I feel Obama's speeches highly inspirational but we desperately need someone else to enact them...
When ever Obama speaks, the historians with a fresh load of ants in their brain start comparing Obama's speech to some other dead president's speech...and I heard them go really high on radio...
BTW.I have been listening to Obama's speeches since 2006....Yes they are no doubt inspirational...
Obama and his inspirational speeches
Rigging Govt.
James Grimaldi described how the Rifle companies have officially rigged the US Govt. Here is mind blowing points that are anathema to fair democracy....
-It is illegal for authorities to maintain a computerized record of gun buyers, as consequence everything is being tracked using paper.
-Govt. dept. dealing with hand-guns and weapons is exempt from 'Freedom of Information' act.
Source:
Terri Gross interviewing James
Diplomats 1
Debate of Wikileaks hardly goes without words about Diplomats These are my views on diplomacy
Diplomats are not church going pious people that need protection. Many times diplomats negotiate for war, and if you want evidence just look what happened before Iraq war.
Diplomats have also created many international crisis, and on the top of that list is Al-qaeda. US diplomacy was to train Mujaheddin fighters(Al-qaeda) and Pakistan intelligence(ISI), to take on Russians based in Afghanistan. Over the decades Mujaheddin's have dispersed in to so many terrorist groups and are kept alive by ISI. Terrorism, a nameless enemy, may end up as our generation's biggest problem, and I blame US diplomats.
Diplomats have used 'American Interest' as justification to keep up the autocrats in middle-east countries; to name a few Saudi-Arabia, Jordan, Egypt. After 9/11 attack on New york, Bin laden told US presence in Saudi angers him, and US diplomats does not seem to care about it. By heading to Bin Laden we are not deserting a good democracy but a autocratic royal family. For decades, the oppressed citizens of above countries have seen US and their repressive in Govt in the same bed, and Al-qaeda has been has churning this anger to revolt against US. Smart diplomacy would be for US to cut ties with these dictators(including Israel). Many honest politicians like Ron Paul have suggested the same. Unfortunately US diplomats still follow the failed 'American Interest' agenda. Knowing all these I have no sympathy for this bunch. Diplomats do a hack job( in the name of 'American Interest') and come with another hack solution. Now we are sitting on pile of diplomatic hacks. All this has done is keeping Military firms in business, and providing fodder(in the form of issue) for US presidential election.
Diplomats have to be open because they represent nations not individuals, so diplomats can not claim the privilege of doctor & patient confidentiality. In US and Indian diplomacy, people of respective nation have the right to know what is going on. Especially the citizens of weaker partner nation should know that other dominant nation is not coercing.
I recommend people America see the diplomacy as an outsider, using a bit of ethical sense, instead of just militaristic 'American interest'.
Time of the year - 2010
Times poll Assange wins popular vote but Times names Mark Zucker... as Man of the year... We do not need any more evidence to prove that media is another arm of US Govt. US media of almost every kind progressive, mainstream and conservative is disassociating from Assange as if he is a Peaaadofile...
Well time to wave flag either out of guilt or fear or love...
Amazon.com How low can you live??
Amazon stopped hosting WikiLeak documents after US Joe RIbbbbbbberman pressured it to remove.
Then Amazon turns around and sells it http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004EEOLIU That too for money.....
Hypocratical is Amazon; it did not have the spine to stand up to Free speech but all willing to make money.
You can not say Corporartions are ENTITY but not have consciousness....
creation of sense of nation in India
Today in the BBC interview, British politician Meghnad Desai explained how India become a Nation. Following is the summary...
At the time of European invasion, India was being ruled by many kings, and there was no single emperor so no concept of Nation. There are also cultural differences between the regions. Indians started to unite(overcame differences) during the freedom struggle against British. Indian Freedom fighting went on for decades, during this period Gandhi created a sense of nation among the people. Gandhi did not succeed completely and it shows up in the creation of Pakistan.
Coming back to present, using above knowledge, it is easy to understand the lack of unity among Iraqis. People of Iraq did not fight for any thing to-gather...
Swiss, why your banks guard criminals' money?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11857438
Swiss passed referendum to deport even the 2nd generation immigrant, if they are caught violating law. Violations does not have to be criminal act...And whether to deport or not is NOT judged in court...
My point is SWISS are not the holy cow because they promote criminals all around the world by hiding their identity and money. Some of this money is looted by politicians of 3rd world countries from their citizens. And unfortunately those deprived people from 3rd world countries end-up migrating to Swiss..
Example:
"Indian politician loots Govt. money" ---> "Swiss guard looted money" ---> "Indians migrate to Swiss for better life"
Azoic...
Till now Azioc meant just a music group but it is not just that. Azoic is also the name of first era of our planet Earth.
Era, Period, Epoch
Earth is 4.5 billion years old and this time has been divided in to one or more Era. And each one of these Era is further divided in to Periods. And each period is in turn divided in to Epoch.
Azoic is the first Era, from 4.5 to 4.0 billions years
Archean is the second Era, from 4.0 to 2.5 billions years
Proterozoic is the third Era, from 2.5 to 0.5 billions years
Paleozoic is the fourth Era, from 0.5bill to 250million years
Mesozoic is the fifth Era, from 250 to 65 million years
Cenozoic is the sixth Era, from 65 million years to till today.
Two consecutive Eras differ fundamentally. And there are totally six Era.
Deciphering lyrics
I have read same lyric being deciphered in many ways. More than one version made sense too.
Treat the song as a jumbled heap of thread, and start tracing from different points(not just ends), and write down the path on a paper. In the end, each path would have some interesting shape and also be different from each other.
Shapes obtained above depended on where you started tracing, similarly song's meaning depends on where one starts( or presumptions one makes like death, love, god, depression, drugs, addiction etc.....)
Wolfsheim - Blind
I have been listening to this since few years and today understood few verses. Best part is highlighed.
I think of you like... I often do
When I hear the rain on my windowpane
Gently tapping at the glass
Like your gently touching fingers
Just looking for the smile I give to you
Chorus...
You can feel what no one feels
You can hear what no one hears
Just looking for the smile I give to you
You can feel what no one feels
You can hear what no one wants to hear
Just looking for the smile I give to you
Your darkness speaks and has eyes to see
and you know me by my voice
But you know so much more than
"Don't fight the walls they're here for all"
Is what you said to me once
I looked into your eyes and I knew you were right
Chorus....
And your darkness speaks and has eyes to see
I know you can win this life long game we're in
Hey darkness is a state of mind
I can go where you would stumble
Is what you said to me and I knew you were right
Diamond was first mined in India
The earliest diamonds were mined from stream gravels in the southern and central portions of India. An estimated 12 million carats (the carat is a unit of weight for gemstones equal to 0.2 gram) was produced from Indian mines. India was virtually the only source of diamonds until they were discovered in Brazil in 1725. East central Brazil has produced about 160,000 carats annually, chiefly from stream gravels near the city of Diamantina, Minas Gerais.
Today, about 95 percent of the world’s output of diamonds is from Africa.The Congo is by far the largest producer, supplying more than 50 percent of the global demand.
Source: "An introduction to Fossils and Minerals" by Jon
Gaia hypothesis and Humans
Gaia
It is said that physical environment on Earth drives organisms. But Gaia hypothesis says influence can flow in the other way, that is life can also influence environment.
Climate change, to some extent works like Gaia, but in s negative way. We are hell bent on shooting on our foot. Unfortunately humans and animals are too sophisticated to survive Geological catastrophe....
Misplaced trust as a child
When I was young, I believed that people in authority knew everything, mean everything; and their actions have factored everything. As I grew older, I doubted this, courtesy of Indian politicians. After living in US, and seeing political system here(systematically & legitimatley hacked), I am dead sure I was very wrong about the ability of people in authority; they do not anything, not even honest. Now, I smell these people from far distance.
Mr Krugman says the same in his NYT blog.
"When I was young and naive, I believed that important people took positions based on careful consideration of the options."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/opinion/02krugman.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
wallpaper with power consumption
Computer wallpaper like the one shown below lists CPU & RAM but not power usage. Wallpaper should disclose both the ability and liability.
This wallpaper(BgInfo.bmp) is generated using 'BgInfo', a SysInternals tool.
Wall-paper with power consumption.
I measured the power consumption and then inserted those details in 'BgInfo.bmp' using Adobe PS.
Computer manufacturer's like HP, Dell, IBM have the ability to provide bitmaps containing power usage. There is a debate about accuracy of power measurements. I think the accuracy is secondary; goal is to make people set PC to stand-by mode, turn off monitor etc....
When someone logs in to a machine, wall-paper should inform them about power consumption.
Unfair price for vegetable
Today for the first time I took note of the cost of tomato that I just purchased in Stop-and-Shop grocery store. Bill reads as follows(for one tomato)
Vine Ripe Tomato $2.99/pound $1.44
What motivated to take notice is FOOD Inc movie. In that movie, Micheal Pollen talks about alarming price difference between fast-food and vegetable He says collieflower costs more than $1 while burger at McDonald costs just 99cents.
Seriously this pendulum needs correction. I do not mind paying more for burger. Let us pay fair price and tackle obesity.
TBTF or Too complex to handle?
Simon Johnson is campaigning to eliminate TBTF but Paul Krugman is not that against TBTF(based on his blog posts).
My own though is TBTF leads to complex web and makes it hard to tell where the investor's money is landing. We start to see same thing with different wrapper without adding value to customer. We are not in market utopia, so as companies grow fairness comes down.
I think not having TBTF is a pragmatic solution.
Someone got to pay for that...
Heard a passer by say "Someone got to pay for that...". He was obviously talking about Health Care bill.
Line "Someone got to pay for that..." is a bill board statement, projects the speaker as a responsible citizen. Are these genuinely responsible?. May not be because many such speakers do not ask
"Who pays for defense bill?"
"Why am I paying so much for health insurance company?"
"Who contributes to monsterous TARP?"
Run away away!!
Referring to beaten Obama's interview to ABC network, in which 0bama expressed plans to move towards right, Paul Krugman says to liberals Run away away
Personally it is a great disappointment. I had not never taken any politician so seriously. Looks like I was as naive as Mr Obama.
It is time to say Good night to him...
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