Showing posts with label india. Show all posts
Showing posts with label india. Show all posts

Friday, August 26, 2011

Wagging The Dog: BBC Airs Footage From India & Says It Is Tripoli, Libya

They think you are sooo stupid. Nobody celebrating in Tripoli that Nato supported Al-Qaeda thugs are now in control? Well, let's just show you then some footage of some Indians waving flags, that'll do the trick, they will never know the difference.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

WikiLeaks cables: India accused of systematic use of torture in Kashmir

From The Guardian.


US officials had evidence of widespread torture by Indian police and security forces and were secretly briefed by Red Cross staff about the systematic abuse of detainees in Kashmir, according to leaked diplomatic cables.

The dispatches, obtained by website WikiLeaks, reveal that US diplomats in Delhi were briefed in 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the use of electrocution, beatings and sexual humiliation against hundreds of detainees...

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Turkmen natural gas pipeline Tapi to cross Afghanistan

From 9/11 Blogger.


A deal has been struck on building a 1,700km (1,050m) pipeline to carry Turkmen natural gas across Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.

The Tapi project aims to feed energy-deprived South Asian markets and transit fees may benefit Afghanistan.
But details about security and funding were not addressed in the framework agreement reached by the four states.
The pipeline will have to cross Taliban-controlled regions and Pakistan's troubled border region.
Turkmenistan has previously costed the project at $3.3bn (£2.1bn, 2.5bn euros) although other estimates are as high as $10bn.
Tapi, a project which dates back to the mid-1990s, is backed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The US has also encouraged the project as an alternative to a proposed Iranian pipeline to India and Pakistan.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

India halt vaccine programmes after the deaths of four children

From Prison Planet.

Vaccine programmes grind to a halt in India once more, when four children died after they received the measles vaccination in Lucknow. The four children were reported to have fainted soon after they were vaccinated and witnesses reported seeing the children’s eyes roll back as they began to have seizures. All of the children were under the age of two years of age, with the youngest being just six months. Sadly the children died before medical aid workers could reach them...

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

GMO Crop Sabotage on the Rise: French citizens destroy trial vineyard

Another point for the Europeans and Indians. They still appear to have brains unlike the Amerikan pro-establishment, pro-corporation, pro Wall Street zombies.

From Prison Planet and Food Freedom.

By Rady Ananda

Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian farmers burned Bt cotton in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. Ignored by multinational corporations and corrupt public policy makers, citizens act to protect the food supply and the planet...

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Wheat rots in India as world prices at 2 year high

The russian wheat disaster is not the end but the beginning it seems. Jim Rogers agrees.


From AP

By ERIKA KINETZ (AP)

MUMBAI, India — A wheat stockpile in India that could feed 210 million people for a year is starting to spoil because the government lacks enough warehouses to store it — a lightning rod for local discontent that could send ripples through the world market for the grain...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Are Exported Scraps Of Contaminated WTC Steel Now a Possible Source Of Deaths And Illness In India?

As some may already know, much of the scrap steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center was quickly shipped off to India after the attacks to be used as scrap metal. This lead to concerns about hazardous materials which might be also present in the scrap and groups like Greenpeace criticized the hasty shipping of the possibly hazardous steel, described in articles like this one from a Green Party website. Despite the refusal of insurance for those involved in the clean up, the secrecy surrounding the materials and their shipment, and an Indian Supreme Court order prohibiting imports of hazardous waste into India, a private investigation into the steel was said to have shown "no toxic contamination" according to one article.

However, recent unexplained deaths and injuries in India to scrap workers might reveal a connection. Described here in the Deccan Herald, "A 35-year-old man died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), 19 days after he was exposed to radioactive material in the scrap market of Mayapuri in west Delhi. Another victim continues to remain critical, doctors said on Tuesday." The article continues to report that "Since the indigenous Cobalt 60 cameras were phased out in the 1990s, experts suspect that the source from Mayapuri may have come from outside the country."

Cobalt 60? Apparently that is the radioactive material believed to have caused the death and illnesses of the scrap market workers which was recovered from the scrap market according to (see photo caption) this article.

So where could it have come from? According to the EPA website, cobalt is one of the 22 metals found in the air at ground zero and it is also a trace metal found in the dust samples by the USGS. Perhaps more importantly however Steven Jones specifically mentioned in a discussion (27:00 in) with Dr. William Deagle that if found in tests of WTC dust "Cobalt 60 would be particularly interesting." The discussion has something to do with whether nukes where used in the destruction of the towers or not. Cobalt 60 is also mentioned in an article on OpEd News discussing a test for isotopes in WTC dust. The results of these tests however are not known to this author.

Despite these coincidences, The Times Of India and Outlook India describe a long unused Gamma Iradiator from Delhi University bought by a scrap dealer as the source of the radiation. A Wall Street Journal article also describing this latest development however includes this passage:

Earlier, other government agencies involved in the investigation of the radioactive waste said they were sure it was from outside India and must have been part of an international scrap consignment imported by scrap dealers.


In addition, stainless steel has been found in Germany which was radioactive.

The radioactivity has been identified as coming from Cobalt 60, one of four isotopes of the normally non radioactive alloying element more often found in magnets and tool steels than stainless. Investigations have led the government to confirm one source, Vipras Castings from India. They suspect four additional firms from India:

Bunts
Laxmi
SMK Steels
Pradeep Metals


Now many articles are now blaming the indian sourced radioactivity on the above mentioned "Gamma Iradiator" from the Dehli University, but if that is the case, how does it explain that "the team of scientists discovered 11 different sources of radiation in Mayapuri's scrap heaps, and an anonymous source at one of the investigating bodies told India's Mail Today newspaper that the Cobalt 60 was believed to be part of a larger, yet undiscovered consignment of metal", reported in this article.

Could there be a connection between these reports of radioactivity and the WTC steel shipped out to scrap dealers in India?

Update: Radioactive steel was also found a couple years ago from China. China along with India received the majority of the WTC scrap steel.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Haskell's Account of 'Mysterious Indian' Helping Underwear Bomber Get On Flight Confirmed by Authorities

It's hard to find...but buried in this ABC News article is a confirmation by the authorities of Kurt Haskell's original claim that a mysterious 'Indian' helped the 'underwear bomber' board the Detroit flight and get through security without a passport by passing him off as a Sudanese refugee. The passport issue isn't mentioned but a 'man' who "helped Abdulmutallab change planes."

If someone from the inside is helping a terrorist get through security, as this now looks, you can have all the body scanners and security you want, he is going to get through.

More Indians and strange events observed by the Haskells on the Detroit flight were described also in this previous post.

A possible reason why 'Indians' might be involved can be found in this article which explains India's (as well as U.S.) geopolitical interest in Yemen. The Christmas Bomber has been used in the media and by politicians to validate new military aid to Yemen.