Awesome cartoon by Kureel!!

Source: pic.twitter.com/pfgYg6M9Kv

Awesome cartoon by Kureel after Salman Khurshid uttered his moronic "Sonia is the mother to all Indians" line!!!!

Contribution of Communism to the civilized world - Darkness!?

Source: http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83182&eocn=home&eoci=iotd_image

Flying over East Asia, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took this night image of the Korean Peninsula. Unlike daylight images, city lights at night illustrate dramatically the relative economic importance of cities, as gauged by relative size. In this north-looking view, it is immediately obvious that greater Seoul is a major city and that the port of Gunsan is minor by comparison. There are 25.6 million people in the Seoul metropolitan area—more than half of South Korea’s citizens—while Gunsan’s population is 280,000.

North Korea is almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea and China. The darkened land appears as if it were a patch of water joining the Yellow Sea to the Sea of Japan. Its capital city, Pyongyang, appears like a small island, despite a population of 3.26 million (as of 2008). The light emission from Pyongyang is equivalent to the smaller towns in South Korea.

Coastlines are often very apparent in night imagery, as shown by South Korea’s eastern shoreline. But the coast of North Korea is difficult to detect. These differences are illustrated in per capita power consumption in the two countries, with South Korea at 10,162 kilowatt hours and North Korea at 739 kilowatt hours.

You can view time-lapse videos of East Asia, as viewed from the ISS on January 30, 2014, by clicking here (standard resolution) and here (high-definition).

Astronaut photograph ISS038-E-38300 was acquired on January 30, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 24 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 38 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Jacobs at NASA-JSC.

Instrument: 

ISS - Digital Camera

Myths about RSS

Article by Kiran Kumar.S published at: http://kiranasis.blogspot.in/2014/02/myths-about-rss.html

Today, I saw twitter trending #NationalistRSS in India. Social media has been a powerful medium in exposing the sinister campaign against RSS.

While reviewing some of the tweets by anti RSS propagandists, I felt it is necessary to expose some of the popular myths about RSS. A lot of people are blindly ranting against Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh, without getting proper information. You can't change everyone, but at least you can put some facts on the table. So here we go.. Note that these are not the official statements of RSS, but that of general social media population in India today. Full credit to the original thinkers and the original photographers, for the information presented here onwards. 

Myth 1: RSS Killed Gandhi.
Fact 1: Nathuram Godse killed Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. Godse had left RSS in 1930s itself. This has been reiterated countless number of times by RSS, and the recent one is from December 2010, when Ram Madhav of RSS claimed court records clearly showing RSS had nothing to do with Gandhi's murder. Justice Kapur Commission Report clearly says:"RSS as such were not responsible for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, meaning thereby that one could not name the organisation as such as being responsible for that most diabolical crime, the murder of the apostle of peace. It has not been proved that they (the accused) were members of the RSS"
Also, Nathuram, the convict was hanged within months, bringing justice to the whole incident. Blaming RSS for Gandhi's murder just because Godse was a former member of RSS, is like blaming Congress for Muslim League's mass murder and atrocities during Partition, because Jinnah was a member of Congress earlier. Jinnah was a member of Congress party between 1906 and 1920. So someone who was a member of Congress for long 14 years, was instrumental in inciting Direct Action Day and other mass atrocities against Hindus, resulting in 1000s of deaths. Will today's Sonia Gandhi's Congress claim responsibility for all the wrong doings of Jinnah, including breaking up an age old civilization resulting in millions of deaths?

Online donations fraud by AAP

Source: http://www.aaptards.com/post/68860650742/online-donations-fraud-by-aap

Aam Aadmi Party has been claiming to be extremely transparent in terms of the donations. However a closer random scrutiny of the receipts by us has thrown up shocking incidents of receipts with same voucher number being issued to multiple donors. This is an absolute case of fraud because under Indian Law, one cannot issue Multiple Donation Receipts with the same Receipt number. Anyone can verify this themselves by visiting AAP donation list page and searching for any one of the receipt numbers mentioned at the end of this post.

What has come to our notice is perhaps the tip of the iceberg since we did a random scrutiny of transaction receipts of merely one day where we found more than 18 instances of multiple receipts with same receipt numbers being issued. The real quantum of this fraudulent activity might essentially be in thousands since there are several hundred thousand donors and the money involved might be in crores. This kind of fraud is nothing less than a case of Hawala.

Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, the president of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena has filed complaints to the Commissioner of Delhi police and the election commission. The download link to the complaint copies is provided below.

• Complaint to Commissioner of Delhi police
• Complaint filed in Election Commission

After the complaint was filed against AAP, they removed the word Receipt number from their website and just kept Transaction ID. Now they can say that there is no thing such as receipt number in thier donations. This change made by them confirms that there is certain intentional fraud in AAP donations.

Also, there are other types of frauds in AAP online donations. This involves providing a fake passport number and donating online from foriegn countries. As pointed by Dr. Subramanian Swamy, as an example, two foreigners from Barmuda and Cayman Islands — Anil K Chhomatil and Bharat Singh — who have contributed money without even possessing an Indian passport. Referring to one US citizen Ramesh Narayanswamy, whose donation of `500 was accepted despite bogus details of his passport, Swamy said that the party has not maintained transparency on its part and is trying to present a clean image in the public domain.

There can be many more such cases because the online donation system of AAM party cannot verify the authenticity of the passport details provided by the AAPtards donor in real time. The donations went through even after providing a dummy passport number.  Also there was no action taken later.

List of duplicate receipt number transactions:

48286 CCA13FAAK887 Harish Kumar Sharma IN HR 2013-06-21 11:25:04

48471 CCA13FAAK887 Tushar Shah IN MH 2013-06-21 18:44:16

48700 CCA13FAAL285 Yashdeep Godhal IN KA 2013-06-22 19:54:32

48961 CCA13FAAL285 Pawan Kumar Singh IN UP 2013-06-23 20:02:39

49367 CCA13FAAL729 Kaushik Chatterjee IN WB 2013-06-24 13:16:23

50392 CCA13FAAL729 suresh shrivastav IN DL 2013-06-27 13:20:32

49582 CCA13FAAL919 Dhiren Mehta IN MH 2013-06-24 21:25:28

51410 CCA13FAAL919 Saurabh Chatterjee IN UP 2013-06-29 09:26:49

52148 CCA13GAAO150 Ankur Jain IN MH 2013-07-01 13:09:54

60250 CCA13GAAO150 Arvind Dewan IN DL 2013-07-14 19:05:38

52289 CCA13GAAO327 Varaprasad Reddy Jeeru IN AP 2013-07-01 19:57:08

60766 CCA13GAAO327 Samir Bains IN UP 2013-07-16 11:19:52

52376 CCA13GAAO388 Deepak Jain IN HR 2013-07-01 23:34:15

61171 CCA13GAAO388 Vinod Singh IN HR 2013-07-16 19:23:35

52696 CCA13GAAO612 Deep Sati IN HR 2013-07-02 14:28:56

61854 CCA13GAAO612 R Ramanathan IN HR 2013-07-18 18:10:58

52875 CCA13GAAO806 HITESH KUMAR NIGAM IN DL 2013-07-02 23:48:47

62248 CCA13GAAO806 Sampath Kuve IN KA 2013-07-20 09:19:50

52956 CCA13GAAO867 S. Sreenivasa Prasad IN AP 2013-07-03 10:32:16

62777 CCA13GAAO867 Gagan Agarwal IN UP 2013-07-20 15:46:15

53919 CCA13GAAP870 Tarun Gupta IN MP 2013-07-05 10:52:08

64784 CCA13GAAP870 Sekhar Sukumar IN KA 2013-07-27 17:08:15

54204 CCA13GAAQ263 Amit Kapoor IN KA 2013-07-05 20:54:19

65069 CCA13GAAQ263 Krushna Charcha IN KA 2013-07-29 22:48:29

54351 CCA13GAAQ353 MANISH PATEL IN MH 2013-07-06 10:39:04

65199 CCA13GAAQ353 Sachin Sharma IN DL 2013-07-30 16:40:59

54390 CCA13GAAQ380 Praveen Awasthi IN UP 2013-07-06 12:08:03

65241 CCA13GAAQ380 Sanjiv Gupta IN DL 2013-07-30 19:33:51

54515 CCA13GAAQ552 Aman bajaj IN MH 2013-07-06 21:39:39

65472 CCA13GAAQ552 Gaurav Aggarwal IN PB 2013-07-31 23:09:37

59426 CCA13GAOD720 Dr Rajiv Sikroria IN UP 2013-07-11 16:36:21

59705 CCA13GAOD720 Devender kumar IN HR 2013-07-12 11:26:09

88562 CCAAI1ACR554 B. M. MEHTA IN AP 2013-09-18 16:25:29

96490 CCAAI1ACR554 Rohit Gupta IN DL 2013-09-29 11:58:13

Arvind Kejriwal vs Narendra Modi: The magic of media propaganda

Source: http://www.aaptards.com/post/73077317380/arvind-kejriwal-vs-narendra-modi-the-magic-of-media

Why are we not hearing anything about what Narendra Modi has done?

·     Anti-corruption helpline: Kejriwal said he will launch a helpline to report officials who demand bribe. Media went gaga over it. Gujarat has such a helpline (24x7) since June 2013: 1800 233 44444. The government publicized it well through TV, print ads, short films and Navaratri stalls. Just like Kejriwal, the government had encouraged people to trap officials who demand bribes - there were 8 successful traps within 3 months of launching. But the coverage received in the national media is negligible.

·    People’s involvement: Some days back, someone made a post here saying that AAP should create a website to seek ideas from people. Guess what. Gujarat has this since years: Share ideas with Government. People can post ideas and comment on ideas posted by others. Gujarat also has ‘Swagat’, the Chief Minister’s Online Grievance Redressal System since long time back. You can also contact any state department for any other purpose online. With Aapnu Taluko Vibrant Taluko (ATVT), every taluka can prepare its own development plan (much like Kejriwal’s idea of constituency-specific issues except that this has been in-place before AAP was born).

·    Surprise visits: Modi has been doing these since he became CM (example). But the national media is more obsessed with talking about why his blog post concerning the riots is not genuine.

·     VAT simplification: This is on every newspaper’s front page. Good to see that the traders of Delhi can now have something that the traders of Gujarat have since 2011. It’s so funny to see #ApingAAP trending on Twitter when Gujarat has done all these things before AAP.

·     Water: Unlike other states of India (except probably Rajasthan), Gujarat is a drought-prone state - 70% of its fresh water resources are located in 30% of its area. In 2012, the state received only 72% of the average annual rainfall (some areas like Saurashtra received only 56%). Despite all this, Gujarat is now a water-surplus state. The Government created a water supply grid, which now supplies 1340 million litres of water to Saurashtra and Kutch. The annual use of water tankers has reduced from 5000 to 500. According to the Central government norms, each village should get 50 litres per capita per day (LPCD) of water, while each city should get 140 LPCD. For Gujarat, these figures are 100 LPCD and 150 LPCD respectively. 76% of the houses have tap-water connections (All-India average: 34%). The river inter-linking idea of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is being implemented in Gujarat.

·     Electricity: AAP had promised that it would fight corruption in the discoms to reduce electricity prices, but it reduced the tariffs through subsidy. In stark contrast, Modi scrapped the 25% relief offered to domestic consumers. Only the BPL families are granted relief from the tarriff hikes, unlike Kejriwal’s freebies which are available even to the upper class. Plus, the farmers are offered subsidy in a bid to increase the agricultural output. Apart from the massive solar power infrastructure and the new Wind Energy Policy, Modi cleared the Mithivirdi nuclear power plant despite protests from ‘activists’ who do not understand that nuclear energy is clean and the new-generation reactors are safe. Kejriwal and Bhushan on the other hand have joined the misguided leftists to oppose the Kudankulam plant.

·     Aam Aadmi: Kejriwal was born in an elite family (his father is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani - a big thing in the 1960s). Modi is the son of a chaiwala, and himself sold tea on railway platforms in his childhood. He doesn’t talk about his Sudra caste, though it is the fastest way to attract a large number of OBC votes. He follows a simple lifestyle. But media has managed to project him as a person obsessed with extravagant lifestyle by focusing on his hobby of collecting designer fountain pens or his elaborate security (which he needs given that he is #1 on the list of terrorists).

Of course, there are other well-known points such per capita income increase (Rs.19,823 in 2001 to Rs.75,115 in 2011), revenue deficit in 2001 to revenue surplus now, One Day Governance (covers 173 public services), 108 Emergency services, BRTS, reduction in school dropout rate (just 2% now) etc. But our great media focuses only on the negatives. A good example - Gujarat was among the most malnourished states in India before Modi - the malnutrition rate dropped from 70.69% to 38.77% - the fastest and the largest imrpovement in entire India. How did our media report this achievement? They didn’t. Instead we had these headlines:

·    When will Modi address malnutrition in Gujarat?

·    ‘Gujarat malnutrition rate worse than Somalia’

·    Every third child in Gujarat is underweight, says CAG

At the time of Gujarat elections, the main issue discussed on TV channels was “Have Muslims forgiven Modi yet?” The media did not focus on Gujarat’s 2012 manifesto, which includes highly discussable points such as

·    teaching of foreign languages (Chinese and Japanese) in schools

·    ultra-low-cost generic drugs and diagnostic services and health cards for farming animals

·    50 lakh low-cost pucca houses in next 5 years including 7.5 lakh 2-room houses for slum-dwellers costing Rs. 50,000 each (so far 22 lakh low-cost houses have been built since 2002)

·      filling of Saurashstra dams with excess Narmada water (SAUNI yojana),

·      further replacement of gas cylinders with piped cooking gas (Gujarat already provides piped cooking gas to 350 villages and some cities, which saves Rs.600 crore of subsidy money)

·       Rooftop solar power scheme

·       Action plan for climate change

·       Focus on making Gandhi Nagar a solar-energy driven city and a carbon neutral city.

·       Wifi facilities at public places

·       New portal for job placements to help young people find a job

·       Promotion of marine biotechnology especially seaweed cultivation

The media doesn’t want to talk about positive points and ideas in Modi’s words - instead they are hell bent on cherry-picking to paint Modi’s image as someone who does nothing except making personal attacks against the Gandhi family.