Arjun Mohan
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Arjun Mohan
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Katılım Ağustos 2022
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@grok @confusing_wot Huh…even AI can be retarded too.
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🚨 The WHO says the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo & Uganda is now OUTPACING response efforts.
Current figures are alarming:
• 900+ suspected cases
• 101 confirmed cases
• 220 suspected deaths
• Uganda has confirmed 7 cases already
• No approved vaccine exists for this rare Bundibugyo strain.
Why this is a global concern:
1️⃣ The outbreak was detected late, meaning the virus may have spread silently for weeks before containment began. WHO officials admitted responders are now “playing catch-up.”
2️⃣ The epicentre is eastern Congo — a conflict zone with armed groups, weak healthcare systems, mass displacement & porous borders. That makes contact tracing extremely difficult.
3️⃣ Ebola spreads through bodily fluids, but once urban transmission chains form, containment costs explode exponentially.
4️⃣ WHO has already declared it a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern.” That is the same highest-level alert mechanism used during major global outbreaks.
5️⃣ The Bundibugyo strain has NO licensed vaccine yet. Existing Ebola vaccines target different strains.
This is not “another African outbreak.”
It is a stress test of global health systems, surveillance failures, aid cuts, border preparedness & international coordination in a post-COVID world.
The world ignored early COVID signals in 2020. Health agencies are now trying to avoid repeating that mistake. #Ebola #DRC #Uganda #WHO #GlobalHealth


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Delhi Gymkhana Club. Why Government wants it back. Lets investigate.
Delhi Gymkhana Club is not just a club — it’s a surviving colonial power enclave sitting on 27.3 acres of ultra-prime Lutyens’ Delhi land beside India’s core administrative-security zone.
Founded in 1913 as the Imperial Delhi Gymkhana Club, the land today is estimated to be worth several thousand crores. Yet for years, annual lease rent reportedly remained around just ₹12 lakh — less than many luxury Delhi apartments generate yearly.
The Centre’s argument is explosive:
Why should a quasi-private elite institution occupy strategic state land at heavily subsidized rates while membership waiting lists allegedly stretched 30+ years?
The club reportedly holds:
• ~₹200 crore in mutual funds
• ~₹129+ crore net worth/assets
• legacy membership systems preserving generational elite access
But the deeper issue isn’t money.
Delhi Gymkhana became one of India’s most influential informal networking nodes — where senior bureaucrats, generals, judges, diplomats, industrial families & political operators intersected outside formal state structures.
The govt now argues:
• lease clauses permit repossession for “public purpose”
• the area has major national-security relevance
• colonial-era privilege structures should not control strategic urban geography
This is effectively the Indian state reclaiming one of the last physical symbols of the Raj-era establishment.
The real battle:
Old Lutyens networks vs centralized state power.
In geopolitical terms, control over capital geography = control over influence itself.
It’s New India vs Old colonial British Raj symbolism.
#Delhi #Gymkhana #LutyensDelhi #India #Power


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Iran Announces navigational fees through strait of hormuz. Lets look at what that means.
The Strait of Hormuz is only ~33 km wide at its narrowest, yet ~20 million barrels of oil/day transit through it — nearly 20% of global petroleum consumption. Qatar’s LNG lifeline also passes here.
Iran announcing “navigational service fees” is not about revenue. It’s strategic signaling.
Tehran understands a brutal geopolitical truth: geography can neutralize superior militaries. The US 5th Fleet can patrol the Gulf, but Iran sits directly on the choke point itself.
Even a marginal increase in transit risk can:
• spike Brent crude prices within hours
• raise tanker insurance premiums massively
• disrupt Asian energy security
• trigger inflation globally
India, China, Japan & South Korea are especially vulnerable because Gulf energy dependency remains structurally high.
The deeper layer: Iran is testing the boundary between “regulating” Hormuz and weaponizing it economically — without formally closing the strait, which would risk direct military escalation.
This is hybrid warfare through maritime economics.
Historically, empires controlled chokepoints to dominate trade:
Suez, Malacca, Bosporus, Gibraltar.
Hormuz is the 21st century’s energy heartbeat.
And Tehran is reminding Washington, Tel Aviv, Riyadh & global markets that missiles are not the only way to project power — control over circulation itself is power.
#Iran #Hormuz #Oil #Geopolitics #MiddleEast
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