[New Word] Developmint

1) An item of breath freshening confectionery that causes one whiteness and civilisation

2) Wealth accrued through working in the development industry.

3) The key institutions through which the currency of said industry is conceived and pushed out.

Will the Labour Party select Tulip Siddiq for the Hampstead and Kilburn parliamentary seat?

This weekend, the Hampstead and Kilburn Labour Party are seeking a replacement to contest the marginal parliamentary seat soon to be vacated by Glenda Jackson. There are some legitimate questions that deserve answers regarding one of the candidates for the ticket.

Cllr Tulip Siddiq of Camden has no doubt many talents which have been exercised in the public interest. These I do not contest. Earlier today I came across an article in the North London Ham & High publication in which she reacts to an e-mail circulated concerning her and her family's dealings with the violent politics of Bangladesh and Vladmir Putin.

Clearly I am not important enough to have been sent the email, but I can imagine the picture attached because I remember being puzzled in January at the sight of Prime Minster Hasina of Bangladesh running off to Moscow with a large family retinue to sign a loan deal for arms worth $1 billion, as well as a controversial nuclear power agreement. The relationship between Sheikh Rehana, Cllr Tulip's mother, and the vile Awami League politics in the UK is common knowledge amongst deshis.

It is relevant and pertinent to ask Cllr Siddiq what her stance is on the issue of the Awami League's violence and nepotism. This is because she comes from a Bangladeshi background, as do a number of other people in Britain. It also shines a light on how she would view the same issue in the context of UK politics.

The Ham & High erroneously makes the following statement,

The email, which features a photograph of her alongside Russian president Vladimir Putin taken during a visit to see her family in Bangladesh, has been reported to Camden Council’s solicitor by councillors.

Kremlin website picture from Moscow Meeting on 15th January 2013

Picture with Cllr Tulip (far left) with PM Hasina and Vladmir Putin in the same attire.

It appears that both of the pictures above were taken at the same time. This photographic supports the view that Cllr Tulip was part of the delegation to Moscow. Putin has not been to Dhaka.

Russian power politics and gangsters are scarey as hell, but from the little I have gleaned, its a lucrative arms deal for merchants of death, who at the Bangladesh tax payer's expense can make money arming security forces to kill Bangladeshi citizens.

Nuclear power for Bangladesh at this moment in time is a stupid and dangerous idea, and an expensive non answer to the electricity shortage. Voice for Justice has articulated this clearly of late.

Readers of this blog will probably be aware that the Bangladesh Government's recent massacre of unarmed protesters on May 6th really ticked me off [Odhikar Fact Finding Report]. The Government of Bangladesh, and its support network are increasingly violent towards those who who oppose them.

It is in the public interest to know Cllr Siddiq's stance on the state brutality perpetrated Hasina's government.

We have no choice as to whom we are related, but we have a choice in whether to endorse and support their actions.

Labour party members should bear this aspect of the candidate in mind when making their final selection.

[New Word] Diasporani

Dedicated to south asians with religion issues and the drama queenery of the spectacle of public confessional.                          

PM of Bangladesh accuses victims of government brutality faking injury and wearing read dye

Neoliberalistan 2053

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Obama Hasan slapped the side of his head, to get the ridiculousness out of his legal Muslimness implant and out of his consciousness. It was hard to these days, and it seemed to get worse every Ramadan.

In fact the only part of Ramadan which had not been sold of was Salatul Duha, nobody really cared too much for that super-obligatory prayer.

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The adverts for zakat were out too, it was a tradition now, competing in good works they would say. It was Islamic Green Leaf versus Muslim Orangade, and the new kid on the block Muslim thumbs, a charity dedicated to freedom of movement across all sorts of borders.

Way before even the first erroneous moonsighting Obama Hassan had been buttered up for a month of giving no actuay thought to the problems of the world. His all time favourite was...

Reflections as Egypt goes all #shahbag

Patrick Galey puts the happenings in Egypt in a way that renders the foolishnesses rampant in Bangladesh (Re: Shahbag) and Turkey (re: Occupygezi) http://patrickgaley.com/2013/07/01/the-day-the-revolution-died/

The power of the Fascmob, a spontaneous gathering of intolerant mendacity,  to reverse justice and political gains is never to be under estimated.

I remember when the news of Mubarak's stepping aside was announced on Jumma day of February the 11th 2011, the closing day of the World Social Forum in Dakar Senegal. Then, the possibility of another world seemed closer then than it does today.

It was a strange time that I called Threedom, where Islamists, Leftists and Liberals jumped for joy and painted their meanings all over the matter.

The problem of seculib cheating, and the support for this cheating needs to be investigated.

Haiku

Sorrowful colonial heirs -

Winded Islamists

That #BanglaSpring

Bangladesh Prime Minster Hasina accuses brutalised demonstators of play acting and smearing their bodies with red dye

This is the prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wajed lying in Parliament about the government brutality of the 5th and 6th May. First she gets the month of the incident wrong and has to be corrected.

Lest it get lost in social media ephemera here is the most vital snippet of the speech

"..and that day's event was fully televised, you have seen how they have rubbed red dye onto their bodies and when police came and called them they got up and ran away... we saw that dead bodies made a run for it! this kind of drama has been made there." [4m 30s to 4m 46s]

For the rest of it she repeats the stories that her government has been cocreating with the press like the Dhaka Tribune and the Daily Star.

On Shutki Showcialism

A common political hue
In the boastees of Bangladeshi developmentia.
The smell,
I am told
Is an acquired taste.

It stinks,
Figuratively
And, who knows, perhaps literally
To Hell
And back.

It is worn for show,
A transnational con-trick
From the diasporas of dinia
And the djuice degeneration.

Its a Subaltern benefit cheat sheet of power.

So wave your kites you scoundrels
To catch wind
With disconcerting facility.
Feign feminine fragility.
Feed that nonsense engine

Know that you have become like Yahya's regime,
The one you flagellate about,
But just with better art,
Sorry, I meant PR.
And an epic bindi.

With a magnitude proportional
To inverted radicalism
On the Shapla Squared.

Cinema of the Soul - The Spook who sat by the Door

A freind of mine has been stalking US-based 'Spirit of Bandung' scholar Sohail Daulatzai about London town and brings me this film adapted from a book by the same name in 1973, which I must share.

Its about a black brother who is initialy hired by American spy masters to fulfill some racial quota, but is then assigned to photocopying. In response to this, our comrade learrns all that he can and then leaves to set up an organisation to train the vanguard for the upcoming race war.