Sugar crisis
In the 1990s there was the wheat crisis and now there is the sugar crisis. Sugar has mysteriously disappeared from every city in Pakistan. People are condemning the government and rightly so. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) slogan 'roti, kapra aur makaan' meaning food, clothing and shelter . The existing government is of the PPP and is doing exactly the opposite of its promise.
Pakistan has never experienced such a scale of scarcity of food items as it has since the PPP started running the country.
Some people claim that Zardari is grabbing businesses presently he owns all the sugar mills. All he wants to do is steal as much as he can. He does not care if the people of Pakistan starve or not. He does not care about popularity - he only cares about satisfying his personal greed. This has got to stop and an investigation has to be conducted as to who is responsible for this overall food crisis. Who these people are should be taken too task. In any case if President Zardari is not doing the things people say he is, it is still his responsibility to resolve this matter before it becomes increasingly worse.
This food crisis is artificial. Food is either being hoarded or being smuggled out. The smugglers cannot be caught because they have friends in high places. The first priority of every government is food security. Ensuring that everyone in the country has food at a low price. The country comes first. The requirements of the country have to be met then it should be exported.
I suppose the existing rulers do not have the basic concept of good governance.
Labels: food crisis
Zardari's quest for absolute power
The National Reconciliation Ordinance (N.R.O) is intended give more power to President Zaradari. He will use his executive powers at whim, and will not need the approval of the parliament for any decision be it right or wrong. There would be no debate in the parliament, the president's decision would be final. In short he wants to become a dictator. The elections which were conducted were sham. No one elected anyone, the results were announced, no one knows if they were genuine or not. Zardari made himself president and Gilani is prime minister because Zardari wanted him to be. Much of the parliament is filled with religious clerics (Mullahs) who have no concept of democracy. They can only preach not make a sensible speech. Had there been honest elections, the Mullahs would not be seen in the parliament. No one cares about religion. People want jobs, they want incomes which can match the ever increasing prices of virtually everything.
The country is run by charlatans, completely corrupt people, frauds; wheelers and dealers. Everyone has a suitcase ready, in case the tide turns they can escape Pakistan. But Pakistan is no longer in no mood to forgive. These people will be hunted down wherever they are in the world, captured and put on trial, for all the horrible things they have done.
At point Pakistan may have felt powerless, but no more. These people will have to pay and pay they must. These moves by Zardari to become a dictator should be stopped and no one should ever be allowed to rule the country by decree.
Democracy should be everywhere. Every city, town and village. In every Division and sub-division and in every district and sub-district. Civil servants and the military will have to withdraw from everything.
One wonders why is it that those who grab power would be able to survive in their position. Some have had horrible ends and many people who held key positions were also destroyed. It would be best the existing government resigns and should new elections. The elections should be honest. The original 1973 Constitution should be accepted without the amendments which were made later.
Labels: dictatorship
Sex ban
Instead of calling it porn ban - I've decided to call it sex ban. People performing a whole range sexual activities which for some odd reason many find objectionable and appalling. Social networking sites make sure that people post sex pictures. Gay blogs have been closed down. Why is it that sex evokes so much anger, intolerance and absolutely stupid reactions?
We were born naked and when we die our clothes might survive but our skeleton would turn to dust - what will a skeleton do with clothes in any case?.
I recently discovered why porn is so popular I conducted a poll and discovered 99% that real women detest oral sex. For them it is the unthinkable, it is disgusting and it is absolutely filthy. So pornographers I would rename as specialist in sexual needs, provide a service. None of the women polled refused to comment on their sexual fantasies which of course ruled out finding out whether they fantasised about oral sex.
Real women are nothing like the porn-stars, for all intents and purposes sex is strictly taboo. I wonder why that is so? It just is. If that we the case, there would be no prostitutes and no pornography, women would open to all suggestions. But the real world is really very very different.
Electing Karazai, what?!
Everyone knows that Hamid Karazai was an US citizen set up by the USA to act as 'President of Afghanistan'. He was never elected that position, his job was just sit around and pretend to run a country which is not at all in his control.
Now for some absurd reason the USA thinks it would be a clever thing to do is to have elections in Afghanistan and to elect Karazai. With the country in chaos, the coalition forces unable to make any headway in their war against the Taliban - there are to be elections. Who is counting the votes? Where the polls taking place? The Americans did the same thing Iraq - placing a puppet regime, a puppet parliament the same rubbish being repeated in Afghanistan.
Karazai will remain the puppet president the US needs and the election will be a stupid excercise and it will not change the fact that coaliton forces are still fighting with no end in sight. How many soldiers are the invaders prepared to lose? How much are they willing to spend on new weapons, those which were already in Afghanistan are being destroyed all the time. In past nine year a lot of 'expensive' junk has accumulated. These machines require refueling and repairs which can be salvaged. The scrap fetches a good price.
When greed is the sole motivating factor in this war - this war may never come to an end, perhaps after one or two generations, the invaders would realise their stupidity and retreat to their "FATHERLANDS" hail their respective Fuehrers.
The British have their secrets about their war in Iraq, obviously those secrets are about the death camps and torture camps they set up in Iraq. The deals they people they made deals with the enemy to spare entire divisions from annhilation. Conducting chemical and biological warfare against the people of Iraq.
Both wars are illegal and should not have happened. But war is the only escape from imminent economic collapse, leaders would be out of power and there would mass revolution. No one wants to be out of a job, no one wants to become homeless. These wars were fought by taking loans from banks which cannot back, they were not fought by using the tax-payers money. Now to pay back incredible loan and the interest accrued on it is so big a massive increase in taxes are being suggested and strangely enough when millions of people are unemployed.
Green Lantern of Krypton
The Guardians of the Galaxy gave sentient beings on different planets the famous Green Lantern ring and the Green Lantern to charge it up. The Kryptonians were a very technologically advanced race. The person who was given the ring travelled far from red sun and discovered in addition to the powers given to him by the Ring he wore.
General Zod wanted to rule Krypton and tried many times and failed till he came across Sinestro the evil Green Lantern. General Zod planned to use Sinestro for his own ends while Sinestro wanted destroy Krypton's Green Lantern. It resulted in a stalemate. Krypton's Green Lantern told Jor-el that banishing criminals in distant space only would make them stronger and pose a great danger. Green Lantern asked Jor-el to make way to a dimension which would render criminals powerless and would not make them powerful. General Zod and his gang ended up in the Phantom Zone. While Sinestro escaped Green Lantern fought him in space many times more powerful than Sinestro. Sinestro retreated and returned with a weapon which would bore a hole inside Krypton and changing a specific inert green crystal into something exceedingly toxic to Krypton's Green Lantern and thus defeating him, he disappeared into oblivion.
Sinestro to carryout an even bigger plan the destruction of Krypton. He filled the Krypton's core with Kryptonite which was like placing one billion hydrogen bombs in one place. Sinestro escaped with a warning to Jor-el. Krypton exploded, Kal-el escaped his homeworld and landed on Earth. The universe is big and Sinestro had many places to go - only later he discovered Earth to encounter Earth's Green Lantern and made him look like a loser.
Terms of use madness
Perhaps what I say gets lost in translation - a site says it is the best sex chat site only to discover there are terms of use and everyone who is chatting extremely politely or it could be code. 'be polite but means something else'. I am the sort of of person who does not like hypocrisy in any form, particulary website pretending to let people exactly what they want and later find one has been booted out for being offensive, these some of the terms of service I have gathered from such website.
You will not post on the Service, or transmit to other Members or employees, any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, offensive sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material, or any material that infringes or violates another party's rights (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy and publicity).
We will remove any offending communication from the site or service and terminating the membership of such violators. The following is a partial list of the kind of content that is illegal or prohibited on the site - it includes content that: is patently offensive to the online community, such as content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; harasses or advocates harassment of another person or invades their privacy; involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited commercial e-mail or "spamming"; promotes information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous; promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files; contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind; provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18; provides content that involves cursing, swearing, incest, falsifying gender, violence, necrophilia, impersonating another member, threat of suicide or harm to oneself or others, drug paraphernalia, or bestiality; provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; sending advertisements in chat or instant messaging messages; and engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes.
Users must not use our chat rooms to promote or incite illegal or immoral behaviour or anything else deemed by us to reflect badly on the website. Types of sites not allowed in our network include adult topics, , hate, racist, immoral or illegal content or related topics. This extends to the content of banner images and creatives. The company reserves the right to cancel any account at any time without notice.
Thismeans there is no such thing as freedom of expression from what I understand what freedom of expression is supposed to mean. But does not really exist it is all fake and a pack of lies.
The straw that broke the camel's back
The Karachi Electricity Supply Company (KESC) finally did it:Not supplying electricity for 18 hours at a stretch.Sending bills which only some mulimillionaire can afford to pay, sometimes not even them.When the shop-keepers received the bills they got together and put all the bills in a huge pile and set them on fire. Defied the KESC who threatened to remove the meters. The people began to warn them against doing that - saying what they will do if the KESC does that.Strangely enough none of the members of the Sindh Provincial Assembly was there to resolve the mattter.
It is as if the problems of the people of Karachi is not theirs. For some reason the Federal Government wants to interfere in an entirely provincial matter. The KESC has failed and will continue to do so, if it insists on doing this. The misery caused by KESC's incompetence and unreliable behaviour intolerable. Why should there one electricity supply company why not many more? The people in Karachi are absolutely sick and tired of the KESC. The problem is not entirely that of the KESC, it is of the federal government claiming to be democratic yet doing completely undemocratic things.
