Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Is Hillary Rodham Clinton really worthy to be President?

First of all, let me make this clear. I'm not a Trump supporter. Since the primaries, I've sided with Bernie Sanders. But between Clinton & Trump, my conscience won't let me choose any of the two. I'd like to play devil's advocate in favor of Trump to shed lights on the other side of the spectra that media is discreetly avoiding. 
If you ask a Republican, where do you get your news from? Most would say FOX. Same question to a Democrat would probably give you NBC, ABC or something. So if you are finding sources which only reinforces your point of view, then you are simply not looking at the overall picture. With that, I can present to you some media outlets where Wikileaks have been said to be accurate until proven false. 
Now on top of that, Julian Assange has been attempted to be silenced following the recent email dumps. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wi...
Hillary Clinton even suggested droning this guy during her time as Secy. of State. http://www.snopes.com/julian-assang...
Tell me, if the Clinton campaign & DNC are really not corrupt, why did Debbie Wasserman Schultz resign from her chairman post of the party? You may deny it too. But in one of the John Podesta email, it has been revealed that Clinton campaign pressurized Sanders to endorse Her (email correspondence between Podesta & Jane Sanders). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...
I understand that what Wikileaks is doing is totally wrong. But had it not been for Wikileaks, would we have seen the decline of Schultz or something? If we go by your argument that Russia is behind the cyber attacks & helping Wikileaks, then who stole Trump's tax information & gave it to NYTimes? If they can't steal, can we? What kind of double standard is this? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/u...
Now let's step aside from Wikileaks & emails. Center for Public Integrity tells us that 96% of media personalities (news anchors, journalists, editors etc) donated to Her campaign this election cycle compared to His 4%. If that is not disparity, bias in the name of journalism, then what is? Shouldn't the people have a right to unbiased information? If you are already bought or you have given your loyalty to someone, how can you be unbiased to your beneficiary? https://www.publicintegrity.org/201...
This goes for the numerous speeches that Clinton has given over the last few years in various countries, corporate dinners etc. When asked about the Goldman Sachs speech transcript during a primary debate, why did she refuse to release it? If there is nothing to hide that may jeopardize her candidacy or her position on different issues, then why not release them once & for all? Let the media, American people decide afterwards.
I don't want to bring up the deleted emails. Bernie has said that before: "enough is enough". But the question still remains: why did she delete those emails if there is nothing that Americans will find which may contradict her positions on various issues (public vs. private image).
In lieu of this discussion, a good analogy that comes to my mind: you are dating this girl, but secretly you are also sleeping with her best friend. Now one day, your girlfriend gets hold of your cell phone & goes through your call history, chat log & finds out about your cheating case. Now as an outsider, you would say that no, she has no right to go through his phone. It's his personal thing. Privacy should be maintained. But if it were not for her breaking the privacy policy, would she have even known about her boyfriend's cheating nature?
Why does Hillary want to expand on Obamacare when her husband himself calls it "the craziest system of the world"? http://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...
Even Obama himself recognizes that it's a failed system. "It’s like buying a starter home. It’s a lot better than not having a home. But over time, you hope you can make some improvements." http://www.politico.com/story/2016/...
He even compared it with Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones which we know are blowing up, but we can't be going back to "rotary phones" (as he calls it). http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...
 
Voter fraud is real. Obama (before he became President), back in 2008, during the campaign admitted to Democrats controlling the polling stations [watch first 2 mins: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4627...]
Tell me please, how can dead people be registered to vote & actually cast their ballot?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a...
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...
 
And I'm talking not just of 2016 election cycle, but also 2012. At that time, bipartisan agreement was possible between the parties that voter fraud is real. http://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/14682...
If the liberal, leftists are really 'liberal' in their mindset, why did they firebomb North Carolina's GOP office? Why the hateful message of "Nazi Republicans" after vandalism? http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/16/polit...
And that's not it. Indiana's GOP office was also attacked. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...
How much media coverage did you see in the mainstream media about these stories? In fact, if you look, the Indiana story wasn't even covered anywhere except FOX. Do you really think the same treatment would be received if it were the other way around?
I can go on & on with NAFTA, TPP and many more. If you want, I can go through those on another day.
Overall, the thing that detracts me from Her is the fact that Hillary Clinton thinks she is over everything: rules, laws, regulations, you name it. When a 4-star retired general can face punishment for lying in front of FBI [http://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...], what about her lies? If you don't consider her to be a liar, then consider this: 67% Americans consider her trustworthy [http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guyben...]. Only 12% Democrats see her as 'honest & trustworthy' [http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/p...]. No wonder she still can't get past 50% on all the national polls even 2 weeks before election day.
The very corruption that deteriorates democracy in many countries around the world, especially South Asia (since I know of it due to my heritage) has now entered American democracy. Money, Wall Street donors are ruling the political system in the nation. In our countries (Bangladesh, India & many others), if you become a MP (member of the parliament), you come out of your term as a rich man: nice bungalow, new businesses, fancy cars, ornaments for your wife, daughters, sisters etc. Citizens know that corruption is the factor that made them this filthy rich. Yet no one can say anything. Because if you do, you would be shut up forever, maybe along with your family altogether. So you endure this injustice silently. Similarly, in Washington political system, if you look at both Democrats & Republicans, how do these Congressmen, Senators become so rich after their term? Sometimes they become so greedy of power, that they just don't want to break off from it. You have to ask that these lobbying systems have made Washington democracy a nasty corruption machine. Bernie wanted to touch on it. But he was shut down by Clintonites. The very nasty politics that South Asians want to avoid by coming to this country is now colluding the swamps of DC. Now in the Gettysburg speech, Trump also pointed these things out. We need to limit our Congressmen, Senators to term limits. We need to stop foreign lobbyists influencing political decisions of American people. There's many more that Hillary Clinton would not even utter even in her dreams. Because she is already bought by those Wall Street money machines that want to keep things just exactly as it is. She is part of the problem that created this mess. How can you expect her to fix it? Next time you hear about Bangladesh being #1 in most corrupt nation of the world, think again.

Friday, April 22, 2016

Just another way to rig the election

 
We all know Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders in the NY primary earlier this week. What we all may not know is that many independents who wanted to vote for Sanders were denied the opportunity to cast vote in Democratic primary. I've talked about the rigged election system of America before. This just goes to show my claim even further.

[collected]

Sunday, April 17, 2016

History repeats itself...


Then Barack Obama...Now Bernie Sanders........Opponent still Hillary Clinton

(collected)

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Clinton's speeches revelation ... end of campaign!

After Thursday's debate in Brooklyn, NY, Senator Bernie Sanders did what he promised to do. He released his 2014 tax return. As we saw in the debate stage, Hillary Clinton mentioned that when others start releasing their transcripts, she will release hers as well. Well, Mr. Sanders doesn't have any closed-door speeches that needs to be publicly revealed. That means his tax return of past year which Hillary Clinton was so adamantly targeting would need to be exposed. That has been done, Madam Secretary. Now it's your turn to release your transcripts from closed door meeting with Goldman Sachs.

She won't do it, folks. That would mean the end of her campaign. What we can surmise from some insiders in that meeting & other closed associates of hers, the kind of support that she gave to those crooks, greedy bankers for the Great Recession that caused the trouble that Barack Obama had to dig the country out of in 2008, would diminish her supporters' backing for her altogether. She won't risk doing it with big states like New York, California, Pennsylvania on the line. That's what she does best. Being very clever at political moves to gain the support of her base when needed & appearing to be all caring for American citizens on the limelight.

Read more about what the insiders have said.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Even NYPD officers don't like Mayor de Blasio


I've said this before that New Yorkers will regret electing Bill de Blasio as their mayor in the days to come after his victory over Joe Lhota back in 2013. It's just starting to show up publicly nowadays as this fellow NYPD officer spills his dislike over de Blasio while giving out ticket to drivers. It's not just that this is just one instance, over the last few years, my hometown, Jamaica, NY, has also become prone to violence on the streets more so than Mayor Bloomberg's period. Just last week, a neighbour of ours, a fellow taxi driver who came home to give the taxi to the next shift's driver sometime at early dawn, was held at gunpoint & was hit on his head by the looter who took about $150 from his pocket. Such incidents have never happened in our area before. We have been living in that house since 2009 & those neighbours of ours since 2007. Funny thing is those folks also voted for a Democratic nominee for mayor back in 2013. Now they are regretting their choice. What do you think? Was electing de Blasio a good choice for NYC? Should NYC elect a Republican candidate for mayor as they did with Rudy Giuliani & Mike Bloomberg? What does the endorsement of such character like de Blasio for Hillary Clinton show, in the context of endorsement politics in election process?

Sunday, April 10, 2016

ট্রাম্পের উত্থান এবং পলিটিক্যাল কারেক্টনেস

ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্পের দোষ কি? কেন তার বিরুদ্ধে আমেরিকা তথা বিশ্বের প্রায় সব মিডিয়াই উঠেপড়ে লেগেছে? কেন তাকে বর্ণবাদী বলা হচ্ছে, হঠকারী বলা হচ্ছে? কেন ট্রাম্প ক্ষমতায় আসলে এদেশের লিবারেলরা কানাডায় পাড়ি জমাবে বলে হুমকি দিচ্ছে? 
 
ট্রাম্পের অনেক দোষ আছে। অস্বীকার করার উপায় নেই। কিন্তু যে দোষে ট্রাম্প দুষ্ট, সে একই দোষে ঐ পত্রিকাগুলোও দুষ্ট, সাধারণ মানুষ- আপনি কিংবা আমিও দুষ্ট। তার প্রথম দোষ তিনি "পলিটিক্যাল কারেক্টনেস"র ধার ধারেন না। যারা এই টার্মটার সাথে পরিচিত না, তাদের বুঝার জন্য বলছি- ধরুন আপনি জানেন আমেরিকার কালোদের মধ্যে ভায়োলেন্সের হার অত্যন্ত বেশি। এটা পরিসংখ্যানগত সত্য একটি তথ্য। এই কথা যদি আপনি আপনি-আমি ঘরের চার দেওয়ালের মধ্যে বলি তবে কোন সমস্যা না। কিন্তু কোন রাজনৈতিক ব্যক্তিত্ব যদি কোন সভা-সমিতিতে এটা বলেন, তবে এটা পলিটিক্যালি ইনকারেক্ট। কারণ রাজনীতিবিদ হয়ে আপনি সত্য বলে ফেলেছেন!
 
এবার বুঝছেন তো যে রাজনীতিবিদদের সত্য বলতে নেই কিন্তু ট্রাম্প এই সত্যগুলো বলে ফেলেন। মেক্সিকানদের সম্পর্কে তিনি বলেছেন, বর্ডার ক্রস করে যে মেক্সিকানরা আসে এদের বেশিরভাগই থাগ, রেইপিস্ট ইত্যাদি। যাদের এই ব্যাপারে সন্দেহ আছে, তারা মেক্সিকান-আমেরিকানদের ক্রাইম রেইট নিয়ে একটু গুগল করেন। আসল তথ্য পেয়ে যাবেন। তিনি কিন্তু বলেননি যে সকল মেক্সিকানরাই রেইপিস্ট, বলেছেন মেক্সিকান ইমিগ্র্যান্টদের বেশিরভাগের কথা। ভারতীয় কিংবা চাইনিজ ইমিগ্র্যান্টদের সাথে এই মেক্সিকান ইমিগ্র্যান্টদের আকাশ-পাতাল ব্যবধান। কারণ মেক্সিকো থেকে আমেরিকায় আসা ইমিগ্র্যান্টদের অধিকাংশই অবৈধ পথে ঢুকা। এদের না আছে কোন স্পেশাল স্কিল, না আছে ভাষাগত দক্ষতা, না আছে সভ্যতা। কিন্তু মিডিয়া "মেক্সিকান ইমিগ্র্যান্ট" শব্দগুলোকে টুইস্ট করে শুধু মেক্সিকান বানিয়ে দিয়ে প্রচার করেছে যেন ট্রাম্পকে বর্ণবাদী হিসেবে পরিচয় করিয়ে দেওয়া যায়।
মুসলিমদের সম্পর্কে তিনি কি অসত্য কিছু বলেছেন? তিনি বলেছেন আমেরিকা নিজেদের সমস্যার সমাধান না করা পর্যন্ত সকল মুসলমানকে আমেরিকায় "আপাতত" যেন ঢুকতে না দেওয়া হয়। ৯/১১, বোস্টন ম্যারাথন, টেক্সাস শুটিং, সান বার্নারডিনোর ঘটনার কিছুদিন পরপর পুনরাবৃত্তি ঘটছে আমেরিকায়। এছাড়াও আছে আরো হাজারো কেইস যেগুলো আমেরিকার নিরাপত্তা সংস্থা ঘটবার আগেই নিষ্ক্রিয় করতে সক্ষম হয়। কাদের দ্বারা এইসব ঘটছে? মুসলমানদের দ্বারা। কিন্তু এর চেয়েও মারাত্মক প্রশ্ন হচ্ছে কেন মুসলমানরা এসব করছে? কারণ তাদের ধর্ম পালনের অংশই হচ্ছে ইহুদি-খ্রিস্টানদের ধ্বংস করা। এটা তাদের ঈমানি দায়িত্ব। তো কোন রাজনীতিবিদকে দেখেছেন এই কোরানিক সত্যগুলো নিয়ে ইসলামের সমালোচনা করতে? কিন্তু যেহেতু ট্রাম্প বলে ফেলেছেন, অতএব তিনি ফ্যাসিস্ট। অথচ কোরানে সরাসরি এগুলো লেখা থাকলেও ইসলামকে ফ্যাসিস্ট ধর্ম বলতে কোন মিডিয়াকে শুনেছেন কখনো?
 
মানুষ পলিটিক্যাল কারেক্টনেসের খপ্পরে পড়ে সত্য বলা এবং শুনা ভুলে গেছে। রাজনীতিবিদ নামক ঘৃণ্য কিছু প্রাণী এই প্রথা চর্চা এবং লালন করে যাচ্ছে। অথচ সত্যকে সত্য বলাই নাকি নিয়ম। সেই নিয়মকে যারা রক্ষা করে বা করতে চায়, তাদেরকেই হিটলার, মুসোলিনি ইত্যাদি উপাধি দিচ্ছে বুদ্ধিজীবি নামক আরেক পরগাছা শ্রেণী। ট্রাম্প রাজনীতিবিদ নন, তাই তার মুখ থেকে সত্য বের হয়, আর সেই সত্যকে হজম করার ক্ষমতা নেই বলেই মিডিয়া তার বিরুদ্ধে উঠেপড়ে লেগেছে। রাজনীতিবিদদের "রাজনীতি" নিয়ে সাধারণ মানুষ টায়ার্ড বলেই ট্রাম্পের এই জয়জয়কার। ক্যারিয়ার পলিটিসিয়ানদের দিয়ে যখন কোন কাজই হচ্ছে না, সেখানে একবার ট্রাম্পের মত নন-পলিটিসিয়ানকে ক্ষমতা দিয়ে দেখলে এমন কি আর ক্ষতি হবে! 
 

Saturday, April 09, 2016

A Corrupt City Hall in NYC

Swami Vivekananda once said "O Lord, the different paths which people take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee." That's the same kind of pathways that surfaces the scandalous NYC. It all the corruptions in the city over the last few years, all lead to Mayor de Blasio. From NYPD, medallion kings to teacher's union or construction projects - all have paid large sums of money to get their best deals from the government. Interestingly, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton also avoided facing de Blasio at a Iowa event earlier this year. Find out more from this NYPost article.

Sunday, April 03, 2016

প্রতিবেশী প্রতিবেশীতে এতো ঘৃণা কেন?

অনেকদিন ধরেই ভাবছিলাম এই বিষয়টা নিয়ে লিখব, কিন্তু সময় করে উঠতে পারছিলাম না। যাক, আজ T20 ক্রিকেট বিশ্বকাপের সমাপ্তির পর ভাবলাম এ নিয়ে লিখে ফেলি।

Saturday, April 02, 2016

Do you want this lady to be your next commander-in-chief?

In a campaign trail recently, Hillary Clinton was asked about her alleged monetary donations that she received from fossil fuel industries over the years which Bernie Sanders keep on repeating in his attacks on her. But as a citizen & viewer, do you think it is right for Mrs. Clinton to lose her coolness with the Greenpeace activist in the way that she did in the video? Do you want someone to be the president who could lose patience so easily over something that may or may not be true? Does that suit for a character who will seat in the Oval Office? The decision is yours, America!


Friday, April 01, 2016

This is our liberal media

We know that Hillary Clinton is getting lots of support from various influential politicians, celebrities etc. But when it comes to media who is supposed to stay neutral to give citizens the option to choose from different candidates, NBC is leading the race in bias. A recent video from Jimmy Fallon's late night show, shows mockery skit of all current candidates from both parties in a poking, hilarious manner while Hillary Clinton is shown to be mocked the least. In fact, after seeing this video, if you think Clinton wasn't mocked at all, compared to the other candidates, I wouldn't disagree with you.


Tuesday, March 22, 2016

This is our Democracy...

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard recently admitted that she was pressurized by Democratic National Convention's top leaders, Democrat Party's influential politicians to not endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders for nomination. While most of our liberal-minded media would not utter a negative word against Hillary Clinton, this latest piece of news confirms how rigged the system is in US election process. This individual might be just one of many who was pressurized to not endorse Sanders. God knows how many of the endorsed individuals from Clinton's camp were pressurized to endorse Clinton for Democrat nomination. Only time will tell.


Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Thursday, February 18, 2016

তৃণমূলের ভোটের পদ্ধতি

নায়িকা/রাজনীতিবিদ শতাব্দী রায়ের ভোটের প্রচার ... 

মজা নেওয়া বাঞ্ছনীয়


Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Who says Africa is not rich?

Just take a look at this figure & judge on your own.
Who to blame? You know your history!

(collected) 

Friday, January 15, 2016

এমন রাষ্ট্রপতি কোথায় পাবেন?


রাষ্ট্রপতি মো: আবদুল হামিদ বরাবরই রসিক মানুষ। উনি যখন স্পীকার হিসেবে ছিলেন তখন সংসদে অনেক মজা করতেন। স্বয়ং প্রধানমন্ত্রী সহ মন্ত্রী পরিষদের সবাই তখন হাসতেন, আমরা সাধারন মানুষেরা ব্যাপারটা খুব উপভোগ করতাম। এরপর উনি যখন রাষ্ট্রপতি হলে তখন এভাবে কথা বলার সুযোগ কমে গেল। আমাদের দেশে রাষ্ট্রপতিদের বেশি কথা বলার সুযোগ থাকে না, বিভিন্ন ইস্যুতে মাপা মাপা অল্প কথা বলতে হয়। তাই সাধারন মানুষ অনেকদিন উনার সাধারন কথাবার্তা আর হাস্যরস থেকে দূরে ছিলো।

অবশেষে তিনি এই প্রোগ্রামে মজা করে কথা বলার সুযোগ পেলেন এবং সেটার সদ্ব্যবহার করলেন। আমরা আবারো উনার হাস্যরসের সাথে নতুন করে পরিচিত হলাম। উনি একদম মাটির মানুষ, কথা বললে মনে হয় আমাদের পরিবারেরই একজন। উনার কথা শুনলেই মন ভাল হয়ে যায়।



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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Who's for the people?

We generally hear in the media that Democrats are very caring for the American people. Regardless of how much they actually do care for the people, our general stereotyping makes them very complacent.
What's your take on this?


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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

'Better late than never'

Due to various consequences of the past few decades, it is quite clear that the US is not a leading figure in global economy, education etc. The sooner the think-tanks of the US realize this, the better they can approach the issue in solving that.



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Saturday, November 21, 2015

If it's true, I support Mr. Putin in this cause


Although for the last few days, this quote has been going viral on Facebook after a reporter tweeted it on her Twitter. The credibility of this exact saying from Mr. Putin is questionable, but if it is true, I am completely supportive of his motive on this instance. Let's send the martyr wannabes to their God!

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Friday, October 02, 2015

Exposing Gandhi: The Naked Saint and his Spiritual Terrorism of Non-Violence




"If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Great men make great mistakes."
—- Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902 to 1994)

Some of us must have seen Richard Attenborough’s film on the life of Gandhi which was first screened in 1982. Though many critics say that the film was unfair to Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Subhas Chandra Bose; but taken as a whole, the film was a faithful portrait of Gandhi.