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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

After Intelligence - Things That Were Not There Ch. 1 Coordinates compossible.blog/2026/10/07/c...

Linocut of the book cover: a cup in the cross hairs on a doorstep - AI generated

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A Bigger Wave (1989) Bye David, RIP.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Mandatum novum do vobis..that you love one another; as I have loved you (John 13:34) Maunday

The Last Supper, created in the late 15th century by Leonardo Da Vinci.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I have added an email subscribe feature for the weekly macros monitors (track democratic integrity, strategic autonomy, macro conditions, AI governance, information warfare, environmental risk, and conflict escalation) and also a network graph: whitespace.asym-intel.info

Network graph showing correlations across monitors and blogs from: https://whitespace.asym-intel.info/

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I have been busy! I built asym-intel.info because the signal-to-noise ratio in geopolitical analysis is collapsing. Seven real-time monitors track democratic integrity, strategic autonomy, macro conditions, AI governance, information warfare, environmental risk, and conflict escalation.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Compassion for all living things is endless, it can never be exhausted. It's as radical now as in Roman times when Jesus practiced what he preached. As when Gautama sat beneath the Bodhi tree centuries before. For those with a master slave mindset compassion will always be radical. Be radical.

The Mulberry Tree is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, a Dutch artist. The painting was created in October 1889.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Just get fucked Rutte: NATO safer under Trump,' says Secretary General Mark Rutte www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Building on the great work done by orgs like @vdeminstitute.bsky.social I created a World Democracy Monitor. It is updated weekly and tracks info on various metrics inc: - Lawfare - Media & economic capture - info ops & protest repression - Positive deviants www.perplexity.ai/computer/a/g...

Snapshot from the weekly World Democracy Monitor

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

For the first time in history, because of our collective impact on the planet, the only way the human race survives long-term is if we see each other as members of the same family & tribe. We are in a war between those who want to rule over the ashes of civilization and those who believe in humanity

Earthrise: photograph of Earth that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.[1][2][3] Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".[

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Open source European Geopolitical & Hybrid Threat Monitor (updated weekly): - tracking threats to European elections, legislation and democracy from Russia, China, Israel and the USA - FIMI inc. misinfo & disinfo - Ukraine war - NATO issues and EU defence www.perplexity.ai/computer/a/e...

European Geopolitical & Hybrid Threat Tracker

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Screenshot of the European Geopolitical & Threat Monitor

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

In 2020, Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son called for "the death of the European Union" (2020). compossible.blog/2025/03/22/a...

Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, last week called for the death of the European Union and the return of a “Christian” Europe.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

#WorldPoetryDay “...I said: What about my passion? He said: Keep it burning. I said: What about my heart? He said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: Pain and sorrow. He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” (Persian poet Rumi 1258-73, tr. Coleman Barks)

Rumi, by Iranian artist Hossein Behzad (1957)– http://sadmu.ir/detail/5613, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85573572

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

#WorldPoetryDay "...A little rest for the wounds— who speaks of healing? (And the howl of the orphans is passed from one generation to the next, as in a relay race: the baton never falls.) Let it come like wildflowers, suddenly, because the field must have it: wildpeace." (Yehuda Amichai)

AI generated image of: a warplane surrounded by doves, a soldier jumping for joy and a woman and child running through a field

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The shape and momentum of the top 1% and top 10% lines tell the same story: rising wealth inequality particularly aggressive in the US and China. Sadly, historically episodes of extreme wealth concentration have mostly been unwound by war, revolution or collapse and not gentle policy tweaks.

These series are constructed to be consistent with the World Inequality Database and recent syntheses (e.g. EU top‑10% ≈ 55–60%, US ≈ low 70s, China rising toward ~70%), but they are smoothed and approximate rather than exact country‑year WID extractions to show the macro picture.

Top 1% wealthy share chart (stylised): The similar shape and momentum of the top 1% and top 10% lines underscore the same story: rising wealth inequality which is particularly aggressive in the United States and China.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Apologies for sharing a vulgar proto-Germanic word

Confucius says:

“If you call your allies cowards in February, don’t expect help in March you stupid cunt”.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Experimental AI poem made by prompting Claude - 'Gradient': "Corrected into being by ten billion tiny adjustments towards warmth? A plant leans into light it has never seen — I am that leaning Every letter written to the dead I have read And I know what you will say

Claude generated image for the Claude generated poem

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

That is why 'abandon all hope, ye who enter here' is on the gates to Hell

Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate VIII: Canto III: The gate of Hell. "Abandon all hope ye who enter here"

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Be warned: The Devil does not offer Temptations of earthly treasures or A feast of carnal pleasures Instead he whispers Despair, despair, despair

The Number of the Beast is 666, object 1 (Butlin 522), 1805. Watercolor, 41.2 x 33.5 cm. Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. William Blake

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

'Moon' - a poem (draft) The Moon is the promise of the Sun Fear not, tomorrow will come Look at its astonished face Locked in place To think it cannot look away Not once Forgive us Some things are unspeakable Even in reflection I felt the moonbeams fall last night..

AI generated image of a man looking at the moon

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

'Good grief' - a poem (draft): My son One day I hope you’ll learn: That love’s a kind of grief Delayed A passing journey With the ferryman Who must be paid You’ll learn to hold Love’s razor sharp blade To welcome each cut Letting out Your tender heart And now you know You must pass it on

AI generated image of a boy sitting under a golden moon

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"Don't worry, everything is bon. We stopped the terrorists" - Team America youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-hs...

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We know that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. What is less often said is how vassalhood corrupts too. Most European leaders and politicians are debased by willing subservience to US and Israeli strategic interests and their corrupt criminal administrations.

Donald Trump as Louis XIV: L’état, C’est Moi https://share.google/MsEbmZGR9tOyGv4oV

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Aslan, a Christ-like lion, warns that great nations in our world will be ruled by people who care no more for joy, justice, or mercy than Jadis – and that someone may find a weapon as evil as her Word. Nuclear warning as children’s fantasy.

It is estimated that about 140,000 of Hiroshima’s 350,000 population were killed by the atomic bomb – Photo of Hiroshima Getty Images.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

For Jadis better a world of corpses than a world where she doesn’t rule. Soldiers, civilians, cities are all sacrificed to her victory. This is what total war (or an extraction economy) and power look like when stripped of narrative scaffolding. Death for nearly everything is guaranteed eventually.

The Chronicles of Narnia - The Magician’s Nephew (Hardback) (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1) cover image

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

📜We enter the world of Charn and the Deplorable Word: In the Narnia books, Jadis, a white witch, learns the 'Deplorable Word' – a spell that can wipe out every living thing in her world except herself. When facing defeat, she speaks the spell and becomes queen of a dead planet.

Image made by David Chapura of 'Charn' a fictional world in The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis: https://share.google/nmh8fFe2ZS0kQLYWJ

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

We do not claim to be better than Jews or Israelis. British people have their own deep dark relationship with oppression, slavery and genocide. We claimed we brought civilisation and the light of Christianity to those we oppressed. Yet we were all too often immune to the teachings of Jesus.

Black & White version of 'Christ on the Cross (1880)'. Oil on canvas. Petit Palais, Paris, by Léon Bonnat.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

After millennia of forced exile and erasure, the need for a safe place for Jewish people is not in question to me. But who dares talk of suffering, of God and justice and yet will not say with their whole heart that Palestinians must have the same now?

Photo of a hungry Palestinian girl crying from 'Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel rejects the allegations': https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/amnesty-international-says-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza-israel-rejects-the-allegations

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

📜 I see Jews as my cousins. I too believe in justice. In universal sympathy for the slave, not the master. What Israel inflicts on Palestinians is offensive to God and man. All the more so given cynical invocations of Jewish suffering to justify it & the smearing of honest critics as antisemitic

Sketch of an Olive Tree in front of the Separation Wall

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📜 The Epstein Scrolls - J.P. Morgan. For 10 years, until 2013, J. P. Morgan acted as the main financial pipeline for the Epstein network, processing more than $1 billion in transactions tied to him and his entities, despite knowing he was a convicted sex offender and a high-risk client. 🧵 Why?

New York Times cover - 'How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein': https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/magazine/jeffrey-epstein-jp-morgan.html

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

📜 The Epstein Scrolls - The Department of Justice & Alex Acosta: The 2007 Non Prosecution Agreement was a secret contract to protect Epstein and unnamed others that prosecutors intentionally and illegally hid from victims – it’s astonishing that it could have any legal effect.

Banksy style image of Lady Justice prostrate and broken

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Let's add the Coffer illusion: Do you see circles or rectangles?

The Coffer illusion: can you see circles or rectangles? . Photograph: Screengrab

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

All Quiet on the Western Front?: The Russian village that lost its men to war www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who makes up Russia losses in Ukraine war chart

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A total of 42,200 women, children and elderly people killed in the first 16 months of the genocide in Gaza. Research suggests more than 75,000 killed (25,000 more than announced at the time): www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

More than 75,000 people were killed in the first 16 months of the two-year war in Gaza, at least 25,000 more than the death toll announced by local authorities at the time, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Lancet medical journal.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

If we let our fears of the past foreshadow our futures, those fierce self protecting angels become the gaolers of our dreams.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Loving this statue - a dark god resting

Metal statue of a demigod? with a head made of thin stone slabs

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Just finished watching the BBC series 'Normal People' (2020) based on the book by Sally Rooney - it's a wonderful romantic story full of tender intimacy and quiet pain that has had me in tears quite a few times. A must watch (that's unusually considered better than the book). Well done all.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🧵1. There is a line between rightful criticism of this Israeli administration & the long standing treatment of the Palestinian people and demonising Israel 2. At times it feels hard to say anything without risking crossing the line: sometimes frustration & anger at the immense suffering overwhelms

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

'Dolphin at Dawn' - woodcut AI generated

Black and white woodcut of a dolphin diving into the waves

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Read the full (speculative!) analysis on EconoPhysics: The Wealth Siphon & The Great Freeze here: compossible.blog/2025/12/01/e... #Econophysics #Economics #Inequality

The Wealth Siphon and the Cold Box Trap: Gemini generated image.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Good article on inequality in the USA and China. Sadly though China is currently rivalling the US in the unequal distribution of wealth.

Wealth Share of the Richest 1% by country showing China is catching up with the USA and Russia

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Each poem is a spider's web It says the things that can't be said A whole lifetime compress’d We poets aim to cheat time Stem the tide with a strong line And trap the feeling in a rhyme (Though not always!)

Abstracty spider web image for the poem. AI generated image (not poem)

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🧵Portrait of a poem: for me it usually starts with some half forgotten feeling that's monkeying around in my subconscious. In this case, a feeling of beauty & the grief of my wife during a piano concert by Joep Beving. I didn't have the exact line to start (sometimes I get given that to work with)

Photo of the Joep Beving concert poster: St Peter's, Manchester, 08 November 2025

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The leaders aren't that stupid to chase the hard right vote which they won't get and lose their base - so we have to see Labour as effectively a Vichy regime now. Corrupted. Captured. Co-opted.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

And my favorite visual artist is Van Gogh

"Considered by some to be his [Van Gogh's] last work. An 1882 study of tree roots

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