Indian Muslim leaders urge India to scale down ties with Israel
We, leaders of Indian Muslim organisations representing the large Indian Muslim community, are deeply pained and alarmed at the steadily growing Indo-Israeli relations. The latest
episode comes in the shape of the visit of the Hon’ble Minister of External Affairs to Israel during which he has talked of cooperation against “international terrorism”, raising Indo-Israeli trade to $ 15 billion from the current $ 5 billion, allowing Israel to open a consulate in Bangalore, signing Extradition Treaty and announcing that soon a Free Trade Agreement too will be signed between the two countries. Reports say that a number of other Indian union ministers are in the wings to visit Israel.
We wish to say that while our External Affairs Minister seeks Israel’s cooperation to fight terrorism, Israel has become the biggest symbol of terrorism in the world. They have continuously executed countless terrorist operations in all parts of the world including killing Iranian, Iraqi and Egyptian scientists. Israel has been responsible for large-scale massacres in Sabra, Shatila, Jenin, Gaza, and many places of occupied Palestine.
We find it difficult to understand how India can ask Israel to cooperate in security while Israel is the fountainhead of terrorism in the Middle East? It is the Zionists who introduced terrorism to the Middle East with acts like blowing up Jerusalem’s King David Hotel which housed the British Government in Palestine (1946), murdering the British minister Lord Moyne in Cairo (1944) and the UN mediator Count Bernadotte in Jerusalem in 1948, or attacking American diplomatic offices in Egypt in 1954 with a view to blame the Egyptians for the same. Today it is the cause of terrorism by occupying Palestinian lands and homes, turning the Palestinians into a nation of refugees and continuously nibbling away even at the small chunks left of Palestine and building illegal settlements there while treating its Palestinian residents as caged animals and keeping the other part (Gaza Strip) under a most cruel siege since June 2007.
Children ‘dumped in streets by Greek parents who can’t afford to look after them any more’
Children are being abandoned on Greece’s streets by their poverty-stricken families who cannot afford to look after them any more.
Youngsters are being dumped by their parents who are struggling to make ends meet in what is fast becoming the most tragic human consequence of the Euro crisis.
It comes as pharmacists revealed the country had almost run out of aspirin, as multi-billion euro austerity measures filter their way through society.
Abandoned: Children are being dumped on Greece’s streets by their poverty-stricken families who cannot afford to look after them any more (file picture)
Athens’ Ark of the World youth centre said four children, including a newborn baby, had been left on its doorstep in recent months.
One mother, it said, ran away after handing over her two-year-old daughter Natasha.
Four-year-old Anna was found by a teacher clutching a note
X-37B spaceplane ‘spying on China’
America’s classified X-37B spaceplane is probably spying on China, according to a report in Spaceflight magazine.
The unpiloted vehicle was launched into orbit by the US Air Force in March last year and has yet to return to Earth.
The Pentagon has steadfastly refused to discuss its mission but amateur space trackers have noted how its path around the globe is nearly identical to China’s spacelab, Tiangong-1.
There is wide speculation that the X-37B is eavesdropping on the laboratory.
"Space-to-space surveillance is a whole new ball game made possible by a finessed group of sensors and sensor suites, which we think the X-37B may be using to maintain a close watch on China’s nascent space station," said Spaceflight editor Dr David Baker.
The X-37B, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), looks like a mini space shuttle and can glide back down through the atmosphere to land on a runway, just like Nasa’s re-usable manned spaceplane used to do before its retirement last July.
Built by Boeing, the Air Force’s robotic craft is about 9m long and has a payload bay volume similar to that of a small van. But what goes in the payload bay, the USAF will not discuss.
The current mission was launched on an Atlas rocket and put into a low orbit, a little over 300km up, with an inclination of 42.79 degrees with respect to the equator – an unusual profile for a US military mission which would normally go into an orbit that circles the poles.
Read More:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16423881?id=3926
Retired, Computerless Woman Fined For Pirating ‘Hooligan’ Movie
Despite not owning a computer or even a router, a retired woman has been ordered by a court to pay compensation to a movie company. The woman had been pursued by a rightsholder who claimed she had illegally shared a violent movie about hooligans on the Internet, but the fact that she didn’t even have an email address proved of little interest to the court. Guilty until proven innocent is the formula in Germany.
The just-concluded case in Germany demonstrates perfectly that in some jurisdictions the standard way to deal with a file-sharing claim is guilty until proven innocent.
At 09:10 during a cold January morning in 2010, the defendant in the case says she was tucked up in bed. A movie copyright holder, however, insists the retired single woman was illegally sharing files on the Internet.
The settlement letter sent to the woman by the copyright holder stated clearly that on January 4th she’d been using the eDonkey network to share a violent film about hooligans. For this offense she must pay compensation of around 650 euros or face court, they said.
Read More:http://torrentfreak.com/retired-computerless-woman-fined-for-pirating-hooligan-movie-111222/?id=9486
Chomsky on “Occupy Wall Street” and Israel Imminent Collapse
In an interview with RT’s Marina Portnaya, prominent scholar Professor Noam Chomsky gives his take on some of the world’s political hot topics.
Chomsky vividly shares his reflections on the wall street protests and warns of an impending serious poverty and real unemployment similar to the great depression, he talks about the 2012 American presidential campaign spending and how positions in both the white house and the congress are being bought, not earned and he refers to the killing of Osama Bin Laden and how this marks a shift of American policy from Bush’s abducting and torturing whoever the CIA thought posed a threat to the U.S to Obama’s “just kill `em when you spot `em” approach regardless of the legalities overlooked in the process.
He concludes that the killing of Osama Bin Laden was done, in such a way, as to infuriate, and may be implicate the Pakistani military, something he seriously regards as extremely dangerous.
In regard to the Arab spring, Chomsky acknowledges that the U.S and its western allies did not support the Tunisian or the Egyptian revolutions; rather they opposed them, and backed the dictator till the last minute and then shifted policy when they were overthrown.
Pinning its hopes on the sole support of the US, Chomsky warns “the Zionist state would risk a collapse if that support was to be withdrawn or compromised – much like apartheid-era South Africa.” He recalls how South Africans felt safe to ignore a UN embargo and corporations pulling out of their country throughout the 1980s, as long as the Reagan administration continued to support them.
As soon as the US withdrew its support, the apartheid regime collapsed. "For 35 years, the US and Israel have been rejecting a political settlement that is supported virtually by the entire world.
A couple of months ago, there was a meeting of the oligarchs — people who pretty much run the economy of Israel," Chomsky says, "and they warned the government that it better accept something like this resolution, because otherwise, Israel will be, as they put it, South Africanized: even more isolated, with boycotts, refusal to load ships, and their economy will collapse."
Turkish police break anti-NATO protest
Turkish police in the northwestern city of Edirne have cracked down on people who wanted to hold a demonstration to protest against the plan to install parts of a NATO missile system in their country, Press TV reports.
The protesters, students from Edirne Youth Association, who have been trying since December 16 to establish tents in the city for their campaign against the system, our correspondent in Ankara reported on Tuesday.
Turkish police have so far prevented the students from setting up an encampment, saying the effort is not authorized by the government.
Clashes erupted between the protesters and police forces after people refused to end their gathering.
Protesters carried banners reading “No to Missile Shield”, “AKP (ruling party) compromises with murderer US,” and “No to US, No to EU, We Want Independent Turkey.”
A military installation in the village of Kurecik has been chosen as the missile site, which is located 700 kilometers from the Iranian border.
Turkish citizens have held many demonstrations in Kurecik to protest against the agreement between the NATO and Turkish government over the planned installation of the system.
In October, thousands of people took to the streets of Kurecik to condemn the plan.
In September, Ankara announced that it had agreed to allow the deployment of the X-Band system, developed by the United States for NATO, on its territory.
New York mayor: I am US mini-president
The New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has called the New York Police Department (NYPD) his own army, saying he is a mini-president of his very own mini-country. 
“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have,” The New York Observer quoted Bloomberg as saying during a speech at MIT university.
However, Bloomberg also raised the possibility that he might seek the presidency. He claimed the executive duties performed by mayors have prepared him for the White House better than other political positions.
“The difference between my level of government and other levels of government is that action takes place at the city level,” Mayor Bloomberg said.
“The cities and mayors are where you deal with crime, you deal with real immigration problems, you deal with health problems, you deal with picking up the garbage,” he added.
Recently, Bloomberg has been under heavy criticism for the NYPD’s actions in Zuccotti Park, when police moved to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from their camp site using pepper spray, tear gas and excessive force.
The city also closed airspace in lower Manhattan to prevent news helicopters from taking aerial footage of the police crackdown, while reporters were prevented from witnessing the scene and some were even arrested.
The Occupy movement emerged after a group of demonstrators gathered in New York’s financial district on September 17 to protest the unjust distribution of wealth in the country and the excessive influence of big corporations on US policies.
Fight the NWO with Global Non Compliance
Fight the New World Order with Global Non Compliance , starve the system that is feeding on you on your illusions and on your obedience stop complying ,The NWO system is completely widespread and it’s tentacles stretch to just about every inch of the planet. People will need alternatives, global non-compliance is good in theory but people will need to jump through the beats’ hoops. The Freeman of the Land Society is not a bad place to start. Alternative cmmunities in the hills too (but don’t expect Utopia). One simple rule, I do things for the right reason, i follow my heart and consciousness, I treat others knowing they are other aspects of who I am. If we all treated others as we would be treated "do unto others as you would yourself" the world would change overnight. There is no need to kill shoot riot shout scream or hurt another. We allowed the NWO to exist by being complicit, now we are aware we can take that away from them. The one weapon they have no defence against is LOVE!
The problem is this: We’ve allowed manipulation of our money system ie. The Federal Reserve. The Nexus in turn is now the Theosophist/NWO Fascist Agenda to vanquish all other faiths and forms of government without consideration of mitigating this "all or nothing" anti-human rights position. It is injustice in its’ purest form, therefore, there will be friction and trouble! All- or – nothing has to give sway to a Mitigation and Choice in Freedom. Simply do not pay your taxes, do not pay your parking tickets, do not pay your traffic violations, do not obey, if no one obeys, no one rules. Remember that. Simply act naturally, when you feel bad about something, THAT’S IT, you know what is wrong, be true to yourself, you have the power to not feel bad. If a policeman orders you around, ask him how he is feeling, offer him a hug, talk to him, explain why you are non-obedient…
US to Install New Bahraini King: Report
The US administration is reportedly planning to replace the Bahraini ruler, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, over his failure to end months of protests in the country. 
According to a report published by Islam Times, Washington has urged King Hamad to restore peace and stability to the country by end of 2011 even at the price of his resignation.
The report also says that Washington wants to replace King Hamad with a Sunni ruler upon agreement with Saudi Arabia.
It also said that the US has announced it will not tolerate Manama’s delay in crushing nationwide anti-government protests.
Al-Wefaq, the main opposition bloc in Bahrain, has also said that Washington is dissatisfied with the current situation in the country, which is home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, and is pressuring the Manama government to go back to its previous situation.
Thousands of anti-government protesters have been staging demonstrations in Bahrain since mid-February, demanding political reforms and a constitutional monarchy, a demand that later changed to an outright call for the ouster of the ruling Al Khalifa family following its brutal crackdown on popular protests.
Scores of people have been killed, many others injured and more than 2,000 public sector workers were fired during the government crackdown.
On Wednesday, a long-awaited report on the Manama government’s rights abuse during the crackdowns concluded that Bahraini security forces had used "excessive force" against protesters, physically and mentally tortured detainees and violated their human rights.
In response to the report, King Hamad vowed to reform Bahrain’s laws and to do everything possible to prevent the repetition of "those painful events”.
He also said that officials involved in abuse during a crackdown on anti-government protests would be held accountable and replaced.
Uncle Sarko Kindly Demands Your Independence
France
After the smart Sarkozy spoke earlier, it is now time for the not so smart one to express what many are increasingly branding as Fascist intentions of forced cohesion:
- SARKOZY SAYS EURO ZONE MUST FURTHER INTEGRATE
- SARKOZY SAYS TROUBLED EURO COUNTRIES DIDN’T UNDERTAKE REFORMS
- SARKOZY SAYS EURO ZONE MEMBERSHIP IMPLIES OBLIGATIONS
- SARKOZY SAYS EUROPE’S FUTURE REQUIRES CONVERGENCE
In other words, please hand over your sovereignty to France and the rest shall be ok.
Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/uncle-sarko-demands-your-freedom
Nawaz Sharif–Zardari selling out Pakistan’s sovereignty
FAISALABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-N President Nawaz Sharif Sunday accusing President Asif Ali Zardari of selling out country’s sovereignty, said the present regime wanted to put Pakistan’s army under the US control.
In his address to a public meeting at Dhobi Ghat where PML-N supporters turned up in a huge number, Nawaz Sharif said: “The letter written and sent to Mike Mullen with the help of Pakistan Ambassador in US Hussain Haqqani, sought to put Pakistan army under the US control”.
He reiterated the call for launching an investigation into the memogate scandal within a couple of days.
The PML-N President warned that the inquiry be completed within 9 days or else his party would approach the Supreme Court.
“We won’t be part such assemblies where the government refuses to listen to our concerns,” Nawaz Sharif said.
He asked as to what kind of government it was whose knees trembled when the US executed an armed operation in Abbottabad.
Expressing shock on the President and Prime Minister’s response, he said President Zardari in an article appeared in a US newspaper was all praise for the attack while the PM called it a ‘great victory’.
Talking about his rule in late 90′s, Nawaz Sharif said he responded to India’s five nuclear blasts with six in Pakistan. “The green passport earned a great honor that day.”
Nawaz said just one phone call from the US sucked all air from President Pervez Musharraf whereas he had been contacted five times by the then US president but he stood firm to his ground.
He said it was his firm stance that made Pakistan a nuclear state.
“Can anyone muster that much courage today?” he challenged.
Nawaz Sharif also criticized Tehreek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan, saying the latter wanted the Kashmir issue to be put on a back burner. “We cannot put Kashmir on a back burner, because this issue is linked to Pakistan’s sovereignty,” he asserted.
He regretted that the country was facing unprecedented corruption today, saying he had have never seen so much corruption in his entire life.
Nawaz Sharif claimed that the country was on a path of progress during his previous rule but the journey was not allowed to be completed.
Occupy Wall Street: NYPD raid on camp in Zuccotti park
Police have begun clearing out ‘Occupy’ protester camps in New York. There are also claims that pepper spray is being used. The raid comes after activists vowed heightened action this coming Thursday, to mark two months since the movement began.
The EU’s architects never meant it to be a democracy
So, as headlines scream that vain bids to save the euro threaten us with “Armageddon”, the EU’s ruling elite has toppled two more elected prime ministers, to replace them with technocratic officials who can be trusted to do Brussels’s bidding.
The new Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, was the man who, as head of Greece’s central bank, fiddled the figures to enable Greece to get into the euro (against the rules) in the first place – before being rewarded with a senior post in the European Central Bank.
He is no more democratically elected than Mario Monti, who will most likely be Italy’s new prime minister and had hurriedly to be made a “senator for life” to qualify him for the job. Monti’s main qualification is that, as a former senior EU Commissioner, he has long been a member of the Brussels elite himself.
One of the few pleasures of watching this self-inflicted shambles unfolding day by day has been to see the panjandrums of the Today programme, James Naughtie and John Humphrys, at last beginning to ask whether the EU is a democratic institution. Had they studied the history of the object of their admiration, they might long ago have realised that the “European project” was never intended to be a democratic institution.
The idea first conceived back in the 1920s by two senior officials of the League of Nations – Jean Monnet and Arthur Salter, a British civil servant – was a United States of Europe, ruled by a government of unelected technocrats like themselves. Two things were anathema to them: nation states with the power of veto (which they had seen destroy the League of Nations) and any need to consult the wishes of the people in elections.
As Richard North and I showed in our book The Great Deception, this was the idea that Monnet put at the heart of the “project” from 1950 onwards, modelling his “government of Europe” on precisely the same four institutions that made up the League of Nations – a commission, a council of ministers, a parliament and a court. Thus, step by step over decades, Monnet’s technocratic dream has come to pass.
Canada to use bicentennial to ensure War of 1812 no longer ‘forgotten’
TORONTO – Scattered plaques and occasional monuments are often the only Canadian reminders of -a nearly three-year war fought two centuries ago that saw an empire and an upstart nation struggle for dominance on both sea and land.
And those tokens of remembrance commemorating the War of 1812 usually offer very little detail about the thousands of soldiers who perished while waging war on what has come to be known as Canadian soil.
They are the "forgotten vets," said George Chisholm, whose great-great-grandfather and namesake fought in the Battle of Queenston Heights and other skirmishes throughout the war before eventually settling in present-day Burlington, Ont.
"I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we’re 200-year plus friends with our neighbours to the south," Chisholm said from his home in nearby Oakville.
"There’s a feeling that we don’t really want to insult them."
Read More:http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-bicentennial-ensure-war-1812-no-longer-forgotten-093007036.html
Tuna fished ‘illegally’ during Libya conflict
Evidence is emerging of unregulated and probably illegal tuna fishing in Libyan waters during this year’s conflict.
Signals recorded from boats’ electronic "black boxes" show a large presence inside Libyan waters, a major spawning ground for the endangered bluefin tuna.
Several strands of evidence, including a letter from a former industry source, suggest the involvement of EU boats.
The issue will be aired this week at the annual meeting of Iccat, which regulates tuna fishing in the region.
The European Commission believes any fishing in Libyan waters this year could be judged illegal.
EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki told BBC News that she is also investigating whether Italian authorities made bilateral deals with Libya on tuna-fishing, which would contravene EU regulations.
The annual meeting of Iccat – the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas – opens in Istanbul on Friday, preceded by two days of talks within its Compliance Committee, which will begin to assess whether rules have been broken.
Suspension suspended
After the Libyan civil conflict began in February, Ms Damanaki’s office was set to request a suspension of all tuna fishing in Libyan waters, given that the breakdown in governance made regulation difficult.
Misrata, a tuna-fishing base, saw bloody fighting early in the Libyan civil conflict
On 7 April, Libyan authorities, in one of a series of letters obtained by BBC News, told Iccat that because of the "recent and exceptional circumstances" they were going to suspend all tuna fishing in their waters voluntarily.
Three weeks later, Libya sent another letter to Iccat cancelling the suspension, without citing its reasons.
Iccat chairman Fabio Hazin asked Libya to reconsider. It was too late to procure international observers for the vessels, as regulations require, he said; and Iccat members did not have the time needed to discuss and approve Libya’s proposed fishing plan.
In response to further correspondence, Dr Hazin and Compliance Committee chairman Christopher Rogers told Libyan official Nuredin Esarbout that "fishing by the Libyan fleet… in 2011 might be in contravention" of Iccat rules.
Ms Damanaki further warned that any catches would be "well on track to be deemed illegal".
She asked EU member states to "monitor the activities of your national operators" to make sure they were not catching or trading potentially illegal fish.
She also warned that she stood ready to use recently adopted EU rules on illegal fishing against anyone involved in such activities.
Read More:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15597675
America Bashes UNESCO for ‘Democratic’ Vote on Palestine
‘Watch as reporter Matthew Lee with the Associated Press grills State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on the United States’ apparent disappointment with the UNESCO vote that welcomed Palestine as its newest full member state. The questions are straightforward and logical, and it becomes clear that the Obama administration is only concerned with Israel’s one-sided demands. The spokesperson eventually ends the questioning after being unable to address even the most basic loopholes in the United States’ stance.’
‘Human Rights’ Groups and the Pretext for War in Syria
The Arab League has announced it’s reached a deal with Syria on easing the country’s long-running political crisis. The agreement urges Damascus to immediately withdraw security forces from the streets, release jailed demonstrators, and start dialogue with the opposition. Syria also agreed to allow rights groups and Arab League watchdogs into the country. But the U.S. still says it wants to see President Assad resign.
Source:James Corbett (www.corbetreport.com) (www.grtv.ca)
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