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Adelita S. Grijalva (born 1970) is a Mexican American member of Congress who has served as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 7th congressional district since Nov. 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as a member of the Pima County Board of Supervisors for District 5 from 2021 to 2025 and on the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board from 2002 to 2022. She is the daughter of former U.S. representative RaĂșl Grijalva, who represented the district from 2003 until his death in 2025. More
Jeff did it. I just watched. I mean, I never knew!
The first suit over the alleged rapes [child molestations of child under 14 by Trump and Epstein] was filed in federal court in Riverside, California, in April by someone acting without an attorney and using the name “Katie Johnson.” That suit named both Trump and Epstein as defendants, alleging that the two men held Johnson as a “sex slave” and repeatedly forced her to engage in sexual acts against her will. More: politico.com
Liar "Trump knew about the girls"
(Democracy Now!) Calls grow for release of Epstein Files and photos
Three worst people alive? AG Pam Bondi, Jeff Epstein (hiding on Pedo Island), Trump (liar)
Drop Site News has proven Jeffrey Epstein was a Jewish spy on Americans and others, an Israeli "asset" (working with Mossad agent/asset Ghislane Maxwell, daughter of Zionist Jewish "superspy" for Israel Robert "Daddy" Maxwell)
Jimmy Kimmel investigated Trump's penile package by having sexually assaulted pornstar Stormy Daniels on his show and asking her to point out the mushroom most like Trump's appendage. She did not hesitate to pick a very small and stubby wooden model. Yikes, the grand ego is so poorly endowed that the karma of his sex crimes is already coming to fruition. Is Germanic Trump (Trunf) more like Germanic Hitler (Schicklgruber) than we ever imagined -- and is shame and low testosterone and a misshapen penis the root of all our misery under his burgeoning authoritarianism, despotism, dictatorship?
Both have Jewish relatives. Both are/were addicted to speed, in the case of Mr. Hitler newly invented pharmaceutical grade methamphetamine (Pervitin) and DJ Trump cocaine then pharmaceutical Adderall, according to family friend Joel Casler. This is corroborated by Trump's former personal lawyer Cohen, who regularly called Trump "Von Shits His Pants." Casler also revealed Trump's terrible poor digestion (as Hitler was rumored to suffer from), fecal incontinence, sour stomach, bad breath, flatulence (gas), and terrible body odor, reeking of feces. Both Trump and Hitler were strongly drawn to incest as well, Hitler allegedly being born out of it and constantly pursuing a young relative and Trump's long affair with his biological and plastic surgically altered daughter Ivanka Trump-Kushner.
(Times Radio) Nov. 13, 2025: “Yes, he would have almost certainly sent himself to the gas chambers.” Low testosterone levels, underdeveloped sexual organs, and in some cases a micro penis, are all the things that Hitler may have experienced, says Professor Turi King who sampled the dictator’s DNA.
Love MAGA? Love your country? Love to obey orders without question and put perps in their place? You just might be what ICE is looking for. Tattooed patriots with Hegseth insignia, white Christian nationalist symbols, spiderweb on elbows, KKK, Aryan Brotherhood, and Neo-Nazi affiliations welcome to apply. Want to euthanize puppies like Sec'y of Homeland Security Kristi Noem does and willing to execute disobedient curs? Drinking problem? No problem! Domestic violence accusations? Bi*ch was probably asking for it. Bonuses and incentives available thanks to extra Trump administration funding.
White males preferred. Others possibly considered if white quota is not met. Violent criminal records? Let's talk. Snitching, finking, willingness to betray trust of fellows may remove obstacles to federal employment.
(wocomoHUMANITY) UNITED STATES. Brad Galloway was a white 18-year-old punk rocker in and out of trouble with the law, a street brawler already at his fourth high school, a kid without direction, and therefore a prime target for a neo-Nazi recruiter.
Promising comradeship in a gang of “like-minded” guys, a place where Brad could finally find what he wanted most: belonging.
I really want white Canada to be my 51st state.
SKINHEAD tells Brad’s story – how he spent 13 years in “the movement,” climbing the ranks from skinhead rabble-rouser to the Canadian boss of an ultra-violent U.S. gang called Volksfront.
Brad has been out for five years, raising a family and getting his university degree in criminology. But most of all, he’s been working on leaving behind the hate groups that defined who he was for so much of his life – and watching those groups come back to life.
“I call them white supremacy groups because that's all it is,” says Brad Galloway. “What they are presenting as new is actually a very old idea of white marginalization. “I think my message is this: understand by adopting these types of extreme ideologies, that you are signing up for losing those years of your life. You will definitely lose time and you will be affecting others negatively. You will lose that time in your life.”
CHAPTERS
▷ 00:00 - Introduction
▷ 01:20 - From a typical Canadian kid to the president of a white supremacist organization
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(Kim Iversen) Israeli Prime Minister (Naftali Bennett) admits Jews did NOT originally come from Israel but arrived from elsewhere, left, returned, left again...
(MorgueOfficial) Premiered Sept. 20, 2025: I’m going to prove that the deity Christians call God is actually the Devil. How? Let's look at PROOF in the Bible itself -- not the cherrypicked verses they spoon feed us on Sunday mornings. I mean the raw, uncut, crazy parts they hope we never open to. And guess what? I’m not the first person to notice. The Gnostics knew it. Some of the first Christians read these very same verses and said, "Yeah, this ‘God’ is totally evil."
(BIBLE STORY) Sept. 30, 2024: What if everything we thought we knew about God and the Bible is wrong?
This video dives deeply into the ancient Nag Hammadi texts and diverse Gnostic beliefs that the creator of our world isn’t the loving God we’ve been taught to worship but rather the Demiurge—a false jealous god (Yaldabaoth?) who seeks to control and keep us in ignorance.
With hidden wisdom and forgotten scriptures, we explore how the Gnostics saw the material world as a prison and the serpent in Eden as a liberator offering forbidden knowledge.
Discover the radical ideas that challenge mainstream religion, revealing that true salvation may rest in breaking free from that Demiurge's control.
From wiseSophia’s role as the guide to enlightenment to the real meaning behind Jesus’ teachings, this video questions everything. Ready to explore the truth that’s been buried for centuries? Hit play and behold!
[The Buddha explained:] Now, there comes a time, meditators, when, sooner or later,
after the lapse of a long period [of devolving], this world-system passes
away.
When this happens, beings have mostly been
reborn in the World of Radiance, and there they dwell made
of mind, feeding on joy, radiating light from themselves,
traversing the air, continuing in glory; thus, they remain
for a long period of time.
Now, there comes a time, meditators, when, sooner or later, this
world-system begins to evolve again. When this happens the
Palace of BrahmÄ appears, but it is empty. And some being
or other, either because its span of years has passed or its merit has become exhausted, falls from the World of Radiance, and
comes to life [is reborn] in the Palace of BrahmÄ.
There also this being lives made of mind, feeding on joy, radiating light from
itself, traversing the air, continuing in glory; thus, does it remain for a long, long period of time.
Now there arises, from dwelling there so long
alone, a dissatisfaction and a longing:
By merely wishing, I am the Creator!
“O, would that other
beings might come and join me in this place!” And, just then,
either because their span of years had passed [in that other world] or their merit [to carry on there] became exhausted, other beings fall from the World of
Radiance and appear in the Palace of BrahmÄ as
companions, in all respects like BrahmÄ [other than their later arrival].
On this, meditators, the one who was first reborn thinks: “I am BrahmÄ [Supreme], the Great (Maha) BrahmÄ, the Supreme One,
the Mighty, the All-Seeing, the Ruler, the Lord of All, the
Maker, the Creator, the Chief of all [the Alpha and Omega, the I am that I am], appointing to each its place, the Ancient of Days, the Parent of all that are and are
to be. These other beings are of my creation. Why is
this so? A while ago I thought, 'Would that they might
come!’ And on my mental aspiration, behold the beings
came!”
I am who/that/what I am [of which they speak] and I am everlasting!
No goddesses allowed.
“And those beings themselves, too, think thus: 'This must be
BrahmÄ, the Supreme, the Mighty, the All-Seeing, the Ruler,
the Lord of All, the Maker, the Creator, the Chief of All,
appointing to each a place, the Ancient of Days, the Parent of all that are and are to be. And we must have been created
by that being. Why? It is because, as we see, it was that being who was
here first, and we came after that.”
On this, meditators, the one who first came into existence there
is of longer life and more glorious and more powerful than
those who appeared afterward. And it might well be, meditators,
that some being on falling from that state, should come
hither [to be reborn].
Well, they're allowed, just don't call them goddesses like Sophia, Mother Mary, wife Asherah
.
And having come hither [to the human plane] that being might go forth from the
household life into the homeless state [of a monastic]. And having thus
become a recluse that person, by reason of ardor, of exertion, of
application, of earnestness, of careful thought, reaches such rapture of heart that, rapt in heart [jhana], he calls to mind his last
dwelling-place but not the previous ones.
He says to
himself: “That illustrious BrahmÄ [Supremo], the Great BrahmÄ, the
Supreme One, the Mighty, the All-Seeing, the Ruler, the
Lord of All, the Maker, the Creator, the Chief of All,
appointing to each its place, the Ancient of Days, the Father
of All that are and are to be, that being by whom we were created is steadfast, immutable, eternal, of a nature that knows
no change and will remain so forever and ever. But we
who were created have come hither as being
impermanent, mutable, limited in duration of life.”
This, meditators, is the first state of things on account of which,
starting out from which, some recluses and Brahmins (shramanas and brahmanas), being
eternalists as to some things and non-eternalists as to
others, maintain that the soul and the world are partly
eternal and partly not eternal. More
Misconstrued as the "creator" deity
We're not allowed to question in Christianity
Buddhism is a nontheistic (not atheistic) religion. It does not include the belief in an ultimate creator deity or any eternal being, divine or otherwise [4][5][6].
The universe (multiverse) comes into being due to causes and condition, but the Buddha did not declare an ultimate first beginning to it. It is cyclical and all beginnings, like all endings, repeat. There a "laws" that govern this impersonal process but not an ultimate creator God.
This may be hard to understand because there are gods, many of them, and they of different kinds and orders: devas, brahmas, asuras, maras, nagas, and so on. They abide on different planes, of which there are at least 31; however, these general planes contain countless worlds. All of these worlds are divided into three spheres: sensual, fine material, and immaterial.
Among these "gods" or deities are powerful beings who wield the power of creation and other, higher order beings who enjoy the creation of others. These, however, are not ultimate creations; that is to say, they are not really making new "things" such as a new soul (atta) or a new ultimate materiality or mentality. To give an example, say there were a pile of tiny bricks and a bucket of mortar and one were to release bricklayers to have at it. How many structures could they create? How many fabulous Lego-toy like "creations" could they put together? Presumably, they could fashion together a countless number of "things," but -- in an ultimate sense -- what is there but the same old building blocks? What is there but just ultimate materiality (form) arranged in an immaterial way (name) that looks new but is only really bricks, mortar, and arrangement?
Countless worlds in 31 Planes in three spheres
Buddhist texts posit that deities (brahmas, which are a subset of devas or "shining ones") such as Maha Brahma ("Great Supremo") are misconstrued as a creator [7].
During the vivarta kalpa (some previous aeon), a deity from Abhassara (radiant) plane was reborn on the lower Maha Brahma plane. As many living beings forget about their past life as soon as they are reborn, this also happened with Maha Brahma. No longer being aware of the higher planes of existence, this being felt alone in the universe (or world-system, cakkavala).
This being longed for the presence of others. After some time, other deities (devas) from higher planes were also reborn on those brahma planes as ministers and companions, an entire retinue [8].
Seeing this happen and having wished for it, this being falsely believed, "I am their creator." This belief, according to Buddhist texts (like the Brahmajala Sutta), was then shared by those other deities.
Eventually, however, one of those deities passed away from that world and was reborn on the human plane. Through meditation, that person gained the power to remember past lives [7].
That person went on to teach what was remembered from that previous life in that glorious (but relatively low) heaven, namely, that Maha Brahma was the creator of this universe.
There are countless world-systems ("universes"?) in 10,000 directions, each with its own Maha Brahma and Mara and Sakka, all of which are really stations (positions, seats, thrones, chairs, offices held by living beings).
The teaching of this person led to the widespread human belief in a creator god, according to the Pali canon [7], which refers to the Buddha's words and other teachings preserved in the Buddha's language (Pali or the lingua franca of Magadhi). More
From DÄ«gha NikÄya ("Collection of Long Discourses") No. 1: BrahmajÄla Sutta ("The Supreme or All-Embracing Net of Views Discourse") translated by Prof. Rhys Davids)
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