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by member_28380
15 Mar 2014 06:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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What happened to the Delhi Embassy School tax evasions? Why are these things being pursued?

What should India be afraid of? Let's face it. Is Khan going to bring a resolution in UN demanding plebiscite in Kashmir?

India should explicitly support Russia on Crimea.
by member_28380
15 Mar 2014 06:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Yes, I already mentioned in my very first post on this page that double jeopardy does not apply here. I'm asking whether the law actually permits frivolous re-indictments of this kind when a case was thrown out before trial. Yes, there is *no* law about "frivoulous re-indictments"., the D...
by member_28380
15 Mar 2014 06:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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This is all engineered by the the Obama administration & state department to put India in its place. Obama is Bharara's boss, and he would not go to these lengths without tacit approval. The way a great power retaliates would be to provide far more explicit approval for Russia's actions in Crim...
by member_28380
13 Mar 2014 04:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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^^^^^ Aha interesting development. The joker wants to part ways from his flighty wife but does not want to lose his T2 visa status. And hence he talks in plural when talking about "suffering". I suppose he used to stay up and stand in a corner to express solidarity with his wifey when she...
by member_28380
01 Mar 2014 06:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Extremist censorship holds Hindus in chains BY SHIKHA DALMIA :roll: The book, it claimed, had “hurt the feelings of millions of Hindus” with its overly erotic interpretations of their faith . But by using censorship to salve Hindus' imaginary wounds, it'll ensure that the best scholarship about its...
by member_28380
01 Mar 2014 06:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Foreign Policy from way back in January 2010: The Elephant In The Room : The Biggest Pain In Asia Isn’t The Country You’d Think [/quote] This Barbara Crossette old witch seems to have pathological hatred of India. Wonder what could be the reason. There is another angle to look at this, the more pow...
by member_28380
18 Feb 2014 00:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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I am also surprised that Ashley is so brazen in saying that US is a special friend going back to post-Indian independence . Doesn't he remember anything of the "special things" that US did to India from 1965 till almost 10 years back? And he asserts that US is a special friend and recipro...
by member_28380
18 Feb 2014 00:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Ashley Tullis telling Aziz Haniffa, a known US sympathizer that India over-reacted to the Devyani case, and shouldn't have applied reciprocity to US diplomutts... India-US relations: 'The rupture is certainly real and quite tragic' I have followed Aziz's reports on rediff from US and invariably it ...
by member_28380
16 Feb 2014 19:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Jan 04, 2014
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I have no idea what the Indian govt has been upto the last 20 years actually. Every year it should bring out a white paper 'terrorist groups in Pakistan'. 1. List the group 2. List its centers, leaders 3. List its annual budget : revenues, revenue sources, spending details. 4. List its jihadi publi...
by member_28380
16 Feb 2014 19:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Views: 1578898

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Report: John Kerry is Working to Scuttle Israel-India Arms Deal http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/02/14/report-john-kerry-is-working-to-scuttle-israel-india-arms-deal/ Kerrorist practices fire brand Wahabi Islam. :P Moderate Muslims are protesting and are pointing out Kerrorist brings bad repute to Is...
by member_28380
15 Feb 2014 20:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Sunni Islam is the Kalashnikov wielding terror arm of the SD. So the comparisons may be entirely intentional. They will try to support this vile project until the Saudi backed Islamists have done maximum damage they can around the world and when their use is over, they will be dispensed away with w...
by member_28380
15 Feb 2014 20:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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US is doing Modi no favour: It is merely that the US is hedging its bets. It may be noted that, during NDA rule, the US took a strong interest in Sonia Gandhi, over and above what one might normally expect a foreign government to show towards a leader of the Opposition. At the time, this was dismis...
by member_28380
07 Feb 2014 08:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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It looks like there is a huge Western/ US media campaign "weapons of mass deception" style to dismantle Ukraine govt.

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/column ... estions-0/

http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2014/1402 ... sheet.html
by member_28380
07 Feb 2014 07:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Very entertaining state dept briefing on the Russian tape leak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW1WDbDX7wE This is great :rotfl: Just matter of fact ly the "lady" says "**** die eu" and the guy goes on taking it in his stride. May be this is feminism :rotfl: Aren't guys supposed...
by member_28380
07 Feb 2014 07:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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http://rt.com/news/pharma-generic-drugs-india-945/ Big Pharma presses US to quash cheap drug production in India Powerful global pharmaceutical firms are leaning on the United States government to discourage India from allowing the production and sale of affordable generic drugs still on-patent, ac...
by member_28380
06 Feb 2014 20:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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no need to worry there jingos, this is just business, go ahead and prosecute AES: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-pharma-pushes-u-action-093131997.html What the AES and US diplomats and their spouses have indulged in India IS MASSIVE FRAUD as in publishing a hand out asking to lie about visa stat...
by member_28380
06 Feb 2014 07:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Talks to Avoid Devyani Redux - The Hindu While remaining open to dialogue, Mr. Khurshid said the Centre would continue to monitor the American Embassy School’s functioning in the light of media reports of tax and visa violations. “ The government has sought the relevant information from the school ...
by member_28380
06 Feb 2014 07:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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To continue this CT mode discussion consider this folks. 1) Would Amir Khan's actions have been different if PB and Zeya were gora or some other color? [Answer: Certainly not and that's all we should be concerned with IMO] Your point about the negative attitudes towards India emanating from the who...
by member_28380
06 Feb 2014 05:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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@Amber G Re, Bank of America. Some must be thrown to the wolves, right? It is more like interbank cannibalism, with Bharara using the tool of the law to selectively enforce it against political targets. That is why Dinesh D'Souza went down. It is very naive to take all this at face-value. One of th...
by member_28380
06 Feb 2014 05:39
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/01/30/dershowitz-legal-experts-say-vindictive-dsouza-indictment-came-from-higher-up-97538 Famed liberal Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz joined other legal experts in slamming the Obama administration for targeting conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza f...
by member_28380
06 Feb 2014 05:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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LokeshCJi, you are absolutely right. AmberJi can pull a link here and there to show PB's so called going after Wall St, but remember the financial meltdown in 2008 was colossal. How many big-wig honcho thieves has PB gone after? Very true. PB is a publicity whore, a cheap shot. Just picking (mostly...
by member_28380
05 Feb 2014 07:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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So other nations are watching all right. How is GOI explaining people who are facing charges in Indian courts being taken out on T visas, with tax-free tickets, through New Delhi airport? How is GOI going to explain allowing wholesale tax fraud, people sitting across from the HQ of the Income Tax d...
by member_28380
05 Feb 2014 07:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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IDSA K Subrahmanyam memorial lecture

Father of ambassador Jaishankar, strategic affairs analyst, was a passionate advocate of India's nuclear weapons program
by member_28380
05 Feb 2014 06:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Singapore's Dean Mahbubani says... (From his Lecture: "Can India be Cunning" Devyani’s return shows India’s clout, Kishore Mahbubani says India is heading for a "geo-political sweet spot" and even the Devyani Kobragade episode reflects India's rising clout as not too long ago, t...
by member_28380
04 Feb 2014 20:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Khans are back to what they have done all along before. Sponsoring Islamic Terror all over. Esp BHO+JK combo means jihad all over... :oops: Very accurate analysis: Sub-continental drift: Strategic reasons India, US are heading down different paths http://rt.com/op-edge/india-us-drift-apart-why-629/ ...
by member_28380
04 Feb 2014 07:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Recently had to pass thru Ahlana jawjuh after their finely-managed Weather Event. Picked up the great Khabar, "Passport to the Indian-American Community". Editorial by Parthiv Parekh. Page 10, February rag ..portraying Richards as the guilty party seems important to a sundry set of people...
by member_28380
04 Feb 2014 07:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Uzra Zeya, could be the key player behind US again supporting fundamentalists in BD. The annual SD report on "Human Rights" was released by her last year... Apparently China has started publishing annual HR reports on US: :lol: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-04/22/content_16430019....
by member_28380
04 Feb 2014 07:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Prabhu Dayal also connects the Sikhs for Justice cases and the Devyani K case on Dec 27 itself. It is self-evident that the motivation is undermining sovereignty, laying the groundwork of redistribution of funds from GOI to preferred groups through lawsuits (this was how lawyer-activist-media-finan...
by member_28380
03 Feb 2014 22:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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^^ The above sounds insulting to India, but there are many positives. --Reduction of the huge, bloated number of US embassy staff should be reduced as the first step in tackling US subversive activities in India. ---India is free to pursue its national interests and not feel timid about its relation...
by member_28380
03 Feb 2014 22:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Also strange was PB's comment in the document submitted to the judge, .. that DK now (because she is no longer in USA) does not have any immunity.. I wonder if the expectation is that the Marines will land in Naya Dilli and grab DK to face "justice" PB istyle? I think this guy watches too...
by member_28380
03 Feb 2014 07:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-US-ties-face-new-test-over-Devyanis-legal-war/articleshow/29789835.cms The State Department's legalistic position, enabling what some Indian interlocutors see as Bharara's provocative language (which in effect accused the Government of India of ''conco...
by member_28380
03 Feb 2014 07:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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There would be enough wriggle room available to anybody motivated to get out of the sticky situation. Rest assured. However, the damage to credibility will be already done. Not that it would matter to them. I agree about the loss of credibility. Breach of trust is huge. Imagine this meeting in the ...
by member_28380
03 Feb 2014 07:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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The question needs to move on - does India need the US ? I am unconvinced of that. The following principles should guide India IMHO 1) US is not a friend of India 2)US is not an ally of India 3) US is not an enemy of India (1) and (2) do not mean US is an enemy of India. Since US remains the most p...
by member_28380
03 Feb 2014 07:36
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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That's the problem with that thesis. BO and JK are NOT going to get involved in nanny-gate/petty arrests, won't touch with 10-foot mijjile. Plausible deniability uber alles, if nothing else. MS. HARF: He was certainly aware, yes, absolutely. He’s been kept up to speed on this case. I can double-che...
by member_28380
02 Feb 2014 19:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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The Golden Dictum of US, its operating principle is Might is Right. I Am Always Right Since I Have the Money and Missiles. MATA Nisha Biswal is in Sri Lanka kicking up dust on bringing on another resolution condemning human rights violation by Sri Lankan army. The truth is LTTE deliberately used civ...
by member_28380
02 Feb 2014 19:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Surprising dynamic there. The Internet-based news portals have been MUCH better this time around. DNA India, New Indian Express, the (British!!)-linked Daily Mail ( doubt if this was because of their pro-Indian sentiment more than their anti-American sentiment). And most amazing: the Telegraph from...
by member_28380
02 Feb 2014 19:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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http://www.telegraphindia.com:8080/1140201/jsp/opinion/story_17884577.jsp#.Uu0wiPmSzKc BIG BROTHERLY POSTURING Kanwal Sibal The Devyani Khobragade affair that has rocked India and the United States of America’s relations so unexpectedly carries many lessons. It has highlighted the inherent difficul...
by member_28380
02 Feb 2014 19:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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http://www.telegraphindia.com:8080/1140201/jsp/opinion/story_17884577.jsp#.Uu0wiPmSzKc BIG BROTHERLY POSTURING Kanwal Sibal The Devyani Khobragade affair that has rocked India and the United States of America’s relations so unexpectedly carries many lessons. It has highlighted the inherent difficul...
by member_28380
02 Feb 2014 19:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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14,827 murders i.e one every 40 minutes 84,376 rapes i.e one every 7 minutes 3,54,520 robberies i.e one every 90 seconds 760,739 assaults i.e one every 45 seconds 89,75,438 property crimes i.e 17 crimes every second These are US crime statistics from FBI for 2012 and these do not even include crime...
by member_28380
02 Feb 2014 18:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
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Ah! Yes, of course, the rush to defend and rationalize the indefensible. That is what is called "M*T*" when applied to Americans. So enshrined in Brish1t history with the famous words of the British "Judge" who conducted the inquiry about the Jallianwala Bagh "pacification&...