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http://www.rbth.rg.ru/articles/2008/07/29/Medvedev_rule.html How Medvedev will rule the world But as it turned out, this was in vain. The text of Medvedev’s foreign policy speech could have easily been signed by Prime Minister Putin. Actually, it was drafted while Putin was still President. What is routinely referred to as Putin’s foreign policy did not take shape until spring, 2005. Putin’s “new course” put an end to Moscow’s unsuccessful attempts to integrate Russia into the West and proclaimed the country’s strategic independence. That was an important decision with all sorts of far-reaching implications. The EU would be more of a partner than a model, and certainly not a future home for Russia. The USA would often be a problem. Moscow’s desire for equal relations with the EU and the US would require asymmetrical policies to compensate for the real inequalities. Even to hold what it regards as its own, the country would need to punch above its weight. Like Putin, Medvedev realises that there can be no gain in status without advances in modernisation. After all, the oil surge will not last forever. The problem is of course that genuine modernisation would require changing the very system that Putin institutionalised to bring “stability” to the country. Even if Medvedev and Putin confront corruption seriously, liberate the courts from administrative abuse and proceed with innovative initiatives, Moscow’s foreign policy will not become pro-Western. The Kremlin already looks beyond the Western-dominated global system. To Russian leaders, the US is the last Western empire. Rather than associating itself exclusively with the West, Russia is actively reaching out to the aspiring countries of the non-Western world, such as China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Iran and others. At the very least, Moscow’s foreign policy objective is to keep its spot among the major global players, which it joined under Peter the Great and from which it nearly dropped out in the ’90s. On a more ambitious level, its objective is to replace US hegemony with an oligarchy of the new global powers, with the US as a primus inter pares and Russia as a sought-after moderator. In anticipation of that regime change, Russia has opted for creating options to US domination. The core element of Russia’s asymmetrical strategy calls for pitting US economic and military power against existing international law. As a lawyer, Medvedev is particularly well-equipped for this. By raising objections to Western actions in Kosovo, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Iran or Sudan, Moscow places the US and its allies in a somewhat awkward position. They can either back down and thus acknowledge that the Russian position was correct, which would promote Moscow’s role as a guardian of international law, or they could decide to pursue their legally questionable policies at their own risk. Those in the West who had granted Medvedev a grace period to prove himself different to or independent of Putin, are dismayed by his handling of the Zimbabwe issue. At the G8 meeting in Japan, Medvedev said he would support “financial and other measures” against Zimbabwe for the country’s crackdown on opposition activists. Several days later, however, Russia joined China in vetoing a UN Security Council resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe. Whether the Western dismay was genuine or the vote was forced merely to cut off illusions about “Medvedev the liberal”, it means the West continues to be stuck in the past in its thinking about Russia. Waiting for a liberal, pro-Western Godot in the Kremlin is a losing proposition. And hoping for a dramatic plunge in oil prices to bring Russia to its senses is not any more promising. But a modernised Russia is more likely to emerge as a capable competitor than pliant partner. You don’t have to agree with Medvedev’s foreign policy to acknowledge that one exists. What the West needs is a policy of its own for dealing with a country that it cannot change.

I am from a jatt family and had lots of clean shaven jatt friends before getting amrit chakk. Most of these mona jatts really used to mock the delhi sikhs(they call them bhaapaaas). I feel that could have been a reason why this urban sikh got beaten from monaa arrogant foolish jatts. Having said that, it is the duty of every sikh to be ready to save his honour. Its better to die than to live with fear and without dignity. If these monaaa jatts ever try to touch my dastaar, with Satguru jee's kirpa, I will cut their balls and remove their khoppraaa.

Thats great bro! It will be great if we can have a Khalsa army chaunni in BC, just as nihung singhs have chaunnis in India. We can keep horses, shastars. THAT WILL BE AMAZING!

america is DOOMED! GAME OVER! ITS TIME TO MAKE SOME UNDERGROUND BUNKERS!

I find this a very interesting topic. The whole world is going to suffer from food shortage in the future due to increasing costs of depleting fossil fuels. India will have a MAJOR problem to feed its people. Even the breadbasket of INdia, Punjab, wont be able to feed all. What farmers in Punjab need to do is to move towards self efficient life and less dependance on industrial agriculture, this will keep them in much better position than other people in India.

Europe has almost lost its soveireignity due to its complete dependance on Russian natural gas for existance. I feel in the future one must try to be at a place with moderate climate, less population density, abundant fresh water(water is life) and good growing season. BC has all this. Regarding some "gavar" punjabis, u can always find some people that match ur level of thinking. I personally dont really feel the need to have too many people around me. Do amritvela, do ur job, in the evening go to Gurdwara( u have lots of Guru ghars in BC) and then sleep. No point in wasting time in unrequired, un-needed interaction with fellow mortals.

cherrapunji is the wettest place in the world, it lies in the east of India, which is not a safe place if China uses nukes against India. Vancouver, Surrey seems to me the best place to live. Great climate , water resources, fresh air, people aware about global warming , government taxing companies for carbon pollution. Havins said that, this area is quite prone to earthquakes. Sikhs in cold places in Europe shud seriously think to migrate to BC. I am warning u people, GET THE HELL OUT OF UR PLACE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE...... Take my predictions seriously, i am a real true sant babaa, hahahahaha

The stanza of Sri Chandi Di Vaar is incomplete ardaas as it does not have the name of Dashmesh Pita. Then after mentioning the name of the 10th Nanak, the name of the 11th Guru, Guru Granth Sahib Jee is added. Then the great Punj Pyaras have to be mentioned as they are representation of Guru Panth.

Very true. And that ghattiyaa lady kirtani wore a keski. She dint have the sharam of commiting adultery for 4-5 years with keski on head, and kept on doing kirtan(did very good acting of bairaag too) and doing akhand paaths and making langarr. She broke my bebik pehara as I ate from the hands of a patit cheat liar person bibi.

There is only one gurmat way of japping Naam. The punj pyare after telling the gurmantar, tell the technique to japp naam. A person who knows this technique and practices at amritvela for 3 hours knows its secrets. He gets to know how this technique is in rythm with the gurmantar akhars and human breathing. Then during the day, this same technique is used to do gupt abhiyaas by keep surti on tongue and swaas. I know people are going to bash me for writing there is only one gurmat way. hahahahaha If ur sant baba or mahapurash baba has told u atechnique and u feel happy about it, all the best to you. sant janaa(punj pyare) har mantarr DRIRRYAAA, har sajan vasgat kenee raaam.

http://www.counterpunch.org/ Are You Ready for Nuclear War? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan in the interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. Karl Rove and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to control the result of the last election in Pakistan, the result of which gave Pakistanis a bigger voice in their government than America's. It was obvious to anyone with any sense -- which excludes the entire Bush Regime and almost all of the "foreign policy community -- that the illegal and gratuitous US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Israel's 2006 bombing of Lebanon civilians with US blessing, would result in the overthrow of America's Pakistani puppet. The imbecilic Bush Regime ensured Musharraf's overthrow by pressuring their puppet to conduct military operations against tribesmen in Pakistani border areas, whose loyalties were to fellow Muslims and not to American hegemony. When Musharraf's military operations didn't produce the desired result, the idiotic Americans began conducting their own military operations within Pakistan with bombs and missiles. This finished off Musharraf. When the Bush Regime began its wars in the Middle East, I predicted, correctly, that Musharraf would be one victim. The American puppets in Egypt and Jordan may be the next to go. Back during the Nixon years, my Ph.D. dissertation chairman, Warren Nutter, was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. One day in his Pentagon office I asked him how the US government got foreign governments to do what the US wanted. "Money," he replied. "You mean foreign aid?" I asked. "No," he replied, "we just buy the leaders with money." It wasn't a policy he had implemented. He inherited it and, although the policy rankled with him, he could do nothing about it. Nutter believed in persuasion and that if you could not persuade people, you did not have a policy. Nutter did not mean merely third world potentates were bought. He meant the leaders of England, France, Germany, Italy, all the allies everywhere were bought and paid for. They were allies because they were paid. Consider Tony Blair. Blair's own head of British intelligence told him that the Americans were fabricating the evidence to justify their already planned attack on Iraq. This was fine with Blair, and you can see why, with his multi-million dollar payoff once he was out of office. The American-educated thug, Saakashkvili the War Criminal, who is president of Georgia, was installed by the US taxpayer funded National Endowment for Democracy, a neocon operation whose purpose is to ring Russia with US military bases, so that America can exert hegemony over Russia. Every agreement that President Reagan made with Mikhail Gorbachev has been broken by Reagan's successors. Reagan's was the last American government whose foreign policy was not made by the Israeli-allied neoconservatives. During the Reagan years, the neocons made several runs at it, but each ended in disaster for Reagan, and he eventually drove them from his government. Even the anti-Soviet Committee on the Present Danger regarded the neocons as dangerous lunatics. I remember the meeting when a member tried to bring the neocons into the committee, and old line American establishment representatives, such as former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, hit the roof. The Committee on the Present Danger regarded the neocons as crazy people who would get America into a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The neocons hated President Reagan, because he ended the cold war with diplomacy, when they desired a military victory over the Soviet Union. Deprived of this, the neocons now want victory over Russia. Today, Reagan is gone. The Republican Establishment is gone. There are no conservative power centers, only neoconservative power centers closely allied with Israel, which uses the billions of dollars funneled into Israeli coffers by US taxpayers to influence US elections and foreign policy. The Republican candidate for president is a warmonger. There are no checks remaining in the Republican Party on the neocons' proclivity for war. What Republican constituencies oppose war? Can anyone name one? The Democrats are not much better, but they have some constituencies that are not enamored of war in order to establish US world hegemony. The Rapture Evangelicals, who fervently desire Armageddon, are not Democrats; nor are the brainwashed Brownshirts desperate to vent their frustrations by striking at someone, somewhere, anywhere. I get emails from these Brownshirts and attest that their hate-filled ignorance is extraordinary. They are all Republicans, and yet they think they are conservatives. They have no idea who I am, but since I criticize the Bush Regime and America's belligerent foreign policy, they think I am a "liberal commie pinko." The only literate sentence this legion of fools has ever managed is: "If you hate America so much, why don't you move to Cuba!" Such is the current state of a Reagan political appointee in today's Republican Party. He is a "liberal commie pinko" who should move to Cuba. The Republicans will get us into more wars. Indeed, they live for war. McCain is preaching war for 100 years. For these warmongers, it is like cheering for your home team. Win at all costs. They get a vicarious pleasure out of war. If the US has to tell lies in order to attack countries, what's wrong with that? "If we don't kill them over there, they will kill us over here." The mindlessness is total. Nothing real issues from the American press, which is about demonizing Russia and Iran, about the vice presidential choices as if it matters, about whether Obama being on vacation let McCain score too many points. The mindlessness of the news reflects the mindlessness of the government, for which it is a spokesperson. The American media do not serve American democracy or American interests. They serve the few people who exercise power. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the US and Israel made a run at controlling Russia and the former constituent parts of its empire. For awhile the US and Israel succeeded, but Putin put a stop to it. Recognizing that the US had no intention of keeping any of the agreements it had made with Gorbachev, Putin directed the Russian military budget to upgrading the Russian nuclear deterrent. Consequently, the Russian army and air force lack the smart weapons and electronics of the US military. When the Russian army went into Georgia to rescue the Russians in South Ossetia from the destruction being inflicted upon them by the American puppet Saakashvili, the Russians made it clear that if they were opposed by American troops with smart weapons, they would deal with the threat with tactical nuclear weapons. The Americans were the first to announce preemptive nuclear attack as their permissible war doctrine. Now the Russians have announced the tactical use of nuclear weapons as their response to American smart weapons. It is obvious that American foreign policy, with its goal of ringing Russia with US military bases, is leading directly to nuclear war. Every American needs to realize this fact. The US government's insane hegemonic foreign policy is a direct threat to life on the planet. Russia has made no threats against America. The post-Soviet Russian government has sought to cooperate with the US and Europe. Russia has made it clear over and over that it is prepared to obey international law and treaties. It is the Americans who have thrown international law and treaties into the trash can, not the Russians. In order to keep the billions of dollars in profits flowing to its contributors in the US military-security complex, the Bush Regime has rekindled the cold war. As American living standards decline and the prospects for university graduates deteriorate, "our" leaders in Washington commit us to a hundred years of war. If you desire to be poor, oppressed, and eventually vaporized in a nuclear war, vote Republican.

Even the official figures are amazing. From the figures, it seems that the sikhs almost single handedly won the freedom for the Indians(only to be betrayed by hindu leaders later on, mind you)

He seems to be an urban sikh. I myself studied in Delhi and saw many people like him. Thats where Nihung singhs are so good. Everyone likes to bash Nihungs for some of their activities, but atleast they wear a tight dumalla, are always shastardhari, know gatka and if somebody tries to attack their dignity, they can remove the khoppraaa of the oppressor.

According to figures given by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who became the Education Minister in India's first cabinet after independence, these were as follows: 1.Out of 2125 Indians killed in atrocities by the British, 1550 (75%) were Sikhs. 2.Out of 2646 Indian deported for life to Andaman islands (the place where the British exiled political prisoners and hardened criminals), 2147 (80%) were Sikhs. 3.Out of 127 Indians sent to gallows, 92 (80%) were Sikhs. 4.In the Indian National Army founded by Subhash Chandra Bose in Japan, out of 20,000 ranks and officers, 12,000 (60%) were Sikhs.

Can u tell more about it? How about water purity and fresh water resources like lakes and rivers ?? That is the key to survivial in the future.

My father told me that when he met Bhai Anokh Singh while defending him courts, Bhai Sahib had said: “My wish is that the so-called conflict between activists of Taksal and Akhand Kirtani Jatha should be resolved or at least should not be there while we are fighting for Sikh nation’s cause.” So Bhai Sahib lived to his word and mostly worked as Panthic Sewadar with all Sikh people, rather than as a member of any jatha.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6112500245.html http://www.strappedthebook.com/ Why is growing up so hard -- and terrifically expensive -- to do these days, and what can we do about it? Strapped offers a groundbreaking look at the new obstacle course facing young adults-the under 35 crowd-as they try to build careers, buy homes and start families. As Tamara Draut explains, getting ahead is getting harder. A college degree is the new high school diploma - but it now costs a fortune to get that degree and students graduate with crippling debts. Good jobs are scarcer thanks to stagnant wages and disappearing benefits. And, the cost of everything - starter homes, health coverage, childcare - keeps going up and up. Budding families, even those with two incomes, struggle to pay the bills, while Visa and Mastercard have become the new safety net. Young adults are starting out behind the financial eight ball-borrowing their way into adulthood and wondering whatever happened to the American Dream. Is this the way things have to be? Not at all, argues Tamara Draut, a leading young commentator and a fresh voice for change. She shows how the obstacle course bedeviling young adults didn't just happen - it was allowed to happen by a generation of leaders more interested in serving wealthy interests than in investing in the nation's future. Strapped brims with ideas for a new kind of America where every young person can go to college, buy a home, and start a family. Strapped will help jumpstart a national conversation about where the country is failing-and how we can make it right again.

souce : http://lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/?id...mp;IssueNum=214 According to paleontologist and NASA astrobiologist Peter Ward, we are about to climate-change ourselves right back to the Stone Age. Ward studies prehistoric mass extinctions, and, in his latest book, Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future, the scientist explores new data showing why, in the heavily carbon-ated atmospheres of the very distant past, oppressive heat levels would have been the least of your worries. More ominously, Ward argues, a universally sweltering climate kick started a feedback cycle, disrupting the delicate balance that keeps our planet breathing. To reach a carbon-saturation of 800 to 1,000 parts per million - a figure currently posited by climate modelers - could be to precipitate a level of destruction not seen for millions of years. And it won't take millions of years to get there. "The first big mass mortalities of humans will likely start around 2050," Ward says. "And by 2100, this will just be an unrecognizable globe to us." -Mindy Farabee CityBeat: The global-warming scenarios you posit are some of the worst. Peter Ward: I think there are two biggies, the first being sea-level rise. That's going to happen faster and be more subtly devastating that anyone knows. The thing that scares me so much now is, so much of human food now is being produced in deltas. The problem with sea-level rise is that it injects salt water up into places where salt previously hadn't been. And in the next few years, just from the heating we've already done, we are going to have a one- to three-meter sea-level rise, from thermal expansion of the ocean. Well, it turns out if you go to Bangladesh, even a five-foot rise would cause 13 million people to be displaced. At the same time, the really scary thing going on is the melting of the Greenland ice cap. The two great big stores of fresh water are the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps. Greenland melts and sea level rises; the measurements are imprecise, but it's between eight and 20 feet. But if the Antarctic sheet is combined with Greenland, that causes a rise of 240 feet. Now, what you need to do is go back to any map of the Cretaceous Period to see what that looks like. A 240-foot rise just utterly changes the whole shape of the world. We're looking at a world that's absolutely unfathomable. And yet the sea-level rise is not the worst thing that could happen. Because that's displacement and crop change, and you can work around that. The worst of the possibilities coming from global warming comes from these mass extinctions of the past. If we hook into one of those, you have a toxic atmosphere that no one can breathe. You have every human on the planet with a respirator. How does that happen? For years, of course, we thought past extinctions were all Armageddon and Deep Impact - just impact, impact, impact. It's only been the past few years we've found out about these nasty sulfur bacteria that filled up the oceans during these past extinctions. At first it was thought that's a coincidence - we had a mass extinction, and then the oceans filled with this sludge of sulfur bacteria. Then the discovery was made what kind of sulfur bacteria they are. They're forms that can only thrive when the ocean is super-saturated in hydrogen sulfide. We have found bugs that can only exist if there's so much hydrosulfide in the oceans that it's going to leak into the atmosphere and poison things on land. So that was the major discovery of the past couple years that had people so horrified. This is related to the so-called "conveyer belt" that keeps our oceans circulating? When the Arctic is warm and the Antarctic is warm, there are no ocean currents. What's driving currents now is a warm tropics and a cold high latitude - that's why there's wind, that's why there's currents. In the past when we've had globally warmed worlds, we've had little wind, a largely stagnant world. What keeps our oceans oxygenated is the presence of these currents. Without warm and cold that stops. And many times in the past [that's caused] an anoxic ocean - a no-oxygen ocean - and when that happens you get these super bugs. It's happened over and over in the past, and it's in our future if we keep doing what we're going to do. And that kills everything? Some things do survive. It's not universal throughout in these mass extinctions. The closest it came was [during the] Permian [Period], when 90 percent of all species went extinct. But 90 percent of all species had to translate to 99.9999 percent of all individuals. You would see a case where, here and there, there'd be some eddies. Some pockets of oxygen existed, and not everybody died out. But the planet itself would have been a big biological desert. It's a major, mass wholesale mortality of the planet, and after the Permian it stayed that way for three to five million years: this empty planet where all that thrived were bacteria. Why do you believe we've entered another mass extinction now? If you ask me, it really started during the Ice Ages, when humans really started killing off the big Ice Age mammals. That was the opening shot. But we're really going to be increasing the tempo of it as we warm the world. If we warm it too fast, plants can't migrate out of the way, and we kill them off simply because their ranges get run over by climates they can't deal with. In the oceans, we're already seeing the coral reefs dying out because of two things: It's warmer than they can deal with, but also, so much carbon dioxide is being pumped into the ocean that it's acidifying them. For instance, in the Arctic we're seeing terapods with the shells being eaten off their backs, literally. It's crazy what's happening. In your book, you say our climate has only been stable for 10,000 years, and that stability is what human civilization is predicated on. Absolutely, our crops are only predictable because we don't see much change in climate. Weather becomes unpredictable if we globally warm a little bit. On the way [to a globally warmed world] we go into these instabilities, as it jumps back and forth between two states before reaching an end state. Well, [as that happens] farms fail. And human civilization is based on food - that we have this abundance of food. We quit being cave people and started being a civilization when there was an abundance of food. If we cut back on farm yields, we face catastrophe. And this is what a change climate will do. For instance, the wheat belt turns into the dust belt. All the Republicans with all the farm subsidies in the world, I'm sorry, if you have 10 years of dust and then come back to being good, the farmers are all busted and gone away.

I feel in Khalsa Raj, Punjabi will be the global language instead of English. No point in learning english. Aggg laa daoo angreji nuuuuuu.Yes it will be good if farsi and brij bhasha are taught to young kids.

Khalsa raj will be all over the world, but Punjab will be the base, the place within the 5 takhts will be the base of khalsa raj.

hahaha, thats a good option too. Par kinneyan nu jhatkavange. Je jhatkaan lagg paye, tan kaafi vaddi line lagg juu gee. There is a bibi who belongs to a pretty known jatha, she was one of the most popular kirtani as well as the akhand paathi of the jatha and u know what, she used to call a man(called her brother) in the absence of her husband and committed adultery for 4-5 years without getting pesh. When she was caught, she was secretly forgiven so that "jathe de badnami na hove". To be honest, jhattkaannna seems to be the best solution to such mess. These raagis, kirtaniyas, granthis, akhand paathis need to be taught a lesson.

This is a pretty simple case. The ragis will be expelled. Just give a complaint to the Chairman of IHRO at 99140-04092. You will need to give details about the exact location of Gurdwara Sahib, the pardhan of Gurdwara Sahib as well as your personal details. You and your husband need to act as the witness to this incident.

India's climate is fine, but environment is terrible. Water pollution and the existing fresh water resouces getting dirty and unfit for human use. WATER IS LIFE!

oohhh my pyare cute sweet brother. God bless u! Doing gardening and singing gurbani is an amazing experience. Living with nature is like doing bhagti. :6 sister! hahaha, alright! dear sweet cute sister jeeooooo. GOD BLESS U!

mere pyare veer, main janta nu darra nahin reha, savdhaan karna channa haan, ke cheti cheti naam japp lo, jisne amrit nahin chakkiiya cheti chakklo, DUNIYA MUKKAN DA SAMAA SIRR TE KHARRA HAI.