India orders Greenpeace to shut down over fraud

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: Reuters

India has canceled Greenpeace International's license to operate and gave the group 30 days to close down, citing financial fraud and falsification of data, the environment watchdog said on Friday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has turned the spotlight on foreign charities since he took office last year, accusing some of trying to hamper projects on social and environmental grounds.

Last year, Modi government withdrew permission to Greenpeace to receive foreign funding, saying the money was used to block industrial projects.

Under the latest order issued by authorities in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu where Greenpeace is registered, the government said it had found that the organization had violated the provisions of law by engaging in fraudulent dealings. Greenpeace denied any wrongdoing and said the closure was a "clumsy tactic" to silence dissent.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/us-india-greenpeace-idUSKCN0SV1OP20151106

[haikugal]

1. Greenpeace can be so damned inconvenient!

[Demeter]

2. Interesting

Modi pulling a Reagan....I didn't like him to begin with, now even less.

[cosmicone]

3. In a country where people are starving, thwarting development

can be a death sentence to the poor.

Greenpeace wouldn't be able to do this in China for example ...

Good for Modi

[HassleCat]

4. Very true

India may still have a few square meters not covered by chemical pollution, waste, garbage, etc. They need to get busy and wrap things up. For the benefit of the poor, dontcha know.

[cosmicone]

5. Few square meters? Do you have links to show that?

Or hyperbole is the strategy of the day?

[HassleCat]

6. OK, hectares, then (eom)

[angrychair]

8. Its obvious

India is the ideal paradise for an HRC supporter in which the rich bankers and developers have all the power and wealth
http://m.thehindu.com/data/indias-staggering-wealth-gap-in-five-charts/article6672115.ece

[hopemountain]

14. and for the future of india

her desecrated land and her people. modi is a greedy pig - bought and paid for.

[JI7]

15. they are poor because of the fucked up people in power

the wealthy scum who pay no taxes . the entire system is corrupt with wealthy stealing money from the poor.

[Hydra]

7. Growth(Greed) marches on

And burns everything in its path.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. The Bush Administration tried to prosecute Greenpeace with obscure 19th century laws about pirates.

[MisterP]

10. this reflects the likes of Mahatir Mohamed--"who are you colonialists to tell us

to deny the Third World its lumber after denuding its own forests?"

they pull the same trick with human rights--fortunately it only fools Sean Penn, IIRC

it's the old dream of "catching up"--that if you dammed every river, soaked the planet in chemicals, and made more workers for the underpopulated areas India or Mexico would be a new Britain or America by 1965, tops; the inevitable failure of this utopia gave us deforestation, famine, fundies, 9-11, ISIS, and the cartels

[mahina]

11. Meanwhile rural citizens are rising up and stopping coal-fired electricity plants in India

that would destroy their agriculture based communities. Grandmothers and grandfathers are making roadblocks. And it's working. Greenpeace is helping them. "Industrial projects" is one way to put it.
I'm sure Greenpeace will find a way.

[MisterP]

13. here's the LA Times story I just ran into coincidentally

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-india-us-coal-20151015-story.html

[daleo]

12. The transnational capitalist class in India could care less about the environment

Or the poor. Just like the transnational capitalist class in the rest of the world. Profits are all they care about.