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http://greatgameindia.com/disease-resulted-death-50-million-birds-8444-job-losses-3-3-billion-loss-us-economy-coming-soon-india/

“This article was first published in GreatGameIndia (http://greatgameindia.com) (greatgameindia.com) and is republished here with permission”.

31 August 2016

Is The Disease That Resulted In Death Of 50 Million Birds, 8444 Job Losses And $3.3 Billion Loss To US Economy, Coming Soon To India?

Last year a type of avian flu was found in the US that led to the deaths of about 50 million U.S. chickens and turkeys (http://fortune.com/2015/06/25/bird-flu-outbreak-farms/). To stop the movement of the disease, Dr. John Clifford, deputy administrator of the federal Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, testified that 42 million chickens and 7.5 million turkeys were killed (http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/15/bird-flu-2/). Those numbers equal 10 percent of the egg-laying hens in the entire United States, and 3 percent of the turkeys. Massive losses of poultry wreaked havoc on egg prices and sent prices skyrocketing scrambling the US food industries (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/06/12/egg-shortage-amid-avian-flu-outbreak-scrambles-us-food-industries).


The cost of those lost birds, according to economist Thomas Elam of the Indiana-based consulting group FarmEcon, was $1.57 billion—but the further costs to businesses that support farms, to egg and poultry wholesalers, and to food service firms, pushed the loss to $3.3 billion (http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/15/bird-flu-2/). In addition, Clifford said, the US Department of Agriculture committed $500 million to emergency efforts to block the disease, and paid out $190 million to farmers whose birds were destroyed.


The Iowa study, conducted by Decision Innovation Solutions of Urbandale, Iowa, found that the avian flu outbreaks around the state—mostly caused by H5N2—resulted in 8,444 lost jobs, many of which will not be recovered (http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2015/08/report-finds-12-billion-iowa-avian-flu-damage). Termed as the worst bird flu outbreak in US history (https://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/jul/14/bird-flu-devastation-highlights-unsustainability-of-commercial-chicken-farming), it created a huge debate regarding the fundamentally unsustainable farming practises in US.


To prevent the disease from entering into the Indian market India had already banned the import of frozen chicken legs from the U.S. to stop the spread of this deadly avian influenza (https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds430_e.htm). The US raised a dispute with the WTO.


“India’s ban on U.S. poultry is clearly a case of disguising trade restrictions by invoking unjustified animal health concerns,” US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in a statement (http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges/news/indian-ban-on-imports-of-us-poultry-sparks-wto-dispute). “We are confident that the WTO will confirm that India’s ban is unjustified.”


A separate statement from US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack claimed that the United States had repeatedly sought scientific evidence for the import restrictions (http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2012/03/0083.xml&contentidonly=true).
“Countries have the right to impose certain restrictions,” said Alex Thiermann, President of the OIE Code Commission. However, he added that “the code very clearly says that low pathogenic influenza allows for trade (http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges/news/indian-ban-on-imports-of-us-poultry-sparks-wto-dispute).”


A WTO panel confirmed in June 2015 an earlier ruling that India’s ban was not based on international scientific standards, was more trade restrictive than necessary, and unfairly discriminated against U.S. imports (https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds430_e.htm). India was given until June 2016 to lift the ban and follow international standards. Along with it India was to be slapped with a penalty of $450 million per year (http://www.firstpost.com/india/us-requests-wto-to-let-it-impose-an-annual-fine-of-450-mn-on-india-2922886.html) for failing to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling.


As to why India lost this seems pretty interesting:
The United States argued that it had not had an outbreak of high pathogenic avian flu since 2004, while India had 90 such outbreaks between 2004 and 2014. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/07/09/indian-consumers-to-benefit-as-us-wins-wto-chicken-case/#6de858d13091)
What is shocking to note is that as officials from both countries are negotiating to conclude an agreement in the Strategic and Commercial Dialogue going on in New Delhi, the same type of avian flu that led to the deaths of about 50 million U.S. chickens and turkeys last year has been found again in US for the first time in 14 months, and confirmed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-birdflu-alaska-idUSKCN111256). The USDA said it detected the H5N2 strain of the disease in a wild duck in Alaska as part of surveillance testing it has been conducting on birds since last year’s devastating outbreak.


The Indian poultry sector have already raised these concerns regarding chicken raised on genetically modified (GM) corn and soya as feed (http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/poultry-sector-fears-chicken-dumping-from-us-116071600543_1.html) being dumped on the Indian market. What this means is that if the ban is lifted as a result of these negotiations, the US won’t have to kill the chickens or turkeys in case of a flu outbreak as it did in 2015. Instead millions of chickens and turkey that had to be killed in 2015 and which cost the US $3.3 billion dollars could now be exported to India.

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From: http://greatgameindia.com/secret-account-rothschild-bank-kingfisher-deal/ (http://greatgameindia.com/secret-account-rothschild-bank-kingfisher-deal/)


“This article was first published in GreatGameIndia (http://greatgameindia.com) (greatgameindia.com) and is republished here with permission”.

11 September 2016

What Has A Secret Account In Rothschild Bank To Do With The Kingfisher Deal?

Few months back we reported (http://greatgameindia.com/vijay-mallya-and-the-sanctuary-of-oligarchs-criminals/) how a business baron who owed banks thousands of crores of rupees could leave the country as a defaulter in spite of court proceedings under way, a consortium of 17 banks asking for his passport to be impounded, and former Kingfisher employees demanding their salaries pending for months? More importantly, if it was just a case of a failed business why would he flee and take refuge only in London, known for providing high-profile foreign offenders with considerable wealth an asylum and a safe place to park their assets and enjoy a peaceful life, away from the laws of their home countries? With such a group of wanted and vulnerable criminals at hand is it a far-fetched scenario if such Oligarchs and even in many cases terrorists are used for inciting revolution in India or even orchestrating elections (http://greatgameindia.com/vijay-mallya-and-the-sanctuary-of-oligarchs-criminals/), when we already know they have done so in the past? With new information coming to light this may not seem a far-fetched scenario at all.


Recently State Bank of India-led consortium of 17 banks urged the court to issue arrest warrants against Mallya. In a written affidavit (http://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2016/09/08/banks-urge-supreme-court-to-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vijay-mallya) filed by SBI-led consortium accessed by BloombergQuint they said:


Mallya has not denied the existence of his bank account held in Edmond de Rothschild Bank, Geneva. (http://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2016/09/08/banks-urge-supreme-court-to-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vijay-mallya) However, details of his bank account are not mentioned in the list of foreign assets. This is an act of wilful concealment.

The banks submitted that Diageo itself had on February 28 apprised the Debt Recovery Tribunal about the payment on February 25. They submitted that Diageo’s memo before the tribunal traces the payment to an account maintained by Mr. Mallya with Edmond De Rothschild (Suisse) SA in Geneva (http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-notice-to-vijay-mallya-on-plea-of-consortium-of-banks/article8896815.ece). However, the disclosure statement filed by Mr. Mallya of assets in his possession as on March 31 does not reflect this transaction of USD 40 million.


Now this is not just any normal bank account and what it holds is more than money.


Captain Gopinath also known as the father of low cost air travel in India and the founder of Air Deccan had roped in the Rothschilds to raise funding for his venture as he explains in his book Simply Fly : A Deccan Odyssey. In 2004 Captain Gopinath roped in N M Rothschild as consultants to help it in raising $50-60 million (http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2004-06-08/news/27414419_1_air-deccan-captain-g-r-gopinath-low-cost-carrier). In 2007, Kingfisher Airlines acquired Air Deccan, changed its name to Simplifly Deccan and subsequently converted it to Kingfisher Red. However, after acquiring Air Deccan, Kingfisher suffered a loss of over US$150 million for three consecutive years. By early 2012, the airline accumulated losses of over US$1.0 billion with half of its fleet grounded and several members of its staff going on strike.


The thing is Air Deccan was already making losses even before Mallya bought it. In the book The Vijay Mallya Story, K. Giriprakash says Vijay Mallya bought Air Deccan with his eyes closed. His team never went through the books of the loss making Air Deccan before Mallya agreed to buy it for a total consideration of Rs 1000 crore in 2007. Many believe this was the deal that brought down his empire; courtesy of N M Rothschild consultants.


In 2011, hounded by creditors and a depleted fleet of aircrafts Mallya too sought help from the Rothschild (http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/rothschild-tpg-in-talks-with-kingfisher-airlines-for-pe-funding-111061400121_1.html). In 2012 a $2 billion deal is struck with Diageo (http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/mallya-received-part-of-diageo-funds-in-offshore-accounts-116030900965_1.html), the world’s largest spirits company. Part of this payment was received in offshore accounts (http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/mallya-received-part-of-diageo-funds-in-offshore-accounts-116030900965_1.html). According to banking sources, since most of the transaction proceeds were in overseas accounts, it was not possible for them to seize them. Needless to say the money was not used to repay loans to Indian banks in 2012 which lent Rs 7,200 crore to Mallya-owned Kingfisher Airlines. Later a sweetheart exit deal (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/819cb09c-dbe0-11e5-9ba8-3abc1e7247e4.html#axzz4JrxUTCM8) was brokered between Mallya and Diageo where $75 million were paid to Vijay Mallya to step down as chairman of United Spirits.


But here is the most interesting part. Mallya’s three-storey mansion called Ladywalk in the village of Tewin in Hertfordshire, just over a one-hour drive north of London where he has been living since he fled was also financed by the Rothschilds. The 11.5-million-pound mansion was bought from the father of British Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton by a company with offshore links. Official documents list the owner of Ladywalk as a limited liability partnership called Ladywalk LLP. It has two members, including a company called Continental Administration Services, which is registered in St. Kitts and Nevis, a Commonwealth country in the Caribbean regarded as a tax haven. A loan to finance the property purchase in July 2015 was made by the Edmond de Rothschild private bank in Switzerland (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Vijay-Mallya-appears-on-UK-electoral-rolls-Report/articleshow/51966843.cms). Official papers name the borrower as Ladywalk Investments, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, another tax haven.


ET NOW has accessed the confidential settlement document (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/liquor/timeline-all-about-mallya-diageo-deal/articleshow/52364714.cms) and has summarized the key points below.


DETAILS OF DIAGEO-MALLYA SETTLEMENT (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/liquor/timeline-all-about-mallya-diageo-deal/articleshow/52364714.cms)
DEVIL IN DETAIL


Settlement doesn’t apply if Mallya or his cos benefited personally from co funds Settlement terms not applicable in case of fraud
$75 MILLION PAYMENT $40 mn on day of agreement i.e 25th Feb, 2016 $7 mn on each anniversary of agreement over 5 years
MALLYA’S SWISS ACCOUNT TRAIL Amount to be transferred to JP Morgan New York Amount to be credited to Swiss bank Edmond De Rothschild
BREAK UP FROM USL Mallya & his affiliate cos lose all rights to United Spirits Barred from taking any board role, damage reputation
CLAUSE NOT TO SUE Diageo & Mallya agree they won’t sue each other post deal Settlement under jurisdiction of England & Wales

This deal was made even as investigations were on into Mallya’s financial dealings. According to some reports Mallya fled the country with this $40 million (http://www.firstpost.com/business/confirmed-vijay-mallya-has-left-india-and-probably-with-40-mn-in-pocket-sc-issues-notice-2665296.html) that he received in February this year. Now that Diageo controls India’s largest distiller questions are being raised in its dealings as well (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/Shareholder-activists-blast-Diageo-for-Mallya-flip-flop/articleshow/53145252.cms). However, no questions are being raised on the Rothschilds who facilitated the whole dubious deal and fooled an entire country with their trickery. Acquiring 350 more shares Rothschild now owns a 12.8% stake of around worth $347,000 in Diageo Plc (http://www.dailypolitical.com/2016/08/22/rothschild-asset-management-inc-acquires-350-shares-of-diageo-plc-deo.html). What this means is that Rothschild now owns Kingfisher Airlines and Air Deccan both by virtue of their holding companies.


For those of you who do not know, this Rothschild Banking Family is one of the same families that owned the East India Company (http://greatgameindia.com/controller-houses-east-india-company-eic-series-part-iv/). With the gold that was looted from the colonies, mostly from India and China this Rothschild family laid the foundations of their modern banking empire (http://greatgameindia.com/category/east-india-company-series/) – only now they loot in a sophisticated, structured and legal manner.


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Last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew Penney, a managing director at Rothschild & Co., gave a talk on how the world’s wealthy elite can avoid paying taxes (http://greatgameindia.com/rothschild-plan-develop-india-fdi-series-part-iii/). His message was clear: You can help your clients move their fortunes to the United States, free of taxes and hidden from their governments. Some are calling it the new Switzerland.


But there is more at stake here in this amazing scheme of tax fraud, money laundering and dubious deals (read loot). While consulting Mallya, Rothschild India MD spelled it out.


“I am surprised that the airline is still afloat. It needs serious restructuring and cash. They are pinning their survival on FDI but who will put money in a near-bankrupt airline?” financial advisory group Rothschild (India) MD Amitabh Malhotra said. He thinks allowing foreign carriers to pick up stake in Indian airlines is a long-term solution (http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-06-28/news/32457467_1_kingfisher-airlines-foreign-airlines-foreign-carriers) and will broadly improve sentiment, whenever allowed. “But at the moment, there are only a handful of airlines with enough money to invest and I think there is limited appetite for India as of now, given the operating environment,” added Malhotra.

Now that Rothschild have Air Deccan and Kingfisher in its pocket the environment seems to be getting better for the long-term solution as well. The government is looking to dilute the rule which makes it mandatory for an Indian carrier to be controlled and owned by an Indian or an Indian entity. As per latest liberalised FDI policy, while foreign airlines can’t directly own more than 49 per cent in Indian airlines, their group companies or investors can fully own airlines in India with government approval. The landmark FDI announcement allows 100% investment by foreign entities in Indian carriers (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/government-allows-100-foreign-direct-investment-in-airlines/articleshow/52832214.cms).


Already talks are going on to ship out state-owned Air India (http://www.firstpost.com/business/air-india-reports-operating-profit-but-modi-govt-still-needs-to-privatise-this-fund-guzzler-2960262.html), who rejected the Rothschild plan in 2009 (http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-air-india-selects-booz-rothschild-for-cost-restructuring-1297680). However, this is not the case with just the aviation industry.


Azim Premji is among the four shortlisted bidders to buy controlling shares in a Kerala based private healthcare chain KIMS Hospitals in a deal estimated at around $220 million (around Rs 1,400 crore). KIMS operates 2,000 beds through a network of hospitals in the Middle East and southern India. Mr. 5% N M Rothschild is advising the existing foreign investors (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Rothschild-mandated-for-KIMS-400m-share-sale/articleshow/49652796.cms) -Orbimed and Ascent Capital -on a secondary sale of shares, besides a fairly large primary capital infusion into the company.


Former Zee Group CEO is planning to raise around three-five million USD to expand the services of its startup Zonnett; one of the investors include the House of Rothschild (http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/zonnett-plans-to-raise-3-5-million-116090300138_1.html).


However, their landmark deal was in 2010 when they were the advisors to Government of India for the auction of 3G & BWA spectrum, a US$2.27 billion deal (http://greatgameindia.com/rothschild-plan-develop-india-fdi-series-part-iii/), in which they got atleast Rs 30.5 crore in commission (http://zeenews.india.com/business/news/companies/rothschild-gets-rs-305-cr-commission-from-3g-bwa-auction_8709.html). How much was the tax payer’s loss in the resulting 2G spectrum scam and where the money ended up is anybodys guess. What is baffling is that even the Government of India hires these owners of East India Company as their financial advisors.


These are just some examples we are mentioning here due to space constraints. We suggest our readers to track other deals which are going on as we speak. Now, these deals are not some random deals but are part of a very carefully hatched ‘development plan’.


Why is it that everytime a major scam is unearthed apart from the politicians, officials, corporates the links all end up in UAE? Is it not true that still massive infrastructure projects are awarded to Dubai based companies at more than 400% market rates? Is it also not true that these companies than subcontract these same projects to Indian companies at dirt cheap rates? Isnt that exactly what happened in the CWG scam? Is it not true that even the FDI monies are routed into India through Dubai from the tax havens? Is it also not true that the major beneficiary of these scams is a company called Emmar owned by the Rothschilds – the owners of the East India Company? Don’t our Indian politicians know or even understand this? What about our intelligence agencies?


As explained in detail in our Foreign Countries Dictating India Series (http://greatgameindia.com/category/fdi-series/), after the collapse of the US economy in 2008, the Dubai Economic Miracle experiment was hatched to get rid of the Dubai FLU via Foreign Direct Investment in India routed through the tax-havens; whereby the Nathan Mayer Rothschild Group was able to suck money out of India to bail the UAE economy out. With incredible amusement, the western world watched Indian State Governments and the Union (Indian) Government succumb silently, one after the other, to NMR Group and Emmar Properties, Dubai, all falling for a single catch phrase: ‘FDI is development and will create (temporary) jobs’. What is more surprising is that still 90% of Indians do not even know that this very House of Rothschild was one of the families that controlled the East India Company (http://greatgameindia.com/controller-houses-east-india-company-eic-series-part-iv/) that looted India in the first place and wants to ‘Develop India’ now (http://greatgameindia.com/rothschild-plan-develop-india-fdi-series-part-iii/). When they came by the seas they brought with them a very unique weapon of enslavement – it was called Free Trade in those days. Later they called it Liberalisation and Privatisation than it was called Globalisation. Now they have come again with the same weapon of enslavement but with a new fancy name – FDI.


Incredibly N.M. Rothschild & Brothers (NMR) are found to be the consultants for all those FIIs who wanted to invest in Indian FDI (http://greatgameindia.com/rothschild-plan-develop-india-fdi-series-part-iii/) and their partners in India, Mr. 5%, as they are always known. But the real question here is with no money to invest and with Western and European governments wanting every last dollar to save their domestic economies, where does the money for FDI in all these deals come from?


Read GreatGameIndia’s exclusive Foreign Countries Dictating India Series (http://greatgameindia.com/category/fdi-series/) to know exactly how this works in the international arena. A bizarre Saga of bankrupt western economies and their multinational business houses’ incredulous and laughable economic plan to ‘Develop India’.


Shelley Kasli for GreatGameIndia (http://greatgameindia.com/) – India’s only quarterly magazine on Geopolitics & International Relations.

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From: http://greatgameindia.com/pathankot-attack-oil-globalization-terror/

“This article was first published in GreatGameIndia (http://greatgameindia.com) (greatgameindia.com) and is republished here with permission”.

March 2016

Pathankot Attack: Oil, Globalization & Terror



Punjab, for many years, has been a transit point for drugs from Afghanistan. The drug money has become a major source of funding of elections in Punjab and over the time a well-organized drug cartel has come into existence with active connivance of politicians, police officers and drug lords. This drug money is used in financing militancy. To check militancy we will also have to control the drug problem.



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On the night of 31 December 2015, four men hijacked a multi-utility vehicle belonging to Salwinder Singh, a superintendent of the Punjab Police, in Dinanagar. In the process, they slit the throat of his jeweler friend Rajesh Kumar, who was later admitted to a hospital. The vehicle was found abandoned about 500 meters away from the airbase. On 2 January 2016, a heavily armed group attacked the Pathankot Air Force Station, part of the Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force.


The National Investigation Agency probing the attack learned from the Gurdaspur (Headquarter) Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh after interrogations that he got paid in diamonds for every drug consignment smuggled across the border (http://www.mumbaimirror.com/news/india/Singh-got-paid-in-diamonds-for-facilitating-drug-racket-reveals-NIA-interrogation/articleshow/50571154.cms). Singh’s jeweler friend Rajesh Verma would accompany him to his clandestine trips so that he could verify the authenticity of the stones. Verma is reported to have made such clandestine trip to the Peer Baba mazaar in Taloor village under Narot Jaimal Singh police station twice in the span of 12 hours on 31 December (http://www.thequint.com/pathankot-attack/2016/01/16/gurdaspur-sp-got-diamonds-for-helping-cross-border-drug-runners), along with his cook Madan Gopal and jeweler friend Rajesh Verma. The shrine is located a few kilometers from Bamiyal, the village from where the terrorists were suspected to have infiltrated into India before mounting the attack. It was Verma whose throat the terrorists slit open to send him to paradise (isko jannat pahuncha do) (http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/pathankot-attack-blue-beacon-atop-sps-hijacked-suv-let-terrorists-speed-past-checkposts/), which he luckily survived. Investigations have also revealed that Madan Gopal, who Singh claims to be his cook, is actually his bodyguard (http://www.mumbaimirror.com/news/india/Singh-got-paid-in-diamonds-for-facilitating-drug-racket-reveals-NIA-interrogation/articleshow/50571154.cms).


When a consignment of drugs leaves Pakistan for Punjab, it usually takes two routes (http://www.firstpost.com/india/pathankot-attack-is-the-drug-mafia-aiding-and-abetting-terrorists-in-punjab-2571026.html). In areas where there are barbed wires on the border, smugglers stuff them into PVC pipes and push them across into India, where couriers pick them up for transporting them to the main land.


Though most of the Punjab border is guarded by barbed wires, the riverine belt of around 100km is unguarded. To push drugs through this region, drained by Ravi and Beas and lined with dense forests, smugglers use boats and couriers. This riverine belt is mostly to the west of Gurdaspur and Pathankot, and in some areas of Ferozepur, making them most vulnerable. Investigators suspect that the terrorists used this tried and tested route used by the drug smugglers to sneak into India (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-3385923/Did-drug-smugglers-help-Pathankot-terrorists-Security-agencies-fear-Pakistani-attackers-used-trafficking-routes-sneak-India.html) and that they even had help from the local drug mafia.


Transporting drugs to the border from Pakistan is not a problem, the real problem starts once the drug consignment reaches Punjab, from where the involvement of a huge network of people at every level becomes necessary. In the border areas of Punjab, it is stored in safe houses for some time – called a cooling off period (http://www.firstpost.com/india/pathankot-attack-is-the-drug-mafia-aiding-and-abetting-terrorists-in-punjab-2571026.html) – and then relayed from point to point through an intricate network of middlemen and peddlers, who charge the dealers on the basis of the risk and distance involved. If it wouldn’t have been for the blue beacon atop the hijacked Mahindra XUV (http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/pathankot-attack-blue-beacon-atop-sps-hijacked-suv-let-terrorists-speed-past-checkposts/) of Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh the terrorists wouldn’t have been able to speed past several police checkposts, where the policemen saluted and just let it through.


But then again there is this question of the 24 hour window (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160104/jsp/frontpage/story_62034.jsp) the security establishment had from the time Singh and his cook informed the Punjab Police about the imminent attack and the hijacked blue-beacon vehicle. Was this information communicated by the Punjab Police to the Central agencies? Were the security personnel not alerted about the hijacked blue beacon car? How could a hijacked car speed past several checkposts in a situation of high alert? The Central agencies claim they were unaware about this intelligence and that there was a slip-up on part of the Punjab police (http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/punjab-police-slipup-may-have-delayed-pathankot-operations/article8099313.ece) that led to the delay or lapse in planning the appropriate responsive counter operation. However, according to an intelligence note prepared by additional director general of police, law and order, Hardeep Dhillon, the intelligence wing of Punjab had already issued intelligence (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Punjab-had-intel-5-days-before-Pathankot-strike/articleshow/50446038.cms) pertaining to plans to carry out a spectacular attack in India possibly around New Year celebrations, 5 days prior to the strike.


This should not be a surprise to anyone. The security and political establishment already know about who’s-who in the drug trade. Shashi Kant, who headed departments of prisons and intelligence for several years had submitted a list of politicians with suspected drug mafia links to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2014 after his earlier letter was admitted as a public interest litigation.


Kant, who was ADGP (intelligence), claimed that it was a four-page list, which was prepared by the intelligence department in 2007 (http://greatgameindia.com/pathankot-attack-the-international-drug-trade/), and he gave it to the CM. He alleged that the list was kept under wraps and little action was taken as political careers of those named in it thrived after 2007 even after it was submitted to CM Badal.


The government and the investigative agencies have known since years about these drug cartels, the routes they use and also it’s nexus with the police and the politicians. Punjab, for many years, has been a transit point for drugs from Afghanistan. The drug money has become a major source of funding of elections in Punjab and over the time a well-organized drug cartel has came into existence with active connivance of politicians, police officers and drug lords. This drug money is used in financing militancy.


However, it was only after GreatGameIndia published the detailed report, Pathankot Attack & The International Drug Trade (http://greatgameindia.com/pathankot-attack-the-international-drug-trade/) on how the ‪‎Pathankot attack was not just another usual terror incident but related to the international ‪‎drug mafia stretching from Afghanistan via Pakistan to India from where it is shipped off to Dubai and Europe that the mainstream media started to see the incident in the right perspective. Punjab News Express was the first to take note of it (http://punjabnewsexpress.com/editorial-page/news/pathankot-terror-attack-hints-at-policepolitician-nexus-with-drug-mafia-45884.aspx) in its editorial piece following which the entire mainstream media acknowledged the central role the drug trade played in the attack taking a much needed departure from its usual contradictory, dumb-founded infiltration narrative (http://greatgameindia.com/attack-on-pathankot-air-force-base-important-questions/).


Although this is a good start, it has brought us to a point where we collectively have to confront many of the unpleasant buried questions that we have chosen to ignore, don’t care about or in some cases suppressed knowingly.


After the NIA found similarities between the Pathankot and Dinanagar terror attacks (http://www.asianage.com/india/pathankot-attack-sp-be-questioned-jointly-cook-dargah-caretaker-today-265) (in July 2015) they approached the Punjab police asking it to share details of the Dinanagar terror strike. Earlier however even after directed by the home Ministry the Punjab Police were reluctant and refused to transfer the case to the NIA (http://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/punjab-govt-refuses-to-transfer-terror-attack-investigation-to-nia/story-SaUYWCaiiNNUaeh1mVHHRN.html). However, these similarities don’t just end with the Dinanagar terror strike.


There are uncanny recurring patterns to these attacks to the 26/11 Mumbai Attacks of 2008 (http://greatgameindia.com/gurdaspur-2611-attacks-recurring-patterns/) that we already observed during the attack in Gurudaspur. The most bizarre is the recovery of two Global Positioning System devices (GPS) from the terrorists that shifted the focus of the entire investigation to where the terrorists had actually come from and how they entered the country. A post-operation investigation was launched to establish the route that they possibly took from Pakistan. Three days later, the police claimed that doctors found a glove on one hand of the terrorists carrying a marking “Made in Pakistan”. This claim raised enough heat. It was questioned as to why the police did not find the glove on the first day when they conducted a body search. However, the security agencies have failed to piece together a final report on the route taken by the terrorists based on the coordinates fed into the two GPS devices seized from the terrorists; along with the Punjab Police and the Border Security Force making contradictory claims regarding the route taken by the terrorists for entry into India.


Similar to Gurdaspur attack with the 26/11 Mumbai Attacks also there are still unanswered questions related to the GPS (forgotten by the terrorists in the boat) and the route taken by the terrorists. Investigations have thrown up several questions about the last trip of Kuber, the Indian fishing trawler that the Pakistan-based terrorists used to reach Mumbai.


But this time with the Pathankot attack the rabble rousing balloon using the GPS didn’t fly with the intelligence agencies admitting the modus operandi of the drug cartels to hoodwink them. BSF report on drug smuggling explains how mobile phones of Pakistani companies are used by Indian smugglers and vice versa (http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pathankot-terrorist-came-in-through-drug-routes-security-agencies/1/563434.html). SIM cards are frequently changed to hoodwink surveillance. Indian smugglers use Pakistani SIM cards and Pakistanis use Indian SIM cards. Trans-national criminals contact each other from within and outside jails as well. Nonetheless the case of the missing GPS still remains a mystery (http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/probing-pathankot-attack-the-case-of-the-missing-gps-device/).


As investigative agencies grapple with the daunting task ahead of them under great pressure from the drug cartels and the seemingly discouraging and obstructive attitude of the establishment, the real questions that could unravel the entire mystery are still left to be answered or even raised. One such case is the role of diamonds in the terror attacks in India.


Role of Diamonds in Terrorist Financing
Diamonds can be vulnerable for misuse for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes because they can transfer value and ownership quickly, often, with a minimal audit trail. They provide flexibility and an easy transportation of value.


A 2003 Report assessed various alternative financing mechanisms that could be used to facilitate money laundering and or terrorist financing. Trading in commodities, remittance systems, and currency were assessed on each of their abilities to earn, be moved, and store value. Diamonds were the only alternative financial device that fit into all of these assessment criteria.


Diamonds possess several characteristics which make them vulnerable to money laundering and terrorist financing. These include:


Very high value
Low weight/mass and relatively small size
High durability
Stable pricing
Ability to retain value over long periods of time
Ability to go undetected
Untraceable
Easily bought and sold outside formal banking system
Unmarked
Subjectivity of valuation
Changeability
Readily exchangeable
Susceptible to fraud

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks serious allegations were made by Washington Post Investigative Reporter Douglas Farah an American journalist, author and national security consultant in his book Blood From Stones – The Secret Financial Network Of Terror (http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Stones-Secret-Financial-Network/dp/0767915623/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327278161&sr=1-1) that diamonds were used as an untraceable currency and source of income for terrorists.


Following the revelations by the Washington Post in 2001, Global Witness (an international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide) conducted a yearlong investigation into Al Qaeda’s involvement in the diamond trade. In March 2003 Global Witness released an investigative report detailing how Al Qaeda cells had strategically used diamonds for profit and to launder targeted funds (https://www.globalwitness.org/en/archive/few-dollar-more-how-al-qaeda-moved-diamond-trade/). Evidence contained in Global Witness’ report came from the US government and FBI itself.


Role of Diamonds in 26/11 Mumbai Attacks of 2008
Financial Intelligence Unit – India (FIU-IND) (http://fiuindia.gov.in/index.htm) is the central, national agency responsible for receiving, processing, analyzing and disseminating information relating to suspect financial transactions to enforcement agencies and foreign FIUs. FIU is a member of Financial Action Task Force – FATF (http://www.fatf-gafi.org/) an inter-governmental body which sets standards, and develops and promotes policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.


In February of 2014 a report titled Money laundering and Terrorist financing through trade in Diamonds (http://www.fatf-gafi.org/documents/documents/ml-tf-through-trade-in-diamonds.html) was published by a Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The report revealed that India is one among five countries where the trade accounts of the diamond business are used to launder illegal funds amounting to millions of dollars that are eventually utilized in the financing of terrorists.


The report found that globally, diamond was linked to offences conducted by organized crime, such as drug trafficking, illegal weapons trade and tax offences, and even terrorist financing. And India was on the top of the list.


Almost 6 months before 26/11 2008 Mumbai Attacks the FIU-IND was already tracking the diamond industry for suspicious activities by terrorists. From an article published in DNA Money dated 7th June 2008 (http://www.sify.com/finance/surat-diamond-business-has-a-terror-ring-to-it-news-default-jegr9Tfejabsi.html) titled – Surat diamond business has a terror ring to it:


Sources in the Centre’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) told DNA that high returns in the diamond market and the fickleness of the share market had induced terror groups to turn to Surat’s most glittering trade.

The diamond industry was being scrutinized by the FIU over the past few months and the sleuths were shocked to discover that terrorists were using the industry to launder their blood-soaked money.

“Terrorists groups have started withdrawing money from the share market and are investing in the prosperous diamond industry,” a source in the FIU told DNA.

The president of the Surat Diamond Association, CT Vanani, said the market had witnessed some suspicious activities a few months back.

“A year ago, some people from Mumbai began purchasing diamonds worth crores of rupees. When the industry tried to trace the traders, they turned out to be non-existent,” said Vanani.

The FIU traced all foreign transactions of Surat’s diamond industry, especially those emanating from Belgium. It found that a great deal of money was being invested by terrorist groups.


Surat diamond business has a terror ring to it (http://www.sify.com/finance/surat-diamond-business-has-a-terror-ring-to-it-news-default-jegr9Tfejabsi.html)

Isn’t it true that some of the top diamond merchants are on the list of people who have kept their ill-gotten money in Germany-based Liechtenstein bank (http://www.rediff.com/money/report/are-mumbai-diamond-merchants-on-leaked-black-money-list/20110204.htm)? Many persons on the list are Gujarati diamond merchants with offices all over world having roots in Palanpur. Isn’t it also true that in May 2014 eight of these diamond dealers were given a clean chit by the Income Tax department (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2620965/Politicians-absent-list-eight-given-clean-chits-black-money-case.html) in the black money case?
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Isn’t it also true that during the Nov. 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai members of the diamond industry were staying at the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels (http://www.diamondworld.net/contentview.aspx?item=3456) for year-end meetings with the Diamond Trading Company (http://www.jckonline.com/2015/10/21/diamond-industry-members-experience-mumbai-terror*), some of whom had a very close shave and managed to escaped including the than DTC managing director Varda Shine (http://www.diamondworld.net/Content/Lucky-escape-for-DTC-MD-Varda-Shine/3280), who was in Mumbai to host the DTC conference?


Is it also not true that these members were part the ‘distinguished guests’ hosted at Taj and Oberoi during the last week of November 2008? Most of them were coordinators of intelligence in South Asia. Few names that resided there being, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and elite members of President Elect Barack Obama’s Global Economic Team in India attending the “American Foreign Policy After Elections Conference” organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Aspen Institute India in Mumbai.


The members of Obama’s elite economic team attending this conference with Kissinger were Indian-Americans, Sonal Shah (Head Global Development Efforts at Google.org), Aneesh Chopra (Virginia State’s Secretary of Technology), Vivek Kundra (Chief Technology Officer for Washington DC) and Kartik Raghavan (Director at Microsoft). Also reports indicate that Obama’s pick for the US Secretary of Treasury, Timothy Geithner, was absent from these meetings despite his long standing ties to India where he was raised; he is said to have been represented by as yet ‘unknown’ aides from the US Federal Reserve Bank.


The purpose of this conference in India at Taj was to advocate for the planned Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project. Though strongly opposed by the Bush Administration and Pakistan’s ISI Intelligence Service in the past, the Obama administration had planned on making it a ‘centerpiece’ towards his goal of achieving peace in Southeast Asia, and to which Kissinger had stated: “The pipeline will be a natural thing to do and I expect the new administration [to be headed by Obama] to begin discussions with Iran.” (http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=182992)

Were these distinguished guests rethinking how to save falling western economies with the aid of India? As often, history makes it a habit to repeat itself; in the last 200 years whenever the West was in trouble, the East India Companies (EIC) or subsequent managing partners of EICs plundered India’s human and natural resources for their survival. In this ‘Great Game’ (http://greatgameindia.com/great-game-india-for-the-control-of-grand-glorious-india/) they kept other geo-political players at bay. Since more than the last decade, under UPA and NDA administrations, Indian foreign policy and domestic economic policy is veering dangerously closer to US-British-Israeli economic interests, viewed by other geo-political players as an encroachment. Did other geo-political players viewed this meeting as a penetration of their turf?


Lastly, is it not true that even the latest Pathankot attack were carried out within less than 20 days after the groundbreaking ceremony of what was being called a pipe dream for decades, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline (http://mea.gov.in/Speeches-Statements.htm?dtl/26180) that took place in the Turkmen town of Mary and was attended by leaders of the TAPI countries? And just a week after the surprising and much talked about meeting now known as the Billion Dollar Tea Party (http://greatgameindia.com/pathankot-attack-the-billion-dollar-tea-party/) of the Indian Prime Minister with his Pakistani counterpart on the occasion of the latter’s 66th birthday during a two-hour stopover on his way back from his visit to Russia?


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Why is it that everytime relations between India and Pakistan starts to improve and initiatives are taken to normalize the tensions between the two countries, a terror attack is witnessed by either of the two countries resulting in the deteriorating of the already delicate relationship?


What forces are working behind this? Who doesn’t want to see relations between India and Pakistan improve? Why have we not able to identify these forces since decades? Doesn’t it indicate that out security and intelligence forces are not equipped to face the challenge of this new kind of terror and needs a new and more adaptive orientation in the globalized world of liberalization and privatization (http://greatgameindia.com/globalized-terror-in-a-liberalized-world/)?


Certainly good strategic partnership between the two neighbours would mean a strong and stable subcontinent. More importantly, who gains from a weaker and always infighting Asian sub-continent?


“The Art of War” written by TsunZu, which is considered to be the bible of strategy by many says “Expect what your enemy wants you to do and do exactly the opposite to win the war”. The quote sounds deceptively simple but has far reaching implications on the survival of empires and governments. As is the case with many of the terrorist groups, they are controlled not only by the states that sponsor terrorism but by the nations that sponsor the states that sponsor such terrorism too. So though all evidence eventually leads to the North Western frontier of India, to learn who instigates these groups, their actions, their modus operandi and their previous track record would guide us in doing what we as a third world neutral sovereign country should do. We hope to make a beginning in this new direction.


Shelley Kasli

GreatGameIndia Magazine Jan-Mar 2016 Issue

[kanishk]

From: http://greatgameindia.com/the-great-game-the-partition-of-syria/

“This article was first published in GreatGameIndia (http://greatgameindia.com) (greatgameindia.com) and is republished here with permission”.

March 2016

The Great Game & The Partition Of Syria



Almost 69 years ago India was divided just as Syria is being divided today. Just how many countries were divided even after the end of World War II in the name of ‘Balance of Power’ into various ‘Spheres of Influence’? When the borders were drawn the conflicts were drawn with them and it is called a ‘Peace Plan’. Just like Syria now even India was partitioned by the British in 1947; how much peace has that brought to the two countries?
Russia’s decision to greatly reduce its military presence in Syria (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/51511), coming as it did with little warning, has left the world struggling for explanations. Russia is to maintain a military presence at its naval base in Tartous and at the Khmeymim airbase. In fact Russia is “withdrawing without withdrawing”.


The partial withdrawal is seen by many as a message to the Assad government to not take Russia’s military aid for granted, and to be more flexible in the upcoming peace negotiations.


As Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attorney and nephew of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy explains (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160304/1035777990/kennedy-interview-syria-pipeline.html), the major reason for the west’s attempt to overthrow the Assad government was to build a natural gas pipeline from Qatar that traversed Syria, capturing its newly discovered offshore reserves, and continued on through Turkey to the EU, as a major competitor to Russia’s Gazprom.


By re-establishing the Assad government in Syria, and permanently placing its forces at Syrian bases, the Russian’s have placed an impenetrable obstacle to the development of the Qatar gas pipeline. Russia has also placed itself at the nexus point of other new offshore gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean, including Israel, Cyprus, and Greece.


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It’s not hard to imagine a new Russian pipeline to Europe serving these new partners. Could easing of sanctions also lead to the implementation of the long-stalled plans of Gazprom for a second pipeline under the Baltic Sea to Germany for Russia and its partners, Royal Dutch Shell, Germany’s E.ON, and Austria’s OMV?


Although the powers involved in Syria are trying to project the partition of Syria as a last resort and a stable political solution that would bring equilibrium, it is not a conclusion reached after all other options were exhausted which has brought many experts to question whether the Partition of Syria was the objective all along?


Below is just one of such options advocated by various geopolitical experts all along, published by Foreign Policy Research Institute in 2013 (http://www.fpri.org/article/2013/10/partitioning-syria/).


The most viable alternative to the violent restoration of Sunni Arab hegemony in Syria is partition – either “hard,” resulting in two or more independent states (e.g. Sudan, 2011), or “soft,” as O’Hanlon proposes, resulting in autonomous centralized cantons under a weak federal government (e.g. Bosnia, 1995).

As in Lebanon during its 1975-1990 civil war, de facto partition is happening every day. The question at hand is whether the international community should encourage a settlement that reifies and institutionalizes this fragmentation, rather than seeking to propel one side or the other to victory.

[Spheres of Influence after Partition in Syria]
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Jordan and perhaps Israel would find a friend in a Druze statelet, while a coastal Alawite-dominated statelet would be sure to align with Tehran and Moscow (indeed, partition could be Russia’s best hope of holding onto its naval facility at Tartous long-term). The Kurdish zone would likely form a close relationship with its counterpart in Iraq. The Arab Gulf states would own the center (literally, in many places).

Many of the present conflicts in the world today take place in the former colonial territories that Britain abandoned, exhausted and impoverished, in the years after the Second World War. This disastrous imperial legacy is still highly visible, and it is one of the reasons why the British Empire continues to provoke such harsh debate. If Britain made such a success of its colonies, why are so many in an unholy mess half a century later, major sources of violence and unrest?


British Geostrategy for the Subcontinent
The British policy toward South Asia, and the Middle East as well, is uniformly colonial, and vastly different from that of the United States. Even today, when Washington is powered by people with tunnel vision, at best, the U.S. policy is not to break up nations, but to control the regime, or, as has become more prevalent in recent years, under the influence of the arrogant neocons, to force regime change. While this often creates a messy situation—for example, in Iraq, Lybia, Syria —the U.S. would prefer to avoid such outcomes.


Britain, on the other hand, built its geostrategic vision in the post-colonial days through the creation of a mess, and furthering the mess, to break up a country; exactly on the same lines India was partitioned in 1947. This policy results in a long-drawn process of violent disintegration. That is the process now in display in nations where the British colonial forces had hunted before, and still pull significant strings.


When the British left the Indian subcontinent in 1947, it was divided into India and Pakistan. The British colonial geostrategists, coming out of World War II, realized the importance of controlling the oil and gas fields. If possession could not be maintained, the strategists argued, Britain and its allies must remain at a striking distance, to ensure their control of these raw material reserves, and deny them to others.


Here is where the strategic importance of than British India (India & Pakistan) comes into play which the historians and political analysts have forgotten.


Strategic Importance of India/Pakistan & the Middle East
Germany surrendered on 5th May 1945. The same day, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an appraisal of the ‘long-term policy required to safeguard the strategic interests of the British Empire in India and the Indian Ocean’ by the Post-Hostilities Planning Staff of the War Cabinet. And, on 19th May, this top-secret appraisal report was placed before him. The central point of this report was that Britain must retain its military connection with the subcontinent so as to ward off the Soviet Union’s threat to the area.


The report cited four reasons for the strategic importance of India to Britain:


Its value as a base from which forces located there could be suitably placed for deployment both within the Indian Ocean area and in the Middle East and the Far East.
A transit point for air and sea communications.
A large reserve of manpower of good fighting quality.
From the northwest of which British air power could threaten Soviet military installations.

In each and every subsequent appreciation of the British chiefs of staff from then on till India’s independence that is available for examination, the emphasis was on the need to retain the British military connection with the subcontinent, irrespective of the political and constitutional changes there. Equally, they stressed the special importance of the northwest of India in this context. (Top-secret document, PHP (45) 15 (0) final, 19 May 1945, L/W/S/1/983988 (Oriental and Indian Collection, British Library, London).


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The achievement of these objectives was collectively called as the Great Game (http://greatgameindia.com/great-game-india-for-the-control-of-grand-glorious-india/). With the beginning of the eighteenth century the French were also able to figure out India’s importance and actively tried to be part of the process of having India’s resources shared for their political objectives in Europe. This reached the pinnacle with the Napoleonic Era where Napoleon was able to figure out that as long as India was in the hands of British it would be impossible to checkmate British in continental European wars. So the Grande army moved into Russia with a tacit agreement of taking India via land route through Afghanistan. When British sensed this plan, coalition after coalition against French were set up finally ending in a war between France and Russia in which Napoleon was finally weakened.


Later Russians were able to figure out this land route and its benefits and swiftly moved into southern Khanites (Shia kingdoms like Tazakisthan, Azerbaijan etc) occupying them one after the other. British sensing the danger of Russian incursion or outright occupation of India did three things.


Created buffer kingdoms post 1857 in the form of Kashmir, Afghanistan and Sikh Federated states.
Trained the British Indian Army in the General Staff techniques as envisioned by German strategists like von Moltke and others.
Meddled with the cultural heritage of India.

The social engineering was in such a way that in 100 years Indians lost everything of their glorious traditions – culture, customs, sciences – thinking that they have nothing to do with them and meekly surrendered to the British and their system of education.
To achieve the total control of India, the British used the Divide and Rule policy in terms of religion, clan, tribe, caste, region and language; the effects of which we are still felling as a continuous descent into mental, emotional and psychological slavery from which Indians were never able to come out. This is exactly what is playing out in the Levant War Zone today. This same strategy continues till today disguised under various names and terms – the New Great Game, Cold War, New Cold War etc.


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Just how many countries were divided even after the end of World War II in the name of ‘Balance of Power’ into various ‘Spheres of Influence’? When the borders were drawn the conflicts were drawn with them and it is called a ‘Peace Plan’. Just like Syria now even India was partitioned by the British in 1947; how much peace has that brought to the two countries? Why do India and Pakistan blame each other and interestingly are unaware or never acknowledge the strategic reasons for which it was divided by the British? Most importantly, after more than 6 decades of Independence why should the former colonies accept the British drawn borders which has only brought more destruction?


Report by Shelley Kasli (http://greatgameindia.com/about-us/), GreatGameIndia (http://greatgameindia.com), India’s only quarterly magazine on Geopolitics and International Affairs as published in Oriental Review (http://orientalreview.org/2016/03/19/great-game-partitioning-of-syria/).

[shaberon]

I appreciate seeing some insider's perspective about the India situation, I believe this is very central to geo-politics.

I am not sure Afghanistan was exactly created as a buffer state? Although I think that could be said of Nepal & Bhutan--particularly against China in that direction. Almost all of India's historical invaders came from the northwest, hence the importance of Sikh & Rajput states and modern Pakistan.

British Empire's strategy also involved: never letting a unified Germany succeed. Prevent any German-Russian unity. Keep Russia away from Central Asian resources.

I would love to see India banish the leftovers of colonialism, so that you don't have farmers committing suicide over GMO crops, and things like that, but I'd guess there are millions of people there still willing to sell it for cash and a taste of power.

[kanishk]

From: http://greatgameindia.com/effects-centuries-divide-rule-indian-mind/

21 September 2016

Effects Of Centuries Of Divide & Rule On The Indian Mind

For sometime now there is a huge debate brewing on regarding intolerance in India effectively creating a schism between the various sections of Indian society. While each group is busy voicing their fears or anxiety accusing the other of ruining the culture and heritage of India, none seem to pause and grasp the idea of how their internal strife is playing out in the geopolitical theatre. More importantly while we are so busy fighting among ourselves like cats; who really is the monkey gaining from our internal divide?


To achieve the total control of India, the British used the Divide and Rule policy in terms of religion, clan, tribe, caste, region and language; the effects of which we are still felling as a continuous descent into mental, emotional and psychological slavery from which Indians were never able to come out. The social engineering was in such a way that in 100 years Indians lost everything of their glorious traditions – culture, customs, sciences – thinking that they have nothing to do with them and meekly surrendered to the British and their system of education. With the tensions flaring up with Pakistan in regards to Kashmir, Baluchistan and Afghanistan it becomes all the more relevant now.


When India was neither divided nor occupied by the British, an article was written by Afghani a resident of the subcontinent of India in 1883 where he analyzed the coming dangers to India which they viewed as a source of inspiration and centre of knowledge. He also analyzed the British mind and the Great Game (http://greatgameindia.com/great-game-india-for-the-control-of-grand-glorious-india/) at that time incisively and explained their methods for one and all. Most importantly he warned that Indian intellectual mind will be destroyed, disrupted and dissipated where by making India a voluntary slave nation. He warned the Balkanization of India and Talibanization of every religious group in India. In the end he said there is still time to correct ourselves and correct the course of mankind. From the time of Afghani, Afghans in general, Pathans in particular, never recognized the partition of India. For them it is still India of the yester years.


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A Dance of Death – This World War II leaflet shows Churchill as a fight promoter encouraging two Indians (a Hindu and a Muslim) to fight to the death. There are at least six dead Indians on the ground of the enclosure where the fight takes place. It points out how the British have set Indian against Indian to weaken them and make them easier to subjugate. The text says: Stop dancing to the English tune and come together forgetting religious differences for the sake of independence.



True to his predictions, India became forever (in)dependent on her masters; her mind conquered, intellect destroyed, and wisdom blown to winds. With the destruction of Kashmir, India’s spiritual strength also descended into abysmal ignorance leaving jnanam Mleccha (mleccha meaning “non-Vedic”, “barbarian”, also romanized as “Mlechchha” or “Maleccha” referred to people of foreign extraction in ancient India) in control of all her affairs-from spiritual to political.


Now, either telling the truth or gaining knowledge became a crime, or people who want to blow the whistle at crimes and to pursue truth are being polarized on deceitful slogans or are becoming experimental objects of mockery in the world.


One such polarization is a common belief of many such misguided nationalists that any one, if has a Muslim sounding name, must be either a Pakistani or a terrorist. So all such people should be sent to Pakistan using the next available quickest transportation system. But many forget that India has more number of Muslims than the entire population of our western neighbours.


Today, what we forget is, after independence Indians looted many of our cultural heritage sites, sold temple properties, confiscated temple wealth on a scale of thousand times more than what other invaders did. Also we never talk about the loot and plunder of British and Portuguese in India or the extent of damage Europeans did to our intellectual mind set. We hope the video and this article opens a new avenue of thinking towards true learning in the otherwise dead intellect of many Indians and will show a bright future to the country.


Read the article titled Orient & The Orientals (http://greatgameindia.com/the-orient-and-the-orientals/) translated almost a century after it was written and forwarded to the Editors of GreatGameIndia Magazine (http://greatgameindia.com/) by Mujeed Ludin, an Afghan activist working for peace and prosperity in Afghanistan, only in GreatGameIndia Magazine.

[kanishk]

From: http://greatgameindia.com/truth-reliance-rothschild-jio-india-pakistan-war/

“This article was first published in GreatGameIndia (http://greatgameindia.com) (greatgameindia.com) and is republished here with permission”.

24th September 2016

The Truth About Reliance Jio And India Pakistan War

Let’s say the Government of India wants to utilise its spectrum resources (which is a national resource belonging to the people of India) for development purposes. Ideally this is done by state owned telecommunications companies for various reasons, the major being that of national security (http://greatgameindia.com/digital-india-in-the-age-of-information-warfare/). If the state telco lacks expertise or funding it is sourced from the private sector. Many countries are now increasingly reverting back to this practise. However, since Liberalisation and Privatisation, GOI chose to auction the spectrum, whereby the Govt sold rights (licences) to transmit signals over specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum and assigned scarce spectrum resources to private/foreign players. Even for the auction process itself the Govt looked elsewhere. The guys chosen to manage the auction process was none other than the House of Rothschild, one of the controlling families of the East India Company (http://greatgameindia.com/controller-houses-east-india-company-eic-series-part-iv/). It is a mystery why the GOI could not find appropriate expertise in any of the IITs, IIMs to manage this crucial task and instead resorted to our colonial oppressors as advisers. The process resulted in one of Independent India’s major scams landing most of this critical national resource in Rothschild’s lap. Is it really surprising that Rothschild heads Reliance’s Mergers & Acquisitions team (http://www.livemint.com/Companies/jAG7BDs8IOgYEYAI0QSIEK/Reliance-hires-Rothschild-banker-as-MampA-head-sources.html)?


In 2010, 3G and 4G telecom spectrum were auctioned in a highly competitive bidding. The Government chose Rothschilds to design a first-of-its-kind e-auction mechanism in the world, a US$2.27 billion landmark deal, in which they got atleast Rs 30.5 crore in commission (http://greatgameindia.com/secret-account-rothschild-bank-kingfisher-deal/).


Here are the responsibilities entrusted to Rothschilds as advisers of Govt of India (as specified in the advisers’ contract with DoT (http://www.dot.gov.in/sites/default/files/3G%20%26%20BWA%20Auctions_Notice%20Inviting%20Applications_0.pdf))


Managing overall process and primary point of contact with DoT;
Clarifying regulatory context and other valuation-affecting matters with DoT;
Writing bidding documents and updating it for further auctions;
Marketing the opportunity to potential participants.

The entire auction process resulted in a major scam which we know as the 2G spectrum scam. How much was the tax payer’s loss in the scam and where the money ended up is anybodys guess.


Reliance was the major beneficiary of the scam. Reliance Jio (earlier known as Infotel) was granted pan-India license for 4G in 2010 (http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/TuZr9kEZGT2kTuboLhWBnJ/4G-networks-which-ones-work.html) making it the only company to have all-India 4G license among others licenses. Jio employed the services of Anshuman Thakur (a former director at NM Rothschild (http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/ex-stanchart-md-to-join-mape-advisory-111101400102_1.html) and now Head of Strategy and Planning at Reliance Jio), an auction specialist who had designed the spectrum auction system in 2010. Swan Telecom was floated as a subsidiary of Reliance Telecom to circumvent the one-company-one-license rule. In 2008, Swan merged with Allianz Infratech; late in the year Abu Dhabi’s Etisalat bought about 45 percent of the company, renaming it Etisalat DB Telecom.


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Executives of Reliance were charged under criminal conspiracy to cause criminal breach of trust by a public servant, criminal conspiracy (Section 120-B) and cheating (Section 420). Again in 2013, a PIL was filed in the Supreme Court which challenged the grant of pan-India licence to Jio (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/petition-against-4g-licence-to-reliance-jio-apex-court-seeks-centres-reply/article5993872.ece) by the Government of India. The PIL also alleged that Jio was allowed to provide voice telephony along with its 4G data service, by paying an additional fees of just $25 million which was arbitrary and unreasonable, and contributed to a loss of $340 million to the exchequer. In April this year however the Indian Department of Telecom (DoT), refuted all of CAG’s claims. As a result, the PIL was revoked, and the accusations were dismissed.


Reliance was one of the most famous “zero-tax” company in India (http://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/reliance-pays-rs-50cr-tax-for-the-first-time-197031401009_1.html). Till three decades after its listing, at no stage did Reliance ever pay corporate income tax on its profit, or even felt the need to make more than token provision for it. It was only in 1996-97, after the introduction of MAT (Minimum Alternate Tax) on the company’s profit that they made a provision for corporate Income tax. However still, in 2015 suspecting the presiding lawyer of having ‘continuing’ links with the firm’s legal team GOI had to ask RAW to probe Reliance (http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/govt-asks-raw-to-probe-reliance-lawyers-looks-at-fraud-office-to-check-unpaid-tax/) lawyers and look at Fraud office to check for ‘unpaid tax’.


But here is the kicker.
Even after Dominion Independence (http://greatgameindia.com/did-india-really-become-independent-on-august-15th-1947/) the British had a tight control over India and Pakistan’s oil resource via Burma Shell and ESSO. During 1971 war with Pakistan they denied to supply oil to Indian Army, Navy and Air Force (http://greatgameindia.com/energy-geopolitics-an-overview/). Irritated by this, the then prime minister Indira Gandhi nationalized the oil industry to protect our country’s mineral wealth, indigenously develop self-sufficiency (swadeshi swaraj) and reduce dependency on foreign (videshi) raw material. After nationalisation these Indian companies were mandated to keep a minimum stock level of oil, to be supplied to Indian military when needed. These oil reserves were called the military stock level (MSLs). These two companies, after Government of India took them over, were developed by Indians and were worth a lot more than their original price in 1971. With privatisations all this would change because private players focus only on profits with requirements such as MSLs taking a back seat. This would effectively undo what was done by Indira Gandhi in the 70s with the result that the security of the country may be jeopardised. Now these two companies thus taken over by GOI and running profitably were slated for sale under privatisation and liberalisation to the same Burma Shell and ESSO disguising as Royal Dutch Shell and EXXON; both in collaboration with Reliance Industries (http://greatgameindia.com/ideology-methodology-east-india-company-series-part-iii/). Meaning that the original owners of these two companies waited for 32 years, and are now getting many times more worth on their investment along with getting their companies once nationalized back into their hands.


Related: What Has A Secret Account In Rothschild Bank To Do With The Kingfisher Deal? (http://greatgameindia.com/secret-account-rothschild-bank-kingfisher-deal/)
Royal Dutch Shell and Burma Shell are subsidiaries of Shell Corporation controlled by the House of Rothschilds (http://greatgameindia.com/controller-houses-east-india-company-eic-series-part-iv/) centered in London who also controlled the old EICs and the then Bank of England. EXXON is the name given to one of the companies formed in 1911, when the original Standard Oil Empire was broken in to smaller units by the American judiciary (http://greatgameindia.com/ideology-methodology-east-india-company-series-part-iii/). This entire empire of Standard Oil is controlled by one family the House of Rockefellers (http://greatgameindia.com/controller-houses-east-india-company-eic-series-part-iv/), centered in New York. Interestingly Rockefellers and Rothschilds are related to each other as they have a tradition of intermarriages within these two houses.


In 1971 the EICs denied to give us our own oil to fight our war; what do you think they could do now that they own not just our oil but also our spectrum and telecommunications band? These families are well-known for funding both sides of the war and making huge profits from it by determining the outcome of war and bringing entire nations to its knees through the ensuing burden of debt.

Why is it that in any of the scams although the major beneficiary are the erstwhile East India Company owners (as we have documented in The Rothschild Plan To Develop India (http://greatgameindia.com/rothschild-plan-develop-india-fdi-series-part-iii/)) we never hear about them in mainstream media? Nor are they even pursued by the investigating agencies?


The reason behind this is the working methodology of the EICs which none in India have tried to understand even after six decades of Dominion Independence (http://greatgameindia.com/did-india-really-become-independent-on-august-15th-1947/). East India Company’s trade was divided into many parts and a particular family owned each part. They were given full control over a nation under consideration. They developed local industrial/business houses, through which they exploited the independent nations. So for people of any nation, it is the local industrial house that comes to light as the exploiter and not EICs. Just like during EIC days when the zamindars were blamed for exploitation of farmers with huge taxes, where the fact was that the British under EIC exploited the farmers with their policies. Even today these Houses control most of the MNCs we see through their local business houses (http://greatgameindia.com/category/east-india-company-series/) and follow the same ideology and methodology as that of the EICs (http://greatgameindia.com/ideology-methodology-east-india-company-series-part-iii/).


P.S. – Lookout for India’s biggest spectrum sale (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/biggest-spectrum-sale-coming-soon-rational-bidding-expected-from-bharti-airtel-vodafone-idea-cellular/articleshow/53625008.cms) coming soon, starting September 29. Bankrupt banks Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs are already excited about it with British telecommunications giant Vodafone investing a whopping $7.1 billion in its Indian unit ahead of the spectrum sale (http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/vodafone-invests-71-bn-in-indian-unit-ahead-of-spectrum-sale/article9136675.ece), raising money via IPOs managed by none other than the House of Rothschild (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/ipos/fpos/selected-banks-to-make-presentation-to-vodafone-for-india-ipo/articleshow/51972447.cms).

Shelley Kasli for GreatGameIndia (http://greatgameindia.com/) – India’s only quarterly magazine on Geopolitics & International Relations.
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[kanishk]

but I'd guess there are millions of people there still willing to sell it for cash and a taste of power.

Yes, that a main issue in India, personnel ethics are very bad here. In other countries most of the corruption is in high levels, but in India corruption is a fashion here, you are a hero when you do corrupt things, girls also like corrupt guys here :bigsmile: ..

[kanishk]

From http://greatgameindia.com/rupee-falls-economic-warfare/

“This article was first published in GreatGameIndia (http://greatgameindia.com) (greatgameindia.com) and is republished here with permission”.

Why Only The Rupee Falls?

13th October 2016

Why only the Rupee falls? Why should it fall close to 20% of its value? Why should this fall coincide with the passing of FDI bill when investors are lined up to bring dollars into India? Does this Rupee fall has anything to do with the rise of prices (inflation)? Or this fall in rupee is a direct result of domestic inflation which government and economists want us to believe in the range of 5% to 11%? Is this domestic inflation? Is what is being told to us correct or is Government of India manipulating this? What is the theory behind inflation? What is the theory behind exchange rates? What is their association with domestic or international inflation? When US and European economies are collapsing at a faster rate and Indian economy is stable; still why Rupee is falling rather than increase in value or appreciate? Why when unemployment is touching close to 10% in US and Europe and when many of those nationals are coming and seeking employment in India (for instance many foreign nationals working in Bollywood as extra actors, as the money they make in Mumbai gives them comfortable living) still why it is only the Indian Rupee that falls? Who is manipulating Rupee? RBI, Finance Ministry or the western governments putting developmental pressure on Indian government to manipulate Indian Rupee or economy for their benefits? Who are those western manipulators? Can’t we avoid them to save our finances?


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[kanishk]

From http://greatgameindia.com/end-indias-boom-bust-cycle/

The End Of India’s IT Boom-Bust Cycle

17th October 2016

India has always been a vast and virtually unlimited resource base, both human and natural, providing for the economic engine of all countries in the world (http://greatgameindia.com/indias-unique-market-and-the-rise-of-the-west/). This is true in both the sense and the spirit of the word. Despite this fact, in India it-self there has been a serious under-utilisation of natural resources, and a criminal waste of human resource. Either it is our inability to tap the resources (claiming technological limitations) or other socio-political compulsions (geo-political considerations) or merely a leadership crisis (from a lack of visionary leaders), that is projected as an excuse for this unpardonable state of affairs. The current education process wastes brilliant minds (http://greatgameindia.com/fundamental-of-economics-neglected-in-indian-education-system/) with many routine and unrelated tasks resulting in only administrative-compliance-oriented, politically-correct individuals who cannot creatively contribute to the very fields of their working and to overall synergy of the system. Yet there are sparks of sheer individual brilliance, surges of powerful intellectualism, but these are not seen on a regular and coordinated basis. Rather, they appear more on a random basis, which in a best case erupts at times of crisis in to the national arena keeping the system running until the next crisis.

Around 1995 India witnessed what were two phenomenon driven by the same process (although they should have been separately driven in their own contexts), privatization & liberalization. The problem of relatively low-level programming and the Y2K paved the way for the first large scale generation of trained professionals to tackle this world wide pandemic. It was then that the US and a few other countries relaxed their regulations, allowed Indians in particular and Asians in general to enter their countries in large numbers. Post that boom India never turned back. The computer decade, as we can call it, rolled on from 1997-2007. The ever widening application of computers in multiple fields required huge trained staff with multi-lingual skills. Indians seized the opportunity and bankrolled lakhs of professionals. This led to relaxation of the norms for setting up of engineering colleges to cater to the high demand in this one field. As a single example, Andhra Pradesh state alone saw more than 650 engineering colleges coming up. In and around the capital city of Hyderabad there sprang more than 200 engineering colleges. Scores of hundreds of acres of agrarian land was converted in to engineering colleges with extreme narrow focus on EEE, ECE, BCA, MCA and IT (to name few); and merely as an add on expansion formula Pharmacy, Nursing and management courses were proposed in later years.

Related: Dark Side Of The IT Boom – How The IT Boom Made Bangalore Unliveable (http://greatgameindia.com/boom-made-bangalore-unliveable/)
The run for dollars and the craze for international work experience brushed aside traditional bachelors in science and engineering and arts disciplines to a secondary position, and these fields of studies languished. A situation arose where ‘learning computers is the only panacea for entire problems India faces’ was advocated by NGOs & socio-political groups. A gradual but sure neglect set into the education scenario over 15 years with disastrous consequences since the narrow parochial system encouraged only 5 to 10 computer or IT related courses in India. Indians became largest computer application users. The possibility of research and development in many areas from space to agriculture development over a carefully thought 25 year self reliance policy gradually started to decline. Keyboard users increased in number than key user fields in respective science, technology and economic segments. A new era of qualified Human Resource dependency in all other fields started to dawn in. The applications of computers in many other fields like natural resource development, utilization of such resources for over all regional balanced growth, utilizing the enormous data processing capabilities of computer for handling routine tasks in agriculture, and many such developments never occurred in India.

Meanwhile many western countries which had followed balanced development in education were quickly able to diversify in to most lucrative and creative fields of economic development creating more opportunities in the areas of mining, metallurgy, aerospace, bio-medicine, agricultural technologies, etc. which utilized the potential of computers and revolutionized the fields into high tech knowledge centers.

The native educational institutions set up in the IT-CA boom now are clueless as to the future courses of development as these courses are no longer providing the hyped up employment. Even recruitment into these colleges is falling to 50% of the actual capacity levels and prospective students with nowhere to go are worried about what is going to be the next in their careers. At the same time the demand in certain fields of engineering and education disciplines went booming based on the investment flows coming in to the native countries. But since our educational institutions are not able to handle them, in many cases, western experts are brought in. In point of fact, in many cases, the western experts are brought with the brazenly stated aim of exploiting the resources using local labor in the form of Exclusive Economic Zones (just like East India Companies set up exclusive trading forts) which are thriving but the rest of the native countryside is languishing in the background.

Related: De Beers’ 450 Year Hunt For The Hidden Treasures Of Indian Kingdoms (http://greatgameindia.com/de-beers-450-year-hunt-hidden-treasures-indian-kingdoms/)
(http://greatgameindia.com/de-beers-450-year-hunt-hidden-treasures-indian-kingdoms/)
At the dawn of the Deng-era in 1975, much of China looked similar to modern-day India. A worker, peasant, student, warrior under the previous Mao-rule could never be failed in education. So persons with absolutely no abilities were given PhDs and were posted in to universities. This accounted for the backwardness of China lasting almost until 1990. When Deng came to power, he cancelled most of the degrees and relegated all MS/PhDs to technical certificates. He introduced an entrance system and a massive education reform in high technology fields for regional balanced development which started giving results after 10 years and beginning 1990 China never looked back. It has today, surpassing India in many aspects, become one of the fastest advancing nations on earth in its own language. Though in India we may not be able to do what the Chinese did, we can still do positive things aiming at such models for progressive nation building. GreatGameindia Team will be working in this regard and as a first step will be setting up knowledge centers for the proper guidance and direction of students, professionals and organizations alike. We invite all our readers to take notice and responsibility and do their part; join us in this humble Nation Building initiative (http://greatgameindia.com/contact-us/).

This article was published as an Editorial in the Apr-Jun 2016 issue of GreatGameIndia – India’s only quarterly magazine on Geopolitics and International Affairs.

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