Sunday, February 28, 2021

WaPo (like its peers) hates hindus and india, but is desperate to get readers here. let's nail them to the wall

this is the angle we need to exploit. we have BUYER POWER! $7 a year must be their lowest offer ever. but nobody is buying even if they give it away. similarly NYT at rs. 15 a week isn't getting any takers, i think.

they (NYT, economist, FT, WaPo et al along with whatsapp, google, facebook, twitter, youtube) are looking to do regime change and social manipulation in india, but they also understand india will be the single biggest english reading population at some point. 

we have to thwart them both ways, 1) control their content and reach harshly, and sue/penalize them if/when they get frisky, and 2) get off the english bandwagon. english should only be a transactional language for us, not the 'mask of conquest' it is now. 

the new social media laws are a step in the right direction, but they have to be implemented, and impose serious pain on the companies, as well as on their india honchos. arrest just two or three, cut off their IP addresses, the rest will behave, in fact they will crawl (remember how they used to crawl to lee kuan yew?). 

i recommend amy kazmin of FT and max roddenbeck of the economist as the first to do tejovadham to. both yanks and both unbearable dipweeds. will send a message to kamala too.


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Saturday, February 27, 2021

why do Dems want to take the nuclear button away from biden?

this is an unprecedented attempt to reduce the POTUS' power.

is it because they know it's not safe with biden? is he really suffering from dementia? if so, why not reveal it and install kamala as POTUS, which was the game plan all along, right? 


this is such vile propaganda! goal: destroy the indian family



quite possibly the biggest social problem in the US is that the family has been destroyed by generations of poor policy. some large percentage of families are headed by single-parent women, struggling to earn money, often working multiple low-paying jobs, and obviously unable to do much for their children. this leads to alienated, often criminal, riot-prone youth. they go to jail, esp if they are black, and the cycle begins afresh: absentee fathers, single mothers. 

rinse, repeat. 

without being sexist, indian women do a fantastic job of keeping their families together and imparting values to their children. 

wait, shouldn't that be the 'liberal' position? 

no, of course not, because alienation and atomization produces brainwashable and convertable youths. exhibit a: disha ravi. 





biden's "20 indian-american" staff members. this is what it really means

https://twitter.com/Voice_For_India/status/1365300135534747648?s=20


meanwhile, there's a concerted campaign against neera tanden and vivek moorthy. not that i am keen on neera, but the fact is that she has a hindu name, and she'll probably not get confirmed. 

this sameera is the real face of the islamist-inflitrated biden white house. to be precise, she's not the spokesperson, but the deputy director of the national economic council. she's also a member of 'standwithkashmir', a CAIR affiliated islamist group that wants to separate kashmir from india. 

in other news of the biden administration, china got US diplomats to bend over and grease up. and now they say they're sorry. i mean if this hadn't happened, it would have been hard to invent it!

"feckless" doesn't even begin to describe it. be bullied by china and pak, and turn around and bully india. how lovely! obama deja vu all over again!

Friday, February 26, 2021

BOGU was a standardsteve ballmer (microsoft ex CEO) meme: now china does BOGU to biden



not surprising this is happening to biden-era officials. but sad, nevertheless. it's a clear indication of the esteem in which china holds beijing joe. 

also, anybody remember the strip-search of an indian ifs officer, devyani khobragade? 

pak hasn't changed its stripes, why is india bending over to accommodate the pak army?

here's my very old piece on why pak will not change, and we're fools to think they will.


brahma's scepticism is well taken. we have reason to be sceptical.

this would be a good time to interest TSMC in a fab in india?

although india is also water-stressed, we do have a long coastline, and desalination may be feasible though expensive. india desperately needs a chip industry and a few fabs. esp now that intel has been beaten at the process level by TSMC and samsung, it's time to look at how they did it, and also, in parallel, encourage a chip design industry in india using either ARM or RISC-V. but there's no substitute for physical fabs in india, esp for defense and other critical application. 

there's of course the increasing threat of a shooting war in taiwan as xi goes full monty in the wake of biden feebleness.

btw, it was very rude of biden to call for a 'china-free' supply chain without including india in the list of possible partners. 


Thursday, February 25, 2021

#toolkit: the democrat #deepstate template is now being applied to india

Watch "Gravitas: Pfizer's abusive vaccine deals" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/2zoSSHx9QtA 

An offer you can't refuse 😂

RIP, Fry's. a messy but magical place.

i used to go the small outlet in palo alto, or the bigger one in fremont. sigh. 

https://www.wired.com/story/so-long-frys/?bxid=5cc9e3122ddf9c1a7ae03a81&bxid=5cc9e3122ddf9c1a7ae03a81&cndid=55280215&cndid=55280215&esrc=bounceX&esrc=bounceX&hasha=16719e56ee91f8da2df1655b2262edff&hasha=16719e56ee91f8da2df1655b2262edff&hashb=bcb9853431d0ef272255f9357a89c47a83d2e980&hashb=bcb9853431d0ef272255f9357a89c47a83d2e980&hashc=b5d0ef3b66783c85ff4b5fb18c088b5e05d820dcb1d32112e3c4234ea5a798fd&hashc=b5d0ef3b66783c85ff4b5fb18c088b5e05d820dcb1d32112e3c4234ea5a798fd&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ_Intro_Rate_PanelA&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ_Intro_Rate_PanelA&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=A&utm_content=A&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_022421_CMTest&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_022421_CMTest&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4&utm_term=list1_p4

Vaccine Arm-Twisting

 


Deplatforming Game Gathering Steam

 As America's partisan political war derails their democracy, the deplatforming game is gathering political steam:


This is why India needs to create its own independent infrastructure for dissemination of news & information, since information warfare is continuing to grow by leaps and bounds. Whether it's foreign-led agitations against Indian legislation and other constitutional processes, or whether it's international disputes, India needs to improveits  information warfare capabilities. We need to rope in a variety of sectors, from ISRO to our software sector, to our legions of journalists & talking heads, and even to our domestic entertainment industry, in order to come up with our own India-centred infosphere.

Quick notes: China trade | Uberize...

  • 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,


  • “Kind of a copycat”: China copied spyware code from America's NSA


  • 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.


  • The Gap Between Thoughts:



Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Time to offer the Yanks the Tejas? 😁

the prophet of the beat generation and the summer of love in SF passes on at 101: RIP

i have been to that bookstore a few times, near downtown san francisco and the transamerica pyramid (i worked in that area in the summer of 1987). nothing remarkable about it to look at, but i hear it was a happening place in its heyday. before my time.


Tuesday, February 23, 2021

india engineering capability very poor: a EIU study




after neera tanden, another indian-origin biden nominee, vivek moorthy, comes under fire

vivek was surgeon general earlier as well.

i don't know if there is a concerted smear campaign against hindu nominees (it is quite possible given the way anti hindus have the run of the Dem party), but everybody crowing about "20 indian americans in biden administration" need to take a deep breath. and i am betting that there will be no complaints about the muslim or christian indian-american nominees, including a couple who may have been complicit in anti-india protests. after all, Democrats on average are anti-india and anti-hindu. 

tech censorship thrives under democrats like biden

The Islamic State Stopped Talking About China - War on the Rocks

Emerging markets attract $17bn of inflows in first three weeks of 2021

Sen. Graham says Kamala Harris could be impeached if GOP takes over the House

https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/sen-graham-says-kamala-harris-could-be-impeached-if-gop-takes-over-the-house/ 

All of a sudden, I like this guy ❤️. I have always thought of him as a... difficult fellow, but this is a good thought 😁

The network out to get us

Xi Jinping May Visit India This Year For BRICS Summit



Very unhappy to learn Xi Jinping would come to India while his hands are dripping with the blood of our jawans. Not unlike when Musharraf visited India not long after his Kargil ambush on us. It seems that we're now doing this BRICS move because New Delhi wants to keep equal distance between USA and China, since Biden is now less supportive of India. If we need to move farther from USA and closer to China, then we should focus on getting American Big Tech Social Media regulated/banned around the world, since their social media do represent a common threat to us both. China has already banned American Big Tech Social Media, and we Indians must do the same too. I think that should be the main focus of any international cooperation between India and China. The bonus would be that it will hurt Biden personally more than his country, because American Big Tech Social Media helped to rig US elections in his favour. If anything,  we would be applauded by many Americans who feel stifled and discriminated against by Big Tech.

detailed analysis of chinese views on the ladakh border standoff

indian origin NASA engineer gets into deep trouble for china links

this has happened a lot: eg the harvard chemistry HoD who was getting $50k/month from china. 

the name meyya meyyappan rings a bell. alas, i think he's an iit madras class of 77 or 76 alumnus, probably aero.

sigh.

Quick notes: Indian EVs | Digital Colony...

  • Desi Tesla? TSLA looks to be moving forward with its Gigafactory in Karnataka

    + A Tesla will emit 193 grams of CO2 per KM in India as coal contributes 70% to our electricity mix.

    + Air pollution taking a heavy toll in Delhi. Smoke from the agricultural burns, notably from Punjab, contributes significantly to the capital’s air pollution levels. . . . take note, Greta


  • The East India Company playbook: Big Tech pursuing digital colonization and challenging our autonomy.



  • Sri Lanka: India’s loss, China’s gain.. “When did geopolitics become the preserve of local trade unionists? When did they start to decide our foreign policy?”


  • Padma Shri Chintala Venkat Reddy: This Hyderabad farmer has won a patent for Vitamin D-enriched rice and wheat


  • Next-G: Apple is already working on developing 6G wireless technology... India will wake up in 2030 after it rolls out


  • WhatsApp after May 15: What will happen to users who don't agree to privacy changes?


  • Colonial Hangover:


  • Demographic Jihad on Europe: Are migrant YouTubers influencing others to travel to the EU?
  • Home Geothermal Energy: By drilling holes about 300 to 500 feet underground, ground-source heat pumps can tap air at much more stable temperatures. This isn’t a new concept: “There are a lot of terrific ground-source heat pumps out there; they’ll heat your home and cool your home comfortably”.


Monday, February 22, 2021

worth remembering: india IS rapidly reducing the number of desperately poor people


nigeria and congo have more really poor people than india does now, according to projections from https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2018/06/19/the-start-of-a-new-poverty-narrative/

this graph suggests a remarkable achievement. 

neera tanden, famous indian-american friend of #hillary may bite the dust. i won't weep for her.


horny nuns and coverups by churches

i would take this story with a grain of salt, but i can believe the broad outlines. there were also tell-all books written by kerala nuns who mentioned male-female rape by padre godman on a regular basis, but also same-sex relationships, both consensual and coerced. allegations that the godwomen have also abused children/young women, not only padre godmen like mulakkal. 

how china bought little britain's universities

how china bought poverty-stricken britain's universities. https://unherd.com/2021/02/the-communist-party-on-campus/ 

BBC Hard Talk Interview with Yogendra Yadav on Farm Bill

 

Sunday, February 21, 2021

the guy who reported 60 hans died was arrested; the rest is propaganda

(there's a translate button)

Our Own Brzezinski Doctrine

While everyone's criticizing Modi for caving in to China in the Himalayas, I feel India should indeed try to pursue a “détente” policy with China on our disadvantageous Himalayan front (like America did with USSR on the European front) so that we can then pursue new offensive policy elsewhere (like America then did on Afghan front against USSR). In our case, instead of looking to Afghanistan, we should instead look at China’s greatest vulnerability, which is the Straits of Malacca chokepoint. Instead of thinking of Afghan-style mujahedin, we should draw inspiration from China’s “Little Blue Men”:



What China can do to others, we can do to them. But, as General Zia-ul-Haq used to say, “The water must boil, but not too hot.” Avoidance of full kinetic clash should be the priority, while applying a steady gentle squeeze on their most vulnerable spots.

China has massive land-power advantage, but at sea their advantage isn't as great, and it's also easier for other countries to come reinforce us against them at sea. And if China has to double down on CPEC just to bypass their vulnerable maritime supply lines, then that's forcing them to pump money down Pakistan's bottomless hole of corruption, as America foolishly did during its Afghan invasion. At any rate, it's better than fighting them on their preferred terrain.

why space is e-dimensional: an introduction by padmashri subhash kak

https://subhashkak.medium.com/our-e-dimensional-universe-febb3a20fa64

he conjectures he can explain why dark matter and dark energy do not need to exist.

translation: question: why aren't more indians dying of covid?

answer: because of indian exceptionalism


firewalled, and i don't have access to the article, but this has been a consistent question in the west for a year. it's almost like they are DISAPPOINTED that indians aren't dying like flies. 

you think they are?

you bet. #deepstate and #bigpharma are. 

btw, patanjall's ayurvedic covid cure now has had a successful WHO certified clinical trial unless i am mistaken. do we hear a peep about this anywhere? of course not. 

Saturday, February 20, 2021

pak claims 1 pak soldier = 10 vegetarian indians. now china claims 1 han soldier = 5 indians

see, only 4 of their men died, and one was injured. indian lost 20 men. so 1:5.

that's the gist of the song and dance today. 

fact of the matter is that china and xi have "lost face" from the clash, and even more so, after their tactical withdrawal from pangong tso. 

1st PLA soldier deaths after they were massacred in vietnam in 1997 (hans have never revealed the toll there). 
1st PLA withdrawal from ANY disputed territory, ever! 

this means two things 1. india has every right to crow about the above two points.
2. the 'inscrutable chinese' have some plan up their sleeve, and will surreptitiously somehow reoccupy the heights, esp kailash range, the giving up of which is a very dicey move by india. if they could do a tactical retreat so rapidly, it means they have the logistics in place to do a blitzkrieg with all those tanks coming roaring back. 

i think just as the chinese do, india should ignore the agreements made with china, and hang on to its territorial gains esp on the kailash range overlooking the big han encampment at moldo. 

Friday, February 19, 2021

seems so... appropriate! huawei is now going in for pig-farming!

i wonder if it is an obscure reference to "feeding at the trough", or "pork barrel economics" :-)


details on the information war against india: ISI, pieter, greta, disha and the gang

https://thedisinfolab.org/the-un-ending-war-from-proxy-war-to-info-war-against-india/

soros, hans, NYT, economist, the whole lot. they really want to GET us

so china virus defeated trump. (maybe fauci too). not economics

Quick notes: Amazon reviews | Failing to innovate...

  • Fake Amazon reviews being sold in bulk: Dozens of Facebook groups found where sellers offer refunds or commissions in exchange for fake, favourable reviews.


  • “Test the Boundaries of what is allowed by law”: Amazon favored big sellers on its India platform – and used them to maneuver around rules meant to protect the country's small retailers from getting crushed by e-commerce giants.


  • Govt role in R&D - China vs India: "In semiconductors, the upfront investment is so massive, that you want some assurance that there is a market for what you are going to build. Because the day you build your facility, it is not going to be state-of-the-art. It will be state-of-the-art only with incremental acquisition of knowledge and expertise. China aimed very low in semiconductors, but they got an assurance that there will be a buyer for that. Their govt made sure Chinese consumption is pointed towards the production of SMIC. Indian govt has never been willing to give such an assurance".



  • National Research Foundation: In 2018, India spent 0.69% of its GDP on research and development compared to China’s 2.1%. India had just 255 researchers per million people in 2017. Israel had 8,342 per million in the same year. The NRF will distribute 100 billion rupees annually for its first five years.


  • Not everything is translatable into dollars: We have seen clear evidence that big dams are not sustainable in the Himalayas.


  • No more engines for Jaguars: Jaguar will be EV-only from 2025; Land Rover will be 60 percent BEV.


  • Big Tech Blinks: In Australia, Google may soon pay lump sums for news . . . . Facebook goes nuclear, banning all news posts in Australia


  • Don't party yet: We handled Galwan and its fallout well. But that is not the end of the story. India has now clearly emerged in Beijing’s eyes as the one immediate adversary who will not concede to China’s political will for economic and commercial reasons. That means new contours of conflict have been drawn for the future.


  • Taypayer funding for Abrahamics: Tamil Nadu hikes Jerusalem pilgrimage number to 1,000  


  • Kundali comes to the west: New dating app for astrology lovers and skeptics alike  


Thursday, February 18, 2021

sri e sreedharan joins bjp; they should have made him President of india in 2017

https://www.rediff.com/news/column/e-sreedharan-for-president/20170616.htm

i think we need people of letters or those with extraordinary achievements to be in this inspirational position. let me hasten to add that i am not saying anything against the current president, a very fine person indeed. but we have had some highly dubious presidents and especially VPs in the past. 

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

More han WHO cockeyed theories about wuhan virus

Translation: it couldn't possibly be a bioweapon! Yeah. Hans would never do it. I, tedros whatchamacallit, personally vouch for them. 

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

the real climate warrior: padmasri thimmakka, aged 100+

not greta/mia/rihanna, not woke sjw like disha ravi or nikita jacob, certainly not the stubble burners of punjab.https://swarajyamag.com/blogs/thimmakka-and-chikkanna-they-raised-trees-to-fill-a-personal-void

saalamaruda thimmakka ("thimmaka of the avenue of trees") nurtured 100s of trees, creating a 5km long oasis of greenery along with her late husband. they didn't have children; instead, they nurtured these trees as though they were their children. 


Fighting for peace..


Dear Greta,
Children are suffering from acute respiratory ailments due to stubble burning by your newly found farmer friends. The Nobel committee wouldn't approve of this, don't you think?

Monday, February 15, 2021

i hear parler is live again but you have to create a new account

is this true? i couldn't access it from india. a US news channel reported the revival a half hour ago. 

when is biden starting his first war? i bet it'll be in the horn of africa or middle east, not s china sea


how AAP remembers dead people based only on religion. ghouls.

kerala CM also vijayan personally went to junaid's home and donated 5 lakh of taxpayer money. but has never paid any attention to any hindus killed by RoP or his own commies.


Fwd: 5th Intl. Conf. on Sarasvati River 15 Feb. 2021. We can now narrate the Story of a Civilization



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From: kalyan <kalyan97@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 10:29 AM
Subject: 5th Intl. Conf. on Sarasvati River 15 Feb. 2021. We can now narrate the Story of a Civilization
To:


5th International Conference on the Saraswati River 
Vidya Bharti Sanskriti Shiksha Sansthan, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India 
Haryana Saraswati Heritage Development Board
cordially invite you to this International Saraswati Mahotsav mega event.

Inaugural Session - 15th Feb : 9:45 AM to 1:45 PM

Technical Session - 15th Feb : 2:15 PM to 4:50 PM

Valedictory Session- 15th Feb : 4:55 PM to 6:00 PM

Link -
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why is this a surprise to anybody? india is the largest vaccine maker

kartar singh sarabha and khudiram bose were hanged by the brits at age 19

activists make choices. they should face the consequences of their choices. we are not talking about victimless crimes. 

age is not a criterion. varavara rao, 81, shouldn't be pardoned on the basis of his age. nor should youth be an issue. if involved in particularly heinous crimes, juveniles are tried as adults (this is the convention in most of the world).

sarabha, of the gadar party, was tried, convicted of sedition, and hanged, along with another uc berkeley student, vishnu ganesh pingale. 

khudi ram bose was hanged also at age 18 or 19 by brits, convicted of sedition. 

even bhagat singh was hanged at the age of 23. 

not drawing a moral equivalence between the imperial brit state and the republic of india. (nor am i saying that disha ravi should be hanged.)

however, the state does have a monopoly on violence, and it will do whatever it takes to protect its integrity. this is true of ALL states, throughout history. it cannot be otherwise. soft states do not survive for long. 

even the sainted and much lionized ashoka had his informants keeping an eye on the public. and i bet those who were caught were not treated with tenderness. 

Quick notes: Paraglacial dams | Vishwa coolie...

  • VikAss in Himalayas: 'Run of the river' dams, which operate by digging large tunnels into the side of the mountain, actually weakened the mountain by introducing fractures and fissures, increasing the risk of landslides.

    "While receding, they leave behind huge amounts of boulders, rocks, and moraines. A heavy rainfall or landslide could easily trigger floodwaters to surge down the narrow mountain streams, carrying a deadly mixture of sediment and rocks. If this great mass of water and solids meets any barrier on the way, it'll just smash through the barrier. Each time it smashes a barrier, it moves downstream with further energy. More energy means more mass is going to be lifted from the riverbed, or the river banks."


  • English medium Vishwa-Coolies: In ancient times India was the world's premier knowledge producer and exporter. Today it is the biggest importer and consumer of foreign technology.


  • Af-Pak: Hazara Shiites, prime targets of Sunni extremists. The Hazaras are among the most persecuted people on the planet.


  • Crime against humanity: China refuses to give WHO raw data on early Covid-19 cases


  • China Creating a Highly-Networked Military: PLA linking its Army and Air Force units into a single, unified combat alert duty in an effort to connect air defense radar and communications with PLA ground brigades.


  • Essence of Calculus: Video Series



  • J Sai Deepak: Uttarakhand, an eco-sensitive zone, aspiring for the same degree of road connectivity and “infrastructure” as Delhi notwithstanding the environmental impact of ceaseless “developmental” activity on its fragile ecological balance.

  • Our mountain will fall one day: We have learnt nothing from 2013 Uttarakhand disaster. The ecological sanctity of the rivers is critically compromised. “Many Hydro-electric projects have been sanctioned inside protected areas, two inside the core zone of the Nanda Devi National Park. Two projects have been sanctioned on the Mandakini river inside the Kedarnath Musk Deer Sanctuary and another is located just at its boundary.

    Earlier, four projects on the Gori Ganga were inside the Askot Musk Deer Sanctuary. Another six large projects on the Dhauliganga (E) and Kali rivers were also within the Askot Sanctuary. Efforts made by the developers to have large parts of the sanctuary de-notified finally succeeded with the Supreme Court ordering a fresh demarcation of the sanctuary. Now most of the above projects are outside the Sanctuary.”


  • Divine punishment? Raini village elders blame removal of temple for Chamoli tragedy. Raini is the same village which initiated the famous Chipko Movement in 1973. Raini villagers had also raised concerns that dams along the river could destabilize the mountain.


Saturday, February 13, 2021

it's the lament of the kulaks, not a farmer protest

kulaks are widely characterized in left circles as bloodsucking, poisonous vampires. they are deemed bourgeoisie, too, i am sure. 

but of course, they are great if they allow the left to snipe at modi from behind their backs. 

p-hacking, the bane of 'science' these days. they just hide inconvenient data points



https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-win-quantum-computing-error/?bxid=5cc9e3122ddf9c1a7ae03a81&bxid=5cc9e3122ddf9c1a7ae03a81&cndid=55280215&cndid=55280215&esrc=bounceX&esrc=bounceX&hasha=16719e56ee91f8da2df1655b2262edff&hasha=16719e56ee91f8da2df1655b2262edff&hashb=bcb9853431d0ef272255f9357a89c47a83d2e980&hashb=bcb9853431d0ef272255f9357a89c47a83d2e980&hashc=b5d0ef3b66783c85ff4b5fb18c088b5e05d820dcb1d32112e3c4234ea5a798fd&hashc=b5d0ef3b66783c85ff4b5fb18c088b5e05d820dcb1d32112e3c4234ea5a798fd&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=Final&utm_content=Final&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_021221&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_021221&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4&utm_term=list1_p4

Quick notes: Eco-sensitive zone | Pangong pullback...

  • Church lobby backed by Kaangress and the Left: Protest brewing over buffer zone around the Wayanad wildlife sanctuary in Kerala's high ranges. . . . . . . Rahul Gandhi joins protest (..dated).

    Recurring floods and landslides are an outcome of rampant destruction of nature in Kerala. Forests, hills and water bodies are being encroached upon and destroyed to set up homes, raise crops and build resorts, with the development here often being driven by greed, not need.


  • You can't build large dams in the Himalayas: In 2013, disaster struck the Mandakini river and this year it hit the Alaknanda.  Bhagirathi was saved because three dam projects were scrapped after being half constructed.

    When India was indeed a vishwaguru, it used science with common sense. We used to think of a development model which would not be disastrous for the people. The solution is what we did in Rajasthan. We made 11,800 small dams and not a single dam broke in the last 38 years. They are very small dams and they stopped water which then percolated in the ground. The land absorbed them and it is now in an underground aquifer.


  • India not ready for mass adoption of EVs: Because of EV adoption, Norway nearly leads the world in per-capita electricity use. . . . Hybrids are more suited for India for the near future.


  • Vacating the heights: Chinese troops were being posted to such forward locations for the first time and, contrary to belief that they were well-settled, the medical casualties were higher.


  • Life without Google and Facebook: Microsoft backs Australia’s proposal that tech companies pay newspapers for content. The proposal could prompt other countries to follow suit in a global transformation of the relationship between tech companies and traditional media. 


  • No more CCP checks? China bans BBC news broadcasts... BBC, Cambridge University took cash from CCP backed Tencent


  • $17 Billion Semiconductor Fab: Samsung Foundry is seeking to build a leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing facility in the USA.


Tuesday, February 09, 2021

no, obama 3.0 doesn't really cut it, biden.


#glacierbomb?

that's the way you do it (to twitter)


reminded of dire straits, 'money for nothing'. 


how professional agitators damage india's PR

chinese 'debt-trap diplomacy'? dear me, perish the thought! hans are so cuddly!

Quick notes: Baptism | Vaccine worry...

  • Romania baptism manslaughter: A six-week-old had a cardiac arrest after he was immersed three times in holy water. He had a violent death and liquid was found in his lungs, an autopsy found.


  • Sitting on billions, Catholic dioceses amassed taxpayer aid: Scores of Catholic dioceses across the U.S. received aid through the Paycheck Protection Program while sitting on well over $10 billion in cash, short-term investments or other available funds


  • ‘You are what you ate as a child’: Childhood diet has lifelong impact, says study. The quantity of good gut bacteria is significantly reduced in the Western diet group. This type of bacteria is involved in carbohydrate metabolism.


  • Bye-Bye vaccine? Israeli drug cured 29 of 30 moderate/serious COVID cases in days.. Helps prevent deadly cytokine storm


  • Vaccine worry: Oxford jab doesn't work against S Africa variant. . . . South Africa pauses AstraZeneca vaccine rollout


  • Chipageddon: Chip shortage crippling automotive industry.


  • Mindful walking: “Walking meditation makes us whole again. Only when we are connected with our body are we truly alive. Healing is not possible without that connection. So walk and breathe in such a way that you can connect with your body deeply.”


  • Bitcoin average energy consumption per transaction: Bitcoin consumes more energy than Switzerland


  • Ancient Peruvian mystery: The puquios were part of a sophisticated hydraulic system used to retrieve and channel water. The uniquely shaped holes let wind into a series of underground canals, which forced water from underground aquifers into the areas where it was needed. The puquios were so well-constructed that 30 of them are still utilized by farmers to this day. The creation of such a sophisticated and enduring network is evidence of the architects’ advanced understanding of the region’s geology and annual variations in water supply.


Monday, February 08, 2021

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani may hold the winning ticket in tech and Silicon Valley knows it - CNN

poetic justice that irish separatism and terrorism is rising again

the economist, FT etc stoke separatism in india by encouraging khalistanis. yes, i understand they are just trying to bring antonia maino back to power. but if they can support ISI/china-created terror in india, i think it's only fair that india provide support to irish separatists. will we? where are you, RAW? why not supply 'made in china/pakistan' branded guns and fake british currency to irish?


Fwd: CSA Webinar: Feb 27th 2021



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obama 3.0. it's confirmed. sad.

one day we'll find out the actual truth about obama. in the meantime, america is losing out. sad

george schulz, former sec state US, stanford, dies at 100


Sunday, February 07, 2021

Fwd: The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows


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Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 10:34 PM
Subject: The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows
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The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows

The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.

New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz and Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen

A new and rapidly growing journalistic "beat" has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power. Though its epicenter is the largest corporate media outlets, it is the very antithesis of journalism.

I've written before about one particularly toxic strain of this authoritarian "reporting." Teams of journalists at three of the most influential corporate media outlets — CNN's "media reporters" (Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy), NBC's "disinformation space unit" (Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny), and the tech reporters of The New York Times (Mike Isaac, Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel) — devote the bulk of their "journalism" to searching for online spaces where they believe speech and conduct rules are being violated, flagging them, and then pleading that punitive action be taken (banning, censorship, content regulation, after-school detention). These hall-monitor reporters are a major factor explaining why tech monopolies, which (for reasons of self-interest and ideology) never wanted the responsibility to censor, now do so with abandon and seemingly arbitrary blunt force: they are shamed by the world's loudest media companies when they do not.

... rest of interesting piece deleted

bracing video about how our per capita income plunged in relative terms while congress ruled

wolf told us why china CAN'T be contained; now kevin rudd tells it why it MUSTN'T be

anglos are falling over each other trying to figure out who can suck up to china most. ok, not just anglos. wolf quotes known china shill kishore mehbubani of singapore as well.

rudd was the former aussie PM who is proud of his mandarin fluency, and who got oz out of the malabar naval exercises with india, us and japan. 

this reminds me of the blind faith some anglos had in the soviet union, eg. kim philby, julius and ethel rosenberg, et al. (ok, i am aware there are revisionist stories about them, but still.)

or else there could be a simpler explanation: money. 


for reference, here's the FT's economics columnist martin wolf's opus:  https://www.ft.com/content/83a521c0-6abb-4efa-be48-89ecb52c8d01