Seems that Maharashtra Chief Minister, Ashok Chavan has offered to resign over the Colaba housing scam in which 3 of his relatives including his dead mother in law were given flats at one tenth their market value and Mr. Chavan was the person who issued clearances for the 31 storey building in an earlier avatar. ' I have offered to resign and I leave it to the Congress president,' he said. Such a hero! Offering to fall on a sword for the sake of the party! Some advice for him. Do not offer. Resign and go. If you are a man and have the slightest bit of sharam or izzat. By ' offering to resign ' he is clearly hoping and praying that Ms. Gandhi will refuse to accept it and he will be able to carry on in his post. Meanwhile ten sports persons have joined together to form a ' Clean Sports India ' movement. They want sports persons to control the various sports bodies in India instead of filthy criminal politicians as at present. They think that after the disgusting crime infested Commonwealth Games it may be the right time to wrest sports away from criminal politicians and thieving civil servants. It is not going to be easy because heading a sports body means access to government money, free travel abroad, bullying young women for sexual favors and freebies from sponsors. For the last few years the bastards have been smarting at being excluded from the IPL bonanza. This year they have managed to change the board by bringing various charges against all the previous officials. Now Australia has decided to have its own T20 competition like the IPL and is inviting Indian sponsors. The IPL will die and Bash Bash T20 will take over. Thieves and destroyers.

Mr. Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in India, is building a 27 storey house for his wife in a posh area of Mumbai reputed to be costing him some Rs. 50 billion. It is going to have everything from car park to swimming pool to helipad and will be the most expensive home in the world for a family of 6 people. My friends are of the view that this is vulgar ostentation unsuitable for a poor country like India where millions of people live below the poverty line. Some are quite vehement that he should have spent his money on helping the poor. I do not resent Mr. Ambani his wealth. As long as this money is earned through honest business then he should have the freedom to do whatever he pleases. At least he is spending his money inside the country instead of buying a luxury villa abroad. Ms Aishwarya Rai is so beautiful that people are ready to pay over Rs. 10 million just for her to show up and smile for a few minutes. Good luck to her. However I strongly resent criminal politicians and thieving civil servants lording it over us with our tax money. I resent it when the police hold my car up to let some low class trash pass by at full speed. I resent it when these filthy scoundrels spend our money to buy luxury planes. I resent it when the freeloading press call them VVIPs in craven servility. Now we have news of how navy land has been used to build a 31 storey building where politicians, civil servants and ex chiefs of armed forces have been given apartments at one tenth the fair value. The Chief Minister's dead mother in law is also on the list. This is when I understand why people join the Naxals and want to blow these bastards away.

Ms Arundhati Roy has opined that Kashmir was never a part of India and so should be allowed independence. In that case Texas was a part of Mexico, China was a part of Mongolia, Guantanamo and Guam were never part of the US, there has never been a state or country called Palestine, Kuwait was a part of Iraq, Gibraltar and the Falklands were never a part of Great Britain, Asir region was a part of Yemen, the list goes on. Ms Roy may have won a literary award but that does not make her an expert on politics or human rights. She is partly right in saying that the state is an enemy of the people but destroying it by supporting Naxals is hardly going to improve the living conditions of poor people for whom her heart bleeds. Perhaps she should pay a visit to Cambodia and learn about the Khmer Rouge and Brother no. 1 before talking. Kashmir can never be independent, not because of what India wants, but because Pakistan will never give up the territory it is occupying. Indeed if Indian troops were to move out Paki troops will move straight in and annexe the whole valley. India will then be in even greater danger than it is now because Pakis will be that much closer to the heart of the country. It is sad that she has to resort to such treacherous rubbish to get into the limelight once more. She claims that as a writer she has freedom of speech. So she has but does not and never will have the right to be stupid. She should realise that her stupidity puts our right to life in jeopardy. The freeloading press should stop reporting the rubbish she spouts. That way she can have her freedom to speak rubbish without endangering the rest of us.

Time was when army officers were seen as honorable and judges were seen as honest. No longer. A few weeks back the Supreme Court was told that 8 of the 16 former Chief Justices were corrupt. That is a staggering 50% of the top judicial officials in the country. Today we read a story of how a prime plot of land in Colaba, Mumbai which belonged to the army was handed over to a developer to build a multi storey apartment block. Crucial documents proving the land belonged to the army have gone missing from army offices in Mumbai and Pune. Former army chiefs, NC Vij and Deepak Kapur have been given apartments in the building as have several admirals, generals, politicians and top civil servants. Presumably to make a profit, after gifting so many apartments, the developer has increased the height of the building to 100 meters to accommodate 31 storeys when the permitted height is only 30 meters. Army officers get huge pensions, cheap groceries and booze at army canteens and free top quality healthcare for life, something that we can only dream about and yet their greed is bottomless. Meanwhile Rs. 3.8 billion have been stolen in Andhra Pradesh in the name of fee reimbursement at colleges which do not exist. No doubt criminal politicians and thieving civil servants will be right at the center of the scam. Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra are allowing criminals to operate illegal mines and thus loot the nations resources. It is a wonder that India still exists when our enemies within are so much more dangerous than enemies outside.

A woman working as a domestic in Delhi developed shortness of breath on walking. Auscultation revealed pure mitral stenosis and she was sent to a nearby expensive hospital which was offering an investigation package including ECHO. She was examined by one doctor and when the word spread at least 10 doctors came to listen to her heart and see the ECHO findings. The reason is the rheumatic heart disease has disappeared in middle and upper classes and doctors training in private institutions have never seen a case. In Haiti a cholera epidemic has already claimed 250 and will probably kill more especially children. The reason is that large numbers of Haitians are still crowded into camps after last year's earthquake. The total area of the Haiti is just 10714 sq. miles and it has a population of 9.8 million most of whom crowd into cities especially Port au Prince, the capital. This population pressure on a small area of land makes it the poorest country in the western hemisphere and susceptible to such diseases. On the other hand Chile has a land area of 292260 sq. miles with a population of just over 15 million. Thus Chile is much richer economically and is better able to support its people as the recent rescue of the 33 trapped miners showed. Bihar, which is holding elections to its Assembly, is the Haiti of India. Its people just go on breeding regardless of the ability to feed, educate or give decent healthcare to their children. Crime is the major industry in Bihar. People with money educate their children in faraway boarding schools to protect them from being kidnapped. To eliminate poverty we must eliminate breeding. Simple.

The gasbag cometh. President Obama is to visit India next month and preparations are well underway. Seems that the entire 547 rooms as well as all the restaurants and dance halls at Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai has been reserved for security reasons. 80-90 rooms at the ITC Maratha Hotel near the airport have also been booked for accompanying airline staff. 45 cars including the presidential armor plated Lincoln Continental, weighing in at 3 tons and capable of withstanding a tank shell will be coming with him. This is hubris at its most exorbitant, egotistical and arrogant best. Who is paying for this shameless waste? If it is the US then it is shameful at a time when 9.6% of people are unemployed and an entire class of people called the 99ers have been created. If it is India then it is a criminal waste of public money because this visit is not going to benefit our country in any way whatsoever. The mid term elections in November will see a Republican majority in the House and possibly also the Senate. Any agreement signed by Obama will not be ratified by the Republicans buoyed by their victory. If he could not impose his will on the Congress when the Democrats controlled both chambers he is going to be a useless lame duck now. If he is coming to sell defence equipment and to negotiate a way to protect suppliers of nuclear equipment in case of accidents then we should drive a hard bargain. No arms supply to Pakistan and favorable trade conditions for India. Sadly our lot will be bending and scraping as is their wont. A useless Commonwealth Games followed by a useless state visit presided over by a useless government. Brilliant.

Wayne Rooney has signed a five year deal with Manchester United worth 65 million pounds at 250,000 pounds per week. That is a shocking Rs. 20 million a week. Is he really worth that much money? It is not that he is incredibly ugly, which he is, but that he is not that good a player as he showed during the World Cup. Some may trot out the excuse that he was under mental pressure for having dropped his pants with a couple of whores but he did not perform that well in Germany either. He is talented, strong, has good stamina and on his day can score with either foot but he is not as good as Messi, Ronaldo or Fabregas and will never be within touching distance of what Maradonna and Pele used to be. Besides football players are very prone to severe injuries which can put them out for entire seasons. The reason is that a player stretches out his leg to gather the ball and if someone falls on the outstretched leg it causes fractures or severe ligament damage to the knee which can take months to heal. Also a player can easily break a bone due to a malicious tackle as happened to Eduardo at Arsenal. Besides once a man has been unfaithful to his wife he is likely to do so again. So much money, God like adulation from fans, travelling far away from home to play matches and excessive amounts of alcohol may loosen inhibitions again. But why are United taking such a risk when they already have so much debt? The Glazers who own the club are American business men and certainly no fools and neither is the manager, Sir Alex Ferguson. Have they decided to sell Rooney and are playing games to increase his price tag? Time will tell.

Wow! Within days of the end of the money looting Commonwealth Games the CBI has raided offices and collected documents of its first suspect. Who is the lucky person? Not anyone from the Congress government in Delhi or at the center. Nor anyone from the various dens of thieves called MCD, NDMC, PWD, CPWD or the Organising Committee. No, the honor of being the first suspect goes to Sudhanshu Mittal, a BJP leader. Attack, after all, is the best form of defence and who knows that better than the Congress. Meanwhile the CBI has been unable to make any progress in one year against the Congress comrade Mr. Raja, the Telecom minister in the 2G scam. While the CBI is unable to make out any case against officials at the Department of Telecom, DOT another investigator CAG has found that DOT officials were complicit in leaking details of policy to certain companies resulting in a loss of Rs. 1 trillion to the state. This strategic one year delay by the CBI has allowed officials to continue working at the DOT and to obstruct any form of enquiry or investigation. Whether key evidence has been destroyed already we do not know but it is quite usual for files to go missing in India. When pressed by the Supreme Court CBI officials asked for six more months to investigate in India and overseas. It is so wonderful how often CBI finds evidence abroad. We remember how they had to visit so many tourist spots overseas while chasing big Q without catching sight of him. They have done St. Kitts. May I suggest Monaco or Martinique. Dubai, if wives have run out of perfumes. They should beware. If the cover up is too obvious the capo will not be pleased.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK, George Osborne presented a list of cuts to government expenses to the House of Commons. The total cuts will be $ 130 billion over four years and lead to a loss of 490000 jobs in the public sector. European economies in general are cutting government expenditure in an effort to lower fiscal deficits. Americans are unhappy with such severe cuts at a time when the global economic recovery still looks shaky. Some economists think that cuts at a time of rising unemployment, depressed housing sector, low private sector investment and a reluctance by banks to provide credits will lead to a double dip recession in the west which could affect the world. Central banks in western countries are keeping lending rates at record low levels leading to a flood of liquidity into developing economies leading to strengthening of their currencies. Countries such as Brazil have imposed taxes on the flow of foreign money in an effort to control the flow. Others like China directly buy foreign currencies from markets to keep their currencies low. China is deliberately restricting the export of rare earths, which are used in the manufacture of electronics, in an effort to force western companies to set up manufacturing factories in China and share their expertise with local companies. Time was when western countries could subsidise their farmers and force poor countries to open their markets while putting up barriers against imports. They called it globalisation. No longer. Poorer countries are playing the same game. If the rich will not export wealth they will end up importing poverty. Justice.

A lot has been written about the terminal three, called T3, at Delhi airport. The government is very proud of the brand new shining building with lots of glass and chrome. As with anything the Indian government does it has added extra taxes to air tickets for passengers. Wonder what happens to all the trillions of rupees in taxes that we pay, apart from paying the salaries of useless, thieving parasitic civil servants and the equally useless, criminal, parasitic politicians? Anyway, went to receive some family members flying in from Toronto on Air India. When this flight goes to Toronto it arrives there at a convenient six in the evening. Enough time to get home safely. However when the flight returns to Delhi it arrives at 1.55 in the morning which, in a dangerous city like Delhi, is most inconvenient. Who the hell cares for Indians anyway? Not Air India and not the Airport Authority either because there is no comfortable air conditioned waiting area for people who have come to receive their family members. Instead you have to stand outside. There is a roof overhead but otherwise the area is completely open. No chairs to sit on, no air conditioning, no cafe serving snacks, not even fans. One can imagine what people will have to suffer in the summer. Imagine having to stand for a couple of hours in 40 degrees temperature with no fans. Last night was not so warm but mosquitoes were getting full meals. With Dengue and Chikungunya epidemics going on it could be curtains for some. Whatever is built in India, however grand it may be the people will still be treated as dirt.

Seems that President Obama will be unable to visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar because there is no consensus on what he should cover his head with. Obama will not use a skull cap acceptable to temple authorities because that will make him look like a Muslim and would be political suicide especially with the rise of the Tea Party lunatics in the Republican Party. The temple authorities will not accept a baseball cap or army cap or variations thereof because that will not be respectful. The temple belongs to the Sikh faith and every visitor, who does not wear the traditional turban worn by Sikhs, has to cover his head as a mark of respect for the faith. Hindus do not wear turbans and normally cut their hair short and, since large numbers of Hindus visit the shrine, have learnt to improvise a temporary hat. Take a gent's handkerchief, knot the four corners and cover your head with it. Thousands of Hindus have been doing this for years. The idea is to respect the shrine and, to be fair to Sikhs, they recognise it as a mark of respect. Alternatively Obama could ask his hosts to provide him with a ready made turban as worn at north Indian weddings. These are showy and go on as any hat and would provide a fantastic photo op. Obama was elected because he represented the new US. Born of a white american mother and a black Kenyan father, a combination of Christian and Muslim with half siblings in Indonesia he seemed to represent the great american melting pot. Unfortunately his fear of the Republicans and a burning desire for a second term made him try to please everyone. He has ended up pleasing no one and may help an airhead like Palin to win next time around.

Blame game time. The rats are beginning to fall out. Delhi Chief Minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit says that the Organising Committee, OC is responsible for all the corruption. " The real corruption seems to be with regard to the money given as loans ( to the OC )," said she. Mr. Kalmadi's reply was,'..... she must indulge in self reflection on corruption in her own departments. We ( OC ) don't want to scapegoats any more.' Reviled by the whole country, booed by spectators, loathsome though he may be Kalmadi is right on this one. Several governments such as the PWD, CPWD, DDA and MCD were involved in building the infrastructure where the major chunk of money was spent. The OC had a budget of some Rs. 16 billion wile the Delhi government spent Rs. 160 billion which is ten times as much. The OC had absolutely nothing to do with the building and collapse of the footbridge at Nehru stadium. Similarly the OC was not responsible for a contractor being paid Rs. 2 billion twice for same work at Talkatora stadium. The nation spends a fortune every year on electing and then paying for the extravagance of politicians whose job it is to safeguard public finances by preventing thieves from looting. If Ms Dikshit claims that she has no responsibility then she should not be sitting in her chair any longer. If she denies that it was her duty to oversee what all the various government agencies were doing then why are we spending vast sums of money for her uselessness. Surely she knows that all civil servants are thieves and with a budget that big would be skimming right off the top. She should be careful not to let the stink reach the capo. Then she will really be in trouble.

Seems that the Reserve Bank of India, RBI is in bit of bother. Foreign Institutional Investors, FIIs have poured over Rs. 1 trillion into our stock market and maybe poised to put in more. This is apparently due to the loose monetary policy in the US and Europe where interest rates are at historically low levels allowing cheap money to flood into emerging markets where returns are better. The Sensex is above 21000 and Indian investors are very happy. Problem is that the infusion of so much dollars is making the rupee stronger which, in turn, harms exports and impacts the profit margins of the IT sector when they bring money back to India. The RBI is caught between a rock and a very hard place. If they buy dollars from the market to push the rupee down they will inject more liquidity into the system pushing up inflation. To control inflation they will then have to increase interest rates which will increase company costs and may decrease consumer consumption. Increased interest rates may attract more dollars to take advantage of the arbitrage opportunities which will again put upward pressure on the rupee. The government does not want interest rates to increase because that will increase its borrowing costs and any slow down in growth rate will adversely affect tax collections which is desperately needed to pay millions of useless, thieving, unproductive civil servants whose salaries were unjustifiably increased by the Sixth Pay Commission as a bribe to win last year's general elections. Seems that no one has clue as to what to do. With world famous economist in charge what do we expect?

The whitewash has started, in fact it started long ago but now the footlicking freeloading press is doing its bidding. The games are being painted as a grand success. Never mind the billions stolen, never mind the loss of face, never mind the near empty stadiums, never mind the sheer low class of the scum in charge the spin has started. If you are an Indian then you must show support, it is patriotism. The trouble is the scum are so low class that it is difficult to identify with them. One woman got her 7 year old son accreditation as an official because her husband is out of town and she could not leave him alone. It would cost money to employ a nanny. The Lt Governor ( is he some British fossil still hanging around?) is most upset that the Chief Minister is taking all the credit for cleaning toilets when it was he who cleaned them. Consider the contrast with the treatment being meted out to Lalit Modi. He organised the T20 Cricket Premier League from scratch, made it hugely successful all over the world and made it immensely profitable. His sin was that he excluded criminal politicians and thieving civil servants from taking their cut so they were after him from the beginning. It started with little things. The cheerleaders were scantily clad. This from bandits and rapists. Then security was denied because of the inconsequential general elections. So Modi took the IPL to South Africa and made it a success. So now all the investigating agencies are competing to file cases against him. But then Modi is not Congress. The same agencies do not know how to investigate the telephone licensing scam. Congress- the most efficient syndicate in history.

Came to Delhi by the overnight train which normally ends at Nizamuddin station but instead dumped me at 5.30 in the morning at New Delhi station. Presumably it was diverted because the flyover from the games village to Nehru stadium arches over the Nizamuddin station and the scum running the games did not want foreigners to see riffraff like me. Troubles did not end there. The route home was blocked because the marathon was being held in the middle of the city so the scum just decided to shut down the whole city. Ended up paying Rs. 250 instead of Rs. 150 to get home. Today is the first day of Durga Puja after nine days of Navaratri, probably the holiest time of the year for us Hindus so the Congress deliberately held the games during this period. Driving restrictions on roads means that it would be nigh impossible for people to visit various Puja pandals. We have been instructed not to hold our usual functions, not to feed our members as we do every year and severe restrictions have been placed on parking cars to make it difficult for people to attend. Old people, children and the sick cannot possibly walk long distances so the idea is to restrict Hindus from offering prayers. The driving restrictions will be in force till monday which is when all foreign athletes will be expected to leave the city. The Pujas end on sunday so we Hindus will have to face the maximum inconvenience this year. Is it now the policy of the Congress to destroy Hinduism? Would they have dared to place such restrictions on so called Minorities? Larceny, incompetence, arrogance, stupidity, the games have shown the true colors of the Congress. A pox on their house.

Abhijit Ghosh, retired general manager at the Central Bank of India, filed a complaint against the chairperson and managing director of the bank, H. A. Daruwala with the Central Vigilance Commission. His complaint said that Ms Daruwala forced people seeking loans to pay big donations to her former school, used the travel agent employing her sister and asked tender seekers to publish diaries and calenders. Instead of taking action against her the bank embarked on a campaign of harassment against Mr. Ghosh. They spent Rs. 6.924 million on lawyers fees and gave Congress member and lawyer, Abhishek Manu Singhvi Rs. 4.85 million to go after him. Mr. Ghosh has given up and withdrawn all cases against the bank and Ms Daruwala. Politicians, lawyers and criminals, the controllers of India. To prove this point 35% of candidates for the forthcoming elections in Bihar have criminal cases pending against them. Of 446 candidates 299 have not submitted details of their Permanent Account Number which is essential for filing tax returns. Any ordinary person cannot buy a car or open an account at a bank without such a number. This shows that candidates are keen to hide the source of their wealth. Serious charges including murder, attempted murder, kidnap, extortion, use of dangerous weapons and robbery are pending against 97 candidates and 3 candidates have been charged with rape. Candidates are chosen by each political party, a process called ' giving tickets.' Thus every party has deliberately chosen criminals because these have the black money and can intimidate voters and opponents to win. So every political party in India is a criminal gang. Scum.

Two examples prove that the criminal politicians and thieving civil servants of India are the worst scum in the world. In a case of bribery against an Income Tax officer, Mohanlal Sharma, justices at the Supreme Court

commented that ' It is very unfortunate that there is no control over corruption in the country. There is rampant corruption particularly in the departments of income tax, sales tax and excise. Nothing moves without money.' The justices also advised that corruption should be made legal so that people knew exactly how much they had to pay to get work done. The solution is simple. The courts should refuse time wasting by corrupt lawyers and insist on finishing a case in a fixed time span. The Supreme Court should uphold death penalty sentences of murderers with powerful connections instead of reducing them to life imprisonment knowing full well that they will be released on parole by politicians. Sarcasm is no replacement for justice. In Karnataka the politicians are showing us their claim to be worse scum than civil servants. Apparently some goons came and kidnapped around 11 BJP MLAs from a hotel, shoved them into cars and flew them to Chennai. Each criminal MLA goes around with a retinue of armed guards so how were they overpowered so easily and why did no one resist? The Speaker of the House disqualified some MLAs while the governor wants to introduce President's Rule so that he can rule the state by himself. Ex politicians or civil servants are chosen as governors as a reward for helping the political gang in power. We the people have no idea which scoundrel is backing whom. Incredible India.

In an essay titled ' Manners Make the Middle Class ' in the Times of India today Mr. Dipankar Gupta, a former professor, says that it was good manners of the middle classes which has led Europe to its affluence today. He cites a book, ' The Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette ' written by Prof Thomas E. Hill which advises people not to show off their wealth in front of poor people, not to indulge in name dropping and not to boast about your own country while visiting abroad. Mr. Gupta goes on to say that it was good manners that led to increased social services which helped to lift the poor out of poverty and wants Indians to develop good manners. Mr. Gupta seems to have forgotten that every country in western Europe including tiny Portugal had colonies in Africa, Asia and America. Their manners were restricted to their own citizens while for the rest of the world they were ruthless, blood sucking looters. The ferocity of the two World Wars cannot be matched by any other people. Even their present social support systems were based on looting the third world, especially Africa, where they bought up cheap raw materials and sold back very expensive finished products. They forced the inequitous GATT system on the world and the IMF regularly advised poor countries to open their economies deepening their poverty. Where are the Somalis, the drug gangs or the killers in Congo getting their arms? From the factories of the so called good manners countries. The world has woken up to their games. The IMF is sidelined and the WTO is locked. All European countries are having to reduce social services. Soon they will have to reduce manners too.

What is it about Pakistan that has immobilised thinking in Washington? For decades Pakistan has been actively harming the US while pretending to be its friend and Washington has swallowed the horse dung without any analysis or reproach. The 9/11 attacks were planned by the ISI and the financing was routed through Pakistan. A report in the Wall Street Journal reported that the ISI is urging mid level Taliban to fight US soldiers while the country is surviving on US aid. Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber has just been sent to jail for life. Last week the US was advising it citizens to avoid crowded palces in France, Germany and Britain because they suspected an imminent Mumbai style attack. Drone strikes killed 2 British citizens and 5 Germans of Pakistani origin training as terrorists in North Waziristan. Following the death of 3 Paki soldiers in a hot pursuit incident Pakistan closed a supply route to Afghanistan causing a build up of trucks. At least 40 trucks have been blown up by militants. The US had to apologise humbly to get Pakistan to reopen the border crossing. Half of Pakistan would starve without US aid and Paki army would not be able to kill Indians without US supplied planes and arms. If the US stopped all aid to Pakistan would China and the Gulf states be able to fill the void? Impossible. In fact China is taking advantage of the survival of Pakistan by giving nuclear weapons and building nuclear power plants to increase its danger to India and the west. The only way is to stop all aid, including food aid, cancel all diplomatic contact with Pakistan and bottle its citizens inside its borders. Caged animals cannot bite.

Within the last one month China, the nation of uncivilised barbarians, has been snarling at the rest of the world. There was the incident of the fishing vessel which deliberately rammed two Japanese coast guard vessels causing damage. When he was arrested for his crime China responded as it knows how, with fury unrestrained by any civilising or diplomatic politeness. First it stopped all high level contacts, stopped rare earths export to Japan as a blackmail strategy and took four Japanese citizens as hostage on the specious charge that they were photographing military installations. Since the cursed country is a military state even public toilets could be termed sensitive because some soldiers were using it at the time. Then Chinese premier Wen Jia Bao was warning first the US and then Europe not to pressure China on artificially keeping its currency, the Yuan weak to increase exports. Then China was barking at the Nobel Committee not to award the Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Nobel committee went ahead and awarded the prize to Xiaobo anyway. Predictably China reacted as a rabid dog saying that Xiaobo is a criminal according to Chinese law and not fit to receive the prize.What law? China has no law. To show its rage and unable to take revenge on the Nobel committee Xiaobo's wife has been shifted from Beijing to Jinzhou where he is being held. An uncivilised country where children die of melamine poisoning, miners die regularly in preventable accidents and schools collapse in an earthquake while party offices stand intact will behave similarly with other countries. Time that China is hit where it will hurt most, its economy.

The World Bank President, Robert Zoellick thinks that near zero interest rates in developed countries is creating huge liquidity and money is flowing into developing economies creating asset price bubbles and increasing the value of their currencies. He thinks that these countries should take steps to curtail inflow of foreign money. The problem is that rich countries have no clue as to what they should do having never faced such a situation before. For over a century rich countries have been growing by exploiting poor ones. The GATT round of trade talks allowed rich countries to subsidise their farmers and industries while forcing poor countries to open their markets causing devastation especially in Africa. They bought raw materials dirt cheap and sold finished products at exorbitant prices. This enabled European countries to spend lavishly on free healthcare, early retirement, enormous pensions, long maternity leaves and other benefits. No longer. With Asia, especially China, growing at a fast pace commodity prices have jumped denying rich countries cheap raw materials. Having learnt from the GATT rip off developing countries are refusing to be bludgeoned into signing the WTO accord. Cheap imports have decimated manufacturing industries in rich countries. To favor its exports China keeps its currency, the Yuan artificially low by buying US and EU securities. It has $ 2.5 trillion worth of foreign exchange. What happens when its reserves are more than the US GDP? Seems to me that the only way is to devalue the dollar and the Euro against the Yuan. This is what the IMF used to prescribe for poor countries. So will they swallow the bitter pill or will pride stop them until it is too late?

The World Bank President, Robert Zoellick thinks that near zero interest rates in developed countries is creating huge liquidity and money is flowing into developing economies creating asset price bubbles and increasing the value of their currencies. He thinks that these countries should take steps to curtail inflow of foreign money. The problem is that rich countries have no clue as to what they should do having never faced such a situation before. For over a century rich countries have been growing by exploiting poor ones. The GATT round of trade talks allowed rich countries to subsidise their farmers and industries while forcing poor countries to open their markets causing devastation especially in Africa. They bought raw materials dirt cheap and sold finished products at exorbitant prices. This enabled European countries to spend lavishly on free healthcare, early retirement, enormous pensions, long maternity leaves and other benefits. No longer. With Asia, especially China, growing at a fast pace commodity prices have jumped denying rich countries cheap raw materials. Having learnt from the GATT rip off developing countries are refusing to be bludgeoned into signing the WTO accord. Cheap imports have decimated manufacturing industries in rich countries. To favor its exports China keeps its currency, the Yuan artificially low by buying US and EU securities. It has $ 2.5 trillion worth of foreign exchange. What happens when its reserves are more than the US GDP? Seems to me that the only way is to devalue the dollar and the Euro against the Yuan. This is what the IMF used to prescribe for poor countries. So will they swallow the bitter pill or will pride stop them until it is too late?

India is red hot. Seems that $ 19.7 billion flooded into our share market this year raising the Sensex to over 20000 and the rupee to 45 to the dollar. Predictions are that India will grow at over 9.5% this year and the Foreign Institutional Investors are loving the growth story pouring money into Indian equities. Increased growth means people in some industries are going to get large pay hikes and bonuses boosting their spending which is showing the rising sales of cars and consumer durables. So high is the demand that there is a waiting list for popular models of cars because ancillary companies are unable to meet the demand for parts. Increased growth also means increased tax collections helping government spending. It cannot get rosier. Yet, the Commonwealth Games are going to cost Rs. 700 billion- 1 trillion which means all the money raised by the auction of 3G licenses has gone down the drain. That money was supposed to bring the fiscal deficit down from 6% to 4.5%. This means that the government has to borrow more putting upward pressure on interest rates. The strong rupee means lower exports but probably helps in keeping inflation lower by reducing imports costs. Inflation continues at around 11%, food inflation at 16% while property inflation maybe anywhere up to 25%. Controlling inflation requires raising interest rates which the government will not allow because it will slow growth rate and decrease tax collections. Of course, I am no economist and therefore do no understand anything about the economy. The good news is that no one else does either.

Past President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, who is skulking in London has admitted that Pakistan trained terrorists to fight against India in Kashmir. Apparently this was to force India into talks. How is he any different from Osama Bin Laden? Bin Laden has never been accused of directly killing or taking part in any terror attack but of financing and master minding Al Qaeda. For this he is being hunted and a reward has been placed on his head. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Omar Bashir of Sudan for his part in the killings in Darfour. Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhiyono cancelled a state visit to the Netherlands yesterday because he was afraid of being arrested for human rights abuses in his own country. Seems that activists were planning to go to court against him. Yet Musharraf can brazenly admit to facilitating terror attacks in India and not a single voice is raised for his arrest and trial. The reason is that Indian politicians are helping people like Musharraf to train and send terrorists into India. We are constantly told that India must continue to talk to Pakistan. Not only that, we allow Pakis to travel freely throughout the country, have a train service to Lahore and even allow them to make money in our film industry. Either the government is being run from Washington or the criminal politicians personally benefit from terror attacks. Note that there has been no incident between North and South Korea along the hundreds of miles of land border for 60 years because there is a high fence and the border is intensively mined. We open our borders to terrorists. Why?

Indian industrialist, Anand Mahindra, who is an alumnus of Harvard, has gifted $10 million in honor of his mother to the Humanities Center at Harvard University which will henceforth be known as Mahindra Humanities Center. Incidentally Harvard already has endowments of more than $ 30 billion thereby making it the richest university in the world and probably the most renowned because it can afford the best teachers in every subject. When there are so many super rich people of Indian origin why does no one donate to Indian universities? About 7 years back one man in US wanted to donate to one of the IITs that he had studied in but Mr. Murli Manohar Joshi, who was minister of something at that time, insisted that he had to channel the donation through the government. Knowing that criminal politicians and thieving civil servants would steal all the money the donor gave it to an American university. Three years back this Congress led government suddenly decided to open 7 new IITs without buildings, teaching staff or laboratories. In today's news we find that these so called IITs have less than one third the required number of teachers. Who would want to teach at IIT when the government refuses to increase the salaries of teachers while trebling the money paid to useless parasitic politicians. In its wisdom the Supreme Court cancelled the expulsion of failed students because they were reservation students and asked professors to give them extra tuition. Extra work for no money. Is it any wonder that there is no Indian university in a list of the top 150 in the world. When you are the dregs you like everyone to be the same.

The most expensive Commonwealth Games has started with the opening ceremony being held yesterday evening. Everything went off smoothly, which is a relief, but this being a Congress event it could not be perfect even after costing Rs. 700 billion. The coverage by Door Darshan was rubbish as usual. Commercial breaks carried on for 6 minutes at a time forcing a change of channels to Man City vs Newcastle. The mixed English and Hindi commentary is highly stupid and irritating. People who understand only one of the languages will miss half of what is being said. Hindi is completely unsuitable for sports because all the terms are in English anyway. The children painted hands on white sheets with henna from below which, being the Congress election symbol, is using public money for party political propaganda. The brazen indifference to public opinion in the Congress was exemplified by allowing Kalmadi, the most despised man in the country, to give the welcoming speech. The Indian contingent seemed to consist of hundreds of people. Who were all these people and what qualified them to parade with the athletes? With Milkha Singh complaining about not being invited were these the usual parasitic criminal politicians and thieving civil servants? Meanwhile the BJP says that the Congress has set up a copy cat website which directs visitors to its own website. Finally the taxpayer must not be made to pay for the corrupt, incompetent games. Instead Congress fellows, who are billionaires, must be made to pay every penny. Having said all that I wish the games are successful and pass off peacefully.

Tyler Clementi, a student at Rutgers University in New Jersey committed suicide by jumping off New York's George Washington bridge because two fellow students, Molly Wei and 18 year old Dharun Ravi, secretly video taped him having sex with a man and posted it on the internet. Molly Wei and Dharun Ravi have already been charged with invading the privacy of Clementi and may face more serious charges of bias according to the county prosecutor. This makes it a triple tragedy, not least because all three were supposedly good students with bright futures ahead of them. Now one is dead and the other two will be blighted for life. It was very wrong for the two to invade the privacy of this student and humiliate him by posting the incident on the internet. But why did Clementi commit suicide unless he thought he was doing wrong. After all sex pictures of many US celebrities are to be found on the net and they do not commit suicide. Despite the huge propaganda the fact remains that male homosexuality is abnormal. Female homosexuality does not exist because there is not penetration but between two males there is penetration of one person's anus by another. This is abnormal because the anus is not constructed for penetration and mainly because the rectum is full of hundreds of species of bacteria, some of them very virulent. In gram negative septicaemia a patient is killed by the invasion of his blood stream by bacteria from his own gut. This is not about religion, morality or legal rights. It is about anatomy. Would any man smear his organ with human excrement? If not, why would anyone insert his organ into the rectum?

Natural calamities are god send in India. If any state has drought, floods or landslide the state government immediately demands billions of rupees in assistance from the central government. That is bonanza time for criminal politicians and thieving civil servants who rake in the moolah. Most of the cash is divided between the looters and the people are given token amounts. This year's heavy monsoon rains mean that Uttarakhand and UP had floods while Bengal initially had drought but has good rainfall now. Bengal has already demanded assistance from the center. Uttarakhand initially demanded Rs. 50 billion but has now upped it to Rs. 210 billion. This is a small hill state carved out of UP where the people are dirt poor but property prices are red hot. A six hundred sq. foot shop recently sold for Rs. 12.5 million which is more than Rs. 20000 per sq. foot. This is because this is arguably the most corrupt state in India. Everyone seems to be on the take and any two bit politician or civil servant has an official car with siren, flashing lights and police escort armed with AK47. Roads break up after one shower, electricity distribution is erratic because of poor equipment and the land mafia is building on public land without restraint. The previous chief minister was a disaster. He insisted on proper quality and tried to stop land grabbers. Contractors, builders and property dealers were up in arms and he was forced to step down. Now everyone is happy. Property prices are rocketing reflecting the amount of black money and will go up further if the center transfers funds. Floods and landslides mean huge profits. Diwali will indeed be enjoyable.

Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka is following the well traveled route to becoming a dictator. Son of a politician, he was elected president in 2005 and reelected this year with a huge majority after annihilating the LTTE, a militant Tamil unit fighting for independence. The LTTE was a nasty organisation which terrorised Tamils more than its enemies. Rajapaksa became president promising to wipe out the LTTE permanently which he did with the help of General Fonseca who was the army chief. They did it with ruthless ferocity killing thousands innocent civilians, killing unarmed surrendering fighters and indiscriminately bombing anywhere they suspected fighters to be without regard for civilian casualties. Naturally the two allies fell out and Rajapaksa was reelected against Fonseca. He has now set out to discredit Fonseca and exact revenge by stripping him of his rank and medals and now by getting him sent to jail for 30 months. In the meantime he has changed the constitution to allow him to stand for President as many times as he likes. He knows that as long as he remains president he can stop any investigation into his role as a war criminal and persecute any witness. In this he is assisted by his three brothers who hold important portfolios. From now on he must do whatever it takes to stay in power including killing opponents and rigging elections. However, he must remember that he cannot kill everyone and victims have long memories. He can rest assured that his time will come unless he can cheat his accusers by dying first as Pol Pot did. The route of dictators is well documented as is their fate. He should do some reading.

How does a man become a tyrant capable of keeping an population under total control for decades? Intelligence combined with street cunning, complete ruthlessness capable of blowing his own son if suspected of treachery, complete indifference to deaths of thousands or millions, complete absence of conscience, the ability to tell any lie to suit circumstances or a forceful personality capable of dominating even inspiring others to do their bidding? Maybe all of these but I feel the most important tribute a tyrant must have is to be able to read people and know which ones are weak ready to be dominated. How did Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot engineer the death of millions and still were able to carry on without challenge? They did not kill anyone personally yet were able to create conditions where people turned into monsters happy to inform on, torture and kill friends, neighbors and relatives. They always had assistants to accept their orders without question and force others to carry them out. The circus in North Korea could inspire a series of comedy movies like the ' Carry On ' series if it were not for the fact that millions of children are starving and malnourished and will never achieve full potential. A whole generation of children wasted. How can anyone style himself a ' Great Leader ' or a ' Dear Leader?' You have to have complete absence of any sense of humor to walk around with a moniker like that. Surprisingly India is not far behind. You cannot make fun of any of our politicians. Their goons will beat you up or kill you. So how are we still hanging on? Perhaps we have so many tyrants that they cancel each other out. Adam Smith's hand?

The verdict on the mosque in Ayodhya has been postponed to September 30 and Muslims are looking forward to it. Why shouldn't they? With anti Hindu Congress in power at the centre Muslims expect to win. Yet there should really be no debate. Hinduism has been around for over 5 thousand years while Islam is only some 1430 years old. Islam is an Arabic religion as the scriptures are in Arabic and may not be translated. It was brought here as an instrument of occupation and used to try and destroy Hinduism. Before the arrival of Babar all of India would have been Hindu with pockets of Buddhism therefore all mosques and churches are symbols of conquerers on Hindu land. While Muslims claim Makkah and Medinah as holy cities where no non Muslims may enter they have desecrated and built mosques on the holy places of other religions which they managed to conquer. Thus we have mosques in the holy cities of Benaras, Haridwar and Mathura while the most holy Jewish temple at the Dome of the Rock at Jerusalem has the Al Aqsa mosque. Yet Muslims have very successfully claimed the status of victims. However even as the Congress is aggressively anti Hindu it is the BJP and its allies which are doing the maximum damage to Hindus in today's India. It is stupid to focus on an old mosque when there are thousands of mosques in India and more are being built everyday. They should focus on the bigger picture which is the rapidly expanding numbers of muslims, the financing of terrorists by middle east countries and uncontrolled infiltration by Bangladeshis. By diverting attention from from the real dangers the BJP is killing Hinduism and Hindus.

That the criminal politicians of India have no sharam and no izzat is established but they should watch their mouths when speaking to or about foreigners because they are seen to represent the opinion of the Indian public which they do not. The CEO of the Commonwealth Games apparently commented about the ' population hazard ' of Delhi which was found to be ' unkind and undiplomatic ' by the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dixit. Born and brought up in this country, even I find the ever exploding population stressful and dehumanising. There is not a spot in India which is not teeming with people, usually the dirty, noisy, impolite variety. There is no spot of natural beauty left. There is nowhere a young couple could go and sit in silence and solitude. The whole country is an outdoor toilet. The environment is being degraded rapidly. Trees are cut down, dry river beds taken over for construction, animals poached for their skins or body parts, beggars hanging around everywhere, increasing theft and other crimes, all because they are poor and need to survive. Yet they go on producing with no thought of how they are going to feed, clothe or educate their children. And they are aggressive with it. They will come for treatment without money, argue about the cost of medicines and threaten or beat up doctors if they think that the patient is not getting better. In this they are constantly being encouraged by criminal politicians who refer to them as ' vote bank.' So, Ms Dixit you should can it. I find the population not only a hazard but disgusting and an affront to me as a human being.

After battering Japan China has decided to take on the US. A Chinese fishing boat was challenged by Japanese coast guards in disputed waters. Such is the arrogance of even fishermen that the captain of the Chinese fishing vessel deliberately rammed and damaged two Japanese coast guard vessels. The fishing boat was detained and the crew arrested. China mounted a ferocious assault on Japan cancelling diplomatic contacts, summoned the Japanese ambassador six times and eventually arrested four Japanese citizens in China on trumped up charges of photographing military camp. Eventually Japan gave way and released the criminal captain of the fishing boat. However the Chinese are now demanding unconditional apology and compensation. Meanwhile the US Congress has decided to vote on whether to declare China a currency manipulator because China deliberately under values the yuan to increase its exports but continues to insist that it has a right to distort global trade harming other countries because it is its sovereign right. Even before the US Congress has voted on the proposal China has decided to retaliate by levying anti dumping duties up to 150% on US chicken. Earlier China arrested four Australians on trumped charges of industrial espionage because a Chinese firm was not allowed to take over Rio Tinto, an Australian mining company. The Chinese are an uncivilised barbaric people ruled by bunch of thugs as proved by its friendship with Khmer Rouge, Zimbabwe, Burma, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and every other despotic regime. The world must unite to stop China now. Any delay will only increase the pain.

Lots of hot air at the conference on Millennium Development goals but not one single person spoke the truth behind the miserable conditions of the world poor. There was the usual moaning about the rich countries not keeping their word on providing more aid, corruption in poor countries which prevented aid reaching the poor, climate change, sexual abuse of women, regional conflict where women and children are easy targets, blah, blah, blah. All stuff we have been hearing about for decades and is an opportunity for some people to fly off to some foreign city and have nice expenses paid holiday. Meanwhile there was an emergency meeting in Rome to discuss the rising prices of cereals which are staple food for the world's poor. The conclusion was that there is no shortage of food in the world because of bumper crops in the US and, possibly, Australia and speculators were blamed for the rise in prices. Niger in Africa is in the grip of devastating famine. Officials in Pakistan are saying that the country's growth will decline from 4.5% to 2.5% and it will take many years to recover from the recent floods. What binds all these disparate items of news? It is uncontrolled population growth. While the rich and educated people are cutting down on children the poor keep on breeding without control. Unless leaders are honest and confront the truth there can never be any reduction in poverty and the ills it brings. Some religions encourage fertility and some point to countries like Japan which has a problem with an aging population. Unless aid is tied to less birth rate nothing will change. First people have to have courage to confront the truth.

Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman, Ijaz Butt looks totally bewildered at the furious reaction of English cricket players whom he accused of being paid to lose a match. After all for decades Pakis have been raking in billions of dollars in aid from the west by pretending to help them while using the same money to help the Taliban to kill NATO soldiers. Why such song and dance for honor? Here, one fellow is being lampooned for saying that Indians have a different view of hygiene compared to foreigners. What he meant was that over 600 million Indians crap out in the open and have never seen a western style toilet. Having no idea what the the pot was for they just crapped on the floor. Fellow was just trying to be polite and avoid the word ' crap.' Then there was the comment that no athlete or VIP was going to use the footbridge that collapsed so it was no big deal. What it meant that since no ordinary person is going to attend the games and criminal beggars with passes will use other gates the footbridge was unlikely to be used. It was built to inflate the bill and make some extra money. As for the 23 laborers that were hurt, 5 seriously, they were lying in hospital in proper beds and being given free food. A relaxing holiday they could not afford. Plus the court has ordered each of them to be paid Rs. 300,000, a fortune they could never dream of. Of course, they will never see the full amount because thieving civil servants will want their cuts but, hey, this is easy money which they never worked for. Shows how wide the gap is between east and west. Iran is in the middle so no one understood when Ahmadinejad said that the US arranged 9/11.

It has been a combination shameless greed and incompetence. The athletes village has probably been well constructed because the plan is for the flats to be sold off for between Rs. 3 and 10 million each but some idiot got them built on the flood plains close to the river. This is what happens when the entire government consists of criminals and third raters. As is usual, no money is spent on the welfare of the laborers who are seen as disposable. They must have been living in flimsy shelters built with sticks and pieces of tarpaulin so when the rains and floods came they must have moved into the finished flats to survive. These people have never seen bathrooms and so must have defaecated on the floor which is what disgusted the foreigners. As for the stadiums, these will lie unused once the games are over because no one in Delhi is interested in sports. One day and T20 cricket matches draw in the hooligans with little understanding of the game but test matches draw just a scattering of spectators. Unlike in Australia, where even a school game will probably attract a full house. Probably, to save money, the stadiums were constructed with cheap material to last for two weeks after which no one would care if they fell down. This was exposed by the unusually heavy rains which washed away the flimsy structures. The Congress will be desperate to hold something so that they can lie their way out of it with endless investigations and commissions of enquiry. To save further taxpayer money the games should be cancelled. With nothing to bomb the terrorists will be frustrated. At least something to smile about.

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.