Quick notes: Price gouging | Dhaka rising...

• Make hay while the pandemic rages? Dr Reddy's prices DRDO's 2DG anti-Covid drug at Rs 990 per sachet.



• Don't exempt Pfizer from local trials: People who had received two doses of Pfizer saw a three-fold reduction in their antibodies against B.1.617 variant.. Pfizer vaccine less effective



• Data proves Kumbh wasn't a super-spreader: Out of 16,000 police personnel deployed in the Kumbh Mela Kshetra only 88 (or just a little above 0.5 per cent) had tested positive for Covid by April 30.



• 'Kingpin' in bed allotment scam is a BJP worker: The Central Crime Branch sleuths investigating the Bengaluru bed-allotment scam have arrested the suspected kingpin, said to be an aide of BJP MLA Satish Reddy



• Ascendant Bangladesh: Covid aid to India, financial help to Sri Lanka — Bangladesh is showcasing its economic rise



• Mess in the name of vikAss: The whole of Lakshadweep is a fragile ecosystem with an average height of just about 8 feet above sea level and any development that does not cater to sustainability, will render the whole area useless and uninhabitable in no time. There are islands that have sunk under the sea in our times.



• Raag Hansadhwani: Mohd Aman



• Japan wants TSMC, Sony to build 20 nanometre chip plant: Japan's most advanced semiconductor plant is a 40 nanometre chip factory operated by Renesas Electronics Corp



• Antitrust lawsuit against Amazon: Thou shalt not undercut Amazon prices.. "Amazon fixed online retail prices through contract provisions and policies".. If a vendor sells a product on Amazon, it can’t sell the same product elsewhere. Amazon reserves the right to kick non-compliant vendors off its platform, among other punishments.



• Dirty tricks: USA pressured Brazil not to buy Sputnik V vaccine – a decision which may have costed many thousands of lives.

US Dep. of Health publicly confirmed that it pressured Brazil against Sputnik V.
We believe countries should work together to save lives. Efforts to undermine the vaccines are unethical and are costing lives.
👇https://t.co/Ga5i4zvbCt P.48 pic.twitter.com/A6wyKOkc8t

— Sputnik V (@sputnikvaccine) March 15, 2021

Should China Be Sued?

Who's Really Covering up For China's COVID Involvement?

The idea that this virus pandemic and all of the deaths inflicted everywhere across the world, were the product of some careless mishandling of an intentionally engineered pathogen is really horrifying. This is why Xi Jinping attacked us at Galwan in Ladakh, while also making intrusions against Taiwan, Japan, and launching a crackdown in HongKong --  because he immediately needed some major distractions to help him deflect attention from his own govt's failed coverup of negligence at their govt laboratory.

how i became #twitterindia's favorite. foe? what #foe?

https://twitter.com/RajeevSrinivasa/status/1398090075393560582?s=20

pic 1

pic 2

American Celebs Bow To China, Revealing Extent of Sellout

Quick notes: Guard of the Himalayas | 3rd dose...

• Sundarlal Bahuguna, Guard of Himalayas: “Himalaya is a land of penance. Nothing in the world can be achieved without penance. I am doing this on behalf of all who are striving to save our dying planet. Why should a river, a mountain and forest or the ocean be killed, while we cling to life?”.
  
  As late as 2018, when Bahuguna was 91, he said in an interview that dams were paving the way for calamities and expressed concern that lakhs of trees will be cut down to make way for the Char Dham road and Pancheshwar dam. “The well-being of the Himalayas is important not just for Uttarakhand but the rest of the country as well”.




• Protection wanes by 6 months: Efficacy of Chinese vaccines is “not high” — officials back 3rd dose



• Only Allopathy gets benefit of doubt? AP govt stops distribution of herbal Covid cure. . . . No side effects, say Ayurvedic experts. ‘The mixture, containing 18 ingredients, is safe for administration to COVID-19 patients’



• More of East India loot? India challenges $1.2 billion Cairn arbitration award, says 'never agreed to arbitrate'.. When an Air India aircraft lands at any US airport, Cairn would be able to move court and get that attached before it flies out.



• Mango exports: US apples arrived in India without the Indian inspector being in the USA, but vice versa was not allowed. No Indian mangoes in US for second year in a row.



• What are weeds? An empty field left undisturbed for long enough will inevitably turn into a forest, given enough time. Nature will fill empty, barren or disturbed ground with plants which quickly stabilise and build the soil, to prepare the ground for progressively larger plants, until the area is filled with trees, and many layers of understory plants beneath them. This process is called Forest Succession.
  
  Why forests? Because forest systems are one of the most productive and most sustainable systems known, it is what Nature creates at almost every opportunity. Forest systems can be designed to produce food if we construct them using edible plant species, and they can produce other useful resources such as timber, fibres, dyes and medicines. In addition, what makes them special is that they are living ecosystems, and therefore support great biodiversity, they provide a home to a wide range of flora and fauna, which all comes together to create a balanced, natural, pest and weed free system.
  
  When any soil is laid bare or disturbed, Nature has a system for repairing the degraded ground in order to prevent soil erosion and to reconstruct the ecosystem which was there or should be there. As the first line of action, Nature deploys pioneer plants, to stabilise the soil. These plants all have various unique attributes and aid the reconstruction process in various ways. Here are some examples:
  
  - Plants with deep tap roots drill into hardpan to decompact it, creating channels to allow water and air back in the soil.
  
  - Plants with fine, net-like root structures hold the soil together and prevent erosion on slopes and banks.
  
  - Plants with thorns or which are poisonous protect the ground cover plants from being over-grazed by herbivores.
  
  We are all familiar with these amazing pioneer plants, we commonly call them weeds! Weeds are by definition “plants growing where we don’t want them to” and that is not a biological or ecological categorisation, it’s just a unscientific value judgement of the worth and place of certain plants in the ecosystem according to subjective human opinion. The pioneer plant’s action of stabilising any soil disturbance or damage is only the first of many steps of a full-blown reconstruction process which Nature carries out.



• Planting the water: Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water. It uses water canals called amunas – to divert wet-season flows from mountain streams and route them to natural infiltration basins. Because the water moves more slowly underground as it travels through gravel and soil, it emerges downslope from springs months later, when the comuneros collect it to water their crops. Because much of their irrigation soaks into the ground and eventually makes its way back to the rivers, repairing abandoned amunas scattered throughout the highlands could extend water into the dry season for city dwellers too.



• Iran unveils its domestic supercomputer: Wholly designed and built by a team of Iranian engineers, it has a performance capacity of 0.56 petaflops at the moment and will reach one petaflops in two months.



• 2DG: “It is a glucose molecule analogue which can’t undergo further glycolysis. Monocytes/macrophages in Covid lungs (proliferative tissues: inflammation/tumour) become highly glycolytic after infection and facilitate SARS-CoV-2 replication which accumulates in virally infected cells and prevents virus growth by stopping viral synthesis and energy production.. Dr Jain showed that 2-DG can function as a differential radio-chemo-modifier, which can sensitize cancer cells while protecting normal cells. It enhances cellular damage and cell death by inhibiting repair and recovery.”

After Just 1 Hour of Administring Dose ...

Effect of '2-deoxy-D-glucose' of DRDO video of CHL Hospital, Indore.

Great work by our Scientists👍🇮🇳🙏pic.twitter.com/UKVTHhyuaD

— Megh Updates 🚨 (@MeghUpdates) May 24, 2021

Fwd: "Fact-Checking" Takes Another Beating

so much for altnews and boomlive, so eagerly quotes by our mainstream media and congress bots.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Matt Taibbi <taibbi@substack.com>
Date: Tue, May 25, 2021 at 3:44 AM
Subject: "Fact-Checking" Takes Another Beating
To: 

Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

	"Fact-Checking" Takes Another Beating Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do Matt Taibbi May 24 The soul of rectitude testifies in the Senate The news business just can't stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating, of all places, at a "festival of fact-checking." The Poynter Institute is perhaps the most respected think tank in our business, an organization seeking to "fortify journalism's role in a free society," among other things through its sponsorship of the fact-checking outlet PolitiFact. A few weeks back, it held a virtual convention called the "United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking." The three-day event featured special guests Christiane Amanpour, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Brian Stelter, and Senator Mark Warner — a lineup of fact "stars" whose ironic energy recalled the USO's telethon-execution of Terrance and Phillip before the invasion of Canada in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Tickets were $50, but if you wanted a "private virtual happy hour" with Stelter, you needed to pay $100 for the "VIP Experience." During the confab, PolitiFact's Katie Sanders asked Fauci, "Are you still confident that [Covid-19] developed naturally?" To which the convivial doctor answered, "No, I'm not convinced of that," going on to say "we" should continue to investigate all hypotheses about how the pandemic began:

deleted....

Wuhan Lab Workers Fell Sick, Sought Hospital Care, Prior to Main COVID Outbreak

Apparently, at least 3 lab researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had fallen sick with COVID-like symptoms and been admitted to hospital, ahead of the main COVID outbreak that took place in Wuhan.

superstition

no prizes for guessing which picture is superstition

1. rajnath singh with rafale

2. some newly inducted christian kerala minister in the communist government of pinarayi vijayan. that's right, a COMMUNIST government

is there a christian monopoly in the indian medical world especially re the wuhan virus?

what i want to know is, where's the famous 'scientific temper'?

1. the IMA president is an out and out evangelist jesus freak https://archive.is/ccydA

2. the JIMA writes an editorial quoting some vague christian text prominently and putting down hindu ideas https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/1396493184125915136?s=20

3. the most prominent doctors quoted in the media are all from the christian medical college, vellore: jayaprakash muliyil, gagandeep kang, jacob john. and so far as i can tell, they are very critical. all the time. about everything, even though gagandeep kang is in every committee formed by the govt.

4. jacob puliyel, a doctor, and prashant bhushan (who else!) have filed a PIL in the SC to force covaxin clinical trial data to be put in the public domain. why? the peer-reviewed information is due to appear in the right medical journal (yeah, the omnipresent lancet) in june

i am wondering if there are some invisible hands behind all this. pfizer, maybe? the bill gates foundation, maybe?

how chinese are propagating their traditional medicine

h/t subhash kak ji.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06782-7

and

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673699903537.pdf

well played, hans. meanwhile harshvardhan jumps on every allopathy bandwagon, and tries to ban deepavali.

praise for kerala from the nyt. or paid propaganda for the CPM

so far as i can tell on the ground, almost all of this is complete myth. the famous 'coronaslayer' shylaja was dropped unceremoniously from the new cabinet sworn in this week. now if she had been SO successful in managing nipah and wuhanvirus, it makes no sense that she would be replaced at the height of the second wave. 

conclusion: she was just a figurehead.

and this article either means there is leftover propaganda money from the elections, or more from the soro$$$$ stable. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/world/asia/india-kerala-states-covid.html

just like fauci was built up as second only to god, shylaja was built up as the wise health minister. past experience? schoolteacher. the new health minister is veena george. past experience? tv journalism. what does her ascent mean? CPM is trying to draw the christian vote away from the congress. 

NYT’s Ben Smith: Inside China’s Global Propaganda Machine

the (almost) war in west asia

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/the-war-in-west-asia-that-almost?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

it was more about politics than anything else, and i ask cui bono? who benefited from it?

biden, afghan and indo-us relations: my (delayed) podcast

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-32-biden-afghanistan-and-relations?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

'science' as fraud and narrative, esp with credentialed elites like 'the lancet'.

this article lays out, soberly, the decline of both science and western media. they got into a conspiracy theory mindset of political correctness. it's very easy to get sucked into your own narrative. 

https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-scientists-sacrificed-scepticism/

i did have an inkling of this. in particular i am very sceptical of 'the lancet'. here's my essay on pious frauds from last year. 

https://openthemagazine.com/essay/pious-frauds/

Green Energy Generator from Waste Water Heat Recovery

Waste water from homes carries heat that can be recovered as useful energy:

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/997954472/how-your-hot-showers-and-toilet-flushes-can-help-the-climate

in the 'famous last words' department, paul krugman (drumroll!)

that was then.

this is now. (ok, i am not saying bitcoin is wonderful, just enjoying krugman's certainty).

pfizer demands indemnity. that speaks volumes.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-and-pfizer-at-impasse-over-vaccine-indemnity-demand-sources/articleshow/82827757.cms

they had demanded that argentina surrender their embassies and some naval ships as guarantees of indemnity!

east india company all over again. 

HIV insert into #wuhanvirus: raised by french nobelist and iit delhi, rejected out of hand in apr 2020

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Disputed-French-Nobel-winner-Luc-Montagnier-says-Covid-19-was-made-in-a-lab-laboratory

of course, the french nobel prize winner was cancelled.

the iit delhi paper was cancelled.

fauci, daszak and friends in wuhan gave themselves a clean chit.

truly awesome how the media narrative works. 

Quick notes: Fishing fleet | Desi 5G...

• China's fishing fleet: New evidence has emerged that China’s state-owned fishing fleet may be a front for covert intelligence operations in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. The investigation revealed that numerous "fishermen" are actually militiamen responsible for guarding China’s outposts.



• Shoddy oxygen concentrators flood Indian market: Relaxed govt rules allowed consumers to import China-made oxygen concentrators for personal use through e-commerce portals. “If the devices are run for a period of time, the concentration of oxygen suffers a substantial dip”. Buyers are finding this out the hard way.



• Can IBM rescue Intel? IBM already licenses its transistor designs to GlobalFoundries and Samsung, so Intel is joining a team of TSMC competitors to pool research and share the huge cost of developing ever-smaller transistors.. Intel could leap directly from 7nm in 2022 to IBM’s 2nm in 2024. By working together, the two American companies can put Intel back onto an equal footing with TSMC.



• Atmanirbhar America: U.S. Senators close to inking $52 Billion Semiconductor funding plan.. The $52 billion five-year plan pales in comparison to South Korea's $450 billion support to its semiconductor industry.



• 5Gi: The Indian 5G standard is capable of providing broadband connectivity in rural India using ultra long-range cell sites. However, if 5Gi comes into force, network gear and mobile device makers will have to make India-specific products, which will lead to an increase in costs.
  
  It will take several reiterations to fix compatibility issues, but it is doable.



• ‘Vikas gando thayo chhe’: Bangladesh beats India in per capita income.. Because Modi-sarkar is clueless on tech



• Raga Yaman: Nicolas Delaigue (Sitar), Bhaskar Das (Bansuri)




• Changing life in the hills with jobs: Dhiraj Dolwani is stemming the tide of migration to cities and ushering in social change in Uttarakhand in the process.



• India loses out in Iranian roulette: For years, ONGC has been working on Farzad-B gas field and invested over $400 million in prospecting the gas field. However, when it came to commercially developing the gas find, it dumped ONGC. Something similar happened to developing Iran’s 620-kilometre $2 billion railroad connecting Chabahar Port to Zahedan in Afghanistan.



• USA betrays its friends again: “They absolutely are going to kill us.” Afghans who helped US now fear being left behind. “The Taliban is calling us and telling us, ’Your stepbrother is leaving the country soon, and we will kill all of you guys.’”



• The origin of COVID: Nicholas Wade's investigation.. Video by Shekhar Gupta elucidating this.



• India is mirroring Brazil:

On Covid

I have told this before, repeating now.

We are mirroring Brazil. Albeit with lesser numbers. There is a time gap of 6 to 8 weeks between us.

Now kids it is in Brazil, I urge all State Govts across India to be prepared for it. GOI should monitor preparations carefully.

— DR JAGADISH J HIREMATH (@Kaalateetham) May 20, 2021




• An Easy Way To Understand Variants:

another indian makes waves at google: never heard of this man before

https://www.wired.com/story/prabhakar-raghavan-isnt-ceo-of-google-he-just-runs-the-place/?bxid=5cc9e3122ddf9c1a7ae03a81&cndid=55280215&esrc=growl2-regGate-1120&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_051921&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4

i tell you, tamils rock. 😁 not being one myself, i just have a tamil-sounding name. 

ISRO's Hypersonic Vehicle: TSTO-TD

Even while it continues its test program for its Reusable Launch Vehicle Test Demonstrator (RLV-TD), ISRO has announced the next phase of its reusable launch vehicle program, the Two-Stage-to-Orbit Test Demonstrator (TSTO-TD), which is targeted for 2027. This will be a 2-stage vehicle consisting of an upper stage and a lower stage. The lower stage will be an hypersonic aircraft powered by air-breathing propulsion. The upper stage rides piggyback, and will detach in the uppermost atmosphere to ascend to orbit using rocket propulsion.

Hypersonic propulsion is a very advanced technology, used for cutting-edge weaponry and also having potential use for rapid intercontinental transport, and even reusable orbital launch vehicles. India's pursuit of this technology is then doubly strategic, and we need to make full use of any opportunities for import of foreign technologies & components relating to this, before there are any moves to restrict the proliferation of this technology. As a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) which China is not a member of, India should want to keep these technologies out of the hands of Pakistan, and should encourage China to become an adherent to non-proliferation agreements for this technology.

India's BrahMos missile is supersonic but not hypersonic, with a maximum speed of Mach 3 (hypersonic systems tend to travel faster than Mach 5). Until and unless China stops proliferating dangerous strategic technologies to Pakistan, India should continue to provide the same to some of China's neighbors around the South China Sea region, etc.

Biden Govt Wants to Negotiate Global Corporate Tax Treaty With World

The Biden govt in the US may be looking to negotiate a global corporate tax treaty with the world, to ensure that all corporations get some minimum taxation. I suppose India might like this, since our taxation needs will always be greater than more developed countries. At the same time, it would eliminate tax havens present in various countries around the world.

But why is the Biden govt seeking something so unprecedented? It's because the US Democratic Party are literally in a fight for their political lives, and they're willing to throw away American sovereignty to cede taxation powers to a foreign consensus body, in order to keep their party alive. US Democrat politics requires more social welfare spending to keep their poorer voting classes happy. This in turn requires heavier taxation of businesses, which would likely send corporates fleeing abroad to where they can be taxed less (India would probably not be one of those places.) So by negotiating a treaty with the rest of the world to ensure that corporates everywhere face some minimum tax rate wherever they go, it will help to reduce corporations in the US from fleeing abroad.

This could cause a widespread tax revolt among smaller businesses, since they're the ones who really have to pay corporate taxes (the larger corporations usually have to pay nothing at all, due to better accounting tricks.)

in case you have a horror of ventilators, there may be alternative oxygen intake methods

it is indeed scary to be put on a ventilator.

'science' in action

i thought it was only abrahamic religion that was "truth by repeated assertion". it turns out western science is, too: it's based on 'axioms' that are unquestionable.

neils bohr said "science advances funeral by funeral". 

now tedros, fauci et al have proved that "science advances by 3.8 million funerals".

h/t @amitsurg

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/?redirectURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fthe-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill%2F

is this what's called 'information warfare'? or 'disinformation warfare'?

China Lands Its First Rover on Mars

Quick notes: Pharmacy of the world | Lathi force...

• Pharmacy of the world: India failed to enlist the vast swathe of its manufacturing capabilities - biologics factories, for instance, that could have been repurposed into vaccine production lines.
  
  After its grandstanding over its capacities to vaccinate the world, India now finds itself in a situation where it not only has to answer other nations who were promised doses, but also has to answer for the shutters-down boards at centres across the country.



• Origins of the second wave: Evidence points to various parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, in early Jan 2021, and not in Maharashtra a month later as is popularly assumed. It lies in the heart of the farmers’ agitation, in Chandigarh, where non-resident Indians arrived in droves from the UK.



• Police heavy-handedness: Stop using lathi while enforcing lockdown norms, HC tells Karnataka govt

With many motorists receiving a couple of sharp thwacks of the lathi land on their buttocks, this cyclist in Udupi comes prepared with rear protection, helmet and a mask :) @IndiaToday pic.twitter.com/hoTWV7vBSm

— Nolan Pinto (@nolanentreeo) May 11, 2021




ಜನರನ್ನು ಥಳಿಸುವ ಅಧಿಕಾರ ಪೊಲೀಸರಿಗಿಲ್ಲ, ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಕೂಡಲೇ ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಕಡಿವಾಣ ಹಾಕಬೇಕು: ಕರವೇ ಅದ್ಯಕ್ಷ ಟಿ.ಎ. ನಾರಾಯಣಗೌಡ

Prevent police atrocity during lockdown- Karnataka Rakshana Vedike President Narayana Gowda appeal to the State govt https://t.co/K1iTEuvYHa #Police @narayanagowdru #yediyurappa

— Pratidhvani (@PratidhvaniNews) May 10, 2021




• Can Dharamsala stop PLA's Tibetan gambit? The first priority for the new Tibetan administration in Dharamsala should be to look at Tibetan recruitment in the PLA, suggests Claude Arpi.



• Tech challenged Bharat: After hiking prices, China now sending sub-standard oxygen concentrators to India.



• Cairn Energy wants to attach PSB assets abroad: Given that deposits with overseas branches is public money and not a sovereign asset, attaching funds in such accounts is beyond the realm of rights of the said company.



• Yugan Yugan Hum Yogi: Pt Kumar Gandharva sings Kabir




• Discovered in India: 2-DG anti-Covid-19 drug originated at DRDO'S Gwalior lab in 1998. The drug works by accumulating in the virus infected cells and prevents virus growth by stopping viral synthesis. . . . . . . . Drug for brain tumour patients, repurposed for Covid.



• Silicon supremacy: Korea unveils $450 billion push for Global chipmaking crown

What’s the ‘bullwhip effect’ and how can we avoid crises like the global chip shortage? https://t.co/j7HAqGxb4S pic.twitter.com/JAQAErbjGT

— World Economic Forum (@wef) May 12, 2021

the state of hindus in pakistan: brutal conversion

THIS is what majoritarian looks like. this is why CAA is needed, so that at least some can escape. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfoYXlSM0N8&t=803s

and that wretched evangelical body USCIRF rates india a 'country of particular concern', when it is a minoritarian state by the blessed constitution?

Rzero falls overall. maybe the curve IS bending

this is good news. astonishing it was over 3 in some places earlier. i suspect it is still around 2 in kerala at the rate people are getting infected. 

the economist can't contain itself with excitement

they never saw a war they didn't like.

charlie hebdo published this cartoon

it's a little insensitive and offensive, but afaik no hindutva terrorists showed up at charlie hedbo's offices with ak47s.

sarva dharma vada pav. 

the pinnacle of british culture circa 1600

these are the guys who then, with 'guns, germs and steel' invaded us. 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277255-cerne-abbas-giant-may-have-been-carved-into-hill-over-1000-years-ago/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1620878974

Gravitas: Did Dr. Fauci Fund Wuhan Virus Research?

Rand Paul on 'Explosive' Hearing with Dr. Fauci

Rand Paul Clashes With Fauci Over NIH Money To Wuhan Virology Institute

Saagar Enjeti: New Details REVEAL Fauci, Media Coverup Of Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis

China Aims for Naval Supremacy by 2050

Respect to this police lady

London Mayor Polls: Sadiq Khan bags a second term

Why Elon Musk’s Starbase is Meeting Resistance in Texas Border Town | WSJ

Quick notes: Isolating India | Han duplicity...

• China pressures world to isolate India over covid: Very different from how China demanded it should be treated when the CCP unleashed the Wuhan virus upon the world. The Chinese govt, and its political and medical proxies, argued vociferously that restricting travel from China was unscientific and unnecessary, or even counter-productive.



• Han duplicity: "PLA may undertake operations this summer to achieve whatever objectives they could not achieve last May".



• Wuhan virus spreads in the air: Meat and poultry processing facilities have been sites for several Covid-19 superspreading events and workers in those industries have been especially likely to become infected.



• Intellectual capital: UK wants Indian brains. India loves to lose its smartest.

UK is upgrading by sending back useless illegal immigrants to India. Replenishing by bringing in the best brains.
India doing the opposite: sending out the smartest and bringing back the uneducated.

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) May 4, 2021




• Socialism doing its thing in Biden's America: “Businesses can’t hire people because govt is paying them to not go back to work.” . . . . . . Wealthy exodus: "The movement out of San Francisco and New York is extraordinary".



• Rhodium Group: China emissions exceed all developed nations combined




• Dharwad: Hindustani music's southern home

Fwd: Ayush Ministry launches nationwide distribution campaign of AYUSH 64 & Kabasura Kudineer dated 07 May 2021

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Nagaraj 
Date: Sat, May 8, 2021 at 11:34 AM
Subject: Ayush Ministry launches nationwide distribution campaign of AYUSH 64 & Kabasura Kudineer dated 07 May 2021
To: 

https://pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1716729

In a concerted response to the second surge of COVID-19 infection in the country, Ministry of Ayush is launching a massive nationwide campaign today to distribute its proven poly herbal Ayurvadic drugs AYUSH 64 and Sidha drug Kabasura Kudineer for the benefit of the vast majority of out of hospital COVID patients. The efficacy of these drugs has been proved through robust multi-centre clinical trials. The multi stakeholder campaign being launched by Shri Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State (independent charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports and Minister of Ayush (additional charge) will ensure that medicines reach the needy in a transparent and efficient manner. The main collaborator in the campaign is Sewa Bharati.

A comprehensive strategy of distribution has been chalked out and the role out will unfold in a phased manner, utilising the wide network of various institutions working under the aegis of the ministry and this will be supported by the countrywide network of Sewa Bharati.

It is worthwhile to note that since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country, the Ministry of Ayush has taken several initiatives toward control and mitigation of COVID 19, while also working in close collaboration with Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in the fight against COVID 19. With the latest initiative of the Ministry to launch a nationwide campaign for distribution of AYUSH-64 and Kabasura Kudineer, India aims to strengthen its position in fight against COVID19 pandemic.

The Ministry has taken several initiatives and setup an Interdisciplinary AYUSH Research and Development Task Force involving experts from diverse fields to formulate and develop strategies for control and mitigation of COVID 19. Many clinical and observational studies have been undertaken to understand the role of AYUSH interventions in mitigation and management of COVID 19 whereas various studies were carried out on AYUSH-64, an Ayurvedic formulation developed by the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS)and Kabasura Kudineer, a classical Siddha formulation.

The Ministry of Ayush-Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) collaboration has recently completed a robust multi-centre clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of AYUSH 64 in the management of mild to moderate COVID-19 patients. Kabasura Kudineer, a Siddha medicine was also subjected to clinical trials for studying the efficacy in Covid-19 patients by Central Council for Research in Siddha (CCRS) under Ministry of Ayush and is also found useful in the treatment of mild to moderate covid-19 infection.

The Ministry has also setup an Interdisciplinary Committee for Inclusion  of Ayurveda and Yoga Interventions in the 'National Clinical Management Protocol: COVID-19, which was chaired by Dr V M Katoch, former Director General ICMR.

Read more

--

Documents Reveal China Discussed Weaponisation of Coronaviruses Prior to Pandemic

India, Israel and UAE Sign Maiden Trilateral Deal to Push W Asian Partnership

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/india-israel-and-uae-sign-maiden-trilateral-deal-to-push-w-asian-partnership/articleshow/82432369.cms

A trilateral partnership has been initiated by the International Federation of Indo-Israel Chambers of Commerce (IFIICC) through which an Israel-based company, Ecoppia, is producing an innovative robotic solar cleaning technology in India for a landmark project in the UAE, according to an Israel Embassy statement.

omerta: why everyone's quiet about fauci funding GoF research in wuhan

reading between the lines, it's a conspiracy of silence. an omerta. 

i believe GoF research is no longer under a moratorium in the US after 2017.

the smoking gun: fauci's NAIAD funded wuhan lab for gain of function research

to the tune of $3 million. because GOF (which adds capability to viruses) is banned in the US.

https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/project-details/8674931#details

h//t v anantha nageswaran

Germany Opposes US-backed Global Waiver on Protection For COVID-19 Vaccines

Brazil's President Accuses China of 'Biological Warfare' Over Covid-19

chinese rocket will crash ANYWHERE between 42 deg N and 42 deg S

yay! kill some MORE people, and get away with it, as though wuhan virus wasn't bad enough!

https://news.yahoo.com/china-uncontrollable-rocket-where-long-102843798.html

yes, in the next few days. oh joy. no chance of reparations.

btw, i hear they will invite pakistani astronauts on to the space station that this rocket launched. 

the full story on wuhan lab origin of the covid virus

this is truly scary stuff.

and the usual suspects like fauci are fingered directly.

some others have escaped scrutiny.

but see how they got the narrative to exculpate them totally. this is the power of astroturfed fifth columnists. 

https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038 

Europe Pushing Back Against China

After Indian Special Frontier Force Triumphs, China Starts Recruiting Its Own Tibetans

Enormous Chinese Rocket stage Could Crash Back to Earth

Quick notes: Gates agenda | Mocking the dead...

• Agenda man: Bill Gates says Covid-19 vaccine tech should not be shared with India. Provides vague and dishonest reasons for his argument.



• China mocks India’s dead: “China lighting a fire versus India lighting a fire”... The now-deleted post emanated from the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs – one of CCP’s most powerful organs.




• VikAss: Heritage gets bulldozed

By uprooting the Akshayavat tree in Varanasi, the arrogant government officials in charge of the construction work for the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor managed to do what even the hostile Mughals could not pull off. pic.twitter.com/cNRvsMQbQ2

— Unroll (@unroll_media) April 30, 2021






• Taiwan bans Chinese poaching of its semiconductor talent: Taiwan tells recruiting firms to remove listings for high-tech positions based in China. To combat brain-drain.



• VinFast: Vietnam’s answer to Tesla. . . . . . . . Vietnam making rapid strides in tech even as India aims for Gold in history debates.



• Epic Archery: Lars Andersen tries to perform tricks from Mahabharata.

#datajournalism = crock

#western #datajournalism = #nonsense #confirmationbias #innumeracy #misleading #motivatedmindset #wuhanvirus #pandemicporn

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-30-how-western-datajournalism?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

is JIT really dead? bad news for chinese supply chains

woke queen sidles up to china; pak next?

this is swell.

Gravitas: Can India Override Vaccine Patents?

Hillary Clinton Forecasts 'islamist Terror Outbreaks' After Afghan Withdrawal

regime-change specialist dear amy kazmin. tl;dr themudimustrejine

jessica ardern, queen woke, does her thing

Biden Admin May Be Seeking Accommodation with Iran & China

such interesting names: medina spirit and churchill downs

does anybody in america know what the spirit of medina is? or the treaty of hudaibiyah? or taqiya, or kitman?

of course they do know about war criminal churchill.

how governance by courts works: 135 teachers dead incl pregnant lady

allahabad high court told the UP govt to run panchayat elections. the UP govt opposed it because of covid concerns, but the court apparently forced it to run the election before april 30. 

people died. 

and now the court is upset with the UP govt because people died due to election duty.

does anybody remember the story of how a muni (durvasa, maybe) wanted to do the job of brahma, of creation, and being not well-versed in creation, created some odd things, eg he forgot to add a seed to the cashew fruit, and ended up sticking it underneath? 

institutions should do the jobs they are intended to do. courts do law. govts govern. judicial overreach may be counterproductive. 

there's also a news story that a pregnant teacher, kalyana agrahari, 27, was compelled (even though she petitioned to be relieved of this duty) under threat of an FIR to go on election duty, and she has died from covid. this is in 'the print', so i am not sure how verifiable and correct the story is. i won't post a link to avoid giving them hits, you can look it up on google if you wish. 

let us remember how tender the entire ecosystem was towards one safoora zargar because she was pregnant. she got bail on humanitarian grounds when she was accused of inciting riots. 

out on bail, here's safoora exercising her freedom of speech: