first, thank you, ahh, for sharing, & to your yemeni friends for giving us this pearl from the Qur’an…but how thoroughly it has leached through our world, even to the courts.   silly me, it hit there first.

another brilliant cartoon…when we will ever learn? to simply step back?

is it possible empire might be savvy enough to know the f16s will meet the fate of france’s archers? is it so cunning as that?   remembrance of things past, empire has shucked its scaly skin many times, through many ages. i am loathe to think it may once more, certainly we are in for some writhing whilst it tries.

india..empire will return her some bronzes, sufficient onto the day, an aspirin, certainly not the crown’s jewel, but enough to go to the head, & sway the thinking away from the battles looming in the sea of japan or along the border with china & pakistan.   the indians i know all argue, all the time, over everything, it’s one of their endearing delights…i have to believe the streets will come alive with ‘discussions’.  surely, surely india so close to so much will not throw it away for dreams?

dear, ahh, i wonder.  st pete’s urchin, does throw the first blow, slow to mount, but quick to ride, he is profoundly russian.  the smo was methodically positioned, dulled by protocol, legal arguments, papers, interviews, appeals, presentations, & yet more protocol, as if to dull & hypnotize the agitated & salivating empire, confirming to them that they were right,  mother was all partridge hedging, all talk, incapable of striking first, incapable of firing, in fact, begging to be sucker punched.  rock hen up against gmo rooster.  yet when the comedian began to rave about his nuclear wants & needs, putin instantly struck, first stop the npp & then to all the biolabs.  done & done.

putin & team putin have fixed belarus, she is part of mother, any, all intrusions are upon mother’s person.  poland has been well warned.  we shall see, as i recall the poles can harbour romantic notions such as a cavalry charging tanks, it’s possible poland will not heed the words but concentrate on such offending truths as…stalin’s gift.  choking fatally, yet again.

dear ahh, thank you for the photographs…they handily convey a thousand words or several films.  thank you as well for the related links, i have some intriguing hours ahead & look forward to reading them very much.

i have never understood why (excluding money for a destitute family or fear for their lives) so many muslims worked so diligently for city?  there was a photo of an isis assassin with a star of david tattooed below his throat.  the photo gave me reason to assume the most heinous crimes where committed by mossad costumed as head choppers, but now these many years later i feel the answer is probably more convoluted.  certainly old ground for most.  but your links will i am certain begin to colour & deliver clarity to some of my haze.

voltaire.net possibly a decade past now did a series on the turk & the jew…@ the time i was part of a small group of music lovers bringing in chamber quartets to the pnw & was acquainted with a couple, wife, istanbul turkish, husband, tel aviv montreal nyny, jewish, both worked for the un dealing with terrorists.  she mostly translated, having been educated in france & germany, he advised, & was decidedly dodgy whenever asked about the why & how details of his job.  she never left home w/o a backpack containing gas mask, first aid etc. incongruous alongside pearls.   the series on voltaire had my undivided attention.

dear, ahh, amarynth, mr t, & sudhi, this week has seemed darker, narrower than any i’ve lived through.  still it’s familiar, i suppose we arrive here knowing one or 2 things regarding beginning & end & instinctively sense our bookmarked parenthesis from womb to grave.

besides culling notifications of weapons & military build ups, i’ve spent the last week essentially doggedly trying to glean as much as i could from press releases, interviews, blogs, news sites, essays, conversations, phone calls, emails with friends living in india/turkey, scattered comments on numerous threads, to get a fix on what modi & erodgan are up to…not that they work/react in sync, simply that i am perplexed nothing makes sense, neither are behaving logically although undoubtedly within character which denotes the hallmark of tragedy.  O happy day.   yet nothing falls naturally into place, given the circumstance, the characters, theme–if i could but decipher the cuneiform i would surely see it is inevitable, regrettably  i cannot seem to see the end; hamlet need not die, othello needn’t succumb to his lesser self.

sadly, reluctantly i’ve come to the shadowy foreboding that both modi & erdogan believe they can play both sides; walk the tightrope in hopes it is not a plank & in the end, given the end isn’t total, might resume total fidelity to the winner.

given my inclination to lean toward the positive, for some part of the search i was hoping to cess out a hidden agreed upon plan or @ least the indication that the global majority or RoH had ‘colluded’ in hopes of forestalling empire’s panic & premonition that not only was it losing, but it was losing everything: reserve currency, war, pre-eminence/total global dominance.   given america has been tossed well under the bus, does india (inhaling the latest stats) actually believe it is vying with america for dominance behind china?  has empire seduced modi into believing that india will be empire’s next great homestead? that india won’t be a lesser coloured concubine but that empire has indeed left its bankrupt & doddering wife & wishes to marry (yet again), &  after the deserted wife/america, the new favoured partner with empire’s backing will be perfectly positioned to topple mother & china?  & rule…never never to be slaves.  (rinse repeat)

maria z’s comments regarding turkey & russia’s awareness of turkey’s allegiances, re: eu & nato.  o/c it was obvious, & yet, after the assassination attempt on erdogan & the india’s windfall earnings & collaboration on military projects with russia, i had hoped to hope…..

amarynth, before our current dictatorship we in the pacific northwest, along with the 3 prairie provinces, were openly sending trade commissions in hopes of courting china, & business sectors of agriculture, oil, coal, timber & raw resources business were very  keen to be part of the bri.  new ports were being built, discussions related to trade routes through the arctic were avidly discussed in the business sections of newspapers.   it’s hard to remember we very much viewed china’s bri with the same enthusiasm the global majority (ty, lavrov) nurture & enjoy.   a return is i agree years/decades away now.   i expect oz will recover her good sense long before we in canada do.

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medvedev’s essay carries a feeling that hope is all that’s left to us.  hope being the last ground granted the hopeless.  yet he continues to deliver hope with crystal truth & reason to the global majority & those of us stranded here in empire.   we are indebted.

my floundering attempt to address the effect the mutiny had upon russia was badly drawn, & i apologize.  i shall endeavour to do better.  medvedev’s essay affirms that my speculations were rooted in more than improbable & spurious notions.

medvedev is visibly shaken, & profoundly changed, as are putin, lavrov & shoigu.  i propose there were elements long known to putin’s team which schemed within russia to upend & execute a regime change in deluded hope of bringing a return to the heady days of oligarchic rule.  i believe these actors were followed, & when the time arrived russia upended their treasonous dreams & goals.  we have heard nothing about how this unfolded in russia, other than the agreed fact that treason had been dealt with & by all publicly repeatedly labelled for what it was: treason. earth shattering & irrevocably horrible.   possibly before the chef began his trek to rostov?  it was thoroughly exquisitely tended & finally stopped.

medvedev has not told us how close we came, simply the omission of actually publicly documenting empire’s transgression & attack upon russia with the intent of inciting a coup by means of mutiny carries a deafening blinding shock throughout.  how close mother came we shall not know for years.  mother stopped the treachery in its tracks.  putin’s anger, & his attention given to the dead pilots, highlights for me how far, how deep empire struck mother.  with the full expectation of victory.

empire lost.  thank god.  mother survived.  & has chosen in her sane & sober wisdom to contain & conceal the full extent of this assault, truly nuclear in its intention, to avoid bringing us to full on nuclear war.

russia, china, iran, the global majority are very clear that the end of civilization is to be avoided & the promise of peace, prosperity & global harmony are the agreed goal.

as you know i’ve been puzzling the fate of the pilots, & the loss of prized jets & helicopters, topped by the slurs broadcast about surovikin failing to close air space, among other really hard to swallow chunks of baloney.  it doesn’t compute.   i cannot recall exactly who may’ve first floated this theory…possibly larry johnson…remarking on the fact nato was in the area just finishing their war buffoonery & that they seeing the fruition of their wet dreams sent in airpower. here: is it possible that prigozhen alerted them & it was nato that began to fire on russian pilots & jets? anticipating this explains why surovikin hadn’t closed airspace instead alerted the pilots to act courageously to stop the intrusion on russian soil.  knowing that by not declaring openly nato’s actions, russia may stop the exercise without having to openly declare world war 3 & send us all into nuclear war?  nato knows its

lots of guessing, i apologize, i cannot let go until the pieces begin to fall in some reasonable sort of order.

it’s late for me, i was up very early, & suffer blurry sleep deprivation, but putin’s speech has accompanied me throughout my evening engagements.  like many every chance i’ve had today i’ve slipped away in search of evidence regarding the pilot’s fate.  putin’s words made it clear, pilots have tragically died, & that it wasn’t smoky mirrors.   yet, quelling the mutiny was essentially bloodless, so were the pilots asked not to shoot? even when targeted?  have their planes, their crash footage been 404 shrouded to protect their memory & family’s grief?  i know of course…time will out.      blessings.