RBI warning of Rs.1000/- counterfeit Notes

when do we start a mass movement against these traitors?

All,

   Now the actual war is not only with Guns and tanks, but its a "well planned false propaganda" against Tamils to quench their protests all over.

   We need to be very careful that even these forces camouflage as a "well wishers" and "intending to help" Tamils (Alas! even these traitors are speaking Tamil as their mother-tongue) if we could identify these "Ettappans" then no "kattapans" will be killed.

  As long as those abetting this crime of Genocide against Tamil are there, how do you think that we could go against "forces who actually act" on those scripted versus. 

  How come a force of small number (around 1000s as per Srilankan president and ponseka) of LTTEs could forcefully keep these 3,50,000 people confined to 250 sqkm area?. Is everybody around here a fool?.

  Here in india, where there is a conductive environment for a government having large police force and other means could hardly quench the outbreak of people spontaneously coming out to streets in support of Eelam Tamils. Our politicans were hellbound to divert the spontaneous demonstrations either hook or crook methods.LTTE is a banned organisation, who in Tamilnadu doesn't know?. But who is fighting for Tamils in Eelam?. while there are traitors like Karuna, Devanada and pillian who wag their tails for the meagre money that is thrown to them. 

 If here in Tamilnadu, our very only one so called "world tamil leader" ,threaten people for speaking for Eelam and LTTE and put people jail merely voicing their opinion on stages. what one could say about these hardliners in srilanka viz., jatika hela urmya.

 As long as we have "Ettapans" like cho,Ram,Jeyalalitha, Karunanidhi, Entire congress morons on our side, why don't these sinhalese get bold?.

 DMK having cabinet ministers in its chest, never ever thought of using its force to coerce Federal government to put an end this Genocidal war. But isn't it foolish to go to Federal government, while actually it is the one which waged this proxy war against Tamils and in particular LTTE, that is one of the reasons it shows deafen ear to all the pleas from TN.

Another important point would be that DMK never ever came in public record against Federal Government and also it never revealed to TN people that what India's share in ongoing war in Srilanka.

We may say that we would teach a good lesson to all these politicians during elections.but we fail to see that they are not showing even iota of worry about it, because they know what this electoral process is all about.

Even today, to martyr Muthukurmaran, who came and paid respect? any DMK or ADMK politicians?. Each political party has its own agenda of their own in this conflict, I would blame all politicians for dragging this issue to this level,where one Muthukumaran has to come as a martyr to invoke so far smouldering emotion to new high.

What do we do anyway? what more could we go? nobody knows....atleast for myself, I have already decided to reject these political parties which have acted against our sentiments. I now feel really ashamed to call myself as an Indian, for India which always upholds and preach "peace" to outside world but in reality it cowardly and subtle manner does all heinous acts.

Why should there be such double games? I had Sonia in high regard when she could boldly meet Nalini. But now I know its just to show the world that SHE IS GOOD HEARTED but inturn having all maligious intentions and go to the extend of taking revenge by having thousands of innocent life taken.

Here is a Holy cow which has now given an ultimatum of 48 hours to ensure safety of Tamils, meanwhile having taken all measures to kill and exterminate youngsters both girls and boys so that the possibility of them turning "LTTE cadre" and go against sinhalese is neutralised. what a noble intend to have announced "safe zone" to trap people there to kill them en masse. 

If you carefully go through the statement of ultimatum it implicitly cites that people who have chosen to remain there would be killed by intensified usage of boms and shells. now who would raise a voice for those people who have chosen to be in vanni? for they had been given a choice to choose and people have chosen to die, hence he gets all right to kill them.

Why not any Human right organisation files a Genocidal case against these guys and try them in international court?.why all media which always make hue and cry for even a single spate of incident has turned its face?.

 Why not we as youngsters start a "movement" to expose these corrupt politicians? why not we shun these traitors entering into active politics? why not we reject those medias who have gone against us?.As for me, I no longer reading "newspapers" such as Hindu,dinamalar etc.And also have decided not to vote to these spineless politicians.

We should also start a movement to have a reform in electoral process, asking for NEGATIVE VOTING etc.?

Could we do that?

Srilankan Genocide - premeditated ???

Almost it has become a "Daily news" that mass killing is happening in srilanka by bombing and shelling. And the intent of genocide is very evident in all the time. Indiscriminate bombing on "safe zones" which actually designated by Government was bombed by the very Govt forces, What do you say about it? doesn't it qualify to expose the malicious intent of SL Govt?.

When Govt forcefully evacuated all the humanitarian organisations out of the war zone, henceforth to gain the upper hand of the situation by blacking out the happenings around from foreign eyes?.

If a Govt is NOT allowing UN to function in the war zone? what more do you need to understand the intention?. It is crystal clear, how SL govt tries to silent media trying to bring them to their knees either by threatening them or killing them.

All who talk against "terrorism" should also think that even "state sponsored terrorisms" should be abolished. If LTTE is a terrorist organisation, what about Srilankan Government, is it not doing the very thing it proclaims to fight against? 

If LTTE could fight for 25+ years, is it not with the blessings of Eelam tamils?. should Eelam tamils be labelled as terrorists as they support a so called terrorist organisation?. What do we call then of India,US,China,pakistan and Japan who also assist this Genocidal war?. I would even go to the extend of blaming UN for this matter, because UN just can't wait for right time to act. We know how UN is also influenced by these co-chaired nations. 

Did any country condemn when Srilankan government shunned all the humanitarian organisations and NGOs out of warzone and even independant medias to these warzone. Why did all shut their holy mouth?.

Should tamils always need to struggle to get a voice from these organisations?. What one would say about it, for having announced a "safe zone" and then bomb the very place to kill people?. Srilankan government and other co-chairs may have fooled the world so far, but the time has come for truth to be naked. how long could they silence the voices?.

As against the international Law, bombs are being dropped on schools,hospitals,churches and so on. Nobody bothered to raise their concerns. In the name of fighting LTTE, why should they targent civilians?.

Lot of questions, no answers. Only way to get it, to initiate a case of Genocide against all these perpetrators and try them in international court.For all these a day would come for them to answer.

All we could do is to bring the day nearer as early as possible.

Opinion : Mumbai Terror

Here I found an Article voicing differently from MEDIAs that so far have been harping on MUMBAI TERROR attack, promoting the interests of theirs than what is actually expected of them as a media's responsibility.

I happened to read this article from http: //openspace.org.in , Here I am posting this article just to air a different perspective of what media did and could have played well.

Like politicians, almost everybody in power house have their own agenda to pursue, even media proves they reap maximum out of the coverage. Past 10 days, I have been following Newspapers, Articles and News channels on this coverage. most of the news channels try to put theirs words into someone's mouth and then make an issue of it.

Yesterday, I was watching "TIMES NOW", Goswami looked frustrated in a heated debate where a journalist (aamir from london) and Former Internal (?) Ministor of pakistan and G.parthasarathy (former High commissioner of pakistan) participated. He was very much frsutrated on hearing certain comments from Former minister and Aamir, It looked to me the reason for his frustruation as Goswami was trying to put some words into their mouth,which they refused to take.

In current situation, Everybody wants India to go for a WAR with Pakistan,which obviously should be a last resort in handling conflicts between two nations. Media is fueling and fanning hatred against politians (a necessary EVIL in any democracy] and trying to raise their TRP ratings.

P.S : I really hate watching TAMIL NEWS channels. Horrible... (sometimes I do watch them , as a subject of my research).


Hotel Taj : icon of whose India ?
Gnani Sankaran- writer, Chennai

Watching at least four English news channels surfing from one anotherduring the last 60 hours of terror strike made me feel a terror ofanother kind. The terror of assaulting one's mind and sensitivity withcameras, sound bites and non-stop blabbers. All these channels havebeen trying to manufacture my consent for a big lie called - Hotel Tajthe icon of India.

Whose India, Whose Icon ?

It is a matter of great shame that these channels simply did notbother about the other icon that faced the first attack fromterrorists - the Chatrapathi Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station.CST is the true icon of Mumbai. It is through this railway stationhundreds of Indians from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, West Bengaland Tamilnadu have poured into Mumbai over the years, transformingthemselves into Mumbaikars and built the Mumbai of today along withthe Marathis and Kolis.

But the channels would not recognise this. Nor would they recognisethe thirty odd dead bodies strewn all over the platform of CST. NoBarkha dutt went there to tell us who they were. But she was at Taj toshow us the damaged furniture and reception lobby braving the guards.And the TV cameras did not go to the government run JJ hospital tofind out who those 26 unidentified bodies were. Instead they wereagain invading the battered Taj to try in vain for a scoop shot of thedead bodies of the page 3 celebrities.

In all probability, the unidentified bodies could be those of workersfrom Bihar and Uttar Pradesh migrating to Mumbai, arriving by train atCST without cell phones and pan cards to identify them. Even after 60hours after the CST massacre, no channel has bothered to cover indetail what transpired there.

The channels conveniently failed to acknowledge that the Aam Aadmis ofIndia surviving in Mumbai were not affected by Taj, Oberoi and Tridentclosing down for a couple of weeks or months. What mattered to themwas the stoppage of BEST buses and suburban trains even for one hour.But the channels were not covering that aspect of the terror attack.Such information at best merited a scroll line, while the cameras haveto be dedicated for real time thriller unfolding at Taj or Narimanbhavan.

The so called justification for the hype the channels built aroundheritage site Taj falling down (CST is also a heritage site), is thatHotel Taj is where the rich and the powerful of India and the globecongregate. It is a symbol or icon of power of money and politics, notIndia. It is the icon of the financiers and swindlers of India. TheMumbai and India were built by the Aam Aadmis who passed through CSTand Taj was the oasis of peace and privacy for those who wielded powerover these mass of labouring classes. Leopold club and Taj were thehaunts of rich spoilt kids who would drive their vehicles oversleeping Aam Aadmis on the pavement, the Mafiosi of Mumbai foreverfinancing the glitterati of Bollywood (and also the terrorists) ,Political brokers and industrialists.

It is precisely because Taj is the icon of power and not people, thatthe terrorists chose to strike.

The terrorists have understood after several efforts that the AamAadmi will never break down even if you bomb her markets and trains.He/she was resilient because that is the only way he/she can even survive.

Resilience was another word that annoyed the pundits of news channelsand their patrons this time. What resilience, enough is enough, saidPranoy Roy's channel on the left side of the channel spectrum. Samesentiments were echoed by Arnab Goswami representing the right wing ofthe broadcast media whose time is now. Can Rajdeep be far behind inthis game of one upmanship over TRPs ? They all attacked resiliencethis time. They wanted firm action from the government in tackling terror.

The same channels celebrated resilience when bombs went off in trainsand markets killing and maiming the Aam Aadmis. The resilience of theordinary worker suited the rich business class of Mumbai since work ormanufacture or film shooting did not stop. When it came to them, therich shamelessly exhibited their lack of nerves and refused to beresilient themselves. They cry for government intervention now toprotect their private spas and swimming pools and bars andrestaurants, similar to the way in which Citibank, General Motors andthe ilk cry for government money when their coffers are emptied bytheir own ideologies.

The terrorists have learnt that the ordinary Indian is unperturbed byterror. For one whose daily existence itself is a terror of governmentsponsored inflation and market sponsored exclusion, pain is somethinghe has learnt to live with. The rich of Mumbai and India Inc arefacing the pain for the first time and learning about it just as themiddle classes of India learnt about violation of human rights onlyduring emergency, a cool 28 years after independence.

And human rights were another favourite issue for the channels to whipat times of terrorism.

Arnab Goswami in an animated voice wondered where were thosechampions of human rights now, not to be seen applauding the brave andselfless police officers who gave up their life in fighting terorism.Well, the counter question would be where were you when such officerswere violating the human rights of Aam Aadmis. Has there ever been any24 hour non stop coverage of violence against dalits and adivasis ofthis country?

This definitely was not the time to manufacture consent for the extralegal and third degree methods of interrogation of police and army butArnabs don't miss a single opportunity to serve their class masters,this time the jingoistic patriotism came in handy to whitewash theentire uniformed services.

The sacrifice of the commandos or the police officers who went downdying at the hands of ruthless terrorists is no doubt heart rendingbut in vain in a situation which needed not just bran but also brain.Israel has a point when it says the operations were misplannedresulting in the death of its nationals here.

Khakares and Salaskars would not be dead if they did not commit themistake of traveling by the same vehicle. It is a basic lesson inmanagement that the top brass should never t ravel together in crisis.The terrorists, if only they had watched the channels, would havelaughed their hearts out when the Chief of the Marine commandos, anelite force, masking his face so unprofessionally in a see-throughcloth, told the media that the commandos had no idea about thestructure of the Hotel Taj which they were trying to liberate. But theterrorists knew the place thoroughly, he acknowledged.

Is it so difficult to obtain a ground plan of Hotel Taj and discussoperation strategy thoroughly for at least one hour before entering?This is something even an event manager would first ask for, if he hadto fix 25 audio systems and 50 CCtvs for a cultural event in a hotel.Would not Ratan Tata have provided a plan of his ancestral hotel tothe commandos within one hour considering the mighty apparatus at hisand government's disposal? Are satelite pictures only available forterrorists and not the government agencies ? In an operation known toconsume time, one more hour for preparation would have only improvedthe efficiency of execution.

Sacrifices become doubly tragic in unprofessional circumstances. Butthe Aam Aadmis always believe that terror-shooters do better planningthan terrorists. And the gullible media in a jingoistic mood would notraise any question about any of these issues.

They after all have their favourite whipping boy - the politician theeternal entertainer for the non-voting rich classes of India.

Arnabs and Rajdeeps would wax eloquent on Nanmohan Singh and Advanivisiting Mumbai separately and not together showing solidarity even atthis hour of national crisis. What a farce? Why can't these channelspool together all their camera crew and reporters at this time ofnational calamity and share the sound and visual bites which couldmean a wider and deeper coverage of events with such a huge humanresource to command? Why should Arnab and Rajdeep and Barkha keepharping every five minutes that this piece of information wasexclusive to their channel, at the time of such a national crisis? Isthis the time to promote the channel? If that is valid, the politicianpromoting his own political constituency is equally valid. And theduty of the politican is to do politics, his politics.

It is for thepeople to evaluate that politics.And terrorism is not above politics.

It is politics by other means.To come to grips with it and to eventually eliminate it, the practiceof politics by proper means needs constant fine tuning andimprovement. Decrying all politics and politicians, only helpsterrorists and dictators who are the two sides of the same coin. Andthe rich and powerful always prefer terrorists and dictators to dobusiness with.

Those caught in this crossfire are always the Aam Aadmis whose deathsare not even mourned - the taxi driver who lost the entire family atCST firing, the numerous waiters and stewards who lost their livesworking in Taj for a monthly salary that would be one time bill fortheir masters.

Postscript 1: In a fit of anger and depression, I sent a message to allthe channels, 30 hours through the coverage. After all they have beenconstantly asking the viewers to message them for anything andeverything. My message read: I send this with lots of pain. Allchannels, including yours, must apologise for not covering the victimsof CST massacre, the real mumbaikars and aam aadmis of India. Yourobsession with five star elite is disgusting. Learn from the printmedia please. No channel bothered. Only srinivasan Jain replied: youare right. We are trying to redress balance today. Well, nothinghappened till the time of writing this 66 hours after the terrorattack.

Postscript 2: the only relief in the three day coverage was all the anchors and reporters did NOT say Islamic or muslim terrorists anymore though they knew that the terrorists were muslims sent from Pakistan. Must be thanks to Malegaon.

World AIDs Day - Dec 1

World AIDS Day observed on every year on December 1st. WHO established 'World AIDS Day' in 1988.

Few Facts

• Only in 1985, first antibody test was available.
• June 2001, UN General assembly special session on HIV/AIDS convened.
• 189 member countries of UN signed the declaration of commitment (june 2001) [16 yrs what did these countries do? ]
• Globally, around 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS (2007)
• Annual number of NEW infections have declined from 3.0 million (2001) to 2.7 million (2007) [in 6 years its only 0.3 million decline,good but not very impressive tho]
• Overall, 2.0 million people died (2007) when compared to 1.7 million (2001)
• Sub-saharan africa is home to 67% of all people living with HIV.
• Women account for half of all people living with HIV worldwide.
• young people aged 15-24 account for 45% percentage of HIV new infections worldwide. [swaziland tops this list followed by south africa and zimbabwe, india being listed last]

HIV transmission

HIV can be transmitted mainly through 3 ways,

1. Sexually
2. Through blood
3. mother-to-child transmission

HIV Prevention

* Spread awareness about HIV/AIDS on "how it can be spread".

• Media Campaigns
• School Education etc

* HIV Testing and counselling

* Treatment (antiretrovial treatment)

Sexual transmission

- Abstain from Sex or delay first sex (45% of young aged between 15-24 are HIV infected )

- Be faithful to one partner or have fewer partners

- condomise (male & female condoms are available in markets)

- STDs be effectively treated

There is a social stigma around this diseases, SEX being one of the reason for being infected by this disease. Lack of Awareness about the disease and about safe behaviours spreads fear among masses about this DEADLY disease. Following are some of the cases, I personally know.

Case 1: First case of AIDS reported in my village, couple died of AIDS. Husband working as a lorry driver brought this disease to his wife as well. Both are no more. In my village, nobody seems to be bothered about it at all.

Case 2: A priest died of AIDS recently. He was my junior in Seminary. He got it from Thailand, and spread it among Estate workers in Sengottai (TN).

Case 3: Group of college students had been to Goa on pleasure trip, ventured with women.Among them was a First timer,who inspite of using condoms got infected on the only time he had pleasure with women. He finally have to pay a heavy price for act. He died within a year of infection.

CREDIT CARD FRAUD - Recent Real story

This is a real story from Bangalore,India. Person who was a victim works for WIPRO deputed in CISCO, Marathahalli, Bangalore.

Now, to this E-mail sent by her, for safety reasons here we are not divulging her name.
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Last weekend I was a victim of a Credit Card Fraud.

Luckily for me I had activated the option of receiving email notifications each time the credit limit on my card crossed a certain value or percentage(eg: 25%, 50%, etc)

On Monday (June 23rd) I saw one such notification saying that the transactions on my card had crossed the credit limit. Since I had not swiped my card for any such high value transactions, I checked with my bank and found that my card was used to make some 10-12 online transactions by some unscrupulous persons to the tune of 1.2 Lakhs!

I found from my bank that someone had used my card during the weekend(Sat June 21st and Sun Jun 22nd) to buy Air Line Tickets, when the card was very much with me during the weekend. Myself and my husband and some friends immediately swung into action and contacted each of the 5 respective Air Lines to find out that all the flights had been taken in the weekend and some 30-40 people had happily traveled all overIndia(Kolkatta, Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Indore etc etc) on my credit card. Luckily for us, one flight from Kolkatta was arriving to Bangalore on Monday (June 23rd).

I went to one police station, to lodge an FIR but they directed us to Airport Police.(FIR has to be launched from the location where the crime has been committed, since this is online, they were not sure ..we also did not have too much time, since the flight was landing on the same day itself.).

We requested the Airlines to allow the passengers to travel to Banagalore and drove down to the Devanahalli Airport. Along with the Airport Police we were able to nab 4 people (1 guy managed to escape) who traveled with my credit card. Then we brought them to the city police station at 10 in the night and they were questioned (I guess you all know how). After 1.5 days tension, explanations, requests,influences, blames and threats we were able to finally lodge an FIR.This has been submitted to the bank for further investigation for 45 days. Hopefully, I do not have to pay the 1.2 lakhs( I just hope).

On questioning, the arrested guys said that they had no clue about any credit card and had paid an agent to arrange for tickets and deliver them home. 1 guy spilt the beans about a local agent in Bangalore who used the Credit Card details to buy these tickets online. Still the case is under investigation as it is looks like a huge chain.

But the question is How Did This Agent Get The Card Details when I have'nt transacted ever with this agent???

Online Air ticket booking does not need any verification, like other transactions. We just need to give the card number, CVV number and Expiry date of the card.

I recalled having used the card in the previous week for Shopping at two malls and at a Restaurant. We give out our card to the waiter/cashier and all he has to do is to memorize your 3 digit CVV number. At one suchplace when I gave my card to be swiped, the CVV # (which is a last 3digit # found on the back of the card) was noted down/memorised by the cashier / waiter/God knows who. The card # and expiry date of the card anyways shows up on the transaction slip.

I heard form some people that the CVV #, Expiry Date and Card # is sold to Credit Card Fraudsters for as low as Rs. 100/- to 200/-!! (Can you believe it!!!!)

Some Steps to Protect Yourself from Credit Card Fraud

• Check you Credit Card Statements regularly
• Check with your bank if you have an option to receive email /SMS notifications for High Value Transactions. If available, activate the same.Look at the back of your card and see if the CVV # is mentioned. If yes,note it elsewhere and Score it off with a permanent marker from yourcard
• Sign your cards as soon as they arrive.
• Carry your cards separately from your wallet, in a zippered compartment, a business card holder, or another small pouch.
• Keep a record of your account numbers, their expiration dates,and the phone number and address of each company in a secure place.
• Keep an eye on your card during the transaction, and get it back as quickly as possible. In restaurants, we send the card in the folder with the waiter. And finally when you are thinking of how to save for the flight tickets for your next vacation with the family, someone else is happily flying places on your card. And then finally you end up paying for someone else's vacation, and cancel yours.
• DON'T Sign a blank receipt. When you sign a receipt, draw a line through any blank spaces above the total.

Although credit card fraud is certainly on the rise -- and credit card fraud on the Internet is rising even more dramatically -- many savvyInternet shoppers know that the reality is that it's actually much safer to enter your credit card number on a secure online order form than it is to give your credit card to a waiter at a restaurant.

After all, what's to stop the waiter from writing down your credit card number and then selling the details for a mere 200/-.

If you think that this happens to others, its NOT true. YOU May be the next victim!

Hence, removing the CVV number from your card is much better than going through this mess, risks and tensions. I hope you learn from my experience rather than wait to experience it yourself. The pain offeeling cheated and then the risks and tension involved is really horrible.

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Please be careful and prudent in using your credit cards. To minimize the risks, always go for Credit Cards having manageable minimal amount definitely not in lakhs.

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