Sunday, August 10, 2025

Quick notes: Neglected ally | Cow abuse...

  • America returns to its neglected ally: For destabilising Iran, America needs land access. This is how the Pakistanis were used during the Afghan wars, targeting the Russians.

    From Iran's nuclear programme to Afghanistan's lithium reserves, Pakistan's unique positioning at the crossroads of America's most pressing strategic concerns has transformed it from a neglected ally into an indispensable partner
    . . . After 25+ years of progress, India-US ties take a U-turn, history repeats 



  • "The U.S. is not an ally of India": "The U.S. is absolutely uninterested in India based supply chains. Trump is uninterested in that. He is incapable of long-term strategic relations and any of that. India should not presume that the U.S. will do great favors to India. Thats is not going to happen". . . . listen to him, India. Stop being naive.


  • Trump Wants Big Pie Of India's Economy: They want their companies like Amazon to have more facilities for operations. They want unlimited data flow for Google. So, it is beyond tariff, it is beyond trade. The US wants a big pie of the domestic economy.


  • Experts warn Trump: Caving on Nvidia H20 export curbs may disrupt his bigger trade war


  • Blessed to have engineers at the helm: China is developing nation-spanning network to sell surplus data center compute power


  • Cow abuse: Coca-Cola under fire after undercover investigation reveals disturbing scenes at farm: 'A habitual offender'. Investigators also recorded pregnant and sick cows being whipped, punched, kicked, and beaten with metal objects, including shovels, wrenches, and pipes. The abuse was carried out by various staff, including owners, managers, and ranch hands. . . . blacklist Coke!


  • Shut humanities department in STEM institutions:


  • SEBI, Jane Street and India’s Regulatory Dilemma: Watch at 2x



  • Evangelicals lobbied hard for this: Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom


Why Donald Trump Cannot End The Ukraine War, Prof Jeffrey Sachs Explains


How fast can America learn? Can it be made to learn faster? By whom?

Saturday, August 09, 2025

Trump Quickly Brokers Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Agreement & Acquires Territory Along Iran's Northern Border

Speaking of militarizing the border...


What's happening to our role in the Armenia conflict now? I just heard that today the Whitehouse is holding a big signing ceremony event with the leaders of both Armenia & Azerbaijan signing an historic peace agreement, in which Armenia will conveniently give up the southern edge of its territory to create a corridor linking both parts of Azerbaijan together. It's all been quickly arranged - faster than you can say "Abraham Accords"


The corridor is to be called the Trump Route for International Peace & Prosperity (TRIPP)

And this corridor will conveniently be manned & secured by US troops who will be positioned all along Iran's northern boundary. Trump is turning into NeoCon Cecil Rhodes or East India Company or Commodore Perry, or something like that. I'd read that Trump is an admirer of William McKinley.


"My, what big eyes you have grandma!"

"The better to see you with, my child"


"My, what a nice corridor you have, grandma!"

"The better to destabilize you and cause regime change in you, my child"




Wednesday, August 06, 2025

US Senator Lindsey Graham Joins Trump in Taking Swipe Against India

For that fatass crook Lindsey Graham to accuse anyone else of "war profiteering" is the height of hypocrisy -- the Pot Calling the Kettle Black.


https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1952405794366148654 



Lindsey Graham seems to conveniently overlook TURKSTREAM, which imports lots of Natural Gas from Russia and re-sells it to Europe. I don't see any comments from the Senator against Turkey. I think Graham is going after India in particular, as an insurance policy to protect himself from a potential challenge to his Senate seat by fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley, who is of Indian descent.

But Nikki Haley is a NeoCon -- they ran her as their candidate against Trump in 2023-24. She was their hope of regaining power by winning the Whitehouse for them.

But after Nikki Haley flopped against Trump, they quickly discarded her just like Kamala Harris was abandoned after failing to beat Trump.

I think there's a possibility of pro-India supporters wooing abandoned Nikki Haley and bringing her back over from the NeoCon side. Once on the pro-India side, she can be backed for a Senate run against that fatass Lindsey Graham, who is up for re-election in 2026.

After having campaigned on a platform opposed to the NeoCon agenda, Trump himself now suddenly seems to have switched over to the NeoCon side and surrendered to their agenda anyway. This suddenly happened after Netanyahu's Whitehouse visit. I suspect it may be due to some kind of NeoCon/Israeli blackmail stemming from the Epstein case. If they can grab Trump, then we should try to grab Nikki Haley, as there's no love lost between her and Trump whom she ran against.

Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Whitehouse Spokesman Stephen Miller Lacerates India on FOX News


https://x.com/MattooShashank/status/1952202315617755390


Somebody should get that miserable old wretch Rupert Murdoch on the phone, and start squeezing his balls - especially his crummy little Star TV - to show our displeasure with his FOX News and anchor Maria Bartiromo's echoing of Stephen Miller's nasty statements against India. I think Arnab should start speaking out against Murdoch's media empire right away, since Arnab could immediately benefit by gaining market share for himself & his RepublicTV at Murdoch's expense. Arnab and other Indian broadcasters can rally the Indian public against Neo-MacCaulayist colonizer Murdoch and his media empire, who are needlessly being given a license to broadcast in India. If that old crook Murdoch could fire Tucker Carlson, then he can damn well get us a groveling apology from Bartiromo and FOX management. Failing that, then Murdoch's enterprises should be hounded out of India. Just like the ED raid on BBC's offices, there should be a raid on Murdoch/Star TV's offices in India.

Bust Murdoch's Aussie balls - hard. No more Mr Nice Guy. 

Trump depends on Murdoch's media empire -- many of Trump's senior staff are from Murdoch-owned FOX -- and Aussie Murdoch's media empire is within our reach (eg. Star TV). We need to go after Murdoch's businesses, and put the squeeze on him. That will send Trump & Co a message they can't ignore.

If Trump Leans On India, Then India Leans On Murdoch

The Murdoch Card Is More Powerful Than the Rare Earths Card

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Pakistan, US seal trade deal

"Massive" Oil Partnership With Pak: The US struck a trade deal with Pakistan, hours after announcing 25% tariffs on imports from India.


Fourth-largest oil and gas reserves in the world: This could be a potential game-changer in the region’s energy flows... Fictitious reserves?


"India can take its dead economy down for all I care"


China spared, India sanctioned: 6 Indian Companies Sanctioned By US Over Iran Petroleum Purchases


Why Trump doesn't want Google, Microsoft to hire Indians: He wants a new "spirit of patriotism and national loyalty".

From the archives: 'Abki Baar, Trump Sarkar': PM Modi gives tacit support for Trump's re-election in 2020

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

China & Iran (and What About Afghanistan? What if...)


Iran has become an Achilles' heel for China (ie. a weak spot, as a vulnerable key oil supplier)

Suppose China were to build a pipeline thru northern Afghanistan, and pay oil transit fees to the Taliban, as part of BRI. This could replace the lousy non-performing Pak/CPEC portion of BRI.

It could be a trifecta for them, because Iran could get Chinese weapons in exchange for Iranian oil, and Afghanistan could get money to rebuild itself.

I don't think Pak would dare disrupt the Afghan pipeline and make a deep enemy out of China. US would approach Pak to replicate Afghan jihad again (this time against China instead of against Moscow), but I don't think Pak could dare risk making a deep enemy out of China (if Pak did that, then all the better for us)

What would be the main benefit for India? We could collude with a rising Afghanistan to liberate Pakhtun & also Baloch areas from the decaying Pakistan. At some point, even USA would abandon a decaying Pak, and decide it's better to engage with liberated components like independent Balochistan (Pakhtun areas of Pak would be absorbed by Afghanistan, naturally)

Quick notes: Hiring Indians | Baloch and Israel...

Saturday, July 26, 2025

USA & China in Our Yard - Why Not Us & China in USA's?

The following talk was hosted by Dr Tara Karth (former National Security Council Secretariat) and Lt Gen Dushyant Singh (Director General CLAWS, PVSM, AVSM, Ret'd)

India-China Relations: Current Dynamics Unpacked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0_LCAMn1Q?t=4431


@ 1:13:51 in the above video, I asked the following question:

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While being rivals, US & China are both able to support Pakistan. In which places can India & China cooperate, even beyond their immediate shared neighborhood? South America or Pacific Islands maybe?

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The point of my question is that we're always taking it on the chin from these guys right in our own yard. Why can't we take our response beyond our yard and into someone else's yard? (You know whose yard I'm talking about)

Ideally, I'd be thinking of someplace beyond the 2nd island chain used to block China from entering the Pacific, perhaps closer to Hawaii. There are a whole lot of islands in that part of the Pacific.

Another place might be in South America, in its northern-most parts. We have closer ties to Guyana & Trinidad, the first of which is under serious threat from Venezuela. We can provide armaments to Guyana to help protect them, while China can provide armaments to Venezuela's belligerent govt. Just like the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, where we arm Armenia and Israel arms Azerbaijan, we can have the same thing in South America where we arm Guyana, and China arms Venezuela's Maduro govt in response. As a result, Venezuela becomes China's client state, perhaps even giving them an airbase in America's backyard. (We can see how the Israelis similarly benefited from using Azerbaijan's territory for basing strike aircraft.)

Any sort of cooperation or even managed competition with China is fraught with risk, because the Chinese can make anything go awry. But our exposure level is reduced the farther away the site of cooperation/competition is from our own home turf. America doesn't mind helping the same Pakistan that China helps, whether it's meant as cooperation or as tug-of-war. They don't mind, because it's India's security getting screwed by this, and not their own.

Likewise, we need to take the same attitude towards Uncle Sam, since that's the attitude he takes towards us. 

Thai-Cambodian Clash Over Hindu Temple is Really a Superpower Clash (China vs USA)


Thai PM Shinawatra is backed by China, while the Thai ruling military establishment are US-sponsored, exerting power thru judiciary & its constitutional court, just like Pak military now does thru 26th amendment. Because the pro-military forces have now basically ousted the pro-Chinese Thai PM Shinawatra over phone call (similar to how Pak military ousted Imran Khan), this is then provoking China into triggering its puppet regime in Cambodia nextdoor to escalate military pressure on Thai border (remember that Cambodian PM Hun Sen is himself a former Khmer Rouge cadre now wearing a suit). This is why the Thai-Cambodian military clashes are now happening. China is angry that its designs inside Thailand are being thwarted, and is now using Cambodia lackey to retaliate. On the one side of the conflict is USA (via Thai military) and on the other side of the conflict is China (via Cambodian puppet).

Thailand is equipped with American F-16s, and these have apparently been involved in the border clash. Does Cambodia have J-10C or anything comparable to F-16?

We Indians need to consider effect on our neighborhood. 𝚆̶𝚎̶ "Unknown forces" did that drone raid on ULFA to send both China & USA a message. We all know that USA would happily sucker-punch us and cozy up to ULFA just to gain some new inroad/foothold against China, to put its Yunnan province under threat. Myanmar is the main route to go after China's vulnerable Yunnan flank, and we are located on one side of Myanmar while Thailand is located on the other side of it.

USA's game in subverting India with Lokpal didn't work, and their agent Kejriwal is now in jail. But USA does have a nice foothold in Thailand, where its Thai military allies rule thru "constitutional court" (a model that Pak military are now adopting thru 26th amendment). China has been trying to loosen the tenuous hold of USA and its Thai military flunkies over Thailand, backing the Shinawatra clan and their populist politics. Thai military are then warily eyeing the pro-China forces led by the Shinawatras, and looking for any excuse to pounce on them (eg. this latest phone call).

Should we support China or support USA?
A Pox On Both Their Houses, say I.

America sees our northeast as a vulnerable spot, and would gladly fuck us over in a second, in order to gain a useful flank against China's Yunnan (just like Adlai Stevenson shafted us in J&K.) America has done the coup in Dhaka to increase India's vulnerability. China is now gleefully reaping the fruits of America's coup, while we suffer the consequences. I personally think that a Thailand where the military is weakened by military conflict would be in both China's interest as well as India's interest. The only difference between China and India on this would be the extent to which Thai military should be weakened. China would like Thai military to be completely overthrown, whereas we would probably benefit most from seeing them only weakened, because then this gives us more leverage with both USA & China, to dissuade either from any misadventures near our northeastern borders.

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

How Russia Plans to Rule Eurasia by River

Seems more practical than China's water-coercion game




@ 6:05 they mention a drone transport hub - we should consider trying something like this, especially to our underserved outermost border regions, whether in Himalayas or Northeast.

Monday, July 21, 2025

Quick notes: Sinophile | Liveable cities...

  • NITI Aayog loaded with Sinophiles: India's top think tank recommends easing investment rules for Chinese firms... My enemy is my savior

  • Trump, the Sinophile: As Trump courts a more assertive Beijing, China hawks are losing out in a a dramatic reversal.

    In recent years, one of China's biggest requests of US officials has been that the US relax its strict controls on advanced AI chips, measures that were put in place to slow Beijing's technological and military gains. Last week, the Trump administration did just that, as it allowed Nvidia to sell its H20 chip to China... China won by calling Trump’s ‘bluff’

  • Microsoft, the Sinophile: Microsoft using engineers in China to help maintain cloud computing systems for U.S. Department of Defense.


  • What NITI Aayog doesn't want you to know: How China has been blocking India's UNSC actions since the 2000s


  • From Evergrande to BYD: Is China’s EV dream crashing? . . . Don't you worry, NITI Aayog is there to rescue China.


  • How can we make India's cities more liveable? Zoho's Sridhar Vembu has a suggestion . . let's focus less on GDP and more on quality of living.


  • How Indian Cities Failed Public Transport: Prioritize people over cars.


China-Pak Collusion After Op Sindoor; US-India Strategic Ties in Doubt

I liked this analysis and commentary by Gen P R Shankar and Gen Rajiv Narayanan

The drone strike on ULFA was a good message to both China and USA

US wants to get into Myanmar - but India can tell them the same thing Zia-ul-Haq told them on Afghanistan: "You can't do it without me" (followed quickly by rejecting their early offers as "Peanuts.")

Friday, July 18, 2025

Decoding Turkey’s Grand Strategy: Erdogan’s Ambitions, Defence Deals in India's Neighbourhood

Good interview by Swasti Rao shedding light on Turkey's behaviour toward India:


So Erdogan doesn't perceive any cost from siding with India's adversaries, since Turkey doesn't have significant economic ties with India.


Sunday, July 13, 2025

Quick Notes: Jane Street | Hydrofoil ferry...

  • Jane Street's cash machine came to an abrupt halt: Foreign funds and proprietary traders using algorithms made $7 billion in the 12 months to March 2024 alone. That bonanza may be coming to an end.

  • Manipulating Indian derivatives markets: How US-based Jane Street siphoned Rs 36,000 cr from Indian markets.

  • Indian casino is a train-wreck: Indian retail investor losses on derivative trades widened in 2024-25 by 41% to 1.06 trillion rupees. India is the world's largest derivatives market, accounting for nearly 60% of the equity derivatives traded globally in April.


  • Prada on backfoot: High Fashion's habit of 'borrowing' from India isn't new. Prada's Kolhapuri chappals are just the latest


  • How America's Debt Spiral Could Spark The Next Crisis: America's debt problem is no longer linear; it is exponential.


  • Blue superhighway: Could the Electric Hydrofoil Ferry change the way we commute? Fast, sustainable mode of transit



  • Unicorn: India's Rapido is outpacing global giants like Uber and Ola in user growth, while also achieving profitability . . . A ride-hailing unicorn is gaining users faster than Uber, disrupting the San Francisco titan’s effort to conquer a key growth market  


  • AI's energy problem: Google’s carbon emissions went up again as its AI push continues


  • Distress in Hi-tech jobs: Salesforce CEO Claims Half of the company’s work is now done by AI


  • The ‘Trump Pump’: How crypto lobbying won over a President. For years, cryptocurrency companies had endured a sweeping crackdown in Washington — a cascade of lawsuits, regulatory attacks and prosecutions that threatened the industry’s survival. Mr. Trump wasn’t an obvious sympathizer. He had once dismissed Bitcoin as a “scam.”

  • One Way to Win Trump Over: Nominate Him for the Nobel Prize 


Saturday, July 12, 2025

massive PR to save boeing's ass in the AI 171 crash


this is the actual preliminary report. it does not say anything like what the western media is saying, which is all intended to shield Boeing and GE. 

reminds me of pfizer's contract terms for COVID vaccine: they had no indemnity. if anything happened, it's the customer's problem, not pfizer's. like if you died. they offer no warranty. same thing here. no warranty that the darn plane is airworthy. 



so here's the spin doctoring on July 12th. despite the small print (just below), see the headlines (below that). 

lies, damned lies, and propaganda. western media wants to make it look like pilot error, when in fact turning on/off the fuel gauges is pretty damn difficult and cannot be done accidentally. 

clean chit to beleaguered boeing and general electric. 

however, here's the smoking gun: the 2018 advisory on incorrectly designed fuel switches. h/t @shivaroor on x.com



my suspicion: mechanical or software error, or sabotage. below is a deep dive. 

Friday, July 11, 2025

Ep. 169: Has the Deep State 'turned' Trump?

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mamdani senior holds forth on suicide bombers


thought control? or preventing hate speech?


Wednesday, July 09, 2025

can India catch up in innovation?

https://youtu.be/n_Yu21eyEhY?si=d4dle9CvD2s92n6K 

Tucker Carlson & Saagar Enjeti: Dangerous Depths Of Deep State

WTF are US Deep State up to? Absolute insanity and depravity

No wonder they delayed the GE engines and regime-changed Bangla. Their power apparatus are deeply committed to some kind of kill-chain, and we naively got in their way.

Modi should have never gone to Kyiv & Moscow for his visit. What the hell was he thinking - what did he accomplish, other than to put us more firmly in Washington's cross-hairs? And none of our media or babus questioned it, because they're all just a bunch of idiotic Yes-men.