British made famines in India killed 15 million Indians

There were 31 artificial Indian Famines under British Rule that killed almost 15 million Indians, some estimates say upto 29 millions.

While at the same time 3 lakh tonnes of wheat were exported from deccan plateau in India to England?

Here’s a pic of starving Famine victims under British Raj.

In 1899-1900, the monsoon rains failed in central India causing drought to parch crops impacting almost 60 million people.

Photographer William Willoughby Hooper showing a starving man protecting family from other starving cannibals.

Yes, people actually turned into cannibals due to this famines created by British.

Despite the fact that Britain had been looting India for more than a century, The British Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon,was concerned about his budget and feared that aid to the starving Indians would cause them to become dependent on hand-outs.

Drawing of Indian famine victims by Barbant.

The British stood aside and allowed millions of Indian people in the British Raj to starve to death. 

Photograph of a mother helplessly watching her children dγιng in the street during Bengal famine under colonial rule.

What even more cruel was that the “white” tourists started pouring in like vultures seeking thrilles at photographing the misery of Indian people. The invention of highly portable box cameras allowed tourists to record the sights.

A French editorial cartoon lampoons western tourists Well-fed and complacent who came to India to gawk at the skeletal Indian victims of the famine.

Many Indians still hear about these famines through their parents and grandparents.

Most horrible was the famine in AD 1900. It was so horrible people of Gujarat hasn't forgotten about it. They call it "chhapanio dukaal" as it was in vikram savant 1956.

Do read this this whenever anyone tells you that Britain brought civilization and development to India.

Here is an extract from a book that documents how the British took away food grown in India for war and to fill European food coffers for NEXT year as Indians continued to die in the present. Food imports to India were denied by the Royal Crown citing lack of ships.

The British monarchy and specifically, the Queen has never apologized for this mass murder of Indians at the hands of the colonials. This death count of Indians at the hands of the British was more than the people killed in the holocaust.

In the 18th century, India accounted for a quarter of the global GDP. By the middle of the 20th, colonialism ensured that India was one of the poorest nations in the world. 

Over 200 years of exploitation, depredation and loot and destruction reduced India to a poster child for Third World poverty.

When the British left India in 1947

- 90 percent of the population was living below the poverty line

- Literacy rate was below 17 percent

- Life expectancy of the average Indian was 27 years. JUST 27 YEARS...!! Read this again. 

This is how the British treated Indians.

In the name of free trade, the British came in and destroyed the free trade that made India the leading exporter of textiles.

There is simply no comparison between the accomplishments of India rising from the ashes that the British left India in and what was done in the 200 years before.

Why India can't trust the US to be fair

When it comes to Pakistan, US government assessments aren't worth the paper they're printed on, toilet paper shortages notwithstanding. 

Thread on Twitter by Shaunak Agarkhedkar.

Between 1983 and 1989, the US government sold 40 F-16 aircraft to Pakistan. At first glance, that might not seem like a lot.

In order to get Congress to approve these sales, Reagan's Defence Department assured them that these aircraft could not be used to drop nuclear bombs.

After that initial sale, Congress passed what's known as the Pressler Amendment. This required the US President to certify to Congress that Pakistan didn't possess nuclear weapons. Reagan was delighted to lie to them, and issued annual certifications.

After George Bush became president, an intelligence analyst named Richard Barlow was commissioned by Dick Cheney to write an assessment on Pakistan.

Barlow, who had worked in arms control and was familiar with Pakistan's shenanigans, reached out to the DIA for a technical assessment of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. He asked them to focus on the F-16 aircraft.

The DIA's and Barlow's conclusions in 1989 were stark: the Pakistanis had modified their F-16s to carry & drop nuclear bombs.

Not only had Pakistan done this, but they had also used components supplied by the US government to do it.

At the time when Barlow's assessment was circulated in Washington, the Defence Department was getting ready to sell 60 more F-16s to Pakistan.

Soon, Barlow found that information he needed for further analysis had gone missing.

Right about this time, German Intelligence arrived at the same conclusion as the DIA about Pakistan's F-16s.

Der Spiegel carried a report on this on 24 July 1989, noting that Pakistan had even tested the modified F-16s in wind tunnels.

Barlow took this information to his boss, Gerald Brubaker. For his efforts, Barlow was attacked by officers within the Pentagon. 

They accused him of sabotaging the F-16 deal and ordered him to stop all investigations.

Eight days later, the public was informed about the new F-16 deal. When questioned in Congress about the possibility of these aircraft being used for delivery of nuclear weapons, US officials lied through their teeth.

Barlow was appalled and offered to brief these officials about how Pakistan had already done what they claimed couldn't happen. Less than a week later, Brubaker fired Barlow from his job.

The sale went through but ran into trouble a year later with the Pressler Amendment when Bush refused to issue a certification to Congress. 

Today, Pakistan has 75 F-16s in its inventory. A significant number of those are much more modern than those of 1980s vintage.

Not only did F-16s alter the balance of power in the region, but the Pakistanis also have modified those very aircraft to deliver nuclear weapons with support from elements within the US government. 

Richard Barlow paid dearly for speaking the truth about Pakistan. 

His career was wrecked by his own superiors. 

Barlow managed to get by with contractual work for years but was also unemployed for more than a decade.

2021 global supply chain disarray using economics 101

Here is a wonderful thread from Sahil that you can read on Twitter here. 

By now, you’ve probably heard that global supply chains are in a state of disarray.

Here's a simple breakdown of what’s causing it:

There's a lot of talk right now about the global supply chain crisis.@Business published an article subtitled "Inside the Brutal Realities of Supply Chain Hell”—it's getting serious.

This thread provides my (very) simple framework for understanding the key drivers:

First off, what are the visible impacts of the crisis?

Product delays (good luck getting appliances before 2022), product shortages (see semiconductors), port buildups (fly over LA and you'll see), and rampant freight costs (sorry, retailer margins).

It's pretty bad.

Global supply chains are very complex. We live in a highly-interconnected world. A butterfly flaps its wings in Shenzhen and impacts when I receive my bike in New York. Ok, maybe not quite, but almost...So to understand the drivers of the crisis, we need a simple framework.

Let's break down what is happening using an Econ 101 classic: Supply and Demand.

Supply here refers to everything related to manufacturing, production, and transportation. Demand here refers to everything related to consumption. I'll walk through each side: 

First, demand. 

This one is pretty simple: it's through the roof. Consumers are flush and not afraid to spend. Further, lockdowns and restrictions have meant more spending on goods vs. services. So you have a ton of demand for goods--those goods need to come from somewhere!

Next, supply. 

This one is more nuanced.The major supply drivers I see here:(1) Factory shutdowns (2) Port shutdowns (3) Flight reductions (4) Container ship challenges

Hitting each one quickly:

COVID Factory Shutdowns

Factories—particularly in Asia—have had a tough time managing and containing outbreaks of Covid. This leads to delays and bottlenecks in production. If an upstream manufacturer is delayed, that impact cascades downstream and has an extensive impact.

COVID Port Shutdowns

Ports have experienced similar challenges—any have had to shut down or restrict labor to avoid outbreaks. If ports are closed, products can't flow smoothly through the supply chain. It's like creating a kink in a hose and watching pressure build.

Flight Reductions

It's news to most people, but about 50% of air cargo flies on passenger flights. It's a great revenue stream for passenger airlines. But with travel—especially international travel—reduced by COVID, there was a significant reduction in air cargo capacity.

Container Ship Challenges

The Ever Given clogged the Suez Canal in March, causing a backlog whose impact cascaded through global supply chains. There aren't enough large container ships to meet all of this demand and containers are in the wrong places at the wrong times. 

So looking at all of this through my simplistic framework, here's what I see: On one end, a structural surge in demand for goods. On the other end, a number of significant supply challenges and dislocations. Demand up, supply down.

The net impact: sharp shipping and production price increases, shortages, and massive delays. For consumers, this means rising prices, as these rising supply chain costs are passed through. Your holiday shopping may be a whole lot more expensive (and late) this year...

I hope this simple breakdown helps you feel more well-informed about what is happening with the global supply chain crisis.

Also, these articles are great:

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/cargo-delays-are-getting-worse-but-california-ports-still-rest-on-weekends-11632648602?st=yebv3p3pzoj1p06&reflink=article_email_share …

By the way, if you’re looking for Christmas presents that you can get at a reasonable price, I hear Evergrande has some really nice half-finished apartments on offer at a deep discount…

Looks like a lot of people are flocking to Evergrande offices to take advantage of this limited time opportunity!

Media corruption and loss of people's trust

A thread by  Martyr Made on Twitter. The link to his thread is here. 

Why the American people will not trust media for a long time.

How the private media enterprise machinery sold its soul to further the political agenda of a few people with vested interest.

A post with too many truth bombs to digest all at once. Do read on....! 

I think I've had discussions w/enough Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people at the Capitol on 1/6, and probably even Trump himself.

Most believe some or all of the theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc, but what you find when you talk to them is that, while they'll defend those positions w/info they got from Hannity or Breitbart or whatever, they're not particularly attached to them.

 

Here are the facts - actual, confirmed facts - that shape their perspective: 1) The FBI/etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew it was fake from Day 1 (see: Brennan's July 2016 memo, etc). 

These are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to them.

Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence because of a court order. Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew.

This was true with everyone, from CIA Dir Brennan & Adam Schiff - who were on TV saying they'd seen clear evidence of collusion w/Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn't - all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it was ALL fake.

At first, many Trump ppl were worried there must be some collusion, because every media & intel agency wouldn't make it up out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up, people expected a reckoning, and shed many illusions about their gov't when it didn't happen.

We know as fact: a) The Steele dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign, b) The FBI knew the Steele dossier was a DNC op, c) Steele's source told the FBI the info was unserious, d) they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying. 

Trump supporters know the collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam, then watched as every institution - agencies, the press, Congress, academia - gaslit them for another year. 

 

Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The DoJ, press, & gov't destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected admin. 

This is where people whose political identity was largely defined by a naive belief in what they learned in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper. 

GOP propaganda still has many of them thinking in terms of partisan binaries, but A LOT of Trump supporters see that the Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs Jeb Bush election. 

It's hard to describe to people on the left (who are used to thinking of gov't as a conspiracy... Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD, etc) how shocking & disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and hate ppl who don't stand for the Anthem. 

They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or gov't official, because they feel most betrayed by them. 

The idea that the press is driven by ratings/sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they'd be all over the Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period.

This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don't know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it's probably true. 

 

They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots.

They always claimed the media had liberal bias, fine, whatever. They still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. Now they don't. It's a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence. 

Time Mag told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving, among others, leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution. 

Throughout the summer, Democrat governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn't just the mail-ins (they lowered signature matching standards, etc). After the collusion scam, the fake impeachment, Trump ppl expected shenanigans by now. 

Re: "fake impeachment", we now know that Trump's request for Ukraine to cooperate w/the DOJ regarding Biden's $ activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine AG at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. 

Then you get the Hunter laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a "mistake" - but, ya know, the election's over, so who cares? 

Goes w/o saying, but: If the NY Times had Don Jr's laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the NYT wouldn't have been banned.

Think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. The NY Post was banned for reporting on true information. 

The reaction of Trump ppl to all this was not, "no fair!" That's how they felt about Romney's "binders of women" in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the political process. 

And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13m more votes than in 2016, 10m more than Clinton got! As election night dragged on, they allowed themselves some hope. But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew. 

Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real. 

Media & Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange - the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc - but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in DMs!). 

Everyone knows that, just as Don Jr's laptop would've been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would've been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof. 

Even the courts' refusal of the case gets nowhere w/them, because of how the opposition embraced mass political violence. They'll say, w/good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he'll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house? 

It's a fact, according to Time Magazine, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were "protests", but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too. 

Forget the ballot conspiracies. It's a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) to help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system. 

They knew it was unconstitutional, it's right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn't see court until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots wasn't implied, it was direct.

a) The entrenched bureaucracy & security state subverted Trump from Day 1, b) The press is part of the operation, c) Election rules were changed, d) Big Tech censors opposition, e) Political violence is legitimized & encouraged, f) Trump is banned from social media. 

They were led down some rabbit holes, but they are absolutely right that their gov't is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost; it might've kept him alive. 

As long as you’re here, check out his podcast. The most recent episode was on the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe. There’s also a series on the early history of the Israeli-Arab conflict, and one on Jim Jones’ Peoples’ Temple movement.

The link to his website is given below or you can click here to get to it. 

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