I watched #KantaraChapter1 for the 3rd time & felt the urge to explain certain things which most of the people didn't understand. Specially the different forms of deva
SPOILERS AHEAD ⚠️
Kantara Chapter 1 — The Divine Origins Behind the Mystery of Guliga Deva and Panjurli 👇
The Origin of Guliga Deva
The film begins by exploring the origin of Guliga Deva. According to ancient lore, Goddess Parvati once found a stone amidst sacred ashes on Mount Kailash. The stone manifested as a being of immense fury and hunger—Guliga Deva. His insatiable appetite drove him to drink celestial waters and devour anything in sight.
Witnessing this uncontrollable chaos, Bhagwan Vishnu offered his little finger for Guliga to consume, finally quelling his hunger. But Bhagwan Shiv, realizing Guliga’s destructive power, assigned him a sacred duty—he was to descend to Earth as a KSHETRAPALA, the divine guardian of land and dharma.
This really isn't getting enough attention. China has truly gone all in on export controls today, in a major way.
Not only did they announce the unprecedented rare earths restrictions that I posted about earlier 👇 (targeted, among others, at the advanced semiconductors sector) but they issued 4 consecutive announcements in total with other export controls on:
- The machines and expertise to process rare earths - not just the rare earths themselves, but all the specialized equipment and technical know-how to turn rare earth into usable materials (obviously making it all the harder to try to move rare earth processing away from China)
- High-performance batteries - specifically those above 300 Wh/kg needed for long-range EVs and advanced drones. And, again, export controls on all the factory equipment to make them too.
- The materials inside batteries - both graphite anodes and cathode materials (the two electrodes that are essential for batteries to function at all). Export controls also cover the specialized equipment to manufacture all of these components.
- Industrial diamonds and cutting tools - the ultra-hard materials that are used ubiquitously in precision manufacturing, for instance to cut silicon wafers for computer chips
This is absolutely unprecedented. With this China effectively gets veto power over three critical supply chains simultaneously: advanced semiconductors (via rare earths and related equipment), battery-powered vehicles and drones, and precision manufacturing across industries (via superhard materials).
It will all officially take effect on November 8, in one month.
The official explanation (mofcom.gov.cn/syxwfb/art/202…) is to prevent "dual use" and "safeguard national security", incidentally the same official explanation the US gave for its own chip export controls to China. As Mao once said: "our method is to learn warfare through warfare"... Or you could also say what goes around comes around...
Here you can find all the announcements collated in a Guancha article (in Chinese). It's very, very extensive: guancha.cn/politics/2025_…
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You won't want to miss this thread 🧵
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Did you know?
Even Mandal commission had given fake caste-discrimination stories to justify OBC reservation??
Exhibit 1: 1. Shri Ram killed Shambuk because he committed sacrilegious act of meditation, despite being a shudra!
2. Eklavya was denied education because of caste!
Exhibit 2: 1. In Maratha country, Mahar had to follow Jhadu-Matki custom!
2. In Mysore, lower caste women were not allowed to cover their breasts!
3. If Shudra mentioned name & class of upper caste in insulting way, red-hot iron/nail shall be thrust into his mouth!
Exhibit 3: 1. Religion was used as opium, small priestly class hypnotized shudras into serving them.
All shudras were outcastes, they were not allowed to have any rights!
2. 3000 yr old social, economic, cultural, educational discrimination of shudras led to crippling handicap!
1/ A quoi sert la peine de mort ?
Contrairement à ce qu'on imagine trop souvent, dans une société raisonnablement pacifiée sa fonction première n'est pas d'éviter la récidive, ni de dissuader les criminels.
Elle a néanmoins un rôle fondamental.
Un thread.⬇️
2/ Rappelons d'abord que la peine de mort n'a sans doute jamais eu vocation à être appliquée à tous les criminels : même le code de Dracon, à Athènes (qui a donné l'adjectif "draconien"), qui en faisait un large usage, n'allait vraisemblablement pas jusque là.
3/ Défendre la peine de mort ne signifie donc pas, du moins a priori, prôner la mise à mort de tous les criminels, pas même de tous les meurtriers.
On peut - c'est mon cas - vouloir le rétablissement de la peine de mort et réserver son application à des cas exceptionnels....
🛢️🔥Cheap, fast, & devastating — Ukraine's sanctions turned Russia’s energy empire into rubble.
🧵1/23
🔥Turkey, Belarus, and Ukraine are rewriting Moscow’s energy map.
And the Kremlin’s money is vanishing faster than its refineries.
One million tons of fuel lost in September alone.
Moscow’s refineries are burning, its army’s rationing, and the Kremlin’s out of gas.
2/23
🇹🇷🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦
Turkey just dealt Russia another blow. By 2028, Ankara will cover more than half of its gas needs without Russia — through local output & U.S LNG. That’s a $20+ billion. Russia's last big European gas client is slipping away — and Putin’s war chest with it.
#SupremeCourt to hear the petition filed by actor Vijay's party TVK against the Madras High Court order for SIT enquiry into the #Karur stampede.
Bench: Justices JK Maheshwari and NV Anjaria
@TVKVijayHQ
@TVKVijayHQ Another petition filed by Tamil Nadu BJP Leader and State Legal Cell Vice President G.S. Mani, seeking a CBI investigation, is also listed before the same bench.
Supreme Court to shortly hear Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’s plea challenging Madras High Court order directing SIT probe into Karur rally stampede that claimed 41 lives.
Bench: Justices JK Maheshwari and NV Anjaria
#SupremeCourtofIndia #KarurStampede
The plea seeks stay on the Madras High Court order, appointment of a former Supreme Court judge to oversee the probe, and expunging of adverse remarks against the party and its leaders.
#KarurStampede
Sr. Adv. Gopal Subramanium (for TVK): the petition filed before the HC was for a very limited purpose. That the govt should be directed to frame a protocol for road shows. The AAG appears on behalf of the state. In the order various allegations have been made. Adverse inferences are drawn against a person without being a party…. Please see the various averments…
1/Gestern hielt in Leipzig in der Nikolaikirche Nino Haratischwili die alljährliche Revolutionsrede. Ich wünschte, irgendwer hätte den Einfluss, diese Rede so zu verbreiten, dass sich mit ihr wirklich auseinandergesetzt wird, auch in den Kreisen, in denen man bis jetzt nicht
2/verstehen will, was für ein koloniales Projekt Russland immer war und warum heute im Osten der Westen verteidigt wird: "Ich will nicht verzweifeln, aber ich tue es, und doch, doch weiß ich, dass es keine Alternative gibt, dass ich meinen Glauben wiederfinden muss, dass ich
3/diesen Glauben, wenn nötig, wieder heranzüchten muss, indem ich mich auf all das besinne, was für mich ebendieser Westen irgendwann einmal darstellte." Herzlichen dank liebe Nino Haratischwili! static.leipzig.de/fileadmin/medi…
Um das Milliardendefizit der Krankenkassen zu stopfen, plant Gesundheitsministerin Warken höhere Zuzahlungen
▶️ für Medikamente und Klinikaufenthalte. fr.de/politik/zuzahl…
Die CDU-Politikerin möchte demnach, dass gesetzlich Versicherte bei Arzneimitteln künftig
15 statt 10 Prozent des Preises selbst zahlen müssten.
▶️ Der Mindestbetrag soll von 5 auf 7,50 Euro steigen,
der Höchstbetrag von 10 auf 15 Euro.
▶️ Auch ein Klinikaufenthalt würde teurer:
Pro Tag wären dann 15 Euro Eigenanteil fällig.
@JamesKroeger5 @lordoflordof @aaronjmate @ryangrim @jeremyscahill In Feb 2025 some of the released Israeli women hostages spoke of their treatment by Hamas during 15 months' captivity. “I was worried to get r@ped but I was given Hijab to cover my body …. For them women are sacred, women are like Queens ...They first of all told us
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@JamesKroeger5 @lordoflordof @aaronjmate @ryangrim @jeremyscahill that they believed in the Quran and they wouldn’t hurt us”.
Sky News reporters asked: “Why did you shake the hand of a Hamas gunman when you crossed?” Elderly hostage: “Because they treated us very nicely”. Hostage’s daughter: “My mum is saying that they were very delicate
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@JamesKroeger5 @lordoflordof @aaronjmate @ryangrim @jeremyscahill and gentle with them ... They seemed really prepared … they had concealed [the tunnel] for a long time, and they took care of all the needs that women have …”
An earlier release of hostages took place in Nov 2023 during the one-week ceasefire. In July 2024 one woman was
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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce American propagandist Alexandra Jost, aka “Sasha” (@sashameetsrus). She’s best known for being paid by the Russian state to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda — and for doing it with a big smile.
1/23
Alexandra, now 26, was born in Hong Kong. Her father is from Texas, and her mother is from Siberia. According to her, she has “dreamed of living in Russia since childhood.” Sasha's mother runs a dance studio in Moscow and her younger brother is avoiding mobilization.
2/23
Since the beginning of her creator career, Sasha has been adamant about one thing: that she’s “never had to be paid” to speak of her “love” for Russia. But, as always with Russia, this turned out to be nothing but vranyo — a Russian “tactical lie.”
🧵: Today is the one month anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Since then...
*No autopsy or ballistics report
*No investigative progress
*No media/official interest in blatant evidence tampering by TPUSA
Is it just me, or is this *really* weird?
Nonetheless, there have been some developments. After initially claiming to possess incontrovertible proof Kirk was killed by lone nut shooter Tyler Robinson, Kash Patel has admitted there are a *lot* of unanswered questions:
No leads so far. Erika Kirk also gave a bizarre eulogy where she displayed little apparent genuine emotion, bar regularly smiling oddly, giggling intensely while talking about Charlie being up above in heaven, and cheerily embracing Donald Trump. Very odd.