Srinagar Scribes wear Black Badges, Demand End To Media Gag

Srinagar journalists wear black badges, demand end to the gag on media

Thursday saw the first public protest by journalists in Srinagar,who demanded access to Internet and mobile services, suspended since August 5

Journalists protesting against communication blackout in Srinagar

Majid Maqbool

Published: 3 Oct 2019, 7:44 PM

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Two months after the Government shut down the Internet in Kashmir, journalists staged a protest at the Srinagar Press Club on Thursday. Demanding an end to the communication blackout, gag orders on the Press and denial of access to the Internet, journalists wore black badges and held placards. They also marched from the press club to Pratap Park, around which are several offices of prominent newspapers and news agencies.

The placards carried slogans such as ‘Journalism is not a crime’, ‘End Press Gag’, ‘Stop Criminalising Journalism’ and ‘We are not mouthpieces’. One of the placards demanded release of journalists from the ‘sub-jail of the Media Facilitation Centre’.

Access to the Internet, denied to people since August 5, is one of the key demands made in a statement signed by members of eleven media bodies. The statement said, “Communication blackout, especially snapping of Internet and mobile services is seriously hampering professional work of journalists operating in the valley.”

The statement said that journalists have had enough of it

“60 days of restrictions on the media, 60 days without any communication and 60 days of information blackout by the government”.

One of the journalists Athar Parvaiz pointed out that journalists have been denied for two months the freedom to work. Newspapers have not been able to upload their web editions since August 5, he pointed out.

Posters carried by protestors 

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“The prolonged communication blockade has made it impossible for us to work in such a stifling environment,” said Athar.

Two months after the lockdown, the government’s Media Facilitation Centre, he claimed, had just 10 computer terminals and 15 minutes of Internet access to each journalist.

“There is no privacy at the media centre where we are forced to access our emails and send out stories. Everyone can see our emails and the stories we file at the centre,” said Athar. “Also, those living outside Srinagar have to travel long distances every day to reach the media centre,” he added.

Another journalist Quratulain Rehbar felt that the Government could not allow this situation to continue indefinitely. The Government should at least inform how long this state of affairs would continue, he said.

Following the suspension of internet, including broadband internet connections to local newspaper offices, all local newspapers have been publishing fewer copies and with only four to eight pages. Even lease lines of ne

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Mahatma’s ashes stolen, photo defaced in MP’s Rewa

As India celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, unidentified miscreants stole a portion of his ashes kept at Bapu Bhawan in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa

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Published: 4 Oct 2019, 9:59 AM

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As India celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, unidentified miscreants stole a portion of his ashes kept at Bapu Bhawan in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa, police said on Thursday.

The miscreants also wrote "anti-national" on the picture of the Mahatma that was put up on a hoarding-like structure inside the Bhawan.

Rewa district Congress chief Gurmeet Singh spotted the mischief when he reached Laxman Bagh, which houses the Bapu Bhawan, to pay tributes. He lodged a formal complaint with the police and Congress workers staged a protest seeking identification and action of the miscreants.

Rewa's Superintendent of Police Abid Khan confirmed that a case under Sections 153B, 504 and 505 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against unidentified miscreants.

"We received the complaint from Gurmeet Singh and an FIR has been lodged. We are trying to identify the culprits and CCTV footage of Bapu Bhawan and nearby areas is being scanned," he said.

Residents of the area are in a state of shock and at a loss of words on how the miscreants could enter Bapu Bhawan and vandalise the photo without being noticed.

Also expressing his shock at the development, the Mahatma's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi, in a statement, said: "Just heard the news that someone/people stole the funeral ashes of my great grandfather kept in a shrine at Gandhi Bhavan in Rewa Madhya Pradesh. They also defaced his photo by spraying the word 'Traitor'. Wish he wasn't the father of the nation, wish he wasn't Mahatma. I wish he was only my great grandfather."

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Death Money

Cancer industry not looking for a cure; they’re too busy making money

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 by: JD Heyes
Tags: bad doctors, badcancer, badhealth, badmedicine, Big Pharma, cancer industry, Chemotherapy, dangerous drugs, disease, Medical Tyranny, profits

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(Natural News) It may sound ridiculously cynical to some, but there are many who believe that cancer is too big a business (meaning too lucrative) to ever actually cure. And they say the proof is in the numbers.

As noted by Your News Wire, if any of the existing low-cost, natural and alternative cancer treatments were ever to be approved, then the healthcare industry’s cornerstone revenue producer would vanish within months.

And Big Pharma isn’t about to let that happen. The industry is what is keeping us from a real cancer cure.

Consider how big a business cancer has become. In the 1940s, before all of the technology and innovation we see today, just one out of every 16 people was stricken with cancer; by the 1970s, that ratio fell to one in 10. Today, one in two males are at risk of developing some form of cancer, and for women that ratio is one in three.

Adds Health Impact, “We have lost the war on cancer.” The site notes further:

“The cancer industry is probably the most prosperous business in the United States. In 2014, an estimated 1,665,540 new cancer cases diagnosed and 585,720 cancer deaths in the US. $6 billion of tax-payer funds are cycled through various federal agencies for cancer research, such as the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The NCI states that the medical costs of cancer care are $125 billion, with a projected 39 percent increase to $173 billion by 2020.” 

The belief among skeptics is that treating cancer has become an industry in and of itself, employing too many people while producing far too much income to permit a cure to be found (or approved). Indeed, the current research on cancer medications is based on the presumption that the disease will grow (as will the market), not get smaller.

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A 2010 documentary entitled, Cut Poison Burn, by filmmaker Wayne Chesler, presented a number of powerful facts regarding corruption in the business of conventional treatments for cancer (surgery, chemotherapy and radiation) in the U.S. Here are a number of quotes taken from the documentary that reveal why we’re no closer today than ever to a cancer cure, as reported by Your News Wire:

“From 1920 to the present time, we have made little progress in the treatment of adult cancers. So, a person who gets prostate cancer or breast cancer today will live as long as a person who got it in 1920.” – Charles B. Simone, M.MS., M.D., Founder, Simone Protective Cancer Center.

“Why are people terrified when they hear the word cancer? Because they know it [conventional cancer treatment] doesn’t work.” – Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D. Founder, Whitaker Wellness Institute

“Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud.” – Dr. Linus Pauling 1986, Nobel Laureate

There are more, including the U.S. government’s own admission in patenting someone else’s potential cancer cure, that current treatments “are themselves carcinogenic” and may actually promote recurrences of cancer.

But you get the point: There is no real incentive to cure something that generates so much employment and profit; just imagine all of the cancer treatment specialists and their staff members who would be out of a job if this disease was ever cured.

As Natural News founder Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has said, there is nothing in “modern” cancer treatment that results in true healing. The law and public policy have been established to prevent cures:

“Treating cancer with anything that actually works has been entirely outlawed in the United States, where ‘healing has become a crime,’ say independent observers. The conventional cancer industry isn’t interested in curing the disease; it’s interested in profiting from its continuation.”

J.D. Heyes is a senior writer for Natural News and News Target, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.