From: Chelvapila < >

 

Vande maataram

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October 2, 2015

 

Gandhi was born in Porbandar city in Gujarat state on Oct 2, 1869.

 

At present we have the benefit of Simhavalokanam-retrospective view to make a better appraisal of Gandhi, his contributions to India both positive, negative and the end result of his actions and activities. Instead constant din of propaganda indulged by those who could also be held guilty for dividing India all these years, silenced the voices other than those who obeyed officially laid line, extolling Gandhi for winning freedom non-violently of course ably aided by Nehru.  In fact a time capsule was buried during ’emergency’ in which even Gandhi’s name was omitted, credit was given only to Nehru and some other British Gentleman for making India free.

 

Good things he did and said.

 

1. He himself did not convert to Islam or Christianity through pressure was brought on him for that purpose.

 

2. He refused to ‘hand over’ Harijans, as if they were a commodity as demanded to be converted. (At the time of partition in 1947, Pakistan did not allow the Harijans (called bhangis by he Hindus) to migrate to Hindustan because the Paki’s wanted their service for toilet cleaning and excrement disposal. –Skanda987) (Even now Pakistan treats them as slaves to be bought and sold, chained during nights, in days they do back breaking work in fields and farms of Pak’s rich). It is estimated that there are at least 50,000 ‘Haris’ as they are called, Hindus in such status in Pakistan.

 

3. He roused feelings of nationalism, yearning for freedom in the masses, provided means to vent their frustrations against British rule.

 

4. He had sound ideas of Indian economy which if had been adopted instead of Stalinist Model in the form of Socialistic pattern of society, India would have been better served.

 

5. He also spoke of Indian system of education and curriculum which British destroyed thoroughly to create the most obedient class of clerks for their empire. Destruction of Indian system of education was one of the worst things British did, Gandhi said so rightly.

 

6. His campaign for self-reliance, production by the masses rather than mass production to alleviate poverty , Khadi, boycott of clothes made in England were sound measures.

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Bad ,  Very Bad:

 

All these were however stand overwhelmed by his self-confessed ‘Himalayan blunders’ in politics. Had he remained truly outside political arena both in  micromanaging as well as stubbornly insisting on followers telling them his way otherwise no way,  he would have been to day be remembered for his positive contributions to growth and development of India.

 

Instead his political failures cost India so much , as long as Pakistan (of which he was truly a father as that was the only new nation that came into existence in 1947)  remains , it is hard to view him as any great soul or sage regardless of constant din and propaganda extolling him as such.

 

Pathetic indeed how his last act was portrayed in entirely fact free form.  Reality was distorted. The fateful fast was portrayed as some sort of noble deed to bring peace in riot torn India. Instead he took it up, until his demise neither for integrity of India nor for any peace, but to force nascent government of India to pay Pakistan huge sums of money exactly at the time when Pakistan invaded India and a war was being fought in Kashmir with our brave soldiers were literally carrying on an uphill task to oust invaders.

 

Another Himalayan blunder too cost India much. Gandhi shared one trait with Hitler. Both were stubborn. Even when everything around him collapsing, Hitler was waging wars with imaginary army divisions. Even when everything is screaming about his failures, be it Khilafat or his entreaties with Jinnah, Gandhi was still throwing his trusted followers, who were Hindus to wolves. Believing him and his announced fast unto death against dividing India, many Hindus stayed back in what was to be Pakistan, only to lose their life and honor in most gruesome fashion. And ‘Mahatma’ advice to some of the survivors who came to him narrating their woes, was, “be like sheep, the tiger after devouring as many as it wants, it will be satisfied”.  However tiger continued its devouring so much so Gandhi confessed to his chronicler, he could be held responsible for ‘betrayal of Hindus’.

 

The propaganda about being apostle of non-violence notwithstanding, his compassion was very selective.

 

At the call given for ‘direct action’ in which Jinnah promised extra judicial methods will be used, violence broke out throughout India, but intensely in Calcutta, Bengal. Gandhi visited Noakhali, worst affected. He did not go there until fury of Islamist attacks subsided, but before regrouping of Hindus for retaliation took place, to stop them. It was a wise move because, in general, Gandhi’s messages fell on deaf ears as far as Moslems are concerned but Hindus who elevated him to the status of a cult figure followed. He had Hindu refugees evicted from their shelters in cold winter of Delhi .Not even a kind word escaped from him for solace of Hindus affected, but sought his best to keep Muslims leaving India.

 

Ugly:

 

Gandhi was conducting experiments with truth which cost heavily to the nation to the point of dividing it. Yet his stubborn nature did not allow to make any amends. Dewan of Nizam met him and Gandhi was said to be toying with idea of conducting yet another experiment with truth, this is even after bloody and gruesome partition. And Hindus in Nizam’s Hyderabad were suffering the same fate as Hindus in Sindh and other areas of Pakistan with Razakars on rampage. His experiments centered around preventing any action by Government of India but not doing anything to prevent attacks on Hindus. Nizam started threatening bombing of India with help of friendly powers that was British.  Gandhi had Nehru a willing accomplice in his experiments.

 

Sardar Patel could only take action when both Gandhi and Nehru were away in September 1948. Nehru was visiting London while Gandhi passed away in Jan 1948. Otherwise a South Pakistan in the belly of India would have resulted.

 

Similar to experiments with truth, he was also conducting experiments with celibacy. He was more than 70 years old, why such a person needs any experiments with celibacy?  Few years back Government of India purchased from London auction house some personal correspondence of Gandhi containing sordid details of these experiments, to keep them confidential so that cult of Gandhi which became a brand that provided a nice backdrop to wax eloquently on  non-violence which was rather peculiar much like secularism , when it came to practice in India.

 

Epilogue:

 

Fortunately even though lip service is still being paid to Gandhi, Gandhi’s non-violence, in practice his self-destructive prescriptions with regards to politics stand abandoned.

 

Ahimso Paramo Dharmah said Yudhishthiar, yet he did not hesitate to fight in Mahabharat war because refraining from it would have contributed great misery to people, much like what we are seeing today with regards to Pakistan. If only as many expected then that Pakistan will not survive more than 24 hours or a week , was allowed to happen instead of paying through the nose for its upkeep , a potential violence of epic proportion that lingers today would have been avoided.

 

Ahimsa is for strong people and strong nations.  Only then the practice of it makes sense.  Speak softly but carry a big stick applies much better to an emerging nation of India as a principle of non-violence.

 

Remembering Gandhi may be used to avoid his self-confessed Himalayan blunders. That will serve as a great lesson of history.

 

India before Gandhi & India after Gandhi

 

Losses are not forever. Himalayan blunders too can be corrected and reversed.

Only important thing is, in the name of Gandhi, pseudo-nonviolence those blunders should stay in the past, never to be repeated.

 

Best wishes,

 

Jai Hind

G V Chelvapilla

 

(Gandhi favored Muslims, but no Muslims thinks high of Gandhi. The Congress party uses Gandhi as its hero or leader, but hardly any congress politician has any quality or karma like Gandhi.  Most of them use gundaas to support their personal and political agenda.  They even associate with the terrorists and separatists. Time for the Vedics is to forget Gandhi, and listen to Bhagavaan Krishna. – Skanda987)

From: Fred Boman < >

 

Subject: The lights are going out all over Europe

 

Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem.

The Lights are going out All over Europe

 

Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament

 

In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: “Who lost Europe?”

 

“Dear Friends,

 

Thank you very much for inviting me. I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic.

 

We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

 

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.

 

The Europe you know is changing.

 

You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

 

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

 

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe with larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

 

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseilles and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammad is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

 

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear ‘whore, whore’. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

 

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin. The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

 

In England Sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

 

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

 

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhardt Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

 

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate Muslims demand what they call ‘respect’.   And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

 

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept Sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority.

 

We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.

 

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the Banlieus. I call the perpetrators settler’s. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.

 

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

 

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Gandhi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages – at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammad himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

 

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means ‘submission’.   Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is Sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

 

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam ‘the most retrograde force in the world’, and why he compared Mein Kompf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz. Second because it is a democracy. And third because Israel is our first line of defense.

 

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam’s territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, and Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

 

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

 

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islam as a ‘right-wing extremists’ or ‘racists’. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America – as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem.

 

Dear friends,

 

Liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe, American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe’s children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.

 

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.

 

Please take the time to read and understand what is written here, please send it to every free person that you know – it is so very important.”

 

From: Deva Samaroo < >

 

Monsanto’s “Hand of God for Indian Farmers”

 

Time for Indian Government to Wake Up and Take Cognizance of False Claim

 

Monsanto’s ‘Hand of God’: Planned Obsolescence of the Indian Farmer

Colin Tod Hunter is an independent writer

 

FW by Noor Dean < >

 

India remains a playground and whipping object of the West. Remember the Bhopal disaster .. no one really cared, and US reigned supreme.

 

Thanks Noor for your efforts on Monsanto:

Thoughts by Karamchand

 

The mantra of global agribusiness companies is that they care about farmers. They also really care about humanity and want to help to feed a growing world population, preferably by using genetically modified (GM) crops. They say that they want to assist poor farmers by helping them to grow enough to earn a decent income. It seems like a win-win situation for everyone.

 

To listen to the PR, however, you could be forgiven for believing that these companies are driven by altruistic tendencies and humanitarian goals rather than by massive profit margins and delivering on shareholder dividends.

 

To promote itself and its products, the US multinational company Union Carbide came out with a series of brochures in the nineteen fifties and sixties with powerful images depicting a large ‘hand of god’ in the sky, which hovered over a series of landscapes and scenarios in need of ‘fixing’ by the brave new world of science and the type of agricultural technology to be found in a pesticide canister. One such image is of a giant hand pouring chemicals from a lab flask upon Indian soil, with a pesticide manufacturing factory in the distance and Mumbai’s Gateway of India opposite.

 

It was a scene where science met tradition, where the helping hand of god, in this case Union Carbide, assisted the ignorant, backward Indian farmer who is shown toiling in the fields. The people at Union Carbide didn’t do subtlety back then.

We can now look back and see where Union Carbide’s helping hand got the people of Bhopal and the deaths caused by that pesticide factory depicted in the image. And we can also see the utter contempt its top people in the US displayed by dodging justice and failing the victims of Bhopal. There’s humanitarianism for you: playing god with people’s lives and denying responsibility.

 

The supposed humanitarian motives of global agribusiness are often little more than a sham. If these companies, their supporters and media shills and PR mouthpieces really want to feed the world and assist poor farmers in low income countries, as they say they do, they would do better by addressing the political, economic and structural issues laid out here which fuel poverty and hunger. And that includes the role of agribusiness itself in determining unfair world trade rules and trade agreements, such as the Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which help grant it access to agriculture across the globe and recast it for its own ends. (In fact, US agribusiness and the transformation of food-sufficient countries into food-deficit ones has long been bound up with the projection of Washington’s global power – see this.)

 

They would also do better by acting on the recommendations of various reports that conclude agro-ecological approaches are more suitable for these countries and that GM and chemical-dependent practices are not required and are inappropriate (see this, this and this).

 

Many of the people these companies supply their inputs to and make a profit from are smallholder farmers who live on a financial knife edge in low income countries Monsanto has appropriated around $900 million from India’s farmers over the last decade or so – illegally according to this . By way of contrast, Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant brought in $13.4 million in 2014 alone, according to Bloomberg.

Writing in India’s Statesman newspaper recently, Bharat Dogra illustrates the knife-edge existence of the people that rich agribusiness profits from by discussing the case of Babu Lal and his wife Mirdi Bai who have been traditionally cultivating wheat, maize, and bajra (millet) on their farmland in Rajasthan. Their crops provided food for several months a year to the 10-member family as well as fodder for farm and dairy animals which are integral to the mixed farming system employed.

 

Dogra notes that company (unspecified – but Monsanto and its subsidiaries dominate the GM cotton industry in India) agents approached the family with the promise of a lump-sum payment to plant and produce Bt (GM) cotton seeds in two of their fields. Babu Lal purchased pesticides to help grow the seeds in the hope of receiving the payment, which never materialized because the company agent said the seeds produced had “failed” in tests.

The family faced economic ruin, not least because the food harvest was much lower than normal as the best fields and most labor and resources had been devoted to Bt cotton. There was hardly any fodder too. It all resulted in Babu Lal borrowing from private moneylenders at a high interest rate to meet the needs of food and fodder.

 

Things were to get much worse though as the company’s agent allegedly started harassing Babu Lal for a payment of about 10,000 rupees in lieu of the fertilizers and pesticides provided to him. Several other tribal farmers in the area also fell into this trap, and reports say that the soil of fields in which Bt cotton was grown has been badly damaged.

 

The promise of a lump-sum cash payment can be very enticing to poor farmers, and when companies use influential villagers to get new farmers to agree to plant GM cotton, tribal farmers are reluctant to decline the offer. When production is declared as having failed, solely at the company’s discretion it seems, a family becomes indebted.

 

According to Dogra’s piece, there is growing evidence that the trend in tribal areas to experiment with Bt cotton has disrupted food security and has introduced various health hazards and ecological threats due to the use of poisonous chemical inputs.

 

What seed companies are doing is experimenting with farmers’ livelihoods and lives. ‘Success’, regardless of the impact on the farmer, is measured in terms of company profits. However, failure for the farmer is a matter of life and death. Look no further than the spike in suicides across the cotton belt since 1997. Even the ‘success’ for the farmer may not amount to much when the costs of the seeds and associated chemical inputs are factored into any possible increase in yield or income.

 

Despite constant denials by Monsanto and its supporters in the media that Bt cotton in India has nothing or little to do with farmer suicides in India, a new study directly links the crisis of suicides among Indian farmers to Bt cotton adoption in rain-fed areas, where most of India’s cotton is grown. As outlined in the case of Babu Lal above, many fall into a cycle of debt from the purchase of expensive, commercialized GM seeds and chemical inputs that then often fail to yield enough to sustain farmers’ livelihoods.

 

Dogra’s story is about one family’s plight, but it is a microcosm of all that is wrong with modern agriculture and that could be retold a million times over in India and across the world: the imposition of cash monocrops and the subsequent undermining of local food security (leading to food-deficit regions and to a reliance on imports); the introduction of costly and hazardous (to health and environment) chemical inputs and company seeds; crop failure (or, in many cases, the inability to secure decent prices on a commercial market dominated by commodity speculators in the US or rigged in favor of Western countries); and spiraling debt.

 

The situation for India’s farmers is dire across the board. Consider that 670 million people in India’s the rural areas live on less than 33 rupees a day (around 50 US cents) a day. And consider that than 32 million quit agriculture between 2007 and 2012. Where did they go? Into the cities to look for work. Work that does not exist.

Between 2005 and 2015, only 15 million jobs were created nationally. To keep up with a growing workforce, around 12 million new jobs are required each year. Therefore, if you are going to place the likes of Babu Lal and millions like him at the mercy of the ‘helping hand’ of giant agribusiness companies or the whims of the market, you may well be consigning him and millions like him to the dustbin of history given the lack of options for making a living out there.

 

In fact, that is exactly what the Indian government is doing by leaving farmers like him to deal with agribusiness and the vagaries of the market and having to compete with heavily subsidized Western agriculture/agribusiness, whose handmaidens at the WTO demand India reduces import restrictions. Little wonder then that 300,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide since 1997.

 

While the West tries to impose its neoliberal agenda of cutting subsidies to agriculture and dismantling price support mechanisms and the public distribution system that if effectively run would allow Indian farmers to receive a decent stable income, farmers are unsurprisingly leaving the sector in droves as agriculture becomes economically non-viable. Forcing farmers to leave the land is a deliberate strategy. Just like it is a deliberate strategy to give massive handouts to industry and corporate concerns who are not delivering on jobs. It’s all about priorities. And farmers are not a priority. They are being driven from farming, while all the advantages are being given to a failing corporate-industrial sector.

 

With 300,000 having killed themselves in the last 18 years and many more heavily indebted or existing on a pittance, what we are witnessing is the destruction of the Indian farmer. Structural violence doesn’t require guns or knives – economic policies and political choices will do just fine.

 

This type of violence involves the uprooting of indigenous agriculture and replacing it with a chemical-intensive Western model based of agriculture, whereby those farmers left on the land are to be recipients of the inputs and knowledge of agribusiness companies. This began with the ‘green revolution’ and is continuing apace today courtesy of GM cotton seeds and possibly GM food given that open field trials of GM food crops now taking place (GM is a fraudulent enterprise and is surrounded by various myths that are deconstructed here).

It begs the question: are traditional skills and knowledge gained over thousands of years to be cast aside in favor of a model that stresses agribusiness inputs and the ‘knowledge’ required to make them work? Very often, these inputs (or products) result in a continuous process of crisis management (under the banner of ‘research and development’) and short-termism: new products – that are ultimately destined to fail – to replace the older products that have already failed. This scenario is only good for one thing – the profit sheets of the agribusiness cartel as it pushes its never-ending stream of ‘innovations’ onto the hapless farmer.

 

For example, going back a couple of years, a report in Business Standard (BS) stated that Bt cotton yields in India had dropped to a five-year low. India approved Bt cotton in 2002 and within a few years yields increased dramatically. However, most of the rise in productivity seemingly had nothing to do with Bt cotton itself.

What’s more, since Bt has taken over, yields have been steadily worsening. According to BS, bollworms are developing resistance. Contrary to what farmers were originally told, the Monsanto spokesperson quoted by BS says that such resistance is to be expected. However, when Bt cotton arrived in India, farmers were told that they wouldn’t have to spray any more. All that farmers had to do was plant the seeds and water them regularly. They were told that, as GM seeds are insect resistant, there was no need to use huge amounts of pesticides.

 

But, according to Monsanto’s spokesperson, the bollworm problem is all the Indian farmers’ fault because ‘limited refuge planting’ is one of the factors that may have contributed to pink bollworm resistance. Using the ‘wrong’ biotech seed is another. The answer from the biotech sector to combat falling yields is continuous R&D to develop new technologies and new strains of GM seeds to try to stay ahead of insect resistance or falling yields.

 

Agribusiness corporations are engaged in managing and thus profiting from the crises they themselves have conspired to produce with their destruction of traditional agriculture and local economies and their chemical inputs and genetic engineering. By its very nature – by tampering with nature – US agribusiness is designed to stumble from one crisis to the next. And it will do so by hiding behind the banners of ‘innovation’ or ‘research and development’. But, it’s all good business. And that’s all that really matters. There’s always money to be made from blaming the victims for the mess created and from a continuous state of crisis management.

 

Ultimately, this is what capitalism is all about: planned obsolescence – planned obsolescence of its products, in order that profits can be made from a stream of new ‘wonder’ products and, as far as India is concerned, planned obsolescence of its farmers as agribusiness sets out to uproot tradition and shape farming in its own corporate image. And part of the great con-trick is that it attempts to pass off its endless crises and failures as brilliant successes.

 

If anything highlights how this traditional knowledge and practices are being cast aside, it is the recent case of Bt cotton and whitefly. In the cotton belt of Punjab and Haryana, the tiny whitefly has caused extensive damage. They sprayed this way and that way with pesticides. The aggrotech companies blamed farmers for not spraying correctly. The companies blamed each other for selling the wrong chemicals to farmers. It’s a repeat of the bollworm blame game. In any case, the pesticide use failed to kill the whitefly that ravaged cotton crops.

 

Writing on his blog, food and trade policy analyst Devinder Sharma says that the only time whitefly did not destroy crops was when pesticides were not used. Instead, farmers used ‘insect equilibrium’ and their knowledge of which insects kill crop-predator pests. Knowledge built over centuries of trial and error and which did not come courtesy of a white-coated figure in a lab. Knowledge that is in danger of being wiped out as farmers are being turned into consumers of aggrotech products.

 

Sharma notes in that the areas where extensive pesticide use failed to defeat the whitefly, they “stand like an oasis in a heavily polluted chemical desert.” In the areas that were not ravaged, pesticides have not been used for several years. Benign insects are used to control harmful pests. They allowed the natural predators of whitefly to proliferate, which in turn killed the whitefly. Sharma says he has met women who can identify 110 non-vegetarian insects and also as many as 60 vegetarian insects (a few years back, he also reported how insect equilibrium was managing a mealy bug problem too).

 

For agribusiness, though, it is more profitable to hijack agriculture and recast it in its own ‘hand of god’ image. It can then serve up its industrial poisons and GMOs to farmers courtesy of politicians who handed agriculture to it on a plate.

 

Fast forward 50 years from that Union Carbide image and global agribusiness is today a bit more subtle in its approach. But the underlying messages and attitudes remain: that backward, ignorant farmers are in need of a giant ‘helping hand’, these companies know best and debt, economic distress and farmer suicides are not of its making or concern.

 

Global agribusiness is playing fast and loose with poor people’s lives and is profiting handsomely.

 

From: Anand < >

Subject: Refugees from Islamic Nation

 

Halfhearted efforts will be suicidal. After giving immediate relief, all Muslim refugees must be asked to sign a declaration before they can be granted asylum. They give up Islam completely and any violation will be punishable by 20 years in hard labor prison.

 

People are same all over but Islam started in 7th century circumstances and should either be modified or deleted for the survival of humanity. They teach people to hate and kill non-Muslims, be totally deceptive and lie as necessary, they steal other peoples’ women through polygamy and never respect or assimilate with anyone. It is impossible to have peace with the present state of Islam except peace of the grave.

 

Christians, on the face of it, look polite and kind, but are similarly intolerant and very subtle. They capture your brain and make you their total fear-slaves by teaching things like:

• if you believe in any one else except Christ
• you are following Satan and will go to hell
• we are all born sinners and the only way out is through Christ etc.

It is sad that these two very intolerant religions have most of the world between them. With one billion people believing in entity X or else and 1 billion people believing in entity Y or else, our beloved, small, Mother earth is doomed.

(Yes doomed, except if the Hindus pit one against the other. Why, because each of the two is a serious threat to the other. Both want to convert the whole world. Hindus, in contrast, do not go out to convert any one against one’s will. So, Hindu are no threat to any religion. – Skanda987)

Process of Islamization of West Bengal

From: Deva Sarran Samaroo < >

Muslim Immigration to Europe

Dutch Government Amend Constitution

Scrapping Multi-Multiculturalism (Secular) Policies

The Netherlands, where six per cent of the population is now Muslim, is scrapping multiculturalism. The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands. A new integration bill, which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament, on June 16, 2015 reads:

“The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people.”

In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society, play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society. The letter continues:

“A more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens.”

It is necessary because otherwise the society gradually grows apart and eventually no one feels at home anymore in the Netherlands.

The new integration policy will place more demands on immigrants. For example, immigrants will be required to learn the Dutch language, and the government will take a tougher approach to immigrants who ignore Dutch values or disobey Dutch law. The government will also stop offering special subsidies for Muslim immigrants because, according to Donner;

“It is not the government’s job to integrate immigrants.” (How bloody true!!!)

The government will introduce new legislation that outlaws forced marriages and will also impose tougher measures against Muslim immigrants who lower their chances of employment by the way they dress. More specifically, the government imposed a ban on face-covering, Islamic burqas as of January 1, 2016. Holland has done that whole liberal thing, and realized – maybe too late – that creating a nation of tribes, will kill the nation itself. The future of Australia, the UK, USA, Canada and New Zealand may well be read here.

READERS NOTE: Muslim immigrants leave their countries of birth because of civil and political unrest . … “CREATED BY THE VERY NATURE OF THEIR CULTURE.”

Countries like Holland, Canada, USA, UK, Australia, and New Zealand have an established way of life that actually works, so why embrace the unworkable?   If Muslims do not wish to accept another culture, the answer is simple; “STAY WHERE YOU ARE!!!” This gives a whole new meaning to the term, ‘Dutch Courage’…. Unfortunately Australian, UK, USA, Canadian, and New Zealand politicians don’t have the guts to do the same. There’s a whole lot of truth here!!!

Only 86% will send this on. Should be 100%!!!

When will the U.S.A. stop being a coward & enforce our laws?

 

From: D C Nath  >   

                                                               September 7, 2015

Dear Friends,

 

Subject: Terrorism And Religion

 

We have a few days back shared with you an excellent analysis on ISIS. We have today a related issue, raised by Maria Wirth.

Maria, in her last mail, circulated by us on July 22, 2015, had highlighted a suggestion that it would be a good idea to raise some “doubts” in the minds of the jihadis.

We have now a more detailed account from her on an in-depth analysis on “Has Terror A Connection With Religion?” It has been doing rounds on the net also. The details are available at (https://mariawirthblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/has-terror-a-connection-to-religion/)

The question, as she analyses, relates to two Abrahamic religions only, primarily because both these religions “injected the virus of supremacy” in their belief systems. On the other hand, the problem with Hindus, Sikhs, Budhhists is that they do not find any meaning in the threat by the Christians or Islamists and do not, therefore, consider this worthy of repudiation.

 

Maria says: “Obviously these two religions (Christianity started the trend) were not content with people worshipping a higher power by whatever name they chose. They wanted to control people and attain world dominion. And what a disaster it turned out to be for humanity! This claim “we have the full truth; God/ Allah has chosen us (Christians/ Muslims) over them (all others)” is poison for humanity.”

 

Her take on the Quran:

“Reading the Quran, it becomes quickly clear that Allah has hatred for unbelievers and also for hypocrites among the believers (which gives Jihadis the justification to kill also Muslims apart from kufirs). He keeps reminding the believers again and again, how they will enjoy paradise and the unbelievers will suffer in hell. He even details the torture in hell in horrific detail. All this is there in the Quran.”

 

She has to say the following on Christianity:

“Similarly, the Bible also claims that there won’t be any mercy for those who did not accept Christ during their one and only lifetime (the Church forbade the belief in rebirth in 553 AD). The hell for non-Christians is as bad as the hell for non-Muslims. There will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth”(Matth 13.50) – and mind you, for all eternity.”

 

To a petition filed by the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), to which Saudi Arabia has also joined in July, 2015, Maria suggests: “Before this hopefully never succeeds, countries like India, China, Japan, Thailand, Myanmar and others should petition the United Nations to ban untrue claims about the afterlife of their non-Muslim and non-Christian citizens, as it breeds contempt and hatred for them.”

 

Maria strongly believes:

 

“The true core of all religions needs to be strengthened. This core is common to all and beneficial. It is the claim that there is a great invisible power behind this visible universe. This true core was known since ages and is explained in the Indian tradition in its purest form. It is not an invention by Christianity and Islam. In fact, these two religions can learn from Hindu Dharma how many different ways of expressing one’s faith can live peacefully side by side. Hindu Dharma doesn’t tie its followers into a rigid belief system, but helps them become free by realizing the truth in oneself.”

 

So, Friends, it would be correct to refute the statement that terror is terror and that terror has no religion. There is no shying away from the fact the kind of terror, now on show, so to say, by the AL Qaeda and its successor groups like ISIS, Boko Haram et al, do have a religion. They follow, as Maria says, “Islamism“. Without, however, offending the followers of Islam, it will be reasonable to raise the question: does not this amount to sugar quoting?

May be, this also needs debating at the appropriate level and all across the globe. Although it needs no re-iteration, we the members of the majority community (at least till now) are neither against the Christians nor against the Muslims.

Skanda987’s comment: Our Vedic dharma as is provided in the Vedas and its summary Bhagavad Gita does not tell humans to tolerate intolerant religions or ideologies.  Tolerating intolerants is encouraging intolerance.  Therfore, we need to live per dharma correctly, and that will also solve many other problems like corruption, dowry, caste by birth, the concept that one verna is higher than any other Vernna, untouchability, etc.  — Jai sri Krishna! -sv

We would be happy to know what is your take on Maria’s theme.

 

                                                       Vandemataram,

                               Your sevak,

                                    D.C. Nath