Strangely Perfect

Remove Referrals Information from This Website because of Malware Like many blogs, this website has displayed the last few hits (referrals) that it’s received as a kind of ‘live’ activity recorder and a small service back to the referring website.  However, I’ve had to pull this from my front page because over the last few [...]

Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, aged 23, of Ketchum, Idaho, is a member of the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, from Fort Richardson, Alaska.  He was captured in circumstances that aren’t clear and has appeared in a Taliban video (prev at http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-soldier20-2009jul20,0,4913063.story), seen world-wide. So far, it appears [...]

Introduction You may not have noticed the co-incidence yesterday, but an Iranian aircraft crashed and the US Space Shuttle took off.  the co-incidence was in  the strange reporting that envelops such events. Iranian Crash This, as air crashes go, was pretty ordinary – something went wrong, it crashed, everyone died.  You’d expect some reasoned discussion, [...]

Man with Black Hat Blames Everyone Else! Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts in Iran who has a black hat, has said that the fingertips of the West are definitely on the ghastly bombing in the south-east Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday.  So it’s all my fault then…? Interestingly, within two [...]

In an amazingly co-incidental follow up to my earlier post, Not all Pirates Win, but Most Do!,  on the very same day news was just being released that some Royal Navy ships had their NavyStar (N*) computers compromised by a virus originating from “the former eastern bloc”. Token News Links: Royal Navy warships lose email [...]

The “news”, Phone taps ‘prove Georgia’s case’ that Georgia’s President Saakashvili has discovered phone tap evidence that “proves” he was trapped or lured into his Invasion of South Ossetia by the Russians would be more credible if it had come out at the beginning of August.  But really, I mean; even I, with no Eastern [...]

In a further escalation in the war of nerves about sanctions by Europe, the BBC say, Russia stands by Georgia actions, whereas in actual fact, the whole point of the article is as quoted by Medvedev, the Russian premier; On the eve of a special EU summit on Georgia, he warned that Russia was ready [...]

Not that I’m cheering that loud, mind you, but today, the UK Gov has awarded a contract to BAe to supply guns, bullets, mortars and shells to the British Army for the next 15 years. BAE in £2bn MoD ammunition deal I do indeed think that there’s a direct correlation with the increasing tensions between [...]

My previous post, just before I went on a short break, warned that the Olympics might become a side-show in a widening chain of events.  This has turned out to be true.  My quotation from the Buddhist monk, Nichiren Daishonin, could now really have the word land exchanged for the more relevant world. If the [...]

If the nation is destroyed and people’s homes are wiped out, then where can one flee for safety? If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquillity throughout the four quarters of the land, should you not? – Nichiren Daishonin / On Establishing the Correct Teaching [...]

It’s a complex economic world be appear to live in, but the reality is it’s all very simple at the macroscopic level. Below is a little mini-list of a chain reaction of Actions (or Causes as they are known in Nichiren’s Buddhism) in The West causing Effects in The West – basically, the Chinese have [...]

Continuing commentary on the escalating crisis between Russia and Georgia, two nuclear weapons-equipped states sitting astride the world’s energy pipelines.

It seems that every time Jillian Greenwood visits and then leaves a country, weird internal changes start to happen. The latest visit was to Bulgaria. Now that she’s left, the interior minister has resigned over claims that he’s crap at his job of cracking down on organised crime and corruption, and see here. This is [...]

Today’s little mention on this news item here on The BBC News website about the auction house sale of a key that unlocks the door to the Kaaba, shows, at the beginning and end of the article, the true meaning of religion – certainly in the ones stemming from “Abraham”. It’s states it’s the “12th [...]