Ravi Kuchimanchi and Aravinda Pillalamarri, AID Jeevansathis, are touring AID chapters in the United States. If you have seen Swades, you may relate to some of the work that AID has done in India.
It turns out that while scripting `Swades,' Ashutosh and his team visited Bilgaon, a tribal village in the Narmada valley where AID supported a power generation project to light up the entire hamlet. Ashutosh visited Bilgaon after spending considerable time with AID Jeevansaathis, Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi, who returned to India from the U.S. to work for rural development and were closely involved with the Bilgaon project.
The people of Bilgaon did 2000 person-days of `shramdaan' (labour) to make their village-energy self-sufficient. (http://www.aidindia.org/projects/illus/pedal.htm)
Marian Fitzwalter writes in.
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The 700 billion dollar bailout has set the rumor mills churning. Much the Miller's son links to an article from May of 2008 in the Pakistani Daily.
SH: Our case is alleging that Bush and his puppets Rice and Cheney and Mueller and Rumsfeld and so forth, Tenet, were all involved not only in aiding and abetting and allowing 9/11 to happen but in actually ordering it to happen. Bush personally ordered it to happen. We have some very incriminating documents as well as eye-witnesses, that Bush personally ordered this event to happen in order to gain political advantage, to pursue a bogus political agenda on behalf of the neocons and their deluded thinking in the Middle East. I also wanted to point out that, just quickly, I went to school with some of these neocons. At the University of Chicago, in the late 60s with Wolfowitz and Feith and several of the others and so I know these people personally. And we used to talk about this stuff all of the time. And I did my senior thesis on this very subject - how to turn the U.S. into a presidential dictatorship by manufacturing a bogus Pearl Harbor event. So, technically this has been in the planning at least 35 years.
The Bush government behind 9/11? Are you kidding? The folks are not competent enough to pull off something like that.