Ukraine updates

 The battle front 

And the new attack near Sevastopol, grain deal dead etc

Another theory of consciousness

 Conscious Reality Is Only a Memory of Unconscious Actions, Scientists Propose In Radical New Theory

Sarod in film music

 Zarin Daruwala Sharma

Drone attack again in Crimea

 From Moon of Alabama

Floating farms

 As floods rise Bangladesh farmers revive floating farms

Differences brewing between allies

 Scholz and Macron threaten trade retaliation against Biden

Superlatives continue to flow for Kohli’s Melbourne innings ‘song by god’

 Virat Kohli most complete Indian batsman of my time, says Greg Chappell 

 “It was an innings that showcased the art of batting like no other that I have seen in a lifetime of watching cricket.

“Ironically, it was also the innings that legitimised T20 cricket as, dare I say it, an art form, more than any that I have seen in the past 15 years. Nobody can dismiss T20 cricket as simply entertainment ever again,” 

A short write up on the Ukraine Crisis

 An interview with Gilbert Doctorow

A Usha Kiran dance song from Adhikar

 

Putin’s latest at Valdai Discussion Club

 Putin continues to impress. I have been looking at his speeches for a number of years. He does not seem to have any particular economic philosophy. He is not a communist. If at all he seems a Russian nationalist with some sort of possibly mythical beliefs. He built up Russia after various collapses till it can take on USA and leading to a more self reliant and confident Russia showing the way to a multipolar world. 

Alexander Mercouris also has a video about this speech https://youtu.be/accaQtzi_7Y

The occasion https://valdaiclub.com/events/own/19th-annual-meeting-of-the-valdai-discussion-club/

Two shots by Virat Kohli

 The Melbourne shot is linked. Against Woakes years ago

The story of eggplant

 Here via Pramathanath Sastry

Ukraine update from Alexander Mercouris

 

Russia is not backing down on the dirty bomb story

 Russia asks for security council meeting

See a,so Lavrov talks about dirty bomb

Alexander Mercouris discusses the dirty bomb story

 

He now seems to think, though still somewhat sceptical, that Russians probably have some suspicions and it may be related to the Kherson evacuation. He feels all the noise might have averted the threat.

Two about dirty bombs in Ukraine

 

Russia tries to help Europe

 

Russia preparing for big war

 

Possibilities in the Kherson offensive in the next few days from. Ilitary Summary

 

Another excerpt from ‘Einstein and the Quantum’ by A.Douglas Stone

 It seems that Einstein had a hand in so many developments in quantum mechanics. Here is one of th3m:

“Some months earlier Einstein had met privately with Heisenberg to dis- cuss quantum mechanics. Heisenberg had presented his view that the new theory should restrict itself to describing observable quantities, and not un- observable electron orbits. Einstein rejected this view, leading Heisenberg to rejoin, “isn’t that precisely what you have done with relativity theory.”35 Einstein responded, “possibly I did use this form of reasoning . . . but it is nonsense all the same.36 . . . It is the theory which decides what can be ob- served.”37 This conversation stuck with Heisenberg, and a year later, while pondering the meaning of quantum mechanics, it came back to him. “It must have been one evening after midnight when I suddenly remembered my conversation with Einstein, and particularly his statement, ‘it is the the- ory which decides what we can observe.’ I was immediately convinced that the key to the gate that had been closed so long must be sought right here.”38 Within days he had used the new quantum mechanics to prove his uncertainty principle.” From ‘Einstein and the Quantum’ by A. Douglas Stone.

As I mentioned earlier, this book was recommended by Ashutosh Jogalekar, one of the best science writers I know.

Germany knows who sabotaged Nord Stream

 But I do not find any other links confirming this.

An excerpt from ‘Einstein and the Quantum’ by A.Douglas Stone

 A few days ago Ashutosh Jogalekar recommended the book ‘Einstein and the Quantum’ by A. Douglas Stone. It has an interesting section on S.N.Bose which seems to suggest that Bose did not quite realise what he did. He also seemed to have missed a good opportunity. “…..Bose tarried in Paris nearly a full year learning x-ray techniques before working up the courage to move on to Berlin in October of 1925 and finally meeting Einstein a few weeks later. In the intervening year, Einstein had taken up Bose’s novel counting method and extended it to treat the quantum ideal gas, leading to truly remarkable discoveries, about which Bose was unaware. For Bose, “the meeting was most interesting. . . . he challenged me. He wanted to find out whether my hypothesis, this particular kind of statistics, did really mean something novel about the interaction of quanta, and whether I could work out the details of this business.” During Bose’s visit, Werner Heisenberg’s first paper came out on the new approach to quantum theory known as matrix me- chanics (of which we will hear more later). Einstein specifically suggested that Bose try to understand “what the statistics of light quanta and the transition probabilities for radiation would look like in the new theory.”33 However, Bose was not able to make progress. He seems to have had a difficult time assimilating these rapid new developments and wrote some- what despairingly to a friend: “I have made an honest resolution of working hard during these months, but it is so hard to begin, when once you have given up the habit.”

A review of the book

US midterm election effects

 Alexander Mercouris suggests that the pressure on Ukraine government to show some success in Kherson  offensive by mid November is due to the Democrats desire to show some thing by the midterm elections. There was a similar suggestion about the pressure on  Saudi Arabia to increase oil supply.

Putin on the early Kiev pullout

 

Joe Lombardo and Scott Ritter ‘Issues that matter with Cynthia’ (Pooler)

 

Turkish pipeline attack stopped

 

Jaynes on cosciousness

Jaynes on consciousness I have been wondering about some of these things and came across this today.

Dmitry Kulikov exolains the Russian point of view in the Ukraine conflict

https://youtu.be/KMwJoL6cPuA

‘Swimming camels’ of Jamnagar

https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/jamnagars-swimming-camels-in-deep-waters/

Long and interesting discussion

but unsatisfactory as they did not quite explain the economic factors except Yves Smith to some extent. Gonzalo Lira seems right but a bit of a loose canon. This video is also posted in Naked Capitalism. inthe comments, Yves Smith explains a bit of the unpleasant commements by Gnzalo Lira about Scott Ritter: Yves Smith October 13, 2022 at 9:22 pm Lira did an unnecessarily nasty takedown of Ritter not long after Lira was detained by the SBU and had all of his channels taken from him by them, which led to Lira being demonetized. Lira’s beef was Ritter’s tendency to make sharp changes in his readings of the war, without similarly sharp changes in underlying facts. I had relied on Ritter unduly early on and was also persuaded by his bullish take on Russia’s prospects, and I think Lira was mad at feeling duped. Ritter was aggressively saying Russia would wrap up the war quickly, as in a few weeks. He then flip-flopped when NATO was going to arm Ukraine and said it would be a game changer. He’s also made questionable statements about NATO being effective at training, which might have been true when they had the leisure of time, but can’t be now if nothing else based on how the Ukrainians have to be trained out of country, in too little time (a mere 3 weeks for the ones in the UK) and too few in number. Ritter also declared Lira to be dead when he disappeared. If you read Ritter”s Wikipedia entry (and there’s no reason for the pro-Establishment Wikipedia to cut Ritter any slack), Ritter was found guilty 2x, both time stings, both time with no actual sex, just phone and IIRC sexting. The first time was supposed to be sealed. It was nevertheless presented in the second case, where Ritter maintained the woman he never met was pretending to be 15 but wasn’t. When he was being prosecuted, you can guarantee the police got his computers and communication devices. If they had found any kiddie porn or evidence of solicitation or sex with minors, you can be sure that would have been brought in.

Robert Trivers and reciprocal altruism

https://quillette.com/2022/10/07/on-evolved-altruism/

Scott Ritter update with Anita K on nuclear exercises etc

Col. Doug Macgregor update on the Russian strikes

On Nord Stream 2 by Pepe Escobar

https://www.unz.com/pescobar/nord-stream-2-offers-germany-a-date-with-destiny/

Gilbert Doctorow on some awakening in Russia

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/10/11/partial-mobilization-and-democracy/

The Duran interview with Tim Kirby

ann American origin journalist living in Russia. it is different from usual interviews in that we get some glimpses of everyday life in Russia. it is possible that Tim Kirby is connected with particular sections of the people and one has to go through the comments to get some sense of the discussion.Gilbert Doctorow too wrote about everyday life in Russia but as a visitor.

Russia hits back after the Crimea bridge fire

Col. Douglas Macgregor Debunks Latest Ukraine Myths

Anil K interviews the Duran duo

Interview with Rukmini S

India Far Less Committed to Liberal Values Than Imagined, Data Shows https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/16/india-far-less-committed-to-liberal-values-than-imagined-data-shows/?fbclid=IwAR116qP1iOjyJ9XcBSxJSGidjCWe5UrnfCXZ7huhS0yox_q3gXa9C6chyzY second part: What the Numbers Say About Women, Caste, Religion & Voting in India https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/07/what-the-numbers-say-about-women-caste-religion-voting-in-india/?fbclid=IwAR17BYn7HarWOKZLwC53PLv97iydRviZdb1ZI3huBP0A0DxGxt8vthbxYFY

The Duran on war zones

there is a discussion on the referendums and the situation on the ground during that period explained by Patrick Lancaster and then China discussion with Alex

The Duran on the situation in Germany

Brian Berletic on the current Ukraine offensive

Ukraine conflict paradigm shift

Putin’s speech

compared tohis Munich2007speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Munich_speech_of_Vladimir_Putin

An update from Brian Berletic