Sunday, December 28, 2008

Alziemers Disease - Age No Bar

I know two people both having Alziemers disease .

One is 85 years old, has led a sedentary life , not got involved in any meaningful social activity , did not read newspapers, or saw TV , or took interest in cooking , or in her grand children , did not make an effort to earn any money , did not take interest in clothes or movies ; in short she was a fit case for Alzeimers disease which she got at age 80 years.

The other is about 70 years - she a was good cook, dressed well, read books, produced and directed documentary films, won the Presidents ward for the best documentary, was well read , took interest in life and was always full of energy and lively , followed TV serials and watched Movies; dined in the finest restaurants in town - in short an active , fun loving person - in short she was never a case for Alzeimers disease ;

And yet , the 2nd person got it at a much earlier age than the 1st -

Moral : God Does Exist

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Gigantic

Giganticccccccc

Big , Bigger and then Gigantic ;

Big Cars , Bigger Banks, Bigger Ships , Bigger Aeroplanes , Bigger Countries, Nuclear Arsenals , Hadron Colliders ,



Every thing Big -

That’s what man thinks and tries to create ; and then whoosh

A Gigantic Tsunami appears and washes every thing away ;

The Headlines after the Tsunami are :

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World economy 'weakest since 30s'

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The United Nations says the world economy faces its worst downturn since the Great Depression

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Japan Stocks Slump, Send Nikkei to 26-year Low, Led by Banks
Japan stocks market down to 26 year low.
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Hits air pocket
Global airlines are heading into their worst business crisis. Losses are likely to exceed $2.5 billion despite a boost from falling oil prices.
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Chrysler owner an issue in auto bailout talks
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Tentative deal reached in US auto bailout talks

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Tribune files for bankruptcy protection
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Huge jobs losses pummel Wall Street
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Over 500,000 jobs lost in the US
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Jefferies cutting jobs, closing offices
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Goldman Sachs sees loss of 4 lakh jobs in Nov
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Telecom Italia to cut 4,000 jobs
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'No comparison between current crisis and 1930s'
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UN climate chief warns of 'next economic crisis'
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Bank executives must forego bonuses: Obama
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Financial crisis: Older Americans hit hardest
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Recession...what's that? |
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Rich and poor pawn more to pay bills 9:22am ET
Pawn shop owners are seeing strong business as more people from all social classes pawn their possessions to make ends meet.
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Home values seen losing over $2 trillion during 2008

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Executives at Chrysler Llc. and General Motors Corp. (GM) are pulling out all the stops in their drive to secure a US government bailout. The two car makers are predicting that the US economy and national security will be imperilled if Congress doesn’t give them tens of billions of dollars—either as emergency loans or, as has been done with the country’s banks, by buying preferred shares.
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Japanese automaker Suzuki has quit the World Rally Championship because of the global financial crisis.

The Suzuki decision was released in a statement Monday, 10 days after Honda, another major Japanese car manufacturer, pulled its team out of Formula One.

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Banks face huge losses from $50B 'scam'
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Some of the biggest names in global finance say they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in an alleged $50 billion "pyramid scheme" that led to the arrest of a New York financier last week. Former Nasdaq chairman Bernard Madoff, pictured above, has been arrested and charged with a single count of securities fraud.

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Total 2008 job loss: 2.6 million
Annual loss is biggest since the end of World War II. Payrolls shrink by 524,000 in December, and unemployment rate rises to 7.2%.

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Obama urges action on economy :

US President-elect Barack Obama says that a huge stimulus package is urgently needed to revive the US economy.

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World economy 'weakest since 30s' ;The United Nations says the world economy faces its worst downturn since the Great Depression

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(CNN) -- German billionaire Adolf Merckle, one of the richest men in the world, committed suicide Monday after his business empire got into trouble in the wake of the international financial crisis, Merckle's family said Tuesday in a statement.
Merckle, 74, was hit by a train in the southwestern town of Ulm, police said.
His family said the economic crisis had "broken" Merckle.
He was number 94 on the Forbes list of the world's richest people. He had fallen from number 44 on the Forbes 2007 rich list as his fortune declined from $12.8 billion to $9.2 billion in 2008.
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The Bank of England has cut interest rates to 1.5%, the lowest level in its 315-year history, as it continues efforts to aid an economic recovery.
The half percentage point reduction brings interest rates below 2% for the first time since the Bank of England was founded in 1694
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Commodity markets plunged in the second half of 2008, suffering the biggest rout in five-decades, tumbling in tandem with global stock market meltdowns for the first time since 2001. After the US Treasury allowed Lehman Brothers to default on its debts, the banking cartel responded by tightening credit further, forcing highly leveraged hedge-

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The Baltic Cape-Size Index, which measures the cost of shipping coal, iron ore, and steel, plunged 95% in just five-months. At the market’s peak in June, daily charter rates for 170,000-ton Cape-Size bulk carriers cost $234,000. In November, it was available for $3,000 /ton, - and below break-even. Clarkson’s of London, the world’s largest shipbroker, indicated that new-orders for ships had plunged from 378-vessels in October 2007, to just 37-ships in October 2008.

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My Comments :

What happened to all the Stanford and Wharton guys , what about Harward , Oxford and Cambridge guys , what about the Investment Bankers , and Management Guru’s, the Regulators and Auditors , Business Leaders and Head Honcho’s , Chief Financial Officers and Bankers , Insurers and Advisors , Presidents and Prime Ministers , Finance Ministers and Economists , World Bank and International Monetary Fund

Every body fiddled while the world bled

Moral : Don’t step ahead of Natural Growth

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Nature,s Law

In the year 2008 , two young people who i knew fairly well died . Both were in their early forties ; both were of service to society ; both were honest ; both left behind young school going children .

One was a Doctor, who had gone to attend an emergency call at mid night and met with fatal accident . The other was a C A , who used to do a lot of social work.

Yet , I also know a person who is 85 years old , but has hardly done anything useful for more than 30 years.

This just leads me to believe that someone mightier than man exists .

This someone is G O D !!!