Entries from August 2006

August 30, 2006

How the Chinese Government Treats its Own People

Forget the Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongols or any other assorted “minorities”. The Chinese Communist Government’s treatment of Han Chinese itself is not any better. It is just as brutal and inhumane.
This Video is about the Land Grab that the Chinese Government is involved in within China itself. Remember how long it takes for even one road [...]

August 30, 2006

Fatwa on Life Insurance?!

I was dumbfounded when i read this.Deoband’s latest fatwa: Muslims can’t insure
The Darul Ifta of Deoband, the body authorised to issue fatwas, issued a fatwa saying that interest earned on bank deposits as well as insurance of life is illegal as per the Shariat, the supreme law for Muslims. And that Muslims should not go [...]

August 28, 2006

China Plans to Make the Qinghai-Tibetan Railway Profitable

The Chinese Neo-Imperialists are now seeking to make a profit out of their newly built white elephant Qinghai-Tibet Railway inaugurated on July 1, 2006.

The main objectives of the Chinese government in building this railway was
1) To enable the immigration of millions of Han Chinese to Tibet thereby undermining the Tibetan people demographically, culturally and socially [...]

August 27, 2006

Is the Baloch Rebellion All But Over?

Pakistan Army has managed to reach out to a “remote mountain hideout” to kill its “enemy”, the Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.

Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, one of Pakistan’s top insurgents, was killed in a massive military operation in which around 60 other guerrillas were also gunned down. The killings fuelled arson, forcing [...]

August 27, 2006

George of the Jungle Spins it Again

TJS George of the Jungle in his weekly sunday column in the Indian Express (some call it the Spindian Express) dated 27th August 2006 repeated his feat in using another totally unrelated discussion to further his own personal leftist agenda. Last week he had used the personal tragedies of two individuals to beat the drums [...]

August 26, 2006

ToI(let) Paper Simply Cannot Resist It

ToI(let) paper simply cannot resist taking a swipe at its “enemies” real or imagined and whether or not they are at fault or have nothing at all to do with the incident being discussed at hand.
In a supposedly “well written” editorial dated 26 Aug 2006 titled “Mumbai’s Cross”, the Times of India has rightly condemned the naming [...]

August 25, 2006

My Very Eccentric Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets

 ”My Very Eager Mother Just Sewed Us New Pajamas”
“Most Valuable Earth Must Jump Straight Up North Pole”
“My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets”
“My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets”
“My Very, Eccentric Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets”

The above are some of the mnemonics by which western school kids memorised the names [...]

August 24, 2006

Funny Side of War on Terror

CHICAGO – Mardin Azad Amin found himself in a tight squeeze last week when security at O’Hare Airport discovered a suspicious-looking object in his luggage.So Amin, 29, handled the delicate situation this way: He told security the object was a bomb, Cook County prosecutors said.
The security guard then asked Amin to repeat what he’d said [...]

August 24, 2006

India to Pull Out Peacekeeping Contingent from Lebanon

India might withdraw its contingent from UNIFIL in southern Lebanon. This is a welcome decision. There is no point in being a part of a force monitoring a ‘ceasefire’ which one of the sides i.e., Hezballah has no intention of honouring. The UN for its part has no intention of holding Hezballah to account and [...]

August 23, 2006

Mumbai bound Plane Diverted

Nothing clear as yet. But some passengers seemed to have roused the suspicions of the crew who asked for Fighter escorts for the plane.
US plane to Mumbai turned back to Amsterdam
Dutch F-16s escorted a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Mumbai back to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Wednesday, and authorities later detained several passengers for questioning, [...]