Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Nations. Show all posts

Saturday, December 26, 2015

2016: The Year For Barack Obama's Revolution From The Top

2016: The Year For Barack Obama's Revolution From The Top



Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams From My Father is full of little references to what Nelson Mandela in his autobiography called “a thousand little indignities.” But one was talking mostly about America, the other about apartheid South Africa. Can one black man’s ascension to the top make up for racist snarls at the highest levels of government like in the US Senate?

It is time we faced the fact the United Nations is not a world government. It is time to call a spade a spade. It is time to see this institution designed by the World War II victors no longer works. This is not a world government by the far stretches of the imagination. Often when we talk of civil rights movements, we think in terms of ordinary people marching out in the streets. But now is the time for a civil rights movement in which the heads of state march.

What we have is essentially apartheid. The leading country remains fundamentally racist, nowhere more evident than in the country’s criminal justice system. There is no world government. There is a need for one. The thorniest global problems, the loftiest trade deals are worked on outside the UN framework.

America itself needs to be reimagined if it is to fulfill its original mission of a total spread of democracy. It needs to become a country where African immigrants are as at home as European immigrants. White is black is white.

In a democracy you get to vote because you are a human being, not because you are literate or rich. But in the community of nations, there are countries that are rich and have guns, and most have neither. The entire continent of Africa stands disenfranchised. This landmass that is the most central of all, from where we all originated, is still in the clutches of a contemporary incarnation of colonization, slavery and apartheid. We don’t have a name for it yet, but the affliction is very real. Its poverty and disease stem from that disempowerment, not the other way round. And so, any voice that seeks to address its poverty and disease without taking stock of its disenfranchisement is shedding crocodile tears.

What is Barack Obama going to do? Leave the White House and do paid speeches? Write books? Launch a foundation? Raise money for AIDS? Share a stage or two with Bono and George Clooney? The guy is still young. This guy who has cleared up half century old cobwebs every year he has been in office is best suited to lead this revolution from the top. And this is not a cry for Africa, although Africa could use some empowerment. This is a cry for the world. Right now we are a species looking down a sinkhole of uncontrolled weather patterns that just might wipe out life and civilization as we know it. We still have immense poverty and disease that Bill Gates says “only a world government can solve,” and Gates is a guy who has thrown the kitchen sink at the problem, one of the leading entrepreneurs of the era in whose wake many billionaires have given money to fight basic poverty. We face security threats that no one government can solve. Globalization continues to move at breakneck speeds speeding up as the Internet takes deeper roots everywhere, but we have not done the task of institution building that that globalization requires.

Let’s open our eyes and take a look at the elephant in the room. Yes, what we need is a world government, and there is no person better than Barack Obama to take the lead on it. We are lucky we have a George Washington precisely when we need one. And lucky us that the guy is almost done with his current job where he has been stellar every year. Heads of state across the world should join in this chorus and shape this revolution from the top. Lucky us that our thorniest global problems have solutions in political concepts we have already designed, like one person one vote taken to its logical, global conclusion.

There is always inertia. Every monumental political change that in hindsight looks so obviously positive has faced inertia. And this likely will be no different. But the blueprint has to be made, and it has to be presented to ordinary peoples on all continents, so a groundswell of support can build around it.

We want to live in a world where human beings can feel equal everywhere. We want to live in a world with abundant clean energy. We want to live in a world with abundant water, and food and green space. We want clean air. We want to create the industries of tomorrow. We seek unprecedented rises in productivity, as well equitable distribution. We want people to be happy.

It is time the heads of state across the world came together and created the world’s first world government in the leadership of Barack Obama. In his birth as well as personality and outlook, he bridges the world. In his person the world has a chance to come together to reach new heights. This century can not only be the best ever, it can also be one where we have gone past our existential worries, where we have created a truly global civilization, one grand village where everyone can feel a sense of belonging everywhere, where people can take pride in their heritage and claim the common future at the same time, without hassle.

This is in essence a political struggle, where all you start with is a voice. Ordinary people have done it many times before. Heads of state can do it this one time.

It is still about Hope. It is still about Change.

We need a world government because it is time we established rule of law between nations. That is the civilized way.



राजेंद्र महतो लाई ICU पुर्याउने सरकार राजीनामा दे, काठमाण्डु छोड़, देश छोड़, ये धरती हमारी, ये मुल्क हमारा
E for Education, E for Entrepreneurship, E for Energy
Barack Obama: George Washington
आर्थिक क्रांतिका पाँच पाण्डव: सुशासन, शिक्षा, स्वास्थ्य, संरचना, (उद्योगव्यापार) सुलभता
Barack Obama Is Biologically Superior

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Warped Reality Of Nepal's Ruling Elite





The Warped Reality Of Nepal's Ruling Elite
Or Why You Should See The Protests In Front Of The UN For What It Truly Is

Human Rights Watch Report: Like We Are Not Nepali
  • Do not be fooled by the Nepalis protesting in front of the United Nations today. If this keeps on for too long, you might as well see ISIS sympathizers, or Assad supporters doing the same in due course of time. Because these people are rooting for people guilty of similar crimes.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi did more for the earthquake victims of Nepal than any other single person on earth, and he started doing within minutes of the earthquake striking. The busiest person on earth took time out of his schedule and acted as if an earthquake had struck his own country. I’d know. I followed the earthquake’s aftermath for all my waking hours for weeks in a row. Modi’s role was astounding, heartwarming, and the only ray of hope for many for long.
  • Nepal’s ruling elite, the Khas, are people who literally all of them, 100% of them, migrated from India over the centuries, primarily fleeing the invading Mughals. Today Indophobia is their central organizing principle in Kathmandu. It is like a Harvard study showing all homophobic people are gay. How do you explain this irrationality? It is easy.
  • Nepal is not a democracy. Nepal is proof sham elections, rigged elections don’t a democracy make. The last elections held in Nepal were thoroughly rigged. The state security agencies overwhelmingly dominated by the Khas rigged the elections so as to strengthen the status quo parties.
  • Nepal is a corrupt country. 50% of the country’s annual budget is put to personal use by about 50,000 people in the country. It is a country of 30 million. It is relatives of those 50,000 people who are running up and down the street in front of the United Nations today.
  • Coming to America is social mobility in Nepal that mostly only the ruling Khas elite can afford. And these “protests” are proof. Similar protests were organized in London when Prime Minister Modi recently visited.
  • Even the corrupt, and the unfair, and the prejudiced have a right to hold rallies.
  • But this is also, at some level, casteism. Narendra Modi’s lower middle class, and lower caste background is offensive to these ruling Brahmins of Kathmandu. It is amazing how their Brahminic ideology is immune to Modi’s political stature, gifts, amazing goodwill, and sheer power. India is a large, powerful country in South Asia, and Nepal is 200% dependent on India for pretty much everything. But casteist Brahmins of Nepal seem to think he is but a passing fluke. He has not lasted a thousand years like their casteist ideology, and he will be gone in a few years unlike their casteist ideology, or so they think.
  • Within weeks of the earthquake striking the hashtag #GoBackIndia started trending on Twitter in Nepal. How do you explain that? After Modi did so much for the earthquake victims. Who is on Twitter in Nepal? Not the masses. The same 50,000 people who put 50% of the country’s budget to personal use are the people on Twitter in Nepal.
  • You’d think that after the massive earthquake the politicians of Nepal would set aside all political work to focus on relief work for something like six months. But no. They instead figured out the post-earthquake scenario was actually perfect timing to push a summarily unequal constitution down the country’s throat. The earthquake was a godsend to them. The people were deemed too weak to protest. And they were. As inhuman as that logic sounds, that is what happened. The ruling politicians immediately started acting like the earthquake did not even happen. These people were not in shock. They really are that unfeeling.
  • The international community has pledged four billion dollars in aid for the earthquake victims. That was months ago. India’s pledge is fully 25% of that offer. And they are still managing to blame Modi for the fact that that money has amazingly gone untouched. Untouched! How do you explain that? The way corruption works in Nepal is, they wait until the last minute to spend the money. And once the deadline looms, as it does in this case at the end of the year, the money then is spent in a hurry. Because in that chaos looting becomes so much easier. There are no plans to take those four billion dollars to the earthquake victims. But there are massive schemes by those 50,000 people to loot the four billion dollars. That has been their bread and butter for decades. Nothing new is going on.
  • The earthquake victims really do face a brutal winter. But the blame is being placed in the wrong place.
  • The earthquake victims are being held hostage by the ruling elite in Nepal. The earthquake victims are Janajatis who have been marginalized by the Nepali state for centuries. And that marginalization sees continuity in the country’s new constitution that was supposed to give them a path to equality.
  • The new constitution of Nepal, if it goes unchallenged, will be like a permanent earthquake to the Janajatis of Nepal. Ask the people protesting in front of the United Nations today. They are all practically relatives to the ruling elite in Nepal. These are people who feel the earthquake victims have not had it bad enough.
  • It is the Madhesis of the southern plains who are fighting for themselves as well as the Janajatis. The Madhesi protests have gone past three months now. For the first few weeks they were hounded out of their district headquarters. Close to 50 were killed in contravention to national and international law, all duly recorded in a Human Rights Watch report. These people protesting in front of the UN are the Nepali Assad supporters. They sure have a right to protest. But ask them what they are protesting. They are protesting because they think they have a right to uphold human rights abuses.
  • In recent weeks the Madhesis have resorted to protesting at the Nepal India border. It has been a weapon of last resort. The ruling elite had the option weeks ago to heed their demands and make constitutional amendments accordingly. They have refused to do so. Instead they have been doing what they have always been doing. They have been engaging in India bashing. India is being blamed for the fact that Madhesis have been protesting.
  • These people in front of the UN fundamentally believe in a hierarchical social, political order. To them that is landscape. To them that is as natural as hills. Or the craters on the moon. It is an eery reality but it is what it is. Don’t let them fool you into thinking Modi is the reason Nepal’s earthquake victims might be facing a harsh winter. The fact that the man who has done more than any other person on earth for Nepal’s earthquake victims is being blamed for the sad plight of the Nepal earthquake victims should tell you. These are people with warped mindsets. They don’t deal with reality and facts. They don’t deal with logic. 
  •  Nepal is a human hostage situation. The ruling elite in Kathmandu stands between the four billion dollars pledged by the international community, primarily India, and the earthquake victims, who are mostly Janajati, marginalized. The ruling Khas elite has inflicted massive structural inequality upon those Janajatis for over 250 years now. The earthquake has been seen as an “opportunity” by the ruling Khas elite to make those structural inequalities permanent. The earthquake victims, in a weak position to begin with, have been deemed too weak, weakened by the earthquake to protest.
  • Thank God the Madhesis are protesting, on behalf of Madhesis, but also the Janajatis.
  • The Madhesis, vastly marginalized in Nepal, are few in number in America. Close to 40% in Nepal, they are not even 1% of the Nepalis in America. They now find all so-called Nepali organizations in America are deaf to their just cause. An ideology of ethnic superiority is being espoused to project a false image that Modi is the enemy of Nepal and Nepal’s earthquake victims. True, Modi has been inconvenient to the unjust ruling class in Nepal. But then he is a democrat. He rose up the ranks listening to ordinary people. It is in Modi’s instincts to listen to the millions of protesting Madhesis of Nepal.
  • Cut through the fog. The protests in front of the UN today are designed to hoodwink you. Your sympathies should not go with these protesters, but the tens of millions in Nepal they have been subjugating for centuries. Ask them as to why they have so utterly, completely ignored Nepal’s earthquake victims for all these months. Ask them why they so refuse to meet the just demands of the Madhesis. Ask them the simple questions.
  • Modi has done more for Nepal’s earthquake victims than any other person. It is Nepal’s ruling elite that has treated those earthquake victims like enemies. It is Nepal’s corrupt ruling elite that has for months refused to touch the four billion dollars pledged by the global community for relief work for those earthquake victims. Not Modi. They should be blaming themselves. Instead they are blaming Modi. These protesters in front of the UN don’t have their facts right. Soon enough, Assad supporters are also going to march near here.
  • The very communities of Nepal that have earned so much goodwill for themselves and for the country at large, like the Sherpas, and the Tamangs, and the Gurungs, and the Limbus, are the Janajatis these ruling Khas elite are hellbent on subjugating for yet another century. Don’t be fooled by them. Stand by those Sherpas. Global voices matter.
  • Buddha was a Madhesi.




एनआरएन अमेरिकाका अध्यक्ष डा. केशव पौडेलले भारतीय नाकावन्दिको विरोध गर्दै नोभेम्वर १७ का दिन न्यूयोर्कमा हुने विरोध कार्यक्रममा सहभागी हुन सबैलाई आव्हान गर्नु भएको छ ।
Posted by Baltimore Khabar on Monday, November 16, 2015

NRN USA (Non-Resident Nepali Association) protested India Government's blockade to Nepal in front of United Nations...

Posted by Pradeep Thapa on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

STOP Blockade IndiaYou Are Now Naked In Front Of World #NepalChokedByIndia

Posted by Jimmy Gurung on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

भोली बुधवार तीन दल का अध्यक्ष र मधेसवादी दल का अध्यक्ष बिच निर्नायक र अन्तिम वार्ता हुँदैछ प्रचन्द बाबु को पहल मा । छथी माइया ले सबैलाई दिमाग देओस ।

Posted by Mahesh Yadav Adhikari on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

१९६० पूर्व काठमाडौँबाहिर नेरु नभएर भारु प्रचलनमा थियो । त्यस्तै मधेसका स्कुलमा राष्ट्रिय गीत ‘जनमनगण नायक हे...’ थियो । ...

Posted by Souvidhya Manoz on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

FB 1151 - Chhat Pooja manayi gayi Mumbai mein samudra ke kinaare, surya ast hone ke samay ..Ek aisa tyoohaar ji adhiktar Bihar mein manaya jaata hai ..

Posted by Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

"निगमले तेल वितरण पारदर्शी नगर्दा सरकारकै संरक्षणमा तेलको #कालोबजारी भइरहेको छ" https://t.co/yLP9W3VY2P #नागरिक

Posted by Guna Raj Luitel on Monday, November 16, 2015

जहाँ जहाँ पहादिहरुले भारत को बिरोध गर्दैछ त्यो देश को सरकार र जनता ले थाहा पाउदैछ १० जनाले बनाएको सम्बिधान र मधेस मा गरेको दमन बारे । #welcometoIndia

Posted by Mahesh Yadav Adhikari on Monday, November 16, 2015

आज २०७२ कार्तिक २२ । जनकपुर में आन्दोलनकारीयों ने सांस्कृतिक झलक सहित बिरोध प्रदर्शन किया ।

Posted by Brikhesh Chandra Lal on Sunday, November 8, 2015

स्वधिन राष्ट्र नेपाल माथि भारतिय कुदिष्ट्रि प्रति नेपालीहरूको बिरोध न्यूयोर्कमा

Posted by Pramod Sitaula on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

भुकम्प पीडित को लागी आएको तृपाल्, अर्बौ रुपैया सरकारले पचाए । अहिले तेल्, गैस , अन्य खधान्न फेरी सरकारले खादैछ । जनता दुखमा , नेता र सरकार कमाउनमा! कसतो चलन ?

Posted by Mahesh Yadav Adhikari on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Divided by politicians united by Chhath Pooja@ Chhath Pooja Location, Ktm

Posted by Sunil Adhikari Yadav on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Thursday, September 03, 2015

United Nations

नेपाल सेना को एक मात्र काम

गणतंत्र मा नेपाल सेना संवैधानिक राजतन्त्र जस्तो हो, नितांत symbolic ----- देशको राज्य व्यवस्था को त्यो एउटा अंग हो जस्ले राष्ट्रिय एकता को प्रतीक बनने काम गर्न सक्छ। (जीवन्त/ज्वलंत राष्ट्रिय एकता भनेको चाहिँ प्रत्यक्ष निर्वाचित प्रधान मंत्री हो। त्यहाँ कुनै प्रतिस्प्रधा छैन। )

जुन देश को झंडा मैं नीलो रंग छ त्यो देश को सेना ले चीन सँग भारत सँग युद्ध खेल्ने कुरा आउँदैन। UN Peacekeeping सम्म ठीक छ। राहत को काम त अति राम्रो। तर UN Peacekeeping मा थोरै मात्र जाने हो। राहत को काम सधैं होइन।

भने पछि नेपाल सेना ले फुल टाइम गर्ने काम के हो?

नेपाल को जनसंख्या को फुल reflection नेपाल सेना को composition मा देखिनुपर्यो। नेपाल मा महिला ५०% हो भने नेपाल सेना मा ५०% ---- राज्य (state) को अरु अंग मा ३३% होला, त्यस सँग नेपाल सेना ले मतलब राख्नु हुँदैन। Above and beyond the call of duty भनिन्छ नि -- हो त्यो। थारु देशमा ६% हो भने नेपाल सेना मा पनि ६% हुनुपर्यो। मुसलमान। दलित नेपालमा २०% हो भने नेपाल सेना मा पनि २०% हुनुपर्यो।

भर्ना देखि बढुवा १००% meritocratic हुनुपर्यो।

नेपाल सेना गणतंत्र मा exemplary बन्न सक्नुपर्छ।

नेपाल सेना को नंबर एक काम गणतंत्र नेपालमा राष्ट्रिय एकता हो। त्यस का लागि ब्यारेक बाहिर खुट्टा टेकनै पर्दैन। आफ्नो composition सपारे पुग्छ।


Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Wake Up Kathmandu! Time For A Regime Change!

Time to come out into the streets like it were April 2006 all over again.

१६ बुँदे ल्याइनु को प्रमुख कारण
१६ बुँदे सम्झौताको प्रमुख कारण

Four months after quakes, Nepal fails to spend any of $4.1 billion donor money
Two months after foreign countries and international agencies pledged $4.1 billion to help Nepal recover from its worst natural disaster, the government has yet to make arrangements to receive the money and has spent nothing on reconstruction. ....... The United Nations estimates almost three million survivors of twin earthquakes in April and May – around 10 percent of the Himalayan nation's population – need shelter, food and basic medical care, many in mountainous, hard-to-reach areas. ........ Govind Raj Pokharel, chief executive officer of the newly created National Reconstruction Authority, said the government was unlikely to start spending the money until October at the earliest because of delays in approving plans and concerns about starting building work in the monsoon season. ....... "The government's response has been slow. I accept that," said Pokharel. ...... Nepal has been criticised for its chaotic response to the quakes that killed almost 9,000 people. The country failed to adequately prepare even though experts had predicted an earthquake was likely. And then the government struggled to cope with relief.Four months later, many partially damaged buildings in Kathmandu are still standing and rubble is strewn across public parks. Tens of thousands of people are living in plastic tents, preyed upon by flies and mosquitoes, with muddy paths and no drains. ....... Maili Pariyar, 50, knitting a purse to sell outside her tent, said she only received food and tent materials from aid agencies. She has not been given anything by the government. ...... "We have lost everything. We are desperate," she said. "How much longer do we have to wait for help?" ........ Pokharel said

the government had failed to spend any money because ministers had still not signed off on rebuilding and aid distribution plans.

He said

the government made an error by attempting to pass a contentious constitution

that will create a new political system and divide the country into new regions, a decision that has led to deadly clashes. The government argues the overhaul will help reconstruction in the long run by creating greater stability.........

"We would have liked it if they concentrated on the reconstruction first," Pokharel said. "That would have been better."

..... Jamie McGoldrick, the U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Nepal, said the government had been sluggish...... "The government needs to get going," he said. "The next big challenge is to ensure that people living in tents are prepared for the winter."After a two-month wait, Pokharel was appointed to head the reconstruction authority two weeks ago. He is now based in a government office that oversees printing because the earthquake damaged other buildings."We have lost time and now we need to catch up," he said.

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Terrorism, Climate Change And Genuine World Government.

Terror, climate change biggest problems for world: PM Narendra Modi
Noting that yoga helps humans to live in sync with nature, Modi said that it was not a physical exercise but a synchronisation of body, mind, soul and intellect. ..... "Yoga also helps humans to live with nature. Yoga is not a physical programme. How much the body bends or legs bend, this is not the objective of yoga.
And a genuine world government is the only solution to both.

Friday, May 22, 2015

The Chinook Mistake Was An Impeachable Offense

And if the Nepal Army had anything to do with it, I think that criminal act negates 50% of the good work they have done in the aftermath of the earthquake. The Chinook was so badly needed. This is not a time to emphasize the chain of command. This was and is the time to take relief supplies from the Kathmandu airport straight to the villages. The Chinook deliberate mistake is enough reason for Sushil Koirala to resign. How dare the Nepal Army play asinine politics with the best relief helicopters money can buy at this time of tragedy?
 
In a town called Dhap, so many animal carcasses were trapped in wrecked buildings that the whole stretch of road reeked of decay, and people jogged by with handkerchiefs clamped over their mouths. ...... The families from Dhap were huddled in a schoolhouse, their eyes wide: If they even approached the rock piles that had been their homes, flies swarmed around them in such numbers that they turned back. Here I saw, for the first time in Nepal, something like despair. As we passed that town, I saw a woman sitting on a hillside, staring into empty space, as if part of her had already left this earth.

Foreign Aid Truths

English: The United Nations Development Progra...
English: The United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Where is Nepal aid money going?
a country where corruption is seen as "endemic"? Britain is already the biggest national donor to Nepal - but what has happened to this aid? ....... The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has spent more than £20m ($30m) in the last four years on an earthquake resilience programme. So what has it achieved? ....... One focus has been on improving building regulations and enforcing them. But walk through downtown Kathmandu and you see hundreds of new buildings that are unsafe, badly built and have clearly flouted these building laws. ...... "Nepal suffers from poor governance, and corruption is endemic. ....... "If Nepal is to become less corrupt, improvements in governance and a change of culture have to be made to state institutions." ..... Part of DFID's programme was carried out by the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP) which received more than £5m in funding from the UK for its comprehensive disaster risk management programme (CDRMP). One senior aid insider told me the project was "a disaster from start to finish". ......

Over five years, the UN spent £1.3m of its original £10m budget on two international employees.

...... Millions more went in what the public project document lists as unspecified "professional services". ...... the UNDP had "poor financial controls, weaknesses in payment processes and misreporting and recording of payments". .... Because of the widespread corruption and bureaucracy within the government of Nepal, international donors like DFID have channelled their money into the big NGOs and UN agencies to deliver their programmes. ...... Dr Govind Pokharel, vice-chairman of Nepal's National Planning Commission, admits the system is weak and corrupt but says the huge salaries on offer in NGOs and the UN means they are causing a brain drain in Nepal's civil service.

"A government guy gets $200 for a month, whereas you are paying $2,000 per month at an NGO or agency, it is damaging," he says.

....... "The Nepal police didn't like it. I was paid $300 (£190) a day but for the international consultants it was £1,200 a day." ..... "There's a strong case to say we should use national consultants before we go international. There will be a wave that will come - whether it's a helpful wave remains to be seen."


If the corruption culture is not remedied, and if somehow magically you get to cut down on the huge fees for foreign consultants, then most of the money will then go to corruption. Foreign consultants might be ridiculously expensive, but domestic corruption should not be getting a free ride in the process. There are two problems.

Saturday, May 09, 2015

The Nepal Government Should Compete For Funds

Much has been made about the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. There is an easy solution: compete. Nobody stops the government of Nepal from making a strong case and going out there and raising money. It should respond to the criticisms, and it should make a case, and it should go for it.

It is all about ROI, return on investment. It is a business term, but it also applies to governments.

It is being said that the Nepal Government, given the pledged funds by the various governments, will do a much better job, the ROI will be much higher, than if those foreign governments spent the money themselves. Haiti is being cited as an example. Heck, I am one of the people shouting Haiti! Haiti! Haiti!

Well then, make a case. Why is your ROI greater? How? By how much? Let's see some numbers. There are enough well educated people in Nepal, inside the government and outside, inside the country, and in the diaspora, to be able to do that.

Based on that case, lobbying efforts can be organized. If you want the $20 plus million pledged by the US government to go directly into the Prime Minister's Relief Fund, lobbying can be organized in Washington DC. Heck, there is an even better way. Do it online. America is a democracy. If enough Americans get convinced by you, and they act to reach out to their Congressman and Senators, the work will get done. A democracy responds to its citizens.