Irony of Freedom of Information vs. Democracy!!!

By the People, For the people, yet not telling the people!!! Never has it been so drastic with the WWW as a medium of truth.

As rightly pointed out in the opening credits of The Clone Wars Series: Truth enlightens the mind, but won't always bring happiness to your heart ...

References:

The real story behind Wikileaks

Assessing WikiLeaks's Raw Data‎

Wikileaks Afghanistan Documents: Task Force 373 Afghan Hit Squad‎

Task Force 373 on Wikileaks‎

The story behind the Afghan war-logs leak

Wikileaks row is the last thing Nato needs

Bond like the best ...

James Bond, the epitome of the debonair, dashing, suave, philanderer, womanizer, decadent, indulgent, macho, technologically geeky and all that associated jazz. He has inspired a host of Rado Wearing, Aston Martin driving, Bollinger drinking and caviar eating hedonistic generation.

What our culture has failed to adopt from that very character described above is his honesty, loyalty, strong sense of honor, sincerity and integrity, despite his meager salary, and being surrounded by red tape and pompous politicians. He signifies the ultimate weapon of justice, wielded by the MI6, yet his license to kill does not corrupt him into making arbitrary, false or biased decisions.

We humans are very easily blown away by superficialism and most often than usual choose the easy path to glory and success, that hurts no only the weak and un-empowered, but also the deserving and honorable.

The recent Commonwealth Games 2010 at Delhi is a perfect example of how our environment is being sacrificed for the sake of conforming to the superficial, while ignoring the actual need for green cover in Delhi.


References:

SC panel nixes covering of storm water drain for Games

MCD damages 50 trees on Lodhi Road

Cart before the horse = natural before unnatural!!!

All that is now needed is a probe into our bedrooms. The irony is that by stating that the law has no business in our bedrooms, it has further sanctioned legal peeping by not clarifying whether age of consent for all the 3 types of sexual acts is the same or is different. In case they are different, we all know that legal intervention is unwarranted and such differentiation is useless and humanly impossible to adhere to. Thus the only way to go about it is to have an age parity. OR ELSE start assuming that people get more "perverse" after 18 years of age and only thereafter indulge in the formerly "unnatural" sexual acts.




Reference:

Now, confusion over age of consent

Industrial Disease!!!

Now warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control
Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole
There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town
Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down
There's a meeting in the boardroom they're trying to trace the smell
There's leaking in the washroom there's sneak in personnel
Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
'Goodness me could this be Industrial Disease ?'

Caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
Refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most
Watchdog's got rabies the foreman's got the fleas
Everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease
There's panic on the switchboard tongues are knots
Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots
Some blame the management some the employees
And everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease

Yea, now the work force is disgusted downs, tools, walks
Innocence is injured experience just talks
Everyone seeks damages, everyone agrees
That these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze'
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless; theology is worse
History boils over there's an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean 'Industrial Disease'

Doctor Parkinson declared 'I'm not surprised to see you here
You've got smokers cough from smoking brewer's droop from drinking beer
I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis knees
But worst of all young man you've got Industrial Disease'
He wrote me a prescription he said 'you are depressed
But I'm glad came came to see me to get this off your chest
Come back and see me later - next patient please
Send in another victim of Industrial Disease'

I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong
There's a protest singer he's singing a protest song - he says
'They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease

They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
They give you Rule Britannia, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease'
Meanwhile the first Jesus says 'I'll cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons'
The other one's out on hunger striker he's dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?

- Industrial Disease, Love Over Gold, Dire Straits (1982)

& let the disease speak for itself ...



References:

Skoda sees sales slow to single digit in 2009

Sensex crashes by 338 pts as equities plunge on global weakness ...

Rupee recovers sharply, at 50.27 vs the dollar

Auto sector weathers slowdown blues in 2008-09

Akshay completes flop hat-trick

Akshay, Twinkle will be arrested shortly

Economic crisis takes toll on health of employees: Survey

Melting Economy Renders Corporate Workforce Unhealthy: ASSOCHAM

Mayawati hits out at Election Commission

Maya has a new post for booted officer

Aamir, SRK join hands for 'Fair Rights for Friday Nights'

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is ready to talk to 'honest' Barack ...

Pink is the color of ... pppppprotest!!!

Innovative and courageous, yet irresponsible to call themselves "A Consortium of Pub-going and Forward Women". Let the one who sinnest not throw the first stone. Do the Sri Ram Sena followers not drink and smoke? Are they above all sin and vice? Then let them throw the first stone and let the mayhem continue.

OR

Let us understand where we all went wrong. Pub culture is not a good thing, nor is it something we need to ape from the west. Pubbing is not a symbol of modernity. There were pubs in the west even before the first Women's Suffrage of France in the 18th Century.

Creation of an opposition to pubbing in violent ways would only make pubbing a symbol of modernity. We definitely do not want to do that in the face of increasing heart ailments, obesity, alcoholism, etc. We need to make the youth aware of what is good, healthy and modern.





References:

Pink underwear for the Sri Ram Sena

Pink campaign for Sri Ram Sena on V-day

Moral policing: Youth brigades take up cudgels for Valentine’s Day

It's not enough ...

Not Enough Money in the World: The Real Monster in the Meltdown Closet

RBI's Rs 20000-cr package not enough, say mutual funds

Reforms are not enough anymore, Hungary needs stabilisation too ...

Brown urges more global reforms - bank stabilization "not enough"

Structural changes not enough to solve SANS problems: BND

Europe' Bank Bailout: Is It Enough?


Well said by The Who in their album Endless Wire

It's not enough
Whatever you give

A little bit more
You always need
A little more man
A little more seed

It's not enough
It's not enough
Whatever I give
It's never enough

I gave you cash
I gave you love
All that I heard
Was "It's Not Enough"

I work so hard
It gets so tough
Whatever I give
Never feels like enough
It's not enough
It's not enough
Whatever I give
It's never enough

When I'm on my knees
I keep taking your stuff
Make sure that you know
It's never enough

You said you'd go as far
As to turn to my friend
Who once warned me of you
Said you'd hasten my end
Because I have lent
Every ounce of my juice
My essence is spent

You'll always want
A little more pink
I'll always need
A little more ink

It's not enough
It's not enough
Whatever I give
It's never enough

However I praise
However I puff
Though you may smile
It won't be enough

Right at the end
When I start to bluff
An' the lift's going down
An' I start acting tough

It's not enough
It's not enough
Whatever I give
It's never enough

I'll find someone else
To finish filling me up
I'll smile and admit
You were never quite enough

Like Brigitte Bardot
In Godard's Les Mepris
I can't love you enough
To make you complete
You appear in my dreams
With some new courtier
You need me there to see
What you need to convey

It's not enough
It's not enough
Whatever I give
It'll never be enough

No hysterical scene
You will never play rough
I'm the one who will scream
But it won't be enough

It's never enough
It's never enough

It's not enough
It's not enough
Whatever I give
It'll never be enough

I'll never hold you
How can I scold you?

It's not enough
It's not enough
Whatever I give
It'll never be enough