How India could get the Trade Deal with the US by buying oil from US and Saudis/UAE and allowing imports of non grain and non dairy agricultural products

08/28/2025

US sanctioned India with 50% tariff for buying Russian oil saying it finances RUssia's war against Ukraine and daily deadly missile strikes. ein dollar terms are now insignificant at $2-the 3 billion. In fact India is already shifting to getting more of its imports from the Middle East. India could also import additional oil from the US and make changes to import non grain and non dairy agricultural products from the US in large volumes such as almonds, walnuts, pistachios, blueberries, cherries that it's upper middle class population of 250 million could benefit from the nutritional benefits. US in its fight against the pharmaceutical companies high pricing could change laws to bring in Indian pharmaceutical products at 10-15% price above Indian prices set by the government to meet needs of its large population. In pharma product pricing India leads the whole world and this benefit would lower the cost of living in the US tremendously. Both sides would benefit in a WIn-WIn relationship in trade- THIS IS ACHIEVABLE FOR THE INTERESTS OF AMERICANS AND INDIANS. IT ONLY REQUIRES VISION OF BOTH SIDES.

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India's benefit from Russian oil imports exaggerated; actual gain at just $2.5 bn

The Economic Times 08/28/2025

The Wall Street Journal 08/27/2025

Sadanand Dhume

DJT energy and climate change policy as response to China getting away with 80 GW of new coal powered electricity plants for 2024 under Paris Agreement

01/31/2025

DJT Alaska policy to open up the natural gas potential in Alaska comes from the Republican position that the US should also get some allowance for its needs the way China did for 80 GW of coal powered electricity production in 2024 under Paris Agreement. This is the Republican argument as Senators Dan Borghum of North Dakota and Dan Sullivan of Alaska present it for DJT. DJT reasoning is that Paris Agreement is not fair to US needs. Seen in this way the DJT policy is much more nuanced than media present it- it is for Make America Great Again by using advantages such as Alaskan production and Shale while at the same time pursuing pristine environment and tackling climate change. As this theory goes the stronger economy would give US more resources to tackle climate change. Biden signed on to this approach in a small way when he let Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia put the same idea in his energy plans. Seen in this way DJT is not portrayed as trying to destroy climate change action plans.

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Opinion | Trump Lifts Sanctions on Alaska

WSJ 01/31/2025

The Editorial Board

The Guardian 01/31/2025

Why Trump plan to end tax on Social Security benefits is a fatal mistake

08/17/2024

Senator Larson says it is a fatal mistake as lost revenue is not made up leading to a Medicare insolvency in 2031, and Social Security insolvency in 2033. Social security benefits will then by law will be cut in 2033 by 25%., a dangerous step tragic for many on Social Security who are pushed into poverty.

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Trump's plan to end taxes on Social Security income is a 'fatal mistake,' lawmaker says. What that could mean for benefits

CNBC 08/17/2024

Lorie Konish

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 08/17/2024

Reagan, Greenspan and America's lost years 1980-2009

11/17/2023

It was in this period that many of the problems that we face today were created through policies of low interest rates, deregulation and financial market speculation leading to the financial crisis of 2008. At the beginning of the Reagan administration in 1980 China was still a country of bicycles and largely rural, by 2009 it had transformed itself into the largest manufacturing nation in the world and continued to 2023. In the US financial deregulation and lack of health care for all allowed financial interests to become the dominant force in the economy in a speculative way , and defunded manufacturing, infrastructure and public services. The work of FDR, Truman Eisenhower and Kennedy unraveled, Clinton, Obama and Trump continued that decline.

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Puerto Rico Was Supposed to Be John Paulson’s Paradise. Then Came the Lawsuits.

WSJ 11/16/2023

Caitlin Mc Cabe

WSJ Jan 15 2008 01/15/2008

Gregory Zuckerman

A parting of ways with Mr. Trump- Mr. Trump's Attorney General Barr followed by VP Mike Pence and now Joint Chief chairman Gen. Milley

09/30/2023

All three of the senior most members of Trump's administration make a parting of ways with Mr. Trump when it comes to the Constitution of the United States of America, free and fair elections, the separation of powers between Congress the Executive branch and the Judiciary, and the smooth transfer of power every four years to a newly elected government, with all 435 members of Congress elected every 2 years, checks and balances put in place by the framers of the US Constitution including Jefferson and Madison to protect Democratic form of government enshrined in the words "We the People.."

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Gen. Mark Milley Warns of Fealty to Dictators, in Exit Speech Aimed at Trump

WSJ 09/29/2023

Gordon Lubold

WSJ 09/29/2023

The Editorial Board

Mr. Trump's loosening of banking regulation and regulatory culture and the crisis it caused.

04/29/2023

The laws passed in the US Congress to limit the regulation of US banks imposed after the 2009 crisis led to leaving a gap for midsized banks where there would be less regulation. The appointment of Randy Quarles to Fed Vice Chair Supervision by Mr. Trump in 2019 led to the new culture which took the attitude the less regulation the better 14 years after the 2009 banking crisis, and the collapse of several banks in 2023, endangering the US banking system when the US needs a huge capacity to invest in the nation.

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How the Russian invasion of a neighboring country has not worked in line with European history

04/07/2023

Scholz of Germany says Putin started this war for absurd reasons. NATO he says was never a threat to Russia. Russia invaded a neighboring country with the idea of conquering it. Scholz says Putin was taking a felt tip pen across the European landscape and drawing this is yours, this mine. And he says Germany would never accept that. Brendan Simms in his History of Europe- The struggle for Supremacy 1452 to the Present, is on German chancellor Scholz's reading list since 2021. It shows that for 500 years no dominant European power was able to do act with impunity without the rest of Europe joining together to prevent it. This war is not an exception. The European Union countries stuck together to make it possible for Ukraine to carry on even with generators to keep the lights on and supermarket shelves well stocked. In this sense the outcome of this war is already known. It has followed what Brendan Simms has pointed out already.

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Germany's Scholz says Putin started war for 'completely absurd' reasons | DW | 21.08.2022

DW.COM 08/23/2022

SPIEGEL ONLINE 04/07/2023

Michael Kröger, Benjamin Bidder, Der Spiegel

Changes in retired living in the US after the pandemic- better home caring and parent day care

03/07/2023

Changes in retired living are happening following the pandemic. With worker shortages employers are likely to offer benefits such as parent day cay care so there is less difficulty taking care of older parents. Other retired people over 65 are helping take care of much older retirees in their 80's as home caring companies facing worker shortages depend more on older workers.

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They Retired. Now They Are Taking Care of Other Retirees.

WSJ 03/05/2023

Clare Ansberry | Photographs By Mason Trinca For The Wall Street Journal

WSJ 03/06/2023

Tara Weiss

How Carlos Tavares is setting the way for remote workers in an hybrid work model to disconnect during the day and on weekends

07/08/2022

Carlos Tavares heads a auto company that has 75,000 employees across the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America and plans 75 new electric car models by 2030. He favors a hybrid work model and works one week a month from his home in Lisbon, Portugal. He works Portuguese time 7am to 4 or 5 pm when he disconnects from the workday by taking a one hour walk. Germans call this practice "feierabend" literally to break away from work to revitalize and get fresh by say taking a bike ride through the woods or in a park. Tavares does not call or email employees on the weekend, and believes to be in game shape on Monday one needs to disconnect on the weekends.

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Right to disconnect is vital for future health of home workers

04/23/2021

Mike Clancy

WSJ 07/08/2022

Ryan Felton

Guru Tegh Bahadur forgotten hero and saint of the Punjab for his discourses in many languages, and for his meditation like the Buddha

04/25/2022

Guru Tegh Bahadur is forgotten for his discourses like the Buddha across the length and breadth of India in many languages, and for his meditation that goes back in tradition to the Buddha and Shiva. Guru Tegh Bahadur saw one nation in many communities speaking different languages and with different traditions.

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PM Modi Red Fort speech live: PM Modi's address on occasion to mark 400th birth anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur - The Times of India

The Times of India 04/22/2022

The Indian Express 04/21/2022

Deforestation- is the pledge at COP26 Glasgow a bit too late for Indonesian rainforest?

11/02/2021

This is one of the amazing links in Lyrarc because it shows WSJ article from 2007 noted by Lyrarc that year, showing UN maps on deforestation in Borneo island in Indonesia for 2000, 2005, 2020. By 2020 most of the rainforest is shown as gone. Deforestation and climate ecologist Clare Rewcastle Brown, sister in law of former British prime minister Gordon Brown, from Britain, recalls colonial days in Sarawak, north Borneo Island, where her father was a police officer. And how much of the canopy of forest from that part of Malaysia was disappearing. She continued her protests from outside Malaysia in 2013 as reported by NYT and noted in Lyrarc that year. This is an amazing story of how deforestation of some of the last rain forests in the world took place at a time when awareness of climate change was sorely lacking in 2007-2013, and how by 2020 the rain forests in Borneo may have already disappeared from planet earth to combat climate change. One woman's fight and a fight that is still on after world leaders took a pledge to end deforestation on the planet by 2030 including Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, China, and the US, and a UN report that had the foresight to show a rainforest disappearing in 2007 in Tom Wright's WSJ report from Surabaya, Indonesia the same year.

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Indonesia's Logging Fight

WSJ 07/03/2007

Tom Wright

New York Times 08/16/2013

Gerry Mullany, Gerry, Mullany

The origins of the coronavirus and the 2018 NIH lifting of a US ban on virus research that increases transmissibility

06/04/2021

Dr. Fauci, NIH, HHS, lifted the ban on research and manipulation of virus in lab settings in 2018 The role played by the Cambridge Group of scientists who opposed lifting the ban on gain of function research for surveillance purposes. The US public and the public in the world in India, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America unaware of what was going on. The devastating effects of the coronavirus in 202 and 2021 and the lack of a vaccine in 2020, lack of a vaccine in sufficient quantities in 2021. The paltry benefits of surveillance compared to the great risks of something going wrong, as pointed out by the Cambridge Group. Why was it ignored in 2018. Who makes decisions for public health in the world. Can the US make decisions for India, the people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Does even the US public know about it, much less the public in the world at large. What power is given by the US Constitution to US government agencies on matters of public health. How are a few individuals at HHS and NIH accountable to the public in the US and the world at large.

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Opinion | Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab

WSJ 06/03/2021

The Editorial Board

The Lancet Infectious Diseases 06/04/2021

Biden's Address to Congress 2021

05/05/2021

Biden announces his $1.8 trillion Families Plan in his speech to Congress in April 2021. It is meant to help struggling families, women, workers and students.

Linked Articles

Biden’s Speech to Congress: Full Transcript

NYTimes.com 04/30/2021

NYTimes.com 04/30/2021

Nailah Morgan, Lucas Lilieholm