1n A simple 6 course #frugalindian lunch: Queso Fresco made from hand extruded alpine cattle milk, in a delicate butter-cream sauce flavoured delicately with “epice-de-loodiana” & bell peppers of the first spring flowering.
2n exotic high Andean tubers, hand picked by Inca virgins on a moonlit night, roasted in a “Cadaiee” and tossed in a tangy pickling sauce of “achaard” spices, a speciality of the “putty-aala” region
3n black lentils served in the “maucanee” style, simmered overnight over a rare sandalwood flame & bathed in a luscious tomato concasse enriched with secret aromats comprising the “pawn-jaw-bee” Pentateuch & enriched with butter separated from the whey by yodelling Swiss maidens
4n organic ridge gourd from the Brazilian rainforest cooked with Saharan berber harvested curcuma & flavoured with a tinge of Tahitian cumin
5n ladies finger in the “coeur-coeur-ee” style, coated in exotic Icelandic Eskimo spices and delicately hand mixed with Andalusian aged chickpea farine, sozzled in a bath of golden, first-press sunflower seed extract.
6n western Indian “baundy” tzatziki: luscious organic yoghurt hand made in exotic organic unbaked clay vessels, delicately season with Sel-Noire & Zairean apiaceae and lovingly bejewelled with golden nuggets of venetian chickpea batter cooked in dugong blubber a la “marwaraise”
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THREAD - Incidentally for those asking “where was AirPower” an unarmed Heron already on a mission (this exact aircraft in the photo - registration 4XUMI) was diverted immediately from 200 kms away (I’m not going to give the full flight path for security reasons). The attack started at 14.50, the aircraft vectored within 15 mins to the attack location. It flies at 270 kmph.
Attack started by 14.50, by 15.30 it was already intensively scanning the area. Understand the foliage here is thick. Even with the heat signature sensors the drone had to do many loops which it started doing immediately - to track the terrorists visually - line of sight & all
Meanwhile remember the approach to the attack area is a kaccha road, takes 30 minutes to get there from the motorable main road 5.5 kms away. Here’s a 6 day old video of this trail
Apparently Rajdeep, Anant, Raj Kamal & Mazoomdaar were never taught FUTURE TENSE & PAST TENSE at school. Honestly my dogs have higher English comprehension than these clowns.
DOGE “were going to be spent”
Brothel of Courage “let’s check already spent from 2022”
Basically what this “offshore finance investigator” has done is gone through USA spending contracts () which as we’ve seen before are highly erratic and not a complete record (which is exactly why @DOGE is doing a forensic audit). For example take what usaspending.gov
USA spending claims is the total lifetime grants and projects awarded to CEPPS: 190 million USD (how does this square with 400 million odd). What’s worse is that this seems to exclude a grant of 1.9 BILLION given for elections in Nigeria. Hang on 1.9 BILLION? No of you click on
Indian media claiming Mediaparte has “distanced itself” from the OCCRP report
Curiously the “distancing” statement isn’t on @Mediapart @MediapartEN or its editor @CarineFouteau’s X timeline or indeed on their French (mediapart.fr) or English (mediapart.fr/en/english) websites
None of the outlets publishing this “distancing” are hyperlinking the statement if it exists, nor are they providing screenshots.
Curiously @CarineFouteau never objected to the Opposition “instrumentalising” its reports. But worse claims BJP is spreading “fake news”. So my
Questions to @MediapartEN @Mediapart & @CarineFouteau are as follows 1) given your commitment to transparency - where is this “statement” on your X & websites? 2) Where exactly is @BJP4India misquoting/misattributing you? 3) what exactly has the BJP said that you’re claiming is
1) Government forces are fortifying and consolidating around Damascus and the Latakia-Tartous coast. As you can see both are ringed by mountains
2) The jihadist advance is just too fast and furious to sustain - especially given the lack of unified command
3) the situation as bad as it is, is still better than 2013-15 for the Government as of now
4) two possibilities - government falls after prolonged siege of the coast and Damascus OR government holds and then expands the inkblots as it did in 2016
6) problem with possibility 2 is Hizbollah is destroyed, Iran is preoccupied with homeland defence after the Israelis strikes. Russia is bogged down in Ukraine. Ergo no Syrian ally has the resources to expend on the costly and bloody offensives required to push back Jihadis
DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP 🧵: Gujarat Police sources telling me @LangaMahesh was paid the following:
• Reliance: ₹18 crores over 3 years
• Torrent: ₹ 10 crores over 4 years
• Adani: ₹ 20 lacs per month over several years
• Essar: use of the private jet on several occasions
He + wife stayed in 5 star hotels for a total of 99 days in 2023-24. Not one of these bills was paid by the couple. Instead several 3rd parties footed the stay. This is basically 1/3rd of the year spent in suites at 5 stars.
• The tacky “desi bridgerton” birthday party (of which videos have been doing rounds) of his wife was hosted at the highly exclusive Jade Ahmadabad. The owner of Jade has last week filed a police complaint claiming extortion and criminal intimidation by Langa over the party
DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP: Police sources say @LangaMahesh will be charged with Hawala and Extortion soon. they say he has named several extremely senior central bureaucrats as aiding him & profiting from his dealings. As of now the Police say that Mahesh was the glue of a cartel of
Babus, industrialist and journos all opposed to the Ambanis and Adanis (A&A). This rival group was headed funded and supplied documents by one major industrial rival (MIR) of A&A curiously he was also approaching A&A for favours and remuneration running into crores which the
Police say was basically extortion. Police also say that the Media Communications Chief (MCC) of a major opposition party was part of this cartel and Langa double/triple dipped on funding from all these sources. Moreover Langa drafted statements for MCC and acted as the liaison