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Gaza ~ 7th October Truth

@GenFlynn #October7Massacre #Hamas_Is_Isi
"Someone held the military and gave an order from above not to do anything in a 7-hour window so that Hamas could complete the mission. This is not a coincidence."

First time a senior American security official claims there was betrayal in the IDF. Gaza ~ 7th October Truth

 I’m Used To It But ‘Endangering Sovereignty’ Is Too Much’: Fact Checker Mohd Zubair Faces Gravest Criminal Case Yet
Betwa Sharma  https://article-14.com/post/-i-m-used-to-it-but-endangering-sovereignty-is-too-much-fact-checker-mohd-zubair-faces-gravest-criminal-case-yet--674d39ead4fec 

After the Supreme Court granted him bail in the UP cases in July 2022—23 days after he was arrested—and disbanded the special investigation team in UP and moved the matters to the Delhi police. The new section 152 BNS, which the police had invoked was the gravest yet, and regarded by lawyers and human rights activists as the new avatar of the colonial era section of sedition under the IPC. 

    “He was never asked to join the investigation in the other FIRs. It has been more than two years. No chargesheet has been filed. They are lying dormant,” said Vrinda Grover, one of India’s most famous human rights lawyers who is representing Zubair. “That tells us there was nothing ever serious in terms of investigation that was required.”

As Zubair has persisted with his work, not only have his supporters have grown but also his detractors and with them the narrative that he is “anti India” and “anti Hindu”, a trope used by the  right wing to discredit and harass people who question or criticise the ruling party, its allies, and Islamophobes who spew hate against minorities. 

How The Costs Of The Adani Bribery Scandal Will Be Borne By India’s Electricity Consumers & May Increase Power Cuts
https://article-14.com/post/how-the-costs-of-the-adani-bribery-scandal-will-be-borne-by-india-s-electricity-consumers-may-increase-power-cuts--6741c1d1d3a18   M Rajshekhar  

India’s solar power market suffers from a strange infirmity. Tenders for solar power are floated by SECI which, after finalising winners, tries to get discoms to buy the power it has already auctioned. Once they concur, SECI signs power purchase agreements with developers.

This design, created to insulate developers from the vagaries of discoms, comes with its own infirmities. Most SECI tenders don’t find takers—cash-strapped discoms, unable to shoulder the accompanying costs of intermittency, go slow on renewables; at other times, they choose to wait for solar tariffs to drop further.

In the case of the manufacturing-linked tender too, the calculations of Adani, Azure and SECI went awry. Finding the projected price from the tender too high—and expecting lower tariffs in the future—discoms refused to buy. ..

By July 2021, Odisha agreed to buy 500 MW in return for “hundreds of thousands of dollars”. In August that year, after Adani met then-Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy and allegedly offered him $228 million (Rs 1,750 crore), Andhra agreed to buy 7,000 MW from SECI. 

By February 2022, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh had acquiesed as well. The total amount paid to these five states stood at Rs 2,029 crore (about $265 million).