I stumbled across a video by Breaking Points about the festival where they are paying a fortune to persuade famous comedians from around the world to perform in Saudi.

Human Rights Watch said:
“Comedians performing in Riyadh should speak out against Saudi Arabia’s serious rights abuses or they risk bolstering the Saudi government’s well-funded efforts to launder its image.” Shea said. “This whitewashing comes amid significant increase in repression, including a crackdown on free speech, which many of these comedians defend but people in Saudi Arabia are completely denied.”

As a condition of getting paid, comedians must agree to rules on what they can say (see below).

Many comedians have taken the "blood money" and will go and perform.  The reasons they give for their decision are summed up by Seth Simons in his post: 
"What I have gleaned—and this may shock you—is that they [the comedians who are going] are greedy amoral narcissists who don’t believe in anything, let alone what they claim to believe, and who sneer at the very idea of maintaining any sort of personal value system." 

Simons summarises the justification a comedian gave: "Other people are amoral hypocrites, therefore it is okay for me to be an amoral hypocrite."  "What a wonderful, versatile principle!", said Simons of this comedian's rationale.

Simons says of one comedian's reason for going: "Distefano said he didn’t want to take the gig, but his wife told him to.", a view the comedian contradicted, later.

"Distefano said he was questioning whether he should do the festival. Fortunately, Halkias was there to reassure him (again) that all showbiz money is blood money." 

Simons concluded by saying: "There you have it! All society is propped up by rapists and war criminals, so there’s no point in trying not to associate with or profit from or otherwise whitewash great acts of evil by powerful people or states."

"Obviously this is all extremely bad and damning in its own right, but it also makes one wonder whether there is any level of state-sanctioned horror these comedians will not metabolize for the right price. I hope we never have to find out. " 

One comedian who took the money, but was later fired and so did not go to the festival, said of his decision to take the money: ""They're paying me enough money to look the other way,” (Tim Dillon).

Human Rights Watch's article of 23 Sep 2025 includes the appalling human rights abuses by the Saudis.  It said this of Brit comedian Carr who took the money: "Carr has often vigorously defended free speech publicly. “I am a huge free speech absolutist, but it is not freedom from consequences,” "

People who are critical of the comedians, have said:

"A lot of these comedians have been huge defenders of free speech, and to go and perform in Saudi Arabia, where free speech is so heavily curtailed, is extraordinary. It's morally repugnant."

"The same guy that's gonna pay [the comedians] is the same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a [expletive] suitcase," said US comic Marc Maron, in a standup clip that appears to take aim at Mohammed bin Salman.

Recently (August 2025) stories have appeared in the media of a rise in racially-motivated violent attacks on Indians residing in Ireland. See this report on 07 Aug 2025 in Irish newspaper.  Watch this shocking video of violent attacks on Indians in Ireland.  This video is about a 6-year old girl violently attacked by teenagers outside her home in Waterford, Ireland.

On 10 August 2025, I sent the following message to the "Embassy of Ireland" in London, and (by email) to the "Embassy of India" in Dublin, Ireland, and online to the Govt of Ireland at: https://www.ireland.ie/en/contactus/contact-for-all-other-queries/


Embassy of Ireland, Great Britian                                               10 Aug 2025
Hello
I wish to express my outrage and disgust at the recent violent racist attacks on children and adults of Indian origin living in Ireland, and the lack of concern and action by the Irish police and government to support the victims of such crimes and prevent them escalating.
 
These crimes must be treated seriously by the police force and the courts and the criminals must be found and brought to justice.  From what I have seen and read, the police and the government are not taking this violence seriously and not speaking out against it.  That show of indifference by those in authority and responsible for law and order is disgusting. See these links to illustrate the appalling incidents of violence and the inaction by authorities:
 
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/0807/1527444-people-are-worried-fears-grow-among-indians-living-in-ireland/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys0FzGmY980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0KJ0pBBR5g
 
I often travelled to Ireland many years ago and did not experience any racism and I enjoyed my visits and the people I met.  The current wave of hate and violence by racists in Ireland and the indifference shown by the authorities fill me with disgust and make me very wary of returning to Ireland.  These incidents and the unsatisfactory response by the police and the Irish government are shameful and they damage the reputation and standing of Ireland internationally.
 
Take effective action urgently to protect ALL Irish residents regardless of their ethnicity or the colour of their skin.
 
P Singh

Young Turks vehemently denounced offensive remarks by US politicians at an elected politician who happens to be a muslim, Zohran Mamdani.  Their appalling outbursts focus on his religion rather than his politics, exposing them to be not fit for office.  Watch the TYT video here

The offensive politicians TYT denounced are
Marjorie Taylor Greene: See the image below posted by of the Statue of Liberty covered in dress worn by some muslim women.   MTG in her remarks said she was fearful of American women having to wear such clothing.  This is, she said, her biggest concern for women of America - that they will be forced to cover their bodies, all because of one man (Mamdani) who has just been elected in New York and who happens to be a muslim.

Kirsten Gillibrand.  See her image below.  She maligned Madani and even when corrected by the presenter, continued to malign him.  Watch TYT's presenter get very heated and worked-up over Gillibrand and her hateful and false characterisation of Mamdani.  Watch this video discussing her shocking and false that maligned Mamdani.

Andy Ogles.  See below to read what Ogles said of Mamdani.

It is a disgusting fact of American politics that politicians have such low standards of conduct.  He is going to face a deluge of such attacks and I sincerely hope he survives them and goes on to do good for the people of NY.

I sent the email below to a charity, as I was curious about how they managed their currency risk.  Horner did not reply, but I was told "we will be back in touch as soon as possible.", however, more than two weeks later and still waiting for an answer.

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Hello Ms Horner

I came across your organisation (Lendwithcare, LWC) through your advert on a tube on London Underground.

I've been on LWC's website and read about how its lending process works at a high level and I have read its Terms of Use, but I'm still curious about its currency activities:

1. how it manages loan-related currency trading and risk management,
2. how much it gained and how much lenders lost through currency movements, 
3. whether it undertakes currency hedging,
4. who its partner is for executing currency conversions, and 
5. who it uses use to make currency transfers to its MFIs.

LWC's lending process sounds quite involved and quite complex as a result of multiple currencies involved and multiple intermediaries sitting between between Lenders and Entrepreneurs.

(Another layer of complexity relates to the fees and interest charged and distributed between the Entrepreneuer, the MFI, and LWC.  That layer is not of interest to me on this occasion).

My background is corporate treasury management and I've written articles on various aspects of corporate finance.  I'm based in London.

It might be interesting to write an article on how you deal with currencies and associated risks.

Not sure who would deal with my enquiry at LWC or whether it's one for Care Intnl UK. I had a look at Intnl's accounts and saw your organisation described in Note 20 as a Peer to Peer lending relationship.  Nothing, however, on currency management or income from favourable currency movements, which is odd given it is such a central part of your lending process.  I can't see any financial accounts for LWC.

P Singh

I received an email from Retail Charity Bonds (RCB) about an offer to buy bonds relating to the charity, Belong.  Belong provides shelter and care services to people.

Neither provides a telephone number for retail investors to contact them for information, but RCB does provide contact details if you're either a borrower or a prof investor.  RCB's favouritism for speaking only to certain kinds of people is distasteful.  Belong is not helping ordinary folk by only allowing online enquiries and insisting enquirers state a location.  The locations listed on its form, from which I had to choose one, were irrelevant so I ended up selecting one from the list and telling them it was used only to enable me to send the form.

I sent my online enquiry and asked the Belong FD why his charity was prepaying its 4.5% bond due Jun 2026 with a bond paying 7.5% due 2030.  Paying the additional interest of £1,500,000 on £50,000,0000 of debt makes no sense to me.  The prepayment sounded suspicious to me so I wanted an answer.  Not sure they'll bother to reply or if they do, they'll provide an honest and straight answer.

One plausible reason for raising funds ahead of the legal maturity date might be to avoid the liquidity risk if there are no investors in Jun 2026 to refinance the maturing bonds.  Starting a year early gives Belong time to find punters, but paying £1.5m for avoiding refinancing risk is far too high a price to pay.

No point asking RCB for an answer as they don't provide contact details and in their bond prospectus they tell readers to speak to their financial adviser if they have any queries, i.e., "don't bother us with your queries".

The new bond also offers an additional £100,000 capital gain - probably as a sweetener to persuade existing bondholders to tender their 4.5% bonds and to buy the more expensive ones on offer, and to persuade new investors to subscribe.  Existing investors get favourable treatment when allocating who gets how much of the new bonds on offer as the amount to be raised is limited.

The new bonds are unsecured in terms of assets of Belong, i.e., no properties or guarantees.  The bonds are secured on the right of RCB under its loan to Belong.  In other words, bond holders rely on RCB for payment and RCB relies on Belong for payment.  RCB sits in the middle and takes a fee.  Various distributors share half of the 0.5% fee paid by Belong to RCB for distributing the bonds, i.e., for finding retail and institutional investors.  On £50m, that 0.5% equates to £250,000, or £50,000 per annum for a 5-year bond.

I wanted to know how much RCB was earning in their loan to Belong, i.e., was their interest rate higher than the 7.5%pa rate they paid on their bonds?  According to the Prospectus, the rates are identical, so no mark-up by RCB.

Here's how you can get fillthy rich while you're in office or after leaving office (ideas are derived from the video - see link below).  The first figure is the politician's worth at the time he/she entered office and the second is their wealth on leaving office (note the second is massively larger than the former):

Shelby $200K - $20m
Turn your wife and children into lobbyists paid by businesses that will directly benefit from legislation you pass
Invest in those companies. then give government contracts to them
Buy properties located near government development sites before you award contracts to develop those sites.
Use blind trusts and third parties to technically remain disconnected from investments that will gain in value from your policies and political work.

Pelosi $2m to $120m+
If asked how you become so wealthy, claim stock-picking talent or just plain good luck with investment timing, e.g., buying Microsoft shares just before it got a $22bn government contract, or buying VISA during legislation affecting it.
Get your spouse to run a VC firm to invest in businesses that will benefit from favourable legislation you will pass.
Be a master at deflecting searching questions about wealth accumulation while in office and on a modest salary.
MAINTAIN "PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY"

McConnell $100K to $35m
Take a financial gift from your spouse ($25m). to be repaid by appointing your wife as transportation secretary, so she can directly influence the fortunes of shipping businesses owned by her family.
Resist or support legislation that will benefit businesses you have invested in.

Feinstein $3m - $90m
Get your husband's investment company to invest in businesses (investee businesses) you regulate and which will be awarded contracts by you, e.g., $billions of conracts awarded to investee companies by US postal service - contracts overseen by you.  If pressed, claim the gain in value of investments by your husband in companies subsequently awarded contracts by you, was PURE COINCIDENCE
Support an organisation, such as FDIC, and expect a payback from it for your support - such as the organisation awarding your husband an exclusive contract (FDIC subsequently awarded the husband an exclusive contract to sell possessed properties-earning him >$100m in commissions).
If investigated, claim government work you did was kept separate from your spouse's investment business.

The get rich model is: the politician makes the policies, the spouse makes the profits.

Clintons $700K - $120m
After govt office, claim speaking fees from companies that did or will benefit from your policies.
Start a Foundation to collect money from foreign govts or corporations seeking political favours.

Receive donations from companies that will benefit from you, e.g., Clintons received $millions from mining companies ahead of H Clinton approving their sale to Russia. and Clintons got a donation from UBS ahead of H Clinton sorting out UBS's tax problem.
If questioned about personal wealth creation while in office, deflect by talking of 'global initiatives and charitable work' you do, and maintain plausible deniability.

Corker $4m+ - $69m
Create complexity and financial wizardry to confuse and delay investigators.  Claim 'lucky timing' when asked about stock price gains of companies you invest in, that benefit from your policies.
Claim "accounting oversight" if a journalist spots earnings from your investments that you did not report previously. Buy land ahead of awarding a contract to erect a factory on nearby land that is bound to send property prices through the roof.
Brag openly about having business acumen if questioned about your wealth increases while in office.  Revise your disclosures multiple times, if you are investigated.

Gingrich $400K - $9m
After office, become a consultant for companies that benefitted from your policies and actions while you were in office.
Perfect the art of 'influence peddling without technically lobbying'
Establish a think tank to collect fees from companies you supported while in office, e.g. $300K fee for being a historian for Freddie MAC
Charge corporations for access to your network of contacts.
Arrange book deals, speaking tours, and provide 'strategic advice' to those willing to pay.
Cultivate your political brand
 
Reid $1m - >$10m
Buy cheap land that will increase in value from policies you pass, e.g., $1m earned from land transferred to a friend of yours, even though you did not own the land you transferred.
Get the family to work as lobbyists for companies that will gain from policies you push.
Keep transactions "just legal enough to avoid consequences" from investigations, and always claim "pure coincidence" when asked how your personal investments aligned perfectly with your political policies.

Menendez £200K - $
When accepting bribes, accept gold bars, cash, cars or offers to pay your mortgage payments. Get your wife appointed to the company seeking political favours from you.  Accept gifts from foreign governments.
Refuse to resign, even when the evidence against you is 'overwhelming'

Blunt $1m - $>8m
Establish a family business where the family work as lobbyists for companies you support, e.g., get the wife to lobby for Kraft Foods while you block food safety regulations. Buy property near government developments you approve.
Readily ignore the spirit of conflict of interest rules but be technically compliant with those rules.
Always deny any connection between winning votes and your family's enrichment.
Keep politics in the family, i.e., enlist your family members so you become rich while in office.
Deflect criticism by pointing the finger at opponents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAFZsfBfs08

Most people in the West probably know the actor John Wayne was a racist, but what of other famous actors and film makers?

Some of these racists' attitudes towards and and beliefs about, non-white people were extremely deep-rooted, and they were unapologetic about holding such views.  Some hated Jews so their racism was not only against non-whites.  Some racists secretly admitted they were wrong to hold such views, but they and their studios kept quiet about them in public.  Those shown below are from the Hollywood era long gone, and so excludes racists of present-day Hollywood.

This video (called: "Classic Hollywood Celebrities Who Were Racist In Reality") describes each racist's racist nature and beliefs.  People who were once admired or respected are now repulsive, and their films will no longer be remembered fondly nor will they be watched again. 

Watch these two videos (click below) of senator Murphy listing the many many acts by Trump or his loyalists and family members, to enrich the Trump clan.  Many of these are unconstitutional, illegal, and/or immoral while US president.

Trump has taken profiteering to another level at a pace unheard of from any other US president.  What is also different is how publicly he is enriching himself, as though publicity will cleanse his dirty dealings.

One way he is making money is through payments to him by people who are being investigated for possible transgressions, or payments to him by people who want their businesses to make big profits.  Trump arranges for investigations to be dropped or for laws to be changed that favour the businesses that are making payments to Trump, such as oil companies. 

Trump is selling personal meetings with him: $5m for a meeting, and $1m for dinner.  There was a time when a mayor who charged $200 for personal meetings "would be arrested and run out of town" according to Sen Murphy.

Trump has brokered a deal so that PGA golf tournaments are now held at his golf courses, which the PGA had refused previously.

So many people or companies who donated to Trump's inaugaration fund subsequently called on him and received his favours, such as investigations to be dropped or for them to be pardoned.

Trump has accepted a $400m aeroplane from Quataris, which he may personally retain when he leaves office.

His son and the mid East envoy foremed a private company that received an investment of $2bn. This is the envoy - someone who has political connections, as does his son, i.e., the $2bn donation is a price for access and politcal or personal favors the Quataris are seeking from Trump.

Now, Trump has removed laws so it is no longer illegal for US companies to bribe foreign governments to get lucrative business contracts.  This change is an open invitation by Trump to US companies to bribe people for profit without fear of being convicted.

01 May 2025 Murphy (link) slams Trump’s First 100 Days: This Is A Story Of Incompetence, Theft, Mind-Blowing Corruption

13 May 2025  Murphy On (link) Trump’s Middle East Trip: This Is A National Security Disaster And A Moral Abomination

Watch this video to learn of facts about the slavery not taught in schools. The facts are mostly about the African slave trade but not exclusively: 22 facts relate to white slave owners and 1 to 'Arab' slave owners, showing that slavery is not only perpetrated by whites.

1 Treating humans as a commodity, i.e., people denied human rights, and placing a value on them based on their ability to make a profit - so the most valuable slaves were 25-year old black men, followed by child-rearing black women.
2 Using slaves without their consent, for human experiments - rather like those by Nazis on Jews
3 How Africans themselves sold Africans into slavery.  Search for 'James Marion Sims' to learn of his inhumane experiments on slaves.
4 How slaves were forced to breed so the slave population increased so increasing productivity and profits for slave owners
5 How slaves who were free or who had escaped through the Underground Network, were captured and re-sold into slavery by the Reverse Underground Network.  White laws did not allow blacks to testify against whites, so blacks could not make their legal case for freedom.
6 How slaves were branded, just like branding cows, for identification
7 The breeding of savage dogs to capture runaway slaves
8 The Zong mass killing in which ship's captain, Zong, murdered 132 slaves in order to make a claim on an insurance policy for their lost "cargo" (the slaves).
9 How a black man who had been an 'indentured servant' and after that ended he bought himself, a black man (John Kaser) for life. Indentured servitude is not slavery, but owning a person for life is closer to, if not actually being, slavery.
10 Slave owners and missionaries used the Slave Bible to justify slavery, to indoctrinate slaves to become christians, and to suppress slave rebellion and to convince slaves that slavery was acceptable and normal.
11 Branding slaves who attempted to escape slavery as being mentally ill (suffering from Drapetomania); claiming certain (fake) diseases and illnesses were only suffered by slaves or negroes; that blacks were mentally inferior to whites and they were naturally suited to servitude, and that slavery was their only route to happiness.  A guy called Samuel Cartwright was "Professor of Diseases of the Negro" Another of Cartwright's fake diseases afflicting slaves was laziness.
12 Convict leasing aka slavery.  After slavery was abolished, many blacks were unemployed. 
13 Unemployed blacks to be convicted for being unemployed.  As convicts, they were leased out to businesses and forced to perform hard labour, i.e., they were treated as slaves.
14 Millions of Africans were enslaved AFTER the abolition of the slave trade, i.e., the trade continued internationally.
15 Slaves' accommodation was inhumane, causing them physical and psychological suffering.
16 Specific laws (slave codes) were designed to prevent slave rebellion and the perpetuation of slavery of blacks generation after generation.
17 The US domestic slave trade began with the abolition of importation by the US of slaves.  That ban had the unintended consequence of forcing the separation of slave family members - because whites wanted to send them elsewhere to work as slaves, because slaves from overseas were no longer available.  Slave family members were under the constant fear that their family would be separated at any moment.
18 The Underground Railroad was an escape network made up of people committed to freeing slaves.  It  helped 100K slaves escape in a period of 40 years in the early 1800s. An analogy would be the network to help Jews escape the Nazis.
19 American slaves were slaves in urban settings not only plantations, and were forced to work in may trades, many involving skills.  They contributed to the econoic development and prosperity of cities, but without the benefits.
20 Slaves did rebel, for ex, the Haitian Revolution of the 1700s which ended French slavery and created the country today known as Haiti.  10% of sea voyages of slaves involved a rebellion by the slaves.  The rebellion led by Nat Turner (a slave) triggered debate over slavery, tightened the grip of whites over slaves, and resulted in savage reprisals by whites.
21 The East African slave trade (aka Arab slave trade) continued long after the whites abolished slavery - although as noted, whites' abolishment of slavery did not end immediately in practical terms.  The EA slave trade proves slavery was a global disease afflicting supremacists who were not only white-skinned.
22 The 'Middle Passage' refers to the inhumane conditions aboard slave ships transferring slaves to their destinations where they'd work as slaves.
23 Slavery has not ended; it is a reality for 50 million people across the world, many of them children: 'modern slavery' exists under different names: forced marriage, forced labour, and human trafficking

I saw a notice at SGSSS Havelock Road today about a petition for the release of Jagtar Singh Johal.  I signed the petition.  Sadly, less than 6000 signatures have been obtained to-date - far below the 100K for a debate to be held and fewer than 10K signatures needed to even get a response from the government.

It is very sad that so few signatures have been obtained and the petition expiry date is very close - 16 June 2025.

Petition website

Image source:1984tribute.com
Read this account from 1984.com of how on 9 Aug 1993, Didar Singh single-handedly took cover in a field in the Punjab village of Gagarwal and fought a pitched battle for 7 hours with hordes of personnel from the police and army.

“This is the body of warrior, a warrior. If we had soldiers like him in our army than sheep like you will not be needed.” said one of the officers as Didar Singh's dead body was being dragged after the battle was over.

See this link for a Satluj TV video produced in Nov 2024, 31 years after the battle.  The owner of the field where the battle took place witnessed the battle that raged for 7 hours.  She describes how the police forced her family to line up and form a human shield facing the field where Didar Singh was hidden.  Her son was hit by bullets as the battle raged and bullets flew in all directions.  To this day, he remains ill from his wounds and he is still mentally traumatised by the ordeal.

This is an email I sent to Satluj TV on 25/10/2024:
​
Hello 

I have seen Satluj TV videos of Sikhs demonstrating vociferously and in large numbers, outside Gurdas Maan events in Bakersfield and Stockton (USA).

I strongly recommend that Satluj TV and Sikhs and Punjabis show even greater outrage against the producers of, and actors in, Punjabi films depicting the consumption of alcohol by men and now by women, especially those who appear to be Sikhs.

I have previously expressed my dismay over alcohol consumption in Punjabi films and the selling of alcohol and cigarettes by Sikh shop keepers: 

I personally abhor those who cultivate alcoholism in Punjabi films (directors and producers) and who portray Sikhs merrily knocking back liquor.  It is right that art portrays reality, but I do not endorse "art" that gratuitously promotes alcohol and in so doing, lures impressionable viewers to also drink. 

I do not regard those "Sikhs" who sell liquour and cigarettes to shoppers, as genuine Sikhs.  Sure they will argue they are earning money from their own efforts and not living off state handouts, but consider the obvious conflict of what they are peddling to the basic principles of Sikhi. 

If that conflict is not enough to show these retailers are not genuine Sikhs, then consider the lives they are directly and indirectly destroying through their peddling of alcohol and drugs to addicts.  Also consider the additional strain their trade is placing on local health services.

These peddlars of liquor might also argue, that if they stopped selling liquour and cigarettes then someone else will sell these drugs.  That is likely, but stopping trading in drugs is not solely about money.  By no longer peddling misery through the sale of drugs, I hope these retailers will feel a personal satisfaction (of following Sikh principles) that outweighs any dissatisfaction from their monetary loss.

I am again shocked because I have now seen such behaviour in young Punjabi women.


The image below is from a 2023 Punjabi film (see here for production info) and shows a middle-aged Punjabi woman knocking back alcohol.  She is assumed to be a Sikh woman because her husband pours the drink for her and he is bearded and wearing a turban, i.e., he is obviously a Sikh.
​

This evening I watched another Punjabi film (released in 2022- see details here).  

Soon after it began, I was shocked to see a group of young Punjabi women sitting round a table with bottles of alcohol, and one of them pouring herself a glass of "duty free".  Earlier in the clip she had asked her friend if she had brought the "duty free" (i.e., the alcohol)?  

The image below shows one of the women sharing her glass of alcohol with her younger brother.

​Though I did not actually see anyone of the women put the alcohol in their mouth, the intention is obvious: the film portrays Punjabi women casually consuming alcohol.  I did not watch the rest of the film after the first five minutes or so.

I have watched Punjabi films over many years.  It is common in these films to see men (including those men who appear to be Sikhs) consuming alcohol and being drunk.  It has only been in recent months that I have witnessed liquor consumption by Punjabi women - young and middle-aged.

I think this unwelcome development is a reflection of the widespread peddling of alcohol (and drugs) across the Punjab.  These films could also be an attempt to discredit Sikhs and Punjabis, or to encourage impressionable and gullible Punjabis and Sikhs to imitate actors they admire or to make them think drinking alcohol is normal behaviour or that it is "cool" to drink.

If this degradation of Punjabi and Sikh society, culture, and standards continues, where will it end?  Will we soon see films of Punjabi and Sikh men and women, or even children, snorting or injecting their arms with drugs, or lighting up cigarettes?

I can see parallels with western films.  Going back to the 1930s in Hollywood and the UK, it was common for the leading actors to offer each other drinks or a cigarette at every opportunity - when they met, when they fell ill, when they were injured, when they felt stressed, when they were elated, when they were cold, when they were eating, after they had eaten, to celebrate a birthday or a marriage, or when they were tired.  Smoking and drinking alcohol occurred so often in a film, I used to think these films had to be funded by liquor and tobacco companies.

I do not expect Sikh representative bodies that have been captured by politicians and/or peddlers of drugs and alcohol, to apply pressure on film producers and actors to stop such portrayals.  Nor do I expect politicians to speak out and denounce such films.  

The reasons why they won't condemn or stop such behaviour are obvious: money, power, they are captured by politicians and peddlers of alcohol and drugs, and because of the plan to destroy Punjabis, Sikhs, and Punjab.  

We have seen with Amritpal Singh what happens if anyone dares to stop the peddling of alcohol or drugs.  He is an exceptional politician.

I urge you to use your platform to speak out against such film makers and actors, and I urge you to contact Sikh and Punjabi organisations that are credible and are not captured, to join you in denouncing these bad actors who are destroying Punjabi and Sikh values and standards.

Gurdas Maan is just one person (albeit well-known and influential) but there is an entire film-making industry that should be of greater concern to you.

Feel free to publish my comments and name on your platform.

P Singh

He tried, but failed, to assassinate Punjab's chief minister,. Darbara Singh.  He was arrested and tortured then murdered by the Punjab police, but they covered up their crime by claiming he had died in a police encounter.  See this link for a review of his life.  See this link for a video of his relatives and associates commemorating his life and martyrdom. 

Watch this video commemorating the short life of a Sikh activist, Harpreet Singh, who campaigned tirelessly for the establishment of Khalistan, so much so that he gave his life to it.   See also these videos:  link link link link

Rana Singh had a heart condition the treatment of which he put on the back burner preferring to instead exert his energy and time to furthering the establishment of Khalistan. 

His devotion for establishing Khalistan is inspirational to all Sikhs who want justice for Sikhs.  His life and devotion to the cause fill his parents and those who knew him with pride.

The real terrorists are the

• politicians who have denied justice for Sikhs, introducing laws that deny Sikhs basic human rights and the right to free-speech without fear of reprisals
• the police who have murdered thousand upon thousands of innocent Sikhs with impunity,
• the judges who have presided over miscarriages of justice that have incarcerated thousands of Sikhs and denied them the right to a fair trial and other basic human rights.

A true democracy gives its citizens the right to self-determination, to speak-out against injustice without fear of retribution.  The Indian government, past and present, have denied these rights to Sikhs and has persecuted Sikhs. It is therefore just and right that Sikhs should seek a separate state where they may live without fear and as equals with all citizens.

Watch this Satluj TV video of RP Singh describing the horror of being unjustly arrested and tortured for no reason by Saini and his goons.  Saini operated the torture instrument that sent electric currents through RP Singh and he ordered his thugs to set upon RP Singh and beat him.

Listen to this podcast in which Darshan Singh tells of his journey to America at the request of his parents to keep him alive and away from the murderous clutches of the infamous Punjab police (who had nabbed him three times but each time his family had managed to get him released).  He says, if I understood his words in Punjabi, that Badal must never be forgiven.  He also says that those days should not be described as dark days but golden days.  I am not sure why he says that - perhaps it was because Kharkus and other Sikhs were avenging the persecution and genocide of Sikhs in the aftermath of 1984 and compared to the current state of Punjab,, those times were golden days.  He also says, I think, that the widespread use of drugs is under the control of the state and politicians.  He mentions the infiltration of thousands of outsiders into Punjab as a strategy by the central government to ensure votes are always for the government's puppets and to therefore ensure genuine Punjabis will never be able to achieve the majority of votes and take power away from the government.  He asks the Sikhs abroad to return home, at least some of the ex-pats if all of them cannot return to the Punjab, because the demographics of the Punjab.

Listen to this podcast by Satluj TV in which Gurnam Singh Jusraa of Ropar village gives his eye witness accounts of innocent young Sikhs being taken by police and murdered.  Listen to his denunciation of Badal 

Watch this August 2024 podcast of an interview of Baldev Singh Sirsa in which he exposes the distortion of Sikh history in SGPC books.  Satluj TV has this summary to accompany its podcast:
"Dirty talk about Guru Sahabana in SGPC books
History has been distorted
Children were also taught wrongly in books of Punjab Board
Sikh thinker Baldev Singh Sirsa has been raising his voice for many years"
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This article and video published by Sikh Siyasat Bureau in May 2018 on the same subject, has this to say:

Amritsar: Sikh activists heal a protest march in Amritsar on Monday (22 May) against distortion of Sikh history in books published by a Nagpur based private publisher. Baldev Singh Sirsa, president of Lok Bhalai Insaaf Welfare Society said that the books were part of Hinduva conspiracy to distort the historical facts to further the Hindutva agenda in the sub-continent. Alleging RSS had behind the controversial books, Baldev Singh Sirsa questioned the silence of Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) over this issue citing its’ alliance with the Bhartiya Janta Party, which is considered to be political offshoot of the RSS.
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Baldev Singh Sirsa had this to say to Sikh Siyasat Bureau in May 2018:
"Baldev Singh Sirsa said that the “Nagpuri books” are full of misinformation, lies and Hindutva propaganda about Sikh Guru and the Sikhs. He said that such distortion of Sikh history can not be tolerated at any cost"