Monday 14th October

Hevrin Khalaf - executed by Turkish backed mercenary factions

You have to agree she has a kind face and is a loss in a political battle that depended on a foolish decision made by an idiot.  She will not be the only one losing her life in the terrible tragedy that is Syria.  These wars are fought for many reasons, many of them unsavoury, we for instance make the weapons used in such wars but then have to bare witness to our politicians mouthing platitudes as to how war is terrible.  

Will Erdogan fulfill his promise of three and a half million refugees let loose on Europe and the damaging consequences that would bring, a game of chess my friends, a game of chess.  The world is in chaos and one wonders what the undermining forces are and where are we heading

Here today the moon sulked behind the mist rather beautifully, more rain this week, though apparently we have had our supposed share of rain for October already.

I am enjoying Yanis Varoufakis's book about the fall of Greece into bankruptcy.  The game of bingo that is played with stocks and shares is enlightening, and I never knew the banks, and that includes world banks, are so corrupt.  He mingles his extraordinary economic  knowledge with stories of myth.  It brings home the truth that politicians, bankers and the rest of the so-called powers hang on with their finger nails to the cliff of self preservation.  A common human foible!

I am sad at the loss of life in these eternal wars, at the loss of country, home, and livelihood for so many people, our problems look so tiny in comparison....