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Accused in murder of Australian baseballer Chris Lane 'thought bullets were blanks'
One of the teenagers accused over the shooting death of Australian baseball player Chris Lane in Oklahoma has told a US court that a co-accused believed the gun was loaded with blanks.
Three teenagers - James Edwards Junior, Chancey Luna and Michael Jones - are charged with first-degree murder over the death of Lane, who was shot in the back while he was jogging on a street in the small town of Duncan on August 16 last year.
Lane was on a baseball scholarship at East Central University and was two weeks away from celebrating his 23rd birthday.
He had only been back in the US for two days after a trip to Australia with his American girlfriend, Sarah Harper.
A preliminary hearing, being held ahead of a trial expected later this year, has heard testimony from one of the three accused, Edwards Junior.
Edwards Junior, who was the front passenger in the car, told the court that on the day of Lane's murder, he was picked up in a car by his two friends, who told him they had "shot a donkey" the night before.
He said the trio had stopped at a set of lights when they saw Lane jogging in the distance and, as they were driving past, the car swerved towards the Australian.
Edwards Junior said he heard a loud bang, which shocked him; his co-accused also looked cold and shocked immediately after the incident, he said.
He said the shot came from behind him, where his friend Luna was sitting.
Edwards Junior said he did not see the weapon until later, when Luna handed it to Jones, the driver, who then attempted to hide it inside the engine compartment of the car.
Edwards Junior said that at that point Luna said: "I thought there was supposed to be blanks in it," to which Jones replied: "Me too, I'm sorry."
Edwards Junior's co-accused remained unresponsive as the accusation was made, with Jones writing notes.
At their arraignment, prosecutors told the court the three teenagers shot Lane in the back from a passing car because they were bored and just wanted to shoot someone.
All three are charged with first-degree murder but, as turning state witness, Edwards Junior's incentive is to have that dropped to make him an accessory to murder, but that is only after all the evidence is given at trial.
Ms Harper and her family attended the hearing, along with the families of the accused.
After someone whistled during testimony, the judge threatened to jail anyone who interrupted proceedings further.
The case, which is scheduled to resume on March 12, continues to receive a lot of publicity, with multiple camera crews from Australia and local networks covering the trial.
It has also been written up in Vanity Fair and other major publications across the United States.
It has also caused a lot of tension in the town, with people taking sides.
Baseball club retires Lane's shirt
Lane's baseball coach in the US, Dino Rosato, says the club still feels strongly about his loss almost six months on.
He says they are going to retire his number from the baseball team when the season starts.
"It's emotional just to even speak about him. My heart hurts right now, so ... the tears are still tough to hold back," he said.
The club has also established a scholarship fund in Lane's name.
"To this point, very successful. I think there's around $10,000 in the foundation," Mr Rosato said.
"I don't know exactly how they're going to disperse the money. I think that's an administrative issue. Just have to wait and see."
The club's players have all been given a number seven shirt.
"It was one of those things where we could pay tribute to what he meant to us," Mr Rosato said.
"The guys, you know, we're going to wear them under our uniforms all year. It was a way for us just to ... for the boys to heal but also to show our commitment to Chris and what he was about."
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, death, united-states, essendon-3040, vic
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Rwanda | Nyamasheke hits 44% in savings participation
The numbers of citizens involved in Sector Credit and Loan Schemes Umurenge Sacco, has increased in Nyamaseke district from over 68.000 to over 75.000 which is equivalent to 44%.
The increase was achieved in less than three months according to the evaluation report of the 2011 district performance contracts.
The district had set a target of having at least a half of the population (over 85,000 residents) use the schemes between 2011 and2012, which is equivalent to a 10% increase by July 2012.
The initial participation was rated at 40% which is equivalent to 68,000 residents.
The district also plans to ensure that all Sacco schemes acquire legal certificates and permits of operation as loan schemes. By the end of 2011, only four had been fully certified while remaining 11 schemes had submitted request to the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR).
Local leaders have continued to encourage residents to join the credit and saving schemes as a means of propelling social and economic development in the district.

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Classic storylines dominate Tropfest shortlist
There are many challenges facing a first-time film director.
Just ask Silvermay Darlison-Raines, the 11-year-old director whose first short film, Bindiana Jones, has made the finals of Trop Jr - Tropfest for the under 15s.
She found herself coming up with creative solutions to problems she never expected.
"In our movie, the bully gets a blood nose, and the funny part was when we were thinking of ways to make it look like blood and we used tomato sauce," Darlison-Raines said.
"It went up the girl's nose and made her eyes water and it made her sneeze all the time. So we turned to fake blood."
Darlison-Raines's Indiana Jones-inspired take on schoolyard bullying is one of 12 short films shortlisted for the kids competition, which is now in its second year.
Films about life from the perspective of a drink can, two lovers being separated by distance and being the new kid at school are just some of the stories told by Australia's next generation of filmmakers.
Another finalist, Jasmin-Johanna Mobbs, is a relative movie-making veteran.
The 15-year-old was the Trop Jr runner-up last year and took out the SBS myfuture competition in 2007.
She said she was surprised to make the finals for a second year with her film about travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway, as the competition was so tough.
"It doesn't matter what age you are to get into film, all it takes is a camera and some editing skills and you're in," Mobbs said.
The winner of Trop Jr will be announced on Sunday February 22 in the Domain in Sydney, ahead of the main Tropfest event.
The 16 Tropfest finalists have also been announced.
Among them is Tripping Over actor Abe Forsythe with his film Being Carl Williams.
IT professional and self-confessed movie nerd Avi Lewin represents one of the less experienced finalists for 2009.
His film, Left Unspoken, explores the anguish of falling in love.
"It is my first time entering, actually first time making a film," he said.
"I have a day job. I work in IT doing information security. None of my work colleagues know that I did it."
The Tropfest winner will receive prizes worth more than $100,000.
Topics: short-film, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, sydney-2000, australia, nsw


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|Half Baths
|2,500 sq. ft.
|Property type
|Minimum Stay
|2 - 14 nights
Hershey, Gettysburg, and the Dutch Country are at your fingertips, yet you'll enter your own private retreat in this comfortable home on a large corner lot with majestic oak, maple and dogwood trees in a peaceful neighborhood. You will be conveniently located to all the attractions of central Pennsylvania with Hershey thirty minutes to the east, Gettysburg 30 minutes to the west, and the Amish Country 45 minutes south of us. Ski Roundtop is a short nine miles from the house. There is easy access to PA and Interstate highways and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. You couldn't find a better location for vacationing in our area in any season!
One outstanding feature is the spacious, privacy-fenced back yard with a large 16' by 36' in-ground pool with two fountains, a screened gazebo with dining table, ceiling fans, and lighting, plus a convenient pool house with an outdoor kitchen and a bath with a luxurious oversized tile shower. One extra nice feature is the large poolside deck, not often found in vacation rental homes. The pool opens in April, and it should be comfortable for swimming within a few weeks as our passive solar heat expedites the warming of the water. Until then, enjoy the relaxing sound of the fountains as you lounge by the pool and make s'mores in the chiminea. (Those daring enough to take a dip in early April are welcome to do so - it's been done many times!)
The 5+ bedroom home features a first floor, fully equipped tile kitchen with breakfast nook and GE Profile stainless steel appliances, including convection double oven, dishwasher, convection microwave, and large refrigerator with water and ice in the door. There is also a second full-size refrigerator in the three season outdoor kitchen so you never run out of refrigerator space.
Also on the first floor is the Southwest bedroom with a queen bed and direct access to a half bath (we call it the Palm room!) The bath can also be accessed from the foyer so that it can be shared.
The first floor L-shaped living/dining area has leather dining chairs and comfortable leather couch and chairs for viewing the Sony flatscreen HDTV. There's even an old Waltz family piano so that the kids can keep up with piano practice. (Sorry, kids!)
The second floor includes:
1. Master bedroom with a queen size bed, a desk, and a leather chair for viewing the 60' LED TV with sound bar.
2. Second bedroom with a queen bed,
3. Third bedroom with a double bed, a twin bed and a futon that can be used as a bed. It's as large as the master bedroom.
4. Optional bonus bath and bonus bedroom with queen bed. There is an extra fee for this addition, and it is required for groups with over 12 people including children. (The bonus bath is access through the third upstairs bedroom, and you go through the bonus bath to reach the bonus bedroom.)
In the basement, you'll find the large den/fifth bedroom combination with a queen size bed, leather couch and love seat, and a Pioneer Elite extra large flat screen HDTV and sound system. There is a half bath on this level. In addition, you'll find a convenient laundry room with washer and dryer in another section of the basement, and we supply all the laundry products. Laundry chutes on the first and second floors send all the dirty laundry directly to the basement laundry room. You can play air hockey with the kids while the laundry is drying!
If you're looking for good local eateries close to the house, walk to Deiner's on Main Street for breakfast. It's decorated with memorabilia from the local high school and a number of students work there. If you're hungry for bagels, Ressler's Bagels and Deli will hit the spot, a very short drive from the house. They were rated a perfect "10", the best bagels in all of central Pennsylvania. Juice 'N Java, in Windsor Park Shopping Center, five minutes from the house, is a great coffee shop with gourmet sandwiches, etc., free Wi-Fi and laptops provided. We enjoy the fabulous gyros, lamb dishes, chargrilled souvlaki, just everything at Hellenic Kouzina, a family run Greek restaurant with parents and sometimes all nine children pitching in. If you like, you can eat in the courtyard with stone fountain and hanging lights. All of the above restaurants are within five minutes or less from the house by car, and our area has lots of the major chain restaurants as well. There are two Giant Supermarkets within a five minute drive, and the upscale Wegman's Groceries with a gourmet selections of cheese, a Mediterranean bar, craft beer, great sushi, and an expansive hot and cold food bar with dining area is a short drive from the home.
Your Hosts: We take pride in providing our guests with a sparkling clean home that has been well cared for, and one that is furnished with many conveniences. You will find the house and grounds well maintained. We live in the area and will respond promptly to any need. We truly enjoy answering questions, making suggestions as requested, and helping to make your vacation in central Pennsylvania a very special one to remember.
David and Janice
My husband, two children, and I have lived in Mechanicsburg, an historic village just across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg, PA, for 28 years. For a number of those years, we lived in this home, where our children walked to the local schools, and Dave and I volunteered in numerous capacities in the community. Our children are now grown and live out of state, and Dave and I spend much of our time at our river cottage just about a 30 minute drive from the house. I enjoy gardening, and often I will be the person stopping by to water the flowers and potted palms and check on the pool during your stay. We will do our best to give you outstanding service because we truly consider you our 'guests' in every sense of the word. Dave is the executive director of a statewide organization, and I am a professor at our local community college. In a few years, we look forward to retiring, when we plan to spend spring, summer and fall in Pennsylvania and winters traveling or visiting grandchildren (when they arrive!)
Janice purchased this house in 2000
We chose this property to live and raise our children because it is a safe area with good schools and convenient access to shopping and cultural attractions. We have easy access to major Interstate highways and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. With our son and daughter entering their teen years at the time, we also wanted a home that would be a 'teen magnet' to draw our children and their friends to our home to hang out. With the pool, outdoor kitchen and bath, and other outdoor amenities, as well as the layout of the house which is great for entertaining, our house became the home base for the track team, sleep overs, and pre-prom dinners poolside. The home was a favorite of the church youth group, and we enjoyed hosting cookouts and family reunions there as well. For the same reasons, we know our guests will find this home a wonderful base for a vacation in central Pennsylvania. The only 'drawback' you'll find is that you won't want to leave the house!
Our immediate and extended family stayed in this lovely home for a long weekend while we were celebrating our youngest son's graduation from Messiah College. There were 4 couples, one family of 4 and a set of grandparents; the layout of this home worked beautifully for us. Everyone had their own luxurious bedroom with plenty of comfortable beds. The grandparents had the first floor bedroom. My husband and I had a virtual suite down cellar and the other family fit upstairs easily by renting the extra bonus room above the garage. There was plenty of parking in the driveway and on the street. All the luxury linens and towels were provided. Everything was exceptionally clean. It felt like home, only much nicer! It rained much of the time we were there and was too cold to use the pool but the home lends itself well to indoor games (Sardines was very popular) and the foosball table was a godsend! A few more board games would have been helpful but not necessary; especially with nicer weather. Even though we were within walking distance of shopping areas; we saw wildlife every day! Everyone marveled over the bald eagle that soared above our heads during a Mother's Day brunch eaten al fresco. The kitchen is a bit tight if more than one person wants to be involved in meal prep but was very handy with access to the back yard and the grill (which works great!) just outside the door. The washer and dryer down cellar were extremely helpful. The bathrooms (half baths down cellar and one on the first floor, two full baths upstairs) are situated nicely, spic and span clean and ample for our needs. The entire house is very tastefully decorated. There is even a hidden ironing board in the wall of one of the upstairs bedroooms! The owner is more than accommodating. Janice worked with us to make it as easy and beneficial as possible to rent her home. She was very thorough, kind and welcoming in all her communications with us. The check list prior to departure was really helpful. We would definitely rent this home again!
Janice and her neighbor Carl did a great job making sure our long weekend went well. The house surpassed our expectations and we hope to book it again next year. Thank you so much!
Janice and Dave were very responsive both before and during our stay. The backyard was amazing! They have a pool, screened gazebo, bathhouse, horseshoe pit and more. There is also air hockey inside. The location was an easy drive to both Hershey and Gettysburg.
Dave and Janice have thought of every way to make this home comfortable and enjoyable. Our family of 12 had a wonderful stay for our daughter's graduation weekend. It is a beautiful property, conveniently located to Hershey and Harrisburg! Dave and Janice were such thoughtful hosts. It was a great experience! Highly recommend!
Well equipped and ready for a crowd, this rental had everything needed to make our stay one of the best. Location was key with Hershey 30 min., Lancaster 35 min. and Gettysburg 45 minutes away. 6 bedrooms and 3 full, 2 half baths gave our large group all the privacy needed. Beds were incredibly comfortable, nice living room as well as downstairs family room for kids and adults to spread out. Between the dining room table and kitchen table there was plenty of seating for meals. The extra fridge in the pool cabana was perfect for beer, wine, water and sodas. All appliances were in tip top shape and the Keurig made morning coffees for a large group super easy. Best bonus was the double washers and dryers! We had little ones so packing light is nearly impossible without laundry facilities. Kids thoroughly enjoyed the pool and the yard is absolutely lovely to relax in. Owners are meticulous about their lawn care and it certainly shows! Janice and Dave were wonderful hosts, easy to work and communicate with, and thoughtfully checked in with us each day to see if there was anything we needed. We've been renting with VRBO/Homeaway for the past 16 years and I can honestly say, without hesitation, this is one of the best rentals we've ever had!
Thank you, Janice and Dave, for making our vacation one to remember for years to come!
My friends and I would like to thank David and Janice Waltz for inviting us into their lovely home on South York Street. They made our stay at their home a wonderful experience and it is evident from the way that they maintain their home that they want their visitors to have the best time while there. What may be a small gesture to some, such as David and Janice driving thirty minutes to greet us after our long ride from NYC, meant a great deal to us. During our prior experiences renting homes, no other owners have traveled to give us tours of their homes and to do on-site inspections of their facilities. In another instance, two members of our group went to try out the air hockey table and it was not turning on properly; David ran to get his toolkit and fixed it just so we had the option of playing it. I could go on and on about the Waltz and their kindness, but I must save some room to discuss the home.
The house was very clean and accommodating. The bathrooms all had an array of toiletries for us to choose from such as shampoos, body washes, lotion, towels, etc. TVs throughout the house made it possible for us to all watch what we wanted without bumping heads. The beds were among the cleanest and coziest we have ever had in our experiences. The one thing we were unable to check out was their pool and that was because the weather did not permit. If David and Janice would have us, then we would love to return to their home during the summer.
The village of Mechanicsburg is 30 minutes from the Gettysburg battlefield and visitor center, less than 30 minutes from Hershey Park, 45 minutes from Lancaster County's Amish Country. These are all in different directions, so we are very centrally located. There is also a Civil War museum in Harrisburg, just across the river. Mechanicsburg got its name because that's where all the covered wagons stopped to be repaired and worked on after they crossed the Susquehanna River heading west. It has the distinction of being the point of northernmost penetration of the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Other area attractions include Indian Echo Caverns, Lake Tobias Wildlife Park (fabulous for children!), Dutch Wonderland, IMAX theater and Harsco Science Center, and outstanding outlet shopping in Lancaster, Gettysburg, and Hershey. Enjoy the Appalachian Trail and other great wilderness hiking/biking trails, fishing, kayaking and tubing on the Susquehanna River and Yellow Breeches Creek minutes away.
|Rate Period
|Weekend Night
Peak Summer
Jul 14 2017 - Aug 14 2017
7 night minimum stay
Aug 15 2017 - Aug 17 2017
3 night minimum stay
Labor Day Weekend
Sep 1 2017 - Sep 4 2017
3 night minimum stay
Sept/Early Oct.
Sep 5 2017 - Oct 5 2017
3 night minimum stay
Columbus Day Weekend
Oct 6 2017 - Oct 9 2017
3 night minimum stay
Oct 10 2017 - Nov 19 2017
2 night minimum stay
Nov 20 2017 - Nov 26 2017
3 night minimum stay
Early Winter
Nov 27 2017 - Dec 21 2017
2 night minimum stay
Dec 22 2017 - Jan 2 2018
3 night minimum stay
Jan 3 2018 - Jan 28 2018
2 night minimum stay
Sportsman's Show
Jan 29 2018 - Feb 12 2018
14 night minimum stay
My Standard Rate
3 night minimum stay
|$200 + Tax
|Refundable damage deposit
|Pet Fee
|$50 + Tax
|Tax Rate
HomeAway and VRBO charge a credit transaction fee of 3%. If credit is used, that fee will be deducted from the security deposit refund. Electronic bank transfer, e-check, is free.
Rates are subject to change until bookings are final.
$200 cleaning fee; $500 refundable security deposit - security deposit returned within one week of checkout if there is no damage.
Weekly rentals only in peak summer season.
All reservations are final. If guests cancel, I will attempt to re-rent the property for the same dates at the same rate. If successful, payment will be refunded less 10% of the rental amount. If unsuccessful, no refund will be extended. We recommend travel insurance.


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Ford Foundation, Hivos, Panos and Dutch Embassy- Is Kejariwal an American agent?
Thirteen Questions for Mr. Chameleon Kejariwal
(Original Piece That appeared on 21st October,2012 raising serious question about Kabir and Kejariwal. Immediately after the blog post was being tweeted, Mr. Transparency Chameleon Kejariwal's site of Kabir was off and all details from Ford Foundation website about Kabir has been hidden , exposing the complicity of Kejariwal and Ford and by extension Kejariwal and the US game-makers.)
Finally, someone has spoken what I have been writing and stating for months- AK-47 is an imported stuff with dubious agenda who have ventilated Indian youth's growing radicalism and hyper-nationalism far away from resisting neo-imperial strategies of the global hegemony by US and diverted it to plastic protest against India's crony politico-corporate elite. It is not that the uprising against corruption is misguided. But, the man who seeks credit for the intense mood against the crooked class, himself appears fragile and dubious. Let us not forget what Digvijay Singh has raised through 27 questions, only because those have been raised by someone called Diggy! There are certain significant question and these need to be properly answered and not merely rubbished as Diggy's questions.. I will put up various links unraveling the hands behind Arvind's bloated confidence.
Digvijay Singh has asked AK on his service records: "Is it a fact that in your entire service of 20 years in Indian Revenue Service, you never served outside Delhi even though the norms of the service are that all IRS officers serve a posting only for three years in a place? Is it a fact that even your wife, who is also an IRS officer, has never served outside Delhi?"
Now, it is certain that if an honest officer intends to bring transparency and take action against wrong-doers, he cannot be tolerated by the seniors and the political-business class. It is surprising that AK was never transferred out of prime posting in the city of Delhi and when he was transferred for the first time to another lively city, Chandigarh; he proceeded on leave. He could remain posted in Delhi throughout his career defying service rules and this reflects that he was never a thorn to the corrupt persons. As an IRS, he himself admitted that he did not take bribe , but he maintained silence against his staff taking bribe. He also gave interviews during 2009 that he was offered bribes and thence he decided to work for transparency in the system. Mind it, not only transfer, AK never had to face any tough situation during his stint as Indian revenue service officer. One can just contrast his case with case of Arun Bhatiya, G.P. Khairnar or recently Ashok Khemka who had to face 43 transfers in 19 years of service or CSS officer, Niraj Kumar who had to face 7 years of suspension and more than 15 transfers in his entire career of 15 years after being alleged to be the hand behind a website tehelka.com that exposed massive corruption in defence sector and for exposing CIA activities in India through Dutch NGOs, massive loot of funds in the name of Surrender Policy for militants, Freedom Fighter Pension scam, the secret killing in Assam etc.
AK had a very smooth career. He qualified Civil services exam(1991) and was allotted IRS. He tried again next year , but again could not improve his ranking and joined as IRS. His service record was ordinary.
In January 2000, he took leave from work and founded an NGO, Parivartan . In February 2006, he resigned from the job, to work full-time at 'Parivartan'.
Brief Profile of AK- Never working, shirking government Parasite
Date of Birth: July 16, 1968
Education: B. Tech. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering ,Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (1989).
a) Worked as Assistant Manager in The Tata Iron & Steel Co, Jamshedpur (1989 to 1992).
b) Joined the Indian Revenue Service (IRS IT-92069) in 1992 .
c) Date of Appointment to Group A- 5.9.1993.
d) Kejriwal took study leave from the government between November 2000 and October 2002, after signing the bond . During 2000-2002, Kejriwal was paid a salary, under the condition that he would not leave the service for at least three years upon returning from the study leave
e) Promoted as Joint Commissioner, IT on 26.3.2003.
f) Kejriwal again went on Extra-ordinary leave without pay in 2004.
g) Never posted out of Delhi. CBDT planned to give him posting to another urban centre, Chandigarh. His wife Sunita Kejariwal(IRS IT-93072) also never posted out of Delhi between 1995-2004 and then to Ghaziabad.
h) He arranged a letter from Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, the then NAC Chairperson to PM and the Finance Minister to stop his impending transfer.
i) Arvind resigned on 20 Feb 2006.
j) Resignation pending since he had gone on foreign training after signing a bond that he will serve the government for three years.
k) Resignation accepted through CBDT notification dated 20.12.2011 w.e.f 20 Feb 2006 only after he paid dues of Rs. 9.27 lakhs.
Same year he received Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership(2006). The guiding hand of Ford Foundation is behind AK's every move since then. The Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership seeks to inspire young people to apply their talents and energies to selfless and innovative service in Asia; and this award category was exclusively created in 2000 with support from a Ford Foundation grant, and honors greatness of spirit among men and women forty years old and below. http://www.rmaf.org.ph/?id=2&page=history.
In fact Magsaysay Foundation itself was planned by CIA. This declassified document of CIA reveals the same.
AK got this award of $ 50000 at the age of 38 and the citation does not reveal some significant contribution except the fact that under the aegis of Parivartana, AK and his team could settle 2500 cases of electric bills grievances. The Magsaysay awards in different categories are constituted by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation and a substantial part of the cash component is funded by the Ford Foundation (FF). Surprisingly, it is the Ford Foundation only that was financing AK during the same period while AK was also working in the Government of India. Even in the citation of the Magsaysay award to Kejariwal, was it a happy coincidence that the first reference was made to the Central Intelligence of America(CIA)(http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/biography/141). Later, AK who had founded another organization , Kabir, with Manish Sisodia in August,2005, became a poodle conduit for the Ford foundation-Dutch and other active American interests in India. . Herein is the capsule of Kejariwal's dubious NGO career:
Legal status:
Parivartan is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 in the name of "Sampoorn Parivartan". It is a non-political, non-profit making voluntary organization. It does not charge anything for services rendered and runs on voluntary donations and services offered by individuals and organizations interested in promoting its ideals. All donations made to Parivartan are tax exempt under section 80 G. Parivartan is also registered under section 12A of Income Tax Act.
The Core Group:
Kabir 's FCRA submission(Calculated from the Annual return of Kabir)
This is stupendous feat of award disbursement that the donor turns into the awardee for its own beneficiary. Everything seems to be premeditated and made out to launch "own men" in Indian public sphere. AK became a Ford Foundation created "important man".
What is surprising that Kabir claims to be transparent , but has not made public its foreign grants for the year 2008-9. The search at the site returns "failed' report http://www.kabir.org.in/indexx.htm . But, the Ford Foundation site reveals it all. Kabir was given a grant of $1,97,000 in the year 2008.
Again, the next year return reveals Kabir received Rs. 6075149 in the year 2009-10, but the details have been hidden as Annexures not made public in the name of transparency.
Kabir's own declaration of Year wise details of Foreign Contributions
Now, things turn up crystal clear. AK was picked up by the Ford Foundation way back before 2005 . The Ford Foundation began to finance his all activities and pushed him into limelight with conferring the Magsaysay Award. What he claims that he donated all his award money to a Trust. But the fact speaks otherwise. He created a trust with a donation of Rs. 1000/- on 20th December 2006. Here are the facts:
On 19th December,2006, Kejariwal formed a trust, Public Cause Research Foundation(PCRF) with Rs.1000/- from Magsaysay award vide Cheque No. 36110 dated 20 Dec. 2006 , with himself as main Trustee, Manish Sisodia and Abhinanadan Sekhari.
A NY University researcher Shimrit Lee visited Kabir and prepared a report, Public Power: India and Other Democracies(2010). She assisted in Kabir's campaign for the Right to Information and Local Self-Rule. Nowadays, she is actively working in Egypt. Ms. Shimrit lee is mysterious . Ms. Lee has been active in Cairo and Haifa, Chad and Israel, India and US… who is she? Visual anthropologist? Human right activist? Fund manager? International strategist? . It was she who was instrumental in inspiring for public power and idea like mohalla committees. Exactly, who is she needs to be deeply probed and why did US invest so much with AK- money, award , ideas and human resources?
In a way, foreign organizations were funding him, assisting him with think tanks and also awarding him while he was still in the government service.
Ford Foundation India Representative Steven Solnick on 31st August,2012 admitted that Foundation's last installment to Kabir was in 2010. "Our first grant to the NGO was of $1,72,000 in 2005 ; the second was in 2008 of $1,97,000," and that Magsaysay award for emergent Leadership was also funded by them. ( http://www.indiatvnews.com/print/news/kejriwal-admits-his-ngo-took-money-from-ford-foundation-2-years-back-10340-1.html)
A website BeyondHeadlines filed RTI to know the details of the foreign contributors to Kabir and has come up with the startling answer. Kabir received funds from the Ford Foundation (Rs 86,61,742), PRIA (Rs 2,37,035), Manjunath Shanmugam Trust (Rs 3,70,000), Dutch Embassy (Rs 19,61,968), Association for India's Development (Rs 15,00,000), India's Friends Association (Rs 7,86,500), United Nationals Development Programme (Rs12,52,742) while Rs 11,35,857 were collected from individual donations between 2007 to 2010. http://www.fordfoundation.org/grants/grantdetails?grantid=107117
Based upon this information, a lawyer Manohar Lal Sharma has filed a PIL in the Delhi High Court bearing no. W.P.(C) 3412/2012 on 21 May,2012. The High Court has sought status report within 3 months from the government of India vide their order dated 30.5.2012.
Kabir was raided by the Union Home Ministry officials for a suspected violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) on 22nd August,2012 pursuant to the Court Order.
But, more curious is the fact that Kabir has been directly funded by the Dutch Embassy. The amount made public is merely the tip of the iceberg. When embassies can come out openly with funding an individual or organization, one can see the confidence and brazenness of the powers which are pushing Kejariwal for their own strategic game in India.
Kejariwal ,Dutch Embassy, HIVOS,PANOS and the CIA game plan
Why is Dutch embassy funding Kejariwal?Who are HIVOS? What is the connection between HIVOS ,Kejariwal and the Ford Foundation?
Recently, the Pioneer reported that Humanistic Institute for Co-Operation with the Developing Countries (HIVOS) has given more than 13 lakh Euros (approximately `9.25 crore) to various NGOs in Gujarat between April 2008 and August 2012. The prominent among them are: DISHA (2,24,000 Euros), GKVP (2,07,000 Euros), SAFAR (1,84,000 Euros), MAHITI (1,04,000 Euros), SWATI (85,000 Euros), and UTHAN (63,000 Euros). HIVOS has also funded various NGOs in Mumbai and Delhi. Mumbai-based Citizens for Justice & Peace (CJP), run by Teesta Setalvad, and Delhi-based ANHAD, run by Shabnam Hashmi, 4,000 Euros.
HIVOS is also one of the highest recipient of Ford Foundation's grants . Stichting Hivos, Netherlands, is also a donor who maintains a full-fledged country office in India, receiving $1.2 million or around Rs 5.5 crores. http://www.fordfoundation.org/Grants/Search?searchphrase=kabeer Hivos is also one of the co-financing agencies to the Netherlands government, whose embassy funds Kejariwal's Kabir. Hivos co-funds the Centre for Collective Development (CCD) one of the two Ford Foundation funded NGOs of IIM Bangalore's dean Trilochan Shastri, who also run ADR(Association of Democratic Reform). Trilochn Shastri has also been conferred Breton Woods Committee membership. He could not be given Magsaysay Award like Kejariwal was given, might be because of his above 40 age. The Right to Recall is in the agenda of ADR and the ADR held the IAC movement in southern India. Like Kabir, Shastri's two NGOs are heavily funded by Ford foundation.http://www.fordfoundation.org/grants/grantdetails?grantid=8279
Hivos also funds Kejariwal's Parivartana.
Then there is PSO Association which was founded in 1985, to facilitate the posting abroad of professionals in the context of development cooperation. The name refers to this main activity: Personnel Cooperation in Developing Countries (Personele Samenwerking in Ontwikkelingslanden). PSO is directly funded by Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affiairs.
PSO which is an association that consists of sixty Dutch development organisations including Hivos and which receives 27 million Euros annually for its activities from the Netherlands government is a funding partner of PRIA, who in turn is also a Ford Foundation partner. Another PSO partner – Soliaridad also funds PRIA. , PRIA funds Kejriwal's Kabir, which is a Ford Foundation recipient. Thus, the whole nexus of Dutch NGO, Ford foundation, Dutch government, Kejariwal and recent attempt of creating a Tahrir-like condition in India lies unraveled. Now PSO is winding up after so many complaints from many countries for their intrusive activities. PSO's General Assembly has decided in 2011 to liquidate the Association as of 1st January,2013.
The Dutch development NGO Hivos has collaborated with International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague , also part of Erasmus University, Rotterdam specialized in "policy-oriented critical social science"; over the past five years on knowledge related to civic action and civil society building. The collaboration between an academic institute and a donor NGO is meant to study the Hivos' mission in developing world. Dr Kees Biekart of ISS is coordinating the programme. Capacity development emanating from ISS addresses social movements . the social movement in Georgia under the caption of Rose Revolution is overseen by a South Asian , Dr Sunil Tankha .
PANOS South Asia is another organization registered in Netherlands with registration number 27355408. PANOS South Asia has now 7 offices in south Asia. The Dutch project gets Ford foundation grants and "media in South Asia" is their primary area of focus. So, the activities of the FF-Dutch funded organizations and individuals will be highlighted by the complicit journalists in media.
Overt Funding figure by Ford foundation in India from 2008-12
(List of important mainstream organization operating in India)
Full list can be accessed at http://www.fordfoundation.org/grants/search#
It must be known that in India, a CBI case was registered against tehelka.com and officials of Home Ministry for unraveling the nexus of CIA activities through Dutch NGOs in the year 2000 itself. The case under the stringent Official Secrets Act is still under trial while the Indian government let the Dutch NGOs and the FF to have complete control over civil society in the intervening period. The official, Neeraj Kumar, who is credited with bringing the attention of the government towards this nexus and the manner in which Dutch NGOs were funnelling foreign government money to Indian organization for ulterior motive, was kept under suspension for more then 6 years and hounded by the agencies. The documents reveal that the government of India was convinced way back in 1999 that "with the end of Cold War, the CIA has intensified using Dutch sources for supporting secessionist and subversive activities in India. And that there is " covert strategic alliance between US and Dutch agencies".
But, how did the government allow Dutch Embassy to fund Arvind Kejariwal directly , reveals chinks within the armor or the penetration of Indian agencies by the CIA. Rabinder Singh(former Joint Secretary in RAW) episode is still fresh in our mind when the US Embassy provided the RAW mole an American passport in an undiplomatic and brazen way.
Netherlands Dutchy engagement with India
Western powers have made umpteen efforts to not let Asian countries reap the benefit of higher technology. The US had been smart enough to engage in 'policy of congagement" vis-à-vis emerging powers. They engage with the emerging power like the hub and the spoke and on the other hand engage in policy of off-shore balancing at different level. The emerging powers have to be contained by the second most powerful regional actor. While at the trans-regional level, it maintains a balance of power among various regional powers by excluding itself so that it remain the arbitrator of the global order. The weak NATO states have always been the carrier of the containment strategy in the name of human rights or insufficient democracy and now the hoax of technology threat. One must remember how it was the Americans and the Dutch who connived to let Khan steal nuclear secrets from URENCO . The Dutch internal agency, BVD and the Americans wanted to help Pakistan to build nuclear weapon as they wanted Pakistan to be a regional balancer against India during Cold war.
The American –Scandinavian-Dutch connection to derail India's nuclear programme as is happening in the Koodankulam protest and significantly pointed out by the Prime Minister himself, and to help build a nuclear counter weight against India has a long history.
Earlier also, the siphoning of fund from the Churches to the militant groups in the North east India surfaced in the year 1999 when the Ministry of Home Affairs held a meeting with various intelligence agencies and different Ministries to ascertain the level of covert support that may be coming to these insurgent organizations through Dutch NGOs. It was observed in the meeting that USA may be promoting non-American NGOs to camouflage its own interests. Dutch missionaries were found active in Tripura without having any permission from the Indian government. A Dutch NGO, NCIP(Netherlands Council on Indigenous People) was found providing ample support to various outfits like ULFA, NSCN(IM) on international fora. Since, most Dutch NGOs were found directly funded by their government, so it was possible that the funds that trickle down to the militant outfits have their source in the western government. At
That time, the IB tried to scuttle down the government move by claiming that IB did not have any specific report or indication of Dutch NGOs or individual involved in activities which could be against India's national interest. One of the close Indian associates of NCIP/NCIV, Ms Maria Mangte who used to frequent across Netherlands, Thailand, North East India and Burma left India and obtained a Dutch passport when the matter of Dutch support to insurgent groups was entrusted to the federal investigative agency.
With the lethargy taking hold, the programme of external powers to sponsor anti- Indian movements through the church and the NGOs continued unabated. The diffidence of insurgent groups within India grew manifold. When on 17.7.2002, in a reply to the starred question in the Parliament, Late Digvijay Singh,the then Minister of State for external affairs gave a written reply naming Netherlands as one of the country where terrorists have based their activities besides Pakistan; all hell let loose.(Lok Sabha Starred Qustion No. 46, 17.7.2002). NSCN(IM), the most formidable insurgent outfit in the North East India attacked the Indian Minister for targeting Netherlands. The Minister retorted by taking a potshot that when the name of Netherlands was listed, why should it pinch the NSCN(IM). NSCN(IM), in fact, displayed its affiliation openly by turning into mouth piece for Netherlands. There are known reasons for holding Naga Peace talks either in Amsterdam or in Bangkok.
The US is pursuing a policy to engage with the emerging power like the hub and the spoke and on the other hand to direct a policy of off-shore balancing at different level. Just as the arrangement of spokes in relationship with the hub in a wheel, the US maintains bilateral ties with each international players. When the same wheel is employed in carrying the wagon of global order, it follows the tricycle pattern. The front wheel that carries the whole cart is the leader and can also move alone. The other wheels are arranged in pairs, balancing each other for smooth movement of the cart. The US maintains that whenever the need arises, it can leave the cart stranded and move alone. It is what it did while attacking Iraq in 2002. The emerging powers have to be contained and balanced by the second most powerful regional actor. One can see the pattern in the games that it play vis-à-vis India and Pakistan; Russia and Ukraine; China and India; China and Japan; Turkey and Iran. While at the trans-regional level, it maintains a balance of power among various regional powers by excluding itself so that it remains the arbitrator of the global order. The weak NATO states from Northern Europe like Norway, Sweden, Denmark & Netherlands have always been the carrier of the containment strategy in the name of human rights or insufficient democracy and now the hoax of threat from technology to ecology.
One must be reminded how it was the Americans and the Dutch who connived to let Khan steal nuclear secrets. Khan was hired by the Physical dynamic laboratory, FDO, in Amsterdam during early 1970s. FDO, Amsterdam recommended Khan to work in URENCO, site at Almeto in Netherlands from where Khan began pulling nuclear secrets for Pak-N-bomb programme. The Dutch intelligence agency, BVD(Binenlandise Veiligheidsdienst) ran a background check on Khan but neglected to find out that his wife was not Dutch, but a South Afrikaner who carried a British passport. It is learnt that CIA shielded Khan from arrests in Europe in 1975 & 1986. Khan was sentenced in absentia by a proactive Dutch court for four year imprisonment for stealing enrichment technology from Netherlands in 1983. Later, the conviction was turned down on technical ground and the fact that under the American pressure, the Dutch government did not want to take any action against Khan. When the scandal came to light, there was lot of hue and cry in Europe. But, it was only after the 9/11 when the western nations realized the growing radicalization of Pakistan and the fear of nuclear-armed jihadis gripped them. Fresh investigation was carried out both within nation and at international level on the nuclear trafficking. AQ Khan was granted immunity from prosecution by Pak government after his televised confession on illicit nuclear dealings in February,2004. Soon the AQ Khan case file was stolen from the Dutch court, and it caused uproar in 2005. Judge Anita Lesser told media that "I find bewildering that people lose files with a political goal, especially if it is on the request of the CIA."
Almost at same time, a former Dutch premier Dr Ruud Lubbers in an interview to a Dutch radio, VPRO Argos Radio on August 9, 2005, admitted that the Dutch internal agency, BVD and the Americans wanted to help Pakistan to build nuclear weapon as they wanted Pakistan to be a regional balancer against India during Cold war, since India was closely associated with the Soviet union.
The American –Scandinavian-Dutch connection to derail India's nuclear programme and to help build a nuclear counter weight against India has a long history preceding Koodankulam.
The BVD spy Frits Hoekstra's book, In Dienst van de BVD"(INSIDE BVD); written in 2004 disclosed how BVD undertook several operations internationally against China and communist movement. This book exposes the level of complicity of Dutch with American agencies to create disruption in third world. Leaked cables from the US embassies by the wikileaks last year also disclose the role of the Dutch organizations(particularly, SNV based in Hague and in collaboration with US for last forty years) in the then instability in Nepal on behest of the then Dutch Ambassador in India, Peter Koch. http://wikileaks.org/cable/2002/10/02KATHMANDU2045.html
The BVD is a unique intelligence agency since though it is the internal intelligence agency, it undertook oversea operation on behest of the CIA . The Dutch external agency, IDB was officially disbanded in 1994 and the BVD became further strengthened with formal and technical strengthening after the end of the Cold War through the WIV Act, 1992.
Since, the Dutch lid was taken off in India in 2000 when the Dutch role in aiding and abetting inimical forces within India was exposed by a website, tehelka.com, the baton passed to other neighboring Scandinavian countries like Sweden,Norway and Denmark for strategic deterrence and the Dutch focused on massive Georgia or Egypt –kind of conditions in India. This is meant to derail India's peaceful rise. CIA in its assessment for 2025 has put India and China as the US competitor. For the US agencies, peaceful rise of both Asian giants has to be subverted at every cost.
Interestingly, the Indian government filed cases against the website under stringent law of Officials Secrets Act upon the request of the then Dutch Ambassador, Peter Koch. Neeraj Kumar, the young officials from the Home Ministry , who exposed the CIA-Dutch nexus and their activities, continue to face prosecution and vendetta.
Emboldened by the silencing of the voices, the Dutch , though stopped the funneling of money, turned into conduit for autonomy and anti-state ideas while NGOs and organizations from other Scandinavian countries involved more extensively with the funding of missionaries and Indian NGOs ready to toe their line which in turn stir up anti-Indian sentiments and agitations particularly in the territorial margins, in North, East and southern India .
William Van Schengel, a Dutch Professor of AmsterdamUniversity floated the idea of Zomia to describe the people of the adjoining hill-region in North-east India, China and Myanmar, Bangladesh Thailand in 2002.
The concept of Zomia is derived from zomi, a term for highlander among Chin-Mizo-Kuki languages spoken in Burma,India and Bangladesh. Very soon, it has become a geopolitical tool The idea of 'zomia' is circulating and being discussed after publication of prize-winning book by James C. Scott, "The Art of not being Governed:An Anarchist History of upland Southeast Asia(Yale University Press,2009). Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University. With the rise of India and China as the great Asian powers in this Asian century, the western think-tanks as well as strategists are worried and fabricating every possibility to weaken these core states of Asia. Since, by promoting Zomia as the stateless, ungoverned, romantic geographical as well as historical space, a powerful movement can be unleashed creating a shatter-belt across Eurasia that can make both India and China to engage against frontier-enemies with perceived trans-border support. This can derail any approaching accommodation between two Asian giants India and China and China-ASEAN nations.
Recently, two Dutch scholars visited Manipur under the aegis of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands to fuel the Zomia narrative. Prof. Willem Van Schendel who coined the term, 'zomia'in 2002 asked the local historians to preserve contemporary history. The same was echoed by IISH Representative, Kathinka Sinha Kerkhoff. The IISH Representative had caused an uproar while organizing an International Conference on "Bihar in the world, the world in Bihar"(16-19 Dec.1997) with the objective that "when nation-state is disintegrating(India)", it was imperative to establish Bihar in the global world. The programme was heavily funded by the European Science Foundation. The same historian worked on post-partition migrants in Bangladesh and India . The intentions to widen cleavages as a design to fuel discontent among migrants inSouth Asia is becoming apparent. Netherlands-based Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission looked after the migrant aspect inBangladesh. Now a new organization, Global Human Rights Defence(GHRD) under chairmanship of Sraddhanand Sital has been created in Hague, Netherlands to protect minorities
Soon after the visit of these two Dutch thinkers on deconstructing India's territoriality,a symposium titled "11 Year Hunger Strike: Irony In The World's Largest Democracy" was held on the 21st of February, 2012, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA. The event was jointly organized by The Carr Center For Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, the Harvard India Caucus, and the Kashmir Initiative at the Carr Center. It is generally Kashmir issue which was being raked up in the academic centers of strategy within the US. It was for the first time that Manipur issue saw such a response. Few days , before this event, the New York Times published an op-ed piece titled, "The Undiscovered Country" on 15 Feb 2012 by Frank Jacobs.http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/the-undiscovered-country/
The author gave a thumbs up to Schendel for proposing Zomia, as a transnational area that is marginal to all the states that nominally control it. He further writes, few things unite Zomia , except its diversity — religious, ethnic, cultural, linguistic — born of Zomia's geographical character, dominated by the inaccessible Himalayan highlands and Tibetan plateau. Zomia is a sanctuary, a refuge for isolated, unassimilated communities.
To give a shape to the concept of Zomia, another Dutch NGO Kreddha launched a program in 2005 to undertake systematic research with the aim to have available practical and current information on a growing number of autonomy and self-government arrangements in different parts of the world. Kreddha's research and analysis department laid the foundations for the task and started researching autonomies in the Asia-Pacific region. Kreddha claims that their information is available to parties, facilitators and practitioners involved in other intrastate peace processes. Thus, Kreddha's aim and objective have been to deepen autonomy and self-government arrangements, in particularly Zomia as evident from their further activities. Its executive President Michael van walt van Praag, a Dutch citizen sought a formal role in the Naga peace talk in March,2007. Armed with the Dutch machinations in past, the Government of India tersely refused the demand. But, the recent moves suggest that there is more to come in coming days.
The Dutch have diversified their anti-India activities from North east to south India, Gujarat to Bihar and also created an alliance of NGOs toeing the American agenda and disrupting the centre from the metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune.
Is Ford Foundation, CIA's conduit in Developing world?
The Ford Foundation was created in 1936 . Henry Ford, himself was anti-Semite who admired Adolph Hitler and helped finance his rise to power.
The CIA-Ford Foundation collaboration began in 1953, when John McCloy, became the Director of the Ford Foundation. McCloy's earlier served as chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, Westinghouse, AT&T, Allied Chemical and United Fruit Company. Thus, Ford Foundation's complicity with corporate cartel is manifest from very belonging publicly advocated for the Ford Foundation to cooperate with the CIA. McCloy also chaired a three man committee that had to be consulted every time the CIA wanted to use the Foundation as a pass-through.
Ford Foundation archives have been studied by scholars that reveal series of joint Foundation-CIA projects. The most prominent of these CIA fronts are the Eastern European Fund, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and International Rescue Committee .The Ford Foundation has also been the primary funder of the Council on Foreign Relations that published the influential journal, Foreign Affairs, and the Trilateral Commission.
I am publishing one of the documents of CIA which shows how CIA loaned officials to Ford foundation. even there was lot of deliberation over officials of CIA who retired from service and their pension has to be fixed while they worked full time in Ford foundation. the loaning of CIA men and women to ford foundation was meant to be mutually beneficial to both parties as per this communication at the highest level.
Frances Stonor Saunders, in his book Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta Books, 1999) Saunders reveal that "from the early 1950s to the present the CIA's intrusion into the foundation field was and is huge. A U.S. Congressional investigation in 1976 revealed that nearly 50% of the 700 grants in the field of international activities by the principal foundations were funded by the CIA" ( pp. 134-135). The CIA considers foundations such as Ford "The best and most plausible kind of funding cover" (Ibid, p. 135). The collaboration of respectable and prestigious foundations, according to one former CIA operative, allowed the Agency to fund "a seemingly limitless range of covert action programs affecting youth groups, labor unions, universities, publishing houses and other private institutions" (p. 135).
The Ford Foundation's New Delhi office, "was the Foundation's first program outside the United States, and the New Delhi office remains the largest of its field office operations". Delhi office also covers Nepal and Sri Lanka. James Petras Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York and a world-renowned author on globalization and US hegemony wrote a masterly piece in Dece,ber, 2001, " the Ford foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police"(15 December,2001) detailing the modus operandi.
Herein is a declassified document from CIA that exposes how Ford Foundation in Delhi worked for CIA for an eye on Asia and their mutual meeting ground even at that time was Hague in the Netherlands.
Petras summed up how the ties between the top officials of the FF and the U.S. government are explicit and continuing and that the Ford Foundation has never funded any major project that contravenes U.S. policy. He succinctly summarizes :
"Current period of a major U.S. military-political offensive, Washington has posed the issue as "terrorism or democracy," just as during the Cold War it posed the question as "Communism or Democracy." In both instances the Empire recruited and funded "front organizations, intellectuals and journalists to attack its anti-imperialist adversaries and neutralize its democratic critics. The Ford Foundation is well situated to replay its role as collaborator to cover for the New Cultural Cold War."
Ford Funding in India-2007-2010
It is interesting to draw the whole network of IAC partner NGOs. CSDS, Centre for Developing Societies have come out in full support of AK. CSDS itself is a large recipient of both Ford foundation fund as well as Dutch scholarship under the aegis of IDPAD(Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternative Development). Individual scholars receive IDPAD scholarships while the institution receives the Ford grant. Some of the visible public faces from CSDS who lend their support to Kejariwal are Yogendra Yadav, Abhay Kumar Dubey. There is Professor Anand Kumar from JNU, again a Ford Fellow(1985-86) as the new mouthpiece of AK. It has been revealed by Tata Social welfare Trust(TSWT) that "it had received recommendation from Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy for assisting Kejriwal to raise awareness about the Right to Information Act (RTI) in October 2008, adding it "agreed to release Rs. 25 lakh per year from 2009, for a period of 5 years, to help the foundation institute the (National RTI) awards".http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/No-money-given-to-Kejriwal-for-political-activities-Tata-Trust/Article1-955273.aspx
NR Narayana Murthy is one of the Trustee of the Board of Ford Foundation.http://www.fordfoundation.org/about-us/leadership
It is also well known that Murthy savors dream of becoming President of India and many mouthpieces did pit his name this time too.No surprise, Infosys man V. Balakrishnana has joined AAP now and another Infosys man, Nandan Nilekani who heads the UIDAI programme is suspected to have compromised the phone data of Delhi electorate gathered during unconstitutional and non-statutory exercise of making Aadhar card, for benefiting the AAP campaign in Delhi.
Former Admiral L. Ramdas (1990-1993) was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding 2004 for "reaching across a hostile border to nurture a citizen-based consensus for peace between Pakistan and India".. Now he is chairing organization of Indo-Pak relationships, Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace & Democracy. He also leads the bandwagon of those who opposes India's nuclear programme. On 16 November Arvind Kejriwal filed his nomination from the New Delhi Assembly constituency accompanied by his father Gobind Ram Kejriwal, mother Gita Devi and former Naval chief Admiral L. Ramdas. Again, while seeking people's truped up suppott for forming the government, Kejariwal was accompanied by Admiral Ramdas. Current Representative of Ford Foundation, Delhi office is Kavita N. Ramdas. she is the eldest daughter of Admiral L. Ramdas, also a Magsaysay awardee like Kejariwal. Kavita Ramdas is married to Mr. Zulfiqar Ahmad from Pakistan who worked as South Asia program officer for Berkeley's Nautilus Institute. No surprise if AAP leaders have started talking of referendum and plebiscite in Jammu & Kashmir. The hands are soaked in dollar and criminality.AAP formation has been made directly under the patronage of ford Foundation through Ramdasses.
How active FF has been in South Asia in recent years can be gleaned from the fact that Dr Gowher Rizvi , the former representative of Ford Foundation's Delhi office is now the Adviser of Bangladesh's Prime Minister on international affairs.This is how Ford Foundation is directly monitoring South Asian politics on behest of the Big Butcher of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq.
Thus, PRIA-ADR-Kabir-India Vision Foundation- Anahad…ad infinitum are like intricate web weaved by the FF-Dutch warp and woof to create a situation that India's peaceful rise is disturbed. They might be intending that with the popular protests fizzling out over the issue of corruption; anti-imperial, anti-American protests would fail to garner steam at a time when the US has launched return to Asiastrategy in the year 2010.
Arvind Kejariwal is a small cog in this gigantic American intricate machine that has started rolling again in Asia to reassert imperial control through machinations. Kejariwal must be made to respond and come out clean as to his financiers-overt as well as covert- and their game plan.AK was propped up at a time when the issue of black money stashed away abroad was gaining upper edge in public discourse.It is through the Offshore financial centres that the globalization of finance operates and the hegemony of the US and its lackeys is perpetuated. By effectively downsizing BJP and Ramdev's campaign to bring back Indian money from OFCs, AK won accolades in the US administration. Moreover the US wants to stop Modi's rise since the equations have not been good with Modi. On the other hand, Modi has been held in high esteem in China and China has welcomed Modi 4 times and listened to him at the highest level. Modi has advised China to decouple from Pakistan to have a working relationship with India.If Modi comes to power, India and China will develop good neigbourly relationship and the US plan since 2009 to build Asian NATO with India as the linchpin of Asian Pivot, will crumble. US hegemony is Asia will end. For, US to remain a hegemon, rise of Modi to power has to be stopped. This is ow all Ford Funded persons and ford-connected Infosys persons have suddenly become active to give credence to AAP as a new party that can fan across those states in India where Congress and BJP are in direct fight like Goa, M.P. Gujarat, Rajasthan so that the tripolar contest can cut some of the BJP seats and even though NDA comes to power, the allies effectively cut down chance of Modi from becoming the leader of the country.
UPA government is giving AK a free ride with expectation that in the next election, he and his network of US-Dutch funded Indian NGOs may tilt discourse of anti-incumbency. Their mission is to make the BJP , an opposition party get painted with the same brush as the Congress and the UPA. If the new party of AK could slice even 4-5 % of anti-incumbency vote, the swing from Congress to BJP can be thwarted and that might allow the Congress to retain power in some new permutation and combination.During 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Congress received 28.7% vote while BJP received 18.82%. The Congress had gained only 0.5% more than its vote in the year 1999, but it gained 91 more Lok Sabha seats in comparison with 1999. Even if the AK and his team duly funded with foreign money and supported by the Congress-led government and the agencies, receive 5% vote in the urban centres, it can affect the BJP's winnability which has support base more in urban centres. Political and electoral analysts like Yogendar Yadav would plan such a fortune for the Congress. Kejariwal himself is a scam and he needs to be packed up. Its the end of manufactured drama. Adieu, AK!
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once for two months because she claimed that she had no financial means to get to my own city where the case was filed. So I thought that she would have to come. I must mention that she also did not request the continuance herself, but rather was complaining that she would prefer to present herself by phone with the help of the interpreter, but the judge said that she could only proceed by phone if she refuses the assistance of the interpreter. She claimed that she can not travel to the city the case was transferred to as she 'does not want to see me' too. Anyways, so the judge asked her if she will show up in two months giving her enough time to earn her money, and she agreed. So now I got her 'evidences' in mail where there is a long report she has submitted to the court and thereis a statement written which goes something like this "if the court has any questions about these evidences, they can contact me" so I am assuming that she's going to be a no show for sending about 15 inch thick paperwork in form of emails. I am simply overwhelmed to look through what she has sent and I've been on this since yesterday, and still not finished. How in the world would the judge look at her 'evidences' by her not showing up I am assuming...I mean I have spent two days looking into this and still not finished because there's too much information that is simply unrelated to any threats. The judge would have to cancel his hearing for 2 days and take her box full of papers home as well to at least finish looking into this for 2 days. There are bunch of printed emails (copy pasted) and bunch of witness affidavits of people whom I only seen once in life. How will this end lol I wonder please advise.
In any county in California, if the petitioner does not appear for their own DVTRO, the restraining order will be dismissed without prejudice, automatically. Some judges will wait a bit, and use the 15-minute wait rule. Others use the half-hour wait rule, and still others will wait a whole hour before finally dismissing it outright. As a matter of fact, if you're the respondent, and you are ready to present your case, and the petitioner is there, but not ready to present his/her case, then you ask for a dismissal if they are not ready - just to at least force them to litigate (litigate, unprepared).
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If she does not appear, ask that the matter be dismissed for failure to prosecute.
If she appears telephonically, object as it interfers with your right to call and cross examine a witness. Impacts the Judge's ability to weigh her credibility.
The person on the telephone, may or may not even be her, no way to identify her.
Object to all her "evidence" as hearsay. Even the declartions becasue the declarants are not present to cross examine, which is your constitutional right.
You must ask that the Judge not consider her "evidence" before you proceed, on the grounds of hearsay.
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One question though...I just cannot imagine how the judge will have to go through all her 1,000 emails she has submitted while she is on the phone. What she submitted is not translated properly (through an official translator), and the judge would not know to which email to refer to as her evidence. I also noticed alteration of a word to make it seem like I am a violent person, so I will need to bring this up to the judge and request that he either gives her another (second) continuance or dismiss the case. based on what I have written, can you please give your opinion whether the case would be dismissed or not based on the history of continuance.
I doubt the Judge will wade through 1000's of emails. As I stated earlier, the emails are hearsay, she will have to get them admitted into evidence. You can object.
As a matter of practice, most judges in San Diego will dismiss the TRO if Petitioner is not present. Good luck.
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