Life in Los Angeles circa 1880 (video)

Woman born in 1878 talks about her childhood in Los Angeles in the 1880s

How could Belle Buford remember so far back?

(Life in the 1800s) Mrs. Belle Buford Thom Collins was born in 1878 in Los Angeles (which she pronounces, as many whites used to, "Loss An'gless"), California. She speaks about her childhood in the Los Angeles of the 1880s. Her father, LA Mayor Cameron Erskine Thom (1825-1915), who served L.A. between 1882 and 1884. Mrs. Collins' niece, Rowena, speaks in the beginning of the recording.

• AUDIO: "Reminiscences of [old] Los Angeles" by Belle Buford Thom Collins | California Revealed
• Reminiscences of Los Angeles by Belle Buford Thom Collins (Internet Archive)

Her neighbors (in her mind), all named Poncho

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:35 Rowena (Belle's niece) speaking
• 2:25 Belle Buford Thom Collins speaking

Stevie Emerson BBQ grilling Los Angeles today

This audio has been remastered for clarity. It was recorded on Nov. 26, 1964. The original tape contained several gaps, so some points begin mid-sentence. All photographs are of early Los Angeles, from the 1870s to the late 1890s. Source: The Huntington Library californiarevealed.org/island...

LA now has all kinds, but whites still want to rule

New history channel "The History Zone" contains historical videos from all time periods. @thehistoryzone272. Music channel is Life in the Music: @lifeinthemusic9399.

• Part 2: Woman Born in 1878 Talks About Her Childhood...

Euro legacy of racism? Implicit bias: LA Times reckons with its record on race and racism

(Los Angeles Times) Sept. 27, 2020: The big LA newspaper is taking an unflinching look at its history, as institutions across America reflect on racial inequality and the legacy of past harm lingering today.

Whites do not know much about it because they were not the ones who had to suffer it so much as being the ones whom the system privileged and gave advantages to. Now we see widespread gentrification as the climax of a slow genocide of Natives is reached. There are three groups that are prominent in this:

• the white European settler colonialists,
• the residual brown Mexicans from this being Mexico for so many centuries, and
• the red Indigenous (Indian, Native Americans, First Nations) peoples who have been here the longest.

The picture is complicated by the fact that the Spanish (from Europe's Iberian Peninsula with its strong ties to imperial Rome and the priestly and banking arm of the military known today as the Holy Roman Catholic Church) blended European and Indian blood to such an extent that nearly all Mexicans living here now are a blend of two peoples.

Racist Glendale, an LA Sundown Town, is where

as teenagers my white girlfriend and I hung out.

(The Casta system survives only now it deal metes out privileges and punishments in a less than overt ways, whereas in the past it was enforced by laws on the books).

There's no dividing us now even in a white-majority hegemon that screams, "We're a minority now like everyone else!" We are not because what happened was a statistical trick of the count. Suddenly, whites got put on one side of the scale and everybody else (the Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Blacks, Asians, Middle Easterners, and sundry other groups, such as the very exclusive Ashkenazi crypto-Jews who with others pass and blend and largely go unnoticed, from all over the country and planet) got put on the other side. 

And whaddyaknow?! Suddenly whites were in the minority. But they never have been. Each group is a group, and white continues to be the biggest group. Anyone can see that just walking around Los Angeles or going to the beach. One sure see a lot of diversity, but mainly what one sees are whites, white privilege, white fragility, whites screaming "reverse racism!" while filming The Daily Wire video shorts on the UCLA quad and campus environs.

Banks didn't tell citizens about their secret practice

We are only saying that any mention of Los Angeles cannot leave out its legacy of racism, privilege, criminal police (LAPD) and Sheriff Department abuses, real estate abuses (that redlined different racial groups into different parts of the county and city by design with the aid of bank loan officers). What we have today is the result of decisions made in the past. The legacy of Spain's racism in Mexico, the Southwest, and in particular Alta California has a lot to do with it.

But new European arrivals were only too happy to continue those self-privileging policies and maintain the system by greed, aversion to others (xenophobia), and willful ignorance and delusion that we're a colorblind society that has moved beyond race and shouldn't even mention race because to mention it is racist. It is not racist. Racism is racist, and letting it fester is doing nothing about it. The first thing that needs to be done about it to bring about any kind of equality or equity is shining a light on it and remembering history.

• Life in the 1800s, May 26, 2023: Frank Black, "Los Angeles" (1993) via Beavis & Butthead (MTV); Latin American Los Angelenos Crystal Quintero, the Mexican Buddhist, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

1812: strange hidden history: Tartars (video)

Rebel without a pause; Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

True Earth: What happened in 1812? Who were the Tartars? What was the mud flood?

This is a showcase piece, a non-profit venture, a video presentation using research conducted by others. What is the BIG picture of our history? Let us go in search of hidden history, rather than accept being lied to. There are resources to piece together to open our eyes to the reality around us. This is a first attempt.

Credits: Age of Disclosure & Marcia Ramalho Philipp Druzhinin. Host of Mud Flood stolenhistory.org. Host of Conspiracy-R-US. Host of Flat Earth Nation Dei Aurea Praeterita. Host of Mud Fossil University Aplanetruth.info. Host of NewEarth Channel Rossette De Lacroix. Rebel Without A Pause Martin Liedtke... Flat Earth British chronologia.org. Host of Alvantara Kitaphane.tarterstan.ru sergej-manit.livejournal.com Survincity.com Politrussia.com Rbth.com Xenophon-mil.org Russ-history.blogspot.com sanderusmaps.com. 

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Why no Moon return? ("Apollo 18" trailer)

(APOLLO 18) Officially, Apollo 17 -- which the US launched on December 17, 1972 -- was the last manned mission to the Moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the Moon funded by the US Department of War (Defense). This movie claims to contain actual footage the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it is the real reason we have never gone back to the Moon.

• Final "Apollo 18" trailer gives us the most plot yet
• Apollo 18 trailer is a great movieteaser (Guardian)
  

Rebirth Fable: The Laughing Weeping Goat

Matakabhatta Jataka: Goat that Laughed & Wept
Buddhist Publication Society (Jataka 18)

One day, while the Buddha was staying in Jetavana, some Buddhist ascetics (bhikkhus) asked him if there was any benefit in sacrificing goats, sheep, and other animals as offerings for departed relatives.

"No, bhikkhus," replied the Buddha. "No good ever comes from taking life, not even when it is for the purpose of providing a Feast for the Dead." He then told this story of the past.

STORY OF THE PAST

Long, long ago, when Brahmadatta was reigning in Baranasi, a brahmin decided to offer a Feast for the Dead and bought a goat to sacrifice. "My boys," he said to his students, "take this goat down to the river, bathe it, brush it, hang a garland around its neck, give it some grain to eat, and bring it back."

"Yes, sir," they replied and led the goat to the river.

While they were grooming it, the goat started to laugh with a sound like a pot smashing. Then, just as strangely, it started to weep loudly.

The young students were amazed at this behavior. "Why did you suddenly laugh," they asked the goat, "and why do you now cry so loudly?"

"Repeat your question when we get back to your teacher," the goat answered.

The students hurriedly took the goat back to their master and told him what had happened at the river. Hearing the story, the master himself asked the goat why it had laughed and why it had wept.

"In times past, brahmin," the goat began, "I was a brahmin who taught the Vedas like you. I, too, sacrificed a goat as an offering for a Feast for the Dead. Because of killing that single goat, I have had my head cut off 499 times. [Note: In the sutras "500" means "a lot."]

"I laughed aloud when I realized that this is my last birth as an animal to be sacrificed. Today I will be freed from my misery. On the other hand, I cried when I realized that because of killing me, you, too, may be doomed to lose your head 500 times. It was out of pity for you that I cried."

"Well, goat," said the brahmin, "in that case, I am not going to kill you."

"Brahmin!" exclaimed the goat. "Whether or not you kill me, I cannot escape death today."

"Don't worry," the brahmin assured the goat. "I will guard you."

"You don't understand," the goat told him. "Your protection is weak. The force of my [unskilful karma] is very strong."

The brahmin untied the goat and said to his students, "Don't allow anyone to harm this goat." They obediently followed the animal to protect it.

After the goat was freed, it began to graze. It stretched out its neck to reach the leaves on a bush growing near the top of a large rock. At that very instant a lightning bolt hit the rock, breaking off a sharp piece of stone which flew through the air and neatly cut off the goat's head.

A crowd of people gathered around the dead goat and began to talk excitedly about the amazing accident.

A tree deva* had observed everything from the goat's purchase to its dramatic death, and drawing a lesson from the incident, admonished the crowd: "If people only knew that the penalty would be rebirth into sorrow, they would cease from taking life. A horrible doom awaits one who slays."

With this explanation of the law of karma the deva instilled in his listeners the fear of perdition (hell). The people were so frightened that they completely gave up the practice of animal sacrifices. The deva further instructed the people in the Precepts and urged them to do good.

Eventually, that deva passed away to fare according to his deserts. For several generations after that, people remained faithful to the Precepts and spent their lives in charity and meritorious works, so that many were reborn in the heavens.

The Buddha ended his lesson by identifying the birth saying, "In those days I was that deva."

NOTE
*Devas are celestial beings, ranging from the high deities to earthbound tree-spirits.

Child Lama missing!

The Panchen Lama: Tibet's Stolen Childhood
If still alive, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima turned 18 years old on April 25, 2007. Since his 1995 kidnap, China has refused to allow either governments or United Nations emissaries access to the Panchen Lama, claiming that his parents requested he not be disturbed.

As of his birthday, however, he is no longer considered a child under Chinese or international law. He presumably has the right to speak on his own behalf. In 2007, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ms. Asma Jahangir, reiterated her request for a fact-finding visit to China.

The Special Rapporteur could demand access to the Panchen Lama and his family to verify that they are alive and well. We need the UN Special Rapporteur to know that the Panchen Lama must be a top priority when she next travels to China – sign the petition!

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