Trick or treat? Dude!
Saturday, October 31, 2026
Kirkiversary
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Tror ärligt talat inte att det är så här avancerat. De hatar helt enkelt Charlie Kirk. Inte mer än så.
Now we are free
I missed the first half of "Gladiator II" when it was shown on a Swedish cable channel just now, but I did see the second half. The movie seems to be both absurd, interesting and quite dramatic at the same time. Just as I expected. I suppose this means I missed the mutants! Or were they baboons? OK, so I watched that stuff on YouTube instead...
Couldn´t help thinking that the ending (when the warring multi-ethnic armies of Rome unite) is a symbol for the United States, color blind version. But surely the demise of the scheming Macrinus was something of an anticlimax? Note also the "conservative" tendency with the crooks being effiminate, weak, mentally deranged, and (ahem) a Black freedman. By contrast, the heroes are White, strong, martial and idealistic. Didn´t know they still made movies like this in 2024.
That being said, I suppose I now have to wait until the next time a cable network shows this extravaganza...
Friday, October 30, 2026
Papal elections
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Some information on Pope Leo´s voting habits before he became pope. It turns out he has voted in both GOP and Dem primary elections in Chicago. He has also cast a ballot in many federal elections. What candidates he supported is, alas, unknown...but nobody thinks he ever endorsed Trump!
Leo XIV has become the first pope in history to vote in a US election
The last sign
This sounds very "Boomer", to be honest, but has been retrofitted for the Internet age. I mean, Annunaki and 3I/ATLAS?! Dude. For a similar "Native prophecy", see old blog post linked below! Why do people believe this stuff?
Källor säger
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Och Vatikanen verkar bekräfta. Men är detta tillåtet enligt katolska kyrkans otaliga regler?
Friday
This week´s Friday goddess is a bit non-traditional. Shaktas, come and worship Jack, the Great Pumpkin! Happy Halloween, kids.
Krock
Har jag fel eller sammanfaller Halloween och Alla Helgons Dag i år? Närmare bestämt nu på lördag?
SlutLARPat
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Vänsterpartiet kanske räknade med fyra statsministeromröstningar om Magdalena Andersson, så de kunde LARP-a farliga revolutionärer i några månader för att hålla medlemsbasen varm. Men så blir det nu inte. Efter att den där centertanten fallit på tisdag, kommer Ulf Kristersson falla också om typ två veckor. Och då är det dags för Magda igen. I den fjärde och avgörande omröstningen.
Slutspelat, med andra ord. Så V kommer inte att få det stora nöjet att acceptera NATO och DCA från poster på socialdepartementet. Det får acceptera det från dörrmattan istället. Och om de verkligen tvingar fram ett nyval, kommer de betraktas som någonting katten släpat in för lång tid framåt...
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Cursing the palantirs
Independent reporter and YT content-creator Scott Carney has decided to curse Peter Thiel. As in literally curse. Carney and his wife travel to Ireland where they found some kind of cursing stones where they try to administer a hex on the notorious techno-oligarch. Carney believes that curses "work" in some psychological sense (which may be more "objective" than many skeptics realize). His anthropology teacher, who studied "attack shamans" in Guyana, supposedly died because of Native magic. Not sure what to make of this obviously Halloween-related material, but there you go...
Vila i frid
För många år sedan talade jag faktiskt i telefon med Gullan Bornemark. Det är en märklig historia!
Sekten
När kommer Sekten att störtas? Woke-vansinne från Skottland. Idag. Inte 2010-talet (efter Kristus).
Ola Ullsten, kom tillbaka
Allt är förlåtet. Apropå det absurda beslutet att pröva Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist i en statsministeromröstning.
Haunta virus
Not JMG´s best essay. I can see all kinds of problems with this one, but decided to link to it anyway. Yes, this place is haunted!
Hindu Halloween
Not really, but I do get some kind of Halloween vibes from this AI-generated fantasy picture of Vimala and Jagannath...
Mongoliet-narrativet
Förbereds ett nytt München i Mongoliet? Ryssland har korrumperat Trump-administrationen. Uppenbarligen.
Putins allierade träffade Donald Trump Jr på läger i Mongoliet
Halloween haunting
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So I just watched the movie "A Haunting in Venice" from 2023. It´s apparently loosely based on an Agatha Christie novel, "Hallowe´en Party". Which obviously explains why Swedish television choose to show it now. I admit the movie was quite good.
The year is 1947. The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot lives in Venice, Italy and refuses to take any new cases. Naturally, he is tricked into a situation anyway. In the film, Halloween is celebrated even in Venice. Poirot, a skeptic and atheist, participates in a séance in a supposedly haunted house. He exposes the medium as fake. Naturally, the hoaxer is killed in gruesome fashion and the game is on.
The rest of the plot is very Agatha Christie-esque: everyone´s guilty of something, more murders follow and the full story turns out to be quite complex. You have to pay attention, rather than going into the kitchen and make a coffee! And yes, some of the characters are pretty colorful.
Since it´s a Halloween-themed flick, there is a supernatural element to the story. Poirot has an explanation (I actually suspected that the passing reference to Mithridates would turn out to be significant) but in the end, we are left to think that maybe some of the hauntings were real after all...
That´s probably all I can say in a short review (muh-hah-hah). Happy Halloween, kids.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Gilla läget
Översättning: Ali är inte en virrig, underprivilegierad strulpelle som ligger efter med räkningarna av totalt obegripliga orsaker, utan uppenbarligen en "community leader" inom den somaliska gruppen. Eller en del av den. Varför han ändå ligger efter med betalningarna kan ni ju ta och grunna på. Fast Aftonbladet har sagt att vi ska gilla läget, så då gör vi väl det. Eller?
Om tio år kommer vi att få höra att vi-har-varit-naiva igen...
That´s all, folks!
UFO disclosure effectively over, guys! That was that, I suppose. New releases around 2050, maybe?
The miracles of Prometheus
Another senile article from The Militant. Sounds almost like Maoist propaganda along the lines of "By studying Mao Zedong Thought, we can cure all disease". Note that the article admits that there is in fact no cure for the Bundibugyo virus *and that capitalist corporations are trying to develop one*, yet still lands in the conclusion that sending Cuban doctors to the Congo would somehow stop the epidemic?!
How are these miracle workers going to stop the virus without a vaccine or other treatment? Maybe they can call down Prometheus...
Rapid spread of new Ebola epidemic in Africa is a deadly threat
Just leave Nepal
Is this weird article some kind of mistake? The product of a senile mind, perhaps? Note that it identifies economic development with "capitalism" and reaches the conclusion that nobody should live at higher elevations in Nepal?! The article sounds almost primitivist, despite also (implicitly) denying climate change. The SWP (US) is becoming increasingly less coherent...
In case anybody gives shit.
Nepal flood shows capitalism, not "climate", caused disasters
Into darkness...or back to normality?
The Trump admin has apparently dropped its very last tranche of UFO-related documents. So that was that, then. Tranche 7 contains no videos, and deals to a large extent with defense contractor Robert Bigelow´s attempts to obtain hard UFO evidence from the US military. In other words, we´re dealing with an earlier version of today´s push for disclosure.
As far as I understand, the activities of BAASS has been known for quite some time now. I mean, some of them are mentioned on Wikipedia! Note the piquant fact that Bigelow obtained 22 million dollars in federal funding thanks to support from a high-ranking politician, Senator Harry Reid. Despite this, very little seems to have come out of the project (except a still classified database of UFO observations...), probably because of opposition from anti-disclosure / anti-UFO factions within the CIA, et cetera.
Interesting, to be sure, but it also means that the entire Trump Disclosure ends pretty much were it started. I mean, I assume the disclosure (such as it is) is the result of the pro-UFO faction very temporarily getting the upper hand. Unless, of course, "they are all in on it". Or manipulated by forces higher up.
OK, it´s been a fun distraction, but I assume we know have to resume our regular programming...
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Nooshi, borgarklassen tackar
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Från TT. Eller strängt taget Aftonbladet. Apropå absolut ingenting.
>>>Efter stark utveckling för Moderaterna och Sverigedemokraterna har Tidöpartierna ett klart övertag på de rödgröna i opinionen, enligt DN/Ipsos väljarbarometer. Opinionsundersökningen visar att Tidösidans stöd ligger nästan fyra procentenheter högre än de rödgrönas, skriver DN.
>>>Det är första gången sedan oktober 2022 som statsminister Ulf Kristerssons (M) sida har ett försprång över de partier som vill se S-ledaren Magdalena Andersson som statsminister. M och SD leder Tidösidans frammarsch och de får, i avrundade siffror, 24 respektive 19 procents stöd i DN/Ipsos.
>>>Undersökningen består av 1 589 intervjuer med röstberättigade personer mellan den 13 och 25 oktober.
Skända flaggan
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Självklart ska grabben ha sin konst tillbaka. Och till dem som driver frågan: Jag vet att ni vill beslagta misshaglig konst enligt dagens Wokea måttstockar. Eller åtminstone gömma undan den i dolda arkiv. Så bespara mig krokodiltårarna!
Marginalprissättning
En av flera orsaker till att "vänster"regeringen föll för fyra år sedan var de höga elpriserna. Som högerregeringen har haft fyra år på sig att lösa. Och såklart inte löst. Och nu är det dags igen. Kommer en eventuell ny vänsterregering att lösa dem istället? Nej, för de behöver stöd från MP. Som gillar höga elpriser. Cuz reasons. Och säkert av andra orsaker också.
Nyckelmening: "Det säger sig självt att ett sådant system skapar ganska groteska övervinster. Priset som kunderna får betala saknar ju koppling till vad det kostar att producera den sålda varan. Det är en lysande affär – för kraftbolagen och för svenska staten. En uträkning av Dagens Industri visade att staten under åren 2021 och 2025 drog in hela 270 miljarder i elskatt och moms. Och elnätsbolagen, som av staten fått monopol, har tackat med att höja avgifterna och samtidigt sett till att betala så lite skatt som möjligt."
November surprise
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Some shit from MSN: Baba Vanga (allegedly, supposedly, purportedly, certainly not) has prophesized that a yuge and perhaps amazing UFO will enter Earth´s atmosphere this November, ushering in First Contact or something to that effect. That´s a daring prediction, LOL, so let´s see if the Vangaists will walk it back come December 1. I suppose they can always blame MSN...
Det ser man ju vem som är alkoholisten
"Har du tänkt på en sak? Sigge Cedergren är jävligt lik Olof Palme". Jaha, nu börjas det igen. Den där "Christer A" är absolut troligare som mördare. Och hur var det med ex-EAP-aren som blev arresterad först? Och så kan vi alla skratta åt fantombilden igen. Det var ett tag sedan...
Vet ej vem som mördade Palme, men visst kan det ha varit några fribytare från Operation Stay Behind eller något sådant. Jag menar, det *brukar* det ju vara!
Se även här:
Vi går mot ett nytt 1848
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LOL. Bokmärk denna, det kan bli roligt om några år...
Farväl, översittare och populister
Se även länk nedan. Den västerländska framstegstanken fungerade i typ 200 år, men nu verkar den ha slagit i taket. Alltså tanken. Framsteg har jag inte sett på ett tag...
Tell the hippies it´s over
Scholarly consensus (probably), but the hippies in California still "don´t get it, man"...
It´s the dialectic, bruh
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Overheard on YouTube:
>>>One of my favorite jokes: "I parked my car in a bad neighborhood once. I had the collected works of Hegel in the back. Someone broke into my car and left *their* collected works of Hegel."
>>>Happened same to me with Kant... they actually left me some money of out pity.
Monday, October 26, 2026
War winter
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| Never a NATO member, huzzah! Credit: Auguste Gusteau |
Russia allegedly is going to demand of the USA that NATO expells all its post-Cold War member-nations. Obviously, no US administration will agree to such a demand. Not even the Trump rump. And if they do agree, the real decision will just be postponed and then nullified by the next admin.
The Russians must know this. So why aren´t they raising more realistic demands? Say, the Donbass and Odessa. Or the lifting of sanctions. The whole thing resembles the bizarre Russian ultimatum from late 2021, when they essentially demanded that the United States dissolves NATO altogether and leave Europe. I assumed at the time that this was some kind of weird opening move in a game of negotiations which would end more realistically. In demanding, say, the Donbass or the lifting of sanctions...
Instead, Russia started the deadliest war in Europe since World War II.
The most "rational" explanation for the above is that Russia is consciously playing a long game. They are banking on the Western alliance to split. If not now, maybe by 2030? Or 2035, perhaps? In the meanwhile, they will grind down Ukraine as much possible. Hence, no peace. But there is of course another possibility: Putin has painted himself into a corner and doesn´t know how to end the war. Not even on terms favorable to the Russian Federation.
Are we witnessing some kind of very deadly "game of chicken"? The Western alliance might absolutely split. Or it might be weakened by the next economic crisis. But about Russia? As of now, four years into the conflict, they clearly can´t defeat NATO. Or even Ukraine!
Unless something very dramatic happens in Moscow very soon, I´m not optimistic...
My ishta-devatas?
My ishta-devatas according to Copilot (Krishna in his Gopala aspect), ChatGPT (Tripura Sundari) and Gemini (Lakshmi). According to their respective analyses of my Vedic chart, that is!
A bit unexpected from a purely "spiritual" viewpoint, but there you go...
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Feeding the enemy to the Goddess
"Feeding the Enemy to the Goddess: War Magic in Shaiva Tantric Texts" by Olga Serbaeva is an article originally published in the journal "Religions". It´s rather "in-house" and deals with some medieval Tantric texts on war magic. We are very far removed from the amorous pastimes of Krishna and Radha, or the dharmic law-and-order of Vishnu. This is a world of human sacrifice and black magic. The deity worshipped is often Kali, sometimes Kubjika or "Mahalakshmi" (really Durga), or the terrible Matrikas (Mothers) as a collective.
Even apart from the human sacrifice, the rituals are clearly transgressive in nature. They involve offerings of the magician´s own blood, alcohol or unspecified "juices", which are perhaps sexual substances. The Goddess should be visualized as "howling like a jackal", the jackal being associated with the charnel ground. Human "omentum" (fat?) should also be offered. How has it been obtained? One particularly complex ritual feature an entire mandala made of corpses. If these rituals are conducted *before* the war, where do the human remains come from? In other cases, the enemy army is the sacrifice. There is also a ritual conducted in the middle of a battle field, after the battle is over.
The Tantric texts promise various supernatural results from the hideous rituals which will benefit the kings fighting the war. The power of illusion is central: the magician can conjur imaginary armies to scare the enemy, or take the form of the terrible god Bhairava. The author suspects, however, that the *real* purpose of this war magic wasn´t to aid the kings (that was more of an side effect used to "sell" the rituals to powerful patrons), but to make it possible for the Tantrika to obtain human body parts in a "legal" way. Thus, the rituals serve the religious or spiritual purpose of bringing the practitioner closer to the Goddess...
I´m not sure if that´s very reassuring, though.
Human nature
Why does the far right always say "the left (or the liberals) don´t understand human nature"? By far right standards, "the left" or "the liberals" have been in power for generations. So clearly they *do* understand human nature...
Capturing cryptozoology
The skeptical YouTube channel "Truth is scarier than fiction" reviews the recent documentary "Capturing Bigfoot", which makes a strong case for the famous Patterson-Gimlin film (PGF) being a hoax. Which is awkward for cryptozoologists and other true believers in the hairy beast, since the PGF has always been the best piece of evidence for Bigfoot´s existence.
Of course, none of this will move the needle, since peopel were seeing Bigfoot (a.k.a. Sasquatch) before the PGF even existed. Indeed, it was these observations that inspired the PGF in the first place. So people will probably continue seeing (and smelling) the elusive creature despite the documentary and its scandalous revelations.
Besides, many of these people (the humans involved in Bigfooting) thrive on controversy anyway, so this is just more grist for the mill...
Climate science in crisis
This is probably true. Guess what climate change denialists are going to do now...
Amerik(w)a
I suppose this means that Amerika is "transitioning" to Amerikwa. I originally assumed the headline was a joke, but of course it wasn´t...
Trans neo-Nazi teen accused of Hindu temple mass shooting plot will get hormone treatments in jail
Based Spanish
I have no idea what this means, but its from a "based" account on YouTube, so I suppose it´s "based" somehow.
Strulpellar
Kulturvänstern stretar på. Den här borde nog bokmärkas. Kan komma väl till pass inom en nära framtid...
"Vänstern var Woke på 2010-talet"
Kulturvänstern stretar på. Miljöpartiet gillar visst inte att Vänsterpartiet gått om dem i muppdivisionen, så de tar itu med hårdhandskarna här. Sverige 2026. Framtiden skrattar redan.
The West is the best
The manifest destiny and manifestly obvious superiority of Western modern civilization is manifesting itself in real time. Yes, I´m being ironic.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
A living god
I just read "Continuing Transformation: Shri Nath, His Gurus and His Devotees in a Timeless World" by Paul van der Velde, originally published in the journal "Religions" in 2023. It´s available free on-line.
The article deals with the Pushtimarga, one of several Hindu groups which concentrate their devotion on Krishna. The Pushtimarga worship Krishna in the form of a boy-child, here called Shri Nath. The author concentrates on the potentially antinomian side of the Shri Nath cult and references several "vartas", devotional texts from the 16th century. It´s not clear to me how ecstatic the Pushtimarga sect is today, although the author does describe a rather chaotic and rambunctious worship service at the Nathdwara temple dedicated to the divine child.
Today, the Braj area around Mathura is associated with Krishna and Radha, but it was not always thus. Apparently, there is evidence that it was originally Shaiva. Vaishnava movements took it over during the 16th and 17th centuries. There were conflicts between two different Krishnaite sects: Pushtimarga and the followers of Caitanya. The former eventually banished the latter. Theologically, they emphasized two different forms of Krishna. As already noted, the pushtimargis worship the god in the form of a small boy, while Caitanya´s movement see him as an amorous young man. Krishna´s "girlfriend" Radha plays a central role in the peculiar theology developed by Caitanya´s disciples, while having a more marginal role in the Pushtimarga pantheon. Still, both movements have "sensual" traits. Vitthalnath, an important 16th century guru of the Pushtimarga, is described in near-erotic terms as extremely beautiful and attractive.
One thing I didn´t realize before is that the Pushtimarga consider their gurus to be divine incarnations. Most are "partial" avatars, but the more prominent ones are clearly connected to Krishna or his companions. Thus, Vitthalnath is Krishna, while his elder brother and predecessor as Pushtimarga guru, Gopinath, was Balarama. The founder of the tradition, Vallabha, embodied the mouth of Vishnu or Krishna, but also the fire-god Agni (since he purified the world). Gopinath is said to have merged with the Balarama (Balabhadra) idol at the Jagannath temple in Puri. Note the similarity with the legend that Caitanya (supposedly an avatar of Krishna) merged with the Jagannath idol. As for the Pushtimarga´s own idols, they are considered to be literally alive. The author retells a number of strange anecdotes to this effect. Thus, one follower of Vitthalnath apparently claimed that the idol of Shri Nath had thrown stones at him (in the manner of a playful child), prompting him to throw a stone back at the idol! In another incident, the devotees blowed in a conch to wake up Shri Nath in the morning (i.e. "wake up" the idol) but the god-child simply continued sleeping. This was discerned by a devotee with mystical abilities...
The weird gender-bending characteristic of some Hindu mythology and even theology is present here, too. One Pushtimarga mystic saw himself as a cowherd boy playing with Krishna during daytime, and as a cowherd *girl* playing with the god at night. At least during the 16th century, the male temple priests would sometimes dress as females. Other "antinomian" traits are also present, as when one devotee claimed to play with Shri Nath on his back, pretending to be a horse...even to the point of urinating like the animal!
At least during the time under discussion, Muslims were considered extremely polluting by Brahmins. The "vartas" contain a story about a Vaishnava bard whose devotional songs were rendered impure by the (hidden) presence of Akbar the Great at the worship service. However, the Pushtimarga also has legends claiming that Akbar was secretely a devotee of Krishna. Even more "problematic" is a tradition about Raskhan, apparently a homosexual Muslim, who after various adventures manages to get initiation into the Pushtimarga by Vitthalnath, prompted by Shri Nath himself.
The deeper point of all this is the distinction between the mundane world (laukik) and the divine ditto (alaukik). Krishna belongs to the latter, but intervenes in our mundane reality in various strange and paradoxical ways. He can break the Brahminical purity rules at will, indeed, this is part of what makes him divine. It struck me when reading the article that Krishna´s trickster-like quality resembles that of fairies in folklore. Indeed, the supernatural often comes across as deeply mysterious and incomprehensible to humans. Krishna resembles the fairy in other ways, as well. Note the similarity between the fairy ring-dance and the rasa-lila.
With that, I close this review.
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