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Un ‘f*&#*ng’ believable.

Insurance giant AIG, which has received $170 billion in tax-payer funded bailout, is paying out over $700 hundred million in bonus and retention payments to its employees, according to the Washington Post.

The feeble excuse – AIG is contractually obligated to pay the money.

But U.S. courts have routinely thrown out contracts on pay and benefits for ordinary workers during difficult times for a corporation.

So, why didn’t the U.S. administration declare the contracts void.

We are beginning to lose faith in the Obama administration.

Here’s an excerpt from the Washington Post story:

Insurance giant American International Group will award hundreds of millions of dollars in employee bonuses and retention pay despite a confrontation Wednesday between Continue reading »

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The monkeys are definitely calling the shots in the South Indian state of Karnataka.

Not content with beating up girls for the sin of drinking in a pub, razing churches and threatening to derail Valentine’s Day celebrations, the modern-day descendants of the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman are now turning their ire against the late film legend Charlie Chaplin.

Some tail-less monkeys in Baindur (near the temple town of Udupi) have opposed the installation of Chaplin’s statue on the ground that it would hurt the sentiments of Hindus.

You see, Chaplin was a Christian, albeit one with left leanings.

The local legislator K Lakshminarayana (belonging to the Hindu nationalist BJP party) says he has no objection to the installation of monkey god Hanuman’s statue.

Here’s an excerpt from the Times of India story:

The last laugh may be on Charlie Chaplin, cinema’s funny man who mocked prejudice and fascism. The Left-leaning, suspected communist sympathizer was called many names during his eventful life, but `Christian’ wasn’t one of them. But the new tag comes courtesy BJP activists in Baindur, near Udupi. They have blocked installation of Chaplin’s statue saying it would hurt Hindu sentiment.

The statue was being put up by Karnataka film director Hemant Hegde for the shoot of his movie `Housefull’ and was meant for a song sequence. On Friday, local BJP leader Suresh Batwadi stopped the film unit from going ahead with Continue reading »

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News is what somebody somewhere is trying to suppress. The rest is advertising. 

- Lord Northcliffe, cited in New Yorker, March 9, 2009 P.21

Sadly, the news business is in dire straits in America these days.

Every other day, it seems like a newspaper is folding in the U.S.

The 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News shut its doors last month, the Seattle Post is closing its print version and morphing into a lean, online-only publication and many other newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle are on life support.

As for TV, news on this medium has been almost completely replaced by commentary i.e. overpaid buffoons talking unadulterated garbage.

Au contraire, the outlook for newspapers is not that bleak in India. Continue reading »

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