We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
- Mahatma Gandhi
May 24, 2026
. . . has come and gone
for the eighty-fifth time
. . he’s still on the road
since we were young
entering our ears
through the air waves
gramophone speakers
cassette tapes
then CD’s
now Spotify
his 39th album
his Rough and Rowdy Ways
and his quiet days
sad to say
in this earthly realm
may soon be over
for as we are told
in the Psalms
we are given but threescore and ten
or, if strong, fourscore
then we Cross the Rubicon
into the Great Beyond
. . . how this bard
has …
ASYMMETRIC WARFARE
Israel’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich says Israel must “put an end to the threat of Hezbollah’s explosive drones” and demands the destruction of 10 buildings in Lebanon's Beirut for every drone launched by Hezbollah.
Al Jazeera, Monday, May 25, 2026
Trump announces Iran deal “largely negotiated”
🔸President Trump posted from the Oval Office Saturday that a memorandum of understanding with Iran has been “largely negotiated, subject to finalization,” following a call with regional leaders and a separate call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which he said “went very well.”
The leaders on the call included:
● Mohammed bin Salman, …
Back to the drawing board! xx
https://x.com/HormuzLetter/status/2058652774443716…
"When Aleister Crowley died in 1947, his enemies prayed it would be the last anybody would ever hear of the Satanic reprobate. The infamous English occultist promoted devil worship; filed his teeth into sharp points; and led a religious cult that involved eating a demonic Eucharist host flavoured with bodily fluids. He also informed devotees that his excrement was sacred – giving a whole new meaning to ‘holy shit’. Respectable opinion was glad to see six foot of earth separate Crowley’s ashes …
Hero image: British cavalry charging against Russian forces at Balaclava in 1854 (The Relief of the Light Brigade / Public Domain)
The Book
Title: Empire: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Stephen Howe
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
Release date: Jun 8, 2021
ISBN: 9781666114287
Web source: Everand
Stephen Howe interprets the meaning of the idea of "empire" through the ages, disentangling the multiple uses and abuses of the labels "empire" and "colonialism," etc., and examines the aftermath of …
IT DOES NOT SEEM REASONABLE to describe the young man who shot twenty children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 as a religious person. This is equally true for the Colorado theater gunman and the Columbine High School killers. As one of the members of the Columbine duo wrote: (108)
The human race isn’t worth fighting for, only worth killing. Give the Earth back to the animals. They deserve it infinitely more than we do. Nothing means …
Above hero image: David Kilcullen (left) and Clinton Fernandez (right)
David Kilcullen (born 1967) is the subject of the story here. He was chief strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department, from 2005 to 2006. He's certainly no lightweight. He's been a member of the US deep state, yet still appears to be an independent thinker, or so it seems. He came out as highly critical of the decision to invade Iraq, saying "There undeniably would be …
My first port of call for research into new Australian legislation was DeepSeek. This legislation was announced today March 6, 2026. It defines the Muslim religious group Hizb ut-Tahrir as a "prohibited hate group".
Hero image: this is a screenshot of Seven National News TV announcement today.
QUESTION
Can you tell me about new laws passed in Australia yesterday than ban a particular Islamic religious group?
ANSWER from DeepSeek
Note: italics or bold in the cut & paste answers has been …
