Speaking with Gandhi

"Nationalism?", questioned Gandhi. "Do you mean to question the struggle, that are based on principles of human-freedom and man's basic rights and paint it with Nationalism?"
"If not nationalism, why are you silent on all the chaos?" enquired the reporter.
"I belong to this country, but that does not mean that I would accept oppression at the hands of my native ruler - be it Buddhist or Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Atheist. If it were to happen, I would struggle with same strength and intentions as I was against the English. Remember, questioning the rule does not necessarily mean being anti-national."

"So what would be your comments on the likes of 'Arundhati Roy', 'Noam Chomsky', and 'Rachel Corrie'?", came the question out of blue.

Gandhi was silent for a moment, he gazed into the saffron flames that were making a crakling noise the flames were as if dancing in a ritual ceremony around the dead wood and the wooden-stove was busy in the process of reducing the wood into ashes.Gandhi slowly proceeded to answer the last question.

" Although there are various things that I do not agree or approve of their methods, but I do understand that they are trying to be the change that they want to see in the world.

To be honest, who does not want to see a happy and peaceful valley of Kashmir?, but the question that needs to be answered is 'What is Kashmir?', Is it just a piece of land or Is it the living spirit of : a child, a tree, a breeze, a snow-flake, that adds value and meaning to that piece of land. What is the meaning of the word 'Kashmir' without considering its people - It is people that make Kashmir and not the other way round."

As Gandhi was in the end of this conversation, there came a shout, "Bapu, Bapu ... Nandhini has given birth". Gandhi got up with the most beautiful smile a toothless face could sport, and said, "Excuse me Mr.Karan Thapar, It was nice speaking to you, let's end it here. I am in need of someone for help, the cow in our farm has given birth."

- A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty. ~ Gandhi

P.S:
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It has been almost a century since India, Pakistan and China have been locked into conflict for the land of Kashmir, but the essential thing that all these three countries failed to understand is that 'The land of Kashmir', with its riches and beauty is not the real prize - instead it is the living souls and hearts that make Kashmir.

2010 = 'Hibernation turned on'

Hibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression, characterized by lower body temperature, slower breathing, and lower metabolic rate.

That is a dictionary definition of hibernation. How does it apply to me ? I was in a period of "Materialistic hibernation", 2010 was the year !

To be honest anyone reading this post would take me to be a nut-case or irresponsible & confused idiot, and (this might be going overboard :P ) for the girl who is looking for a possible partner-in-all mould in me, you're gonna hate this.

2010 was the final member on the 2000's decade-list, and a year worth remembering for me (when I grow really old) as one where I made impact-decisions and probably in your language 'executing stupidity'.

This is going to be a peek back into the past and contemplating(smiling) on the money and resource(time & effort) involved in carrying out a self-deception and jumping-platforms to avoid contact with myself !

December 2010 - Vagabond version 2.0: Backpacked to Kerala 2 weeks at : Ernakulam, Kochi, Kottayam, and Alappuza. This was more exciting as here I landed in a place where I do not understand the local language !

November 2010 - Drifted to Chennai, and got to meet this strikingly beautiful lady, a divorcee - a life changing experience. And an old-foe came back to haunt my thoughts of my career that were lingering at back of my mind and so, I decided to get dirty & experimented my career-track on SAP-ABAP and hence joined training at SIEMENS, Chennai - which cost me about 0.375 million INR. The result was pretty impressive, I am now a 'Certified SAP Associate', and got interview calls from SIEMENS, Mahindra-Satyam, Amazon, Cognizant & CSC and I didn't take them simply because I wanted some time to ease around & I was not ready to switch into a 'money-making-machine' overnight. Hence kept idea of getting back to my Career as a 2011 New-Year resolution!

October 2010 - Vagabond version 1.0 : Backpacked to Coastal Tamilnadu 3 weeks at: Tanjore, Nagapattinam fisherman villages, Nanillam, and Rural-Trichy - on foot, carts, bike, bus and train !

It was an experience of common-man (about 80% of people on this planet), you land somewhere in middle of night and have nowhere to go or like you are in urgent need to use toilet and all you can see are empty fields and water-canals !

*Darn Amazing*

My diary has been flooded with all the emotions (both ugly & beautiful) I could capture within self during this ride.

September 2010 - My life was at a fork (with four ends or more ..):

• Continue the efforts on taking the Post Graduation
• Shut-up thinking and get back to the industry using previous work experience, 3.5 years was a pretty good bet (but the idea as whole was not appealing to me)
• Look for alternate technologies and shift the previous work experience (Electronics, SAP, Java or whatever .. keep thinking)
• WTH else was there to do ? become a vagabond, kill the money & technology, lost from friends & parents (for that brief period !) - This was an idea that seem adventurous and I acknowledged this whisper that came from the back of my mind. I threw away my mobile, plastic-cards, and packed my bags for a series of hitch-hiking with Marx, Engels, Nietschze, Freud, Imran Hosein, Machiavelli & Muhammad Asad joined me on both the journeys.

August 2010 - Life is not all that you run behind for a rich-lavish and carry out the biddings of the society imposed on you: School-Education(which sucks by the way!), A Course for Big Career, A Career for Big-Money, Big money to fill your bones in golden coffin. This is self-deception, and Money sucks big !

I was in a difficult situation of making choce : either ignore my inner-voice to live this robotic-materialistic-life "or" break the stereotype and follow in the quest in soul-searching. I was undecided !

July 2010 - It was a strange feeling, usually this kind of situation would have left an impression of sadness on anyone else - It seems I was not among that 'anyone', It was like a deja-vu instead !

It seemed like an instant in present time-frame had happened to me again & again a million times in past. This month passed with marking my 26 years of life on this planet and an eye-opening & soul-awakening incident. My dearest uncle & aunt, both died in an accident.

June 2010 - By this time I had invested a lot (a lot really !) into the quest for Post-graduation: and if by any reason I were to back-out from this quest, that is 70000 INR going up in smoke literally & it happened :)

• My health failed me at most critical stage, I was diagnosed by digestion disorder and typhus. It was a "Pop" and everything vanished right before the eyes. (The atempts from my side to negotiate with the School for next-intake failed, my fee was paid-back with some cuts from the School).

May 2010 - Was offered scholarship on MBA from Kingston University (AMBA cluster) and was running high on plans and ideas; Would never have imagined that they could come to halt (but with a much-needed, intellectual & mature twist of circumstances)

April 2010 - I was offered a Dual-Masters from another top Singaporean University for June'10 admission- was surprised & eleated in these few weeks, and was in full swing of getting into check-lists, economics, visa application and stay etc.

March 2010 - My GRE & TOEFL mark-sheets reached home, Applied for MS in Logistics in Singapore(What was I thinking ! seriously ). I was Rejected!

February 2010 - I quit a job from one of the top most MNC that was paying me more than half-a-million per year. GMAT & MBA were on the menu.

January 2010 - That's when and where it all began ! :D

I was not impressed with the direction in which my life was shaping up, and decided to look for some change - a Post-Graduation ? or moving to a different Career/Industry. There was a surprise in waiting, and my life unfolded in front of me, and there was a whole new perception was installed on the quesion of self, world & social-responsibility.

If anyone do needs help on 'How to trash half-a-million?' - I am here for you :)

~ If I had a little less respect for money, I would not mind pissing on it.

Towards Materialistic Horizons

Materialism is a dirty word. It also gets a bad rap in psychology. Studies consistently show that people who agree with statements like "You will buy things just because you want them," tend to be:

* Less satisfied with life,
* Less happy,
* More likely to be depressed,
* More likely to be paranoid,
* More likely to be narcissistic.


Not a pretty picture, right?

But, just like studies examining the connection between success and happiness, many of the findings are correlative. As a result we can't say for sure that materialism causes all these things, only that they're associated. So, for better evidence, cue the experiment.
Experiential versus material purchases

Leaf Van Boven from the University of Colorado and Thomas Gilovich from Cornell University carried out an intriguing experiment that gets at this question of whether materialism results in less happiness (Van Boven & Gilovich, 2003).

They randomly divided students into two groups and gave each group slightly different instructions:

1. This group was asked to write a description of a material purchase that had made them happy. Material purchases include things like clothing, gadgets, computers and so on. This could be either something they had bought themselves or that had been bought for them.
2. The task this group had was only slightly different. They were asked to write a description of an experiential purchase that had given them pleasure. Examples of experiential purchases are meals out, admission tickets to concerts and travel.

To see how they were feeling in the moment, participants were given surreptitious measures both before and after writing these short descriptions. Then, after about a week, the same participants were given back their own descriptions of their purchases and asked to reflect on it. Again, they were asked to report on their feelings in the moment.

Comparing these two groups provided a way of comparing how participants felt about two different types of purchases. The results showed that participants felt better when they were contemplating their experiential purchases than their material purchases.
Thinking about experience

As a result of this experiment, Van Boven & Gilovich predicted that people spend more time overall contemplating their experiential rather than material purchases. To test this out they asked participants to think about experiential and material purchases they were particularly happy with. Then they were asked which they thought about more often. The results clearly showed it was the experiential purchases people thought about more often (83%).
Why do experiences fare better than possessions?

It seems, then, that at some level we understand that our experiential purchases give us more pleasure than our material purchases. But why is that? Van Boven (2005) suggests three reasons:

1. Experiences improve with time (possessions don't).
The reason why experiences improve with time may be because it is possible to think about experiences in a more abstract manner than possessions. For example if you think back to a fantastic summer from your youth, you might easily remember an abstract sense of warm sunshine and exuberance, but you're less likely to remember exactly what you did day-by-day. On a moment-by-moment basis you might have been quite bored, although you'll tend not to remember that.

Material possessions are harder to think about in an abstract sense. The car you bought is still a car, that great new jacket you picked up cheap is still just a jacket. It's more likely the experience of that summer has taken on a symbolic meaning that can live longer in your memory than a possession.

2. Experiences are resistant to unfavourable comparisons
It's well established that social comparisons can have a huge effect on how we view what might seem like positive events. One striking example is the finding that people prefer to earn $50,000 a year while everyone else earns $25,000, instead of earning $100,000 themselves and having other people earn $200,000 (Solnick & Hemenway, 1998).

In other words it's not about how much we earn, it's about how much we earn in comparison to other people. It's the social comparison, then, not the actual amount of money, that affects how we feel about our earnings.

A similar effect is seen for possessions. When there's so many flatscreen HD TVs to choose from, it's easy to make unfavourable comparisons between our choice and the others available (check out Barry Schwartz on why too much choice is bad for us).

Experience, however, seems to be more resistant to these sorts of unfavourable comparisons. To explain this phenomenon, Van Boven puts forward the idea that it is because of the unique nature of experience. It's more difficult to make an unfavourable comparison when there is nothing directly comparable. After all, each of our youthful summers is different (even if only a little).

I also think it's hard to really compare our own experiences with those of other people. Comparing possessions, however, is generally easy.

3. Experiences have more social value
There are two reasons experiences have more social value than possessions. First, experiences tend to encourage social relationships and increased social relationships are good for our happiness. Second, it is more socially acceptable to discuss our experiences with others. People who bang on about their possessions are considered much less likeable than those who talk about their holiday adventures.
Limitations

Of course, it has to be acknowledged that this type of research is at an early stage. Van Boven points to a couple of potential problems yet to be investigated:

1. The experiments examined here looked at short-term emotions - will these short-term emotions add up to long-term happiness?
2. Highly materialistic people might actually get more pleasure out of material purchases than experiences.

Materialist dilemmas

Despite these limitations, it seems that along with experimental evidence, there are also some good psychological reasons why experiences are more likely to make us happy than material possessions. On top of this, at some level we do seem to understand that experiences probably beat possessions in terms of happiness.

Set against this is the fact that we clearly live in a society awash with materialism, where objects are valued way beyond their possible contribution to our happiness. So how can this conflict possibly be resolved?

One answer to this question is that while we're likely to think that other people are materialist, we defend our own purchases as necessary and at worst, indulgent. After all, materialism is a dirty word. A dirty word that's on everyone's minds.


~ Thanks: www.spring.org.uk

Being Alive - Live Curious

If you are alive, you think.
When you think, you talk.
When you talk, you ask.
When you ask, you reflect.
When you reflect, you know.
When you know, you experience.


When you experience, you learn.
When you learn, you grow.
When you grow, you find.
And when you find...you doubt.


When you doubt, you question.
When you question, you understand.
When you understand, you know.

And when you know, you want to know more.
And when you want to know more, you are ... alive.!

~ Thanks to brand campaign of National Geographic Channel







~“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

The Circle of Life

I would thank " Disney's - The Lion King" for without it I would not have any idea to explain away the buffet that took place yesterday in front of my youngest niece.

While I was waiting, my little niece came out of her school, we noticed a few birds hovering about. We had great view while seated on parked bike and enjoyed this spectacular scene of nature for a few moments until I spotted exactly what these birds were up to . . . "road kill". A dead squirrel to be exact.
At a little distance but right in front of my bike.

My niece is fond of these squirrels, enjoyed watching them actively running and stealing nuts, she found them cute and at one time insisted to take one as pet back home, probably after watching "Chipmuks" on TV.


Spotting the dead squirrel, instantly I got up in a bit of shock, I relaxed as it wasn’t me that hit the poor deceased squirrel. It looked like it had been dead a while what with its poor limbs all stuck up and all, and the insides exposed.

I distracted the little niece, as started messing with my Sony Ericsson(K810i), but silently when out of the corner of my eye, to notice the feast begin. I immediately tried my to shelter my niece them from the violent incident taking place, but it was too late. She was already staring ... wide-eyed, mouths open ... unable to look away.
Innocence lost.!!

I sighed and asked her to look at me so I could see how traumatized she was.
“That’s kind of nasty to see isn’t it princess?” I said scrambling for something profound yet funny to change the somber mood. Suddenly the words of Elton John’s Circle of Life song flashed and I managed to say “It’s life though.”, and I sighed.

My lil'niece, a cartoon fanatic - must have heard the same thing as she piped up, “Yes, it’s the circle of life. That squirrel will feed the birds & then baby-birds in nest. It’s life.”

“Yes, You are so right.” I replied.

I looked closer and asked her if she was okay and she responded in a very wise tone, “I'm okay . . . those birds are just hungry.” came the reply with confidence.

My niece is very wise and brave indeed.




~ “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”

In the circle

A magical soft-Gothic, I have no words for how perfectly this song suits the human community and its common philosophy!

The wind will drift and spread the flame
A spark will land inside your heart
You will never be the same
As ashes tear your life apart
Tragedy can make us stronger
But cannot be undone
If you wish it
It will happen
Fates aren't sealed for everyone
It flickers in the circle
A dance of life for you
It's safer in the circle
Where visions remain true
So often people judge those
That they do not understand
The innocent are dying
At those judging hateful hands
If only we could show them
We do not wish them harm
Instead we'd like to live life
Inside each other's open arms
We sparkle in the circle
There's fire in our eyes
So much magick in the circle
We're in need of no disguise
Be with me in the circle
You're always welcome here
It's safer in the circle
But do not bring your fear
I'll meet you in the circle
Within your own good time
I'll be here in the circle
Forever with you intertwined.

~ “If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.”
( William Allen White )

Chicken Soup for the Terrorist Soul

Hello ! are you depressed because no one wants to fly in same plane as you ?
Are you anxious because your name matches with one among several people's who are in International "Wanted list" ?
Are you angry because every time you go to the airport, you are the only one "randomly" selected for the screening ?
You get "randomly" selected even if you drop your friend at the airport ?
Do you just want to be treated like a normal person again ?

Then all you need is a 'time-machine' and travel back to pre 9/11 era

Muslims in the world, are the new enemy. We replace the Soviet-Union and we are stuck here, till somebody replaces us. ;)
That's why i will be asking you all to follow North Korea, as close as possible.

History seems to have a nasty habit of repeating itself.

• 20th Century (Germany 1930's & 1940's)

Nazi propaganda began with targeting "Jews", as a evil group - who share an intolerant common ideology "Goyim"(link). It started off as isolating Jews from the central community, restricting their freedom, seizing properties, randomly arresting them for imprisonment & finally it ended in roasting about 6 million of them in ovens specially prepared for them - The label was "The Final Solution"(link).

• 21st Century (Europe & North-America 2000's & so on)

The propaganda has begun with targeting "Muslims", as a evil group - who share an common ideology of "Jihad"(link). It has somehow succeeded in isolating Muslims, ban on minarets, ban on niqab, ban on call-to-prayer, restricting their travel freedom, restricting their purchase of properties.
Something unhealthy is cooking in the western hemisphere.

• What's the root-cause ?
  

The Nazi Propaganda helped Germany in certain ways: It took all Jewish wealth by force, It re-established Germany as imperialistic power, Hitler became the "Emperor" of Third Reich. So, some of those men did get material gain by making "Jews" look like "the enemies of the world".

• Conspiracy Reports ?
  

There are sizable number of references that Osama Bin Laden (the most evil person on earth), works (or worked) for the CIA [1][2][3][4].
Does the propaganda of so called "Islamic Evil" benefit someone? anyone ?

Most people in Media believe - It's not so. Really ...??

~ Facts: (Hyper-Links)

1. Out of Top-15 Oil producing countries, 10 are Muslim Nations.
2. USA has set-up military bases in all the Major Oil Producing Countries, either through diplomacy or through occupation.
3. The golden connection of Oil-bases & Military bases. (Compare map with #2 as above)

Music - The Audio Pornography

I am not persoanlly biased against any music culture or imagery, but I have this feeling deep-down, "Music today is one of the easiest way to lose your moral sense, the most affected are especially children"

Music is increasingly becoming the audio pornography, It is explicit, it is shameless, it is vulgar and it takes your sense of humanity away from you and makes you look at women as nothing more than sexual-objects, and in some lyrics worse than sexual-objects - these people are talking about women like they are talking about disposable items, with an horrible and horrific language, - and you might be surprised that the Pop-culture uses these words in their lyrics openly or sublimaly !

I would be happy to see children especially having a clean tongue, It is terrible to hear the 'F' word from an innocent loooking child, and the worse part that this word is given and market to child in form of hummable tune - thanks to M-TV & Channel-V.

Children are being misguided and hypnotised into this and are deviated from their pre-disposition of being a Child. Like the fable of Pied-piper who first drove the mice, and later hypnotised and took the children. Today's Music culture is hypnotising the young minds, and further damaging are the so called 'Reality Shows'.

The words used in the lyrics are similar to pouring gasoline on the sparks to ignite the young minds, no sooner the children are in school or college they are pushed by their sub-conscious desires to experiment, copy-cat and be the one like what they heard and saw on popular television. Their identity is crushed and the persona of a bitchy - sexy - groovy devil takes control of them. The consequences are very damaging, pre-marital pregnencies, abortions, sex-addiction, losing peace-of-mind, the everfailing desire of being someone else who they are not !

In the 1991 video "Dreamworlds" the pop-star described the image of women in music videos as male adolescent fantasies: young and pretty, willing and eager to please men, saying no when meaning yes, often reduced to outward appearances and body parts.
The interview host concluded that an unhealthy attitude towards sexual violence can be fostered by these videos, and calls for balancing them with other cultural representations of sexuality. He has been quoted as saying, “Advertising tells us that the way to happiness is through the consumption of objects. The immense accumulation of commodities has to be sold, and it is sold through the story of goods bringing happiness.” In his essay "Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse" and his video "Advertising and the End of the World" he argues that the major cultural force today, pervasive advertising, by constantly reinforcing a bogus association between consumerism and happiness and by focusing on individual immediate needs, stands in the way of a discussion of societal and long-term needs and leads to a squandering of resources. The video "Killing Us Softly III", created with Jean Kilbourne, is a critique of the image of women in advertising, and definitely an eye-opener.

Among other of his quotes which the students of his communication classes will hear from him, two of the most unforgettable are "knowing where something comes from, changes how you feel about it" and the phrase "the discourse through and about objects."

Humans (read 'men') are exponentially being changed from being moral-sentients into passive consuming-machines, the individual becomes a thing that does only one thing "consume" material things from diamonds, cars, music, wealth and women.

The ideal solution is probably, finding a better friend and the moral & ethical responsibility of parents to have connection with the child.




~ The world today is becoming the phenomenon, "Brain Dead"

Is the 'dot' an ellipse or a polygon - a spiritual quest.

Philosophy is a branch of knowledge and is also a longstanding tradition in the compatibility between reason and faith.
It is not necessarily concerned with religious issues, nor it is exclusively produced by Atheists.


Among the concerns I have in person is that “time is moving faster - so that a whole year passes like a month, a month passes like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour like the amount of time it takes to light a fire.” Why so?

I believe that the perception of time moving faster is in consequence of the our inner knowledge departing from the heart, and a preoccupation with the worldly life taking exclusive possession of the heart.
The consequence of this inner-spiritual vacuum is that "we lose the identity of ourselves, and began imitating and stealing identities, like the mannerism to imitate a star or idol in a particular field be it music, attire, dancing, to the extent of personal-looks and behaviour : We suppress our original-self and wear a mask of being someone else."

These seem to be times of great betrayals in which “temptations are being presented to men’s hearts as a reed-mat is woven stick by stick, and any heart which is impregnated by them would have a black mark put in it. The result is that hearts are of two kinds, one, white like a white stone, which is not be harmed by temptation as long as the heavens and earth endure, and the other, black and dust-colored like a vessel which is upset, incapable of recognizing what is reputable, or rejecting what is disreputable, but being enveloped by its passions and desires.”

There can be no doubt whatsoever that this so-called age of ‘progress’ is, indeed, the age when these signs of the spiritual breakdown have appeared. This is the age of secularism. Even the state is secular, and so too politics, the economy, education, the market, the media, sports, sciences, entertainment, etc. The dining room and the bedroom are today also secularized.
Secularism begins by ‘excluding God’, and would likely culminate by ‘denying God’! How so? When knowledge is secularized it leads to the belief that knowledge comes from only one source, i.e., external observation and rational enquiry. The implication of the adoption of this epistemology is as follows: since this material world is the only world we can ever ‘know’ in this way, it follows that this is the only world that really ‘exists’.

Thus it is that secularism leads inevitably to materialism, i.e., the acceptance, for all practical purposes, that there is no reality beyond material reality. And materialism has led, naturally so, to a world of greed, lies, promiscuity, injustice, oppression, good-lessness, and great betrayals since the moral foundations of society cannot be sustained without the spiritual heart of goodness. And such a world is not bothered in the least with such things as the inner spiritual knowledge and guidance.

What is ‘remembrance’? When a man visits in his heart the woman that he loves, he shudders as an enchanting fragrance envelops his heart. It happens every time! When he hears her name mentioned, the same thing happens. That is ‘remembrance’! Clearly ‘remembrance’ is only possible when there is true love.
And so it is really when love and quest for spirituality departs from the heart that ‘time’ moves faster and yet faster.
Hence it follows that when sincere love for 'grandoise of universe, nature and spirituality' allows truth to enter and take possession of the heart, that ‘time’ would surely move slower and yet slower, until that truth transports us to a ‘timeless’ world.

People tend to forget the bigger question and concentrate on the little irrelavant details like I said - The question (which is irrelavant) but is still unanswered "Is the dot an ellipse or a polygon?" .....


~ It is evident that everything which does not exist at first and then exists, is determined by something other than itself.

Wikileak a 'mole-job' ?

The wikileaks released the Afghan War Diary (also called The War Logs) a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan published by Wikileaks on 25 July 2010. The logs consist of 91,731 documents, covering the period between January 2004 and December 2009.
The documents which have caused controversy, speak of following main things :

• Civilian killings in Afghanistan
• Pakistan's ISI involvement with Terrorists to destabilize India

So, could the event be a deliberate set-up by USA's Intelligence and AIPAC to bring India into Afghan-war ?
India may one day wake up with the government bought off, blackmailed, up to their neck in wars and insurgencies at home and fighting USA’s enemies abroad. India could be the next real target for espionage, destruction, destabilization by USA and the “Wiki-leak” can be just part of that game.

I personally believe that 'Osama Bin Laden' is long dead, and there is a deliberate cover-up to continue the war.
After the Julian Assange incident, now “Wiki-Leaks” seems to be busy selling phony bin Laden stories, having the long dead Osama humiliating the most intelligent service in world : CIA by running around villages in Afghanistan selling vacuum cleaners.
What is the “leak” site really about? I see this is a dead news cycle.

The FIFA World Cup is over, people are on holiday and no major stories. Only in a dead news period like this, as 'Oliver Stone' pointed out, could the AIPAC media dump a pile of lame rumors mixed in with box loads of chickenfeed, passing it off as the story of the century.

Even the cover story, the mysterious Assange fleeing the murderous CIA, working to save the world is lame. WikiLeaks is lame. My suggestion please, everyone, go to the leak-site and read leaked documents there. I have seen more confidential information on a weather report, these documents seem just candies thrown out open, to hide and smuggle the Cakes.

My Suspicion - India is what it is all really about. USA & Israel are playing India for for drawing them into their games they way they did with the Europe into Iraq and Afghanistan.

When you read about another chosen victim, of Israel none other than, the United States, by checking the names of those who looted the American economy during 2008 recession, in the top dresser drawer of 80% of those who took the US into bankruptcy, you will find Israeli passports.

I was surprised why did no-one asked 'why nothing was reported in 90,000 pages regarding the massive drug dealing in Afghanistan?' With stories in the press around the world reporting that President Karzai and his brother are the biggest drug-lords in the world, why would this not be mentioned? Is it because Karzai is a good friend of the AIPAC alliance that runs Wiki-leaks?

Classified Army documents are filled to the brim with reports that the CIA and their private contractors are involved in drug operations with Karzai but also other names are named including many prominent Americans, some members of congress.

If Wiki got what they say they got, then most of their documents would have reported corruption, drug dealing, governments of a dozen countries would have been mentioned.

If real leaks were made public and Americans can do something about it, first by arresting the gangsters and spies filling congress, the White House and every federal agency and If you want the names of those who would really be on leaked documents, check your TV listings. It isn’t a coincidence. Those chosen to lie on television are also being paid for other duties as well.

USA & Israel would have been cited for laundering drug money for the Taliban and hundreds of acres of Poppy-farms. Why weren't these documents released ?

Hundreds of pages of reports of Israeli and Indian operatives in Pakistan’s region called Baluchistan were tossed out also. Their involvement in terrorism, not only against Iran but working directly with the Taliban in Pakistan was there but not included. So much wasn’t included.

Nothing involving drug flights being serviced by Israeli companies was released. It was in the files. If we really want to leak things, they are out there. It can get bloody.

Wikileaks leaves a trail of stench from Mr. Assange right to Tel Aviv. If anyone couldn’t see it, the corporate press or the Israeli press or whatever the current buzz word is for the useless press, they put you on the path. They are the ones putting a spotlight on the disinformation and failing miserably to note how obviously the leaks have been edited to serve Israeli games.

Wikileaks is Israeli controlled intelligence, and most likely to be Mossad than CIA. Assange probably works for them or is a just a "pawn" in grand set-up. I hate it when people are duped.

It won’t be pleasant to see Pakistan and India building up for another big war.

Let’s cut this short. Wikileaks is simply another ploy by the ultra powerful Israel lobby, a cheap game meant to humiliate the United States, get India and Pakistan into another Open-War and build a reputation for a puppet. I wish it will fail.

~ “I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms”
- Giacomo Casanova

I Think, I See

	"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates
	"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. " Anonymous
	"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." Chinese Proverb
	"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school" Albert Einstein
	"The best of all medicines is resting and fasting" Benjamin Franklin
	"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." George Bernard Shaw
	"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." Anatole France
	"Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it." Sir William Haley
	Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
	Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company. Imam Ali
	Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop quotes
	The Capacity to Forgive We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, jr
	The Journey “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin
	Good Character "Cultivate good behaviour, then cultivate Knowledge." Umar ibn al-Khattab
	The Prisoner “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Lewis B. Smedes
	Forgiveness & Love “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” Robert Muller
	Knowledge & Justice "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom" Plato
	A Night of Peace "Each morning sees some task begun. Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
	Character Revealing Beware. Nothing is more revealing about a person's character than their pastimes and amusements. Unknown
	Teachers & Perfect Timing When the student is ready, the Master appears. Buddhist Proverb Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb
	Faith Faith in God is to choose truth where it may harm you over a lie where it may benefit you. Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib
	Character If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. WoodrowWilson
	If... If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt. If there were no doubt their would be no inquiry; If no inquiry , no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius. Walter Savage Landor
	Within the Self If you're attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer. All of the significant battles are waged within the self. Zen Sayings
	Actions As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie
	The Human Mind Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill
	Never Quit "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do." Napoleon Hill
	Actions & Goals "A goal is a dream with a deadline." "Action is the real measure of intelligence." Napoleon Hill
	If you jump to conclusions, you are likely to hurt yourself in the fall.
	“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.” Elizabeth Harrison
	The Glow "Every one who delights in some act of devotion can't bear to miss it even for a short while. That disappointment and grief are worth a hundred prayers. What is a formal prayer compared to the glow of humble longing?" Rumi
	"The eye of the spirit that focuses on the transient falls on its face wherever it goes Someone who focuses on the distances, without knowledge may see far but just as we do in a dream..." Rumi
	"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." Mohandas K. Gandhi
	"We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost." Charles Chaplin
	Discouraged "Student says: I am very discouraged, what should I do? Master says: encourage others." Zen proverb
	Happiness "Thankfulness leads to contentment, and contentment is another word for happiness." Yusuf
	Minds "Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)
	Two Wings "Observe the qualities of expansion and contraction in the fingers of your hand: surely after the closing of the fist comes the opening. If the fingers were always closed or always opened, the owner would be crippled. Your movement is governed by these two qualities: They are as necessary to you as two wings are to a bird" Rumi
	"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. " Albert Einstein
	"There's too much judgement of others and not enough judgement of ourselves, `too much self righteousness and not enough self knowledge" Abdul Hakim Winter
	And if a storm should come, and if you face a wave That may be the chance for you to be saved And if you make it through the trouble and the pain That may be the time for you to know His name Yusuf
	"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work" Thomas Alva Edison
	"There is a God You can know Him if you try You can approach Him if you try... " Yusuf
	"Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you" Ali Ibn Abu Talib (600? - 661)
	"All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop" Kabir (1450 - 1518)
	"In history, search for answers about the Unseen, has always been a major force in motivating mankind towards the acquisition of knowledge: first, the teachings were from God, while the first teachers were the prophets of God. Therefore, the best educators ever to appear on the pages of time were all the teachers of God's Words and inspiration: The Prophets (upon whom be peace)." Yusuf Islam
	"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work." Yusuf Islam
	"I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism." Yusuf Islam
	"I don't think that God sent us prophets and books to fight about these books and these prophets. But they were telling us, actually, how to live together. If we ignore those teachings...whichever faith you belong, you profess, then I think we'll be finding ourselves in an even deeper mess" Yusuf Islam
	"I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them." Yusuf Islam
	"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after" Yusuf Islam
	"There are three types of people: Those building Bridges; those bent on destroying them; and those waiting to cross" Yusuf Islam

Thanks to 'Cat Stevens'