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Why isn’t India a pariah state?

From Rob Brown's commentary in the Jerusalem Post

An “intifada-style popular revolt” is how The New York Times has portrayed the latest popular uprising against Indian occupation which has swept through this predominantly Muslim province this summer, making the breathtakingly beautiful Kashmir Valley appear even more of a paradise lost. Although not clad in keffiyehs, young Kashmiri teenagers can sometimes resemble their Palestinian peers as they throw stones at army patrols and dodge tear-gas canisters on the streets of the state capital, Srinagar.

But what the world is never told by The New York Times, nor by most other supposedly liberal organs, is that New Delhi's response to such civil disobedience has been far more savage and brutal than anything authorized in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, leading in the past to serious armed insurrection (often incited by Pakistan).

The Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra justly observed recently: “The killing fields of Kashmir dwarf those of Palestine and Tibet. In addition to the everyday regime of arbitrary arrests, curfews, raids and checkpoints enforced by nearly 700,000 Indian soldiers, the valley's 4 million Muslims are exposed to extrajudicial execution, rape and torture, with such barbaric variations as live electric wires inserted into the penis.”

A leading local NGO, the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir, has reported that extrajudicial killings and torture are commonplace there. It claims that the Indian military occupation of that state between 1989-2009 has resulted in more than 70,00 deaths, and many of these killings were deemed “acts of service” by India's feared Central Reserve Police Force, leading to promotion and financial reward (bounty is paid after claims made by officers are verified, apparently).

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The tale of Mugabe’s torture victims is an unbearable truth

Sally Kinnes reports for Herald Scotland:

Peter Godwin shares his eye-witness accounts of atrocities in Zimbabwe.

Robert Mugabe's generals had a name for what they did after the elections of 2008. They called it Operation Mavhoterapapi – Who Did You Vote For? There was only one possible answer and those who gave the wrong one risked ending up like Denias Dombo. A mechanic with a young family, he was left so badly beaten he subsequently tried to hang himself.

Peter Godwin's new book, The Fear, chronicles this kind of torture and much, much worse. A white Zimbabwean, Godwin returned to his homeland in April 2008 to write a post-election feature for Vanity Fair. He had hoped to be dancing on Mugabe's political grave. Instead what followed was so dreadful, he knew it deserved a book. “The longer I stayed, the more I felt it needed to be recorded. When you see something like that happen, if you have the power to amplify it, then you have a duty to do so.”

Travelling with his younger sister, Georgina, Godwin describes in the book his journey around Zimbabwe as Mugabe worked on rigging the results. When they first see someone being pushed in a wheelbarrow, they think it is because of the transport shortage. It is only later that they realise these are the first victims of torture, being wheeled home because they are too badly injured to walk. Then the catalogue of horrors unfolds: a man who was beaten, stripped naked and had his legs run over, twice; men whose testicles were tied with wire and yanked around until they passed out from the pain; a man whose penis was tortured with a crochet hook.

The beatings are military operations. “It's very organised. It's not spontaneous violence, there is something horribly structured about it, just as it was when the white farmers were attacked. When you talk to enough people, you know what is going to happen next, it is absolutely down to a plan.” As the military ratcheted up their assault to Operation Ngatipedzenavo – Let Us Finish Them Off – so the hospitals invented a new medical acronym. This was PEV, post-election violence.

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Prepare for events to 'move like a flash fire instead of an organized retreat into poverty'

From Thievery 101 by Mark Sircus:

Taxpayers, senior citizens, and everyone who is even near approaching retirement are facing their own Waterloo. Bondholders are going to be competing with the pension beneficiaries for scarce government resources on the local, state, and federal level for there is just not enough money to pay everyone their due. Already Social Security is failing the elderly by not keeping up with inflation, but that is just a whiff of what is yet to come.

Big U.S. cities and counties are being put in a headlock by unfunded public pensions as they face a $574 billion funding gap. The gap at the municipal level would be in addition to $3,000 billion (3 trillion) in unfunded liabilities already estimated for state-run pensions, according to research from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the University of Rochester. The financial demands of unfunded pension promises come as state and local governments grapple with years of falling tax revenue related to the recession.

The government has to do something so they will probably do what they do best—steal from the common man and give it to the rich. Until the very end when the system just collapses in on itself, we will see evermore-desperate plans to save the sinking ship. Actually, according to some, it is really not a rescue attempt but just efforts to give the “rats” more time to abandon ship, leave the country, get into gold, build underground shelters, and have more fun at everyone else's expense.

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If you have not figured it out yet, a lot of people on this planet are owed a staggering amount of money. These people are divided basically into two classes. There are the bondholders (the rich) and the rest of humanity, who are owed pensions, health benefits, and governmental services including infrastructure investments as well as teachers for their children, librarians, fire, policemen, and judges to protect them from thieves. It is an illusion and a heartbreaking fantasy to expect that there will be money for any of these things, and that is what civilization collapse in our modern times is going to be all about. There will be a breakdown in currencies and the entire financial and money system because the system cannot hide forever from the massive lack of money (unless printed in stupendous amounts causing a hyperinflationary collapse).

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In the end, contemporary capitalism has not been about the freedom to achieve financial security and get ahead based on one's efforts. It has been about theft and destruction and an evil that is centered at the very top layer of humanity. All of us who believe in the system and walk around smugly and comfortably are voting for the thievery to continue and for the rich to get even richer, or for them to at the very least keep what they have stolen, not only from the rest of the planet but from mother earth and our precious environment.

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