#Indian Autocracy

[once-in-a-blue-moon2021]

INDIA WOUNDED: A BIRD’S EYE VIEW

Compiled By Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay Posted on 12/02/2021 Updated on 01/11/2023 (GMT 15:45 hrs) “If thou cannot save me, why unfurl such deafening arrangements then?” Do you know what is Matsya Nyaya? The Sanskrit word Matsya Nyaya (Sanskrit: मत्स्यन्याय; mātsyanyāya) refers to the principle of the Law of Fish. It is the fundamental law of nature in which the big fish devours the smaller…

[kitty-lemon]

WTF IS GOING ON???!!!! IS THIS IT FOR US?? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NOW??

Man I hope this doesn't go through. Such a fucking dark day for our democracy....Never thought that we would be a country where the leader of the biggest opposition just got arrested like that....Ab kya?? Emergency? oou they fucked up bad..

THAT FUCKING AUTOCRAT M0D1 AND HIS P@RTY NEED TO GO AWAY AND NVER BE SEEN EVER AGAIN IDC I HAVE NO SYMPATHY

[futurefatum]

Important predictions for 2024-25 (Tone: 175)

Big shifts are coming in 2024! India enters Mars Mahadasha, with potential geopolitical changes & global tensions brewing. #Astrology #Predictions

Published January 13th, 2024 by @AbhigyaAnandAstrology Important predictions for 2024-25 | Analyze with Abhigya Anand ABOUT THIS VIDEO: The video by Abhigya Anand focuses on predictions for global and Indian geopolitics in 2024 and 2025, grounded in astrological analysis and historical cycles. Anand emphasizes that 2024 will be a significant turning point, especially for India, as it enters a…

[metamatar]

Yet private avarice, which Putin identified as central to public life in the West today, does not entirely explain the whitewashing of Modi or the greenwashing of Adani. Ideological delusion also plays a role. In the mainstream Western narrative shaped during the Cold War, India – with its regular elections – starred as a counterexample to many authoritarian and anti-Western countries. The tattered fable about Indian democracy is being urgently revamped as the Biden administration pursues its new Cold War against Chinese and Russian autocracy. Walter Russell Mead, a leading foreign policy commentator, argued in the Wall Street Journal in March that the US should pursue greater intimacy with Modi’s party since it ‘will be calling the shots in a country without whose help American efforts to balance rising Chinese power are likely to fall short’.

Pankaj Mishra in the The Big Con, London Review of Books

[smqazi]

WHY BLAME CHRISTIANS FOR CENTURY OLD GENOCIDE OF IRISH (CATHOLICS) BY THE BRITISH (PROTESTANTS), HINDUS FOR MORE THAN HUNDRED YEARS OF GENOCIDE OF MUSLIMS IN OCCUPIED INDIA, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO KASHMIR AND TERRORISM OF MUSLIM IN INDIA, AND JEWS FOR GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN OCCUPIED HOLY LAND (PALESTINE} SINCE 1948, AND STILL CONTINUING BY THE KILLING OF INNOCENT CHILDREN, HELPLESS WOMEN, AND OLD PEOPLE, WHO CANNOT WALK ON THEIR OWN? JUST THINK ABOUT IT, SERIOUSLY! GOD FORBID

August 2023:

About a month ago, a video emerged of an Indian teacher telling students to slap a 7-year-old classmate. The boy had gotten his multiplication tables wrong, but his real crime was being an Indian Muslim.

Since 1947, India used to be a secular democracy, but its current leader, Narendra Modi of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), advances a radically different vision. Modi wants India to become a Hindu nation, in which India’s religious minorities (about 20% of the population) are second-class citizens and Muslims especially (about 14% of Indians) are compelled to accept increasing majoritarian violence. 

Indeed, stories of terrorizing Indian Muslims have become depressingly common in Modi’s India, with human rights groups documenting rising violence with each passing year. International groups, such as Freedom House and V-Dem, consider India only “partly free” and an “electoral autocracy” owing to the sharp decline of human and civil rights.

4th of July, 2023 - Happy Independence Day to all Americans. On this day, I aim not to spoil your festivities but only draw your attention to something serious which is happening in the world since a decade after 9/11. Islam is actually a peaceful religion but some countries in the West are hell-bent on associating it with violence and terrorism. We should attach peace with all three Abrahamic religions and that's where this email which I received today is important to read. Please go through it yourself and any references of Christianity here are only meant to serve as examples:

Individuals, not religions, carry out inhuman activities. PERIOD!.

Islam is a religion of peace, accepted and practiced by more than 1.25 billion people worldwide. It is the fastest-growing religion in the world, and if it was what some critics claim, why should the people from all walks of life from around the world keep embracing Islam?

Where is the sword now?

In Islam, a person has the right to defend himself, his family, his country or his neighbor(s), which justifies the resistance being offered by the people of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq, Kashmir and Palestine, to attacks on their soils by the so-called liberators, who are actually the occupiers.

The Holy Qur’an clearly states that if a person saves one life, it’s as if he saved humanity, and if a person kills one human being, it’s as if he killed humanity.

What is happening in the enslaved Muslim countries is a natural reaction to occupation, bombings, killing and terrorizing of innocent civilians (children, old men and women), rapes, in addition to looting of resources, national antiques and artifacts, above all destruction of property by the occupiers.

Terror breeds terror.

We assure those who bash Islam that if there was no occupation in this world by foreign invaders, there would be no resistance – the so-called terror.

We would like those who criticize Islam to explain the following acts committed by the Christians on Jews, other Christians and Muslims alike, throughout history:

- Hundreds of thousands of Muslim men, women and children killed by the crusaders, who were Christians.

- Inquisition of Jews and Muslims from Spain by Queen Isabella, a Christian.

- Millions of people killed by the European and American Christians during the two world wars.

- Hundreds of thousands of Christians killed every year by the Irish Christians, including the British and the IRA, both Catholics and Protestants, during the past few centuries. Why are they not blamed to be “Christian Terrorists?”

Both of them believe in Jesus Christ, who told them to turn the other cheek, and both of them believe in the same Lord, Who commanded that “Thou shall not kill.” Period.

- Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, was a Catholic. Are all Catholics terrorists?

Last but not least, the bombings, killings, rapings and lynchings of both American Indians and black slaves (Afro-Americans) during the past 200 years in the United States.

What about them?

Will those filled with hate for Islam blame Christianity for the above inhuman acts by Christians in various parts of the world since its inception?

If not, then why are they blaming the religion of Islam for what is a natural reaction to occupation of Muslim countries by foreign invaders?

Most importantly, these folks should know that the three great Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – have one common basis, and that is one God Almighty.

“All men (and women) are created equal, and we all are one nation under Almighty God,” is a statement according to the Holy Qur’an and is very well elucidated in the U.S. Constitution.

Lastly, yet importantly, as brothers in humanity, we recommend those filled with hate get an education in the history of Islam and Muslims, before they dare to write nasty letters full of personal, ingrain hate and vendetta.

We would be pleased to provide anyone with free copies of the Holy Qur’an and Islamic literature in English, which would help them to understand the truth about Islam and Muslims and get rid of hate from their systems, God willing.

May God Almighty show you the light, Ameen.

[atomxmedia]

Indian Startups Raise Over $170 Million in Funding from June 24 to June 29, 2024

Between June 24 and June 29, 2024, 20 startups from a variety of industries raised over $170 million in funding, capping an incredible week for the Indian startup scene. This capital inflow demonstrates the wide spectrum of sectors drawing interest from investors, including Cleantech, Fintech, Sportstech, and Edtech.

Funding Overview

The period’s investment frenzy demonstrates the Indian startup scene’s strong growth and dynamic character. Notably, notable investments were made in industries like jewellery, sportstech, manufacturing, cleantech, D2C, fintech, artificial intelligence, fashion, and edtech, demonstrating the wide attraction of Indian entrepreneurs to investors.

Significant Investments

The largest individual investment of the week was made by Mumbai-based edtech unicorn upGrad, which raised $35 million in debt from EvolutionX to lead the funding rounds. Then came SaaS company Rocketlane, which was co-led by 8VC, Matrix Partners India, and Nexus Venture Partners and raised an undisclosed sum in a Series B fundraising round.

High-Value Deals

Several high-value deals were noted during this week:

Smartworks: The flexible workspace provider raised $20.24 million.

Zyod: The B2B fashion platform secured $18 million.

Rare Rabbit: The fashion startup also garnered $18 million.

Emerging Startups

Emerging startups made notable strides with smaller yet significant funding rounds:

DataChamps: This AI startup raised $500,000 in a seed round.

Machaxi: The sportstech startup secured $570,000 in a pre-Series A funding round.

Autocracy Machinery: The manufacturing startup raised $600,000 in a pre-Series A round.

Neo San: The cleantech startup secured $1.5 million in a seed round.

LXME and Plus Gold: Both fintech startups raised $1.2 million each.

O hi: The social network startup garnered $1 million in a pre-Series A round.

LetsDressUp: The fashiontech startup raised $1.31 million in a pre-Series A round.

Nitro Commerce: This revenue-as-a-service startup secured $1.8 million.

Morphing Machines: The semiconductor startup raised $2.76 million in a seed round.

Novavente: The consulting startup secured $3 million.

Two Brothers Organic Farms: The D2C startup raised $6.99 million in a Series A round.

Sid’s Farm and CloudPhysician: The D2C and AI healthcare startups raised $10 million and $10.5 million in Series A funding rounds, respectively.

Bluestone: The jewellery firm secured $11.9 million in debt.

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[gary232]

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@infamousrt1

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· Populism is a political phenomenon that has gained prominence in recent years. Let’s delve into what it entails: Definition of Populism: Populism is a political ideology that pits ordinary people against a perceived corrupt elite like communism did before the Russian and Chinese overthrow. It claims to represent the unified “will of the people” and often opposes the existing system of Capitalism, the most wealth-producing system. Populist leaders typically frame themselves as outsiders who will “drain the swamp” or challenge the “liberal. Well, the liberal elite were those who built the USA to where it is today, brought us through the Industrial Revolution, and are taking us through the informational and digital age and now through the age of AI, biotech, nanotech, and progress. This goes against the grain of religious dogma, prohibitions, and forced restrictions on the people and their liberal freedoms as individuals. Populists despise the present establishment – including political, economic, cultural, and media institutions – as a homogeneous entity that prioritizes its interests over those of “the people” but in which the people consume and have an appetite for, not the will of a Christian Nationalism, forced religious belief that differs from the tree of life. Still, the tree of knowledge, right keep them dumb! 2. Challenges and Risks: Populists often discredit formal institutions such as courts, regulatory agencies, intelligence services, and the press, undermining the foundations of liberal democracy, which will be freedom of the press, expression, global free trade, multiculturalism, and corporation of the world as a whole, collective problem solving of all countries input in one accord. The rise of populism jeopardizes democracies worldwide and wants to create a worldwide religious autocracy, theocracy. When populist leaders erode trust in institutions, democracy becomes hollowed out—sort of what Adolf Hitler did to Germany, Mussolini. It will be a religious fascism, a dark age for individual rights and expressing themselves as such. Mainstream political parties must address these challenges by reclaiming the rule of law, upholding democratic norms, and responding to voter concerns. 3. Appeal and Causes: Populist arguments resonate with people who feel that politicians are unresponsive, unaccountable, and corrupt, even though where a majority of the people elect them. Distrust in political parties and politicians fuels this appeal. Being gullible and passionate in their thoughts, the Failures of mainstream parties – both center-left and center-right – contribute to the rise of populism. Voters seek change from politics as usual, especially regarding issues like immigration, in which we are a nation of immigrants, even to the native Indians, free trade, which is the doctrine of Adam Smith, and technological advances, which they are afraid of, giving in the past, traditionalist. In summary, populism poses risks to democracies globally, and addressing its underlying causes requires political solutions. As we navigate these challenges, understanding the dynamics of populism becomes crucial. I

[naseemmohammedabdullah]

We see such instances all around us! Metaphorically speaking, Salman Khan can be compared to the National Democratic Alliance headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party(B.J.P.), Vivek Oberoi is the B.J.P., Abhishek Bachchan is the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance(I.N.D.I.A.), Aishwarya Rai is India and that sweet girl in the middle is the people of India!

If I was living in a country which is ranked 159th out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index, which I am, I would vote against the government which is known all over the world for being a democratically elected autocracy! But I wouldn't reveal this to anyone, not even if my arm was twisted 360°! Why?! Because I don't want to be lynched! And there are millions of voters like me in India!

So here are the results of my #ExitPolls: B.J.P. will emerge as the largest party! But its alliance will be short of a majority! Horse-trading will ensue! I.N.D.I.A. won't disintegrate! B.J.P. will sit in the opposition!

"The higher they are, the harder they fall"!

[generallemarc]

A few interesting facts to note:

Unlike every other election since '92, the Libertarians were not the best-performing third party, actually coming in 5th place, with the Greens taking third. This is absolutely because of RFK, since if you were to combine his vote tally with the Libertarians' they'd be nearly double that of the Greens.

The parties of all the minor candidates not among the big three(RFK, the Libertarians, and the Greens, are as follows):

Cornel West: Independent, running on some kind of libertarian socialist platform with a focus on how everything is racist or whatever.

Joel Skoussen: Constitution Party. If the Greens are the party of morons who got rejected from the Democrats for being too far left and too retarded about supporting Russia, China and every other autocracy they can find, then the Constitution Party is the party of morons who got rejected from the Republicans for being too far right and too retarded about wanting to go full isolationist and pull out of every treaty we're in and also abolish basically the entire government based on incredible feats of logic like "the Federal Aviation Administration wasn't specifically mentioned in the Constitution, therefore it is unconstitutional and must be abolished." These are the guys who actually would implement Project 2025.

Richard Duncan: Perennial candidate(meaning a candidate who runs in every election despite not having any meaningful support), independent, running to oppose the two-party system. Only on the ballot in Ohio.

Shiva Ayyadurai: Conspiracy theorist who believed that covid was being intentionally spread by the government and that vitamins could cure it. Claimed to have invented the idea of email in the 80s. Ineligible to actually become president due to not being a natural-born American citizen. His Wikipedia page spends an inordinate amount of time trying to convince the reader that this Indian man born in Mumbai is a white supremacist.

Claudia De La Cruz: Party for Socialism and Liberation. Ran on a platform of cutting military spending by 90%, paying reparations for slavery to people never affected by it using money that could have gone to poverty relief for all races instead of just one, nationalizing the 100 largest companies in America, and other commie bullshit. Her party is a member of the International Peoples' Assembly, which has held meetings in Venezuela and Cuba and is generally filled with rabid supporters of every far-left and anti-Western autocracy on the planet. Only candidate on this list whose platform was basically "I will end representative democracy in this country", unless you count the Constitution Party's plans as promising that by way of deliberately tearing down so much of the government that the country falls apart, at which point there is no representative democracy in the country because there is no country at all.

Mattie Preston: Independent. Pastor running on a platform that's both based in religion(she spoke in an interview about God's love for everyone, including the unsaved and demographics that are stereotyped as being "rejected" by Christians such as gay people) but not in a "make the Bible law" kind of way. Non-partisanship was a part of her campaign, with her declaring "God is not a Democrat; He's not a Republican." Wanted to close the border until the immigration system could be fixed up enough to properly vet all incoming immigrants. Ballotpedia lists her as running for the "Godliness, Truh, Justice" party, but since I can't find any information on that alleged organization anywhere else it's likely that it's nothing more than a name to put after hers on the ballot.

Michael Wood: Prohibition Party. This group has actually changed over the past few elections, taking a more moderate stance on issues like abortion(they say it ought to be left up to the states and do not support a nationwide ban) and immigration(supporting stricter standards but not calling for a border closure and speaking positively of immigrants as a whole). They have even dropped their long-held goal of bringing back the 18th Amendment wholesale and banning all alcohol nationwide. That said, they're still quite nutty on the issue of alcohol and drugs. They want a nationwide ban on all recreational drugs, marijuana included, as well as a nationwide ban on all tobacco products and vaping. While they no longer seek to apply this to alcohol, they do seek a ban on alcohol advertising "similar to that on tobacco advertising", which basically means none whatsoever, stricter controls on the licensing of "alcohol outlets"(so stores and bars), and a presumably large increase in the excise tax on alcohol, which while not stated directly is definitely for the purpose of discouraging its purchase by making it too expensive.

Peter Sonski: American Solidarity Party. A syncretic party that is center-left on fiscal issues(so basically the current administration) while mostly right-wing on cultural issues, but due to being a Christian-democratic party in the European style they support what is known as the "consistent life ethic", that being opposition to all forms of state-sponsored death, namely abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty, the latter of which they believe should be abolished.

Best-Performing Third-Party candidate by county in the 2024 Presidential Election

[drmaqazi]

Dear All, GREETINGS!

QUESTION?

How come all so-called Non-Muslims are attacking ISLAM day and night for reasons best known to them?

Some of these people are IGNORANT, and don't know anything about their own Religion or practice it either, but all of a sudden, they are experts on ISLAM. Please explain it to me, HOW?

THANKS!

I am a SENIOR CITIZEN by the Grace of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala(God Almighty), I have started my 85th Happy Birthday on October 1, 2023, and hope and pray that many more will come, In shaa Allah! 

All Praises are due to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala (God Almighty), ALONE, Who made me what I am, and Who Gave me what I have. Al-Hamdo lillahi Rabb-il 'aalameen.

Attached herewith is an article, WHY BLAME CHRISTIANS, HINDUS AND JEWS FOR GENOCIDE, for your information, kind consideration and perusal. 

Thanking you in anticipation and hoping to hear  from again, soon,

Sincerely,

Your brother in Humanity at Large, from One Man (Adam) One Woman (Eve), whether you beleve it or not. By the way, some of them believe in Darwin's Theory, which, I, as a Muslim do not, because it is still a theory. 

I am SORRY to say that all those people who believe in DARWIN may be from MONKEYS, but I am not. Thank God Almighty, Who made me a human being (Insan) and a Muslim. All Praises are due to God Almighty, ALONE!

______________ ______________________________________

WHY BLAME CHRISTIANS FOR CENTURY OLD GENOCIDE OF IRISH (CATHOLICS) BY THE BRITISH (PROTESTANTS), HINDUS FOR MORE THAN HUNDRED YEARS OF GENOCIDE OF MUSLIMS IN OCCUPIED INDIA, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO KASHMIR AND TERRORISM OF MUSLIM IN INDIA, AND JEWS FOR GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN OCCUPIED HOLY LAND (PALESTINE} SINCE 1948, AND STILL CONTINUING BY THE KILLING OF INNOCENT CHILDREN, HELPLESS WOMEN, AND OLD PEOPLE, WHO CANNOT WALK ON THEIR OWN? 

JUST THINK ABOUT IT, SERIOUSLY! GOD FORBID

August 2023:

About a month ago, a video emerged of an Indian teacher telling students to slap a 7-year-old classmate. The boy had gotten his multiplication tables wrong, but his real crime was being an Indian Muslim.

Since 1947, India used to be a secular democracy, but its current leader, Narendra Modi of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), advances a radically different vision. Modi wants India to become a Hindu nation, in which India’s religious minorities (about 20% of the population) are second-class citizens and Muslims especially (about 14% of Indians) are compelled to accept increasing majoritarian violence. 

Indeed, stories of terrorizing Indian Muslims have become depressingly common in Modi’s India, with human rights groups documenting rising violence with each passing year. International groups, such as Freedom House and V-Dem, consider India only “partly free” and an “electoral autocracy” owing to the sharp decline of human and civil rights.

4th of July, 2023 - Happy Independence Day to all Americans. On this day, I aim not to spoil your festivities but only draw your attention to something serious which is happening in the world since a decade after 9/11. Islam is actually a peaceful religion but some countries in the West are hell-bent on associating it with violence and terrorism. We should attach peace with all three Abrahamic religions and that's where this email which I received today is important to read. Please go through it yourself and any references of Christianity here are only meant to serve as examples:

Individuals, not religions, carry out inhuman activities. PERIOD!.

Islam is a religion of peace, accepted and practiced by more than 1.25 billion people worldwide. It is the fastest-growing religion in the world, and if it was what some critics claim, why should the people from all walks of life from around the world keep embracing Islam?

Where is the sword now?

In Islam, a person has the right to defend himself, his family, his country or his neighbor(s), which justifies the resistance being offered by the people of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq, Kashmir and Palestine, to attacks on their soils by the so-called liberators, who are actually the occupiers.

The Holy Qur’an clearly states that if a person saves one life, it’s as if he saved humanity, and if a person kills one human being, it’s as if he killed humanity.

What is happening in the enslaved Muslim countries is a natural reaction to occupation, bombings, killing and terrorizing of innocent civilians (children, old men and women), rapes, in addition to looting of resources, national antiques and artifacts, above all destruction of property by the occupiers.

Terror breeds terror.

We assure those who bash Islam that if there was no occupation in this world by foreign invaders, there would be no resistance – the so-called terror.

We would like those who criticize Islam to explain the following acts committed by the Christians on Jews, other Christians and Muslims alike, throughout history:

- Hundreds of thousands of Muslim men, women and children killed by the crusaders, who were Christians.

- Inquisition of Jews and Muslims from Spain by Queen Isabella, a Christian.

- Millions of people killed by the European and American Christians during the two world wars.

- Hundreds of thousands of Christians killed every year by the Irish Christians, including the British and the IRA, both Catholics and Protestants, during the past few centuries. Why are they not blamed to be “Christian Terrorists?”

Both of them believe in Jesus Christ, who told them to turn the other cheek, and both of them believe in the same Lord, Who commanded that “Thou shall not kill.” Period.

- Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, was a Catholic. Are all Catholics terrorists?

Last but not least, the bombings, killings, rapings and lynchings of both American Indians and black slaves (Afro-Americans) during the past 200 years in the United States.

What about them?

Will those filled with hate for Islam blame Christianity for the above inhuman acts by Christians in various parts of the world since its inception?

If not, then why are they blaming the religion of Islam for what is a natural reaction to occupation of Muslim countries by foreign invaders?

Most importantly, these folks should know that the three great Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – have one common basis, and that is one (1) God Almighty, ALONE!

“All men (and women) are created equal, and we all are one nation under Almighty God,” is a statement according to the Holy Qur’an and is very well elucidated in the U.S. Constitution.

Lastly, yet importantly, as brothers in humanity, we recommend those filled with hate get an education in the history of Islam and Muslims, before they dare to write nasty letters full of personal, ingrain hate and vendetta.

We would be pleased to provide anyone with free copies of the Holy Qur’an and Islamic literature in English, FREE OF COST INCLUDING SHIPPING AND PACKING CHARGES TO ANY PLACE IN THE WORLD, which would help them to understand the truth about Islam and Muslims and get rid of hate from their systems, God willing.

May God Almighty show you the light and guide you to the straight path to Islam, Amen.

______________ _______________________

WHY BLAME CHRISTIANS FOR CENTURY OLD GENOCIDE OF IRISH (CATHOLICS) BY THE BRITISH (PROTESTANTS), HINDUS FOR MORE THAN HUNDRED YEARS OF GENOCIDE OF MUSLIMS IN OCCUPIED INDIA, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO KASHMIR AND TERRORISM OF MUSLIM IN INDIA, AND JEWS FOR GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN OCCUPIED HOLY LAND (PALESTINE} SINCE 1948, AND STILL CONTINUING BY THE KILLING OF INNOCENT CHILDREN, HELPLESS WOMEN, AND OLD PEOPLE, WHO CANNOT WALK ON THEIR OWN? 

JUST THINK ABOUT IT, SERIOUSLY! GOD FORBID

August 2023:

About a month ago, a video emerged of an Indian teacher telling students to slap a 7-year-old classmate. The boy had gotten his multiplication tables wrong, but his real crime was being an Indian Muslim.

Since 1947, India used to be a secular democracy, but its current leader, Narendra Modi of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), advances a radically different vision. Modi wants India to become a Hindu nation, in which India’s religious minorities (about 20% of the population) are second-class citizens and Muslims especially (about 14% of Indians) are compelled to accept increasing majoritarian violence. 

Indeed, stories of terrorizing Indian Muslims have become depressingly common in Modi’s India, with human rights groups documenting rising violence with each passing year. International groups, such as Freedom House and V-Dem, consider India only “partly free” and an “electoral autocracy” owing to the sharp decline of human and civil rights.

4th of July, 2023 - Happy Independence Day to all Americans. On this day, I aim not to spoil your festivities but only draw your attention to something serious which is happening in the world since a decade after 9/11. Islam is actually a peaceful religion but some countries in the West are hell-bent on associating it with violence and terrorism. We should attach peace with all three Abrahamic religions and that's where this email which I received today is important to read. Please go through it yourself and any references of Christianity here are only meant to serve as examples:

Individuals, not religions, carry out inhuman activities. PERIOD!.

Islam is a religion of peace, accepted and practiced by more than 1.25 billion people worldwide. It is the fastest-growing religion in the world, and if it was what some critics claim, why should the people from all walks of life from around the world keep embracing Islam?

Where is the sword now?

In Islam, a person has the right to defend himself, his family, his country or his neighbor(s), which justifies the resistance being offered by the people of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq, Kashmir and Palestine, to attacks on their soils by the so-called liberators, who are actually the occupiers.

The Holy Qur’an clearly states that if a person saves one life, it’s as if he saved humanity, and if a person kills one human being, it’s as if he killed humanity.

What is happening in the enslaved Muslim countries is a natural reaction to occupation, bombings, killing and terrorizing of innocent civilians (children, old men and women), rapes, in addition to looting of resources, national antiques and artifacts, above all destruction of property by the occupiers.

Terror breeds terror.

We assure those who bash Islam that if there was no occupation in this world by foreign invaders, there would be no resistance – the so-called terror.

We would like those who criticize Islam to explain the following acts committed by the Christians on Jews, other Christians and Muslims alike, throughout history:

- Hundreds of thousands of Muslim men, women and children killed by the crusaders, who were Christians.

- Inquisition of Jews and Muslims from Spain by Queen Isabella, a Christian.

- Millions of people killed by the European and American Christians during the two world wars.

- Hundreds of thousands of Christians killed every year by the Irish Christians, including the British and the IRA, both Catholics and Protestants, during the past few centuries. Why are they not blamed to be “Christian Terrorists?”

Both of them believe in Jesus Christ, who told them to turn the other cheek, and both of them believe in the same Lord, Who commanded that “Thou shall not kill.” Period.

- Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, was a Catholic. Are all Catholics terrorists?

Last but not least, the bombings, killings, rapings and lynchings of both American Indians and black slaves (Afro-Americans) during the past 200 years in the United States.

What about them?

Will those filled with hate for Islam blame Christianity for the above inhuman acts by Christians in various parts of the world since its inception?

If not, then why are they blaming the religion of Islam for what is a natural reaction to occupation of Muslim countries by foreign invaders?

Most importantly, these folks should know that the three great Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – have one common basis, and that is one (1) God Almighty, ALONE!

“All men (and women) are created equal, and we all are one nation under Almighty God,” is a statement according to the Holy Qur’an and is very well elucidated in the U.S. Constitution.

Lastly, yet importantly, as brothers in humanity, we recommend those filled with hate get an education in the history of Islam and Muslims, before they dare to write nasty letters full of personal, ingrain hate and vendetta.

We would be pleased to provide anyone with free copies of the Holy Qur’an and Islamic literature in English, FREE OF COST, INCLUDING SHIPPING CHARGES TO ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD, which would help them to understand the truth about Islam and Muslims and get rid of hate from their systems, God willing.

May God Almighty show you the light and guide you to the straight path to Islam, Amen.

[xtruss]

Is The India-US Honeymoon Coming To An End Soon?

— S.L. Kanthan | December 17, 2023

Illustration: Chen Xia/Global Times

There has been serious trouble brewing in the geopolitical paradise of the convenient but strategic alignment between India and the US. According to Indian media citing government sources, US President Joe Biden would not travel to India for the Republic Day parade in January. This diplomatic snub, aimed at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India as a whole, is indicative of a significant shift in US-India relations, and the consequences could be far-reaching.

To understand the bigger picture, recent events must be analyzed as the culmination of numerous unfriendly American actions toward India. These are startling, given the deep economic links and the "shared democratic values."

Theoretically, Americans should be extremely happy about their relations with India. Consider these three outcomes:

First, brain drain: America is able to lure the smartest engineers from India.

Second, huge market: America enjoys a virtual monopoly in key sectors - social media, e-commerce, financial technology and more - in the rapidly growing Indian economy, which is projected to surpass Japan and Germany by 2030.

Third, narrative control: The No.1 English TV channel in India is CNN, and almost all the influential think tanks in India are pro-US. Regarding China, the Washington consensus permeates the mainstream narrative in India.

However, it seems the US is still displeased.

This year witnessed India and the West becoming entangled in multiple disputes. Firstly, there was a BBC documentary that re-examined the 2002 Muslim-Hindu conflict in Gujarat, which occurred when Modi was the chief minister of the state. Then came a classic Western attack using separatists. Canada - a member of the Five Eyes - accused the Indian government of orchestrating the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Canada. This was followed by an indictment in the US, which alleges that an Indian government official conspired in a murder-for-hire plot targeting Sikh separatists in the US.

Note that true allies never worry about America harboring dissidents - say, French Canadian separatists or Basque separatists from Spain. Only when a country is targeted for destabilization would the US government discover violations of human rights and freedom. China understands these subversion tactics, thanks to what the US has done on the Island of Taiwan and in Xizang, as well as Hong Kong and Xinjiang.

More revealingly, Western media have been crying crocodile tears about democracy in India since “Fascist, Hindu Extremist, Killer and Criminal Modi” came to power. Here are some sensational headlines:

"Modi's India is Where Global Democracy Dies" (New York Times)

"Modi's Personality Cult has Replaced India's Democracy" (Foreign Policy)

"India's Authoritarian Streak" (Foreign Affairs, a Publication of the Extremely Powerful Council on Foreign Relations)

"'Electoral Autocracy': The Downgrading of India's Democracy" (BBC)

It's very hard to please the US establishment, which demands total allegiance and submission from all its "allies."

First, India cherishes its friendship with Russia, a unique and strategic partner. India's refusal to ostracize Putin since the Ukraine war has irked the Biden administration, which foolishly hoped to devastate the Russian economy with sanctions.

Second, US corporate overlords have been extremely disappointed with India's progress in replacing China as the manufacturing powerhouse. Offshoring has been a very slow process, since India's manufacturing capability is 20 years behind China. For example, about 10 percent of iPhones are being assembled in India now, while many components are imported from China.

Finally, India's support for BRICS expansion and a multipolar world has made many Americans have doubts as to whether India is a reliable partner.

US elites are trapped in an echo chamber where they tell one another that America is the greatest country, its unipolar hegemony will last forever and China's collapse is imminent. Astoundingly, these people are unaware of the emerging multipolar world, the game-changing expansion of BRICS, the Global South's new paradigm of trade and development, the coming tsunami of de-dollarization, utter failures of US trade and tech wars against China, and Russia's victory against the US and NATO in Ukraine.

Given such a tragic state of affairs, it's very likely that the US will ratchet up the pressure on India, punishing it for its strategic autonomy. If the honeymoon turns into a nightmare, I hope India will seek rapprochement with China, a neighboring ancient civilization. Ironically, the US might end up as the Western empire that made significant contributions to the rise of the Asian century.

— The Author is a Geopolitical Analyst, Columnist, Blogger, Podcaster, and Writer based out of Bangalore, India.

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The country is home to just over 0.1% of the world’s people and produces only 0.5% of its gdp, but it contains nearly 10% of the world’s oil reserves, and this wealth helps it punch above its weight. Like many emerging countries today, it straddles political and economic divisions. It is a closed autocracy, yet one of the world’s most open economies. It is a close ally of America, but its biggest trading partner is China. Although its gdp per person exceeds that of Britain or France, it is often seen as part of the global south and is a hub for Indian and African businesses, making it the Singapore of the Middle East. And in 2020 it was one of the first Gulf countries to normalise relations with Israel.

How to thrive in a fractured world

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tangentially this is part of the reason why the Yes Man/Independent storyline fails on some level for me.

The only way to move forward in the story is through taking up House's mantle as self-appointed autocrat. nevermind that to vegas’ people, his robot army would be a symbol of occupation & collaboration with occupiers.

side note: cut content shows NCR soldiers gunning down people desperate for water at camp golf. the NCR is occupying vegas at gunpoint & exporting its resources. nevermind the poolside gardens of the strip casinos are merely hundreds of meters from the poverty outside the walls. the NCR are not ‘good guys’, even if they look good next to the legion or the depraved autocracy of house.

if you've ever destroyed the Securitron Army during an Independent run, you know the game only has a weird sense of spite for your choice. the ending slides directly state that the ‘rioting’ that begins as the NCR retreats leads to more deaths without the robot police force.

i posit that this is patently fucking stupid. an army of living weapons can only make a situation like that *more dangerous*. cops have never made a bad situation better, at least in my experience. (imagine robo cops in their place!) i want to see vegas’ people express their own agency, but the narrative game has almost nothing for us in that regard.

also, in a world of complete lawlessness like fallout, an arsenal like the securitron army is too dangerous to be allowed to exist. what happens after the courier? who gets to control the robot army? the power fantasy of new vegas is just that: power fantasy. juvenile. irresponsible. unserious. if u take it seriously, it sucks.

(extra side note: the courier i played was supposed to be almost rabidly anti-technology. this is why my PC was motivated to destroy house at all costs, up to collaborating with then eventually betraying the legion & NCR. double agent runs of F:NV are so satisfying in that respect, & its a credit to the writers & creators of the gameworld.)

at the end of the day new vegas is probably the best in the franchise. it’s a wonderfully written narrative that cares about the setting & explores the world with a careful, measured, & serious attitude. obsodian is owed full credit in that regard.

but i do think the writers betray their liberalism within their carefully constructed narrative(s). there are blind spots & gaps in the writing, especially if you look at the DLC & the presence of so called ‘tribal’ groups. it is pure racism, simply put. to evoke indians & pre colonial peoples for a story such as that is lame. HH is irredeemable in this respect. pure chauvinism. it sucks. sorry joshua s. that shit was pure wank.

(not even going to start on the legion, their empire which is in the heartland of the dene/‘navajo’ nation, as well as many other indian nations). this was a big failure of new vegas, more than i can explicate now. indigenous peoples do not exist in fallout [the burned man is still compelling, thx for developing him, i do truly appreciate that aspect of HH])

anyways! that’s my rant about fallout everyone!!! thanks to the 1 person who actually read this. i hate life & i fear the nuclear apocalypse

love ya!

I feel like people would appreciate Mr. House a lot more than they do and think he’s a lot cooler than they do (conceptually speaking!) if they realized that he’s not just some kind of bad joke about an immortal capitalism daddy, but is actually and very explicitly a lich but with technology as his sorcery, and as such is a very literal and corporeal preservation of the old world—even Vegas itself is kept intact, a marvelous domain as undead as he himself is and piloted by an army of zombie Securitrons that are slaves to and inseparable from his magic (with the exception of Yes Man, his potential downfall). Contrast this with the NCR and Caesar’s Legion, who exist as merely self-aware successors and ideological tributes instead of the actual old world itself uninterrupted.

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April 5th 2023

I watched the motion of ant on the floor. It was moving in slow locomotive aesthetics. My mind became stuck to the floor as aesthetic music. I watched an advert in Facebook about the law of attraction and it said: most people don’t manifest as their vibrations don’t match with the frequency of the universe. And the ad further encouraged the users to buy a 20 word script that will make manifestation come true. These sites are littered with conmen who are out to make a fast buck. I also wonder if the universe was manifesting well with them, why do they need to sell it to others. I feel sad as Indian democracy is going to the dogs. A prominent politician of the opposition party was who dissented the government got disqualified and has to face a jail verdict of 2 years. The government of Indian democracy is ruled by powers that shun all democratic norms and rule with the whip of autocracy. Yes dissent is a part of democracy and it should be allowed so that a democracy can run smooth. I wonder what God’s will in my life is. I am sorry that I have questioned the credentials of God. Every day in my journal, I write my affirmations with the name of God in Hebrew and Greek. Journal writing is a passion for me. Every ordinary experience becomes an art for me. I am an avid watcher of dawn and dusk and I admire the way colors are painted in the sky. My thought is becoming a Van Gogh of art. I love Van Gogh and his impressionistic ecstasy. A poet paints words and a painter paints images.  Art is the highest point of development of the human spirit. Art galleries are the museum of the mind. I don’t know where my writing is taking me, but I am flowing with it as a brook of music I don’t know what philosophy that I should take up in life. I am so fond of Don Quixote the character created by Cervantes. For many generations he was romantically mad.  I can see him only through the lens of triumphant individuality. Quixote is the archetype of triumph amidst all adversities of life. I also think of the painter Gauguin who left his wife and secure job and went to Tahiti in search of art. Truly it needs courage to take art as a vocation. I also think of Mother Mary who surrendered her individuality for begetting Christ. She is the highest embodiment of the essence of the sacred feminine. My letters are gulping meaning with the freedom of liberty. I wonder why rock groups who promote Satanism are highly successful.  I wonder why God did not eliminate evil so that man will be free of sin. After all we are people who cannot question the sovereign will of God. The stars in the night are twinkling buttons. As long as we have wants and desires we cannot be completely free. We are limited with a human body. The ears as music are sensitive, tender and fragile. I have boozed and doped and I scorn people who are campaigners against it. Governments should legalize marihuana.