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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the past few days WikiLeaks has published over 90000 secret documents regarding the war in Afghanistan conveniently covering the years from 2002 to 2009 when Bush was in charge. Bush is widely regarded to be intellectually challenged while Mr. Obama is reckoned to be very intelligent. It seems a tad surprising that so many secret Pentagon documents regarding an ongoing war can be so easily revealed without a huge hue and cry when we just seen the farce surrounding the so called Russian spies. Disinformation has always been a legitimate instrument in wars and Obama is fighting on many fronts. There are the midterm polls in November widely believed to be for the Republicans to win. There is the commitment to get out of Afghanistan starting next year. There is Iran which is racing ahead with its program to build nuclear weapons. Although 90000 seems to be an awfully large number it must be only a fraction of reports generated over 8 years. So have these documents been selectively ' leaked ' and if so why? To put pressure on the Republicans by showing that it was George Bush who lost the war against the Taliban? To prepare the ground for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan? To prepare for a strike on Iran? How they are going to react against the ISI and Pakistan, who are clearly implicated in supplying arms and training to the Taliban, is unclear. Only a few days back Hillary Clinton was in that country promising more aid. Possibly Obama has marginalised her and the State Department and is playing a deep game. However, he must remember that these are mad dogs and you can never predict what they will do. Is he being too clever?

Amit Shah, who resigned from his post as a minister in the BJP government in Gujarat, was arrested yesterday for the killing of one Sohrabuddin by the police in an allegedly fake encounter. Apart from the fact that he is Hindu while the dead man was from the so called ' Minority ' community it is difficult to understand why the Congress is so keen to go after him. When Sukhram is free, Sajjan Kumar is enjoying life, Manu Sharma got parole to attend nightclubs and Andersen was escorted out of the country as a VIP why is the Congress so keen on the death of one man. This is the same Congress that goes to Pakistan ' on bended knees ' and is sent back with a sandal across the face just 18 months after the Mumbai massacre. The truth is in the Congress admission that now they will go for Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat. As the most successful syndicate in the world the Congress hates Modi because he is relatively honest and has engineered a remarkable economic growth in Gujarat while next door Maharashtra is bankrupt and farmers keep committing suicide and the central government is seen to be protecting thieves and dross. But why is the BJP not defending one of its own more vigorously? It is because the states controlled by the BJP are equally corrupt and Modi is proving to be an embarrassment. When Gen Khanduri demanded strict honesty in Uttarakhand property dealers, contractors and civil servants revolted so BJP asked him to step down. Modi, on the other hand, has a very strong base in Gujarat and cannot be shifted easily. All politicians in the world are corrupt but have some sharam and izzat. Not the ones in India.

Amit Shah, who resigned from his post as a minister in the BJP government in Gujarat, was arrested yesterday for the killing of one Sohrabuddin by the police in an allegedly fake encounter. Apart from the fact that he is Hindu while the dead man was from the so called ' Minority ' community it is difficult to understand why the Congress is so keen to go after him. When Sukhram is free, Sajjan Kumar is enjoying life, Manu Sharma got parole to attend nightclubs and Andersen was escorted out of the country as a VIP why is the Congress so keen on the death of one man. This is the same Congress that goes to Pakistan ' on bended knees ' and is sent back with a sandal across the face just 18 months after the Mumbai massacre. The truth is in the Congress admission that now they will go for Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat. As the most successful syndicate in the world the Congress hates Modi because he is relatively honest and has engineered a remarkable economic growth in Gujarat while next door Maharashtra is bankrupt and farmers keep committing suicide and the central government is seen to be protecting thieves and dross. But why is the BJP not defending one of its own more vigorously? It is because the states controlled by the BJP are equally corrupt and Modi is proving to be an embarrassment. When Gen Khanduri demanded strict honesty in Uttarakhand property dealers, contractors and civil servants revolted so BJP asked him to step down. Modi, on the other hand, has a very strong base in Gujarat and cannot be shifted easily. All politicians in the world are corrupt but have some sharam and izzat. Not the ones in India.

After a two year investigation The Washington Post has published a series of articles under the heading of ' Top Secret America.' In this they have exposed how the intelligence services in the US have expanded by more than 60% since 9/11 so that it has become too huge to be effective. A lot of intelligence work is outsourced to private companies who are making vast amounts of money. There are 1271 government agencies and 1931 private companies in 10000 locations across the US employing 854000 people of which 265000 are contractors. This behemoth generates so much intelligence that analysts filed 50000 reports last year which, naturally, no one had time to read. This is why they failed to pick up Al Mutallab, the underwear bomber, even though intelligence coming out of Yemen indicated that a man was being trained for a suicide attack and his own father reported the strange behavior of his son and his fears that his son had turned into a terrorist. Criminal Indian politicians and useless civil servants will be delighted with this report. Now they can claim that if the mighty US can be so sloppy how can we expect any better from our lot. Of course they missed out on Kargil and Mumbai and Best Bakery and Headley and Naxals and Bangladeshis and on and on but, hey, the US missed Al Mutallab and Hassan. Also we have over a billion people with millions of Bangladeshis flooding in everyday so who cares if a few hundred or a few thousand or a few million die. Just as over 60 people died in the Sinthia train accident while the Railways Minister was playing in Bengal. Shit happens. In India it happens everyday.

Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has broken off diplomatic relations with Columbia giving the Columbian ambassador just 72 hours to get out of Caracas. The reason? Columbia produced evidence of Venezuela sheltering left wing Farc guerrillas on its territory and giving them material help. Chavez has forcibly taken over 20% of the opposition television station and has appointed a director on its board because he does not want the people to know of his extremely corrupt misrule. Abhisit Vejjajiva, who was never elected Prime Minister of Thailand, ordered the army to shoot Red Shirt protesters to death. Educated in Eton and Oxford you can see the utter lack of comprehension on his face when asked about grievances of the poor people. He is suffering from the ' let them eat cake ' disease and thinks mass murder is justified maybe because, being extremely wealthy, he has come to believe that the poor are disposable. North Korea is threatening to use nuclear weapons against joint exercises by US and South Korean forces. This demented regime is clinging on to power despite its population slowly dying of malnutrition. It is hard to imagine the suffering of people as they watch their children crying of hunger and slowly dying without food. Some try to escape to China and thence to the south but most are trapped. In Greece, Spain, Ireland, Iceland governments presided of huge asset bubbles fueled by easy debt and are now asking the people to bear the consequences. No matter what the political system those in power seem able to do whatever they like. We, the people do not matter.

Racketeering, prostitution, drug smuggling, money laundering, gambling syndicates, teenage gangs are crimes that other countries fight against. All this is child's play compared to the political gangs in India who control all criminal activities and the police as well. Qadir Rana, a MP of BSP party, is a director of Rana Steels which was found to be stealing power during a raid in Muzzafarnagar. Not surprisingly BSP has strongly denied this. Abdul Qayyum Sahikh who was deported from Dubai for the murder of Gulshan Kumar walked free because of lack of evidence. Avinash Bhosale, a builder based in Pune, was allowed to buy a 12 acre government owned plot in Navi Mumbai for just Rs. 10 million and sold off half the property half the property after a month for Rs. 2.75 billion. Wildlife activist, Amit Jethwa was shot dead outside Gujarat High Court couple of days ago. His dad has openly blamed BJP MP, Dinu Solanki because Jethwa was investigating his illegal mining activities. The Supreme Court says that 99% of private and government colleges do not have adequate infrastructure. ' They are just like shops fleecing money from the students and not bothering about their future.' Needless to say politicians control government colleges and many are owners of private ones. Railway Minister, Mamata Bannerjee, was electioneering in Kolkata while cremations of more than 60 people killed in the Sinthia train accidents were starting. She has alleged opponents of engineering the accident to win the coming state assembly elections. These are just today's news. Forget Enron, Cosa Nostra, Columbian drugs gangs. Politicians in India are the KINGS of crime in the whole world. And they control the police.

Two members of the disgraced French football team, Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema, are being investigated for having paid sex with a 17 year old girl in April 2009. In France paying a girl under the age of 18 years for sex is considered as having sex with a minor. The girl denies being a prostitute but admits to having been paid for providing sex. Apparently Ribery invited her to Munich on his 26th birthday. Ribery's lawyer claims that she had told them that she was twenty years old. Today's teenagers look bigger and more mature than, say, twenty years ago and no one asks a prostitute for a birth certificate anyway so there might be something in Ribery's defence. Whatever be the truth of the matter it is shocking that child had taken to prostitution. If she is a minor according to French law then who was responsible for her? Why was she not protected by her parents? How could she travel unaccompanied out of the country even though there is no border restriction between France and Germany under the Schengen rules? In the developing world children are abducted or sold into prostitution by destitute parents. Western pedophiles come to Asia for sex tourism and the internet is said to be full of children being sexually assaulted. However even in the so called advanced countries children are not safe. Television commercials, the glorification of sex in the news media and the laxity of parental control are leading to a loss of childhood which is a crime against children. The joy of childhood is in its innocence. By taking the most joyful time of life away from our children we may be responsible for all the crime and violence that we face.

Couple of days back an express train travelling at over 90 kmph hit the back of another standing at Sainthia station in West Bengal with such force that one of the carriages was catapulted on to an overhead walkway. More than 60 people died. The runaway train had made a perfect if unscheduled stop at the previous station only some 8 km before. The experienced driver and his assistant were found dead sitting in their respective positions and had made no attempt to slow the train down or apply brakes. The train is said to have been going at 90 kmph on a 30 kmph stretch and had jumped several red signals. One theory is that both drivers had been drugged at at the previous station, the throttle had been opened fully and the assailants jumped out as the train started to gather momentum. Criminals would not carry out such an act of wanton destruction with no gain. Naxals usually blow up tracks leading to derailment. The railway minister hints at political sabotage. So could politicians carry out mass murder to win the state elections? The frightening fact is that it is entirely possible. Indian politicians exceed the mafia, drug cartels and corrupt businessmen in criminality. Winning an election, even at state level, gives control of trillions of rupees and the power to use it for personal pleasure. Whereas all other criminals are viewed as enemies of society and have to stay in fear of the police politicians actually control the police and hence are completely above the law as case after case has proved. Even if one is caught redhanded it takes years for the case to get to court and by the time the case is heard evidence has disappeared, witnesses have been threatened into silence and investigators have been transferred or have retired. Sajjan Kumar, Pappu Yadav, Reddy brothers, different gangs but brothers in crime. The entire Indian state is a criminal enterprise. Incredible India.

Another decade of Congress terror and their will be no Hindu left in India. In a case called the Malegaon blasts case Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and seven others have been charged under something called MCOCA which are draconian laws under which only Hindus are charged for so called ' terrorism ' against so called ' Minorities.' No matter that the said Minorities are breeding like rats and are probably equal or more in number. No matter that holy places like Haridwar and Rishikesh are being flooded by Minorities who are buying up expensive properties and by Bangladeshis pouring in in their hundreds of thousands. Hindus are to be denied bail but the Best Bakery accused walks free because he is a Minority. Perhaps the most terror attacks against Indians is by the state. Rathore used the police force, paid for by the taxpayers for their own protection, to hound a teenage girl, that he had molested, to suicide. He has been sentenced to a derisory 18 months in jail but is still fighting.Manu Sharma, who murdered Jessica Lal for a drink, was allowed out on parole to enjoy in nightclubs. Sukhram is still out on bail 25 years after being caught redhanded with stolen money. Billions of rupees were spent by the CBI for enjoyable trips abroad but Quattrochi remains free. Andersen was escorted out of the country like a VIP after the biggest mass murder this country has seen. Pappu Yadav is absconding after being granted bail. Known criminals are given tickets to stand for parliament because they have the money and gang power to win. When in the middle east I was repeatedly told by Arabs that India will become a Muslim country by 2030. With Congress help it will surely come to pass.

Talk to anyone living in Delhi and they will moan about the endless torture they have been enduring in the name of the useless Commonwealth Games. Those who can aford it are making plans to leave the city during the entire period of the games while taxi and auto drivers say they will not go anywhere near the stadiums. The strange thing is that no one protests. In any other country there would have been street protests against the callous way in which roads have been dug up and the savage increase in taxes. But not here. For centuries the people of Delhi have been complicit in crimes committed against the country. Any warlord that invaded India, from Tughlak to Babar to the British based their capitals in Delhi because they found a population willing to help in the subjugation of the rest of India for a share of the spoils. In all the countries that I have visited, including the barbaric middle east, I have never seen a people so ready to tell lies and to indulge in criminal activities to make money. In other countries young people are rebels willing to challenge the authorities for ideals. Not here. Here the college going boys and girls are shallow and mindless. Their days are spent in hanging around in coffee shops or shopping malls engaged in useless banter or chatting on brain destroying cell phones. Flush with cash which come from the black money earned by their parents they think nothing of buying a pair of jeans for a few thousand rupees only because some stupid actress wears the same brand. They neither know nor think nor care about the country, its people or the destruction being wrought by criminal politicians and thieving civil servants. After all their parents are of the same ilk and their spending money comes from loot. Thus Delhi has been and still is the city of betrayal.

The taxi driver was of the opinion that they will never finish on time. He meant all the infrastructure work going on in Delhi for the most useless Commonwealth Games to be held in two months time. Already some leading athletes, such Usain Bolt, have said they will not be competing. Others will cancel if there is the slightest terrorist attack anywhere in India just before the games. Meanwhile the same work has been done more than once and yet the results look shoddy. Roads have been laid and relaid and still they are wavy. The dividers look crooked. Perfectly straight lampposts were uprooted and new ones erected leaning drunkenly to one side. Everything is decided on whim. Now suddenly it has been decided that overhead electric cables should be buried underground. Hugely crowded shopping areas like Karol Bagh and Connaught Place have been dug up resulting in total traffic chaos. Shopkeepers are making huge losses as customers stay away. Taxpayers money is being wasted on an unprecedented scale as taxes are being raised on everything from petrol to beer. So where is all this money going? Obviously criminal politicians, thieving civil servants and their friendly contractors have made tens of billions in cash. What is the evidence that these bandits are looting like never before? It is in the 600% rise in prices of property since 2002. In India half the price of any property is paid in cash and this the best hiding place for criminal loot. Once the useless games are over roads will develop potholes, car parks will break and eletric cables will probably be dug up again. What about the people of Delhi who will have suffered endless inconveniences and loss of money? They can go to hell. After all Delhi also has a Congress government.

Why does the Congress want to destroy India? Time after time they have betrayed the people and the brave soldiers of India by converting victories against Pakistan into total surrender. Starting with Nehru who would not give General Cariappa 24 hours to rid Kashmir of infiltrators to Lal Bahadur Shastri and Tashkent to Indira Gandhi and Shimla talks to Rajiv Gandhi who would not allow refuelling for Israeli jets to strike Pakistan's nuclear reactors. Now the government has been hit across the face with a filthy Pakistani chappal when the Foreign Minister was insulted and taunted by Paki Foreign Minister. Following this humiliation a unnamed source has said that India did not have the ' luxury of not talking to its neighbours.' Sorry, but you do not talk to rabid dogs. You just shoot the bastards. Since first of January this year a Congress licking newspaper has been running full page ads called ' Aman ki Asha ' in which it was advocating building up loving relationships with Pakistanis with a view to a full relationship with the government. This lying rag was glowing in its list of benefits to India. Was it building up to a sell out of the country by the Congress as in the past? Thank God the Pakis are rabid dogs frothing with hatred and they have sent the Forign Minister packing with a kick on a soft spot. This just a year after the attacks on Mumbai. You do not get peace by being craven foot licking cowards and by betraying the brave soldiers who have sacrificed their lives time after time. You get peace by killing ten dogs for everyone Indian killed. You get peace when they respect and fear you. It is not our enemies who are the greatest threat to this country. It is our criminal politicians and the thieving civil servants.

Coming to Delhi by train I see this woman lying on the filthy floor of the station concourse. She did not look like a beggar woman but like someone waiting for a late train. Naturally she was dirty. By her side in the dirt lay five dirty children, obviously comfortable with their mother. The government has decided to bring in a law that will make it a criminal offence for parents to hit their children. Children will be allowed to take their parents to court for cruelty as in the US. For a first offence the punishment will be a fine of Rs. 5000 and prison for one year and for a second offence a fine of Rs. 25000 and prison for up to 3 years. Very laudable. Sadly India is the world leader in crimes against children. It is a crime to give birth to children when you cannot give them quality food, clothing and shelter. It is a crime not to give them quality education. It is a crime to send little children out to work to enjoy their income. It is a crime to abort girls fetuses. It is a crime to sell daughters to pimps for some extra money. It is a crime to marry off girls as little as five years old. It is a crime to deny medical care to children in pain because of reluctance to spend drink money. All these crimes and more against children are happening every minute in India quite openly but the criminal politicians choose to ignore them because they want legions of illiterate undernourished humanoids who will vote for them for cheap rice or a cheap sari at taxpayers' expense. Cruelty to vulnerable innocent children in any form is abhorrent so it must be wiped out. To do that we have to give children the very basic right NOT to be born. Sadly this bill is intended to punish only the middle class because the Congress hates and fears the educated middle class. That is why it has launched a campaign of punitive taxes and vindictive laws to take us back to 1950-1990 when the Congress controlled every aspect of daily life. Keep the people poor and illiterate and they will bow to the ground for a kilo of rotting rice. The Congress desperately wants such control.

Coming to Delhi by train I see this woman lying on the filthy floor of the station concourse. She did not look like a beggar woman but like someone waiting for a late train. Naturally she was dirty. By her side in the dirt lay five dirty children, obviously comfortable with their mother. The government has decided to bring in a law that will make it a criminal offence for parents to hit their children. Children will be allowed to take their parents to court for cruelty as in the US. For a first offence the punishment will be a fine of Rs. 5000 and prison for one year and for a second offence a fine of Rs. 25000 and prison for up to 3 years. Very laudable. Sadly India is the world leader in crimes against children. It is a crime to give birth to children when you cannot give them quality food, clothing and shelter. It is a crime not to give them quality education. It is a crime to send little children out to work to enjoy their income. It is a crime to abort girls fetuses. It is a crime to sell daughters to pimps for some extra money. It is a crime to marry off girls as little as five years old. It is a crime to deny medical care to children in pain because of reluctance to spend drink money. All these crimes and more against children are happening every minute in India quite openly but the criminal politicians choose to ignore them because they want legions of illiterate undernourished humanoids who will vote for them for cheap rice or a cheap sari at taxpayers' expense. Cruelty to vulnerable innocent children in any form is abhorrent so it must be wiped out. To do that we have to give children the very basic right NOT to be born. Sadly this bill is intended to punish only the middle class because the Congress hates and fears the educated middle class. That is why it has launched a campaign of punitive taxes and vindictive laws to take us back to 1950-1990 when the Congress controlled every aspect of daily life. Keep the people poor and illiterate and they will bow to the ground for a kilo of rotting rice. The Congress desperately wants such control.

Seems that senior BJP leader Mr. LK Advani met the most revered Finance Minister, Mr. Mukherjee last week and wanted the Congress to introduce a bill mandating fixed terms for the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. He offered full support of the opposition if such a bill is introduced. This is terrifying. If both government and opposition gangs of politicians are united behind such a proposition then it has to be suicidal for the country. If you have different gangs wanting power so that they are free to loot the people then you expect them to be fighting each other like street dogs in a garbage dump. If they are suddenly getting all lovey dovey and cooperative then that has to be the worst news any Indian wants to hear. As an Indian citizen I would like my opinion to be taken into account. 1. There should be a referendum on the subject and people like us should be allowed to address the public. 2. If there is to be fixed terms so that a bunch of scoundrels is entrenched for a number of years then there should be fixed terms for all elected criminals. This will mean that anyone can be an MP or an MLA for only two terms and no more. 3. We must have citizens corporations without any criminal politician or thieving civil servant to protect the interest of the people. 4. At every elections there will be a question on the performance of the previous government and if the people give poor marks the previous politicians will be forced to return every paisa spent on his or her expense. 5. We must have a district attorney system to investigate crimes properly. Police and CBI must be independent. Will words stop the criminals? Who knows?

After the great Russian spy swap farce we now have a real puzzle. Fellow called Shahram Amiri who was a researcher at Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation went missing in June 2009 while on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Now a fellow of the same name has surfaced in the Pakistani Embassy in the US claiming to have been kidnapped and wanting to go home. The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has said that he had been visiting the US voluntarily and is free to go back to Iran. In between there have been videos showing Amiri lookalikes claiming that he had been kidnapped by US agents and tortured, that he was studying in the US of his own accord and a third one in which claims to have escaped US custody and was in hiding. News reports claim that he has given extensive information about Iran's nuclear program. Many interesting theories come to mind. 1. It may be that he was indeed kidnapped and given a taste of water boarding. 2. He may have defected to the US and then has been forced to change his mind to protect his family. As Iranian he will be acutely aware of what the regime does to its opponents. This very Islamic Republic condemns women to death by stoning for adultery on very flimsy evidence and Ahmadinejad denied there is homosexuality in Iran but uses rape, both straight and homosexual, for punishing opponents. So Amiri might be wanting to return to save his family. 3. It is also possible that he was sent by Iran to feed wrong information to the Americans like Ahmed Chalabi did to get the US to kill Saddam Hussein who was feared and hated by Iran. Perhaps whether he lives or dies in Iran may give us a clue.

It is the time of the year to file tax returns. To avoid any hassle you pay an accountant to file it properly for you and pay whatever additional tax he thinks you should. Naturally you pay him. Not enough. You have to pay service tax on his bill which means that you are paying tax to pay tax. How did this perversion come about? Since the Congress came to power it has made it its mission to suck the blood of all Indians. Now they have levied service tax on the rent retailers pay for their shops. Rent is an expense and the owner of the property has to pay income tax on the rent he gets. So this is clearly double taxation. During the dispute between the Ambani brothers the government said that oil and gas belongs to the government. Not to the people but to the government. That is gas under the ground. What about gas above the ground? Does the air belong to this bandit government as well? Why not tax the oxygen we breathe? In this plethora of service taxes the government is missing out on the most obvious ones. Breast feeding is the most important service in all our lives. Levy a service tax on each child to be paid by the parents or when the child grows up. Also a service tax on looking after old parents because that is very hard work. Cremating a dead body is definitely a service so 12.5% on cremation except for those with BPL cards. If we pray to God and he grants our boon than that is most definitely a service so a service tax on God as well. Who needs criminals when the state is engaged in brutal extortion and exploitation that not even the Moghuls and the British dared to inflict on us. Dangerous parasites.

Final thoughts on the shameful football World Cup. 1. The Jabulani ball was a disaster. Barely half a dozen goals were scored directly from free kicks. Top players kept shooting way up into the sky. 2. The standard of refereeing was absolutely rock bottom. The Dutch thugs were beating up opponents and feigning injury since the beginning, especially against Japan, Brazil and Spain, yet not one player was sent off until the second half of extra time yesterday that is after 650 minutes of football. This English ref, Harold Webb seems to see less than a person with mature cataracts in both eyes. He was single handedly instrumental in the Swiss victory over Spain when he refused to show yellow cards despite persistent foul play by the Swiss cynically upending any Spanish player who had the ball. Yesterday De Jong should have been shown a straight red for going in with his studs into the chest of Xabi Alonso but he got only a yellow. Seems that every effort was made to make it third time lucky for the Netherlands but Spain just managed to hang on. FIFA is an autonomous body making enormous amounts of money from fans of football all over the world. Football is a people's game played by legions of poor all over the world. It is time that FIFA is seriously investigated and controls exercised over it. Perhaps it could be put under the control of UNESCO so that the money could be invested in education. 3. Del Bosque was the coach of Real Madrid where he won the Serie A and Champions League several times. Yet he was thrown out for no obvious reason since when Real have not won anything. Yesterday he won the World Cup and showed how stupid Real were.

India is probably among a very small group of countries where the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI has to seek permission to arrest a thieving civil servant. The CBI wants to proceed against fellow called SI Patel of the National Highway Authority or NHAI for awarding road building contracts to certain private contracts. The NHAI wants to see attested copies of documents seized by the CBI before deciding whether permission will be given to CBI for proceeding with the case. As is usual, Patel is not the only one in CBI radar. He was probably sharing the loot with several others for protection which is now being provided by his colleagues. When the has inbuilt protection for thieves is it any wonder that virtually all civil servants are filthy crooks? However, does a similar law grant such protection to innocent citizens? Absolutely not. How can you protect criminals if citizens were protected by the police? One Mr. SM Varghese filed a complaint against a company, Jay Polyester alleging money laundering, circular trading in diamonds and other financial irregularities. You would think that a country suffering regular terrorist attacks would value such a whistle blower and reward him but no. Punjab Police are after Mr. Varghese who has fled to Singapore. Punjab Police actually went to Kochi, Kerala to arrest Mr. Varghese's elderly mother who obtained bail from Kerala High Court and is now hiding in fear. The police then went to Mumbai and picked up an acquaintance, who suffers from HIV, took him to Punjab and tortured him. When the government is the worst enemy of the people what can people do except fight back. Hence the Naxals.

Probably to relieve the stress caused by the recession, obstinate unemployment and the massive oil spill the US government treated us to a great farce called the ' great spy exchange.' Ten people of Russian origin were arrested for spying on the US for many years. Most of these people lived in nice suburbs, owned homes, had jobs and even had children born in the US. The charge was that they were exchanging coded messages written in secret ink using drop boxes. Something out of a 40 year old John le Carre novel. Messages such as, ' Did you meet the terminator in California? No, the elephant's bum is bigger.' These people were probably illegal immigrants living comfortably without permit. They were rounded up and used as hostages to free four real spies from Russia who were all Russians, three were in Russian secret services and one a scientist. None of the ten wanted to leave the US but were threatened into confession because of their illegal status and then thrown out. Truth is that the country which is really spying on the US is China. Even US government officials say that China has large numbers of spies in the US, most engaged in stealing industrial secrets. One fellow was passing secrets from the top secret nuclear research lab at Los Alamos. China has no respect for US patents and intellectual property rights allowing citizens to pirate movies, music and software and to sell fakes of every known luxury brand. Yet the US dares not flex its muscle with China because China has accumulated $ 2 trillion and continues to buy US securities. Without Chinese support the dollar would sink without trace. To see the mighty US cowering in fear!

Seems that a company based in California, USA called Control Component Inc which makes valves has been bribing government owned companies in India. Among them BHEL, NTPC, Bhilai Electric and Mahrashtra and Haryana State Electricity Boards. What the freeloading press is trying to hide is that you cannot bribe a company, you bribe individuals. Apparently the company pleaded guilty before a US court of bribing people in 36 countries to win lucrative contracts. All Indian politicians are criminals and about 99.99% of the uncivil servants are thieves but since they control the police and the investigating agencies the citizens of India are powerless to give them just punishment. Criminal politicians even contest elections from prison while being on trial for murder as Amarmani Tripathi did. The best example of our criminal justice system or complete lack thereof is the news that Mr. Sajjan Kumar will be charged with the murder of one person in the anti Sikh riots of 1984. That was 26 years ago just before the Union Carbide tragedy in Bhopal. Everyone knows that nothing is going to come of this case because Mr. Sajjan Kumar is of the Congress and the Congress knows how to protect its murderers to protect any stain coming on The Family. Meanwhile our most revered Prime Minister of the Congress visited Kanpur whereupon the whole city was locked down resulting in the death of an 8 year old boy because his family was unable to take him to hospital. The family will probably not dare to sue the police and the Prime Minister out of terror because as everyone knows the Congress bleeds for the aam aadmi.

It was billed as the World Cup for Africa but is turning out to be the greatest humiliation for black Africa. We now know that Spain will be playing the Netherlands for the trophy on sunday and the Dutch speaking Afrikaners will be cheering for the Netherlands, the country of their ancestors. We do not know what has been decided? Will it be a case of third time lucky for Netherlands or will Spain be allowed to win the very first time they have managed to reach the final. Will the blacks be cheering for a Spanish victory? Come what may Mr. Jacob Zuma, who prides himself on his Zulu origins, will have to present medals to the Dutch team and may even have to hand over the cup itself. There is bound to be talk of integration, of racial harmony in the Rainbow nation and of how South Africa staged the biggest sporting festival in the world but the Afrikaner will not see it that way. For the white Afrikaner it will be proof of superiority of the Dutch over the blacks none of whom, except Ghana, could get past the group stage. It will not matter that this Netherlands team is a team of thugs committing dangerous fouls against opponents all of which went unpunished. What will matter is that the President who was dancing at his fourth ( or was it his fifth ) wedding a few months ago will be hanging medals around the necks of the people who are of the same stock as the people who confined Mr. Zuma's people into Bantustans only allowing them to come to white suburbs to work as servants. The murder of Eugene Terreblanch is still fresh in their minds and how they will enjoy. It was indeed a well organised World Cup.

About a month back a small news item reported that the Central Bureau of Direct Taxes, CBDT or income tax fellows are planning to brain wash our children on the advantages of paying taxes. They will target 10 to 18 year olds to teach them the ' need for taxation in civil society.' They want to teach children about the ' rationale for taxes, how the government raises revenue and spends it, role of government in society ' and other such laudable topics. All this stuff will be included in the syllabuses from class 5 through to 12. Question is, will they tell the truth or will they be feeding our children some romantic garbage about the collection and spending of taxes in India? Will they tell the children that they will be paying the highest rates of taxes in the world when they grow up? Will they be honest about the fact that after paying so much of their hard earned money they will not get any services from the government? That criminal politicians and thieving uncivil servants will steal more than half the money. That criminal politicians are allowed to travel with fat ugly wives, drug taking criminal children, servants, friends and relatives for free at our expense. That criminal politicians are allowed free rail passes for life. That the police are a bunch of criminal enforcers in uniform who will protect criminal politicians as in Bofors and child molesters like Rathore. That once you have cast your vote for whichever criminal sleazeball who has been allotted a ticket you will be irrelevant till the next elections come along. That the government will waste your money on useless shows such as the Commonwealth Games. Our innocent children will not be told the truth. Instead they will be fed garbage until they grow up and are sickened by the truth. That is how Naxals are formed.

There has been a lot of hue and cry lately by what is know as ' honor killings ' especially in the Hindi belt. Young men and women have been killed for intercaste marriage or for marrying within the same ' gotra.' Only Hindus will understand the meaning of gotra which is a kind of ' house ' like they have in schools. It is forbidden to marry within the same gotra as it is to marry outside one's caste. It may seem confusing but is really simple. Since one is supposed to marry within the same caste one should not marry within the same gotra to prevent consanguineous marriage with all the genetic problems that leads to. Staying in the same village young people have been unable to stop falling in love and marrying within the same gotra thus incurring the wrath of the village council or ' khap.' The pro Congress, anti Hindu press has been frothing on about honor killing, crime against women, the curse of the patriarchal system, blah blah blah without researching the real reasons for these crimes. The real reason is the division of Hindus according to caste started by the Congress after independence and carried on by all other criminal politicians to win votes. Thus Hindus are divided into Scheduled Caste ( traditionally untouchables ), Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes or OBCs. These people are given preference for seats in elite colleges even with very low marks, get good government jobs and promotions even though patently unfit. A couple of years ago there were pitched battles between Gujjars and Meenas in Rajasthan over getting ST status. So called minorities get bail easily after killing Hindus. Since minorities are already slaughtering us what does it matter if we kill each other?

Today was all India bandh day. The strike was called by opposition parties to protest the rise in prices of petrol. As is usual the strike will be patchy allowing both opposition and government to claim victory. Businesses will suffer losses in areas controlled by opposition parties where thugs armed with sticks and stones will be out in force to prevent people from going to work and shops from opening up. Daily wage earners will lose a whole day's wages. The tragedy for the country is that all politicians from all parties are dishonorable liars. The government is lying when it says that it has merely removed subsidies on petrol when they are charging 100% taxes on every liter and the opposition is lying when it claims that the strike is being called in the interest of the people. Truth is that petrol is taxed by both central and state governments so in states controlled by opposition parties they are the criminals responsible for the high prices. So why is the Congress dominated government so adamant about increasing the prices of fuel? The reason is that the government is nearly bankrupt. The lying freeloading press is keen to point out that our foreign exchange reserves are in excess of $ 250 billion but it is the internal debt that is out of control. Instead of a tax refund, which is a one off expense for the treasury, the Congress chose to give 80% pay rises to useless, thieving civil servants to win last year's elections and is now unable to manage its debts. UP is said to owe Rs. 1.8 trillion which is set to rise to Rs. 1.98 trillion this fiscal. The state power distribution companies have huge losses on their books. What other debts are being hidden from us who knows. When will the lies explode into the open and what the people will have to suffer only God knows. Or maybe even He doesn't.

Most Indians are devastated at the defeats of Brazil and Argentina at the football World Cup. Now that we know the semi finalists it is time to indulge in some conspiracy theories. Brazil is the only country to have won the World Cup in Europe and that was back in 1958 when they beat Sweden in the final. After that it seemed decided that no country will win outside its own continent. Thus european teams won in Europe while South American teams won on their own continent. In the 2002 finals in Japan and Korea there was no asian team good enough to be made to win the Cup so Brazil won for the fifth time. Last time we reverted to norm in Germany where the final was between France and Italy with Italy winning on penalties. This time the World Cup is in Africa and again there is no African team which is really good enough to be champions so this time it seems to have been decided that it is Europe's turn. I had a premonition so did not see the Brazil game. Seems that Brazil were one goal up in the first half and completely lost it in the second half which is impossible to believe. It would not be so bad except that it was against Holland, a cynical, brutal, calculating team of thugs. They are said to play a ' pragmatic ' game. In reality they play ugly. The way they beat up the Japanese is unforgettable. Yet not a single red card. Uruguay has been allowed to progress to be cannon fodder for the Dutch so they are sure to be in the finals. Maradonna has gone with six forwards. Yet against the Germans they could not even get near the 18 yard line. Normally effervescent Maradonna stood passively as if he knew the result beforehand. In the land of Afrikaans and apartheid is it Holland's turn to lift the trophy. Fantastic irony.

Seems that Finland has made it a legal right for every citizen to have access to broadband at 1 mbps and has promised to increase it to 100 mbps by 2015. In India we do not have the right to a continuous stable supply of electricity even though the price keeps increasing. In 1971 during the war in East Pakistan, what is now Bangladesh people in Calcutta were advised to place thick curtains on the windows and to switch off all lights if the warning siren sounded. This was called black out and was in fear of being bombed by Pakistanis. In the event the siren never sounded and we had our lights on throughout the war. Now we have black outs at any time of the day or night and completely without warning. However, it is not called black out but is euphemistically called ' load shedding.' The black out may last from a few minutes to 24 hours. Phoning the electricity department is of no use because the disconnect all phones and sit around happily drinking tea. Who cares if the food in your refrigerator spoils and you suffer financial loss? Who cares if a person with a broken leg has to wait for hours in agony because no XRay can be done? Shops selling frozen foods or ice cream cannot suffer the loss of throwing out their stock so they let the food thaw inside their freezers and refreeze when electric supply is resumed. This results in severe gastroenteritis in people, especially children who love eating ice cream in summer. Obviously poor people suffer much more because they go to cheaper places while the middle class select more expensive shops with power backup. If only we could gather all criminal politicians and thieving civil servants in one shed and leave them without any electricity for a month. Lovely thought.

It has become almost a crime to be a Hindu in India. Criminal politicians have created an environment of hate against Hindus with a view to be seen as ' secular ' and get the votes of so called minorities who are already some 25% of the population and breeding like rats so that they outnumber Hindus in a couple decades. Lying freeloading journalists constantly equate Hindus with the Taliban and write hate articles. Even the courts seem to have been influenced. Thus a fast court convicts a Hindu for Kandhmal riots and sentences him to jail but another court grants bail to a Muslim implicated in the Best Bakery bomb case. Hinduism is secular. Since no one has seen what God looks like and it is doubtful if he is a white haired man with a flowing beard we have many Gods and Godesses. Yet Hindus never fight among each other saying that my God is greater than yours. We do not fight wars because we do not convert others and do not go to heaven by killing or converting kafirs and heathens. One God fellows have been fighting and massacring each other and ' non believers ' for thousands of years. They claim to worship the same God but differ in who their prophets are. Prophets appeared at different times in the past and preached to the people. They did not write down their words. Their words were written down, often after many years, from the recollections of their followers. Prophets were human and so must have suffered from human conditions such as constipation or a pimple on the bum. However to make their religions credible prophets are worshiped as perfect and no one is allowed to question the written word on pain of death. This makes it easy for them to kill infidels. We Hindus do not want to kill or convert. Please do not kill or convert us. Just leave us alone to choose our own hell or heaven.

Slyly and hoping no one would notice the government has added a 10.3% Service Tax on air tickets. Domestic passengers will have to pay upto a maximum of Rs. 103 and passengers for foreign flights have to pay upto a maximum of Rs. 515. Already air travel is horrendously taxed in India. Taxes are calculated on the original price of the ticket so even if an airline is offering tickets at low prices the added taxes make them unaffordable. Then there are airport taxes which are mandatory. Taxes on fuel can be anywhere upto 30% adding enormous tax burdens on airlines. Criminal politicians do not allow domestic airlines to show the breakdown of various costs in the prices of tickets so that passengers remain ignorant of the fact that they are being looted but on foreign flights taxes and fees are clearly shown to be equal to the basic price of the ticket. This makes air travel too expensive for some 95% of the people. However 5% of one billion is 50 million which is about equal to the entire population of Great Britain. The lying freeloading press is thus able to headline that air travel is booming in the country. This has been the winning strategy of the Congress gang since independence. Classify cars, air travel, restaurants, multiplexes as luxury and tax them so heavily that they are out of reach of the ordinary people. Then beat your breasts about the hardship of the aam aadmi, dole out animal grade food grains at subsidised rates at taxpayer expense and get votes of a populace still locked into bullock cart age. If only we could tell the cattle class people to stop being aam and demand to be khas perhaps, just perhaps, we could get rid of the filth.

Seems that the Prime Minister's Office, PMO has written to the Department of Telecom, DoT to transfer all licensing issues regarding 2G and 3G to an empowered Group of Ministers, eGoM. This was done with the consent of the Prime Minister and has effectively taken away all powers from the Minister of Telecommunications, Mr. Raja. Mr. Raja arbitrarily awarded 2G licenses to two companies ignoring the suggestion of auctioning the licenses by the Prime Minister. The companies sold their licenses making billions of rupees. There are allegations of a scam worth billions of rupees and the recent auction of 3G licenses indicates that the government may have lost Rs. 1 trillion in fees and taxes. While the people of the country are being hit by a double whammy of increasing taxes and inflation Mr. Raja, his friends and officers of DoT are able to get away after making billions by defrauding the government. Now the Prime Minister has shown his mistrust of Mr. Raja openly by taking away his powers. In any civilised country in the world Mr. Raja would have been sacked and serious investigations instituted. Not here. The Congress needs support of various gangs to stay in power and if sacking Mr. Raja results in new elections the troops will be unhappy. The only way to wealth is by accumulating loot which can only be done if you are in power. Will Mr. Raja resign at the insult which is akin to a public slap on his face. No chance. If he resigns he will get no further opportunities to enrich himself. Take all the insults and shoes across the face and hang in there. Opportunities will come. After all public memory is short. No sharam, no izzat.