Listened to arguments in the Supreme Court over #EVM #VVPAT, people were terrible at explaining the issues.
We know for a fact the EVM is not standalone. Each one gets connected to a computer! It's a windows software to load candidate names and symbols! A thread.
ECI keeps saying standalone as a reason for it being unhackable, except it isn't. It's connected to computers - all EVMs have to be, for them to have the candidate name and symbol to print.
Then claim EVM has had the same glass, and it's not been made black and totally opaque...
This is demonstrably false. The different glass versions can be seen on the ECI YouTube channel itself!
There has been only one justification of Electoral Bonds - that otherwise money was moving in cash. It's surprising how little people understand about political money flows!
Political funding is not even 20% in EBs. It's still mostly all black! Then why bring EBs? A 🧵...
Cost of elections and even running a political party's organization is MUCH higher that the amount in EBs. Covered this in my first book.
So the businesses that generate a huge amount of black money are still giving black money to parties! That's still most of political funding.
But there was a problem. Some businesses just don't generate a lot of black money by their very nature.
Like if you get big govt contracts, it'll come from govt's accounts, obviously. There's no way a large business can just withdraw cash. They need to maintain accounts!
Think EVM - VVPAT hacking is a conspiracy theory? Found out one part of it is 100% true.
Earlier VVPAT screens used to be transparent, they changed it to translucent, and now it's completely opaque. You can't see the slips being printed or cut now. Just light on and light off.
Video above is how it used to be - you could clearly see slip being printed and cut. Then they changed it to where light only turned on after slip printing, and turned off before slip cutting. You could still see the process from the right angle though...
In the latest version, nothing. You can't see the printing or the cutting. You only see the slip when light is turned on, and then light turns off... it's totally an opaque window now.
#AdaniExposed Few weeks ago, Deloitte resigned as auditors to Adani. They stated Adani wasn't willing to provide details of suspicious transactions.
The new auditor reported on in the media, BDO Global, isn't even an audit firm! It's a network of independent auditors... 🧵
The actual auditor is a tiny little Bangalore firm called MSKA & Associates, with a 2.3 star rating on Google with 9 reviews. From Deloitte to this? Why?
Today we found out!
In an investigation by @OCCRP, further reported on by the @guardian and @FT, it's been shown how two associates of the Adani group used offshore shell companies to manipulate and boost up Adani's share price.
Manipur won't recover for decades, but it's worse than that. The insurgency across India's Northeast, mostly ended after decades of work by the govt and local leaders in the 2000s.
Now, with its actions, the govt has told many communities it'll not only not protect them...
It can become an active participant in helping spread a genocide.
All the leaders from Modi to N. Biren Singh and all of BJPs office bearers... no one has even mentioned making things normal in Manipur. They instead talk of West Bengal, do whataboutery and suppress information.
This isn't just a breakdown of law and order. This is a state actively telling people it'll not intervene to restore normalcy. It'll not even say that it is intervening.
It's showing BJP will compare any evidence of Manipur descending into chaos with other states...
Talked to BJP folks to understand how they're justifying getting the police to beat up athletes who are protesting against sexual harassment.
The story spun is now surprisingly more complicated.
Initially it was just, politically motivated protest to defame India. As usual.
The athletes now seem to have public sympathy though, as per their assessment. So the defaming needs to be more robust. With a backstory that explains it all away as a conspiracy.
New message is that this all started because Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is from UP...
All these Haryanvi wrestlers want a Haryanvi to head the association, and the fight is about internal control of the wrestling federation - earlier controlled by Congress' Deepender Hooda.
Hooda was corrupt and mismanaged federation money. Now these corrupt people can't make $.