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!
Thursday, October 29, 2026
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
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