Shades of Global Terror: Worsening Scenario

Ram Puniyani
May 14, 2019

Terrorism Worldwide has assumed horrific proportions. We have witnessed worsening acts of terror from 9/11 2001. After this terrible act; terrorism got to be linked a religion, and the term ‘Islamic terrorism’ was popularized by American media. The turmoil’s in West Asian countries due to intervention of American Imperialism for the control over oil resources created an unprecedented crisis in this region. Acts of terror became the everyday affair. The reactionary backlash was not too far behind and surfaced when Andres Behring Berwick, a Norwegian young man, shot 86 youth with his machine gun in 2011. The phobia created against immigrant Muslims in ‘White majority countries’ and global Islamophia are supplanting each other to create the scene, where terrorism is assuming horrendous proportions.

The attack by suicide bombers in three Churches and two luxury hotels in Sri Lanka killed nearly 250 innocent Christians celebrating the Easter on 20th April 2019. While ISIS has taken the credit for the same, Sri Lankan Administration attributed it to local National Thowheeth Jama’ath, a militant Islamist group. As per defense minister of Sri Lanka Ruwan Wijewardane the attack seems to be in retaliation against attack on Muslims in New Zealand, Christchurch mosques in which nearly 53 people died. This attack in New Zealand was done by an Australian immigrant, who is a white supremacist. The Jamath has been banned now in Srilanka.

In the aftermath of the grave tragedy in Sri Lanka, the media was abuzz again with narratives centered around ‘Islamic terrorism’ blaming Islam for such acts of terror. We need to have a deeper understanding of the issue in order to label and analyze today’s terror tales. The major story begins with the America’s planning and funding of the Mujahedeen, Taliban in especially set up Madrasssas of Pakistan. The use of Wahabi-Salafi version of Islam, prevalent in Saudi Arabia for indoctrination into acts of terror is the beginning point. This version of Islam is ultra conservative, focuses on Sharia and targets those opposing it.

In these madarassas meanings of words Jihad and Kafir were distorted to train the youth into what emerged as Al Qaeda. America’s funding of this enterprise to the tune of 8000 million dollars and seven thousand tons of armaments was the key to raise a group which led the anti Russian forces. The key to unravel the mystery lies here. In post Vietnam demoralization of US army, US planners banked on raising the terror force through training Asian Muslim youth. The primary goal was hegemonic control over oil resources in West Asia.

The trajectory of Mujahedeen, Taliban, Al Qaeda, ISIS and then IS and its local offshoots, are a grave tragedy for human society. Not only this goal of controlling West Asia by America has given birth to Islamophobia, now it’s equal and opposite reaction in the form of Anders Behring Berwick and Brenton Tarrant has completed the circle of insanity. ‘An eye for an eye’ seems to be ruling the globe. The cancer of terrorism could be given birth by indoctrinating the youth; but to put the genie back in the bottle is much more difficult. Now Muslim immigration is being used a pretext by the likes of Berwick and Tarrant. There may be many more supporting this superficial understanding about the issue of immigration. 

There is a great deal of overlap in ethnic and terrorist violence also. Right in Sri Lanka Bodu Bala Sena (Budhhist Power Force) has been targeting Muslims and Christians. In Sri Lanka itself the Tamil (Hindus) have been targeted. In Myanmar Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk, is advocating the use of violence and has been targeting Rohingya Muslims. In India the likes of Pragya Thakur, the terror accused in Malegaon and Ajmer blasts, had targeting the places where Muslims congregate in big numbers. Currently the sectarian politics is not only wearing the clothes of religion it is justifying the use of violence for its narrow political goals. The tragedy is that since its language is laced in that of the religion, the whole religious communities get colored in the vicious hatred spread by these groups.

One fallout of it has been the demand for banning burqa by Mumbai Shiv Sena mouth piece Saamana’s editor Raut. He taunted that burqa has been banned in Ravan’s Lanka, when will it be banned in Ram’s Ayodhya. This is as such a distortion of what happened in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka President, using his special powers has put a restriction on any apparel which hinders identification the face. Niqab or Burqua was not named in particular.

This has set cat among the pigeons in India. Following Raut’s statement, Javed Akhtar, the noted poet-writer, said that he was not averse to such a ban on Burqa so far as it is accompanied by a similar measure against Ghundhat, the practice which is prevalent among Hindus in some parts of the country. Meanwhile Kerala’s Muslim Educational Society put out a notice which prohibits girls from wearing “any dress which covers the face” in its 150 educational institutions across the state. This is a laudable move in social reform, the move coming from within the community. Still no one has a right to impose any dress code on the women. We have witnessed regular campaigns by the likes of Bajrang dal, opposing girls wearing jeans. Dress code for women is one of the mechanisms of strengthening patriarchal values in the society.

The Sri Lanka suicide bombing, New Zealand shootings are a wake up for the global community to put this cancer to rest, the cancer of using religion for the political goals. One of the major reasons for genesis and perpetuation of this violence is the interference of imperialism in the oil rich zone and America’s promotion of retrograde leaderships in the region. The promotion of democratic impulse at global level coupled with restrain the US designs in the area do remain the key in wiping out terror of all shades from the World!

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samir sardana
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Thursday, 17 Oct 2019

With the criminal actions by the Hindoo State  in Kashmir - so called terror strikes across Hindoosthan are imminent ! And I am concerned about the white tourists !

The Land of the Goan Konkanee Ghatis !

A Prime terror target ! US/EU/Iraeli Tourists, EU/Israeli Military Experts and Engineers,Poor Logistics,Unsecured and Old Dams and Bridges, Narriow and Old Roads,Defense quarters in stroll distance from roads,Defence Installations, Military Munition dumps on the high traffic inner roads, Military Shipyards right on inner roads - next to several high rises,Ports in Line of Sight,Umpteen Central Fuel Dumps on Main Road or with clear line of sight, Commercial and Military naval ports in clear line of sight,Military Air Strips 10 meters from civilian colonies,Ample low flying military choppers and take off planes less than 30 meters in height from a beach stroll,Dual use Commercial cum Air Force-Navai Aviation Airport, No Air strip for mass evacuation,Corrupt and Debauched Police/Polity and Society,Drugs Paradise,Sex Trafficking,Paedo Paradise,Organ Trafficking,Gigolo Paradise,Vast stretches of beaches o/s to the drug and sex mafia,Innumerable Central Fuel Dumps on main road and raised heights in clear line of sight,millions of tourists coming by road and rail, Impossible to secure seacoast line, Long Monsoon spells and Poor Sky Vision,Easily predictable traffic congestions,Very High Density of Humans at easily predictable time in Vegetable Markets,High Density Concentrated SME manufacturing Hubs, Fixed Frequency of Commercial traffic into military sectors,Poor E-coverage of open areas,High density of vermin at Bus and Rail stations at fixed times,Only 1 rail line for commercial traffic linking the state,A Litter of Churches right on the main roads,Ample Explosives of Illegal Mining and Unaccounted explosives of legal mining and a chor Pandoo Chaddhi Chor Matka Police !

Sample the Goan Chor Matka Chaddhi Chor Pandoo Police !The Land of the Goan Konkanee Ghatis !

The statements of TN Mohan Ex-DGP,Goa Police (Sambhar Dosa)

• Goa Police chief T.N. Mohan (Masala Dosa) on Wednesday said he was “ashamed” at the “unacceptable levels of corruption” in the force.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/goa-top-cop-ashamed-at-corruption-in-police-force-114112601086_1.html

Plague of immorality of the Goa Police

• IGP – Panwari Bania – Sunil Garg – On Taped bribery charge with the Goan Chief Secretary sitting on the FIR File and the ACB refusing to file FIR inspite of a Court Order
• DIG – Panwari Bania – Vimal Gupta – On corruption charge and transferred out by CM of Goa for not so good activities

http://www.navhindtimes.in/gupta-relieved-of-duty-for-his-not-so-good-activities-cm/
• •SP Crime – Karthik Kashyap – Bailable Warrant served on him, at District Court,Amreli, Gujarat
• •PI ATS – Nilesh Rane – A B Com Pass in the 3 rd Division, suffering anal fissures and accused of being a pimp, extortionist, racketeer and a rapist (with a record of censures, penalties,demotions and dismissals)
• •PI ATS – Jivbya Dalvi – stole money during notebandi and tampered evidence in the Melvyn Gomes case
• ATS clowns are staffed by 3rd division Commerce and Arts Graduates who have passed from Goa University,by doing Projects, in the 3 rd year,with scores of 70% (id.est, part of the Goa University scam – to make Konkani Niggers pass the graduate courses) – with Bhandare OBC caste affiliations – as sons of cobblers, mechanics,,sweepers and barbers.
• •ANC – Several Staff Chargesheeted by CBI for drug peddling and extortion and accused of planting and tampering with evidence•
• Anthony Montesserate – Demoted,Censured,Sacked and Reinstated on several occasions (like Lazarus)
• CBI – Refused to carry out an investigation in the matka operations in the state – inspite of a Court Order (they are all police officers)
• •MATKA– Goa is the Matka Capital of the World (with the matka mafia paying off the pandoo police and the netas who in turn pay off the goan people at the time of elections – as “vote gratuity”)
• As per Mr Mickey Pachecho – the Goan Police is a Chor Matka Pandoo Police and so are all the MLAs in the Fenee Land of Goa – all are in the Payroll of Matka operators
o https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-News/Goa-News/All-MLAs-involved-in-matka-Mickky/127037.html
o https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/mickky-wants-cm-to-clamp-down-on-matka-activities/articleshow/62965340.cms

Plague of ineptitude, corruption and impotence of the Goa Police

• •SP ATS – Priyanka Kashyap – Secured entry from the OBC (Roojam)class and a BE in IT – On Abortion leave (suffering from pre-eclampsia and sadly did not die – in the last abortion), for 18 out of 36 months, with several tales and complaints of incompetence on this dimwit (including the rampage by Nigerians and the Nigerian Ambassador, who abused her (as a whore) with forensic trail, and the fiasco of the Kamaxi case etc.)
• Devesh Mahale – SP ATS – Secured entry from the OBC class who failed in Training Programs in the Indian Evidence Act,Forensic Medicine and Police Leadership
• SIT – Staffed by inept fools whose investigations have led nowhere,and also, since the netas deem it fit to understaff and ill equip these morons – since they know the worth of the clowns of the Goa Police
• EOC- Staffed by inept fools whose investigations have led nowhere, and also since the netas deem it fit to understaff and ill equip these morons – since they know the worth of the clowns of the Goa Police
• ACB – staffed by inept illiterate clowns and morons from the Police, who are meant to independently probe corruption in the Goa Police and the Goa State ( used as pimps by Netas to harass public servants and Politicians)
• Vasco Police – 10th and 12th pass clowns appointed as ASI and PSI like VS Naik and Talvalankar who cannot read,write,speak or understand English
• Scarlett Keeling – The Police could not secure a conviction as it got paid off (The Court acquitted all the accused)
• •Margao Bombing – The Police could not secure a conviction as it got paid off and the fact that they are pandoos (The Court acquitted all the accused)
• •Vasco Bombing – The Police could not secure a conviction as it got paid off and the fact that they are pandoos (The Court acquitted all the accused)
• •Anti Islamic Bias -The Police who molested 88 Madrassa schoolgirls in a police station and the 2 pandoo police officers responsible for arresting the 88 girls – were feted by the Konkani Limpets of Vasco
• Jail Breaks – are passe for the Goan Chor Matka Police
o Mr Michael Fernandes, who has had 6 escapes from the inept,incompetent, matka Goa Police – from their jail, escort van etc…..
? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Michael-scales-Aguada-jail-wall-escapes-again/articleshow/24212267.cms
o Innovation by “Hitler Fernandes and Seby Ferrao” of Sada Jail,who escaped after drilling a hole in the toilet
? https://www.goaprism.com/the-great-escapers-of-goas-prison/
• Bhang and Meat Party in Goan Pandoo Jail
o Goa Matka Police have jails where inmates have “a bhang and meat party” – and the Meat and Bhang was made,in the Police Pantry and Canteen
? https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/inmates-get-high-on-bhang-fight-inside-jail-1169839-2018-02-14
? https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-News/Goa-News/Cops-probing-if-meat-too-was-served-at-bhang-party-in-jail/127038.html
• The LPC of the Goan Police – only fit to check the orifices of Menino Fernandes to dig out the drug packets
? https://www.heraldgoa.in/Editorial/Editorial/Notorious-international-cocaine-dealers-seem-to-have-decade-long-love-affairs-with-Goa/127024.html
• LPCs are just busy committing suicide as they are sexually abused and raped by the Goan Matka Police
? https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-News/Lady-constable-attempts-suicide/126542.html
• Confidence – Menino Fernandes – caught with drugs on several occassions – but is not bothered as there is an angel on earth,saving him – the Goan Matka Pandoo Police
? http://theneutralview.com/two-major-drug-raids-two-arrests-in-day-long-raid/
• •Cross Defilers – The Pandoo Police who could not stop the defiling of the graveyards of Christians• and falsely implicated an innocent ,man who is a Christian,and who was also acquitted
• •David Headley, Shambu Beck and Yasin Bhatkal stayed for a long time in Goa as tourists and the Pandoo Police had no clue, and were high on matka,khainee and fenee
• Then there is “His Excellency Charles Sobhraj” – who escaped Tihar Jail and came to Goa Fenee Land to eat Chicken Cafreal, at the O’ Coqueiro Restauran,waiting for the Pandoos to arrest him (the owner of the food joint,has a statue in his memory)
• Tha Police could not stop an inmate Ashfaque, from being killed by another inmate and the Pandoo Police have still not found the murder weapon !
? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/History-sheeter-murdered-by-inmate-in-Colvale-jail/articleshow/53405499.cms
? http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/inmate-murders-gangster-in-goa-jail-2937419/
• Goan Police could not handle a Group of 100 Nigerians who brought the Fenee State of Goa to a halt•
• Sagar Kavatch Police who could not detect a fake bomb o/s a Police Post
o http://englishnews.thegoan.net/story.php?id=16190??
• •The state of Security-in the Brics summit, thieves stole the water valves, of the Pandoo Police from their quarters
o http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/thieves-strike-within-100m-of-s-goa-police-hq/articleshow/59746741.cms
• A pepper spray used by an Israeli was enough to con these limpet impotent pandoo clowns
o http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-jailed-in-india-attempts-escape-with-us-jews-help/?fb_comment_id=907098689336078_907104162668864#f2f8b4743c99e6
• The Police investigated Mickey Pacheco for 9 years for money laundering, and then filed a closure report
o https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-News/Money-laundering-case-against-Mickky-Pacheco-dropped/125011.html

The worth of the Goan DOV

The Pathetic “pace and quality” of investigations and enquiry by the Department of Vigilance ,is in the public domain more than a year after the date when the Applicant sought the under-stated information from the DOV), and so, information related thereto, is in public interest (It might be noted that no propriety or efficiency audit /review of the DOV has ever been carried out by the AG/CAG or any other external agency) - it is staffed by Nassara Chammiyas and Konkan Ghatis

Type A

·Vigilance complaints against 32% gazetted and 68% non-gazetted officers not disposed; Gross violation of CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965 that mandate disposal of cases in six months

·https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa-News/87-corruption-cases-against-Govt-officials-pending-in-past-18-years/133331.html

Type B

·In the last three years, the Vigilance Department has completed investigation in only 53 cases.

·https://www.heraldgoa.in/The-Sunday-Roundtable/The-Sunday-Roundtable/vigilance-dept-investigated-only-53-cases-in-3-years/15604.html

Type C

·The CAG has pointed out corruption,revenue loss/leakage and criminal negligence leading to potential losses of Rs. 2500 crores to 4000 crores (while the ACB and the DOV are sleeping)

Then you have the Pandoos in the ACB - who are pimps and blackmailers for the CM ! Limpet Limpdick Black skinned trash with Nil IQ - chammiyas and mongrels liker Anand Kuckoookar

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May 7,2020

Bengaluru, May 7: A 55-year old woman from Davanagere became the 30th COVID-19 related fatality in Karnataka, where a total number of infections has crossed 700-mark, with eight new positive cases being confirmed, the health department said on Thursday.

The deceased woman was a known case of diabetes and hypertension, she was admitted with a complaint of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and was on a ventilator, the department said in its mid-day situation update.

She died today at a designated hospital in Davanagere, it said.

"Eight new positive cases have been reported from last evening to this noon...

Till date 701 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed. This includes 30 deaths and 363 discharges," the update said.

The eight new cases reported include three from Davangere, indulging the deceased patient; also three from Kalaburagi, and one each from Hirebagewadi in Belagavi district and Bengaluru urban.

While four cases are contacts of patients earlier tested positive, three are with the history of Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) and one is a SARI case.

Five among eight new cases are women and three are men.

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April 7,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 7: The Karnataka Government indicated today that it is too early to take a call now on lifting the nation-wide lockdown but said it’s in favour of its extension in COVID-19 hotspots in the country by at least an additional two weeks.

“We need to see for another few days before taking final call,” Medical Education Minister Sudhakar K, who is in-charge of all matters related to COVID-19, told news agency Press Trust of India when asked if the State is in favour of the rollback after the 21-day period ends on April 14.

The minister opined that the decision on its withdrawal should be based on the COVID-19 pandemic situation at the time in terms of number of cases and response to the outbreak.

When the lockdown is lifted, it has to be in a staggered and phased manner, and not at one go, Mr Sudhakar stressed.

“Where there are red alerts and zones, those zones, in my opinion, should continue to be in a lockdown situation at least for two weeks…till this month-end, I will request them (the Centre) to do this,” he said.

The Telananga Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday appealed to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to extend the 21-day national lockdown imposed to contain COVID-19 outbreak beyond April 14, saying it was essential to save lives.

Mr Sudhakar said the Karnataka government is facing financial challenges because of drastic fall in revenues due to the lockdown, adding, it would take “tough decisions” to cut expenditure.

The Finance Department is in the process of evaluating the state’s fiscal position.

“Finance department is gathering information…what is the need now, what should be the overall expenditure, how much we can save; financial support for unorganised and organised sector, along with stimulus to other sectors, we have to see where we stand financially,” the minister said.

“Based on that, we have to take certain steps for sure because after all the government runs on the exchequer money. Once the exchequer is stopped because of lockdown, we are not getting GST, no motor vehicle tax. No tax money is coming.”

Government also has to run right? he said.

He said commitment and obligations with regard to paying interest on loans taken at the national and international level would have to be met.

“So, there are some financial constraints, and financial challenges before the government. The Government will take tough decisions only after studying the entire finance (position of the State).”

The Telangana government last week announced pay cut for government employees.

The Union Cabinet on Monday approved a 30 per cent cut in salaries of all Members of Parliament and a two-year suspension of the MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme.

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July 28,2020

Hounde, Jul 28: Coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, killing an estimated 10,000 more young children a month as meager farms are cut off from markets and villages are isolated from food and medical aid, the United Nations warned Monday.

In the call to action shared with The Associated Press ahead of publication, four UN agencies warned that growing malnutrition would have long-term consequences, transforming individual tragedies into a generational catastrophe.

Hunger is already stalking Haboue Solange Boue, an infant from Burkina Faso who lost half her former body weight of 5.5 pounds (2.5 kilograms) in just a month. Coronavirus restrictions closed the markets, and her family sold fewer vegetables. Her mother was too malnourished to nurse.

“My child,” Danssanin Lanizou whispered, choking back tears as she unwrapped a blanket to reveal her baby's protruding ribs.

More than 550,000 additional children each month are being struck by what is called wasting, according to the UN — malnutrition that manifests in spindly limbs and distended bellies. Over a year, that's up 6.7 million from last year's total of 47 million. Wasting and stunting can permanently damage children physically and mentally.

“The food security effects of the COVID crisis are going to reflect many years from now,” said Dr. Francesco Branca, the WHO head of nutrition. “There is going to be a societal effect.”

From Latin America to South Asia to sub-Saharan Africa, more poor families than ever are staring down a future without enough food.

In April, World Food Program head David Beasley warned that the coronavirus economy would cause global famines “of biblical proportions” this year. There are different stages of what is known as food insecurity; famine is officially declared when, along with other measures, 30% of the population suffers from wasting.

The World Food Program estimated in February that one Venezuelan in three was already going hungry, as inflation rendered salaries nearly worthless and forced millions to flee abroad. Then the virus arrived.

“Every day we receive a malnourished child,” said Dr. Francisco Nieto, who works in a hospital in the border state of Tachira.

In May, Nieto recalled, after two months of quarantine, 18-month-old twins arrived with bodies bloated from malnutrition. The children's mother was jobless and living with her own mother. She told the doctor she fed them only a simple drink made with boiled bananas.

“Not even a cracker? Some chicken?” he asked.

“Nothing,” the children's grandmother responded. By the time the doctor saw them, it was too late: One boy died eight days later.

The leaders of four international agencies — the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization — have called for at least dollar 2.4 billion immediately to address global hunger.

But even more than lack of money, restrictions on movement have prevented families from seeking treatment, said Victor Aguayo, the head of UNICEF's nutrition program.

“By having schools closed, by having primary health care services disrupted, by having nutritional programs dysfunctional, we are also creating harm,” Aguayo said. He cited as an example the near-global suspension of Vitamin A supplements, which are a crucial way to bolster developing immune systems.

In Afghanistan, movement restrictions prevent families from bringing their malnourished children to hospitals for food and aid just when they need it most. The Indira Gandhi hospital in the capital, Kabul, has seen only three or four malnourished children, said specialist Nematullah Amiri. Last year, there were 10 times as many.

Because the children don't come in, there's no way to know for certain the scale of the problem, but a recent study by Johns Hopkins University indicated an additional 13,000 Afghans younger than 5 could die.

Afghanistan is now in a red zone of hunger, with severe childhood malnutrition spiking from 690,000 in January to 780,000 — a 13% increase, according to UNICEF.

In Yemen, restrictions on movement have blocked aid distribution, along with the stalling of salaries and price hikes. The Arab world's poorest country is suffering further from a fall in remittances and a drop in funding from humanitarian agencies.

Yemen is now on the brink of famine, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which uses surveys, satellite data and weather mapping to pinpoint places most in need.

Some of the worst hunger still occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. In Sudan, 9.6 million people live from one meal to the next — a 65% increase from the same time last year.

Lockdowns across Sudanese provinces, as around the world, have dried up work and incomes for millions. With inflation hitting 136%, prices for basic goods have more than tripled.

“It has never been easy but now we are starving, eating grass, weeds, just plants from the earth,” said Ibrahim Youssef, director of the Kalma camp for internally displaced people in war-ravaged south Darfur.

Adam Haroun, an official in the Krinding camp in west Darfur, recorded nine deaths linked with malnutrition, otherwise a rare occurrence, over the past two months — five newborns and four older adults, he said.

Before the pandemic and lockdown, the Abdullah family ate three meals a day, sometimes with bread, or they'd add butter to porridge. Now they are down to just one meal of “millet porridge” — water mixed with grain. Zakaria Yehia Abdullah, a farmer now at Krinding, said the hunger is showing “in my children's faces.”

“I don't have the basics I need to survive,” said the 67-year-old, who who hasn't worked the fields since April. “That means the 10 people counting on me can't survive either.”

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