Quick notes: Libertarians rising, Han menace...

• Libertarians Rising: Clinton 41.4%, Trump 36.5%, Johnson 8%



• Italy cracks down on Hans: A crackdown on the powerful Chinese community in Tuscany draws the ire of China's foreign ministry.



• Still under 'British' rule: Private holders, including British companies, still hold about five lakh acres of land in Kerala.



• Mythbusters tests global warming theory Does CO2 warm air?




• Peter Sagan's droolworthy bike:

Quick notes: E-commerce, Aruba networks...

• FDI for Flipkart and Snapdeal: It has the potential to render many small retailers’ physical stores unsustainable



• Standing up to the Chinese:  Taiwan tells Alibaba to exit within 6 months



• Keerti Melkote: Aruba networks sells for $3 billion.



• Samuel, the messiah: Illegal YSR statues encroaching roads in AP



• $60,000 speeding ticket: Instead of a flat fine, Finland bases the penalty as a percentage of daily income. The rationale is that the fine should sting for anyone, even the ultra-rich.



• Healthy cows: Butter from grass-fed cows leads to fewer heart attacks



• McDonald's to cut use of antibiotics in chicken: Many poultry producers give their birds antibiotics to make them grow faster. But overuse of the drugs could lead to them becoming less effective in treating illness and disease in humans.



• It was not the British government that seized India, but a private company, run by an unstable sociopath. Using its rapidly growing security force – its army had grown to 260,000 men by 1803 – it swiftly subdued and seized an entire subcontinent. “What honour is left to us?” asked a Mughal official named Narayan Singh, shortly after 1765, “when we have to take orders from a handful of traders who have not yet learned to wash their bottoms?”



• White man's burden: One article describes "Nirbhaya" as "speaking excellent English". What comes through, then, is a sense of India as a place of ignorance and brutality towards women, that inspires both shock and pity, but also call for a rap on the knuckles from the "civilized world" for its "brutal attitudes". Nirbhaya, described patronizingly as a speaker of "excellent English" is marked approvingly as a good subject for the global rescue mission. ..(excuse me for quoting Kavita Krishnan)

the cricket imbroglio

jan 9th, 2008

my views on cricket are definitely jaundiced, as i think the game sucks.

still, there is some good that came out of the recent fuss in australia.

1. as this blog has maintained all along, 80% of the money fueling cricket comes from india. by standing up to the white guys, this time the indian board rubbed their noses in it. this is good. an unusual show of backbone. this should be a precedent: because of indian buying power we should be able to influence lots of companies and countries.

2. a good example of india making friends and influencing people would be a demarche to malaysia saying that india will stop trading with the stupid little mohammedan fundamentalists right now. they have nothing india wants, but they do want indian brains for their white elephant cyberjaya and other grand ambitions. we import palm oil from them, thereby causing farmer suicides. and the bastards terrorize hindus there. of course, the UPA's reaction is to send anthony there to suck up to them. it was nice that immediately after anthony said malaysia is the kingpin for india's defense cooperation in SE Asia, the malay bigots said they want to send all indians home. actually i am suprised they didn't say send all hindu indians back to india, and welcome to mohammedan and christist indians. a couple of indian navy battle groups cruising into the straits of malacca on a 'friendship tour' would emphasize the point nicely, if only someone with some vertebrae were in charge in india, instead of flunkies.

3. back to cricket, india should now dictate terms. as this game is choreographed like WWF wrestling, some of the rules might be:

a. india wins 75% of its matches, we allow a few of the other miserable teams to win now and then
b. india is always world champion
c. whenever sachin tendulkar goes out to bat, the count starts with 100. sachin tendulkar will be the greatest batsman in all history for all time
d. if sachin tendulkar is bowled, it is a no-ball
e. if sachin tendulkar is caught, it is a dropped catch
f. sachin tendulkar does not have to field, only bat
g. sachin tendulkar is given out when sachin tendulkar decides he is out. this is like bhishma dying when he wants to

if all this is not done, india is going to take its money and go home. goodbye, million dollar ad revenue for steve waugh and pals.

4. the australians, being convicts, are slow to get the picture. but i am sure the british, always ready to genuflect to anybody with money, picked up on the deal very quickly. arent the ICC dominated by brits?

5. oh, a suggestion for the indian team and fans. prepare a bunch of racist insults to use on white guys, don't beat up on that black guy. i am not familiar with many, but here are a few i have heard: honky, redneck, white trash, trailer trash. these may be too america-specific, but there must be others (eg. convict) that apply to aussies.

(BTW, isn't it interesting that there are lots of racist words about non-whites, but very few about whites? good indication that the racists are whites, no?)

Hindu worker at Heathrow Airport sacked for wearing nose stud

More evidence of British prejudice against Hindus. The insufferable Englishmen will trample over Hindu sensitivities at each and every opportunity, fully aware that there will be no consequences, not even a whimper of disapproval from Manmohan Singh.
Contrast this to the deferential treatment accorded to the Mohammedans.

UK: five-year-old girl's passport photo rejected for fear of offending Muslims
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/012702.php