Iranian Mullah ?Lalmohan wrote:Henry f&*&%$g Kissinger?!?!?!
May be new Brazilian leader.
Iranian Mullah ?Lalmohan wrote:Henry f&*&%$g Kissinger?!?!?!
I think all of you are missing the elephant in the room. I know this sounds like a CT, and maybe it is one, but I posit that its the Congoon ecosystem in cahoots with 'South Asia' cabal and think tanks in US that impressed upon Trump's handlers to call this off. And to me the reasons are obvious.Viv S wrote:Or maybe he had other commitments at the time (golf maybe). Or maybe, with his plan to hold a parade in DC being a wash out, his advisers are steering him clear of anything that would revive the media narrative on national parades.Supratik wrote:Trump didn't come due to Russian arms deal and Iran oil deal.
Or maybe even more likely, neither he nor his entourage wanted to inhale Delhi's January air (I remember that being a big deal when Obama was in town).
With all due respect, that does sound like very much like a CT. There's no elephant in the room because the visit of a foreign dignitary, even one as important as the US President, doesn't have a significant impact on the Indian polity.CRamS wrote:I think all of you are missing the elephant in the room. I know this sounds like a CT, and maybe it is one, but I posit that its the Congoon ecosystem in cahoots with 'South Asia' cabal and think tanks in US that impressed upon Trump's handlers to call this off. And to me the reasons are obvious.
Mappunniji,g.sarkar wrote:Mappunniji,mappunni wrote: Gautamji,
Have lived in Texas for over a decade plus. The sun down laws are you talking about is from the Jim Crow era. During my drives to visit family in San Antonio or Houston, I avoid interstate highways and take state highway weaving thru small town Texas and even have stayed at B&B in small Hill county towns. No form of overt racism exists. Most of the convenience stores and gas stations are owned and operated by Indians, mind you I am talking about really small towns.
You might have been told wrong information about Sun down laws.
Let me get back to you on this.
Gautam
CheersNEW DELHI: The US has agreed to let eight countries -- including Japan, India and South Korea -- keep buying Iranian oil after it re-imposes sanctions on the OPEC producer on November 5, a senior administration official said.
Is this DDM hype to suggest 'all eyes on Indian-Americans" or is there any truth?
US midterm polls: All eyes on Indian-Americans, 4 of 12 incumbents seek re-election
DDM hype. Three of the four are running in safe seats. The fourth, Ami Bera, has a narrower edge in a light blue district and will most likely win as well.CRamS wrote:Is this DDM hype to suggest 'all eyes on Indian-Americans" or is there any truth?
CheersNEW DELHI: The US government’s decision to allow India import oil from Iran despite the sanctions is valid till the first week of May and will help the Narendra Modi government avoid any pressure till the conclusion of its current term and also open the window to push exports of several goods — from foodgrains to pharmaceutical products and auto parts.
None of the more than half a dozen new Indian Americans candidates, many of whom caught national attention by giving tough fight to their opponents and outraising them in the fund raisers, could make it to the House of Representatives, which is equivalent to Lok Sabha in the Indian parliament.
However, Indian-Americans picked up more seats in the State assemblies. The community sent its member Ram Villivalam for the first time to the Illinois Senate and also elected a Muslim Indian-Amerian Mujtaba Mohammed to the North Carolina State Senate.
Chicago-born Villivalam, elected unopposed, also became the first Asian-American State Senator and the first South Asian-American member of Illinois General Assembly ever.
For the first time, more than 100 Indian-Americans had entered the race in this mid-term elections, of which over 50 were on the ballot on Tuesday.
Among them 12, including four incumbents, were running for the House and one for the Senate: a record in itself.
Happy Diwali to everyone here as well! May a supernova in a distant galaxy shower us with neutrinos. Maybe SN2018A?More important business - Happy Diwali to everyone. May all the photons, gravity-waves, and colliding black holes produce fire-works and merging neutron stars shower gold.
I found raised for Bera.
here are the highlights:
Josh Kaul was elected Attorney General of Wisconsin, becoming the only Indian American to currently serve in statewide office.
We re-elected all of our incumbents, including all four Members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Congressman Ami Bera, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Congressman Ro Khanna, and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi.
We elected at least six new state legislators - Padma Kuppa (Mich.), Kevin Thomas (N.Y.), Nima Kulkarni (Ky.), Mujtaba Mohammed (N.C.), Amish Shah (Ariz.), and Ram Villivalam (Ill.) - and we're still waiting to hear about Mona Das (Wash.). Of note, Kevin, Nima, Amish, and Ram will be the first Indian Americans to ever serve in their state legislatures.
In Fort Bend County, Texas, KP George unseated a long-time incumbent in his race for County Judge and Juli Mathew won her campaign for county court at law.
While our Congressional candidates came up short in their races, each of them vastly outperformed past challengers in their districts. We are extraordinarily proud of the campaigns they ran (and hope we'll see them on the ballot again!).
Rudradev, Take a bow for this post.Rudradev wrote:Rudradev wrote: We can hope for the best i.e. that Trump reaches a rapprochement with Putin such that CAATSA becomes a non-issue for us. But we are clearly a "secondary" player in the US' eyes... US policy towards India will be reactive to and dependent upon the outcomes of its policy initiatives towards Russia and China, not the other way round.Iran (and Turkey) are envisaged by Steve Bannon as cornerstones of a new bloc that will be led by China.krishna_krishna wrote: Rdevji, how does Iran fall into this puzzle in your opinion. Nikki ben gave diktat of staying away from any dealings or else face the sanctions.
We need Iran and more importantly chabahar do you think EA ministry will show spine to stand up for our interests ?
Trump, being a hopelessly corrupt individual, is constrained by how much economic pain he can inflict on China vs. the profit motive for his khaandaani interests (witness the ZTE about-turn and the more recent "trade war" downhill-skiing). The pro-globalist Deep-Staters in Trump sarkar (Mnuchin, Mattis, and probably Pompeo) recognize that Trump's corrupt personal interests are in tune with traditional globalist Deep-State interests. So they will move him away from confrontation with China using this as a carrot. Meanwhile people like Peter Navarro, Wilbur Ross, Steve Miller etc. will push Trump towards confrontation with China (with Bannon's worldview as their guiding beacon).
In turn, the Neo-Wilsonian Deep-Staters will try to forge a compromise: let the hardcore Jacksonian Trumpists (Steve Miller, John Kelly and others of their ilk) enjoy unhindered power to clamp down on domestic issues (immigration, gay rights, affirmative action, abortion, gun issues etc.) but leave foreign policy and international trade policy to be run by the traditional Deep-State establishment. This is what I think is going on in Washington.
Given this handicap (the fact that globalist Deep-Staters continue to intervene on China's side), the US will find it very difficult to pry China away from Turkey and Iran, or anybody else. China sees itself as rising, sees America (accurately) as failing, and will be in no mood to make compromises like in the Deng/Jiang/Hu era. They will demand their cake and eat it too. The side effect of this is that Iran will become more beholden to China, hence less likely to collaborate with India in ways that discomfit China's poodles (namely Bakistan).
As far as our own relations with Iran are concerned, first I'd like to say that I avoid talking in terms of "showing spine" because that is unnecessarily applying perceptional constraints on HOW the GOI does things, rather than WHAT they do. It is perfectly possible to pursue our interests in Iran 100% while showing a big smile and pehle-aap tehzeeb to the Americans. The Americans don't really have that much leverage over us-- they are threatening tariffs against India, CAATSA sanctions against India, and all manner of punitive measures in any case, so what more are they going to throw at us if we continue dealing with Iran? India and Iran will continue to trade in non-dollar currencies. If India's engagement with Iran turns out to disappoint, it will be more a function of Iran doing China's bidding than India being pressured by the Americans. JMT.
Thanks ... Talking about Bera ..ramana wrote:AmberG From my contacts
I found raised for Bera.
here are the highlights:
Josh Kaul was elected Attorney General of Wisconsin, becoming the only Indian American to currently serve in statewide office.
We re-elected all of our incumbents, including all four Members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Congressman Ami Bera, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Congressman Ro Khanna, and Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi.
We elected at least six new state legislators - Padma Kuppa (Mich.), Kevin Thomas (N.Y.), Nima Kulkarni (Ky.), Mujtaba Mohammed (N.C.), Amish Shah (Ariz.), and Ram Villivalam (Ill.) - and we're still waiting to hear about Mona Das (Wash.). Of note, Kevin, Nima, Amish, and Ram will be the first Indian Americans to ever serve in their state legislatures.
In Fort Bend County, Texas, KP George unseated a long-time incumbent in his race for County Judge and Juli Mathew won her campaign for county court at law.
While our Congressional candidates came up short in their races, each of them vastly outperformed past challengers in their districts. We are extraordinarily proud of the campaigns they ran (and hope we'll see them on the ballot again!).
3 aspects of us trade demands bothers me.Gyan wrote:I personally feel that General thrust of US Trade demands on India is fair. We need to reduce importing Chinese Crap and encourage more US imports.
I don’t think this is an entirely accurate description. Appropriations come from the US House of Representatives. There are always back and forth games in appropriations between the adminstration and congress to get what the administration wants. On the surface it appeared to be a blood bath, but FY18 budget was largely the same. Remember this administration has had only one FY budget and another must come by Dec. 7th when the continuing resolution expires. If NASA wants its EOS birds they have to tell the admin they will be used to observe the border to keep out colored peoples. . It worked with Reagan when we told him the SSC could be pointed at Soviet missles and shoot them down. Then named the Waxahacie, TX facility as the Ronald Reagan Center for High Energy Physics. Too bad the Clinton admin cancelled it in 1992.Amber G. wrote:^^^ Thanks. As you know Bera has served in House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology)
BTW 314 Action (the pack I talked about) did get quite a bit of success..It's part of "resistance" .. as DJT, is among other things, bigot/anti Science - policies on Global warming, energy, etc is very dangerous.
Peregrine wrote:‘Mainstreaming’ of terrorists by Pakistan a threat, PM tells US VP – TNN
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pointed out the “mainstreaming” of figures involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in the recent elections in Pakistan, a clear reference to Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed, during his interaction with US vice-president Mike Pence in Singapore on Wednesday.
Briefing journalists on the Pence meeting, foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale said, “He (Modi) did point out that the mainstreaming of people involved in the Mumbai attacks in a political process which has taken place in the recent elections in Pakistan should be a matter of serious concern not just to the two countries — India and the US — but to the international community.”
PM Modi also reminded the US vice-president that in one way or another all the traces and all the leads in global terror attacks ultimately lead to a “single source and single place of origin”, in an apparent reference to Pakistan.
The foreign secretary said, “There was a sense of convergence both on bilateral issues and on global issues and we look forward to taking the relationship in coming months and in 2019”.
“There was some good understanding of the areas of how we move forward in building cooperation on counter-terrorism and both countries recognised this is a challenge which we have to fight together and to fight along with the rest of the international community,” Gokhale said.
India also called for an early end to negotiations for an Asian free trade agreement, the regional comprehensive economic partnership.
Modi and Pence continued their discussion on maintaining a free and open IndoPacific. “Spoke about our shared vision of a free and open & reaffirmed our commitment to strengthen security and counter-terrorism cooperation and coordination,” Pence tweeted after the meeting.
Modi became the first head of government to address Singapore’s famous FinTech festival. Pitching India as the “best” investment destination for global tech giants. He said India is experiencing a digital revolution of unprecedented speed and scale that has enabled financial inclusion of 1.3 billion Indians. “Technology is defining competitiveness and power in the new world and it is creating boundless opportunities to transform lives,” Modi said.
The PM also met his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, Thailand PM Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, as well as Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillar ... te-concernHillary Clinton and her closest confidant Huma Abedin traveled to India this weekend to attend a lavish wedding hosted by the country's richest family that has generously donated to the Clinton Foundation.
The former Democratic presidential candidate and her aide are attending a nearly weeklong celebration of the marriage of Isha Ambani, the 27-year-old daughter of Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest and the world’s 19th richest man whose wealth valued around $43 billion.
The presence of Clinton and Abedin is unsurprising since the bride's father has been working with Clinton’s foundation for years, donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to the controversial non-profit.