Anti National Supreme
It is not mere coincidence that the main
negotiators of the most controversial deal Mr
Headless Chicken Ronen sen as well as Nirupam
sen, based in Washington DC belong to the Ruling
Hegemony of West Bengal.
It may also sound a coincidence, the fresh flare up in the Indigenous Insurrection base, nandigram where the Marxist Gestapo head Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has to address a meeting to empower regemented party cadrebase to wipe out any opposition of so called Marxist Capitalist opposition. It is also a mere coincidence, while I am writing this writeup, a friend from Belur a few KM away from Howrah station informed me that the Shramjivi Hospital run by the workers of a closed factory has been attacked by Marxist Goons along with local nursing Home mercenaries. The sting operation on Nithari episode is also centred arownd Murshidabad of west Bengal. Pranab is elected from a nearby constituency.
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Anti National Supreme is the Ruling Hegemony, the comrador corporate agency ruling India!
De facto Prime Minister, the Elite Brahmin from Keernahaar has launched Mission INDO US antinational Nuclear Deal and antihuman, antinature Strategic Regrouping afresh with his statement in Indian Parliament. Here you are! American Budget Session comes to the real Agenda. Once again anti national Supreme! targeted to complete annihilation of everything indigenous in this part of the World. Thus, the allignment is quite clear led by Brahmins of West Bengal on the on side and on the other George Bush and company. It is not mere coincidence that the main negotiators of the most controversial deal Mr Headless Chicken Ronen sen as well as Nirupam sen, based in Washington DC belong to the Ruling Hegemony of West Bengal. It may also sound a coincidence, the fresh flare up in the Indigenous Insurrection base, nandigram where the Marxist Gestapo head Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has to address a meeting to empower regemented party cadrebase to wipe out any opposition of so called Marxist Capitalist opposition. It is also a mere coincidence, while I am writing this writeup, a friend from Belur a few KM away from Howrah station informed me that the Shramjivi Hospital run by the workers of a closed factory has been attacked by Marxist Goons along with local nursing Home mercenaries. The sting operation on Nithari episode is also centred arownd Murshidabad of west Bengal. Pranab is elected from a nearby constituency.
See! Is it only a coincidence?
Indices tumbled on Monday following a sell-off in stocks across the globe as investors fretted over the ailing health of the US economy and its repercussion on equity investment. Investors were seen flocking to commodities and bonds, not knowing how bad the actual condition of the US is or how long the slump would last. Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex sank to a low of 16,634.63 during the day and settled in the same vicinity at 16,677.88, down 900.84 points or 5.12 per cent.
However, select sectors like health care and auto were not as badly impacted. Hindustan Unilever (up 1.96%), Cipla (2.12%), Maruti Suzuki (0.82%) and Ranbaxy Laboratories (1.08%) managed to brave the tide.
Across BSE, 2236 declines outnumbered 402 advances.
The gold market saw new highs today, with the commodity rising to Rs 12,900 per 10 gram. In international market, gold rose as high as $983.90 an ounce while silver rose to $20 an ounce for the first time since Nov 1980.
US crude oil was trading at $101.81 a barrel on the NYMEX.
Stocks retreated in Europe and Asia led by financial companies, as analysts forecast more credit-market losses for banks and Warren Buffett said “the party is over” for insurers. US index futures also moved lower.
In London, the FTSE was down 1.71 per cent, the DAX fell 1.97 per cent in Frankfurt and the CAC dropped 1.69 per cent in Paris.
The Nikkei 225 lost 4.49 per cent in Japan, the Hang Seng Index slipped 3.07 per cent in Hong Kong and Singapore’s Straits Times shed 3.3 per cent.
What happened in Nandigram?
Nandigram (PTI): Five persons were injured on Monday as activists of the Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee and CPI(M) clashed here during a 24-hour bandh called by the BUPC to protest the attack on four of its members on Sunday.
BUPC leader Sheikh Sufiyan told PTI that two of its members were injured in the clash at Chowringhee Bazar in Nandigram block I in the morning when they tried to enforce the bandh.
Niranjan Sihi, CPI-M leader and East Midnapore Zilla Sabhadipati, said two members of his party were also injured.
Another CPI(M) supporter was injured in separate clash at Satengabari, he said.
The bandh was complete in both blocks of Nandigram with traffic off the roads.
Several shops, which had opened in the morning, downed their shutters after the clashes. Markets, business establishments, schools and colleges remained closed.
Police and the CRPF, deployed in the area after the November violence, were on patrol in the villages.
Four supporters of Trinamool Congress-led BUPC were shot at allegedly by CPI(M) cadres at Keyakhali on Sunday, after three months of calm in the area. The incident happened two days ahead of the visit of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee to the area.
One of them, who was shot in the abdomen and chest, is being treated at the government-run SSKM Hospital in Kolkata.
And just rearrange your memory and conscience to analyse objectively all these brilliant consequences!
India’s government will seek “broad political consensus” on pushing forward with civilian nuclear cooperation with the U.S. and other nations, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in parliament today. India has been seeking cooperation with the U.S., Russia, France, the U.K. and other nations to end the South Asian nation’s nuclear isolation and give power plants in the energy- starved country access to fissile material.
The 2005 nuclear deal with the U.S. has been stalled by opposition from the government’s communist allies, who say the accord will weaken the nation’s ability to follow an independent foreign policy and compromise the country’s scientific capability. India is pursuing a separate nuclear agreement with Russia, for which the text was completed in February. Cooperation with other countries will “end the unfair technology denial regimes and sanctions that India has been faced with for over three decades,” Mukherjee said in the lower house of parliament in New Delhi, while presenting his ministry’s report on foreign policy developments.
Members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a 45-nation forum dedicated to limiting the spread of atomic weapons, currently can’t trade in nuclear fuel or technology with India, which exploded nuclear devices in 1974 and 1998.
The July 2005 agreement commits the U.S. to work with friends and allies to amend global regimes to enable full civil nuclear energy cooperation with India. Under the accord, the U.S. would allow India to operate its civilian and military nuclear programs outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Amid the talk of mid-term polls, Congress President Sonia Gandhi is expected to unveil the strategy ahead for the party at a meeting here on March 11. Sonia Gandhi, who is also CPP Chairperson, will be addressing the meeting of the general body of the Congress Parliamentary Party, the first in the budget session of Parliament. The meeting assumes significance as it is the first after the presentation of the Union Budget having an ambitious farm loan waiver scheme and major sops to all sections prompting opposition to say that elections are round the corner. A series of Assembly polls are on the cards in the year ahead amid expectations that the Lok Sabha polls could be advanced to October-November along with the state polls.
AICC has organised a rally at the historic Ramlila Grounds on March 9 to hard-sell the farm loan waiver scheme. Farmers from several states, specially those adjoining Delhi, are expected to attend the rally which will be a thanks giving affair to Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Meanwhile, Gandhi began meeting party workers from various states, including Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
Expressing dissatisfaction over the government’s assertion that Hyde act was not binding on India, Left parties today warned of serious consequences if the the civil nuclear deal with the US was operationalised.
“We don’t agree with the government that the Hyde Act’s implications do not exist for India. … We don’t think that the government should proceed to operationalise the deal,” party Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury said here.
In the same vein, CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta told PTI “if the government proceeds in the direction of finalising the deal, we will be free to decide our own course of action and the course is known to the government.” RSP leader Aboni roy also warned of serious consequences incase the govt operationalised the deal.
The reactions came after External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s statement in Parliament on foreign policy issues, including the nuclear deal.
Mukherjee said the Hyde Act was an enabling provision between the executive and the legislative organs of the US Government and “India’s rights and obligations regarding civil nuclear cooperation with the US arise only from the bilateral 123 Agreement agreed upon with the US.”
Reacting to the statement, Yechury said though Hyde Act was an enabling provision, the US legislature had given a waiver to President George Bush to enter into civil nuclear cooperation with India “under conditions listed in the Act.”
Maintaining that these conditions would adversely affect India’s independent foreign policy, Yechury said they would have serious implications on India’s foreign policy, make New Delhi a part of the US global security strategy and draw it into a military alliance with the US.
The Congress on Monday said it was “very happy” over the progress made in the IAEA talks in connection with the Indo-US nuclear deal and sought to bring the Left around for an understanding over the ticklish issue.
“We are happy that India has made significant and notable progress at the IAEA talks. We are particularly happy that a vast and diverse area of differences have been covered, have been ironed out in the fifth round of talks,” AICC spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters.
Singhvi made a suo-motu statement at the AICC briefing saying it was “equally optimistic, positive and hopeful” about the deliberations and consultations at the Joint Mechanism of the UPA and Left parties which shall follow after the IAEA talks.
“We are confident of a constructive approach by all concerned… totally confident and sure of a reasonable approach by all sections of the Joint Mechanism”, he said.
The AICC spokesman’s statement came on a day when External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee made a statement in Parliament on foreign policy issues including the nuclear issue.
Questioning certain statements from the US, Mukherjee made it clear that its rights and obligations on civil nuclear cooperation came only from the bilateral 123 Agreement and it was not bound by the controversial Hyde Act.
Ruling out any rethinking on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the BJP on Monday said its opposition to the agreement had been borne out of statements by US officials that the agreement has to be consistent with the Hyde Act.
“Our fears on the deal have been proved right by the statements made by US official that the 123 agreement had to be in consistence with the Hyde Act,” BJP President Rajnath Singh said in his spirited hour-long speech in the Rajya Sabha during which he portrayed that the general elections in the country seem to be round the corner.
He said the government should assuage its fears on the deal in the Parliament.
Singh said party’s objections to the Indo-US nuclear deal had not been addressed by the President in her joint address to the two houses of Parliament.
In his speech, Singh lambasted the government for its failure to check price rise and said its objections to Ram Setu were based on peoples’ reverence and faith, which he felt should be respected.
Talks With Regulator
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government is engaged in talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency on arriving at an agreed text on India-specific safeguards, Mukherjee said.
The communist parties, in November, allowed the administration to hold initial talks with the United Nations regulator on condition the government won’t enter into an agreement without prior approval.
Apart from the safeguards agreement with the IAEA, the Nuclear Suppliers Group has to change guidelines on India to enable full civil nuclear cooperation. The agreement with the U.S. will be completed after Congress gives its approval.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said last week that “the clock is ticking” on the agreement and that it needed to be concluded before Congress got caught up with election-year politics.
During a visit to India last month, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joseph Biden, said the deal must come before the Senate by early June to win congressional approval this year. If that fails to happen, he said, the next U.S. administration will renegotiate the deal.
Plans Stalled
Delays in implementing the accord with the U.S. will stall plans to buy reactors from General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Co. that the country needs to help add 40,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity by 2020, equivalent to one-third of current generation.
Mukherjee reiterated that India’s rights and obligations on nuclear cooperation with U.S. are covered by the so-called bilateral 123 agreement, which gives effect to the deal and not from a U.S. law.
“The Hyde Act is an enabling provision that is between the executive and the legislative organs of the U.S. government,” the minister said.
The foreign minister also said the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh was “an integral part of India” and that this was “clearly” conveyed to China, which claims the region as part of its territory.
Arunachal Pradesh, China
Disputes over the 3,500-kilometer (2,175-mile) border and areas such as Arunachal Pradesh are sometimes revived between the two nations, which have tried to ensure their ties aren’t marred by boundary issues.
India accuses China of occupying 38,000 square kilometers (14,670 square miles) of territory in Jammu & Kashmir while China lays claim to 90,000 square kilometers of land in Arunachal Pradesh.
India is closely monitoring the situation in Sri Lanka and is concerned about the upsurge of violence and conflict in the island nation, Mukherjee said.
“Our policy towards Sri Lanka is based on the conviction that there is no military solution to the conflict,” Mukherjee said. “The way forward lies in a peacefully negotiated political settlement within the framework of a united Sri Lanka acceptable to all communities, including the Tamils.”
Sri Lanka’s military is staging almost daily attacks on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE’s estimated 7,000 fighters in the north, the last region held by the group after it lost control of the east in July.
”We are trying for a broad based political consensus,” said Mukherjee in Parliament.
The foreign minister’s statement gave away nothing new on how much the government would risk to see the nuclear deal through. But it was enough for the Left to deliver an ultimatum.
In a statement, the CPM said, ”It is ironical that the statement to Parliament says that the government will continue to ’seek’ a broad political consensus within the country. The government should first respect the majority opinion expressed by Parliament when the 123 Agreement was discussed in the Winter session.”
”The government should acknowledge that its stand on the nuclear deal does not have the support of Parliament. There is no political consensus and hence it should not proceed further with the agreement,” the statement said.
Time is running out and the Left is not budging. So, after a hugely please all Budget, does the government feel more confident about facing an early election?
The Congress is divided and strategists are debating two possible options.
Option one
- The government goes ahead with the nuke deal. The Left withdraws support. The Budget is not passed and there are early elections. In that case, the UPA would go to voters with the thwarted promises of farmer loan waivers as a key election issue.
Option two
- The government decides not to go ahead with the deal. The Budget is cleared and of course that means no early polls.
Earlier, Mukherjee said on Monday that the government was in the process of concluding negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Negotiators from India and IAEA concluded the fifth round of talks on the safeguards on Thursday and reported considerable progress towards the text which once completed will be presented to a Left-UPA committee.
Pentagon launches air strike in Somalia
Washington (AP): Pentagon officials say the United States launched an air strike in Somalia to go after a terrorist suspect.
In the strike early on Monday, Somali police said three missiles hit a Somali town held by Islamic extremists, destroying a home and seriously injuring eight people. A Pentagon official said the US military was going after an al-Qaida suspect in the town.
As yet, there is no word on whether the suspect was hit. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorised to speak publicly about the strike.
The strike follows one last year in which the US shelled suspected al-Qaida targets in Somalia.
Israeli troops sweep through northern Gaza, peace talks suspended
JEBALYA, Gaza Strip (AP): Israeli ground troops pulled out of northern Gaza before daybreak Monday, following the first extended sweep in an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads that has left more than 100 dead and led the Palestinian president to call off peace talks.
Israeli infantry started withdrawing from the town of Jebalya after midnight following several days of fighting, the military said. Overnight airstrikes targeting weapons manufacturing and storage facilities, a Hamas headquarters and groups of gunmen killed five Palestinians, all of them Hamas militants, Hamas said.
Yet despite days of fierce Israeli assaults, Gaza militants continued launching rocket barrages at growing areas of southern Israel, including Ashkelon, a city of 120,000 residents. Three rockets hit Ashkelon on Monday morning, Israeli rescue services said, with one scoring a direct hit on an apartment building. No casualties were reported.
Palestinian medical teams found three more bodies in Jebalya after the Israeli troops left. At least one of them was a militant, they said. Residents who had been trapped in their houses for days began emerging, and some collected equipment left behind by the Israelis: ammunition clips, food cans, two bloody stretchers and a helmet with a bullet hole in it.
Jebalya resident Ahmed Dardouna said he and his nine children had been confined to one room of their house by soldiers who occupied it for three days.
“We couldn’t distinguish day from night,” he said. “The sounds of shooting and explosions, mixed with the screaming of soldiers and the screaming of my children who were asking to go to bathroom and for food is still in my ears.”
In all, 117 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the fighting erupted last Wednesday, according to militants and medical officials. Roughly half the dead were civilians, the officials said. One Israeli civilian was killed by a rocket, and two Israeli soldiers were killed in the Jebalya fighting.
Despite the lopsided death toll, Hamas sent a message to reporters calling the pullout a retreat by the “cowardly” Israeli military. But Israel said the withdrawal didn’t signal it was scaling back its Gaza operations.
“Our efforts against the rocket launchers and those who operate them will continue unabated until Israeli children will no longer be attacked while sitting in their own classrooms, and until their families can sit in their own homes without fear of a rocket crashing through their roof,” government spokesman David Baker said.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said a full-scale invasion was still possible, and Israel might try to bring down the regime of the militant Islamic Hamas. “We will use force to change the situation,” Barak said at a meeting late Sunday of security commanders, according to a statement from his office.
In the early hours of Monday, Palestinians counted nine separate Israeli airstrikes all over Gaza, one of them near the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who was not in the area at the time.
Vice Premier Haim Ramon said Israel should consider returning fire at the rocket launchers, even if it means shelling populated areas. “In the end, this will save lives on both sides,” he said, since Palestinian civilians would either force the rocket squads from their neighborhoods or flee themselves. He told Israel Radio early Monday that “no reasonable country” would object to Israeli efforts to defend itself.
The moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, put peace talks with Israel on hold, clouding an upcoming peace mission by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The Israeli offensive also drew a chorus of international condemnation, with the EU, Turkey and U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon accusing Israel of using excessive force in Gaza.
40 killed in suicide bombing at tribal meeting in Pak
Islamabad (PTI): At least 40 people were killed and 35 injured on Sunday in a daring suicide attack at a gathering of tribal elders and local officials in the restive northwest Pakistan where the military is battling pro-Taliban militants.
The suicide bomber, who was aged about 18, entered the venue of the traditional council known as a “jirga” at Darra Adam Khel, where about 500 elders from five tribes and local officials had gathered, and blew himself up just as the people were dispersing after the meeting.
The jirga had been called to discuss the security situation and steps to restore peace in Darra Adam Khel, which has witnessed a spurt in the activities of pro-Taliban militants in the past few months.
Most of the dead were tribal elders. Two politicians who contested the February 18 general election were also killed, witnesses said, adding at least 40 bodies had been counted.
Pakistan Army soldiers cordoned off the site and began patrolling the area, including the nearby strategic Indus Highway which was blocked by angry tribesmen.
The severed head of the bomber was found by the security forces.
Local khasadar militia and levy force too reached the spot and helped ferry the injured to hospitals in Darra Adam Khel and nearby Kohat. The seriously injured were taken to North West Frontier Province capital of Peshawar.
No group claimed responsibility for the bombing that has sparked tension in the region.
The NWFP has witnessed some of the most deadly suicide attacks in Pakistan in the past few months. This is the fourt in the last three days.
N-deal or early polls? What will UPA choose
Published on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 18:41, Updated at Mon, Mar 03, 2008 in Nation section
Tags: Indo-US Nuclear Deal, UPA , New Delhi
NUKE POLITICS: All eyes are now on the meeting between the UPA-Left panel likely to take place in the near future.
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New Delhi: The Government is not giving up on the Indo-US Nuclear deal just yet. On Monday, it assured Parliament that it will seek a political consensus before pushing it. The consensus though still seems elusive.
External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee said in Parliament on Monday: “We will continue to seek broad political consensus within the country to take forward our political engagement with other countries”
His statement was just another attempt by the Government to reach out to all, especially the Left, on the nuclear deal. The Government also reiterated that the Hyde Act will not be binding on India.
However, even the three paragraph statement by Pranab Mukherjee on the deal did not go down well either with the Left or with the Right.
BJP leader, V K Malhotra said, “If the Hyde Act is not going to be applicable on India, then let the US government or the US president say so.”
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury added: “Under the Hyde Act, anything that’s signed will be a frontal attack on India’s sovereignty.”
All eyes are now on the meeting between the UPA-Left panel — likely to take place in the near future. For now though, the Government will hold discussions with US Assistant Secretary of State, Richard Boucher who arrives in India on Tuesday.
The question that everyone is asking now is whether this is the end of the road for the nuclear deal or is there some compromise still possible.
The answer may like in what choice the UPA Government makes — a full term in power or sacrificing the Government for the nuclear deal. Either way, it’s a big, big deal.
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