Bharat Rakshak

sivab wrote:http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-new ... 76015.aspx

MEA finds US embassy underpaying Indian workers
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"After Devyani Khobragade made headlines, several Indians employed by the American embassy contacted us with their grievances," a top government official said, adding, "we are keeping the ammunition dry for future use." Accused of tax and visa fraud by teachers employed at the American school, the US could well also be charged with underpaying Indians on its rolls.

<snip> Importantly, the wages are not just lower than their American colleagues, but are well below salaries received by Indians employed by the Indian government.

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Kati wrote:So his own karma has caught up with snob Dinesh D'Souza.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/nyreg ... egion&_r=0


....how pathetically D'Souza's "aamrikaan dream" is coming to an end. He epitomized
the concept of MUTU.

Amber G. wrote:

Fast Facts:
• Born in Ferozepur, India, in 1968. His family moved to Monmouth County, New Jersey, two years later.

• Graduated from Harvard University in 1990 and Columbia Law School in 1993. That summer, he spent several weeks as a volunteer for Mark Green's successful campaign for New York City public advocate.

Amber G. wrote:SSridhar - PB has been on cover of Time, won person of the year award from India abroad (Indian News paper published in US), so I assumed people know it. He is also quite well known for prosecuting people like Faisal Shazad, (Time square Bomber),Ahmed Ghailani,(Al Qaeda U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania), Affia Siddiqui, and Pakis like, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed...

. . Bharara is on a list released from Putin (Russia) for Americans banned from entering the country over human rights violations..

shiv wrote:I have a noob question.

If you are getting strip searched or cavity searched in the US it is done by a same sex (as you) person. But how do you know if the person doing the searching is not homosexual and is not deriving sexual gratification from you in the guise of a statutory stripping? What safeguards are there to ensure that a strip search is not a homosexual pjornographic/voyeuristic pleasure trip for the person doing it? Does one have no rights to ensure that one is not being sexually exploited or violated while being strip searched or cavity searched?

shiv wrote:I have a noob question.

If you are getting strip searched or cavity searched in the US it is done by a same sex (as you) person. But how do you know if the person doing the searching is not homosexual and is not deriving sexual gratification from you in the guise of a statutory stripping? What safeguards are there to ensure that a strip search is not a homosexual pjornographic/voyeuristic pleasure trip for the person doing it? Does one have no rights to ensure that one is not being sexually exploited or violated while being strip searched or cavity searched?

Seems MEA is just using these cases as negotiating tactic. If so, they deserve the treatment they get.

Qui Bono?

If you haven’t heard, noted conservative commentator, Jesus freak and, naturally, philanderer, Dinesh D’Souza was indicted on Thursday for using straw donors in order to donate to Wendy Long’s Senate campaign against Kirsten E. Gillibrand. Long and D’Souza had been old college friends at Dartmouth.

SBajwa wrote:you guys are going against Preetinder Singh just as he is doing his job. The real target should be John Kerry and Obama.

UlanBatori wrote:Question is whether PB is "just doing his job" (rather poorly, since the villains of 2008 economic crash seem to be getting awy), doing his job justly, or something else. So far the indictment seems damning. He is most certainly being ham-handed, using strong-arm measures way out of proportion to the "risks" posed by accused people, and trampling on the Presumption of Innocence of these people.

So per his charts, some error on a visa application merits 15 years in jail, handcuffing, cavity searches etc.

But cheating millions of people for decades, out of $$B, driving people out of their homes, etc etc. merit - what? Nothing yet. No, with his awesome credentials, he can't be THAT incompetent. Therefore, the suspicion persists and grows, that he is far from "doing his job".

LokeshC wrote:

UlanBatori wrote:Question is whether PB is "just doing his job" (rather poorly, since the villains of 2008 economic crash seem to be getting awy), doing his job justly, or something else. So far the indictment seems damning. He is most certainly being ham-handed, using strong-arm measures way out of proportion to the "risks" posed by accused people, and trampling on the Presumption of Innocence of these people.

So per his charts, some error on a visa application merits 15 years in jail, handcuffing, cavity searches etc.

But cheating millions of people for decades, out of $$B, driving people out of their homes, etc etc. merit - what? Nothing yet. No, with his awesome credentials, he can't be THAT incompetent. Therefore, the suspicion persists and grows, that he is far from "doing his job".

The white-boy support network is huge in wall street. PB would really be lynched one way or the other if he goes after one of those guys.

The Raiderettes’ lawyer, who is demanding tens of thousands of dollars in back-pay, said the cheerleaders make only $1,250 a year, or less than $5 an hour, and they’re fined for minor lapses like bringing the wrong pom-poms to rehearsals or for “not turning in written biographies on time.” One of the plaintiffs added that the team also makes the women foot their own hair, makeup, travel, and photo expenses

UlanBatori wrote: The Hon. Rep. Dan Burton's Links to Global Terrorism


Oh, BTW, look what I found when I searched for that!

news.yahoo.com/watch-what-happens-when-obama-picks-a-top-donor-as-ambassador-161931672.html

Watch what happens when Obama picks a top donor as ambassador
by Olivier Knox, Yahoo News, news.yahoo.com
January 23rd 2014 11:19 AM

This is why a future president might finally do away with the practice of nominating a top political donor to be an ambassador.

Here’s how the White House described wealthy executive George Tsunis when President Barack Obama nominated him to be the top U.S. diplomat in Norway in September 2013:

“George J. Tsunis is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chartwell Hotels, LLC. From 1999 to 2009, Mr. Tsunis was of counsel at Rivkin Radler, LLP and served as partner since 2005. Mr. Tsunis was Special Counsel to the Town of Huntington Committee on Open Space Preservation as well as Counsel to the Dix Hills Water District from 2003 to 2009. From 1998 to 1999, he practiced law at Goldberg & Cohen in Brooklyn, NY. From 1996 to 1998, he was a Legislative Attorney at the New York City Council. Mr. Tsunis received a B.A. from New York University and a J.D. from St. John's University School of Law.”

Missing: diplomatic credentials, obvious ties to Norway.

But a trip to the website of the Center for Responsive Politics that tracks campaign donations might help to explain how Tsunis — and not, say, a career diplomat — got the nod.

In the 2012 cycle, Tsunis and his wife, Olga, are listed among the “top individual contributors” on the strength of having given $267,244, roughly 89% of which went to Democrats and 10% to Republicans. In all, he raised $988,550 for Obama and gave $300,000 to Democratic super PACs and $75,800 to the Obama Victory Fund.

Tsunis became a Democrat in November 2009 — after giving $50,000 to Republican Sen. John McCain’s 2008 campaign.

So it’s perhaps fitting that it was the tart-tongued Arizona senator’s questions that elicited his sloppy confirmation hearing performance last week (it starts at about 1:14 here).

To recap: Tsunis described Norway as having a president (“apparently under the impression that the country is a republic rather than a constitutional monarchy,” as the Local Norway's News notes dryly). And he characterized the anti-immigration Progress Party as being among “fringe elements” who “spew their hatred” and have been denounced by the government.

That prompted McCain’s disbelieving answer: “The government has denounced them? The coalition government — they're part of the coalition of the government.”

McCain, already flummoxed by the apparent inability of Obama’s choice to be ambassador to Hungary to list strategic U.S. interests there, closed his questioning with a bit of sarcasm: “I have no more questions for this incredibly highly qualified group of nominees.”

Obama did not start the practice of picking big donors to be ambassadors. And he (probably) won't be the last president to do so. But at a time when Americans mistrust their government and are cynical about their politicians, choices like these don't help.

It’s not irrelevant overseas, either: TheLocal.no targets English speakers living in Norway. And Norwegian media described Tsunis as having “trampled through the salad bowl.”

Oh: A search for “Tsunis” on the White House website does turn up evidence of a previous foray into the sensitive world of international relations: He and his wife were guests at the State Dinner the Obamas threw in 2012 to honor British Prime Minister David Cameron.

shiv wrote:

Amber G. wrote: Fast Facts:
• Born in Ferozepur, India, in 1968. His family moved to Monmouth County, New Jersey, two years later.

• Graduated from Harvard University in 1990 and Columbia Law School in 1993. That summer, he spent several weeks as a volunteer for Mark Green's successful campaign for New York City public advocate.

Any information about his father and schooling?

UlanBatori wrote: ...
OTOH, I have to ask Qui Bono? on PB's move against DD. The answers there may be getting a lot more hopeful. It is one thing to arrest a foreign brown heathain wimmens. Quite another to arrest a major Lepubrican donor. So if a bijnej owner gives raises from her own Cayman Islands acct. to her employees who donate to the local Republican Congresswimmen's re-election fund, PB will arrest and cavity-search her?

SBajwa wrote:you guys are going against Preetinder Singh just as he is doing his job. The real target should be John Kerry and Obama.

KJoishy wrote:What about waiters in restaurants? They are not paid even minimum wage. What are they SLAVES????
The excuse is that they can get by on tips. How come this is not publicized?

The sheriff said Mr. Nifong would be held alone in a cell for his protection.

LokeshC wrote: PB has a simple modus operandi. He will never ever target the mafia bosses. He will only target the small time criminal person with no support network who allegedly broke some or the other (possibly obscure) law with or without the intent of doings so. The white-boy support network is huge in wall street. PB would really be lynched one way or the other if he goes after one of those guys. So PB targets people who dont have much connections in the US to hurt him. Russians, Chinese, Indians (including Dinesh D'Sleazeball). Poor Dinesh might think white-boy network might be able to save him, but I bet they will wash their hands off him as soon as they get a chance. That is the ultimate price of being a MUTU (or in this case MMTM). Massa wont help you when you need Massa the most, Massa will extract every little thing you can do for him and leave you out to dry for whatever remains in you.

UlanBatori wrote:Sad. I think PB is headed the same way as the zealous prosecutor in Raleigh/Durham NC after the disastrous rape case against the Duke football players (where, come to think of it, the eventual outcome may not have met Alla*'s approval).

Theo_Fidel wrote:

So how would this thread create "animus" between two nations?

It would not. It would turn off common Americans though. The vast majority of whom have good feelings for India and Indians.

Imagine there was a 'pojitiv news about India' thread on mainstream American forums.