News on the March-hypocrisy in public life

Here is abc news: Although it is not apparent on his financial disclosure form, Mitt Romney has millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investment funds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven… As the race for the Republican nomination heats up, Mitt Romney is finding it increasingly difficult to [...]

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Assassination of Walter Rathenau

Some players on the national arena hold a vital role holding precariously the whole edifice up. Walter Rathenau was in the Weimar Republic the minister of Reconstruction, a vital role in the devastated country. The Ebert government was facing civil unrest with the Red scare;the economy was in shambles and it needed fixing and he [...]

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The Search for Atlantis- Eternal India

Eternal India is an idea. It is what Indians would like to see their country and they cannot feel but pride of their spiritual heritage. They also see a way of life in which the epics and countless of temples serving the people and disentangle spiritual confusion; a place to contemplate and submerge their selves [...]

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History Repeats Itself

‘The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican War, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, [...]

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A Divided House

France was a divided house where neither Labour nor the extreme Right felt at home with the Republic. Trade unionism was still bitterly resisted by the employers and the government trying to appease its radical or socialist wing failed to please any. No wonder six governments fell one after the other in two years! In [...]

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Nation or individual?-2

Jew-baiting in Europe was pervasive right from the time the powers- that- be found the Jews a convenient scapegoat. The rulers of principalities funded their wars with the money extorted from the Jews. Torquemada for example comes to mind. Jews were banished from the Catholic Spain. France was not free from this prejudice. That was [...]

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Nation or individual?

It was Adolf Hitler who once posed the question: “What is life?” He himself answered it thus:”Life is the nation.The individual is the nation. The individual must die anyway. Beyond the life of the individual is the Nation.”( Shirer:The Rise and fall of the Third Reich. p.933) I owe this article to Wm. Shirer’s excellent [...]

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Known Depredators-Book Them!

I am quoting Associated Press news: OSH, Kyrgyzstan – The U.N. has found evidence of bloody intent behind the chaos in Kyrgyzstan that killed hundreds, left the nation’s second-biggest city a smoldering ruin and sent more than 100,000 ethnic Uzbeks fleeing. The declaration by the U.N. that the fighting was “orchestrated, targeted and well-planned” —Otunbayeva’s [...]

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Spot the Difference-2

The fellow who by sweat  and tears in the end reaches a key position to steal the company wholesale. He goes to Lichestein and dreads the day the kingdom changes its  tax haven status.  Whileone who never did a day’s honest work floats a pyramid scheme and makes off with it to a rogue nation. He gets [...]

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Barking at the Wrong Burqa

PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Monday that the Islamic burqa is not welcome in France, branding the face-covering, body-length gown as a symbol of subservience that suppresses women’s identities and turns them into “prisoners behind a screen.” I have no problem with such a ban since each country has its own rules on which [...]

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