#no this is not in support of mass planned migration from India

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There's this post going around about dropping a google maps pin on India and if you see garbage you lose and yes, you will just about always lose (nine out of ten for me) however, I did the same shit in the US and got the same result.

Now I will say the worst spot I landed in India was worse than the worst spot I landed in the US and that over all the paved areas in the US were cleaner, but the dirt road I saw in the US was worse than any of those I saw in India.

I also did Canada and didn't find a single trashless spot in ten, but also found it was the cleanest overall as almost every place had only one to three pieces.

In conclusion everybody sucks everywhere and we all need to clean up our acts to one extent or another.

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Kamala Harris' Rise to Prominence and

Political Vision

Background and Achievements

Kamala Harris is the current Vice President of the United States, making history as the first woman, first Black American, and first South Asian American to hold the position. Her rise to prominence is marked by a series of notable achievements throughout her career in public service.

Harris was born in Oakland, California, to immigrant parents from India and Jamaica. After earning her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, she began her career as a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. She later served as the District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011, and as the Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017.

In 2016, Harris was elected to the United States Senate, becoming the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the Senate. During her tenure, she gained recognition for her work on issues such as healthcare reform, immigration reform, and criminal justice reform.

Political Vision and Proposed Policies

Kamala Harris' political vision revolves around promoting equality, justice, and opportunity for all Americans. Her proposed policies aim to address various critical issues facing the nation, including:

Women's Rights: Harris has been a vocal advocate for protecting and advancing women's rights, including reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. She has pledged to fight against any efforts to roll back progress made in these areas.

Healthcare Reform: Harris has supported efforts to expand access to affordable healthcare, including protecting and strengthening the Affordable Care Act (ACA). She has also proposed measures to lower prescription drug costs and improve mental health services.

Climate Change: Harris recognizes the urgent need to address climate change and has proposed a comprehensive plan to transition the United States to a clean energy economy, including investing in renewable energy sources and promoting sustainable practices.

Immigration Reform: Harris supports comprehensive immigration reform that provides a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and addresses the root causes of migration, such as violence, poverty, and corruption in countries of origin.

Criminal Justice Reform: As a former prosecutor, Harris has advocated for reforms to the criminal justice system, including addressing racial disparities, reducing mass incarceration, and promoting rehabilitation and re-entry programs for formerly incarcerated individuals.

Potential Impact and Challenges

Kamala Harris' political vision and proposed policies have the potential to shape a more equitable and inclusive future for the United States. However, she may face significant challenges in implementing her agenda, particularly in a divided political landscape.

One of the key challenges Harris may face is navigating the complex relationship between the executive and legislative branches of government. Enacting significant policy changes often requires cooperation and compromise across party lines, which can be difficult to achieve in a polarized political environment.

Additionally, Harris' progressive policies may face opposition from more conservative factions who prioritize traditional values or have different economic and social priorities. Overcoming ideological divisions and building consensus on contentious issues will be crucial for the success of her agenda.

Despite these challenges, Harris' experience, determination, and commitment to her principles position her as a formidable figure in shaping the future direction of the United States. Her ability to inspire and unite diverse constituencies, coupled with her pragmatic approach to policymaking, could prove invaluable in navigating the complexities of the American political landscape.

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The Palestinian Refugee Problem Explained (Nakba and the false Arab narrative) - 4th Nov 2023

Arabs from Palestinia supported Nazi during WWII. They lost and the British created Israel and Jordan out of Palestinia. Arabs refused to share the land. Britain gave the problem to the UN and the UN created a map of Arab and Jewish Israel.

Nakba started because the Arabs didn't want the Jews to live in Israel. 5 Arab nations attacked the Jews and the war went on for nearly 2 years. Israel won.

Despite all attempts by Israel to live in peace, Arabs have rejects all plans to share the land and they want ALL of Palestinia to themselves. They do not wish the Jews to live at all and hence keep rejecting the idea of shared land.

There have been many partitions since WWII. Many new nations have came about between WWII & now - eg India, Pakistan, 2 Koreas, several nations in Africa, many Balkan nations absorbed and re-emerged from USSR. Many mass migrations have happened. Many have died. But, all new nations have come to terms with the ground reality and now live in peace with their neighbours.

Unfortunately, Palestinians do not seem to want to accept ground realities or live in peace with their neighbours - Israel, Jordan, Egypt or Lebanon. They wish to fight and reverse time before WWII. Not only is this not possible, it makes for an unhappy future for their own people.

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INDIA’S MOST GLORIOUS ANCIENT TO MODERN EMPIRES IN HISTORY !

SURPRISE SURPRISE.....INDIAN RULE AROUND THE WORLD, IN HISTORY (THAT YOU WERE NEVER TAUGHT!) . Was surprised to learn of atleast 3 invading Indian empires in Indian history, that somehow mysteriously, or should we say conspiratorially, skipped the attention of our official history-keepers, who didn't find it fit to even find token mention in our textbooks. Perhaps to align with their plan of rechristening India as a land of nobody & nothing, till invaded by the Aryans, Afghans, Arabs & Mughals. Even when detailed scientific genetic evidence, establish India as the 2nd oldest most ancient civilization in history, existing & prospering as a organized civilization since past 65,000 yrs, when migrated from the first known land of human existence, Africa! The richest land on earth, right upto the 13th c, at most conservative estimates! Here's scholar & historian Abhijit Chavda, merely eludicating on the facts that are widely present in many historical records of the time, if only one cared to labour & read them, & then benevolently divulge them to the masses, as we're doing here. The great KUSHAN EMPIRE, from ~100 BCE- 300 AD, heralded by arguably India's greatest ever ruler, Kanishka The Great, & his equally famous grandson Vasudeva, are known to've expanded their empires, right upto a little beyond Iran in the West, & into Xingiang region of China in the East. Similarly, the longest running empire in history, the CHOLA EMPIRE of South India, that ruled from ~ 300 BCE - 1300 AD, are recorded as having conquered atleasat 9 nations in SE Asia, most of the nations of SE Asia we know of today still bearing the influence of their Chola heritage till today, incl it's naval prominence in the China Sea then, that later in 20th c came to be called the South China Sea by Brits. As also, as an eg of a single Empire lording over the entire India, ala today's central Govts, was the MAURYAN EMPIRE, from ~300 BCE to 100 BCE. Quite a contrast to the only single image of a India comprising many five hundred very small kingdoms at time of Brit invasion & till independence. Not to take aggressive motivation therefrom, yet to learn of & pride in, our glorious energetic vibrant truly extraordinarily rich past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxlYf4zWuQE

INDIA'S 6 GREATEST EMPIRES ! - In our last History blog (above), we'd spoken of 3 of: INDIA'S TOP 5 GREATEST EMPIRES, IN ALL RECORDED HISTORY ! 1. Earliest being, THE KUSHAN EMPIRE, which overlorded the Indian region for ~200 yrs from ~300BCE - ~100BCE & their Greatest ruler, Emperor Kanishka,The Great Military Conqueror. 2. Simultaneously co-existing alongside, being THE CHOLA EMPIRE which began around the same time (~300BCE), perhaps under Kushan's overlordship/supremacy, yet that holds the phenomenal distinction of sustaining & overlording later, the longest by far ever, for ~1600 yrs, from ~300BCE - 1300AD! Yet whose big imperial influence lasted mainly for ~300 yrs from ~700AD - ~1000AD, supported by it's most famous name, Emperor Rajendra Chola, who conquered Indonesia & other surrounding South-East Asian nations, & whose cultural footprints can be seen till today there! & 3. The MAURYAN EMPIRE, lasting for ~400 yrs, from ~100BCE (just after the fall of Kushans), upto ~300AD, & originating in, perhaps India's most famous historical ruler, Emperor Chandragupta Maurya, & his equally famous mentor, Kautilya aka Chanakya! Today we shall speak on the remaining 2 out of 5 Greatest Indian Empires: 4. THE GUPTA EMPIRE (beginning just after fall of Mauryan Empire ~300AD), lasting a full 300 yrs, from ~300AD - ~600AD, in course,heralded by, among 5-6 chief Emperors in lineage, another one of India's all-time greatest rulers, the great military conqueror Emperor Samudragupta! Overlording not just over Indian region of today, but China of past, & entire Persia & Central Asia too. 5. Last but not the least, THE KARKOTA EMPIRE, beginning just after the Guptas' fall, & lasting ~230 yrs from 625AD-855AD, & another one of India's greatest rulers, & forming a one handful of all-time (kingly) legends, alongside Kanishka & Chandragupta Maurya & Samudragupta & Rajendra Chola, that name being Emperor Lalitaditya! P.S. : The biggest paramater for this adjudication among historians, being their magnitude of military conquest & rule, that being the easiest to establish today.. Yet that were also known to be very effective, large-hearted, & wise administrators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KymhHId5JNU 6. And aside these 5, historians also like to include by spl mention, the 6th Greatest Indian Empire, (around time of 6th last & most infamous reign of the ~200 yrs Mughal Empire(~1525AD-~1725AD) by Aurangzeb)....for 175 yrs, from ~1645AD-1820AD, THE MARATHA EMPIRE, & ofcourse it's 1st & most beloved ruler, Shivaji! An Empire, that unknown to many, overlorded over ~70% India, till dethroned after 3rd Anglo-Maratha war, by the British East India Company military, to be then followed by the ~125 yrs British Empire. P.S. These accounts obviously don't include Puranic accounts from ~3000BCE & ~17,000BCE, of Avataric rules, by Bhagwan Krishna & Ram, since can't be concretely estd, & hence remain as myth.

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for everybody who isn’t indian - this is what is happening in india

there is so much misinformation going around, so i just want to clarify some things because nobody is getting the right information and its pissing me off

this isn’t an opinion piece, this is a piece on the facts of what is happening in india - all sources are linked

this is a series of events - and this is what is happening right the fuck now

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1. During the drafting of the Constitution of India, the Constitution Drafting Committee decided that India as a state would not have a religious identity, and hat under Article 14 of the Constitution - all religious identities would be equal under the eyes of the law

2. In the 1970s, close to 10 million people left Pakistan and moved to India during a Civil War that eventually lead to the creation of Bangladesh

3. Of these 10 million, a reported 1.5 million chose to stay after the creation of Bangladesh as an independent state

3. Earlier this year - the Assamese government took steps to get rid of these refugees

4. This resulted in the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was created in order to identify “illegal migrants”. Its important to note that the NRC always existed, it was just being updated for the first time ever

5. In order to find yourself on the NRC - among other things, citizens of the state of Assam needed to prove ancestral heritage to India. That is, they needed to prove that they lived in India before the mass migration 

6. The NRC was implemented, and close to 2 million people found themselves no longer considered to be citizens of India

7. The central government recently passed the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 - intended to provide a pass to citizenship for 6 religious minorities: Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis, Buddhists, Christians and Jains, from 3 specific countries - Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan

8. The central gov plans to conduct the NRC nationwide - that is, all citizens of India will soon be asked to prove their citizenship under the guidelines of the NRC

9. In tandem, the central gov aims to make obtaining citizenship easier for the religious minorities listed above

10. In protest to this Act, because it specifically defines only certain religious minorities - there have been protests around the country

11. One of these protests in particular, a march led by students of Jamia in Delhi turned violent 

12. The police got involved because, and I cannot stress this enough - local residents got involved and started setting fire to buses and private vehicles

13. The police retaliated by storming the university and attacking students who were not involved in the protests

14. Again, the STUDENTS did not get involved in the violence of the protests, but the protests themselves DID TURN VIOLENT

15. Similar extreme action has been seen by the police, even where protestors have legal permits to be protesting

16. The country is still at a stand-still between protestors who oppose the bill, and MPS who support the bill

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this is the current state of affairs in India

again, this is not an opinion piece - this is just a post listing out the facts of the situation as they have been occurring

tagging a couple of people who that this goes around: @webheadstan, @spiderrpcrker, @rocknrollonthat45, @littlemissstark , @icarustarks , @lgbtonystarks, @rxmanoff , @starkrogerrs , @talesofsuspenses, @deathsweetqueen (if you didn’t want to be tagged im sorry)

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edit: this post has now been updated to include a link to an extensive post on what the National Register of Citizens is

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IFB Washing Machine Customer Care Bangalore needs to augment its essence in enormous retail chains like Croma and Reliance Digital where it has unimportant presence," a senior chief with a main chain said. "The brand is prevailing in section level performance microwaves which may even now sell the home machines. begun its home apparatuses division in 1991, has not once surrendered its administration position in front-stacking clothes washers in spite of rivalry from top worldwide brands, for example, LG, Samsung, Whirlpool and its previous accomplice Bosch, and remains the third biggest microwave brand in the nation on the rear of its first mover advantage in these sections, wide entrance in territorial business sectors and rehash buys from existing clients.

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Offer stacking, emptying and moving

Offer stacking, emptying and moving

 At the point when you have recruited a movers and packers, Packers and movers you don't need to search for works to stack or dump your products. The movers have their own work, who knows, how to pick substantial gauge and odd measurement things like organizers and twofold entryway ice chest.

 Offer travel protection

 Travel protection gets fundamental for your security and movers and packers offer this. Protection as you probably are aware shields you from any kind of setback and when you enlist a mover and packers to pack and move your merchandise, they offer protection for any kind of harm in travel. That is another advantage of utilizing movers and packers administration.

 Worth included assistance like unloading and revamping

 Pressing done. Great arrived at your place. Presently unloading, revamping, gathering of furniture and so forth can be an issue. Movers and packers offer this administration and in the event that you need them to unload and rework everything, they can do it for you.

 Right approaches to employ movers and get its greater part

 There ought not be any uncertainty that movers and packers can assist you with moving your merchandise with no problems. In any case, at that point, there are various things which matters and except if you get your demonstration right, you may not get the most extreme advantages of utilizing movers administrations.

 For example, it is fundamental to set up a rundown of things that you might want to move. Presently in the event that you don't have the rundown, you may not get the exact citations from the movers, since they have to realize what is to be moved. Furthermore, this may prompt disarray on evaluating.

 Here's a snappy and straightforward bit by bit procedure to benefit from employing movers and packers in India.

 1.            Organize yourself first. Make a rundown of things that should be pressed and need proficient support. At that point, make a different rundown of things that you can deal with all alone. The significant papers, records, archives require individual consideration. So convey them alongside you actually.

 2.            Look out for all the accessible and dependable packers and movers in the city and if conceivable, accumulate the leaflets of each help and count them to know which one will be most appropriate for your need. It may not be that the most costly help will be the best one. It is necessitated that an ideal bundle is acquired.

 3.            Make a spending plan on the things should have been stuffed and afterward pick the moving help, which gives the equivalent at a rate nearest to your pocket squeeze.

 4.            According to the rundown made on things you can pack, accumulate accessible pressing materials from the nearby market and start pressing them. For an occurrence, little yet significant or sensitive things like jars and all can be stuffed utilizing towels.

 5.            While you are drawing in the expert assistance to move the mass things, it spares you a ton of time during which you can deal with the memberships, move financial balances and do the needful to move your children to the new school in the region where you are migrating.

 6.            Check in the event that they give legitimate vehicle offices to move your things. The bundles come arranged as home moving, office moving and different other such as per the necessities of the clients. The distributions of pressing materials likewise draw near the bundle so it is a financial way to deal with utilize. They give you the specific gauge so there is no possibility of waste because of overabundance things or repurchase in the event of deficiency of the equivalent.

 7.            Involving pressing and moving administrations likewise spares you an opportunity to dispense men who might do the pressing, stacking, shipping and unloading undertakings. A great deal of problem can be maintained a strategic distance from once the expert packers and movers administrations have been brought in.

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What will the upcoming year bring in world affairs? A presidential election looms in America; the wave of leaderless protests from Chile to Lebanon is rolling on; China’s rising belligerence is being felt on the streets of Hong Kong and in the expanses of cyberspace; regional tensions in the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and in east Asia all threaten to escalate into wars; Europe’s future remains uncertain. Will 2020 be known for an explosion of conflict and instability, for a reassertion of norms and order, or for some as-yet unanticipated historical shift?

These matters too are uncertain to make firm forecasts possible, but you can try to identity the critical factor in each case. The below is my stab at doing so: a (non-exhaustive) list of big questions about the year ahead with the factors that will decide them and a prediction of how those crucial factors will turn out. I will return to these predictions at the end of the year to see how well I did.

1. Will there be war with Iran?

The issue: At the time of writing America has just killed Qassem Suleimani, leader of Iran’s proxy forces across the Middle East, in a drone strike in Baghdad. Tehran has vowed “severe revenge”. This could accelerate the existing spiral of escalation, pulling in players like Saudi Arabia and Israel, and possibly lead to American air strikes on Iran and outright war.

The decisive factor: The Iranian leadership knows war with America would be catastrophic but believes (seemingly correctly, at least until now) that Donald Trump does not want direct conflict. The question is whether the president might blunder into a different position in the heat of the moment. An election is looming and voters do not want war, but Trump is also thin-skinned, volatile and will be desperate to save face if Iran retaliates spectacularly.

My prediction: Iran will most likely calibrate its response to avoid pushing Trump and American public opinion on to a full war-footing; by targeting American allies and interests rather than directly attacking Americans and by using proxies like Shia militias in Iraq and Hezbollah. More likely than outright American-Iranian war is a proxy war played out the Levant, the Persian Gulf and especially Iraq.

2. Will Donald Trump be reelected?

The issue: On 3 November Donald Trump will go up against a Democrat challenger in America’s presidential election. His approval ratings are below those of previously reelected presidents like Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton, but as in 2016 he does not necessarily need to win the popular vote to secure victory under the electoral college system.

The decisive factor: Trump’s victory relied on a coalition spanning hardline Republicans, moderate Republicans who accepted his theatrics as the price of tax cuts and white working-class voters who defected from the Democrats over cultural issues. That coalition is fairly robust, so the Democrat candidate’s chance of overturning it relies on his or her ability to build a culturally and, crucially, geographically broader coalition taking in states like Wisconsin and Arizona.

My prediction: With the Trump coalition more consolidated than the fragmented Democrat one, the fundamentals point to reelection for the president.

3. Will global carbon emissions peak?

The issue: Under the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rises above pre-industrial levels to the 1.5 to 2.0 degree range (within which the future impacts of climate change rise from moderate to very high), global greenhouse gas emissions need to plateau this year and start falling next year. That requires a step-change in global efforts, as 2019 saw carbon dioxide levels rise to record levels and at almost the same rate as in the previous year.

The decisive factor: This will largely be decided by policy in three places: China, the United States and the EU. Together these three largest emitters generate about half of the world’s greenhouse gases. The good news: the “Green New Deal” - the notion of a radical ecological re-wiring of the economy - will be a major feature of US and European politics this year and China is sticking to its Paris targets. The bad news: America’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement will take place over 2020 and, having stabilised for several years, China’s emissions are growing again.

My prediction: With most countries failing to meet their Paris targets and none of the big three (particularly America and China) decarbonising their economies fast enough, emissions will continue to rise in 2020.

4. Will Boris Johnson get an EU trade deal?

The issue: The newly elected prime minister has until the end of June to decide whether to extend the transition period beyond the current deadline of the end of the year. He has pledged not to prolong this “vassalage” but will struggle to negotiate more than a basic trade deal - one most disadvantageous to Britain rather than the EU - with Brussels in that time.

The decisive factor: Any fast deal will probably cover goods (where the EU has a surplus) but not services (where Britain has a surplus). Nor will it cover many matters relating to data, science or security. The question is whether Boris Johnson believes that his 80-seat majority in the Commons is big enough to absorb rebellions when it comes before parliament, whether he believes voters will tolerate the costs of such a deal and whether, on the first of these at least, he is right.

My prediction: Johnson’s self-confidence and the momentum of his electoral win will allow him to push through a bare-bones deal, sowing the seeds of political crisis in 2021.

5. Will China march into Hong Kong?

The issue: Last year’s Hong Kong protests, sparked by plans to allow extradition to the Chinese mainland, have carried on into 2020 with violent clashes on New Year’s Day. With no resolution in sight and Chinese troops massing at the border, the threat of a military intervention to crush the protests, a second Tiananmen, continues to loom.

The decisive factor: The protesters, boosted by supportive results in district council elections in November, are standing by their demands of universal suffrage, an amnesty for arrested protesters and an independent inquiry into police brutality. So the endgame depends on whether the Chinese leadership’s highest priority is to maintain political, economic and diplomatic stability or to make a example of Hong Kongers to discourage anti-Beijing rebellions elsewhere in its neighbourhood or within mainland China. The former militates for patience, the latter for violent intervention.

My prediction: With Hong Kong due to lapse to full Chinese control in 2047 anyway, Beijing can afford to play the long game, continuing to squeeze Hong Kong and vilify the protesters without a full intervention. With its domestic economy slowing, it needs stability. Only if the unrest in Hong Kong threatens to spill over onto the mainland, which currently looks unlikely, will the Chinese army march in.

6. Will the wave of global protests continue?​

The issue: Hong Kong was just one of many places struck by last year’s wave of street protests. Others included Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, Russia, France, Spain, Chile and Bolivia. The motives were various but many concerned autocratic or corrupt governments, low living standards or climate change, and most were leaderless movements organised online. Were they a one-off, or part of a longer trend?

The decisive factor: Protests tend to subside when one or more of four conditions are met: grievances are addressed, governments crack down successfully, the means of organisation are curtailed or protest-fatigue sets in. Whether 2019 will be seen as an exception depends on the presence of these factors in the main arenas of protest in 2020.

My prediction: In some cases, like Chile and Lebanon, governments are changing tone or policies in light of protesters’ demands. But even there, protest movements are merely developing into broader more long-term movements. Grievances linger on, most obviously the international intransigence on climate change motivating the Fridays for Future protests. And the opportunities for mobilisation afforded by social media are only growing. Do not expect the protests to go away; instead expect them to evolve.

7. Will the EU become a more serious player?

The issue: Ursula von der Leyen’s presidency of the European Commission gets under way as member states squabble over the next seven-year budget, big challenges like euro-zone reform and migration policy remain parked and relations between Paris and Berlin continue to be at a low ebb. Emmanuel Macron wants to reinvigorate the EU alongside von der Leyen but his proposals, including greater “strategic autonomy” from America and NATO, are divisive.

The decisive factor: Essentially there are two countervailing forces at work. On the one hand Trump, Brexit, the crisis years and shifting geopolitical circumstances are pushing the EU to become a more serious, hard-nosed actor; Angela Merkel’s big EU-China summit in September will be a case in point. On the other this process is exposing new divisions on things like common defence, emissions reductions, the future shape of the union and the relationship with outside powers. The question is whether the centripetal forces (events, threats and other shifts pushing the union together and forward) exceed the centrifugal ones (differences of outlook and interest pulling it apart and holding it back).

My prediction: On balance the EU is more resilient than it looks. But while it may muddle its way forward in 2020, major advances will only take place in the heat of the next crisis.

8. Will there be conflict between India and Pakistan?

The issue: Tensions between India and Pakistan grew in 2019, with tit-for-tat air strikes and diplomatic sanctions. India has revoked the autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir, its only Muslim-majority state, and further inflamed tensions last month by introducing an anti-Muslim citizenship rule, the latest in Narendra Modi’s increasingly blatant flirtation with Hindu nationalism. Further attacks on Indian forces in Kashmir by Pakistani-linked Jihadis, or another terror attack in India like that in Mumbai in 2008, could easily escalate.

The decisive factor: The region is a tinderbox. Modi and Pakistan’s Imran Khan have ramped up their rhetoric, mass media outlets in both countries are talking up confrontation and both countries face economic problems fuelling political grievances. So the question is whether the mechanisms for deescalation still work. An attempted Modi-Khan reset in 2018 came to little and neither America (distracted) nor China (considered partisan by India) make ideal mediators.

My prediction: Though neither Modi nor Khan want war, the possibility of a runaway escalation between the two nuclear powers is one of the most underpriced global risks of 2020.

9. Where will the unexpected bad news occur?

The issue: Lawless and rogue states, inadequate global governance and climate change are three defining features of our age. With them come risks of state collapse and war, cyber-attacks and terrorism, uncontrollable epidemics and refugee crises and environmental catastrophe. 2020 will doubtless see various as-yet-unpredictable instances of many or all of these.

The decisive factor: Most of the world’s states, especially in the complacent West, are less truly sovereign and more interdependent than they believe themselves to be. It is this delusion that causes them to be caught by surprise when an unexpected crisis occurs, as chaos or risk from one part of the world ripples through the global system. The question is not whether this will occur but how resilient states and international organisations are when it does.

My prediction: Given the risks I expect at least one of each of the following categories of cataclysm. First, an extreme climate event hitting part of the West not used to the levels of climate chaos already felt in the global south (the fires raging in Australia are but a foretaste). Second, an instance of violence or other instability in one of the world’s rogue or war-torn zones (most probably North Korea, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Burkina Faso, Venezuela or eastern Ukraine) causing a crisis in a country far from its own borders. Third, a crisis or calamity specifically caused by a failure of international governance and democracy; that is, by insufficient coordination, information sharing or collective action at the supra-regional or global level.

10. Where will the unexpected good news occur?

The issue: It is customary, in these end-of-year or start-of-year round ups, to nod to how many good things have happened beyond the headlines: poverty rates and infant mortality falling, literacy and immunisation rates rising. But each year also throws up specific causes to rejoice. In September for example Tunisia held what were widely deemed the Arab world’s first TV debates, during its second free election since the Arab Spring. There will be such happy moments in 2020 too.

The decisive factor: China, Latin America and Africa have thrown up plenty of good rising-living-standards stories in recent years. But with authoritarianism on the march in China and Brazil, and Africa’s rise more halting and troubled than some sunny predictions of the past decades suggested, the picture there is more mixed.

My prediction: There will nonetheless be specific and epochally good news from Africa in 2020. It is possible that the Ebola epidemic will be finally vanquished during the year. And Ethiopia goes to the polls in May, with good prospects of victory for the reformist prime minister Abiy Ahmed (winner of 2019’s Nobel Peace Prize). That would put Africa’s second most populous country, its future in the balance, on a positive course. Elsewhere this could be a further year of growth for progressive mobilisations, from the Fridays for Future marches to anti-nationalist movements like Italy’s “Sardines” and emerging digital rights campaigns; I predict that these will trigger at least one major, positive change of national government or international policy during 2020.

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Headlines

Is Greenland for sale? (Foreign Policy) U.S. President Donald Trump has asked aides whether the United States can purchase Greenland, a Danish territory, from Denmark. It’s not the first time the U.S. government has expressed interest. President Harry Truman tried to buy the island for $100 million in 1946. Former Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen likened the proposal to an out-of-season April Fool’s joke while Soren Espersen of the far-right Danish People’s Party called the idea “completely insane.” Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, a member of the Danish parliament representing Greenland says the answer from up north is “no, thanks.”

Mexico to Deport U.S. Citizen Suspected of Supporting ‘Violent Jihad’ (Reuters) Mexican authorities arrested a U.S. citizen suspected of supporting militant Islamists in an example of Mexico’s security cooperation with the United States even as the two neighbors grapple with sharp disagreements over trade and migration.

El Salvador Murder Rate Dropping (AP) El Salvador’s justice minister says the country’s homicide rate has fallen to about 4.4 killings a day since June, about half of 2018 levels.

Fitch, S&P Downgrade Argentina Debt as Default Risk Grows (Reuters) Ratings agencies Fitch and Standard & Poor’s downgraded Argentina’s sovereign debt rating on Friday, flagging higher chances of a default in the wake of a shock primary election result that plunged the country into its latest economic crisis.

U.S. Issues Warrant to Seize Iranian Tanker Off Gibraltar (Reuters) The United States has issued a warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker caught in the standoff between Tehran and the West in a last ditch effort to prevent the vessel from leaving Gibraltar.

Italy’s Salvini dismisses fears for health of stranded migrants (Reuters) A charity rescue ship carrying 134 migrants, mostly Africans, was stranded off the coast of Italy on Friday as a political battle in Rome stopped it from docking and even the medical conditions of those on board were disputed. The migrants, picked up off Libya over the last two weeks, are waiting to disembark on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, but far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has ordered his officials not to let them do so. Salvini, who has built his popularity on a vigorous campaign against illegal immigration, is acting in defiance of his own prime minister and despite six European Union nations agreeing to take the migrants in.

Putin gives pilot who landed in cornfield Russia’s top medal (AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday awarded the nation’s highest medal, the Hero of Russia, to the pilot who managed to smoothly land his disabled passenger plane in a cornfield after a flock of birds hit both engines and knocked them out. The experienced captain, 41-year-old Damir Yusupov, said Friday that a quick landing was his only chance and he was not afraid of handling it. He said he had hoped to circle the airport and land normally when one engine shut down due to the bird strike moments after taking off from Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport. But then his second engine cut off moments later, leaving him no choice. He landed his Ural Airlines A321 so gently in the head-high corn that just one of the 233 people on board was hospitalized.

8 Dead, 10 Hospitalized in Ukrainian Hotel Fire (AP) A fire in a hotel in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa has killed eight people and left a further 10 hospitalized.

Indian Authorities Begin Easing Clampdown in Kashmir (AP) Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir began restoring landline phone services on Saturday after a nearly two-week security crackdown and news blackout following a decision to downgrade the majority-Muslim region’s autonomy.

U.N. council members think India, Pakistan should refrain from unilateral action in Kashmir (Reuters) U.N. Security Council members believe India and Pakistan should refrain from taking unilateral action over the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, China’s U.N. envoy said on Friday after the council met on the issue for the first time in decades. The Himalayan region has long been a flashpoint in ties between India and Pakistan, which both have nuclear arms.

China police exercises across from Hong Kong seen as threat (AP) Members of China’s paramilitary People’s Armed Police marched and practiced crowd control tactics at a sports complex in Shenzhen across from Hong Kong on Friday, in what some interpreted as a threat against pro-democracy protesters in the semiautonomous territory. Chinese state media have only said that the Shenzhen exercises were planned earlier and were not directly related to the unrest in Hong Kong, though they came shortly after the central government in Beijing said the protests were beginning to show the “sprouts of terrorism.” Outside, dozens of armored carriers and trucks sat in the parking lot of the Shenzhen Bay Stadium, close to a bridge linking mainland China to Hong Kong.

Trump administration plans $8 billion fighter jet sale to Taiwan, angering China (Washington Post) The Trump administration is moving ahead with for an $8 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan despite strong objections from China, a U.S. official and others familiar with the deal said Thursday. The State Department late Thursday submitted the package for informal review, said the people familiar with the sale. It would be the largest and most significant sale of weaponry to the self-governing island in years, and comes amid stalled trade talks and a deteriorating relationship with China.

Fiji PM Accuses Australia’s Morrison of ‘Insulting’ Pacific Island Nations (Reuters) Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama accused Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison of insulting leaders of Pacific island nations during a regional summit earlier this week, and said Chinese officials were far more tactful and better mannered.

Pirates Kidnap Eight Crew Members in Raid on German Ship Off Cameroon (Reuters) Pirates have kidnapped eight crew members of a German-owned ship in a raid on the vessel off the coast of Cameroon, the Hamburg-based company that owns the ship said on Friday.

Zimbabwe police violently disperse protest over nose-diving economy (Washington Post) Amid a crackdown on dissent and an implosion of public services such as water and electricity, Zimbabwe’s opposition planned to bring the country’s capital to a standstill in a mass protest. But a last-minute ban on the rally by police stopped many from coming out, and some of those who defied the ban were severely beaten with batons during a heavy-handed dispersal Friday morning. And human rights groups say that six activists and opposition leaders were abducted in the middle of the night, stripped, beaten and tortured in the lead-up to Friday’s demonstrations.

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Bohemian Style and Fashion History

If you are wondering what is Bohemian Style, this article could help you. Bohemian Style was popular few decades ago, and it looks like it was never gone.

This Article about Bohemian Clothing can be also very interesting for you.

Boho - Fashion History and Bohemian Style

The Bohemian Style Type is the most casual and carefree of the style types. They mostly stick to an earth tone palette. Bohemian style types love a classic paisley or animal print - especially in the form of a blouse or a flowing dress. Bohemian ladies are known for favoring long, sweeping silhouettes. Furs are also a favorite, as are leathers and suede's.

Chloe, Gucci, and Isabel Marant show beautiful Bohemian collections year after year. Some of the most well-known Bohemian muses include Kate Moss, Erin Wasson, and Ali McGraw. We’ve got a ton of inspiration for you with some of our favorite Bohemian looks.

200 Years of Boho

Bohemian style has, for over 200 years, being an exotic alternative to the accepted fashions of a given period. Generally associated with artists, writers, and intellectuals, bohemian culture incorporates various ethic clothing styles, as well as historical costume.

Bohemian style consists of loose, colorful clothing and has been known as boho chic, hippie style, and Aesthetic dress. With their long flowing hair and rich, though threadbare fabrics, bohemians stand out in a crowd representing a colorful counterculture based on creativity, poverty, and an indifference to social structures and traditions.

 Origin of the Bohemians

The Bohemians, as a counterculture, appeared in France after the French Revolution. Deprived of the former system of patronage, where wealthy clients supported the arts, artists were plunged into poverty. Many took up a nomadic lifestyle, lived cheaply, and wore worn out and unfashionable or used clothing.

Formerly, an artist was seen as a skilled and talented crafts person. But the Romantic Movement of the late 18th century rejected the confines of bourgeois life and the former importance placed on reason, to embrace the imagination.

A new cult of personality emerged with the artist as hero and individual style expressed in the way one dressed. An artist became a special type of person, not merely a crafts person, but a kind of eccentric genius whose creativity was displayed in the way they lived and looked. The artist himself (or herself) were a piece of art.

People compared the new artistic types to wandering Gypsies and believed that Gypsies originated in Bohemia, an area of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. So, they came to refer to artists and intellectuals as the Bohemians. Gypsy was a European term for the Romani people, an ethnic group with Indian origins who had migrated north. The word Gypsy, derived from the word Egyptian, which many thought the actual home of the nomadic people who were often social outcasts that lived outside the mainstream. Today, the word "Gypsy" is seen as derisive and offensive to the Roman people.

Bohemian Life Becomes Its Own Kind of Establishment

By the 1830's, the French Bohemian art crowd and the Romantics embraced medieval and oriental clothing styles. With their colorful fabrics, long flowing hair, and wide brimmed hats, the artistic culture did come to resemble the classic view of the Romani people.

The novelist Henri Murger wrote tales about the people that he called Bohemians, centering on a group of artists and intellectuals in threadbare coats, old shoes, and a general look of dishevelment. The stories inspired Puccinni's famous opera, La Boheme.

Bohemian style evolved into a cult of the individual, a person whose very appearance became a work of art with carefully planned outfits and accessories. The word bohemian suggested a sense of arcane enlightenment, sexual freedom, and poor personal hygiene.

Bohemian life rejects materialism, private property, and centers on creativity and communal living. Often associated with the use of drugs and alcohol, bohemians ignore social convention, centering their lives on art.

 Bohemians in the 19th Century - The Aesthetic Movement

In the 19th century, the Aesthetic Movement became a type of bohemian lifestyle. The Aesthetics rebelled against the rigid social constraints of the Victorian era and embraced a style based on the clothing of the past, particularly medieval dress and oriental designs.

Believing that the mass production of the Industrial Revolution was dehumanizing, the Aesthetics strove to encourage the old techniques of the Middle Ages with individually crafted goods. Clothing was loose and soft, using fabrics, colored with organic dyes and decorated with hand embroidery. The Pre-Raphaelite artists of the day rejected corsets, crinolines, and the stiff bodices and restrictive clothing of Victorian fashion.

              Elements of Bohemian Style

Bohemian style, now referred to as boho chic, has come down through history, reappearing as beatnik style and in the hippie culture of the 1960s. For 200 years, bohemian style has consisted of several fashion elements.

Loose, flowing clothing made of natural fabrics.

Less restrictive garments worn without corsets, bras or other restrictive     elements.

Loose, flowing hair.

Colorful scarves worn at the neck, on the head, or instead of a belt

Peasant style clothing including tunics, loose trousers, boots, and sandals

Used or worn clothing

Oriental elements including robes, kimonos, and the ethnic designs of Persia,     India, Turkey, and China

Mixing historical elements of medieval clothing with ethnic styles

Layering

Matching of garments in a nontraditional manner, such as mixing prints, or unusual color combinations

Multi strands of beads, several bangle bracelets, and the wearing of unusual, hand crafted, or unmatched jewelry

Large dangle or large hoop earrings

Broad brimmed hats

Patched clothing

Paisley, flowered fabrics, ruffles, lace edged sleeves

A general disregard for tidiness and uniformity of dress

A look of contrived dishevelment

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If you are wondering what is Bohemian Style, this article could help you. Besides that, Bohemian Style was popular few decades ago, and, most importantly, it looks like it was never gone.

Boho - Fashion History and Bohemian Style

The Bohemian Style Type is the most casual and carefree of the style types. They mostly stick to an earth tone palette. Because of that bohemian style types love a classic paisley or animal print, especially in the form of a blouse or a flowing dress. Besides that, Bohemian ladies are known for favoring long, sweeping silhouettes. Therefore, furs are also a favorite, as are leathers and suede's.

200 Years of Boho

Bohemian style has, for over 200 years, being an exotic alternative to the accepted fashions of a given period.

Bohemian style consists of loose, colorful clothing. With their long flowing hair and rich, though threadbare fabrics, bohemians stand out in a crowd.

Origin of the Bohemians

The Bohemians, as a counterculture, appeared in France after the French Revolution. Artists were plunged into poverty. Because of that, many took up a nomadic lifestyle. They lived cheaply, and wore worn out and unfashionable or used clothing.

Formerly, an artist was seen as a skilled and talented person.

A new cult of personality emerged with the artist as hero and individual style expressed in the way one dressed. An artist became a special type of person. The artist himself (or herself) were a piece of art.

People compared the new artistic types to wandering Gypsies and believed that Gypsies originated in Bohemia.

Bohemian Life

Most importantly, Bohemian style evolved into a cult of the individual. It was a person whose very appearance became a work of art with carefully planned outfits and accessories. The word bohemian suggested a sense of arcane enlightenment, sexual freedom, and poor personal hygiene.

Therefore, bohemian life rejects materialism, private property, and centers on creativity and communal living.

Bohemians in the 19th Century - The Aesthetic Movement

In the 19th century, the Aesthetic Movement became a type of bohemian lifestyle.

Elements of Bohemian Style

Bohemian style, now referred to as boho chic, has come down through history. It is reappearing as beatnik style and in the hippie culture of the 1960s. For 200 years, bohemian style has consisted of several, most important fashion elements.

·         Loose, flowing clothing made of natural fabrics.

·         Less restrictive garments worn without corsets.

·         Loose, flowing hair.

·         Colorful scarves worn at the neck, on the head, or instead of a belt.

·         Peasant style clothing including tunics, loose trousers, boots, and sandals.

·         Used or worn clothing.

·         Oriental elements.

·         Mixing historical elements of medieval clothing with ethnic styles.

·         Layering

·         Matching of garments in a nontraditional manner, such as mixing prints, or unusual color combinations

·         Multi strands of beads, several bangle bracelets, and the wearing of unusual, hand crafted, or unmatched jewelry

·         Large dangle or large hoop earrings.

·         Broad brimmed hats

·         Patched clothing

·         Paisley, flowered fabrics, ruffles, lace edged sleeves

·         A general disregard for tidiness and uniformity of dress

·         A look of contrived dishevelment

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Sunday saw events in Afghanistan unfold with lightning speed with reports that President Ashraf Ghani had left Afghanistan with his top advisers in tow after resigning and the Taliban had entered the capital of Kabul.

From the US secretary of state insisting that a repeat of Saigon was not occurring to Pakistan's foreign office expressing hope for a political settlement,  here's how the world reacted to Sunday's events:

'This is not Saigon', says US secretary of State

US secretary of state Antony Blinken flat out rejected Sunday comparisons between Washington's Kabul pullout and the chaotic American departure from Saigon in 1975.

"This is not Saigon," he told ABC. "The fact of the matter is this: We went to Afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission in mind. That was to deal with the people that attacked us on 9/11. That mission has been successful."

Follow all LIVE updates on Afghanistan crisis here

Blinken further blamed the defence forces for not being able to defend Afghanistan and issued a warning to the Taliban.

Blinken, defending the Biden administration, told CNN, "The idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there, I think, is simply wrong."

Secretary of State Antony Blinken defends the Biden administration's decision to pull US forces out of Afghanistan: "The idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there, I think, is simply wrong." #CNNSOTU https://t.co/5uk1k2vMbY pic.twitter.com/qlX6LU7BTB

— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) August 15, 2021

 “We haven’t asked the Taliban for anything," Blinken further said. "We’ve told the Taliban that if they interfere with our personnel, with our operations as we’re proceeding with this drawdown, there will be a swift and decisive response."

'Hope all sides will work together': Pakistan

Pakistan said on Sunday that it was closely watching the evolving situation in neighbouring Afghanistan while making efforts for a political settlement, as the Taliban insurgents entered Kabul and moved closer to retaking full control of the war-torn country. Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri issued a statement about the current situation in Afghanistan where the Taliban control large areas of the country,

“Pakistan is closely following the unfolding situation in Afghanistan. Pakistan will continue to support the efforts for a political settlement. We hope all Afghan sides will work together to resolve this internal political crisis,” he said. Chaudhri said the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul was extending necessary assistance to Pakistanis, Afghan nationals and the diplomatic and international community for consular work and coordination of the Pakistan International Airlines flights.

He said a special inter-ministerial cell has been established in the Ministry of Interior to facilitate visa/arrival matters for diplomatic personnel, UN agencies, international organisations, the media, and others.

'Closely monitoring fast-changing situation', says MEA

Sources told ANI that India is closely monitoring the fast-changing situation in Afghanistan to decide on the evacuation of diplomatic personnel from Kabul.

People familiar with the development said the government will not put the lives of its staffers at the Indian embassy and Indian citizens in Kabul at any risk and plans have already been finalised in case they require emergency evacuation. "The government is closely monitoring the fast-paced developments in Afghanistan. We will not put the lives of our staff at the Indian embassy in Kabul at any risk," said one of the persons cited above.

Specifically asked when the Indian staffers and citizens in Kabul will be evacuated, they said decisions will depend on the ground situation. It is learnt that a fleet of the C-17 Globemaster military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force is kept on standby to undertake evacuation missions.

'Biggest disaster since Suez', says Tory MP

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Sunday to hold further crisis talks on Afghanistan, his office said, as he recalled Parliament from its summer break. A Downing Street spokesperson said Johnson had called a meeting of the COBR emergencies committee to discuss the situation, which follows the withdrawal of US-led forces, the second such meeting in three days.

Parliament on Sunday said it had approved Johnson's request to call back MPs on Wednesday for an urgent debate on what Britain, which lost 457 troops in the two-decade-long war, should do next. Taliban fighters were on the outskirts of Kabul on Sunday and on the brink of a complete military takeover of Afghanistan, leading British politicians to call for a last-ditch intervention. Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, urged Johnson to "think again" about stepping in.

"We have an ever-shrinking window of opportunity to recognise where this country is going as a failed state," he told Times Radio. "Just because the Americans won't, does not mean to say that we should be tied to the thinking, the political judgement, particularly when it is so wrong, of our closest security ally.

"We could prevent this, otherwise history will judge us very, very harshly in not stepping in," he warned. Ellwood said the government could deploy the Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier strike group to provide air support. He called the crisis "the biggest single policy disaster since Suez".

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace defended Britain’s move to pull troops out of the country. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, he said “we have not betrayed Afghanistan.” He wrote that the UK could not “go it alone” after the US announced its plans to withdraw. “It would be arrogant to think we could solve Afghanistan unilaterally,” he said.

Johnson vowed on Friday that Britain will not "turn our backs" on Afghanistan, even as he confirmed the imminent withdrawal of most embassy staff in the face of a rapid Taliban onslaught.

However, he said that those calling for an intervention "have got to be realistic about the power of the UK or any power to impose a military solution -- a combat solution -- in Afghanistan". With the Islamists seizing control of more Afghan cities, Britain is deploying around 600 troops to help evacuate its roughly 3,000 nationals from the country, and Johnson said the "vast bulk" of remaining embassy staff in Kabul would return to the UK.

The Foreign Office said on Sunday that Britain had "temporarily suspended most operations" at its embassy in Kabul and was doing "all we can to enable remaining British nationals, and those Afghans who have worked for us and who are eligible for relocation, to leave Afghanistan". Opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer backed the move to recall parliament, saying in a statement: "The situation in Afghanistan is deeply shocking and seems to be worsening by the hour.

"The government has been silent while Afghanistan collapses, which let's be clear will have ramifications for us here in the UK. "We need parliament recalled so the government can update MPs on how it plans to work with allies to avoid a humanitarian crisis and a return to the days of Afghanistan being a base for extremists."

Most of the remaining British troops assigned to the NATO mission in Afghanistan left last month, according to Johnson. As well as the fallen troops, the conflict has cost Britain around £40 billion ($55 billion).

In 2014, the British mission in Afghanistan, centred on the restive southern province of Helmand, shifted from a combat operation to one focused on supporting Afghan national forces, with the help of around 750 troops.

'Will work for stability', vows Erdogan

Turkey’s president says his country will work for stability in Afghanistan along with Pakistan, in order to stem a growing migration wave amid the Taliban's countrywide offensive. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Afghans were increasingly attempting to migrate to Turkey via Iran, urging an international effort to bring stability to the country and prevent mass migration.

Erdogan was speaking at a naval ceremony with Pakistan’s president. He said Pakistan had a “vital task” to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan, where clashes have intensified. Turkish-Pakistani cooperation would be needed for this, and Turkey would use all possibilities to do so, Erdogan added. Erdogan did not mention any changes to a proposal for Turkey to secure and operate the airport in Kabul.

'Share unanimous concern', says Pope

Pope Francis said Sunday that he shares “the unanimous concern for the situation in Afghanistan" as Taliban fighters sweep across the war-torn country. He spoke as the Taliban entered the outskirts of Kabul, the Afghan capital, and said they were awaiting a “peaceful transfer” of the city. From a window overlooking St. Peter's Square, the pope asked for prayers “so that the clamor of weapons may cease and solutions may be found at the negotiating table.”

He added that “only in this way, may the battered population of the country -- men and women, elderly and children -- return to their homes and live in peace and safety, with full mutual respect.”

'Shall not say no,' says Albania's PM

Albania's prime minister says his country will temporarily shelter hundreds of Afghans who worked with the Western peacekeeping military forces and are now threatened by the Taliban. On his Facebook page, Edi Rama said the US.government had asked Albania to serve as a “transit place for a certain number of Afghan political emigrants who have the United States as their final destination.”

“No doubt we shall not say no,” he said.

He added that the Albanian government has also responded positively to requests from two US NGOs to shelter hundreds of Afghan intellectuals and women activists who have been threatened with execution by the Taliban.

The Albanian prime minister said that his country stands alongside the United States “not only when we need them for our problems ... but even when they need us, any time.”

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Overpopulation and Urbanization (Topic #9)

As I write this, the world’s population is at 7,854,812,760 people. The next time I check the World Population Clock the number will have gone down and then up again immensely. Our world population changes every day. It has grown so rapidly that it is unsustainable, which results in harmful environmental impacts. As our population grows, we take more of the earth’s natural resources, our ecological footprints increase, and we break down the natural capital that supports us and our economics. The continuous question that no one seems to know the answer to is, how many people can the earth support and for how long?

Some argue that there are no physical limits to human population growth and economic growth on a finite planet. These analysts believe that technology has allowed us to overcome the environmental limits and increased the earth’s carrying capacity that all populations of species face. These people believe that we can continue increasing economic growth and still avoid serious damage to our life-support systems by making technological advances such as food production and medicine. However, I strongly disagree with that view. Thinking this way is very dangerous and ignores the warnings from environmental scientists. It may be true that technological advances could push back population and resource limitations but it should not be our final solution. For one, some technological advances like food production are responsible for 76 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, which results in more environmental issues like climate change. Second, some technologies are too expensive. Of course, it could be achievable in a developed country like the United States but it would not be easily affordable in less-developed countries like India and Africa.

Out of the 2.5 billion people expected to be added to the world’s population from now to 2050, 95 percent will be born into less-developed countries like India and Africa. These developing countries are not prepared to deal with the pressures of rapid population growth. The main causes of overpopulation are poverty, a lack of educational resources, and high birth rates. Birth rates tend to be lower when women have access to education and employment. So women in less-developed countries with no education are more likely to have two more children than a woman with a high school education level. Another factor for high birth rates is no availability of reliable birth control methods. Family planning is a great solution to these issues. It is a program that provides education and clinical services that help couples choose how many children to have and when to have them. Family planning programs can also provide information on birth control methods and health care for pregnant women and infants. Another factor of overpopulation is migration. Most people who migrate to another area are searching for jobs, education, and economic improvement. People also leave their homes when war or food shortages and soil erosion become a major problem. People are most likely to migrate to urban areas.

(Overcrowding due to overpopulation in India)

Today, 55 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas and is expected to increase to 68 percent by 2050. There are some advantages to urbanization as mentioned before when discussing education, jobs, and medical care like family planning. Also in these areas, recycling is more economically attainable, heating and cooling take less energy because most buildings are multistory apartments and offices rather than heating and cooling single-family homes and small office buildings, and they have lower carbon dioxide emissions due to people driving less often and relying more on mass transportation, walking, and biking. When reading this I was actually very surprised to learn that New York City has some of the lowest per capita carbon dioxide emissions of all cities. However, there are of course many issues with urbanization as well. First, urban sprawl, which eliminates surrounding agricultural and wild lands to build housing developments, shopping malls, parking lots, and office complexes. In the United States, urban sprawl has paved over about 155,000 square kilometers of land, which is an area the size of the U.S. states of Georgia. Other problems include large ecological footprints, health problems, air and water pollution, and climate effects.

(New York City: hundreds of buildings but no wild lands or vegetation)

There are solutions to the disadvantages of urbanization like land-use planning, smart growth policies and tools, and the eco-city concept. I found a case study about the city of Cheyenne in Southeastern Wyoming. In 2003, the city of Cheyenne area had a population of 79,000 people which accounted for 90 percent of the population in Laramie County. The PlanCheyenne was an interagency and multidisciplinary coordination to develop an official development plan. The public was involved in developing a better future for Cheyenne. Public participation included two design charrettes, workshops, community meetings, and a scenario-building exercise. The PlanCheyenne lasted three years and unified federally funded land use, transportation, parks and recreation, and open space planning.

(Researchers conducting urban planning with model)

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Question: What are ways to influence authority leaders in less developing countries so they can provide women access to family planning?

Work Cited:

Sommerfeld, Julia. “Will Technology Save Us from Overpopulation?” NBCNews.com. NBCUniversal News Group, March 4, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3072069

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Millions Flock to Telegram and Signal as Fears Grow Over Big Tech

Neeraj Agrawal, a spokesman for a cryptocurrency think tank, has typically used the encrypted messaging app Signal to chat with privacy-minded colleagues and peers. So he was surprised on Monday when the app alerted him to two new users: Mom and Dad.

“Signal still had a subversive shine to it,” said Mr. Agrawal, 32. “Now my parents are on it.”

On Telegram, another encrypted messaging app, Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right Proud Boys group, had just announced his return. “Man, I haven’t posted here in a while,” he wrote on Sunday. “I’ll be posting regularly.”

And on Twitter, Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, also weighed in last week with a two-word endorsement: “Use Signal.”

Over the past week, tens of millions of people have downloaded Signal and Telegram, making them the two hottest apps in the world. Signal allows messages to be sent with “end-to-end encryption,” meaning no one but the sender and receiver can read its contents. Telegram offers some encrypted messaging options, but is largely popular for its group-based chat rooms where people can discuss a variety of subjects.

Their sudden jump in popularity was spurred by a series of events last week that stoked growing anxiety over some of the big tech companies and their communication apps, like WhatsApp, which Facebook owns. Tech companies including Facebook and Twitter removed thousands of far-right accounts — including President Trump’s — after the storming of the Capitol. Amazon, Apple and Google also cut off support for Parler, a social network popular with Mr. Trump’s fans. In response, conservatives sought out new apps where they could communicate.

At the same time, privacy worries rose over WhatsApp, which last week reminded users in a pop-up notification that it shares some of their data with its parent company. The notification set off a wave of anxiety, fueled by viral chain messages that falsely claimed that Facebook could read WhatsApp messages.

The result was a mass migration that, if it lasts, could weaken the power of Facebook and other big tech companies. On Tuesday, Telegram said it added more than 25 million users over the previous three days, pushing it to over 500 million users. Signal added nearly 1.3 million users on Monday alone, after averaging just 50,000 downloads a day last year, according to estimates from Apptopia, an app-data firm.

“We’ve had surges of downloads before,” said Pavel Durov, Telegram’s chief executive, in a message on the app on Tuesday. “But this time is different.”

Carl Woog, a spokesman for WhatsApp, said that users’ privacy settings had not changed and that rumors about what data is shared were largely unfounded.

“What’s not changing is that private messages to friends and family, including group chats, will be protected by end-to-end encryption so that we cannot see them,” he said.

The rise of Telegram and Signal could inflame the debate over encryption, which helps protect the privacy of people’s digital communications but can stymie the authorities in crime investigations because conversations are hidden.

Any move to the apps by far-right groups in particular has worried U.S. authorities, some of whom are trying to track the planning for what may become violent rallies on or ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. next week.

“The proliferation of the encrypted platforms, where law enforcement can’t even monitor the rhetoric, does allow groups that have an ill intent to plan behind the curtain,” said Louis Grever, head of the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies.

Capitol Riot Fallout

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Jan. 13, 2021, 9:36 p.m. ET

Telegram has been particularly popular for those on the far right because it mimics social media. So after Facebook and Twitter limited Mr. Trump on their services last week and other companies began pulling their support from Parler, far-right groups on Parler and other fringe social networks posted links to new Telegram channels and urged people to join them there.

In the four hours after Parler went offline on Monday, one Proud Boys group on Telegram gained over 4,000 new followers.

“Don’t trust Big tech,” read a message on one Proud Boys group on Parler. “We will need to find safer spaces.”

On Signal, a Florida-based militia group said on Monday that it was organizing its chats in small, city-by-city groups limited to a few dozen people each, according to messages seen by The New York Times. They warned one another not to let in anyone they did not personally know, to avoid law enforcement officials spying on their chats.

The flood of users to Telegram, which is based in Dubai, and Signal, which is based in Silicon Valley, goes far beyond just the American far right. Mr. Durov said that 94 percent of Telegram’s 25 million new users came from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.

Most of Signal’s new user adoption is coming from outside the United States. As of Wednesday, the company said it was the No. 1 app in 70 countries on iOS devices and in 45 countries on Android devices, with India being one of the biggest areas of new user growth. For both Signal and Telegram, new installations came from users in Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil and dozens of other countries, data from Apptopia shows.

Fears over WhatsApp’s privacy policies have driven Telegram and Signal’s popularity. While there was no meaningful change to how WhatsApp handles users’ data, people immediately interpreted the app’s privacy notification last week to mean that it was infiltrating all kinds of personal information — like personal chat logs and voice calls — and sharing that data with businesses.

WhatsApp quickly said people were mistaken and that it could not see anything inside of encrypted chats and calls. But it was too late.

“The whole world now seems to understand that Facebook is not building apps for them, Facebook is building apps for their data,” said Moxie Marlinspike, the founder and chief executive of Signal. “It took this one small catalyst to push everyone over the edge of making a change.”

The fervor has been such that on Tuesday, Moses Tsali, a Los Angeles rapper, released a music video for his song, “Hit Me On Signal.” And Mr. Musk’s endorsement of Signal last week sent publicly traded shares of Signal Advance Inc., a small medical device maker, soaring from a roughly $50 million market value to more than $3 billion. (The company has no relation to the messaging app.)

Some world leaders have also urged people to join them on the apps. On Sunday, the Twitter account of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico talked about his new group on Telegram. By Wednesday, it had nearly 100,000 members.

Eli Sapir, Apptopia’s chief executive, said that while people’s concerns over Facebook’s data collection were fair, WhatsApp actually uses more secure encryption than Telegram. “It’s like going from something high in sugar to corn syrup,” he said, adding that Signal was the most secure of the three.

Meyi Alabi, 18, a student in Ibadan, Nigeria, said she was surprised this week when her mother invited her to join Signal. Her mother had downloaded the app upon urging from a friend worried about WhatsApp.

“I was in shock because she got it before me,” she said. “We usually tell our parents about the new apps. Now all of a sudden we’re the ones getting informed.”

Mr. Agrawal, the cryptocurrency worker, said his parents had long been active in several WhatsApp group chats with college friends and relatives back in India. He said they told him they joined Signal to follow many of those chats that were moving there, because some of the participants were worried about WhatsApp’s new policy.

He said he knew the dangers of the WhatsApp policy were overstated but that much of the public doesn’t understand how their data is being handled.

“They hear those key things — data sharing, Facebook, privacy,” Mr. Agrawal said, “and that’s enough for them to say, I got to get off this.”

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Android Set-Top Box (STB) Market Segmentation and Competitive Analysis Report till 2025

September 22, 2020: The global android set-top (STB) box market size is anticipated to reach USD 695.9 million by 2025, growing at a revenue-based CAGR of 19.5% from 2019 to 2025, according to a new report by Radiant Insights, Inc. Some of the critical factors positively impacting the market growth include shift in viewer and media preferences from conventional platforms towards digital formats and the rise of OTT/IPTV platforms, such as Netflix and Amazon OTT. 

Additionally, growing internet penetration in emerging economies is also anticipated to boost the market growth over the coming years. Android set-top boxes are expected to gain immense popularity among the masses owing to the growing awareness pertaining to internet-based set-top boxes and rising demand for high-quality audio and video content among the viewers. The technologically savvy customers are already accustomed to Android devices and their user interface, ultimately making it easier for them to adapt to and operate such devices. 

Rising number of initiatives from regulatory authorities worldwide supporting the adoption of Android STBs, such as migration from analog TV to digital TV, is further expected to drive the Android STB market growth. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced its plans to completely shut down analog transmission by the end of 2023, in an attempt to drive the penetration of digital media format in lesser developed areas across the country. 

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Android-powered boxes are incorporated with several features such as Google Assistant, enabling users to discover content and to control the connected devices through voice command. Additionally, Android STB operators provide linear as well as Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) based models for consumers. These devices offer tremendous benefits to operators with a stable and consistent middleware architecture, high system integrity, and swift deployment of new features. 

In 2018, Asia Pacific dominated the market in terms of volume attributed to growing adoption of internet and smart TV. Increasing consumption of online data owing to content digitization in developing countries, such as India, is anticipated to impel regional growth. North America is anticipated to exhibit a volume-based CAGR of over 22.0% over the forecast period. This is attributed to availability of Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) content and UHD devices. Changing consumer preference for OTT platforms such as Netflix and HBO for viewing content will drive the market in this region. 

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• The integration of various technologies in the Android STBs, such as voice-enabled remote interaction, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Ultra-high-definition resolution, make them stand out as compared to the conventional STBs 

• The prominent players in the Android set-top box market are providing user-friendly as well as technology, feature-rich Android STBs to gain a competitive edge 

• An upsurge in the use of OTT platforms has propelled several vendors to undergo partnerships and mergers and acquisitions with content providers, in an attempt to strengthen their product offerings 

• There has been an growing consumer inclination towards paying premium charges for niche services/content with higher resolution

 • The considerable consumer demand for OTT services has led the market incumbents to introduce Android STBs in their product offerings to retain their customer base. 

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The Automation Quandary

The robots of the cartoons and movies from the 1970s are going to be the reality of the 2020s.           ~Alec Ross. 

Global scene The apprehensions of technology replacing jobs have been a perennial issue since the industrial revolution of the 18th century. It all possibly began with the advent of spinning shuttle and power looms in Britain’s textile sector.

Those technological innovations were perceived as a threat to Britain’s cottage industries In the town of Lancashire loom workers were irked by the adoption of new technologies, attacked the looms and strongly protested. Long after Lancashire and elsewhere, the society is where it is today.

All along, in many parts of the globe technology has been angering sections of the workforce that have been resisting its growth - but in vain! In India.

India industry 4.0 (fourth ind revolution beginning the early ( 70s) was marked with a “big thud” by the advent of the computers in the 80s .This era also marked the beginning of the job (in)securities of people. 

It was not uncommon to see people from different institutions opposing the “computerization plans” and many financial institutions such as banks and public sector employees often took to streets as a protest against bringing in computers to manage administrations. 

Automation Automation is a means of controlling a process by electronic devices and this reduces human intervention to a very minimum. a row of street lights that switch ON and OFF by itself sensing the level of darkness is said to be automated. This minimizes the number of staff in a power supply company to go around the streets and manually switch on the lights every evening. However, the need to monitor the lights remains even today, though small. Many processes can work on least human intervention and the fear of losing jobs remain the genuine concern of the workforce. Going by the stats automation is likely to displace 69 and 77 percent of the jobs in India and China.We still are not sure in what time frame this can happen Not that every job is going to be replaced by automation in a short time it is an evolutionary process. We can still see our milk vendors supplying the milk - not the drones! waiters serving us coffee and not the robots, automation is certainly in areas where repetitive tasks happen in IT services and production houses where there is a need to increase mass production. Benefits and Drawbacks Automation comes with a pack of advantages to businesses and individuals. It can perform the task of five persons with two or three in a smaller time. Hence productivity is high. The return on investment is much faster, One may count on its output consistency, and this aids business and employee growth. as human intervention is minimized. It is also a factor in safety matters While automation brings in a lot of benefits it's not - like every technological innovation - without drawbacks.. let's point out a few automation involves heavy capital investment. Beyond an initial investment, but often, up-gradation to automated systems also can get costly. Humans can become so dependents over some time that if for some reason the systems break, life can come to a total standstill. Going forward First of all the good news is that not the whole of the industries and regions is going to get automated and everyone now working gets displaced. Secondly, it is not all that bad for those who can upskill and there are many ways to shield any job displacement. This is much easier for people with ten to fifteen years (or lesser)of work experience. Skill upgrades may be slower in others, but not a "mission impossible" act. 

Yet, for those who decide to stay in "skill race" and catch up with the changing scenario nothing stops their upward growth.We as corporate professionals and society have to accept that there is a section of the workforce who can't and don't want to be one in the skill race and this is just fine. We have to find ways to accommodate long earned experience and skilled workforce which certainly adds value but in a different business sphere.

The choice to opt-out of the upskilling is not a reason to punish one's professional career to perish. The common saying that "if you don't up-skill or re-skill you don't have a place..." seems more like a punishment for not upskilling. By this many, well-established careers would perish and industry will lose out valuable experience and wisdom and this is not prudence. 

Many options can plug the loss of jobs due to automation and a couple of them can include.-Establishing should the need arise in case of a change due to automation or otherwise (say in case of a lateral shift), the SMG can interface with the employees and the management to support the change management. It would be a good idea to establish a skill management group (SMG) whose primary job - on a routine mode - is to map existing skills to other value-adding roles within the organization

These skill banks – with whatever nomenclature they would be known as – could be networked across the industry with a focus on re employments of those displaced due to automation or generally due to technological shifts within the organizations. More on this in the next discussion

It’s nice to establish employee counseling Human resource groups to assist people to migrate to roles that support their skills within or outside the organization they are working.many of my clients tell that they do have some kind of this support. 

However, in those orgs which already have this, I found that its either informal, inaccessible, or ineffective systems supposed to be working assisting employees. 

The success of these groups quite depends on its process, networking, and ease of accessibility. In conclusion, those are a few thoughts to kick off better ways to deal with those displaced employees due to automation there are, am sure, more prudent solutions. If you have one of them do contribute here as a post or even write to worktak@gmail.com.

The video here is all about how AI/automation is supporting humans in critical areas of life.