the silk road is a myth, but the spice route was real

black tellicherry pepper was prized by the Romans. and they paid for it in gold to the extent that they were going bankrupt. sometimes they would pay people in pepper, worth its weight in gold. 

Quick notes: Bio-warfare | Special flights...

• Biological warfare: There’s evidence that British colonists in 18th-century America gave Native Americans smallpox-infected blankets at least once.



• Healed with herbs: Ghanaian nurse based in the US and her family have defeated C-19 using herbs. “I soaked garlic, ginger and grains of selim in water for 24hrs and I started taking it orally. I also used another traditional healing method where for 20 minutes each morning, I sat by a bucket full of hot water and covered myself with a blanket so as for the body to absorb all the heat from the hot water”.



• Healthcare mess: Insurance-led healthcare with indifferent medical outcomes and cost inflation.

India heading down the same path of insurance led allopathic cost inflation and indifferent medical outcomes. Stop this and pursue ayurvedic wellness. @PMOIndia https://t.co/eTGql6FDD4

— राजीवः श्रीनिवासः (@RajeevSrinivasa) April 30, 2020




• Indian taxpayer's burden? Around 3-5 lakh non-resident Keralites are expected to return. State govt has written to the PM for operating special flights for Keralites stuck abroad.



• C-virus lingers in the air in hospital settings: C-virus could linger after being shaken from medical workers’ protective gear, or be present in the air in toilets used by patients. Some traces were also found in aerosol deposits on surfaces in ICUs.



• Tracking user data: Xiaomi, India's largest smartphone maker, sending browser data to China.. Xiaomi was also collecting data about the phone, including unique numbers for identifying the specific device and Android version. Such “metadata” could easily be correlated with an actual human behind the screen.



• America in a nutshell:
  

  America in a nutshell
  
  *26 million people laid off
  *Goldman Sachs CEO getting a 20% raise to $27.5M even as the two main investor advisors give the raise plan an "F" gradehttps://t.co/H0jpfAfCG1

  — Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) April 29, 2020




• Green stimulus: Pakistan pays out-of-work labourers to plant trees. The work includes setting up nurseries, planting saplings, and serving as forest protection guards or forest firefighters.

Quick notes: Damages | Kerala myth...

• Make them pay: China could be sued under 10 possible legal avenues, including the International Health Regulations. Had China provided accurate information at an early juncture, "the infection would not have left China." . . . Lack of free speech in China is now a global health issue.



• Jackpot: China says it has sold nearly four billion masks abroad.



• Kerala myth: For those who knew better, it was always apparent that Kerala govt’s propaganda on healthcare was a sham. People actually leave Kerala and seek healthcare in other, better-managed states. .



• India should learn: Hungary taxes MNCs, banks to fund health worker bonuses



• UV disinfection: Nahru Khan, a 62-year-man from Mandsaur has developed an automatic sanitization machine and donated it to the District Hospital. 

Madhya Pradesh: Nahru Khan, a 62-year-man from Mandsaur has developed an automatic sanitization machine and donated it to Indira Gandhi District Hospital. He says, "I made this machine by watching YouTube and completed it in 48 hours. This will benefit many people" #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/i1j3CDRXlA

— ANI (@ANI) April 4, 2020




• C-virus: Tiger at New York's Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus



• Nepal's Mighty Gurkhas: What it takes to become a Gurkha.




• Let it go:

“Whatever comes, let it come. Whatever stays, let it stay, whatever goes let it go.” – Papaji#Yoga pic.twitter.com/yMm8zAjwqV

— Zen Yoga Vibes (@ZenYogaVibes) April 4, 2020



• Just stay quiet:

“It is easy. You complicate it! It is simple. Don't make any effort, stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease. Then the substratum will rise up to the top. It is simple. Follow this.” ~ Papaji pic.twitter.com/p3eyXJcGdT

— Neelam (@NeelamFoT) April 5, 2020

Pathanamthitta on high alert

Three people who had come from Italy and tested positive for coronavirus had attended two weddings and also attended mass in two churches.

Though they had developed fever on March 5th, they met a doctor at a private hospital, but did not disclose their travel history. It was only when two of the relatives who are also their neighbours went to a government hospital with fever, that health officials learnt about this family. All the five people were then moved to isolation wards.

Quick notes: Cardinal sin, Free tuition...

• Connect the dots:
  

  o Dec 2013: Kerala cardinals meet Sonia over green recommendations: Church leaders have been spearheading agitations against restricting commercial activities in ecologically sensitive areas.
  
  
  o Jayanthi Natarajan loses job: "After my removal as Minister, there was widespread coverage in the Kerala media that my removal was because I had notified the order on protection of the Western Ghats, the Kasturirangan report, on Dec 19, 2013, (just one day before my removal).  My successor Shri Moily, put my orders on hold".
  
  
  o P T Thomas gets dropped: "I was dropped because I stood for Western Ghats conservation"




• Tamil Nadu's role:
  

  o Kerala tells Supreme Court: Sudden release of Mullaiperiyar waters by TN worsened floods
  
  
  o Cut the dam(n) height: Had TN started releasing water from the dam into Kerala when it had reached the critical level of 139 feet, the crisis could have been averted to some extent. “The 3 feet make a lot of difference. They contain 792 million cubic feet of water, which when released translates into a flow of about 9,000 cusecs, which got added to the flow caused by the rain”.
  
  
  o Second tunnel in Mullaperiyar dam? The maximum drawal from the dam through the tunnel is 2,300 cusecs. If this quantum is further increased with an additional tunnel, TN can evacuate more water during monsoons.
  
  



• This is what causes floods and droughts:

This is how India completes the unfinished colonisation mission the British left incomplete in 1947. This is what causes floods and droughts. This is what aggravates climate change. This is how contractors get rich and ordinary people get impoverished. https://t.co/LU4TTZp8IM

— Bittu Sahgal (@BittuSahgal) August 18, 2018




• NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students: School officials worry that rising tuition and soaring loan balances are pushing new doctors into high-paying fields and contributing to a shortage of researchers and primary care physicians.



• Australia grows balls: Bans Huawei and ZTE because of national security concerns.
  
  
  
• US tech giants plan to fight India's data localisation plans: They plan to intensify lobbying efforts against stringent Indian data localisation requirements, which they say will undermine their growth ambitions in India.
  
  
  
• Ganga drying up in summers due to groundwater depletion: “The trend can lead to disastrous effect on the riverine ecology and lead to food scarcity for 115 million people in the Ganga basin.”



• Belt and Road and Chinese imperialism: Instead of paying loans back gradually, Tajikistan is signing away land and mining rights. In 2011, Tajikistani ceded 1,100 square kilometers of land near the Afghan border to China. Not only was the land along the Wakhan Corridor— historically one of the most strategic junctions for Chinese access to the Indian Ocean and West Asia—it also purportedly contained gold and uranium deposits.
  
  That same year, Tajikistan allowed Chinese farmers to till 2,000 hectares of arable land—a scarce commodity in such a mountainous country—near the Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China. It is widely believed , albeit unofficially, that these deals were made in exchange for “hundreds of millions of dollars” in debt relief .
  
  
  

Quick notes: Inappropriate contact, Christian Right...

• Never say ”rape”; say “inappropriate contact”: The Catholic Church’s way of covering up abuse... If a predator’s conduct becomes known to the community, transfer him to a new location where no one will know he is a child abuser.



• Turkey today, India tomorrow..? Seeking Brunson’s release has been a major cause for the powerful evangelical community in America and Trump needs all the help he can get from the Christian right.



• Anti-Gadgil campaign proved disastrous for Kerala: “The church was spreading rumours and was engaged in fear mongering during the anti-Gadgil campaign. The MP who took a bold stand in favor of the report had to face the ire of the church and did not contest again. Joice George of the anti-Gadgil campaign contested and won the elections in 2014 from Idukki.. Pick all the operative parts of the Gadgil report and implement them in toto. Or else disaster is round the corner.”

Countries that have implemented environment protection projects have developed economically- this nonsense argument that environment protection hampers development has to stop. Kerala flood havoc was called for: Madhav Gadgil https://t.co/ZivRb2foOD

— viva kermani (@vivakermani) August 17, 2018




• Turning blessing into curse: Kerala had lost 906,440 hectares of forest land between 1973 and 2016. This was more than 50% of the present forest area. The Modi govt is yet to take a call on the reports of the two committees. 



• Silent Valley -- testimony of an ecological triumph: When the Kerala govt sent its minister to Delhi in 1976 to get clearance for the hydel project that would submerge 240 sq km of area along the Western Ghats that formed one of the most ecologically diverse forests on the planet, one man's telegram saved the copious forest. Dr V.S. Vijayan, then a scientist at Kerala Forest Research Institute, sent a telegram to the Union Power Ministry to put on hold the sanction till the KFRI ecological impact report was received. The ministry consented and the rest is history.



• Atalji departs:

When Vajpayee ji lost in 2004, many of us cried a little ...when PM Modi was fighting elections many of us were reminded of mistake made by not working hard enough to get second term for Atal ji. This is what Atal's tenure meant for all of us.

— अंकित जैन (@indiantweeter) August 16, 2018





India's biggest misfortune was NDA loss in 2004. It allowed Congress to benefit from Vajpayee's hard work and claim credit.

— R Jagannathan (@TheJaggi) August 16, 2018

Quick notes: S-Curve, Ageing Japan...

• S-Curve: Bloomberg predicts explosive growth of EVs and resultant oil crash. 




• Japan now has million fewer people than in 2010: The rapidly ageing population has contributed to a stagnating economy and worries of increasing health costs.



• “It was a political decision”: Ex-home secy GK Pillai distances self from Ishrat affidavits 



• Is Kannur, India's political murder capital? "The CPI-M leaders are in real life not pro-poor. They fight against foreign universities coming to Kerala, but they send their children to study abroad. They fought against self-financing colleges. Now the CPI-M is the largest owner of self-financing colleges in Kerala. The rank and file understand this."

Quick notes: Kerala model, University rankings...

• Kerala Model: 22% of Kerala government's revenue comes from liquor.



• Corporate fraud: Mumbai startup to protect whistleblowers



• Eat with your hands. Don't feel ashamed.



• Top 10 university rankings: 6 from china and none from India.

• All India Radio: News is now available on Soundcloud and Android Play Store

Kerala Model

This 2008 report from The Hindu sums up Sen-Rothschild's vision for India's future:

How safe is Kerala with regard to its food needs, as cereal prices, both internationally and within India, continue to climb?  

The State produces hardly 15 per cent of its food needs. It has become accustomed to being dependent on Central cereal supplies and market purchases from the neighboring regions. The acreage under rice, the people’s staple diet, has been dwindling at an alarming rate over the past three or four decades due to various reasons.

The Hindu: Need to revive food economy of State

Quick notes: CIA and Cryogenics, Paki Biology...

• The Kerala Police and IB chiefs were willing tools in CIA's hands.  Don't forget that it was just after this case broke out that the then IB's Additional Director Rattan Sehgal was given compulsory retirement after he got charged with spying for USA.  No doubt the CIA succeeded through this case to thwart India's indigenous development of Cryogenic engine. 



• Under pressure from the US, Russia refused to part with Cryogenic technology. But it agreed to provide four more fully made cryogenic engines, taking the number of such engines in India's kitty to seven. The man who then headed ISRO's cryogenic project, Nambi Narayanan, managed to bring in crucial components of the engine from Russia without drawing US attention. When Air India refused to fly in the hardware fearing US embargoes, the ISRO team used Russia's Ural Airlines to transport it in three consignments.



• Another Bamiyan: Two thirds of some 80,000 books and manuscripts housed in a Lebanese library were torched by Mohammedans.



• Biology lessons for Pakis:

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Help Wanted: Tree Climbers In Kerala

Kerala has suffered from paucity of local agricultural laborers since long. A dearth of coconut pluckers meant irregular harvesting and poor health and productivity of the trees. Frequent pest infestations, price fluctuations and restrictions on coconut export in the country kept the fortunes of coconut farmers in doldrums. An initiative started by the Coconut Development Board is slowly changing the scenario. 

DownToEarth: Climbers on call

high court bans book; judge crticises author, to be jailed

just kidding for now - but this is the fate that will surely befall Sister Jesme and her new book.

", she talks of priets forcing novices to have relations with them and the closet homosexuality within nun ranks,"

"Later, when they were in his room, she writes, he stripped and made her do the same."

surprised she has not been thrown into a well after being duly struck on the head with an axe.

She must have been discreet while stumbling upon three-some bonking involving 'father' vampires - unlike poor sister Abhaya. there are may vampires in this christist sex cult - like that blighter who adopted a 26 year old; him full of spiritual refreshment - or the one who dreams of saving us through a 'rod'


no one screaming christian taliban though - can't be upsetting Madam Eminence no?

'Bright' Future for Kerala Research?

And the academic grantsmanship is also busily happening in Kerala, too. The Chief Minister's daughter seems to have somehow landed funding for research projects she isn't even remotely qualified for:

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?title=Kerala%20CM%E2%80%99s%20daughter%20lands%20in%20another%20row&artid=KsxISLFIDnE=&type=

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?title=A%20Bright%20science%20racket&artid=81jcQyNn6aM=&type=

The future suddenly looks "Bright" from all sides.
(Or, as the song goes, "the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades")

The Priest Biz

India's export business in priesthood is featured by NYT/IHT.

Christian women persecuted in India - by the Catholic church

Sister Abhaya was murdered by catholic clergymen & women with brutal strikes to the head with an axe - the ghastly crime perpetrated to cover up the bestial abuse indulged in by the Kerala christist "Fathers", who incidentally are among the most perverted and hateful bigots to be found anywhere.

Too bad that the professional "activists" like Teesta Setalvad and incendiary agitators in the Indian "SECULAR" media do not consider the abuse of Indian christian women by the church - a fit issue to raise hell, unlike the concocted incidents of Zaheera Shaikh et al in Gujarat. Report from The Pioneer on the debauchery of the Catholic church in India follows..

Nun struck Sister Abhaya in head with axe: CBI

Kerala was on Monday shocked to hear the CBI’s revelation in the Sr Abhaya murder case that it was Knanaya Catholic nun Sr Seffi, then 26 years of age, who had struck Sr Abhyaya in her head with an axe before throwing her in the well of the convent at an unearthly hour on March 27, 1992.

The CBI told the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam that Sr Seffi had struck Abhaya three times in the head at St Pius X Convent, Kottayam before hurling the nun's body in the well behind the convent in the wee hours of the day. Sr Seffi had struck Sr Abhaya with the back of an axe twice behind her right year and a third time right in the top of the head, inside the kitchen of the convent.

The investigating team of the CBI said in the court that with the strike in the top of the head, Sr Abhaya had gone unconscious. The investigators explained the brutality of the act of Sr Seffi, now 42, and her companions towards a younger co-nun by saying the perpetrators of the crime had left the spot only after ensuring that Sr Abhaya was dead in the well. Sr Seffi was presently the third accused in the case in which Knanaya Church's senior priests Fr Thomas M Kottoor (59) and Fr Jose Puthrukayil (56) are first and second accused respectively.

Kerala CM Heaps Scorn on Unnikrishnan Family

Quoth the beloved Chief Minister:

"If it had not been Sandeep's house, not even a dog would have glanced that way."

What a national treasure this man is - such a poet.
He's exceeded in talent only by those who vote for him.

Unnikrishan's Dad Tells Kerala CM to Scram

Mr Unnikrishnan Sr, father of the slain major, firmly told the visiting Kerala CM that he did not want to meet with him. (I'm told his exact words were: "Get lost, you dirty dog!")
Was Atchutanandan expecting a Lal Salaam?

MOPLAH Butcher MP invades airline cockpit, mocks pilots

And uses flthy language against the pilots. Does Indian dhimmocracy also imply special privileges for belligerent Mohammedan politicians to misbehave with flight staff? In fact, didn't the UPA dhimmis recently pass some kind of toothless "legislation" defining the government's response to such scenarios of disturbances on flights and hijackings? The next declaration to be expected from the Hamas agent, E. Ahamed (also India's junior minister for external affairs) would be that Mohammedans are entitled entry into airplane cockpits to offer the obligatory prayer facing Arabia. Remember what happened the last time fanatic Mohammedans entered flight cockpits? Its infamously known as "9/11".

In any other self respecting nation, an obnoxious fellow like this would have received the treatment he deserves as a potential terrorist hijacker - namely to be handcuffed, strip searched, incarcerated in a high security penitentiary and subjected to innovative interrogation techniques beginning with
"Waterboarding"

Commie article tells the truth! Christists and Moh'dans richer but more archaic

Some pro-left org has come out with this report on Kerala and actually found space in the ToIlet Paper.
Some interesting snippets:

Hindus, according to numbers

compiled by it, constitute the major chunk of the state's poor with an astounding 39.3 lakh living below the poverty line.
...

The minority communities are also ahead in electrification of houses and access to pipe water. Also, 14.5% Hindu houses are in danger of water log-ging suggesting they are not located uptown. Corresponding figures for Muslims and Christians are 12.8% and 10.9% respectively.

One reason for the better showing by Muslims could be the large Gulf remittance, says Parishad vice president K P Aravindan, who edited the report.

As the results show, 34.5% Muslim families have Gulf income against 11.61% Christian and 10.4% Hindu. The Christian community, however, leaves others far behind on most economic indicators.
...

Even in matter of dowry, Christians lead the tally with 80% families following it. Muslims tag along at 76%. Though less, Hindus too are yet to rid themselves of the social evil with 52% still under its grip.

Please note: Christists and Muslims are the main perpetuators of dowry -- not hindus who take dowry only 50% of the times! Was'nt dowry a custom in "those evil hindoos"??

Hypocrisy: Hallowed be thy name!

State sponsored terrorism against Hindus in Kerala

After reducing the Hindus to an impotent minority through forcible and fraudulent conversions, the state apparatus is now being used to physically decimate the disenfranchised Hindu minority of Kerala. The lone torchbearers of Hindu resistance against Mullah/Missionary/Marxist fascism in Kerala - activists of the RSS and it's allied organisations are being selectively targeted for slaughter by the Marxist "cadre" and their bosom buddies, the MOPLAH BUTCHERS.

The CPI(M) windbags Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury etc lose no opportunity to indulge in breast beating about drivel such as "Infringement of Minority rights", yet the state government of Kerala, controlled by their party connives in the fascist persecution of the Hindu minority.

100% literate Kerala is a prime example of the dangers inherent in "literacy" (semi-literacy, actually) without "education". Semi-literacy is only facilitating the indoctrination of non-Hindu Keralites in 3M hate literature.
And in the latest instance, who are these precious "Marxist" cadre indulging in the orgy of "compassion". Wink Wink Nudge Nudge - Kannur district, from where the charming practice of hacking people to death is being reported is MOPLAH dominated, is it not?