Do you know in 2014, Ukraine needed a loan?
There were two offers on the table:
🔴The IMF dangled a $15 billion lifeline but, as always, it came with strings firmly attached.
-Scrap the ban on private land ownership.
-Slash pensions and subsidies,classic austerity.
🔴Russia also offered $15 billion, no strings attached, no IMF-style conditions, and no neoliberal gutting of the economy.
President Viktor Yanukovych picked the Russian deal.
So what happened?
Washington instigated a coup, ousted the President, and installed a new puppet regime.
The new Ukranian government bent the knee to the IMF, signed off an austerity program and opened the door to privatization.
Now, massive chunks of Ukrainian land,about a third, are in the hands of US giants like BlackRock.
You posted a picture of Khajuraho temple. This depiction is also from the same temple.
If everything depicted on temple walls should be taken as endorsement by Hindu religion, then one could use the same logic to argue that Hinduism supports bestiality, zoophilia, incest, group-orgies and what not. Everything is allowed in liberal Hinduism.
In reality, the artists were neither endorsing nor celebrating these acts. Depiction on Khajuraho's outer walls is a stereotypical depiction the chaotic totality of the outside worldly life and base instincts as a moral mirror.
The unadorned inner sanctum holds the divine, symbolizing that true liberation requires leaving earthly attachments behind.
Indian Cattle tells an unspoken story of Out of India migration🔥
Why? Because cattle cannot just walk outside of India and go all over these places!
It needs Indian cattle herders, real people to move out of India with these cattle!
This is creating nightmare in the Aryan Invasion Theory camp!
Indian humped cattle – the indicine lineage (Bos indicus) – were domesticated in the Indus–Sarasvati region around 8000–7000 BCE, with early evidence from Neolithic Mehrgarh.
From this core zone, they spread steadily across the subcontinent between 7000–4000 BCE, becoming integral to early agro-pastoral economies.
By 3000–2000 BCE, indicine cattle moved eastward into Southeast Asia, contributing to the formation of regional zebu populations, and by 2000–1500 BCE they had entered parts of China, where they interacted with local taurine lineages.
A further major expansion carried Indian indicine cattle westward into Africa beginning around 2000 BCE, with multiple waves continuing into the first millennium CE; this movement profoundly reshaped East African cattle genetics, producing the taurine–indicine admixture visible today.
Thus, over several millennia, cattle domesticated in northwest India radiated outward across Asia and Africa, leaving a durable genetic and economic footprint that still defines tropical cattle populations.
Taurine cattle – the humpless lineage (Bos taurus) – were first domesticated in the Near East around 10,500–10,000 BCE from local aurochs populations in the Fertile Crescent.
They expanded with Neolithic farming communities into southeastern Europe by 7000–6000 BCE, and across most of Europe over the next millennium.
A southern dispersal carried taurine cattle into North Africa by 6000–5000 BCE, and progressively into Sub-Saharan Africa between 4000–2000 BCE, where they later encountered and hybridised with incoming indicine cattle.
Eastward movements brought taurine herds into Central Asia by 5000–3000 BCE, contributing to later Eurasian pastoral systems.
No evidence of any of them entering India! This agains weakens Aryan Invasion Theory or it's weakened version Aryan Migration Theory!
All silly political games played with human genetics in scholarship arena now checkmated by cow genetics!
A painted figure at Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh, as much as thirty thousand years old. The historian Michael Wood, standing in front of it, said it reminded him of the dancing Shiva sold on pilgrim posters in India today.
Most of the world's religions were imposed by conquest and/or migration. India's was not. What that continuity means for the history usually taught is the subject of my new essay.
The hatred of Islamists for Hinduism is very deep and violent. The leftwing children of first-generation Hindu immigrants are in for a testing time. It will be interesting to see how this high-achieving highly assimilated group will do on this examination. @razibkhan@omarali50
The suspension of the AHEAD X handle ahead of @RSSorg Chief @DrMohanBhagwat ji’s Madison Square Garden event is yet another example of why Big Tech’s arbitrary private power over speech must end - not just in India, but globally.
A generic “violates our rules” notice will not do.
As I wrote recently in @bsindia, transparency by default must become the global norm. Every takedown or throttling of a lawful account must be accompanied by clear reasons, an identifiable process and a time-bound appeal.
Algorithms that shape what people see and increasingly decide what they may say must be open to audit.
Trust extended must be trust earned, and trust is earned only through accountability.
#SafeAndTrustedInternet
Mayor Mamdani found time to oppose a Hindu gathering at Madison Square Garden.
Not traffic. Not crime. A Hindu event.
He is Muslim. Fine. He does not get to decide which faiths are allowed in the room.
Jews already know the pattern. Hindus just got the memo.
Christians should stop pretending they are exempt.
Quote this and tag someone who still calls him “inclusive.”
@NYCMayor
Zohran Mamdani has revealed his peculiar definition of pluralism: everyone belongs in New York until 5,000 Hindus gather to hear Mohan Bhagwat ji.
Then suddenly the 'Muslim Brotherhood' Mayor discovers “exclusion”.
The event is called the Universal Oneness Celebration. But Mamdani is using the authority and pulpit of the New York Mayor’s office to publicly delegitimise a lawful private gathering that he himself admits he probably has no power to stop.
And predictably, sections of the Congress ecosystem in India have rushed to applaud him.
Mamdani says he opposes “exclusionary” politics. Perhaps he should begin by looking in the mirror.
The irony is spectacular!
First the Jews. Then the Italians. Now Hindus.
Zohran Mamdani has found yet another New York community to target, opposing a Hindu celebration at Madison Square Garden because he objects to its politics. The mayor of America’s most diverse city seems determined to divide it one community at a time.
https://t.co/ibzbBlWZQH
@OphirGottlieb Margins dropping indicates the memory part of revenue at 50 percent is increasing. Memory doubles next year and that means GPU is not growing 70 percent.
@KobeissiLetter 50 percent of NVDA product BoM is memory. Memory doubling next year will mask any GPU slow down. $nvda people who don't understand that will assume growth is accelerating. $dram
@USCIRF@DrMahmood40 Dr @DrMahmood40 belongs to an exclusivist religion treating others as subhuman as @mehdirhasan said, he should not be commenting on a community service organization that helps everyone. RSS has a Muslim wing, in Pakistan Christians and other minorities suffer. USCIRF is biased
@michaeldweiss The way they sent him out so quickly the Trump peace tower casino plan in Pokrovsk did not go very well nor the American managed buffer zone which can also launch drones into Moscow!