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* CORRUPTED BHARATIYA MEDIA - 1 messages, 1 author
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* CHRISTIAN CHURCH YOUTH MINISTER GUILTY OF SEX CRIMES AGAINST 15-YEAR-OLD
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TOPIC: CORRUPTED BHARATIYA MEDIA
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 22 2010 6:10 pm
From: usenet@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj)


The 2009 corruption rankings for 180 countries in the World Democracy Audit:

http://www.worldaudit.org/corruption.htm

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

In article <4b82f426$0$12421$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net>,
"harmony" <aka@hotmail.com> posted:
>
> perhaps it is time to acknowledge publicly with a sense of inevitability
> that indians are and will remain corrupt for a long time to come.
> such confession would help see thr' the media with a sense of realism and
> comfortably.
> so i urge all political parties to gather together at rajghat and say india
> is corrupt, buyers beware.

> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> > Forwarded message from S. Kalyanaraman
> >
> > Corrupted Indian media
> >
> > Thursday, February 18, 2010
> >
> > If the fence eats away the field, who is to save the crop?
> > The fourth estate is becoming yet another chamcha of a corrupt regime
> > with little care for national interests. Who will cure the corrupt
> > Indian media?
> >
> > S. Kalyanaraman
> >
> > http://www.thehindu.com/2010/02/18/stories/2010021852821000.h
> >
> > Advertising, Bollywood, Corporate power
> >
> > P. Sainath
> > Thursday, February 18, 2010
> >
> > Issues today have to be dressed up in ways certified by the corporate
> > media. They have to be justified not by their importance to the
> > public but by their acceptability to the media, their owners and
> > sponsors.
> >
> > That the terrible tragedy in Pune demands serious, sober coverage is
> > a truism. One of the side-effects of the ghastly blast has been
> > unintended, though. The orgy of self-congratulation that marked the
> > media coverage of just about everything since January is now in pause
> > mode. Maybe the flak they copped for their handling of the November
> > 2008 Mumbai terror blasts has something to do with it. But there is,
> > so far, some restraint. At least, relative to the meal they made of
> > the 2008 blasts.
> >
> > Otherwise, through January and early February, the media stood up
> > bravely for freedom of expression and some other constitutional
> > rights you've never heard of. They slew the demons of lingual
> > chauvinism and worse. And they're just spoiling for a fight with any
> > other enemy of our proud democracy. Just so long as they can keep
> > Bollywood in central focus.
> >
> > Every issue is now reduced to a fight between individuals, heroic,
> > villainous or just fun figures. So the complex issues behind the
> > shunning of Pakistani cricketers by the Indian Premier League are
> > reduced to a fight between Shah Rukh Khan and Bal Thackeray. (As one
> > television channel began its programme: "Shah Rukh stands tall. His
> > message to the nation ..."). The agonies of Bundelkhand are not about
> > hunger and distress in our Tiger Economy. They are just a stand-off
> > between Rahul Gandhi and Mayawati. The issues of language and
> > migrations in Maharashtra are merely a battle between Rahul Gandhi
> > and Uddhav Thackeray. And the coverage is all about who blinked
> > first, who lost face.
> >
> > The devastating rise in food prices (let's skip the boring factors)
> > and the mess in agriculture are a face-off between Prime Minister
> > Manmohan Singh and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. The pathetic
> > squabble within the Samajwadi Party is virtually a television serial.
> > A blow-by-blow account of Amar Singh's valiant bid to retain his
> > honour against Mulayam Singh's yahoos. (Indeed, some Hindi channels
> > have begun using the language of theatre to report it -- Act II,
> > Scene II. And there was one programme which Mr. Amar Singh ended
> > humming verses from his favourite film song). The Bt brinjal story
> > had mostly only one villain -- Union Environment Minister Jairam
> > Ramesh. He had no visible adversary unless you pose the humble
> > Brinjal as the hero. But that won't work for television. The other,
> > more sinister heroes in this media story preferred to function from
> > behind the scenes, plying newspapers and channels with faked data and
> > false information. Hell hath no fury like a powerful corporate
> > scorned, as the Minister is learning.
> >
> > Issues? The same media that passionately fought for freedom of
> > expression for a month from mid-January had billed the 2009 Lok Sabha
> > poll as one without issues. The country was actually burning with
> > them, but they didn't make good television either. More accurately,
> > the dominant media hadn't the slightest intention of covering them
> > with any sincerity. The story of rising food prices remains one of
> > the worst reported -- no matter how much space it has been given.
> > Sure, there have been exceptions -- as in the case of some
> > outstanding reports on Bundelkhand. But they've been just that.
> > Exceptions.
> >
> > If these last six weeks have been about freedom of expression, we
> > have neither. Or, at best, a twisted freedom and a tortured
> > expression. There is little freedom for thousands of journalists in
> > the corporate media and the few editors who still believe we ought to
> > be doing a better job of informing the public on the key issues of
> > our time. There's very little freedom for readers or viewers, too.
> > For days on end, it didn't matter which television channel you
> > switched to, it was SRK on all of them. When that movie drew to a
> > close, the 'Rahul Gandhi storms Sena den' film was released and
> > sustained. A visit of some hours produced days of footage. But with
> > the end of Mr. Gandhi's visit to Mumbai, it was back to Shah Rukh
> > Khan. Of course, viewers had the freedom to choose, which sets us
> > apart from totalitarian states. They could choose any channel, from
> > among many, to watch SRK saying exactly the same thing, at the same
> > time. And they will be free to choose again when the figure is
> > Amitabh Bachchan or Aamir Khan.
> >
> > If what we've watched on critical issues these past weeks is
> > expression, we're through scraping the barrel. We're drilling holes
> > in its bottom.
> >
> > Many corporate-owned media houses have sacked hundreds of journalists
> > and non-journalist staff since late 2008. Hundreds of other
> > journalists have suffered wage cuts. Of course, the 'right to know'
> > of readers and viewers does not extend to this information. Why scare
> > the poor lambs? And how can you tell them the truth about that while
> > everyday crowing about the once-again booming economy? It might lead
> > audiences to ask that dull, boring question: "If things are so good,
> > why are you axing so many people?" Answering that means revealing the
> > interests the corporate media have in the fate of the stock market.
> > It means talking about their need to keep the shares of the companies
> > they are linked to (or have heavily invested in) afloat and buoyant.
> > That is regardless of how rotten they are within. No matter how their
> > own shares in those companies were obtained. And no agonising over
> > how unethical the means used to keep them heated. This was in part
> > behind the fatwa issued by some newspapers to their staff banning the
> > 'R' word last year. Recession is what happens in the United States.
> > In India, it was a slowdown -- and it's already turning around
> > brilliantly. The hundreds of sacked and ruined staff have little
> > freedom to speak of. Even the professional communicators within them
> > cannot tell their own audiences their story. Cannot tell them they
> > were laid off, let alone tell them why.
> >
> > Leave aside escaping a recession, India Shining is back. The cover
> > story of a leading weekly gushes over the fantastic 'rural
> > resurgence' that is, in fact, saving all of us. Farmers are doing
> > just great. Drip, micro-sprinkler, and other micro irrigation, the
> > stories in it suggest, played a major role in this hidden-from-the-
> > human-eye revival. This resurgence is seen more in urban media than
> > in rural India. And the proliferation of such stories across the
> > media spectrum reflects, in part, the strenuous media efforts of a
> > major Maharashtra-based company. A corporate group that spends a
> > fortune on propaganda and whose interests in this line of irrigation
> > are pushed by some of the most powerful members of the Union Cabinet.
> > Oddly, stories such as these come out even as the government's own
> > projections for growth in agriculture are dismaying.
> >
> > The main 'rural resurgence' story hit the stands the same day the
> > National Crime Records Bureau officially brought the 2008 data for
> > farm suicides on to its website. The 16,196 suicides that year
> > brought the tally of farmers' suicides since 1997 to 199,132. That's
> > the largest single, sustained wave of such suicides ever recorded in
> > history -- anywhere. Guess nobody told them about the resurgence.
> > Farmers in 2008 did know of that year's loan waiver, but it didn't
> > stop large numbers of them from taking their lives.
> >
> > The 'rural resurgence' story comes after any number of the
> > government's own committees, commissions and reports suggest that it
> > revise poverty figures upwards. Whether it's the Suresh Tendulkar
> > committee, the BPL Expert Group, or earlier the National Commission
> > for Enterprises in the Unorganised sector. Or a U.N. study which
> > reports that 34 million more Indians remained poor or joined their
> > ranks in 2008 and 2009, because of the 'slowdown.' That is, 34
> > million more than would have met that fate prior to the 2008 crisis.
> > It matters little if Census data show us that 8 million cultivators
> > quit agriculture between just 1991 and 2001. (That is, on average,
> > well over 2,000 a day, every day for 10 years.) Or that the 2011
> > Census just months from now will show us how many more have fled
> > agriculture since then, un-seduced by the rural resurgence. Never
> > mind the facts. One giant private irrigation company stands to make
> > its already huge fortune bigger. Good for growth.
> >
> > The ABC of Indian media roughly translates as Advertising, Bollywood
> > and Corporate power. Some years ago, the 'C' would have been cricket,
> > but that great sport is fast becoming a small cog in the large wheel
> > of corporate profit. (In the IPL, the ABC of media converge, even
> > merge.) And, of course, everything but everything, has to be
> > bollywoodised. To now earn attention, issues have to be dressed up
> > only in ways certified by the corporate media. They have to be
> > justified not by their importance to the public but by their
> > acceptability to the media, their owners and sponsors. The more
> > entrenched that ABC gets, the greater the danger to the language of
> > democracy the media so proudly claim to champion.
> >
> > End of forwarded message from S. Kalyanaraman
> >
> > Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> > Om Shanti
> >
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TOPIC: CHRISTIAN CHURCH YOUTH MINISTER GUILTY OF SEX CRIMES AGAINST 15-YEAR-
OLD GIRL
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 22 2010 7:50 pm
From: usenet@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj)


Youth minister guilty of sex crimes

By Barrett J. Brunsman
Cincinnati Enquirer
Monday, February 22, 2010

Batavia - The former youth minister at a Clermont County church
pleaded guilty this morning to sexual battery and unlawful sexual
conduct involving a 15-year-old girl.

Christopher E. Evans, 39, could get up to 50 years in prison when
sentenced April 26 by Judge Victor M. Haddad of Common Pleas Court.
He also faces a fine of up to $100,000.

Evans said little during the hearing. As defense attorney James K.
Ferris and the prosecutor conferred with the judge, Evans bowed his
head and wiped tears from his eyes with a handkerchief.

After serving any prison time Haddad might impose, Evans will be
required to register as a sex offender with local police every 90
days for the rest of his life.

A full-time minister at Saltair Church of Christ on Ohio 222 in Tate
Township for more than two years, Evans faced up to 100 years in
prison after being indicted Dec. 16 on 10 counts of each charge. He
entered the guilty plea after the prosecution agreed to drop half the
charges, which spared the girl from having to testify at a trial.

The judge allowed Evans to remain free on his own recognizance so
long as he has no contact with the girl, but Haddad said that could
change.

Assistant Prosecutor Bill Ferris, who is unrelated to the defense
attorney, "just now became aware of some letters that may have been
sent by you to the victim," the judge said to Evans. "I don't have
those letters, and I'm not going to react to them until I see them.
..

"If those letters are real and they say some things that are
disturbing to the court, (the prosecutor) may ask me to set a hearing
on your bond," the judge said. "Here's what you need to know: You're
going to sink or swim based on what you've done and on what you do.
.. I'm capable of putting you on (probation), and I'm capable of
giving you 50 years and sleeping like a baby."

Evans had been acting as a parent to the girl, the prosecutor told
the judge.

She had been living with Evans, his wife and their children on Pitzer
Road, but the teen has been reunited with her parents, Brother Bob
Wickline, senior minister of the church, told The Enquirer.

At first, "it was a very innocent situation," Wickline said. "The
girl's parents were moving out of the area. She wanted to finish her
school year in the Bethel area. The parents agreed. ...

"It became a more permanent situation," Wickline said. "She became a
part of (the Evans) family, and they attended church here together."

Evans began a sexual relationship with the girl in mid-July, and it
continued until authorities were notified Dec. 7, Sheriff A.J. "Tim"
Rodenberg said.

"The authorities had no knowledge of this at all until I went (to
police) with information I had received" from the wife of Evans,
Wickline said.

"His wife is one of the most exemplary, sweet, Christian women you
will ever meet," Wickline said. "It was only through her concerns and
the church's participation that this came to light. ... We responded
to it immediately in the proper manner."

Evans was full-time youth minister to the congregation of about 400
people from November 2007 until December of last year.

The nondenominational church was founded in 1948. Its Web site calls
it "a down-home country church where folks are still the salt of the
Earth."

The girl was a member of the congregation's youth group, but there
was no indication any abuse took place at the church or during church
activities, the sheriff has said.

Evans had lived in the 3200 block of Pitzer Road in Tate Township,
but since his arrest has moved to U.S. 62 in the Macon area of Brown
County. He had no known prior criminal record, according to the
sheriff's office.

More at:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20100222/NEWS0107/2230309/Youth-minister-guilty-of-sex-crimes

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

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== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 22 2010 7:56 pm
From: Greatest Mining Pioneer of Australia of all Times


On Feb 23, 4:50 am, use...@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr.
Jai Maharaj) wrote:

Yep, we find the same abuse going on in India all the time ....What
are you trying to prove, Jai ?

Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud
Australia Mining Pioneer
Discoverer & Legal Owner of Telfer Mine (Australia largest Copper &
Gold Mine)
Nifty (Cu) & Kintyre (U, Th) Mines, all in the Great Sandy Desert
Exploration Geologist & Offshore Consultant
Founder of the True Geology

~ Ignorance is the Cosmic Sin, the One Never Forgiven ~


for background info.
http://warrigalpress.com.au/grule.html
http://users.indigo.net.au/don/tel/index.html
http://users.indigo.net.au/don/tel/nac.html
http://members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/turcaud.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s28534.htm
"True Geology" Foundation Document
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/69327
"Turcaud Bath" as a free gift to Suffering Humanity
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/107947


== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Mon, Feb 22 2010 8:04 pm
From: usenet@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj)


Youth minister guilty of sex crimes

By Barrett J. Brunsman
Cincinnati Enquirer
Monday, February 22, 2010

Batavia - The former youth minister at a Clermont County church
pleaded guilty this morning to sexual battery and unlawful sexual
conduct involving a 15-year-old girl.

Christopher E. Evans, 39, could get up to 50 years in prison when
sentenced April 26 by Judge Victor M. Haddad of Common Pleas Court.
He also faces a fine of up to $100,000.

Evans said little during the hearing. As defense attorney James K.
Ferris and the prosecutor conferred with the judge, Evans bowed his
head and wiped tears from his eyes with a handkerchief.

After serving any prison time Haddad might impose, Evans will be
required to register as a sex offender with local police every 90
days for the rest of his life.

A full-time minister at Saltair Church of Christ on Ohio 222 in Tate
Township for more than two years, Evans faced up to 100 years in
prison after being indicted Dec. 16 on 10 counts of each charge. He
entered the guilty plea after the prosecution agreed to drop half the
charges, which spared the girl from having to testify at a trial.

The judge allowed Evans to remain free on his own recognizance so
long as he has no contact with the girl, but Haddad said that could
change.

Assistant Prosecutor Bill Ferris, who is unrelated to the defense
attorney, "just now became aware of some letters that may have been
sent by you to the victim," the judge said to Evans. "I don't have
those letters, and I'm not going to react to them until I see them.
..

"If those letters are real and they say some things that are
disturbing to the court, (the prosecutor) may ask me to set a hearing
on your bond," the judge said. "Here's what you need to know: You're
going to sink or swim based on what you've done and on what you do.
.. I'm capable of putting you on (probation), and I'm capable of
giving you 50 years and sleeping like a baby."

Evans had been acting as a parent to the girl, the prosecutor told
the judge.

She had been living with Evans, his wife and their children on Pitzer
Road, but the teen has been reunited with her parents, Brother Bob
Wickline, senior minister of the church, told The Enquirer.

At first, "it was a very innocent situation," Wickline said. "The
girl's parents were moving out of the area. She wanted to finish her
school year in the Bethel area. The parents agreed. ...

"It became a more permanent situation," Wickline said. "She became a
part of (the Evans) family, and they attended church here together."

Evans began a sexual relationship with the girl in mid-July, and it
continued until authorities were notified Dec. 7, Sheriff A.J. "Tim"
Rodenberg said.

"The authorities had no knowledge of this at all until I went (to
police) with information I had received" from the wife of Evans,
Wickline said.

"His wife is one of the most exemplary, sweet, Christian women you
will ever meet," Wickline said. "It was only through her concerns and
the church's participation that this came to light. ... We responded
to it immediately in the proper manner."

Evans was full-time youth minister to the congregation of about 400
people from November 2007 until December of last year.

The nondenominational church was founded in 1948. Its Web site calls
it "a down-home country church where folks are still the salt of the
Earth."

The girl was a member of the congregation's youth group, but there
was no indication any abuse took place at the church or during church
activities, the sheriff has said.

Evans had lived in the 3200 block of Pitzer Road in Tate Township,
but since his arrest has moved to U.S. 62 in the Macon area of Brown
County. He had no known prior criminal record, according to the
sheriff's office.

More at:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20100222/NEWS0107/2230309/Youth-minister-guilty-of-sex-crimes

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

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TOPIC: AVATAR'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Feb 23 2010 12:08 am
From: LIBERATOR


On Feb 21, 11:58 pm, use...@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr.
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Avatar's Dirty Little Secret
>
> The SP Sula Review
> Wednesday, February 10, 2010
>
> Aaah Avatar. The epic saga of evil colonialists savaging the peaceful
> indigenous inhabitants of...oh hell, does it really matter? It's
> white Americans and we should all feel guilty for the brutality
> wrought upon the Native Americans, Mexicans, and/or slaves. And yes,
> this includes all white people, even if your ancestors were not here
> during any of those periods. You're guilty no matter what. You're
> white. You're automatically a bigot.
>
> Or if you don't like the racist approach, you can go with the
> plundering nature theme. That works just as well. The earth is
> warming after all. Or is it cooling? That's right, it's cooling.
> Wait. Can I use a lifeline for that one? Because honestly, I think
> that's a trick question. Uh, you know what, I'm gonna go with the
> earth is...spinning?
>
> The problem is, it's all about as real as that stick figure you're
> looking at.
>
> I'm going to tell you a secret. A truth that James Cameron may come
> to regret having unleashed into the world. But a truth nonetheless.
> The secret? This film is not Dances with Wolves in space and the
> imperialistic thematic underpinning is just window dressing; a hoax
> to distract you from what this film really is.
>
> While perusing review sites online, I found something astonishingly
> disturbing. Cameron spent 17 million dollars on one single aspect of
> the film. No, it wasn't creating Pandora. No, it wasn't designing all
> of the military technology. 17 million dollars was spent on
> developing his alien's breasts. Now why would the man spend the
> budget of a small city's government on the non-mammary glands of a
> glorified CGI muppet? Because in his own words:
>
> "These breasts, they need to make every 13-to-17-year-old kid who
> buys a ticket to this thing want to run home, still chubbed up from
> having them bounce around his zit-pocked face for two hours in three
> glorious dimensions, and touch himself with furious abandon. Then
> come back the next day for another go-around." (Playboy Interview,
> Nov 2009) [1]
>
> And that, my friends, is what this movie was really about. Selling
> sex to children.
>
> To put it bluntly: Cameron wants your male child to spend the entire
> film becoming aroused, go home with an erection, masturbate and then
> come back to the theater and spend your money on another ticket so
> that he can have another "go-around". Cameron was banking on these
> sex organs to bring in repeat business. Does Cameron seriously intend
> to turn theaters into the equivalent of under-aged strip joints? That
> may be pushing it a little, but even he would tell you that 17
> million was a small price to pay, considering this film has already
> made 2 billion. Much of it, the very repeat business from the
> children he spoke of and the result of his 17 million dollar
> investment.
>
> Now, I know what some are thinking. I'm taking this quote out of
> context (if that's possible). I'm twisting this whole situation so it
> will fit into some convoluted narrative. Unfortunately, I'm not. In
> this part of the interview, he openly admitted to giving his
> imaginary aliens human sex organs, [2] ones that serve no legitimate
> biological function. His sole purpose for doing this was titillation.
> This, along with other wanton sexist declarations have become quite a
> controversy across the web. Not to mention, there was the notorious
> sex scene which was edited out. Cameron readily confessed he did this
> so he wouldn't lose his PG-13 rating and that under-aged crowd he was
> so ardently targeting. However, if this film was intended to be kid-
> friendly, why was a sex scene [3] written into the script in the
> first place? Unless he had planned to market sex to kids from the
> very beginning.
>
> Avatar wasn't about slavery or Native Americans or the earth or
> anything noble. It was about using those things as cover so that
> James Cameron could make money off of the sexual arousal of children.
> This is at best patently grotesque and at worst depraved and
> perverse. When looking at this objectively, one must consider that
> Cameron does, in fact, believe in the message of the film. And that,
> perhaps, he took a horribly wrong turn in the selling of it. But, in
> weighing the cavalier manner of his admissions, the calculation of
> spending such an obscene amount of money for something so arbitrary,
> and the intricate planning of sexual content, I concluded this was no
> "wrong turn". I truly believe this man fully intended to do what he
> did, because he saw a profit in doing so. I believe he didn't
> consider that it was abusive because he is completely removed from
> the accepted psychology that children are not, in fact, sexual
> objects. And I believe that if confronted about his statements, he
> will either lie, or simply won't care.
>
> Now, it's not that I'm naive or that I haven't noticed our children
> are being targeted by these people in so many ways. But I have
> nephews and I suppose this one hit home. Hard. I see men like James
> Cameron and Roman Polanski profiting, while our children are
> sexualized. Hollywood rails about global warming, while under the
> table, they're hooks sink even deeper into our kids. And we still
> haven't been able to change the dialog to a subject that actually
> matters; like child trafficking or sexual predators. Of course, our
> children don't actually rate concern in Hollywood unless a director
> can make a buck off them.
>
> Maybe if parents started demanding refunds for their children's
> tickets to this film, Hollywood might get the message. Although, I'm
> guessing they will only raise their proverbial middle finger at us
> and give Cameron the Oscar. After all, they did it for Polanski.
>
> Beth Haper
> Editor
>
> Posted by The SP Sula Review on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
>
> [1]  http://www.movieline.com/2009/11/movieline-explores-james-camerons-ex...
> [2]  http://www.globalshift.org/2009/12/dances-with-discrimination-on-avat...
> [3]  http://gawker.com/5445955/if-avatars-sex-scene-was-cut-for-its-pg+13-...
>
> More at:http://thespsulareview.blogspot.com/2010/02/avatars-dirty-little-secr...
>
> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> Om Shanti
>
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I disagree Avatar did not do these things, but other movies do.


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