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Yep, even HR departments are going woke too with their reparations. This is a third month of handing out HR docs for many US corporations and I'm sure that all are going to be happy with such labels as there are many who want to avoid buying things owned by XYZ.
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Trillions have been printed by US politicians but the infrastructure remains in shambles. US govt entities continue to squirrel away money from pockets of citizens in one form or another.

Pennsylvania Goes Tollistic - National Motorists Association
https://www.motorists.org/blog/pennsylv ... dge-tolls/
Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation decided this month to place tolls on nine bridges located on six interstates. The bridges were selected due to how much it will cost to repair or replace and to balance out the toll impact based on geography. PennDOT claims this is part of its study on exploring sustainable transportation funding methods and completing critical projects. The project name is PennDOT Pathways Major Bridge Public-Private Partnership (P3). PennDOT Secretary Yassmin Gramain said recently,

“Our reliance on funding models from the last century leaves us especially vulnerable to fund losses stemming from volatile economic conditions and the increasing transition to alternative-fuel or electric vehicles. This initiative will help us make much-needed improvements without compromising the routine projects our communities and industry partners rely on.”
Infrastructure is expensive, and it seems especially so in Pennsylvania, which already has some of the country’s highest gasoline taxes. In 2013, a law was passed that raised taxes and fees directly impacting motorists to boost highway funding by about 50 percent or more than $2 billion per year. Currently, PennDOT’s highway and bridge construction and maintenance budget is less than half of the $15 billion needed.
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Mort Walker wrote:
Cyrano wrote:So if American soldiers or civilian lives are in danger, POTUS has to wait for congress to convene, debate and decide before he can act to save lives ? This bill is a waste of time. Being in congress doesnt guarantee common sense.
The president behaving like an imperial has been a problem for a long time. Undeclared foreign wars to save "American lives" has created a huge loss of life for Americans and the countries involved, and a huge financial loss. Congress must put pressure on the executive to prevent this from happening.

1963 Kennedy: US military moves into Vietnam and later the CIA assassinates president Diem March 1963.
1964 Johnson: False pretext of attack in Gulf of Tonkin for full scale invasion of Vietnam.
1969-1970 Nixon: Massive bombing of Cambodia of the NVA supply lines known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the US.
1981-1988 Reagan: Financing and sending advisors for Soviet-Afghan war and transferring of WMD materials to Pakistan.
1983 Reagan: Invasion of Grenada.
1986 Reagan: Bombing of Libya in attempt to kill Gaddafi.
1987 Reagan: Attempted provocation of Iran in Persian Gulf.
1989 Bush-I: Invasion of Panama
1992 Bush-I: US military in Somalia
1993-1999 Clinton: US military in the Balkans including involvement in Bosnia and Kosovo wars.
1998 Clinton: Attack on Sudan and Afghanistan.
2003 Bush-II: False pretext of WMDs for full scale invasion of Iraq.
2005 Bush-II: Advisors sent to Ukraine civil war
2010-2016 Obama: Destabilization of various Arab governments and military intervention in Libya and Syria for war on ISIS.
2011-2015 Obama: Drone strikes on Pakistan and simultaneous arming of Pak military.
2017 Trump: West Africa covert operations
2017 Trump: Syria bombing
2019 Trump: Iran attempted bombing, but pulling back at the last moment when realized MIC was the instigator.
You missed EyeSys set up by OhDrama that resulted in the loss of millions of lives in the middle east.
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^^^I did.
2010-2016 Obama: Destabilization of various Arab governments and military intervention in Libya and Syria for war on ISIS.
ISIS was an initial creation of the Bush-II administration for the promotion of Sunnis over Shias, but the policy carried over into the Obama administration which was unable or unwilling to see it for what it does and further exacerbated the problem. Obama apologists will claim it was inertia. US senators like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Dems all proceeded to collude in this nonsense. The loss of life was indeed in the millions and created instability.

The one thing that was missed was the Trump administration arming the Saudis in their Yemen war. Nearly 20,000 have been killed between 2015 to now.
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Mort Walker wrote: Actually, he considered using nuclear weapons on India which was later revealed in his memoirs and to interviews with David Frost in the 1980s.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/22/us/n ... sions.html
IIRC, US public's opinion was also against pakis/chinis and US govt looked other way.
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The same won't apply if it was islam.
Hindu Genocide denial and racist rhetoric against Hindus is ‘Academic Freedom’, says Rutgers University, backs ‘historian’ Audrey Truschke
https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/hindu-g ... -truschke/
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America Is Not Made for People Who Pee
America’s most disgraceful infrastructure failing is its lack of public toilets
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Biden Is Assembling a Big Tech Antitrust All-Star Team
https://www.wired.com/story/lina-khan-f ... istration/
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Last year, as a staffer on the House antitrust subcommittee, she was a key figure behind the landmark investigation into Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple. Now, Khan is on the verge of becoming part of a new antitrust establishment.
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Khan would be the second high-profile critic of Big Tech recruited to the administration in just the past few days. Last week, Biden named Tim Wu to the National Economic Council as a special assistant for technology and competition policy. Wu, who like Khan is a law professor at Columbia, is best known for coining the term “net neutrality.”
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Biden is not assembling anything, the people behind the curtain are. Yesterday after struggling and fumbling much he couldn't remember the name of his defense secretary or the department he runs, ended up mumbling "uh uh ah uh uh that guy over there who uh uh runs that thing..". So all these subcommittees and its members are being put together by the real power behind the throne. That said i do hope they break the big tech, it will be poetic justice in a way.
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Why is the US market in a twist over whether or not Federal Reserve will extend the exemption from capital adequacy (the amount of shareholders' money that should stay invested when measured as percentage of their loan and investment assets) ratio calculations for US banks with regard to their holdings of US Treauries? I mean world over banks' holdings of GSecs are zero risk weighted. It is also in accord with international banking norms.
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Ambar wrote:Biden is not assembling anything, the people behind the curtain are. Yesterday after struggling and fumbling much he couldn't remember the name of his defense secretary or the department he runs, ended up mumbling "uh uh ah uh uh that guy over there who uh uh runs that thing..". So all these subcommittees and its members are being put together by the real power behind the throne. That said i do hope they break the big tech, it will be poetic justice in a way.
This is like soviet union politburo or Chinese CCP
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Near a hallowed site in Texas' fight for independence, a loner pledged support for ISIS
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/ ... o-20731419
He faces up to 20 years in federal prison on each count at his sentencing, scheduled for next month.
Court records show he was being recruited as an ISIS operative by Kristopher Sean Matthews, 34, of South Carolina, who held chat sessions with at least 20 other suspected ISIS supporters on encrypted online platforms that the FBI had infiltrated.
Raised in the Pentecostal faith, he spent most of his life in the Gonzales area, about 75 miles east of San Antonio. He tried to embrace the Catholic faith on his father’s side, but it wasn’t strong, said his mother, Misty Rhoades.
She said the boy was bullied in school, and teachers were tough on him.
Molina dropped out of Gonzales High at the beginning of his senior school year in 2016.
“It’s broken up like an organization,” said Peña, who now runs a security consulting company. “You have people in finance, some in media. You might have an outreach coordinator and recruiters.”

Peña said he was not surprised that ISIS had targeted Molina in a rural, conservative area because it has been known to recruit people from all walks of life, often exploiting those who are confused about their lives.

Molina is believed to have converted to Islam in 2019, when he posted quotes on one Twitter account from the Quran alongside animated selfies with his young daughter. In another Twitter account with restricted access, his profile picture appears in the foreground of a larger photo of “ISIS” and the group’s black flag.

Molina’s co-defendant, Matthews, who pleaded guilty to the terrorism conspiracy charge in November, converted to Islam when he was 15 and has a “jihad” tattoo on his neck, his rap sheet shows.
Matthews had been drawn in by his own use of social media. In November 2019, he posted in one chat group his own video pledging “bayat,” or allegiance, to ISIS’ newest reported leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashim al-Quraishi. The FBI was watching. It was unclear when Matthews began using the alias, Ali Jibreel.

Molina, meanwhile, had publicly made known his change to Islam in Gonzales County because he dressed differently and grew facial hair, according to Sutton, his landlord. It was not immediately clear when he began using his alias, Abdur Rahim.

“He ran around with a towel on his head,” Sutton said. “He looked like a Taliban.”
Molina then got to work, posting ISIS videos showing how to train with an AK-47 rifle and other propaganda on social media that offered justification for the 9/11 terrorist attacks and showed support for ISIS and violent jihad. It identified America as Molina’s enemy, a view he espoused in other forums.

According to court records, Molina told Matthews he wanted to “get deeper into spreading awareness of what’s going on overseas. Exposing kuffar (infidels) and spreading the truth of Islam.”
Like Molina, Matthews had dropped out of high school and used drugs. His parents weren’t around and he was raised by his grandmother. He also was a loner and joined a gang, according to public documents reviewed by the Express-News.

The National Counterterrorism Center says those who embrace ISIS’ ideology tend to be “disenfranchised individuals seeking ideological, religious and personal fulfillment.”

A search for belonging, meaning and/or identity appears to be a crucial motivator for many Americans who embrace ISIS’ ideology, according to the center. Matthews and Molina fit those characteristics.

“If I were overseas and I was recruiting, those are the kinds of people I’d reach out to,” said retired FBI agent Peña. “They’re perfect.”
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darshan wrote:The same won't apply if it was islam.
Hindu Genocide denial and racist rhetoric against Hindus is ‘Academic Freedom’, says Rutgers University, backs ‘historian’ Audrey Truschke
https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/hindu-g ... -truschke/
In my opinion the denial of the Hindu Holocaust by the American elite is understandable. It has the same roots as the disdain for India as a global player. The main concern of the United States is not to protect democracy in the world, as some believe, but to prevent any other country or coalition of countries from catching up with them in power and level of prosperity (the former is related to the latter). In this regard, a prosperous India is no less a threat to the United States than a prosperous China. As the financial, economic and technological level of India approaches that of China (which, I think, realistically may happen in 15-20 years), the United States will become more and more concerned about containing India, just as it is now concerned about containing China. I think that ideology has nothing to do with it or is secondary. The United States perfectly turned a blind eye to Chinese totalitarianism as long as China was convenient for them.

Moreover, the ideological closeness between India and the United States for the American elites is rather an aggravating circumstance, since India is trying to play on the same ideological field in which the United States has not yet seen competitors for itself. Like the Soviet Union, which was jealous of China's communist rhetoric, US elites are highly suspicious of Delhi's democratic rhetoric, especially when it mimics the western patterns ('genocide', 'freedom', public opinion' etc). They certainty want to keep it exclusively for themselves.
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Igorr, you hit the nail on the head, the United States has soo many levers which many people do not understand, for eg. a US embassy dictate will be listened too by Indian media and not necessarily a GOI Dictate- if the US govt bans a Bank from dealing in USD, the bank effectively gets shut down.

Blind hatred of the United States is useless and only leads to destruction but blind trust and buying US propaganda will also lead to destruction. We need to understand things clearly and slowly like Japan, Soko etc. work to our benefit in such a way we can cannot be threatened or cut down and minimize levers which foreign powers have within India.

The Most stupidest things one can do is believe media narratives blindly.
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Igorr wrote:
darshan wrote:The same won't apply if it was islam.
In my opinion the denial of the Hindu Holocaust by the American elite is understandable. It has the same roots as the disdain for India as a global player. The main concern of the United States is not to protect democracy in the world, as some believe, but to prevent any other country or coalition of countries from catching up with them in power and level of prosperity (the former is related to the latter). In this regard, a prosperous India is no less a threat to the United States than a prosperous China. As the financial, economic and technological level of India approaches that of China (which, I think, realistically may happen in 15-20 years), the United States will become more and more concerned about containing India, just as it is now concerned about containing China. I think that ideology has nothing to do with it or is secondary. The United States perfectly turned a blind eye to Chinese totalitarianism as long as China was convenient for them.

Moreover, the ideological closeness between India and the United States for the American elites is rather an aggravating circumstance, since India is trying to play on the same ideological field in which the United States has not yet seen competitors for itself. Like the Soviet Union, which was jealous of China's communist rhetoric, US elites are highly suspicious of Delhi's democratic rhetoric, especially when it mimics the western patterns ('genocide', 'freedom', public opinion' etc). They certainty want to keep it exclusively for themselves.
It is precisely for this reason that we should welcome the rise of China. Rather than focus or fixate on how China is inimical to us the correct lens to view this is how do we gain from this.

In the long run the objective is not to beat China or the US but to emerge as a truly independent power. Let me qualify that as a power which stays within the framework of international laws without compromising on national interests.

Maybe a generation from now China could be a power we could work with. Much like how unimaginable it would be for our parents generation to imagine a world order where the US is not openly inimical to Indian interests.

Sham, Daam, Dandh, Bhedh. Pursuit of national power id the only permanent interest.
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Mukesh.kumar:
In the long run the objective is not to beat China or the US but to emerge as a truly independent power. Let me qualify that as a power which stays within the framework of international laws without compromising on national interests.
Just want to note that "Independent power" and "framework of international laws" is an oxymoron --- "framework of international laws" enforced by whom? "international laws" are just a means to provide cover to power politics by powerful nations that can pretend to be the "World's policeman" while they conduct war against other nations under the "moral cover" of "saving freedom and democracy". Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
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@srikandan ji


when the amerikis went into eyeraq, didn't they go in as an "independent power" and within the "framework of international laws".

At that level, it is merely a question of "jiski laathi, uski bhains"

it's only when lesser powers do it that the big boys invoke war crimes and crimes against humanity and suchlike and the woke FFNGOs, smelling rich pickings from "invested" donors, start to rave and rant the human rights meme and begin driving donor agendas.

look at how srilanka is being harassed today by those very powers who used the most diabolical ways to kill, maim and otherwise subdue their enemies.
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chetak: At that level, it is merely a question of "jiski laathi, uski bhains"
Precisely, chetak-saar. Once you have the big guns, you can pretend to be all "moral and just" and do whatever you want under the cover of media propaganda. But I was just cautioning against Indians sipping the "framework of international laws" mango-lassi without comprehending that it is not what it seems to be, but another avenue for power politics.

That is also why India has to stay on China's side when it comes to myanmar, not withstanding all the "human rights" horse manure from the same people in the US/EU who are creating a racket about "unjust farm laws" in India/ Last thing India needs is more of these white christian busybodies , i.e., US/EU, spreading their "religion of love" under "freedom of religion" to change the mindsets in myanmar to be anti-India and anti-China -- we can see how well that has worked out for them in India, if we observe the converted FFNGO tools in southern states who gladly took an axe to India's copper production by Sterlite upon orders from outside India. If the EU/US bigots land Myanmar, they will forget Afghanisthan in a hurry -- all they need is one place in that region to be able to create trouble for both India and china in the long term.
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srikandan wrote:
chetak: At that level, it is merely a question of "jiski laathi, uski bhains"
Precisely, chetak-saar. Once you have the big guns, you can pretend to be all "moral and just" and do whatever you want under the cover of media propaganda. But I was just cautioning against Indians sipping the "framework of international laws" mango-lassi without comprehending that it is not what it seems to be, but another avenue for power politics.

That is also why India has to stay on China's side when it comes to myanmar, not withstanding all the "human rights" horse manure from the same people in the US/EU who are creating a racket about "unjust farm laws" in India/ Last thing India needs is more of these white christian busybodies , i.e., US/EU, spreading their "religion of love" under "freedom of religion" to change the mindsets in myanmar to be anti-India and anti-China -- we can see how well that has worked out for them in India, if we observe the converted FFNGO tools in southern states who gladly took an axe to India's copper production by Sterlite upon orders from outside India. If the EU/US bigots land Myanmar, they will forget Afghanisthan in a hurry -- all they need is one place in that region to be able to create trouble for both India and china in the long term.

- India doesn't have to stay on anyone's side other than India's. Definitely not China's side. That too in Myanmar. Why on earth should we?

- India has a history of taking care of its vital interests, international law framework or not. Even under the much-hated Nehru Portuguese were driven out of Goa, with the entire "international law" system was crying buckets of tears.

- Same with Bangladesh war in 1971.

- Same with Sikkim statehood.
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KLNMurthy: India doesn't have to stay on anyone's side other than India's. Definitely not China's side. That too in Myanmar. Why on earth should we?
Stating China-India common interests in myanmar does not mean moving to china's side, but it means not playing along with the myanmar "human rights concerns" BS from the US/EU.

The security of the North-East states depends on a stable and India-friendly myanmar. The NE was a mess before 2003 when India was not friendly to the Myanmar regime, and there were militia groups in all NE states operating on the other side of the border. Most of these militia groups were funded by US/UK/"western" govts and "NGO"s.

India needs to keep Myanmar in its orbit and outside the influence of the US/EU, and that task is made easier with China backing Myanmar in the UN and elsewhere, where it uses its UNSC veto against western meddling in Myanmar.

US's pliable colonized coolies in the Indian media are doing the US's bidding when they write this to the Indian audience, and do not do India any favours.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opini ... y-7229865/
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said India is not looking for Western approval on India’s democratic credentials. What democratic values does India, then, stand for? Its words and actions on Myanmar will provide an indication.
According to the colonized-coolie Indian (assuming it was an Indian) who wrote this article, India's "democratic credentials" depend on what India does in Myanmar (and the only right path is by following the US's byline on Myanmar), and not on India actually functioning like a democracy.
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Go off the script and you will pay price in a democracy. At least in a non democracy you know to not go off the script beforehand and there's no illusion.
Arkansas: Federal Judge Clears Cop Who Intentionally Crashed Fleeing Motorcyclist
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A federal judge on Monday rejected the lawsuit filed by a motorcyclist who lost his leg when a police officer intentionally positioned his squad car to cause a crash ending a chase. Unlike most chases, the pursuit of Christopher A. Lankford, the 30-year-old motorcyclist, did not begin with a crime or traffic violation.
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"The court finds that Duvall did not violate Lankford's Fourth Amendment rights," Judge Moody concluded. "Lankford admits to fleeing from the police and driving at least 105 miles per hour, running a stop sign and crossing the yellow line. The chase lasted in excess of three minutes. These facts establish that Lankford was driving in a fashion as to endanger human life. Accordingly, even if Duvall pulled his car over in a manner likely to cause the collision and serious injury or death, that use of force did not violate the Fourth Amendment."
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things are much better after biden has taken over.

more crap to deal with but big corporations are cooperating in doing their bit


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dafuq............

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Rudradev wrote:But there are JUICY details emerging around the Boulder Jihadi Shooter, who was a clear exponent of Radical Islamic Terrorism:
Alissa’s now-deleted Facebook page said he was “born in Syria in 1999 came to the USA in 2002,” the Daily Beast reported.
Is there any information on who deleted the social media profiles?

This is like a simple AI picked up case that was allowed by US agencies to continue on. Someone with such islamist content is an obvious ticking bomb.
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US sports are hotbeds for sexual assaults from high school to pro levels. Woke crowd always seem to miss on this human rights violations where athletes are used as commodities and various crimes committed by these commodities are routinely covered up.

These are supposed to be role models for younglings.
Lawsuit No. 14 calls Watson a 'serial predator'
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/311 ... te-conduct
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CAIR islamists have nothing to say about dead people in Boulder. People with the Twitter account please bring them up to speed. Also remind them to pray for all the people being ritually being muted in chicago.


https://mobile.twitter.com/CAIRNational
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Neither BLM nor MeToo crowd cares.
2 spring breakers drugged, raped woman, then partied, cops say. She died in South Beach hotel.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2 ... ach-hotel/
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When it became clear the woman was unconscious, the men stole cash, credit cards and her phone and left her in the room “without any concern for her welfare or safety.”
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darshan wrote:Neither BLM nor MeToo crowd cares.
And why should they? The perps were identified, arrested, and arraigned. In all likelihood they will receive a good sentence behind bars. Is that not what BLM and MeToo crowd does not want? Most in the BLM and MeToo crowd want the same kind of punishment meted out when the perps are cops or people in power rather than the customary slap on the wrist.
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Prime Minister a first victory in a battle that had seemed largely skewed against him so far
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The Chicago city council on Wednesday rejected a resolution to condemn the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the revocation of Kashmir’s special constitutional status, handing Indian-descent supporters of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a first victory in a battle that had seemed largely skewed against him thus far.



The Chicago council members turned down the resolution 26-18 with six abstentions.

A similar resolution had been passed earlier by at least six city councils starting with Seattle in February 2020.

Despite pushback from Indian-descent supporters of PM Modi, that legislation, or variations of it, passed in six other cities such as Cambridge in Massachusetts, St Paul in Minnesota, San Fransisco in California, Albany in New York, and Hamtramck in Michigan.

“Dedication, talent, time, sweat and tears of sons and daughters of India won,” said Bharat Barai, an Indian-American physician who spearheaded the effort to defeat the resolution in the Chicago city council.

Barai had also played a key role organising the 2-14 Madison Square Garden event for Modi on the latter’s first visit to the US after taking office.

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Unlike the pushback against other city council resolutions, the effort to defeat the Chicago legislative measure had the full backing of the Indian government.

The Indian consulate general in Chicago reached out to several members of the city council, arguing, according to people familiar with these discussions, that India had a right to defend itself.

Some council members, aldermen, had resisted the pitch from the Indian government, saying it amounted to interference in Chicago city’s affairs.

On Wednesday evening, Modi supporters in the US hailed the vote as a major victory.

“The efforts of the larger Indian-American community to defend their country of origin and expose the efforts of the opponents of India won the day,” said Darshan Soni, an activist.


The resolution - titled “Recognition of India’s 72nd anniversary of Republic Day and call for condemnation of violence against certain castes and faith group” - was introduced in July 2020 in efforts launched by Modi detractors in several US cities.

The proposed resolution that upset Indian-descent supporters of Modi included, “(Former) president (Donald) Trump’s bigoted policies within the US including discriminating on religious grounds, targeting vulnerable communities, stripping citizenship, fabricating crises and stoking hatred have been mirrored by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his… Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, and their alarming ideology that Hindus are racially and culturally superior to others.

“Across the country, there has been a surge in the number of mobs lynching’s and violence towards minorities.”


Also, the proposed resolution had sought to condemn the “the inherently discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which actively creates an unconstitutional, religion-based criteria to grant citizenship to select immigrants - the first instance of religion being used as a criterion for Indian citizenship; the CAA has already been used to threaten deportation for India’s 40,000 Rohingya refugees”.

Chicago Tribune, a local news outlet, noted the contentious proceeding. “During an unusually long and intense council debate for a symbolic measure, some aldermen said they had received thousands of messages from both sides in recent months, most urging them to vote against it,” it said.

Indian community leaders acknowledged swamping the offices of the aldermen with emails decrying the resolution as a part of their campaign, which they propose to scale up to the national level to replicate the success in Chicago.
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the janus faced amerikis

one rule for themselves and another for India

BTW, this nonsense is administration/republican/democrat neutral and seems to be coordinated with the gelf countries to push the India pak detente so as to ease economic, military and social pressures on the paki army and help it to ease it's way out of the FATF listing

Kanwal Sibal@KanwalSibal·Mar 23

Release talks of maintaining strong def relationship with Pak. US wants to weaken our def ties with Russia while strengthening its own with Pak!

US can keep its strategic autonomy in our region but India should choose.

“Gratitude” to Pak for nurturing Taliban& forcing US retreat!
Why sh’d MEA respond to planted US agency report building narrative for India-Pak dialogue without Pak credibly abjuring terrorism. Game’s to throw ball in India’s court as if Pak wants peace& India resists. Why snub UAE if it conveyed Pak wanted cease fire & DGMOs talked/agreed.
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This is one screwed up woke society with a highly developed ability to fool itself

factually arabic but morally white: what does it even mean



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Ambar wrote:Biden is not assembling anything, the people behind the curtain are. Yesterday after struggling and fumbling much he couldn't remember the name of his defense secretary or the department he runs, ended up mumbling "uh uh ah uh uh that guy over there who uh uh runs that thing..". So all these subcommittees and its members are being put together by the real power behind the throne. That said i do hope they break the big tech, it will be poetic justice in a way.
It looks like it was a plot all along to bring in the mylapore maami as POTUS.

This is about as big as an electoral fraud can get.

no wonder that pappu is so energetically doing push ups in public and also, so very bravely jumping into the sea.

The congis have already have tried this switch and bait technique with the silent sardar and will not be able to get away with it once again
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[quote="chetak"]This is one screwed up woke society with a highly developed ability to fool itself

factually arabic but morally white: what does it even mean


Any Arab/M living in America., takes a bit of morals to be in khan land :mrgreen:
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That image is fake news. Good example of why social media needs better guardrails.

No, CNN chyron did not call Boulder shooter ‘factually Arabic, but morally white’
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Alabama fails to reverse ban on yoga as conservatives say they fear rise in Hinduism
Bill to lift ban on yoga in Alabama schools – which would still prohibit ‘namaste’ greetings and chanting – will be brought back for another try after a vote ended in a tie

Democratic representative Jeremy Gray of Opelika, who has been trying since 2019 to get the ban revoked, sponsored the bill. “This whole notion that if you do yoga, you’ll become Hindu — I’ve been doing yoga for 10 years and I go to church and I’m very much a Christian,” he said.
Don't know whether this belongs here on in the Christianity thread. "Conservatives" in US usually means white christian nationalists.
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m_saini wrote:Alabama fails to reverse ban on yoga as conservatives say they fear rise in Hinduism
Bill to lift ban on yoga in Alabama schools – which would still prohibit ‘namaste’ greetings and chanting – will be brought back for another try after a vote ended in a tie

Democratic representative Jeremy Gray of Opelika, who has been trying since 2019 to get the ban revoked, sponsored the bill. “This whole notion that if you do yoga, you’ll become Hindu — I’ve been doing yoga for 10 years and I go to church and I’m very much a Christian,” he said.
Don't know whether this belongs here on in the Christianity thread. "Conservatives" in US usually means white christian nationalists.
This pakiness is useful: Yindoo mujahids who think of Republicans as our white saviors might take note.
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