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

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

Trudeau keeps emergency powers for "future blockades"

Dictator refuses to give up power: Trudeau keeps emergency powers even after blockade ends.

Governments claiming the authority to *freeze people's bank accounts* because they want to crush a protest movement is tyrannical and obscene. If you would oppose China or Russia doing it, you must oppose Canada doing it.

Very glad @CanCivLib exists.https://t.co/wXBCLdtlbt

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 20, 2022

If the streets are clear why is the Govt not revoking the emergencies act? pic.twitter.com/VAlOIC3AuF

— Michelle Ferreri (@mferreriptbokaw) February 21, 2022

Any politician thinking of voting for @JustinTrudeau’s Emergencies Act declaration: If you think he will not use these powers to go after every political opponent -to track their donations, their calls, & criminalize them- you just might be naïve enough to support these measures

— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) February 21, 2022

The blockades have fallen - and the government’s primary justification for invoking the Emergencies Act is gone.

We are calling for the government to immediately revoke the declaration of a public emergency.https://t.co/KNuRr5k9uM

— Canadian Civil Liberties Association (@cancivlib) February 21, 2022

Canada no longer supports basic right to protest

Trudeau assumes dictatorial powers: The same guy that preached India on the "the importance of dialogue” has declared a rare peacetime emergency, in Canada. The Emergencies Act is intended to deal with threats to sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.

His government will also broaden its powers to target crowd-funding sites supporting the protests, authorize Canadian banks to freeze their accounts and suspend insurance on vehicles in the protests.

Tractors, Truckers and Trudeau

Imagine Narendra Modi repeating Trudeau's own words to him, only replacing India with Canada, and farmers with truckers. Here is how such a statement would read:

“I would be remiss if I didn’t start also by recognising the news coming out of Canada about the protest by truckers. The situation is concerning and we’re all very worried about family and friends (after all, a substantial chunk of the trucking business in Canada is run by people of Indian-origin and surely the Modi govt which takes great interest in well-being of the diaspora would be ‘very worried’). I know that’s a reality for many of you. Let me remind you, India will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest. We believe in the importance of dialogue and that’s why we’ve reached out through multiple means directly to the Canadian authorities to highlight our concerns.”

 

Tractors, Truckers and Trudeau: The Hypocrisy of Western Politicians Stands Exposed


What is Trudeau afraid of?

Why is Justin Trudeau still in hiding?

I wanted to see for myself what Justin Trudeau was so afraid of.

The legacy media doesn’t want you to see this video.#TruckersForFreedom pic.twitter.com/rfKoCVijqr

— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) February 4, 2022

Check how quickly Trudeau and the Liberal media painted the truckers as white supremacists.

Chak De Goal!

The weekly Punjabi broadcast of “Hockey Night in Canada,” is the only N.H.L. game called in a language other than English or French.

“Chak de phatte goooooaaaalllll Joffrey Lupul! Torrrrronto Maple Putayyy!”  

NYT: Chak De Goal! A Punjabi Broadcast Draws In New Hockey Fans

Canadian Intelligence Alleges Govt Infiltrated by China

CSIS, the Canadian intelligence agency, is alleging that local govts like the provincial govt of Ontario have suffered infiltration by foreign powers like China.