MOSCOW HAS NOT BEEN SACKED

24 June 2023 Putin has always treated Prigozhin like a wayward kid brother and now lets him off the hook and slink away to Belarus, a less well structured state where he Prigozhin could do real damage - Belarus is almost as important to Russian security as Ukraine.In a Western democracy, Prigozhin would be under lock and key by now.Imagine if Prigozhin had reached Moscow and begun looting. Reminds me of those few hundred...

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS

23 June 2023 On a different subject from the focus on war, here is a nicely written article on a subject of personal interest, and demographics means emerging global interest too. https://thebalisun.com/health-and-wellness-becomes-top-tourism-priority-for-bali/ ...

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HUMMUS - BEST RECIPE

23 June 2023 https://www.themediterraneandish.com/how-to-make-humm...

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AMERICA SEES THIS WAR AS A TEST OF ITS MUSCLE

21 June 2023 Ukraine may cease to exist, swallowed into S W Russia and Poland. Maybe R will take a further four oblasts, Odessa, possibly Transnistria.All those places were built and colonised* by Russia centuries ago. They are Russian. This was the trouble if you remember - that Kev didn't like Russian speakers in Ukraine and began shelling them in 2014 This was the start of the physical confrontation.It is very unlikely that a rump Ukraine after...

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WHAT WILL BE THE NEXT AMERICAN HORROR SHOW

19 June 2023 Well the basics are that Ukraine is outnumbered 10 to 1, by a professional army, taking abnormally high (in the history of warfare) losses, in a war of attrition it cannot sustain.What could save Ukraine is intervention by East European armies, or supply of "tactical" nuclear. Neither seems likely. From the little I can make sense of, indications are that Ukraine has got maybe a couple of months oumph left in it....

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WE ALL NEED AN ADVISORY CIRCLE

7 June 2023 Well, we all need a friend.I would not undertake important change in my life, such as a house renovation or job application, or progress in my career, relationships, without consulting my "circle of advisors". I have learnt the hard way to plan and validate the plan and to verify progress with my circle.Perhaps your circle is sons and daughters, your family, or maybe a group from university, and it could be they who consult...

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REGIME CHANGE IN AMERICA NOW

30 May 2023Today we look at the arguments for and against Swedish membership of NATO, before turning to the context as part of American foreign policy, possible consequences for Sweden keeping in mind events in Ukraine, and alternatives to current American goals. SWEDISH NATO MEMBERSHIPSweden doesn't need to be in NATO. There is no threat to Sweden from Russia. This is all a propaganda campaign for enlargement and Sweden has been on the...

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RUSSIA'S MONROE DOCTRINE

28 May 2023 The history of this West-East war explicitly begins in 1991 with statements from James Baker and others, promises that were not kept.I say "explicitly", but you could go back to the Russian communist revolution of 1917, or to Mackinder's Heartland Theory 1904, or to The Great Schism between Rome and Constantinople 1378, or indeed to waves of migrations East to West into Europe of the varied ethnic nomadic groups who have at...

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YESTERDAY, A STREAKER AT THE BALI DANSE

27 May 2023Bule Kesurupan Masuk Ke PUREhttps://coconuts.co/bali/news/naked-german-woman-crashes-balinese-dance-show-at-ubud-temple/mp4 uncensored available ... This unusual sighting occured at the Balinese danse near Ubud Palace (Puri Saraswati) on Monday 22 May . The danse was interrupted by a streaker  Was it drugs? Who knows? She was deported back to Germany, refused to get on the plane and is now in a home for mentally disturbed...

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BALI, COVID, AND IDENTITY POLITICS

25 May 2023 The woman who made up this package of fruit for my friends says that she had been saving to buy a property in Bali from before covid.Then when covid struck, she had to use all her savings in order just to live.So today thanks to covid she has nothing and cannot buy a house.But she is happy. She says "Alhamdulillah" ("praise be to God") because she is grateful to have survived. She is from a humble family, is used to having...

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BULLSZ BLOOD AND WHISKY

20 May 2023Strange tale of a village sacrificing a buffalo, drinking its blood (with a little whisky...) through bamboo pipes, in an animist rite to stay on friendly terms with the gods. Everyone happy. Quite dramatically shows what we were like before religion, culture, almost before language, certainly before history : that's what we were like then and that is what we are still like today, underneath the veneer. And by the...

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