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Jan 10

They arrived in Columbia, South Carolina, and the crowds were already there. Not shouting. Not chanting. Just waiting. Some people had been there since the night before — not for a spectacle, not for a leader promising power — but to stand quietly as the monks of the Walk for

Peace passed through. After so much noise, something gentle feels radical. After years of harshness, lies, blame, and manufactured fear, people recognise peace when they see it — even if they’ve forgotten how to ask for it.

This walk isn’t an argument. It isn’t a counter-slogan. It isn’t trying to win. It’s simply bodies moving slowly through the country, saying with their presence: Another way is still possible.

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Jan 7

I want to say something to the people with smaller accounts. The ones whose posts don’t go viral. The ones who rarely get replies. The ones who sometimes wonder if anyone even notices they’re here. You matter.

Movements aren’t built only by the loudest voices or the biggest platforms. They’re sustained by people who keep showing up — reading, thinking, refusing hate, refusing fascism, refusing to become cruel just to be heard.

Not everyone’s role is to lead chants or trend hashtags. Some people hold the line simply by staying human in an inhuman moment. Some people witness. Some people refuse to look away. Some people choose not to join the pile-on. That counts. Deeply.

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Jan 7

I keep thinking about the Buddhist monks walking for peace — step by step — from Texas toward Washington, DC. Everywhere they go, people gather. And many of them cry. Not because the monks are saying anything dramatic, but because they aren’t saying much at all. They’re just

walking. Quietly. Intentionally. Refusing anger as a language. It feels like a mirror being held up to America right now. This is an angry country — loud, polarised, constantly braced for conflict. And yet when something gentle appears, when someone embodies peace instead of

arguing for it, people respond with grief. That tells me something important: beneath the shouting, people are exhausted. They are craving peace, not victory. There is a difference between being numb and being calm. There is a difference between silence and suppression.

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Jan 4

People acting like this is all new. America caused ALL of the problems because of oil. They first installed the dictator Shah in Iran in exchange for 40% of Iranian oil shares. He ruled and oppressed the Iranian people for 25 years, leading to anti-American sentiment

amongst the Iranian people. Five major American oil companies—Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon), Socony-Vacuum (Mobil), Standard Oil of California (Chevron), Texaco, and Gulf—each received an 8% share. Amnesty International raised attention to the torture and brutality

if the Iranian people. This Anti-Americanism reached a breaking point in 1979 when the U.S. admitted the deposed Shah for medical treatment. Fearful of a "repeat of 1953"—specifically another CIA-backed coup to restore him—Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy and

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Jan 4

It’s Sunday. So let me share a story with you. The story of Nicolae Ceaușescu

He was a very powerful and corrupt leader who believed he was invincible but was ultimately turned against by his followers and his own military in Romania.

Ceaușescu ruled Romania as a dictator for 24 years, from 1965 to 1989. He established one of the most oppressive regimes in the world, utilizing a feared secret police force let loose on the streets of his country, they were called the Securitate, used to crush internal dissent.

He built a significant cult of personality and, through constant propaganda, likely believed he held absolute, unquestioned control over the nation. His regime was marked by immense corruption, including a failed oil refinery building program that led to financial ruin and

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Dec 8, 2025

I have never really used AI. But I thought I would ask ChatGTP a question.

I asked, in two hundred years time, what will historians discuss about the year 2025 and what we got wrong as a species.

What do you think of the answer:

1. The Age of “Compartmentalized Warning”

Future historians may write that 2025 was a year when humanity knew an extraordinary amount about the dangers it faced—climate instability, geopolitics, AI governance, public health—but treated these as isolated problems. The failure was not ignorance but fragmentation: we solved

issues in silos while the challenges were interconnected. 2. “Short-termism as a governing principle” Analyses might focus on how politics, markets, and media were dominated by short-term incentives, making long-term planning nearly impossible. The scholarship may highlight

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