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- 09 Nov 2020 01:24
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2020 US election results discussion
- Replies: 901
- Views: 127363
Re: 2020 US election results discussion
How is it possible only the Presidential election is rigged against Trump but NOT against Republicans? NOT A SINGLE congressional seat got flipped by the Democrats. Even the Senate seems poised for dead lock. No blue wave. Trump complained in 2016 about millions of illegal voters against him and ev...
- 02 Nov 2020 10:10
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: BR Forum Feedback
- Replies: 1178
- Views: 334322
Re: BR Forum Feedback
Thanks. But I don't think I will be active again here. Teetaar works better for my needs and wants.arshyam wrote: Long time indeed - welcome back!
- 02 Nov 2020 10:05
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: BR Forum Feedback
- Replies: 1178
- Views: 334322
Re: BR Forum Feedback
Umm...haven't been here in a long time and was surprised to see I could not get in without being on VPN. Was I ip banned at some point? The server's algo might have put your IP as spam, esp. if not static ip. Please confirm that it's not your ISP doing the blocking. If issue persists please drop an...
- 11 Sep 2020 23:17
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: BR Forum Feedback
- Replies: 1178
- Views: 334322
Re: BR Forum Feedback
Umm...haven't been here in a long time and was surprised to see I could not get in without being on VPN. Was I ip banned at some point?
- 04 Dec 2019 23:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7497
- Views: 1741558
Re: Understanding the US - Again
even fox and trump stopped talking about clinton.
brf, ahead the curve.![Cool 8)](./images/smilies/cool.gif)
brf, ahead the curve.
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- 04 Dec 2019 18:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7497
- Views: 1741558
Re: Understanding the US - Again
On NATO, you may be charmed to know that some of the US leftist Left agrees with Trump, sort of: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/02/trump-was-right-he-was-wrong-nato-should-be-obsolete Trump Was Right Before He Was Wrong: NATO Should Be Obsolete In an age where people around the world wa...
- 26 Jun 2019 09:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7497
- Views: 1741558
Re: Understanding the US - Again
It is intentional...to spread word that you are not welcome.. same thing with legal immigrants as well.. I left before all this and I hear from some of the stuckees :twisted: (stuck in massa, to borrow from the mehtha)..that they feel unstable. Many have not traveled to India for a while, fearing is...
- 25 Jun 2019 14:55
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8446
- Views: 3023749
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
TN has one...Singha wrote:perhaps good tax breaks for locally made solar , wind and battery is in order.
only few takers though..
http://teda.in/apply/incentive-for-dome ... ndividual/
- 21 Jun 2019 08:43
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8446
- Views: 3023749
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
anecdotally speaking...almost all of my cousins have stopped at one. I am the oldest among my peers and I have two.
As the modi govt is pulling the abject poor into lower middle class, the rate of growth will fall much faster than now.
As the modi govt is pulling the abject poor into lower middle class, the rate of growth will fall much faster than now.
- 19 Jun 2019 20:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 6664
- Views: 1368244
Re: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
If you want to run around waving a white flag, that is your prerogative :) Don't get in the way of others, that's all. I don't get the woe is us, we doomed, zomg zomg either.. and the overt/covert longing of reconquista or chinese style stuff that I see a lot on so-called RW twitter.. Have faith (p...
- 05 Jun 2019 16:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8795
- Views: 2460560
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
What's the breakup, considering the masters quota applicants? Did they flip how they apply the lottery already?Singha wrote:the % of h1 approval has come down from 93 in 2017, to 85 in 2018 and 79 in first 5 months of 2019
the % of RFE has increased trumpianly
- 04 Jun 2019 12:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
susa did a lot of damage to bjp in TN. his constant shooting off the mouth would be grabbed gleefully by opposition to push bjp into a corner. susa backed sasikala. and then backed TTV, knowing that TTV allied with SDPI, the front org for PFI which killed bjp cadres in TN. and yet susa is seen as so...
- 04 Jun 2019 12:15
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Then there are various highway projects under implementation and awarded, so to be implemented soon. I wonder if the "smart educated lot" were aware of these or simply chose not to acknowledge. Also are you saying that CG schemes such as Mudra, Ujjwala, Toilets, Electricity supplies worke...
- 04 Jun 2019 12:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
As I mentioned before, from the political grapevine in TN, the vote for DMK is actually anger against ADMK govt than BJP. Aligning with ADMK was a big mistake. Su Swamy was right. Well..ADMK won the assembly seat while losing the parliament seat that includes that assembly seat. Clearly, the voter ...
- 04 Jun 2019 11:26
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
There is that as well. Not disputing. People have been coopted into corruption. An ADMK district exec level friend was telling how at least 25c was given from party for money distribution for each seat. that's 500c in the 20 odd seats they contested. Candidates had to spend their own as well. He put...
- 04 Jun 2019 08:59
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Modi is forcing us to pay insurance so that Adani and Ambani are making money out of it.Lilo wrote: crop insurance...
Why did the PM not meet our Ayyakannu. He has time to meet film actresses. He does not care about TN //dumeelspeak
- 04 Jun 2019 08:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Ignoring the language, Dravidian etc issues, I've been looking through economic data and here's something that stands out - the state with the largest amount of PMMY (Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana) loans is Tamil Nadu . I guess a scheme named in Hindi wasn't a detriment to business instincts of the p...
- 01 Jun 2019 23:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
GusJi, could you fashion a response for say when one points out all the developmental projects undertaken in TN by the Modi sarkaar, such as doubling, gauge conversion and electrification of the many railway lines that vsunderji outlined in his posts in the Railway dhaga or the highway projects tha...
- 31 May 2019 12:52
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
People are ignoring the main issue - the ban came about when a lady judge banned jallikattu while hearing a case for permission sought by an event with no relevance at all. Then the issue was looped by the awbi with support from mg. The centre was too slow to react and the interregnum was convenien...
- 31 May 2019 12:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
But didn't you say that "Go on, give me a work that you think should have credit and I will give you the dumeel response that will leave you cross eyed and brain scrambled". In that case if the minds were already made up, then how much would it have mattered if everybody knew about it? ho...
- 31 May 2019 11:01
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
It is not for anybody to decide to arbitrarily ban JK. It is somebody's cultural practice. If you don't like it, you are welcome to not participate or cheer. It was not catch 22 etc. State ordinance route was proposed by N.Sitaraman in Jan 2016 itself, when their attempt to let JK happen was quashed...
- 30 May 2019 18:13
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala Floods - Aftermath and Save Sabarimala
- Replies: 2419
- Views: 466500
Re: Kerala Floods - Aftermath and Save Sabarimala
Now it is for India to do the right thing - it is up to rest of India to pour into Kerala and fix this, since it is a rest-of-India activist who made the rest-of-India judicial system have its say. There is nothing that the commies can do, if rest of India is mobilized for a grand Kumbmela style pi...
- 30 May 2019 11:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Gus, this anti-Modi meme generation was tremendous in Kerala too. there are some common elements here..I think there was some feeding off of each other going on po mone modi was started there very early, right? it become go back modi theme here.. in TN, pinarayi was praised in some memes like "...
- 30 May 2019 11:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
What I wonder is who thought of it...was it just organic or some force planned & executed it? I cannot for the life of me think DMK is that smart Well it can match AIADMK goon for goon, corruption for corruption. Congress in TN, is a joke. So who did this? (like they ask in twitter) It's a comi...
- 27 May 2019 17:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Nobody beleived the nyay nonsense. TN Results would be unchanged if that was never announced. But some sections did believe in loan waivers. Above all is the deep running visceral hatred and mockery of modi. Gave a new hundred rupee note at barber, he mentioned something about the new color and one ...
- 27 May 2019 17:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
I'll give you one example of how powerful the memes gang is. When JJ died and Sasi was made leader and she put in claim to be CM, the memes were all against Sasi, reminding us of her atrocities , her corruption , abuse of power, mafia family, JJ killer etc. Governor avoided coronating her by not bei...
- 27 May 2019 14:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
People need to understand the memes, YT videos, twitter comments phenomenon in TN. For you to win, you have to take credit for your work. There is currently zero credit in TN for any of Modi's work. whatever you can think of, that will be counted as sure shot credit for Modi in other places, is alre...
- 27 May 2019 14:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 472361
Re: Kerala and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
My 2 np thought... In TN the dmk alliance with cong has channelled the resentment against admk and has gained. that explains why ADMK won in the assembly seats, despite losing the corresponding LS seat, right? :roll: Modi is highly unpopular in TN. Not just the usual xtian, muslim hate, but also am...
- 23 May 2019 15:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections : Results Discussion
- Replies: 2982
- Views: 439181
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
as our JeM says..Rupa went full rupard...one should never go full rupardSuraj wrote:It's been fun to read Rupa Subramanya's twitter meltdown. Strongman blah blah failing economy blah blah institutions destroyed blah blah
- 21 May 2019 06:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
- Replies: 6200
- Views: 1162763
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
may we all be rewarded for your reverse jinxes Dilbu ji. ok..since you are new, you may not know how this science works. when dilbu is doing his thing...you don't quote him. you don't mention r word j word, otherwise said r word j word may not work. you are only allowed to post after and say "...
- 19 May 2019 10:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
- Replies: 6200
- Views: 1162763
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
When will there be RS majority for NDA?
- 19 May 2019 10:40
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
- Replies: 6200
- Views: 1162763
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
NJAC needs to be pushed through. Judicial and police reform should be highest priority in this term. Need to move society to one that beleives in it's police and gets timely justice at courts.
- 12 May 2019 17:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
- Replies: 6200
- Views: 1162763
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
It means his quota is over until next election season in 2024hanumadu wrote:After starving the press for 5 years, Modi is on an interview spree. What gives? Usually there is a lot of thought on what ever he does, but most won't figure it out until later.
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- 11 May 2019 09:02
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
- Replies: 6200
- Views: 1162763
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
This whole Rajiv Gandhi line of attack shows how far BJP has come from the previous elections when they were always scrambling to react to hitjobs and agenda set by Congress media and mumbling denials and trying outrage etc. Fun to watch the reversal. Cong media people are all lining up with advise ...
- 11 May 2019 08:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
- Replies: 6200
- Views: 1162763
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
Excellent points on the definition of terms and what one stands for and use that as a marker to identify and defend against hinduphobia. RSS has a long way to go...only now they are legally defending against the slander of RSS killed Gandhi.
The discussions on this can be an article at swarajaya
The discussions on this can be an article at swarajaya
- 09 May 2019 16:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
- Replies: 6200
- Views: 1162763
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
modi is 68 now. I think he will still run in 73 for another term. coming term should be less strenuous than current term. opposition will be further divided. dynasty will be in trouble on legal fronts and will be questioned by regional congress leaders who get mass base from states where it is bjp v...
- 02 May 2019 12:23
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
- Replies: 6200
- Views: 1162763
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
If an implicit citizenship is there from any foreign country, then I think it is required to explicitly renounce it. My kids are entitled for Indian citizenship through me, but they were born in US and carry US citizenship. Until they come of age and go to consulate and renounce their US citizenship...
- 16 Apr 2019 16:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7497
- Views: 1741558
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Next 30 years is our opportunity to be a firm member of p3 with global power and economic links Such chances come once in 1000 years People need to vote for right guy and make it count More importantly, the trump admin has left the state dept-pentagon-wasp types disoriented their normal response me...
- 28 Mar 2019 10:48
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8446
- Views: 3023749
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
thanks nanda suraj.
I guess the govt is taking lots of steps to stabilize the rupee..the oil purchases, the currency swap and now this.
I guess the govt is taking lots of steps to stabilize the rupee..the oil purchases, the currency swap and now this.
- 27 Mar 2019 14:35
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8446
- Views: 3023749
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
suraj
please to explain this for layman. thanks
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ma ... 586674.cms
please to explain this for layman. thanks
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ma ... 586674.cms