The 11th Hour

(This is a MaxiPost)

Mom walks into son’s room at 4 in the morning at night. She tells him “Sweetie, power is poison”. The son feels the apple falling on his head and declares to the world “power is poison” and the parrots in our MSM applaud. They herald the arrival of the new great white hope. Just over a year later the desperate Sonia Gandhi who “hates power” is running all over desperately seeking that poison. She runs to Imam Bukhari and begs for Muslim votes. That’s the only policy the Congress has ever had – divide the country on religious and communal lines. Since she came to India SoniaG has mostly lived in the corridors of power. In the last 10 years she has been even more powerful as an unquestionable queen. Power is poison, she says! She says the Opposition is hungry for power not she. Power is poison, she says. Yet, she is rattled to the core at the prospect of losing it. Rattled enough to go and beg Bukhari for Muslim votes. Our media did some meows and rushed past this sick deed. Her fences (like SP, BSP, RJD, JDU, Arvind Kejriwal) all seem to be facing the heat. “At the stroke of midnight, when the world slept, India awoke to a great fraud being played on its parliamentary democracy. It was fleedom at midnight” said Arun Jaitley. The fraud he is referring to is the sudden ending to the parliamentary session discussing the Lokpal bill in December 2011. In that session Ram Jethmalani modified an old saying:

RamJ has been remarkably accurate. The prospect of losing power is driving the Congress and SoniaG to desperate measures. To protect this divine being who has been sent by Italy to save Indians and India a whole lot of fences operate. At the 11th hour they even got GobarPost to rake up some old Babri nonsense. Flopped! They are as desperate to keep her in power as much as she loves that poison. Their target clearly being the BJP and particularly Narendra Modi. Even during the NDA days the senior BJP leaders mollycoddled the Gandhis allowing them a free run. This guy Modi seems to be in no such mood. So they have abused him with all kinds of fake cases, name-calling and the works. In my previous post (Hunting season is over) when I mentioned a vast Christian lobby desperately working against Modi, many people scoffed at it. As if working as a “fence” for Congress and SoniaG a motley group of US Congress members again got together to scream “threat to minorities” on the eve of Indian elections.

It is not just those US Congressmen indulging in skulduggery; a familiar Christian from India, John Dayal, who has been an anti-Modi campaigner (and also a campaigner against anything pro-Hindu), was specially imported as a witness. No Hindu person of any denomination was allowed participation. Need any more proof of how the religious bigots of US want to control India? Anyone ignoring this criminal motive of US politicians to muddy Indian elections and covertly destroying Hindu culture needs an awakening. A couple of days ago Amit Shah, the BJP’s manager for UP, seems to have made a speech which asked voters to seek “revenge” and the media-parrots went into an instant outrage. Needless to say, half the morons didn’t even bother to hear or read what he said.

Timesnow was among the first to outrage as usual. The bimbos on the channel started screaming “divisive polarising” all over again at BJP and Amit Shah. Circus clown Arnab Goswami even had Timesnow screaming it was a BJP strategy that Modi would be all politically correct in his speeches but his state managers will do all the communal talk. Such is the BS these people peddle. Here is what CNN-IBN offered as a loose translation of what Shah said in Hindi to the Jats who had suffered from communal violence at Muzaffarnagar and apathy at the hands of the SP govt:

Even if one were to consider the above a crude way of sending out a political message there is absolutely nothing wrong in what was said. Amit Shah asking voters to seek revenge through the ballot is a perfect way that every citizen should seek in voting out a non-performing, communal or corrupt govt. However, the father and mother of media-filth who pose as Editor and Deputy Editor of CNN-IBN did not bother to even read the report of their own channel. Both, the Monk and the Category5Moron, were quick to scream “scary” with Rajdeep calling Shah a communal “leopard” whose spots won’t change. What would you call this pair who allegedly run a news channel but prefer to quote another news outlet to vent their hatred and scare-mongering? That’s right; both of them conveniently quoted a headline from the Indian Express while their own channel carried a translation on their website. The two are so frustrated with Modi that they clutch at anything at the 11th hour that can in some way paint Modi as a communal devil who will destroy India. But evidence suggests that it’s not Modi but Rajdeep and his Hammamis who have that agenda. This fact doesn’t escape people anymore. Of course, the hate-filled ones who share the filthy cake of CNN-IBN have to be SoniaG’s parrots at NDTV. Take a look:

You see, the crass communal nonsense of SoniaG is a grand “score” by her party, like a brilliant heist or like the winning shot according to NDTV. On the right of the above pic is the “box of parrots” jumping in delight over an opportunity to nail Amit Shah or Modi. As the tweeter observes, it is the very news outlets and their cronies who are actually being more communal than Amit Shah in scare-mongering and hate-mongering. They too know it’s their last chance at the 11th hour. Much of this “manufactured outrage” is probably to cover up the “Boti Boti” case of Congi Imran Masood and the seriously communal action of SoniaG in seeking votes by religion. Another guy, Nitish Kumar, came up with a silver bullet. He says many in BJP also eat “non-veg” food. Maybe we will have a new vote-bank by food. Frustration all over! NDTV couldn’t help LYING some more when they twisted Modi’s quote on corruption as under:

After my tweet NDTV issued an apology and deleted their tweet above. But I have no doubts, and you shouldn’t too, that this is deliberate mischief and not a “genuine error” as they claimed. It has been happening all too frequently to be an error. Other than that, this mischief from NDTV happens only with Modi or BJP, never with any other politician or party. The folks at the channel know it as does the world. A typo or a wrong attribute can be an error but totally twisting a quote to mean the opposite is no accident. It is clear mischief. A recent misadventure by the C5M to a village in UP showed that the Dalits there were fully behind Modi to her utter dismay. Naturally, the so-called angel divine of Dalits, Mayawati, too calls for a rescue by Muslims of UP like SoniaG does. Here you go:

Poor Muslims, for all that they have gotten so far from parties like SP, BSP and Congress a lot is being asked of them. Political parties are unable to combat Modi anymore and now rely on hate-mongering with a community to do them a favour. Who knows, maybe in a few days there will be an appeal to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia to campaign in India to combat Modi. Seems far-fetched? Why, aren’t they already doing that with crony NGOs and US Congress representatives? As much as they hunted him, he is now haunting them. There is this man from the Southern newspaper; a man with no morals, no values and no principles who does the same thing for no rhyme or reason. He passes by the name of N. Ram, owner of The Hindu with P Malini as its editor who frequently unleashes “organised” hate letters against Modi. Here’s what appeared on April 6:

The silly Ram frequently publishes letters from “prominent citizens” against Modi. I challenge you to recall more than a name or two that you’ve ever heard in your life from the list in the spurious article. The wording of the note by these “prominent” citizens is as much BS as any that has passed in the millions of articles written against Modi. One can make a directory of scumbags if they were compiled into one. This is not the first time either. Ram published a similar letter from prominent citizens on February 20, 2014. All the media scumbags are left with nothing more to hurl at Modi. They’ve run out of ammunition as I said in my previous post. These scumbags of society indulge in fear-mongering and then they accuse Modi of nurturing fear. They are such idiots that they are oblivious to their own comedy.

Rajdeep Sardesai too is a comic moron who is oblivious to the enduring filth he promotes on TV and print over Modi and Gujarat. In every article that he trashes Modi for negligence since 2002 Rajdeep has had only one spot in the whole state of Gujarat that represents poor development or poor growth. His permanent victim has been one called “Citizen Nagar” in Ahmedabad. Look up any article or video of his where he complains of shabby facilities and you will find Citizen Nagar. Why? Because it is a Muslim locality. There is no denying that there is no state in India that still doesn’t have localities which need help. Gujarat may have its own spots (Hindu ones too). But why the obsession with only one Citizen Nagar? It was one of those days when this corrupt Rajdeep woke up at the 11th hour and decided to step out his lair of comfort that he found a Meena Bagh slum right under his nose. For the 666 years that Rajdeep has been a Sonia-Bhakt in Delhi, have you ever heard him talk of Meena Bagh or any other slum? There is no cure for willful blindness. From his 52-Crore bungalow Rajdeep can see Citizen Nagar in Ahmedabad all year but could see Meena Bagh for the first time in his life. Bravo!

From SoniaG begging Imam Bukhari to GobarPost to US bigots at their Capitol Hill to The Hindu to Mayawati appealing to Muslims to Imran Masood threatening “Boti Boti” to screaming murder over Amit Shah and the usual rants by opponents in politics and media at Modi, everyone is making a last ditch attempt to reverse their miserable fortunes. They are like those students who start reading up at the 11th hour outside the exam hall or prepare “cheat-sheets” to hide in their sleeves or in their pants. In all of this, there are still some who recognise the inevitable truth that it is only Modi who is talking governance and development and jobs. The rest are just singing the old worn-out song of secularism, communal and still resorting to appeasement and religious divisions. We are into election days from today and it doesn’t appear this 11th hour cramming will help.

CNN-IBN Barber Shop

I usually avoid commercials on TV. However, for quite some time now a strange ‘infomercial’ is being run on CNN-IBN. A campaign of sorts and I learn this is not new but has been on for over a year. Women telling everyone  how they love clean-shaven men or dislike stubble. The Gillette brand runs it and it’s called ‘The Shave India Movement’! It is a near half-hour show on CNN-IBN anchored by Paras Tomar and a panel of celebrity ladies. And if you had missed the disclaimer of this being a sponsored feature at the beginning you might think this was a serious panel discussion on how women liked clean-shaven men or hated stubble.

The general idea is that unshaven men, men with stubble or men with beards are unacceptable in society. I must admit advertising gurus can come up with some very creative ideas, and those are always welcome. But why is this on a supposed ‘news’ channel?

Frankly, when I first heard of a scheduled program called ‘Guthy Renker’ on another channel I thought it must be a movie. A movie about a great revolutionary or a great journalist. Being an avid movie follower I was surprised I had never heard that name. So I decided to watch it and to my utter horror I found that ‘Guthy Renker’ was nothing but a sponsored program about cosmetics and stuff. I had been had! But that was some movie channel so an afternoon program like that seemed okay. But ‘Shave India Movement’ on a so-called news channel? What do you know? The best might still not have come. If the Imam Bukhari of Delhi hears about this there might be protests by muslims all over the world who value their beards. Or may be Sikhs who are bound by religion or tradition to sport beards may draw their kirpans very soon. And what about wives of these muslim and sikh men? What do they think about un-shaven men? Wait till many of them hear or see this campaign!

Greed! Greed is one word that describes the utter lack of character in our news channels. And there are hundreds of such channels that abound. All without any kind of regulation. People have even stopped complaining about surrogate advertising. So you have Haywards, McDowell, Bagpiper, Royal Stag and similar liquor brands making up a big advertising source for these channels. The biggest goon in all these has to be Kingfisher! A liquor brand that now parades as an airline. Isn’t that joyful for the news channels?

I have a good mind to tell the ladies on the Shave India program, the host, CNN-IBN and Gillette what I really think of them. But I have a better idea. I’ve heard of many clinics, including the likes of Batra who help men restore their hair. Cricket Commentator Harsha Bhogle’s ‘refurbished’ hair and hair style is an indirect inspiration. From teenagers to middle-aged men to older men the one biggest concern for men has always been HAIR! Hair-loss, hair-style, hair-implants, baldness – the whole lot!

So, I am now keenly looking forward to the CNN-IBN sponsored program called ‘CNN-IBN Barber Shop’ where men get hints and tips on hairstyles and treatments and also get to tell women how they’d like their hairdo – long, short, bald (ala Persis Khambatta on StarTrek or a Sinead O'Connor).

This kind of advertising was and is a rampant practice in the print media. But at least the print media has some watchdog. These news channels simply do not have any watchdog and will not accept one. The only farcical outfit they have is the National Broadcasters Association, with guidelines that aren’t even binding. So if shaving for men can be a campaign, why not a ‘CNN-IBN Barber Shop’?

Egypt & 'The Fifth Column'

TV channels and other media are full of the ongoing protests in Egypt and other Middle East states. A quick over-throw of the regime in Tunisia has followed protests in Jordan, Yemen and the ones in Egypt have been the most dramatic and have caught the world’s fascination. On Tuesday (February 1) Arnab Goswami went hammer and tongs at the USA. Some of his outrage included “America should stay out of Egypt”, “US should stay out of middle east” and so on. Those are not quotes but what he effectively said. The others aren’t too far behind. It was impossible for Christianne Amanpour to not be there, so one can understand how hard it must have been for Barkha Dutt to have not rushed to Egypt. Someone must have stopped her, and thankfully so. Typically, most of our TV channels turned it into greater drama than was already on the streets of Cairo and the anchors themselves were calling for Hosni Mubarak to step down.

A thought on revolutions. Our own independence struggle was a revolution and partition was a consequence. Where democracy and real freedom are not at the core it will be easy to see where states can go. Former Soviet Union’s October Revolution needs to be remembered. That Pakistan, with its Islamic Republic Constitution, has gone down the drain is not hard to see. Iran is not hard to see. Tunisia is already in the making. That is the danger for Egypt. And this can spread much farther.

The Fifth Column?

Arnab Goswami’s calls for America to stay out is understandable.  However, for a super-power that brokered peace between Israel and Egypt, for a country that has poured billions into Egypt, for a country that has several interests in the mid-east, it is not possible to stay completely out. And it shouldn’t. Indian governments have been stupid enough to either get fully involved or completely withdrawn from our own neighbours. Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar are all good examples of how these countries are slowly being courted by the Chinese to strangle India from all sides. And, of course, we have the friendly Pakistan next door which our TV anchors, journalists and communist media love so much.

Hosni Mubarak’s rule of 30 years has been autocratic, corrupt and one of suppression. One that has also seen killings of minorities and church bombings regularly, especially Coptic Christians. The longer a government’s rule the more ineffective, the more brazenly corrupt it’s likely to be. Sooner or later people are bound to revolt. This has been seen in Iran before in 1979, in China in 1989 and in many other places. It is a lesson that no party should be voted to power twice in succession. India is already paying the price with the corrupt UPA government. So one can imagine what 30 years of power can do. Imagine what 60 years of Congress has done to India.

However, much as we would like to believe and are being told over and over again by the media that the popular uprising in Egypt stems from the people’s desire for more freedoms, economic well-being and a yearning for democracy, one hopes it is just that and does not turn into what Iran has come to be. There’s a reason to be skeptical. The protests are largely backed and driven by the Muslim Brotherhood, even if not openly so. There may be more, but the one sane analysis of the situation comes from Swapan Dasgupta on his blog – ‘Islamist regime may follow Mubarak exit’.

First, about the Muslim Brotherhood. This is an organisation founded in 1928 and is banned in Egypt since the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. Members of this organisation, however, contest as independents to the assemblies in Egypt. They support terrorist organisations like Hamas and many other Jihadist organisations. Their final goal : An Islamic Caliphate across the middle east and maybe later across the world. They are staunch opponents of Israel’s existence. Egypt’s peace treaty with the Jewish state is also a cause for the unrest with the Muslim Brotherhood.  Anti-Israel posters also find place with others in the current protests. Early morning on February 3 protestors were heard shouting ‘Jihad, Jihad’ on CNN in Cairo, in the middle of clashes between pro and anti-Mubarak crowds.  

Robert Spencer, a keen observer of ‘Jihad’ and ‘Islamic’ activities had this to say on his site Jihadwatch.org:

"Research analyst Lorenzo Vidino writes about The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe: "Since the early 1960s, Muslim Brotherhood members and sympathizers have moved to Europe and slowly but steadily established a wide and well-organized network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organizations." Their ultimate goal "may not be simply 'to help Muslims be the best citizens they can be,' but rather to extend Islamic law throughout Europe and the United States. With moderate rhetoric and well-spoken German, Dutch, and French, they have gained acceptance among European governments and media alike. Politicians across the political spectrum rush to engage them whenever an issue involving Muslims arises or, more parochially, when they seek the vote of the burgeoning Muslim community. But, speaking Arabic or Turkish before their fellows Muslims, they drop their facade and embrace radicalism." Read the devastating full post here on the infiltration of the West by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Former American Special agent Paul David Gobatz infiltrated CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and revealed the deep nexus between CAIR, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood in his book titled “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America”  It would be naive to think the Mafia will want to stop at Europe or America. They have more than willing support in places like Pakistan and some countries in South Asia as well.

In every country where the muslim population has attained significant levels there is a growing desire for Islamic rule or implementation of Sharia. Britain, France, Germany are prime examples. And consequently the existence of ‘The Fifth Column’ should not be dismissed as wild conspiracy theory. In India our own Imam Bukhari, of Delhi’s Jama Masjid’ is on record stating: “We were rulers here for 800 years. Inshaallah, we shall return to power here once again”" and threatens “this country is in for another partition, so let us be prepared for nation wide riots and violence. ”

Islamic regimes and Sharia are incompatible with Democracy. Let us be under no illusion regardless of how our media paints the Egypt protests as. It is in the interest of democracies to be on guard and therefore Western & Eastern democracies must be closely involved in Egypt and the Middle-East. The lies and paints of the Indian media notwithstanding.