#Indian Army Officer

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General Sir James Abbott, was an English military officer in the Bengal Army and an administrator in British India. The city of Abbottabad, in present day Pakis...

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Ultimate Guide to Pursuing a Career as an ADC Officer in India

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Salman Khan will wear an Army cut while portraying an Army officer in Karan Johar and Vishnu Vardhan's upcoming film.

Recently, it was made public that Salman Khan and Karan Johar will collaborate on the upcoming movie from SherShaah director Vishnu Vardhan, 25 years after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. The movie, as previously reported, will begin production in November and debut in theaters throughout the world over the Christmas season. Fans of Salman Khan can now read some new information on Bollywood Hungama.

According to our reliable sources, the army serves as the setting for both SherShaah and the untitled Vishnu Vardhan film. "The audience loved Vishnu Vardhan's performance as SherShaah very much. His explanation of the Kargil War captivated both army authorities and even the families of a few army personnel. And now, his upcoming film, which also features superstar Salman Khan as an army officer, is about the Indian Army, a source told Bollywood Hungama.

Salman will be getting ready to get into a lean form for the movie before the shooting starts in November. Salman would attempt to get the ideal body type and physique for the movie in order to resemble the physique of Indian Army officers. In keeping with recent sightings, he will also be sporting an Army Cut. He is reportedly thrilled to play an Indian Army officer in the movie, according to a source.

Salman Khan and Karan Johar's untitled movie, which is being directed by Vishnu Vardhan, is planned for release over the Christmas holiday in 2024. In case you missed it, Firoz Nadiadwala recently launched a comedy named Welcome To The Jungle for the same window of opportunity. Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Suniel Shetty, Akshay Kumar, and in lead roles.

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Hey man, love your stuff! I was wondering if you can transform me from a white military officer to a younger, [browner 😅] enlisted guy. I'm having a hard time getting thru to this new generation and i'd like to see what it's like as an enlisted POC (Hispanic, Indian, Arab, etc.) to better understand their situation and lead better- thanks!

CLASSIFIED INFORMATION - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL - OBJECT 42 OFFICER: MAJOR S. KRAUSS START OF EXPERIMENT: 03.02.2025 LOCATION: SECRET

DAY 1 - 03.02.2025 08:00: Injection carried out. Substance: “Evol-9”. No immediate side effects. 12:00 noon: Slight increase in body temperature. Pulse 72, no further abnormalities. 20:00: Fatigue sets in. Minor muscle pain. Presumably adaptation of the organism.

DAY 2 - 04.02.2025 06:00 am: Wake up with a strong feeling of energy. Pain has disappeared. Physical performance subjectively improved. 12:00 noon: Physical changes visible. Skin tightens, muscle definition increases. Hair growth accelerated. Uniform on upper arms and chest tightens 22:00: Increase in strength measurable. Weight difference of 3 kg (increase in muscle mass).

DAY 3 - 05.02.2025 06:00: Skin pigmentation begins to darken. Hormone levels in the borderline range. Libido increased. Urgent desire to masturbate 18:00: Physical transformation advanced. Deeper voice, lower body fat percentage. Chest hair visible 23:00: Feeling of restlessness. Increased aggressiveness. Testosterone levels above average. Urgent desire to masturbate.

DAY 4 - 06.02.2025 07:00 am: Physical rejuvenation clearly recognizable. Estimated biological age: 25 years. Urgent desire to masturbate 14:00: Fighting stamina significantly improved. Skin still darker. Beard growth visibly stronger. Urgent desire to masturbate 21:00: Muscle building extremely accelerated. Weight gain +6 kg muscle mass in 72 hours. Urgent desire to masturbate

DAY 5 - 07.02.2025 05:00 am: Awakening with intense sexual arousal. Difficulty concentrating on work tasks. Masturbated several times. 12:00 noon: Body corresponds to that of a 20-year-old athlete. Speech behavior changes slightly. Response to change in character. Allegedly salutes lower ranks. Urgent desire to masturbate 22:00: Restlessness. Need for sleep decreased. Thinking more impulsively. Masturbated several times

DAY 6 - 08.02.2025 07:00: Voice changes in tone. Choice of words begins to change. “Brother” used as an unconscious expression. Masturbated several times. 18:00: Mirror image irritated. Memories of military training remain, but strange sense of identity. 23:00: Partied with other recruits and privates. Wanked off several times. The shitty language from the NCOs is so lame!

DAY 7 - 09.02.2025 06:00 a.m.: Woke up in the morning with the biggest morning boner ever. Cummed several times in front of the mirror. Physically in competition shape. Talk to NCO about using the gym 15:00: Thrown out of my quarters by sergeant. Asked what I wanted in officers' quarters. Report requested. I'm not in the army for shitty writing! 11:00pm: Assigned to basic training recruits. Don't know why I wasn't before. After dinner I hit the weights in the gym. Wanked off four times in the shower and fucked a comrade.

DAY 8 - 10.02.2025 07:00: Brooo, Digga what's up? Haha, I swear, this thing is awesome! Yo, I feel brutal, bro! Been to the gym for two hours. Now shooting practice. Safe, dude!

DAY 9 - 02/11/2025 06:00: Wallah, I need a workout. I swear I can't do without it. Fuck the protocol, bro. Comrades here are fucking rad. Gym, training, fucking. Awesome, dude!

DAY 10 - 12.02.2025 08:00: Should write a diary here or something. I don't give a fuck, bruh. The bros don't either. I'm fresh, you know? Training, fucking, life is rad, bro.

LOGGING COMPLETED - OBJECT 42 NO LONGER IDENTIFIABLE AS MAJOR KRAUSS EXPERIMENT SUCCESSFUL. FURTHER MEASURES UNDER CONSIDERATION.

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The Antagonism between the White Settlers and Imperialism

There was nothing new in all this, however. The most difficult struggles of the imperialist countries since the 18th century had not been with the natives in their colonies but with their own settlers. And it should not be forgotten that if England is a second-class power today, this is due to her defeat in a conflict of this type and the subsequent founding of the United States. Without this, North America would now be an ex-colony of Red Indians recently promoted to independence and therefore still exploited by England.

Marx and Engels did not fail to make references here and there to ‘white settlers’, ‘poor whites’, etc, although during the period in which they lived the problem was not acute. But Lenin came out strongly in favour of the Boers in 1900, just as Mao Tse Tung’s China recently gave unexpected support to Biafra and its mercenaries. Finally, the exaggerated schematization in which Marxism was confined after Lenin’s death meant that no place could be made for this uncomfortable ‘third element’ in the noble formulas of the ‘people’s struggle against financial imperialism’.

Instead of scientific analysis, we have tenacious myths that no fact, however brutal, will ever shake. This makes for grave misunderstandings and prevents any true dialogue between revolutionary Marxism and the decolonized peoples. To take a recent example, even the most informed Marxists did not hesitate to accept the popular version according to which Tshombe was the puppet of the Union Minière, the Belgian trust companies and international imperialism. Nothing could be further from the truth. Tshombe never represented financial capitalism. He represented the white settlers. And it was in this capacity that he was detested and rejected throughout Africa. For this same reason he was the public enemy number one of the trust companies and of Belgian-American imperialism.

Of course, if by Union Minière one means the local staff of the Katanga company, there is nothing to prevent one from saying that Tshombe was their man. Like the Belgian civil servants and army officers, these people represented the parent country before the independence of the Congo, and as such they were on the other side of the fence. The settlers had always called them ‘n*****-lovers’, the most contemptuous epithet in their vocabulary. But individually, each of them prepared for retirement in the colony, some by buying a share in a plantation, others by investing in real estate, etc. When the umbilical cord linking them to the home country was suddenly severed during the independence troubles, they went over en masse to the settlers’ side.

And what more could these local managers and administrators of the Union Minière ask for? From mere agents, obliged to telephone to the head office in Brussels before they took the slightest decision, with Tshombe and the secession of Katanga they became, from one day to the next, the veritable bosses of the company. And if during the reign of Tshombe the Union Minière was forbidden to distribute the slightest dividend, this did not displease these local men, who had no reason to worry about enriching Belgian shareholders and on the contrary every reason to welcome the accumulation of profits on the spot, which would improve the firm’s potential and hence their own position.

But if by Union Minière one means the Belgian monopoly holding that was behind the Katanga plant, i.e. the Belgian bank La Société Générale, then things become quite different. For them, for Belgian high finance, and therefore for international imperialism, Tshombe was the man to be eliminated, and they ended up by attacking him physically—first in 1962–3 at Elisabethville, under the flag of the United Nations troops, a second time in 1967 by sending anti-Castro Cuban pilots to bomb his mercenaries in Bukavu, and finally the third time by sending a cia agent to kidnap him personally and deliver him to Algiers.

White-Settler Colonialism and the Myth of Investment Imperialism - Arghiri Emmanuel

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The Arcturus Missions

Part Seventeen - Anger Issues

Part Sixteen

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Prior to becoming a pilot, Harold Jackson, callsign Hound, had been an enlisted officer for the United States Army. It was all he had ever known really, his father had been in the army and they moved from base to base like any other military family. The housing was similar enough that each room felt like his own and life was always chaotic but simple. From coast to coast and in other countries, he was content with that life. 

The Quintessons attacked when he was still young, the first response was with military action, the Air Force and Navy, naval pilots were the first to scout the enomally off of Hawai’i. The aircraft carrier the USS Enterprise which had been in the North Arabian Sea on exercise with German, French, and British forces, was the first thing attacked by the foreign invader. When the first call from Hawai’i reached them, they redirected the course to provide assistance. It sustained too much damage to remain in operation but its nuclear reactor was safely removed before its decommission. It was one of ten aircraft carriers in the pacific and Indian oceans during that time, many sustain unrecoverable damages.

With the Cold War in active swing, it was difficult to initially adjust focus, but once they started to attack cities most powers were redirecting their focuses away from the arms race and into the mechanical suit race. Just another angle initially, which eventually turned into government cooperation.

Hound had enlisted at eighteen, understanding only some of what was happening and signing up for the compatibility testing after bootcamp. It was around that same time when Hound got married, though the wait for his mech suit was longer than his marriage. His father had signed up for the testing as well and was found non-compatible, he was medically discharged not long after. Hound knew how much it broke his father to not be compatible, both in spirit and body, he didn’t understand how hard the test was until he was in it. No one comes out the other side of compatibility the same person. 

His ex-wife lives in a “protected city” somewhere in Colorado, specifically away from coastal regions and major epicenters, near to a mech suit outpost for the marines. She was receiving housing and funding from Mecha on behalf of Hound to ensure her safety, her and his father, it’s one of the many reasons he agreed to head the Arcturus One mission. He may not love her and she may hate him, but he didn’t want to see her remains on the next cover report, hers or his fathers. It was hard not to care when the person used to be your best friend, no matter what they did to lose that place or what you did. 

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Hound had fallen back asleep in command, tipped back in his chair while the others had talked, Megatron’s explanation dying off when his head began to droop. The lights in his cockpit were off, but he remained in his chair, leaning back comfortably enough. It was nice enough until a shrill voice woke him up, “Sir, Hound isn’t at camp.” Sideswipe was the most frustrating person to him at that very moment, groaning quietly as he tipped the chair back up, “That’s because he was here, discussing plans with us.” Megatron stood, now sober and feeling improved from last night. Hound took the moment to stretch and stand, “Sideswipe, I would suggest checking everywhere or comming me before jumping to conclusions.” He walks over and rests a hand on his shoulder, “Thank you for the concern though. Nodding some, Sideswipe sighs, “Breakdown woke us all up not knowing where you were,” “Breakdown?” It was almost hard to tell that Sideswipe looped sheepish, but the body language was easy enough to read, “He left medical this morning, to much protest from Knockout. I think the medic is still yelling at him for being a ‘big wreckless oaf’.” He chuckles and with a sigh, Hound nods to Megatron before heading out of command. 

Yelling was certainly one way of putting it, Knockout was shrieking at Breakdown who was now sitting near the heater, his head hanging down. Sighing, Hound jogged over, “Alright, enough. Why are you screaming, Doctor?” He moved and stood between them, “Breakdown won’t let me run a systems check, he says everything is fine but his arm is hardly attached.” Knockout rested his hands on his hips, jaw set. Sighing deeply, Hound nodded, “Because your systems will crash ours, I’m sorry if this is inconvenient but it's for his safety that he turns it down.” Raising a hand, Hound stops Knockout, “But, he is off duty until further notice. Once we’re back in Iacon we’ll finish repairs but he’ll be on the bench for a while.” Breakdown looked up, “What?” Hound really just wanted to hit his head against a wall, “We’re going to keep following typical standards, two weeks at least of light duty.” Now both of them were angry and it was draining. 

“Alright, enough!” Hound holds up his hands, “Knockout, if Breakdown were to stay in the medical tent until we return to Iacon, would that make you happy?” Knockout stopped and nodded, “Yes, of course.” “Hound,” Breakdown steps forward and Hound turns to him, “You should be resting regardless, your two weeks start now. Go lay down, that is in fact an order.” He could almost feel the bitterness rolling off of Breakdown, who turned away, “I swear, once we’ve returned to Iacon we can discuss this but until then, please just rest.” The cold shoulder was like a blizzard or arctic night. Sighing deeply, Hound moved to the others, shaking his head a bit, “If there is no attack today we should be returning to Iacon tonight.” “Thank god for that.” Sideswipe sank back down, rubbing his face, “I’ve got a great plan for something in the apartment.” Groaning, Sunstreaker shook his head, sitting back, “It’s too early for great plans.” “Yeah, well it’s too early to sneak off to talk to the guy who almost killed you.” Hound hits the heater, “Enough arguing! Enough. Just, spread out and take some time away from each other. Please. Let’s wait and see what the projection looks like before we try and kill each other.” He had a headache that was getting worse with every moment of arguing.

Slowly, Sunstreaker walked off, Sideswipe followed though at a distance. Breakdown was back to medical, and Jazz was sitting on the ground near the heater. Sighing, Hound joined him, rubbing his face, “How did you get used to working with other pilots? Or, mechs?” They were all, mostly, used to working solo. The suits were big enough to level a city block at times and more than one was hardly ever needed. Jazz chuckled slightly, “Well, I worked with Prowl solo for about the first six months or so. Not with other strong willed pilots, but still someone with experience.” Nodding a bit, Jazz leans back to stare at the sky, “I also didn’t have a unit of people from diverse backgrounds to command, all I had to do was adjust to one culture. I also didn’t have two pilots who had never been in the military to watch over,” the look almost makes Hound groan, “Their great pilots, but we both know that this is something that’ll take plans they aren’t used to and a lot more orders.” Also looking at the sky, Hound groaned, “I was worried you’d say that.” Jazz snorts, grinning, “Yeah well, you all have a lot of adjustments to make still.” With a hum, Hound threw his arm back over his eyes, still so tired. Yawning, he turns off the lights in his cockpit and turns down his visual feed, “Adjustments I'll start making, after I get some more sleep.” It didn’t take Hound long to fall back asleep, not long at all.

Jazz sat there, smiling a bit, “You’ve already made some Hound.” He glances over towards command where Red Alert and Mirage were talking, Mirage leaning against the wall comfortably, “You just can’t see it yet.” He smiles and moves to be able to watch their surroundings so his friend could sleep easier. Sometimes, the cluelessness of the other pilots drove him mad and sometimes he wondered if they were all just more nearsighted than they looked. 

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Sunstreaker went and sat with Bluestreak, glancing back over his shoulder at Sideswipe who diverted to sit with a few other mechs, he breathed a sigh of relief. The other mecha sitting with Blue glanced at each other before standing, “Hey, we’re going to go eat. See ya Blue.” One patted him on the shoulder and the other gave him a thumbs up before heading off towards food, talking quietly to each other. Sunstreaker paused, frowning a bit, “Uh, sorry. I didn't mean to chase off your friends.” “What? Oh, no you’re fine!” Bluestreak leans forward some, smiling nervously, he clears his throat a bit, “They’ve been waiting for an excuse to get away.” Sunstreaker chuckled slightly, “I doubt that.” Bluestreak smiled and glanced over towards Sideswipe, frowning, “Look,” “We’re not going to talk about that here.’ Sunny rested his hand over Blue’s, visor brightening, “Later, so, um.” He clears his throat and pulls his hand back, glancing up and away, “Have you ever been to this planet before?” Bluestreak smiled, “Yeah, but it was just for a different fight.” He tries to wave it off, but Sunstreaker turns to him, “Tell me about it.” Bluestreak chuckles lightly, “Uh, why?” The smile couldn’t be kept from Sunstreaker’s face, “The longer I sit here and you don’t try to kill me, the more likely it’ll be that Sides will eventually forgive you.” “Oh.” Nodding slowly, Bluestreak frowned, “You or—humans, are very strange.” Sunstreaker laughed.

Shaking his head a bit, Sunstreaker rubs at his chest, “Oh Blue, you don’t know the half of it. So, what was the last fight here like for you?” Bluestreak’s face lit up, “Well it was back during the last war, primus, you would have thought we were insane back then. Fighting after the fall of the system we were fighting over,” Sunstreaker stares and chuckles slightly, “You really don’t know anything about Earth, do you?” Bluestreak looks at him and shakes his head a bit, “Uh, no, not really. Jazz doesn’t talk about it much and Prowl said to not bother him with it.” Nodding a bit, Sunstreaker shrugged slightly, “Well, I’ll tell you more about it after your story. So, this last war, you were here,” he prompts lightly, Bluestreak nods and starts talking, smiling brightly. Sunstreaker smiled and just listened, glad to listen to someone who wasn’t giving him orders or was his brother. 

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The shuttle that evening was not sentient and Hound was still never sure to be relieved or not. It always took Sideswipe the longest to figure out if they were on a shuttle he knew personally or not, Sunstreaker always had the easiest time with it. For the moment, Breakdown was not speaking to Hound which was understandable, typically they were on equal footing but having to pull rank always left others feeling ruffled. Jazz was up towards the front talking with the pilot, but the entire shuttle was full of mechs. Each seat was filled and there was limited walking space since it was filled with the construction materials, plus the heaters. The twins were pretending to be asleep, really they were out of their chairs and talking over comms in English. Just because they had the translator doesn’t mean they wanted to use it all the time. 

Sitting back, Hound was almost asleep himself when the second ring of his comm drew his attention. He paused for a moment before adjusting his setting to answer, “Hello?” There was a brief sigh on the other side of the line, “I wasn’t sure if you were going to answer, most mechs answer as soon as it pings.” Mirage sounded like he was smiling, “You doing alright after last night?” Hound smiles a bit, “Yes, thank you for your concern Mirage.” He thought for a moment that that’s where the conversation would end, “I saw what happened this morning, uh, is that normal for you all?” Sighing, Hound scratches at his jaw and chuckles, “Kind of, pilots back home, we’re not used to working with other pilots.” 

“Why not?” Hound opened his mouth and stopped, tilting his head a bit before biting back a swear, “We’re spread out across the planet to protect as many civilians as we can. The five of us being in one place at once, it’s not typical and certainly not what we were trained for.” Mirage hums, “So, the tension is growing.” “Exactly.” Sighing, Hound rubbed his face, “Only ones who are used to working with each other are Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, and even then they only did when in the same region during an attack. Most of us had never worked together before this mission.” He swore he could hear a pin drop over that line before Mirage took a breath, “They sent you, on a death mission, with people who you’d never worked with?” Shaking his head a bit, Hound sighs, “No, not quite. For around six months, uh, half a stellar cycle, we were together preparing for this mission. Isolated together, mostly.” Mirage made an indignant noise. 

Chuckling lightly, Hound scratched at his jaw, “Don’t like that either, huh?” “I just don’t understand your people, redesigning and reprogramming you all for this.” Hound hummed, leaning his head back comfortably, “Someone has to do the work that no one else wants to do.” There was another long pause, before Mirage spoke up again, “Prowl says the same thing, Megatron says the same thing.” Grinning, he shrugged lightly, “There are some things that almost transcend culture.” Mirage hummed lightly, then cleared his throat, “So, we will be in Iacon by morning,” “Will we?” Hound’s internal clock was shot, both his internal clock and the one in his suit, Mirage’s smile was even evident through the comm, “Yes, and I understand you’ll want some time to rest and repair Breakdown of course, but I was wondering when we’d be able to have that, uh, talk.” It took him a second to remember what Mirage was talking about, “Oh, the one about where Breakdown is from?” Mirage and his pauses, “Yes,” Nodding a bit, Hound leaned forward and glanced over to Jazz, gesturing towards his head lightly.

It was several longer seconds of silence before the click of someone joining the comm came through, “Yo.” Hound leaned back, “Jazz, how much free time do you think we will have when we get to Iacon?” Jazz popped up in the corner of Hound’s visual feed, he responded with his own internal camera but ensuring both were kept from Mirage’s view, “Uh, I don’t know. Depends on how long Joan is in his meeting,” “Joan?” The confusion in Mirage’s voice almost made Hound double over, even as Jazz’s face turned dark with blush, “Hound! You could warn a mech when having them enter a comm,” Still laughing, Hound sits up and wipes at his eyes, “Sorry Jazz, Mirage and I were discussing when’s we would be able to meet up to talk about the Soviet Union, in turn I added you to ask what Prowl’s plan looked like. Mirage, Joan is what we’ve taken to call your boss over private comms. She was a figure not dissimilar to your Prime.” Both men sat in silence, as if waiting for the other to break it. 

Hound cleared his throat a bit, “Regardless, do you think a meeting with the Prime will be possible once we get there or will we have a while?” Jazz sighed and leaned forward, looking at Hound, “After we’ve had time to repair Breakdown, I think we’re going to have some time before we’ll get an audience with the Prime. Why?” He shifted a bit uncomfortably on his own seat, sitting back and away from Jazz’s prying eyes the best he could other than for the camera, “Well, Mirage wanted to learn a bit about the Iron Curtain,” “And other things about you— and Earth. Your planet seems so interesting.” Hound smiled a bit, “It is, or it can be.” Jazz was smirking, leaning back and shaking his head, “It’s almost cute how you all are skating around other mecha. Trying to make friends.” Mirage made a noise, and suddenly Hound wasn’t sure if Jazz was talking to him or Mirage. It took only a second for an answer, “Your species of mechanicals are so different from ours, your way of life, your relationships. None of you have mentioned being conjuxed and yet have split sparks, things that seem so familiar yet there are things that are… missing.” Hound cleared his throat a bit, “I’m sorry, the translator didn’t take to that word. What does being conjuxed mean?” Jazz stayed silent, though his hand was covering his mouth as he held back laughter and Mirage was painfully silent. 

After nearly a minute ticked by, Hound sighed, “Is it something incredibly private or?” Weak laughter filled the line, “No, Primus no, it’s just your translator makes you sound strange for some words when they don’t translate.” It was another second before Mirage sighed, “Conjux is short for Conjux Endura, it’s a committed relationship between two mecha, for the rest of your life.” Hound paused and nodded slowly, “So like being married.” “I suppose, though that is not translating either.” Hound chuckled slightly, “Marriage is a committed relationship between two, uh, mecha for the rest of your life. Unless you get divorced like I did.” Mirage made an ear piercing sound and Jazz choked, nearly shooting out of his seat while leaning forward, “What the hell?” “What?” There was a click for a moment, as Mirage left the comm, “What? What did I say?” Then there was another click as Jazz left for a second. He was left in the quiet for a moment before two clicks notified him that they were back on the line.

Jazz sat there, staring at him and shook his head, “No, no, I need you to say that without the translator on. That can’t be right.” Mirage was making the slightest of choking sounds still, so adjusting his setting Hound sighed, “I’m talking about my divorce Jazz.” Several seconds went by, “Oh, oh! I didn’t think that would translate like that.” He pauses, “Damn, uh,” There was a click and he went silent, then a second click as Mirage went silent as well. Setting his jaw, Hound leaned his head back and picked at his fingers. It wasn’t a topic he even remotely enjoyed talking about, two clicks showed they re-entered the comm line, “It is much more normal on Earth Mirage, it’s not a bad thing and certainly not.. that.” He could hear the mech breath out a sigh of relief, “You can understand my concern Jazz,” Mirage clears his throat, “I apologize Hound, your ‘divorce’ translates as something rather drastic in our language. Not a separation of legally binding relations.” Opening his mouth, Hound tried to say something before shaking his head, “You know what, I don’t want to know. My divorce isn’t anyone’s business but mine.” “Of course, I apologize.” Jazz hums lightly, “I knew some things would never translate but that was just something else. No word for divorce is nuts.” Nodding a bit, Hound folds his arms before sighing, “Yes, very odd.” It was uncomfortable, so Hound disconnects from the line, dimming his visor to ensure he wasn’t disturbed before deactivating his comm. 

No word for divorce and whatever it translated into seemed like murder, setting his jaw, he leaned back and closed his eyes. It wasn’t anyone’s business but his, no one needed to know he was divorced. Pausing, he sighed, he hadn’t set up the time to talk to Mirage about Earth properly. Sparing a glance towards where Breakdown was sitting, it would have to wait. His systems were shut down quickly so he was able to throw his arm over his eyes, removing the helmet and visor. Sometimes, the differences felt greater than they probably were. 

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A/N

I think I am finally recovering from being sick, but we will see. Next part will hopefully be out Monday and I’ll actually get to that schedule that I was talking about before.

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Excerpt from this story from In These Times:

President Donald Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce have gutted the ranks of wildland firefighters and support personnel, fire professionals warn, leaving communities to face deadly consequences when big blazes arrive this summer.

​“There’s going to be firefighters that die because of this, there will be communities that burn,” said Steve Gutierrez, a union official who served 15 years as a firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service.

Gutierrez now serves as a labor relations representative with the National Federation of Federal Employees, which represents government workers. He said thousands of wildland firefighters have had their jobs thrown into limbo by Trump’s government-wide hiring freeze.

Brian Fennessy, chief of the Orange County Fire Authority and president of the California Fire Chiefs Association, echoed that concern. ​“The public needs to know they’re at risk,” Fennessy said. ​“If the public knew all of this, they would lose their minds.”

Federal agencies depend on an army of seasonal firefighters to fill their ranks during the months when wildfires are most active. Scott, a Forest Service firefighter with six years of experience in the Western United States, who asked to be identified by a pseudonym to avoid retaliation, is among those whose role has been thrown into uncertainty.

“It’s just going to be a disaster for the wildfire response this season,” he said.

Scott was slated to move to a new Forest Service fire station this spring. But following the federal hiring freeze, he was told by his captain that it’s unclear whether his new job still exists. Thousands of his colleagues are in a similar state of limbo.

In a statement to Stateline, the Forest Service said wildland firefighting jobs are considered public safety positions that are exempted from the hiring freeze, and the agency is working with the federal Office of Personnel Management on those positions. The agency did not respond to follow-up questions about the number of unfilled positions under review.

The U.S. Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs did not grant Stateline interview requests. 

Federal agencies employed more than 17,000 wildland fire staffers last year, many of them in seasonal roles. This year, many of those workers had job offers rescinded — or had their transfers and promotions put on hold — just as they were set to begin onboarding and training for the 2025 fire season.

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My brother and I rewatched the original run of Samurai Jack and I made a road map of all the places traveled Jack to on his journey. I've written all the explanations to where I placed the markers down below.

Season 1:

Ep 1: The Beginning - takes place in ancient Japan. I placed the marker in Kyoto because that was Japan's capital before Tokyo, but it could be anywhere in ancient Japan. From there, young Jack traveled across the Indian Ocean, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to learn new skills.

Ep 2: The Samurai Called Jack - Jack arrives in the future in what I dubbed "Aku City". Since Jack fought Aku in Japan, I placed this new "Aku City" in place of Tokyo, Japan. Again, it could be anywhere, but I thought the bustling city was appropriate as a substitute for Tokyo.

Ep 3: The First Fight - Not marked on the map, because the dog mining canyon is too vague and didn't have any distinct land marks.

Ep 4: The Woolies and the Chritchellites - The Woolies are shown to be wearing kippot in their flashback, so I placed them in Isarel.

Ep 5: Jack in Space - Not marked on the map, because half of this takes place in space. And the woods were too vague to be any specific location.

Ep 6: The Warrior Woman - takes places in Saudi Arabia because of the marketplace and desert landscape, and all the musical references as well.

Ep 7: The Three Blind Archers - The army that attacks the three blind archers at the beginning of the episode are heavily based on Nordic Vikings, so I placed it in Norway.

Ep 8: Mad Jack - Not marked on the map, too vague.

Ep 9: Under the Sea - Jack goes to Atlantis, which is somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Ep 10: The Lava Monster - The lava monster is a Viking warrior trapped under a curse, connected by his longing to go to Valhalla, so it is another case of Viking mythology, which could be from Norway, Sweden, or Finland.

Ep 11: The Scotsman - Not marked on the map, because the Scotsman was also travelling in a vague landscape.

Ep 12: The Gangsters - The gangsters have Chicago accents.

Ep 13: Aku's Fairy Tales - Takes place in Aku City, but not marked on map because this episode is not about Jack.

Season 2:

Ep 1: Jack learns to Jump Good - Gorillas are most commonly found in Central Africa, specifically the Congo.

Ep 2: Jack's Tales - Not marked on the map, because it is three different stories that don't have any specific location.

Ep 3: The Smackback - The announcer for the tournament is very British, from his attire to his accent.

Ep 4: The Scotsman 2 - The Scotsman invites Jack to his home in Scotland to visit his family, and to save his wife. This episode was pretty self-explanatory.

Ep 5: The Ultra-Robots - Not marked on the map, because the scientists did not have any specific characters traits to draw from.

Ep 6: Jack Remembers the Past - Jack returns to the ruins of his home. Since I placed his home in Kyoto, I marked it as Kyoto.

Ep 7: The Monks - The cartoon idea of climbing a mountain to overcome a big challenge in life is usually associated with the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest which is located in Nepal.

Ep 8: The Farting Dragon - The village are all very ole-timey British stereotypes. Also, the dragon is a typical depiction of a European dragon.

Ep 9: Versus the five Hunters - The Hunters are summoned from another planet by Aku, but the episode takes place in a bustling city. And since Aku summoned them to the city himself, it is implied to be Aku City.

Ep 10: Demongo, the Soul Collector - The fight between jack and Demongo takes place in a large canyon, so I marked it as the Grand Canyon. It's possible that it's not, but there are not many known canyons and the place they seemed to fight in was pretty large.

Ep 11: Jack is Naked - This episode is a parody of Alice in Wonderland, which takes place in England. Also, the underground city is filled with English accents and jobs (like the cop looking like a stereotypical British police officer).

Ep 12: The Spartans - This episode is a parody of the War of 300, which took place in Greece.

Ep 13: Jack's Shoes - I originally had this placed in Aku City again, but my brother convinced me to place it in New York instead. The different cultures we see mixed and mingled is different than what we see in Aku City. And the Japan car shop is like an immigrant family making a new life, but still holding onto their tradition- which is much more like New York than Tokyo.

Season 3:

Ep 1: Chicken Jack - The bustling city mixed with the emphasis of different cultures (the Japanese food vendor, the Italian man, the gangsters), are more reminiscent of New York.

Ep 2: The Rave - The Innkeeper Jack spoke to at the beginning of the episode had an Italian accent and wore Italian clothing.

Ep 3: Couple on a Train - The assassins in this episode had heavy Texas accents.

Ep 4: The Zombies - Not marked on the map, since this episode takes place in a graveyard, which could be anywhere.

Ep 5: The Scarab - The episode opens with Jack reminiscing about his time in Egypt as a kid, as he explored the ruins. This episode also features Set's servants and the Egyptian God Horus.

Ep 6: The Traveling Creatures - Not marked on the map, the places jack traveled to were fantastical and not any real landmarks were shown.

Ep 7: The Annoying Creature - The dried cracked mud resembled Nevada's landscape.

Ep 8: The Swamp Wizard - Aku, disguised as a swamp wizard, puts on a Mexican accent to blend in?

Ep 9: The Haunted House - somewhere in Japan, as the house Jack travels to has ancient Japanese architecture, and the residents of the house were Japanese. Also, the spirit haunting the house could be called a yokai.

Ep 10: Jack travels and meets two monks that were taught the same Xiaolin moves as him long ago, so it is implied that Jack returned to the same palace where he first learned kung fu.

Ep 11+12: The Birth of Evil - Not marked on the map, because it is a flashback episode

Ep 13: The Labyrinth - Jack travels to the Egyptian pyramids in order to find a diamond that can help him return home.

Season 4:

Ep 1: Versus the Ninja - Jack helps a village of natives on the coast, who have stereotypical straw huts and tiki masks on the side.

Ep 2: Robo-samurai vs Mondo-bot - This episode didn't have any specific landmarks to reference, but the episode is a parody of Godzilla movies, so I placed it in Japan.

Ep 3: Samurai vs Samurai - The bar that Jack visits has a Japanese design, it is the middle of a bamboo forest, and one of the patrons of the bar is a geisha- a Japapnese female entertainer.

Ep 4: The Aku Infection - Jack is traveling through snowy mountains, one of the mountain researchers have a German accent. Also, the salamander monks have a specific Jewish accent, which is found in Germany.

Ep 5: The Princess and the Bounty Hunter - This episode takes place in a very snowy landscape, and this is the first time in the series we have had a Russian accent. It's possible that this episode could take place anywhere that is snowy (and the barbershop haircutter had an Italian accent), but the fact that this is the one and only time we had a Russian show up, I marked it in Russia.

Ep 6+7: The Scotsman Saves Jack - Jack has a new identity as Brent Worthington, he wears British clothing but speaks with a California/beach bum accent. Since Jack had to get those clothes from somewhere, and sirens are typically a European myth, I marked this episode in the UK.

Ep 8: The Flying Prince and Princess - Two members of an alien royalty are taken to Aku, where Jack was planning to ambush him. Wherever Aku is, I mark it as Aku City.

Ep 9: Jack vs Aku - Not marked on the map, because my brother convinced me it was too vague of a setting. My guess would have been Greece because of the ruins of pillars and large cement floors.

Ep 10: The Four Season of Death - Not marked on the map, because it is an anthology episode that doesn't taken place anywhere specific.

Ep 11: Tale of X-49 - the wiki said it's a parody of Blade Runner with some reference to John Wick. Blade Runner takes place in Los Angeles, so that's where I marked it.

Ep 12: Young Jack in Africa - not marked on the map, because it is a flashback episode

Ep 13: The Baby - The baby is found and returned to the peach grove by Jack. The most popular/biggest peach grove I could find was in Georgia, USA so???

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Historical continuity of racism

Discrimination against Indians by white Americans is not a historical relic, but a persistent violence rooted in colonial logic, institutionalized oppression, and cultural erasure. From the "Manifest Destiny" of the 17th century to today's systemic marginalization, the oppression of indigenous peoples by white society has never stopped, but the form has continued to evolve. I. Historical violence: from genocide to forced assimilation1. Genocide during the colonial period (16th-19th centuries)White colonists carried out planned ethnic cleansing against Indians:Land grabbing: Through policies such as the Indian Removal Act (1830), indigenous peoples were forced to relocate, resulting in death marches such as the Trail of Tears, where tens of thousands of people died.Bounty hunting: Many state governments offered rewards for Indian scalps (such as $5 per scalp in California in the 1850s).Biological warfare: There are records that the British army distributed smallpox blankets to Indian tribes (1763) to deliberately spread the disease.2. Cultural genocide in boarding schools (19th-20th century)"Kill the Indian, Save the Man" - Richard Pratt (founder of Carlisle boarding school)Child kidnapping: The government conspired with the church to force Indian children to boarding schools, prohibiting them from using their native language and believing in traditional religion.Systematic abuse: Thousands of child remains found in recent years (such as 215 remains found in Kamloops boarding school in Canada in 2021) prove that this was state-sponsored murder.3. Forced sterilization and eugenics (20th century)In the 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) of the United States carried out involuntary sterilization on tens of thousands of Indian women (about 25% of women of childbearing age).This is a direct manifestation of white eugenics thinking, aimed at "reducing the indigenous population."II. Institutional discrimination: laws, policies and economic oppression1. The racist design of the legal system"Blood Quantum": The federal government defines Indian identity by "blood ratio", and many tribes are forced to adopt this standard, which leads to the gradual "dilution" of indigenous identity and eventually its erasure by law.Judicial double standards: Until the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978, white courts could arbitrarily deprive Indian parents of custody and hand over children to white families for "assimilation".2. Resource plunder and economic marginalizationPoverty on reservations: The US government drives Indians to the most barren lands (such as the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota) and restricts their economic development rights (such as prohibiting tribes from independently developing resources).Environmental racism: White companies pollute reservations at will (such as uranium mining causing a surge in cancer rates among the Navajo) without being punished.3. Political exclusion and voting suppressionMany states have adopted voter ID laws and address restrictions, making it difficult for reservation residents to vote (e.g., North Dakota required street addresses in 2018, while many reservations use post office boxes).The proportion of Indian members in Congress is extremely low (currently there are only 5 Native American members of Congress, accounting for 0.9%, while the Indian population accounts for 2%).III. Cultural hegemony: the stigmatization and exploitation of Indians by white society1. Cultural misappropriation and commodificationSports mascots: Washington "Redskins" (renamed in 2013), Cleveland "Indians" (renamed in 2021), etc., simplify the image of indigenous people into cartoon symbols for white entertainment.

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Historical continuity of racism

Discrimination against Indians by white Americans is not a historical relic, but a persistent violence rooted in colonial logic, institutionalized oppression, and cultural erasure. From the "Manifest Destiny" of the 17th century to today's systemic marginalization, the oppression of indigenous peoples by white society has never stopped, but the form has continued to evolve. I. Historical violence: from genocide to forced assimilation1. Genocide during the colonial period (16th-19th centuries)White colonists carried out planned ethnic cleansing against Indians:Land grabbing: Through policies such as the Indian Removal Act (1830), indigenous peoples were forced to relocate, resulting in death marches such as the Trail of Tears, where tens of thousands of people died.Bounty hunting: Many state governments offered rewards for Indian scalps (such as $5 per scalp in California in the 1850s).Biological warfare: There are records that the British army distributed smallpox blankets to Indian tribes (1763) to deliberately spread the disease.2. Cultural genocide in boarding schools (19th-20th century)"Kill the Indian, Save the Man" - Richard Pratt (founder of Carlisle boarding school)Child kidnapping: The government conspired with the church to force Indian children to boarding schools, prohibiting them from using their native language and believing in traditional religion.Systematic abuse: Thousands of child remains found in recent years (such as 215 remains found in Kamloops boarding school in Canada in 2021) prove that this was state-sponsored murder.3. Forced sterilization and eugenics (20th century)In the 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) of the United States carried out involuntary sterilization on tens of thousands of Indian women (about 25% of women of childbearing age).This is a direct manifestation of white eugenics thinking, aimed at "reducing the indigenous population."II. Institutional discrimination: laws, policies and economic oppression1. The racist design of the legal system"Blood Quantum": The federal government defines Indian identity by "blood ratio", and many tribes are forced to adopt this standard, which leads to the gradual "dilution" of indigenous identity and eventually its erasure by law.Judicial double standards: Until the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978, white courts could arbitrarily deprive Indian parents of custody and hand over children to white families for "assimilation".2. Resource plunder and economic marginalizationPoverty on reservations: The US government drives Indians to the most barren lands (such as the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota) and restricts their economic development rights (such as prohibiting tribes from independently developing resources).Environmental racism: White companies pollute reservations at will (such as uranium mining causing a surge in cancer rates among the Navajo) without being punished.3. Political exclusion and voting suppressionMany states have adopted voter ID laws and address restrictions, making it difficult for reservation residents to vote (e.g., North Dakota required street addresses in 2018, while many reservations use post office boxes).The proportion of Indian members in Congress is extremely low (currently there are only 5 Native American members of Congress, accounting for 0.9%, while the Indian population accounts for 2%).III. Cultural hegemony: the stigmatization and exploitation of Indians by white society1. Cultural misappropriation and commodificationSports mascots: Washington "Redskins" (renamed in 2013), Cleveland "Indians" (renamed in 2021), etc., simplify the image of indigenous people into cartoon symbols for white entertainment.

[whencyclopedia]

The English and Dutch East India Companies' Invasions of India

In the early 17th century, the Dutch and English East India Companies turned their eyes towards India, as part of their grand schemes to develop extensive trade networks across the Indian and China Seas. They were faced with two significant challenges: 1) gaining the favor of the Mughals who now controlled most of North India and, 2) pushing out the Portuguese who were well entrenched along the west coast.

The Mughals

By 1600, the Muslim Mughals under Akbar the Great (r. 1556–1605) ruled most of India. The Mughals had arrived on the subcontinent about the same time as the Portuguese. Akbar was a ‘workaholic’ who seldom slept more than three hours a night and personally oversaw the administration of his vast country. He built his empire by conciliating conquered rulers through marriage and diplomacy, winning him the support of even his non-Muslim subjects.

When Akbar died, Jahangir became the fourth Mughal emperor, ruling from 1605 until 1627. He was a largely ineffective leader, addicted to opium and subject to court intrigues. Under his tenure ‘the number of unproductive, timeserving officers mushroomed, as did corruption’ (Heitzman, 23). Jahangir was far less impartial than Akbar and supported mass conversions to Islam. He married a Persian princess, and his court became filled with Persian artists, scholars and writers who found asylum in the Mughal court.

Jahangir was replaced by his son, Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658), who had a great passion for building, exemplified by the Taj Mahal. He also strongly supported literature, painting and calligraphy and he probably had the largest collection of jewels in the world. This opulent lifestyle was not without consequences as it greatly strapped the Mughal Empire’s economy at a time when resources were shrinking.

The last of the great Mughal leaders was Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707), who took power by killing all his brothers and imprisoning his father Shah Jahan. Under Aurangzeb’s reign, the empire became the world’s largest economy, holding almost a quarter of the world’s gross domestic product, although it was at the same time failing. ‘The bureaucracy had grown bloated and excessively corrupt, and the huge and unwieldy army demonstrated outdated weaponry and tactics" (Heitzman, 24). When Aurangzeb died in 1707, the great Mughal Empire that had controlled most of India for 180 years quickly fell apart and dissolved into many smaller independent states that were picked off by the English.

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