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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
ADB Activity in Vietnam
Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda and State Bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Giau signed a 1.38 billion financial assistance package for clean water access, preservation of the nation's forests, and ease of urban congestion. Photo by: ADB / CC BY-NC
The Asian Development Bank is working with Vietnam and Australia on various water and clean energy initiatives.
ADB and the State Bank of Vietnam signed May 5 a financial assistance package amounting to $1.38 billion for clean water access, preservation of the nation’s forests, and ease of urban congestion.
State Bank of Vietnam Governor Nguyen Van Giau and ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda signed the agreement. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung witnessed the signing.
“ADB’s assistance will help ensure that more people in Viet Nam have access to clean water, more livable cities, and biologically diverse forests that will be preserved for future generations,” Kuroda was quoted as saying in an ADB press release.
The Manila-based lender is also set to receive an untied grant of 21.58 million Australian dollars ($23.1 million) from the Australian government for ADB-administered trust funds focused on water investments and clean energy initiatives in Asia.
Read more development aid news.
Tags: Asian Development Bank, ADB, State Bank Vietnam, Vietnam, Haruhiko Kuroda, Nguyen Tan Dung, Australia, water, clean energy
(Source:Dev EX)
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Bin Laden, usata donna (?) come scudo Saranno loro a piegare regimi (teocratici) Rivoluzione di internet (ri)dà “coscienza” Spalancando (naturale) des
Il vaso comunicante universale attrae (fisicamente. In tutti i sensi?) l’”acqua” dell’anima dell’umanità versi i suoi aneliti più alti. Liberi. In tutti i sensi. E la libertà si compie solo quando ciascuno – e non solo qualche minoranza - si trova in quella condizione. Lo strumento per raggiungere questa rivoluzione e questo nuovo passo in avanti sulla strada della (nuova) civilizzazione si chiama, inevitabilmente, Cultura. Nel senso di consapevolezza (di sé) e di educazione alla Bellezza. Un’operazione a cui ha fatto fare grandi balzi, appunto, la rete. Regalando quel contagio inebriante, tra gli altri, anche alle donne arabe. Che si sono già spese nell’(attuale) Primavera (in tutti i sensi). Mettendo in campo le loro (prime) forze. Ma via via che prenderanno coscienza, liberandosi della religione (in un certo senso; e non, magari, della religiosità, non certo della spiritualità. Anzi, appunto) e con essa – fisicamente e metaforicamente – del velo sui loro occhi, il proprio (!) bisogno di libertà sarà tale da rovesciare quei regimi che su di loro, più che su ogni altro, hanno storicamente fatto pesare il proprio oscurantismo dittatoriale. Le donne, scrive il professor Ulivieri, saranno la bomba atomica che, esplodendo, farà tabula rasa dei muri (in tutti i sensi?) che dividono l’Umanità. (Intanto. E) poi ci sarà bisogno di ritrovare insieme quella dimensione etica e filosofica attraverso la quale capiremo come proseguire quella civilizzazione “spontanea”. Ma gli attuali regimi verranno spazzati via. Con buona pace (!) dei loro oppressori. di FABRIZIO ULIVIERI
Nella foto, “ma non è il velo (in sé) che ci impedisce di vedere (?)”. Le donne, liberate, saranno in grado di autodeterminarsi secondo le proprie convinzioni (più profonde)
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di FABRIZIO ULIVIERI
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Political policing in Britain ahead of the Big Day
Guy Aitchison, 28 April 2011
About the author
Guy Aitchison is co-editor of openDemocracy's UK blog, OurKingdom, and a PhD student in politics at UCL.
If anyone was in any doubt that we have a highly politicized, out-of-control police force in this country with scant regard for basic rights, the build up to the royal wedding will have provided a much-needed corrective. When it comes to our divinely ordained rulers, even the most minimal pretence at neutrality and respect for due process has been dropped and the attitudes and motivations of law enforcement laid bare. There is to be a strict zero tolerance policy towards republican thought crimes. Faced with tomorrow’s pompous medieval extravaganza, we must either wave our plastic Union Jack flags like the serfs that we are, or else keep quiet and hope we aren’t on the Met’s “political” hit-list.
For weeks, senior officers have been boasting that anyone planning to voice dissent at tomorrow’s event will be treated as a criminal with sinister warnings that officers have been ordered to “shoot-to-kill” and the Queen’s Guard empowered to impale any threat with their bayonets. With the memories of Jean Charles de Menezes and Iain Tomlinson still fresh, such warnings sound more than a little ominous. The press have gleefully collaborated with the Met in their intimidation, uncritically reporting plans for “pre-emptive” strikes against anyone suspected of being inclined to violate the “sterile areas” 1.6 kilometres around the Palace of Westminster created under the totalitarian Serious Organised Crime and Police Act introduced by Labour. In all the frenzied reporting, the words “anarchists” and “criminals” are used interchangeably to denote anyone opposed to a hereditary head of state. Ahead of the happy couple’s big day, political opinions alone are enough to get you locked up. As one “police source” chillingly put it “the same faces often reappear at different protests and we will try and take a pre-emptive strike against them."
Now we are seeing this sinister strategy put into effect. Yesterday, several squats were raided in Brighton with arrests made and in the early hours of this morning five squats across London were targeted. Two of the London squats are private residences in Camberwell which want to remain anonymous, whilst the third, Ratstar, also in Camberwell, is being used as a social centre and artistic space in agreement with the landlord. The raid against Ratstar was carried out under a Section 18 warrant to search for stolen goods, yet the TSG officers at the scene appear to have found no evidence of theft since the 14 arrests made were for the absurd crime of “electricity abstraction”. Twelve hours later, dozens of them were still searching the premises for anything incriminating. Members of Counter Terrorism Command, S015, were present at the eviction making use of spotter cards to try and identify possible suspects from March 26th.
Meanwhile, forty police were sent to raid Transition Heathrow, a community market garden, set up in opposition to the building of a Third Runway. The occupants were dragged out of their beds at 7.15 in the morning and searched. After one and a half hours, all the police could find in the deadly garden was some vegetables, chickens and bees. The fifth squat to be raided was Offmarket, an old bookshop in Hackney being used as a social centre, where one arrest was made in connection with the TUC demonstration, according to the Met. Some of those arrested have now been released with bail conditions specifying they should not enter central London until Monday, by which time the Royal Wedding and May Day will have been and gone – two birds with one stone, in the eyes of the authorities.
The doublespeak used to justify this abuse of police power is astonishing. Despite their earlier warnings in the press and the obviously contrived nature of the arrests and the warrants used, the Met have the audacity to insist that the arrests “are not specifically related to the Royal Wedding but have been brought forward ahead of the event”.
As I write this, it appears that a second wave of arrests are underway. The eccentric ex-professor Chris Knight has apparently been hauled in for breach of the peace along with actor Patrick Macroidan who has been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to cause a breach of the peace – with his executioner’s outfit as main evidence. Charlie Vietch, of the Love Police, who can often be seen at demos cracking jokes through a megaphone, has also been arrested. Presumably others have been scooped up too.
The political intent is quite clear. At vast expense to the taxpayer, the police have gone out of their way to ensure that tomorrow’s event delivers exactly what it says on the tin: a huge display of ostentation and state power used to cement people's loyalty to the establishment at a time when your average citizen - sorry - subject, is getting screwed. Assistant Commissioner Lynne Owens nailed the Met’s colours to the mast when she told The Express “We want to make this a celebration of joy and pageantry.” If this means silencing the voices of millions of republicans in this country through aggressive acts of intimidation and abuses of human rights, then so be it.
The irony of it all is that no major protests are planned. The only one I know of is this relatively small Facebook event, absurdly dubbed the “Black Bloc” page by Channel 4 News. Most activists have rather sensibly taken the view that they’d prefer not run the risk of getting shot, bayoneted or set upon by a royalist crowd and concentrate their political energies where they can actually have an impact. Of course, if nothing does happen tomorrow - which it almost certainly won’t - the full cunning of the police’s strategy will become apparent. “Look what we can do with all these draconian powers”, they will say. “Now give us more”.
Source:Open Democracy
About the author
Guy Aitchison is co-editor of openDemocracy's UK blog, OurKingdom, and a PhD student in politics at UCL.
If anyone was in any doubt that we have a highly politicized, out-of-control police force in this country with scant regard for basic rights, the build up to the royal wedding will have provided a much-needed corrective. When it comes to our divinely ordained rulers, even the most minimal pretence at neutrality and respect for due process has been dropped and the attitudes and motivations of law enforcement laid bare. There is to be a strict zero tolerance policy towards republican thought crimes. Faced with tomorrow’s pompous medieval extravaganza, we must either wave our plastic Union Jack flags like the serfs that we are, or else keep quiet and hope we aren’t on the Met’s “political” hit-list.
For weeks, senior officers have been boasting that anyone planning to voice dissent at tomorrow’s event will be treated as a criminal with sinister warnings that officers have been ordered to “shoot-to-kill” and the Queen’s Guard empowered to impale any threat with their bayonets. With the memories of Jean Charles de Menezes and Iain Tomlinson still fresh, such warnings sound more than a little ominous. The press have gleefully collaborated with the Met in their intimidation, uncritically reporting plans for “pre-emptive” strikes against anyone suspected of being inclined to violate the “sterile areas” 1.6 kilometres around the Palace of Westminster created under the totalitarian Serious Organised Crime and Police Act introduced by Labour. In all the frenzied reporting, the words “anarchists” and “criminals” are used interchangeably to denote anyone opposed to a hereditary head of state. Ahead of the happy couple’s big day, political opinions alone are enough to get you locked up. As one “police source” chillingly put it “the same faces often reappear at different protests and we will try and take a pre-emptive strike against them."
Now we are seeing this sinister strategy put into effect. Yesterday, several squats were raided in Brighton with arrests made and in the early hours of this morning five squats across London were targeted. Two of the London squats are private residences in Camberwell which want to remain anonymous, whilst the third, Ratstar, also in Camberwell, is being used as a social centre and artistic space in agreement with the landlord. The raid against Ratstar was carried out under a Section 18 warrant to search for stolen goods, yet the TSG officers at the scene appear to have found no evidence of theft since the 14 arrests made were for the absurd crime of “electricity abstraction”. Twelve hours later, dozens of them were still searching the premises for anything incriminating. Members of Counter Terrorism Command, S015, were present at the eviction making use of spotter cards to try and identify possible suspects from March 26th.
Meanwhile, forty police were sent to raid Transition Heathrow, a community market garden, set up in opposition to the building of a Third Runway. The occupants were dragged out of their beds at 7.15 in the morning and searched. After one and a half hours, all the police could find in the deadly garden was some vegetables, chickens and bees. The fifth squat to be raided was Offmarket, an old bookshop in Hackney being used as a social centre, where one arrest was made in connection with the TUC demonstration, according to the Met. Some of those arrested have now been released with bail conditions specifying they should not enter central London until Monday, by which time the Royal Wedding and May Day will have been and gone – two birds with one stone, in the eyes of the authorities.
The doublespeak used to justify this abuse of police power is astonishing. Despite their earlier warnings in the press and the obviously contrived nature of the arrests and the warrants used, the Met have the audacity to insist that the arrests “are not specifically related to the Royal Wedding but have been brought forward ahead of the event”.
As I write this, it appears that a second wave of arrests are underway. The eccentric ex-professor Chris Knight has apparently been hauled in for breach of the peace along with actor Patrick Macroidan who has been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to cause a breach of the peace – with his executioner’s outfit as main evidence. Charlie Vietch, of the Love Police, who can often be seen at demos cracking jokes through a megaphone, has also been arrested. Presumably others have been scooped up too.
The political intent is quite clear. At vast expense to the taxpayer, the police have gone out of their way to ensure that tomorrow’s event delivers exactly what it says on the tin: a huge display of ostentation and state power used to cement people's loyalty to the establishment at a time when your average citizen - sorry - subject, is getting screwed. Assistant Commissioner Lynne Owens nailed the Met’s colours to the mast when she told The Express “We want to make this a celebration of joy and pageantry.” If this means silencing the voices of millions of republicans in this country through aggressive acts of intimidation and abuses of human rights, then so be it.
The irony of it all is that no major protests are planned. The only one I know of is this relatively small Facebook event, absurdly dubbed the “Black Bloc” page by Channel 4 News. Most activists have rather sensibly taken the view that they’d prefer not run the risk of getting shot, bayoneted or set upon by a royalist crowd and concentrate their political energies where they can actually have an impact. Of course, if nothing does happen tomorrow - which it almost certainly won’t - the full cunning of the police’s strategy will become apparent. “Look what we can do with all these draconian powers”, they will say. “Now give us more”.
Source:Open Democracy
Sunday, May 1, 2011
OSAMA BIN LADEN KILLED IN KILLED IN PAKISTAN, OBAMA SAYS
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Osama bin Laden, the Saudi extremist whose al-Qaida terrorist organization killed more than 3,000 people in coordinated attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, is dead following a military operation in Pakistan and the U.S. has recovered his body, U.S. President Barack Obama announced Sunday night. "Justice has been done," the president declared as crowds formed outside the White House to celebrate, singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "We Are the Champions," NBC News reported.
Obama said bin Laden, 54, whom he called a terrorist "responsible for the murder of thousands of American men, women and children," was killed in Pakistan earlier in the day after a firefight at a compound in the city of Abbottabad in a military operation that was based on U.S. intelligence.
Other U.S. officials said one of bin Laden's sons and two of his most trusted couriers also were killed, as was an unidentified woman who was used as a human shield.
The news immediately raised concerns that reprisal attacks from al-Qaida and other Islamist extremist groups could follow soon.
"In the wake of this operation, there may be a heightened threat to the U.S. homeland," a U.S. official said. "The U.S. is taking every possible precaution. The State Department has sent advisories to embassies worldwide and has issued a travel ban for Pakistan."
Police in New York, site of the deadliest attack on Sept. 11, said they had already begun to "ramp up" security on their own.
Charles Wolf of New York, whose wife, Katherine, died on Sept, 11, 2001, rejoiced at the news, which he called "wonderful."
"I am really glad that man's evil is off this earth forever," Wolf said. "I am just very glad that they got him."
(Source:NBC News Report, US)
BANGLADESH TRADE UNION CENTER
Dear All,
Greetings from Textile Garments Workers Unions Federation of May Day2011, Programme. Today held many many progrumme in Dhaka on International Workers Day-May Day. Textile Garments Workers Unions Federation organize rally & gathering in Dhaka-Muktangon, Paltan, Press Club today at 10.00Am to 1.00PM. President Lovely Yesmin, General Secretary & other speakers of this organization as Kohinoo Begum, Moni Rani Das, Asha Mone, Umme Kulsum, Jahanara Sheikh, Parvin Begum, Rabeya Begum, Saleha Begum, Kohinur Begum-2 & Salma Begum was demand of workers rights on their voice.
Details Bengali news release (soft copy), rally-gathering picture & 3gp videos with this attachment file.
Thanks to all of you,
sazu
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