India is known as the home of religions as there are more than 250 linguistic groups is living together with different shades of religious faith and beliefs. The bond that links the religious minded throughout the length and breadth of the land is bhakti. ‘The aim of life is to attain bhakit’, said Ramkrishana (1836-1886), the saint-prophet of Bengal.
Bhakit is intense devotion to God, springing from a deep love of Him. It finds it a spontaneous expression in the Bhajan, or religious love lyric. Bhajans are composed by literate villagers in the remotest part of India known as pundits. These love song of God reveals the yearning of the human soul to possess him here and now. This ecstatic love of God flowers in the other religions sects as well.
Hence by religion in India is meant no formal dogma embodied in an institution but the realization and appropriation of God in the personal life of every single individual upon earth. This goal is to be achieved through Sadhana or self –discipline. The Guru, or spiritual guide, must be found, and he will show his pupil the path of mukti or moksha, the spiritual liberation. This, in belief, is the Hindu view of life. The Hinduism divided a man’s life in to three stages, from the ages of seven to twenty-one years when, in the past, a boy was handed over to a rishi or sage who dwelt in the forest and taught his pupil the Vedas as well as the cultural arts of music, song and dance. The second stage is that of the Sansari, when a man marries, rears a family and follows a trade or profession. The last stage is that of sanyasa, when a man renounce the world and all worldly duties, at the age of fifty-five years or so, and retired into seclusion to meditate and commune with God and attain moksha or seclusion.
J.N. Dixit, former foreign secretary of India, and one of the world’s leading authorities on the region, has written a balanced and very readable account of the most tempestuous and potentially dangerous flashpoint in international politics.
‘J.N. Dixit, former foreign secretary and prolific policy analyst, has come out with a book that has a majestic sweep.’
- India Today
‘An important, indeed remarkable contribution that takes a comprehensive view in a long perspective. An insider’s account and therefore an authoritative one.’
- The Hindu
‘One of the most significant books on India’s relations with the outside world to be published since the Cold War.’
Several publishers now see their newspapers and periodicals as a commodity. Past norms are being altered to increase revenue and stay competitive. If they are indeed products, laws that apply to consumer products should apply to newspapers and periodicals also.
Politicians and others used to purchase reporters, often ‘cheaply’. Politicians who embezzle crores of rupees from the exchequer could befriend journalists by throwing them a party or giving them minor gifts like a pen. Some reporters were also known to demand gifts from business houses and others seeking publicity. Politician are businessmen used to have not much access to editors as they functioned from offices. So, they served as gatekeepers.
Now, business houses have found access to the editors either directly or through their advertisement departments. News items are being paid for directly or indirectly. Most editors and publishers have succumbed to the lure of money that they brought. Some even charged for election coverage.
Journalists have often claimed that self-regulation was the best for them and their publications. This had justification when free expression was being threatened by authorities, and the argument may still valid when the authorities try to influence content. However, with paid news getting acceptance, self-regulation has failed at least in respect of separating news and views from advertisements. Only the Editors Guild is feebly speaking against paid news and none of the publishers seems to mind them.
So, it is time that the Parliament stepped in. It should pass legislation that makes it mandatory for the news organisations to label their content– as news, views, advertorial or plain advertisement. If makers of food, drugs and other items should indicate the content of their products on the label, it is only appropriate that the publishers are also forced to do so.
Editors should label their product
Several publishers now see their newspapers and periodicals as a commodity. Past norms are being altered to increase revenue and stay competitive. If they are indeed products, laws that apply to consumer products should apply to newspapers and periodicals also.
Politicians and others used to purchase reporters, often ‘cheaply’. Politicians who embezzle crores of rupees from the exchequer could befriend journalists by throwing them a party or giving them minor gifts like a pen. Some reporters were also known to demand gifts from business houses and others seeking publicity. Politician are businessmen used to have not much access to editors as they functioned from offices. So, they served as gatekeepers.
Now, business houses have found access to the editors either directly or through their advertisement departments. News items are being paid for directly or indirectly. Most editors and publishers have succumbed to the lure of money that they brought. Some even charged for election coverage.
Journalists have often claimed that self-regulation was the best for them and their publications. This had justification when free expression was being threatened by authorities, and the argument may still valid when the authorities try to influence content. However, with paid news getting acceptance, self-regulation has failed at least in respect of separating news and views from advertisements. Only the Editors Guild is feebly speaking against ‘paid news’ and none of the publishers seems to mind them.
So, it is time that the Parliament stepped in. It should pass legislation that makes it mandatory for the news organisations to label their content– as news, views, advertorial or plain advertisement. If makers of food, drugs and other items should indicate the content of their products on the label, it is only appropriate that the publishers are also forced to do so.
I’m once again turning my world up side down, put my self in a situation where I have to learn a new culture and language. To learn Spanish is certainly going to be a big challenge for me. Thinking about how it is going to be once I’m there. A lot of thoughts are going true my head. Trying to gather information. I’m getting other peoples view’s and ideas. But they have their perspective or glasses, so, a lot of times the information is contradicting. Leading to a lot of confusion and miss conception. Together with my own imagination, I’m getting some type of image of how it is going to be once I’m there. But, whatever I imagine before I’m going, it’s going to be different once I’m there. That’s the beauty of traveling, I have to make up my own mind, see it my self. If I know every thing, why even bother getting on the plane. I have previously been volunteering in India for nine month. What ever I thought before I went there, it was very, very different being there. My view of India is certainly different from others who has been there. It’s not a bad thing, just an obvious observation, that’s to often is forgotten or overseen.
Today, I read a newspaper article a girl from my hometown writing about South America, while she is traveling alone there. She pointed out that South America has a undeserved bad reputation in Europe. Almost every one I meet that hasn’t been in South America is concerned about safety and thinks it is dangerous, to dangerous. Every one I meet that has been there says, you are going to have an awesome time. The conversation starts in a completely different way. Their thoughts on safety is, be street smart, think, ask locals and you will be fine. There has never been easier to travel, and information is a Google or Wikipedia search away. But how much do we know about the world? How much is guessing, outdated knowledge or preconceptions? Ask your self, what do I actually know about a continent that you haven’t been to? The idea of knowing more then we/you actually do is the core of preconceptions. Creating problems that are harder to address and deal with, then just not knowing and realizing it.
Any issues in thighs points to transition in our lives.
A patient had pain from thigh to knee on the left side of his body for nearly three months. Neuron medicines had no effect on the pain. I asked him whether he is planning to change to different business, from the traditional profession he is doing currently – selling stationery.
He said, “Yes. I am also confused about my decision. My wife says that with the earnings from our traditional business alone, my father could perform the marriage of his three daughters. Why should I leave that? Though I want to do a different business, my wife’s words put a brake to my action”.
I told him that his body also says so, “Why do you want to change to a new profession? Keep your hand on the left knee and affirm that I will continue to do my father’s business”. He did. And to his surprise his pain went off while he was affirming!
India V Sri Lanka 4th Odi Live Streaming December 24, 2009
Watch Live Cricket Match: India vs Sri Lanka 4th ODI Live Streaming Match. The ODI series between India and Sri Lanka has been a treat so far. Srilankan’s invaded India in hunt for some victory but so far Men in Blue have proved that defeating them on their soil is a tough job.
Watch India vs Sri Lanka 4th ODI Live Streaming Match
Studded with spectacular cricket and breathtaking moments, the series now stands 2-1 in the favor ofIndia. While Sri Lanka has been in good form and has shown great resilience and team spirit, India has managed to just get the better of them.
The opening game saw emotions running high, with both teams scoring well over 400. India managed to win that one, but the next match was won convincingly by Sri Lanka, leveling the series at 1-1. Just when the critics were fuming about the dismal performance India had put, the men in blue bounced back in a way that left the Sri Lankans gaping, smashing their way to victory. Of course the modest target of 240 did little to help the Sri Lankans.
The oncoming 4th ODI on the 24th December has set the bar higher for the Sri Lankans, who are still looking for the silver bullet. On the other hand, the Indian lineup looks ominous, with Sehwag and Tendulkar currently being in immaculate form. Sachin did miss a century in the third ODI, but that is all the more reason for the Sri Lankans to worry!
India vs Sri Lanka 4th ODI Live Score, Streaming, Eden Gardens Kolkata
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The Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA) is likely to permit banks to sell insurance products of more than one company.
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The move will allow banks to retail insurance products and not just be distributor for one insurer.
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A panel, set up by the IRDA to look into bancassurance, is finalizing its report, an IRDA official said.
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From 2002, IRDA had allowed bancassurance.
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A bank was allowed to act as an agent for only one life and one general insurer according to the norms.
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Bancassurance is a delivery channel in which an insurance company uses a bank’’s sales channel to sell its products.
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At present, bancassurance garners more than a quarter of the entire premium collected by the insurance industry.
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Combining scheduled commercial banks, co-operative banks and regional rural development banks, India has close to 1,70,000 bank branches.
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IRDA has been concerned about tie-ups between banks and insurance companies and is considering a regulatory framework for an open architecture for such arrangements
My husband has accepted a position as the Assistant Managing Director of operations for Rising Star Outreach for their facilities. On January 17th we will be moving to India to live on campus, where they currently house and educate 175+ children, many whose families are affected by leprosy.
Please watch the video below to see more about our mission at Rising Star Outreach. Then won’t you make a Christmas donation to help these sweet children? See the Christmas Wish List to view needed items, some as little as $5.
Please make a donation today, and contribute to making the world a better place.
Who remembers TGIF?? What was your favorite show? I was a Full House fan all the way.
Minor complaint time.
I normally live for Fridays. Though I’m up at the crack of dawn preparing for the slew of conference calls we usually have on Fridays, I’m doing so in my sweats from my beloved white armchair in my family room, curled up with my laptop with the fire roaring and a cup of tea at hand. The mornings are frantic, the afternoons spent wrapping up activities from the week, and the weekend begins around 4:00 p.m. when Dr. P opens a good bottle of red.
Sounds pretty sweet, right?
Then I came to India…
After a night of restless sleep (I have major snooze issues in India) and hitting the snooze for about an hour, I reach for the iPhone and turn off the alarm and check my e-mail. Naturally, about 50 or so have piled up in my inbox while I tossed and turned. After scanning through them all (and replying to one or two), briefly checking Facebook and Twitter, I drag myself from bed, go through my morning routine, throw on the closest and cleanest salwaar kameez, and hungrily reached for the strong cup of coffee my aunt lovingly prepares for me every morning. After my coffee and a light breakfast of toast or pongaralu (pan-fried idly, my aunt’s delicious concoction), I plod down the stairs to the car and attempt to stay awake during the 5-minute drive to work.
Once arriving at TD, I trudge up the stairs and into the office, and sit as our driver brings up my work tote (a battle of wills I have recently surrendered). I putz around the Internet after booting up the computer, checking my Gmail, read the latest on my favorite blogs, and scan through the Google Alerts sitting in my inbox as I wait for my coffee to kick in. I forward the interesting articles and delete the rest and get to work responding to the e-mails sent overnight.
The rest of the morning is a blur, firing off e-mails, updating project tracking sheets, scheduling and participating in meetings, and staying awake with a steady stream of green tea. I head home around 1:00 for a home-cooked lunch prepared by my aunt(s), and after vegging for a bit return back to the office.
The afternoon is much like the morning though at a slightly slower pace, with the exhaustion from the week and the food coma settling in from lunch. One would think I would welcome heading home at 5:30, throwing on my beloved yoga pants and a soft J.Crew tee, and relaxing with the latest episode of Fringe/The Good Wife/Mad Men/Glee from my iTunes season pass, ready to welcome the weekend…
Yeah, not so much.
Those Friday morning conference calls in the States become Friday night calls here in India. Wrapping up around 10:30, I follow-up with meeting minutes and assigned action items after the calls, eyelids drooping and my fingers slowing down over the keyboard. What would normally take me an hour takes two, and by the time I actually crawl into bed to sleep, my brain is still running at full speed and I toss and turn, willing my exhausted self to fall asleep.
And then I wake up, and do it all again (minus the teleconferences).
“You would hate this to, if it happened to yoooooooooooooooou.” (sing to “It’s My Party”, I promise it makes sense).
Hats off to the India team, who do this every other weekend regularly. I can barely handle it for 5 weeks.
‘Chanting of the Lord’s name makes one fearless and sinless. Anyone who does Japa regularly is sure to succeed in all endeavours.’
The Lord’s name and mantra-japa are very powerful. Even scientists have now accepted this fact. When Taradevi, a famous singer of Bengal, played some classical notes on her musical instrument while rhythmically chanting verses from the Vedas, some decent forms appeared in the sand! When she sang Raga Bhairav in perfect harmony, with her eyes concentrated on the sand, first the form of a dog appeared and later it was transformed into the form of Bhairav a tutelary deity of Tantriks.
Even people in foreign countries are surprised to learn that words have such a natural and scientific relationship with figures. Now Dr. Liver Lizeria, Watts Haque, Madam Longo along with some other scientists have come to accept that uttering Hrim, Hari, Aum and other such words has a potent and positive effect on various parts of the body. After an extensive study that spanned over 17 years, they have found that when Hari is pronounced in combination with Aum i.e. ‘Hari Aum’, it has a beneficial impact on all five sense organs. It was also discovered that even childless couples can have children with the help of mantras. But our ancient Rishis had documented in the scriptures far more extensive information on this subject tens of thousands of years ago.
Chanting of the Lord’s name has a beneficial impact not only on the gross body, but also on all the five sheaths of the body (food-made, that is the physical body, vital or the life force, mind, intellect and bliss) along with all the Nadis and seven Chakras.
Regular practice of japa improves immunity, intellect, intuition, memory and valour. Saraswatya mantra, named after the goddess of learning Maa Saraswati, makes the intellect sharper and enhances memory. During summer vacation, or for that matter during any vacation, children should make use of the opportunity to do an Anushthana (a specified number of Japa at fixed timings for a stipulated period) of Saraswatya mantra and gain maximum benefits.
In the olden days the Gurukul system, apart from imparting lessons on worldly knowledge to students, had in its curriculum some well-devised techniques to awaken their latent powers. That is why the student of a Gurukul never had to run from pillar to post in search of a job. For he would be successful in whatever endeavour he tried his hands at. Today so many young people are seen making rounds at different recruitment boards and job agencies with their degrees and certificates in hand, but they are unable to get a job. And even after getting a job there is no respite at all, for then they are constantly concerned about their promotions, transfers or lay-offs.
If the students of the present era come to realize this reality and take refuge in the holy feet of an Enlightened Saint, they too can awaken their latent powers even today. Not only will they be able to improve their own life, but they will also become instrumental in uplifting the lives of many others.
I saw one of my favorite TV programm weekly..Today’s topic is about child labour.
There are over 2 milions of children who work in the world…1 out of 6 children working under the forcing severe conditions. They don’t go to school, they work for more than 8 hours without resting, not given proper foods & education. There are half of population of children in the world working for wages only under $2 per a day. Generally, the rate of child labour is higher where incomes are low. Because children can’t go to school due to works, thus they can’t read or write. When they are grow up and become adults, they won’t hire for good wages and can’t emerge from poverty. Of course there is also exceptional and this is only example. Not all children aren’t like that. Why do they do labour? Because his/her is poor and need to support the family thus parents sell thier children. Most of parent aren’t educated as well as so, parent doesn’t understand why children need to go to school but they should work.
At 70% of most common child labour is agriculture…One example is in Egypt. They wake up at 1 oclock in the morning to pick up Jasmine because to get highest quality of perfum, it should have good humidity time to pick them up at night . In India, there are many children working at a carpet factory, children are used “because they have a good at it and useful”, however, this is only believed the veiw point from buyers… The children work from morning til night everyday same as adults. A boy Binodai sold for 300 rupy ($6) by his parent, some children kidnapped. Thier foods are always unhygenic thus everytime those children are sick and having diarrhrea. They have not given any medicine whatso ever conditions. They always wear same clothes adn dirty… Next is in a surburb of Guatemara city, in Guatemara, South America, they work at fireworks manifacture factory with doesnt say proper factory like in a hut when they turn to 6 or 7 years olds. They work without any safety for 10 hours. Rennee ahe 9 years old boy says ” My back ache after working for 2 hours. Masa, 6 had severe burning at all her bodyes while she worked and had explored it.
One of the guest a lady asked ” Is it possible to diminish these child labours? And the vice-president answered; ” ILO strives to abolish to prevent of ”labours of health development obstruction” “labours of denger” and “debt labours” from the worst dengerous by 2016.” The presenter asks ” What is the debt labours? ” The lady said “ Employer knows that parents are very poor and emploer lend money on interest to the parents which the ammount parents can’t repay a lot. The reason for the debt, children needs to work.
Look at India again, the area is called Siarkot ( I do not know exact spelling), children of 3000 works there. Asif is a 12 years old boy who has been working there for 4 years.
” I was scared to see people who had blood while they were working and I wanted to quit the job but I can’t stop this job because I still have the debt for parents.”
This boy’s prarent have a debt for $830, the boy makes about 150 of medical apparatus to repay for a day. However, he only can get $9 per day. Other place, in Filozaroad area children works at glass factory about 200oo kids. They work to weld glass bralets from eary morning at 4 am till evening with thier parents. The room is small and always percade poisonous smoke in the room which children become sick like pneumonia, bronchitis, and tuberculosis.
One of the biggest problem is a case for maids of children. ILO have difficuties to investgate into the actual conditions of those young children. Many people may imagine that maids works at rich house but actually not..poor family hire poor family…Those children work with condition as free of foods and staying ..without not much of wages…some girls/boys gets violences or sexual harrasments. In 1993, one of the american assembly member submiitted the idea of law which is ” we don’t import any goods which those children made” , then one of the close factory in Bangladesh had panicked and the employer dismissal all children suddently. The result of those became more harder after this. Some girls needed to be prositution or works more harder than previous job.
There is a successgul stories too. Making succer balls helped Pakistani children!
ILO (InternationalLabour Organization) is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in handling work-related issues. (reffered ILO)
Many goverment tries to work out this problesm but it just takes long time processes…
I remember this video at my old blog and deleted it once. Now I think it is time to share this right now. This boy is from Yemen 12 years old Jamar who work for all day without going to school…Even he works, he still has a hope to be a doctor or a pilot oneday.
My high school friends – Hepzibah and two previously umentioned ones, Rachel and Sarah – went to India the year after we graduated and lived there for a while, working at an orphanage and sending me hilarious e-mails. One of my favorite e-mails I ever received was from Rachel, right after she got to India. It said, basically, “People keep trying to sell me whips. Why do they think I want whips? That are seven feet long? Do I look like that kind of girl? The kind of girl who wants to do kinky things to people seven feet away from me?”
It was great. (It was especially great because the next year, when she was in college, she one day walked into her dorm room and discovered a whip she had never seen before leaning against her wall. BECAUSE IT WAS HER DESTINY.)
So I went to India thinking that people would also try to sell me whips. Which didn’t happen. (I apparently do not look like that kind of girl.) Whips were, however, still a presence, because of the Whip Guys. (Not to be confused with the Blanket Guys.) The Whip Guys would wander the streets, carrying seven-foot-long whips that looked like they were made out of live snakes, and periodically whipping themselves. And then, after they whipped themselves, they would ask for money.
I wouldn’t give them money – I very rarely pay to see people whip themselves (unless it’s a holiday) – but apparently, this was a bad call. I heard later – although I can’t confirm; I’ve spent some sad, unsuccessful time on Wikipedia researching this phenomenon – that these dudes are eunuchs, and have huge religious significance. If you don’t give them money, it makes you cursed to five years of celibacy. So that… is hopefully not true.
But yeah! Eunuchs! Whips! Curses! What a party. I would end this better but I’m going to go make cookies instead.
INS (Hansa) Goa: In the final phase of its tests before formal commissioning, India’s indigenous light combat aircraft Tejas went past its ultimate speed of 1,350 KMPH over the Goa skies and clocked the fastest speed ever, a top IAF officer said on Tuesday.
“The aircraft went past its ultimate speed of 1350 kmph on December 7 over the skies in Goa after take off from the naval air station INS Hansa,” Commander Rohit Varma, project director (flight test), National flight test centre, told reporters here.
“This is the fastest speed ever achieved by an Indian- made fighter aircraft,” he said.
The aircraft also passed flight flutter test diving from an altitude of four kilometers to almost sea level at 900 feet.
“Tejas has already passed high-altitude tests in Leh, the desert rigours in Rajasthan and now it has proved its worth over the maritime space in Goa,” Varma said.
The IAF has already ordered 20 LCAs from HAL at a contract worth Rs 2701.70 crore. The fighters are to be delivered by 2013.
The LCA, a project of aeronautical development agency (ADA) is the first supersonic fighter craft manufactured indigenously by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
The aircraft will have naval and Indian air force version, of which the latter is undergoing testing at Goa naval base.
“It can fly from a base and also from an aircraft carrier,” P S Subramanyam, Programme Director (Combat aircraft) and director, ADA, said.
The officials confirmed that the naval version of the aircraft would be attached to aircraft carrier Gorshkov once the aircraft is inducted for operations.
Subramanyam said the LCA-naval will have capability to take off from ski jump platform of aircraft carriers. “The development of the naval version is progressing very fast.
There are few glitches but we will overcome them.” The IAF is likely to base the lightweight multi-role jet fighters at Sulur in Coimbatore. “They are earmarked for squadron no 45, which will be the first LCA squadron,” Varma said.
The HAL has manufactured four aircraft which are being put under rigorous testing by fighter pilots.
Varma said a team led by Captain Jaydeep Malawankar was testing the aircraft before their induction into the defence force.
Air vice Marshal Shankar Mani told reporters that the first consignment of four aircraft would be delivered by January 2011, followed by eight aircraft in 2012 and another eight in 2013.
Only in India will you see ‘only’ as emphasis at the end of a sentence. This is one thing that the rest of the world will never get only. We are a quirky lot that way. Seriously, you will freak out if we told you how much we look forward to freaking out. A man can tell his wife he’s stepping out to catch a fag – or that he’d like to make a quick stop at the booth for an STD – and she won’t bat an eyelid.
It’s all been a part of our growing up. We give tests at the time we should be taking them, and we spend hours mugging in their preparation. Yes, in India, mugging is something only “good students” do. Unfortunately, it won’t help them when they’re being mugged by the “bad students.” One thing I guarantee you, however: whether you’re in India or in the US, mugging will almost always be followed by an eventful passing out.
An Indian student I know was perplexed when his friend asked him for a rubber to uh, “do” what he had to do. Understandably so. It’s counter-intuitive for an Indian to imagine how a rubber could be used to do, when its purpose – as we’ve always known it – is to in fact, undo. You could well argue that a rubber used for prevention is better than one used for cure – but come on now, don’t you wish rubbers in the US could do the magic that Indian rubbers do – erase your mistakes?
Unlike your Lady fingers, you don’t want to discover our Lady fingers in a sinfully delectable Tiramisu – unless Tiramisu to you is Gumbo. In any case, our vegetarianism isn’t just limited to Gumbos – even our jokes could be veg. or non-veg. We will ask you for your goodname, and introduce ourselves as “Myself, Goodname Surname.” We will be very eager to meet you – because you Goras are much cooler than us Indians (or at least so we all believe). In fact, we will even go so far as to do jugaad, take the long-cut, travel out of station, and even bring along a tiffin for you. And in case we cannot contain our excitement for too long, we might just ask to prepone our meeting.
Well, by now you must think we have mangled the English language beyond recognition. But alas, even when it comes to doing something wrong, we don’t quite get it right – Indian English is considered one of the official and recognized dialects of English. Most, if not all terms above have legal usage. No apologies, we’re Indian – and so is our English. What to do? We are like that only!
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Afterthought: I have a theory Indians invented the mathematical postfix notaion “za”. As in, “two one za two; two two za four.” Unfortunately, some ignorant killjoy told me that it is actually “two ones are two; two twos are four.” I shall reserve my verdict till the fact has been verified. What a shame!
ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2009) — Approximately 20 percent of dialysis patients undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedure such as angioplasty) are given an antithrombotic medication they should not receive, which may increase their risk for in-hospital bleeding, according to a study in the December 9 issue of JAMA.
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“In the United States, medication errors are implicated in more than 100,000 deaths annually. Medication errors include adverse drug reactions related to inappropriately prescribed or administered drugs. To minimize inappropriate medication use, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guides pharmaceutical manufacturers and clinicians through drug labeling of which medications are contraindicated or not recommended for use in specific patient groups,” the authors write. “Little is known about the use of such medications and their effects on outcomes in clinical practice.”
Thomas T. Tsai, M.D., M.Sc., of the Denver VA Medical Center and University of Colorado Denver, and colleagues examined the use of the contraindicated/not-recommended antithrombotic agents enoxaparin and eptifibatide among dialysis patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and their association with outcomes. The researchers used data from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) from 829 U.S. hospitals on 22,778 dialysis patients who underwent PCI between Jan. 2004 and August 2008. The study focused on the outcomes of in-hospital bleeding and death.
The researchers found that overall, 5,084 patients (22.3 percent) received a contraindicated antithrombotic medication; 2,375 (46.7 percent) received enoxaparin, 3,261 (64.1 percent) received eptifibatide, and 552 (10.9 percent) received both. In unadjusted analysis, patients who received contraindicated antithrombotics experienced higher rates of in-hospital major bleeding (5.6 percent vs. 2.9 percent) and death (6.5 percent vs. 3.9 percent). Further analysis indicated that receipt of contraindicated antithrombotics was significantly associated with increased in-hospital major bleeding, but no significant association was found with in-hospital death.
“This study therefore demonstrates that these medications are used in clinical practice despite FDA-directed labeling, and their use is associated with adverse patient outcomes,” the authors write.
“Educational efforts targeting clinicians who prescribe these medications and quality improvement interventions, such as amending clinical pathway order sets to include consideration of renal function, are urgently needed.”
It’s 11pm. I’m traveling alone by rickshaw back to my Mumbai apartment following dinner in a back-water restaurant with friends. The auto driver asks me if I’m enjoying India, I say; “very much”. He asks where I am from, I say; “Australia”. There is a pause … “It’s very bad what’s happening to the students there”.
Thus begins the next round of a conversation I’ve been drawn into many times – by rickshaw drivers, friends, students, colleagues …
They are referring to the racially-fuelled attacks on Indian students that occurred in Sydney and Melbourne and head-lined Indian media earlier this year. Before these attacks, I would instead expect to spar in a conversation on the recent prowess of either Australia’s or India’s cricket team.
It would appear potential conversation starters are extremely limited.
Over the last few decades, Australia’s sights have been firmly set on the gains of a strong relationship with countries in East Asia such as China, Japan and Indonesia. So it’s no small wonder that India and Australia have so little common ground. Maybe it’s time to broaden our reach and consider the wealth of advantages available from forging stronger ties with India. And in the process, improve our positioning amongst the wider Indian population.
My opinion is not that we should simply address Australia’s image in India (although we should), it is that there are very strong grounds for a relationship between our two countries.
Australia’s approach needs to be multi-pronged; spanning economics, migration and tourism. To start with, data on our countries reveals some useful insights;
Australia’s exports to India have risen at an annual average of more than 30% for the last 3 years and India is our 4th largest export market for goods and services (DIISR).
India is the world’s 5th largest consumer of energy and consumption is rising at one of the fastest rates in the world (CFR). A point of interest considering our supply to the energy commodities market.
40% of Indian’s population is under the age of 15 (World Bank). This represents a huge human talent market when we face challenges of skill supply in many core industries.
63,731 Indian students commenced studies in Australia in 2009 (to October-end). That’s 19% of overall commencements, second only to China (AEI).
India is one of the fastest growing outbound tourism markets and has grown despite a downturn globally (UNWTO).
Data alone, it looks like there is potential for mutual benefit in forging better cooperation between India and Australia. But there is also something that cannot easily be quantified, but is infinitely important. We should be outraged – OUTRAGED – for our country to have a racist image in any part of the world. It is imperative for Australia to address this, but not this alone.
To be serious about impactful engagement with India, our strategies need to be connected to our foreign policy generally, our involvement with Asia specifically, and connected to domestic initiatives.
Cooperating further with India should be part of an overall strategy of engaging with Asia, in fact, it should be part of an overall long-term foreign policy plan. This should be a bi-partisan plan that defines the growth of Australia’s cooperative partnerships strategically and outlines a conscious connection to forums we participate in and hold over the next 20-30years.
We need to work on regional institutions being comprehensive in their scope and membership. After many years of talking about a power-change from “West to East”, it would seem emerging and influential economic powerhouses in Asia are bringing the pendulum shift. This means a change in dynamic of global discussions is probably not far behind and, in the words of Paul Keating, “we will be looking at some concert of powers in the Pacific and Indian Oceans”. Australia should ensure that the voices of the countries in our region echo with the needs of the region, including our own, through a common comprehensive platform to outline those priorities.
To further access the growing tourist and student market, Australia should have a campaign specifically designed to attract visitors from India. This should be combined with an effort to attract longer-term visits from skilled employees. However, this initial effort needs to be more pro-active. Only 11% of India’s working-age population is educated at a tertiary level (World Bank India). To truly access benefits of the Indian labour market, we should be active contributors to the education of young people in India, invest in attracting these students to study in Australia, and therefore ensure our universities are of an internationally competitive quality.
We need to educate our country, and specifically our young people, on what it means to be truly multi-cultural. This is an excellent opportunity as we develop a national curriculum; how is Australia practically preparing our young people, through our educational institutions, for not just an increasingly multi-cultural country, but an increasingly culturally and linguistically dynamic world?
Australia’s partnerships in East Asia are a good example of how policy and action can lead to new partnerships the rest of the world is yet to consider. It is with this spirit, and in light of the potential, that Australia needs to act on building further ties with India.
To do this, we need to remake our image first. I will not forget the conversation I recounted earlier; being confronted with an image of racism in Australia I did not recognise. India will not forget the stories of their students; being confronted with racism they did not expect. And neither should we. We should not stand for it. We should nurture and promote the multi-cultural Australia we really are.
This is Australia’s time to build a powerful partnership with, and positive image within, India.
We should seek out partnership with current and future global leaders. We should not be observers, we should be architectures of tomorrow. To be on the sidelines is to stagnate, to lead is to be part of the future. Where do we want to belong?
Belgium 4 v 3 China 2009-12-06 14:05
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New Zealand 2 v 2 India 2009-12-06 16:05
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Pool B
Pakistan 2 v 1 Canada HT 2-0 | 2009-12-06 12:05
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Argentina 6 v 2 South Africa HT 4-1 | 2009-12-06 18:05
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Argentina took full advantage of home turf with an easy victory while in the same group Canada came back from 2-0 down at half time but could not find the late equaliser. Belgium just got the better of China in a 7 goal thriller, and New Zealand also came from behind at half time but thes did manage to tie the game with India.
Editors Note: This is a follow on to two previous blogs and a developing story.
For those of you new to this, please read the first two installments at:
Part I
Part II
The reason I am sending you to another wormhole in cyberspace for these two articles, when the first of the two appears on this site, is for you to see something else.
DISCRIMINATION. Particularly against women and those with disabilities and how unfounded such attitudes are, how our continued mistreatment, even by Obama, unfortunately, leads to this kind of thing, and why I am determined to make sure that I both get a meeting with him and that this kind of thing stops.
There is nothing like seeing for yourself to believe. And the kind of comments I got, particularly on the first Part above are almost unbelievable. Then again, this whole situation is. And again something I blame on Obama, for reasons you will understand when you read the next parts of the developing story….something that nobody else has caught. This is a serious and breaking news story about Presidential lawbreaking that it appears Congress is trying to cover up and none of the media outlets have caught.
Not bad for a, in the words of Mr. Summers’ Mr. Obama’s chief economic advisor, “biologically inferior” GIMP. And in addition to that proposal that has sat in the White House for way too long, more than enough reason for a meeting in the Oval Office Pronto. Otherwise, there will be more to follow. Because Mr. Obama is pretty sexist himself. And shows no respect for white women in their thirties and forties, to the extent that his goons have already beaten me up, his administration refuses to investigate, his White House refuses to return my calls on a very good jobs and clean energy proposal and THERE ARE NO WHITE WOMEN AT ALL IN THEIR THIRTIES OR FORTIES AT ANY POWERFUL POSITION IN THIS ADMINISTRATION, EITHER IN THE WHITE HOUSE OR HEADING UP A CABINET POSITION.
AND THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE. IT IS CALLED DIVERSITY. THEN AGAIN, AS YOU READ THIS STORY, YOU WILL SEE THAT MR. OBAMA’S BEHAVIOR IS A LITTLE LESS THAN PRESIDENTIAL. IF NOT IMMATURE. AND ILLEGAL. THIS IS JUST ONE STORY. THERE ARE MANY MORE.
This is the first of a series of this part of the action.
This is a follow up to the last blog I wrote on the topic of the supposed “break in” or um “lapse of security” or “failure of the secret service” or whatever bullshit du jour the “authorities” and “official sources” and unfortunately the mainstream media are too ever since that stupid distraction and soap opera occurred, are calling this charade not to mention the issue of “terrorist threats,” “threats to the president” and basically the entire pile of manure that surrounds this whole event that is, to use a phrase that I’m stealing from myself, but is absolutely appropriate here, so high, wide and deep that you can forget looking for the pony, ‘cause it died long ago.
Just from the stench of corruption surrounding this odiferous crap.
Not to mention the actual events of the night itself and why they were arranged. Not to mention the ensuing “scandal” which was too. And why.
The reason I’m writing this is because I have even more proof that what I wrote is true.
I now have additional proof that what I posted is true. And now I’m going to tell you what that is, for several reasons, because I am really sick and tired of what is going on, and I am going to stop it.
I am also doing what I am doing to teach people, both in government and the average American a few lessons. Including you Big Brother over there at Spook Central (NSC/CIA/FBI and whatever other unimaginative, unpronounceable acronyms you bozos make up for the security state that nobody can even remember, much less understand) and Orwell Tree House (The Department of Homeland Security) who can go kiss my ass.
And you know what; you guys over at the White House can do that too. Not to mention ANYBODY IN GOVERNMENT, official or otherwise, who fucks with me over this. Or anything else for that matter. Except to start checking the President’s calendar for a meeting date.
Because I know Big Brother, among others, you are reading this too. And if you care to show up at my door again, or any other government thugs, official or unofficial, all you are going to get, if I bother to answer my door at all, that is, is my middle finger in your face, if not my garbage pail contents thrown out my window on your heads and a string of invectives that is going to make that little twit Rambo look like a learning disabled three year old when it comes to using profanity (and I have far more respect for learning disabled three year olds than the other asshole bully for several reasons including their IQ, and morals) and trust me, I can out cuss that immoral fuck and bully in the White House, who does not intimidate me in the slightest, and when it comes to imaginative but very insulting, highly sophisticated, completely appropriate, extremely embarrassing and colorful profanity, huh, he’s in Kindergarten compared to me. Among many other things. And language I have every right to use. Per some crazy thing called the law. Not to mention, if he uses it, I can use it too. See Title XII.
And if that confrontation happens, I will BE TAPING IT. ON DIGITAL VIDEO SO IT WILL GO INSTANTLY VIRAL. ASAP.
That if you would like to object to, on any stupid but you think clever or what is that word you dickheads like to use – “Unprecedented” – charge, is going to land you in a fucking Title XII, disabilities (both Rehab Act and/or ADA and 1991 Civil Rights Act) Hate Crimes and every other law I can throw at you, not to mention Constitutional law suit so fucking fast your heads are going to spin like a top. And don’t even mention “NATIONAL SECURITY SECRET VIOLATION” YOU TURDS.
Because you don’t have a leg to stand on.
Even a prosthetic one.
Much less a wheelchair….and yes, I am making references to those with disabilities for a reason and not in a nasty or disrespectful way TO THEM, but to the fucks who are doing nothing about the issue (I.E. OUR NATIONAL LEADERS STARTING WITH OBAMA AND THE MISSUS, NOT TO MENTION CONGRESS) which you readers will understand in a sec, if you keep reading.
Capiche?
For those who don’t understand or think I’m being paranoid, even after you have completely read this blog and all of the attached blog posts (there are two other very important links you have to read to understand this especially if you have not been following the soap opera), I guarantee you, you will not think that way when I am done.
You see I had set a few, uh, “rat traps” to be consistent with my original analogies in that original story that I knew the ding dongs who I would be sending this too would probably set off and never even think to look for, much less, uh, “defuse the bomb”. For reasons they would never catch or think I was too stupid to set. And therefore trip.
Yes, I call myself Gimp Godzilla as a joke, but maybe Gimp Velociraptor would be more appropriate in this case. Although I don’t plan on going extinct any time soon. But trust me, just like in “Jurassic Park,” when I’m on the hunt for my prey, you will never see me coming. And the uh, “attack” figuratively speaking will come from the direction least expected.
I may be a pacifist by choice. But I do know how to be a predator. That is the difference between being a moral human being with a sense of justice and committed to perpetuating it FOR EVERYONE and acting like a selfish solipsistic asshole.
See Exhibit A in the Oval Office for a perfect example of the latter.
But I knew that this was going to work because of the rampant discrimination against women and PWDs in our society, not to mention the disdain in general the political elite have for the hoi polloi. And because they don’t want this leaking. Blogs can be stripped from websites and blocked from channels in cyberspace too. Just as well as pictures or stories can be blocked from websites. Just like, for example, the British version of the BBC website was not available outside the country via the internet during key primaries in the U.S. last year. How do I know that? I checked. For a reason. I had some suspicions and still do about what the fuck is going on under the cover of FISA. And trust me, when I write the blog that I’m going to about what I know about that, you will jump under the fucking bedclothes.
But why do you think that the BBC would block its own internal reporting from Americans trying to find out what the British were reporting internally during our own election, do you think? And yes, the sites are different. Go look them up.
But that kind of censorship has been going on for years. Even before 9/11, Reuters, for example, would only send certain video feeds and news feeds to certain countries and block feeds deliberately from going to others. How do I know that?
Because I fucking worked for them. Did I ever sign a nondisclosure? No. Did I ever tell them that I worked for the ACLU? No. Of course not. They never asked. And even if I had, they were too stupid or had no morals of their own to know, because of course I never said anything, that this kind of censorship is WRONG.
So people WAKE THE FUCK UP. YOU ARE BEING LIED TO. AND FUCKED WITHOUT THE LUBE.
And yes I’m using very graphic language, but I need to get this through your heads. And, according to the latest studies in psychology and psychiatry, profanity gets people’s attention VERY FUCKING FAST. So I’m not trying to offend you. I am trying to educate you, save you, and WAKE YOU UP.
But back to our traps. Of course they weren’t suspecting them. So they tripped them. Thus exposing their two inch, if that long, dicks in public. And yes, that was meant to be a sexist insult, but a funny one, and certainly one they deserve. You know, there are always substitutes that work just as well. And if I can use them on you boys, as I do very handily and am often begged to, you can use them on me.
Ooops did I just say that?
Yes I did.
I hope you are laughing. That was a comic moment. You need them in these kinds of things. Because this is a very scary story. But now back to it.
Our government and our country, treat women like shit. I mean look at who is in our government and how they treat just women, let alone gimps. Unless you are a gazillionaire and even then, Mrs. Clinton (who I am no fan of but for the first time in my life felt sorry for when this happened during the campaign last year) for example had to endure having her daughter basically called a prostitute on mainstream, national TV.
Despite the crap the anchor, not to mention the network tried to use to justify its or even that asshole reporter’s actions, I would have had the head of the network’s balls on a platter.
And served for lunch the next day, au jus.
And FIRED that reporter.
I mean who the hell does he think he is? Whether it is Chelsea Clinton or some unknown woman from the projects, you DO NOT say those things about women on MAINSTREAM TV.
Or ANYWHERE for that matter.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE MALE ASSHOLES RUNNING THE NETWORKS? NOT TO MENTION THE MALE ASSHOLE REPORTERS? THE ONLY ONES HIRED TO POLITICAL COVERAGE BEATS.
And if you don’t believe me, name one female political reporter in her thirties or forties, who does.
You can’t. Because there aren’t any. We are, to quote Larry Summers, biologically inferior of doing so, apparently.
What century are we in again?
You know that I’m joking and I’m not Hannibal Lector, but I would have been far firmer than Hillary Clinton was, is the point of the above. Women are far too used to taking too much shit. And then take their frustration out on each other.
I am someone who HAS NEVER TAKEN IT. FROM ANYONE. A blog story for another day. But I suggest that American women start to learn that same fucking attitude.
Those bastards at the network are just lucky Mrs. Clinton isn’t me.
But Obama is no better, despite signing a piece of paper. BFD.
According to Mr. Summers, Mr. Obama’s head economic advisor, women are “biologically inferior” and not capable of apparently anything except breathing and breeding. Despite this, Mr. Obama decided that Mr. Summers, naturally, was the best candidate for the job, despite his incestuous relationships with Wall Street, not to mention his previous um “fulltime” employer, if you can call showing up for work one day a week a full time job (although at a salary that was quite impressive I have to say of $1.5 Million for that day of work) plus HUGE consulting fees on the side from other corrupt Wall Street perps, all of whom of course got bailed out with your money.
DE Shaw, Mr. Summer’s immediate ex-employer, and founded by a guy also from Mr. Obama’s undergraduate alma mater (gee, it gets more incestuous all the time, doesn’t it) that underpaying slave driver, don’t you think, FYI is the Quantiest of all quant firms in the known planet as well as a very successful hedge fund. And also very involved in things like cancer research (i.e. healthcare), housing, and cleantech. To the point that they invested in a HUGE offshore cleantech facility right off of what state, rather conveniently, right as Mr. Summer’s got his new job offer?
DELAWARE.
Which is significant why?
Because it is Mr. Biden’s home state. The VEEP.
Setting themselves up not only for another incestuous spot on a Presidential advisory board but for first dibs on a lot of YOUR money in very lucrative fields where the government is giving money away to its favorite people right now. In boatloads. Healthcare, cleantech, etc and ad nauseum.
And oh, yes, DE Shaw is also buying lots of repossessed homes on the cheap too, as soon as the homeowners the government couldn’t give a fuck about are barely beginning to stack the few belongings left them in boxes next to their bunk beds in small piles at their nearest homeless shelter. AND DON’T HIRE GIMPS.
Which as mentioned before in New York, thanks to such “brilliant” policies as Mr. Bloomberg’s, along with Mr. Donovan (who Mr. Obama picked for his new head of HUD so we can see some more of that “innovation in housing” nationally, are about as “brilliant” as those of Mr. Obama’s. And as I have mentioned before, it costs twice as much to be homeless in New York City, as to occupy a studio apartment in the cheapest part of the city, thanks to such “brilliance.” And, um “innovation.”
Does anyone else see any ethical or other say economic or logic problems here or am I the ONLY ONE?
Which also might explain some of the problems we’ve been having with Mr. Obama’s reluctance to do anything about reigning in Wall Street, implementing decent healthcare legislation, appointing a man to head Treasury who should be behind bars rather than behind the fucking desk at the head of Treasury (that would be little Timmy Turbo Tax) and does a lot of explaining about what is going so wrong right now with our economy and the absolutely inane if not stupid and immoral economic decisions this administration is making. If not all of them. About almost everything. And no, signing documents doesn’t matter. Neither does making token appointments.
Per that old fashioned Wendy’s ad “Where’s the FUCKING BEEF?”
Nonetheless Mr. Summers, who by the way also mentored Mr. Geithner, and along with Mr. Greenspan, destroyed the woman’s career who warned Mr. Greenspan in 1998/1999 about the danger of unregulated derivatives (for which they both wrecked her career right before they destroyed Glass Steagall, two of the most important reasons and causes for our economy going “boom’ last year with just as much force and destruction but which will cause far greater suffering for many more people GLOBALLY and last much longer than the damage of 9/11 ever did.
And this warning by the way, FROM A WOMAN, Brooksley Born (also the FIRST FEMALE LAW SCHOOL REVIEW EDITOR EVER AND FROM A PRESTIGIOUS LAW SCHOOL AT THAT…AND IN THE SIXTIES MR. OBAMA, you sexist asshole)…who of course, naturally don’t understand economics because we are so stupid and biologically inferior, per Summers, was BEFORE ENRON’s IMPLOSION, which was about exactly the same shit.
Oh, and one more thing. Mr. Summers was also fired from Harvard for those disgustingly sexist and Neanderthal comments about women too.
Nevertheless, Mr. Obama of course, being so much more brilliant than anyone else on the planet, according to him, naturally therefore, decided, that Mr. Summers would of course, be the best option to have as HIS numero uno economic advisor.
I personally see a great deal of “brilliance” in that decision, but not the kind I would ever share in public. It’s the kind that I routinely extrude in my toilet and flush down the commode when solid waste removal out of a certain orifice for biological functioning of my internal organs is necessary. Specifically the intestines and the bowel region of my anatomy.
If that is what we call “brilliance” in our elected leaders, I think Americans need to look up in a dictionary if necessary, if they do not understand the meaning of this next term: “shit for brains masquerading as genius instead.”
Nevertheless, back to the point. The current administration is so sexist, elitist, discriminatory and impressed with its own importance and significance, not to mention that everyone in it thinks that they are smarter than everyone else in America, that it thinks it could never be set up in its own rat trap.
Which is exactly what I set out for them along with catching them in the act, in that little story about the “White House Break in” Bullshit.
It’s not that the story is not true…it’s just that I added certain extra things to set those traps off.
Except the traps I set were things that were extremely sophisticated, not verbal, not necessarily visible at all, and there are more of them that I’m not going to mention, but I will tell you about the ones that have so far gone off as in “SNAP, SNAP, SNAP” to further lend cred to this story, to teach a few lessons, and to start to make America WAKE THE FUCK UP.
The first is that the fact that a story carrying a picture of the CEO of PepsiCo India would be automatically sponsored on the premiere feeder law site domestically, LAW.COM is interesting in and of itself because the story is very critical of the President and the Indian government does not want to damage a business or political relationship with America right now. Or vice versa. Despite the fact that they want nothing to do with our military activities next door.
It’s not the first time that one of my stories has been carried on Law.com. But the fact that it was sponsored by Pepsi was the issue. Law.com would never have carried that story otherwise. I did that deliberately. By using so much profanity that there is no way they would. Nor would Pepsi have sponsored it, certainly not Pepsi India, not only because of the colorful language I used, but also because they certainly would have gotten the cultural references I used also.
Which they, unlike Americans reading the story or apparently my blog posts, DO NOT UNDERSTAND. They are sophisticated multinational cultural references that require an education. That only very educated people will be able to interprete i.e. heads of state, senior members of the UN and people that I grew up with. And was educated to think that way from a very young age. Despite the ‘tude coming out of the White House and the way I was always treated in DC and for that matter New York about not having a fucking Ivy on my resume.
The reference I made to Mrs. Obama giving a children’s book, “The Jungle Book,” about a little Indian boy, who lived in the jungle among talking animals, would not (I certainly hope) be lost on either the Senior White House clowns (although you never do know given what they gave to Mr. Brown), certainly not Ms. Jarrett who hails from Imperial Iran under the American propped up Shah, (a horrifically brutal government also backed up by the CIA for American business interests) or the Indian Government. The latter of whom would certainly understand that I was saying that America treats India like a child named Mowgli, the central character in Kipling’s book, as an unequal. A primitive living in the jungle. Low caste. Not a Raj (an Indian King – the highest caste that one can get and closest to God in the Hindi religion).
Now do you understand?
And for Mrs. Obama to give him that book would be to say “Fuck You. You bow to us. You are part of the American Empire, we dictate how you are going to rule your country.”
That is what IMPERIALISM IS.
And personally disgusting coming from a woman who not only is the descendant of slaves but doesn’t even know that Sesame Street, for example causes epilepsy in children because of the editing techniques it uses. And was used by the Nixon administration to dumb down public education. Not to mention that the fact that yes, my proposal, sitting at the White House ignored, because for whatever reason the elitists at the White House think they are better than I am, when they aren’t, is better than hers, including the fact that I had already done my homework eight months earlier, to the point of having soil scientists in place to soil test the plot of land I wanted to use for my organic gardening work. Sorry honey, but just having an Ivy League or even being first lady, doesn’t give you the right to get credit for nothing. And even worse than that Axelrod HAS a daughter with epilepsy. And Mrs. Obama hasn’t hired or even invited a single person or a child to the White House with a disability. Her father had one. Why the hell is she sitting on the sidelines if ignoring the issue completely.
The reality is that the way people with disabilities are treated in America today is like the American Apartheid. And frankly, just like India today.
In India, they pay slave labor wages to people who would be getting $60-70 an hour here. And did. Until they shipped jobs like computer programming to India. Where the computer programmers there, with English speaking skills, get about $5 an hour for exactly the same work. A practice Mr. Obama apparently seems to want to emulate, perpetuate if not speed up. So I gave them a taste of their own fucking medicine. To prove not only that the story was true about the fuckup and coverup, but to counter the sexism of this administration and Obama’s appalling continuation of OUR appalling foreign policy which ultimately hurts US.
So unless Law.com suddenly got smart about tagging, which I doubt, and knows about Indian telco law, which I doubt even further, someone told them to set that trigger on their site to pick up any picture from that night that included the picture of the perps with the CEO of PepsiCo India. Who there was no doubt would be attending. And was set on autopilot. But someone set it and dollars to doughnuts came from the White House. Again, remember the whole silly Pepsi vs. Coke thing? Again, nothing happens for an accident. The White House is setting up business relationships all over the place. It’s providing product placement for Google for Christ’s sakes on it’s own website.
But it’s not a new thing for America to push it’s products onto the rest of the world, even at the point of a gun. What is “unprecedented” to quote them themselves is that this is so aggressive, and that they are actively speeding up the outsourcing of slave labor overseas, making the situation here even worse. And doing nothing about the situation back home. But doing it in such a way that is literally invisible to the American people so all they see is Obama doing his “I care” act bullshit when the man doesn’t give a flying fuck.
And the reason I know all of this is deductive logic, Dr. Watson. Plus a very strong background in Telco and IT. Not to mention political and internet marketing strategy. That includes, yes, even though I have tits, a working knowledge of electrical and network engineering. BASED ON EXPERIENCE. What the hell do you think digital video is? It’s the same as data. It just needs to move faster. That is the layman’s explanation, but essentially that’s all the difference there is. But Obama and crew want to play I’m smarter than you and use this to fuck everyone who doesn’t know this.
They don’t want Americans to know about this stupid tagging crap, manipulation of the internet, outsourcing jobs as an official policy, along with the rest of the story, because the sponsorship and the story itself was removed from that site by another act.
Another trap I’ll get to in a sec.
But back to the sponsorship thing.
That Pepsi sponsorship was triggered by the data mining of the picture of the CEO of PepsiCo India at the White House dinner. Set by Law.com for a reason. By whom do you think? Who does business in India and needs to know Indian law, number one? And number two; there is another reason which I’ll get to in a moment. Also very geeky and technical, but important.
The answers are corporate lawyers and law firms who do the outsourced business of big corporate America. Where metadata and data mining are starting to be a big deal. Who the president is servicing and giving all the bailout money to first, instead of supporting small business. Don’t you remember Summers finally saying about three weeks ago, something to the effect “oh, yes, well we are turning our attention now to small business.”
Why wasn’t that the FIRST PRIORITY OF THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY?
Small business has always been the driving force of the commercial engine of America.
For the White House to be MIA for TEN MONTHS while saving Big Business and Wall Street first, while giving them extra money on top of that, is bad enough.
For this shit on top of that (i.e. speeding up the export of cheap labor overseas) is even worse.
But they’re not going to give much money to small business either.
Why?
Because they are flushing it down the toilet in Afghanistan.
And who does that benefit? Wall Street and big business. Who make the equipment for DoD in the first place. And get their financing from Wall Street. So this whole canard is just another bailout of Wall Street over YOUR STREET, plus a whole lot of kids who are going to get blown away just for the fuck of it.
ONE YEAR IN AFGHANISTAN COSTS AT LEAST AS MUCH as the entire domestic bailout.
Conservatively it costs about $1 Million per troop per year to keep those kids in an area that we are never going to do jack in. THREE EMPIRES HAVE ALREADY TRIED TO GO IN ALREADY AND LOST. What the fuck are we doing there? Does Obama really think he’s so fucking brilliant that he’s going to do better than anyone else on the fucking planet or in history?
NO FUCKING WAY. He is delusional if he even maintains a dream about it.
The country IS MOUNT EVEREST. OBAMA IS NOT FUCKING MOHAMMED. HE CAN’T MOVE MOUNTAINS. Much as he would like to think so. Or his ass kissing staff tells him that.
If you have read ANYTHING about what those kids are going through this is exactly what they are facing and it’s flipping their wigs. If not blowing their circuits. Even the ones who made it through Iraq, in one piece and relatively sane. Which was no picnic.
The country itself in the lowlands, if you look at my last blog on the topic, and I’ll include the topographical map below again, is at it’s LOWEST point, 3,000 feet above sea level. Those squiggly little lines folks, for those unused to reading topographical maps, are FUCKING MOUNTAINS. THE HIGHEST, TALLEST, MEANEST MOTHERS ON THE PLANET.
Now, add 60-80 lbs of gear to that, which is what the average combat soldier wears, no language skills, no interpreters (how many Afghani fluent interpreters does DoD have do you think, when we only had like ten Iraqi ones and we fired one for being gay, let alone the State Department where Mrs. Clinton gives the Russian head of state a MISSPELLED BUTTON MEANING RESET?) a completely foreign culture, even more foreign than Iraq, a culture that has been under attack for CENTURIES, so trust me, they are fierce as shit, not to mention Bedouins used to picking up and moving in three seconds flat, plus caves and secret hidey holes carved into the mountains and what do you think is going to happen?
Obama is saying we’re out of there in 2011?
BULLSHIT.
Those troops are going to be kicked into outer space. Several galaxies far from here.
Obama doesn’t give a shit. He’s listening to the generals and playing politics and rewarding Wall Street and corporate America. YET AGAIN. And the generals don’t give a fuck. They just want promotions, big budgets and lots of toys to play with.
That is DoD. Trust me. I know these assholes. Why the hell do you think I kicked THEIR asses when I was in DC.
So what the hell are we doing sending kids off to a war we are going to lose, costs billions to fight and is going to cause a shitload of suffering and we don’t even have a plan to treat the wounded already. THERE IS NO PLAN TO TREAT, REHABILITATE OR FIND JOBS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TBI. THE SIGNATURE WOUND OF BOTH IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
Trust me.
I have TBI.
Even neurologists don’t fucking understand it. It causes so many different kinds of conditions and we are on the dawn of neuroscience, that the fact that fucking White House is not only sending more troops off to a stupid war, but on top of this REFUSING to meet with the ONE PERSON IN THE COUNTRY, according to DOD, who doesn’t like ME, yet despite this, has already told me that I am far ahead of THEM in dealing with this, IS ANOTHER SIGN OF UNBELIEVABLE ARROGANCE. IF NOT IRRESPONSIBILITY, SEXISM, RACISM, CLASSISM and everything else-ism. And my proposal covers far more than that.
Like putting YOUR ASSES BACK TO WORK. NOW. At good salaries. And saving your fucking mortgages. NOW. But Obama doesn’t want that. Summers doesn’t want that. Congress doesn’t want that.
They want their buddies to make a fortune off America’s pain. And whether or not you want to believe that or not, that is what is happening. All you have to do is look at where the grants are going. I just happen to have contacts in DC at a high level because of my experience and have secret hidey holes and sources I’ll never reveal that also confirm that this is going on.
And that is totally WRONG.
And this latest escapade of blaming the secret service, is exactly the same fucking thing. Obama and Co. are basically acting like High Caste Indians and treating the rest of America like low caste untouchables, as they call them in India. While sending out Obama to do his “everyone in America has opportunity BS” act when they need him to.
Folks, Obama himself was incredibly privileged despite the ‘po black boy shit the campaign cooked up. How many people have legacy AND minority extra special passes to Harvard Law? Plus grannies who work at banks, so cosignatories on loans was never an issue. How many people can say that?
3? Maybe?
In the ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY?
So I gave them a taste of their own medicine. Because I have a fucking education. And because despite the fact that Obama thinks that he is god’s gift to the fucking planet, he’s not.
At this point I think he’s just a greedy, lying, corrupt fucking snot.
You do not set up people who are putting their lives on the line to protect you and your family for some fucking stupid political game to protect someone who may be your fucking mistress. Much less the billion dollar salaries of some of the most corrupt, abusive companies on the planet. The American Fortune 500.
But in the case of Tinkerbelle and Dingbat, whoever those two are, why the hell has Obama not already just ‘fessed up that he knew who they were?
Why is Tinkerbelle’s claim to greatness different in that picture at the end of the story I already posted than what she claimed to be in Virginia? Why did no reporter do a check to see if she was a cheerleader FOR the Redskins in the first place? Or Orwell Central for that matter before going off on some tangent about terrorists? The Redskins are DC’s hometown sports obsession. It’s not that difficult to get lists of who was on the cheerleading squad going back to the founding of the team itself. It’s not a national security secret. Like say getting into the White House. During a HIGH SECURITY, have to be CLEARED BY THE PENTAGON FIRST TO GET IN affair.
But Obama knows them, has for some time, has YET to say that he does, that is very clear, why the fucking secrecy in the first place? That is what is so WRONG with this whole fucking story to begin with. And why I smelled a rat. And why I set out so many rat traps. And sure enough, they’re going off. Confirming my story and my suspicions to a T.
And that is why I’m deconstructing it. And setting the traps I am. And so far, every fucking suspicion, not to mention trap has been right and gone off like clockwork. And that alone should make you too, start to ask some really hard questions if not pee in your fucking pants. Why? I’ll get to in a minute.
But back to the story. We were at Pepsi.
Pepsi is hardly a shrinking violet when it comes to the online branding and social networking of it’s branding either. I highly suggest you take a look at this link and especially think about the politics of the American politician they show. Specifically the one known as “Tricky Dick” and his involvement with things like dirty tricks, break-ins, lying, illegal spying and of course, ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING.
And the significance to today’s problems with say FISA. And what I’m pretty sure is an enemy’s list. Because no matter what I’ve done, and what I’ve said, and no matter how much I’ve called, the White House REFUSES to call me back.
And there is NO EXCUSE FOR THAT.
But on the topic of Pepsi using Nixon as their iconic role model, rather ironic and fitting, don’t you think? And pretty stupid on Pepsi’s part, although quite revealing of both their corporate politics, and, I’m sorry to say, The White House’s. And this stupid equation and continuation of America’s obsession with fighting wars and translation of “Commie=Terrorist.”
And part of this idea called cultural superiority that Americans have that our mission in life is to Americanize the world.
Wrong.
While I’m no opponent of FAIR international trade, I don’t like seeing the double arches of McDonalds in Serbia. And OUR, as in the American way of life is in NO WAY SUPERIOR to that of any other culture. In fact, our way of life is incredibly destructive. Including ecologically.
Samuel Huntington, who I’m sure Mr. Obama read at Harvard or Columbia, and probably loves, was an appalling example of this kind of grandiose, America is better than anyone else thinking.
And Americans in general are appallingly culturally imperialistic, ignorant and intolerant.
And you can hate that opinion and statement all you want but having lived abroad, and trust me, if this country doesn’t shape up, will again pretty soon, with no plans on returning ever again, other countries and their cultures have the right to exist, without America fucking telling them what to do, eat, drink, consume or how to live their lives. Much less steal their natural resources at gunpoint. Or use their population as slave labor for our multinational criminal corporations. Who use the same corporate BS propaganda as the White House is now, but trust me, it’s Bullshit.
Having worked at one of those appalling megamonsters out of necessity for awhile, which has now absolutely destroyed my life (guess that teaches me, huh) I know damned well how American corporations treat Indian workers. Highly skilled ones at that. And the truth is not very pretty. In fact it’s a horror story.
But for the next part of THIS HORROR STORY, you’ll have to tune in to the next blog post. Part II
Kambing ini adalah saudara dekatnya Jamnapari, coba perhatikan ciri fisiknya..
Adalah jenis kambing yang ditemuka di Punjab, Pakistan dan India, biasanya berwarna merah atau hitam, telinganya berjumbai, pada Jantan tanduknya memutar ke arah belakang. Keturunannya mirip dengan Jamnapari ( di Indonesia di kenal dengan Etawa )
Jenis ini lebih unggul daripada jamnapari karena lebih produktif dan lebih mudah menyesuaikan diri dengan kondisi agro-ekologi
Warna bulu hitam,coklat atau bercak putih. Wajahnya Cembung tapi tidak menonjol seperti jamnapari. Telinga panjang, datar, terkulai. Jantan dan betina memiliki tanduk. Ekor kecil da tipis. Ambing ( kantong susu ) besar dan berkembang dengan baik, dot berbentuk kerucut besar.
BENEDICT ROGERS
The Wall Street Journal
December 2, 2009
Prime Minister Singh can support democracy and engage the regime, too
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh had a largely successful summit with President Barack Obama last week. There is, however, one issue which remains cause for concern: India’s Burma policy.
India has a particular historical responsibility for Burma, in part because in colonial times the two countries were ruled by the British as one. Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained leader of Burma’s opposition party, went to school in New Delhi, for instance, where she became childhood friends with Jawaharlal Nehru’s grandchildren. Past Indian governments have honored this link: During the 1998 prodemocracy protests, Rajiv Gandhi’s government expressed support for Ms. Suu Kyi.
India’s policy has shifted in recent years, thanks to concerns about the need to counterbalance China’s influence and a wish to increase trade. In 2004, Burma agreed to sell India some 80% of the power generated from a dam in Sagaing Division in return for Indian construction assistance. India also sought a military alliance with the regime, including an agreement to provide arms and military training to the Burmese army, in the hopes of getting help in crushing insurgents in northeastern India.
On balance the expected benefits have not materialized. In 2006, the Burmese regime awarded China a huge natural gas contract, even though India had offered a higher bid and Burma’s generals had earlier promised the deal to India. Meanwhile, Burma’s assistance in fighting Indian insurgents has been minimal, and the arms India sold have instead been used to suppress Burma’s own people. The energy projects resulted in land confiscation, the displacement of thousands of people, and accompanying human-rights violations including rape, torture and forced labor. India is mistaken if it believes it can really compete with China’s influence in Burma. China’s annual bilateral trade with Burma is already one-and-a-half times India’s, and Beijing has become one of the regime’s closest friends. It is very likely that as Burma’s regime starts to engage with the U.S. and continues to depend on China for protection, India will find itself squeezed out.
India has also remained silent on Burma’s human-rights violations in a bid to curry favor with the regime. India joined Belarus, China, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Zimbabwe last month in voting against a resolution on Burma’s human-rights abuses at the United Nations General Assembly.
It is not too late for India to revise its position and develop its own distinctive Burma policy supportive of democracy. Mr. Singh and his government could raise concerns more robustly with the regime; support Burma resolutions at the U.N.; seek regular meetings with Ms. Suu Kyi; and press the regime to review the new constitution and engage in meaningful dialogue with all political parties ahead of next year’s elections. On the military front, an immediate and complete end to the provision of arms and military training to Burma’s regime would be welcome. India might also be consider permitting international humanitarian aid cross-border to victims of famine and severe poverty in western Burma, and funding Burma’s civil-society groups.
A senior official in India’s Ministry of External Affairs told me recently that “our hearts are still with the democracy movement in Burma, but our heads are with the generals.” India needs to combine head and heart and realize that in the long-run it is in its own national interest to promote democracy in Burma.
Mr. Rogers, East Asia team leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide in London, is author of “Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant,” forthcoming from Silkworm Books.
Interesting.
Story:
Throughout the course of an average day, you’re probably faced with 10 to 20 different things that make you say, “Man, if I knew who came up with that idea, I’d punch them clean in the face.” But where do you place that absolutely understandable rage? You place it on these people. With your fist, if possible.
Mitch Bainwol is the current CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Christ, do we even need to finish this entry? You’ve probably heard all you need to hear.
The Crime
The following scenario is brought to you by Mitch Bainwol:
After receiving an email from that unofficial Miley Cyrus fanclub message board that you’re way too old to be signed up for, you find out that her new album has leaked to the Internet a month early. You can barely sit still as you joyfully count the seconds away to torrent download completion and pure unadulterated teen-pop magic. A few days later, you get another email that goes something like this:
Dear Anonymous Internet User,
Please give us $3,000 for that Miley Cyrus album you downloaded or we will end your shit.
XOXOXO,
The RIAA
Prior to 2003, the RIAA was still not winning any popularity awards among the American public. However their hate crimes against music and teenagers had been limited to dismantling Internet file-sharing services and creating copy-protected CDs that nobody could use. Then in 2003, the board of directors decided to fuck Public Relations all together and summoned Mitch Bainwol from the deepest pits of Litigation Hell.
Bainwol (equipped with his legions of lawyer minions) set to work in ravaging the bank accounts of their own customers who were, in many cases, downloading a couple of tracks from an album to see if they wanted to buy it. His victims of choice include any student with a college fund, any parent with a school kid and any house with a computer. Usually, defendants pay a settlement fee (that ranges anywhere from $3,000-$12,000) but in the instances where the cases went to court… let’s just say Christmas came early at the Bainwol household. In the case against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the RIAA was awarded $80,000 per song, or $1.92 million after she was found guilty of sharing the most embarrassing 24 song playlist imaginable with countless Internet users.
Of course if Bainwol had stopped there, he probably wouldn’t have made this list. But, feeling that the RIAA coffers weren’t filled quite enough with gold and tears, his lawyers later claimed that you are violating copyright law if you rip a CD you own to your own computer.
They claim this to be because the user is transferring the music into a medium “not of the artist’s choosing.” By that logic, even singing in the shower could be considered a felony as you are using an unauthorized medium of atmospheric vibrations.
#6.
John Langley, Inventor of Reality TV
The Man
John Langley is an American television director. Among his credits are documentaries like American Vice: The Doping of a Nation, Who Murdered J.F.K. and Terrorism: Target U.S.A. Oh, he’s also the creator of the FOX television mainstay Cops, which lit the fuse on the Reality Television turd bomb.
The Crime
During the infamous Writers Guild Strike of 1988, television networks suddenly found themselves at a loss for badly-thought out teleplays. Without the writers to tell them exactly when to bring coma patients back to life, soap operas suffered immensely. The season finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation was composed almost entirely of footage from previous episodes. To this day, just the thought of that debacle sends fanboys into nerdtastic convulsions.
Meanwhile, inspired by the natural eloquence of the stoners he filmed being locked up on his documentary American Vice, Langley approached FOX with the idea for an unscripted reality show where the cameras just follow a bunch of cops around and watch them arrest people and chase them through alleys. Realizing he had just pitched a show where they would not have to pay writers or actors, the network jumped at the proposal and Cops, America’s first reality TV show, was born.
With the creation of Cops, Langley earned himself a whole new title: “The Father of Reality TV.” Yeah, MTV took the format to dastardly new heights with The Real World, but the fact remains, when it comes to shit you could sit on your front porch and see (depending on your neighborhood) being passed off as good television, Cops did it first.
We promise, we don’t put the lyrics down h- BAD BOYS BAD BOYS WHATCHA GONNA DO!
And now, you get to spend your Tuesday nights watching obese people cry about how their mommies never loved them and dudes with washboard abs trying to pick a future ex-wife from a bevy of fake breasted skanks, all thanks to one guy who figured out that you don’t need to spend a bunch of money on creative people because, after all, the viewers will watch anything.
#5.
Ronald A. Katz, Inventor of the Automated Call Center
Ronald A. Katz is an innovator in the field of automated call center technology. That sentence alone should be hint enough that he’s worthy of a shot to the grill, but we’ll go on. His inventions are varied, ranging from moderately useful (toll free numbers, computer telephone integration units) to mostly ineffective (voice recognition systems).
“Since we can’t legally show you a photo of Katz,
we’ve had an artist create this rough depiction of how he might look today.”
But he also invented something else, something so nefarious that, if he happened to be in the room while you were using it, you’d very likely throttle his windpipe without so much as a second thought about the possible consequences.
The Crime
Do these words sound familiar to you?
“Hello, you’ve reached the Asshole Company That Doesn’t Give a Shit About You customer helpline. For assistance in paying bills, press one; to receive product information, press two; if you have a problem with our product, press three; if none of these options apply, press four and your call will be disconnected leaving you to aimlessly wander around our website in a desperate last ditch effort to resolve your issue…”
By the looks of the blood rushing to your ears, we’re guessing you’ve already been acquainted with automated customer service representatives. When it comes to those lifeless, automated agents of uselessness and frustration, Katz is their god. During his years spent transforming your life into an automated Hell on Earth, Katz has obtained more than 50 U.S. patents. With an estimated 150 companies having purchased licenses to use his patience eroding creations, Ronald Katz is estimated to be the wealthiest patent holder ever. Meanwhile, the check you’re trying to write for a 12 pack of Steel Reserve won’t go through because Katz’s other invention, Telecredit, verified that your account just happens to be $206.38 in the hole. Just one more reason to let one fly on this dude’s dome.
#4.
Alvin Eicoff, Inventor of the Infomercial
In the field of advertising, Alvin Eicoff is a legend. In fact, he’s so much of a legend that he was elected to the Direct Marketing Association (yes, that really exists). Hell, it was his idea to use toll free phone numbers for television orders. Without this dude, that Snuggie you bought would have included long distance charges. Why would you possibly want to punch this guy in the face?
The Crime
Along with the 800-number thing, Alvin Eicoff also came up with Direct Response Television. What’s that, we just pretended you asked? Think “Billy Mays.”
Yes, Direct Response Television is that heinous method of product pitching that centers around beating the same message into the bleary eyed customer’s subconscious until the only words remaining in their vocabulary are “call now.” The products are mostly useless, they pressurize you with time bound offers and the actors pretend to wet themselves with excitement over an orange peeler.
And you fall for that shit because, yeah, now that they mention it some 75 times in 30 seconds, maybe they’re right. You do need a carrot juicer! And while you’re on the horn, you might as well pick up an Awesome Auger and a pair of scissors that will cut through a penny. That deal only lasts for 10 minutes!
If not for Alvin Eicoff, Mr. T would have never gotten to spread the good news about the FlavorWave.
Every time Billy Mays worked himself into a cocaine fueled lather and screamed at you about the miracle of Magic Putty, he was doing Alvin Eicoff’s dirty work. Eicoff later compounded this already dastardly deed by demanding that every ad must end with the words “or your money back.” If it hadn’t taken you 78 days to get around to using that Showtime Rotisserie that came with the 30 day money back guarantee, you’d maybe be able to thank him for that. But it did, so you can’t. Also, he’s totally dead. That’s what you get for not acting now! http://www.cracked.com/article/214_7-inventors-you-didnt-know-you-wanted-to-punch-in-face/
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