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Elon, I always admired you until now. I think it would be good for you to end this tweet series ASAP before it becomes impossible to dig yourself out of this mess. Indians were with you thus far, but now you might have triggered an event that will turn them against you. If it was your advisors who made you do this, start by firing them!
Now letâs get into the details :
The claim that Starlink still has âno licenseâ after years of compliance is not accurate. The company received its GMPCS licence in June 2025 and IN-SPACe authorisation in July 2025. What remains is the Ministry of Home Affairs security assessmentâcovering Indian gateways, data localisation, lawful interception and the ability to restrict service in sensitive areasâand that same assessment is also pending for Relianceâs Jio Satellite and Bharti-backed OneWeb. All three licensed operators are at broadly the same stage.
Framing the delay as Ambani acting as âreal bossâ or âPrime Minister,â and dismissing Indian pushback as an âarmy of shills,â therefore misstates the process and has been widely received as an attack on sovereignty rather than a serious regulatory argument.
For Americans and Musk supporters, this public campaign was unnecessary and has likely made Starlinkâs position harder, not easier. India already has some of the worldâs cheapest mobile data, produced by real competition between Jio and Airtel. Starlinkâs commercial case in that market depends on clearing the same security rules as the other licensees and then offering a price people will actually pay.
Aggressive personal attacks and inaccurate licence claims have alienated many Indians who were otherwise open to more options in underserved areas. Every major country protects critical communications infrastructure on national-security groundsâthe United States does so with Chinese firms, and China does so with Starlink itself. Selective outrage undermines the case for open markets.
Indians are right to be frustrated by the tone and the implication that their government is simply an oligarchâs instrument. Security rules exist for documented reasons and apply equally; they are not a personal favour to any one company.
At the same time, fixed-broadband penetration remains low and large parts of the country still lack reliable connectivity. If Starlink or any other operator completes the security reviews that already cover all three licensees and then competes on price and performance, allowing that competition is in usersâ interest. The process should stay rule-based rather than driven by public insults or political pressure.
The practical path is straightforward: complete the outstanding security assessments on equal terms, assign spectrum fairly, and let the market decide. Misstatements about licences and personalised attacks have only made that outcome more difficult for everyone.
The ridiculous arguments by Ambaniâs army of Internet shills make no sense
On the one hand, they say Starlink couldnât possibly compete with the amazing low prices offered by Ambaniâs de facto monopoly in India and then, in the same breath, they essentially claim that Starlink would be too strong of a competitor! This is absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole.
The reality is that competition would greatly benefit the average citizen in India by giving them more choices, as it always does. Ambaniâs profits will be lower, but he is not going out of business. And, obviously, if Starlink is too expensive in India, no one will buy it, so SpaceX will need to make pricing affordable.
Is this the face of a leader who understands what his country is going through?
Macron at a CĂŠline Dion concert on Friday. France in flames on Saturday.
France and Italy are burning today ⌠surprised? UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (2017) had warned a decade ago: âThere will come a day that we will see far more radical extremists and terrorists coming out of Europe because of lack of decision-making, trying to be politically correct⌠And Iâm sorry, but thatâs pure ignorance.â
France and Italy are on fire.
Town halls burning. Shops getting looted. Cities that no longer feel safe.
This is what happens after years of mass immigration with almost no real checks on whether people can actually integrate.
Voting Democrat in America is voting for the exact same path - Open borders. Soft rules. The idea that culture and numbers donât matter. We can see it will lead U.S.A. to become France. If Kamala Harris would have won last election we probably wouldâve already been there.
Similarly supporting Congress and CJP-style protests in India for regime change is asking for the same outcome there - Street pressure, institutional fights, and a push to remake the country â while ignoring what France and Italy look like right now.
The results donât stay theoretical for long.
If you want your country to stay recognizably yours, stop supporting the political parties who support policies that are already destroying other countries!
Republicans arenât perfect. Theyâve fallen short and in places made things tougher for legal immigrants.
But Democratsâ open-border + progressive path is the one already destroying the UK and France â for natives and legal immigrants alike.
This British voice says America is the last refuge left.
Watch this. đ
Hereâs the take from someone in the IT industry for several decades: Most of social media is overreacting and blowing this out of proportion, as if itâs doomsday for the Indian IT industry. It isnât. Itâs just a pause on issuing green cards that are new or already in progress.
1This does not mean US companies will stop working with Indian IT companies. They canât afford to. Indian consulting firms and their people are deeply embedded in American companies because they know those systems inside out. That knowledge doesnât transfer overnight. Cutting them out overnight would be like cutting off your own foot.
2Indian IT companies donât hire Indians by dangling a green card. A green card was always an afterthought, tied to how the employee performed. So the idea that not being able to file for one will sink the business doesnât hold up.
3Indian IT companies have always hired Americans when they needed to. If this pause forces them to do more of that, theyâll hire more Americans and keep growing.
4These companies arenât US-only. The US is a big chunk of revenue, sure, but anyone calling this the end of Indiaâs IT services industry is just wrong.
.@Sonderling47: "I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world â Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini â and also, due to multiple active federal investigations, @USDOL is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program."
đ¨ Crumblâs Reeseâs Collab Cookie Is Straight-Up Poison in Disguise â Skip It!
One single cookie packs the sugar equivalent of 11 Krispy Kreme original glazed donuts. Thatâs a massive blood-sugar bomb waiting to spike your insulin, crash your energy, pack on fat, and raise your risk for obesity, diabetes, and inflammation over time.
Worse? Itâs loaded with 69 ultra-processed ingredients, including these harmful ones the video calls out:
â˘Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, and Blue 1 synthetic dyes â Linked to behavioral issues and hyperactivity in children. Blue 1 is especially sketchyâit can cross the blood-brain barrier, with unknown long-term effects on your brain and nervous system.
â˘Hydrogenated oils â These create trans fats (or act like them), which are tied to heart disease, clogged arteries, and chronic inflammation.
â˘Preservatives and fillers â They extend shelf life but mess with your gut microbiome, trigger inflammation, and offer zero nutritionâjust empty junk that keeps you craving more.
This isnât food. Itâs engineered ultra-processed garbage designed to be addictive, not nourishing. Regular consumption fuels the very health crises weâre all trying to avoid.
Choose better instead:
â˘Make your own at home: Natural peanut butter, oats or almond flour, a touch of honey or dates, dark chocolate chips, and crushed Reeseâs-style PB cups (the real ones, no extras). Tastes better and you control every ingredient.
â˘Grab fresh fruit dipped in real peanut butter or a handful of nuts + a square of 70%+ dark chocolate.
â˘Support cleaner brands that skip the dyes, hydrogenated oils, and mystery preservatives (check labelsâlook for short, recognizable ingredient lists).
Your body isnât a trash can. Vote with your walletâskip Crumbl and fuel yourself with real food.
đ¨ 100% of Top Fast Food Chains Tested Positive for Glyphosate (Roundup Herbicide) â 2023 Independent Lab Report
According to the Moms Across America report published October 11, 2023, 42 samples from Americaâs top 20 fast food brands (+ In-N-Out) were tested.
Full report & raw lab data here:
momsacrossamerica.com/fast_fâŚ
How glyphosate gets into food:
Farmers spray it as a weed killer on GMO crops (corn, soy) and as a desiccant (drying agent) on wheat, oats, and other grains right before harvest. Residues end up in buns, fries, tortillas, nuggets, and more.
Why itâs concerning:
Animal studies (including a 2017 Scientific Reports paper) show that even 0.1 ppb of glyphosate can cause liver & kidney damage, fatty liver disease, oxidative stress, and gut microbiome disruption. The fast food levels detected were often thousands of times higher.
Fast food glyphosate findings (total ppb per brand):
- Panera Bread: 439.11 ppb (highest â two samples at 213.58 and 225.53 ppb)
- Arbyâs: 223.33 ppb
- Little Caesarâs: ~128 ppb
- Dairy Queen: ~126 ppb
- McDonaldâs: 5.58 ppb
- Panda Express: 4.75 ppb
- Chipotle: 4.65 ppb (lowest â 94x lower than Panera)
Total glyphosate across all 42 samples: 2,089 ppb.
76% of samples (or ~90% of brands) also had other harmful pesticides.
To lower exposure: Go organic when possible, cook more at home, and support suppliers pushing for cleaner practices.
What do you think â worth rethinking fast food habits?
#Glyphosate #FoodSafety #MomsAcrossAmerica
PutThinkingCap đşđ¸ retweeted
Probably a good time to share this again...so what's this I hear about a Government Digital Wallet..?
Funny how "conspiracies" keep turning into policy.
This is lengthy, because the system theyâre building is too.
You donât really think itâs scrapped, do you?
You honestly believe the globalists just shrugged, sighed, and abandoned a decades-old plan because Keir Starmer stood at a podium and said the magic word?
Please tell me you donât actually trust what heâs saying⌠right?
âScrapped.â
Oh, please.
This is the plan.
It starts up here, with this graph: WEF rhetoric for the vision, UN for the moral perfume. Then itâs filtered down through âconsultationsâ with Big Tech, financiers, and the friendly pilot-runners at ID2020, before being quietly handed to our government like a finished script.
Then comes the policy laundering.
Documents carefully written to make it look like a homegrown solution. A British idea. A sensible response to immigration. A practical modern upgrade.
And the sales pitch?
So you donât have to rummage through a drawer looking for a utility bill.
Imagine how wonderful it will be⌠to never have to rummage through a drawer ever again.
No more scrambling for paperwork. No more proof of address. No more âsorry, we canât verify you.â
Because instead youâll be:
Geofenced inside your 15-minute city.
Tracked in your online activities.
Forced to prove you are who you are for access to anything; services, travel, banking, purchases, even basic participation in society.
Your money will be programmable.
Your permissions will be conditional.
Your identity will be a switch someone else controls.
But hey⌠at least you wonât have to rummage through a damn drawer.
So, back to basics we go.
That circle diagram?
It isnât a neutral picture.
It isnât âjust a concept map.â
It isnât a harmless infographic.
Itâs a strategy map.
On page 10 of the WEF Insight Report 2018, youâll find it laid out in polite corporate language: a future of Digital control disguised as convenience.
And the part people miss is simple:
The designers expect Digital ID to plug into every part of everyday life.
Read it literally.
Because they wrote it literally.
The centre is the key: DIGITAL ID
Not âan ID card.â
Not âa right to work check.â
Not a single credential.
The plan for the UK (each state will have their own âbrandingâ):
DIGITAL ID = OneLogin account + UK Gov Wallet
A wallet designed to host multiple credentials and tokens.
And thatâs the point.
The now-abandoned âBritCardâ right to work/rent credential was never the whole thing.
It was one token.
Just one small element of a single spoke.
A test run.
A red herring.
Letâs clarify the trap:
Right to work and right to rent checks REMAIN MANDATORY by 2029 (will be much sooner) via OneLogin.
And there will be another token for RTW/RTR.
It will slip back in.
Quietly.
With new branding.
With new âsafeguards.â
With the same function.
The diagram: what it literally shows
Centre: DIGITAL ID (Entities, People, Devices, Things):
This is the part that should make your stomach drop.
Identity isnât just for humans.
Itâs for:
people
organisations
devices
machines
goods
âthingsâ on the supply chain
In other words:
Everything gets tagged.
Everything gets verified.
Everything gets logged.
The spokes: where they expect Digital ID to be used:
Healthcare.
Financial services.
Food and sustainability.
Travel and mobility.
Humanitarian response.
E-commerce.
Social platforms.
E-government.
Telecommunications.
Smart cities.
Each spoke is a sector where they expect the same identity system to be accepted.
Not âoptionally.â
Not âin some cases.â
As infrastructure.
What each spoke means in practice:
Healthcare:
Digital ID to access insurance, link wearables and medical devices, and let providers âprove qualificationsâ while accessing patient records.
Translation:
Your medical history becomes a persistent digital key tied to you forever.
Financial services:
Open accounts, authorise transactions, automate KYC.
Translation:
Your ability to use money or credit becomes dependent on a credential check â tracked, logged, and tied into a permanent audit trail.
Food and sustainability:
Provenance tracking. Supply chain credentials. Consumer records.
Translation:
What you buy becomes traceable.
And carbon score?
Score exceeded = no meat, no travel, no energy.
Travel and mobility:
Booking, border control, cross-border checks.
Translation:
Not just international travel.
Local travel too.
15-minute cities.
Facial recognition.
Geofencing.
Biometric gates.
Passports on a ledger.
Tied to carbon permissions.
Humanitarian response:
Aid distribution. Work authorisations. Recognised credentials.
Translation:
No Digital ID?
No assistance.
No recognised credential?
No humanitarian aid.
E-commerce:
Payments. Shopping. Identity for buyers and sellers.
Translation:
Commerce becomes credential-based, not cash-based.
And when money becomes programmable?
Then purchases become permissioned.
Social platforms:
Single sign-on. Third-party services tied to one identity.
Translation:
Your online activity becomes tied to your offline permissions.
What you do online becomes your social credit file.
And punishment becomes frictionless.
E-government:
Taxes, voting, benefits, passports, licences, company directorships.
Translation:
The entire state service stack plugs into the same ID.
Everything civic becomes conditional.
Telecommunications:
SIM registration. Device ownership. Network monitoring.
Translation:
Your phone becomes another identity anchor.
Your internet use becomes surveilled, tracked, and logged.
Smart cities:
Sensors, energy systems, transport, congestion systems, facial recognition.
Translation:
The smart/15 minute city becomes a machine that recognises you, logs you, and profiles you from the moment you wake up.
âPersonalised servicesâ is the marketing term.
Control is the function.
Key ugly truths the graphic reveals:
1) One wallet, countless gates
This isnât a system designed for one purpose.
Itâs designed for universal re-use.
Once it exists, it becomes the obvious route for everything.
2) Not just people, âthingsâ too
By including devices and things, it foreshadows the Internet of Identity:
Your devices.
Your appliances.
Your transport.
The infrastructure around you.
All identifiable.
All trackable.
3) Interoperability = scale of control
The entire purpose is interoperability.
Meaning:
Public systems and private systems can all accept the same credential and share the information with each other.
And public and private bodies share and log the same data, about YOU.
4) Audit trails baked in
Every verification becomes a logged event:
Who checked you.
When.
Where.
Why.
Normal life becomes an auditable history.
5) Mission creep is not a bug, itâs the plan
They map the full universe of uses because they expect the spread.
From:
âright to workâ
to:
mortgages
benefits
pensions
school places
healthcare
travel
employment
payments
energy
All via the wallet.
6) Infrastructure before consent
The sequence is always the same:
Build the stack.
Normalise the use.
Then argue about safeguards later.
By then, consent is not requested, it is coerced through exclusion.
7) Vendor and state capture
Whoever controls the wallet, registries, APIs, and certification becomes the gatekeeper.
Public-private delivery doesnât reduce power.
It embeds private firms as civic infrastructure.
And the worst part?
If you donât comply with directivesâŚ
nudgesâŚ
ordersâŚ
restrictionsâŚ
Or if you say something they donât like on social media?
They can switch you OFF.
No wallet.
No access.
No purchases.
No travel.
No participation.
This graphic is their plan:
To make one digital ID the universal key that opens (or closes) access to every part of life.
In a nutshell:
The UK Gov Wallet is the all-encompassing Digital ID.
The people tracking super cookie.
The wallet will host multiple tokens including the right to work and right to rent credential.
It has not been scrapped.
And to have that wallet, you will be forced to use OneLogin which will host your biometrics.
OneLogin Account + UK Gov Wallet = Digital ID.
PutThinkingCap đşđ¸ retweeted
@grok Why did President Trump start this war, given his claim that last Juneâs Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated Iranâs nuclear program?
1/ đ§ľAnthropic drew a hard line: No using Claude for mass domestic surveillance of US citizens or fully autonomous lethal weapons (no human in the loop).
Dario Amodei: We support defending the US & democraciesâClaude's already deep in classified DoD systemsâbut these two uses cross red lines on liberty & reliability.
A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
anthropic.com/news/statementâŚ
6/𧾠This isn't posturingâit's a principled stand protecting Americans from overreach (now and future admins), even at huge cost (~$200M contracts lost).
Tribal loyalty shouldn't blind us. Guardrails against spying on citizens & unreliable killer robots = pro-liberty, pro-troop safety, pro-democratic resilience.
