CAPTIVE MEDIA

The Press Council of India has strongly condemned the media for becoming the hand maiden of vested interests. I quote:

“The phenomenon of paid news goes beyond the corruption of individual journalists and media companies. It has become pervasive, structure and highly organized, and in the process, is undermining democracy in India.”

The fear of a Dictator with a Telephone, expressed by Tolstoy, I think, has come true.

But the unexpected revolution in communication, in the form of the internet, has exposed the truth, though it is still a minority of literate people who are netizens.

I have been gagged by Pachauri, but I am able to reach you through the Blog.

TODAY IS SAVE THE EARTH DAY

Every year it is a ritual. Some ill informed people, all over the world, will meet and discuss ways of saving this planet and forget it all over several pegs of liquor.

The threat is human beings and unless the baby bomb is dismantled, nothing will have any effect.

All want food, houses and roads. Without wounding the Mother Earth, nothing can be had. So the need is to reduce population.

Will any speaker mention this?

LOOT-OCRACY

The system known as oligarchy is working in camouflage as democracy.

In oligarchy, you can identify the rich men who rule the country.  Now they all work behind the scene, as puppeteers.

The liquor barons, smugglers and the arms manufacturers, to mention some, manipulate the politicians and reap trillions of dollars.

The people have only to pay the taxes.

Throughout the world, farmers produce food grains and raw materials for the industry.

Without it mankind cannot survive. But farmers are unhappy all the while. Now the media are silent about suicides by farmers in Vidarbha area.

The really poor people in the cities and villages find it extremely difficult, with the prices going up every day.

The politicians and their henchmen enjoy life because of taxes paid by poor people.

Salaried workers cannot escape income tax; but the real sharks and black money hoarders enjoy tax free income.

I would call it lootocracy