NYT Openly Comes Out Against Trump

NYT's editorial board has now openly come out against Donald Trump, just as they came out against Modi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/opinion/mr-trumps-applause-lies.html


Hopefully, the eventual electoral verdict from US voters will repudiate the NYT just as India's voters gave a strong reply to NYT's fulminations against Modi.

Budget Hotel Entrepreneur Disrupts Indian Market

Some young guy has come up with a better business model to disrupt the budget hotel industry in India:

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/22/indias-start-ups-such-as-oyo-rooms-show-nation-brimming-with-ideas.html

Quick notes: Inferior Muslims, Ahmadi slaughter...

• IS finds Indian Muslims 'inferior': South Asian and African IS fighters have a disproportionately high level of casualties as they are forced to the frontlines as foot soldiers. The six Indians killed so far are Athif Vaseem Mohammad (Telangana), Mohammad Umar Subhan (Karnataka), Maulana Abdul Kadir Sultan Armar (Karnataka), Saheem Farooque Tanki (Maharashtra), Faiz Masood (Karnataka) and Mohammad Sajid alias Bada Sajid (UP).
  
  At times, the 'inferior fighters' are given a vehicle loaded with explosives, asked to go near a destination and call a certain number. They are told the purported individual would come and meet them to explain the mission. However, as soon as the number is dialed, the car explodes due to a pre-set mechanism aimed at destroying a specific target.



• Why Pakistan persecutes the minority Ahmadi group: "In Pakistan, it is very easy for people who want to settle scores with their enemies to accuse them of blasphemy. They know that there are immediate arrests in blasphemy cases, and sometimes people are killed on the spot."



• Madhuchandan, a software engineer from US is making farmers richer! "Our agriculture scientists are misleading farmers. Once a group of farmers were advised to set the waste on fire after the sugarcane field was harvested. The fire actually destroys the micro-organisms that are needed to maintain the soil fertility. The biggest drawback of our country is that we have agriculturists who have lot of theoretical knowledge but have no practical wisdom. Our agriculture universities should have experienced farmers instead of experts," points out Madhu.



• India should master Solar Thermal:  Solar thermal technology only works in hot sunny countries. The price is falling, and its growing capacity to store energy is arousing interest.  The cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels is falling much faster but the International Energy Agency expects them both to play a part in an energy revolution which is likely to see solar as the dominant source of electricity globally by 2050.
  
  Paddy Padmanathan of Saudi-owned ACWA Power, which is running the Moroccan solar-thermal project, said: "Whether you are an engineer or not, any passer-by is simply stunned by it. You have 35 soccer fields of huge parabolic mirrors pointed to the sky which are moveable so they will track the Sun throughout the day."



• Dear Aamir:

Dear @aamir_khan. Did you ask Kiran which country would she like to move out to? Did you tell her that this country has made you AAMIR KHAN.

— Anupam Kher (@AnupamPkher) November 23, 2015

ISRO Chief Lauds Importance of Ancient Texts

ISRO Chief S Kiran Kumar has said that ancient texts shouldn't be disregarded in their importance for understanding the universe:

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/our-ancient-texts-should-not-be-disregarded-isro-chief/


Meanwhile, an interesting new conjecture from the world of physics says that quantum entanglement may be the basis for spacetime, the basic fabric of the universe:

http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-1.18797

Video Against Immigration Goes Viral Across Europe

A video highlighting the negative consequences of illegal immigration goes viral across Europe:



Now that France has experienced its own 26-11 attack, Europeans are suddenly re-thinking their attitudes towards immigration and unending accommodation of non-assimilating cultures.

This is something that can help Europeans to understand the problems that India has been grappling with, and the reason why nationalist backlash has been provoked across India. Until now, it's the global Leftist fraternity who have collaborated across the world to reinforce each other's message. We Indians should look at the opportunity for conservatives and nationalists from the various countries across the world to similarly collaborate and collectively oppose the slanted narrative of the global Left.

Trump Ambushed By Loaded Question on Muslims

US presidential candidate Donald Trump is under heavy fire, after being ambushed by a slanted question from a reporter:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/19/how-the-media-smeared-donald-trump-as-a-nazi/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/more-hillary-than-hitler-1448048195

I didn't suggest a database-a reporter did. We must defeat Islamic terrorism & have surveillance, including a watch list, to protect America

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2015

Here is Trump's own clarification and rebuttal





Notice how the reporter basically feeds Trump the line in order to put words in his mouth. The reporter literally asks, "SHOULDN'T WE HAVE databases to track Muslims in this country?"
He doesn't ask "Should we have.." - instead he asks "SHOULDN'T WE HAVE..." (ie. "let's have this") in order to manufacture the controversy. Partisan hatchet-journalism.

Also, read this exposé from Breitbart:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/11/21/cancel-the-debate-cnn-caught-selectively-editing-trumps-muslim-comments/

Given that we Indians have dark skin, it would be relatively easy for any of us to approach a white lefty politician and fool him into making certain ethnic-pandering marks that he'd stereotypically expect us to feel delighted about, but which might not go down well with the rest of society.

Islamist Gunmen Take 170 Hostage at Hotel in Mail

Islamist gunmen yelling "Allahu Akhbar" have taken over a hotel in Mali, and are holding 170 people hostage:



http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/africa/mali-shooting/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/20/us-mali-attacks-idUSKCN0T90SK20151120#QlM57trSQKDM1ger.97


Another Friday, another jihadi terrorist attack. Some eyewitness reports claim that the gunmen let people go if they could recite certain verses from the Koran.

Indian govt should get its guard up, and be prepared for any potential attempted terrorist attacks on its home soil or abroad.

UPDATE: Security forces have stormed the hotel and reportedly freed 80 hostages so far. 20 Indians are still trapped.

http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/jihadists-kill-nine-people-in-raddison-hotel-in-mali-take-170-hostage/