no end to the AI excitement

will all this end well? by past experience, no. there will be another AI winter. from the FT.

obama the avenging angel. who failed.

I have long wondered if Obama was some sort of a kalki-figure destined to destroy america. sort of an avenging angel, of black and rop background. this essay, long and tortured as it is, says the same. and he failed, too. 

kudos to musk/twitter, and netanyahu. and trump, too.

and the Jews have finally figured out the destructive Dem anti-Jew nihilism.

https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment

why whistleblowing may be a bad idea

if you know something, just keep quiet about it. If you are a person of substance, take no risks, and be paranoid about your security. my substack:

https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-148-comrade-kirillov-and-the-art?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Japanese carmakers in deep trouble

thanks to american hubris, climatism and electric vehicles. yet another industry snatched by Hans. 

Microsoft, I bow to thee

the smartest, most ruthless, most innovative, most successful MNC since the vatican. 

 

regime-change as playbook

 https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-147-the-depressing-regularity?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Mekong and tonle sap lake dying

the aftereffects of too many dams, esp in china. 

suchir balaji, whistleblower, Om Shanti.

Quick notes: Slowing AI development | Falling fertility...

• Google CEO: AI development is finally slowing down—'the low-hanging fruit is gone’



• India's crisis in Engineering and management studies: Manufacturing sector has struggled to grow due to increased dependence on imports from China. On the other hand, the service-sector firms are either solving last-mile delivery problems or offering basic services -- sectors that don’t really need higher-order engineering and management capability.



• BikAss ain't working: Why 7 crore new farmers in the last 7 years is bad news: The increase of people taking up farming in the last seven years is the highest in some of India’s poorest states, with usual suspect Uttar Pradesh leading from the front, along with compatriots Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.



• Mohan Bhagwat on falling fertility rate: 'Population below replacement rate risks extinction,' says RSS chief.
  
  
• Naidu & Stalin's push for more babies in AP & TN: A new population crisis with global implications



• Why most Indians choking on smog aren’t in Delhi: According to Swiss firm IQAir, eight of the 10 most polluted cities in the world last year were located in the Indo-Gangetic plains. Delhi receives significant attention due to its position as the capital of India



• Green Great Wall: China completes 3,000-km green belt around its biggest desert - 46-year campaign to encircle its largest desert with trees, part of national efforts to end desertification and curb the sandstorms that plague parts of the country during the spring



• Salmon back in Klamath river: After 100 years, salmon have returned to the Klamath River – following a historic dam removal project in California. "Seeing the videos of the salmon returning home brought me to tears of happiness and relief".



• Hans eating EU alive: German manufacturers warn of the sector's 'formidable crash'
  
  
• Chinese Carmakers Are Trouncing Once-Unbeatable Japanese Rivals: Foreign carmakers used to make combined net profit of $21b on average every year in China, but this fell by one-third in 2023 and then halved again in the first six months
  
  
• Significant edge in air combat: China’s 99% efficient afterburner tech could make it ‘unrivaled in air combat’



• Banning kids from social media: What countries do to regulate children's social media access




• Non-Christians be damned: Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools

ironic: see shooting of health insurance CEO in NYC

 BigMedicine ki jai

Goldman Sachs guardedly bullish on india

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/indias-economy-is-likely-to-stand-firm-in-an-uncertain-world

are your children better off than you?

this is a major question for any parent. given the general belief that India is a growing economic power, one would think that this is given in India. but I have observed in Kerala that many people are mired in a no-win situation, and that they do not progress from generation to generation. btw, raj chetty's research in the US implied the same in the US: social mobility there is much less what one believes, given the old Horatio Alger story etc. 

one set of people I have observed are the housemaids. we find large numbers of them coming daily from nearby rural areas to work in middle-class households (often traveling an hour each way by bus). 

the sad state of affairs is that every housemaid has the same story: a husband who is usually a day laborer, who brings very little money home, because he spends it all on booze and lottery tickets. he often beats the woman up as well. and it is up to the woman to scrimp and save on her income, which may be around 15,000 rupees a month, to bring up and educate her children. 

what is sad is that the children don't do any better. they end up depending on the mothers working into their late 60s to bring in money, and the sons end up the same way as their fathers. the daughters end up the same way as their mothers: either hand-to-mouth existence, or they become housemaids too. 

they are a single medical emergency away from bankruptcy. 

this is true also of those who have gone to the "gelf" from the lower middle classes. they may make money, but fritter it away on conspicuous consumption, with no long=term savings. 

it is true that other migrants have done well: for instance, nurses have ended up taking their husbands as well as siblings and even parents to Europe or the US as migrants (although that is getting harder and harder) and anyway they are able to send decent sums of money home as remittances. 

similarly, middle-class skilled migrant professionals to the middle east like doctors, engineers, accountants etc have also done quite well. 

but the fact remains that the lower-middle class migrants end up being (un)skilled labor in the middle east, or drivers, or other such hard occupations, and their health is ruined, and they are not able to return and earn a living for a long time in India. 

the case of Kerala might be unusual in that there really are no jobs at home: no agriculture, no industry, and nobody wants to do the hard labor kinds of work. so that makes it attractive for so-called Bengalis (who are mostly illegal alien Bangladeshis and rohingya) to come over and work in Kerala.

on the contrary, here is a paper from 2018 that seems to have a far more rosy picture of intergenerational mobility, and according to it, the south is stellar. 

https://barrett.dyson.cornell.edu/NEUDC/paper_560.pdf

you tell me, is this true, or is my observation of stasis more true?

kakistocracy: INDI alliance's hallmark

the nehruvian state, I thought, was the very picture of a kakistocracy: rule by the very worst possible people.

I stand corrected now: the INDI alliance is even worse. for example it has the DMK and now some maharashtrian partner that openly abuse Sanatana dharma. this is against the very constitutional provisions of equal rights and religious freedom.  these INDI people brandish the constitution as some sort of talisman, but they have no problem in positioning the appeasement of RoL and esp RoP as intrinsic to the constitution, at the cost of demonizing and reducing the space for Hinduism. 

here's their favorite magazine, the warmongerist, defining their style of management as its word of the year. 

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/29/the-economists-word-of-the-year-for-2024?utm_content=ed-picks-image-link-1&etear=nl_special_1&utm_campaign=a.special-edition-newsletter&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=12/7/2024&utm_id=2020638

tsunami warning in people's republic of Berkeley?

were the feds trying to scare the woke lefties?

India enslaved by chatGPT and microsoft

 one of the ill effects of english.

Warmongers Laughing All the Way to the Bank

 

forget the useless degree mills!

 same thing needed in India. create people with skills ie builders, not people with degrees ie babus

reorient education towards vocational training, not humanities degrees!

Trump Threatens BRICS Nations With 100% Tariffs

Donald Trump threatens BRICS countries—including Russia, India—with 100% tariffs if they act to undermine US dollar

“We require a commitment from these countries that they will neither create a new BRICS currency, nor back any other currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of “weaponizing” the dollar and described it as a “big mistake.”

Russia has specifically pushed for the creation of a new payment system that would offer an alternative to the global bank messaging network, SWIFT.

Trump threatens 100% tariff on the BRIC bloc of nations if they act to undermine US dollar

too much humanities, too little engineering?

tertiary education flaw in India? too many humanities people all looking for government jobs, too few engineers who can build things?

I think engineers need to know a little more of humanities, but that domain is so full of crazy DEI people from JNU type places that I despair for them. I have two nieces and a nephew who got addled at IIT madras by the humanities subjects there. 

 

EV out, hybrids in

I have been saying this makes sense for India, too. pure EV = slavery to china

 

notebookLM is a great tool

I think for pedagogical purposes. because listening to a podcast based on a few sources is more engaging (even though you eventually get a little deja vu feeling about the banter between the hosts) than reading the same stuff. and their summaries and notes are quite good.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/11/28/larry-magid-notebooklm-is-a-google-tool-for-fake-podcasts-real-research/?utm_email=E5D475A2D401C5868421448E24&lctg=E5D475A2D401C5868421448E24&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mercurynews.com%2f2024%2f11%2f28%2flarry-magid-notebooklm-is-a-google-tool-for-fake-podcasts-real-research%2f&utm_campaign=bang-mult-nl-good-morning-silicon-valley-nl&utm_content=manual

Quick notes: FTA | Pedestrian hell...

• Free-Trade-Agreements never benefited us: India-UK FTA negotiations to restart in early 2025
  
  
• India should not be pushed into joining trade blocs: It must assess existing FTAs, and should build a larger team of expert negotiators



• Trump unpredictable, Modi dependable? On trade, it’s just the opposite.




• Stranglehold on market, breach of Antitrust Laws: Zomato and Swiggy coerced restaurants into entering exclusive agreements that would deny them space to shift elsewhere if they wanted to join competing platforms.



• China is bombarding tech talent with job offers: And the West is freaking out. Chinese companies are trying to poach engineers in high-tech Western industries by offering to triple their salaries as Beijing seeks to catch up with Silicon Valley in the battle for tech supremacy.
  
  Executives at Zeiss SMT, which makes indispensable components to build the world’s most powerful semiconductors, got some troubling news last fall. Staff with access to sensitive Zeiss know-how received LinkedIn messages, emails and calls from Huawei representatives, offering them up to three times their salaries to join the Chinese company.
  
  
• Huawei trying to poach TSMC employees with 3X salary: Desperate times call for desperate measures
  
  
• China's CATL open to building US battery plant if Trump allows: In an August interview Trump was open to Chinese firms building cars in the US
  
  
• CATL electric bus batteries set for 1M miles, megawatt charging: New-gen LFP bus batteries last 15 years, CATL claims—20% longer. CATL claims a 22% boost in energy density by volume, and 175 Wh/kg by weight



• Anywhere but India: Chip makers expand in Vietnam — companies move to Southeast Asia as US-China tensions simmer



• Why it is so difficult to walk in Indian cities: The main problem is that too much focus is given to solving the problem of car congestion on roads. "To improve the flow of traffic, authorities often narrow down footpaths or eliminate them entirely. It might seem counter-intuitive, but allowing the congestion to persist and focussing on improving infrastructure for pedestrians will help solve the traffic problem in the long run". Cities can also implement their own Non-Motorised Transport Policy (NMTP) to create better infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians.



• The families fleeing Delhi to escape deadly smog... Also fighting "walking pneumonia" cases this season.... Why and what will fix it.... Why Indian capital lags behind Beijing in the battle to breathe..




• ED raids e-commerce sellers linked to Amazon, Flipkart: The livelihoods of small shopkeepers are at stake due to anti-competitive practices, particularly from quick-commerce companies.



• Australia approves social media ban on under-16s.. lessons for India.

the assault on manipur

https://organiser.org/2024/11/25/266850/bharat/manipur/manipur-nia-unearths-larger-agenda-learns-about-the-plan-to-take-the-whole-of-northeast-back-to-dark-ages/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

balkanization

Russia uses ICBM: ww3 is here

this time without a nuclear payload. next they'll drop a tactical nuke on ATACMS and HIMARS missile launchers. 

obama must be super happy.

as I predicted, martial law will be imposed on the US ("emergency" in indian terms), the transfer of power to trump will be postponed/canceled, Biden will step down, and Kamala will be POTUS. 

what a deal! 

Adani 'corruption' = toolkit by deepstate + INC

it's not as if the US is pure as the driven snow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals

and the alacrity with which the warmongerist's leo Morani jumped on this story suggests there is a toolkit. 

Raoul and jairam Ramesh were also ready in a flash despite the fun fact that ALL the accused state governments were congress!

Five eyes becomes Six eyes

India is again excluded. Biden downgraded quad, and came up with the insane AUKUS. deepstate 2, India 0.

now 5 Eyes is to include Japan. deepstate 3, India 0.

Biden exits stage left. metaphor

https://x.com/LibertyWatchHQ/status/1858238038507237464

humiliation for america. again. sigh.

islamophobia? california?

at UC Berkeley? startling.

 

booth capturing California style

US being humiliated

this is on you, Democrats. poor Biden, lame duck and senile. 

1st martyr to weightloss drugs?

I am not saying she died because of the new snake oil, but can you say for sure she didn't die because of this new class of drugs? 

last stand, 13 kumaon, 18 Nov 1962, rezangla

 my 2002 column. I bow to the brave men of c company. https://www.rediff.com/news/2002/nov/19rajeev.htm

column on US immigration under trump

 https://www.deccanherald.com//opinion/border-closing-the-trumpian-shift-is-here-3279841 will trump push out long-suffering H1-B indians? shouldn't India welcome this reverse brain drain?

US election analysis 6 Nov

it's in malayalam on doordarshan. a sedate, in-depth analysis of what happened. 

https://www.youtube.com/live/-AKgZFt-8tk

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warmongerist pleased with "our man" yunus

what pogroms and genocides of Hindus? who cares? #deepstate ki Jai and deepstate embedded assets ki jai. let's give him another Nobel peace prize! yeah, same one we gave Obama for starting several wars.

btw, Yunus old chap, Tulsi gabbard may want a word with you. 

warmongerist podcast on India place names

honestly, this is in a recent podcast from the warmongerist. he was moaning that eg mughalsarai became pandit deen Dayal upadhyaya Nagar. 

my response: cope. so what if we change place names? invader needs need to be junked. from Connaught Place to Ahmedabad.

this fellow Leo morani (no, no spelling mistake there) sounds like a desi putting on a white accent. another unwashed, callow youth pretending to be an old guy. (this is a warmongerist trademark).

to be fair, 'the intelligence' is a pretty good podcast in general, thanks to the anchor, a fellow named Jason Palmer: bluff, good voice, asks good questions. of course he has to toe the warmongerist line. he's almost as good as the AI-generated podcast host on notebookLM 😂

china pivots from iphones to EVs

I personally think EVs will crash and burn (no, pun intended). India should #justsaynotoEVs. I think they are ripe for disruption by hydrogen or other tech where china doesn't have a stranglehold.

but kudos to the Hans for having figured out how to monopolize the supply chain for strategic minerals etc. good learnings possible for india's babus (if only they can get their heads out of scholarships to Harvard for their kids).

also, nice pivot. good industrial policy. 

but I do believe china is at an inflection point, and is doomed to decline for other reasons: debt trap, property bubble, demographic collapse, etc. 

CNN gaslighting re Tulsi and Kamala

no, CNN, on the contrary, Tulsi wiped the floor with kamala in that debate. kamala sat there gaping, doing a fair imitation of Raoul and dan Quayle (you know, "deer caught in the headlights"). in 2 minutes flat, Tulsi ended kamala's 2020 presidential campaign. that was a preview of how Kamala would have 'negotiated' with Putin, xi etc al. thank God it was only a debate. 

disappointing trump choices?

vivek Ramaswamy is going to be musk's understudy in DOGE.

tusli gabbard got director of national intelligence, which means CIA reports to her, so that's not bad, though I thought she deserved secretary of defense. 

other indians/Hindus (eg Kash patel, whom I had admittedly heard nothing about before) got nothing. 

so we will have to waiting and see.

Khalistani Terrorist Pannun Threatens to Attack India’s Ram Mandir in Ayodhya

Here's my theory:

Pannu is flunky of Deep State, which just lost the landmark US elections to Trump. That's why he's now suddenly fled USA to go hide in Canada.

Having only few months before totally losing power when Trump takes office on January 20, Deep State is desperate to mobilize all its puppets to cause as much chaos as possible. They also don't want that IMEC thing to take off. Deep State likes to work through clandestine means like "regime change" operations (eg. Bangladesh) where they destabilize countries to replace their leaders.

Deep State hopes to use Pannu to cause 1984 Riots type of situation, to use as a springboard for mass chaos/instability in India, which can be used to replace Modi's govt as part of a regime change operation.

We need to stay ahead of their game and ensure no chaos can be triggered.

Pannu is emphasizing anniversary of 1984 Riots, in order to heighten tensions among Sikhs.

Pannu is threatening to hit Ram temple in Ayodhya to heighten tensions among Hindus.

His goal in heightening tensions among both communities is to maximize chance of wider clashes and fratricide.

chellaney on biden's assault on india

Biden really screwed up. see https://openthemagazine.com/essay/return-of-the-brotherhood/

 

another brilliant line from the economist Nov 10

 but I was there first: see my tweet from Nov 6 below this.

famous last words from the economist

these guys are totally into propaganda. I am 12-1 against them in election predictions. the one they won is 2020 US, which now turns out to have been probably a fraud. 

huawei builds an operating system

if Huawei can build a mobile operating system, why can't India? this sort of self-reliance is absolutely needed so that US Big Tech is prevented from dominating India. the recent flap over the Uber deals by the armed forces shows how indians are totally unaware of the ramifications of data capture (especially in light of the way Israelis were able to assassinate or harm hezbollah and Hamas people, including the famous pager blasts).

India needs to focus on building software PRODUCTS, not offer services. 

Kerala school of mathematics

a very under-rated school with outstanding discoveries.

https://historyunderyourfeet.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/nilkantha-somayaji/

now FT wants my opinion

shall I tell them honestly: "you suck"?

funny thing is the economist also sent me a survey a couple of months ago. I forgot about it. maybe i'll go back and tell them also that they suck, big time. 

bloody British media. they're done for, now that trump won, and x is the newspaper of choice for many of us. 

NITIayog CEO say crazy things

WHAT???? India should join china-controlled FTAs? this is nuts. 

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/foreign-trade/india-should-join-china-backed-asian-trade-bloc-it-rejected-years-back-niti-aayog-ceo-says/articleshow/115046521.cms?from=mdr

WIRED ranting about twitter

without comment

what will trump do for hindus and India?

it's time to cash in the chips. using the fact that tulsi and Vivek are outspoken Hindus (and I bet they had a role in the trump statement on Bangladesh) it's time to start letting the deep state know that even though they have 2 more months in the white house that they better not damage indian and Hindu interests any more. the ongoing pogroms and genocide of Hindus in Bangladesh has to stop. deep state has to rein in their asset Yunus. 

"so what have you done lately for me, trump?". he can relate to that transactional question. 

As Modi Lays Down The Line, Supporters Rally For Hindus In Canada

reposting: why I prefer trump. now better deliver!

     https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-145-why-i-prefer-trump

rationale for Harris loss

if #trump actually wins (which I still doubt, as #Dems are resourceful with their ballot stuffing), then I have the perfect rationale for it: "Kamala #Harris lost because America is not yet ready to elect a #woman #president, especially a black woman. shame on the #patriarchy. racist anti-feminists." here it is, gratis. please feel free to use it.

some Hindus like trump? ok.

so what? the warmongerist is amazed. why? after all, some christians like him, some Jews like him, ok maybe not that many rop or khalistanis. or #deepstate flunkeys. 

welcome to reality, warmongerist. you endorsed Harris. that doesn't mean everybody has to toe your line. 

India stock market correction

yes, P/E has been a bit high, and earnings lately have taken a hit. plus there is the siren song of Chinese stimulus. and uncertainty over what the US elections might bring. not a big problem though long term. 

euro car industry decimated by china

chinese have come from nowhere to take an 11% market share in Norway, which ironically enough makes most of its money from oil and gas sales. 

extrapolate, and other industries are going to be hollowed out by china. Europe is dying, and if the US doesn't watch out, it will also die. that's one more reason to vote for trump. fight! fight! "rage, rage against the dying of the light"

 

is India producing too many humanities grads?

 

if true, this would explain a lot of things in India. the JNUfication of education is leading to the Californication of society. see this thread: https://x.com/paulnovosad/status/1852703453178659291

India should take advantage of being the swing state

woo India, US and China. 

Japan will now have to subsidize the europeans

Quick notes: Dhanteras | Demographic dividend...

• Putin-Modi parity? India brings back gold from London. Some day, the west may find an excuse to freeze Indian reserves like they did to Russia.



• Here you go: US sanctions 15 Indian entities for backing Russia



• Violating US export laws: Indian drugmaker exported Nvidia AI chips to Russia.



• Maintaining the demographic dividend: Chandrababu Naidu mulling new election law to boost population in Andhra
  
  Demographic crisis: South Korea sets world record with fertility rate dropping to new low
  
  'Uday' and 'Nidhi' are Sanskrit: Stalin asks parents to give Tamil names to children



• Bharat Karnad: This Chinese advantage is only because New Delhi is not willing to play the game by the rules of strict reciprocity.
  
  China has had to pay no price in terms of, say, losing its access to the Indian market that the Indian govt generously affords it. Nor has Delhi insisted that Chinese tech companies, in particular, wishing to do business here, establish joint ventures and be required by law to transfer all the technology of the products they sell to the Indian people, to their Indian partners, and to manufacture every small sub-component and widget that goes into their products in India itself. Or, to get the hell out, and stay out! These are conditions, by the way, China insists on for any foreign company, including Indian firms operating in China.
  
  But no, the Indian govt has no such set of pre-conditions. The result: a humungous trade imbalance — just in the first six months of 2024, the trade deficit grew to $42 billion — the highest it has ever been! Meaning $42 billion of India’s wealth has been shifted to the Chinese khazana!



• Basically poison: How Canada convinced the world to eat engine lubricant... Canola oil is repurposed motor oil, not edible.




• Displacing software engineers? Google now uses AI to write 25% of its new code



• Woke Mecca: Donations to Harvard’s Endowment Drop by More Than $150 Million



• AI BS: Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’
  
  - Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble.
  
  - Marc Benioff blames Microsoft for overhyping AI.
  
  - Son-in-law Zuck's gift: Chinese researchers develop AI model for military use on back of Meta's Llama
  
  - Social media platforms using your data to generate AI models. How to opt out



• Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors
  
  - Google will help build seven nuclear reactors to power its AI systems

(no longer firewalled) why I prefer trump

this is a long read on my own personal reasons for supporting Trump, as well as the objective reasons why he'd be better than Harris. 

it is free for all subscribers now.

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-145-why-i-prefer-trump

NED Welcomes Victoria Nuland to the Board of Directors

Oh, look who's got another gig. I guess this 'gig economy' extends into all sorts of enterprises 

https://www.ned.org/ned-welcomes-victoria-nuland-to-the-board-of-directors/

NED Welcomes Victoria Nuland to the Board of Directors

Published on September 13, 2024 by chheangs

Washington, D.C.—Veteran U.S. diplomat Ambassador Victoria Nuland is joining the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Board of Directors effective immediately. Ambassador Nuland previously served on the NED Board of Directors from 2018 to 2021, before her appointment as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs at the State Department.

“We are delighted to welcome Ambassador Nuland back to the NED Board,” said NED Chairman Kenneth Wollack. “With a distinguished career across multiple administrations, she brings the experience and expertise that will contribute measurably to NED’s mission and work.”

Ambassador Victoria Nuland served as the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 and Acting Deputy Secretary of State from 2023 under the Biden Administration before retiring in early 2024. Previously, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2013 until 2017 under President Barack Obama and was the State Department Spokesperson during Secretary Hillary Clinton’s tenure.

Nuland was U.S. ambassador to NATO during President George W. Bush’s second term, 2005-2008. She served as Special Envoy and chief negotiator on the Treaty on Conventional Arms Control in Europe from 2010-2011, and as Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney from 2003-2005

....

About the National Endowment for Democracy

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit, grant-making foundation dedicated to the development and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. With an annual appropriation from Congress, NED funds more than 2,000 grants in over 100 countries. NED’s grants program is augmented by the International Forum for Democratic Studies; the Journal of Democracy; the Reagan-Fascell Fellowships Program; the World Movement for Democracy; and the Center for International Media Assistance.

just see how unhinged WIRED is

there is not even the pretext of being neutral.

sad story for an alleged tech magazine that purports to be about tech.

also demonstrates how much silicon valley has swung to the radical left. 

https://link.wired.com/view/5cc9e3122ddf9c1a7ae03a81m776b.5v5a/3fefb697

Press Release - Global Hindu Community Thanks President Trump for Highlighting the Crisis Facing Hindus in Bangladesh

From: 

Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Subject: Press Release - Global Hindu Community Thanks President Trump for Highlighting the Crisis Facing Hindus in Bangladesh
To: 

<Please respond on X and post on all social media>

FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE

 

Stop Hindu Genocide

StopHinduGenocide@gmail.com

https://StopHinduGenocide.org

 

Global Hindu Community Thanks President Trump for Highlighting the Crisis Facing Hindus in Bangladesh

 

New Jersey, October 31, 2024 – The Hindu community in the United States and around the world extends its gratitude to President Donald Trump for condemning the barbaric violence against Hindus and other minorities facing persecution in Bangladesh. In a recent statement over X, President Trump condemned the widespread violence and neglect facing these communities, drawing attention to what he called the lack of action by the current U.S. administration. Wishing Hindu Americans a joyful Diwali, he pledged that his leadership would uphold religious freedoms and protect Hindu Americans from what he described as the "anti-religion agenda of the radical left."

https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1852033622494105832?s=46&t=A47nG1XD68leKIxzBetRCA

In his statement, President Trump expressed deep concerns for Hindus and other minorities facing brutal attacks in Bangladesh, emphasizing the urgent need for a U.S. administration that stands firm on religious freedom.

 

"I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who face attacks and looting by mobs in Bangladesh, which remains in a state of chaos. This would never have happened on my watch. Kamala and Joe have ignored Hindus across the world and in America. From Israel to Ukraine to our Southern Border, they've been a disaster. We will Make America Strong Again and bring back Peace through Strength, protecting Hindu Americans from the radical left's anti-religion agenda. We will fight for your freedom."

 

"Under my administration, we'll strengthen our partnership with India and my good friend, Prime Minister Modi. Kamala Harris will hurt small businesses with increased regulations and taxes. In contrast, I cut taxes, reduced regulations, and created the strongest economy in history. We will do it again—bigger and better—and we will Make America Great Again. Wishing a Happy Diwali to all and hoping the Festival of Lights leads to the victory of Good over Evil!" — President Trump

 

President Trump's remarks, delivered just before the final phase of elections, come as a response to concerted efforts by numerous individuals and organizations working to spotlight the grave threats faced by Hindus in Bangladesh. The President's statement could not be more timely, as the Bangladesh administration has repeatedly disregarded the violent attacks against Hindus, with over 1,000 reported incidents of assault.  Recent actions by the Bangladesh government include the arrest of Chinmay Krishna Das Brahmachari, a peaceful activist advocating for minority rights, is further intensifying concerns.

 

Utsav Chakravarti of the Hindu Action NGO commented, "It took months of effort to share the reality that Hindus across the world face, to the thought leadership of the Trump team. President Trump's statement on Diwali opens up a lot of realities to the policy making communities. This is a beginning to a long awaited and much needed course correction for American policymakers in response to targeting of Hindus around the world, especially the Hindus in Bangladesh.

 

Ajay Shah of HinduPACT added,  "HinduPACT thanks President. Trump for wishing the Hindus on the occasion of Diwali. We appreciate his standing firmly with the Hindus in Bangladesh who are facing an ongoing genocide and against the threat of radical Hindu Haters in the US.  We thank Vice President Kamala Harris for her warm wishes to the Hindu community on Diwali. We strongly urge her to take a stand on the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh and the relentless attacks on Hindu at home."   

 

Pankaj Mehta of the Interfaith Coalition Against Terror expressed gratitude for President Trump's acknowledgment, noting, "I express deep gratitude to President Trump for his powerful acknowledgment of the ongoing violence and persecution faced by Hindus, Christians, Buddhists and other minorities in Bangladesh. His recognition shines a light on a humanitarian crisis that has been largely ignored by the United Nations and mainstream media, much like the Armenian Christian genocide and other historical atrocities that remain unacknowledged.  The apathy of global institutions toward the persecution and genocide of Hindus in South Asia is deeply concerning. We urge more public leaders to stand up and speak out against these injustices, as Three U.S.-based organizations—Genocide Watch, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience—have courageously done, recognizing these targeted atrocities as genocide."

 

Surjit Chowdhary of Sree Sree Gita Sangh also extended his thanks, stating "I hope this will serve as a warning to Bangladesh administration on their impending sedition Charges against Chinmay Krishna Das, a peaceful advocate of Hindus rights in Bangladesh.  The world will not remain silent and the support of powerful compassionate leaders like President Trump standing for human rights is a great boost to those efforts.    The international community must demand that Bangladesh drop all baseless charges and respect his right to freedom of expression and religious freedom."

 

 

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