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  • Indian Fishermen Illegal Entry into Sri Lanka Facts

    Tamil Nadu Fishermen who had been arrested on charge of transgressing into Sri Lanka waters were later charged with Possession of Drugs and smuggling it.

     

    They were sentenced to death by a Court in Sri Lanka.

    Fishermen.jpg
    Fishermen.

     

    There was a political storm in Taiml Nadu over this issue stating that these five persons were framed on both counts, that of entering Lankan Waters and smuggling drugs.

     

    The Government of India under Narendra Modi negotiated with the Lankan Government and had the death sentence canceled

     

    The issue of Tamil Nadu reportedly entering  and fishing in Lankan waters illegally has been a vexatious one.

     

    Lankan Government states that fishermen from Tamil Nadu enter Lanka illegally on a regular basis for Fishing, while the Fishermen deny it and the Government of Tamil Nadu is with the Fishermen.

     

    I have a few posts on this.

     

    I have a few questions.

     

    Either the Fishermen cross illegally into Lanka Waters and in that case Sri Lanka is perfectly right in arresting them.

     

    Or Sr Lanka is lying in which case India should make  Public issue of it, talk to Lanka and if necessary internationalize the issue.

     

    The second is not happening.

     

    India has a Coast Guard which can find the facts and if necessary direct the erring fishermen who stray into Lankan waters to Indian Waters.

     

    This has not happened nor any statement on this subject by the Coast Guard coming in.

     

    The Coast Guard, if it is unable to find who intrudes into or goes out of Indian Waters, then it is useless.

     

    What exactly is the position?

     

    I checked  the issue with my sources in the Coast Guard.

     

    The fact is that the Fishermen regularly enter into Lankan waters illegally for Fishing.

     

    The Coast Guard are unable to counter or stop it because of Political Interference.

     

    Sri Lanka is right in their statement that the Fishermen enter illegally.

     

    This, the government of India is aware, both the Center and the State.

     

    None of them want to address the issue because vote-bank Politics.

     

    India secured the release  of the fishermen sentenced to death as a political quid pro quo with Lanka.

     

    What people forget is this problem unless addressed to honestly without fear of Votes would help Indian Fishermen in the long run.

     

    For obvious reasons my source must remain anonymous.

     

    What is shocking is the fact that a couple of Tamil News papers are aware of this fact and are scared to point this out for fear of retaliation in Tamil Nadu.

     

    The causality is Truth and Honesty

     

     

  • War On Drugs ,Coming To A close

    The  Organised War on Drugs is about a hundred years old.

    Look at the use of Drugs Statistics.

    The Global picture

    Globally, it is estimated that in 2010 between 153 million
    and 300 million people aged 15-64 (3.4-6.6 per cent of
    the world’s population in that age group) had used an illicit
    substance at least once in the previous year. The extent of
    illicit drug use has thus remained stable, but the estimated
    15.5 million-38.6 million problem drug users (almost 12
    per cent of illicit drug users), including those with drug
    dependence and drug-use disorders, remain a particular
    concern.
    It is also estimated that there were between 99,000 and
    253,000 deaths globally in 2010 as a result of illicit drug
    use, with drug-related deaths accounting for between 0.5
    and 1.3 per cent of all-cause mortality among those aged
    15-64.
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    Moreover, it was estimated that in 2008 there were
    16 million injecting drug users worldwide and that 3 million (18.9 per cent) of them were living with HIV, though
    no new figures are available after 2008. Global prevalence
    of hepatitis C infection among injecting drug users in 2010
    was 46.7 per cent, meaning that some 7.4 million injecting drug users worldwide are infected with hepatitis C.
    And some 2.3 million injecting drug users are infected
    with hepatitis B. Evidence is also emerging that non-injecting drug use is also associated with an increased risk of
    HIV infection, principally due to unprotected sex.”

    With estimated annual prevalence of cannabis use in 2010
    ranging from 2.6 to 5 per cent of the adult population
    (between 119 million and 224 million estimated users aged
    15-64), cannabis remains the world’s most widely used
    illicit substance (see figure 1). There may be shifts in cannabis use between the drug’s two principal forms, resin and
    herb, and there is even evidence of the increasing popularity of synthetic marijuana among young people in some
    regions, but in general annual prevalence of cannabis use
    remained stable in 2010…”

    Money Spent on War On Drugs.

    Nations, especially the US has been spending huge money on War on Drugs.

    Federal Drug Control BudgetUS Dollars (In Millions)
    – Year –  – Total –  Demand Reduction  % of – Total –  Supply Reduction  % of – Total –  Domestic Law Enforcement   International   Interdiction 
    2004 19,188.4 8,579.0 44.7% 10,609.4 55.3% 7,051.7 2,008.7 1,549.0
    2005 20,371.6 8,798.2 43.2% 11,573.4 56.8% 7,267.5 2,432.2 1,873.7
    2006 21,133.1 8,775.2 41.5% 12,357.9 58.5% 7,538.9 2,923.2 1,895.8
    2007 22,175.1 9,056.6 40.8% 13,118.5 59.2% 7,881.9 3,045.2 2,191.4
    2008 22,497.1 9,244.9 41.1% 13,252.2 58.9% 8,286.7 2,967.0 1,998.5
    2009 25,579.5 10,332.7 40.4% 15,246.8 59.6% 9,017.1 3,697.1 2,532.6
    2010 25,887.1 10,443.2 40.3% 15,443.9 59.7% 9,190.9 3,658.0 2,595.0
    2011 25,731.6 10,563.8 41.1% 15,167.8 58.9% 9,093.6 3,706.7 2,367.5
    2012 26,209.6 10,664.8 40.7% 15,544.8 59.3% 9,505.4 3,901.0 2,138.4
    TOTAL 208,773.1 86,458.4 41.4% 122,314.7 58.6% 74,833.7 28,339.1 19,141.9
    % Chg/2004-2012 +36.6% +24.3% — +46.5% — +34.8% +94.2% +38.1%
    For more Statistics and information on Drug abuse,pattern age group please refer  the links at the end of the Post.
    Now some States have started legalizing marijuana, admmitting that the War on Drugs is not yielding results and more illicit Drug and more usage is reported.

    The idea to scale down th War on Drugs is gaining ground.

    The commission presented a 20-page report, the first sentence of which read: “The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world.” Nadelmann wrote the sentence, as well as the report’s entire executive summary. He advised the commission, and he also searched for high-profile members.

    One of the speakers at the press conference in the Waldorf Astoria was an amiable man with glasses: César Gaviria, the president of Colombia from 1990 to 1994. While in office, he did almost everything except fight a war. Colombia was what Mexico is today: a country hijacked by drug lords.

    “An irrational and pointless drug policy was partly responsible for that period,” says Gaviria today.”

    The war on Drugs intensified during the Nixon Era.

    In 2010, about 200 million people took illegal drugs. The numbers have remained relatively constant for years, as has the estimated annual volume of drugs produced worldwide: 40,000 tons of marijuana, 800 tons of cocaine and 500 tons of heroin. What has increased, however, is the cost of this endless war.

    In the early 1970s, the Nixon administration pumped about $100 million into drug control. Today, under President Barack Obama, that figure is $15 billion — more than 30 times as much when adjusted for inflation. There is even a rough estimate of the direct and indirect costs of the 40-plus years of the drug war: $1 trillion in the United States alone.

    In Mexico, some 60,000 people have died in the drug war in the last six years. US prisons are full of marijuana smokers, the Taliban in Afghanistan still use drug money to pay for their weapons, and experts say China is the drug country of the future.

    Taking into account the high cost of War OnDrugs and the results it has produced the thought is on legalising the Trade of Drugas.

    When about 30 national leaders met in Cartagena, Colombia, in April 2012 for the Summit of the Americas, there was only big, behind-the-scenes topic: a new drug policy. Suddenly Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was saying: “If the world decides to legalize (drugs) and thinks that that is how we reduce violence and crime, I could go along with that.”

    General Otto Pérez Molina, president of Guatemala, wrote: “Consumption and production should be legalized but within certain limits and conditions.”

    Uruguayan President José Mujica said: “What scares me is drug trafficking, not drugs”.

    Vicente Fox, the president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, wanted to wage the “mother of all wars” against organized crime, sending the Mexican army into the drug war. Today, Fox says that the war was a “total failure.”

    In fact, sitting in Nadelmann’s office in Manhattan, it really is difficult to imagine a world without the drug war. A future in which marijuana and cocaine are legal and can be purchased in pharmacies or specialty drug shops? A life in which everyone decides for him- or herself: Am I going to take this drug? How much am I going to take? How do I protect my children?

    It isn’t an easy thing to imagine. In fact, the very thought of it creates a gut-wrenching feeling, and it makes you ask yourself questions like: Legalizing drugs? Are you folks nuts?”

    Sane Policy.

    Gambling, Prostitution, Drinking and use of Intoxicants have been a part of Man since time immemorial.

    Investing money on something to prohibit which a Man wants to do, is not a sound idea.

    The best is to legalize it and provide adequate safeguards for individual’s health.

    Despite this, if some one wants to poison himself to death, one can do nothing.

    Jhon Velásquez, aka
    Jhon Velásquez, aka “Popeye,” was a brutal killer as head of security for Pablo Escobar, head of Colombia’s Medellín cartel until his death in 1993
    A man works in a coca lab in Putumayo: None of the materials or equipment needed to produce cocaine are expensive, sophisticated or hard to obtain. The end product is cocaine hydrochloride, or pure cocaine. A good laboratory with a well-trained team can produce 500 kilograms (1,100 lbs.) a day
    A man works in a coca lab in Putumayo: None of the materials or equipment needed to produce cocaine are expensive, sophisticated or hard to obtain. The end product is cocaine hydrochloride, or pure cocaine. A good laboratory with a well-trained team can produce 500 kilograms (1,100 lbs.) a day

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/global-support-grows-for-legalizing-drugs-a-884750-4.html

  • Shadow World Of Arms 1 Major Suppliers Reasons

    Next to Drugs trafficking,Illegal Arms trafficking is the Highest Industry in The World.

    Facts;

    Drugs,Arms and Human Trafficking.
    Drugs,Arms and Human Trafficking.

    Drug Trafficking.  $ 32 Billion

    Arms Trafficking     $15.5 Billion

    As early as in 1970 there existed one fire arms for every man , woman and child living n the planet.

    Let’s see how the illegal Arms Trade operates.

    Every nation has an Arms industry for its Defense.

    The Investment for a normal Rifles, Machine Guns ,  Hand Guns,Ammunition for both and Grenades is not relatively high.

    Every Country has them,barring a few.

    But mere Guns and ammunition for them will no be enough to defend one country.

    One has to have Tanks,Artillery, Armored Cars, and Warships.

    In addition one has to have Research facilities  as well.

    One should have technology and the Investment capacity to produce them.

    Smaller countries do not manufacture them and they import from the Countries that develop these arms.

    How do these smaller get them?

    In Theory there is a ban on export of Arms.

    At the practical level, as the investment is huge for these Industries and you can not afford to keep them idle, they are continued to be manufactured.

    But the requirement for the Country’s consumption is limited.

    Continuous production implies additional investments, that too ,on a large-scale is required.

    So the countries that manufacture Arms, export, though paying lip service to” Ban of Arms exports’.

    Main Arms Suppliers are :US,Canada,Britain,France,Italy,West Germany(with certain banned manufactures under 1954 Paris Treaty,Sweden,Switzerland, Spain,Belgium, Israel and South Africa.

    Of these Western nations, Sweden and Switzerland are neutral Countries, bu still they make finest Weapons.

    Israel and South Africa, unsure of their stand in the world of Importing Arms because of their peculiar political situations , have their own Industries.

    The other countries are linked by NATO Treaty.

    The mutual export and Import is not a problem for them.

    Smaller countries requiring import from any of these countries have to get cleared by the War Office and the foreign Office of the respective countries they want to import from.

     

    Major West European Suppliers.
    The four major West European suppliers (France, United Kingdom, Germany,
    and Italy), as a group, registered a significant increase in their collective share of all
    arms transfer agreements with developing nations between 2003 and 2004. This
    group’s share rose from 5.5% in 2003 to 22% in 2004. The collective value of this
    group’s arms transfer agreements with developing nations in 2004 was $4.8 billion
    compared with a total of $830 million in 2003. Of these four nations, the United
    Kingdom was the leading supplier with $3.2 billion in agreements in 2004, a
    substantial increase from essentially no agreements in 2003. An important portion
    of the United Kingdom’s total in 2004 was attributable to a $1.8 billion agreement
    with India for 66 Hawk advanced jet trainers, and a large agreement totaling in
    excess of $1 billion with Saudi Arabia under the Al Yamamah military procurement
    arrangement. France increased its agreements total to $1 billion in 2004from $519
    million in 2003, aided by a contract to provide support for Saudi Arabia’s Crotale air
    defense systems, and Shahine ground-to-air missiles for about $410 million. Italy

    increased its arms transfer agreements with the developing world from $311 million
    in 2003 to $600 million in 2004. Germany registered effectively no new developing
    world arms orders in 2004. (charts 3 and 4)(tables 1A and 1B).

    http://www.fas.org/asmp/resources/govern/109th/CRSRL33051.pdf

     

     

    Contiues.

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  • Cocaine Passed To Passengers At Airports

    Even a small gesture at the International Airports might land one in difficulty.

     

    Read the warning below.

     
    Be careful !!!! At the airport or close to any Customs checkpoint, never accept or help somebody to hold his/her bottle of water or other objects, even for elderly person or pregnant women. You could be arrested for cocaine or illegal drugs possession!

    In Singapore, it is Death Penalty !!

    Watch this attached video by the US Customs….. you will understand how smart cocaine dealers are nowadays” -Youtube

     

    This warning has come from an officer working at the airport.

    At the airport never help anybody to hold, even for a short time, his or her water bottle or anything.
    If you happen to buy a water bottle at the airport, please check the bottle. BEWARE of fake water bottles.
    At the airport or close to any customs service, never accept or help somebody to hold his/her bottle of water or other objects, even for an elderly person or a pregnant women.  Tell them to put the bottle on the floor.
    You could be arrested for cocaine or any illegal drugs possession. In Singapore, that means death penalty!
    Watch this attached video by the US Customs.  (Cocaine dealers are very smart ).
    Thanks, Ramu

     

  • Mind Control Drug That Robs off Free Will? Video

    Scopolamine, otherwise known as “The Devil’s Breath,” was tested by the CIA as a truth serum during the Cold War, and it was also reportedly used by Nazi interrogators during World War II, was /is being used in Relaxation Technic for Stress and other Related Disorders.

    It is also used as Test Serum.

    Many Thriller writers use this in their Novels.

    Alistair McLean describes its effects in his Book The last Frontiers.

    CIA is known to use this quite frequently at the time of Debriefing its own Agents , Assets and Double Agents.

    Now the real danger of the Drug is being revealed now.

    Story.

    Scopolamine, otherwise known as “The Devil’s Breath,” was tested by the CIA as a truth serum during the Cold War, and it was also reportedly used by Nazi interrogators during World War II, he added.

    Likewise, Beth Stebner of the Daily Mail said that “stories surrounding the drug are the stuff of urban legends, with some telling horror stories of how people were raped, forced to empty their bank accounts, and even coerced into giving up an organ.”

    VICE correspondent Ryan Duffy interviewed a drug dealer operating out of the Columbian capital of Bogota, who told him that the drug was, in Stebner’s words, “frightening for the simplicity in which it can be administered” and prevents a person from remembering anything that happened to them while under the influence.

    Duffy himself described his experiences as it relates to the drug on the VICE website.

    “When VICE initially asked me to go down to Colombia to dig into this Scopolamine story… I had only a vague understanding of the drug, but the idea of a substance that renders a person incapable of exercising free-will seemed liked a recipe for hilarity and the YouTube hall of fame. I even spent a little time brainstorming the various ways I could transport some of it back to the states and had a pretty good list going of different ways to utilize it on my buddies,” he said.

    “The original plan was for me to sample the drug myself to really get an idea of the effect it had on folks,” Duffy said. “The producer and camera man had flew down to Bogota ahead of me to confirm some meetings and start laying down the groundwork. By the time I arrived a few days later, things had changed dramatically. Their first few days in the country had apparently been such a harrowing montage of freaked-out dealers and unimaginable horror stories about Scopolamine that we decided I was absolutely not going to be doing the drug. All elements of humor and novelty were rapidly stripped away during my first few days in town. After meeting only a couple people with firsthand experience, the story took a far darker turn than we ever could have imagined.”
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