India, China to jointly take on rich states over climate

India, China to jointly take on rich states over climate

by IANS

Manmohan SinghBy Joydeep Gupta
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) India and China will join hands to oppose attempts by rich countries to hinder their development in the name of fighting climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao decided at a breakfast meeting here Friday.

The two premiers, attending the finale of the Dec 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit decided to oppose the so-called “umbrella paragraph” of the political declaration that has been drafted, according to an Indian official. The declaration was scheduled for release later in the day by the 130-odd heads of state gathered here.

The “umbrella paragraph”, which was introduced in the political declaration draft in the dead of night by the ‘umbrella’ group of countries – US, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand – reportedly said emerging economies like India and China must indicate when their greenhouse gas emissions would peak and must make their domestic actions to control emissions “measurable, reportable and verifiable” by the international community.

These were points that had been opposed repeatedly by India and China throughout this summit, and the “last minute attempt to introduce it again” would be opposed by both countries “at the highest level”, an Indian official said.

Manmohan Singh, who arrived at the Bella Centre – the venue of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit – and went into the security-enveloped main hall straightaway, was planning to intervene at the plenary session to make India’s points, said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Manmohan Singh and Wen had also discussed other issues in their bilateral relations during their 30-minute meeting, an official said. The issues included the long-standing border dispute between the two countries, where the old positions were reiterated, he added.

The prime minister did not have any other bilateral meeting planned, and was scheduled to leave Copenhagen early evening. Apart from attending the plenary sessions, his agenda included a lunch for heads of state hosted by the prime minister of Denmark, and a joint photo op.

OBAMA’S NAZI TACTICS IN PAKISTAN AND ELSEWHERE

OBAMA’S NAZI TACTICS IN PAKISTAN AND ELSEWHERE

The USA is the new Nazi Germany.

The USA wants total dominance. (An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order.)

The USA is the enemy of all countries that refuse to become puppets.

For example, the USA broke up Yugoslavia and helped wreck Iraq.(aangirfan: What really happened to Yugoslavia.aangirfan: The plan always was: Iraq to be divided up, just like …)

The USA has used terror in Europe to increase its control. (aangirfan: FOOLING THE PUBLIC – PIAZZA FONTANA)

Pakistan is seen as being too friendly with China.

Iranian oil could reach China through Pakistan.

Pakistan is a large Moslem country, with nuclear weapons.

It could be a threat to Israel.

Pakistan is to be broken up, by the Pentagon.

According to the Pentagon, Iran needs to be brought under greater control.

Ideally, the USA would like Iran on its side, against Russia.

The USA would like to persuade India that it must join in a war against Pakistan.

Hence the Mumbai bombings of 2008, which may have been the work of the CIA?

McChrystal

Webster Tarpley, at www.voltairenet.org tells us that Obama has declared war on Pakistan

Acording to Tarpley:

Obama is using his Heinrich Himmler, General Stanley McChrystal, to try to bring about civil war in Pakistan.

It was McChrystal who organised the US torture chambers in Iraq.

It was McChrystal who tried to bring about civil war in Iraq, in order to divide and weaken the opposition to U.S. occupation.

It was McChrystal who set up al Qaeda in Iraq in order to get Sunnis fighting Shiites. [3]. [4].

McChrystal is copying British General Frank Kitson[5].

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/week_2006_10_01.php

The USA wants the Pashtuns to rebel against the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Pashtun people are located mainly in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The US and NATO strategy begins with the Pashtuns, ‘the ethnic group from which the so-called Taliban are largely drawn.’

The Afghan officer corps are largely Tajiks. The Pashtuns feel shut out.

The US strategy involves ‘a deliberate effort at persecuting, harassing, antagonizing, strafing, repressing, and murdering the Pashtuns.’

In Pakistan, the Pashtuns feel left out.

Then there are the Baluchis. The USA is also trying to get the Baluchis of Pakistan and Iran to rebel.

The CIA, the Pentagon, and their various contractors ‘are now on a murder spree across Pakistan, attacking peaceful villages and wedding parties, among other targets.’

Reportedly, US black ops have reached into Uzbekistan, which borders Afghanistan to the north.

”Admissions of serious international war crimes cannot properly be described as confidential.” ‘Shameful evidence of Britain’s torture involvement suppressed’, court hears

Car-Bomb Hits Mosque Full of Policemen

Mosque suicide blast kills 11 in Lower Dir

A huge explosion ripped through a mosque frequented by police as people gathered for Friday prayers, officials said. Above: Residents assist in clearing rubble from a mosque which was hit by a suicide bomb blast in Peshawar November 16, 2009. —File photo by Reuters

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber rammed a car into a mosque during Friday prayers, killing 11 people in the town of Timergara in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), police said.

The explosion struck a mosque next to local police headquarters in Lower Dir district, the focus of a spring military offensive to oust militants advancing closer towards the capital Islamabad.

Muhammad Idrees Khan, deputy inspector general of police in Lower Dir, told AFP that the blast hit a mosque next to local police headquarters.

‘Now it has been confirmed that it was a suicide attack. The bomber was riding a car and he rammed his car into the outer gate of the mosque,’ he said.

Local television showed images of a huge plume of smoke rising from a small town in the mountains, while charred cars smoldered beside the blast site.

‘We have received three more dead bodies taking the death toll to 11. There are 29 injured people with us, some of them in a critical condition,’ said Doctor Wakeel Mohammad Khan, head of main hospital in Lower Dir.

‘The local residents told me that some more dead bodies are laying in the houses — we have declared an emergency in the hospital.’

The injured included children, he added, but officials were unable to say how many police were killed or wounded in the attack.

More than 2,700 people have been killed in attacks in Pakistan since July 2007, with the past three months seeing a surge in suicide bombings targeting civilian and security targets by militants avenging the army onslaught.—AFP

Rehman Malik Is the First Head to Roll Over NRO Repeal

NAB court issues arrest warrants for Rehman Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik. — Photo by AFP

ISLAMABAD: A NAB court has issued arrest warrants against Interior Minister Rehman Malik, DawnNews reported.

These warrants are likely in connection with two previous references against Malik.

One of the references was for alleged misuse of authority and the other for the alleged receipt of two cars from Toyota Motors as illegal gratification to expedite the purchase of official vehicles.

A NAB prosecutor told DawnNews that all these cases against Malik and others have been revived following the Supreme Court’s verdict. The move came after the verdict against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) sent shockwaves through the present set up, with many prominent ministers placed on the Exit Control List. — DawnNews

Military Hopes for Total Coverage of Afghanistan by 2014

US to expand eyes in the sky over Afghanistan

WASHINGTON: The US military is adding more drones and expanding its video surveillance in the skies over Afghanistan to meet the needs of American forces as 30,000 more troops head into the war zone, a top Air Force general said on Thursday. The bolstered eyes in the sky will come from a mix of manned and unmanned aircraft and added technology that allows each MQ-9 Reaper drone to collect 10 video transmissions and beam them back to 10 different users on the ground, Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula, deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, told reporters.

Deptula’s comments came as Defence Secretary Robert Gates continues to press the Air Force to find ways to more rapidly provide better intelligence to the US and its allies in Afghanistan. The first troop units of the surge ordered by President Barack Obama have begun to arrive in Afghanistan, a Pentagon official said adding to the 68,000 US forces already deployed to counter emboldened insurgents.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said a Marine battalion ordered to move in earlier this month already has “some boots on the ground,” with the rest to be flown in before Christmas, Dec 25.

“So the surge has begun in earnest,” he said. Deptula provided the most detailed assessment to date of the Air Force plans to meet ground troops’ needs for more intelligence and surveillance data. He said the expanded air capabilities would be added over the next eight months.

He would not provide any details on the operation of the Air Force’s latest model of its stealth reconnaissance drones, known as the Beast of Kandahar. And he would not specify how many other drones were being sent to Afghanistan.  

The aircraft reportedly resembles the much larger, swept-wing B-2 Stealth bomber, and officials confirmed this month that the military has begun using the classified, unarmed drone in Afghanistan. According to Deptula, the Air Force also will be sending its first MC-12W piloted surveillance plane to Afghanistan this month. 

Six of the turboprop aircraft are operating in Iraq, and he said the Air Force plans to have a total of 30 in Iraq and Afghanistan by late 2010.

In addition, he said new, high-tech video sensors, called the Gorgon Stare, are being installed on Reaper unmanned drones and will be in Afghanistan by late summer.

The new sensors will allow the Reaper to cover a much broader area, estimated at 5.18 sq. kilometers, and send 10 video streams to 10 different receivers with troops on the ground. Larger ground stations would be able to receive as many as 50video streams.

Deptula said four of the Gorgon Stare sets will be deployed in the late summer, followed by three more sets in September or October. Those three sets would have the ability to send 30 video streams to troops on the ground.

Sensor sets with even greater capabilities as many as 65 video streams are planned for 2014. Because Afghanistan is such a large country, even the expanded vision of the missile-armed Reapers won’t be enough.

He said officials have not yet determined how many additional surveillance aircraft to send to the war zone. Deptula also downplayed the difficulties in processing the expected spike in surveillance data, saying officials will shift the workload to analysis units in Korea, Hawaii, California, Virginia and Germany, and add more if needed.  [As usual, the military is overreaching, forgetting to foresee the difficulties in running such massive banks of computers to process video feeds and analyze incoming data--SEE: NSA risking electrical overload]
At the same time, he said technical changes will also help, including the use of classified computer Web sites to provide easy access to the data.

He added that the Air Force has placed liaison officers with Army brigades to help them figure out what data is needed.

Ban Ki-Moon Asks World Leaders to Pull All-Nighter to Screw World

UN asks leaders to stay overnight in Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN: The United Nations has asked world leaders to plan to stay overnight in Copenhagen because of deadlock at a U.N. climate summit meant to end on Friday, European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said.

“The Secretary-General of the United Nations (Ban Ki-moon) has asked people not to leave tonight,” Dimas told reporters.

He said he was confident that leaders would eventually reach a deal. “I cannot imagine 120 leaders going back to their countries with empty hands. Everyone expressed commitment to fight climate change. OK, do it,” he said.

Obama Orders the World to Stop Bickering and Accept the Deal He Gives Them

By Stephen Collinson

US President Barack Obama has told the world to stop bickering and embrace even an imperfect new climate deal, or risk a disastrous split that would let global warming advance unchallenged.

“I have to be honest, as the world watches us today, I think ability to take collective action is in doubt right now and it hangs in the balance,” Obama told leaders in the cliffhanger final hours of the UN climate conference on Friday.

“At this point the question is whether we will move forward together or split apart, whether we prefer posturing to action.”

Obama is wagering personal political prestige in the drive to agree a new pact on curbing carbon emissions – but has also tried to shore up his domestic flank, amid rising scepticism about a new climate bill back home.

He declined to offer new sweeteners to get a deal, rebuked China’s reluctance to allow outside scrutiny of action on greenhouse-gas emissions and warned developing states they could forget aid that had no strings attached.

“I am sure that many consider this an imperfect framework… no country will get everything that it wants.

“We are prepared to get this done today, but there has to be movement on all sides,” Obama said, in a speech greeted only by lukewarm applause by delegates.

At times, Obama appeared terse and impatient, in a speech shorn of the soaring aspirational rhetoric and criticism of past US positions which characterised his early ventures onto the world stage.

Immediate reaction from those who hoped Obama would offer new momentum for the knife-edge effort to agree a new climate deal by Friday was underwhelming.

“Obama has said nothing to save the Copenhagen conference from failure,” said Raman Mehta, ActionAid’s climate change expert in Asia.

One of the key sticking points of the quest for a new climate change action plan is a dispute between Washington and Beijing on the US demand for outside scrutiny of action by developing states on climate changed pledges.

“Without such accountability, any agreement would be empty words on a page,” Obama said.

“I don’t know how you have an international agreement where we all are not sharing information and ensuring we are meeting our commitments. That doesn’t make sense. It would be a hollow victory.”

Obama did not offer deeper emissions cuts than Washington has already offered, or specific figures on how much Washington will pay to bankroll the climate change fight.

Washington has already said it will not budge on its offer of curbing US carbon emissions by 17 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020 – less than EU offers but as much as the US political climate will bear.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday Washington would pay into a fund worth $US100 billion ($A112.78 billion) a year by 2020 to help poor countries cope with climate change, but left the exact figure unspoken.

Obama flew overnight from Washington and ditched his planned schedule for impromptu talks with more than 20 world leaders, as fear of a breakdown haunted the summit in its final frenetic hours.

He huddled with leaders of top developed states including Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and key developing nations including a representative from China, and leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa, a US official said.

Obama faces domestic political considerations limiting his bargaining power in Copenhagen, even as he seeks to assert US leadership in the battle to rein in carbon emissions after years of foot dragging in Washington.

The United States is pushing for an “operational agreement” to pave the way for a binding treaty on cutting carbon emissions next year – which would have more teeth than a flurry of mere pledges of future action by nations.

The climate conference is the latest international crisis in the president’s hectic first year in power – including the worsening Afghan war, Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the economic meltdown.

US sceptics warn a domestic cap-and-trade plan to cut emissions logjammed in the Senate will strangle the nascent economic recovery.

At the same time, the lack of a new US global warming law limits Obama’s capacity to compromise in Copenhagen.

Should he go home with no deal, prospects for Congressional action on the cap and trade bill will take a huge blow.

US lawmakers warned about uranium mining

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Australian aborigines, a French physicist and a US actor joined representatives of indigenous peoples from Africa and the United States on Friday to send US lawmakers a stark warning about the dangers of uranium mining.

“We want US lawmakers to understand that uranium mining is highly pollutant and that there is currently no scientific answer to the question of radioactive waste containment,” said Bruno Chareyron of France’s CRIIRAD laboratory, which measures radioactivity in the environment.

“We want them to know that the information they are given by the mining companies is not wholly reliable,” he said.

Representatives of the Tuareg nomads of Niger, Native Americans and Australian aborigines told of the ravages of uranium mining on their communities.

In Niger, French company Areva has been mining uranium for more than 40 years with “no regard for the environment, people’s health, animals”, said Sidi-Amar Taoua, a Tuareg who has lived for seven years in the United States.

“Uranium mining has impacted every area and sparked a war between the Tuareg who took up arms to defend their land, and the government, which is complicit with Areva,” he said.

Areva announced last month that it has applied for US government approval to build a $US2 billion ($A3.08 billion) uranium enrichment plant in the northwestern state of Idaho.

The project would be the French state-controlled group’s first uranium enrichment plant in the US.

Native American lands in the southwestern US have been the site of more than 1,300 uranium mines.

Although most have been closed, the mines’ legacy includes contaminated drinking water and illnesses from cancer to kidney disease, said Native American environmental activist Manny Pino.

“In this process of nuclear renaissance, it’s almost like the federal government is ignoring the historical legacy of uranium mining in the past and prioritising the economic benefits of nuclear power in the future at the expense of our land, our water and our people,” he said.

Mitch, an aboriginal militant against radioactive waste dumps and uranium mining in Australia, the world’s biggest producer of the mineral, said: “Short term monetary gain will leave us with long-term deadly waste for generations to come.”

Uranium mining saw a long boom period in the US between the 1940s and 1980s, before coming to a near halt in the 1990s as prices paid for the mineral plummeted.

In 2005, as uranium prices were starting to climb upwards again, the Navajo passed a law banning the mining or processing of uranium on their lands.

But when the price of the mineral peaked at around $US140 ($A215.52) a pound in 2007, mining companies descended “like vultures” on uranium-rich areas, 70 per cent of which are situated on land inhabited by low-income indigenous communities, said James Cromwell, the actor who played George H.W. Bush in the film W, which has just opened in Australia.

As oil and gas prices spiked last year, nuclear power gained ground as an attractive energy option to ensure US energy independence.

Then secretary of the interior Dirk Kempthorne authorised uranium exploration near the Grand Canyon, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

“There’s a lot of activity. When uranium prices went up we saw proposals for exploration all over the place,” said Sandy Bahr of environmental group the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon chapter.

In January, Arizona lawmaker Raul Grijalva introduced a bill in Congress that would permanently withdraw from mineral extraction one million acres of public lands in watersheds surrounding the Grand Canyon.

Sacrifice Zardari, Save the Generals

VICTIM ZARDARI

Dr. Khurrum Shaukat Yusafzai.

Zardari is being targeted by Media for symbol of Corruption although technically he is Innocent until proven Guilty even after 12 years of Cases against him.  Even the Swiss Government has not convicted him as NAB only went to a Magistrate to give a verdict and Proceedings in court was not even started, and not even completed.

This makes him an Innocent man. Media has forgotten the golden rule; a man is innocent until proven guilty.

Media especially Geo is targeting him very hard and totally ignoring the real Corrupt People especially the Military and Bureaucrats.

NRO was after all, Invented by Military and signed between Two parties the military and other political parties including MQM. While shirking of criticizing the MQM and Military and their Mullahs like Including Fazulur-rehman who had corruption cases against his Party Leaders and Grabbing of military Land in Convenience of GHQ.

The ISI Involved in Dishing out Tax Payers money to Politicians without Awam consent so that, monster are Invited to Parliament to lead us into this Mess we are.

All these matters are not discussed openly, with such a vigor and Interest and then deliberatively pushed under the Carpet, to save the real culprits; I could be feel sympathy for Zardari and PPP.

We have to be fair, and we have to be Correct and Accurate, then when there are decisions to be taken in this very crucial moment of time forPakistan.

We should spare him, as after all, it was Awam, who elected him for Five years, and he has to complete his term for Five years and cases, can wait too. As this can be Pakistan Interest too.

The Independent Courts are now open and people should vent, their spleens there instead, rather then destabilizing democratic system and why the Intelligentsia is not doing cases against the Generals. Where are the guts of such people?

In the end, I would request the PPP that do not repeat the Mistakes of Zulfiqar Bhutto by protecting these same people who are rocking the Boat by not opening the Hamood-ur-rehman report and saving the Corrupt Army Generals and Bureaucrats. Open the report to Public the Parliament and For god sake do not change the 3 times rule of PM as this will save us from Dynasties of Politicians like Husni Mubarak like Politicians even be if it is Nawaz Shareef , who I put him in same Category.

Secondly by committing extreme mistake by Protecting Army and Mushraff, enabling him Guard of Honor they should have arrested him immediately, they should have opened the cases on Generals, who are corrupt and loan defaulters and have done agreements with USA like Black water and sold us to US. This is mistakes, which is costing them.

Regarding the people who are making noises where they were when 17th amendment was passed, and Mushraff with Uniform was the President, a Joke of Century.
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Taliban Attempt to Murder Leadership of Islamic Parties

[Here is clear evidence that the so-called "Pakistani Taliban" has no connection whatsoever with the actual Taliban movement and exists only to wage war against the people of Pakistan.  The religious party officials seem to be the primary targets of TTP assassination bombings, meaning that the so-called "Islamic militants" are "Islamic" only in name.  I have taken the following excerpts from Wikipedia, describing certain aspects of the JI religious party.  Which of them is the real motive behind the poisoning attack?

For their stance against violent jihad against Pak. govt., or for their anti-American point of views?


JI is not opposed to discrimination against the Ahmadiyya sect, which it believes is un-Islamic. It has been accused of "fomenting religious violence against [Ahmadis] and other religious minorities.”


JI sets forth that, “Islam has laid down universal fundamental rights for humanity which are to be observed and respected in all circumstances.” They state, “…it is not permissible to oppress women, children, old people, the sick or the wounded; women’s honour and chastity must be respected; the hungry must be fed, the naked clothed and the wounded or diseased treated medically irrespective of whether they belong to the Islamic community or are from amongst its enemies.”


“The life, property and honour of a Non-Muslim is to be respected and protected in exactly the same way as that of a Muslim citizen. Nor is there difference between a Muslim and a Non-Muslim citizen in respect of civil or criminal law. The Islamic state may not interfere with the personal rights of Non-Muslims, who have full freedom of conscience and belief and are at liberty to perform their religious rites and ceremonies in their own way.”[12]


JI states, “The Muslim woman is accorded full spiritual and intellectual equality with man…”, their position on women’s rights is from a “Islamic point of view” which is at odds with international beliefs of equal rights.[13]


Their faith in Islamic Jihad gave them sizable currency among the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, Kashmir and other areas troubled by insurgency. They have links with many international militant groups, such as the Hizb-i-Islami during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.[7] Jamaat’s profession of imparting “Muslims the religious instruction that they lack” has acted as a decoy for training and indoctrination of thousands of mujahideen to fight not only in Afghanistan but also as far as Chechnya, Bosnia, Sinkiang, Nagorno-Karabagh and Southeast Asia. One of the more fascinating strategies of the ISI-Jamaat nexus in Central Asia is to “disintegrate the Russian Federation itself and the recomposition of a new structure dominated by conservative Islamist regimes”.[7]


The JI was initially supported by the Inter-Services Intelligence, but the capture of Kabul by the Taliban was as setback for JI on account of their sympathies with the Northern Alliance. Thus, the ISI, which backed the Taliban initially, alienated the JI.

Nine Ulema hospitalised for food poisoning

By Muhammad Anis

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee Mufti Muneebur Rehman, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Secretary-General Liaquat Baloch and seven other Ulema fainted after eating poisonous sweets (Sohan Halva) at the residence of a senior JUI-F senator here at the parliamentary lodges on Thursday.

All Ulema, who were attending a meeting at the flat of Senator Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, were rushed to the Federal Government Services Hospital (FGSH) for emergency treatment at 11.30am.

Mufti Muneebur Rehman, Liaquat Baloch along with Maulana Abdul Khaliq and Hafiz Abdul Rauf were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital where they remained in semi-unconscious condition for almost 10 hours and could not talk to doctors or attendants.

Others who suffered food poisoning included JI Punjab Naib Amir and former MNA Mian Muhammad Aslam, JI Islamabad Naib Amir Zubair Farooq Khan, Rashidul Haq Haqqani, Mahr Din Baloch and two servants of Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri Zakir Hussain and Qurban Ali.

The secretariat police have registered a case of murder attempt against unknown persons on the report of Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri. Doctor on duty at the ICU of the hospital said all the persons admitted to the ICU are now stable. “They will be discharged tomorrow,” he said. Others were shifted to medical and emergency wards.

The doctor said blood samples of all the victims have been taken for laboratory tests. The police have also taken remaining quantity of the sweet from the residence of Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri and its samples have been sent to the National Institute of Health for laboratory test.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who visited the hospital to enquire after Ulema amid tight security arrangements, said he had ordered inquiry into the incident and newly appointed chief commissioner of Islamabad had been directed to submit the inquiry report.

He said Maulana Haideri, whose servant received sweets from an unknown person, could be the target. It is still a mystery as to who brought ‘Halva’ to the residence of Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri.

According to details, Ulema were attending a meeting in the flat of Senator Abdul Ghafoor Haideri at the parliamentary lodges on Thursday morning. The dish of ‘Sohan Halva’ along with biscuits was served with tea. Condition of meeting participants started deteriorating within 15 to 20 minutes and they were rushed to hospital in different vehicles.

Mufti Muneebur Rehman, who was attending an Ulema and Mashaikh meeting at the National Library auditorium had come to meet Liaquat Baloch and others at the parliamentary lodges also took some quantity of ‘Halva’. He returned to the National Library where his condition deteriorated.

“The victims reached the hospital in time and they were provided timely treatment,” the doctor said. The effect of the poisonous ‘Halva’ was so severe that stomachs of all victims had to be washed. A nurse present at the ICU said the patients, when brought to the hospital, were not able to walk and their condition was lethargic and they were unconscious.

Talking informally to newsmen, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, who looked very upset over the incident, said he was a target of the poisonous sweet but unfortunately, it was eaten by his respectable guests. He said he arrived at his flat at 11.45pm on Wednesday night and found a decorated basket on the table. He said as he was feeling sleepy, he could not check the gift. He further said next morning his guests arrived at his residence for meeting and the sweet dish was presented to them.

Mian Aslam, who was allowed to go home in the evening, said he took very small quantity of the ‘Halva’ and his condition started deteriorating within 15 minutes. A large number of JI leaders, workers, friends and students also reached the hospital to enquire after their leaders. Talking to this correspondent, Mufti Muneebur Rehman said what he had eaten was ‘Halva’ of black colour and he took very small quantity. Liaquat Baloch said with the grace of Allah, his condition was improving. “If it was a conspiracy or murder attempt, we will not move back from our stand,” he said.

Mumbai gunman recants confession, alleges torture

FILE - In this Nov.26, 2008 file photo a gunman, who was later identified asAP – FILE – In this Nov.26, 2008 file photo a gunman, who was later identified as Mohammed Ajmal Kasab walks …
By RAJESH SHAH, Associated Press Writer – 6 mins ago

MUMBAI, India – The accused gunman in last year’s bloody siege of Mumbai retracted his detailed confession Friday, saying police tortured him into admitting his role in the attacks that left 166 people dead.

Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, who is being tried in a special court — and was photographed carrying an assault rifle during the attack onMumbai’s main train station — told the judge he came to Mumbai as a tourist and was arrested 20 days before the siege began.

On the day the attacks started, Kasab said, police took him from his cell because he resembled one of the gunmen, shot him to make it look like he had been involved in the violence and re-arrested him.

Friday’s statement was not the first reversal from Kasab.

In February, he told a judge he wanted to attack India in order to free the divided region of Kashmir where Muslim militants are fighting for independence. He later recanted that statement, saying it was obtained under duress.

It was unclear what impact Kasab’s statement would have on the case, and the prosecution brushed it off.

“All the while, I expected that Kasab was about to take a U-turn in the case,” said Ujjwal Nikam, the prosecutor. “He is a military-trained commando. It’s not going to affect our case.”

In July, Kasab, who could face the death penalty if convicted, surprised the court when he suddenly confessed, saying he would rather be hanged in this world than face “God’s punishment” in the next.

In his confession, he spoke of spraying gunfire into the crowd at the train station and described in detail a network of training camps and safe houses across Pakistan, revealing the names of four men he said were his handlers.

The photo of Kasab casually walking through the station with his rifle has become the enduring image of the attacks.

But Kasab said police tortured him into falsely confessing.

The assault 13 months ago lasted nearly three days and paralyzed India’s commercial hub. During the attacks, 10 young men armed with assault rifles stormed two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and the train station. Nine of the gunmen were killed, leaving only Kasab, who was wounded in a shootout with police, authorities said.

He told the court Friday he was initially arrested last year after wandering around Mumbai late at night looking for a place to stay, and his Pakistani citizenship aroused suspicion.

After he was re-arrested for the Mumbai attack, he said, four white men came to visit him in jail, including David Coleman Headley, who is jailed in Chicago on charges he conspired in the siege. The judge then told Kasab not to reveal any more details on Headley.

Headley, the 49-year-old son of an American mother and Pakistani father, is also charged with planning to attack a Danish newspaper.

US says Pakistan delaying hundreds of diplomats’ visas

US says Pakistan delaying hundreds of diplomats’ visas

Friday, December 18, 2009
WASHINGTON: The United States said Thursday that Pakistan has delayed issuing hundreds of visas for US contractors and officials, adding to tension between the key allies in the war on terrorism.

State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood told reporters that the US government has raised its “serious concerns” at very senior levels with Pakistan, but added that the cause of the delays is “unclear”. He warned that the delays, if they continue, could undermine US-backed efforts to fight terrorism and boost the economy in Pakistan.

“Hundreds of visa applications and renewals for US officials and contractors are awaiting issuance by the Pakistani government,” Wood said. “We have had very serious concerns about these visa issues,” which have been a problem for months, Wood added. “We have raised it at very senior levels.” Wood neither confirmed nor denied whether US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had herself raised the issue with senior Pakistani officials.

“But we are committed to trying to work with Pakistan to make sure that we can get these visas and get on with the business of what we’re trying to do in Pakistan,” Wood added. Senior Pentagon official David Sedney told reporters that Pakistan’s defence secretary Athar Ali addressed the visa issue during December 8-10 talks, led by Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defence for policy.

“He did take on some of these questions directly. He talked about some, and there are lingering tensions,” said Sedney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia.

“But we also believe that the kind of cooperation we have had recently is helping to address that,” Sedney added. Wood hesitated to call the visa delays a deliberate campaign by the Pakistani authorities when asked if there was such a campaign to harass US officials and operations in Pakistan.

“If any of our officials feel that they are being harassed, there are appropriate channels to go through in order to file complaints about that sort of thing,” he said. “But I do not think you can make a general comment that, you know, there is an official harassment campaign,” he added.

Wood hoped the problem can be resolved quickly. “I would suspect, if this continues, it will indeed have an impact on our ability to do the work that we want to do to help the Pakistani people, in terms of fighting terrorism, in terms of economic development, and a whole range of issues,” Wood said.

A senior State Department official later told reporters the delays are affecting Americans working in the military, agricultural and economic sector. But Wood described the problem as a “bump in the road” rather than “a breakdown” in the US-Pakistani relationship.

The Scientific Manipulation of Our Reality

The Scientific Manipulation of Our Reality

NoWorldSystem
December 7, 2009


Bertrand Russell

The following quotes are from Bertrand Arthur-William Russell who was a renowned British philosopher, a supporter of eugenics and World Government. He’s had a huge influence in the scientific dictatorship that we all live in today. The following quotes will describe how governments use propaganda in public schools, TV and movies to shape public opinions and beliefs to manage large populations for the benefit of the elite.

The Scientific Manipulation of Public Thinking
“Science has given us, in succession, power over inanimate nature, power over plants and animals, and finally power over human beings.” “It is the manipulative type of idealists who will create the scientific society. Of such men, in our own day, Lenin is the archetype.” and Mao Zendong. “All real power will come to be concentrated in the hands of those who understand the art of scientific manipulation.” “Science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated” in other-words the public will not be allowed to know how it’s beliefs and opinions were scientifically manipulated by the government to think a certain way. “Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these qualities probably contentment will be considered the most important. In order to produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and biochemistry will be brought into play.”

Shaping the Perfect Slave to be Content With Their Slavery
Children “will spend much time in the open air, and will be given no more book-learning than is absolutely necessary. Upon the temperament so formed, docility will be imposed by the methods of the drill-sergeant, or perhaps by the softer methods employed upon Boy Scouts. All the boys and girls will learn from an early age to be what is called “co-operative,” i.e., to do exactly what everybody is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children, and insubordination, without being punished, will be scientifically trained out of them. Their education thought will be in great part manual, and when their school years come to an end they will be taught a trade. In deciding what trade they are to adopt, experts will appraise their aptitudes. Formal lessons, in so far as they exist, will be conducted by means of the cinema or the radio, so that one teacher can give simultaneous lessons in all the classes throughout a whole country. The giving of these lessons will, of course, be recognized as a highly skilled undertaking, reserved for the members of the governing class.”

“It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fichte laid it down thateducation should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. But in his day this was an unattainable ideal: what he regarded as the best system in existence produced Karl Marx. In future such failures are not likely to occur where there is dictatorship. Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.”

“As for the manual workers, they will be discouraged from serious thought: they will be made as comfortable as possible, and their hours of work will be much shorter than they are at present; they will have no fear of destitution or of misfortune to their children. As soon as working hours are over, amusements will be provided, or a sort calculated to cause wholesome mirth, and to prevent any thoughts of discontent which otherwise might cloud their happiness.”

Propaganda: From the Class Room to Hollywood
“From the technique of advertising it seems to follow that in the great majority of mankind any proposition will win acceptance if it is reiterated in such a way as to remain in the memory. Most of the things that we believe we believe because we have heard them affirmed; we do not remember where or why they were affirmed, and we are therefore unable to be critical even when the affirmation was made by a man whose income would be increased by its acceptance and was not backed by any evidence whatsoever.” (ex: how Al Gore is profiting off the lie that CO2 controls the temperature of the earth.) “Advertisements tend, therefore, as the technique becomes perfected, to be less and less argumentative, and more and more merely striking. So long as an impression is made, the desired result is achieved.”

“This consideration brings us naturally to the subject of education, which is the second great method of public propaganda. Education has two very different purposes; on the one hand it aims at developing the individual and giving him knowledge which will be useful to him; on the other hand it aims at producing citizens who will be convenient for the State or the Church which is educating them. Up to a point these two purposes coincide in practice: it is convenient to the State that citizens should be able to read, and that they should possess some technical skill in virtue of which they are able to do productive work; it is convenient that they should possess sufficient moral character to abstain from unsuccessful crime, and sufficient intelligence to be able to direct their own lives. But when we pass beyond these elementary requirements, the interests of the individual may often conflict with those of the State or the Church. This is especially the case in regard to credulity. To those who control publicity, credulity is an advantage, while to the individual a power of critical judgment is likely to be beneficial; consequently the State does not aim at producing a scientific habit of mind, except in a small minority of experts, who are well paid, and therefore, as a rule, supporters of the status quo. Among those who are not well paid credulity is more advantageous to the State; consequentlychildren in school are taught what they are told and are punished if they express disbelief. In this way a conditioned reflex is established, leading to a belief in anything said authoritatively by elderly persons of importance.” “On the whole, at present in education, the form of loyalty to the State which is most emphasized is hostility to its enemies.” (ex: hating Muslims that supposedly did 9/11.)

Teaching Uniformity Through Hollywood and Television
“Modern inventions and modern technique have had a powerful influence in promoting uniformity of opinion and making men less individual than they used to be. [...] But in the modern world there are three great sources of uniformity in addition to education: these are the Press, the cinema, and the radio.” (ex: the media props up the candidates in elections telling us to vote for either candidate McCain or Obama and no one else, voting for anyone else would be a ‘wasted vote’.)

“Perhaps the most important of all the modern agents of propaganda is the cinema. Where the cinema is concerned, the technical reasons for large-scale organizations leading to almost world-wide uniformity are over-whelming. The costs of a good production are colossal, but are no less if it is exhibited seldom than if it is exhibited often and everywhere.” “The great majority of young people in almost all civilized countries derive their ideas of love, of honour, of the way to make money, and of the importance of good clothes, from the evenings spent in seeing what Hollywood thinks good for them. I doubt whether all the schools and churches combined have as much influence as the cinema upon the opinions of the young in regard to such intimate matters as love and marriage and money-making. The producers of Hollywood are the high-priests of a new religion.”

De-population Key to World Government
“There are three ways of securing a society as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that a scientific world society cannot be stable unless there is a World Government. . .Unless. . . one power or group of powers emerges victorious and proceeds to establish a single government of the world with a monopoly of armed force, it is clear that the level of civilization must continually decline. . .”

In conclusion, one of the greatest examples of the scientific manipulation of our society is the discussion of Global Warming; The elite has flooded their media outlets with propaganda that will make them rich and implant in the human psyche that humans are bad for the environment.

They have propagated the claim that CO2 –the essential element of life– is a toxic gas that should be regulated by a World Government. The global elite have been trying to get everyone to except the proposition that humans are bad and that all human activity must be regulated for the sake of the planet. This is just one of the many examples of the scientific manipulators shaping the public’s opinions and beliefs. Kids have been hit hard with propaganda not only on TV or movies but in the class rooms, as Bertrand put it the public schools are the laboratory for shaping the perfect slave, they are converting young minds to accept the New World Order religion that is all about the regulation and the destruction of human life on earth.