The Myth of Independence (Part 2)

Pakistan got independence from British Raj on 1947, it is claimed. The British did left the subcontinent however their legacy remained. The entire socioeconomic and political fabric of society had changed as per the desires of colonial masters by virtue of their rule of around 200 years.

The education system, the judiciary, parliament, bureaucracy, military, financial system, central bank, rail road network, the municipal corporation etc. were all installed by the British and were left behind.

The public, who lived in such a system for nearly 200 years (of which last 80 years were crucial), had no choice but to cling to the same system particularly after the early years of separation. The colonial masters knew perhaps that the locals had no capacity to reinvent a new alternative system particularly in midst of economic and political turmoil... also the British intentionally left behind a few bones of contentions (Kashmir) to keep the newly formed states further distracted.

In this context one can safely assume that British only invented a new more efficient and self regulated way to manage their colonies by proxy, though in a very subtle way, or under the disguise of so called independence.

This was perhaps the birth of a new phase of colonization, where the colonial subjects would voluntarily follow their colonial masters just like the rats follow the tune of Pied Piper with an illusion of exercising their own free will.

This realization is important to shed away the ideological shackles and truly liberate ourselves from the colonial past. Deceiving ourselves with slogans of fake freedom would only keep us dragging behind...

Following video would shed some more light on the subject...
 

There is Blood on your Mobile Phone!

This documentary exposes how the cell phone companies of the world notably nokia, iphone, samsung, motorola etc, are all responsible for financing genocide, mass rape, torture, by militia armies in congo who control the extraction of a precious mineral called 'Coltan'. This is being done to get this mineral cheap, as otherwise the cost would go high if the workers in the mines starts to get decent salaries and their fundamental rights etc. Its unimaginable how easily these giant corporations prefer to look the other way and say that its none of our business, if we are getting what we want at a good price, its a bliss!, and the blood being flowed back there in Congo isn't just our problem really. Peter Bradshaw writes in The Guardian:

"The mine turns out to be a chaotic shanty-town on a mountain honeycombed with unsafe tunnels, and policed by warring factions of scary, trigger-happy bullies. The mining and gangsterism have grown up together, dysfunctionally hand in hand. The raw material is shipped out to Malaysia and elsewhere, smelted into tantalum and it is at this point that the big corporations buy it, firmly incurious as to its origin. Nokia is deeply uncomfortable about this subject. Did the saintly Steve Jobs have anything to say? We talk about conflict diamonds; maybe now is the time to talk about conflict mobile phones."

And we need to stop being mindless and blind consumers, rather must give it a second thought when we buy a device and use our power to vote (through purchasing power) in favor of those organizations which doesn't support such madness. And if such organizations doesn't exists as yet then we may rather purchase such products only when unavoidable. This is the ultimate form of crony capitalism, which if not be dealt with today, might create a world utterly inhabitable for future generations. 

The Four Horsemen

Wakeup Pakistan - Orya Maqbool Jan

Those planning to drain their brains outside this country, better watch this and think twice... does Pakistan really deserves you?

(use a proxy like hotspot if needed)

Who is Responsible for Death of 20 people in Karachi on 14th July 2011?

This survey on FB tells me one thing that despite ridiculing Zulfiqar Mirza for 24 hours, Media was not able to shift the perception of the public. Opinion of 13,549 is worth to note in this context. It should also be noted that FB is Pakistan is accessed by only the literate and educated people, who belong to middle class and above. Since it is an opinion therefore anyone can always disagree. Remarks of Mr. Waheed Baloch in a group 'Pakistan Media Watch' on FB are also worth noting:

The 'Zionist' Protocols: A Secret Document or a Forgery

Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York WORLD, February 17th, 1921, asserted:

"The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. They fit it now."

They even do today ...

Dr. Ehrenpreis, Chief Rabbi of Sweden, said in 1924, concerning the Protocols:

"Long have I been well acquainted with the contents of the Protocols, indeed for many years before they were ever published in the Christian press. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were in point of fact not the original Protocols at all, but a compressed extract of the same. Of the 70 Elders of Zion, in the matter of origin and of the existence of the original Protocols, there are only ten men in the entire world who know. I participated with Dr. Herzl in the first Zionist Congress which was held in Basle in 1897. Herzl was the most prominent figure at the Jewish World Congress. Herzl foresaw, twenty years before we experienced them, the revolution which brought the Great War, and he prepared us for that which was to happen. He foresaw the splitting up of Turkey, that England would obtain control of Palestine. We may expect important developments in the world."

Watch the following to learn more:

Ideological Foundation of Pakistan - Historical Perspectives | A Lecture by Dr. Israr Ahmed

A slap on the face of secular propagandists who are lying through their teeths about Jinnah (r.a) wanting a secular state ... this historical analysis proves how virtually impossible this could have been. The reality is perhaps quite contrary though .... what could have caused millions of Muslims to migrate from Indian terrority, hundreds of thousands to sacrifie their lives, respect and belongings? Were they aspiring for a secular state? you got to have peanuts in your head to believe that.

Watch (all 17 parts), digest, understand, realize, and spread if any shred of sanity, sense of dignity and identity left in you ...

Taxi to the Dark Side | A Documentary by Alex Gibney

Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 Academy Award-nominated documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney. The film focuses around the controversial death in custody of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar. Dilawar was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention at the Bagram Air Base. Taxi to the Dark Side also goes on to examine America's policy on torture and interrogation in general, specifically the CIA's use of torture and their research into sensory deprivation. There is description of the opposition to the use of torture from its political and military opponents, as well as the defense of such methods; the attempts by Congress to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention forbidding torture; and the popularization of the use of torture techniques in shows such as 24. The film is said to be the first film to contain images taken within Bagram Air Base. On November 19, 2007, Taxi to the Dark Side was named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of 15 films on its documentary feature Oscar shortlist, and was ultimately one of five films nominated for a prize in the "Best Documentary Feature" category.....The film did go on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature.

Was Hitler pro-Zionist?

Can't resist sharing this, this clip suggest that Hitler was pro-Zionist and anti Jew as per the following documentary. Watch and get amazed by the parts of history not told to the public in general ... in his article 'Zionism and the Third Reich' Mark Weber notes:

"Early in 1935, a passenger ship bound for Haifa in Palestine left the German port of Bremerhaven. Its stern bore the Hebrew letters for its name, "Tel Aviv," while a swastika banner fluttered from the mast. And although the ship was Zionist-owned, its captain was a National Socialist Party member. Many years later a traveler aboard the ship recalled this symbolic combination as a "metaphysical absurdity."1 Absurd or not, this is but one vignette from a little-known chapter of history: The wide-ranging collaboration between Zionism and Hitler's Third Reich ... [author concluds in the end] In spite of the basic hostility between the Hitler regime and international Jewry, for several years Jewish Zionist and German National Socialist interests coincided. In collaborating with the Zionists for a mutually desirable and humane solution to a complex problem, ... Indeed, during the 1930s no nation did more to substantively further Jewish-Zionist goals than Hitler's Germany" ... 

watch and get bewildered:

A Radical Experiment in Empathy

At TED sociologist Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: can the Americans understand -- not approve of, but understand -- the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent? And by extension, can anyone truly understand and empathize with another?

We can also experiment the same by putting ourself into the shoes of say people of Waziristan, or people living below poverty line in our community, or any social class which is loathed by the rest. The result, as Sam suggest would be truly insightful and perhaps alter the way we think about the social class

I feel the need to share this video as I believe that un-empathetic mindset that is becoming common every day is only increasing the social divide amongst various social classes is our society. If this happens then it will only add to the disturbance and distance amongst the classes, instead of the bridging the gaps.

Please note that listening and understanding the arguments of, say your enemy or counter party, doesn't mean that you are also willing to accept them as well. Though it is believed that understanding is the first step toward reconciliation and it would help you to develop an appropriate response, and would allow you to reach a state of peaceful co-existance.

Watch:

Terrorists Job made easy

I am in a state of depression since i watched this ... as usual the same rhetoric is being heard "this matter will be investigated, a joint investigation team has been formed, the culprits will be punished ... blah blah blah ... " listening to which has now become an insult to ones ears ...

The guy pleaded to be taken to a hospital before he fell ... but this is a routine in Pakistan, only a fraction of such events are reported, and only a fraction of a fraction of them get this much coverage ... but we will not wake up, because this is not enough ... not enough to wake us from the slumber ... perhaps we will not wake up unless each one of us feel the pain the same way felt by the father, mother, sister and other relatives of this fellow ...

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

A Documentary by Adam Curtis

Episode 1: Love and Power

Ayn Rand was born in Russia and moved to America in 1928 and worked for Cecil B. DeMille, and got some of the plot for what becameThe Fountainhead from this time. Later she moved to New York, and set up a reading group called The Collective. On advice from a friend, Greenspan (then a logical positivist) joined The Collective.

Although critically savaged, Rand's Objectivist ideas were popular and came to heavily infiltrate California, particularly Silicon Valley. The computer utopian belief (Californian Ideology) that computer networks could measure, control and self-stabilise societies, without hierarchical political control, and that people could become 'Randian heroes', only working for their own happiness, became more widespread.

Vaccine to make you Non-Religious

"This is a lecture by an unidentified scientist given to DoD officials inside the Pentagon. It is dated 4-13-05 – about a year after the “God Gene” was first discovered. The scientist describes a plan to alter the “God Gene” in the Middle Easter Population in order to end the turmoil in that region. I acquired the video through an unknown source and from my knowledge, connections and experience as part of a unit called combat camera, I have verified it to be authentic." 

Joey Lambardi

Taliban: "We will punish OBL, but show us the proof he is the terrorist"

Taliban representative Sayed Rehmatullah Hashimi claimed, on a American TV channel, a decade ago, that Taliban would have trailed OBL if sufficient proof of his being a terrorist was provided. Further he accused USA of converting him into a hero, which he wasn't in the first place.

This tells me one thing, Talibans are not hypocrite, not by the least bit, they stood by their words and principles despite the consequences that they wouldn't produce a person to the accusers, unless sufficient proofs are given to them.

It is so surprising, how things are put by media today. This is just a glimpse which hints that the truth could be something really really different from what we are shown today.

Why Libya is being Bombed ... ?

Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking? an article by By Ellen Brown

Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank - this before they even had a government. Robert Wenzel wrote in the Economic Policy Journal: 

I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences.

Alex Newman wrote in the New American:

In a statement released last week, the rebels reported on the results of a meeting held on March 19. Among other things, the supposed rag-tag revolutionaries announced the "[d]esignation of the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and appointment of a Governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi."

Newman quoted CNBC senior editor John Carney, who asked, "Is this the first time a revolutionary group has created a central bank while it is still in the midst of fighting the entrenched political power? It certainly seems to indicate how extraordinarily powerful central bankers have become in our era."
Another anomaly involves the official justification for taking up arms against Libya. Supposedly it's about human rights violations, but the evidence is contradictory. According to an article on the Fox News website on February 28:

As the United Nations works feverishly to condemn Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi for cracking down on protesters, the body's Human Rights Council is poised to adopt a report chock-full of praise for Libya's human rights record.

The review commends Libya for improving educational opportunities, for making human rights a "priority" and for bettering its "constitutional" framework. Several countries, including Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and Saudi Arabia, but also Canada, give Libya positive marks for the legal protections afforded to its citizens - who are now revolting against the regime and facing bloody reprisal.
Whatever might be said of Qaddafi 's personal crimes, the Libyan people seem to be thriving. A delegation of medical professionals from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus wrote in an appeal to Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin that after becoming acquainted with Libyan life, it was their view that in few nations did people live in such comfort:

[Libyans] are entitled to free treatment, and their hospitals provide the best in the world of medical equipment. Education in Libya is free, capable young people have the opportunity to study abroad at government expense. When marrying, young couples receive 60,000 Libyan dinars (about 50,000 US dollars) of financial assistance. Non-interest state loans, and as practice shows, undated. Due to government subsidies the price of cars is much lower than in Europe, and they are affordable for every family. Gasoline and bread cost a penny, no taxes for those who are engaged in agriculture. The Libyan people are quiet and peaceful, are not inclined to drink, and are very religious.

They maintained that the international community had been misinformed about the struggle against the regime. "Tell us," they said, "who would not like such a regime?"
Even if that is just propaganda, there is no denying at least one very popular achievement of the Libyan government: it brought water to the desert by building the largest and most expensive irrigation project in history, the $33 billion GMMR (Great Man-Made River) project. Even more than oil, water is crucial to life in Libya. The GMMR provides 70 percent of the population with water for drinking and irrigation, pumping it from Libya's vast underground Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System in the south to populated coastal areas 4,000 kilometers to the north. The Libyan government has done at least some things right.
Another explanation for the assault on Libya is that it is "all about oil," but that theory too is problematic. As noted in the National Journal, the country produces only about 2 percent of the world's oil. Saudi Arabia alone has enough spare capacity to make up for any lost production if Libyan oil were to disappear from the market. And if it's all about oil, why the rush to set up a new central bank?
Another provocative bit of data circulating on the Net is a 2007 "Democracy Now!" interview of US General Wesley Clark (Ret.). In it he says that about 10 days after September 11, 2001, he was told by a general that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq. Clark was surprised and asked why. "I don't know!" was the response. "I guess they don't know what else to do!" Later, the same general said they planned to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.
What do these seven countries have in common? In the context of banking, one that sticks out is that none of them is listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). That evidently puts them outside the long regulatory arm of the central bankers' central bank in Switzerland.
The most renegade of the lot could be Libya and Iraq, the two that have actually been attacked. Kenneth Schortgen Jr., writing on Examiner.com, noted that "[s]ix months before the US moved into Iraq to take down Saddam Hussein, the oil nation had made the move to accept Euros instead of dollars for oil, and this became a threat to the global dominance of the dollar as the reserve currency, and its dominion as the petrodollar."
According to a Russian article titled "Bombing of Lybia - Punishment for Qaddafi for His Attempt to Refuse US Dollar," Qaddafi made a similarly bold move: he initiated a movement to refuse the dollar and the euro, and called on Arab and African nations to use a new currency instead, the gold dinar. Qaddafi suggested establishing a united African continent, with its 200 million people using this single currency. During the past year, the idea was approved by many Arab countries and most African countries. The only opponents were the Republic of South Africa and the head of the League of Arab States. The initiative was viewed negatively by the USA and the European Union, with French president Nicolas Sarkozy calling Libya a threat to the financial security of mankind; but Qaddafi was not swayed and continued his push for the creation of a united Africa.
And that brings us back to the puzzle of the Libyan central bank. In an article posted on the Market Oracle, Eric Encina observed:

One seldom mentioned fact by western politicians and media pundits: the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State Owned.... Currently, the Libyan government creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, through the facilities of its own central bank. Few can argue that Libya is a sovereign nation with its own great resources, able to sustain its own economic destiny. One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking ability. Hence, taking down the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) may not appear in the speeches of Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy but this is certainly at the top of the globalist agenda for absorbing Libya into its hive of compliant nations.

Libya not only has oil. According to the IMF, its central bank has nearly 144 tons of gold in its vaults. With that sort of asset base, who needs the BIS, the IMF and their rules?
All of which prompts a closer look at the BIS rules and their effect on local economies. An article on the BIS website states that central banks in the Central Bank Governance Network are supposed to have as their single or primary objective "to preserve price stability." They are to be kept independent from government to make sure that political considerations don't interfere with this mandate. "Price stability" means maintaining a stable money supply, even if that means burdening the people with heavy foreign debts. Central banks are discouraged from increasing the money supply by printing money and using it for the benefit of the state, either directly or as loans.
In a 2002 article in Asia Times titled "The BIS vs National Banks," Henry Liu maintained:

BIS regulations serve only the single purpose of strengthening the international private banking system, even at the peril of national economies. The BIS does to national banking systems what the IMF has done to national monetary regimes. National economies under financial globalization no longer serve national interests.

... FDI [foreign direct investment] denominated in foreign currencies, mostly dollars, has condemned many national economies into unbalanced development toward export, merely to make dollar-denominated interest payments to FDI, with little net benefit to the domestic economies.

He added, "Applying the State Theory of Money, any government can fund with its own currency all its domestic developmental needs to maintain full employment without inflation." The "state theory of money" refers to money created by governments rather than private banks.

The presumption of the rule against borrowing from the government's own central bank is that this will be inflationary, while borrowing existing money from foreign banks or the IMF will not. But all banks actuallycreate the money they lend on their books, whether publicly-owned or privately-owned. Most new money today comes from bank loans. Borrowing it from the government's own central bank has the advantage that the loan is effectively interest-free. Eliminating interest has been shown to reduce the cost of public projects by an average of 50 percent.
And that appears to be how the Libyan system works. According to Wikipedia, the functions of theCentral Bank of Libya include "issuing and regulating banknotes and coins in Libya" and "managing and issuing all state loans." Libya's wholly state-owned bank can and does issue the national currency and lend it for state purposes.
That would explain where Libya gets the money to provide free education and medical care, and to issue each young couple $50,000 in interest-free state loans. It would also explain where the country found the $33 billion to build the Great Man-Made River project. Libyans are worried that NATO-led air strikes are coming perilously close to this pipeline, threatening another humanitarian disaster.
So is this new war all about oil or all about banking? Maybe both - and water as well. With energy, water, and ample credit to develop the infrastructure to access them, a nation can be free of the grip of foreign creditors. And that may be the real threat of Libya: it could show the world what is possible. Most countries don't have oil, but new technologies are being developed that could make non-oil-producing nations energy-independent, particularly if infrastructure costs are halved by borrowing from the nation's own publicly-owned bank. Energy independence would free governments from the web of the international bankers, and of the need to shift production from domestic to foreign markets to service the loans.
If the Qaddafi government goes down, it will be interesting to watch whether the new central bank joins the BIS, whether the nationalized oil industry gets sold off to investors, and whether education and health care continue to be free.

Ellen Brown is an attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute,http://PublicBankingInstitute.org. In "Web of Debt," her latest of eleven books, she shows how a private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her websites are http://webofdebt.com and http://ellenbrown.com.

Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!

At TEDxDubai, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question: Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? (For instance: what if Einstein had to pass the TOEFL?) It's a passionate defense of translating and sharing ideas.

Hypocrisy? US loses 50 nukes

Murder of Two Brothers in Sialkot is only Tip of the Iceberg

I cannot agree to the idea that this is an isolated incident. Any random crowd doing such a horrendous act cannot assume to have just gone unimaginably violent ... such a collective crime cannot occur unless the tendency to commit such an act is already present! not in an individual but among all the spectators who preferred to watch and make videos of the entire scene through their mobile phones. 

Before the lava erupts from a volcano, the volcanic activity gradually builds up until the time it explodes ... and once it does there is no turning back, unless God wills so ... the societies corrupts in the same way  perhaps ... and this video show's just an example of such an eruption ... can there be chance for our collective self to retreat back ... ?

From corrupt politicians, to war on terror, to the recent flood crisis are all signs for those who can understand, realize and repent ... but thats only a fraction of the population and when the wrath of God arrives, no one is spared. 

Perhaps it is only a matter of time ... 

"Amul Chotay Ustaad Do Deshon ki Ek Awaz" against Pakistan's Culture and Islam?

By Sajid Saeed Khan

Amul Chotay Ustaad Do Deshon ki Ek Awaz is a singing competition backed by a program AMAN ki ASHA, did anyone noticed that the advertisement of AMAN ki ASHA is on-air from last six months and they started that Chotay Ustaad program on 24th July 2010 (weekly episodes) prior to 2 weeks of Ramadan Kareem, doesn’t it smell fishy?

Analyze it.

When the program was started at the time of introduction of kids, what they were showing a kid from Pakistan is in masjid meeting with Moazzan and performing namaz, praying to be a best singer, in one clip kid is in masjid praying and in next clip he is singing my god see the relation they are creating between praying and singing.

Singing / dancing is prohibited in Islam and it was not even the culture of Pakistan [to the extent it is today] before cable tv. 

Now what I observed the purpose behind this is to burst up Ramadan Kareem, people of Pakistan use to pray in Ramadan Kareem and in this month we are totally different people in all aspects we try to oppose all those things which we usually do in normal days and by these sort of programs they want to divert our attention from prays they want us to get indulge ourselves in the delight of singing / dancing which is literally throwing us away from our religion / our culture even in Ramadan Kareem. [Just to quote on example] One episode in which Asha Bhosle joins as a guest, would u guyz believe one of Paki kid father says “ap say mil lia mera hajj hogaya” nauzubillah a muslim saying to hindu “ap say mil lia mera hajj ho gaya” damn it, after this I can say these families are chosen families and they are making us use to of these words so we wont be able to find differences in Islam and Hinduism or between Paki and Indian Culture. 

Geo tv exaggerating the emphasis on the India Pakistan friendship by broadcasting this program, they are using kids and a message of friendship as [psychological] weapons this time [as well].

[We shouldn't be totally blaming anti Pakistan or anti Pakistan elements around us for such a cultural or psychological onslaught. We also need to look ourselves in the mirror to see and realize that it is primarily due to our internal weakness which is giving opportunity to those elements within us and outside the boundaries of this country to do all what is necessary to disconnect us from our traditions, culture, history and religion. More then us they realize that what has allowed us to recover our strength and stand tall among other civilization, repeatedly again and again through the history, despite in-numerous downturns and crisis faced by our civilization, mostly due to internal weaknesses. With every passing day I find it getting more and more important for us to realize who we are, where did we came from, what is our history and traditions, only and only if we want to be who we really are ... but on the contrary our enemies are realizing it's importance and trying their best to make us or remain anything but  ...  Muslims i.e. servants of Allah SWT, and Followers of Muhammad-e-Mustafa SAW

Omar Javaid, Administrator, Critic Magazine Blog]    

Why no one invades Switzerland?