Wednesday, December 29, 2010

America’s self-serving politicized double standard of ‘Justice’ - By Yvonne Ridley

America’s self-serving politicized double standard of ‘Justice’

By Yvonne Ridley

I wonder if Hillary Clinton really believes in the pompous invective that shoots from her lips with the rapidity of machine gun fire.

We had a classic example of it just the other day when she let rip in her grating, robotic monotones over a Moscow court’s decision to jail an oil tycoon.

To be fair to Clinton, she was not alone. There was a whole gaggle of disapproving foreign ministers who poured forth their ridiculous brand of Western arrogance which has poisoned the international atmosphere for far too long.

The US Secretary of State said Mikhail Khodorkovsky's conviction raised "serious questions about selective prosecution and about the rule of law being overshadowed by political considerations".

Although Khodorkovsky, 47, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, 54, were found guilty of theft and money laundering by a Moscow court, critics like Clinton say the trial constitutes revenge for the tycoon's questioning of a state monopoly on oil pipelines and propping up political parties that oppose the Kremlin.

Clinton's censure was echoed by politicians in Britain and Germany, and Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, urged Moscow to "respect its international commitments in the field of human rights and the rule of law".

Now while it may appear to be quite touching to see all these Western leaders express their outrage over a trial involving the one-time richest and most powerful man in Russia’s oil and gas industry, you have to ask where were these moral guardians when other unjust legal decisions were being made in US courts, for example?

So why have the Americans and Europeans rushed to make very public and official statements so quickly on a matter of oil and gas, in another country? Okay, so it is a rhetorical question!

But shouldn’t Clinton put a sock in it? The USA is still squatting in Cuba overseeing the continuing festering mess caused by one of the biggest boil’s on the face of human rights – yes, Guantanamo is approaching a decade of incarcerating men without charge or trial. At least Khodorkovsky had his day in an open court and can appeal.

 Instead of sticking her nose in to other country’s courts, perhaps the US Secretary of State would care to look into her own backyard and tell us why one of her soldiers was given a mere nine month sentence earlier this month after shooting unarmed civilians in Afghanistan?

And after he's served his sentence US army medic Robert Stevens can still remain in the army, ruled the military hearing. His defence was that he and other soldiers were purely acting on orders from a squad leader during a patrol in March in Kandahar.

Five of the 12 soldiers named in the case are accused of premeditated murder in the most serious prosecution of atrocities by US military personnel since the war began in late 2001. Some even collected severed fingers and other human remains from the Afghan dead as war trophies before taking photos with the corpses.

By comparison, just a few months earlier, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, was given 86 years for attempting to shoot US soldiers … the alleged incident happened while she was in US custody, in Afghanistan. She didn’t shoot anyone although she WAS shot at point blank range by the soldiers. The critically injured Pakistani citizen was then renditioned for a trial in New York. The hearing was judged to be illegal and out of US jurisdiction by many international lawyers.

Did Clinton have anything to say about that? Did any of the foreign ministers in the West raise these issues on any public platform anywhere in the world? Again, it’s a rhetorical question.

Of course a few poorly trained US Army grunts, scores of innocent Afghans, nearly 200 Arab men in Cuba and one female academic from Pakistan are pretty small fry compared to an oil rich tycoon who doesn’t like Vladamir Putin.

But being poor is not a crime.

Exactly how would the Obama Administration have reacted if Russian President Dmitry Medvedev criticized the lack of even handedness in the US judicial system and demanded Dr Aafia Siddiqui be repatriated? What would be the response if Medvedev called an international press conference and demanded to know why 174 men are still being held in Guantanamo without charge or trial?

Just for the record the US judicial system imposes life sentences for serious tax avoidance and laundering of criminally-received income – crimes for which the Russian tycoon has been found guilty. Sentencing will not take place until Moscow trial judge, Viktor Danilkin, finishes reading his 250-page verdict, which could take several days.

In her comments Clinton said the case had a "negative impact on Russia's reputation for fulfilling its international human rights obligations and improving its investment climate".

How on earth can anyone treat the US Secretary of State seriously when she comes out with this sort of pot, kettle, black rhetoric? This from a nation which is morally and financially bankrupt, a country which introduced words like rendition and water-boarding into common day usage.

My advice to Clinton is do not lecture anyone about human rights and legal issues until you clean up your own backyard. In fact the next time she decides to open her mouth perhaps one of her aides can do us all a favour and ram in a slice of humble pie.

* British journalist Yvonne Ridley is the European President of the International Muslim Women’s Union as well as being a patron of Cageprisoners.

Secular education in Catholic School v/s Madarsa education for Muslims

http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/india-unity/message/4494

--- Ghulam Muhammed <ghulam_muhammed2@...>
wrote:

>
> Sunday, February 27, 2005
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Wasnik,
>
>
>
> I agree that Christian schools spread out among all
> other countries of the world, had quite a good
> presence in India too and had been in the forefront
> of non-religious education. However, you may be
> surprised that in a city like Mumbai, where Jesuits
> have a century old presence in educational field,
> with schools and colleges spread out in the length
> and breadth of the city, they found that in city
> centers the percentage of Muslim students in their
> schools had grown to be more than 50% and in some up
> to 70%. So much so, that after Bombay riots, when I
> was with a Muslim advocacy group IDRAAK that worked
> for communal harmony and interfaith dialog, the
> Jesuits had requested IDRAAK to arrange to teach
> Islam in their secular schools. They arranged a
> meeting of 50 principals and vice-principals from
> their schools with IDRAAK in which the fact came out
> that without any religious education, the Muslim
> students are fast becoming rowdies and unmanageable.
> (Imagine the same religious education
> is being attacked by the US as source of all terror
> in the world.) Jesuits wanted IDRAAK to arrange for
> religious education in their moral science classes
> for Muslim students, so that Muslim students should
> learn the basic morality of Islam and become better
> citizens. This will give you an idea, how Muslim
> education has suffered, after the advent of British
> Raj in India and modern education was identified
> with colonial and Christian rule. Muslim retreated
> in their mental ghettos and lost more than a
> century, focusing to ward off any incursion into
> their religious life. Only recently, the trend is
> reversed as highly educated class is warming up to
> the basic fundamentals of Islam and is confident
> that modern education need not be a threat to Islam
> and could even help Muslims as well as others to
> understand the deeper and more profound significance
> of Islamic teachings. So there is a definite
> two-pronged movement world over to merge religious
> and secular education to face modern
> challenges.
>
>
>
> It is here that motivated exercise, to denigrate
> Madrasa education, as something archaic and not
> compatible with some arbitrary liberal standards
> with blind spot for all things religious that
> characterizes some unhealthy superficial scholarship
> and militates against sincere efforts to reform
> Muslim education.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai

Alex Abella on how mad men technocratic elite are intent on starting World War III


Alex Abella on how mad men technocratic elite are intent on starting World War III

Insider Reveals Diabolical Secrets Of The Rand Corporation

Alex Abella


http://www.prisonplanet.com/insider-reveals-diabolical-secrets-of-the-the-rand-corporation.html

Cuban-born journalist and author Alex Abella was allowed exclusive access inside the RAND Corporation to view their archives. What he discovered was a plot driven by mad scientists, behaviorists, and generals who were intent on starting world war three and fleecing the American people in the process.

Once he was a skeptic on the subject of conspiracy theories and the new world order, but after his work with the RAND Corporation he is now convinced that this top secret think tank has been pulling the strings of American government for at least 60 years.

"We're all the bastard children of RAND and we don't even know it," remarks Abella, as he charts how RAND started off as an organization centered around building new weapons for the military but ultimately expanded into politics, science, history and economics and was closely allied with the Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations. RAND's decision in the 50's to re-model the globe towards a new world order changed everything, with the development of "rational choice theory," which turned people from being citizens into consumers, as rights and responsibilities were replaced with choices and people's lives slowly came to be dominated not by integrity or what they stood for, but by what they spent their money on.

RAND's ultimate goal was to have technocrats running every aspect of society in pursuit of a one world government that would be administered under "the rule of reason," a ruthless world where efficiency was king and men were little more than machines, which is why RAND studied the social sciences because they were at a loss to work out how to deal with people and how human beings did not always act in their own predictable self-interests.

There is no place for love, empathy or selflessness in the new world order that RAND and the Ford Foundation are working to create, and patriotism and altruism are adversarial to their aims.

Abella explains how RAND was instrumental in developing the strategy behind the use of nuclear weapons, and how they actively promoting nuking the entirety of Eastern Europe as well as China in case of problems in Western Europe, a policy that could easily have sparked off a catastrophic nuclear holocaust. RAND researchers believed that as long as 10 million Americans survived a nuclear war, the war was won.

Abella notes how RAND saw the United Nations as a template for one world government but that a new organization controlled by the U.S. would eventually supersede the UN and become the de facto world government, which is why RAND researchers such as John Williams advocated pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the Soviet Union, to make sure the United States would be the only country with the supreme power to impose its will on the rest of the world.

Speaking on the topic of false flag attacks, Abella notes that the staged Gulf of Tonkin attack and the planned Operation Northwoods false flag were both initially proposed in RAND documents, highlighting the total immorality with which RAND war games its scenarios, many of which are ethically repugnant in that they nonchalantly promote the genocide of entire populations with little regard for the consequences. Abella explains how RAND truly is a shadow government because it serves as a revolving door between the two, and how RAND is the cradle of the military-industrial complex and the birthplace of the technocratic elite that we are now
fighting against.

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WORLD VIEW NEWS SERVICE

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

“Follow the money trail” – Deep Throat’s advice to Indian Muslims - By Ghulam Muhammed

Wednesday, December 29, 2010


“Follow the money trail” – Deep Throat’s advice to Indian Muslims


A US president has to resign --- first time in American history. His downfall came through the initiative of a mole in the White House, code-named ‘deep throat’, egging the two Washington Post’s ‘investigative’ journalists, to follow the ‘money trail’.

According to an estimate headlined in Sunday Guardian, the new investigative vehicle launched by M. J. Akbar, not less than 250,000 Crores of public money is swindled during the Congress led coalition ruling India, during both of its phases.

Muslims in India had been going around with the begging bowl for last 60 years while all Brahmin-led political parties --- Congress, BJP and CPI (M), have been looting public money in an organized institutionalized manner. The cat is out of the bag, due to serious infighting between the Brahmin looters.

It is time; Muslims switch their strategies, at least to a measured extent, to follow the money trail. The biggest scandalous enterprise that has sustained the ruling oligarch is the Nationalized Banking system. Public money is giving out as legitimate loan business transaction and never recovered. The bad and non-performing loans are written off most unceremoniously. No Parliament session has been rocked, when 60,000 Crores of Bank loans were written off by the Nationalized Banking system, and enriched the preferred ruling class to the detriment of the millions of poor and deprived that lived a meal to meal existence in the country.

Besides, the general poverty that millions suffered due to benign neglect from the ruling oligarchy, Indian Muslim suffered a second dose of ‘malign neglect’ ---- nay malign vendetta for having some Muslims rule in their name or some others opting to go out of the Brahmin clutches by carving out a separate state, primarily at the behest of and to cater to UK and US compulsion to keep a part of Indian sub-continent for their future strategic planning.

150 million India Muslims with another 350 million other Muslims in the subcontinent could have ruled India if democracy and secularism as spelled out by the Brahmin intelligentsia had to be the benchmark of Indian nationhood. However, Muslim community was deliberately divided on most blatant pretexts and the nation stands divided in 3 parts. To divide the 500 Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, the Brahmins divided the nation itself.

Now they are at each others throat for sharing the loot that is pouring in from all around the world. This time the colonialists will get a shock that they will never forget. One observer said, this time they will lose even their underwear and will have to run. The fraudsters are in command and their greed has no limits.

Indian Muslims have a big role to play in saving the nation. They are fortunately still out of the rat race. They should now follow the money trail to expose the malignancy. They should realize that corrupts are most cowardly. They cannot stand against the righteous. Indian Muslim should realize how their marginalization till now could be a saving grace for the coming generations. They had been planning to take over the politics of the country. Now they should mobilize to take over the economy of the country. And their USP should be their honesty, their fair and equitable dealings, their moral and ethical grounding, thanks to their Islamic upbringing.  Islamic no-interest banking is already becoming attractive to the West for its moral content. Muslims should not forget that Islam spread all over the world, not the least from the high moral values of its traders.

In these times of the corruption crisis that India is now undergoing, they should come forward as saviors of the one billion masses. That will not only be their own salvation but the salvation of the subcontinent, nay the wider world too.


Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rss-&-26-11-digvijaya-flags-it-off-again-this-time-in-mumbai/730077/0


Tue, 28 Dec 2010

RSS & 26/11: Digvijaya flags it off again, this time in Mumbai



Undeterred by the storm of criticism triggered by his comments linking the killing of Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare during the 26/11 terror attacks to the alleged threats Karkare had received from Hindu extremists, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today released the book 26/11 RSS Ki Saazish? (26/11, An RSS Conspiracy?) in Mumbai, using the platform to launch a fresh attack on radical Hindu groups for what he called “majority terrorism”. 

Singh had released the same book, authored by Aziz Burney, Editor-in-Chief of Urdu Sahara newspaper, in Delhi on December 6. At that launch event, he had said that Karkare had called him two hours before the 26/11 attack in Mumbai to say that his life “was blighted by constant threats” from those opposed to the ATS probe into the 2008 Malegaon blast in which Hindu extremists were accused.


Days later, Singh repeated the comments to The Indian Express, which sparked national outrage, with Karkare’s wife Kavita saying that he seemed to be playing politics with the death of her husband. Singh had subsequently sought to dilute his comments, saying that he had called Karkare and not the other way round and also that he never doubted Karkare was killed by LeT terrorists. 

He had even offered to produce records of his phone calls but said BSNL did not store records older than 12 months. Speaking at the Islam Gymkhana in the financial capital where Burney’s book was released locally today, Singh once again sought to highlight the danger posed to the country by Hindu extremist groups. “I said that as far as the 26/11 incident is concerned, there must be no suspicion that it was done by Pakistani terrorists. But this is for sure that there was pressure on Hemant Karkareji,” said Singh.

The ideology which was putting pressure on Karkare was the same one which was responsible for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and for driving a wedge between Hindus and Muslims, he said. Singh pointed out that those from the Hindu Right, whether it was the Shiv Sena, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi or BJP leaders L K Advani and Rajnath Singh, had “questioned Shri Hemant Karkare’s integrity, loyalty and patriotism towards the nation and pressure was applied on him”.

“Hemant Karkare had come forth as a form of Ishwar (God) for Muslims in this country... he saved a community from being defamed,” said Singh as the audience cheered and clapped. Among those present were local Congress MLA Kripashanker Singh, Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi, Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt and former Maharashtra IGP S M Mushrif who authored the book Who Killed Karkare? in 2009, which too alleged a local conspiracy in the ATS chief’s death.

Singh did not refer to his supposed phone conversation with Karkare in his speech today. But asked by reporters later, he repeated that he had indeed had that conversation but could not retrieve those phone call records as BSNL did not maintain records beyond 12 months.

But in his speech, Singh went on the offensive against Hindu groups and BJP-ruled states, accusing the latter of emerging as the “bastion” of majority terrorism. Singh said Sunil Joshi, the murdered RSS pracharak and Ajmer blast accused, had been killed “as he knew a lot.” Referring to Joshi as a “foot soldier”, Singh said he had been killed “as he knew a lot...and knew the names of the big people on whose prompting the bomb blast had been carried out”.

“These whole areas, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka are such...which have become a bastion of majority terrorism,” he charged. Asked by reporters later if he was accusing BJP-ruled states of shielding Hindu extremists, Singh said when one Marathe from Madhya Pradesh, who was accused of killing one RR Khan in Ratlam, was caught, he said he had stayed at BJP and RSS offices after the murder.

Singh also alleged that Swami Aseemanand, who has been arrested in connection with the Ajmer and Mecca Masjid blast, was being helped by the Gujarat government. Singh said he agreed with Rajya Sabha MP Maulana Mahmood Madani that Muslims were not getting justice in the country. Singh also said that banning the RSS would have little impact as they would float other organisations, and it was necessary to “crush the ideology”. He charged that those owing allegiance to this ideology were present in the bureaucracy, political parties, police and even in the army. 

Monday, December 27, 2010

Mumbai Lawyer claims Crime Branch fabricated evidence to nail Mozawala - The Indian Express

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/lawyer-claims-crime-branch-fabricated-evidence-to-nail-mozawala/729954/0


Tue, 28 Dec 2010


Lawyer claims Crime Branch fabricated evidence to nail Mozawala


Advocate Mubin Solkar with Javed Mozawala

Advocate Mubin Solkar with Javed Mozawala


Express News Service
Tags : Javed Mozawala, Mumbai Police Crime Branch, Mozawala’s lawyer Mubin Solkar

Posted:
Tue Dec 28 2010, 23:23 hrs
Mumbai:
Denying all allegations levelled by the police against Javed Mozawala, a 28-year-old visa agent from Mazgaon arrested for allegedly acting as a spy for Pakistan, his lawyer on Monday claimed the Mumbai Police Crime Branch was fabricating evidence such as photographs and documents to frame his client. The laywer claimed Mozawala was being illegaly detained by the police.


Mozawala’s lawyer Mubin Solkar claimed nothing incriminating had been siezed from his client’s residence and no search was conducted by the police. He claimed no panchanama was prepared when he was picked up.

“While Javed was in police custody, he was taken to a restricted site in Lonavala where policemen clicked photographs and forced him to take some snaps himself. We fear that these photographs will be foisted on Javed. We also apprehend that his mobile phones may be tampered with by the police. He has never been to any restricted sites before, and nor has he been in touch with any defence personnel,” claimed Solkar.

“When Javed was picked up, the police took some passports, original school and college certificates, his wallet and mobile phones. No search was conducted of the premises, and no seizure of any incriminating material took place. Neither was any panchanama drawn up or any receipts issued to his wife Fatima,” said Solkar, at a press conference held at the Marathi Patrakar Sangh at Azad Maidan on Monday evening.

But the police countered this claim. “A panchanama was prepared and all due process was followed. We have sufficient evidence against Mozawala, which will be produced in court. These allegations are a usual ploy adopted by criminals after they are arrested,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy. According to the Crime Branch a pen drive, CDs, photographs of restricted defence establishments and vital installations, confidential military intelligence documents and a terror manual was seized from Mozawala’s residence. Mozawala also had restricted-use numbers of some defence officials, the police have stated.

Two certificates under different names of a civil aviation course attended by Mozawala were also seized by the police. The police believe that this could have “sinister implications”. According to Solkar, Mozawala had completed a basic civil aviation course in 2003. Since the first certificate was issued under a wrong name, a second certificate with the correct name was later issued to him. However, not wishing to pursue a career in the field, Mozawala worked at the Haj committee from 2004 to 2006 as a seasonal clerk who filled up forms for pilgrims. Mozawala then started Taiba Haj Corporation, Solkar said.

Solkar said Mozawala had travelled to Pakistan twice to meet a cousin in Karachi. “In 2005, Javed and his family attended his cousin Danish Quetawala’s wedding in Pakistan. Again in 2006, he went with his wife to Pakistan after Danish’s wife gave birth to a boy. Recently, Danish had expressed his desire to visit India. It was for these visa purposes only that Javed had approached the Pakistan High Commission,” said Solkar.

Solkar also claimed that while the police have stated that Mozawala was arrested at 11 pm on December 8, he was actually picked up from his residence at 10.30 pm on December 7 and illegaly detained. He was produced in court at 5.45 pm on December 9, Solkar stated.

“My husband is innocent and is a simple man. He is being falsely implicated. However, I have faith in Indian law and I am sure I will get justice,” said Mozawala’s wife Fatima.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Rise of the east in a new clash of civilizations By Minhaz Merchant - THE TIMES OF INDIA

 The Monumental turn of the wheel of history

What a monumental turn of the wheel of history! Immediately at the demise of Soviet Union, British Jewish scholar was the first ideologue to propagate the idea of 'Clash of Civilization'. American writer, Samuel Huntington put the flesh on the bones and wrote his famous/infamous book, that virtually guided the Jewish American Neo-con to plan the American Century and get a zombie -- Bush to go through the motion.

[I clearly remember, Back in early 90's, when Samuel Huntington gave a lecture at Nehru Center, Mumbai, describing the salient feature of his hypothesis, his speech singled out Islamic civilization, as the next to confront the West, a handful of extremist Hindutva frontbenchers in the hall, took umbrage that Huntington had completely ignored Hindu civilization and forced Rafiq Zakaria, father of  Fareed Zakaria, to take up their point with Huntington, still on the podiem. Samuel Huntington, out of courtesy, had to promise his Hindutva audience that he will 'work Hindu civilization in' --- in his future theorizing.] 

Barely within a decade, the Neo-con theorizing and its resultant exploitation of US armed power to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, had virtually bankrupted the WEST, and the new civilizations --- China and India --- are poised for their West's nightmarish 'Clash of civilization' with the West.

Islam has survived the encounter and is more powerful in its new avatar. It remains to be seen, how Islam and the new emerging civilizations of the East will size up each other and what alternatives they select - confrontation or cooperation --- to come to terms with Islamic world. One hopes, both -- China and India ---beware of the continuing Jewish/Zionist machinations and protect themselves from the kind of fate that WEST suffered and opt for accommodation with Islam.


India is dogged by the extremist Brahmin RSS and its political troopers appear to take up the role that the American Jewish Neo-con had performed in destroying America.

If these fascists are allowed to succeed in India, there is great danger that India too will go down the drain like the US and its allies.


Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai



http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/all-that-matters/Rise-of-the-east-in-a-new-clash-of-civilizations/articleshow/7165562.cms



The Times of India

Rise of the east in a new clash of civilizations

Minhaz Merchant, Dec 26, 2010, 06.59am IST

As this adolescent century unfolds, four competing civilizations will shape it. This new contest of civilizations could determine the balance of power between nations and regions for generations.

"The longer you can look back," Winston Churchill said, "the farther you can look forward." Though in decline, western civilization will continue to influence global policy and culture. The rise of China will establish a powerful Confucian counter-civilizational force with strong roots in history and a sphere of influence arching from the Pacific to Africa. The third major civilization, again deeply rooted in history, will be driven by India's growing hard and soft power.

Strong demographics, a far-flung diaspora and the world's third largest economy will impel India to play a global role unmatched since the golden thousand years between the fifth century BC and fifth century AD when the subcontinent produced two prophets (Buddha and Mahavir Jain), two emperor-statesmen (Ashoka and Chandragupta) and two epics (the "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata" ).

The fourth civilizational strain set to compete for space and salience this century is Islam. Though spiritually tethered to Mecca, Islam has not had a centre of gravity since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1917 and the abolition of the Caliphate by Turkey in 1924.

The west is propelled by American and European values, China by its ethnic homogeneity, India by its ancient religions and philosophy. Each has a clear geographical anchor. But Islamic civilization, whose worldwide influence is strong and growing, is as much at home in East Asia ( Indonesia and Malaysia ) as it is in the Arab Middle East, non-Arab Turkey and Iran, the Central Asian republics ( Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan), Eastern Europe ( Bosnia , Albania), North Africa ( Morocco, Libya) and, of course, the Indian subcontinent. Islam transcends nations – both a strength and weakness.

How will the four competing civilizations engage each other as the 21st century unravels? Consider first their relative economic power.

According to the IMF, Asia (led by China, Japan and India) will account for 34% of global GDP by 2015. By 2030, Asia's GDP will exceed the combined GDP of the United States and Europe. This is not a shift in the balance of global economic power but a restoration of the status quo. Till 1775, China and India accounted for 50% of global economic output.

The colonization of Asia and Africa, the Atlantic slave trade and the invasive settlements of the Americas and Australasia wrenched power from east to west. That process is now being reversed by strong economic growth in the east and relative stagnation in the west.

Each of the four civilizations that will shape this century has threads going back millennia. Ancient Greece and Rome are the precursors of the US-led west. Chinese and Indian civilizations date back to 3,500 BC. Islam, of course, is the youngest of the four civilizational strains but, geographically , it too has predecessors in antiquity: Mesopotamia (today's Iraq), Persia and Egypt.

While Christian Europe clashed repeatedly with Islam from the eighth century onwards, the west began its slow ascent in the 13th century. Education was the key. Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne and Heidelberg -the great universities of the west-were all founded around this time as seats of ecclesiastical learning. Soon, they evolved into centres of science, arts and the classics. The scientific and industrial revolution that followed the Renaissance in Europe enabled the west to lay the foundation for modern nationstates.

India and China, meanwhile, lay dormanttwo ancient and weary civilizations in decay. Each was reshaped by contact with the expansionary west and Islam. But their approach to outsiders was markedly different. China's martial dynasties, confident in their 'middle kingdom' self-image of being the centre of the world, treated upstart 17h century British and Dutch emissaries with disdain and remained largely free of western influence (except in coastal Hong Kong). India, fragmented and directionless, was plucked, piece by piece, first by Islam and then by the British Empire. Like a sponge, it absorbed them all and remade them in its own mould.

Where do Russia and Latin America fit in as world power moves from west to east? Latin America will remain in the west's sphere of influence. So will Russia, though competitive pressures over the Caucasus will be a continuing source of intra-Europe friction. Russia's sharply declining birth rate and population will weaken it. Most of western Europe too will be impaled by ageing and falling populations.

Throughout history, civilizations have clashed over territory and faith. The 21st century has moderated some of those primal ambitions. But it is in the nature of man to compete for power . The west is weakening, but will remain a global technological and cultural force for much of this century. China and India will be restored to their historical pre-eminence. Islam will have to change from within to compete successfully with other civilizations. It will have to modernize and adapt-hether in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq or Somalia.

As a young nation but an ancient civilization, India stands out for its diversity and democracy, the two markers that will determine which civilizational strand emerges strongest in an era of contesting but collaborative global values.

The writer is the chairman of a media group

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The US Dollar: Too Big to Fail? By Jerry Western and Lorimer Wilson - www.resourceinvestor.com


The US Dollar: Too Big to Fail?

Published 12/16/2010 

Those in the US power structure know what the plan is should the US dollar fail. They are not admitting publicly that there is even the remotest chance that it could happen but, rest assured, there is a plan.  There is always a plan.  To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt, nothing happens by chance in government, so don’t be caught up in such a “surprise” event – whatever it may be and whenever it occurs.

The US dollar really is everyone’s problem.  There are more dollars in circulation worldwide than any other currency – perhaps more than all other currencies combined as a full two-thirds of the rest of the world’s foreign reserves are denominated in US dollars.  It’s also true that two-thirds of all dollars circulate outside of the United States.  They have long been the choice of exchange on the world’s black markets.  The reason is because they are so recognizable and accepted everywhere else; in other words, liquid and fungible.  They have also tended to keep their purchasing power value relatively constant until recently.  That's why many nations peg their currency to the dollar.  It also helps that it is still the world reserve currency.
 
The above virtues being touted there are too many of them anymore and the law of supply and demand states that the more of something there is, the less value it has and the less demand there is for it.  The world is becoming saturated with US dollars and many are looking for alternatives. As such, it is only a matter of time before the dollar does fail. When, how, and at what speed are all that are left for debate.

Failure of the dollar would be noticeable in many ways and when it does fail we won't have to ask if it has we'll know. 

Failure of the dollar will mean many things.  It will mean that it is no longer recognized as having or retaining value.  In other words, confidence in it will be greatly or entirely diminished.  We only hold dollars (or any currency), not because they have value themselves, and not that we find them useful, but because the perception that others will accept them for goods or services.  We hold them because we have confidence that we will be able to pass them on at a later date.

A failure would mean that, at a minimum, the cost of everything, but especially anything we import, would rise dramatically.  In a worst case scenario, dollars would not be accepted in any quantity for goods or services, either domestic or foreign.

What would some of the possible triggers for a decline in the US dollar?

1. The Chinese could start selling their US bonds and Treasuries.  This would make interest rates rise, collapse demand for new offerings and make dollars return to the US, thus stoking domestic inflation.

2. The dollar could suddenly or gradually stop being the world reserve currency.  This would cause the value of the dollar on the Forex (currency market) to fall against other currencies, possibly setting off a self-fulfilling hyper-inflationary event.

3. Another currency could become backed by gold before the dollar. This would set off a scramble to convert dollars into that currency and causing the dollar to fail as people try to get rid of them to buy the other currency.

The above are just a few of the possible scenarios that could precipitate the failure of the dollar.  The important point is that this failure is not only possible but likely, and likely to happen sooner rather than later.

How could the demise of the US dollar be avoided?

1. We could collectively start living within our means. This would stop the debasement of the currency but such an effort would be politically and socially unacceptable to both the government and the people.

2. The US could implement a new currency. The problem with such a “solution” is that the problem wouldn’t go away by simply erasing zeros on the currency.  The inflation dynamic would still be present if no other action were taken in conjunction with such action.

3. The Fed could hyper-inflate the economy. Such an effort would only be a temporary solution and not a cure, however.  The US government has already caused a bubble in the dollar, bond, and Treasury markets.  The bailout schemes of the last few years necessitated [that] trillions of new dollars be created.  This is the path we have been on for some time and it has masked the problem to a certain extent but this ‘solution’ would by no means be a cure.

4. The US government could default on its debt obligations. Heck, the US already defaulted on its internal obligations in 1933 and to its external creditors in 1971. The US continues in default every day by issuing more dollars than can ever be redeemed at their current purchasing power.  It is the chosen path, the inflation path.  The question, however, is whether the US would default en masse on all of its remaining obligations all at one time?  If so, it would be a moon shot for gold, silver and all commodities immediately following the default.  This would likely be done at the most advantageous time (night, holiday) for the government and the worst time for you, leaving you without time to prepare or protect yourself.

5. The Fed could revalue the US dollar in terms of gold. This is already happening gradually and goes hand-in-hand with the previous two scenarios.  In this scenario, instead of the US defaulting on its obligations or re-valuing the currency, it could re-value the price of gold in dollars announcing that it would pay (buy) a certain (higher) price for gold on the open market.  This would have the effect of immediately re-valuing every ounce of gold on the planet.  It would then be possible to cover our outstanding debt with our gold reserves (if they're all there), leading to a de-facto gold standard.

6. Return to a gold standard. This seems to be inevitable at some point.  How we get there and the ultimate price established for an ounce of gold are up for debate.  In all likelihood, plans are already afoot and this will be a ‘surprising’ event for most when, not if, but when it does happen.

7. A combination of the above. This is also very likely. The price of gold will simply be allowed to rise to clear the market.  They revalued gold with the stroke of a pen in the 1930's and could very well do it again.  All that needs to be done is for the government to state that it will now purchase gold for a set dollar amount and then all gold, everywhere, would be worth that amount.  Like an equity trading on a stock market, it's the last trade at the margin that sets the value of every other stock of the company.

Conclusion

Someone, somewhere, in the US power structure knows what the plan is but isn’t telling us - but rest assured - there is a plan.  There is always a plan.  To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt, nothing happens by chance in government.  Don’t be caught up in such a ‘surprise’ event - whatever it may be and whenever it occurs.

Take note: Holding physical gold is your lifeline in any of the above scenarios.

Jerry Western is author of the newly available book, “Got Gold? Get Gold!” which is available online and at major book retailers. Lorimer Wilson is editor-in-chief of FinancialArticleSummariesToday.  Western provides a Model Portfolio Service listing his top Precious Metal picks and weighted rankings available by e-mailing westernoutlook@yahoo.com with the word "peek" in the subject line while Wilson offers a free weekly "Top 100 Stock Market, Asset Ratio & Economic Indicators in Review."

Sunday, December 19, 2010

WikiLeaks - Re: Indian Muslims - By US Ambassador to India

Friday, 02 December 2005, 12:54
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 06 NEW DELHI 009127
SIPDIS 
SIPDIS 
EO 12958 DECL: 11/30/2015 
TAGS KISL, PGOV, KDEM, PINRPTER, SCUL, IN 
 
SUBJECT: INDIA'S DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMY MINIMIZE EXTREMIST
RECRUITMENT OF JUVENILES (C-CT5-00623)
 
REF: STATE 211901
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Classified By: POLCOUNS Geoffrey R. Pyatt for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
1. (C) India's over 150 million Muslim population is largely unattracted to extremism. India's growing economy, vibrant democracy, and inclusive culture, encourage Muslims to seek success and social mobility in the mainstream and reduces alienation. With Indian Muslim youth increasingly comfortable in the mainstream, the pool of potential recruits is shrinking, while Muslim families and communities provide little sanction or support to extremist appeals. This cable is in response to Reftel requesting information on methods used by extremist groups to recruit and train youths under the age of 18. Post notes that India is home to a wide variety of extremist groups, including religious extremists (Hindu, Muslim and Sikh), ethnic separatists, and extremists from the political left (Naxalites) and right (primarily Hindu fascists), all of whom recruit children. However, reftel requests information only on Islamic extremist groups such as Al-Qa'ida, Ansar al-Sunnah, the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), the Taliban and Kashmiri militants, and we will confine our analysis to such groups.
The Muslim Minority
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2. (C) According to India's 1991 National Census, the Muslim population constitutes just under 15 percent of the country's total. It grew by 33 percent between 1981-2001, while the general population increased by 24 percent. Islam is India's largest minority religion. In many towns and cities, particularly in Northern India, one third or more of the population is Muslim. The largest concentrations of Muslims live in the states of Bihar (12 million), West Bengal (16 million), and Uttar Pradesh (24 million). The overwhelming majority (92 percent) are Sunnis, the remainder being Shias. India's Muslim population is estimated to be as large as 150 million (the second largest in the world after Indonesia), and suffers from higher rates of poverty than most other groups in India, and can be the victims of discrimination and prejudice. Despite this, the vast majority remain committed to the Indian state and seek to participate in mainstream political and economic life. Only a small number of young Muslims have concluded that mainstream politics will never address their grievances and have gravitated toward pan-Islamic and pro-Pakistan organizations, which sometimes engage in acts of violence. India's vibrant democracy, inclusive culture and growing economy have made it easier for Muslim youth to find a place in the mainstream, reduced the pool of potential recruits, and the space in which Islamic extremist organizations can operate.
A Vibrant Democracy
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3. (C) Although there are a wide variety of Islamic religious, political and social organizations, most Muslims join or support secular groups without a specific Islamic identity. The ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), spearheaded by Congress, projects itself as the secular alternative to the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA), dominated by the Hindu-nationalist BJP. Muslims generally join secular parties as the best way to ensure that the BJP does not attain political power, although the BJP
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does have Muslim members as well. No exclusively Muslim organization has succeeded in mobilizing more than a small portion of the Muslim faithful. Muslim organizations that support terrorism against the Indian state and non-Muslim Indians are very small and lack influence or popular following outside of Kashmir. India's vibrant democracy has ensured that the large Muslim community has a voice in politics and recent elections have demonstrated that Muslim voters are courted actively by political parties. With a Muslim President (Abdul Kalam) occupying the highest political position in the country, Muslims have been encouraged to seek political power in electoral and parliamentary politics, all but eliminating the appeal of violent extremism.
Growing Economy
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4. (C) India's secular education system increasingly integrates Muslim students into the mainstream and has spawned a growing and prosperous Muslim middle class. Muslims, like Indians generally, rely on education and English language competence to provide access to increased job opportunities. In the past, extremist groups focused on Indian universities as potential recruiting grounds, but the economic upturn has transformed this dynamic. Most Muslims approaching graduation from University will be prepared to enter the job market and are not interested in extremism. This cuts down the time when Muslim students are vulnerable to extremist recruitment and compels extremist organizations to target younger students. Economic growth has spawned dramatic social change and Muslim extremists must find potential recruits who have not yet participated in or benefited from the economic boom, consumer capitalism and the attractions of the media. These groups are likely to reject any recruit who has already been enticed away from Islamic separatism into secular values.
And an Inclusive Culture
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5. (C) In order for Islamic extremism to be attractive to Indian Muslim youth, they would have to feel alienated from the mainstream culture. While Muslims are often victimized and discriminated against, traditional barriers to cultural integration are breaking down. Young and dynamic Muslims are popular culture heroes in sports (Sania Mirza) and Bollywood (Sharrukh Khan and many others). The message for young Muslims is that they are Indians first and Muslims second, and that they can fully participate in Indian society and culture and win the adulation and respect of other Indians, regardless of religion.
Kashmir - The Exception
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6. (C) Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim majority state, is characterized by a different kind of political Islam. Kashmiri Muslims, like many of their counterparts throughout South Asia, have been historically heavily influenced by Sufi Islam, but because of their majority status and geographic isolation in a remote princely state, never saw themselves as part of the Islamic mainstream in pre-partition India. Kashmiri Muslims have worked actively to maintain a separate identity and have resisted
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integration. This has been compounded by the turbulence and terrorism that have engulfed the state since 1989. The Kashmiri sense of separateness permeates the programs and manifestos of Kashmir's Islamic groups, and Kashmiri Muslims have not embraced Indian Muslims' aspirations for national integration. Moreover, many Kashmiri Muslims have parted company with their Indian Muslim counterparts and embraced Wahhabi Islam during the insurgency. While Indian Muslims feel compelled to express support for their co-religionists in Kashmir, they tend to look upon Kashmiris with suspicion and try to keep the Kashmiri cause at arm's length.
The Extremists
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7. (C) Separatism and religious extremism have little appeal to Indian Muslims, and the overwhelming majority espouse moderate doctrines. While the conservative Sunni political organization the Jamaat Islami (JI) and the Deobandi sect espouse Islamic chauvinism, and some of their members express admiration for Osama bin Ladin, their leaders usually do not express such views in public, and there is little to indicate that they have provided anything more than rhetorical support to terrorists. Attacks by Hindu extremists on innocent Muslims and periodic bouts of bloody communal rioting, have led a small number of Muslims to cross the line from sympathizing with violence to engaging in terrorism. Some Kashmiri terrorist groups argue that only attacks outside of Kashmir will shake the Indian state and convince theGOI to withdraw. Members of these two small slivers of the Muslim community provide recruits for groups prone to acts of violence and terrorism, many of which are supported from outside India. The numbers are small, especially outside of Kashmir, but they remain capable of periodic bombings and other acts of violence.
8. (C) Indian Islamic groups that are extreme in their views and activities include
Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen Marqazi-Jamiyat-e-Ahal-e-Hadith (MJAH) Muslim United Liberation Front of Assam (MULFA) Muslim Security Council of Assam (MSCA) Muslim Volunteer Force (MVF) Muslim Liberation Army (MLA) Muslim Security Force (MSF) Islamic Sevak Sangh (ISS) United Muslim Liberation Front of Assam (UMLFA)
9. (C) In addition, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) are Pakistan-based groups which recruit Indian Muslims. Hizbul Mujahideen is a Kashmiri terrorist group which works closely with the Pakistan-based organizations. The MJAH is a nationwide organization for Muslims who subscribe to Wahhabi Islam. Since the overwhelming majority of Indian Sunnis belong to the more liberal Barelvi and Deobandi schools, the Wahhabi sect has relatively few adherents, and only a small segment of Indian Wahabis endorse the MJAH and its views. The group is very small and press accounts have periodically linked it to bombings, most recently in Mumbai. SIMI was originally founded to provide spiritual guidance to Muslim university students, but drifted into extremist politics and terrorism, and was subsequently banned by the GOI in 2001. Individual
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SIMI members are periodically arrested and prosecuted, but the group is largely dormant. LeT and JeM have cells in India which have committed terrorist attacks, primarily in J & K, but elsewhere as well. The GOI has stated that the LeT is the principal suspect in the recent deadly bombings in Delhi, which killed over 70 persons. Most Indians, both Muslim and non-Muslim, view members of these groups as subversive agents of a hostile power, Pakistan.
Answers to Specific Questions
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10. (C) Question A -- Recruitment
As explained above, there are two distinct threads of Islamic extremism in India, which can overlap, but are largely separate; Kashmiri groups, which are both Islamic and ethnic, and non-Kashmiri groups, which emphasize a primarily religious identity while Kashmiri groups have recruited boys under the age of 18, other extremist groups have concentrated on University students, who are often above the age of 18. Kashmir has been embroiled in terrorism for decades, exposing children to violence at an early age. Decades of conflict, a high casualty rate, and war-weariness has shrunk the pool of recruits for Kashmiri terrorist groups and they have turned to younger boys.
11. (C) Most experts believe that terrorism in Kashmiri is now largely a non-Kashmiri affair. A study by a private think tank on recruitment into Indian terrorist organizations verified that Kashmiri terrorist groups are the only Islamic groups specifically to recruit juveniles. The report claims that children have participated in terrorist attacks in Kashmir since the early 1990s, when there were documented cases of juveniles throwing grenades at security force pickets. Inspector-General of Police K. Rajendra said in October 2003 that perhaps only a handful of children have been involved in actual incidents, that in 2002 the Kashmir police knew of the recruitment of approximately 100 child recruitments, and that the number increased to approximately 500 in 2003. According to the study, the terrorist groups have evolved a specific method of juvenile recruitment. A 'scout' or 'overground worker' surveys an area and identifies boys from poor families within the target age group. On a given day, the terrorists abduct the identified targets at gun-point and take them to a hideout. The groups target schools, as exemplified in July 2003, when a LeT recruiter walked into the playground of the National High School at the small Bandipora village of Vijhar in the Baramulla district. Security forces subsequently rescued a group of six children from the LeT 'scout.' Some of the rescued children had repeatedly failed school examinations and others had dropped out to take unpaid apprenticeships in dead-end jobs. Police assert that families are coerced to 'donate' a younger son to the 'jihad' and that refusal to comply could result in the death of the entire family. Since 2003, the border has become less porous, the appeal of joining terrorist groups has diminished, and there are fewer media accounts of child abductions and rescues.
12. (C) Some prominent instances demonstrating patterns of child recruitment include:
--On 6 August 2001, security forces intercepted three terrorists forcibly taking 12 young boys at gunpoint to
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Pakistan for training and induction into their ranks. As the young boys ran towards the security forces for safety, the terrorists fired on them killing one boy and injuring another, the security forces rescued the remainder.
--In July-August 2001, security forces rescued 39 young boys in the age group of 14-18, being taken at gun point to Pakistan for training.
--In 2003, an estimated 500 teenagers were recruited into various terrorist outfits in J&K. The child recruits received rudimentary arms training, but primarily worked as cooks, cleaners, porters and guides for terrorists
13. (C) Outside of Kashmir, Islamic organizations in Indian universities have some success recruiting Muslim students, many from rural backgrounds and away from home for the first time. Those who stay with such groups can become increasingly isolated from the mainstream and are attractive recruits for Islamic extremists. Our contacts tell us, however, that most Muslim students lose interest in such groups as they become more comfortable in their new environments. The Indian media has published colorful stories implying that Madrassas are recruiting centers for Islamic terrorism and that many are funded by Pakistan's ISI. The accounts are mostly anecdotal, however, and there has been little or no hard evidence linking Indian Madrassas to terrorist recruitment. Madrassas originally started at the secondary level and were confined to boys, with most Muslim children attending public primary schools in their own villages. The Deobandi sect is establishing a series of primary schools for North Indian boys and girls. Their goal is to provide madrassa education for children from age five through university level. There is some concern that this move could isolate children from the mainstream and make them more prone to extremism or susceptible to recruitment into terrorist groups.
question B -- Characteristics of Recruits
14. (C) Muslim contacts tell us that young recruits in Kashmir are those who have been brutalized by violence, lost loved ones, or have personally experienced repression by the Indian security forces. Many are bent on revenge. As in most war-torn areas, children brutalized by their environment can begin to see violence as a normal career path and can divorce it from any ideological justification. Non-Kashmiri recruits are said to be primarily from blue collar or poor families with limited education and from a rural or urban slum background. They can find higher education to be a painful process and have trouble adjusting to a radically different environment, and can embrace radical Islam as a coping mechanism, as the Islamic groups welcome them and provide them with a warm and familiar environment. In Gujarat and Western India, particularly in Mumbai, many Muslims were traumatized by anti-Muslim rioting following the destruction of Babri Mosque in 1992, and the Godhra train violence of 2002. We speculate that their principal motivation is revenge for senseless and painful attacks inflicted on them, their families, and their communities by Hindu extremists.
question C -- Juveniles and the Advancement of Terrorist Goals
15. (C) Kashmiri groups, facing a limited manpower pool and
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heavily outnumbered by the Indian security forces, have seen a harsh attrition as their members are killed, imprisoned, or fall away. Like terrorist groups in other countries facing a similar dilemma (the LTTE in Sri Lanka for example), they have recruited younger and younger members. In addition, Kashmiri adults have largely tired of violence and extremism and are less receptive to terrorist recruitment. In such an environment, children are more pliable and less resistant. They can also provide a lifetime of service, in a conflict that seems to go on without end. Other Islamic extremist groups have a similar dilemma, in that Islamic extremism is not popular in India and most adults are not interested. This forces extremists to pitch to young and naive audiences who may be more amenable.
question D -- Rehabilitation Methods
16. (C) Since there is relatively little recruitment of juveniles into extremist groups, especially outside of Kashmir, there is no GOI program aimed specifically at rehabilitating them. We know of no instances where child terrorists have been captured. In those instances where abducted children are rescued, the security forces return them to their parents.
question E -- Reasons why Extremists May Refrain from Juvenile Recruitment
17. (C) Kashmir has had the most experience with recruitment of juveniles into extremist groups. Enthusiasm there for the separatist/terrorist cause has largely waned, and the organizations there are concerned that they could become totally isolated and liable to be crushed by the security services if their popular support dries up. Cost benefit analysis would convince most such groups that the cost of losing support from the local community is too high for the small benefit provided by youthful recruits. Outside Kashmir, Muslims are facing the same pressures for social mobility as non-Muslims. Most Indian children are under pressure to get into school, stay in school, and perform well there, in order to obtain higher education and access to well-paid jobs. Attempts by extremist groups to recruit children from Muslim homes are likely to run into a wall of opposition from parents who would see involvement in extremism as counterproductive and a threat to future success of their children. This means that extremism is most attractive to children from families that are so poor that opportunities for education and advancement are all but non-existent. As the Indian economy continues to boom, the percentage of Muslim families who feel there is no hope for their children's' future is growing smaller, as is the pool of potential recruits. MULFORD

A Jew is a Jew is a Jew - By Ghulam Muhammed

Monday, December 20, 2010

A Jew is a Jew is a Jew

It is time the world should recognize and acknowledge a Jew as a Jew, first and last. World should acknowledge the tremendous good Jews, individually and collectively had contributed to humankind in practically every facet of human existence, especially in modern societies. At the same time, the world should beware of the tremendous potential of damage they could inflict on the world and had been in the past in history. Like with special children, the best way to keep them in sight is to keep them under constant surveillance, for the good they do to the world and to their own kind and for the damage they can do to the world and even to their own kind.

New York Times writer, Thomas L. Friedman is first and last Jewish. He carries all the positives and negatives that converge on his Jewish intellect. His analysis of the world around us has been singularly brilliant and eye-popping. In his latest article in The New York Times: We’ve Only Got America A (Dec.14, 2010), he rightly expresses alarm over how his country, the USA is slipping in world affairs.

It is the remedy that he suggests shows that even a most liberal of Jew could only fall back on his own kind’s existential propensities to find a solution for America’s survival. He wants America to go back to the American Jewish Neo-con model of War War rather than Jaw Jaw.  He writes: “…it will be a lot easier with a healthier America committed to its core values, powerful enough to project them and successful enough that others want to follow our lead ---- voluntarily.” 

According the American Jewish Neo-con, to project America’s power, it has to pick an Iraq here, an Afghanistan there and the world will be struck with shock and awe, for America to subdue the recalcitrant and force them to come to it voluntarily.

It is clear that even with America in decline like the Great Britain after the World War II, its Jewish thinkers are determined to prove that since there is no more any other America to save the world, as they had jumped from Europe to America as their survival strategy, they finding a dead end of further colonies, America itself should rearm itself and stand up to claim the title of the lone superpower of the world.

It is not that the US does not have the military power to bomb the entire planet many times over. It’s the fragility of the world in which Americans too have to make a living that forces them to compromise and resort to token warfare. They are now gearing up to take on North Korea. That will once again give them a chance to show the world that America is still alive and kicking.

Friedman warns his countrymen, that if America goes weak, though, and cannot project its power the way it has, ---“your kids won’t just grow up in a different America. They would grow up in a different world.” On the face of it, this means that the different world, if it is dominated by non-Caucasians, like China and India, would be a disaster for the Americans. Both China and India are not yet Zionist proxies.

A constant theme in Science Fiction literature and children’s comic books in America conjures up how Aliens from different galaxies where their survival is threatened, invade earth and how we the earth people deal with them.

The constant refrain shows how thinkers in literature and comics have been preparing the American children, for decades, when their survival on American soil will become difficult and they will have to invade other countries and find new colonies to settle.

Jews who have a history of moving from countries to countries, for any number of reasons, will be the first to jump the ship and the two countries that they would like to descent on, are China and India.

China is a difficult place to penetrate. India is a soft target and it is possible that America and its vanguard Jewish troopers will try to colonize India.

India’s extremist fascism oriented Hindutva political party’s President is now visiting Israel and openly asking Israel to help them in internal security of India. That is good enough entry point for Zionist Jews into India. Others will follow. India already has been propped up as the next ‘superpower’ in the making and is being offered goodies of all spurious kind, like a seat at UN Security Council. However, the moment India is embroiled in any of harebrained scheme of joining the next war, say against it’s neighbor China, India’s own economy is bound be ruined and the loss of Indian blood will blot the country’s future for all time to come.

India at best will be a reluctant imperialist power. Its mutinous millions will not easily succumb to American Neo-con maneuvering to engage them in a Third World War on Asian soil. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s current visit with 400 Chinese business leaders offering doubling of mutual trade to US$100 billion by 2015, is a visionary approach to keep India engaged in its Asian neighborhood, without getting entangled with West’s machinations. However, a jingoist Brahmin minority is on the same wave length as the Zionists and would do anything to perpetuate its stranglehold on India, even though their minority has organized a manufactured majority that is bound to disintegrate if the fruits of economic progress is monopolized by an easily identified oligarchic community and not available to the deprived rest. Unlike US, India is prone to internal violent strife. It therefore cannot unite to mount a foreign adventure, especially where nuclearly armed neighbours are involved.

It is therefore difficult to figure out where Thomas Friedman would like the US to go to show its military might that could translate in rejuvenation of its economy.

Friedman has identified two potent developments that are threatening the current world order. One: the emergence of China as an economic power. Second: the anarchy unleashed by whistleblower Wikileaks that is now a permanent threat to America’s secret war on its friends and foes. But emerging facts about Zionist connection, in censoring Wikileaks postings, challenge his pious lamentation on world anarchy.



Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai