Archive for December, 2009

World Conspiracy Theory

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Icke has written a conspiracy book with a more liberal viewpoint than usual. He refers to a lot of New World Order researchers from the left and right and explains and summarizes various plots well. Conspiracy buffs may have heard of a lot of this material before, so I can’t really say it’s original. Icke subcribes to using your mind as your “flexible friend” rather “rigid taskmaster” chained to some dogma that rejects other ways of thinking. He has an interesting approach to his research and does not hesitate to criticize the left, the right, Darwinists, Christians, Jews, New Agers, or any belief system that claims to have an unerring dogmatic truth. Icke has gotten into trouble for criticizing some Jewish organizations and when one talks of conspiracy theories, there are some who think that (wink wink) you are really just talking about the Jews. He has read some books that people critical of Jews have read and comes to different conclusions about the information he has discovered. He thinks that it is just a few Jews who have betrayed other Jews and are in cahoots with the New World Order. He explains how many Nazis were “Jewish” selling out their own people and supporting Hitler financially and otherwise, along with the ruling families of the Illuminati who were supposedly on the allied side. The allegedly Jewish Arthur Rosenberg, one of Hitler’s own, is mentioned by Icke in the book. Icke also mentions Allen Dulles of US state department, a gentile who supported Hitler while seemingly on the Allied side. According to Icke, Hitler was part of the grand conspiracy, but was duped eventually by the people above him. Icke explains how the Illuminati creates most wars and then finances both sides my manipulating human nature. One gets the impression from reading that there are hardly any spontaneous wars. The wars also serve the purpose of centralizing the Illuminati’s power over everyone. The Illuminati, according to Icke, are controlled by evil aliens who manipulate them. Icke covers the issue of money, debts, and interest well and how the system is a scam to impoverish people. He says that the reason why the third world is so poor is that they are indebted so deeply to the world bank because of the interest on their debt. Eventually, the bank owned by the conspirators plans to own the third world’s resources by swapping that debt for equity. The conspirators have also manipulated poor countries into growing cash crops instead of the subsistence crops that the people need to have to prevent starvation. This is one of the ways in which the population is reduced according to their plans. –”Could the reason why so many illegal aliens are coming into developed nations because they are being starved out at home?” I thought. Icke also mentions that interest paid on money loaned out by the federal reserve is a scam and also interest charged on loans for homes. This interest is not necessary and impoverishes people while enriching the lenders who own the banks. Icke believes in the equality of the races, despite differing IQ scores and civilizational achievements, I might add. He thinks that if a person or group believes themselves to be superior ruler or inferior victim, then they will be, creating this reality by their thinking. “Is this idea of his like the much maligned self-esteem movement?” I thought to myself, as I read. Usually you get people feeling really good about themselves, but they still can’t read or write or add. Icke’s solution to our problems which he claims that we have created by our thinking is not violent. He thinks we should love, respect, and forgive ourselves and others, including the dark tyrants that we have created to turn us into slaves. We should also think for ourselves, respect other’s right to think freely for themselves, and take on more personal responsibility, not leaving decisions up to our rulers. By changing our powerful thoughts, we change the world. In the end, he says to one of the dark ones: “I love you, Dr. Kissinger”. –Ughh! How did we bring himself to say it! Conpiracy theories may still remain on the fringe because people hesitate to condemn people that they don’t know. Others believe that someone makes up conspiracy theories about the rich and powerful out of envy, fear, malice or for the profit motive, attention, or entertainment purposes. We also told so many things and have so many viewpoints, we don’t know who to believe. The status quo reality and history is also comforting with heroes and villians all in their places. One does not like to feel liked they’ve been duped by a manipulator. Many read a conspiracy book and say that it could be true, but don’t believe wholeheartedly in what the author says and therefore take no action to change the corrupt system that we all work for, buy from and invest in. However, I can’t see how Icke gave up his high position in society to become an object of ridicule unless he sincerely believes in what he is saying.

Entrepreneurial Drain India - An Open Letter To the Prime Minister

Monday, December 14th, 2009
Mr.Manmohan Singh
The Honorable Prime Minister of India
South Block,
New Delhi 110001
  Mr.P.Chidambream
The Hnorable Finance Minister of India
North Block,
New Delhi 110001
  Dear Sir,
  We are submitting below an important aspect of the country’s
Business and sincerely hope that you will kindly give it your attention
  Entrepreneurial Drain in India
  This goes back to the seventies when the govt. of India started encouraging small scale industries and the young entrepreneurs.  The backward areas were started to industrialise many states in the country. Many schemes to attract younger generation to start industries in these backward areas were promoted. The schemes were very luring.  One such backward area was a hilly region of North India.  The schemes announced were (a) Cheaper land in instalments (b) electricity subsidy, (c) freight subsidy (d) easy loans (e) central subsidy etc. and many more. These were really really backward areas and the incentives were no where near the incentives being offered now in such regions which are though developed now. This was like setting up a new country those days in the backward areas with no tools with the state govt.  to implement. Industrial lands were absolutely unorganized.  There were no roads, no electricity connections, and no telephone facilities.   The infrastructure was absolutely zero. The luring brochures and advertisements, promotional meetings were very attractive and promising as if there were mines of wealth waiting in those regions. Some bold and brave entrepreneurs with ambitious plans to succeed in these virgin areas dared to venture out in these backward areas. Few hundred small scale industries were set up against many hazards by these entrepreneurs. The lands were allotted but handed over very late. The electricity connections were given very late.  The state govt. was not geared up to provide the infrastructure.  The financial corporation would sanction term loans easily but make extraordinary delays in disbursing the same by creating frivolous excuses. There were no start up capital funds , incubation funds, venture capital or private equity funds at that time like today.  The economy was not free.  Every thing was licensed.  The state govt’s had promised flow of raw materials and marketing the finished products of the small scale industries.  But the state administration was not trained in these matters.  The administrative heads of these organizations did not know any thing about the industry.  These developmental institutions neither had the developmental attitude nor the commercial attitude.  There was no value of the entrepreneurial time, money and energy. The raw materials were not available in the state and the finished goods did not have consumption there.  The skilled labor was not available.  Qualified staff technical or financial was not willing to go and stay in these areas because of total lack of infrastructure and general facilities. The cost of production was far higher compared to developed areas of the country. There were project delays, cost over runs.  The entrepreneurs did not have much of promoters’ capital.  The projects started becoming sick within a short time of starting.  There was no policy of sick unit’s rehabilitation at that time.  If there was it was for the large industries who were well connected.  Banks had their problems of giving working capital limits because of lack of security.  Units became sick and ninety percent of these were forced to shelve production and get into the hassle of labor problems and defaults with the financial corporations and the banks, raw material suppliers etc. The financial corporations have a draconian law of acquiring the assets of any unit financed by them under section 29 of the state financial corporations act.  No other financial institution or banks have these powers in India and probably in any part of the world, to take over the assets of a unit. The financial corporations acquired many units and sold these at throw away prices in connivance with outsiders without providing proper opportunity to the promoters of the units.  These units were sold around one tenth / twentieth of the value of the fixed assets along with other fixed assets and inventories which did not belong to them.   After the sale of the units there usually arose a difference between the amount and the amount recovered from the sale proceeds. These amounts were loaded with recurring interest and other frivolous costs to show higher recoverable amounts and the sue the promoters for recovery in the courts and high courts. The entrepreneurs could not either persue the suits or bear the costs of contesting. Then came the debt recovery tribunals with specific mandate to favour the financial institutions and the banks. The cases were shifted to other states where the DRT’s became operational. The entrepreneurs had to face suits from the financial corporations and banks without the power to contest.  The justice became injustice.  The fault was not of the entrepreneurs.  The fault was national by making policies for the states industrialization without the infrastructure.  All good nations first make the infrastructure, raw material organizations, marketing organizations venture capital, private equity funds and stock exchanges for small enterprises and then invite the entrepreneurs.  Japan is an example The MNC’s and large industries bargain for concessions with the govt. Hundreds of capable entrepreneurs of the seventies and eighties are still facing legal suits in India from the lenders even today in 2009.  All these entrepreneurs contributed towards developing the backward areas, creating employment, paying taxes towards sales tax , excise duties etc thus building a nation.  There were no exemptions in those times in the backward areas for sales tax, excise duty and complete income tax holiday etc. These great contributors to the industrialization of India suffered a lot an account of the policies which were not coordinated professionally between the centre and the states. They were not able to start industries else where. They had to bear lot of social embarrassment. Now setting up a small scale industry is as expensive as large scale industry of those times.  Every young man these days looks for white collared jobs instead of looking to start a new industry. Setting up a new industry in the backward areas of the seventies and eighties was a tremendous task. The units acquired by the financial corporation and sold then are now worth thousands of times at market values today.  The entrepreneurs still face the legal suits. The corporation or the banks are institutions and can afford to persue the cases.  The entrepreneurs are individuals who not even have the records of twenty to thirty years to prove their innocence by proving that the financial institutions and state govt’s were responsible for the mass scale failure of industries in the backward areas at that time.  Today backward areas are flourishing cities compared to those times when the backward areas were barren lands. There has been gross injustice to the entrepreneurs’ generation of the seventies and eighties for their only fault of contributing to the industrialization of the nation. This should be in very good spirit for the flourishing economy of the country to acknowledge their contributions. All the cases pending in the courts or debt recovery tribunals should be withdrawn and let the entrepreneurial spirit of the country rise to great heights. Even the World Bank waives many loans of many govt’s in the world. Today the govt. has promoted skill Development Corporation with an initial capital of Rs 1000 /- crores.  Many industrial houses have come up with venture capital funds for the start ups and private equity funds.  The worlds many leading funds have set up shop in India. Those days large industry was lent rupees twenty to Rupees hundred crores per unit and with twenty crores hundreds or more small scale units were lent.  Many of those medium and large scale units went sick and the loans were either waived or not recovered or given fresh loans to start again. It is time to create an amnesty type scheme, withdraw the suits from DRT’s and other courts and waive the loans granted in seventies and eighties in the backward areas especially the hilly states. There have been amnesty and waiver schemes of income tax , registrar of companies and others in the past.. This will also save the nation multi million Rupees spent on legal battles of DRT’s and the courts. This will help divert the valuable resources time, money and energy to more productive and creative areas of nation building. The entrepreneurs of the seventies and eighties are now older people and many of them senior citizens. It will help them avoid the pending legal hassles. Their experience can be rather useful in other areas of the nation. Well wishers and entrepreneurs of many effected industries of hilly backward area of the seventies and eighties 1e 13 jhandewalan extension New Delhi 110055 cc.1.FICCI      2. CII      3. PHDCCI     New Delhi Tags: