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Jeffrey Sachs Roaring Ukraine Speech At EU Parliament; Blasts U.S., Says 'Not Putin's Puppet' https://youtu.be/hA9qmOIUYJA?t=280   Feb 25, 2025 
Professor Jeffrey Sachs recently addressed European Parliament on February 19, 2025, with a stark warning: being a friend to the United States can be "fatal." Speaking at "The Geopolitics of Peace" event, hosted by Michael von der Schulenburg, Sachs emphasized the need for Europe to adopt a truly independent foreign policy. Sachs' statement was a call to action, urging Europe to develop a foreign policy that's grounded in reality.  Sachs' words echo his previous criticisms of US foreign policy, particularly regarding the Ukraine conflict. He has argued that the US has recklessly expanded NATO's reach, ignoring Russia's concerns and fueling the devastating war.

The TN Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services  https://youtu.be/JCBAXc0ICw0?t=1833  Mr. Thiaga Rajan spoke about his government’s fears of and opposition to the delimitation in 2026. He says that the threat of delimitation is “deeply alarming” adding it “drives me into a panic”. .. Mr. Thiaga Rajan said the short-term solution to the issue of delimitation is a further 25-year freeze during which time serious and effective steps must be taken, through promoting education and health in particular, to ensure that states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, with far higher population growth levels, catch up with the southern states.

To this day we don’t know the exact number of those who died at Prayagraj on January 29. The figures “30 dead and 60 injured” provided by the Uttar Pradesh Police were the ones that the mainstream media chose to run with. Some added, for abundant caution, terms like “at least” and “more than” because the police data somehow seemed too pat, especially as other journalists, less yoked to power, had counted at least double that number of dead bodies. Another piece of information that was intriguingly missing from the narrative was the number of those who were untraceable. https://thewire.in/media/backstory-ways-in-which-news-of-the-stampedes-has-been-made-to-vanish-in-double-time 

If the numbers were vaporised out of the reportage, so were the very sites of death and destruction. Before a proper forensic examination could be even conducted, bulldozers were brought in to carry away mangled human remains and personal effects of the dead, making it impossible to do a proper reconstruction of the sequence of events that had led to the calamity. News did come in of another stampede, albeit a smaller one, but here again the prompt cleaning up operations removed any evidence of it.

If the story goes against the establishment’s interests, place hurdles in reporters’ access 

By the time the New Delhi Railway Station stampede had occurred a fortnight later, it appeared that the Modi government had learnt several lessons from the Prayagraj events. Here you had pro-active attempts to keep all media attention at bay. As bodies were taken to the Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Hospital, yellow police barricades quickly ringfenced it and police personnel stopped mediapersons in their tracks as they sought to go in.

If the story potentially ignites public outrage, neutralise public outrage through prompt and targeted action

Even as people were searching for their missing relatives, some post-mortems had been completed, and all evidence of the stampede removed.

Simultaneously, relatives were strongly discouraged from talking to the media. 

by Pamela Philipose

22/02/2025