a slave ship and western hypocrisy

this is the plan of 'stowage of the british slave ship 'brookes' under the regulated slave trade, act of 1788'. 

feel free to click on the image and zoom in to observe the horrible conditions under which slaves were transported to america. 

under the named act it could lawfully carry 454 slaves. before that in a 1782 trip it carried 609 slaves(351 men, 127 women, 90 boys, and 41 girls) in the same space.

this continued even as washington, jefferson, adams, franklin, and others(some of them slave owners) were declaring in 1776, "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". 

in 1789, constitution of the united states with similar high sounding phrases went in to effect. slave trade and slave labor continued. 

in other words, usa was founded by hypocrites with hypocrisy as its guiding principle. same can be said of other western states.

usa has not changed, 220+ years on.

usa is invading, occupying, imposing, interfering, in other countries. under mass murdering leaders like obama, bush, clintons, and others, it is looting other people's resources in every possible way to satisfy and keep intact the empty lifestyles and parasitic welfare needs of its increasingly lazy, ignorant, and barbaric, population. to do so they are callously drone killing the innocents, torturing the unarmed, violently suppressing dissent & resistance in occupied countries, and committing all sorts of other atrocities and human rights violations.

usa's brutish slavedog countries, like britain, follow in its wake feeding on mangled corpses of raped innocents.

in spite of all that horror, they shamelessly preach to us, sri lankans, about human rights, democracy, and reconciliation. they, through their tools in united nations and various ngos, try to punish people who by defeating an armed gang of murderers, called tamil tigers, ensured freedom to exercise basic human rights here.

west's real aim is probably establishment of a slavish government here that act in western interests rather than sri lankan interests.    

whether they will succeed is a different question, i will deal with later in detail. for now, i will say they will not, if government here acts shrewdly and with courage. thanks god west is no longer as powerful as it once was.

the point i am making here is that nobody with any brains, in sri lanka or elsewhere, can be under any illusion that usa means what it says about rights, democracy, justice, etc..

when usa's bloody functionaries say those things, they are merely practicing their country's fundamental ingrained hypocrisy. 

we, individual sri lankans, who are not slaves (unlike the filth who work in western funded ngos) should aggressively challenge those statements whenever we can. we can still do that. we are not in a slave ship but a free country. let us keep it that way, by exposing the hypocrisy of americans, and their slaves, local or foreign.

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Ye Shiwen and american/british unsportsmanlike behavior

i have long pointed out the total absence of civilized values among modern westerners, in particular among british and americans.

they provided further proof of this when they attacked 16-year-old swimmer, gold medal winner, and world record breaker, Ye Shiwen, of "doping", yesterday (you can find more western viciousness here, and many other western media outlets)

on what grounds? nothing at all! she in fact has a completely clean record. nor is her improvement in performance extra special. holder of record she broke (by just 1sec), stephanie rice, displayed much bigger improvement when she established the record. so have others. iow there are no grounds for any accusation.

other than westerners finding her achievements "astonishing"! 

yes, westerners find great performances from non westerners, a crime. 

esp so if they are the ones losing out due to the performance concerned. contrast that despicable attitude with west's justifiable adulation of their own teenage and/or extraordinary performances from likes of missy franklin this year, michael phelps in 2008, and others through the years.  

 

this is true not just in sports, but with regard to achievements in art, science, technology, business, war, etc, etc..

[btw when it comes to substantiated cases, west leads the world, both in number and in profile, of athletes concerned, in doping.]

all excuses advanced by westerners for raising questions about Ye can be raised about many western sportsmen/women. so questioners should answer why they did not raise them before with regard to ppl like rice, phelps, etc. 

while west will get temporary relief for their bitter frustrations from such claims of sour grapes, they are of course not going to get real lasting benefits, if their targets, and world at large, stand their ground and expose the baseness of western attempts.

i think the target here, Ye Shiwen, in spite of her youth, will prove herself during this olympic games as well as during a long and successful career. 

in addition we as observers should not stay silent in this case and at other times when vile western character displays itself.

as i have said here before, while keeping solid records of their filthy behavior for future, we must also expose and confront the racist scum aggressively, in whatever capacity we have, however small or ineffective at present. 

civilization was/is/will be maintained by individuals doing the decent thing in face of baseness and barbarity.

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while free ppl will do the decent thing, slavish ppl will obey and parrot western masters. sort of ass licker who found the insipid uninspired joke of an opening ceremony "impressive", will no doubt find it congenial to enjoy the attempted public rape a 16 year old. look no further than political sleazebag rohan samarajiva's son indi samarajiva, of many blogs like indi.ca and padashow, for a good example of this kind of slave.   

 

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how to treat usa and west’s unjust cannibalistic demands

not satisfied with gorging themselves on innocent blood and resources around the world, america and west (and their slaves) demand that we obey their unjust and oppressive demands. hypocrites prefer to disguise these demands as concern for human rights (tell such lies to children burnt alive by american drones in pakistan or being tortured by western military and intelligence, but not to ppl like us who still have a brain to think freely).

if we resist, usa and west threaten to feast on our and our children’s blood and flesh, in stages. no idle threat this, they did so feast when they funded tamil tiger terrorists,  and during genocidal british empire. cannibal west so feast in other parts of the world now. 

well they will not get any obedience or blood from us, if we have anything to with it.

instead of treating these filthy cannibals (from obama, clinton, blake, etc, down) and their their hypocritical and unsupported claims about human rights with diplomatic tact and respect, peaceful protests, etc, as the government has foolishly tried to do, we have to wise up and realize that these scum will not be satisfied with anything less than our total obedience to their oppressive and exploitative  demands (and if we resist, our blood).

so what to do?

sri lankan government cannot fight or oppose them directly, alone; west is too powerful, and opponents of west too scattered and timid. for now. however government must remember that world will be a very different place politically and economically in 1 or 2 decades (in our active lifetime) if present trends hold up, as even the westerners acknowledge. government must plan its resistance to western coercion accordingly.

for present, sl government will have to be content with resisting western injustice diplomatically (but with less respect) at each step, giving in only when western racist coercion is too much.

 

however individuals are not governments. 

we are free. let use our present freedom to resist western injustice. 

as i have always advocated here, do not be afraid to aggressively confront the western filth who try to impose or parrot unjust demands (whether they be individuals connected with western governments, western funded and dominated institutions who apply racist double standards (eg amnesty international, human rights watch, etc), western media and media ppl deliberately lowering journalistic standards so that they can attack sri lankans, or private individuals). confront them with facts and truth. expose them and their hypocrisy and racism to world. and keep a public record their actions. 

do not be discouraged if there is no immediate effect from such confrontations (though in most cases there is enough to encourage one). do not be discouraged if they in desperation attack you about the form of confrontation (usually about our  imperfect english). history, the way it is trending, will help the triumph of truth and justice, sooner rather than later. if you stand by justice and truth now, at some point in future, exposed individual western filth would have nowhere to run and wont be able to cover up (or claim ignorance) of their present unjust and racist actions. you, and others who may want to use the material, will have enough then; these racists will get their noses rubbed in their own scum.

but there are others here in sri lanka who must be forced to face justice, now.

we must treat local willing slaves in western funded ngos and tamil tiger proxies (and their dependents) same way their paymasters are treating us and others around the world. coercion is been used and more attempted against us by west. let us not be hesitant to use the same, in proportion. we must expose their criminality and demand that law be used against all the tamil tiger terrorist collaborators (esp in western funded ngos). evidence of their collaboration is verifiable and publicly available. as such when they are in prison let us demand that government refrain from pardoning them as it has done before. and if authorities fail to act against these asslickers of west we may have to take direct action, same way some ppl took direct action when police were late to arrest some murderers recently.  

by these methods we may perhaps make it clear to western cannibal hypocrites that their barbaric demands will be hard to realize in sri lanka. but even if they prefer to persist with racist injustice, we will prevail in the end. if we stand fast, truth and justice will win. 

we defeated racist cannibalism of prabhakaran and tamil tigers.

we will defeat the racist cannibalism of obama and west.

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american 'heroism'!

note - as i have said before, i fully approve killing of mass murderer osama bin laden. but this is not about that.

we were told, that after an elaborate decision making process; under the supervision of barack obama; excellent specimens of america's professional military and intelligence, secretly entered pakistan armed with latest military hardware and best intelligence; attacked a security compound/luxury mansion of osama bin laden; heroically fought and killed 2 of his guards; killed ak-47 wielding osama, who used his wife as a human shield; avoided another 'black hawks down' by destroying their own shot at helicopter, and got back to safety with body and computer hard drives etc..

how 'heroic', 'professional' and even 'civilized'!
george washington would be proud!

hmmm... wonder what old george would say to reality that is emerging through the hypocrisy and lies.

it seems that obambi ordered a group of testosterone injected american thugs, known as navy seals, armed with the overwhelming firepower and armor, to follow a few sneaky cia spies. these then, invaded pakistan (definitely committing a war crime in the process); entered an unguarded dirty house with lots of cows and goats; killed 2 unarmed men and a woman (or 3 unarmed men); shot another woman who was not a human shield in leg; traumatized some very young children; executed osama after he surrendered; panicked when yet another shoddy specimen of american industry, a helicopter broke down without anyone even kicking it; crowded into other helicopter in fear and ran away without taking surviving osama family as planned.

you may follow the emerged lies in these links - 1 , 2, 3. more keep coming.

these sort of lies to bolster, non existent professionalism and heroism, and hide, very real cowardice and brutality, of western military forces are nothing new. among many more, we had the jessica lynch incident during invasion of iraq, and we had numerous cases of westerners killing every non westerner on sight whenever they heard a bomb go off or shot fired in iraq, bombing on alleged targets in civilian neighborhoods from 35,000 ft in the air in afghanistan, serbia and now libya, etc..

in contrast, we, sri lankans, were told by the same west that we were not only unheroic but criminal to fight and defeat (even with our minimal resources) against a well armed (through funds collected in west ) tamil tiger murderers and suicide bombers led by big pussy velupillai prabhakaran. west wanted us to appease the tigers and submit to daily killing and maiming of our children. (you see, we are subhumans; we unlike west after 9/11 don't need to resist monthly equivalents in colombo and elsewhere.) even now we are told, by westerns tools (like united nations, amnesty international , human rights watch , etc, who are yet to seriously criticize or investigate western military actions) that alleged deaths, among very real human shields used by tamil tigers, from accidents, and even of tiger leaders, amount to war crimes on our part. our concerns are never addressed and we are denied just and equal treatment.

robert o. blake, assistant secretary of state of usa for south and central asian affairs, was shamelessly spouting this rubbish yesterday in colombo.
hypocrisy much?

we should resist these unjust attempts at rewriting history to west's benefit and our detriment, by sticking to and exposing facts, relentlessly.

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what i find most contemptible and despicable is the attitude of certain sri lankans who unquestioningly believe these lies from west. some of this foolish credulity may be due to the fact that they and their families depend on western funded ngos. but i think some of them were bred into such servility through several generations of willing slavery.

in the sri lankan blogosphere, this kind of thing is observable among others in indi samarajiva (indi.ca and padashow.wordpress) and sanjana hattotuwa (groundviews, moju, etc..) and their suckerboys. both want sri lanka to submit to western tools' 'judgment' and fail to even address or recognize the blatant injustice and inequality involved.

they happily welcome west's attempts at resource grabs (as in libya). if they blame west, it is always in past tense. so bush gets lot of abuse, but obama is good even though he is doing exactly what bush did with lot more hypocrisy. indi is on record, saying that west is 'more civilized' and has our best interest in mind, and seriously regretting that sri lanka does not have a 'barackian' administration, etc.. in fact i can fill several posts with on record ass licking of these two alone (i might some day).

iow, their willing servility and credulity, induced by cupidity, lead them to live in a fantasy world, where west is heroic and morally superior.

let us continue to expose and laugh at them, though they will continue to censor (while hypocritically preaching freedom of expression) any attempts to point out, their and their western masters', errors and lies, in their blogs.

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osama bin laden, dead. good.

as everyone know by now, despicable mass murderer osama bin laden, head of al-qaida was killed in an operation conducted by american central intelligence agency (cia) in pakistan last night.

this is good news for all those who hate terrorism.

americans rightly celebrate in usa. see photos.

racist double standards
we will see whether those westerners ( and their tools and paid slaves) who advised us not to celebrate our freedom after we defeated tamil tiger terrorist murderers (in the process killing mass murderer velupillai prabhakaran) will give the same advise now. we were threatened, oppressed, and killed, to a greater extent by tamil tigers than al-qaida ever did to west. also our victory was more comprehensive and less costly in lives and resources. but west said we should not express joy at our liberation, then.

we will also observe whether west and its tools will investigate the possible 'war crimes' that were committed in the operations that were conducted while tracking down and killing osama.

for instance, all american operations in pakistan break international law (since countries are not at war, united nations has not authorized such attacks, and pakistani government and ppl have formally and publicly opposed them). in many earlier attacks in pakistan ( esp by so called unmanned drones) lots of innocents were killed. all, such attacks, including the last were authorized by american president; responsibility is his. there are no commissions to investigate any of the western attacks so far (nor for western attacks in other countries).

in contrast, we, sri lankans are 'investigated' and pressured by illegitimate panels, etc. set up by west and its tools (with only allegations to back up the 'charges', and in most cases for actions that were not even crimes). as i said before, this a denial of justice and equality.

i suspect these unjust and unacceptable double standards will continue.

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egypt: dictator out, junta in. celebrations and congrats too early

hosni mubarak egypt's dictator was ousted yesterday, after 30+ years of brutal corrupt oppression and 17 days of protests, strikes, riots, looting, prison breakouts, lynchings, etc., etc..

a military junta of his closest cronies (with equally brutal and corrupt personal histories) have taken power in place of their master with vague promises to bring in democracy some time in the future.

herd, around the word (including a few idiots in sri lanka), are celebrating and offering congrats to egyptians.

!?

too early imo.
democracy is yet to dawn in egypt. i will keep my congratulations and celebrations till then. anybody with a brain should.
remember all those 'color revolutions' in recent past from ukraine to georgia to lebanon. hardly harbingers of democracy. egypt is likely, imo, to fare even worse.

america's impotent involvement
over the years united states of america gave more aid to mubarak's brutal regime than to any other country except isreal. it turned a blind eye to repression of opponents of that regime and even used the regime to do its dirty work by sending (/'rendering') terror suspects to egypt so they can be tortured without legal obstacles prevailing in american territory.

when protests started, obama administration in usa (and its poodles in west) which support many such regimes and directly commits and oversees even worse brutalities in iraq, afganistan etc., assumed its usual hypocritical stance as champion of democracy and human rights, and called for reforms but stopped short of calling for mubarak's resignation. but as days went on, usa became aware of his and its own impotence. to cut its losses obama administration seems to have decided to dump mubarak and try its luck with a friendly military junta. (cia chief got ahead of himself when he announced mubarak's departure on thursday).

btw it is indicative of so called super power's over stretch and ever increasing weakness that it is now always responding to events and has lost its ability to control them in favor of its allies as in the past.

[mainstream western media's coverage of protests with deliberate blind spots (disgusting anti jewish sentiments of protesters, role of widespread anti christian riots in late december and early january, etc.) and exaggerations (role of social media) deserve another post. ]

what next?
whether a junta consisting of mubarak's (and west's ) cronies can maintain power is an open question. only the events will show.

in any case, imo, there are two likely outcomes, and both does not involve a functioning democracy of even imperfect western (usa, eurape, etc.,) or asian (south korea, taiwan, japan, malaysia, india, and of course sri lanka, ) models.

outcome will be determined by how, now legitimized, protests are handled in the future (as in next year or two) by those in power in egypt.

there will be more protests. double digit unemployment and inflation ensured the high public participation of protests. those causes are not going to disappear; disruptions from protests (and this year's freak weather around the world) will make them worse.

possibility 1
junta or some of its members successfully maintain power creating a mubarak lite regime, compliant to west and paying only lip service to aspirations of egyptians. this would involve cracking down on protests at some point. tunisia, which also ousted its dictator, seems to be going this way; newly installed pro western president was given emergency powers, a story buried by mainstream western media.

result, no democracy.

possibility 2
junta fails in face of future protests and soldiers unwillingness to crack down. an unstable government made of weak out of touch pro western 'liberals' (eg elbaradei) will be installed. islamists (led by grandfather of all islamic fundamentalist parties, muslim brotherhood) will support this temporarily to get rid of junta. once that has been achieved, muslim brotherhood, which is the most organized and experienced political entity apart from government and has maintained itself in opposition to a repressive regime, will take control.

don't believe this scenario? well you better read history. that is exactly what happens in revolutions. barring a counter revolution (led by elements of old regime) most extreme and organized party among revolutionaries always gain control. perfect example,1917 revolutions in russia. (coincidentally first one took place in february there too, we know what happened by october).

a country under the muslim brotherhood is not going to be democratic.


interesting times
'may you live in interesting times', goes an (alleged) old chinese curse.
today the worldwide herd is unwittingly celebrating the dawn of interesting times for the egyptians.

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wikileaks video of u.s. helicopters killing ppl/reporters in iraq + some thoughts

i tweeted on this earlier but in case anyone missed, here is wikileaks video of u.s. helicopters killing ppl and reporters in iraq in 2007. details are in the video. its authenticity has not been disputed. (warning : some may find this disturbing.)



as far as i can see no major western news media organization has posted wikileaks video in their main outlets in full (in blogs/cnn ireport/etc, yes, but not in frontend)

on sunday americans also admitted that their coalition forces had a role in killing of some afghan women in february. there were many other similar incidents in the past.

meanwhile american installed and later elected afghan president hamid karzai has continued to condemn international coalition's disregard for civilians casualties.

he has also claimed that westerners are responsible for the fraud in recent afghan elections. he even named alleged main fraudsters; peter galbraith, american former deputy head of the un mission, and philippe porillon, french former head of european union election monitoring team. (the story is also available in non western media w/o the pro western anti karazi spin. i selected a western source so that reader can decide what is spin and what is not therein)

there are claims of fraud in recent iraqi elections too (anyway why does results take so long (weeks) to be released in both those countries? in sl they come out within hours and the process is open).

my thoughts
now i fully support american war against terrorism and use of military violence in the process.

i am also aware of the almost certain possibility of accidents, as well as outbreaks of indiscipline, criminality, and insanity, in some members of military in spite of all the best efforts of political and military leadership, and institutional precautions.

what i cannot stand is hypocrisy.

why is sri lanka and sri lankan military accused of all sorts of war crimes in its fight against ltte tamil tiger terrorists (with almost no credible and authentic evidence to back up the charges) while western government aren't (even with much more solid evidence for their alleged crimes)? accusations are certainly not made on the same level.

even when they are made there is a telling difference in how accusations are framed; it is never the 'americans', 'british', etc., or their governments, who are committing 'war crimes' but some specific soldiers, 'bad apples', etc., but in accusations against sri lanka it is always 'sri lankans', 'sinhalese', 'tamils', and sl government, who are committing the alleged war crimes.

all that is due to double standards, hypocrisy, and yes, racism .

of course realistic sri lankans expect that sort of treatment from west. we know we have to fight our own battles and cannot expect west to act with justice and fairness to us. look at the pathetic predicament and treatment of karzai for what happens to ppl who depend on west.

that is why we should not allow those hypocrites to assume some sort of fake moral superiority in order presume to pass judgment on us. we have to aggressively confront them with facts and truth and reveal their hypocrisy and presumption. it may not have any effect on them, but we need to make our position clear; they have no right to judge us.

but there are born and paid slaves here who see no such double standard in behavior of the west in spite of evidence. that sort of filth believe the best about their masters in west and worst about us. its about time sri lankans at large treat these as they deserve. i for one has always done that.

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word cloud of obambi's inaugural speech

here is the word cloud of the obambi's flowery phrased, but bland in content, platitude ridden, but forcefully delivered (as usual), inaugural speech. created with the help of wordle.

you can read the full transcript and some of my thoughts before and after in my previous post.

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you may also find the so called benevolent dictator ( you know the person who is prone to both diarrhea and dementia and is addicted to throwing excrement ) getting his sorry ass kicked yet again in comment section of my previous post( for previous examples of ass kicking and background on why he justly deserve them, you may follow the links to his own blog in this post)

help obambi write his inaugural speech

as you may have heard, in a few hours, during the most expensive (as in $150m+) coronation, sorry inauguration, ceremony ever to be held, obambi is to be made the "leader of the free world". i am of course not celebrating for reasons already stated, though as i expected, i am sure to have lot of fun during next four years, at least.

anyway obambi, or barrack hussein obama, is once again mobilizing the internet, this time to write his inaugural speech.
(it seems he suddenly dropped objections to the use of his middle name and will use it today during his oath; btw imo he was pandering to racists by objecting to its use, as much as those who used it with that intent)

does he need internet's help?
indeed, regardless of content, his speech will be praised to the sky by the besotted and biased liberal media of the usa, as they did with his race speech.

but consider, only memorable parts of that race speech were

"i can no more disown him (rev. wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother."

a day later he called his grandmother "a typical white person". two weeks later, he disowned wright.

he, or probably his handlers, recognizing ( unlike some of his fans in sri lanka ) that western media is no reliable judge, wants to avoid similar embarrassment in historical record, so wants help to write a truly bland but uplifting speech, you know a bit like a trashy romance novel.

go here and contribute.(no time to lose)

here is my contribution.

My fellow Americans, today is a great day. You have shown the world that "hope" is not just another word for despair, and that "change" is not only something we can believe in again, but something we can actually believe.

Today we celebrate, but let there be no mistake – America faces long and dark challenges like never before. Our economy is heavy. Americans can barely afford their mortgages, let alone have enough money left over for seats. Our healthcare system is lost. If your head is sick and you don't have insurance, you might as well call a lawyer. And America's image overseas is tarnished like a banana republic. But bating together we can right this ship, and set a course for Mars.

Finally, I must thank my small family, my blue campaign volunteers, but most of all, I want to thank McCain for making this historic occasion possible. Of course, I must also thank you, President Bush, for years of beating the American people. Without your long efforts, none of this would have been possible.

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contrast 4- spidey and american politicos - comic indeed!

then

now

who will it be in 2013?

at least sarah palin doesn't need superhero backing, bc of the little known fact that she is a superhero.

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previous contrast posts
1, 2, 3.

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usa starts on the long road to decline

today united states of america elected the path of stagnation and decline, as i expected in my last post. it also gave up its leadership in the battle of ideas.

(i for one am not celebrating. people who think we should celebrate just because america at long last outgrew its racial prejudices, are only expressing a more subtle form of racial prejudice without even realizing it . martin luther king jr. dreamed of a society that is blind to skin color . people who use word "historic" today do so because of skin color. obama the phony should be evaluated and judged on his character and policies.)

usa freely and democratically chose stagnation and decline,

• by electing a leftist who believes in increasing the role of government both in economic and social lives of its citizens,
• by electing a person who is willing to admit moral defeat (even as usa is well on its way to military and political victory) in its wars and by that, and other ways is willing to give up its so called leadership of the free world,
• and by electing a person lacking in personal leadership qualities and has consistently and deliberately chosen the path of least resistance in his political decisions.

america has chosen the same path that europe selected after world wars. but unlike europe it was not forced on america and imo is way too premature. anyway america will suffer the same fate; slow relative decline (baring occasional emergence of a thacher or a reagan who may stop it temporarily).

can decline be stopped?
permanent change to this course of decline is unlikely unless americans change their minds massively in the next four years and elect an ideologically pure conservative. in reality however a pure ideological conservative nominated (a possibility if republicans really try ) is likely to go down in a massive defeat. anyone else elected, even from republican party, will only tread in obama's footsteps. after four to eight years of leftist administrations it wont be possible to change course even through a pure conservative, he or she will only be able halt it temporarily.

to be clear, this is not all obama's fault; he is just the active and fitting symbol of americans' desire to give up ... sorry "for change" .
its their choice and they will deserve what they will get.

short term results
in addition to long term implications, i have no doubt that results of obama election will be soon evident in the short term as well. world and americans will not like them.

in this regard ironically world is likely to see an obama acting just like bush on foreign policy at first, to the surprise of world at large ( after all non americans are even more pro-obama than americans ). obama will do that mainly to prove (dishonestly ) his critics wrong ( who say the same things about him, i said above). but since he will be acting without conviction he will ultimately fail. ideal test for him ( and for my prediction here) will be his reaction to iran's attempt at a nuclear bomb.

the real loss to world
for the rest of the world, the greatest loss today is the loss of idealogical leadership of america

no longer can anyone look to contemporary america as an example of a successful free society that value and celebrate individual freedoms. it is now just another half baked socialist state. and like most third world countries ( and unlike most of europe) up to its neck in debt and getting more so. shame.

principles of individual freedoms and capitalism will have to stand on their own merits. i of course think that they can and will prevail. but ... it is alway good to have an example (even an admittedly imperfect one as america was) .

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ps
those ngo types (peacenik or otherwise) who receive american money to prescribe solutions ( economic and political ) to sri lanka and other countries should realize the hypocrisy and untenability of their situation.
advocacy of all solutions are welcome in democracy. and when they are solutions that are based on market forces and individual freedom i personally support them. but such advocates should not be receiving payments from a country that no longer believes in them, has given up implementing them, and cannot give moral support for them.

american elections - my selections

long term readers of this blog will know that i have expressed a preference for john mccain as 2008 american presidential election winner for some time. i have not changed my opinion .

however given the complex absurdity of american election process he may or may not succeed. so here is a list of current and potential candidates listed in order of my preference.

my assessment (as of now, before new hampashire primary results ) of their ultimate success in getting elected (which is a completely different thing from my preference) is expressed in brackets as "x"s (out of maximum 5)

my order of preference
1 john mccain (xxx 1/2)
2 rudy giuliani (xxx 1/2)
3 mike huckabee (xxx 1/2)
4 mitt_romney (xxx)
5 ron paul (1/2)
6 michael_bloomberg (x)
7 bill richardson (x)
8 barack obama (xxx 1/2)
9 hillary rodham clinton (xxx)
10 john edwards (xx 1/2)

i don't care about those not mentioned

reasons for preference based on policies and personal qualities, would take too much time explain and unfortunately i don't have that at the moment. but there is no hurry, i am sure i will get to reasons soon enough.

anyway what is your preferences ( if you care enough to have some)?

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