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A conservative Hindu like Vivek Ramaswamy will do more to preserve what survives of Christian America than a secular leftist like Amy Acton who is actively working to destroy it.
“Be a Christian and vote for the Hindu!”
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In Switzerland, a Muslim woman was fined 100 Swiss francs for wearing a burqa in a public place. The woman refused to pay the fine and appealed the case in court. This is “Islamophobia.” But the court increased the fine to 1,000 Swiss francs, treating it as disrespect for Swiss law and a deliberate violation of the ban on covering the face. Since Switzerland, after the referendum of March 7, 2021, implemented a nationwide ban on covering the face in public places, with a maximum fine of 1,000 Swiss francs for violations, effective January 1, 2025. Therefore this verdict is now being seen as an example that religious identity and ideology cannot stand above the laws of the country, even if they portray themselves as victims and call the law discriminatory and Islamophobic.
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An important project with strategic value.👍
🚨India–Netherlands Sign Massive Deal for 60-Km Kalpasar Dam on Gulf of Khambhat India has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious infrastructure projects, the proposed 60-km Kalpasar dam across the Gulf of Khambhat. In a significant move, India and the Netherlands have signed agreements for technical cooperation on the Kalpasar Project, bringing Dutch expertise in hydraulic engineering, coastal infrastructure and water management into the project. The proposed mega-structure is envisioned as far more than a conventional dam. It aims to create a massive freshwater reservoir while also supporting road and rail connectivity between Saurashtra and southern Gujarat. The project could help capture freshwater that currently drains into the Arabian Sea, strengthening water availability for irrigation, drinking and industrial use. It also envisions major transportation infrastructure across the Gulf, potentially transforming connectivity between regions of Gujarat. That is where the Netherlands becomes strategically important. The Dutch have decades of experience in large-scale water engineering, including the Afsluitdijk, a 32-km barrier completed in 1932 that transformed water management and connectivity in the Netherlands. Through the new cooperation, Dutch institutions including Deltares and TU Delft will contribute to hydraulic modelling, coastal and structural engineering, climate resilience, technical review, training and capacity building. The Kalpasar idea has existed for decades, but its enormous cost and unprecedented engineering requirements have repeatedly delayed implementation. The latest agreements do not mean the dam is already under construction. They mark a significant technical step toward determining whether this decades-old vision can finally be engineered and executed. If realised, Kalpasar would combine water security, transportation infrastructure and coastal engineering on a scale rarely attempted in India , potentially turning one of Gujarat’s most challenging geographical barriers into a major infrastructure corridor.
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In 2018, I laid out the file on Abdul El-Sayed. MSA. Muslim Brotherhood networks. CAIR ties. The infrastructure. The ideology. It was all there. Now it’s 2026. Same jihadi. Same project. And the GOP is still acting like this is a mystery. They don’t want to say Islam. They don’t even understand the Muslim Brotherhood. They don’t want to talk about student visas, campus recruitment, nonprofit networks, or 40 years of institution-building inside the United States. They would rather make this campaign about anything else. We let hostile networks come here, train in our universities, build organizations, raise money, run candidates, and professionalize the takeover. Then we acted shocked when the same names kept coming back. Almost a decade after I warned about Abdul just like I warned about Mamdani years ago, El-Sayed is still fighting and running to penetrate the Senate. That is not just an intelligence failure. That is a political failure. If the Right still cannot name the threat, how are we supposed to ever win.
MEDIA COVER-UP Muslim Brotherhood operative is running for Governor & Media is SILENT Michigan candidate for Gov., Abdul El-Sayed was VP of Muslim Student Association (MSA) MSA is HAMAS on College Campuses - they have professed dedication to eliminating Jews & Israel (Thread)
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Ignorant statement. Raw material = finished product???? That’s like saying silicon sand equals semiconductors.
India holds the world's third-largest rare-earth reserves and still imports most of its magnets from China. @Sanjay_Sriv on why India's chip and EV plans depend on processing these minerals at home. 👇 swarajyamag.com/commentary/b…
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This pivot by Peter Thiel could be dangerous for MAGA’a chances in 2028. He has the clout & $ to make a difference. Is JD listening?
Peter Thiel explains what Trump got wrong in both of his terms "I think the two administrations made opposite mistakes." "The first administration brought in all these people who couldn't agree, and it was just all this internal fighting." "The second administration, I think overcorrected for the mistake of the first term with all these loyalty tests. You got an administration staffed by not very smart, but very loyal people." "There’s all sorts of ways it can be criticized. It also, reflected a way that things had reached a certain exhaustion, and certainly on the Republican side."
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The same is true of most Muslims in South Asia. They are Hindu Indians who got forced to convert. But being Arab, Turk, or Persian has more stature and soft power. Hence the lie that they all came to India. What was the justification for invading? The second lie is they came to civilize the natives out of primitive culture. This happens wherever invaders colonize the conquered minds
MY ANCESTORS CONVERTED UNDER THE SWORD I spent much of my life believing a lie, a big one. My parents told me I was Arab. My mother said she was Arab. My father said he was Arab and even claimed “holy blood,” as many North Africans do when claiming descent from the Prophet’s family. Then I came to America and took a DNA test. The result shocked me: 94% North African Amazigh. I wasn’t from the Arabian Peninsula. My roots were right where my family had lived for generations: North Africa. Suddenly, the history made sense. When Arab-Muslim armies conquered North Africa in the 7th and 8th centuries, the Amazigh did not simply disappear. They resisted the new rulers repeatedly, sometimes fiercely. Over the centuries, much of North Africa was Islamized and Arabized. Indigenous languages, religions, identities, and histories were pushed aside as Arabic and Islam became dominant. Somewhere along my family line, being “Arab” became the story passed from parent to child. Perhaps claiming Arab, and especially prestigious Arab, ancestry offered status, protection, or simply a way to belong in the society that emerged after the conquest. The irony is that science eventually challenged the family story. My DNA said: You are Amazigh. You are North African. Christianity had deep roots in pre-Islamic North Africa. This was the land of Augustine, Tertullian, Cyprian, and countless North African Christians. Then conquest transformed the region, followed over centuries by Islamization and Arabization. So when people romanticize the “spread of Islam” in North Africa as though our ancestors simply heard the message and enthusiastically abandoned everything they had been, I ask them to read the history of conquest, taxation, slavery, rebellion, and resistance. My ancestors did not need foreigners from Arabia to give them an identity. They already had one. Their land was North Africa. Their people were Amazigh. Their languages existed before Arabic arrived. Their religions were Christianity and Judaism. Their history existed before Islam arrived. Today, Morocco officially recognizes Tamazight, the language of the people who were there long before the Arab conquest. For generations, we were taught to look east to discover who we were. My DNA pointed me back home. Islamization changed my ancestors’ religion. Arabization obscured their identity. But neither could change their blood.
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Terrible injustice. Desert tribal mentality.
SHOCKING NEWS 🚨 Sri Lankan Tamil migrant worker Sivarasa Anojan has reportedly been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia over a Facebook comment considered insulting to Islam and Prophet Muhammad. He reportedly deleted the post within minutes and later apologised. His initial sentence was reportedly five years in prison and a SAR 3 million fine, but his appeal allegedly resulted in a death sentence.
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All this is true. But top down assembly driven. The tough work that determines power is bottom up in the foundational technologies. That’s where Jugaad has let India down.
Why do India’s geopolitical analysts get India so wrong? India is today: 1) The world’s largest producer of vaccines, milk, dairy & two-wheelers; 2) The world’s second largest producer of cement, crude steel, cotton, mobile phones & food grains; 3) The world’s third largest manufacturer of passenger cars/SUVs & pharmaceuticals. By 2030 India will be #1-3 globally in most industries. A “dead” economy? My @firstpost column
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Shame!
तमिलनाडु के वेल्लोर जिले में स्वर्ण मंदिर के बाहर गश्त पर पुलिस कर्मी ने साधु पर बेवजह धार्मिक गुस्सा निकाला साधु के गाल पर थप्पड़ जड़ने वाला मुस्लिम SI नसीम वर्दी की आड़ में धार्मिक हिंसा @VellorePolice यही अगर कोई मौलाना होता हिंदू पुलिस वाला थप्पड़ मारता तो देश में हंगामा हो गया होता हिंदुओं पुलिस पर करवाई होने तक शेयर करते रहो
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This needs to be better known and appreciated. We have had great minds but bad industrial policy of renting brains to USA for quick profits by outsourcing.
He spent a decade at Texas Instruments helping make it the world's number one vendor of DSL modem chips. Then he quit, put in his own savings, and started a semiconductor company in a garage with one other person. It took eight years before India saw what he had built. His name is Himamshu Khasnis. What pushed him out was a number he could not stop thinking about. By his own estimate, close to 45 percent of the world's chips were being designed in Bengaluru. But as he put it, "the intellectual property and the subsequent revenue remained with the USA." India had more than a billion mobile phones, second only to China, and some of the largest cellular networks on earth. Every silicon chip inside that infrastructure was imported. He founded Signalchip in 2010. Chip design is slow, brutally expensive, and offers nothing to show for years. Sridhar Vembu of Zoho, who had started his own career as a wireless engineer at Qualcomm, backed him and stayed. A software founder funding silicon, through a decade with no product. In 2015 came SCRF1401, India's first RF transceiver chip for 3G, 4G and WiFi. Then in February 2019, Signalchip unveiled four chips it called the Agumbe family, India's first indigenous semiconductor chips for 4G LTE and 5G NR modems. They cover all LTE and 5G bands up to 6GHz, and they support positioning through NavIC, India's own satellite navigation system. At the launch, India's Telecom Secretary noted that only around eight companies in the world could design and build chips like these. The team that did it was 40 people. In October 2024, Khasnis stood at the India Mobile Congress explaining his chips to the Prime Minister, who asked detailed questions. For years, Indian engineers designed a large share of the world's silicon and owned almost none of it. Agumbe is Indian at the level that actually matters. The design, the patents, the ownership. @signalchip
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Kudos. A good service.
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So true. I once shared a stage w her briefly when she came to a school event. Lofty ideals without common sense.
Very few people may know her. Her name was Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit — daughter of Motilal Nehru and sister of Jawaharlal Nehru. Qualification: She never attended school or college. Yet, she went on to serve as India’s ambassador to China, Mexico, Moscow, Ireland, Britain, and the United States ….because she was the sister of India’s Prime Minister. There is also a particularly interesting and rather foolish episode associated with her at the UN. In 1951, China occupied Tibet and was strengthening its position in Asia, becoming an increasing threat to neighbouring countries. In 1960, concerned about the seriousness of the situation, US President John F. Kennedy reportedly called India’s ambassador Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to the UN and proposed that India conduct a nuclear test with American cooperation to counter China’s growing influence and maintain the balance of power in Asia. The argument was that if India became a nuclear power, China would be deterred from attacking a nuclear-armed country. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit reportedly responded that India was a country committed to Gandhi’s principle of non-violence and that India saw no threat from any country in the world. She rejected the American proposal without even considering it necessary to seek the opinion of the Indian government in Delhi. Then, in 1962, exactly what America had feared happened: China attacked India and occupied Aksai Chin. The claim is that because of the short-sightedness of an uneducated woman, India lost a large portion of its territory. MORAL OF THE STORY…. Like Brother Like Sister. पूरा खानदान ही मूर्ख था।
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I am looking forward to giving this important talk. Many historic moments will be revealed.
INDICA is pleased to announce the 5th Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati Memorial Lecture to be held on Saturday, 26 September 2026 at 5:30 PM IST. Instituted in 2019, the Memorial Lecture series honours Pujya Swamiji’s luminous legacy, intellectual rigour, and compassionate vision. Over the years, distinguished voices have engaged with ideas and concerns that reflect his life and teachings. We continue this series as our humble offering of Guru Dakshina, in reverence and gratitude for his extraordinary contribution. This year’s Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Shri Rajiv Malhotra, author, researcher, and Founder of the Infinity Foundation. 📅 Saturday, 26 September 2026 🕠 5:30 PM IST We warmly invite you to join us. 🔗 Register here to attend the zoom session: indica.events/event/fifth-pu… @RajivMessage
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🇵🇰🌍 Pakistan's African pivot: Weapons, trade and the race for the Red Sea Pakistan is increasingly entrenching itself in Africa — not only through diplomacy, but through arms deals. Its key foothold is the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea zone, where major trade routes between Asia, Africa and Europe pass 🟠This week, Somalia's president received a Pakistani Air Force delegation. Pakistan announced assistance in rebuilding Somalia's air force that has been destroyed by civil war. Media reported talks on a contract for 24 JF-17 fighter jets worth $900 million, though the deal's status remains unclear: in August, the sides limited themselves to a memorandum on counterterrorism and training 🟠With Sudan, Pakistan sought a contract to sell ten K-8 trainer aircraft, over 200 drones and air defense systems worth ~$1.5 billion. The deal was suspended after Saudi Arabia refused to finance it. Nevertheless, Pakistani Mohafiz-V armored vehicles have already been spotted at a parade in Khartoum 🟠In December 2025, media reported that Pakistan signed its largest-ever defense export contract with Libyan National Army — worth $4–4.6 billion: 16 JF-17 fighters, 12 Super Mushshak trainers and other weapons. However, there has been no official confirmation of this deal 🟠Pakistan has also stepped up contacts with Ethiopia: agricultural machinery, a business forum, air force modernization. Through Ethiopia, home to the African Union headquarters, Pakistan gains access to continental institutions. What does Pakistan get out of this? Arms sales bring the country much-needed foreign currency and political influence. For African states, Pakistani weapons are attractive for their price and lack of strict political conditions open markets closed by Western suppliers. 👉But the benefits go beyond trade. Strategically, Pakistan is strengthening maritime security in the western Indian Ocean; economically, it is expanding defense exports; diplomatically, it is broadening its presence in a region of growing geopolitical importance.
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🚨🇨🇳🇮🇷 BREAKING: The real story of China's role in the Iran war is worse than Washington admits... 1,300 weapons shipments, missile propellant, and satellite images tied to three dead US soldiers -Iranian customs data shows roughly 1,300 dual-use shipments to the defense ministry from January through June, packed with GPS units, electric motors and aircraft engine parts -On the day China publicized its peacemaking, a plane from China landed in Tehran carrying electronics used in drone and missile guidance systems -Two days later, more than a dozen shipments arrived with over $6 million in drone components -Mahan Air, a sanctioned Iranian carrier, went from 4 flights a week from China in March to about 27 by late April, then 39 in the first week of September, most of them cargo runs nobody could book a seat on -Chinese firms supplied sodium perchlorate, the chemical that makes ballistic missile propellant, with one company writing that it worked with Chinese authorities to process some export licenses confidentially -Chinese satellite imagery has been linked by U.S. officials to the July 17 strike that killed three American soldiers in Jordan -Chinese procurement networks tried to route shoulder-fired missile launchers to Iran through Belarus to hide the buyer -China still buys more than 80% of Iranian crude, with four million barrels delivered the week after Washington launched its campaign to cut off every economic lifeline Xi just landed in Washington, and the White House has spent weeks telling everyone not to make this an issue. Trump said in July that Xi personally promised him no weapons, that he trusts him, and that whatever's happening "has not been major." Rubio said nothing China did changed the war's trajectory. The customs records beg to differ. The math works beautifully for Beijing. A few hundred tons of chemicals and some satellite passes keep this war running, which drains the American interceptor stockpile built for the Pacific, spikes the gas prices punishing Republicans in November, and costs China nothing but the price of cargo flights. Bring it up in that room. A president who walks out of this summit without confronting Xi over parts tied to dead soldiers in Jordan has decided the trade relationship matters more than the troops. Source: The Wall Street Journal / Writer: Daniel
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Very good meeting with Prime Minister @CMShehbaz at #UNGA. The EU values its partnership with Pakistan. Our Strategic Engagement Plan reflects both the breadth of this partnership and the shared commitment to democracy, the rule of law, human rights and civic space. We work together on stability and security. We thanked the Prime Minister for his initiative to mediate in the conflict between the US and Iran. Pakistan is playing an important role in support of de-escalation, dialogue and peaceful resolution of conflicts. We discussed how to take our partnership forward, from trade to addressing illegal migration.
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Systematic election rigging marred PK’s 2024 elections, enabling Shehbaz to form a govt. This blatant subversion of the popular will has been documented by media and noted by missions from the European Union and the CW. Now this illegitimate govt is supported by EU and West. theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…
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Shri @RajivMessage mentioned this crisis years before when the policy of importing humanities from a foreign lens was being introduced
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Thanks for reminding. Most of the time when I oppose policies, ppl here fight me. Some years later they switch sides suddenly.
@RajivMessage did warn about introducing humanities in IITs many years ago.
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