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E. Sreedharan
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E. Sreedharan
Dr. Elattuvalapil Sreedharan (b. 12 July 1932 in Palakkad district, Kerala) is an Indian technocrat, known for completing both the Konkan Railway and Delhi Metro projects within budget and ahead of schedule. He has served as the managing director of Delhi Metro since its inception.
Contents[hide]
* 1 Early life
* 2 Government career
* 3 On contract
* 4 Management style
* 5 Personal Life
* 6 Awards and accolades
* 7 References
* 8 External links
[edit] Early life
Ellatuvalapil Sreedharan is from Karukaputhoor in Palakkad district of Kerala.He later studied at the Victoria College in Palghat and then graduated as an engineer from the Government Engineering College, Kakinada (now JNTU). After a short tenure as a lecturer in Civil engineering at the Government Polytechnic, Kozhikode and a year at the Bombay Port Trust as an apprentice, he joined the Indian Railways in its Service of Engineers. This was through a nation-wide selection
procedure and his first assignment was in the Southern Railway as a
Probationary Assistant Engineer in December 1954.1
[edit] Government career
In 1963, a huge tidal wave washed away parts of Pamban Bridge that connected Rameshwaram to mainland Tamil Nadu.
The Railways set a target of six months for the bridge to be repaired
while Sreedharan's boss, under whose jurisdiction the bridge came,
reduced it to three months. Sreedharan was put in-charge of the
execution and he restored the bridge in just 46 days. [1] The Railway minister's Award was given to him in recognition of this achievement. In 1970, as the
deputy chief engineer, he was put in charge for implementation,
planning and design of Calcutta metro, the first ever metro in India. Cochin Shipyard launched Rani Padmini, the first ship it built, when he was its Chairman and Managing Director
(CMD). He retired from Indian Railways as Member Engineering in 1990.
Sreedharan also has an advisory board slot at a new Foundation for the
Restoration of National Values. Business tycoon Ratan Tata and a former chief justice of India are serving, too. The foundation
aims to "bring in good values in all areas of national life, to cleanse
corruption in high places," says Sreedharan.
[edit] On contract

The Delhi Metro arrives at a station.
Though he retired, the Government needed his services and he was appointed the CMD of Konkan Railway on contract in 1990. Under his stewardship, the company executed its
mandate in seven years. The project was unique in many respects. It was
the first major project in India to be undertaken on a BOT
(Build-Operate- Transfer) basis; the organisation structure was
different from that of a typical Indian Railway set-up; the project had
93 tunnels along a length of 82 km and involved tunneling through soft
soil. The total project covered 760 km and had over 150 bridges. That a
public sector project could be completed without significant cost and
time overruns was considered an achievement by many.
He was made the managing director of Delhi Metro and by mid-2005, all the scheduled sections were completed by their
target date or before and within their respective budgets. Sreedharan
was given the sobriquet of Metro Man by the media. In 2005, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by the government of France.
He had announced that he would retire by the end of 2005, but his
tenure has been extended by another three years to oversee the
completion of the second phase of Delhi Metro. Recently he was called
in Pakistan for development of the Lahore Metro plan. He was also called by the UAE govt in 2005 to Head the Dubai Metro Project, he however rejected their offer, because of his preoccupation with DMRC.
In July 2009, Sreedharan resigned as the managing director DMRC, taking moral responsibility for the collapse of an under-construction bridge (at Zamrudpur near Amar Colony) that killed five people.[1] However, Delhi's Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit rejected Sreedharan's resignation, and he withdrew it a day later.[2] Sreedharan stated after his withdrawal that he will ultimately be
quitting from his position but only after the completition of the Phase
II of the Delhi Metro Project. He stated that he withdrew his
resignation as he was convinced by the Government that Phase II won't
be completed in time without him.[3]
[edit] Management style
Sreedharan achieves timely completion of projects by dividing the
project between 6 managers and giving them each a deadline. He reviews
daily progress reports. He also meets with top staff and consultants
weekly. [2]
[edit] Personal Life
Mr Sreedharan wakes before dawn, meditates, reads the Bhagavad Gita and does yoga every morning. [3] He also walks 45 mins in the evenings. [4]
[edit] Awards and accolades
* Railway Minister's Award (1963)
* Padma Shri by the Government of India (2001)
* Man of the Year by The Times of India (2002)
* Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award for professional excellence in engineering (2002)
* CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) Juror's Award for leadership in infrastructure development (2002-03)
* One of Asia's Heroes by TIME (2003)
* AIMA (All India Management Association) award for Public Service Excellence (2003)
* Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris causa) from IIT Delhi.
* Bharat Shiromani award from the Shiromani Institute, Chandigarh (2005)
* Chevalier de la LÃ©gion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by the government of France (2005)
* CNN-IBN Indian Of the Year 2007: Public Service (2008)[4]
* Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India (2008) 51525
[edit] References
1. ^ "Sreedharan resigns after Delhi Metro accident". IBNLive. 12 July 2009. http://ibnlive. in.com/news/ sreedharan- resigns-after- delhi-metro- accident/ 96947-3.html. Retrieved on 2009-07-12.
2. ^ "Sreedharan withdraws resignation; CM says country needs him". The Times of India. 13 July 2009. http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/NEWS- City-Delhi- Sreedharan- withdraws- resignation- CM-says-country- needs-him/ articleshow/ 4772804.cms. Retrieved on 2009-07-13.
3. ^ http://www.ndtv. com/news/ india/i_will_ resign_after_ completion_ of_phase_ ii_sreedharan. php
4. ^ "Sreedharan is Indian Of the Year: Public Service". CNN-IBN. 2008-01-25. http://www.ibnlive. com/news/ sreedharan- is-indian- of-the-year- public-service/ 57335-3.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-25.
[edit] External links
* A write-up
* An article
* News item about Chevalier award
* PM Karma article on E.Sreedharan
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The Reliance Industries Ltd will commence supply
of gas from its KG Basin Block KG-DWN-98/3 in 2008-09. Though the
company has estimated peak production rate at 60 mmscmd, according to
government's own estimation it may not go beyond 40 mmscmd.
It may
be recalled that gas supply from the KG basin was to commence from July
2007. However, NTPC had requested the company to advance the date of
supply to March 2007. Apart from NTPC, several IPPs in Andhra Pradesh
had scheduled the commissioning of their power plants accordingly. Now
their plans may go haywire.
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production of gas from the field to January 2008. RIL has already
received necessary clearances such as environment clearance for
offshore and onshore pipeline, Right of Usage permission for laying
pipelines and the Management Committee Approval for commencing
production.
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Govt formally joins Ambani brothers' KG Basin gas feud

18 Jul 2009, 0704 hrs IST, ET Bureau

NEW
DELHI: The government has formally shown its hand in the ongoing battle
between the two Ambani brothers over the Krishna Godavari basin gasby

Reliance Industries' KG-D6 facility|
RIL's first crude from KG basin|
Decade's hottest biz feuds
filing
an affidavit on Friday in the Supreme Court. It has sought a stay on
the Bombay High Court order that directed Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries(RIL) to supply gas to his estranged brother Anil Ambaniâ€™s firm
Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) at $2.34 per million British thermal
unit (mmBtu).

The government's contention is that the
agreement between RIL and RNRL violates its production sharing contract
(PSC) with RIL for developing the gas field, deters fresh, particularly
foreign investment, in exploration and development of hydrocarbons in
India and thwarts the governmentâ€™s gas utilisation policy, which
privileges fertiliser as the priority customer for gas from the KG
Basin field.

The government has filed the affidavit as an
intervenor which means that it gets to assist the court in coming to a
conclusion. The govermnent wants to be impleaded in the case as a
respondent, or as a party to the case, on the ground that the sovereign
owns the gas. RIL supports the governmentâ€™s stance. The governmentâ€™s
status is one of the early issues the Supreme Court will have to decide
on.

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The
governmentâ€™s position, as spelt out in the affidavit, comes as no great
surprise. Its stand before the Bombay HC was essentially the same. In
that case, it did not succeed, with the HC ruling that RNRL has a valid
contract with RIL for supply of gas from the KG basin. The government
petition has claimed that its sovereign rights â€œcannot be subjected to
private negotiations by mutual understandingâ€�.

The government
further goes on to say that â€œa private dispute between two parties and
their alleged agreement (family MoU) cannot threaten the interests of
other stake holders i.e. the government in the contract. The MoU by its
very nature is in contravention of the PSC which both the signatory
parties were aware of before entering into this agreement (2005
agreement of RIL and RNRL)â€�.

The matter is listed for hearing
on Monday before a bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan. The
government said RILâ€™s agreement to sell the gas to RNRL at $2.34 per
mBtu is not based on an arms-length price. A sale made in 2004 would
not be relevant for determining the sale price at which the gas is to
be sold in 2006 or 2007, it said. The prevailing gas prices for
domestic gas under the PSC are significantly higher, said the affidavit
prepared by the additional solicitor general Mohan Parasaran, who is
government's counsel in the case.

While RNRL's views could not
be immediately obtained, it had argued before the Bombay High Court
that RIL has the freedom to price its gas and this price could be
different from the one set by the government. This view was upheld by
the high court.
http://economictime s.indiatimes. com/News/ News-By-Industry /Energy/Oil- Gas/Govt- formally- joins-Ambani- brothers- KG-Basin- gas-feud/ articleshow/ 4791538.cms
Yesterday you announced the Invensys deal. What new business opportunities does it bring for Cognizant?

We
expect this will accelerate our growth not only in the manufacturing
sector, but also in life sciences and consumer package goods industry .
It is a great revenue market opportunity for us as the deal is
targeting a market space. Invensys has 40,000 customers and its
products run in 2,00,000 plants across the world. So, it is a great
opportunity for us to market the next generation of manufacturing
automation in those plants. We are not opposed to doing more contracts
such as the Tsystems deal and the Invensys ones that are designed to
absorb employees of our partners if it benefits the transaction.

What trends do you see in terms of outsourcing business and pricing pressures?

The
first quarter has been very stable for us, and we see stability in the
demand market. Although budgets are flat, we see deal sizes being
finalised. The third and fourth quarters of last year were very
volatile and we were in the eye of a storm.

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For
the full year of 2009, we expect pricing to be down marginally, in
single digits. This is being driven by greater off-shoring by clients.
Pricing environment is not aggressive at this moment. As we get larger
contracts, itâ€™s normal to offer discounts for larger volumes more and
aggressive on shore off-site ratios.

Are you seeking to grow in India through potential acquisitions?

We will continue to invest in the Indian market and focus on the Indian and Asian market. We have
seen traction across Asia and weâ€™re also looking at Japan, China and
Australia. We will enter verticals such as BFS, retail, manufacturing,
health care, media and entertainment. Weâ€™re looking for M&As both
in India , China and across the world. India as a country is an
underrepresented market for us. Asia contributes to only 2% of our
revenue.

Will you be bidding for Indiaâ€™s Unique ID project?

We
are open to projects in India and we are not excluding any sector of
business like we do in other markets and countries. We do not rule out
the fact that we will bid for the Unique ID project.

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http://economictime s.indiatimes. com/Cognizant- likely-to- bid-for-Unique- ID-project- CEO/articleshow/ 4791978.cms

Govt may divest in four mining units

18 Jul 2009, 1020 hrs IST, TNN

NEW DELHI: The government is looking
at four mining units under the administrative control of the steel
ministry for stake sale. But a roadmap is
yet to be drawn. The move is being considered to meet funds requirement, a top government official said on Friday.

The
names of National Mineral Development Corporation, Kudremukh Iron Ore
Corporation, Manganese Ore (India) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam figured
for stake sale during a meeting called by the finance secretary. But no decision has been taken yet on whether the government will shed part of its equity in these firms.

Separately
in a written reply in Lok Sabha on Friday, minister of state for steel
A Sai Prathap said the ministry has received proposals to divest its
equity in RINL and MOIL. NMDC, the largest iron ore producer, is a
â€˜navratnaâ€™ company.

If the government considers divesting up
to 10% equity in the company, it will be able to raise over Rs 10,000
crore. To another question in the Rajya Sabha, Sai Prathap said steel
giant SAIL will see its workforce shrink by 20,000 by 2011-12.
http://economictime s.indiatimes. com/Economy/ Govt-may- divest-in- four-mining- units/articlesho w/4791821. cms
My
friend Pramod Kumar asked a PUZZLE why Hillary Clinton lands in Mumbai
instead of New Delhi. Did she failed a DIRECT Flight to INDIAN Capital
in parliament Session?

Pl Solve the PUZZLE if you DARE!

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today had a breakfast meeting with top honchos of India Inc at the iconic, sea-facing Taj Hotel here.

Amongst those from India Inc who were
present at the meeting included Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Group and
Reliance Industries' Mukesh Ambani.

Others present were the
chiefs of India's two largest banks, O P Bhatt of State Bank and Chanda
Kochhar of ICICI Bank, Swati Piramal and Sudha Murthy, wife of Infosys
Founder N R Narayana Murthy and a leading proponent of corporate social
responsibility (CSR) initiatives in the country.

Industrialist
Jamshyd Godrej and Tata Group official R K Krishna Kumar also
interacted with Clinton along with renowned corporates including Ashok
Ganguly and Amrita Patel.

India Inc is widely expected to
discuss the subject of protectionism and outsourcing, issues which are
bound to impact them, especially in this period of global economic
meltdown, at the meeting with Clinton.

The meeting is also widely expected to focus on CSR, a subject close to Clinton's heart.

Clinton
arrived here last night on an official visit to India during which
high-level discussions are likely to promote bilateral co-operation in
USD 30-billion Indian civil nuclear power programme and USD 43-billion
bilateral trade.

India
Inc may be heading for a profitable year with early corporate results
for the first quarter of the new fiscal showing significant

Best cos to work for '09
Top 10 valuable brands
10 most admired cos improvement
in margins despite slower revenue growth. The first set of 59
non-banking companies to come out with their numbers for the quarter
ended June 30 have reported a 21% year-on-year growth in net profit, the highest in four quarters, while their aggregate net sales grew 11%, an ET study shows.

Banks were excluded from the study as their income is dependent on the
interest rate regime and does not necessarily reflect demand growth in
the economy.

Slower sales growth indicates that the corporate
sector is yet to see a significant pick-up in demand but there has been
a major improvement in profit generation as cost pressures have eased.
The companies saw expenses like wage bill, raw material costs, interest
costs and fuel and power expenses rise much more moderately than
before.

The wage bill, for example, grew just 9% in the first quarter compared with 34% in the year-ago period.
However,
it may be too early to take a call on overall corporate results for the
quarter as the sample size is small and includes mostly small and
medium-sized companies.

Divestment plans, earnings take Nifty close to 4400! Surya R Kannoth, ET Bureau writes correctly:

The
market euphoria is likely to be maintained in the forthcoming week as
global and domestic corporates unveil their earnings for the
April-June quarter. So far, the earnings
season has helped improve sentiment across the globe on hopes of a
faster economic revival.

â€œThe market has given a fresh
breakout on the upside. In the coming week, the Nifty could run up to
4600. Beyond this 200-250 point rally, the market could get into a
consolidation mode. Sectorwise, banks, power and infrastructure stocks are good bets,â€� said DD Sharma, senior vice president at Anand Rathi Securities.

Bombay
Stock Exchangeâ€™s Sensex settled at 14,744.92, higher by 9.19 per cent
or 1,240.70 points from the previous week. National Stock Exchangeâ€™s Nifty ended at 2.26 per cent or 371 points to 4374.95.

Last
week, the market posted its biggest weekly fall in eight months, after
the government's budget offered little in terms of bold economic and financial reforms.

Concerns
still linger about stretched valuations and uncertainty surrounding the
domestic economy and corporate earnings growth, but the momentum in
overseas markets is spurring the equity benchmarks higher, traders
said.

â€œGiven the current market momentum, equity benchmarks
are expected to open on a higher note next week. However, looking at
Fridayâ€™s move, midcaps and smallcaps have not moved in tandem with the
Nifty. Volumes are also on the lower side which suggests that there was
not much participation. This casts a shadow on the sustainability of
the momentum,â€� said Ambareesh Baliga, head of research at Karvy Stock
Broking.

Baliga added, â€œWe have advised clients to hold their
positions in technology stocks, although no fresh buying has not been
recommended. The auto space also looks attractive.â€�

Equities
worldwide have rallied this week on the back of strong earnings
declaration by US corporates, and encouraging economic data from China
and Singapore signalled the turmoil in the global economy was easing.
http://economictime s.indiatimes. com/Markets/ Stocks/Market- News/Market- mood-to-remain- positive- earnings- watched/articles how/4791742. cms

Mukesh
Ambani-led RIL on Friday said it would not be possible to supply gas to
Anil Ambani group firm RNRL without the government's nod

Reliance Industries' KG-D6 facility
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and requested the Supreme Court not to restrain it from selling gas to others.

Accusing
RNRL of taking contradictory stands in an attempt to mislead Supreme
Court, RIL said in its affidavit that the interim relief sought by the
other party on gas sale be rejected as it did not have any plants
capable of receiving the fuel.

RIL also submitted that any
damages suffered by RNRL, if established, can be recompensated later by
money and added that gas supplied at this stage to RNRL could be used
only for the purpose of trading with third parties.

"The
profits that RNRL may make is not a concern of RIL. In fact, RNRL was
created just so that it could earn such a profit," RNRL had said in its
affidavit filed in Supreme Court on Tuesday in reply to a separate
petition by RIL.

Stating that it can't sell gas to anybody without official nod, the affidavit filed by RIL's law firm Parekh & Company said today the government as such had rejected the
price of USD 2.34 per mmBtu for gas. The current applicable price as
per government formula is USD 4.20 per mmBtu.

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Both
RIL and RNRL have filed cross-appeals challenging the Bombay High Court
decision on gas supply, in which the Mukesh Ambani-run firm has named
the government as intervener. The government's affidavit is expected
anytime now.
http://economictime s.indiatimes. com/articleshow/ 4788841.cms

Anand Sharma new BoT Chairman, replacing Kumar Mangalam Birla!

Ahead
of the new Foreign Trade Policy, likely to be announced next month, the
Government has named Commerce and Industry Minister Anand
Sharma as Chairman of the Board of Trade, a post last held by industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla.

The Board is the Government's highest advisory body on export- and import-related issues.

"The
Commerce & Industry Minister will be the Chairman of the Board of
Trade (BOT)," the Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a
notification.

The BoT advises the Government on policy
measures for preparing and implementing both short- and long-term plans
for increasing exports in the light of emerging national and
international economic situations.

India's exports are on the
downslide since October 2008 as the country became a victim of demand
slump in the major economies including in the US and the European
Union.

Among others, the Secretary in the Departments of
Commerce and Revenue and Ministries of External Affairs and Textiles
are members of the Board, which meets at least once every quarter.

The
President or Secretary-General of national chambers of commerce such as
the Federation of Indian Export Organisations, Confederation of Indian
Industry, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and
Assocham are ex-offico members of the BoT.

In a
new twist to the battle between Anil and Mukesh Ambani group firms, the
government today asked the Supreme Court to make it a respondent in the
ongoing gas supply dispute to safeguard its interests.

In its
affidevit filed in the apex court in response to a petition filed by
Mukesh Ambani-led RIL seeking to make government an intervener, the
Petroleum Ministry said that it should be impleaded as a party in the
dispute.

Younger Ambani sibling Anil's group firm RNRL had
also filed a petition in the apex court seeking modification in the
Bombay High Court ruling to make it incumbent on RIL to supply gas from
KG Basin fields at a price of USD 2.34 per mmBtu, which is 44 per cent
lower than that fixed by the government.

The Petroleum
Ministry affidavit said: "Union of India's interests are vitally
involved and affected by the High Court judgement and considering this
fact, it would be more appropriate to make Union of India as a party."

It
further said that the government's involvement in the proceedings was
aimed at effectively resolving the controversy that has arisen in the
matter.

Earlier in the day, RIL had said in its affidavit
filed in connection with the cross-appeals filed by the two groups that
it was only a contractor and did not have "any unfettered rights" in
the quantity and price of gasand hence cannot give the same to RNRL without the consent of the government.

RNRL,
on the other hand, has contended that RIL was trying to make the
dispute as one between it and the government, which it argued had no
role in the issue.

Key indices bounced back Friday to end on a high note as traders bought frontline stocksheavily taking cues from better than expected earnings in the US and
back home. Governmentâ€™s clarity on disinvestment and reforms triggered
the rally.

According to the finance secretary Ashok Chawla, India will push key financial sector reforms, including raising foreign investment limit in insurance companies. He also asserted that governmentâ€™s
decision on divestment of listed and unlisted public sector
undertakings.

There are reports that the government may sell
stake in unlisted PSUs like Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd, Manganese Ore
Ltd, Kudremukh Iron Ore Company and listed companies like NMDC, NTPC,
REC and Engineers India.

â€œUS markets have given a strong
breakout and Indian governmentâ€™s plans on divestment and reforms pushed
the indices. Traders who shorted market around July 6 when head and
shoulder pattern was formed were seen covering shorts,â€� said Arun
Mewawalla, senior derivatives analyst, Quantum Securities.

National
Stock Exchangeâ€™s Nifty ended at 4374.95, up 143.55 points or 3.39 per
cent. The broader index hit a high of 4390.40 and low of 4230.15.

Bombay
Stock Exchangeâ€™s Sensex closed at 14744.92, up 494.67 points or 3.47
per cent. The index touched an intra-day high of 14800.70 and low of
14325.58.

â€œNext immediate target for Nifty is near 4480 and it
may also retest 4700. Option writers who were bearish on the market
covered short calls while writing put option on the Nifty,â€� Mewawalla
added.

The BSE Midcap Index moved up 2.31 per cent and BSE
Smallcap Index gained 2.44 per cent. Amongst the sectoral indices, BSE
Auto Index was up 5.16 per cent, BSE Bankex gained 4.76 per cent and
BSE IT Index moved 4.11 per cent higher.

HCL Technologies (10.91%), Reliance Infrastructure (8.69%), M&M (7.98%), ICICI Bank (7.06%) and Reliance Capital (7.03%) were amongst the Nifty gainers.

GAIL (-0.66%), Sterlite Industries (-0.31%), Reliance Power (-0.30%) and NTPC (-0.05%) were the only Nifty losers.

Market breadth on the Nifty was positive with 46 advances outnumbering 4 declines.

Results update:

Crompton Greaves posted consolidated net profit of Rs. 160.35 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 against Rs.
122.61 crore for the corresponding quarter of 2008. Net sales stood at
Rs. 2197.52 crore against Rs. 2034.75 crore in the year earlier
quarter. The scrip closed 6.94 per cent higher.

Colgate
Palmolive India posted a net profit of Rs 1027.80 million for the
quarter ended June 30, 2009 compared to Rs 719.20 million for the
corresponding quarter of 2008. Total revenue increased to Rs 4939.80
million from Rs 4359.90 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2008. The
share ended with 2 per cent gains.

India Infoline
posted standalone net profit of Rs. 44.50 crore for the quarter ended
June 30, 2009 against Rs. 41.18 crore for the same quarter of 2008. Net
sales was Rs. 179.51 crore against Rs. 161.33 crore for the year
earlier quarter. The stock closed 2.04 per cent lower.

Sunil Mittal to step down from Standard Chartered board
Indian telecom czar Sunil Mittal will be stepping down from the board of British bankingmajor Standard Chartered as a non-executive

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director with effect from July 31.

Mittal is the Chairman and group Chief Executive of diversified Indian group Bharti Enterprises.

Standard
Chartered in a statement today said Mittal has decided to step down
from the board and resign from the company effective July 31, 2009.

He has been a Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered since August 1, 2007.

Bharti Enterprises is the unlisted parent of Bharti Airtel.

Standard
Chartered is advising Bharti in a deal that could lead to a merger with
South Africa's MTN Group, creating the world's No. 3 wireless group
with more than 200 million subscribers and combined revenue of $20
billion.

According to sources, Bharti Airtel, Mittal's telecom
firm, may seek some funds from Standard Chartered for its proposed $23
billion-deal with South African entity MTN.

But company sources said this was not the reason for Mittal's decision to step down.

In
the statement, Mittal said, "... given my involvement with Bharti
Enterprises, it is becoming increasingly difficult to balance my time
with the demands placed on a Non-Executive Director on the board of a bank".

"It
is therefore with regret that I have tendered my resignation and I wish
the Bank every success in the future as it continues to pursue its
highly effective strategy," Mittal noted.

Standard Chartered's Chairman John Peace said Mittal has been an excellent non-executive director.

"He
has been a pleasure to work with over the past two years. I would like
to take this opportunity to thank him for his valuable contribution to
the company," Peace added.

Meanwhile, Economic Times reports:

While making amply clear that "Pakistan must root out
anti-India terror groups", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on
Saturday

Hillary Clinton on official visit to India
reiterated the US commitment to be with India in tackling terror.

First
day of Ms Clinton's maiden official India tour began with the US
secretary of state attending a commemorative event in the memory of
26/11 victims at the Taj Palace, Mumbai's one of the iconic building
that was attacked by terrorists from Pakistan in November last year.

Later
she held a breakfast meeting with India's top 10 business leaders
including Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani, Swati Piramal, Jamshyd Godrej, OP
Bhatt and Chanda Kochhar at the Taj Palace. After over 90 minutes
meeting Ms Clinton made a brief statement before the media.

She
made categorically clear that Pakistan shall have to root-out terror
groups from its soil indulged in anti-India activities. She told a
crowded news confer-ence that "There is a concerted effort (from
Pakistan) we can look forward to. It is too early to tell the outcome
of this commitment from Pakistan. In the next few days, I believe,
there will be greater awareness whether or not to bring the Mumbai
terrorists to justice." She also said US had seen "a much greater
effort and commitment ... to take on the terrorists" in Pakistan.

Asked
if she believed that Islamabad needed to act against terrorist group
ac-tive against India, she said: "We believe they have to be rooted
out, they must be defeated, they must be dismantled. We say that
clearly, we will continue to do so."

Ms Clinton once again
brushed aside suggestions that India and Pakistan had agreed to resume
their talks under American pressure, pointing out that both were
"sovereign nations". According to her the US was "supportive" of the
talks but was not "directly involved". India and Pakistan had taken the
"decision between them", she claimed referring to Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani's
meeting at Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh Thursday on the sidelines of
the Non-Aligned Summit where the two leaders agreed to resume talks at
the foreign secretary level.

Ms Clinton also asserted that US
was "very committed" in the fight against terrorism. "We are seeking to
talk with our Indian counterparts in the coming days on how to tackle
the threat of terrorism," she said.

She condemned the bombing
of two hotels in Indonesia Friday that left at least eight people dead,
terming it a "stark reminder" of the threat that terrorism posed
globally.

In reply to a question on India's commitment to the
global warming the US secretary of state said: India is innovative and
entrepreneurial enough to deal with climate change without sacrificing
growth.
http://economictime s.indiatimes. com/articleshow/ 4792227.cms

Maoists blow up police outpost in Orissa

Maoist rebels have blown up a police outpost in Orissa's Kandhamal district, police said Saturday.

A group of Maoists blew up the police outpost in Katingia
Friday night, Kandhamal Superintendent of Police Pravin Kumar told IANS
on phone. The district headquarters is about 200 km from the state
capital.

Though local media reports said some constables were missing after the incident, Kumar denied the reports.

"No
policemen are missing. We have already established contact with our
personnel there and a combing operation is on to nab the rebels," he
said.

There is no inherent contradiction between poverty eradication and moving to-ward a low-carbon economy, she said.

GAIL to lay down 600-km long gas pipeline in MP
: Gas Authority
of India Limited (GAIL) will lay down a 600-km long gas pipeline from
Jhabua to Kailaras in Madhya Pradesh at an estimated cost
of Rs 3,000 crore, a top company official said today.

"The
proposed gas pipeline from Jhabua to Kailaras covering a distance of
nearly 600 km will be laid at an estimated cost of Rs 3,000 crore,"
GAIL Chairman U D Choubey told reporters at the company's Vijaypur
plant.

"It will have a visible impact in the area in the next two-three years," he said.

The
cost of the pipleline between the two points (Jhabua and Kailaras) will
be Rs 2,500 crore while another Rs 500 crore will be spent on
installing two compressors, the Chairman said.

GAIL has
already laid down 6000 km long gas pipeline in India and has plans to
lay down a pipeline of equivalent length across the country, he said.

The
company also plans to supply piped gas in a radius of 50 km in the
cities situated along the route of the pipeline and nearly 230 cities
and towns including Guna, Indore, Gwalior and Malanpur have been
shortlisted for the purpose, Chobey said.

BJP slams govt for â€˜surrenderâ€™ to Pak, walks out of LS

The
BJP staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha on Friday led by Leader of
Opposition L K Advani, who registered a strong protest against PM

Manmohan Singh â€œconcedingâ€� ground to Pakistan on the issue of cross-border terror.

Advani
asked the PM what had led the government to delink terror talks from
the composite dialogue and why the government had chosen to reverse the
stand it had taken after the Mumbai attacks. The party accused the government of â€œsurrending before Pakistanâ€� .

On
Balochistan finding mention in the joint statement, Leader of
Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley told reporters , â€œAllowing
Pakistan to refer to Balochistan in the joint statement is allowing a
perennial source of harrassment for India and it gives Pakistan an
opportunity to level the bizzarre charge that Indian agencies also use
terror.â€�

The BJP slammed the government over the outcome of
the meeting between the PM and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza
Gilani. It said the joint statement between the two countries had
â€œreversed Indiaâ€™s long-standing policy on terrorâ€� .

As the
party forced the PM to clarify whether he had agreed to delink terror
from the composite dialogue, the PMâ€™s statement in the LS seemed to
have left Opposition benches â€œdissapointed â€� as it confirmed their
fears, and prompted them to register a protest immediately.

India Inc passed the hard times in hibernation

18 Jul 2009, 0319 hrs IST, Ashish Agrawal, ET Bureau

India Inc put the brakes on investments to create fixed assets such as manufacturing plants and machinery during the year ended March 2009, an ET

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to see them through the challenging climate.

The study, based
on a sample of audited results of 650 public listed companies, shows
that the aggregate increase in cash invested for purchase of fixed
assets (CFA) slowed to barely 5%, compared to a robust 32.6% growth in
the previous year.

The growth in cash flow from operations, an important source of funds for expansion, grew by
14% last year as against a 19% increase the previous fiscal. Moreover,
in 2007-08, when the economy expanded by a healthy 9%, growth in
investments was far higher than the increase in cash flows of the same
set of companies.

But now is the right time for the companies to start capital investments afresh, says Madan Sabnavis, chief economist at commodities exchange
NCDEX. â€œThe need for investment today is high as we are on the
threshold of a recovery and interest rates are at a low. Borrowings from the euro markets would also be a good
option given the soft interest rates. A recovery in the world economy
later this year will have an impact on global inflation and the trend
would be to go back to increasing interest rates,â€� he observes.

Even
in 2008-09, companies such as CESC, Hindustan Unilever, SRF, Century
Textiles, ACC, Ambuja Cements and MRF saw CFA grow at a higher rate
than cash flows because of previous capital investment commitments.
Amtek India, MRF, ACC, HUL, CESC and Ambuja Cements, who spent at least
Rs 200 crore in FY08, increased their investment expenditure by 50%
during FY09.

The investment pattern of an individual company
is primarily based on its existing production capacity and demand and
expenditure on fixed assets may see a sharp increase or decrease during
a year depending on the stage of the commissioning of its project. But
at an aggregate level, the total investment depends upon overall demand
and other enabling or inhibiting factors in the economy.

Besides
manufacturing companies that create assets to expand their core
operations, the sample of companies also includes financial services
firms, where fixed assets play a supporting role in businesses such as
IT hardware. Even if we exclude this sector, comprising around 180
firms, the big picture remains unchanged. The growth rate of fixed
assets investments comes down to 4.7% from 30.9% in FY08. Besides fresh
investments for asset creation, capital work-in-progress also dipped
26%, the second consecutive year of decline, indicating that projects
under execution have come down and are likely to lead to lower asset
creation in the coming years.

First head rolls: Project director returns to Railways

16 Jul 2009, 1056 hrs IST, Megha Suri, TNN

NEW DELHI: Three days after the concrete segment of a Metro
viaduct and a girder launcher collapsed at Zamrudpur in south Delhi,
killing six
people, Delhi Metro Rail Corporationâ€™s
Badarpur line in-charge Vijay Anand, director (projects), was
repatriated to Indian Railways. Anand, who had been with DMRC since
2001, was also in-charge of the Anand Vihar line on which the Laxmi
Nagar incident had happened.

â€˜â€˜ In the light of the incidents,
Anand put in a request that he be sent back to the Railways, which was
acceded to by managing director E Sreedharan on Wednesday. The orders
have been issued ,â€™â€™ said a DMRC spokesperson.
This is the first
time a tough stand has been taken against such a senior official in
DMRC. Although no reason was given, it is understood that the shifting
out was a fallout of the latest mishap that was followed by the
cranecollapse the following day during the clean-up operation at the
site, which too was being supervised by Anand. The official was also
in-charge of the Anand Vihar line where a launcher collapse at Laxmi
Nagar had claimed two lives in October last year.

Anand had joined the corporation in 2001 as chief engineer and went on to become the chief project manager of the operational Line 1 (Indraprastha to Dwarka). He commissioned
three lines in all â€" Dilshad Garden to Shahdara, Jehangirpuri to
Vishwavidyalaya and Yamuna Bank to IP. In October 2007, he was promoted
to the post of Director (Projects).

Meanwhile, the salvage
operation continued at Zamrudpur through the day even as work slowed
down because of rain. By evening, the launching girder had been cut
into several pieces which are being removed from the site. Three cranes
of 350-ton and 100-ton capacity are being used to remove the pieces. To
prevent any further mishap, the concrete span has been supported with
trestle arrangements, wedge packing, sandbags and safety nets.

The
other carriageway, however, has not been opened as the space is
required for crane movement . A DMRC spokesperson said compensation has
been paid to the next-of-kin of those who died in the accident and the
injured persons. â€˜â€˜ Out of Rs 5 lakh, Rs 50,000 has been paid as
interim relief in cash to the next-of-kin of each of the six persons
who died in the accident. The rest of the amount of Rs. 4.5 lakh will
be converted into fixed deposits for three years,â€™â€™ said the
spokesperson.

The seven people who suffered major injuries
have reportedly been given full compensation of Rs 50,000 while eight
persons with minor injuries have been paid Rs 10,000 each.

The
members of all the inquiry panels have inspected the construction
sites. â€˜â€˜ The amount of fine or other impositions on the contractor
will be decided by DMRC only after receiving the inquiry report and
after a complete assessment of the damage that has been caused. The
amount has not been decided yet,â€™â€™ the spokesperson added

We will be supportive of Indo-Pak talks: Hillary

18 Jul 2009, 0553 hrs IST, ET Bureau

However, she predictably denied that the US had put
pressure on India to resume the dialogue with Pakistan. â€œI am very
impressed with PM (Manmohan) Singh meeting both president Zardari and
now with prime minister Gilani of Pakistan,â€™â€™ she said. The visit of Ms
Clinton comes a day after the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and Pakistan prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and the release of
the Indo-Pak joint statement.

The US secretary of state also
expressed support for Pakistan for giving a commitment to fighting
terror. â€œI think in the last few days there has been a real commitment
that was discussed between prime minister Gilani and prime minister
Singh about the commitment of the Pakistani government to pursuing the Mumbai terrorists and their associated organisations who provide the training
and the deployment of terrorists,â€™â€™ she said. Ms Clinton is expected to
discuss a wide variety of issues with the Indian leadership including
issues related to Pakistan through the Af-Pak policy. Apart from
Pakistan, non proliferation and civilian nuclear issues are also set to
dominate the dialogue.

This visit is expected to set the
agenda for the Indo-US strategic relationship and includes many
components ranging from education to agriculture to other areas of
bilateral cooperation. A number of pacts are also expected to be
signed. Ahead of her arrival in India, foreign secretary Shivshankar
Menon met with the new US ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer. Mr
Roemerâ€™s one-hour meeting with Mr Menon was called a courtesy call. But
the two sides discussed the visit of Ms Clinton and the pacts that are
set to be signed after bilateral talks.

Ms Clinton was also
clear that the US was very concerned about nuclear proliferation but
also committed to the civilian nuclear agreement. She said there could
be â€œsome announcements about the continuing implementation of that
(civil nuclear) agreementâ€� during her visit.

She said that she
would hold discussions with the Indian side on â€œhow we can work
together for a common purpose of preventing the proliferation of
nuclear material and weapons to state and non-state actors to pose a
threat to India to the United States and to the many countries around
the worldâ€�.

SEBI to fund class action suit against Satyam

17 Jul 2009, 1445 hrs IST, Reena Zachariah, ET Bureau

MUMBAI: Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will fund a domestic investors' association that has filed a class action

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The
lawsuit is seeking compensation from Satyam and the parties involved
for the losses these investors incurred in its stock price crash, after
an accounting fraud came into light in January 2009.

The
class action, which is a collective lawsuit presented by a
representative- member before a court on behalf of a large number of
investors, has been filed by New Delhi-based Midas Touch Investor Association in the Supreme Court.

This
is among the many several class action suits that the company is
facing, mostly in the US. Midas, which represents three lakh investors,
collectively holds nine crore shares of Satyam, now renamed Mahindra Satyam.

"We
have sought compensation on behalf of retail investors who were
defrauded due to fudged accounts, which helped the ex-promoters
manipulate prices," said Virendra Jain of Midas Touch Investor
Association. The former auditor, Price Waterhouse and the company's
directors have been blamed for being party to this fraud.

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This
is the first instance in the country where Sebi is financially
assisting investors to legally challenge wrongdoings by companies or
promoters. The market regulator will use the investor protection and
education fund of Rs 15 crore, which has so far been used to sponsor
investor education programmes, to fund Midas. The association will be
reimbursed 75% of the total expenditure on legal proceedings that it
will incur.

At present, there are 23 such Sebi-registered
investors' associations, who can avail of this aid, provided they prove
1,000 or more investors have been impacted. Although the funding will
be approved on a case-to-case basis, lawyers say this will be a new
tool for Sebi to protect investors' interest.

Lawsuits here
are handled differently from countries like the US, where the lawyer
gets his fee only if the verdict is in the clients' favour. They also
get a share of the compensation amount. Meanwhile, in India,
irrespective of outcome of the case, lawyers charge a flat fee.

Turning Vision into Reality
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Company to have been accredited with ISO 9001 certification for all
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With Gammon India as its contractor, KMRC reviews safety measures

Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay Tags : kolkata, metro, KMRC Posted: Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009 at 0446 hrs Kolkata:

Rattled
by the Sundayâ€™s accident at the Delhi Metro project site that left six
people dead and 13 others injured, the Kolkata Metro Railway
Corporation (KMRC) is reviewing its safety measures.
The managing director
of KMRC, Sumantra Choudhury, was summoned to Delhi on Tuesday by the
Corporationâ€™s chairman M Ramachandran.
After holding a meeting
with Ramachandran, who is also the secretary of the Union Urban
Development Ministry and chairman of Delhi Metro Railway Corporation,
Choudhury said, â€œSince Gammon India is involved in both the Metro
projects of Delhi and Kolkata, we discussed the necessary safety
measures.â€�
Gammon India was given the contract of the Metro stretch where the accident took place on Sunday in Delhi.
The KMRC is currently
working on the East-West Metro Corridor that will connect Salt Lake
with Howrah. The 13.77 km stretch with 12 stations will cost Rs 4,676
crore and is expected to be completed by 2014.

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Stocks to Watch: TCS, Wipro, Infosys, NTC, RIL, Gammon India
13 Jul 2009, 0940 hrs IST, ET Bureau

MUMBAI:
Shares of Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro and Infosys Technologies may
see some action on reports that Israeli tech firms are looking at
emerging marketssuch as India and China for contracts, especially in e-governance
projects. Pegasus Technologies, which provides digital pens and
solutions, will be tying up with retail chains in India. Pegasus is
eyeing e-governance projects, such as those available in the central
railways information system (CRIS), postal department and NIC Delhi,
through its local partner Hi-Tech Solutions.

The realty space
may see some renewed interest on reports that 20 players have shown
interest in National Textile Corporationâ€™s Finlay Mill land in central
Mumbai, which has been put on the block for the third time. These
players include Reliance Vorando, Tata Realty, Lodha Developers, DB
Realty, Nahar Group and Kalpataru Developers. NTC has set its reserve
price at Rs 708 crore for the mill land which sits on an area of 10.3
acres. The reserve price for the property is down from Rs 1,065 crore
to Rs 708 crore, though NTC is yet to make that public. The bidding
will take place on July 16.

Having put its plans of setting up
MDF plants in Punjab and Uttarakhand on hold till the economy revives,
Century Plyboardsâ€™ plan to raise Rs 250 crore through the qualified
institutional placement route has undergone a change. The company is in
talks with global and domestic private equity players to raise Rs
100-150 crore to part-finance its cement expansion plans.

Siemens
Information Systems, a unit of engineering group Siemens, has said it
has laid-off 128 employees as part of cost-cutting measures. Shares of
the engineering major ended 2.64 per cent lower at Rs 412.95 on the
BSE.

The government is open to allowing private sector oil
firms such as Reliance Industries, Essar Oil and Shell India to access
government subsidy on domestic fuel sales on condition they pass on the
benefits to consumers. Shares of the oil companies could see an upside
on this development.

Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone is
set to win the rights to develop and operate a Rs 252 crore, 4.6
million tonnes per year coal terminal at the government-owned Mormugao
port. Shares of the company ended 4 per cent higher at Rs 514.95 on
Friday.

Shares of Gammon India will take a beating after the
collapse of a part of an under construction Delhi Metro line which is
the second accident involving the construction company. Five people
were killed and 15 injured when a part of the elevated under
construction metro track came crashing down near Kailash Colony in
south Delhi on the Central Secretariat- Badarpur section slated to open
by September 2010 when the Commonwealth Games are to be hosted in the
city.

On Sep 9, 2007, two people were killed and several
injured when eight pre-cast blocks caved in at the flyover in Hyderabad
due to heavy rains. The flyover was being constructed by Gammon India.

UPDATE 2-Gammon India shares plunge as bridge tumbles
Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:11pm IST

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MUMBAI, July 13 (Reuters) - Gammon India Ltd (GAMM.BO: Quote, Profile, Research)
shares tumbled by nearly a fifth on Monday after a part of the bridge
it was constructing for the Delhi Metro Rail Corp (DMRC) fell,
unnerving investors.
The accident killed six people on Sunday morning and prompted the metro chief Elattuvalapil Sreedharan to offer his resignation.
A spokesman for DMRC said government officials had asked Sreedharan to withdraw his resignation, which he did.
"It's not that great a
stock to buy, every now and then something goes wrong," Shailesh
Kanani, analyst at Angel Broking. "There are many better plays for
infrastructure. "
An under-construction flyover by Gammon India partially collapsed in Hyderabad in September 2007.
The over-86 year-old
company, whose business spans transportation, engineering, hydro power
and irrigation, said it would reserve comment until a government
committee returned with the results of its investigation into the
accident.
"The committee is
investigating into the cause. Let the committee come out with a report
and then we will comment," Gammon India's vice president, R.L. Telang
told Reuters over the telephone.
Newspapers quoted
Sreedharan as saying the causes of the accident could have been a fault
of the design, the contractor or inferior material. Continued...
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Malay Ghosh elevated as president of Reliance Life

16 Jul 2009, 1404 hrs IST, ECONOMICTIMES. COM
NEW DELHI:
Reliance Life Insurance Company (RLIC), part of the Reliance Anil
Dhirubhai Ambani Group, on Thursday announced the elevation of Malay
Ghosh as president, as part of the companyâ€™s overall growth plans.
The announcement was made by Sam Ghosh, chief executive officer, Reliance Capital Ltd, in Mumbai.
Malay Ghosh has taken
over as the president, Reliance Life Insurance, from his previous role
of deputy chief executive officer to further lead and strengthen the
organisation and continue to provide direction and focus.
â€œIn his new role, Malay Ghosh will provide overall leadershipto the organization and will be responsible for all external
stakeholders like the regulatory authority and industry interfaces,â€™â€™
said Sam Ghosh.
Malay Ghosh joined
RLIC over a year back and has provided leadership to the sales and
distribution and other functions with remarkable success, during which
Reliance Life showed a positive growth of 28 per cent against an
industry de-growth of -6 per cent.
â€œI am happy to take
over the new role and responsibilities. Along with my team, I would
work towards setting new benchmarks in business leadership, product and
services and creating value for customers,â€™â€™ said Malay Ghosh.

Banks face fines for ATM errors

18 Jul 2009, 1035 hrs IST, ET Bureau

MUMBAI: Bankswill now have to pay accountholders a compensation of Rs 100 per day
for every day of delay in reversing a failed ATM transaction.

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed stringent penalties on banks
who fail to reverse a transaction where cash is not dispensed by the
ATM but the customerâ€™s account gets debited within 12 days.

In
a circular issued on Friday, RBI has said banks must re-credit such
customersâ€™ accounts within 12 working days from the date of receipt of
the complaint.

The circular is in response to complaints from customers who had to put up with delays in getting back moneyerroneously debited during failed ATM transactions. Besides imposing
the stiff penalty, the central bank also made it clear that this amount
needs to be credited to the customerâ€™s account automatically on the day
of the re-credit without the customer having to make a claim.

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In
case the delay is because of a third-party bank ATM through which the
customer has transacted, the card-issuing bank must still pay the
penalty to the customer. However, it will recover this amount from the
bank that owns the ATM.

Similarly, if a non-bank
network operator is the reason behind the delay, the bank will make the
payment and recover the penalty from the operator.

Furthermore,
the RBI has instructed banks to extend the scope of concurrent audit to
cover cases of such delays. Banks are now also required to place a
quarterly review of ATM transactions to its board of directors,
indicating the quantum of penalties paid, reasons for the same, and the
remedial action taken to prevent the recurrence of such cases. A copy
will have to be forwarded to the central bank.

This apart, the
Reserve Bank made a critical note of different banks setting different
cutoff limits for permitting cash withdrawals from/for other bank
customers.
MUMBAI: Banks will now have to pay accountholders a compensation of Rs 100 per day
for every day of delay in reversing a failed ATM transaction.

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The
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed stringent penalties on banks
who fail to reverse a transaction where cash is not dispensed by the
ATM but the customerâ€™s account gets debited within 12 days.

In
a circular issued on Friday, RBI has said banks must re-credit such
customersâ€™ accounts within 12 working days from the date of receipt of
the complaint.

The circular is in response to complaints from customers who had to put up with delays in getting back money erroneously debited during failed ATM transactions. Besides imposing
the stiff penalty, the central bank also made it clear that this amount
needs to be credited to the customerâ€™s account automatically on the day
of the re-credit without the customer having to make a claim.

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â†' Banks ask RBI to ease provisioning norm that clumps together loans

In
case the delay is because of a third-party bank ATM through which the
customer has transacted, the card-issuing bank must still pay the
penalty to the customer. However, it will recover this amount from the
bank that owns the ATM.

Similarly, if a non-bank network
operator is the reason behind the delay, the bank will make the payment
and recover the penalty from the operator.

Furthermore, the
RBI has instructed banks to extend the scope of concurrent audit to
cover cases of such delays. Banks are now also required to place a
quarterly review of ATM transactions to its board of directors,
indicating the quantum of penalties paid, reasons for the same, and the
remedial action taken to prevent the recurrence of such cases. A copy
will have to be forwarded to the central bank.

This apart, the
Reserve Bank made a critical note of different banks setting different
cutoff limits for permitting cash withdrawals from/for other bank
customers.
Bharti Airtel's cables to host 23 global companies

11 Jul 2009, 1456 hrs IST, Joji Thomas Philip, ET NowNEW DELHI:
Bharti Airtel has signed deals with 23 global carriers of voice and
data including Australiaâ€™s Telstra and UK-based Cable & Wireless, which will use the Indian firmâ€™s submarine cable network to route their India traffic.

These carriers will link to Bhartiâ€™s undersea cable network hubs in London and Singapore and carry their voice and data traffic through
the latterâ€™s infrastructure, said David Nishball, the companyâ€™s
president for enterprise services.

This means many of these
carriers will not take an international long distance (ILD) licence in
India and roll out their own networks here. Bharti is also expanding
its points of presence of its ILD network to 17 global destinations from five at present. Besides, the company will soon announce the
formation of terrestrial cable consortiums that will link the
neighboring countries such as Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and China.

The
enterprise segment accounts for 22% of Bharti Airtelâ€™s total revenues.
â€œLast year, we launched â€˜India with Airtelâ€™, where we offered to share
our networks with any international carrier that wants to enter India.
We are offering many of our partners 15-year contracts and part
ownership of the capacity on our submarine cables,â€� Mr Nishball said.

He,
however, refused to reveal the names of the partners. He said the telco
would make a series of announcements about these partnerships soon.

Mr
Nishball said all the agreements were reciprocal and would allow Bharti
to use the undersea cables of all these carriers across the globe.
â€œThis enhances our global reach by multiple times,â€� he added.

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Explaining
the logic behind the partnerships, Mr Nishball said Bharti did not view
the international long distance cable business as a market that needs
to be protected. It is this philosophy that has led to Bharti Airtel
joining several major upcoming undersea cable consortiums across the
globe.

The telco has invested about Rs 2,500 crore ($500
million) in the undersea cable business over the last 24 months. Bharti
has stakes in five new undersea cable global consortiums that will
become operational from 2010-end onwards, Mr Nishball added.

'Divide and conquer' new caller tune for telcos

18 Jul 2009, 0529 hrs IST, Amit Sharma, ET Bureau NEW DELHI: Pradeep Jha, a daily wager with a construction company in New Delhi, recently hung up on his mobile operator of two years to switch to a

New iPhone 3GS
Nokia N97
Palm Pre smartphone
Acer F900 connection
offered by the new mobile operator, Aircel. For Jha, who hails from
Darbhanga in Bihar, the reason was purely financial. Cheap inter-state
call charges â€" just half of what the 26-year-old paid earlier â€" were
almost a no-brainer.

And he is not alone. For migrants like
Jha, for whom every rupee saved is a rupee earned and vital to support
big families back home â€" nine in Jhaâ€™s case â€" the low-tariff plan
between Delhi and Bihar would have meant a few hundred rupees saved
each month to send home. Jha and others like him are reaping the
benefits of â€˜micro-segmentationâ€™, as telecom operators scout for niche
user groups to target their services in saturated markets.

Aircel,
which launched services in Delhi in March this year, is doing this
using what it calls corridor-calling which seeks to offer cheap tariffs
between states where it operates. Besides migrants like Jha, its other
targets are youth, including first-time jobbers and executives, women,
dependants, and small businesses. The company even has an international
corridor-calling between Kerala and the Gulf states, and is planning to
introduce the facility between Bangladesh and India. Indiaâ€™s dream telecom run â€" with more than 400-million mobile subscribers at last count and
adding around 9-million net new users every month â€" is fast getting
entangled in the mesh of fast-saturating urban markets, decreasing
revenues per user and shriller competition from players such as Aircel,
which were once regional but are expanding nationally.

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For
the dominant GSM mobile industry, the competition is not just among
themselves. Operators such as Reliance Communications and Tata Indicom,
which use the rival CDMA technology, have also been turning on the heat with cut-price offers.

For
mobile operators under intense pressure to keep up the numbers,
micro-segmenting has come in handy, as this new tool helps them comb
the market for finer, sharper and more nuanced consumer segments to
attract new users, retain and better serve old ones, and more
importantly, earn more. â€œThe smallest of our segments is now in six
figures,â€� says Shirish Joshi, marketing director of Airtel, Indiaâ€™s
largest mobile operator in terms of users. He declined to elaborate on
these segments, as he did not want to reveal sensitive competitive
information.

The fact that Airtel, Indiaâ€™s largest and most
profitable telecom company with a user base of more than 100-million
users, thinks worth its while to serve and protect the identity of one
segment, is a testimony to the cut-throat nature of the mobile market.
â€œAs the nth player in the market, we had to adopt a different
horses-for-courses approach,â€� says Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel. The
company claims to have 21-million subscribers in the 18 circles in
which it operates.

Recovery only by 2nd half of 2010: Norman Sorensen

18 Jul 2009, 0655 hrs IST, Nishanth Vasudevan, ET Bureau
MUMBAI:
Global markets are unlikely to see a sustained recovery till the second
half of 2010, says Norman Sorensen, president and CIO of US

Norman Sorensen
financial house
Principal International. In a free-wheeling chat with ET, he says the
recovery will be an inflation driven one, and not be accompanied job
creation. Excerpts:

The recent rally in equities was on the premises that the worst is over. Do you agree with that view?
We
will not see a sustained recovery in global markets until the second
half of 2010. Green shoots are obviously emerging...we are seeing some
stability in credit markets.
Some people are very optimistic. I think, US equities are ahead of
themselves, and we are beginning to see some plateauing. Hopefully, the
earnings season in the US will be viewed positively, but I do not see a
sustained recovery till the later part of next year.

The
reason for that is unemployment. We have seen 45 million job losses in
the US over the past eight months. This has a huge impact on the
consumer economy, as itâ€™s almost 70% of the US economy. So, that is the
drag, but there will be a recovery later and will be fairly sustained.
In 2011, the US could grow 3.5-4% because of the inventory reduction.

At
the moment, there is too much money sloshing around in markets across
the world. Isnâ€™t there a risk of sudden spurts in inflation?
Inflation
would be inevitable. The next recovery will have two main features.
One, it will be a jobless recovery. Secondly, the liquidity that will
be pumped into the market will drive inflation concurrent to that
recovery. So, it will be an inflation-driven recovery. So, you will see
commodity prices go up across the world. Unfortunately, this will be a
hard thing to contain and central banks, across the world, will have to raise rates. I think, the first rate increase in the US could be as early as next April

Will a global inflationary wave affect Indiaâ€™s growth? What are your concerns about India?
The
only problem that India will face when the inflationary wave comes is
petroleum. Energy is going to be a problem over the next 18 months. But
for this one problem, Indian economy will be better than many others. I
am not concerned about the credit crunch at the consumer level. At the
corporate level, there will be bubbles like the one we saw 6-7 months
ago, and we could see volatility.

There have been talks about your asset management partner PNB looking to exit the business?
We
have not been approached by our partner in anyway. So, we donâ€™t know
where the rumours are coming from. Some statements have been made, but
those have been misquoted.

Mobile cos line up Google's Android phone launches

18 Jul 2009, 1058 hrs IST, Writankar Mukherjee , ET Bureau

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KOLKATA:
Googleâ€™s smartphone operating system (OS) Android is soon going to get
a leg up in India with leading cellphone vendors such as HTC,

Top smart-phones Samsung, LG and Motorola firming up plans to roll out a portfolio of such handsets.

The
vendors plan to target Android phones for urban youth users and
position them in the mid to high-end segment. While HTC has just
started shipping the first Android phone to India, Samsung will roll
out its first device, christened Galaxy, next month.

Android
phones from LG and Motorolaâ€™s stable are also likely to hit the market
by December, industry sources said. Google too expects faster adoption
of the Android platform in India with such launches at varying
price-points.

Talking to ET, Google India director (products)
Vinay Goel said 47 companies are working on the Android platform.
â€œGlobally, around 15-20 Android handsets will be launched by December.
We expect some of these models will be shipped to India as well,â€� he
said.

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HTC
has already received favourable response in India from its first
Android handset. â€œAndroid is an evolving platform and will be one of
the mainstay for HTC. It drives internetmobility and the touch factor adds novelty. Since, we roll out 2-3
devices in India every quarter, some of them will be on this platform,â€�
HTC India country head Ajay Sharma said. Samsung Mobile country head
Sunil Dutt said the company will launch a portfolio of touchscreen
Android handsets by year-end.

â€œWe will work with Google to
ensure faster adoption of the devices in India. Android has the
potential to emerge as the next big mobile phone OS,â€� he said. Vendors
like Samsung, HTC and LG are bullish that Android will be able to
compete against the two most popular smartphone OSSymbian and Windows Mobile.

â€œOur
research has shown that consumers really donâ€™t care about their handset
OS. All they want are exciting applications and experience which are
the main driving factors behind Android,â€� said Mr Goel. LG Indiaâ€™s head
(GSM mobile ) Anil Arora feels the rest test for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Research-led institutes are not cheap

18 Jul 2009, 0507 hrs IST, Pankaj Jalote,

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There
are two main goals of an academic enterprise â€" knowledge creation and
knowledge dissemination. However, both these are not necessarily the
goals of all academic institutes â€" for example, a typical collegehas only information dissemination as its goal. Academic institutes
which support both the goals can be divided into two broad groups â€"
those which are research-led but also have teaching, and those which
are teaching-led but also engage in some research.

Institutes
like IITs, IISc and IIITs aim to be in the first category, while many
of our universities are in the latter category. This separation is
there in the US also: the top universitiesare all research-led places with great emphasis on research, while
other universities are typically teaching-led, with only peripheral
focus on research.

It can easily be argued that for science and technology,
the best places for even undergraduate (UG) education are the
research-led places. The reasons are easy to see: knowledge in these
areas is created at such a rapid pace that institutes that are not
actively engaged in research find it hard to keep pace in their
knowledge dissemination (teaching) part. Furthermore, the best faculty
generally prefers research-led institutes. Empirically also it can be
easily established that the best places for UG education in science and
engineering are the top research universitiesâ€" MIT, CalTech, Berkely, Illinois, Princeton, etc, in the US, and IITs, IISc, etc, in India.

As
there has been an ongoing debate on the role of private capital in
higher education, it is useful to understand the costs involved in a
research-led Institute. In such an institute, UG students are the
primary consumers of education and the primary source of fee revenue.
The PG students generally provide some services to the institute (in
terms of teaching assistance and help in R&D), and are therefore
paid. This pattern holds globally as well as in India for sciences and
engineering â€" PG students are paid some stipend and add to the cost.

The
manpower or running cost for an institute can be approximated through
the faculty strength. For each faculty member, in a research-led
institute, we should have at least two mastersstudents and at least one PhD student, and approximately one staff
(AICTE suggests more than one, and in IITs it is probably closer to two
or three). With this, the overall manpower cost to an institute for
each faculty member, in terms of CTC, will be (after Sixth Pay
Commission): Rs 10 lakh (faculty) + 6 lakh (staff) + 4 lakh (PhD) + 4
lakh (two masters) = Rs 24 lakh. If each faculty member gets Rs 10 lakh
as research grant per year, the faculty cost will reduce by about Rs 2
lakh (the overhead the institute will get).

Such an institute
can have 15:1 UG student to faculty ratio (which will translate to over
20:1 overall, which is really the limit for such places â€" IITs have
about 12:1). For each 15 UG students the total manpower cost to the
institute will be about Rs 22 lakh.

If funds for doing
research and establishing labs are obtained through funding agencies
(the best case scenario), unless there are other sources of revenue,
this will have to be recovered through fees, that is, the fee needs to
be Rs 1.5 lakh per year per student just for the manpower. Add to this
the maintenance and other consumable expenses (water, electricity,
etc.), and the cost per student will be over Rs 2 lakh.
http://economictime s.indiatimes. com/Opinion/ Research- led-institutes- are-not-cheap/ articleshow/ 4791467.cms
Budget proposals a mixed bag for oil & gas sector

17 Jul 2009, 1612 hrs IST, Mugdha Lakdawala,
Budget
2009 has generated mixed reactions from different sectors of India Inc.
Clarifications on some aspects and silence on others has been a

common
feature of this year's proposals across various sectors. From an Oil
& Gas sector perspective as well, this has been the experience.

The seven year taxholiday claim for natural gas production had been a subject matter of
litigation. Budget 2009 proposals have partially attempted to put an
end to this issue.

Budget 2009 has proposed that the tax holiday will be granted to natural gas productionfrom blocks licensed under the VIIIth round of the New Exploration
Licensing Policy (NELP). While, this is a positive development, the
Finance Ministry continues to maintain silence on availability of the
tax holiday from the pre-NELP and NELP-I to NELP-VII blocks as well as
gas produced from coal bed methane blocks.

Currently, the tax
holiday is granted to an eligible 'undertaking' . The term 'undertaking'
is not defined under the current provision and hence, it has been a
bone of contention with the tax authorities. Budget 2009 has proposed
to define the term 'undertaking' , with retrospective effect from 1
April 1999, to mean all blocks awarded under a single contract.

Last
year's Budget had restricted the claim for the seven year tax holiday
to private sector undertakings engaged in refining of mineral oil
provided they began refining before 1 April 2009. This time frame was
certainly not enough for a few proposed refineries to avail any tax benefit.
Budget 2009 has sought to rectify the situation by extending the period
by 3 years. Now, it is proposed that all refineries, whether public or
private, will be eligible for the tax holiday provided they commence
refining before 1 April 2012.

Although, the industry was
optimistic of an exemption from Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) for the
profits covered by the tax holiday, no amendment has been proposed in
that direction. In fact, the MAT rate has been increased from 10 to 15
percent, which in turn has reduced the effective tax holiday benefit
available to the players.

In the recent past, the Government
had been extensively focusing on providing a policy framework for
natural gas distribution networks. The industry had sought a
clarification on whether city-gas distribution networks would enjoy the
ten year tax holiday granted to cross-country networks. Instead of
clarifying that, Budget 2009 seems to provide a set back to players
engaged in the business of cross-country natural gas distribution
networks by proposing a withdrawal of the tax holiday granted to them
earlier. Nonetheless, a 100 percent deduction of capital expenditure
(except expenditure incurred on cost of land, goodwill, financial
instruments) has been proposed to be allowed to them. Also, any loss
incurred in this business is proposed to be carried forward
indefinitely to be set-off against other specified businesses. However,
the proposal for indefinite loss carry forward would not be of much
benefit to the players given the restricted scope for set-off.

Currently, Exploration and Production (E&P)companies are paying input service tax.
However, they have no output service tax or excise duty liability
against which they can claim credit of such input tax. This has not
been in sync with the Government's efforts to reduce the cascading
effect of indirect taxes. In this Budget, the industry was expecting a reduction of such undue tax cost.

However,
no action has been proposed on the matter. In fact, currently, for the
purposes of Service tax, 'India' has been defined to cover only
specified designated areas in the Continental Shelf and Exclusive
Economic Zone (CSEEZ). Budget 2009 proposes to extend this definition
to all installations, structures and vessels in the CSEEZ i.e. up to
200 nautical miles from the Indian coastline. This proposal will
further aggravate the ever-increasing service tax burden of the E&P
players.

Being one of the largest contributors to the Public
Exchequer, the Oil & Gas sector was hopeful of more positive
support from the Government. In his Budget speech, the Finance Minister
has also recognised the importance of this sector. However, considering
the direct and indirect tax proposals applicable to the energy sector,
it appears that, overall, Budget 2009 has fallen short of industry
expectations.

(The author is a senior tax professional with Ernst & Young, India)
http://economictime s.indiatimes. com/Opinion/ Budget-proposals -a-mixed- bag-for-oil- gas-sector/ articleshow/ 4789424.cms

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2.: UZI diplomacy: Israel/India know no peace

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July 14, 2009
UZI diplomacy: Israel/India know no peace
Filed under: Politics - Salik Malik @ 5:18 pm
The cooperation between Israel and India, with U.S. blessing, is really destroying the peace and starting a new arms race in south Asia, due to such intensive Israel Cooperation with India, Pakistan and India came at the brink of war 3 times since 1998. These arms sales were part of a declared NDA policy to forge an alliance among India, the United States, and Israel

India is one of the 39 countries with whom Israel has signed "secret co-operative agreements" to prevent information leaks from joint security projects. India and Israel are two democratic countries who killed more than one million people on the name of insurgency from 1947 to 2008 (Kashmir, Assam, Palestine).

In the 2001-2006 India had purchased arms worth nearly $15 billion from Israel and has been its largest client for military hardware.2006 to 2009 $9 billion arms purchased by India from Israel. According to figures released in 2008 by the Israeli Defense Ministry India accounted for 50% of Israel's military exports. The report "Wrong Alliance" from 1992 to 2001 states.

From anti-missile systems to hi-tech radars, from sky drones to night-vision equipment, Indo-Israeli defense cooperation has known no bounds in recent times.

Brajesh Mishra, outlined a proposal in a speech to the American Jewish Committee in Washington in May 2003 that India, Israel, and the United States should unite to combat the common threat of Islam. Israel is most probably behind the Indian parliament attack in 2002 and now in Mumbai terrors attacks of 2008 to accelerate arms sale to India and destabilize the integrity of Pakistan who is considered great threat to Israel security and stability. All three serving chiefs of India have now visited Israel in the last 2 years.

Israel Mossad have infiltrated in Jihadi Organization structures through Indian influence in Afghanistan to help and train them for starting a proxy war against Pakistan in Baluchistan and in FATA and plunge India and Pakistan to brink of war . There is already an on-going relationship between Israeli Intelligence agencies and their Indian counterparts. It is well known that Mossad routinely infiltrates even "friendly" intelligence agencies and uses them to plant information which helps Israel - one of such operations that Mossad is currently working on is codenamed "Clean Break."

So what's the reason behind defense ties between India and Israel?

Pakistan's missile and nuclear weapon technologies are main concern to Israel. Pakistan is a supplier of intermediate- range missiles and if transfers this technology to boost its arm industry to countries like Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Syria then Israel will be in serious problems - as stated by Efraim Inbar who is a professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University and director of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies Israel.

India helped Israel during the 1967, Middle Eastern conflict, by covertly sending military equipment to Israel. Before that in 1963, General Shalfid, Israel Chief of Army staff, visited India for discussions with his Indian counterpart. In the military field in India's critical hour of need of the 1971 war with Pakistan, India sought Israel's help to supply it with the devastating artillery weapon, 160 mm mortars and ammunition, exclusively manufactured in Israel.

India embarked on its nuclear tests with the support of the international community, namely the United States and Israel, because the US desired a nuclear force to balance China as a nuclear power in Asia and Central Asia. Israel benefited from this cooperation- according to some sources-by being permitted to conduct two nuclear tests on Indian territory, the components transferred on board an Israeli C130 military aircraft that landed in India two weeks prior to the tests. India also makes use of its nuclear cooperation with Israel in maintaining qualitative superiority over its enemy, Pakistan. This was stated by General Ahmed Abdel Halim a member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA) in a Alhram weekly and included in a report called "Israel, India and the Arab World".

During India's 1999 Kargil war with Pakistan, Israel rushed military support to India, cementing the nascent defense relationship. Israel sent its laser guided missiles to India during the Indo-Pak Kargil war of 1999, making it possible for the Indian Mirages to destroy Pakistani bunkers in the mountains. Jane's Defense Weekly, which gave details on the supplies, reported in March 2000.

Israel, the rogue nation & illegitimate child of America supplied missiles, portable radars & other weapons during Kargil War in 1999 as confirmed by Shri Rahul Bedi (India's defense analyst) on BBC and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) - 8 in 1999 for surveillance purposes (Army) - 20 in 2000 during the Kargil war UAVs for high altitude surveillance, laser - guided systems and many other items were supplied within 24 hours 'Indian Express' July 3, 2000.

After September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre, and attack on Indian Parliament Israel has been selling defense supplies to India, just from 2002 to 2008 India buy more than $25 billion dollars worth weapon and transfer of technology from Israel.

In June 2002 as part of "Operation Parakram," after the attack on Indian Parliament, Israel supplied hardware through special planes after a visit by the Director-General of Israeli Defense ministry

Israel helping the Indian forces in Kashmir and in Maoist area against right of self determination, Indian version Counter Insurgency. Israeli deputy chief of general staff, Major General Moshe Kaplinsky, visited J&K, including the 16 Corps headquarters in Nagrota for presumably helping India with "counter- insurgency".

Article in the Jerusalem Post India has signed a $30 million contract with Israel Military Industries (IMI) for 3,400 Tavor assault rifles and 200 Galil sniper rifles, as well as night vision and laser range finding and targeting equipment. Tavor assault rifles, Galil sniper rifles, and night vision and laser range finding and targeting equipment to kill the innocent Kashmiri on the name of insurgency.

More than 90,000 Kashmiris are killed by Indian force from 1988 to 2008 by these weapon from Israel. India buys the counter-infiltratio n devices Israel uses on Golan Heights and in the Negev Desert. 4 battalion (3000) was send to Israel for special training against freedom fight in Kashmir Ghatak force. India refurbished the "Ghatak" force soldiers and officers trained by Israel in fake anti-terrorist operation especially conducting Operation in Indian Held Kashmir and Maoist insurgency areas.

Dan Williams in his article for Reuters wrote, "Israel arm sales peak despite Lebanon war fallout". Israel acquired an element of strategic depth (crucial for a geographically small state like Israel) set up logistical bases in the Indian Ocean for its navy. Three Israel submarine are stationed in Indian ocean in Bangalore.

Despite this, however, it is remarkable that India and Israel managed to come together on a range of issues, especially the close collaboration between the Indian intelligence agency, RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) and Israel's Mossad. While India got tacit help and support from Israel during its 1962 war with China and 1965 war with Pakistan. The Times of India stated in April 2008 that Indian and Israeli defense officials have initiated work on an unmanned helicopter. Being developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unmanned air vehicle division Malat.

According to latest report, Pakistan army has captured Israel made weapon in Baluch insurgency and in ongoing operation in FATA and in Swat. Uzi diplomacy to press hard to Pakistan for diplomatic relation through supporting insurgency and Dr. A.Q. Khan (NPT) matter in Pakistan by Israel (Jews) lobby to investigate him by FBI and Mohammad Al Bradi (IAEA).

According to JINSA, India has had to significantly boost its defense budget in order to finance all its new Israeli arms purchases: By 2010 New Delhi's annual military budget is expected to reach $100 billion.

The Great concern to Israel and India is Pakistan increasing defense cooperation with Iran, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, Yemen, and second most important is GCC countries are heavily relying on Pakistan forces, 60% GCC Defense forces are Pakistani origin (Bhrain,Qatar, Oman,UAE, ) 60% armed forces are belonged to Pakistani people and in case of (Kuwait, KSA) data is not available.

Though India and Israel only established diplomatic relations in 1992, their relationship has blossomed over the past 17 years, particularly in the defense arena. India has become the Israeli defense industry's top foreign customer, with some $1.5 billion in annual purchases, and Israel is now India's second most important weapons supplier after Russia.

A coalition of US-India Political Action Committee (USINPAC), America-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) and American Jewish Committee (AJC) has vehemently lobbied to gain the Bush administration' s approval for Israel to sell four Phalcon early warning radar planes to India worth US $1 billion. Sales included upgrades for MIG 21 aircraft and T72 tanks originally purchased from Russia, the Barak anti-missile ship defense system, communications equipment, laser-guided munitions and the Phalcon. The first of five Phalcon AWACs were delivered in 2007. Co-partnerships are now developing between Indian and Israeli firms.

Israeli arms experts are also seeking to sell the Arrow II anti-tactical ballistic missile system to India, which would require U.S. approval due to shared technology in the ATBM system.

In 2008 U.S. $2.5 billion defense project with Israel, the developments of missiles capable of intercepting aircraft and other aerial targets at a range of 70 km is to be undertaken by India's Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace Industries.

The Indian arms purchases include:

1. Barak Naval anti-missile defense system this system would provide India with a close-in point defense system against the Harpoon and Exocet missiles acquired by Pakistan.
2. Sales included upgrades for MIG 21 aircraft and T72 tanks originally purchased from Russia.
3. Phalcon advanced airborne early warning systems.
4. Green Pine early-warning and fire-control radars.
5. Up gradation of 180 130 mm M-46 field guns by Israeli firm Soltam.
6. Super-Dvora Mk II fast attack craft.
7. Heron Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
8. Star Night Technologies Night Vision Goggles.
9. Spider quick-reaction surface to air missile (55 km range) $2.5 billion joint collaboration project.

A $480 million, five-year contract was concluded in early 2006 between the Indian Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for missile development. India and Israel are now working to expand their already considerable missile development cooperation to cover both air and land based missile systems. It is estimated that this new deal with IAI would be of the order of $2.5 billion. The deal, apart from missile systems, also includes radar systems made by IAI's subsidiary, Elta Systems Ltd, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and possibly satellites too.

On January 21, 2008 an Indian space launch vehicle lifted off from the Sriharikota spaceport on the Indian Ocean to put into space Israel's most sophisticated spy satellite ever launched, the Polaris. The Polaris satellite is Israel's first equipped with synthetic aperture radar that allows it to take high resolution imagery in all weather conditions. The radar looks through clouds or fog to see objects on the ground as published in a reported by Brookings. IAI launched its series of 5 such satellites that India has agreed to launch for Israel.

TechSAR all-weather, high-resolution radar satellite using an Indian launcher in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). In return, Israel has agreed to share certain images from the satellites with India, according to a report in The Times of India. Israel has made no secret of the fact that the prime function of TechSAR is to spy on Iran and Pakistan Nuclear Arsenal, Iran a country with which India has friendly relations and Pakistan, India have fought 4 wars and still fighting a proxy war in Baluchistan and in NWFP (FATA).

Pakistan understandably has anxiety about spy satellites launched by India being used to gather information on Pakistan, especially with reported plans to launch two more satellites. Times of India reported that although command, control and supervision of the Tescar will be in Israeli hands, "Israel will allow India access to some of the data sent back to ground stations.

Israel's role in India's counter-terrorism operations in Kashmir would make Israeli tourists all the more vulnerable in the state. In 2000, reports in the media said an Israeli counter-terrorism team, including military intelligence specialists and senior police commanders, visited Kashmir to assess India's security needs. Since then, several such visits are said to have taken place. Kashmiris insist that "Israeli agents" were in Kashmir much earlier.
Conclusion

Pakistan cannot afford to lower its guard. India has proven to be an expansionist power and has also hegemonic ambitions. Pakistan cannot, therefore, afford "not to be" fully prepared to deal with the possible threats to its integrity from India.

After all, it was New Delhi that made possible the breakup of Pakistan in 1971, 1984 Siachin adventure and attempt to capture Karakoram highway to cut vital road link with China. India's warm relations with both Afghanistan, Israel and Iran are motivated by the way it views Islamabad. In other words, Pakistan cannot be what Canada and Mexico are for the United States or what Argentina is for Brazil.

According to a the United States Congressional Research Service, Pakistan spent $45.1bn on arms purchases from 1992 to 2008, due to Monster Israel and India military cooperation.

The Indian consulates of having "less to do with humanitarian aid and more to do with India's top-secret intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing." to set-up networks of "terrorist training camps" located inside Afghanistan, including at the Afghan military base of Qushila Jadid, north of Kabul; near Gereshk, in southern Helmand province; in the Panjshir Valley, northeast of Kabul; and at Kahak and Hassan Killies in western Nimruz province.

Pakistan has to demand the UN investigation of Indian parliament attack in 2002 and role of Israel (Mossad) and probe into Mumbai carnage and attack on Norman house - Israel culture center why terrorist attack on that place.

Pakistan has to tell the Arabs the price Pakistan is paying as leader of Muslim ummah and unconditional support to the cause of Palestine and burden to its economy due to heavily spending on military expenditure due to Indian and Israel defense cooperation, India ambition to break the Pakistan again. pkkh

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3.: Pathetic condition of Private Engg. Colleges in Maharashtra –VJA

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*Pathetic condition of Private Engg. Colleges in Maharashtra –VJAS urged
Indian Govt. to nationalise all private Engg. Colleges*

Nagpur-19TH JULY 2009

*Vidarbha Janandolan samiti (VJAS )* has drawn the attention of Indian Govt.
towards the pathetic condition and ill management of Private Engg. Colleges
running degree courses in

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advance courses of Engg. And technology as non of college has got technical
qualified staff ,more over the laboratories and libraries and either are in
a dying stage or most of institutes are having it on papers as per recent
AICTE inspection report done for accreditation as more than 98% institutes
are till not officially approved by apex body of central govt. monitoring
the quality of these qualities but role of AICTE has been very doubtful as
all the time inspection team is being bribed by the management to get time
lease for up gradation ..

Here is actual in take capacity of these private colleges in Maharashtra
and the metros like Pune, Mumbai and Nagpur are having 80% of these bogus
Engg. Colleges run by politicians

*CITY*

*ENGG** COLLEGE***

*IN TAKE CAPACITY(Including management quota)*

*PUNE*

*66 (New Addition 8)*

*28,810*

*MUMBAI *

*54 (New Addition 6)*

*24,800*

*NAGPUR***

*52 (New Addition 5)*

*22,800*

*AMRAVATI***

*23 (New Addition 3)*

*8,400*

*MAHARASHTRA* * *

*284 (New Addition 56)*

*1,12,312*

*STAFF*

Out of 284 state permitted Engg. only 22 has got regular qualified principal as
person holding master degree with Ph.D. with more than 10 years teaching
experience are not available and most of colleges are showing names of
persons who working in corporate houses or out side India and are being paid
huge amount to attend AICTE inspection .the condition of lower staff at the
level of professor and asst. Professor is too worst to explain as most of
the ex-students who failed to complete the degree even after 7-8 years are
being offered the job teachers in the name of some other person working in
US or in the industries.

'Even Girl friend of owner of college with out having basic Master Degree
and experience all most nil ,is working as principal of one best ranked
Engg. Institutes in Nagpur. 'when illiterate Minister can be the
vice-chancellor of our deemed university then what's wrong ' innocent
student of B.E.(I) Mona Agrawal asked "frequency of change of teacher is so
fast that this year our external examiner has given us internal marks at the
time of final exam as in the whole session ,there were change of teacher in
every fortnight and no practical performed , but thanks to the external as
he has given Fullmark's to every body' she added.

'there is always a fear of final year students as most of them are likely to
be our faculty member for next academic year, as it is happening since 2001
,we are being threaten by senior accordingly, when we try to report eve
teasing ' she said.

'It's mockery of education and innocent victimisation of our parents as we
have to join private tuitions classes right from first semester to last one by
paying very heavy fees. state should stop this exploitation 'mona urged.

"there are outdated computers mostly given to college under from his MP/MLA
LAD fund by owner of the institute ,all equipments are either faulty or
there is no operator to show it's functioning ,when we ask for the text
books in the library then Liberian gives name bookstall suggesting purchase
it"

Vidarbha Janandolan samiti (VJAS ) has asked Indian Govt. to nationalize and
regulate these mass mushrooming of private Engg. College in Maharashtra in
order to stop degradation of standards of technical education in India.

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4.: human rights of a mentally retarded person

Posted by: "debaranjan sarangi" debasar11@yahoo.co.in

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:12 am (PDT)

dear moderator

i am getting all mails. thanks for it.

i have a simple question which you can give an answer to it.

in india do we have any separate laws protecting human rights of a mentally retarded person/s or the normal laws of a citizen aplies to them?

do you have any case studies of such incidents where he/she or any organisation on behalf of the victim has fought for protecting his/her human rights?

can you write me ?

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5.: Is employment of children as domestic and hotel workers really banne

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6.: TUNISIA: CONFERENCE WARNS OF DECLINE IN ARABIC INSTRUCTION

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Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:15 am (PDT)

TUNISIA: CONFERENCE WARNS OF DECLINE IN ARABIC INSTRUCTION

(ANSAmed) - TUNIS, JUNE 25 - In a conference held in Tunis by the Arab Organisation for Education, Culture and Science (ALESCO), scholars and specialists from nine Arab countries have said that the teaching of the Arabic language is in decline. The participants looked into the possibility of setting in motion an ALESCO-run project for various methodologies used for Arabic instruction, for the use of information technology and linguistic research. The experts all agreed that the Arabic language is suffering due to insufficient teaching and a mediocre use of the language itself, in particular in modern communications and on the internet, and that it must be strengthened at all educational levels for wide-ranging social and linguistic development. According to ALESCO (which has its head offices in Tunis) director Mohammed Aziz ben Achour, there is an urgent need to restructure the teaching of the Arabic language in universities and institutions. At the end of the works a general recommendation was released to create a national centre in Tunis in charge of promoting the teaching and learning of the Arabic language. (ANSAmed).
2009-06-25 12:34

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7.: MOROCCO: CHEDDADI, ARABIC SHOULD BE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE

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Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:16 am (PDT)

MOROCCO: CHEDDADI, ARABIC SHOULD BE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE

(by Cristiana Missori) (ANSAmed) - ROME, MAY 19 - Education in Morocco remains worryingly underdeveloped despite the fact that even in an economic crisis, the country's economy is expected to grow 5% in 2009, annual Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is regularly over 5 billion euros and a whole series of plans are in place to modernise infrastructure, such as the port in Tangiers. At least, this is the view of the country's education system expressed by Abdesselam Cheddadi, an historian and philosopher at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, who was speaking at the conference 'Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli. Europe and the Muslim World: lessons for the 21st century', currently taking place at the French Academy in Rome. "It is not enough to promote economic development" , claimed Cheddadi. "If we want Morocco to really make progress we need to concentrate on the education and training citizens". The academic - a leading expert on Ibn Khaldun (Tunis 1332 - Cairo 1406) - says that for fifty years "education has been managed pathetically, with awful results: under-trained teachers, ignorant students and really low-quality diplomas". Other than illiteracy - which in Morocco reaches rates of 44.9% of the population in rural areas and 24.9% among young people - there is a linguistic issue to be addressed. "Until today, despite the fact that Arabic is the official language of Morocco, higher education and scientific literature is mostly in French", remarked Cheddadi, who himself has translated several important historical and philosophical works. "Arabic", says the scholar, "must speak the language of modern science", implying a need for the spread of the language, leading citizens to learn the language. So translation, he says, could be most useful. "The policy of promoting the French language is absurd", Cheddadi stressed, reiterating: "Arabic and Moroccan culture must be put first and must be spread even to young people who live abroad". In this vein, Cheddadi has recently published a collection entitled 'Comment peut-on etre marocain?' (a nod to the Lettres Persanes di Montesquieu 'Comment peut-on etre persan?'). In the book, writers, essayists and artists who have Morocco as their common denominator explain what 'being Moroccan' mean. How though can you link to second-generation immigrants to the cultural heritage of their homeland and learning Arabic? Cheddadi reckons that "we need to attract them with an arsenal of modern and captivating tools like the Internet, recommending interesting sites which offer Moroccan content, giving them books as support and magazines which talk about Moroccan literature and which also deal with contemporary themes relevant to their problems". "For my part," concluded Cheddadi, "I am preparing a magazine to be called 'Le Magazine Litteraire du Maroc', which will be published in both Arabic and French".(ANSAmed) .
2009-05-19 16:53

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8a.: FACT FINDING REPORT: Attacked on the Village of Indigenous People to

Posted by: "Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIH" saikotbihr@gmail.com

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:16 am (PDT)

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Dear Friends,

Greeting from Bangladesh Institute f Human Rights (BIHR)

Enclosed please find herewith the attached file of fact finding report
of BIHR and NHRD on attacked on the village of indigenous people to
grab land and pond: many of them assaulted.

BIHR has been received a fact finding report jointly conducted by
Bangladesh Institute o Human Rights and Naogaon Human Rights
Development Association regarding attacked on the village of
indigenous people to grab land and pond: many of them assaulted at
lands at Dulahar Arjuna Para (Shahan Para) under Nachole police
station in Chapai Nababgonj district on 18 June, 2009. According to
received information, the concern administrative authority trying to
procrastinate to take further action. You are requested to take
necessary action in this regards.

If you need further information please feel free to contact me.

I am looking forward to hear from you at your earliest convenience.

Adv. Shahanur Islam Saikot
LL.B (Hon's); LL.M (Law & Justice)
Programme Manager-Legal & Human Rights
Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)
27, Bijoy Nagar, B-17, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Email: saikotbihr@gmail. com, bihr@bangla. net
Cell: 01720308080, Website: www.bihr-bihr. blogspot. com

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8b.: FACT FINDING REPORT: Attacked on the Village of Indigenous People to

Posted by: "Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIH" saikotbihr@gmail.com

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:16 am (PDT)

[Attachment(s) from Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIH included below]

Dear Friends,

Greeting from Bangladesh Institute f Human Rights (BIHR)

Enclosed please find herewith the attached file of fact finding report
of BIHR and NHRD on attacked on the village of indigenous people to
grab land and pond: many of them assaulted.

BIHR has been received a fact finding report joinly conducted by
Bangladesh Intitute o Human Rights and Naogaon Human Rights
Development Association regarding attacked on the village of
indigenous people to grab land and pond: many of them assaulted at
lands at Dulahar Arjuna Para (Shahan Para) under Nachole police
station in Chapai Nababgonj district on 18 June, 2009. According to
received information, the concern administrative authority trying to
procrastinate to take further action. You are requested to take
necessary action in this regards.

If you need further information please feel free to contact me.

I am looking forward to hear from you at your earliest convenience.

Adv. Shahanur Islam Saikot
LL.B (Hon's); LL.M (Law & Justice)
Programme Manager-Legal & Human Rights
Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)
27, Bijoy Nagar, B-17, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Email: saikotbihr@gmail. com, bihr@bangla. net
Cell: 01720308080, Website: www.bihr-bihr. blogspot. com

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9.: Load Factor Punjab 93.76%, Gujarat 68.96% June 2009 – Exclusive

Posted by: "Ravinder Singh" progressindia008@yahoo.com progressindia008

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:17 am (PDT)

Load Factor Punjab 93.76%, Gujarat 68.96% June 2009 – Exclusive

Rajnath Singh BJP RSS fake Love for Farmers!!

June this year was worst in terms of rainfall and electricity demand was
highest. But Modi to help private operators didn't operate its units
full potential- actual load factor was barely 68.95% for state units in
a drought year. Load factor of Gujarat State Thermal Units (GSECL) was
73.87% in 2008. PSEB units operated at 93.76%. Had Gujarat operated its
units at optimum capacity Punjab may not have experienced any power cuts
but then Private Companies would not charged "Inflated Market
Rates".

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m_06.pdf
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In June2009 Punjab generated 135.35% of last year, Gujarat just 97.77%.
But I also found Private Thermal generation was up 121.27%. So clearly
State units were backed down to enrich private companies.

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In the following IMD map of rainfall you can see Rainfall in Punjab was
56mm compared to 181mm/152mm of rainfall but strangely Gujarat could put
only 40% of its cultivable area so far. But most striking is the support
to farming in Punjab.

http://www.imd. gov.in/section/ nhac/dynamic/ seasonalra. htm
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Demand for electricity in Punjab was 9078MW availability was 7131MW but
comparative figures for Gujarat are 8633MW and 8274MW.

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pdf
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Gujarat didn't want to provide adequate amount of power to its
farmers, didn't want to grow Food Grains – prefers Cotton and
Groundnut.

Ravinder Singh

July20, 2009

35% Less Area, 74% Under Cotton & Groundnut in Gujarat

Lunatic Modis Starve Gujarat policies are illustrated in this report.

Out of 9 million hectare are cultivation only 4 million hectare has been
sown so far and out of that 74% is for cotton and groundnut.

Thus only 1.4 million hectare is brought under crops for direct human
consumption.

Even more important is last year 26% less area was cultivated than peak
of 2007 but Modi went around LYING during 2009 elections of record food
production when actually there was 30% decline from 2007 level and no
better than 1998 figures.

THIS AFTER CONNECTING ALL RIVERS IN GUJARAT, SECURING MOST OF NARMADA,
TAPI, SABARMATI and MAHI interstate rivers besides own rivers prone to
flooding and over 2,00,000 Check Dams and Ponds dug up.

Ravinder Singh

July17, 2009

Sowing picks up, but only 46% area covered

Himanshu Kaushik | TNN July16, 2009

Gandhinagar: Though the delayed monsoon has affected sowing in the
state, it's catching up with the average sowing of past years.
However, official data shows sowing is complete on 40.02 lakh hectares,
just 46 per cent of the total area where sowing usually takes places in
the state at this time of the year.

State agriculture department officials said maximum sowing in the
corresponding period last year was more. As on July 14, 2008, sowing was
complete on 45.53 lakh ha, while the figure was 61.67 lakh ha in 2007.

Officials said the figures are not encouraging. Sowing usually begins
by June first week, but this year with no monsoon activity observed,
farmers delayed sowing. This is the first time in several years that
sowing has been delayed. Fearing crop failure, farmers did not go in for
early sowing.

A senior officer said maximum sowing is in Rajkot which has recorded
5.07 lakh ha. Other areas where major sowing has taken place are
Junagadh (4.96 lakh ha), Jamnagar (4.74 lakh ha), Amreli (4.36 lakh ha)
and Bhavnagar (4.15 lakh ha).

Of the 25 districts, in 14, sowing is below one lakh ha. In Ahmedabad
district, sowing is just around 25,000 ha. Around 74 per cent of the
area is sown with cotton and groundnut crop. Officials said Saurashtra
and Kutch account for 72 per cent of the total sowing in the state. Of
the total sown area of 40.02 lakh ha, Saurashtra-Kutch account for 28.92
lakh ha.

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Health Freedom Action eAlert

July 11, 2009

Vaccines and Sardines:
Are We, In Our Millions, Just Prey?

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Long time natural health educator, physician and advocate Dr. Joseph Mercola
drew our attention to this remarkable video of the collaboration of a group
of predators to feast on the riches of the annual sardine run.

As I watched this exceptional video (and I hope you will take a moment to do
so, too), I could not help but wonder, in light of what I am about to tell
you, whether we, you and I, whom the globalists consider nothing more than
"useless eaters" are, to them, nothing more than the sardines are to the
sharks, dolphins, birds and whales which feed upon the sardines in their
millions, ignoring each other in their feeding frenzy (perhaps that changes
later, during leaner times.)

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URGENT ACTION ITEM:
Right to Refuse Pandemic Vaccine
Without Going to Jail (or Worse):

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Health Freedom's best friend in Congress is considering introducing the
legislation presented in this action item IF we create enough demand among
his fellow members of the House of Representatives.

Right now, choices are either accept or be quarantined under either the
State or Federal statutes. Take action, submit one Action Item for each
member of your family, then motivate everyone you know.

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Swine Flu Pandemic: 1976, 2009 Same O, Same O...

Just to remind ourselves of how dangerous, off target and benighted the
authorities who are pushing this dangerous vaccine on us can be, take 16
minutes to watch the famous 60 Minutes episode on the horrific 1976 Swine
Flu fiasco that left thousands of people dead and many thousands more
crippled for the same non-event "danger" of "deadly" Swine Flu "pandemic" -
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WHO Has Authority to Call
For Legally Binding Mandatory Vaccines

Reuters and WHO Say:
Call for Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccine Likely to Come This Week

The International Health Regulations (IHR) pursuant to Article 21* of the
Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) came into force in June
2007 and allow the General-Director of WHO to declare an international
health emergency. This was accomplished when a Level 6 Pandemic was declared
by WHO on June 11, 2009.

Reuters predicts that WHO will announce its call for mandatory "Swine Flu"
vaccination as early as Monday, July 13, 2009.

"GENEVA, July 10 (Reuters) ...WHO will probably hold a media briefing on
Monday to issue guidance about the need for a H1N1 influenza jab, a WHO
spokeswoman said on Friday."

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During an international health emergency, WHO's Director-General can impose
regulations, including "sanitary and quarantine requirements and other
procedures designed to prevent the international spread of disease".

Once WHO declares a Pandemic or international health emergency, WHO has the
authority to order forced vaccinations around the world.

All 194 signatory countries to IHR MUST comply. A list of countries which
have signed the WHO Constitution, binding them to observe IHR, can be found
here:

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* "Article 21 The Health Assembly shall have authority to adopt regulations
concerning:( a) sanitary and quarantine requirements and other procedures
designed to prevent the international spread of disease;...The International
Health Regulations 2005 are legally binding regulations (forming
international law) that aim to a) assist countries to work together to save
lives and livelihoods endangered by the spread of diseases and other health
risks, and b) avoid unnecessary interference with international trade and
travel."

How do we at the Natural Solutions Foundation feel about these deceptions
and bids for total control?

Check our links here to find out more:

Our White Paper on the Right to
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Vaccinate to Vacate the Planet?

The World Health Organization created a program way back in 1972 to get rid
of large numbers of people through vaccination. Through their Task Force on
Fertility Control they investigated both male and female infertility
vaccines.

They ultimately perfected female sterility vaccines containing both
adjuvants (immune system irritants) and a female hormone necessary for human
pregnancies to carry to term (Human chorionic gonadatrophin, HCG). Injected
into the body, women produce antibodies to HCG so they destroy that
essential hormones during every subsequent pregnancy. These vaccines were,
according to the Philippine High Court, used by WHO to involuntarily
sterilize more than 3 million women there. No one knows the real number...

--snip--

This important article by Dr. Laibow is too long for our new, shorter
eAlerts, which is what you've told us you want. But, the rest of the article
is MUST reading... so read at the link below, or take a look a some of the
things Dr. Laibow distrusts:

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Mine is not. Let me be quite clear: I distrust a government which permits
dangerous, untested, uninsurable toxic vaccines and then urges them upon an
entire population in a cover up of epic proportions. .

I distrust a government which forbids the labeling of genetically modified
foods ...

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I distrust a government which has experimented massivly upon its own people
without their knowledge or consent (including providing poor mothers with
baby cereal laced with plutonium and monitoring their infants to see how
quickly they developed cancer!)...

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I distrust a Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary who is willing
to sacrifice our young...

Lacking any confidence in these companies, agencies and individuals, I
certainly do not want their "Pandemic Vaccine" in my body.

If you distrust this agency, companies and vaccines too, click here,

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MInnesota's Statutes Allow You To Refuse Vaccination or Other Pandemic
Treatment
(Good News)

Minnesota's Statutes Allow You
to Be Isolated or Qurantined
for Indefinite Period If You Do
(Bad News)

Some people have questioned whether State Laws do, in fact, allow for
involuntary quarantine upon refusal of vaccination or other treatrment in a
pandemic or public health emergency. Indeed they do!

Read Minnesota's 2008 law and see for yourself. Most US states have similar
statutes. We believe that Minnesota's laws are typical.

Here is one excerpt from it,

"12.39 INDIVIDUAL TESTING OR TREATMENT; NOTICE, REFUSAL, CONSEQUENCE. ....

Notwithstanding laws, rules, or orders made or promulgated in response to a
national security emergency or peacetime emergency, [that is, the State has
its own laws to cover the situation - REL] individuals have a fundamental
right to refuse medical treatment, testing, physical or mental examination,
vaccination, participation in experimental procedures and protocols,
collection of specimens, and preventive treatment programs. [BUT... - REL]
An individual who has been directed by the commissioner of health to submit
to medical procedures and protocols because the individual is infected with
or reasonably believed by the commissioner of health to be infected with or
exposed to a toxic agent that can be transferred to another individual or a
communicable disease, and the agent or communicable disease is the basis for
which the national security emergency or peacetime emergency was declared,
and who refuses to submit to them may be ordered by the commissioner to be
placed in isolation or quarantine.. ."

By the way, here is a warm thanks to Minnesota Attorney Diane Miller for
providing this information so that we could share it with you.

Please go to the link below to read a longer annotated excerpt of the 2008
Minnesota statutes for yourself.

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11.: Nameless RSS, BJP and Bania agents Creating Mischief

Posted by: "Ravinder Singh" progressindia008@yahoo.com progressindia008

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:17 am (PDT)

Nameless RSS, BJP and Bania agents Creating Mischief
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In last six months there is not a single message in support of Bania, Moneylenders and Traders responsible for Hoarding & Adulteration Exploitation Corrupting of Institutions directly responsible for Malnutrition and Hunger in India â€" failure to develop technologies but Grabbing Bulk of Public Funds.
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Agents of Banias are shamelessly coward. I never referred to a particular trading caste but also some Jains and Marwaris and Parsis etc â€" Anyone who habitually indulges in Hoarding, Adulteration, Cheating, Exploitation of people of India, I have clubbed them together.Â Â Â
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Bania Ideology of BJP
We canâ€™t go back to 1925 to produce evidence that RSS was meant to protect BANIAS only, but approach paper to X Plan clearly establishes the CORE IDEOLOGY of BJP to promote Baniaâ€™s and Traders and Moneylenders. .
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Modi, Rajnath Singh and Uma Bharti are Disguises.
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http://www.thehindu .com/2009/ 07/18/stories/ 2009071855401100 .htm
Rajnath no steps taken on second green revolution
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In above statement BJP tried to garner support of farmers but in following Approach Paper in fact for six years BJP BLED Indian farmers as IDEOLOGY and Funded Traders and Moneylenders to Exploit Farmers.
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http://planningcomm ission.nic. in/plans/ planrel/appdraft .pdf
3.25 The challenge is to reduce foodstocks to roughly half its present level and use it for reducing malnutrition, without adversely affecting the farmers. This would need the following legal and policy changes, which would enhance the role of private sector and make markets less distorted than these are at present.
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>Amendment of the Essential Commodities Act to make it an emergency provision that will have to be formally invoked by notification for a limited period of time.
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> Enactment of an agreed upon Central Act to ban controls on movement within and between States.
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>Phase out of all forms of monopoly purchase.
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>Remove licensing controls and de-reserve all agri-based and food-processing
industries, including sugar, its derivatives and milk processing, in a time-bound
manner.
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>Announce a policy renouncing the use of export restrictions on agricultural
commodities. Domestic shortages should be met by imports, but not by imposing
export controls.
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>Phasing out of controls on sugar and also removal of sugar from the PDS.
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>Remove the present restrictions on establishing new milk processing capacity under the MMPO.
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>Lift the ban on Futures Trading and stocking of all agricultural commodities, and on institutional credit and finance for such activities.
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>Remove all restrictions on the export of agri-products.
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3.31 On the whole, laws and controls have repressed private foodgrain marketing, undercutting its potential contribution to long-term food security.
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No US pressure for Indo-Pak talks: Hillary Clinton
Mumbai:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday made it clear that
Washington won't pressurise India to resume dialogue with Pakistan.

"The US is very supportive of all efforts in the
fight against terrorism. At the same time, we are not going to in any
way pressurise to restart (Indo-Pak) dialogue as it is for these two
sovereign governments to decide," she told reporters here.

On
the resumption of dialogue between India and Pakistan, she said "this
is an issue to be addressed and it is for India to decide what is best
for its people."

"We have made it clear that US respects India's decision," she said.

The US Secretary of State said her government is committed to the fight against terrorism.

"We
expect everyone with whom we have relations to take strong action to
prevent terrorism from taking roots on their soil," she said, without
naming Pakistan.

US for 'new, promising relations' with India

The US is ready for "new and even more promising relations" with India, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday.

Speaking to journalists at the start of a
five-day trip to India, Clinton said the Barack Obama administration
was determined to cement bilateral ties further.

"We are
entering a new and even more promising relations with India. We are
looking ... to broaden and deepen our relationship, " she said.

She said the strength of the India-US
partnership "ultimately rests on the deep and enduring ties between the
Indian and the American people".

Clinton said the problems of
the 21st century demand a new mindset and a willingness to create
partnership with governments but also beyond governments.

She said she had just ended "an exciting meeting with Indian business leaders".

Clinton,
who arrived here Friday night, began the first full day of her visit by
meeting the staff of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel and the
Oberoi-Trident Hotel, which were among the landmarks ravaged by
terrorists from Pakistan in November last year.

Clinton is
staying at the Taj hotel, close to the Arabian Sea, as a mark of
solidarity with those who were killed or wounded in that attack.

She said she was deeply touched to meet the staff of both the hotels and "to pay respect to the large number attacked.

"This hotel in this city suffered grievously and endured painful losses because of the extremists and violence visited on it.

"The
great men and women who worked in this hotel and elsewhere in the
city... (facing) senseless violence and helped save lives ? they
deserve our gratitude."

She underlined that the American people stood in
solidarity with the people of India when the November terror attack
unfolded on TV screens.

And referring to Friday's terror
bombings in Jakarta, Clinton said it was a "painful reminder (that
terrorism) is global, it is ruthless, it is nihilistic, and it must be
stopped".

Clinton will fly Sunday to New Delhi where she said
she will meet government leaders for discussions on the issues
including economic growth, climate change, education, health care,
non-proliferation and counter-terrorism.

IANS

Hillary meets India Inc leaders, discusses meltdown
Hillary Clinton arrives in India to deepen ties: Pics

Sunday, July 19, 2009
Clinton should urge India to sign NPT: NYT
New York: Ahead of her talks with the Indian
leadership, a leading American newspaper has said Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton should urge India to drop its opposition to NPT and
consider opening regional arms talks with Pakistan and China.

In an editorial, the New York Times said Clinton
should assure New Delhi that Washington will keep pressing Pakistan to
prosecute Mumbai attack suspects and shut down the LeT "once and for
all"

"It is time for India to take more responsibility
internationally and to do more to revive the world trade talks it
helped torpedo last year and as a major contributor to global warming
to join the developed countries in cutting greenhouse gas emissions,"
it said.

It said India "needs to do a lot more to constrain its arms race with Pakistan and global proliferation.

Source: PTI

Saturday, July 18, 2009
Hillary heaps praise on Aamir for his education campaign
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Mumbai: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan
today came in for special praise from US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton for his acting pursuits and also his involvement with education
campaigns.

"It is a great delight to be here with Aamir Khan,
who is not only a Bollywood icon but also the great advocate for
education," Clinton said during a special interactive session with the
students of Xavier College here in which Khan was also present.

US does not want protectionism: Clinton
New Delhi,
July 19 (PTI) Allaying fears about the reported anti-outsourcing stance
of the Barack Obama administration, US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton on Sunday said that America does not want a return to
protectionism.
"What
President Obama has said (is) that we do not want a return to
protectionism when Congress passed the provision in our stimulus bill,"
Ms. Clinton, who is on a visit to India, told private news channel NDTV
24x7 in an interview.
The US government has imposed certain restrictions on companies receiving bailout funds from hiring foreign workers.
"... So he
(Obama) has really tried to speak against protectionism and to make
sure our administration does not in any way give credence to it," she
said.
Regarding
outsourcing, Ms. Clinton said that it is a concern for many businesses
in the US but should not be affecting the trade flow between the two
countries.
"Outsourcing is a concern for many communities and businesses in my country.
"So how we
handle that is something that we are very focused on doing ... that it
does not disrupt the great flow of trade and services that go between
our two countries," she asserted.
Also see Reprocessing talks with U.S. to begin next weekDismantle terror outfits, Hillary tells Pakistanâ€˜We want India to move towards greener energiesâ€™Hillary calls for inclusive educationAvoiding One Pitfall in U.S.-India Relations: Michael Krepon & Samuel Black (PDF)
Also see: Images: Hillary Clinton visits IndiaNo pressure was put on India: Hillary

http://www.hindu. com/thehindu/ holnus/001200907 192083.htm

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I
endorse the Press statement condemning illegal arrest of Feroze and
Jagtape! It is rather shocking that democratic right to protest against
India Illuminati, Blind nationalism and resultant Arms race, Defence
Dealing, Anti Nature Anti People Strategi Realliance in US Israel lead,
CIA and Mossad activities anti Asia, Anti India, Anti Humanity, Indo Us
Nuclear deal and systematic planned CARNAGE Mumbai and ETHNIC Cleansing
of masses all over the divide Geopolitics, False recession and Revenue
subversion, Economic Killing , is being Answered thus by the Washington
slave Government of India Incorporation under TRIIBLIS zionist Post
Modern Manusmriti and apartheid Galaxy order!
Palash

palashcbiswas,
gostokanan, sodepur, kolkata-700110 phone:033-25659551, 919903717833

____________ _________ _________ __
From: Sukla Sen <sukla.sen@gmail. com>
To: Free
Binayak Sen <free-binayaksen@ googlegroups. com>; citizen-mumbai
<citizen-mumbai@ googlegroups. com>; peace-mumbai
<peace-mumbai@ googlegroups. com>; INSAANIYATBOMBAY
<INSAANIYATBOMBAY@ yahoogroups. com>; humanrightsactivist
<humanrightsactivist @yahoogroups. com>; issueonline
<issuesonline_ worldwide@ yahoogroups. com>;
india-unity@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Saturday, 18 July, 2009 23:47:15
Subject: [issuesonline_ worldwide] Re: [people'smediainiti ative] we condemn 'illegal' arrest of Feroze

And final instalment of endorsement:
Kabi Cubby Sherman, media and women's rights activist

Kamayani Mahabal is a lawyer and human rights activist

Sukla

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Sukla Sen <sukla.sen@gmail. com> wrote:

> Still further endorsements.
>
> Vrijendra, college teacher and human rights activist
> Manasi Pingle, film-maker and human rights activist
>
> Sukla
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Sukla Sen <sukla.sen@gmail. com> wrote:
>
>> Further endorsement from:
>> Neera Adarkar, architect / town-planner, housing and human rights activist
>> Sudhir Badami, civil engineer / town/transport system planner, housing
>> rights and social activist
>>
>> Sukla
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Sukla Sen <sukla.sen@gmail. com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> From: Jatin Desai <desaijatin@yahoo. co.uk>
>>> Date: Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:48 PM
>>> Subject: [people'smediainiti ative] we condemn 'illegal' arrest of Feroze
>>>
>>>
>>> The following statement has been endorsed also by:
>>>
>>> Anand Patwardhan, film-maker
>>> Ruchi Shroff, human rights activist
>>>
>>>
>>> Sukla
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Press Statement*
>>> * We condemn 'illegal' arrest of Feroze*
>>>
>>> We, the undersigned, note with a sense of shock and horror that last
>>> evening, at around 9 00 PM, prominent human rights and social activist from
>>> Mumbai, Mr Feroze Mithiborwala, was picked up by three police people from
>>> his residence at Marol and taken to the MIDC, Andheri(E) police station. He
>>> has been kept under detention overnight. No reason whatever has been
>>> indicated for this official "kidnap".
>>> It appears that he is picked up to prevent him from holding any protest
>>> demonstration against the visiting US Secretary of State, Ms. Hillary
>>> Clinton.
>>>
>>> One does not have to agree with Mr. Mithiborwala on his political
>>> position to denounce this grossly undemocratic act on the part of the Mumbai
>>> Police. The right to dissent, and dissent in public, is what sets a a
>>> é›»emocracy" apart from an authoritarian regime.
>>> And we never tire of claiming, and not too unjustifiably, that India is
>>> the "largest democracy" in the world.
>>>
>>> It is precisely in that context, the action of the Mumbai Police is
>>> extremely unfortunate and utterly condemnable.
>>>
>>> We demand that the state Home Minister immediately take note and act
>>> against the erring officials.
>>>
>>> He should also issue a note of apology as the buck presumably stops at
>>> his door.
>>>
>>> Feroze and Kishore Jagtap were released today around 5.45 pm without any
>>> charge.
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. Mihir Desai Lawyer
>>> 2. Yusuf Muchala Lawyer
>>> 3. Sukla Sen Ekta
>>> 4. Jatin Desai Peoples' Media Initiative
>>> 5. Yogesh Kamdar Peoples' Union for Civil Liberties
>>> 6. Seema Mustafa Journalist
>>> 7. Dolphy Dsouza Bombay Catholic Sabha
>>> 8. Nandita Shah Akshara
>>> 9. Sanober Keshwaar Human Rights activist
>>> 10. Lena Ganesh Social Activist
>>> 11. Jaya Velankar Writer
>>> 12. Daniel Mazgaonkar Sarvodaya Activist
>>> 13. Kamayani Mahabal Shetty Social Activist
>>> 14. K L Bajaj CPM
>>> 15. Soheb Lokhandwala MPJ
>>> 16. Bhagwan Keshbhat YUVA
>>> 17. Sushovan Dhar Social Activist
>>> 18. Suvrat Raju

US drives hard arms bargain
K.P. NAYAR

Hillary hugs a woman during her visit to the Hansiba SEWA Trade Facilitation Centre in Mumbai on Saturday. (PTI)
Washington, July 18: The Obama
administration is linking the implementation of the nuclear deal to an
end-use monitoring agreement for military supplies from America in a
determined effort to arm-twist India into signing the controversial
defence pact on Monday.
Philip J. Crowley, an assistant secretary
of state who was specially designated by the administration to brief
foreign correspondents here yesterday shortly before Hillary Clinton
landed in Mumbai, said the end-use monitoring agreement â€œis part of the
fulfilment of an important initiative that India and the US have signed
in the area of nuclear co-operationâ€�.
Crowley added: â€œI am sure that this will
be (a) substantial area of discussion (between Clinton and the Indians)
and the various leaders will reflect on the progress that is made in
terms of both fulfilling the initiative and its various components.â€�
Crowleyâ€™s forthright assertion â€" that the
defence agreement is a â€œcomponentâ€� of the nuclear deal â€" even as Indian
and US officials are burning the midnight oil in New Delhi to ensure
that there are no glitches in the American secretary of stateâ€™s highly
choreographed trip to India is revealing on two counts.
One, this is the first time that any US
official, either from the Bush era or an incumbent in the Obama team,
has indicated that there was any understanding â€" such as buying
American defence equipment â€" which facilitated the nuclear deal.
The US will not sell advanced military
equipment unless India signs the end-use monitoring agreement that will
allow Washington to inspect such equipment long after it has been
bought.
Second, Crowleyâ€™s â€œhopeâ€� that â€œvarious
(Indian) leaders will reflect on the progress that is made in terms of
both fulfilling the (nuclear) initiative and its various componentsâ€� is
tantamount to a threat that progress on the nuclear deal will only go
hand in hand with progress on other unpublicised understandings such as
defence purchases from the US.
Crowley also left the onus of showing
progress on these counts on India. â€œI will allow the officials in India
to indicate that we have reached an agreementâ€� on end-use monitoring.
It is clear from the assistant
secretaryâ€™s statement that Clinton will expect New Delhi not to renege
on what Washington sees as prior Indian commitments that allowed the
passage of the nuclear deal here.
According to high-level sources in New
Delhi, opinion has hardened among more sections of the political
leadership against chipping away at the operational freedom of the
defence forces by agreeing to future US inspections of military
hardware bought by India.
As a result, top Indian officials who are
continuing to discuss the end-use monitoring agreement with the
Americans are now proposing that instead of signing the pact, Clinton
and external affairs minister S.M. Krishna should merely announce that
agreement has been reached on the issue between negotiators on both
sides.
In the light of strong reservations among
senior members of the cabinet on the agreement, the Prime Ministerâ€™s
Office is now understood to have taken the view that the agreement
should be formally approved by the cabinet committee on security,
although such a step is not mandatory.
Similar stand-alone agreements that
enabled India to buy the US naval ship Trenton and Boeing planes for
VVIP transport did not go to the committee, although those agreements
are identical to the one that the US wants to be signed on Monday.
US officials here are insisting that they have bent over backwards to accommodate Indian concerns on end-use inspections.
They said that in a significant departure
from the standard US text, the Obama administration had encouraged
India to choose the venues for American inspections, even agreeing to
checks in third countries.
US official hopeful, Page 4 http://www.telegrap hindia.com/ 1090719/jsp/ frontpage/ story_11255767. jsp

The U.S. soldier captured by the Taliban is a 23-year-old Army paratrooper from Idaho, Pentagon officials said Sunday.

Private 1st Class Bowe Bergdahl was shown pleading for his life on a video released by his captors Saturday night.

"Please, please bring us home so that we can be back where we
belong and not over here, wasting our time and our lives," said a
terrified Bergdahl, who is shown with his head shaved, eating and
wearing local garb.

"To my fellow Americans who have loved ones over here, who know
what it's like to miss them, you have the power to make our government
bring them home," he said.

Military officials said Bergdahl, who went missing from a small combat outpost in southeastern Afghanistan on June 30, is a paratrooper with the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in Fort Richardson, Alaska.

ON
Teach India tour of India, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
sounded optimistic on Sunday that the United States and India can
bridge their differences on reducing greenhouse gases! While, US war
Economy shows no sign of RECOVERY! Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
should press banks for more information on how they use the more than
$200 billion the government has pumped into US financial institutions,
according to a new oversight ...Only DEFENCE pacts with India may bail out US ECONOMY under DEEP! Nevertheless, the
rest of the country may be stuck in a nasty recession, but on US Wall
Street, where it all began, business is booming. Mind you, FREEsenSEX
in India just replictae US and european markets and it never relates to
either Indian Politics or ECONOMY!

The sixth "Harry
Potter" movie worked its charm at North American theaters, selling an
estimated $159.7 million worth of tickets during its first five days of
release, distributor Warner Bros.

Pope Benedict XVI
preached and greeted well-wishers Sunday, three days after breaking his
wrist in a fall. The pope celebrates mass with his broken wrist in
plaster.

Environment, Global Warming and Climate Change
have never been on US agenda and neither INDO US strategic Realliance
has to do anything with it! It is jsut the CONSTRUCTION of a BEDROOM to
do other things in Luxury out of SIGHT, VERY VERY PRIVATE as it had
been with President CLINTON and the beautiful girl forgotten, Monica Lewinsky!

What
a SUBVERSION! Hillary Clinton landed in Mumbai and met India Inc heads
just because of her concern for limate and global warming! She does
involves herself with TEAC India movement led by Bollywood Star Amir
Khan known for his REVENGE Film GAJANI!

Mainstream Hindutva
media, which tried very hard to see Madam Clinton in the Oval House
instead of the Black man with Muslim Middle Man, does add every bit to
showcase Hillary Welfare Image sidelining and Diluting the Zionist
Agenda of mass Destruction!

I asked you PUZZLE and challenged to
dare! Why did Madam Clinton landed in Mumabai instead of the National
capital indulged in Parliamentary SOP Opera!

Alas! No one responded!

But
late in the night I got the message from Mumbai that our friends Feroze
and Jagtape were arrested so that any possible DEMONSTRATION against
the US Secretary of State might be preempted!

Immediately I rang up Feroze! No response!

While
I was returning Home from my work place around TWO AM, Feroze rang back
and informed that tehy were released! Meanwhile our friends, social and
human right activists, mass movements, Intellectuals, professionals,
journalists and writers issued statements to protest the Draconian
Move! The Morning papers missed the item! In fact, the Mumbai people
were in dark! I called on some friends in Mumbai in the morning and
they felt shocked as they had not the news! Major Burves , a common
friend of Feroze, Jagtape and me, was in a meeting attended by a few
Mumbaikars! They had not an Idea!

This is it!

The
focus is on ENVIRONMENT and Zionist Global Manusmriti Apartheid
Triiblis Order of ILLUMINATI does everything to kill the Nature and the
Nature associated Indigenous, Aboriginal and minority communities!

Madam
Clinton landed in India to bail out US War Economy! Indian
Incorporation Goverment works from Mumbai and the Political Economy is
managed from the Commercial capital, hence she reached there to link
Indo US Nuke deal with ARMS bargain!

What a Monica Lewinsky ELEMENT Inserted in Diplomacy!

Indo
Pak relations no more remains a BILITERAL Sovereign issue limited in
the Indian Geopolitics. Rather, it is the most SENSITIVE issue of US
Foreign affairs to COLONISE whole of ASIA!

Madam Clinton, the
Darling of hindutva as well as Zionism has arrived to acomplish the
task with First Lady experience of Monica Lewinsky subversion
experience in her purse!

Meanwhile, a civilian
helicopter crash that killed 16 people at a NATO base in southern
Afghanistan pushed up the death toll on Sunday in the US and allied
effort to break the Taliban, adding to pressure on Washington and
London.

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said
Congress was likely to approve a plan to overhaul the country's
health-care system before its August recess, but added that lawmakers
should amend the legislation to help ...

Indonesian
Police say the bombings of two hotels in Jakarta on Friday was the work
of Jemaah Islamiyah, a terrorist group with al-Qaida ties.

Ousted
President Manuel Zelaya and the country's interim leaders resume talks
in Costa Rica today amid Zelaya's fresh vows to return with or without
a deal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
rejected a reported US request that a building project in Jerusalem be
halted. The project involves building 20 apartments in the mainly Arab
East Jerusalem area, which was captured by Israel in 1967.

When
Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, it was a first for
the Soviet Union - the first time the US had beaten the USSR in the
space race.

Spacewalkers and robotic arm operators
attached the final piece of the International Space Station's Japanese
Kibo laboratory - an exposed platform for science experiments.

Himalayan
glaciers are going through a phase of retreat, with some glaciers in
specific basins having shrunk by up to an alarming 38%
in 40 years
while at the same time satellite mapping has not shown any accleration
of the process even as the rate of Gangotri's shrinkage has slowed.

Meanwhile,
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said that strategic
partnership is required between India and US on issues like
climate change.

Addressing a joint press conference, Hillary Clinton said that she expects Pakistan to take strong action against terrorism.

After
winning over Mumbai with her charm, Clinton arrived in New Delhi on
Sunday afternoon for talks with Indian government leaders to launch
what she called a third phase in the India-US strategic partnership,
IANS said.

IANS reported that she was received at the airport
by India's Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar and Gayatri Kumar, joint
secretary in charge of the Americas in the external affairs ministry.

A
slew of agreements, including pacts on an end-use monitoring agreement
that will spur high-end arms sales between them and another pact on
space launches, are expected to be signed on Monday. India is also
likely to announce two sites for US nuclear reactors during Clinton's
visit.

Praising India's rich
knowledge in agriculture, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday
said India is a key player in helping the US achieve global food
security and end hunger.

"President
Obama and I had a signature issue - food security and ending hunger.
India is well placed to help us (achieve it)," Clinton said at the
National Agricultural Science Centre that is part of the Indian
Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) here.

"The
problem of chronic hunger and malnutrition is a huge issue. (Currently)
one billion people are hungry in the world. It can undermine peace and
instability can follow. We believe that world has the resources to feed
all people.

"I am
delighted to be in this prestigious institute and partner India in
agriculture. India's experience in agriculture is unsurpassable. With
only three percent of the land area, it feeds 17 percent of (global)
people. India's leadership is crucial," she added

She said the US administration is happy to partner India in agriculture.

"Agriculture
is a pillar of our five pillar discussion (with India). We want to
expand our partnership to produce better seeds, grains, farm
technology. There is no limit to new explorations in agriculture with
India. I am committed to this effort," Ms. Clinton said while alluding
to the US role in spurring a green revolution in India in the 1960s
that was marked by the introduction of high-yield seed varieties
leading to enhanced farm productivity.

She
said bio-energy, bio-security, bio-diversity are key areas. The effort
is to "end hunger". She also said that India can play a great role in
food processing industry.

Ms.
Clinton was received at the institute by Agriculture Minister Sharad
Pawar. Enhanced cooperation in agriculture will be one of the areas of
discussions between Clinton and External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna
Monday.

Soon after her arrival, Clinton
headed to Gurgaon to visit ITC Green Centre Building that showcases
environment- friendly practices in India.

The political
business will start with Clinton's call on the ruling United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson and Congress president Sonia
Gandhi in the evening.

Before political talks on Monday,
Clinton goes to Delhi University - a trip aimed at giving the US' chief
diplomat an insight into the thinking of young India. Over 90,000
Indian students study in the US.

Clinton will call on Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh Monday afternoon and discuss with him a host of
bilateral, regional and global issues.

After winning
over Mumbai with her charm, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
arrived in New Delhi on Sunday afternoon for talks
with Indian government leaders to launch what she called a third phase in the India-US strategic partnership.

She
was received at the airport by India's Ambassador to the US Meera
Shankar and Gayatri Kumar, joint secretary in charge of the Americas in
the external affairs ministry.

A slew of agreements, including
pacts on an end-use monitoring agreement that will spur high-end arms
sales between them and another pact on space launches, are expected to
be signed on Monday. India is also likely to announce two sites for US
nuclear reactors during Clinton's visit.

Soon after her
arrival, Clinton headed to Gurgaon to visit ITC Green Centre Building
that showcases environment- friendly practices in India. She will speak
here about climate change - an important issue that will also figure in
her discussions with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna Monday.

From
Gurgaon, she goes to visit the National Agriculture Science Centre in
Delhi where she will speak about cooperation between India and the US
in the field of agriculture.

The political business will start
with Clinton's call on the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA)
chair and Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the evening.

Before
political talks Monday, Clinton goes to Delhi University - a trip aimed
at giving the US' chief diplomat an insight into the thinking of young
India. Over 90,000 Indian students study in the US.

Clinton
will call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday afternoon and discuss
with him a host of bilateral, regional and global issues.

Clinton
will hold delegation-level talks with Krishna that will focus on
building multi-pronged strategic dialogue between the two countries
that will pave the way for starting phase III in strategic partnership
between them.

Besides civil nuclear cooperation, the two sides
are expected to discuss economic and defence ties and invigorating
cooperation in fields of clean energy, agriculture, science and
education.

The Mumbai attacks and its aftermath, the situation
in Afghanistan- Pakistan (Af-Pak) region and India's likely role in it
will also figure in the discussions.

The overall
process of shrinking is leading glaciers to fragment and, therefore,
paradoxically enough, the total number of glaciers in the Himalayas is
increasing. These were some of the conclusions ISRO scientists drew up
during a presentation at a meeting, organised by the ministry of
environment, of all institutions and experts in glaciology.

The
ministry has decided to support ISRO and the department of science and
technology to undertake long-term and extensive glacial surveys across
the eastern and western Himalayas. Environment and forests minister
Jairam Ramesh told TOI, "We will institutionalize scientific studies of
not only glaciers but also studies on terrestrial hydrology and
agriculture as well as measurement of green house gases along with the
department of science and technology and ISRO."

Scientists at
the meeting recorded there is no evidence yet to claim the rate of
retreat of glaciers, ranging from a few cms to couple of metres a year,
has accelerated in the recent past. Scientists from the Geological
Survey of India noted that the rate of recession of the Gangotri
glacier has actually reduced in recent years.

The scientific
community also observed that the process of retreat and advance of the
glaciers was a natural process and that at present there was no
evidence to prove that the current glacial recession phase is a
consequence of climate change.

But scientists did express
concern about the health of the glaciers pointing to the evidence of
debris accumulation at the snouts in some glaciers. At present, the
worst impact is seen in the Suru basin, with glaciers recorded a 38%
shrinkage between 1969 and 2004. The Chandra, Bhaga, Parbati and Warwan
basins are the other four recording the worst recessionary trends over
the same period.

The meeting also noted that currently most of
the automated weather stations are located in Jammu and Kashmir and
serve the Army. These should be extended to Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal
Pradesh and Uttarakhand in order to record data across the Himalayas.

Meltdown makes Indian firms smarter: Study

A
dramatic meltdown after boom years globally has made Indian firms
smarter in employee engagement and talent management, which will
help it grow faster when recovery begins, predicts a study by global consulting firm
Deloitte.

"Indian companies across sectors are
trying to make the best of tough times and preparing for growth
opportunities when the economy picks up. Unlike in the West where
firing is the norm, our study shows Indian firms are focussing on
talent management and cost cutting," Deloitte director P. Thiruvengadam
told media.

A cross-industry dipstick survey on employee
engagement in recessionary times by Deloitte's human capital advisory
services found Indian firms were in a wait-and-watch mode without
retrenching, but trying to balance both employee and operational costs.

Of the 130 firms approached for the survey, 65 participated, including 22 multinationals.

"Companies
are focussing on their ability to attract, develop and retain top
talent to remain viable and competitive in the short and long terms.
Though campus offers have trickled down, selective hiring is taking
place. Employees are being involved in cost management, quality and
client servicing," Thiruvengadam said quoting the findings.

Of
the participant firms, 44 percent represented TMT (technology, media
and telecom), 27 percent manufacturing, seven percent FMCG (fast moving
consumer goods), five percent pharma and 27 percent others.

The
study found companies implementing metrics to determine return on
investment on human resources. Investment in proprietary knowledge and
technological upgrade is continuing, albeit slower than during the boom
times.

"Lower attrition has turned out to be a boon, as firms
are able to retain talent by setting higher performance benchmarks,
with stringent measures and quarterly monitoring. By recruiting
consultants and freelancers, firms are able to save on employee benefit
costs," Thiruvengadam said.

The eight-week survey said
companies were substituting lucrative bonus and international travel
with opportunities for advancement and flexible working hours to retain
employees. "Smart firms have turned inward, consolidating operations,
rationalising requirements and optimising resources to ride the
slowdown," Thiruvengadam said.

The survey also found companies
were not cutting back on training programmes but only reducing training
costs. The focus is on empowering employees with multi-skills to handle
different tasks and building a strong leadership pipeline.

We expect Mumbai attackers to meet day of reckoning: Hillary
Gurgaon Noting that
Pakistan houses a â€˜syndicate of terrorismâ€™, US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton said her country is watching the actions being taken by
Islamabad against the scourge and expected that perpetrators of Mumbai
attacks meet their â€˜day of reckoningâ€™.
She emphasised that terrorism is a threat to all, including
those who have given haven to such elements, and every country should
stand up to defeat the menace.
"We are certainly watching and expecting that there
will be justice and those who launched the horrific attacks in Mumbai
will meet their day of reckoning," she said at an interaction with
press.
Clinton, who will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
and hold talks with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Monday,
said she realises that the â€˜syndicateâ€™ of terrorism in Pakistan is
â€˜troublingâ€™ India, besides the US.
"I have also sent messages very directly to the
Pakistani people that this (fight against terrorism) is in the interest
of Pakistan, the future stability and security of Pakistan," said the
Secretary of State, who is on a five-day visit to India.
She said the US had "seen an evolving commitment, not
only by Pakistani Government but also Pakistani people and a
recognition that terrorism within a country is a threat to that
country".

Govt may discuss MOIL disinvestment plan tomorrow
New Delhi
(PTI): Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh may discuss on Monday plans on
divesting the government's stake in Manganese Ore (India) Ltd at the
performance review meeting of public sector companies.
"The work
on listing of MOIL has been going on for long now. Now the finance
ministry has asked us to expedite the disinvestment process in the
company. The (steel) minister is likely to take a call on disinvestment
in MOIL in tomorrow's meeting," a senior steel ministry official said.
The
minister will also review the performance of ICVL, a SPV formed by five
leading PSUs like Coal India, SAIL to acquire mining property abroad,
he said.
The
finance ministry has asked the steel ministry to work on divesting
stake in MOIL, NMDC and KIOCL, he said. On the ailing KIOCL, the
ministry could go slow till it is acquired by NMDC, he added.
Explaining
further, the official said the government may divest a minimum of 8.3
per cent stake in already listed iron ore miner National Mineral
Development Corporation, which will fetch the government over Rs 10,000
crore.
In
Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL), which is also listed, the
government may divest about 9 per cent stake and in Manganese Ore India
Ltd (MOIL) about 10 per cent stake may be sold.
The disinvestment in KIOCL and MOIL may fetch the government together about Rs 1,000 crore. For listed entities, the government may consider follow-on public issue, he added.

NRI\PIO universities may come up in SEZs
Mumbai
(PTI): Government may allow the new NRI\PIO universities, the bids for
which were invited recently, to come up in Special Economic Zones.
Ministry
of Overseas Indian Affairs which has invited Expression Of Interest
(EOI) from academic institutions for setting up four universities for
children of Non Resident Indians and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) has
indicated in the guidelines issued as part of EOI that these
universities may be set up in the Special Economic Zones.
"If the
NRI\PIO universities are to be set up in the Special Economic Zone, the
provisions under the SEZ Act would be adhered to", the guidelines said.
The EOI
have been invited for setting up four universities in cities other than
Bangalore as one NRI university for that city has already been
sanctioned.
The EOI has said preference would given for those institutions which are already in possession of at leat 100 acres of land. As
per the guidelines, 50 per cent of the seats in these universities
would be reserved for children of NRIs and PIOs and they will need to
pay their fees in foreign currency while remaining 50 per cent would be
given to resident Indians.

India must look for oil assets overseas: CII
New Delhi
(IANS): As the oil price is below $100 per barrel in the international
market right now, India should look at entering long-term crude oil
contracts and acquiring oil assets overseas, suggests the Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII).
With the
price of oil hovering around $70 a barrel, CII feels there still exists
a window of opportunity for India to acquire international oil acreage
and to secure long term oil supply deals to secure the country's energy
future at an affordable price.
"The
accelerated demand for energy makes it imperative for India to garner
assured and continuous supply of energy at reasonable prices through
internal efforts and acquiring international acreages," CII said in a
statement.
As per CII
estimates, the demand for oil would be 328 million tonnes oil
equivalent (Mtoe) by 2030, an increase of 3.8 percent year-on-year.
"Estimates suggest that by 2020, only about 25 percent of the total demand will be met internally," CII said.
In this
backdrop CII has emphasised that industry, both public and private
sectors, should collaborate to secure oil equity overseas. The
government on its part must facilitate and encourage such partnerships
and aggressively pursue the strategy of acquiring overseas oil and gas
assets. "Ensuring India's
energy security requires active participation from Indian industry,
both the public and private sectors, with support from the government
to secure fuel supply at predictable and affordable prices," said
Chandrajit Banerjee, director general of CII.

Liquidity likely to be comfortable, says CMIE
Mumbai
(PTI): Liquidity is likely to be in the comfort zone despite a 46 per
cent hike in Government borrowing this fiscal, an economic think-tank
said in its latest report.
The Government has announced a higher market borrowing amounting to Rs 4.5-lakh-crore in the recent Budget.
"Liquidity
levels are expected to remain comfortable even in the coming months
inspite of the sharp increase in Government borrowing," Centre for
Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) said in its report on the state of the
Indian economy.
According
to CMIE, surplus resources currently with banks together with the funds
expected to be mobilised by them during 2009-10 would be more than
adequate to fund both, the higher Government borrowing as well as the
credit demand from the private sector.
"There is
already abundant liquidity in the banking system which is reflected in
the Rs 1.6-lakh-crore parked by banks at the reverse repo window of the
RBI," CMIE said.
The amount is earning the banks a measly interest of 3.25 per cent, it said. "Banks are expected to mobilise deposit funds to the tune of Rs 7.7-lakh-crore during 2009-10," CMIE said.

Top-10 cos add over Rs 1.42 lakh cr; RIL regains Rs 3 trn mrk
Mumbai
(PTI): The country's top-10 firms added Rs 1,42,000 crore to their
market capitalisation last week with country's most valued firm,
Reliance Industries crossing Rs 3 trillion mark after two weeks.
The
country's most-valued firm, Reliance Industries Ltd, added Rs 24,395
crore to its market valuation taking its total market cap to Rs
3,04,292 crore. Shares of RIL surged nearly 9 per cent on the Bombay
Stock Exchange (BSE) to end the trade at Rs 1,933.40 on Friday.
RIL had a market valuation of Rs 2,79,897 crore last week.
The
coveted club, which comprises of 4 private sector and 6 public
companies, added Rs 1,42,320 crore to their market valuation to Rs
16,04,896 crore for week ended July 17.
The total market-cap of the elite club stood at Rs 14,31,433.42 crore in the previous week ended July 11.
State run
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and National Thermal Power
Corporation (NTPC) together added Rs 21,567 crore to their market cap.
At the end of the week total market valuation of ONGC stood at Rs 2,22,763 crore and NTPC's at Rs 1,69,114 crore. Private
sector telecom services provider Bharti Airtel added Rs 8,562 crore to
its market cap taking its total valuation to Rs 1,57,071 crore at the
end of Friday.

Private power firms concerned at RNRL getting gas at lower rates
New Delhi
(PTI): After fertiliser firms, private power companies have voiced
concerns over gas supplies from Reliance Industries' KG-D6 fields being
impacted if the fuel is diverted to an Anil Ambani Group firm at lower
rates.
GMR Group,
Torrent Power and GVK Industries have written separately to Petroleum
Minister Murli Deora and Power Secretary HS Brahma, stating that the
move would give unfair price advantage to ADAG and kill competition in
the power sector.
The Bombay
High Court had last month directed Mukesh Ambani-run RIL to sell 28
million standard cubic metres of gas per day (almost the same volume
currently produced from KG-D6) to Anil Ambani-run RNRL at USD 2.34 per
mmBtu, which is 44 per cent lower than the rate set by the government.
Subsequent
to this order, RNRL moved the Supreme Court, seeking to restrain RIL
from selling gas to any other company other than itself.
"The price
indicated in the order would benefit specific power generators (like
those of Anil Ambani Group) and thereby making power generated by
others non-competitive, " Torrent Power said, adding "such an
environment would discourage further investment by multiple players in
the power sector". GVK
Vice-Chairman GV Sanjay Reddy said, "(The judgment) is in favour of one
particular group which has been given inexplicable advantage to load
the electricity market against all competition. "

Ports can award PPP projects without ministry's nod
New Delhi
(PTI): Port authorities can now award contracts to winning bidders
without the prior approval of the Shipping Ministry, a move which would
expedite public-private- partnership projects worth Rs 23,000 crore to
be awarded this fiscal.
The
Ministry has written to all port trusts authorising them to sign
concession agreements for the PPP projects. They can take such
decisions at their board level. However, the Ministry must be informed
of all the works awarded.
"Ports
have been sending proposals to the Ministry before signing the
concession agreements with the selected bidders quoting the highest
revenue share.
"It has
been decided that henceforth the ports need not send the proposal for
prior approval of the Ministry before signing the Concession
Agreement," a Shipping Ministry communique to all the ports said.
The move
comes at a time when five major PPP port projects worth more than Rs
2,700 crore are to be awarded in the next few weeks.
The process for awarding another 23 projects worth more than Rs 20,000 crore has to be completed by December 2009.

Maytas Infra in a position to execute projects: Khurshid
New Delhi
(PTI): Asserting that Hyderabad-based Maytas Infra is in a position to
execute projects, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said
the government's intention is to see that the company is back on its
feet.
The
minister in an interview to a private news channel said that Maytas
Infra is "in a position to execute such projects" and added the
government wants "the company to get back on its feet".
"We will ... see that their (Maytas Infra) projects don't need to be cancelled," he said.
On the company looking for a strategic partner, Mr. Khurshid said the matter would have to be decided by its directors.
"They
might want to find a strategic partner but that's a decision that
directors have to take ... They also now have to learn from Satyam to
see if there are further steps they need to take ... the directors have
to decide," he said.
According to him, the government did not help Satyam in finding a strategic investor.
"The
government did not help Satyam to get a strategic partner... we can't
help in their (Maytas Infra) getting a strategic partner," Mr. Khurshid
said.
Maytas Infra is promoted by the kin of Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju.
Mr.
Khurshid also pointed out that the government would take steps to see
that the projects awarded to Maytas are not cancelled.
The Andhra
Pradesh government recently cancelled the more than Rs 12,000-crore
Hyderabad Metro Project awarded to Maytas Infra after the company
failed to tie up funds despite a three-month extension.
Last week,
Maytas Infra had denied about any move to induct strategic partner and
said that it had not made any requests to the Ministry of Corporate
Affairs for offloading its stake.
"No
recommendation was made to the ministry or CLB for offloading Maytas'
stake. It is not on our agenda at this point of time," K Ramalingam,
the government-appointe d Chairman of Maytas Infra, said adding that the
financial health of the company was in good conditions and it has
receivables of about Rs 780 crore.
The
government took over the board of Satyam after its founder-Chairman B
Ramalinga Raju admitted to financial fraud in the IT firm. In February,
2009, the government moved the CLB to take over the board of Maytas
Infra, then headed by Teja Raju, the son of IT firm's top official,
alleging mismanagement in the affairs of the company. Acting on it, the CLB had appointed four nominees on its board.

NALCO increases security in mines due to naxalite threats
Bhubaneswar
(PTI): Concerned after the April 12 naxal attack on NALCO's bauxite
mines in Orissa's Koraput district, the aluminium giant has
strengthened security in its Panchapatmali Hill mines.
Security
arrangements have also been augmented at most vulnerable points like
magazine house, where explosives are stored for mining operations,
company sources said.
The deployment of CISF personnel has been increased from 89 to 197 jawans in the bauxite mines.
Special
emphasis has been given to fortification of magazine area by providing
multi-layer protection system, such as, chain link, barbed wire, power
fencing and brick walls around the magazine house, they said.
The CISF
jawans have been provided with rest sheds equipped with modern
facilities near the magazine house, a senior company official said.
NALCO has
also drastically reduced the storage of explosives at the magazine
house. As per the latest measure, the stock of explosives is kept to
the barest minimum of about 4-5 days consumption. The PSU is also exploring the possibility of introducing 'blast free' mining methods, where there is no use of explosives.

Ashok Leyland, Nissan JV to rework manufacturing plans
Mumbai
(PTI): In view of the current economic downturn and the reduction in
demand for M&HCVs, the Hinduja Group-controlled Ashok Leyland has
redrawn its capacity enhancement programmes to be in line with market
outlook.
The company will ensure that future expansion is well aligned to market demands, the company said in its annual report here.
"In view
of the global slowdown, Ashok Leyland and its joint venture partner,
Nissan Motor Co of Japan, are reworking the manufacturing plans
including the option of phased implementation of the project," Ashok
Leyland's Chairman, R J Shahaney, said in the annual report.
The
company had signed an agreement with Nissan in 2008 to form three joint
venture companies for the light commercial vehicles (LCV) business in
India for technology development, vehicle manufacturing and powertrain
manufacturing.
Fiscal and
other incentives from the Tamil Nadu Government for the project have
been secured, although allotment of land for the project is awaited,
Shahaney said. The Indian
LCV market has witnessed a tremendous growth in the recent past. During
the last financial year, LCVs contributed to more than half of total CV
volumes.

Centre to sell 10 pc in SJVNL; Himachal gives NoC
New Delhi
(PTI): The government is understood to have finalised divesting 10 per
cent stake in hydro power PSU Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam in the current
fiscal and is hoping to raise over Rs 1,200 crore.
"The
public offering to offload government's 10 per cent shareholding may
happen by the end of this fiscal. The state government (Himachal
Pradesh) has already given No Objection Certificate (NoC) for the
disinvestment, " SJVNL Chairman and Managing Director H K Sharma told
PTI in an interview.
The
company would offer 31 crore shares of Rs 10 face value each and is
hoping to fetch over Rs 1,200 crore from the capital market. SJVNL is
the second power PSU in which the government is divesting its stake.
Currently, the government holds 75 per cent stake in SJVNL and the Himachal Pradesh government has the remaining 25 per cent.
The disinvestment is planned only for the government shares and the company is not going to raise any fresh equity.
The SJVNL's turnover for this fiscal is estimated to be Rs 1,500 crore and the net profit at Rs 900 crore. The government is offloading five per cent stake of its holdings in NHPC and the company will raise 10 per cent fresh equity.

'Industrial houses should chip in to improve social security'
New Delhi,
July 19 (PTI) As India's social security network is yet to catch up
with standards in most developed countries, the government today said
industrial houses should chip in to improve the situation and hinted at
making labour laws more moderate in return.
"We want
to ask most industrial houses to help raise the social security network
if not at par then at least halfway of the most modernised
nations...our social security investment is less...Industry should come
forward to help government in this regard," Minister of State for
Labour and Employment Harish Rawat told PTI.
Hinting at
making labour laws more moderate, Rawat said, "The social security
network is more effective in countries where labour laws are moderate.
"Without an effective social security network, we cannot immediately go wholesale with the demands of industry," he added.
Rawat said the government had built a consensus on contentious issues between industries and trade unions. "Seven
to eight of our labour laws are in the process of amendment. Some of
them are with the cabinet," he said but refrained from setting a
time-frame for it.

Selja seeks amendment to town planning for slum-free India
New Delhi
(PTI): Seeking reservation of land for affordable housing and survey of
all slums in cities across India, the Centre has asked all state
governments and Union Territories to amend town planning and other
related laws for this.
In a
letter written to all chief ministers, Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja has sought the amendment to town
planning for reservation of land for affordable housing.
"You may
kindly consider amending town planning, urban area development,
municipal and other related laws to provide for reservation of land for
affordable housing, basic amenities and informal sector activities of
the poor," Ms. Selja stated in her letter.
Stressing
the need for a complete database on existing slums, she has sought
proper surveys of all slums in cities and towns within three months and
develop an authentic database on the prevailing field conditions.
"The legal
framework may also cover innovative land assembly techniques including
land pooling, use of Floor Space Index as a resource, incentive zoning
and other measures to promote affordable housing to the urban poor,"
the letter stated. Referring
to the Presidential address on June 4 in which the Rajiv Awas Yojana
for the slum dwellers and the urban poor was prominently mentioned,
Selja said her ministry was currently in the process of formulating the
parameters of the scheme.

Clinton's dish wish! How about a Hillary platter?
Gurgaon
(IANS) She is a leader in her own right and US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton would "very much" like a dish in her own name at
Delhi's most famous restaurant, which already has two platters
dedicated to her husband and daughter.
A beaming
Ms. Clinton, wearing a turquoise business suit, expressed a keen desire
to have a dish named after her at the Maurya Sheraton hotel's Bukhara
restaurant. "I hope so that they have my own dish. I would like it very
much," she told NDTV in an interview here.
The
five-star's menu has a 'Presidential Platter', named after Hillary
Clinton's husband and former US president Bill Clinton, and a 'Chelsea
Platter', named after their daughter.
The three
had visited India and stayed at the hotel in 2000, when Mr. Bill
Clinton was president. They had dined at the Bukhara, which is famous
for its Indian dishes.
The
Presidential Platter, costing Rs.4,700, comprises non-vegetarian food
that Clinton ordered and the Chelsea Platter, priced at Rs.4,200, has
vegetarian dishes that Chelsea had preferred.
The two dishes continue to be served till date and are a hit with guests.

India negotiating with Swiss authorities on secrecy clauses
New Delhi
(PTI): India is negotiating with Switzerland and other countries to
revise the secrecy clause in bilateral treaties like double taxation
avoidance agreements to get information on matters like black money.
Official
sources said unless secrecy clauses change, the government cannot do
much about black money stashed in banks of Switzerland and other
countries.
India is
negotiating with Switzerland and other countries to change these
secrecy clauses in the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA).
If these
clauses change, appropriate Indian authorities could have information,
which currently is exchanged only with tax authorities, they said.
The issue
came to the fore during the Lok Sabha election when opposition parties
demanded repatriation of black money stashed away in tax havens.
Sources
said the government is negotiating with Mauritius to amend the DTAA to
prevent companies routing investment through that country to India, to
avoid paying taxes.
Various
companies have been incorporated in Mauritius to take advantage of the
Indo-Mauritius treaty, which is called treaty shopping. According to the treaty, capital gains are to be assessed in accordance with the law of the state of residence of the entity.
India reaping benefits of bank nationalisation: Mukherjee
Raiganj
(WB) (PTI) Noting that India is reaping the fruits of nationalisation
of banks, Union Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the
country's nationalised banks are staying healthy even during slowdown
in global economy which has led closure of many private banks in
Western countries.
The
nationalised banks in the country are making healthy progress and
making profits while many private banks in the Western countries have
either closed down or declared bankruptcy, Mr. Mukherjee said here
while distributing Kishan Credit Cards to farmers.
Forty
years ago, on this day, Indira Gandhi took the great step of
nationalising banks in the country and today the people of the country
are reaping its benefit, the Union Finance Minister said.
Mr.
Mukherjee said when the UPA government had announced the loan waiver
for the farmers in 2008 the critics had said that it would make the
nationalised banks sick.
"None of
the nationalised banks had become sick after the Rs 60,000 crore loan
waiver for farmers was announced by the UPA government in its budget in
2008," he said while distributing the Cards to the 5001 farmers of
North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur and Malda districts at a function of
United Bank of India (UBI).
UBI chairman and managing director S C Gupta was also present.

CBI begins probe into Ayodhya case missing files
Lucknow
(PTI) Following directives from the Allahabad High Court, the CBI has
started investigation into 23 missing files related to
Ramjanmbhoomi- Babri mosque land dispute.
A CBI team
led by Deputy Inspector General Zaki Ahmad on Saturday met senior
officials of Uttar Pradesh government, including Home department
officials, and held detailed discussion on the Ayodhya title suits
case, official sources said here on Sunday.
The CBI
team handed a letter to the Home Secretary, seeking information on 20
points including which officials were posted in the Home Department
when the files had gone missing, who was in possession of the files at
that time and what documents were contained in the files, the sources
said.
Later, the
team visited Hazratganj police station, where a case was lodged by the
state government on July 9, and took a copy of the FIR.
On July
15, the High Court's Lucknow bench asked the CBI director to submit an
interim progress report on the issue before the court on August 24 --
the next date of hearing.
The state government had recommended the CBI probe into the missing files on July 10.

Huge cache of explosives seized in Jharkhand
Giridih
(Jharkhand) (PTI) Police on Sunday seized 1,964 kg of explosives,
including gelatin sticks, allegedly meant to be supplied to Maoists
from a road construction company here.
The police
launched raids on camp number two of the company engaged in state
highway construction near the GT road and seized the explosives,
Superintendent of Police A V Minz said here.
Besides gelatins and other explosives, the police also seized 15,000-metre wire, he said.
The raiding police team was helped by a person named Firdosh, who was caught with a pistol by Ranchi police recently.
Firdosh
has been supplying explosives bought from the company to a Naxalite
group led by Kundan Pahan, who operates in Ranchi and Khunti districts.
He has been getting the consignment from this company to supply to the
Maoists for the last five years, the SP claimed.
The company's storekeeper was taken into custody, Mr. Minz said, adding that an FIR would be lodged against the company.
The
company has been given license to procure only 450 kg explosives, the
SP said and added that as per the guidelines, the company should have
kept the explosives at Madedih village in Dhanbad district and not in
Giridih.
The
store-keeper showed a bill of purchase of 1,250 kg explosives on July
14, 2009, which is also three times the amount the company was allowed
to procure, he said.
BJP's SC front meet ends, lukewarm response from top brass
New Delhi
(PTI) The two-day BJP Schedule Caste Front national executive meet,
which ended here on Sunday, saw a lukewarm response from the
organisation' s top brass with President Rajnath Singh keeping away and
others choosing to speak on general issues instead of focusing on
Dalits.
Mr. Singh, who was to deliver the concluding address, preferred to attend programmes in his constituency Ghaziabad.
Senior
party leader L K Advani, who gave the inaugural address on Saturday,
preferred to speak primarily on the BJP's dismal performance in the
recent Lok Sabha polls and had nothing significant to say about Dalits.
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jailtey too did not speak much on Dalit issues in his address on Saturday.
It was left to other leaders to discuss the issues.
"The
practice of human scavenging has still not been removed. Even when we
were in power for six years we could not do anything," BJP leader
Kailash Meghwal said in his address.
He also
lamented that RSS representatives were not present in the two-day meet.
Mr. Meghwal felt that apprising RSS functionaries of Dalit issues would
have helped their cause.
Secretary
(Organisation) Ramlal, however, made some practical suggestions in the
meet. Using the Right to Information Act to ask state governments about
four steps taken by them for Dalit welfare was one of them. He said the
BJP does not believe in using Dalits as mere votebanks.
Shopian case: blood samples of policemen taken
Srinagar
(PTI) Blood samples of four policemen arrested for alleged destruction,
dissipation and suppression of evidence in the rape and murder of two
women in south Kashmir's Shopian town have been collected.
Official
sources said the samples were taken from the then Shopian Police
Superintendent Javed Iqbal, Deputy Superintendent of police Rohit
Baskotra, Station House Officer Shafeeq Ahmad and Sub-inspector Qazi
Abdul Karim well past 9 pm on Saturday night.
The blood
samples of the policemen, currently under police custody, were taken on
the directions of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court which earlier this
week had ordered the arrest, preparation of DNA profiles and
narco-analysis of the four suspended police officers and their
production before the Registrar judicial for collection of their blood
samples so that their DNA profiles are prepared.
The counsel for the arrested police officials, however, alleged the blood samples were taken "under duress".

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Mom Hillary steals star Aamirâ€™s stage
- Clinton shares tips on teaching
SAMYABRATA RAY GOSWAMI

Hillary Clinton with Aamir Khan at the interaction in Mumbai on Saturday. (AP)
Mumbai, July 18: Mother first, power lady later.
Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state,
Senator, top-bracket lawyer and a former First Lady, today offered a
glimpse of her role as a parent to daughter Chelsea, now 29, who did
her graduation from Stanford University.
Speaking at an interaction on education
with actor Aamir Khan, Hillary pointed to a recent Harvard University
study that showed how children of educated parents who communicate
constantly with their kids are likely to be better educated.
â€œI remember we took Chelsea to museums,
libraries, read to her and discussed things with her constantly. It
reflected on her enormously â€" she had a much better vocabulary and
communication skills than many in her age group,â€� the proud mother said.
Hillary then revealed to the audience at
the 140-year-old St Xavierâ€™s College auditorium how she, a graduate of
Yale Law School, got around to teaching science.
â€œI remember, when Chelsea was in the
first grade, her teacher told a few mothers how she felt out of depth
teaching science subjects. Though I was not a science student, I felt I
was up to the challenge. I got together with another parent who was a
scientist and started teaching science to the class,â€� said Hillary, as
Aamir watched on.
Hillary had said earlier in the day that
she was excited about her interaction with Aamir. â€œI know he would be
the main attraction there, not me,â€� she said with a smile.
But it was she who stole the frame, act and show.
â€œToo much competition is putting a huge
burden on school-going children. I would like teachers, parents and
society to focus more on caring than competition,â€� said Aamir, looking
askance at Hillary.
Hillary nodded.
â€œThatâ€™s a very good point Aamir, I agree.
But competition is part of the human genome. We are what we are today
because of our competitiveness. We could certainly do with more caring
in the world today. The focus of education should be inclusiveness,â€�
she told him.
This time Aamir nodded.
The two discussed education and child
rights for over an hour before an audience that was largely made up of
NGOs working for child rights and education, and students and
professors of St Xavierâ€™s college.
A few chairs in the auditorium, however, went unoccupied despite the celebrity guests.
Those present, though, saw Hillary more
in her avatar as mother and wife though flashes of the secretary of
state did come through when she spoke of the Obama administrationâ€™s
view that the American system of education was still far from being
â€œfully inclusiveâ€�.
â€œI am here to see how the US and India
can work for the common cause of education, which is the great
equaliser and gateway to opportunities,â€� she said. â€œWe as a society
need to give that much importance to the weaker sections of society who
we have bypassed back home.â€�
For an example, she spoke of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
â€œBill was the first in his family to get
a college education. He was lucky that his parents understood the value
of education and supported him. But what about the millions of others
in our country and the rest of the world who do not get an access to
education â€" mainly because they are either from poor backgrounds or
their families are unable to support or guide them. We have to put
systems in place for such children and this applies as much to us as to
you,â€� she said. http://www.telegrap hindia.com/ 1090719/jsp/ nation/story_ 11255412. jsp

India Inc feasts on charm
PIYA SINGH

Ratan Tata and Hillary Clinton at the interactive session with business leaders in Mumbai. (AFP)
Mumbai, July 18: The much-awaited
visit of US secretary of state Hillary Clinton got off to an early
start in the commercial capital over breakfast with the doyens of India
Inc.
The chefs at the Taj Mahal Palace &
Towers had prepared several delicacies for the power pow wow. The
dishes remained untouched because there was too much food for thought.
â€œNobody ate breakfast. We were riveted by
this charismatic lady in strawberry pink and simply couldnâ€™t do
anything else but listen to her,â€� said Swati Piramal, director of
Piramal Healthcare and one of the women CEOs invited to the closed-door
meeting.
Piramal described the US secretary of
state as a wonderful and knowledgeable leader who was very comfortable
with diverse subjects like health, education, micro-finance and
renewable energy.
Clinton, who was seated at the head table
with two of Indiaâ€™s most influential business leaders â€" Ratan Naval
Tata, chairman of the Tata group, and Mukesh Ambani, chairman of
Reliance Industries Ltd â€" chose to steer clear of what was widely
expected from her: a discussion on defence and the nuclear agreement.
Neither did she delve into the economic downturn at length.
Instead, in a session titled Corporate
Social Responsibility that lasted a little over an hour, Clinton
interacted with CEOs of Indian companies about what India Inc was doing
on the ground to improve the well-being of the disadvantaged.
â€œSeveral of us talked about what our
organisations were doing in the field of CSR. Mr Tata, in his usual
understated style, said the Tata group spent $93 million on CSR,â€� said
one of those present.
â€œMr Ambani stressed how India could
leapfrog with the assistance of technology. He also shared with us how
Reliance was instrumental in empowering the farmer through the retail
revolution,â€� another invitee said.
Clinton was suitably impressed. â€œShe came
out of the meeting electrified after she heard tales about how all
these Indian corporates were contributing to the bottom of the
pyramid,â€� Piramal said.
Clinton keenly discussed the impact of
climate change on the world economy, the development of green
technology and how it was a subject of great importance to the Barack
Obama administration.
In response to an observation from one of
those present that the West was responsible for some of the problems
that the world was facing today, Clinton apparently said: â€œI hope you
donâ€™t make the same mistake.â€�
It was evident that Clinton was very keen
to interact, during this trip to Mumbai, with women CEOs who were
contributing to the social sector, said a person who attended the
meeting. She was especially interested in issues like womenâ€™s education
and health. A brief from her office had specifically enquired about the
possibility of meeting women CEOs who had a strong social sector
background, said a person who was involved in the arrangements for her
visit.
Among those present were ICICI Bank MD
Chanda Kochhar, Infosys founder Narayana Murthyâ€™s wife Sudha, SBI
chairman .P. Bhatt, Jamshyd Godrej of Godrej & Boyce and Indian
Hotels vice-chairman R.K. Krishna Kumar. http://www.telegrap hindia.com/ 1090719/jsp/ nation/story_ 11255410. jsp

Reciprocal signals from Pak
NASIR JAFFRY IN ISLAMABAD AND OUR DELHI BUREAU

Manmohan Singh (left), Yousaf Raza Gilani
July 18: A Pakistani
anti-terrorist court today started â€œpre-trialâ€� proceedings of the five
accused in the Mumbai attacks case, a move being seen as part of the
probable guarantees Pakistan had given to India in the run-up to the
joint statement that kicked up dust in Parliament yesterday.
â€œJudge Baqir Ali Rana adjourned the
hearing until July 25 after the state filed an application, requesting
in-camera proceedings in the case,â€� Shahbaz Rajput, defence counsel for
one of the accused, Hamad Ameen Sadiq, told The Telegraph.
Rajput said he and other three lawyers,
Khwaja Sultan, Sardar Tariq and Malik Rafiq representing the other four
accused, have sought copies of the documents about the case after the
state formally appointed them as defence counsel for the five suspects
who were taken into custody by early this year for interrogation.
The accused included Zaki-ur-Rehman
Lakhvi, a top Lashkar-e-Toiba operative and the alleged mastermind of
the attacks and other four facilitators, Sadiq, Mazhar Iqbal, Abdul
Wajid and Shahid Jamil.
Sadiq facilitated the funds and hideouts
for the Mumbai terror attacks, while Iqbal was the handler, according
to Pakistani investigators. Wajid offered computer expertise and Jamil
trained crew members of Al-Hussaini, the vessel that took the attackers
towards Mumbai.
â€œI have also filed an application in the
court asking to provide us details of the evidence so that we can
prepare ourselves for defence,â€� Rajput said.
The case will be heard in camera at Adiala jail in Rawalpindi.
Pakistani law enforcement agencies are
chasing at least 13 more accused who have been declared proclaimed
offenders for their alleged involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
Pakistani officials expressed dismay at
media reports that Islamabad had acknowledged the role of the Lashkar
in a dossier handed over to deputy high commissioner Manpreet Vohra
last week.
â€œIt is unfair to cast such insinuations
at a time Pakistan has begun the trial of the five accused on the basis
of evidence sought from India and collected by its own investigators,â€�
a foreign ministry official said.
A PTI report said Pakistan Prime Minister
Yousuf Raza Gilani today blamed India for â€œinterferenceâ€� in Balochistan
and â€œother areasâ€�. Gilani told journalists that the joint statement
signed by him and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh â€œunderlines our
concerns over Indiaâ€™s interference in Balochistan and other areas of
Pakistanâ€�.
Sources in Delhi, however, said
Islamabadâ€™s swift decision on the trial was probably part of the
assurances given to the Indian side on the sidelines of the NAM summit
in Egypt.
The trial may go some way in
strengthening Singhâ€™s hands when he faces the Opposition in Parliament
on Monday. The BJP walked out of the Lok Sabha on Friday, alleging that
de-linking terror and the composite dialogue process meant a â€œselloutâ€�.
Official sources in Delhi, keen to
project the joint statement at Egyptâ€™s Sharm-al-Sheikh as a positive
step in the direction of normalising ties, indicated that more â€œvisible
stepsâ€� were expected from Pakistan in the days to come.
â€œFollowing the dossier they have
presented to India, we have been assured that follow-up action will be
taken,â€� the sources said. â€œThe resumption of the trial is one among
them.â€� http://www.telegrap hindia.com/ 1090719/jsp/ nation/story_ 11255411. jsp

Moon footprints on Earth
G.S. MUDUR
HOW OUR LIVES WERE AFFECTED
New Delhi, July 18: One night, 40
years ago, a 12-year-old boy in Peru watched on a black and white
television screen grainy, yet riveting, images of a man planting the
first human footprints on another world.
Minutes after he had watched the images
of Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, Pedro Medelius, a native of Lima,
told his parents that when he grew up, he would like to be a scientist
at Nasa.
Medelius today recalled the incident and
his parentsâ€™ words â€" â€œwell, youâ€™ll have to work very hard to get
thereâ€�. â€œThey did not appear convinced, but they were supportive,â€� he
said in an interview to The Telegraph.
He studied electrical engineering in Peru
and in the University of Florida, and joined the Nasa Kennedy Space
Centre at Cape Canaveral in 1991 where he joined a team of engineers
working on the electronics of the Space Shuttle.
On Monday, the 40th anniversary of the
Apollo 11 landing, Medelius will be at work, but expects a ceremony.
There will also be a celebration at home â€" his daughter, Marie, who was
born on the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing â€" turns 15 this
Monday.
The Apollo missions have thrown up myriad
technology spinoffs â€" from ready-to-eat, freeze-dried foods to athletic
shoes, from water purification systems to special insulating materials
used in homes and industries.
But in addition to spawning such
tangible, quantifiable technology offshoots, the first human stroll on
the moon also appears to have inspired a generation of youngsters to
pursue careers in science and engineering.
â€œThe excitement that human space flight
generates is as important as technology spinoffs,â€� Medelius, who has
received a prestigious Nasa Silver Snoopy Award for service to the
Space Shuttle astronauts, said over phone.
â€œKids need to get excited about science â€"
in the long run, this benefits all of society,â€� said Medelius who was
commended in October 1996 for â€œhighly imaginative engineeringâ€� that
helped improve space shuttle safety and reduced operating costs.
An online survey of about 800 scientists worldwide who have published research papers in the journal Nature over the past three years has revealed that half of them had been drawn to science by the Apollo missions.
High school students who watched the
Apollo missions veered not just towards astronomy or planetary sciences
but even towards life sciences and â€" like Medelius in Peru â€"
engineering.
â€œI am sure (the landing) played an
important role in driving me into electronic space business that I
manage today at Texas Instruments,â€� said semiconductor expert James
Salzmann, inscribing his thoughts on a special webpage containing
recollections of the Apollo 11 landing created by Space Foundation, a
US-based, non-profit organisation.
The Nature survey results published on
Friday show that 90 per cent of the scientists believe human
spaceflight has prompted technological innovations.
The Apollo missions have produced
spinoffs that have made their way into everyday life -- lightweight
water purifiers based on silver ions, and a super-durable athletic shoe
where the foam was dumped in favour of a fatigue-resistant mechanical
system.
The challenge of packing enough
nutritious food into the cramped living quarters of the Apollo
spacecraft spurred the development of freeze-dried foods that preserve
the nutritional value and taste but are lightweight and have a long
shelf life.
Two Indian laboratories -- the Central
Food and Technology Research Institute and the Defence Food Research
Laboratory -- independently developed this technology during the 1980s
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Moon landing still fascinates 40 years after `one small step'
Washington:
Forty years ago, millions gathered around grainy black and white
television images as the first man set foot on the moon in what remains
for many the pinnacle of manned spaceflight.

That
moon landing July 20, 1969, was the first of just six times that any
human being has visited the Earth's nearest celestial neighbour, and it
has been more than 30 years since any person has been there.

In
the decades since Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
first touched the surface of the moon in the Eagle lander, the moment
has become one of the iconic images of the 20th century.

At
the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, many of the visitors
old enough to remember that day tell their children and grandchildren
about where they were when man first set foot on the moon as they point
at the Columbia spacecraft that carried the astronauts there.

But
even as the memories remain clear to many and thousands view the
artefacts, an entire generation has grown up without seeing humans on
the moon.

Curator Allan Needell notes that visitors respond differently to the collection depending on how old they are.

"It's
always interesting to watch the older grandfathers and the fathers
walking around with their kids, and basically telling their
experiences, " he said in an interview. "For the younger kids this is
not much different really than than the Spirit of St Louis (the plane
flown non-stop from New York to Paris by Charles Lindbergh) or the
Wright flier. It's this historical object that they studied in seventh
grade or ninth grade."

The Apollo 11 landing was the
culmination of a decades-long space race between the US and the Soviet
Union, which launched the first satellite and put the first man in
space. Both nations pitted their Cold War drive for superiority in the
battle for technological prominence. US president John F. Kennedy in
1961 responded by proclaiming the US desire to put a man on the moon
within the decade.

But the accomplishment was far from certain
-- a fire during a test of Apollo 1 killed three astronauts and set
back the programme. Then, even as Armstrong steered his craft in for
landing on the moon, things could have gone horribly wrong.

In fact, president Richard Nixon had prepared a speech to deliver in case the astronauts did not return.

As
Armstrong steered the Eagle in for landing, he noticed the craft
drifting and had to correct its landing site to avoid a rough patch of
ground. A computer glitch also caused concern on the ground.

But the world breathed a sigh of relief as Armstrong radioed back: "Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed."

"Fortunately,
there were no really harrowing parts of the flight," Armstrong said in
a 2001 interview with historians. "The most difficult part from my
perspective, and the one that gave me the most pause, was the final
descent to landing."

"Walking around on the surface, you know,
on a 10 scale, was one, and I thought that the lunar descent on a 10
scale was probably a 13."

Just hours later Armstrong stepped
out of the craft onto the lunar surface, reciting the famous words,
"That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."

He
was followed by Aldrin, and together they focussed on testing gravity,
photographing the surface and collecting rock samples. They also left
behind a US flag, messages from world leaders and other artefacts.

Meanwhile,
fellow crew member Michael Collins orbited the moon in the Columbia
module that served as a command centre and would bring them all back to
Earth. After spending the night on the surface in the Eagle, the
astronauts lifted off for a rendezvous with the Columbia and their
return trip.

The Eagle itself remained on the lunar surface. A
similar lunar lander that was never used in space is on display in
Washington and was recently restored with the replacement of degraded
foil coverings.

There is a small, but vocal, group of sceptics
and conspiracy theorists who have continued to insist that the moon
landing never happened and was simply filmed on Earth - a point
debunked by historians, astronauts and curators who hold lectures on
the myths.

But even those who accept the historical record
wonder why no one has returned to the moon since the 1970s. That could
soon change, as NASA is working to develop the next-generation moon
craft with a goal of returning astronauts to the surface by 2020.

Scientists
cite the desire for continued exploration and inspiration that could
come from such efforts, including using the moon as a base for
eventually heading to Mars. As they move forward, they also look back
for lessons from Apollo, both technological and symbolic.

For
as Armstrong said decades later: "The important achievement of Apollo
was a demonstration that humanity is not forever chained to this
planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our
opportunities are unlimited."

Source: DPA

Sunday, July 19, 2009
India won't accept any legally binding emission reductions: Jairam Ramesh
Gurgaon:
Refusing to be pushed by the US on putting a cap on emissions, India on
Sunday said it would not accept any "legally binding" reductions but
assured that its carbon footprint would never exceed that of developed
nations.

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh asserted that New
Delhi was "simply not in a position" to accept any legally binding
emission reductions and made it clear that India was not running away
from responsibilities on the issue.

The minister's comments came at a joint press
conference with US secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she toured
the ITC Green Building here which showcases environment- friendly
practices in India.

The US wants India to agree to limit its carbon
emissions ahead of the signing of a new UN climate treaty in Copenhagen
in December.

Giving a suggestion in this regard, Clinton pointed
out that India's green house gas pollution was projected to grow by
about 50 per cent between now and 2030 and the country was vulnerable
to climate change.

However, she said that the US does not and will not do anything that would limit India's economic progress.

Ramesh underlined India's stand that its GHG
emissions would never exceed those of the developed nations. He said
India was firmly anchored in the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change and the Bali Action Plan.

"You can take a look at the track record of India.
Once we have adopted an international obligation, we have never reneged
on an international obligation," Ramesh said.

Source: PTI
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Pranab rules out division of West Bengal
Raiganj: Union Finance Minister and WBPCC President Pranab Mukheree today ruled out any further division of West Bengal.

"There is no question of any further division of
Bengal, " Mukherjee told reporters when asked about the indefinite
bandh in the Darjeeling Hills by the GJM demanding creation of a
separate state of Gorkhaland.

The minister said no problem could be solved by
force and hoped that the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) would call off
its indefinite bandh in the Darjeeling Hills.

"The Centre has called for a tripartite talks with
the GJM and the West Bengal government to discuss the demands made by
the GJM on August 24, he said.

"I hope that the GJM would participate in the talks to sort out the problems," Mukherjee added.

Source: PTI

Sunday, July 19, 2009
Mamata Banerjee flags off ladies special train in West Bengal
Kolkata:
Railways minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday flagged off the first
ladies special EMU train and 19 augmented 12-coach EMU services in
Howrah division in West Bengal, in line with the commitment she made
during her 2009-10 budget speech.

"This special ladies local train would ply between
Howrah and Bandel station twice daily during the peak hours. It will
help the women passengers of the Howrah division to travel comfortably
during the office hours," Banerjee said during the flagging off
ceremony.

The minister said the railways will soon inaugurate
a station near Mandarmoni, a coastal tourism spot in the state, with a
target to connect all major tourist destinations through rail.

"If we can focus on developing infrastructure, it
will not only help tourism to flourish but it will create a huge
employment opportunity for our future generations. "

Banerjee said that there would also be a third line
between Panskura and Kharagpur, two important stations in the South
Eastern Railway (SER).

"There will be at least 120 special trains available
during the coming pujas so that people of the state could easily travel
during the festive season," she said.

Source: PTI
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Compromise may hold the key to Ambanis' gas dispute: Analysts
New
Delhi : The solution to the protracted gas supply dispute between the
two Ambani brothers that has reached the Supreme Court may come through
a compromise, some analysts said, fearing that the row could well
impact the stock prices of group companies of both.

"The issue (gas dispute) is vexed, therefore, and
may eventually require a compromise. Pricing holds the key ...," global
research firm CLSA said in a research note.

Anil Ambani group firm RNRL and Mukesh Ambani-led
RIL have filed cross-petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the
Bombay High Court order and the matter will come up for hearing
tomorrow.

While RNRL wants immediate implementation of the
order to get the gas at USD 2.3 per mmBtu, a price 44 per cent lower
than the one fixed by the government, RIL says it cannot supply the
industry fuel without the consent of the government.

Incidentally, the global spot price of the gas is
hovering at around USD 3 per mmBtu though the long-term contract price
is ruling higher at USD 8 per mmBtu.

The shares of Reliance Industries have gained over
10 per cent this week to settle at Rs 1,933 on the Bombay Stock
Exchange on Friday, while the Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Natural
Resources Ltd (RNRL) stock gained 22 per cent to Rs 82.65 in the week.

Delhi-based Purpleline Investment Advisors CEO PK
Agarwal said, "A compromise on the price of the gas is really important
for the two parties to arrive at as it will (prevent) the situation
(from) getting more complex, which the government may find it difficult
to tide over."

However, about the impact on share prices, investors
may have already discounted the results of the dispute, and therefore
market sentiment may remain unaffected, he added.

The CLSA report further added that a compromise may
also be the best way forward as it will lift the uncertainty for
Reliance Industries and also provide added clarity on the Dadri (7,480
MW) and Shahapur (2,800 MW) power plants which are key to Reliance
Energy (Reliance Power's) overall growth path.

Another analyst from a leading brokerage firm said,
"If the dispute turns more complex and impacts the share prices of the
two group companies, it may be possible that the two brothers may find
ways to reach a compromise."

Regarding the gas dispute, another global research
group Macquarie recently said that future contracts need to be closely
co-ordinated between buyers, sellers and the government; otherwise
"misalignments such as the current one may dissuade future exploration
and exploitation of India's mammoth upstream potential".

Source: PTI

Thursday, July 09, 2009
Budget says aviation PSUs must find another Rs 12,000 cr
New
Delhi: The government has increased the target of internal and extra
budgetary resources (money from loans or through reinvestment of
profits) which will be raised by public sector undertakings under the
Ministry of Civil Aviation by over 63.5 per cent, from Rs 7,320 crore
in the revised estimates of 2008-09 to Rs 11,974.8 crore in 2009-10.

The
money will be used mostly to fund the aircraft acquisition programme of
the financially ailing National Aviation Company of India Ltd (Nacil),
which runs the Air India brand, and also the Airports Authority of
India (AAI) which is undertaking the expansion of airports in Kolkata
and Chennai, among others.

As a result, the outlay of the
ministry has gone up substantially from Rs 7,490.6 crore in the revised
estimates of 2008-9 to Rs 12,164.8 crore in 2009-10, a jump of over 62
per cent.

The government, in its Budget documents, says the plan
allocation of the ministry has been raised to meet the expenditure due
to enhanced competitiveness of Indian carriers for international
operations, cost of a media campaign and for capacity-building to
enhance effective management and control in aviation.

Nacil is
making an investment of over Rs 40,000 crore to buy over 118 aircraft
and is in dire need of loans to fund its acquisition of new planes.

The
Air India management has been looking for a bailout package to get the
corporation out of the woods, which includes a combination of expanding
its equity capital base (Rs 140 crore) and also to raise loans from the
market.

In the Budget documents, the IEBR target sanctioned for
Nacil has nearly doubled from Rs 4,136.9 crore in 2008-09 to Rs 8,165.6
crore in 2009-10. The documents say Nacil will seek external commercial
borrowing or suppliers credit of Rs 7,530 crore this year, up from Rs
3,708 crore last year.

The airline had proposed to
borrow/suppliers credit of about Rs 8,300 crore last year but managed
to borrow less than half, at Rs 3,708 crore. It has already acquired 48
aircraft and is expected to take delivery of around 30 more this year,
for which payment has to be made.

However, the government has
made no allocation for any budgetary support for the airline, which
means there is no provision for infusion of fresh equity in AI.

The
IEBR for AAI has also been increased substantially by over 22.5 per
cent, from Rs 2,567.2 crore in the revised estimates of 2008-09 to Rs
3,145.8 crore in 2009-10. The money will be used to fund AAIâ€™s
ambitious airport expansion projects in Kolkata with an investment of
Rs 1,942 crore and in Chennai with an investment of Rs 1,808 crore.

The
government had decided â€" due to opposition from the Left â€" not to
privatise the two airports as they had done in Delhi and Mumbai.

Source: Business Standard

Indian IT industry bucks global recession to sustain growth

19 Jul 2009, 2230 hrs IST, IANS
NEW DELHI: The Indian IT industry managed to limit
the impact of global recession last fiscal and maintain the growth
momentum, albeit lower than

Top Indian outsourcing cos
Nine trends for IT in 2009
Cities that are IT hubs

that in the boom times, says tech publisher Dataquest.

"Export
firms did better in recession-hit developed markets than those whose
business is limited to the Indian market," Dataquest editor Prasanto K.
Roy said.

Though the business of top 20 firms led by Indian IT bellwethers TCS, Infosys and Wipro,
and multinationals such as HP and IBM, grew by an average 19 percent,
seven of these posted single-digit revenue growth.

"Overall,
the top 20 Indian software and hardware firms reported a combined
revenue of Rs.183,621 crore (Rs.1.84 trillion/$39. 52 billion) in 2009,
compared to Rs.149,250 crore (Rs.1.49 trillion/$32. 12 billion) in
2008," Roy said, citing findings of a survey.

Among the seven,
four are multinational subsidiaries - Microsoft India, which grew a
mere one percent year-on-year to Rs.32.98 billion (Rs.3,298 crore); HP
India up two percent to Rs.157.63 billion (Rs.15,763 crore), Oracle
three percent to Rs.59.62 billion (Rs.5,962 crore) and Cisco by four
percent to Rs.60.84 billion (Rs.6,084 crore).

"One of the reasons for export-driven firms maintaining the growth is because of increasing IT outsourcing in a downturn to keep costs flexible. In the domestic market too,
global firms such as IBM and Wipro fared very well," Roy averred.

Among the top 20 firms, eight firms grew fastest despite slowdown and negative sentiment in the market.

These
include Mphasis, with revenues increasing 69 percent to Rs.31.73
billion (Rs.3,173 crore); HCL Infosystems, up 60 percent to Rs.80.89
billion (Rs.8,089 crore) and Cognizant Technologies, up 49 percent to
Rs.94.10 billion (Rs.9,410 crore).

The IT bellwethers also
posted healthy growth rates. TCS was up 22 percent to Rs.25,895 crore;
Infosys, up 31 percent to Rs.20,392 crore, and Wipro up 41 percent to
Rs.23,882 crore.

Multinationals such as SAP India grew 33 percent to Rs.4,320 crore, Dell India by 32 percent to Rs.4,266 crore, IBM India by 19 percent to Rs.12,048 crore and Accenture by 16 percent to Rs.4,400 crore.

With
a decline of 18 percent in its growth, hardware firm Lenovo failed to
make it to the top 20 club. Korean major Samsung also saw growth
falling 40 percent to Rs,1,200 crore from Rs.2,014 crore.

Export revenues do not include that of business process outsourcing (BPO) services.

Scam-tainted Satyam Computer Services has been left out of the top 20, as its financial performance came
under cloud following the Rs.78-billion (Rs.7,800-crore) accounting
fraud by founder-chairman B. Ramalinga Raju.

The Dataquest
survey findings are lower than the projections made by the IT
industry's representative body -- National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) -- for 2009-10.

With
the industry's annual growth rate dipping to 16-17 percent from about
30 percent in 2004-2008, the aggregate revenues was estimated to be $60
billion, including export revenue of $47 billion.

In view of
the prevailing uncertainty, Nasscom has taken a two-year view to factor
in the volatile environment and estimated that the IT industry would
grow at 15 percent to achieve export revenue of $60-62 billion by
2010-11.
Let Air India fade away like HMT, IDPL

19 Jul 2009, 0904 hrs IST, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar , ET Bureau
Air India lost Rs 5,000 crore last year, and is
surviving on huge government handouts. Opposition politicians are
critical, but reject any cut in

What govt is doing to shape AI
Top 15 global airlines
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner its bloated staff. Across the world, airlines are reducing staff in the recession.

But
Air India staff, labour aristocrats paid several times the average
Indian wage, are unshakable. Instead, civil aviation minister Praful
Patel proposes to hive off surplus staff to some new corporations.
Problem: the new corporations, with the same faulty staff and culture,
may suffer the same fate as Air India.

Patel says, rightly,
that airlines across the world have been hammered by the recession. Jet
and Kingfisher have big reputations, but are also in the red.

When
the recession struck last year, Jet proposed cutting its staff by
1,900, and Kingfisher too. But politicians, trade unions and the media
created a ruckus. Jet and Kingfisher were not allowed to slim down like
airlines across the world: instead they were allowed to pile up unpaid
fuel bills.

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â†' Air India looking at pruning incentives to overcome losses

The
recession is estimated to have cost 1.5 million jobs, the Left says 15
million, in labour-intensive industries like textiles. Our labour laws
protect unionised workers from retrenchment, but low-paid casual
workers have been laid off. Politicians murmur sympathy for the
millions of casual workers laid off, but their outrage is reserved for
any sacking of the labour aristocracy, such as the staff of Air India
or Jet.

Patel is being criticized for various reasons, some
legitimate and others not. Air India has never been viewed by
politicians as a commercial venture. Rather, it has been a vehicle for
serving VIPs and satisfying political pressures to fly to certain
destinations, whether commercial or not.

Plane purchases have
been dogged by allegations of kickbacks. Naturally, Air India managers
are not focused on efficiency or profitability. This is one reason why
the merger of Indian Airlines and Air India has failed.

In
2004, Air India increased orders for new planes from 24 to 68. It had
sales of Rs 7,000 crore but placed orders for aircraft worth Rs 35,000
crore at a time of increasing competition. Instead of selling surplus
planes and canceling orders, Patel insists that new planes are needed
to replace old ones. Phooey, say critics, who smell something rotten in
the purchase deals.

Patel has been lambasted for signing bilateral deals with several countries to expand international flights. This, say critics, has enabled foreign airlines to greatly improve their market share at the expense of Air India.

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13.: Sudan women 'lashed for trousers'

Posted by: "marco.pertoni@libero.it" marco.pertoni@libero.it sitrep_comalp

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:18 am (PDT)

Sudan women 'lashed for trousers'

Several Sudanese women have been flogged as a punishment for dressing "indecently" , according to a local journalist who was arrested with them.

Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who says she is facing 40 lashes, said she and 12 other women wearing trousers were arrested in a restaurant in the capital, Khartoum.

She told the BBC several of the women had pleaded guilty to the charges and had 10 lashes immediately.

Khartoum, unlike South Sudan, is governed by Sharia law.

Several of those punished were from the mainly Christian and animist south, Ms Hussein said.

Non-Muslims are not supposed to be subject to Islamic law, even in Khartoum and other parts of the mainly Muslim north.

She said that a group of about 20 or 30 police officers entered the popular Khartoum restaurant and arrested all the women wearing trousers.

"I was wearing trousers and a blouse and the 10 girls who were lashed were wearing like me, there was no difference," she told the BBC's Arabic service.

Ms Hussein said some women pleaded guilty to "get it over with" but others, including herself, chose to speak to their lawyers and are awaiting their fates.

Under Sharia law in Khartoum, the normal punishment for "indecent" dressing is 40 lashes.

Ms Hussein is a well-known reporter who writes a weekly column called Men Talk for Sudanese papers. She also works for the United Nations Mission in Sudan.

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14.: Vatican teaching Hezbollah how to kill Jews/other news

Posted by: "marc samberg" mechelsamberg@gmail.com mechelsamberg

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:18 am (PDT)

Contents:
Israel rejects US call to halt Jerusalem project
Rafah man sentenced to lifetime hard labor for collaboration
Is There A Pro Israel Mole In White House Or The Radical
American Jewish Groups?
Diplomacy: Israel vs. Human Rights Watch
Saudi Arabia - The World's Largest Women's Prison*
*Israel smuggles "sexual stimulants" to destroy Palestinian youth
Vatican teaching Hezbollah how to kill Jews, says pamphlet for IDF troops
Jerusalem-born boy's passport can't say Israel
COLOMBIAN VICE PRESIDENT ARRIVES ON AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO ISRAEL
Obama & The Jewish World
Are American Jews the Most Foolish Voters in the United States?
PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of the Weekly Cabinet Meeting (Jerusalem
Ancient Israeli Myths Deter Peace
Jewish Groups Should Have Told Obama - Settlement Issue Camouflages Real
Issue of Arab Terrorism, Incitement & Israel's Legitimacy
I wed Iranian girls before execution
Report Concerning Weapons Cache in s. Lebanon
UN learned of Hezbollah armed cache months ago

*
Mech'el's comments: WAY TO GO, ISRAEL!!!!!

* Obama meddles into internal affairs of the Sovereign State of Israel more
and more.....

should may be Californian stop settlements by Americans... .. since isn't
there a possible chance that Mexicans may have more rights to such
territories ???......

"Quest for a Homeland," examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling
Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and
1967. It shows how Tijerina's fight to convince the federal government to
honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized Mexicans and Mexican
Americans across the Southwest.
Just a thought that comes to mind .....

Obama keep out of Israel's internal affairs..... you cannot make Israel
JUDENREIN .... we have been there before.... NEVER AGAIN

Gabrielle Goldwater
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rejects US call to halt Jerusalem project
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[image: A view of the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem, Sunday, July 19.
2009. The U.S.] AP – A view of the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem, Sunday,
July 19. 2009. The U.S. has demanded that Israel …
By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer Amy Teibel, Associated Press Writer –
Sun Jul 19, 5:31 am ET

JERUSALEM – Israel on Sunday rejected a U.S. demand to suspend a
planned housing
project in east Jerusalem, threatening to further complicate an unusually
tense standoff with its strongest ally over settlement construction.

Israeli officials said the country's ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren,
was summoned to the State Department over the weekend and told that a
project being developed by an American millionaire should not go ahead.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet there would be
no limits on Jewish construction anywhere in "unified Jerusalem."

"We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy
anywhere in Jerusalem," Netanyahu declared, calling Israeli sovereignty over
the entire city "indisputable. "

The international community considers Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem
to be settlements and an obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Israel
does not regard them as settlements because it annexed east Jerusalem in
1967 after capturing it in June of that year.

East Jerusalem is an especially volatile issue because it is the site of key
Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites. The Palestinians want the
traditionally Arab sector of the city to be the capital of their future
state.

"If the Israeli prime minister continues with settlement activities, he will
undermine efforts to revive the peace process," Palestinian negotiator Saeb
Erekat said.

According to Army Radio, the U.S. has demanded that planning approval for
the project be revoked.

The approval, granted by the Jerusalem municipality earlier this month,
allows for the construction of 20 apartments plus a three-level underground
parking lot.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy had no immediate comment.

Settlements have emerged as a major sticking point in relations between
Israel and Washington under the Obama administration.

The Palestinians have been encouraged by Washington's insistence that Israel
freeze all settlement construction on lands in east Jerusalem and the West
Bank that the Palestinians claim for a future state.

Nearly 300,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements, in addition to about
180,000 Israelis living in Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem.

The Palestinians say the Israeli presence makes it increasingly difficult to
establish an independent state in these areas.
They have refused to restart peace talks until Israel halts all settlement
expansion, something the Israeli government has refused to do.

The east Jerusalem project is being developed by Irving Moskowitz, an
influential supporter of Israeli settlement in east Jerusalem who purchased
the Shepherd Hotel in 1985 and plans to tear it down and build apartments in
its place.

The hotel is located near a government compound that includes several
government ministries and the national police headquarters
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*Rafah man sentenced to lifetime hard labor for collaboration*
Published today (updated) 19/07/2009 17:53
www.maannews. net/eng/ViewDeta ils.aspx? ID=213038

Gaza - Ma'an - A de facto government military court in the Gaza Strip on
Sunday sent a man to life in prison with hard labor.

The man, identified by the court as As-Sabi (the lion, in Arabic), was found

guilty of collaboration with Israel and murder. The guilty verdict is
subject to appeal, the court added.

The court also released that the defendant was born in 1973 and is married.

The issue of collaborators is sensitive in Palestinian society because
fighters have been jailed and killed by Israeli forces based on information
supplied by spies, who have in the past been blackmailed by the country's
intelligence services
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*Observation: Is There A Pro Israel Mole In White House Or The Radical
American Jewish Groups?*

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 19 July 2009

There are two possible explanations for the gift the Obama team gave to
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu when, by specifically raising their
objection to Jewish ownership of a building in the heart of Jerusalem, they

succeeded in rallying all but the radical Israeli politicians to support
Netanyahu's stance. That's including the support of the opposition Kadima
Party:

Explanation number one: The team in the White House, along with the
representatives of American Jewish radical groups such as J Street and
American Friends of Peace Now are so clueless about Israeli society on the
one hand and so excited by the process of turning the screws on Netayahu
that they let their hormones get the best of them and just went too far.

Explanation number two: There is a pro-Israel mole in either the White
House or in the radical American Jewish groups with close ties to the Obama
team that is deliberately giving advice and direction that the mole knows
will result in strengthening Netanyahu.

A mole?

Giving them too much credit.

The odds are its the hormones.

And who can blame them?

After the White House meeting last Monday with American Jewish leaders they
were lusting for more of the same.

http://www.imra. org.il
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*Diplomacy: Israel vs. Human Rights Watch*
Herb Keinon , THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 16, 2009

www.jpost.com/ servlet/Satellit e?cid=1246443832 672&pagename= JPArticle% 2FShowFull

A group of Soviet dissidents gathered in a Moscow apartment nearly 35 years
ago and courageously formed the Moscow Helsinki group, with the aim of
monitoring how the Soviet Union was living up to the human rights component
of the 1975 Helsinki Accords that dealt with ways to improve ties between
the communist bloc and the West.

One of those involved was Natan Sharansky. Using this group as a model,
Helsinki Watch, an NGO founded largely by Robert Bernstein, an American Jew
concerned with human rights, was established soon after, also as a way to
monitor Soviet compliance. In the intervening 31 years, Helsinki Watch has
morphed into Human Rights Watch (HRW), a mammoth human rights NGO that went
to Saudi Arabia in May and used its work castigating Israel as a way to
solicit funds in one of the world's worst human rights violators.

That transformation, at least for Sharansky, is simply too much.

"Here is an organization created by the goodwill of the free world to fight
violations of human rights, which has become a tool in the hands of
dictatorial regimes to fight against democracies, " he said this week. "It is

time to call a spade a spade. The real activity of this organization today
is a far cry from what it was set up 30 years ago to do: throw light in dark

places where there is really no other way to find out what is happening
regarding human rights."

Calling a spade a spade is what Bar-Ilan University political science
professor Gerald Steinberg, executive director of NGO Monitor, has been
trying to do for years, monitoring the work and methodology of HRW and other

human rights organizations, issuing reports pointing out faulty methodology
and conflicts of interest. But his has largely been a voice in the
wilderness, one dismissed by the NGOs themselves - and some in the media -
as nothing more than that of a propagandist with a right-wing Zionist
agenda.

Now, however, the government is listening, and after years of choosing
largely to ignore damming reports put out by HRW and similar organizations,
it has decided to go on the offensive and attack the organizations for
essentially using human rights and legal lingo to delegitimize Israel. The
last month has seen a wave of reports from various NGOs, including HRW,
blasting Israel for its conduct during Operation Cast Lead.

"We are going to dedicate time and manpower to combating these groups; we
are not going to be sitting ducks in a pond for the human rights groups to
shoot at us with impunity," said Ron Dermer, director of policy planning in
the Prime Minister's Office. "We will insist that they defend their record
and their values. When I see a human rights organization try to raise money
in Saudi Arabia, it speaks to the collapse of the human rights community."

The reports of these organizations are an attempt to undermine Israel's
legitimate right to self-defense, Dermer said, adding that those who are
attacking Israel for defending itself against terrorists using civilians as
human shields are playing Hamas's game.

"Every NGO that participates in this adds fuel to the fire and is serving
the cause of Hamas," he said. "This is exactly what Hamas wants to do. They
use innocent civilians to hide, Israel defends itself, there are
unintentional casualties, and they turn that into a great political victory.

What then happens is that these tactics of warfare will become more anchored

and more likely to happen around the world."

The NGOs, he said, are "blaming the firefighter, not the arsonists. We have
to devote more time and resources to getting this out there. We must focus
more time and effort in pushing back, in unabashedly seizing the moral high
ground."

One thing that these organizations must do to retain "their moral compass"
is to distinguish between democratic and nondemocratic governments, he said.

"During the Cold War the reason the human rights community was so effective
was because it made the distinction between good and bad regimes and how
good and bad regimes do in terms of human rights. I would hope that they
would regain their moral compass by doing this again, by laying down a
marker, and not looking only at this or that violation, but rather looking
at the overall nature of the regimes. Once they make that distinction, every

single human rights violation is put in the proper perspective. "

But Sarah Leah Whitson, director of HRW's Middle East and North Africa
division, said the organization will never make these types of distinctions.

"No regime deserves a pass, whether it is a democratic or totalitarian form
of government," she said. "There is one human rights law, one standard.
Democratic governments are no more exempt from abiding by international law
than are totalitarian regimes."

Whitson said that the "unfortunate truth is that democratic regimes are also

quite capable of human rights violations."

"It might be that what is disappointing Mr. Sharansky and others is that we
don't rank a government as to who is worse and better because we think that
each government has to stand by its own record according to the standard of
international law," she said.

She said Steinberg, Sharansky and other HRW critics "overplay" the assertion

that the organization is giving other countries in the Middle East a pass,
while focusing almost obsessively on Israel. "They just don't like it when
we also point the finger at their misconduct."

"If the democratically elected president of France is making policy
statements as to what women should and shouldn't wear, it doesn't make it
better that he is the democratically elected president," she said of recent
comments made by Nicolas Sarkozy saying that Muslim women should not wear
the full-length burka in France.

"That the Venezuelan president, who is democratically elected, should be
barring free speech and press, it doesn't make it okay just because he was
democratically elected. The matter in which one is elected is not relevant
to the particular human rights violation we are looking at. And in the case
of Israel, where our focus is primarily on the violations of international
law and humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territories, the fact
that government is a democracy is completely irrelevant because the rule in
place in the occupied territories is military rule, it is not a democracy."

Whitson also disputes assertions that one of the reasons the organization
focuses on Israel is because it can report in Israel, something it cannot do

easily in Saudi Arabia or Syria.

"It is not true that we are doing more work in the open countries," she
said. "A woman who works closely with HRW, who just completed a mission with

HRW, was killed in Chechnya today [Wednesday] - so frankly I don't want to
hear about their griping and whining because they don't like the fact that
we criticize Israel, and they would rather only criticize the people they
don't like. Go do a better job than our organization is doing in Syria and
then come back and talk to me."

Senior government officials said that as a result of the new approach to the

NGOs, their reports will be examined carefully, because they are based on
faulty methodology that relies uncritically on Arab and Palestinian sources,

testimony and witnesses, while dismissing Israeli evidence.

"This is a blanket accusation that groans, 'Your witnesses are Palestinians,

therefore they must all be lying,'" Whitson said, saying the methodology HRW

uses here is the same methodology it uses all over the world. "Please, if
there is something we got wrong, if one of the incidents or attacks we
described is wrong, I would love to hear it. Because the Gerald Steinbergs
of this world, and I guess now the Sharanskys of this world, love to give
blanket denials, love to give blanket dismissals. But let's get down to the
facts and let me know, did we get the fact wrong on any of these cases."

She said the acts of malfeasance her organization has documented are also
documented by other organizations, even by Israeli ones. "OK, are we all
lying? Are we all enemies of Israel? Are we all making this up? Are we all
falsifying evidence? Notwithstanding that we do this work everywhere else in

the world - when it comes to Israel, are we all just making it up because we

just hate Israel? Come on! Come on!"

But Steinberg said there is actually "plenty of evidence" that HRW comes to
Israel with "unclean hands," carrying emotional and political baggage it
does not bring to other parts of the world.

"All the evidence shows that when it comes to Israel, they are not a human
rights organization, but a political one using the language of international

law to isolate Israel," he said. "To deny that there is a campaign, closely
linked to the terrorist campaign, to demonize and delegitimize Israel is to
ignore fact, and HRW is central to this."

According to Steinberg, who is due to publish an 80-page monograph looking
at HRW in the near future, it is disingenuous for Whitson to talk - as she
does - of intensive HRW work in other Middle East countries, since the
attention Israel gets is way out of proportion to those given those
countries, and since much of the work in countries like Saudi Arabia and
Syria only really began after 2006 because some of the organization' s key
donors earmarked their funds for reporting there.

Contrary to what Whitson claims, Steinberg said, his organization points out

factual and methodological problems with HRW on a regular basis, only to be
dismissed by the group as a Zionist organization with an agenda whose
research is not worthy of serious attention.

He said there is much to document, and calls HRW's reports "pseudo-research"

passed off to the media as serious investigation. He said HRW does not have
the expertise or wherewithal to conduct the types of investigations that it
does, in the time frame that it allows. Determining where shots were fired,
from what type of weapon, in what circumstances is not something that can be

determined using the means at HRW's disposal, he said.

"Human Rights Watch is an organization with a budget of $40 million a year;
they are a superpower, and what they are trying to tell you is that they are

above criticism," he said. "In the thousands of pages they have written over

the years about Israel, they have never admitted a single mistake. They have

no problem critiquing democratically elected governments, but they scream
and deny everything when they are criticized."

If that's the case, much "screaming and denying" is in store, as HRW and
other human rights NGOs will face increasing criticism from a source that up

until now has largely ignored and dismissed them: the Israeli government.
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MEMRI Special Dispatch | No. 2452 | July 19, 2009
Saudi Arabia*
Saudi Arabia** - The World's Largest Women's Prison*

In an article on the liberal website Minbar Al-Hiwar Wal-'Ibra
(http://www.menber- alhewar1. info), reformist Saudi journalist and human
rights activist Wajeha Al-Huweidar described Saudi Arabia as "the world's
largest women's prison." She added that unlike real prisoners, Saudi women
have no prospect of ever being released, since throughout their life, they
are under the control of a male guardian - their husband, father,
grandfather, brother or son.

Huweidar and other women activists recently launched a campaign against the
Saudi Mahram(1) Law, which forbids women to leave their home without a male
guardian. She told the Kuwaiti daily Awan that the campaign, whose slogan
is "treat us like adult citizens or we leave the country," was officially
launched at the King Fahd Bridge, connecting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, where

the women demanded to cross the border without a guardian.(2)

The following are excerpts from Al-Huweidar' s article:(3)

Prisoners Can Be Released From Prison - But Saudi Women Can't
"The laws of imprisonment are known all over the world. People who commit a
crime or an offense are placed in a prison cell... where they serve their
sentence. [When they complete it], or get time off for good behavior, they
are released... except in cases [where a person is sentenced] to life
imprisonment or death. In Saudi Arabia, there are two additional ways to get

out of prison early: by learning the Koran or parts of it by heart... or by
getting a pardon from the king on the occasion of a holiday or a
coronation - after which the prisoner finds himself free and can enjoy life
among his family and loved ones.

"However, none of these options exist for Saudi women - neither for those
who live behind bars [i.e. who are actually in prison] nor for those who
live outside the prison walls. None are ever released, except with the
permission of their male guardian. A Saudi woman who committed a crime may
not leave her cell when she has finished serving her sentence unless her
guardian arrives to collect her. As a consequence, many Saudi women remain
in prison just because their guardians refuse to come and get them. The
state pardons them, but their guardians insist on prolonging their
punishment.

"At the same time, even 'free' women need the permission of their guardian
to leave their home, their city or their country. So in either case, the
woman's freedom is [in the hands of] her guardian."

Prison Inmates Are Stripped Of All Authority Over Their Lives - And So Are
Saudi Women
"As is customary in prisons throughout the world, inmates are stripped of
all authority and sponsorship over their own [lives]. All their movements
are monitored and controlled by the jailor. The prison authorities decide
their fate and see to their needs, until the day of their release. This is
also the usual situation of the Saudi woman. She has no right to make
decisions, and may not take a single step without the permission of her
jailor, namely her guardian. But in her case the term [of imprisonment] is
unlimited.

"The Saudi Mahram Law turns the women into prisoners from the day they are
born until the day they die. They cannot leave their cells, namely their
homes, or the larger prison, namely the state, without signed permission.. .
Although Saudi women are deprived of freedom and dignity more than any other

women [in the world], they suffer all these forms of oppression and
injustice in bitter silence, [and with an air of] suppressed anger and
death-like dejection. Saudi women are peaceful in the full sense of the
word, but so far the Saudi state has not appreciated their [noble] souls,
their patience, and their quiet resistance.. ."

"The Clerics, Whom the State Has Authorized to Oppress the Women, Regard
Their Silence And Patience As [a Sign of] Mental Backwardness"
"The clerics, whom the state has authorized to oppress the women, regard
their silence and patience as [a sign of] mental backwardness and emotional
weakness... Thus they have [allowed themselves] to increase the 'slumber' of

oppression over the decades... They suffocate [the women] in all areas of
life by means of oppressive laws [enforced by] the religious police, who
follow them everywhere as if they were fugitives from justice. The laws
pertaining to women have turned them into objects on which sick men can
release their violent and sexual [urges].

"These Saudi clerics deny the Saudi women every opportunity to find a job,
get an education, travel, receive medical treatment, or [realize] any
[other] right, no matter how trivial, without the permission of their
jailor, that is, their guardian - [all] based on oppressive fatwas
sanctioned by the male [leaders] of the state."

Our "Mothers and Grandmothers ...Enjoyed Much Greater Freedom... Saudi
Arabia Has Turned Itself Into the World's Largest Saudi Prison"
"[It is interesting to note that] the mothers and grandmothers [of today's
Saudi women] had all these rights, and enjoyed much greater freedom [than
today's women] - as did all Muslim women in past eras, such as the wives of
the Prophet. [None of these women] were subjected to this oppressive Mahram
Law, which is not based on the tenets of Islam and in fact has nothing to do

with Islam.

"How blessed is Saudi Arabia, the humane kingdom, which has turned itself
into the world's largest women's prison. [This is a land] which permits any
man, without preconditions, to take the role of jailor, and which has turned

its women into prisoners for life, when they have done nothing to deserve
it."

Endnotes:
(1) Mahram, meaning "forbidden," refers to a male relative whom the woman
may not legally marry and who can thus serve as her guardian.
(2) Awan (Kuwait), July 6, 2009. It should be noted that Sheikh 'Abd
Al-Muhsin Al-'Obikan, advisor to the king and Shura Council member, recently

issued a fatwa permitting women to travel abroad unaccompanied.
www.islamonline. net, December 25, 2008.
(3) http://www.menber- alhewar1. info/news. php?action= view&id=4364, June 24,
2009.

www.memri.org
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**Hamas police official: Israel smuggles "sexual stimulants"* * to destroy
Palestinian youth
* by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Hamas has accused Israel of supplying "sexual stimulants" and other drugs to
destroy Palestinian youth.

Hamas police spokesman Islam Shahwan said recently that Israeli intelligence
officers are behind the smuggling of sexually stimulating drops and chewing
gum into Gaza to "weaken and destroy" Palestinian youth and the social
structure, according to Palestinian news agency FPNP ("Firas- Palestine News
Press)

Shahwan claimed that a parent had complained to police that his daughter
had chewed the Israeli gum and suffered "side effects." He said that Hamas
police had subsequently arrested the distributors, confiscated the
aphrodisiacs and confirmed that the drugs had been supplied by Israeli
intelligence.

This accusation is one more example of the continuing PA campaign by both
Fatah and Hamas to demonize Israel based on libels by officials, who accuse
Israel of trying to poison or corrupt Palestinian youth. For the last 10
years, the Palestinian Authority Fatah leaders have been disseminating the
libel that Israel spreads AIDS and sexually-transmitte d diseases among
Palestinian youth, turns them into drug addicts and has a special
intelligence unit devoted to distributing drugs to Palestinian teenagers.

Click here to view examples of this PA
libel.<http://www.palwatch .org/main. aspx?fi=206# 392>

One PA official even accused Israel of distributing sports shoes that cause
the wearer to become paralyzed, and perfumes that cause drug addiction.

This multi-faceted campaign presents Israel as a serious threat to the
health and lives of Palestinians, thereby generating hatred and encouraging
Palestinian terror.

Following is the transcript of the aphrodisiac libel:

"Police Spokesman of the Hamas government, Islam Shahwan, said that the
commercial crossings with Israel are the primary source for smuggling drugs
and sexual stimulants which were recently seized in the Gaza Strip...
Shahwan said that these stimulants are [produced] in the form of chewing gum
or as a liquid that is taken in the form of drops. One parent complained to
the police that his daughter had taken one of these stimulants and told her
father about it after suffering side-effects. Shahwan added that the police
had traced the source of the 'chewing gum' and arrested its distributors,
and had confiscated all the substances serving as sexual stimulants.
Following investigation it became apparent that these enhancers had come
from the border crossings with Israel.

Concerning the major source of these stimulants, Shahwan said that
following the admission by the detainees, it turned out that the Israeli
Intelligence was supplying psychologically weak [Palestinians] with drugs
and with enhancers of this type, in order to distribute them amongst the
greatest possible number of inhabitants, and to sell them for free (sic).

Shahwan emphasized that Israel's goal in distributing these drugs is to
destroy our people's social structure, and to destroy the youth by
distributing drugs and sexual stimulants that will weaken and destroy
them...

Shahwan said that large quantities of drugs and sexual stimulants smuggled
via the Zionist border crossings with the Gaza Strip had been seized in the
past... It turned out from the investigation of the last group that had been
caught... that it had a direct connection with Zionist Intelligence
officers."

Firas- Palestine News Press
FPNP Network http://fpnp. name/arabic/ ?action=detail& id=27597
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http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1101158. html

Vatican teaching Hezbollah how to kill Jews, says pamphlet for IDF troops By
Ofri Ilani * *
The Pope and the cardinals of the Vatican help organize tours of Auschwitz
for Hezbollah members to teach them how to wipe out Jews, according to a
booklet being distributed to Israel Defense Forces soldiers.

Officials encouraging the booklet's distribution include senior officers,
such as Lt. Col. Tamir Shalom, the commander of the Nahshon Battalion of
the Kfir Brigade.

The booklet was published by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America, in cooperation with the chief rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliahu,
and has been distributed for the past few months.

The booklet, titled "On Either Side of the Border," purports to be the
testimony of "a Hezbollah officer who spied for Israel."

"The book is distributed regularly and everyone reads it and believes it,"
said one soldier. "It's filled with made-up details but is presented as a
true story. A whole company of soldiers, adults, told me: 'Read this and
you'll understand who the Arabs are.'"

The copy obtained by Haaretz included a Pesach greeting from Shalom, "in the
name of the Nahshon Brigade."

The story is narrated by a man named Avi, who says he changed his name from
Ibrahim after he left Hezbollah and converted to Judaism. Avi says he was
once close to Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, and describes
Hezbollah's purported close relationships with the Vatican and European
leaders.

The IDF Spokesman's Office said in a statement: "The book was received as a
donation and distributed in good faith to the soldiers. After we were
alerted to the sensitivity of its content, distribution was immediately
halted."

According to the book, Nasrallah was invited to join a delegation to tour
France, Poland and Italy, including the Vatican. Nasrallah could not refuse
an invitation from the Vatican, Avi explained: "We knew [the Pope]
identified with Hezbollah's struggle."

The book describes the alleged visit of Hezbollah officials to Auschwitz,
led by the Vatican: "We came to the camps. We saw the trains, the platforms,
the piles of eyeglasses and clothes ... We came to learn ... Our escort
spoke as he was taught. We quickly explained to him: Every real Arab, deep
inside, is kind of a fan of the Nazis."

The booklet also describes how European politicians and journalists
ostensibly work against Israel.

"Our escort introduced us to important figures who identify with our causes.
Rich people, people with authority ... They allocate big budgets to all
sorts of Israeli organizations that erode the standing of the IDF ... We
have a special budget for encouraging politicians and journalists who serve
our purposes. Every opinion piece that conforms to our position is rewarded
generously."

Rabbi Shmuel Eliahu, the son of former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai
Eliahu, is known for his extremist views, and was once charged with
incitement to racism after calling for the expulsion of all Arab students
from Safed College after a terror attack in the area.

The younger Eliahu was also behind an online video in which he described the
"miracle of our matriarch Rachel," whom he claims appeared before Israeli
soldiers in Gaza to warn them of booby-trapped buildings during Operation
Cast Lead.

"In some of the places we went in Gaza there was a woman who warned them ...
'Did they tell you who I am,' she said, 'I am the matriarch Rachel," Eliahu
says in the video. He claims his father confirmed the veracity of the story,
and told him that he had prayed to Rachel: "I told her: Rachel, there's a
war... Go to God, Blessed Be He, pray over the soldiers who sacrifice
themselves for the People of Israel, so that they will strike and not be
struck."

David Menahemov, an aide to Eliahu, claims the book is not fiction. "Avi is
a real person and everything in the book is absolutely true," insists
Menahemov. "It's a totally true story, I know the guy personaly. He's an
Arab, who even though he converted still acts like an Arab. We helped him to
write and to translate it. We changed a few details to protect him and his
family."
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'Jerusalem-born boy's passport can't say Israel'By E.B. SOLOMONT,
JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
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NEW YORK - Parents of a Jerusalem-born American boy who want "Israel"
listed as their son's country of birth on his passport have been dealt
another blow with the dismissal of their case by a US court of appeals.
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The E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse.
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The US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, on July 10 upheld a lower court's
decision that the courts lack jurisdiction in the matter because foreign
policy - including the recognition of foreign governments - belongs
exclusively in the domain of the executive branch. According to the State
Department, US passports for those born in Jerusalem do not list a country
because doing so would interfere with and pre-judge Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations.

The case had been filed by an American couple living in Israel, Ari and
Naomi Zivotofsky, on behalf of their son, Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, born
in 2002.

Reached by telephone during a recent trip to Ethiopia, Ari Zivotofsky told *The
Jerusalem Post* that though his son's American passport is valid, the
outcome of the case is laden with symbolism. "This is about the US
recognizing the sovereignty of Israel over any [part] of Jerusalem," he
said. "We like to believe the US is our strongest ally, yet something so
fundamental like this, even that little bit, our strongest ally refuses to
recognize, it just sends a message," he said.

The Zivotofskys have two older children who were born in the US. An attorney
for the family, Nathan Lewin, said they were mulling an appeal to the US
Supreme Court. "I'm appalled by the decision," he said. "The court is
clearly wrong that it's a political question... It's clearly a matter of
law."

The lawsuit argues that a 2002 law authorizes the State Department to
designate Israel as the place of birth in the passports of Jerusalem-born
Americans.

Lewin said changing Zivotofsky's passport is not a foreign policy decision.
"It's not saying the US formally recognizes Jerusalem as being in Israel. On
a passport, that's simply a means of identification. "

Indeed, he noted, Arab citizens born in Tel Aviv or Haifa may choose to omit
Israel from their passports. "The Arabs can strike Israel off the passport,
but the Jews cannot put it on the passport," he said.

The case was thrown out twice before, in 2004 and in 2007, by Judge Gladys
Kessler. In 2006, the DC Court of Appeals overturned Kessler's 2004 ruling
and sent the case back for a fact-finding mission to determine the possible
consequences of including "Israel" on the passport. But in 2007, Kessler
said the State Department's refusal to list Israel on the passport was a
"nonjusticiable political question."

In her decision, Kessler argued that the US courts should not get involved
in the dispute. "Such conflicts are best resolved through political means,"
she wrote.

The Zionist Organization of America criticized last week's decision. The
group's national president, Morton A. Klein, pointed to the US Jerusalem
Embassy Act of 1995, which recognizes sovereign nations' right to designate
their own capitals.

"American citizens like Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, who are born in
Israel's designated capital, should have the right to have that fact
reflected on their official documents," he said in a statement.

In recent years, Canada faced a similar issue when a Jerusalem-born teenager
living in Toronto asked to have "Jerusalem, Israel" listed on his passport.
Eliyahu Veffer's petition was denied, and he subsequently filed a legal
challenge to the Canadian passport agency's policy. "My religion teaches me
that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel," Veffer said in an affidavit.

However, a federal court judge in 2006 dismissed his application to review
the passport agency's policy, ruling that "passports do not deal with, nor
are they a reflection of, a person's roots, heritage or belief."

In February 2008, Canada's Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal.

"Canada has a general passport policy of allowing the name of the country
inscribed in the passport to be that which the applicant has provided in the
application. Jerusalem is an exception to this general policy," David Matas,
who as senior legal counsel for B'nai B'rith Canada filed an appeal on
behalf of Veffer, said at the time. "This exception has an adverse
discriminatory impact."

In the US, there is no legal precedent for the Zivotofsky case, Lewin said.
The closest parallel involves Taiwan. In 1994, Congress passed a law
allowing the State Department to designate "Taiwan" as the birth country in
a passport when requested to do so by applicants born there, rather than
China.

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*COLOMBIAN VICE PRESIDENT ARRIVES ON AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO ISRAEL*
(Communicated by the MFA Spokesman's Bureau) 19 July 2009

Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos Calderon arrived in Israel on a
5-day official visit on Friday, July 17 2009, as part of a Middle East tour.

He previously visited Lebanon and Egypt, where he attended the Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM) Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh.

During his visit, Vice President Calderon met with Deputy Prime Minister and

Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman. He is also scheduled to meet
with President Shimon Peres, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional
Development and the Development of the Negev and the Galilee, Silvan Shalom,

Minister of Welfare and Social Affairs Isaac Herzog, Vice Prime Minister and

Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon and Chairperson of the
Opposition Tzipi Livni.
The visit will focus on two central issues: The good bilateral relationship
between the two countries, and cooperation in the fields of security and
technology. Vice President Calderon will also visit the Colombian regiment
stationed with the Multi-National Force in Sinai.

Colombia represents an important support element in Latin America for
Israel, especially in light of the anti-Israel line led by Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez and the breaking-off of diplomatic relations with
Venezuela and Bolivia after Operation Cast Lead.

Vice President Calderon began his career as a journalist, first as a
reporter and later as editor of the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. In 1990,
he was abducted, together with the daughter of former Colombian president
Julio César Turbay, by the Medellin drug cartel, and held for eight months
until his release. President Turbay's daughter was murdered after an
unsuccessful attempt to rescue her. VP Calderon has a close connection with
the Turbay family. They are of Lebanese origin (and pro-Israeli) , and this
was his prime reason for visiting that country. After his abduction, VP
Calderon established a non-governmental organization focused on increasing
the awareness of the suffering of terror victims and their families.
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*Obama & The Jewish World

* *This article, by Anne Bayefsky, originally appeared in The Jerusalem
Post<http://www.jpost. com/servlet/ Satellite? cid=124644384976 5&pagename= JPost%2FJPArticl e%2FShowFull>.
*

President Barack Obama last Monday met for the first time with leaders of
selected Jewish organizations and leaks from the meeting now make one thing
very clear. The only free country in the Middle East no longer has a friend
in the leader of the free world. Obama is the most hostile sitting American
President in the history of the state of Israel.

This was the very first meeting with Jewish community's leaders. Earlier
requests for an audience with major Jewish organizations had reportedly been
ignored. Six months after taking office the President finally got around to
issuing an invitation – to stop the bleeding. Increasing numbers of Jews –
even among the overwhelming number who voted for Obama – have been voicing
serious concern about his real agenda.

The meeting, however, did not showcase the President's trademark engagement
and dialogue routine. Instead, he decided to cherry pick his Jewish audience
to include pro-Obama newcomers with little support in the mainstream Jewish
world, such as J Street, while blackballing the Zionist Organization of
America. The oldest pro-Israel group in the United States, with a Washington
office second in size only to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (
AIPAC), was not a voice Obama wanted to hear. This leaves the President
willing to engage Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but not ZOA
President Mort Klein.

The growing alarm in the Jewish community was also something the White
Housewas bent on covering up. They refused to put the meeting on the
President's
public schedule until it was outed. The White House demanded strict
confidentiality and issued a terse couple of lines that it occurred when it
was all over.

But there is no papering over the distressing reality that emerged. The
President told his listeners that he preferred putting daylight between the
United States and Israel. His reported justification: "there was no light
between the U.S. and Israeli positions for the last eight years, and no
progress was made."

Evidently, unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, 21 settlements and
9,000 residents counts for nothing. The Palestinian terrorist leadership and
street have refused to accept a Jewish state for the past eight years (and
the previous fifty-three) because the United States did not add sufficiently
to Israel's isolation. Palestinians are more likely to end terrorism,
incitement to violence and rampant antisemitism if the United States applies
more pressure on their victims.

Even if Obama doesn't get it, Mahmoud Abbas does. He is now refusing to
negotiate anything with the new Israeli government until President Obama's
settlement conditions are met.

During the meeting the President repeatedly described his new policy in
terms of one of Yasser Arafat's favorite mantras, "even-handedness." That's
diplotalk for a moral equivalence between an Arab war against Jewish
self-determination launched from the day of Israel's birth – decades before
any "occupation" – and the conditions of third-generation Palestinian
"refugees" kept in limbo pending Israel's destruction. But Obama's
even-handedness was no slip of the tongue. In his Cairo speech, the
President equated the Holocaust to Palestinian "dislocation."

The President promoted his strategy of putting hard public "pressure" on
Israel as a means to build more credibility with Arab states. He must have
meant the kind of credibility that comes from his policy of leaving an "open
door" to Iran after its discredited election.

Obama then claimed that the widespread perception of an anti-Israel agenda
was all the media's fault because the media is only interested in a
"man-bites-dog" story. When an administration sends a U.S. ambassador back
to Syria though it is still listed as a key state sponsor of terrorism ,
hosts terrorist kingpins pursuing Israel's annihilation, and was caught
trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction, the story is far-fetched
story alright – but true.

The president joked that Al-Jazeera often airs pictures of him wearing a
yarmulke at the Western Wall. Except the photo-op during the election
campaign had been intended to fool a Jewish audience that is no longer
amused.

Reports also quote the President as claiming Israel has yet to "engage in
serious self-reflection." Considering Israel is a democratic country forced
to send its children into the armed forces for two to three years and its
men into reserve duty for another twenty-five, that isn't the audacity of
hope. It's just plain audacity.

There is no doubt that the pressure on Israel from the Obama administration
is going to get a lot worse, as the President told the group "there is a
narrow window of opportunity for advancing the peace process." Everyone
understood the threat. The narrow window is Obama's self-defined political
ambitions bearing no relationship to the realities of the Middle East – or
the welfare of either Israel or the United States.
*For more United Nations coverage see
www.EYEontheUN. org<http://www.eyeonthe un.org/>
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*Are American Jews the Most Foolish Voters in the United States?*
*By Ron Lipsman*

http://freeman. org/serendipity/ index.php? /archives/ 427-Are-American -Jews-the- Most-Foolish- Voters-in- the-United- States.html# extended

Despite its ludicrous tone, the question posed in the title is a legitimate
one. With the exception of American blacks, Jews continue to comprise the
most reliable voting block for liberal Democrats in the United States. They
vote overwhelmingly in that direction in virtually all gubernatorial,
congressional and presidential elections. Obama obtained more than 80% of
the Jewish vote, not uncharacteristic of the percentage of Jews who have
cast their ballots for Democratic presidential candidates since Franklin
Roosevelt. Reagan was an exception, but he only obtained roughly 40% of the
Jewish vote. No other Republican since has come close to that number

I maintain that the massive, ongoing, enthusiastic and predictable Jewish
vote for liberal Democrats is an example of one of the most foolish voting
records by any ethnic group in the history of the American republic. The
black vote along the same lines is self-destructive and foolish, but there
are some bona fide explanations— especially in the last election. On the
other hand, as I will show in this article, the sustained allegiance by
American Jews to the Left is not only self-destructive and foolish, it is
also short-sighted, naïve, ineffective, harmful and ultimately inexcusable.

Individuals vote for candidates for all sorts of reasons. But often, a large
number of members of an ethnic community might cast ballots of a similar
nature. This is not surprising. People have touchstone issues that can
easily affect which lever they pull (or which tab they press on their
computer screen) and it is not unusual for common feelings on such issues to
be shared among the members of an ethnic community. In the case of the
Jewish community what might those touchstone issues be? For example, any
individual Jewish voter might care deeply about abortion or taxes or
judicial activism. But so might any other voter. What are the issues that
touch him deeply as a Jew, perhaps enough to sway his vote for President? I
will discuss three here:
* The security and well-being of the State of Israel and its Jewish
population.
* The security and well-being of the American Jewish community.
* The fundamental purpose of the Jewish people's continued existence,
especially in America.
There are other issues, like separation of church and state, school vouchers
or affirmative action, about which some Jews feel strongly, and those
feelings might be connected to their Jewish identity. But I maintain that
none of those are as fundamental as the above three, which are at the heart
of how most Jews see themselves as Jews, and as American citizens. So I will
restrict my attention to the three in the bulleted list.

Support for Israel. Although most American Jews have chosen not to relocate
to Israel, and they see their family's destiny continuing to unfold in the
United States, nevertheless, they care deeply about Israel. Many have
relatives or close acquaintances who live there. Others have visited, many
times in some instances. They feel a kinship with the Jews of Israel, a
pride in their accomplishments and a concern for their precarious situation.
Unless they are totally cynical, they recognize the miracle of the creation
of the Jewish State on the ashes of the Holocaust, and the equally wondrous
miracle of its survival in the face of unremitting and murderous hostility
on the part of its Arab neighbors and the Muslim world. They are grateful
for the support their country, the US, has shown for Israel and they are
determined that said support shall not waiver.

But here are some undeniable facts. In the Western World today, the main
hostility to Israel comes from the Left. In Western Europe, Canada, even the
United States, Israel is routinely slandered as an Apartheid State and a
Nazi-like occupier by politicians, academics and media-types on the
Left—almost exclusively on the Left. While there remain a few lunatic,
fringe figures on the Right who engage in such calumny, their numbers pale
in comparison to those on the extreme Left. Worse, many in the mainstream
Left are equally virulent in their denunciations of Israel. People like
Jesse Jackson, Ramsay Clark, Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich, so-called
mainstream liberals, are fervent in their condemnations of Israel and in
advocating policies that would sunder the Israel-US alliance and align
America more with Israel's enemies. The bias even extends to the White
House. While Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were great friends and
admirers of Israel, Lyndon Johnson virtually abandoned the Israelis prior to
the Six-Day War, Bill Clinton's favorite White House guest was the terrorist
Arafat who had Jewish blood on his hands, and you cannot convince me that
Jimmy Carter is not an anti-Semite.

Yet American Jews keep voting for these people. What are they thinking? It
is totally clear that there are many on the Left, usually in the Democratic
Party, who do not wish Israel well, who if they get the chance will reorient
US policy away from the support and defense of Israel, and who turn a blind
eye to the genocidal rage of the Holocaust-denier and Jew-hater,
Ahmadinejad, and his proxies in Hezbollah and Hamas. Why are American Jews
voting for those people? Are they blind? How could they be so foolish?

Support for the American Jewish Community. Well, maybe the American Jewish
voter is not all that fixated on Israel anymore. Perhaps his concerns lie
closer to home—with the protection and support of the Jewish community in
America. Sorry, fellow members of the tribe, but hostility to Jews in
America is just as much concentrated on the Left as is hostility to Israel.
The list of well-known leftist anti-Semites is too long to contemplate, and
any that I name here would be quick to deny it and condemn me. So let me
just explain how some of the favorite policies of liberal Democrats are
poisonous to the American Jewish community.

Where to begin? Liberals love to tax the rich. But which is one of the
richest ethnic communities in the United States? Duh! Liberal philosophy
leads to economic policies that penalize the business community, especially
small businessmen. Well, which ethnic community is entrepreneurial in spirit
and heavily represented in the small business community? Duh again! Liberal
philosophy is definitely anti-military, demanding that international
conflicts always be resolved by negotiation and that war is to be avoided at
all costs. At the moment the liberals who are running the country are
throwing money at every federal agency except the Defense Department. They
are decimating our military and our intelligence agencies. And exactly how
is that going to enable the US to help protect Israel from its genocidal
neighbors in the Middle East? For that matter, how will we protect ourselves
from the same genocidal maniacs? Unilateral disarmament (no missile defense,
cut the defense budget, don't modernize our nuclear arsenal, delay or
postpone development of new weapons systems) can do nothing but harm to the
Jewish communities in both the US and Israel. But Jews love the loony
liberals who are intent on doing it.

The list goes on. Liberal Democrats are thrilled by the human invasion of
our shores that is underway from Latin America and other third world venues.
They claim that the invaders will enrich our culture and improve our
prosperity, and that welcoming them is an appropriate way to deal with the
oppression in the countries from which the hordes are fleeing. Of course, it
is just coincidental that liberals expect these "new Americans" to be
overwhelmingly left-leaning voters. Now in the last half-century, the Jewish
component of the US population has shrunk from 4% to less than 2%. As our
numbers dwindle, so will our clout. Exactly how is mass immigration—legal or
otherwise—by groups of people who are immediately classified as
underrepresented minorities and thereby entitled to special privileges that
Jews are denied, exactly how is that going to improve our well-being in the
US?

The Left wants to build a very high, impenetrable wall between church and
state. That is only one part of their plan to convert America from a country
in which religion has played a fundamental role to one in which religion is
marginalized, hidden and eventually banished. Jews favor this approach
because of memories of poor treatment at the hands of Christians over the
centuries. Well, in which secular or pagan societies have we fared better?
Nazi Germany? Soviet Russia? France? (In the latter, anti-Semitism is
rampant again today.) The strongly Christian society that America was, and
which Jewish voters are helping to destroy, laid out the greatest welcome
mat ever seen in world history for the Jewish people. Today, evangelical
Christians constitute arguably the community most supportive of Israel in
the US or the Western World. But we spurn them and vote for "friends of
Israel" like Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama. I cannot imagine anything more
foolish.

The issue of group rights versus individual rights is another particularly
thorny one for American Jews. In the pall-mall rush to identify groups in
America that are to be accorded special rights, "civil rights" advocates
have settled on blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, occasionally Asians,
but more frequently homosexuals and the disabled, and let us not forget
females. The Jews rarely if ever make the cut. You would think that,
constituting a shrinking percentage of the population, and not favored for
any special status in the group rights game, Jews would be falling all over
themselves to support individual rights. Not the case. Jews are amongst the
biggest promoters of group rights. And from which political corner does the
mantra of group rights originate? The Left!

This may be a case of political philosophy trumping ethnicity and
self-interest. It is a well-known fact that in fields like education,
business, science, literature and the arts, the millennia-old traditions of
Jewish scholarship and study have produced a people who can compete
extraordinarily well. Given a level playing field, we do indeed compete
exceedingly well. The long roster of achievements by Jews in these areas:
Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, selections for membership in the National Academy
of Sciences, even Oscars, attests to that success. Why in heaven's name
would we want to support rules that tilt the playing field to our
disadvantage, impede our brethren from competing on even terms, and thereby
diminish the chances of our continuing these stellar achievements? Why
indeed! Because the lure of Leftist ideology blinds too many Jews to the
folly and self-destructivenes s of their devotion to group rights. Indeed,
Jews and Jewish organizations are routinely found among the strongest
advocates of group rights. For example, they fervently support diversity
programs that have had the direct and documented effect of denying qualified
Jewish applicants seats in medical and law schools. This is done in the name
of atoning for sins committed by white Americans against black
Americans—real though those sins were—at a time when the Jewish applicant's
ancestors were peasants in Europe. Furthermore, the beneficiaries of those
affirmative action programs often have no ethnic connection to those who
suffered the outrage of slavery. So A is paying B to atone for sins
committed by C against D. Is this wise? Is it just? Or even compassionate?
I think not. But it is certainly foolish.

Moving on, it is also not surprising that many Jews support
multiculturalism. They harbor a deep-seated suspicion of the classic WASP
culture and its Christian origins and emphasis. The Jewish people have a
very problematic relationship with Christianity and although things are
pretty good now, one can never be too secure. Multiculturalism has the
potential to loosen the grip that a Christian-oriented culture has had on
America and this is a good thing for the Jews—or so the thinking goes. Thus
you will find Jews lined up squarely in the multicultural ranks. That is,
squarely on the Left.

But as with other aspects of the Jewish political agenda, the commitment to
multiculturalism is short-sighted. The overwhelming majority of the Jews of
America, those alive today and those who have lived in the republic since
its birth, would categorize the US as the warmest haven the Jewish people
have encountered outside Israel in the last three thousand years. Well,
things were pretty comfy in Persia 2500 years ago, and in Babylon about 1500
years ago, and in Spain some 600 years ago, but it is understandably hard to
compare the levels of comfort in those societies to life in America during
its existence. In any event, I note that the environment in America that
offered the Jews such great comfort was dominated, for most of that
existence, by the WASP culture that we are so anxious to denigrate. Is there
some kind of disconnect here? Yes, I had to sing a few Christmas carols when
I was in public school. That does not change the fact that from the arrival
of my grandparents in this country about a century ago through the arrival
of my grandchildren about a decade ago, my family has lived a good life,
free to pursue our Jewish religion, culture and traditions as much or as
little as we wished. The non-WASP cultures that the multiculturalists are so
keen to graft onto the American scene emanate from countries and regions
where my fellow Jews have not had such a cozy existence. Again, I question
whether a commitment to multiculturalism by Jews is not self-defeating. It
is certifiably foolish. Finally, to conclude this section, I note that the
good gentile people of America began in the last generation to refer to the
religious component of Western Civilization as the Judeo-Christian heritage.
And we are going to turn our backs on that!

Purpose of the Jewish People in America. The third core "issue" on which
Jews cast their votes is more nebulous than the previous two and somewhat
trickier to discuss. Whereas the first two issues were easily and
unambiguously stated, this one is less so. The goal of improving the lot of
the Jews in Israel, or in America, is explicit and understood by those who
profess it—as well as those who oppose it. Whether policies adopted by
politicians supported by the Jews act in furtherance of those goals—or
thwart them—is a matter of opinion. And it has been my thesis above that
large segments of the Jewish community foolishly support policies which, in
fact, have negative consequences toward the attainment of the two goals.

Now for the third. Jewish people are unlike say Swedes or the Swiss in that
they constantly ruminate about their role in world history. Conscious of
their survival over thousands of years against enormous odds, they think
about their contributions to mankind during that period and just as
importantly, they ponder how they should contribute to the betterment of
humanity in the future. This is a complicated issue, but at the risk of
oversimplification, let me say that the thinking generally runs down one of
two tracks—which might be summarized by the well-known Hebrew phrases: Or
l'Goyim and Tikkun Ha Olam, a Light Unto the Nations and Fix (or Perfect)
the World. Along the former track, the Jewish American, who is usually, but
not necessarily, religiously observant, takes on his role in a biblical
sense. Specifically, the intent is to live his life according to the ancient
precepts of his religion and in doing so he leads a moral, ethical and holy
life that sets a shining example for the peoples of the world. His ultimate
goal is to encourage all of mankind to live a righteous life for the
betterment of the world. Although he does this in the context of a
supportive Jewish community, he comes to the decision to live this way, to
highlight his Jewish way of behavior as a beacon to mankind, as an intensely
personal decision, made of his own free will.

On the second track, the Jewish American takes his lead more from the
prophets than from rabbinical tradition. He sees his role as one of the
vanguard who, having identified the flaws of man and his stewardship of
society and the environment, sets about to "fix" it, that is, to improve,
even perfect, mankind and the world. He will do this not so much by leading
an exemplary life that sets a good example but more by joining with those
gentiles who desire the same objective, in order to enlighten everyone else
about the true path and then to enact rules that all will follow for the
betterment, indeed perfection of mankind and the world.

Now to put the above two tracks in an American context, I will choose in
each case a classic American phrase that encapsulates the fundamental
animating idea to which the individual is devoted in his quest for his
"Jewish purpose." For the former, I offer up individual liberty and for the
latter, social justice. That said, what I observe is that when your average
American Jewish voter thinks about his role as a Jew in the unfolding
American drama, it appears to me that the pursuit of social justice comes to
mind a lot more frequently than does individual liberty. And as with the two
previous issues, I maintain that the choice the majority of American Jews
are making on this issue is foolish. Part of my belief stems from my overall
assessment of the relative values of the agendas of the Left and Right in
America today. Without going too far astray, let me just say that I believe
that the statist, collectivist, big government, anti-free market, counter
cultural policies that the Left is pursuing—and increasingly successfully I
might add—will lead to the ruination of America. The quest for social
justice, which is no more than a euphemism for socialism, will at best turn
the US into a clone of the socialist states in Western Europe that are
decaying before our eyes, or at worst into a despotic tyranny that our
forefathers foretold would emerge if we could not maintain the limited
government, republican form of government that they set up for us. It is a
sad fact that the majority of American Jews have lined up foolishly on the
wrong side of this monumental battle.

To conclude my discussion of this issue, let me make an ironic observation
about our foolish preference for social justice over individual liberty.
Life for Jews has been precarious in exile, where we spent the better part
of the last two millennia. Centuries of dealing with oppressors have caused
us to develop defensive mechanisms. Clearly a society committed to social
justice—which to many Jews suggests a fair and equitable society—would
provide a safer environment, and it makes sense to work for that rather than
grandstanding about the rights of the individual, rights that most societies
have not accorded him. Well, despite the freedom the US grants to exercise
these rights, the Galut mentality dies hard.

The ironies connected with this last issue are as poignant as the previous.
The Jewish people of America have a remarkable record of individual success.
Through hard work, dedication and perseverance, Jews have climbed to the top
in many professions, in business, science and the arts. Moreover they did it
without affirmative action or other artificial governmental mechanisms to
prop up their efforts. They constitute a true testament to individual
liberty, or as some conservatives are wont to express it, to rugged
individualism— even if more of the cerebral than physical kind. Yet they
remain committed to social justice in the form of government set asides,
group preferences in college admissions, special loans for minority
businesses and the whole plethora of welfare-like programs which scream out
that this or that individual from certain groups cannot succeed on his own
without special assistance. The Jewish experience in America is proof of the
fallacy of that thesis. But why should Jews deal in reality when their
dreams of social justice are so much more enticing.

The question remains: Why? Why do we behave so foolishly? Why do we make
political choices and pursue policies that run counter to our own
self-interests? I have demonstrated here that this is exactly what the
Jewish community in the US is doing. Why do we do so? Well, Jews might be
foolish, but they are hardly stupid. Therefore, what is the explanation?
That will be a topic for a future column.

Ron Lipsman
College Park, MD
July, 2009
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PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of the Weekly Cabinet Meeting
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Following are excerpts from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks at
the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 19.7.09:

"I read the newspaper headlines today about the construction of a
neighborhood in Jerusalem and I would like to re-emphasize that the united
Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people and of the State of Israel.
Our sovereignty over it is cannot be challenged; this means - inter alia -
that residents of Jerusalem may purchase apartments in all parts of the
city.

This has been the policy of all Israeli governments and I would like to say
that it is indeed being implemented because in recent years hundreds of
apartments in Jewish neighborhoods and in the western part of the city have
been purchased by - or rented to - Arab residents and we did not interfere.
This says that there is no ban on Arabs buying apartments in the western
part of the city and there is no ban on Jews buying or building apartments
in the eastern part of the city.

This is the policy of an open city, an undivided city that has no separation

according to religion or national affiliation. We cannot accept the idea
that Jews will not have the right to live and purchase in all parts of
Jerusalem. I can only describe to myself what would happen if someone would

propose that Jews could not live in certain neighborhoods in New York,
London, Paris or Rome. There would certainly be a major international
outcry. Accordingly, we cannot agree to such a decree in Jerusalem. This
has been the policy of Israeli governments over the years and it is also the

policy of our Government."

Prime Minister Netanyahu also eulogized former MK, Minister, Mossad Director

and senior IDF officer Meir Amit, and former ISA Director Avraham Ahituv,
both of whom passed away recently.
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Disclaimer: This one is from the fabrication and lies and "anti-Zionist"
propaganda machine. I am part Sephardic so am living proof that not all
Jews were Eastern European converts. It happens that the Sephardic heritage
is on my mother's side so naturally my last name is Ashkenazi. One can
dispute most of the other crap written but I just wanted to expose the lies
written about the Jews, once again.

*Ancient Israeli Myths Deter Peace *

By Robert Parry (A Special Report)
July 9, 2009

The rationale for formally designating Israel a Jewish state – as Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now demands – rests on three religious-political
pillars: God's purported covenant with Moses instructing the ancient
Israelites to conquer the land, the injustice of the Roman-era Diaspora that
supposedly removed them centuries later, and the brutal persecution of
European Jews in the Holocaust.

Yet, two of these pillars – Moses conveying God's covenant to the Israelites
and the Roman Diaspora – appear based on almost no historical reality, the
stuff of legend and possibly even lies that crumble under any serious
scrutiny.

Normally, such ancient stories might be regarded as harmless tales that some
people treasure as part of their Judeo-Christian faiths, except that
Netanyahu's new demand means that these myths now threaten peace in the
Middle East and conceivably could push the modern world into more bloody
warfare. Therefore, they must be given fresh examination.

Ironically, it was the Nazis' drive to exterminate European Jews during
World War II that is the one pillar founded on historical reality, although
some extreme enemies of Israel insist on making Holocaust denial a central
feature of their attacks.

Also, some adversaries, like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have
argued that it is unfair to make the Palestinians pay for a crime against
humanity committed by the Germans.

Yet, the Holocaust is not in historical dispute. That horrible reality – an
industrial-style extermination campaign that also targeted Gypsies,
homosexuals and Communists – was proven after the World War II from a
multitude of Nazi records, photographs and eyewitness accounts.

It is the tales of Moses from the Torah (or the first five books of the Old
Testament) and the legend of the Roman Diaspora that lack serious historical
underpinnings.

The Diaspora myth has been addressed in a new book by Israeli historian
Shlomo Sand, *When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?* It debunks the
notion that Rome removed the Jewish people *en masse* from the Holy Land in
the First and Second Centuries A.D. and scattered them across Europe.

Instead, most East European Jews appear to be descendents of converts,
principally from the Kingdom of the Khazars in eastern Russia, who embraced
Judaism in the Eighth Century, A.D. The descendants of the Khazars then were
driven from their native lands by invasions and – through migration –
created the Jewish populations of Eastern Europe.

Thus, Sand argues, many of today's Israelis who emigrated from Europe after
World War II have little or no genealogical connection to the land.
According to Sand, a bitter irony of Israel's founding may be that it
displaced Palestinians who could be the actual descendants of the ancient
Israelites, who stayed on the land and eventually converted to Islam.

Other descendants of those ancient Israelites maintained Judaism as a strong
presence in the Middle East, both in Palestine and in successful communities
from Egypt to Iraq and Iran. These Jews faced few religious pressures until
after Israel was founded in 1948, when this new European intrusion into
Islamic lands was viewed in the context of the Crusades a millennium ago. [More
on Sand's book below.]

*The Moses Myth*

Yet, while questioning the Diaspora myth is a sensitive topic for many
Israelis and their supporters around the world, it is even touchier to
challenge the Biblical claim that God, through Moses, struck a covenant with
the Israelites to conquer the land and possess it for all time.

Because the Torah is sacred to Jews – and to many Christians as the revealed
word of God in the Old Testament – it has been dangerous to examine the
factual history behind these texts in an objective manner.

For centuries, the Catholic Church and some Protestant faiths persecuted
anyone who questioned Moses's supposed authorship of the chapters even
though their internal contradictions and the description of Moses's death at
the end of Deuteronomy made that long-held belief untenable.

As Richard Elliott Friedman recounts in his 1987 book, *Who Wrote the Bible?
,* "Religious opposition to the new investigation (into the traditional
belief about Moses's authorship) persisted during the 19th Century" and
didn't collapse until 1943 when Pope Pius XII "encouraged scholars to pursue
knowledge about the biblical writers."

Modern Biblical scholars now agree that Moses was not the author of the Torah,
that the stories were passed down orally from the 14th Century B.C.
andwere put into writing centuries later. But the legendary figure of
Moses has
remained almost beyond criticism, not only for many Jews but for people of
the Christian and Islamic faiths. (He is treated as a holy messenger in the
Koran.)

Many Americans think of Moses as the angry but righteous leader as portrayed
by Charlton Heston in the 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments," or they think of
their feel-good Bible studies as children. Yet, many archaeologists believe
that the Moses stories were largely made up.

"This is what archaeologists have learned from their excavations in the Land
of Israel: the Isrealites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert,
did not conquer the land in a military campaign and did not pass it on to
the 12 tribes of Israel," summed
up<http://mideastfacts .org/facts/ index.php? option=com_ content&task= view&id=32& Itemid=34>Professor
Ze'ev Herzog, director of the Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv
University.

"The many Egyptian documents that we have make no mention of the Israelites'
presence in Egypt and are also silent about the events of the Exodus."

However, other scholars believe that some Israelites did emigrate to Egypt,
suffered in servitude there, and may have been led back to Canaan by Moses
or a Moses-like leader.

Nevertheless, because of the powerful influence of the Torah (and the Old
Testament), the biblical Moses carries extraordinary religious and
historical weight, inspiring Israeli settlers to claim Palestinian lands as
rightfully theirs and rallying fundamentalist Christians across the American
heartland to embrace whatever actions the Israelis take.

*A Tyrannical Leader*

But who was Moses?

According to biblical lore, Moses was a Hebrew child raised in the royal
Egyptian court before breaking with his protectors and remaking himself into
a leader of Hebrew slaves. He guided them out of Egypt and transformed them,
as they wandered for decades in the Sinai desert, into an Israelite nation,
giving them specific laws and detailed rules of behavior.

During that time, Moses announced a covenant with God that granted the
Israelites permanent dominion over the lands across the Jordan River, and he
instructed them to destroy other peoples inhabiting those territories.
Moses, however, never returned to the Promised Land, dying near the Jordan,
before the conquest began.

Though Moses is regarded by many as a great law giver (the Ten Commandants)
and as a major force in the formation of monotheism (the belief in one God),
the text of the Torah present him as a cruel and tyrannical leader.

From a modern perspective, Moses might be viewed as a "dictator who killed
his own people" when they disobeyed him and an advocate of genocide against
outsiders. His claims that he spoke with the Lord sound more like a
megalomaniac who believed he could scare a primitive people into following
his orders by claiming they were edicts from God.

Indeed, over the centuries, many tyrants have used religion (especially
monotheism) to justify repression and to eliminate enemies and rivals. The
religious wars in Europe during the Middle Ages are a classic example of how
kings and popes wrapped their personal power in the bloody cloak of
religion, torturing and burning alive "heretics" who wouldn't submit.

The biblical Moses appears to have been such a tyrant, though the Sunday
school version often played down this extreme side of his personality.

In Exodus, for instance, there is the famous story of the Israelites
creating a visible idol of their God in the form of a golden calf while
Moses is absent on Mount Sinai. When Moses returns with stone tablets
conveying laws of behavior, he is furious and smashes the tablets.

According to the Torah, Moses then grinds up the golden calf, mixes it with
water and makes the Israelites drink it. Then, Moses recruits what we would
today call a "death squad."

The Torah reads: "Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, 'Whoever is
for the Lord, to me!' And the Levites gathered round him. And he said to
them, 'Thus said the Lord God of Israel, "Put every man his sword on his
thigh, and cross over and back from gate to gate in the camp, and each man
kill his brother and each man his fellow and each man his kin"' And the
Levites did according to the word of Moses, and about three thousand men of
the people fell on that day."

In other words, Moses ordered a massacre of Israelites whom he regarded as
his enemies, people who had challenged his authority in the form of dancing
around the golden calf.

Robert Alter in his 2004 book, *The Five Books of Moses*, comments on
Moses's instruction: "each man kill his brother," etc.

"This chilling command enjoins the sword-wielding Levites to show no mercy
to friend or kin," Alter wrote. "The figure of three thousand dead in the
next verse indicates that this is not an indiscriminate massacre but an
assault on the ringleaders – or perhaps, those guilty of the most egregious
excesses – among the orgiasts."

*Higher Authority*

It also seemed that whenever Moses was setting some rule, whether as grand
as the Ten Commandants or as minor as personal hygiene, he always invoked
the Almighty.

In Leviticus, for instance, God supposedly takes a direct interest in
dictating how women should be treated after childbirth, with one set of
rules for giving birth to sons and another for daughters.

According to this account, the Lord tell Moses, "Speak to the Israelites,
saying 'Should a woman quicken with seed and bear a male, she shall be
unclean seven days, as in the days of her menstrual unwellness she shall be
unclean. And on the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be
circumcised. And thirty days and three she shall stay in her blood purity.
She shall touch no consecrated thing nor shall she come into the sanctuary
till the days of her purity are completed.

"And if she bears a female, she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her
menstruation, and sixty days and six she shall stay over her blood purity.
And when the days of her purity are completed, whether for a son or for a
daughter, she shall bring a yearling lamb for a burnt offering and a young
pigeon or a turtledove for an offense offering to the entrance of the Tent
of Meeting, to the priest. And he shall bring it forward before the Lord and
atone for her, and she shall be clean from the flowing of her blood."

If you think that's a lot of unnecessary detail, you should read the Lord's
instructions via Moses for how to assess whether a boil is leprosy or not.

In Deuteronomy, Moses explains to the Israelites about their right to
reclaim the land of their forefathers, again speaking for God:

"And the Lord your God shall bring you to the land that your fathers took
hold of, and you shall take hold of it, and He shall do well with you and
make you more multitudinous than your fathers."

Moses also makes clear that God expected the conquest to include massacres
and genocide. Again speaking for the Lord, Moses said:

"I will bring back vengeance on My foes and My enemies I will requite. I
will make My shafts drunk with blood, and My sword will eat up flesh from
the blood of the fallen and captive, from the flesh of the long-haired foe."

In his final blessing to the Israelites, Moses makes the genocide message
even more explicit, painfully so. He called on them to "smash the loins of
[the Lord's] foes, that His enemies rise no more. … Your enemies cower
before you and you on their backs will tread."

So, more than 3,000 years later, should a modern state like Israel be
demanding that Palestinians recognize Israel as an explicitly Jewish state,
as Netanyahu now says?

*The Diaspora Myth*

The second pillar – the Roman Diaspora – also comes from ancient times
though not as far back as the stories of Moses. If anything, however, the
Diaspora has less of a historical basis.

In *When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?, *Dr. Sand, an expert on
European history at the University of Tel Aviv, says the Jews were never
exiled *en masse* from the Holy Land and that the myth of the Diaspora was
used by Zionists over the past century to buttress their argument for
creating Israel.

Sand, a European Jew born in 1946 to Holocaust survivors in Austria, argues
that until the Zionist movement arose, Jews thought of themselves as Jews
because they shared a common religion, not because they possessed a direct
lineage to the ancient tribes of Israel.

However, at the turn of the 20th Century, Sand asserts, Zionist Jews began
assembling a national history to justify creation of a Jewish state by
inventing the idea that Jews existed as a people separate from their
religion and that they had primogeniture over the territory that had become
known as Palestine.

The Zionists also invented the idea that Jews living in exile were obligated
to return to the Promised Land, a concept that had been foreign to Judaism,
Sand states.

If Sand's thesis is correct – and it has faced no substantive rebuttal – it
would suggest that many of the Palestinian Arabs have a far more substantial
claim to the lands of Israel than do many European Jews who arrived there
asserting a God-given claim.

Indeed, Sand theorizes that many Jews, who remained in Judea after Roman
legions crushed the last uprising in 136 A.D., eventually converted to
Christianity or Islam, meaning that the Palestinians who have been crowded
into Gaza or concentrated in the West Bank might be direct descendants of
Jews from the Roman era.

In his book – and in an interview with
Haaretz<http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/966952. html>about his book
– Sand challenged the myth that the Romans relocated the Jews
by force to Europe. In the interview, he said:

"I started looking in research studies about the exile from the land - a
constitutive event in Jewish history, almost like the Holocaust. But to my
astonishment I discovered that it has no literature. The reason is that no
one exiled the people of the country.

"The Romans did not exile peoples and they could not have done so even if
they had wanted to. They did not have trains and trucks to deport entire
populations. That kind of logistics did not exist until the 20th Century.
From this, in effect, the whole book was born: in the realization that
Judaic society was not dispersed and was not exiled."

*The True Descendants **
*
Asked if he was saying that the true descendants of the inhabitants of the
Kingdom of Judah are the Palestinians, Sand responded:

"No population remains pure over a period of thousands of years. But the
chances that the Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Judaic people
are much greater than the chances that you or I are its descendents.

"The first Zionists, up until the Arab Revolt [1936-1939], knew that there
had been no exiling, and that the Palestinians were descended from the
inhabitants of the land. They knew that farmers don't leave until they are
expelled.

"Even Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of the State of Israel, wrote in
1929 that, 'the vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their
origins in the Arab conquerors, but rather, before then, in the Jewish
farmers who were numerous and a majority in the building of the land.'"

Criticism of Sand's book has focused mostly on his credentials as an expert
on European history, not ancient Middle Eastern history, a point that Sand
readily acknowledges.

One critic, Israel Bartal, dean of humanities at the Hebrew University,
attacked Sand's credentials, but disagreed mostly over Sand's assertion that
the Diaspora story was created as an intentional myth by Zionists seeking to
fabricate a direct genealogical connection between many of the world's Jews
and Israel.

"Although the myth of an exile from the Jewish homeland (Palestine) does
exist in popular Israeli culture, it is negligible in serious Jewish
historical discussions," Bartal wrote in the newspaper
Haaretz<http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/999386. html>.
"Important groups in the Jewish national movement expressed reservations
regarding this myth or denied it completely."

In other words, Bartal is not so much disputing Sand's historical claims
about the Diaspora or the origins of Eastern European Jews, as he is
contesting Sand's notion that Zionists concocted a false history for a
cynical political purpose.

But there can be no doubt that the story of the Diaspora has played a key
role in the founding of Israel and that the appeal of this powerful
narrative has helped generate sympathy around the world, especially in the
United States.

"After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people remained faithful
to it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for
their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political
freedom," reads the preamble to the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

As recently as Israeli's bombardment of Gaza in January 2009, the myth of
the Diaspora was used to justify the slaughter of some 1,400 Palestinians
dead, including many children and other non-combatants. When the Israeli
government investigated alleged war crimes by its army, Israeli troops
testified that extremist Rabbis had proclaimed the invasion a holy war.

The troops said the Rabbis brought them booklets and articles declaring: "We
are the Jewish people. We came to this land by a miracle. God brought us
back to this land, and now we need to fight to expel the non-Jews who are
interfering with our conquest of this holy land."

Today, with the emergence of a new Likud-led government in Israel, the
Diaspora myth and Moses legends are intruding again on the prospects for
finally achieving peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has insisted on a new precondition for talks – that
the Palestinians must agree to a "public, binding and unequivocal"
recognition that Israel is "the nation state of the Jewish people," not
simply the nation state of the people of Israel. Netanyahu is making this
demand although Arabs make up about 20 percent of Israel's population.

This appears to be another case of ancient bloody myths contributing to a
modern bloody reality.
http://www.consorti umnews.com/ 2009/070809. html
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Leaders criticized Obama's tactics more than substance

*
ZOA: JEWISH GROUPS SHOULD HAVE TOLD OBAMA -
SETTLEMENT ISSUE CAMOUFLAGES REAL ISSUE OF
ARAB TERRORISM, INCITEMENT AND ISRAEL'S LEGITIMACY*

President Obama invited a small group of Jewish organizations to the White
House for a meeting on Monday, July 13 to discuss the increasing concern and
fear of American Jews of Obama's hostile policies toward Israel while making
no serious demands of the Palestinian Arabs.

*Media reports about the meeting were numerous. The media reports included
the following:*

"Jewish leaders left their meeting with President Obama - 'glowing'.it
became clear.the bulk of the organized Jewish community is in full support
of his peace efforts including the demand for a complete freeze of Jewish
settlements. the meeting yielded a broad understanding that the
administration' s decision to take its dispute with Israel to the public will
not be challenged by American Jews."

"I believe the President got the impression that there is broad support
within the community for his policies, and some differences on the tactical
level," said Rabbi Steven Wernick, Executive Vice President of the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the
Union For Reform Judaism, said in the meeting that expanding settlements was
not in the interest of Israel, of the US or of American Jews. 'Nobody in
the room questioned it' Yoffie said of the response of the other Jewish
leaders in attendance. 'Not one person in the room said to the President,
"You're wrong on that." Obama's statement that he would not avoid public
disagreements with Israel went unchallenged. '

Another article reported, "there was concern about an imbalance in pressures
placed on Israel as opposed to on the Palestinians and the Arab States.the
President indicated he had a sensitivity to the perception of that imbalance
and had to work harder to correct that perception.the 2 leaders of AIPAC
asked friendly questions about Saudi Arabia and Iran.no one took issue with
Obama's fractured history of the Middle East.Obama told Jewish leaders at
the White House that Israel would need to engage in serious
self-reflection. "

Media reports also discussed who was not invited: "Some of Obama's loudest
critics - the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA).were among the notable
absences from the list of those invited to the White House".the White House
was careful to exclude Jewish leaders it deemed too inimical to the
President's Mideast agenda.while J Street and American Friends of Peace Now
were welcomed at the White House, Team Obama conspicuously snubbed far more
dedicated supporters of Israel - Morton Klein, President of the ZOA. The
JTA speculated that Klein may have been boycotted by Obama because the ZOA
President recently said Obama could turn out to be the 'most hostile' US
President in Washington relations with Jerusalem. Morton Klein has also
been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and most of the
Jewish media criticizing President Obama's policies toward Israel. But one
would think that Obama, who of all people is a stout exponent of engaging
some of the world's harshest critics of US policy, would want to accord the
same courtesy to Morton Klein, whose views of the administration are nowhere
near as denunciatory as the invectives directed against Obama by Iran's
Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Yet Morton Klein was kept out of
the way at a safe political distance.it does not seem like Peter Bergson was
present at the White House with leaders of 14 Jewish organizations. The
meeting appeared to be an scripted minuet in conflict avoidance made easier
by excluding ZOA who has been openly-critical of the President's stance..why
did not any of the organizations invited for the sit-down with the President
this week object to the exclusion of the ZOA from the meeting. ZOA and its
leader Morton Klein would have been pretty direct with the President, if
allowed to speak.".absent from the table were those organizations who
questioned the President's policies regarding Israel. No ZOA, no JINSA, no
CAMERA.groups supporting the right of Jews to live in eastern Jerusalem,
Judea and Samaria were not invited.the President invited 16 leaders but
excluded the strongly pro-Israel Zionist Organization of America.influential
groups were left off the guest list.This meeting was an attempt to confront
the growing concern about his policy toward the beleaguered Jewish state.
obviously the President had decided not to seriously debate the issues at
the gathering since ZOA was locked out of the meeting."

Even a DRY BONES cartoon was written about ZOA's exclusion. The four
cartoon sections said the following: "ZOA, the Zionist Organization of
America was not invited to Obama's meeting with the Jews" - "Its because
Zionist has become a bad word." - "But CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in
Middle East Reporting in America was also snubbed." - "Ah, the problematic
word there is accuracy."

ZOA President Morton A. Klein said, "The ZOA was deeply disappointed and
troubled that the Jewish groups did not make clear that the issue of
settlements has nothing to do with attaining a real peace agreement and both
distracts and camouflages the real basis for why the peace process has
failed.

Whether 300,000 or 325,000 Jews live on only 3% of the land in
Judea and Samaria has virtually nothing to do with preventing peace.

Preventing peace, it should have been made clear to Obama, is the
Palestinian Authority's refusal to arrest anti-Israel terrorists; refusal
to outlaw terrorist groups; end incitement to hatred and violence against
Jews and Israel in their schools, media, and speeches; their continuing to
glorify terrorists by naming schools, streets, sports teams, and computer
centers after them; disseminating heroic posters of suicide bombers
throughout Arab towns; excluding Israel from their maps; Abbas' Fatah
party's
new emblem showing all of Israel covered with an Arab headdress, next to a
large rifle, with Arafat in the middle; and not accepting and teaching the
legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state.

All of these actions are required
in virtually every signed agreement from Oslo to Wye to the Road Map.

"We need a major public conversation about the anti-peace, pro-terror
actions of the Palestinian Authority - not whether Jews should be allowed to
move into Ariel, Maaleh Adumim, or eastern Jerusalem. But the participants,
representing American Jewry, acted as if Obama's policy of not allowing the
moving of one additional Jew into eastern Jerusalem, Judea or Samaria is
fine. They should have argued for the right of Jews to live in these
territories It is utterly racist and anti-Semitic to insist that Jews
cannot build within the borders (we're not even talking outside the borders)
to their own communities in Judea and Samaria, whereas Arabs can build
everywhere, including within Israel itself. Quite apart from Israel's own
historical, legal and religious claims to the territory, this land was also
earmarked by the League of Nations in 1922 for the re-establishment of a
Jewish homeland. In 1967, Judea and Samaria were captured by Israel from
Jordan, an illegal occupier from 1948 to 1967 whose annexation of the
territory was recognized by only two countries and which in 1988 renounced
its claims to the territory. In short, this is unallocated territory under
international law.

"Why cannot 300,000 Jews live among 1.5 million Palestinian Arabs in Judea
and Samaria while 1.2 million Arabs live among 6 million Jews in Israel? No
peace can be built on the notion that the biblical, historical and religious
heartland of the Jewish people or any territory for that matter, must be
judenrein. Remember, Jews come from the historic area known as Judea. We
Jews are Judeans. 'Jew' is a contraction of the term 'Judean.' How absurd
to suggest Jews cannot live from whence we came. Would anyone dare propose
that Arabs cannot live in Arabia? Until the late 60's-early 70's the term
Palestinian meant Jew. Everyone understood that the area of "Palestine" was
the Jewish homeland which the Jews were banished 2000 years ago when the
Romans changed the name from Israel to Palestine after the Jews' arch enemy
the Philistines. Yet the Jews had always maintained a presence there
including a majority within Jerusalem itself. There was never a country
named Palestine - it simply became a desert-like region. The first Jewish
newspaper there was called the Palestine Post and the first Jewish
orchestra, the Palestine Orchestra. Even Paul Newman who played the Jew,
Ari Ben-Canaan, in the movie "Exodus" called himself a "Palestinian" which
he explained is a native born Sabra.

"The Leaders should have pointed out that there are a billion or more people
throughout the world who are Bible believers (including President Obama) who
believe the many biblical statements from G-d giving the Land of Israel to
the Jewish people. These statements appear throughout Genesis and Exodus.
The reason this Land, throughout history, has been called the 'Promised
Land'
is precisely because G-d promised this Land to the Jews in the Bible. Even
secular Jews maintain this connection to the Land on the basis of the Bible.
It is notable that David Ben-Gurion once stated to a British Royal
Commission that the 'Bible is our mandate.' If it weren't, perhaps a Jewish
state would now exist in Uganda, or somewhere else, or not at all.

"The Leaders should also have pointed out that It is significant that a
majority of the Israeli public has supported Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu's repudiation to this point of President Barack Obama's demand
that Israel freeze all Jewish construction and growth in Judea, Samaria and
eastern Jerusalem by 56 percent to 37 percent. It has also opposed
Netanyahu acceding to Obama's reported demand that Israel abandon the
settlement blocs as part of an agreement with the Palestinians by 51 percent
to 34 percent.

"We, at ZOA, were very surprised that the Jewish leaders there emphasized
that the problem was 'perception' more than substance.

The reason there's
an accurate 'perception' of Obama's hostility to Israel is because his
policies are, in fact, hostile to Israel and accommodating to the Arabs
unjust demands and false claims.

"When President Obama said that there was no progress during the Bush years,
even though there "was no 'daylight' between President Bush and Israel,"
the leaders should have said that's simply because the Palestinian Arabs did
not stop terrorism or incitement.

Obama should have been reminded that the
Israelis gave away half of Judea & Samaria, all of Gaza, and even made
offers to give away 97% of Judea & Samaria and establish a state. But Abbas
and the Palestinians never took yes for an answer.

"The ZOA also regrets that this opportunity was not used to take issue with
Obama's anti-Israel Cairo speech which supported false Palestinian claims.
They should have corrected him on his false claim that Palestinian Arabs
were displaced by Israel in 1948; that Palestinian Arabs have been suffering
trying to establish their own state for 60 years; that Jerusalem isn't
secure for Muslims and Christians; that there are seven million Muslims in
America; that Palestinian suffering was equivalent to Jewish suffering
during the Holocaust (meaning the Israeli Jews are like Nazis); that
Palestinian suffering is equivalent to Black suffering during South African
apartheid and slavery in America. The leaders should have taken issue with
his never using the term "terrorism" and instead using the Palestinian
euphemism for 'resistance' .

*"We also regret that the issue of fulfilling US law by moving our embassy
to
Jerusalem was not mentioned as our appropriate demand for an undivided
Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. *

"But President Obama's lack of support for Israel and embrace of the Arabs'
position should not surprise us.

After all, Obama was a 22 year member of a
church whose Pastor regularly condemned Israel and supported Palestinians;
he gave his church $25,000 for many years and called his hateful pastor a
'great man' and 'my mentor'; he himself made speeches saying Hamas and
Hezbollah have legitimate claims; his close friends included harsh haters of
Israel like Professor Rashid Khalidi and Ali Abuneinah - not to mention his
closest friends in the Senate include Chuck Hegel and Richard Lugar who are
harsh critics of Israel; and he attended the Israel and Jew basher Louis
Farrakhan's million man march.

"We should have asked the President why is he going around the world
apologizing for America's having dictated to foreign countries what to do,
yet the President continues to publicly make demands of what Israel must do.

"With respect to ZOA and other like-minded groups not being invited to this
meeting, we were told that President Obama and those around him were not
pleased with our criticism of his Israel policies.

But we thought Obama
said that friends should be able to criticize each other as he does Israel.

We thought he has repeatedly said he wants to listen to other people's ideas
even if they differ from his - and will adopt them if they're good.

"We find it sadly ironic that President Obama publicly supports negotiating
with and engaging evil enemies of America like Iran and Venezuela, but was
unwilling to engage at this face-to-face meeting with pro-Israel
organizations that disagree with him. This is an inappropriate position
that Obama is taking especially in light of the fact that the Zionist
Organization of America is not only the oldest pro-Israel group in the
United States and a Charter member of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations - but the ZOA has been right in their analysis
of every issue. We opposed Oslo as likely leading to nowhere but disaster;
we said Arafat was still a terrorist after the Oslo Accords were signed in
1993; we predicted the Gaza Withdrawal would lead to more missiles against
Israel and further tragedy; and we predicted, based on his record, that
Abbas would not be a reliable and motivated peace partner. Those invited
did not take these same correct positions that ZOA took. ZOA is also among
the most quoted and published Jewish groups in the US today.

As the Wall
Street Journal has said, "ZOA is the most credible advocate for Israel in
the United States today." The Jerusalem Post added, "The ZOA is one of the
most important and influential Jewish groups in the US today." While
congressional leaders like Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) said, "What the ZOA
does is to speak the truth even when the truth is inconvenient to various
powers-that- be." And Republican Minority Whip Congressman Eric Cantor
(R-VA) said, "The ZOA is the moral compass for all of us in Congress as far
as US relationships in the Middle East are concerned."

"But ZOA will continue our work as rational centrists and speak out on
issues based on the facts and not on hopes and dreams.

"An important opportunity was lost at this meeting. We hope, in the future,
that Jewish organizations will make our concerns and beliefs more clearly
known and understood."
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ******** *Read it
and weep…*

by sheikyermami on July 19, 2009

Atlas Shrugs:

[image: 6a00d8341c60bf53ef0 115709f5ff0970c- 500wi]
"THE GIRLS WERE MORE AFRAID OF THEIR 'WEDDING' NIGHT RAPE THAN THE
EXECUTION" "HEARING THEM CRY AND SCREAM AFTER [THE RAPE] WAS OVER"I WILL
NEVER FORGET HOW THIS ONE GIRL CLAWED AT HER OWN FACE, NECK WITH HER FINGER
NAILS. SHE HAD DEEP SCRATCHES ALL
OVER"<http://atlasshrugs2 000.typepad. com/atlas_ shrugs/2009/ 07/the-girls- were-more- afraid-of- their-wedding- night-rape- than-the- execution- hearing-them- cry-and-screa. html>

*We seek broader engagement based upon mutual interest and mutual respect.
We will listen carefully, we will bridge misunderstanding, and we will seek
common ground. We will be respectful even when we do not agree.** Obama in
Cairo*
*[image: hussein-of-arabia11 ]Obama, our moral
authority<http://www.american thinker.com/ 2009/07/obamas_ immoral_authorit y_1.html>,
is shilling for these cannibals. He makes my skin crawl. It is hard to get
through this piece. But read it and know that this is what your President is
protecting. This is what your President feels comfortable with, simpatico
with. It's no wonder he hates the Jews.*

- Freedomplow: United States Media Largely to Blame for Handicapping
Iran's Revolution<http://freedomplow. blogspot. com/2009/ 07/american- media-largely- to-blame- for.html>
- Posting comments and video of the Iran revolution is a good thing.
Giving a road map to the Iranian dictatorship is not.

*'I wed Iranian girls before
execution'*<http://www.jpost. com/servlet/ Satellite? cid=124644384293 1&pagename= JPost%2FJPArticl e%2FShowFull>
SABINA
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Following Report Concerning Weapons Cache in s. Lebanon
IDF Spokesperson' s Office July 19th, 2009

IDF Spokesperson Update

Following a report published in the Israeli daily newspaper, "Ha'aretz",
concerning the detonation of a weapons cache in southern Lebanon last week,
the IDF Spokesperson wishes to stress that the IDF did not pass intelligence

information to UNIFIL regarding the cache.

The IDF will continue to assist UNIFIL in implementing UN resolution 1701.
************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* *
*'UN learned of Hezbollah armed cache months ago'*
By Barak Ravid, Zvi Bar'el, Amos Harel and Jack Khoury Haaretz Last update -
08:14 19/07/2009
www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1101167. html

UNIFIL learned a few months ago about the cache of Katyusha rockets that
exploded in the southern Lebanese village of Hirbet Salim last Tuesday, a
government source in Jerusalem said.

The source said UNIFIL had precise
information about the cache and a number of other installations where
Hezbollah is storing rockets, but that UNIFIL had done nothing.

A discussion is scheduled in the UN Security Council for late August on
renewing UNIFIL's mandate in southern Lebanon; Israel hopes last week's
explosion will show the need to strengthen UNIFIL.

Israel believes that
UNIFIL could sharpen its rules of engagement and act more forcefully with
the Lebanese army in southern Lebanese villages.

Government officials dealing with the Lebanon issue say UNIFIL soldiers
encounter armed Hezbollah fighters or are detained by them, but the
incidents do not appear in the reports submitted to the Security Council.

On Saturday it was reported that that area residents prevented UNIFIL
soldiers from searching an abandoned building near the building that blew up
last week, *in which it is believed Hezbollah stored weapons, against UN
Security Council resolution 1701. *

A Lebanese security official said dozens
of civilians surrounded UNIFIL vehicles and blocked the road leading to the
building. The UNIFIL forces retreated with the assistance of the Lebanese
army.

Earlier, Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech marking a year since the exchange
of
Lebanese prisoners for the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev; the
Hezbollah leader said Israel still held one Lebanese prisoner and a number
of bodies, and that there is still uncertainty surrounding the disappearence
of four Iranian diplomats.

Nasrallah said he would continue working to bring back all Lebanese
prisoners and remains from Israel, implying that the Lebanese government is
not up to the task.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah "allowed" 12 Lebanese civilians to infiltrate a few
dozen meters into Israeli territory on Mount Dov on Saturday near Shaba
Farms, raising a Lebanese flag.

They returned to Lebanon shortly thereafter.
The Israel Defense Forces said it did not respond because the civilians were
unarmed and not dangerous.

The border between Israel and Lebanon in the area is not fenced. IDF
lookouts said the group, which included children, also had a Hezbollah
flag,
but did not raise it.

Israeli forces were placed on alert and the IDF informed UNIFIL command of
the matter, asking them to intervene. By the time the UNIFIL force went to
the site, the group was on its way back to Lebanese territory.

Security officials say the civilian incursion was intended to draw
attention
away from the explosion, which embarrassed Hezbollah, as it revealed the
presence of weapons in southern Lebanon.

*A senior defense official told Haaretz that he believed Hezbollah does not
want to escalate the situation in the north, but that the group was seeking
to attack Israeli targets abroad.*

The infiltration of civilians onto Mount Dov is also apparently connected
to
Saudi and American pressure on Syria to demarcate its border with Lebanon to
bring about an Israeli withdrawal from Shaba Farms.

Such an Israeli
withdrawal would neutralize Hezbollah's justification to continue to remain
an armed group to liberate occupied Lebanese territory. Nasrallah is not
part of these diplomatic efforts and views them as an Israel-American- Saudi
"plot."

Hezbollah says the government and foreign interests are not the "owners" of
the Shaba Farms "project," and if anyone is to make political hay from an
Israeli withdrawal, it must be Hezbollah.

--
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~

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Neither-Nor Generation of 700,000 "Convinced Inactive" Youngsters
Aged from 15 to 35. No work, no studies

MILAN - "My name is Maria Elena Crespi, Malena for my one or two friends. I'm 23, I live just outside Milan and I don't work or study. Do I feel ashamed? No". Malena has a name, a surname, a fresh complexion and the history of disillusion and disengagement that the Spanish have labelled the "Generación ni-ni: ni estudia ni trabaja". The generation that neither studies nor works. Teens and young adults in Spain, Italy, Britain and America. Lots of them, and the number is growing, although they are not yet in the majority. In Italy, the phenomenon has not been named, or at least not yet, but sociologists and psychologists know it well. And unpublished data in the Youth Report 2008, from the department of social, economic, actuarial and demographic studies at La Sapienza university in Rome, appear to confirm it. Further corroboration comes from cross-referencing the figures with data from the ISTAT national statistics institute's study Work Force 2008. In the 15-19 age group, there are 270,000 young people (9%) who do not study and do not work. Most are unable to find a job but 50,000 say they are unemployed by choice and 11,000 say they want nothing to do with work or study ("I'm not interested", "I don't need to").

There is a similar trend among young adults aged from 25 to 35, of whom 1.9 million neither study nor work. That means one in four (25%): 1.2 million of these young people are unemployed, although some of them say they aren't looking for work seriously because they are "discouraged" or because "there isn't any work anyway" but 700,000 are "convinced inactive" youngsters who are not looking for work and are unwilling to look for it. It has been estimated that if Italy had an unemployment rate comparable to the Netherlands, which leads the EU table with 81.3% employed in the 15-39 age group, our GDP would be one or two percentage points higher. But the Neither-Nor phenomenon goes beyond mere numbers. In Spain, according to a recent Metroscopia survey published in El País for the media debut of the "Generación ni-ni", some 54% of young people in the 18-35 age group say they "have no plan onto which to project their interests or ambitions".

The recurring theme is: "Studying is a waste of time. It doesn't open any doors to the future. I'm not looking for work because I wouldn't find it anyway". The crisis seems to have exasperated the reluctance to make an effort. Young Spaniards, 80% of whom are satisfied with their private lives, feel they are victims of "employment devastation" . Even those who in the end opt for study feel they have no prospects. "When they realise what awaits them, they continue to study and travel, perhaps working as waiters to pay for a master's degree while mum and dad wait for them at home". The snapshot of Italy's "neither nors" is much the same. Cosseted by society and hyper-protected by their families, like the "bamboccioni" (stay-at-homes) , but much too aware of their choices to be labelled as such; as listless and relatively defenceless as Generation X but too young to be lumped in with it; surrounded by siblings and friends who are emblematic of the "1,000-euro Generation" but too disillusioned to look for a place in their world. "They don't work because their family maintains them and they can't get a job. They don't study, or study less than they used to, because syllabuses are less challenging and there is no selection", says psychotherapist Anna Oliviero Ferraris. "If the model is Big Brother (if you want to earn some cash, all you have to do is get on TV), then the idea that you don't have to make an effort to succeed takes root. And they drift on to the age of 30 without a life plan. But motivation has to be nurtured from childhood. Along with the idea that struggle and sacrifice are part of real life. And they're what make it so good".

In her book-lined room, Malena agrees: "That's right. But I struggle for what I want. For the time being, I'm fine like this. Perhaps my parents are less happy, like my old Italian teacher who always saw a future for me that was 'promising' (what an awful word). And perhaps like society, which won't accept anyone looking for a way forward that isn't the 1,120 euros a month my doctorate-holding sister earns". Daniele, a pseudonym, adds: "If that road ever existed, they've taken it away from me. My brother did all he could to please other people and now he has no job and no life of his own. I refuse to give up what I am but I'm not happy like this". Enrico B., 26, doesn't study or work but he has a partner and a little boy to look after: "My job? For months it was looking for a job. Now I take whatever comes along". Who looks out for your boy? "My mother and my father. For the time being, we're living with them. Later on, we'll see".

Alessandra Mangiarotti
16 luglio 2009(ultima modifica: 17 luglio 2009)

English translation by Giles Watson

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Article in Italian

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16.: Proactive Disclosure of Quarterly Action Plan- Good Practice from th

Posted by: "Venkatesh Nayak" venkatesh@humanrightsinitiative.org

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:22 am (PDT)

Dear all,
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) under the Union Government of India has
uploaded on its website an action plan for the period June-September 2009.
Even though the proactive disclosure of the Ministry required to be done
under section 4(1)(b) of the Right to Information Act is poor in quality,
this action plan deserves to be treated as good practice. It gives an
overview of some of the work that the Ministry plans to do. This is useful
for any person or organisation that plans to do advocacy around any of the
issues identified in the action plan. I hope this Ministry will continue to
advertise its action plan in subsequent months.

I have checked the websites of a few other ministries- Ministry of
Personnel, Rural Development and Law and Justice. None of them has uploaded
similar plans of action on its website. Perhaps activists around the country
should think of taking this issue up with every ministry they work with or
target as part of their advocacy efforts.

Major highlights from the MHA's action plan are as follows (deadline for
initiation/completi on of task is mentioned in brackets):

1) Phase II of Prisons modernisation scheme: Obtaining approvals (14th
August 2009); Provision of funds during the first supplementary (30th
September 2009) at page 8

2) Reintroduction of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Bill (31st July
2009)- {current session of Parliament is scheduled to go on till 7th of
August} at page 18

3) The Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims)
Bill- (30th September 2009) [as Parliament will not be in session it looks
like this Bill will be readied for cabinet's approval and may be presented
in the next session of Parliament] at page 21

4) Incorporation of International Covenants and Conventions under section
2(1)(f) of the Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 (31st August 2009) [the
said provision already mentions both Intenrational Covenants. so the
reference may be to other Conventions not specifically mentioned in the Act]
at page 21

5) National Investigating Agency- Operationalisation of NIA by notification
of Rules, filling up of posts and finalisation of issues relating to
notification of NIA as a Police Station and modalities of setting up Special
Courts. (varied time line for different items up to 30th September 2009) at
page 22

6) (i) To finalise the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure
(Amendment) Act, 2008 which are to be enforced. (ii) To notify the
provisions which are to be enforced. (30th September 2009) at page 25

7) Naxal Management- at page 29
i) Approval of work plans under Security Related Expenditure (SRE) scheme
for the States of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West
Bengal, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar & Orissa for 2009-10;
(15th July 2009)

ii) Issue of orders for inclusion of 6 districts of Deogarh, Jajpur,
Kondhamal, Dhenkanal and Nayagarh in Orissa and Nizamabad in Andhra Pradesh
in the SRE list. (30th June 2009)

8) Modernisation of Police- the only references are to equipment and
training. There is no mention of compliance with Supreme Court directives or
enacting the Police Bill drafted by PADC. at pages 41-43

There are many more issues addressed in the action plan that may be of
interest to friends in civil society. You may access the full text at:
http://mha.nic. in/writereaddata /12465491641_ AAP.pdf I hope this
information is useful. Please feel free to circulate this amongst your
networks.

Thanks
Venkatesh Nayak
Programme Coordinator
Access to Information Programme
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
B-117, I Floor, Sarvodaya Enclave
New Delhi- 110 017
tel: 91-11- 2686 4678/ 2685 0523
fax: 91-11- 2686 4688
website: www.humanrightsinit iative.org
alternate email: <mailto:nayak.venkatesh@ gmail.com>
nayak.venkatesh@ gmail.com

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17.: Would Please Sign this Petition to Prime Minister of India on Visa D

Posted by: "Madhu Chandra office@madhuchandra.org" Madhu Chandra office@madhuchandra.org msgiri_bebl

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:23 am (PDT)

POSTED BY: Madhu Chandra office@madhuchandra .org

Subject: Would Please Sign this Petition to Prime Minister of India on Visa
Denial to US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Dear Friends,

Thank you for signing in the petition. We will have the petition by July 25,
2009 and submit to Prime Minister of India accordingly. Any of you have not
signed up and willing to sign, may do so. Thank you.

Madhu Chandra

To: Prime Minister of India

Denial of Visa to U.S. Commission Not in India's Interest

To,

Dr. Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India,

We as a nation take legitimate pride in our being the largest secular
democracy and also in our tradition of not only tolerance but respect for
all religions. Given such a claim, denial of visa to the U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom, has reduced our standing in the world to
that of Cuba, the only other country which similarly denied visa to the US
CIRF.

In view of the fact that the members of the Commission wanted to visit
Gujarat and Orissa and that denial of visa resulted from LK Advani's plea to
the Prime Minister on behalf of his Hindutva mentors and friends, we express
our concern on this policy of apparent collusion of the secular UPA
Government with those with an agenda of hate and revenge against Christians
and Muslims.

Mr. Prime Minister, you and your Government in national interest cannot be
identified with extremist Hindu violent groups' interests. In view of this
we urge the UPA Government to take steps to facilitate the visit of the
Commission, whose earlier reports bear testimony to its fairness and absence
of any anti-India bias.

Signatories:

Sincerely,

The Undersigned <http://www.petition online.com/ mod_perl/ signed.cgi? uscirf>

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18.: Food prices in many countries remain very high

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Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:23 am (PDT)

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Subject: Food prices in many countries remain very high

16 July 2009, Rome - Domestic food prices in developing countries remain
high despite a sharp decline in international prices and overall good cereal
harvests, FAO warned today in its latest Crop Prospects and Food Situation
report.

In several countries, prices exceed the already high levels of a year ago or
are still at record levels, creating hardship for millions of people.

In sub-Saharan Africa 80 to 90 percent of all cereal prices monitored by FAO
in 27 countries remain more than 25 percent higher than before the soaring
food price crisis two years ago. In Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean
prices are monitored in a total of 31 countries, and between 40 and 80
percent of these remain more than 25 percent higher than in the pre
food-crisis period, according to FAO data.

"The high food price situation continues to give rise to concern for the
food security of vulnerable populations in both urban and rural areas, as
these groups spend a large share of their incomes on food," FAO said.

In Eastern Africa, in Sudan, prices of sorghum in June were three times
higher than two years ago. In Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia prices of maize
have doubled compared to two years ago. In Southern Africa, prices of maize
have declined in recent months due to a bumper harvest but remain above the
pre-crisis level. In Western Africa, prices decreased in late 2008 following
good cereal harvests, but increased again in 2009. In Ghana, prices of maize
in Accra have more than doubled since June 2007.

Among the reasons for high food prices, the report listed reduced harvests,
higher or delayed imports, civil conflict, strong demand in neighbouring
countries and regional trade flows, devaluation of national currencies,
changes in food and trade policies, increased incomes and demand, and
transport constraints and higher transport costs.

*World cereal supply remains satisfactory*

The outlook for world cereal supply and demand is satisfactory, despite an
estimated 3 percent decline in world cereal production in 2009 from the 2008
record level, FAO said. World cereal production in 2009 is forecast at 2 208
million tonnes, 3.4 percent down from last year's record harvest, but
nonetheless the second largest crop ever. Reductions are forecast for wheat
and coarse grains.

In Low-Income Food-Deficit countries, prospects for 2009 cereal crops are
generally favourable and aggregate production is forecast to increase for
the second consecutive year. However, the outlook is uncertain in parts of
Western and Eastern Africa as well as in Asia reflecting an erratic start of
the rainy season.

*30 countries in crisis*

Despite a positive outlook for global cereal supplies, 30 countries around
the world are in crisis and require assistance as a result of natural
disasters, conflict or insecurity, and economic problems.

A World Food Summit is to be held at FAO Headquarters in Rome from 16-18
November with the aim of securing a broad consensus on the eradication of
hunger, on improved governance of the international agricultural system and
on policies and programmes to ensure world food security.

FAO Press release

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19.: Iran: New regulations curtail independence of lawyers

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Subject: [hr-legal-professio nals] Iran: New regulations curtail independence
of lawyers

Human Rights Watch Press release
July 16, 2009

(New York) - Iran's government should withdraw new regulations that severely
limit the independence of the Iranian Bar Association and would give the
government control over a lawyer's right to practice, Human Rights Watch
said today.

Revised implementing regulations (bylaws) to the law establishing the
independence of the Bar Association would give the Judiciary, whose head is
appointed by the Supreme Leader and which oversees the Justice Ministry, the
decisive role in approving lawyers' licensing applications. The Bar
Association has exercised that right for the last 50 years, and the 1955 law
establishing the bar's independence says that the law cannot be changed
without the bar's approval.

"This so-called reform would allow the government to hand-pick the lawyers
who are allowed to practice," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North
Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "What we see here is a naked effort
to intimidate Iranian defense lawyers at a time when the government is
detaining hundreds of people without charge."

On June 17, the head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, approved
revisions to the bylaws of the 1955 law establishing the independence of the
Iranian Bar Association. The revised bylaws take effect immediately and do
not require approval by parliament or any other government body. Two
provisions gravely undermine the bar's independence, giving the government
the ability to deny political critics and human rights defenders the right
to practice as lawyers.

According to senior Iranian lawyers, the head of the Judiciary has no power
to make such changes in the bylaws without consulting the Bar Association.
Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Laureate and prominent human rights defender, told
Human Rights Watch that Shahroudi is "well aware" that he has no legal
authority to decree these changes. "He seems to have approved this bylaw
under political pressure," she said.

Article 11 sets up a five-member committee to make decisions on bar
membership or renewal. Three of the members will be appointed by the head of
the Judiciary, while the other two, appointed by the Bar Association' s board
of directors, must also have the Judiciary chief's approval.

Article 17 states that the "deputy to the head of the Judiciary or an
official representative of the Judiciary will be responsible for the
accreditation of the licenses to practice law."

In recent years, Iranian authorities have filed what appear to be
politically motivated complaints against outspoken human rights lawyers such
as Ebadi and Seyyed Mohammad Seyfzadeh, and pressured the Bar Association to
take action against such members. Lawyers have told Human Rights Watch that
until now, the Bar Association has resisted such requests.

The Judiciary approved the bylaws' revisions less than a week after Iran's
disputed June 12 presidential election, and in the midst of a government
crackdown on peaceful protesters and dissidents. With media restrictions as
well as the detention of hundreds of prominent activists and writers and
several well-known human rights lawyers, critics have been severely hampered
in their ability to voice objections to the law and its dangerous
consequences.

The 1955 law that established the independence of the Bar Association also
gave it an exclusive role in granting and revoking licenses to practice law
without interference of the Justice Ministry. This law exists in essentially
the same form today, and prohibits interference by the Judiciary in the
process. According to the 1955 law, any amendments to the law or its
implementing regulations must have Bar Association approval.

Nasrin Sotoodeh, a Tehran-based lawyer, told Human Rights Watch that
enforcement of this law would put lawyers like herself at grave risk. If
they attempt to practice law without a license, she said, they face "hefty
punishments. " Sotoodeh said:

"We are at risk of imprisonment. All lawyers who belong to the Bar
Association have announced their readiness to submit objections and
petitions to the Court of Administrative Justice . Additionally, in a
meeting of human rights defenders we decided that groups of five to 10
people each day would submit petitions to annul the new bylaws to show how
broad the opposition is in the legal community. The court will know that it
is not just the Bar Association that is unhappy with this change."

On July 6, security officers arrested Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a prominent
human rights lawyer and founding member of the Defenders of Human Rights
Center (DHRC), at his office in Tehran. A colleague of Dadkhah told Human
Rights Watch that Dadkhah's arrest came as he and other lawyer colleagues
met to review the new bylaws. Dadkhah's daughter, Malihe, along with Sara
Sabaghian, Bahareh Dowaloo, and Amir Raiisian, were also arrested and taken
to an unknown location.

On July 4, Bahman Keshavarz, former chair of the Bar Association, wrote in
the daily Etemad that:

"We can certainly expect that every lawyer who says too much or accepts
undesirable clients can expect to wake up in the morning and find that his
license has been revoked. Intellectuals will be punished for their thoughts,
and will not be able to retain suitable counsel because all of the lawyers
with the courage to work on their cases have been or will be disbarred.
Blacklisted politicians will search for independent and courageous lawyers,
but will not be able to find them. Even more heart-wrenching is the
situation of people who confront serious judicial proceedings but will have
no refuge."

The UN Basic Principles on the Role of
Lawyers<http://lists. hrea.org/ phplist/lt. php?id=Kh5QAQdfC gdWSlUEBgQGHwEPA 1ME>state
that lawyers have the right to form "self-governing" professional
associations to "protect their professional integrity" which shall be able
to "exercise its functions without external interference. " An attempt by the
Nigerian government to take over that country's bar association, including
the regulation of its members, was found by the African Commission on Human
and Peoples' Rights to be a violation of the basic right of freedom of
association.

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20.: Moldova: 'Ill-treatment and police brutality should be stamped out'

Posted by: "HREA noreply@hrea.org" HREA noreply@hrea.org msgiri_bebl

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:24 am (PDT)

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Subject: [headlines] Moldova: 'Ill-treatment and police brutality should be
stamped out' says Commissioner Hammarberg

Strasbourg, 17.07.2009 – "The violations of the prohibition against
ill-treatment, which surfaced so acutely after the post-electoral
demonstrations of 6-7 April, must be tackled head-on to restore a climate of
confidence. Decisive action should be taken to enforce a firm attitude of
'zero tolerance' of ill-treatment throughout the criminal justice system"
said the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights on publishing
today his report<http://lists. hrea.org/ phplist/lt. php?id=Kh5QAQFTD wJTSlUEBgQFHwEPA 1ME>on
the visit to Moldova.

"It is clear that there is a need to review not only the behaviour of
individual police officers, but also the responsibility of their superiors"
says Commissioner Hammarberg. "Full clarity must be established on this
breakdown of professionalism and respect for basic standards. I hope that
the resolve expressed by the Moldovan authorities to overcome this problem
and ensure accountability will be followed by concrete, resolute and
sustained action."

Furthermore, Commissioner Hammarberg stresses that "prosecutors, judges,
senior police officers and lawyers should be attentive to allegations or
signs of possible ill-treatment, and there needs to be proper screening,
recording and reporting of injuries in police detention facilities."

The Commissioner finds that pressure put upon media and non-governmental
organisations involved in reporting on allegations of human rights
violations is unacceptable. "Free expression and information should be
protected, including in times of crisis. At the same time, media
professionals should make a special effort to adhere to professional and
ethical standards."

Finally, Commissioner Hammarberg recommends that thorough and comprehensive
inquiries be carried out into the events. "Apart from clarifying the issues
relating to the elections themselves, it is essential that the developments
during the demonstrations, including the violent acts and the failed riot
control measures be investigated. There needs to be a prompt follow-up to
the human rights violations, in particular the numerous instances of
ill-treatment by the police. The inquiries must be independent, impartial,
transparent and perceived as credible by the people of Moldova."

The report is based on the findings of a visit to Moldova carried out by the
Commissioner on 25-28 April 2009. It is available, together with the
government's comments, on the Commissioner' s
website<http://lists. hrea.org/ phplist/lt. php?id=Kh5QAQFTD wJQSlUEBgQFHwEPA 1ME>.

Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights
Communication Unit
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21.: Course in Human Rights Leadership Development (10 August-11 Septembe

Posted by: "Catherine Onyemjoro hr-education@lists.hr" Catherine Onyemjoro hr-education@lists.hrea.org msgiri_bebl

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:24 am (PDT)

POSTED BY: Catherine Onyemjoro hr-education@ lists.hrea. org

Subject: [hr-education] Course in Human Rights Leadership Development (10
August-11 September 2009)

Dear colleagues,

We wish to inform you that the Global Human Rights Leadership Training
Institute (GHRLTI) is now accepting applications for the 5th edition of its
Certificate Course in Human Rights Leadership Development Training, 10th
August - 11th September 2009.

Please help circulate this announcement.

*Course description*

The Human Rights Leadership Development Training course aims to develop a
comprehensive experience of human rights learning by equipping potential
human rights educators, advocates, activists, students, volunteers, and law
enforcement officers with knowledge and skills to Integrate knowledge in the
fields of politics, economics, cultural diversity, gender issues and
socio-psychology in the context of human rights.

The program will further equip participants with skills for better
understanding of the concepts of human rights learning and leadership
development. This course will also provide the participants with a concrete
step-by-step approach including hints and guidelines for developing and
implementing a successful human rights project in their organisation and
communities.

*Benefits*

The overall objective of this course is to provide participants with an
introduction to the concept of human rights, design and implementation of
successful human rights learning in their organisation and communities.
Participants will be empowered to advocate for their basic, human rights and
develop leadership skills. The course can be used to establish or strengthen
human rights policies and practices both in the public and private sector.

The maximum number of course participants is 30. Participants who
successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of
Participation.

*Additional Features*

· Online, interactive, self-paced and self-learning modules.
· Surveys and tests to test your knowledge and understanding before and
after the test.
· Opportunity to post comments, assignment answers, live chat etc.

The course is aimed at human rights educators, advocates, activists, law
enforcement officers, lawyers, women activists, programs managers, research
officers, leaders and members of coalitions and networks, staff of NGOs and
CBOs, donor agency program officers, volunteers, development actors,
trainers, students, ministry of Justice officials, government officials etc.
Furthermore, every opportunity will be taken for joint learning events for
participants and GHRLTI staff. Candidates should have a good written command
of English language and high competence and comfort with computer and
Internet usage.

*Cost*

The course tuition fee is USD300. There is a limited amount of partial
scholarships available for this course for applicants from developing
countries and newly independent states, based on financial need.

*Location:* Online

*Application Procedure*

The deadline for application is 7th August 2009. While full tuition payment
is due on 10th August 2009. However, applications will be accepted on a
first-come-first- serve basis.

Inquiries about the course may be sent to: applications@ justicegroup. org .

Catherine Onyemjoro
Program Officer
GHRLTI
Human Rights and Justice Group International
53, Western Avenue, Lagos
Tel: +234.803.492. 3400, 1.8970197
E-mail: info@justicegroup. org

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