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A new analysis by John Burn-Murdoch, a data journalist at the Financial Times, shows that the typical American is 100 percent more likely to die than the typical Western European at almost every age from birth until retirement.

Imagine I offered you a pill and told you that taking this mystery medication would have two effects. First, it would increase your disposable income by almost half. Second, it would double your odds of dying in the next 365 days. To be an average American is to fill a lifetime prescription of that medication and take the pill nightly.

… There is no single meta-explanation for America’s death ratio that’s capacious enough to account for our higher rates of death from guns, drugs, cars, infant mortality, diet, exercise, and unequal access to care.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... th/673799/
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Tucker Carlson has been forced out of Fox News due to the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Machines

Lawfare has prevailed.

This is like the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping -- ie. shut up an opponent by any means necessary :x
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BREAKING: Sources reveal Susan Rice has been fired by President Biden. Rice has been responsible for the Afghan surrender, the Ukraine proxy war, Taiwanese escalation, and most recently the decision to abandon thousands of Americans in Sudan.

He needs to fire Nuland, Blinken and Sullivan too
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Don't understand. How a domestic policy advisor is responsible for foreign policy blunders.
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Pratyush wrote:Don't understand. How a domestic policy advisor is responsible for foreign policy blunders.
Susan RIce, the McKinsey intern who rose to become Obama's NSA, was responsible for the Libyan embassy fiasco which saw US ambassador killed. Also, she was behind the FISA unmaskings in which she weaponized America's surveillance apparatus to spy on political opponents, including Trump's NSA Mike Flynn. It's only under Biden that she's become a domestic policy advisor.

Much like Dhritarashtra Manmohan, I don't think Dhritarashtra Biden has the mental capacity to fire anyone.

Rashtrapati + Dhitarashtra = Dhritarashtrapati?
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Oh, look - Rice's replacement may be Neera Tanden - one pushy moron is being replaced by another:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/2 ... r-00093463
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Caste Law SB403 passed in California: vote was 8-0

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Has Fox negotiated a severance deal with Tucker that will silence him for the next 18 months leading up to the presidential elections?
If so, then that would amount to election interference

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Manmohan = Prime Minister Dhritarashtra
Biden = President Dhritarashtra
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfC9iB_UFCw


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In today's world, the protection of free speech has become an increasingly important issue, particularly on college campuses. However, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Harvard University ranks 170th out of 203 colleges in their Free Speech Rankings, with Columbia University coming in dead last. This ranking is not only concerning but also unsurprising given the widespread suppression of free speech on college campuses.

FIRE's rankings are based on a number of factors, including the presence of speech codes, restrictions on expression, and the response of universities to controversial speakers or events. Harvard's low ranking suggests that the university may not be doing enough to protect the free expression of its students and faculty members.
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This was a good eye-opening one:

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Neoliberals are at it again -- by none other than Ashley Tellis
America’s Bad Bet on India
New Delhi Won’t Side With Washington Against Beijing

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/india/am ... india-modi

After going on about how India is not really worth all the attention etc. etc. he recognizes that he "Tata Chair...." and so does the dutiful.... :rotfl:
Even as this partnership has grown by leaps and bounds, there remains an unbridgeable gap between the two countries, given India’s consistent desire to avoid becoming the junior partner—or even a confederate—of any great power.

The United States should certainly help India to the degree compatible with American interests. But it should harbor no illusions that its support, no matter how generous, will entice India to join it in any military coalition against China. The relationship with India is fundamentally unlike those that the United States enjoys with its allies. The Biden administration should recognize this reality rather than try to alter it.
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Opens fine incognito mode.
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The author says India will not embroil itself in conflict with China if US has a conflict with China in the south China sea and hence is not a reliable partner. He conveniently fails to mention that should China attack India in the Himalayas, it is equally unlikely that US will attack China. In fact one doubts is they will defend Taiwan either.
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Sooner or later, Xi will put America's Taiwan commitment to the test. Meanwhile, China will be encroaching on America in other ways - look at their burgeoning ties with Latin America, look at their inroads into Africa, look at their increasing cooperation with Russia in the arctic.

Maybe America will have to consider India for partnership in other things besides just kinetic war against China.
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Biden govt trying to renew the justification for FISA surveillance, even after declaring "War on Terror" is over:

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Avid wrote:Neoliberals are at it again -- by none other than Ashley Tellis
America’s Bad Bet on India
New Delhi Won’t Side With Washington Against Beijing

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/india/am ... india-modi

After going on about how India is not really worth all the attention etc. etc. he recognizes that he "Tata Chair...." and so does the dutiful.... :rotfl:
Even as this partnership has grown by leaps and bounds, there remains an unbridgeable gap between the two countries, given India’s consistent desire to avoid becoming the junior partner—or even a confederate—of any great power.

The United States should certainly help India to the degree compatible with American interests. But it should harbor no illusions that its support, no matter how generous, will entice India to join it in any military coalition against China. The relationship with India is fundamentally unlike those that the United States enjoys with its allies. The Biden administration should recognize this reality rather than try to alter it.
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Ashley Tellis has realized his mission to India has failed and hence is saying grapes are sour.
its an open article.
However, if you can post Nirupma Rao's article on Non-alignment would like to read it.
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And this govt wants to lecture us and everyone else every year, in their annual state dept report?







Whitehouse-Winnie-the-Pooh pleased that he doesn't have to worry about being mocked on the airwaves anymore


US "freedom of the press" = freedom to applaud Biden and laugh at all his jokes
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ramana wrote: However, if you can post Nirupma Rao's article on Non-alignment would like to read it.
https://archive.is/ZrIWC
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Avid wrote: If you are not able to access, let me know and I will see how I can make it available
https://archive.is/YGOHN
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Soros-funded plot against NRIs in US:

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US Navy Hires Drag Queen To Lead Recruitment Drive

https://www.outkick.com/us-navy-hires-d ... ent-drive/



US Navy Hires Active-Duty Drag Queen to Be Face of Recruitment Drive

https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/us-navy-a ... mbassador/



What's going on here? Alexander's Armies?
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Time for Biden to buzz the Kremlin again with another flying bomb. Wag-the-Dog all the way to WW3.

Nobody can arrest you If everybody's dead.

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^ Is this one of the nails in the Biden coffin as far as reelection is concerned.
Can Trumpwa use this as an example of false flag ops against him in all those cases, i.e., making him inelegilbe for the election.
This some gives me a creepy feeling that the modus operandi is similar to what was attempted against NaMo.
Cant remember where I read or seen on documentary : there was a cabal of Top Industrialist/Politicains across the divide during WW2 that really funded and controlled the narrative. Inspite of who won and who lost the Cabal survived and prospered.
Seem like that even now: Plutocrats calling the shots!! and whoever is lucky enough to stick their snout in the trough or rather allowed to, shall prosper.
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Rsatchi wrote:^ Is this one of the nails in the Biden coffin as far as reelection is concerned.
Can Trumpwa use this as an example of false flag ops against him in all those cases, i.e., making him inelegilbe for the election.
This some gives me a creepy feeling that the modus operandi is similar to what was attempted against NaMo.
Cant remember where I read or seen on documentary : there was a cabal of Top Industrialist/Politicains across the divide during WW2 that really funded and controlled the narrative. Inspite of who won and who lost the Cabal survived and prospered.
Seem like that even now: Plutocrats calling the shots!! and whoever is lucky enough to stick their snout in the trough or rather allowed to, shall prosper.
As an Indian who stands by the literal reading of Manu (not interpretation), I don't hold the Greek political philosophers in high regard. They coined this plutocracy concept but didn't subject it to further analysis. What are it's components and how does it occur?

Manu understood that Shudra (bureaucrats) come to know of the secrets of the other ruling classes (financiers, military, intellectuals) and facilitate their collusion (oligarchy/plutocracy).

The western political science is still behind by few hundred years and thus does not have the tools to fix its own problems.
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California Caste Law SB403 Being Fast-Tracked

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Arguments on voting Yes or No for SB403 Law

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A long essay on Americans of the 19th century and how they built the institutions and how the baby boomer generation brought them down leading to the wokefication we see today

https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/03/30 ... character/
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https://www.rediff.com/news/column/t-p- ... 230509.htm
India's Value For The US Goes Beyond Its Capacity To Wage War
Ambassador T P SREENIVASAN, May 09, 2023

The Indian position on the Russia-Ukraine war and the unconditional treaty between China and Russia appear to have caused some ripples in India-US relations and led to a reappraisal of India's usefulness to the US in the eventuality of a conflict with China, notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
Post-pandemic America, engaged in a virtual conflict with Russia and in confrontation with China, has become increasingly conditional and transactional in international relations.
It has begun to evaluate relations of allies and friends in the context of their usefulness in conflict situations.
Even in the case of India-US bilateral relations, which were built brick by brick as mutual interests were identified, a review seems under way and the litmus test is whether India would support the US in the event of a war with China.
As the world's largest democracies, bound by common values and principles, India and the United States should have been natural allies.
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The growth of strategic co-operation with India was placed in the broader context of international security.
The Indian position on the Russia-Ukraine war and the unconditional treaty between China and Russia appear to have caused some ripples in India-US relations and led to a reappraisal of India's usefulness to the US in the eventuality of a conflict with China.
As a result, the US sharpened its criticism of the erosion of democracy in India and began to wonder whether US investments in India-US relations would be beneficial to the US in the event of a conflict with China.
At least one strategic analyst, who had been a champion of India-US relations, Ashley Tellis, has asserted in a Foreign Affairs article of May 1, 2023 that India was a bad bet for America as 'New Delhi won't side with Washington against Beijing.'
He has said that for the past two decades, Washington has made an enormous bet on India by treating it as a key partner in its geopolitical rivalry with China.
The Biden administration has gone even further by launching an ambitious new initiative to expand India's access to crucial technologies and deepened defense cooperation.
According to Tellis, because of India's military imbalance with China and its long volatile border, 'Washington's current expectations of India are misplaced.'
India will never involve itself with China in any US confrontation with Beijing that does not directly threaten its own security, Tellis says.
Apart from the fact that Tellis has changed his traditional position of stressing the mutuality of India-US relations, his new analysis runs contrary to the fundamentals of Indian foreign policy based on strategic autonomy.
Its policy on China may be cautious on account of its proximity to China and the history of its border with China, particularly after the annexation of Tibet and the Dalai Lama's arrival in India, the option of a war with China either alone or together with any other power was never envisaged.
The strengthening of India's military capability, including nuclear, is a deterrent rather than a power projection.
India realises that participation in a military structure or an understanding that India will be a potential partner in a conflict will make India even more vulnerable to aggression.
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Twitter thread laying out one aspect of how corruption works in the US.

Unusual whales
Diane Feinstein returns to Senate.

Feinstein, 89 years old, has some of the most unusual trades in Congress, over her thirty year career.

In that time, her net worth sky rocketed to over $200 million.

Let’s look at some of her unusual trades:
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Biden Presses for China Contact Despite Risk of Losing Clout
-US proposes flurry of calls, meetings with Chinese officials
-China has largely shut out US since balloon incident

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... g-leverage
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vera_k wrote:Twitter thread laying out one aspect of how corruption works in the p…
CA politician right? This Diane F woman?! Why are you feigning surprise, my friend? I am suaar you know PRCA politics better than the back of your hand!
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You know who should be scrutinized in the annual US report on human rights? The US.




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RFK Jr has given an interesting interview. Openly criticises US foreign policy arc of the recent decades. How far will he go in the next elections ?

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Cyrano wrote:RFK Jr has given an interesting interview. Openly criticises US foreign policy arc of the recent decades. How far will he go in the next elections ?
He's an older-generation Democrat, who is not part of the new political realignment of the Democrats.

The new political realignment of the US Democratic Party is toward Machine Politics. You have to be part of their Political Machine in order to be considered, otherwise they'll make sure to keep you out. They kept Bernie out, they shut Tulsi Gabbard out, they're just trying to limit themselves to Biden and a limited circle of cronies. Some Democrats understand that Biden's senility makes him a liability, and they're looking for a replacement like Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, or even Michelle Obama. Whoever it is has to be dumb enough to be manipulable, or hands-off enough to allow the coterie of underlings to control key portfolios like foreign policy. Kamala is considered a letdown, although even she has her faction of loyalists.
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topics for 2023 bilderberg conference being held in Lisbon

Guests include Stiltenberg, Kissinger, Palantir's Karp, Pfizer's Bourla, Dutch and Danish PMs.

Key item: the Atlanticist war on RIC (Russia, China, India).
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The Biden administration has launched a full-spectrum disinformation war against India, its ‘global strategic partner’
https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/the-b ... 17542.html
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