Sarees from water hyacinth

in other places https://youtu.be/g83Fu0R2GGM?si=oI_eRHSTCDzC_LzP

Chips and washing machines

First Ursula von der Leyen said that Russia was taking chips out of dishwashers and fridges to fix its military hardware. Now German FM Baerbock is saying the same thing about using chips from German washing machines for drones and missiles. https://twitter.com/mazzenilsson/status/1695478885196935255

Other theories on Prigozhin

Scott Ritter on Progozhin crash

The idea seems to be that Putin is probably not responsible as this happened during Brics summit. it is possible that somebody who wants to do a favour to Putin might have been responsible or more likely an accident.But this is at very initial stages of investigation.

Another discussion with Douglas Macgregor

C.R.Rao passed away on August 22

Tucker Carlson with Douglas Macgregor

Vijay Prashad on Niger coup

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/08/16/niger-is-far-from-a-typical-coup/

Russian motives in Africa similar to those of the west says Riley Waggaman

Hint: Prigozhin was at the conference. https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/riley-waggaman-on-perspective-with-jesse-zurawell-10-august-2023/ Another interview from March, 2022 https://catholicism.org/russian-myths-vs-russian-reality-with-edward-slavsquat.html

A different kind of interview with Riley Waggaman

Imran Khan saga

Simplicius the thinker explores Russia’s banking system

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russias-cbdc-exploring-the-truth A febuttal bere https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/elvira-nabiullina-is-the-kindest

About Gramsci

"Gramsci provides no easy answers for the current challenges that we face. Yet with concepts such as “hegemony” and “organic intellectuals,” the “war of position” and the “historic bloc,” “conjunctural analysis” and the battle for “common sense,” he provides social movements with an enriched strategic vocabulary. And with his insistence on rejecting determinism and engaging with society’s most deeply held beliefs, he offers an approach to radical politics that is dynamic enough to stay relevant through the crises—and transformations—yet to come." from https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/08/what-can-social-movements-learn-from-gramsci-in-todays-uncertain-times.html

Solow interview

https://conversableeconomist.com/2023/07/25/levitt-interviews-solow-on-life-events-and-economic-growth/

The coup in Niger

Latest from Simplicius

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-8123-the-hegemon-begins-to

New development

https://www.arabobserver.com/niger-suspends-export-of-uranium-and-gold-to-france/

Gonzalo Lira escape?

https://www.rt.com/news/580645-gonzalo-lira-ukraine-torture/

Scott Ritter on unravelling truth

Patrice Lumumba University

"The Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (Russian: Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы), also known as RUDN University and until 1992 and after March 2023, as Patrice Lumumba University in honour of the Congolese politician Patrice Lumumba, is a public research university located in Moscow, Russia." from the Wikipedia.

Russia and Africa relations

 Russia treats Africans as equals, Patrice Lumumba’s son tells RT 

“Lumumba’s father, Patrice Lumumba, was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a tumultuous three months in 1960. With the fledgling state threatened by Belgian-backed separatists, Lumumba appealed to the US and UN for aid, who turned down his request. The USSR, however, supplied his government with weapons and military advisers, and when Lumumba was ousted and arrested in a coup, the Soviets pushed the UN to secure his release.

Read more

 Russia to help Nigeria resuscitate steel sector – official

Patrice Lumumba was executed by Belgian-backed forces in 1961. He remains an icon of pan-Africanism and anti-colonialism, and his son believes that his outreach to the USSR forged a permanent link between Russia and the Congo that persists to this day, as it does in other African countries – like Mozambique and Angola –  that .the Soviet Union backed during the Cold War..”

But there are some differences between Russia and Soviet Union.

Simplicius the thinker answers some questions on the Ukraine war

Subscriber Mailbag Answers - 7/24/23 [Part 1] 

John Helmer interviews Colonel Jacques Baud

 Lot of promotion material. Interview starts after twenty minutes

Colonel Jacques Baud on War of the Worlds - 22 July 2023

Biden corruption?

 

Surprised that this kind of videos are public and there are no denials yet.

Related https://thegrayzone.com/2023/07/13/bidens-corruption-led-to-ukraines-destruction-fmr-kiev-diplomat/

Brain waves

 Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact

Dan Little introduces Ludwik Fleck

Ludwik Fleck and "thought styles" in science It is based on Ludwik Fleck in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

The Duran on the grain deal

 

Simplicius the thinker on Crimean bridge attack, grain deal etc

 Kerch Bridge Déjà Vu - Breakdown

Putin and Prigozhin

 Putin, Prigozhin and the management principle: “work with the hand you are dealt” by Gilbert Doctorow

Latest attack on Crimean bridge

 

About social paradoxes

 The evolution of social paradoxes by David Pinsof

Manohari Singh

 The Sculptors of Film Songs (5): Manohari Singh has several popular Hindi film songs.

Dmitry Orlov ‘ The Incredible Shrinking NATO’

When M.K. Bhadrakumar Forgot A Small Detail. Dmitry Orlov on NATO.NATO is a captive buyers’ club for US-made weapons 

Dmitry Orlov’s post

‘The Duran’ on Vilnius NATO summit

 

A science documentary recommended by Ashutosh Jogalekar

 

John Hemer’s latest report

 THE NATO ULTIMATUM TO UKRAINE – INVITATION TO WIN BY WINTER ORDIE

Two posts on debt in NC

 Book Review: Richard Vague, “The Paradox of Debt”

Michael Hudson: Colonialism or Sovereignty? How the Global Financial System Traps Countries in Debt

Another update via Danny Haiphong

 

On the Vilnius summit meeting

From Moon of Alabama 

John Helmer on Putin meeting Prigozhin at the end of June

 Damage control

Repeat videos from YouTube

 This seems to have come about a month ago and appears again with a new date. The same sort of thing seems to be happening with other videos.

A new channel on Telugu film music

 

Ashutosh Jogalekar on John Wheeler and Oliver Sachs

 Who share their birthday with Ashutosh

The Wisdom Of John Wheeler And Oliver Sacks from about five years ago but did not age.

Scott Ritter about nuclear treaties

 From 19:35 onwards for about fifteen minutes 

Latest from Simplicius the thinker

 Azov Commanders Return, 6th Column Goes Crazy

“I had thought that the war could last for several years, but given the latest developments, the desperate signals from the West regarding their ammo supplies, etc., it appears to me increasingly possible that without a major black swan event that Ukraine craves so much (like initiating WW3), they could potentially face collapse as early as the end of this year, if not over the course of this coming winter.”

Latest from Jacques Baud on Ukraine

 Translation available but it is machine translation.

Bhadrakumar is not pleased with Indian attitude to SCO

 India’s discontent with the SCO

Update on cluster bombs etc from Scott Ritter

 

Russian communist response to Russian capitalism

 Via John Helmer

ing report from Simplicius the thinker

 SITREP 7/6/23: Zelensky Builds One Last Suicidal Thrust to Appease Masters

Ray McGovern on Prigozhin and French riots

 

Larry Johnson on the current global conflicts

 BACKGROUND PAPER: RUSSIA, UNITED STATES & UKRAINE

Alistair Crooke on Ukraine and Europe

 https://www.youtube.com/live/cEPaNl6nXZk?feature=share

Similar views from Larry Johnson https://www.youtube.com/live/L-vY3ANoutI?feature=share

Last battle of the American revolution

Was the last battle of the American Revolution fought in India? A growing number of historians think so 

The sort of Russian history that might have influenced Putin

From Gilbert Doctorow  Links to documentaries each over two hours long.

Scott Ritter internet Nazi elements in Ukraine

 Mostly in the first half 

A girl from Dagestan meets Puti in Kremlin

 https://www.bitchute.com/video/OROngqVRgC9O/ 

Once again, the background to Ukraine crisis

 

Brics vs G7

 

A puzzle which Mahalanobis and Ramanujan solved

 

A bit about the 14th century Indian mathematician Madhava

 

UK failed state?

 

Long discussion with Doug Macgregor from PBD

 Mostly about America, some about Putin’s Ukraine

John Helmer’s account of Prigozhin affair

 From John Helmer

For a semi-official Russian account of what happened in Rostov when Prigozhin was there last Saturday,  read this piece published yesterday in Vzglyad. This reports Shoigu’s presence in the city at the time; the advance knowledge at the General Staff of Prigozhin’s threats, intentions,  plans, and force capacities.  

The inventory of the initial official searches of Prigozhin’s St Petersburg offices and vehicles uncovered five kilogrammes of cocaine, about Rb4 billion in cash, gold bullion bars, barrels of US dollars, several false passports, pistols, and records of offshore transactions in the Central African Republic and elsewhere. Prigozhin, speaking before Putin made public his comment on stealing,  confirmed the cash and told Fontanka, a St. Petersburg publication, he saw “nothing terrible”

Doug Henwood on neoliberalism

 Neoliberalism right and left

Scott Ritter on Prigozhin and the future possibilities in Ukraine

 

Douglas Macgregor’s take is different.

John Goodenough RIP

 John Goodenough: Nobel-prize-winning battery pioneer dies aged 100

An interview with Carlo Ginzburg

 Carlo Ginzburg: ‘In history as in cinema, every close-up implies an off-screen scene’

VElcheru Narayana Rao used a similar approach.

Lads P. Syll on early Ricardo

 Straffa on Ricatdo’s ‘corn model’

Branco Milanovic on Chinese capitalism

 “…we can see the current Chinese state capitalism as a protracted NEP that began in 1978 and continues until today. But Lenin seems to overlook the possibility that with a very long NEP the economic and political power will gradually seep from under the Party and the very nature of the state would change. Those who have money will dictate things as in capitalist countries. The state may not be able to control them and the commanding heights of the economy may change ownership. This happened under Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao: the development of state capitalism under socialist conditions led to the increasing influence of rich people and capitalists, including their inclusion in most of the party organs, and through the idea of “The Three Represents”, it gave a pretense of ideological acceptability to such evolution. The change in the elite composition, evident in a study done by Li Yang, Filip Novokmet and myself, is another product of such policies. The social structure of the Chinese elite had enormously evolved between the late 1980s and 2013 (when our study ends). While the private sector was marginal among the elite (the top 5 percent) in 1988, twenty-five year later almost one-third of the people in the elite were private businessmen (owners of small enterprises and large scale capitalists). If one includes professionals who are employed in the private sector, a bit over one-half of the elite is private-sector dependent.

It is in this context that one can look at Xi Jinping’s policies: as an attempt at the reassertion of the power of the state vs. the capitalist sector and the rich. Or to use Lenin’s distinction between the two, as an attempt to move from state capitalism to state capitalism. It is an adjustment in the political power between the two sectors: the state, ruled by a bureaucratic stratum, and the rich. It represents the analog of the populist reaction in the Western democracies: the feeling that the business elite has become too powerful, has no discernible interest in the problems of ordinary people, and has to be reined in. We can thus see Xi Jinping as both a heir to Lenin’s New Economic Policy and in much more contemporary terms as a populist response to the excesses of the new rich. ”

From http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/06/state-capitalism-one-hundred-years-ago.html

Douglas Macgregor perspective on Prigozhin

 

Repeated, only the first half needs watching.

Big Serge on Prigozhin fiasco

 TheWagner uprising seems very reasonable.

Douglas Macgregor on Prigozhin and nuclear threats

 

Possibilities of dirty bomb. Similar warnings from’the Duran’ and Simplicius the thinker

Bhadrakumar on Prigozhin

 The rise and fall of a Russian oligarch

Scientific branch creation

 A Report on Scientific Branch-Creation: How the Rockefeller Foundation helped bootstrap the field of molecular biology ERIC

Latest updates on the ground from Military Summary

 

Evolving techniques of modern warfare

 Excellent article as many of his are. According to Simplicius the thinker It is getting so technical that it is difficult to follow even the comments. One of the comments:

marcjf

17 hr ago

I read this article a few days ago (and might even have dropped a link here?) but hoped it would be covered - and it has been and very well - thanks!

Seems to me that the BTGs were an attempt to create all arms units at a very low level - maybe 4 manouvre companies backed by artillery, grad, recce and AD. These could and maybe still work well (but seems even company sized groupings are vulnerable) but obviously came unstuck in close terrain. Back in Feb 22 I recall confidently saying to a pal that I thought the Russians would not invade as the weather forecast was bad and the Raputitsa would soon arrive. This would create conditions where heavy Russian units would be road bound and hence vulnerable - and could be held up by relatively light forces in villages/woods etc. As proved to be the case. Any way - I was thus surprised the war began when it did and I could make a point that it was started when it was via UAF provacation and shelling for just this reason.

What has surprised me was the failure of Russia to apply its massive army to overwhelm the UAF. This article goes a long way to helping to understand the reason why. Put simply, the fighting has become atomised attrition. Killing enemy soldiers is important, but destruction of their firepower and communications much more so. Russian attacks on infrastructure were it seems to me intended to degrade AD capabilities mire than anything else so as to allow Russian air superiority to come into play more decisively.

In this war of material attrition it seems that large battles have been replaced by hundreds of [fire strikes] daily and the slow erosion of enemy long term capabilities. The UAF would have been overwhelmed last year if it were not for NATO arms. But now it seems NATO itself is becoming degraded as it ships its weapons stocks to the war and they become consumed. It is a moot point whether NATO can in the medium term replace these faster than it is spending them.

Battles like Bakhmut become explicable because only in close terrain can large scale units operate. And it thus becomes clearer that the UAF made a grave error trying to hold here as they traded lives for Russian shells. 

How does such a war end as it is hard to win a long war of attrition? The Twitter war may provide part of the answer. NATO has clearly dominated the English language and western European media spaces. This helps prime [voters] for the long haul, but is also intended to undermine Russian morale - maybe leading to collapse and regime change. Personally I think this is a fools hope, and there is a danger that one starts believing your own BS and propaganda - and I think that has occurred. But the corollary of this change the way wars are fought must lead to a change in the way they are won. If Russia is concentrating not on taking ground but attritting weapon systems, then at what point does Ukraine/NATO throw in the towel?

I suggest there must logically come a point where one side or the other cannot continue and it collpases, and then we will see lots of territory changing hands. It appears that many western analysts thought Russia was close to that point in early June and that one more attack would collapse Russian resistance. Not many who come here would have agreed. But is the UAF close to that point? That is the real question. And if not, what will bring it to that point?

From Bhavana on DONALD Knuth

 The Dawn of Rigour in the Art of Programming by Sudhir Rao

And one on R.C.Bose https://bhavana.org.in/raj-chandra-bose-universal-mathematician/

Bhadrakumar on Ukraine’s NATO accession

 Biden walks back on Ukraine’s Nato accession

An unfolding tragedy

 An Unfolding Tragedy: The Impossibility of Doing ‘Anything Other’ by Alastair Crooke

P.S.

I’ll Clinton on Putinin 2013

 

The Duran on divisions in the US establishment

 

Apparently Pentagon and its allies feel that Ukraine war is lost and want to build infra structure and the industrial strength of US to counter China. But the state department is dominated by Russia haters who feel that Pentagon will eventually have its way and want to escalate the efforts in Ukraine when they still have the chance and Biden’s support.

From Danny Haiphong and others

 

China WARNS US Stop 'Confrontation' or Risk Conflict w/ Garland Nixon and Carl Zha

19:59

24:57 / 25:00

Russia and China are WINNING and the Neocons Are Furious w/ Garland Nixon and Carl Zha

T.S.Eliot and Bob Dylan

Too much of nothing: Bob Dylan’s take on TS Eliot, maybe. 

Latest from Scott Ritter

 

Levity and insights

Latest from Douglas Macgregor

 

What about air power?

 Round Two? There Is No Round Two. Game pretty much over in Ukraine. AURELIEN 14 JUN 2023

“Thus, the West is at a massive structural and doctrinal disadvantage with airpower, and it is hard, if not impossible, to imagine what practical military tasks its air forces might successfully perform in a hypothetical conflict with Russia. There’s a good chance, in fact, that the age of the air-superiority aircraft is finally over, given the unprecedented advances in missile technology of the last few decades, and the mind numbing cost of individual airframes today. Now, it’s often said that NATO doctrine presupposes air superiority. This isn’t really true historically: in the Cold War NATO never expected to challenge, let alone overcome, Warsaw Pact control of the airspace over their own forces. Its aircraft relied on flying low and fast to survive in the most hostile air defence environment in the world, while hoping to retain at least some margin of air superiority over NATO territory. It’s truer to say that NATO has been operating for twenty years in environments where air control (and thus its fighter aircraft) are simply irrelevant, and the artillery metaphor of air power has been dominant.” and more in the article.

Using AI in drones?

 SITREP 6/15/23: Kakhovka Powerplay Heats Up as AFU Readies For Round 2

Putin interview with Russian journalists

 Putin Invites Top Russian Correspondents For Candid War Q&A + SitRep Updates from Simplicius the thinker.

P.S. Vladimir Putin meets with Russia’s war correspondents, A shorter one fromGilbert Doctorow.

Three hour discussion on Ukraine and related topics from The Duran and Scott Ritter

 I watched the first two hours and then they start on answers to questions from the audience. 

The Duran on the continuing misconceptions about the relative strengths of the armies

 

One point they do not discuss is that much of the Russian army is new and not battle hardened. By now, they had months of training and now some experience during the Ukraine offensive. Perhaps they will be ready but we do not have any examples of operations where the new recruits are involved,

Does economics cause more harm than good?

 The answer seems to be yes A review here.

Russia Day

 Today

More from Simplicius the thinker

 SITREP 6/11/23: Ukraine Reorients and Makes Breakthroughs on Eastern Axis

An overview of various commentators on the Ukraine crisis

 The more I watch Military Summary, Weeb Union and all other net video-strategos, I am drawn more and more to the conclusion that those are very, and surely non-intentionally, misleading and assuming stuff that is not very realistic in the real world battleground.

Surely most of them do play a positive role of a commentator, an updater, and an analyst for uneducated masses in military matters.

Also, mr. Ritter, col. MacGregor, mr. Martyanov and others of that rank and level explain the overall situation much better having an "eagle view" on the conflict, not being bothered with the "Bradley Square" and how FPV drone blew some Hummvee in some field.

Trouble is, I find nobody who connects those two camps at a certain level. Closest were The Duran, with some early broadcasts, but I have an issue with a way of too long Mercouris' words juggling and retelling stories collected from various sources. Gudaze is cool and sober in explaining the SMO from RF MSM media positions. Indians are funny to watch and very straight forward anti-Ukraine, but also cynical on China.

The New Atlas is eloquent, and comes closest to explaining to a commoner both views, a military and political. 
But he is not close to a current battlespace analysts and his role is more important in explaining Asian position, as he lives in the hood there.

Russians have some superb analysts outside English-speaking spectrum, but they are not as everyday shows, and reading from Rybar, Kots, Sladakov, and such on TG is exhausting as they tend to write cliffhangers and my TG ability is limited to just observing it as in channel preview. 

George Galloway is talking about the substance that has some reach, The Redacted are funny trio with a correct mindset, also with a substantial reach. 

Also, Down South does cool TG updates from Ukrainian critical perspective, not only, but certainly helpful stuff here.

B. our host here is a former military man, and he is to be trusted on operational systems and methods of both sides of the conflict. 
There are some others, surely credible more or less, as Nightvision/Simplicius, Imetatronink, Big Serge do good job too.

But, I am a bit fed up, and possibly some barflies too, with reiterations of already known and expected positions. 
I think we know only around 30% percent of what is really going on, countering the Western MSM that lives in some other space-time and creates some other realities.
What I do not get is how some are citing Telegraph, Sun, Bild etc. 
as anything reliable. Those are the lowest common denominators for anything true and correct. 
So I think the whole information circling around is broken and obfuscated beyond any repair. 

MoA surely tries to fill those blanks somewhat with a slightly chaotic disorder that has its charm, but rare and highly valued content here.

Having written all this, I still feel that there is something missing, especially adding to the picture a bit more lucidity.
But I do not know what or who. Do you feel or see the same? 

This is comment 114 by one ‘whirlX’ in https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/ukraine-open-thread-2023-139/comments/page/2/#comments

Gujarat model?

 Girls used to get married by age of 14, deliver child before 17 years: Gujarat High Court invokes Manusmriti in pregnancy termination matter

Peter Turchin interview

 How to avoid civil war…

Two views of the U.S. economy

 Both mention chips. From Michael Hudson https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/06/michael-hudson-on-the-us-economy-surprisingly-resilient-or-potemkin-village.html

From Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/us-building-factories-census-data-chips-act-inflation-reduction-act-2023-6?fbclid=IwAR2YRS8Py1pqOxiOlFmyKhileJQjUMl0unEKhZwPyMt6Zf0Yp-GgUmLgcc0

Latest from Simplicius the thinker on the Ukraine offensive

 Anatomy of a NATO-Planned, Trained, and Armed Disaster

And one from Military Summary on the offensive last night 

First song of Geeta Roy