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Reform Politics and genocide Culture!

I was shocked to visit PINJRAPOL Society in LILUA, Howrah.

We were looking for a suitable venue where we may Accomodate On lac delegates from every corner of India and abroad for Bamcef National Convention to be scheduled on 25 to 31 December. We coludnot get the venue in Kolkata and around. We hoped Pinjrapole society wouldhave their Land Untouched . It looked so in Sodepur but is was not Sufficient. Kalayani Pinjrapol society Maidan was a large ground but it was located in Remote area.

Me, Matang Bhai, AT BALA and Shubhankar laned in Pinjrapol socity Lilua and it was STUNNING to see that NON Transferable land was occupied by Buileders and Promoters and there left a little piece of ground, if you may dare to suggest it, where a few Hundred people gather.

Last day, the Most Circulated Bengali daily Newspaper, Ananad Bazaar Patrika Publishe the TWO Page Central Spread AD for GREEN SPORTS CITY in the National Capital Region to be erected on 2500 acres Land and the Project has to be completed within 2011. It includes Upcoming Commercial Business District on 182 Acres, Country Homes on 200 Acres,MOTOR RACING Track on 875 Acres, Upcoming ICC Satndard CRICKET Stadium with One Lac Seating Capacity.

Will Madam, SHEELA Dexit clarify how she gets the land for the BUILDERS and Promoters?

Today, I paid Rs 645 for Five Crtridges of Wosuline Insulin as the rates are continuously upwrds despite Govt. claims that Live Saving drugs rae always Cheaper.Perhaps , they mean DRUG s Some thing else as they mean it in Naples, Latin America or Indo Pak Border areas!Of, course, it is always cheaper. As we see the Industrial Belts of Durgapur, Asansol, Barrackpur, Howrah do never mean Industries or Livelihoooor Production or tarde union activities, It always means Illegal Mining, Illegal Liquor, Illegal Business, Blackmailing and Murder.

Nevertheless, livesaving or life itself mens nothing in ROBOTIC Mangement in the Global Free Market Democracy with Plastic and Coded Sensitivity where Premimum Consumer Goods are in heavy demand as no one needs FOOD,Job or Livelihood. It is all about FUN and Pleasure. It is all about Five Star and BLUE. It is Life on RAMP. inVOGUE and in Fashion. Thus,SLUMS and SLUMDOGS, Poor and Poverty as well have to be wiped out with READYMADE Legislation and thus New REALTY World Emerges in the ashes of Biological Life and Nature. It is Virtual world of Realty.Our Dear Brahamin Marxists do belong to this world only and they amy not dare to strike it, despite they calaim to have Ideology and Commitment as the Gestapo and Genocide master Marxists do.

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Reform politics

9 Nov 2009, 0445 hrs IST, ET Bureau

What is common between the BJP's virtual surrender before two Reddies come lately, the delayed swearing-in of the

Congress

-NCP alliance in

Maharashtra and the postponed cabinet expansion in Haryana? The capture of power by pelf. Politics has become alienated from its basic function of mediating between the people and the state to advance the public good, and been reduced to increasing the wealth of the people's representatives who get to wield power.

The piteous sight of not just veteran politician and Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa but also the top leadership of the BJP buckling under the money power of the Bellary mining magnates shows the extent of deterioration. It would be a mistake to think the malaise affects only the BJP. The tussle between the NCP and the Congress over ministerial berths, and the one in Haryana, hardly derive from any passion to serve the people.

The social justice champions' assets disproportionate to their known means of income , the Madhu Kodas and spectrum Rajas are all symptoms of the same disease: perversion of democracy to rule of the people by the moneyed for money. Power is used to prey upon the citizenry and to sell patronage. This is how politicians amass money. And the system has come about from an idyllic notion of politics, that it doesn't require much money, that ideals light up the path while passion fuels the process.

This simpleminded assessment of politics might have been valid for the Congress during the freedom struggle and the Communists before they acquired a bourgeois taste for power. Politics in the real world needs funding. And this funding must have an institutional basis. In the absence of an institutional source of funding, diverting funds from the exchequer, predatory practices and patronage have become routine forms of moibilising funds for political parties.

Politicians do the mobilising and keep a good part of what they collect to themselves. In the process, they also suborn the bureaucracy, without whose collusion neither predation nor patronage can work.
Political funding has to change. Funding must become broadbased, state-aided and transparent. Auditing of political party accounts must cease to be cursory. We need reform, and need it fast.

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Dark clouds over Indian economy lifting

Mon, Nov 9 06:22 AM

With the growth in industrial production moving northwards and the contraction in exports declining, the "dark clouds" over the Indian economy were disappearing, commerce minister Anand Sharma said on Sunday. Indian exports contracted 14% in September, the least in the first six months of the current financial year, while the Index of Industrial Production grew at a double digit rate of 10.4%, the most in two years.

Commenting on the current state of the Indian trade and investment scenario at the India Economic Summit, Sharma said, "The dark clouds over the economy are parting, and we can see some blue sky".
He, however, added a word of caution on the "turn around" seen in the economy. "It's only in the months to come that one can comment whether or not this turnaround is adequate. Especially, the last quarter of 2009-10 and the first quarter of the current financial year would be crucial for determination."
Mentioning that there is no proposal to have a re-look at the sectoral FDI caps, Sharma said rationalisation of the investment policies will be carried out. "We are also mindful that when we look at FDI, there has to be a uniformity and rationalisation across the board, throughout the country. All state industrial ministers would meet on November 17. We want all the states to take on board the need of transparency and rationalisation, simplification and predictability of approvals.
Sharma also vouched for increased role of India in United Nations, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as the country is increasing its engagement with the world economy.

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Free market flawed, says survey

By James Robbins
Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News

The fall of the wall looked like a crushing victory for capitalism

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism.

In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well.
Most thought regulation and reform of the capitalist system were necessary.
There were also sharp divisions around the world on whether the end of the Soviet Union was a good thing.
Economic regulation
In 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell, it was a victory for ordinary people across Eastern and Central Europe.
It also looked at the time like a crushing victory for free-market capitalism.

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Twenty years on, this new global poll suggests confidence in free markets has taken heavy blows from the past 12 months of financial and economic crisis.
More than 29,000 people in 27 countries were questioned. In only two countries, the United States and Pakistan, did more than one in five people feel that capitalism works well as it stands.
Almost a quarter - 23% of those who responded - feel it is fatally flawed. That is the view of 43% in France, 38% in Mexico and 35% in Brazil.
And there is very strong support around the world for governments to distribute wealth more evenly. That is backed by majorities in 22 of the 27 countries.
If there is one issue where a global consensus seems to emerge from the survey it is this: there are majorities almost everywhere wanting government to be more active in regulating business.
It is only in Turkey that a majority want less government regulation.
Opinion about the disintegration of the Soviet Union is sharply divided.
Europeans overwhelmingly say it was a good thing: 79% in Germany, 76% in Britain and 74% in France feel that way.
But outside the developed West it is a different picture. Almost seven in 10 Egyptians say the end of the Soviet Union was a bad thing and views are sharply divided in India, Kenya and Indonesia.