Bharat Rakshak

saip wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 21:55 What kind of letter from China made this Orange Monkey hyperventilate like this? Any thing to do with him waking up and finding that he is not getting the Nobel?

SRajesh wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 14:53 OMG
Trump looses Piece Prize!

Cyrano wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 12:20 Very different take on life compared to the 4 ashramas of Hindu tradition namely Baalya, Vaivahika, Vanaprastha and finally Sanyaasa.

saip wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 21:55 What kind of letter from China made this Orange Monkey hyperventilate like this? Any thing to do with him waking up and finding that he is not getting the Nobel?

Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado dedicates peace award to Trump

The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world,” the committee said. “We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarization.”

I spill a lot of words about Denominator Blindness in “How Not to Invest.” The opportunities to demonstrate terrible examples of this framing error are never-ending. The latest example — and one of the most absurd cases of denominator blindness you will ever see — comes from somebody who should know better, Senator Ron Johnson.

Here is what the Senator had to say:

Ron Johnson: “In 56 years of tracking Tylenol, there have been 39,540 death reported to FAIRS. That’s 706 per year. For ivermectin – remember the one that they said was so dangerous? – in 29 years reporting, 493 deaths, 17 a year.”

It’s a classic denominator blindness example, because you are NOT seeing the total number of doses in question. By only showing the number of deaths (the numerator) but not the size of the data set (the denominator), we see an obvious attempt to mislead the viewer.

To do a fair “Apples to Apples” comparison, the first thing you would need is the number of doses of each drug that are consumed annually:

“More than 25 billion acetaminophen doses are sold in the US annually.” That’s in 2023; this year, the number is over 28 billion.” (See GMI, JAMA, and ATrain)

And Ivermectin?

“Approximately 450,000 outpatient prescriptions for ivermectin were filled in the United States in 2023.” (See Cognitive, ClinCalc).

In other words, there are roughly 50,000 times more doses of Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, consumed each year than doses of Ivermectin.

If as few doses of Tylenol were consumed each year as Ivermectin, there would be one Acetaminophen death every 72 years.

And, if as many doses of Ivermectin as Tylenol were consumed each year, the body count in the U.S. for the antiparasitic drug would be over 850,000 deaths annually. That would be like losing the entire population of a city like Indianapolis or San Francisco – every year.

saip wrote: ↑11 Oct 2025 00:45 We know most monkeys have no concept of time. Orange Monkey is no exception. Already complaining of not getting THIS YEAR'S Nobel. As I predicted, fireworks have begun.
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Vayutuvan wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 23:01

Cyrano wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 12:20 Very different take on life compared to the 4 ashramas of Hindu tradition namely Baalya, Vaivahika, Vanaprastha and finally Sanyaasa.

A small nit. The four ashramas are brahmacharya (staying at gurukula and learning), graahastya (family life - which is the longest IMHO), vaanaprastha, and sanyasa.

baalya till 8 years of age is all play and freedom and learning to show difference to elders and learning to learn from a guru.

The life stages (not ashrama but passage of time) are baalya, kaumaarya, yavvana, vriddhaapya.

(sorry for OT)

María Corina Machado
@MariaCorinaYA
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.

We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

Foreign policy
Regarding the Israel–Palestine conflict, Machado expressed her solidarity with Israel following the attacks of 7 October 2023.[117] She thanked Israel for its support of Edmundo González as president-elect,[118] and previously of Juan Guaidó as acting president.[119] Machado planned to reestablish diplomatic relations with Israel, which were cut in 2009 due to the 2008–2009 Gaza war.[119]

In February 2025, Machado addressed a Patriots.eu rally in Madrid.[120][121] Machado is a strong supporter of United States President Donald Trump, whom she described in 2025 as a "visionary" in relation to his opposition to the Maduro regime in Venezuela.[122][123] After he deployed the Navy to the Caribbean in 2025, Machado praised the Trump administration.[124] She has expressed support for the use of force to depose the Maduro regime; one of her advisors told the New York Times that she has coordinated with the Trump administration and that she has a plan for the first hundred hours after his deposition.[125]

Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I wonder if that timing was coincidental? Dependent on what China says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of the United States of America, to financially counter their move. For every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for the U.S.A. One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

chetak wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 23:19

Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado dedicates peace award to Trump

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Manish_P wrote: ↑11 Oct 2025 11:53 ^ Tik tok is banned in India

Manish_P wrote: ↑11 Oct 2025 09:26

chetak wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 23:19
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Need to see which indian they prop up as being nobel worthy

Needs to be popular among the masses pan india.

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑12 Oct 2025 02:11 ...
Yeah true. None of their previous people worked out - Susanna A. Roy, Kejriwal, or Rahul Gandhi. S. Tharoor hadn;t really done anything that is Nobel worthy not that others did. India polity simply doesn't give scope for chota mota activists like Malala or Dr. Greta to become prominent as HIndu society is as much as pluralistic and liberal as anybody in the West - Abrahamics or Commies can be.

A_Gupta wrote: ↑12 Oct 2025 07:37 So the China-US trade war has reignited, with reexport restrictions by China on rare earths, $80 per ton toll for Chinese ships at US ports, and 400 yuan per ton toll at Chinese ports for US linked ships, retaliation for buying Iranian oil, additional 100% tariff on China, etc., etc.

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑12 Oct 2025 02:11

Manish_P wrote: ↑11 Oct 2025 09:26
Need to see which indian they prop up as being nobel worthy

Needs to be popular among the masses pan india.

Yeah true. None of their previous people worked out - Susanna A. Roy, Kejriwal, or Rahul Gandhi. S. Tharoor hadn;t really done anything that is Nobel worthy not that others did. India polity simply doesn't give scope for chota mota activists like Malala or Dr. Greta to become prominent as HIndu society is as much as pluralistic and liberal as anybody in the West - Abrahamics or Commies can be.

chetak wrote: ↑12 Oct 2025 21:44 the last dead fish that the goras had propped up for the no-bell (satyarthi) sank without a trace, though his body floats to the surface once in a blue moon. after obummer, his is the next most useless no-bell ever given

Late spending, exacerbated by a mid-battle candidate switch, and lack of attention to voters’ top concerns are among the reasons Democrats lost the White House last year, the Democratic National Committee determined in its assessment of the defeat.
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DNC officials argued Democrats didn’t spend early or consistently enough to engage and persuade voters, one of several problems the party faced in 2024, the committee said. Swapping Joe Biden with Kamala Harris atop the ticket intensified those systemic, long-term problems for the party, the officials said, according to two people briefed by the DNC this week and granted anonymity to discuss those conversations. So far, Biden’s age has not come up, they said.

The DNC officials said the party’s failure to respond to voters’ top issues led to losses across once-core constituencies, including working class voters. One of the people briefed said they understood that assessment to mean Democrats “didn’t talk enough about bread-and-butter issues, and instead, we talked about social issues, social anxieties.” That could portend a DNC critique of the Harris campaign, which some Democrats said emphasized abortion and democracy over the economy and immigration.
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Even so, it’s not clear how some of these conclusions square with reality.
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Vayutuvan wrote: ↑12 Oct 2025 22:46

chetak wrote: ↑12 Oct 2025 21:44 the last dead fish that the goras had propped up for the no-bell (satyarthi) sank without a trace, though his body floats to the surface once in a blue moon. after obummer, his is the next most useless no-bell ever given

chetak gaaru,
I wanted to take his name too but forgot the name. The other one is IPCC (led by that guy Pachauri) shared with Al Gora.

Guddu wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 06:00 Ashley Tellis...in trouble. Spying for Chinese ?

https://x.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1978151721613644180

Coffee is in trouble. Even before the United States imposed tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil and 20 percent on Vietnam—which together produce more than half of the world’s coffee beans—other challenges, including climate-change-related fires, flooding, and droughts, had already forced up coffee prices globally. Today, all told, coffee in the U.S. is nearly 40 percent more expensive than it was a year ago.

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On any given day, an American is likelier to drink coffee than they are to exercise, pray, or read for pleasure.
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Ashley J Tellis, a renowned foreign policy scholar and defence strategist of Indian origin, has been arrested and charged with unlawfully retaining classified national defence information, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Tellis, 64, a senior fellow and Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was taken into custody over the weekend following a federal investigation into his handling of restricted government material. Prosecutors allege that Tellis violated 18 USC § 793(e), which prohibits unauthorised possession or retention of defence-related documents.

Investigators are also looking into allegations of Tellis removing classified documents from secure locations and meeting with Chinese officials.

If convicted, Tellis could face up to 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and forfeiture of the materials involved. The government emphasised that the complaint is an accusation and that Tellis remains presumed innocent until proven guilty.

A_Gupta wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 09:36

Coffee is in trouble. Even before the United States imposed tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil and 20 percent on Vietnam—which together produce more than half of the world’s coffee beans—other challenges, including climate-change-related fires, flooding, and droughts, had already forced up coffee prices globally. Today, all told, coffee in the U.S. is nearly 40 percent more expensive than it was a year ago.
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A_Gupta wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 14:23 “Earlier this year, an economic analysis by Moody’s Analytics found that the top 10% of earners—those making roughly $250,000 a year or more—now account for an astonishing 49.7% of all consumer spending. Thirty years ago, that figure was roughly 36%.”

A_Gupta wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 09:36 The Atlantic says:
Coffee is in trouble. Even before the United States imposed tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil and 20 percent on Vietnam—which together produce more than half of the world’s coffee beans—other challenges, including climate-change-related fires, flooding, and droughts, had already forced up coffee prices globally. Today, all told, coffee in the U.S. is nearly 40 percent more expensive than it was a year ago.…