Quick notes: Real-life Mowgli, Brown cloud...

• Two-year-old Samarth Bangari: Meet real-life Mowgli, darling of monkeys, from village near Dharwad



• Asian Brown Cloud? European Space Agency's Sentinel-5P captures dense carbon monoxide cloud over India and China. Carbon monoxide displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain, and other vital organs of oxygen.




• Harmful "vegetable" oils: Why you should avoid consuming new age oils -- Canola, Corn, Soybean, Sunflower and Safflower. The best part is that none of these “vegetable” oils is vegetables and all, with the exception of coconut oil, are extremely dangerous for you. 



• Cow manure to fuel: Toyota plant to produce 1.2 tons of hydrogen fuel per day and 2.35 megawatts of electricity -- all from cow manure ... Perfect for India. Show this to Nitin Gadkari.



• Dharmic foundation at home: When TamBram ladies marry white guys or Muslims, in most cases their children grow up as Hindus. Strong dharmic foundations.

I was reading about Akhila or Hadiya's father's story after #LoveJihad news.
He became a Communist, then Rationalist and then Atheist.
She probably missed a strong Dharmic foundation at home (my guess). pic.twitter.com/qpkLR6ikJo

— Kiran Kumar S (@KiranKS) December 3, 2017




• Does Amazon create jobs? Well, it hired 75,000 robots in 2017.... 2017 saw 170,000 fewer retail jobs in the US and 75,000 more Amazon robots.



• Amazon tax: "Since 2008 Walmart has paid $64B in corporate income tax, while Amazon has paid $1.4B. This is despite the fact that, in the last 24 months, Amazon has added the value of Walmart to its market cap. The most uncomfortable question in business, in my view, is how do we pay our soldiers, firefighters, and teachers if a firm can ascend to $460B in value (#5 in the world) without paying any meaningful corporate taxes" -- Prof Scott Galloway is renowned for his marketing acumen and having accurately predicted that Amazon would buy Whole Foods.



• Congestion charges: London traffic model in New Delhi soon?



• Pedal Power: Ola begins offering a bicycle-sharing service



• Solar fires – DC arc faults: Why you should stay away from cheap Chinese solar inverters.

US Withdraws from Global Treaty on Migrants

The US has withdrawn from the global compact on migrants, saying that it will set its own policy:

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-backs-out-of-migration-pact/4147078.html

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/03/politics/us-global-compact-migration/index.html

While the US is proud of its leadership on migration and refugee issues, the global approach is not compatible with the nation's sovereignty, according to Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN.
...
"Our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone," she said. "We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter our country."

So what's wrong with India and others doing the same? We don't want to be overrun by Rohingya, etc.

Gravity Changes Give Faster Earthquake Assessment

Gravity sensors can provide a faster way to assess the severity of earthquakes as compared to current seismological methods:


http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42183077

Why Is the Value of Bitcoin Soaring?

Bitcoin seems to be soaring in value these days - but why? Speculative bubbles have been seen before, but what's driving this latest surge?









I've previously mentioned how China's OBOR initiative poses a threat to the status of the US dollar as the global reserve currency. If the US dollar was displaced from that, then it would lead to a steep plunge in the value of the US dollar. Perhaps certain farsighted people in the know are then reacting in advance to this prospect, by stashing their money into Bitcoin as a non-fiat currency.

BJP Sweeps UP Local Civic Polls

BJP has made a huge sweep of the local civic body polls in Uttar Pradesh:

http://www.dailypioneer.com/todays-newspaper/bjp-romps-home--in-up-local-polls.html


http://www.firstpost.com/politics/uttar-pradesh-civic-polls-2017-bjps-thumping-victory-is-the-result-of-honeymoon-period-goodwill-say-experts-4237795.html


Perhaps the change away from Mulayam and Mayawati felt like a breath of fresh air to people.

Maybe people were tired of also being caricatured as 'gau rakshaks' by the Left-wing media, and decided to show them up.

Kamala Harris Being Prepped for 2020 Run Against Trump

US Senator Kamala Devi Harris, daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, is increasingly being touted as a likely Democrat candidate to challenge Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential elections:

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-12-01/kamala-harris-navigates-the-2020-presidential-landscape

https://www.thoughtco.com/california-attorney-general-kamala-harris-2834885

https://www.ndtv.com/blog/the-rise-of-kamala-harris-and-why-indian-link-is-not-an-advantage-1625798

http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/12/01/u-s-news-kamala-harris-inevitable-2020-democratic-nominee/

Called the "female Obama", her politics leans far to the Left.

Quick notes: Anonymous sources, Refugee ban...

• "Anonymous IAF sources": Who is trying to sabotage LCA-Tejas? Groups who would like  to see Indian innovation and manufacturing fail.




• Rafale puzzle: Why did Modi bypass the Cabinet before he committed India to the Rafale deal?



• Smog free: Chennai firm to tackle stubble burning menace in Punjab



• Dated news: Indian firm makes carbon capture breakthrough. The inventors of the new process are two young chemists from IIT Kharagpur. They failed to find Indian finance and were welcomed instead by the UK govt, which offered grants and the special entrepreneur status that whisks them through the British border. 



• Some German Cities Ban New Refugees: Most mainstream parties want to limit more from entering Germany.... Peace vs Love: Islamists target Christian converts in German refugee centers... Pew Research: The growth of Germany’s Muslim population.... Liberal spin: European Muslims will be instrumental in saving the continent’s aging population



• 100 KM on a single charge: Iconic Vespa Scooter gets brand-new electric powertrain 



• BMW wants to build a “hyperloop” for electric bicycles: An elevated network of covered bicycle highways that would wind their way through congested Chinese cities.



• Cycleway in Air:




• CS-Playground-React: An app that makes learning algorithms and data structures way more fun



• For some, Hindutva is all about history debates:

Dear @RSSorg -if you lose the present, you cant win the past. Engage with #core people. Dont come to us in state of utter panic.

— Reality Check India (@realitycheckind) November 9, 2017