- U.S. Vice President uses $250,000 of taxpayer's money to go and stage protest at a football game
The ethics watchdog in U.S. has critized U.S. Vice President Mike Pence of misusing government travel to Colts game , just to stage a walkout of the game, a wasteful exercise in grandstanding too. The cost $250,000 is ju…
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- Annals of government loot: DOD, HUD Defrauded Taxpayers Of $21 Trillion From 1998 To 2015
All government departments waste people's money, defense ministires more than others. The U.S. DOD (Department of defense) has been accused, in past and now, of falsifying its accounting (for example, wrong budget adjust…
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- Referendums for secession a trend?
While Catalans fight to set up their own nation, news has come of "The South Is My Country", a movement where Brazilians in the south have been asked in an informal vote whether they want to be part of a new country.
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- Ratan Tata is like the Aamir Khan of Indian Business
Aamir Khan is a sincere man. Ratan Tata is a sincere man. Both are sincere businessmen. But shrewd businessmen. Both use the power of image to push their respective businesses. One uses his image power to push mediocre f…
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- Is Nitish Kumar Really The Development Man of Bihar? - Part two
Compared to the 15-year rule of Lalloo Yadav in Bihar, any other would appear Golden. Nitish Kumar should thank Lalloo for his image as a 'Can Do' Chief Minister. It is this very Lalloo comparison that Nitish invokes on …
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- Navin Jindal and Why Youth is so overrated in Politics
It wasn't enough that Shashi Tharoor had proven quite successfully why the entry of profesionals into politics is so over-rated. Now Navin Jindal has displayed the fallacy of hoping too much from the entry of youth in p…
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- Dumb ideas of 2009 #4: The demographic dividend
Perhaps the dumbest idea of the decade. Everyone is selling you the 'Youth power' mantra, but before you pass out in the rabid nationalist delirium, time to get off the train at the halt of 'WTF'. Some 35 years back, th…
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- How Twitter is Trivializing Politics
As if politiciams were not trivlaizing things before, the New York Times writes about the habit of politicians of posting inanities and smart-ass slogans via Twitter.
The last thing Washington needs right now is poli…
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- The rising trend of Rajya Sabha as the real source of power in India
There is a valid reason why people point out that Manmohan Singh is not the people-elected leader of India. Since 1991, he is a Rajya Sabha M.P. from Assam. He has won no Lok Sabha elections in his career.
We had Rajy…
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- Who will lead Pakistan next?
Now that General Musharraf has imposed Martial Law on Pakistan, something that only a genarl can do with impunity and stupidity in equal measures, many say the end of Musharraf is near.
Who will lead Pakistan in 1 yea…
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