Cow Story
TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You sell one and buy a bull.
> Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
> You retire on the income.
>
> INDIAN ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You worship them.
>
> PAKISTAN ECONOMICS
> You don't have any cows.
> You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
> You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, British
for
> technology, French for submarines, Switzerland for loans, Russia
for
> drugs and Japan for equipment.
> You buy the cows with all this and claim exploitation by the world.
>
> AMERICAN ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
> You profess surprise when the cow drops dead. You put the blame on
some nation with cows and naturally that nation will be a danger to mankind.
> You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows.
>
> FRENCH ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You go on strike because you want three cows.
>
> GERMAN ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You reengineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a
month and milk themselves.
>
> BRITISH ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> They are both mad cows.
>
> ITALIAN ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You don't know where they are.
> You break for lunch.
>
> SWISS ECONOMICS
> You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.
> You charge others for storing them.
>
> JAPANESE ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the size of an
ordinary
> cow and produce twenty times the milk.
> You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon and market
> them worldwide.
>
> RUSSIAN ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You count them and learn you have five cows.
> You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
> You count them again and learn you have 17 cows.
> You give up counting and open another bottle of vodka.
>
> CHINESE ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You have 300 people milking them.
> You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest
anyone reporting the actual numbers.
>
> BANGLADESH ECONOMICS
> You have two cows.
> You don't know economy.
> You choose one of them as the Prime Minister of the country and the
> other as the Leader of the Opposition
------ Original Message ------
Received: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:40:18 AM AST
From: Kajimel Raisuddin <Kraisuddin@hotmail.com>
To: <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Human Rights and Migrants
By my opinion, Mr. Mufssil Hussains' assertion, "I don't know why Mr. Turkman
talks as always baselessly and without examples. I challenge that the Western
view is not democratic." is really baseless indeed. It does not appear that
the facts will support Mr. Mufassil's claim. Heaven does not exit anywhere in
the world. All we have to live with statistical facts. It also depends on what
the author means by the word "democratic". Mangacarta used to provide perfect
democracy Britons while the colonies did not have any chance to taste it.
Similarly, when someone lives in any of the the western countries, if he/she
is the citizen of that country then the constitution of that country allows
that person to exercise full democratic rights. Constitution protects that
person, most of the time, in full. No system is full proof. So, isolated
unfavorable incidents may happen. But the fact is that the people of most of
the western country extremely respect their constitution, which in the other
part of the world meagerly happen. A lot of people of other parts of the
world, have other agenda on top of the constitution of the country. If
Bangladeshi people had real respect for the constitution, the country would be
many many fold prosperous than what it is today. This is also a reason why
Bangladesh, instead of progressing, going more towards hardship and anarchy,
leaving behind the democracy of the people. Self-criticizing is more necessary
to achieve this goal, rather than boasting and blaming with irreality and
falsehood.
To: alochona@yahoogroups.comFrom: mufassili@hotmail.comDate: Sat, 31 May 2008
15:47:12 +0000Subject: [ALOCHONA] Human Rights and Migrants
Dear Mr. Aziz, Mr. Turkman and Other Readers:It is easy to get carried away
into the vortex of conflicting issues if we do not take on board, patience and
constructive critocims of opposing view holders on board.I agree that the
nourishment of freedom of speech in EU (sorry but I do have further
reservations about the US) is held high but these rights are often manipulated
and misguided in the name of atrocious laws as rightly said by Karl Marx once
that law is the toll of oppression by the ruler. Al must agree that during and
soon after second world war - may fundamental human rights were currauled even
for the UK citizens in UK for the sake of national security and I believe
these sorts of checks should be allowed when national security is doomed but
the question is for how long and for how much? The recent atrocities and
threats of atrocities in the West has very reasonable justifications of
putting a check on people at random or even basing on their religious and
national entities whilst visiting the West - esxpecially the US. I was more
than once checked by the authorities and I have had no reason to worry as the
authorities did explain that it was a random checking even though it did
appear to me that the system did target me. It is also true that the criminals
do not necessarily have to wear a beard to pose a threat and even may be of
European origin. But it is not true as well that we are not curtailed of our
freedom of expressions in the West. It is not at all right to presume that our
thoughts can be told at full. Here are some examples:The issue of Palestinians
blowing themselves up - although I do not support the act at all but it is
also true that these acts do emanate from decades of utter frustration and
from series of torture by the Israeli regime which is being backed blindly by
the US government. Mrs. Blair was subjected to severe criticisms and even
calls were made by the media to boycot her when she had expressed that she did
feel the utter frustration of the Palestinians. There are criminals and crazy
people in Iraq who are against peace but its is also true that there are
people in that country who want to see the Americans go and if they declare
war and pick up arms in defence of the liberty of their motherland - West will
never allow them to be called 'freedom fighters' as under the 'glorification'
clause of the Terrorims Act 2006 in UK or under the Homeland Security Act of
the US. An example of this is the comments against George Galloway MP (UK)
when he had done so. What about many MPs in UK who had lost their party
nominations after they had mentioned that the UK parliament was a poodle of
the zionist regime? Or what about the Historian who had questioned the depth
of the authenticity of the German atrocities on the zews? Or what about the
several examples of money lending scandals from the zewish peers in UK and
what about Mr. Lor Levi being posted as a Minister even though he was part of
the money lending scandal in the British Government? I don't know why Mr.
Turkman talks as always baselessly and without examples. I challenge that the
Western view is not democratic. We do go their for practical means of
survitude and benefits of this world but that does not mean we the people of
the East are blindly unethical. What do you call the US policy or the Amnesty
International's report about US being the worst violators of Human Rights in
the world? If you do not know the statistics - please ask me brother but Mr.
Turkman's utter use of bad and vulgar language proves the point that either he
has a close relative in the family who is White Christian American and that
has pushed him to be utterly biased or he has lost the plot simply because he
is uninformed. We do not have any grudges about white, yellow or blue or even
against people of other faiths but we must not be carried away blindly. As for
Islam I have only a few excerpts from the Quran and that should suffice for
Muslims travelling to other country:Sura Al Araf:On Entry intio new city:161.
And (remember) when it was said to them: "Dwell in this town (Jerusalem) and
eat therefrom wherever you wish, and say, '(O All�h) forgive our sins'; and
enter the gate prostrate (bowing with humility). We shall forgive you your
wrong-doings. We shall increase (the reward) for the good-doers."And we must
respect their laws but not at the cost of our souls and you want us out of
there? Surprised - how you became a poodle as you decided not to enter into
the world of intellectual battle. Allah made us poor financially but
spiritually rich so that we can all work for the spread of Islam - the only
peaceful life. Read Sura Al Araf it also teaches us to be patient as people
will surely hurl abuses.I don't know under law of which country the Government
can cease passports for ever as suggested by Mr. Turkman but is a good advise
to lecture the prospective migrant to advise them about foreign culture as
adopted by Phillipines (Post Departure Seminar) - Mr. Turkman you forgot to
give an example and I am giving it for all.Read my latest article
http://www.thedailystar.net/law/2008/05/05/index.htmSincerely,Mufassil M M
IslamHuman Rights Advocate
To: alochona@yahoogroups.comFrom: turkman@sbcglobal.netDate: Wed, 28 May 2008
14:36:37 -0700Subject: [ALOCHONA] Bahrain Gulf News - Bahrain & Bangladeshis
I have no idea, why these people can find a Conspiracy Theory behind
everything that goes wrong with our saintly people anywhere.Nilkanto Chowdhury
<nilkanto@myway.com> wrote:
There are people who are working against Bangladeshi in Middle East so that
they can ruin Bangladeshi job market there and get benifite from that. Our
government and people should speak up about that. Please be aware of that kind
of people and media. Well, people from all nations are doing nusty things. We
don't blame the full nation for that, do we? Why then Bangladeshi?--- On Mon
05/26, Robin Khundkar < rkhundkar@earthlink.net > wrote:
From: Robin Khundkar [mailto: rkhundkar@earthlink.net]To:
undisclosed-recipientsDate: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:33:58 -0400 (EDT)Subject:
[ALOCHONA] Bahrain Gulf News - Bahrain & Bangladeshis
This is really bad news. A hysteria seems to be rising againsts workers from
Bangladesh. Though murder cannot be justified under any circumstances but does
anyone know what happened that led to this tragic crime or the general
perception that all Bengalis are prone to crimes. I have heard that employers
mistreat workers and withhold their hard earned salaries, etc. RobinBahrain
government urged to stop hiring
Bangladeshishttp://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/08/05/26/10216119.html05/26/2008
11:50 PM | By Habib Toumi, Bureau ChiefManama: Decisions on hiring of
Bangladeshi workers would have to be made by various official bodies, said a
labour official as pressure mounted on the Bahraini government to halt the
hiring of Bangladeshis.Several Bahrainis, including journalists and a
parliamentary bloc, have called upon the authorities not to allow Bangladeshis
to work in the kingdom following the murder of a 38-year-old Bahraini at a
garage on Friday.Mohammad Hassan Al Dossary, a father of three daughters, was
killed by Bangladeshi worker Mohammad, also a father of two daughters living
with their mother in their native village, following an argument.The mechanic
allegedly attacked Al Dossary using a grinder before fleeing the scene,
according to his sponsor, to hide in a mosque several kilometres away before
he was arrested.The murder revived calls made last year to take stringent
measures against Bangladeshis following the killing of a Bahraini woman by her
cook.Monitoring"Such a decision is not just about cancelling work permits by
the Labour Ministry, but involves several other government bodies. There is a
close monitoring of all events that helps understand the general orientation
of the labourers and their adaptation to the character of the Bahraini
society," Jameel Al Humaidan, Labour Ministry Undersecretary, said
yesterday.Al Asala, the second largest parliamentary bloc, called for a
timetable to deport Bangladeshis, saying that they represented a threat to
social peace and stability."We are shocked by the number and frequency of the
murders and crimes perpetrated by this community, and the government should
act promptly to deport those who are now in Bahrain and to stop issuing any
new permits," Al Asala said."We will soon submit a motion to the parliament to
force the government to end the hiring of Bangladeshis because of their
aggressive and tense character," the Islamist bloc said.Several columnists
called for the "immediate and irrevocable" deportation of Bangladeshis,
warning that failure to take action would mean more hostile behaviour.However,
the head of Al Meethaq Society, Ahmad Juma, rejected the calls, saying that
Bangladesh should not be punished for the crimes by some of its
citizens.Bahraini blogger calls for ban on all Bangladeshis after horrible
murderhttp://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/08/05/25/10215875.html05/24/2008
11:09 PM | By Habib Toumi, Bureau ChiefManama: Bahrainis on Saturday called
for a ban on the hiring of Bangladeshi workers, hours after the gruesome
murder of a Bahraini father of three."We have noticed that most of the crimes
in this country are perpetrated by people coming from Bangladesh, and the wise
thing to do is to stop bringing them to Bahrain," a Bahraini blogger wrote on
a website. "We should have no mercy for the killer and ban other Bangladeshis
from coming here out of fear of what they might do to us, exactly what Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait did at one time."Similar calls against Bangladeshi labourers
were made last year following the murder of Sana Al Jalahma, a Bahraini woman,
by her 29-year-old Bangladeshi cook. The cook, angered by Al Jalahma's
remarks, waited hours for her return home to kill her. The murderer was
sentenced to death.However, political activist Ahmad Juma said while the calls
to ban Bangladeshis were understandable because of the grisly character of the
murder, a nation cannot be punished for the acts of some citizens."We
sympathise with the family and friends of the victim, but we cannot simply say
that no Bangladeshi should be allowed in Bahrain because of this. The criminal
should be punished, but the country did nothing wrong," he told Gulf
News.Bahraini Mohammad Hassan Eisa Al Dossary was killed on Friday morning
when a Bangladeshi mechanic attacked him with a grinder. Al Dossary, father of
three daughters, wanted the mechanic to do some welding work on his car, but
the two disagreed over the fee. Witnesses said their argument was over 500
fils (Dh5).The mechanic fled the garage in Hamad Town, 20 kilometres south of
Manama, but was eventually arrested after he called his sponsor who alerted
the police and guided them to his hideout.Bahrain is home to about 70,000
Bangladeshis.
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