That Madagascar story is nonsense. And a connection with the Indian and the Atlantic? It is very beautiful, but it is not at Cape Hope – The Cape of Good Hope. Cape Hope does not exist and there is no hope because the whole area is called the Cape of Storms. And it is the South Atlantic. The two oceans meet a very good distance North of that at Cape Agulhas – probably a good two hours driving on the coast, if not more and much slower by water. The area is called the Cape of Storms for a reason. I’ve never been on a boat there because it is wild water. And at that point where the oceans meet, water is wet and the ocean is salty. The two oceans are different colors, exquisite as a warm ocean current meets a cold ocean current – two completely different ecosystems forming a third. It is wild and inhospitable and glorious, and don’t try to pet the baboons – they are liable to tear you apart.

From there to Madagascar is around 4,000 kilometers by road, and to get somewhere, you can take a boat or a plane of some kind to get to Madagascar. Madagascar is a biggish but a nothing island. There are others, but why would Russia choose somewhere with the minimum of infrastructure and have to fly in or ship in all of their oil, plane gas, food, and everything from a resource-poor environment?. They’ll have to build an airport for starters. And get their gas back from India or have a shadow fleet boat call in to where they’ve built gas containers all from scratch, God help us if NATO attacks 4000 miles to the west somewhere in the vicinity of China.

Here is my good mood response:

If Russia wants a port there, there are many other places with infrastructure. The complete coast line is not over inhabited and the South Africa Port, Simonstown, is in the vicinity near to Cape Town with resources. If they want a port, I would tuck in next to Simonstown where I drank altogether too much vodka with Russian ex military guys. That is another story as these guys, brilliant engineers, kept Simonstown technological infrastructure alive (all very secretly) but they reported to me in the real job. Alternatively, North of the Port of Beira in Mozambique – close enough to Madagascar for Government work.

I don’t know about these guys that just say stuff. But thanks for the visit to well-remembered and very beautiful spots. I don’t need to go again, as the memories are vivid, (but I cheated on the vodka – could not and would not keep up!).

Mr P, the Kremlin meeting that you referred to last evening is happening now.

Here is what I just posted in Dailies. Maria Zakharova said: The Kremlin will give a comment on US President Donald Trump’s statements about the cancellation of the Russia-US meeting.

Now we wait but it will be very interesting to see who makes this comment. Usually Peskov’s comments are available early in my morning and by this time, they are posted up already if there is interesting commentary. Today, nothing yet. Clearly there are discussions in the Kremlin as to how to respond.

I don’t believe Trump. I believe the weapons are going to flow — to NATO.  So, if we look at who is NATO . who are the member countries, of course the US is one.  So, this is like supplying weapons to yourself only to use them and to say the other guy did it.

It is mockery and gaslighting.

We hope that Rosneft and Lukoil are de-dollarized.

Trump continued on his warm and fuzzy talk with his adoring press corps like the ruler of the world and said a whole lot of other things as well.  I don’t believe Trump – not if he says he ate bacon and eggs for breakfast.  The ‘irritants’ that Russia, US were supposedly working on to get the relationship to kick off, none of those, not even one, were solved or sorted, or the US paid no attention to it .. Visas, Flight Schedules, Stealing of Russian property by the previous administration .. and there was probably a bunch more.

The man is a grifter, a thief, a killer – little boats in the Caribbean besides even thinking of Gen. Suleimani, or Gaza, shoots Iran. At the same time, negotiations are being done.  He is not able to annex anything he wants so he now annexed the zionists.  How insane is that?   Well, birds of a feather …

I did not keep up with the stream of deranged and bizarre consciousness today,, but he was shooting the shit looking Big in front of the press telling one lie after the other and being oh so sickeningly sweet that these sanctions will only last until … Russia comes to the table ha.  Not for very long, he thinks.  Ha.  Meh!  How sick that made me, and I just picked up bits.

In the LAC, the countries that matter are wartalking.  They will fight because they do understand that they have to.   Big emotional speeches, lots of arm and hand waving and major testosterone flowing – the local passion is visible, but there is preparation behind all of that.  Yet, they are stunned that they have to actually prepare.  It is a moment of utter disbelief.  The second shoe has dropped in the LAC.

No idea what Russia will do but the fake news of the US wanting to work with Russia has been unmasked.  Russia can keep to the diplomatic track as much as they want but we all know.  In the speech from Naryshkin he noted that the big job now is to keep us out of war until the world changes settle.  This is the longer term view, but I think it is not possible any longer.  But the Russians sup with a long spoon.

Check next week’s ASEAN.  Nobody will touch Trump, he is now toxicity personified.  If Xi Jinping even acknowledges him, it is for the purpose of ‘keeping us out of war’.  If anyone pays attention to him, the rest knows that they are only brown-nosing because they have to.  The danger there behind him is smooth talkin’ Rubio.  That man is a danger from top to toe but he is young and stupid.  Yet, he can taste the power to take the toxic throne.  He will drone Trump to make space.  I saw today a piece of the generals and admirals and people with golden salad on their hats and uniforms speak out on how they utterly detest little oily Hegseth.  And there are some witchy bitchy women in the next lineup.

Take it to the bank.  Trump has a psychological and mental derangement.  He thinks he is the emperor of this blue marble we all live on.  In the old days, we called this a Napoleon complex.  There are new names for this now.  And this deranged person can still threaten the world.  We’re going to see it change! and that is the good news.  As Netanyahu falls, so will the Trump establishment.  Yet, there is nobody home that can take over.  It’s one hell of a business when empires fall.

Check out this dogwhistle and pretence of utter power in West Asia.  But do go and read Naryshkin.  We’re on a kinda nexus, top of the mountain of the overall fight, and will spend the next 10 years falling and falling off the other side, with militants and terrorists chasing us.

I am pinching myself. Today was a quiet day in Gaza. Halleluja!
Update on War & Genocide with two Hamas statements.

This is something completely different out of South Africa.  I found it too demanding (or perhaps I was too tired) to listen to from start to finish, but as I went, and broke it into pieces, I started understanding it.  Enjoy – cello, amazing voice, and rhythm.

Candace is back with a bang.

Don’t worry about the gag order in the Charlie Kirk case.

I plan to violate it on the world’s behalf.

The things I’ve discovered this past week are enough to burn the house down.

Yes, Charlie was betrayed. By everyone.

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 20, 2025

Some may be interested but it looks underwhelming to me.  The congresswoman who obtained the Kennedy files has now published what she got from Russia.  This is an overview of the process, and it contains a link to the files.

You can follow through from her X account and the links are all legitimate.  It is explained that the US government is shut down, so they could not publish through the National Archives.

https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/first-look-russias-jfk-assassination

I duly downloaded it to find that it is not translated and is all in Russian.