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Saturday, August 28, 2010

[ALOCHONA] Powerful Documentary on Caste - "INDIA UNTOUCHED: Stories of a People Apart"



INDIA UNTOUCHED

It's a film with a difference. "India Untouched: Stories of a People Apart'' is a documentary that journeys across eight States and four religions and depicts the continued exclusion and segregation of those considered "untouchables'' in India.

 

Speaking about his film in the Capital on Thursday, Director Stalin K. said: "India Untouched will make it impossible for anyone in India to deny that untouchability is still practised today. My team and I spent four years travelling the length and breadth of the country to bear witness to the continued exclusion and segregation of those considered as untouchables.''

 

The film introduces leading Banaras scholars who interpret Hindu scriptures to mean that Dalits "have no right'' to education, and Rajput farmers who proudly proclaim that the police must seek their permission before pursuing cases of atrocities against Dalits.

 

"The film captures many `firsts-on-film', including Dalits being forced to dismount from their cycles and remove their shoes when in the upper caste part of the village. It exposes the continuation of caste practices and untouchability in Sikhism, Christianity and Islam, among the Communists in Kerala, and within some of India's most revered academic and professional institutions,'' said Stalin.

 

The documentary film has inputs in several languages including Hindi, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Telugu, English, Punjabi, Malayalam and Gujarati with English sub-titles.

 

Stalin K. is a human rights activist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. This documentary is his second film on the issue of caste. -- Bindu Shajan Perappadan

India Untouched Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_UnVZT0-0k

 

India Untouched Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-xzZ0-Ex8E

 

India Untouched Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKTxr30h8CE

 

India Untouched Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyWQab8fkoE

 

India Untouched Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_90TdBfZEU

 

India Untouched Part 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6zrqRztACg

 

India Untouched Part 7 (Caste in Sikhism)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DrDVEL7YE

 

India Untouched Part 8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZkH0v0cJ8

 

India Untouched Part 9 (Caste in Christianity & Islam)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL27PaS62EI

 

India Untouched Part 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OLv6i4DK_k

 

India Untouched Part 11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxk43a_jjV4



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[ALOCHONA] Alarming increase in incidents of mugging all over Dhaka during ramadan



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Khamin writes about the alarming increase in incidents of mugging all over Dhaka during ramadan


photo by Al-Emrun Garjon

Rehana Parvin, a housewife and resident of Gulshan, returned home shocked and traumatised on the afternoon of August 18.

   Three muggers on a motorbike, who blocked her rickshaw on her way home from shopping near Nodda bazaar, fled the scene after snatching her ornaments and cellphone. However, she was in for a surprise when a policeman called her home to inform her that she can pick up her belongings from the Gulshan police station.

   At the station, she learnt that following her mugging incident, Awami League MP Abdur Razzaque's jeep carrying only Mohammad Hemayetuddin, his personal bodyguard, and the jeep's driver, chased the muggers. When the jeep blocked the motorcycle's path, one of the muggers, named Badal, shot at the jeep. Hemayet returned fire striking Badal in the neck.

   Badal died on spot while his companion, Sultan, was apprehended by the public, roughed up and then handed over to the police. The third criminal managed to get away.

   Although Parvin happily filed the case and returned home with her belongings, most residents of Dhaka and the other cities of Bangladesh are not as fortunate as her, as incidents of mugging are alarmingly on the rise in these cities especially during the month of ramadan when almost everyone is busy shopping for clothing items, household items and even groceries.

   According to the street shopkeepers in Gulshan, a week before this incident, a foreigner lost his valuables and money to muggers in the same manner.

   The very next day after the Gulshan shooting, police constable Manjurul Islam was shot dead by criminals in Motijheel on the night of August 19. Manjurul was searching a rickshaw passenger just split seconds before the incident. The criminal was also shot dead by the police.

   Following the incident, police shared with the media that criminal gangs were meeting up near Kamlapur station for the sale of illegal arms and decide on the territories for mugging and extortion during the 'lucrative' month of ramadan.

   According to citizens and law enforcement officials, shopping malls, banks, money exchanges are the top targeted locations for muggers as most traders deal in considerable transactions with banks, financial institutions, customers, clients, suppliers and other stakeholders during this month of the year.

   Muggings are rampant in areas with more numbers of shopping malls, banks, hospitals, money exchanges and other institutions. According to law enforcement sources, incidents of mugging are taking place in broad daylight in areas like Motijheel, Shahjahanpur, Agargaon, Tejgaon, Moghbazar, Dhanmondi, Lalmatia, Mohammadpur, Rayerbazar, Green Road, Azimpur, Gulshan, Banani, Uttara and other areas.

   Only in July, around 27 cases of mugging incidents were reported in several locations of Dhaka city according to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)'s monthly statistics. Some dailies and newspapers reported it to be around 35. However, the actual number is much more as most victims do not bother to report the incidents as they feel the police would never be able to do anything. Others, who go through the hassle of reporting the crime at the concerned police station, are usually persuaded to file a general diary that his/her items were 'lost' as opposed to 'mugged'.

   'After being mugged at Road 6 near Gulshan 1 on July 17, I went to the gulshan police station to report the incident a day or so later,' says Kalimul Pasha to Xtra. 'The police officer taking the complaints and filing the general diaries asked me to file it as just "lost" and later reasoned that if I file a case, then there will be investigations resulting in a lot of hassle for me. Clearly, the police do not want to do much work for such cases. Is this the kind of service that the police are giving to victims like us? Are we paying their salaries through our taxes or are the muggers paying them?' he asks.

   City-dwellers speculate that since the situation was bad last month, it is naturally going to worsen during this month as besides, the increase in business transactions, the majority of city-dwellers are likely to draw salaries and bonuses and scour the shopping malls to buy clothing items for family members.

   Although the DMP and the Detective Branch (DB) are hopeful that they will be able to control the law and order situation in Dhaka city through stricter measures, the statistics available paints a grimmer picture. DMP had a list of around 900 muggers and extortionists in Dhaka city in June of this year. However, the DMP arrested only 200 criminals over the past two months, most of them being teenagers from the different gangs in the city.

   After attending a lecture, on ramadan followed by iftar, at the Goethe institute in Dhanmondi on August 15, Kazi Mohsin Jaman and his wife were looking for a rickshaw to get to their house in Dhanmondi Road 6.

   'As the roads are usually empty right after iftar, we began walking from Road 9 towards Road 7 and 6 across the Dhanmondi field,' shares Mohsin later with Xtra. 'The streets were extremely dark and not a pedestrian was in sight,' he adds.

   Suddenly Mohsin became aware of two motorcycles, not too far behind, following them. 'Although I began looking for a safer place, I did not find any nearby and the muggers blocked our path and aimed two revolvers at us,' he recollects.

   Threatening to shower him and his wife with bullets if they made a sound, the muggers snatched away their mobile phones, wallet, vanity bag and ornaments. 'Then, they ordered us to walk straight and not look back. We did as we were told,' says Mohsin.

   Two days after this incident, another man was mugged near Dhanmondi 7. 'I was returning home after saying my tarabih prayers at the masjid nearby,' he says.

   Shopkeepers and residents of the area inform that the muggers take advantage of the fact that the area lacks street lamps and police do not patrol this spot that regularly. Also, the area is used by most foreigners who move through it to go to the Goethe Institut, Alliance Francaise of Dhaka, Russian cultural centre and other cultural venues nearby.

   'We usually do not come out on these streets after dark as we know that muggers lurk in the area,' says Masud, a 21-year-old resident at a nearby apartment building.

   Law enforcement officials point out that muggers are now more organised than ever. 'They are now more creative through their plans, vehicles, in picking the spots and the times,' says a senior DMP official. 'While the criminals with low capital use motorbikes or even CNG three-wheelers, those with more experience use cars to block traffic, lock onto a particular target, carry out the operation and speed off very easily. The entire incident is over within just two to three minutes,' he says.

   According to the DB police sources, around four to five incidents are occurring daily in the city, from which one to two incidents end up being very serious with the victims badly hurt.

   Despite repeated DMP assurances to curb the deterioration of the law and order situation during this particular month, the law enforcing department is finding it extremely tough to follow through with their promise. 'Most of the muggers are highly professional, with some muggers hailing from well-off families. Most of them have reverted to this profession as they are no longer getting money from their families to quench their desire for drugs,' says Officer in-Charge Kamaluddin of the gulshan police station.

   'Most of the muggers are floating criminals, committing crimes in one area and actually living in another area. This is one of the reason police is finding it hard to identify them,' says Assistant Police Commissioner (AC-Crime) Hasnat Nazmul Alam from DMP.

   Just a day after the death of a mugger and policeman on August 19, a mugger was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB 2) with bullet wounds at Agargaon. The criminal and his group were about to snatch the valuables and money of rickshaw passengers and pedestrians passing through the area during the evening.

   When RAB 2 sighted the criminals, the muggers shot at the patrol. 'We returned fire and although his colleagues were able to get away, we apprehended Hannan, the wounded gang leader,' says Major Rezaul Hoque, second-in-command of RAB 2.

   One local pipe gun was recovered from the mugger, against whom a murder case has already been filed with the police earlier. According to police sources, Hannan operates illegal rackets in Karwan Bazar and sometimes leads mugging operations in Agargaon.

   While talking to shopkeepers at Agargaon, Mirpur, Dhanmondi and Tejgaon, this correspondent found that most of the muggers are between the ages of 18 to 22. There are also allegations that being in cahoots with most local ward commissioners, these criminals are always above the law.

   'Some ward commissioners, based in Mirpur, Shewrapara and adjoining areas, indirectly support most of these criminals,' says Officer In-charge Kazi Wazed Ali of the Mirpur police station. 'Even when we catch some of these criminals red-handed, they are bailed out by their senior brothers, the commissioners,' he says.

   'Everyday, news about mugging, snatching, innocent people being shot and so on are being published in the dailies and aired on the television channels,' says businessman Shafayet Islam to Xtra. 'If this condition prevails, we would not be able to move freely in the city anymore,' he adds. He expresses further concern that if the law and order situation is this bad during ramadan, what would the scenario be on the week of Eid when half of Dhaka city will be empty.

   'It is true that the mugger gangs are operating in the cities in a planned manner during ramadan and with Eid in mind,' says Rezaul. 'But we are increasing our patrols. We have already arrested nine muggers in the last ten days,' he informs.

   The DB of police informs Xtra that to thwart the prowess of these gangs, they have already set up male and female police forces in civil dresses. 'These officials will be patrolling different hot spots and crowded areas of the city during ramadan,' says Assistant Commissioner Russel Sheikh from the Public relations department of DB.
 



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[ALOCHONA] FW: MUSLIM CABBIE STABBED IN NEW YORK




 


Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:40:32 +0100
Subject: MUSLIM CABBIE STABBED IN NEW YORK

New York rider asks if cabbie is Muslim, stabs him

Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN, Aug 27, 2010, 01.32am IST
 
WASHINGTON: It's a slash that has cut deep into New York City's storied reputation as the world's greatest ethnic and cultural melting pot. 

A crazed, and possibly drunk, 21-year old wingnut pulled a knife on a 
New York City cabbie and 
slashed him multiple times during evening rush hour on Wednesday after inquiring if he was a Muslim. 

The incident, coming amid a fervid debate over a proposed mosque close to the site of the 
9/11 tragedysparked off an tortured debate about possible growing Islamophobiain the United States, even as it stunned the city known as Big Apple, almost 40% of whose residents are foreign-born and hail from nearly every corner of the world. 

Michael Enright's cab ride after he hailed the taxi driven 
Ahmed Sharif, a 44-year old 
Bangladeshi immigrant appears to have begun calmly enough. Enright actually greeted him 
with a "salaam aleikum" and inquired about how the holy month of Ramzan was going for him. 

At some point, the young man began making fun of Ramzan, upon which Sharif says he 
went quiet to avoid any further aggravation. But as the traffic inched down on ThirdAvenue
close to a block lined with Indian and Bangladeshi eateries, Enright began some soldierly 
shouting and cursing at Sharif. 

Yelling "This is a check point...I have to bring you down, mo..fo", Enright pulled out a knife, 
reached across a plastic divider that typically screens drivers from passengers and slashed 
Sharif across the throat and his hands as they went up in protection. He then bolted from the 
cab in slow moving traffic. Police officers alerted to the incident by a bleeding Sharif apprehended 
Enright, who claimed the cab driver had tried to rob him. 

After a psychiatric evaluation, Enright was charged with second-degree attempted murder 
as a hate crime, first-degree assault as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon, 
and held without bail. 

It turns out that Enright is an aspiring film-maker who was working as an unpaid intern at an 
internet media company and working on a documentary on Bravo Company, aUS Marine group 
also known as Lava Dogs. He spent several weeks embedded with them in Afghanistan earlier 
this year. But nothing in his behavior then or later appeared to suggest he had any anti-muslim 
prejudice, his friends and employers said. 

The incident stunned 
New Yorkers, including the community of 44,000 licensed cab drivers, 
nearly half of whom are from the Indian sub-continent. Typically, as many visiting Indians discover, 
there is an even chance that the driver of cab one hails in NYC speaks Punjabi or Bengali. 
A contrite mayor Michael Bloomberg said the episode went against everything the city stood 
for, even as questions raged about whether the attack was a sign that the mosque debate was 
getting out of hand. 

The irony was that Sharif had frequently expressed himself against the proposed masjid 
near the 9/11 site.


Read more: New York rider asks if cabbie is Muslim, stabs him - US - World - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6442568.cms?prtpage=1#ixzz0xkuiia33


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Fwd: [ALOCHONA] Mossad in America



Dear all,

Found another interesting article on this topic. Hope you enjoy reading it. Not in a position to verify all claims in this article but sure worth reading it......

However it is a fact that, a long serving ( 22 years)republican congressman from Illinois (Paul Findley) was removed by AIPAC for speaking out for Palestinian cause.

http://arabnews.com/opinion/columns/article89730.ece

Sayanim — Israeli operatives in the US

By JEFF GATES
Americans know that something fundamental is amiss. They sense — rightly — that they are being misled no matter which political party does the leading.

A long misinformed public lacks the tools to grasp how they are being deceived. Without those tools, Americans will continue to be frustrated at being played for the fool.
When the "con" is clearly seen, "the mark" (that's us) will see that all roads lead to the same duplicitous source: Israel and its operatives. The secret to Israel's force-multiplier in the US is its use of agents, assets and sayanim (Hebrew for volunteers).
When Israeli-American Jonathan Pollard was arrested for spying in 1986, Tel Aviv assured us that he was not an Israeli agent but part of a "rogue" operation. That was a lie.
Only 12 years later did Tel Aviv concede that he was an Israeli spy the entire time he was stealing US military secrets. That espionage-by a purported ally-damaged our national security more than any operation in US history. In short, Israel played us for the fool.
From 1981-1985, this US Navy intelligence analyst provided Israel with 360 cubic feet of classified military documents on Soviet arms shipments, Pakistani nuclear weapons, Libyan air defense systems and other intelligence sought by Tel Aviv to advance its geopolitical agenda.
Agents differ from assets and sayanim. Agents possess the requisite mental state to be convicted of treason, a capital crime. Under US law, that internal state is what distinguishes premeditated murder from a lesser crime such as involuntary manslaughter. Though there's a death in either case, the legal liabilities are different — for a reason.
Intent is the factor that determines personal culpability. That distinction traces its roots to a widely shared belief in free will as a key component that distinguishes humans from animals.
Agents operate with premeditation and "extreme malice" or what the law describes as an "evil mind." Though that describes the mental state of Pollard, Israeli leaders assured us otherwise — another example of an evil mind as the US was played for the fool.
 
Played for the fool
Again Pollard took from his office more than one million documents for copying by his Israeli handler. When those classified materials were transferred to the Soviets, reportedly in exchange for the emigration of Russian Jews, this spy operation shifted the entire dynamics of the Cold War.
To put a price tag on this espionage, imagine $20 trillion in US Cold War defense outlays from 1948-1989 (in 2010 dollars). The bulk of that investment in national security was negated by a spy working for a nation that pretended throughout to be a US ally.
Pollard was sentenced to life in prison. Israel suffered no consequences. None. Zero. Nada. Not then. Not now. Then as now, we were played for the fool.
At trial, Pollard claimed he wasn't stealing from the US; he was stealing secrets for Israel — with whom the US has long had a "special relationship." He thought we should have shared our military secrets with them. That's chutzpah. That also confirms we were played for the fool.
Looking back, it's easy to see how seamlessly we segued from a global Cold War to a global War on Terrorism. In retrospect, the false intelligence used to induce our invasion of Iraq was traceable to Israelis, pro-Israelis or Israeli assets such as John McCain.
Even while in prison, Pollard's iconic status among Israelis played a strategic role. Was it just coincidence that Tel Aviv announced a $1 million grant to their master spy less than two weeks before 911? Is that how Israel signaled its operatives in the US? Did that grant have any relationship to the "dancing Israelis" who were found filming and celebrating that mass murder as both jets smashed into the World Trade Center? Absent that provocation, would we now find ourselves at war in the Middle East? Surely no one still believes that America's interests are being advanced in a quagmire that has now become the longest war in US history.
"I know what America is," Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of Israelis in 2001, apparently not knowing his words were being recorded. "America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction." Let's face it: the US was again played for the fool.
With oversight by Israeli case officers (katsas), Israeli operations proceed in the US by using agents, assets and volunteers (sayanim). Let's take a closer look at each.
 
The Sayanim system
Sayanim (singular sayan) are shielded from conventional legal culpability by being told only enough to perform their narrow role. Though their help may be essential to the success of an Israeli operation, these volunteers (sayanim also means helpers) could pass a polygraph test because their recruiters ensure they remain ignorant of the overall goals of an operation.
In other words, a sayan can operate as an accomplice but still not be legally liable due to a lack of the requisite intent regarding the broader goals — of which they are purposely kept ignorant. Does that intentional "ignorance" absolve them of liability under US law? So far, yes.
Much like military reservists, sayanim are activated when needed to support an operation. By agreeing to be available to help Israel, they provide an on-call undercover corps and force-multiplier that can be deployed on short notice.
How are sayanim called to action? To date, there's been no attempt by US officials to clarify that key point. This may explain why Pollard was again in the news on July 13 with a high-profile Israeli commemoration of his 9000th day of incarceration.
To show solidarity with this Israeli-American traitor, the lights encircling Jerusalem were darkened while an appeal was projected onto the walls of the Old City urging that President Barack Obama order Pollard's release from federal prison.
Pollard has long been a rallying point for Jewish nationalists, Zionist extremists and ultra-orthodox ideologues. In short, just the sort of people who would be likely recruits as sayanim. The news coverage given this Day of Adoration may help explain how Israel signals its helpers that an operation is under way and in need of their help.
Are pro-Israelis once again playing Americans for the fool? When not aiding an ongoing operation, sayanim gather and report intelligence useful to Israel. This volunteer corps is deeply imbedded in legislative bodies, particularly in the US. Thus far, this Israeli operation has advanced with legal impunity as the Israel lobby — though acting as a foreign agent — continues even now to pose as a "domestic" operation.
Morris Amitay, former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, explains how this invisible cadre aids the Israel lobby in advancing its geopolitical agenda: "There are a lot of guys at the working level up here [on Capitol Hill]...who happen to be Jewish, who are willing...to look at certain issues in terms of their Jewishness...These are all guys who are in a position to make the decision in these areas for those senators...You can get an awful lot done just at the staff level."
What sayanim are not told by their katsas is that an Israeli operation may endanger not only Israel but also the broader Jewish community when these operations are linked to extremism, terrorism, organized crime, espionage and treason. Though sayanim "must be 100 percent Jewish," Ostrovsky reports in By Way of Deception (1990): ."..the Mossad does not seem to care how devastating it could be to the status of the Jewish people in the Diaspora if it was known. The answer you get if you ask is: "So what's the worst that could happen to those Jews? They'd all come to Israel. Great!" [Mossad is the intelligence and foreign operations directorate for Israel.]
 
Assets, Agents and Sayanim
Assets are people profiled in sufficient depth that they can be relied upon to perform consistent with their profile. Such people typically lack the state of mind required for criminal culpability because they lack the requisite intent to commit a crime.
Nevertheless, assets are critical to the success of Israeli operations in the US. They help simply by pursuing their profiled personal needs — typically for recognition, influence, money, sex, drugs or the greatest drug of all: ideology.
Thus the mission-critical task fulfilled by political assets that the Israel lobby "produces" for long-term service in the Congress — while appearing to represent their US constituents.
Put a profiled asset in a pre-staged time, place and circumstance — over which the Israel lobby can exert considerable influence — and Israeli psy-ops specialists can be confident that, within an acceptable range of probabilities, an asset will act consistent with his or her profile.
Democrat or Republican is irrelevant; the strategic point remains the same: to ensure that lawmakers perform consistent with Israel's interests. With the help of McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reform," the Israel lobby attained virtual control over the US Congress.
The performance of assets in the political sphere can be anticipated with sufficient confidence that outcomes become foreseeable — within an acceptable range of probabilities. How difficult was it to predict the outcome when Bill Clinton, a classic asset, encountered White House intern Monica Lewinsky? Sen. John McCain has long been a predictable asset. His political career traces its origins to organized crime from the 1920s. It was organized crime that first drew him to Arizona to run for Congress four years before the 1986 retirement of Sen. Barry Goldwater.
By marketing his "brand" as a Vietnam-era prisoner of war, he became a reliable spokesman for Tel Aviv while being portrayed as a "war hero." No media outlet dares mention that Col. Ted Guy, McCain's commanding officer while a POW, sought his indictment for treason for his many broadcasts for the North Vietnamese that assured the death of many US airmen.
As a typical asset, it came as no surprise to see McCain and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a self-professed Zionist, used to market the phony intelligence that took us to war in Iraq. McCain's ongoing alliance with transnational organized crime spans three decades.
His 1980's advocacy for S&L crook Charles Keating of "The Keating 5" finds a counterpart in his recent meetings with Russian-Israeli mobster Oleg Deripaska who at age 40 held $40 billion in wealth defrauded from his fellow Russians.
McCain conceded earlier this month in a town hall meeting in Tempe, Arizona that he met in a small dinner in Switzerland with mega-thief Deripaska and Lord Rothschild V.
For assets such as McCain to be indicted for treason, the American public must grasp the critical role that such pliable personalities play in political manipulations. McCain is a "poster boy" for how assets are deployed to shape decisions such as those that took our military to war. In the Information Age, if that's not treason, what is? The predictability of a politician's conduct confirms his or her qualifications as an asset. They are routinely developed and "produced" over lengthy periods of time and then — as with John McCain — maintained in key positions to influence decision-making at key junctures.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was candid in his assessment four weeks after 9/11. He may have been thinking about John McCain when he made this revealing comment: "I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it." [Oct. 3, 2001]
 
Indictments for treason
Are assets culpable? Do they have the requisite intent to indict them for treason? Does McCain possess an evil mind? Did he betray this nation of his own free will or is he typical of those assets with personalities so weak and malleable that they can easily be manipulated? As federal grand juries are impaneled to identify and indict participants in this trans-generational operation, how many sayanim should the Federal Bureau of Investigation expect to uncover in the US? No one knows because this subtle form of treason is not yet well understood.

Victor Ostrovksy, a former Mossad katsa (case officer) wrote in 1990 that the Mossad had 7,000 sayanim in London alone. In London's 1990 population of 6.8 million, Israel's all-volunteer corps represented one-tenth of one percent of the residents of that capital city.
If Washington, DC is ten times more critical to Israel's geopolitical goals (an understatement), does that mean the FBI should expect to find ten times more sayanim per capita in Washington? What about sayanim in Manhattan, Miami, Beverly Hills, Atlanta, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Toledo? No one knows. And Tel Aviv is unlikely to volunteer the information. This we know for certain: America has been played for the fool. And so has our military.

This duplicity dates back well before British Foreign Secretary Alfred Balfour wrote to an earlier Lord Rothschild in 1917 citing UK approval for a "Jewish homeland." In practical effect, that "homeland" now ensures nonextradition for senior operatives in transnational organized crime.
To date, America has blinded itself even to the possibility of such a trans-generational operation inside our borders and imbedded inside our government. Instead the toxic charge of "anti-Semitism" is routinely hurled at those chronicling the "how" component of this systemic treason.
Making this treason transparent is essential to restore US national security. That transparency may initially appear unfair to the many moderate and secular Jews who join others appalled at this systemic corruption of the US political system.

Yet they are also concerned that somehow they may be portrayed as guilty by association due to a shared faith tradition. That would be not only unjust to them but also ineffective in identifying and indicting those complicit.

This much is certain: a Democrat as president offers no real alternative to a Republican on those issues affecting US policy in the Middle East.
Today's corruption predates the duplicity in 1948 that induced Harry Truman to extend recognition to this extremist enclave as a legitimate nation state. Our troubles date from then.
That fateful decision must be revisited in light of what can now be proven about the "how" of this ongoing duplicity  — unless Americans want to continue to be played for the fool.
 
— http://criminalstate.com/guilt-by-association/
 




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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Mossad in America

 
Mossad in America
 
Israeli intelligence steps up its activity in the U.S. — and gets away with it.



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[ALOCHONA] A Free and Fair War Crimes Tribunal?



A Free and Fair War Crimes Tribunal?
 
Paris-based attorney Katherine Iliopoulos has a new article out at Crimes of War Project. She writes:
 
A war crimes tribunal set up in Bangladesh to try those responsible for atrocities during the country's 1971 liberation war with Pakistan is facing increased scrutiny by the international community. While the International Crimes Tribunal has been widely welcomed in Bangladesh as a response to the longstanding need to address the issue of impunity for alleged war crimes and other crimes under international law, serious concerns have been raised, particularly regarding its statute, which contains several provisions that are incompatible with international law and international fair trial standards. In July, Rules of Procedure were adopted, which are also highly problematic in terms of international human rights law.
 
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Is Press Freedom at Stake in Bangladesh?



Is Press Freedom at Stake in Bangladesh?
 
The acting editor of a politically-affiliated Bangladesh newspaper has been sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of about £920 for contempt of court. Mahmudur Rahman has been in pre-trial detention since June 1 after several of charges were brought against him in connection with his publication's work.

The judgment represents the first time the Supreme Court has jailed anyone for contempt, and the sentence imposed is the maximum permitted by law, sources said.

The sentencing comes two months after a court ruled that Rahman, along with four other staff members were in contempt of court, as the result of an article in Amar Desh published on April 21 which criticised the judiciary, according to local news reports.

The charge was brought by Supreme Court lawyers who filed the petition on May 2. On June 2 the Apex Court found four of the five journalists in contempt (a news editor was pardoned), according to a report in Bangladesh's Daily Star newspaper.

Under Bangladesh law, anything that maligns or scandalises the court of law in the eyes of the public is considered to be contemptuous, and the statement's truth is not a defence, a legal counsellor in Bangladesh said.

Rahman was originally arrested on June 1 during a raid on Amar Desh, but bailed the next day. Four further charges, however, relating to the obstruction of police business, were immediately brought against him and he was jailed pending trial, the legal counsellor said.

It is also alleged in the local media that he was tortured in the detention cell and during the remand period.

Constitutional guarantee

The move comes only a month after Government banned the pro-opposition private television network, Channel 1, accusing it of "violating rules". The last eighteen months have also seen the closure of Channel Jamuna TV, a prominent blog called DeshCalling, Youtube and Facebook on various pretexts.

In addition, several TV talk shows have been cancelled and broadcast restrictions imposed to prevent 'wrong' guests being invited on to television programmes. Newspapers editors have been asked not to print material criticising the Government and its policies.

These actions do not comply with the State's constitutional guarantee to promote and protect freedom of expression within "reasonable restriction". Journalists must attempt to minimise the abuse of power but the Government must also try to understand why and how press freedom can enrich human lives, enhance public justice, and even help to promote economic and social development.
Balanced reporting, looking at both sides of an issue, is the hallmark of journalistic integrity. To disallow criticism merely for partisan reasons, whether such censorship is enforced by the government or by powerful private citizens, is a betrayal.

Condemnation abroad
The Government's restrictions over media freedom in general, including the banning of Amar Desh and the arrest and alleged treatment of its acting editor, Mahmudur Rahman, in particular have been seriously protested and condemned, both nationally and internationally.

The editors of 27 national dailies, weeklies, news agencies and periodicals in a joint statement on June 5 demanded the immediate withdrawal of the order cancelling the declaration of the daily Amar Desh and release of Rahman.
British and US diplomats in Dhaka have also expressed concerns at the Government's attempt to gag the media. In a statement, Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based international media watchdog, said, "The night-time raid by armed police on the daily's headquarters and the use of force to arrest Rahman are all unworthy of a government that claims to respect the rule of law."

The International Press Institute (IPI), a Vienna-based organisation, also expressed concerns. "We are concerned that the Bangladeshi government is using administrative sanctions to limit the newspaper's ability to criticise its policies," said IPI Director, David Dadge. "I urge Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, to live up to her promises and ensure that journalists are allowed to distribute information and opinions free of harassment or intimidation."
Other organisations condemning their concern for Rahman and the closure of Amar Desh include: The Voice for Justice World Forum, Justice for Bangladesh, Journalist Rights International, Amar Desh Readers Forum, and the Campaign for Freedom of Press.

Government motives
According to journalist Shafiq Rehman, Amar Desh and Rahman are targets of Government vendetta for five reasons: The paper has published the following offensive material:
1. Regular reports on the deteriorating law and order situation exposing the criminal activities of its youth and student wings
2. Statistical reports on the increase in the price of essential items
3. A report on the connection of Sheikh Hasina's son Shajib Wajed Joy with the US oil giant Chevron and alleged corruption
4. A report that the father of Engineer Mosarraf Hossain, a minister and Sheikh Hasina's close relative, was a 'razakar'[traitor] (a fact also confirmed by Hasina's deputy Sajeda Chowdhury)
5. A report on the connection of state minister Kamrul Islam and his family with 'Hekimi' or 'Islamic' medicine business and other allegations. (Daily Naya Diganta, June 6) is helpless.
The responsibility of the media is to lead the people to the path of truth with accurate reports. A journalist's role is to speak for the oppressed, the poor, and victims of torture. The media must fight for the establishment and implementation of rule of law, the introduction of true democracy in state machineries and the political system. Let us allow our media to represent these diverse opinions freely without government interference, threat, and intimidation.


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