Rogue cuckoo birds stole nests, kicked out other chicks, to be fed by unsuspecting parent birds

 

A cuckoo can dart into an unattended nest, snatch up an egg, lay a close copy and be gone within 10 seconds. After hatching, some cuckoo chicks (though not the great spotted) instinctively shove their foster siblings and remaining eggs out of the nest, so as to have all the food to themselves....

In truth, if the cuckoo were human, it would be considered a rogue, a fraudster and, not to put too fine a point on it, a cheat.

The only British bird not to rear its own young, the common cuckoo makes no nest of its own, instead using other birds to handle incubation and feeding duties. Favoured host species — or dupes — include meadow pipits, robins, dunnocks, reed warblers, pied wagtails and willow warblers. The targeted hen birds proceed to hatch the egg and rear the cuckoo chick, even after the hatchling has ejected all the other, ‘legitimate’ eggs or chicks from the nest, sending them to their deaths.

Above were copied from various sources in the internet, including wikipedia.

What is the moral of the story?

Wagner rebellion - One day crisis

Russia crisis reveals 'real cracks' in Putin's authority: Blinken.  CNA
Putin’s ability to deal with complex challenges should not be underestimated. Global Times

Above are two contrasting headlines in the CNA and Global Times telling the same story about the Wagner rebellion. The Americans were having an orgasm, wishing and praying that Putin would fall. The rebellion showed that Putin has many troubles and may not last. The Global Times in a way praised the ability of Putin to deal with a very serious crisis like this and successfully put an end to the rebellion.

A rebellion by a main fighting force in the midst of a war, with the enemy launching a counter offensive, is the worse nightmare for the commanding officer. Instead of fighting the enemy, the soldiers are turning against their own forces. This provided a great opportunity for the enemy to strike while the iron is hot, when the Russians are fighting among themselves. It could be worse if the Ukrainians struck a deal with the Wagner forces, mount a joint attack against the Russians. Not only Ukraine would be fully retaken by the Ukrainians, a civil war would start in Russia, aided by an invading foreign force. 

Russia would be totally crippled, BRICS too would be crippled, the dedollarisation wave would be stopped and collapsed. The break up of Russia, with Putin dragged down in a civil war would all the initiatives of BRICS and the trend towards a multipolar world. China would be left resisting the Americans alone and all the smaller states would be in dire consequences.

It was a very serious crisis for Putin. No one could ever expect that this crisis would end in less than 24 hours, in a whimper. Not a shot was fired. Not a single Russian was killed. And the rebel leader, Prigozhin, made an exit to Belarus to end the crisis. And Putin must take full credit for acting decisively and effective to quell the rebellin. How would Joe Biden handle this? By the time Biden understand what was the problem, a civil war would have blown up.

Putin was able to nip the problem at the bud without it spreading. He had to make many decisions quickly to avoid a major crisis that would topple Russia and turn Russian into a bigger Ukraine. Thank God, he made all the right moves and everything was over while Nato and Ukraine were still in a meeting to take full advantage of the crisis to win the war. 

All these showed that Putin is indeed a great leader, a great crisis manager. Instead of being weakened by the rebellion, he has shown his ability as the man to lead Russia to greatness. He is the man of the moment and walked away as the unchallenged leader of Russia. America and Europe better think carefully in dealings with Putin, in taking Putin on. No one in America or Europe is in the caliber of Putin in crisis management. There would be more admiration for Putin than doubts that the Americans hope to create and to smear him, if this is a real rebellion. It takes a maverick to put down a 25,000 heavily armed men rebellion without any escalation or bloodshed.

Now everything back to square one, back to normal. It is the Ukraine War and nothing else.

PS. Just received a message from an ex CIA agent, that the rebellion was a ruse to make the Americans pay US$6.2b for a stage coup against Putin. The money is now shared between Putin, Prigozhin and Belarus President Lukoshenko.  How true is this would depend on what happens to Prigozhin. Would he resume command of another Russian or Belarusian force to fight Ukraine?

Anglo Saxons and their tools for world hegemony

 The Anglo Saxon Whites have invented all the tools to take down or destroy countries in order to maintain their supremacy. Their only preoccupation is inventing ways and means, and more destructive weapons, to make sure no other country can compete or overtake them to be more powerful. China, the inventor of gunpowder, prior to its pre-eminent usage in 904 AD, did not make it their preoccupation to weaponise gunpowder on the scale as in the West for destructive purposes, nor had harbour intentions to rule the world.

Had China been a hegemonic aspirant, Admiral Zheng He, a Chinese Muslim eunuch by the way, would have turned China into a hegemon long before the USA or even the British. Zheng He made seven voyages to as far as the Persian Gulf and East Africa between 1403 and 1424. Trade was the prime objective with little about military subjugation of other countries, which China then was perfectly capable of doing so.

From the days after the discovery of America, religion was the tool the Anglo Saxon Whites used to fool ignorant natives to part with their land, or be converted to their religion and be under their control, like the Pacific Islanders such as Fiji and even the Philippines. Against more advanced civilisations like India and China, the use of religion was a blunted tool that failed to work.

Centuries later, they used their military might to overcome countries to sustain their supremacy status, like subjugation of India and China which religion had earlier failed to do so. India was colonised by the Brits from 1757 onwards, while the Eight Nation Alliance attempted to split up China beginning in 1900. It was to fail.

The Brits, after almost ruling the entire world, and stealing wealth and resources from the rest of the world, still failed to have the financial means to sustain and maintain their colonisation efforts, and eventually fell into decay, but still trying to strut its feathers to no avail.

Closer to present days, trade war was used to depress China which failed as well. Now it is moving into biological warfare, with COVID19 the first test of what is to come. China was the first testing ground, to be followed by Brazil in 2025, which was already predicted. How there could be even a prediction of a pandemic, with even the exact year, is a mystery. Only human control could make that possible.

The final last resort if all else fails could be a nuclear war, that will end once and for all domination efforts and human existence.

Anonymous

'Will India Surpass China to Become the Next Superpower?: Four inconvenient truths make this scenario unlikely.'

'First, analysts have been wrong about India’s rise in the past. In the 1990s, analysts trumpeted a growing, youthful Indian population that would drive economic liberalization to create an “economic miracle.” One of the United States’ most thoughtful India analysts, journalist Fareed Zakaria, noted in a recent column in the Washington Post that he found himself caught up in the second wave of this euphoria in 2006, when the World Economic Forum in Davos heralded India as the “world’s fastest-growing free market democracy” and the then-Indian trade minister said that India’s economy would shortly surpass China’s. Although India’s economy did grow, Zakaria points out that these predictions didn’t come true.'

'Second, despite India’s extraordinary growth over the past two years—when India joined the club of the world’s five largest economies—India’s economy has remained much smaller than China’s. In the early 2000s, China’s manufacturing, exports, and GDP were about two to three times larger than India’s. Now, China’s economy is about five times larger, with a GDP of $17.7 trillion versus India’s GDP of $3.2 trillion.'

'Third, India has been falling behind in the race to develop science and technology to power economic growth. China graduates nearly twice as many STEM students as India. China spends 2 percent of its GDP on research and development, while India spends 0.7 percent. Four of the world’s 20 biggest tech companies by revenue are Chinese; none are based in India. China produces over half of the world’s 5G infrastructure, India just 1 percent. TikTok and similar apps created in China are now global leaders, but India has yet to create a tech product that has gone global. When it comes to producing artificial intelligence (AI), China is the only global rival to the United States. China’s SenseTime AI model recently beat OpenAI’s GPT-4 on key technical performance measures; India has no entry in this race. China holds 65 percent of the world’s AI patents, compared with India’s 3 percent. China’s AI firms have received $95 billion in private investment from 2013 through 2022 versus India’s $7 billion. And top-tier AI researchers hail primarily from China, the United States, and Europe, while India lags behind.'

'Fourth, when assessing a nation’s power, what matters more than the number of its citizens is the quality of its workforce. China’s workforce is more productive than India’s. The international community has rightly celebrated China’s “anti-poverty miracle” that has essentially eliminated abject poverty. In contrast, India continues to have high levels of poverty and malnutrition. In 1980, 90 percent of China’s 1 billion citizens had incomes below the World Bank’s threshold for abject poverty. Today, that number is approximately zero. Yet more than 10 percent of India’s population of 1.4 billion continue to live below the World Bank extreme poverty line of $2.15 per day. Meanwhile, 16.3 percent of India’s population was undernourished in 2019-21, compared with less than 2.5 percent of China’s population, according to the most recent United Nations State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report. India also has one of the worst rates of child malnutrition in the world.'

Link to article:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/24/india-china-biden-modi-summit-great-power-competition-economic-growth/

Anonymous

US and India using the same sneaky tactics to attack foreign companies

The world now knows USA can never be trusted. They talked about one thing and the moment their backs are turned, everything changes. Not even agreements or treaties are worth the paper they are written on.
Likewise, businesses now knows India can never be trusted as well. After working their butts out, making a success of their investments, the snakes wants to wriggle in and take control.

And both work on the same principle of creating false accusations against companies they have an eye on, either to take over or take down. Does that give a clue as to how Indians climb to the top of successful Western multinational companies?

USA will use the national security issue against those companies they could not compete successfully against. Toshiba of Japan and Alstom of France were suppressed by the USA for competing too well against USA companies in the same field and are perfect examples. Likewise Huawei, Xiaomi, DJI and Tik Tok were outcompeting the USA's domestic home grown companies and had to be suppressed using frivolous claims.

India is now using tax issues to force companies to cede control to Indian partners or face prosecution. More and more Chinese and Taiwanese companies are moving out of India after investing much money to set up and grow their business, only to be accused of tax issues, smacked with steep fines and forced to be taken over control by domestic Indian companies.

Anonymous