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https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/indias-industrial-output-rises-45-in-september#gs.Pz1zqEU India’s factory output rose more than expected in September despite a depreciating rupee and higher fuel prices increasing costs. The Index of Industrial Production rose 4.5 percent year-on-year in Septe...

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Will await comments except, this one is too good to pass up: We should congratulate Shashi Tharoor for at least understanding the pulse in Kerala (for a change) on the Sabari Mala issue :lol:. And his statements - this time in simple English - seems to be based on the inputs from the ground. Will y...

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^^^ My simple take on the Sabarimala issue is: Will you support a Supreme Court order that opens Catholic nunneries/convents to free entry by men? If yes, then please show that by filing a PIL. If "no, but Sabarimala is not a monastery/convent", are the only institutions Hindus are allowed...

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Anytime they point fingers at India, use this: https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2018/11/04/a-house-divided/ For the past several weeks, I have hosted dozens of door-knocking canvassers, and many have returned with similar tales of men denying access to the women in their households. I have not hear...

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An Israeli fashion company’s ad featuring Bar Refaeli in a hijab is being slammed online, with people calling it “racist,” “ignorant” and “Islamophobic.” https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/israeli-clothing-ad-featuring-bar-refaeli-slammed-online-for-being-racist-ignorant-and-islamophobic This attack...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/anti-semitism-inherent-trumps-nativism/574672/ The question is no longer: Does anti-Semitism exist among American conservatives? It’s: Is anti-Semitism an inevitable byproduct of the nativist conservatism being championed by President Trump? The answ...

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India's Infrastructure output growth year over year in September was 4.3% holding steady from August's 4.2%. As of this moment hasn't made the news-outlets, so quoting tradingeconomics.com.
https://tradingeconomics.com/india/construction-output

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fake-jews .... Rabbi Loren Jacobs is a “Messianic Jew”, better known as ‘Jews for Jesus’. If this isn’t something you’re familiar with these are Jews by ancestry who maintain the trappings of Judaism and some of the ritual law while accepting Jesus as the Messiah...

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A map of the Alt-Right. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/trump-alt-right-twitter/574219/ I recently analyzed about 30,000 Twitter accounts that self-identified as alt-right or followed someone who did for VOX-Pol, the European academic network studying extremism on social media. The...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-free-speech-criticize-muhammad-echr-ruled/574174/ ...a woman referred to as E.S. was convicted in Austria for, in effect, not phrasing her identical curiosity in the form of a question. On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) u...

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https://clarionproject.org/why-the-saudis-cut-khashoggis-body-in-pieces/ Why the Saudis Had to Cut Up Khashoggi’s Body This is not true. Looks like a suspect website. Nobody including al jJazeera had mentioned that body is found. The bone saw that was carried into the Saudi consulate and what else ...

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Understanding 1488: 1488 is a combination of two popular white supremacist numeric symbols. The first symbol is 14, which is shorthand for the "14 Words" slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The second is 88, which stands for "...

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Academic Paper https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=mca Military Cyber Affairs, The Journal of the Military CyberAffairs Association, Volume 3, Issue 1, Article 7 China’s Maxim – Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom’s BGP Hijacki...

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America is not, strictly speaking, a center-right or center-left nation. Rather, it remains the nation of the Dixiecrats, in which the majority’s desire for equal opportunity and a robust welfare state is mediated by the addiction of a large chunk of the polity to racial hierarchy. It is no coincid...

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... Saudis killed 100K+ people in Yemen since Obama time. No one even bothered. Not NYT/Wapo/Gaurdian/BBC. One journalist killed... Not true. The press highlights Yemen; but the public does not respond. E.g., the NYTimes has had at least 25 stories on the devastation of the war in Yemen in the last...

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https://clarionproject.org/why-the-saud ... in-pieces/
Why the Saudis Had to Cut Up Khashoggi’s Body

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https://equitablegrowth.org/what-upticks-in-u-s-economic-inequality-and-incarceration-mean-for-marriage/ What upticks in U.S. economic inequality and incarceration mean for marriage Forty-six percent of unmarried Americans hope to someday marry, yet falling rates of marriage make their prospects of ...

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/donald-trump-brazen-lies-migrant-caravan Trump’s Lies Are Becoming Exponentially More Brazen Holding court on the White House lawn Monday, Trump revealed new depths of contempt for objective reality—and offered a master class in how the most obvious lies destr...

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture Brinkmann soon realized that his discovery hardly required a special lamp: if you were looking at an ancient Greek or Roman sculpture up close, some of the pigment “was easy to see, even with the naked eye.” W...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/the-case-for-liberal-republicanism/570790/ The Republican Party is losing its ability to prevail in democratic competition. One solution to that dilemma, the Trump solution, is to weaken democracy so that a minority can dominate a disunited majori...

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From: http://www.jesusandmo.net/

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Thomas Friedman: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/opinion/jamal-khashoggi-saudi-mohammed-bin-salman.html And I believe that the roots of 9/11 came from two terrible bargains. One was that bargain between the Saudi ruling family and the kingdom’s religious establishment, where each blessed the othe...

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https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/the-constitution-dharma-intention-to-protect-religious-freedoms-of-groups-no-matter-how-small-is-unarguable/ More troubling is the short shrift given to the letter and spirit of the Constitution in the concurring opinion of Justice Chandrachud....

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ate-buying
China's Late Stock Rally Has All the Hallmarks of State Buying

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RCEP stalled.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... n-backlash

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December 5, 2016 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-donald-trump-journalist-banned-for-criticising-us-president-elect-a7456956.html?fbclid=IwAR2Tr6ekZNEZ2CToCMlT5gl1zI_ElX-J40Eionkxc4iu0m9wAlUwXKmr15s Saudi Arabia bans journalist for criticising Donald Trump One should...

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^^in this conversation my question may be slightly OT, but does anyone know of the origins of soft proscription of sea travel in hinduism. There are many mainstream stories, e.g., about ramanujam and vivekanad talk about it. I have always countered it using 1. Ramayan stories of sea travel of shrir...

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The American deep state, such as it is, is owned by the Saudis. http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2018/10/httpswwwwashingtonpostcomopinionsglobal-opinionsare-we-willing-to-sacrifice-our-moral-standing-for-this20181012ba.html When I arrived in SA many years ago to be the military att...

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American brass-knuckle politics. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/was-gary-hart-set-up/570802/ Was Gary Hart Set Up? What are we to make of the deathbed confession of the political operative Lee Atwater, newly revealed, that he staged the events that brought down the Democratic c...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... me/570832/
Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump's rise. Now he's reveling in his achievements.

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Industrial Production growth YoY Aug 4.3%
Manufacturing Production growth YoY Aug 4.6%

tradingeconomics.com, or e.g.,
https://www.business-standard.com/artic ... 871_1.html

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It’s like a switch is thrown at D+8 that causes actual Democratic seat gain to go from behind their popular-vote gain pace to well ahead of it. So what happens at D+8? Republicans’ structural advantage in how districts are drawn (gerrymandering, as well as the phenomenon of self-sorting, whereby De...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/tom-nichols-why-im-leaving-republican-party/572419/?utm_term=2018-10-07T18%3A00%3A33&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social "Why I’m Leaving the Republican Party" The Republican...

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How the President made his money.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... e=Homepage

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Since we have made fun of first cousin marriage in Pakistan. https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5355&p=2298672#p2298672 Since you brought this up, can you also compare that with toiletistan's stats? There appears to be no recent study, in line with Pakistan's generally di...

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Since we have made fun of first cousin marriage in Pakistan.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5355&p=2298672#p2298672

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NFHS-4 data
via: http://rchiips.org/NFHS/nfhs4.shtml

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50.9 services pmi in September
https://www.business-standard.com/artic ... 377_1.html

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Re: what Rudradev wrote:
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index ... /traister/

“In her new book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, Traister details how female rage has long been the country’s political fuel.“

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