Gurmeet Singh Mudan

Enjoying technology, photography and philosophy.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

David Davis (October 10th 2016), "We will make a success of Brexit"

"There will be no downside to Brexit at all, and considerable upside"

They promised everything, delivered poverty, a drop in trade, barriers to trade, isolation, weakness on the global stage, and created a case study for the world's worst example of self-harm a nation has ever undertaken.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Tice is an idiot. One thousand people dead in two months from extreme heat and he says - enjoy it. One hundred thousand will die in Europe this summer. Tice says see the positives….. He lives in a bubble disconnected from ordinary people, the reality of wild fires, burning homes, lost homes - five heatwaves in one summer (so far). 1976 was nothing like this. The science is clear, our carbon emissions have driven atmospheric carbon to levels last seen millions of years ago - mass burning of fossil fuels in just 200 hundred years is the cause. This is not normal. It makes sense to reduce those emissions as fast as possible. That’s not arrogance that’s common sense. Celebrating better wine off the back of deadly weather events is arrogance, wrapped up in stupidity - presented as populism. Oh and desalination works in the Middle East because they have access to dirt cheap and abundant fossil fuels in those countries - it’s the most expensive way to make water and guaranteed to send our water bills through the roof - if we had to adopt it at scale. Tice is an idiot.

[Khalsa Aid @Khalsa_Aid]

Thank you @UB1UB2 ! We are blessed to have wonderful volunteers & supporters.

"Recognise The Whole Human
Race As One."

#KhalsaAid #LionsClub #Seva #Humanity #OneLove

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

No lies detected.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Don't worry about Data Centers.
Don't worry about Climate Change.
Don't worry about Mass Surveillance.
Don't worry about Billionaires becoming Trillionaires.

Worry about immigration, imaginary invasions and pensioners and people on benefits being too rich.

That's the lie they expect you to swallow.

[Khalsa Aid @Khalsa_Aid]

27 years of serving humanity, restoring hope, and delivering aid wherever it’s needed most.

#KhalsaAid #Seva #27YearsOfService #ServingHumanity

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The quote of the century.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

I refuse to support a fake, opportunist, cos-playing a politician. That’s why I back @CountBinface against Farage! #ClactonByElection

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Says the man who bought a farm partly to avoid inheritance tax! He should write one to the 35,000 grieving relatives who have to pay it this year saying thanks for paying it so farmers can have a £2.5m allowance and half the rate of tax above that!

[Khalsa Aid @Khalsa_Aid]

“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”

(Shannon L. Alder)

#KhalsaAid #Humanity #Seva #OneWorld

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

A 24yo Indian woman was stabbed to death IN THE SAFETY of her bed next to her 3mth old baby
But guess what I'm hearing?? SILENCE

Where is the cold pure rage?

[Harjap Singh Bhangal @HarjapBhangal]

A Sikh Immigrant woman, aged 24. Killed in her bed whilst sleeping with her baby. The alleged killer, a white 44 year old male. She came here to study and work which she peacefully did.

Should the Sikh community now take to the streets? Should we label all white men murderers? Should we create an atmosphere of hatred and fear? No...we will wait for justice to be served and advise our community that in the current climate, created by those with political agendas, we need to protect ourselves.

We ask the good people in the world to unite against hatred.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Elon Musk is the world's richest man who killed the world's poorest children.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

You’re daily reminder Nigel Farage wants to

- leave the ECHR

- repeal the Equality Act

- Strip back workers rights

- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts

- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions”

PLEASE DON’T FALL FOR IT

[Sikhlens @SikhLens]

Thank you, Leicester! ❤️ What began as a vision became a celebration of Sikh storytelling, art, history, music & community. Thank you to everyone who joined us and made Sikhlens UK unforgettable. Stories traveled. Communities connected. Friendships began. See you next year! #SikhlensUK #SikhStories

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, "When I studied history at school. Tudors, Romans, a bit of WWII. I don't remember talking about empire or colonisation"

Historian William Dalrymple, "It is possible to do at A'Levels modules on the British empire, but very few people do them"

"Which means most British people are entirely ignorant for what is for better or worse the most important thing Britain ever did"

"Britain drew it's empire, completely changed the face of the world over the course of 300-400 years"

"Not only did they change it within a local European context, but they completely upended flows of global trade and eco-systems which had existed for millinia"

"For most of history, India and China dominated the world economy, and Europe was an add-on"

"They were producing about 70% of the world's GDP, that's still the case in the 18th century"

"When we're looking at the world today, China already the world's number two economy, and India about to be number three overtaking Japan and Germany"

"What we're seeing is a reversal of the trading system to a pr colonial period - it's taken 80 years since the British left India"

"We're seeing the world recover form this brief blip where Europe smashed its way around the globe moving populations and natural resources around, looting some places, bringing wealth to Europe"

"If you look at the big National Trust country houses, if it's a big palladian house, the sort you'd see in a Jane Austin Sunday night drama"

"If it's on the east coast of the country, quite probably it was built by the East India company money, in other words the looting of India"

"If it's on the west coast, near Liverpool or Bristol, it's more likely to be slave money, from the Caribbean"

"These two sources of wealth brought capital into Britain, and cotton into Britain, which was then milled in the industrial revolution, which gave the seed capital for Britain to accelerate massively through the industrial revolution"

"Which catapulted England from an upper middle position in Europe"

"It transforms Britain and the world"

"But what gives us great prosperity often detracted from the prosperity of the looted countries, or countries that have been plundered for enslaved people"

"And it remains a strange quirk of our history system that we learn more about the wives of Henry VIII, than we do about the entirely looting of India, or the Caribbean slave trade"

"Two crucial moments in Britain's and the world's history"

"The reason we don't learn it, is because when the British empire ended, it became something people stopped talking about"

"By the time you get to Monty Python in the 1970s or late 60s, the Empire is a joke"

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Israel is a Jewish state. That’s in the charter. Do you support that?

Mamdani: I’ve said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights.

Karl: As jewish state?

Mamdani: I believe that any state that privileges one religion over another is one that I can’t tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is.