The Sanskrit
word “Artha” has multiple meanings. The two important ones are
meaning and wealth. This shows that the Hindus early on realized that
wealth gives meaning to life. To balance the evolutionary greed for
wealth (artha) they countered with the concepts of dharma, karma and
moksha. As even the studies of primitive societies have shown that
wealth and power are often conjoint twins and both give plentiful access
to “kama” (love or sex), the driving force of evolution built into the
psyche of all living creatures subject to Darwin’s theory of survival of
the fittest.
It is the desire for acquisition of wealth, power and sex that leads to
war in the present day and in the past, as borne out by the Mahabharata,
Ramayana and Homer’s Iliad.
America’s
history of native Indian genocide, conquest and usurpation of Mexico
(Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico), Hawaii (from the
native kingdom), Florida, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, Philippines (from
Spain), the neo-colonization of Latin America, the Caribbean and the
Middle East were all based on acquiring wealth and power. European and
American colonization of Asia and Africa was to exploit their natural
resources cheaply and make them captive markets for expensive finished
goods to doubly steal their wealth.
In 1453
Constantinople fell to the Turks and became Istanbul. This cut off the
trade of Venice with the orient, which made it wealthy from trading
Indian spices and Chinese silk and porcelain as well as other goods.
Spices were essential to preserve and make edible, meat in the absence
of refrigeration. Fifteen hundred years earlier, even Roman emperors and
writers like Pliny complained that trade with India and China was
draining the Roman treasury of gold, the medium of trade. That is why
successive Roman emperors debased the currency by reducing its gold and
silver content. The Indian currency (rupee) derives from “rupa”,
meaning silver. All governments lie and debase the currency. Roman
emperors, Muhammad Bin Tughlak (issued leather coins), Weimar Republic
of Germany, Latin American countries in the twentieth century and
America from Nixon’s abrogation of the Bretton Woods agreement to today
have done so.
To continue the trade with India, Vasco De Gama rounded the Cape of Good
Hope and reached India with the help of an Indian navigator based in
East Africa. The French, British and Dutch followed and Asia was
colonized. Columbus did the same on behalf of Spain and landed in the
Americas, called the natives Indians and Spain decimated them and was
joined by the French in Haiti, the Dutch in New Amsterdam (now New York)
and the British in Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts.
India was industrially superior at that time and had advanced textile
technology (muslins, calicos and Dhaka malmal). The British who beat the
rest of the Europeans were mostly importing textiles and spices from
India. East India company was profitable as a trader, but Britain was a
loser of gold and silver as they had nothing to sell that India or China
wanted. Britain decided to de-industrialize India by stealing the
technology, cutting off the thumbs of the Indian weavers, who were
mostly Muslims (converted from lower castes) and after developing a
power loom, flooding India with its own cheaper copies of Indian
textiles. This is why Gandhi started the Swadeshi movement with burning
British textiles and promoting the wearing of homespun khadi.
When it obtained the Diwani of Bengal from a weak dissolute and money
hungry Mughal emperor after defeating Siraj-ud-Daulah in 1757 with the
help of Mir Jaffar and financing by Amirchand and Jagat Seth, Britain
became both government (tax-collector with military authority) and major
trader. Thus it could set the prices for buying and the tax levies on
all. After a while the East India company overthrew Mir Jaffar and
replaced him with Mir Kasim for a bigger bribe. It soon realized that
there was greater profit in being the government and started hiring out
its native Indian army to the highest bidder and demanding a share and a
voice in the newly conquered territory. In the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century there were famines in Bengal due to poor monsoons and
British government officers both in their private capacity and on behalf
of the government hoarded grain till the prices were higher leading to
the death of millions. This is why I keep warning about the
collaborating idiots willing to sign humiliating nuclear agreements and
sacrificing India’s independence, nuclear deterrence and foreign policy.
China was willing to sell silk, porcelain and tea to Britain, Europe and
America but only for gold. They all then, occupied coastal towns in
China by military means and forced unjust and inhuman treaties on China.
Britain and to a lesser extent the others were the biggest drug cartel
in the world. Britain grew opium in India and forcibly made the Chinese
population addicts and coerced the Chinese government into turning a
blind eye to the narcotics trade. That eventually led to the Boxer
rebellion in China and its current chip on the shoulder. The stolen tea
plants from China by the British are what started the tea estates of
India and Ceylon. The Dutch and the British stole the technology of
making porcelain from China and started the Delft and Wedgewood
porcelain factories. These are the same nations now crusading against
narcotics trade and for intellectual property laws. They also condemn
human trafficking for slavery and prostitution after getting rich from
the slave trade. “Sau sau choohe maar aur khhaa ke billi haj karne
chali”.
From Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton and Bush Jr., the US has been
de-industrializing itself by moving manufacturing and services to
Mexico, India , China etc., where labor is cheap and there are no
environmental or worker protection laws to enrich the fat cats who
finance both American political parties. It is oblivious to the
impoverishment of its own citizen workers. This has led to 800+ billion
dollar annual trade deficits. This is what led Nixon to close the gold
window. The nearly six trillion dollar US foreign debt is all
denominated in its own currency, which is the international reserve
currency. One of the reasons it attacked Iraq and wants to attack Iran
is because they wanted to trade oil in euros instead of the dollar. At
present the US could pay off this debt by just printing dollars which
would become worthless but not harm the US economy as much as if its
debt was to be paid in gold or an appreciating stronger currency.
Instead of officially devaluing its own currency which would worsen the
flight from the dollar, it is twisting China’s arm to revalue upwards
its currency and failing that has threatened huge tariffs on Chinese
goods.
China, unlike India is unwilling to be bullied into submission. Its
officials threatened that if the US senate puts tariffs on Chinese
imports, it would dump its 1.3 trillion dollar reserves on the market
and sink the dollar. Compare that to our peon Manmohan Singh, who simply
fell at American sahib’s feet and agreed to the nuclear deal, calls
opponents unpatriotic and threatens to resign even though he has never
been elected as prime minister or any other legislative post. I say, let
him resign. We have had enough of this foolish puppet.
The deal prevents India from testing nuclear weapons and puts most of
its current nuclear plants and future plants under intrusive inspection
FOREVER. It does not guarantee enrichment, heavy water technology or
even uranium fuel. It will not allow India to accumulate a lifetime
supply of fuel but will only dribble the exported fuel in a trickle just
enough to continue operating the plant. In the event that India conducts
a test, there will be consultations but the US has the right to demand
return of everything. Furthermore the US only promises to attempt
procurement from other sources. There is no way to judge the extent and
sincerity of attempts. The US claims that it has been attempting to stop
Pakistan’s terrorism in Kashmir by supplying it with F-16s. China claims
it is attempting to solve the border problem with India by demanding
Arunachal and occupying Aksai Chin.
The agreement does not allow India to withdraw for forty years while the
US can break it anytime. It prevents India from building a pipeline from
Iran and forces it to join the Proliferation Security Initiative making
India the “chapraasi” of the US “jamaadaar”. It commits India to a
future cutoff in the production of fissile material. It thus hampers
India’s military nuclear program both qualitatively and quantitatively.
It requires India to build a separate reprocessing facility under IAEA,
US and international inspection and permits reprocessing after all that
only after a year or more of negotiation. Thus India’s reprocessing of
nuclear material for civilian purposes is pushed to a distant future of
five or more years. All this is contingent on an annual positive review
by the US president. The agreement can be unilaterally abrogated by the
US by passing a new law as it did with Tarapur in 1974 causing enormous
problems still unresolved after more than thirty years.
Some nuclear scientists like Dr. Anil Kakodkar with their fixation on
our third stage thorium power plants and constraint of still working for
the government indirectly, have succumbed to this single obsession while
completely missing the military and strategic aspect repeatedly
emphasized by Dr. Gopalkrishnan, Prasad and Brahma Chellaney in the
Asian Age and other venues. The Secretaries and civil servants are just
glorified clerks. Similar people have lied throughout Indian and world
history and done the bidding of their masters for position, power or
money. Indian politicians holding ministerial positions have been
involved in bribery scandals from arms dealers, spy agencies and rich
industrialists. There are current unresolved allegations against the
former Congress officials of Punjab for funding party election coffers
by such means.
It is not mandatory that the deal be approved by parliament, but if
enough honest politicians raise a hue and cry the deal can still be
stopped. Many vociferous protests have been heard from the BJP and other
parties. One doesn’t know whether these are genuine and will be pursued,
or bogus and for political gain. The communist parties have been the
loudest but are intellectually bankrupt and logically inconsistent.
Their visceral opposition to alliances with America is understandable
but their stupid and slavish love for China and Russia just exposes
their idiocy. Both these countries have totally abandoned communism so
why do the Indian communists still follow the preaching of their new
governments and side with China which threatens India and still occupies
its territory. Their other blind spot is the whitewashing of the
atrocities and injustices of Muslim rule in India, best exemplified by
the benign assessment of Alauddin Khilji’s rule in India by Promila
Thapar. The gullibly foolish assessment of Mao by Pannikar, the Indian
envoy to China and the acquiescence by Nehru to referring the Kashmir
problem to the UN because of his love for Edwina, as allegedly
attributed by her daughter in an interview is consistent with the
naivete of our leaders.
If the communists whatever their ideology, have any love for India and
the ability to contemplate the future, they should use their position to
topple the idiotic and corrupt Congress government if their demand of
walking away from the civilian nuclear deal is not met. We will see if
their honesty and integrity are what they claim or they are just another
filthy pig feeding at the public trough like the Congress, BJP and
numerous others.
Let me give you some reasons why India needs to test again and improve
its nuclear arsenal. In the current issue of the American magazine,
Atlantic Monthly devoted to China, there is a sound analysis of US,
Russia, China and their nuclear weapons and strategic options. China has
only eighteen ICBMs based on land with a 4000 kiloton bomb on each and
one or two nuclear submarines with very few smaller range nuclear
weapons. The US has nearly 300 nuclear weapons disbursed on multiple
submarines. Each missile has multiple warheads and each nuclear
submarine carries multiple missiles. The US is shifting a lot of nuclear
submarines to the Pacific fleet in the vicinity of China. The warheads
are the new W-88 type of nearly 500 kiloton strength. They are accurate
to within short distances of the target due to their GPS guidance
systems. Theoretically, the US can program the missiles from all nuclear
submarines with multiple warheads in such a way that each of China’s 18
sites is hit by multiple (sixteen) warheads from different missiles and
different submarines. The redundancy would ensure the total destruction
of China’s land based ICBMs in a pre-emptive strike.
The US really wants to build ABMs to defend against a second strike
capability of China and Russia. This is why Putin opposes the radars and
ABMs that the US wishes to install in Poland and the Czech republic.
They are not meant to defend against Iran which is decades away from
such nuclear capability but to blackmail Russia and China. This is why
China tested the anti-satellite weapon and is building more mobile land
missiles and more nuclear submarines. Thus anti-ballistic missiles are
not defensive but offensive weapons meant to achieve total nuclear
superiority by a preemptive first strike against the enemy and his first
strike nuclear weapons and a significant capability to neutralize the
enemy victim’s second strike capability.
There is one more ace up America’s sleeve. If these 500 kiloton warheads
were to detonate on the ground there would be more massive fallout and
millions of deaths. America has the ability to assure an above ground
detonation of its warheads and the article calculates that such a strike
would not cause more than ten thousand Chinese casualties. This would
reduce the pressure on emasculated and despondent China to retaliate to
soothe the public furor. If it did decide to retaliate America’s missile
shield would destroy the few remaining and inaccurate submarine based
missiles that China has and then the US would retaliate with its even
more massive land based missile warheads causing hundreds of millions of
Chinese casualties.
In all probability China would not retaliate against the first US
preemptive strike. Now consider that the biggest Indian nuclear weapons
are only 40 kilotons (one-hundredths of China’s). They are not fueled
and ready to launch and would take hours or days to launch. India has no
submarine based nuclear weapons. Only our current foolish leaders can be
complacent and secure in their idiocy and ignorance. A savvy China is
continuing a massive and diverse nuclear buildup. One of the reasons
India went nuclear is the fear of China more than Pakistan. If a hostile
China were to blackmail India with its nuclear weapons or use a first
strike, does any sensible Indian currently trying to hide behind
America’s skirt seriously think that America would threaten or use
nuclear weapons against China for India’s sake and risk American cities!
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