The world has been hit by a triple whammy. We have shameless thieving bankers, craven treacherous politicians too blinded by self interest to be patriotic and elections next year acting as nerve paralysing poison. There are the Republicans in the US bought by big business and motivated by their racial hatred of Obama so that they have mindlessly blocked everything he proposed including raising the debt ceiling. Their intransigence may see the US credit rating being downgraded increasing interest costs and making it difficult to reduce the debt burden which they caused by their stupid tax cuts for the rich. US presidential elections are next year motivating both sides to dig in harder. Next year Sarkozy faces elections and is so unpopular that even the elimination of Strauss-Kahn, who was clearly set up, cannot assure victory. Germany too has elections next year and though Angela Merkel is personally popular her party has been losing every regional election making victory very unlikely. India is perpetually in elections. If it was Bengal yesterday and Bihar the day before then it will be UP tomorrow. The Congress is busy protecting the criminals within its ranks. Admittedly it is expert in this exercise having practiced for over 55 years. It controls the investigating agencies and the judiciary so thoroughly that we see politicians in Chennai, Gujarat and Karnataka, that is politicians belonging to parties other than the Congress, in a lot of bother with the courts but Congress criminals in Delhi, Mumbai and Goa roaming around scot- free. The gutless opposition keeps opposing everything without any strategic thinking. Let the world sink. Start afresh.