The Wire Wrecks Its Own Credibility Yet Again

 The Wire has just engaged in such ridiculous stuntsmanship that even fellow sympathizers have backed away holding their noses:

https://archive.ph/hkYei

A prominent Indian independent news site destroys its own credibility

The Wire’s own-goal holds lessons for opposition forces everywhere

finally, hindus are realizing how they have been humiliated and insulted by urduwood

Quick notes: Trade deal | Muslim refugees...

• Is it India's job to rescue her colonial masters? The UK economy is in shambles. India's economy is expected to double in GDP in the decade. India-UK trade deal - one-way street?
  
  The report of the House of Lords International Agreements Committee is replete with sermonising text. It observes, “India has a notoriously difficult business environment— corruption levels are high, business permits are difficult to obtain, tax and customs processes are complex, levels of contract enforcement are low, and IP protections are limited.”
  
  It also points out that the UK Government “has not been specific about the importance it will give to human, environmental and other rights and protections, nor (in most cases) about its red lines.”


.@RajivMessage explains the shortcomings of exporting India's manpower to help build foreign technology companies. He also emphasizes the need for #atmanirbhar in #research & #development as well. #aiandpower @NITIAayog
Watch the full conversation here- https://t.co/O0Y4HjKPKf pic.twitter.com/pSdZzh1N7W

— Infinity Foundation (@InfinityMessage) August 4, 2021





• Muslim refugees unwelcome in the Caliphate: Turkey deports hundreds of Syrian refugees. 'Taken to the border and forced to cross at gunpoint.'



• Cyber Jihad: Turkey secretly helped Pakistan in setting up a cyber army to shape public opinion and influence the views of Muslims



• Pope Francis: "Even nuns watch porn". He advised the group to "delete this from your phone, so you will not have temptation in hand".



• Drug manufacturing in India: Unregulated, out of control. Unlike other regulators like the TRAI and Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) does not have any statutory backing.



• Ubuntu on RISC-V, under $20 computer: At the heart is a 1 GHz Allwinner D1 XuanTie C906 single-core processor based on RISC-V architecture



• Why You Should Avoid Vegetable Oils We were told to use more vegetable, seed and bean oils (like soybean, corn, safflower, canola). Now we know this advice was completely wrong.




• Tennis is mad at Pickleball mania: Pickleball is more accessible and fun than tennis. An 'addictive' game that won't stop growing

savitha halappanavar

what abrahamic fundamentalism wreaks. the murder of women, for starters. 

mike davis, RIP

#mikedavis passed away. RIP. the man who wrote the monumental #LateVictorianHolocausts, a damning indictment of british colonialism that led to 20 million deaths and untold misery. it should be required reading in indian schools. the one marxist i admired.

not interested in his LA stuff, but that one book is a masterpiece and a must read. on climate change, el nino, and how the third world was created. he was a macarthur genius award winner.

https://news.yahoo.com/mike-davis-city-quartz-author-021422726.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGPUygg-JBmHrgBwA6eFMCw5WqktDw0yuA87uaUiAkIThD_bUJap-75oz2O6l1cLvQQRs6w496glS7sQwmj-AtL6730pSTM3MorJlueh_LPBO1A_KpoGofs4asmpjNZz7CREvJ_IS7sosozLtnQBFrM3tATLuUPLg1tgltUt1Wgf

the recession is here

Xi Jinping's Purge of Hu Jintao

san francisco, just 25 years ago the greatest city in the US

hat tip shefali vaidya. 

https://twitter.com/ShefVaidya/status/1585159493255847936?s=20&t=yR_O5HzYglTlWxjGT3UKOg

why is pauper britain sucking wind?

pretty good analysis. 

a simpler one: their economy was dependent, like a leach, on theft from the colonies, principally india. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/

on covid origin: harvard-mit guy says it was lab-created

since it is a harvard-mit guy saying this, it must be true, no?

and who said it "escaped by accident"?

https://twitter.com/Biorealism/status/1584790642169110528?s=20&t=2YN2eLBmnCx7AWMVTyd4Tg

kantara

i saw kantara today. the scenes with the bhootha kolam are superb: you feel the intensity of the presence of the deities. but there's a lot of unnecessary stuff, like big fight scenes, lots of boy-gang stuff, including a lot of drinking and eating boar-meat, which doesn't add much to the real theme, which is that the autochthonous tribal spirits are real. good movie, unabashedly hindu; the crap about bhootha kolam (which is almost ditto to theyyams in neighboring malabar; and i almost understood the spoken tulu though i saw the dubbed malayalam version with tiny TINY subtitles) not being hindu is just the 'onamization' of every hindu festival, ie digestion for the benefit of commie or other semitic world-conquering death cults.

stanford event on india in the global power struggle

https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/events/asian-perspectives-us-china-competition-assessing-india%E2%80%99s-role

suhasini haider speaks at stanford about india in global power competition. presumably the toolkit/script comes from the CCP via n ram. arvind subramanian also speaks.

i predict indian-americans will be next to be arrested for... 'spying'

full-court pressure tactic coming up: indians caught 'spying for india', although in fact no indian-american is going to do that. hans do spy for the fatherland. they are into han superiority, plus xi will put pressure on them, or hold their families hostage. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/garland-hold-news-conference-significant-national-security-cases-rcna53702

rishi sunak's win is generally bad news

although i am happy for his win as a hindu, an indian, and a fellow stanford b-school alumnus, i think this is a terrible time for him to take the reins.

1. the brit economy is in deep trouble after brexit, and there is no sign of relief

2. there will be a general election, and the conservatives will lose badly

3. for all this, the brit establishment and the entire anglosphere will blame

a) hindus

b) india

c) stanford business school

that is, everybody other than the racist blimps of england. i was really hoping rishi sunak would drop out of the race, because britain now is a tar baby, with nowhere to go but down.

diwali

every year since 1994, when i was in exile, i send this poem out on diwali, on the 'fire-crossed night'. 

i too am home, after all.

This may as well be my home.
Because no other nation
Moves me thus? What of that?
Cause for congratulation?

DIWALI
by Vikram Seth

Three years of neurotic
Guy Fawkes Days - I recall
That lonely hankering -
But I am home after all.

Home. These walls, this sky
Splintered with wakes of light
These mud-lamps beaded round
The eaves, this festive night,

These streets, these voices...yet
The old insensate dread,
Abeyant as that love,
Once more shifts in my head.

Five? Six? generations ago
Somewhere in the Punjab
My father's family, farmers,
Perhaps had a small shop

And two generations later
Could send a son to a school
To gain the conqueror's
Authoritarian seal:

English! Six-armed god,
Key to a job, to power,
Snobbery, the good life,
This separateness, this fear.

English: beloved language
of Jonson, Wordsworth's tongue-
These my "meridian names"
Whose grooves I crawl along.

The Moghuls fought and ruled
And settled. Even while
They hungered for musk-melon,
Rose, peach, nightingale,

The land assumed their love.
At sixty they could not
Retire westwards. The British
Made us the Orient.

How could an Englishman say
About the divan-e-khas
"If there is heaven on earth
It is this; it is this; it is this."?

Macaulay the prophet of learning
Chewed at his pen: one taste
Of Western wisdom "surpasses
All the books of the East,"

And Kalidas, Shankaracharya,
Panini, Bhaskar, Kabir,
Surdas sank, and we welcomed
The reign of Shakespeare.

The undigested Hobbes,
The Mill who later ground
(Through talk of liberty)
The Raj out of the land ...

O happy breed of Babus,
I march on with your purpose;
We will have railways, common law
And a good postal service -

And I twist along
Those grooves from image to image,
Violet, elm-tree, swan,
Pork-pie, gable, scrimmage

And as we title our memoirs
"Roses in December"
Though we all know that here
Roses *grow* in December

And we import songs
Composed in the U.S
For Vietnam (not even
Our local horrors grip us)

And as, over gin at the Club,
I note that egregious member
Strut just perceptibly more
When with a foreigner,

I know that the whole world
Means exile of our breed
Who are not home at home
And are abroad abroad,

Huddled in towns, while around:
"He died last week. My boys
Are starving. Daily we dig
The ground for sweet potatoes."

"The landlord's hirelings broke
My husband's ribs - and I
Grow blind in the smoke of the hearth."
"Who will take care of me

When I am old? No one
Is left." So it goes on,
The cyclic shadow-play
Under the sinister sun;

That sun that, were there water,
Could bless the dispirited land,
Coaxing three crops a year
From this same yieldless ground.

Yet would these parched wraiths still
Starve in their ruins, while
"Silkworms around them grow
Into fat cocoons?", Sad soil,

This may as well be my home.
Because no other nation
Moves me thus? What of that?
Cause for congratulation?

This could well be my home;
I am too used to the flavor
Of tenous fixity;
I have been brought to savour

Its phases: the winter wheat -
The flowers of Har-ki-Doon -
The sal forests - the hills
Inflamed with rhododendron -

The first smell of the Rains
On the baked earth - the peaks
Snow-drowned in permanence --
The single mountain lakes.

What if my tongue is warped?
I need no words to gaze
At Ajanta, those flaked caves,
Or at the tomb of Mumtaz;

And when an alap of Marwa
Swims on slow flute-notes over
The neighbours' roofs at sunset
Wordlessly like a lover

It holds me - till the strain
Of exile, here or there,
Subverts the trance, the fear
Of fear found everywhere.

"But freedom?" the notes would sing...
Parole is enough. Tonight
Below the fire-crossed sky
Of the Festival of Light.

Give your soul leave to feel
What distilled peace it can;
In lieu of joy, at least
This lapsing anodyne.

"The world is a bridge. Pass over it,
Building no house upon it."
Acceptance may come with time;
Rest, then disquieted heart.

Xi Jinping Purges Former Leader Hu Jintao in Machiavellian Move

at #stanford

suella braverman gets fired

that rude suella is toast, too. hahahaha. this is such a keystone cops comedy. i like to think a little bit of the reason suella was sacked is that she destroyed the FTA with india, which the brits need badly (and india really doesn't need). https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/19/suella-braverman-departs-as-uk-home-secretary-liz-truss

siddarth varadarajan's extortion RICO racket comes undone

so sid caves in, finally? but he has succeeded in elevating his visibility. https://www.platformer.news/p/the-wire-pulls-its-meta-stories?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7976&post_id=79218401&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

kantara the movie

an incredible twitter thread on the film 'kantara'. the Divine is present in the theyyams of malabar, too. must read. i think the film is a must-see https://twitter.com/PankajSaxena84/status/1582615110958612481?s=20&t=uRXwewuZPk6OWMjfokZOWA

Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce?

Liz Truss now the least-popular UK prime minister in the history of polling



62 per cent of Tories feel they made the wrong choice between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, compared with 15 per cent who said they had got it right.

My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs.

He's four months old.

— Alan McGuinness (@Alan_McGuinness) October 19, 2022

balaji echoes, in a way, the huntington thesis

spain. a mediocre european country.

there is a full-court press by white people to defenstrate india. ok, let us remember this and retaliate when the time comes. stop imports from spain.

good thread on meta vs wire

https://twitter.com/LekhakAnurag/status/1582024255772192768?s=20&t=Q6NMVCP7KyMxXELb3WcLxg

good thread on the meta vs. wire saga. a pox on both houses (both cringe companies), but just like the padres in vizhinjam, sid varadarajan is attempting to extort money from meta.

easy, war-mongering economist

pro tip: look for the mushroom cloud, @TheEconomist

karnataka nixes kerala rail projects that would hurt wildlife parks

good. i'm with karnataka on this. instead of migrating to bangalore, #keralano1 comrades need to build up some employment in kerala. and stop destroying the wildlife sanctuaries. we already see a huge difference between the alleged wildlife reserve in kerala and the ones in bangalore. the former are fully encroached. https://www.livemint.com/politics/policy/derailed-in-the-green-corridor-11666025117601.html

it must have hurt these racists a lot to say, "as india grows richer"

and of course, glorify an rol entity.

but, "as india grows richer, their dreams grow bigger"? no! how can that be? isn't that only applicable to white people? why aren't indians continuing to wallow in despair? after all the latest wacko 'index' says indians are all hungry and stunted. 

talk of agri economics under british rule, stanford, prof prasannan parthasarathi

this should be a really interesting event, alas, it's only offline. i have read some of his earlier work that suggests agri laborers in s india were better off than their peers in the UK until colonialism happened.

so what does $227 billion mean?

is that the market cap of the industry, or is it their revenues?

if it is the former, that can vanish overnight. i thought the total revenues of the IT services industry was much lower, around $20 billion or so

is the pope catholic? does the bear shit in the woods?

well, whatddya think, adam? this fellow was an (obnoxious) 'south asia' head in delhi earlier. 

Fwd: The hyperactive ro khanna does more damage

This is called adding insult to injury. To whom, we shall soon see. 

Devas Scam Fugitive Ramachandran Viswanathan Behind WSJ Ad Calling for US Sanctions Against India

 The Break India crowd is trying to get sanctions on India under the Magnitsky Act - law created by Atlanticists to punish foreign countries they don't like (chiefly Russia):

https://www.firstpost.com/india/devas-scam-fugitive-ramachandran-viswanathan-behind-wsj-ad-calling-for-us-sanctions-against-india-11455621.html

Devas Scam Fugitive Ramachandran Viswanathan Behind WSJ Ad Calling for US Sanctions Against India

Ramachandran Vishwanathan, an US citizen of Indian origin is leading a smear campaign against the Modi government, calling for sanctions against Nirmala Sitharaman and 10 others

New Delhi: The powerful anti-India network seems to have co-opted money laundering accused and fugitive economic offender former CEO of Devas, Ramachandran Viswanathan.

This US citizen of Indian origin is leading a smear campaign against the Modi government, calling for sanctions against Nirmala Sitharaman and 10 others, including Supreme Court justices and top enforcement agency officials, under America’s Magnitsky Act.

According to government sources, “This is not a campaign against Modi government. It is a campaign against the judiciary too… India’s Supreme Court also ruled that Devas was involved in corruption. It is a campaign against India’s sovereignty too.”

A huge controversy was sparked with an October 13 full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, alleging that Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and 10 others “decimated the rule of law by weaponising the institutions of the state to settle scores with political and business rivals, making India unsafe for investors.”

...

US visa wait is 880 days for indians, 2 days for chinese

yeah, biden is india's friend. this is part of all-out warfare against india by the deepstate as revenge for not supporting them slavishly on ukraine.

but now WORK VISAs will be made available, says the US embassy. 

but NOT student or visitor visas? this must be infosys et al lobbying. 

south indian names in the forefront of dicey stuff in the US

sunitha viswanath of 'hindus [sic] for human rights', an entity that completely denies hindus any human rights.

ramanan lakshminarayanan, the self-styled medical expert (but in reality an economist) who predicted 200 million deaths in india from covid.

now this fellow with a perfectly nice southern name, ramachandran viswanathan, on the run from the ED.

and of course tunku (ne patanjali) varadarajan, brother of siddharth varadrajan, currently in the news for an extortion RICO style racket against facebook/meta and amit malavya of the BJP, fabricating in lovely indian english an alleged tweet by a meta official. 

who said the south will rise again?

Quick notes: Toxic remedies | Quantum entanglement...

• Poisonous prescriptions: The dark side of Indian pharma comes out with Africa's cough syrup deaths.. . . . India's lax drug regulatory mechanism under spotlight after 69 killed in Gambia.

  Drug regulation in India beggars the imagination. The black hole that exists is not a racket, it’s a crime against humanity. It directly affects you, your children, your loved ones.
  
  This book is a full inventory of this massive abomination. @d_s_thakur @Preddy85 pic.twitter.com/bObmBvFJpB

  — Ambarish Satwik (@AmbarishSatwik) October 11, 2022

  
  Drug regulation: Missing files and no accountability



• The Chips Act Shows How to Invest in Education: The Chips Act makes large-scale federal investment in innovative research and manufacturing of microchips. It has already stimulated private-sector investment designed to revive American microchip industry. Micron and IBM have announced investments of roughly $120 billion while Intel alone will invest $100 billion.
  
  But what many don’t know about the Chips Act is that its significant federal spending goes beyond manufacturing, innovation, and incentives for research and development. The act provides $13.2 billion focused on R&D and workforce development with a specific investment in education and in science, technology, engineering, and math skills. It will offer a real pipeline from schools, to college, to career for many students.



• The Universe Is Not Locally Real: And the Physics Nobel Prize winners proved it. One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half century is that the universe is not locally real. “Real,” meaning that objects have definite properties independent of observation—an apple can be red even when no one is looking; “local” means objects can only be influenced by their surroundings.





• Daily Digital Detox: Village in Maharashtra declares "independence" from two modern-day addictions - television and mobile internet. At least, for a couple of hours every day.



• With 5G here, data is the new alcohol: The heady alcohol of the superspeed connectivity that the future generation of consumers will live in and take for granted in the future.



• What about other Indian languages? Amit Shah-headed panel wants Hindi replace English in IITs, courts in north India



• Stop poking at us with Hindi rod: All four southern states carry the same message: Leave us alone, we are happy with our own culture and language. Imposing a new language and a new culture would be a farce.



• Told you so: Rishi Sunak has earned some vindication, having made it clear he was ardently against fairytale economics of cutting taxes
  
  UK PM Truss U-turn on mini budget, raises corporate tax.
  
  62% of Conservatives feel they made the wrong choice between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, compared with 15% who said they had got it right.



• Indians trying to enter the US via Mexico: More than 16,290 Indians were taken into custody by the CBP between October 2021 and August 2022.

the face (and body) that made 35 crores

i am impressed. she is a true entrepreneur. she has a group of 12 girls, too.

so honeytrapping is THIS easy in india? https://twitter.com/NCMIndiaa/status/1580106029273993217?s=20&t=NS0EBQRsgNsbqjh6MyUiFg

kerala has progressed a lot #keralano1

1. human sacrifice

2. cannibalism.

you've come a long way, baby!

chip wars. interesting book review from the FT

i suspect this is firewalled, though. sorry. 

and this is why the fab being set up by vedanta is such a big deal. else india will be at the mercy of china and the US.

Tulsi Gabbard Announces She Is Leaving Democratic Party, Calling It an 'Elitist Cabal of War Mongers'

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tulsi-gabbard-announces-leaving-democratic-party/story?id=91326164

india makes a hot start in electronics exports, but total production is really low

from bain's technology report 2022

FT: did biden just deal a body blow to china's ambitions in chipmaking?

if that were the case, i'd be happy.

but given biden's track record as semi-manchurian, i find that hard to believe. trump, yes, but not biden.

EAM Jaishankar in Australia: 'Won't abandon Russia, helped us when west refused'

Germany Raises Kashmir, Bats for UN role; India Reminds Berlin of Pak Terror in J&K

One would think that Germans would have learned by now that irredentism and revanchism are bad instincts that should be discouraged and not fanned.

Pakistanis talk like Kashmir is their Sudetenland, and it looks bad for Germans to be catering to such sentiments.

If Germany is so interested in a UN-supervised referendum in Kashmir, then are they now also interested in a UN-supervised referendum to similarly be held in the Donbass region of Ukraine?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1576969255031296000

Ukraine-Russia Peace:

- Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision. Russia leaves if that is will of the people.

- Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev’s mistake).

- Water supply to Crimea assured.

- Ukraine remains neutral.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 3, 2022

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1576994262226702336

Let’s try this then: the will of the people who live in the Donbas & Crimea should decide whether they’re part of Russia or Ukraine

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 3, 2022

India's $1.2 Trillion Plan to Grab Factories from China

But will it work?

US Asks Its Citizens to Exercise 'Increased Caution' While Travelling to India

‘Don’t go to J&K’: U.S Issues New India Travel Advisory

New pressure tactic:

Quick notes: LCH | Gladiator diet...

• Ideal for mountain warfare: For mountain war against China, is India’s LCH helicopter superior to AH-64E Apache? .. Against armor on open ground, Apaches would devastate Chinese and Pakistani tanks. But in the Himalayas, where terrain and climate conspire to limit troop deployments, a flying arsenal probably isn’t needed. Just an armed helicopter that can fly above the mountains.



• India-Pak rivalry plays out in South Caucasus: Azerbaijan, Turkey and Pakistan conducted a joint exercise named 'Three Brothers' last year in the name of Islam. India's military assistance to Armenia comes against the backdrop of Pakistan's bonhomie with Azerbaijan
  
  However, in spite of these developments, an interesting fact is that India has stronger economic ties with Azerbaijan than with Armenia. ONGC has also invested heavily in Azerbaijan's gas sector.



• Fewer awards will rust scientific temper: In one silent stroke, the Union govt has decided to do away with over 200 awards, including scholarships, fellowships and internal awards for scientific excellence.



• Hordearii ("barley eaters"): Roman gladiators were mostly vegetarian.




• What will India gain from this FTA? The proposed India-UK free trade agreement is likely to be watered down amid controversial remarks by UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman on visas.



• NOT white man's burden: UK defies climate warnings with new oil and gas licences. The decision is at odds with international climate scientists who say fossil fuel projects should be closed down, not expanded.



• Stay away from WhatsApp: Telegram founder warns users to stay away from WhatsApp yet again. "It doesn't matter if you are the richest person on Earth - if you have WhatsApp installed on your phone, all your data from every app on your device is accessible".



• Gen-Z staying away from booze: Alcohol is simply not as important to social lives as it was in the past.



• The first laptop with a RISC-V processor goes on sale: The laptop is the result of a partnership between China’s DeepComputing and Xcalibyte, and it’s powered by a new Alibaba T-Head TH1520 processor. It features four 2.5 GHz Xuantie C910 64-bit RISC-V processor cores, a neural processing unit with up to 4 TOPS performance, and an Imagination GPU.

India-Bashing Campaigns Gaining Momentum

Quick notes: Shahed-136 | Metal charged water...

• Shahed-136 drones: Iran’s drones are cheap, plentiful and helping Russia in Ukraine. The Shahed can fly hundreds of kilometers (Iran claims in excess of 2,000 km) and loiter for hours before locking onto a target.. Israel has a near perfect record in shooting down even more sophisticated Iranian drones.



• Fisker considering India production: U.S. startup Fisker Inc will begin selling its electric SUV in India and could begin manufacturing its cars locally within a few years... Fun-fact: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker co-founded Fisker Inc with husband Henrik Fisker.



• Tech Talk: Peter Rawlinson, Lucid CEO and CTO with Dr Emad Dlala - How Lucid leaps past Tesla with smaller motors.




• Apple's Tech Supply Chain Shows Difficulty of Dumping China: It will take about eight years to move just 10% of Apple’s production capacity out of China. “The region has a well-developed supply chain that will be difficult to replicate”.



• Dr MS Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), PhD: Metal charged water for skin allergies, tiredness, energy.
  
  Benefits of eating on leaf plates and metal plates



• JioMart morphs into e-marketplace to take on Amazon and Flipkart: “As part of our commitment to India’s rich culture and heritage, we will soon start marketing quality goods produced by tribals and other communities across India. This will help preserve the incredibly rich talent, skill sets, and knowledge base of our traditional Indian artisans, especially women.”



• Downfall: Markets are now treating UK bonds like Greek and Italian debt



• Cambridge: Britain's Cycling Capital

Amid Azerbaijan-Armenia Conflict, India-Armenia Sign Key Pinaka Deal