Babulal Agrawal, an IAS officer in Chhattisgarh has been accused the Income Tax department of owning illegal assets worth Rs 2.53 billion. He and his family have 473 bank accounts and have floated 30 companies in the last 11 years. While we have to provide photographs, proof of identity and address to open an account of Rs 1000, politicians and civil servants can open any number of accounts without any problem whatsoever. In Mizoram, the state Chief Secretary, Vanhela Pachuau is accused of withdrawing Rs 467.6 million from state treasury against " false bills before actual commencement of approved works ". The money was supposed to be for developmental projects along the border with Burma. His defence is that work cannot start unless he has money but apparently the money went to private individuals instead of to laborers or suppliers. Meanwhile the Forest Department in Maharashtra has told the Chief Minister and the central Environment Minister to push off. As per the Forest Rights Act of 2006 villagers are permitted to harvest forest produce but forestry officials want to control the trade in bamboos which is some Rs 100 billion per year. Even though bamboo is classified as grass all over the world the forest department in India classifies it as wood and denies people the right to cut and sell it. Such is the impertinence of these scoundrels that the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests has written to the ministers warning that despite any act of parliament they will not allow people to cut bamboo. ( TOI, April 27 ). Perhaps we should all become Naxals and start hanging the bastards. No other way of clearing the filth.

Commenting on Europe's insistence that the next IMF chief must be a European our most revered Prime Minister said," Those who exercise power, do not want to give up power easily. The struggle for a better balanced and more equitable world order, including the management of global institutions like the IMF, World Bank, (UN) Security Council is going to be a long haul I am afraid." ( Hindustan Times, May 30 ). Such perspicacity. At least the Europeans are looking at the interest of their countries but in India filthy politicians cling on forever for personal gain and to pass on political control to their criminal children to ensure that citizens are enslaved for ever. You, are assured of completing two terms as Prime Minister but are you willing to go away even though you will be at least 80 years old? Word is that you are angling for the post of President or to be seconded to a prestigious international posting. The country has been divided into regions controlled by families just as in Italy where various mafia families have their own territories. Elections are merely turf wars where boundaries are readjusted. Governors, Rajya Sabha, even sports bodies, every institution is corrupted by criminal politicians or thieving parasitic civil servants. There is no respite or escape for us who suffer the consequences. Nothing happens to them. We see young people dying with heart attacks, strokes, cancer and other serious illnesses which abound in India but politicians and civil servants seem immortal. It seems that even Yam Raj is afraid of these scum. Power is the ultimate intoxication. You, sir, are a prime example of that.

Serbia has decided to sacrifice Ratko Mladic to the kangaroo court at the Hague. Rightly so. Mladic is an ex soldier and will understand that he is expendable in the larger national interest. Serbia wants to join the European Union for the economic gains that will bring but western european countries have decided that they must first hand over citizens that these countries consider to be war criminals before being considered for membership. Serbia must humble itself before these hypocrites and do whatever they ask to gain access to the club. However they must never forget the humiliation and quietly prepare dossiers on the illegal wars in Iraq and now in Libya. Once they are full members they must insist on the International Criminal Court to issue warrants for criminals such as George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair and his henchmen, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy. The Americans do not recognise the ICC but an international arrest warrant will mean that they will never be able to travel outside the US while Blair, Cameron and Sarkozy will at least have to fight desperately if they are to stay free. Meanwhile all 27 nations of the European Union have unanimously backed Frenchwoman, Christine Lagarde for the post of Chief of the International Monetary Fund following the resignation of Strauss-Kahn caught in a honey trap in the US. The developing countries have criticised the move which they see as a relic from the colonial days but cannot unite. The whites have fought savage wars forever but unite against what they see as the " other." That is why they are still able to loot us.

Member of the Legislative Assembly of Gopalganj in Bihar, Ramsevak Singh has been arrested for assault. Seems that his brother's wife contested an election for the post of Mukhia of the local panchayat and lost. First his bodyguards assaulted 2 relatives of the winner, then they beat up Vishal Singh and Rakesh Dubey, took them to the MLA's house and poured petrol into their rectums. The two were rescued by a local police team. In UP, one Amir has been arrested for for selling a teenage girl into prostitution. Local police refused to register a complaint when they learnt that Amir is the brother of the local MLA. Parents of the girl probably paid Amir to bring the girl back from Delhi, where she had been taken, and then complained again whereupon the police arrested Amir. A senior IAS officer from UP, Shankar Aggarwal has been accused of illegally building a 3 storey building on government land and cutting down several protected trees from a nearby wildlife sanctuary in Uttarakhand. The Uttarakhand government is writing to the UP government to take action because IAS officers cannot be arrested or prosecuted without government permission. An IIT student, Piyush was stopped at Dadar railway station by some policemen who searched his belongings without any warrant and accused him of having pornographic pictures on his cell phone. He had to withdraw money from an ATM to pay them of when they threatened him with arrest. When IIT authorities took up the case the money was returned with an apology. Politicians, civil servants and police in India are all criminals. When the state is the enemy citizens are helpless.

An 18 year old school girl, Krittika Biswas, a student of John Browne High School in New York, was handcuffed, taken to a local police station, denied water and bathroom facilities and threatened imprisonment with HIV patients and prostitutes to force her to confess to a crime she did not commit. A Chinese student had been sending obscene mails to 2 teachers of the school containing abuses in French and Krittika was arbitrarily arrested and brutally treated only because she has French as a subject. The US has been quick to say that families of diplomats do not enjoy immunity but this is not about that. This is about proper investigation, giving a young girl chance to meet her parents and treating her with common human decency to be expected from a school and police. Not allowing water and bathroom facilities is pure torture inflicted to obtain a false confession. Yet US citizen Raymond Davies coolly murdered 2 men and was magically found to be a diplomat after the event. No wonder American helicopter pilots were laughing while hunting innocent Iraqis killing a Reuters photographer in the process. No action has been taken against the Chinese student probably because China holds $ 1 trillion of US treasuries and could inflict real pain unlike our government which is led by the best Prime Minster the US could have. Every month one student from India is murdered in the US and no one is charged with the crime yet Pakistan which continues to kill US soldiers is given money and arms. Probably because the president is named Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Is it any wonder that the US is hated all over the world. The end of an empire is bloody.

Taxes, we are told, are of 2 kinds - direct and indirect. Direct taxes come from individual income and corporate profits while indirect taxes come from customs, excise, sales tax, value added tax, education and road cess, all kinds of surreptitious add ons that we are not often aware of. Direct taxes are paid by salaried and low income people. Politicians, civil servants and police earn mainly from bribes and loot which, being black money, is not taxed. Companies avoid taxes by sending 2 trucks out through the rear gate for every one truck that exits the front gate. Customers buy products at prices which include taxes which the company has not paid and this is shared with police, inspectors and politicians. Thus, the more the economy grows the more is the growth of black money feeding inflation. Indirect taxes add to inflation and price goods and services out of the range of the poor. Poor people are human and would love to live in a house with air conditioners, own a car and fly out for a holiday but these are deemed luxuries and taxed out of their reach. Surely all taxes are not bad, such as those on alcohol and cigarettes? Western countries show that increasing prices result in decrease of consumption thus improving health. That does not happen in India. High cigarette prices force the poor to smoke bidis, take gutka and khaini which are infinitely worse. When beer costs Rs 100 a bottle it is much better to buy a half bottle of local hooch for Rs 60, enough to make you unconscious. The poor drink to forget their miserable existence, unable to improve because of taxes. The politicians love the poor so much that they keep them poor by high taxes. Fatal love.

A day of ironies. Beset by problems at home President Obama flew to the slave country, Britain. Britain was heavily involved in the slave trade but there he was in Buckingham Palace being humbly welcomed by the Queen who reminded him of the " Special Relationship " between the US and Britain, that of master and slave. Then a meeting with another man in deep trouble with his economy, David Cameron who is trying to divert attention to another bogey man, Gaddafi just like Blair did before him. Cameron would have wanted permission to continue the illegal bombing of Libya killing 3 of Gaddafi's innocent grandchildren as well as other civilians in order to save civilians. White man truly speak with forked tongue. While this charade was going on, back home Binyamin Netanyahu was speaking to joint houses of the Congress getting standing ovation after standing ovation. Having already trashed the concept of going back to 1967 borders with Palestine Netanyahu categorically declared that undivided Jerusalem was going to be the capital of Israel. He also said that Judea and Samaria were always Jewish land and Jews are not invaders. Then he went walk about with his wife. It is infantile to think that an independent Palestinian state will bring peace to the middle east. Pakistan is breeding terrorists 63 years after independence to inflict a " thousand cuts " on India, with US support. While Obama was making this impractical suggestion David Headley was telling a court of how the ISI had planned the attacks on Mumbai just as it had planned 9/11. Bernard Shaw that that half the Americans are fools. The other half believe in the tooth fairy.

Our most esteemed Home Minister said recently," We live in perhaps the most troubled neighborhood in the world. In this neighborhood there are countries with governments that are extremely fragile. All of this increases the threat to our security and independence." He was referring mainly to Pakistan which is supported by China. With the greatest respect to the minister our greatest danger comes from within, our politicians. Time and again we have handed back gains made by the extreme sacrifices of our ill equipped armed forces without any returns. In 1965 we handed back land won from the Pakistanis when our forces were sitting on the banks of the Ichogil canal in Lahore. In 1971 we handed back 80,000 Pakistani forces for nothing. We denied refueling facilities to Israeli planes when they wanted to bomb Pakistani nuclear facilities allowing the Pakistanis to make more nuclear weapons than us, jeopardising our very existence. After the Mumbai attacks we go on " bended knees " to talk peace. With China we recognised Tibet as their territory thus allowing them to claim Arunachal Pradesh. We refused the offer of a seat at the UN Security Council, eagerly accepted by the Chinese who are now creating so many problems for us. We allowed the Chinese entry into the WTO without any returns. Time after time our politicians have allowed our enemies to kill Indians, to violate our land, to support criminals in India and harm our interests internationally. Now the minister promises " the best training, the best technology and the best working conditions " for our security forces. But is it not already too late?

India seems to be full of millionaires. If a 2 bedroom flat in south Delhi costs Rs 20 million then there must be people ready to pay that kind of money. Who are these people? Half the cost of the flat must be paid in cash or black money and, say, another 10% by check while the rest is paid over 20 years through a housing loan. This means that Rs 12 million has to be paid up front. A man earning Rs 1.2 million a year cannot save more than Rs 0.5 million a year after paying income tax, rent and cost of daily living. He will, therefore, take 24 years to save Rs 12 million before thinking of buying a flat in Delhi. There cannot be more than 10 million people in the whole of India who legally earn Rs 1.2 million a year, that is less than 1% of the population. So where is the demand coming from? In the Times of India of May 20 we learn that assets of Members of Parliament standing for re election in 2009 had gone up by 289% in the previous 5 years while in the same period investment in gold gave returns of 138%, mutual funds gave 67%, Sensex gave 64% and fixed deposits gave 46%. In last month's assembly elections members had increased their assets by 195% in Tamil Nadu, 187% in Assam, 175% in Kerala and 71% in West Bengal. Then there are millions of useless parasitic civil servants whose salaries were increased by up to 80% in 2008 and earn millions through bribes and theft. Shopkeepers pay no tax. When asked them to pay a nominal tax of Rs 1500 a year not one responded. Farm income is totally tax free which is why lots of politicians are " farmers". Which is also why the RBI cannot control black money. Fact.

In a speech a couple of days ago President Obama asked for dialogue between Arab regimes and the opposition. He advised them that " mass arrests and brute force are at odds with the universal human rights " of citizens. While he was lecturing " stupid " Arabs the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was saying, " We have made it clear to people around the world that if we locate someone who has been part of the Al Qaeda leadership, then you get him or we will get him." Meaning that the US has the right to violate any country's sovereignty, invade the territory of any country it pleases and murder anyone it sees as Al Qaeda without having to prove it in any court of law. We have to remember that both Obama and Clinton are lawyers and should therefore have knowledge of international law and protocol but deliberately choose banditry as their main option because the US thinks it has a right to commit mass murder of genocide, as it has been doing since Hiroshima, because no country is militarily strong enough to challenge it. Obama also wanted a Palestinian state based on pre 1967 borders but this was flatly rejected by Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. Note how many times Obama boasts of being the Commander in Chief of this here US of A without having served a day in the army while Netanyahu has actually served in the Israeli army. He said that 1967 borders were indefensible and any peace " based on illusions " was bound to fail. Forget communists, Americans are the most brain washed people in the world. Just as they lose their jobs and homes for the " American dream " they believe they have a right to kill.

Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, RBI Mr Subbarao said that April inflation figure of 8.66% is still too high ( Times of India, May 18 ). The figure for February was 8.31% but has been raised to 9.54% while that for March has been raised to 9% from 8.98%. The RBI is hopelessly behind the curve even though it has raised interest rates 9 times since March 2010. It started with rising food prices last year after a poor monsoon in 2009 but has now spread to the rest of the economy because the the government, led by the World Famous Economist, was boasting of high growth rates and predicting 9% growth. Petrol prices have been raised by Rs 5 last week to Rs 65 a lit and diesel and cooking gas prices will also have to be raised adding to inflationary pressures. Any idiot would say that inflation is being fueled by astronomical rises in property prices and indirect taxes being raised by various states. Delhi lost billions of rupees in the Commonwealth Games scam and is desperate to raise money. Tamil Nadu already has debts of Rs 1 trillion but Ms Jayalalitha, the newly elected Chief Minister, has already announced 35 kilos of free rice for the poor, Rs 50000 marriage present for women and a free mangalsutra . This has clearly been done without any thought of balancing the budget. Bengal has a debt of Rs 2 trillion. Meanwhile the RBI has asked banks to increase provision for bad loans from 10% to 15%. Bad loans are those that have been non performing for 1 year. Ordinary people in India never default on housing loans because half the amount is paid in cash. The bank probably foresees speculators and property developers defaulting. Nice mess.

Our elite investigating agency the Central Bureau of Investigations, CBI has done it again. Two CBI officials went to Denmark on May 16 to assist in a court hearing on Kim Davy with a warrant which had expired in January. Kim Davy is one of the suspects in a bizarre event when a Latvian Antonov An-26 plane dropped weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, anti-tank grenades, million rounds of ammunition and other weapons onto fields in Purulia in West Bengal on December 17, 1995. The officers must have been so eager to go to Denmark, see beautiful girls and enjoy themselves at taxpayer expense that they forgot about papers. We remember Bofors where our sleuths had a wonderful time running to the most expensive cities all over the world. Our law enforcement agencies are not for investigating crimes or protecting the country but to harass honorable citizens and protect criminal politicians. Yesterday a Hindu lady returning from Canada, where she had gone for a short visit was stopped at Delhi airport immigration for one hour because the immigration fellow did not stamp her passport when she was leaving. No other country, including police states like Saudi Arabia, force citizens to go through immigration check as in India. Politicians travel with family without any checks while this lady, who is a born citizen of India and has been travelling for years, was humiliated for no reason. White skins, Pakistanis and " Minorities " are not treated like this. A " Minority " accused of being involved in Mumbai bombing is out on bail and living with family while Aseemanand is denied bail. Our politicians will do what foreign invaders could not- finish Hindus.

Another conspiracy. Today's Times of India quotes Liberation, a French daily, which has published off the record comments made by Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn on April 28 where he feared that one of his opponents would pay a woman to accuse him falsely of rape. Apparently he said that he imagined " a woman who had been raped in a car park and who was offered between 500000 and 1000000 euros to make up such a story." Well, it was not a woman in a car park but a hotel chambermaid who came to the US from Guinea in Africa just 7 years ago and would be easily coerced by the threat of deportation. The US would definitely prefer right wing Sarkozy, with his delusions of Napoleon, rather than an intellectual Socialist as president of France. That is why any bail, even with electronic tagging, will be strenuously opposed so that Strauss-Kahn cannot contact his friends to try and find the truth. On another front, it seems that George Bush and Pakistan had come to an understanding that once Bin Laden's whereabouts were discovered the US would kill him and Pakistan would object vociferously. This agreement was renewed in 2008. So the present slanging match between the US and Pakistan must be play acting. Politicians like the dark where they can plan their intrigues and play their little games which give them a false sense of being above the people. We saw how Obama was so puffed up with self importance as he announced the death of Bin Laden. That is why they hate sites like WikiLeaks which, by exposing the truth, show us how petty they really are. As long as knaves have power there will be conspiracies. The " grassy knoll " is still there.

Fellow called Gen ( retd ) James Jones, former US National Security Advisor, has said that the world, the US in particular, is lucky to have Mr Manmohan Singh as Indian Prime Minister who has taken personal risk to avoid confrontation along the western border. Absolutely not. He has risked India's security and the lives of Indians at no personal cost at all. Since he does not stand for elections, having sneaked in through the Rajya Sabha, his seat is safe. By going to talk to Pakistan " on bended knees " just months after the Mumbai attacks he has signaled our weakness and encouraged future such attacks. So the question is not of risk but what he has gained from selling India to US interests. What has he been given or promised. Since independence the US has helped Pakistan against India. While sanctions were heaped on India after nuclear tests Pakistan continued to receive advanced arms and defence technologies which they have used again and again to kill Indians. Even today after Pakistani lies have been exposed by the death of Bin Laden, just 50 miles from Islamabad, the US government talks of engaging Pakistan. Why? Why this ingrained hostility and enmity towards India? Yes, Nehru led the non aligned movement, which by its very nature did not take sides, and followed a stupid socialist philosophy but India has never been a threat to the US or any other country. So why does the US help actively in killing Indians? Jones said, " If we need to come to some agreements about what happened or didn't happen 10 to 20 years ago let's get beyond this." Is he intentionally stupid? It is happening even today. And our Prime Minister is helping.

Immediately after results of elections to assemblies in 4 states were announced the government raised the price of petrol by Rs 5. Apparently the price should have been raised by Rs 10.50 for oil companies to break even so companies will continue to lose money. Ordinary petrol costs around Rs 65/lit at pumps in India while in the US, where it is uncontrolled, it costs $ 4/ gallon or 3.78 lit which makes it Rs 50/ lit. Diesel is cheaper by Rs 20 while kerosene is cheaper still allowing criminals to adulterate one with the other. Raising the cost of diesel will raise inflation instantly, which is at 8.66%, impacting the poor. The only solution is to lower excise and taxes on petrol and diesel so that they are at the same level as kerosene and then decontrol them fully allowing oil companies to raise and lower prices in line with international prices. The government does not dare do that because revenue collection will fall and deficit will get out of control. Also customs and excise officials oppose any reduction of excise duty because they get a bonus on the amount of money they collect. Oil companies are owned by the government so it has to pay for their losses. Thus the government is losing money anyway but cannot control inflation because of taxing oil products at different rates. Stupid. The good news is that Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia may be appointed director of the IMF. We wish him extreme good luck. With two world class economists, Mr Manmohan Singh and Mr Ahluwalia, running the economy it is already in intensive care and gasping to survive. If only one man is left maybe the damage will be halved. We live in hope.

At first it was another Dominique. Dominique de Villepin was tried and cleared of allowing false charges of paying bribes in a sale of warships to Taiwan against Nicolas Sarkozy in the Clearstream affair. Unfortunately, for Sarkozy his popularity kept plummeting. Then Gaddafi gave him an opportunity to show how macho he is by ordering his air force to illegally bomb Libya while himself hiding in Paris. Laurent Gbagbo was an even easier target because he had lost all international support for refusing to accept his defeat at general elections. A few bombs on his palace and Gbagbo could be slapped into submission. Still such remote controlled virility was insufficient to improve poll ratings so something had to be done at home. Seems that Carla Bruni, his much experienced wife, is pregnant for the first time at the age of 43 years. He has achieved what a lot of men have failed to do in the past. If she is indeed pregnant she will deliver at the beginning of 2012 just before the presidential elections reminding the people of what a potent weapon Sarkozy has. Then suddenly the jackpot just fell into his lap. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his most probable opponent in next year's elections, has been charged of sexual assault by a maid in a New York hotel and is under arrest. Surely Mr Strauss-Kahn has a diplomatic passport in which case he should be immune. If Raymond Davies can kill 2 people, albeit Pakistanis, in cold blood and the US forces Pakistan to release him by claiming diplomatic immunity in retrospect surely a little sexual assault is not of much consequence. Sarkozy is indeed a lucky boy but will Lady Luck hang around till next year?

Mammals are the highest form of life because they learn from others and from their own mistakes but this axiom seems not to hold in the case of white skinned humans. They keep acting in the same stupid manner time after time without learning anything from past debacles. The US has been supplying Pakistan with F 16s, night vision goggles, smart bomb equipment, drones and other military equipment as bribes to fight terrorists. Pakistan has used military aid not only against India but to arm terrorists to kill US and NATO soldiers. Pakistan must also have supplied all this technology to China which is determined to enslave all of Asia and control most of the mineral resources in the world. Now, in an effort to kill Bin Laden, who was a creation of the US, they have left behind a helicopter with stealth technology which the Pakis will share with the Chinese increasing the danger to all countries in Asia. Meanwhile NATO planes continue trying to assassinate Gaddafi while denying they are doing so. They must think that we are stupid enough to believe their lies when they have murdered one of Gaddafi's sons and 3 innocent grand children. They have no idea who the rebels are or whether they are being led by Al Qaeda or the Hezbollah but they are blinded by their hatred for Gaddafi. Rami Makhluf, cousin of Al Assad has warned that if there is no stability in Syria " there's no way there will be stability in Israel ". Iran is immensely stronger because Saddam was removed, Egypt looks like becoming another Pakistan and Hezbollah is running Lebanon. Cameron knows the UK economy is in for a free fall and wants to divert attention. Idiots.

Results of elections to state assemblies in four states are in. In Assam Congress rules again, in Kerala a coalition led by the Congress beat the Communists by a slender margin, in Bengal CPM, the Communist party, which has ruled for over 30 years, was routed by Ms Mamata Banerjee's Trinamul Congress with absolute majority while in Tamil Nadu Ms Jayalalitha surprised experts by demolishing that nest of vipers, the DMK. We hope that the 2 ladies will liberate the police in their states and allow them to bring the criminals in the CPM and the DMK to trial and be jailed for very long terms. The results also mean that India is now being ruled by women. We have Mamata Banerjee in Bengal, Jayalalitha in Tamil Nadu, Sheila Dixit in Delhi, Mayawati in UP and Sonia Gandhi, who is the most powerful person in the country, because she controls the spineless Congress which runs the central government. Will this change the lot of women in India? Sadly no. Women leaders are as corrupt as men and apart from pious speeches borrowed from western feminists have done nothing to improve living conditions of poor women. If poor people had less children it would instantly improve quality of life of women. Since UP has the highest birthrate one would have expected Ms Mayawati, who prides herself for being a Dalit, to promote small families as a means of social and economic improvement. One would expect her to teach people that women have two X chromosomes and so cannot choose the sex of their children. We still read about mothers being killed for giving birth to girls. Women are their own worst enemies. That is a sad fact.

The Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by the CBI seeking to restore harsher charges against accused in the Bhopal tragedy which took place in 1984. In recent months we have seen a succession of people of Indian origin being sentenced to long prison terms in the US for offences such as sexual harassment and excess billing of Medicare but when Union Carbide slaughtered thousands Andersen was escorted to the airport by senior Congress politicians and the company escaped with a token compensation. Filing such petitions now is a cynical attempt by the ruling Congress to pretend it wants justice and an insult to the dead and dying. Meanwhile crown prince Mr Rahul Gandhi courted arrest in UP by sneaking into Bhatta Parsaul to join farmers agitating against the UP government on the back of a motorbike. He has since been released on bail. Trouble with Mr Gandhi is that he is squeaky clean which makes everyone suspicious about his ability to survive in the slime of Indian politics. Even though he is seen as royalty by invertebrate Congress footlickers, lives in a bungalow worth at least Rs 3 billion, gets Z class security, and has dimples there is not one iota of scandal regarding him. No case of land grabbing, no violation of foreign exchange regulation, not even a little orgy with minor Bollywood bimbos. Contrast this with veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari who starred in a video with 3, yes 3, naked ladies at the age of 80 years and is having to provide DNA sample in a paternity claim. Getting politely arrested and bailed out is wimpy. To succeed Mr Gandhi must get a reputation. Take lessons from senior Congress fellows. Good luck.

Bin Laden's death has created a lot of controversies. Former ISI chief, Hamid Gul believes that Bin Laden was not in the house but the Americans are claiming to have got him because that gives them an excuse to get out of Afghanistan. Others claim that the raid was led by Tom Cruise and will be shown in the tenth sequel of Mission Impossible. I believe that Bin Laden was captured alive and has been handed over to the Republicans to be tortured. He is having to listen to Bush telling him how he thought that Afghanistan is in Iraq and WMD was Saddam's initials. Rumsfeld is asking him all about known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Cheney keeps inviting him to come and shoot some birds. Newt Gingrich is driving him crazy with jealousy recounting how many babes he pulled without having to drink Avena syrup. John Boehner keeps breaking into tears hearing of how many times Gingrich scored. Donald Trump keeps insisting on seeing the long form of his birth certificate. Sarah Palin is trying to teach him how mama grizzlies grunt while giving birth and the mating call of a moose. Tea Party jihadists are showing him how they will give tax cuts to the wealthiest americans while cutting education, medicare, government employees and all government spending. Bin Laden will be left wondering why he was wasting his time and money trying to kill a few hundred americans when he could have destroyed the lives of millions by joining and financing the Tea Party. That is why President Obama is refusing to release pictures of a dead Bin Laden. Because he is being reditioned. Diabolical.

Sushil Suri, owner of pharma company, Morepen Lab is to face trail for forgery and cheating as directed by the Supreme Court. He had taken a loan from Punjab and Sind Bank to buy new machinery but diverted the funds to other uses as is common in India. He then used forged papers to show purchase of machinery to claim large depreciations on his tax. His lawyer argued in court that since he had repaid his loan on time and the bank is not a party to the complaint so there is no case to answer. Suri must be feeling aggrieved because this is standard practice in India. That he forged papers to show purchase of new machinery and cheated on his tax by claiming false depreciation on machinery that did not exist would not seem a criminal or immoral act to him because everyone is doing it so why pick on him. Not fair. Meanwhile the former chief of the Securities and Exchange Board of India or SEBI, CB Bhave allowed tens of thousands of fake depository accounts to be opened in December 2008. This would have allowed crooks to corner the market in Initial Public Offerings which followed. An NGO filed a Public Interest Litigation in Delhi High Court which rejected the charge and fined the NGO Rs 50000 for filing a frivolous case. The SEBI board tried to shield Bhave by closing its investigation but now the court has asked SEBI to reopen it. The government has embarked on a project to force a Unique Identity card with biometric details on every citizen. When every politician and civil servant is a criminal what is the guarantee that someone's identity will not be sold to a criminal or terrorist? India has never been in such danger.

Seems that the Prime Minister's Office, PMO has written to the Sports Ministry to ask the CBI and ED to investigate the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee,OC for " irregularities " in organising the Games as pointed out in the Shunglu committee report. Why? The Supreme Court is already seized of the matter and has instructed the two agencies to work without fear or favor. Everyone knew about the blatant loot before the Games were held in September of last year so what has taken the PMO so long to wake up to the fact. Fact is that the Comptroller and Accountant General,CAG had reported serious misconduct while auditing the OC's accounts for 2007-2008, three years ago. The CAG talked of " no proper guidelines in regards to maintenance of records ", " camouflaging of figures in accounts " and " a serious lapse of internal control". This is as explicit and damning as the CAG can get. Why does the PMO have to direct these agencies to investigate? Does it mean that CBI and ED are controlled by politicians and civil servants who are all criminals? Why specifically the Organising Committee of the Games? The OC, after all, had budget of Rs 25 billion while the Delhi government had a budget of Rs 700 billion and was responsible for building the infrastructure which was collapsing even before the Games started. Is this an effort to protect the " Wide Receiver "? Meanwhile the CBI is having to send officers to Mauritius to investigate one of the scams. Let us hope we do not have a repeat of Bofors which lasted for years and required our sleuths to run all over the world including St Kitts before filing for closure. Buy them girlie magazines. Cheaper by far.

Member of the Legislative Assembly in UP, Shekhar Tiwari has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a government engineer, Manoj Kumar Gupta on December 23, 2008. Tiwari's main business was extortion and he wanted Gupta to pay for celebrating the Chief Minister's birthday which Gupta refused. Enraged, Tiwari planned to implicate Gupta in a false case of sexual assault with the help of the local police officer, Hoshiyar Singh. However, on the night of December 23 Tiwari got drunk and determined to teach Gupta a lesson. Next morning Gupta was found dead. All witnesses were threatened into silence except another engineer called Rai who has been suspended on charges of buying Rs 10000 worth of unauthorised equipment. Rai has since retired and is not being paid any pension. He has not been seen for 18 months, most probably because he is in hiding to save his own life. This case is a clear illustration that the entire Indian establishment is criminal. Tiwari had 14 cases registered against him but 10 of these cases could not be proven because the police cooperated with him and witnesses were silenced. He was chosen by the BSP to be a candidate for election, not by mistake, but with full knowledge precisely because he had the goons to silence opposition and could collect funds through extortion. After murdering Gupta he was able to frighten every witness except Rai who was then suspended by his own department on some unproven charge. He should have been hanged because he can continue his crimes from jail and may be freed on parole by his party. Politicians, police, civil servants, all criminals. This is India.

In spite of using massive force the Syrian government is finding it difficult to control anti government protests. From demanding reforms protesters are now demanding a regime change. Syria has cut the internet, is not allowing foreign journalists and its army is using tanks to attack its own people. All tactics learnt from Iran, with which Syria is particularly close, but whereas Iran was successful in suppressing its revolt Syria seems to be failing. The difference maybe that God was on Iran's side in that it is an Islamic Republic ruled by Ayatollah Khamenei who is also called Supreme Leader. Since only God is supreme it means that Ahmadinejad has God on his side which Assad does not. Iran also has a paramilitary squad of thugs called the Basij militia who are allowed to beat up anyone, rape and murder. Assad could also learn from China which changed the dictionary to stop any protests. The Chinese government deleted the word " jasmine " from the vocabulary which quickly brought all protests to a halt. If you cannot have a name for your protests how can you write articles, print pamphlets or energise your supporters? However, prevention being better than cure India has to be the world leader in how to enslave its people, loot the exchequer in the name of development and pass on power from one generation to the next. Political gangs have divided the country into zones of influence with various families fighting for control rather like Italy where the mafia has done the same. Every few years an expensive joke called " elections " is played on us where we are forced to choose between gangs and then we go on as usual. It is called " democracy ".

Milking it for all its worth Obama laid a wreath at the 9/11 memorial site in New York yesterday. One African- American woman was waving a US flag while chanting " Obama got Osama, Obama got Osama " over and over. Meanwhile Pakis refuse to believe that the Americans actually killed Bin Laden unless they are shown his picture. Some say that Bin Laden had died two years back and the Americans, having just found out, are claiming the credit. The Pakis, having been thoroughly humiliated, have resorted to snarling at India. Mad dogs will do that. Sadly our traitors are already saying that we need to go on talking to Pakistan. No we definitely do not. Why, when we spend millions of dollars on defence, are we so weak? About a week back a helicopter carrying the Chief Minister of Arunachal, Dorjee Khandu went missing. Two Sukhoi fighters were deployed for mapping the area and 35 columns of army were used to search for the remains. When advanced fighter jets are being used to look for missing politicians is it any wonder that we have to talk peace on " bended knees " with our enemies? These same traitors are determined to allow the French company, Areva to build a European Pressurised Reactor at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. This is a new technology which has not received regulatory approval anywhere including in France. The first such reactor was being built in Finland but is hopelessly behind schedule with costs already more than double the initial estimate. The obscene haste and strong arm tactics of the Congress seem extremely fishy. Berlusconi is friendly with Sarkozi and such a large order needs suppliers. Are we sacrificial goats?

The propaganda channel BBC showed unconfirmed pictures of young men in Syria lying on the ground, their hands tied with wires, being beaten by the police. This was supposed to be evidence of the brutal repression of pro democratic protests by a hated regime. The pictures, however, looked strangely familiar. Arab men, hands tied with wire, being beaten by men in uniform. Flash back to Baghdad in 2003 and these could be Iraqi men being kicked by US soldiers before being taken to Abu Ghraib and photographed naked by US perverts. The US can kill, kidnap, rape, poison, torture and imprison while Britain and other white countries applaud from the sidelines. It is all done for world peace and to free the locals from bad dictators. Meanwhile the International Criminal Court is deciding whether to issue arrest warrants for certain Libyan officials who they think are guilty of crimes against humanity. Started with great fanfare the selective justice of this institution makes it another weapon in the armory of the white man to legitimise attacking other countries. Just as the Security Council supports US gangsterism across the globe so the ICC provides the necessary fig leaf to European governments to attack weaker nations. If Charles Taylor or Gadhafi are to answer charges of crimes against humanity then so should George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair and all other American and British fellows guilty of genocide in Iraq. The US is also guilty of unimaginable stupidity. Humiliating Pakistan while supplying more aid will only will make its army more determined in helping terrorists. Seems that Bush is not the only moron.

At last the Reserve Bank of India, RBI got up its courage and increased interest rates by 0.5% yesterday. This increases the Repo rate at which banks borrow from the RBI to 7.25%. The sudden increase in courage may have been caused by panic as the government is scheduled to increase retail petrol and diesel prices after elections in some states are concluded. Again this should have been done weeks ago at the start of the Libyan crisis but was cynically deferred so as not to harm Congress chances in the elections no matter what it does to the finances of the oil companies. Any rise in fuel prices will instantly cause a rise in inflation, especially food prices as fruits, vegetables, milk, fish and meat are all transported by trucks. The other reason for the sudden courage of the RBI may be because there are rumors that Mr Subbarao's tenure as governor may not be extended for another two years as promised before. The government is solely focussed on growth in GDP and a high rate is touted as a badge of honor. However, a growth rate of 9% with inflation at 12% is actually a negative growth of 3%. Much better to have a growth rate of 6% with inflation at 2%. The RBI must bring down inflation to 2% and hold it there by keeping interest rates high. Property prices must be brought down to 30% of present values and not allowed to increase by more than the rate of inflation. This will keep black money out of the economy allowing healthy growth, affordable housing for everyone, low rents and increased savings. One would think that the greatest economist would never allow inflation to be out of control. Trouble is he only thinks of his buttocks. On gaddi.

So, Osama bin Laden sleeps with the fishes. Apart from a few hairy moments in Tora Bora he had a great life. A millionaire, he was living in a $ 1 million villa, served by his two loyal servants, Kayani and Pasha, entertained by a succession of wives and so feared by the Americans that, even in death, they gave him a proper funeral and dumped him into the sea. Americans are rejoicing for killing their one time ally who was responsible for the deaths of a few thousands. Now the world should demand the same for Bush, Blair and their comrades who were responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands in an illegal war in Iraq. What of Pakistan? This whore of a country allows itself to be violated by a Saudi Arabian bin Laden, an Egyptian Zawahiri, Pashtun Taliban from Afghanistan and Americans who fly in armed Navy Seals, attack a house just a couple of hundred yards from their military academy, execute a sick man with a couple of women and a courier and fly out with prisoners and bodies of the dead without bothering to take permission. When it was all over Obama phoned Zardari to tell him that his country had been violated and there is nothing he can do about it. It is the old saying about rape - if you cannot prevent it just lie back and enjoy it. This is because Pakistan is a bankrupt beggar nation existing on handouts from the US and the IMF. They have been spending enormous sums of money on a rapacious army and in training and arming terrorists to inflict a " thousand cuts " on India. Instead they have inflicted a billion cuts on themselves. Now Zardari is having to claim credit for helping the US to rape his own country. Impotent nation.

The Federal Aviation Administration or FAA has been taking action when it emerged that air traffic controllers were falling asleep at their posts. Managers have been replaced and the whole system is being shaken up to prevent repeat of such incidents. In India pilots with fake mark sheets have been licensed to fly after paying bribes of Rs 700,000. Flying is an ordeal in India. Ticket prices are too high because of taxes up to 35% on air fuel. The developer of Delhi and Mumbai airports was illegally charging domestic passengers Rs 200 per ticket and Rs 1300 for foreign flights. The Supreme Court has ordered that to stop. Further misery is being caused by a strike by pilots of the domestic part of Air India demanding parity of salaries with pilots flying foreign routes. In spite of a court order the pilots are still on strike after 5 days. Air India is government controlled which allows criminal politicians and thieving, parasitic civil servants to fly free with wives, children, friends, servants and, who knows, may be even mistresses and toy boys. The airline has accumulated losses of Rs 130 billion, employs 40000 at a ratio of 243 employees to each aircraft as opposed to the industry average of 150 per aircraft, earns Rs 210 million/ per day while spending Rs 570 million losing Rs 360 million per day and each plane flies for a paltry nine hours per day. One would think that pilots would have some shame when they are already among the highest paid in the country while working so little but sadly Indians have learnt from politicians and have lost all sharam and izzat. Since the strike is illegal they should all be sacked but then how will politicians fly for free.

India is perhaps the only country in the world where the word " elite " is used as an abuse. The pseudo secular, pseudo intellectual english press has been especially scornful of the support Anna Hazare received for his fast in favor of a Lok Pal bill. Freeloading journalists have, with scant exceptions, dismissed supporters as selfish elites, page three socialites or confused middle class out of touch with poor of the country. At the same time they are effusively complimentary about our Dear Leader who has blithely allowed thieves to loot the country calling it " coalition dharma." He is constantly referred to as " squeaky clean " and " scrupulously honest." The argument is that it is undemocratic to resort to fasting in support of a cause as it is political blackmail. Why is it wrong to blackmail an accessory to adharma. The press should ask the Dear Leader's daughter the definition of the word " accessory " in the US. One woman has quoted Gandhi's words, " Democracy is an impossible thing until power is shared by all but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy." So let the criminal politicians loot, lie and disrupt all investigations but the people should meekly respect the scum as leaders. Lincoln's words were so much better when he said that the constitution should be " dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal " which should be protected by a " government of the people, by the people, for the people." Two lawyers but such different views. Is it any wonder that India has no one of world class in any field because to be " elite " is to be shunned. When the fourth estate works as the fifth column the danger is great indeed.