Wednesday, August 5, 2015

WW - I :Australia Remembers WWI 1914-1918

SOURCE:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/first-world-war-centenary/




                                                             Gallipoli


                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojFxlULdEQo )




     IN THE SAME BATTLE,  INDIAN  DHOTIWALLAH'S  GOVERNANCE NOT ONLY HAVE  FORGOTTEN GALLIPOLI  BUT HAVE ALSO  DISCARDED THE  BRAVE INDIAN SOLDIER  OF GALLIPOLI   

YET FAR ACROSS THE BLACK WATERS
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A collection of 180 photographs showing a nurse's life during active service in World War I has been unearthed by the State Library of Queensland
 
 
 
 
 
Anzac Cove: 2015 commemorations

Thousands travelled to Anzac Cove in Turkey to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Gallipoli landings by Australian and New Zealand troops. One of those at Anzac Cove was Tony Bransby, who photographed his time there.
 
 
 
 
 
Thousands of Australians attended the Anzac dawn service at Gallipoli. See the spectacular pictures and hear what it meant to people in their own words.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jarrad Irvine fought in Afghanistan and came home with PTSD. He is at Anzac Cove for today's dawn service and wants to make sure the original Anzacs are not the only diggers Australia honours.
 
 
The little-known village of Harefield on the outskirts of London will mark Anzac Day this weekend, as it has done for generations, thanks to its once humble but heroic hospital.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anzac Day 2015: Emotions run raw for
daughter of Turkish Gallipoli veteran Adil Sahin
 

When 95-year-old Hatice Demir sees her father speaking in an Australian documentary about Gallipoli, it triggers a raw outpouring of grief.








The ABC's Michael Rowland visits The Nek, one of the most infamous killing fields in Gallipoli, ahead of this weekend's Anzac centenary commemorations.















Australian soldier George Kerr's World War I experience started out the same as any other recruit, but the way it unfolded and the way it ended makes it a unique story.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We showed 16 people the final scene from Peter Weir's Gallipoli and filmed their reactions. See what Gallipoli means to Australians today.
 
      
 
 
 
 

Life as an Anzac


Life as an Anzac: Food


To really understand exactly how bad the Anzacs' food was, reporter James Glenday took a taste as part of our Life as an Anzac series



Life as an Anzac: Kit


In the third piece from our Life As An Anzac series, James Glenday inspects what the average soldier was lugging at the time of the landing

 
 
 
 

Life as an Anzac: Bombs

In the second piece from our Life As An Anzac series, reporter James Glenday takes a closer look at the Australian improvised explosive device.
 
 
 
 

Life as an Anzac: The rifle

In the first in our series on Life As An Anzac, reporter James Glenday heads out to the firing range to put a WWI Lee-Enfield rifle to the test.
 
 
 
 

More Anzac coverage

 
  1. Anzac Day 2015: Stretcher bearer Hector Markey remembered by three generations
 
 
 
  1. Gallipoli campaign left Turkish children illiterate, exposed to trauma, study reveals
 
 
 
Anzac Day 2015: Indigenous town of Cherbourg honours its World War I diggers with special exhibition
 
 
  1. Anzac Day 2015: Anzac veterans cared for by Adelaide's amazing humanitarian sisters
 
 
  1. Anzac Day 2015: The bloody battle for Krithia, south of Gallipoli
 
 
 
 
 
Australian female surgeons battled exclusion to serve in Europe during World War I
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fran Kelly discovers a Gallipoli connection
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anzac Day 2015: See Gallipoli 100 years ago and today
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gallipoli 2015: Remember the brave and timid
 
 
 
 
 
Anzac 2015: Digger's Bible helps reunite Adelaide family after museum search
 
 
 
 
 
  1. Video story: A great grandfather's Gallipoli war
 
 
 
 
  1. Submarine's role in Gallipoli landing remembered
 
 
  1. Women in the Australian Defence Force: the progress from challenges to choices
 
 
 
  1. Anzac Day 2015: Turkish man searches for descendants of Anzacs captured by his great grandfather
 
 
  1. Anzac Day 2015: Surfboat rowers brave chilly conditions for Anzac race
 
 
 
  1. Anzac Day 2015: Not white enough to fight, Chinese Anzacs initially barred from enlisting for WWI
 
 
  1. Anzac Day 2015: Up to 15,000 'forgotten' Indian soldiers fought alongside Anzacs
 
 
Albert Jacka: the 'Australian Achilles' whose bravery saw him awarded the country's first Victoria Cross of the war
 
 
 
100 Stories video project highlights Australians' personal experiences of war

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

NAGALAND : Significance of Modi Government's Peace Accord With Nagaland Insurgent Group

SOURCE:
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/govt-signs-peace-accord-with-nscnim-pm-narendra-modi-says-historic/









 
Significance of Modi Government's Peace Accord With Nagaland Insurgent Group  
 
 
Published on Aug 3, 2015
 
The Narendra Modi led government and the dominant I-M faction of Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) announced Monday the signing of a peace accord which should bring to an end the decades-old insurgency in the hills of Nagaland and districts in the adjoining states.

The pact was signed in the presence of the Prime Minister, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval by the outfit’s leader T Muivah and government’s interlocutor R N Ravi at the PM’s residence.




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PM Narendra Modi Announces Historic Peace Deal with Naga Insurgents

 
 

It was not immediately clear whether the agreement meets the main demand of NSCN(IM) for integration of all Naga-inhabited areas in the North East across Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

 
 


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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s peace deal with Nagaland insurgents which he announced Monday rests on a breakthrough formula which does not involve redrawing the state’s borders, highly placed government sources have told The Indian Express.


    Read: How Atal Bihari Vajpayee won Naga hearts


    Instead, the sources said, the deal involves creating a mechanism which would create institutions allowing autonomy to Naga tribes living across the border in Manipur — a significant climbdown by insurgent leaders.



     
     
     
     
     
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    In addition, the sources said, negotiators had agreed to set up a mechanism to discuss decommissioning of arms now held by the NSCN (IM), the National Socialist Council of Nagaland’s Thuingaleng Muviah and Isak Chisi Swu-led faction, the largest of the Naga insurgent groups. The group had been arguing in talks that it needed to retain its weapons to ward off attacks from rival NSCN factions led by Myanmar-based SS Khaplang and Khole Konyak.



     


    Modi said the agreement did not just mark the end of a problem, but the “beginning of a new future.” He said: “We will not only try to heal wounds and resolve problems, but also be your partner as you restore your pride and prestige. Today’s agreement is a shining example of what we can achieve when we deal with each other in a spirit of equality and respect, trust and confidence; when we seek to understand concerns and try to address aspirations; when we leave the path of dispute and take the high road of dialogue”.

    Read: Towards accord, step by step


    R N Ravi, Modi’s negotiator for the Naga peace talks, said “the agreement will restore the pride of the Naga people and their dignity. Their linguistic traditions will also be promoted. It is only because of misunderstandings that we have been fighting”.


    Video: Significance of Modi Government’s Peace Accord With Nagaland Insurgent Group

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    Government officials, however, underlined that the agreement was a framework, with many details still to be hammered out. “This deal is without doubt a breakthrough”, said an official involved in the negotiations, “but ensuring it delivers a historic closure to the Naga insurgency will rest on how nimble we are in addressing the many problems that will surface in coming months, especially challenges from rival insurgents”.


    Read: Chronicles of conflict and (attempted) peace


    Though the text of the agreement remained confidential, with officials saying it would be placed in Parliament before being made public, the Prime Minister is understood to have discussed it with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, CPM leader Sitaram Yechury, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, and even J Jayalalithaa, M Karunanidhi and Sharad Pawar.


    Muivah, who signed the agreement on behalf of NSCN (IM), said the Nagas were entering into a “new relationship” with the government. “Beginning from now, challenges will be great,” he said.


    In a statement issued later, he said that “better understanding” had been arrived at and a “framework agreement has been concluded basing on the unique history and position of the Nagas and recognising the universal principle that in a democracy sovereignty lies with the people.”


    Though New Delhi has been engaged in a ceasefire with the NSCN (IM) since 1997, there was little forward movement on a political settlement. The NSCN (IM) leadership, made up of Tangkhul Nagas from Manipur’s Ukhrul district, insisted that the area be included in a wider pan-Naga entity they called Nagalim — in political terms, a precondition to giving leaders like Muviah a change of holding power in the entire state.


    Ravi, sources said, had held extensive meetings with political leaders and civil society groups in Manipur, where there has been fear that Naga-majority parts of its territory would be ceded to Nagaland in a peace deal. In 2001, tens of thousands of angry protestors burned down the Manipur assembly after the extension of the ceasefire with Naga insurgents, which went into force in 1997.


    The agreement, sources said, marked a personal triumph for Ravi, handpicked as the government’s interlocutor on the North-East by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, over objections by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Ravi, a former Intelligence Bureau veteran, served for decades in the north-east states. Interestingly, Ravi’s published work suggests he started off as a sceptic on a peace deal with the NSCN-IM.


    In a 2014 article, written soon after his retirement from office, he argued that the “ceasefire with the NSCN (I-M) has resulted in the retreat of the state from the crucial areas of governance and subversion of democratic politics. It is undoing the political and social gains achieved since the creation of the Nagaland State that has been rendered tentative in its aftermath”. He attacked New Delhi’s “abiding faith in the peace process with the NSCN (IM), quintessentially an entity of Tangkhul tribes of Manipur, having little resonance with other Nagas notwithstanding its pan-Naga rhetoric.”


    However, a source familiar with the negotiations said, Ravi’s position changed in the course of multiple consultations he held with civil society groups in Nagaland, with New Delhi coming to the conclusion that an agreement with NSCN (IM) was key towards enhancing democratization.


    The foundations for the agreement were laid in October, 2012, when — as first reported by The Indian Express — the NSCN (IM) agreed, in writing, to accept the Indian Constitution. This meant that it had dropped its decades-long demand for a separate country for the Naga people.


    Following this, the sources said, RS Pandey, the government’s then-negotiator, suggested a deal not involving a contentious redrawing of state boundaries in November, 2013. However, the NSCN (IM) had insisted on the transfer of Naga-dominated areas of the districts of Tamenlong, Senapati, Ukhrul and Chandel in Manipur.


    Events since then may have pushed the NSCN (IM) to settle for a deal short of its Nagalim demand. In December that year, Sumi Naga tribals armed with spears, machetes and shotguns forced the NSCN (IM) to evacuate a camp at Mukalimi in Nagaland’s Zunheboto, burning down down huts, offices and vehicles. NSCN (IM) officials reportedly had to be rescued by Indian Army troops from the mob’s wrath, sparked off by the alleged sexual harassment of two women.


    Earlier that year, protests against proposed reservations for Manipur-based Naga tribes living in Nagaland pitted the newly-formed Naga Tribal Alliance, against the NSCN-IM backed Naga Hoho, which claims to speak for the entire tribe. There have also been protests against the NSCN-IM’s parallel taxation structure, used to fund the insurgent group, which places levies salaries, businesses and contractors.


    Modi promised the agreement would lay the future for a new Nagaland. “You will not only build a bright future for Nagaland”, he said, “but your talents, traditions and efforts will also contribute to making the nation stronger, more secure, more inclusive and more prosperous. You are also the guardians of our eastern frontiers and our gateway to the world beyond”.


    “It is one of the tragedies of Independent India that we have lived with this legacy. There were not many like Mahatma Gandhi, who loved the Naga people and was sensitive to their sentiments”, he said.

































     
     

    IAS : I. A. S. : ABOLISH THE IAS




                                 ABOLISH THE IAS



                                 Petitioning Head of State, President of India

              Replacement of the IAS and tenured civil services

    with well paid, contractual (hence accountable) public servants

     
     
    Continuing with the British imperial services was a wise decision in 1947. However, these services are fundamentally incapable of innovation and efficient delivery of the limited functions that a government should perform.

    The only effective alternative to tenured, unaccountable, inefficient (and being poorly paid, often corrupt) services is market-based recruitment by the head of a department, with all senior roles being on contract. This would allow rapid intake of competent people into the civil services (from across the world, in some cases), and termination without recourse should there be either inefficiency, lack of innovation or (worse) corruption.



    In the past, India has struggled through extreme forms of socialism which distorted production incentives and productivity. These distortions have somewhat alleviated after the liberalisation of 1991, although there is much more to do.

    However, India remains fundamentally ill-equipped to deliver any public policy outcome or service. The biggest drag on India is the IAS and all-India services, as well as associated tenured civil services at the central and state levels. No private organisation will ever survive if tenure were promised. Tenure destroys all incentives that are useful to society.



    We the undersigned call upon you to ask the Parliament - in your next address to the members - to replace India's unaccountable imperial model of administration with a responsive and accountable bureaucracy.

    Indians are a wonderfully competent and innovative, but the Imperial system that we have chosen to impose on ourselves specialises in blocking innovation, competition and progress. Even those who are not corrupt in the IAS and tenured services mostly only care for self-aggrandisement, seeking a tenure in the World Bank or a sinecure as a Governor. 



    You should ask, on behalf of the people of India: Are we to ever grow up and become a free, independent nation, or are we be forever enslaved by civil servants accountable to none?

    How is this change to be brought about? Details are provided in Sanjeev Sabhlok's book, Breaking Free of Nehru (
    http://bfn.sabhlokcity.com/) and in the Sone Ki Chidiya agenda (http://sonekichidiya.in/).


    Note: Sanjeev Sabhlok joined the IAS in 1982 and resigned in January 2001, convinced that continuing in the service is a sure way to participate in the ruin of India. His 18 years experience in the IAS (and more than 14 years in the public service in Victoria, Australia) has convinced him that India is extremely ill-advised to continue with tenured civil services. There are much better models available across the world. But the IAS will never tell you, Mr. President, about them! You have to ask these questions on your own.

     
     


      READ THE COMPLETED STAFF WORK




    From: Sanjeev Sabhlok <sabhlok@gmail.com>

    Date: Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 6:31 AM

    Subject: [PC] My Change.org petition to the President: Replacement of the IAS and tenured civil services with well paid, contractual (hence accountable) public servants
    Do you want good governance in India? One of the critical changes needed is the abolition of the IAS and its replacement with a contractual, accountable public service model.
     
     
    If you agree, please also share it. 
     
    ==THE TEXT OF THE PETITION===
     
     
     
    Continuing with the British imperial services was a wise decision in 1947. However, these services are fundamentally incapable of innovation and efficient delivery of the limited functions that a government should perform.
     
    The only effective alternative to tenured, unaccountable, inefficient (and being poorly paid, often corrupt) services is market-based recruitment by the head of a department, with all senior roles being on contract. This would allow rapid intake of competent people into the civil services (from across the world, in some cases), and termination without recourse should there be either inefficiency, lack of innovation or (worse) corruption.
     
    In the past, India has struggled through extreme forms of socialism which distorted production incentives and productivity. These distortions have somewhat alleviated after the liberalisation of 1991, although there is much more to do.
     
    However, India remains fundamentally ill-equipped to deliver any public policy outcome or service. The biggest drag on India is the IAS and all-India services, as well as associated tenured civil services at the central and state levels. No private organisation will ever survive if tenure were promised. Tenure destroys all incentives that are useful to society.
     
    We the undersigned call upon you to ask the Parliament - in your next address to the members - to replace India's unaccountable imperial model of administration with a responsive and accountable bureaucracy. 
     
    Indians are a wonderfully competent and innovative, but the Imperial system that we have chosen to impose on ourselves specialises in blocking innovation, competition and progress. Even those who are not corrupt in the IAS and tenured services mostly only care for self-aggrandisement, seeking a tenure in the World Bank or a sinecure as a Governor. 
     
    You should ask, on behalf of the people of India: Are we to ever grow up and become a free, independent nation, or are we be forever enslaved by civil servants accountable to none? 
     
    How is this change to be brought about? Details are provided in Sanjeev Sabhlok's book, Breaking Free of Nehru (http://bfn.sabhlokcity.com/) and in the Sone Ki Chidiya agenda (http://sonekichidiya.in/). 
     
    Note: Sanjeev Sabhlok joined the IAS in 1982 and resigned in January 2001, convinced that continuing in the service is a sure way to participate in the ruin of India. His 18 years experience in the IAS (and more than 14 years in the public service in Victoria, Australia) has convinced him that India is extremely ill-advised to continue with tenured civil services. There are much better models available across the world. But the IAS will never tell you, Mr. President, about them! You have to ask these questions on your own.
     
     
    Sanjeev Sabhlok
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    Cyber Space : Zero Days- Security Leaks for Sale

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    The threat of compromised cyber security has become our planet's new weapon of mass destruction. The documentary Zero Days explores the growing concern that the disintegration of online safety has set the stage for potential physical dangers as well. "Our entire power supply can be cut off," a foreboding voice informs us near the opening of the film. "Our systems can be taken over. Hospitals deprived of power would cease to function. It's not if, it's when."
     
     
    The title of the film refers to the oftentimes debilitating vulnerabilities that can be exploited by the seasoned hacker. As outlined in the documentary, the phenomenon of the hacker rose to prominence in the 1980's, as generally innocuous computer nerds made mischief by implanted malware on unsuspecting victims. But what began as little more than a minor annoyance has grown considerably more sophisticated and destructive over the intervening years as these hackers have found a profitable niche in which to employ their considerable skills.
     
     
    Hackers now have the capacity to snatch the personal information of countless millions throughout the globe. They can cripple infrastructure, inspire suspicion between government agencies, and incite hysteria among the masses. They can steal thousands of credit card numbers during a busy holiday season, or manipulate the controls of a nuclear power plant.
     
     
     
    The world's top technological wizards are working around the clock to devise powerful firewalls and encryption, but the threat continues to evolve. These merchants of cyber menace offer their services to the highest bidders. While they exist underground, their employers can be the most public of entities. Governments have been known to utilize the services of hackers in their attempts to gain intelligence or inflict damage on neighboring countries.
     
     
    There is no easy fix to this crisis. Zero Days paints a frightening portrait of a cyber world that is growing far too large and expanding too rapidly to contain. "The bottom line is we are putting so much vulnerable, hackable, connected technology into so many places that this makes us prone to the willpower of any potential adversary or foe," says interview subject and computer security activist Joshua Corman. An impending cyber war will certainly find nourishment from our reliance on the very systems deployed to attack us.

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