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For a country of 1 billion people where even the remotest of villages are obsessed with mobile phones, it is highly unrealistic to expect complete mobile monitoring. The money probably is much better spent in other more deserving development efforts. Add to that 26 official languages and thousands of regional dialects for which speech to text hasn't been properly researched yet, it is completely unresonable.
Also, finding loopholes in such a huge system, I think wouldn't present a problem. A simple word substitution would do the trick?
Plus the lack of privacy would probably mean the corruption in the government _will_ work against the idea. (Maybe high level politicos can wriggle out of it, but the rest?)
That hardly characterizes the majority of India.
Exactly how many people do you need shitting in holes and sleeping on bicycles on highway dividers until it becomes an attention worthy problem? You're probably right - this doesn't characterize the "majority" of people in india - only maybe 200m or so.
If they were worried about their business being intercepted they'd not hire 100 foreign nationals to carry out their business on foreign soil.
* Why not spend it on setting up a totally new energy infrastructure?
Ok, have you had time to take your meds yet?
The amount of money required for India to set up a monitoring structure is in no way adequate to the task of setting up a totally new energy infrastructure.
Nor was India involved in any way in a $900 billion bailout.
If you won't read the article, and you won't read the summary, at LEAST read the TITLE where you will find the first word is INDIA.
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Outsources are mostly not governments. If you are a private sector business, there is not particular reason to think foreign nationals are less trustworthy than your own.
A lot of outsources are multinationals, so the idea of foreign nationals is not necessarily important anyway. If a company is officially head-quartered in Ireland for tax purposes, but most of the operations are in the UK, and the biggest shareholders lives in Monaco (also for tax reasons), what does nationality mean?
The Research & Analysis wing in India has always had significant electronic intelligence hardware and has always been looking for more funding & more engineers to work for them. I know in some sense that they are indeed working their things to let me live my life in some sort of passive ignorance. The thing that pisses me off about this is the day and time they decided to announce this.
I haven't touched yesterday's copy of my paper (the hindu [thehindu.com]), because it is very likely that the mass hysteria about the last year's terror attacks in Mumbai will overcome any real news that they have to say. I feel sad for the victims of the attack, but in the fight between the government and the terrorists (well, militants for the 90s people), the rights that really being eaten away are mine.
So, pushing this legislature yesterday was an act of emotional blackmail on an entire country. To do this while they're still feeling vulnerable and to ensure that anyone opposing it will get vilified in the press.
I really hope your companies make a big fuss about this, though I don't have much hope.
The response from 90% of indians will be "Good". There's no concept of privacy here. Probably comes from rubbing elbows with people each time you go out and being around prying family from birth. A lot of people didn't know what the big deal was when batman could see everything in Dark Knight.
Considering how, supposedly, the ratio of SMS to voice traffic is much higher in India and other developing economies, this isn't that far-fetched as it seems.
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One more thing: there is no such thing as "gay marriage" or "same-sex marriage". There is one legal term, and it is simply "marriage". And BOTH heterosexual couples AND homosexual couples have a fundamental right to it.
Anakha82 wrote: Aug 7th 2010 1:18 GMT to A.D.:
"Sorry, but I can't agree to that as tangible harm. There's simply no right to not have your feelings hurt. While I agree that refusing to call their relationship marriage is simple bigotry, it seems a sensible compromise to provide identical legal status now, and worry about societal acceptance when society is actually accepting."
This argument has already been decided, against you, by the US Supreme Court. Desegregation was mandated because it was ruled that "separate but equal" was not equal and imposed social stigma and second class citizenship contrary to the Constitution.
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What constitutional right was being infringed with California's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage?
Are you claiming that marriage is a right to be found in the US Constitution?
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Violence is never the right solution to any problem, and I'm in no way defending the violence of opponents of Proposition 8, but don't for a minute forget all the violence and hateful aggression that not just the GLBT community has endured, but minorities have had to submit to as a whole.
"O.K. so "as a matter of freedom" private business owners (for example the owners of hospitals or hotels) will be allowed to "discriminate" against homosexual couples? "NO" - so you do NOT believe in freedom, so please do not pretend you do."
--It is the freedom for all people living in America to be treated equally under the law. And it actually proves to be beneficial to our economy. The CRA made discrimination unlawful; when businesses in the South were forced by law to hire based on ability rather than skin color, the economy in the South actually grew. So there really is a price that businesses pay for choosing to discriminate against both their customers or the wages of their employees.
As for the rest of your opinion, it's rather off topic but rest assured that these "bailouts" of any industry were essential to keeping a stable economy. Consider it the application of the GOP's revered "Reaganomics," of keeping corporations bloated so they can sway the outcomes of elections of the 'ordinary people' through last minute mass marketing campaigns.
Everyone knows The Economist is a socially liberal magazine, if you are looking for opinions that more parallel your third rail politics, follow the twits -I mean, twitters- of Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh or Dennis Miller and their ponzi scheme of ignorance.
The two lawyers, the best in America, could have found a straight judge to hear the case. It detracts from this "victory" having a gay judge rule in such a "relentless" manner. Besides, were it not for the passion it unleashes, would this topic be newsworthy? Will this be viewed 500 years from now as a landmark civil rights struggle? Of course it will depend if the historian of the future happens to be gay.
There are several things to be clarify here:
1. Is marriage constitional right? If yes then what does it matter the laws are written for "man and woman", fact is, if laws are written only for "man and woman", then it effectively bans gay marriage.
2. What is the alternative for gays? The Prop 8 supporters never give any indication of what gay marriage is acceptable to them. Why are they in return accuse of others calling them bigots? If their problem is that gay marriage should not be honored the same as marriage which needs to be between man and woman, fine, what are they suggesting to the gays? If their plain view is that gays should not be allowed to marry, then they are bigots. Yes, bigots.
Personally I do not like homosexuals at all, I have the right not to like them. You can call me a bigot. However, I do not believe what I like or dislike should interfere with their lives and rights, that is why I am deeply troubled by the runaround the bigots are trying to do, namely complaining the judge is calling millions American bigots and against your right to vote, or calling the judge a homosexual. Yes 52% can be all bigots, or maybe 25%, who knows. We used to discriminate blacks, asians, etc constitionally, that is fact. We used to be bigots on that matters, why we cannot be bigots on gay marriage?
Rajesh Haldipur, your suggestion that the judge recuse himself on account of his sexuality is just silly.
Could we say a hetrosexual judge is not biased ? Maybe they should have held out for a bisexual jusge ;)
To quote the 1975 opinion rendered by Judge Constance Baker Motley of Federal District Court, on an African-American jurist who was asked to disqualify herself from a lawsuit alleging unlawful discrimination. "If background or sex or race of each judge were, by definition, sufficient grounds for removal, no judge on this court could hear this case, or many others,"
"Explain to me what it is gay people hope to accomplish by getting married."
I can't speak for everyone, but I got married because I wanted to show my commitment to my husband. We had legal contracts already drawn up for power of attorney etc., which we need because our state doesn't recognize our marriage, so it wasn't primarily about legal recognition (although we did want to have it the instant the government recognized it).
We could have had a commitment ceremony here, but we specifically went to a state that allows it so we could actually get married. Everyone understands what married means. My in-laws are now(from my perspective and I think from theirs even if not technically "in-law") actually my in-laws. Before that they were my boyfriend's parents.
There's no built up language for "civil union". There's no understanding that this means we're committed to each other. When I say husband, everyone understands.
That's what it means to me, and why I want marriage equality, even if the government were to suddenly say "we have civil unions, and we guarantee that every one of our laws which says 'marriage' also says 'civil union'".
And I don't appear to be alone in this - a much smaller proportion of gay people have chosen to get civil unions (when they're allowed) vs. ultimately getting married(when it's allowed).
I hope that answers your question.
@ wiretap
Hello my friend. I'm sorry I appear uneducated on this subject. Perhaps not having walked the earth as a gay person I can never know how it feels. I can imagine it has it's unique perils. I doubt any one is larger then the way straight people perceive your sex life. Hopefully more people every day recognize the fact that sexual preferences do not add up to a hill of beans when it comes to judging the character of an individual. That being said I have my doubts that most gay people can imagine how I view sex in my life and relationship. From the time I was becoming aware of my sexuality I perceived it to be a bit of the magic of nature, and creation, working within me. My attraction to females is the same urge through out the animal kingdom. It is the urge that created me. I can't imagine my life without this principle. I can't imagine my life without the love I have for women, and the gift of children that I myself caused to be created, by expressing that love physically. I recognize that this perception may be purely my own. Most people may have the urge with out giving much thought to what that urge may represent. Everyone has freedom of thought.
My wife and I have been together 25 years. We married after 12 years and two children together. I never wanted to get married. I don't believe government or religion have anything to do with my relationship. Unfortunately I also didn't believe in paying taxes. So when the IRS started garnishing my wages at the rate of $800 a month, and I discovered if married with two children they would only take $50, I said "Hey want to get married" It seemed like a joke then and it does now.
Explain to me what it is gay people hope to accomplish by getting married. Don't tell me it's a legal issue. Would a law stating that where ever the word marriage appears in government, the words civil union must be accepted as synonymous, be just as effective in that respect? From what I hear from gay people that's not the issue. At least not the main issue. I think my earlier post discusses the main issue. That being peoples perception of what marriage is, and how that effects them personally. As in how it feels to believe you are being oppressed on one side. As apposed to believing the government is trying to change the meaning of the word you believe describes the relationship which is the center of your world view, on the other side.
Seems like high stakes, unless you don't care what others think about what you know in your heart is right for you.
Walk it, don't talk it. Be gay or be hetero. Oppression or betrayal by government in this case is in the eye of the beholder.
Then again that's how I see it through the lens of my own logic.
And I lack education.
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Come on now, I don't think Trevor needs to be feared. And I'm pretty sure it was a theocracy that was the downfall of Persia.
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Quoting some of the ruling:
"Having considered the evidence, the relationship between sex and sexual orientation and the fact that Proposition 8 eliminates a right only a gay man or a lesbian would exercise, the court determines that plaintiffs' equal protection claim is based on sexual orientation, but this claim is equivalent to a claim of discrimination based on sex.
Proponents' argument that tradition prefers opposite-sex couples to same-sex couples equates to the notion that opposite-sex relationships are simply better than same-sex relationships.
Tradition alone cannot legitimate this purported interest. Plaintiffs presented evidence showing conclusively that the state has no interest in preferring opposite-sex couples to same-sex couples or in preferring heterosexuality to homosexuality. Moreover, the state cannot have an interest in disadvantaging an unpopular minority group simply because the group is unpopular.
The evidence shows that the state advances nothing when it adheres to the tradition of excluding same-sex couples from marriage. Proponents' asserted state interests in tradition are nothing more than tautologies and do not amount to rational bases for Proposition 8."
What is there to argue with here? This is a well thought out, persuasive and exhaustive ruling (the whole text can be read at the Huffington Post). This is not only a legal opinion, this is a major intellectual blow to proponents of discrimination.
I would call on all the anti-same sex marriage to read the comment above posted by The Native and realise the type of individual who shares your camp and upon what reasoning.
This is the individual who posted a link to stormfront.org The Aryan-white supremacist hate group as a reference for an argument he was making.
Leading me to write in an earlier post......
"This is why the Constitution works.
Because if you exclude all the guff about tradition, heritage, gods will, procreation, and such, you must rely on Constitution Law.
And the Constitution provides us with protection against the likes of The Native and his stormfront buddies from setting the agenda.
But to stop us sliding into stormfront's ideals of marriage, tradition, procreation, and heritage, we have to stop the opponents of same sex marriage from using watered-down, nicely crafted, and polite versions of the same argument.
This is why those of you who are opponents of same sex marriage must fail….because as much as you will hate to admit it……the slippery slope to The Native and stormfront starts with you."
Think about it.
Raising children does not make a marriage. Plenty of people do that and there are laws to help facilitate it.
"and to further damaging and foolish stigmas based (in your own admission) on 19-century notions of gender roles and identity."
Now you are being silly in your desperation to make an argument. I was saying that 19th century notions of gender are valid in so far as clear gender differences are a scientific fact. It might come as a surprise to you that heterosexual sex can result in children. Homosexual sex cannot. Its to do with gender differences. Please try and address the point in future rather than twist what is said.
"That is a ridiculous comparison. The point is that heterosexual people, whether they are inclined to non-monogamous relationships or not, are able to benefit from the right to enter into a civil marriage. Gay people, however, are completely barred from the institution of marriage."
No they can enter marriage in the form of a heterosexual marriage. The benefits of marriage are offered for a purpose and this is linked to heterosexual relationships. Marriages are not recognised just to confer benefits on people because they want them.
"Isn't arriage suppose to be a good thing? You know, it is meant to encourage stability, responsibility and et cetera, right? So, surely extending that to gay couple would benefit society as a whole."
Stability and responsibility in relationships are really only of interest to the state with respect to heterosexual couplings because these unions are associated with procreation. It has no fundamental interest in stability and responsibility within relationships merely for their own sake. If this becomes the case then the secular spirit of the law has been lost because it is taking a purely moral stand.
"However, you're absolutely right. In a country where anywhere from 30-50% of marriages end in divorce, you'd think that the socially conservative would be encouraging marriage. I guess it's just not the 'right kind'."
(a)there is no evidence that homosexual "marriage" supports the institution of marriage.
(b)As discussed above, the redefintion of marriage to cover same sex unions removes the fundamental interest of the state in marriage and is contrary to a secular sense (if we use the word secular to cover broader moral judgements rather than purely religious ones).
Imagine a zoo which contains lions and deer. The managers of the zoo declare that all the animals have a RIGHT TO FOOD. To this end, the zoo provides each animal with a portion of meat once a day. The issue, however, is that the deer are herbivores: they don't eat meat. So, the deer are asking the zoo to provide them with a source of food that they can eat. These deer are not asking for a new right! The right in question is the right to food; however, they are de facto denied this right because the food that the zoo provides is not suitable for the deer.
It is the same with gay people. At the moment they are in the same position as the deer in the zoo where the only meal on the menu is meat. They cannot benefit from the right to enter into a civil marriage because the law only caters for heterosexual people. So, contrary to what some claim, gay people do not want a new (or 'special' right). Nor are they fundamentally altering the definition of marriage.
A lot of dim people argue that if we extend marriage to gay people then why shouldn't we also extend it to, for example, polygamists. This argument, however, is ridiculous. The polygamists, unlike people who defend same-sex marriage, actually ARE seeking special rights. If we go back to our zoo analogy, the polygamists are like lions who want extra meat – more than their fair share.
"When miscegenation laws existed, nothing said that people couldn't get married, it just prevented some people from getting married *to each other*.Was that a civil rights violation?"
Yes. Black men and white men are essentially the same in a way that men and women are not. I find it surprising that I have to make this point. Allowing miscegenation in marriage does not fundamentally change the purpose of marriage.
"You do not have to agree that there is no "biological difference between men and women" in order to accept that government has no place denying equal civil rights based on sexual orientation."
The US government does not deny equal civil rights based on sexual orientation.
Where does the law say that someone regarding themselves as being a homosexual cannot enter into a contract of marriage?
I'm going to pick on Sempfi. Not because he's said anything particularly distasteful, but because I suspect his argument is the most common position of those who oppose gay marriage: a mild social conservatives view of an issue that makes him feel uncomfortable and seems somehow 'wrong', but one that feels embarrassed of the opposite extremes and recognizes the whiff of intolerance in his own view. In short, a decent guy with some social baggage to offload. Maybe, I'm wrong, but that's my straw man.
His argument boils down to this:
It is wrong to deny total equality of marriage rights to anyone on the basis of innate characteristics (color of skin, for example), but it is acceptable to deny those rights to couples who have made certain lifestyle choices. Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice.
Homosexuality is an 'unnatural act' so does not deserve total equality of marriage rights. It represents an 'attack on existing marriage' and is bad for children.
Since I am a reasonable individual and since I recognize that the law should apply evenly, I am willing to grant full legal status to homosexual marriage as long as they are not allowed to raise children and we preserve a linguistic distinction between 'true marriage' and 'gay marriage'.
So, let's take this one apart:
*Lifestyle vs Innate: this is really just a way to feel better about discrimination by distancing it from obvious emotive examples of historical bigotry.
Would you agree to refuse the right to marriage to other 'lifestyle' choices? What about criminals? People who've used drugs or alcohol? People who have divorced? People who have aids (only those who got it through 'bad lifestyle choices' though...)? Muslims? Atheists? Unhealthy people? Religious zealots? Who should define this list? How do you determine which lifestyle choices are worthy of the right to marry?
*Gay Marriage is harmful: if this were true, this would be a semi-legitimate argument (although we still seem to have no problem allowing criminals and addicts to marry... perhaps we should be more draconian?)
Unfortunately for the anti-marriage crowd, there is not a single study that has shown that the children of gay marriage suffer any ill effects from the union other than the fact that they're often ridiculed by people opposed to gay marriage. In other words, they're not hurting kids, people who hold your beliefs are... There's also not a single study that shows that kids of gay parents are any more likely to be gay than kids of heterosexual parents. So are you proposing denying rights we accord to others based on completely unsubstantiated claims?
When you read a phrase like "attack on marriage", you have to think that this is an emotive issue, not a logical one. It's a gut reaction.
How exactly does homosexual marriage count as an 'attack on marriage'. How does allowing a gay couple the same legal rights accorded to the general population in any way threaten or harm existing or future heterosexual marriages? "Attack on marriage" is an empty rallying cry. It's not a reasoned argument. Isn't the prevalence and ready availability of divorce a bigger attack on marriage?
* Let's create a new category for gay marriages: this is just a desperate, last ditch attempt to separate 'them' from 'us'.
This is the doctrine of 'separate but equal', which should have shameful connotations for anyone accepting it. What is the purpose of creating a new category if it's essentially the same as an existing one? What benefit does creating a 'garriage' bring to anyone other than helping the majority label the minority as different? What gives the heterosexual community ownership of the word marriage? Isn't the real content of the word (what is allowed by law) set by the government and isn't the government obliged not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation? Marriage is a civil union, not a religious union. One does not have to enter into any religious ceremony or faith to be wed in the United States. If the church can't catch up to the world, let them deny gay marriage. Religion doesn't define an individuals rights before the state.
Decent people with bad opinions can still be bigoted. If it smells like intolerance, it probably is.
@ RedJet
"...the homosexual community is force-feeding the population their beliefs..."
Please, can you show me where and how this is happening? How is pursuing equal rights tantamount to "force-feeding"? I'm not gay and I don't see where gays are pressing their morality on me by wanting the same rights I have.
"...people who disagree with homosexual marriage must remain silent or risk unpleasant consequences."
No. People that try to force their views on others risk "unpleasant consequences". Here's an example:
"We are all sinners...in need of a Savior."
I find this offensive. But that's all and I'd never try to take away your right to beleive in this by voting against it.
Also, we do not live in a thoecracy and your belief in your god or religion or whatever has absolutly no place in our judiciary.
Equal rights in our society does not "force-feed" anything on anyone. But blocking preventing people from having rights does.
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Rights Defenders Condemn India's Political Arrests of Activists
[The arrest of civil rights activists in Andhra Pradesh is a dramatic extension of the state's intensified suppression of rights activists. Eleven were arrested — for organizing a press conference, and for organizing a protest petition against — but police claimed this was only to deal with the "Maoist threat." Here, below, is the response of civil liberty organizations, followed by a mainstream (police directed) article which equates Maoism with rights activism. — Frontlines ed.]
October 10, 2014
Detention of civil rights activists in Vishakhapattanam "a threat to constitutionalism, rule of law": PUCL
The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has strongly condemned "arbitrary and illegal" detention of civil liberties activists and human rights defenders in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on October 9, 2014 when they were trying to hold a press conference at the Civil Library, Vishakhapatnam, to announce a meeting on October 12 to protest against Operation Green Hunt. "The hostile and intimidatory action of the police was supported at the highest level in the state government", said PUCL, adding, this was clear "when the Vizag police arrested five other human rights activists who had gone to the Camp Office of DIG, Vishakhapatnam Range, to bring to his notice the illegal arrests of their colleagues."
Signed by Prof Prabhakar Sinha, national president, PUCL, and Dr V Suresh, national general secretary, PUCL, the statement by the influential civil rights group said, "The fact that the Andhra Pradesh police released the activists subsequently does not mitigate from the fact that the government and police's action constitute a serious threat to constitutionalism, rule of law and fundamental right to free speech and expression, assembly and dissent."
Andhra Pradesh: Against the Suppression of Democratic Activists
[42 Organizations demand release of Democratic Activists including Dr. GN Saibaba, APCLC leaders, and others. And they demanded an end to Operation Green Hunt, military withdrawal from tribal areas, and cancellation of multinational deals. Civil Liberties' leaders were released after meeting was over. This is what the Indian State, and imperialists, deceptively call "the world's largest democracy." — Frontlines ed.]
Kurnool: Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee president and state convenor of Operation Green Hunt Vythireka Porata Samiti Prof S. Seshaiah has been taken into custody and put under house arrest by Anantapur police on Saturday night.
India–"Peals of Spring Thunder": Oppressive System cannot control the struggle against oppression
They have been considered one of India's most pressing threats, and the recent attack by the Naxalites that ambushed a convoy of the Congress Party went that much further. The ambush took place over the weekend in Sukma on the Maharashtra, Andra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh border. Reports suggest that there were as many as 200 Maoist rebels who inflicted heavy losses – 28 killed and 24 others wounded – before fleeing.
The attacks have shaken the establishment. Among the dead were four state party leaders including Mahendra Karma of Chhattisgarh, and five police officers. For BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar, "This new aggressive strategy of the Naxalities is a real threat to the Constitution and the rule of law. It is a challenge to sovereignty" (Times of India, May 26). Former police chief of Punjab state KPS Gill is pessimistic about the new surge – the government of the day did not "have the political will and bureaucratic and police set-up to prevent such attacks" (Dhaka Tribune, May 26).
How the Naxalites have been treated has varied. In 1967, when the movement first made its presence felt in the West Bengal village of Naxalbari, the Home Minister Y. B. Chavan treated the matter as a case of "lawlessness" in action. The mistake was classic but fatal. During the 1970s, the state authorities moved in on the movement hoping to crush it with repressive enthusiasm. As usual with such measures, the quotient of extra-judicial killings and corrupt practices accompanied the operations. Legislation was passed to enable various state authorities to take measures – the attempt, for example, by the N.T. Rama Rao government to free up arms licensing in Andra Pradesh in 1983 for individuals to protect themselves against the Naxals. Continue reading
India: Bhilai Steel Plant to 'fund barracks' for paramilitary forces to access iron ore
RAIPUR, November 7, 2012
by Suvojit Bagchi, The Hindu
CPI-Maoist have formed several committees to oppose the project
Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), one of the main steel-producing units of Steel Authority of India (SAIL), 'will fund construction of barracks' for paramilitary forces to ensure security for the coming mining project at Raoghat in Kanker, central Chhatisgarh. The construction has been initiated, both Union Home Ministry and SAIL sources confirmed.
The BSP needs iron ore from the Raoghat mines, about 175 km south of Bhilai, as its existing nearby mines are fast depleting. The banned CPI-Maoist, which has a strong presence in Raoghat, has opposed the mining project.
The BSP is accessing iron ore from various captive mines in and around Dalli-Rajhara, 85 km south of Bhilai, for a few decades. However, those mines are depleting, according to SAIL officials.
The BSP needs to access iron ore from Raoghat, a hilly forested patch another 95 km south of Dalli-Rajhara. The BSP and Dalli-Rajhara are connected by rail to transport iron ore, unlike Bhilai and Raoghat. SAIL is keen to have a rail road to Raoghat from Dalli-Rajhara. However, strong Maoist presence and land acquisition issues are postponing the project, resulting in cost escalation.
In the recent meetings between Home Ministry officials and SAIL, it has been decided that four battalions, with more than 4,000 personnel, of elite paramilitary forces will be deployed to guard the railway construction site between Dalli-Rajhara and Raoghat. The Border Security Force and the Central Reserve Police Force will provide two battalions each. The BSP will 'fund barracks' of the paramilitary forces along the 95-km track. Continue reading
India: Counter-insurgency wars expand with drones and tech surveillance
[There's no mention in this press report of the routine failures of drones and satellites in assessing and exaggerating the techonoligical prowess of these instruments, wherever they are being used (in many countries), with broad targeting of civilian non-combatants as the result. As a result, this "news" report sounds more like a sales brochure from one of the US or Israeli drone suppliers. — Frontlines ed.]
"First NTRO station activated in Maoist hotbed"
Press Trust of India, 31 October 2012
NEW DELHI, 31 OCT: The country's specialised department for technological surveillance , National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) has set up its first base in a naxal hotbed in Chhattisgarh to monitor the movement of armed Maoist cadres and fly UAVs to help security forces to track them.
This key project has been operationalised with the establishment of five satellite-linked terminal stations at a designated location in the state by the NTRO with the help of paramilitary CRPF, the lead anti-naxal force with more than 75,000 troops deployed for such tasks.
Sources involved in the technical department of the base station said CRPF has now linked the operations of its ten Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with the new NTRO facility which will function round-the-clock. Continue reading
Internationalism and the revolution of the masses in India: an interview with GN Saibaba
[On 14th of April 2012, the "Jan Myrdal great award, the Lenin award" was presented in a theatre in Varberg, Sweden. Individuals from different countries and from different parts of of Sweden came for the celebration. Many of participants stayed at Hotell Gästis in central Varberg, where Indiensolidaritet interviewed the secretary of the Revolutionary Democratic Front of India, G.N.Saibaba.]
Indiensolidaritet, Sweden, August 28, 2012
Interview with G.N.Saibaba in Varberg Sweden, 14-15th April 2012
Indiensolidaritet: Can you say something about the political work you do in India?
Saibaba: I work for an organization called Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF). It is a federation of revolutionary mass organizations working among different oppressed classes and sections of Indian society. Revolutionary students and youth organisations, revolutionary peasants' organisations, revolutionary workers' organisations, revolutionary cultural organisations as well revolutionary womens' organisations from different regions across India are constituents of RDF. Thus RDF is a large network of revolutionary organisations reaching out to all sections and strata of the society.
From the year 2009 onwards Operation Green Hunt began, the Indian state's genocidal war on the poorest of the poor in India. All of us in our organization RDF work with other parties, groups, democratic organisations and individuals to raise our voice collectively and unitedly against the present military onslaught on the people and the extermination campaign against the people of India. We see this massive military operation as a continuation and the latest addition in the war waged by India's ruling classes against the people of the subcontinent for last many decades be it in Kashmir, North East, Punjab, and now in central and eastern India. So we are at one level involved in the basic struggles of the people and at another we are working along with a large network of political forces and carrying out a countrywide campaign against Indian state's anti-people policies, particularly Operation Green Hunt.
Indiensolidaritet: The way we see it, there are two lines regarding solidarity work in Europe. One line is trying to unite people on an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal basis and another one focuses more on Maoism. What do you think about this?
Saibaba: Yes, there is this perception and understanding of how to develop the solidarity movement for the peoples' struggles and the particularly the military attack on the people that is going on in India. So what I can see is that there are large sections who think that the large sections of the people of India and the larger confrontation is more important to focus on, to tell the world outside India. There is another section of organizations which hold that the present campaign by the Indian state is targeting the revolutionaries in India and therefore the revolutionaries should be supported directly. What is important today is that the people of India, the poorest of the poor 80 percent of the country who live an extremely perilous existence, are looking forward to a basic change in their lives. The poorest section of humanity in the world therefore is waging a defiant struggle in India under the leadership of the revolutionary Maoists who are from among their own. So if you take the larger picture of what is happening in India, you can see that this is a great resistance against the loot of the land and minerals by the corporate sector. Monopoly capital in its desperation to dominate the world's resources would like to overcome its crisis by exploiting the cheap raw materials in India and other oppressed countries. It's an attempt by the imperialists, by monopoly capital on the world scale, to transport their burden of the economic crisis upon the shoulders of the poorest of the poor in India.
Removing the people from their homes and hearths has become pertinent for the corporations backed by the government to capture the valuable mineral resources which are estimated to a value of several trillions of dollars. So the resistance movement is built up by the indigenous people, the poorest of the poor, the millions and millions of the wretched of the earth. To crush this movement and to silence all the people the Indian government has sent more than 250,000 armed personnel to these regions backed by its air force and navy. You therefore can see the importance of the struggle. Of course the revolutionary forces are involved. They work in these areas and organise the people, but the question is much larger. It is an anti-imperialist struggle of the people, led by the revolutionary Maoists. This is a larger question because this resistance exists not only in the central and eastern parts of India where the Maoist movement has a strong presence, but extends to every part of India even where the Maoists are absent. Continue reading


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Responding appropriately when a cop is killed
Are you prepared to be the warrior that you're expected to be?
Shock and sadness turned to outrage and frustration when I received word of the violent death of yet another St. Petersburg, Florida cop.
Officer David Crawford's murder comes 28 days after the shooting deaths of two other SPPD colleagues, and he is the 9th Florida law enforcer to die this year, the 30th in the United States.
It's not looking good for "the good guys," and it's frustrating for those of us involved in officer survival training and information. Are we not putting on enough training classes, writing enough articles, getting the information out there? Frankly, I feel a bit helpless, and I'm guessing some of you do too. But we can't wallow in self-pity, and we can't allow ourselves to feel like victims.
So, where do we go from here?
First of all, acknowledge our collective loss and lament our dead. Cry, scream, slam your locker door, shout obscenities. Be angry! Every time a fellow cop dies, you should pause. Read their names, learn their stories, and acknowledge them and who they were, how they lived. Mourn for them, grieve, involve yourself and your agency in the rituals of honoring them, wear the black bands, lower the flag, and most importantly, reach out.
Reach out to each other, to the families, to our communities. "The Blue Band-Aid" is powerful, don't underestimate it.
Next, assess yourself, because no one else is responsible for your safety and survival. Are you mentally prepared? Tactically ready? Or are you still allowing "routine" to lull you into complacency, telling yourself that "stuff like that doesn't happen here."
Examine your own mindset; accept that there are people out there who are ready, willing and able to kill you without a moment's hesitation.
I'm neither a psychologist nor a pundit, but I firmly believe that the "super-predator" we talked about five or six years ago is here, and he's hunting cops. Are you ready for him? Are you going to be his prey? His victim? Or are you going to be the hunter? Are you prepared to be the warrior that you're expected to be?
When St. Petersburg's Chief Harmon announced that Officer Crawford had not been wearing body armor, I was saddened, but not necessarily surprised.
I think most of our readers would be surprised to learn how many cops don't wear, or don't even own, protective vests. Many departments, like SPPD, don't make body armor a mandate, and many more agencies and individual officers cannot afford to buy their own.
Don't judge David Crawford because he didn't wear his vest. Instead, learn from his sacrifice. Tell his story to the rookies, remind the veterans; take comfort in knowing that others will live because they will learn from his sacrifice.
David Crawford, like so many others before him, willingly confronted evil. That's what warriors do. We just have to be as completely prepared as humanly possible when we do.
And remember, as Dave Smith says, tell yourself every day, on every shift, "Not Today." Stay safe!
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From: Austin, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Erosion Control, Groundcovers, Grasses or Grass-like
Title: Winter groundcover for shaded backyard in Austin
Answered by: Nan Hampton
QUESTION:I live in south Austin and have a shaded backyard. During the summer, the lawn died and the ground is now bare. I'd like to plant some kind of winter grass or ground cover that will hold the soil in place until I decide on a permanent landscape in the spring. Can you recommend some low-effort and low-maintenance winter grass or ground cover that I can plant or seed now (Jan 2013) and that will prevent erosion from rain? If it can be walked upon occasionally, that will be a bonus, but is not strictly necessary. Thank you!
There are warm season grasses and cool season grasses. Warm season grasses germinate in the spring and, since they are heat and drought tolerant, are generally green throughout the spring and summer. They begin turning brown in the fall and remain so throughout the winter. Cool season grasses germinate in the fall and are green and growing throughout the winter and spring, but die back in the heat of summer. Although there are native cool season grasses [e.g., Poa arachnifera (Texas bluegrass), Elymus canadensis (Canada wild rye)and Nassella tenuissima (Mexican feathergrass)] that will tolerate some shade, it is actually a little late to plant them. They should have been planted in the fall to insure good germination and should be growing already. Even the non-native rye grasses (Lolium spp.)—cool season grasses ready to germinate and grow rapidly through the fall and winter—are not likely to germinate well and grow enough to help with your bare lawn. Additionally, we do NOT recommend the non-native rye grasses—Lolium perenne (perennial rye grass) or Lolium perenne ssp. multiflorum (annual rye grass)—for the following reasons:
- they aren't North American native plants and our focus and expertise are on plants native to North America;
- they are invasive and responsible for massive reduction of native wildflowers along roadsides; and
- additionally, they are allelopathic (kill or inhibit the growth of other plants) which gives them a competitive edge.
Rather than trying to seed a grass or other ground cover at this particular time of the year, you would be better off planting small nursery plants. Sedges, which are very grass-like, would be ideal for your shady backyard. The ones listed below are evergreen, generally do well in the shade and don't grow very tall—and, thus, require little if any mowing.
Carex texensis (Texas sedge) grows in sun or part shade.
Carex perdentata (Meadow sedge) prefers the sun, but will grow in part shade.
Carex cherokeensis (Cherokee sedge) prefers part shade. The leaves of this one are a bit coarser and the plant is taller than the other two, but it is still an attractive plant.
You should be able to find some of these as small plants in local nurseries that specialize in native plants. (See our National Suppliers Directory to search for nurseries.) I happened to be in one such nursery, Barton Springs Nursery, in Austin just today and they did have small containers of Poa arachnifera, Nassella tenuissima (synonym = Stipa tenuissima), Carex texensis and Carex cherokeensis. There are, no doubt, other nurseries in the area with these species for sale. With the ground soft from the recent rain, it should be relatively easy to plant these. Usually the plants in the containers can be divided in order to cover a larger area.
Here is some more information about sedges from McNeal Growers, a wholesale nursery in Manchaca, TX and here is an article, Sedge Lawns for Every Landscape, from Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Who has retrofitted an old toilet to be low-flow or dual flush?
Experiences? Our toilets are the originals to our 1954 house, and we want to keep them. Can they be transformed into more water-saving devices?
Low flow toilets aren't just old toilets that use less water. They are designed from the beginning to work with less water. The flush valves and sizes are different. The jets are different. The shapes are subtly different.
So while you could set up your old toilets to use less water, you will have a difficult time making them work with less water and you may have to flush more than once. You'd be better off purchasing new toilets with an older look. They do exist, and they can pay for themself over time.
I have been studying which toilet to buy, and here is an article I found that explains how low-flows work. As the article explains, a low-flow toilet employs a different design.
Here is a link that might be useful: HGTV Low-Flow Toilet Article
An old toilet cannot be retrofitted..It is true that you can slightly reduce the water consumption in an old toilet by placing a brick in the tank, but the savings is only about 1 qt of water and often it will cause the toilet to not flush properly...
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Thanks, everyone. I was thinking of something like this, but it sounds like that's a no-go. I'm just curious about all these old 1950s ming green or Mamie pink toilets I've seen antique/retro shops selling, like this. Do people just buy and install them themselves on the quiet? Our contractor implied that the town wouldn't "let" us keep our older toilets.
Here is a link that might be useful: Old bath fixtures for sale
Beautiful. I suppose if you pulled permits for a big remodel you must put in new stuff- my dad just had to put in led can lights in a kitchen remodel.
Different towns probably have different permit processes.
If you're not getting permits, you can do anything you like :)