An article in the New York Times states that Lashkar e Taiba is active and is planning another attack against India. Why wouldn't they? Since independence the Congress has rewarded Pakistan for killing our citizens and soldiers. Nehru would not allow Cariappa to clear Kashmir of infiltrators, Lal Bahadur Shastri signed away all the territory gained by the heroic sacrifices of our soldiers and airmen using totally inadequate equipment, Indira Gandhi handed over 95 thousand prisoners of war for nothing in return and Rajiv Gandhi would not allow Israeli aircraft refuelling facilities to bomb Paki nuclear installation. Now our most ' honourable ' Prime Minister has rewarded the Pakis in Egypt even though we are yet to mourn the anniversary of the Mumbai massacres. This same Prime Minister is so happy having his photo op with President Obama for the freeloading press back home that he has probably forgotten to ask why the US is increasing its military aid to the Pakis while, at the same time, delivering a sombre speech on the anniversary of 9/11. With the friendly Congress in power it is no wonder that LeT is planning more attacks while Chinese cockroaches continue to violate our border. India managed to survive repeated attacks by muslim marauders and christian killers but will it survive the Congress?

The circus in Honduras continues on. Like in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia Manuel Zelaya, the Honduran President wanted to change the constitution so as to be able to stand for another term. Alarmed by this prospect the Honduran army threw him out of the country in his pajamas. Unable to get back his office he has sneaked into the country and has taken refuge in the Brazilian embassy. From here he is making wild allegations of being gassed by the army and is asking his supporters to take to the streets or, in other words, he is trying to start a civil war. He is behaving as though the country is his fief and he is willing to sacrifice any number of lives to get it back. Staging a coup is wrong but it is a greater wrong to change the basic tenets of the constitution so as to cling on to power. In poor countries promise free goodies to the illiterate underclass, get elected, build up a power base by distributing largesse to your supporters at the cost of the economy, change the constitution and stay in power until the country is bankrupt after which flee to a friendly refuge and live in luxury. Papa Doc Duvalier and Mengistu did that, Mugabe is very close to it and Chavez will get there in a few years. The stupid poor who gave power to the scoundrel in the first place end up suffering the most. If this crisis in the Honduras prompts a rethink of ' democracy ' then it will be good. We desperately need citizens' corporations to check politicians and reduce their powers. But will politicians allow that?

The lie that is Indian democracy is fully exposed in Andhra Pradesh where the Chief Minister, YS Rajasekhara Reddy died in a helicopter accident. Now his chamchas are agitating for his son, YS Jaganmohan Reddy,a first time member of parliament, with no experience whatsoever to be made Chief Minister. This will be decided by the Congress high command in Delhi who want someone else in that post. The Reddy chamchas are furious for obvious reasons and burnt two buses yesterday. There is no report of any arrests or heavy punishment for destruction of state property. However, there is great anger because the said chamchas tore up a poster of Congress President, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and there are strident calls for these thugs to be expelled from the party. No one is talking about consulting the people on who they would like as their Chief Minister. At the very least Congress Party members in Andhra could be ballotted on who they would like as their leader. Instead the decision will be taken by apparatchiks in secrecy and somebody will be foisted on the people. Said one Mr. Keshav Rao, ' what is the Congress Party without Sonia Gandhi?' Quite so. Precisely what I have been saying all these years. The Congress is a party of footlicking chamchas who will carry out the meanest or the most disgusting act of self abasement to stay in office. We even have a leader at the national level surviving for five years by licking ' madam's ' shoes daily. No sharam, no izzat. Ten thousand years of civilisation and we have zombies swanking around with Z class security. No tears left.

So past president Mr. Jimmy Carter thinks that the vitriol being directed against the present incumbent of the White House, Mr. Barack Obama is racist. President Obama's staff have dismissed these suggestions because they demean the office of the President. One would expect that the President, who was personally elected by a large majority of people of all colours would be above such humiliations and by mentioning openly the word
' racism ' Mr. Carter has done Mr. Obama a disservice by bringing him down to the level of the ordinary black man who is denied service because of his colour. There are definitely a lot of whites who hate Obama only because he is black but then 90% of blacks voted for him, also, only because he is black. In interview after interview black people have expressed great happiness at seeing a black man in the White House, often saying that they had never imgined seeing such an event in their lifetimes. Maybe that is why Mr. Obama laid such importance on bipartisanship because he recognised that there was bound to be white resentment at what the whites would see as black racism. This was the sort of sentiment expressed at the confirmation hearings of Justice Sottomayor. Unfortunately Mr. Carter has undermined his efforts to rise above such pettiness. How often do we cause damage when we mean well?

Amidst all the bad news of lies and treachery at last one piece of good news. Seems that doctors in Chennai and Coimbatore have been able to cure a nine year old girl of thallasaemia by transplanting stem cells from her newly born brother's umbilical cord blood. Thallasaemia is a genetic disorder in which patients are unable to form normal adult heamoglobin and form foetal haemoglobin instead. The red cells carrying this haemoglobin are promptly destroyed by the spleen and the patients need regular transfusions to keep them alive. Since blood contains iron this metal builds up in the children and requires prolonged infusions of a chelating agent to get rid of it. All this is extremely painful for children and distressing for the parents. If this little girl called Thamirabharani stays well then more children could be offered the treatment, eventually curing all the children with this terrible disorder. At Rs. 1 million it would be cheap because of the enormous savings in blood and drugs. Also a lot of blood will be freed up to treat other emergencies. Normally placenta and the cord are thrown away so collecting small amounts of blood should not be a problem. Once established children with sickle cell disease, an extremely painful condition, could also be treated. This is truly a wonderful advance. Sadly implementation will be in the hands of the criminal politicians and the uncivil servants. What hope for the children?

On August 17 hundreds of farmers attacked Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Company in China because their children were being poisoned with lead discharged from the factory. In response authorities sent in hundreds of police surrounding the villages forcing the villagers to flee. Chinese are uncivilised beasts but not so we Indians, right? Turns out that children in Punjab are suffering from uranium poisoning, causing micro cephaly, hydrocephaly and spasticity, from fly ash produced by coal fired power stations.This is especially severe around Bucho Mandi where children have the highest levels, upto 60 times the safe level in one case. This was discovered by Dr. Carin Smit, a South African metal toxicologist who sent samples to a German laboratory for analysis. There was no doubt. She has been warned that her visa may not be renewed. Fellows from the Dept. of Atomic Energy visited the site and found levels ' slightly high ' and ' nothing to worry about '. Indian industry is losing some Rs. 4 trillion a year because of poor and intermittent power supply but this is squarely the fault of the criminal politicians and uncivil servants who have conspired to keep the people poor so that they can lord over the aam aadmi. Yet little children end up paying a horrific price. This was a result of an investigation by the Observer printed in the Guardian Weekly of November 4. Our footlicking press remains silent on this horrible crime but cannot stop saying that Chandrayan moon mission was a failure. Creeps.

Seems that when the first bullets hit Ceausescu, the dictator of Rumania, his face showed surprise. He was unable to comprehend how anyone could actually shoot at him. Our Prime Minister also seems unable to comprehend why the Naxal movememnt has grown the way it has. In a speech to state police chiefs on the second day of their three day conclave Dr. Singh said,' It has influence among sizeable sections of civil society, the inelligentsia and the youth.' The reason is very simple, Sir. People hate the state and its three arms - the politicians, the uncivil service and the police. It is not inequality of wealth that is the cause of this hatred but inequality of justice. An ordinary person accused of stealing a thousand rupees often spends years in prison as an ' undertrial ' because he cannot afford bail while Mr. Sukhram, a previous telecoms minister, is enjoying freedom after 14 years inspite of being caught redhanded with millions stuffed into pillows and mattresses. Bernie Madoff confessed to theft and is already serving a 150 year prison sentence while Ramalinga Raju of Satyam, who also confessed, is in ' first class jail ' whatever that is. Dr. Singh also expressed alarm at increasing levels of infiltration of terrorists. Sir, it is your party, the Congress, which has repeatedly turned victory into defeat against Pakistan such as in Tashkent, Shimla and more recently in Egypt. The people of India are extremely tolerant but now they are slowly getting very angry. Be afraid, Sir. Remember Ceausescu.

The serial shoe-thrower Muntader al Zaidi will be released from prison today to a hero's welcome. The entire Arab world sees him as a hero who called the swaggering US President, George W. Bush ' a dog '. This will always remain the defining moment of the Bush presidency, the only US president to have shoes thrown at him. Not an assassin's bullet,, which would wash away all his disastrous mistakes in his own blood and for generations to pen poems about ' Camelot ' so cruelly cut short, but dodging shoes in front of world's cameras while the Iraqi Prime Minister puts out a hand to deflect the flying footwear. What should have been a final farewell with the heartfelt gratitude of the Iraqi people for having rid them of the bad Saddam turned into a fiasco and made Bush into a joke for all time to come. And since he was their president the entire Republican Party has turned into a snarling, rabid pack of canines led by the biggest snarl of all, the former Vice, Dick Cheney. This explains why a nonentity like Joe Wilson has become a celebrity by an act of supreme bad manners showing his lack of class as well as that of his party. Unfortunately people in the US are so terrified by the mother of all recessions and unemployment that all they care about is the future. They do not care that the Republicans are responsible for all the ills plaguing the country. All they want is reassurance for the future. Like all shameless politicians, the Republicans are stoking their terror and blocking all attempts at reform. Considering that they are staunch capitalists they are behaving exactly like our communists. Curious.

When George Bush finished his second term he had to shift to private lodgings and, apparently, has been seen carrying shopping bags and has been heard complaining about picking up dog poo. Not so our politicians. They stay forever in houses costing more than Rs. 2 billion for years with 24 hour security and travel expenses paid for by the taxpayer. Not only that even the daughter who does not occupy any post gets the same privileges. Now in a show of supreme hypocrisy these shameless people are flying economy class to show austerity. I wait to see our footlicking press eulogising these hypocrites in flowery prose and, genetic chamchas that we are, we will applaud oh so gratefully. Meanwhile the Chief Justice India, Mr. K. G. Balakrishnan has said that kleptocrats are consistently escaping punishment for their crimes because investigating agencies have to seek permission before prosecuting any civil servant. 99% of civil servants are criminals or, to put it another way, only those with criminal tendencies seek sarkari jobs. Reminiscent of George Orwell this impunity is afforded by the aptly named Prevention of Corruption Act. Of course, it is all in the service of the aam aadmi.

Indians need to rejoice. Seems that mortality in children under five has dropped from 12.5 million in 1990 to 8.8 million in 2008. This news on page 4. On page 3 picture of a burnt out car with a man holding a long stick kicking the burnt out shell in fury. This is in retaliation to the police who were trying to stop illegal construction in Ghaziabad. Apparently there are 388 illegal colonies in Ghaziabad, just 20 km from Delhi, 188 of them built since 2006. Both these news items relate to the unchecked rise in population in India. While middle and upper classes restrict the number of children to one or two, poor people are going on breeding without any regard for the damage they are doing to the country. They know that since they have the numbers to vote in any scoundrel they are free to beg anywhere, occupy public land, poach rare animals or even steal cars all in the name of poverty. One lady who would proudly proclaim her bleeding heart for the poor wrote an article moaning the decreasing numbers of tigers due to poaching. She would like to do to the poachers what they do to the tigers i.e. chop off their parts and yet she would be enraged if anyone suggested forcing the poor to have few children as they do in China. The clever poor are delighted to take advantage of such stupidity and continue to produce legions of babies with hands outstretched as beggars from birth. Already we are running out of farmland. By 2050 when the population reaches 1.5 billion there will be mass starvation. Will people survive by eating each other?

South Africans are incensed at the gender tests carried out on their star female athlete, Caster Semenya accusing the IAAF of racism. To be sure when an American female tennis player sports muscles bigger than a man's and starts serving at over 200 kmph nobody dare suggest gender tests or performance enhancing drugs which are based on the male sex hormone, testosterone. Marion Jones was unluckily caught by accident when some insider ratted on BALCO. However the South Africans are doing a disservice to all female athletes and to Semenya herself. Any female athlete would be banned for life if she was found to be taking testosterone and Ms Semenya is said to have three times the normal female levels. Records in women's track and field events have not been bettered for over 20 years because increased vigilance by IAAF has made it impossible for female athletes to use performance enhancing drugs. People who are intersex are usually brought up as girls by their parents. If Ms Semenya is truly intersex then she should have her testes removed because undescended testes are precancerous. She should then be given female hormones to make her fully female. South African fury and denial could result in the death of this young lady. That is not racism.

Yesterday at a government girls school in the capital of India, Delhi there was a stampede when rumours spread that there was some sort of electrical short circuit and everyone could be electrocuted. In any other country such a rumour would be laughed off but in India it is not uncommon to hear of high voltage wires falling to the ground in a storm and killing someone. An official enquiry has been announced. Some retired sarkari fellow, who is a friend of some influential politician, will be paid to form a committee, millions of rupees will be wasted, years will pass and by the time the report is ready people will have forgotten about the tragic loss of beautiful young lives. The report will be given to the government at the time and will never be published and the taxpayer will never know what he has paid for. The tragedy happened because the staircase was so narrow that girls got crushed in the rush and died of suffocation and head injuries. The municipality is responsible for checking the standard of construction and safety of buildings but everyone at the municipality is a thief and running after bribes. Municipal workers dig up roads leaving large potholes where drivers of two wheelers are killed or seriously maimed. Manholes are regularly left open and many children die of drowning after falling in. No one is held responsible. No one is charged with murder or punished in any way. All that happens is that some junior fellow is transferred from one department to another. A lot has been written about the Mumbai massacres but the sad fact is that government workers take more innocent lives every year than all terrorists put together. With complete impunity.

A Paki fellow who used to work in the ISI has claimed that the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif has met Osama bin Laden at least five times. Surely it is no surprise. At the time of 9/11 some experts were of the view that the attacks were too detailed and sophisticated to have been planned by a bunch of bearded, murderous fanatics that constituted the Al Qaeda. The logistics, training, planning and financing could only have been done by some national intelligence agency. For instance the first plane hit high so that smoke rising from the burning tower would not obstruct the view of the second plane which came below the smoke and hit the second tower in the middle causing it to collapse earlier and sustain more casualties. The finance was from Pakistan pointing clearly to Paki involvement but the Bush administration continued to pour money into Pakistan allowing it to expand its nuclear arsenal against India. Seems that there is some religious belief in the US that compels the americans to keep on helping muslim Pakistan against Hindu India. After all kafir and heathen mean much the same thing and probably makes US and Pakistan bosom buddies and Indians keep dying for no reason.

A news article in The Guardian Weekly of 21.08.09 by one Xan Rice talks about a 24 year old woman, Wanjiku who gave birth to a boy in Nairobi's Pumwani hospital in Kenya. Her bill for delivery was $ 45 which she was unable to pay because she is a single mother with another child at home. She was locked up in a detention ward with 42 other poor mothers for 8 weeks because the hospital wanted her relatives to pay her bill. The writer is angry at this treatment of a poor mother but does not ask this woman why she got pregnant when she already has a child and cannot hope to feed her baby let alone give it an education. The boy will probably grow up to be a criminal like so many men in Africa. Poor people are no fools. They will come to the hospital, give birth and refuse to pay knowing that the hospital will have to release them in the end because it will run out of space and it will cost the hospital to feed them indefinitely. All over the developing world poor people are breeding without restraint, cutting down forests, poaching big animals to near extinction and killing rare species for bushmeat all in the name of survival. They seem to have no responsibility to their children, to society or to the world which cannot sustain any more. India will reach 1.5 billion by 2050. Agricultural land is disappearing as more houses are built, land will turn to desert as water tables fall and food prices are rising at 20% yoy. The tyranny of the feudal landlords was very bad but the tyranny of the poor will surely deatroy the world.

Seems that a six year old girl has become a media darling in China because on her first day in school she declared that she wanted to grow to become a ' corrupt official '. At least in this one area we are way ahead of the Chinese in that we have set up an efficient system to train all 99% of our officials to be corrupt. First there is a tough elimination examination following which there is a four year residential training in the salubrious surroundings of a hill station. Once they qualify they are masters at making black money, sucking upto ministers to the extent that they will even carry ministers' shoes, blocking every kind of progress, buck passing and treating taxpayers with utmost contempt. Their promotions are time bound meaning that they are sure to be promoted after a certain length of service regardless of competence or integrity. They cannot be sacked and shamelessly award themselves the highest pay rises causing useful services like armed forces and police to feel insulted to the point of revolt. You see them in official ambassador cars accompanied by police escorts driving well above the speed limit and tailgaiting any vehicle getting in their way. Naturally the largest numbers of these slimy sleazeballs come from the most criminal states of India. To make any progress the training school must be shut down and best brains recruited directly on merit. To make it attractive get rid of 80% of the useless dross and pay high salaries based on ' hire and fire ' principle. Above all we need citizens' corporations to check their activities and hold them accountable. Pipe dream?

A bipartisan committee of the US Congress, Congressional Research Service has issued a report saying that Pakistan is improving its nuclear arsenal. It already has 60 nuclear warheads and is gradually building towards 100 with only one target in mind and that is India. Before that we had news that it has modified US supplied harpoon missiles to be used against land targets in India. We have constant hand wringing from our Home Minister about the Pakis not doing enough about bringing the terrorists involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to justice. It really is a mystery to me why we go on wasting time on this failed state all of whose people are either terrorists or sympathisers. India does not need Pakistan. We should cut off all diplomatic links with this filthy country, mine the Line of Control so heavily that not even a fly can get through and shoot at anything that moves towards India on land, sea or air. We should have absolutely no contact whether business, cultural or friendly. Just excise it like the pustule that it is and get on with building our country. The war in Afghanistan is going to kill more and more US and NATO troops. Gradually the west will realise that they cannot win this war because of Pakistan and they have to destroy its capabilities if they want a graceful withdrawal from Afghanistan. Obama's popularity is aready falling to low levels and if he wants to win another term he will have to destroy Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and then its military infrastructure. In short he will have to nuke he bastards.

Why should 122 people die of shock or suicide at the death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr. YSR Reddy? The death is unexpected but surely that is not reason enough for committing suicide. It appears that Mr. Reddy was very loyal to his friends. When told of the high handed behaviour of a friend he remarked,' He is my friend. When will he throw his weight around if not when I am chief minister?' Is it possible that the people committing suicide took advantage of his protection to rape, murder, loot and grab other people's land and suddenly realised that a new leader may cut them off or even take revenge? To preempt anyone from a different group from gaining power Mr. Reddy's supporters have demanded that his son Mr. JM Reddy, a first time MP, should be made Chief Minister of the state. They have given the example of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi who became Prime Minister of India after the death of his mother, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, without having any political experience. This has angered the Congress High Command who want to put their man in place. This is what passes as ' DEMOCRACY ' in India where people have no say in who will be chief or prime minister the posts being handed to family members as in feudal times. Mr. Lalu Yadav installed his illiterate, ' angutha chaap ' wife as Chief Minister of Bihar when he was charged with corruption. When the people are treated with such contempt is it any wonder that they are taking up arms against the state? Who will save my India?

A casual article in one of leading english dailies announces that the Finance Minister, Mr. Mukherjee has decided to remove service tax on the transportation of food by rail and waterways. This tax was levied by the same Mr. Mukherjee in this year's budget after the Congress won elections held in May based on its heart breaking love for the aam aadmi. So now there will be no service tax on transport of edible oil, seeds, cereals, pulses,flour, fruits, vegetables, flowers, agricultural goods, fishery, marine produce, meat, poultry, water, tea, coffee and other food items. However this move is mainly rubbish because most fresh foods are moved by road transport which continues to attract service tax. Food inflation is already around 20% year on year so a 10% service tax on food is especially cruel and belies all the promises made by the Congress to win the election. This should have been pointed out by our press who analyse the budget but sadly mainstream newspapers are a propaganda arm of the Congress. They distort perception by printing only favourable stories, ignore all the lies and support Congress pseudo secularism by constantly abusing Hindus. Analyses of the economy by so called experts are falsely optimistic never discussing the dangers unlike in other countries where there is a frank debate about all the pros and cons. India faces dangerous enemies such as China, Naxals and Pakistan but a bootlicking press is probably the greatest danger faced by the country.

In the US a lawyer, Ms. Amrit Singh working for American Civil Liberties Union wanted disclosure of documents regarding prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan under the Freedom of Information Act. When faced with obstruction she and her colleague, one Jameel Jaffer went to court and six years later have been successful in obtaining 130,000 pages of previously secret documents. The bootlicking press has naturally printed the whole article including her picture because she happens to be the daughter of our most VVIP Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh. Mr. Singh, on the other hand, has hidden 28,685 twentyfive year old files which were to be declassified under the Public Record Rules of 1997 in the bowels of his office. One can only surmise that they contain evidence of crimes committed by Congress and other politicians and therefore have to be hidden from view as long as possible, preferably until the criminals have left the earth. Problem is that politicans in India never seem to die of heart attacks, strokes or cancer at a young age even though these are common in the general population. Mr. Singh will no doubt try his best to deny the voters and taxpayers any and all the information contained in the files. What the daughter does for the US is denied to us Indians by the father. Yet the bootlicking press is forever telling us what an honourable man he is.

Seems that India grew 6.2% in the last quarter although exports fell over 20% for 10 months in a row. This is growth of the GDP, the sum total of all goods and services in the country. Food prices have risen over 20% yoy hitting the poor. Is this counted as GDP growth? In this town a shop, some 300 sq. feet, is being sold for Rs. 13 million, a ridiculous amount given that at 7% interest this amount of money will earn around Rs. 75000 a month in a bank without any risk whereas a shop this size may never generate even half that amount. Is this counted as growth in GDP? The government is doling out alms to rural poor at Rs. 100 per day for doing nothing while fiscal deficit is set to reach over 7% probably resulting in increase in interest rates. Is this counted as GDP growth? Indian industries are losing over Rs. 4 trillion a year because of poor power supply which will not improve in a hurry. Meanwhile household electricity bills in Delhi are rising so high that they are almost equal to one person's monthly salary to compensate for all the people who are stealing electricity. Is this counted as growth in GDP? If this is growth then Zimbabwe was the richest country in the world last year when its GDP was doubling every hour? Obviously India is not in that category but the lies are the same.

There has been a lot of smoke recently over whether judges should have to declare their assets publicly. At first the judges resisted but have now given in and it seems that a new bill will be passed to make it a law. This is in revenge for a Supreme Court judgement which made declaration of assets compulsory for every candidate standing for elections. However politicians only file an affidavit with the Election Commission regarding their assets just before elections. Some candidates show that they have nothing and then proceed to spend millions of rupees for campaigning. Now it appears that $ 1.4 trillion are stashed away by Indians in Swiss banks which is 50% more than the GDP of the country. Known for their banking secrecy laws the Swiss have agreed to release the names of at least 4000 names of tax cheats to the American and over 3000 names to the French government but have warned that they will not help the Indian government. This not all. About the same amount of black money is invested in the property market and in the share markets through reverse hawala and Participatory Notes route. Will anything change? Not if the criminal politicians and kleptocrats can help it.