruled by "an acceptable dictator".
"In the short term we should dissuade the American presidential candidates from getting more bogged down in Afghanistan," the ambassador was quoted as saying.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office would not comment directly on the leaked French diplomatic report, but a spokesman said that the remarks did "not accurately reflect" the views of the ambassador or his deputy.
"We are committed to working in support of the Government of Afghanistan in order to deliver solutions to the challenges facing the country through civilian and military efforts," said a spokesman.
He said that Britain would continue to work closely with Kabul and that success in Afghanistan was a "long term" goal.
Although it is understood that the meeting between Sir Sherard and the French envoy to Kabul did take place, the version of events contained in the diplomatic cable is regarded in Whitehall as a "parody" of what was said.
The British side is particularly dismayed that they reportedly support a dictatorship in Afghanistan. Insiders insist these words were never uttered. There is a suspicion that the British position was deliberately "exaggerated" to produce a version that Paris wanted to hear.
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India says historical wrong stands corrected with the N deal
2 Oct 2008, 1153 hrs IST,PTI
WASHINGTON: Asserting that the smooth passage of the Indo-US nuclear deal in the US Congress was a vindication of its stand, India on Thursday said t
he step had corrected a "historical wrong".

"A truly historical moment in terms of ending the long, long isolation of India not just in terms of nuclear commerce but in terms of high-technology denial," Indian ambassador to the US Ronen Sen said after the deal cleared its last legislative hurdle is the Senate.

"A sense of vindication for India and a correction of a historic wrong," he said.

Sen said it was a "remarkable day" with 86 out of 100 Senators supporting the bill."It shows the solid bi-partisan support at the time of great divisiveness in this country.

"It is a historic moment and personally for me it is a deep sense of gratification...the leadership shown by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh."

Sen said he was in the Atomic Energy Commission at the time of Tarapore agreement which was abrogated by the US.

"I remember the sense of frustration and the betrayal we felt at that time and now it has a come a full circle," he said.

"In a real sense it is a completion of a truly historic process and there have been a lot of naysayers and doubters since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W Bush first embarked on this journey in July 2005.

On the killer amendment which was rejected by the Senate, Sen hoped that it will "send a signal" back home where the deal is being opposed by the Left and the BJP.

"At least for sometime we had a fairly heated debate in India on this issue itself. I hope that summary rejection of the this amendment will send out its own signal," Sen said.

'Terrorists are victims who create more victims'
2 Oct 2008, 0019 hrs IST,TNN

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Midway through the news meeting on Wednesday, the grim news came in: Agartala had been rocked by serial blasts. All eyes immediately turned to VeneraTOI Guest Editor Thich Nhat Hanh. (TOI Photo)
ble Thich Nhat Hanh, the Guest Editor for our special Peace Edition. As journalists, what should we do on a day like this?

The Zen master, who has rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools and medical centres, resettled homeless families and for a lifetime advocated tirelessly the principles of non-violence and compassionate action, pondered for a while.

When he spoke, it was with great clarity, ''Report in a way that invites readers to take a look at why such things continue to happen and that they have their roots in anger, fear, hate and wrong perceptions. Prevent anger from becoming a collective energy. The only antidote for anger and violence is compassion. Terrorists are also victims, who create other victims of misunderstanding.''

This, remember, is the monk — now 82 years old — credited with a big role in turning American public opinion against the war in Vietnam — for which Martin Luther King Jr had nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. And so, his words are not to be dismissed lightly.

''Every reader has seeds of fear, anger, violence and despair, and also seeds of hope, compassion, love and forgiveness,'' said Thich Nhat Hahn, affectionately called Thay.

''As journalists, you must not water the wrong seeds. The stories should touch the seeds of hope. As journalists, you have the job of selectively watering the right seeds. You must attempt to tell the truth and yet not water the seeds of hate. It's not what's in the story, but how you tell it that's important.''

But how should the State deal with terror? Thay's answer: ''We should invite those who believe they are victims of discrimination and injustice to speak about it. We should initiate sessions of deep listening and invite deeply spiritual people, who don't have to be famous, to attend these. We must televise these sessions nationally. I am sure you will see a dramatic drop in the level of violence. A war on terror cannot succeed, because you cannot bomb perceptions. The only solution is dialogue.''

He cited the example of an experiment by his own group of monks at Plum village, south of France, in 2006. ''We asked people to write letters to terrorists and more than 40 letters came in. Some claimed, 'I am the terrorist because I am also violent and there is suffering in me as well'. We need to get together. When we address suspicion and anger as a collective, when we talk informally about suffering, then we can find answers. If we reduce the violence in us, and change, then we change others around us because then we are connected to them.''

Talking about world peace, the monk said, ''Political leaders meet at peace summits but no lasting solutions to the world's problems are found. Therefore, political leaders, before they get down to talking at summits, should practice sitting, walking, talking informally with each other and practice techniques to calm themselves. Only then can talks lead to positive results.''

The history of Vietnam in the last century was fraught with violence. Thay has himself seen war from close quarters. Naturally, the question came up: Does he believe non-violence can help find solutions in today's complex world?

Thay's reply was surprisingly pragmatic. ''Non-violence can never be absolute. However, you can make aggressive action less violent. In war, the generals must try and avoid the death of innocents. Even soldiers can show compassion. The first step towards nonviolence is to be calm and compassionate yourself.''

Questions on wars and conflicts led to the next logical query. How can humanity relate with each other when it is divided within confines of national or ethnic or racial identities?

That brought the Buddhist teacher into his element, propounding on one of Buddhism's basic tenets of 'non-self'. The problem, he said, arises when one's self is set against another's self. Once we realize that self is made of non-self, then the issue of identity gets settled.

''Man is made of non-me elements. I am made of so many non-me elements — my parents, the food I eat, the education I received, animals, vegetables. Take away all the 'non-me', and there is no 'me' left. Buddhism is made of non-Buddhist elements. A Christian is made of non-Christian elements and a Muslim is made of non-Muslim elements,'' said Thay. Once we realise that we are all interconnected, we will begin caring for all other things.

That's why, Thay says, we need to learn from suffering. Because only after we have understood the nature of suffering can we understand true happiness. ''Happiness and safety can't be individual matters. If you have peace on your side, only then can you promote peace in the world. Individual happiness is impossible, as is individual suffering. Because we are not one but a collective.''

And what about the financial crisis that is causing many to suffer? The answer, says Thay, is related to greed and fear. ''As journalists, you must help people so that they don't become victims of greed and fear. If the aim is happiness, then you must be prepared to give up riches and fame and power, all of which are transitory.''

Can the modern economy — fuelled by conspicuous consumption — co-exist with a monk's lifestyle? After all, if everyone stopped consumption, industries would shut down and unemployment would rise. So should individuals, in their pursuit of 'selfish' happiness, create unhappiness for others?

''Many of us have started believing in happiness from consumption. But happiness is largely a problem of the mind. You don't have to run into the future, you have enough conditions to be happy right here and now. But in our search for more conditions to be happy, we sacrifice the present. The remedy for us is to go home to the present moment. Don't get stuck with the past or get sucked into the future. So many wonders of life are with you. Development is like a wild horse that we are riding, over which we have lost control,'' responded Thay.

But then, isn't it much simpler for a monk to talk about not consuming than for people who have to deal with the world on the world's terms? Can regular people with regular lives follow his teachings?

According to Thay, ''The meditative practice is for everyone, monks and non-monks, the young and the less young. The conditions for reaching out for Buddha-hood are there for everyone. We are just caught up in our worries and projects. The kingdom of God is available for you. But are you available for the kingdom?''

We couldn't resist asking: what were his feelings when the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas? His reply: ''There was no anger. We have a tendency to punish whoever has dared to make us suffer. We seek relief by making the other person suffer. If we see whoever is hurt as a victim, then a neuro pathway will open in our brain and we will forgive the person and reduce his suffering, which in turn will help us to suffer less. All this is not based on speculation but on the basis what we have done, in our group sessions.




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