Venezuela's courage

Venezuela is a country which has the courage to criticise the US killing Osama Bin Lauden. Of course, it has its own valid reasons.


US decided to cut ANTI DRUG aid to Venezuela. Venezuela's Foreign Minister called it a devil's aid. He promised to continue his fight against drugs. He also added that US aids only those countries which submit to its demands.

COMMENT: Is there any country today in the world which does not submit to US demands, including China. Venezuela's boldness deserves appreciation. At the sametime, it must realise "slow and steady wins the race".
Why this hypocrisy?

Davos Forum and WTO

DAVOS FORUM SAID WHAT?

Davos Forum has ended with an appeal to help the poor. We find that Euro-American countries make frequent appeals calling for help to poor countries.

CRITICAL REMARKS: Who will help whom? First of all how, the poor countries and the poor people, how were they born?

Shakespeare said in his play "Much Ado about Nothing" :

"In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.".

When will the Europe and America bear the yoke? They know only savageousness with an icing of preaching.

Low paying employers demand high employee productivity

LOWPAYINGEMPLOYERS'>LOW PAYING EMPLOYERS

Low Paying employERs have high employEE turnover. Energetic youth join as freshers. Come cheap. Toil 24/7/365. Leave as soon as something better is obtained.

In a country which has unemployment, there will be no dearth of freshers. Consequently, the low paying employers will get a continuous stream of freshers. Enthusiastic to learn. Contribute a lot to the employers, with a little training and encouragement.

The employers pay a pittance. On the other hand well paying employers will have senior workers with annual salary increases.

MERITS 1. They are committed. 2.Experience raises efficiency.

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DEMERITS:1. Though they want to work hard, aged bodies do not co-operate. Their energies will be dwindling. 2. Since nobody, will take them, they do not leave.

Thus, this is a paradox.

What is plagiarism?

PUBLICATION SCENARIO

PUBLISHERS AND PLAGIARISM

PUBLISHERS WANT FAT GUARANTEED RETURNS. New writers are ready to accept lower royalties

Now, the question is, why do the publishers encourage plagiarism? Why should the writers trod a stale and worn-out path and expose themselves to law suits?

The charges/disputes involving plagiarism are rising. Thousands of subjects/themes/topics remain uncovered/unwritten. Development of new technologies, travel and internet access to new countries have open up new avenues both in FICTION and NON-FICTION. They are waiting like brides for suitable bride grooms (or vice versa). Will the writers free themselves from bondage of the publishers?

A writer, has a few days back, received an offer from an IT Company, asking him to participate in a test.

They have made a very pleasant promise: There will be no shortage of work.

They have asked the aspirant writer to study the source material sent by them carefully, rewrite it and upload it back. There are numerous clauses and covenants warning the writer of the dangers of plagiarism.

They have also sent sample writes-up, examples of bad editing, examples of plagiarism, examples of good edititing etc.

The whole exercise smacked of that Company's probable hidden object: Their goal is search-engine optimisation (S.E.O.) for the websites of their clients.

Their client wanted to create some dozens or hundreds of website which should contain the same matter, but should be capable of not being caught by the anti-plagiarism programmes used by the Search engines for filtering the copycats. The business content-writer's work has become something like the work of an aircraft designer who is asked to create a stealth aircraft which will not be caught on radars and which is silent, like the recent helicopters used by the American soldiers for landing on the mansion of Osama Bin Laden.

Just as the fighter-planes and choppers have to in due course yield to the 'drones' on the war-field, probably the human content-writers have to someday yield to automatic website content generators.

Then, what for all these gyrations and hullabaloo about plagiarism?

Commercial War or Conversion War?

The top four highly-populated religions of the world are :

Christianity
Islam
Hinduism
Buddhism

The overt and covert battles and wars initiated by NATO with or without the approval and acquiescence of the UNO raise one principal question.

Are they Commercial Wars? --	Strategies of the MNCs to control the oil wells.
Are they Conversion Wars? --	The tentacles of Christian Missionaries spreading everywhere fuelled by Euro-American funds.

Why Hinduism is not crazy of converting?
Hinduism is not a proseylitizing religion though some self-exported monks like Swami Vivekananda, Swami Paramahamsa Yogananda, Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, Prabhudasa et al tried to spread their own cult. They had, at some point or other in their lives, disclaimed their Hindutva.
Those monks who have tried to attract people to Hinduism could not find a suitable caste to place the new entrants in.
Hindus with the exception of bureaucrats, businessmen, bureaucrats, money-spinning professionals and politicians, -- are poor.

I shall not say that Hinduism is free of defects or evils.

But then, are Buddhism, Christianity and Islam pure like distilled water?

The religious strife we see in Orissa and some tribal areas of India is a reaction to vigorous conversions made by Christian missionaries.

Christian and Islamic countries have money.

Practitioners of Islam have fallen on a sort of nervousness owing to the onslaught of Christianity.

The Islamic clerics have, consequently started tightening their dictatorial and superstitious grip on populations and Governments. Driven to the wall Islam is fighting out in a negative manner. Earlier, I could very rarely see a burqa-wearing girl/lady/woman in our town. Today, burqa/niqab/some facial cover which allows only eyes to see and to be seen has become ubiquitous. I pity the poor girls suffer owing to the ignorance of their elders. I am not going to say that they should parade in the City wearing bikinis. The purpose of a dress should serve its natural purpose of protection from cold-heat-rain. The dress must enhance appearance. It should not unnecessarily sexually provoke weak male souls. The dress can be affordable. It need not have glitter.


The next decade, owing to mutual apprehensions, is therefore, going to be extremely tumultuous.


Funnily enough, Buddhism has started to run the race very seriously. I have come across some propaganda philosophical books of Buddhism in my mother tongue Telugu language, published with funds from Taiwan. Some books are in my hand. I am analysing them. Chinese and Japanese funds may also be in circulation.

There is a Telugu film song worth quoting here: 'Okat`ee hrudayam koosamuu iruvuri poot`ii doosamuu'. Approximate translation runs something like : ' The ill of two persons contesting for one heart'. The two persons here are : Buddhists Missionaries and Christian Missionaries. Heart is : Weaker Sections who suffer from disease and poverty. There is no bar on one person giving his/her heart to one-two-three at his/her choice. Recently, I saw one advertisement on tv as well as in English newspapers titled : "Threesome!" whatever it meant.

#012 ARE ASTRONAUTS NOT HUMANS?

ASTRONAUTS ARE HUMAN

(Feb. 7, 2007)NEWS: An American Astronaut has been charged with attempted murder of love rival.

BLOGGER'S VIEWS
What is wrong? Are Astronauts not humans? Won't they have human emotions? Media has a habit of blowing up and intruding into personal lives. Besides, the guilt of the Astronaut is yet to be fully investigated and the Court is to be convinced. I sympathize both the women and the husbands and lovers involved in the affair.

#008 HARRY POTTER MANIA

Reuters reports that Harry Potter book flies off shelf, receives glowing reviews.

BLOGGER'S VIEW

Propaganda machine can do miracles.

#006 CIA AND AMERICAN LAW

THIRD DEGREE METHODS

The CIA says about using third degree methods to obtain confessions from the Middle East prisoners: "... The plain truth is that we act in strict accord with American law , and that our counterterror initiatives — which are subject to careful review and oversight — have been very effective in disrupting plots and saving lives. ... "

If what CIA says is true, the American Law itself must have been cruel.

#011 WHEN WILL BUSH BE IN A LISTENING MODE?

US President Bush said about Pope Benedict: "He's a good thinker and a smart man. I'll be in a listening mode."

BLOGGER'S VIEW

Thank God! Bush will listen at least to one person.

#005 WILL AMERICA REALLY AID THE NEEDY?

AMERICAN AID

PRESIDENT BUSH SAID in a pre-visit interview, before meeting Pope Benedict : "... much of our foreign policy is based on the admonition to whom much is given, much is required ... ."

The world is to be prepared for by a beating and lashing by Bush.