Bharat Rakshak

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From the extremely interesting read, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-27/why-china-s-heading-for-a-hard-landing-part-1-a-gary-shilling.html , "Speculators are starting to take stock of the evidence of a hard landing in China, and industrial commodity prices, including copper, are swooning....

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The slave labour efforts of millions of Chinese over the past decades is now represented by the trillion dollar reserves. The dollar is now the biggest ponzi scheme going. The Chinese have realized that the dollar is not going to last and the US has no option but to default. And the Chinese have rea...

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<snip> Let's look at luxury items -- Gucci handbags, BMWs, Audis, Apple Iphones and other trappings of the comfortable class. <snip> Since we were talking about cars earlier ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8783588/BMW-town-crashes-in-pyramid-fraud.html Don't mean to be flip...

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Interesting views - Doug Casey from Casey Research
http://vimeo.com/29058918

Over the long term,
- US has to default, its creditors should be punished
- Abolish welfare
- Buy gold
- Short (US) bonds

skumar

Dr. Shiv, Apologies for not responding in detail but I disagree with your point that US may fall back asleep after 'smelling the $hitty TSPA coffee'. This is not the US in the 1970s during the end of Vietnam. <snip> What is also different this time is that there is a distinct anti-war sentiment bre...

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Friend, father & philosopher of black money is Chidambaram http://www.sunday-guardian.com/analysis/friend-father-a-philosopher-of-black-money-is-chidambaram The article mentions it in passing but surely Chidambaram's magnum opus is the Participatory Notes, which has enabled many a honest servan...

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I think we may hear that the RBI was trying to buy some gold in the market. That may explain Pranab's trip to the US.

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"Central banks are suppressing gold prices to make their own currencies seem stronger and to build confidence in the reserve currency, the US dollar."
http://gata.org/goldrush21

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Where is Mexico's gold, and is it really gold at all? http://gata.org/node/10487

Is our gold reserves also situated on foreign shores like Mexico's?

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"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery." —Thomas Jeffer...

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MMS is doing the right thing in getting to bottom of things with Pranab. After everything that has happened, to even attribute a modicum of honesty to MMS is a farce. He is morally dishonest and has sold out his office willingly as part of the deal before assuming office. This was the veneer to hid...

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Those referring to the works of SSwamy as antics, please note. Here is a man who has probably done at least as much in the fight against corruption as AH. He might not have a base in TN probably because he cannot afford to. He was probably responsible for much of the liberalisation reforms in India ...

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25-Mar Note by the Finance Ministry on Allocation and Pricing of 2G spectrum http://static.dnaindia.com/docs/fm-letter-to-pmo-on-spectrum-allotment.pdf The former FM went against the advice of his Finance Secretary (now RBI Gov) on the issue. Wonder if Chidambaram held out against Raja to get his &q...

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Three cheers for Dr. Subramanian Swamy! Oh Lord, please grant his wish of seeing Chidambaram in jail. And Lord, please grant our wish of seeing every corrupt minister in this government in jail. :rotfl: I hope the Supreme Court neither accepts the TRAI bs on "no financial loss in 2G auction&quo...

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Amber G. wrote:<snip>
(This way the minimum speed (for fox) is "improved" from (1/(sqrt(3)) to 0.5. )
Added later: For clarity, see my next post for few more comments.

I guess one can see farther on clearer days

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Thanks.

skumar

<snip> For the Yugoslav problem, the answer is 2, (That is rabbit escapes if it can run 2x (or more) times faster). As gakkakad mentioned, the answer is by no means trivial. <snip> http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4602/rabbitfox2.jpg AmberG, From the diagram above, r1 is the initial position of the...

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Angre, SriKumar, Gakakkad et al.. The duck / fox problem is interesting... But a bit clichéd ... Asked too often... <snip> Yes it has been asked quite often (with fox running 4 times as fast as the duck. Solution given above by gakakkad is nice. Duck will escape even if fox can run 4 times faster. ...

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<snip>I fear for Modi/BJP and Bharat now. b/c there is a very good possibility that key sections of Modi's power base will be bought off to put pressure on Modi. The concerning part is that Modi himself is waving this communication like a schoolboy with some sort of pat on the back from a favourite...

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OT but interesting. India's electricity T&D losses are 31%. Delhi, the stage of AH's fast, has T&D losses of 46%! Surely, like in Pakistan as in a post on the TSP thread, the government is providing "free power" to some for a price. China has T&D losses of 7%, most of it not pr...

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You are talking about govt corruption. Which is a non sequitur to what I posted. I am talking purely about business men (wealth creators) making money but not paying the corrupt govt the right to dip into that tax and then use it for corrupt purpose. The act of bribes and corruption of taking money...

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Well, SKumar, I really do not know how familiar you are with the various Niti and Artha Shastras, but I am afraid I have to shatter some of your illusions in these matters. <snip> “Enemies that seek to destroy us should be killed. That is what those well versed in state craft will approve and prais...

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SSridhar wrote:Will TSP be able to milk the Chinese Bull, the way it did the US ?

Interesting oxymoron.

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The real story could be that not only do we have internal traitors, but we are weak also. Karnad openly says we are weak in relation to China. Everyone knows that and you have heard on this forum how Clinton may have come down on the "strong" BJP in 1998. If you believe that Clinton basic...

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After the prince decreed that Hindu right-wing terrorism is a bigger threat than jihadi terrorism, the list of unsolved cases has kept on growing.

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SKumar: You are mistaken in thinking that covert ops within paki stan, against the pakis means turning "criminal". All niti & artha shastras clearly segrigate State actions from Dharma & Rit, which are ristricted to personal, social morality. There are no "criminal" acts...

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What India needs is a massive level of covert ops within and among the pakis. from the mosques to the farms, villages, towns and cities. Covert operatives dedicated to kill pakiness in their respective little zones of the pakis. Send them thru afghanistan, iran, off shore, wherever except across th...

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Neshant wrote:how come India has such a sh&tty deal by comparison with these Swiss ?

Because the Indo-Swiss deal is supposed to keep nosy Indian investigators out of Swiss banks.

skumar

While the government is stuck with redrafting the LPB, let see what they can do - 1. Inclusion of PM - defense and home / foreign affairs are already being spoken of as exclusions, add to the list so as to make it impossible to implicate the PM like issues concerning national priorities - 2G can com...

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ShyamSP wrote:
Kanson wrote: Question is: Did Agnivesh use Anna team or Anna team use Agnivesh or were they part of some glorious plan?

I am sure that Kejriwal, Bedi and team would have "constructively used" Agnivesh to misinform the government.

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The ruling coalition has been brought to the table screaming and kicking and the people have seen them scream and kick in this 24 X 7 show. They have to act now like they have enjoyed it. Let us enjoy the act. Some of the chamchas will now make it seem like it all happened since the sagacity of the ...

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Pranav wrote:http://www.moneylife.in/article/the-por ... 19283.html

+1.

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Yenn Yarr Eye sitting in Dubai declaring milestones in Indian democrazy? No maturity-vachurity saar, and the yooth will not mature overnight, this is the same yooth that voted the KanGrezz back into power in Mumbai barely 6 months after 26-11. Incidentally it was the same Luxuryking countryface who...

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Thanks, Amber G. I guess you could look at it both ways. Since I was looking at the Rs part and ignored the initial low Rs 10000 per annum, I was looking at it as a Rs 300 increment every six months or Rs 1000 every year. The Rs 50 increment every month looked intuitively low to me and hence probabl...

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<snip> To sum up: 1) Sonia Gandhi proved that Indian Parliamentary Democracy could be subverted, by creating a center of extra-constitutional power. 2) In Sonia Gandhi's darbaar, many unelected "civil society" types started exercising extra-constitutional power. But between them were stru...

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No higher mathematics needed for this one: You start a new job. This job pays Rs. 10,000 per annum, with paychecks coming in on the 1st and 15th of every month. Your boss also offers you two options: 1. You get an annual raise of Rs. 1,000 2. You get a raise of Rs. 300 every 6 months. Which option ...

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habal wrote:Vishwabandhu Gupta interview:

http://www.chauthiduniya.com/2011/08/an ... ister.html

+1

Love this guy! He would be my first choice as the Lok Pal. If he becomes Lok Pal, we would not be an occupied country any longer.

skumar

I have a simple question onlee. Is India ready for Jan Lok Pal? Emotionally I know I am ready but I am telling you as a guy who has a good career in financial system, We will incur a significant cost in short term while doing so. Many companies will be wiped out and entire financial system will be ...

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<snip> To sum up: 1) Sonia Gandhi proved that Indian Parliamentary Democracy could be subverted, by creating a center of extra-constitutional power. 2) In Sonia Gandhi's darbaar, many unelected "civil society" types started exercising extra-constitutional power. But between them were stru...

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AmberG,

Thanks for elaborating the solution patiently again to this dumb (and now I suspect blind) mujahid brought up on madrassa maths (see, we were never taught this or I was out grazing)

skumar

ArmenT ji from LPUA, Let me deconstruct your original argument - <quote> I'm going to say 0. Reason: 1. Forget all the integral numbers into the expression above because they don't play any part in the digits after the decimal point in the first place. but they do, a moments thought will make this c...

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