The Inkstained Mind: Blimey! Even Rupert Murdoch's shills endorse Nandan Nilekani's UID...

First chanced upon the Rothschilds' mouthpiece endorsing India's UID, now I find this from Dec 2011...

Nandan Nilekani seems to have some really powerful backers for bio-tagging Indians.

Just listen to our former masters...

BY THE WAY, I NEVER KNEW INDIA IS A WELFARE STATE!

Maybe they deduced it from the fact that just 100 Indians (and their immediate families) on the Forbes Rich List own as much as 25% of India's GDP (according to Reuters)... Or perhaps, because India is ranked BELOW in Yemen in Per Capita GDP (according to the IMF)... Or possibly, because that India ranks NEXT TO East Timor in standard of living (according to the Human Development Index)?

Or maybe, they mean that India is a welfare state for the richest (do we call it the top 0.00000001%?) Indians who have around $1,456 billion stashed in Swiss Accounts (according to the Swiss Bankers Association)! All thanks to Dr. Manmohan Singh's crony 'liberalisation' agenda?

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