A retrospective of respective troop strengths and performances by Alexander Mercouris

Reckless administration and Pentagon the only hope

Another theory of the pipeline sabotage

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/09/the-bornholm-blow-up-repeats-the-bornholm-bash-poland-attacks-germany-and-blames-russia.html

About the pipeline damage

Surprising take on the referendum from Larry Johnson

https://sonar21.com/more-on-the-referendum-game-changer/

Blog traffic statistics from UNZ review

https://www.unz.com/announcement/less-than-200-million-but-also-more/

Volatility of prices

"The evidence is that the volatility of commodity prices is in the fiat currency they are priced in, and not the commodities themselves. Figure 3 shows this relationship, by comparing the price of oil measured in legal money (gold) and the fiat euro currency." From https://www.goldmoney.com/research/geopolitics-the-world-is-splitting-into-two

A Hugarian poll

Direct Democracy

Doug McGregor’s analysis

About Caratheodory with a tribute from Einstein

https://greekherald.com.au/culture/history/constantin-caratheodory-greatest-greek-mathematician/?fbclid=IwAR1RZIgr6aJ7eThLP2yQndLBhI30Y7zx8kB0KMfMANbHgYs2elaNln5SQ2o

Update from Brian Berletic

Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for September 21, 2022 - Referendums have been announced across Russian-held territory in Ukraine; - If incorporated into the Russian Federation, Moscow could upgrade the special military operation significantly; - The US Department of Defense, in a recent briefing, seems to acknowledge the limits of what aid it can provide Ukraine; - Western analysts appear to agree that Ukraine’s offensives may have been a final gamble, exhausting their reserves and leaving them at the mercy of subsequent Russian escalations;

Ukraine Update from ‘the Duran’

I have been following closely for some time the Russian SMO. it seems to me that it will go on for at least six more months. Russia has the upperhand and the coming winter will bring more economic woes to EU and Ukraine. Russia seems to be keeping its main army mostly in reserve to face possible NATO threats and is numerically at a disadvantage in Ukraine. But despite this it seems inevitable that Russia will prevail in due course and i will probably stop following the events clisely. Meanwhile herethe Alexander duo answer various queies from their audidnce Another phase inthe war Earlier report https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blackwater-mercenaries-training-far-right-militia-ukraine-donetsk-military-commander-claims

Putin May Upgrade SMO to Counter Terror Operation; Modi Says India Russia Friendship Unbreakable

where the meetingof Putin and Modi is described for 15 minutes from 48:30. Even more interesting, a description of Prime Minister of Pakistan speech below

DerridaHaramda!

https://www.thefridaytimes.com/2022/09/10/derrida-haramda-reading-deconstruction-in-pakistan/?fbclid=IwAR1nrutOAw-NZtY7Y4Wc74KHZ3QH5dKFM6SdC5wfIgDOH4vR074jg0gzcpo some problem. i am not able to post links properly. Those interested have to copy and search.

Lokayata

http://library.bjp.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/848/1/Lokayata%20-%20a%20Study%20of%20Indian%20Materialism%20-%20Philisophy.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1phUBQp59WSRUu78gwUk5uyTc5lriSqdB-kcDO8ftjm0_PutFtdsEued4 by Debirasad Chattpadhyaya. more about the author https://www.frontierweekly.com/archive/vol-number/vol/vol-43-2010-11/vol-43-12-15/lokayata-43-12-15.pdf?fbclid=IwAR21QRVbjCS_BsXgDiUQFGsC2roAKq1_A1pvJZlwN__TQBjJTYN1hCkmuuQ

Scott Ritter on Kharkiv retreat

Another update from ‘the duran’

The Duran discussion ( over two and half hours) on the coming winter in Europe

twi Alexanders, Brian Berletic and Gonzalo Lira.Scary.

Russia 'Encircling' Bakhmut, Putin Sticks with SMO, Rebuffs Scholz, Macron

https://youtu.be/5RdTnaP5plk A comprehensive overview including estimates of troop numbers. I get the impression that Russia can end this quickly if it wants by increasing the infantry numbers but letting it burn slowly. May be it wants to preserve as much as possible of its troops if there is a bigger war with NATO.

From Mousiqar, Nadeem Begum, Salamat Ali and Nazakat Ali

 

An update from Duran

 

The coming winter in Europe

 But Russia seems to be supplying some LNG to Greeceand Sweden

Some deleted songs from films

 Mostly of Greta Dutt Here is one of the songs 

Russia starts hitting at civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.

 

Hopefully temporary. See more details at https://youtu.be/cYbtKbJ37-M  Longer discussions by Alexander Mercouris https://youtu.be/96F5a0k3t8U

And Brian Berletic https://youtu.be/q-IE4094j14 My impression: Generally, it has been easy for Russia and there seem to be some miscalculations. Slow grind, economic pressure and coming winter are probably expected to do the job by Russia and one of the two counteroffensives seems to have been a tactical victory for Ukraine.

Alexander Mercouris is critical of the Russian approach

 

Sayee-Subbulakshmi

 Their background and relationship to Periyanaki from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayee–Subbulakshmi

Articles by Richard Singer and Minai, the first link has comments from some of their relatives. Here are couple of their dances 

The above are all from different language versions of the same film and all a bit different from each other. Periyanayaki sings in the Tamil and Telugu versions.

Dian Berletic and Alexander Mercouris differ a bit in their analyses

 https://youtu.be/n3zNxBahukU And https://youtu.be/JoroqK1QuCA

Scott Ritter on the new phase in Ukraine

 

In the new phase in Ukraine war

 By Gilbert Doctorow 

U.S. ups the ante: are we indeed headed into WWIII and what can save us?

Brian Berletic update on the two Ukraine counteroffensives

 

Saker explains the Russian military strategy in Ukraine

 Sekar explains. Check also the previous post by Chris Cappy which discipusses other aspects.

Chris Capp on Ukraine counteroffensive around Kherson

 This seems more objective than the others that I have been posing

Russian SMO in Ukraine, reports on the Ukraine counter-offensive

From Bhadrakumar and Brian Berletic

A Father’s Day in Australia

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid027XriJVSg3VaLfHJqwfZJdDSrAhbeBQsNFHEHQbqrDjBnFUDJX3pQLWFa4YVRheRSl&id=749518284

A poem by Jeannette Encinias

 https://www.jeannetteencinias.com/beneath-the-sweater-the-skin

Beneath the Sweater
and the Skin

How many years of beauty do I have left?

she asks me.

How many more do you want?

Here. Here is 34. Here is 50.

 

When you are 80 years old

and your beauty rises in ways

your cells cannot even imagine now

and your wild bones grow luminous and

ripe, having carried the weight

of a passionate life.

 

When your hair is aflame

with winter

and you have decades of

learning and leaving and loving

sewn into

the corners of your eyes

and your children come home

to find their own history

in your face.

 

When you know what it feels like to fail

ferociously

and have gained the

capacity

to rise and rise and rise again.

 

When you can make your tea

on a quiet and ridiculously lonely afternoon

and still have a song in your heart

Queen owl wings beating

beneath the cotton of your sweater.

 

Because your beauty began there

beneath the sweater and the skin,

remember?

 

This is when I will take you

into my arms and coo

YOU BRAVE AND GLORIOUS THING

you've come so far.

I see you.

Your beauty is breathtaking.

Some European politicians

 

Discussion about Alexander Dugin

 with two of his translators. It seems that there are similar things going on like Hindutva in other places.

Alexander Mercouris update

 

A briefer version https://youtu.be/eUHh58fz0V4 from ‘the duran’

Latest Kherson offensive falls flat

 

Strange developments at Zaporizhzhia

 

See also this comment in MoA

Intel Slava Z

🇷🇺🇺🇦 And so what happened today in Energodar. The landing operation was supposed to be the icing on the cake of the Kherson offensive. The Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared it for a long time, trained landings from boats, carefully masked the preparatory measures (which did not prevent our intelligence from carefully monitoring them).

And even though the Kherson offensive operation itself did not go according to plan, the capture of Energdar by a river assault was supposed to neutralize the negative consequences of huge losses and, in general, at the moment, an extremely unsuccessful attempt at a counteroffensive.

As a result, early this morning, 2 barges and up to 30 boats of the Ukrainian landing force began to cross the Dnieper and crossed it directly into a prepared ambush, where Russian Guard soldiers and army aviation were already waiting for them.

One barge was burned right on the way, parts of the landing force were allowed to land on the shore, pressed down by fire and began to methodically and cold-bloodedly destroy. Now up to 60 corpses of Ukrainian fighters of the most elite units lie on the shore, the beauty and pride of the ZSU. The rest swim in the river and feed the fat Dnieper crayfish.

There were instructors from NATO countries, we will find out after examining the corpses, it is quite possible that they were. In any case, the landing operation will go down in the golden annals of the most disastrous operations, and drowned men in the form of Zbroynyh forces emerging from the waters of the Dnieper at night will be part of Little Russian folklore for a long time to come.

Zaporizhzhiye updates

 

Marcel Marceau story

 Marcel Marceau: The Legendary Mime Who Saved Jewish Children and Fought Nazis

"It had nothing to do with show business. He was miming for his life.”

Marcel Marceau developed his craft while desperately trying to keep children quiet as he helped them escape the Nazis…

Zaporizhzhia update

 Russia welcomes idea of permanent IAEA presence at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Coming European winter May not be so bad

 China Is Quietly Reselling Its Excess Russian LNG To Europe