Indian govt forced Bangladesh writer to leave India: publisher

Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen's publisher and supporters accused the Indian government on Thursday of forcing the writer out of the country because of fears of a Muslim backlash.

Nasreen left mainly Hindu but officially secular India on Wednesday after accusing the Indian government of forcing her to quit the country.

"The government is no better than religious fundamentalists," she said.

She said the government refused her timely medical treatment and called the safe house where she was kept under federal protection a "chamber of death."

"It beggars the description meted out to her -- it was inhuman, she developed severe hypertension and as a result severe heart and eye problems," said Shivani Mukherji, publisher of Nasreen's books in India.

"It's shameful for a so-called secular country to behave this way -- they should have stood up to the people who opposed her," she said.

The Congress-led government has made no comment on the departure of Nasreen who was kept under federal protection in New Delhi after being hounded from Kolkata, capital of Marxist-ruled West Bengal, in November by riots and death threats from Islamic radicals who called her writings blasphemous.

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Freegan, millionaire swap wives

From You don't need to skip a meal... just find your meal in a skip :

 

When it first emerged people were forgoing the weekly shop to rifle through supermarket skips it seemed like a dirty business.

However, committed freegans – who believe paying for goods is the last option – were unmoved and have continued to go quietly about their business, their numbers and their profile growing.

Documentaries have been made about the phenomenon and when a millionaire's wife moved in with a family of freegan Christians on Channel 4's Wife Swap, the movement must have thought it had finally arrived in the mainstream.

Put simply, the premise of freeganism is waste not want not – and while its devotees are often painted as scavengers living below the breadline, it's an unfair portrayal as most are motivated by thrift and environmentally friendly ethics.

 

Wife Swap - Episode 2

 

The series continues with an ex-pat episode: Marbella socialite Anna Courtenay and her husband Chris swap places with "back-to-nature" Dan and Kara Darby-Dhyan, who live on an eco-friendly boat.

Both couples emigrated from England for a better life in Spain but that's where the similarities end.

Anna (42) and her second husband Chris (49) enjoy the kind of lifestyle many would envy: a five-bed villa with a pool, three domestic staff to run the house, a beach close by and the weather to enjoy it all.

The couple run two successful businesses, and make sure their four privately educated children get what they want. But the family rarely spend time together.

Kara (32) and her husband Dan (32) live a completely different life in the sun. When they left the UK, they also turned their back on modern life.

They live a self-sufficient, carbon-neutral existence on their boat Sinbad miles from the nearest town, spending their days tending the land, growing their own food and raising their own cattle for meat.

For the Darby-Dhyans, consumerism is the number one evil. Their three children are home-schooled, and the Darby-Dhyans spend all of their time together as a family.

How does Anna cope with getting her hands dirty tending the land, no modern conveniences and living off a mere six-Euro weekly budget?

How does Kara handle "sleeping with the enemy" as she has to endure everything she has come to despise about modern life, including "frittering" away a mammoth €1,000 weekly budget?

Pakistan rejects Afghan minister's statement on nuclear waste

Pakistan on Wednesday termed as baseless a statement from an Afghan cabinet minister that Pakistan had dumped nuclear waste in southern Afghanistan during Taliban period.

Afghanistan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Farooq Wardag was quoted as saying that Pakistan had buried nuclear waste in Kandahar and Helmand when Taliban were ruling the areas.

"The Afghan minister regarding dumping of nuclear waste by Pakistan in Afghanistan was baseless," Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said at the weekly news briefing here.

He said disposal of nuclear waste was strictly regulated in accordance with the international standards.

"Our nuclear power stations are under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards which not only keeps an oversight on their operations but also on storage of nuclear waste which has to be fully accounted for," Sadiq said.

 

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'The Wet Dream of Empire Stillborn'

From The Great Fascist Infrastructure Rape and the 1932 Wet-Dream of Empire Still-Born: Vs. Ron Paul/B. Obama/E. Spitzer! :

Of Mice and Men (from Robert Burns's poem, To a Mouse, which is often quoted as: "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry,") becomes Superman's Bizarro/Hitler, but with an even more avaristic, twisted, sadistic, bent.

This version of Hitler, doesn't want the Jews destroyed, far from it, instead he wants to use them as a foil to create WW III in which he destroys everyone who is not a stooge, co-conspirator, ally, or succubus.

The Neo-con plan is to own every bit of real estate in America and eventually on the planet, through bankruptcy caused by high oil prices, toxic waste, ill-advised mortgages to those who can barely afford renting, let alone owning, and medical bills, eviction, murder and accusation of "terrorism" to everyone who opposes their Demonic plots.

To achieve that goal depopulation is a necessary element. The means? By toxifying of everything, food, water, air, land and every intoxicating every living person which cannot endure the toxicity of the planet.

In an effort to distance themselves from the effects of the Toxic America Plan, the Bushites bought properties in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and various parts of South America. Whatever humans survive the toxic attacks, which the fascist National Intoxication Plan Missed, a Civil War would finish.

The Bushites need a few million men and women in each nation to continue to populate their planned mercenary armies and a few more millions to grow their food and other goods. To ensure that those left living would be loyal, they would need a means of verifying said loyalty-a national surveillance plan, of every means of communications, telephone, internet, GPS, systems and more, which, through the brain-dead and hoping to become one of those elite, the Democrats and Republicans in congress, so amiably provided. Now they have used those eavesdropping means to up-end several Democratic Governors.

That American Fascist movement, at which the film The Keeper of the Flame mildly hinted, but did not explain, is becomin obvious to many lately. The nature of fascism, however, has been plainly illuminated to the enlightened for many decades. However, even now as fascism is solidly upon us, it's meaning is still a mystery to the generally brain dead and even to many of its coconspirators themselves, as it was in Germany from 1930-1945.

Why did I group Ron Paul as a future FDR, as Elliot Spitzer certainly was? I was exaggerating for effect, but in a sense, although many of his followers see him as the prophet of Libertarianism and although many behold Libertarians as ultraconservatives, in their zeal to purify national intentions, they would eliminate many of the same evils, as would a new FDR, or a Spitzer.

As I have said in the past, under Spitzer, the Military (Medical) Industrial Complex might have been nationalized and all necessities removed from the world of profit making, necessities like water, fuel, medicine and medical care, a housing program for the poor and neglected, ending the death penalty, a New Deal for all Americans and the return of the CCC and National Arts Program of the Once and Future, returning, MAJOR DEPRESSION. They would also eliminate the FED, Avarice, fascism would be prosecuted, and human sexual behavior would no longer be the business of news hounds, government or lawmakers.

Under Ron Paul, at least half of the above would also have been relegated to the trash heap of history, the outhouse of time. If you placed Ron Paul and Elliot Spitzer in a Food Blender, you would have the ultimate political Messiah. One man with all the qualities of Superman and Jesus-but the real Jesus not the made-up out of whole-cloth Jesus of the illiterates of the (FBICA)- The Fictional Biblical Interpretation Clubs Of America. What we would have if Ronald Elliot Spitzer Paul were elected in 2012 would be what humankind has always needed and wanted a blend of Libertarianism and Jesus-like Progressiveness.

What we would have had was the best of both worlds. Instead, we have more Bushite Eunuchs and ding-dongs waiting breathlessly in the wings.

For some to live in comfort, others must pay with their lives

From The Homeless Problem :

The recent and growing spate of laws making it illegal to feed the homeless is not about the homeless at all, it's about life in America. It's about American values and the American dream. Yes. It will work to eradicate the homeless from the affected cities. . .but that's the point. Anywhere but here. Yes. But it's part of the out-of-sight out-of-mind mentality that pervades America. It is also part of the inhumanity of the system, a system that is built on and thrives on the lives of others.

Vegetarians do not wish to deal with the problem of the horrible, inhumane conditions of raising animals for food and their thoughtless slaughtering, so they eat veggies and call their humane choice moral. A morality based on selective blindness and willful inactivity is no morality at all. But it's American as apple pie and Chevrolet.

A culture that owes its existence to the rejected, the abuse and the deaths of others is not a moral culture, despite the recent spate of Christian outcries. It is not a humane culture. Karl Popper calls such a society psychotic. Douglas Hofstadter has noted a paranoid aspect to American society that fits with Wilhelm Reich's analysis of fascism. If you're frightened of something, get rid of it. Of course, if you're frightened of yourself and what you've done, get rid of any reminders.

Getting rid of the homeless is necessary for a people who do not wish to confront their inhumanity or their rapacious drive for riches and comfort, a society that does not wish to confront the reality of its existence. . .that for some to live well, for some to live in comfort, others must pay with their lives--either via depleted, borderline lives or death. Collateral damage. It's built into the system. The economic theories that hold that there must be a certain level of unemployment, there must be poverty for society to work. It's called the reality of the system--or, simply, reality.

Some kind of necessity: we must not be allowed to see the costs of the American way of life. It would not be appropriate. Like no sex organs on dolls or blacked out genitalia of classical art statues. So, starving the residue, the wastage, the human detritus out or beating them to death is not a crime. It is a social and ethical necessity. Nobody likes to owe their existence to another; it's a constant reminder that they couldn't do it on their own.