The dictionary definition of the word " subsidy " is " a sum of money given to help keep the price of something low " which means that price is being artificially kept depressed. A few days back the price of diesel in India was increased by Rs 3/lit, kerosene by Rs 2/lit and cooking gas by Rs 50/cylinder. Diesel now sells at Rs 41 instead of Rs 37 before the price increase,much lower than petrol which sells at over Rs 65/lit. The increase has been limited to Rs 3 because the government reduced taxes on diesel. Customs or import duty of 5% on crude oil was abolished and the same duty on diesel and petrol was cut from 7.5% to 2.5%. Excise duty on diesel was cut from Rs 4.60/lit to Rs 2/lit. The government will incur a loss of Rs 230 billion due to the cut in excise duty and a loss of Rs 260 billion due to the cut in customs duty. Total loss of taxes will be Rs 490 billion. Experts think that the government will be unable to keep fiscal deficit at 4.6% as promised because of this loss of revenue. Oil company losses will come down from Rs 1.71 trillion to Rs 1.20 trillion that is Rs 511.40 billion. The government has been forcing oil companies to keep prices low even though it has been taking its cut in the form of taxes right at the beginning because it is the largest shareholder of the companies which are run by civil servants. Why it is counted as deficit if the tax revenue falls short but not if the public sector oil companies are losing trillions of rupees has never been explained by the experts. The minority shareholders are the main losers as they will not be receiving any dividends which is blatant cheating. Only a World Class Economist can pull off such magic.

Four elderly Khmer Rouge officials have gone on trial in Cambodia for crimes committed during their rule. It is hard to imagine millions of people enslaved, tortured and murdered on the orders of one man, Pol Pot or Brother number 1, as he was known. Seems that there is a large number of people in any population of human beings with hidden bestiality ready to commit unimaginable crimes given the right circumstances and encouragement. Thus the Cultural Revolution of China on the orders of Mao, the Nazi holocaust on the orders of Hitler and the killings in Soviet Russia on the orders of Stalin. On the night of June 23, Amit Yogi, son of a Congress leader, was travelling by car in Jabalpur in MP when he was attacked by men armed with iron rods and beaten so badly that he has lost sight in one eye. His car was torched. TOI, June 26. On June 24, the niece of a journalist, who refused to suppress a report of a gang of sandalwood smugglers, was kidnapped and raped repeatedly by gang members. They mistook the young woman for the daughter of the journalist. The present government in UP came to power in 2007 with absolute majority and the Chief Minister is Ms Mayawati who campaigned on law and order. Her party, the BSP, had 131 candidates with criminal cases filed against them of which 63 won. Of these 33 had multiple charges against them, 6 had been charged of murder, rape, rioting, kidnapping and robbery. Three are listed as gangsters by the police. These scum were deliberately chosen as candidates. Every political gang in India puts up criminals as candidates because they can win by force. The killing fields of India are ready.

Ever since a Toronto police officer said that if women want to be safe then they " should avoid dressing like sluts " every kind of pundit has suddenly crawled out of the woodwork. Women claim that they have the right to dress as they please never mind if it is appropriate to the place, occasion or weather. Feminists are furious that women are seen as sexual objects by men when they should be seen as intellectuals even if showing lots of bottom and boobs. How they dress is their concern and no one else's. But surely you cannot see yourself, so if you are wearing micro shorts and a see through shirt in freezing weather you are obviously trying to grab eyeballs. Recently there was a story of a famous soccer player paying a prostitute 1500 pounds for one night of sex. She then gleefully narrated her story to a tabloid, probably receiving more money. Women have been exploiting men for sex since the beginning of time. That is why prostitution is the oldest profession in the world. Hence a woman in revealing clothes is seen an exploiter and termed a " slut ". However while the pundits bang on about women being seen a sex objects by conservative patriarchal tyrants they seem to have discarded common sense. Sure, rape is a crime but so is burglary, not as terrible as rape, but a crime none the less. That is why people lock their doors, install alarms and have large dogs as pets. Just as it would be silly to say that burglars are terrible people and we have the right to keep our homes wide open so it is silly to say that women should not protect their own bodies. In a world where innocent children are vulnerable it is better to be safe. Bestiality is everywhere.

Fellow called Sandeep Kanwar, son of Nankiram Kanwar, who is Home Minister of Chatisgarh has been buying up land from poor farmers in his state in his capacity as Public Relations Officer of the Videocon group, a large Indian multinational company. ( TOI, June 24 ). According to Chatisgarh law a non tribal person cannot buy land from a tribal without authorisation from the District Collector. Being a tribal himself, Sandeep Kanwar is able to buy any amount of land. The illiterate farmers are intimidated by his VIP car with a lotus flower which is the party symbol of the BJP. The farmers cannot even claim rehabilitation expense from the company because the land was bought by an individual and then transferred to the company. Chatisgarh has a BJP government which charges social activists like Binayak Sen with sedition and throws them into prison for life. Meanwhile in Congress ruled Maharashtra survey maps from 1872-1960 relating to Adarsh ( of the scam fame ) land and surrounding Colaba area in Mumbai have gone missing from the land records office. This was defence land earmarked for building flats for Kargil veterans and war widows but a large multi storeyed building was built instead and sold at low cost to retired generals, politicians and their relatives. The high court is hearing the case for demolition of the building but with so many powerful people involved important documents have gone missing on at least 3 occasions. Meanwhile 2 more rapes have been reported from UP which is ruled by the BSP. Every politician is a criminal which makes every party a gang. Will they ever pass a Lok Pal bill? Hang the lot and start again.

Its deja vu all over again. The European Union and the IMF are demanding severe cost cutting from the Greek government before authorising the second tranche of bailout money to stave off default on its debt. This is the old, failed IMF recipe for any country in economic difficulty. Reduce government expense, if necessary by throwing masses of people out of work, increase taxes and open the economy to outside competition. In practice this makes things much worse. Increase in taxes reduce public spending, increasing unemployment reduces government tax collection worsening its ability to pay off its debts and sudden flow of cheap goods from abroad leads to failure of local industries leading to more unemployment. Argentina experienced this disaster and decided to boot the IMF out, defaulted on its debts, devalued its currency and let economic growth lead the country out of its crisis. Russia did the same. East Asian countries did not want to default so they went through painful adjustments. Having learnt their lessons the Asian countries have built up large reserves to buttress their economies. Greece has no room to maneuver because it is locked into the Euro. If it leaves the Euro the world financial market will go into turmoil but if it does not it will go through decades of poverty. Experts are betting that Greece will have to default at some stage. France and Germany are leading the rescue attempt. Cameron has argued that since Britain is not part of the Euro it should not have to pay. When Greek defaults British Banks will suffer and British taxpayer will be hit. Cameron is trying hard to be a Thatcher. If only he had a handbag.

So, President Obama has ordered complete pull out of US troops from Afghanistan by 2014 against the advice of the military. Ten thousand will return this year and another 23000 next year. Elections are to be held next November so troops coming home to flag waving and bands playing will be welcome publicity. The US abandoned Afghanistan once before after the withdrawal of Soviet forces with disastrous results so there is no reason to think that this time will be any different. Now that they know the date the Taliban will get themselves ready to take over as soon as the last NATO soldier has left. Pakistan is also waiting to get rid of Karzai and install a government which they hope will be friendly to them. Of course, US and European economies being in danger of recession the cost of the war is becoming to great to bear. Unfortunately for Obama the death of Osama bin Laden came much too early. People will have forgotten it by this time next year and it will be the economy which will decide who wins provided the Republicans can come up with a candidate worth voting for. Politicians make decisions just to win the next election without regard for the future. That is why the world seems more unstable everyday. Meanwhile the present Prime Minister of Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva has warned voters not to vote for the opposition because that would mean voting for Thaksin Sinawatra, who was deposed in a coup. The charge against Thaksin is that he was corrupt which, in Thailand, seems to be a bigger crime than the mass murder of Red Shirt protesters by the army on Abhisit's orders. Not just our lot, politicians seem to be devious the world over.

In UP 7 rapes in 3 days and counting. A few days ago a man tried to rape a teenage girl and when she resisted he stabbed her in both eyes leaving her completely blind in one eye and with severe injury in the other one. On June 10 the body of a 14 year old girl was found hanging from a tree in the compound of a police station in Lakhimpur- Kheri district in UP. ( TOI, June 14 ) The father of the girl alleges that the girl was gangraped and then murdered to silence her. The first autopsy report ruled it as suicide but the Chief Minister ordered a second autopsy after an enormous public outcry which confirmed that the girl was murdered but could not confirm rape. Clearly the doctors who performed the first autopsy were either in league with the police or threatened by them. Yesterday 2 women returning to Delhi by car along the Dehradun - Delhi highway with 2 male friends stopped at a garage at Vehalna Chowk near Muzzafarnagar in UP. Some 7 men kidnapped them, drove them to a house and tried to rape them at gun point. They managed to escape. The car used by the men had a VIP number plate belonging to a member of the UP assembly. A couple of months back a teenage dalit girl was imprisoned by a UP MLA in his house where she was raped by him and his friends. When her father complained to the police the girl was locked up for 14 days by the police on a false charge of theft by which time all traces of rape had disappeared. Politicians are vile subhuman beasts who think that winning an election by any means guarantees them the right to commit any crime. People follow their example. That is why the Congress will never allow the Lok Pal to control the CBI.

In an article titled " Passport? Failport! " in the TOI of today, one Mr Jug Suraiya writes angrily of how his wife was not allowed to board a Finnair flight from London to Helsinki because her visa was stamped in the previous passport. Mr Suraiya laments the fact that Indians are suspected of attempting to immigrate illegally by every country in the world and thinks this is due to hoards of poor people paying to be smuggled to a western country in search of a better life. He thinks that this is an indictment of the government which has been unable to provide basic necessities to citizens to prevent them from trying to escape. Although right Mr Suraiya is being too politically correct. The reason others treat us like dirt is because our criminal politicians and thieving parasitic civil servants treat us even worse. Even in police states like Saudi Arabia citizens do not have to queue up for immigration check when they enter the country. In countries like Britain even European Union citizens just breeze through while in Delhi, our capital city, foreigners' queue is shorter and they are cleared in a few minutes while Indians have to stand for hours. When politicians travel abroad on official business they take their wives, children and friends along for the fun at taxpayer expense. When they return these criminal beggars do not undergo any search by customs officials and are thus able to smuggle in any quantity of contraband. While we the people never know what these scoundrels have smuggled in foreign governments will have every detail of every purchase. That is why they see us with contempt. That is also why we have to go to Pakistan on " bended knees".

In his speech yesterday, Bashar al Assad, President of Syria blamed saboteurs, conspiracy and foreign powers for the troubles in his country and offered some political reforms, including multiparty elections. This was stale rhetoric regurgitated for the faithful who cheered and clapped in demented manner as he entered the hall and shouted slogans promising their lives in his cause. The question that has always puzzled me is why so many people follow dictators and criminals to keep them in power for decades. Are these people incapable of independent thought and the ability to reason between right and wrong? Are most human beings ruthless predators ready to kill for personal gain? Is a part of the human mind psychopathic which is kept under control in civilised social surroundings but is instantly released by a despot? Most of the brutal dictatorships we see today are in relatively homogeneous countries. Syrians are all Arabs, the majority of Chinese are of Han origin and the Nazi party was all German. That being the case we Indians must be the luckiest people in the world. India has multiple languages and, although Hindu, one part of India is more different from another than France is to Britain. That is why instead of one brutal thug ruling the whole country we have a large number of political gangs controlled by various families where power is passed from one generation to the next. This means that whichever gang comes to power the looting continues. The good thing is that since criminals will fight over loot no one becomes all powerful and we are always kept entertained. No wonder every nation is jealous of India.

"You all want that inflation should come down. Neither the Ministry of Finance nor the has any magic wand to bring down inflation," said Mr KC Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor of the RBI. ( TOI, today ). In other words all these fellows have no clue as to what is going on and what to do about it. Why is the suffering taxpayer paying huge salaries and unlimited perks for such useless fellows? To think that India is run by the Most Famous Economist! Mr Chakrabarty goes on to say,"...Instead of saying that RBI should bring down inflation, we must increase productivity and bring down the cost of services and that will only bring down inflation. Otherwise, it will not come down." Precisely what we have been saying for months. Cut multiple extortionate taxes on services and allow foreign investment in retail. As for increasing agricultural productivity it will influenced by factors such as weather, available land and cost of fertiliser which is dependent on oil prices. One way is to adopt genetically modified plants but that will hand over control of food production and sovereignty to foreign companies such as Monsanto. Much better long term solution is to reduce demand by reducing population and the only way that will happen is if there is no incentive for the poor to have children. 1. Stop all forms of child labor. 2. Make begging illegal. People should not be allowed to exploit their own children to make them earn money. 3. Anyone born after 1995 would not be given state aid if they have more than one child. Female child will get double the aid. Sadly it will not happen. Politicians are criminals and criminals have no loyalty.

On June 11, a journalist named Jyotirmoy Dey was shot to death by shooters on 2 motorcycles in front of a supermarket at 2.55 pm in Mumbai. Mumbai police have no clue as to who carried out the murder or why but speculation is that it was the work of oil smugglers who mix diesel and kerosene with higher priced petrol. This business is so lucrative that the criminals have bought many in the Mumbai police. Indian Police Service officers are required to file details of their immovable assets every year under what is known as Annual Property Returns. Seems that 86 out of 104 officers in Haryana did not file their APRs this year. The list includes 3 Director Generals of Police. Would it be because these top officers are hiding something? Perhaps some of them were trained by the retired criminal Director General, Rathore. This is the kind of police that politicians want. Inefficient, useless and crooked, easy to control and to use to cover their own crimes. This is what the Congress is desperate to protect from the Lokpal bill. Delhi police arrested 2 shooters for the killing of one Saifi Haider Saifi in UP. The shooters told the police that they committed the crime at the behest of Intezar Abdi " Bobby ", Chairman of Sugarcane Institute in UP, equivalent to the rank of minister. The Chief Minister, Ms Mayawati ordered the police to arrest him. This clearly illustrates how the police are a bunch of puppets under the control of politicians. This also explains why the Delhi police brutally attacked sleeping women and children at 2 am to break up Baba Ramdev's fast. The is the enemy of the people. Exterminate the vermin.

The Reserve Bank has oncee again raised interest rates by 0.25% which takes the borrowing rate to 6.5% and the lending rate to 7.5% but is still unable to control to control inflation. Of course, our revered Finance Minister is still repeating that a 9% growth rate is achievable like some demented parrot. However there are indications that growth is slowing. Companies in India are required to pay tax on their estimated annual earnings in advance every quarter, 15% in the first quarter, 30% in the second and third and 25% in the final quarter. The government had hoped for a rise of 25% in tax collections this year but, apparently, companies are paying lower taxes. This is being blamed on rising interest rates and high commodity prices impacting bottom lines. True, high prices of commodities including oil are contributing to but a large part of inflation is due to uncontrolled government spending, high indirect taxes and RBI lethargy allowing an enormous property price bubble to develop. Business confidence has come down to 6/9 from 7/7 previously. This raises the question- why were business men so optimistic in the first place? Could they not see the warning signs all this while or were they repeating what they were told by the politicians? Politicians tell lies by habit and also because they do not want to panic the markets but surely business men should be able to make more realistic predictions? Not just India. China is trying to control inflation, Europe is trying desperately to keep bankruptcy confined to Greece to avoid it spreading to Spain and the US is in low level civil war. The only good news is that petrol will be cheaper if the world collapses.

After promising to pass a comprehensive Lok Pal bill to get Anna Hazare to break his fast against corruption the Congress is refusing to honor any demand. Why is the Congress not worried about being labeled as dishonorable liars? Because, one, they know that people are already convinced of that and, second, the huge mass of illiterate people, their " vote bank ", could not care. So what are they after? Last year the country was convulsed with the exposure of 2 scams. The opposition wanted a Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the Telecom scam but the Congress kept refusing. The entire session of Parliament was wasted but the Congress got what it wanted. By being obdurate they managed to keep the attention firmly on the DMK in Tamil Nadu and protected the Delhi government which was implicated in the Commonwealth Games Scam. True, they were trounced in Tamil Nadu elections but they have protected Delhi and the wealth earned from the CWG scam. The stupid opposition were taken for suckers. This time they are playing the same type of game. They have demanded that the Prime Minister and the judiciary will be outside the ambit of the Lok Pal, deliberately making aggressive statements about how this will create a parallel power structure which is unconscionable. What they are really after is not to lose control of the police and the CBI. Bofors has taught them that no matter what the extent of the crime you will escape justice if you control the investigating agencies. Note how the Police Commissioner has denied beating people which was caught on camera. The Ndrangheta are a bunch of amateurs, these guys are masters.

More versions of " democracy ". Couple of days back the Prime Minister of Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva, was at the World Economic forum meeting in Indonesia where he was talking about the coming elections in his country. This fellow became Prime Minister after an army coup pushed out Thaksin Sinawatra, the elected leader and the " Constitutional Court " banned the next elected government allowing Vejjajiva to sneak in. Last year he got the army to murder dozens of Red Shirt protesters and has put others in jail where they are still being held. He issued a chilling warning in Jakarta that if the opposition win they will not be allowed to change any part of the constitution meaning that if the opposition win they will have to toe the army line or will be thrown out again. Of course, Vejjajiva is sure that an army coup, killing of unarmed civilians and holding meaningless elections are all for " democracy". Meanwhile in Greece people are protesting against severe austerity measures being proposed by the government to balance its budget. Greece is in this deep hole because a previous government lied about its debt level to become part of the common currency, the Euro. Surely that fellow should be tried for economic crimes for bringing the country to its knees. It has emerged that $ 6.6 billion dollars sent by the Bush government to administer Iraq were stolen. Apparently cash was loaded onto C 130 Hercules planes and flown to Iraq where it was spent without accounts. Now the Republicans are blaming Obama for the economic mess and refusing to raise the debt ceiling. Forget the mafia, " democracy " is today the refuge for the worst scoundrels.

The word " democracy " is perhaps the most abused word in the world today. It has come to mean winning an election by hook or by crook, mostly by crook, which is then taken to mean absolute immunity for committing any crime that may benefit the winner. A government " of the people, by the people, for the people " is a Utopian dream, even in the country where the concept was first mentioned. In India democracy means casting a vote every 5 years after standing in the open for hours. The choice is between which political gang has promised more freebies at taxpayer expense and distributed free saris or locally brewed alcohol. Once results are announced there is snarling and snapping for ministerial posts like street dogs fighting in a garbage dump. Ministers get offices and billions of rupees with which to make merry. Others fight for the leftovers like a bigger bungalow, Z, ZZ or ZZZ class security or some social scheme which can be looted for personal pleasures. The 3 institutions namely the executive, the legislature and the judiciary are supposed to provide checks and balances but in practice the gang which controls the legislature also forms the executive and the judiciary is too loaded and expensive for the aam aadmi. The proposed Lok Pal is a curative but we desperately need a preventive, a citizen's corporation which will ask questions of the criminals. Why does the Chief Minister of Delhi need to visit Japan at taxpayer expense while increasing taxes across the board? If the answer is unsatisfactory then the politician should be forced to pay back. " By the people " is not enough. Make the criminals work " for the people".

Is fasting against corruption by criminals politicians and thieving parasitic civil servants an undemocratic act of aggression as the Congress is making out? It is, if for 63 years you have been looting the country, treating its people with utter contempt and betraying India by consistently pandering to its enemies. Would drug gangs in Mexico give up drug smuggling without a fight? Would the Ndrangheta give up its lucrative extortion, money laundering and skimming money from government contracts? Would dictators like Bashar al Assad and Gaddafi just give up power? Indian politicians have enjoyed a kind of dictatorship where winning an election was seen as absolute immunity to steal, use public money for private luxury and kill anyone who dared to raise a voice against their immorality. Now the civil society is fed up and want accountability. This is dangerous for the scoundrels as it might expose same of the crimes they have committed and may reduce the power of the criminal families controlling various political gangs. Some 45% of children in India suffer from malnutrition, more than in sub Saharan Africa. Is it not undemocratic for a child to die of starvation related causes? Tens of thousands die everyday because they are unable to afford treatment for serious diseases. A man with acute myeloid leukemia was told that it would cost him Rs 3.5 million for a bone marrow transplant but there would be no guarantee. He chose to die. Dialysis for renal failure costs Rs 10000 a week and few can afford such expense. Most choose to die than bankrupt their families. Are all these people undemocratic? Time to exterminate all vermin.

Some 600 delegates from 40 countries are meeting in Indonesia for a meeting of the World Economic Forum. No doubt India has sent a big delegation of criminal beggars for a few days of fun and frolic in Jakarta. Lots of hot air will be generated about " inclusive growth " and on how to reduce poverty. However, not one delegate will utter the greatest truth staring us in the face and that is that there can be no reduction of poverty unless we reduce the numbers of the poor and that means not just slower growth of population but actual reduction in numbers. Of 1.2 billion people India has 450 million under the age of 18 years. A report released by Bachpan Bachao Andolan says that there are 60 million child laborers in India generating Rs 1.2 trillion per year in black money. They are employed in back breaking labor such as brick manufacturing and dangerous industries such as recycling car batteries and making fire crackers. The charity, Oxfam reckons that food prices will double in the next 20 years from present levels which are already the highest ever ( HT, June 01 ). As numbers of the poor increase more forests are cut down for agriculture increasing CO2 and global warming which in turn will cause extreme weather conditions reducing food production further. So why does no one talk about reducing the number of people. For politicians in poor countries poor people means easy election victory by promising freebies to the poor. For rich western countries once starvation sets in it will be easy to force genetically modified food on poorer countries thus enslaving billions of people to keep whites in luxury. The abyss is ready. The lemmings are queuing up.

Are there similarities between the US economy and that of India? Bush inherited and budget surplus from Bill Clinton and chose to fritter it away on tax cuts for the rich and on an illegal war in Iraq. The Congress inherited a relatively safe economy from the BJP and then gave away 80% salary increases to useless parasitic civil servants, debt relief to farmers and compulsory rural employment to win a second term. The US is now running huge budget deficits and the Indian government is finding it impossible to keep deficit down at 4.6% of the GDP ( TOI, June 11 ). However, the US housing market has collapsed and inflation pressures are low allowing the Fed to keep interest rates low. In India property prices are still at fantasy levels feeding inflation at over 9% and the RBI will have to raise rates still further. Inflation will fall only after property prices have declined by at least 70% but that will take time. Meanwhile the combination of high inflation and interest rates means that people are spending less which will hit tax collections making it more difficult to reduce deficit. More government borrowing to fill the gap in tax collections will only push interest rates higher. That is why criminal politicians are desperate to maintain a high growth rate but with so many thieves stealing billions it will be impossible. Growth of the economy needs electricity which is pathetic. The government set a target of 78000 mw in the entire 11th five year plan period but has managed to add a meager 34462 mw while China is planning to add 100,000 mw every year for the next 5 years. A World Famous Economist / Honest Man and a bunch of criminals is not a recipe for success.

The English press is has adopted an all out attack to protect the government. These Congress stooges have two strategies. The first is to pour scorn on the people protesting against corruption. They have especially chosen Baba Ramdev for vicious mockery calling him a " pretzel contortionist " and casting doubts on the source of his wealth. The second is label all peaceful protests as " extra constitutional ". These same people were so excited by the protests in Tunisia and Egypt. Of the members of assemblies recently elected in Bihar and Bengal around 59% have charges of serious crimes against them. In the US several candidates of the same party go through primaries where party members vote to select the final candidate who then faces off against an opponent from the other party also selected through primaries. In Britain local party members select which candidate will represent them in an election. In India we have " tickets " where the party leaders choose candidates for different constituencies. These people knowingly select criminals because criminals have enough black money to buy votes and the goons to beat up opponents. Thus every political party is a criminal gang. Peaceful protest is a fundamental right and sleeping people are the most peaceful. Using police to beat up sleeping women and children is an act of extreme barbarism. When Rathore uses the police force under his command to terrorise innocent teenagers driving one to suicide he gets just 6 months in prison. Manu Sharma is let out on parole by Delhi politicians to enjoy night clubs. Politicians swear to protect the constitution and rape it daily yet we should not protest. Lying journalists.

How many times can you lie before you are stuck in your own excretions? Britain and the US lied about WMDs in Iraq. Recently Britain and France obtained Security Council support for a " no fly zone " over Libya to protect civilians. This was a monumental lie. A no-fly-zone means preventing the Libyan air force planes from attacking civilians thus protecting them from harm. It does not mean supporting armed gangs by killing Gaddafi's soldiers on the ground and certainly does not authorise attempts to assassinate Gaddafi as NATO planes have been doing. Then there are laughable lies spread by propaganda news channels. The most recent one says that Gaddafi has managed to obtain tons of Viagra like drugs which he is distributing to his troops to encourage them to rape women. Gaddafi is having to live in a bunker to avoid murderous bombing, his money has been looted by western countries under the excuse of sanctions and Libya is incapable of indigenous production. Surely if he is able to buy tons of Viagra from abroad he would have bought food, groceries and oil for his people. The result of repeated lies means that Britain and France can find no support for a resolution condemning Syria for killing civilian protesters. The Syrian army is ruthlessly shooting live ammunitions at peaceful, unarmed protesters under orders from President Assad who is determined to maintain his power at all costs just like his father did before him. In this he is being advised and helped by Iran, which employed similar tactics against protests, after last year's elections. With its economy slowly collapsing Britain may find a no-fly-zone over itself soon. Justice.

Human beings have been cheating on their partners forever, yet the actions of Ryan Giggs, star of Manchester United, are particularly disgusting. A 37 year old football player, Giggs has 2 children with his wife Stacey. He had a 6 month affair with one Imogen Thomas, apparently promising to leave his wife and marry her. When he failed to keep his promise she went to a newspaper with her story. Why? There is no suggestion that she was forced. If she continued to sleep with him for 6 months then she must have been enjoying it. Why then does she want to publicise details of a very private act when doing so will hurt another woman, namely Stacey? Clearly she wants to make money and get publicity from having sex with Giggs which makes her a tart. Meanwhile Natasha, the wife of the brother of Giggs confessed to having an affair with him for 8 years and then fled to Spain. It is hard to comprehend how a man could betray his brother in this manner. However, Stacey says that she does not believe Natasha's story. She believes that Natasha had tried to seduce Giggs and failed and has made up this story to take revenge. Either way Natasha is a most revolting woman. If she really had an affair with Giggs she betrayed her husband and Stacey, the innocent wife. If she has just made up this story she has hurt her own husband who trusted her and Stacey and has surely created lifelong enmity between the 2 brothers. The fact that Giggs is said to be worth 45 million pounds may have been the motive for the actions of the 2 women. Without doubt Giggs has behaved shamefully but this proves that women are the worst enemies of other women. Shame.

In an erudite article in the The Times of India today Sudipto Mundle, Emeritus Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy explains the causes behind high inflation in India. There is demand pull inflation in food prices because of poor supply due to inclement weather and there is cost push inflation in manufacturing because of rising commodity prices. Prices of some commodities such as food and diesel are influenced by government action, paying higher procurement prices to farmers while holding down the price of diesel, cooking gas and kerosene. The professor does not provide any solution to the problem but warns that RBI action to control inflation by reducing demand may result in stagflation. Diplomatically the professor does not mention 2 other factors which could be just as important in causing inflation. First is astronomical and multiple taxes which have a multiplier effect on the prices of goods and services. If your telephone bill is Rs 100 and service tax 12.5% your total bill will be Rs 112.50. If your use rises and the bill becomes Rs 200 then the total rises to Rs 225. The telephone bill includes profit of the company on which it pays corporate tax so you are paying twice for the same service. Secondly, the government runs many social programs for the poor which are, in reality, a means for criminal politicians and thieving civil servants to loot the exchequer. This black money is invested in property. Hence inflation cannot be controlled unless taxes are reduced, demand is reduced by reduction in population and property prices decline by at least 70%. No worries. The World Famous Economist is in charge.

At the Annual General Meeting of the International Air Transport Association ( IATA ) on Monday India was put on the " Wall of Shame " because of high service tax on air travel ( HT, June 07 ). UK imposes the highest tax $ 4.5 billion followed by Germany, Austria and then India which milks $ 450 million out of travelers in " complete contravention of ICAO rules ". IATA CEO, Bisignani said," Taxing aviation does not pay. The Dutch government repealed a $ 412 million departure tax because it cost the Dutch economy $ 1.6 billion." So why do we Indians pay obscene amounts of tax for zero service from the government? First, because the government needs money to pay for the hedonism of criminal politicians and, to pay unnecessarily high salaries to legions of useless, parasitic civil servants. Secondly, astronomical taxes make goods and services too expensive for the poor which then allows politicians to get votes by promising cheap rice, free TVs or cash gifts with taxpayer money. A study by the World Bank ( TOI, May 20 ) showed abysmal efficacy of social schemes targeting the poor. The Public Distribution System reaches just 27% of the poorest quintile, the Indira Awas Yojana reaches 30.7% and the National Old Age Pension Scheme just 32.8%. There is tremendous enthusiasm among politicians for schemes for the poor and elections seem like a bidding process with each political gang promising ever greater waste of public money. Also, most of the money is looted by politicians and civil servants which makes such schemes very lucrative indeed. That is why the government is never going to agree to an effective Lok Pal. Criminal beggars.

Depending on your point of view Baba Ramdev is either a contortionist clown in saffron or a revered yoga guru who is worth an entire Scottish island as a gift. Whatever he may or may not be he is a citizen of India, born in this country as were generations of his ancestors. Peaceful protest is a fundamental right of every citizen in a democracy unless you are in a fascist kleptocracy called India. Ramdev had organised a peaceful protest against epidemic corruption in the country after the shameless liars employed every slimy trick to spike the Lok Pal bill. When they were unable to stop him they sent in the police in the dead of night to beat up sleeping, innocent, unarmed women and children and threw Ramdev out of Delhi, exactly as happened in Egypt and Bahrain. Isn't it terrifying that 63 years after so called independence a foreigner is able to beat up Indian citizens using Indian police paid for by Indian taxpayers? Maybe it was yoga or the saffron color which acted as a red rag. The present Pope has said that yoga is " evil " and Italians are all Catholics. Is that why the Congress is so anti Hindu? It is humiliating for us that we are beaten up for peaceful protest while our government goes on " bended knees " to talk peace with Pakistan after they send in terrorists to kill our citizens. Ben Ali did a runner, Mubarak is under arrest, Saleh is licking his wound in Saudi Arabia and Assad is just hanging on. It is time all Indians rose up to get rid of families especially The Family which has been the foundation of all evil in this country. While we are at it will somebody stitch up the mouth of the Rottweiler? Piecemeal will not do, exterminate all the vermin.

Oprah Winfrey, the queen of talk shows has finally quit after 25 years. Tributes have been pouring in from all over. Saw a few minutes of one of her shows many years ago. It was the most embarrassing and cringe making scene I have ever witnessed in my entire life. Two couples were competing to reveal the most private events of their lives and marriages. Why any human would want to reveal their innermost selves to the public is a mystery to me. To that extent I think she was a prelude to Facebook. Teenagers defend their " SPACE " fiercely and often aggressively. Yet they reveal every little detail about themselves on Facebook. Why? We humans live behind walls. We construct elaborate closed spaces for different purposes and shut ourselves behind doors. The toilet is where one is alone. The bedroom is shared with a partner. The living room is for the whole family. We put in an enormous variety of impediments to deter any stranger from entering our home, allowing only people we know to gain access. Every person, especially those who watch Winfrey or use Facebook, has grown up behind walls from the first day of life. Yet here they are exposing every private detail to the world. Are human beings becoming dumber? Is it possible for evolution to go backwards, from humans to apes to rats? A trainee pilot from the middle east fell asleep for 55 minutes at the controls of his plane which flew itself 250 km to Adelaide in Australia. A couple in Chennai left their 3 year old child locked in a car for hours while they attended a funeral. The child died of the heat. Television used to be called an " idiot box ". Maybe the effects are starting to appear.

Congress politician Mr ND Tiwari had to resign as governor of Andhra because of a video apparently showing him with 3 ladies in undress. A man in his eighties who can simultaneously entertain 3 sturdy ladies has to be a very great man indeed. Unfortunately seeds do germinate. In Mr Tiwari's case, a 31 year old man, Rohit Shekhar claims that he is a biological but unacknowledged son of the great man. He has gone to court to be recognised as such. Having spent a lifetime in the Congress Mr Tiwari is accustomed to doing whatever he likes without ever having to account for his actions. He has, therefore, vigorously contested the charge. The case has been dancing around the courts, as cases do in India, even reaching the Supreme Court. Finally Mr Tiwari was ordered to provide a blood sample for DNA testing on June 01 to disprove the claims of Mr Shekhar. However, come the first of June Mr Tiwari refused provide a sample saying, " ... nobody can be pressurised to give evidence in this manner." This is not just your average contempt of court. It is an arrogant rejection and total humiliation of the entire judiciary. The judge should have given an ex parte judgement against Mr Tiwari or sent him to jail for an indefinite period to be released as soon he provided a blood sample. But the judge did neither. Instead he has scheduled a hearing on July 07. Why is he wasting time and taxpayer money uselessly. Is it because Mr Tiwari is a Congress politician? Judges keep complaining of overload of cases but keep prolonging cases endlessly. This causes cases to pile up and criminals like Sukhram to roam around free. Be brave. Hammer the bastards.

It has long been a mystery why the so called " free " press, especially the English newspapers, are so docile. Why are they so respectful towards politicians, even the most repulsive criminals. Why did they not campaign against the systematic hounding of Tehelka to bankruptcy. Why do they bang on about how clean and wonderful the Honest Man is when he is an accessory to all the crimes which are being slowly exposed because he knew about them but did nothing thus actively covering up the crimes. A man without principles, without honor, without a spine, always ready to crawl whenever ordered by the Capo just to cling on to his chair is most dangerous for the country. The answer was in yesterday's Times of India written by Ravindra Dhariwal, CEO of Bennett, Coleman and co ltd, the owner of the same newspaper. Seems that the government has been running an abomination called a " wage board " which fixes salaries for newspaper industry employees at unviably high levels enforceable by law. According to the latest recommendations of this " wage board " drivers and peons working for newspapers will have to be paid Rs 45000 per month, much higher than what engineers, bank officers and teachers earn in the private sector. No other industry has such an anvil hanging round its neck. This is clearly intended to cripple and control the press so that it does the government's bidding and does not dare to challenge the criminal politicians and thieving parasitic civil servants. The villainy of these scoundrels in unending. It explains why policies seem to benefit western countries than Indians. When you have a Bofors you will have a Union Carbide.

After getting Anna Hazare to break his fast by promising a comprehensive Lok Pal bill to curb corruption the Congress led government is trying to reduce the powers of the Lok Pal so much that it will be just a useless talking shop. First various politicians tried to malign the activists by spreading lies and innuendos about their character. Then a CD suddenly appeared containing conversations between politicians and activists apparently discussing money but this was proved to be a fake. Now ministers have demanded that only civil servants of the rank of joint secretary and above will be accountable to the Lok Pal and not the Prime Minister, MPs inside parliament even if accused of bribing others for votes, the judiciary, the CVC, the CBI, defence personnel and departmental investigative agencies. In short everyone except come 200 high ranking civil servants. Can any human being be so utterly shameless? Which citizen ever gets to meet a joint secretary who sits in a remote office and goes around with armed police? Our dealings are with clerks who collect bribes and this goes up the chain. Suppose you buy a house for, say, Rs 5 million, a large sum in India. When you try to register it in your name at the municipality you will be asked to pay thousands in cash. If you refuse your file will suddenly disappear and you will keep running from one fellow to another forever. If you help the police to arrest the crook he will be merely transferred and you will be marked as a trouble maker. Without registration you cannot get electricity or water connections so you continue to pay rent. We are helpless. Hang all the criminals. Let us start afresh.

Is China doing to the US what the US did to the Soviet Union? Seems that the expense of military operations in Afghanistan cannot be sustained any longer because the US has no money. The US military expense will be $ 113 billion this year and $ 107 billion next year ( HT, June 01 ). Increasing government debt and increasing deficit means that it will be difficult to justify such huge spending in another country while cutting jobs and social spending at home. One senior official said," Where we're at right now is simply not sustainable." Another said, " Money is the new 800-pound gorilla. It shifts the debate from ' Is the strategy working?' to ' Can we afford this?' When you view it that way, the scope of the mission we have now is far, far less defensible." Shows how sliding economy is going to impact America's military might and global hegemony. China is quietly doing its bit to hasten the slide. By keeping its currency, the yuan, pegged against the dollar it is able to flood the US with cheap goods thus earning billions more than what it imports. China then uses this surplus to buy dollars which keeps interest rates low in the US thus encouraging people to buy more Chinese products. The US is helpless because any attempt to reduce the value of the dollar will increase prices and fuel inflation. China is buying up massive amounts of commodities such as oil, iron ore and coal from other countries pushing up commodity prices which impacts US business. China is also curtailing exports of rare earths and forcing foreign companies to produce in China which will increase employment and transfer of knowledge. Nothing the US can do except kow tow.