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Smita Purushottam

@smita1900

Ambassador (Rtd) to Switzerland , Economic Counsellor, Embassy of India, Beijing. Founder SITARA. Pro-Indigenisation, S & T, Green Planet, Astronomy.

India Katılım Temmuz 2010
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Ethan Levins 🇺🇸
Ethan Levins 🇺🇸@EthanLevins2·
The U.S. tested a new ballistic missile on a school, killing 21 children. I do not support my country. I’m done.
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Matt Carano
Matt Carano@matthewcarano·
The President is threatening to destroy Iran's electric grid, oil wells, and (with an exclamation point) "possibly all desalination plants." That's drinking water for 90 million people. He's talking about cutting off a civilian population's access to water and electricity in the tone of a man leaving a Yelp review. "Our lovely stay." "Thank you for your attention to this matter." These are human lives. Families. Children who have nothing to do with any of this. Destroying desalination plants isn't a military operation. It's collective punishment on a scale that could kill more civilians than the war itself. And he announced it like a policy update. There was a time when threatening to cut off a nation's water supply would have been met with universal horror. Now it gets an exclamation point and a sign-off. It's casual and cruel. What Trump is describing, is doing to 90 million Iranians what Israel has done to Gaza.
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Toby Rogers
Toby Rogers@uTobian·
We're trying to undo the coup d'état that happened in this country on November 22, 1963. The forces that aligned to remove the President that day have ruled the U.S. and the world ever since.
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Kanwal Sibal
Kanwal Sibal@KanwalSibal·
Talking so callously about killing people and spilling blood. And that also without the fig leaf of some higher cause. Just raw killings of “bad people” heartlessly, as if they are not human beings. No moral compunction. One wonders what is the real definition of “bad people”.
TV News Now@TVNewsNow

🔥 NEW: Fox News’ @Johnny_Joey speaks out directly to President Trump and Pete Hegseth on troops potentially going into Iran: “I’m personally very torn on this. I sat besides Pete Hegseth for years on the couch on Fox & Friends. I had a lot of conversations with him before he was confirmed as Secretary of War. I know what’s in his heart and in his experience.” “I’ve also watched President Trump for more than a decade who’s said ‘no new wars’, ‘no forever wars’ and backed that up. The track record is there. I don’t think he’s changed, I don’t think he’s owned Netanyahu. I do think there are complexities.” “I am going to say this: President Trump, Pete Hegseth, General Caine and the rest of the generals: if you send our men and women into that country to ki|| our bad guys, to spill their blood because they deserve it, I’m going to have to agree with you on it.” “Just please do this: Don’t nation build. Don’t win hearts and minds. Don’t spread democracy. Spill the blood without our hands tied and without a PR campaign and get the hell out of there. That’s all we have tolerance for. That’s all that will work.” “We won every battle in Iraq and Afghanistan - but we lost the war because our politicians don’t have a spine. Don’t be those people.”

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Abhijit Chavda
Abhijit Chavda@AbhijitChavda·
The war is about dismantling the ONLY sovereign state in the Middle East. If they succeed, who do you think they’ll come after next?
Mehdi (e/λ)@BetterCallMedhi

a nuclear scientist just got killed in an airstrike in Iran and honestly i need to talk about this because western media won't & i think most people don't understand what they're looking at as i've been explaining for weeks now in multiple threads, Israel through Mossad has been assassinating Iranian scientists for over a decade and i genuinely think the Fakhrizadeh case is one of the most terrifying operations in modern intelligence history this man was killed in 2020 by a remote controlled ai-powered machine gun smuggled into Iran in pieces over several months, the whole thing weighed a ton, it was mounted on a pickup truck on the side of the road and operated via satellite from a Mossad command center 1 600 km away, 15 bullets fired in under 60 seconds, the AI compensated for the satellite delay the recoil and the speed of the car in real time, that's how far they're willing to go to eliminate Iranian brainpower one by one but here's what i find fascinating, the assassinations didn't break the ecosystem because it runs too deep, so they escalated, US just bombed Iran's university of science and technology, one of the oldest and most prestigious in the country and if you've been following me you already know why this matters these are the same institutions that took Iran from 58th to 4th in the world in nanotechnology in 20y that produce the engineers who designed the Arvand rocket engine and the maneuverable reentry vehicles, that trained the physicists behind the MRBM to IRBM leap to 4 000 km on Diego Garcia, i've been writing about this scientific ecosystem for years and everything happening right now is the logical continuation of what i already laid out and i think that's the part nobody wants to say out loud, this war was never about nukes or regime change, i believe it's about dismantling the only sovereign state in the Middle East and i mean the ONLY ONE look at every other country in the region, Saudi Arabia outsources its entire defense to the Pentagon & couldn't fight a war in Yemen for 8y without American logistics and still lost, the UAE bought F-35s in exchange for normalizing with Israel, Qatar hosts the largest US air base in the region at Al Udeid, Bahrain hosts the US Fifth fleet, Kuwait, Iraq Jordan are military protectorates in everything but name none of these countries design manufacture or deploy their own weapons systems, none of them have an indigenous defense industry, their sovereignty ends where the next Lockheed Martin contract begins, if Washington calls tomorrow and says stop they stop because they literally cannot function without american hardware Iran is the ONLY country in that entire region that built everything from scratch under 40y of total embargo because NOBODY would sell them anything and that's exactly why they're the target they know the only way to stop this machine is to kill the people who build it…and when killing them one by one wasn't enough to crack an ecosystem too deep to break, they started bombing the universities directly and i'll say this as clearly as i can you don't bomb a university when you're winning a war, you bomb a university when you've realized the real threat was never the arsenal it was the intelligence behind it and you have no idea how to stop it

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Frontier Indica
Frontier Indica@frontierindica·
This is an Orwellian nightmare. Basically he is saying that the state will now photograph your car and debit your bank account directly. No court order, no notice, no consent, no due process. Just a camera, an algorithm, and instant access to your money. And millions of people will clap for this because muh "technology" and "no more queues." Every wrongful deduction, every misread plate, every system error will drain your money first and maybe, if you're lucky, get reversed months later after you run around in circles with government authorities and court cases. But alas, those of us who call this out will be labelled aunty nashnul luddites.
Anuradha Tiwari@talk2anuradha

Nitin Gadkari ji says "A new AI-driven toll system will capture photos of number plates & deduct toll amount directly from bank accounts". So why can’t we use same technology to capture photos of potholes & deduct salaries of govt employees? Accountability can't be one sided!

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Yashovardhan Jha Azad
Yashovardhan Jha Azad@yashoazad·
Why Iran still holds its head high! Spending close to four per cent of GDP on R&D (India spends a paltry 0.7 per cent; the US four), Iran is among the world’s top 25 (top 10 in a few) in nanotech, AI, robotics, pharmaceuticals, and other frontier technologies. With 4.35 million (2017 figures) students in more than 2,000 universities (India has fewer than 1,300), and more than a quarter of them in engineering sciences, Iran is not only the knowledge leader in the Islamic world, but is aspiring to be among the world leaders in technology. With all the sanctions in place, students are state-funded to enrol in western universities, and sages from abroad are invited to lecture in Iranian institutions. theweek.in/columns/prasan…
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Thomas Massie
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie·
Imagine a world where hard work is rewarded, truth and justice prevail in courtrooms, the government doesn’t steal your labor by debasing the currency, bureaucrats aren’t captured by corporations, and our taxes go toward critical infrastructure instead of wars overseas.
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Mohamad Safa
Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa·
I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran. This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war. Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons. I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late. Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.
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Zorawar Daulet Singh
Zorawar Daulet Singh@Z_DauletSingh·
The roll back of American power and authority from South and West Asia is in India’s geopolitical interests. The catastrophic US conflict on Iran has accelerated this process. The US has consistently promoted proxy powers, fueled ethnic and religious conflicts and undermined a natural equilibrium and interdependence between neighboring countries in this vast region. Indian policy needs to stop clutching at the US like a vassal state and imagine an inclusive security architecture for the entire region.
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Smita Purushottam@smita1900·
Powerful wakeup call. 3 planet destroying forces -AI, total war, climate change - is concentrated in the hands of war criminals and worse. Reaching Proxima/ Alpha Centauri - with no guarantee of finding a livable planet there-takes 73,000 yrs. No Planet B avayshukla.blogspot.com/2026/03/wars-e…
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John Brittas
John Brittas@JohnBrittas·
India’s FTA story is becoming a deficit story. Govt claims FTAs are “mutually beneficial”, but its own data shows massive trade gaps: ASEAN: –$45.18 bn South Korea: –$15.24 bn Japan: –$12.66 bn India - European Free Trade Association (EFTA): –₹1.72 lakh crore UAE CEPA: –₹2.26 lakh crore (9 months) Australia ECTA: persistent ₹58k–₹96k crore deficits Tariffs cut. Imports surge. Domestic industry weakens. Farmers face price pressure. Jobs shrink. Trade deficit widens. Who are these FTAs really benefitting??!! #fta #rajyasabha
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Megatron
Megatron@Megatron_ron·
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Historic protests against Trump across the United States
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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·
Tomorrow, millions of Americans will be joining No Kings rallies. We will be saying NO to authoritarianism. NO to oligarchy. NO to endless wars. NO to the continued attacks against the working class. I look forward to seeing you in St. Paul, MN.
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