Happy Int'l Hot and Spicy Food Day

International Hot and Spicy Food Day

Is "American Chinese food" Chinese food?

• VIDEO: Vui's Kitchen on Hot and Spicy Food Day 2026

Favorite: green curry over rice

There is a world of Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. What is so good about vegan and vegetarian Thai and Indian foods, Chinese and Korean? Curry? No, it's that they are spicy and flavorful. But even Chinese food has a hot source call Szechuan. Mexican food (like sauteed fajitas) is the most popular cuisine in the USA. Why? It might have something to do with the spicy, freshness, crispy crunch, and health benefits -- greens, chiles, lemon, peppers, beans, and whole grains (at least in the original indigenous form). Many Buddhist countries, which are renowned for their calm, cool, and collectedness -- sure do offer a lot of spice. It is the characteristic of hot place, particularly tropical ones like Theravada Sri Lanka.

• INTERNATIONAL HOT AND SPICY FOOD DAY - January 16, 2026 (National Today)

Better than meat? Plant-based proteins

Chef Gordon Ramsay makes spicy cauliflower vegan dish

• 5 regions known for ultra-spicy dishes and countries where the heat is much milder (MSN)
• CC Liu, Crystal Q., Imogen, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, VEGAN TEST KITCHEN

USA to invade Greenland to fight China

WRONG: "It's all about the oil, Stupid!": [colonized thinker] Mehdi Hasan on Trump [doing what drug dealers in the CIA told him to do, which is keep] attacking Venezuela and [start] kidnapping [Jewish converso] Pres. Maduro [to thwart China]

• Penis Diddy and Nick Maduro 😂 #donaldtrump #venzuela #maduro #cartoon

Death metal singer wins beauty pageant

Why are Latins most beautiful in the world? Blending? Ignacia Fernández (@ignacia.fdez)

(Primordial Radio) DEATH METAL singer and beauty contestant wins Miss World Chile

Death metal singer wins Miss World Chile

(Fotos Metal) Sexy Ignacia Fernandez with Decessus in Mibar, Wednesday, November 20th, 2024

Beauty Queen Ignacia F

(Primordial Radio) Nov. 10, 2025: Chilean Latina (Mestiza) death metal singer Ignacia Fernández, 27, of death metal band Decessus has put the genre onto the world stage by WINNING the Miss World Chile Beauty Pageant.

Following an incredible performance of an unreleased Decessus track on national TV, Ignacia Fernandez stunned the judges and audience, bringing death metal to one of the world’s most traditional beauty pageant stages.

Decessus performs "Deliverance" with Ignatia Fernandez on vocals

In a heartfelt Instagram post, she shared that metal has always been “a refuge, a source of strength and purpose,” adding that the experience gave her a chance to “break down barriers, inspire, and show that you don’t have to fear the prejudices of others.”

Decessus covers Carcass' grindcore classic “This Mortal Coil” in 2021

Following that viral moment, Fernandez went on to win Miss World Chile and will now represent Chile and the global metal community at Miss World 2026.

Check out her band Decessus [Diseases?], who’ve toured and performed alongside Epica, Jinjer, and Insomnium, and listen to their track “Dark Flames” linked below.

She can really sing/scream metal

Skip forward to Minute 0:55 to watch Ignacia belting out Arch Enemy

• Ignacia Fernández: ignacia.fdez
• Decessus: decessus_official
• Who's Miss World 2025? Indian Suchata Chuangsri
• There still beauty pageants? MUCH: Miss Universe Chile

It was 2025 and the winner got emotional

Miss World Chile (Spanish Miss Mundo Chile) is a national beauty pageant that selects Chile's official representative to Miss World—one of the Big Four beauty pageants. The previous titleholder was Francisca Lavandero [1] of Los Ángeles (Chile), who represented Chile at the Miss World 2025 pageant on May 31, 2025, in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is now Ignacia Fernandez. More

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(Rock Feed) Latin American (Chilean) beauty pageant crowd stunned by death metal performance

Latina Rosalia can sing, too

What about me? I can sing (Rosalia)

Rosalia Vila Tobella (born Sept. 25, 1992), is known mononymously as "Rosalía." She is a Spanish singer, polyglot, and songwriter. She has been described as an "atypical pop star" due to her genre-bending musical styles [4]. After being enthralled by Spanish folk music at age 14, she studied musicology at the Catalonia College of Music while also performing at musical bars and weddings. More

• MetalBirb; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Mexico, Chile, Argentina march for Gaza

Protests in Chile and Argentina demand sanctions on Israel over Gaza famine (Dawn News English)

(Katie Halper) Max Blumenthal: "Everyone hates Israel now"

Mexico City protesters march for Gaza, urge end to diplomatic and economic ties with Israel

(Al Jazeera English) Aug. 17, 2025: Jewish Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is not on board with demonstrators and prefers to stay aligned with genocidal, Jewish Zionist Israel.

Student organizations and workers groups in Mexico have been holding a march in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, calling for an end to Israel's genocidal and systematic industrial-scale extermination in the name of a biblical war (remembering Amalek) and for the Mexican government to cut ties with abhorrent Israel. Al Jazeera’s Julia Galiano reports from Mexico City.

#GazaWar #Israel #AlJazeeraEnglish. Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government.

• Ryan Cristian, Jimmy Dore (TJDS); Al Jazeera English, Aug. 17, 2025; The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal (The Katie Halper Show); Investor Global TV; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Beyond the ice wall of Antarctica

(Joe Scott) This is why you can’t go to Antarctica

WARNING: This video should be called "How to Hide While Pretending to Reveal the Truth About Antarctica." There really is an ice wall according to Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Theosophical cosmologies, and Admiral Richard Byrd really did work for the military, explore the poles, meet with the Agarthans (not "eggarthans") inside our Hollow Earth, Agartha. He has explored both poles, not at the same time as suggested or confused in this video that never mentions the SOUTH Pole and even spoken of lands beyond it. If the Earth were a ball, and the poles were poles on that ball, what "land" could there beyond it? There couldn't be any, just space. If it were flat and circular, on the other hand, concentric circles with ice rings, there sure could be. But this business about a giant hoax statue and strawberry jellyfish? What could it be inserted for other than to discredit everything else? This is one great problem with A.I. It's a terrible robot with no feelings or conscience, just an automatic machine for spreading whatever someone tells it to conjure up a script for.]

If one free falls from top to bottom, it always takes 90 minutes to pass

but it is not a level pancake or pizza shaped disc one is passing through?

• Deep Lake (Vestfold Hills, Antarctica)
• Nebula.TV

90-year-old footage from beyond the ice wall of Antarctica scares the entire world

(Matter) April 2, 2024: Antarctica is frequently regarded as one of the harshest and most isolated environments on Earth. Yet, for scientists conducting research on the supposed continent, it represents a realm of astonishing marvels and revelations. However, during a recent expedition, an unsettling discovery sent shivers down their spines. [Did it? We missed the elongated alien skulls discovery touted here, skulls which have been found in nearby South America and faraway Egypt.] The footage they captured has been described as absolutely "terrifying," challenging our understanding of the world. Could this be evidence of a long-standing legend?

Join us as we explore the chilling footage from Antarctica that has sent shockwaves across the globe. [There isn't, and it hasn't.] In Antarctica's vast and frozen expanse, an astonishing sight jolted the entire world and left people on the edge of their seats!

A colossal alien robot with its metallic frame gleaming under the polar sun emerged directly from the ice. [We missed this ridiculous story. If it happened, this is one way to get people to ignore it.] The entire universe held its breath. [Did it, did it really, Mr. A.I. Matter?] And theories of extraterrestrial life started flying here and there. [Here, there, but not everywhere, who writes these scripts?] Scientists marveled at the intricate craftsmanship, pondering its origins and purpose. However, as investigations deepened, cracks in the façade appeared shockingly. After a series of investigations, the giant, scary robot that terrified everyone was exposed as an elaborate hoax created by a group of eccentric artists. The whole world gasped in disbelief, yet the fascination remained. [Bogus claims do terrible damage.]

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(The Richest) What's really behind the Ice Wall in Antarctica?

New oldest tree in the world found in Chile

Why do things grow so big and healthy along the Pacific Ocean high in California?

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There's prana energy coming up from trees.

There used to be a time when Buddhism had the oldest tree in the world, the Buddha's Bodhi (Enlightenment) tree, a pipal or sacred fig (Ficus religiosa), which is still the oldest documented and attested tree in the historical record.

• It may seem a coincidence that the historical Buddha had an "enlightenment tree," but in fact all samma-sam-buddhas ("supremely awakened ones") do. The Buddha spoke of buddhas of the distant past, naming their chief disciples and other features, including the type of tree they awakened under.

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  Finding the Mother Tree

  This hints at just how important trees are. Save forests, save earth!

But a California bristlecone pine dubbed Methuselah took the crone for being far old, as proved by rings. Such trees do not even look alive, but are beaten down, shriveled, with gnarled bark and a few green sprouts that show they do yet live.

In a grove of ancients, the oldest among them was recognized.

This may or may not be her, Methuselah Pine.

California has it all -- the world's tallest tree (hidden in Northern California in dense underbrush, kept secret to avoid visitors who might damage it unintentionally, although the secret is out and maps to it exist). And there's the world's largest tree, the photogenic "General Sherman" in the Gove of Giants (or is that the Grove of Titans?), Sequoia National Park on the Pacific Coast near Yosemite National Park, which also has a grove of massive California redwoods.

The giant sequoia is the world's largest tree, and there are many such enormous redwoods.

Thank you, Bodhi Tree

So the oldest completed the trifecta, on the road to Sequoia Nat'l Park and Yosemite from Los Angeles, near the fork in the road -- along the California Alps (Sierra Madre range visible from the 395 Freeway) -- where one can turn right and plunge into Death Valley and Nevada beyond that.

Now the world will focus on Chile (until the next discovery in Tartary, the Tartarian Empire, or the realization that there are no trees left in the world because the ancient trees, made of silica rather than carbon, were cut down and are now mesas, flattened mountains clearly visible from helicopters).

In the distant past, "trees" were gigantic and made of silica

It's not just one giant tree. There are many massive stumps

Old California "trees" are cacti? (Joshua trees)

Of course, that's too mind blowing to even mention, so scratch that from memory, and let's go to Jeremiah Budin, who is not a Buddhist so far as we know, in the Latin South American country of Chile.

Though trees across the globe are under threat from the corporate logging and agriculture industries and the chaotic changing climate, one tree in Alerce Costero National Park in Chile (western South America, the real Down Under, the world's southernmost country) is believed to have survived for more than 5,000 years — and experts say it is the oldest living tree in the world.

The tree, known as Gran Abuelo (“Great Grandfather”), is believed to be even older than the currently recognized oldest tree in the world, California’s 4,850-year-old Methuselah Pine.

The newest oldest tree in the world

This is the Gran Abuelo ("Great Grandfather"), the oldest tree in the world known to science.

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Why did Siddhartha sit under a tree? To meditate

Scientists are in the process of measuring the tree’s age in an effort to get it officially recognized as the world’s oldest. “It’s a survivor; there are no others that have had the opportunity to live so long,” said Antonio Lara, one of the scientists working on determining the tree’s age.

Gran Abuelo, a Patagonian cypress (Fitzroya cupressoides) was discovered by a park ranger in 1972. [And luckily it had its birth certificate stapled to it in protective plastic? How did the ranger know? Was it psychic intuition? Did the tree spirits talk like in that famous Buddhist tree story?]

Buddha Boy, when out of jail, should sit here

Though its exact location was initially kept secret to protect the tree (as is still the case with the Methuselah Pine), tourists are now allowed to trek about an hour through the forest to take pictures alongside it.

Chile’s National Parks Service has increased the number of park rangers on patrol to make sure the tree is kept from harm. More: Scientists make stunning discovery in remote forest: ‘There are no others that have had the opportunity to live so long’

• BATimes.com | Latin America | World's oldest tree able to reveal planet's secrets
• Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Suzanne Simard)
• Scientists discovered two 11,500-year-old skeletons and unlocked ancient secrets about DNA
• The Cool Down (via MSN.com and BATimes.com); Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Int'l Hot and Spicy Food Day (1/16)

MSN.com, 1/16/24; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mapo Tofu is spicy but can contain dead pig

There are two kinds of people, the ones who divide people into two, and the ones who don't. There are also the ones who shy away from spicy foods, and the ones who relish any chance to spice it up and turn up the heat. And while anyone can certainly whip up a spicy dish in one's own kitchen, the ultimate eats for true heat seekers are sprinkled around the world. In honor of International Hot and Spicy Food Day on Jan. 16, MSN found several foods that will set mouths ablaze. More

• Masala chai named 2nd-best non-alcoholic beverage in world

International Hot and Spicy Food Day 2024, Turn Up the Spice Hot Recipes (NDTV Food)

It must be the British in me that craves curry and spice (Billie Eilish likes it hot)

Belize, 9 other countries cut ties with Israel

Brian Bushard, Forbes via MSN, 11/15/23; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Israeli PM Netanyahu rebuffed calls for any "humanitarian" pause in Israel's war on Hamas.

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Belize latest cutting diplomatic ties with Israel — joining these 8 other countries

Belize has become the latest country this week to pull its ambassador from Israel since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, Palestinian civilians in the name of revenge on political party Hamas that it previously propped up and funded, citing Israel’s refusal to heed calls for a humanitarian pause in its conflict, as its invasion of Gaza enters its sixth week.

Key Facts

In a statement on Tuesday, Belize’s government reiterated calls for an “immediate ceasefire” to allow for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, announcing it will suspend all diplomatic activities in Tel Aviv and withdraw its accreditation for Israel’s ambassador.

Belize

Belize’s government also condemned Israel’s bombings and invasion of Gaza, accusing its "defense" forces of violating international humanitarian laws. (Human rights experts have said attacks by Israel and Hamas on civilians have likely violated international law, while the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory stated last month that “there is already clear evidence that war crimes may have been committed”).

South Africa

Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, a spokesperson for South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, announced last week the country “decided to withdraw all its diplomats in Tel Aviv,” citing Pres. Ramaphosa’s cabinet’s “disappoint[ment] by the refusal of the Israeli government to respect international law and the United Nations resolutions with impunity.”

Chad

Chad also recalled its ambassador in Israel, issuing a statement condemning the “loss of numerous innocent civilians and calls for a ceasefire for a durable solution to the Palestinian issue.”

Turkey

Turkey recalled ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar, according to a statement from Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier this month, calling out Israel for an “unfolding humanitarian tragedy in Gaza” after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu “no longer someone we can talk to,” though Erdogan acknowledged: “complete disconnection is not possible, especially in international diplomacy.”

Israel has exterminated more than 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the majority being women and children, according to the Associated Press, citing the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, while less than 1,200 Israelis have been killed, many of whom were active military, former military, and civilians complicit in crimes against Palestinians along with innocent noncombatants killed in the October 7 operation on Israel, which was used as a pretext to forcibly relocate more than a million Palestinians from their land.

Honduras

Honduras also recalled its ambassador Roberto Martinez “amid the grave humanitarian situation” in Gaza, the country’s Foreign Minister Enrique Reina said on X, formerly known as Twitter, becoming the latest Latin American country to cut diplomatic ties with Israel.

Bahrain

Bahrain’s Parliament said earlier this month the Middle Eastern country had suspended its economic ties with Israel and recalled its ambassador, while Israel’s ambassador in Bahrain was also sent back to Israel, though Israel’s Foreign Ministry claimed it had not been notified of the decision, calling relations between the two countries “stable,” multiple outlets reported.

Jordan
Jordan, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, recalled its ambassador and ordered Israel’s ambassador in Jordan not to return to the country, its Foreign Ministry announced in a statement on X, accusing Israel of “killing innocent people” and “causing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe” with “dangerous possibilities for its expansion.”

Bolivia

Bolivia also broke ties with Israel, with Bolivia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani condemning the “aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive” in Gaza, according to multiple translations.

Colombia

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro announced late last month the country had recalled ambassador Margarita Manjarrez, with Petro also calling for a cease-fire in the conflict.

Chile

Chile also brought back its ambassador from Israel, with its Foreign Affairs Ministry issuing a statement saying it “strongly condemns” Israel’s military operations, calling it a “great concern” and arguing Israel’s operations in Gaza equate to “collective punishment.” 

Chief Critic

Lior Haiat, a spokesperson for Israel’s Foreign Ministry, slammed Turkey’s decision to recall its ambassador in a post on X, calling the move “another step by the Turkish president that sides with the Hamas terrorist organization.”

Key Background

Netanyahu earlier this month rejected calls for pauses in Israel’s war with Hamas, vowing to continue military operations in Gaza “with full force” and conditioning any pause in Israeli military action on Hamas’ release of Israeli hostages.

U.S. officials, along with those of other Western countries, have called for pauses in the conflict to allow for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza and for the safe release of hostages. Netanyahu agreed to daily pauses last week. More

• Netanyahu rejects U.S. call for pauses in Gaza conflict — unless hostages are released

Metal in the Americas (Latino USA/NPR)

Jeanne Montalvo Lucar and Maria Hinojosa, The Breakdown, LatinoUSA.org (PRX and NPR.org, Aug. 25, 2023); Madison Rox, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Orale, Cola-Cabeza, toca tu guitara, vato! - Metal, guay, metal pesado! Aye caramba!

The crowds at Latin American arena shows are too big and too caliente (Leo Correa/AP).

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Nu metal is the best metal in the Americas

(Latino USA) In a world full of stereotypes, Latinos listen to nothing but tropical rhythms with heavy [bongo] percussion.

But the reality is that heavy metal is one of the biggest genres of music across Latin America (Meso-, Central-, and South Americas), with bands like [Slayer and Sepultura], Iron Maiden and Judas Priest selling out huge arenas whenever they tour in the region.

Arena rock is better than sports, except futbol

“It sounds like for many people that is noise, but it’s not. You have to be a very accomplished musician,” says Rodrigo Sanchez of the guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela that has been known to make virtuosic acoustic covers of metal songs [in Ireland].

Heavy metal began in the late 60s and early 70s in Great Britain, in part as a reaction to economic crisis that was gripping the country at the time. Many young people were unemployed and angry and looking for a place to express themselves.

Sorry, homeboy, black metal is for whites only!

They created a sound even more rebellious than plain old rock 'n roll. That sound spread throughout Europe, to the United States, and to Latin America — a region where many had their own reasons to be angry at the world.

Metal bands sprung up around Latin America in the late 70s and early 80s with their own sound and their own things to say.

Hard, Heavy & Happy (Nico Rose)

“That music was like perfect for a third world p*ssed off kid. It was like the best,” says Max Cavalera, founding member of the legendary Brazilian metal band Sepultura, which became popular all over the world in the 1990s.

“The poverty, the violence of the country [Brazil]. We took hold of that music. It became something that we could count on it to get through. It was like a weapon.”

Latino USA: Breakdown

Today’s “Breakdown,” which originally aired Dec. 2019, takes a look at the extreme fandom for heavy metal across Latin America and discusses the story behind the ground-breaking band Sepultura — that not only broke barriers for metal coming out of the region but also changed the sound of metal music around the world. Source

There's enough heavy metal to welcome everyone from every country to get in the pit

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