10 QUESTIONS OVER #ArnabChatGate – What the Opposition wants to know?

‘Can Centre explain who leaked military secrets to Arnab Goswami in the aftermath of Pulwama attack?’

10 QUESTIONS OVER #ArnabChatGate – What the Opposition wants to know?

‘Opposition asks who are the officials in the Centre named in the Arnab Goswami leaked WhatsApp conversations?’

10 QUESTIONS OVER #ArnabChatGate – What the Opposition wants to know?

‘How was it that Arnab Goswami knew about Centre’s move to dilute the provisions of Article 370 even before Opposition was informed?’

10 QUESTIONS OVER #ArnabChatGate – What the Opposition wants to know?

‘Will the Centre institute an inquiry under the official secrets act to determine the source of the military secrets leak to Arnab Goswami?’

10 QUESTIONS OVER #ArnabChatGate – What the Opposition wants to know?

‘Opposition asks Centre to name officials mentioned in PMO by Arnab Goswami in his WhatsApp chats to ex-BARC chief Partho Dasgupta?’

For years, more and more services that should be statutory and government funded have had to be replaced with charities and donations because the govt stops funding them. To the point where we are literally donating now to schools, NHS, foodbanks & shelter.

Govt isn’t even providing basic human rights at this point, and we are all expected to be so happy when someone walks up a mountain or releases a song to donate to a service that we literally pay taxes for already.

No one should be having to raise money for stat services.

But it’s framed as positive isn’t it? An elderly man raises millions for the NHS and he’s a bloody hero. He is. Of course. But why on earth did he even need to do that? The NHS isn’t a charity. It’s supposed to be funded correctly to function.

People create choirs and release songs to raise millions for veterans who are left to die and suffer after service - and it’s all supposed to be a lovely gesture but the real crime is that the govt exploited these humans and then left them with absolutely nothing

People go out of their way to create shelters and accommodation charities and that’s brilliant - we are reliant on humans like this.

But why? Why should we be?

Aren’t humans entitled to safe accommodation and shelter? Why isn’t the govt held accountable for refusing to provide?

A short thread on tips for using Google Forms.

Firstly, everything I have learned about Google Forms was via @missdcox amazing YouTube tutorials. All the ways we use Google Forms are based on these videos. I would start by watching these:

We design Google Forms collaboratively across the department. These are created on the department Google Drive. The use of admin questions at the start of a Google Form enables this.

Teachers can access their class responses via the drive. All responses can be downloaded onto a Google Sheet and then filtered according to class/teacher/question.

We primarily use Google Forms for MCQs. At KS3, these are set weekly as the final task for students to complete. Most questions are based off knowledge students will have looked at in that week.

Latest: The Trump administration made a series of surprising moves regarding Asia policy over the last week, while @JoeBiden revealed the candidate for the new role overseeing Indo-Pacific region. I talked to @kharisborloff about what these mean:

"With less than a week from leaving the office, the Trump administration has been making some major moves regarding Washington’s policies for Asia Pacific."

"On January 9, U.S. Secretary State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. would scrap all existing limitations on interaction between Taiwanese and U.S. officials and on January 12, the White House declassified a security paper related to the Indo-Pacific Strategy."

"Some experts think that the Trump administration’s latest move to declassify the national security paper is to put the Biden administration on the spot."

"Kharis Templeman, an advisor to the Project on Taiwan and Indo-Pacific at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute, said following the declassification, if the Biden administration wants to disavow parts of the Indo-Pacific strategy in the future, they will have to do it publicly.

This year I started writing daily on Twitter about finance and investing and gained more than 500 followers in 2 weeks

Here are the main things I learned on Twitter growth

1. Brand
2. Content
3. Engagement
4. Networking
5. Tools

/THREAD/

1. Brand
You need to find a niche you are interested in and focus on it
E.g. finance, fashion, travel, etc.

Adjust your profile by adding a profile picture and banner that will show someone what your profile is about and why they should follow you.

Add a linktree that will have all the links for your blog, website, newsletter, etc.

2. Content
Don't wait to gain followers before posting. Nobody will follow you if they see an empty feed.

Start posting daily focusing more on single tweets or threads that provide insights on a topic people in your niche might be interested in.

At first, it will feel like talking to a mirror.

Have a pinned tweet, which will be your best one that will catch the attention of someone visiting your profile.

THREAD
Thinking *critically* about Trump’s term without allowing ideology to blind &obscure our analytical abilities, by Christopher Caldwell

“The lesson of Trump is that Americans have lately cared too much about ideology and too little about

“The early “Russiagate” inquiries..had their origins in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, just as Trump claimed”

“The Democrats’ first impeachment trial in 2019, over Trump’s attempts to gather dirt on Hunter Biden in Ukraine, was secretive and staged, and probably harmed the Democrats more than the Republicans.”

“Trump’s enemies were often under the impression his supporters had been hoodwinked or inattentive, but no. The whole country saw the same Trump. They just differed in their risk assessments”

“Trump was elected for a reason. He spoke to a downwardly mobile, mostly white working class that had been forgotten by the elites raking in money from the global economy. By re-engaging these outcasts with the political system, he...turned politics upside down”

Absolutely.

A thread on papers that show the positive impact of having #women in #politics.

(1/n)

Women as #Policy Makers: Evidence from a randomized policy experiment in #India

Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo

https://t.co/vVMJosWGEX

(2/n)

Are #Female Leaders Good for #Education? Evidence from #India.

Irma Clots-Figueras

(3/n)

#Health and the Political Agency of #Women

Sonia Bhalotra (@SoniaBhalotra), Irma Clots-Figueras

(4/n)

Powerful #Women: Does Exposure Reduce #Bias

Lori Beaman (@LoriBeaman), Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo,
Rohini Pande, and Petia

(5/n)

Effect of #political decentralization and #female #leadership on institutional births and #child mortality in rural Bihar, #India.

Santosh Kumar (@santosh_econ), Nishith Prakash

1/ Brief history & Roadmap of @CreamdotFinance

One of the fastest shipping teams in DeFi

I was reading something that suggested that trauma "tries" to spread itself. ie that the reason why intergenerational trauma is a thing is that the traumatized part in a parent will take action to recreate that trauma in the child.

This model puts the emphasis on the the parent's side: the trauma is actively "trying" to spread.

This is in contrast to my previous (hypothetical) model for IGT, which puts the emphasis on the child's side: kids are sponges that are absorbing huge amounts of info, including via very subtle channels. So they learn the unconscious reactions of the people around them.

(I say "hypothetical", because all while this sort of thing is in my hypothesis space, I haven't seen clear enough evidence that intergenerational trauma is a meaningful category that I solidly believe it is real.

More like, "here's a story for how this could work.")

On first glance, I was skeptical of this "active trauma" story.

Why on earth would trauma be agenty, in that way? It sounds like too much to swallow.

Bad things tourists have done in Bali that I witnessed because I lived in Bali for three years and will be back soon~ A Thread.

1. There’s this tourist couple. The guy kissed the girl’s ass at a sacred place then took a picture and basically say they think the idea of the place being ‘sacred’ is stupid. They apologized but I don’t think they meant it, I think they said sorry because they got caught

2. A ‘feminist’ tourist made a controversy by saying that it is very sexist because women who are having their period can’t go inside the sacred places. She said it was such a sexist and stupid thing to do when we have. We have our beliefs, some tourists don’t want to respect it.

3. My own group of friends who are foreigners are talking in the front of me with their own language and one of them who’s not asshole translated ‘they are saying that they have to say it in our language for you to not understand. But they are saying Indonesian people are slow’

4. Some tourists even told clubs that they feel unsecured if there are local people. WE ARE IN BALI, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

Be proud of who you are.

1/17
#activist
#socialist
#humanist
#environmentalist

Anyone who calls a socialist an enemy of ordinary people is an enemy of ordinary people – because socialism is precisely about protecting ordinary people.

Lie about that and what else will you lie about?

2/17
#activism
#socialism
#Kindness

This is why they kept these datasets hidden for so long. (notice how there were no original format nor there were any date of original data deposition from the SRP or the Run Selector.) They altered the ACE2 gene on these datasets. it took them a month, and no dataset deposited

before this date have evidence of "RaACE2" 1-85.
this is found in the Jul.01 dataset (altered).

While none of the datasets published before 01/07 (this is published at 01/06 have this "ACE2 1-85". nothce that this study itself does not contain any ACE2 fragments in all it's probe capture studies published before 01/07/2020. the most logical explanation is that they simply

took the fake Shi "clones" and spiked them into the 01/07 datasets. unfortunately, the methodology and the early R.Affinis sneak peak (XGD01) lacked the ACE2 mRNA fragment, which tells us that these datasets have been fraudulently altered ("salted"). that is why it took them

over two months to "publish" the data, and why they have withheld the ability for BLAST analysis on these datasets for over 6 months. They must have worked overtime to alter the ACE2 gene on these datasets to fit Shi's narrative.

@achpr_cadhp and its Chairperson is talking about all crises in #Africa, but no word so far on the genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity being committed in his backyard. (1/22)

#WarOnTigray
#TigrayGenocide

At a time when clear evidence of horrific acts of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and elements of genocide are emerging from #Tigray, the @SolomonADersso and
@achpr_cadhp are issuing statements on #Uganda and another crisis? (2/22)

#WarCrimes
#WarCrimesOnTigray

Silence by @achpr_cadhp constitutes not only an endorsement of the genocidal war waged against the people of #Tigray, but it also violates the core principle and provisions of the African Union Constitutive Act. (3/22)

@_AfricanUnion

As @AUC_MoussaFaki's utter failure to respect and ensure respect of basic human rights of #Tigrayans, which are grossly and systemically violated by #Amhara militia, Abiy’s #Ethiopian and Isaias's #Eritrean armed forces. (4/22)

The African Union's responsibility under the Constitutive Act Article 4 is clear that African Union is to intervene in a member state if necessarily deploying peace operation where the government or any other forces commit a crime against humanity, a war crime, (5/22)

BURIED MY HEART IN A PIT.
Some heartbroken i can say talks of a helpless father.
A Thread by @tkwmag
I have mentioned few thing, hope you won't ignore.
Please share as much as possible

Mushtaq Ahmad Wani is the father of Ather Wani, a 17-year-old boy killed in an alleged gunfight in Srinagar by the government forces on 30 December 2020. Ather was buried at a desolate graveyard, more than a hundred kilometers away from his home in Pulwama. ++

The oppression dies — at last. The oppression has to end.
#ReturnTheBodies ++

On 30 December 2020, near 12 pm, I reached home to a group of people waiting outside my home. I rushed inside, anxious. “Your son has been martyred in Srinagar,” my elder brother told me.. I boarded a family vehicle with Ather’s mother and reached the PCR in Srinagar. ++

My son was lying inside the PCR but the police personnel at the gate didn’t allow us. “I’m his father. I want to see his face,” I pleaded. I pleaded more. And more. But they didn’t allow me, saying, “Wait till the higher officer calls them.” ++

I’ve finally managed to get through the Arnab Goswami Chatgate pdf. Everyone has already highlighted those portions that needed highlighting. I have a slightly different tack.

1. The messages tell me that news is a carefully constructed consumer product.

This is something we all already know but it’s nice to see confirmation. Events are presented in the high-decibel manner that has become the standard because the product is crying for attention.

2. These folks don’t care about what has actually happened and to whom. They’re

callous about it. Their eye is firmly on the ratings. There is no empathy in their conversation. The empathy on screen is constructed.

3. Overall the chats reveal varying degrees of competition between channels to get real close to those in office. One thing that stood out

is reference to the PMO asking who leaked a particular story. Even the state doesn’t have control over its disinformation. Power centers within the state seem to be disseminating different info to their preferred reporters or channels.

This was fully flagged in an old piece I had co-authored on Pulwama in 2019. How there was so much contradictory information about one singular incident.

4. The real issue then is what about journalism. Is this even journalism or should we be calling it something else?

1.
"Pull the brakes" comms

09/10/2018 SHOCK: Italian Motorcycle racing star does the unthinkable by grabbing a rival's brakes at 140mph in Race on Live TV!

Moto2 star Romano Fenati SACKED by team for sabotage and endangering a

Every argument against raising the minimum wage involves pointing to some other part of our broken system as if it were a beloved cultural treasure to defend rather than just the next unacceptable thing that needs fixing.

“How is it fair to pay people making minimum wage $30k a year when high school teachers start at that?” as if stagnant wages for teachers were an unrelated matter; don’t worry, Bill, we’ll get to it.

Everyone should have the means to survive and thrive and if the current system doesn't provide for that then nuts to the current system; we shouldn't work for it, it should work for us.

This is (pretty obviously to me) the real reason our leaders are so resistant to giving people the relief money needed to combat Covid.

They can't risk exposing the truth that you can actually just give people the money they need and nothing will break.

Our leaders are working to protect a system, but they shouldn't work for the system, they should work for us. The survival and thriving of human beings is the goal. Any part of any system that doesn't work toward that goal can be jettisoned.

Is this obvious, it feels obvious.

Press Conference of farmer leaders begins.

Farmer leaders on 26th January’s tractor march.
Tomorrow Supreme Court will take some decision.
We will consider the decision.
We have lost more than 121 farmers during protests.

People from Haryana are collecting soil and ghee from Villages.

Kisan will celebrate Republic day with Jawan.
This parade will be taken out on outer ring road.
It will be peaceful.
No weapon and inflammatory speech won’t be allowed.

We won’t disturb Republic day parade on Rajpath.

In a number of Sunday papers:
Scientific advisers said it was “hard to see” when the restrictions would end as new variants continued to emerge, delivering a potentially devastating blow to the travel industry. The prime minister said that after progress with vaccinations...

...”what we don’t want to see is all that work undone by the arrival of a new variant that is vaccine-busting”.
The idea is planted in people’s mind that this virus is mutating in such a way as to evade prior immunity. This is completely unfounded, certainly as regards immunity..

...gained naturally, after repelling the virus (which well around 99.9% of the population do, fewer, obviously in the very elderly & already ill, more in those younger & well). It’s important to appreciate that upon infection, the human immune system cuts up an infectious...

...agent into short pieces. Each of these short pieces of protein are presented to other cells in the immune system, like an identity parade. Our cells have a truly astonishing range of abilities to recognise different protein structures, and there will be some which recognise...

...each of the pieces of the invader. The cells which recognise a piece are instructed to multiply selectively so that, after a few days to a couple of weeks, our bodies contain large numbers of virus piece specific cells. These have a range of functions. Some make antibodies...

Thread on the #ArnabGate #WhatsAppLeaks. Alleged Journos are outraging how Arnab knew a retaliatory strike for #PulwamaAttack was imminent days before. Well here’s a list of people who knew beforehand
1. @htTweets because the PM said so on 23rd FEB

2. The @IndianExpress knew because the reported Sambit’s speech TK this effect

3. @IndianExpress had been reporting @ImranKhanPTI saying this a full 6 days before the attack. Did Modi call and inform Khan as well?

4. Also on the 24th IE carried PM’s Mann ki Baat

5. By the 19th (8 days prior to Balakot) Imran was worried enough that he even approached the UN to “defuse the situation”.