Good Morning,Prabhus. Hare Krishna.
This below survey, taken from Yahoo news Canada, i find interesting, as it indicates food and income shortages and over-population. All the predictions from the sixties and seventies about over-pop are starting to manifest .
When rats are puposefully put in overpop cages, their behaviors become agitated, hierarchical, deviant sexuality, neglect of offspring, violence, fights for food, sex, dug abuse increases among the rats, ( cocaine and/or heroin is made available to the rats in some caged experiments ).
Humans actually behave similarly ! The current shortages are being exasperated by design. So yes, survival mode may the only intelligent thing to do by those who wish to continue on with their teachings for any length of time. There is also quite a possibly of a starvation die-off afoot, even as we speak. They have sabotaged food growing regions, bees, codex alimentarius. Good water is becoming scarcer. Food prices are being made to skyrocket as they deflate the value of currencies. Much of the world's supplies may be being deviated to underground stores? The riots are starting.Tunisia is an example of a nation who refused to take the corruption anymore.
I am predicting continuing shortages and malnutrition and famine, growing communal violence, and disease, for India, (and much of the world, including China, eventually), growing more tumultuous as the youth come up with their Vedic culture in retreat before mega maha-moha ( great madness) corporations and corrupt leaders. The problems now grow faster than the solutions, hitechnology is too expensive now for the masses to really use, and is being hoarded by the militaries and underground government.
I spent some time in the mideast, and there are two classes; the rich and the oppressed. That has been the mideast since time immemorial from what i gather, but the availability of communications and info is waking people up even in those fanatical regions.The imbalances are becoming apparent to all all over the globe. So, as the problems continue and grow worse, as population rises, the people also become more desirous of the good life and see the impossibility of obtaining it. This is a formula for fanaticism, criminal poiticians. communism, wars, political instability, ongoing gangs and paramilitaries, and paid-off police.
Islam is also a big problem for the world. The population of muslims will exceed 50% within the next 25 years in France, for example. They breed faster than Irish Catholic rabbitts. They are a violent thoroughly corrupt cult with intent to take over the planet and torture the innocents. I lived three years in Saudi Arabia and half a year in Kuwait, and have seen the 100% corruption; it is absolutely corrupt, controlled by a small handful of rich abusive dogs who are willing to use any kind of force necessary to ensure their absolute authority. .
Population reduction and superscience are not necessarily bad things; it is the fact that the plan is controlled by big demons whose motivations are wrong, that is the problem !
PS Do you feel or know about alien takeover and control? I have come to understand that the pop reduction etc are part of a bid by aliens to re-alter and turn us into the stupid slaves they prefer for humans, and to keep us there to serve them. I suspect that the free and the demigods are fighting a battle. And no, I'm not joking or smoking. And not I don't know for sure on any of this, just my best guesses ! One thing for sure, we can fight for Srila Prabhupada's teachings to be disseminated widely as the solution to the problems of repeated birth and death. HKHKKKHH
CAIRO (Reuters) - The violent riots in Tunisia that swept President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali from power have been watched closely by other Arab states and populations. Following is a reaction from ordinary people, activists and analysts from across the Arab world. Some asked not to be named or that just first names be used for fear of official reprisal.
NIDHAL CHEMENGUI, 24, TUNISIAN BLOGGER, ACTIVIST
"We still hear helicopters prowling. There is still gunfire in all the regions of Tunisia. We hope our freedom of expression will be respected and that the dignity of each citizen will be guaranteed ... Our voice begins to be heard ... But this is only the start. I therefore appeal to all Tunisians, choose your new president well."
SAAD DJEBBAR, ALGERIAN LAWYER AND POLITICAL ANALYST
"The problem with Ben Ali was that he was so arrogant that he undermined his own power base, alienating supporters in the party and in the business community. All his power and wealth became concentrated in the family."
ABDELRAHMAN MANSOUR, 23, EGYPTIAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST
"Egypt is a good candidate for a similar revolt. Conditions here are far worse than in Tunisia. Egyptians cannot continue living like this."
HAMDY HASSAN, A SPOKESMAN FOR EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
"We warn and continue to warn of an explosion taking place that would impact all (Arab) countries as is happening today in Tunisia. But when will it happen? No one knows. No one knew when the explosion would happen in Tunisia ... (It is) a bad omen for other leaders. I think each one now is either preparing his plane or his accounts, and is preparing also a tighter security grip than what is present to try and protect his position."
A PROMINENT JORDANIAN POLITICIAN, UNNAMED
"The old methods of oppressing people are ending. The writing is on the wall, either you open up or you implode."
ABU MOHAMED, 60, EGYPTIAN FRUIT VENDOR
"The Tunisians are brave but what they did would never happen here. Egyptians are poor and don't like to make trouble. Yes I wish things would change."
AMR HAMZAWY, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT'S MIDDLE EAST CENTER, BEIRUT
"This is going to be quite inspiring for people who live in similar conditions. It really is an indication of how weak authoritarian regimes really are. It just took Tunisians three weeks from December to today to get rid of him, and they got rid of him. This really does away with the aura of strong autocratic rulers ... Objectively we are looking at the same ingredients in Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Jordan. Whether it will happen is another issue."
MOHAMED, 31, EGYPTIAN TAXI DRIVER
"Perhaps it could be repeated here because of the pressure people are under. There's overcrowding, life is more expensive and what people earn is not enough. Egyptians tend to say 'Thanks be to God' for whatever they get, but maybe they will say it is enough. If you go outside parliament, you see people demonstrating for better pay. It's like a small revolution."
HOSSAM HAMALAWY, EGYPTIAN BLOGGER AND ACTIVIST.
"It is enough just to log online to see all the Twitter, Facebook users here in Egypt to see or feel the jubilance or joy, but again those on the Internet are not necessarily those on the streets ... I am sure this will inspire ordinary people, as well as activists of course, into action. What happened in Tunisia ... I am dead sure that it will replicate itself throughout the region here."
AHMED MANSOOR, ACTIVIST IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
"The legend of the dictatorships and the time it takes to remove them is not the same any more. It doesn't require armed forces. It took people to go and demonstrate on the streets. It shows how people can throw out those governments ... The potential countries for something like this to happen are Algeria and Egypt.
HAYAM, 29, EGYPTIAN ACCOUNTANT
"The revolution of the people there is similar to things happening here so people are scared that what's happening there will happen here ... I think that here the government has more control on people's freedoms ... When a protest happens here, you find them (police) at the place and surrounding them, people don't just walk anywhere and protest."
(Reporting by Reuters Middle East bureaux; Compiled by Shaimaa Fayed; Editing by Samia Nakhoul
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Egyptian, Mauritanian, Algerian men apparently inspired by events in Tunisia set selves alight
A monitor displays video of 48-year old Abdou Abdel-Monaam Hamadah, at a Cairo hospital, …
CAIRO - Protesters have set themselves on fire in Egypt, Mauritania and Algeria in apparent copycat self-immolation attempts inspired by the act that helped trigger a popular uprising in Tunisia.
The incidents on Monday, while isolated, reflect the growing despair among the public of many Arab regimes resisting reform. They are deeply symbolic means of protest in a region that has little or no tolerance for dissent.
It was the self-immolation of a 26-year-old unemployed man in Tunisia last month that sparked the tidal wave of protests that toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali last week.
Ben Ali ruled with an iron fist for 23 years, time spent in the company of similarly authoritarian rulers across much of the Arab world like Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, in power since 1969, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, in office since 1981, and Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled that impoverished nation since he seized power more than 30 years.
The stunning collapse of the Tunisian leader drew a litany of calls for change elsewhere in the Arab world, but activists faced the reality of vast security forces heavily vested in the status quo and hard-line regimes that crack down on dissent.
The men who have set themselves alight in recent days appeared to be inspired by the self-immolation of Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi, a university graduate whose fruits and vegetables market stand was confiscated by police because it had no permit. His death touched a nerve with educated, unemployed youths in the North African country, prompting the mass protests that toppled Ben Ali.
Self-immolation as a method of protest is uncommon in the Arab world, where many associate it with protesters in the Far East or the Indian subcontinent. But Egyptian women in rural or poor urban areas have been known to set themselves on fire to protest violent husbands, abusive parents or an unwanted suitor.
"It is clear that Tunisia and its events had an impact on Egypt as well as Algeria," said veteran Egyptian columnist Salama Ahmed Salama. The attempted self-immolation in Cairo on Monday, he added, will be a "worrying element to the government."
But Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit ruled out the possibility that Tunisia's political uprising will spread.
"This is pure nonsense," he told reporters Sunday. "Those who are promoting fantasies and trying to ignite the situation will not achieve their goals and will only harm themselves.
But frustration over high unemployment, soaring food prices and a lack of democratic reform has echoed in Egypt and elsewhere in the region where governments face similar complaints.
The 48-year-old owner of a small restaurant who set himself on fire outside the parliament building Monday in central Cairo was angry about a government policy preventing restaurant owners from buying cheap subsidized bread to resell to their patrons, according to security officials at the scene.
He escaped with only light burns on his neck, face and legs after policemen guarding the building and motorists driving by at the time used fire extinguishers to quickly put out the blaze engulfing him.
The incident was captured on amateur video showing closed-circuit television pictures filmed on a mobile phone and then posted on the Internet. The Associated Press cannot verify the authenticity of the images.
Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information, and media reports identified the man as Abdou Abdel-Monaam Hamadah, a father of four who had repeatedly entered heated arguments with local officials over the bread issue.
Also Monday, a Mauritanian man reportedly unhappy with the government torched himself in his car outside an official building in the capital, Nouakchott. Foreign ministry official Adbou Ould Sidi said police rushed 43-year-old Yacoub Ould Dahoud to the hospital.
In Algeria, local officials who declined to be identified said one man suffering a chronic illness set himself on fire Monday in Ghardaia in a dispute over medical costs and was hospitalized with burns. Passers-by in Mascara, meanwhile, stopped a fish monger who had poured gasoline on himself and tried to set himself alight.
That raised to seven the number of reported cases in seven Algerian towns since Saturday. Algeria's Liberte daily reported that a 37-year-old man who set himself alight Saturday in a village near the Tunisian border, died hours later in the hospital.
Analysts said it was difficult to predict whether the practice could spread among the overwhelming Muslim majority inhabiting the Arab world, whose faith prohibits suicide. But the incidents in Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania are symptomatic of a people close to giving up on hope of better economic lives or more freedoms.
Egypt has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past few years, in part fueled by a host of ambitious reforms. But the growth has failed to filter down to many of the estimated 80 million Egyptians. Nearly half of all Egyptians live under or just above the poverty line set by the U.N. at $2 a day.
"The events in Tunisia gave a new momentum to reform and democracy activists in Egypt and what happened today will be a step for them in the same direction," said Hossam Bahgat, head of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, an advocacy group.
Of the self-immolation efforts, he said, "it is too early to tell if it will become a phenomena and let's hope it does not because it is both tragic and unacceptable."
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Associated Press reporters Ahmed Mohamed in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Aomar Oualli in Algiers, Algeria, and Maggie Michael in Cairo contributed to this report.
Stop throwing ketchup at our mansion, woman pleads
A woman who says she's the owner of a $2.5-million Westmount home that has become a local symbol for the corruption of Tunisia's ruling elite had a plea for Montreal's Tunisian community yesterday: please stop protesting outside my house and splattering ketchup on the front door to signify the blood of your people -it's no longer the house of the son-in-law of Tunisia's ousted president, and you're scaring my children.
"My daughter said the other day 'Look mommy, it's our house on TV,' " said the woman, parked in a silver BMW SUV outside the 6,000-square-foot stone home on Belvedere Place in upper Westmount, watching for protesters or vandals. She would not give her name because she said she fears reprisals.
"It's scary. We don't know what they're going to do."
The home was purchased in 2008 by Mohamed Sakher El Materi, the billionaire son-in-law of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was forced to flee his country after 23-years of dictatorial rule on Friday following weeks of violent protests. Rumours have swirled for a week that El Materi, 30, and his family were going to seek sanctuary in Montreal. Dozens of Tunisians went to the airport to meet him there, but were disappointed. Reports have him holed up at a hotel at the Paris Disneyland, a favourite of his wife, 24-year-old Nesrine.
On top of a lack of political freedom, Tunisians are deeply resentful of the excesses of the ruling classes. Son-in-law El Materi, with his palatial beachfront home, numerous servants and pet tiger that eats four chickens a day, was a prime example. Anger was stirred by State Department cables written by the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia and leaked in early December.
"The opulence with which El Materi and Nesrine live and their behaviour make clear why they and other members of Ben Ali's family are disliked and even hated by some Tunisians," Robert F. Godec wrote in July 2009.
The Westmount home he and his wife purchased in 2008 but never lived in was yet another affront. On Saturday, when 1,000 Tunisians took to the streets of downtown Montreal to support their countrymen, several took to Place Belvedere to rally in front of the house. Others came throughout the weekend, although a leader of the Montreal protests said: "El Materi is the past."
On Monday, a protester put up signs on the front doors of the home saying: "Property of the Tunisian people."
A man identifying himself as the lawyer for the current owners emerged from the house soon after and removed the posters, the Toronto Star reported, saying the current owners had nothing to do with Tunisia. "They're Hungarian Jews," he said.
"That's true -we are Hungarian Jews," said the woman in the SUV. "And we have nothing to do with Tunisia." They bought the seven-bedroom house eight months ago from El Materi, and hope to move in this year.
Property records indicate El Materi owns the house, and a lien for nearly $80,000 in unpaid roof repair work was settled in October. But Westmount general director Duncan Campbell said it was possible the house had been sold eight months ago and city officials had not yet been informed of the sale. Sources with the municipality said the house had in fact been sold.
rbruemmer@montrealgazette.com