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Liu - No need to get defensive. Just pointing out my observation.

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Had a chance to visit 4 cities in China and it was very fascinating. Looking out of the high-speed train from Beijing to Shanghai, I was able to get a perspective of the development pattern: - The amount of money invested in infrastructure throughout is phenomenal and most of this appears to be high...

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Just got back from a visit to China and found out that many regular folks there seem to be taking vacations to Sri Lanka. Through soft and hard techniques, it looks like China is all set to encircle India.

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Had an opportunity to travel on China's High-Speed-Rail. The stations and trains are extremely impressive. Covered Beijing to Shanghai in 5 hours (1300 kms). Would be awesome if Chennai to Bombay could be covered in 5 hrs by train!

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Token gesture. It's like a dysfunctional corporation replacing some upper management scapegoats without any change to address the underlying malaise.

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After the debacle created by Obama & Co, the going rate for Indian Ambassador is probably going to be quite low.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-2 ... money.html

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MS FlightSim has most airports in the world by default in its database, including very obscure airports in the middle of nowhere. Just because the airport exists in the FlightSim does not mean anything, unless there is specific evidence of him flying routes to these obscure airports...

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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 Crimea.

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Pankaj Mishra is at it again: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-0 ... india.html

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Immediate apology for saying "f**c EU"

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2 ... u-comment/

No apology for actually f**cking a diplomat through custodial sexual assault. Shows the priorities of the Obama/Kerrorist state department.

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Very entertaining state dept briefing on the Russian tape leak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW1WDbDX7wE

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Now DD as a backdoor deal for Preet Bharara to make amends for what he did to India could also make sense

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If you look at the number of Indian origin folks being prosecuted by Preet Bharara, one or more of the following has to be true: 1. Indian origin folks have more white collar criminals amongst them (Very unlikely especially among the immigrant population) 2. Indian origin folks that engage in white-...

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If Kerry really means what he is saying, we should see the recall of Nancy Powell shortly. Otherwise his words are meaningless.

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Again, let us not conflate prevailing wage vs minimum wage. These maids are on a specific visa and cannot go to the broader market and demand prevailing wages any more than someone on an L1 Visa can. The issue is about minimum wage and the various contracts and forms of payment (in cash and in benef...

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Paying prevailing wage (40k+) is not a requirement. Paying minimum wage is a requirement. If you include room/board/other allowances, it will add up to well beyond minimum wage. Technically I agree this is a violation of the law which saying room & board cannot be included, but it doesn't come a...

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Listening to the statements, I think the s is silent in Psaki's name.. Not the P.

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Are there any updates on the status of the other 14 maids in the US? Action on the school may be delayed while the Babudom figures out how to proceed with that issue. Until then, this can be used as leverage (unless a US prosecutor goes rogue).

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With the number of MUTUs coming out of the woodwork, we will soon have MMTMs

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Shutdown the school. Any response must be disproportionate so that the perpetrators never forget. The SD must truly have a hardship posting in India once the thousand cuts are done

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Can also be charged in a civil trial

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Made it to NY Post without as much condescension:

http://nypost.com/2014/01/15/american-d ... ams-india/

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@venug - They can question the Mays and they can get one of the following responses: 1. Confirm 2. Deny - In which case they'd be lying and it could elongate and deepen the scandal 3. Neither confirm nor deny - In which case it would be tantamount to a confirmation. I think #2 is unlikely so it's ei...

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chaanakya - I agree with you. That letter was meant for a US senator

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OCIs, I have sent a note to US senators from my state that looks like this: PS don't jump on me. This is a Bud-light email for a US Senator and does not fully capture my thoughts on this. Senator XXXXXX, I write to you with deep concern about the direction in which US-India relations have been heade...

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Yet another reason to avoid voting for democrats http://www.firstpost.com/world/immunity ... 39287.html

And I say this as someone who has voted mostly democratic in the past. No more.

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Dean Nelson tried to weasel out of misrepresenting what anmol got from their public profile as "hacking" and finally backed out: Nishan_t Bhajaria ‏@_nishantjb 3h @DelhiDean Letter to your editors sent. You can redefine "hacking" all you want but you've been caught in a lie here....

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Looks like Dean Olsen appears to shares the views of the Mays. Here's a twitter exchange: AndrewBuncombe ‏@AndrewBuncombe 10h 'Was expelled US diplomat racist? Reminder that anything said on social media can return to bite you. V @DelhiDean http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Waynes-World-Wa...

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One significant punishment/snub should be to delay any ongoing non-critical business deals and get them approved the day the next President gets inaugurated. IIRC Iran did something like that with the hostages under Jimmy Carter and released them the day Reagan took office? Time to send Obama a stro...

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Dean Nelson appears to be under the impression that these are private messages that were somehow hacked. I pointed out to him that this was a public profile and these diplomats were careless at a minimum in a twitter exchange with him.

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90% of goras visiting india have the same reaction, why worry? We really need to differentiate tourist versus diplomat here. When a diplomat is allowed in a Country and granted privileges, there is a modicum of decency and responsibility to how they conduct themselves in Public. Trashing the cultur...

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Folks, if you want to let Dean Nelson what you think about his extremely poor article, please tweet to @delhidean (His twitter handle).

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How is bring out the overt misbehavior of the diplomutt couple vilification? It was on Facebook for all to see and but for the bringing it out in open would still have been there. Dean's mission appears to be to minimize what the couple said and blame the people that are bringing this up. He comple...

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Picked up by the Telegraph with all the pompousness and condescension one can expect from them:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... acism.html

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Guys any specific hashtag we should be using to coordinate twitter messaging of the FB site?

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I have posted everything in this tumblr(all pics and backup of their profiles) with no editorializing: http://duckduckduckdoge.tumblr.com/ Thanks a lot Anmol. I plan to write to all my law makers about this stressing on how such incompetence in the State Department will create significant long term...

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@archan.. agreed that it was a strong reaction.. But given everything DK had to go through, it just doesn't feel like true reciprocity yet.

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Looking through those Facebook pages, there is one post from Feb of 2013 saying that her stay has been extended by 1 year. If so, the expulsion is just about moving their return date ahead by less than one month. Not much of a response really.....

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The tumblr site is awesome - I wish there were two versions though : One with the editorializing for some audiences, and one with just the raw information for other audiences.. I would like to share this widely but I think it will be better without the editorializing for some of my circles.

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Washington Post has got to be channeling some state department contact. It is not a simple matter of the Editorial Board deciding to be sanctimonious p*icks although they are that as well.

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