[GreenYouth] Fwd : UN Warns Of Widespread Water Shortages

2009-03-14 Thread Venugopalan K M
UN Warns Of Widespread Water Shortages By Martin Mittelstaedt http://www.countercurrents.org/mittelstaedt130309.htm The world faces a bleak future over its dwindling water supplies, with pollution, climate change and rapidly growing populations raising the possibility of widespread shortages, a

[GreenYouth] Re: SAVE JOURNALISTS FROM HARASSMENT!!

2009-03-14 Thread venukm
Until recently, no policeman or policewoman would take the risk of even being harsh with journalists, let alone falsely implicating them under Section 353! What changed the scenario for worse, I think , must be linked to topics oft-repeated here in discussions:- 1. Journalists generally send

[GreenYouth] beware of invitations from the bogus film forum fridaythadka!

2009-03-14 Thread Venugopalan K M
Friends, I got invitations from a film forum fridaythadka or something like that. It is suspected sent from concocted ids in the name of friend/poeople who may be already in your contacts. Smelling of some thing bad in immediately inviting others to join even before myself seeing the home page

[GreenYouth] Re: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Anivar Aravind
But On the Grounds of Privacy of citizen in Digital Space it is a disaster. For eg. See Following Points • Multipurpose National Identity Card (MNIC) with unique Citizen Identification Number (CIN) for every Indian citizen in 3 years; to replace all other identification systems. • An

[GreenYouth] Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Anivar Aravind
-- Forwarded message -- From: Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:38 PM Subject: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto To: netw...@lists.fosscom.in Dear Friends, Key sections of the FOSS manifesto (Point # 1 on FOSS in education,

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread venukm
I would rather not be party to this treacherous game of sanghis to muster support from people in the cyberworld. One is tired of being asked to see those ugly face(s) of fascism in every other blog carrying adsense links! Just let them answer these questions repeatedly asked : Who killed

[GreenYouth] Hazardous New Runway at Delhi

2009-03-14 Thread Ravinder Singh
*Hazardous New Runway at Delhi * * * Newly built runway a huge cost has run into difficulties. Obviously promoters, Delhi Government and DGCA could not see the new runway is in line with Vasant Kunj and other residential areas. We always knew new runway is sited in the middle of residential

[GreenYouth] Obama Vowed 80% Cut in CO2 Emmission by 2050 Over 1990

2009-03-14 Thread Ravinder Singh
*Obama Vowed 80% Cut in CO2 Emmission by 2050 Over 1990 * This is a major Obama initiative to protect environment and departure from Bush policies. Nuclear Program is being revived. This is bad news for BJP, Communist Parties and allies of NDA who tried to bring down UPA government. 33 new

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:26 PM, venukm kmvenuan...@gmail.com wrote: I would rather not be party to this treacherous game of sanghis to muster support from  people in the cyberworld. One is  tired of being asked to see those ugly face(s) of fascism in every other blog carrying adsense links!

[GreenYouth] Re: beware of invitations from the bogus film forum fridaythadka!

2009-03-14 Thread venukm
Anivar, Will you plz comment on this post? I continue to get invitations from known friends and clicking on reply,the mail gets bounced ..then I send messages to their original ids with this content there in my post On Mar 14, 3:22 pm, Venugopalan K M kmvenuan...@gmail.com wrote: Friends, I

[GreenYouth] Re: beware of invitations from the bogus film forum fridaythadka!

2009-03-14 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:00 PM, venukm kmvenuan...@gmail.com wrote: Anivar, Will you plz comment on this post? I continue to get invitations from known friends and clicking on reply,the mail gets bounced ..then I send messages to their original ids with this content there in my post Dont

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Afthab Ellath
Anivar, I think the questions Venu has raised still stands... Should we rather raise these questions to BJP or appreciate BJP for the first adopter of FOSS manifesto? Regards Afthab Ellath On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009

[GreenYouth] 33 crore Gods - 1 = ??? (see the video)

2009-03-14 Thread ranju radha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEZpCn5O7Ufeature=related -- The so called caste-hindus are bitterly opposed to the depressed class using a public tank not because they really believe that the water will be thereby spoiled or will evaporate but because they are afraid of losing their

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread C.K. Vishwanath
normally,civil society activism dosen't bother about the right wing co-option of their agenda.earlier,zizek pointed out its dangeorus consequences. --- On Sat, 14/3/09, Afthab Ellath aftha...@gmail.com wrote: From: Afthab Ellath aftha...@gmail.com Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom]

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread damodar prasad
What Venu indicated and Viswanath pointed out are very very significant questions. It also reveals the inherent limits of some civil society movements, which can be taken under wings- right or left. On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM, C.K. Vishwanath ck_vishwanath2...@yahoo.com wrote:

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread C.K. Vishwanath
More than that,the political hindutva -the modern day avatar of exclusive cultural nationalist project is very much sophisticated to accommodate any kind of technological advance very easily.sudheendra kulkarni who gave secular fundamentalism to advani to poluplarise that term in indian

Fw: [GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread C.K. Vishwanath
--- On Sat, 14/3/09, C.K. Vishwanath ck_vishwanath2...@yahoo.com wrote: From: C.K. Vishwanath ck_vishwanath2...@yahoo.com Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto To: greenyouth@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, 14 March, 2009, 7:05 PM

Re: Fw: [GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread bobinson
I don't think the statement BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifestowas giving credit to anyone or they should get any credit from it or accepting one positive manifesto by any political party will erase the wrong actions they have taken in the past. If any other party follows suite I will

[GreenYouth] Charlie Chaplin??? christian!!!!!!!!!!

2009-03-14 Thread Rights Support Centre
* 'Christian' Charlie Chaplin's statue sparks controversy *Udupi (Kar), Mar 14 (PTI) After pub-going women and lover couples, Charlie Chaplin has become the latest victim of saffron wrath in Karnataka, with a Hindu group objecting to installation of a statue of the famous Hollywood comedian in

[GreenYouth] on Aman kachroos death

2009-03-14 Thread ranju radha
a quip on Aman Kachroo's death by ragging Law alone cannot curb such social tragedies. one should also look into the social/cultural angle of ragging especially in the context of post-Mandalisation and the subsequant anti-mandal caste Hindu assertion leading to the emrgence of privatised version

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Praveen A
2009/3/14 damodar prasad damodar.pra...@gmail.com: What Venu indicated and Viswanath pointed out are very very significant questions. It also reveals the inherent limits of some civil society movements, which can be taken under wings- right or left. I think this assumption comes from the

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [fosscom] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread bobinson
To agree to Praveen's points, I clicked the damn blog URL once again and made the saffron loose some money ! 2009/3/15 Praveen A prav...@gmail.com 2009/3/14 damodar prasad damodar.pra...@gmail.com: What Venu indicated and Viswanath pointed out are very very significant questions. It also

[GreenYouth] Fwd: AN OPEN REPLY TO MR SHASI THATROOR

2009-03-14 Thread Anivar Aravind
-- Forwarded message -- From: R Ajayan neerajam2...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:58 AM Subject: AN OPEN REPLY TO MR SHASI THATROOR To: sviyer...@gmail.com, s.gut...@focusweb.org, ben...@focusweb.org, eliamma vijayan sa...@md2vsnl.net.in, Anivar Aravind

[GreenYouth] Fw: AN OPEN REPLY TO MR SHASI THAROOR....for favour of publishing

2009-03-14 Thread Anivar Aravind
*04 March 2009,* An Appeal Readers of this mail are requested to respond to Shashi Tharoor at tharoor.assistant@ gmail.comhttp://us.mc1105.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tharoor.assist...@gmail.comwith a copy to the Plachimada Adivasi Samrakshana Sangham/Plachimada Struggle Solidarity Committee at