Who Will Muzzle The Madmen With Nukes?

WAR | MAD | GENOCIDE | FUTURE | HUMANITY | WRITING | GEOPOLITICS

I am not talking about North Korea but ‘you know who’

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The only reason the US & Israel are not being bombed in retaliation is that the rest of the world is not as deranged. Everybody else knows that it will ensure Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)!

Nobody wants a nuclear holocaust. Not even North Korea! But the USA & Israel are headed by genocidal madmen, and they might just drag us all into the Third World War. This is not about a few odd men, since its independence, the USA has carried out 400 military interventions/attacks — ranging from full-scale wars to limited strikes, occupations, and ‘peacekeeping’ missions.

Somehow Kim Jong Un is coming across as a saviour protecting his people after what is happening in Iran.

US forces had bombed North Korea so extensively that their pilots complained of running out of targets. They dropped more ordnance and napalm in North Korea than were used in the entire Pacific theatre during the Second World War. They bombed all the dams to flood the nation into starvation. Every single school, hospital and building was totalled. Nothing was spared!

Why would the North Koreans trust the US again? The USA dares to bomb Iraq, Venezuela and Iran precisely because they are militarily weaker nations with no nukes. The US establishment starts with the language of war and disinformation and then follows their agenda with their armada of death and destruction.

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North Korean Memorial with the hammer, sickle and calligraphy brush symbolizing the workers, farmers and intellectuals. Photo by Mike Bravo on Unsplash

The US bombed a school full of girls with no remorse and apology! What kind of establishment is this? Monsters! No other word! Any establishment which targets innocent people in other countries instead of the military targets is clearly deranged and should be labelled a terrorist organisation.

Why would the Iranians not retaliate? Why wouldn’t their blood boil over the death of their own and that too innocent children? Yet they are only targeting US military bases. Everybody with an iota of dignity and morality chooses life and security!

It is crystal clear! The US govt and its allies are clearly the aggressors! There is not even a sliver of doubt this time!

The American administration has sheltered billionaire child molesters and rapists. Approximately 3.5 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images have been publicly released from the Jeffrey Epstein files — the horror splattered across our screens like a gory disgusting buffet for humanity to get used to — and yet no indictment and not even an arrest!

The Botox-filled expat influencers in Dubai are exclaiming in surprise, saying that they never expected bombs to fly inside their luxurious desert kingdom.

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The Phrase at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum as part of an art installation commemorating the victims of the 9/11 and 1993 World Trade Center attacks. Photo by Willian Justen de Vasconcellos on Unsplash

War is only numbers and images till it comes knocking on your doorstep.

The Iranians seem all alone because the rest of the world is not as crazy!

Perhaps we are all cowards… Cowering in the safety of our screens, silently outraged or in despair and running for shelter.

But nobody wants to die! How long can we say this before the missile targets us too?

I am hoping that the people with power (174 million) can pull this bloodthirsty administration down before they pre-empt the whole world into extinction!

I’m weak. Writing is the only thing I am doing. I am going to call out the wrong because it is wrong. I am going to condemn it.

I am not calling out anyone here. We all choose our peace. Got one life and all that. I’m writing about this because I can. I am not brave enough to call out my own government for inaction. Perhaps I will with more information.

They say that the ‘pen is mightier than the sword’. It was true in times before…but in the times of algorithms, I don’t know anymore…

But I am going to write because what is happening is not acceptable!

Stay safe…

Are We Running Out of Water? Can Scarcity Turn Water into a Weapon?

WATER SCARCITY | CLIMATE RESILIENCE | 2026 OUTLOOK | SUSTAINABILITY | WORLD WATER DAY

Is AI part of the solution or the problem?

One of the most surprising memories I have of my daughter is from when she was only three and was savouring water sporting a beatific expression on her face and saying, “Water is the tastiest drink ever, Ma. I love water. It is my favourite.”

I was struck with the realisation that my two-year-old was making more sense than most adults. Most of us treat water as a given and realise the importance of water only when we are thirsty.

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” Thomas Fuller (17th-century historian)

The above memory is from our stay in Srinagar, the same place where we have the mesmerising Mughal Gardens. One of them is called Chashme Shahi, which surrounds a beautiful natural spring.

The Mughal gardens are intentionally designed with natural spring water flowing from the centre of each garden to celebrate water as the literal and spiritual ‘lifeblood’ of life on earth. The concept is derived from the Persian Charbagh (four-garden) tradition, where water is used to recreate a ‘jannat’ (paradise) on earth.

Not just the Mughals, but several ancient and mediaeval civilisations treated water not merely as a utility but as a sacred and cooling centrepiece of architectural designs. We have come very far away from that respect and understanding for this precious element of nature.

My boss at the international NGO in the water sector that I worked for used to say that the next world war will most definitely be for water.

Water is precious, and human beings cannot survive without it beyond 3–7 days. We don’t really need bottled water. We need clean water flowing from our taps. We need that water in the ground beneath us supporting life on earth.

Trust me, nothing is scarier than yellow/red water coming out from the taps. We faced the situation in Bareilly (a town in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in India). It never failed to unnerve me throughout our stay there.

When sudden emergency repair work forces the administration to cut off our water supply for a day, it is a challenging situation. We bear with it, thinking it is just for a day. Imagine if it continues for days without respite. Our lives would be in utter chaos, and people might even turn violent. Just the thought is enough to push nations into conflict.

At this critical juncture, awareness is a must. We must know where our water is going and think about what we can do to help the situation. All of us are educated enough to decipher data and see how our actions, choices and lifestyles are aggravating the situation.

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Somewhere in Goa. Photo by Author.

No action is small. Everything matters and adds up.

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

Thus, the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity. “Little Things”, written in 1845 by Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

Water is used for a lot of things, and most of the water returns to the earth, but there are some industries which not only use water but also degrade or poison it, making it unfit for reuse without heavy treatment.

The biggest drain on our water resources is caused by certain industries like textiles, mining, food & beverage, pulp & paper, chemicals, and metals. Food and beverages (beer, soda and dairy) are unique, as much of the water ends up inside the product; however, the additives don’t make them any better.

More than the industries themselves, the insanely unsustainable scale of production makes it a problematic situation. Especially when we don’t need most of these things to live better. The demand is created artificially by profit mongering and unscrupulous capitalists.

Recently, data centres have added to the drain as the AI boom requires vast server farms which consume a huge amount of water, and this water is permanently lost through evaporation (roughly 1.8–12 litres of water are consumed per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of computing power). Source- Check this site out; the professor explains it really well.

These data centres are projected to become one of the fastest-growing industrial water consumers, rivalling traditional heavy industry by 2030.

The only way AI can help this situation is by making the data easily available to us so that we can use it to our benefit. Knowledge can be a powerful tool to help us start a positive change.

The textile and fashion industry is the most water-intensive, consuming between 100,000 and 200,000 litres of water for every tonne of fabric produced. This is largely due to dyeing, bleaching, and finishing processes, which generate wastewater that is often toxic and unrecyclable. Source- CoPiLot.

We don’t need more colourful clothes. We need to be aware of the following stats first.

1. The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of annual global carbon emissions, more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.

2. 40% of purchased clothes hanging in our wardrobes are rarely or never worn.

3. 35% of all primary microplastics released into the ocean come from washing synthetic textiles.

4. Extending the life of a garment by just nine months can reduce its carbon, waste, and water footprint by 20–30%.

5. 70 million barrels of oil are used annually to make the polyester used in our clothes. Source: https://rawshot.ai/statistic/global-clothing-production.

If the present trend continues, we will face a severe shortage of arable and drinking water by 2030! Day Zero of the world running out of water is not just a distant dystopian scenario anymore. It is real and very much possible.

“The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our forefathers but on loan from our children. So, we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.” — Mahatma Gandhi

Many of us are already living mindfully and doing our part. It is still not enough. It is imperative to make better choices when it comes to what we buy and the little choices we make, keeping in mind the industries that are killing our planet.

We don’t need synthetic petrochemical-laced shampoos, soaps, creams, deos, make-up items, cancer-inducing sugary drinks and other things we have been force-fed. There are herbal equivalents which are cheaper and easier on our bodies, and it is good to note that many people are already switching over.

Of course, we have all been using these products without knowing about the dangers, being completely misled by the profit-mongering system and blindly trusting our governments with the ‘edible’ and ‘quality certification’ labels. However, it is not too late for us to change lanes now.

We might not need more things today, but we definitely need to know more and do more. A small step in the right direction goes a long way…

Unlike the Nobel-snatching buffoon we have as a world leader today, there once was a true leader who did step up to oppose the state of things going wrong. And it is interesting to note what he said.

“Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes — one for peace and one for science.” — John F. Kennedy

They Are Not Pretending Anymore!

Marco Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference, delivered ironically on the day of celebration of love—Valentine’s Day

Marco Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference and the standing ovation it received have made it clear that the hegemonical powers are joined at the hip when it comes to their skewed perspective.

He asserts that NATO and the broader Western alliance ‘saved and changed the world’ and must remain strong in the face of new threats. European countries mainly fought each other and somehow saved the world! The height of absurdity in that assertion!

I have no intention to spew vitriol against any nation or their government. I am a spiritual being, and I love my planet in its entirety and wish that it remains a vibrant and colourful place in the future also. And the way things are going right now, our future is in grave danger!

I am also aware that the majority of the ordinary people everywhere are good natured and kind and when the good people are pissed off together, we can change the world in a day!

So, with that hope and in the light of recent events happening around the world, I felt the need to share my anguish at this naked display of arrogance and ignorance.

Marco laid out Trump Govt’s claim to upholding the legacy of great thinkers and scientists from the Old Continent and yet their puerile arguments, evil policies and might-is-right tactics effectively prove that their cerebral hemispheres are overshadowed completely by their baser instincts.  

Rubio, himself a child of Cuban immigrants, stressed upon an urgent alliance to bring back colonialism and missionaries at the behest of his capitalist overlords. While he hailed his colonial heritage, he managed to denigrate the ‘other’ side simultaneously.

He emphasised the need to fight against the sickle and hammer (Russia and China) to ensure Western dominance and exploitation. Somehow the evil cannot survive without creating an ‘other’, an ‘imaginary enemy’ and some kind of ‘fear’. The fear is the very foundation of their empire.

He also yakked on about not bothering with the minutiae of defence spending when it comes to ensuring western supremacy.

The summary of his speech reads like Hitler’s manifesto, driven by an urgent plea to ensure a renewal of Western hegemony over the world.

1.     Closing down free borders: According to the US govt., mass migration is the root of all evil in the western ‘Christian’ countries.

Stop bombing their countries to stone age and they have no reason to seek refuge in yours!

2.     Safeguarding the Christian faith: Enabling and facilitating the missionaries to continue their work once again like in the good old days of colonialism. His entire speech was an ode to the glorious colonial days.

Has the subtle tint of his whiteness blinded him to the suffering of his people under the colonial yoke? Has he already been fitted with one of the neural chips being worked upon by the tech giants to control mankind? The mistakes he makes while reading do sound like a glitch in the system.

3. Clamping down on the useless rhetoric of freedom and equality (PIGs of the Animal Farm think that ‘Some are More Equal than Others’).

4. Blatantly racist US govt policies and rhetoric is labelled ‘directness’ in the cause of ensuring European white supremacy. He wants European accolades for His Flatuency, who is working tirelessly to ensure that the whitest of white people can inhabit the Earth while all the other colours bleed into the cosmos soundlessly and invisibly. His overloads are already evaporating one of the colours into obliteration with thermobaric weapons.

5. White colonial Europe is the mother of White America. Some sort of Oedipal complex seeped into Marco the Plunderer’s speech in between.

6. While elevating European contributions to art and culture and science, the ignoramus completely negated the contributions of the rest of the world. As if the sun only shone on the old continent! He totally forgets that the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West!

7. He even defended and glorified the murderous actions of the masked ICE agents as necessary to restore the Whiteness of the West, and he also goads the European leaders to follow suit.

Just watch this speech and tell me if your skin doesn't crawl at the outrageousness of what he is saying and implying!

I AM NOT JOKING. Check out the actual quotes from his speech here—

This is the path that President Trump and the United States has embarked upon. It is the path we ask you here in Europe to join us on. It is a path we have walked together before and hope to walk together again. For five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding -- its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.

But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins. Half of it lived behind an Iron Curtain and the rest looked like it would soon follow. The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/marcorubiomunichsecurityconference2026.htm

 

CURATORS AND JANITORS OF OUR OWN OBSOLETION

CODE JANITORS | NEURAL IMPLANTS | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | TECHNOLOGY | SOCIETY | FUTURE

Tracing humanity’s journey from tools to automation, and now to AI curators and code janitors—guardians of our tangled digital world.

There is such a profusion of AI-generated garbage everywhere that need trained deep-cleanup crews.  Digital janitors to the rescue--People are training themselves and queuing up to be custodians of the internet. 

There is a heavy price to pay. While the big tech creating rules for AI clean up are western or based in Global North, the populations used to clean AI training data are outsourced from the Global South (Kenya, India and the Phillipines). These workers are exploited with really low wages and are especially selected because they are largely unemployable and have no other option. They absorb the psychological cost of filtering damaging, violent and soul-breaking content without any form of redressal or help. Video Source.

I long to go back to the days when our digital world could be shut down with a click and we could go back to living our lives for real. We can switch off even now, but it is a tad difficult, as our lives are inextricably tangled in the web of dependency threads. It happened slowly, deliberately and over a period of time.

They continue to hand us tools, and we happily continue to dig deeper holes to bury ourselves in. The contraptions of convenience are more expensive and shinier now, and we swim across oceans and fight a blizzard and sometimes sacrifice our families and mental peace to acquire them.

The blingy gizmos have become extensions of our body and mind. We label, adorn and clothe them with TLC and all the while still eye shinier things on the counter. We are never satisfied. Satisfaction is programmed to be always a step ahead, within reach but never quite there.

Homo Sapiens evolved to use tools and mechanisation for convenience and to reduce human effort, but the process and quest got replaced with the wrong objective. From harnessing natural energy and resources by using windmills and wheels, the aim shifted towards more independence and control.

By the 19th century and through the Industrial Revolution with large-scale automation of transport and communication, humans became operators rather than direct labourers. Gradually they kept ‘innovating’ more contraptions to eliminate the humans. They called it progress—this automation.

By the 20th century, mass production (assembly line, Ford) reduced human skill requirements; computing (ENIAC) began replacing human calculation. This elimination of humans from the system somehow became the benchmark test for all ‘progress’ in every arena. Doing things without humans was the new shiny goal serving the capitalist system.

By the mid-20th century, machines began to “think” and perform repetitive industrial tasks autonomously. And humans were carelessly flung on a flimsy pedestal and told to concentrate on creating things instead of ‘wasting’ time doing menial things.

But in reality, from being the centre of the universe, humans were slowly being relegated to a redundant status everywhere. Systems were created to recognise patterns and adapt and grow on their own without human oversight.

Artificial intelligence technology is designed to replace humans. They claim that the tech is here to augment and facilitate our work. But the way AI is learning and mimicking us daily with our own compliance and enthusiasm, it will soon adapt and develop further, sidelining us completely.

Presently, AI manages even creativity, curation, and code maintenance—removing humans from repetitive intellectual labour and shifting them toward ‘strategic’ oversight with an army of code janitors and human custodians of the digital world.

The AI curators and code janitors represent the latest stage where machines not only perform tasks but also organise, improve, and augment human-created systems with negligible intervention.

If we continue on this path, what’s next? Do we want to continue on this path, even after knowing what’s next?

The next frontier isn’t just automation of tasks—it’s automation of innovation and governance itself. We may see AI designing new paradigms of knowledge and even rules, laws and codes.

The next stage is already being labelled-- ‘post-human symbiosis', where AI merges with human cognition through brain–computer interfaces, genetic augmentation, or neural co-processing.

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink is already achieving this artificial synthesis with neural implants.

In November last year, Neuralink announced that it had implanted its brain chip in 12 people with severe paralysis. Noland Arbaugh, the first patient to receive the implant, said in an interview that the chip allows him to play Mario Kart, control the TV, and operate household appliances without having to move any part of his body. https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/neuralink-to-begin-mass-production-of-brain-implants-in-2025-says-elon-musk-10453293/

While we might be happy with the medical use of this technology, but can we stop its misuse or lifestyle adaptation?

Actually, we cannot.

The perversion of this technology is already here with Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They are the stylish, accessible cousin of Neuralink’s implants. While Musk’s implants work from inside, the Meta glasses work externally translating neural or gestural signals into digital actions through a neural band accessory.

The challenge remains…How do we ensure that these systems remain aligned with human ethics, rather than drifting into self-serving logic controlled by a few?

What about privacy and consent?

Are we all already in a multiplayer game with no exit and no agency or control to change anything?

Where are the custodians and sentinels?

There is no OUT from this twisted web, is there?

‘Good News’: Absurdly Dark, Sarcastic & Weirdly Hilarious--A Must-Watch Movie

 I loved the way the movie jumps straight into the dark side of the moon— A place which exists but we never get to see. It refers to the truth that is hiding in plain sight—the reality, the true heroes, the ‘nobodies’ of our world who keep things moving and together in spite of all the chaos and plunder.

The movie shines light on the miracle workers whose ‘job is to freeze the water’, if their overlords wish to walk on water.

The dark comedy is set alight with ‘the ring of fire’, which doesn’t refer to any seismic zones but literally an arsehole and haemorrhoids.

A morally bankrupt capitalist on his last legs slapping the crap out of a spineless military general, further seals the tone of the narrative taken by director Byun Sung-Hyun.

The movie is about a misguided group of young Japanese revolutionary Marxists charging at the windmills like Don Quixote with a half-baked plan to hijack a plane to Pyongyang, when the windmills are manned by a bunch of unscrupulous spineless bureaucrats.

The plot is inspired by real events and follows what transpired with a heavy dose of sarcasm and the absurd.

Japan Air Lines Flight 351 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Fukuoka that was hijacked by members of the Red Army Faction of the Japan Communist League on March 31, 1970,[1] in an incident usually referred to in Japanese as the Yodogo Hijacking Incident (よど号ハイジャック事件, Yodogō Haijakku Jiken), after the aircraft's official Japan Airlines poetic nickname "Yodo" (meaning "still water").[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_351

I don’t intend to give away the spoilers, but some worthy mentions are in order.

·       ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ played in the background every time the American official spoke, implying that the so-called defenders of democracy sit safely on their thrones while riding heavy on the back of smaller nations who bear all the consequence. It instantly evokes the hollow claims made by Mango Mussolini about ending nine wars.

·       The reference to the Fastest Finger First and Clint Eastwood-style Western showdown between the South Korean and North Korean air traffic controllers, adding a dead Mexican playing maracas to bring in the Mexican standoff into the whole thing, is brilliant.

·       Hvorostovsky’s On the Hills of Manchuria playing as the North Koreans bombard the plane, with the hijackers sold on the idea of it as a welcome cannon salute. This scene illustrates the delusion of foolish idealism that lacks any solid grounding.

The movie momentarily descends into a slower pace in between to provide a moment of retrospection on the maddening events unfolding in the background.

The guileless, filthy rich men and women in power seem like invertebrate parasites—highly advanced creatures who exploit and kill their hosts to survive. They are the vilest of selfish human specimens who worry only about the optics.

The passionate young ones, on the other hand, jump into action without a concrete plan and stumble in the darkness. The situation is saved by a wise and experienced ‘nobody’ who intervenes behind the scenes to save the day.

My only grievance and quite a big one is the lack of a sane female character in the entire movie.

Now, go and watch the movie, before I tell you everything! It is worth it and shines like a pearl in the sea of imitation clams churned out by the corporate rating-chasers.

Let me know what you think, please.