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Greenpeace NGO is a threat to national security: IB report to PMO

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2 days back Arnab of Times Now was interviewing Dr S.P Udaya kumar of the anti nuclear front in Kudankulam..Dr Udayakumar mentioned that he was getting paid @ Rs 1 lac per paper by Ohio University, US for work on ethnicity, globalization and civil rights ..As per former Congress Union Minister Narayanaswami he received over 1.5 crores..2 Bishops in Tuticorin also received Rs 54 crores

Did Ohio University pay Udaya Kumar?-India-TIMESNOW.tv - Latest Breaking News, Big News Stories, News Videos


Bishop's two NGOs received Rs. 54 crore, alleges Union Minister - The Hindu
 
Is there a delicate balance between individual's good verses a group's good?
If we always favor a group over individual's right the government, the corporations, and the mafias will always win and individual will always be trampled.
The courts are the only recourse open to individual to protect their rights, provided the judiciary is impartial. The individual's right are being abrogated all around the world.



Greenpeace in general has been the good guys fighting the bad guys.

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues. It uses direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals. The global organization does not accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties, relying on 2.9 million individual supporters and foundation grants.

I can not understand why saving the whales from slaughter or saving the earth from global warming is bad.

“We want to make sure that our beautiful country is fit to live in for our children and theirs. For that, Greenpeace India will keep using peaceful confrontation to expose environmental problems and hold polluters to account. We want to ensure that as India develops, it does so sustainably, without destroying what we love best about it. So please join us if you believe that India can grow into a clean and green economy. We can’t do this without you." - Divya Ragunandan of Greenpeace India.

http://www.greenpeace.org/india/Global/india/greenpeace_response_to_leaked_ib_report.pdf

Yes, Greenpeace does run “people-centric” campaigns – why is this seen as negative? People have a right to, and to demand for, clean air, water, forests, livelihoods and a livable climate. Greenpeace works to show that protecting our environment is beneficial for all Indians, particularly the poor and not a luxury past time of the idle rich. As a result, we enjoy the support of hundreds of farmer groups fighting for organic agriculture and against GMOs, thousands of villagers in Singrauli who fear being forced off the forests they depend on, and many others in places like Bihar, who are accessing modern electricity for the first time, in part because of work done by Greenpeace on renewable energy access.
 
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Greenpeace and all western NGOs have country specific agenda. There is a good possibility of modi government exposing the nefarious activities of anti India and anti Hindu NGOs. There is enough evidence available with the intelligence and revenue authorities to nail them.
 
There are some people in this site who have never found any good news or people in this world other than themselves or their party. These party mouthpieces will not know that there are good people all around the world.

If you do not analyze each activity with your own analytical mind , research, and help from reliable independent sources you can not come to logical conclusions. Sometimes your own government, your own party has a hidden agenda, that can be exposed by an outside agency. So we have to have an open mind to get a clear picture.
 
Majority of indians including Hindus have woken up, have understood the games played by the west and psec groups in undermining bharat. Some refuse to accept the realities and pride themselves as liberal intellectuals. Long live this breed till they realize the folly of their warped min set.
 
Naina_Marbus said:
More about the NGOs here:
MediaCrooks: Professional Agitators - Killing India Softly
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There is a comment about Indian Media under the control of the Christian charity..If you go further inside the following article is linked:

[h=3]Indian Media in the clutch of Religious Charity[/h]
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[FONT=&quot]Gujarat elections have witnessed unaccountable money paid to media persons of both, print and electronic by Saudi Arabia to discredit Modi and the Hindutva forces, which Media did very faithfully, but without success. There are several major publishing groups in India, the most prominent among them being the Times of India Group, the Indian Express Group, the Hindustan Times Group, The Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group, the Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group. Let us see the ownership of different media agencies. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]NDTV:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan. Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is co-brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist party of India. His wife and Brinda Karat are sisters. India Today which used to be the only national weekly who supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing..

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[FONT=&quot]CNN-IBN:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.

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[FONT=&quot]Times group list:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bhart Times, Stardust, Femina, VijayaTimes, Vijaya Karnataka, Times now (24- hour news channel) and many more... Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 'World Christian Council' does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindo is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi..

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[FONT=&quot]Star TV:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontificial Church Melbourne .

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[FONT=&quot]Hindustan Times:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobhana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collaboration with Times Group.

The Hindu: English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne , Switzerland . N. Ram's wife is a Swiss national. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Indian Express:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Divided into two groups. The Indian Express and New Indian Express (southern edition) ACTS Christian Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express and latter is still with the Indian counterpart.

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[FONT=&quot]Eeenadu:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao.Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra Pradesh .

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[FONT=&quot]Andhra Jyothi:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as MIM along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telugu daily very recently.

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[FONT=&quot]The Statesman:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] It is controlled by Communist Party of India. Kairali TV: It is controlled by Communist party of India (Marxist)

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[FONT=&quot]Mathrubhoomi:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have major investment.

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[FONT=&quot]Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Is owned by a Saudi Arabian Company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar. Gujrat riots which took place in 2002 where Hindus were burnt alive. Rajdeep Sardesai and Bharkha Dutt working for NDTV at that time got around 5 Million Dollars from Saudi Arabia to cover only Muslim victims which they did very faithfully. Not a single Hindu family was interviewed or shown on TV whose near and dear ones had been burnt alive, it is reported Tarun Tejpal of Tehelka.com regularly gets fat cheque from Arab countries to target BJP and Hindus only, it is said. [/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]The ownership explains the control of media in India by foreigners.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] The result is obvious. PONDER OVER THIS. NOW YOU KNOW WHY EVERY ONE IS AGAINST TRUTH. HOW VERY SAD INDEED.

All this while, there is an impression that Barkha Dutt and Rajdeep Sardesai were funded by the ISI of Pakistan. In fact, when I was Col in charge of Operations in the Valley, we used to describe them as the formidable force of Musharaff in India.

Even recently, Rajdeep Sardesai's CNN-IBN was the one which first said, "Is it time to give Azadi to Kashmir?" and brought idiots like Arundhati Roy to support that. I still am of the firm belief that the major electronic media in India is funded from Pakistan by the ISI, which ever route they may be using!

(This Blog written through data received from a Patriotic Army Personnel) [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]30th November 2008[/FONT]
 
[h=1]Greenpeace funds hit Home barrier - The Hindu[/h][h=2]Ministry places curbs on each foreign donation[/h]Following an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report that alleged foreign-funded NGOs were creating obstacles to India’s economic growth, the Home Ministry has clamped down on Greenpeace, an international campaign group present in 40 countries.

In a letter dated 13th June, the Ministry has directed the Reserve Bank of India that all foreign contributions originating from Greenpeace International and Climate Works Foundation — two principal international contributors to Greenpeace India Society — must be kept on hold until individual clearances are obtained from the Ministry for each transaction.

The RBI has been asked to direct banks to this effect. The central bank has also been asked to report to the government if any government department or institution is receiving such funds.

Greenpeace was specifically targeted because the IB report had charged it with orchestrating “massive efforts to take down India’s coal-fired power projects and mining activity.”

Read More: Greenpeace funds hit Home barrier - The Hindu
 
India is cracking down on foreign-funded charities after receiving an internal report alleging they are costing the country up to 3 percent of its GDP by rallying communities against polluting industries.


The national Investigative Bureau's report — a copy of which was obtained Thursday by the Associated Press — also accuses the groups including Greenpeace, Amnesty International and Action Aid of providing reports "used to build a record against India and serve as tools for the strategic foreign policy interests of Western Governments."


The Home Ministry said Thursday it would neither confirm nor deny the existence of the report, which has sparked a firestorm of debate in Indian newspapers and on TV news channels.
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Demands for economic revival helped catapult Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide election victory in May. Some have blamed public resistance to development projects for holding up economic growth.


But many of the country's 400 million impoverished — earning less than $1.25 a day and relying heavily on foraging for food, fresh water or firewood — have become anxious about environment degradation. Indians breathe some of the world's dirtiest air, bathe in toxic or fetid rivers and face extreme water scarcity within a few years.

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Anti-nuclear activist S.P. Udayakumar, accused in the report of taking money from a U.S. group to organize 2011 resistance to a Russian-built nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, also said the allegations were preposterous. His lawyer has notified the Home Ministry of plans to sue for defamation of Udayakumar's character unless the ministry issues a retraction.


"There is no truth in the allegation," he told reporters about the report, which he said was designed to harm his reputation.


Do we want progress NOW at the expense of a clean country for our children?
All business wants profits now at this moment, but country can not be run for today, they have to take care of the future too.
 
It is important to not just focus on GPI. The sister concerns targeted in the IB report, like Climate Works Foundation and WRI that have taken on Indian coal as well as NGOs operating in India, notably the umbrella of anti-GM players, need to be watched carefully.


Yet, it is also important to listen to the voices of reasoned criticism and be true to India's new developmental model and its core values relating to ‘integral humanism’ if we are to get out of the woods with our forests in some reasonable form. Coal is polluting and its mining does displace people. Dealing with coal's externalities, from its mining to power and steel production, has to be an important part of policy.


It is firstly important to do right by the Adivasis who are displaced and find ways to both compensate and rehabilitate them.


A well-implemented coal policy will also necessarily deal with keeping coal plants away from cities and populated areas and also implement higher pollution standards. Rejuvenating old plants that are polluting near populous areas has to also be implemented.


As important is the need to tackle the healthcare that coal necessitates. Mining coal is extremely hazardous and it is important to have hospitals in places near where coal is mined to help those most harmed by it. Coal also uses water, and the effluence can be harmful if fed into rivers or irrigation. Ways to use this effluence to grow fuel producing crops like cane and jatropha might be one possible option. To achieve all this, it is necessary to tax coal. If needed, a 15 or 20 pc surcharge be placed on coal and coal-based electricity and other use, so that both the producers and consumers of coal pay for its externalities.


It is important for India's left-wing intelligentsia to be active participants in the process of defining both the growth and policies that can help achieve it equitably rather than relying on foreign NGOs for being diligent watchdogs.


The pure stream of people-friendly progress in India must not lose its way into the parched earth policies and power politics. For this, a consensus around both an immediate and long-term approach on how to go forward, as well as open debate and a friendly and constructive public-private partnership, needs to be forged.
Greenpeace: Of convenient lies and inconvenient truth? - Rediff.com India News
 
Why did the government leak selectively the IB report?
The Indian Express EXPR -1.54% newspaper revealed last week that India’s Intelligence Bureau had submitted to the newly formed Narendra Modi-led government a classified document identifying several foreign-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are “negatively impacting economic development”.


The report, according to the news account, says, “A significant number of Indian NGOs (funded by some donors based in the US, the UK, Germany, The Netherlands and Scandinavian countries) have been noticed to be using people centric issues to create an environment which lends itself to stalling development projects.”


What exactly does that mean?


A few pages of the report seem to have been conveniently scanned and leaked online (you, too, can see them here) help explain, “these include agitations against nuclear power plants, uranium mines, coal-fired power plants, genetically modified organisms, mega industrial projects (POSCO and Vedanta), hydel projects (at Narmada Sagar and in Arunachal Pradesh) and extractive industries (oil, limestone) in the North East. The negative impact on GDP is assessed to be 2-3% [per annum.]”

POSCO India, subsidiary of Korean giant POSCO, has been trying to set up a $12 billion steel plant amidst protests in the southeastern Indian state of Odisha for nearly a decade. Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta Resources had tried for several years to mine bauxite in the same state in an area called Niyamgiri Hills amidst protests by tribals.


The IB doesn’t explain the math that led to the conclusion that 2-3% of possible GDP growth is lost because of these alleged activities.


Growth for who? On who's back will it be?

The dreaded “foreign hand” is back. Indian governments are pretty good at raising the bogey of the foreign hand, including the Congress-led UPA government which had hinted that it was the Americans who were behind the once hugely popular anti-government protests led by social activist Anna Hazare. At the time Congress spokesman Rashid Alvi had said: ”Anna is alone. He has no organization. Then how did this movement start and grow? Who are these people spreading the word on internet and telephones; the way video message was recorded prior to arrest.”


It’s mind boggling that governments–left or right, clearly it doesn’t seem to matter–fail to understand that at least some people could actually lose their homes and livelihoods because of giant projects and, guess what, may not want them.
 
Sources said, to stop the NGOs from undertaking participatory agitations against big corporations like Vedanta, POSCO and others, the government could resort to changes in section 5 of the FCRA that may lead to framing of fresh guidelines specifying the grounds on which an organisation shall be specified as an organisation of a political nature. Specifying an NGO as an organisation of political nature can immediately lead to freezing of accounts and cancellation of funding.
Is Intelligence Bureau report a precursor to stringent norms against NGOs? | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis
 
Government virtually freezes foreign funds for Greenpeace

Government virtually freezes foreign funds for Greenpeace


NEW DELHI: The government has clamped a virtual freeze on foreign funds for non-governmental organisation Greenpeace, with the home ministry deciding to vet each contribution the voluntary group gets from abroad.

The ministry on Thursday said it had written to the Reserve Bank of India, asking it to take prior permission from the ministry before transferring any funds from Greenpeace International and Climate Works Foundation to the bank accounts of Greenpeace India.

The Home Ministry also asked RBI to direct all banks to this effect and also report if any government department or institution is receiving such funds from these two organisations. The ministry has invoked Section 46 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act to make this move, which effectively means that Greenpeace India cannot get any funds from abroad without the Centre's nod even as it will be allowed to get local contributions.

This comes close on the heels of the Intelligence Bureau writing to the home ministry a few days ago asking for a freeze of the FCRA clearance for Greenpeace India. The ministry has responded by putting Greenpeace India in the "prior permission" category of registered NGOs in the country.

The ministry has asked the RBI to also report to it if any government department is receiving funds from Greenpeace International or Climate Works Foundation. Foreign contributions from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch had also been put under similar "prior permission" category by the ministry.

A spokesperson for Greenpeace India said the organisation had "enough contributors" within India to sustain itself. The NGO also claimed that the leak of the IB reports is a concerted effort by parties with vested interest to ensure elimination of any opposition. At least 10 more NGOs mentioned in a June 4 IB report to the government are also under scanner and showcause notices could be sent to them this week under the FCRA.

Government virtually freezes foreign funds for Greenpeace - The Economic Times
 
Foreign NGOs used Rahul as protector

More on the nefarious activities of greenpeace in india: We need a NGO free decade to undo the damage done by greenpeace and others colluding with sonia and upa. Even in 2013 three ngos with the same address (only room, no furniture) in ahmedabad received several crores from US govt.

"Interestingly, although they have fought long and hard against both coal mining as well as power generation in India, NGOs such as Greenpeace are themselves reported by relevant authorities as being indirect recipients of funds from heavily polluting mining and industrial lobbies, albeit those active in developed countries. The MacKnight Corporation, which controls the mining conglomerate 3M, is held by the agencies to be a major indirect funder of Greenpeace through so-called philanthropic foundations such as the Packard Foundation. For its operations in India, Greenpeace is reported to have received Rs 1 crore from a US-based "Climate Works Foundation", which itself was the recipient of funding from institutions linked to commercial interests.

"The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has identified nine individuals in Greenpeace who have been visiting India several times each year throughout the period in office of the Manmohan Singh government. These individuals are all from advanced countries, and at least three of them were active in Tahrir Square in Egypt in 2011, and more recently, two were involved in the Maidan Square agitation in 2013, which resulted in a change of regime in Ukraine's Kiev. The functionaries of Greenpeace who are under investigation have met with a wide cross-section of political activists, including from major political parties, and have given several dozen activist leaders training in political protest and in ensuring control of the streets, so that the normal functioning of government gets choked.

"Although the IB had built up a sizeable dossier on these foreign nationals over the past three years, and had warned of the disruptive nature of their activities as also their intimate contact with local activists and politicians, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and successive Home Ministers refused to take action against the NGOs.Incidentally, several children of key officials and opinion leaders in India have been employed at generous salaries by some of these NGOs, while others have set up their own NGOs and received funding from foreign agencies and even governments, much of which gets spent on travel, office and salaries. Even in the case of the Koodankulam protests, which held up the commissioning of the nuclear power reactor there for nearly a year, it was only after The Sunday Guardian exposed the role of foreign-funded NGOs in the agitation that the UPA was forced into some action against them (Foreigners hold Indian nuclear power hostage, 6 November 2011).

Foreign NGOs used Rahul as protector
 
It never rains; it pours

Lalji desai is the general secretary of the gujarat congress. From a report in Desh Gujarat.

"Lalji Desai runs foreign funded organization Maldhari Rural Action Group(MARAG) with his wife Neeta Pandya.
We have couple of years data of foreign money transferred to MARAG’s Bank of India account(no.14335, Memnagar branch, Vijay char rasta, Ahmedabad), according to which, in year 2009-10 foreign fund of Rs. 16440994.00 was transferred to MARAG from Canada and Italy. Some other fund was transferred through India based foreign agencies. MARAG received Rs 87,47,350 from Italy, Rs 70,68,105 from India branches of foreign organizations and Rs 6,02,100 from Canada. All fund was sourced for the purpose of “rural development”.
In year 2010-11 Lalji Desai’s organization MARAG received Rs 1,12,66,365 in same bank account described above. While the sum of Rs 10,99,875 was received from Canada, the rest of the foreign fund of Rs 1,03,47,074 was sourced through Indian branches of foreign organizations such as Child Relief and You, Save the Children and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. We generally believe that Indian branches of ‘Save The Children’ and ‘Child Relief and You’ bring foreign funds to India for the benefits of children, however these organizations transferred funds worth millions to MARAG for the purpose of “rural development” according to official documents.
Last year our one reader reported on twitter that he saw an international conference organized by MARAG in Ahmedabad’s five-star hotel Courtyard Marriott.
Lalji earned fame after agitation against Maruti Suzuki’s proposed plant in Bechraji near Ahmedabad last year. The state government had to exclude some villages from proposed Special Investigation Region(SIR) following that agitation.
Madhusudan Mistry, Arvind Kejriwal etc are other examples of foreign funded NGO operators who joined politics and got prominent position in short time.
 
Rajnath orders probe into IB report leak on Greenpeace

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the leak of Intelligence Bureau (IB) report on NGO Greenpeace.

As per the order, Delhi Police will investigate the leak of IB report. In June an Intelligence Bureau report called Greenpeace a threat to national economic security.

Greenpeace has asked the Ministry of Home Affairs for permission to see the report.

NGOs have slammed the report calling it false.

Source: Rajnath orders probe into IB report leak on Greenpeace - IBNLive
 
Muzzling NGOs is unbecoming of a democracy. Self-confident democracies encourage, indeed applaud, the involvement of citizens’ associations, including NGOs, in social and political decision-making and development planning. Instead, our paranoid government bullies and terrorises them, says Praful Bidwai.

This raises serious issues about the IB’s status and role. It was set up in the colonial period to serve the imperial government, without a clear legal framework or a charter of duties. After Independence, it continued to maintain close links with its British parent, the MI5. Recently released documents show that the IB’s first director cooperated with the MI5 to spy on V K Krishna Menon, India's High Commissioner to the UK.


The IB has been abused by successive Indian governments to further their narrow political agendas. This must end. The IB should be brought under parliamentary supervision in keeping with the practice in more accountable democracies. Its restructuring brooks no delay.


Praful Bidwai
How the government is smothering dissident NGOs - Rediff.com India News
 
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