a quick read on the trump tariffs imposed today. they will hurt, yes, but India didn’t do as badly as feared, and there are medium to long term benefits from competition and reduced protective tariff walls.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-161-trump-tariffs-impact-on-the
it was panned by the usual suspects for the usual reasons, but it was a meaningful event.
https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-159-tulsi-gabbards-visit-to-india
Britain is still a formidable player in the world of international relations. Alas, it adds to entropy and chaos and the loss of human lives and rights. Perfidious Albion it still is.
https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-158-britain-plays-an-outsize-malign
the woman who led an 'azaadi' chant.
37 year old PhD candidate.
left for Canada, for which she -- fortuitously -- had a visa.
We can see why certain voices were so deadset against Tulsi Gabbard -- because they wanted this to happen
zelensky made a big mistake. he had been gaslighted by the likes of keir starmer into believing he had some bargaining chips.
also, this is why 'english as a second language' people should not argue with native English speakers. use an interpreter!
https://x.com/ShivAroor/status/1895539728285597895
Rumor has is that traitors Anthony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, and Alexander Vindman advised Zelensky to stand tall in his meeting with Trump. If true, they are acting as foreign agents violating the Logan Act. pic.twitter.com/yZ45XkfkCb
— Matthew Nichol (@MatthewNichol5) February 28, 2025
Chrystia Freeland, who was until recently Canada's finance minister, and previously its deputy prime minister, and before that its foreign minister (all under Justin Trudeau), is now calling for Canada to acquire nuclear weapons deterrence from UK & France against the USA
Chrystia Freeland says America is turning into a "predator" and that Canada needs to work with our nuclear-armed allies as the U.S. stops being the leader of the free world. pic.twitter.com/bsGIwnoz1K
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) February 26, 2025
Freeland has a strange past
https://breachmedia.ca/chrystia-freelands-denials-grandfather-complicit-nazi-genocide/
Free land = Strange love
another bubble is bursting. none too soon.
let me name a few recent failures: metaverse, blockchain, apple vision pro, Hyperloop.
Gotta keep that Deep State happy - or else they'll suddenly start working for the Kremlin, etc
Apparently, patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels
My column: The world's deadliest dam failures have occurred in China. And if a powerful earthquake caused China's super-dam to collapse, millions downstream could die, largely in India's populous Brahmaputra Valley. Yet India has said little on the threat. https://t.co/5AKxJZPRsG
— Brahma Chellaney (@Chellaney) January 29, 2025
the SF police have closed the case ruling it a suicide. but it's hard to believe
just like 'gulf of america'. it mirrors china's nomenclature aggressiveness, eg giving indian villages Chinese place names. or claiming the '9 dash line', which is a piece of garbage.
in India, commies use "fascists, Hitler" etc to try to dispirit hindus. but I found that calling them "nehruvian stalinists" or "maoists" quickly shut them up.
nomenclature terrorism works both ways.
there is no simple solution to the immigration conundrum under Trump 2.0. a lot of people are going to be hurt, and that includes not just criminals and illegals, but even hardworking, productive foreigners. it also might make the US a lot less attractive to foreigners, which could be fatal for innovation there.
these Brits overestimate what USAID accomplishes, other than feeding regime-change.
I took an early morning bus to Mysuru, from Bengaluru. ₹210 fare. Comfortable KSRTC bus and a world class highway for fast travel.
— Kiran Kumar S (@KiranKS) January 8, 2025
But I got a few thoughts.
1) Nearly 30 of the 50 passengers were women. Just show Aadhar and travel free. Is this fair? Is it equality?
2) 20… pic.twitter.com/2TfkzF88IA
move over, microsoft. the new legend is deepseek, and this man. from the #deepstate presstitute flunkeys over at the economist magazine, always ready to lionize a Chinese, possibly with a generous cheque from xinhua.
#deepstate flunkeys at the economist having a meltdown. hey, brit journos for hire, what secrets do you have that you are concerned about Kash Patel finding out? is it the regular checks you have been getting from the deep state (along with the ones from xinhua)?
this seems unwise. $500 billion for openAI? based on exactly what? and microsoft, for which I have always assumed openAI is a stalking horse, is not even in the picture as a founding member of this consortium? something's fishy here. I think masayoshi son of softbank is being gaslighted.
"special relationship" gone. I think they were seriously expecting to be offered a chance to be the US' 51st state. that's probably why keir starmer sent a bunch of his people to do election interference in the POTUS election 2024. alas, it boomeranged.
now starmer is peeved. this is a trump special.
I guess the cat's out of the bag. this is why all western big tech apps must be viewed with suspicion. we knew this about Chinese apps all along.
it has already been rebranded and is getting sold back to us.
hasn't this woman humiliated herself enough? she's shown herself to be entirely incompetent. why not just fade away? jeez! what exactly are these guys at the san Jose Mercury news smoking?
The 3rd launch pad will be used for newer-generation missions such as human spaceflight, reusable launch vehicles, and even a crewed mission to the Moon:
the three mile island analogy is breathtaking
moss landing is the largest lithium battery facility in the US.
blow to US lithium battery and green ambitions. this facility is in monterey county, not far from silicon valley https://x.com/newscientist/status/1880398680622092598
these are interesting times. we are seeing some nine pins falling by the wayside: deep state favorites like Hindenburg.
SpaDeX Docking Update:
— ISRO (@isro) January 16, 2025
🌟Docking Success
Spacecraft docking successfully completed! A historic moment.
Let’s walk through the SpaDeX docking process:
Manoeuvre from 15m to 3m hold point completed. Docking initiated with precision, leading to successful spacecraft capture.…
the tech bros and indian Americans are now seen as beginning to lean towards trump, so this ro guy, who would have been congressman if I were still living in the Bay area, is now trying to insinuate himself.
the real issue of poor suchir balaji's possible murder is getting politicized.
Jan 14 is when I celebrate the new year, not the Gregorian new year which is a random date. makara sankranti is a real astronomical event, when the sun moves into the constellation makara or Capricorn, and it marks the end of the winter (such as it is) in India. (funny thing is it has broiling hot in Kerala lately 90+ def F, 33 deg C. some winter!). tomorrow is the start of the malayalam month of makaram/Capricorn. it will be makaram 1, 1200 ME (malabar era).
5,000 years ago makara sankranti (based on the solar calendar) used to coincide with the uttarayanam (loosely speaking the winter solstice). because of the precession of the equinoxes, that is because the earth's axis is tilted at 23 degrees, the two dates are diverging. 18,000 years later, the two will coincide again.
in bhishma's time, or around 3102 BCE, the two coincided, and this is why bhishma lay on the bed of arrows (sara-sayya) waiting for uttararayanam, the auspicious time, to arrive, before he passed away on the winter solstice, Dec 22.
my father passed away on the exact opposite, on Jun 21, the summer solstice, in 2003.
and this year we have the Maha kumbha mela, which happens once in 144 years.
wish all of you a great year ahead!
ISRO has halted its attempt to dock 2 spacecraft together in orbit, after encountering problems. After closing the separation distance to within 3 meters, apparently the Chaser spacecraft is suffering a computer crash, because its guidance control loop is encountering excessive variability in the readings from the optical sensors. It's hard to say without further details, but it may be some kind of parallax issue. They'll try to resume their docking efforts after studying the data to solve the problem, but in the meantime the spacecraft have been returned to a safer separation distance of 64 meters.
SpaDeX Docking Update:
— ISRO (@isro) January 12, 2025
A trial attempt to reach up to 15 m and further to 3 m is done.
Moving back spacecrafts to safe distance
The docking process will be done after analysing data further.
Stay tuned for updates.#SpaDeX #ISRO
Anyway, space rendezvous & docking is a previously unattempted advanced capability that ISRO is attempting to master, and so it's natural that things can go wrong along the way. That's all par for the course.
The only issue I'd take here is how they're speaking as if everything's gone according to plan, without even acknowledging that any problem has occurred.
trump isn't kidding about canada, greenland and panama. there may be sound strategy there. so what does this mean for india?
climatism is driving the north Atlantic right whale to extinction by deafening them with sounds like pile-driving.
brand new: deep critical study of the man, the writer, the anarchist. from Routledge.
tablet magazine considers this woman a plausible successor to Justin Trudeau. is she descended from a Ukrainian Nazi azov battalion type?
boy, that would be a nasty surprise. but not really. Canada is full of mountebanks. including ISI-funded and CCP-funded khalistanis.
so Canada goes from castreau to... this?
This is not a free speech platform. pic.twitter.com/Cd6diinnN9
— 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐫 𝐊𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐞 (@badazn) December 31, 2024
