Mercenaries of the world unite

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Even if the troops withdraw, occupation will continue in perpetuity

“You can fool some people sometime, but not all the people all the time.” While majority of the sane world understands the wisdom ingrained in this ancient thought, Bush simply refuses to learn. First, he fooled the world by spreading the canard about Iraqi nuclear weapons and now, he is busy making a mockery of the American democracy by keeping the Congress and the world engaged on the issue of reduction & withdrawal of 160,000 official US troops from Iraq. The reality is, apart from the official army, “a ‘shadow force’ – 180,000 mercenaries working for more than 630 ‘Private Military Companies’ (PMCs) are assisting US in perpetuating the illegal occupation of Iraq. And the top beneficiaries of the privatisation of war are: British firm Aegis Defence Services ($293 million contract from Pentagon); Texas-based DynCorp. International ($1 billion contract to provide personnel to train Iraqi police forces) & Blackwater USA ($750 million contract from US State Department for diplomatic security),” Jeremy Scahill, a noted expert on private security shared with B&E. And if you thought that these are innocuous looking private security companies, you are mistaken! These companies are armed to teeth with latest arms & engage in combat.

Bush is certainly not the pioneer in resurrecting mercenarism; however, he cannot be absolved of the sin of giving the phenomenon a fillip. And this he has done simply to subvert & circumvent both the international & domestic laws curtailing the use of force for aggression of a sovereign land. And also to ensure that even if he loses elections and the troops withdraw; his most favoured MNCs will continue to suck the Iraqi blood & oil with impunity.

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Even with a backdrop of overwhelming scenic beauty, the open area in the hub of the Nepalese capital can’t be described as beautiful. After the restoration of democracy & new government in Nepal, civil war seems to have apparently ended but then it has already affected the economy & consequently slowed down the pace of development. The Maoists, in this nation, nested in the lap of Himalayas, have not yet completely shunned violence & therefore the chances of return to armed conflicts prevail. Its amount of economic disparity is evidenced in its top 10% households controlling about 39.1% of nation’s wealth. Acute poverty & unemployment compels many to move to neighbouring countries for livelihood. Corruption as usual is a major problem & the recent revolution hasn’t been able to mitigate it. Embezzlement of public funds is a rule, searching for exceptions. Transition from monarchy to democracy is, theoretically, a good move but then to successfully sustain it would be Nepal’s biggest challenge. Take a note please!

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The Ritz Carlton, Denver

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Ritz Carlton is certain to fuzz the line between business and pleasure travel...

Every special occasion deserves a special place – or the other round – and what better place to celebrate than the Ritz Carlton? Adding a further dash of luxury to the city on- the-rise, Denver, The Ritz Carlton Denver, is certain to fuzz the line between business and pleasure travel...

THE VIEW: Situated in the heart of the city and enclosed by the 19th, Curtis and Arapahoe Streets on three sides, the Ritz-Carlton provides a magnanimous view of the Lower Downtown (Lo Do) from its signature Ritz-Carlton Club Level. Apart from rendering the best possible services for its guests, the hotel is a visual delight too.

ARCHI TYPE: The state-of-the-art guest apartments (measuring more than a lavish 510 sq. feet each) make, perhaps, the largest guestrooms in any hotel in the city! Beautifully furnished, with feather-beddings, plush linen and upholstered five-fixture bathroom with Bvlgari fittings and 24-hour in-room dining services, the Ritz indeed is an abode of the finest and the most luxurious experiences.


BON APPÉTIT: You’d remember the hotel’s signature restaurant, ELWAY’S (named after the Denver Bronco quarterback and the NFL Hall of Fame inductee John Elway), as the most scrumptious and delectable experience of a lifetime, if nothing else. Offering delicious food and great wines at even greater prices, Elway’s will get you a comfortable, memorable and attentive dining delight with its special hand-cut, aged USDA prime steaks, lobster, salmon and fresh accompaniments.

AROUND THE CORNER: There’s nothing that Denver doesn’t have for anybody… The Center for Performing Arts complex for the artistic; the Pepsi Center (home to the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche), Invesco Field (home to the Denver Broncos and the Colorado Rapids) and the Coors Field (home to the Colorado Rockies), heaven for the sport freaks; the Denver Zoo, Downtown Aquarium and Denver Botanical Gardens for the nature lover; and the Red Rocks Amphitheatre for the lovers of the letter… say it and you have it!

FROM UNDER THE CARPET: Ultra-urbanisation and commercialization of downtown is sure to leave a wrinkle on the forehead for some…

IN ESSENCE: Opulence revisited, anew!

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To believe or not?

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God is great! An atheist’s Bible at last...

Post Godhra, modern India, presumably the hottest economy on the world map, has experienced an appalling swell in terms of right wing fundamentalism. Be it the likes of Togadias & Modis or the vociferous Imam Bukhari, there lies in their discourses, in excessive doses, sheer illogical reasoning veiling profane agendas. While reflecting on those lines, there are hurled the ideas of assumed ‘lighthouses’ of Indian spiritualism against Christopher Hitchens, the confirmed atheist & ‘ridiculer’ of people proclaiming to be God-sent to benefit mankind. But his is a belief backed by exhaustive reasoning that comes alive in his latest offering, ‘God is not Great.’

“Why, if God was the creator of all things, were we supposed to ‘praise’ him so incessantly for doing what came to him naturally?” Sparks off Hitchens, who’s come down hard on ideas propagating faith & belief as a source to living ‘the good life’. “If Jesus could heal a blind person he happened to meet, then why not heal blindness? What was so wonderful about his casting out devils, so that the devils would enter a herd of pigs instead?” His thoughts & deliberations, although of an extreme view, do catch the reader (& especially, the believer) off guard & oft en without any substantial point to counter. He challenges those very myths that form the backbone of various established religions. And in this religion bashing lies the essence of the book that goes by the sub-line, ‘religion poisons everything’.

“There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man & the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result & the cause of dangerous sexual repression, & that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking.” Hitchens calls the Bible a sham, a license “for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, & for indiscriminate massacre,” & refers to the Koran as a text heavily borrowed from Old & New Testament s . Evidently he spends more time & pages damming religion than any other extensions to faith.

Extremely well argued & satisfactory to put behind any notion regarding the book as a mere jihad against believers, for it offers in a single volume arguments ranging from the scientific front to massive irregularities in the holy texts themselves. While most are confronted with exasperation as one would expect out of a Physics professor trying to instil the logic of Newton’s laws into a rogue with an IQ of a swine, some are extremely entertaining, especially for those who do not swear by the names of their various Gods at the instance of just the television channel broadcasting the evening bulletin. For example, “How could Christ have died for our sins, when supposedly he also did not die at all?” Or “Did the Jews not know that murder & adultery were wrong before they received the Ten Commandments?” From Dawkins scientific rationalist refutation to God to echoes laid down by the likes of Freud, Mencken & Hume, God is not Great is a power packed thesis that delivers a massive blow to those who vouch by their respective faiths.

From the place of his birth, England, to America (New York & his current abode Washington), Hitchens is a well read figure & has a great following, perhaps as a matter of amusement for some. However, the book at times sounds overstretched with the clatter of a child trying to drill in his thoughts into the uninterested working nanny. A well-known critic of Clinton, Hitchens is probably the only one with a functional brain to support Bush’s war on Iraq. That leaves enough matter for the reader to take his or her pick. Amen.

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