Bad Jews, good US troops, food aid pier?

US propaganda can get confusing. It's ALL lies.

If there's one thing I know about my country, it's that we don't do good deeds unless there's something in it for us. We're war profiteers. Not us the citizens of the United States, but our government, our leaders, our military, Pentagon officials, CIA paper pushers in cubicles filling the world with propaganda and running operations of every description to make us the inheritors of Nazism's ideals, like deposing governments unfriendly to our side (with the audacity to uphold democratic principles like one person, one vote) while propping up dictators we like such as Netanyahu. COMMENTARY CONTINUED BELOW

US military completes temporary pier off Gaza; aid deliveries to begin within days

(ABC News) May 16, 2024: The U.S. military completed the installation of a temporary pier to facilitate the transportation of "humanitarian" aid into Gaza, Palestine, from the Mediterranean Sea [in spite of Israel's blockade, which in the past has seen the IDF fire on US flagged military boats], U.S. Central Command said.

Bibi, I got your back. - I know, Joe, I know.

Now the corporate mainstream media is doing a report that puts Israel, Israel's American-funded military, its corrupt and genocidal prime minister, and its Mossad (CIA) in a bad light? That's hard to believe.

"What's in it for us [the US]? It gives us both the carrot and the stick? We will both be able to fund this genocide with weapons to enrich US arms dealers AND we will be able to turn the food spigot on and off (use strategic humanitarian aid as a soft weapon) to stem the famine we and our partner Israel has been imposing on the Palestinians for the past 17 years?

(Prior to Israel's ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the terrorizing, murder, and forced relocation of civilians and the setting up of more and more illegal Jewish occupation sites in the West Bank, the "state" of Israel rationed the food allowed into the Gaza Strip. The strip is the largest open-air prison in the world. Israel made it so there were only enough calories to keep the oppressed population from dying of famine but so few calories they could not remain well -- under the distress and humiliation inflicted on them daily -- or grow and certainly not thrive or stay healthy.)

Ironically, calorie restriction is one of the few scientifically-proven longevity extenders.

Get back to the reservation. No one's listening

If Israel really wanted to exterminate the Natives more humanely, it would follow the USA's lead. Here, the US federal government starved American-Indians by feeding them ultra-processed food and other junk and surplus commodities it buys to manipulate demand and stabilize prices for the manufacturers, who are part of the donor class that accepts and demands corporate welfare from the people allowed to rule as elected politicians.

Rather than starve the Indians, the government overfed them by stating, in a purported act of goodwill, that federal money could only be used on supply a sound diet of the FDA's Four Food Groups.

We may as well have put a gun to their heads and injected them with white sugar, acrylamides, preservatives, chemical flavor enhancers, MSG, neurotoxins, and other carcinogens.

Does Israel bribe US politicians for support?

Since this diet was never proven to be anything but a giveaway cobbled together by lobbyists working for the greed of the corporations that make up its components: Big Agra demanding carbs, vegetables, and sugar-swollen fruit be the base of the Food Pyramid, that pus-filled allergenic dairy, eggs, slaughtered birds and livestock mammals (in generously contaminated flesh) for protein, and that sugars and sweets be added at the very top for dessert purposes.

No one in America was eating that way by their own sense. But at least one group was forced to endure it: Native Americans trapped on reservations.

HC: Just eat the damn food, it's fine.

So what did they do with (the dead food for the dead) their ration of bleached white flour? They mixed it with milk and took the toxic oil they were given to create an Indian staple now called "Frybread," which just happened to be delicious because it was full of addictive comfort chemicals like carcinogenic acrylamides, fast burning carbs (high glycemic), empty calories, and rancid oils.

Even if the plasticized vegetable oils had been properly extracted and stored, they would still be utterly ruined by the high temperature burning/cooking that reduced them to carcinogens in the frying process.

Well, what happened? Where have all the Indians gone? The way of the Palestinians. America's slow genocide of its indigenous peoples has succeeded, but it has done so by erasing them, addicting them to the SAD (Standard American Diet), destroying them from within and disappearing them by whitewashing them, imprisoning them, addicting them to drugs, driving them crazy, psychologizing them, medicating them, and incarcerating them.

Only American citizens trapped in the US prison system and US welfare recipients (who are limited in the use of food stamps to purchase the same FDA-approved items) get it as bad because these are the same things as are pumped into US concentration camps (aka Indian reservations).

No one fares worse than Indians, prisoners, and welfare recipients. In all three cases, no one is starving, but no one is more susceptible to malnourishment, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, dementia, and all the "modern diseases" brought on by our for-profit food industry aided and abetted by our allopathic medical industry.

Is there anything for Israel to learn from this example? When asked, How could it get any worse? One idea was to allow EBT funds to be spent on fast food (junk food, sugar soda, sugary flavored drinks, burgers, fries, candy, and any other garbage) not fit for anyone one wants to survive in remain in good health. The medical field reaps the riches of our unenlightened self-interest.

• Enlightened self-interest would mean taking care of how people eat so they wouldn't need the medical field to poison them back to health with overpriced pharmaceutical, radioactive, and surgical interventions and procedures. But the medical field isn't complaining.

Read all about it (Roxanne D-O)

So American Indians have become just like their oppressors, suffering all the same degenerative illnesses only more quickly and with worse outcomes: diminishing average lifespans and higher rates of addiction, cancer rates, morbidity and mortality rates in general.

Only no one can figure out why. "It's a darn mystery!" The US government couldn't possibly have known they were trying to kill the Indians and erase them.

And Israel can't possibly follow suit, using the same game plan the German Nazis borrowed from the US (eugenics, concentration camps/missions, Christian white supremacy, and other ideas for Dr. Mengele and Mr. Hitler to implement for the eradication of their "surplus" population of undesirables).

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• ABC News, May 16, 2024; Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Wisdom Quarterly

Girl fight: AOC v Greene, Congress catfight

BREAKING NEWS: All hell breaks loose when Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene directly insults Black Jasmine Crockett

(Forbes Breaking News) May 16, 2024: At tonight's House Oversight Committee hearing, [white] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) insult of [Black] Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) plunged the hearing into chaos, particularly when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) jumped in and took sides against Greene.

MAGA Reps. Gaetz and Boebert get heckled at the Trump circus trial

Girls used to be so classy. Now it's all petty ego.

On Thursday, May 16, 2024, evening, a House Oversight Committee hearing intended to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt quickly devolved into a heated and disorderly exchange between Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The session was initially convened to address Garland's refusal to comply with a subpoena for an audio recording of Pres/ Biden's interview with a special counsel. However, tensions flared when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made a derogatory comment about Rep. Jasmine Crockett's appearance, prompting an intense response from [AOC] Rep. Ocasio-Cortez [who got all Puerto Rican or Cuban and New Yorker with a kind of, Oh no you diddent, aw hell no you diddent kind of vibe, made worse by the addition of "baby girl."

During the hearing, Greene interrupted Crockett with a personal attack, stating, "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading."

This remark led to audible groans in the chamber and a plea for order from Committee Chairman James Comer.

Ocasio-Cortez immediately called for Greene's words to be "taken down," a procedural move allowing the speaker to withdraw or amend the words if deemed inappropriate.

I'm from New York. I eat Greenes for lunch.

Greene's retort, "Are your feelings hurt?" was met with Ocasio-Cortez's sharp response, "Oh girl, baby girl! Don’t even play!"

Ocasio-Cortez insisted that Greene's comments were unacceptable and demanded a sincere apology to Rep. Crockett, rejecting any insincere or smarmy apologies.

Despite the heated back-and-forth, Greene eventually agreed to strike her words but refused to apologize, further insulting Ocasio-Cortez's intelligence.

You want some, B*tch? - Are you talkin to me?

The situation escalated when Rep. Jamie Raskin asked Greene again if she would apologize, to which she defiantly replied, "You will never get an apology out of me."

The contentious exchange highlighted deep divisions and personal animosities among committee members, drawing significant attention and criticism.

Rep. Crockett later expressed her frustration on social media, emphasizing the inappropriate and chaotic behavior displayed by some members of Congress.

• Forbes Breaking News; Crux (live), May 16, 2024; Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Woke? What Would Jesus Do? (TBB)

Lord Jello, show us the way.

The acronym WWJD can mean many things. In Berkeley, it stands for, "What would Jello do?" Jello is Jello Biafra, the brilliant if slightly preachy former lead singer of the patriotic punk rock band the Dead Kennedys and founder of Alternative Tentacles Records.

(It is more patriotic to critique and try to improve one's country than to mindlessly go along with anything it says or does in the name of capitalism, assassinating presidents, hegemony, imperialism, racism, sexism, war-profiteering, and other misdeeds).

"Welcome to 1984" (DKs)

Some people think the "J" should really only refer to Jesus, but that is contradicted by the fact that those who say they talk to Jesus are deemed "good," whereas those who say that Jesus talks to them are deemed "nuts."

It is, in fact, not about talking but calling to mind a role model. What would the Buddha do? What would an arhat (an enlightened person) do? What would a saint do? What would kind Kwan Yin or rebel Mother Mary do? (Both are goddesses of compassion in the world).

If we call to mind our best example of a human person or spiritual being, then that can help guide our own decision-making when it comes to sorting out tough dilemmas or forks in the road of life.

Forget the sandal. It's the gourd!

Some think Jesus is best, so to be able to stay on his team, they imagine he would be very "woke." Other followers hate this idea. As with most things, Christians are divided. It's like that scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian. The Messiah figure runs because so many followers need something from Him.

He takes off so quickly that he drops a sandal and his water gourd. Followers pick up these items, reasoning that the sacred object must have been left behind by the Savior as a guide symbolic of his presence.

Is the gourd the water of life, or is the sandal expressive of the path we must follow? Gourd, sandal? Sandal, gourd? And then they begin killing each other for the crime of worshiping the wrong symbol.

Woke Jesus

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WARNING: Foul language and not nice things about Jesus and God. For

God so ordained that Nicholas Bowling get a lot of view but have

a hard time doing so at the Louisville Gay Pride Festival, Pt. 2

• The Babylon Bee, May 6, 2024; Nicholas Bowling; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Satanic Temple for freedom from religion

I'm German. I wanted to rule the world! - Hitler Youth member who became Pope Benedict

This, of course, is not about the Devil, Satan, or being anti-anything. It is about religious freedom and about being able to enjoy freedom FROM religion. We are a secular democracy, not a Christian theocracy as some would have us believe. Evangelicals and other fundamentalists will not stand for anything short of Christian-Sharia Law (their interpretation of their Bible being shoved down everyone else's throat). Let's allow people to hold their own religion -- or not religion at all -- as they deem fit. The idea that one religion, any religion, gets a governmental advantage over others is a grotesque abuse of our American freedoms. When state and religion are not kept separate, expect corruption and the loss of both.

Satanic Temple fighting for representation in schools

(NBC News) May 16, 2024: The Satanic Temple is known for trolling the religious right, but in its fight for religious pluralism, it has become a powerful foe.

NBC News' Maura Barrett reports on the group's fight to protect the separation of church and state. » Subscribe to NBC News: nbcnews #Satanic #Religion #School

Don't think about SEX (sex on the brain)

People who absolutely knew what they were doing and went for it anyway

(Cheeky Crab) Oops. Just saying. Mere coincidence. Who knows? Who can say? Prove it. Sometimes things just align without intention.

We must have sex on the brain

Binky meditates (Matt Groening/Life in Hell)

It isn't enough that we try to keep a lid on it, control ourselves, exercise restraint, be good, and mind our Ps and Qs, but advertisers and marketing departments have to work against us.

There's such a thing as "subliminal seduction," the use of images too fast to notice consciously that are nevertheless noticed by the subconscious, entering the unconscious mind to bubble up into consciousness without any apparent reason.

The Hacking of the American Mind (Dr. Lustig, MD)

Weak mindfulness will make us conclude that we must be some kind of sick puppies. But it isn't that. They really are doing it, exploiting our natural human curiosity that seeks sensual pleasure (epitomized by sex) here and there, elsewhere and everywhere.

The human plane of existence is within the Sensual Sphere (kama loka). It is hard to rise above. That is to say, it is difficult to not start seeing everything the way Beavis and Butt-Head do. Huh huh huh...

Mara Devaputra (Buddhism's Cupid, Kamadeva, Eros, and Tempter figure) is a tricky spirit out to keep us rapt in this dense sphere of hidden danger. It's like wandering onto a honey trap. Very sticky, hard to extricate ourselves before we realized our predicament.

It does NOT get worse with meditation. It only seems to. This is because it becomes more apparent to us when we sit calmly and pay attention to the movements of mind/heart. We are otherwise usually too distracted and inattentive.

Dopamine Nation (Dr. Lembke, MD)

Mindfulness employed correctly -- with radical acceptance, unwavering attention, and seeing all things as impersonal -- is excellent medicine. But it is easy to think we're doing it correctly only to be doing harm:

As soon as we resist, drift off, or start taking things personally, we're in for a world of hurt. Going about with mindfulness and clear comprehension (sati-sampajjana) is a better way to be. It tends toward calm and enlightenment so we can begin to see things as they really are, without bias or preconception. But it takes practice, coming back again and again.

Matt Groening went on to create The Simpsons

And who's got time for that? We want to live and enjoy everything all the time on a dopamine binge! But in the hangover, when we come down, we might, just might, seek a way out. Then it's good to read some Dharma, good to grab Dr. Robert Lustig or Dr. Anna Lembke to see that these things really are happening on purpose. It's no accident high fructose corn syrup and sugar are added to everything nowadays or that ultra-processed foods are the way they are.

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• Cheeky Crab, 2022; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, Sayalay A (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

Lost branch of Nile found: pyramid mystery

Who were these mysterious ET "gods" who walked among us that we worshiped them?

Now-extinct Ahramat Branch of Nile was used to build pyramids (Eman Ghoneim et al/CNN)

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What's the Sahara Desert's Nile got to do with it?

Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other ancient monuments at Giza exist on an isolated strip of land in Africa at the edge of the Sahara Desert.

The inhospitable location has long puzzled archaeologists, some of whom had found evidence that the Nile River once flowed near these pyramids in some capacity, facilitating the landmarks’ construction starting 4,700 years ago.

Using satellite imaging and analysis of cores of sediment, a new study published Thursday (5/16/24) in the journal Communications Earth & Environment has mapped a 40-mile (64-kilometer) long, dried-up, branch of the Nile, long buried beneath farmland and desert.

“Even though many efforts to reconstruct the early Nile waterways have been conducted, they have largely been confined to soil sample collections from small sites, which has led to the mapping of only fragmented sections of the ancient Nile channel systems,” said lead study author Eman Ghoneim, a professor and director of the Space and Drone Remote Sensing Lab at the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s department of Earth and ocean sciences.

“This is the first study to provide the first map of the long-lost ancient branch of the Nile River.”

Prof. Ghoneim and her colleagues refer to this extinct branch of the Nile River as Ahramat, which is Arabic for “pyramids.”

Red Pyramid at Dahshur necropolis is located near now-defunct arm of Nile (Ghoneim)

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The ancient waterway would have been about one-third of a mile (0.5 kilometers) wide with a depth of at least 82 feet (25 meters) — similar to the contemporary Nile River, Prof. Ghoneim said.

“The large size and extended length of the Ahramat Branch and its proximity to the 31 pyramids in the study area strongly suggests a functional waterway of great importance,” Prof. Ghoneim said.

She said the river would have played a key role in ancient Egyptians’ transportation of the enormous amount of building materials and laborers needed for the pyramids’ construction.

“Also, our research shows that many of the pyramids in the study area have [a] causeway, a ceremonial raised walkway, that runs perpendicular to the course of the Ahramat Branch and terminates directly on its riverbank.”

Hidden traces of a lost waterway

The researchers collected soil samples to confirm findings because Nile branch was invisible.

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Traces of the river aren’t visible in aerial photos or in imagery from optical satellites, Prof. Ghoneim said. In fact, she only spotted something unexpected while studying radar satellite data of the wider area for ancient rivers and lakes that might reveal a new source of groundwater.

“I am a geomorphologist, a paleohydrologist looking into landforms. I have this kind of trained eye,” she said. “While working with this data, I noticed this really obvious branch or a kind of riverbank, and it didn’t make any sense because it is really far from the Nile,” she added.

Born and raised in Egypt, Prof. Ghoneim was familiar with the cluster of pyramids in this area and had always wondered why they were built there.

She applied to the National Science Foundation to investigate further, and geophysical data taken at ground level with the use of ground-penetrating radar and electromagnetic tomography confirmed it was an ancient arm of the Nile.

Two long cores of earth the team extracted using drilling equipment revealed sandy sediment consistent with a river channel at a depth of about 82 feet (25 meters).

It’s possible that “countless” temples might still be buried beneath the agricultural fields and desert sands along the riverbank of the Ahramat Branch, according to the study.

Red Pyramid at Dahshur necropolis is located near now-defunct arm of Nile (Ghoneim/CNN)

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Why this branch of the river dried up or disappeared is still unclear. Most likely, a period of drought and desertification swept sand into the region, silting up the river, Prof. Ghoneim said.

The study demonstrated that when the pyramids were built, the geography and riverscapes of the Nile differed significantly from those of today, said Nick Marriner, a geographer at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris.

He was not involved in the study but has conducted research on the fluvial history of Giza.

“The study completes an important part of the past landscape puzzle,” Marriner said.

“By putting together these pieces we can gain a clearer picture of what the Nile floodplain looked like at the time of the pyramid builders and how the ancient Egyptians harnessed their environments to transport building materials for their monumental construction endeavors.”

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• Katie Hunt, CNN (via MSN.com), May 16, 2024, "Newly mapped lost branch of the Nile could help solve long-standing pyramid mystery"; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Pro-genocide, pro-Israel position (UCLA)

UPDATE: Violent pro-Israel counter-protester at UCLA caught on camera beating student

(The Hill) May 16, 2024: WASHINGTON, DC (the largest American city outside of the USA). Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss an investigation into a right-wing pro-Israel Zionist Jewish Israeli-American teen from Beverly Hills, who went to counter-protest at UCLA. He has now been caught on tape committing felony assault, but his parents stand behind him. He was just preparing for his trip to Israel to join the IDF. #ucla #counterprotest

• 2024 UCLA pro-Palestinian campus occupation
• "Israel is becoming very soon a pariah state" - Jewish Israeli historian Ilan Pappe (detained at Detroit airport by FBI)

Reclaim Your Humanity (Forer)

It's important to listen and to understand the opposition. If this gentleman wants to be a pro-genocide, pro-militarism, pro-Israel, pro-Zionism, pro-apartheid troll, let that be his choice. He may use his white male privilege to be an influencer, moneymaker, or comedian at others' expense. Let him. Censorship is for others, not us.

If PM Bibi wants to come on and talk about how he enjoys killing babies and hates Palestinians for making him kill them in the spirit of PM Golda Meir, we would welcome him.

We have Yankee supporters like this guy? Nice!

We'd like to ask him a few things. There really are frat boys like this on campus, fully in support of the police, riot tricks and tactics, sexism, racism, ignorance, and everything wrong with our world.

Will Danny Mullen look back on his behavior with pride and still think it's funny as the world descends into greater turmoil?

Vegan Greta Thunberg must be all right if the far-right hates her this much

I got jumped (UCLA Palestine riot)

Ain't it fun to make fun? (Nakba Day)

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• Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
• NOT IN OUR NAME! (ifnotnowmovement.org)
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• Code Pink: Women for Peace
• American Veterans for Peace
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Visit to Turkmenistan, Central Asia (video)

There is a Gateway to Hell, a major tourist draw in Turkmenistan (Darvaza gas crater),

The dictator upstairs is limiting tourists to the entrance, I hear. Here he is. Let's ask him.

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  World-famous Afghan Buddhas of Bamiyan

  Buddhism in Central Asia may sound strange, but Buddhism really began in Central Asia (a place some might call the Stans), where the Buddha was born and raised: Scythia, Saka, Gandhara. While legend has him in Nepal, Dr. Ranajit Pal and archeology corrects that notion.

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  Ancient Gandhara is some modern Stans

  The largest Buddhist monuments and monasteries in the world are in modern Afghanistan, and they did not arrive there via the Silk Road transmission but had already been there even as Bihar was populated with so many Vihar's that it got its name as an Indian state. They were celebrating their native son, who returned seven years after he set off on his quest. There was no "India" at that time, only Magadha and other independent kingdoms that were united two centuries later by Buddhist Emperor Ashoka. In these strange and little-known countries there are Buddhist artifacts that make little sense until one places "Scythiamuni" Buddha in his proper context, in a land from in and around Indo-Saka-stan.

Traveling to the strangest country on Earth

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• Yes Theory, 11/12/23; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trees: one country gaining forests (video)

Where's the best place to mediate? The forest. But be protected: practice metta first.

Why does this forest look like a fingerprint?

(Vox) Team Vox set out to solve why a forest in the middle of Uruguay, South America, looks like a fingerprint and other odd patterns — and wound up finding something much bigger.

• The most famous Buddhist tree in the world
• The oldest trees in the world live in California
• The largest single stem tree: General Sherman

They're just trees. What's the big deal?

Deep in the geographic center of Uruguay, there’s a peculiar group of trees just a few kilometers down the road from the small town of San Gregorio de Polanco.

From the ground, it's not particularly notable. But from above, from a bird or drone's eye view (and particularly on Google Earth), the view is mind-boggling:

Hundreds of trees are arranged in perfect concentric arcs, all spiraling toward the center. Together, they look remarkably like a human fingerprint.

When the team first saw this forest in a Reddit post, it was fascinated.

• Why had the trees been arranged in this shape?
• Who planted them there?
• And why — when one zooms out on satellite view — was the entire country of Uruguay covered in similar-looking forests?

To answer that question, the team went straight to the source: interviewing locals, experts, and people whose lives have been shaped by a transformed landscape and economy.

Further reading

• Read the text of the original “forestry law”: impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/1...
• Read some of Alexandra’s work on afforestation and wildlife: sciencedirect.com/science...
• Eilís O’Neill has a great feature in the Nation on Uruguay’s forestry industry: thenation.com/article/arc...
• More stories about residents affected by the railway construction: yle.fi/a/3-11756418
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• Vox.com, May 9, 2024; Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly