2/16/22

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rudolf-hess-tale-poison-paranoia-and-tragedy-180952783/?no-ist

2/1/22

1/19/22

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/5/explainer-what-is-behind-the-protests-rocking-kazakhstan

Everyone in the country understands that Tokayev is just a nominee and that he doesn’t have any political power and influence within the country. The chants refer to the whole system that Nazarbayev built – his regime,” said Bota Jardemalie, a Kazakh lawyer, human rights advocate and political activist, who received political asylum in Belgium in 2013.

“It means his family members, his daughters that the country despises, his son-in-law Timur Kulibayev who has a monopoly in every sector of the economy, especially oil and gas, and everyone understands that it’s the monopoly that is behind the hikes in [gas] prices.”

I will post the links I saved in the 1st part of 2022 to show the kinds of things I was saving then

Various international things, but Ukraine was totally not on my radar.

I save things on my email drafts. I am looking back at what I had saved starting February 24, 2022. It's interesting to see what I was saving then, the progression, what I was finding out and how, what I was thinking about.

Of course, I didn't save everything I looked at. But perhaps it would be interesting to show this-- a relic but part of the ongoing narrative that is at the same time personal, what I felt was interesting enough to save.

I think I will make a separate tumblr of it-- to preserve and also to share. Others might want to look at the links. And see what was going on then, how the war was perceived etc