Sadly India has been taken over by criminal beggars which includes all politicians and civil servants. Only criminals have the black money to be able to bribe the electorate and the thugs to beat up the opposition. Being beggars they have no sharam or izzat so that they can be brazen when anyone with the slightest bit of class would have died of shame. Note how the politicians agitated for higher pay. This was led by a man who is alleged to have made Rs. 9 billion from fodder and his friend who has made a similar amount from property grabbing, extortion, and violent crimes. They know they are totally despised by the people so they try to show their superiority by begging for armed escort, Z plus security, luxury villas and free air travel, as if to show us that they are some how special. This only increases the level of contempt people feel for them. They are so thick skinned that they do not seem to appreciate this, probably lulled by the homage poor people pay them to obtain alms. A perfect example of the total lack of understanding of these people is shown by the Commonwealth Games. They keep on saying that this is a national event and that we should be proud of our country. What escapes them is that people see the country quite separate from criminal politicians and thieving civil servants and they associate these games with the latter. People only see the amount of problems they have had to face due to all the construction projects and will face in the coming days due to traffic disruptions, police brutality and other unknown terrors. Very few will actually buy tickets for the games. The venues will be filled with government school children and all those who have begged for free passes. The games have brought shame on the country. If people turn on the criminal beggars it may be a good thing.

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion will not allow foreign airlines to buy into domestic Indian carriers on the ground that ' It is not allowed in the US, UK or any other major European country ....... nobody allows foreign players to take stake in their domestic airlines, so why India should allow?' Firstly the countries mentioned do not have politicians who are all criminals and civil servants who are all thieves. Secondly no other country has a so called ' national carrier ' called Air India which has three times the number of staff required and everyone is a crook. No other government is pouring tens of billions of taxpayer rupees into such a cesspool without any consultation and doing its best to make air travel immensely expensive by levying astronomical taxes on tickets and fuel. The government deliberately kills off any competition because it knows that Air India will collapse. Also by making air travel so expensive the government forces people into trains which means that Indian Railways, a government company, always has full trains. This means that the Railways can charge very highly for first class and air conditioned classes, as long as it is less than air tickets, which in turn means that the aam aadmi can travel dirt cheap in unreserved coaches. We are told that this is public service which is garbage because survival of criminal politicians depends on hundreds of millions of naked, starving, groveling creatures. These are the source of their power. Give cheap rice here, free electricity there, free clothes in another place and you win elections, the source to incredible wealth. Never allow them to fly, keep them in the gutter. That makes Indian politicians khas.

Rathore wants parole for 42 days because he wants to get his agricultural equipment repaired as his tractor and tube well are lying idle. He has not yet appreciated what a monster he is. He molested a teenage girl. That is a crime but nothing compared to what followed. As chief of police he used men under his charge to torture the family to force the girl to withdraw the charge. Her brother was repeatedly arrested on false charges, beaten up and false cases of car thefts filed against him. All the cases were thrown out by the courts. This went on until the girl committed suicide unable to bear the torture inflicted on her family. This brutal monster tortured a girl to death over many years and subverted his own force by turning his men into torturers and totally destroying any sense of morality they may have had. Surely these men must have thought that if the boss can get away with a series of crimes why shouldn't they. Initially sentenced to a derisive 6 months in prison this was increased to 18 months after huge public outcry. He should have been sentenced to life because his actions have weakened the foundations of the state. Yet he seems completely unaware of the enormity of his crimes and what a foul, stinking monster he is. He is aided in this by his wife who is a lawyer and is probably the one who is trying to get her putrid husband out of prison. She must surely know that he is a guilty criminal but continues to waste precious court time by filing these cases. Surely she should be sent to jail as an accomplice where she can continue her role as supporting wife to her filthy husband. Women's groups are strangely silent about this woman.

When Enron failed Ken Lay and co were charged with felony and were sentenced to long jail terms. Lay escaped by dying. Lehman bros, Bear Sterns, Merrill Lynch failed but their chief executives walked off with millions of dollars in bonuses and severance payments causing a melt down of the financial system and millions of people losing their jobs and pension benefits. No one has been charged let alone being sentenced to prison. The stories of the unemployed are heart rending. These were respectable, hard working people who now face destitution. Astonishingly the richest country in the world has no safety net for such people in distress even if they have families with little children. Apparently they receive benefit cheques for 99 weeks and then they stop so these people are called 99ers, which seems a cruel mockery because the 49ers are a football team. Capitalism is the only system that works because it rewards merit and punishes failure. In the case of financial institutions that does not seem to apply. Failures were rewarded with millions and accounting fraud went unpunished. This is not meritocracy but kleptocracy on a grand scale and is vandalism disguised as capitalism. The Republicans are still supporting tax cuts for the rich and refusing to extend benefit payments for the victims. Curiously ordinary people seem to be supporting this utterly shameless crony capitalism. How is it that americans have forgotten that it was George Bush who turned Clinton's surplus into deficit and the friends of these same Republicans were responsible for the recession. Americans are truly stupid.

Former union law minister Mr. Shanti Bhushan told the Supreme Court couple of days back that 8 of 16 former Chief Justices were ' definitely corrupt ' and six were ' definitely honest ' and he was not sure of two. In his affidavit he named the 8 corrupt chief justices of the Supreme Court and these included Justice AM Ahmadi of Union Carbide fame and Justice Sabharwal who was alleged to have shut down high street stores to favor his sons who were selling shops in new shopping malls. He also claimed that two former chief justices personally told him that their immediate predecessors and successors were corrupt. We remember that allegations of unfairly shutting down high street stores were first revealed by two reporters who were sentenced to prison for contempt of court by a Delhi High Court judge without trial. These are allegations without any proof but every person in India will believe them. Such is the level of contempt and suspicion for the whole establishment that Indian citizens will readily believe any sordid story of corruption leveled against politicians, civil servants, police, judges and anyone connected with the government. Of course lawyers are almost uniformly corrupt and routinely resort to bribery, lies and deliberately losing cases to make money. Judges allow lawyers to postpone hearings on flimsy grounds so that cases go on for decades by which time the litigant is often dead. This allows criminals to enjoy complete immunity and breeds armed insurrection. If the politicians seriously want to tackle the Naxal problem they must ensure justice. Politicians are all criminals and will never allow an efficient criminal justice system.

Hallelujah. At last we have confirmation from the Pope. Yesterday, speaking in Scotland, he said that Britain should shun ' aggressive secularism.' In India we have aggressive pseudo secularism wherein Hindus are constantly taunted as ' saffronised ' and abused by being compared to the Taliban. So called ' Minorities ' have special rights and partial immunity from crimes. His Holiness also asked people to live by ' Christian values ' but did not define what these are. A precise definition would really help people like me who are Hindu or shall I say

' Hindu heathens.' Do Christian values arise from Jesus? If so, did he say that Hindus are heathens who should be converted by money, false promises or inquisition? If I am right he said that the meek shall inherit the earth. When you are converting people you are saying categorically that you are superior. It is not being meek, it is being extremely arrogant. The Pope has said in the past that yoga is evil. Did Jesus call anything ' evil?' I think he said something like ' he who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.' He surely meant that everyone is a mixture of good and bad and you should not be judgemental as that would make you feel superior to others. It is an extremely common failing in human beings. That is what makes dictators think that they can kill opponents. That is what allows Americans to go around the world, especially Asia, killing millions. That is what makes jihadis want to blow up anyone they do not agree with. That is probably the reason why for decades the bishops and archbishops stayed silent while children were being abused. Perhaps humility should be the main value.

Seems that US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner is going to testify before a Senate committee that China has been manipulating the value of the Yuan against other currencies especially the dollar. There is a call to label China a ' currency manipulator ' which will allow the US government to apply trade sanctions against China. Predictably China has reacted with anger saying the value of their currency is a sovereign matter and, anyway, raising the value of the Yuan will not reduce balance of trade with the US. This really seems so childish. If China claims the right to set the value of the Yuan then surely the US has the right to set the value of the dollar. The US could set the value of one dollar at, say, 3 Yuan for all imports from China and there is nothing China could do about it. Hoist by its own petard, as it were. Maybe the US is unable to take any action because that would be inflationary and US companies, who have shifted to China to take advantage of low labor costs, will howl. Thus by artificially maintaining a low exchange value China is not only a creating trade imbalance but causing a huge transfer of american jobs to China. Meanwhile Japan is buying dollars to weaken the Yen, a maneuver destined to fail. Japan suffers from huge public debt and wasting money in the currency market seems silly. One would have expected the government to buy back its bonds. This would reduce its public debt, reduce interest payment and inject liquidity into the economy encouraging people to spend more. Are economists tempted to think of complicated solutions rather than common sense ones to appear more erudite? No wonder the world is in such a mess.

A community called the Jats have been rioting in Haryana. One youth died and 50 were injured on Monday. Yesterday they burnt buildings, cars and buses and were so out of control that the army had to be called in and curfew has been declared in parts of the state. So what is the reason for this uncontrollable fury? Jats want to be classified as Other Backward Classes or OBC which will allow them to get admission to premier institutions with very low marks and access to government jobs over more qualified candidates. Couple of years ago there were pitched battle between Gujjars and Meenas in Rajasthan. The Gujjars wanted to be classified as Scheduled Tribe but the Meenas opposed their application because they have been the sole beneficiaries so far and did not want to share their unfair, undeserved advantage. It has become a crime to be born of upper caste parents. Such children have to work 100 times as hard to get admission in good colleges. Those who can afford it put their children in private schools at great cost, pay enormous sums for private tutorials and may have to pay millions under the table to get their children into professional colleges if they miss out on the limited number of seats in government colleges. It is hard to imagine the agony of a child and parents if the child misses out by one mark and then sees useless students laughing their way in with a fraction of the marks. Three SC students were expelled as per IIT rules for failing repeatedly but the Supreme Court said that they should be allowed to continue and professors should give them extra tuition. Is it any wonder that our educational institutions are rated as rubbish? Second class citizens in our own country.

Seems that a file on Sanjay Mahendroo, who was one of the officials of the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games suspended for corruption, has gone missing. This file contained all the information regarding his appointment, his travel itinerary and reasons for travel and the amount of money he spent. Although his case was referred to the Enforcement Directorate for investigation this was postponed with the pathetic excuse that it might interfere with the games. This is a tried and tested tactic going back many decades which allows criminals to walk free. Public Interest Litigation has been filed in front of the Supreme Court alleging that telecom minister Mr. Raja was involved in a Rs. 700 billion scam while awarding 2G telecom licenses but he is being protected by the central government. Apparently our premier investigating agency the CBI does not know who to investigate. Did the judges fall about laughing? Not mentioned. Meanwhile Mr. Sajjan Kumar, prime accused in the killing of Sikhs in 1984, has petitioned the Supreme Court challenging criminal proceedings against him. If he had filed the petition while waiting on death row one would understand but he has been free and is still enjoying life. So what is the connections between all these criminal acts and blatant miscarriage of justice. The Congress gang. These three news items from today's front page show how the Congress controls and has been controlling all investigating agencies, the courts and freeloading journalists for decades. This makes the Congress the most successful syndicate in the whole world. At least India is first on something. Should we be proud?

A combined advertisement in today's newspapers by telecom companies warns everyone with a cell phone that they will be verified and it means everyone, including law abiding citizens who have been using the same number for years. When I obtained my Sim card about 8 years back I was required to produce a photo identity, proof of address, a passport sized photograph and my PAN number under which I have to file tax returns every year. Now I have go through the same farce all over again. The reason being given is that it is for security reasons so that terrorists can be identified. With six hundred million cell phone connections in India how they are going to check the veracity of every document is unknown. How do terrorists get phone connections? Bangladeshis illegally entering India obtain Ration Cards with ease by bribing officials and use them to obtain cell phones. Who allots Ration Cards? Government employees of course. Why is the Indian state unable to prevent terrorists from crossing into the country with such ease? After all we could fence the border and lay numerous mines so that not even a rat could cross over like the border between North and South Korea which has prevented war for over 50 years. The reason is that criminal politicians and thieving civil servants love terrorists. This gives them the excuse for Z plus security. You can see the fellow managing RTO, which gives out driving licenses, with 5 armed policemen guarding him. Why? The US has only one Air Force 1, we have Air Chors 1,2,3,4,5 at a cost of Rs. 9.5 billion. It also gives them an excuse to harass and keep tabs on citizens. Welcome terrorists.

Muslims hate each other. Muslims kill more muslims than the rest of the world put together. So how have muslims survived for over 1430 years without slaughtering each other to extinction. It is because some of their leaders have channeled this hatred towards others such as Jews, Christians, Hindus, infidels, kafirs, the US, India and so on. Rauf the Imam of the proposed mosque at Cordoba house near Ground Zero in New York writes that if the mosque is not allowed to be built muslims across the world will become inflamed and resort to terrorism. The message is ' if you do not let us do whatever we desire then we will kill you.' Then he tries to reassure us with that old propaganda that Islam means peace. However, terrorism may be dramatic but is a minor danger faced by the world. The major danger comes from the exponential growth in the number of muslims because of unrestricted breeding regardless of the ability to feed, clothe or educate children. The aim is to outnumber all other religious groups and, once that is achieved, kill off everyone else so that only muslims are left. Already a Roman Catholic priest in Europe has requested Christians to increase the number of babies they produce or else Europe will become a muslim continent in just a few decades. Muslims are determined to become the majority in India by 2030 and are well on their way. Politicians of all countries must realise that Muslims do not believe in democracy, rule of law or human decency. They believe in total supremacy and breeding like vermin is most likely to succeed. Bleeding hearts may say whatever they like but the time will surely come when it is exterminate or be exterminated. It will happen.

The shameless lies of the freeloading press knows no end. A headline in the Times of India today reads ' Govt share in total debt dips to 26%.' The figures are given under the heading ' Managing It Well ' and it shows that external debt has risen from $ 224.5 billion in 2008-2009 to $ 261.5 billion in 2009-2010. So in absolute terms external debt has increased by $ 37 billion and the decrease in percentage terms may be because of increase in corporate debt. External debt is only 11% of total debt which means total debt is $ 2377.27 billion, 89% of which is domestic debt. $ 261.5 billion is 18.9% of GDP which means that India's GDP is $ 1383.60 billion dollars. Thus our sovereign debt is almost double the GDP. This explains why the government has been frantically increasing taxes and why it will not allow the Reserve Bank to raise rates to control inflation. A survey of 139 countries by the World Economic Forum ranks India at 115 in public debt and at 123 in inflation. Since our fiscal deficit is expected to be more than 6% this year our total debt will surely be more than double the GDP next year. The Great Economist leading the government has no clue on what to do. The Congress is banking on increased growth leading to increased tax collections to bring down the deficit but increased growth means that inflation will continue unchecked and may rise to unsustainable levels. The newspaper has tried to mislead its readers with false headlines hoping no one will read the details but the figures clearly show that our economy is built on quicksand. We can only pray for a soft landing and not a catastrophic one. God help us.

The US is so used to riding roughshod over other nations it seems genuinely surprised how India has managed to pass a Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages bill which does not allow complete indemnity to american companies supplying equipment for nuclear power plants even if faulty equipment results in the death of millions of Indians. Americans think they have the right to go around the world killing innocent people and no one should hold them responsible. After all Union Carbide got away with the slaughter of thousands and Andersen said that there is a law of the US meaning US law ruled over others. Notice how the various arms of the US government went after Toyota even though majority of the accidents were caused by stupid americans pressing the accelerator pedal instead of the brake. That is why no accident happened in cars with manual drive because the car cannot move unless the gear is engaged manually which takes conscious effort. This hounding of Toyota has allowed Ford and GM to turn in large profits only a year after they were in deep trouble. However, the lesson from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is more pertinent. Everyone from the Congress to President Obama and the media hounded BP nonstop but not a word was mentioned about Halliburten and Transocean which are US firms. It is glib to say that people can sue suppliers such as GE and Westinghouse through normal legal channels. In a nuclear accident who is going to investigate fault? The place will be radioactive and the heat may have melted much of the stuff anyway. When Obama comes calling we should tell him to shove off but do our lot have the spine.

If my memory serves me right Vodafone bought its telecom business in India from Hutchison Whampoa, HW for $ 11.1 billion who in turn had bought it from Max Telecom for Rs. 5 billion which means that HW got 100 times the amount they paid. You would be expected to pay tax on such astronomical profits anywhere in the world. To prevent foreign companies from scarpering with the loot, as HW has done, the law in India obliges the buyer to deduct the tax amount from the sale price and deposit it with the tax authorities. It was incumbent upon Vodafone, therefore, to deduct the tax amount of $ 2.6 billion from the sale value of $ 11.1 billion and deposit it as tax and pay HW the remaining $ 8.6 billion. To say that the deal was conducted in Hong Kong is facetious. The business is based in India, the customers are all in India and all future profits will accrue in this country. So the tax on capital gains must also be paid here. To threaten us by saying that other foreign companies will be chary about doing business in India is insulting. No one invited Vodafone to invest in India and they have not done so out of altruism. If they cannot compete in the Indian market they should sell up and go home but pay all taxes they must. The fact is that Vodafone realises that it has been shafted by HW and knows that suing HW in Hong Kong will be fruitless. China is a lawless country and no court is going to favor a UK company over a Chinese one. So far telecom companies have managed to delay number portability by various stratagems but when this happens it will get really ugly. If Vodafone wants to stay it better gird its loins.

Instead of giving the best possible deal to their customers businesses in India are always on the look out for ways to screw the customer because they know that it is almost impossible to obtain redress for any grievance. Sure, there are consumer courts but it takes years for the case to be heard and judges cannot always be relied upon. Public sector companies treat people with arrogant disdain because they know they have government money to fight cases in courts and go on appealing uselessly all the way to the Supreme Court. In other words they use our money to harass us. Private sector companies take advantage of the standards set by the government workers. Television channels are provided through cable or directly through satellite, also called DTH companies. For years these companies have been looting customers through a practice called ' bundling ' wherein they would offer a number of channels as a package forcing customers to pay for channels they never watched for the privilege of watching one favorite channel. When I complained to Tata Sky last year they said that they would not allow me to choose individual channels until the regulator, TRAI mandated it. A few months ago TRAI asked DTH operators to allow customers to choose individual channels and pay accordingly from September 1 but this has not happened. When asked Tata Sky says that it may take a few months which means they will delay as long as possible so as to make as much money as possible by screwing customers. Meanwhile Tata Photon is screwing customers by another method called ' validity.' And Tata has a reputation for honesty. Imagine what other companies are like.

We are rapidly becoming a peeping tom society. There is nothing private that cannot be revealed to others, no promises that cannot be broken, no secrets that cannot be betrayed, nothing intimate that cannot be displayed to the full view of voyeurs. One would have thought that sex is the ultimate private act between two individuals, an act of total trust and an act that must have dignity or else it is reduced to pornography. However, we are assaulted by a variety of revelations involving famous people, usually sports stars, everyday. There are the usual cheap tarts who lure famous men and presumably enjoy the experience. They accept valuable presents and even money to keep quiet but then run to tabloids to disclose every sick detail for money. This is what happened to David Beckham and probably to Tiger Woods. Now even whores are beginning to betray their johns. First Peter Crouch and now Wayne Rooney, both betrayed by professional whores who charged for their services. Rooney apparently paid 1200 pounds for a night. At that price he had every right to expect total discretion but he has been stabbed right in the soft parts. Whoring is the oldest profession and surely by this time there ought to be ethical guidelines on how to behave. Just as doctors have to guard patient confidentiality whores are expected to protect the identity and pillow talk of their johns. But no longer. By breaking their ancient code these two whores have struck at the very heart of society. We do not trust politicians or civil servants or lawyers or priests even our teachers. Now we cannot trust whores. Will society survive this trauma?

An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale strikes New Zealand's second biggest city, Christchurch, with a population of 2 million, at 4 AM when everyone is in bed and no one dies. Just two people are injured. An earthquake of similar magnitude at a similar time in India would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. One obvious reason is the uncontrolled population growth with more and more people crammed into limited space but the real reason is that virtually all builders are criminals ignoring all safety precautions and using substandard materials to maximise profits. They are able to get away with mass murder because of criminal politicians and thieving civil servants. After every calamity politicians make lofty promises of tightening the rules but do nothing. Whatever rules that exist are blithely ignored because civil servants in charge of enforcing the rules take bribes and look the other way. All municipality workers and officials are thieves constantly on the look out for opportunities. They are convinced that taking bribes is an entitlement and the massive rise in property prices just increase their expectations. Indian politicians are all criminals and they are never punished. Madhu Koda and Sadhu Yadav are allowed out to attend parliament. Contrast this with the suspension of the three Pakistani players for spot fixing by the ICC. Who is the president of the ICC? An Indian poitician, who else. No wonder the Paki High Commissioner keeps insisting that the players are honest. After all a no ball is only one run. Collapsing buildings are a different thing altogether.

If any man deserved to have shoes and eggs thrown at him, even though he remained untouched, it is Tony Blair. Notwithstanding all his protestations he is a war criminal and should be facing judges at the International Criminal Court at the Hague alongside Karadzic and Charles Taylor. It was his completely spineless surrender to George Bush that facilitated the illegal attack on Iraq with the consequent loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. Shedding tears is no defence. Eichmann and Rudolf Hess may also have shed tears but that did not lessen their crimes. On the other side Bush, Cheney and their henchmen also seem to be getting away with their crimes. The reason is that the Democrats are cowards. They had a Democrat as President, majorities in both houses of the Congress and yet did not have the nerve to call the criminals to account for their actions. Lying to the people about WMDs, rendition and torture of prisoners, creative accounting by companies such as Halliburten, creating a huge tax deficit by giving tax breaks to the wealthy, death of US soldiers because of totally inept administration after Saddam's fall, so many reasons to prosecute Bush and his coterie of criminals. Yet the Democrats did nothing. They forgot the savage and shameless way the Republicans misused government machinery when Clinton was President. Even now they are scared to confront the lies being spread by the likes of Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Sarah Palin. Reminds me of how Walter Mondale backed off after cornering Reagan with ' where is the beef ' and allowed him to win. Cowards allow criminals to flourish. Democrats deserve to lose in November because they are cowards.

It is one year since the death in an air crash of the Andhra Chief Minister, YSR Reddy. Since then his son Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy has been campaigning to become the Chief Minister of the state in place of his dad. His eligibility is based solely on the fact that he is the son of his father. In his mind that gives him a God given right to be Chief Minister of the state. Why does he think that the state is an estate and the people are chattels to be transferred to his ownership? Because he belongs to the Congress gang which has made this country the property of the Nehru/ Gandhi family. Such is the lack of any talent, personality or integrity in the Congress that it will support anything, with cognition or without, with that family name. We had Lal Bahadur Shastri for a short while. But long enough to sell us out in Tashkent where he snuffed it. Gulzari Lal Nanda lasted just three months because he was considered honest which, in the Congress, is a gross disability. Otherwise we have been ruled more or less by just that one family. Mrs. Sonia Gandhi has been elected unopposed as the President of the Congress gang for the fourth term and it is she who has been running the country for the last six years. Mr. Reddy must be thinking that if the country can belong to that family why can Andhra not belong to his family. It is only fair. That is why the majority of people have been kept illiterate for 63 years so that they will remain dirt poor, breeding like rats and grateful for any handful of food thrown at them. These are, in Congress terms, the aam aadmi and they are the reason the Family has been khas for six decades. He just wants a small share, that's all.

Pakis are very angry with their cricketers for accepting money for ' spot fixing.' They are being accused of dishonoring the country. What puzzles me is how that is possible. This is a failed state ruled by its army and intelligence agency, ISI running around the world with a begging bowl to survive on alms thrown by the US, IMF, Wold Bank, China, Saudi Arabia and any one with a copper to spare. Its citizens keep blowing each other up on a regular basis. Its biggest export is terrorism and slaughter of innocent civilians. Its politicians are criminals, the President widely renowned as Mr. 10% ( if he has now been promoted to Mr. 25% then I apologize for the unintentional slight ), opposition Sharif brothers are both thugs and the army controls vast business empires. Most of its people are illiterate and inherently savage like rabid dogs. They want to be a religious state but do not have the basic decency of being grateful for being kept alive by western aid and would happily help the Taliban in killing Americans. The recent floods will adversely affect the economy for many years to come. The cricketers have grown up without any role model with any shred of honor and so decided to make as money as possible to be able to survive for the rest of their lives. One Paki minister has insisted that the cricketers are completely innocent. Of course they are. This is surely legitimate business enterprise in a country of criminals. They are entrepreneurs. It must be a ' conspiracy ' by the The News of the World, CIA, MI6, Zionists, Hindus, aliens from outer space or all them put together.

The freeloading, lying press built him up as a physician who was going to cure all the ills besetting this country. The good Doctor, we were told in large letters, is not a politician, was honest and a whiz in economics so India was going to lead the world. Six years on we have a Chemicals Minister who has wasted Rs. 2 million of taxpayers' money commuting to his home in Chennai. The Railways Minister uses the Railway Police as her personal servants for a political rally in Bengal. The Agriculture Minister is happy with 50000 tons of food grain rotting away without proper storage. The Telecoms Minister has been directly implicated in the 2G scam which resulted in an estimated Rs. 1 trillion loss to the exchequer. So much has been looted from the Commonwealth Games that they are now finding it difficult to somehow complete the various projects even with makeshift covers. So what is the Captain doing? Has he sacked the wrongdoers in moral outrage and asked the police to investigate them before throwing the lot into the bin? Perish the thought. He is hanging onto his seat for as long as possible and for as long as Madam allows. To tolerate crimes in silence, to tolerate the humiliation of being reduced to a spectator while others do whatever they like and to tolerate being ordered to shut up so that the gang can hang on to power is surely a sign of a man totally without honor. And what about the economy? It is a house of cards floating on a huge asset price bubble which, if it bursts, could lead to collapse. What an irony speaking on Independence Day marking the departure of white skinned British that 1 billion brown skinned Indians are still being ruled by a ' gori chamri ' or white skin.

As President Obama announces the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq the question that begs an answer is ' what allows Americans to illegally invade Iraq and kill a million Iraqis and leave the grateful for having done so?' The US is still a white country and is instantly and unquestioningly supported by other white countries mainly based in Europe, especially Britain, and including Australia. Whereas Iraq is a divided country with Shias immensely grateful to the US in getting rid of Saddam's Sunni regime. The whites gang up in killing, looting and covering up their crimes by their control of all the world's news media. Al Jazeera was the first to break the stranglehold by showing some of the crimes committed by the US and NATO and so was deliberately bombed by US aircraft on at least three occasions killing journalists. Iraqis are immediately called terrorists when it is the US which is the invader and private US security firms like Blackwater, which are not covered by the Geneva convention, are the real terrorists. We are told that Iraq's economy is better than before the invasion. Iraq was a highly developed country before the Gulf War following which it was systematically looted by western countries under the abominable ' oil for food ' program which was collective punishment for the entire people because of Saddam's mistake in invading Kuwait. It was not really a mistake. Kuwait had always been a part of Iraq until the British cut it off. If China is allowed to kill Tibetans claiming it was a part of China during the dinosaur era then Saddam surely had a right to go for Kuwait. One white country commits a crime and then supports another in committing genocide. The whites rule.

Pakistani cricketers have created furore after being accused of taking part in ' spot fixing ' wherein they bowl a no ball or drop a catch as per the dictates of betting syndicates. Apparently the betting is controlled by gangs based in India where people are cricket crazy and where most of the money is generated. However it is still too early to write an obituary for the game. Las Vegas did not close down just because the mafia was heavily involved in running the casinos. Betting is controlled by criminals only because it is illegal in India. If it was made legal people could bet openly on outcomes of matches and not have to deal with criminal bookies. The state would also make a lot of money through taxes. Wherever there is money there will be criminals. Bollywood is said to be financed heavily by criminals such as Dawood which accounts for so many ' Minorities ' getting starring roles in Hindi movies. Sport is no exception. The richest sport in the world is, of course, football or soccer. So far there has been no major scandal in football but that does not mean that nothing is going on. It is possible that one of these days the mother of all scandals will be exposed in football. Cricket will die a slow death in India because there is too much of it. Sports channels show cricket throughout the day. If there is no live match they show repeats. Real sports such as rugby, boxing, american football, to name a few, are never shown. Thus sports channels save money by treating Indians as morons capable of understanding nothing except cricket. But what do they care? They are making money. And our politicians are criminals anyway.

To understand the criminal injustice system in India just follow how Ramalinga Raju of Satyam fame is slowly allowed to wriggle free. Raju confessed to embezzling billions of rupees from Satyam. This was done while he was still the chairman of the company and without duress. Since then the firm has been taken over and there is more than ample evidence to bury him for a hundred years. Bernie Madoff also confessed and is serving a 150 year sentence since last year. Raju has political connections so he will get off. Step 1. The case was handed over to the CBI. The sleuths run around all over the place, sometimes to the most expensive fleshpots of the world at taxpayers expense, hinting darkly at amazing discoveries. This goes on for decades giving the criminal time to threaten witnesses, bribe police into losing important evidence and bribe prosecutors and judges. Step 2. Withdraw the confession and get bail. In India justice is like coitus interruptus wherein the powerful are allowed to withdraw at the opportune moment. Raju has been allowed bail by the High Court. The CBI is wasting public money by contesting the bail at the Supreme Court. Step 3. Complain of chest pain and get admitted to a government hospital where the doctors are ever ready to suck up to get promoted. Mr. Lalu, Mr. Soren and every other fellow have been admitted to ICU where nothing is ever found. If by public outcry you are sentenced to a paltry six months for molesting and hounding a little girl to death then apply for parole to harvest your crops as Rathore is doing. Stop this charade, disband the CBI, use the courts only for divorces and property disputes and use the money saved to guard our borders. At least we get some bang for our buck.

Farmers across India are refusing to part with their land. Tata had to shift their Nano plant from Singur in Bengal, Posco's steel plant in Orissa has been delayed by 5 years while in Gorakhpur,UP a proposed nuclear power plant hangs in the air. In UP farmers are demanding ten times the offer price for the building of a highway. Bleeding hearts support the framers pointing to the rise in prices after a project is completed, with billions of rupees of tax payers money, which is totally false. Once a project, say a highway, is completed land prices alongside the road rocket because residential townships, factories and malls are built to take advantage of improved transport. Farmers in India are a protected breed getting billions of rupees in handouts every year. Farm income is totally exempt from income tax. Farmers are given loans by public sector banks at reduced interest rates and even these loans are forgiven before an election. The government buys wheat, rice, sugarcane and other produce at a price higher than the market rate under what is known as the ' minimum support price.' In between crops farmers can earn Rs. 100 a day under the NREGA scheme. These are only a few of the handouts that I know of. There could be hundreds of such schemes whereby they are stealing our taxes. And they have no responsibility towards the country. They continue to breed like rabbits and expect taxpayers to provide for exponentially growing numbers. On the other hand they have been cheated in the past when land was acquired under the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 passed by the British to loot Indians. Anyway no one trusts criminal politicians and thieving uncivil servants and therein lies the nub.

Pop artist Madonna is apparently so busy that each of her four children have to make appointments to meet her for fifteen minutes each. We remember the drama when she went to Africa wanting to adopt a child, the court case, interviews with news channels and the attendant publicity. Was that just to build her image and get some free publicity? She has he money to hire nannies for each child but, as every parent knows, the emotional needs of a child is not met by cosmetic mother. Porn king Larry Flynt is being sued by an AIDS activist group because male stars in his films were not wearing condoms thus encouraging risky behavior. They, apparently, saw one hundred porn movies to prove their point. Wow, they must have had a great time. Jennifer Aniston, a Hollywood star is going to appear topless in her next movie. She is said to be looking for a surrogate mother to have a baby. If only she had not refused to get pregnant when married to Brad Pitt she would not be so desperate now. The best item has to be the news that Paris Hilton wanted to be a nursery school teacher or a vet but sadly she became too famous. This snippet is next to a photo of Ms. Hilton in a larger G string and a see through jacket open at the front. These are the most interesting news items for people today. Studies show that young people are unable to read a book because they are unable to retain their attention for more than few minutes. This is because of the culture of messaging on cell phones and Twitter. A couple in South Korea allowed their baby to starve to death because they were so engrossed in playing video games. Are humans gradually regressing back towards monkeys? Can evolution go backwards?

A Public Interest Litigation or PIL in front of the Delhi High Court has revealed that criminals incarcerated in Tihar Jail are merrily using personal cell phones inspite of an earlier court order banning this practice. The judges expressed their displeasure at the jail authorities who pleaded helplessness. According to them the prisoners were resorting to a heinous practice of shoving cell phones into their anuses ( or should it be ani? ) to avoid detection by jail authorities. Once inside they were hiding these devices in flower pots. Two questions spring to mind: 1. How does a man insert an entire cell phone into his anus? The anal opening is a tight aperture that admits one index finger suitably lubricated with jelly. Patients find it uncomfortable. To shove an entire cell phone would certainly be a very painful exercise. The Court should have asked for a practical demonstration from the jail officials on how it is done and having inserted it how they got it out again. Having resided inside a man's rectum would the phone work again? Which of the many brands now available in the market is best suited to residing in a man's rectum? This could well be an advertising slogan - ' a phone which works as well in your pocket as in your rectum.' 2. Why are there so many flower pots inside the jail and why have not been removed? These men are criminals and have been sentenced inspite of India's notoriously incompetent and corrupt justice system. That makes them real bad eggs indeed. Why then are they being caressed with flowers? Criminals would have lots of money stashed away. Is this the lubrication facilitating the entry of cell phones into anuses?

A new report by the Asian Development Bank says that only 1 million Indians earn in excess of Rs. 10354/month and are in the rich category. On the same day a news report says that Foreign Direct Investment, FDI in real estate has jumped by 80 times in the 5 years between 2005 and 2010. In 2005 it was just Rs. 1.71 billion while in 2010 it was Rs. 135.86 billion. Over the entire five year period a total of Rs. 379.86 billion equivalent to $ 8.492 billion had been invested in the real estate market by foreign investors. This is serious money for a developing country such as India. That these figures are probably true is reflected by the rise in property prices. A ground floor two bedroom DDA flat in south Delhi is fetching offers of Rs. 25 million. The same flat would have cost around Rs. 3 million in 2001. In India half the cost of any property is paid in cash or ' black money.' One may obtain a bank mortgage on the other half. So even if one is allowed 80% mortgage it amounts to just 40% of the total cost. So 60% of the cost has to be paid at the beginning. On a flat costing Rs. 25 million this would be Rs. 15 million. If only one million people are earning more than Rs. 10354 per month what is driving such prices. One would expect the prices of properties to be driven by demand and supply so if the prices are so high there must be demand in the market. Anyone earning Rs. 10000/month can barely survive let alone afford even a one square foot of land. Which brings us to the question- where did ADB get its figures? Did the bank cook up the figures on its own or did we give them such silly data to get preferential loans? Curiouser and curiouser.

The Civil Nuclear Liability Bill is stuck in the parliament because the government cannot persuade at least some of the opposition gangs to support it and does not have the necessary numbers to go it alone. In the Hindustan Times today one Mr. Pramit Pal Chaudhuri explains the two parts of liability in case of an accident and argues persuasively for passing the bill. As he explains it the first part is a fixed sum which is to be paid to victims immediately regardless of blame. Because it does not fix liability for the accident it has to have a cap. The second part is where liability is decided and compensation awarded by courts. The opposition gangs say that this lets off suppliers of plant equipment and that they should be included in the mandatory compensation part of the bill. Mr. Chaudhuri explains that the bill does not exonerate the suppliers of equipment but leaves it to courts to decide liability and enables the government to set aside a sum to compensate victims without delay. India does not have the technical expertise to build the latest generation of nuclear reactors and foreign suppliers are a must. Also Indian firms will refuse to supply equipment so nuclear power will never be produced. The opposition gangs are not opposing the bill out of public interest but for narrow political gains. The Left hates the US while the BJP wants to score cheap points. This is what the Congress did when the BJP was in power. No one is telling the truth which is that the entire legal system in India is completely corrupt. From the CBI to the public prosecutor to judges all are controlled by criminal politicians. A nuclear accident will be a second Union Carbide, only bigger.

Today is Raksha Bandhan, an auspicious day for Hindus when girls tie a thread on the wrists of their brothers and pray for their good health and long life. It is fitting that on such a day there is some good news, that of the 33 miners trapped for 18 days in a gold and copper mine in Chile. They have stayed alive all this time on small quantities of tuna, milk and biscuits. The whole country rejoiced at the news of the men being found alive. Not such good news for girls in India though. While they are wishing long life for their brothers millions of girls are being killed before birth by medical abortion. In some parts of the country there are just 725 girls for every 1000 boys being born. It is not a male thing. This perversion is being driven by women. Certainly there is pressure on women to produce boys because, in India, parents depend on their sons to care for them in old age. Also there is the desire for continuing the family name but this is more than that. Here in north India women seem ashamed of their daughters even when they are alone. Little girls have their hair cut really short and are dressed like boys as if the mother is trying to hide the child's identity. If asked about the gender of a baby the mother cringes while revealing that it's a girl while swelling with pride if it's a boy. And this is not restricted to illiterate women. Educated women with high paying jobs also behave the same. These are modern women of the information age who have been to top schools where they studied with boys, they out competed the boys in exams and are now in responsible posts where men are working under them. They have been abroad. Why then has their mentality remained in in the past? Mystery.

The Asian Development Bank, ADB has released a study on middle classes in Asia. It has divided the population into five sections on the basis of monthly income per person. According to this study India has 825 million poor who earn Rs. 1035/month, lower middle class at 224 million on Rs. 1035-2070/month, middle middle class at 45 million on Rs. 2070-5177/month, upper middle class at 5 million Rs. 5177-10354/month and the rich who earn more than Rs. 10354/month number 1 million or just 0.0009% of the population. This is the greatest piece of rubbish I have read in a long while and it is difficult to know where the ADB got its figures from. This means that all government employees, whether central or state, are rich because even a sweeper in a sarkari office gets Rs. 12000/month while officers get near R. 100,000/month and there are millions of these thieving useless individuals in India. Even a one room with a tin roof in a small town will cost Rs. 1000 in rent while one with a cement roof will cost at least Rs. 2000. Transport will cast at least Rs. 20 a day or Rs. 600/month and at today's prices food will cost at least Rs. 2000/month. Add electricity, water, cosmetics, mobile phone bills and entertainment and it will not leave any change from Rs. 10000. Yet one million cars were sold last year, millions more two wheelers and companies selling durable goods report increasing profits. The government is reporting increasing tax collections. Ms. Mayawati was presented with garlands made with banknotes worth over 20 million rupees presented by ' dalits ' or the oppressed. If the oppressed have so much money clearly ADB is completely wrong.

After winning last year's general elections with blatant bribes with taxpayers money the Congress was praying for a good monsoon to bring down food price inflation so that they can continue their lies about caring for the aam aadmi. Well, their prayers were answered. It did not rain, it poured. Trouble is when construction is shoddy because of grand robbery then heavy rains peel away the coat of lime and expose the hidden warts. So it is with the Commonwealth Games and the infrastructure surrounding it. One smart shower and entire streets resemble ponds. Traffic comes to a complete halt. Huge potholes appear. Games stadiums leak. Now the river Yamuna is near danger levels. The games village has been built on low lying areas near the river. Mr. Kalmadi of the Congress refuses to resign unless told to do so by the Godmother who promises to punish naughty boys after the games are over. It is the tried and tested Congress strategy. Keep postponing until everyone has forgotten. So Sajjan Kumar, Sukhram, Quattrochi, all are still free. Elsewhere the UK based mining company,Vedanta was given permission to mine on tribal land in Orissa. Vedanta got permission in December 2008 under the Forest Conservation Act and in April 2009 under the Environment Protection Act and proceeded to violate both with impunity. Now, it seems, permission will be withdrawn. All very confusing. Who received what will never be known. Who gave these clearances to Vedanta? The previous government under the Congress of course. The Congress is the most successful syndicate in the world. The Ndrangheta could come for tuition.

A poll has shown that 18% of people in the US believe that Obama is muslim. They cite his speech in Cairo, his attempts at trying to talk to Iran, his tough stance with Israel and his support for a mosque at Cordoba House near ground zero in New York. The Jewish population is especially unhappy at what they see as unfair pressure on Israel. At least one third of people think that a muslim should not be allowed to run for President or for a seat on the Supreme Court. This is the country that goes round the world lecturing others on human rights and the right to practice any religion. Whatever the rights and wrongs people in the US have the freedom to discuss such issues. It is obvious that a lot of people do not buy the constant chant that Islam is a religion of peace when they can see that wherever there are more than 100 muslims in the world there is trouble and bloodshed. However such debate would be impossible in India because muslims, who make up about half the population and are breeding like flies, are classified as Minorities and have more rights than Hindus. This is called ' secularism.' Political gangs fight over how much more they can give to the muslims to get their votes. The freeloading, dishonest english press goes one step further branding Hindus as fundamentalists and comparing us to Al Qaeda. Any attempt at speaking the truth by pointing out that India is suffering constant terror attacks planned in Pakistan by muslims is shouted down and we are told to embrace these rabid dogs. One thing is certain. Indians are going to continue to die at the hands of Paki terrorists. There is only one cure for rabid dogs. Shoot them.

The last US combat brigade is pulling out of Iraq proclaiming victory. One young soldier loudly claimed that the US had brought democracy to Iraq. But has it really? Six months after elections there is no government in Baghdad because political parties cannot agree on power sharing. Violence is increasing, the last suicide bomber killed 61 at an army recruitment center. Sunni tribal leaders, who helped the US against Al Qaida, are being assassinated. Shias comprise 60% of the population and are mainly in the south. Sunnis and Kurds are about 20% each with Sunnis in the middle and Kurds in the north bordering Turkey. Oil wells are mainly in the south and some in the north so Shias and Kurds get rich on oil money but Sunnis get nothing. Others may feel that the Sunnis deserve it because they had unlimited power and wealth for decades while Saddam, who was a Sunni, ruled the country but regional Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia will not see it that way. Iran is to the east and will no doubt want to exert its influence and want a government which will cooperate with it. Thus Iran is strategically placed bordering on both Iraq and Afghanistan to create trouble for the Americans. Iran is racing to develop nuclear weapons as soon as possible and will tolerate any amount of economic pain that sanctions can bring because it feels that nuclear weapons are a protection against the might of the west as the immunity enjoyed by Pakistan and North Korea continues to show. Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran and may feel compelled to attack. Will the Sunni Arab states help Israel? The US created a mess by getting rid of Saddam and are now running away. Its enemies can now concentrate on Afghanistan which makes the US much more vulnerable than before.

Hugo Chavez is in the news again, this time for suppressing news. His government has ordered RCTV and six other cable tv channels off the air. Chavez came to power promising free goodies for the poor which has made him hugely popular and got him a second term easily. However, it is easy to promise free goodies but continuing it forever has bankrupted Venzuela, an oil exporting nation. To divert responsibility he has been blaming banks, private companies and even butchers for uncontrolled price rises and now blames the tv companies for showing piles of dead bodies in a city morgue because of an explosion of violent crime. Like any despot he sees free speech as his enemy. No wonder his best friend is Ahmadinejad of Iran whose Basij thugs kill and rape opponents. Meanwhile the ANC, which is the party of President Jacob Zuma, proposes a Media Appeals Tribunal to control the press. It also proposes to bring greater amount of news concerning the government under official secrets to prevent ' distortion of truth.' Well Mr. Zuma has managed to escape punishment, like all politicians, for alleged corruption and rape and, like Chavez, has been elected by promising goodies to the poor but is now finding that it is easy to dance at your fifth, or is it tenth, wedding but impossible to dole out money unless the poor control their birth rate. In India too the government wants to monitor all internet, mobile calls and messaging, the excuse being terrorism. Yet India is so vulnerable to terrorists because we have vulnerable borders, conduct business with enemies and turn victories into losses. Who is responsible? The government, who else.

Seems that Members of Parliament are demanding that their pay should be increased to three times the present level. MPs of all the gangs are united on this demand so the government has agreed to make it law during this session of the parliament. It is really galling that we have to pay a bunch of criminal parasites whose sole aim is to loot as much as possible and to hang on to their seats as long as possible. I would suggest that MP salaries should be increased by five times if they agree to the following conditions: 1. There will be no hidden allowances. MPs will have to pay in full their phone bills, travelling costs, rent for their flats, wages of police personnel for security and medical care. No palatial bungalows in Lutyens Delhi, no free travel for life, no pension, no security, no subsidised meals in the Parliament or any other hidden benefits that cost the taxpayer billions for each useless individual. As taxpayer I want complete transparency on what we spend on these scoundrels. 2. Term limits. No MP should be allowed more than two terms. 3. No one should be allowed to stand after the age of 65 years. 4. There must be no more than three parties in Parliament. A criminal forming a party and winning seats by terrorising people in an area has to stop. This leads to ' seat sharing ' as between Messrs Yadav and Paswan. 5. A committee of citizens, not related to any political gang and not retired government official, will decide the value of any particular MP and salary will be deducted for deficient service. Future rises will be determined by said committee. 6. Ministers may only be appointed from the Lok Sabha. Will I live to see my wishes fulfilled?

Unprecedented floods continue to displace tens of millions of people in Pakistan. The government, which is dysfunctional at the best of times, is unable to cope with the sheer scale of the disaster. Displaced people are getting increasingly desperate and angry as little or no help reaches them. The army which controls Pakistan and a major part of its economy is trying to distribute food and water but its efforts are grossly insufficient given the sheer scale of the disaster. Pakistan is desperately begging for assistance from abroad but little help is forthcoming. The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon has asked for at least $ 460 million but said that they have received barely a third of that amount. Comparisons are being made with the earthquake in Haiti and the Asian tsunami when billions of dollars were raised quickly by aid agencies, most of the money coming from donations made by individuals. This time though people are not willing to donate so governments are giving whatever they can spare in these recessionary times. The reason people are unwilling to help Pakistan is because it is an evil state. Everyone knows that it is the epicenter of terrorism in the world and they do not see why they should help these murderous swine to survive only to be paid back with bombs. Pakistan is making the usual noises which is that if it does not receive lots of money then people will take to terrorism but the world is not buying it. They know that any money it receives will be diverted by the army to terrorists and to buy weapons. Better to let the country implode now than a decade later when the population will have doubled because its people breed like swine. Better they kill each other than kill us.

Subsidy n. a sum of money given to help keep the price of something low. That is the dictionary meaning of the word ' subsidy ' but it seems that the constant lies told by the Indian government has brain washed even highly educated people into believing that something that is being sold at twice the fair value is actually being subsidised by the government. In an article in the Hindustan Times Abijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics and Director and Abdul Latif Jameel of the Poverty Action Lab, MIT argue that subsidies on diesel should be removed. They give the example of a man and a woman both going 10 km to work, the man travels by public bus while the woman drives in a Mercedes. Increasing the price of diesel by Rs. 20 would increase the cost of travel by Re. 1 for the man but by Rs. 80 for the woman in the merc thus subsidies are helping the rich woman more than the poor man. No one on a salary can afford a merc in India so the woman probably runs a business creating jobs for many. Indeed she may be employing the man in the bus. She pays high income tax, property tax, wealth tax and other taxes without getting anything in return. Possibly two thirds of the price of the merc was tax and she has paid enormous road tax. The price of diesel in the US varies from $ 2.964 to $ 3.183 per gallon which includes a tax of 16%. This works out to Rs. 30 a lit. The price of diesel in India today is Rs. 40.49 which means the woman in the merc has paid huge taxes to fill her tank. If economists in high posts do not understand the meaning of the word ' subsidy ' then their theories are bound to be rubbish. No wonder the economies in the world are in such a mess.

Today is Independence day for India. For our children it has meant that Sunday was a waste as they had to get up early in the morning, get into their uniforms and get to school where they sang ' Saare jahan se acha ' with lusty cheer and listened to their school principals jabbering on about being good honest citizens. Children of India must think that all adults are lying scoundrels. Wherever they look they see only thieves and thugs. They see their parents who work for the government, whether civil servants, police or judiciary, taking bribes. They see their business relatives cheating on taxes, selling substandard goods and boasting about the number of properties they have bought with the black money. They see all politicians are either criminals, thieves or shameless liars willing to sell themselves to anyone to stay in power. They see a Prime Minister sticking on to his seat inspite of a humiliating lack of respect, unwilling or unable to sack openly corrupt ministers within his government and defending the Commonwealth Games. They see a Railway Minister so callously indifferent to the death of people that she is holding election meetings while people are dying in rail accidents and extending a hand of friendship to Naxals who have murdered so many policemen in cold blood just to somehow grab the Chief Minister's post in Bengal. That is why young people today have little respect for anyone. After all, if you cannot respect your own parents who can you respect? Patriotism, honesty, honor, pride, respect do not come from speeches however eloquent they may be but from what they see. After all example is better than precept.

So, Obama has signed the bill victimizing Indian IT companies to pay for increased border patrols to police the US border with Mexico. At the same time Obama has felicitated India on its Independence Day, confirmed the special relationship between the two countries and expressed his eagerness to visit India later this year when he hopes to increase sales of arms made in the US. US Secretary for Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano has expressed her confidence that this law will not affect relations between our two nations. Indian business leaders have expressed unhappiness at the increase in visa fees which will affect only Indian companies. I think we should feel lucky that we are being asked to pay for border patrols only and not for all the arms, aircraft and money that the US gives to Pakistan to kill Indians. The US knows that the Congress gang is in power. The Congress functions on sycophancy, within the country members bow to the Family and abroad to every other country. This is the gang that has repeatedly given away all the victories that our poorly equipped armed forces have gained with great sacrifice thus encouraging Pakistan to rightly believe that they can attack and kill any number of Indians without any fear of retaliation. Even now just a year and a half after the Mumbai attacks our criminal politicians and thieving civil servants keep repeating that we cannot afford not to talk to Pakistan. Obama will come, our shameless lot will compete to lick his shoes and waste billions of our money to buy outdated US arms. Meanwhile the Pakis will be getting latest F16, smart bomb equipment, night vision goggles and other latest stuff. So far have survived attacks by our enemies. Will we survive the Congress?

While everyone is focused on the grand larceny that is the useless Commonwealth Games it has escaped people's notice that the games have been deliberately scheduled to coincide with the most holy Hindu festival namely Durga Puja, Ram Lila and Dussehra. The four days of Durga Puja are celebrated by all Hindus but mainly by Bengalis, Ram Lila is celebrated mainly in North India and Dussehra is for everyone. The Goddess Durga is worshiped at many sites in Delhi. The Puja in our colony, as elsewhere, is organised by Bengalis but I see Hindus of every description coming to offer Puja and join our festivities. This is one occasion where there is no Punjabi, Tamil, Oriya, upper caste or low caste. All unite in joyous celebration of the arrival of the Goddess. In Chittaranjan Park alone there are about half a dozen Pujas. Sadly this year that number has been reduced to just one by decree. Perhaps the Congress does not want people to stay away from the useless games and have empty seats at the stadiums. It is not just the people of Delhi that will be celebrating even foreigners will be drawn in to enjoy the wonderful festivities. Most people I know have no intention of wasting money on the useless games and be humiliated by the brutal Delhi police in the name of security. Would the Congress ban so called ' Minorities ' from holding their religious festivals? That would be unthinkable. Yet the Congress has no hesitation in violating the most holy festival in the Hindu calender perhaps to show its phony secularism and win votes of ' Minorities .' A cynical ploy. The Congress should understand that it will cease to exist if it is successful in wiping out Hindus because the ' Minorities ' will make no difference when slitting throats.

Oh the anguish and hand ringing in India over the increased charges on H1B visas that Indian companies use to take Indians to work at their offices in the US. Then there is the comment by a senator comparing Infosys, an admired Indian IT company, to a chop shop. We can easily dispense with the senator. He is a typical rude, uncouth, uncultured, arrogant american who thinks he is entitled to abuse and bully anyone he pleases. However, his barbaric behavior is not focused. He is one of those people who would not vote for extension of unemployment benefits for their own people, support the killing of innocent students by their mindless support of the gun lobby and would want to deny basic health care to babies whose parents are too poor to pay for insurance. The increased visa charges are more problematic because it seems to single out India. Our politicians led by the Congress are hurt. These people have done so much to suck up to the US over decades and this is the reward they get. They allowed Union Carbide to get off so lightly, have been trying to protect US companies supplying equipment for nuclear power plants, crawling on their knees to Pakistan inspite of repeated attacks on our citizens and bowing in supplication as the US supplies billions of dollars of military hardware to Pakistan to kill more Indians. Obama will be visiting India in a couple of months. We should see him as he is - a gasbag whose sole ambition is to get a second term regardless of how he does it. Therefore, while treating him politely as a guest we should tell him clearly where to get off. Unfortunately our lot are too used to bending.

Lots of heat on television news channels over whether super model Naomi Campbell did or did not receive a gift of ' blood diamonds ' from Charles Taylor who is on trial at the International Criminal Court for his crimes in Liberia. Testifying under oath Naomi Campbell was honest saying that she was a reluctant witness and that she just wanted to get it over with and get on with her life. She testified that she did not know who Charles Taylor was or anything about Liberia. This may be because she is stupid, which is not a crime, or that she has no interest in world news and current affairs. She met the man at a party in Nelson Mandela's house so she must have assumed that all guests had been vetted and trusted Mr. Mandela not to associate with an especially heartless man whose followers went around chopping limbs of two year olds. If she had never heard of Liberia then she would not be aware of ' blood diamonds ' and how they were being used to finance war between various factions. From what is being reported it seems that the prosecution has no real evidence which can link Taylor to the atrocities and they are relying solely on trying to prove that he trafficked in illegal diamonds which is why all the focus on Ms Campbell. The entire diamond business in the world is illegal anyway. All diamonds go through a clearing house in London making it the center of the largest cartel in the world. This is why diamonds are so expensive which is reflected in the fact that resale value of a stone is almost nothing whereas gold always sells at the current market price for bullion. Anyway as long as Tony Blair is roaming free why are they after small fry? Is it because he is an African?

Very difficult to understand the pundits. If it was something about particle physics or some distant galaxy we could just shrug our shoulders and carry on but economics affects all of us and the same pundits constantly keep telling us how the world is now a global community so what happens in one country affects everyone. After the severe recession in 2008 the world is recovering. Recovery in the US is weak though still growing but Japan is experiencing deflation. Yet the yen is getting stronger everyday against the dollar. The rate today is 85.99. We are told that the US prints too many dollars but Asian countries like China buy up dollar securities to keep it stronger than it deserves to be in order to increase exports to the US. So Americans should save more and the US should stop printing dollars while the Chinese should spend more while China should allow its currency to strengthen. Why then is Japan unable to print more yens in order to make it weaker than other currencies? The Japanese government's debt is said to be twice the GDP so the government is unable to pump prime the economy by increasing spending. The Bank of Japan, BOJ is holding interest rates at 0.1% and is unable to take further monetary measures. It has tried to stimulate lending by offering loans to banks at low rates of interest but banks are not interested because businesses are unwilling to make any large capital expenses. To me the solution seems simple. The BOJ should print more currency and retire old expensive debts. This would reduce interest payments by reducing debt and inject liquidity into the system which would encourage inflation. Inexplicable.

A convicted murderer, Pappu Yadav serving a life sentence was allowed out on bail by the Patna High Court and has, unsurprisingly, gone missing. Was he allowed out against the orders of the Supreme Court because he is related to a fellow supporting the Congress government in Delhi? Contrast this with the treatment being meted out to Mr. Amit Shah of Gujarat because of the shooting by the police of Sohrabuddin, a known gangster who was supplying weapons to terrorists. Law is what is convenient to the Congress. The Supreme Court has said that the decision of Patna High Court amounted to contempt of the Supreme Court. So will the judges be punished for being in contempt of the highest court in the land? Perish the thought. Judges pronounce judgements from on high and are always above the law. Now contrast this with the two journalists who exposed how Justice Sabbarwal was ordering the sealing of high street stores to prefer a company building shopping malls because his sons worked in the very same company. All the stores have since been allowed to open. A judge of the Delhi High Court held the two journalists in contempt of the court and sentenced them to jail. This was done by a process called ' suo motu ' which allowed the judge to jail citizens of the country without due process, without a proper trial and without the opportunity of mounting a defence. Biti Mohanti, a rapist, is still enjoying a free life because the police cannot find him because his father is chief of police. The law is only to persecute the defenceless while police and the judiciary protect real criminals. Justice Indian style.

Oh what joy! Direct tax collections from April to July has risen15.7% compared to last year, from Rs. 739.9 billion to Rs. 856.47 billion. Corporate tax has shot up by 21% from Rs. 426.85 billion to Rs. 516.27 billion while personal income tax has grown 8.5% from Rs. 312.79 billion to Rs. 339.40 billion. Impressive figures supporting the government's claim of 9% growth. The other way of looking at it is that the government desperately needs to raise cash because it is bankrupt and that is why it wants growth at any cost even though inflation is above 10% and rising. And that is why the Reserve Bank, RBI is not allowed to raise interest rates as much and as fast as it should. According to the banking secretary to the finance ministry, Mr. R. Gopalan banks are saddled with large amounts of Non Performing Assets or NPAs in the real estate sector. Loans to real estate companies have had to be rescheduled and the government does not want any more restructuring. Till March of last year the exposure of banks to the real estate sector was Rs. 915 billion. This year's figure is not given. If interest rates go up housing loans will become costly and the real estate sector would suffer. Banks could then be in danger of losing vast sums of money as loans turn sour. As the government earns enormous sums of money from the profits of public sector banks this could dry up. Also a lot of the black money politicians have invested in properties would disappear. The trouble is that unless property prices drop by 70 to 80% from the present fairy tale levels inflation can never be controlled. So either lose money or people die of starvation. Can this be called a conundrum?

In a hilarious bit of news our most revered Finance Minister was interrupted by a telemarketer offering him a home loan during a meeting. Apparently he was very angry. The I & B minister has cleverly registered herself at a special site which blocks all unwanted calls but gets text messages instead. She said, ' So I am not getting those calls but getting SMSes on real estate in dozens .......' Opposition politicians are also getting such calls. ' It has become a big nuisance as I am receiving about 30 to 40 unwanted calls a day,' said a BJP leader. Unwanted telemarketing calls are annoying for all of us but I am forced to offer excuses for these fellows. They are just following the money trail which they have been taught to do. They know that politicians are accumulating astronomical sums of black money and the only avenue of investing such sums is the property market. That is why property prices in India match and often surpass those in New York, London and Tokyo. In fact these fellows are providing a service by alerting politicians about available properties so that they can take advantage of introductory offers. Meanwhile, someone with the tongue twisting title of Union Urban Development Minister has said that charges of loot at the Commonwealth Games are unsubstantiated. ' These are sweeping unsubstantiated complaints. There could be corruption. But if any specific issues are brought to our notice now, or later, stringent action will be initiated immediately.' Bravo. But, er, remember Sukhram and Bofors and Petrol Pump license scam and Manu Sharma and .......? Why not answer those telemarketing calls on new properties?

Is it possible that human beings can sink below the level of the cesspit? Yes, Indians have already reached that level. One retired Lt. General S. K. Sahni will be facing court martial for procuring poor quality rations for troops serving at high altitudes in Jammu and Kashmir. These are troops facing treacherous Pakistanis across a hostile border. The ministry of defence bought six helicopters from the US Navy for over Rs. 1.82 billion. These had been manufactured between 1961 and 1965 and decommissioned in 2005. Naturally they were totally defective and spare parts are not available so one chopper has already been cannibalized to supply parts to repair others. Then there is the mother of all scams, the Commonwealth Games. Originally thought to be held for Rs. 70 billion they are now going to cost over Rs. 350 billion and counting. Everyday brings a new revelation of blatant theft. Roads and pavements have been dug up and laid several times and are still uneven. Perfectly good lampposts were removed and replaced with ones leaning to one side. Stadiums are leaking and wire are left exposed. Playing areas are poorly surfaced. Treadmills are being rented for 1000 times the going rate. Tennis court surfacing is being done by an Australian firm employing the son of one of the officials who has resigned today. Mr. Kalmadi is constituting a panel to investigate the charges which is like asking robbers to investigate thieves. Delhi has a state government and the central government. What were the politicians doing? Without doubt taking a large chunk of the pie. Will they be hanged? What a joke! Both have Congress gangs in power and the Congress is the most successful syndicate in the world.

The leaders of the Congress gang have told members to stop airing their differences in public. ' Politics is not a vehicle for fulfilling personal ambitions. There are times when inflated egos, baseless notions and overrated views dominate actions of certain people. ...... politics of social responsibility cannot be left to the whims of certain individuals.' Quite. In other words do not have independent thought. The entire gang should concentrate on the elevation of one family on to a pedestal regardless of merit or past betrayal of the country. Kneel down, touch your head to the ground and obey orders if you want to get a ticket to fight the next elections regardless of the crimes you have committed and are committing right now. Power controls the exchequer and the entire legal structure thus giving complete unaccountability. To remain in power is to shut your eyes to criminal sale of licences and loot of funds for third rate games. Instead use law enforcement to hound the only relatively honest chief minister because of the killing of a criminal terrorist because the people might be misled into demanding honesty from every politician. Then where will we be? Talking of Congress, Mrs.Sonia Gandhi and Mr. Rahul Gandhi had to rush to the US to see Mrs. Gandhi's mother who was taken ill last week. We hope the old lady made a complete recovery and pray that she lives to be 150 years old. However this was an absolutely personal visit and Mrs. Gandhi's mother is not a citizen of India. We hope, therefore, that not a single paisa of taxpayer money was spent on the visit and it was funded from Mrs. Gandhi's own fortune. RTI application anyone?

To think that India spends billions of rupees to elect this farce called ' parliament.' For the whole of last week not a single jot of work was done because opposition members continued to create mindless uproar over soaring prices in the country. To spare any humiliation to Congress which is responsible for the misery the speaker would not allow any vote on the topic. The opposition members, thinking that the people are stupid, saw this as an opportunity to score a few cheap points. There was no debate, no thoughtful logical speeches, no discussion of the financial situation, no detailed figures showing levels of inflation and the effect it is having on people, no offer of solution to ease the suffering of the public, just mindless noise and walk outs. The opposition could easily have called for a no confidence motion which the speaker would be compelled to grant but they did not. Two reasons why. The Congress challenged the opposition gangs to reduce prices by cutting taxes in the states they control which would be impossible. The reason is that state governments are as bankrupt as the central one, in some cases more so. Reducing taxes mean reduced income which means less money to loot and misuse. A simple example beautifully illustrates the lies. Exxon Mobil has just reported $ 7 billion in profit for the last quarter while state owned oil firms in India are going to make losses of Rs. 570 billions this fiscal. This when petrol costs Rs. 30/ lit in the US and Rs. 55/lit in India. The difference is taxes. The second reason why the opposition chickened out is because a victory would mean new elections and that is when people are waiting with chappals. Then again perhaps it is a good thing that these criminals are not working. Anything they do is bound to be terrible for the people and the country.

In lessons learnt from the British the Congress has managed to stay in power by the principle of divide and rule. To support its false claims of secularism it enacted special laws for so called Minorities and divided the Hindus along caste lines by giving special privileges to certain castes who were designated as Scheduled Castes or SC Scheduled Tribes or ST and Other Backward Castes or OBC. People belonging to these castes could get into elite colleges with very low marks, paid less fees, were preferred for government jobs and were promoted over upper caste officers even though patently unfit. People of these castes are collectively known as Dalits. More laws made it almost a crime to be born an upper caste. Thus if a Dalit abuses an upper caste it is simple abuse but if the upper caste uses the same words in return then it becomes caste abuse and attracts higher penalty. Naturally caste became central to Hindu society and anyone marrying into the wrong caste risks getting killed. The Chief Minister of UP, lovingly known as the Dalit Queen, mandated that government schools should employ Dalits as cooks to provide the midday meal to students. Not only did upper caste children refuse to eat meals cooked by Dalits but one caste of Dalits refused meals cooked by another caste. Chamars, SC refused Kharwar, ST and vice versa. Chamars, SC remain separate from Valmikis also SC. Dhobis, SC reacted violently to food cooked by Valmiki,SC. Everyone is happy with food cooked by upper caste. In order to win the next election the Congress is planning reservation for Minorities. How long before there are riots between different religious groups for special favors? India faces many dangers but criminal politicians are the most dangerous.

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Glory be. All the oil in the Gulf of Mexico, all those billions of barrels, that were supposed to devastate the fishing industry and the wetlands, has suddenly disappeared. Vanished without a trace. One day talk is of decades of pollution, death of all marine life,communities ravaged by loss of jobs, hound Tony Hayward and drive BP to bankruptcy and the next day there is no oil. The news anchor at CNN this morning was trying very hard. She had two experts who sounded positive and optimistic. One was of the opinion that the oil had genuinely gone. Oil is a volatile substance, lots of dispersant had been used, the effect of bacteria in the water and the dispersing effect of wind and tide had all helped. The anchor tried her best. Could the oil be hiding somewhere to emerge later? If the oil sinks to the lower levels where oxygen levels are low then it could hang around for very long time but if it stays in the aerobic layer of water it disperses very quickly was the answer. Could a lot of the oil have entered the food chain already? Possible but doubtful. Could the chemicals used to disperse oil have entered the food chain? The answer was ' don't know.' Such vast quantities of dispersants have never before been dumped into the ocean so we have to wait to see if they turn up in fish and oysters. Question is what does it do to US and British relations? The Obama administration treated BP very harshly forcing the company to pay out billions of dollars so that BP has reported $ 17 billion of losses in the last quarter. British pension funds are dependent on BP dividends so it is going to hurt British pensioners. Perhaps this will force the British to abandon their slave status and be free once more.

After repeating government assurances like brain dead parrots for the last year the freeloading, Congress following press have woken up to the reality of inflation. For months the criminal politicians have been treating us like idiots with platitudes while continuing to increase prices by increasing taxes on everything. They have been blaming last year's drought and promising that the rate of inflation will fall to around 5% by December. That is because prices were rising by over 10% last year so the rate will decrease because of base effect. Prices are not going to fall but continue to rise at a lesser pace. The Reserve Bank, RBI should have increased interest rates aggressively but has not been allowed to because the liars are terrified of a decline in the rate of growth which will mean less in tax collections. The RBI is unable to control money supply because it does not know what the GDP is because of black money. Some estimate that the black economy is 50% of GDP but it could be 60, 70 or even 90%. No one knows. The only way to judge if money supply is coming under control is to monitor property prices. If property prices come down by about 70% compared to present values then we can be sure that the RBI is getting the economy under control. That will severely reduce taxes from the property market The criminals are desperate because the government is bankrupt.The combined external and internal debt of the government is Rs. 34 trillion While total tax collection is Rs. 7.34 trillion. Interest on debt is in trillions so the government borrows more to keep running. Is their any way to prevent a crash? If only we had a truthful honorable press instead of the Congress dogs we have now.

As everyone knows Congress hearts bleed for the aam aadmi especially at taxpayers' expense. To win last year's elections the previous Congress led government forgave loans given by banks to farmers. The present finance minister is encouraging banks to increase lending to farmers and charge lower interest rates at 5%. In 2009-10 banks have lent a whopping Rs. 3.67 trillion to farmers as agricultural loans. We wait to see if farmers accumulate huge loans and then wait for the next elections to be forgiven once more. To give more taxpayer money to farmers the government has a minimum support price at which it buys wheat from farmers which results in high food prices for everyone. So to help the poor, because their hearts are still bleeding, the government distributes cheap grains to the poor under the Public Distribution System. Which means vast quantities of grains are stolen to be sold in the open market and 90% of kerosene is stolen to adulterate diesel. Of course there is not enough storage space for all the wheat collected so 61000 tonnes of wheat had rotted in granaries. 136000 tonnes from 2008-9 and 2738 thousand tonnes collected in 2009-10 have already been stored for over one year, the maximum period allowed for such storage. Millions of tonnes of wheat are lying in the open in Punjab and Haryana under tarpaulins. With monsoon rains having started in earnest most of this will probably rot as well. Meanwhile this Congress led government is increasing taxes on everything imaginable. Criminal politicians are the biggest enemies faced by Indians. We desperately need Citizens Corporations to protect us.

There is much debate in the US about the new anti immigration laws that will come into effect in Arizona today. The governor of Arizona has been called racist and Mexico has expressed unhappiness since most illegal immigrants are from Mexico. It is very difficult to understand this debate. Every person in the world has the right to decide who to invite into his home and ask the police to help evict an uninvited intruder. Hence every country should surely have the right to decide who they want as immigrants. Immigrants cause a lot of problems. Illegal Bangladeshis are changing the demography of parts of India giving rise to tension. Also Bangladeshis are easy recruits for Pakistan based terrorist groups and have been implicated in several incidents of bombing. Pakistanis in the UK have been similarly implicated. North Africans have rioted in Paris destroying property. Lebanese caused riots in Australia. Many Indians have died of suffocation when people smugglers packed them into containers without ventilation. Illegal immigration is a direct result of uncontrolled breeding in third world countries, especially of poor people who are unable to look after and educate their children. Rising numbers of poor people in Latin America not only results in illegal immigration into the US but also violent crime in the countries themselves. Thus drug gangs in Mexico have been killing thousands, including police and soldiers, across the country with the government looking on as helpless spectator. All the governments of the world must join hands in fighting the scourge of population growth and cut off immigration totally from any country which fails to comply. Else the planet is doomed.

In a confirmation of its slave status present and past British and Scottish ministers have been invited to give testimony to a US Senate committee looking into the premature release, on humanitarian grounds, of the alleged Lockerbie bomber Al Basit Al Magrahi. Would the British parliament dare to ' invite ' US administration officials to be questioned about anything? The oil company BP is being driven to bankruptcy by the US government for the oil spill? Would the British be able to do the same to, say, Exxon Mobil? How a tiny country like Great Britain managed to build a huge empire right across the world is a tribute to the courage, cunning and ruthlessness of the ancestors of the present population. However, Britain is now a small tiny third grade country trying to punch above its weight in the world and that will probably be its destruction. It has tied itself to the US supporting whatever crime the US commits thereby trying to gain respect much like a low ranking goon gets respect by obeying the godfather. Britain is committing more than $ 20 billion to a new generation of Trident missiles although it has no real enemies. It has Scandinavian countries to the east, Germany and France to the south, Ireland and the Atlantic to the west and Iceland far to the north. It is so inconsequential that no one, Russia or China or Iran, would think of wasting a missile on it. The only reason for wasting money on the Trident, while cutting pensions and child benefit, is to cling on to its seat on the Security Council. The Prime Minister of Britain, David Cameron is in India. While being gracious hosts we must not give him too much lift. Unfortunately our lot is used to bowing and scraping.