Re: India-Canada, Mexico and South America: News and Discuss
Posted: 02 Sep 2012 22:33
Anglo Saxons have a 'special' relations with Hindus and Indians
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Exactly,nvishal wrote: I guess all these three nations have a bharat badla lega kya? syndrome haunting them.
Canada today vowed to do "everything possible" to combat radical extremism amid reports that pro-Khalistan groups have become active once again in that country.
Stressing that India and Canada were on the "same page" on the issue of terrorism, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said more needs to be done to tackle the challenge.
He said that Canada will be a "strong ally" of India on this front.
Better an "ex Jihadi" like this who speaks up than millions of nincompoops who think Hindus should be dhimmis.sagara wrote:Does anybody has any information on this Ron Bannerjee Guy from Hindu Advocacy Group in Ontario Canada. Seems to me that a Jehadi has converted to Hinduism.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/13/do ... ugh-mosque
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/09/14/the- ... -banerjee/
Toronto group wants to use anti-Muslim film for publicity
Published on Friday September 14, 2012
Patty Winsa
Staff Reporter
A Toronto Hindu group plans to screen the anti-Muslim movie that has been a touchstone for riots in the Middle East.
Ron Banerjee, the Canadian Hindu Advocacy’s director, said he wants to show the film so that he can publicize the negative way he feels Hindus are portrayed on film and in the media.
“We’ve sent hundreds of letters to the editor and news outlets to publish our point of view and we’ve been laughed at, mocked, denigrated and ignored,” Banerjee said. “Oh, but the Islamic community. We must be very sensitive and tolerant all the time.”
Islamic protesters in Egypt, Libya and Yemen have been enraged over the film’s portrayal of the prophet Muhammad as a womanizer and a madman.
Banerjee said he’s getting a copy of the film from a U.S. group, but he wouldn’t say which one.
“I’m not going to disclose right now,” Banerjee said. “It’s still in the introductory stage mind you, because we need to find a location and get security and all that sort of thing.”
He added that he has watched the online trailer as well as a longer 45-minute version.
“The movie is out there and people have a right to see it,” Banerjee said. “And we’ve got a demand from our community to take a look at it and see what all the fuss is about.”
Banerjee’s group has been characterized as “militantly anti-Sikh and anti-Muslim” by Toronto Star columnist Haroon Siddiqui.
Last year, Banerjee’s group demanded an end to Muslim Friday prayers at a Toronto school and was quoted in The Star as saying: “In its entire history, Islam, the Islamic civilization, has invented and contributed less to human advancement than a pack of donkeys.”
A spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the missions in Egypt, Libya and Sudan will not be open to ensure the safety of diplomatic staff.
Three things. Adm. Nirmal Kumar Verma retired less than a month ago. The haste with which he has been assigned this diplomatic post and even overruling recommendations of the MEA for a career diplomat. The 'order' coming from the PMO's office and the MEA meekly accepting that.Verma's appointment is interesting because the external affairs ministry had earlier recommended additional secretary Basant Gupta's name for the position. Gupta, who heads the passport and visa division of MEA, is said to be close to foreign minister S M Krishna. He played a key role in implementing Krishna's initiative to open Passport Seva Kendras across the country.
PMO, however, rejected his candidature and asked MEA to instead recommend Verma. The foreign ministry had no choice but to recommend the former Navy chief.
It seems, Mexico has become the preferred centre of manufacturing for multinational companies looking to supply the Americas and, increasingly, beyond. Today, Mexico exports more manufactured products than the rest of Latin America put together. Chrysler, is using Mexico as a base to supply its Fiat 500s to the Chinese market.
Its free trade agreements with 44 countries – more than twice as many as China and four times more than Brazil – have given companies based in Mexico the ability to source parts and inputs from a wide range of nations, often without paying duty.
According to HSBC, Mexican wages were 391 per cent higher than those of China a decade ago. Today, they are just 29 per cent more. Experts predict that Chinese wages will even overtake those of Mexico within five years.
The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, brandished the sword of independence hero Simón Bolívar as he celebrated his re-election with a promise to further his government's brand of socialism during a new six-year term, in which he will face several economic challenges.
"Truthfully, this has been the perfect battle, a democratic battle," Chávez told the euphoric crowd outside the Miraflores palace. "Venezuela will continue along the path of democratic and Bolivarian socialism of the 21st century."
The triumph was shared by jubilant supporters throughout Sunday night after a hard-fought but convincing victory over the opposition challenger, Henrique Capriles.
Tens of thousands of supporters descended on Caracas in cars, on motorbikes and minibuses, waving flags, honking horns and chanting: "Viva la patria!" (long live the fatherland).
In the barrios of Catia and 23 de Enero – the heartlands of Chavismo – a party mood seized the streets as red-shirted residents danced and sang while fireworks exploded overhead. Some cried mock tears as they carried the "political coffin" of challenger Capriles.
Chávez won 54.4% of the vote, 9.5 points ahead of his rival. The margin of victory gives Chávez a strong democratic mandate until 2018.
Attention now focuses on whether he can use this popular endorsement to build on the gains of the past 13 years – notably a sharp reduction in poverty, unemployment and infant mortaility – while doing more to address rising concerns about violent crime, overdependence on oil and deteriorating infrastructure.
He also faces an opposition that has united for the first time this year and gained votes despite what it said was an unfair playing field in terms of access to state resources and air time.
Thanks to the record high turnout, Chávez also won more votes this time than in 2006, though the margin of victory was tighter than in any of his previous races. Supporters said this vindicated their claims that the opposition had concocted fake polls as well as rumours about the imminent demise of Chávez to cancer.
"Spin doctors have constructed a macabre operation that violates his privacy and human decency by telling all sorts of lies. They said his death was imminent and that he would arrive at the election in a wheelchair. But look at him," said a close aide. "He's in complete condition to carry out the presidency."
But the health concerns are unlikely to disappear. "I think it's inevitable that a victory margin of less than 15% will lead to intense discussions within the Chávez camp," said Nicmer Evans, a political science professor at the Central University of Venezuela. "The subject of illness has been neutralised until now, but it'll be reopened after the vote."
Evans, who accurately predicted the outcome of the election, also expected a cabinet reshuffle. "Chávez has been failed by the people around him. He needs to change his team. We'll see that after the election," he said. Senior officials said the government would boost measures to address violent crime and economic vulnerabilities among the worst affected.
Among those who shifted allegiance from Chávez, a commonly heard cause was the growing fear of crime. In 2009, Chávez created a whole new security body – the National Bolivarian police force – but Venezuela still has one of the four highest murder rates in the world, with a murder every half an hour. The rate has almost doubled since Chávez took power to 45.1 per 100,000 of the population, in 2011.
Tough economic challenges also lie ahead. Despite its oil wealth, Venezuela has borrowed heavily in recent years and is now running a fiscal deficit of 16% of GDP. Ahead of the election, Chávez ramped up public spending, increasing pensions, building homes and raising the minimum wage. To meet debt obligations and pay for these measures, he will come under pressure to devalue the Bolivar – which now trades on the black market at more than double the official rate against the dollar – or significantly raise oil revenues, which account for 95% of Venezuela's export earnings.
Chávez has outlined plans to more than triple production by 2020 from the heavy crude fields in the Orinoco Belt – which BP and Opec have identified as the world's biggest reserves of oil. That would push Venezuela past Iran in terms of output, but will require huge investment, technology transfer and a bigger skilled workforce. Some will come from existing partners – including China's CNPC, Chevron of the US and firms from Russia, Vietnam and India. Others, like BP and Shell, have so far been on the sidelines when it comes to developing new blocks. Managers at the state-owned PDVSA oil company said several multinationals were waiting until the outcome of the election to decide whether to participate in the expansion.
If they hoped for change, it is unlikely to come. Miguel Tinker Salas, professor of Latin American Studies at Pomona College in California, said Chávez's victory implied continuity with an existing oil policy of state-led development, bolstering sales to China and using oil to shape foreign policy.
Access to Venezuela's oil – as well as ideology and personality – help to explain how Chávez is seen overseas. In response to the election result, the US, which has seen its share of Venezuelan oil drop in the past decade, omitted direct recognition of the president's success. "We congratulate the Venezuelan people for the high turnout and generally peaceful manner in which this election was carried out," said state department spokesman William Ostick. But President Raúl Castro of Cuba, which receives subsidised oil from its Caribbean neighbour, was among the many Latin American leaders who sent warm congratulations to Chávez on his victory. "Chávez wins, the people win", said the headline on the Diario Granma website of the Communist party of Cuba.
But it would be wrong to characterise the politics of Venezuela as a simple re-run of the cold war. Chávez has a popular mandate and a very different set of challenges. Whether he will respond to his smaller margin of victory by moving closer to the centre or to more radical policies remains to be seen.
Varoonji,things are not any better today either. I have lived in that pakiland for a decade now. It is one of the worst places on earth to do business on... plus the high arrogance of these white pakis is just mind bogglingVaroon Shekhar wrote:Ravi, pretty good articles, but not a single one about the very unpleasant 70's and early 80's. Canada at that time, was just about the worst country for anyone of "East Indian" background. There was something particularly nasty about the white Canadian attitude toward the new immigrants to Canada. They were considered the most undesirable people on the planet, particularly by the young. Racism was out in the open, not even a pretense to political correctness.
Not conducive to positive discussion if you label them so.I have lived in that pakiland for a decade now
Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't but that's no reason to employ the worst epithet(Pakiland) for Canada.It is one of the worst places on earth to do business on.
Let's have non-anecdotal evidence for this arrogance in recent times.plus the high arrogance of these white pakis is just mind boggling
The Elephant in Latin America
India.
By JAIME DAREMBLUM
In recent years, Latin America’s trade with India, the world’s largest democracy, has grown much more slowly than its trade with China. However, the Latin Business Chronicle notes that “an increasing number of Indian companies are now looking at Latin America as the ‘next frontier.’” The quote comes from Harshul Asnani, head of Latin American and Caribbean operations for the Indian telecom powerhouse Tech Mahindra, who has said, “We are very upbeat about Latin America and view it as the next frontier of growth.” Omar Momin of India’s Godrej Industries believes there are “tremendous opportunities in Latin America.”
According to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), total trade between India and the Latin American/Caribbean region more than quadrupled between 2004–2005 and 2008–2009, increasing from $4.2 billion to $16.1 billion. In late April, the CII hosted its fourth annual “India–Latin America and Caribbean Conclave.” Prior to the gathering, the Indian trade lobby announced that “project proposals with an aggregate value of $10.39 billion will be discussed during the course of the Conclave.”
One high-profile example of India’s growing economic interest in Latin America is the expansion of Indian sugar producer Shree Renuka. In late 2009 and early 2010, it agreed to purchase a 100 percent stake in one Brazilian firm (Vale Do Ivaí SA Açúcar e Álcool) and a majority stake in another (Equipav SA Açúcar e Álcool). These deals have made Shree Renuka the world’s third-largest sugar company.
While India’s economic footprint in the region is still much smaller than China’s, we can expect it to grow significantly over the coming years. For their part, Latin American countries have compelling economic and strategic reasons to boost ties with the South Asian giant.
Jaime Daremblum, who served as Costa Rica’s ambassador to the United States from 1998 to 2004, is director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the Hudson Institute.
James Dale Davidson, "Brazil Is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World"
ISBN: 1118006631 | 2012 |
Look to Brazil for safe, stable investments
As the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don't provide much hope, but what about somewhere that's both closer to home and sunny year-round? In Brazil is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World, James D. Davidson shows that the current financial situation in Brazil is a haven for those looking to make money in a world in turmoil.
With a population just 62 percent the size of that of the US, Brazil has added 15,023,633 jobs over the past eight years, while the US has lost millions. In a world burdened by bankrupt governments and aging populations, Brazil is solvent, with two people of working age for every dependent. In a world of "Peak Oil" Brazil is energy independent, with 70 billion barrels of oil, 60% of the world's unused arable land, and 15% of its fresh water. Comparatively non-leveraged—and with significant room for growth and expansion, as well as vast natural resources, Brazil is a haven of opportunity.
Written by James D. Davidson, the editor/publisher of Strategic Investment and cofounder of Agora and the media outlet, Newsmax, Brazil is the New America details:
How the original "America" now embodies the brightest hope for realizing the American Dream while the "Old America" is headed for a dramatic decline in the standard of living
Investment opportunities not only for those willing to relocate, but anyone who can consider investing there
The cost structure of employment in Brazil versus the United States
Brazil has already learned its lesson about the dangers of inflation. Cash has taken the place of credit, and high interest rate returns are now the norm.
Not counting the organised massacre of the Beothuks of Newfoundland in the 18th century, the biggest mass murder in Canadian history was the Air India terrorist attack in 1985, by Canada based Khalistanis.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday.
In a national broadcast, Maduro said Chavez died Tuesday at 4:25 p.m.
Brazil’s government summoned the United States ambassador on Monday to respond to new revelations of American surveillance of President Dilma Rousseff and her top aides, complicating relations between the countries ahead of Ms. Rousseff’s state visit to Washington next month.
Washington has been seeking to enhance its ties with Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, by reaching out to Ms. Rousseff. Her government was already angered by previous revelations that Brazil ranked among the N.S.A.’s most spied-upon countries.
While Brazil maintains generally warm ties with the United States, resentment lingers over the repressive eavesdropping by the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985 and the support of the United States for the coup that brought the military to power.
American officials here were put on the defensive just weeks after Secretary of State John Kerry briefly visited Brazil in August in an effort to ease tension over earlier reports describing how the N.S.A. had established a data collection center in Brasília, among the strategies the N.S.A. is said to have used to delve into Brazil’s large telecommunications hubs.
Beyond condemning American spying practices, Brazil is taking other steps. For instance, Gen. Sinclair Mayer, who runs the Brazilian Army’s science and technology department, recently told lawmakers of a plan to establish underwater Internet cables linking Brazil to Europe and Africa, reflecting an effort to reroute Internet traffic now going through the United States.
Brazil also said in August that it had chosen a French-Italian venture to build a satellite for military and civilian use, part of a bid to ensure sovereignty of important communications.
The Brazilian authorities have also ordered Brazil’s Postal Service to develop a national e-mail system allowing users to exchange encrypted messages that would presumably be harder for intelligence agencies to monitor. The new system, scheduled to begin in 2014, is intended as an alternative to American services like Gmail and Hotmail.
Cybersecurity experts have expressed skepticism, pointing to how even hackers have found ways to penetrate seemingly secure satellites and porous parts of the Internet, but Brazil is still moving ahead with the programs.
Especially the last paragraph has some serious gyan being imparted to india(by uncle??)Your country, which is large, important and troubled but no longer trapped in poverty, is facing a historic election. On the ballot before you are two choices.
The first choice is the ruling party, which has governed for decades and is justifiably revered for its secularism and its role in modernizing your country. But in recent years, it has become corrupt, insular and economically illiterate, and its new leaders look even worse.
The second choice is the religious guy. He comes from a bold entrepreneurial background and has smart ideas for raising the rest of the country from its quagmire of stalled progress. But his political party has roots in religious extremism. He says it has given up its spiritual cause and will govern for everyone, but some of its members seem to disprove this.
That’s the decision India faces as it prepares for its national election in April and May. (Elections are drawn-out affairs in the world’s largest democracy.) And it was almost exactly the same decision Turkey faced 12 years ago, when the Justice and Development Party was first swept into office. It’s worth comparing the two.
In India, the religious guy is Narendra Modi. He’s chief minister of Gujarat, a state famous for producing ambitious merchants. He comes from a family of grocers and ran a tea stall as a kid: He embodies India’s entrepreneurial dream, and is running on his record of having made that dream real for millions of poor Gujaratis.
Mr. Modi’s rival, Rahul Gandhi of the Congress Party (which has ruled India for five of the past six decades), may be a well-educated direct descendant of Jawaharal Nehru, but is almost comically inept at campaigning and has displayed little interest in reforming his party or India.
Indians hope Mr. Modi’s practical economic plans will break the stalled, corruption-riddled mess created by the Congress-led government of the past 10 years, which has left an embarrassingly large part of the population in rural poverty while other developing nations have soared ahead.
But Mr. Modi is the candidate of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has a lengthy, ambiguous relationship to Hindu extremist violence. In 2002, while India was governed by the BJP and Mr. Modi was in his first term in Gujarat, a series of violent and politically orchestrated Hindu riots, which have been likened to pogroms, tore across western India, killing perhaps 2,000 Muslims and uprooting countless more.
While Mr. Modi has been repeatedly acquitted of any direct complicity, it’s clear that BJP authorities, state and national, had little interest in either preventing or stopping the violence (the BJP prime minister later apologized for this inaction), or in reinforcing India’s multifaith, multiethnic identity.
Many Indians wonder, with good reason, whether it’s worth risking a return to extremism in order to win stronger economic recovery and an end to poverty.
A dozen years ago, Turks faced an equally stark version of this choice, and it remains their core problem today. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was Turkey’s version of Mr. Modi: a child of rural-to-urban migrant merchants, he represented a new entrepreneurial class and wanted to open Turkey further to Europe’s economy and politics.
Mr. Erdogan was also from an Islamist background. He was a religious man who had said things in the past suggesting a tolerance for extremism. Secular Turks had good reason to worry about him and the Justice and Development Party.
But the rival Republican People’s Party, despite much more noble professed values, had become tied to a closed, nationalist, state-run economic vision. It threatened to deepen Turkey’s decade-long social and economic malaise and pull the country away from Europe and into the sinkhole of the Middle East.
So Turks held their noses and voted for Mr. Erdogan, and have done so ever since. For a decade, it mostly worked: He largely kept his religious convictions at bay while his economic governance and institutional reforms were impressive. But he has fallen for the temptations of three-term power: Quashing opposition, allowing journalists to be imprisoned, and displaying far too much recent sympathy for Islamic extremists in neighbouring countries. Sadly, Mr. Erdogan’s secular opponents haven’t become much more competent.
What both India and Turkey need is a new generation of political party – one that is secular without being closed-minded and nationalistic, one that can govern the majority without insulting the minority, one that looks to the future and abandons outdated traditions. Until then, voters will be tempted to hold their noses – and elections will be dangerous gambles.
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Definitely, but in this case, the "westerner" in question is of Indian background, from Hyderabad. Technically,he can be called a Westerner, but it's easy to see that he's writing about India from a Pan-Islamic perspective, with an underlying resentment that Moslems are a minority in a large Hindu majority country. He's been a supporter/defender of the Ayatollah in Iran, Morsi in Egypt and Zia-Ul-Haq in Pakistan. So secularism and pluralism can't be the issue with him.Karan M wrote:These westerners need to be told off in no uncertain terms that India no longer needs their white man's burden and that they are better off sermonizing to their own countries and dealing with their own problems. Bunch of racist hypocrites pretending that the heathens need their civilizing sermons and can't deal with their own choices.
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+Ppl interested in financial chicanery of RoL harvestors:Chk http://fcraonline.nic.in/fc3_verify.asp ... =2009-2010 … 1.23 Crore from Alberta Treasury Branches, Canada+
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@sighbaboo ATB is a crown corporation in Canada and fully owned by the State of Alberta. This is quite a finding - (1/2)
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@sighbaboo A Canadian Govt entity is funding an overtly Christian org for proselytizing in India! (2/2)
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