Women Responsible for Eve-Teasing: Trinamul Congress

Actor-turned Trinamool MP Chiranjit Chakroborty has said that women should be “conscious” of what they wear and said instances of eve-teasing have increased because of women’s choice of dressing.

“Eve-teasing is a very old thing. It has been going on for ages. One of the reasons behind the increase in incidents of eve-teasing is short dresses and short skirts worn by women. This in turn instigates young men,” Mr Chakraborty told reporters at the Barasat police station where he had gone to inquire regarding an eve-teasing case.

“We should definitely work towards removing this stigma but again women can be a little more conscious about what they are wearing,” Mr Chakraborty said.

Lakeer Kay Fakeer

What does the national flag mean to you? Ponder that as you read this. As the fire raged on at the Mantralaya on Thursday, five Class IV workers refused to be rescued till the time they had lowered the Tricolour that is a constant feature atop the Maharashtra state secretariat complex.

As per procedure, every day an employee from the state Public Works Department (PWD) hoists the flag at around 6 am and another lowers it at 7.15 pm. This is followed all days of the year.

The flag-protection department, which has five men on its team - Suresh Baria, Deepak Adsul, Vishal Rane, Ganesh Gunj, Premji Roj - has its office right below the flag pole, in a chamber on the Mantralaya terrace.

On Thursday after 2.40 pm, when the fire broke out on the fourth floor of the seven-storeyed structure, staffers rushed to the flag protection office asking its officials to leave the building as the fire was spreading and all those within it were endangered.

However, the men refused to move unless they got orders from their seniors saying that they could lower the flag the size of which is 14 X 21 ft.

As the fire engulfed the building, these men stood by the flag pole ready to protect it from the flames, unhindered by the thought of the dangers their own lives faced. As the fire department began its rescue operations these officials were asked to leave their post, but they didn’t budge.

Baria, who has been serving at this post for over 10 years, said, “It’s our duty to be with the flag and protect it. Until it has been lowered we can’t come down like other people. When the fire broke out we went to the terrace from our chamber and waited there for orders from seniors. It’s the national flag and we can’t break protocol [i.e. lower the flag before its usual time] until we get a directive from our seniors. There is a proper schedule for flag hoisting and lowering, and it can’t be compromised.”

Senior officials from PWD have to give orders to lower the flag in emergency situations. The directive finally came at 4.05 pm, over an hour after the fire broke out. Fortunately the terrace remained the one area where the fire had not spread.

“We consider ourselves successful considering that we lowered the flag and folded it as per norms. We have kept it in a special room assigned for it,” added Ganesh Munj, who has been doing this job for the last 16 years. The flag is safe from the fire in this room.

Electromagnetic Pollution

Electromagnetic pollution is a concern for everyone.

Increasing news coverage, studies, and even new legislation are all helping educate the public on radiation risks.

This is a species issue … There is early evidence there may be a link between EMF exposures and autism … We know radiation is affecting our DNA and jeopardizing the health of future generations. There is research from many countries now showing dramatic decline in sperm count from exposure to cell phone radiation …

Electromagnetic Health — Part 1 (pdf) January 2011

Electromagnetic Health — Part 2 (pdf) January 2011

Deliverance at Last?

On August 14, 1947 Pakistan transited from the British colonial to the American neo-colonial domination. The aim of the Great Power is to control the minds of men and gain the allegiance of the leaders of underdeveloped nations, through economic domination and other devices.

The great poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz lamented:

Yeh dagh-dar Ujala yeh shab-gazeeda sahar

                        Woh intizar tha jisska yeh who sahar tou nahin

And so it turned out.  The working people remained oppressed and exploited.

Soon after independence, the beneficiary elite of the British period, which became the ruling elite of Pakistan, chose to preserve their erstwhile vested interests and authority.  To perpetuate their dominance over the people, they chose not to change the system of governance of the British period.  They also chose the U.S. as their imperial hegemonic master in place of the British.

For sixty-five years, the poor and the down people have resisted the unjust rule of one regime after another – 18 ‘elected’ prime ministers and four military dictators.  Passive resistance through non-cooperation with the apparatus of the state was their weapon, the only one they knew in the absence of a revolutionary avan guard.  They rarely helped the police in preventing crime or coming forward to appear as witness in the courts of law.  They avoided paying government dues, did not consider government property to be publicly owned, indeed destroyed state assets whenever possible.  They produced minimum possible for the scant remuneration they received.

In the end the people succeeded in bringing down the totally undemocratic, British-designed notorious bureaucratic steel framework of governance, the principal instrument of domination and exploitation.

Rogue elements among the rich and the poor, elected or unelected, officials or otherwise are today free to violate the laws, rules and regulations on the statute books. Killers, plunderers, kidnappers, bank robbers, car and purse snatchers, land grabbers and corrupt elite in high places abound.  For the last two years, the executive is blatantly defying the Supreme Court.  One wonders in what form the sovereign nature of the constitutional authority is still intact.

The observations of the Chief Justice of Pakistan show that the law and order situation in Baluchistan is serious.  The border area of the land of the Pakhtuns presents a grim scenario for national security.  The rural areas of Sindh are lawless.  The road traffic movement at night is not without danger.  The scions of once powerful landed aristocracy of Sindh cannot step out of the house without a heavy armed escort.

Few months ago, the Lyari area of Karachi erupted and fought the first urban class-war of Pakistan.  With the support of the population, citizen warriors, called miscreants, who live on recoveries from the rich fought a real hot war against the forces of the government which survives on tax collections from those not qualified to be called rich.  A week long war between the forces of the rich and the poor took place.  Both sides fought with lethal arms.  The forces of the government lost.  No attempt has yet been made to reassert the authority of the state.

Regime after regime has failed to perform its vital functions such as provision of potable water for drinking, supply of electrical power, providing adequate nourishment and health care, decent housing, running railways network, and acceptable road communication.

The government of the elite by the elite and for the elite has been perpetuated since the establishment of Pakistan.  The British imposed system of governance of vesting all executive authority in the civil and military officers had forced the exit of the British rulers.  The oppressive system of governance has now blow-backed on the ruling elite of Pakistan and the imperial dominating power, the United States.  The British rulers exited from India and now their successors in Pakistan are busy establishing niches in western countries.  Many many of them have foreign passports and properties abroad.  Hectically they are looting, whatever they can lay hands on, plundering national wealth and transferring it to foreign lands.  In 65 years the value of Pakistani rupee has gone down from Rs 3.3 to one U.S. dollar to Rs 92 per U.S. dollar.

The future of any government in Pakistan is big question mark.  The only possible way out is the empowerment of the people.

Can the Muslims Afford to Boycott Everything Jewish?

A short time ago, Iran’s Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khomenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people.

In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:

“Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich.  He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew.  If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner.

“A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube.

Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew.  If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.

Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the “Schick” reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.

“Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.

They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.

“Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.

Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.

“In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott.”

Oh, and by the way, don’t call for a doctor on your cell phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.

Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have the Muslims made?”

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world’s population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1988 – Najib Mahfooz

Peace:
1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 – Elias James Corey
1994 – Yaser Arafat:
1999 – Ahmed Zewai

Economics:
(zero)

Physics:
(zero)

Medicine:
1960 – Peter Brian Medawar
1998 – Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world’s population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1910 – Paul Heyse
1927 – Henri Bergson
1958 – Boris Pasternak
1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 – Nelly Sachs
1976 – Saul Bellow
1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 – Elias Canetti
1987 – Joseph Brodsky
1991 – Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:
1911 – Alfred Fried
1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 – Rene Cassin
1973 – Henry Kissinger
1978 – Menachem Begin
1986 – Elie Wiesel
1994 – Shimon Peres
1994 – Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:
1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 – Henri Moissan
1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 – Gabriel Lippmann
1910 – Otto Wallach
1915 – Richard Willstaetter
1918 – Fritz Haber
1921 – Albert Einstein
1922 – Niels Bohr
1925 – James Franck
1925 – Gustav Hertz
1943 – Gustav Stern
1943 – George Charles de Hevesy
1944 – Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 – Felix Bloch
1954 – Max Born
1958 – Igor Tamm
1959 – Emilio Segre
1960 – Donald A. Glaser
1961 – Robert Hofstadter
1961 – Melvin Calvin
1962 – Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 – Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 – Julian Schwinger
1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
1971 – Dennis Gabor
1972 – William Howard Stein
1973 – Brian David Josephson
1975 – Benjamin Mottleson
1976 – Burton Richter
1977 – Ilya Prigogine
1978 – Arno Allan Penzias
1978 – Peter L Kapitza
1979 – Stephen Weinberg
1979 – Sheldon Glashow
1979 – Herbert Charles Brown
1980 – Paul Berg
1980 – Walter Gilbert
1981 – Roald Hoffmann
1982 – Aaron Klug
1985 – Albert A. Hauptman
1985 – Jerome Karle
1986 – Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 – Robert Huber
1988 – Leon Lederman
1988 – Melvin Schwartz
1988 – Jack Steinberger
1989 – Sidney Altman
1990 – Jerome Friedman
1992 – Rudolph Marcus
1995 – Martin Perl
2000 – Alan J. Heeger

Economics:
1970 – Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 – Simon Kuznets
1972 – Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
1976 – Milton Friedman
1978 – Herbert A. Simon
1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 – Franco Modigliani
1987 – Robert M. Solow
1990 – Harry Markowitz
1990 – Merton Miller
1992 – Gary Becker
1993 – Robert Fogel

Medicine:
1908 – Elie Metchnikoff
1908 – Paul Erlich
1914 – Robert Barany
1922 – Otto Meyerhof
1930 – Karl Landsteiner
1931 – Otto Warburg
1936 – Otto Loewi
1944 – Joseph Erlanger
1944 – Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 – Ernst Boris Chain
1946 – Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 – Tadeus Reichstein
1952 – Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 – Hans Krebs
1953 – Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 – Joshua Lederberg
1959 – Arthur Kornberg
1964 – Konrad Bloch
1965 – Francois Jacob
1965 – Andre Lwoff
1967 – George Wald
1968 – Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 – Salvador Luria
1970 – Julius Axelrod
1970 – Sir Bernard Katz
1972 – Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 – Howard Martin Temin
1976 – Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 – Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 – Daniel Nathans
1980 – Baruj Benacerraf
1984 – Cesar Milstein
1985 – Michael Stuart Brown
1985 – Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 – Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 – Gertrude Elion
1989 – Harold Varmus
1991 – Erwin Neher
1991 – Bert Sakmann
1993 – Richard J. Roberts
1993 – Phillip Sharp
1994 – Alfred Gilman
1995 – Edward B. Lewis
1996- Lu RoseIacovino

TOTAL: 129!

The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.

The Jews don’t hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.

There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.

There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.  The Jews don’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Perhaps the world’s Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
Muslims must ask ‘what can they do for humankind’ before they demand that humankind respects them.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel ‘s part, the following two sentences really say it all:

‘If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.  If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.”

Benjamin Netanyahu:  General Eisenhower warned us.  It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect:  ‘Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened’

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it ‘offends’ the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.

It is not removed as yet.  However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 65 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be ‘a myth,’ it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center ‘NEVER HAPPENED’ because it offends some Muslim in the United State

How to Help Pakistan?

Pakistan is a nuclear power in the grip of violent insurgency and a source of terrorism which has infected areas well beyond its border and it is facing its greatest challenges since it split apart in 1971. The roots of these challenges are political, economic and security related and extend back to P’s turbulent history.

Unlike India, P had no pre-existing identity. Its priority was separation from Hindu dominated India. Its disparate components, including different ethnic groups and religious communities had little reason to cooperate towards any goal of state or nation-building.

The British Raj had drawn on these peoples for its armies and they retain strong martial tendencies.

Democracy did not come naturally: military has presided over half the country’s history at the expense of the elected institutions.

At independence, P received less than an equitable share of the Raj’s patrimony which exacerbated the tendency to squabble over resources. The bloody carnage at the time of partition has remained vivid in national memories. In such circumstances, the nation has always been susceptible to separatist tendencies, as evidenced by a Pashtunistan movement in the 1950s and cycles of violence in Balochistan which continue today.

With 60% of the population, Punjab has a disproportionate share of the country’s wealth, dominates the armed forces, and is deeply unpopular among the residents of other regions.

The army has taken the lead in trying to forge a national identity intended both to protect against the threat of further separatism and to consolidate the army’s own interests and status. The main means to this end ve been maintaining the K dispute which P calls the `unfinished business of Partition’ and the promotion and politicization of Islam. Gen Zia’s military autocracy was unwittingly assisted in this by the US and others during the 1979-89 Afghan War when ISI, benefiting from huge human and financial assistance, grew into a powerful internal political instrument.

The subsequent decade during which P was almost completely ignored by the US were the `yo-yo years’ of elected government. In this period, the performance of PMs BB and NS who each served two prematurely ended terms grew steadily worse.

In 1989, attention turned to K where local separatists received increased support from the ISi and engaged in both proxy and actual hostilities with India. India’s disproportionate and inhumane responses, coupled with chronic election-rigging in K, made matters worse.

The K operations culminated in the disastrously ill-judged 1999 Kargil offensive a year after both countries had claimed nuclear weapons capabilities.

To the West, the ISI and P’s elected government had been busy cultivating and supporting the emerging Taliban in Afghanistan to secure a puppet or at least a complaisant government in Kabul. The P leadership was induced to terminate this relationship only after 9/11 once the Taliban were defeated by a UN backed coalition.

M’s decision to join this coalition led to a near replay of W’s relationship with Zia 21 years earlier. US military assistance poured into the country.

As under Zia, P’s interests were and remain by no means identical to those of the US. M and ISi continued to support freedom fighters regarded by the West as terrorists, calculating that they could serve as paramilitary reservists in the event of hostilities with India.

M made no secret of his distinction between al-Qaeda and other foreigners whom he was prepared to kill and Afghan Taliban and their P sympathizers whom he was determined to alienate for reasons of political expediency. Such ambiguities gave rise to exasperation and onger on the part of US policymakers.

Bruised by the loss of reputation it suffered under M and more than preoccupied by its military operations, the army has now reduced its political profile. But it remains unlikely that the army will voluntarily give up significant amounts of wealth, privilege or influence. It would certainly intervene on the political stage again if the elected politicians were to fail.

The elected government offers little comfort.

What to do?

The police, the judiciary, basic utilities, education, agriculture and general managerial capacity are in desperate need of reinforcement.

The emphasis on military operations and consequent lack of action to improve the well-being of the people fostered a popular belief that P were fighting and suffering from W’s war. Thus, many overlooked the threat to the State from its home-grown insurgency and the emergene of a P neo-Taliban.

The US needs to show proper firmness about transparency and accountability.

A concentration of effort in FATA is seen to be linked to military objectives and will not swing public opinion.

Conventional bilateral dev assistance will not suffice because of the difficulties for foreign aid administrators in monitoring and assessing progress of dev projects and programs.

Attempts to create or regenerate industrial capacity risk failure because of inadequate managerial capacity and supporting infrastructure. Progress requires max use of indigenous human resources and some devolution of managerial responsibility to expert third parties.

P’s institutional capacity needs to be developed.

India does not want a failed state on its border.

China has concerns about its Muslim Uighur population.

Iran has concerns over narcotics traffic thru B.

Saudi Arabia and other G countries face an ongoing threat from Salafist extremism.

Kamran Khan & Hamid Mir’s Statement in the Supreme Court in the Dr Arslan Ifthikar Case

(Statement of Mr. Kamran Khan, Anchor, Executive Director, Geo News, submitted to the Supreme Court on June 07, 2012)

“I would like to state that my attention was first drawn to this subject in the second week of May [2012] when I received an anonymous phone call claiming that Dr. Arsalan Iftikhar son of the Chief Justice of Pakistan is allegedly using his position to extract money from wealthy people whose cases are pending before the Supreme Court of Pakistan. A separate phone caller, two days later, said that Dr Arsalan Iftikhar had

allegedly blackmailed real estate tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain whose case[s] were pending before the Supreme Court. I was also told that Malik Riaz Hussain has also gathered evidence to prove that he has been targeted for blackmail allegedly by Dr Arsalan Iftikhar….… I contacted Malik Riaz Sb with this explicit intention and met him in Karachi in the third week of May  where he basically confirmed the content of the information and after a lot of persuasion agreed to show me the documentary evidence… At a subsequent meeting Malik Riaz Sb showed me the dossiers that carry documents pertaining to Dr Asalan Iftikhar’s summer vacation trips to London over the past three years. There were tenancy agreements signed by Dr Arsalan Iftikhar for five star accomadations  [sic.] in Central London and receipts / invoices showed that the payments were made from the accounts/ credit cards controlled by Malik Riaz Sb or his family members in London.There were documents that also showed that travel and stay arrangements for Dr Arsalan Iftikhar and a female accomplice ( I don’t remember the name) in Monte Carlo were made from the accounts controlled by Mr Malik Riaz or his family members. According to these documents most payments including those of several shoppings made by Dr  Arsalan Iftikhar and other family members at pricey London stores were also made through credit cards owned by Malik Sb’s daughter and son in London…… My lordships I left that meeting with Malik Riaz Sb with  an impression that either he’s hell of a con, a forger par excellence or God forbid the son of the Chief Justice of Pakistan has sold the name of his great father….”

(Statement of Mr. Hamid Mir, Executive Editor, Geo TV, submitted to the Supreme Court on June 6, 2012) 

“On the eve of 31st May, I called Malik Riaz Sahib on phone and expressed my desire to meet him. [That evening] I met him at his residence in Islamabad, around 9:30 pm. His son Ali was also present… Malik Riaz asked someone to bring in  a file which included a set of documents. All the documents were photocopies. And according to Malik Riaz Sahib, [these documents showed that] Arsalan Iftikhar had taken a lot of money from his son and his son-in-law. Malik Riaz said that he also has a number of [incriminating] videos but he did not show me any such video…”

Pakistan’s System is at the heart of its Political Corruption

By Atif Salahuddin

Despite fierce anti-American sentiment throughout the country, especially after the US Salala attack in November 2011 which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan’s civil and military rulers have once again decided to ignore public opinion and move ahead to safeguard US interests by re-opening NATO’s indispensible supply lines. Such has the abysmal capitulation of Pakistan’s rulers been that they even ignored their own parliament’s resolution which called for a number of conditions including an end to the drone strikes inside Pakistan. The naked brazenness of the US was demonstrated with triple drone strikes that killed over 20 people within days of resumption and reaffirmed the lop sided master to slave relationship.

All of this follows on from the latest political high drama to unfold in Islamabad that has been the judicial decision of Pakistan’s Supreme Court to disqualify Prime Minister Gillani from holding office. That followed just days after the Chief Justice’s son Dr. Arsalan Iftikhar was implicated along with Bahria Town property magnate Malik Riaz in allegations of bribery. Whether the dismissal of Gillani and the indictment of the Chief Justice’s son are related is open to question; did the military quietly back the judiciary in its ‘coup’ is also debatable. However what is not beyond a shadow of a doubt is that the dismissal of Gillani has no meaningful impact given that just months remained in his five year term and that the ruling PPP has just elected the notorious Raja Pervez Ashraf as his replacement better known as ‘Raja rental’.