The Dalai Lama represents a flock of about 80,000 Buddhists who joined him in India after he was exiled from Tibet in 1959. As yoga became fashionable as an exercise regimen with baby boomers, all of a sudden this monk who dresses in Gucci sandals became equally as fashionable. For my money looking at his local disciples it is living proof that pot smoking definitely fries the brain. No amount of yoga and meditation will replace the lost/damaged brain cells for those now seeking solace by clinging onto the Dalai Lama bullshit.

This man should find another planet to live on. Every time I have heard him speak, it’s double-speak. In India he is openly anti-homosexual but when it comes to America, he is not. He is anti-nuclear outside of India, but supports India’s stance when he is back “home” as their guest. The way his heir is chosen makes his religion even more insane than Islam. I have difficulty understanding the reality of reincarnation, if there is such a deal, but this Dalai Lama nonsense takes it to a new level.

In spite of, I was very happy about one thing; his visit with President Obama pissed China off. If China had their way with India, the monk would be extradited back to China, a quick trial would take place, he would be found guilty and then he would be executed! While I think the Dalai Lama serves no useful purpose on this earth, I am a believer that all people should have the right to follow any religion they want, so long as that religion does not condone the killing of others whose beliefs are different. At least Buddhism in a weird way does promote peace, harmony and love. By contrast, non-religious China, since 1949 has the worst human rights on record.

What codswallop! Drive through the Westwood shopping area of Los Angeles and look at the faces of the UCLA students; Drive along Symonds Street, Auckland and check the demographics of Auckland University students walking to class. You are lucky to see one Caucasian amongst a sea of Asian students. If Chinese and Indian universities are going to become the “Ivy League” colleges in twenty-five years time and replace the hallowed institutions of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities, with thousands of years of collective learning of years, then why aren’t Chinese and Indian students now taking advantage of the so-called better education at home instead of flooding the schools of the western world? Is this moron, Levin, telling us what took hundreds of years for England and America to create, these other tatty third world nations will accomplish in just twenty-five years.

The Chinese haven’t even automated rice growing yet and most people are lucky to own a bicycle or ride/walk on a paved road. Take a look at any large Indian city and you can understand why most well educated teenagers want to leave the country. As for a tiny city-state holding any trump cards and providing the key to educate the world’s elite, give me a break. Saudi Arabia don’t even know how to treat women and that will never change. We can thank the western universities for emancipating women. Will a female student have to wear a burkha to school in 2035? I would say yes because a cultural revolution by then will make Saudia Arabia, the next Iran.

Why can’t these academics like Professor Levin keep to teaching in the classroom and concern themselves with their students. So many like Levin opt to seek publicity by becoming politically motivated. If he knew what was happening to the world economy right now and the exposure of China and India, the last thing he would be doing is telling us we are doomed and China and India will become our masters.

Here we have local manufacturer Tata Motors making its NANO (it looks like a kiddy’s pedal car or a scooter with a bubble plastic wrap) model to retail for $2,500 and GM is competing selling by a “Chevy Beat” for $7,200. At least in China, it is the six cylinder Buick that is its most popular model. Irrespective, the margins in being a manufacturer in these two poverty stricken countries is simply a case of throwing good money after bad. Let Toyota or Hyundai get a foothold in third world countries. Dealing with India and China as a supplier is a license for one thing; to lose money. Apart from the “pride” of having great market share in China, I have never seen GM proclaiming to America about the veritable fortune being made producing cars in China. The truth is they are too scared to admit they are losing their shirts. The same goes for India.

Worse still, government-owned GM is about to spend half a $billion of taxpayers’ money to ramp up its manufacturing capacity to potentially pump out 140,000 NANO “clones”! This is absolutely crazy. The car which is the Volkswagen Beetle of India is still the 1956 Morris Oxford originally made in England but upon a change of model and production methods there, the entire plant was transferred to India fifty years ago. Royal Enfield motor cycles disappeared from the roads of England soon after World War Two. Today that very same motorcycle (now made in India of course) of the thirties is still in Indian Royal Enfield showrooms eighty years on.

The new General Motors is all about a new generation of cars, most of them environmentally friendly or at the luxury end of the spectrum. A “curry muncher” in New Delhi would never pay $40,000 for a Chevy Volt. Even if he possessed that sort of money he could buy sixteen NANO’s and rent them out to taxi operators. Thinking of Bollywood, I reckon movie stars would be too scared to cruise around in a Cadillac CTS. Like most Asians they get from point A to point B on a bike or motor scooter. What I want to hear from the new General Motors is they are pulling out of every country where there is no future for the cars they wish to build or have a chance of making profits that will match the levels achieved in America. There are hundreds of “wannabe’s” like the outfit in China trying to buy the Hummer who have the ability to make junk that might look good for five minutes but priced at a level where their product is not much more expensive than a high end ten speed bicycle! Who cares if they aren’t safe? There is no chance of Americans buying what Chinese and Indian people think is cool. Watching how they drive the moment you step into a car, saddle up on a bike or cross the street, your life is at risk anyway. Brake failure on a NANO is the least of a driver’s concern!