August 03, 2012
The water car fraud
Pervez Hoodbhoy in the Express Tribune:
Agha Waqar Ahmad deserves a medal from the people of Pakistan for his great service to the nation. In a few short days, he has exposed just how far Pakistan has fallen into the pit of ignorance and self-delusion. No practical joker could have demonstrated more dramatically the true nature of our country’s political leaders, popular TV anchors and famed scientists.
At first, it sounded like a joke: a self-styled engineer, trained in Khairpur’s polytechnic institute, claims to have invented a ‘water kit’ enabling any car to run on water alone. It didn’t matter that the rest of world couldn’t extract energy from water; he had done it. He promised a new Pakistan with limitless energy, no need for petrol or gas, and no more loadshedding. For an energy starved nation, it is a vision of paradise.
Agha Waqar Ahmad is now a national celebrity thanks to Religious Affairs Minister Khursheed Shah. Federal ministers Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani and Qamar Zaman Kaira have added their commendations. President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed his delight. The cabinet has met three times to discuss the water vehicle, and a fourth meeting is scheduled. Reports suggest millions may be spent on the ‘water fuel kit project’.
The media has rushed in to celebrate the new national hero. For TV anchor Talat Husain, thanks to Agha Waqar Ahmad’s invention, Pakistan’s image can go from a country ravaged by terrorism to one of boundless possibilities. Anchor Hamid Mir and Senator Parvaiz Rasheed drove around Islamabad sitting next to the inventor, wondering how to protect the man’s life from Western oil companies.
More here.
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Oh dear. . .that is really, REALLY embarrassing. Talk about a total failure of an educational system (a topic I am familiar with as an American.)
Posted by: DrunktankDan | Aug 3, 2012 6:47:35 PM
www.zerohedge.com
Fraud or fooling people, comes in many colors in any country on this planet. Remember “cold fusion”, perpetuated by physicists and chemists, which began in the state of Utah, but ended up in Europe?
The failed war on cancer is one of the biggest medical frauds of this century. After squandering over $100 billion, up to a $ 1 trillion by some estimates, the cancer generals cannot even tell you what cancer is, let alone how to cure and prevent it in the human body. They have been bought and paid for by the criminal pharmaceutical companies which have enough money to buy anyone, any person or any government. The cancer generals have also given the middle finger to seminal experiments and facts decades ago, about cancer by the genius in Germany Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph.D.
Remember the saying: “There is a sucker born every minute”?
But the biggest fraud today is perpetuated by our government and involves the money supply as documented at the link above www.zerohedge.com. The national debt is $16 trillion and rising very rapidly placing our country and way of life at much more serious risk than any nuclear or other weapon could. Our government is perpetrating the biggest lie on the planet and printing money because it has no real wealth or anything of real value other than dictatorial power just like former Nazi, Germany or the former Soviet Union some brave souls fought so hard to rid the world of.
The likely false claim today of 163,000 new jobs in July pales in significance to the fraud about our money supply. But wouldn’t you like to have a detailed list of these claimed “new” jobs and the names and addresses and "work" performed of those who obtained these “new” jobs in order to check and verify this false claim? This is all a massive statistical lie, good only for a phony run up of a few hundred points on the corrupt New York Stock Exchange at the expense of mostly senior citizens who are forced, by dictator Big Ben, to accept zero percent interest on their hard earned savings.
The entire banking and housing collapse was due to massive criminal fraud by the "college graduate" fraudsters in the banking and insurance industries.
Americans are bigger fools than anyone in Pakistan ever was. Here is what they learned from fighting a war with Germany:
“The great masses of the people…will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” Adolph Hitler.
By the way, how much actual real physical gold do you think is stored at the New York Federal Reserve Bank? They are doing a phony audit now and even drilling holes in gold bars to see if they indeed are real or fake! Obviously these idiots never took a physics class either. See this article in LATimes today: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gold-bars-20120803,0,3466318.story
Occasionally someone gets mad enough to take action against being screwed by government: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-farmer-drives-tractor-over-patrol-cars-pictures,0,4111377.photogallery
But most of the time most folks are too stupid to even know they were fleeced. This is an example of the dismal failure of lower and higher and all so called education in the U.S. today.
But you don't have to travel half way around the world to see fraud; just look in your own back yard!!
Winfield J. Abbe, Ph.D., Physics
Posted by: W.J.Abbe | Aug 3, 2012 9:32:22 PM
This is actually a common occurrence in countries that seek to "catch up" quickly to richer, more powerful, more established countries. It was common in the US in the 18th and 19th century as it sought to catch up with Britain. It happened in Germany in the 19th century, and has played out in former colonies the world over.
Cold fusion was a similar thing actually. Utah universities have a chip on their shoulder because a lot of money is spent on them, but they aren't regarded as very good or as very welcoming to intellectual discourse due to the suffocating Mormon society around them. So they thought they could put Utah science on the map with cold fusion and lead over the hard work of institution building.
Posted by: Hektor Bim | Aug 7, 2012 10:37:23 AM
Another example: the "great leap forward".
Posted by: reader | Aug 7, 2012 5:49:52 PM
http://technologygateway.nasa.gov/media/CC/lenr/lenr.html
Cold Fusion is a fraud? NASA could be wrong, but they have a pretty good track record.
Posted by: Carlos | Aug 7, 2012 8:13:39 PM
And wasn't The University of Utah responsible for breakthrough work in animal valves for heart surgery?
I remember visiting their SLC campus back in the early 70s. A more cutting edge campus you would never hope to see.
There seems to be a lot of anti-mormon sentiment these days. What's driving it? I guess the bells are always tolling for one religion or another. So be it.
Posted by: Carlos | Aug 7, 2012 8:20:26 PM
I don't wish to imply that good work doesn't happen at the University of Utah. I just mean that they perceived themselves as not getting the recognition and making the progress they wished to, and thus were willing to bet on the jokers Pons and Fleischmann in the 90s. Conditions and perceptions might have changed since then. It's got nothing to do with Mormonism beyond the intellectual climate it creates in Utah.
Posted by: Hektor Bim | Aug 7, 2012 9:21:46 PM
Water Car Kit 1980 USA
Dan Rather on national TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifivrcq3cNM
This Agha guy is 30 years too late.
Posted by: Raza | Aug 7, 2012 9:48:24 PM
Does anyone else remember Ramar Pillai? Hydrinos? Cold fusion too of course. (I can only half-resist leaving out the hydrogen economy :D) Dr Hoodbhoy, as an extremely knowledgeable scientist, seems to have forgotten the intuitive conceptual and psychological appeal of transmutation to people not as in the loop as he is.
Tempting as it is to connect this to Pakistan going down the toilet, I think the phenomenon is broad enough to make this bit of self-flagellation virtuous but needless.
Posted by: prasad | Aug 8, 2012 1:40:22 AM
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