Veteran Indian social activist has been arrested and 1400 of his supporters detained as authorities defy a protest to force tougher laws against corruption.
Anna Hazare,74, was taken into custody early Tuesday as he prepared to lead a parade to a public park in New Delhi where he was to begin a “fast unto death”.
Hundreds of of his supporters gathered outside the building as he was driven away.
“Police have detained us,” Arvind Kejriwal, an aide to Hazare, told NDTV broadcaster before being taken away by plainclothers police in a white car early on Tuesday.
In a pre-taped appeal, Hazare urged his supporters to protest despite his arrest.
“My dear countrymen, the second freedom struggle has begun, and now I have also been arrested. But will this movement be stopped by my arrest? No, not at all. Don’t let it happen,” he said.—…
…Hazare’s protest has tapped into deep public anger against corruption in India as the Congress party-led government battles a series of graft scandals.
These include the sale of mobile phone licenses and the hosting of last year’s Commonwealth Games, which together lost the country as much as $40bn, according to government auditors.
The Indian parliament has been paralysed by anti-corruption protests for two weeks, stalling crucial legislation.
this in is response to your post about that fracking article that in the independent.
I did a little researching and here are some interesting things I found out about how it prob got published even though it is BOLLOX.
One, The Independent is own by the O’Reilly family.
Two, Anthony O’Reilly Jr owns a gas company, that is currently mainly focused on off shore drilling. It’s called Providence.
Three, Turns out that Providence are working partners with company the author of the article works for.
“Providence operates Barryroe (50%) with partners San Leon Energy (30%) and Lansdowne Oil & Gas (20%)”
an excerpt from http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/18/idUS39371+18-Apr-2011+HUG20110418
NO FRACKING IRELAND
we need to get this out in the open people dont know about this, if we dont act soon it will be 2 late dont let them drill for gas in ireland please save our country. you wont be able to drink or bath…
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Sepahua, 22 de julio, 2011.- El lote 57 de Repsol YPF proyecta hacer sombra a las operaciones gasíferas de Pluspetrol en el Complejo Camisea. Uniendo mediante gasoductos los lotes 57,56 y 88 Repsol y Pluspetrol ampliarán en los próximos meses la frontera gasífera en las entrañas de la selva que separa los ríos Tambo y Urubamba.
A la perforación iniciada de varios pozos exploratorios, se le añaden la apertura de miles de kilómetros de líneas sísmicas y el tendido de varios gasoductos para conectar todos los pozos a la planta separadora de gas en Camisea.
ashanika and machiguenga girls
El primer pozo exploratorio de Repsol en el lote 57, el Kinteroni I, ha dado resultados positivos, como se presencia en las llamas gigantes de una foto colgada en la radio de la Comunidad Nativa Nuevo Mundo. En esta comunidad machiguenga, Repsol ha construido una mini ciudad como campo base y ha tendido una trama de relaciones clientelares con sus habitantes.
Cuadricular la selva
Como señalan sus Estudio de Impacto Ambiental, Repsol pretende concluir en 2011 su ambicioso proyecto de exploración sísmica 3D en el interior de las Reservas Comunales Ashanika y Machiguenga, así como en la Zona de Amortiguamiento del Parque Nacional Otuquis.(1)
En total, nada menos que 2.360 Km2 de bosque amazónico será afectado por el tamizado de una matriz de líneas sísmicas que se cruzan perpendicularmente cada 240 metros. Una cuadrícula atroz para los ecosistemas. Pretender que la fauna no será impactada por este barrido sistemático de la floresta, con el denso tendido de caminos y zonas de descarga para helicópteros, pecaría de interés o ingenuidad.
Si el resultado de esta lustrosa campaña fuera negativa, Repsol informa – a modo de amenaza en un afiche colgado en la oficina comunal de Nuevo Mundo- que ejecutará una nueva campaña de prospección sísimica 2D, con la apertura de 892 kilómetros lineales de sendas sísmicas.
23 pozos en las cabeceras
A parte de la plataforma Kinteroni I, con 2 hectáreas de selva sepultadas bajo un manto de cemento y 3 bocas de pozo a punto de escupir gas, en 2011 Repsol pretende construir este año 2 pozos más: el Mashira GX y el Mapi LX y hasta 2022 serían un total de 23. Entre ellos, 10 pozos en la comunidad kakinte de Tsojora, 3 en Poyeni, uno en Nuevo Mundo y otro en un lugar inhóspito de la Reserva Comunal Machiguenga.
Ya es muy conocida la extraña obstinación que describen los pozos hidrocarburíferos para contaminar los recursos hídricos en ecosistemas tropicales. A modo de ejemplo, sólo empezar, Repsol ya tuvo un accidente “inesperado” por unas lluvias “inusuales”, que provocaron el derrumbe de lodos sobre una motobomba del pozo Kinteroni.
Bernabé Gómez, monitor machiguenga del Equipo de Monitoreo Medioambiental Comunitario de Nuevo Mundo, informó al equipo de Alerta Amazónica que este derrumbe, producido el 15 de diciembre de 2010, provocó un vertido de diesel a las aguas del arroyo Huitricaya.
A estas alturas del partido, cualquier nueva perforación en la selva genera gran desconfianza sobre cuánto tiempo las aguas de los arroyos de la zona seguirán siendo limpias y cristalinas. Porque aparte de los ríos tributarios Tambo y Urubamba, una docena de cursos fluviales menores serán afectados por la perforación de los 23 pozos.
Por los vertidos, o por el bombeo de agua necesario para la perforación de pozos a 2 kilómetros de profundidad, entre los ríos amenzados por la perforación de pozos en sus cabeceras, destacamos el río Cheni, Erite, Poyeni, Mapayo, Sepa, Sensa, Huitricaya y Mapaya.
Gasoductos que acortan el camino hacia el mar
Para facilitar la exportación del gas perforado en las comunidades kakintes y machiguengas, se construirá desde Kinteroni I, un tubo de 16 pulgadas y 14,5 km hasta la estación de Repsol en la Comunidad Nativa de Nuevo Mundo. Ahí se le sumará el flujo proveniente de Mipaya (pozo de Pluspetrol en el lote 56) para conectarlo a otro pozo, el Pagoneri A, con un ducto de 42 kilómetros.
Desde allá, se conducirá el gas a la planta de Malvinas (Camisea) por tres gasoductos, dos de Pluspetrol ya existentes, y un nuevo ducto de 22 kilómetros que construirá Repsol en los próximos meses. Para todo este proyecto de desarrollo Repsol ha proyectado 202 millones de dólares.(2)
Vulnerabilidad para el pueblo Kakinte
El pueblo Kakinte, de la familia etnolingüística Arawak, está conformado por aproximadamente mil personas, ubicadas en 6 comunidades alejadas, en el distrito de Río Tambo: Taini, Tsoroja, Quitepampani, San Luis de Corinto, Maseka y Mangariari.
pollution destroys source of life
El aislamiento geográfico, la falta de información oportuna e independiente, la presión territorial de otros pueblos y la falta de titulación de tres de sus comunidades han ocasionado una débil negociación con Repsol YPF, la empresa que convertirá sus territorios en un rentable negocio gasífero.
En el 2006 el pueblo kakinte solicitó una compensación por el ingreso de la empresa a sus territorios obteniendo un pago efectivo y donación de un teléfono satelital, un local comunal y algunas casas de cemento. Pero “ Lamentablemente, la compensación no ha servido para asuntos de fondo como el fortalecimiento de la identidad cultural de los kakinte, la educación bilingüe intercultural, ni para fortalecer la seguridad territorial de las comunidades, especialmente las no tituladas” informaba Servindi en 2010.(3)
La desinformación, mal información y las ofertas compensatorias a corto plazo, juegan a favor de Repsol YPF en su irreversible intervención de los territorios comunales de los pueblos ashanikas, kakintes y machiguengas. Mientras tanto, el desarrollo gasífero avanza como una infrenable apisonadora cultural.
Prior to this Sunday’s match against Sunderland, Liverpool supporters backed by the Hillsborough Justice Campaign will be holding a demonstration in support of a continued boycott of the Sun. This serves as a timely reminder of the real and lasting damage media sensationalism can cause.
Fans will be distributing leaflets explaining the boycott around the Anfield area, but the hope in this demonstration is to spread awareness beyond those who are already very unlikely to buy the paper. Fans are encouraged to collect posters from the shop opposite the Kop and display them in the ground prior to kick off. There is also the possibility of escalating this campaign by displaying a mosaic at the subsequent Bolton match.
Of late, it was the Sun’s sister paper – the News of the World – which came under intense scrutiny, for the phone hacking scandal. However with that paper’s closure, and the sacking of a significant number of people, much of the furore has since died down. But it would be a mistake to presume guilt lay entirely with this one newspaper, or even stopped at News International.
As Adam Ford pointed out a while back, “every newspaper is subject to exactly the same pressures, in a dwindling but highly competitive market. Murdoch merely acted to introduce a lowest common denominator, a barrel-scraping standard against which all other papers must measure themselves.”
Nor is this a recent phenomenon, as the involvement of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign tells us. Scousers have no love for “the Scum” because of its horrendous reporting of that disaster, in which 96 people died as a result of a human crush, whereby it falsely accused fans of stealing from and urinating on the dead.
Criticism of the rich is less welcome. The ‘Loot only the Rich’ badge published here yesterday was blocked from tagging and then banned by Facebook. Though this failed, maybe as it had already gone all over. (see here http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001284179241)
The badge/graphic was tagged to about 200 of the 1200 ‘friends’ on the page before Farcebook could block it.
Then the page of ‘TheFree Mikegilli’ displayed the following, which still appears on the Homepage. But the Badge was not deleted.. maybe as its too widely copied already.
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HERE’S SOME MORE CRITICISM OF THE BRITISH RICH
Cameron (centre) at Oxford ''This society of toffs was known for its practices of pot-smoking, drinking and eating to excess before carrying out some "robust" redecoration of the restaurants..''
Grant Shapps, Housing Minister, declared today that it would be to empower councils and housing associations to evict tenants found to be involved in the riots. The definition of anti-social behaviour is to be extended from the immediate vicinity of their houses to almost anywhere.
Our bankers, exposed for their ineptitude and greedy speculation, have been bailed out to the tune of nearly £40,000,000,000 of taxpayers’ money – over £1,000 per British adult – yet continue to receive tens of billions in bonuses. The richest dodge their taxes, with the authorities writing of billions, like Vodaphone (£6 billions excused). Public services are being closed to keep our rich elite in champers.
mmm..maybe I should try them on..
Our police, the London Met most of all, have been shown to be riddled with corrupt practices – with cops receiving payments from newspapers for confidential information; investigations tainted by officers receiving gifts, lunches and even jobs from the people under suspicion; and just last week a Chief Constable and his deputy suspended for alleged fraud.
And of course, we have our Prime Minister, David Cameron. In his own youth, Cameron was, along with London Mayor Boris Johnson, a member of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford University (see picture on right ; Cameron is in the center). This society of toffs was known for its practices of pot-smoking, drinking and eating to excess before carrying out some “robust” redecoration of the restaurants they used for their revelry, the main difference with this week’s rioters being that Mr Cameron’s associates had their Daddies’ money to pay for the damage they wreaked.
I’m doing a micro campaign on this blog in favour of this CO2-free fuel.
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