july 17th, 2006
thanks ragz, this deserves a blog entry of its own.
swapan is usually on the money. i like him.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008651
his editorial in the pioneer was also interesting, thanks to san(?) for posting it.
was swapan really talking about modi?
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Yeah - Swapan is "Da Man" ... also Kanchan Gupta of the same paper. Read this
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=kanchan%2Fkanchan42%2Etxt&writer=kanchan
I guess only Swapan can tell which leader he was talking about ....personally I don't think Swapan was talking about Modi..... More likely L.K Advani
Sorry - did not notice the URL for Kanchan's article was already posted ...
I need more coffee :-(
I think he is talking about Modi. He is disillusioned with Advani like most of us here. KPS Gill in Outlook article Kapi posted, also says there are just one or two politicians who are truly nationalistic. I wonder who is he talking about... Could he be referring to Modi too? He worked with Modi immediately after the Godra massacre and subsequent non-killing of muslims.
Rajeev,
I posted that article a while back on a different comment thread. I was hoping you notice something in that article...
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2006/07/silence-of-lambs.html#115288079457937637>My Original Post
Around the same time as President Bush visited India, the Congress- and Communist-dominated state legislature of Kerala passed a unanimous resolution seeking the release, on "compassionate grounds," of a Muslim extremist who masterminded a series of explosions that killed 58 people in the southern city of Coimbatore in 1998. A cabinet minister took his appeasement policy to the absurd level of joint meetings with a look-alike of Osama bin Laden!
I'm from CBE and had friends injured in the blasts. The blasts were an attempt to kill Vajpayee and Advani especially. Luckily, their public address got rescheduled and no one was hurt. It was also revenge for perceieved police brutality. What led to this supposed police brutality ? On the main commercial street(Cross CuT Road in Gandhipuram), 3 muslim youth that belonged to an org. called Al-Umma were pulled over for riding 'triples' on a scooter. Their reacion ? They stabbed the cop Sridhar in broad daylight on that road thinking they were untouchable. One of these boys was a nephew of this Al-Umma guy(founder), whos release is being sought by the commies in Kerala. When cops went to the muslim area of Kottaimedu to question/arrest these guys, the whole neighborhood refused to give them up. Very uncooperative. Finally the cops switched off electricity that evening and conducted a raid that netted these bastards..They might've given them Giuliani time..After all, one of their own was stabbed in broad daylight..The bombs were set off in response..
Do these people want immunity from killing cops ?? Should minorities be allowed to kill cops ??
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2006/07/silence-of-lambs.html#115288079457937637
My original post
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Swapan is talking about Modi, no doubt. Read the heading of that article - Modify your backbone. It should have spelt out clearly like “Modi”fy your backbone.
OT: Pretty serious stuff on National Security got compromised in the Navy War room leak.
link
I'm reading reports that India has blocked assorted blogger domain
http://tech.moneycontrol.com/news/india-blocks-blogger-typead-and-geocities-blogs-and-websites/1988/india/
Gee Rajeev, I'd no idea that you were such a threat! ;Pmiov
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here goes our beloved Sonia Gandhi govt again! As you know the corrupt ruling Congress are short on brains while being full of schemes. So it's now the turn of bloggers to face the wrath of Madame-ji.
At least BJP had the courage to champion the Prasar Bharati Act, which favoured press freedoms.
I think Congressmen are so used to controlling and pulling the strings of the established press, that they fear the independence of bloggers and are unable to otherwise cope with the threat they pose. After all, if Rajeev was working at ToI, they'd be able to shut him up. But they can't shut off the bloggers -- not unless Madame-ji finds a pretext to declare an 'Emergency'.
Looks like Sonia's learned a lot from watching her awful Mother-in-Law of Emergency infamy. Due to the fact that in the Congress Party, sycophantic worship of Sonia and Rahul is preferred over basic mental competence, we get to see Congress-style decisions of the kind being made today.
As you know, when Madame snaps her fingers, the rank-and-file Congressmen all fall over themselves scrambling to bring their lips to her posterior. Hence the tendency to execute dictats unthinkingly and without question.
Ham-fisted behavior from our tinpot luncheon-leaders.
Which then leads me to say, "In Congress-ruled India, spam blocks you!"
Brahma on the Nuke deal: Trick and Treat
More on the Blogger Blocks. The Indian Express reporting it now. Guess the only "extreme religious views" these folks like are the ones that the radical Islamists or the Church espouses
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/8719.html
Israel has discovered a catalytic method to extract oil from shale at a cost of $17/barrel:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2006/gb20060705_516609.htm?campaign_id=alerts
Now that is amazing! Not only does Israel have huge amounts of oil contained in shale, but very many countries around the world do, including India! India has so much shale oil that it could power us for centuries! The USA has vast amounts of shale oil.
The problem is that uptil now, extracting oil from shale has been a very expensive energy-intensive process involving heating the shale rock to boil the oil out of it. That had kept the cost at about $50/barrel. But if the Israeli method is true, then it could even make India into an oil baron. Modi says he wants Israeli water management technology, but he should certainly take note of their petroleum engineering breakthroughs.
Alright, this doesn't eliminate the Greenhouse gas problem. But it does mean the world is capable of overcoming the Arab oil monopoly. Wouldn't it be an irony if Israel pulled out the rug from under the petro-Sheikhs?
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