China plans in Fujian province

Douglas Macgregor on Gaza

On my 50th wedding anniversary

Aruna Tella sends her best wishes on my 50th wedding anniversary. As some body said about Aruna, కుమార్ చెప్పినట్లు ‘కష్టజీవి కి కేరాఫ్ అడ్రస్ వంట పనివరలకు నీడనిచ్చిన చెట్టు హక్కుల ఉద్యమాలకు ఊపిరి స్త్రీ హక్కుల సారధి అభాగ్యులకు అమ్మ... మా అరుణక్క జన్మదిన శుభాకాంక్షలు.. కుమార్.’ మీలాంటి వారికి రాముడు వారికి ఉడతలాగా… I am glad that I and Jhansi have been able to be of some help to people like her and Rahul Banerjee. With our best regards to social activits like them.

And from Alastair Crooke

Scott Ritter with Dimitri Diliani, a Palestinian Christian from Jerusalem

Scott Ritter with Jackson Hinkle

Israeli Supreme Court rejects challenge to open-fire rules

https://apnews.com/article/da582f11ad4443ddbf44ea6f2fc72c3a "But in its unanimous ruling, the court sided with the Israeli military, which argued that the protests were taking place in the context of a long-running armed conflict with the Islamic militant group Hamas which rules Gaza and that weapons-use regulations are subject to the rules of armed conflict. Such rules provide greater leeway for the use of lethal force than those governing law enforcement practices."

From MoA

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/12/israel-plans-for-long-war-and-the-expulsion-of-people-from-gaza.html#more

One by Finian Cunningham

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/11/28/war-torn-yemen-shuts-red-sea-chokepoint-on-israel-and-shames-impotent-arab-muslim-leaders/

Good side of Henry Kissinger

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/01/scott-ritter-kissinger-war-criminal-who-saved-the-world/

US sending bunker busting bombs to Israel?

https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/01/biden-administration-bunker-buster-bombs-israel-gaza-report/

Putin’s conception of Russia

see also 'big serge' article on Putin's strategy in Ukraine. https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-end-of-cabinet-war

Scott Ritter on Israel conflict

Rescue of miners in India

Another with Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/live/OsSh0TW3os0?si=4j0UEt_nS0N48Bbr the first hour of the interview is with him.

Scott Ritter’s perspective on Gaza conflictseems to have changed somewhat

Brian Berletic with Duran

Nicolas Petro on Ukraine war

Children in Gaza playing

https://x.com/fatimazsaid/status/1716201757447946389?s=20

What does Putin want?

Jeffrey Sachs with The Duran

Alaistair Crooke’s latest in Judging Freedom

Another

About inequality in india

from Gulzar Natarajan. https://gulzar05.blogspot.com/2023/11/weekend-reading-links_25.html Interesting facts about inequality in India The OECD made an assessment of the number of generations required to move from the bottom 10 per cent of the income distribution to the mean income level. This was done by examining the rate of change of income between father and son. According to this assessment, the transition time from the lowest to the mean level of income in India is seven generations, a level comparable to that in China and above that in Europe and the US... In India, according to the World Inequality database, this has widened sharply between 1990 and 2018, the latest year for which they present an estimate. Over this period, the share of the top 10 per cent in pre-tax income has gone up from 34.4 per cent to 57.1 per cent, while the share of the bottom 50 per cent has fallen from 20.3 per cent to 13.1 per cent. Note also that the top 1 per cent account for nearly half of the increase in the share of the top 10 per cent... A recent report from Azim Premji University... points out: “In 2004, over 80 per cent of the sons of casual wage workers were themselves in casual employment. This was the case for both SC/ST workers and other castes. For non-SC/ST castes, this fell from 83 per cent to 53 per cent by 2018, and the incidence of better quality work, such as regular salaried jobs, increased. It fell for SC/ST castes as well, but to a lesser extent (86 per cent to 76 per cent)”. From the Bihar caste survey The sub-caste wise data on poverty indicates that 42.93 per cent of the families belong to Scheduled Castes (SC), 42.7 per cent to Scheduled Tribes (ST), 33.58 per cent to extremely backward castes (EBC), 33.16 per cent to other backward classes (OBC), and 25.09 per cent to the general category (GC) of upper castes. When it comes to government jobs, the general category castes, such as Bhumihars, Brahmins, and Kayastha, had the highest share with 3.19 per cent of their population in government jobs. The corresponding figures for the EBC, SC and ST are 0.98 per cent, 1.13 per cent and 1.37 per cent, respectively. A measure of the differences in access to education is provided by the substantial difference in the percentage of people who are graduates in different caste groups — 14.54 per cent in the general category, 9.14 per cent in the OBC category, 4.44 per cent in the EBC category, 3.12 per cent amongst Scheduled Castes, and 3.53 per cent amongst Scheduled Tribes.

Alastair Crooke and from ‘The Duran’

https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/few-options-in-wake-of-the-al-shifa-debacle-the-war-lengthens-and-widens

Simplicius on NATO plans for forever war

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-112523-major-avdeevka-breakthroughs

“Sometimes there is no way out” says Aurelien

https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/no-way-out

Judging Freedom show with some theories about JFK’s assassination

From Moonof Alabama

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/11/there-are-certain-things-i-can-not-write-about.html

Two from Judging Freedom with John Meatsheimer and Douglas Macgregor

Jeffrey Sachs on Gaza

THE TUNNELS OF THE AL QASSAM BRIGADE

https://sonar21.com/the-tunnels-of-the-al-qassam-brigade/

Creative destruction in state formation

https://gulzar05.blogspot.com/2023/11/wars-and-state-competition-in-europe.html https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-entrepreneurial-state

Moon of Alabama update on Ukraine

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/11/a-look-at-others-notes-on-ukraine.html#more

Alastair Crooke : Evaluating Israel’s moral justifications

Michael Hudson with The Duran

Big Serge in Russo-Ukrainian war

https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-reckoning

Scott Ritter is angry

Moon ofAlabama on the Israeli conflict

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/11/one-religions-war-against-all-others.html

Interview with a Israeli communist

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/israeli-communist-party-eli-gozansky-war-hadash-netanyahu

Major drug fail in Alzheimers treatment

https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-leading-theory-on-alzheimers-in-crisis-after-major-drug-trials-fail

Magical thinking about Russia’s defeat

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/it-s-time-to-end-magical-thinking-about-russia-s-defeat/ar-AA1k28ij

Emerging MSB

Choosing leaders in Ukraine

https://asiatimes.com/2023/11/why-is-the-west-moving-to-replace-zelensky/

Isaac Asimov on Israel

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/304343-i-am-frequently-asked-if-i-have-visited-israel-whereas “I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (#92 ff.)”

Alastair Crooke update about Gaza

A Vinod (Eric Roberts) song

Goonz uthi shehnai song with English subtitles

Michael Hudson on Israel

A brief history of weaving in Gaza

Apparently the word guaze comes from Gaza. Here is a brief history of weaving in that area https://nolcollective.com/blogs/news/nol-weaving-threads-of-palestinian-history-1

The inevitability of corruption

http://glineq.blogspot.com/2023/10/there-is-no-exit-for-dictators.html And similar thoughts here https://gaddeswarup.blogspot.com/2019/03/ddksambi-and-benjamin-franklin.html

Simplicius the thinker on Israeli economy

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-111023-israeli-economy-buckles

Too much liquidity

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/could-it-be-the-feds-mega-qe-created-so-much-liquidity-that-tightening-doesnt-work-until-this-excess-gets-burned-up.html

The latest from Alastair Crooke

Judge Napoletana with Phil Giraldi

Another interview by Judge Napolitano

Electric war in ukraine

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/the-new-electric-war-campaign-how-the-russian-army-will-select-the-ukrainian-targets.html

Sean Caroll on Einstein’s powerful equation

Scott Ritter on Palestine and Hamas

Western Officials Increasingly Pushing "Peace Talks" + War Updates

says Simplicius the thinker about Ukraine https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/western-officials-increasingly-pushing

India’s first bird woman, Jamal Ara

https://www.mid-day.com/news/opinion/article/mystery-of-indias-first-birdwoman-23317170?fbclid=IwAR1SmERKlvDMsPguVxRJzBNPAUX3Ik2SwZ0mtIujuhP1UwuR5TbVxUvTgUY https://www.amazon.in/Women-Wild-Brilliant-Wildlife-Biologists-ebook/dp/B0CH12LWKG?fbclid=IwAR3m_1N4cTVu_ovjXMbAWgz4AcR3rsGKbijf1olbwTHcTAfRHnTDBpjdGuQ

Gaza updates from Alexander Mercouris and Scott Ritter

Some war profiteers

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/reports-expose-us-billionaires-and-corporate-profiteers-enabling-israels-war-on-gaza.html

Alastair Crooke again

Eschatological Frenzy

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/world-plummets-into-eschatological

Musk wants to provide Starlink support to Gaza aid groups

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/musk-says-starlink-provide-connectivity-gaza-through-aid-organizations-2023-10-28/?fbclid=IwAR3Qw_p8eEMHxLu3VxIOq0Ds77uqN-JRGxQMTY1CxKY7xnTqgwNwG7PeRUY

A rose for Gramsci

https://andymerrifield.org/2023/10/24/a-rose-for-gramsci/

Scott Ritter’s views i military aspects

At 18.55, there is some comment of Obama weighing in. There is this nnews report from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/24/obama-israel-food-water-gaza?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR07SNegMVD3vbZyccXYpJo_CT2xHib8LGVPe82GhZ1w_NFcF_qUI3ZZgSA

And Jeffrey Sachs

https://www.youtube.com/live/Nx5Ps8-y6mY?si=tyh-h7XPJDocULKr

Alastair Crooke with Judge Napolitano

An update fromAlexander Mercouris on Israel and Ukraine

Simplicius on the Battle for Avdeevka

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/battle-for-avdeevka-close-study

Making Gaza uninhabitable

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/israel-intends-to-make-gaza-uninhabitable-by-cutting-power-permanently.html

Trouble brewing

https://johnhelmer.net/in-the-corridors-of-power-the-us-and-israel-are-daring-russia-china-and-the-world-to-go-to-war-to-save-arab-palestine/#more-88694

Garland Nixon with Scott Ritter

Douglas Macgregor on Gaza conflict

The Duran on the Israeli conflict

Alistair Crooke on Gaza

P.S. Today https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/10/16/pulling-the-roof-down-on-todays-paradigm/

A game theoretic look at the Palestine conflict by ALEXIA TEFEL–ESCUDERO

Rober J. Aumann prize winner Conflicts and Cooperation: A Game Theory Analysis of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict https://dadun.unav.edu/bitstream/10171/63057/1/rhereder%2C%2003.pdf

Different views on Hamas-Israeli conflict

Another account of Hamas-Israeli conflict from the point of view of some journalists

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/media-confidential/63468/israel-hamas-and-media-in-a-time-of-war

New Rules with Alastair Crooke

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231012/israel-not-prepared-for-hezbollahs-second-front---alastair-crooke-1114141013.html https://rumble.com/v3oqlqp-israel-palestine-war-us-faces-catastrophe-in-middle-east.html

Scott Ritter and Andre Martyanov on Israel and Ukraine

Alastair Crooke in a discussion in ‘The Duran’

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/al-aqsa-flood:-the-surprise-is-that-some-are-surprised

Old age blues

Last few weeks I have been thinking of accessibility of finitely presented groups proved by Martin Dunwoody in 1983. I thought about it around 1974 and had the right ideas. But at that time algebra was not really my area and I gave up on some good problems after getting the right ideas. I also thought that may be one can use minimal surfaces but knew very little of the area. I gave a talk in Stoney Brook around 1979-80about it and Gromov was in the audience. Then after coming to Melbourne, in random browsing of our departmental library, I saw a volume in honour of some mathematician, may be I.M. Gelfand, and there was a paper by Gromov proving accessibility using minimal surfaces in higher dimensions. I even remember he used dimensions bigger than 6. I have a visual memory of the book and the paper. Recently, I started thinking about it since Peter Scott with me and two others developed an analogue of minimal surfaces for groups. I tried to ask friends about it but nobody knows about Gromov’s proof. Meanwhile our departmental library closed and the books were sent other libraries in the University. I cannot find the book. I wonder what is happening. Did I imagine all this. My working on mathematics is very haphazard. I basically learnt by myself. It was more passion than ambition. So there are lot of gaps in my knowledge of the areas I work. I often follow the general outline and try to fill the gaps later. For example, I did not read some of Waldhausen’s papers in 1969 but found simple proofs around 2002. I do not know whether it is one of those things or whether I really imagined the whole thing. I wrote to Gromov yesterday and I do not know whether he will reply. It surprises me that i did and can do some mathematics. I have no confidence in my abilities or any ambition. But if some thing bugs me, I keep thinking about it sometimes for years. I have also been lucky with collaborators, that after the age of 45 or so. But I did a few interesting things before. Anyway, I am puzzled by how I have been able to do some mathematics and even made a living given that I come from a farming family.

Russia reorienting towards the Arabs says John Helmer

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/the-silence-of-the-bears-russia-is-reorienting-towards-the-arabs.html

Hellaro song with English subtitles

Langlands on Harish-Chandra

https://publications.ias.edu/sites/default/files/harish-chandra-biographical-memoirs-rpl_0.pdf?fbclid=IwAR27eTkSlZuyJcDCmgCsVcj2rKQ1UC2inFWRf47Coc_9SeBJ72JQfT0Nl7A

Brian Berletic on Hamas-Israeli cinflict

He also discusses the military resources and the geopolitical problems particularly with neighbours

Hamas used Huawei phones and tablets

Douglas Macgregor on the Hamas-Israel conflict

The Duran on Hamas-Israeli conflict

Claudia Goldin

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/10/claudia-goldin-wins-nobel.html

More guesses about the Hamas -Israel conflict

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/the-top-ten-takeaways-from-hamas-sneak-attack-on-israel.html some suggest that US has been looking for an exit from the Ukraine conflict and this lrovides with various further possibilities. But so many Israeli casualities do not suggest a deliberate neglect; though it is possibilities that it exceeded expectations.it may delat Saudi-Israeli rapproachmdnt which may point the finger at Iran. Again it may spoil the relations between Saudi Arabia and iran and provide a way to disrupt Brics. Nobody seems to know and all seem to agree that it is bad news which will lead to worse things to come.

Various theories of Hamas-Israel conflict, some more unbelievable than others

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/israel-flashpoint-localized-skirmish

Scott Ritter on Israeli intelligence failure

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/08/scott-ritter-israels-massive-intelligence-failure/?fbclid=IwAR3J3aTwrJNM_1vCEmN5zc1CUHrMFDmAFRjKB72gQojUFENh0TldLGa207w

Alex Christoforou describes the latest Putin speech

https://youtu.be/YX_s8NqvWEk?si=_5tMy7htNBjqsHf6 problems with posting links. It seems that these links have to be copied and then tried on the browser.

The beginning of the long fall for Ukraine

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-10423-the-beginning-of-a-long

Simplicius on Army War College report

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/army-war-college-report-predicts "But alas, ever the stoic practitioner of the ‘long game’, I doubt Putin will give them the uncharacteristic slipup they’re counting on to salvage their disastrous Ukrainian campaign. Painful as it might be for us to take some of the obviously deliberate provocations ‘on the cheek,’ good chance remains that sometime in the future, after Ukraine’s rapid disintegration and subsequent capitulation—perhaps even only a year or two from now—we may recognize, in hindsight, the wisdom of the strategy which staved off nuclear war by way of a methodical, unwavering, and strategically disciplined approach."

Two posts on Indo-US relations

https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-wont-be-bullied-in-multipolar-setting/ from Bhadrakumar, and https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/us-tries-to-play-hardball-with-india.html?fbclid=IwAR2bpI8Ii5x9GSpgSP5yzWtMFkcKxWvWb6oiEGbnYhHA12Bx_vkYCLMazqk from Conor Gallagher in Naked Capitalism

The ends of knowledge

https://aeon.co/essays/should-academic-disciplines-have-both-a-purpose-and-a-finish-date from Aeon.