The 85th Death Anniversary of Lenin


But who really gives a fuck anymore?

Socialism is dead. It is so dead that even the Russians dont practice it anymore. Its strange to see posters about it on Sri Lankan walls though..

19th - Martin Luther King day. He had a dream! of a free country. Of equality, of black people living in a united America.

20th - First black president comes to power. In the United States! A free and equal America is finally realized and undeniably proven to the rest of the word

21th - Death of Lenin, a kick in the face of the last big 'enemy' of the 'free world'

You are dead. We are alive and stonger than EVER! look out Iran and Islamic Fundamentalism.

Am I too conspiratorial or was it all just a calenderial coincidence?

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Obamania!

I think there is something very wrong with the hype surrounding Barack Obama and his forthcoming inauguration. The whole thing seems to me more fitting to a totalitarian dictatorship than a great democracy, more like a monarch’s coronation or a Roman general’s triumph than a swearing-in ceremony for an elected president.


Take the cost of the event for starters: $160 million (ten or eleven times what it cost to inaugurate Clinton and Bush). Hardly what taxpayers fork over their hard-earned cash for, is it? And then consider that there will be 40,000 security personnel at the inauguration – more than the number of troops the US has serving in Afghanistan. The outgoing President has even declared a ‘state of emergency’ in DC. Kathryn Muratore got it right on LewRockwell.com when she said:
Welcome to the inauguration of the "leader of the free world." You may only enter the city through these designated roads and transit systems. You will only have access to the inauguration after passing through a security checkpoint, where you will be treated with suspicion. There will be thousands of armed men surrounding you at the ceremony and parade. But, hey, that's the price of freedom!

I’m sure that if the founding fathers could see it, they would be absolutely sickened.

And of course, it isn’t just the event that is the problem – it’s... (read more)

Tom Bowman for adamsmith.org

My sentiments largely echoed. I do not really think Obama is going to make any significant change except to change whatever inefficiencies that exist the US's existing methods in the pursiut of global economic dominance. I think a more comprehensive change is needed in the system itself to put the world in a brighter path for the future. Otherwise we'll just end up in a worse position than we are now in another 70 years or so. (assuming we'll get out of this one without any major wars/disasters) I'll be very surprised for instance, if he turns out to be another Andrew Jackson. Fingers crossed though. I've blogged about this guy way too much already.

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SC throws down glove

The supreme court has given the government till January 27th to respond to the earlier ruling to reduce fuel prices to 100 rupees. I guess everyone calling the supreme court wimps kind of inspired them to assert themselves a little. No wait, scrap that. Everyone taking for granted that the supreme courts are wimps must have got to them.

So now they have given the government an ultimatum. And the government can react in one of three ways as I see it.

1) Ignore the SC

2) Buy for time

3) Tell them to sod off

or,

4) Actually reduce the price of petrol.

That number 4 well, seems pretty unlikely at the present. But it is ardently hoped for. There is a sense of strange satisfaction seeing a hundred rupees translated into exactly one litre of petrol. Telling you exactly how far you can go, depending on what car you drive. Ah. Plus it's cheaper.

i think, most likely, number three two will happen. A few days complaining about the lack of paper in photocopy machines, giving out complicated instructions for the aquisition of petrol (i dont think any 3 wheel driver so far is really enjoying his full quota of 100 rupee petrol) making the hassle of actually getting it more costly to the indivudual than the savings he would make.

Number one or three, especially number three, and the shit really hits the fan and just splatters all over our pathetic faces.

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Satyam not so truthful

So one of India's biggest tech giants just did an Enron. Their head just resigned and stocks plunge 82%. Market watchers are harping about potential implications for Indian business due to loss in confidence. Satyam was the only Indian tech firm to be listed in the Nasdaq as well. The credit crunch hitting India may have been a somewhat muted (or at least a bit turned down) threat, but this kind of stuff wouldnt help their situ at all.

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21 dumbest moments in US business - 2008

Face it. 2008 was a culmination in a cyclical period of right royal self screw-age that the American business world just went through. Fortune lists the 21 dumbest moments in business in 2008.

Among the dumb stuff highlighted was the Paulson plan, Henry Paulson, Henry Paulson and Henry Paulson. The big 3 'big' automaker's CEOs, jet flights, hybrids also made the list.

The housing bubble, voluntary homeowner rescue plans that called for banks to run a loss (like they weren’t running enough already) to save the housing market kind of made it to the list as well along with

the people who 'displaced' blame at 'speculators' for artificially increasing the price of oil and followed up with blaming 'collapsing demand' for its sudden drop. But i suppose no one really knows wtf happened in the oil markets, really.

The whole Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) and Jerry Yang(Yahoo) thingummy figured heavy on the dumb list. Stevie for escaping by the skin of his nose by overvaluing yahoo and Jerry for missing out on pay day numero uno.

If you've not heard of Bernard L. Madoff then you should be ashamed of calling yourself a part of the great nation that spawned the likes of Sakvithi, cos this guy carried out one of the biggest scams in history. and he did it for decades too. His simple model for tricking the likes of Greenspan? The returns for your older investors are the new investments that come in. Rotation baby, it’s the new twist.

Something that i thought was not dumb at all was the Apple i-phone application. Here you had developers making millions by devising little games and selling em for $10 each to i phone users and one smart sonofagun thinks up a screensaver that is just a giant red ruby swirling on screen, calls it 'I Am Rich' and retails it for $999.99. How smart is that? eight people actually bought it (the i-phone retails for just $200) before Aple pulled it out. But i say why pull it out? i mean what brilliance! If you're rich, own an i-phone and want people to know. This app is for you! Niche marketing much?

Anyways I couldn’t resist giving a coupla slight spoilers but there are more good ones in here. With special appearances by everybody’s favorite two presidential candidates

Go check it out.

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