Cannot say that I am unhappy at the killings at the police training school in Lahore, Pakistan. Perhaps the Pakis should feel some of the grief we felt after Mumbai. Let them collect corpses of innocent people as we did a few months back. The common belief is that this is an attack by the Taliban. It is also widely believed that the ISI, the intelligence wing of the Pakistani army, is training and supplying arms to the Taliban. It was the Paki army which initially formed the Taliban, from students in Madrassas in Pakistan after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, and supported them as they conquered that country and set up an islamic government there. The ISI are said to believe that the Taliban are their pet rottweilers and can be called off at will after having followed their orders and got rid of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. If that is so then they are surely mistaken. You cannot control mad dogs, you just shoot them. What is really scary is that the ISI does not want to control the Taliban at all but wants to establish an islamic state armed with nuclear weapons right on our border. If that seems like happening the international community will have to decide whether to continue embracing Pakistan as they have been doing for 60 years or to destroy it to dust. The Indian government will have to secure our borders so that Pakis do not flood across much as the Bangladeshis are doing at the moment. With the garbage we have at this time we should fear for our future.

Another day, another shooting. This time in a nursing home in the US. Before that it was in Germany where it was a nursery. An 11 year old boy shot his father's pregnant girl friend as she lay sleeping and then calmly rode the school bus to school. No 11 year old would carry out a crime like that unless he has grown up with guns and has been taught how to load and shoot one. In a massive coverup he is to be charged as an adult and may spend his entire life in prison. Yet he is just as much a victim as the dead woman. The manufacturer's of guns are the people who should be serving lives in prison for the millions being killed worldwide by their lethal product. Instead they are billionaires protected by the NRA, a collection of pathological sociopaths, citing some weird amendment in the constitution. We are used to Hollywood movies about drug smugglers and how brave DEA agents risk lives to stop these evil men. Yet it seems that just as drugs are being smuggled into the US so guns are being smuggled from US to Mexico where more than 6000 men died in the border region last year because of drug cartels fighting over territory and the police. Cigarettes come with health warnings and the Indian government wants manufacturers to put skull and bones on the packets but guns have no restrictions. People are being shot over parking arguments and schoolboys are killing other boys. The police are supplying farmers with guns in Jharkhand to fight Naxals. People die and the lies go on.

Since the subprime crisis broke many companies have shut down. Venerable institutions like Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers have gone bust. Thousands including CEOs have lost their jobs. Those who are still employed find themselves vilified in the press and facing questions from very angry lawmakers representing the anger felt by the public. In all this mayhem one CEO has benefited tremendously and that is Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of Britain. While the US system forced George Bush to step aside after two terms there is no such restriction on Brown. For over a decade he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which means finance minister, and carried out a policy of privatisation, less taxes for the rich and even less restrictions on financial institutions such as banks. While the UK taxpayer has bailed out RBS with over 20 billion sterling he has allowed its Chairman, Sir Fred Goodwin, to retire at just 50 years of age with a pension of 700,000 pounds per year. Yesterday some people broke groundfloor windows of Sir Fred's Edinburgh home and vandalised his luxury car. No such brickbats for Brown. Since the crisis broke he has been striding the world stage like a collosus, dashing off to european capitals, lecturing the US Congress and now confering in Chile. He will be hosting the G20 summit next week and his poll ratings are up. Just proves that politicians have too much power and we the people are mugs.

In his speech yesterday President Obama laid out his plans for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He intends to send an additional 17000 fighting troops, 4000 troops for training Afghan soldiers and civilian officials to train Afghan police and administrators. Clearly the Americans are looking to hit the Taliban very hard in Afghanistan. At the same time they are going to continue using Predator drones to bomb Taliban and Al Qaeda inside Pakistan, probabaly expanding the area of operations. He has promised targeted civilian aid to Pakistan as well as military aid to help the Paki army to fight terrorists. Unfortunately the Paki army is an organised crime syndicate with huge business interests in everything from property to imports and exports. They are taking in huge protection money from the Taliban drug trade and have every interest in helping the Taliban continue fighting NATO forces. The army knows that its survival and wealth depends on the absence of peace because fear makes people turn towards its men in uniform. Pakistan broke away from India in 1947 and always compares itself against the standards set by its neighbour. While the Indian economy is booming giving India greater international influence the Pakis are having to beg for survival from the IMF. The army cannot allow Pakistan to become a basket case like Myanmar so it will need a war for its survival. If it starts to lose in the west it may start a war against India. Our survival depends on which gang wins the elections.

The freeloading press is constantly telling us how India is going to avoid recession now afflicting countries such as Britain, Japan and Singapore. We are told that our growth is going to be 6% plus and will surge once trade in the rest of the world recovers. Today's paper has big headlines saying how the Sensex has given the third best returns in the Asia Pacific region. However other news would seem to indicate that all is not great as they would have us think. The RBI governor, Mr. Subbarao has said that next fiscal, 2009-2010, will be tougher than the present one. He is unable to reduce interest rates any further because 10 year government bond yields are very high having crossed 7%. Although everyone points to the wholesale inflation index which is down to 0.27% Consumer Price Index is still high, double digits in some cases. He thinks it is a good thing because this will prevent deflation. The reason for the high bond yields is that the government will have to borrow Rs.1400 billion from April- September and Rs. 2410 billion in the nest quarter. What will happen in the next half of the year is anybody's guess. With the government sucking funds out of the market credit will remain tight and interest rates will remain high. With Europe and the USA at loggerheads about the path to recovery, with the Czech Prime Minister describing the US plan as ' the road to hell, there is no guarantee about world trade picking up in the medium term. By this time elections will be over and looks like Congress gang will be back again so who cares. Anyone for stagflation?

To apply for any post of cleaner, bus conductor or lower division clerk, which is the pits in civil service hierarchy, one has to produce a CV detailing qualifications and work experience. The only job that one can get without the slightest qualification, work experience or good character is that of a politician. Thus Cora Aquino became President of Phillipines following the death of her husband as did Sirimavo Bandaranaeke in Sri Lanka. Zardari,a semiliterate, thieving playboy, is President of Pakistan because his wife was killed. Obama has won the Presidency of the US of A because he is handsome, intelligent and charismatic which is precisely what women victims have said about Charles Sobhraj, who is presently in prison in Nepal for murder. India has mainly two types of politicians. One is the family type wherein children of a powerful politician are brought with the knowledge that ' one day all this will be yours ' much like the zamindars of yesteryear. Instead of land or kingdom the leadership of a political gang is past down from father to son or from film star to mistress. The second type has got there by the use of guns and black money, collected from criminal activities. At least 125 members of the present Lok Sabha have been accused of murder, rape and criminal violence but are protected by, so called, ' honourable ' politicians because they are ' innocent until proven guilty.' Since cases will go on forever and the police will probably destroy evidence there is no possibility of these criminals ever being hanged for their crimes. Time for citizens corporations to protect us from evil.

Congratulations Mr. Ratan Tata. The first Nano car priced at Rs. 100,000 will be unveiled today. My vegetable vendor has been waiting eagerly for its debut and has been keenly following its arrested pregnancy, prolonged labour and delayed delivery. But at last the baby is here and long may she live and prosper. Alas, already some blackhearts are beginning to criticise her. One woman, interviewed on television, was lamenting the fact that since it is so cheap every beggar and his aunt will buy one creating more congestion on roads and more pollution. Why is it that Indians are so willing to accept that others, especially whites, are entitled to a far superior standard of living than us? Is it something in the water or have our politicians so successfully brain washed us that we are terrified to even imagine that we should be living like Americans where there are some 900 cars for every thousand individuals? It is the aam aadmi disease in which people are deliberately kept poor by extortionate taxes while the politicians and kleptocrats use the money so raised to live lavish lives as khas aadmis. There is no doubt that mobiles help the poor in many ways. Farmers and fishermen use their mobiles to find the best prices for their produce thus eliminating middlemen. Sadly companies have to turn over 30% of their revenue in the form of various taxes whereas this is 5% in other Asian countries. How long before the Nano is taxes out of reach?

The Indian Home Minister has said that the elections are more important than the IPL. No sir, it's not. Most emphatically, not. The elections are an unaffordably expensive exercise in complete irrelevance as far as the people are concerned. Its function is to legitimise which collection of lying criminals gets to rape and suck the life blood out of Bharat Mata. Since no gang has the remotest possibility of winning a majority we will have a coalition of gangs with scores ministers who will want to plunder as swiftly as they can in case it falls apart. With ministers will come clouds of donothing, blood sucking kleptocrats on bloated salaries and Indian people and businesses will end up paying more in bribes to get anything done. Mother India will continue to top the list of most corrupt countries and come bottom in the list of business friendly ones. Fortunately the cricket chiefs have decided that the IPL will be staged in a foreign country, probably England, which is to stage the ICC twenty:20 right afterwards. Last year the government raked in nearly one billion rupees in taxes from the IPL but now this money will go to the British government. There is a high possibility of matches coinciding with election dates and we shall see which the people prefer. Also we will not have to see the mugs of ugly politicians sitting close to Bollywood stars to profit from their popularity. What a relief. Perhaps we should ask the people as to how many would like to throw shoes instead of voting.

62 years may have passed since the British left India but one pernicious British legacy still persists to this day. Known as ' ragging ,' this is carried out on new entrants to colleges across India by senior students and varies from having to sing film songs to beatings and sexual assault. Last week a boy was beaten to death by 4 seniors in a medical school in Himachal and a girl committed suicide in Karnataka unable to endure the humiliation she had to endure. Why did the parents of the boy ignore his repeated complaints of the beatings? Most probably they could not imagine taking their son away from a promising career. With millions of eligible students and seats limited by reservation for undeserving candidates parents are desperate to see their children get the best start in life no matter what the cost. Why are so many 19 and 20 years old students such sadistic monsters that they would torture an innocent boy to death? Children in India grow up with the knowledge that there is no law or justice in India. They see murderers and rapists winning elections and then being protected by the very police and courts that should be hanging them. If your dad is powerful and/or has plenty of black money you can escape all punishment so they have a profound contempt for the establishment. With the same garbage standing for the coming general elections nothing is going to change and next year we will read more horrific accounts of children killing children.

The Josef Fritzl case has come to an end, thank God. It was impossible to hear how he had imprisoned and raped his daughter for 24 years and fathered 7 children from her. What this woman had to endure is unimaginable. To go through all these pregnancies while looking after her previous children, with no medical or nursing care, no pain relief or anyone to help after childbirth is impossible to fathom. Her own father is also the grandfather of her children. All these thoughts induce such a sense of rage, disgust and nausea that I have tried not to hear or read anything about the case. Then we are told about how the AIG executives, who bankrupted the company, have paid themselves over $ 160 million in bonuses with taxpayers' bailout money. On the surface there is no similarity between Fritzl and all the executives who are accepting huge bonuses, buying luxury jets or going for luxury holidays with bailout money but similarity there is. All these people show a complete lack of shame, honour or empathy that Fritzl is accused of. They think that they are somehow superior to others which entitles them to do whatever they desire without any need for explanation or accountability. Fritzl tortured one person but these people are responsible for the misery of millions. They seem completely oblivious to families losing their homes and having to live on handouts. They lack humanity just like Fritzl. They are all psychopaths and should be locked up with him.

The useless circus which is the general elections has come round again. The Congress agenda is the same old same old lies about getting rid of poverty which they have no intention of doing. After all without the naked aam aadmi they have no agenda so poverty is essential to the Congress party's survival. The BJP is led by a very old man who would kill to be prime minister before he dies. His sole strategy has been to oppose everything the government has done including the nuclear deal which was initiated by the BJP itself. He is going to lose and probably choke on his bile. The regional parties are irrelevant. Parties like DMK or TDP are relevant only to tamil or telugu speakers and have no relevance in the rest of the country. Unfortunately they will hold the balance of power and will be able to barter their support for lucrative posts which will provide them with the power to loot the exchequer. The highly successful 20:20 cricket tournament called the Indian Premier League is supposed to be held during April but the government is doing its utmost to get it cancelled. Rumour is that the politicians are afraid that no one turn up to vote if cricket matches coincide with polling days. It is also possible that politicians want to blackmail the IPL to get a share of the money it will generate and have been told to jump into the putrid gutter they crawled out of. It is impossible to see how we will ever get rid of the filth that now pollutes our lives.

The International Criminal Court based at the Hague has issued a warrant against Omar Bashir of Sudan for crimes against humanity. Predictably Bashir has reacted like the low life he is by describing the indictment as neocollonialism and banning aid organisations. Where have we heard that before? In Africa of course or Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe to be precise. Scum though these men are there is an iota of logic behind their tirades. The Court would be respected if it was even handed and issued warrants for Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush and especially Tony Blair. It was Britian's support for the illegal war in Iraq which made the attack possible and thus Blair is doubly guilty of genocide, if that is possible. Of course, we must not forget the other country which always has a soft spot for every mass murderer that comes along whether it is Bashir or Pol Pot and that is China. This is a country whose leaders will kill its own people, the Uighurs, the Tibetans or anyone that it sees as a threat. A man who visited China last year was profoundly impressed by its progress but was puzzled at the lack of any birds or animals. He said he did not see any sparrows, pigeons or even crows and no pets. He wondered if the Chinese had eaten everything around. We can only hope that the current economic crisis lasts long enough to make this country fall apart. If any good can come out of misery for millions then it has to be the disintegration of China. We can only hope.

Some faction of the IRA has killed two soldiers and a policeman in Northern Ireland. Until recently there has been a great deal of cheering and backslapping for peace in the province and Senator Mitchell, who is supposed to have orchestrated the deal, has been appointed to bring about peace in Palestine. However the wall separating Catholics from Protestants along Shankill Road still stands. A couple of years ago a little nine year old Catholic girl was being interviewed on BBC. She was delighted to be studying in a mixed school with people of ' another religion '. She meant Protestants. No one had told this child that there was only one Jesus Christ and Christians shared the same God with Muslims and Jews. While these ' one God fellows ' have been slaughtering each other for centuries Hindus with many Gods never fight about whose God is bigger. Yet millions of ' Hindu heathens ' are being converted every day with money from western countries. Did the Good Samaritan convert the other fellow before helping him? Did Jesus say ' thou shall convert Hindu heathens with bribes or any subterfuge that thou think'st suitable '? Perhaps Christians should study and understand one line from the Bible ' if the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness '. Need I say more?

Americans have shown the way how it is done. Bernard Madoff confessed to having embezzled $ 50 billion in a giant ponzy scheme. He was arrested and tried. Yesterday he pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on June 16. The prosecutor has asked for 150 years without parole and it is almost certain that whatever be the length of the sentence he will spend the rest of his natural life in prison since he is already over seventy years old. Contrast this with Ramalinga Raju of Satyam who has also openly confessed to looting the company, falsifying acounts and lying to shareholders. Rumour is he confessed in India so as to avoid american justice. And how he has succeeded. He has been put in a luxury cell with tv and linen service. Every effort has been made to protect him from questioning by SEBI. Now the CBI are questioning him. After elections he will be given bail and the the trial will be postponed repeatedly until the ' evidence ' will be lost or burnt in a mysterious fire. The CEO of Satyam, a US citizen, has escaped to the US and claims to have no knowledge of what Raju was upto. Surely this idiot was totally unfit to be a janitor let alone a CEO. The americans have started several class action suits which will achieve little if Raju is declared bankrupt. Is there no one who will register a criminal case in the US and force his extradition, away from the criminal filth protecting him? Better to finish here before writing something which will make me liable to contempt of court.

Receiving someone arriving from abroad at Delhi airport is a harrowing and expensive exercise. The Premium Car Park is just an expanse of dirt slightly nearer the arrival building charging Rs. 120 for a few minutes of parking. Entry to the arrival lounge used to cost Rs. 30 which then increased to Rs. 60 and is now Rs. 80. I was told that it will be increased soon to over Rs. 100. Apparently this is to compensate the company improving the looks and amenities of the airport which were worse than any other country in the world. The arrival lounge has been increased in size and the ceiling has been covered with chrome plated light fixtures. The chairs are frayed and have holes in the upholstery. The floor is covered with old and broken tiles. There is no toilet inside but several coffee and soft drinks concessions charging excessive amounts for cheap drinks with high sugar content. For a country with the highest rates of diabetes in the world one cannot get any drink without added sugar. Drinking water has to be bought. The toilets are just outside which means that one is at the mercy of the boorish Delhi Police and may have to buy another entry ticket after using the toilet. Given the history of rapes, muggings and murders by taxi drivers serving the airport one would have that the Prepaid booth would be prominently near the exit and its purpose explained to first time foreigners, especially single women, who are unaware of the risks they face every time they hire a taxi or auto in Delhi. Not so. The Prepaid booth is on the opposite side to the exit obscured by chrome plated pillars while those cheating concessionaires are right next to the exit. Now we have to pay a charge of Rs. 350 for every domestic flight and Rs. 1300 for going abroad to increase the profits of the company doing a rubbish job. The freeloading press is blaming the airlines for not reducing fares. Wonder how much the politicians and kleptocrats are making on this ' fleece the stupid public ' exercise.

Greed, a nice Anglosaxon word, made famous during the last few years of unrestricted and uncontrolled capitalism. While Bush cut taxes to make the wealthy even wealthier Tony Blair went around lecturing the stupid Europeans about the superiority of the market over controlled economies. Millions were passe when billions were made daily. Opec allowed oil prices to reach $ 147 and talked about $ 200. Citadels built on sand had to collapse and they did. Failure of giants of the financial sector is now part of household conversation but the scum who brought about the collapse are still trying to grab as much loot as they can while taxpayers money goes down a bottomless hole and ordinary people lose their jobs and houses. Sir Fred Goodwin the man responsible for the collapse of RBS bank has retired at the age of 50 with a pension of 703,000 pounds per yearand angrily refuses any reduction. Northern Trust which received $ 1.6 billion of TARP money used part of it for a junket in Los Angeles watching a performance by Sheryl Crow and dining at a fancy restaurant. Senior staff at Merril Lynch awarded themselves millions in bonuses while CEO Thorn bought a carpet for over $ 80,000 just before being rescued by Bank of America. CEOs of the three auto makers went to beg for tax payer dollars inWashington in their luxury jets. The lack of any shame and honor is shocking. Time for tax payer and employees corporations to give power to the people to control capitalism which, unfortunately, is still the only system that works.

The irony is delicious. For a couple of centuries at least Britain grew rich and powerful by looting its former colonies. When that fell apart Churchill formulated the ' special relationship ' with the United States which was essentially that of master and slaves. If the British had any illusions about friendship as equals it was quickly destroyed during the Suez crisis when America showed that without its backing Britain was just a tiny island in the North Sea. American might was again demonstrated when Britain was helped to hang on to its illegal occupation of the Falklands Islands and since then British Prime Ministers have rushed to Washington on periodic pilgimages of homage to whoever was occupying the White House. During last year's elections the British journalists were lavish in their eulogies to Obama and utterly contemptuous of McCain and Palin. It would be impossible to imagine any coloured Prime Minister for the institutionally racist British so Obama's victory gave them a chance for virtual political correctness. British sailors made enormous fortunes by trading in slaves and their former colonies in Africa and the West Indies were run by slave labour. It is, therefore, hilarious to see Downing Street celebrating the fact that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the first European leader to visit Washington and pay homage to a black man. Down you go Gordon, down on your knees boy and lick well. Delicious.

The government is drawing up a health bill which will make it mandatory for doctors to give emergency treatment to patients on demand, even if the patient is unable to or refuses to pay,or face heavy fines. Any emergency treatment, however basic, will need medicines and may also need oxygen, bandages or splints which may cost a lot of money. Since 80% of Indians are poor doctors may find themselves facing bankruptcy. To survive doctors will stop keeping any medicines and will ask the patient's relatives to buy them from the nearest chemist wasting valuable time. Also doctors will shut their clinics outside working hours and patients will have to go long distances to get any help. Why would a government want to pass a piece of legislation which is so malicious. The Congress party which is in power today has ruled the country for 55 of the 61 years since independence. During that time they have kept the people poor, illiterate and without any basic health care. This enables the politicians to tax the middle class heavily in the name of the aam aadmi and dish out favors to their supporters reducing the people to beggars. Bills are written by lawyers who, along with politicians, are despised by the people. Inspite of all that is wrong, doctors still have some respect among the public and this infuriates the scum. Our journalists being freeloaders who is there to tell the truth? Death, after all, cures all illnesses and gives total relief and that is going to be the only medical care available in India.

Of all living creatures Bangladeshis are undoubtedly the lowest, slimiest variety. Like feral dogs they sneak into India whining and licking shoes, start doing manual jobs and then support ISI inspired terrorism in India. They are known as HuJi and some found to be involved in every terrorist attack. When the Pakis were killing them like the vermin they are and raping all the women it was India that saved them, probably the greatest mistake by us. Now the bastard descendants of the Pakis are killing Indians. A few years ago Bangladeshi Border Guards kidnapped some Indian Border Security Force soldiers from our side of the border when Khalida Zia was the prime minister. When the bodies were returned they had been so badly tortured that they could not be recognised. Last week the same scum mutinied over pay and now they are finding bodies of officers and their wives who have been tortured, killed and buried in shallow graves. There is only one solution for rabid dogs, extermination. Trouble is they breed like vermin and have spread throughout the world including the US, Europe and even Japan. They cause trouble wherever they go so the entire world will have to deal with them someday soon. Meanwhile Pakistan which earlier lost its eastern part has now lost the Swat valley to the Taliban. The Paki army and especially the ISI thought that they will be able to break India but now having ceded one part they will gradually lose bigger chunks to different terrorist groups until the army will control only a little rump aound Islamabad. A huge civil war will erupt when each group tries to get control of nuclear weapons. Islam is violence. Face the truth.