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Environment defenders & civil societies key to halting biodiversity loss but face violence, neglect https://www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/ipbes-transformative-change-report-environment-defenders-civil-societies-key-to-halting-biodiversity-loss-but-face-violence-neglect - a Transformative Change report published December 18, 2024 by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).The analysis examined 2,802 social mobilisations from 1992 to 2023, which challenged 46,955 environmental threats over biodiversity loss, soil contamination, climate change, groundwater, surface water and landscape degradation, waste overflow and deforestation.

While 54 per cent of these actions achieved reforms — such as technical solutions, environmental improvements and compensations — nearly 27 per cent resulted in regressive outcomes, including violence against defenders and underreported and overlooked gender-based violence.

Between 2012 and 2022, over 2,000 environmental defenders, including journalists, were killed for opposing environmentally destructive activities like mining, dam construction and deforestation, the paper said.

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Stop blaming EVMs when you lose, Omar Abdullah tells Congress' https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/stop-blaming-evms-when-you-lose-omar-abdullah-tells-congress/articleshow/116346011.cms ..parties should not contest elections if they do not trust the voting mechanism...If one is certain that the EVMs are being hacked then the only logical response would be to boycott the polls till these machines are trashed.
Just think of it that such an insane move would have saved the BJP the big humiliation, and consequent erosion in legitimacy, of being drastically reduced from 303 to 232 -- well below the bare majority mark -- despite the shrill cry of "over 400 this time!".
Not to forget that if one EVM can be hacked then any and every EVM can be hacked -- with scaling up of efforts input.

''Why this approach after being CM?': Congress hits back at Omar Abdullah's remark on EVM' https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-this-approach-after-being-cm-congress-hits-back-at-omar-abdullahs-remark-on-evm/articleshow/116351411.cms

BJP to release book against EVMs today(Feb 2010) https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/bjp-to-release-book-against-evms-today/story-yGi1uLuJDmHQykPAadUIYP.html ByShekhar Iyer, Party president Nitin Gadkari will release a book by the BJP’s election analyst, G.V.L. Narasimha Rao on Friday. Rao’s Democracy at Risk questions the very constitutional validity of EVMs and even cites the ways they can be hacked.

WA/email by SS: As yet no random tallying of the VVPAT slips with the EVM outcomes, being mandatorily carried out, has come up with any mismatch.

Of course, in the era of fast evolving technology and the ECI virtually being the 12th member of the BJP team full transparency and further improvements must be forcefully and consistently demanded.

Also the fact that the polls are indeed being manipulated to the advantage of the ruling party in terms of allowing unchecked hate speeches, huge financial assymetry, voters' lists manipulation, vote suppression by using the state machinery etc. needs to be adequately highlighted.

The unsubstantiated clamour about EVMs only helps to distract. It also adds to apathy of the anti-BJP voters.

Comment: The whole concept of "scientific rigging', involves during it in a manner that is believable. And this also involves using different tactics in different situations. the most obvious is you cannot get all candidates in all consitutencies with withdraw candidature.

Comment: The whole concept of "scientific rigging', involves during it in a manner that is believable. And this also involves using different tactics in different situations. the most obvious is you cannot get all candidates in all consitutencies with withdraw candidature. Therefore the only way to beat rigging and also EVM manipulation is to turn up in larger numbers, and vote and that too in the first half of the day

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024, 08:49 Devasahayam MG <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.> wrote: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/cant-celebrate-evms-when-you-win-blame-when-you-lose-omar-abdullahs-jibe-at-congress/articleshow/116337229.cms
Omar has hit the nail on its head.. Soon after the Loksabha election we flagged huge spike in votes in 15 states and possible stealing of mandate in 79 constituencies. INC did nothing and their chief advisor, Yogendra Yadav derided us. In the process Rahul Gandhi has lost credibility as LOP!! - MGD

Sucheta Dalal, Who Exposed The Harshad Mehta Scam, On Adani & SEBI Chief Madhabi Buch | Barkha Dutt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXPYTlZq7ak

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This thread underlines a connection between the Congress party and George Soros, implying their shared goal of diminishing India's growth.

Sonia Gandhi, as the Co-President of the FDL-AP Foundation, is linked to an organisation financed by the George Soros Foundation.

Notably, the FDL-AP Foundation has expressed their views that treat Kashmir as a separate entity.

This association between Sonia Gandhi and an organisation that has backed the idea of Kashmir as an independent nation expresses the influence of foreign entities on India’s internal affairs and the political impact of such connections.

George Soros' name resurfaces in Adani bribery case. Who is the billionaire and why does BJP often link him to Congress? https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/george-soros-name-resurfaces-in-adani-bribery-case-hindenburg-open-society-foundations-who-is-the-billionaire-and-why-does-bjp-often-link-him-to-congress/articleshow/116133283.cms

George Soros, the man who broke the Bank of England, now trying Hindenburg-styled ambush against Adani https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/george-soros-the-man-who-broke-the-bank-of-england-now-trying-hindenburg-styled-ambush-against-adani/articleshow/103241592.cms The man who has been critical of the Adani Group has linked Modi as a close ally of the Ahmedabad-based business following the Hindenburg report in January this year. "Modi and Adani are close allies...their faith is intertwined. Adani Enterprises is trying to raise funds in the stock markets but failed. Adani is accused of stock manipulation, and his stocks collapsed like a house of cards.

Who is George Soros, the billionaire that India both attacks and partners with? https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-economics/soros-the-man-his-activities-8452031/ India has for years been a big and proud contributor to a United Nations fund that promotes democracy around the world through civil society organisations, many of whom have close links to Soros’s work.
In February 2023, during a speech ahead of the Munich Security Conference, Soros started to talk about industrialist Gautam Adani, and the selloff in stocks of Adani Group companies after the publication of the Hindenburg Research report. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “no democrat” but the Adani “affair” could “open the door to a democratic revival” in India.

Modi Govt Giving Money To Soros': Supriya Shrinate Slams BJP Government For Funding George Soros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foULEB52Fgc Dec 10, 2024
Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate slams Modi-led BJP government on how India is the 4th biggest contributer to the United Nations Democracy Fund which funds George Soros' Open Society Foundation.

https://organiser.org/2024/12/10/268725/bharat/sonia-gandhis-role-in-soros-funded-fdl-ap-under-fire-links-to-pro-kashmiri-independence-group-raise-serious-questions/ In its mission statement, FDL-AP identifies the Kashmir conflict as its primary area of focus, citing its prolonged nature, high death toll, and nuclear implications. The group describes the region’s ...