Farming under solar panels: "It reduces irrigation needs, shields crops from heat stress, and stabilizes incomes by diversifying revenue streams for farmers".
Let MAGA eat soy: America’s latest farmer crisis is Government-Grown. Losses could fuel farm bankruptcies around the United States.
Forever dependent on foreign tech: India's IT sector nervous as US proposes 25% outsourcing tax.. Navarro reposted a call from far-right activist Jack Posobiec for tariffs on services, not just goods.
Blaming AI for India’s IT woes is like blaming Uber for walking less. Truth is: we never built OS, chips or cloud because jugaad outsourcing was too profitable. Time isn’t the threat-our comfort zone is.
Trump attacks his cash cow: Hundreds of U.S. colleges poised to close in next decade. “Over the next decade, we’re going through a very painful but necessary re-balancing in supply and demand.”
Ashtavakra Gita: The Perfect Spiritual Guide to Enlightenment
Wi-Fi signals used to measure heart rate accurately: Signal variations caused by a beating heart enable determining beats per minute. The UCSC team, which included Professor Katia Obraczka, Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia, and high school student and visiting researcher Pranay Kocheta, used a low-cost ESP32 chip and paired it with a machine learning algorithm to detect changes in the Wi-Fi signal caused by the heart. They then run it through a machine learning algorithm, which can estimate the heart rate with an accuracy of around half a beat per minute
AI Is Coming for India’s Famous Tech Hub: AI might accelerate trends that have already made the industry less labor-intensive. About a decade ago, companies needed about 27 employees to earn $1 million in annual revenue. That number has now fallen to 21 employees ..The industry added 60,000 jobs in the year ended in March, the lowest annual increase in more than a decade.
China Expert: “India must copy this from China to stay ahead!” Manoj Kewalramani -- MUST WATCH!
Japan's chipmaking revival? Rapidus to use AI and robots to automate back end chipmaking processes.. claims automation can slash delivery times by 66% versus TSMC and Samsung.
More white elephants? "India's dream to host Olympics 2036, we are preparing"... Is it to foster sporting culture, or to leverage national pride that borders on jingoism?.... Hosting Olympics is NOT a great investment:
The world is but a show, glittering and empty. It is, and yet is not. It
is there as long as I want to see it and take part in it. When I cease
caring, it dissolves, It has no cause and serves no purpose. It just
happens when we are absent-minded. It appears exactly as it looks, but
there is no depth in it, nor meaning. Only the onlooker is real, call
him Self or Atma. To the Self the world is but a colourful show, which
he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever
happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter,
yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or
fear he enjoys it, as it happens.
I am a dream that can wake you up.
Tax payer funded PR stunt: Charter flights to facilitate return of Indian citizens stranded in Israel. Those who are returning will not be paying any fare and the tax-payer is bearing the cost of their return. Why? "Students were a little bit panicked". . . . . . . . 'Indians don't want to leave Israel'
Schools urge parents to delete Instagram, TikTok: Concern over Islamists' barbaric videos on social media. The warnings are circulating not just in Israel but also in the US, UK - with some singling out TikTok, Instagram.
Harvard cancelled over support for Hamas: Harvard silent after its students issue pro-Hamas declaration. A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack
I have been asked by a number of CEOs if @harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their… https://t.co/7kzGOAGwp9
Defund The BBC: Too woke to label Hamas as ‘terrorists’.
After Yezidis, Islamists target the Kalash: Pakistan's pagan Kalash tribe targeted by Taliban. The Kalash are Pakistan's last polytheistic community, who have avoided mass Islamisation.
Chinese EV Suppliers Plan Side Doors Into U.S. Market: Chinese battery companies critical to electric vehicles are pursuing deals with US free-trade partners South Korea and Morocco, seeking to tap growing demand in America and bypass rules aimed at shutting them out of the market.
Help from China? Russia aims to mass produce 28nm chips by 2027, 14nm by 2030... if China is helping, what are they getting in return? Wide-body aircraft?
Papaji: It's Here. Let it unfold and reveal itself.
Long envied by outsiders, Europe is getting poorer: Europeans are experiencing a decline in their purchasing power. Adjusted for inflation and purchasing power, wages have declined by about 3% since 2019 in Germany, by 3.5% in Italy and Spain and by 6% in Greece. Real wages in the U.S. have increased by about 6% over the same period
Seymore Hersh: US played critical role in Crimean Bridge attacks. “Of course it was our technology. The drone was remotely guided and half submerged—like a torpedo.”. . Proxy war? Leaked documents reveal the extent of U.S. involvement in the Ukraine fight.
Will AI kill the radiology stars?Algorithms today are more accurate than those of almost two-thirds of radiologists... Human Vs Machine
Milking India: Chinese mobile companies evade Rs.9,000 crore in tax in India, Rs.1,629 crore recovered
Just the facts: Condensed background to Manipur situation
Noam Chomsky’s corrosive effects on linguistics as well as politics: “A deep disregard and contempt for the truth, a monumental disdain for standards of enquiry, a relentless strain of self-promotion, remarkable descents into incoherence, and a penchant for verbally abusing those who disagree with him.”
No matter how deceitful or duplicitous their researchers can get, major universities tend to whistle and look the other way.
Beware of BBC. They are part of the Hinduphobia machine.
They've even turned something as boring as vegetarianism into a sensationalized and caste/oppression-fraught topic.
Today Geeta Pandey published this. It has all the woke buzzwords. Shame on her:https://t.co/GDg95s8gBK
— Probably Not Actually a Monkey (@ApeThinks) July 29, 2023
TikTok Pushing Chinese Propaganda: TikTok is facing numerous government inquiries in Europe and abroad about its ties to the Chinese state. One of regulators’ top concerns about TikTok is a fear that it could be used by the CCP to warp civic discourse in democratic nations.
Italy regrets joining China's BRI: Signing up for BRI was an “improvised and heinous act” by the previous administration, Rome’s defense minister says. Done little to boost Italy's exports, making China the only winner.
Brain-drain: A third of India's most sought after engineering graduates leave the country. Nine out of 10 top scorers in the annual joint entrance examination held nationally for admission to the IITs and other reputed engineering colleges have migrated. Up to 36% of the top 1,000 scorers, too, have taken this path.
India to lose 6,500 millionaires in 2023: Dubai and Singapore remain preferred destinations for wealthy Indian families..‘Millionaires’ or ‘high-networth individuals’ (HNWIs) refer to those with investable wealth of $1 million or more.
Germany's BIG FAT Churches: The two main churches have total assets worth about €300 billion with combined annual turnover of €150 billion. State payments are only a small part of church income in Germany, with taxes to the tune of €13 billion annually making up the bulk of it.
In addition, there's a sizable amount of income from church assets about which the clergy keeps mum. The two churches are said to be the biggest landlords in Germany, owning forests, farmland and other real estate, as well as holding stakes in businesses such as publishing houses, breweries, banks and insurance companies.
Biggest losers of AI boom are knowledge workers: The transformation will pile pressure on higher-wage knowledge workers whose activities “were previously considered to be relatively immune from automation,” according to McKinsey study.
A few years ago, McKinsey had estimated that about half of worker hours worldwide were spent on tasks that could be automated. Now it’s raising the figure to as high as 60-70 per cent. Employees could find that their time is reallocated — or that their jobs disappear.
EU Hits Google with Antitrust Charges: Google faces EU break-up order over anti-competitive adtech practices. Google may have to sell part of its adtech business.
Intel set to gain $11 Billion subsidy for German chip plant . . . Chinese companies are frantically pre-ordering GPUs before US sanctions fully kick in. ByteDance has gobbled up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI this year.
Nisargadatta: The world is your reflection, begin in yourself.
Organ donors: India has one of the world's lowest rates of organ donation. The current health system limits the health benefits of donated organs and allows private hospitals to profit without contributing much to the system.
India to clear 45 investment proposals from China: India dropping barriers to Chinese investment and trade that were set up in the aftermath of the Galwan Valley clash. . . . . . . Chacha Modi says 'Hindi-Chini-...'
China Back as Top India Trade Partner: China regained its position as India’s top trade partner in 2020, as New Delhi’s reliance on imported machines outweighed its efforts to curb commerce with Beijing after a bloody border conflict.
Dr Bharat Karnad: 'Indian Army's advantage has been lost.. Losing out in both symbolic and substantive terms, how is any of this a success for India?'
'Uberize' = To Eliminate Salaried Positions: California’s vote to classify Uber and Lyft drivers as contractors has emboldened other employers to eliminate salaried positions—and has become a cornerstone of bigger plans to “Uberize” the U.S. workforce. “There’s nobody backing you”. The Gig Economy is coming for millions of American jobs.
Tony West, Uber’s top lawyer, is Kamala Harris’s
brother-in-law. Several of Biden’s cabinet picks have consulted for
Uber, and his national security adviser previously helped
the company try to cut a deal with unions. One of Biden’s key campaign
advisers on labor, former Deputy Labor Secretary Seth Harris, co-wrote a 2015 paper
with a fellow Obama alum advocating the creation of a middle-ground
employment status that didn’t include a minimum wage.
UK and Canada to follow Australian model: The UK may follow the lead of Australia and Canada in forcing Facebook to pay news publishers for hosting their content,
Pagan Revival led by Hindus: Christianity is a “religion of the Book”, an artificial construct, whereas the ancestral religion was based on nature. Wherever there is reality, Pagan religion has to come up, inevitably. No presumed revelation was needed, nor any frantic attempt to preserve this revealed religion intact and impose it on the next generations. If ever we forget all about it, we can rediscover it for it is ever-present all around us.
Raising a swarm: India’s R&D spending on drone technologies is not even equal to the
annual maintenance costs of the fleet of imported systems. The lack of a long-term acquisition plan or a roadmap, a
version of the Integrated Guided Missile Development program for
drones, means there
is virtually no indigenous ecosystem for UASes. Worse, all the major
components for lightweight drones, the auto-pilot or the brain of the machine, the battery pack, the motherboard and the propellers and
motors, are imported, the majority from the world leader in drones,
China.
There is exactly one project which currently holds out a glimmer of
hope for futuristic military projects, the Mehar Baba Swarm Drone
Competition, an IAF-funded project for creating swarm drones. The winner
of the contest to build a fleet of 50 drones to deliver humanitarian
assistance and disaster relief will bag a Rs 100 crore IAF contract. But
such projects, which bring in the brightest in Indian industry, are few
and far between... Unmanned surveillance gives us a huge tactical advantage on the seas, which satellite and aircraft-based surveillance don’t
Developers point to
Turkey, which has built up an ecosystem over the past 15 years and is
now a world leader in armed drones. Turkish armed drones have tipped the
scales in virtually every recent conflict in its extended
neighbourhood, from Syria and Libya to Nagorno Karabakh. It might only
be a matter of time before drones appear in our neighbourhood too, as a
wake-up call.
VikAss is visible: “Look at, India, it’s so filthy, the air is filthy”.
Turns out, globalization wasn't such a blessing: Back in the ’90s, when the post-Cold War consensus was just emerging, economists tended to take a simplistic either-or view of trade—either you were a free trader or a protectionist—and forced people to choose sides.
Paul Krugman branded just about everybody who questioned the rapid pace of globalization a fool who didn’t understand economics very well. Now Krugman has come out and admitted that his own understanding of economics has been seriously deficient as well. Many of these working-class communities have been hit hard by Chinese competition, which economists made a “major mistake” in underestimating, Krugman says.
The Economics Nobel Isn’t Really A Nobel: Technically, there is no Nobel Prize in economics. The Nobel Foundation doesn’t pay out the award or choose the winner, but it does list the prize on its website along with the Nobels. Members of the Nobel family have spoken out against the award.
One distressing thing I have noticed in our corner of rural India is the steady decline of the bicycle, replaced by the motorcycle. Distances as short of 1-2 km are routinely covered by motorcycles.
Recently in my ancestral village a speeding motorcycle killed a morning walker.
Shenzhen SEZ: Lessons from the hardware capital of the world. “In India, SEZs are identified with tax and exchange control
relaxations. But the Chinese SEZs were basically areas exempted from the
application of various domestic laws, rules and procedures by giving
each SEZ chief wide discretion
to adapt international best practices.”
Revolt against Xi Jinping? “An official call to arms against Xi: The clown who insists on wearing the emperor’s new clothes.”
Equalisation levy: Foreign-owned e-commerce players will have to pay equalisation levy from the next fiscal. The levy, which hitherto was applicable only to digital advertising players such as Google, has now been expanded to cover “e-commerce supply or services”. Setback to Chinese e-commerce players like AliExpress, Shein and Club Factory selling in India.
Uncontrolled binge-watching: Netflix, Youtube, Facebook to cut data traffic in India to ease network congestion
Two Types Of COVID-19: Type-L is more virulent and was responsible for the intial outbreak in China. Type-S is relatively less aggressive.
Cuba’s ‘wonder drug’ Interferon Alfa-2B:
Interferon drugs are man-made versions of the proteins that the human
body creates. The drugs equip the body to tackle viruses, preventing
them from multiplying in the body. Interferon drugs first emerged for
cancer therapy. Interferons have also been used in the treatment of HIV and AIDS.
Radical left: Kick NYT out of India before they turn into nuisance.
The New York Times changed headlines 3 times in order to satisfy the Radical Left. What should have been a good story got “worse & worse”, until the headline alone made it very unfair. Fake & Corrupt News that is very dangerous for our Country!
Is Modi govt weakening HAL? With no payments coming in, HAL for the first time ever takes a bank loan of Rs 7.81 billion. . . . Air force holds back Rs 20,000 crore from HAL, as foreign vendors get paid. . . . Govt’s apathy is pushing HAL to the brink.
Preventing the next terror attack: WhatsApp is facing pressure in India to let authorities trace and read encrypted messages. Indian policy makers have been examining methods China has used to protect domestic startups and take control of citizens’ data.
Taking on the mighty: Govt’s tough stand on Ecommerce FDI may put a stop to Amazon’s food sales in India
— राजीवः श्रीनिवासः (@RajeevSrinivasa) January 15, 2019
Ganga, the wonder river: In the late 19th century, British scientists and hydrologists became intrigued by the fact that Ganga water did not go bad, even after long periods of storage, contrary to the water of other rivers in which a mounting lack of oxygen quickly promoted the growth of anaerobic bacteria. In 1896 the British physician E. Hanbury Hankin wrote in the French journal Annales de l’Institut Pasteur that cholera microbes that had a life of forty-eight hours in distilled water died within three hours in Ganga water. Dr. Hankin was able to secure corpses of cholera victims in the river and isolated samples of Ganga water with a large concentration of the bacillus E. coli. Much to his astonishment, he found that after six hours the microbes had completely disappeared.
Insect Collapse: Tropical insects, having evolved in a very stable climate, would be much more sensitive to climate warming. “If you go a little bit past the thermal optimum for tropical insects, their fitness just plummets”.
Making farmers dependent on MNCs: SJM seeks change in patent act after pro-Monsanto court verdict. . . . Judges committing massive blunders. Of all the three judgments, this one is the most distasteful.
Christism exposed: Catholic Church threatens to expel nun for protesting against rape-accused Bishop “Your deeds on 20th September 2018 and on the following days were of most grave external scandal and harm to the Church and the FCC. You went to the Ernakulam High Court junction and participated in the protest held by the SOS Action Council on 20-9-2018 without the permission of your superior.”
The old RSS did a lot for Hindus in the deep South when it was still Hindu. But that merit doesn't carry over into the present, now that its "secular-national" central leadership makes common cause w/ the enemy & humiliates its local chapter for siding with the Hindu resistance. https://t.co/VUJ9F1CZxn
the big government push to make sure all women deliver in hospitals will make the % go even higher than 42% and cost the nation a ton of money in insurance. that's a crock because giving birth is not a disease. midwives usually competent to deliver. #AllopathsBehavingBadly
— राजीवः श्रीनिवासः (@RajeevSrinivasa) January 3, 2019
Erdogan's Turkey is Islamic State: Syria’s Kurds, betrayed by the U.S., ask Assad for protection. . . U.S. commanders recommend letting Kurdish fighters in Syria keep weapons. The recommendation “is a rejection of Trump’s policy to withdraw from Syria”.
Paedophilic Paki: Most pedophiles in UK are of Paki descent says British home secretary Sajid Javid.
Govt tightens e-commerce norms: Forces e-commerce companies to become ‘genuine marketplaces’. . Amazon may have to sell Cloudtail, Appario stakes. . "FDI rules do not allow inventory based model of e-commerce"... Move may end Amazon, Flipkart flash sales and discounts.
E-commerce firms and traders hail new norms but small vendors fret over 25% limithttps://t.co/K8sqGvH90y
The War on Cars Is Real: It's being led by congested cities. Congestion pricing is just one way cities are actively engaged in reducing the number of cars and the amount of driving.
Jobless growth: Manufacturing may not generate jobs at the expected rate. 'The policies were put in the hope that growth of the manufacturing sector will lead to increased employment'.
The Extraordinary Life of Maurice Frydman: Virtually nothing is known about this most extraordinary man. He was in all the right places in all the right times to get the maximum benefit of interaction with some of the greats of Indian spirituality -- Sri Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Mahatma Gandhi and J. Krishnamurti… He was a Gandhian, he worked for the uplift of the poor in India, he worked with Tibetan refugees, he edited extraordinary books [like] “I am That,” probably one of the all time spiritual classics. Ramana Maharshi said of Frydman “He belongs only here to India. Somehow he was born abroad, but has come again here”.
“We ripen when we refuse to drift, when striving ceaselessly become a way of life, when dispassion born of insight becomes spontaneous. When the search ‘Who Am I?’ becomes the only thing that matters, when we become a mere torch and the flame all important, it will mean that we are ripening fast. We cannot accelerate that ripening, but we can remove the obstacles of fear and greed, indolence and fancy, prejudice and pride.” Maurice Frydman, April 1976 The Mountain Path
Loan Mela: The new governments will have to spend more than Rs 220 billion in Rajasthan, more than Rs 160 billion in MP, and nearly Rs 30 billion in Chhattisgarh to keep the promise.
The *political cost* of keeping BJP away from power by promising 'impossible' dreams and creating 'unsustainable' coalitions should soon play out, whether in Karnataka or Madhya Pradesh, one needs to have patience to wait out for it
We saw industry after industry violating every pollution control norm - this sort of growth they said, nobody wants, when locals cannot get clean air or clean water. Every river we crossed was a dry bed and often the river bed was being drained of water by mafia https://t.co/YmOxXCVdma
Mobility: Mahindra Electric is betting big on e-rickshaws
“Ancient Modalities”: Meditation is the fastest growing wellness activity in the US
David Godman on Papaji, Ramana & Nisargadatta: At the very moment that each thought rises, if one vigilantly enquires ‘To whom did this appear?’ it will be known ‘To me’. If one then enquires ‘Who am I?’ the mind will turn back to its source and the thought that had arisen will also subside. By repeatedly practising in this way, the mind will increasingly acquire the power to abide at its source.
Tao Te Ching: “Clay is made into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness that use depends. The door and windows are cut out to form a house; but it is on empty space, that its use depends. Doors and windows are chisel out to make a room. It is the empty space in the room that gives its function. Everything is shaped by nothing”.
Exit tax on fleeing millionaires: There is an exodus of millionaires from India, and the govt suspects the rich are trying to escape scrutiny and tax liability.
Strategic loss for India? Iran invites China for Chabahar development. "Any Chinese presence at Chabahar, even if not involved in the operation of the port, could be used as a way of undermining India’s influence with local authorities".
The Friend of My Enemy: Iran is not comfortable with India because of its strategic partnership with the US and the new India-Israel relations. Ali Khamenei mentioned the Kashmir issue in some of his sermons for the first time, comparing it to the injustice meted out to Palestinians.
Uprising? New nationalist movement emerges from Pakistan’s Pashtun protests
Trump flirts with re-entering TPP: “If you want to send a message to China, the best way to do that is to start doing business with their competitors”
Death: Whatever is, is you. You are the unlimited, which is not susceptible to the senses. By limiting yourself to the body, you have closed yourself to the unlimited potential which you really are
A Challenger to Silicon Valley Emerges: The U.S. approach is “We’ll build a better product and just win over all
the countries”. The Chinese approach is “we’ll fund the
local partner to beat off the American companies”. All the rest of the world will basically be a land grab between the U.S. and China. Chinese-led venture funding is about
15 times its size in 2013, outpacing growth in U.S.-led financing, which
roughly doubled in that time period.
Brain drain: Taiwan battles a brain drain as China aims to woo young talent away
From Sanskrit to Macedonskrit: "Stop translating, I understand what you are saying. You are speaking here some corrupted form of Sanskrit".
Who knew!! Not just Russia, the United States too has a history of meddling in foreign elections.
Trump Towers in India: Ads in Indian newspapers have been promising drinks and dinner with Trump Jr. if buyers make a down payment of 2.5 million rupees for an apartment. Other investors are financing the construction, while the Trump family is benefiting from licensing fees it charges to put the Trump name on the buildings.
Bloodbath: Amazon is wreaking havoc on American grocery industry
Language policy: Calls for fight against Hindi imposition getting louder.
Persons accused of big white collar crimes in India take safe refuge in UK or USA. Can a person accused in USA or UK take refuge in India?
We are not helpless. Our strength is in being united to bring these fugitives to justice system in India. No use in accusing each other.
Something awry in IIT-M: From the time IIT Madras started the integrated five-year MA course in English, Development Studies and Economics in 2006, this premier institution of higher learning has been on a downward slope.
Lead in our food: The primary sources of environmental lead are lead paints, backyard recycling of lead batteries and water plumbing materials, among others. Rituals such as immersing painted idols in rivers can put lead in the water, which can infiltrate the food chain.
Automation To Reduce IT Labor? India’s IT employment could shrink by as much as 10 percent in the next three years due to the implementation of self-service IT solutions.
Deluded by ignorance into identifying himself with a specific body, a human regards own self as an insignificant, powerless individual of limited capacity. If it is said to him that he is the Creator of the Whole Universe, he will reject the idea, finding it too absurd or impossible.
Yet, If he should dust away all limiting identifications of his mind, then, he will see "I am". He will see that he has not just two hands, but uncountable hands in this Universe.
Mandukya Upanishad Verse 7:
He is neither that which is known, nor that which is not known. Nor is He the sum of all that might be known.
He cannot be seen, grasped, bargained with.
He is undefinable, unthinkable, indescribable.
The only proof of his existence is Union with Him. The world disappears in him.
He is the peaceful, the good, the One without a second
naantaHpraGYaM na bahishhpraGYaM na ubhayataH praGYaM
na praGYaanaghanaM na praGYaM na apraGYaM .
adR^ishhTam avyavahaaryam agraahyam alakshaNaM
achintyam avyapadeshyam ekaatma pratyayasaaraM
prapaJNchopashamaM shaantaM shivam advaitaM chaturthaM manyante
sa aatmaa sa viGYeyaH .. 7..
