#Today political news

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Are the Communists Quietly Taking Over the Congress Party?

On Tuesday, 16 April 2024, security forces carried out a major anti-insurgency operation in Kanker district of Chattisgarh and successfully neutralized 29 dreaded naxalite terrorists including a top naxal commander, Shankar Rao according to today news in Hindi.

Understandably, people all over the district, state and country received the news with a sense of relief particularly because the neutralized naxal commander, Rao carried a bounty of Rs. 25 lakhs on his head — dead or alive.

Ideally, you would expect all political parties cutting across ideological barriers to express relief at such a major success for the security forces just before elections, won’t you? Well, that’s not what the country’s main opposition party, the Indian National Congress thinks.

Most Hindi news and other media outlets reported that the former Congress chief minister of Chattisgarh, Bhupesh Baghel had issued a kneejerk reaction to the incident by terming it as a “Fake encounter”. Later, he backtracked from his earlier remark and issued a congratulatory note for the security force personnel involved in the operation.

As if that was not enough, a national level spokesperson of the Congress party while briefing the media, referred to the eliminated naxal terrorists as “Martyrs” as per today news in Hindi. Who would call a naxal neutralized in an encounter with security forces, “Martyr”? Obviously, only fellow naxals.

Does that mean the Congress believes in the naxal ideology of violence and sabotage against the government? If not, then why has the Congress termed the neutralized naxal terrorists as “Martyrs”?

The Congress spokesperson did not stop there if you go by today news in Hindi and went on to demand a high level investigation of the incident as if to suggest that this was some kind of a fake encounter. This is not just disgraceful but also a sinister ploy to harm the unity and integrity of the country.

Many political observers are of the opinion that these days Congress has taken a sharp turn towards left wing politics, which is visible in the way their maverick leader Rahul Gandhi goes about doing his politics.

Some day he goes into a temple, another day he is seen in Muslim attire complete with the netted skull cap, praying with Muslims and the next day he vanishes out of the country meeting designer leftists in Europe and America. Here in India, he has hired controversial communists like Kanhaiya Kumar and Supriya Shrinate, the Congress spokesperson who honoured the neutralized naxals as “Martyrs”.

Although Rahul Gandhi is not the party president, he is the one who takes decisions about whatever his party is doing, say observers on today news in Hindi. There are some people in Congress who will not agree with the branding of neutralized naxals as “Martyrs” but that group is as helpless as the party’s official president today.

The Congress Party’s association with the communists in India date back to the days of the freedom struggle when many communists had infiltrated the Indian National Congress just as they are doing now. If you look at the way India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru spoke and took decisions, there is not much difference between him and his great grandson, Rahul Gandhi.

If the Congress continues to move toward the left with no check it won’t be long before it goes the naxal way and many of its members get caught up with real world sedition. That will further marginalize this party even in areas where it has a strong base with local leaders to drive it. The results of this general election will set the tone for what happens to the Indian National Congress.

[alex51324]

So, the NDA signed by producers of The Apprentice just expired, and one of them has published a tell-all article. Most of the article is about how they used standard reality-TV tricks to portray Trump as being wealthy and intelligent, when in reality he was, and is, a deeply indebted buffoon.

The money shot, however, comes when Trump and the producers are preparing for climax of the final episode, when the winner will be decided.

Per the FCC's rules for game shows, producers could not be involved in deciding who would be fired each week, or who would ultimately win: it had to be Trump's decision alone, like contestants and viewers were told it was. The producers could, and did, give him a presentation about the strengths and weaknesses of the contestants each time he had to make a decision. These were recorded, in case questions ever arose about whether the producers had crossed the line.

So, for the final episode, there were two contestants remaining. Both were men, one white, the other Black. They'd both done well in the final challenge of the competition. As the producers were summarizing the points for an against each candidate, this happened:

“Yeah,” he says to no one in particular, “but, I mean, would America buy a n— winning?” Kepcher’s pale skin goes bright red. I turn my gaze toward Trump. He continues to wince. He is serious, and he is adamant about not hiring Jackson.

In the finished program, Trump chose the white contestant as the winner.

(Four years later, Trump would propagate the baseless conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not a native-born US citizen and therefore had not legitimately won the presidency.)

The article also describes how women working on the production faced discrimination based on whether or not Trump wanted to look at them while they did their jobs:

While leering at a female camera assistant or assessing the physical attributes of a female contestant for whoever is listening, he orders a female camera operator off an elevator on which she is about to film him. “She’s too heavy,” I hear him say. Another female camera operator, who happens to have blond hair and blue eyes, draws from Trump comparisons to his own Ivanka Trump. “There’s a beautiful woman behind that camera,” he says toward a line of 10 different operators set up in the foyer of Trump Tower one day. “That’s all I want to look at.”

And there's a third anecdote where he pressures a woman producer to break the FCC rules, while being casually misogynistic toward a contestant:

Trump corners a female producer and asks her whom he should fire. She demurs, saying something about how one of the contestants blamed another for their team losing. Trump then raises his hands, cupping them to his chest: “You mean the one with the …?” He doesn’t know the contestant’s name. Trump eventually fires her.

This information is pretty unlikely to persuade anyone who wasn't already persuaded by any of the other things Trump has done and said, which would for anyone else be a career-defining scandal. But it is a useful reminder of who we're dealing with.

(Link is to Slate, an x-number-of-free-articles-a-month site, but the incognito window trick works.)

[mysharona1987]

Credit to Irish press for keeping it real, unlike everyone else.

[ourfandomcrazyuniverse]

Some good political news out there, in the UK, but for anyone who needs the slightest hint of positivity today

Source: BBC

[jediwizard]

seeing nov 5th trending five fucking days before the day itself is the pretty much the tumblr equivalent of hearing mariah carey's 'all I want for christmas' come on at the grocery store at exactly 12am on November 1st

[oh-sunny-sun]

― 一十三十一 | Girlfriend ―

今日の音楽の,聴き始めはこのアルバム♪

2023年7月28日 金曜日

"Hitomitoi | Girlfriend”

I started listening to today's music on this album.

Friday, July 28, 2023

[telugutimes04]

YCP MLC Candidates Finalised

Candidates have been announced for a total of 18 seats including 9 from the local body quota, 7 from the MLA quota and two seats from the governor's quota. The Chief Minister has laid emphasis on social justice. In this, Chief Minister Jagan decided by allocating 11 seats to BCs, 4 to OCs, 2 to SCs and one to STs. On this occasion, Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy said, YSRCP is committed to social justice. Ours is not a party that shouts slogans for votes.

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[telugutimesusa]

Another milestone in medical history

The late Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, who made 108 and 104 services available even to the remote villages, was the life-giver of the poor. YS got the credit of making ambulances come and wait wherever an accident happened, whenever someone got sick.As his son, Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy intensified the services of 108 and 104. Bike ambulances are being made available to go to the remote hilly areas where even 108 ambulances and feeder ambulances cannot go...

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[destielmemenews]

"Action movie star and former Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger threw his support on Wednesday behind Democratic candidate Kamala Harris for U.S. president, saying "I will always be an American before I am a Republican."

The "Terminator" star said he was offended by Republicans who refused to concede that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and the Republican nominee's remark that America was "like a garbage can for the rest of the world.""

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[scarletcarmensmith]

Q: What's your message to Joe Biden?

Union Worker: “F*ck you.”

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[heistcinema]

HEIST FILMS + dancing 💃🕺

Happy birthday, Robin! (@madeline-kahn)

[tmcphotoblog]

Kamala Harris knew Biden was unfit and led him to failure, now seizing his position. She's a ruthless, power-hungry individual willing to sacrifice America for her ambitions.

[mintjeru]

it probably wasn't the smartest decision to start an ongoing 1000+ chapter webnovel when i know it'll consume my every waking thought but here we are

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[useless-englandfacts]

i’m sure people who are spending £100 on a train journey that will inevitably be delayed or cancelled and £40 on a weekly food shop consisting of 3 items, who are stuck on an NHS waiting lists for years, who are living in tiny, mouldy hellholes that can’t be heated because energy bills are also extortionate, etc. etc. will be exceedingly grateful for this brave and bold move by the government. sooo glad they made this an immediate priority after being decimated in the elections on thursday. (x)

and this is right after the government decided that trans people should be treated in separate rooms in hospital because of course that’s affordable and practical for our totally-not-overstretched health service and it won’t be embarrassing and potentially dangerous for anyone involved