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I read five, eight, oneBefore too long it’ll be yearsLosing track of time ~ n.b. Every single day there is more war. Some people are getting very rich. There is always money for war, but for earthquakes and securing infrastructure, not so much. CLP 28/09/2023 →
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tuning out the newsvillages lost or regainedwe head for the beach ~ n.b. War, long periods of boredom, broken by moments of complete terror, so something like that. I’m lucky to live in a country where a lost village means coastal erosion, no longer Viking longships full of men seeking new land to farm. CLP →
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War correspondentKharkiv at night as backcloth“Next year…” Autumn comes ~ n.b. Another describes Moscow as running “a forever war”. CLP 04/09/2023 →
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one brick at a timewe will rebuild from rubblethey have created ~ n.b. Ukraine is looking to Warsaw to see what can be done to build something more than the disassembled sum of the parts. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/02/architects-warsaw-lessons-rebuilding-ukraine-rubble?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other CLP 02/09/2023 →
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It’s day 5 5 3Numbers accumulatingLike ossuary bones~n.b. When the numbers of bombs, attack drones, battles, yards gained and lost is all we hear of, we know lives become worth less. The blood comes from somebody’s flesh, someone’s flesh and blood. CLP 30/08/2023 →
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would it be a car?poison? bomb? No, a plane crash.who would have thought it?~n.b. Wagner’s last movement. Anyone surprised? When criminals fall out… CLP 23/08/2023 →
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billions of dollarsflood country drowning in warwho’s counting the cost? ~ n.b. In the end the money talks, lives remain cheap, expendable, as long as the cash keeps coming and corporations profit. This war will end when accountants get involved. I heard on the BBC that the Russian Rouble is worth just 1% of a →
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Premier League footballthe war drones on endlesslyfire in Hawaii ~ n.b. The media faces some challenges in keeping things interesting, particularly without film releases, or coronations to fill the space, so aren’t news editors lucky to have the football money machine winding up for another season. CLP 11/08/2023 →
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and so it goes onBakhmut brutally batteredvineyards run with blood ~ n.b. A state of siege around a wine producing city. Russian troops in the valley, freedom fighting army of Ukraine hold the western heights. No end in sight. CLP 10/08/2023 →
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Moscow talks of talksso many broken bridgesyet to be repaired ~ n.b. Day 522 unfolding. CLP 30/07/2023 →
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