 | Most cowardliness in the hist. of the world-Indian Military *** 2001-2002 India-Pakistan military standoff = this is the most recent incident in Pakistani versus Indian military, Pakistan made Indian army on a run without a FIGHT *** India brought their army on Pakistan's border for a "WAR" but they got scared from the Pakistani army & form the people of Pakistan, & return back to put on BANGLES like household women.(THIS IS THE MOST COWARDLY DISPLAY OF AN ARMY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD). Because the INDIAN MILITARY in numbers, in equipment and in technology is far more advance & far more than PAKISTANI MILITARY, I'll show a chart which proves substantially & authentically of just what I have said: India vs Pakistan - Evaluation on Military Strengths: Armed forces manpower: India has = 1,100,000 Pakistan has only = 550,000 Combat aircraft: India has = 738 Pakistan has only = 353 Nuclear missiles: India has = Estimate of 60 Pakistan has only = Estimate of 25 Surface warships: India has = 27 Pakistan has only = 8 Submarines: India has = 16 Pakistan has only = 10 Defence budgets of India & Pakistan in 2001 were: India defence budget: 15.9bn $ & Pakistani defence budget was only: 2.6bn $ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1735912.stm Now in 2008 defence budgets of India and Pakistan: India defense budget is 26.4 billion dollars http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=13292 Pakistan defence budget is only $4.39bn http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2077 And India has every resource far more than Pakistan, necessary for a WAR. lol, hahahahahahhahahahaahaahahahaaa... at the COWARDLINESS OF INDIANS & INDIAN MILITARY. {HARSH FACT FILE} Reference of this Military standoff, where Indian army ran back without a FIGHT (Cowardliness at its peak) against Pakistan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001-2002_India-Pakistan_standoff |
 | India's defence expenditure v social spending debate-09Oct07 Mike Mcclure, Al Jazeera's correspondent, reports from the Indian Air Force's air base in Hindon near Delhi on the debate over increased expenditure on defence hardware amid the poverty in which hundreds of millions of its people live. For the country's million-man armed forces, there's lots to celebrate these days. An ageing fleet of Soviet-era equipment -- though it can still thrill the crowds -- is set to be replaced. A $40bn upgrade to the Indian arsenal, equipping it with firepower to match its emerging economic prowess. New jet fighters, artillery, submarines and tanks -- the Indian military believes they are essential but critics say this massive military expenditure is indefensible in a country where two-thirds of the people still live in poverty. In the flight path of these war machines, less than a kilometre from the Hindon base, people are still waiting for proper sanitation, wishing their children could get a decent public education, wondering even how they'll survive past next week. "Our young people need better schools and jobs," says Srichand, a retiree. "old folks like me need a pension and some help buying food so we can get by." Until now, India's defence spending has been about $25bn a year or about 2.5 per cent of its gross domestic product, much less than its Asian rivals, China and Pakistan. Still, there's fierce debate about whether that's too much. Praful Bidwai, activist writer, says: "Ihe Indian elite is so insensitive to it's own people, so completely callous that it thinks it is perfectly reasonable to spend billions and billions of dollars upon armaments while millions of people starve." Commodore (retired) Uday Bhaskar, defence analyst, says: "Look at the United States of America - 640 billion dollars. It's not like the United States does not have serious social issues which need investment, but clearly the decision of the political leadership, supported by the people, is that the country needs this expenditure." Whether Indians support this rapid rise in arms spending depends a lot on what they already have, what vision they have for their country. |
 | Ron Paul Wins West Alabama Republican Straw Poll w/ 81% Full clip, with John Killian's speech at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTpYTQLz6c August 18, 2007. On the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Congressman Ron Paul wins the GOP vote with 81% of the total votes. This landslide victory shows that the people are behind Dr. Ron Paul a.k.a. Dr. No. Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation's capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. Brief Overview of Congressman Paul's Record: He has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget. He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership. He has never voted to raise congressional pay. He has never taken a government-paid junket. He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch. He voted against the Patriot Act. He voted against regulating the Internet. He voted against the Iraq war. He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year. * The full clip is now available in high quality for stream or download at: http://stage6.divx.com/TheRonPaulChannel/video/1551474/Ron-Paul-Landslide-at-Alabama-Presidential-Straw-Poll! |
 | an urgent messgae from RALPH NADER 60% OF US CORPORATIONS DO NOT PAY FED INCOME TAX! AND 70% OF FOREIGN CORPORATIONS OPERATING INSIDE THE US DO NOT PAY FED INCOME TAX! There is no law requiring private citizens to pay income tax!, IT IS VOLUNTARY, whats wrong with this picture? YOU ARE BEING BLANTENLY ROBBED BY CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS AND GOVERNMENT...THEY ARE CRIMINALS, AND THEY KNOW THEY ARE CRIMINALS, BUT THEY ALSO KNOW THAT MOST OF THE U.S. DOES NOT KNOW Here's one thing we've figured out: Nader/Gonzalez are on one side of the political fence. Obama/Clinton/McCain are on the other side. So, now you have a choice.If you are feeling alienated, abused, and misused by the two corporate parties, declare your independence by joining the Nader/Gonazalez peace train.We're planning on making a bold statement this year against the corporate takeover of our democracy. ******IF YOU WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH OBAMA/CLINTON/MCCAIN, GIVE NOW TO NADER/GONZALEZ.*************** We're looking for 300 of our loyal contributors to give at least $100 each before Ralph Nader appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart tomorrow night at 11 p.m. EST. Remember - you can keep giving to Nader/Gonzalez until you have contributed the maximum permitted under federal law - $2,300 per person. Contribute early and contribute often. And then check out Ralph Nader and Jon Stewart tomorrow night. ONWARD The Nader Team join the team of truth and help us save our united states and our human rights http://www.votenader.org/ First of all, the corporations are very involved in the war machine because the industrial part is now a surpreme influence on the US military budget which now is half of the entire federal governments operating budget and as well as affecting foreign policy. We are in the advanced stages of being a corporate state. Corporations are artificial entities. They are not real human beings, they don't vote, they don't die in iraq, they don't have children, they are entities that are dominating our politics, our electoral systems, our universities increasingly, dominating almost everything. The clinical definition of fascism is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, subsidiser, a covering of corporate power. Corporations now have their executives in high government posititons, they have 35,000 full time lobbyists here like the drug companies getting all kinds of subsidies from congress and they have 10,000 political action committees. If you can quantify corporate power and civic power in washington dc civic power is probably 1% of corporate power. The giant corporations are dictatorship and they have enormous power without any where near the commensurate responsibility. It is interesting that our political leaders don't like to discuss it. Every politican in this town knows who runs this town. They know who runs the defense dept, the dept of interior, dept of agriculture, food and drug admin. There are only a tiny handful of politicians who will raise the banner of subordinating the corporate power to the sovereignty of the american people. The debates are sterile, they will not confront the corportate crime wave, they will not confront the destruction of our democracy, they will not confront the usurpation of our electoral processes. Just imagine the violation of capitalist principles, these guys at the top who are paying themselves 10-12 thousand dollars an hour in compensaion as ceo's. basically have repudiated the cardinal principle of capitalism which is if you own property you should control it. And now they have said to they owners... get lost dont dare tell us what we're gonna pay ourselves, after all we're only your highered hands. We've got to mount an assaut on the WTO and NAFTA. They've closed down our standards, so our workers have to compete with brutalized child labor in third world countries. We could not have gotten air bags under the WTO because that would have been considered a unilateral move under this global trade agreement, it would be considered too high a standard imposed on importing cars. What WTO does is it prevents us from being first in the world. It is the greatest loss of sovereignty local, state and national in american history. It's not about justice, it's not about agenda, it's not about mobilizing people, it's about dialing for corporate dollars. These 2 parties have sold the US government and the american people to the highest bidders. |
 | Colonel Jack Jacobs, U.S. Army (Retired), on Bush in Iraq Using the troops for political purposes, Bush flies to Iraq on Labor Day, a day on which presidents typically honor America's work force at home. The biggest PR stunt of his administration, the most criminal regime in the history of the United States, Bush lies to them and the American people, yet again, "We're fighting them over here so we don't have to fight them back home." Jack Jacobs doesn't go nearly far enough in his criticism of Bush. Bush's war in Iraq can't continue because there aren't enough troops, enough money or enough time. It would take a draft, an increase in taxes to support just an increased war effort, for another 9-10 years. It would end all government services in America, and would require an increase in an already out-of-control military budget to protect and defend corporate interests in foreign lands for corporations' (CEOs' and shareholders') interests and not average American citizens. That's the New World Order Bush's father talked about. Bankrupt, we (America) become like the third world nations which are indebted to the IMF and World Bank. Our resources (oil, lumber, water) get sold to nations with money and which hold our debt (like China and Saudi Arabia), the profits enjoyed by multinational corporations and not the American people. It's already happening. |
 | Housing Not War Almost 200 organizations and thousands more individuals across Canada are demanding the Federal government end its war in Afghanistan and redirect funds from record-high military spending to peace, including affordable housing. This broad new alliance ranges from Canada's largest civil society organizations to grassroots community groups, and is growing daily. (Sign now: www.HousingNotWar.ca) 300,000 people experience homelessness annually in Canada, the only industrialized country with no national housing program. The UN recently reaffirmed the "devastating impact of this national crisis... including a large number of deaths" from homelessness during Canada's worst housing shortage since the Great Depression. Meanwhile, skyrocketing military spending is already at the highest level since WWII, and the government fights a war devastating some of the poorest people in the world in Afghanistan -- a war most people in Canada oppose, but Canadian Generals predict could last decades. The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC) and the Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA) invite you to join our demands for peace and justice at home and abroad, sign the Housing Not War Declaration: www.HousingNotWar.ca. CURRENT FACTS: -- Military: $18.2 billion/year // highest since WWII // 13th highest in the World // 8.5% of Federal budget // $100 million per month to fight the war in Afghanistan -- Housing: $2 billion/year // just 1% of Federal budget // The ONLY industrialized country with NO national program // Worst housing shortage since Great Depression -- Homelessness: 300,000 people annually // Very high death rate (people die every week) // Millions more in 'core housing need', enduring poor or insecure housing. For more info, contact TORONTO DISASTER RELIEF COMMITTEE (TDRC): housingnotwar@tdrc.net | 416-599-8372 | www.HousingNotWar.ca |
 | Grandia OST: Noriyuki Iwadare - Theme of Grandia Grandia is a console role-playing game and the first title in the Grandia series developed by Game Arts originally for the Sega Saturn in 1997.[1][2] Since then, it has been ported to the Sony PlayStation, and was published in North America and Europe for the first time by SCEA and Ubisoft respectively in 1999 and 2001. It was later repackaged and sold at a budget price as part of the "Ubisoft Exclusive" range in Europe. The story of Grandia takes place in a period of steadily-advancing technology and innovations, much like the Industrial Revolution. The task of unearthing ancient ruins has been taken over by the Garlyle Forces, a military organization which is seizing powerful relics for its own benefit. Stories of adventurers from long ago are regarded by the people of this world as outdated, but for the protagonist Justin, they are way of life. He resolves to venture outside his hometown of Parm and discover something no one has ever seen before. Developer: Game Arts. Publisher: SCEA & Ubisoft. Release Date: '97(SS), '99-'01(PS1) Platforms: Playstation 1, Sega Saturn. |
 | Mexican army ( Fuerzas armadas de México ) PLEASE : ONLY IN ; French, German , English not spanish or whatever language. People claim Mexico have no army , a poor country ect,ect,ect. but in fact Mexico use one of the most powerfull army in North america , with 1.6% of the mexican population served in mexican army. the defense budget is 10.062 billion dollar Mexico's armed forces number some 620,400, including the reserves. Mexico's military is in two branches, the National Defense Secretariat (Army and Air Force) and the Navy Secretariat (Navy, Naval Air Force, Marines). Mission The Mexican Army works around three preparedness missions, or plans: DN1: Preparation of the military forces to repel external aggressions. No military armed force can leave Mexican territory without a declaration of war, and approval of the Congress. The last time this was invoked was in 1942, to send an expeditionary force to the Philippines, after war was declared against Germany and Japan, following the sinking of two Mexican ships by U-boats. In 1990 President Carlos Salinas de Gortari asked the permission of the Congress to send troops to the Gulf War, but it was refused, since there was no declaration of war against Iraq. DN2: Preparation of the military forces to protect the internal security of the country. This would include police actions against guerrilla forces, counter-drug operations, and, originally, political control. Up to 1970, the Mexican Army had been used as a repressive force to maintain the virtual dictatorship of the single-party PRI government. The most controversial use of the military had been called "The dirty war" in the 1960s, which included the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre of students and unsuspecting bystanders. After 1980 these types of operations had nearly completely ceased (see EZLN). DN3: Defense against natural disasters. The Army should always be ready to help the civil population in case of disaster. This include preventive measures. For example, between August and November, military forces are sent to Mexican coastal areas to aid the public in the event of hurricanes or floods. For the Mexican people, the DN3 plan is the most important peacetime operation of the Army. The Army provides food, shelter, medicine, and medical services to the people that need them. This also includes reconstruction of roads and communication services. Because calling the implementation DN3 plan is an acceptance of severe problems, the DN3 plan was not invoked in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake that left large areas of Mexico City in ruins, since the authorities did not want to recognize there was an emergency in the capital, while the army was called to the city, it was just a peacekeeping force. This latter became a severe questioning on the government. Also, the Mexican Army provided aid to the US when the hurricanes Katrina and Rita occurred to help the people in need. |
 | Bill Richardson slams Clinton Royal Dynasty, entitlement Bill Richardson slams Bush-Clinton Royal Dynasty and entitlement. Stop the Drama - Vote Obama!!! -------------------------------------------- There are cycles in American history wherein the richest and most powerful people who actually own and run this country make there greatest effort to elect a true corporatocracy candidate. They literally steal the election, if need be. They install their witless, pliant factotums and they start skimming. They order even more expensive things we don't need. They relax regulations to the point where there are essentially no regulations at all. They might even start a war, if the can get away with it. If questionable people happen to be in the country taking flying lessons without learning how to land and you don't bother to investigate them, you increase the chances you may get away with it. I had once considered John McCain an ultimately acceptable choice for president. I thought that, compared to the other Republicans in the field earlier, McCain was a man who had lived a serious life. He had faced serious problems and offered respected solutions to issues such as campaign finance reform. McCain was a war hero, a US Senator and maverick in a party that often didn't know what to make of people like John McCain. But mavericks don't make it to the highest echelons of the GOP. That is how we got stuck with this Bush. John McCain has changed. He drank the Kool-Aid, the one they served as baby formula in the Bush home all those years ago. McCain will be Bush Three. I was wrong about him. He has velcroed his lips to the ass of the elephant and he's gonna keep kissing until a second term would end. In order to ascend to the highest ranks of the Republican Party, you have got to realize that the current size and scope of the budget of the federal government is the greatest opportunity for the personal enrichment of the upper class in this country since the turn of the previous century or the period around World War II. As much as any industry that brings its products to market, selling your goods and services to the US government, and particularly the military, is a chance to make staggering and heretofore unseen profits. The current budget of the US Defense Department is the most shameful misappropriation of American tax dollars in our nation's history There are periods in American history when the haves just knock the have-nots to the ground and say,"Enough." They push the government into greater debt. They sign unconscionable mortgages for future generations. They lie and tell the American people that to get out of the convoluted military quagmire would only threaten us more. Threaten our children. Their future. When their friends run into trouble, they bail them out. No, I mean we bail them out. They decide. We simply do the paying. Bill Clinton killed welfare as we knew it. Maybe its time had come. I was hoping that both Clintons would have condemned the Bear Stearns deal in the harshest terms. No such luck. But, if Bush Three is wrong, terrifyingly wrong, then is Clinton Three any better? Who do you think really has the guts to stand against the most potent special interests who truly care more about the dollar than the flag? We don't have a draft in this country in order keep politics out of military policy. For too many Americans, the truth is that, "My child isn't over there. That's all I care about." The fact that there has not been one great, national day of protest against this war will surely come back to haunt us all. Who will end this war? Obama will end this war. I admire both Bill and Hillary. But the shame and disgrace of how we have treated our own fighting men, not to mention many innocent people in Iraq, weighs more heavily on me now. This country is in deep trouble. We not only need something effective, we need something new. I believe Obama will bring that more that Mrs. Clinton. Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/bush-three-is-wrong----is_b_97881.html |
 | The Heroes Act of 2008 - Locks Americans in the USA A lot of people probably can't understand why someone would voluntarily give up American citizenship -- but if someone wanted to do that, they'd now incur financial penalties for it. Congress just passed a new law that will stop your capital -- or at least a good portion of it -- at the border, should you decide not to be a U.S. citizen anymore. Is it, perhaps, in preparation for the possibility that Americans might rebel at the debt and taxes incurred by their government by leaving for lower-tax locales? You probably didn't notice this little provision inserted into the Heroes Act of 2008, passed by Congress on June 17. The headlines in the press release about the law were about the increased benefits for veterans and families of deceased military. But Richard Kohan of Price WaterhouseCoopers drew my attention to one section of the act, which states that anyone voluntarily giving up his or her citizenship will be taxed on all of his assets as if he or she had sold them -- paying capital gains on assets that have increased in value, even though they have not been sold. That's right. While everyone in the media is focused on keeping aliens out of America, Congress has voted to lock its citizens - or at least a good portion of their assets -- into America! Maybe they're thinking that patriotism won't be enough to keep the smart money from recognizing the coming increases in the tax burden. Patriotism and Debt We expect our elected leaders to be patriotic, to wear flap pins on their lapels? But how patriotic is it for our elected officials of both parties to drag our country into debt? This year the Federal budget deficit will be a record $400 billion. That astonishing number will be added to our existing $9 trillion national debt. It's money that our government spends in excess of what it collects in taxes. [For an instant update on our National Debt go to the moving numbers at www.Truthin2008.org -- a nonpartisan watchdog group on the national debt.] Government officials say they're shocked at the record number of American consumers who are filing for bankruptcy. Yet those same politicians are spending America into an effective bankruptcy -- building a burden of current debt and promises of future debt that can never be repaid. Now, how patriotic is that? Patriotism and Taxes Do you consider it your patriotic duty to pay your taxes? Do you feel unpatriotic because you spend some time trying to figure out how to reduce your tax burden, by maximizing deductions whenever possible? If that's not unpatriotic for you, is it unpatriotic for wealthy people, or corporations, to try to reduce their tax burden? Where do you draw the line? Perhaps it's most unpatriotic for our elected officials to construct a tax system that doles out benefits to special interest groups, pitting one group of Americans against another. What's really unpatriotic, in my opinion, is trying to divide Americans through the politics of envy. Our country has moved forward because of our optimism and our belief that any American can build a better financial future. It has been our nature to honor those who have been successful, and seek to emulate them, not to destroy them because they have more assets or income. Of course, that presupposes that the successful people accept their patriotic responsibility to give back to the society that made their success possible. And the facts show that Americans are the most charitable and generous people on the planet. Think of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, literally giving away their fortunes to help humanity. Or think of the people who filled sandbags along the Mississippi this month to save the homes of strangers. When a government encourages the best in its citizens, by its policies and its example, patriotic citizens rise to the occasion. And when a government burdens its citizens, it inspires dissent and departures. The Beatles famously left Britain, and Bjorn Borg left Sweden, when their governments raised taxes to such high levels that even these national icons departed. Are American lawmakers preparing for that kind of scenario with this new law? Now in America, you can love it, or leave it -- but you can't take it all with you. And that's the Savage Truth! |
 | Why Is This Man Smiling? Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX) explains how unfair the Republican tax bill is. "I think the american people need to understand what's happened this week. 48 hours ago, this house on a totally partisan basis passed a budget resolution that in my personal opinion put a higher priority on tax breaks for people making over a million dollars a year than it put on adequately funding national defense programs and supporting our military troops. we pleaded with our colleagues to vote against that budget resolution. the vote was partisan and it passed. let me tell you what that resolution did. it gave lee raymond who just retired as c.e.o. of exxonmobil who by the way got a $398 million retirement benefit from exxonmobil, that budget resolution gave him a $2 million dividend tax cut." |
 | Finnish Defence Forces - Army - Close Combat Training Finnish Defence Forces --------------------------- Close Combat Training - CQB --------------------------- The Finnish Defence Forces (Finnish: Puolustusvoimat; Swedish: Försvarsmakten) is the armed force of Finland, encompassing an army, a navy, and an air force. The Finnish Defence Forces is a cadre army of 16,500, of which 8,700 professional soldiers (officers), with a standard readiness strength of 34,700 people in uniform (27,300 army, 3,000 navy, and 4,400 air force) at time of peace. The expenditure equals about 1.3% of the GDP. A universal male conscription is in place, under which all men above 18 years of age serve from 6 to 12 months. The defence is based on a large trained reserve. After the end of the Cold War, Finland has reduced its military reserve strength due to a change in the military doctrine and partly due to budget cuts following collapse of the Soviet Union. The military reserve numbers somewhat less than million persons, of whom 357,000 have a crisis-time placement in a military unit. The Finnish Defence Forces is commanded by the Chief of Defence, who is directly subordinated to the President of the Republic in matters related to the military command. The current Chief of Defence is Admiral Juhani Kaskeala. |
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