A overview of the Ukraine crisis

 

John Helmer the next possible steps in Ukraine war

 Here

Peace in Ethiopia?

 

Also the French influence in Africa seems to be decline. There are several Al Zazeera videos on French influence in Africa. Eurasian influence seems to be increasing. Putin May be sincere but I am not sure of the rest of the Eurasian powers.

The Duran discuss Syria, US isolated?

 

Another Glenn Diesen interview

 

Collapsing European security order. Glenn Diesen interviews Richard Sakwa & Alexander Mercouris

 Douglas McGregor has been mentioned a couple of times in the above discussion. Here is the latest from him https://youtu.be/k0BhWNWl0Q0

One point that is missing from the discussions above is the role of bureaucracy in the EU. The power of bureaucracy seems to vary from country to country and I think that is like a deep state in EU. In India it is generally subservient to politicians and the deep state seems to be some sort of Hindutva RSS combine. Intone US it may be associated to the military industrial congressional complex. What about Russia, China etc?

Why she’ll Zaporozhie NPP

One theory: possibilities of a dirty bomb

Douglas McGregor Polish interview

 

Neocon takeover of EU

 

Latest update on Ukraine from The Duran

 

Somewhat different reading from Scott Ritter https://youtu.be/Js21pJyRbPY

Amazing beak

 

Mike Whitney on Ukraine

 Putin’s sledge hammer

Brian Berletic with The Duran

 As long as it takes

Cory Doctorow writes about John Deere farm equipment and related matters

 Those kill-switched Ukranion tractors “ Here’s a delicious story: CNN reports that Russian looters, collaborating with the Russian military, stole 27 pieces of John Deere farm equipment from a dealership in Melitopol, Ukraine, collectively valued at $5,000,000. The equipment was shipped to Chechnya, but it will avail the thieves naught, because the John Deere dealership reached out over the internet and bricked these tractors, using an in-built kill-switch.”

Douglas McGregor latest: The cal before the storm

 

Discussion on covid effect on immunity from The Agenda with Steve Paikin

 Can contracting COVID-19 have lasting negative effects on the immune system? Then, what is needed to better understand how coronaviruses cause lung injury?

Shorter with running transcript https://youtu.be/bD2gZ9UP9Y4

Brian Berletic: Russian Ops in Ukraine - Update: What is the Goal & is Moscow Achieving it?

 

About Telugu writer Tenneti Hemalatha (Lata)

 A write up by MalatiBy Malati with links to an interview, an article by Kaplana Rentala and another to an English translation of her work.

She is in this photo

Interesting interview with Douglas McGregor on geopolitics by Staight calls

 Alan Mate and Katie Halper at the other end. From Ukraine to American administrations of Obama Trump to China and Taiwan

Long grind ahead in Ukraine saysThe Duran duo

 

A quote from James Vincent “Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants”

 “To measure something, after all, is to impose limits on the world: to say this far but no further. It means fitting reality into categories that can never capture its full complexity. For when we try to measure some particular aspect of the world, we are inevitably making a choice that reflects our biases and desires. Measurement is a tool that reinforces what we find important in life, what we think is worth paying attention to. The question, then, of who gets to make those choices is of the utmost importance.

These dynamics can play out in very different ways. Some examples of mismeasure may be petty and slight, like the humiliations of workplace bureaucracies – painful in the moment but forgotten easily enough. Others are difficult to fathom in the extent of their cruelty. Consider the horrors of eugenics or scientific racism: movements motivated by ugly notions of racial hierarchy but justified through the pretend objectivity of measurement, conveyed through comparisons of skull sizes and IQ tests.

For Blake and his sympathisers, such barbarism is an expected product of the civilised world. The twentieth-century philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno noted that the entire process of abstraction – of creating generalised rules and categories – is one of the foundations of modernity, for better or worse. It is a product of the same Enlightenment thinking that made Blake shudder and that continues to shape the societies we live in today. ‘Classification is a condition of knowledge, not knowledge itself, and knowledge in turn dissolves classification,’ they wrote. The world as we know it today is ‘ruled by equivalence’; by a desire to reduce everything to number and make ‘dissimilar things comparable by reducing them to abstract quantities’.”

Some disquiet about Russian management of the Ukraine operation from The Duran

 

Two books on measuring temperature

 A recent one by James Vincent.

An old classic by Hasok Chang

China and the retreat in Kherson with Douglas McGregor

 

Withdrawal from Kherson by Russian troops

 Both suggest that there may be a deal From MoA and Military Summary 

If it is a deal, the implications for the future of the conflict are not clear. There is a suspicion of a deal because of lack of attacks during the Russian withdrawal.

P,S. Perhaps there is no deal. See https://www.rt.com/russia/566332-kherson-region-withdrawal-update/

Douglas McGregor reviews the American situation

 

See also https://youtu.be/ry7j-DaabpQ

Brian Berletic on the recent Kherson withdrawal announcement

 

India GDP to double in the next ten years

India gdp to double  ‘We forecast that India will be the third-largest economy by 2027, with its GDP more than doubling from the current $3.4tn to $8.5tn over the next 10 years. ’ from FT

New developments with Brics

 

Einstein and the Quantum

 This seems to be a continuation of the same book mentioned by Ashutosh Jogalekar earlier https://gaddeswarup.blogspot.com/search?q=Einstein+and+the+quantum

Updates from Dima (military summary) and The Duran

 They seem to differ a bit. Both discuss Jake Sullivan visit and some disorganisation in the Russian offensive but with different emphasis.

Maradona in Naples

 

More about British and US involvements inside Ukraine

 https://youtu.be/aP-2ljzWHyE

And the ‘geayzone’ article mentioned in the first video https://thegrayzone.com/2022/11/03/british-spies-terror-army-ukraine/

Another Michael Hudson interview

 

Interview with Jomo Kwame Sundaram

 Could the Ukraine Conflict Be an Opportunity for the Global South?

Russia grinding down Ukraine economy

 

Similar to the post yesterday https://gaddeswarup.blogspot.com/2022/11/puzzling-aspects-in-kherson.html

Free grain and fertiliser to poor countries

 "During our call with Mr. Putin, he said, 'Let's send grain free of charge to countries like Djibouti, Somalia, and Sudan.' In that, we were on the same page." From https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/türkiye-s-erdogan-vows-to-send-grain-fertilisers-to-countries-in-need-62249?fbclid=IwAR3f4aaivB77UuzPn_kDFmvtakdZbA-XlxsjgQGpRVAulR0MqSRVJjB9oIU

True Grit

 True Grit ‘Biologists only recently recognized that cows have complex social behaviors, involving depths of comprehension that we might not expect of animals stereotyped as grungy, placid, and dull-witted. A feral herd, for example, will organize nurseries by dividing calves into age groups, each usually overseen by one adult cow while the rest go out to graze. For this to work, the sitters need to understand that their role is to look after calves that are not their own, even if it means settling for low-grade fodder while others enjoy greener pastures. The calves have to grasp that they are under vigilance despite their mothers being out of sight.’

Colonel Douglas McGregor update on the possibilities of American boots on the ground

 

Long video from Scott Ritter

 Explains some of his background and discusses the war in Ukraine in RedPillDiaries

UN General Assembly rebukes US embargo on Cuba

UN General Assembly rebukes US embargo on Cuba 

Resolution condemning embargo on Cuba passes 185-2, marking 30th time the UN has rebuked the decades-old US policy.

Puzzling aspects in Kherson

 The following is a discussion by Alexander Mercouris 

There is also a discussion at https://youtu.be/pHQgCGwj2Kc

The puzzle is that Ukraine stopped throwing soldiers in its usual fashion and started shelling as in Donbas. And Russia’s moves are even more puzzling. Russia seems to have enough forces to resist assaults but is not taking any initiative and the moves of evacuation etc are confusing various people and Russia does not seem to be doing enough to improve its supply situation. So far the dirty bomb has not materialised. One possibility is that Russia feels that time is on its side. There is gradual deterioration of Ukraine’s armed forces, infrastructure and economy and also of  Europe and there is continued decline of supplies from the west. Russia seems capable of further damage to infrastructure whenever it wants and there are further possibilities of destroying bridges connecting Eastern Ukraine. Such moves may damage Ukraine’s potential to continue war without too much effort from Russia. May be.

Book review of ‘Trade Wars’ by Matthew Klein and Michael Pettis

 By Noah Smith Full title: Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace! 

Comparison

 Medieval Europe’s analogue to America’s New Cold War against China and Russia was the Great Schism in 1054.

Grain deal again,

 

Colonel Doug Mcgregor analysis

 

The Duran on ‘It’s done’.

 

John Helmer on electric shock therapy in Ukraine

 Electro-Shock Therapy for Slow Learners in the Ukraine Electric War (Part III)The earlier articles which have different totes can befoundinJohnHelmer’ S site. Possibly the following:

http://johnhelmer.net/russian-army-fires-old-sparky-us-loses-the-electric-war-in-the-ukraine/

http://johnhelmer.net/what-next-in-the-electric-war-for-ukraine-how-marshal-kutuzovs-golden-bridge-for-napoleons-retreat-is-working-today/

Can Lula make a difference?

 

Ukraine updates fromThe Duran and Scott Ritter

 

Paths to mathematics

 In old age: https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Language-Learning-Geometry-Calculus/dp/1250168570/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WPVW0ODR01JO&keywords=alec%20wilkinson&qid=1667262260&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjMzIiwicXNhIjoiMS4zMiIsInFzcCI6IjEuMzUifQ%3D%3D&s=books&sprefix=alec%20wilkinson%2Cstripbooks%2C141&sr=1-1&fbclid=IwAR1Fr-myJ51JcVIbdskoU186UQ8KtxO68wjHocwmEoNSX8Sphi-0q9LY7Xk

More regular , the first of a series https://www.ias.edu/ideas/paths-to-math-terrence-blackman?fbclid=IwAR1JV-eyJuA53QKjPewR8Styq0QryaBQoGUKItun7gMIAfiDMaPe-EuXNP4

The beginnings of my father’s career

 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02vYRuuQQmMyeA6QbZeWy2dkij7xoeywzyzZBub4gLoB2D4RqQEcdfBamTQyzFZjgml&id=749518284

Larry Johnson on the British role in various attacks

 ‘It is done’

https://mmnews.tv/its-done-did-liz-truss-text-antony-blinken-after-nord-stream-attack/