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Here is a news telecast from Al Jazeera detailing the mess in Nandigram. Read more
Here is a news telecast from Al Jazeera detailing the mess in Nandigram. Read more
The Olympic rings for Beijing represent Torture, Murder, Execution, Pain and Agony for the Tibetans under the Chinese rule. A parallel relay will be run by the Tibetans on the streets of Delhi just 2 km away from the Olympic one. Arundhati Roy and George Fernandes - the most unlikely of pairs (one, a Defense Minister during Nuclear Tests and other the harshest critic of the tests) are going to participate in the relay. Read more
The note accompanying this movie says this: This film is based on original video footage of 14 march killings of peasents, in Nandigram, West bengal. CPM, a left party Government is responsible for this. Spacial thanks to Bengali poet Wishwajeet sen for providing this film. Now, look at how the "patriotic" and "champions of minorities and POOR" take care of the these people. See how the so called "anti-imperialists" do what imperialists and Mao/Hitlet/Stalin do in their worst times and MORE and YET talk hypocritically of their bloated egotistical "contributions! Can any Bengali please send in a translation of all this into English? Warning: The images are disturbing. Here police is seen firing and killing hundreds and thousands of people all on camera and then hitting them with stones and lathis! After they are done, they take a few bodies and dump them in a pit! Read more
My friend, Vish, writes about an issue that not many people are talking about but will - and SHOULD - start discussing in more earnest. Its called Food Crisis. Coupled with this food crisis is also the crisis of Water shortage. Things are getting worse and worse every year. Here is what he writes: Everyone's noticed the price of wheat flour (atta) and rice in grocery stores here in the US. In India, the food price hike seems even tougher for the middle and lower class to bear because food costs are such a huge part of the family budget. The govts in India, China and others have limited export of rice and India is importing wheat again. Some countries are starting to have food riots Here are some reasons that BBC's article presents: -Diversion to produce Ethanol -Move to more meat consumption than grain consumption in diet of people in China and other rising economies (meat needs much more land and water to be produced) -Population growth Some graphs for a better visual understanding. Look at how the different indicators are moving: Read more
Is it possible to forget oneself without any motive? Because, we can see very well that any motive has within it the seed of the self with its anxiety, ambition, frustration, its fear of not-being, and the immense urge to be secure. And can all that fall away easily, without any effort? Which means, really, can you and I, as individuals, live in this world without being identified with anything? Read more
Cattle Prods used to break the teeth of monks and to rape the women. See clearly WHAT and WHO the India's CPI and CPM - the Prakash Karats, the Jyoti Basu, the Harkishan Singh Surjeet and their friends justify and side with. Make sure you know what kind of FASCISTS, BARBARIANS and Hypocrites we have amongst our own midst! Read more
With energy becoming such an issue in the world, everyone is looking for renewable energy which is consistent with nature. With the population rising so much any source of energy seems small. But what if the people itself are the source? Body Heat! Body Heat can be a great source! You dont believe it? Yeah, and you think how much of heat could be generated by one's body? Good question. Make a guess. Enough to toast a bread? A house? A building? Well, the Stockholm Central Station which is the largest train station in the country and in the Nordic region with around 250,000 persons passing through it every day is preparing to use the body heat of all these 250k visitors to heat the station, buildings, hotel and the retail section. How does it work? quite simply, the heat generated will warm up water running through pipes which will be installed in the station. The water will be pumped to the new building and used to heat the spaces inside. They are not the only ones! Even Prof Arun Majumdar is working on this kind of idea using nanowires. Using his technique - a person anywhere in the world would be able to use a simple power-jacket utilising his body heat to stay warm. The same body heat could even be used to recharge a cell phone. Ok, lets look at some numbers now.. how much are we worth: According to the Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics, a NASA commercial center in Alabama, the human body is on average 15% fat, capable of producing 11,000 watt hours. Read more
This is very interesting set of pictures... three current bollywood stars and how they would look when old. Just seemed an interesting thing to blog on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Read more
There are many terrorists these days - sadists and masochists. They find new ways to attack and bring destruction. There are many ways that this entire earth may be no more - other than Nuking it. We will all be gone. Some have no more a chance than one of googol! But it is still worth looking at - here is how vacuum can be used to not only create energy but also annihilate. This article lists 10 choices. Destroyed by vacuum energy detonation You will need: a light bulb Method: This is a fun one. Contemporary scientific theories tell us that what we may see as vacuum is only vacuum on average, and actually thriving with vast amounts of particles and antiparticles constantly appearing and then annihilating each other. It also suggests that the volume of space enclosed by a light bulb contains enough vacuum energy to boil every ocean in the world. Therefore, vacuum energy could prove to be the most abundant energy source of any kind. Which is where you come in. All you need to do is figure out how to extract this energy and harness it in some kind of power plant - this can easily be done without arousing too much suspicion - then surreptitiously allow the reaction to run out of control. The resulting release of energy would easily be enough to annihilate all of planet Earth and probably the Sun too. Slightly possible. Earth's final resting place: a rapidly expanding cloud of particles of varying size. Earliest feasible completion date: 2060 or so. Source: "3001: The Final Odyssey," by Arthur C. Clarke Read more
Here are snippets from when China invaded Tibet. Do you see how peaceful monks are being beaten? It is said that when any power hurts the enlightened beings and goes around killing them, its end is not too far. Mughal empire crashed soon after Aurangzeb. Irrespective of how powerful China seems today, it is my firm conviction that its economy is a house of cards. And end of its economy is not too far. Look at this and then look at the comments of that Indian commie on this site below about his allegiance to Chinese and toeing their line on Tibet. Makes you ashamed but also brings out the real barbarian and fascist nature of these Indian Communists. Read more
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