Daily Moral Volcano

How NWO Pests Ruin Everything They Touch

2012-01-18T08:21:00.009+05:30

New World Orders pests are everywhere. When something good appears, pothead followers of the Rothschilds go over there and ruin it.

Crysis 2

When the Turkish Yerli brothers released the game Crysis, people were stunned. Crysis was unlike anything gamers had seen before. It was unthinkable that such realism and AI could appear in a game.

However, good things don't last in a world infested with New World Order pests. They had to ruin it. When Crysis 2 appeared, the realism and AI were gone. It was no longer an open-world game. The lush-green landscape had been replaced with a dull and depressing concrete jungles of New York City. Everything is grey or black.

Typical NWO-obsessions such as zombies and plagues dominate the storyline. Unlike the previous game where you charted your own course, Crysis 2 forced you to do what the game told you to do. The game engine was deliberately dumbed down so that same code could be ported to platforms with underdeveloped graphics and computing ability such as Sony Playstation and Microsoft XBox. Reportedly, Crysis 2 was made this way to attract lame fools who like to play dumb do-what-you-are-told-to-do games such as Call Of Duty. As NWO fools are big on mind-programming, the player is also treated like a dog. Players are rewarded if they collect some knick knacks along the way. NWO likes obedience from you. You don't do your own thing. They make this very clear. The first thing you see on starting the game is their all-seeing eye. It is a clear indicator that the game has been taken over.

Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo was a great cartoon when Van Partible brought introduced it on Cartoon Network. It was great. There was nothing like it on TV. Johnny Bravo appealed to everyone. Sadly, it wouldn't last long. Van Partible was out and NWO fools came in. After a seasons, the series was canned.

NGC, History Channel, Discovery

After the advent of cable TV, the choice of channels exploded. To ensure adequate audience strength, TV program producers created mother-in-law vs. daughter-in-law tear-jerker serials and film-oriented programmes. The only thing that prevented you from throwing a brick at the TV were channels like National Geographic Channel, Discovery, and later the History Channel. Unfortunately, Rupert Murdoch took over National Geographic and History Channel. The great wildlife-based documentaries went out and were replaced with programmes where you saw a lot of humans - the same creatures that made you detest other channels. In David Attenborrough documentaries, you rarely see him interacting with animals. That kind of films are out. Now, a wildlife programme is not complete if you do not see a man jumping on a crocodile or harrasing a snake or biting an carcass. Even the death of Steve Irwin did nothing to sap other pretenders like Jeff Corwin making fools of themselves. Voice commentary also has suffered. Calm dignified tones have been replaced with more cocky AXN-style cacophonous voices.

UIDAI Aadhar's Hidden Motive To Aid Private Monopolies

2012-01-09T17:51:00.008+05:30

A taxpayer-funded get-it-free demographic database for marketers.

…it looks like that the UIDAI will allow stinking-rich CEOs access poor people with their money-grubbing schemes! Aadhar will not only bring people under the surveillance of a police state but also tie them inescapably to private monopolies. Haven't we been promised that UIDAI will only be used by the government? Then, why this betrayal?

Cloud computing seemed like a stupid idea. Why store data on the web and pay rent when you can store it in a hard disk that you own? How often do you need to access your files from a computer that does not belong to you? Only a traveling salesman runs to such problems! Haven't we already invented laptops, netbooks and external hard disks? It is like an idea born to fail. Yet, cloud computing has some big names behind it and hundreds of billions of money have already been invested in it. Big companies are moving their data to the mythical benefits and safety offered by the cloud. I've been wondering what is the ultimate motive behind all this … until recently…

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) or Aadhar also seemed like another born-to-fail scheme with powerful backers. We already have crores of fake ration cards that are used to steal stocks from civil supply departments. Similarly, our voter rolls have crores of fake voters to steal democracy from us. In at least one state (Assam), Congress will not be able to win elections if it were not for the fake ration cards ~ Bangaldeshi migrants posing as Indian Muslims. How are they going to eliminate fake IDs from this project? Governments in the US and UK have tried similar schemes and failed.

It seems that films like Back To The Future and The Matrix have convinced Rothschild's minions that biometric identification is a foolproof way to track humans. (Ever wonder why our Fascists (RSS-BJP-VHP), Communists and even churches of various Christian denominations support it. Orders come from above!)

WHY IS THE CHURCH SUPPORTING AADHAR CARDS WHEN EVEN WINGS OF THE GOVERNMENT THINK IT IS TRASH, OR DANGEROUS

John Dayal

But why is the church canvassing for the UIDAI? In my travels across the length and breadth of this country, I have found Bishops and Parish priests, Pastors and their administrators pumping for the card, without really understanding or being able to explain why they think the cards are important. The only conclusion one reaches is that the Christian leadership has an innate trust in the government of the day, and honestly believes that the government cannot do any wrong…

Actually, the UID card is a costly joke, possibly even dangerous in the long run. The United Kingdom has it for a brief period, and expeditiously gave it up when the populace objected to breach of privacy and security of data issues.

…critics called it ominous. “The fact that, a project of this magnitude was implemented without even the basic formalities needed and an enabling law is a matter of utmost concern. How can a government approve a sum over Rs. 3000 crores for a dubious project, without a benefit analysis study and the approval of the parliament? The only possible reason behind the undue haste in implementing the project is the business interests involved,” a critic said. “The social, economic, political and ethical impacts of the project are of frightening scale. And well mark the beginning of the end of democracy in India.”

…The US magazine The New Yorker describes how this embarrassment is sought to be averted: a computer operator sits in an office running through enrollment forms to make a cursory judgment whether the image matches the demographic information. "That day," the journalist reports, "he had already inspected more than 5,000 photographs, and he had clicked "incorrect" 300 times: men listed as women, children as adults, photographs with two heads in them." It seems there are infinite variations to the theme of error.

In May, "unidentified persons" walked away with two laptops and a pen drive which held data pertaining to 140 persons from an enrollment centre in a school in Hadaspur, Maharashtra. The back-up information was also on the same laptop. The data included "sensitive details" relating to passports, voter ID cards, bank accounts, photographs and a range of other information. In July, five persons were arrested in Bangalore for issuing fake UID. The UIDAI heard about the racket when they were approached with complaints that "Global ID Solutions" was selling franchises to customers to take up Aadhar enrolment for a non-refundable fee of Rs. 2.5 lakh an enrolment kit.…

… it is wise not to forget that this is not data collection in a vacuum. It is set amidst NATGRID (National Intelligence Grid), the UID and a still-hazy-but-waiting-in-the-wings DNA Bank. Each of these has been given spurs by the Union Home Ministry, with security as the logic for surveillance and tracking by the state and its agencies. The benign promise of targeted welfare services is held out to legitimise this exercise. She says if the Home Ministry were to have its way, NATGRID will enable 11 security and intelligence agencies, including RAW, the IB, the Enforcement Directorate, the National Investigation Agency, the CBI, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and the Narcotics Control Bureau and other secret services, to access consolidated data from 21 categories of databases. These would include railway and air travel, income tax, phone calls, bank account details, credit card transactions, visa and immigration records, property records, and the driving licences of citizens.

I was reading The Economic Times this weekend when I stumbled on a report that revealed another hidden motive of the Aadhar project. Manmohan Singh has been saying that the UIDAI project will allow poor people to access government schemes and benefits with minimum hassle. From this report, it looks like that the UIDAI will allow stinking-rich CEOs access poor people with their money-grubbing schemes! Aadhar will not only bring people under the surveillance of a police state but also tie them inescapably to private monopolies. Until recently, we have been repeatedly told that UIDAI will only be used by the government. Now, they have quietly slipped out the idea that the UIDAI will be used by private parties also. Quite sneaky…

The RIL official quoted in the first instance says the company is also looking to offer online services in "security, health and education". So, for example, by paying, say, 30 a month, a customer can access doctors online 24X7. He said the company was also talking to the government to link up with the database of unique IDs being created for every Indian, called Aadhaar.

Nandan Nilekani, the chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is implementing Aadhaar, confirmed this. "We have had preliminary discussions (with RIL) on how Aadhaar and the platform can be used to offer applications," he said. "You may not have a cardiologist for every village, but a 100 of them could be available to millions through this hub-and-spoke model on the cloud (computing)." RIL is targeting these millions. Targeting millions is something RIL never did late in the last century, when its first wave of growth came as a producer of industrial goods - petrochemicals, oil refining and oil exploration.

Now, do you understand cloud computing is for? It is for governments and private companies that want to track citizens and benefit from it.

Still Unanswered Questions of 911

2012-01-04T08:32:00.021+05:30

A decade has passed but none of the gaps in the "official 911 story" have been closed.

BBC Reports WTC 7 Building Had Collapsed Before It Actually Did

In this video, BBC reports that a building near the twin towers had collapsed. This is strange because you can see the building still standing in the background. The report was made 23 minutes before the building actually fell. The live video report was disrupted shortly afterwards.

The BBC reacted to conspiracy theories surrounding this report and attributed the SNAFU to the all-round confusion encountered on that eventful day. But, they also made a unbelievable revealation that they had "lost" all tapes related to that broadcast!
Many 911 Eye-Witness Accounts Mention Explosions Within The Buildings

While for ordinary TV viewers like us it appeared like the buildings fell because the planes hit them, most eye-witness accounts on that day talked only about explosions occurring within the buildings.

A New York City official named Barry Jennings gave interviews on the day of 911 and later in a 911 conspiracy film that he was in the WTC 7 building before the twin towers fell and that he heard explosions going off inside WTC 7.

Barry Jennings died mysteriously days before a US government agency NIST released a report on the WTC 7. In that report, NIST claimed that the debris from the twin-tower collapse ignited fires within WTC 7 building and the building collapsed on itself as the fires became uncontrolled. It was first case in history of a tall building collapsing due to uncontrolled fires. Disturbingly, documents related to numerous Wall Street investigations such as those of Citigroup's involvement in the Worldcom scandal were destroyed in the building. US Secret Service lost all evidence they had stored in WTC 7.
Twin Towers disintegrates like a wafer stick and settles on its foundation

Even the "pancake-style" collapse of the twin towers is hard to explain. Although the buildings were built to take multiple plane hits, they fell - ON THEIR OWN FOOTPRINT! Fire could not have weakened all those floors so fast. Even if the tower had been weakened in the middle, there was no reason for bottom part of the towers to collapse on itself. THEY WERE ALREADY CARRYING THE FULL WEIGHT OF THE TOWERS! Even if the top part had fell and sheared off a few floors from the bottom part, a significant part of the buildings should have remained standing.
Shoddy 911 Investigation

More money had been spent investigating the Whitewater (Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky) scandal than 911. The 911 Commision's job was never to investigate the event. Its purpose was to cover up the investigation. That's why Henry Kissinger was the first choice to head the commission.
Many 911 Hijackers Invited By US Government

Many of the 911 hijackers were on invitation from the US government and stayed at US military installation. Many hijackers were under 24-hour FBI surveillance. Some hijackers who were alleged to have died in the plane crashes were later reported to be alive and had never boarded the planes. FBI miraculously found a passport of a hijacker at the site when the plane themselves were supposed to have disintegrated completely. (The name on the passport was "I am a hijacker"?)
ISI General Who Financed Mohammed Atta Never Investigated

That's it.
Twin Towers Debris and Plane Wreckage Disposed Without Investigation

There were lots of allegations that the towers were brought down by explosives, as in a controlled demolition. You can check out the videos of the collapse and it will look like a controlled demolition! An analysis of the steel structures and material from the debris would have proved if explosives were used. But, there was no scope for this. Everything recyclable was surreptitiously disposed to countries like India and China and the rest were buried in landfills.

"Imminent Threat Of Terrorists Posing As TSA and DHS Personnel," CIA says

2011-12-24T12:55:00.001+05:30

Governments are not for the people but against the people.

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Market Capitalization and High-End Corporate PR

2011-12-21T08:35:00.012+05:30

While journalists are hounding Pakistani actress Veena Malik for her nude photos and the string of "controversies," which they allege are publicity stunts, the hacks remain impervious to drama performances periodically enacted by captains of industry.

Some years ago, I read an article in the Digit magazine about the Reliance CDMA network. The article claimed that the magazine had to go through several hoops for over a month to get an interview with top Reliance honcho Mukesh Ambani. This happened when Reliance was a single group. Now, the group has split and Mr. Ambani is fighting multiple battles not just with his estranged brother Anil Ambani, but also with CAG, DGH, PMO, etc. Surely, Mr. Ambani is several times more busy now. When this is the case, why would he go out of his way to spend time at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, as the chairman of the board?

For clues, please look at the changes he is forcing on the IIM, in active connivance of union HRD minister Kapil Sibal. The following is an excerpt from an Outlook article titled "Towards IIM Pvt Ltd?" (18 April 2011; http://is.gd/BEpsWd)

Key Recommendations of R.C. Bhargava and Ajit Balakrishnan Committees

IIM Societies

A substantial donation should be made to become a member. Society to be trimmed to 20 members.

Investment to be treated as equivalent to having an equity in a company.

Society will ratify appointment of board members and directors.

IIM Boards

Practice of including people from various walks of life should be given up.

Number of members to be between 12 and 14.

No restriction on number of times a person is appointed to the board.

Boards should review faculty performance.

Directors

Should function as CEOs. Designation should be changed to President-cum-dean.

More financial and administrative powers.

Should serve five years. No restriction on reappointment.

Incentive amount in the range of Rs 10 to Rs 20 lakh annually.

Faculty

Annual targets should be set.

Performance-linked pay in addition to normal pay 160 hours of teaching mandatory

Should be selective in attending academic conferences.

Should be divested of administrative responsibilities.

Should be deeply involved in serving on company boards and industry associations.

The reports of these committees were not publicly available, even for faculty members. Yet, people in charge of the management of IIMs such as Mr. Ambani were trying to surreptitiously bring them into force. The article says:

… when the faculty at the three of the oldest IIMs—at Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta—learnt about the recommendations and tried to ask questions, they were either snubbed or gagged. Industrialist Mukesh Ambani, also chairman of IIM-B, it is learnt reliably, spoke harshly to the faculty when the issue was raised during a meeting in January, going to the extent of saying that “disciplinary action” would be initiated if they didn’t fall in line. Faculty members described the experience as “very humiliating” and the “worst experience” so far in their academic lives. One academic even said that he would rather quit than be in an “Ambani IIM”.

The IIMs are public property. They were created for the sole purpose of making higher education affordable to the comman man. If the IIMs were not up to the mark, then Mr. Ambani being the paragon of capitalism that he is could have created a private educational institution that measured up to his expectations and set an example for the IIM to follow. Mr. Ambani doesn't do anything like that. Why?

The answer is obvious. He wants to privatise the IIM. Just like IPCL was privatised after all foreign bidders were driven out. Instead of using his own money and paying a honest price, he wants a shortcut to his goal, in a way not much different from the robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century USA.

In India, we are seeing a reenactment of a script that was played out almost a century ago by the likes of JP Morgan, Rockefellers and Carnegie. John D Rockefeller didn't care much about his negative image until the Ludlow massacre of 1914. (The New York Times; 22 April 1914; 45 DEAD, 20 HURT, SCORE MISSING, IN STRIKE WAR; Women and Children Roasted in Pits of Tent Colony as Flames Destroy It; http://is.gd/bL67ht) In that incident, protesting workers and family members of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (a Rockefeller outfit) were thrown out of their company-owned high-rent shacks. Rockefeller got the state governor call in the National Guard troops to break the strike. Open warfare resulted and President Wilson was roped in to send federal troops. Although dynamite and machine gun fire quelled the strike, it caused worldwide revulsion. Rockefeller then hit up on a massive PR campaign to whitewash his image. The millions of dollars lying idle with the Rockefeller Foundation was used for a dazzling display of donations made to colleges, hospitals and religious organisations. As these were phenomenal sums of money in those days, it made news everywhere. Eventually, the Rockefellers came to be talked about as great philantrophers, not robber barons. The primary focus of their donations were top educational institutions such as Harvard and Yale. Being very smart with their money, the Rockefellers cleverly maneuvered the donations to gain control over the managements of these high centers of learning. Rockefellers and other robber barons invested huge sums of money in similar ways to gain control of the medical and scientific publishing businesses. Technical journals could no longer trust their editors to review articles. Everything had to be vetted by a panel of "peers," giving rise to the concept of "peer-reviewed" journals. (Most people don't realise how this concept stifles genuine debate on science.) This greatly benefited their pharmaceuticals business, as anything harmful to their interests could be censored before it became news. This is the subject of a now-forgotten out-of-print book by a former Washington Times and Herald city editor Morris A. Bealle titled "The Drug Story." (http://is.gd/sCy7N1)

In the West, particularly in the UK and the US, higher education has been deliberately made out of reach of the common man. Even a degree or course at a non-Ivy League college could leave a student or his/her family buried in debt. Decades of high standard of living had made access to cheap labour difficult. Nobody is ready to do low-paying jobs. When good education is out of reach, labour problems are easily solved. A middle-class worker with a loan to pay off automatically becomes a more obedient and unquestioning employee. That is why India is being lead through the same route. Even our school system has not been spared. School boards have started abandoning annual exams and the marks system. Instead, they are opting for the opaque grades system, allegedly because pupils cannot face the truth about their own performance.

If Mr. Ambani is losing sleep over the IIMs, it is not for altruistic reasons. Still, he is a mere cog in a giant wheel. His wealth is derived not so much from the profits from his business as it is from the illusory value that international merchant bankers and FIIs attach to his company shares. So, he merely follows the script handed to him. Otherwise, he wouldn't waste a single minute of his time at the IIM.

Mr. Ambani is not alone. All the big guns of the BSE Sensex have talking points issued to them by the financiers of their market capitalization. The Sensex prophets are expected to use these talking points whenever an opportunity presents itself. This is why they all speak in one voice when journalists call them. This is also why so many of them (with no foreseeable interest in retail business) are expressing anguish over Manmohan Singh's missteps on retail FDI. Nothing exemplifies this more than the recent headline recently in The Economic Times - "India's billionaires frustrated, want to shift base overseas." (ET; 15 December 2011; http://is.gd/EAHjeh) Indians may not be rich but India is. Not even mad wild horses can drag these billionaires from India's wealth. What the article really talks about is how Indian businessmen are buying up properties abroad on the cheap. This has been going on for years now. Property prices in Western capitals have fallen thanks to a myriad of economic problems. But, the story is being spun as an exodus caused by lack of progress in retail FDI. How gullible must we be?

Lok Pal Will Not Eliminate Corruption

2011-12-11T17:15:00.002+05:30

It is going to create another set of government employees who need to be bribed.

To eliminate corruption, the person at the top should not tolerate corruption. Because the PM is surrounded by corrupt people and because he has been put there by corrupt people, he condones corruption. As the person at the top is corrupt, people under him are corrupt. Thus, corruption flows through the system.

To ensure that the top person is not corrupt, we as the citizens should elect honest politicians to power. We do not do this. So, it is our fault.

Maybe, it is not really our fault. Our voting machines are manufactured abroad. Even though electronic voting machines can reveal the results almost immediately after voting has finished, results are not declared for weeks. During this time, foreign powers that have placed secret codes in these devices can wirelessly bake news results onto the voting machines, i.e., even without physically accessing these devices. (Elections seem to be deliberately staggered and conducted in phases to facilitate this. The law-and-order excuse is just an excuse.) Even if this was true, we are not helpless.

We could have been out in the streets demanding that our elections machines be conducted using voting machines manufactured entirely in India. The voting machines should have been offered to anyone who wishes to check their ability survive tampering. We are not protesting for reliable voting machines. We have compromised our elections, our democracy and our sovereignity.

Instead, we are protesting for the creation of a huge new bureacracy of government employees known as Lok Pal. What is the guarantee that Lok Pal officials will be able to eliminate corruption?

First, we had the police. They were accused of corruption. So, new vigilance departments were to monitor police and government officials. Now, vigilance department officials are also taking money. At the Central level, CBI was created to check corruption. But the CBI also takes money. So, a Central Vigilance Commissioner post was created to oversee the CBI. The PJ Thomas episodes showed how the PM tried to plant a corrupt officer as the CVC.

More than the police, the CBI is the worst offender. They handle such as Bofors and Telgi fake stamp paper cases. Telgi has accused the CBI of giving him AIDS. Other accused from the political/bureacratic class are free. All the offenders in the Bofors case are either dead, abroad or in power. The CBI helped Quattroci escape from India and other countries where he was arrested. They filed poorly prepared chargesheets and also placed restrictions on those chargesheets so that the public will not come to know about their connivance. They also moved court to allow Quatrocci move his bribe money from his frozen bank account. Similarly, in other high-profile cases, CBI has protected the accused and targeted some fall guys. The usual tactic is to file charges late or file them with glaring holes. All that the CBI does well is research - research in the efficacy of truth serum. And, the serum is not used to extract the truth but to extract false memories planted by I guess hypnotists. This is then video taped and released to the media, which has a field day with it. They regularly leak information to the media, which the journalists unwitting lap up. This creates the impression that the CBI is actually doing some real work. In reality, this only makes the accused frightened and make them bribe the CBI officers. In almost all high-profile cases that the CBI has handled arrests and interrogations are done with great fanfare. This fools only the media. The courts usually throw out the cases citing lack of convincing evidence.

The CBI is utterly corrupt. The new Lok Pal will be new the CBI. When this happens, I guess Anna Hazare will be fasting for the establishment of a Lok Pal for the Lok Pal.

What we need is just a police force. The police force needs to divided into two - one should deal with general law enforcement (just patrolling would be enough) and the other should deal with investigation. Instead, most of our police personnel is engaged with bandobust duty for politicians and their cronies. There is no one left to deal with actual law enforcement or investigation. So, policemen resort to shortcuts such as kangaroo courts, threats, torture, encounter killings and falsification of evidence.

What the people need to do is pretty simple. If there are no honest politicians, then honest people should form honest political parties and win elections. If you elect corrupt politicians and then offload the responsibility to clean the system to a questionable group of government employees, it is unlikely to yield results.

Politicians and bureaucrats will become more careful and devise more crafty schemes. Western countries, such as the United States and Britain, are examples of such societies. There, corruption is very sophisticated. (After their retirement from politics, heads of state such as Tony Blair, George Bush, and John Major sit on big company boards and get paid millions for giving just pep-talk. How do you purchase such cases?)

In Western countries, corrupt people are also difficult to pursue. There are numerous occupational harzards in pursuing who are all-powerful. Like God, these people are omni-present and omni-potent. Whenever someone goes out of his way and does some real investigation, he immediately dies in a mysterious accident or commits suicide like the weapons expert David Kelly of the UK. Or, the police finds child porn in his computer, as happened with WMD inspector Scott Ritter. If the person is in politics, then someone finds that he has hired some high-priced hookers, as happened to the New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer who pursued corrupt Wall Street traders and companies.

The other danger that Lok Pal poses is much more calamitous. Its mandate will be expanded and ordinary people will be brought before its probing eye. It will be like living in a communist state where everyone lives under the threat of being hauled up before the politburo. If we need more freedom, then we need less laws and less government. We shouldn't be asking for more government employees who will create more problems for us. Total freedom is against justice and total justice is against freedom. People should find a balance. Stupidity is not an excuse.

What was Anna Hazare doing all these years? He is supposed to have held kangaroo courts in his native village in Maharashtra and dished out corporal punishment for those he found to have committed various "offences." The RSS chief is on the record that they both go back a long way.

Sharad Pawar may be a man who betrays our country's farmers and consumers to big Agro companies from the United States. Still, he is an extremely old man and someone whose face has been partially saved from oral cancer. Why would anyone think that slapping such a person a cause for amusement?

Kolaveri Di Hoax - Annals Of Human Stupidity 2

2011-12-11T15:27:00.031+05:30

The video become a real hit AFTER it was wrongly declared a "hit."

Is Kolaveri Di better than Roja or Mungaru Male or even Shakalakka Baby? So, why is this unlikely candidate considered a hit with the masses?

For several weeks in October-November, the Kolaveri production team were observed talking up the song on social-networking websites. There was also an unauthorised "leak" of the audio version. Allegedly trying to make the best of a worst situation, the team put together a promo video and released it on YouTube on November 16. So, how did the song become a hit?

On the 20th, The Times of India published a story titled "Kolaveri is the most searched video" (http://is.gd/eJ3j40). How is this news? On any given day or any given time, some video or other is the "most searched video." It could be a music video, or a cat, or a news report. The most searched video honor is not usually newsworthy. The most searched video by itself rarely becomes news. The next day, the The Times followed it up with another story titled "Kolaveri Di goes viral," which literally suggested that if you did not know what "kolaveri" was, then you probably were some creepy crawly thing that has been "living under a rock" for a long time! And, I quote verbatim.

The song became a real hit after the huge boost provided by a mainstream media outfit. But, that was only part of the story. The song could not have become a hit without the involvement of THE LITTLE PEOPLE. As with the Mona Lisa painting hoax, the little people were told something pedestrian was great and without applying their mind the little believed it.

Sure, the initial set were bamboozled into watching this video. But, what did they do afterwards? Did they behave responsibly? AT A SUBCONSCIOUS LEVEL, THEY ALL FELT CHEATED. As happens often in these cases, they decided to subject others to the same trauma. To this end, they posted links on their social networking sites. (Meanwhile, other news organizations started posting newer stories with updated view count numbers.) Now, there are lots of people… I mean lots and lots and lots of people who want to be on the cutting edge of trends. They do not want to be left behind by any online craze. Here is a report from the computer magazine Digit:

Why This Kolaveri Di?

We were hooked onto this song towards the end of closing. When we first watched it, its view count read 3,000 and now it is over 6.5 million. It was widely covered by every leading daily…

The Internet is almost up to the brim with people like this. They were the ones who drove view count higher and higher. Given the viral nature of the Internet, the herd mentality of majority of its users and the huge boost given by unwitting news organizations, it was no wonder the video eventually became a hit.

Some journalists were still unimpressed. They tried to seek the opinion of expert musicians. This was a wasted effort. Most artists will not try to underplay the success of another artist. Only Javed Akthar dared to speak his mind. (Rediff; 6 December 2011; http://is.gd/hMT4cN)

Javed Akhtar: Kolaveri Di is an insult to sensibility

Tamil actor Dhanush's song Kolevari Di might have taken the web world by storm. But that didn't impress lyricist Javed Akhtar.

"KOLAVARI-D: Every one is praising the robes but the emperer is naked. Tune ordinary, singing substandard. Words an insult to sensibility," he tweeted.

He responded to a follower's answer: "What kind of logic is this even if all my songs are trash, meaningless, unbearable how does that make this Kolaveri D good."

The noted lyricist has received a lot of flak for his remarks. "its a barrage of comments about my comment on KOLA...some are calling me jealous, even abusing me, others praising me for belling the cat," he tweeted about the various responses to his tweet.

Is the average Internet citizen a crazed moron. Or, are some people just too loud?

If you look at who owners of the music rights for the film are, you will find that it is Sony Music from America. Now, Sony Music is big, as in Big Music. They are more familiar with modern PR than Indian music companies. India is pristine ground, up for unbridled exploitation. With their marketing muscle, they could have scored a million page views on the first day if they wanted to.

For one, there are lots of "Social Media Experts" out there who can guide companies and even governments create sophisticated online campaigns. They can manipulate online herds into promoting a product or a meme (online craze). They usually have people working individually and as part of other organizations with huge followings. "Celebrities" are sometimes roped in to boost numbers. They can create YouTube hits much bigger than this.

If you want something quick and dirty, then there is the "Online Mojo Mafia," the underground operators who own millions of accounts in Facebook, Google, Gmail, YouTube, Twitter and other popular websites. (You may have seen their ads in newspapers and on wallposters. "Earn 4000 to 10,000 per month from home. Housewives, retired persons, Internet parlour owners invited.…") They control huge botnets that span continents with millions of zombie computers strung together by unsecured Internet proxies and compromised software. They offer their botnets for rent. These botnets can create YouTube hits at the click of a button. Kolaveri is nothing compared to what they have already accomplished. (Do you know that the Russia Today YouTube channel gets more views than BBC and CNN combined?)

Note To Newspaper Publishers and Editors

It may be a dog-eat-dog situation in the newspaper business but there is no excuse for voluntarily leaking revenue. Do not get financially raped by PR companies. Keep an eye open for PR efforts masquerading as news stories. Tell them to advertise in your newspaper instead.

JavaScript Solution To Google's New Referrer URLs - No Need For Google Analytics

2011-12-11T10:35:00.003+05:30

Add this JavaScript function to your referrer log pages.

If you are a webmaster who tracks your referrer logs, then you may have noted that most of Google referrer links do not perform the original search performed by the visitor but redirect to your website page.

Previously, referrer links used to look like this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=moral+volcano

This link would have lead to the Google search results page. After the recent change introduced by Google, the links look like this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvsubhash.blogspot.com%2F&ei=gzrkTofjCcfLrQeijqn-Bw&usg=AFQjCNE05nqubFQoNSLYtPZxN3PSC5K61A&sig2=ZERt876nble_85ZpByhNJA

If you click this link, it would lead to your page, not that of the Google search result!

Now, you can modify /url? in the URL with /search? and the modified link would point lead to the results page. You can automate this modification using a JavaScript that is embedded in the web page. Here is it:

function update_Links() {
  var i,n, sURL, sURL2;

  var cLinks = document.getElementsByTagName("a");

  n = cLinks.length;

  for (i =0; i < n; i++) {
    sURL = cLinks[i].getAttribute("href");
    sURL2 = sURL.replace(/\/url\?/gi, "\/search\?");
    sURL = sURL2.replace(/\&cd\=[0-9]+/gi, "&cd=");
    sURL2 = sURL.replace(/\/imgres\?/gi, "\/search\?");
    cLinks[i].setAttribute("href", sURL2);
  }
}

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", update_Links, false);

This not only makes the URLs usable, it also resets the &cd= parameter.

Arctic Mining and Climate Change Propaganda

2011-12-07T09:27:00.000+05:30

Laws related to "climate change" will make people hate environmentalists and open the gates to Arctic mining

Oil companies all over the world are trying to mine oil and other mineral in the Arctic and Antarctic. Mineral exploration has so far been prohibited by the Arctic Treaty and Antarctic Treaty. Several countries are trying to make changes to the treaty. Some countries, like Russia, are trying to bypass the treaty by claiming that the Arctic is a extension of their continental shelf.

One other impediment against Arctic mining is public opinion. Most people are against any mining activities in the Arctic. In order to soften them up, "Climate Change" laws are being imposed all over the world. As mentioned earlier, Climate Change propaganda paints people as the guilty party, not Big Oil. Laws related to "Climate Change" will impose new costs on the people, not Big Oil. This will make people hate all those who express concern about the environment. And, if some companies want to mine in the Arctic, screw it - they are not going to care!

100-Crore Libel Suit On Times Now Is Justified

2011-12-07T09:19:00.002+05:30

It may seem like a misuse of judicial powers but there is more to it than meets the eye.

The Times Now channel is reported to have shown the wrong photo of a judge accused in a scandal. The affected judge filed a suite and demanded damages for Rs. 100 crore. The channel corrected the error and ran apologies for weeks but the offended judge refused to withdraw his suit. The appeals court accepted the lower court's demand that Times Now deposit a part/whole of the money before the judgement.

This may all seem to be an abuse of judicial powers. We are also sympathetic to Times Now because it has been in the forefront of the campaign against corrupt politicians, particularly in the context of NDTV's deliberately slanted coverage (favourable to Congress).

Why is this suit justified? Because Bennet & Coleman, the owners of The Times of India, The Economic Times, and Times Now, have used legal threats and the possibility of huge financial damages on bloggers. Many bloggers have meekly surrendered to the threats issued by the legal department of the B&C. The 100-crore fine on the Times group is in keeping with the size of the company and in consideration of the legal threats that group has issued against others. So, do not waste your tears on this one. A tribal woman named Soni Sori has been beaten and tortured in custody. The policmen also stuffed her private parts with pebbles. When this brought to the notice of the Supreme Court, the honorable court gave the Chattisgarh government time till January 24 to respond. That's the kind of miscarriage of justice we need to be worried about.

Kapil Sibal Is Neither An Idiot Nor Acting Alone

2011-12-07T09:00:00.083+05:30

He is a puppet in the hands of a global kleptocracy.

Despite the fact that freedom of expression is guaranteed by the Constitution, the Press and the electronic media are burdened by a huge body of regulations. Even TV serials are not spared. Several years ago, the makers of popular Doordarshan sitcom Srimaan Shrimati were so driven to distraction that I think they devoted their final episode to make fun of those very regulations. The episode somehow slipped past the censors of the Doordarshan politburo and was telecast all over the country!

Recently, Union IT minister and Communications in-charge Kapil Sibal created a furore after it was revealed that he asked that prominent Internet websites, such as Google, MSN, Yahoo and Facebook, to "pre-screen" all comments posted by their visitors and remove any "objectional" content therein. Later, he cited morphed pictures mocking Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh but also expressed his anguish regarding the offended religious sentiments of a minority community. (Outlook; 19 December 2011; Status Update? Bad - Kapil Sibal ko gussa kyon aata hai?; http://is.gd/jrqVHw)

Given that these websites get millions of visitors each day, the minister's demand can only be met if an equal number of censors were employed on the other side of the Internet connection. Seen in isolation, this looks like a typical ham-handed move of a government weary of criticism. However, if you see it in the context of what is happening globally, you will realise that this is all a high-profile drama. It isn't as if Kapil Sibal browsed the Net for the first time the previous day and stumbled upon these images.

Kapil Sibal is not your regular fuddy-duddy stupid-as-a-doornail politician who doesn't "get" the Internet. (He is a high-profile lawyer and probably charges lakhs of rupees for a single court appearance.) No, he is not making himself the subject of all-round ridicule because he can't help it. Neither is he trying to ingratiate himself to Ms. Sonia Gandhi, as some have suggested. What seems likely is that he is merely following a script handed down to our netas by their global masters.

What Kapil Sibal is trying to do in India mirrors similar efforts by governments abroad - not just in police states such as China or North Korea but also in fashionable democracies such as U.S. and U.K. To illustrate this, I would like to draw your attention to a recent appeal made by the popular PC hardware enthusiast site to its readers:

… we want to share with you what may come to affect how you experience us and the rest of the Internet. It’s called SOPA, or the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and it is headed through U.S. Congress with its sister bill PROTECT-IP in the Senate. SOPA threatens to fundamentally change the way information is presented online by placing massive restrictions on user-generated content like posts to forums, video uploads, podcasts or images. In a nutshell, here’s what the law would do:

Assign liability to site owners for everything users post, without consideration for whether or not the user posted without permission. Site owners could face jail time or heavy fines, and DNS blacklisting.

It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload.

It would deny site owners due process of law, by initiating a DNS blacklisting based solely on a good-faith assertion by an individual copyright or intellectual property owner.

It would give the U.S. government the power to selectively censor the web…

(Tom's Hardware; 29 December 2011; ; Save Tom's, Stop SOPA; http://is.gd/F5phcj)

Now, does it look like Kapil Sibal is acting alone? The US government may have mocked Indian government's attempt to censor the Internet but it is going full-steam ahead with its own plan to censor the Net.

Facebook is already disabling accounts in a random manner and asking affected users to submit identification papers - Salman Rushdie being the latest high-profile victim. For its part, Google is annoying users by asking them to submit their mobile numbers every time they log in. These top websites are not bold enough to make these requirements mandatory on their own. This is probably why Kapil Sibal is offering himself as a punching bag (no pun intended) and making the UPA government take the blame. People in the United States have have already seen this playing out in the aftermath of the USA Patriot Act. The value of a validated junk-free demographic database is a marketing gold mine for these websites. The government is also happy with the scheme as investigative and intelligence agencies can build neural maps of anyone they want to track, investigate, frame or harass. It is a win-win proposition for both the websites and the government.

Further research will show that United States has been trying to get other countries to enforce similar restrictions by forcing them to sign a misleadingly named international treaty - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Basicaly, ACTA is a backdoor attempt to bypass lawmakers and laws that protect consumer interest. People should realize that this is all a globally coordinated effort. Every major country seems to have its own version of Kapil Sibal.

When Jesus Christ started preaching his creed, he insisted on a life of poverty and humble living from his followers. The Roman Catholic Church, which took his mantle, did not really try to follow these precepts. Instead, it took up many pretenses of royalty. The Church collected taxes, accumulated vast riches, maintained armies, and even had colonies. The clergy lived in luxurious castles and palaces. The Pope expected himself to be treated as a God on earth. Kings and princes could only kiss his shoe. When printing was invented, books challenged Church power. Until then, the Bible was written on expensive vellum and hence it was the preserve of churchmen. So, anything the Church said was akin to the Word of God. When ordinary people started getting their own copies of the Bible, they read about the the humble life that Jesus lived and compared it with the scandalous luxury that churchmen surrounded themselves with. Europe rose in revolt. Catholic Church splintered and lost a great deal of its following to Protestantism.

Thus, knowledge is power. Books are a medium for that power. Still, the reach of books is limited. Doing research using books requires a great deal of physical effort. Many books are not easily accessible and out of reach for most people. The Internet solves that problem. A great deal of old books are freely available on the Internet. All it takes is a ~~Google~~, no, Bing search. (Bing, not Google, is your friend.) More importantly, Internet functions as a vast ocean of freely expressed uncensored opinion and information. (Sure, there is lots of disinformation out there but nobody can force you to believe in anything.)

Police states need no excuse for censorship. But, it is the so-called democracies in the West that have taken the lead in laws that limit freedom of expression. Many European have laws that bans any critical discussion of the Jewish Holocaust. It is invariably labeled "Holocaust Denial" and the "guilty" are prosecuted for speaking their mind. It is a form of thought crime. Never mind the fact that the word Jewish Holocaust came into popular parlance many years after the end of the World War and the oft-cited figure of 6-million Jewish deaths had to be revised down several times by the Holocaust vigilantes themselves. In the United States, there is a Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004 (http://is.gd/lLkFJm), which makes any criticism of Israel or Zionist organizations illegal. The main motivation for this law is that it clandestinely authorizes US government officials to spy on Americans.

Whenever such laws are being debated, it is accompanied by an unassailable argument that is universally accepted. With the American law mentioned earlier, it was "anti-Semitism." When the Australian Internet firewall was brought in place, the ruse was child pornography. In the Indian government's case, it was blasphemous images that offend the religious sentiments of a minority community. (I have a feeling that funny pictures of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh were used only to get those two onboard with the program.) The methods used by governments may vary but their objectives have been the same:

Prevent citizens from expressing criticism or dissent - against politicians, government officials, and businesses
Prevent citizens from finding common cause and joining forces with others
Eliminate the easy anonymity and protection from retribution that Internet offers

Internet threatens the power of the global kleptocracy. They are being threatened by the Internet in the same way the Church power was challenged by books. This is why their minions are enacting laws to eliminate freedom of expression on the Internet.

Recently, Britain passed a law that banned "watching extreme pornography." This law was unusual as making "extreme pornography" was still legal but watching it was not. You see, the adult industry can afford good lawyers and overturn laws in a court. That is why the mandarins smartly avoided a confrontation with them. Interestingly, the home minister (Jacqui Smith) who framed this law got busted when her husband was caught paying his porn bills using taxpayers' money. (CNN; 30 March 2009; Husband's porn purchases threatens minister's job; 30 March 2009; http://is.gd/fQTVO5)

Paul Wolfowitz, the main campaigner for the war against Iraq, said that he presented several reasons that could be cited for an invasion of Iraq. The only reason that he claimed got universal support was the threat of weapons of mass destruction. And, that was why the United States and United Kingdom made such a hue and cry about Iraq's WMD. (Never mind the fact that US, UK and their close ally Israel were the principal suppliers and conduits of Iraq's WMD arsenal buildup.)

The global kleptocracy will first get the laws passed on a premise that has universal support. Then, they will extend them and use them in ways not foreseen by the initial supporters. Today, many Islamic organizations and Muslims unwittingly support Kapil Sibal's efforts. This is extremely disconcerting, as a disproportionate number of Muslims are victims of human rights violations. What is even more horrifying is that intelligence agencies all over the world have been trying to induce innocent Muslim dupes into committing "acts of terrorism." (Guardian; Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned; 16 November 2011; http://is.gd/E1gPeM)

In the United States, the threat of terrorism was used as an excuse to create and fund the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, and numerous state-level anti-terrorist squads. As there are very few terrorists operating in the United States (outside the government I have to say), these heavily armed personnel are deployed on ordinary law enforcement duties. Recently, a famed American guitar company was accused of illegally importing wood. As part of the investigations, the company's offices were raided by heavily armed government agents. It looked as if it was an anti-terrorist operation. The guitar company's mistake was that it bypassed European middleman supplying inferior wood and imported superior rosewood from India. (The Economic Times; 6 September 2011; Gibson guitars set to miss Indian notes as raids in US and Europe on Gibson's facilities continue; http://is.gd/EYg0rS)

Here is another example. Large milk companies in America have been supplying their countrymen with hormone- and antibiotics-laced milk obtained from cows fed on animal waste and meat industry by-products. (Yes, American cows are non-vegetarian. Meat parts that cannot be sold to humans are ground up and fed back to the cows. Cows are also are fed poultry waste. It may seem very unnatural but their government thinks this is fine. See http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/01/Nov01/110501/ts00014.doc.) This has made some American people to seek milk obtained from cows raised on pasture, not "Frankenfeed." As pasteurization kills useful bacteria in the milk, these people have been procuring raw milk from some enlightened farmers. Many of these small "raw milk" farmer outfits have been raided by heavily armed SWAT-like units. (Forbes; 4 July 2011; The Rawesome Raid and the Controversy Over Raw Milk; http://is.gd/dB5cNu)

It is a bane of democracy that its logical conclusion is its very antithesis i.e., dictatorship. This is because the people's representatives think their sole job is legislation (not debate). They keep on cranking out laws until there are enough laws to put everybody in jail. (The Nazis did this to perfection - targeting their laws selectively on Jews. Our laws do not discriminate.) A citizen in that state has just one option - either be a criminal or be a slave. When elections don't work, we need a revolution. That's the only way to keep democracy young. Otherwise, democracy morphs into a dictatorship. The problem with revolutions is that they misfire with gay abandon. We do not have a Gandhi or a Tilak to guide us. Most of the time, it is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering, as Tom Stoppard observed.

The choice, I think, is clear. Netizens or not, all citizens should try to limit the powers of government, not expand them. We need fewer laws, not more. Politicians and bureaucrats will always try to make citizens give up their freedoms. Citizens should remain smart enough to see through their dainty little schemes and prevent any abridgment of our god-given rights. Otherwise, future generations will be slaves.

Lessons In Usability - I

2011-11-28T22:47:00.004+05:30

Stupid YouTube and Microsoft

If you go to the YouTube home page, you will be greeted with a box trying to get your attention to their "LOCATION FILTER". It looks like this:

If the box was very important, it could have been like this.

Hold on a second. Google can't be crowned for stupidity when Microsoft is around. Just head over to http://www.microsoftstore.co.in/microsoft/13/productlist/developers.aspx. There you will find that Microsoft is selling one line item named "Visual Studio 2010 Professional" for Rs. 39,000 and another named "Visual Studio 2010 Professional + Free Pendrive" for the same amount. The price for the second item was arrived at after a discount of Rs. 4,414.* This means that the pen drive costs Rs. 4,414. What is it made of? Gold?

* - The screenshot was taken in June. The price seems to have come down a bit since then.

Undead Myths In The Wake Of iDead Steve Jobs

2011-10-28T18:25:00.016+05:30

He was not a visionary, inventor, blah, blah, blah …

In the age of push-button publishing and social networking, people seem to have become de-humanised, not knowing what their true emotions are. This became very clear in the wake of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' demise. Condolence messages ranged from "hagiographic" to "outright lame." Nobody seemed to have put an effort. There was no honesty or genuine feeling.

Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C language and co-inventor of the Unix operating system, died a few days after Steve Jobs. He was far more influential than Jobs. There was hardly a mention anywhere. People have no sense of history. And, they have no sense of proportion either.

US President Obama led the pack: "Steve was among the greatest of American innovators." What did Steve invent? Steven Spielberg went further: "Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips." That would have set the man who invented light bulb incandescent with rage! Closer home, in India, HCL owner Shiv Nadar said, "He is in the same league as the person who created the wheel."

After tech luminaries, politicians, and celebrities set the ball rolling, technically challenged daily news publications in America took over with individual pieces on what they thought Steve Jobs and Apple had accomplished. That was when the lines got blurred. It was one blooper after another. It wouldn't stop there. When FOSS guru Richard Stallman refused to follow the herd and tried to put things in proper perspective, they went completely bonkers.

Myth 1: Steve Jobs Invented The Personal Computer

Even The New York Times fell for this urban legend.

In 1973, Xerox Corporation had something called a "personal workstation." It was a research project limited Xerox installations and a few universities. It could not be used at home.

So, the job of inventing the personal computer was left to a guy named Gary Kildall. Not even Intel knew their processors could be used on a desktop. If you check the archives of Computer Chronicles, you will find an episode titled "Gary Kildall Special" that will make it clear as daylight as to who invented the PC.

… Killdall had started developing his Control Program for Microcomputers (CP/M) in the early 1970s when he realized the potential for a general-purpose small computer. He was carrying a portable computer at a time when a desktop PC was just a dream.

Tom Rolander (first DRI employee): "I met Gary in 1973 in the Computer Science Lab late one evening. He was a young kid … He came into the computer center with a leather briefcase that he flipped open that he connected to a teletype … and that was an entire self-contained computer. It was the first personal computer I ever saw."

… Gordon Eubanks (another DRI employee, later Symantec): "… he invented a programming language called PL/M and implemented it for the Intel microprocessors to prove that that 8080 was a real computer and not a controller for microwave ovens …

… while a consultant at Intel in the 70s, he offered to sell them CP/M but Intel could see no use for it and turned him down. Shortly afterwards in 1976, Gary and his wife Dorothy founded a company called InterGalactic Digital Research, later shortened to Digital Research …

Gary's design allowed programs written for CP/M to be used on hardware produced by different manufacturers. Thus, CP/M started a whole new industry for personal computing.

In 1977, Steve Jobs started marketing a "personal computer" designed by Steve Wozniak. Their Apple II personal computer was targeted at the masses, unlike CP/M-loaded PC kits targeted at hobbyists and engineers. Apple II was one of several commercially successful personal computers.

Myth 2: Steve Jobs and Apple Pioneered The Graphical User Interface (GUI)

In 1975, Xerox invented the GUI or the WIMP - windows, icons, menus and a pointer controlled by hand-held device known as the mouse.

Apple's attempt at GUI was called Lisa and was released in 1983. Because of his running feud with the Apple management, Steve Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project. Later, Jobs got interested in the "Macintosh" project run by an Apple employee named Jeff Raskin. Jobs forced out Raskin and took over the project. He also visited Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and studied their GUI implementation. He also brought in people from Xerox to work on the Macintosh project. Apple did make several improvements to the Xerox GUI concept. To put it correctly, the Mac was the first commercially successful OS that featured a GUI.

Myth 3: Without Steve Jobs, Beautiful Typefaces Wouldn't Have Come To Computers

This myth was propagated by Steve Jobs himself. It is like saying that if Columbus hadn't discovered America, then the continent would have remained undiscovered. In 2005, Steve Jobs made this claim in the "commencement address" he gave at Stanford University.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

Myth 4: Steve Jobs And His Original Ideas

The Mac OS X was based on the NeXTStep operating system built by Steve Jobs' company NeXT Computer. NeXTStep was one of many Unix-like operating systems and used BSD Unix source code.

Despite the fact Apple owed so much to open source, it did not prevent Steve Jobs from targeting companies supporting open source. In 2010, Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, recounted his encounter with Steve Jobs in a blog post titled "Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal":

I feel for Google. Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too. In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were "stepping all over Apple IP. (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, "I'll just sue you." My response was simple. "Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence. "Do you own that IP?" Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996. Lighthouse built applications for NeXTSTEP, the Unix based operating system whose core would become the foundation for all Mac products after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996. Steve had used Concurrence for years, and as Apple built their own presentation tool, it was obvious where they'd found inspiration. And last I checked, MacOS is now built on Unix. I think Sun has a few OS patents, too. Steve was silent. And that was the last I heard on the topic.

These were not the only instances when Apple relied on others' work. The Safari browser created by Apple uses an HTML rendering engine called Webkit. Webkit was derived from the KHTML engine used by the open-source Konqueror browser. Many Apple devices such as the iPod uses the open source FreeType font-rendering engine. This is particularly galling because FreeType developers struggled for many years because Apple would not publish the specification for the TrueType hinting bytecode intrepreter. FreeType developers eventually succeeded in reverse engineering this Apple secret. Still, patent-conscious FreeType users had to wait till May 2010 when Apple patents on hinting bytecode expired.

Myth 5: Steve Jobs Was A Design Genius

Steve Jobs was not a designer. Most successful Apple designs were created by somebody else at Apple, not Steve Jobs. He approved or disapproved designs. Apple's chief designer Johnathan Ive said to Jobs' biographer:

"He [Jobs] will go through a process of looking at my ideas and say, 'That's no good.' 'That's not very good.' 'I like that one.' And later I will be sitting in the audience and he will be talking about it as if it was his idea."

The Apple iPod was based on a design invented and patented by Creative, the Singapore company of Soundblaster soundcard fame. The suit filed by Creative against Apple shows some glimpses on how the genius worked. Here is an excerpt from a news report:

The complaint accuses Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs of getting a look at the design details when he tried to arrange a joint business partnership with Creative Technology. But Apple then "abruptly" changed course and tried to license its technology. Apple also suggested that Creative Technology spin off its digital music player arm into a separate company, allowing Apple to invest in it. When Creative Technology refused, Apple went ahead and introduced the iPod in 2001.

The first generation Apple iPods were not the epitome of design. It took three more generations to get them look pretty.

The first generation of Apple iPhones did not have the ability to forward text messages. They also did not have the ability to do cut and paste. It is all forgotten now.

Apple mobile devices cannot really be switched off. The screen would go dark but internally the device would remain on and consume power from the battery. This design choice allowed the user to pick up the device and start using it right away. No other company would be allowed to have such liberties. To make matters worse, these devices did not come with a user-replaceable battery. It could be replaced only at an enormous cost to the user.

In Summary… The Mona Lisa Effect

We may never really know why why these myths were created. Perhaps, some big shots saw a potential gold mine and pumped up the man, the company and its products to high heavens. If true, their efforts must have been rewarded beyond their wildest dreams - the market capitalization of Apple (a company that sells overpriced gadgets) stands cheek by jowl with Exxon (the world's biggest oil company on whose products runs the world's biggest economy). We may never know.

What is really within our realm is understanding why these myths found traction. It must be the Mona Lisa Effect. The original is pretty much unremarkable. The literature surrounding it paints a different picture. We did not accept what our eyes told us - that IT WAS AN ORDINARY PAINTING. Under the influence of the propaganda, we started believing that the painting was greater than it really was. The same thing seems to have happened in Steve Jobs' case.

Steve Jobs' real achievement (that nobody mentioned) was that he stood up to Bill Gates (after numerous falls though). As the Bill Gates roadkill list is too long to be mentioned here, I suggest the reader go over a few articles on RoughlyDrafted.com to get a full picture of what shaped Steve's attitude towards competition.

Is raising doubts about vaccines akin to “yelling fire in a crowded theater?”

2011-10-26T23:18:00.000+05:30

Latest from my free PDF ebook World Government For Dummies

There is a difference between someone who has seen some smoke and someone does it as a prank.

Informed consent is a prerequisite for any medication or medical procedure. It applies to vaccines too.

Remember that vaccines are prescribed for everyone, not just sick people. It is a goldmine when you can sell something to the entire population. And, there are lots of diseases out there. Vaccinations are now prescribed for what were formerly considered as non-communicable conditions like cancers, diabetes, and obesity. It is possible to connect ANYTHING with an immune response and prescribe a vaccine for it. This means that, in future, each human will have to take thousands over a lifetime.

If the vaccines are safe, then the manufacturers engage in proper debate and convince the people. They should not indulge in character assassination or destroy the careers of scientists who find side effects. Vaccine companies should pay compensation for injuries from their own funds, not pass it on to taxpayers. They should not be given immunity from lawsuits. They should not with stuff regulatory and legislative bodies with their cronies. All vaccines should be first given to top executives of the vaccines companies and the media advocates/politicians who prescribe them.

JP Morgan Declares Profit Despite Sitting On Trillions of Dollars Of Debt

2011-10-15T10:15:00.004+05:30

And, Paris tries to ban people picking items from garbage cans - that's the job of the intelligence agencies!

Forbes magazine says JP Morgan is a "fortress" despite fall in profits.

But, JP Morgan is setting on a huge derivatives time bomb that is waiting to explode. ETF Daily News says the derivatives bomb is the real reason banks aren't lending to each other.

In 2009, five banks held 80% of derivatives in America. Now, just four banks hold a staggering 95.9% of U.S. derivatives, according to a recent report from the Office of the Currency Comptroller.

The four banks in question: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS).

Derivatives played a crucial role in bringing down the global economy, so you would think that the world’s top policymakers would have reined these things in by now – but they haven’t.

Instead of attacking the problem, regulators have let it spiral out of control, and the result is a $600 trillion time bomb called the derivatives market.

... The notional value of the world’s derivatives actually is estimated at more than $600 trillion. ... The world’s gross domestic product (GDP) is only about $65 trillion, or roughly 10.83% of the worldwide value of the global derivatives market, according to The Economist. So there is literally not enough money on the planet to backstop the banks trading these things if they run into trouble. Compounding the problem is the fact that nobody even knows if the $600 trillion figure is accurate, because specialized derivatives vehicles like the credit default swaps that are now roiling Europe remain largely unregulated and unaccounted for. To be fair, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) estimated the net notional value of uncollateralized derivatives risks is between $2 trillion and $8 trillion, which is still a staggering amount of money and well beyond the billions being talked about in Europe.

... And that’s why banks are hoarding cash instead of lending it. The major banks know there is no way they can collateralize the potential daisy chain failure that Greece represents. So they’re doing everything they can to stockpile cash and keep their trading under wraps and away from public scrutiny. What really scares me, though, is that the banks think this is an acceptable risk because the odds of a default are allegedly smaller than one in 10,000.

... Although American banks have limited their exposure to Greece, they have loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to European banks and European governments that may not be capable of paying them back. According to the Bank of International Settlements, U.S. banks have loaned only $60.5 billion to banks in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy – the countries most at risk of default. But they’ve lent $275.8 billion to French and German banks.

And undoubtedly bet trillions on the same debt.

Meanwhile, in a Paris suburb, the mayor has banned people from picking garbage cans. (This used to be done only by intelligence agents. James Bond movies may have romanticized their image but the their main work is in garbage. It is one of the shittiest jobs in the world.) Now, with Sarkozy as President, ordinary French people are doing this for more pressing reasons. What a fall!

This is not the only way Sarkozy is destroying France. With school meals, his government is trying to get soya in (think estrogen-like qualities and GMO) and salt out.

Update (18/10/2011): I read somewhere that some Pope once asked the Vatican Lake to be drained and they found thousands of baby skeletons. The babies were born to nuns and they were obviously killed and thrown into the lake. This must have obviously happened over hundreds of years. I forgot in which book I read this. I decided to do a Google search. I found a few sites that mention this incident but I still could not find the name of the Pope. Anyway, I found this Google ad suggestion that seemed to have gone too far.

Mona Lisa - Annals Of Human Stupidity

2011-10-12T08:01:00.009+05:30

From my book World Government of Dummies

Is this picture really worthy of your attention? Is there any trace of beauty in the woman's face? Is her smile or whatever the hell it is really mysterious? NO. Your are just pretending (not imagining) it.

You have been told early in life about the mysterious qualities of the painting and you blindly believed it – even when your brain suggested otherwise.

That's the power of propaganda. You will believe in something that you damn well know is not true. Dictators use it. Democrats use it. Religious figures use it. Every snake-oil salesman in history has used it.

Although the power of propaganda has been realized for eons, it was in America that its full potential has been used. In 1938, Orson Welles unleashed fake reports of a mass hysteria caused by the broadcasts of HG Wells novel "War Of The Worlds." In fact, there was no mass hysteria. People who heard the broadcast knew that it was from the novel. Some rumours were indeed spread and there were calls to broadcast stations but there was no mass hysteria. It was created in the propaganda campaign that Welles unleashed after the broadcast. And, it was blindly accepted as fact. The "mass hysteria" caused by the "War Of The Worlds" broadcast is now "history."

Orson Welles stunt was not the first nor the last. There have been many eloborate myths that have been embedded into our common conscience. In 1928, Bertrand Russel (a Fabian Socialist a.k.a. Rothschild apologist for totalitarianism) mentioned the power of propaganda in his book Icarus or the Fall of Science:

The effects of psychology on practical life may in time become very great. Already advertisers in America employ eminent psychologists to instruct them in the technique of producing irrational belief; such men may, when they have grown more proficient, be very useful in persuading the democracy that governments are wise and good.

NoAgendaShow.Gov

2011-10-10T21:07:00.014+05:30

Now, here's a domain-forwarding that makes sense. Hits you in the mouth!

I found a search for adam curry pgp key yesterday in my referrer logs. It went to my piece about the No Agenda Show. In that article, I have mentioned how Curry's PGP-ready email server offerred no security. Until I saw this search, I did not realize that it could also be the other way around. His listeners can send messages encrypted with Curry's public key. I then searched the Web to see if he had published his public key. Nope. Just a smokescreen to fool his listeners.

In the last podcast, Dvorak exposed the identity of yet another listener who DONATED MONEY IN THESE TOUGH TIMES and requested some discretion.

I guess government-sponsored conspiracy theorists are like that. People like Adam Curry and Alex Jones are more likely to be operating honeypot programmes for their government.

What is the motive behind “Climate Change” propaganda?

2011-10-03T09:35:00.000+05:30

People will demand that they be made slaves. It is the wet dream of the proponents Rothschild World Government.

There are several reasons why “climate change” is thrust on the slaves.

Reverse Guilt and CarbonTax: Instead of Big Business taking the blame, Climate Change places the guilt squarely on the ordinary public. This makes it easy for governments to impose a “carbon tax” on everything that has an environmental footprint and that means everything - increased taxes and bigger bills.
Sabotage and Distraction: For several decades, big businesses, particularly Big Oil, were being harassed by environmentalists and enlightened citizens about the dangers of pollution and environmental damage. “Climate Change” distracts these people and keeps them occupied with something that does not affect corporate profits.
Money: Carbon trading, commercial sponsorship of “climate change” propaganda in academia and media... the list goes on.
Police State, Plutocracy and Communism Dictatorship: This is a wet dream for the proponents of Rothschild World Government. Climate Change propaganda allows them to make people think that they are the guilty party and that each one of them need to make certain personal sacrifices to remedy the situation. Slowly but surely, a police state and an eventual Communist-style dictatorship can be established without using force. The people themselves will demand that it be imposed on them. Climate Change makes people that stupid.

Is The US Federal Reserve Evil?

2011-10-02T00:24:00.000+05:30

Another piece from my free PDF eBook World Government For Dummies

In traditional banking, a bank offers loans at a higher rate than the interest it pays for deposits from the public. It makes a profit (after accounting for expenses, tax, and reserves) using the margin between loans and deposits. But American banks operated under a system called fractional reserve banking. Banks could make loans for $100 even if they have only $10 as deposits. Later, the rules were changed so that even this $10-limit was eliminated. So, where do they create money for these loans? Out of thin air, of course. Yes. All of that loan money need not be printed. Nobody takes the entire loan amount out as cash! The new money remains in the banking system as book entries - until the bankers declare a profit and move it out.

In 1913, Rothschild agents surreptitiously established a permanent US central bank cunningly named as the Federal Reserve. From then on, the Federal Reserve has issued debt notes as currency on behalf of the US government. When the US government issues currency (that is, pays its debts), it has in effect “borrowed” the money from the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve also issues currency to American banks when someone takes a loan. All money that comes into the American financial system is via loans.

Some big banks (which are Rothschild fronts) can borrow money from the Federal Reserve at zero or near-zero interest rate. When the bank's customer repays the loan, he has to do so at a far higher interest rate. If it is a credit card loan, then the customer has to suffer exponential interest rate. Late payment? Interest hike and penalty fees are in order. Banks literally gouge their customers. All money that goes into circulation “needs” to be borrowed. The problem with this system of banking is that the money borrowed from the Federal Reserve can never be paid back. To pay the interest, more “money” needs to be borrowed from the Federal Reserve.

Ironically, there was some bogus “reasoning” behind fractional banking. If the money was not based on debt and was issued whenever the king wanted to pay for something, then a spineless central banker would issue so much currency that it would debase it own value. On the contrary, a debt-based currency would cause the monarch to be careful with money and prevent them incurring wasteful expenditure such as war.

How do the Rothschilds control the US dollar?

2011-10-02T00:21:00.004+05:30

Another excerpt from my free PDF eBook World Government For Dummies

The US dollar is not real money. It is a debt note. It may have a counterfeit portrait of a dead American president on it. Otherwise, it is nothing more than an I-Owe-You note. All US dollars are issued as debt. When the US government issues US dollars, it has in fact “borrowed” the money from the US central bank, known as the US Federal Reserve. Although most Americans think it is owned by the US government, it is in fact a private institution. It was of course “commissioned” or “chartered” by the US Congress under the seal of a US president (Woodrow Wilson) to run the US money system.

The US Federal Reserve is notionally managed by a set of 12 regional “Federal Reserve Banks.” These Federal Reserve Banks are also private. The Rothschilds are assumed to be in control of these “12 regional Federal Reserve banks.” For example, the biggest and the most influential shareholder of the US Federal Reserve is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This reserve bank is run by JP Morgan. JP Morgan is owned the Rockefellers, the lead Rothschild agent in America. JP Morgan also runs central banks of several other countries and also acts as the custodian of their gold reserves.

Prior to the Federal Reserve, US government borrowed debt notes from private bankers (again, agents of the Rothschilds). American states had their own banks with their own currencies. Before this, the Rothschilds made two attempts at central banking in the United States but the charters of those central banks were not renewed.

The name “Federal” was chosen because the words “central bank” were immediately associated with the Rothschilds. (The Rothschilds were the pioneers of central banking and their name was treated with great suspicion in the United States.) Two US presidents, Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy, did try to issue debt-free US government notes independent of the Rothschilds. During the US Civil War, the Union government found itself deeply in debt to international bankers. So, Abraham Lincoln issued what became known as US “greenbacks” to allow Union government and Union states pay for their debts, independent of the Rothschilds. These greenbacks proved extremely popular and effective. Unfortunately, after the war, Lincoln surrendered the US currency back to the Rothschild agents, he still was assassinated. Several decades later, another President, John F Kennedy, attempted the same thing by printing a limited supply US currency notes and silver coins independent of the Federal Reserve. He too was assassinated. His Vice-President Lyndon B Johnson withdrew those notes from circulation when he assumed Presidency.

Notes

Case: Bloomberg LP vs. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 08-CV-9595, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan)
Anti-Defamation League (one of the alphabet-soup "Jewish" organizations set up by the Rothschilds and their agents to fight their (not Jewish) interests) claims that the regional Federal Reserve Banks are not really free private corporations, as part of their efforts to delink Rothschilds from the Federal Reserve. Contrast that with what the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve are claiming about the New York Federal Reserve in the Bloomberg article listed earlier.
The Federal Reserve ADMITS that Its 12 Banks Are PRIVATE – Not Government – Entities

Why Is “Climate Change” A Scam?

2011-10-01T21:49:00.003+05:30

From my free PDF eBook World Government For Dummies

Rothschild propagandists have spun “climate change” as something new and man-made. A whole new cottage industry has grown up to dispense "climate science" to the slaves. The truth is that:

Climate has been changing since day one – from the day Earth separated from the Sun and began its planetary life as a burning ball of flame. It is not a new occurrence. It is an inevitable natural phenomenon that has been going on for billions of years.
Oceans cover two-thirds of the Earth's surface. Rest of it is land. A good portion of that is uninhabitated by humans.
Earth's climate is overwhelmingly controlled by the Sun, not by Man.

It is not that Man's activities do not have a global impact - man-made pesticides have been found in body tissues of animals living in the Antarctic. The destruction of our environment does threaten the future of humans and many other species BUT IT DOES NOT AFFECT CLIMATE. Climate is beyond life and “Climate Change” is propaganda.

Moral Volcano Erupts Again

2011-09-30T07:23:00.013+05:30

To the consternation of all concerned …

In the runup to the US invasion of Iraq, the elites thought they had television and print news media in their hand. But, people found an alternate medium for revealing the truth - blogs. So, the elites had to destroy blogs. Because monitoring blogs is tiresome and inefficient and not very scalable, the elites created social networking sites. Social networking websites organize data better. Data is not just about what the slaves publish but also about the slaves themselves - personal data. This makes spying very easy and efficient. Security agencies can build application that run more efficient SQL queries and it scales well exponentially. The slaves themselves are also easily distracted and can be made to publish just self-indulgent than something that upsets the elites.
I stayed away from social networking sites. I did create a Twitter account. It was called HumanRightsUSA and it reported human rights violations by the United States police. You see the US State Department publishes an annual human rights report in which they fault other countries. The report does not cover the United States or its allies.
I created another Twitter account to use it as a bookmarking site. To report something and comment on it, it takes several tweets. It is miserable means to publish your thoughts. So, I am back to blogs. Here is the dump from my Twitter account.

Hello Americans, How's The World's Best Teleprompter Reader, The Hope 'n' Change guy, Obama, Working Out For You? #occupywallstreet 27 Sep
I moved my Kathmandu prediction from the footer of my website to Twitter in May. 19 Sep
I predicted 6 months ago that the earthquake machine may be targeted on Nepal. It has come true. 19 Sep
How Keynesians inflate the relevance of GDP to enrich war profiteers Aliens to Keynes' rescue 26 Aug
How To Paste From Clipboard In Windows Command Prompt ( Windows Console - CMD ) (Youtube Video Tutorial) 25 Aug
I guess Steve Jobs gave media bosses Apple shares and asked them to promote it as much as they could. Now, it is 2nd in market cap. 23 Aug
Good competitors to Apple devices get killed after they show up at trade shows. Media coverage of Apple and Apple products are uncritical. 22 Aug
Unbelievable that only Apple can make good-looking devices. Others are being sabotaged from within? 22 Aug
For several years, HP's cash balances were used to destroy other PC manufacturers - Compaq, Digital Equipment... In future, I guess Dell will also be destroyed and Lenovo will be allowed to keep what remains of the desktop/laptop market. 22 Aug
Rothschilds are okay with tablets divided between Apple and Google. More players make spying and control difficult. 22 Aug
HP is being deliberately destroyed. Rothschilds want eaters to give up their desktops/laptops and move to tablets and the cloud. 22 Aug
Bank of America about to fall BofA Deathwatch 10 Aug
If British students are rioting, it is not because they are greedy. They've been defrauded high cost of education and loan sharks. 10 Aug
Rioters in Britain should not overplay their hand. Special forces may be initiating these riots. 10 Aug
Real hackers never reveal their identity.Lulzec/Antisec r bogus efforts to establish a huge cybersecurity bureacracy (read NO-BID CONTRACTS) 9 Aug
US justice/treasury depts has been shutting down sites left and right. Why do they allow Twitter handles of hackers untouched? 9 Aug
Do not blindly download programs from Lulzec/Antisec to take part in "hacking" attacks. You will be blowing cover & revealing your identity. 9 Aug
If US spooks aren't behind Lulzec or Antisec hacking groups, then their Twitter accounts would be gone by now. http://pastebin.com/trends 9 Aug
As mentioned before, most hacking attacks R by US spooks using Chinese servers. 9 Aug
Other UFO "sightings" - NASA/Pentagon contraptions manned by differently oriented sexual predators or just CIA brainwashing experiments. 9 Aug
Most UFO sightings are just planes - an optical illusion. When the move away from you or towards you, they appear stationary 9 Aug
Jennifer Lopez on what goes on in Hollywood 9 Aug
How FBI tried to set Blacks against Whites and Whites against Blacks 9 Aug
CHINA FOOD ADDITVES SCANDAL: "Shanxi mature vinegar" is actually blended from glacial acetic acid & food additives 9 Aug
More than 300,000 demonstrate across Israel to protest high cost of living 9 Aug
DHS chief Janet Napolitano congratulates Moral Volcano for adding Echelon Salt support for Thunderbird/Opera 4 Aug
My HTML e-mail signature generator now supports Thunderbird, Seamonkey, and Opera e-mail clients 4 Aug
Monsanto inspires raid on American raw milk producer? Who are they intimidating with a SWAT team? 4 Aug
"Senators are talking abut how outsourcing is increasing employment in US .. just the kind of healthy debate we want," 2 Aug
"Syed Salauddin, a close associate of Mr Karunanidhi, brought in 380 crore" (to Etisalat) - Arun Shourie 2 Aug
Aroun Shourie explains how Manmole Singh was aware of 2G scam http://is.gd/vI8HwN 2 Aug
Tamuz - Formerly Classified Israeli Missile With Hover Capabilities 2 Aug
Monsanto-spawned superweeds growing three inches daily, destroying farm equipment 2 Aug
European powers rule Africa by proxies and then blame Africans for lack of democracy. 2 Aug
Gritty Israelis wake up and turn against banksters deliberately widhdraw cash to protest high fees. 31 Jul
Israelis already doing business in newly established country of South Sudan 31 Jul
Israelis set up shop in South Sudan under cover of establishing "farming communities for former soldiers along border with the Muslim north." 31 Jul
When rich guys HAVE TO BE sent to prison, they go in luxury and style 29 Jul
I TOLD YOU SO: Photos of luxury prison to which Norwegian Freemason gunman is going to be sent. 29 Jul
I TOLD YOU SO: Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik is going to be sent to a luxury prison. 29 Jul
The US Federal Reserve ADMITS that Its 12 Banks Are PRIVATE - Not Government 29 Jul
WHO mental health survey used data from once centre - JIPMER, Pondichery 29 Jul
WHO report on Indians being most depressed. Another older report said Indians were happiest 29 Jul
Bloomberg says US and France R most depressed (bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-2…). Indian reports says Indians r most depressed 29 Jul
Govt Conspiracy: Replaces individual Know Your Customer checks by FIs with a single one-time "rigorous" check. 29 Jul
Govt Conspiracy: Fin Min to replace individual Know Your Customer checks by financial institutions with a single one-time "rigorous" check. 27 Jul
Conspirazzi post that alerted me to the fact that the Norwegian gunman was indeed a Freemason - 27 Jul
Former Telecom Minister A Raja should learn from Kalmadi and Telgi. Turning against those in power will not be good for him. 27 Jul
Kalmadi's fate is better than Telgi's. Telgi seems to have been infected with AIDS and other ailments. Kalmadi just had to feign dementia. 27 Jul
Here is another report of a man made crazy by his Freemason lodge - he slew his mother with Freemason sword 27 Jul
FIFA president Sepp Blatter (accused of making billions off Football that disappear without a trace) drops the word architect. 27 Jul
Freemasons like to drop "Freemasonry words" such as "architect" - Seinfeld's George imaginary profession, Bill Gates real designation, etc. 27 Jul
Freemasons use the words architect or number 33 to alerts news editors to the fact they are Freemasons and should not be messed with. 27 Jul
Freemasonry lodges use a lot of extremely stupid rituals (which they made themselves) to impress members. Architect of the Universe is God. 27 Jul
Franklin D. Roosevelt also suffered an assassination attempt by a Freemason. The assassin's lodge disowned him after his links were exposed. 27 Jul
Media tries to hide Freemasonry links of Norwegian gunman - 27 Jul
I TOLD YOU SO: Mirror of Norwegian gunman's Facebook page and photo gallery - includes Freemason photo 27 Jul
I TOLD YOU SO: Photo of Norwegian gunman in his Freemason dress 27 Jul
I TOLD YOU SO! The Norwegian gunman was a freemason! Just like the assailant and associates off Archduke Fredinand, all of who had fatal TB! 27 Jul
Report of the first time audit (I still think it barely scraped the surface) of the US central bank (Federal Reserve) 27 Jul
US senator Bernie Sanders says US central bank (Federal Reserve) gave $16 trillion in secret loans to US/non-US banks 27 Jul
Sony now has music rights for half the Tamil movies made till date? 26 Jul
Interview with Angry Birds maker Jul
India inflation over the years 26 Jul
Bloomberg draws blood on Rupert Murdoch - 26 Jul
Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai Fallout: Seminal lessons from the seminar circuit 26 Jul
There is no big clusterfuck (pardon me, I can't find a better word) than public funds, NGOS, intellectuals, and their seminars. 26 Jul
Greece is being defrauded by bankers hiding under the flags of France and Germany 26 Jul
Greece to lose 39 airports, 850 ports, railways, motorways, sewage works, power, banks, real estate (islands), casinos & national lottery. 26 Jul
Tens of thousands march in Tel Aviv to protest housing shortage, high rent prices 26 Jul
The American Oscars people should create a new category for "Best Holocaust Movie" so that other films can compete 26 Jul
Former Israeli diplomats in Washington: 1967 borders are defensible 26 Jul
Hungary destroys illegal GM corn fields, plans to make distributing GMO seeds a felony 26 Jul
Veritas Investment Research's report on Ambanis (Google cache 404 - I have a copy though) 26 Jul
Seems like IB/RAW is routing calls from abroad to scout candidates for future bombings 26 Jul
Fai arrest: Is taking money from ISI and operating in the US wrong? All of Pakistan is ruled by people in the pay of the Americans/British. 26 Jul
Even journos don't remember that Ghulam Nabi Fai escaped India to the US evading arrest by government. US protected him then. 26 Jul
Kashmiri separatist leader held in US 26 Jul
Gentically-Modified Seed companies conduct trials without state permission 26 Jul
Kerala HC orders air crash compensation in SDR, the IMF currency 26 Jul
Citigroups kills loan customer at bank branch - 26 Jul
Nuclear Suppliers Group guidelines deny enrichment/reprpocessing tech to India Will India cancel nuclear deal now? No. 26 Jul
After Infosys & Wipro, TCS has been accused of exporting labour and not software by IT dept - Better, if they come clean 26 Jul
National Intelligence Grid connects all the main databases of our country and feeds it to the American NSA and British GHCQ. 26 Jul
Banks thwart National Intelligence Grid bid to tap customer data 26 Jul
Possible reasons for war on salt: People eat less. Toxins stay in the body and more drug business. Dull people are not ready for revolution. 26 Jul
Another study says cutting down salt does not have the full intended effect Link2 26 Jul
European study on salt consumption contradicts AMA, AHA, CDCP stand 26 Jul
Norwegian attacker seems to have been brainwashed like the Young Bosnia attackers of Archduke Fredinand. 26 Jul
In the 9/11 attacks too, terrorists were unopposed for a long time. 26 Jul
Norway attacks: Police did not arrive until 40 minutes after the first call for help went out. Bombay 26/11 attacks: NSG took almost 3 days. 26 Jul
What is common with Norway attacks and Bombay 26/11 attacks? Delay in the arrival of armed police. 26 Jul
Ohioans for Concealed Weapons and Carry stands up to crazy cops 23 Jul
WHAT YOU SOW IS WHAT YOU REAP: Israel sees Libya as new source of smuggled weapons for Gaza 21 Jul
An interesting article on Kanishka from The Friday Times of Pakistan 20 Jul
As per Indian govt stand on international treaties, I can sign a contract to sell Manmohan Singh to someone without his permission. Hurray! 18 Jul
Indian Govt: Subjecting "treaty-making powers... to judicial review impinges upon... that such treaties are not subject to judicial review." 18 Jul
Indian govt threatens our rights to justice - wants to keep international treaty obligations outside judicial purview 18 Jul
Those who cry "intelligence failure" only do so to increase the powers of the illegitimate Intelligence Bureau 18 Jul
Will ED attach assets of Kalaingar TV under money laundering act? 17 Jul
Black money: "Only $2.5 billion stashed in Swiss banks by Indian clients ..." 17 Jul
Inaction by PM Manmohan Singh allows Switzerland to downsize the loot to USD 2.5 billion. Account holders move money out or the Swiss lie! 17 Jul
Nithyananda and all the "miracle-cure" pastors should be jailed for duping people and parting with their money. 17 Jul
So, Nithyananda is giving tranquilizers and electric shocks to make people "levitate?" 17 Jul
Banksters "find island living too restrictive. So countries like Chile, Colombia and Brazil..." 17 Jul
Disgraced godman Nithyananda shows a cheap way to fly. It will not give Deccan Air sleepless nights. 17 Jul
Indian media also seem to be deep in occult symbology of the Rothshilds 17 Jul
Authorities in UK and US seem to be preparing for a zombie invasion. Local councils all over US/UK have been preparing for mass graves. 17 Jul
Authorities in UK and US seem to be preparing for a zombie invasion. Local councils all over US/UK have been stocking up on body bags. 17 Jul
Are the Rothschilds planning biological attacks on a global scale? One that would turn us into zombies? 17 Jul
US/UK governments have been experimenting biological weapons on civilians for several decades now 17 Jul
You do not have to be a great photographer to make magazine-style product shots. You just need GIMP and some tricks. 17 Jul
American pig cops who tried to charge a lady for the abominable crime of growing a garden find other ways to harass her 16 Jul
WARNING: VNN looks like a FBI-ADL operation. 16 Jul
"Liberals are funny people. They say they’re for freedom-of-choice, but yet they want to make everything compulsory." 16 Jul
Malthusian logic of having to reduce world population has nothing to do with numbers of supply and demand. It is just the Rothschild agenda. 16 Jul
The Rothschilds want all the races and religions of the world to degenerate in quality & quantity so they can dominate those remaining. 16 Jul
The Rothschilds are the biggest terrorists of the world. Their agents may be called Al Qaeeda or Hitler or Advani or Intelligence Bureau. 16 Jul
All of them Hitler, Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Hume, were all freemasons or socialists - all paid for by Rothschild. 16 Jul
Theosophical Society known in India thanks to Annie Besant and J Krishnamurthy. Krishnamurthy was projected by them as a Jesus-like figure. 16 Jul
Blavatsky also contributed her ideas to the Thule Society out of which Hitler came out & started National Socialism. Nazi is prounced nat-si 16 Jul
Helena Blavastky better known as Madame Blavastsky is the founder of the Theosophical Society and big dabbler in occult. 16 Jul
Indian National Congress was founded by a British guy named Allan Octavian Hume. He was an occultist and an associate of Helena Blavatsky. 16 Jul
To prevent Congress from becoming too powerful, Rothschild created Muslim League, Hindu Mahasabha, Justice Party, and Ambedkar. 16 Jul
The Indian National Congress was founded by the British so that India could eventually be part of the British empire like Canada/Australia. 16 Jul
I think Brahmins in the IB owe their jobs to the Rothschilds and just do their bidding. It is not that Brahmins are just anti-national. 16 Jul
SM Mushrif mistakenly thinks IB is anti-national and anti-Muslim because it is Brahmin-heavy. 16 Jul
Because IB is controlled by the British, it has been exempt from reservation rules & has become Brahmin-heavy. 16 Jul
Intelligence Bureau has no legal framework for its existence. It exists outside the law. IB has been a British institution before/after 1947 16 Jul
If the IB's Citizen Intelligence Network is established, then people will get arrested just because someone complained on that person. 16 Jul
If the IB's Citizen Intelligence Network is established, then we would stop trusting not just our friends but also our family members. 16 Jul
IB & their ToI shill wants Govt establish the "Citizen Intelligence Network" (CIN) 16 Jul
IB's stringers in the media are exploiting the tragedy to sell us the concept of an informant society. 16 Jul
According to "Who Killed Karkare", the IB is in cahoots with Hindutva terror groups. Their terrorists attacks are usually blamed on Muslims. 16 Jul
Going by "Who Killed Karkare," the IB will use the Bombay blasts to harrass and arrest some innocent Muslims. 16 Jul
It was a fertilizer bomb. Yet, people in the US media know that it is the handiwork of LeT. How is this possible? 16 Jul
Even before investigators could begin sifting through blast debris, US media blamed it on Lakshar-e-Taiba 16 Jul
The book "Who Killed Karkare" is written by a former IG of Police, Maharashtra SM Mushrif. http://whokilledkarkare.com 16 Jul
If you've read the book "Who Killed Karkare," you'll know that the recent Bombay blasts are the handiwork of the Intelligence Bureau. 16 Jul
Chennai visited by aliens on an UFO? 14 Jul
Freemasons made up their own religion and they believe in it 14 Jul
I didn't believe when I read that the Rothschilds worship the devil. I didn't realize they were this crazy 14 Jul
Finally, a rapper I can like We are all screwed by the Rothschilds. 14 Jul
US woman facing jailtime for planting a garden 13 Jul
Full MP3 files of the Nirra Radia tapes (of 2G scam fame ... notoriety) 13 Jul
Mathai's appointment is supposedly on seniority. Prevs Shivshankar Menon was made under US pressure. Manmohan also became FM to suit the US. 13 Jul
The new secretary Ranjan Mathai seems to be unrelated to PO Mathai, who worked with US Army in India before starting with Nehru. 13 Jul
Jawaharlal Nehru had a typist named "Mathai." In ""Persons, Passions and Politics," Mohammed Yunus paints Mathai as a Pentagon asset. 12 Jul
A guy named Mathai has been made Foreign Secretary. The name rings a bell. 12 Jul
US behind-the-scenes activities exposed Pakistani establishment says one thing and does the opposite 12 Jul
British government spends millions on secret GM potato trials while non-GM variety already performs spectacularly 9 Jul
Siva, accompanied by former-FBI chief Louis Freeh, "presented his case, backed by an exhaustive trail of documents!!!" 9 Jul
A bigger Louis Freeh's profile 9 Jul
Interstingly, Louis Freeh worked for Prince Bandar after his FBI stint. 9 Jul
Louis Freeh's run-ins with Clinton 9 Jul
Siva's investigator Louis Freeh was asked to step down as FBI chief sometime before 911. His successor ensured investigation went to nought. 9 Jul
ET reports that Siva was accompanied by American and former-FBI chief Louis Free when he met with the CPI 9 Jul
British government wastes millions on secret GM potato trials while non-GM variety already performs spectacularly 9 Jul
US government openly admits arming Mexican drug gangs with 30,000 firearms - but why? 9 Jul
ABC Documentary CIA mind-control experiments 9 Jul
FT (Free Reg): Central banks pull most gold in a decade from BIS 9 Jul
While columnists and talking heads on TV continue to downplay gold, central banks and others are concentrating their positions on the metal. 9 Jul
Rathinirvedam spoof by Asianet Cinemala troupe shows how standards are made substandard 9 Jul
Why is this a worthy photo or a great one, as claimed by commentators? Idiots! "A Hindu holy man takes a dip in Ganges" 8 Jul
“Obama is a nice face that has been brought up, the black rabbit taken out of the American hat when it was needed." 7 Jul
Jewish American soldiers stole Jewish antiquities from Iraqi museums & buried them in Jerusalem to cement their "historical" claim on J-slem 7 Jul
Replacement puppet for Mubarak on 911 MP3 7 Jul
Is this Ezz El-Arab guy the next pro-West Egyptian stooge to replace Mubarak - despite his contrarian beliefs MP3 7 Jul
My Anne Frank's diary quote: "They (grownups) laugh at us when we're serious, and they're serious when we're (kids) joking." 7 Jul
Most accurate account of Jewish Holocost, Anne Frank, 911 and Osama Bin Laden? 7 Jul
"Jews under German occupation were 2.4m... If all were exterminated, where does the remaining 3.6 million come from?” 7 Jul
People are becoming stupid - they like whitest of white rice - not red unpolished rice. 6 Jul
Seedless grapes, monster-sized brinjals,.. we are eating franken-food. 6 Jul
It is impossible to find old normal tomatoes these days. Replaced by thick-fleshed, tasteless & almost seedless ones are only available. 6 Jul
PR LIES: Can Biotechnology Save Africa? AFRICA WILL SAVE ITSELF IF YOU DON'T SUPPLY THE DICTATORS & CORRUPT POLITICIANS 6 Jul
PR LIES: Google ad "Genetically modified food www.pulitzercenter.org See how genetically modified food is being used to feed Africa" 6 Jul
PR LIES: GMO crops will "eliminate hunger." Is there no limit to patronizing hyperbole? 6 Jul
Chinese government officials have their own "special" People food's supply The worker eats GMO corn and soya. 6 Jul
Push to secretly approve GM corn in Pakistan leads to resignation of chief GM regulator 6 Jul
Americans rebelled against Britain because of a 1% tax. With their own government in place, they are paying over 30%. 6 Jul
PR LIES: Population data collection is " to help development and generate employment" Truth: Help foriegn oil companies 6 Jul
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales police gain power to remove burqas 6 Jul
WORLD GOVERNMENT: Jews are the ultimate pawns of the globalists. They are cursed whether are for or against immigration - self-reinforcing. 6 Jul
WORLD GOVERNMENT: Some Jews support immigration b'cos they are globalists. Other Jews support it 'cos of the backlash caused by globalists. 6 Jul
WORLD GOVERNMENT: People who run the Western media are Jews, globalists, or sometimes both. 6 Jul
WORLD GOVERNMENT: Many of those supporting immigration are Jews, who have nightmares of Christian mobs with spears and pickaxes every day. 6 Jul
WORLD GOVERNMENT: New York Mayor Bloomberg thinks illegal immigrants are great for the local economy 6 Jul
WORLD GOVERNMENT: In many Western countries, immigrant population is so big that talking about illegal immigration is political suicide. 6 Jul
WORLD GOVERNMENT: The agenda is to permanently alter the racial mix of all countries. 6 Jul
WORLD GOVERNMENT: European countries now have large numbers of Asians and Africans, not as temporary workers, but as permanent residents. 6 Jul
WORLD GOVERNMENT: Legal and illegal immigration is used to make White Christians a minority 6 Jul
Sweden finds an excuse for Chinese immigration - Chinese language teachers 6 Jul
ZOMBIE ALERT Massive wildfires threaten to ignite 30000 barrels of plutonium waste at American nuclear weapons facility 1 Jul
Greek communists, the backup team, ready to take over Greece for Rothschild if their main team loses 1 Jul
The only people who bought Warren Buffet's "motor" insurance policies were people at his press meet 1 Jul
Waren Buffet invested in GE after his connections in Obama administration assured him of a massive GE bailout. 1 Jul
Warren Buffet made some good investments in Johnson&Johnson, Coke and other companies. Rockefeller-controlled media made him into a god. 1 Jul
Warren Buffet invests in a business only if he "understands" it. Wall Street pauses to listen if he is talking. 1 Jul
Warren Buffet, the famed American investor, manages to sell less than 30 insurance policies in the past few months 1 Jul
Dayton police taser, pepper-spray and beat mentally handicapped teen Wimpy Cops 1 Jul
Exposed documents reveal Napolitano, TSA lied about safety of cancer-causing naked body scanners 1 Jul
TSA employees now developing cancer clusters from standing near body scanner machines 1 Jul
Hexane may be lurking in the soy protein found in popular food bar 30 Jun
"BPA plastics chemical found to feminize males" http://is.gd/batc31 30 Jun
"Khomeini, the man who changed course of world history, was a Kashmiri" 30 Jun
People in Swat Valley in Pakistan will attest to the fact that strict Islamic law panacea will be used to usurp power and impose slavery. 30 Jun
It turns out that Dukhtaran-e-Milat leader Asiya Andrabi was naturally screwed up - She doesn't seem to be a govt agent 30 Jun
I thought Dukhtaran-e-Milat's acid throwing campaign & call for Taliban-style strict Islamic law was started by the govt. 30 Jun
J&K's Dukhtaran-e-Millat began its PR campaign by throwing diluted acid on school & college girls. 30 Jun
US intelligence also uses Chinese Internet infrastructure to launch attacks on American assets to build support for cyber-warfare contracts. 27 Jun
To project China as a threat, US companies have transferred advanced military/space technologies to China directly & via Pakistan/Israel. 27 Jun
To create fear in home base, US companies sold advanced military technology to Soviet Union. 27 Jun
US aided both Iraq and Iran when both of them were fighting. It is supplying weapons to both India and Pakistan. 27 Jun
Defence deals with the US are strategically bad decisions. When two countries are fighting, the US clandestinely both sides to prolong war. 27 Jun
Air Traffic Control Contract To Raytheon: In case of a false-flag terrorist attack like 911, US will be able to create air traffic confusion 27 Jun
Indian Air Traffic Control Contract To Raytheon: In case of war, US will be able to watch our traffic & pass on information to our enemies. 27 Jun
Why did India give air traffic management system contract to a US company? Shouldn't we do this ourselves 27 Jun
NPR story with photos: AP IMPACT: US Nuke Regulators Weaken Safety Rules 27 Jun
US nuclear watchdog sits on leaks of nuclear material all over the US and contaminates drinking water 26 Jun
VigilanteCitizen.com: Donald Duck explains mathematical symbology (hijacked and claimed by Freemasonry) 26 Jun
vigilantcitizen.com site linked by @evilindustrycom (evilindustry.com) is great. 26 Jun
Paying for "art" a la Anish Chopra or MF Hussain should be considered crimes against humanity. "Art" gets millions when people are starving. 26 Jun
Hitler also said that if you keep repeating the same lies over and over again, eventually it becomes the truth. 26 Jun
In Mein Kampf, Hitler says that people will not believe small lies but if you throw them a big one, they will believe it. 26 Jun
Why are westerns so stupid? Are these art - this and this 26 Jun
Indians ripping off white people. It is a good thing these con artists are abroad. english.rfi.fr/visiting-franc… 26 Jun
Biotechnology is not bad. It is how we use it (read Monsanto). Same with nuclear power (read GE reactors) 25 Jun
10 actual myths that Americans pols want their public to believe 25 Jun
Israel's foreign ministry is in Washington DC http://is.gd/rbNuD9 25 Jun
ROTHSCHILD GAME: Some Jews do think Jews will rule the world unmindful that Jewish Holocaust was paid by Jewish bankers 25 Jun
Another group of Indians go to Israel to displace Palestinian Arabs (Muslim and Christian) - 25 Jun
It is the Rothschilds who control the world. People of all religions work with them in the debt, war & genocide but somehow Jews take blame. 25 Jun
Secret orgs that Freemasonry, Illuminati, Jesuits,.. and openly NWO orgs such as United Nations, IMF, World Bank... are blamed on Jews 25 Jun
It is Rothschilds who force unpayable debt on people and countries but it gets blamed on all Jews 25 Jun
ROTHSCHILD GAME: They lend money that belongs to one country to another & set terms for repayment. They make countries fight each other. 25 Jun
ROTHSCHILD GAME: Divide and rule. From East India Company in India to IMF in Greece, it is the same rule for the mercenaries of debt. 25 Jun
Oh, retire the joke about Muslims being given oil-rich Arab lands and Jews being given parched Israel - 25 Jun
TEPCO (GE's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant operator): Stopping melt-through fuel from contaminating groundwater will cost too much, hurt company stock price 25 Jun
French high-speed rail contract: Iraqis pay for cronies of American and British politicians with the little money they get from oil sales. 25 Jun
Western companies steal Iraqi oil and corner almost all of the profits. 25 Jun
Iraq does not need high-speed trains. They need more refineries and petrol pumps. Iraq still has power cuts and petrol shortages. 25 Jun
French Alstom to supply high-speed trains to Iraq http://is.gd/WH96Q3 More waste of Iraq's money. 25 Jun
America’s wars continue to account for almost half the world’s total, according to the UNHCR’s annual report. http://is.gd/8beLUj 25 Jun
If the man at the top is not corrupt and does not tolerate corrupt around him, the peon at the bottom of the ladder will also be not corrupt 25 Jun
All our PMs and CMs condone corruption around them. They are the problem. 25 Jun
If the police is corrupt, then you need to elect politicians who are not corrupt and who will not condone corruption. 25 Jun
Give police power to investigate politicians and people in power. That is the only change we need. 25 Jun
Much of the police force is involved in providing security for VIPs. There is no qualified staff for investigations. 25 Jun
TADA and POTA were enacted because police wanted shortcuts to bypass Criminal Procedure Code. Police don't want to do actual investigations. 25 Jun
Indians easily fall smartass ideas - enact laws to solve problem while ignoring that laws need enforces & that existing laws are ok. 25 Jun
We just need the police investigating crimes. Who will investigate corruption by Lokpal members? 25 Jun
Police was created investigate crimes. Then we have CBI. Because CBI was corrupt, we have CVC. Because CVC has limitations, we need Lokpal? 25 Jun
Anna Hazare and Ramdev are not the good guys. They are trying to establish another layer of bureacracy that is going to be corrupt. 25 Jun
Kanimozhi's Facebook "Wall" was funny http://is.gd/rCnhZx But, Mahabharat 2010-2011 is not http://is.gd/h2TQqA 25 Jun
Americans robbed by their government are now stealing everything from telephone wires to train tracks. http://is.gd/et7Do0 24 Jun
"Tobacco is a plant while cigarettes are a highly processed product laced with a recipe of deadly synthetic chemicals" http://is.gd/6j04bd 24 Jun
Radio-controlled zombies of the future - http://is.gd/1ux47U "Smart" contact lenses will control future generations? 24 Jun
Israel's "right to return" policy is (you don't say) racist? http://is.gd/Wcv5Bg 24 Jun
"Acquiring property farm by farm, house by house, lay at the heart of the Zionist enterprise until 1948." http://is.gd/JUFMA9 22 Jun
Planes, trains, and automobiles: TSA to grope travelers on all forms of transportation http://is.gd/ydWUoz 22 Jun
France decides not to name street after Illuminati member Maximilien Robespierre http://is.gd/m23u9p 22 Jun
Would the special forces delayed their arrival (citing lack of aircraft for several hours) if the hostages included Sonia Gandhi? 21 Jun
Indian special forces killed the terrorists, amid hostages, without difficulty with uncanny precision. Kasab escaped thanks to Karkare. 21 Jun
26/11 hostages claimed that Indian special forces, when they finally arrived, specifically targeted the terrorists and killed them. 21 Jun
When 26/11 terrorists were attacking Bombay and TV channels started camping overnight, Indian govt didn't send troops for several hours. 21 Jun
Terrorist Mazood Azhar was released by LK Advani. The hijacked plane was allowed to leave the Indian airport under his vigil. 21 Jun
The hijacking of Indian aircraft to Pakistan onward to Kabul, Afganistan, happened when LK Advani was home minister. 21 Jun
LK Advani was the politician who gave it legitimacy by initiating a dialogue on behalf of the government. 21 Jun
Congress followed a long policy of not recognising the Huriyat Conference, which everyone knew receives funds from ISI. 21 Jun
LK Advani got named in the Hawala scam after his name was found along with the name of a Kashmiri terrorist in the diary of Hawala operator. 21 Jun
RSS blast case in Chennai seemed to have been caused by bombs that were stored there by Sangh members. IB blamed it on ISI. 21 Jun
A bomb once exploded in whatshername Uma Bharati office. They just keep these things handy. Just in case, you know. 21 Jun
Most of the anti-Muslim riots around Partition were orchestrated for the British by the Hindu Mahasabha and RSS. 21 Jun
Nathuram Godse, who killed Gandhi, was an RSS operative. 21 Jun
Hindu Mahasabha was promoted by the British to mobilize Hindu hotheads to act against Muslims. RSS, VHP & BJP all came from Hindu Mahasabha 21 Jun
Pranab Mukherjee's helplessness in the face of bugging of his office by IB proves this. IB has become too powerful. 21 Jun
WHO KILLED KARKARE: Hindutva organisations seems to have conducted military & explosive training exercises in various part of the country. 21 Jun
WHO KILLED KARKARE: IB/RAW seems to have worked with Hindutva organisations and caused most of the bomb blasts blamed on Islamic terrorists. 21 Jun
SM Mushrif thinks that the "Brahminical" clique operates independently. That is the only mistake in the book. It works for Rothschilds. 21 Jun
Read "Who Killed Karkare" http://whokilledkarkare.com/ Available in English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamizh, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati 21 Jun
All politicians have something to hide. Intelligence agencies exploit this to their advantage when required. Leaks happen because of this. 21 Jun
IB screwed up on India's Most Wanted fugitives list but Chidambaram can't take action. IB has a Rabo Bank dossier http://is.gd/hpS7Tr 21 Jun
Despite the fact that IB screwed up on India's Most Wanted fugitives list, Chidambaram can't take action. IB has a Rabo Bank file. 21 Jun
SM Mushrif's book "Who Killed Karkare" provides documented accounts of confessions brought out by torture. 21 Jun
The Week magazine published a cover story of how IB/RAW picks up random suspects, tortures them and extracts confessions http://is.gd/VUIm8E 21 Jun
IB manufactures evidence just like our police does. The most wanted list scandal proves it http://is.gd/zmNy0u 21 Jun
Chidambaram who has defended many criminals in his legal practice was caught red-handed in his dealings with Rabo Bank. IB knows too. 21 Jun
While parties in power change, IB/RAW personnel don't. They can sometimes blackmail established pols. 21 Jun
Contracts, postings, evidence, testimonies, everything can be arranged. In exchange for plum postings, IB do the bidding of politicians. 21 Jun
IB/RAW personnel are about as corrupt as the rest of the Indian bureaucracy. Unlike most government employees, money is not audited. 21 Jun
IB/RAW personnel are about as corrupt as the rest of the Indian bureaucracy. Unlike them, there is no audit of how they spend the money. 21 Jun
Intelligence officers have the shittiest jobs in the world. It is disgusting. Of course, over time, they get to delegate orders to newcomers 21 Jun
People read spy novels and see James Bond movies and they get a wrong picture of what intelligence people do. 21 Jun
Bhindranwale became unmanageable. IB advised Indira to take military action. Operation Bluestar followed & Indira signed her death sentence. 21 Jun
Based on IB advice, Indira Gandhi encouraged Bhindranwale. IB/RAW must have armed Bhindranwale during that period. 21 Jun
Like with Rajiv, Inteligence Bureau similarly misguided his mother Indira Gandhi. 21 Jun
British owners of the South African interests decided to Rajiv Gandhi a lesson and so RAW advised Rajiv's misadventure in Sri Lanka. 21 Jun
De Beers investments in South Africa seemed threatened. They cut a deal with Nelson Mandela and rehabilitated him as the leader of SA. 21 Jun
Rajiv wrote his death sentence by bringing attention to Apartheid regime in South Africa and bring sanctions on that country. 21 Jun
Rajive Gandhi support for the Integrated Missile Development Program and use of force in Sri Lanka and Mauritius alarmed the West. 21 Jun
Alarmed by India's posture as a regional superpower, foreign intelligence agencies could portray Rajiv Gandhi as a threat. 21 Jun
RAW also trained the LTTE and built it into the world's most dreaded terrorist organisation. 21 Jun
RAW first misled Rajiv Gandhi and got him involved in Sri Lanka misadventure & then denied vital information to Indian Peace Keeping Force. 21 Jun
RAW has played a traitorous role with all Prime Ministers of India. 21 Jun
RAW has been shown complicit in the Purulia arms drop and the subsequent escape of the perpetrators. 21 Jun
IB and RAW has been controlled by foreign intelligence agencies from the beginning just as Pakistan's ISI and military. 21 Jun
While Mushrif holds the "Brahminical" clique running the IB/RAW responsible, I believe the plot is much wider. 21 Jun
I also suspect that the role of US, Israel, UK, Pakistan & Indian intelligence agencies in orchestrating the 26/11 "Mumbai" terrorist plot. 21 Jun
I also suspect that the role of US, Israel, UK, Pakistan, and Indian intelligence agencies in the 26/11 "Mumbai" terrorist attacks. 21 Jun
Mushrif suspects that the IB/RAW was complicit in the "Mumbai" terrorist attack and holds "Brahminical" clique responsible. 21 Jun
SM Mushrif thinks that a "Brahminist" clique has been running the Intelligence Bureau and the RAW. 21 Jun
I am reading the book "Who Killed Karkare" - a book by a retired IG police officer SM Mushrif, who unveiled the Telgi scam. 21 Jun
I wanted to buy Visual Studio and found the world's most expensive 8GB pen drive on offer at http://is.gd/9GDeMS Microsoft Store, India site 21 Jun
Microsoft sells the world's most expensive 8GB pen drive at a cool Rs. 15,503 or USD 345. Check it out at http://bayimg.com/aaiMgaadL 21 Jun
Here is Anthony Sutton's book "Wall Street & Rise of Hitler" http://is.gd/NkPaE2 Jewish financiers put money in Nazi accounts. 21 Jun
Jews run Wall Street and the City of London. They financed Hitler and Lenin. Jews are their own biggest enemies. 21 Jun
If a Jew ever wants to talk about Holocaust, he should be first asked if he/she has read the book "Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler" 21 Jun
Why can't Jews get their act together and sue bankers of Rockefellers and Rothschilds for financing Hitler http://is.gd/kYXZnS 21 Jun
Lithuania compensates Jews for Nazi, Soviet era losses http://is.gd/IhsUPV 21 Jun
Boasting many particular and surprising health benefits, sheep’s milk and cheeses are well worth your attention http://is.gd/0AJtqv 21 Jun
Paul Bremer stole $17bln of Iraqi oil money. Iraqis can't sue 'cos Paul Bremer issued an order giving his men immunity? http://is.gd/ZbBw3x 21 Jun
Formaldehyde now officially listed as cancer-causing chemical; here are the top sources of exposure http://is.gd/xXMinE 21 Jun
Nuclear plant in Nebraska, US, just five feet short of flooding http://is.gd/k2rVdy 21 Jun
Flood water surrounds American nuclear plant http://is.gd/k2rVdy http://is.gd/ekU4nW 21 Jun
It is okay for Jews to show "prejudice" among themselves http://is.gd/zcyLfl 21 Jun
Most central banks in the world still have already lent out gold that they still claim on their balance sheet http://is.gd/LnLRmF 21 Jun
Phyto-estrogens in soy-based foods is probably why so many Westerners have become homosexuals. Soy Foods+Homosexual propaganda = Less babies 21 Jun
Jews seem to promote homosexuality among Christians as a means of attentuating the numbers of their potential "enemy." 21 Jun
Jews in media and popular culture are extremely active in promoting homosexual orientation among Christians. 21 Jun
San Francisco is a homosexual stronghold. Overwhelming number of homosexuals happen to be Jews. 21 Jun
San Francisco plan to ban circumcision looks like a preemptive move to dissuade American cities/states from banning it http://is.gd/TbutaU 21 Jun
San Francisco attempt to ban circumcision looks like a preemptive move to dissuade other American states from banning it http://is.gd/TbutaU 21 Jun
Robert Fisk works for the Irish newspaper Independent and has also interviewed Bin Laden a few times. http://is.gd/pdgopU 21 Jun
Robert Fisk is a shill who moves around Arab and Muslim nations as a anti-West/anti-establishment hack. He supports a single Arab nation. 21 Jun
To keep Arab tribal chiefs (now called monarchs) in check, Rothschilds uses Muslim Brotherhood and possibility of a single pan-Arab nation. 21 Jun
As mentioned earlier, Churchill divided up Turkish empire and gave it to loyal tribal chief and called them countries. 21 Jun
GI Joe cartoons predicts dollar crash and global currency http://is.gd/8lZCrw Hilarious! 20 Jun
UK plans to increase retirement age to 66! http://is.gd/o5OtNg 20 Jun
399 Pandits killed since 1990: Kashmir Pandit Sangharsh Samiti http://is.gd/gCasQc 20 Jun
ROTHSCHILD GAME: Bush/Obama involvement in useless wars has one objective - stretch US credit worthiness and a final collapse. 19 Jun
ROTHSCHILD GAME: The attack of debt will cause North America/Europe to collapse and take rest of the world with down them. 19 Jun
ROTHSCHILD GAME: Germany owns €167bn of Spanish debt, France €131bn and the UK €103bn. http://is.gd/0xoONU 19 Jun
ROTHSCHILD GAME: Greeks owe €49bn to French, €30bn to German & €14bn to UK banks on the advice (bribes) of Wall Street "investment" banks. 19 Jun
ROTHSCHILDS GAME: Push debt on people and the government when they are fine. Demand payback when they are down. 19 Jun
If Israel was such a viable country, why are they complaining about the lack of overt support - http://is.gd/XZwZTF 19 Jun
CRONY CAPITALISM: New mineral exploration policy is also based on "first-come first served" basis FUTURE SCAM ALERT http://is.gd/B3iIw2 19 Jun
2G scam was based on the "first-come first-served" approach to issuing telecom license and spectrum. 19 Jun
Crony Capitalism: NREGA (taxpayers money for party cadre) refuses to pay auditors http://is.gd/64IGDH 19 Jun
Crony Capitalism: IDBI offers Kalanidhi above-market price for the sliding stocks of SpiceJet http://is.gd/tS1IuB 19 Jun
Interesting interview with Comptroller & Audit General (CAG) of India in Deccan Herald http://is.gd/ImFiuc 19 Jun
When a woman gets raped or attacked, newspapers publish her name and photograph. Must be editors are holding back hacks on corporate crimes. 19 Jun
But when a pharma company is caught doing illegal drug trials, newspapers are notoriously coy. No names or details. http://is.gd/vWYa4o 19 Jun
Nobel "Peace" Prize winner Obama is also preparing for an attack on Yemen. 19 Jun
US military is also carrying out low-profile wars in a dozen or more African countries. 19 Jun
Obama who won the Nobel Prize even before he did anything as President. He is now bombing civiliansin Iraq, Afganistan, and Libya. 19 Jun
All American presidents from the 20th century can be accused of crimes against humanity. 18 Jun
Within a week or two, US/NATO will finish off all targets of military worthiness. From then on all bombing is on civilian targets. 18 Jun
Whenever the US/NATO declares war on some country, the military in the affected nation vacates its barracks. 18 Jun
If a headline has "human shields," it means US/NATO is going to strafe ordinary civilians. 18 Jun
BBC headline "Nato says Libya 'uses mosques as shields'" means "We are going to bomb mosques. Excuse Us." 18 Jun
29 Facts About Income Inequality In America That Will Blow Your Mind http://is.gd/h88sca 18 Jun
A 1,500-year-old building from the Byzantine period was discovered in Acre in Israel http://is.gd/7qgIgj 18 Jun
Three US companies – Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Cargill – control nearly 90% of the world’s grain trade. http://is.gd/DbDRdB 18 Jun
Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study In Corporate Welfare http://is.gd/K9A7lG 18 Jun
How was Praful Patel able to know how many jets AI/IA should buy from Boeing? Shouldn't the reverse be the case? http://is.gd/O8gkhW 18 Jun
Karzai confirms US is talking to Taliban http://is.gd/y3M8Jx Buying time to harvest poppies? Or is it Mushraf's "Good" Taliban? 18 Jun
US General Petraeus' captured 'Taliban' were civilians http://is.gd/V1bbgI 18 Jun
Political parties are just criminal gangs with a political agenda. Money is the only god and Power is its temple. http://is.gd/GpeUQM 18 Jun
Sometimes, ministers act against private players - when money is not delivered. See how many times Fashion TV was banned by I&B ministry. 18 Jun
Salem Steel was destroyed by the government on the advice of private steel producers. 18 Jun
BHEL is hated by the American GE, Swiss Asea Brown Boveri and the German Seimens. They don't want competition in govt contracts. 18 Jun
Air India's troubles follow a pattern. C-DoT, DoorDarshan, All India Radio, and other public utilities were deliberately made to rot. 18 Jun
Praful Patel “worked as a minister for Naresh Goyal [Jet Airways] and now Vijay Mallya [Kingfisher]. http://is.gd/YbWGAB 18 Jun
Ministry of Civil Aviation should be renamed as Ministry of Crony Aviation. 18 Jun
Apart from Kingfisher Airlines, others such as Paramount owe huge amounts to airports, oil companies and banks. Government is helping them. 18 Jun
While government fails to help Air India, "PSU banks bear brunt for reviving Kingfisher Airlines" http://is.gd/8RhK0N 18 Jun
Kingfisher got "special" RBI nod 2 restructure its 7000cr debt, moratorium on principal for 2yrs, low interest & ballooning repayment option 18 Jun
While AI suffers, Kingfisher Airlines was able to exchange shares for loans from government banks. http://is.gd/8j25WH 18 Jun
Praful Patel's largess for Boeing would make AI go deep in red yet he made it sign the contract. 18 Jun
Air India was doing fine with its existing aircraft but a fishy contract for 28 jets was increased to 68 by Praful Patel http://is.gd/O8gkhW 18 Jun
Praful Patel's order for 68 Boeing jets at a cost of US$11 billion put a heave debt burden on Air India. http://is.gd/Zn6r90 18 Jun
Praful Patel made AI buy 68 Boeing jets on debt (without budgetary support). He also made AI abandon lucrative routes to private airlines. 18 Jun
Praful Patel forced an unnecessary merger of Air India and Indian Airlines. 18 Jun
Former aviation minister Praful Patel systematically destroyed Air India and Indian Airlines 18 Jun
Government refuses to pay Air India even for VIP trips. It is a planned moved to push AI into bankruptcy. http://is.gd/e78pJ7 18 Jun
Finally, SC asks "Can Armed Forces enjoy immunity for rape, murder?" Questions Armed Forces Special Powers Act http://is.gd/M5BJjZ 18 Jun
Unlike Greece, nobody calls on US debt http://is.gd/hlIcdT To pay the interest, they print more dollars. 18 Jun
Cyberware threat is supposed to originate from China but it is the US government that buys Chinese servers and bandwidth. 18 Jun
Compare the inaction on Lulzsec and the speed with which Julian Assange's bank accounts were frozen. Lulzsec is a US government job. 18 Jun
Lulzsec has attacked CIA, Sony, US senate and several other American assets. Yet the accounts has not been taken down. 18 Jun
Twiitter seems to be a US government enterprise but they cannot track down who posts on the LulzSec twitter account! 18 Jun
The recent spate of cyber "attacks" on US government and commercial websites seems like a PR exercise prior to a big spending exercise. 18 Jun
Obama probably going to give a big big cyber warfare contract or create a new cyber warfare bureacracy similar to the DoD,NSA,CIA 18 Jun
Russians are probably trying to reverse-engineer the SENIT-9 combat management system. French probably got support for their Libyan bombing. 18 Jun
Strange: Russia buys a French warship. http://is.gd/mER69C 18 Jun
BSD (Unix) guys have long prided on the security strengths of their platform... until a FBI backdoor was discovered http://is.gd/xKkyJX 17 Jun
Governemnts are the biggest customer for Microsoft, Cisco, and other technology companies. No backdoor means no business. 17 Jun
Because Windows so well for the NSA, all countries have been persuaded not to develop their own operating systems. 17 Jun
When the source code of Windows 2000 was leaked, hackers found evidence of NSA backdoors. http://is.gd/xvmCNv 17 Jun
NSA requires backdoors in all Western computer operating systems, network switches, and even desktop firewalls. 17 Jun
Indian mobile exchanges all use Nokia/Seimens/Ericcsson or other foreign exchanges. They can't sell exchanges unless a NSA hole is included. 17 Jun
Today, C-DOT is forced into a collaboration with Alcatel giving NSA an easy way to snoop into Indian phone consumers. 17 Jun
As NSA wont be able to spy on Indian phones if our exchanges were made by C-DOT, C-DOT was made to collaborate with Alcatel. 17 Jun
Indian goverment's C-DOT Centre for Development of Telematics used to develop our own digital telephone exchanges. 17 Jun
India had a state-owned company to manufacture telephone exchanges but it was systematically pushed into labour trouble and debt. 17 Jun
NSA taps phones in all countries. NSA taps Indian telephones too, as all digital telephone exchanges are from Alcatel and other foreign cos. 17 Jun
NSA (National Security Agency) of the US is the biggest consumer of electricity in the state where its headquarters is located. 17 Jun
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites http://is.gd/x9Gf4V 17 Jun
Goldman Sachs even ripped off the Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund http://is.gd/nywQPE 17 Jun
Looking for easy prey, investment banks like Goldman Sachs ripped off municipalities, cities & countries - all in debt http://is.gd/xgNlKC 17 Jun
As mentioned in my Lose The Dollar article (http://is.gd/Ko8VCR) government don't go bankrupt. They push others into bankruptcy. 17 Jun
United States conveniently does not recognise ICC or World Court (another Rothschilds outfit). 17 Jun
The International Criminal Court is another global institution started by the Rothschilds so they can judge on crimes they had committed. 17 Jun
Another reason why the United Nations, funded by Rothschild agents Rockefellers, is a bad idea http://is.gd/xvWANy 17 Jun
When Georgia invaded Ossetia and tried to blam it on Russia, Reuters news agency distributed fake photos http://is.gd/xTC6O9 17 Jun
Any tearjerker story is good for revolution. Libyan soldiers high on Viagra is one of them http://is.gd/xgoF3s 17 Jun
People believe in anything the media says. 'Gay Girl in Damascus' actually straight man in Scotland http://is.gd/x5r5p2 17 Jun
Orchestrating revolutions and toppling regimes when they go past their expiry date is nothing new for the Rothschilds. http://is.gd/xesPen 17 Jun
Hitler, Lenin, and Trotsky were financed by Rothschild agents. 17 Jun
American Civil War was also led by Freemasons and financed on both sides by the Rothschilds (who control Freemasonry). 17 Jun
American revolution was financed by French (and ruined them) and led by Freemasons. 17 Jun
The original French revolution was orchestrated by the Illuminati, which eventually took over Freemasonry. 17 Jun
Israel has no water. It has occupied Golan Heights & West Bank and built settlements there to steal water from Arabs http://is.gd/xhzPgC 17 Jun
Bahrain's royal family is now terrorising its people as they revolt - http://is.gd/SGQqtn 17 Jun
Bahrain is a Shia majority country ruled by a Sunny tribe that owes its power to the British. 17 Jun
As mentioned earlier, Bahrain was a bogus nation created by Churchill and handed over to a stoogish Sunni tribe. 17 Jun
Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF): They like their uniform and arms so much they kill their own kind with abandon http://is.gd/TEwNGy 11 Jun
NASA finds strange atmospheric anomaly buildup prior to Japan earthquake, which blew up a GE nuclear plant http://is.gd/ufAqYO 11 Jun
US adding lithium to municipal water supply to avoid revolution http://is.gd/hTQY1b American public has no choice - sheeple. 11 Jun
E. Coli scare is also intended to ensure that all food stuff is irradiated, thereby ensuring small-scale farmers are sent out of business. 11 Jun
E. Coli scare in Europe seems to be bio-warfare attempt to ensure people abandon fresh foods and eat only mass-produced processed food. 11 Jun
Ivory Coast: UN finds evidence of war crimes by winners Ouattara and losers Gbagbo. Now, both sides can be blackmailed. 11 Jun
EU asks Germany to stop producing white people http://is.gd/Zy6xEP 11 Jun
Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi hunter, rents out his name to the Simon Wiesenthat Center, Los Angeles, for $90,000/year http://is.gd/moxAm7 10 Jun
Jerusalem Post's list of 50 Most Influential Jews does not include Rothschilds. http://is.gd/coisNK 10 Jun
That is why Baba Ramdev's non-violent turn is doomed to fail. This is why Gandhi's non-violent disobedience remains smartest move even today 10 Jun
When a civilian movement begins to take a defiant tone, the government infiltrates it and gets them implicated in illegal acts like violence 10 Jun
When civil servants do not follow the law, they cease to be civil servants. Baba's call for being armed and dangerous is understandable. 10 Jun
Was police attack on Ramdev's followers (particularly women who were stripped naked/punched in their private parts) ordered from high above? 10 Jun
Baba Ramdev's call for arms is a double-edged sword. 10 Jun
RSS also seems to have persuaded Baba Ramdev to abandon his plans for a national political party. 10 Jun
Outlook magazine had a cover story of how RSS has secret meetings with Baba Ramdev and how they persuaded him to support BJP. 10 Jun
"America has a regulatory agency that says it's OK to eat arsenic, but dangerous to drink elderberry juice or raw milk." http://is.gd/RQOtML 10 Jun
US FDA insisted for 60 years that Pfizer's arsenic chicken feed additive won't be passed onto meat eaten by Americans http://is.gd/BVneHS 10 Jun
Is Coca Cola Co. used to manufacture cocaine illegally in the United States http://is.gd/IkBMQk 10 Jun
Andeans use Coca leaves as medicine. US has been pressuring the governments to ban the US. Exemption only for Coca Cola http://is.gd/bzbrBs 10 Jun
MF Hussain dies? May other dollar sellouts follow in his path http://is.gd/F4URCy 10 Jun
Cloudy Germany exponentially outshines Israel in its ability to capture sunlight and turn it into usable fuel http://is.gd/ovECAU 10 Jun
Rats in the Pentagon basement are cranking out bogus blogs, tweets, and campaings for the bogus Arab revolutions http://is.gd/Wo96Dm 10 Jun
Rober Fisk: Remember Idi Amin? We Brits loved him once, but when he turned against us and started eating his enemies... http://is.gd/i30ckj 10 Jun
Correction: British loyalists in Syria, the Assads, regularly killed (liquidated) excess weight that joined the Muslim Brotherhood. 8 Jun
Altogether, Britain owns all of the Middle East. They may ask Israel to nuke Iran or vice versa. 8 Jun
Hezbollah is supported by Iran and Syria and works against Israel. 8 Jun
British also established a Jewish state in the middle of all this in mostly Arab Palestine called Israel. 8 Jun
British loyalists in Syria, the Assads were regularly killed excess weight in the Muslim Brotherhood. 8 Jun
Muslim Brotherhood galvanizes Islamists in Egypt but did nothing to upset the Mubarak apple cart. 8 Jun
To keep British loyalists in check, Britain created the Muslim Brotherhood. They are a gatekeeper organization. 8 Jun
British loyalists in Iran were first monorchies (Pehlavi clan) who were overthrown by another set of British loyalists the Ayatollahs 8 Jun
Other British loyalists such as those in Iraq, Syria... were absolute dictatorships. 8 Jun
British loyalists in the Middle East fashioned themselves as monorchies (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE...) 8 Jun
The Middle Eastern countries that Churchill created were given to British loyalists. 8 Jun
Turkey was once a big caliphate and stretched all across Middle East. Churchill drew some lines on the map and created new countries. 8 Jun
Tatas seems to have routed Rs.1700 crore to Unitech, a realty company, which managed to obtain telecom license in 2008. http://is.gd/MYyySd 8 Jun
I read an article in Tehelka some years ago how Raja played hard to get and Anil Ambani booked a seat next to him in a flight. 8 Jun
Tehelka's (probably an ISI outfit) recent expose on the Maran's http://is.gd/6EOF5v 8 Jun
"Ironically, Dayanidhi used to run the discotheque HFO (Hell Freezes Over) in Chennai till Jayalalitha clamped down on it in 2001." 8 Jun
Marns' "media house indulged in cultural policing by publishing sensational pictures of couples drinking and kissing in star hotels." 8 Jun
Old Outlook magazine article on the Marans - http://is.gd/zTfe5V 8 Jun
Maran's abuse of power seems to have made the Tatas to write a letter to DMK chief Karunanidhi eulogizing Raja's candidature. 8 Jun
A profile on Sivasankaran http://is.gd/Mkz9ad I think he created Sterling Computers 8 Jun
Dayanidhi Maran tactics seems to have made Tatas part with 1/3rd of the shares in their Tata-Sky DTH platform, owned by Tata/Murdoch. 8 Jun
As in Jaya TV case, Dayanidhi seems to have caused non-procedural delays with license/spectrum applications of several telecom companies. 8 Jun
Maran was sitting on Jaya TV's application. Even a court mildly asked him to look into the permission. He couldn't be moved. 8 Jun
Jaya TV imported a lot of TV equipment for its new channel but uplink permission did not come from then telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran. 8 Jun
Except for the brief period under Jinnah, Pakistan has been a banana republic managed by American economists & British-trained generals. 8 Jun
Before Bangladesh, Pakistan's right to exist was based on a BIG NO - that Hindus and Muslims in India constituted two separate nations. 8 Jun
Except for agriculture products and terrorism, Pakistan manufactures nothing. Its sole excuse for existence today is the "Indian threat." 8 Jun
A summary of all US aid to Pakistan http://is.gd/AaIkX6 8 Jun
Dayanidhi-Sun-TV Telecom Exchange: Telecom Ministry sitting on CBI report for over 44 months 2 Jun
Dayanidhi Marn got BSNL to provide 323 lines to his Sun TV operation by laying a 3.4 km long secret cable. http://is.gd/82B643 2 Jun
VKS.ru, cited by EUTimes as Russian Space Forces Command, supplies equipment for aluminium/glass industries. http://www.vks.ru/index2.html 2 Jun
"US Quake Weapon Test Fails Again, Destroys New Zealand City", EU Times cites a report by Russian Space Forces Command and links to VKS.ru 2 Jun
Sorcha Faal also runs EU Times, which Google considers to be a legitimate news source. http://is.gd/hK8Ikq 2 Jun
Sad to see Keiser Report falls for a bogus report by disinformation agent Sorcha Faal http://is.gd/hxNNrN 2 Jun
DSK has just raped Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Iceland and many others were to follow. No punishment for that? 1 Jun
A lead detective on the DSK case is Jewish, Zionist, and a former Army spy who worked in East Germany, says Newsweek http://is.gd/sQ9xmx 1 Jun
Sarkozy critic, lately Libyan crusader and old DSK pal notes the hotel room number is same as date of French elections. http://is.gd/DqPvUd 1 Jun
"It seems people at the factory decided it was better to yield to the president's wishes than face exile to the land of the pygmies." 1 Jun
French were shocked when Sarkozy became president. His petty antics and poor performance made him even more detested. http://is.gd/sr3gFC 1 Jun
Sarkozy bent backwards to accommodate Gaddafi http://is.gd/9RnjNS. When Gaddafi failed to deliver, Mirage fighters rained bombs on Tripoli. 1 Jun
Sarkozy wined and dined Gaddafi to win contracts for his pals. The French were galled when Gaddafi pitched his tent outside Champs-Élysées 1 Jun
Sarkozy was kicked upstairs only because of open support for powerful business groups. 1 Jun
French don't like Jews a lot. They even collaborated with the Nazis in WW2 to get rid of Jews. Sarkozy elevation is all the more surprising 1 Jun
Sarkozy is Jewish and has no populist following. As a minister, he exploited Frenchmen's disapproval of Muslim immigrants presence in France 1 Jun
Dominque Straus-Kahn was widely expected to defeat Sarkozy in presidential elections. The French hate Sarkozy and think he set up DSK. 1 Jun
One commentator at SaharaReporter - "Since when did the American police start defending the rights of African Americans? 2011?" 1 Jun
Even people in Africa don't believe the Straus-Kahn rape theory. Check out the comments in this African website - http://is.gd/75fu1M 1 Jun
A chapter on Codex Alimentarius has been added to World Government For Dummies http://www.vsubhash.com/pdf/World_Government_For_Dummies.pdf 1 Jun
McDonalds restaurants would be empty if patrons knew about the wood. If the label just mentions #460, they are "Codex Compliant!" 31 May
If McDonalds can use "wood flour", they are just going to mention the number 460, which stands for "powdered cellulouse - anti-caking agent. 31 May
McDonalds uses "wood flour" in their non-dairy milk shakes. "So, it’s all cellulose. Which I guess is good roughage." http://is.gd/gd5qPD 31 May
Read this interview (http://is.gd/gd5qPD) with someone who does not have an agenda - a writer on logging industry. 31 May
Today, packaged food items just have numbers from the Codex Alimentarius INS. It offers a easy way to hide the sources of food additives. 31 May
If only people knew what goes into processed food - http://is.gd/7o6IZC International Numbering System of Codex Alimentarius Commission 31 May
There have been reports in the British press that their royals a few generations ago were cannibals http://is.gd/o6S8jH 31 May
American companies picked up the term "human resources" from Paul Kennedy and renamed their "personnel departments". What a tragedy! 31 May
Except for oil, India is not dependent on trade. That's not the case with China, who will go down with the U.S. http://is.gd/Ko8VCR 31 May
In his 1993 book "Preparing for 21st Century," Paul Kennedy says India and China are rich in human resources and will dominate the world. 31 May
In "Rise and fall..." Paul Kennedy mentions that until the industrial revolution India was the biggest manufacturing nation in the world. 31 May
Paul Kennedy became famous for his book "The Rise and Fall of Great Empires". 31 May
The term "human resources" was first introduced by British historian Paul Kennedy in his book "Preparing for the Twenty-first Century" 31 May
Robert Fisk: Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? http://is.gd/AUqHh2 31 May
"I saw Israeli army negotiating with bearded Hamas officials, giving them permission to build more mosques," Robert Fisk http://is.gd/6Yir0L 31 May
"Bottom line is it is better to be re-vaccinated. Getting another shot is certainly not going to harm you," http://is.gd/yDnQNd 31 May
Vaccines used to create antigens that last a lifetime. Flu vaccines mandated by US government dont http://is.gd/5axfR4 31 May
Merkel's decision on nuclear power is either an election gimmick or she is about lose the elections or her life. She is a Bilderberger. 31 May
Chancellor Merkel is a physics graduate and has a PhD in quantum chemistry. 31 May
Germany chancellor Merkel's helicopter recently had a mysterious loss of power and almost plunged to the ground http://is.gd/DEICkE 31 May
Germany and Switzerland to exit nuclear power by 2022 and 2034 respectively - http://is.gd/6Hg26F 31 May
VNN and Natvan look like FBI-ADL honeypots but their material is great. 29 May
"Law enforcement agencies were loath to go after Russian mob, instead went bagging Italian wiseguys" - http://is.gd/3Njt08 29 May
Railway employees, particularly the engine drivers, and also the passengers continue to suffer because politicians want railways mismanaged. 29 May
Laloo Prasad Yadav could not hand over the contract to GE because Indian bureaucracy moves at a slow pace - many hands have to be greased. 29 May
Laloo made a big show of how he "turned around" the railways to a profit. It was a PR exercise ahead of giving the engine order to GE. 29 May
Indian Railways is a monopoly. It has no shortage of customers. Still, it runs on losses. Somebody is ripping off the Railways. Wonder who? 29 May
Railways' contract with the Swiss company Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) allegedly saved Narasimha Rao govt from a no-confidence motion. 29 May
Indian Railways has bought locomotives technology before. It saves Congress governments but they keep needing new partners to build engines. 29 May
Although Indian Railways can execute the Dedicated Freight Corridor project on its own, influential private players will get all contracts. 29 May
Plan size of the Dedicated Freight Corridor project has moved from 50,000 crore to 77,000 crore rupees. 29 May
The dedicated freight corridor rail project is a massive Indian taxpayer-funded program to rehabilitate GE http://is.gd/WTl1d6 29 May
GE gets secret bailouts, and "second-source" aircraft engine and high-speed rail contracts. Yet, they pay no taxes. http://is.gd/EKaAKA 29 May
Old article on GE: General Electric is going bankrupt http://is.gd/ksmyYg 29 May
General Electric's debt stands at $427.3 billion. US government's bailout package ends next year. http://is.gd/FZdFcO 29 May
Globalization is another word for crony capitalism. 29 May
US government also mandated the use of mercury-laden CFL lamps to replace all incandescent bulbs. GE is a big manufacturer of CFL lamps. 29 May
Is Raj Rajratnam different from Warren Buffet, Goldman Sachs, and others on Wall Street? They all exploit insiders and secret information. 29 May
Warren Buffet invested in General Electric after he got US government promise a bailout. http://is.gd/q7xkQQ http://is.gd/aEwsEd 29 May
Aloyna Show: US state spends 30-40 K/prisoner annually. Yet struggles to provide schools with 7K dollars/student. http://is.gd/giMGc2 29 May
World Government For Dummies has been updated http://www.vsubhash.com/pdf/World_Government_For_Dummies.pdf 29 May
Earthquakes can be artificially created http://is.gd/Lj1MBn and it should not surprise anyone if the technology has been weaponised. 29 May
Timepass Prediction #2 (1-March-2011): The two-day hush-hush symposium on quakes in Kathmandu a prelude to a real quake? http://is.gd/ysE8Me 28 May
Timepass Prediction #1 (21/12/2010): If the next Wikileaks "expose" is against Bank of America, then JP Morgan will be asked to acquire it. 28 May
Are american children to be used in medical experiments to test anthrax vaccine? http://is.gd/H4D7p2 27 May
In future, Indian government will use DIME weapons if we protest. Leaders of terrorist groups will be wined and dined though - for PEACE. 27 May
IPCL disinvestment: Many international oil majors showed interest but the oil secretary delayed the process until they left. Reliance won. 27 May
Indian Citizen ID project: "We decided to quit the bidding process... things had become pretty hostile between us and the authority..." 27 May
As in any Indian project, corruption screws things up - IBM, HP opt out of 2,000-crore UIDAI bid - http://is.gd/iNgqzJ 27 May
The Unique Identity Development Authority of India project is a test case for globalist to implement citizen ID program in other countries. 27 May
"Animal rights" pressure groups like PETA exist only to drive small-scale animal rearing out of business & help industrialized farming cos. 27 May
USDA fines Missouri family $90k for selling a few rabbits without a license http://is.gd/zblWDh 27 May
Foreign security companies hired by Indian banks have been accused of pumping fake currencies into the Indian banking system. 27 May
Taser International has sued medical examiners who claimed tasers contributed to deaths. So, nobody will say the truth. http://is.gd/AqjEJf 27 May
Trigger-happy freedom cops in America have used tasers on grandmas and schoolkids. Victims, their families, even cops have filed lawsuits. 27 May
In the IE article, Taser says that over 300 death-related accusations have been made but postmortem reports did not blame it on taser use. 27 May
I am sure that when these weapons are widely used there will be plenty of Indians who will be saying that it is a great idea. 27 May
Tasers are supposed to be non-lethal. So, Freedom Cops in Freedom States of America find it irresistible. http://twitter.com/HumanRightsUSA 27 May
AsiaTimes article on militarization of India says Indian police are acquiring taser guns - http://is.gd/okDKCE 27 May
"Don't tase me, bhai?" http://is.gd/OViDwR 27 May
India prints 500/1000 Re notes in Germany. So, Pakistan's "fake" notes R as good as originals. Dumb/complicit Indian agencies allowed this. 26 May
Telgi obtained original bond paper, printing dies/plates from Nasik security press. Telgi's "fakes" were really original! 26 May
Can Central Economic Intelligence Bureau can convict Chhagan Bhujbal of the NCP, who helped Telgi. 26 May
NCP politicians and probably Congress too were involved in Telgi scam. Yet these agencies could do nothing except perhaps give AIDS to Telgi 26 May
Central Economic Intelligence Bureau will wittingly/unwittingly give a simplified infrastructure for foreign agencies. http://is.gd/qhFQ8m 26 May
It looks like British still controls Indian Intelligence Bureau and R&AW. Purulia airdrop seems to confirm this. 26 May
I guess NSA wants a direct combined feed into the Indian intelligence establishment. The British GCHQ will no doubt "help" the NTRO. 26 May
I guess NTRO will use equipment donated by American NSA to monitor CEIB, DRI, DGCEI, CBDT, NCB, FIU, ED, CBI, BSF, IB & Cabinet Secretariat. 26 May
National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) will setup a combined database of 11 government security agencies. 26 May
IT Dept inquiry in 2G case has upset the government. A unified database of "economic intelligence and enforcement agencies" is being setup. 26 May
ET reports "CBI may name Dayanidhi Maran, Maxis in Aircel ownership FIR." Next hearing in Supreme Court set for July 6. http://is.gd/qhFQ8m 26 May
Even the IT department feels that Infosys & Wipro are exporting labour not software. This does not bode well for India - 25 May
Scandalous ties between AGRA, Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Monsanto http://seattleglobaljustice.org 25 May
A Outlook mag reader: "Infy squandered an opportunity to build a world-class MNC, instead built a AC sweatshop." 25 May
US state accuses Infosys of using B1 visas (typically used for business visits/negotiations) illegally for onsite work. 25 May
Private insurance companies profit from insurance scheme for poor, Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, setup by Congress 25 May
Gates donations to Alliance 4 Green Revolution in Africa returns as Monsanto sales. Gates has shares in Monsanto. Charity or tax evasion? 25 May
Rockefellers/Gates is "working to get governments to leave seed distribution to the private sector." They call themselves charities! 25 May
Rockefeller Foundation/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/US government thrust Monsanto GMO seeds on Africa http://is.gd/MWlTPF 25 May
My PDF ebook World Government For Dummies is out 24 May
".. Lockheed Martin is the largest provider of IT services, systems integration, and training to the U.S. Government." 24 May
Delhi's Jewish population 24 May
Zionist accuse others as "prejudiced" or worse racist. Look how black Jews are treated by Ashkenazi Jews 24 May
Defreeze not unfroze... 23 May
After refusing RTI queries' regarding Q, CBI closed the case! Meanwhile, Sonia got the AG exempt the CBI from the ambit of RTI. 23 May
CBI refused a RTI request all prosecution documents regarding Quattrocci claiming that it would weaken their case against him. 23 May
Sonia gandhi ensured that CBI unfroze Q's bribe money account & withdrew the Interpol red corner notice for his a rrest. 23 May
Sonia gandhi went to great lengths to save Bofors middleman Ottavio Quattrocci. 23 May
Kanimozhi's arrest is a deliberate & wanton attack on the DMK by the Congress. 23 May
DMK's misfortune is that Congress remained aloof & hid their corrupt deals while DMK was brazen & careless about everything. 23 May
Reliance &Tata made the donations only a few days before the were allocated licence & spectrum. CBI basically lied in its chargesheet. 23 May
Owners of Reliance & Tata telecom companies who donated to Kanimozhi's NGO & Raja's hospital have not been chargesheeted. 23 May
Home Minister Chidambaram who ordered officials to treat the matter as closed has not been chargesheeted. 23 May
PM Manmohan Singh and AG Nanavati who okayed the spectrum allocation have not been chargesheeted. 23 May
Kanimozhi, Rajaratnam & Dominique Straus-Kahn are fall guys thrown overboard to save bigger culprits from sinking. 23 May
The media circus around Kanimozhi's jail stay seems to be a carefully planned distraction by Congress. 23 May
America will tolerate attacks on its military but on its military contractors who supply NATO bases in Afghanistan. 23 May
Pakistan naval base attack seems to be retaliation for attacks on NATO supply convoys. 23 May
Emergency Rooms disappearing across America. GW Bush used to say people can go to ERs and get treatment if they have no insurance. 22 May
Depopulation Agenda: Most people dump CFL lamps in the garbage and the "environment-friendly lamps" cause mercury poisoning. 22 May
Depopulation Agenda: Compact fluorescent lamps, touted as environment-friendly alternatives, contain mercury (a neurotoxin). 22 May
Apart from huge defence contracts, LM and NG does most of the backoffice operations for the US government. 21 May
Biggest IT services company in the world is NOT IBM. It is Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman. 21 May
All the posterboys of American capitalism, the megacorps, are dependent on contracts and contacts with the American companies. 21 May
Indian army killed members of a Burmese rebel organization in cold blood 20 May
America is really a soviet state masquerading as a capitalist paradise. Their economy just runs off contracts given out by their government. 20 May
When Bill Clinton was president, American companies illegally transferred rocket technology to China. They just no-bid contracts from USG. 20 May
America about to go to bust soon? US fed gov was stealing pensioners money. Now refusing handouts to debt-laden states
In 1961, 20 million Americans were members of secret societies Masonry, Elks, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Loyal Order of the Moose... 19 May
Among 34 presidents (1961), 13 were FreeMasons. Kennedy was a member of Knights of Columbus, Catholic version of freemasonry. 19 May
Talk about bad lists,Time magazine is a serial offender. Former Telecom Minister Raja is #2 on Top 10 Abuses of Power 19 May
When you warn about the future, they don't believe you and laugh at you. Just see how talking heads mock Peter Schiff 19 May
Times Now says Purulia arms drop was a RAW+MI5 operation. Is this how Maoists are ALSO getting sophisticated arms? RAW has its own aviation. 19 May
Pakistani TV serials just as bad - no in-betweens, no complex characters, no greys, determinedly black-and-white tales 19 May
Friday Times of Pakistan: Neighbours talk about alleged Osama Bin Laden haveli (or CIA safehouse) in Abbottabad 19 May
Wall Street Journal changes Georgian news on NATA and Russia after a call from the American Politburo 19 May
TSA backscatter radiation safety tests were rigged 18 May
(PDF) Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury (US Vaccine Injury Compensation Program) 18 May
Fox TV: New Study Suggests Link Between Vaccines and Autism 18 May
(Book) Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story Of Nazi Racial Laws And Men Of Jewish Descent In The German Military 18 May
The main problem of the Jewish community is that their leaders hunt with the hound while the rest run with the hare. 18 May
Many Holocaust "survivor" stories have been proved to be fake like the 2008 "Holocaust Love Story" 18 May
"Holocuast" industry is a multi-billion dollar industry - books, movies documentaries, museums, memorials, events... 18 May
The organized commercial retailing of the Jewish tragedy and ham-handed attempts to denounce doubters has only worked against the community. 18 May
Casualty figures at the notorious concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau were revised not by tens of thousands but by millions down! 18 May
The Nazis may have killed maybe thousands of Jews in fumigation chambers but not millions as alleged. No autopsy results ever been produced. 18 May
Nearly 2 million "useless" Jews died in concentration camps - most likely due to communicable diseases/starvation at the end of the war. 18 May
From the concentration camps, the best among the crop - young and/or skilled were shipped to Palestine. 18 May
Many Nazis were also Jewish. Jews who refused to emigrate to Israel and fled to other European countries were rounded up and put in camps. 18 May
Hitler's father an illegitimate child of a woman who worked in the house of Rothschild baron in Austria - Hitler may have been part Jewish. 18 May
Jewish Virtual Library: There is a remote possibility that Adolf Hitler was part Jewish 18 May
Wall Street financed Hitler, the Nazi party, German war machine, Jewish ethnic cleansing, and emigration to Israel. 18 May
Communist ideology was developed/promoted by Jews and pitched against Christians. Yet, Jews suffered enormously. 18 May
The movement for world government is pushed by people of all faiths, not just Jews as alleged. They will not accept a "Jewish" world govt. 18 May
There are quite a few Jews at the top who believe that a future "world government" (dictatorship) will have Jews at the helm of affairs. 18 May
VNN now and then links to some very well-researched articles. Sometimes, they run out of ideas and post "Say something racist." 18 May
Vanguard News Network claims to be totally free of Jews. It looks like a ADL-FBI operation to seek out racists. 18 May
Jews have no hope. Their biggest enemies are from their own community. Quite a few of them are engaged in anti-Jewish propaganda. 18 May
The first Jewish Presidential candidate from the American Republican party is an openly homosexual politician. 18 May
Even pre-teens who have a confused assertion of their sexuality are not spared and are encouraged to be homosexual. 18 May
American Jews have been accused of promoting homosexuals and homosexuality in the media and popular culture. 18 May
(Reading about) Glenn Beck this and Glenn Beck that? Saw his photo for the first time. Turns out, he is just a Zionist shill 18 May
A book everyone should read: Leonard Cole's CLOUDS OF SECRECY: THE ARMY'S GERM WARFARE TESTS OVER POPULATED AREAS 16 May
US and other Western countries have conducted chemical and biological warfare studies on their own population and abroad. 16 May
Current GM technology is probably a result of commercialized version of chemical/biological warfare. 16 May
Canadian study: Bt toxins from GM soybean, corn and potatoes in blood samples of 30 pregnant women and 39 other women - 16 May
Voting percentage was very high in TN. People who would normally vote went out to defeat the DMK. So, victory could not be denied to AIADMK. 15 May
Chips used in Indian EVMs are made by foreign companies - Renesas (Japan) and Microchip (US) who can slip in backdoors into the software. 13 May
IndianEVM.org - Long delay in releasing vote counts can allow wireless tampering of votes. 13 May
People who exposed vulnerabilities of Indian voting machines http://bayimg.com/HaIoiaAda 13 May
Indian EVMs can provide results immediately after voting but EC waits for weeks - allowing time for baking the results into the chips. 13 May
J. Alex Halderman (EE/CS professor at University of Michiganhttp) review vulnerability of Indian electronic voting machines 13 May
Interestingly, "white" Americans do not consider Mexicans as white. They are "hispanic". Caucasian Anglo-Saxon are whites. Iberos not white. 12 May
Although black Americans are mostly Christian, 1/3 of the males are in jail & the rest are unemployed | hooked on drugs. No threat to Jews. 12 May
Illegal immigration from Mexico is also encouraged by the insecure Jewish population which wants to alter US demographics against "whites." 12 May
Illegal immigration from Mexico to the US is encouraged by the reluctance of Big Business to pay real wages. 12 May
US owes $14.6 trillion (to public) and $14 trillion (to foreigners) - counterfeit portraits of dead US presidents. 12 May
US state forced to build its own fence against illegal immigration while their TSA harrasses citizens n foriegn tourists 11 May
Objective of PATH.org's "HPV Vaccines: Evidence for Impact" project? Mandatory immunization funded by govts (Windfall profits for Merck/GSK) 10 May
Andhra HPV trials scandal: PATH.org seems like a front organization for generating positive vaccine efficacy data 10 May
Andhra HPV trials scandal: PATH, the US NGO, tries to cover for the role of Merck (Gardasil) and GSK (Cervarix) 10 May
Andhra HPV trials scandal: Teachers/hostel wardens ordered to sign consent forms. Some parents gave thumb impressions! 10 May
Andhra government and Indian Council for Medical Research sign up more than 23500 girls for HPV trials 10 May
Karnataka backtracks on suspension of drug trials http://www.deccanherald.com/content/159896/unconscionable-act.html 10 May
Karnataka suspends drug trials citing "nexus" between doctors and drug companies, lack of transparency/accountability 10 May
PR lies for drug trials: "patients in poorer countries ... receive better-than-normal healthcare while being studied" Drug makers seeking global guinea pigs 10 May
Reason why a pizza can feed more people than a black American male? http://www.naturalnews.com/032319_water_fluoridation_civil_rights.html 9 May

End Of The Road For Moral Volcano

2006-12-31T17:48:00.007+05:30

This blog sux!

In India, we think that anyone who can speak English is a well-educated person. As a result, we assign people in the West with a lot of wisdom. Our newspapers, for example, pay a lot of money to reprint articles from leading American and British newspapers such as the The New York Times. How smart are these foreign pundits? The manner in which the "KGB spy" poisonging scandal was covered can be a test case. Every one from The Times of London to tabloid The Sun said he was a James Bondy-style spy, when the guy very little spying because his job in the KGB was like that of the Denko character that Arnold Schwarznegger played in the film Red Heat.

People in the U.S. and Britain are just like those in India - the average citizen is a moron. Nothing illustrates this better than the brazen manner in which Bush was able to shift the war on terror from Afghanistan to Iraq. So, I started writing this web log. It is useless. Although it seems to have got serious attention in some very high places, ordinary folk have stayed away. When they came, they came in search of porn. Why these fools won't buy regular porn DVDs and be done with? Why do they have to search the web for mms clips of Mallika Sherawat is something I will never understand.

Every week I travel from Bangalore to Madras I look at the logs - all I see are porn search requests. I am giving up. It is a waste of time. I used to buy only one computer magazine every month. Now, I buy three - digit, Chip, and PC World - but I don't have time to read any one of them completely. My family members have to ask me for permission before they can speak to me. I don't like to be disturbed while I working on the blog - which is all through the weekend.

Yet, I don't even get to complete any one post. There are lots of them here that are marked "yet to be completed." They will remain that way and I am quitting. Before I go, I am making some predictions.

Money

Americans have no savings in their bank accounts. Instead, they have a lot of debt on their credit card. Many American families have taken advantage of the rising housing market and mortaged their homes, thereby "using their homes as ATM machines." On a higher level, the U.S. economy is in a bad shape thanks to a huge negative trade balance - it imports more than it exports. The U.S. Federal Reserve (American central bank) is said to be considering lowering interest rates, which will only increase money supply! Their printing presses are already busy printing more currency to pay for imports. Instead of collapsing under the strain, the U.S. manages to survive because exporting nations to the United States plough back their dollars into U.S. assets such as U.S. Treasury Bills (T-Bills), stocks, etc. Leading these nations, China now has $1 trillion in forex reserves. However, they can't keep accumulating this mountain of money for long because the dollar has been slowly but surely losing value for quite some time. They can't easily dump the dollars because that would only increase the supply and weaken the dollar value even further. If they don't replace their hoard with more valuable assets, then that mountain of dollars will become worthless. The only choice before the Chinese government then would be to give $1000 to every one of those billion Chinese as high-quality toilet paper.

Why do people buy dollars in the first place? Answer is oil. Oil is denominated in dollars. So, everyone needs to buy dollars in order to buy oil. That brings up the question why oil is denominated in dollars? Oil-producing countries in the Persian Gulf are monarchies. These oil monarchies are supported by the U.S. military. No democracy here though. Democracies are too volatile and American policy makers can sleep easy at night if these countries are ruled by democrats. The ruling families have established a very strict code of Islamic rule, which takes care of Islamic fundamentalists. A serious threat to this cozy arrangement came when Saddam threatened to invoice his oil in Euros. This was why that country was invaded in the first place. Thats why everyone supported the invasion of Iraq? No, different people had different reasons to support the war in Iraq.

Interested Party	Interest
Arms manufacturers (Eg. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics)	For these merchants of death, the end of cold war only brought them more prosperity. With a war, they are happiest people on the planet.
Private Equity	Private equity funds are created with big investments from high-net-worth individuals, big corporations, and other PE funds. These funds bought several key Pentagon military hardware suppliers and military services contractors. When the war started, their investments started giving them multifold returns.
Big Oil (Eg. Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Shell)	Oil
Oil services Companies (Halliburton)	Oil services contracts
Contract Engineering Companies (Eg. Bechtel)	Reconstruction contracts (reconstructing what was deliberately chosen by them to be destroyed in the war). There are more American contractors in Iraq than their solidiers.
Media	Many of them are owned by Big Business that benefit from the business of war. Besides, if they did not follow the crowd, they would have been left behind. Where Fox News goes, NBC and others follow.
Pentagon (U.S. military)	Convinced by U.S. Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force report that warned that the U.S. was faced with a debilitating energy situation unless an oil-rich country such as Iraq was in the bag (no pun intebded).
Israel	Israel's influence on the U.S. government is not a much-talked-about topic but it is definitely an inevitable all-pervasive force. Israel employs armies of people as lobbyists, officials, and spies to influence American policy and actions. Many American officials are more Israeli than American. From their perspective, invasion of Iraq paves way for Elimination of a security threat Subsequent dismemberment of Iraq Possibility of installing pro-Israel politicians in power Water supply to parched Israel
American politicians	An American politician will sell his mother if the price was right. He is a slave to those who provide him with campaign funds. Campaign funds are routed by lobbying firms (lobbying is a fancy American name for organized corruption) represented by vested interests, dominated by Wall Street and Israeli/Jewish organisations.
American public	Traumatised by the 911 attacks and frightened by anthrax scares, Americans looked up to their leaders for assurance. With Patriot act and faux news, neocons took advantage of the situation and became the most successful salesmen of snake oil of recent times.

Paul Wolfowtiz, the leading Bush administration neocon behind the Iraqi invasion, says that the threat from an possible Iraqi WMD program was the only thing that everyone would agree as a dire situation. And, for that reason, they pursued that line! They took it to the United Nations Security Council. Failure at the U.N. did not mean they were stopped; they just went ahead with invasion.

Yet, the most compelling reason for the invasion and occupation of Iraq was to safeguard dollar hegemony. It is in this light that current threats to Iran must be seen. Iran's WMD capabilities are no threat to Israel and yet Israel has been convinced that it is. This is why so many Israeli-Americans who were stoking Iraq fire are now doing the same over Iran's alleged weapons program. By putting Iran under sanctions, the new Iranian oil bourse that will deal oil only in Euros will become a non-starter.

No matter how this problem is tackled, it is without doubt that dollar's days are numbered. I suggest you put your savings in gold.

Security

Seems pretty bleak. Either terrorists start a nuclear holocaust or the Arctic breaks up and destroys half the planet. I am going for the mountains with a do-it-yourself book on terrace cultivation.

Technology

Microsoft has implemented so many precautionary measures in Windows Vista that it will be very difficult and expensive for users to use it. Ideally, market forces would have made Vista an instant failure. However, Microsoft is such a big and powerful monopoly that a failure if it happens can only be a protracted one. Vista makes not just the software difficult and expensive to use, it also makes hardware more difficult and expensive to use.

Orwell-Speak

In Communist countries, propaganda is delivered as news by the propagandists themselves. In democratic countries, this job has been taken up by the free press. Suppose that a newspaper wants to have a public debate on whether to legitimise prostitution. It may choose to invite a prostitute to write in the op-ed column so that opinions of those directly affected by the issue can be aired. But, what if the paper's journalist starts writing a prostitute? Where is the debate? In the U.S., the Bush administration paid money to some PR companies who created promotional material disguised as actual news videos so that a positive buzz was created around the administration's policy. When it was revealed that the news journalists and interviewees were really paid actors, the Bushmen repsonded with an Orwellian "it is consistent with modern practices in media relations" defence line. Actually, this sort of charade is all over the place. Why do terrorists commit acts of terrorism? Because "they hate freedom!" What does Microsoft call its piracy-check program? Windows Genuine Advantage! (Microsoft says it is for your advantage.) What's the name of the controversial concept of providing hardware and software manufacturers the ability to disable the product you have bought from them and one that violates your privacy? Trusted Computing!

Death of Capitalism

I am a die-hard capitalist. Capitalism is built on the foundation that bad ideas will die a natural death and smart ideas will survive in their place. If in the West, you switch on a light there is always light or you open a tap there is always water, it is because they have allowed smart ideas to flourish. If in India, you can never be sure if there will be electricty or water supply, it is because we put stupid ideas permanently on life support. The problem started with Nehru who put India on a socialist path and gave birth to the licence-quota-permit raj with the state at the commanding heights of the economy. I am not blaming Nehru or saying that he was wrong. (Pakistan became an independant state at the same time as India. Its economy was managed by economists and experts from the U.S. just like banana republics of Latin America. And, just like banana republics of Latin America, its economy creates no manufactured goods. Pakistan imports everything, exporting only terrorists to the rest of the world.) I am only saying the problem started with him. When Nehru closed the economy, prices of commodities spiralled and he had to place price controls. Gandhi condemned the price controls and suggested that people should instead be forced to work harder. His advice was not followed. Job creation was not done in the private sector but in the public sector. When Nehru's daughter Indira came to power, she greatly added more people on the government payroll by nationalising private banks. Today, we have a very big bureacracy and an extremely corrupt one. Government employees do no work and demand huge salaries. The huge salaries have no effect on corruption. All government employees are eligible for generous loans and advances. (You can be in the middle of the desert and still get a home loan claiming that your house was washed away by floods.) After the repayments are made, there remains very little of the salary. This is why government employees put so many unnecessary administrative difficulties and extract huge bribes to get things going. Politicians encourage this just so they can carry on with thier own scams. The solution it appears is privatisation. However, today's industrialists are not capitalists. They don't like to work hard or take risks. They want it easy - easier than say the government employees. Enron's Dabhol power project is an example. Enron did not want want to take risks. They wanted the government to take care of risks so they demanded guaranteed profits written into the contract. The Congress was agreeable to all this but Shiv Sena and BJP created a fuss. However, it was 13-day BJP government that gave Central Government guarantees to Enron and passed the project. This sort of privatisation of profits is happening all over the country and all over the world. What we have are lazy bastards masquerading as capitalists and corrupt politicians pretending to be saviours who want to force people to pay for everything - for water, for roads, for everything.

Strange Search Requests - XVII

2006-12-17T10:37:00.001+05:30

Strange Search Requests is a voyeuristic look at what people have searched for before reaching Moral Volcano and www.vsubhash.com. If you like Strange Search Requests, you will definitely love Disturbing Search Requests. DSR is a collaborative weblog published by numerous other website owners and has a bigger collection of strange search requests. You can also check the BlogPatrol site log for the latest referrer information for Moral Volcano.

[11/12/06] what is the role of the media: My logs say a visitor was lead to my blog after performing this search. Now however it returns no result. Corollary: Media has no role to perform.

[11/12/06] uncensored sites for naughty stories which are not blocked in UAE: This month last year, Santa was searching for naught wives. This year, he is digging up dirt in UAE! Bad Santa.

[11/12/06] santa of india: You are of course referring to the famous Santa Singh of Patiala. Well, this is time for a Santa story then. One day, Santa was traveling in a plane and guess who is in the seat next to him? Gary Kasparov, the great chess champion! Very well then, Kasparov challenges Santa for a chess match and Santa Singh smartly says, "Hello Mr. Kasparov, I know who you are so don't try to fool me. You are a grandmaster so you've got to play with your left hand!." Well, Kasparov played with his left hand and still won. At the airport, Santa narrated his chess match loss to his wife who came to pick him up. She berrated him saying that, "Arrey budhoo, Kasparaov played with his left hand and won because he is left-handed!"

[12/12/06] virtual boyfriend for pc, desktop virtual boyfriend, other words for boyfriend: Girls, I know you find me irresistible but a strong will is all you need because otherwise you may not survive. (See, I don't keep a current picture of mine on the site. Even the baby picture of mine (see below) that I keep here drives them crazy. They keep pinging me on Yahoo! Messenger and see if they can talk their way into my cavernous heart. (Although not very related to this, I am reminded of someone (a woman of course) who said that the way to a man's heart was through his chest.) I always pretend I don't get the message and send them around in circles.)

virtual boyfriend: Even after going to Friendster.com, she thinks a virtual boyfriend would be better! Hmmm...

go out with a free virtual boyfriend, my our own virtual boyfriend, virtual boyfriend websites: Whatever happened to feminism? Come on, girls!!!

If you really need some attention from guys, then download these feminist wallpapers (not the one above) and set them on your computer as the desktop background image.

why is women's education important, is breast best or is bum better: I forget the names but there was this prince guy who was trying to the get the attention and affections of some English noblewoman. So, when he was following her one day, he remarked, "Is your front as good as your behind?" and she replied "You may kiss whichever you favour more!"

[14/12/2006] other words for boyfriend: Loser, compulsive liar, idiot...

whether you think zoos are good for animals and people or whether they should be closed: Kudos to the teacher who gave this writing assignment to his/her students but I think this picture says everything.
Not now, kid!

[12/12/06] Subramania swamy CIA: India's leading conspiracy theorist Subramania Swamy has little popular support but occupies a lot of space in the news.
Politicians take him seriously because he blackmails them.
Journalists give him publicity because he conducts his press conferences in 5-Star hotels and the poorly-paid hacks can count on drinking a lot of free liquor after his interaction with media is over.
He uses his training in law to file public interest litigations (PILs) and gives powerful people no end of trouble.
In one case, he accused Reliance of raiding a big PSU financial institution money by issuing it low-yield preference shares in exchange for high-dividend-paying MF units.
People in Tamil Nadu first go to know his chameleon-like character when he suddenly joined hands with Jayalalitha after years of feuding with her.
He had accussed Jayalalitha of throwing acid on an IAS officer because she raised questions on the sale of SPIC (a T.N. government-owned company) to industrialist A. C. Muthiah.
Jayalalitha responded by hounding him with ladies armed with chappals and broomsticks.
Swamy then had to take refuge in a judge's chamber.
He also had to disguise himself and leave the state to escape the police.
He would regularly announce dates for the fall of J's government.
People up north know him after he joined hands with Jayalalitha to support a government in the Centre and withdrawing that support.
However, the suspicion that he might be a CIA operative stems from his assertion about the whereabouts of LTTE leader Prabhakaran.
His opposition to the LTTE is more out of the need of the U.S. to build a base/monitoring station (masquerading as a commercial port) in Triconamalee in the north of Sri Lanka and LTTE is a stumbling block.
Smart observers may have noted that the Sri Lankan government initiated "talks" with the LTTE at the instance of the U.S.
It was also under their pressure that Sri Lanka started divertng huge amounts of money from its development budget on the military to fight the LTTE.
Any way, one of the results lead me to a page about a talk given by Subramania swamy on Sonia Gandhi.
Somewhat intriguing in the discussion forum was a speculation that Sonia might be half-Sikkimese!
[13/12/06] astrology: what attracts a leo guy: I find it amazing that these women believe that there are only 12 different types of men in the world. And, that they always behave the same 12 different ways. (Come on, give us some credit - we all behave the same way.)

[13/12/06] "paris hilton video": After I published the Saddam Drops Suit, To Star In "The Simple Life" article for a fake news article, my home page has been ranked high for hotel heiress Paris Hilton's sex tape with her boyfriend.

can i surf porn at home on bsnl: No.

wife refuses to allow breast to be touched: This guy had gone past over 70 search results before finding my humour page. From my experience as a medical transcriptionist, I know that this particular symptom is referred by doctors as "tenderness of the breasts" - reasons could be hormonal imbalances caused by menopause, menstrual cycle, medicinal side effect, etc. However, there could be other reasons.

oral is moral, [08/12/2006] oral sex and the christian woman & should christian woman give blowjobs: I have a picture that says it best! (Another reason why people should not watch religious programs on TV. Read the scriptures. That's enough I guess.)

Rich old men taking trophy wives: Rupert Murdoch, that Beatle guy, and Anna Nicole Smith's late and ex-husband ? You are gonna die then die happy.

great places for lesbians to live outside of the U.S.: Abu Ghraib.

vagina tightening shops: Last I heard, the fire service was called again to fish out another guy's body.

women having sex with apes: This is why women should read low-intelligence quotient magazines like Cosmopolitan and Femina. When women start reading magazines like National Geographic, they get odd ideas - apes are intelligent, apes are sensitive, apes understand your jokes,...

[10/12/2006] husbands with breasts & girls without vagina: This is how perhaps human race will eventually die out - after all genetic mutuations we will get from the nuclear fallout. This makes me remember a cartoon I found in a book at the American Center Library in the U.S. Consul General in Madras. A woman is walking down the street with her son. They meet a neighbour who says, "I see that your son has grown a foot." The cartoon has the kid literally having a foot growing out of his head.

[08/12/2006] How to get your wife to act like a porn star girlfriend: Jenna Jameson has written a bestseller with the same title. You should however remember that if she does bumps her speed you may find it difficult to keep up.

how to get a weak point of a man: Some women don't like to play straight.

WHAT A VAGINA IS MEANT TO LOOK LIKE: Conspiracy theorists say it looks like a ♥ or vice versa.

IS DOORDARSHAN A BLESSING OR A CURSE: There was a time when Sun TV considered Doordarshan a curse. How things have changed? Today, there is an unofficial ban of film stars from giving interviews to DD. Most DD programs are dial-in programs where callers phone up and make queries about some subject. There is no entertainment on DD. DD officials says their main program is Vayalum Vazhvum, which is useful for farmers alone. Sun TV does not pay any royalties for the films songs and sequences it shows on the channels. It is doubtful that the film library (containing 1000s of films) that was built properly. Thanks to its participation in central government and monopoly cable operation of the MSO SCV, Sun TV has effectively prevented the growth of other channels such as Raj TV, Jaya TV, and Star Vijay. Sun TV channels are always on prime band while other channels are outside of it. This means that Sun group channels are always clear while the clarity of other channels are poor. Tamil channels such as Tamizhan and Win TV are barely visible.

cia training downloads: Being a CIA agent is one of the $hittiest jobs in the world - first they will send you to pick up someone's garbage, sort it, analyse it... day after day.

[07/12/06] www.mad volcanos: I am still #3?

pussy blogspot.com: I ain't scared... except sometimes and other times.

drug to make wife horny: Like this?

access to husband's secret password & find my husband's secret email account: If your husband is someone like George W. Bush, you don't have to worry much.

ARABIC CHAT: Meet Mr. Osama "Most Wanted" Bin Laden.

indian pussy disclosed: Here is an hot chick with her pussy.

Predictions of the End of the World: American missiles are obscenely expensive and have a high rate of failure. Theater missile is a huge financial sinkhole and a failure. Their anti-ballistic missiles cannot track Russian missiles that are programmed to change their trajectory in random unpredictable manner. The best the Americans have made so far was one that was designed take on a North Korean ICBM missile. Ironically, American officials claimed that the recent North Korean test of their ICBM was a failure.

Desi non-veg jokes: This is Sonia-raj. No more "Be Indian. Buy Indian."

women want men in hosur, websites providing lists of women needing sex at bangalore: You've come to the right place. I have a very big list somewhere here but I can't remember where. It is in one of the old articles for sure so check the archives.
[31/12/06] saddam vcd, hussein hanging video file, saddam drops video, mms clip of saddam download, Saddam Hussein executed pic,bip, extreme saddam videos, saddam death videos: Lot of search requests for videos of Saddam's hanging yesterday.
www.saddam hanging video, www.saddam hussein, www.Saddam.com, www.Saddam Husseins Biography, www.saddam husseins hanging, Saddam Hussein Executed for War Crimes mpeg, WWW.Saddam Hussein., www.saddam hussein killed clips: Rare events such as this should be very useful for domain squatters, as it brings a lot of first-time visitors to the Internet.
paul bremer and saddam's mistress, nicole richie and saddam, Iraqi website, Halabaja (correct spelling is "Halabja"): Some interesting hits.
Condoleeza Pregnant: Some time ago, Wonkette said that Rice referred to Bush as "her husband" at a party. So, I was interested. Any way, this is about a cartoon from the Middle East about her vision of a "New Middle East."

A Proposal To Ban On Film/Cricket Stars From Appearing In TV Commercials

2006-12-03T16:52:00.002+05:30

Actor Aamir Khan offered some vocal support for Narmada Bachao Andolan activists and Hindutva proponents enforced a boycott of the star's films inside the state of Gujarat. That is all okay because, in a democracy, anyone can express dissent or engage in boycott as he/she pleases. Of course, it requires no mention that the neither Narendra Modi nor any of his ilk would dare to boycott actors such as Sanjay Dutt whose links to the mafia are worn like badges of honour.

However, the important question is not whether the ban was justified. Instead, it is about who should we ban next; not from their main vocation of acting or playing but from their appearance on those annoying TV commercials. There was a time (old Doordarshan days) when people would have liked more film-based content on TV. Not anymore. Today, everything on TV is about films or cricket. Even news channels such as NDTV, Headlines Today, and CNN-IBN have not been immune to this contagion. Sure, these channels have a long way to go before they can be compared with the slick production values and professional finesse of CNN or BBC. But, at least they used to hound politicians all the time, making mountains out of molehills and zeroes out of heroes. Unfortunately, degeneration is all you see. Now, it is all about the softness of the pitch and whether it is alloo-gobi or my-foot-up-their-freaking-derrière on the menu of some vain actor's party.

So, here is an array of them little pricks (appellation not applicable to Mallika Sherawat but certainly to all the others - Shahrukh Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai and Aamir Khan) who give people watching TV no end of their annoyance. Just click on the one you think most deserves to be banned. Votes are instantaneously updated. Voting started on 3 June 2006.

SINGLE-CLICK ONLINE POLL - Which Star Needs It Most To Be Banned From TV Commercials?
Click on a star in this image to make your vote.
BAN	Shahrukh Khan	Sachin Tendulkar	Priyanka Chopra	Mallika Sherawat	Kareena Kapoor	Aishwarya Rai	Aamir Khan
Votes So Far	26	23	54	0	54	52	100

UPDATE (13 August 2006): The New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) recenty publicised results of a study it conducted to ascertain levels of pesticide residues in cola drinks. Results were not much different from a similar study conducted last year, when the cola companies and the government assured that public trust would be restored. That time, some reports even said that farmers had begun using Coke and Pepsi in place of regular pesticides with surprisingly good results. This time around, the cola companies have in their defence compared their products, which are non-essential, to essential products such as drinking water and food products. Many states have taken the lead in banning these junk food items, although in a ham-handed manner, which means that the "pesticolas" will be back after a court order.

UPDATE (3 December 2006): I took down the poll today (from the blog template to this new post). The final results are as above. A total of 209 votes were cast indicating an average of just over one vote per day. Both Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor are neck and neck with 54 votes each, taking roughly half the votes between them. With 52 votes, Aishwarya Rai is not far behind with another quarter of the votes. Sharukh Khan and Sachin Tendulkar are about only half as much disliked as the women. Aamir Khan's votes were kept at a constant 100 right from the start and visitors could not vote to ban him because he already a real ban in Gujarat. Visitors were also not allowed to ban Mallika Sherawat because I did not think she was as ubiquitously annoying as the other three women.

An analysis of visitor logs shows me that a number of voters were originally looking for pornographic images of these ladies. (I don't have them so don't ask me.) Sometimes, they clicked on the images of the women they were searching for and sometimes they clicked the others.

Iraq's Impending Balkanisation

2006-10-28T12:57:00.001+05:30

"Give us oil (law) or we break you up," says Big Oil. Furore over violence is just a charade. Iraqi PM Maliki signs the hydrocarbon law or he goes.

* - This post will be completed in the near future.

Steve Irwin's Death Is Not A Loss For The Animal Kingdom

2006-09-10T15:41:00.000+05:30

If animals could think like humans, they have reason to feel relieved by his unscheduled exit. Wild animals prefer to be far away from humans. The few animals that really need humans include Anopheles mosquito, bed bug and body louse. Tributes to the contrary are illogical and in many cases self serving.

Other wild animals should
learn from sting rays

Quite some time ago, Discovery channel had a programme featuring James Cameron, the director of The Titanic. He was a guest on an expedition to find the wreckage of the real Titanic. Although the expedition team had spent considerable amounts to find the wreck, the diving team did not salvage anything from the seabed. They left it in the same state as they found it because they wanted to respect the memory of the dead. It was a mistake. Using the information provided this expedition, some Net-Age gravestone stealers hired a boat and some divers, went to the location of the Titanic wreck, and brought up everything they could. Most of the recovered items became part of a travelling museum. Special items were auctioned off. The propellers of the Titanic were melted and made into golf clubs for the filthy rich.

See the problem? If you are going to waste your time on high ideals and principled practices, some joker is going to come along, undo everything and make you obsolete. And, the world fetes the joker and pours scorn on you. It's the same case with "wildlife" television programming. Film makers who never crossed the line have been forgotten but clowns like Steve Irwin are being portrayed as great "naturalists."

As a small kid, I had often wondered why wildlife filmmakers would never intervene to save a poor prey from being eaten by a predator creature. The film makers were very much aware that they were tresspassing into the private world of the animals and took great pains not disturb anything. When photography was first invented, getting a picture of a charging lion or an elephant was considered a huge thing. Even as technology developed by leaps and bounds, wildlife photographers and film makers kept a good distance from their quarry.

Then came jokers like Steve Irwin and Jeff Corwin. Imagine for a moment that you are in bed with your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend. Suddenly, a gorilla barges into your room, jumps on your back, ties a roll of tape around your mouth, ties up your hands and legs, and thrusts your head in front of a bright light and a camera. Now, imagine the opposite. What you have is "wildlife" TV programming. Harrassing animals is what these clowns do for a living.

Another joker who is
begging to be stung

And, they do it all in the name of "conservation" of Nature. It is a big big charade, no matter which way you look at it. If you have watched a lot of Animal Planet or Discovery or National Geographic, you may have seen WWF advertisements where a Japanese or Chinese celebrity figure asks people not to eat food or use drugs made from endangered animals. But, the biggest threat to wild animals and to Nature at large does not come from Asia but from countries in the West. Apart from creating the greatest share of pollutants that is destroying the environment, people living in the West are responsible for most of the trade in endangered and other wild animals.

Why do Westerners need wild animals? Well, they like to keep them as pets. To show them off to neighbours and visitors - to reflect on their Ooohs and Aaahs - to soak in all that admiration. Some people have no limits - everything from boa constrictors to leopards - the more exotic the better for their backyard. It is one of the biggest great tragedy of our times.

Many of the animals do not make the journey to destinations like the United States. Animals that that manage to survive the journey don't fare much better. The U.S. is the biggest market for the illegal trade in endangered and other wild animals. Ordinary people can legally keep wild animals in their homes. better. I remeber one particular NatGeo programme about South American parrots living in the concrete jungles of the U.S. The parrots had become so traumatised in their captive conditions that they pluck out all the feathers on their head and were sporting bald tops!

Private zoos in America are not a new phenomenon. They have been in existence for long. However, interest in keeping exotic pets has received a massive boost lately thanks to TV shows featuring "naturalists" like Steve Irwin. Instead of showing wild animals in the wild, captive animals and in many cases animals in the wild are shown in close contact with humans. While the animals' personal space is violated, the sorry circus is portrayed as helping animals.

Zoos and animal enclosures do not help wild animals. Animals need to be in the wild. More forests or natural habitat is what they really need. Humans should use less resources and stop destroying the environment. The death of Steve Irwin is a loss for the entertainment industry. The so-called conservation efforts that people like him promote are no different from circuses. They use animals to benefit humans.

India Is A Failed State

2006-07-22T20:36:00.000+05:30

Blog ban? Big deal! Government switched off all mobiles in J&K.

Manmohan Singh recently took money from the U.S. to use his intelligence setup in Nepal to create a people's revolution against King Gyanendra. Revolution was a success - for the Maoists that is. Everyone else - Nepali people and political parties, and for their trouble India and the US - lost. Now, the Maoists are poised to establish their dream of a "corridor" stretching from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea. Our pseudo commies, the Left, has been a big facilitator. Why did Singh agree to this? The Americans played on his vanity and convinced him that India had was an island of stability in a region littered with failed states. A number of strategically placed studies, research papers, and newspaper articles were used to buttress this idea.

Isn't this ironical? In Bihar, hundreds of Maoists sacked a jail and looted the armoury. Large parts of Andhra Pradesh continue to be out of bounds for the State, as thanks for Maoists "cooperation" to the Congress during the state elections, which brought down Chandrababu Naidu. Ditto for much of central India. Unable to fight Maoists on their own, the government has pitted tribals against tribals (Salwa Judum). It is a colossal failure. Tribals are being mass-murdered. The Prime Minister has promised all help. The useless fellow means nothing.

In the North East, Kuki outfits were raised to fight Naga terrorists. This went on for a while until the Kukis started shooting at the government for perceived lack of support and partiality. Army then had to fight both Kuki and the Naga outfits. While peaceful protestors like those of the Narmada Bachao Andolan are treated with disdain, the government is not averse to dispatch the Prime Minister to swell locations like Davos or London for "talks" with leaders of Naga terrorist outfits. Bureacrats like Padmanabhiah, military officials, and intelligence operatives handle large amounts of cash without any accountability. Terrorism in Nagaland is self-financing because the government has taken into its rolls a large section of the population. These employees do no work but have to pay "taxes" to different terrorist outfits. Apart from the "government" of the terrorists, a parallel form of government consisting of tribal leaders which works under the sole guidance of American Christian churches is running with legal sanction. As a result, an elected state government if there is one is powerless. There is little economic activity and no tax collection. Entire state runs on funds from the Centre. As in Nagaland, in other states in the North East, former leaders of terrorist organisations were invited to form government. It not only destroyed the authority of the State but also failed to restore peace.

In Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), hundreds of youth were tortured in interrogation centres with fancy names like Papa II. Smart a$$es in the military have been imitating what British troops did in Malaya during the World War - a "scorched earth" policy. This policy subjected on our own citizens has played well into the hands of Pakistan, U.S. and China. Almost every family in Kashmir has a member lost to terrorism. Right or not, invariably, they all blame the central government. For the thousands who had died or disappeared, there is no official explanation.

The leading LTTE idealogue indirectly confesses to the killing of Rajiv Gandhi on a national TV network. Yet, supporters of LTTE continue to be in government. Sonia Gandhi, the foriegn-born widow of the late Indian statesman has nothing to say about it. Her "patriotism" to her adopted country and "loyalty" to her late husband's memory remains an unsolved mystery.

List of Blogs Banned by Government of India

That our babus are not a tech savvy lot is no big revealation. But that does not stop our equally tech-stupid journalists from making fun of the babus - a clear case of pot calling the kettle black. It was after several articles that they meandered to crux of the problem. Anyway, here is the list of websites that were blocked by the government on 13 July.

http://www.hinduunity.org

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu

http://pajamaeditors.blogspot.com

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com

http://www.thepiratescove.us

http://commonfolkcommonsense.blogspot.com

http://www.bamapachyderm.com

http://princesskimberly.blogspot.com

http://merrimusings.typepad.com

http://www.mackers-world.com

http://www.dalitstan.org - I have been to this website before. They have some really fancy theories about Indian history and culture. If you have read commentators such as Gail Omvedt in The Hindu, then dalitstan.org would seem quite familiar.

http://www.hinduhumanrights.org/hindufocus.html - This is just a web page. I guess it was here that the ISPs became confused about the DOT order.

http://www.andh.com

http://www.bloodrovaltriped.com

http://www.imagesearchyahoo.com (probably http://image.search.yahoo.com)

http://www.imamalie.com

http://www.rahulyadav.com

If the sites are blocked, they can be viewed on proxy services such as Anonymizer.com or Anonymouse.org. I have no idea how faithful sites such as these are about protecting privacy. It is quite possible that some of these sites have been put up by the same people who placed the censors or are some nice folks who found a convenient way to spy. (The forms in my websites are suffering a deluge of form spam. I suspect that companies who sell software designed to minimize comment form spam are behind it.) The Google Cache is a nice way of bypassing any kind of restrictions.

The DOT order was fine except for the flaw in the case of www.hinduhumanrights.org website. The list has the URL of a single web page from the site. This would have caused confusion about whether the ban was in relation to the specified URLs or subdomains or whole websites. Many ISPs, led by BSNL, took the last option. Thus, the entire blogspot.com domain became inaccessible instead of just the subdomains mentioned in the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) order. Interestingly, the publishing window blogger.com was still available. So, bloggers could continue to post articles but not view them. This was similar to the situation that prevails in Pakistan. Not that ISI is overrated; like the CIA, they merely specialise in what-the-butler-saw or what's-in-the-trash spying - undeniably $hittiest jobs in the world.

Recently, I was surpised to find what I thought an imitation Moral Volcano on a site called PKBlogs.com. It turned out that it was a censor-bypassing proxy server put by Pakistani bloggers. I thought, "Oh, well, Pakistan is a banana republic."

Why People Love And Hate Bangalore*

2006-07-08T15:46:00.000+05:30

Bombay Sucks. Madras Sucks. Bangalore Surprises!

Bangalore is for rich people

Want an expensive mobile phone? You will find plenty of shops on every street selling every model on the planet! I was forced to buy a Motorola V3 Razr. Want a simple haircut, you will be hardpressed to find a barber shop.

Don't blame the dog. Blame the owner.

Foreign visitors think lack of indoor plumbing is the problem. Indian roads are a mess because pavement and slum dwellers don't have much of indoors. Thanks to a pro-active policy by authorities, Bangalore does not have this problem. But, roads are still a mess because nouveau-riche don't have backyards or gardens. The poor rich people.

A deserted Majestic (Bangalore City) Bus Stand

A film star died and the city shut down for several days in April. All shops downed their shutters. Bachelors, dependant on bottled water and hotel food, were worst affected. Thousands of people where stranded in the Majestic bus stand, as police banned all buses off the road.

Microsoft Scientia building covered in sheets

Mourning fans wanted to keep a portrait on the premises to help other fans identify the route to the star's house. Permission was denied. Glass panes on the Microsoft India Research Center came down in a million pieces.

The pocket TV did not last

After watching Dish TV in Madras, I couldn't stand ordinary cable in Bangalore. Dish TV has some fantastic channels including Boomerang, TCM, and MGM. I bought a Philips Bahadur short-wave radio. Its superb ergonomics and build quality suggest that it has been built for army jawans. I listen to Jnanavani (IGNOU broadcasts) all the time. Even if I don't understand everything, I learn something new every day. I hate DJ chatter on ordinary FM channels.

People in Bangalore have been pussified

I went to a Foodworld store and searched the shelves for a hard-type toothbrush. They had MEDIUM, SOFT, ULTRA-SOFT, and SUPER-SOFT. I was under the impression that by the age of seven your jaws become strong enough to take a direct hit with a hockey stick. So, what is this nonsense about softness? How do you excercise your gums without a hard toothbrush? Fortunately, a pharmacy shop had a product aptly named as Classic.

A subsidy for the rich

While the BMTC made over 100 crores in profit last year, it has increased bus fares close on the heels of the increase in petrol-diesel prices by the central government. So, where do these collosal profits go to? Buying and subsidizing Volvo buses (each costing Rs. 75 lakhs), whose tickets are too expensive for ordinary people but dirt cheap for workers in the IT sector.

* - This post is not complete.

The Crimes Of India - I

2006-06-18T07:50:00.001+05:30

BJP leaders snort heroin at late-night slumber party

Vajpayee, Advani, Joshi & Communalism Dead

Congress Chief Celebrates By Making Another Sacrifice

Sonia Goes To Tirupati, Shaves Head

Conehead Frightens
Small Children

TIRUPATI: Greatly relieved at the unexpected turn of events, Congress president and UPA chairman Sonia Gandhi went to Tirupathi to convey her thanks to the Lord. Ms. Gandhi made yet another "sacrifice" by shaving off her hair on top of her head.

Showing his loyalty to the leader, Pranab Mukherjee

followed suit by offering his hair as penance. Hairless Prime Minister Manmohan Singh surprised everyone by committing harakiri; surprised because few of his colleagues were aware that Singh knew anything about the Japanese ceremony.

Rahul Likely To Be Next PM

Following the grisly exit of Mr. Singh's intestines, Sonia Gandhi's hier apparent Rahul Gandhi is rumoured to take over the reigns as the next prime minister.

Vajpayee Gets
Wasted

NEW DELHI: Top BJP leaders including Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were declared dead on arrival at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) late last night. Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee arrived in a critical state but succumbed soon after, doctors said.

After what seems to have been a night-long slumber party that apparently involved recreational heroin use, the top brass of the BJP has been almost wiped out.

Future Of Communalism: Modi Begs To Differ

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi reassured the nation that communalism was alive and well. And, that as long as leaders like Mr. Modi were around pseudosecular forces will not never fully realise their dreams.

Pakistan Nominates Nuclear Peddler A. Q. Khan For U.N. Secretary General Post

ISLAMABAD: Hours after India announced that U.N. diplomat Shashi Tharoor was India's nominee for the post of U.N. Secretary General, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency's spokesman Brig. Iqbal announced that Pakistan was going to nominate nuclear peddler A. Q. Khan as their nominee for the post. Pakistan said Mr. Khan was popular in many countries, particularly North Korea, China, Libya, and others.

Lobby effort in Washington most expensive ever mounted by American business!

Nuclear Deal With U.S. To Cost India Tens Of Billions Of Dollars

BOMBAY: The Indian nuclear establishment works on a shoestring budget of $2 billion. Yet, the Indian government has signed a deal with the U.S. to buy more than eight nuclear reactors with a price tag of at least $20 billion. And, that is only considering reactors from the United States. Other countries such as France, Canada and Russia are also planning to sell reactors to India. So, the entire bill for nuclear reactors alone could be more.

Apart from having to buy expensive new reactors, India is also expected to shutdown

the CIRUS reactor. This reactor was initially built with Canadian government assistance. Canadian workers walked out of the project after India conducted its first nuclear test. However, Indian nuclear scientists did a marvellous job and the reactor eventually achieved criticality. The government spent a great deal of money refurbishing the CIRUS and when the government completed the job in 2004, it was announced that the reactor was good for another 20 years. However, after the deal with the U.S., this reactor is to be dismantled prematurely.

Not only that, many of the current nuclear facilities may have to go idle once the separation of civilian and strategic programmes is implemented. The purchase of uranium-based nuclear reactors at three times the cost of indigenous reactors also puts a roadblock in Indian scientists' efforts to create the world's first thorium reactor.

Ron Somers, President of the U.S.-India Business Council (U.S. Chamber of Commerce), says that the lobbying effort in Washington is the most expensive ever mounted by American business.

Free Color TVs To Show Only Sun Group Channels

Sachin Tendulkar Gives 100%

In Commercials

BOMBAY: In stark contrast to his poor form in cricket, master batsman Sachin Tendulkar says he has been able to give 100% in TV commercials.

Worried about his long string of single-digit dismissals, Tendulkar said that an easy century against one of the world's lamest cricket teams might silence his critics for some time.

MADRAS: "It is purely a cost-cutting move," said M. Karunanidhi, DMK chief and the new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Union Communications minister Dayanidhi Maran said, "Sun Group channels provide all-round entertainment and are currently the most popular channels in all the markets they operate. Families below the poverty line do not like to watch other channels such as Discovery or National Geographic as they do not understand English." The

DMK came to power on promises such as free color TVs and ration rice at Rs. 2. These measures have grave implications on the finances of the state. Hence, it has become necessary to make to make the free television sets as cheap as possible.

Currently, Sun group channels have a near monopoly in Madras city, which is the only metro in India to have implemented the conditional access system (CAS). When the previous AIADMK

regime tried to remove CAS, Sumangali Cable Vision moved the High Court to obtain a stay, saying it would incur a huge loss on the set-top boxes (STBs) that were imported.

Hence, viewers in Chennai cannot watch channels like Star Movies or HBO and are forced to watch channels like Sun TV and KTV. If the new Sun-TV-only colour TVs were to be distributed, a similar situation might befall the entire state.

From My Guestböök - IV

2006-05-28T13:59:00.001+05:30

A visitor mistakes Moral Volcano for a real intellectual. A low-life offers reason why capital punishments should be handed out more liberally. A paranoid delusional asks for help. Moral Volcano wanted to tell him to commit suicide but instead suggested watching TV (kills slowly). A Christian visitor wanders off to a page meant for would-be Christians. Someone who read the Peddlers of Poverty (think Mother Teresa) article brooks no interference with giving unto Jesus (i.e. the Vatican) and offers unsolicited psychiatric evaluation of questionable integrity.

From: Hari Kaimal
To: Moral Volcano
Subject: Blog Comment By: Hari Kaimal about Darlings Of The West - III
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 14:13:37 +0100

It's nice to hear straight comments at least once in a while... and to think of, I stumbled upon your site as I searhed Google for ways to turnoff Active directory on my XP PC. I got what I wanted and a lot more. [This comment does not refer to Darlings of the West - haven't read it]. Apart from being straight... these comments are really detailed and possess enough power in their belly to earn the tag of a structured conspiracy, a larger pulldown programme... Cheers!

The material presented here has been collated from sources (not all of them could be adequately attributed to). Most of the time, I am merely repeating what others have said. The idea is to create a knowledge base on relevant issues.

From: ontango <labald@youra$$.com>
To: Moral Volcano
Subject: Blog Comment By: ontango about Attack Of The Hillybillies
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 01:33:05 +0100
Referrer: http://search.blogger.com/?ui=blg&q=ltte dravidian

Dr. Ramdoss should be commended for supporting LTTE. In fact he should be praised and rewarded, although his idea of dividing TN is stupid. He should support annexing tamil areas in Kannada and AP to TN. That would be great. Oh. one other thing. Crossbelt bastards should be bitch slapped.Well, they know it is comming. I personally would do it.Hail Tamil Tigers!

Some people deserve to be lined up and shot.

From: Thorpe
To: V. Subhash
Subject: Site Comment By: Thorpe
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 01:21:05 +0100

Nice site,* love your up & down arrows. If your interested in making them float with the page let me know. Or you can just visit my site at thorpe55.tripod.com and get it.

The next one is very intriguing. The visitor came to my archive of the now-missing CIA Iraqi Rewards Program web page.

From: JAMES A*****Y D***Y
To: V. Subhash
Subject: Site Comment By: JAMES A*****Y D***Y
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 02:57:57 +0100
Referrer: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=IRAQI+REWARDS+PROGRAM+IN+ENGLISH

I AM IN CLEVELAND OHIO, UNITED STATES. WITH MY COMPUTER I ARRANGED FOR THE ARMED FORCES IN IRAQ TO CAPTURE ABU ZARQAWI. ASK PRESIDENT BUSH. BUSH READS ALL OF MY E-MAILS. I REQUESTED MONEY FOR WHAT I DID. THAT WAS A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. I NEVER GOT PAID. WHY BUSH WON'T PAY IS UNKNOWN TO ME. MY POST OFFICE BOX IS 110335, CLEVELAND, OHIO-44111. I HAVE AN ACCOUNT AT KEY BANK AND ONE AT CHARTER ONE BANK. I DON'T KNOW WHY BUSH IS BEING SO CHEAP. AND AFTER DOING WHAT I DID, I DO NOT SEE WHY I HAVE TO GO HUNGRY. BUSH KNOWS IT WAS ME THAT HELPED. HE THINKS HE IS PROTECTING ME BY KEEPING ZARQAWI'S CAPTURE A SECRET. BUT I NEED TO MOVE TO A SAFE COMMUNITY. PERHAPS YOU CAN HELP. JIM

Sorry to hear that, Jim. Bush knows were to put his money. Abu Musab al Zarqawi requires no capturing. He works from the Pentagon basement. Didn't you notice the latest Zarqawi video? And, how the Pentagon was able to get a copy of the unedited version of the video? The one with the authentic-sounding remark about Zarqawi's new balance tennis shoes? And their harsh comments about how Zarqawi sucks at handling rifles? Man, that must have really hurt. It was them grunts that made him wear the eyesores. I am getting carried away here. Jim, why don't you just watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

UPDATE (10/06/06): Your money is gone forever. Now, they claim to have killed your guy! Zarqawi was the patent excuse for all American bombardment of civilian areas. Take Fallujah, for example. First, they said Zarqawi had taken refuge inside the town. After killing almost everyone in Fallujah and destroying all their houses, the American military said to no one’s surprise that Zarqawi had slipped past the elaborate multi-layered security cordon placed around the battered town. The same thing happened with every town or place that was bombed by them.

However, claims about Zarqawi's involvement in the Madrid train bombings in faraway Spain put a permanent question mark over the credibility of the whole Zarqawi story. How could this guy have been everywhere and nowhere? From then on, all news about Zarqawi could only be greeted with suspicion. As mentioned earlier, my guess is that this guy was hiding out in the Pentagon basement. After shooting a new-balance-tennis-shoes promotional video with that unkind remark about his shooting skills, they simply killed him! The poor guy must be given a posthumous oscar for his lifelong contribution to terrorism cinema. Why did they kill him? Maybe the Americans have decided on a pullout. Israel is getting impatient with the U.S. for not yet attacking Iran. American generals must have said, “Hey, if you want us to go Iran, get us out of Iraq first.”

An important purpose Zarqawi fulfilled was to drive a wedge between Sunnis and Shias and take the heat off the occupation soldiers. This was acheived by daily suicide bombings, which also had the neat effect of creating disunity among Iraqi political groups. Led by ambassador Zilmay Khalilzad, Americans meanwhile started taking control of the shape of the future Iraqi government and the proposed constitution. They have also put their stooges in key positions in the government. Provincial governments would have the power to hand over Iraq's oil wealth to foreign companies. There would be no strong central government so the Americans could effect a breakup of Iraq if ever their companies were denied access to the oil.

From: me alva <Christcanbefound@thecatholicchurch.com>
To: V. Subhash
Subject: Site Comment By: me alva
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 02:10:59 +0100
Referrer: http://search.msn.com/spresults.aspx?q=st+iraneous&FORM=QBPR

God's thoughts are different than the way we think..... He is the Almighty and glory and praise to Him forever....rethink your essay and proofread it...there are many mistakes.... pray that the Holy Spirit may guide you in your journey in finding the truth... I will pray for you as well and may His peace be with you..goodbye..

Please! Oh, please nobody pray for me! I destined for hell and I like to keep it that way. Mark Twain said you go to Heaven for the climate and to Hell for the company. (This visitor had read the writeup Origins of Jesus, Christianity, and the Bible and came up with these comments. I agree proofreading has been a problem though I feel there is no need to rethink the essay though. In fact, I feel inclined to finish a long-pending update about the Great General Councils of the Church including the row between Arius and Athanasius. It has been pending for several months now.

The purpose of the article has been misunderstood. It is not meant for people who are already Christian. It is meant for people are thinking about converting to Christianity and those at the receiving end of aggressive and intolerant Christian preaching. Recently, a Christian friend sent me a link about 20 Big Lies in the DaVinci Code retributing some of the assumptions made in the novel by Dan Brown. I did not refer him to my article nor make any new observations to him. You see, I mind my own business. I respect his beliefs. And, I expect everyone else to mind their own. If anyone feels they can't find a convincing reason to do so, then they are invited to read my article Do You Believe That God Exists?, which is about why believers and non-believers need keep their traps shut.

Name: Kevin H******
E-mail: <--deleted-->
URL:
Date: 23/02/06

You are lost. That is the source of your anger. Eat in a kitchen of mother Theresa for a week. See the truth for yourself. It will lift that anger that haunts you every day.

From: "Moral Volcano"
To: "Kevin H******"
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 5:51 AM
Subject: Re: Blog Comment By: Kevin H****** about Peddlers Of Poverty

Hi Kevin,
Mother Teresa claimed she was spending all the money on the poor and needy but instead saved much of it for the wasteful indulgences of the Vatican. This is cheating. She naively believed she would get a permanent place in heaven by blindly following the orders of the Pope. In effect, she made a pact with the devil, not any god. I have seen many Christian missionaries in India who lead a life of poverty but never seek any recognition to their personal sacrifices. Mother Teresa's fame is the result of a deliberate marketing campaign by the Vatican. People don't whip out their cheque books unless they see something deeply depressing, which is what Mother Teresa's institutions provided. Once a sufficient number was on the rolls, rest were sent to government facilities and private charitable organizations. When confronted with facts, Mother Teresa agreed she was not really a social worker but rather a very deeply religious person. My article is only an affirmation of that confession. If anyone wanted to help the needy in India, there are plenty of real charities that make sure every last penny is spent on those it was meant for. However, Mother Teresa's order and "charites" would not be one of them. I want money raised in the name of my country's poor people to be spent on those same people, not the Vatican. What's wrong with that? If an Indian religious organisation raised money abroad in the name of poor needy hungry people and spent it on ceremonies and temples, would you agree? V. Subhash.

From: "Kevin H******"
To: "Moral Volcano"
Subject: Re: Blog Comment By: Kevin H****** about Peddlers Of Poverty
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 15:29:44 +0100

Making a point is important to you. People never listened to you. That upsets you. Always has upset you hasn't it. Why is that they never listened? That is but the first question you should ponder on. That wound that bleeds within you but hurts to even think of. Your misplaced anger is within yourself. Can you face that truth of who you are. Can you face yourself.

How easy and common it is to say , mothers fathers, work, religion is why you are not happy. However both religious and non religious will tell you, your unhappiness is masked in anger and the face of your anger, the present victim of your own personal issues, is the vatican.

Look in the mirror with sincere pride and see yourself as completely good. You can't. Because you have never faced nor accepted yourself and you can't love yourself either. How can you. Your not happy. You have not been in a long time. Odd how a stranger can read your words across the globe and see that. Truth. Is a pact with god. It gives you freedom for you don't have to be false regarding anything. Truth is a practice that we must excercise in daily. It starts with ourselves. A pact with the dark side of yourself. Your personal hell. When you can't face your hell you give it to others. That is a pact with evil. That is what you have done. You don't believe this. Course not, but let me show you.

Let me show you the product of your anger. In a non abstract, simple example. The effect your mail has on me. See I only came across it because I wanted to put some money that I have saved for a long time, into a soup kitchen I have had the humble honour to have served in one. It wasn't like the soup kitchens in Bosnia, that I previously worked in, but one in a city. Therein a lot of people that can't afford to eat for one reason or another. In looking up that organization the first hit on google is yours. No love, no gentle remarks; Just doubt, anger. That is what I read. Like all evil, it starts with doubt. Manifests itself with anger. So who made a pact ith the devil ?

A seed of doubt is placed within me. A hungry mouth may not be fed, but that doesn't matter to you. All that matters is you have given a new face to your hell, religion. This time it is the vatician. Doubt is followed by a seed of anger. Anger is the devil within. So in order to handle you with the means in which god would respect it is my duty to point out to you, that your anger has almost stopped starving people from being fed. That is a fact. Several hundred kitchen worldwide feed needy people. Your political mail, will leave several hundred, hungry. Your too busy to work in a kitchen for a day, but have enough time to farm you baddness upon those that do. Drop your crusade and look within; Your heart needs attention.(and now so does mine!). The pathway to hell is paved with good intentions. Go to a soup kitchen, therein you will find a path to truth within. I apologize to you for being annoyed; Sincerely. Kevin

Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:02:40 -0800 (PST)
From: "Moral Volcano"
Subject: Re: Blog Comment By: Kevin H****** about Peddlers Of Poverty
To: "Kevin H******"

Dear Kevin,

You are turning the truth on its head when you say my article might prevent a hungry mouth from being fed. On the contrary, my article aims that people will find a real charity so that all the money will be spent on the people for whom it was meant to. In other words, I expect more people to be fed. Right now, most of donations is wasted by the Vatican and not spent on the hungry or the needy for whom it was originally meant.

When someone sends me a message about an article on Moral Volcano, I usually inform them that the web log is written in a deliberately provocative style. I am sorry forgot to do so in your case. The name Moral Volcano comes from the short story Journalism in Tennesse by Mark Twain. The writing style has to live up to the standards set in that story. You have mistakenly surmised this as "anger." You are not the first one to do this. PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak also felt the same and characterized the site as "anti-American." I've given a full explanation in John C. Dvorak Slams Moral Volcano.
Many people donate to charities only to have their names or photos published in newspapers.

I don't have to work in a soup kitchen to be of help. Even if I could only clean toilets, I would still prefer to EARN that money and then give some of it to needy people. Besides, you are totally wrong about social service. You do that not because it makes you happy or gives you mental peace or gets you a seat in heaven. You do that simply because, as Einstein once told his wife, PEOPLE NEED HELP. Our philosopy^† says that one should do his duty and expect nothing in return.

And, happiness is a mirage that we will chase all our lives. It is those fleeting moments of happiness that makes it special. If you could be happy all the time, you would not like it so much. Many people will lose their will to live. If you think otherwise, you are in denial. V. Subhash.

When people read the four-part article Why Israel Is A Nation of Squatters, they mistake me for a Christian or a Muslim. Now, the article has a clarification that I am neither a Christian to be biased against Jews nor that I am a Muslim to be biased in favour of Palestinians.

From: Mariam
To: V. Subhash
Sent: Tuesday, 01 August, 2006 2:10 PM
Subject: Site Comment By: Mariam
Referrer: Google search for judah+and+mohammed

Mariam from London responding to article on Israel Palestine:

How can this article claim to be based on historical facts when it is so clearly biased? Palestinians can state their claim to land and so can Jewish people. Both people have suffered. How can we as Muslims be so blind and biased as other people? If they have suffered a Holocaust we cannot as humane people reject this and say they are 'using' it. Maybe they needed somewhere to go. Palestinians also need somewhere to go: land should be shared.

The land is not theirs to share.

* - www.vsuhash.com

† - Bhagvad Gita

Strange Search Requests - XVI

2006-04-09T08:37:00.001+05:30

Strange Search Requests is a voyeuristic look at what people have searched for before reaching Moral Volcano and www.vsubhash.com. If you like Strange Search Requests, you will definitely love Disturbing Search Requests (DSR) at www.disturbingsearchrequests.com/. DSR is a collaborative weblog published by numerous other website owners and has a bigger collection of strange search requests. You can also check the BlogPatrol site log for the latest referrer information for Moral Volcano.

What women want?

[04/01/2006] wife does not want sex, what are my options: Have you considered suicide?
[06/01/2006] nude areas for me and my wife to take of are clothes: (Stupid kids!) Moral Volcano^®™ is not a nudist colony. Although, I think it would be a swell name for one.
[08/01/2006] how to become a porn actress: Sexual harrassment will be part and parcel of your job. Is that okay?
[08/01/2006] eat my wife: Doctor told me to avoid fatty foods.
[23/03/06] any websites for men to wear ladies panties, bras and ladies clothes out in public: I read somewhere that Shahrukh Khan is promoting a line. He has become a train-sexual or something.
[23/03/06] should we hold our elected officials to a higher moral standards of behavior?, fall out relations between amitabh bachan and rajiv gandhi, sonia moral volcano, Is sonia gandhi capable to become a PM, sonia resignation a joke: Lots of searches related to Sonia Gandhi's resignation. On Thursday, Ms. Gandhi resigned as member of Parliament (MP). She also had to vacate her post as the head of National Advisory Council (NAC). The NAC was an extra-constitutional authority created specially for her. Apparently, she thought she can serve her adopted nation better that way rather than by using her old remote control from 10, Janpath Road, like she did when Narasimha Rao was PM. The resignation was made necessary because of a blunder by Congress managers. As Samajwadi Party put it, Sonia fell into the very web her acolytes had woven to snag Jaya Bachan. It was a tale of one blunder leading to another. Sonia Gandhi has been hoping to get Rahul Gandhi some apprenticeship as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.). This was not easy task because the Congress votebank had been all but wiped out in U.P. thanks to the rise of BJP, SP, and BSP. To make things difficult for SP, the Congress has been making noises about the law and order situation in the state. (No prizes for guessing why Congress remained blind to an extreme above-benchmark-lawless state - Laloo's Bihar.) Disqualifying Jaya Bacchan for holding an office of profit was seen as a part of the strategy get back to power in UP. Unfortunately for them, it blew up in their face. Sonia Gandhi herself and several others in the Congress were holding offices for profit. Following Jaya Bacchan's disqualification, moves were made to disqualify Sonia Gandhi herself. It was then the government decided to make changes to the 1959 law related to office of profit. Because the opposition was not going to allow the amendment because it was designed solely to benefit one person (Sonia), the government adjourned the house sine die. This would have allowed the government to bring the amendment through the backdoor by proclaiming an ordnance. The opposition went ballistic and finally got its prize - Sonia's head. Ms. Gandhi accused the opposition parties and "a section of the media" for casting aspersions on her motives. By "a section of the media", she must of have meant the whole of the media because even The Hindu had to acknowledge that the Congress was subverting the Constitution and the Parliament. Syncophants in the media have alleged noble reasons for her decision. Faced with disqualification, Sonia had made a logical decision. The Pioneer correctly claimed that the resignation was not a sacrifice but a majboori.
[24/03/06] india government public attitude buying american made cars: Indian government prefers the Ambassador from the Hindustan Motors. They have nothing against cars built by American companies. It is just that apart from cockroaches and gutter rats, Ambassadors can survive a nuclear attack.
[24/03/06] humor who fired the missiles video: This visitor was after the End of the World flash video available at the Albino Black Sheep website (more famous for the fake George Bush HotMAIL inbox screenshot).
24/04/2006 Moral in our organization is low how do we improve it., 25/04/2006 Lines to improve employee moral: Stop all gang bangs for a month and see if there is any improvement. (It's morale, not moral. I am reminded of the French hotel, which put a notice in English "Please leave your values at the desk." I now work in Bangalore. My friend who works in a call center here says that many of his friends leave their "values" at Hosur. Unmarried couples live together and group sex over the weekend is said to be the norm.)
10 dollar lesbians: For $10, you may get only midget lesbians.
[02/05/06] matured arab pussy: See the Yahoo! profile on the right? Maybe, maybe, he can help. If you want to know more about him, check out the Osama Bin Laden jokes section.
[03/05/06] new young pussy, [28/04/06] 18 years old open pussy, [29/04/06] pussy.com, [30/04/06] PLAYGIRL PUSSY.COM, [01/05/06] my pussy.com: I didn't realise there were so many cat lovers on the Net. They can get their heart's fill at this site - http://folk.ntnu.no/shane/stasj/pics/dyr/cats/unger/. Here is a sample. Cats are the most admirable of pets. Just their attitude is enough. As Saki (H. H. Munro) said, human beings never really get to own their cats in they way they do with dogs. It always seems like the cats OWN the "owners."
[08/05/06] i want your wife: Fine but goods once sold cannot be returned or exchanged.
[16/05/06] french ambassador Israel is a nothing little country per capita e-mail: A French Ambassador to UK got a reassignment after he was quoted saying Israel was a $h*t*y little country. The diplomat insists he was quoted out of context. Anyway, some proud Israeli(s) has/have put together a rebuttal to prove Israel is not a crappy little country. Any number of holes can be found in the list and it is well known that Israelis live off the hardwork of others. I think my definition that Israel as a nation of squatters suits just fine. Another title would be - World's Largest Ghetto. The French misadventure was not at all necessary. Despite the billions of dollars repatriated by the Jewish diaspora, Israel is solid broke. It is the biggest recipient of American aid money. Countries surrounding Israel are the next biggest recipients of American aid (or protection money). Clearly, Israel cannot stand on its own. And, the claims that have been made in its defence do not represent the whole truth.
[26/05/06] why won't porn actress get pregnant?: Because they take sex education classes.
[27/05/06] how many men must a girl go to bed with before she would be considered promiscous: It is always women who are worried about or are accused of being promiscuous. Men have no problem spreading their DNA.
[03/06/06] Young and Old Lesbians: This happens when mother and daughter sit together to surf for porn. Quality time, indeed.
[24/06/06] Bad Boyfriend 01: It is indeed a great honour but I feel my girlfriends deserve all the credit. (I am #1 in the results too!)
[01/07/06] "the american view of the world" baby picture who: Here is a picture I found on the Internet.
[06/08/06] shobha john film download: This visitor was looking for a video that a woman in Kerala named Shoba John took. She and the Sabarimala tantri were the leading characters of the porno film. The video was made after the tantri was kidnapped by the woman's thugs.
Quite unrelated to all this, some sites (on Sulekha, Blogspot and others), all of them with almost the same content, have linked to a Ukraine article of mine, offering the view that the Sabarimala tantri has been targeted by Christian groups (engaged in conversion) in order to tarnish the image of the Sabarimala shrine and break the inexplicable hold it has on its devotees, most of whom are poor and uneducated (main target of proselytization activities). (I should be hanged for writing such a long sentence.) I think the missionaries are merely trying to protect their investment. Christian missionaries are chagrined because many Christians continue to visit the shrine every year, despite their conversion. Visiting the Sabarimala shrine is no small matter. You have got to observe a long period of abstinence and chastity before embarking on a long convoluted route to the shrine, dotted with several other big and small Indian shrines.
[08/08/06] site:vsubhash.com you are stupid -"your stupid site sucks": This a Google site-search. Apparently, you are the first one to say it. Thanks.
[03/09/2006] kamasutra training centres: In Freedom™-speak, this means prisons like Abu Ghraib.
[04/09/2006] After installing two external disk drive (I already have 2 internal drives) my CD and DVD drives and my memory card bays do not work. One of the external drives is connected firewire and the other via USB. I can see the CD and DVD drive in windows device manager and no errors are indicated. When I insert a commercial music CD nothing happens. If I click on the CD or DVD drive icon the CD opens but the music files (that can be read by other computers or a CD player are not recognized.: This is a problem related to IRQs. Go to the WRITEUPS section for the solution. (I do not put tech-related searches here any more but this one is a unusually long search.)
[04/09/2006] nudist blogspot, nudist log: I am not a nudist at all. I am just kind of forgetful when it comes to wearing clothes. Incidentally, I am always the first one to be lose out in a game of strip poker.
[05/09/2006] official Al Qaeeda website: Moral Volcano is a popular read in the America prison gulag in Guantanamo Bay (Cuba) and a must-read in Pakistani madrasas.
[06/09/2006] were there any major events that affected princess diana as a child: She may have fallen on her head several times. Diana's best friends said she had a "basketcase" for a head.
[06/09/2006] can pregnant women visit volcanoes: No. Volcanoes are scared of pregnant women.
[07/09/2006] arundhathi roy's website: Arundhati Roy does not need a website when op-ed pages are always available for her - from The Hindu to The Guardian.
[07/09/2006] pregnancy will occur by lip kissing(?): Yes.

Echelon Salt ^®™

Get noticed by the American National Security Agency (NSA)

"Echelon Salt^®™ is 100% compatible with our Echelon program." - National Security Agency Magazine

"Thanks to Echelon Salt^®™, at least someone in the government reads our reports now." - Central Intelligence Agency Journal

What Is The Green Salt Project?

2006-03-11T21:55:00.000+05:30

"It is the fake WMD story, all over again. This time, the victim is Iran. It is clear that the Iraq fiasco has done little to change the way American diplomacy operates. Intelligence agencies come up with a conspiracy theory, media peddles the theory as news, and financially disadvantaged Americans fight someone else's war. If Iran goes down the way Iraq did, then it is Israel, which will see another one of its security threats subjugated. Like Iraq, Iran poses no threat to the U.S."

The Thughlak magazine by Cho Ramaswamy has a fake news feature called the ஒன்றரை பக்க நாளேடு (Half-Page Newspaper). During the previous term of Jayalalitha as chief minister of Tamil Nadu, ஒன்றரை பக்க நாளேடு came out with an edition that focussed on the ongoing spat between J and the then governor Chenna Reddy. Jayalalitha had initiated a slum resettlement programme in which slum dwellers would be allowed to build their shanties inside the Raj Bhavan (Governor's residence) campus. One news item was about a minister in Jayalalitha's cabinet.

"Hey, Chenna Reddy! Are you in good health? Do you or don't you want to go back to Andhra in one piece? Stop bothering our Amma," requested the minister.

Janata Party leader, one-time Jayalalitha baiter, and India's biggest conspiracy theorist Subramania Swamy was the subject of an interview.

Swamy: The slum resettlement programme is a Jayalalitha scheme to kill Chenna Reddy. The slum dwellers who are slated to be lodged inside Raj Bhavan are members of an LTTE hit squad.
Reporter: How do you know this is true?
Swamy: I was in China recently and Communist Party Chairman Deng Xioping gave me this information.
Reporter: Who gave Deng get this information?
Swamy: I did.

When I read about the Green Salt Project, I was instantly reminded of ஒன்றரை பக்க நாளேடு. When the story was released, American media however went into a tizzy. A Time magazine article about the project begins with Green salt isn't something you'd want to sprinkle on French fries. The story said that the IAEA had found information about a clandestine Iranian attempt to manufacture nuclear weapons. This revealation was expected to make the American position on Iran even more unforgiving. And, by the way, how did the IAEA get this information? Well, the Americans provided the information. The CIA had "recovered" a laptop from Iran, which mentioned a "green salt project" and that was reason enough to conclude Iran's guilt.

The IAEA is supposed to be a impartial body without a partisan agenda. However, wholly political reasons, IAEA has been the stick with which the U.S. has been trying to make Iran sit on the stool. The IAEA cannot act without hard facts. Its inspections inside Iran had yielded little. Its own opinion on Iranian cooperation has been positive. The U.S. wanted Iran to confess that it had an clandestine nuclear program and Iran refused. The U.S. then put enormous pressure on the IAEA to make outrageous demands on Iran that no sovereign nation would accept. To win IAEA chief Mohammed Elbaradei's cooperation, the guy was given a lot of awards including the Nobel Prize. He even appeared on the American Music Awards (AMA) show. Iran refused to be buckle down and this was portrayed as evidence of lack of cooperation. And then came the story of the stolen laptop - the smoking gun necessary to settle the case.

It is the fake WMD story, all over again. This time, the victim is Iran. It is clear that the Iraq fiasco has done little to change the way American diplomacy operates. Intelligence agencies come up with a conspiracy theory, media peddles the theory as news, and financially disadvantaged Americans fight someone else's war. If Iran goes down the way Iraq did, then it is Israel, which will see another one of its security threats subjugated. Like Iraq, Iran poses no threat to the U.S. If Iran makes threatening gestures against the U.S., it is because the response has been complimentary. The U.S. calls Iran as part of a global axis of evil and Iran calls the U.S. as the great Satan.

And, there is history to consider. Not many Americans or people outside know that the U.S. once shot down an Iranian airliner simply to appease Iraq. Going back further, we can see more of the the evil nature of Amerian foriegn policy towards iran. To protect the interests of British Petroleum company, U.S. intelligence agencies pulled a coup that brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh. They then installed the murderous Shah of Iran, who suppressed internal dissent while allowing foriegners to plunder the country's oil wealth. When followers of Ayatollah Khomenei tried to overthrow the Shah, Americans were clearly helping from the wrong side. Anti-American feelings are a pan-Iranian phenomenon, not something manufactured by the mullahs.

And Iran is not the only ones who have a clandestine nuclear program. Israel has a well-developed nuclear and missile program. Both the U.S. and British governments have legally and illegally helped Israel achieve the capability. However, Western governments are anxious not to offend Isreal but seem willing to go to any length to muzzle Iran. And, Israel regularly threatens Isreal or gets threats issued by the U.S.

Arundhati Roy Threatens India's Soveriegnity

2006-03-03T10:21:00.000+05:30

Self-proclaimed "independent nation" (Total population: 1) interfering with our internal/external affairs. Ahem... Traditional cheerleaders of Bush are now engaging in a chorus of criticism, ostensibly to set the stage for the next Republican party presidential candidate. Bush is being thrown away like a used rag. So, I feel the need to give Bush some Moral support. We need more people like Ms. Roy.

George Bush is probably aiming to be the sweetest person in the world. Shortly after being accorded a grand ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the US President thanked his hosts for "arranging good weather." How can anyone have the heart to organize protests against such a swell guy? Beats me!

George Bush was a state guest. He came to India after an invitation from Manmohan Singh. If Indian people were against a Bush visit, then our protests should have been directed against Singh. After having invited Bush on our own, we have no right to protest. No matter who it was, we should be welcome our hosts with open arms. Maybe in the U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's case we could use open firearms^*. If we treat our guests like this, it reflects bad on us as hosts. India has always been known for its hospitality. We believe in Adhithi Devoh Bhavaah. Everyone from the Greeks, Afghans and Mongols to the British and later the Chinese met with no opposition when they entered India. Ghazni took our Peacock throne and the Kohinoor diamond and went to Persia. Indian government has decided not to claim it back in the interests of good friendly relations with Iran. On its part, the grateful Iranian government has published "history," which claims that both articles were of Iranian origin, that Indians stole them, and it was Ghazni who bravely restored it back to Iran!

Arundhathi Roy, who claimed she had seceded from India and subsequently consituted a breakaway "independent nation," has taken offence^† to Bush coming to India and laying flowers on Gandhi's memorial in Rajghat. Actually, the event can only have a positive effect. Bush is so away from reality that the irony of the situation might just wake him up. Bush is just a puppet in the hands of the so-called neocons lobby led by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Attacking Bush is just unreasonable. It only shows how uninformed people are about the U.S.

Paul Wolfowitz, who was the real architecht of the Iraq war, visited India recently in his new assignment as World Bank president. No protests were organised. He hit the same spots as Bush but met with no protests. Interestingly, it seems that the U.S. aid goes to certain showcase projects just so that visiting dignitaries will have something in the way of photo-ops (photo oppurtunities). Mother Teresa's charity homes follow a similar strategy. Not every poor or needy person can get from help from them. Most of the people who ask help are simply redirected to government facilities and other charity institutions. But the worst cases, the kinds that look soon-to-be dead or unbelievably depressing ones, are taken in. So, when rich visitors come to visit, the gloomy atmosphere moves them so much that they have no trouble whipping out their cheque books. Had there been a happy atmosphere inside Mother Teresa's home, donations would be hard to come by and people like Princess Diana will have nothing to show.

And, are Indian people really against Bush visit? Going by the Letters to the Editor column in The Hindu, people working in the software industry are perturbed by Roy's article, particularly when scores of Indians wait outside U.S. consulates to get a visa to the U.S. However, there is no logic in their reasoning. Bush is just an incumbent President. Nobody has to love Bush if they have to love America. Not even Americans. Just as American citizens and companies do business in India, Indians and Indian companies find work in the U.S. In any case, globalization was their idea. If they don't like it, they can withdraw from the world and we can withdraw from theirs.

If the protests prevented Bush from coming to India, ordinary Americans will take it personally. In any country, the average voter is a moron. And, the U.S. is no exception. In particular, Americans think attacks on Americans assets are motivated by feelings of jealousy. It never reaches them that it is the presence of their troops and their actions that causes so much disaffection. Israel is a financially insolvent state. Its economy is being propped with aid money from the U.S, much of which remains unaccountable. When Israeli military launches attacks on Palestinians homes, it is the U.S., which is held responsible.

* - Twisted Tales of Shakespeare

† - Baby Bush go home (Guardian, UK)

COMMENTS:

Shyam Kashyap: Couldn't agree more!

V. Subhash: I liked this in your article - Many networks in the US prepared programs about India as part of their coverage of the Bush tour. The way the media put it, "Before call centers came to India, Indians were dying on the streets. Their economy sucked. ... Suddenly, call centers came. Outsourced projects started... Today their markets are bustling with activity...." The American view of the world always seems to veer in the direction of self-congratulation. Everything in the world is thanks to them, except the bad stuff for which someone else has take the blame. Nobody had any brains until Americans came and told them how to do things.

Danish Cartoons < Holocaust Denial?*

2006-02-03T16:07:00.000+05:30

Yes, because Muslims don't have as much influence as Jews.

Last year, a Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten invited illustrators to provide cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed. This was following a complaint from an author who found that no illustrator was willing to provide illustrations (of Islam's founder) for a book he was writing. Not surprisingly, many cartoonists refused the newspaper's challenge because Muslims abhor any kind of iconic representation of the Prophet or Allah or even Jesus or Moses. A few did come up with some cartoons. One cartoon had the souls of blown-up "martyrs" (suicide bombers) going to heaven, only to find there are not enough virigins for them there. The rest were pathetic. Many of the cartoonists had confused Arabs with Sikhs. Ideally, these fools should not have been allowed to print anything.

The cartoonists' tryst with fame (or notoriety) did not start just then. It seems Muslims in Denmark did not make much of a fuss about the Jyllands Posten cartoons. There was a right-wing government in power, which was hostile to Muslim immigration to Denmark and the paper itself was known for its right-wing agenda. Trouble started when the cartoons were reprinted in Norway and France. France has a huge Muslim population, thanks to its imperialistic past and its closeness to the Mediteranean. Soon, condemnations poured from all sides. Gulf countries withdrew ambassadors. Protests spread like wildfire. Angry mobs went on rampage in Palestine, Pakistan and Iran. American and British newspapers steered clear of the controversy by only reporting the news but not actually publishing any of the offending cartoons. They have also tended to condone the protests. A fake news article at White House.org puts it succinctly - When everyone is an innocent victim, no one is a guilty perpetrator. I like the following comment by George Bush most interesting.

I guess we should ... be kinda thankful that when liberals invented political correctness to criminalize "hurt feelings," they inadvertently gave birth to the absurdist notion that ridiculing the intolerance and knee-jerk hysteria of violent extremists is "offensive."

Jyllands Posten and other European media organisations that printed the offending cartoons have since repeatedly apologised for their actions but the controversy continues to rage in a recursive manner as the news spreads to new regions. It simply refuses to die. When French newspapers first published the cartoons, they claimed it was a matter of freedom of expression. No, not a word about increasing circulation figures. This defence will not stand in light of their country's laws on Jewish Holocaust. A French court recently fined someone because he expressed doubts about the Ukrainian Holocaust (which is said to have caused by man-made famine). This is a legacy of French laws created for protecting the retail glorification of the Jewish Holocaust.

After the WW-II, France and most of Western Europe have enacted laws that has banned any display of Nazi memorabilia, praise for Hitler, denial of the Jewish holocaust, etc. Anyone who expresses doubts on the official (Jewish/Zionist) version of the Holocaust can be thrown into jail. Zionist/Jewish organisations so ruthlessly defend their claims on the Holocaust that they absolutely do not tolerate any frank discussion on the subject. This has lead to the rise of dissidents who call themselves as historical revisionists - British historian David Irving being a prime example. This guy spent three years in an Austrian jail merely for expressing doubts about certain Holocaust claims! He was made to retract his views because the Holocaust law did not provide a defensive position. You had to accept the official version or you go to jail!

It has however brought to light an interesting contrast. In Western societies, a liberal era has lead the society away from its religious moorings and religious icons have fallen from grace. Because education has become wholy secular, few people can be considered as religious and even fewer people attend church. It is no wonder that you find stores selling lingerie items with pictures of Jesus Christ on them. But, Muslims, at least in Muslim-majority countries, are extremely devout religionists. They do not ridicule Islam and do not tolerate any attempt to do so. There is no reason why Muslims should lose respect for their religion just because Christians have done so with Christianity. If Christians want to make fun of religion, they should have stuck to their own.

One should not however think that Western society is not without its holy cows. Given the strengths of the Jews community in the West, certain things are still taboo - criticism of Israel and as mentioned earlier Nazi propaganda, Holocaust denial, blah-blah-blah. Those who deviate from the line will be sought out and destroyed in one manner or another. Similarly, in the U.S., you will find a big fuss being made about the few billion dollars of money that illegal immigrants from Latin America send back to their countries of origin. But, you will find no mention of the Jewish diaspora, which sends tens of billions of dollars every year in remittances and tax-exempt donations to Israel.^* This is in addition to the billions of dollars that Israel receives as aid from the U.S. government and the billions of dollars that countries like Egypt and Jordan receive as (Israel) protection money. The difference is one of influence. Muslims and illegal immigrants come off like bad breath in a kissing booth because they don't have enough influence. This will definitely change if Arabs use their petrodollars to buy into big Western media corporations, just like what Jews have done.

The U.S. has troops in almost every
Muslim country in the Middle East. And,
there is a long history of unhealthy
American involvement in the region.
...
To keep the arms manufacturers going,
the U.S. has to continuously engage in
warfware and it is not surprising that
U.S. has done exactly that with one
country or another almost continuously
since WW-II.

I think the protests have less to do with offended religious sentiments and more to do with pent-up anger against Western countries. The U.S. has troops^† in almost every Muslim country in the Middle East. And, there is a long history of unhealthy American involvement in the region. The recent controversy is an example how this anger gets expression. In Pakistan, mild and token state-sponsored protests have given way to an unwieldy grassroots-level campaign against the U.S.-allied Gen. Musharraf. Ideally, the U.S. should withdraw its troops and let Arabs and Muslims go about their way. But, this is not going to happen. When the Cold War began, some opportunists decided that the U.S. should spend massive amounts of money on defence. To keep the arms manufacturers going, the U.S. has to continously engage in warfware and it is not surprising that U.S. has done exactly that with one country or another almost continuously since WW-II. With the fall of communism, there arose a need to justify the obscene amounts that defense contractors were raking in. Enter new enemies of the "free world" - "Third World dictators" and terrorists. As if to prove this, the U.S. military has confirmed that the war against terror is not going to be a short term affair. All concerned have been asked to prepare for "long war" - one can almost hear the hurrahs from the likes of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Bechtel, and Halliburton.

† - The U.S. has troops in 130 countries in the world. This is how they defend Freedom^®™ Freedom now seems to be a a registered trademark of the U.S. government and probably refers to their freedom to exploit anything worth it. Read Tom Engelhart's interview with Chalmers Johnson - Chalmers Johnson on Our Military Empire & Chalmers Johnson on Our Fading Republic.

It's the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan," he says, "the newest carrier in the fleet. It's a floating Chernobyl and it sits a proverbial six inches off the bottom with two huge atomic reactors. You make a wrong move and there goes the country's seventh largest city." ... So what kind of empire is ours? The unit is not the colony, it's the military base. This is not quite as unusual as defenders of the concept of empire often assume. That is to say, we can easily calculate the main military bases of the Roman Empire in the Middle East, and it turns out to be about the same number it takes to garrison the region today. You need about 38 major bases. You can plot them out in Roman times and you can plot them out today. An empire of bases -- that's the concept that best explains the logic of the 700 or more military bases around the world acknowledged by the Department of Defense.

* - from Idiotic Cartoon Jihad Unleashed in Europe!

‡ - USATODAY.com - No One Knows Full Cost of israel's Settlement Ambitions

White She-Devil - V*

2006-01-10T21:52:00.003+05:30

Manmohan Singh is a sellout and so are his ministers. India is on sale, once again.

 The American ambassador,
 David Mulford, seems to
 have taken over as our
 external affairs spokesman.

With every passing day, our national interests are being sabotaged. Singh goes to the U.S. and announces a nuclear deal that in one stroke destroys all the hard work and sacrifice that our scientists have made to achieve self-reliance in nuclear development. In the IAEA, India votes against a traditional ally Iran. India also has become markedly unenthusiastic in its friendship with Russia. In the absence of an external affairs minister, the foreign secretary Shyam Saran seems to have joined the U.S. Consulate as an employee. In turn, the American ambassador, David Mulford, seems to have taken over as our external affairs spokesman. Mani Shankar Aiyar, one of the few good ministers in the cabinet, has been shunted out of the oil ministry ostensibly, to pave for a known U.S. synchophant. India is slowly but definitely becoming an American client state but the Indian media is unmoved.

 Most Indians cannot
 tell if Italy is in
 Europe or in
 Jammu & Kashmir.

Everytime Sonia Gandhi was being projected as the Congress candidate for the post of Prime Minister, Indian newspapers chose to put polish on their liberal credentials by wholeheartedly embracing the preposterous idea. Although most Indians cannot tell if Italy is in Europe or in Jammu & Kashmir, the victory of the Congress-led coalition was portrayed as an unanimous acceptance of her candidacy for the top post. This was despite the fact that whole states had rejected the Congress coalition just as others brought it back to power. Ordinarily, it should have been an open-and-shut case. India has a billion-plus population and is fully capable of having an Indian as PM. India's best interests cannot be possibly served by a person who was born and brought up in Italy. Our freedom fighters wanted India to be ruled by Indians, not firangs. The media had a duty to inform the people about the dangers of getting a foreigner to the top post but they chose not to. Thanks to their unfortunate naivete and misplaced idealism, what has followed since then is a quasi return to living under foreign yolk.

When Congress spokesman Jaipal Reddy
announced that Sonia Gandhi, in her new
official position, could call for her
perusal ANY government file she chose, it
became clear that her role was not limited
to just providing advice to the PM.

When Narasimha Rao was PM, Sonia was officially "in mourning." However, the constant stream of ministers, industrialists, diplomats and assorted power brokers beating a path to 10 Janpath Road made it amply clear where the real seat of power was located. With Manmohan Singh as PM, the situation is worse. Sonia is out of her make-believe hibernation. She is officially part of the government, as she has got herself appointed as the head of the advisory council for the PM. What she does in reality is run the government. No, this conclusion is not based on conjecture. When Congress spokesman Jaipal Reddy announced that Sonia Gandhi, in her new official position, could call for her perusal ANY government file she chose, it became clear that her role was not limited to just providing advice to the PM. The media treated this usurpation of power with remarkable nonchalance. In fact, reactions from the media goes in the opposite reaction. When Sonia made her maiden speech in Parliament by reading from a prepared text, the editor of The Hindu took some real estate on the front page to shower praise on this brazen display of ineptitude!

Manmohan Singh meanwhile is being pampered by the press. His image underwent a sinister makeover in the intervening years when the Congress was out of power. Some of the Congress aspirants for the PM post like Rajesh Pilot and Madhav Rao Scindia got conveniently killed in accidents. Sharad Pawar left the party. Manmohan Singh, who had stuck around Sonia's feet or loitered outside her gate, was now being touted as a "honest politician!" The notoriety that Singh had earned for himself in the aftermath of the various scams of the Narasimha Rao government seems to have been all but forgotten.

The attitude of the Left parties is a study in contradictions. They have apparently taken offence to the appointment of Montek Singh Ahluwalia as the head of the Planning Commision. (When Ahluwalia was with the World Bank, he had authored numerous reports exhorting developed countries to "punish" India for opposing its demands.) During the Rao government, the same parties had demonised Singh for introducing market reforms and for weaking the stance of India and other developing countries in the negotiations over the GATT proposals.

Patented Drugs for Sale

 The new drug rules use extremely vague
 language and are tilted to favour
 multinationals. Patent holders can now
 indefinitely increase the life of
 patents using minor alternations. Cheap
 treatment for life-threatening diseases
 like AIDS in India, Africa, and other
 backward places will no longer be
 available.

First and foremost of all the treacheries of the Congress government is the acceptance of the pharmaceutical product patent regime, which has been pushed by Western pharmaceutical companies through the World Trade Organization (WTO). This has adverse implications not only for India but also for other developing countries. Even World Health Organization (WHO) officials visited India to convince New Delhi of the dangers of adopting product patents. Now that India has accepted product patents, the West will find it very easy to muzzle opposition from poor countries.

Indian laws originally permitted only process patents not product patents for drugs. Product patents allows Western pharmaceutical companies to charge high prices for the drugs they invent. They justify their prices by saying that research and development (R&D) to develop new drugs require huge investments. (However, independent analysts have pointed out that R&D costs are not very significant when compared to the amounts they spend on marketing and executive compensation.) The process patent regime had allowed Indian generics manufacturers to create copycat versions of patent drugs through alternative manufacturing processes. This has helped bring down the cost of patented drugs to within the reach of poor people. They have been so successful that it prompted Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to source AIDS drugs from Cipla to treat its patients in Africa. Soon, WHO and many African governments started sourcing drugs from Indian manufacturers. Predictably, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times were horrified. Pharma multinationals started crying "Daddy, they are taking away our candy!" Western governments applied pressure and the Manmohan Singh government moved in to assuage all their worries. Unlike the original patent laws, which were drafted with great care and concern for the poor, the new drug rules use extremely vague language and are tilted to favour multinationals. Patent holders can now indefinitely increase the life of patents using minor alternations. Cheap treatment for life-threatening diseases like AIDS in India, Africa, and other backward places will no longer be available. The government has also lost the flexibility to break patents in case of serious health emergencies.

Kashmir is on Sale

Before the BJP came to power, the one-man parties under the Hurityat Conference umbrella were treated like outcasts. Everyone knew they received money from Pakistan and took orders from the ISI. No one took them seriously except when they held captive audience inside places like the Hazratbal mosque. They were best known for their calls for public strikes (when terrorists got killed by security forces) and were popularly refered as the hartal party. All this changed when the BJP came to power. Following a script written by American diplomats and cheered on by the USIS and by journalists in their pay, Vajpayee and Advani gave these reactionaries a form of guaranteed legitamacy. The enforcement directorate was prevented from taking action against Hurityat leaders in the Jain hawala case because top leaders like Advani were also accused of receiving payments. As if to top the BJP, Manmohan Singh has gone one step ahead and expressed willingness to accept the LoC (Line of Control) as the border, which means a permanent division of the state of J&K and the loss of any territorial claim on Gilgit and Northern Areas currently under Pakistani occupation. It is only by Pakistan's reluctance to accept this scheme that has saved the situation for India, not any good work on part of Indian leaders. The sacrifices our soldiers have made fighting wars and insurgency now seem a waste. Media whores and the U.S. diplomats portray this sort of idiocy as out-of-the-box thinking. It seems more like out-of-your-mind thinking.

Nuclear Reactors for Sale

The government has refused to develop new
uranium mines, citing "opposition" from
people living in surrounding areas.
Opposition from the public has not
prevented the government from building
huge dams, which typically uproot hundreds
of thousands of tribals/villagers.

The next biggest treachery that Manmohan Singh is responsible for is the nuclear agreement he had signed with the U.S. Like the pharma law regime, the nuclear deal was announced without debate or clarity. Singh's excuse for the deal was a shortage of enriched fuel in the country. However, the deal seems to be more about buying new nuclear reactors rather than nuclear fuel for existing reactors. The government has refused to develop new uranium mines, citing "opposition" from people living in surrounding areas. Opposition from the public has not prevented the government from building huge dams, which typically uproot tens of thousands of tribals/villagers and submerges huge tracts of forest/agricultural land. It is pretty obvious who is behind this so-called opposition - Western companies, which will build the new nuclear reactors. It only takes a few lakhs of rupees given to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to mobilize "public opposition" against anything. Already, American lobbying firms are spending a colossal amount (even dwarfing lobbying money showered on purely American projects) to get this deal through. And, as usual, salesman-speak is couched in strategy-speak.

Somers is an old India hand and a former
Unocal employee. Unocal, among other
things, was greatly interested in building
the trans Turkemenistan-Afganistan-Pakistan
pipeline. Unocal was involved in providing
military, financial and diplomatic backing
for the Taliban. They have also been accused
of using slave labour in Burma.
Business Lobbies for US-India Nuclear Deal

from Reuters Recommends

WASHINGTON [19 January 2006] - American companies are mounting a multimillion-dollar campaign to sell to Congress a landmark civilian nuclear deal with India which promises a "bounty of opportunity" for U.S. business and strategic interests, an organizer said on Thursday.

The lobbying drive is the most expensive ever mounted by business, said Ron Somers, president of the U.S.-India Business Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He did not specify the campaign's budget... Somers said the agreement could open the door for U.S. companies to billions of dollars in non-nuclear as well as civilian nuclear-related contracts... For 30 years, the United States led the effort to deny India nuclear technology because it tested and developed nuclear weapons in contravention of international norms... But U.S. President George W. Bush now views India, a rising democratic and economic power on China's border, as an evolving U.S. ally and the new nuclear deal -- allowing India to purchase nuclear reactors and fuel -- is central to that vision... India, for its part, has retained the Barbour Griffiths Rogers lobbying firm of former U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, Robert Blackwill, to push the deal. His former aide, Ashley Tellis, has taken a leave from a Washington think tank to work on the deal at the State Department. Both men are leading advocates of closer U.S. ties with India.

Afraid of a domestic backlash aborting the baby before it was born, Singh kept everyone in the dark and announced the deal from the U.S. after it was signed. While reaction at home was one of surprise, doubt and indignation, The Hindu editorial was all praise for Singh and scorn for the naysayers. It also offered a NEW intelligence information that Indian nuclear enrichment efforts can only come up with a dirty nuclear bomb and nothing more! (N. Ram never ceases to amaze me.) Lastly, anyone who thinks the new reactors are going to solve our energy problems must stop smoking marijuana. It will take several years, perhaps over a decade, before the reactors will be built. Like Enron,^‡ it will be money from the taxpayers' kitty and Indian financial instituations that will be used to pay for everything.

It seems that some of the Enron-style "education" money is seeing action. An op-ed piece in the Economic Times makes me wonder. The arguments are so pathetic that one wonders if it was deliberate, as if to flag it.

Bush Policies Good For India

C Uday Bhaskar

The fine print of the nuclear deal is still being negotiated but if it is realised, this will not only liberate India from a straitjacket but bring to fruitition one of Mr. Bush's really big ideas. [Ahem... If anyone wants a sample of Mr. Bush's really big ideas, there is always the bogus Iraq WMD story and the non-existent Al Qaeeda link.] ...And, if the latest Bush big idea... [There he goes again!] ... -- to transform the global energy grid to a plutonium burning one is realised,... [Does he have to freak people out like this? Seriously, this is a load of nonsensel. Despite Bush's comments to the contrary, America's addiction to oil is not going to change. If America moves away from oil and moves to nuclear energy, the demand for dollars will be hit. The U.S. will be unable to bridge its deficit and its economy will collapse. This is why the US has not any built nuclear reactors for power generation for decades.] ... he would ... be remembered less for the Iraq fiasco... [Thanks to the Internet and satellite television, Bush will always be remembered for Iraq, particularly Abu Ghraib and Fallujah, Soviet-style Guantanomo Bay prison gulag and God knows what the hell in Afghanistan. Nothing is going to change that.] ... and more as the patron saint of environmental protection. [Indians cannot be faulted for their ignorance of Bush's track record in gutting environmental legislations to benefit big businesses, particularly the misleading named "Clear Skies Initiative" and plans to drill for oil in Arctic wildlife preserves.] Texans, it is said think big and Indians astutely. [My conclusion is that the envelope was a fat one and a wise decision was made.]

Bofors Money for Sale: Government Helps Unfreeze Funds in Quattrocci's Accounts

When Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister, Ottavio Quattrocci, a friend of Sonia Gandhi, came to India and set up shop. Using his closeness to the PM's family circle, it is alleged that Quattrocci was able to win numerous contracts for the Italian multinational Snam Progetti. The mysterious A. E. Services, which was one of the three (secret) brokers^† for the Swedish howitzer company Bofors A.G., is supposed to be a front managed by Quattrocci. It was these three brokers' accounts that the commissions from the Bofors deal were paid. According the deal that Bofors A. G. had with A. E. Services, the latter was eligible for a commission only if Bofors won the deal before a particular date. As it happened, the Bofors file got all required signatures on a single day; a feat impossible in India unless the Prime Minister was involved. It was for this reason, Rajiv Gandhi's and his wife Sonia Gandhi's names became tainted.

Ministers for Sale: The minister has left the building. You can talk to the American Ambassodor here.

Natwar Singh IS probably guilty and
perhaps so are others in the Congress
including Sonia Gandhi. The Americans
are probably engaged in blackmail.
American diplomats are getting cockier
in their attitude. Their Ambassador,
David Mulford, is on an interview
spree with the PTI, offering opinions
on everything under the sun, even on
the holiest of holy cows - the Left!

When India voted against Iran in the IAEA, foreign minister Natwar Singh was nowhere to be found. It was up to External Affairs secretary Shyam Saran to explain the reason behind the vote. It seemed as though Natwar was making his protest by making himself unavailable. After that, his days were numbered. The Singh had turned a deaf ear to American objections to the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline. The pipeline was indeed a bad idea because it required India to pay transit fees to Pakistan. Pakistan was claiming upwards $800 million, which means Indians would not only have to suffer Pakistani terrorists but also have to pay for their costs. However, American worries lay elsewhere. They are more interested in isolating Iran by preventing foreign investments in Iranian oil and gas resources. So, Natwar had to go. The UN report alleging illegal payments in the U.N. Oil-For-Food programme was authored by a former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman. This is not to say Natwar Singh is not guilty. He IS probably guilty and perhaps so are others in the Congress, including Sonia Gandhi. The Americans are probably engaged in blackmail. (It would not surprise me if the massive fighter jet contract of the Indian Air Force goes in favour of Lockheed Martin's F-16 or the Boeing F-118.) American diplomats are getting cockier in their attitude. Their Ambassador, David Mulford, is on an interview spree with the Press Trust of India (PTI) agency, offering opinions on everything under the sun, even on the Left! (I do hope The Hindu will support Mulford if he ever chooses to run for the post of the Indian PM. At least, this bugger can speak English.)

The saddest thing in the whole mess however is what had happened to Mani Shankar Aiyar. This man was the best performing minister in the cabinet. Aiyar got into the bad books of the Americans after he suggested that OPEC nations stop using inconsequential oil benchmarks like the Western Texas Intermediate and Brent Crude. Aiyar brought together oil ministers of big Asian consumers like China and Japan to demand parity with Western customers in oil contracts. His oil diplomacy provided opportunities in Russia, Sudan, Syria, and other countries but also arrived at a possible China-India partnership in bidding for oil assets around the world. The PM has offered no reason why Aiyar was moved out of the ministry during the recent reshuffle. The truth is that there was none. It was pressure from Mulford that did it.

Letters To The Editor (The Hindu): Ministry Reshuffle

By Nisha Gopalan

The reshuffle is dissappointing. Now that there are four Ministers without portfolio in the UPA ministry, it is time a Ministry was created to look after the problems relating to Ministers without portfolio.

Airports For Sale: Modernization a.k.a. Privatisation of Profits & Looting of Taxpayers' Money

 The modernization programme requires
 the new owners of the airports to
 absorb only 40% of existing employees.
 The rest will continue to be on the
 rolls of the AAI. This means that the
 profits of the private parties
 will be financed by the government.

The Civil Aviation minister Praful Patel has engaged private consortiums to "modernise" the airports in Delhi and Bombay. Until now, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) has been managing civilian airports in India. Successive Congress governments have used the AAI to give jobs to party workers. As a result, Indian airports have the highest number of employees per aircraft they handle. Yet, the AAI has managed to accumulate several thousands of crores in its reserves and is fully capable of modernizing the airports to whatever international standards that the government is talking about. The reason why the AAI has not been able to do that in the past was again due to interference from politicians, most of whom have been from the Congress. The new modernization programme requires the private sector "partners" of the airports to absorb only 40% of existing employees. The rest will continue to be on the rolls of the AAI. This means that the profits of the private parties will be financed by the government - a reason why the drive is known as "modernisation" and not as "privatisation." The bidding process has been riddled with controversy. Reliance has alleged irregularities in the selection process which saw the Delhi airport go to GMR-Fraport and the Bombay airport go to GVK-South African Airports. Newspapers and TV channels have been economical with the facts about employee situation. The Left parties have offered no support for the striking workers though they have promised much. Apparently, their bark is worse than their bite.

* - This post is not yet complete.

† - The other two being the Hindujas and Win Chadha. Under the BJP regime, the CBI watered down the case and the Hindujas were acquited for want of evidence. The Hindujas were named as one of those who had filed petitions before a Swiss court to prevent the release of information about bank accounts in which Bofors commissions were deposited.

‡ - Maybe she had a few extra drinks on her or maybe not, one day Enron CEO Rebecca Mark let it out that her company had spent $60 millions on "educating Indians" about the Dabhol power project. Manmohan Singh, who was then the finance minister, begged American business leaders not to make his job difficult by being so indiscreet!

Attack Of The Hillybillies**

2005-12-09T20:49:00.000+05:30

PMK founder Ramdoss should be arrested for demanding that Tamil Nadu be split into two below the Vanniyar belt, supporting the LTTE, and glorifying Rajiv Gandhi's assassin Dhanu.

For the first time Tamil is being used on Moral Volcano - Made possible by Latha font. If you are using Windows XP, this font will already be installed in your machine and you would have had no trouble reading it. If the font is not present, install it from the Windows XP CD. Do note that browsers other than Internet Explorer have difficulty in accurately displaying this UNICODE typeface.

In the aftermath of the midnight arrest of the DMK chief M. Karunanidhi, public reactions were very muted. While Sun TV marshalled all it could to slam the police and Jayalalithaa, there was very little reaction on the streets. No buses were burnt. No mass protests. Not even a minimalistic strike. The only act of disobedience was by Karunanidhi himself, who squat outside the gate of Central Jail and refused to cooperate with the police. So, when he was released and was able to give vent to his views, he showered abuses on the people of Tamil Nadu. Tamilians, he said, were pieces of excrement. They lacked சொரணை he claimed. The average Tamilian was a வாழை மட்டை.^* Do you think his outbursts were wrong? I don't think so. Through the decades, he had carried the cross (or at least pretended to carry it) for the people of the state. During the anti-Hindi movement, he had put his neck over a railway track to defend the Tamil language. (Maybe he got excessively drunk or maybe not. I won't take it away from him.) But, during his hour of need, Tamilians had abandoned him. Even his own partymen were afraid to come out. Everyone was terrified of Jayalalithaa. Cowards! If I were in his position, I would have said worse. Bottomline: You cannot blame him.

Now, let us come to the Khushboo matter. Our childhood heartthrob is now the host of an immensely popular Tamil version of the Kaun Banega Crorepathi (KBC) on Jaya TV. That alone is enough for her to be on the wrong. It doesn't endear her to the owners of Sun TV. Her reported comment that it was unrealistic to expect every girl to be a virgin till she is married has created controversy. Women, allied to the PMK, took offense, as all of them were in mint condition when they got married. In the initial stages of the controversy, Jayalalithaa and the AIADMK stayed out, refusing to comment. You never know how far the Sun TV spin machine will go.^** This only emboldened the PMK. There were demonstrations all over the place. Defamation cases were filed all over the state. Sun TV, meanwhile, was carrying on an insidious propaganda. It was joined other TV channels that were competing with Jaya TV for viewership. Newspapers like The Hindu, which have an opinion on everything these days, went into passive mode. Support from the film industry was conspicious by its absence. Not even a sound from all those hero guys, who portray themselves as testosterone-driven macho men fighting evil and injustice. The only one to show some balls was a woman, Suhasini, who came out openly in support of Kushboo. Soon, it it was her turn to feel the heat. PMK women gheraoed her with broomsticks and threw eggs and chappals. Actor Sarath Kumar^¤ came out prominently on Sun TV to threaten Suhasini. Incidentally, he is the leader of the actors' guild. Khushboo surrendered before the court and said she was willing to fight the cases. This was a defeat in itself for the PMK. Filing a suit is one thing. Coming up with a plausible case is another. The actress had already publicly apologised for any hurt she may have caused but the protests but court cases were being pursued nevertheless. And, the protest were getting pretty nasty. PMK women picketed the courthouse and repeated their broomstick brandishing, egg throwing and chappal hurling stunts before camera. A judicial reprimand awaited the PMK as it is illegal to subvert the judicial process by using it to meet political ends. The court proceedings will make interesting reading. Bottomline: The PMK had shot itself in the leg.

Having made sure that her detractors had dug themselves into a deep pit, Jayalalithaa went on to burying them alive. Jaya TV started showing people questioning the motives of the PMK and Sun TV. The police started weilding their lathis more effectively. Coalitions partners of the DMK and PMK were expressing reservations. The Hindu now devoted newsprint to save the rear of the troublemakers. Sarath Kumar did a u-turn and claimed he did not support the protests. PMK leaders disowned the protests. Eventually, PMK women went back to doing housework. Sun News returned to its regular programming, which mainly deals with grizzly coverage of road accidents, statements from "DMK leader M. Karunanidhi," and misdeeds of Jayalalithaa's government.

Are women really angry? It can't be so. During surveys and interviews, women rarely give yes-or-no answers to the question whether they should remain virgins until marriage. Instead, the near-universal retort is why no restrictions are placed on the behavior of men. The reason is that it is not women who are usually sexually promiscous and careless. It is the men who are the problem. Many of them think that only prostitutes have AIDS and unprotected sex with others is okay. This is where Khushboo's advice is important. A healthy paranoia that any woman, not just prostitutes, could be a source of an AIDS infection is absolutely essential. Despite all the pretensions about its pure nature, Tamil Nadu has one of the highest number of AIDS carriers in India. Women in this state are facing a serious threat.^#


According to Sun TV, my lucky number today is 24. Lucky colour will be blue and the lucky direction will be East. The problem is I have no idea how to use this information to my advantage. Thanks for nothing, Sun TV!	Is not "Sun TV" or "சன் டிவி" still English! Would not real Tamil lovers keep it as "சூரியன் தொலைக் காட்சி?" How will Tamil grow if the DMK behaves like this? When the name of an Indian city with considerable international significance can be changed, why not that of a private TV company?

But such details are beyond the intelligence of many in the state. When the AIDS treatment pioneer Dr. Sunidhi (who hails from another state) identified the first AIDS patient in Tamil Nadu, Dravidian parties fell on her like a tonne of bricks. When the Mammotty-starrer Iyer, the Great was released in theatres, the Dravidar Kazhagam took out mass protests. "Are iyers really great?," they wanted to know. Dravidian ideolgue EVR Ramaswamy had asked his followers not to worship statues (idols) but his followers continue worship Anna statues and Ambedkar statues. Why, C Annadurai has a "samadhi" at the Marina. DMK patronizes marriages that don't follow any kind of religious rituals. But what is marriage? Isn't that a ritual in itself. Ideally, if they didn't really believe in "stupid rituals", DMK couples should start living together without a "marriage" stunt. On Sun TV, which is run by the supposedly godless DMK, the day begins with நல்ல காலம் பிறக்குது - a program that claims to foretell the day for the viewers and audaciously instructs them on how to be prepared for it - what color, number and direction will be lucky for them. And, Sun TV - when they changed the name of our city from the Urdu-origin Madras (Madrasapatnam) to its Telugu-origin Chennai (Chennapatna), they forgot to change the name of Sun TV - it is still English!^† Karunanidhi, on the advice of his Brahmin doctor, has started sporting a yellow துண்டு instead of his trademark red-and-black-border party colours. When he was in power, Karunanidhi had instituted a benign neglect of English education in the state reasoning that once these fools started reading The Hindu, they might stop voting for him. Although, the Hindu has moved to his camp but his own daughter கணிமொழி^‡ has broken with him. A product of English education, she has written that in old Tamil literature women were more free than they were being made up to be today and sexual independence was a natural way of things for them.

* - In this state, intelligence is measured on a scale of three objects - camphor, firewood and the trunk of a plantain tree. Camphor catches fire easily. Firewood needs a bit of coaxing. The last one is just hopeless.

** - Yes, even J has to watch over her shoulders. The DMK's Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV) has a tight grip on the cable TV network in the state because it is the main or the only Multi-System Operator (MSO). Sun group's TV channels get to occupy all the channels in the prime band. Other Tamil channels have serious visual defects. Sun TV naturally has a near monopoly in the mindspace of TV viewers. This allows it to be used as a very effective propaganda tool in the hands of the DMK. During the strike by employees of government transport corporations, Sun TV tried all kinds of tricks to queer the situation against the government and the strikers. Everyday, it would interview the strikers and get them to reaffirm their intention to carry on with the strike. It would also carry false propaganda. Because the government hired private drivers to maintain services, Sun TV showed grizzly images of blood-soaked dead bodies from an accident involving a private bus. Sun TV claimed that a government bus was involved and the accident occurred because the bus was driven by an inexperienced driver. During the strike by government employees, Sun TV was back to its usual tricks. Leaders of the unions were interviewed every day and they all claimed the strike would not be withdrawn until the govenment climbed down from their position. This kind of propaganda and encouragement went on every day. In both strikes, it was the employees who were the losers and the government won the day. Sun TV's job was - குழந்தையை கிள்ளிவிட்டு வேடிக்கை பார்பது. In the government employees strike, the strikers were ordinary officegoers who had very little experience in carrying on agitations. The concept of "courting arrest," where the police release the detainees after making a show of an arrest, was unknown to them. Strikers would typically take to their heels the moment the police showed up. In the process, some people broke their backs and limbs as they tried to scale compound walls. Those who got incarcerated found themselves without their usual medicines and several of them suffered heart attacks. All of this was just additional propaganda material on Sun TV.

¤ - Sarath Kumar is the current husband of Radhika, a former actress and now TV serial producer. Her soaps primarily run on Sun TV. She also moonlights as a DMK functionary. Karunanidhi, when he was CM, spent a great deal of public money to balance the books of the actors' guild. This helped Sarath Kumar depose MR Ravi (who joined the AIADMK) as the guild's leader. Sarath Kumar's current business in the actors' guild is to sideline actor Vijaykanth, who has started his own party recently.

# - It is said that among the human population, 10% is naturally corrupt, 10% is incorruptible, and the rest can become corrupt with some effort. The same applies to sexual promiscuity. In my two years in Bombay, I have seen very few people who haven't visited a prostitute or a dance bar. In fact, dance bars' clientele consisted mainly of new migrants and travellers.

† - At Sun TV, Tamil gets murdered every day. Everyone from their comperes to news readers have serious difficulties speaking Tamil.

‡ - கணிமொழி is a real surprise. Finally, someone from the DMK has broken the mould.

** - This post is yet to be completed.

The Rothchilds - The End Of All Conspiracy Theories*

2005-11-13T08:08:00.000+05:30

The most clear-cut evidence for the Rothschildts' enduring reach and influence in the global arena was demonstrated recently in the wake of the Yukos controversy. The Russian government had taken over the rich oil conglomerate Yukos for unpaid taxes. It had also arrested Yukos' owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky for tax fraud, asset stripping, creative accounting and other related crimes. Khodorkovsky stunned everyone by revealing that, following the loss of Yukos, a hitherto unknown clause in the ownership agreement of the Yukos properties had come into play, which reverted the ownership of Yukos to the Rothschilds. All along, Khodorkovsky had ben acting as a frontman! Very few knew about it - not even the Russian government! More bizzarre, support came from an unlikely source - Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communisty Party.^‡ Our wonderful comrade appealed to Russian President Putin to settle the matter amicably with the Rothschildts. This was not a case of of a chameleon changing its color but a leopard losing its spots - just unbelievable! Welcome to the House of Rothschilds.

"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1913–1921).

Whether Britain is a stooge of the U.S. or vice versa has been a much-debated topic. Conspiracy theorists suggest both of them are stooges of the Rothchildts. The fact that the US has troops stationed in 130 countries has helped the notion that the Rothschildts own the world. Jewish businessmen have for centuries invested time and effort in cultivating a support network for their investments and business ventures. What sets the Rothschildts apart and makes them so formidable is the fact that their network spans the globe with people in media, trade, finance, politics, military and intelligence agencies acting in concert. The vastness of the network and the absence of clear boundaries to their influence have let tongues wag. It is difficult to tell who is working for whom and whose money is being spent and for whose benefit.

The Rothschilds are a dynasty. So, we need to go back in time. In the Middle Ages, as loose confederations in Europe began to consolidate into larger states, along with them seemingly sinister secret societies such as the Freemasons. In the Freemasons' case, the main objective was to limit the power of aristocracy. They intended to achieve this goal by extending political and economic support to their members. Because of the inherent danger involved in challenging established powers, they preferred to operate in secret and membership was by invitation only. Freemasonry was originally intended to include only businessmen, craftsmen and traders but when some of them ended up counting political and military leaders as among them. They secretly helped in spreading subversive propaganda and were behind many social and political upheavels. Members were all the time being infiltrated into corridors of power while those already in power were secretly recruited. A Jewish conspiracy angle was sometimes attached to secret societies.

Meanwhile, it was being noted that many people of Jewish extraction had no trouble gravitating to the top. Their hard work and persistence brought them success but it also brought them unwelcome attention. Jews somehow found a way to flourish. They exploited opportunities where others had found none. Because the Catholic Church had banned usury for Christians, Jews ended up in large numbers as moneylenders. Hence, they were seen as "bloodsuckers" and noted for their "heartlessness." In business, they formed monopolies and cartels to keep outsiders stay out. The reason was that they were difficult to bargain with and only other Jews knew how deal with them. But, very few saw it that way. The Christian belief that it was Jews who were responsible to the murder of Jesus Christ and the fact that Jews had not accepted Chrisitianity only added to the fire. Jews were regularly threatened with extinction. Being anti-Jewish, in thought and deed, became politically correct. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the campaign against Jews resulted in forced segregation throughout Europe. Jews had to live in ghettos, residential areas set apart from the rest of the society. Ghettos had high walls around them and with gates that were kept locked at night and during Christian festivals. Because horizontal expansion was not possible, ghettos grew vertically and were plagued by living hazards, overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. During riots, Jews were surrounded in all directions. Jews were also prevented from pursuing certain trades. Limits were placed on the population inside a ghetto as also the number of marriages allowed in a year. In the 16th century, Pope Paul IV established the Jewish ghetto in Rome and required all Jews to wear an yellow badge for easy identification. Martin Luther (the founder of the Protestant religion) was also a Jew-baiter. Anti-Jewish themes either smouldered or raged in Europe. It went out of favour only after Hitler brought it to intolerable notoreity in the form of World War II.^† Evil Jewish stereotypes can be found in such works as the Merchant of Venice and Oliver Twist.

In these circumstances, some Jews found it very valuable and very necessary to have friends who were of power and consequence. M A Rothschildt, the founder of the Rothschild dynasty, also had to make a similar arrangement to jumpstart his career. He was born in Frankfurt (Germany) in 1743 as Mayer Amschel Bauer. He started out as a clerk at a bank owned by the Oppenheimers in Hannover and quickly rose through their ranks. In 1760, he went back to his ghetto in Frankfurt and joined the family business of dealing in second-hand goods. He also established a small currency exchange house^¥ and dealt in rare coins on the side. For his business, he adopted the name Rothschildt (rote schildt or "red shield") after the red shield emblem on their ancestral house in the ghetto. In the 1760s, he used one of his old acquaintances at the Oppenheimer bank to sell his rare coins to members of the royal court. His biggest client was Prince William of Hanau^¤ to whom he sold some rare coins.

Mayer stopped dealing in used goods and went in for items like cotton, wine and tobacco. Mayer had cloth bought in Manchester to be sold in Frankfurt. His son Nathan handled the business from London. Mayer decided to use his London connection to greater use. The British made payments to the Prince with drafts that were to encashed in London. So, Mayer begged the Prince to let him cash a few drafts. This business earned him a small profit but more importantly he started dealing with the nobility. Mayer then lobbied broking houses for providing messenger services between them and the Prince. Soon, they were arranging investments for the Prince. Mayer's son Solomon became a permanent fixture in the Court. Mayer's biggest break (this time into international banking) came when he arranged a secret loan from the Prince to Danish king. The King was a relative and the Prince did not want to deal directly or use his regular bankers. Later, on the heels of an invasion by Napoleon, the Prince fled leaving a part of his fortune with the Rothschildts.

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When the Fortune magazine makes list of wealthiest people, you will not find the Rothchids in them. Yet, the clan have given their name to the expression "fabulously wealthy as the Rothschilds." This may be somewhat mystifying. To the outside world, they portray themselves as "merchant bankers;" people who make business deals (mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, etc.,) possible with their valuable advice. Their clients are big corporations and governments and deal sizes are naturally big. The profits, they insist, are not so fabulous. There is always an unmistakable effort to underwhelm observers. And, the media is happy to oblige. Here is an excerpt from BusinessWeek article celebrating the minor success of staying in business.

The Rothschilds Are On A Roll

"Schroder. Morgan Grenfell. Warburg. Fleming. Kleinwort Benson." Sitting in his modest Paris office a stone's throw from the Elysees Palace, David de Rothschild ticks off the names of once independent European investment houses that have slipped into the embrace of huge banks. "They're all gone. We and Lazard are the only ones left."

On the face of it, this harsh landscape bodes ill for the 58-year-old chairman of Rothschild & Cie Banque and his cousin, Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman of NM Rothschild & Sons, the clan's London-based branch. The fabled Rothschild name was once synonymous with prodigious wealth and power. Today, the Rothschilds head a group whose employees number just 550. The likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Citigroup dwarf it. Despite having its best year ever for mergers and acquisitions, the Rothschild group's total investment banking profit for 2000 will be barely $200 million, a fraction of what the big boys take home. With such competition, Rothschild "is going to be very fragile in the long run," says one prominent banker in Paris.

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N M Rothschild is a bullion bank. It acts as an intermediary and leases gold from the Bank of England at a very nominal rate (1%). The gold is sold and the proceeds invested in more sophisticated financial instruments, which earns them phenomenal profits. Of course, they don't make these investments directly. Because the Bank of England expects to be paid back in gold (instalments), the Rothschilds buys gold from the market. In a falling market for gold, Rothschilds get to make a second round of profit. In a rising market, which has been the case lately, this profit gets reduced. So, in the 90s, Bank of England "announced" that it was going to sell of its gold hoard so that the wealth could be invested in more profitable investments. Other European central banks have made similar announcements. This is interesting because nobody in their right mind will announce in advance that they were going to sell something in such huge quantities? That would cause a price depression! Unless... unless you wanted to help those who have to repay the leased gold. Incidentally, N M Rothschilds is the leading member of the LBMA (London Bullion Marketing Association). Until recently and for nearly century, the international price for gold was fixed at the Rothschild offices in London twice daily. The scam went on successfully because leased gold, in accounting terms, is not really sold; it still remains in the bank's books even after it has physically left the vault.

Interestingly, the Rothschilds exit the gold bullion business recently. The gold-rigging business has hit a wall. Asians are buying up most of the gold that is being unloaded by the central banks. Soon there would no gold left to depress the market. A day would come when the central banks would have to tell the public that their vaults are clean, all the gold has been leased at basement rates, and those who have leased the bullion are not paying up. When this happens, there will be a global cataclysmic financial collapse. It should not surprise anyone if the Rothschilds survive that one out - they probably sit on the biggest gold hoard ever.

* - This article is not yet complete. Meanwhile, read the Rothchild Dynasty PDF eBook.

‡ - The Communist Party has been at the forefront of the criticism of the privatisation programme, which was part of the Yeltsin-initiated and World Bank-dictated "economic reforms." The programme meant to sell Russian state enterprises, supposedly to bolster government finances with the proceeds. While eventually failing to fulfill this objective, it however enabled a few individuals (all but one of them Jews, who later came to be known "the Oligarchs" and eventually controlled almost 90% of the Russian economy) pick up rich state properties at rock-bottom prices. Their connections to Western capital have never been fully understood and much of it remains shrouded in mystery. While the chosen few were laughing all the way to the bank, millions of Russians went below the poverty line. The Russian government became bankrupt and defaulted on its loans.

† - Before you say this is why Jews should have their own nation, let me remind you that Palestinians should not have been made the victim simply because Christians could not tolerate Jews. You cannot correct one wrong with another. Worse, the wrong (Israel) was directed at someone who was not party to the problem (Palestinians). There is no legal base that allows Jews from Europe to occupy some foreign land they chose. It is just wrong! (See Why Israel Is A Nation Of Squataters.)

¥ - Frankfurt was a major European port city. It was a popular destination as a host city for prominent international fairs and conventions. Also, Germany at that time was made up of large number of small states, each with its own individual currency. As a result, a lot of currencies were in circulation and these needed to be exchanged.

¤ - Like his father Frederick of Hesse-Cassel, Prince William trafficked in soldiers. He was related to many royal families in Europe who were his customers. Prominent among them were the British who used his soldiers in America, which was still then a colony. When his father died, he inherited the biggest personal fortune in Europe and became the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel.

Bernardo Bertolucci's THE LAST EMPEROR

2005-11-06T06:56:00.000+05:30

Information from the inlay booklet of the audio CD

On a rainy day, 18 years ago, my father took the rest of our family to the Devi Paradise theatre near Mount Road to see Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece Last Emperor. The film was about Pu Yi, the last emperor of China. It had won 9 Oscars. The film had two or three scenes of frontal nudity. Even though I was seated several seats away from my parents, I closed my eyes when these scenes appeared. Recently, I made another one of my hopeless searches for the movie on Indiatimes.com and found to my surprise that they now have The Last Emperor DVD in their collection! Watching the movie, one may not be able to fully appreciate the movie's impressive background score (David Byrne and Ryuichi Sakamoto^*). One fine day, maybe 10 years after I saw the movie, AIR 107.1 FM played the main title theme from the film's OST. The music was very mesmerizing. Funny, it didn't seem so when I saw the picture the first time. The visual opulence of the film drowns the background score's greatness. For several years after that I tried to get the OST CD from music shops in Madras but none of them had a copy. I made phone calls and wrote emails but no luck. Finally, I managed to get it from an American for whom I used to do some transcription work. The audio CD was out of print in the U.S. and so he bought a second-hand copy from Amazon.com. The CD case had a small booklet with a great deal of interesting information about the film.

THE LAST EMPEROR

The Story

Peking, 1908. A three-year-old is removed from his home and his mother and is carried through the night to the Forbidden City, the heart of ancient China. His name is Pu Yi.

Days later he is placed on the Dragon Throne and becomes "The Lord of Ten Thousand Years," "The Son of Heaven," ruler over almost half the world's population. Pu Yi is the Emperor of China and the loneliest boy on Earth. But three years later, in 1912, China becomes a republic, the Qing dynasty is forced to abdicate and more than 3000 years of imperial rule comes to an end.

Almost the only person who does not understand this is the boy emperor. While the convulsive tides of modern history transform the world outside, the strange medieval life in the Forbiden City hardly changes. As Pu Yi grows up surrounded by his high consorts, courtiers and over 1,500 eunuchs, he is still treated as a god, free to do almost anything he wants, except to live the present or to set foot outside the palace. Unwittingly, he has been cast as the leading actor in an elaborate play, performed on the largest stage on earth, in which the other actors are conspiring to keep reality from him. Reality is the Chinese people, they are the audience and they have abandonded the theatre long ago.

Pu Yi (played by John Lone) is 18, married with two wives (one of them played by Joan Chen), when the charade collapses. In 1924, a republican warlord captures Peking and expels the ex-emperor from the Forbidden City. Aided by his friend and tutor, the Scottish mandarin Sir Reginald Johnston (played by Peter O'Toole), Pu Yi flees to Tienstin. For a few years, he enjoys the life of a western playboy before becoming increasingly disatisfied. Now, he is an actor without a role, as well as a without an audience. In 1931 Japan invades Manchuria and Pu Yi makes the great choice, and the great mistake, of his life. He accepts the Japanese invitation to return to the and of his ancestors and becomes the emperor of the new state of Manchukuo. It is the beginning of a nightmare for himself, for China and for the rest of the world which is soon at war.

The last empeor of China is one of the most extraordinary anti-heroes of modern times, an oriental Peter Pan floating like a cork on the stream of history. His life embraces the whole century from the end of the Qing dynasty to the first republic of Sun Yat Sen; from the warlords of the Twenties to the Kuomintang of Chiang Kai-Shek; from the Japanese invation to the State of Manchukuo, where Pu Yi becomes a puppet emperor controlled by the Japanese; from the Second World War to the foundation of the People's Republic; from a decade of Mao's re-education programmes to the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

In 1959, after ten years in a communist jail, Pu Yi was pardoned. In 1960, he retuned to Peking and become a gardener in the Botanic Gardens, freer in his terms than he had ever been before. For the first time in his life he could bicycle in the streets, eat in a restaurant or ride on a public bus. Traditionally, a Chinese emperor is "the first to sowand the first to leap." His purpose is to set an example. Perhaps, Pu Yi achieved this at the end of his life^† when he becomes a citizen of the People's Republic of China. It was the part he played best.

Production Notes - Background

Bernardo Bertolucci's THE LAST EMPEROR was filmed entirely on location in Cina in 1986... it took two years of complex negotiations to obtain the unprecedented permissions, which also allowed them to film in hitherto forbidden locations.

... the Chinese gave THE LAST EMPEOR unlimited cooperation... They approved the script, commenting only on factual inaccuracies and demanding no alterations.

The logistics of the production were staggering. THE LAST EMPEROR brought together people from six nations. Actors came from America, Great Britain, China, Hong Kong and Japan to play the 60 main characters in the story. 100 technicians from Italy, 20 from Britain and 150 Chinese worked for six months to put the film on the screen and 19,000 extras, including soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, appear altogether in the immense crowd scenes.

Costume designer James Acheson gathered 9,000 costumers from all over the world. Imperial dragon robes, court dresses and costumes, tunics of the workers and peasants, Japanese army uniforms, Kuomintang uniforms and western dresses fashionable in the Twenties and Thirties were among the many that were bought or made in China and cities far apart as London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Rome, Spoleto in Italy and Bighton in England.

Twenty vintage cars, including Delages, Ford Model Ts, Fiats, Lancias, Buicks, Hispano Suizas and Mercedes limousines, plus motor cycleswith side cars and a child's bicycle for the young Emperor were shippped by the sea to China to appear in the film.
Many weeks were devoted to filming inside the Forbidden City, home for so many years to the ruling dynasties of China... The Forbidden City is one of the most impressive sights anywehere in the world. It stands in the heart of Peking, its 250 acres entirely enclosed by high red walls, some of them 50 feet thick. It has 9,999 rooms (the Chinese believed that only heaven had 10,000 rooms) built around a bewildering jigsaw of courtyards, alleys, and gardens.

* - If you have seen the film Femme Fatale (Direction: Brian de Palma Cast: Antonio Banderas, Rebecca Romijin), then you have already experienced the magic of Ryuichi Sakamoto's musical score.

† - Pu Yi died in 1962.

How To Add Your Favourite Applications To The IE Toolbar

2005-10-21T12:14:00.000+05:30

As usual, the quick and dirty way

If your work requires that you spend a long time on Internet Explorer (IE), you may have felt the need for quick access to some of your favourite programs like Notepad, IrfanView, etc.

In this article, you will learn about a simple way to customize your IE toolbar. This involves adding a few keys to the Windows registry. Windows registry is the main storehouse of vital information about your Windows installation. Be careful or you may have to install Windows again.

Anyway, here we go. In the first example, I will tell you about how I added a toolbar button for the Notepad application. Select the Start menu button and click on the Run option. Type regedit and click the OK button. The Registry Editor will be displayed. Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions key. Here, you might see keys with names like {A5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-F5C9-0050045C3C96}. The names of these keys are called globally unique identifiers or GUIDs. In my machine, the A5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-F5C9-0050045C3C96 GUID uniquely represents the toolbar button for Yahoo! Messenger. For every button you try to add to the IE toolbar, you must come up with a new unique GUID.

For Notepad, I created a key at Extensions branch with a brand-new GUID. (Select Extensions, right click, and select New » Key.) The professional way of generating a unique GUID is to use a tool like guidgen.exe or uuidgen.exe. The MSDN says, "Guidgen.exe never produces the same number twice, no matter how many times it is run or how many different machines it runs on." Because I decided did not have this tool, I decided to take a risk by generating a new GUID myself. I made some random changes to the alphabets and the numbers in GUID used by Yahoo Messenger.

{A5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-F5C9-0050045C3C96 - Yahoo Messenger key
{A6D12D4E-7B4F-11D3-F5C9-0060046C3E96} - Notepad key

The GUID is in hexadecimal format, which means that it is made up of numbers from 0 to 9 and the alphabets A to F. In other words, the ID cannot have alphabets from G to Z or fancy characters like *,#,/,%,^,&,* and @.

In the right-side pane of the registry editor, I created the following string values: ButtonText, clsid, Default Visible, Exec, HotIcon, Icon, MenuStartBar, and MenuText. (Right click, select New » String Value.) I set ButtonText and MenuText to Notepad. This value was to be displayed as the label below the toolbar button. The value used by MenuStatusBar was to be displayed in the IE status bar when the mouse pointer or the cursor hovers over the corresponding Tools menu option. The clsid value was set to {1FBA04EE-3024-11d2-8F1F-0000F87ABD16}. This value is a set standard and you should include this as is for any toolbar buttons you may create for your browser. The Exec value was set to the path to the Notepad application file (c:\winnt\notepad.exe). The Default Visible value was set to Yes.

In the Icon and HotIcon values, the number after the comma identifies icon group inside the Notepad application file (notepad.exe). An icon from this icon group was to be displayed on the IE toolbar button. To identify the number for the icon group used by notepad.exe, I used a program called Resource Hacker. If you don't have Resource Hacker, you can create an icon (ICO) file for the toolbar button application and then then set its path as the Icon and HotIcon values. To create an icon file for your toolbar button application, open its exe file in IrfanView. A number of icons inside the application file will be displayed. You can select an icon from that and save it as a 16x16 24bpp icon file.

UPDATE (14/11/05): Apart from adding ordinary applications to the IE toolbar, you can also add useful script-based applets that will work inside the IE window. For this, you need to create a Script string value instead of an Exec value. The Script will point to a HTML file containing Javascript. In this example, I have created buttons that will scroll up and down a page. If you don't have relevant icon files, make a bitmap file in Paint and then convert it to an ICO (icon) file using IrfanView.

c:\scrollu.htm	c:\scrolld.htm

Because of problems with Blogger.com not accepting script tags, a space has been included in the code listings. If you plan to use them for your machine, please remove these characters.