Good one :)

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Petition against Genetically Engineered (GE) rice

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering/hands-off-our-rice/hands-off-our-rice?homebanner

Another hope in Indian politics !!

Indian Youth Icon of the year 2008, an entrepreneur, Sarath Babu enters politics :-) He is contesting as an independent candidate in South Chennai !!! Lucky people one would imagine, to get a good candidate to vote for. Hope they go and vote, instead of just wishing good for him. More info in the below link.

http://idlyvadai.blogspot.com/2009/04/2009_15.html

The previous one that I came to know recently is here

Share market humour !

"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." - G. Gordon Liddy

1. The US has made a new weapon that destroys people but keeps the building standing,. Its called the stock market - Jay Leno

2. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are ?? Wall Street is now being called Wal Mart Street - Jay Leno

3. The difference between a pigeon and a London investment banker. The pigeon can still make a deposit on a BMW

4. What's the difference between a guy who lost everything in Las Vegas and an investment banker? A tie!

5. The problem with investment bank balance sheet is that on the left side nothing's right and on the right side nothing's left.

6. I want to warn people from Nigeria who might be watching our show, if you get any emails from Washington asking for money, it's a scam. Don't fall for it - Jay Leno

7. Bush was asked about the credit crunch. He said it was his favourite candy bar - Jay Leno

8. The rescue bill was about 450 pages. President Bush's copy is even thicker. They had to include pictures - Jay Leno

9. President Bush's response was to meet some small business owners in San Antonio last week. The small business owners are General Motors, General Electric and Century 21 - Jay Leno

10. What worries me most about the credit crunch, is that if one of my cheques is returned stamped 'insufficient funds'. I won't know whether that refers to mine or the bank's

Can you relate to this? ;-)

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

- H.L. Mencken

Great news !!

Wow, now we have a professional political party focusing on the indifferent middle class population of India. Going though their website, it looks like a really good and promising one. They are building a good platform and support structure for all the aspiring professionals to overcome the fear and ignorance of entering politics. Though the organization has a long way to go, its a great starting point I believe.

I have asked my friend in Pune to attend their 'Open House' meeting, and check it out in reality.

Please go through the website, and if you feel so too, you can spread the word. Also, you can register in their website to show your support, and you will get updates about the happenings as well. And ofcourse, if you are in India, then you can participate and contribute in various ways as listed in the link at the end of this post - like setting up the local town or city chapter in your locality.

Also, they have a 'Funding' link for donations. If you are already donating for some NGOs or other social work organizations, then you can consider donating some or all of that amount here. Because, this will be more effective in the long run - here we fix the root cause for all those problems. This is a top-down approach - rather than sweeping the bottom of the pyramid all the time when the top is still happily producing more shit, we can look to reach for cleaning the top. I am certainly considering redirecting some of my periodic donations to this cause.

Here is the link to the website.

http://www.ppi.net.in/index.aspx?Id=1

How to participate and contribute

http://www.ppi.net.in/htmlsite/AboutUs.aspx?Id=9&SubId=44

Good one !

"Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason."

- William Penn

A profound thought !

"None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated."

- Richard Buckminster Fuller

C'mon its just 1 hour !

Rome's Colosseum is one of many famous buildings around the world where floodlights will be turned off during Earth Hour.

Between 20:30 and 21:30 on the evening of Saturday 28 March the organisers of the Earth Hour 2009 campaign aim to get as many people as possible to turn off their lights as a mark of concern about climate change.

More than 1,000 cities and countless firms, organisations and citizens in more than 80 countries around the world have already promised to turn off their lights between 20:30 and 21:30 local time next Saturday evening. The worldwide Earth Hour 2009 campaign is being co-ordinated by WWF. The campaign has become a truly global phenomenon since its launch in Sydney, Australia in 2007.

“The latest findings show that climate change is progressing even faster than was previously assumed,” said WWF Finland’s CEO Timo Tanninen. “We hope that this year’s massive Earth Hour event will encourage politicians to take the bull by the horns when they meet at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December and create a new global climate agreement leading to significant reductions in emissions.”