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Pratyush
The US could have achieved all that without quite saying we did it. So why say it?

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IndraD
It is very likely that it was a deliberate leak. But what faction of the US want it leaked and what do they hope to gain from it?

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A rather long, but worth it read: The operative thought: "frustrates the Neocons". Not the trade corridor. Jan 31, 2023 :: Russia’s “Sanction-Proof” Trade Corridor to India Frustrates the Neocons “Naked capitalism” looks interesting. What do you think of it? I look it up at least once a d...

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Manish ji I think Pakis have to cough up after 2024. So I checked the financing of the project. They asked Iran to finance it in 2016 and they showed Pakis the finger. Since then, all news has dried up....until today. My guess is Pakis are scouring for bakras. They have to build 750km of pipeline i...

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US can just print dollars and give it away. Reserve currency has its advantage but routing it via the IMF, the US retains a hook and also the leverage to influence the roll over of the loan, or not Also relevant in this context according to the covenants agreed to by all countries before they are a...

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I am not greatly experienced in long duration international travel. Nor have I been inebriated beyond being mildly tipsy. People do get drunk and do really silly things. But I am astonished that somebody could have been so sozzled to the point that he has no idea about what he is doing and no concep...

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Demonetisation was one of the best kept secrets of the Modi government in the initial years. That also meant very few people were in the know of it. Even RBI was told that they had to come up with new design for Rs 500 notes with improved security (fake currency notes were a real problem, back then)...

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Russia is not becoming subservient to China. Please check Putin's new year speech. He hammers about true strategic independence. Rapprochement is != subservient. Russia knows where China's weaknesses are, idem for China. Its a marriage of convenience, not true convergence and even less congruence. ...

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Private holdings of gold is huge and steadily growing over the years. It is also true that such holdings dwarfs collective holdings of global central banks. Nothing has changed to justify the author's (Ankit Sharma) comment. That was my point.

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I never fail to be surprised how the IA quickly manages to import items from no name manufacturers. Somehow the usual summer ,winter, rainy, full moon with Equinox and Deepika dancing in background type trials are never done in these cases. How come there is money for this type of things? A desi de...

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Game-Changer: India procures Estonian unmanned ground vehicle THeMIS The Indian Army has recently procured Milrem Robotics’ Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System (THeMIS) unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) from Estonia. THeMIS has been making waves in the military technology sector, and India became th...

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Chetak I am not disagreeing with any of your observations on the issue of countering false propaganda and fake narratives etc. It is just that media business and that too, if one wants it to be a global operations, it calls for really deep pockets. Now NDTV runs almost entirely on advertisements (90...

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https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bu ... 299051.ece
Posting it here although related to geo thermal energy. Because it relates to Ladakh, a politically sensitive region.

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vijayk wrote:Adani says he wants to create global brand like AlZazeera

There would have been no Al Jazeera without the oil/gas revenues of Qatar. While Adani is a rich man can he match the financial deep pockets of a rich Gulf sheikdom?

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Would she have been the only brand ambassador of Luis Vuitton? I mean LV is not just some VIP moulded luggage brand. It is serious luxury. So her being put in there would have meant some heavy lifting behind the scenes by the powers that be. Also let us not forget, the finals was watched by more peo...

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A related question: If the punishment for blasphemy is death can the accused in a murder invoke protection under Article 25 to 30 of the Constitution (minorities right to practice their religion) and claim that beheading is an essential feature of Islam?

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The real elephant in the room is the relative attractiveness of the US as a destination for international savings. Whether you Colombian drug cartel or a Russian oligarch or a tinpot dictator of an African country your preferred destination is the US and by extension the US dollar. True it may be in...

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I'm going to pretend that the title of the thread also has the words "Geoeconomics Fallout" Multiple sources are pointing to inevitable and a seismic shift in the economic operating model (#debt #currency #gold) of the world as we know it (at the scale of Bretton Woods type agreements), s...

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I don't think the news is factually incorrect. Did not we hear that first rouble-rupee payment will happen this week for the first time. To supplement the answer, the problem is not so much the absence of a settlement mechanism. The rupee-ruble mechanism as such had been in vogue during the Soviet ...

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After the Price cap on Russian oil, Turkiye is stopping oil tankers carrying Russian & Kazakh crude for India and the West in the name of insurance. A large no of oil tankers are awaiting in sea of Marmara. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/7/turkey-seeks-proof-of-insurance-from-russian-oi...

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ramana
The story is behind a paywall. Can you elaborate a bit more on that story? Thanks.

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Look who is in Ukraine, apparently stayed there overnight, setting a new trend: Putin insincere about peace talks, takes war to new level of 'barbarism' - a top U.S. diplomat ........................... U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and...

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I am wondering if Govt. can reduce GST on domestic Make in India products and leave same rates on imported item. Would that be possible? Would that benefit Make in India products? That would be difficult, I think. If India did that it would be against the WTO rules and the affected nations can take...

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I was wondering if members of the international jury are paid a honorarium to sit in on the panel and watch movies. I tried to find out information on this from the official website of IFFI. But there is none. Well, if NFDC is paying the jury to watch movies and select a winner the jury has no busin...

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I agree with you Pratyush on all points that you have made except for one. The Afghanistan withdrawal could have been more orderly, don't you think,? If it was hurried, why would a professional army and that too, in peace time, do so? Isn't it more logical to think it was dictated by an urgency to p...

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chetak Your point "A thought occurred, ..... does all this have any connection to the sudden ameriki "withdrawal" from afghanistan, were the amerikis pushed by the euro goras to scramble out that jehadi hell hole and is a revenge scenario of biblical proportions playing out in europe....

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This is really strange, all I see for the messages above from Chetak, Vijayk & Chetak again is just a word saying "Image" thats it, no link to an image or the image itself in the message. Am I the only one who is seeing this? I am logged into the forum and can post to it. Any ideas? T...

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https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/its-war-josep-but-not-as-we-know An interesting read. The key point the author makes is that ultimately Russia would like nothing better than for the rest of the world to see the US, and Western Europe (NATO, basically) as politically and militarily incapable of c...

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WION was owned by the Zee Group. That has been taken over by Sony. So you can expect it to reflect Western interests. Qatar is the poster child of the West displacing Saudi Arabia.

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This is evil beyond belief. No, no, you are all wrong, "Reserved by nature, he 'never got in fight', say family & friends" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/shraddha-murder-case-reserved-by-nature-he-never-got-in-fight-say-family-friends/articleshow/95518783.cms Just wai...

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I don't understand: if a shopkeeper doesn't declare the sale (ie, issue a bill and charge GST), isn't he losing out on input tax credit ? Under the relief to small traders, those that don't have a turnover a nominal sale (I don't recall the exact amount) they don't have to register under the GST. T...

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Which is why all of them must be encountered, Hyderabad Police style.... So that their career & future (alongwith their families) gets screwed up?? SC panel says book 10 cops for killing 4 accused in Hyderabad rape & murder THE JUSTICE V S Sirpurkar Commission, set up by the Supreme Court t...

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Shops generally come under composition scheme and pay 1.5% tax , such goods are aldready subjected to GST, so the loss will not be much, its factories and large services that matter. Further with digital payments big fish within India dont get away. The only real Avenue is net settlement outside In...

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What was the legal basis stated by the SC to set these killers free? Thanks Because, their cases were identical to Perarivalan's release. All their roles were peripheral, at best, to the actual conspiracy which was planned and executed by Sivarasan who committed suicide once he realized that the Po...

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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/facebook-scrambles-to-escape-death-spiral-as-users-flee-sales-drop.html Darling of librandus , FB in deep trouble has lost 2/3rd revenue (was $1T not long ago) I read the CNBC article. If one looks at the number of active users the fall is at best, marginal. Globally...

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British want the FTA badly. Will throw Mallya and that Nadeem guy also as a bonus. India concluded a treaty with UK for extradition way back in 1992 (It was called Treaty for Mutual Legal Assistance or something like that). Some years ago, there was a news item, where it was mentioned that till dat...

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In purely macroeconomic terms, oil sales being recorded in some non-dollar currency is not a deal breaker except in perhaps as a 'loss of face'. US could, if it wants to, just shrug it off. In any case volume of trade in crude and petroleum products at ICE and other global exchanges which dwarfs phy...

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An imminent Ukrainian offensive in the Kherson sector has been the talk of the town about 3 weeks ago. But there is no news of it now. What gives? Did I miss anything?

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So what would they have done different if it was a full blown operation/ war? Since this is a combat tactic thread lets get specific. Complete destruction of the country from day one. Something like the "shock and awe" that happened in Iraq for 40 days. Nothing left when the ground forces...

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It is not new. I suspected this during my frequent travels. Unshaved smelly ,yellow teeth. I Imentioned this before.. I recently got crowded out at a mall entrance by a largish bunch of tented abrahamics who streamed past me at close quarters. The phenomena of corporeal odor was as relentless as it...

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