Looks more like stage managed by media as well.
Reality shows have gone to ridiculous lengths in making people crazy for publicity and money and rating by TV producers.
In India, a Programme was ( is is still?) on, where for a few pieces of silver ,individuals were being asked in front of their spouses who they have slept with with out the spouse’s knowledge and other highly sensitive personal details.
Another programme in Tamil, a regional language, women are made to do dangerous acts like walkiing on a very high platform where wind is howling,lying with snakesetc. with very crude safety precautions.
Though abhorrent , these types of shows make one wish for censorship.
Better media regulates itself.
Tag: altavista
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Authorities: ‘Balloon boy’ incident was a hoax-CNN
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Pakistan ‘push into Taliban area’
Couple of points.
1.What exactly is the stand of the Army?
Barring some non descript spokesman,no senior Army officer, including Gen.Kayani does not seem to have uttered a word.
2.Where does ISI stand on this issue?
3.Why no statement from the highly visible PM or Zardari,Nawaz Sharief on this issue?
4.Where does Saudi Arabia stand on this issue.?
5.The civilian people,especially lawyers who made a hue and cry about the sacking of Chudhury are abnormally quiet.Why?
In my view answers to these questions shall decide who will run Pakistan.
Story.
‘The Pakistani army has said it has pushed deeper into South Waziristan as it battles to wrestle control of the region from the Taliban and al-Qaeda.’
BBC-19 Oct 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8313699.stmFrom-Syed Shoaib Hasan, BBC News, Dera Ismail Khan
At the moment, the situation is a stalemate as the army tries to use ground troops backed by heavy weapons and air power to push back the Taliban.
The militants have entrenched themselves in fortified positions in the areas where the military is marching in. But they are likely to resort to traditional guerrilla tactics once the army is firmly inside territory controlled by the Mehsud tribe.This is the heartland of the resistance, and it is here that the fate of the campaign will be decided.
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Short Changing by Banks-India.
HDFC Bank, a leading bank in India is charging the customer for remitting cash into one’s own account in the same bank’s branch in another city.
What logic is this?
I went to withdraw from HDFC ATM.The machine could not dispense it,stating it could not .On complaining to my bankers,ICICI,they have taken the complaint and informed that it would take 12 days to intimate the status, citing technical problems in accessing information from HDFC.
What non sense is this? For their mistakes I can not draw my money for minimum 12 days;till then I do not know its fate.
What is the point in Banking if you can not take your money when you need it?
I withdrew money from another bank’s ATM ,couple of minutes later.
What if I had only the minimum balance and my money is blocked?
Any body listening?
Another funny episode.
My daughter invested in HDFC and was given temporarary receipt and was informed original receipt will follow.
Later when we went to collect it, we also wanted a declaration that we have invested money for filing Tax Returns.
A letter was issued stating that ‘so and so has left money with us;we can not vouchsafe the transaction nor can we declare as to the authenticity of the signature of the person.
How about that!
I took it up with their Vice President in Bangalore and another proper letter was issued. -
Doctor, Qualifications and Fame alone will not do.
I admitted my daughter for delivery in a Premier, first corporate Hospital in India, now at Bangalore(Branch Office?)
The ChieF Doctor for Gyn,is looked upon with awe by the other Doctors and support staff of the Hospital,not to speak of the patients.
This gentleman,who is around 50, exudes arrogance to the point of irritating patitents;never allows patients to express their complaints/symptoms;in fact he does not allow patients to sit even;he dismisses them in a few minutes, with routine instructions;if you interrupt for clarification, God save you;in every breath, he shall say’ let Natutre take care’, but prescribe ‘n’ scans;if you ask him whether it is safe to avoid lying on the back in advanced stages of pregnancy(as elders say it may be harmful for the mother, the answer is’shut up,you better listen to these old women’I wonder how his mother deliverd him,definitely not in a speciality Hotel, sorry, Hospital.Derisive to the core of Indian thoughts on Delivery, some of which are accepted by medical science, he dismisses other supporting Doctors/staff’s view, as in when an elderly, experienced Scan Department Head suggested not to scan the baby after birth often, he ridicules him.
He demanded the scan to be done immediately, for he wanted close the file!(We did not do the scan.)Support staff are afraid to air their views on any subject, including the weather, if you are his patient.
What A Doctor!
As comic relief, one should see the Plaque in the Hospital, which after listing major advancements in Gyn.in the History of Medicine, states,after Caesarian Section, the achievement in the world is”…..Hospital offers world class Prenatal and post natal care in India”
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Some strong yearnings for good earnings.
Surge in market might be due to Cartel trading to force the Govt. to believe that every thing is allright and no market regulations are needed.After all market is controlled by big corporations, for that matter power centers as well.!
Story.
CNN) — A diverse collection of earnings and government reports will again put the economy at center stage this week, as investors wonder whether the Dow will remain comfortably above the 10,000 mark.Consider the mix of companies due to add to the debate about whether a recovery is taking root: Apple, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Pfizer, United Health, Yahoo!, AT&T, Delta Air Lines and Merck.
And from the government: the Labor Department’s Producer Price Index (inflation), the Commerce Department’s new housing starts report and the Fed’s Beige Book — its summary of economic conditions region by region.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/18/john.king.monday.memo/index.html
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