Bharat Rakshak

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Look, tax is not something which should cavalierly be imposed on people. Tax should be imposed in return for services rendered by the govt. Otherwise, it just becomes a license to grab other peoples' money. If a guy works hard, studies hard to become a cardiac surgeon, and another guy lazes around a...

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The Anger of the Rich Seldom have I agreed with Paul Krugman, especially of late. But this piece I find myself more agreeing with than disagreeing with. Read it all only. No point excerpting or anything. Would kill sri Krugman's polemical style, I guess. Obama and Krugman would like to play Santa C...

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India handset maker Micromax sells stake
September 20, 2010

Indian handset maker Micromax, which is taking on Nokia and other foreign brands in its home market, has sold a stake to investors in a deal that values the group at more than 440 million dollars.

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(TIME)Is Iranian TV to Blame for Deadly Protests in Kashmir?

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(BBC)Red Shirts Stage New Protest in Thailand

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Indian Police Reject Muslim Terror Angle

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The Kaangress Party of Egypt needs a successor -- guess who that will be? (BBC)Could Egypt's election lead to a dynastic succession? What Gamal needs are EVMs. They will help to keep the dynasty in power. Egypt is technically part of Africa already, anyway. Kaangress can start a lucrative export bus...

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Has anybody tried out that audio-recording pen by Livescribe? I've been hearing about it for the past few years and have been intrigued by it. I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has used it firsthand, and whether they feel it works. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19Livescribe-t.html?...

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(TIME)Southeast Asian Militaries Go on a Buying Spree

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Some in China ready to drop its U.S. holdings and pour money into their own country

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It's okay to be in debt, if you owe USD-denominated debt invested in foreign holdings. That's why USD-carry-trade is doing so strongly. It seems like USD-carry-trade is the only sure thing to bet on. This is because US can't revive its competitiveness suddenly overnight, and will either be forced to...

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Prof Niall Ferguson's Talk on the Upcoming Collapse of the USA

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Folks an appeal at first, can we give it a rest bashing Indian political parties here? The problem is Islamist hijacking the Kashmiri Sufi protests. This is my second request. Let's all cut the crap about the super-amazing Sufism - it's just a fake canard to allow Muslims to pat themselves on the b...

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18 September 2010 Last updated at 19:27 ET (BBC)Air India bomb plotter convicted of perjury Inderjit Singh Reyat. 10 Sept 2010 Inderjit Singh Reyat served five years for his part in the 1985 bombing A Canadian who helped make the bomb that destroyed an Air India jet in 1985 has been convicted of com...

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The rise of Islamic fundamentalism is not uniformly/symmetrically distributed across the world. The rise of fundamentalism in Malaysia does not equate to the rise of fundamentalism in Af-Pak. Pandits have been displaced by the Af-Pak fanaticism through no fault of their own (although arguably they a...

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^^^ I know that and you know that, but for purposes of destabilizing the newly Chinese-Occupied Kashmir (COK) areas we can use the unrest in our areas to claim that it has spread to COK areas. After all, it's not as if Kashmiris will go out of their way to oppose and argue that COK happily belongs t...

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China can't occupy that area without exposing itself to vulnerability. Uighurs are embedded within the jihadi ranks, and jihadis are capable of acting roughly towards China, as the shocked Musharraf found out during the Red Mosque siege. That is the nature of jihadism and decentralized irregular war...

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I actually agree deeply with B. Raman here. The BJP policies are religion centered and a dead end. They are never going to come again to power in India ever and destined to be in the opposition and wither away long term. Problem for them is that he Congress has moved to the right in economic terms ...

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(BBC)Polish court frees Chechen separatist leader Zakayev

A Polish court has released exiled Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev, who is wanted in Russia on terrorism charges.

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(BBC) Pi Solved to 2-Quadrillion Digits

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Stratfor propaganda on "indigenous uprising":

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Stratfor on China's Upcoming Leadership Transition:

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As I've said, Turkey will soon become Israel's foremost enemy, surpassing Iran:

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribun ... _09_15.asp

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Who is this Reva Bhalla at Stratfor? xB5hp7OyZQ0 She ridiculously claims that Pakistan prefers the US as a patron rather than China, which is nonsense. Of course Pakistan is more loyal to China than to USA. I found her presentation to be significantly biased. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/reva-bhalla/...

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India should definitely court more international R&D in battery tech, since this could have a particularly liberating effect on the nation's energy-constrained economy:

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/26294/?p1=A2

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Re-Animation: Genetics Could Bring Extinct Species Back to Life

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(BBC)Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev arrives in Poland Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev has arrived in Poland in defiance of a warning that he faces arrest on a Russian warrant. Akhmed Zakayev has been based in London since claiming political asylum -- How is it that he's not been deporte...

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The prince speaks:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 568970.cms

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No, we've heard this argument from Krugman before, only to see him later fume in frustration, implicitly indicating the desperate futility of his argument. The Chinese strength isn't solely reposed in its past lending to the United States, but it's continuing ability to behave as a creditor. In othe...

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I was thinking - for Human SpaceFlight program, why don't they come up with HUD/HMD (Heads Up Display / Helmet Mounted Display) built into the spacesuit for our astronauts to use? The HUD/HMD could display vital parameters like oxygen and temperature gauge readings, time of EVA sortie, communication...

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Aerospace parts business the next growth driver

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^^^ I think he is referring to Japan's total deference and subservience to the US on foreign policy. I just don't understand how the Japanese could have been blind to the longterm implications of Sino-US rapprochement following Nixon's visit. The Japanese underestimated the instinct of the Atlantic ...

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Is there legal grounds for India to sue the US (or the pastor) to pay-up for the Kashmir riots triggered because of BaQ day? The pastor was responsible for the riots and damage, the same way BP screwed up the lives of Louisiana fishermen. That's ridiculous - the pastor didn't cause the Kashmiri men...

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I think that people will increasingly hedge against uncertainty arising from fiscal irresponsibility by going more heavily into commodities. The finiteness of commodities and the steady rise of quasi-alternatives to the US means that Immediate collapse of the US into recession is forestalled by its ...

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If Turkey becomes an Islamist state, then they will easily eclipse Iran as Israel's foremost enemy.

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Where's Islamic Rage Boy in all this?

I think he's been replaced by his little brother:

Little jihadi looks a lot like Little Superstar:

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European Commissioner lectures France on its eviction of illegal roma, not unlike Obama hectoring Arizona over its actions against illegal mexicans:

France should use its power to slap her down and put her in her place.

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Japan's establishment have a stake in keeping Unkil happy and dancing to his tune. This is what permits them access to Unkil's markets, and some of Unkil's nuclear-armed ships to umbrella them. This is the social order that LDP has built its privileges upon and been raised to preserve. If Unkil says...

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Here's a current story on NYC elections:

NY's new voting machines debut, with problems

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