Moral Volcano is the (now abandoned) web log of V. Subhash. It was started when the HUMOUR section of Virtual V. Subhash (www.vsubhash.com) started overflowing. The name Moral Volcano is from the short story Journalism in Tennessee written by the American writer Mark Twain.
Moral Volcano is not a real volcano; just the name for this website. This site has absolutely no information on morals or volcanoes. You need to improve your search skills. Select this link to find information about real volcanoes. If you were looking for ideas for a class project, then try How To Build a Volcano at About.com. For stories with a moral, visit the site maintained by Srinivas Padmanabhuni. Bye-bye.
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Think George W. is bad? Wait till you read about his father!
Inheritance of Nazi fortunes, financial scandals, coups, assassinations, links to drug trade, and coverups; - all make the former CIA Director and later U.S. Vice President and President George Bush Sr. an unmatchable piece of work.
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In Jerzy Kosinski's novel Being There, a middle-aged man called Chance Gardener, who has the mental age and development of a six-year-old, goes on to become the President of United States with the help of a few powerful friends while he himself is blissfully unaware of the situation. Peter Sellers chose this novel to make his final film (his masterpiece). Both the novel and the movie were released years before George W. came to the White House. Read my review here.
Gobbledegook! All the time he talked gobbledegook! An' it's for sure a White man's world in America. Hell, I raised that boy since he was the size of a pissant an' I'll say right now he never learned to read an' write - no sir! Had no brains at all, was stuffed with rice puddin' between the ears! Short-changed by the Lord and dumb as a jackass an' look at him now! Yes, sir - all you gotta be is white in America an' you get whatever you want! Just listen to that boy - gobbledegook!
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In 1983, Donald Rumsfeld went to Baghdad as Ronald Reagan's special envoy and met Saddam Hussein, despite evidence that Iraq possessed chemical weapons and had used it on civilians in Iraq and on soldiers in Iran. After his return, Rumsfeld successfully lobbied for financial and military aid for Iraq's war with Iran. Chemical and biological intermediaries and labs were provided by the US to Iraq. Other western countries followed suit. Predictably, Saddam used the weapons in the Kurdish north. In one instance, a set of Hughes helicopters provided by Ronald Reagan was used in a chemical attack that left 5000 dead in a Kurdish village called Halabja. Following this, the US Senate passed a Prevention of Genocide Act, which would have imposed sanctions on the Hussein regime but the Reagan White House blocked it.
Between 1983 and 1988, Saddam used chemical weapons 195 times against Iran killing about 50,000 of their soldiers. In 1987, an Iraqi Exocet missile hit an American destroyer, the USS Stark, in the Persian Gulf killing 37 crewmen. Incredibly, the United States excused Iraq for making an unintentional mistake and instead used the incident to accuse Iran of escalating the war in the gulf. The American tilt to Iraq then became more pronounced. U.S. commandos began blowing up Iranian oil platforms and attacking Iranian patrol boats. In 1988, an American warship in the gulf shot down an Iranian Airbus killing 290 civilians. Within a few weeks, Iran, fearing American intervention, gave up its war with Iraq.
George Bush Sr., as Vice President and later as President, used a number of covert and overt schemes to help with Baghdad's WMD programme. Strangely enough, Israel was one of the countries that helped in the transshipment of banned weapons. Saddam was so encouraged by this level of support that he thought he could get away with an invasion Kuwait. Sam Gejdenson, chairperson of a subcommittee in the US Congress investigating US exports to Iraq, disclosed that between 1985 and 1990 the US government approved 771 licenses for the export to Iraq of $1.5 billion worth of biological agents and high-tech equipment used for military applications.
To build the case for the war against Iraq, the Bush administration used the anthrax scare to frighten lawmakers into submission. The US Secretary of State Colin Powell, accompanied by CIA Directory George Tenet, even gave an anthrax demo in the UN Security Council. Interestingly, the anthrax found in Capitol Hill was found to be the same grade as those in the stocks of the US military.
US envoy Bill Richardson with Taliban leaders (circa 1998). See the BBC report for that day.Taliban played host to top US officials including former US assistant secretary of state for South Asia Robin Raphel, her successor Karl Inderfurth, deputy secretary for political affairs Thomas Pickering, and the then-US ambassador to the UN, Bill Richardson. Within hours of Taliban's capture of Kabul, Washington moved quickly to announce that it would establish diplomatic relations with the Taliban government. However, the rash statement was quickly retracted. Afghanistan continued to be officially represented at the UN by the defunct government headed by Banruddin Rabbani and the Taliban greatly resented this. Robin Raphael went to the UN to lobby the international community to ignore the extremist threat posed by the Taliban and recognise the government headed by the group. Contrary to popular belief, Afghanistan has significant oil and gas deposits. During the Soviets' decade-long occupation of Afghanistan, Moscow estimated Afghanistan's proven and probable natural gas reserves at around five trillion cubic feet and production reached 275 million cubic feet per day in the mid-1970s. Nonstop war since has prevent further exploitation, but that soon changes. According to the Houston Chronicle, the country may also have as much copper as Chile, the world's largest producer, and significant deposits of coal, emeralds, tungsten, lead, zinc, uranium ore and more. |
In 1989, the former Soviet Union was forced to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after fighting a prolonged guerilla war with the Mujahideen. The Mujahideen grew opium, which was then marketed in Europe and North America. Law enforcement agencies in these countries also turned a blind eye to the trafficking business. Proceeds from the trade were then used to buy weapons for the Mujahideen. The Russians left behind a government headed by the former intelligence chief Najibullah. The breakup of the Soviet Union made Najibullah's position weaker and he offered to step down in March 1992. This news triggered a wave of defections by Uzbek and Tajik militias, which were allied to his government. In April 1992, a prominent Mujahideen commander Ahmed Shah Masood (Lion of Panjshir valley) moved into Kabul. Najibullah then took refuge in the UN compound in Kabul. Between 1992 and 1996, Afghanistan was in semi-anarchy, as the country was carved into individual fiefdoms by the warlords.
In 1996, Unocal of the U.S. and Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia became interested in mineral wealth of Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. The ideal route to bring oil from the Caspian sea and gas from the Daulatabad gas field (in Turkmenistan) would have been via Iran. Because of US policy of isolating Iran, Unocal and Delta oil thought of building a pipeline via Afghanistan.
Unfortunately for them, Afghanistan did not have a strong regime in place, which could guarantee security for the pipeline. For this purpose, Pakistan created the Taliban with funds from Saudi Arabia and UAE. They took into their rolls thousands of Pasthuns who had enrolled in madrasas adjoining Afghanistan. Because these men had never taken part in war, they were secretly trained and led by officers from the Pakistani army. Arms and ammunition including tanks, howitzers, and other military vehicles were provided Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. In 1996, The Taliban crossed the border into Afghanistan. Initially, they were dismissed as a joke but in September 1996, they had captured Kabul. (Also, see Amnesty International reports on Taleban atrocities.)
However, the Taliban could not occupy all of Afghanistan. (They did occupy 90% of it at one time.) At one point when the Taliban was overstretched and the Northern Alliance was poised to attack, the Clinton administration despatched UN envoy Bill Richardson and Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth to Afghanistan to broker a ceasefire and an arms embargo. While the Northern Alliance was being bamboozled, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sent several planeloads of arms and ammunition to Kabul and managed to fully rearm the Taliban. Soon after, the ceasefire failed. This was six months before the US embassies in Africa were attacked and two months after al-Qaeda issued a declaration of jihad to "kill the Americans and their allies - civilian and military."
In 1998, the Al-Qaeda attacked U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Despite this, money continued to flow. Both the Clinton and the Bush administrations gave hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban under the guise of aid. As late as July 2001, Christina Rocca, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, met Taliban officials in Islamabad and announced $43 million in food and shelter aid, bringing to $124 million the U.S. contribution for that year alone. The U.S. government did not insist on knowing how the money was spent and the flow of dollars did not stop until the attacks on the World Trade Center occurred. It is quite possible that that American taxpayers' money was used to finance the attacks.
To save serious embarassment to the Bush administration, the U.S. media, led by the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek and others, has created a notion that the Taliban fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan by tracing its origins to the Mujahideen. The truth however is that the Taliban was not in existence at that time. Taliban was created to fight the Mujahideen, not the Soviets. For more, read CIA and a Blowback World by Tom Engelhardt and Chalmers Johnson.
Interviewer: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
Brzezinski: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Interviewer: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Interviewer: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentlaism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
After Libya revealed that it had sourced components and technology for its clandestine nuclear weapons program from a worldwide network of nuclear arms dealers, Dr. A. Q. Khan, the father of the Islamic nuclear bomb, was named as one of the prime movers in this network. On February 4, 2004, Khan confessed on Pakistan's national television that he had hawked Pakistan's nuclear weapons secrets to other countries and begged forgiveness. With American blessings, Gen. Musharraf wasted no time in granting a pardon for Khan. Gen. Mush also claimed that Mr. Khan acted alone and that no one else was involved in the transfer of the technology, which went to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
No action will be taken on Libya because the Bush administration has shown interest in oil wealth of the country. With the exception of Iraq, Libya is the only OPEC country with spare oil capacity. The two Libyan intelligence officials who were suspects in the Lockerbie bombing are under house arrest and not in prison.
Curiosly, a BBC Scotland news report says that a former Scottish police chief had come forward with the information that the key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated and planted by the CIA. In another bizzare happening, the Amsterdam court that had tried Khan in absentia has claimed that it has "lost" the Khan case files. Before coming back to Pakistan, Khan worked as an engineer in the Netherlands at Urenco, an uranium enrichment plant in the 1970s from where he is suspected of stealing nuclear secrets.
As revealed by former premiers Benazir Bhutto and Nawas Sharif, the Pakistani military establishment including President Musharraf are part of the nuclear trade. North Korea made shipments of missile components to Pakistan in exchange for shipments of wheat from Pakistan. Similarly, China had made shipments of ring magnets and other nuclear eqiupment to Pakistan. But illegal trade in nuclear and missile technology and components is not limited to the Third world. During the Clinton years, US aerospace companies (Loral/Hughes) provided China with technologies that were originally banned for export. The clandestine Israeli nuclear weapons programme was aided by voluntary/involuntary transfer of men, material, and technology from the U.S., Britain, and several other European countries.
The prediction that when Nazism goes to America it will be wrapped in an American flag has become a reality. Nazis believed that if you kept on repeating the same lies again and again, the masses would eventually accept them as truth. Yet again, the Nazis have been proved right. The American people have accepted blatant falsehoods as the truth not because they have been presented with some really great evidence but because they have been repeatedly lied to. And the campaign by faux journalism and the resultant faux news is not limited to the U.S. It is being applied all over the world where phoney revolutions have been staged to put phoney democrats in power. From Lebanon to Ukraine to East Timor, falsehoods have won. The strategy may seem to have failed in Brazil, Venezuela and Bolivia but the setbacks are only temporary. In important countries like Mexico, elections are conducted by private American companies and the electoral rolls are also maintained by them. As there is no paper trail, it is easy to fix the elections.
American diplomats decide who should win elections in Eastern Europe and Third World countries. Western consultants manage everything on the ground - from running opinion/exit polls (so they can claim election fraud) to training volunteers, journalists, and more importantly "pro-democracy protestors" (vital for any regime change that does not involve the U.S. military). Billions of dollars of U.S. government funds are pouring into the coffers of opposition parties and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Their mandate is simple - bring down the current dispensation and put pro-Western stooges in power.
Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) such as Freedom House (run by billionaire George Soros) play an important role in all this. If U.S. media claims are to be believed, Soros is a philanthropist who "promotes democracy movements" in Eastern Europe. However, funds for these activities come from the American government - mainly from USAID (United States Aid for International Development). Perusing the USAID Yellowbook for 2001, one will be surprised to note that one of the many Ukraine contracts received by Freedom House is worth almost $2 billion. This is interesting because, among other things, USAID even refuses funds for AIDS treatment in Africa. Reason for this anomaly becomes clear if one reads USAID's mandate - to promote U.S. "stategic interests" worldwide.
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Apart from USAID, a wide range of semi-government and non-governmental institutions are involved to promote U.S. strategic interests - National Democratic Institute (NDI) of the Democratic Party, International Republican Institute (IRI) of the Republican Party, U.S. billionaire George Soros' outfits Open Society and Freedom House. The role of intelligence agencies and diplomatic corps requires no mention. The role of the media is curiousy naieve.
Politicians who have take money are identified as "liberals," while those who have not done so are simply called "hardliners." The result is that artificially created protests are considered by the outside world as spontaneous and indigenous. History then gets replaced by the faux news.
American officials openly ask the U.S. Congress for money to "promote democracy" in other countries. (This happens in between demands for huge budget cuts in social spending for American citizens.) No one in America seems to find it odd that democracy could be promoted with money from a foreign country. What is all the more ironical because it was an American who said democracy is by the people, for the people, and of the people.
During the Cold War, intelligence agencies were entrusted with the task of distributing money. Mark Almond, who describes himself as an old cold war swagman who carried tens of thousands of dollars to Soviet-bloc dissidents alongside much better respected academics, is nostalgic about how things have changed. In an article in Guardian he says:
Back in the 1980s, our media portrayed Prague dissidents as selfless academics who were reduced to poverty for their principles, when they were in fact receiving $600-monthly stipends. Now they sit in the front row of the new Euro-Atlantic ruling class. The dowdy do-gooder who seemed so devoted to making sure that every penny of her "charity" money got to a needy recipient is now a facilitator for investors in our old stamping grounds. The end of history was the birth of consultancy.
In many countries, it is not just the manipulation of elections; civil war is encouraged by exacerbating ethnic or religious divisions. One side is provided with with arms and ammunition and the other side is provoked into causing enormous casualities on civilians. Western government, NGOs and media then allege genocide. UN "peacekeepers" arrive, a referendum on secession is held, and a nation is born. What is not mentioned is that the new country is so weak financially that they can't even afford to open embassies in other countries. West-backed politicians who run the country prefer to listen to foreign investors than to their own people. In the end, "poor people" become more poor and less free. The application of "genocide revolutions" found great success in East Timor and is now being actively pursued in Darfur (Sudan) and several other places.
East Timorese people languish in extreme poverty because their government gets very little in revenue. The government has just one purpose - provide security to Western diplomatic corps and foreign investors (made up of solely oil companies). It has no money either for development or for providing essential services. East Timor, it must be noted, has huge reseverves of gas and oil. It could have easily become a rich country but foriegn oil companies have other plans. Australia has claimed that its maritime border extends for 85% of the 600-mile sea separating the two countries. Under international laws, the border should have been drawn halfway between the two countries, which would have given East Timor 100% of its petroleum resources including the oil-rich Greater Sunrise field. In March 2003, tiny East Timor was forced to cede 79.9 percent of the Greater Sunrise oil and gas field to big nieghbour Australia. The entire worth of the field was an estimated $50 billion.
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Back when I was in school, there was this program on TV called Race To Save The Planet. Every Sunday, it had this wonderful chick, clad in T-shirt and jeans, sitting on a tree stump with her arms around her knees, talking seriously about future climate change. Climate change? Well, it was supposed to take longer than a lifetime to notice any changes. Only future generations were going to be seriously affected. Unfortunately, climate change seems to have arrived earlier than expected. We have seen some very unprecedented floods induced by torrential floods in various parts of the country and even around the world. (circa 2005) The floods were also preceded by periods of unusually hot weather. My guess is that extreme weather conditions are going to be the norm in future but with increasing severity.
The rise in greenhouses gases in the atmosphere and the consequent rise in global temperatures was expected to cause a slow melting of the ice caps. But, scientists have noted that the area under permafrost around the Arctic circle is fast receding. When peat bogs under the permafrost gets exposed, they start releasing new amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. As this picks up momentum, global temperatures will not just rise but will attempt a high jump.
And, the transition from ice to water occurs over a few degrees. So, the ice cap will not just melt, it will break apart! Large sheets of ice will suddenly break off the North pole and swamp countries in its wake downstream. This ice will break off in such huge proportions that countries near the poles will experience doomsday-size floods that will last for several months. Worse, there will be several floods like that; some of them going on simultaneously. And, that means goodbye to countries like Canada and most of Europe. Large parts of the U.S. and Russia will also dissappear. Antartica will only melt because it is on land and does not float on water like the Arctic. Still, large portions of low-lying land in the southern hemisphere will be eaten away by the sea, leaving hundreds of millions without land under their feet.
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The treatment that our society gives to rape requires drastic change. Instead of considering rape as a form of physical assault, unnecessary emotional baggage is added to it. In our stupid feature films, if a woman is raped, she has to commit suicide. Or, worse, marry the rapist (if it is the hero guy). But real rape victims cannot commit suicide or marry the rapist! Sadly, our society places a high high value on a woman's character. Feminist propaganda does not help either. The lesbians want death sentence for rapists, making it incumbent on rapists to also kill their victims!
Women's activists portray rape as some kind of unbelievably horrible crime that is simply beyond human nature. Flawless as they are made up to be, women DO commit serious crimes! It has been reported that it is usually a woman who harrases her daughter-in-law for more dowry. Many a woman has handed over the matchbox when her son douses his wife with kerosene. And who do you think snuffs the life out newborn girl children? WOMEN!!!
And, they keep on asking when all women will be safe. It is an incredibly stupid question! Will households ever be safe from burglars? Burglaries will occur just as some marriages will end in divorces. Rapes will occur just as some murders are going to be committed. Deviancy is part of any society. It is an inescapable fact of life, unless of course your marooned on uninhabited island.
What can be done is placing necessary measures to ensure speedy justice; not just for rape but for all crimes. Instead, a fuss is created. Names are published. Photos are printed. In the end, the victim wishes she did not have to survive the trauma. Should not rape victims be able to recover from the incident like from a minor road accident? More than the actual crime itself, it is the way society receives the victim that seems to have a lasting effect.
| Trauma | Victim | Victim's Family |
| Road Accident | gets sympathy | finds social support |
| Sexual Assault | gets a stigma | loses social standing |
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Why is the U.S. very much against labelling GM food? In the U.S., we have a policy. If you have a final product that is a substantial equivalent to a conventional product, you need not have to label that it contains GMOs [genetically modified organisms] just because it is a product of GMO; it is a process involved. At the end of the day, it is considered equivalent to the conventional product and so we don't believe in labelling. On the other hand, if you have nutrient enhanced product or a product that contains allergens or toxin, then labelling is required. So we don't believe in process labelling and that is the difference between the U.S. and other countries.Same day as this interview was published in The Hindu, the newspaper's supplement Metro Plus carried the following information in Health Capsules (a syndicated American newspaper cartoon feature):
How do I know if my fish or shellfish is wild, not farm-raised? Beginning in April 2005, all retail fish and shellfish [in the U.S.] were required to be labelled farm-raised or wild-caught and with their country of origin.
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"I am not even interested," said Charlie Chaplin when asked whether he was going to have his latest film shown in the U.S. Why, what was wrong? "There is nothing wrong with the American people. It is the top who decay and putrify!," Chaplin explained. Harsh words, no doubt but why? The movie A King In New York was set in New York and yet here was Chaplin (in London, circa 1956) refusing to release the movie in the United States. What made him feel so disgusted and angry? Welcome to the the land of the free.
What many people see of America is not really America; it is Hollywood. Not just foreigners, even Americans see America through the eyes of Hollywood. Take World War II. Many Americans think that it was they who saved the world! (It was actually Russia, led by like-it-or-not Stalin, which was the first to inflict a defeat on the Nazis, free a host of countries from occupation, enter Berlin and take charge of Hitler's bunker.)
Not many know that not until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, America had never entered the War on the side of Britain and France. Or, more correctly, they have absolutely no idea of the significance of this decision. Like the grandfather of George Bush, America was busy trading with Nazi Germany. Many, like Bush family patron William Farris (of Standard Oil, now Exxon), were making their fortunes off Nazi slave labour. The U.S. had also closed its gates to European Jews wanting to flee persecution; (forcing them to go to Palestine where they established Israel and have since remained in conflict with the original owners of the land and with their Arab neighbours.) Franklin Roosevelt spent much of his time assuring his nation that he would NEVER send "their children in harm's way" - certainly a poor foil alongside real heroes like Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle or even Josef Stalin. It was precisely this geographic and political isolation from the conflict, which drew people in the war zone like a magnet to the American continent.
"DO YOU WANT TO DENY YOURSELF THE RIGHT TO BE A MAN?" reads this psy-ops leaflet, dropped by Americans in Vietnam. You don't see RAMBO dropping leaflets like these! He he he! |
So, after sheep-faced Americans joined the war, films like Casablanca were released, which had Americans showing hitherto unseen courage and sparing no effort to save hapless Europeans from evil Nazis. Sure, these films helped sell a lot of "war bonds" to aid the war effort but "war films" continued to be made even after the real war was over - all of them showing Americans as the selfless saviours of the world; all of them conveniently ignoring the enormous sacrifices made by the Russians and the heavy losses made to bear on civilians in the Axis nations. During the War, American soldiers like good soldiers everywhere went about raping and pillaging when they were not busy fighting. In almost all of the war films, Americans GIs were models of good behaviour. It is this image that generations of Americans have believed in, rather than in what history books would have had to offer.
In his book Know Thine Enemy, Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA man who worked in the US consulate in Istanbul during the 1980s, provides an insight into how Freedom™ typically operates. Gerecht's job was to debrief would-be Iranian defectors:
"I'd let hundreds of desperate Iranians languish in Turkey. People who'd given me insights never found in books. I'd watched mothers with children drop to their knees and beg for my help... They didn't want money, just a little kindness, a visa out of their personal hell ... [they met] a sympathetic man waiting in a warm room full of food, coffee, tea, alcohol and cigarettes. A US official who'd politely strip them of all their memories and every corpuscle of information and then reopen the street-side door."
Rambo II, starring Sylvester Stallone, has Islamic fighters in Afghanistan portrayed as brave freedom fighters, quite in line with government policy at that time. By the time True Lies starring Arnold Schwarznegger was made, the "freedom fighters" had become "terrorists" both on screen and in the real world! Movies that romanticises military life (aiding recruitment, usually from poorer sections of the American society) such as Top Gun or Black Hawk Down get active cooperation (and under-publicised editorial input) from the U.S. military while others that question military postures have to rope in a foreign government for using their military hardware.
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In May 2003, an Iraqi boy who suffered burns all over his body, had his arms amputed above the elbow, and lost 20 members of his family after an American missile hit his home became subject of a media frenzy. Although the boy refused American offers of free medical treatment, Hollywoood went ahead and made a movie starring George Clooney with an expectedly different story ending. In the Balkans, American soldiers have been indicted of raping women and forcing them into prostitution but that did not stop Hollywood from making a movie, which showed the opposite - an American soldier killing another soldier to prevent a rape from happening! George Bush and 9/11 was also subject of a movie. However, it featured no pet goat. In sharp contrast, Micheal Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, which attempted to come to terms with truth, was received with unrepressed hostility.
With every war, the deception continues to grow. Even though the fall of the Saddam statue in the middle of Baghdad or the rapturous welcome given to Ahmed Chalabi on his return to Iraq or the daring rescue of Private Jessica Lynch are considered as classics among military psy-ops films, Hollywood remains unbeaten in their effort at perpetuating myths for the U.S. government.
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Sure, Hollywood has no designs on the world and they are in it with the American war machine only because it is a mutually rewarding relationship. However, truth becomes a casualty - not just in war but also in peace. This blackout is made complete by sanitised coverage of world events by the American media.
In Iraq, for example, news reports are solely based on the version provided by the U.S. military spokesman. American journalists rarely leave the safe confines of the fortified "Green Zone" in Central Baghdad. However, to fool the American public, videos shot by Iraqi journalists are placed in the background. The American journalist wears a bullet-proof vest, stands in front of the camera and then files his "report." A white screen (not seen by viewers) placed behind this brave journalist allows video technicians in a New York or Washington D.C. studio to be able to seamlessly mix the two videos, creating the illusion of the journalist having actually visited the scene. With this kind of deception, the American military remains free to drop bombs on houses of innocent people.
Several decades ago, Jawaharlal Nehru remarked,
"They shoot and kill and destroy only for the good of the people shot down. The novel feature of the modern type of imperialism is its attempt to hide its terrorism and exploitation behind pious phrases."
His words remain true to this very day. And, "they" continue to do it with the approval of the American people. Yet, when a 911 happens, you will hear Americans asking, "Why do they hate us so much?"
THIS IS NOT A JOKE. There were actually two pages on the CIA website under the title Iraqi Rewards Program offering rewards for information regarding Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). One web page was in English (at http://www.cia.gov/cia/english_rewards.htm) and the other was in Arabic (at http://www.cia.gov/cia/arabic_rewards.htm, still present.) The CIA removed the English version after a short time. I had saved a copy of the English version, I put it up here and later moved it to www.vsubhash.com. I also added a timeline of the Iraqi Rewards Program.
In case you are wondering, rest assured that the cia.gov domain is used only to host their website. The domain ucia.gov (unclassified CIA) is used for other unclassified purposes. You can see their updates page for references to ucia.gov.
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Terrorist mastermind and Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden has accused Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi of taking the spotlight away from him. "Frankly speaking, he had stolen my thunder!" complained Laden in an interview conducted over satellite phone.
"All you hear now is 'Zarqawi did this' or 'Zarqawi did that.' It seems as though 911 did not happen at all. I am right here in Afghanistan and they went after my organization in Iraq! Why are they doing this to me? What did I do wrong? When will the Americans come back for me?"
When this reporter asked if Zarqawi was one of his trusted lieutenants, as the U.S. military claimed he was, Mr. Laden replied in the negative. Asked if he knew Zarqawi at all, Laden said, "I don’t know. I’d seen thousands of terrorists. They all look the same - with bad haircuts and unkempt beards."
So, is Mr. Zarqawi pure fiction? "Maybe he is. Maybe he is not. Maybe he is just a guy operating from the Pentagon basement. Every time they attack the Iraqis, a military spokesman claims that the victims were members of the Zarqawi group. That is much better than saying they killed a bunch of Iraqis. Zarqawi is a foreigner, so it is the perfect way for them to discredit the resistance and say these attacks are not coming from the Iraqi people. They will blame everything on Zarqawi."
"It is similar to how we blame everything on the Jews."
So, why doesn’t his organization disown Zarqawi? Laden retorted, "Why should we? When Iraqi victims see that they are portrayed as members of the Zarqawi terror network, more numbers of theirs will join the insurgency."
"What bothers me however is the fact that the focus has shifted to Iraq and everyone is talking about Zarqawi. It is as though I don't exist at all. Do you know how important public attention is for a terrorist?"
"When the Americans were bombing the Tora Bora caves, I thought I was going to die and released a statement saying that I would go down fighting. It was a stupid stupid mistake. I played the martyr card a bit too early. Now, everyone takes me for dead. If this goes on for long, I might as well surrender or let myself be captured."
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In my schooldays, I was a short-wave radio enthusiast. I listened to everything from the BBC to the NHK Japan to Radio Uganda. One of my favorites was the VOA (Voice Of America). I particularly liked their special English program Words And Their Stories. That was a time when you could listen to FM radio without being interrupted by advertisement jingles or DJ chatter. It was a time when TV was synonymous with Doordarshan.
When Rajiv Gandhi was India's prime minister, everytime you switched on the radio, all you would hear was Panchayati Raj. If you switched on the TV, you could see and hear Panchayati Raj. I was tired of all this and foreign broadcasts on short-wave seemed to be a godsend. As I grew older and wiser, I found that VOA was nothing more than an American version of Doordarshan. They simply repeated everything that the American government said. Later, when I read Victor Marchetti's heavily censored The CIA And The Cult Of Intelligence, I came to know that VOA was actually a progaganda outlet of the Central Intelligence Agency.
One of the most irritating aspect of VOA news was their choice of commentators. For every region or topic in the world, the VOA had an expert who would be called in to provide an objective(?) opinion. He/she ineveitably toed the line of the American government. When Mahathir Mohammed was elected Prime Minister of Malaysia, VOA had only bad things to say about him. When a new prime minister was elected in Thailand, VOA did it again. It happened every time some new leader who was not perceived to be pro-U.S. was elected in some third world country. It seemed ridiculous that the U.S. could not reconcile to the fact that these leaders have been chosen by the people and it did not really matter what the U.S. government thought about them.
The Americans were most upset when Vladmir Putin was named by Boris Yeltsin as his successor. They were so unconsolable that I started feeling sorry for them. When everyone else in the world felt relieved that Russia finally had a strong leader in charge, Americans seemed to be the only ones feeling otherwise. But, when Yeltsin was gutting Russia, the VOA made no complaints.
Under Boris Yeltisin, Russia was virtually ruled by the World Bank.♥ World Bank-approved economists were put in charge of the Russian economy. These guys initiated the so-called reforms that almost brought the country to total ruin. Western plants in the Yeltsin's government also tried to break up the Russian federation* itself. Thanks to their work, Chechenya became independent. The Chechen terrorist Aslan Maskhadov became its President.
Chechnya has some oil and gas resources of its own. But, more importanly, it had several oil & gas pipelines passing through its territory. Traditionally, oil extraction in this region was dominated by Russia and Iran. Pipelines either went to the north into Russia or to the south into Iran. Russia offered the United States a share in the spoils but the United States had other ideas. It was bent on creating a an East-West axis by running pipelines in that direction. So, a pipeline was laid to Turkey via Georgia.♣
Georgia was a former Soviet Republic. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Georgia became a client state under its leader Eduard Shevardnadze. Leaders of several Central Asian republics went under the payroll of the US. Joint military excercises were conducted and the US took over some military bases left behind by the Soviets. While American oil companies were trying to building pipelines, several aspiring terrorists in these countries underwent training in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This was a time when the U.S. and Al Qaeda were friends. When these terrorists came back, they started creating trouble in Chechnya. When Russia reacted with force, the U.S. urged Russia to give "sufficient autonomy" to Chechnya. By holding up IMF loans, the U.S. ensured that Chechen warlord Maskhadov came to power.
When Vladmir Putin became Russian President, all this changed. He sent the Russian army back into Chechnya and soon Maskhadov was on the run. Putin also put the Russian economy on the mend. The oil and gas companies that were privatized by Yeltisin were made to pay taxes and royalties. A new pipeline bypassing Chechnya was built. He also made peace with a Chechen rebel leader and helped him to power. He also prevented American oil companies from buying up Russian oil conglomerates.
Naturally, all this was not good news for the Americans. They were caught napping when the Soviet Union broke up. They were hoping to restore their honour by helping the breakup of the Russian Federation but their efforts were going nowhere. Hence, they asked their IMF stooges to quit and form independent parties and coalitions. Russian oligarchs¤ who became rich during the Yeltsin's "reforms" started bankrolling these forces. Their popularity was never much in Russia. For the American and British media, these men represent the true democratic voice of Russia. Putin was an absolute no-no.
During the Moscow theatre siege, you could see on the BBC and the CNN how twisted their coverage was. The siege was supposed to be a "challenge" or a "threat" to President Putin. This was against common sense. Whenever there is a big terrorist attack or incident, the population of affected country will rally behind its leader. It was always a mystery how Western commentators and experts could think these events could becomes challenges to Putin's position as President. The same media outlets had no qualms in claiming that U.S. President Bush's popularity soared after the September 11 attacks and that his security was his trumpcard over his opponents.
After Russian special forces killed all Chechen terrorists inside the theater, American officials and media made a big fuss about the human rights of the terrorists and were unhappy that they had been killed in cold blood. During the recent Beslan school hostage incident, the BBC again had commentators claiming that the crisis was a "threat" to President Putin. On the CNN, there were other commentators doing the same thing. Unfortunately, for the Americans, people in Russia don't watch the BBC or the CNN. Perhaps realising this, some commentators complained that even though Russian TV channels¶ were broadcasting the same pictures as they did, they were not doing a good job of criticising Putin!
For those interested in objective and unbiased news, such coverage will be revolting. But they also provide an insight into their governments' thinking. This is the age of managed news. British and American governments think that if they repeat a lie several times, it will become the truth. In the process, they reveal their biases, the sides they are supporting, and what sort outcomes they would be happy with.
Another thing that managed news tend to reveal is the areas of weakness for the American government. On the BBC, you will find reports about attacks by insurgents or by the American military labelled as IRAQ SECURITY. But when odd incidents of violence happens in other places, the word SECURITY will be easily replaced by VIOLENCE or CRISIS.
One might also see the level of influence that American and British governments have on the media. Whenever American miliary is striking, you will find that the victims are always reported as members of the group behind Zordanian terrorist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. Recently an American helicopter fired a missile into a crowd of Iraqis celebrating near a burning military vehicle. Immediately, the CNN repeated a military statement that the helicopter pilot identified the crowd as "insurgents" affiliated with Zarqawi. Though American military helicopters are very sophisticated, they are not yet capable of identifying terrorists. The incident however was filmed by a TV crew from Al Arabiya and it clearly showed that crowd consisted of unarmed people. This is the reason why the U.S. government doesn't like Arab TV channels.
Stringers working for the U.S. in the Indian media also provide a great deal of information on the problems faced by the U.S government. I highly recommend C. Raja Mohan of The Hindu. In a recent article titled A Meeting Ground In Afghanistan, he floats a trial balloon on behalf of the U.S. and Pakistan.
One proposal that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could offer to President Pervez Musharraf, when they meet this week in New York on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, is cooperation in the reconstruction in Afghanistan†... What sounds heretical today often becomes policy tomorrow.
Stringers like Kuldip Nayyar also reveal what is on the American agenda for India. Gail Omvedt is another stringer who can be seen in the op-ed page of The Hindu. Her assignment is to promote American interests and subvert Indian culture and heritage. In the following excerpt, you will find her doing a public relations exercise for the mulitnational seed company and the creator of the infamous Terminator gene, Monsanto.
... even after several years of field trials and no evidence of any harmful nature, the Government has still not cleared the new cotton variety for general use. As a result, last October an order was issued that the crops of Gujarati farmers in Gandhinagar district using a variety of cotton seed known as "Navbharat 151" would be burnt on the grounds that it contained the forbidden genes.
American officials sometimes do get their timing wrong. When the Taliban moved into Afghanistan, everyone treated their efforts as a joke. But American officials were alone in expressing hope that they could bring stability out of the situation. That was an indication that the band of Islamic students were not alone in their adventure.
Sometime back, I was watching the CNN when I saw the news anchor accusing Ahmed Chalabi of being a convicted fraud and as someone with no credibility. This was a bit strange because American media and Ahmed Chalabi had formed such a great mutual admiration society. However, it was an indication that Chalabi's days were over. Sometime later, Ahmed Chalabi was accused of providing secrets to Iran. His offices were raided and he was arraigned on counterfeiting and corruption charges.
UPDATE (5/11/04): Immediately after news reports of PLO leader Yasser Arafat being taken ill came out, many Israeli government officials were seen talking to the media about funeral arrangements. They seem to be pretty sure of Arafat's imminent death. Makes one wonder if there was any foul play on their part. It is public knowledge that Israel has embarked on a plan of securing their country by systematically assasinating leaders of Palestinian groups. As part of the plan, the frail half-blind quadriplegic Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his successor Abdel Aziz Rantisi were eliminated. Israeli government publicly talked about including Yasser Arafat in the plan. I saw a PBS dial-in programme where a female correspondent of Jerusalem Post was on the panel trying to extoll the virtues of assasinating Arafat. While Israel publicly dropped the idea international condemnation, they may have covertly pursued the idea. This stomach flu thing that Arafat has may have been the result of a successful poisoning attempt by the Israeli government.
UPDATE (19/11/04): Arafat is dead and reason for his death is still a mystery. Yet, how did Israel know he would be gone for sure?
UPDATE (3/12/04): Kenneth Pollack, the author of The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invasion of Iraq, which was widely regarded as a main justification for Iraq's illegal invasion, is back with a new book - The Persian Puzzle. This time, he is advocating regime change in Iran. Iran was a pioneer in democracy in the Middle East. Unfortunately, Iran's Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh was overthrown by the CIA and the British MI6 in 1953. The Shah was then re-established until Khomeini's 1979 Islamic Revolution finally overthew him. Today, Iran is a democracy and its president is elected by the people. The Ayotollah remains the spiritual head of the state.
* - The United States finds it easier to exploit small nations. Big nations always tend to be tough customers and are also perceived as threats. (The example of East Timor bears this out.)
† - Even though the U.S. has installed its stooge Mr. Hamid Karzai as President, his writ is largely limited to Kabul. The rest of the country is dominated by the Northern Alliance, warlords like Gen. Rashid Dostum and in some places even the Taliban. The Northern Alliance has not forgiven Pakistan for its support for the Taliban. Because the Northern Alliance is backed by Russia and India, the U.S. is hoping India will use its influence in getting the Northern Alliance cooperate with the U.S. and also put Pakistan back in its lost sphere of influence.
‡ - Exit polls were conducted by election monitors coached and paid by US embassy, USAID, the U.S. Democratic Party, the U.S. Republican Party, George Soro's Open Society, Freedom House and several others.
¤ - After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the IMF allowed several vested interests to become scandalously rich by buying up state-owned enterprises. These men also bought into established names in the news media or created new ones. Television stations such as NTV (Vladimir Gusinsky) and TV6 (Boris Berezovsky) started off as independent platforms but went on an agenda set by the West. During election periods, these media empires promoted candidates loyal to the west and disparaged others. For a sample, visit Novoe Vremya.
¶ - If you don't trust want the Western media tells you about Russian politics and want a more informed opinion, then subscribe to the Politruk: Russian Political Plots mailing list.
♣ - Read the article Russian oil beats Bush to market by John Helmer.
♥ - Read the article Another Worlf For Russia by John Helmer.
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In the Santa Clause Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, Christmas is a yearlong affair. Though Santa collects lists and delivers presents in a few days before Christmas, workers at the Santa Claus Operations (SCO) centre have to work all throughout the year, monitoring shopping trends, ordering gifts from manufacturers, and packing them ready for delivery. Naturally, workers in this part of Finnish Lapland take great pride in their work and are quite pleased with everything.
But yesterday, disaster struck Rovanemi when it was revealed the board of directors of SCO decided to shift jobs from the Village to India. Their work will be handled by Wipro Spectramind, India's largest outsourcing firm. On the London Stock Exchange, the SCO share price was unchanged from previous close, but volumes were higher.
A sense of disbelief hung over the Village and a few people even joked about it. But when the Internet magazine The Register released a "Santa Sent My Job Overseas And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" t-shirt, tempers ran high. One worker raged, "We are going to be fired and a bunch of cow-worshippers are going to take our jobs. For heavensake, they are not Christians!"
The outsourcing guru Lou Dobbs says, "Most kids these days want a Playstation or a Victoria's Secret model girlfriend. To call a Sony distributor or to write a 'Naughty Kid' card, you don't have to be a full-blooded coreligionist. Kids are happy if they get the gifts they asked for."
On national television, Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen complained that business leaders were selling Finland. Opposition leader Suvi-Anne Siimes alleged that the government was not doing enough to protect Finnish jobs and was probably hand-in-hand with industry leaders in exporting jobs.
Back in the Village, elders advised calm and the majority to decided to seek solace in prayer for the time being. Most workers left prayer requests at the local church. Dobbs smiled wryly. "You know, many churches these days send prayer requests to India. They will probably laugh their heads off when they read these requests."
Churches and pilgrim centers in the United States and European countries are outsourcing hundreds of thousands of masses to parishes in the state of Kerala, which has the largest number of churches in India.*
UPDATE: The Onion website had copied my idea and published an article titled American Robot's Job Outsourced To Overseas Robot.
Of all the articles that I had written The Spoof, this one generated the most interest.
* - Also read US outsourcing prayers to India from Sify.com and Prayers being outsourced to India! from Rediff.com.
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Iraqi state television announced yesterday evening that U.S. President George W. Bush has been elected the new Iraqi president. Bush will be taking over from the former "interim" President Ghazi Yawer.
In a Yes-or-No vote conducted last week, the current U.S. President is said to have won an overwhelming victory to become the Iraqi President. Even though the country was suffering from record unemployment and gross mismanagement of the economy, Bush had reminded the voters that their lives were safe only if they voted Yes.
The Yes-or-No elections were pioneered by the country's former dictator Saddam Hussein, who won each time they were conducted. There was only one candidate in these elections and Iraqi people typically voted Yes.
Prior to the election, President Bush was made an honorary Iraqi citizen by the "interim" Iraqi parliament on the advice of the "interim" Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. There were disturbances in several places in Iraq today after the news was announced. Prime Minister Allawi warned people to stay at home. He told the media that protesters would be carted off to the Abu Ghraib Freedom™ Prison and given Freedom™ executions.
International reactions to the announcement was muted and many nations were still trying to comprehend the situation. But, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was the first world leader to congratulate President Bush. He said that Bush had always been an "inspiration" to Third World leaders like him.
When Bush met reporters in Washington, he said that the Nazi-style Republican Party convention held in New York last week did not yield the kind of boost he had expected in the opinion polls. Hence, he decided to gain tactical advantage by becoming Iraqi President ahead of November elections. Bush said that his action would help the war against terror and make America "more safe". More important, he said, Kerry would be unable to match him now.
As Iraqi President, Bush said he would invade neighboring Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He said he was not interested in their oil wealth, but wanted to establish democracy in these countries. Bush promised he would eventually give Kuwait back Kuwaitis and Saudi Arabia back to Saudi Arabians.
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Did you know where all the tonnes of steel from the World Trade Center went? In a matter of days, all of it was shipped to India. One would have thought that material would have been kept in the United States to help investigators look into the reasons for the crash. Someone, it seems, was very anxious everything be disposed off as soon as possible. Thankfully, a scrap dealer in India was available to melt everthing.
A search from the U.S. Department of State*:
And recently, it was reported that Britain may ship blood and urine samples from National Health Service (NHS) patients to India for clinical tests. Apparently, the cost of shipping the specimen to India is a lot lesser than the cost of testing it in Britain. Once the tests are over, the results will be sent to Britain via èmail. What is not being said is that the specimen would be later dumped in India.
Britain is not just sending their human filth to India. Every year, tonnes of cow dung from Britain is exported to India. Britain is not alone in cow dung export, Switzerland and several other European countries do this to India.
Pepsi, it was reported, imported tonnes of used Pepsi cans from America and dumped them in India because disposing them safely in the US would have been prohibitively expensive. The story of how Coca Cola depleted groundwater resources in Kerala is well known. But what is not well known is that soft drink makers are allowed to tap groundwater in cities where millions don't get their daily drinking water requirement.
After the first Gulf war, India became the proud recipient of tonnes of metal scrap from Kuwait. In one instance, a boy working in a scrap factory in Tamil Nadu pulled the pin from a grenade and blew up himself and several others. After the second Gulf war, Americans are dumping scrap from Iraq, many of which contain unexploded ordinance and depleted uranium.
Importing scrap metal reduces the price of manufactured Indian metal. It also hinders domestic recycling efforts. India is already a country that boasts of the largest cattle population in the world. If we did not import cow dung from abroad, then our farmers would have an additional source of revenue.
For years, Western countries like the US and Switzerland tried to put pressure on the Indian government to stop supporting the GCMF† and the NDDB ‡. These countries had successfully made Sri Lanka totally import-dependent for its milk requirement by first providing free or subsidized milk powder and other products for several years and then withdrawing the aid after Sri Lankan milch farmers were totally ruined.
Now that India had outstripped the US as the largest milk-producing country and was planning to enter the American market, the American government forced Amul to mark their milk products with the inscription Contains milk from an animal called buffalo to deter American consumers from using it. This is interesting because milk produced by American farmers come from non-vegetarian cows. Perhaps American milk products will be marked Contains milk produced by cows fed on ground meat and animal excreta.
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Unable to beat Amul in a fair manner, American diplomats are probably trying a dirty tricks campaign to damage Amul's reputation.
* - The American foreign ministry is called Department of State or the State Department. Their domain name is state.gov. The State Department has offices in the U.S. and in American embassies in foreign countries. Visitors from the state.gov subdomains are usually U.S. government employees. Sometimes, ordinary American citizens (tourists, businessmen, etc.,) are allowed to use computers in these offices.
† - Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, the owner of the Amul brand. Amul is one of the greatest success stories of rural India. Amul sprung from a cooperative society started by a group of small farmers in Gujarat in the 50s. Under their chairman Kurien, GCMMF applied professional practices for its procurement, manufacturing, marketing and distribution efforts. This helped in expanding into all kinds of milk products in a big way. They started the Amulya milk powder, Amulspray baby powder, Amul Milk Chocolate, Nutramul malted cocoa beverage, etc. With its huge base, Amul has managed beat out monopolies and multinationals like HLL (Hindustan Lever Limited), Nestle and Glaxo. Recently, HLL tried to enter the icecream market but was hampered by Amul's own operations which obtains milk powder at cost price. Amul was greatly helped by its mascots the Amul butter boy and the Amul butter girl. They were featured on roadside hoardings, magazines, railway stations, trains and buses. An endearing appeal of these characters were their versatility. The girl could be appear as Aishwarya Rai in one ad and as Madhuri Dixit in another. The Amul ads also made tongue-in-cheek comments about current events. Go to Amul.com to see Amul ads that have been created over several decades.
‡ - National Dairy Development Board.
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