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I thought you lot had already done that in the recent elections.Rudradev wrote:It is not a "response". It is about making our voice heard as a community....
Waiting for elections to make your voice heard as a community is daft.Kashi wrote:I thought you lot had already done that in the recent elections.Rudradev wrote:It is not a "response". It is about making our voice heard as a community....
I agree tbh ... We as a a community are slow and inefficient when it comes to raising our voices against actions being taken by foreign countries which can be taken as acceptance or weakness and thus no one paying much heed to our wants and thoughtsRudradev wrote:It is not a "response". It is about making our voice heard as a community, whatever the outcome of this particular resolution, and becoming unignorable.
The way to look at this is not: "why should we run around like fools to counter every single pipsqueak resolution or statement".
The way to look at it is: every time the Islamists & Left do this kind of thing, they are GIVING US the opportunity to put OUR numbers, our commitment, our organization, our unity as Hindus on display.
Ultimately US politicians don't care at all about CAA or 370 or any of the rest of it. But they do notice & will remember if Hindus stand up as one & let the tiger within us roar.
Don't waste a single opportunity!
RD sir, will definitely do the needful, but in all honesty it is GoI who should run a petition condemning
I tweeted it to the Mayorchanakyaa wrote:RD sir, will definitely do the needful, but in all honesty it is GoI who should run a petition condemninggun violencehooman rights in Chicago
2020 Cook County deaths break records due to gun violence, opioid overdoses, COVID-19
3,800 people shot in Chicago through end of November as violence spikes 50% from last year
Chicago Sees 51 Homicides in January — Highest in 4 Years
7 shot Monday in Chicago
At Least 23 Shot, 2 Killed In Weekend Gun Violence In Chicago
Chicago Crime Infographics
United Nations, where are you?? A murder every 14 hours...
The two leaders appeared to talk past each other at this week’s Munich Security Conference.
done saar, agree with what you have said regarding organization and getting our voice heard.Rudradev wrote:Please sign & share this petition
Ask Chicago City Council to vote NO on a resolution condemning CAA
http://chng.it/sTjjhTXLV5
Jamaal Bowman is someone who has not only tweeted against India on CAA and Article 370 but openly @-tagged Pakistani lobbyist groups on those tweets (Greta Toolkit Moment)... revealing exactly where his (dis)information, as well as his funding/inducements were coming from.In order to understand just how open the lines of communication are between the progressive left and President Joe Biden, look no further than White House chief of staff Ron Klain’s call log.
Klain speaks to Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “quite often,” recently talked to freshman Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), a newly minted Squad member, and has conversations with many “less famous” individuals in the Democratic Party’s left wing on a regular basis, he told The Daily Beast in an interview. Almost always, those chats are conducted over the phone.
We can already see benefits accruing from Yasmine Taeb's lobbying efforts in terms of America's Middle East policy shifting against Israel and Saudi Arabia, and in favour of Iran (btw, guess what, Taeb is of Iranian origin).Yasmine Taeb has experienced a similarly warm reception from the White House. In late December, Taeb, a human rights lawyer, was among a group of activists who compiled and sent a book of 100 progressive foreign policy practitioners to incoming administration officials hoping to influence important staffing decisions. Just a few months later, she said officials had consulted the list and made “several” hires from the recommendations, with others currently in the process of being interviewed.
“The White House referred to it as a ‘fantastic resource’ and I’ve been in touch with them regularly about it,” said Taeb, sharing details of a positive email she received from an administration contact. “I’m trying to work to ensure that we get as many of the candidates that we recommended into the administration as possible,” she said. “They are in fact using it for staffing purposes.”
If that is the shape of things to come, India should be worried. This article names many of the Biden administration's favoured candidates for national security and foreign policy positions. All of them seem to come with recommendations from Taeb & other so-called "human rights" activists.Elections have consequences. And nowhere are the consequences of Joe Biden’s election more worrisome than in Jerusalem and Riyadh. In the past week, the president has signaled to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—the region’s two biggest egos—that the sugar high of the Trump years is over.
Biden isn’t interested in fundamentally altering these relationships. But he is looking to rebalance the Israeli and Saudi accounts, restore Israeli and Saudi respect for U.S. interests absent during the Trump years, and signal to Bibi and MBS—who are now wondering where they stand among Biden’s priorities—that they are no longer the center of America’s world and should think very carefully before they take actions to undermine U.S. interests. Biden isn’t looking for a fight. And whether he takes tougher actions against Israel and Saudi Arabia will depend on whether they willfully ignore or undermine U.S. interests in creating greater security and stability in the region.
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Biden also has plenty of options to make life unpleasant for Saudi Arabia if it attempts to sabotage a new nuclear agreement with Iran.
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Some familiar Pak/China-pasand names include:Some 65 percent are women or people of color and there are "zero with corporate ties and backgrounds," said Yasmine Taeb, a senior fellow at the progressive Center for International Policy.
"This is the first comprehensive and coordinated effort by the left to influence the transition to appoint progressives to national security and foreign policy positions," she added. "The candidates being recommended are not only qualified but are forward-looking, with no corporate ties or revolving door issues which has been a concern with respect to many of the national security appointments being made by the incoming Biden administration."
Dozens of groups contributed, including the Progressive Change Institute; Common Defense; the Revolving Door Project; Friends of the Earth U.S., Progressive Democrats of America; the Project on Government Oversight; EarthRights International, the Center for Economic and Policy Research; the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; Win Without War; Peace Action; Women's Action for New Directions; National Iranian American Council Action; the American Economic Liberties Project; and the Arab American Institute.
Matt Duss, the top foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is being put forward as deputy national security adviser or special adviser to the secretary of State. (Remember Bernie's speech bashing India on Article 370 at the ISNA Conference)
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They'd like to see Alison Friedman, executive director of the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable and an expert on human trafficking who served in the State Department, as Biden's undersecretary of State for civilian security, democracy and human rights. (The only purpose of this office would be demonizing leaders whom the globalist left doesn't like as "authoritarian", "fascist" etc., and sanctioning their countries accordingly )
And another recommendation is for Noah Gottschalk, a senior policy adviser at Oxfam America, to be named deputy assistant secretary of State overseeing the bureau of population, refugees and migration. [/b] (Where refugees take center stage and Oxfam is referenced, can Soros be far behind? These same players were behind the Rohingya pipeline that Modi angered Soros by refusing to accommodate.)
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A number of others on the list are well-known in defense and foreign policy circles: Bruce Riedel, a scholar at the Brookings Institution, is a former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for the Near East and South Asia. [/b] (The less said about Riedel the better.)
Joe Cirincione is the former president of the Ploughshares Fund, a leading advocate for nuclear disarmament. [/b] (A name familiar from the Pokhran II aftermath, screaming vociferously for sanctions against India)
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Many other job candidates are up and coming players in progressive national security circles — such as Iram Ali, a former adviser to Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) presidential campaign who also worked for Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Keane Bhatt, a policy adviser to Sanders who has worked on legislation to cut off arms sales to Saudi Arabia over human rights abuses.
(Both Warren's and Sanders' Primary Election Platforms had "Muslim Americans" sections that focused exclusively on promises to punish "fascist, Islamophobic" nations like India, Myanmar, and Israel-- surprisingly not China for its persecution of Uighurs, however. Guess who came up with those.)
This seems to be the case. Piyush Jindal sold his soul and pretended to be white just to fit in with the goras. In the process he was never embraced by the goras, and the desis (Hindus) hate him. Now he works for an investment firm. All these slaves end up in the same place.disha wrote:Neera Tandon's nomination sinks. She was billed as the first "south asian woman" to head an agency
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/2 ... ion-471265
I think what sank her nomination was her being being a house coconut. If she had taken a pause early on and understood what the whole brouhaha is in any democracy and had hung to her Indian roots and heritage, she would have come out far better.
^Brilliant! I think all brown desi coconuts should learn this Hiryankashipu clause :Rudradev wrote: Plus she is brown but not black, Democrat but not Socialist, "South Asian" but not a Mainority religion, a woman but not trans or gay... there are just not enough oppression points to redeem her on the woke scale.
BRFite's please help me improve the clause. It should be so germane that all the brown coconuts can be read the clause.
O lord! For my nomination please make me black but not complete black and not complete brown., Social Democrat but not socialist but more socialist than democrat., A South Asian with Hindu heritage neither a hindu., A peaceful and a lover of religion but not 72 houri peaceful and neither thumping lover., a woman but not man enough and neither a woman.
The position Tanden is being nominated for is the head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) within the executive branch. The OMB coordinates policies of the various civilian agencies, including the Treasury Dept., to set the administration's goals for domestic programs. In practice the OMB sits above the Treasury Secretary in terms of domestic policy and has lots of political pull since a major portion of the domestic budget are entitlement programs such as Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and food/housing/education assistance. The head of OMB must work with House, where the budget starts, and then guide the budget through the senate for compromise, reconciliation and approval. Of nearly $5T of US federal spending, some $3T is mandatory spending for the entitlement programs. The remaining $2T of discretionary spending includes defense ($741B) and the OMB doesn't impact the National Defense Authorization appropriations. As the NDAA bills go through their own planning and political process. Of that $3T entitlements there is much room for political arm twisting and corruption of various members of congress and states. A firebrand head of the OMB can manage this well. Tanden is the ultimate Democratic party insider and the original "nasty woman" who can do this job the best. The Xiden administration is not going to give up on her. They need only one vote in the senate and I'm fairly certain "money bags" are being prepared and sent to Senators like Murkowski and others. If that doesn't work, she will be in another position in the administration.Rudradev wrote:Tanden's nomination was sunk because she was a house coconut for the wrong massa (Hillary Clinton) at the wrong time.
For years, she faithfully served as Hillary Clinton's attack dog on mainstream as well as social media. In fact she recently deleted about 1000 of her tweets abusing Clinton's rivals & enemies over the years.
Republican Senators are unified in voting against her because she abused so many of them.
But she also abused far-left Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, for Hillary Clinton's sake... so the far left hates her too.
Plus she is brown but not black, Democrat but not Socialist, "South Asian" but not a Mainority religion, a woman but not trans or gay... there are just not enough oppression points to redeem her on the woke scale.
So the only backers she has are the old-school centrist Democrats of Hillary Clinton's fading retinue. Biden himself plus a few ageing Senators & Congressmen near the end of their careers.
Phinees.
Senators Signal Support for Shalanda Young for Deputy OMB DirectorPresident Joe Biden said Tuesday that he is withdrawing the nomination of Neera Tanden as his budget chief at her request, a move that came after more than a week of signs that Tanden would fail to win Senate confirmation...
...Shalanda Young, a longtime congressional staffer and Mr. Biden’s choice as the budget office’s No. 2, has been discussed by some allies of the White House as a candidate to lead the office if Neera Tanden’s nomination as OMB director is withdrawn or fails in the Senate...
Biden nominates Pakistani-American as deputy head of Small Business Admin
Syed, who played a key role in organizing the Asian American Pacific Islanders community and was one of the early supporters of Biden, is the highest-ranking Pakistani-American in the Biden administration.
The White House sent the nomination to the Senate later in the day. If confirmed by the Senate, he would be the highest-ranking Muslim American in the Biden administration.
Syed is president and CEO of Lumiata, an AI for healthcare company focused on reducing healthcare costs and improving patient outcomes. Previously, he was president of Freshworks where he helped scale the software company's products to thousands of small and medium businesses.
"As the founding Chair of California Entrepreneurship Task Force with the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, Dilawar drives inclusive entrepreneurship bridging coastal regions with the state's rural heartland. He served on President Obama's White House Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and chaired the White House Initiative on AAPIs' Economic Growth Committee," the White House said.
In that role, Syed led the administration's engagement with small businesses across the US after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Syed also served as a liaison with the Small Business Administration and the Department of Commerce on federal initiatives such as the President's Export Council.
He holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and earned a BA in Economics and Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. Syed immigrated to the US from Pakistan as a freshman student to attend The College of Wooster in Ohio.
So it appears the US administration is abandoning the 2+2 ministerial level dialog which was established in Sep. 2018. IIRC, the original idea was proposed in the Obama administration and realized in the Trump administration. It is odd Sec Def is visiting without SoS. It seems this administration is taking a step backward and this visit doesn't bode well.vijayk wrote:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 370345.cms
Defense sec Austin to visit India
President Joe Biden is facing a new unique problem coming from within the Democrat establishment. Bernie Sanders played as a negative force against Biden especially with Biden nominees. Neera Tanden faced revolt from within the Democrats on account of her past social media tirades. The Democrat forces supported by Middle Eastern coalitions and PACs played an active role in rejection of Neera Tanden’s appointment. Earlier the Hillary Clinton faction of the Democrats played a negative role in opposing Tulsi Gabbard’s Presidential bid. The narrative against Indian American appointments in the Biden administration is led by the CAIR-funded Bernie Sanders faction of Democrats. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, Pramila Jayapal and Ro Khanna also belong to the same faction of Democrats. While Ro Khanna has openly begun to voice his opposition to Biden policies, the others have been contained by the Obama faction of the Democrat establishment.
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Indian Americans, who have voted Democrats, are probably at a disadvantage today because of the systemic racism against them by multiple factions from within the party. Indian Americans have a lot of hope from Jamaican-Indian American, Kamala Harris to give them a level playing field. Republicans have been wooing this Indian American community over the last three election cycles. In the 2020 elections, the Indian American community voted 27% for the GOP while the majority voted for the Democrats. That’s almost 11% more than any other previous election. Why? The left leaning Bernie Sanders moved more Indian American votes towards the GOP. It is wrong to say that Indian Americans account for 4-5 million votes. That is just Indians (Hindus) from South Asia. There are American Hindus, Jamaican Hindus and Hindus from other parts of the world who have settled in America and who all think in a similar way. The modern analysts forget that the entire yoga community in the US is also connected to the Indian American thought process. It is high time that Democrats reinvented themselves and not ignored the aspirations of Indian Americans.
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It's not a matter for the worse. Having relations with DoD, particularly operational ones, such as joint sea patrols are useful along with contacts at the Pentagon at the major, captain, colonel levels are very useful as these people may understand India better. ...
IN = India. Sorry.SD has handed over the Indo-US relations with IN to DoD
My view isIt is rather troubling as to why Blinken did not come with Austin. They did do 2+2 meetings with Japan and Korea, so why not India? It was done so in the past. I suspect it has more to do with a slow reset in relations with India to appease the leftists/Islamists sympathizers in the current US administration. It is also very troubling scheduling a meeting with the Chinese before Blinken and Austin return to Washington. On schedule, the DPRK will do a Ding Dong/Long Dong test. If the US was serious, it would wait until all have returned and assessed the 2+2 and India meetings for a coordinated strategy. Again, India has been left in the dark about this, and yet it is India alone which has had to face the PLA invading India in the high mountains of the Himalayas. It seems US international policy has gone completely off the rails.
So, while WRT India the 2+2 is in good shape, with the rest (NATO, etc) Biden needs to build it. On the flip side the ops with the rest have been set for decades, with India ops (mainly info sharing) is just about to get started.SD has handed over the Indo-US relations with IN to DoD
Indeed, saar. well said.uddu wrote:Let them. We could raise many such issues related to contract farming issues within U.S, Global warming issues and how the U.S is the top polluter and nowhere near the U.N set goals, issues of racism and how unequal distribution of vaccine etc etc. And if they go to the Press to show off their arrogance, we must also do the same. This time there must not be holding back with equal equal. Like for one issue reply with similar is real stupidity. For every issue they raise, need replied with 20 issues in the U.S. And above all, the U.S intervention all over the world in toppling govt through their agents must also be raised and U.S told to stop such "Undemocratic and Inhuman practices". Also we must go one step ahead and tell the Amrikhan that "Not satisfactorily addressing the issues of Voter fraud raised during the U.S election including the widely circulated CCTV footage of such fraud in which the votes were seen dumped when no observers were present, raises serious questions about the denigration of democratic traditions and values of the United States. India sees this as an erosion of democratic values and move towards Autocracy." That much will suffice for now.
That Mandbudhi Menedeeeeez is a corrupt dimwit and so is Shoooooooooooooomer... both pandering to their nutwing... We should express deeeeeep concern about Asian Hate where the MudBudhi Goras will attack Desis also because we are 'Asian' when they want to and 'Terrorists' when they find a piglet trying to blow-up NYC. They go attack Sikhs because of Turban and Beard... about time we should 'AankhMareg.sarkar wrote:https://www.rediff.com/news/report/rais ... 210319.htm
2 top US senators ask Blinken to raise farmers' issue with India
By Lalit K Jha, March 19, 2021
Two top Democratic senators have urged United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken to raise with the Indian leaders the issue of treatment of peaceful farmer protesters and journalists even as they acknowledged that it is for the people and the Government of India to determine the path forward on its recently enacted farm laws.
In a letter to Blinken, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday urged the Biden administration to further engage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government over its treatment of farmers in India who have been peacefully demonstrating against the passage of new farm laws.
Farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at several Delhi border points, including Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur, since November 28, demanding a complete repeal of the three farm laws and a legal guarantee on the minimum support price for their crops.
The government has denied allegations that it was trying to put an end to the MSP and the mandi system.
India has also emphasised that the protests by farmers must be seen in the context of India's democratic ethos and polity and the Ministry of External Affairs last month said that some vested interest groups have tried to mobilise international support against the country.
In their joint letter to Blinken, Menendez and Schumer noted that India is a "long-term strategic partner with deep ties to the United States thanks to our many shared values and our large and valued Indian American community."
"In light of these shared values and strong connections, we write with serious concern regarding the response of the Indian government to the farmer protests,” they said.
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