Switzerland, the most beautiful, the most peaceful and the most honest country in the world. Really?

 

I am amazed how so few people seem to recognize that whatever Switzerland might be, it is the real cause for poverty and misery in the developing world. Reason: bulk of the money for development is sucked away by politicians and corrupt government servants and businessmen and stashed away in numbered Swiss bank accounts. The money which they won’t be using in their lifetime, and the money for which they can’t declare a legal heir.  

 

Despite the top end Human and natural resources, the real India continues to live in poverty and misery. No prizes for guessing that Indian is the single largest depositor in Swiss Banks. USD 1456 billion!!! Yes, the word is billion, with a B; not a mere million. Million is a number meant for the poor people from US, Sweden and Japan who do not surface anywhere in the pecking order. Swiss bankers won’t even offer a cup of coffee to the impoverished Scandinavians, but would easily do a strip tease for an Indian, Nigerian, Somalian, Bangladeshi and definitely a Pakistani.  

 

The ill-gotten money invariably comes from funds allocated for Health, infrastructure, education or even from coffins of dead soldiers. Yes, coffins!! Indian Army bought coffins for its dead soldiers for $10,000 a piece!!!

 

Not much is really needed to be done for the so-called fights against Terror and Poverty. Switzerland, if it is truly an honest, peaceful and beautiful country should declare that it can’t keep numbered accounts anymore. Anybody who wants to keep or withdraw should do so with his identity; and there would be no need for a war on terror or a fight against poverty.

 

Hope Transparency International is listening. It needs to work more in Switzerland and less in Africa and none in India!

 

Just like “Construct Data Verlag” from Austria, another Scam has been started by “Commercial Online Manuals S de RL de CV”, now from Mexico. These people are as much mis-representers as much Construct Data was, if at all they are different from the original crooks.

 

Their modus operandi is simple. They send you innocuous looking letters on letter heads with bold titles, “Expo guide” or “Fair guide” but their own names mentioned in fine print at the bottom. The name of the fair where you might have recently participated is boldly mentioned and you are asked to update your company details. To prompt you to reply, they deliberately print some of your information incorrectly, like the telephone number or the website address. The impression one gets is that the letter is from the Fair organizers. More often than not most people without reading the fine print would update the information and send the correction in the prepaid envelope.

 

Once you have sent the correction with your signature, the nightmare starts. These people would start sending you invoices, payment reminders and keep calling and pressurizing to pay for what they have claim to be binding contract.

 

These are scamsters. Simply ignore them!! Even if you have fallen into their trap unwittingly, simply refuse to communicate with them or be bothered. There is nothing they can legally do, as they don’t have any legal standing. A contract, where one of the parties misrepresents is never binding.  

 

Nevertheless, if you do receive their Business Reply Envelope, do send some garbage into it, so that they end up paying charges for international post and soon become bankrupt.

 

Our addiction to rubber stamps as country continues to increase. Probably no other country lays as much emphasis (and wrongly placed) on rubber stamps as India does. Until recently, it was possible to print-out a boarding pass at home and proceed to security check at the airport. I discovered last week that the airport security wants you to have the home printed boarding pass rubber stamped by the airline. So I had to go back to the lady at Jet Airways who simply stamped it without giving me as much as a glance.

With the all the mayhem happening the world over and the media showing pictures of gore repeatedly, it’s time to look at some nice and refreshing pictures. My friend Ashok Bengani sent me this link and he is sure that these have been untouched by Photoshop.

 

http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5036148-5007115-1,00.html

 

Feel free to enjoy the pictures with family.

Cheers!