Warning: Gross Obscenity

The obscene greed of the Indian Premier League is unparalleled.

Driven by their lust for the $1 billion TV rights money, people who have never held a cricket bat in their hands have paid in excess of $100 million for teams.

Players will earn as much as $1.5 million for 6 weeks work. How can anyone justify this in a country where 300 million people live on less than $0.40 a day?

The BCCI may fool themselves and others that the IPL is good for cricket. But in reality the IPL will have the same impact on cricket as the English Premier League had on football.

The national team's fortunes will decline because the players and the people who own the teams are only interested in lining their pockets, not cricket. In the short term IPL games will clash with international matches and players will not be available for training. In the long term, as all the money goes into the IPL grass root cricket will suffer. Many clubs will close and the number of people who play cricket (as opposed to watch cricket) will actually fall.

Cricket is the sport of the masses but the IPL will be hijacked by the well-off middle class. Most Indians will not be able to afford the tickets to the games. And they will not be able to watch it on TV as 80% of the country does not have access to the subscription TV that will broadcast the IPL games.

Common Sense Prevails

The Chinese have no scruples about selling arms to Mugabe. South African politicians wash their hands of the problem.

Thank heavens for the South African workers and judges. They at least see sense - these weapons are destined to be used against Zimbabwean civilians.

Well Done Paris!

The Parisians have raised the bar when it comes to exposing the self-serving hypocrites who appease the murderous tyranny in communist China.

San Francisco - can you do better?

Eighty Hypocrites

They may say that the Olympics has nothing to do with politics but they are more than happy to use POLITICIANS in order to win the right to host the Olympic Games and they are willing to force Londoners pay billions in taxes to pay for the Olympics.

They sympathise with Tibet and but they are more than happy to smooch with the people responsible for Tibet's repression.

They say the protests are a democratic example to China but what sort of a democracy allows its police officers and Chinese thugs to treat protesters with such brutality? Besides, the Chinese public won't see any of the protests. All they'll see are the hypocrites shaking the hands of the Chinese Politburo and the flag waving sons and daughters of the Chinese elite bussed in by the Communist Party of China.

Nothing will wipe the Tibetan blood from the hands of these hypocrites.

From His Cold Dead Hands?

Well, that shouldn't be too difficult now. It's just a pity he died of natural causes - it would have been poetic justice if his brains had been shot out using a Brooks flintlock rifle.