Socialism thriving in South Block

• Bharatiya Janata Party (Socialist): There is nothing remotely close in our budgets to describe the BJP as a “Right of Center” or “Far Right” party. Economically speaking, it’s even to the left of what the Congress was between 2005 and 2014. Right of Center used to mean something – balanced budgets, reducing regulations, minimum government, etc.



• National Pension Scheme: New 'Universal Pension Scheme' for all Indians being planned.



• Leftist under the hood: How Modi govt’s policies show socialism is our true national ideology.



• Lot of socialism in our political class: Ruchir Sharma



• Sarkari Yojana for Gig-worker: More government, less growth, fewer opportunities .

Quick notes: 5G hype | Surveillance state...

• 5G Hype:  India is unlikely to have any substantial coverage of 5G until at least the end of next year, with telecom operators in the country yet to participate in a spectrum auction. But that hasn’t stopped Chinese vendors from bringing 5G-enabled smartphones to the world’s second largest handset market.
  
  5G is weaponized technology:
  


• China’s Surveillance State: Thanks to technology, there is a much more robust option for authoritarians in the 21st century: big-data analytics in a digital public sphere. China’s system of cameras linked to facial-recognition databases, which may be able to identify people everywhere they go. . . Sick Man of Asia.



• Bernie Sanders' disastrous answer:
  
  Cooper: Do you have -- a price tag for all of these things?
  
  Sanders: No, I don't. We try to -- no, you mentioned making public colleges and universities tuition free and canceling all student debt, that's correct. That's what I want to do. We pay for that through a modest tax on Wall Street speculation.
  
  Cooper: But you say you don't know what the total price is, but you know how it's gonna be paid for. How do you know it's gonna be paid for if you don't know how much the price is?
  
  Sanders: Well, I can't -- you know, I can't rattle off to you every nickel and every dime.



• No limits to Mohammedan hypocrisy:

Now a Paki moron, so-called defender of 'Muslims-rights',
Imran Khan is calling out India on minority rights, meanwhile himself persecuting Shias, Ahmadiyyas, Sikhs, Christians, Hindus, Baloch, Pashtuns.
From where does he get such audacity?#Pakistan is a synonym for hypocrisy https://t.co/IOdXQGEKyf

— Sajeda Akhtar (@Sajeda_Akhtar) February 26, 2020




• People who drive expensive cars behave worse: Self-centred men who are argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic are much more likely to own a high-status car such as an Audi, BMW or Mercedes



• Nature makes children happier: The meaning and power of trees, water and wind "transcended" the mere senses. Getting in touch with the natural environment is a "tonic" that will cure what ails your soul. Our souls are just parts of Nature's greater "Oversoul."



• Open source licenses: What, which, and why

Quick notes: Green kingdom, Sriracha sauce...

• Bhutan moving towards all electric vehicles: Bhutan's main export is clean electricity from hydroelectric plants, which is sold to neighboring India. But most of the revenue from those sales now goes to importing fossil fuels for transportation.  The government imposed a "green tax" on all vehicles: 20 percent on those with engines of 1.8 liters or more, 5 percent on those below.



• Is the Universe a Simulation? One possibility is that we live in a computer simulation based on the laws of mathematics — not in what we commonly take to be the real world. Very clever. But is there any way to empirically test this hypothesis? Indeed, there may be. In a recent paper, “Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation,” the physicists Silas R. Beane, Zohreh Davoudi and Martin J. Savage outline a possible method for detecting that our world is actually a computer simulation. 



• Comrade Love: Come, join us, Kejriwal tells CPM veteran



• Sriracha: How a sauce won over the US

Kerala Model

This 2008 report from The Hindu sums up Sen-Rothschild's vision for India's future:

How safe is Kerala with regard to its food needs, as cereal prices, both internationally and within India, continue to climb?  

The State produces hardly 15 per cent of its food needs. It has become accustomed to being dependent on Central cereal supplies and market purchases from the neighboring regions. The acreage under rice, the people’s staple diet, has been dwindling at an alarming rate over the past three or four decades due to various reasons.

The Hindu: Need to revive food economy of State

Quick notes: Smuggling revived, sham surgery works...

• India gold tax revives smuggling: PC's gift to friends of Kaangress.



• Anti-aam aadmi water policy: Yogendra Yadav, ideologue czar of AAP, admitted to the fact that the philosophy of AAP was socialist.



• Common Knee Surgery no better than a fake operation: There was no significant difference between the people who had real surgery and the ones who had sham surgery.



• Universe is a hologram: A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard quantum physics in fewer dimensions.

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Rahul's Defeat

What the people have voted against is not corruption alone, but also the idea that a centralised group in Delhi can determine what the people should consider to be their rights, and then enforce them. The voters have told Rahul Gandhi in the strongest possible terms that if he really believes in the rights-based approach, he should at least let the people decide what their rights should be.

Narendra Pani: A vote against Rahul Gandhi's legislation-based approach to governance. 

Quick notes: Digging temples, funding madrasas...

• White lady said 'money has to be found' for her socialist programs. Kaangress govt is digging temples to find it: Kerala temples asked to give details of gold they have.



• Maharashtra govt closing down Marathi medium schools to provide funds for Madarasas.



• Pro-Taliban rally by the Bengal Marxists fails to impress: Sushmita Banerjee, who had converted to Islam and rechristened herself as Sayeda Kamala, was dragged out of her house before being shot dead by the turbaned militants.

Behind the burqa of psecularism

According to Bhagwati and Panagariya, Mrs Gandhi believed that economic growth was "dangerous" for the poor if it happened while poverty still existed. She had no faith in economic growth being the vehicle to remove poverty.

Her dutiful daughter-in-law has followed in her footsteps, thereby bringing us to a situation in which economic growth has halved along with the worth of the rupee. But, just like in the times of Indira Gandhi, there has been no reduction in poverty and no improvement in the standard of living of rural Indians despite the government having spent thousands of crores on guaranteed employment, cheap food grain and all manner of other charitable schemes. 

Tavleen Singh: An India of Indira's dreams

"The moment there is a crisis, they wear the 'burqa' of secularism and hide in a bunker".

Poverty Generation Schemes Showing Results

The country’s net liabilities to other countries rose by $57.8 billion to $307.8 billion over the course of the year.

In recent years, India’s liabilities have been expanding while assets have stagnated. 

HBL: India owes more to overseas entities now

Kaangress Welfare Fund

Anna Hazare on the UPA's cash transfer scheme: 

"This scheme will specially help party cadres, not the poor people. This thing has been brought with an eye on upcoming polls that are going to be held". 

DNA: Cash transfer would help Cong cadre, not the poor: Anna Hazare

FM’s Fiscal Number Is A Load Of Bull

The total losses of the oil marketing companies will be around Rs 2,13,000 crore when Mukherjee has provided only Rs 40,000 crore for fuel subsidies, says a Business Standard report. That leaves a gap of Rs 1,73,000 crore. And we are not even talking about other subsidies like fertiliser and food – where too the provisions look inadequate.

R Jagannathan:  FM’s fiscal number is bull

The Telegraph: The Godzilla of all fudges

Almost the entire expenditure on big ticket items is being reclassified as grants. The govt can then be extravagant in splashing out money on these schemes without having to bother about the strain such fiscal profligacy can impose on deficit reduction commitments.

Juan Williams Fires Back

After being abruptly fired from NPR for confessing his feelings about seeing people wearing Muslim garb on airplanes, Juan Williams is firing back:



NPR is now taking a withering barrage of criticism over its actions, which clearly showed their overzealous left-wing bias. Others with a more leftist-Atlanticist persuasion are however continuing to pump money into NPR and affiliated NGOs.

'Harold & Kumar' Star Robbed in DC

Kalpen Modi, the star of the 'Harold & Kumar' movies known more popularly by his stage name Kal Penn, was robbed at gunpoint in Washington, DC - on National Weed Day, no less.

Was he locked up by Federal agents? No! Was he tortured at Guantanamo? No!
Was this bushy-browed Obamaphile mugged in the national capitol? Yes!

Leftist Murderers Claim 'Economic Violence'

Wall Street Journal reports about left-wing Indian labour activists who commit murder while claiming they were provoked by 'economic violence'.

His Master's Voice

The Atlanticist-led Left are increasingly impatient with their flunky Obama for not responding quickly enough to their tugs on his puppet strings. In their impatience, they are increasingly taunting him to "Man Up" and push through all their hardline leftist goals. An editorial in the WSJ addresses this schoolyard baiting.

Another Great Video from Pat Condell

Pat Condell is a superb speaker, and an excellent thinker:




See all of his videos. He is a very courageous and plain-speaking fellow, whose videos should be spread around for everyone to see.

US Politics Suddenly Looks Indian

Suddenly the celebrity elites are fervently pledging their allegiance -- not to their country, but to their newly elected leader, Barack Obama. Ah, where have we seen that before?

The Automotive Civil War

In the US, a North-South divide reveals itself, as lower-cost non-union states block a bailout for the high-cost unionized-labour states dominated by the Big 3. Let's see what tricks the Yankees pull out from their sleeves this time. In India, it will be states like Gujarat that clobber the union-dominated states like UP, etc.

Atlanticists Hate Venezuela's Chavez

I notice that the same Atlanticist mouthpieces who glorify Indian marxists feel very threatened by marxism in Latin America, as shown in this IHT article. In one part of the world they support marxism, and in another part of the world they oppose it. Another example is the Atlanticist opposition to US-based Christian fundamentalists while supporting their own European man Ratzinger. And even US Christian fundamentalist groups get Atlanticist support if they're stirring up trouble in India. If Christian fundamentalists and Commies collude together in India, that would probably be an Atlanticist wet dream. To me, it shows the unlimited number of hypocrisies the Atlanticists practice in pursuit of their self-centred agenda.

Europe Blames US for Failed Treaty Vote

In a true a demonstration of the New Europe's socialist outlook, they're now blaming the US for their failed Lisbon Treaty vote:

French Pol: Europe Has 'Enemies' in the U.S.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet, France's Minister for Europe, suggests that neoconservatives in Washington influenced Ireland's No vote on the EU's Lisbon Treaty

Perhaps CPI-M can launch a bandh to express their outrage and solidarity with their overseas comrades. The Atlanticists will appreciate support from others fighting to preserve a 3-day workweek.