The Red Menace

[Gerard]

We discussed the WSF at the time. All the usual disgusting types were present. IIRC it was still overshadowed by the WEF.

[Raghavendra]

Does anyone know this event or did we ever discuss this in BRF? If true then NDA leaders should be lynched for even allowing this to happen

WSF in Mumbai: A anti-imperialist bluff - this was in 2004

The World Social Forum, that has so far met annually in Porto Alegre, Brazil, this year met at Mumbai, India between Jan 16 and 21, 2004. The WSF at Mumbai was no different from other such gatherings. It had all the trappings of a gigantic fair (it was held at National Exhibitions Grounds, a venue of Trade Fairs) with pronounced 'ethnic' and 'tribal' flavour. The show was definitely big - nearly 80000 people from 132 countries are supposed to have participated in 1200 events around the WSF.

Long before WSF 2004 began, the bourgeois media in India, following in the footsteps of their western counterparts, was propagating its virtues. Indian press and TV sympathetically covered the events. Indian trade and industry accorded it 'due respect' as a legitimate expression of 'dissent'. Success of the WSF in Mumbai was further assured by the sympathy of the Congress - erstwhile ruling party of India, currently the ruling party in Mumbai - and the participation of the party of the dalit (lower-caste) bourgeoisie: the Republican Party, coalition partners of Congress in Mumbai. Some major events were chaired by top Indian politicians known for their links with 'lower castes' - VP Singh, the ex-Prime Minister of India famous for triggering caste clashes as a means of strengthening the Indian state, and R. K. Naryanan, the ex-President of India. But the main organisers in India were the biggest Stalinist parties - the CPI (M) and CPI. They mobilised the nation-wide apparatus of their front organisations. The Mumbai office of the WSF was housed in a stalinist building in 'Leningrad Square'. The youth wings of the stalinist parties provided volunteers to the WSF. Stalinist intellectuals adorned the stages at many events at the WSF.

Also present at WSF Mumbai were a large number of NGOs who provide ideological cover for the state's attack on social wages. And there were the regular international personalities: from Le Monde Diplomatique, leader of the French farmers Jose Bove, Labour MPs Clare Short and Jeremy Corbin, Winnie Mandela et al.

The plot of INC win in 2004 may have more hands and there are more outside India's borders.

Googling WSF came across this recent news, WSF should be renamed to WPF

Communists rape women and Alternative globalists rape kids. rab ne bana di jodi

Leading Belgian Catholic priest Francois Houtart admits sex abuse of cousin
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/wo ... 5978828921

ANOTHER scandal has hit the Catholic Church in Belgium after a priest being promoted as a candidate for next year's Nobel Peace Prize confessed to sexually abusing his eight-year-old cousin 40 years ago.

Francois Houtart, 85, called the "pope of alternative globalisation" for helping developing countries, yesterday admitted the allegations made by one of his cousins. He also confirmed that he had asked the World Social Forum, an organisation of groups opposed to neo-liberalism, to stop its nomination campaign for the prize.

Canon Houtart told the Belgian newspaper Le Soir that after a conference he had stayed the night with relatives near Liege. "While walking through the bedroom of one of the boys in the family, I effectively touched his private parts twice. This woke him up and frightened him. It was obviously an inconsiderate and irresponsible act," he said in a letter sent from the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, where he is living.

The credibility of Belgium's Catholic Church was damaged in April when the Bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, confessed to molesting a minor many years previously and resigned soon afterwards. It transpired that the victim was a nephew.

Last week the former head of the Church in Belgium, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, who had admitted trying to suppress the scandal, was questioned for four hours by MPs. He maintained that in more than thirty years he had found only seven such incidents involving priests.

The revelations have prompted 475 complaints this year to a special committee on sexual abuse. Belgian bishops have taken the unusual step of apologising to the country's Catholic community for the Church's failure to respond adequately to the allegations. Just after Christmas Bishop Danneels's successor as Belgian Primate, Andre Leonard, devoted part of his sermon to the victims of sexual abuse.

Among the allegations made against Canon Houtart was one by the sister of the boy who he had admitted touching. She noted that her father saw Canon Houtart, identified only as A, as a great man until that night when he "twice let himself into my brother's bedroom to rape him. Before the third time my brother told his parents, who kept him in their bedroom."

The committee's report, which was published in September, did not identify Canon Houtart. However, when the campaign to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize gathered pace the sister of the cousin demanded that it be stopped. The World Social Forum support committee ended canvassing for backing him last month.

[Jarita]

Not sure if things are as black and white in the Binayak Sen case as we purport it to be. There are many who have painted him as a Maoist who deserves to be jailed and that may be very well so but I believe that on the totem pole of subversionists Binayak Sen may be no worse or even better than the like of Arundhiti Roy and co.
This is an old rumor but it seems that Binayak Sen spoke about the diamond mining going on in the states of Chattisgarh & MP. This is seemingly happening under cover and run by large conglomerates including DeBeers and co. This was what rattled the estabishment. Otherwise, the rest of the subversionists are also helping the same external parties without questioning their resource lines (diamonds, minerals).
Of course, now the same western groups are coming to Binayak Sens defence because they tend to occupy both sides of the debate. A bit like the Vedanta case.

[JwalaMukhi]

Of course, now the same western groups are coming to Binayak Sens defence because they tend to occupy both sides of the debate. A bit like the Vedanta case.

Western groups are coming to the aid is understandable, due to his wife's connection. That's reason the question why Rajan Varier's father of emergency case had to fend for himself was asked. When one has connection to cryptos one will get all the aid and assistance. Else, if one is like Rajan's father, who had no EJ connection, no human right do gooder will support the case.

[Stan_Savljevic]

Have folks observed that the lefties and the uber-lefties often congregate on three causes: i) Dalit, ii) tribal, iii) ecological? There is a synergy that is unmistakable and well-defined. In fact, I would nt be too suprised if the jholawala brigade gets indoctrinated systematically in their gurukuls. Piskologically, the lefties think of themselves as intellectuals with the leading light that commands the pawns to emancipation. But what they dont realize is that i) they will end up as useful idiots and be discarded as and when necessary, ii) their low self-esteem is making them seek an avenue to emancipate/subvert etc., iii) there is no end in sight to this depredation unless systemic changes are made to identify and repair the root causes for both pawns being malleable and gullible, and the low self-esteem of the intellectual brigade. In short, this is an unending pillage that will last till pussy-footing is the norm of the day.

[Pratyush]

^^^
Stan,

Nearly all Indians are a product of the same education system. At least at the school levels. It is only at the institutions of higher learning such as collages where the virus is cured for some members who choose PCM and to an extent commerce.

Those who choose History and economics and other subjects in the humanities stream carry the virus for along time. The education system goes a long way in moulding the attitudes of the population. In India that is more lefty rather then centerist. The centerist in India end up accused of being an ultra rightist.

It is the same people who go on to populate the media as well. So the it is no surprise that the Indian media beheaves the way it does.

JMT

[Suppiah]

You have to grant this much to his Pakbarian commie - at least he has the guts to talk against Chincoms. Which one of the Polpot-ist Stalinist rapist goons in India or their yellow puppets dare to do so against their paymasters?

Long march to capitalism

Snippets

It also has the largest gulf between the rich and the poor, stark regional disparities and excruciating working conditions of its toilers. The scourge of unemployment has reached a figure of 150 million. A large number of workers are caged in the factories

Deng pursued this policy of opening up the planned economy to foreign capital vigorously. They called it ‘market socialism’, which was a contradictory term in itself.

Our rapist goon traitor comrades try to explain this away as 'working with the system'

The 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising and massacre startled them

oops...using the right word to describe an event our yellow media terms counter-revolutionary violence put down by entirely peaceful and patriotic PLA...

The totalitarian nature of the state was a bonus for these corporate vultures. With workers under strict control, they had a better chance of extracting higher rates of profits

100% right onlee...

The CCP is neither ‘communist’ nor a ‘party’. It is a bureaucratic elite where billionaires are leeching the system and awarding themselves a heredity status in private property and ownership

You can bet Karat is not going to invite this man to the annual Marxist bash...

They will explode with volcanic eruptions

Hope he is right on this one...

[Gerard]

Interesting how the deaths of 40 million people are so blithely acknowledged

Although many mistakes and blunders were made,

[Gerard]

Binayak Sen's wife may seek political asylum

[Pratyush]

^^^

I hope that she is put under preventive detention in order to protect public peace.

[Aditya_V]

Binayak Sen's wife may seek political asylum

I hope Mrs Sen and her ilk can spend some time to think about poor Tribal villagers who get threatened every day that if they don't pay Maoist Hafta or present thier daughters to join Maoists .i.e become sexual slaves of the Maoist leaders, they will be beheaded under the Euphenism - "POLICE INFORMER". Why cant these so called "LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES" provide work visas to about say million or 15 million of these tribals?? What prevents them???

[rkirankr]

12 pigs go to meet mao

[vipins]

ISRO-enabled control room for anti-Naxal operations

New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) A state-of-the-art controlroom with giant TV screens that will help track the offensiveof security forces in Naxal strongholds with satelliteimaging and GPS has been activated at the CRPF headquartershere.

The project was kick-started few years back with theforce approaching the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) for satellite imaging of Naxal areas. The NationalTechnical Research Organisation (NTRO) is also part of theproject.

"Lack of knowledge of the topography is the biggesthurdle before securitymen against its fight against the Naxalswho are well-versed with the terrain," a source said.

The images outlines major details of the terrainincluding water bodies among others. And with the help ofGlobal Positioning System (GPS), each step of the personnelcan be tracked.

"This will be very helpful in carrying out offensiveoperations and also to undertake any rescue missions if any.

Even if personnel take a wrong route, they can be notified," asource said.

[Raghavendra]

Five Maoists, including a boy, surrender in Orissa http://www.zeenews.com/news680689.html

Bhubaneswar: Five tribal Maoists, among them a juvenile, an area committee member and a woman, surrendered before police in Orissa on Saturday, an official said.

The rebels identified as Tima Mahakud, Dobra Tudu, Junguri Tiria, Lutu Hembram and Saley Palea surrendered before the superintendent of police at the district headquarters of Jajpur, about 120 km from here.

The rebels were members of Kalinga Nagar division committee of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and committed several crimes, which included attacks on police stations, arson, burning of vehicles, etc., District Superintendent of Police D.S. Kuttey told a news agency.

Lutu Hembram, 23, worked as the area committee member of the CPI-Maoist.

Saley Palea, all of 13 years, told police that he was involved in the attack on a police station at mineral town of Daitari in July last year, Kuttey said.

Orissa to strengthen its anti-Maoist force http://www.zeenews.com/news680747.html

Bhubaneswar: Encouraged by the success of its own securitymen in eliminating nine ultras and recovering huge weapons in Rayagada district recently, Orissa government on Saturday decided to strengthen its anti-Naxalite force, official sources said.

"A proposal to increase strength of Special Operation Group (SOG) and District Voluntary Force (DVF), has been accepted by the state government," Director General of Police Manmohan Praharaj told reporters.

According to the police, the state police personnel were as efficient as CRPF and BSF men in fighting the Maoists in forests. This was proved during a recent encounter in Rayagada district where SOG and DVF personnel gunned down nine ultras and busted a camp of the Maoists active in the southern districts neighbouring Chhatishgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

Stating that at least 50 SOG units (one unit comprises 30 personnel) were now engaged in anti-Maoist operations, the DGP said it was likely to be doubled.

The IG (operation) would soon prepare a blue print on strengthening for augmentation of the anti-Maoist force including the DVF, he said.

The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

With about 18 of the state's 30 districts affected by Maoists, there were 12 battalions of central para-military force to assist the state police to fight the ultras. While BSF has five battalions, CRPF has seven.

The decision to further strengthen SOG and DVF came in the wake of the centre's suggestion to create own striking force against red rebels, the DGP said.

[Stan_Savljevic]

The guy in question is someone I know very well.

Red arrest diktat spurs IPS ‘protest’ leave ---- Munger SP miffed at ‘unethical demand’ after Hiranmar diara killings in December
http://telegraphindia.com/1110119/jsp/b ... 460242.jsp

[Singha]

Besides, the rebels had also been demanding “protection money” from the villagers. Apparently as part of a strategy to get rid of the Maoist menace, the villagers invited 20 and odd Maoists for a feast. They were served litti, mutton and liquor laced with a poisonous substance. After some of the guests consumed the items, they felt giddy. The hosts then snatched their firearms and ammunition. The irate Maoists, who had yet not consumed the food, opened fire and the villagers retaliated. After the hour-long shootout in which mostly the Maoists were killed, the villagers threw the bodies into the Ganga.

that should teach the naxals a sharp lesson. unlike the soft urban chattering classes, the village people know when and how to take direct action. good that they are willing to fight to preserve their peaceable life.

[Stan_Savljevic]

The reality is a bit more complicated than "peacable". Protection money was one thing, the unsaid stuff bandied about is that the maoists wanted local girls to establish themselves firmly in the "biraderi." That seems to be the standard modus operandi. Now go back and read that protection money as dowry, makes more sense no? Got their goose kicked.

[Muppalla]

rural folks and their problems with maoists never comeout. All we get in news is maosits are ruling this and ruling that. In addition, we get news like rural folks like maoists as compared to government etc. There is a huge huge gap in the news coverage.

[Aditya_V]

The reality is a bit more complicated than "peacable". Protection money was one thing, the unsaid stuff bandied about is that the maoists wanted local girls to establish themselves firmly in the "biraderi." That seems to be the standard modus operandi. Now go back and read that protection money as dowry, makes more sense no? Got their goose kicked.

This the best part why aren't Media sponsored JNU alumuni POW-WOW's not talking about the suffering of Tribals under Maoists, while Illegal Mining is going in Maoist areas with settlements in Swiss Bank accounts. If factories for these materials are India where we manufacture the finished goods, foreign firms and western Banking system losses money, local tribals get employment, catering contracts, lease contracts etc which will benefit them.

and Finally do a few thousand Maoists (i.e Dacoits) represent the millions of Tribals in India? Why blow up schools and Hospitals but let illegal mining continue- make reserve forests inaccessable to Forest rangers.

[Singha]

must be poaching going on too for valuable woods and animals - good markets in east asia for animal skins, organs, dried meat and bones.

the Bodo terrorists in their now finished reign over the Manas sanctuary absolutely devastated the region as all forest rangers were driven out in fear. apart from making money by subcontracting to poachers and timber smugglers, they also killed and ate a lot of animals.

[Muppalla]

Cloud on Red zone scheme

NISHIT DHOLABHAI
New Delhi, Jan. 20: Twelve districts that face no apparent Maoist threat have recently been added to the list of those worst affected by the rebels, officials said.

They hinted that powerful politicians with influence in these 12 districts were eyeing a share of the development funds earmarked for the Red zones.

Of the 12 districts, at least eight fall within the Lok Sabha constituencies of Congress MPs. Seven of the districts are in Madhya Pradesh and were apparently included under pressure from an influential MP from the state. Four are in Orissa and one in Chhattisgarh.

The original list was of 48 districts. The home ministry had proposed they be brought under the “integrated action plan” the Planning Commission had prepared last year, earmarking Rs 25 crore for each district.

The 48 “worst-hit” districts had been selected from among 83 Maoist-hit districts (from nine states) that were part of the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) scheme. Only one Bengal district, West Midnapore, was on the list of 48 although Purulia and Bankura too are on the SRE list.

None of the 12 districts added later, whose inclusion has boosted the “worst-hit” list to 60, were on the SRE list.

Before the government finalised the project, the Planning Commission made presentations before several ministries. “During the presentation before the finance ministry, it was noticed that most of the districts were in the backyards of BJP MPs, so some Congress districts were added,” a source said.

Six of the seven Madhya Pradesh districts added — Shahdol, Anuppur, Umaria, Mandla, Dindori and Seoni — fall on the turfs of Congress MPs. Only Sidhi is represented by the BJP. In Orissa, Kalahandi and Nuapada come under a Congress MP while Bolangir and Sonepur are BJP areas. Chhattisgarh’s Kawardha is in a BJP constituency.

[somnath]

Twelve districts that face no apparent Maoist threat have recently been added to the list of those worst affected by the rebels, officials said.

This is an interesting side story to the Naxal menace...The central govt economic largesse to a district declared as "naxal affected" is so great that there is a huge incentive for the MLA/MP/State govt to declare districts as naxal afected! Problem is that in this race for "naxal affectation", we end up with numbers that say "one third of the country is naxal afected"!!

[JE Menon]

boss, do you have to declare all these jugaad's of our indian politicos out in the open... Otherwise we have to invest money outside India to get the bloody furriner to think we are on the verge of collapse... It's hard enough as it is with everybody and his uncle writing articles about India on the brink of superpowerdom...

[krisna]

Maoists creating new Red corridor

Maoist guerrillas are now trying to create a new Red corridor through Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal, as they had come under "some pressure" from security forces during the past year. Intelligence inputs indicate the rebels are trying to create the corridor from the area between south Bastar and south Orissa right up to Jharkhand and West Bengal, state police chief Vishwaranjan told HT.

The Maoists' handbook, Strategies and tactics of the Indian Revolution, written in 2004, said, "We will be able to build these areas into a contiguous area of armed struggle, with each area influencing the other."

reduce the area of moaists slowly,surely and choke them.
Meanwhile improve the infrastructure in the areas freed of maoists, jobs etc and rest will follow.

[Yagnasri]

Add northen portions of AP both in Telangana and costal areas to this zone you are speaking. After YSR death there is now clear effort to reclaim partys of AP territory by them.

[rkirankr]

9 more maoists go to meet mao

[Yagnasri]

Though they are wipped out from AP during YSR's governament, Naxal fronts are quite active in AP even now. People like Gaddar are quite public now and comming on TV on daily basis.

[krishnan]

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/india ... 110128.htm

Indian intelligence agencies are set to question Ugin Thinley Dorjee, the Tibetan spiritual leader known as the 17th Karmapa Lama.

Intelligence agencies suspect the Karmapa Lama is allegedly operating as an agent for China in Himachal Pradesh [ Images ] and trying to set up China-friendly Tibetan institutions all along the Himalayan region.

The Karmapa Lama, who is 25 years old, escaped from China to India ten years ago.

Indian officials now suspect that escape was staged and claim he was under Chinese tutelage between 1990 and 1999 in Beijing.

A huge amount of foreign currency was seized during raids at a transit home of the Karmapa Lama near Dharamsala earlier this week. The police recovered Rs 60 million in various currencies including Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, and Singapore dollars, Australia [ Images ] dollars and US dollars.

A close aide of the Karmapa Lama, Rabjaychojan alias Shakti Lama, was arrested and interrogated about the source of the money. Rs 400,000 in Indian currency was also seized.

Indian intelligence agencies believe the Karmapa was planning to use this money to buy a five-acre plot in Kangra to set up a new monastery that would be China-friendly, and would work on influencing others in the area.

Officials say this was the Karmapa's third attempt to buy land in Kangra. Earlier attempts in 2007 and 2008 were stalled after the Reserve Bank of India [ Get Quote ] and the Enforcement Directorate got involved in studying the source of funds.

[Nihat]

Maoists warn against setting up Army camp in stronghold

New Delhi: Alarmed at the prospect of the armed forces being stationed right next door to CPI (Maoist) general secretary Ganapathy and other top Naxal leaders at their hideout in Chhattisgarh’s Dandakaranya, the ultra-Left party has opposed the move to set up a Army training centre in the state.

[Raghavendra]

Congress ka Haath, Trinamool ke Saath
Trinamool ka Haath, Maoists ke Saath

‘Maoist’ nabbed from Trinamool relief camp http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 400768.cms

MIDNAPORE: Two suspected Maoists, one of whom is accused in the Silda EFR camp massacre, were arrested from a relief camp run by Trinamool Congress in Midnapore town on Monday afternoon.

A Trinamool leader admitted that Amiya Mahato and Asim Mahato were party supporters but that they had been framed in the Silda attack in which 24 jawans had been killed.

Police, however, say Amiya is one of the prime accused in the Silda case and Asim was a close aide of Maoist politburo member Kishanji. Last month, a Trinamool leader of Jhargram was arrested in Orissa for allegedly helping two injured Maoists get admitted to a hospital in Cuttack.

The police raid in the Trinamool relief camp sparked a major law and order problem, ending with a lathicharge that injured Trinamool activists and journalists. Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee rushed to Midnapore in the evening, condemning the incident as "police atrocities".

In a damage control effort, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee too expressed concern over the ruckus. "I have asked senior police officers to investigate why policemen charged journalists," Bhattacharjee said in a faxed message.
Police, however, stick to their claim that Amiya and Asim were involved in sabotage and murder, apart from "direct involvement in the Silda attack".

"We have arrested two active Maoists squad members — Amiya Mahato alias Baichung and Asim Mahato. Several cases of murder and sedition are pending against both of them. Amiya was wanted in connection with Silda EFR camp attack," said SP West Midnapore Monoj Verma.

[Nihat]

Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee rushed to Midnapore in the evening, condemning the incident as "police atrocities".

No real hope for WB anytime soon , I guess.

[Raghavendra]

Maoists ka Haath, Trinamool ke Saath
Trinamool ka Haath, Congress ke Saath

Maoist leader pledges support to Mamata in elections http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/07/stories ... 961200.htm

[Nihat]

ITBP jawan killed in encounter, Naxals arrested

news of 17 terrorists arrested and shahadat for one ITBP jawan from about 3 days ago. I wish they had been dispatched to jhannum straight away but I guess such a large capture will provide significant intelligence inputs.

[hnair]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/ker ... 164811.ece

[Aditya_V]

Churches' forum backs Binayak Sen

WTF is this? EU oberserves, Nobel Laureutes, Demonstration in EU, US, now Churches in Kerala, Illna Sen talk of "Liberal Western Democracies' coming out in support of Binayak Sen.

None of these groups comment on beheadings, Rapes and Maoist Attrocities. Whats going on here, there is more to this Saga than just a humble doctor?

[Aditya_V]

Bravo to Court for refusing Presuure Tactics such as EU observers

Chhattisgarh HC rejects Binayak Sen's bail plea

[Raghavendra]

^Nice kick on the asses of maoists and buddhijeevi slaves

Quoted for congress duffers and commie dull heads to understand why binayak sen is a maoist.

"Sen is a doctor by profession. But during the search at his residence, we could not find the stethoscope, any medical paper or other materials that are usually found with doctors," the prosecution counsel argued.

The prosecution counsel told the court that "Rupantar" - a social organisation with which Sen and his wife were closely associated - have a few members who have Maoist connections.

He sought to quote a statement by Maoist leader Gopanna in a case in Andhra Pradesh to point out that a few NGOs and social organisations have connection with the Maoists. "We have evidence to show that they are pampering them," he added.

If you continue your support for him, you will earn a kick in ur crotch, during the next election campaign when you come to my door begging for votes

[sum]

Bravo to Court for refusing Presuure Tactics such as EU observers

Chhattisgarh HC rejects Binayak Sen's bail plea

Amazing that the HC was able to hold off such massive pressure from the EJs and other assorted international bodies!! The English channels have as usual started criticizing the "judiciary system" after the verdict.

Lets see if the SC is able to ward off the pressure as well.

[rohiths]

Why so much support for him? Is he some shadow maoist leader? He seems pretty ordinary

[RamaY]

They say ~40 nobel laureates signed a petition for his release. Who is coordinating this efforts? The ring leaders need to be accidented.