A blog a month...

Have been really indisciplined about writing on the blog. Hopefully should be able to correct it a bit this month. So what all has happened since the last time I wrote here.

Well, India won the T20 world cup, lost a ODI series to Australia, won the solitary T20 against them and the leftists finally lived up to their tag of being the appendix of India. A useless piece of evolutionary history which has lingered well beyond its time, is of no constructive use to the body but boy...what a racket it causes if inflamed!!

Another strange quirk of India's destiny - why do leaders who are basically divisive at heart simply refuse to die - harkishen singh surjeet, VP singh etc etc. These guys just live on and on. The ones who die are the dynamic varieties - Pramod Mahajan, Rajesh Pilot, Madhavrao Scindia..

Another cross the country bears...

Jimi Hendrix & the war on Iraq

I dont know how many have seen a documentary I just did, called Zeitgist. A longish over two hour documentary about world history, secret societies, conspiracy theories & how men in power have seeked to control humanity. You can look it up in the videos section if you want.

It develops a few key ideas and then goes on to provide evidence for each of them, some believable and some not so believable. Had me completely hooked up for 2 hours without a break. The ideas are as follows -

1. Religion was invented as a tool by men in power to control and manipulate others.
2. Jesus never existed and was created by the church (the men in power) from old pagan religious beliefs (The documentary proclaims that the character of Jesus in the new testament was based on the egyptian sun god - horus) to control and manipulate people.
3. These people in power today control the central banking systems of the world.
4. The great depression of 1929 was an inside job by JP Morgan to strengthen the federal reserve system.
5. War & nationalistic patriotism are the new tools to manipulate people in today's secular societies. Essentially wars involve spending, spending means borrowing, borrowing leads to printing more money & printing more money is what the central banks are all about.
6. Incidents which led to American entry into WWI were pre-planned.
7. The US had advance knowledge of the Japanese attack at pearl harbour.
8. US Standard Oil (a Rockefeller company) supplied Hitler's Nazis with a patented fuel for their airplanes which were bombing London. At that same time, the US was supplying the British with essential supplies by sea.
9. The incidents which forced the US to enter the Vietnam conflict never really happened.
10. The Vietnam war was never meant to be won. It was meant to be sustained.
11. JFK opposed this system (which is why he had to be killed) and when he realised what was going on he tried to warn the American public in a famous speech of his.
12. 911 was an inside job to enforce the war on terror and diminish civil liberties in the US.
13. The war on terror is the ultimate war as it has no real enemy and hence can be sustained indefinitely.
14. This war serves two purposes - One, it provides an indefinite war and thus a never ending stream of revenue for the international banking cartel. Two, it helps them diminish civil liberties and provide measures to control people in the future - with their consent.
15. The media (they kept showing Rupert Murdoch's face in the documentary) is on the inside on this one and is being used to effectively channel public information and opinion.
16. Another aspect which favours future control is a dumbing down of America's people so that they are rendered incapable of rational thinking. This is being achieved through declining quality of education and increasing sources of entertainment and amusement to keep people occupied and "NOT THINK".
17. George Bush has gone ahead and signed a North American Union (NAU) - which seeks to unite the economies of Canada, the US and Mexico - a lot like the EU. Its new currency shall be the Amero. This is all on track to pursue a single world government where the elite will be incharge of the whole globe and public civil liberties will be heavily curtailed.

Makers of this video are imploring the American public to see through this mess and take the right steps now. Hows that? So you are now thinking what does Jimi Hendrix has to do with all this right? Read on.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace..."

- Jimi Hendrix

Why a revolution awaits China

Have heard the whole world go gaga(or yin-yang) about China. But still firmly believe that a revolution to overthrow the current regime is not far away.

Think about this. Currently, there are two sources of information about China. The government story which is alway positive on the economy and shows what a progressive regime it really is. Second, the bits and pieces of dirty information about strikes, pollution etc which we get from non-official sources once in a while.

Now consider this, people usually overplay the good news and underplay the bad news. So just think about how much of the bad news (which is the only source coming from non-official and therefore presumably independent & unbiased channels) we are not getting to hear.

Something is wrong...Its just not coming out yet. Watch this space....

Religion & Nations

Its indeed a fascinating concept that the whole of human history, in terms of beliefs and concepts is actually playing out today in different parts of the world.

Largely, there have been three ways of giving people a common identity -

1. Religion
2. Nation
3. World

Religion was the first off the blocks at giving people identity. This concept has already died two deaths. One with the birth of the secular nation state in Europe and the coinciding decline in the role of the church. And then again with the end of the Ottoman empire in WW1. But guess what? Its back. Finally, today we also see in some developed markets, the concepts of a global nation taking shape - The European Union.

In certain other parts of the world, religion as the nation is playing out once again with calls of one arab nation. Now this is hardly an unknown, strange or regressive concept as it is claimed to be. Historically, in Europe, religion was the nation for centuries before the birth of the secular nation. How different is this call of religion to the call for the crusades in Europe centuries ago? Not much, I would think. Its just that X's past is Y's present and that makes X uncomfortable about the whole thing.

Right through the ages, people have always needed something to believe in. The first believable entity was religion. Today it is a geographically defined nation - tomorrow it could be the global nation, again a concept not many are comfortable with today.