Monday, August 22, 2011

Petrodollar Scam.

I have no idea who the author of the following is. I leave it to the reader to decide what to make of it.

"
1.
Petrodollar Scam .
2.
The fall of US Dollar
3.
Back in 1971, the USA printed and spent far more paper money than it could cover by gold.
4.
Few years later , French demanded redemption of its paper-dollar holdings in gold . But the USA rejected as it actually didn't have enough gold for the dollars it had already printed and spent all over the world, thus committing an act of bankruptcy .
5.
So the USA went to the Saudis and cut a deal – OPEC denominate all sales of oil in US dollars.
6.
From that point, every nation that needed to buy oil had to firstly hold US dollars , which meant that they exchanged their goods and services for dollars, which the Americans just printed.
7.
The Americans bought their oil literally for free by printing those dollars. The ultimate free lunch for the Americans at the expense of the rest of the world.
8.
However, the scam began to unravel when Saddam Hussein started selling Iraq's oil directly for Euro , abrogating the cozy arrangement the Americans had with OPEC. Thus Saddam had to be stopped. How?
9.
USA concocted a pretext to wage war (drama of twin tower blast) and invade Iraq and the first thing the Americans did was to revert sales of oil back to dollars . The currency crisis was averted for the moment.
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But Hugo Chavez (Venezuela President) also started selling Venezuelan oil for currencies other than dollars , so there were a number of attempts on his life, traceable right back to the CIA. The petrodollar cat was out of the bag.
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Iran President (Ahmedinejad), watching all of this, decided to kick The Great Satan in the arse and do the same thing - sell oil for every currency EXCEPT US dollars .
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The game is coming to an end for the Americans. As the nations of the world find that they can buy oil for their own currencies instead of holding paper US dollars , more OPEC nations will abandon the dollar.
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The worst thing for the Americans is that eventually, they will also have to buy their oil with Euro or Rubles instead of just printing paper money to get it.
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That will be the end of the American Empire, the end of funding for the US military and the destruction of the US economy.

The great scam is coming to an end and there is not a lot that the USA can do about it, except start another world war!!!
Wait and Watch… Only few years/months ahead. "

Sunday, August 21, 2011

The stupid Egyptians and the stupid Turks.

Why are the Egyptians and the Turks so naive and acting as though the evil deeds of the occupiers of Palestine, the Zionists, can be excused. The Turks saw what kind of animals the Israelis are when nine of their flotilla activists got murdered some months ago and now five Egyptian soldiers lost their lives while doing their guard duties on their side of the border. The Turks and the Egyptians still want to have relations with these inhuman bastards! Can you imagine yourself wanting to do that if you had suffered the same act of violence at the hands of somebody? Certainly not me. I would break off all relations with such an evil entity. I would tell them to go to hell.
It seems only Iran has the right attitude towards the Zionists.
 
aziz anom

Saturday, August 20, 2011

India is totally corrupt.

  • The following is by Jason Burke writing in the Guardian. UK.

Corruption in India: 'All your life you pay for things that should be free'

As Anna Hazare leaves prison to continue his protest, residents in Delhi explain how bribery forms part of everyday life
And he faces an ordinary Indian daily routine of petty corruption. The number of people Vishal has to pay off is bewildering. There are the local beat constables who take free lunches, and the more senior police officers who can cause problems with opening hours. They take 10,000 rupees (£130) on the 10th of each month to allow Vishal to stay open late.
Then there are the officials from various local authorities who also receive regular payments – around £50 per month – to ensure that health, safety and hygiene inspections go smoothly.
"Of the 40,000 rupees (£520) I earn a month from my restaurant, I pay at least a third in bribes," Vishal, 26, said. But bribery also extends into his personal life. Vishal has two young children and to get the eldest in to the best local school he paid a "donation" of 25,000 rupees (£3,400) in cash to the headmaster.
A driving licence needed another bribe. Getting an appointment with a competent public doctor cost a substantial amount. And then there are the traffic police. Every other week Vishal says he is stopped, told he has committed an offence and made to pay 100 rupees (£1.25), the standard fee to avoid "too much bother".
"I am so disappointed [about] everything you have to pay," he said. "And no one does anything. The politicians won't do anything because they are all corrupt too."
Such sentiments are widespread in India and explain the sudden outpouring of anger over recent days as tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country to protest about the arrest of anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare.
Though a string of major corruption scandals such as the telecoms licence scam that cost the country up to £26bn, and the alleged fraud surrounding the high-profile Commonwealth Games in Delhi, has fuelled some of the fury, it is the grinding daily routine of petty corruption that is at the root.
"You pay for a birth certificate, a death certificate," said Varun Mishra, a 30-year-old software engineer and one of thousands who marched in Delhi to support Hazare. "All your life you pay. And for what? For things that should be free."
Hazare, 74, has harnessed this grassroots frustration to launch a popular movement. Having been jailed as a threat to public order, he went on hunger strike and refused to leave prison when released. He has finally left jail, having been granted permission to hold a 15-day fast in a public park.
His public relations team has run rings around clumsy and slow official spokesmen. India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has an impeccable reputation for personal probity but has looked distant and out of touch.
Hazare is campaigning for a powerful new anti-corruption ombudsman with the right to investigate senior politicians, officials and judges. His critics say this would be undemocratic, and worry about the division of powers. But for people like restaurateur Vishal, Hazare is a hero. "At least he is doing something," he said. "No one else is."
Though bribery, or "graft", is a fact of life for more or less everybody in India, the demonstrators are largely urban, educated and relatively well-off. "What you are seeing on the street is a middle-class rebellion," said Mohan Guruswamy, a former senior official in the ministry of finance and founder of the Centre for Policy Alternatives thinktank.
There are reports in local media that call centres and other back office operations in IT hubs such as Gurgaon, a satellite town of Delhi, and Bengaluru, the southern city, have faced staffing problems with up to half of workers joining the protests. Teachers, lawyers and medical professionals have also featured prominently.
Support for Hazare is particularly strong among those who have benefited most from India's recent breakneck economic development but are frustrated by a largely unreformed public sector that delivers poor and haphazard services. They are often the young.
Many of those who waited outside Tihar jail in Delhi to greet Hazare on his triumphant exit were in their teens or even younger. One 12-year-old carried a placard saying "save my future".
Tens of millions of school and college-leavers pour into the Indian jobs market each year. State institutions have not kept pace with aspirations raised by years of rapid economic growth and with skill levels low and good jobs scare, unrest could rise.
Senior Congress party politicians this week argued that some level of graft was "inevitable" in a developing economy. However, analysts said the extent of the problem in India – which ranks at 87 out of 178 on the campaign group Transparency International's index of corruption – is unique. "India is comparable to China, doing better than Russia, less well than Brazil," said Robin Hodess, the group's research director. "But bureaucratic and petty corruption is extreme in India."
Some say India's generally patchy law enforcement is to blame. "We are politically advanced in terms of institutions," said Guruswamy. "We have courts, a parliament and a long tradition of democracy ... but very few people are ever held to account." Last week a senior judge faced unprecedented impeachment proceedings 25 years after the alleged offence.
Others say those who pay the bribes are to blame too. One supreme court lawyer who refused demands for commissions in return for sanctioning payment for work he had done for the government, said giving in to corruption could be down to "deep powerlessness" or simply a "I just want to get on with my day" type of attitude. "As Indians we see corruption as something that permeates our lives, like air pollution, but we need to think much more carefully about it," he said.
Raghu Thoniparambil, who runs the website ipaidabribe.com, pointed out that corruption in the private sector was just as prevalent. "All these protests are very inspiring but will people really change? I don't know," he said.
Less ambitious and spectacular measures could have more impact than the ombudsman office Hazare and his followers want to create, Thoniparambil argues.
As well as perceptions of general corruption, Transparency International also compiles an index of nations where bribes are paid most frequently, particularly in business. India ranks 19 out of 22, above Mexico, Russia and China.
Manu Joseph, editor of the news magazine Open, speaks of "hypocrisy". "The Indian relationship with corruption is very complex and politicians are representative of society as a whole," he said.
But the widespread anger is also due to a sense that modern India not only deserves better but needs to at least moderate rampant corruption to compete on the world stage.
The most high profile cases have already damaged the nation's image sufficiently to slow economic growth. One text message circulating in India last week focused on the huge sums of "black money" illegally stashed by wealthy Indians in overseas assets and bank accounts. The return of these funds could pay for "Oxford-like universities", borders stronger than "the China wall" and roads "like in Paris", it said.
"We want a great country, stronger than the US, UK and Australia," said 18-year-old Sushil Kumar as he waited for the protest march from Hazare's jail to start. "India will be great, with its traditions, its culture. But we have to beat corruption."

The anti-bribery website


Launched last October, ipaidabribe.com is the brainchild of Raghunandan Thoniparambil, a retired official from the elite Indian Administrative Service.
By Friday 12,076 people had posted their personal stories of graft for all to see. They included businessmen forced to pay 50 rupees (70p) to traffic police, 300 rupees (£3.20) paid for a passport verification, 40,000 rupees (£540) handed over to have property registered, 5,000 rupees (£67) for a birth certificate and travellers who had to give 100 rupees (£1.30) to get berths on otherwise full express trains. Software takes names off the site.
"The aim is not to identify people but to identify the problem," Thoniparambil said. In June, after a BBC report about ipaidabribe.com several similar sites opened in China. Within two weeks they were shut down.
"In India we are sometimes a little slow or dysfunctional but civil society, simple democracy can make a huge difference," added Thoniparambil.

 
aziz anom

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Dr. Zakir Naik. popular with less educated Muslims.

This man, I understand, belongs to a sect of Islam that resembles the one in Saudi Arabia, and he is hated by a lot of educated Muslims. Some of my relatives have fallen prey to him and, aware that I have given up Islam and am now an agnostic, they constantly bombard me with the writings of this idiot. It irks me a lot, especially because one of these relatives, the head of that household, is a Muslim only in name, his obnoxious behaviour having alienated him from a large section of the Memon community in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Dr Naik, 43, a medical doctor from Mumbai and president of the Islamic Research Foundation, came into the limelight only recently when, at the urging of some clerics, the Uttar Pradesh government of India barred him from addressing meetings in Allahabad, Kanpur and Lucknow.

"I do not consider him a Muslim," said Maulana Hashim Kachauchwi, a Sunni scholar in Lucknow, India.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Is Islam compatible with capitalism?

Guy Sorman: Is Islam Compatible with Capitalism?

Guy Sorman, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of Children of Rifaa: In Search of a Moderate Islam and many other books.
The moment you arrive at the airport in Cairo, you discover how little Egypt—the heart of Arab civilization—is governed by the rule of law. You line up to show your passport to the customs officer; you wait and wait and wait. Eventually, you reach the officer . . . who sends you to the opposite end of the airport to buy an entry visa. The visa costs 15 U.S. dollars; if you hand the clerk $20, though, don't expect any change, let alone a receipt. Then you make the long hike back to the customs line, where you notice that some Egyptians—important ones, apparently—have helpers who hustle them through. Others cut to the front. It's an annoying and disturbing welcome to a chaotic land, one that has grown only more chaotic since the January revolution. It's also instructive, effectively demonstrating why it's hard to do business in this country or in other Arab Muslim lands, where personal status so often trumps fair, universally applied rules.
 
 

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Why is London burning?

If you are not one of the pink-colored Caucasians from Europe or America you would know the answer to the above question. It is called racial discrimination and it has existed in England since the beginning of colonization and beyond. The following quote is from the website Alternet giving the point of view of the 'rioters':
 
People have no idea what it is like to grow up in a community where there are no jobs, no space to live or move, and the police are on the streets stopping-and-searching you as you come home from school. The people who do will be waking up this week in the sure and certain knowledge that after decades of being ignored and marginalized and harassed by the police, after months of seeing any conceivable hope of a better future confiscated, they are finally on the news. In one NBC report, a young man in Tottenham was asked if rioting really achieved anything:
 
"Yes," said the young man. "You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you? Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."
 
 

Fox News, OReilly and the T-shirts.

If you have (by mistake) watched the very unfair and very unbalanced TV channel Fox news you would know that one of its presenters, a man who likes to opine but does not listen to his guests, Bill O'Reilly, has made some T-shirts with the logo on them that screams "Navy Seals 1 -- Bin Laden 0". It is a celebration of the killing of Bin Laden by US military's Navy Seals. Let us tell this man that it is time to update that logo. It should now scream: "Navy seals 1 -- Bin Laden 22", after the shooting down by Bin Laden's friends of a helicopter carrying some 31 soldiers, among them 22 Navy Seals. 
 
aziz anom

swines pretending to be saints.

Just imagine Saudi Arabia and Bahrain criticizing Syria for its violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators demanding democracy. Have these two dictatorships forgotten how they employed even worse methods to quash a similar uprising in Bahrain? Such humbugs! So sickening.
 
aziz anom

Saturday, August 6, 2011

America's secret wars.

    Last year it was reported in the Washington Post that  U.S. Special Operations forces were deployed in 75 countries, up from 60 at the end of the Bush presidency.  By the end of this year that number will likely reach 120.This global presence is far larger than previously acknowledged. Is it any wonder that America has so many enemies? All that country has to do is to stop interfering in other people's affairs and it wouldn't have to spend so much money fighting. Just look at some other western countries, like Denmark or Austria; are they not living in peace and enjoying a much better lifestyle than the US? But I suppose that's too much to ask because violence is in America's blood. It all began, as we all know, with the slaughter of native Americans.
 
aziz anom

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Do viruses enter the body through our ears?

In 1927 Richard Simmons, M.D. hypothesized that colds and/or the flu virus enter the body through the ear canal and not through the eyes, nose or the mouth . He started putting one or two drops of 3% H2O2 in the ears of his young patients. The patients recovered quickly. He practiced this technique in his clinic for several months. When he wrote a paper on the results, the medical community dismissed his findings. Were they justified in doing so?