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China…. Karakoram….. Pakistan

Many moons ago I made a prediction on the Karakoram China nexus. 

Here 

This was also a reason for the start of the Kargil war and the Siachen conflict. 

With the current situation in Pakistan, it is this close to become the next Afghanisthan.Floods, Terrorists, Drones,  Riots. Just watching what the nation has done to itself is a pleasure. Mhd Ali Jinnah (Quiad -e-Azam) must be rolling in his grave. 

Now everything I predicted  seems to be coming true..(don’t you just love when that happens? I must rename my self to the oracle or the soothsayer or something :D Although I cannot see my own future, but none the less) 

I don’t really understand, at times they say India steals its water, They the records prove it is the mis management on the part of the Pakistanis (well Duh!) 

Please see the video that I embedded. 

  

Pakistan does a back flip on India stealing water. 

  

Corruption is our right
  

I love this dude…he speaks his heart out!!!! 

Now Pakistan is flooded and they blame India for that. Too bad they cannot blame the jews for this 

 
 
 
 
 
 

  

India now trying to flood Lahore, alleges daily

 

 
 2010-08-28 17:30:00
India has caused the devastating floods in Pakistan by releasing excess water into the Satluj and Beas rivers and now is trying to inundate Lahore by pumping more water in the Ravi, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said Saturday.

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 Anyway now coming back to the point, China and Karakoram. I was mentioning China was making a second port in gawder to take the gold copper and  mineral out of  Pakistan.  Here  

Now the chinese are smart, they do not want to keep all their eggs in one basket. They want alternatives to the ship route. they have seen in the past that the Indian navy has very effectively blocked the Pakistan ports and has brought things to a halt in the port .This can harm the Chinese manufacturing industry., So now they decided to make a road from all the way from Baluchistan to China via the Karakoram. please read my article on the karakoram highway kargil war and Siachen  here 

Now with Pakistan being in a Mess of a situation and the Army having no control over 80 % of the Pakistani land mass,  helping the Americans kill their own people, helping people in floods and killing innocent people in Baluchistan,  the Chinese decided to send their own people to protect their investment. 

While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China. 

China wants a grip on the region to assure unfettered road and rail access to the Gulf through Pakistan. It takes 16 to 25 days for Chinese oil tankers to reach the Gulf. When high-speed rail and road links through Gilgit and Baltistan are completed, China will be able to transport cargo from Eastern China to the new Chinese-built Pakistani naval bases at Gwadar, Pasni and Ormara, just east of the Gulf, within 48 hours. 

Mystery surrounds the construction of 22 tunnels in secret locations where Pakistanis are barred. Tunnels would be necessary for a projected gas pipeline from Iran to China that would cross the Himalayas through Gilgit. But they could also be used for missile storage sites. 

  

The New York times 

To break it down for you , China has sent 11,000 of its soldiers to Baltistan and Gilgit  which are essentially marked in red, in this picture. 

The Region in red

The Region in red

 

 Now this regions is PoK 

PoK, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

PoK, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

 

So  what Pakistan is doing is “allowing” Chinese people to come in  PoK , which  Indians claim as theirs, And allowing the Chinese construct a High speed railway and a high way,  which will connect China to Iran and then to the Middle east. just to give you an idea how big this road will be, It will start some where in Bejing go via Tibet, to Pakistan, Iran and reach the middle east and then  probably Africa and all this bypassing India. They are restructiong the Silk route, this time by a high speed train link and now instead of trading  of silk they will be trading energy and chinese junk. 

Silk route

Silk route, Red is Land routes and the Blue is sea routes

 

Now, not only have they sent workers to do the jobs but they have also sent 11,000 army men to protect the workers from the local disturbances. 

The entire Pakistan-occupied western portion of Kashmir stretching from Gilgit in the north to Azad (Free) Kashmir in the south is closed to the world, in contrast to the media access that India permits in the eastern part, where it is combating a Pakistan-backed insurgency. But reports from a variety of foreign intelligence sources, Pakistani journalists and Pakistani human rights workers reveal two important new developments in Gilgit-Baltistan: a simmering rebellion against Pakistani rule and the influx of an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. 

The New York Times 

 This is essentially a problem and there is nothing Indians can do about it but to keep a ever more watchful eye on the Siachen glacier. 

Just wanted to pass a casual warning to you guys 

The Importance of Siachen glacier In context of the Karakorum glacier here

On the Chinese govt side, their economy is growing at  double figure, If i remember the agriculture industry in the soviet union grew in triple figures in the mid 60′s but in the end it eventually broke  like a wine glass with thousands of pieces every where, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine etc. Anyway, what i am trying to say it, The bigger they are the harder they fall. 

What is India doing? 

Well, With the incompetent Manmohan Singh and his foreign policy over China I cannot anything more  from him. Apart from building a few dams here and there in the Kashmir region, Nothing much. 

Please read ” Sleeping tiger, Crouching Dragon” by me.

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Bucket List Part 1

I am making a itinerary for my world tour.
Think of it as a “Bucket list”  of places I want to go before I get married.(O ….. I am getting married sooner than you think)

So here is the “Bucket list”

1.Cambodia.
I want to go to the temples in Cambodia, they are still unexplored relatively

I’d like to have a “Indiana Jones” moment of my own
I’d like to have a “Indiana Jones” moment of my own. Who knows I might find some  hidden treasure of Raja Raja.
Its not just that,I plan to cover all the major Hindu pilgrimage in India. And although Cambodia does not jump on the radar but ….I want to cut it off for just in case.

1 Indian Rupee = 94.53477 Cambodian Riel

And the hotels are pretty cheap too
I mean $8 USD for one night….I mean come on…It doesn’t get any cheaper than this. And this  hotel is a bit posh with fancy amenities like WiFi and wireless printing. I can live without WiFi and wireless printing.

To be continued………..

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The karma School of driving

This hilarious article was written by a Dutchman who spent two years
in Bangalore , India , as a visiting expert.
A little long article but really hilarious!!!

Driving in Bangalore / India

For the benefit of every Tom, Dick and Harry visiting India and
daring to drive on Indian roads, I am offering a few hints
For survival. They are applicable to every place in India except
Bihar , where life outside a vehicle is only marginally safer.

Indian road rules broadly operate within the domain of karma where
you do your best, and leave the results to your insurance company.
The hints are as follows:

Do we drive on the left or right of the road?
The answer is “both”. Basically you start on the left of the road,
unless it is occupied. In that case, go to the right, unless that is
also occupied
.
Then proceed by occupying the next available gap, as in chess.
Just trust your instincts, ascertain the direction, and
Proceed. Adherence to road rules leads to much misery and
occasional fatality.  Most drivers don’t drive, but just aim their
vehicles in the generally intended direction.

Don’t you get discouraged or underestimate yourself except for a
belief in reincarnation; the other drivers are not in any better
position. Don’t
stop at pedestrian crossings just because some fool wants to cross the
road. You may do so only if you enjoy being bumped in the back.

Pedestrians have been strictly instructed to cross only when traffic
is moving slowly or has come to a dead stop because some minister is
in town.Still some idiot may try to wade across, but then, let us not
talk ill of the dead.

Blowing your horn is not a sign of protest as in some countries. We
horn to express joy, resentment, frustration, romance and bare lust
(two brisk
blasts),or just mobilize a dozing cow in the middle of the bazaar.
Keep informative books in the glove compartment. You may read them
during traffic jams,while awaiting the chief minister’s motorcade, or
waiting for the
rainwater to recede when over ground traffic meets underground drainage.

Occasionally you might see what looks like a UFO with blinking colored
lights and weird sounds emanating from within. This is an illuminated
bus,
full of happy pilgrims singing bhajans. These pilgrims go at breakneck
speed, seeking contact with the Almighty, often meeting with success.

Auto Rickshaw (Baby Taxi): The result of a collision between a
rickshaw and an automobile, this three-wheeled vehicle works on an
external combustion engine that runs on a mixture of kerosene oil and
creosote. This triangular vehicle carries iron rods, gas cylinders or
passengers three times its weight and dimension, at an unspecified
fare. After careful geometric calculations, children are folded and
packed into these auto rickshaws until some children in the periphery
are not in contact with the vehicle at all. Then their school bags are
pushed into the microscopic gaps all round so those minor collisions
with other vehicles on the road cause no permanent damage. Of course,
the
peripheral children are charged half the fare and also learn Newton ‘s laws
of
motion enroute to school. Auto-rickshaw drivers follow the road rules
depicted in the film Ben Hur, and are licensed to irritate.

Mopeds: The moped looks like an oil tin on wheels and makes noise like
an electric shaver. It runs 30 miles on a teaspoon of petrol and
travels at
break-bottom speed. As the sides of the road are too rough for a ride,
the moped drivers tend to drive in the middle of the road;they would
rather
drive under heavier vehicles instead of around them and are often
“mopped” off the tarmac.

Leaning Tower of Passes: Most bus passengers are given free passes and
during rush hours, there is absolute mayhem. There are passengers
hanging off other passengers, who in turn hang off the railings and
the overloaded bus leans dangerously, defying laws of gravity but
obeying laws of surface tension. As drivers get paid for overload (so
many Rupees per kg of passenger), no questions are ever asked. Steer
clear of these buses by a  width of three passengers.

One-way Street: These boards are put up by traffic people to add jest
in their otherwise drab lives. Don’t stick to the literal meaning and
proceed  in one direction. In metaphysical terms, it means that you
cannot proceed in two directions at once. So drive as you like, in
reverse throughout, if you are the fussy type. Least I sound
hypercritical,I must add a positive point also. Rash and fast driving
in residential areas has been prevented  by providing a “speed
breaker”; two for each house. This mound, incidentally, covers the
water and drainage pipes for that residence and is left untarred for
easy identification by the corporation authorities, should they want
to recover the pipe for year-end accounting.

Night driving on Indian roads can be an exhilarating experience for
those with the mental make up of Genghis Khan. In a way, it is like
playing  Russian roulette, because you do not know who amongst the
drivers is loaded. What looks like premature dawn on the horizon turns
out to be a truck attempting a speed record. On encountering it, just
pull partly into the field adjoining the road until the phenomenon
passes.

Our roads do not have shoulders, but occasional boulders.Do not blink
your lights expecting reciprocation. The only dim thing in the truck
is  the driver, and with the peg of illicit arrack (alcohol) he has
had at the last stop, his total cerebral functions add up to little
more than a naught. Truck drivers are the James Bonds of India, and
are licensed to kill. Often you may encounter a single powerful beam
of light about six  feet above the ground. This is not a super
motorbike, but a truck approaching you with a single light on, usually
the left one.It could be the right one, but never get too close to
investigate. You may prove your point posthumously

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Other tips on making the most of your money while you’re at uni

Save on hairdressers. Get a hair-cut on a student training night and it won’t cost you a cent. Or if it

does, it will be a fraction of the normal cost. Students are supervised by a professional, so you won’t

end up with a pineapple head! Ask beauticians about student training nights for waxing too for a frugal

fuzz free look.

Sales. If you need new clothes, wait for the sales, try e-bay, visit the factory outlet or explore your

local markets. Why pay full price if a little patience rewards you with a big saving?

Budget travel accommodation. If you like travel on the cheap, look into a Youth Hostel membership. From

$37 a year, you can get cheap accommodation in some amazing places. Even cheaper, offer to house-sit

for the summer, preferably near the beach! Offer to take care of other peoples’ cats and dogs (while

they’re on holiday) in return for little or no rent. Maybe they’ll fill the fridge with your favourite

food.

Don’t be afraid to ask! Always, always ask when you’re parting with money if there’s a student discount

- and keep your student card on you at all times.

Buy in-season fruit and veggies. It sounds trivial but if you buy produce in-season, it tastes better,

the vitamin content will be higher and it’s cheaper.

Use the bulletin board! They’re great for more than just textbooks. Bulletin boards are a great way to

keep your ear to the ground on all sorts of things. For example, you might also find a bargain on a

second-hand fridge, furniture or a TV.

Don’t shop hungry. If you go grocery shopping when you’re hungry, you’ll buy more than you need.

Really. You will.

Use your own bank’s ATMs. This will normally save you from paying other bank ATM fees.

Do a basic budget. If creating a budget sounds all too hard, use our Student Budget Calculator. In

three simple steps you’ll see where saving a few dollars here and there can make a difference.

Set your limits. Having a credit card limit of $1,000 doesn’t mean you have to spend it. If you can

only afford to pay back $200 then just spend that.

Good food, good relations. Eat at Mum and Dad’s!

Stash. BIG expenses always loom. Holidays? Car rego? Textbooks? Fees? If you ignore them until the day

they’re due, you’ll end up scrounging and borrowing money, which sucks. Put a few dollars aside each

week or set up a regular savings plan. It’s a habit that’s easier than scrounging and will save you

from the stress of digging yourself out of a financial hole.

Cut the chat. Keep an eye on mobile phone spending. A pre-paid account means you’ll never get landed

with an unexpected bill. It can also be better value.
Go public transport. Your student card gives you good discounts on public transport. Make the most of

it. Workers don’t get the same discounts until they retire!

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Student Survival Tips

Whether you’re living at home or renting, when you’re a student, money’s always an issue. So here are

some ideas and tips that could help make ‘surviving till you graduate’ a little easier.
Top ten money saving tips

1. Buy used books, furniture, fridges and TVs from other students. Check out the uni bulletin boards

for bargains.
2. Find a place to house sit for the summer, preferably near the beach. Offer to take care of their

cats and dogs in return for little or no rent. Maybe they’ll fill the fridge with your favourite food.
3. Never go grocery shopping when you’re hungry. You’ll always buy more than you need.
4. Surf for free stuff on the net. We found a few interesting links.
5. Make sure you always use Commonwealth Bank ATMs to avoid paying an access fee for using other bank’s

ATMs. It should be easy – we have more ATMs than any other bank.
6. If creating a budget sounds all too hard, use our Student Budget Calculator. In three simple steps

you’ll see where you can shave off a few bucks every month.
7. Set your limits. Having a credit card limit of $1,000 doesn’t mean you have to spend it all. If you

can only afford to pay back $200 then just spend that.
8. Sometimes even the best plans get off track. Always have a secret stash up your sleeve just in case.
9. Plan ahead. Want to get away for the holidays? Or the car rego’s looming? Put a few dollars aside

each week, it’s easier than scrounging around trying to find the whole amount at the last minute.
10. Find out how to make the most of every dollar by being informed about money matters. Get to know

your money online today!
Cheap entertainment

* Check out your uni web site and local pubs for free / cheap events happening in and around

campus.
* Go to the library – no, not to study – to read for enjoyment. Try to avoid late fees.
* Art galleries / museums – get on their mailing list so you know when any free stuff is happening.
* Host a movie marathon at home and get your friends to chip in.
* Instead of going to a restaurant have a ‘potluck’ dinner, where everyone brings their favourite

dish. You may end up with everyone bringing desserts. But who cares!
* Go to other people’s parties.

Cheap dates

* A picnic in the park, a walk (anywhere romantic) at sunset, a ride on a ferry… accompany any of

these scenarios with reading a poem you’ve written specially for your date and you’re set! It doesn’t

matter how bad it is, it’s the thought that counts.
* Don’t have a date? Go to the beach and slip on some roller blades – you never know who you might

bump in to. Can’t roller blade? Go for a walk in the park and borrow a friend’s dog, the cuter the

better. An adorable pooch is a definitive chick/guy magnet!
* Scan the arts section of the paper for gallery opening nights. Not only will there be free

bevvies and canapes but you can show off your cultured side. If you’re clueless, do a bit of homework

on the artist before you go.

Cheap fitness

* Walk.
* Walk faster.
* Now jog.
* Try running for a while – you can do it!
* Find a scenic spot for the above to keep your mind off the pain.
* Get started by unplugging your TV and not watching it – except for Oprah, (as if).
* Put an equal amount of books in each hand and use as weights – while you watch Oprah.

Cheap style

* Garage sales – a veritable treasure trove of great stuff for you, your home and your loved ones.

Don’t forget Council cleanups and op shops!

Free stuff online!

There are lots of great sites where you can get free stuff. Here are just some of them:

www.shopfree.com.au
www.australianfreebies.com
www.hotdockets.com.au
www.ozfreebies.com.au
www.iwin.com.au/weeklyquiz
www.stuff.com.au
www.promo.com.au/promo.cfm

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