Quick notes: Pig culling | College admissions...

• China is killing a third of its pigs: Farmers were feeding kitchen waste to their pigs—a practice that essentially renders the animals cannibals, eating remnants of other pigs. This is reminiscent of the 1988 mad cow epidemic in the UK, which was caused by feeding sheep and cow bone meal to cows, spreading bovine spongiform encephalopathy.



• Church to Have Say in St Stephen's Admissions: It is for the first time that a non-academic person from outside the faculty of the college been made a member of the admissions procedure of the undergraduates.



• A Film About the Impending 5G Apocalypse: 5G relies primarily on the bandwidth of the millimeter wave, known to cause a painful burning sensation. It’s also been linked to eye and heart problems, suppressed immune function, genetic damage and fertility problems. EMF exposure has increased about 1 quintillion times over the past 100 years.




• Chinese dragon swallowing India’s new economy: This could set the alarm bells ringing elsewhere



• Chengdu J-20 “Mighty Dragon”: India Claims It Can Track China's New J-20 Stealth Fighter 



• Dilli liberals: 
  

Dilli liberal mafia can't digest the OBCs & SCs of UP voting for Modi!

Voter in UP: Modi has given us toilets, gas
NDTV/Prannoy: but what about stray cows?
Voter: non-issue
NDTV: U must be Brahmin
Voter: No I am a Pasi, a Harijan
(vid courtesy 'Hindi journalist from Allahabad') pic.twitter.com/rALtJ31sxB

— Dr Praveen Patil (@5Forty3) May 11, 2019




• Pea is everybody’s new favorite plant-based protein: The shift toward a new plant protein—especially one that hasn’t been genetically engineered to withstand a barrage of herbicides—is still a win for the environment



• Water-powered engine: Coimbatore inventor claims his distilled-water-powered engine can run cars. "Utilising the thermal losses in the engine, hydrogen could be burned that helps vehicle run. I have currently designed the engine with the capacity of 100cc, which could emit oxygen while it's running".

Quick notes: Castration, TDP city...

• Allow Castration of Child Rapists: The court made these remarks while dismissing a petition by a British national accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy from Tamil Nadu in 2011 after promising his family that he would take care of his education... The number of child abuse cases has increased from 58,224 in 2013 to 89,423 in 2014.



• Lessons from Amaravati: How not to build a smart city: An expert committee headed by the late KC Sivaramakrishnan described the idea of setting up a single city as an outdated concept. The committee instead suggested that several new urban centres come up, including industrial and technology hubs. More than 40 per cent of the land is highly fertile agricultural land and ecologically fragile wetlands.



• Hidenori Ishi: Meet the Japanese thavil player



• Protein: The most important thing to be aware of regarding protein in vegan diets is that you need to get enough of the amino acid lysine.



• Processed meats do cause cancer: WHO placed processed meat in the same category as plutonium, but also alcohol as they definitely do cause cancer.



• The Tantalizing Links Between Gut Microbes and the Brain: Neuroscientists are probing the idea that intestinal microbiota might influence brain development and behavior



• The ELM Mirage:

Viewership ratio--Eng news: Hindi news: Hindi entertainment = 1: 100: 1000

— Minhaz Merchant (@minhazmerchant) October 23, 2015

Quick notes: Madhavan Nair, Media's war...

• G Madhavan Nair: Isro ex-chief may head BJP-backed front in Kerala



• Media Wants Riots: The media in India and the West has been in an aggravated and now near-permanent state of war about what is happening in India.



• India’s Energy Crisis: Simply to keep up with rising demand for electricity, India must add around 15 gigawatts each year over the next 30 years.
  
  The practical job of dispensing power was made more difficult by the victory in February’s municipal election of the Aam Aadmi Party, which ran on a platform of steep discounts for water and power. Promising free water and electricity, without specifying a way to pay for it, is an old tradition in Indian state and local election campaigns. Under the Aam Aadmi Party’s platform, Delhi families will get 20,000 liters of free water a month, and those who use less than 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month will get a 50 percent discount on their electric bills. Those subsidies will cost the government up to 16.7 billion rupees ($250 million) annually—and they will not help the discoms run profitable businesses.



• Hindus don't count?:

How many #Indians think of our own 700,000 #Kashmiris Pundits who are displaced in their own country? #realitycheck https://t.co/sAXLzH59a8

— Chitra Subramaniam (@chitraSD) October 6, 2015

• Declining soda sales: Pepsi is starting to give up on soda.

Quick notes: No bull, Indian paparazzi...

• Jim Rogers was hardly ever an India bull: Rogers has always been an India skeptic -- going so far as to predict the country will break up in 30-40 years in his book.



• Voyeurism and paparazzi have gone upstream in the India media: If you want gossip, you are spoilt for choice. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to.



• Haters gonna hate: Why US academics lecturing Silicon Valley on Modi is both arrogant and comic.



• Kaangress haven: Seven-fold increase in Karnataka farmer suicides.



• One-day strike: Economy loses Rs 25,000 crore. "A big jolt would accrue to the export cargo thereby throwing crucial delivery schedule to haywire".

Trade unions' strike: we have only 8% workers in formal sector; majority of them are in government. Do unions want status quo? 2/8

— Jayaprakash Narayan (@JP_LOKSATTA) September 2, 2015




• An idea whose time has come: Nationalize Church property including schools.

Yes, Mexico nationalized Church property, got back the vast land it controlled. http://t.co/oCPUexQAzM @colbair pic.twitter.com/U9FqSD6uqP

— Sankrant Sanu सानु (@sankrant) September 1, 2015

Quick notes: Gujarat model, Solar Roadway...

• Hans are here: Chinese think tank to study Modi's development model



• Captain abandons sinking ship: Can Indian Express survive without UPA?



• The coal plant to end all coal plants: EPA mandates cuts to power plant emissions



• Killing mosquitoes with cashews: Please bring this to India.



• Altaf Hussain arrested: He has called the 1947 partition the “biggest blunder in history” (...because he lost the first right to the nation's resources, you see).



• Solar Roadways:

 

Quick notes: Reporting template, illegal coal mines...

• pSecular reporting template: Interview someone like MG Vaidya, ask about Ram Mandir, make insinuations about hidden agenda and secular mask, create controversy, trivialize everything else. Expect this to be a routine for the psecular media from now on. The Hindu made this their front page lead today.



• Devastating Photos of India's illegal coal mines



• What damage does it cause us to ignore our body clock?

Quick notes: Moon fixation, Styrofoam ban...

• Why China is fixated on the Moon: The Moon is so rich in helium-3, which is a possible fuel for nuclear fusion, that this could "solve human beings' energy demand for around 10,000 years".



• The rape that energized the ELM: While several national channels flashed news of the alleged "gangrape" and murder of a 30-year-old woman in Assam, the post-mortem report and her husband's statement prove that there was no sexual assault on her. 



• Kinky trap: NSA using online porn habits to target Muslim extremists 



• Better than Photovoltaics: Reliance Power to Complete Solar-Thermal Plant



• NYC considering a ban on Styrofoam: Sanitation officials say plastic foam food containers add 23,000 tons of trash a year to landfills

THiNK

“Self-proclaimed atonement and recusal for a period are hardly the remedies for what the allegations show to be outright criminality.”

• A bad lapse of judgment, an awful misreading of the situation, have led to an unfortunate incident that rails against all we believe in and fight for
  Unfortunate incident? An author of Tejpal’s calibre should have chosen better words to describe alleged rape under the new law
  
  
• I have already unconditionally apologised for my misconduct to the concerned journalist, but I feel impelled to atone further.
  Impelled to atone? Has anyone been more regal while referring to what he did to his daughter’s best friend?



• I feel atonement cannot be just words. I must do the penance that lacerates me. I am therefore offering to recuse myself from the editorship of Tehelka, and from the Tehelka office, for the next six months.
  Rarely has an accused judged himself and then sentenced himself to a six-month vacation

Telegraph India: Our ugly backyard

No reservations here, it stays in the family

Kasturi and Sons patch up, get back to top positions. The return to the family-run, family-edited way for The Hindu is in sharp contrast to what they preach. For instance: Equality of priestly opportunity 

Ironic that the non-fairness of its Modi coverage (more like non-coverage) was used to justify the return to family control in Hindu.
— Swapan Dasgupta (@swapan55) October 21, 2013

Quick notes: Jolly Canal, 64-bit A7...

• Kaangress shining: Fitch slashes India growth forecast



• Raghuram Rajan is no poodle, PC has to 'walk alone'



• Is DNA-India the only one from ELM to cover the Jolly Canal killings?



• Many mobile applications and technologies developed by Indian brains are used around the world



• A7 processor in the new iPhone is impressive, but 64-bit computing offers no performance benefits, other than its ability to directly address over 4GB RAM



• China sets out to name and shame the country’s worst polluters. India should learn

What the ELM didn't want you to know

What most of the ELM didn't report:

"Sanjeev Bhatt, suspended IPS officer, forged evidence to malign the state government.," the Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court contended.

What the ELM is spinning: A Conversation With Goa CM Manohar Parrikar

Administrative failure does not mean everything is blamed on one man, Narendra Modi. What happened then was unfortunate, but that does not require his apology, it requires his correction and he has done that. There were many reasons why people lost control in 2002 after the dead bodies [of Hindu pilgrims from an earlier attack] were shown on TV. It should not have happened, the administration should have clamped down on any violence, [If I were in his place] I would have ensured…but Modi was new to the job as chief minister. It was a blot on Modi’s career, but he was not personally a part of it. If he is guilty by connivance he should be punished, but investigations have given him a clean chit. People who oppose him do so because they fear him.

Quick notes: NDTV Roasted, Misery Index...

• "Well, if I can answer your question.. if you will allow me that courtesy, then it seems you have absolutely no respect for your own Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of India has looked into those allegations, I believe on a number of occasions, and has always absolved Narendra Modi completely from these allegations... So, for you to be bringing them up on Indian television, I find that extraordinarily strange".

(... female babbles something about democracy...).

Madam, you are very keen to talk over me rather than to conduct an interview. But if you think democracy is best served by not observing the views and the judgements of your own Supreme court, then I am most surprised"....

female finally manages something like: we are the ELM of Radia Media fame and we question the country's Supreme Court and we nurture congenital hatred against Hindus everywhere.
H/T: slim_shady

• A chart from Nomura sums up the misery injected into the Indian economy by Kaangress: It’s the first time in over twenty years that it has remained stuck at such a high level, they note.

• The corruption of economics: In 2005, at the annual Jackson Hole, Wyo., conference of the world's leading central bankers, the chief economist of the IMF, Raghuram Rajan, presented a brilliant paper that constituted the first prominent warning of the coming crisis. Rajan pointed out that the structure of financial-sector compensation, in combination with complex financial products, gave bankers huge cash incentives to take risks with other people's money, while imposing no penalties for any subsequent losses. Rajan warned that this bonus culture rewarded bankers for actions that could destroy their own institutions, or even the entire system, and that this could generate a "full-blown financial crisis" and a "catastrophic meltdown." When Rajan finished speaking, Larry Summers rose up from the audience and attacked him, calling him a "Luddite," dismissing his concerns, and warning that increased regulation would reduce the productivity of the financial sector.




• A Smart Phone Uses as Much Energy as a Refrigerator: Add in the amount of electricity it takes to move data across networks to deliver a total of, say, an hour of video to your smart phone or tablet each week, and over a year it adds up to more power than two new Energy Star refrigerators consume in a year.




• Soda linked to Aggression in Young Children. The study found a clear association between aggression—as well as withdrawal and attention problems—and soda consumption.




• Chinese zoo's African lion turns out to be just a big, fluffy dog

Real development versus hype

The number of slums in Gujarat has reduced by 5,579 (1.52%) over the last decade, according to 2011 census data. On the contrary, the 13 major states of the country – Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, UP, MP, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, J&K, Odisha and Tamil Nadu – have witnessed marginal to manifold increase in the shanties of their urban areas. While there is a 17.50% increase in slums of Bihar, Kerala has seen its shanty town quadruple since 2001.

DNA: For Gujarat slum no longer glum story

The psecular hound

In his book, At Home In India; A Statement of Indian Muslims, Khurshid wrote that in 1984, when the Sikhs were massacred in Delhi, “there was terrible satisfaction among the Muslims, who have not completely forgotten the Partition’s unpleasant aftermath. Hindus and Sikhs were alike paying for their sins. They were paying for the blood they had drawn in 1947”.

It is with such high credentials Khurshid says Modi’s claim of being Hindu Nationalist is oxymoron. Imagine, like Khurshid, Modi had said that there was terrible satisfaction among Hindus that Muslims, who were killed in the Gujarat riots, were only paying for their Godhra sins! What would the seculars have done? Or would not have?

S Gurumurthy: Aurobindo, Vivekananda and Gandhi too oxymorons?

Fascist

English, suavity and foreign degrees

In our polity where grassroots leaders are not that articulate while speaking in English, and probably perceived as more corrupt, it was a welcome relief to see educated folks entering the stage. Shashi Tharoor fitted the bill perfectly for an Indian middle class which was longing for some suave and educated faces in politics. But then came the sweat equity issue. Perhaps for Ashish Nandy, his ilk, and the English media, this was not a major controversial issue since it involved one of their like-minded well spoken Mr Tharoor.

Then you have the likes of Harvard-educated Mr Chidambaram, Oxford-educated Mr Khurshid, and our dear Prime Minister, the Oxford-educated Dr Manmohan Singh. Interestingly, English media chooses not to go ballistic on alleged corruption charges on them while they will demand immediate answers in their kangaroo courts from lesser suave men. A quick look at the so-called social activists at prime time debates who have almost zilch to show on their resumes regarding their "social" contribution get away with absurd arguments by dint of their fluency.

As the 2014 elections close in, several comparisons will be made between the Gandhi scion, Rahul Gandhi, and BJP's development mascot Narendra Modi. I have a feeling that one of those comparisons will be along the lines of suavity, foreign education and fluency in English. How the future of India is decided will depend on whether we want to look beyond suavity and fluent English.

Saurabh Saksena: Beyond fluent English, suavity and foreign degrees

• Madhu Kishwar: The Dominance of Angreziyat in Our Education

Purti Story, The Untold Part

Business Standard travels to Ground Zero of the Purti episode and tells us what the ELM doesn't want us to know.

The 47-hectare campus houses an integrated plant, which includes a 2,500-tcd sugar plant, a 22-Mw power generation plant, a distillery with a capacity of 45,000 litres per day and an ethanol plant with a capacity of 120,000 litres a day. It also has facilities to produce methane and biofertilisers. “We make something out of everything,” a staffer quips.  Purti has 14 mechanised harvesters imported from Brazil, worth up to Rs 1 crore each. The company sends these harvesters, which can clear up to four acres of cane a day, to farms across the district. 

“The factory has put cash in the hands of our people, some of whom have got into the dairy business. We used to grow soybean, wheat and other crops, and the yields would be worth as low as Rs 15,000 an acre. Today, we get up to Rs 70,000 from cane. Without Purti, it would not have been possible.”

Part 1: Purti changed our lives, say farmers
Part 2: 'We are not the demons we are made out to be'

NaMo Did The Nation a Great Service..

souixsie's comment deserves a post in itself:

Tharoor has long cruised on his looks and his felicity with words, but he belongs to the breed who have seriously damaged Hindus post-independence; albeit he shafts them with a smile.

The IPL scandal exposed him for being the money-grubbing crook that he is, and his association with the dynasty points to the ease with which he adjusts his principles in order to avoid traveling in cattle-class.
 
NaMo did the nation a great service in pointing out that this emperor has no clothes. All the sturm und drang that followed is just a lame and pathetic attempt to change the subject... squirrel for the media dogs (see Pixar's UP). She was his girlfriend at the time she received the 50 crores, and it was clearly a kickback towards Tharoor. What does Modi's wife have to do with it? Did she get a kickback meant for Modi? Stupid Indian journalists! 

Coalgate Probe Points The Finger At Four media Houses

Poodle Singh, it turns out, granted only nine interviews since 2009. But only one of those nine was to someone from India, that too to the ever-loyal Hindustan Times.

Meanwhile, investigation is pointing to at least four media houses being beneficiaries of the coal blocks allocation.

The Hindu:  Coalgate Probe Points The Finger At Four media Houses

Binayak Sen gets Korean prize for Chrisist activism

The anti-national Christist terror mastermind has become something of a celebrity overnight for assorted seditionists. The brazenness of this thug is astounding. He made a sly declaration after his release that he "loved" his country and that "patriotism" needs to be redefined!!

The Union Law minister, Veerappa Oily also declared with alacrity that the entire legal framework pertinent to sedition needs re-evaluation, in light of the manipulated judicial verdict exonerating the poster boy of "CIVIL SOCIETY"!!!

The confidence of "Binayak" Sen, Susan "Arundhati" Roy et al is not surprising, given that the global church has thrown its weight behind them.

The christist neo-converts in South Korea have gleefully announced a prize for their agent in India. Read this note in the TOIlet paper carefully. The Korean prize was instituted in 2000, the year Christist Pope John Paul declared, on Indian soil - his intent to plant the cross in Asia and bring the continent under the church's dominion.

The very first recipient of the award - a Christist "CIVIL SOCIETY" activist in Indonesia, who was instrumental in carving out a new Christian country in the new millenium - East Timor was "liberated" for Christ with Western aid.

There are have also been murmurs about the second awardee, Aung San Suu Kyi of
Burma and her Western/Christist links.


http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Binayak-Sen-gets-South-Korean-human-rights-prize/articleshow/8057703.cms


Binayak Sen gets Korean human prize for Christian activism
Apr 22, 2011, 05.18pm IST PTI

NEW DELHI: Civil rights activist Binayak Sen, recently freed on bail by the Supreme Court in a sedition case, has been honoured with the 2011 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights, South Korea's most prestigious award for those working on peace, democracy and justice in Asia.

The award was announced yesterday by 2011 Gwangju Prize Committee in Seoul.

The prize, which carries a sum of USD 50,000 is awarded each year on May 18 -- on the anniversary of the May 1980 Gwangju democratic uprising -- to a person or organisation who has made significant contributions in the field of human rights and democracy.

"Dr Sen, as an accomplished medical practitioner has distinguished himself by his devotion to providing health services for the poor and by his strong advocacy against human rights violations and structural violence inflicted on the poor," the award jury said in a statement on the website of May 18 Memorial Foundation.

"He has also been active in the People's Union for Civil Liberties documenting human rights violations occurring during the anti-Naxalite conflict," it said.

The jury this year received 32 nominations from countries all around Asia. Xanana Gusmao, the leader of the East Timore struggle for independence was the first awardee of the Gwangju Prize when it was launched in 2000, while Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi won it in 2004. Irom Sharmila, the Manipuri human rights activist, is the previous Indian winner of the Gwangju Prize.

"Swami" Agnivesh TELLS GOI to negotiate with "Maoists"

Adds up. This christist "Swami"
masquerading as a "noted social activist" has built a career
advocating anti-national and secessionist causes. It is only logical that he would order the government to negotiate with the
Christian terrorists.

"Swami Agnivesh" is an important wheel in the global church's agenda of "liberation theology" - being realized by
action on the ground by "Maoist"
cadre, "activism" of the likes of
"Binayak Sen", Susan "Arundhati Roy" and collaboration of pimps in the tabloid "media".

It is a pity that frauds and impostors like "Swami Agnivesh"
are not exposed over a period of
decades. India needs a Wikileaks - not Con-gress handmaidens like "Tehelka".

If Egypt had a dictator like Hosni Mubarak, India's rot runs much deeper - there is an entire fifth column of deracinated traitors like "Agnivesh" practising
inculturation and Taqiya.

The first truth that needs to be exposed is the baptized name of
"Agnivesh". Let me take a guess, Father Frank Anthony?

http://m.rediff.com/news/report/hold-talks-with-naxals-swami-agnivesh-tells-govt/20110212.htm#