RSL denies services club's Anzac Day two-up request An ex-services organisation wants changes to Queensland legislation that allows the local RSL branch to reject its application to play two-up on Anzac Day.

A problem only Aussies can understand
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Come across this at an antiques shop today. Clever marketing. Giving the impression of Turkish coffee but in reality selling coffee-hickory mixture

Word of the day

It reminds me a Vietnam War era grafitti, "fighting for peace is like f....g for virginity"

Considering new career options.🤠

If you're interested in Australian military myths this book is must

I was surprised to see Cemal Pasha the Great while visiting 25th Sydney Biennale. Artist Lamia Joreige's mixed media project looks to the Levant during the FWW.
Apparently there is no escape from Cemal Pasha.

He even has a US style presidential library. One and only in Australia
www.howardlibrary.unsw.edu.au

Our current times are worse. Thanks to social media and now AI

A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data | CNN A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data – including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics – from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentiall...

Ouch!
edition.cnn.com/2026/04/08/c...

During the FWW European media recycled photos of the old conflicts as if happened recently. A good example is this alleged photo of a destroyed Serbian gun. In reality this photo was taken after Monastir Battle of the Balkan Wars and showing an Ottoman dead gunner and a 75mm Krupp field gun.

Come across this photo while scrolling through a FWW album published in 1915. A mass demonstration in İstanbul during the declaration of Jihad. Notice the prominent display of Iranian flag.

Time is ideal to read to this article

It is a shame that the Americans are acting like cats burying under dirt

Fred the College Cat.
From the TAFE Ultimo (old Sydney Technical College) campus.

Army reservist allegedly worked for Ukraine military without authorisation An Australian Army reservist will face an Adelaide court after he allegedly worked for the Ukraine military as a drone operator without authorisation.

Interesting
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

From ABC News (Australia)'s week quiz.
The allegedly correct answer is wrong. The island of Milos was part of the Ottoman Empire in 1820. Greece became independent in 1830.

Because they read the article or news materials produced out of it not the book

George Orwell's article "Who are the war criminals?" Tribune 22 October 1943
Notice his remark about Turkey

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

Hachette pulls horror novel Shy Girl after suspected AI use The publisher has cancelled the US release of Shy Girl by Mia Ballard and withdrawn the UK edition after weeks of online speculation about the novel’s origins

More and more
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

You may also transported to a mental asylum. That's the fun of it

All you need to do is that read Bible as much as you can. You will certainly be teleported to somewhere.

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

Finally some real action. I hope to see more. As far as I am concerned AI is the fraud of the century.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Царь хороший, бояре плохие

Editörlüğünü yaptığım Türk Askeri Tarihçileri kitabı Yeditepe Yayınevi tarafından yayınlandı. Projeye katkı veren sayın hocalarıma teşekkür ederim.

This is the famous paradox of Epimenides who himself was Cretans so knew what he was talking

From Gore Vidal's memoir (Palimsest). 😎 Cretan liars

My experiences were all negative. I simply don't understand how so many universities fell into this Ponzi scheme