South Africa on the other hand is a free nation. It has a very good democratic system and is a large democratic state. So one would be expecting them to face the problems that other democracies are facing: opposition push back. But they did not!

US is trying to push a bill that is only going to cut emissions by 17%. And even that is too much for the right wing opposition the Republicans. It is the same with India, where the centrist Congress party is being based by the left wing socialist parties and the BJP led religious right wing. If you think Washington is bad, wait till you see the opposition to an agenda in the Indian Sabhas!

So how is this country able to get her houses in order? Is it because the 65% mandate of the ANC is enough for them while a 60% mandate would be disastrous just as it is in the United States with the Democrats? Or is it just a matter of will? The South Africans are willing to go along with it while we Americans are not…

I really feel ashamed that they can do it so easily unlike us. They are not an extremely rich country like we are. They have a higher debt vs GDP ratio than us. Their population is not so educated as us who know that the Earth is becoming warmer.

In my opinion, it is the disregard of the people over here about facts and counter checks. We do not put people in the spotlight and correct the facts. That is why there are leaders like Governor Sarah Palin, who thinks that the Earth is becoming warmer just by itself. That is why we have idiotic politicians that go on TV and can claim, “ Why is Mars and Jupiter becoming hotter? It is because the Sun is becoming hotter.” ( So I guess the Sun’s heat can only be felt by 3 out of eight of the planets for this guy! FYI, he is right but the rest of the planets are in sync with the Sun and is cooling due to the Sun’s cooling phase).

Come on America. We have single-handedly won 2 world wars. We have single handedly propped countries economies up; countries like Japan, Germany, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, these countries all were literally built from the rubbles of war by the taxes of our forefathers. We are the beacon of hope and freedom. We even are the pioneers of green technology.

So Yes we can cut down out carbon emissions by more than the pathetic goal of 17% that the President has set. The Republicans should be demanding a higher percentage rather than claiming that climate change does not exist and that efforts to curb it would result in a loss of jobs. Lets rally and do the impossible, something only Americans can do.

Experts like Morgan Stanley have suggested that the UK has spent too much in the past couple of years in trying to prop up the economy. It has a tremendous amount of debt; its debt vs GDP ratio is much higher than ours here in the US.

Most experts still agree that the UK would not crash as yet; but an outcome would be that her currency , the Pound Sterling, would have to be weakened . While there would be many businesses that rejoice at that news, it is not all that rosy.

For one, a weakening of the pound would mean a rise in inflation for the local Brits. Imported goods would cost more. Most of the products made in the United Kingdom are, like most countries, made in China. So there would be a rise in prices in Chinese products.

We here, across the Atlantic should take note. While our debt vs GDP is not as bad as it is for Japan, India, Italy or the United Kingdom, we still have more debt than all of them put together. We still have got issues to sort out, like our lack of tax income and our terrible health care problem. We are still borrowing more and more money from the Chinese. A few bad moves in the next few years might make us experience the bad outcome before the United Kingdom.

Of course there are advantages with our system. For one, if we want to, we can virtually produce everything in America. That is something that the United Kingdom can only dream of. Technically speaking, if we lower the value of our dollar, companies would be more interested in opening factories and production centers in America. We have the resources as our country is huge, the United Kingdom does not. Also with full employment as the result of the factories, there would come the demand which would strengthen the dollar back to what it is supposed to be in the long run. We do have a juggernaut of an economy that is much larger than the Brits’.

That being said,football games are not won on paper. We need to play the game well to win. In this case, anything could go wrong; from bad leadership to counter measures by the Chinese. There are lots of things that could happen.

So it is very essential that we sit back and watch how the British handle their debt problem. If they do it well, we should model ours based on their techniques. If they screw up, we should learn from their mistakes and avoid making them. It is something that is very important for the future of our nation.

We should do our part as a people and read up on the situation. We should be keen about what is going on over there. In that manner, we can vote the person with the right solution into power.

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Before I start off, I would like to stress again my belief that there is problem within Islam. Muslims in the world are not taken aback by what is happening in the name of their religion and they think it is some kind of external, international conspiracy against their religion.

Pakistan today has a perfect example. Hundreds of Pakistanis die due to bomb blasts that the Taliban take responsibility for, but they still think that India and Israel are behind them. They are against the terror attacks, but blames RAW and Mossad (Indian and Israeli intelligence).

That paradigm, in my opinion is right, and I think that Muslim communities around the world must stop thinking that the world, or even the West, is against Islam. I think that until the Muslim world realize that, there is not going to be hope of thawing the frosty relationship that is shared between them today.

That being said, what was said by Gerecht is absolutely rubbish. His stand was not as terrible as the one Frank Gaffney had, but there are parts which does insinuate danger. First I would like to state that I agree with Gerecht that there is a threat internally. However, I do not think it is out of control and is that dangerous yet. It is not organized, basically some street punks that have been radicalized. To be fair, he said he didn’t know.

“(We are) taking a little bit too lightly the danger of Islamic militant propaganda in the United States; the extent to which mosques in the United States can reinforce those attitudes, so it is something that requires a lot more effort I think on the part of the bureau.”

We are not taking it lightly, Mr Gerecht. We know that there is a threat. We know that there are mosques in the US do reinforce those attitude. We would support you if you want to do intelligence work on mosques, which is something that is being done.

However, would you do the same for Churches? There are some crazy churches that believe in America being punished for tolerating homosexuality and abortion. There are also cases where Church pastors who encourage discrimination to gays and even, in extreme cases, incite violence. E.g. Pastor Anderson?

Do you think we would have an open door policy with all? I do not think so. I say, get them all! Flag before religion! I say if we penetrate into one, lets penetrate all communities that pose a harm to our citizens or our country.

“Its very difficult for the FBI which is an Intelligence Agency par excellence to actually pursue leads before crimes are committed. In Intelligence, you have to make certain assumptions, they are not nice assumptions that certain individuals may be guilty even though they haven’t committed the crime. You have to engage in surveillance before the crime is committed.”

Wow! Where in the world has this guy been living? Guantanamo Bay? The FBI always pursue leads before crimes are being committed. ALWAYS! They always are in search of things like new drug routes, potential child sex offenders and so on. It is one thing to assume, it is another to discriminate.

Secondly, what in the world is this guy thinking? Is he going to say that we do to the Muslims today what we did to the Japanese in World War 2? He asks for surveillance, I tell you we have surveillance. How do you think the FBI are catching these suspected terrorists? By guessing? Of course they have infiltrated the Muslim community.

A word has to be said about the terrible hosts at FOX. When people say something as controversial as this, you correct them. In this case, the host Paul Gigot himself can make the assertion that the barbarism of Fort Hood as an act of terrorism. Who said so Paul? Where did you get the facts from? Come on!

That being said, I have a certain amount of respect Paul Gigot. And to be fair, Reuel Marc Gerecht is no Frank Gaffmey.

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I am also not faulting the work of their intelligence today, their police or other safety officers or any one of their safety organizations. I do understand that just like our guys, they want to keep their country safe. So along with my wishes to our troops, keep up the good work guys.

But the most important group of people seem to be thinking differently. The public! Yes, the public! CNN and other news agencies went around asking the question, who do you think is responsible. Very rarely are the words Al Qaeda or the Taliban mentioned.

So who do they think is bombing their buildings? It surprised me initially, but not many of my South Asian friends; India. Yes, the majority of Pakistanis think that India is being the spate of bombings in their country! As if that is what a country with nuclear power amongst their arsenal would do! Fund terrorism!

This could be the screwed up mentality of the South Asians. A year ago, in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, Indians did exactly the same thing. Rather than working together to solve the issue of terrorism, a majority of Indians blamed Pakistan and wanted them to be punished!

Also on that list of suspects on the list of Pakistanis are the Israelis. That shows how much hate there is in the Muslim world for Israel..It is absolutely ridiculous that Israel from so far away would want to bring down Pakistan, a country that has not done anything to Israel.

Some more sensible Pakistanis blame the foreign fighters. They cannot take the fact that a Pakistani would want to attack Pakistan. This is half true. There are many foreigners in Pakistan that engage in terror related activities. One of the suspects is a Saudi mass murderer named Osama bin Laden!

But the fact is that there are many terrorists out there that are from Pakistan. The scary thing is that if Pakistanis do not acknowledge that there are local terrorists those local terrorists would strike again and again. They can strike locally or globally.

Like Americans when it comes to our federal deficit, they just would not want to blame their administration in the 80s that started all this mess. Al Qaeda began with training from the much-feared Pakistanis intelligence agency, the ISI. This was funded by the President Reagan’s administration whose aim was to get rid of the communists in Afghanistan. Until and when they come to realize that aspect of truth, we can forget about dealing with terrorism within Pakistan.

I hope that the Pakistanis come to their senses and take the cancer out of their country. It is for the sake of Pakistan and the world.

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To make things exportable, we need to have the top technology or the bottom price. So while we have certain rights and America dominates in sectors that requires technology such as bio-technology, medicine and green technology, many of these are easily copied overseas and they would compete with us in that field.

E.g. We created drugs that slow down AIDS, India created the same drug at 1/10th the cost. We were pioneers of green technology, yet America is not the biggest producers China is. In the same way, we have been overtaken by the Singaporeans and the South Koreans in the production of bio-medical industries. So that is a problem with these sectors contributing to the export numbers.

So to export more things, we got to make our production cheaper. To do that, we got to increase productivity dramatically which is very unlikely; Or we got to weaken our currency. That is more likely to happen.

First lets see the cons of having a weaker currency. We would see inflation increase. Expect to see oil and gold prices rising. Things would be more expensive and the bite may be painful when it happens. It would most likely drag over sometime, which would be unpopular with the populace as they would feel the pinch and would cause the ruling party to lose elections. It would also make imports more expensive. Again, something that would not be popular with the American population.

Another impact could be coming from immigration. A weaker dollar could shun immigration. While this may be music to former Representative Tom Tancreado’s ears , it is actually not a great thing. A lot of talent in America today comes from overseas. India and Eastern Europe give us a lot of IT professionals. Asians dominate sciences in our country. So this could be a commonly neglected aspect of having a weaker dollar.

There are pros of having a weaker dollar too. First and foremost, it would make American labor cheaper. When American labor becomes cheaper, more investors would like to open their factories or places of production. That would lead to higher employment. More people get employed means more demand which would allow more people to set up shop here and the positive cycle carries on. So a weaker dollar means more jobs.

A weaker dollar would may also increase interest rates. This could be a good or bad measure. For one, with higher interest rates, we encourage savings and lending to start-ups. With a lower interest rate, we encourage spending. That I leave it up to the readers to decide.

So I wish to inform the readers, get ready for a weaker dollar. How are we going to do that? I think the readers should know better than we on that. I also hope that you share your ideas with us.

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This report, if true, is stunning. The thing that makes it so worrisome is that it is being reported by the Associated Press. There is also a request sent to Congress to investigate this; which is really showing that there is a legitimate concern about this. Its validity is yet to be determined.

I think that this should open the eyes of army recruiters. They have got to take note of this. How are they going to serve with the Hispanics, Asians or Blacks when the supremacist think that they are superior to them? In the Army, you are are often taught that there is no White or Blacks in the Army, there is only green. That is the way it should be!

If you are a Neo-Nazi, Aryan supremacists or in this case a Saxon Supremacist , the next few paragraphs are for you. If you are not, this is what you tell to a person that thinks that they are superior to others because of the color of their White Skin.

Firstly, there is a land for the Aryans. Its translation is the land of the Aryans and is called Iran. Please, if you think that you guys are so out of place, please leave for that land of the Aryans. I am sure that most of them have no idea that Iranians are Aryans.

Secondly, the Swastika that you guys use as your symbol; it is actually a symbol that came from India. It is a religious symbol of the Hindus. They believe that that is the symbol of good luck. It has got nothing to do with being white at all. And yes, Swastika is a Sanskrit word.

Thirdly, if you are talking about being Saxon, you would disqualify ¾ of Americans who are considered White. Many are or have mixed Semitic and Aryan blood. So please, if you love being a Saxon, please return to England, and see if they want you back!

Another thing that strikes me now is that the Blacks are not the prime targets now. The Hispanic population is the one that they are going after now, calling them illegal aliens. They do not even call the language they speak Spanish, they call it illegal alien.

This was the point that I was making in an earlier post. If people do not separate the problem of illegal immigration with other crimes that illegal immigrate commit, it would lead to racism. The buck should have stopped there but this hate has continued to be developed to what it has become today.

This is not the first article that we wrote on racism, and it would not be the last either. It is an international cancer that resides everywhere, from White farmers’ lands taken away to purging of gypsies in Italy. We must stand up to them!

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Yet even at their priest level they discriminate against the Dalits. Other Sikhs do not eat in the house of a Dalit Sikh even though some of their holy men in their Guru Granth Sahib like Ravidas Ji are Dalits. Muslim Dalits can be Hajis (people that go to Mecca) but they cannot go to graveyards of other Muslims. Christians like Mother Theresa spend their lives serving the poor, but there are still upper class nuns and priests that refuse to associate with Dalits due to their caste.

There have been efforts in South Asia to remove discrimination. It has been outlawed in the Indian constitution , but their living conditions only improved after economic liberalization by current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 1991. Dalits now can become priests in Nepal.

Other than Dalit Buddhists however, Dalits are still socially persecuted. They still do the “dirty work” in countries like India and Pakistan. They are people who carry human waste an night and sometime have to pay off debts that incurred on their family generations ago.

There is one lady however that may soon change all this in India. Her name is Kumari Mayawati. She is of the Bahujan Samaj Party, a very left wing party in India. She is also the Chief Minister of one of India’s biggest states, Uttar Pardesh.

She has risen from obscurity to one of extreme power. She is expected to lead her party to a third place finish in the elections in April. Tough she is still not the front runner in the elections, she is the king-maker in this elections.

That is why, even before the elections begin there are already fantastic allegations coming in her face. The far left Samajwadi Party are coming out with allegations that should the far right Bharatiya Janata Party win the elections Kumari Mayawati would be the Deputy Prime Minister.

This is really a time for the world to take notice. Once being just labeled as dung carriers and leather tanners, today this lady is leading a powerful coalition that is going all out to be the Prime Minister of India. It is something that is really powerful for the Dalits in India. I remembered how the Dalits cried when she got elected.

In fact the people that can understand this best are the Black people in America. How did they weep with joy when President was sworn into the building which was made by the slaves. It is the same flush of joy that Dalits see in Chief Minister Mayawati. She is the symbol of Dalit’s hopes. In a certain manner, she is the Indian version of President Obama.

I do not agree much with her politics however. I do not think I would be supporting her if I were an Indian. She is way too left wing for me, though the party that she is challenging is an even more right wing one than she is left wing.

There are also certain issues with her that are too scary to ignore. This is not the kind of nonsense about President Obama being Muslim or Vietnamese. Indian politics is filled with issues like corruption. For my American readers, any Indian politician would make Rod Blagojevich look like a kindergarten kid in the manner he was corrupted.

So when there are allegations of Ms Mayawati taking money, it is not so bad. It is to a certain extent even expected! But if there are allegations of people dying because of not wanting to donate enough money to your campaign, you better sit up and take notice! That was what she was accused of doing.

Another accusation is that she takes “black” money. I really do not know if these accusations are true but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were.

I really hope that Ms Mayawati would help stop the oppression of Dalits in India. Even if she does not win, I hope that she can inspire other Dalits to the mantle.

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Organizers intend the four-day march to come to a sit-in in front of the parliament in Islamabad, on Monday. The group, numbering from 300 to 500, will join thousands of other demonstrators along the way and are calling it the “Long March.” named after Mao Zedong’s long march to beat the Kuomintang in 1927.

The authorities has replied by banning political gatherings in Punjab and Sindh. They says the march is aimed at destabilising the country and they fear the bloodshed that could occur as a result of these protests. They have already arrested at least 250 opposition activists, though some sources claim that the figure is as high as 420.

These people are all tied to the Sharif Brothers. Nawaz Sharif was banned by the Pakistani Supreme Court from holding public office due to charges laid on him by President Musharraf. His brother, Shahbaz Sharif has also been removed from his post as governor of Punjab.

The situation in Pakistan seem to be getting worse and worse every other day. This seems to be heading for the political tensions that Pakistan has occasionally that would lead ultimately to a coup by the Pakistani army.

This is also coming at the worst possible time for the whole world. Pakistan is a key player in the stabilization of neighboring Afghanistan. Should it fail as a state, there is no chance of Afghanistan succeeding as one.

There is also a shared threat of the Taliban that these two countries share. The Pakistani government has actually decided to talk to the Taliban and are on the verge of ceding the Swat Valley to them. Isn’t it sad that the Pakistani Government has decided to talk with an extremist element like the Taliban but would not negotiate with one another?!

I think there is a crisis in priority for the Pakistanis here. Pakistanis have always feared the threat coming from the East with regard to India. They have never considered Afghanistan, China or Iran being a threat to them at all. The PPP and the PML-N have always considered the biggest political threat to them is each other, not am extremist government run by the Lashkar e- Toiba, the Taliban or even Al Qaeda.

This is making elements ripe for a coup to take place. The Pakistani Army would never tolerate Pakistan being as unstable as it is and it would be a matter of time for a coup to take place should this tensions continue. I am not making these things up, one just have to look into the history books to know this.

This would undo a lot of what the West, particularly the Americans who have been pushing for the Pakistan to be a Democratic state. They had hoped that democracy would help bring about a change in Pakistan and help it grow economically and politically to combat the radical elements that originated within it.

The question now is what should the world do? Should it not do anything, there is a higher chance than not for Pakistan to fall into the hands of the Taliban or other extremists. The Americans and the West cannot do much to help in this situation as this would be a selling point of the Taliban to the people and could be counter productive. Iran is Shi’ite and Sunni Pakistan would not appreciate their help. India is something like the most hated enemy of Pakistan even though ties have warmed considerably in recent times and Afghanistan and the other central Asian states are too weak to do anything.

The country that has the most leverage in this matter would be China. China is not a Western power and is the country that helped build most of Pakistani infrastructure up. China was always used to counter-balance India’s friendship with the Soviet Union and now Russia. A lot of business in Pakistan happens because of China. China can put a voice to this and help stop the rise of militants over there.

There is also something in it for China. The same extremist mentality that gave birth to the Taliban also demands for a separate country in the Chinese state of Xinjiang. The Chinese would therefore have an interest in this and would not sit aside and watch as what it did in Sudan.

I really hope that all the fears are just that – fears. It would really be sad to see Pakistan collapse like that.