Even before he got elected as the US president, Chayakada had given its verdict – this man is so plastic. When he portrayed himself as a black man who is white enough to be in the White House… we knew what he is going to deliver.

Last week, Washington Post carried an article: Obama backs non-censorship; Beijing, apparently, does not.

President Obama, taking questions Monday from government-selected students at a town hall-style meeting in Shanghai, called himself “a big supporter of non-censorship.” But the Beijing government, apparently, is not, and most Chinese never got to hear or read what Obama said.

Telegraph in the UK wrote: Barack Obama has strongly criticised censorship in an unusual live “town hall” meeting with Chinese students in Shanghai, veering directly into one of the most sensitive areas of Communist party policy.

The Hope evangelist put up a big show in China; after all those Red Commis in China are all about censorship, stealing American jobs, etc etc….

Back in his own country, land of the free, land of undying hope… Obama is no different from the Chinese regime. Obama enforces censorship in the USA!

If Orwell was around, he would definitely change the names of a few characters in Animal Farm. Napoleon is a sure candidate to be replaced by Obama.

Many people actually believe RK Pachauri won a Nobel Prize for Peace. It is highly possible that the committee might give him a Nobel Prize for Climate (if they come up with a category like that).

On the website of Festival Of Thinkers, organised by Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE, you will find this.

The Nobel Peace Prize site makes it very clear who won the prize.

The Hindu has published an editorial “Brinjal and beyond.”

Did N Ram the Editor of The Hindu write these words:
“He (India’s environment minister) should ignore the huge pressure from organisations that have no time for the scientific evidence while claiming to speak for the environment and the public.”

The editor is saying Greenpeace has no time for scientific evidence!

Did the editor at least try to get in touch with Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini of the Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN) – who called Bt Brinjal: Bt Brinjal Unfit for Human Consumption.

The United Kingdom is a ‘democracy’ with a Monarch. Oxymoron.

In such a society, this news shouldn’t be big: Guardian gagged from reporting parliament

If the citizens have no right to know what’s happening in the Parliament… it represents the biggest challenge to democracy – a big one.

For the sake of democracy, Chayakada is reproducing the entire Guardian report.

The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.

Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.

The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret.

The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.

The Guardian has vowed urgently to go to court to overturn the gag on its reporting. The editor, Alan Rusbridger, said: “The media laws in this country increasingly place newspapers in a Kafkaesque world in which we cannot tell the public anything about information which is being suppressed, nor the proceedings which suppress it. It is doubly menacing when those restraints include the reporting of parliament itself.”

The media lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC said Lord Denning ruled in the 1970s that “whatever comments are made in parliament” can be reported in newspapers without fear of contempt.

He said: “Four rebel MPs asked questions giving the identity of ‘Colonel B’, granted anonymity by a judge on grounds of ‘national security’. The DPP threatened the press might be prosecuted for contempt, but most published.”

The right to report parliament was the subject of many struggles in the 18th century, with the MP and journalist John Wilkes fighting every authority – up to the king – over the right to keep the public informed. After Wilkes’s battle, wrote the historian Robert Hargreaves, “it gradually became accepted that the public had a constitutional right to know what their elected representatives were up to”.

Looks like the GAG is based on what BBC and Guardian exposed on Trafigura’s toxic dumping in Ivory Coast. Wikileaks has the full Minton Report.

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It seems Indian penises are in a league of their own.

A BBC report, Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men, says,

“A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.”

Five years back, BBC carried another report: Large condoms for S African men

A range of extra-large condoms has been launched in South Africa, to cater for “well-endowed” men.

“A large number of South African men are bigger and complain about condoms being uncomfortable and too small,” said Durex manager Stuart Roberts.

It’s another matter that the Indian Premier League is being played in South Africa at the moment.

Shashi Tharoor’s website has had a facelift.

Check out what Tharoor’s voters are wearing… You’ll find guys in pants and women in short skirts…

I can’t imagine a single woman wearing short skirt going to the polling booth in Thiruvananthapuram.

Why are these qualities necessary? Because of the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead for Thiruvananthapuram, for Kerala and for India.

* Shashi Tharoor is highly qualified, having earned four degrees, including a PhD., by the age of 22, and been awarded two subsequent honorary doctorates by prestigious foreign universities.
* He has led a global life at the United Nations that has been about reconciling the differing positions and attitudes of people from different parts of the world.
* In his writings he has displayed a profound patriotism, deep insights into the problems facing India, and a passion to help the nation overcome them.
* In his UN career he has repeatedly proved himself a reformer witha remarkable ability to address and solve problems. At the same time, he is “one of us”:
* He has experiences like any other Malayali who has left home to travel to some foreign land to make a living.
* His success is anchored in his Malayali up bringing and the cultural parameters instilled in him, including by annual visits to his ancestral village in Kerala:hard work, self-respect and eagerness to move forward.
* He is determined to use his considerable skills and energies to bringing the best to the people of Thiruvananthapuram.

As Shashi Tharoor says:

“To represent the great citizens of this wonderful city would be an honour, but it is more important for Thiruvananthapuram’s own sake that the people study all the candidates and vote for the person who can help them the most to improve their daily lives.”

So what is he going to do for the people of Thiruvananthapuram?

After watching the Guardian video, one thing is very evident – the policeman had no business in shoving and hurting a citizen. Let there be NO DOUBT on whether the shove had anything to do with Ian Tomlinson’s death; the man is dead. The evidence is clear.

Tomlinson didn’t die of natural causes; he was pushed to death by a cop – whose first and foremost responsibility in a democracy is to protect people and not protect property.

Britain or England has never been a proper democracy; they still have a Queen and a royal family that is a symbol of a rotting system. People of England have to rise and claim what is rightfully theirs – a democratic nation.

Brown, Blair, John Major, Margaret Thatcher – all are the same. They are pro-business, pro-money, pro-capital, and pro-corporate. They are anti-people and anti-democratic.
If Tomlinson’s murder doesn’t cause a tsunami of political upheaval in Britain (What the hell is United Kingdom?), rest of the world would know for sure that the citizens of the British nation don’t have a conscience. They never had a conscience when Great Britain was one of the biggest Imperial / Colonial powers of the world.

At least now, people of Britain must stand up for democracy and justice.

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This is also the time to remember a genuine man, Dr David Kelly

He was found dead in July 2003. Why he “had to die” is simply cause he was unwilling to be an accomplice to the biggest lie ever created by Blair and his sidekick Alastair Campbell – to start a war in Iraq. Kelly knew there were no WMDs.

Even Blair and Bush knew there were no WMDs. It is highly unlikely that these two war criminals will ever be sent to The Hague for a ‘fair trial’. If the British people really care about democracy and freedom, they should get hold of Blair and hand him over to the International Court of Justice.

On October 15, 2007, it was discovered, through a Freedom of Information request, that the knife with which Kelly allegedly committed suicide had no fingerprints on it.

Did every Briton actually believe the biggest *&%wash in the history The Hutton Inquiry?

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