The New Quad: Russia-China-Iran-NorthKorea Alliance

India needs to leverage its status as the swing state

india needs to play the US and china off against each other.

the US will remain the preferred choice because china is a ruthless imperial hegemon and is enemy #1. but a signal to the US that India has options in BRICS/UNIT is useful.

the US has more in common with India as it is more diverse (not a han empire enslaving Tibet, mongols, Uighurs etc) -- if you forget the harm done to native Americans, of course -- and many indian values of individualism, innovation, are similar to American values.

the US if under trump may be more accommodating to India, despite all the Deep State shenanigans: because he needs to fend off china.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/lac-patrolling-may-be-back-to-pre-2020-level-but-india-china-ties-are-headed-to-new-normal-13830497.html

narrative building about #trump the fascist

trump derangement syndrome. https://www.piratewires.com/p/donald-trump-fascism-authoritarianism-wikipedia

wikipedia is fascist, overrun by shadowy editors and their puppet masters who are reliably radical-left if not Marxist. I wonder how much xinhua is investing, apart from the Vatican (I could name at least one guy who is clearly a shill for papists). 

narrative building about corruption in sheikh hasina rule

 yeah, blame everything on the previous lot. 

wait, hadn't sheikh hasina accused Mohammed Yunus of corruption?

LLMs are biased: 1. datasets, 2. unconscious biases of creators

we knew that the choice of datasets (eg. the highly biased, and intentionally so with paid 'editors' sources such as wikipedia) are already making LLMs extremely biased against all but woke western perspectives. indian knowledge systems, already marginalized, will be rendered completely immaterial by this process. 

however, here is proof that the unconscious (and conscious) biases of the developers of the neural network are being reflected in the 'weights' that the self-learning networks impose on various factors it considers.

India cannot just pick up western LLMs and use them. it needs to build and train its own on specialized datasets. or even if the western LLMs are 'open-source' (not really) need to try to train them better on narrow topics of interest to indians. for example, machine translation in real time between indian languages. 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.18417

  

Arvind kumar calls Biden a criminal in essence

powerful must-read essay from Arvind Kumar indicts #biden and #democrats for causing suffering all over by supporting dictators, notably #polpot, #idiamin, #mobutu, #mugabe, #khomeini, #duvalier, #gaddafi, #saddam, #zia, #taliban, #houthis, #yunus et al

https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/from-aiding-pol-pot-and-idi-amin-to-assisting-houthis-and-yunus-the-dubious-legacies-of-democrats-and-biden-13829448.html

trump effect or tactical withdrawal? Iran downplays Israeli air attacks

either 

1) Iran is biding its time to respond sharply (taqiya)

2) Iran understands at best an all-out war will result in a stalemate (a little like the iran-iraq war, which proved nothing after 8 years of war)

3) Iran is waiting to see if Trump comes to power (the trump factor).

india beware: quishing or QR code scams

only a matter of time before this shows up, especially as we are all so used to waving our phones at UPI QR codes. beware!

Ep. 144: the implications of a Trump Presidency for India

this is a companion to earlier Ep. 142 on my substack, which considered the effects of a Harris Presidency.

at the moment, this is only for paid subscribers to the substack. I urge you to take out a paid subscription so that you support my work. I will make this free in a few days.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-144-the-implications-of-a-trump?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

the US pushing India into china's arms

here's a substack saying that in detail. I said the same thing on this blog, and also here, in less detail. the Kazan handshake and troop adjustment are an Indian signal to the US DeepState, not that india is keen on China or the BRICS currency: it says, stop bullying us with your terrorists!

https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-us-was-inadvertently-responsible: excerpt

 

here's an excerpt from my substack: https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-142-the-implications-of-a-harris 

the latest 'miracle drugs': GLP-1 agonists like #ozempic. expect #bigpharma hard sell now

side effects? what side effects? just trust us, bro. greatest thing since sliced bread

very convincing "digital arrest" and other scams roil india

from nikkei

and here's a series of tweets that illustrates in video how this works:

https://x.com/vijaygajera/status/1849364596362285240

screenshot of first tweet:

the perils of a harris presidency for india

and i am afraid chances are that harris will be anointed the winner, both in the popular vote and in the electoral college. that is to say, election interference will happen at some scale. 

which means india had better be well prepared for an avalanche of bad news, including economic warfare of the kind that killed the japanese economy in the 1980s with the Plaza Accord. this time, given the threat of dedollarization via BRICS and its new currency UNIT, things are looking grave for the US dollar as well, which makes the warfare both more fraught, and more likely.

caveat emptor. https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-142-the-implications-of-a-harris 

excerpt:

congratulations Biden: you pushed India into china's arms, and earlier Russia too

so biden/Harris must be happy that India is signaling its intent to take on china's dhritarashtra alinganam in light of relentless deep state mischief, as in Bangladesh and in the Canada khalistani imbroglio. 

from nikkei

from me, in a to be published column about a Harris presidency

 

crackdown on UPI APIs being used to harvest your data

this is a subtle way in which your financial data is being vacuumed up, when all  you offered was a payment. 

maybe UPI lite will solve the problem because it only uses a 'wallet' on your phone, and no bank account. which probably means there's not much data to hoover up. but it has a limit of 2000/- a day or so. 

north Koreans cannon fodder for russia. shocking! like Ukrainians for NATO, indians for brits?

I am shocked, SHOCKED! how could you use people from another country to die for your imperial ambitions, and in your wars?

of course the honorable Brits would NEVER do such a thing. 

yeah right. most of the people who died in their colonial wars were indians. 

everybody and his brother now beats up on poor byju's

the same guys were salivating earlier. yes, venture capital is risky, didn't you know that?

lee Kwan yew's son sought and received political asylum in the US

somewhat startling message here.

in jamia millia islamia, 'one group' shows its respect for 'another group' during Diwali celebrations

afaik, this university is funded largely by indian taxpayer money.

of course, that means privilege and entitlement. for some. from swarajya magazine.

the BBC is not a medium, but a propaganda tool: telling it like it is

not just the BBC, but most western media are more or less the same: the Economist, the FT, the guardian, Deutsche Welle, and so on.

trust them at your peril

this documentary seems very worth watching.

report from swarajya.

the blip in China from the stimulus didn't last long: x-China funds prosper

china-less emerging market funds are prospering, despite the brief and sharp spike in the china market. from FT

podcast on Canada India relations from a year ago: we forecast problems

conversation between hari gopinathan and me a year ago: we correctly identified the #trudeau #canada #khalistan issue as an irritant with the potential to blow up. this was on the temper tantrum Trudeau threw after the G20 summit. https:// AI image from #imagAIne is quite cool. CANDU reactors/idukki dam notwithstanding things are not so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Jw1ffk02I&t=263s

an Nvidia-india collaboration on an AI chip? seems far-fetched

 

does an obscure apple change in contact sharing really hurt new social media apps?

of course Americans think the world revolves around them; but ios is only about 10% of the world market and Android probably 90%.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/apple-social-apps-contacts-change.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20241021&instance_id=137445&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=152095&segment_id=181016&user_id=f22997f23dde93902a4eca99e4a5d3df

"Too many Indians" in Canada | Man Shares Video of Street Encounter

Trudeau starts badmouthing Indians, saying they're busy harming Canadian society with anti-national activities.

Surprise - there's suddenly an uptick in resentment towards Indians on the streets of Canada.

If Trudeau were to be shown this incident, he'd quickly put on an angelic face and condemn it in his usual sermonizing tone. 

Because he wants to be both Arsonist and Fireman at the same time.

betting markets aside, Kamala will win.

latest polymarket betting figures on #potus #election show #TrumpVance2024 handily beating #HarrisWalz2024.

however, I believe there will be... how shall I put it, 'november surprises', and Kamala will win. we better all be prepared for it.

oh joy, a brown/black female ex-hindu anti-hindu POTUS!

Zimbardo's 'Stanford Prison Experiment' showed how we can all become monsters

RIP, Prof Philip Zimbardo. 

AI and the Future of Political Satire

 You've seen movies like The Godfather, or even Goodfellas.

Now take a look at actual C-SPAN footage of what America's ruling crime family look like, as the Netas get together at a funeral for one of the Kennedies. As dramatic as it looks, it's all real:

And just for a little dose of humour, a small clip of the real footage above was processed through AI to creatively interpret what might have been said at this "family" gathering:

"indian" monuments being preserved means only Muslim monuments for 'Center for South Asia'

and these are sort of second-tier monuments to second-tier Muslim kings.

I guess you can't expect anything else from the aga Khan trust. 

the real monuments in India, eg. Martand Sun Temple. meanwhile languish.

Martand Sun Temple

Canada is Poorer, Per-Capita,Than Mississippi

As the Khalistanis make Canada their nesting ground, the country's standard of living is plunging: 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/10/canada-is-poor/

Canada Is Poor 

Canada was supposed to be the anti-American success story for middle-class incomes. David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy wrote in 2014 in the New York Times that Canadians’ middle-class income had equaled Americans’ for the first time... Ian Austen and Leonhardt wrote for the New York Times about how middle-class Canadians were richer because of labor unions, government health care, stronger family values, and lower income inequality... At the Brookings Institution, Richard Reeves and Pete Rodrigue asked in a 2014 article, “Has the American Dream Moved to Canada?”...

All of these articles were written in 2014, and that’s because they had to be. As Scott Winship of the American Enterprise Institute has pointed out, 2014 was the only year when U.S. and Canadian median income were the same. Canada’s had been growing faster since roughly 2000, but once the gap was closed, U.S. median income began to take off the next year and hasn’t looked back. That year, 2015, was when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party took power in Canada, where they have been without interruption ever since....

A new report from the Fraser Institute, a Canadian free-market think tank, looks at income... and its findings are even worse for Canada. In a ranking of the 50 U.S. states and ten Canadian provinces by median earnings per person, all ten provinces line up at the bottom, occupying spots 51–60. Every U.S. state has higher median earnings per person than Alberta, the richest Canadian province....

Every state and province except Alberta saw increases in real median earnings between 2010 and 2022. But most U.S. states saw faster growth than their Canadian counterparts. British Columbia is the only Canadian province in the top half of the 60 total jurisdictions in earnings growth. Real earnings growth in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, was slower than in every U.S. state.....

NotebookLM to now be a Google business product; I love the podcasts it makes

this is one of the best use cases of generativeAI: give NotebookLM a text file and it creates a very appealing two-AI-person podcast based on it that's hard to tell from a real conversation between two radio jockeys. to be honest, the first time I heard one, I was stunned.  https://venturebeat.com/ai/googles-notebooklm-will-expand-to-business-use-cases-soon/?utm_source=VentureBeat&utm_campaign=7f47425fa1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_10_15_07_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-8343fea31a-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=7f47425fa1&mc_eid=ccd8fd618f

here's one of my substacks with a notebookLM-generated podcast. 

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-141-narrative-building-on-canada

btw, notebookLM does do other things too: such as summarizing large amounts of text information.

Trudeau, the 'liberal'; does this mean Deep State is ditching him?

signs of being 'liberal':

1. prancing about in blackface as an indian potentate

2. fraternizing with terrorist khalistanis

3. wearing fancy dress costumes on a visit to India

Pannu Demands Indian Diplomats Be Expelled, While Boasting of Non-violence

Gurpatwant Pannu wants to remind everyone how peaceful the Khalistan movement is, just in case it wasn't already obvious to one and all.

As we all know, Bhindranwale was famously non-violent, and followed Ahimsa.

'India Threat' Just an Election Game by Trudeau & Jagmeet

Khalistanis in Canada are the useful idiots being milked by Trudeau & Jagmeet, who are cooking up the 'India threat' in a cynical game of election politics:

there's more than what meets the eye in the canada-india spat

 Ep. 141: Narrative building on Canada by #FiveEyes , and the clear and present danger of #regimechange in #India https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-141-narrative-building-on-canada?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true… AI-generated podcast with text. it's not about #Canada, there's a bigger plan for #balkanization and #extinction of the Indian State per se

both text and AI-generated podcast are here: https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-141-narrative-building-on-canada?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true 

the real plan is regime change.