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[ALOCHONA] Oil and Saudis Big Winners of Japan Disaster



Oil and Saudis Big Winners of Japan Disaster

Saturday, March 12, 2011 11:11

by Zen Gardner

Don't know if anyone noticed, but the "Day of Rage" scheduled for Saudi Arabia on March 11th was completely eclipsed by the Japan Quake and Tsunami, followed now by a nuclear threat to that ravaged country.Not only was it eclipsed, it just didn't happen. Nor have we heard a peep out of the protesters.

In addition, the Saudi stock market, one of the only ones open today due to their Islamic week beginning on Saturday, was up 3% on the energy related impact of the Japan disaster. Didn't that work out nicely. Oil was just starting to retract the past few days and now we're going to see the prices soar again. Coincidence?When oil's involved, you're talking BIG money and the BIG money players....i.e. those that think they own us. Not much goes on that they don't control or try to control.

Japan derives 35% of its energy from nuclear power plants. Does someone have a problem with that? Already the mainstream press is badmouthing nuclear energy again, and we'll be hearing this drumbeat for weeks to come. Think that isn't music to the oil magnates' ears?

As the CEO of Gulf Oil Joe Petroski said today on Fox news today, "The future of the nuclear industry is on the line." He went on to point out how US production has declined, and that an earthquake in the Middle East, "physical or social", keeps the future of oil very tentative.

And they'll keep it that way.

Energy independence is a threat to the powers that be. As is food independence. Notice they're both under siege. Shortages not only wreak havoc on economies and obviously day to day life, but on the human psyche. A populace in want is an easy populace to subjugate. Fear and scarcity are their favorite tools.Let's face it, independence of any sort does not lend itself well to forces that would like control.

Was This Engineered?

Already the net is ablaze with possible HAARP connections, as we usually see. The fact remains, the technology exists to directly influence our geophysical environment. So when multiple disasters occur simultaneously one can only ask the always pertinent question;

Who benefits? If this was engineered, besides bolstering the oil cartel's strangulation of the world, why was Japan targeted?

Some possible reasons:

1. Japan holds 20% of the US debt. Will this work like the missile taking out the Pentagon finance division that was announced by Rumsfeld the day before the 9/11 takedown, that 2 trillion dollars were missing?

2. Japan is proud and "independent", culturally and politically. They've resisted immigration and cultural dissolution which is part of the globalist agenda. This will clearly "soften them up" for economic, political and cultural manipulation.

3. Increase "conventional" energy dependence. They've already made a huge order to Russia for gas and coal.

4. The Japanese have been protesting the overpowering U.S. military presence in Japan. Immediately following the disaster much of the commercial air traffic was diverted to U.S. military airports. And again, the U.S. is sending more military to the "rescue" as in Haiti, conveniently portraying the U.S. military as the saviors of the world. A complete reversal of truth.

One thing we know, the Japanese are suffering terribly and deserve our thoughts, prayers in personal support.

http://www.naturalmedicine.com/blogs/wondering/2011/03/12/oil-and-saudis-big-winners-of-japan-disaster/



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[ALOCHONA] Prof Yunus a political victim: Lord Avebury



Prof Yunus a political victim: Lord Avebury

Lord Avebury, vice-chair of the UK Parliamentary Human Rights Group, has said the removal of Grameen Bank founder Prof Muhammad Yunus by the government from his post raises serious concerns about the creeping politicisation of development work and civil society in Bangladesh.

In a joint statement in London issued on March 11 supported by some British MPs and academics, Lord Avebury and some British MPs and academics said the microcredit approach to poverty reduction pioneered by Prof Yunus was an important innovation in the fight against poverty.

He said there are 8 million women borrowers in Bangladesh and the basic idea of microcredit has been copied by many other public and private agencies across the world.

"At the same time, advocates of microcredit have sometimes made exaggerated claims about its efficacy, and in some countries the sector itself has been poorly regulated."

However, Lord Avebury said: "The government's decision to take action against Yunus now appears to be motivated more by a desire to gain short term political capital by cashing in on a current global microfinance media backlash, than by evidence of any wrongdoing."

He said: "No substantive reasons have been given for the sacking, nor has there been an opportunity for Prof Yunus to answer any criticisms of his performance as managing director."

"It looks as though the government is punishing him for attempting to form a new political party in 2007 that could have challenged the existing two-party system, rather than for proof of any wrongdoing."

The statement is supported and consented by Lord Avebury, Peter Bottomley MP, Charles Tannock MEP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Prof Geoff Wood and Dr Joe Devine of Bath University, Prof David Lewis of London School of Economics, Ms Maggie Bowden, General Secretary, Liberation (human rights organisation), and Sadat Sayeed, Barrister at Garden Court Chambers, Lincoln's Inn.

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[ALOCHONA] Prof Anu Muhammad on Grameen episode



Prof Anu Muhammad on Grameen episode
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Grameen Bank Issue : Dipu Moni responds to Blake's views



Grameen Bank Issue : Dipu Moni responds to Blake's views
  
 
Laws of the land and the rule of law do not depend on anyone's happiness and unhappiness, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said yesterday responding to a senior US official's remarks on Grameen Bank and its founder Prof Muhammad Yunus.

"Our friends outside may or may not be happy but we will take action in accordance with our law. The rule of law in our country does not depend on others' happiness," she said when asked about the remarks of Robert O Blake, US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs."Of course we want good relations with all our friends, but we must be respectful to our laws in our country," she told reporters at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport before leaving for Egypt to oversee repatriation of the Bangladeshis fleeing strife-torn Libya.

In an interview with the Financial Times on March 7, Robert Blake said the United States is troubled by the recent decision that saw Prof Yunus removed as managing director of Grameen Bank.

Dipu Moni said the government believes in the rule of law and never does anything contrary to the laws. "We will do whatever is necessary in the interest of the country and a renowned institution," she added.She declined further comment on the grounds that the matter was sub judice.

Robert Blake in his interview said Nobel Prize winner Prof Yunus enjoys great respect in the United States for all his work to help the poor in Bangladesh. He said US President Obama awarded Prof Yunus the Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the US Congress voted him a Congressional Gold Medal in 2010. "We've heard from many members of Congress and other friends here about their concerns of what has been happening to Yunus. We ourselves have had similar concerns, and that's why I think we've been engaged," Blake added.

On another question, the assistant secretary said the US is troubled despite many conversations at all levels between the United States and friends in Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, the Nelson Mandela Foundation in a letter to Prof Yunus on March 9 has expressed its support to the Bangladeshi Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank.Signed by Achmat Dangor, chief executive of the foundation, the letter read, "We have noted developments in Bangladesh regarding Grameen Bank and its founder Professor Muhammad Yunus. We believe that the legacy of Grameen Bank and its 8 million families toward fostering peace and overcoming poverty serves as an important model throughout the world."We therefore whole-heartedly hope that the country's leaders will find a peaceful resolution to the current dispute so that Grameen Bank and Professor Yunus can continue their work."

Below is the full text of Blake's interview with the Financial Times

QUESTION:
Ambassador Blake, some people might respond to the statements that the State Department made about its concern of the Bangladesh Bank's treatment of Dr. Yunus as interference in Bangladesh's internal affairs - a rather extraordinary statement to be made about one Bangladeshi company.

Why was it important to make this view known?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY BLAKE: I'd say that Professor Yunus, Muhammad Yunus enjoys great respect in the United States for all of his work to help the poor in Bangladesh. I think NGOs like Grameen Bank and BRAC, really have global influence and their activities have really brought great credit to Bangladesh's reputation. President Obama awarded Muhammad Yunus the Medal of Freedom in 2009. The U.S. Congress voted him a Congressional Gold Medal in 2010. So he enjoys really quite strong respect. We've heard from many Members of Congress and other friends here about their concerns of what has been happening to Yunus. We ourselves have had similar concerns, and that's why I think we've been engaged.

QUESTION: But is it not an internal Bangladeshi affair?

BLAKE: Again, I don't want to make it sound like we're interfering too much. We have made it known that we support a resolution of the situation to preserve the integrity and the independence and the effectiveness of Grameen Bank, but we have not sought to try to prescribe what that solution should be. It's really up to the government of Bangladesh and Grameen to work that out and we hope they can do so in an amicable and mutually acceptable manner.

QUESTION: But you've gone to the extent to say that you're troubled.

BLAKE: Yes. We are. Despite a great many conversations that we have had at all levels of our government with our friends in Bangladesh, I think there's been a deterioration in the situation. I think we're troubled particularly by this most recent decision in which Yunus was removed from his position as Managing Director of Grameen Bank.

QUESTION: How important is the relationship with Bangladesh? Many people say it's a strategically important relationship.

BLAKE: I'd say it's very important. Bangladesh is a moderate secular democracy that has a vibrant civil society and a history of religious and ethnic tolerance, and they are a partner of ours on many of President Obama's most important signature initiatives like food security, climate change, global health, and counter-terrorism. They're also a country that has really made quite important progress to reduce poverty and inequality. For example, the Prime Minister was awarded last year by the United Nations for the progress that Bangladesh has made towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals. They've significantly reduced child mortality. They've reduced the number of chronically food insecure people. And they've reduced gender inequality both in their schools and in their labour force.

As you know they're also one of the major peacekeepers. But uniquely, they've sent the first all-female police unit of UN peacekeepers to Haiti last year. They've also I think made a lot of progress in relations with India, which is extremely important for us, particularly on this very important area of counter-terrorism.

So this is a country that's doing a lot of things right and a lot of things well. Some of their recent actions with respect to Grameen Bank are a little bit out of step with that, so we just felt as a friend that it was important to point that out and express our interest in seeing an amicable resolution of this.

QUESTION: Do you not worry that this might overshadow the larger relationship?

BLAKE: Again, I don't want to make any predictions about the larger relationship. I've just said all the important things that they are doing. But this is, again, just one area that has been of some recent concern and we hope that it can be resolved.

QUESTION: Just a couple more, if I may. First of all, is it your understanding that, is the Secretary going to try to talk to Professor Yunus in some way via videoconference now that he's no longer coming here?

BLAKE: I think she will try to talk to him. Most likely by telephone, but we haven't yet scheduled that [NOTE: the call was later confirmed and took place on March 8]. As you know, she was scheduled to meet with him tomorrow, but he decided to cancel his trip because of the legal challenge that he has filed in the Bangladeshi courts.

QUESTION: Is she planning on going to Bangladesh any time soon?

BLAKE: She has no immediate plans.

QUESTION: She's obviously known Professor Yunus from the days that she was in the Governor's Mansion in Arkansas with former President Clinton. How is her personal relationship with Professor Yunus going to play a role in this?

BLAKE: I think the Secretary does have, as you say, have quite a long and personal relationship with Muhammad Yunus, but I don't think that really colours our views on this. This is something that is of wide concern inside the United States government, and as I said earlier, Professor Yunus has a great many admirers, not only in the current administration but also in our Congress.

QUESTION: Ambassador Blake, thank you so much.
 


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[ALOCHONA] Tamil Tiger rebels training in India: Sri Lanka PM

Tamil Tiger rebels training in India: Sri Lanka PM

Remnants of Sri Lanka's defeated Tamil rebels are undergoing military
training in India in a bid to revive their separatist campaign at
home, the island's prime minister said Thursday.

D.M. Jayaratne said an unknown number of Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) fighters were based at secret camps in the south Indian
state of Tamil Nadu.

"We have intelligence reports of three clandestine training centres
operated by the LTTE in Tamil Nadu," the prime minister said in a
statement on Thursday.

He said the rebels, who were defeated by Sri Lankan government troops
in May 2009, were hoping to relaunch their decades-long fight for an
independent homeland in the island.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-10/south-asia/28676041_1_rebel-attacks-liberation-tigers-sri-lankan-government-troops


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[ALOCHONA] The Name Game Comes Home to Roost: Islamophobe



The Name Game Comes Home to Roost: Islamophobe



In 1991-92, in the famed Lutheran Gustavus Adolphus College at St. Peter, Minnesota, a now retired professor, an ex-colleague, a graduate of a famous university, had a bigoted and infuriating statement to make, which may be summed up thus: We cannot give arms to the Bosnian Muslims even for self-defense. They cannot be trusted to maintain the parameters and the perimeter of the conflict. But did it occur to him that he'd leave no stone unturned to retain his right to bear arms for hunting and self-defense.

Muslims have been labeled variously from Islamo-Fascists, now, to Islamists and Wahhabis around 2004 and Shi'ites and Fundamentalists earlier in the 1980s. Once they were our Mujahideen allies against Russia in Afghanistan. So, what has been its net impact on the Muslims, on non-Muslims and on the USA as a society? Last, but not the least, how productive or fair is this characterization?

Let's take one example of unfair characterization of a people and their subsequent victimization. The Bosnians were highly secularized Muslims. Many of them did not know how Muslims pray or could not recite even the first seven verses of the Quran that every Muslim knows by heart. Yet they were shown no quarter. A failing atheist, socialist government perniciously and craftily used the Muslim label in its bid to hold together an artificial state. So, what was a nationalistic drive was given a Christian mask to justify a heinous crime. What otherwise was a liberation drive for the Bosnians, just as in the case of East Germany, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and others, was converted into something altogether different: a struggle between Islam and Christendom. As a result, the debate shifted from its real tactical nature to its so-called strategic nature and 300,000 Bosnians perished as Europe and the USA debated over three years to decide the fate of these European Muslims. The insidious Serbian concoction stumped the best US and European minds. The polarization was absolutely one-sided.

How secularized must Muslims become in order to be spared, even respected? It appears that being a Muslim is like carrying the smell of blood that refuses to leave the murderer's hands as in Macbeth no matter the washing.

Curiously, back around 1492, even Queen Isabella's church-educated counselors used the same argument to pull off the Inquisition. Treaties were abandoned and surrendering innocents, and even those reverting to Christianity, were executed. In fact, when Bosnia genocide happened, people who opposed providing relief to the Muslims dared using the argument that the murder and pillage were necessary just as the Inquisition was. Otherwise, the monstrous Muslims will be all over Europe. Today, according to some analysts, it is the same latent argument that is keeping the highly secular ally, NATO member, Turkey from entering the EU, while ex-Communist countries are being shooed in willy-nilly.

Today, the immobilizing fear that is being fanned across all of US via the various media and rightwing groups make a similarly warped argument, "No Muslim in America or anywhere else threatening 'strategic' US and Christian interests." This would appear like a fear mongering conclusion. However, when we see the position of these parties with respect to Iraq even when the President says that it is not a religious war, in regard to Israel and Palestine and how they inevitably and relentlessly berate the Quran and the Prophet Mohammed , then what else is one to surmise?

Yet few in the US have spoken out and said, "Stop this nonsense, this hateful speech!"

Why has that been possible? Can we be that gullible? Is it likely we think we can make no mistakes? Or that the other party has no redeeming grace? Or is it because we are just ignorant about the facts? It could be that we have no stake in the welfare of the Muslims, but we make no bones about having a stake in their land and the wealth it conceals. It's difficult to believe that our great Republic could have sunk so low.

Our labels about the Muslims are tentative because our knowledge and understanding about them are shallow or opportunistic. Our reading of History and the discourse in Political Science regarding Muslims predate the Colonial period. Thus, our policies toward them smack of Colonialism. With the fall of Muslim civilization, there was a benign neglect on these matters. But policies crafted in darkness are anything but benign for the Muslims.

Repeatedly attacking political opponents with a storm of accusations is a true and tested technique of the US Religious Right since the Reagan Era. Then the unreal becomes real. Muslims, who have not attacked the West in at least 300 years and who are yet to achieve Industrial Revolution, are being accosted with spurious and specious analysis. This un-religiosity finds validity in the warped mind of certain church elders. Years of unmitigated haranguing of Muslims lead to Bosnia, Chechnya and Iraq, with Iran in the waiting.

"Why don't your moderates speak up?" Muslims are asked. Oh, but they do. But is the Media listening? No. While we own the Media, why are our moderates silent with our vaunted moderation in the face of fabrications in our own backyard?

Sixteen years later, whenever I think about that illiberal statement made in the most liberal of institutions by perhaps the most dapper senior professor, I am still startled by its level of raw ignorance, the rampant double standard and the willingness to countenance any excess whatsoever against Muslims as an unavoidable evil. Is it then immature or premature to say, "I have had it up to my eyeballs with Islamophobes?"

Shafi A. Khaled is a freelance writer. He teaches and does research in Business & Economics.

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[ALOCHONA] Let hundred flowers bloom.



In the contemporary times web sites are like libraries which accommodate contradictory ideas with dignity and peace. Our ideas spread faster than fire. If we do not express our ideas with absolute freedom our existence will become rusted and useless. The school of thought that believes and propagate that our thought process is guided by some super natural being does not really believe in the ultimate freedom of our mind. Everybody is not Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawkin but that does not mean that exploration of knowledge will not be done by common man. The early man were definitely helpless in many ways but did not surrender to the difficulties of their times. They continuously challenged their times and difficulties which made it possible that we are here now.

When some one dares to challenge an established dogma we need to raise our hats to welcome that audacity rather than castigating. The little boy who wrote Jal porey pata norey, the same boy later wrote Anondolokey monglalokay birajo shattyo sundoro.

Therefore human knowledge always goes through revolutionary transformations. That's the beauty of knowledge and enlightenment.

This Alochona forum, despite its predominant conservative philosophy, kindly allowed me and some other recalcitrant minds to express our views with generosity. This is wonderful we are thankful to them. No discussion can be frank and worthwhile if we do not express our views frankly and fearlessly. Anyone who values knowledge must accept the principles of freedom of expression. A synthesis will come out from this mutual clash of views which will benefit all and the posterity.

A Muslim gentleman who works with me goes to Friday prayers without fail. On a Friday he went to the wash room, cleaned himself to go to the prayers but a non Muslim man came to him and he had to shake hand with him. My Muslim friend told me that he needed to perform odu again because a non believer touched him. I asked him if a human beings touch makes him unclean than he was not following the path of enlightenment. He did not agree with me. I was appalled by the depth of ignorance of my colleague and very limited perception of human dignity.

 

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[ALOCHONA] Britain's Failed Intel Operation in Libya

Britain's Failed Intel Operation in Libya: Her Majesty's Bungling
"Secret Intelligence Service"

by Felicity Arbuthnot

"Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by
crushing others.": (Marcus Tullius Cicero,106-43 B.C. Roman Statesman,
Philosopher.)

British Style "Liberation": Beware the Ides of March. Part Two

Even by the standards of a near bancrupt island off Europe, run
currently, largely, by a bunch of seemingly gung-ho, out of out of
touch millionaires, the gun boat diplomacy of Messrs Cameron, Fox and
Hague (Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Foreign Minister
respectively) was a monumental farce of historic proportions.

The story unravelled as fast as Britain's Foreign Minister William
Hague's statement on 21st February that Gaddafi had fled to Venezuela
- which prompted London's Venezuelan Embassy to release an emphatic
denial clarifying : " ... the mistaken aspect of such a statement."

A small British diplomatic team ..." according to William Hague, had
entered Libya (illegally) to make contact with the rebel National
Council in Benghazi. Liam Fox, singing from the same hymn sheet (6th
March) told ITN that: "a small diplomatic team" was talking with the
rebels. Not quite. A team of "special forces" officers had been
captured by a group of guards protecting the Al-Khadra Farm company,
eighteen miles from Benghazi, alerted by the deafening thudding of
helicopter rotor blades.

They were apprehended, tied up and delivered to the Benghazi
revolutionary council. A senior member of the council told the
Guardian: "They were carrying espionage equipment, reconnaissance
equipment, multiple passports and weapons. This is no way to conduct
yourself during an uprising ... Gaddafi is bringing in thousands of
mercenaries to kill us, most are using foreign passports ... how do we
know who these people are? They say they're British nationals and some
of the passports they have are British. But the Israelis used British
passports to kill that man in Dubai last year." Indeed.

Rebel sources initially also expressed puzzlement about the mission.
"If this is an official delegation, why come with helicopters? Why not
say 'we are coming, permission to land at the airport?' There are
rules for these things," one said.

Seemingly, the hapless bunch were taken by helicopter from HMS
Cumberland, docked off the Libyan coast, to liase with British man
called "Tom", who had been working at the Al-Khadra farm as an
"administrator" for a few months. He had, however, driven off at 3
a.m., the same night, saying he was going in to Benghazi (as you do,
in the middle of the night, in the middle of a revolution) according
to one of the guards. A Foreign Office official, asked whether it
would not have made more sense to simply dock by boat in Benghazi
harbour and take a taxi to meet the rebel leadership, a mere couple of
miles away, conceded that, yes, that probably would have been wiser.

Former British ambassador to Libya, Oliver Miles, commented dryly that
the antics seemed "a strange way of introducing yourself to a new
regime".

The bungling bunch, are thought to have been assembled by the "Secret
Intelligence Service", a bit of an oxymoron, in the circumstances,
clearly deficit in both intelligence and secrecy. The: "SIS collects
secret intelligence and mounts covert operations overseas in support
of British Government objectives", states their website. The
"objective" in this case is undoubtedly the largest oil deposits in
Africa and the ninth largest in the world. Amongst the "values" which
the SIS "upholds" is : "Integrity - we act within our legal framework
and with the highest ethical and professional standards." (1) Creeping
illegally, in to a sovereign state, in the dead of night, armed to the
teeth, with a bunch of dodgy passports, and surveillance equipment,
seems to fall a little short on the "integrity" front, but we can all
make mistakes. They certainly endorsed Colonel Gaddafi's assertion
that the uprisings were the result of "foreign interference", though.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office hit another high score on the
error front, unable to evacuate an estimated three thousand British
oil workers from the initial chaos, whilst other countries, including
some tiny, some very poor, were having no trouble sending in flights
to bring their nationals home. All descended in to further absurdity,
when it was announced that the war ship HMS Cumberland (from which the
above insurgents deployed) was going to the rescue: "but would not
dock until it was safe."

A plane that was finally chartered, was stuck at Gatwick airport for
ten hours, with a technical hitch, the Foreign Minister and his staff
apparently unable to find any others for charter any where on the
planet. David Cameron said he was: "terribly sorry" for the plight of
the stranded - and Deputy Prime Minister Clegg said he had "forgotten"
he was in charge of the country.

There were no such problems in chartering a 'plane for the staff of
the British Embassy, who closed the building and scuttled out, with
the Ambassador, Richard Northern, on 26th February.

The Prime Minister was touring the Middle East, condemning violence,
with a bunch of arms salesmen in tow. At the same time, in the United
Arab Emirates, fifty British companies had displays at the arms export
show, attended by Libyan Generals, as Cameron declared the force used
in that country as: "completely appalling and unacceptable."

The "appalling and unacceptable", was, in fact being carried out using
U.K., equipment, licensed for sale to Libya as late as 2010,
including: wall and door breaching projectile launchers, crowd control
ammunition, small arms ammunition, tear gas and irritant ammunition.
Sniper rifles were also approved. Further, both Bahraini(2) and Libyan
authorities were invited to attend two recent UK arms fairs:
Farnborough in 2010 and Defence and Security Equipment International
(DSEI) in 2009. (3)

As British nationals were abandoned and Cameron flogged arms and
wandered, smirking, in Cairo's Tahrir Square (4) boasting being "the
first Western leader" to visit after the uprising (British politicians
have a delusional obsession at being "first" or "leading the world",
having a pitiful modern record on both, except in illegal invasions
and mass murder.) Nick Clegg went skiing.

Since Barack Obama, last week told Colonel Qaddafi he should step down
(and was pressured in to suspending a contract to Libya for troop
carriers and military exports, which would also have benefited
Britain's BAE Systems) Cameron has followed his Leader and, this week
with France's President Sarkozy, signed a letter to Herman von Rompuy,
President of the European Union Council, urging: " ... ending of the
suffering of the Libyan people", thus "Muammar Qaddafi and his clique
must leave." Hardly statesmanlike language and hardly legal.
Incredibly they call for plans to "prepare to to help" the insurgency
and preparations for a no-fly zone over Libya.

Patrick Cockburn, in the (London) Independent (11th March)
encapsulated the posturing: "There is something frivolous and absurd
about France's sudden recognition of the Libyan rebel leadership in
Benghazi as a sort of quasi-government. Presumably intended to give
the impression Nicolas Sarkozy has a grip on events, it is evidence he
does not know what to do any more than other European leaders.

"The recognition of unelected and self-appointed leaders in countries
in which civil war is raging is a reminder, rather, of 19th century
imperialism, when the British, for instance, would choose a leader in
a country like Afghanistan who was most likely to be co-operative.
There is usually a price to be paid for this. Leaders backed by
outside powers may obtain arms and money, but their local credibility
is unlikely to be enhanced. In Libya, Gaddafi can more easily deride
his opponents as foreign dupes. If recognition of the Benghazi junta
is aimed at providing political cover for later military intervention,
it is again unlikely to convince anybody that Libyans are taking the
decisions."

As Iraq, sell $millions in arms to a seemingly favored customer, then
impose sanctions, freeze all assets (accounting for seized assets
apparently not necessary) invade and grab the oil fields. They also
demanded all countries now embargo arms: "including supplies to
mercenaries." Since mercenaries from U.S., and U.K., firms such as
Control Risks, Blackwater (now XE) Kellog, Brown and Root, Triple
Canopy, CACI, Titan (the latter two who brought the high standard of
duty of care in Abu Ghraib to the world) of course, outnumber troops
in Afghanistan and Iraq in order of magnitude, the latter ranks a
special category of chutzpah.

As the Arab League too, grapples with the problem, and moots following
the U.S., European Union route of a "no fly zone", the sticky matter
of legality emerges again. As Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of
International Law at Princeton, points out: "It should be obvious that
a no-fly zone in Libyan airspace is an act of war, as would be, of
course, contemplated air strikes on fortifications of the Gaddafi
forces.The core legal obligation of the U.N., Charter requires member
states to refrain from any use of force unless it can be justified as
self-defence after a cross-border armed attack or mandated by a
decision of the U.N., Security Council."

His colleague, Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois
told Al Jazeera (10th March) that the proposed no fly zone was
illegal, and: " ... recognising the Libyan rebels as a legitimate
government", simply signalled intention of interfering in Libya's
affairs, and that all the U.S., was interested in was re-stealing
Libya's oil.

Presenting as altruism, another kleptomanic foray for resources (and
subsequent, inevitable disastrous, quagmire) is important. The buzz
word currently for carpet bombing and invasion is: "humanitarian
intervention." The indisputable tragedy of thirty deaths was "a
massacre." Implication: "intervention" is a moral duty. Yet strangely,
when US/NATO in Afghanistan killed sixty four villagers on 20th
February (locals said twenty were women, twenty nine were children and
young adults, aged seven to twenty, and fifteen, men) it was declared
by spokesmen, not a "massacre" but a "mistake."

On 1st., March when nine children, aged seven to fifteen were killed
whilst collecting firewood, near a village in Kunar province, Defence
Secretary, Robert Gates described their annihilation as a " ... a
setback." The Washington Post (3rd March) described the childrens'
deaths as: "the latest irritant" between US/NATO., forces and the
Afghan government. Killings of protesters in Iraq, by forces of
America's puppet government, are met with silence. There was no call
for a "no fly zone" as Israel decimated Gaza and mercilessly destroyed
fourteen hundred lives, trapped in a tiny land, with no where to hide.

Whatever the undisputed failings of the Libyan regime, the
"humanitarian intervention" aspect does not sit too well in a country,
where, according to the Human Development Index (HDI) (which measures
life expectancy, health, literacy and well being) an "extensive"
social services programme, included a comprehensive pension system,
compensation for sickness and work injury, maternity benefit, free
medical care and education, with a "dramatic" improvement in literacy
over two decades and the lowest infant mortality rate and highest life
expectancy in Africa.

The HDI is the highest in Africa and rates 53rd over all (in context,
Brazil 73rd.) Whilst Colonel Gadaffi's treatment of opponents leaves
plenty to be desired, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantanamo, and secret
torture renditions across the planet, the potential treatment of
Julian Assange and the actual treatment of Bradley Manning, are hardly
platforms from which to preach human rights.

Should anyone harbour doubts as to how casual invasion has become, the
banter between General Petraeus and Robert Gates, on his recent
arrival in Aghanistan, should allay them. 'Apparently unaware of an
open microphone, Gen Petraeus greeted Mr Gates at Kabul airport
joking: "Welcome back, sir, flying a little bigger plane than normal
... you gonna launch some attacks on Libya or something?"

The US Defence Secretary responded to the comment by laughing and
replied, "yeah, exactly." ' (Daily Telegraph, 8th March.)

Since the imposition of sanctions on Iraq in 1990, the subsequent
bombings, George W, Bush's declaration of a "Crusade" before Iraq's
invasion, the carpet bombing of of Yugoslavia in 1999, the bombing,
invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in 2001, the U.S., and U.K.,
have led twenty one, shameful, homicidal, infanticidal, blood soaked
years against Muslim lands.

Enough.

* http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23486

1. http://www.sis.gov.uk

2. Bahrain SIS and UK torture equipment:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23619

3. http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/14172

4. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359316/Prime-Minister-David-Cameron-takes-arms-dealers-Egypt-promote-democracy.html#ixzz1G7KYnGUx

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23660


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[ALOCHONA] The bane of Bangladesh

The bane of Bangladesh

The cycle of vengeful death must stop if the dream of Sonar Bangla is
to be realised

Sunanda K Datta-Ray / New Delhi March 12, 2011

E M Forster's famous observation about hoping to "have the guts to
betray (his) country" if he ever had to choose between his country and
his friend emboldens me to write about a man whose name is anathema to
many people in Bangladesh and India. History moves in cycles and
Salauddin Quader Chowdhury's plight is part of a continuum of violence
that did not begin with him and will not end with him either.

There is a tendency in India to judge events in Bangladesh in terms of
bilateral relations. Salauddin, a burly, blustering barrister who has
been an MP for 32 years, is not regarded as a friend; therefore, his
distress is welcomed. Such stupidity recalls the traditional American
attitude towards smaller countries exemplified in Franklin D
Roosevelt's remark about Nicaragua's ruthless Somoza being "a son of a
bitch", but "our son of a bitch".

India's best friend would be a Bangladesh that is not paying off old
scores but has come to terms with the past and is at peace with
itself.

The septuagenarian conspirators who were hanged for their part in the
night of the long knives were not simple murderers: they represented a
strand in their country's psyche. So did Khandakar Mushtaque Ahmed's
Indemnity Ordinance, the absence of even a police report of the
massacre of August 15, 1975 until October 2, 1996, Ziaur Rahman's
revocation of the Constitution clause banning communal parties and his
erasure of the secular label, as well as Hussain Muhammad Ershad's
elevation of Islam.

At another level, were all the votes that Mrs Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh
Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-i-Islami and Jatiya Party attracted
fudged? The BNP-led alliance still has enough supporters to win 32
parliamentary seats. Jamaat was reduced to just two seats from 18. But
Jamaat, which reportedly set up nearly 65,000 madrassas, is less a
party than a way of thinking that also sometimes finds a resonance in
some sections of the Awami League.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's "Second Revolution" couldn't have gladdened
the hearts of idealists who dreamt of liberation ushering in a new
civilisation. A one-party dictatorship, suppression of independent
newspapers and a hamstrung judiciary turned dream into nightmare.
Lawrence Lifschultz wrote in the Far Eastern Economic Review in 1974
of the "unprecedented" corruption, malpractices "and plunder of
national wealth" under Mujib.

This is the background to the agonising e-mails I have received from
Saifuddin and Humam Quader Chowdhury, Salauddin's brother and son
respectively. Salauddin is convinced his father, Fazlul Quader
Chowdhury, Muslim League leader and Speaker of Pakistan's National
Assembly was murdered in Dhaka jail for opposing liberation. It would
be an understatement to say he was not ecstatic about it either.

That is remembered. I was staying at the Intercontinental Hotel once
when his driver left a note for me at the reception desk. The young
male receptionist told me afterwards that Salauddin had personally
gunned down Mukti Bahinis in 1971. I have no idea if this is true.
Dhaka thrives on gossip and rumour but the allegation should have been
judicially examined long ago. The framework exists since Bangladesh is
the first South Asian country to sign the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court setting standards for prosecuting people
accused of crimes against humanity.

But Salauddin is not accused of war crimes. He is accused of arson in
a case that was filed nine months ago when his name wasn't mentioned.

Humam's letter makes painful reading. "In the early hours of the 16th
December, 2010," he writes, "a 12-member team of armed forces and
intelligence officers broke into" his father's apartment "and began to
brutally torture him. They continued to abuse him and use torture
equipment they had brought for nearly five hours … they had (also)
brought a doctor whose sole job was to make sure that he does not lose
consciousness and to revive him if needed." Salauddin "lost
consciousness three times and was brought back to his senses using
injections of adrenaline".

"After almost 10 hours of torture, he was taken to the magistrate
court of Dhaka but the blood-soaked clothes he was wearing did not
stop the judge from sending him for a further remand of five days."

Salauddin claims that after his father's death in 1973 he advised
Tajuddin Ahmed and his Awami League colleagues to have
air-conditioners and other comforts installed in the jail because
their turn would come one day. It did, with barbaric brutality.

The dream of Sonar Bangla will never be realised unless this cycle of
vengeful death is broken.

sunandadr@yahoo.co.in

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Re: [ALOCHONA] FW: Re: War Crimes & Sharmila Bose! AND Felani!



So Felani was not killed by the BSF? Then who's body was hanging from the fence? Who was burried in Kurigram? the BSF framed that so that BNP +Jamat would win  the local election?
 
Next thing we will hear that no Bangladeshi at all got killed by the BSF in the border; everything is a propaganda of war criminals.
 
SH
 



From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To: Alochona Alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, March 10, 2011 2:37:22 PM
Subject: [ALOCHONA] FW: Re: War Crimes & Sharmila Bose! AND Felani!

 

                Stupidity of BAAAAAAAAL again not to recognize that the whole shenanigan about Felani was a cash paid for drama! I was suspected the authenticity of the picture and the follow-up got more and more bizarre!

   More on Sarmila Bose from me later.
 
                       Farida Majid


To: kms_alam@yahoo.com
From: nurannabi@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:10:40 -0500
Subject: [Alapon] Re: War Crimes & Sharmila Bose!

 
Dear Mr. Alam,
Thanks for your mail. You are right that Sharmila Bose and others are promoting their hidden agenda in a very sutle way to protect the Bangladesh war criminals. Its irony that she is using organization like Asia Wilson Center in the USA capital to misguide the opion maker.
We must spaek out against the heinous design of the Bangladesh war criminals.
Regards,
Nuran Nabi

 
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:30 AM, KMS Alam <kms_alam@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Brother Nabi,

War Criminals have now playing in wild field, engaged all
resources to disinfect Trial of War Criminals! People like
Shamila Bose, claims relation of Netaji is one of such type!

Some days, you might get such write up claiming relation
of Bangabandhu, Father of the Nation's close relative! You
must be knowing if some one is sinking, he tries to swim
on the feather!

Is it not a disgrace when Ms. Khaleda is party to this War
Criminals! Why only blame Ms. Bose, must have received
few hundred thousands Rupees for a small write up! Ms,
Khaleda is continuously receiving thousands of crore from
Pakistan ISI and War Criminals and spending such fund
for her political recovery! Some cases, Indians seems to
be very keen to salvage her position.

You must have noticed that just few days before the
Municipal election, a girl called "FELANI" was framed on
Barbie wire french for 5 hours to be widely publicized in
the TV, Newspaper & people at large of North Bengal &
resulted quite a victory of BNP+Jamate Jote in that
election!

 
Taking lead on the First series, there was nation
wide impact and following election series were quite a
success to use the anti-Indian attitude for election game!

This was very successful intelligence event, above the
general thinking & thoughts of Awami Friends!

Thanks a lot, best wishes, Take care,

KMS. Alam, Chairman
Alnas Jute DP Limited





 



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RE: [ALOCHONA] FW: Pakistanization of Indonesia?



 

The Ahmadis should not have selected Gazipur, a Muslim area for their Salana Jalsa.It was a big provocation. Muslims do not accept the Ahmadis as Muslims. The Muslims consider them a group out to disrupt Muslim unity, damage Muslim organizations and that they  have acted as agents  of enemies of Islam.

 

Shah Abdul Hannan


From: alochona@yahoogroups.com [mailto:alochona@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Emanur Rahman
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:57 AM
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] FW: Pakistanization of Indonesia?

 

 



From: Farida Majid
Sender: alochona@yahoogroups.com
To: Alochona Alochona
ReplyTo: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] FW: Pakistanization of Indonesia?
Sent: 9 Mar 2011 11:01

What we have in Bangladesh is the following, and it is what we need to stop: A Matter of Grave Concern ! Background: There were 36 attacks or attempts against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community during the BNP coalition Government in between 2003 to 2006. These were carried out regularly under the banner of 'Khatme Nabuwwat' organisation. Two radical Maulvis were leading the movement. 1. Maulvi Mahmudul Hasan Mumtazi and 2. Maulvi Noor Hussain Noorani. They staged many demonstrations through the Madrasa students and tried to influence the upper class policy-makers of that regime. Fortunately, the Civil Society, Intelligentsia and the Media played a vital role to shun the radical approach to the issue. Maulvi Noorani led many of the agitations and even mentioned the name of Tareq Zia openly as their Ameer/leader and friend on one occasion (on video record). He even mentioned the name of Gen Rumi to impress the Satkhira journalists(on video record as well). However, all these were clearly political tactics and had nothing to do with religion. The educated section of the society shunned all these heinous activities and they became mum. From Jan 2007 to Dec 2008 , during the Interim period no organised movements were launched against Ahmadies. Again from the beginning of this Government till last month we did not see any activity of this radical groups except some sporadic incidents at Brahmanbaria, Ambernagar (Noakhali) and Chantara under Ghatail. After a silence of four and half years suddenly the anti-Ahmadiyya movement has started to stretch the muscles from Gazipur District and the same Maulvi Noorani is again in the driving seat. The recent event: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, Bangladesh sought permission from the Gazipur District authorities to hold their 87th Annual Jalsa(Convention) at Rover Scout Training Centre at Bahadurpur, Gazipur. After a month-long scrutinising and verifying (through police), the Deputy Commissioner Mr. Kamaluddin Taluqdar gave his written permission through his Nazir (NDC). The Convention was accordingly scheduled for three days from the 6th to the 8th of February, 2011. At the last moment, on the 6th February noon, the police came to the Jalsa Compound where thousands of Ahmadies were assembled and announced the cancellation of the earlier permission. As a cause they mentioned that, the local residents of the area lodged a complain against the holding of the Ahmadiyya Jalsa and due to this they are imposing section 144 at Bahadurpur. The police were very harsh in their behaviour during the process. Ahmadies, being law-abiding peace-loving loyal citizens, showed utmost patience and left the premises in utter sorrow and tears. The women and children suffered most, as they had to walk with their belongings a long distance to the main road. The remaining Jalsa attendance was curtailed into half and was held at the National Headquarters in Dhaka peacefully. We were very sorry to face such a behaviour from the administration during the present Government. It was a bolt from the blue for us, as the present Government is pledge-bound to ensure the freedom of religion and belief to all citizens. The latest development: To our surprise we have seen in a video footage the Gazipur DC and SP attending and speaking in a anti-Ahmadiyya rally of the radical Mullahs at the same venue just eleven(11) days after our Jalsa! This was held on the 17th Feb at the Rover Scout Centre. The SP speaks in uniform openly that it was a mistake to allow the "Qadiani" (Ahmadiyya) Jalsa at the first place. He congratulates the gathering on organising their programme on his own behalf and on behalf of the administration. The DC speaks very diplomatically about the whole issue. The organiser praises both the honoured guests as defenders of Faith and Religion. In their presence, communal slogans were raised calling, "Qadianider Astana Jalie' dao puriye' dao" repeatedly, meaning, 'burn down and destroy the Qadiani dens'. Neither of these two Government officers speak against such heinous act in their presence!! Not only that terming Ahmadies as "enemies of Islam" the SP called for Jihad against them and said if necessary he will fight against them along with the "Ualamas". The SP praises the present PM being a very devout, pious and practising Muslim. This was a clear political manoeuvring he was trying in front of the Madrasa students/teachers. The main speaker was announced as 'Maulana Nurul Islam Ulipuri' who along with others went on with their usual hate speeches in the Seerat Mahfil. The most notable part was Maulvi Noorani was sitting on the main stage prominently along with few others. In this video, one can clearly see, it is the same old wine in a new bottle. I sincerely believe, this is the back-door entrance of the radicals into mainstream politics. Pakistan has gone to the drain in a similar process. Being loyal and patriot Bangladeshi citizens, should we keep silent? We have the video clips, if you want or can arrange a gathering of som
Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com






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RE: [ALOCHONA] violence



Brother Max: Let me rephrase Digital; Dig it (this opportune time) Awami League, was the philosophy behind the slogan. Voters did not understand but BAL cronies knew it.
Shahadat Suhrawardy


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From: maqsudo@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:36:59 +0000
Subject: [ALOCHONA] violence

 
Don't we need......few little sacrifices...on the way to " DIGITAL  BANGLADESH "!!


Friday, March 11, 2011
National

AL leader beats up RCC engr

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi

The superintending engineer (SE) of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) was assaulted allegedly by a local Awami League (AL) leader and his aide on Wednesday for refusing to sign a bill.


Victim Ashraful Haque alleged that Rajpara unit AL president Hafizur Rahman Babu and his aide Golam Akbor Khokon beat him up entering into his office at Nagar Bhaban at around 5:00pm.


The AL men got angry as he and his subordinate engineers refused to entertain their request for signing a bill for a construction work before completing the project, sources said.


Babu, also a contractor, was given the work for constructing a 2000-feet drain and doing some repairs in the city's Chandipur area at a cost of Tk 12 lakh last year.




On Wednesday, he along with an aide stormed into the office room of the SE and attacked him. Later some councilors and other officials rushed to the scene and rescued Ashraful.
Contacted, Hafizur Rahman Babu, however, denied assaulting the SE and said he had an exchange of hot words with Ashraful.
He also claimed that he had completed the work last year.
Talking to The Daily Star, Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said he already directed the city unit AL leaders to take action against the responsible persons.




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