Saturday, October 16, 2021

भ्रष्टाचार का मुद्दा और जनमत



हतौडाले हानेर महोत्तरीमा एक महिलाको हत्या प्रहरीका अनुसार महोत्तरी गाउँपालिका ३ मडईकी ४२ वर्षीया शिलादेवी झाको हत्या भएको हो । ....... घरमा कोही नभएको बेला टाउकोमा हतौडा प्रहार गरी हत्या गरिएको अवस्थामा उनको शव फेला परेको प्रहरीले जनाएको छ । महोत्तरीका प्रहरी प्रमुख एसपी दिनेश आचार्यले घटनास्थलमा रगतले भिजेको हतौडा बरामद भएको जानकारी दिए । ....... हत्या कसले र किन गरेको विषयमा केही खुलेको छैन । उनको जेठो छोरा भारतको गुजरातमा छन् । र, कान्छो छोरा जलेश्वरस्थित मावली पुगेको बेला शिलादेवीको हत्या भएको एसपी आचार्यले बताए ।




इस जहाज को देखिए। दो लाख टन से ज्यादा का है। लेकिन डुबती नहीं। दो टन का एक रॉड को पानी में गिराइए डुब जाती है। सरफेस एरिया की बात है। 

नेपाल में भ्रष्टाचार का मुद्दा अभी का सामयिक मुद्दा भी है और कठिन मुद्दा भी। लेकिन उसका प्रेशर जनमत पार्टी सिर्फ अपने नेता और कार्यकर्ता पर रखे वो सही रास्ता नहीं है। वैसे भी आम जनता के स्तर पर भारी जागरूकता न आने तक भ्रष्टाचार को मटियामेट नहीं किया जा सकता है। 

ज्यादा से ज्यादा जनता भ्रष्टाचार के विरुद्ध आंदोलन में उतरने का रास्ता क्या है? (Remote Relay अनसन: चुँकि रामलीला मैदान उपलब्ध नहीं है)


मन्त्री नबनाएको विरोधमा उपेन्द्रको पुत्ला दहन (फोटोफिचर)



Searching for the American Dream? Go to Canada
Searching for the American Dream? Go to Canada Physical mobility, then, is the best pathway to economic mobility. ....... Canada is a policy lab for experiments in reducing inequality. The country is far from perfect, but it ranks far higher than the U.S. in social mobility: Almost 20 per cent of Americans are born below the poverty line, a figure that’s less than 10 per cent in Canada.

America is also going through its second eviction crisis within a decade, worsening both poverty and hunger.

.......... The expansion of large-scale farming just over one hundred years ago lured 750,000 Americans to Canada’s Prairie Provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Today more than one million Americans live in Canada, and their numbers are rising. After 2016, it was Donald Trump’s election that drove a new wave north of the border.

In 2020, at the height of the coronavirus, Americans jammed Canadian real estate websites, buying properties unseen.

Canadians joke they’ll need to build a wall along their border to keep Americans out. At least Canada wisely banned certain assault weapons in 2020, keeping out the most odious American trait. ................ While the U.S. convulses over immigration policy, Canada has far fewer qualms. Canada has entered the immigration big leagues, setting a clear target of 400,000 migrants annually to add to its 38 million population – a far higher annual percentage than the U.S. Canada’s “Century Initiative” openly aspires to grow the population to 100 million – at which point its population will likely surpass that of Russia. Is Canada the migration magnet of the 21st century? .......... Its aging population requires caregivers; its eastern and Maritime provinces need to be rejuvenated with new industries, from IT to hydropower; its thawing frontiers require hearty workers to cultivate the bounty, and connecting its oilpatch and farmlands to global markets requires new pipelines and a vast freight rail network. There aren’t nearly enough Canadians to do it all. ........ One-fifth of Canada’s current population is immigrants, who account for most – and soon all – of its population growth, especially South Asians and Chinese. If Canada continues this high immigration trajectory, by 2036 half the country’s population will be foreign-born or have at least one immigrant parent. ............... Canada is on the hunt for talent as it seeks to diversify its economy, and Indians are an easy target to poach. The number of annual Indian immigrants to Canada more than doubled between 2016 and 2019, to nearly 90,000, more than migrated to the U.S.

Critics of Mr. Trump’s 2020 executive order suspending the H1-B visa program dubbed the order the “Canadian job creation act.”

Next Canada could pluck from the 500,000 Indian-origin residents of Silicon Valley alone. American nationalists shouldn’t separate the innovation emerging within their borders from the diverse nationalities of the brains that produced them. Without the latter, much less would happen in the former.............. Canada is much more like continental Europe than the U.S. or United Kingdom, which partly explains why its politics since the financial crisis has stuck to the centrist path of the Netherlands, France and Germany rather than the virulent populist nationalism of America and Britain. ........... Young people around the world keep a close eye on these trends, which is why they continue to flood the website of the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) to check their eligibility to gain Canadian residency. ...........

The urban-rural gap is common across the world. Indeed, it represents as profound a pattern of inequality as the disparity between North and South globally.

.......... The acreage of protein-rich soy growth has also accelerated all across Canada. A single drone made by a company like Flash Forest can plant 100,000 trees each month, meaning billions more trees sprouting by 2030. Canada’s energy, agriculture and technology sectors are expanding in lockstep with its population. .............. Whereas Americans have been flocking to low-tax but climatically troubled Texas and Florida, Canadians old and new are likely to become more dispersed farther and farther north. Towns in Canada’s inland provinces of Ontario and Manitoba are becoming much more desirable as the climate warms and Hudson Bay becomes a grand Arctic gateway. ..............

Simply put: Canada’s future human geography will dissipate beyond the narrow belt along the U.S. border.



Warm and chill: Canadians flock to Panama for a slower, affordable life Chantal Poulin and her husband, Eric, lived fast-paced lives in Quebec. They owned two art galleries. They earned high incomes. But they wanted more. Not more money – but more out of life. ......... They now live on a four-acre property in Panama near the mountain town of Boquete, where they spend their time tending to a pack of rescue dogs. “It was stressful in Canada,” Ms. Poulin said. “So many people measure themselves by what they own and they keep wanting more. We wanted to get away from that.” .......... Panama, which borders Costa Rica and Colombia and straddles the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, has long been a favourite retirement destination for Canadians seeking a slower pace of life, a different culture and warm weather. The country is known for the ease with which it gives legal full-time residency to foreigners. ..........

Canada typically ranks among the top three points of origin for people seeking residency in Panama, along with the U.S. and the U.K.

.......... Even in the region’s larger cities, life tends to move at a slower pace than in Canadian cities and towns – a potential frustration for people accustomed to fast-paced living. But the culture offers social benefits. For example, it’s common for people to greet each other when getting on elevators or public buses. In smaller towns, strangers typically greet each other on the street. ........... Although the country has one of Latin America’s most advanced economies, its gross national income per capita was, in 2020, about a quarter of Canada’s, and life essentials are priced accordingly. Medical and other professional services are inexpensive (a doctor’s bill might come to $20), and so is general labour. .......... Women over 55 years of age and men over 60 qualify for 50 per cent off movies, theatres, concerts and sporting events; 50 per cent off the closing costs of home purchases; 50 per cent off hotel stays from Mondays through Thursdays; 30 per cent off hotel stays from Fridays through Saturdays; 25 per cent off restaurant meals; 15 per cent off dental and eye exams; and 25 per cent off airline tickets. ............ The Friendly Nations Visa allows foreign residents to work, and the country doesn’t tax residents on foreign income – a boon to anyone telecommuting to a job in their home country. (Panama recently launched a short-stay, nine-month Digital Nomad Visa to encourage exactly that sort of visitor.) .............. the country uses the U.S. dollar ........ “Here in Panama,” he says,

“manana [tomorrow] doesn’t always mean tomorrow. Sometimes it means the day after tomorrow, or the day after that.”

........ “If extraterrestrials decided to pick a place on Earth to live, I’m pretty sure they would pick Panama over a place that gets snow and ice”

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