aug 7th, 2006
interesting little preview of the kind of information google (and the US govt's NSA) has on your search behavior online.
http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/aol-search-data-shows-users-planning-to-commit-murder/
beware of being too candid online. it might be a good idea to use anonymizers such as shysurfer.com to cover your tracks if you are slightly paranoid. especially if you occasionally check out porn sites, or terror sites, or whatever.
or, in india, if you read any pro-hindu sites. according to the UPA govt, hindu = terrorist
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For people like San who sees things in middle east as black and white US is good, iran is bad this should be eye opener. Us will never leave pakistan card to contain India. India can play Iran card( Baluchistan is ethnically closer to persians and Shia Iran and Sunni Pak has long history of tensions). Indias national security policy should be headed by a person of Chanakyan intelligence. Let the evangelicals (US) and Wahabis(Soudi Arabia,Pakis) fight to death . Similarly let China and US fight(We try to be friendly to both). Only Indian allies are Japand and Korea.
Arabs & the games US plays
head on | Minhaz Merchant
One of the great ironies of the ongoing battle between the Israeli Army and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, is the comparison it invites with India's problems with terrorism emanating from Pakistan.
The comparison, of course, is flawed for two reasons: First, the countries supporting Hezbollah (Syria, Iran, Lebanon) are militarily no match for Israel; two, only one of the combatants has nuclear capability (Israel).
But while comparisons with Israel's military attack on southern Lebanon holds few lessons for India in its own war against Pakistani-fostered terrorism, the situation unfolding in the Middle-East should be watched closely by Indian policymakers.
Hezbollah's shi'ite leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrullah has become something of a hero for defying the might of the Israeli Army for so many weeks. The Saudi and Jordanian royal families initially criticised Hezbollah for "provoking" the war but as public opinion across the Arab world has hardened in favour of Hezbollah, the Saudi and Jordanian governments have moderated their stand.
The problem is two-fold - the cleavage between Sunnis and Shias on the one hand and between the feudocrats who rule most of the Arab world and popular opinion on the Arab street.
Hezbollah is a Shi'ite organisation and seen as backed by Shi'ite Iran. A Hezbollah victory, in the ongoing battle with Israel is seen in the US, Saudi and Jordan as strengthening Iran's hand. Al Qaeda, controlled by Sunni Muslims, has never before ventured into fighting for the liberation of Palestine nor taking up cudgels for Hezbollah. Recently its deputy leader, Ayman Al Zawahiri, released a taped message supporting the liberation of Palestine even though its first priority was to fight the US in Iraq and across the world.
This leads to the central question that has bedevilled the Middle-East for over 50 years: are the Arab leaders of countries like Saudi, Jordan and Egypt complicit in the terrible persecution suffered by the Palestinian people over the past several decades? The truth is that most Arab leaders have long ago made a compromise with the US. And that is that they will allow a nuclear Israel to exist in relative peace and US military bases to operate from their respective countries in return for the US not clamouring - as it does everywhere else in the world - for democracy.
The big victim in this unholy compromise is the disenfranchised Arab citizen Democracy has taken root in Latin America, in the erstwhile Soviet Union, in the Far East. But the Middle-East remains a desert of feudocracies, monarchies and outright dictatorships.
Lack of unity among otherwise powerful Arab countries has allowed Israel to do pretty much as it pleases. It receives more US aid on a per capita basis than any other nation on earth. Hamas, now paradoxically in political power in Palestine, refuses to accept Israel's right to exist. This has given Washington the pretext to put the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in a limbo. Meanwhile, with Israel and even the EU cutting off funds to the Palestinian Authority due to Hamas' intransigent stand, the suffering of the common Palestinian has increased.
The answer in the long run must be democracy in the Middle-East. Once political power passes to the people, much will improve. Women, currently in varying degrees under the veil, will be empowered. The US will have to deal with constitutional democracies that may or may not allow their territories to be used as American military bases. The whole dynamic of the Arab-Israeli balance of power will change. A pan-Arab response to the Israeli-Palestinian problem could supplant failed American attempts to impose a solution.
Mature Arab democracies will accept Israel's right to exist and support the two-state theory. They will negotiate for a return to pre-1967 borders for Israel and more secure land for Palestine. Given the right kind of compromise by both Arabs and Israelis without interlocutors with vested interests in oil and military bases, this could lead to a long-term and lasting solution for possibly the world's most vexed problem: enabling Israel and Palestine to co-exist in peace and mutual respect.
- (The columnist is the Chairman of the Business Barons Publishing Group)
Newshopper style american portal gaining in popularity. See :
http://www.indiannotion.com/index.php/newslinks/6136
>>Only Indian allies are Japand and Korea...
indianpatriot...these guys are too dependent on US and its allies to do anything on their own...India would be a fool to count on them...rather IMO, pls. do let me know what you think, only one nation is in a similar situation as ours, and thats Russia...it is an emerging power, whom the West wants on its side...at the same time berating and pontificating @ every giving opportunity, esp. when so-called issues like 'human-rights' and 'democracy' are involoved (eg. Cheney grandstanding recently to which Putin gave a befitting reply)...Putin, whose an ex-spymaster himself, knows the kind of chicanery and deception practiced by the West...he won't be fooled by these theaterics (unlike our 'honest' & 'upright' -- my foot -- leader Mask Moron Singh, whose more interested in playing subservient to his Western masters -- and mistress), Russia is also facing the threats of terrorism and heat of growing hegemony of China...so it would be in our interest to forge alliances with nations who face the same kinda problems as ours...and who are not a threat, esp. militarily, to our interests...and with whom we can form partnerships that can be mutually beneficial...countries like Russia, Brazil, Venezuela (for energy), South Africa et al...
Basically we have to remember that nobody is our friend...and in diplomacy only ur own interests are supreme so that means we have to stop pontificating and being preachy to the world...so that we can get what we want ...btw, who the hell are we to tell others as to how they should live or conduct their own state of affairs, unless they tend to harm our interests in any way -- read B'desh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan...we have 1 billion of our own who need to be taken care of...we need to forge alliances with nations who will further our interests while making clear to them simultaneously that we have no interest in making them unstable, rather we can share our knowledge, technical know-how with them to help them kickstart their economies, which btw will open up opportunities for Indian companies and I sincerely hope, given India's track record that, they will agree to it.
Basically, my point is...whatever floats the boat...to achieve what we want..and too much relying on the West for fight our battles and enemies IS a pipe-dream as well as akin to living in a fool's paradise.
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