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1.: CRPF recruitment scam and Naxal violence From: Nutan Thakur

2.: Fwd: Lala-Jaanka missing when returning from Raipur Satyagraha From: Release Binayak

3.: The truth about swine flu From: prabhat

4.: Burning Nepal From: Nutan Thakur

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1.: CRPF recruitment scam and Naxal violence

Posted by: "Nutan Thakur" drnutantha...@yahoo.com drnutanthakur

Thu May 7, 2009 10:53 pm (PDT)

Friends,

With the arrest of the IG of CRPF Pushkar Singh along with the Commandant Yajbinder Singh we come across another recruitment scam in our country. A constable Mukesh Kumar has also been arrested along with these senior officers of the force, considered as among one of the Elite forces in India. Mukesh Kumar's wife Swati has also been arrested, from whose custody a huge amount of cash (nearly 70 lakh rupees), which is certainly much more than can be expected from a Constable having a salary, including all kinds of perks, of not more than twenty to twenty five thousand rupees per month. As per the information received so far, this amount had been taken in lieu of recruitment of Constables for the Anti-Naxal Force in Korba, Madhya Pradesh. A cash of Rs. 23 lakh were recovered from the IG Pushkar Singh's house. This is apart from the various other documents and assets recovered from his different households.
Interestingly it is not the IG and the Commandant but the Constable Mukesh Singh who is being considered as the kingpin of the entire scam. Does it not tell the shameful state of affairs of these so-called elite forces where their IGs are being led and fed by the Constables to do all such dirty tricks of making money by recruiting sub-standard persons after taking money from them. The result of such recruitment is bound to be disastrous. Considering the fact that these Constables were being inducted for the Anti-Naxal forces, one can very well understand why our Para-military forces are proving to be so ineffective not only in curbing the menace of Naxal violence but also in saving their own skins in all the Naxal onslaughts. Only yesterday 11 persons have been killed which includes two CRPF personnel in a landmine blast by Naxals in the Dantewada district in Chattisgarh. We have the greatest sympathy for the poor CRPF personnel, the other policemen as also the innocent citizen who get killed in these different Naxal attacks but have the least regard for the senior police officers who go on to recruit substandard police personnel to earn some extra money, never for once thinking about the security of the country, the effectiveness of these people and the adverse impact such inductions are going to make in the police force ion the days to come.
Even more shameful is the conduct of S S Gill, the DGP of CRPF who till now was apparently quite oblivious of these developments till the time, CBI, an outside agency came to know of these events and got these people arrested before the CRPF could even wink. Now that these officers have been arrested Gill comes up with the classic statement of goofiness when he says that the matter is being looked into and attempts are being made to bring about the required amendments in the recruitment process to check such repetitions in the future.

Dr Nutan thakur
Editor
Nutan Satta Pravah
Lucknow

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Fwd: Lala-Jaanka missing when returning from Raipur Satyagraha

Posted by: "Release Binayak" releasebina...@gmail.com

Thu May 7, 2009 10:54 pm (PDT)

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From: Right to food Madhya Pradesh <mprighttofood@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Subject: Fwd: Lala-Jaanka
Dear Friends,
one of our comrades, Lala s/oJaanka of vill Bokrata has gone missing while
returning from the Raipur satyagraha. He was last seen on Durg-
Bhopal Amarkantak Express at around 7-9 am on 6th May while the train was
near Jabalpur.Details are as follows:

Lala s/o Jaanka,
age around 50,
dark complexion, height around 5'5", pockmarked face, sunken cheeks.
He is wearing a white shirt, a brownish shawl as a lungi, and a white pheta
on his head.
Please see attached photo.( But Lala was last seen wearing a pheta, not cap
as shown in photo.)
Please circulate details and help us trace him

Madhuri
Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan
Barwani, MP

--
Rolly Shivhare Madhya pradesh Right to food campaign Bhopal 9425466461

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Visit http://www.binayaksen.net/

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3.: The truth about swine flu

Posted by: "prabhat" savebastar2...@yahoo.co.in savebastar2day

Thu May 7, 2009 11:00 pm (PDT)

Hi,

Did you know that evidence is growing of the link between factory
farms and swine flu? International organisations have been
warning that these inhumane and filthy operations are breeding
grounds of disease for years.

I just signed a petition calling on the the United Nations World
Health Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation to
investigate and develop regulations for factory farming to uphold
global public health standards. If we reach 200,000 signers, the
petition will be delivered in Geneva with a herd of cardboard
pigs. Sign below and tell your friends a pig will be added for
every 1000 signers!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic/98.php?cl_taf_sign=7b8\
4c458520bc92f05bb1d119bd72c14

Thank you so much for your help!

Here's the full Email from Avaaz:

Dear friends,

Noone yet knows whether swine flu will become a global pandemic,
but it is becoming clear where it came from – most likely
a giant pig factory farm run by an American multinational
corporation in Veracruz, Mexico.)1(

These factory farms are disgusting and dangerous, and they're
rapidly multiplying. Thousands of pigs are brutally crammed into
dirty warehouses and sprayed with a cocktail of drugs posing a
health risk to more than just our food they and their manure
lagoons create the perfect conditions to breed dangerous new
viruses like swine flu. The World Health Organization )WHO( and
the Food and Agriculture Organisation )FAO( must investigate and
develop regulations for these farms to protect global health.

Big agrobusiness will try to obstruct and scuttle any attempts at
reform, so we need a massive outcry that health authorities can't
ignore. Sign the petition below for investigation and regulation
of factory farms and tell your friends and family and we will
deliver it to the UN agencies. If we reach 200,000 signatures we
will deliver it to the WHO in Geneva with a herd of cardboard
pigs. For every 1000 petition signatures we will add a pig to the
herd:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic/98.php?cl_taf_sign=7b8\
4c458520bc92f05bb1d119bd72c14

Last week the flu was all that we talked about Mexico has been
nearly paralysed and across the world leaders halted air travel,
banned pork imports and initiated drastic controls to mitigate
the spreading virus. As the threat shows signs of subsiding the
question becomes where it came from and how we stop another
outbreak.

Smithfield Corporation, the largest pig producer in the world
whose farm is being fingered as the source of the H1N1 outbreak,
denies any connection between their pigs and the flu and big
agrobusiness worldwide pays huge sums of money for research to
argue that biosafety is ensured in industrial hog production. But
the WHO has been saying for years that 'a new pandemic is
inevitable')2( and experts from the European Commission and the
FAO have cautioned that the rapid move from small holdings to
industrial pig production is in fact increasing the risk of
development and transmission of disease epidemics. The US Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention warn that scientists still do
not know the extent that infectious compounds produced in factory
farms affect human health.)3(

Studies abound of the horrific conditions endured by pigs in
concentrated largescale operations, and the devastating economic
impact on small farmer communities of bloated largescale
operations.)4( Smithfield itself has already been fined $12.6m
and is currently under another federal investigation in the US
for toxic environmental damage from pig excrement lakes.)5(

But even with all of this damaging evidence, a combination of
increased global meat consumption and a powerful industry
motivated by profit at the cost of human health, means that
instead of being shut down these sickening factory farm
operations are propagating around the world and we are
subsidising them )6(. In the wake of this swine flu threat, let's
hold industrial pig producers to account. Sign the petition for
investigation and regulation:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic/98.php?cl_taf_sign=7b8\
4c458520bc92f05bb1d119bd72c14

If we resolve this global health crisis boldly by reassessing our
food consumption and production, and urgently calling for an
inquiry into the impact of factory farms on human health, we
could put in place tough farm practice rules that will save the
global population from future animal borne lethal pandemics.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic/98.php?cl_taf_sign=7b8\
4c458520bc92f05bb1d119bd72c14

in hope,

Alice, Pascal, Graziela, Paul, Brett, Ben, Ricken, Iain, Paula,
Luis, Raj, Margaret, Taren and the whole Avaaz team

)1( Biosurveillance report tracing the disease to the Smithfields
farm:
http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/biosurveillance/2009/04/swinef\
luinmexicotimelineofevents.html
Reports on the link between the Mexican factory farm and the flu:
http://www.independent.co.uk/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/healthn\
ews/forlagloriathestenchofblameisfrompigfactories1675809.html
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/lafgmexicoflu282009apr28,0\
,1701782.story
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=canswine\
flubeblamedonindustri090501
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227063.800swinefluthepred\
ictablepandemic.html?full=true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidkirby/swinefluoutbreaknat_b_19\
1408.html

)2( WHO pandemic information
http://www.euro.who.int/influenza/20080618_19

)3( FAO, EC and CDC reports on the risks of industrial farming on
public health
FAO and CIWF and http://www.cdc.gov/cafos/about.htm

)4( CIWF and PETA video reports of the disgusting conditions for
animals in factory farms and the disease ridden manure swamps:
CIWF and PETA

)5( Reports on Smithfield's animal welfare and environmental
damage
http://www.independent.co.uk/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/healthn\
ews/forlagloriathestenchofblameisfrompigfactories1675809.html

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/press/releases/newreporthighligh\
tsthetroublewithsmithfieldarticle03132008

http://avaazimages.s3.amazonaws.com/SmithfieldJan08.pdf

)6( Reports on UK tax payers subsidising factory farms
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/5225298/Taxp\
ayersforkingout700millionforfactoryfarminginEngland.html

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information about individuals contacted through this tool. Avaaz
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4.: Burning Nepal

Posted by: "Nutan Thakur" drnutantha...@yahoo.com drnutanthakur

Thu May 7, 2009 11:00 pm (PDT)

Friends,

Nepal burning is always to be a cause of concern to India. With a porous border and with intricate web of relationships at social' cultural and familial basis other than the geo-political realities, the development in Nepal are something which we just can't take lightly.
The events till now include the attempt made by the ex-PM Prachanda to sack the Army Chief, the chief's refusal to obey the orders, the President's objections to sign the order on legal grounds culminating in Prachanda's resignation from the post.
after this, the situation in Nepal is quite uncertain. Here I would attempt to present the various possible scenario and their subsequent repercussions-
1. Maoists (238 members in Constituent assembly out of a total of 601 and hence needing 301 members) joins hands with some of the smaller parties to form the government- not an easy option because it does not seem likely that Madhesi People's Right Forum (53 members) and Terai Madesh democratic party (21 members) will go along with Maoists, considering the bitter past they had and also because of the radically opposite support base they enjoy. So is the case with Sadbhavana Party (9 members) another Madhesi group. This leaves only 60 seats with other smaller groups to go along with Maoists and this does not seem sufficient for the 301 mark.
2. Nepali Congress, the UML and the above three small parties join hands. This makes their number 303 (with 112 members of Nepali Congress and 108 from UML) which is sufficient enough to cross the 301 mark. This is quite feasible also. But here the problem will be the Maoists who would naturally take it as a letdown and might revert back to the same turbulent days, plunging Nepal to chaos. Moreover, there is also the issue of the PMship where both NC and UML might claim their stakes
3. No consensus or coalition is formed, leaving the President to rule, with the aid of the Military. This would be more damaging because it would bring the military rule with the political partiers on the streets and the Maoists back to their violent ways.
4. Fourthly the military might attempt a coup in the present situation, with an overconfident and buoyant Chief at its head. This is not improbable and would harm the country in no less measures
5. Finally, there is also a chance of the King returning back, taking this opportunity to get back to his saddle.
As we can easily see, the situation in Nepal is grim. Theoretically, the second option seems to be the best. But will it happen successfully?

Dr Nutan Thakur
Editor
Nutan Satta Pravah
Lucknow
# 94155-34525

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