We spent the day at the largest Chinese New Year celebration in the United States (roughly the size of Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, Upstate New York). Hsi Lai (pronounced \she lie\, which means "Going West") Temple had it all, including Aztec dancers (Danza Azteca, perhaps representing Siberian Asians cum Native Americans who are mostly local Mexicans) topping off a cultural show of martial arts demonstrations, dances, dragons, and a big central horse representing the year to come.
The lines were out the door but moving fast.
The all-you-can-eat vegan buffet was great (daily, only $10) with noodles, veggies, sweet and sour, tofu, lotus roots, soup, tea, fruit, and fried Indian dharma wheels. The rare rainstorm in Los Angeles cleared the skies as the sun broke through for the outdoor festivities.
We have never seen the temple, said to be the largest in the Western Hemisphere, this crowded. Parking was only found blocks away, and buses were bringing in celebrants. Everyone had their phones out, filming the spectacle. And even the monastics were clapping and enjoying themselves.
Everyone was immersed in Chinese culture uniquely blending with this part of Mexico. (Yes, California is part of Mexico or was until our empire stole it from Spain's empire). Perhaps 20,000 well-wishers passed through the gates throughout the day. Festivities continue for two weeks.
8,000 years ago females made a choice that erased 90% of males forever
(Psychryptoria) Dec. 6, 2025: Eight thousand years ago, 17 females reproduced for every 1 male. And 90% of male bloodlines vanished—not through war, plague, or disaster, but through female choice and economics.
The connection between ancient bottlenecks and modern dating apps
What this means for our DNA and relationships today
How empire profits from boys
Research Notes and Key Sources:
Karmin et al. (2015) - "A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture"
Genome Research, 25(4):459-466
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25770...
Zeng et al. (2018) - "Cultural hitchhiking and competition between patrilineal kin groups explain the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck"
Nature Communications, 9:2077
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Schulting & Fibiger (2023) - "Conflict, violence, and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe"
PNAS, 120(16)
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von Rueden & Jaeggi (2016) - "Men's status and reproductive success in 33 nonindustrial societies: Effects of subsistence, marriage system, and reproductive strategy"
PNAS, 113(39):10824-10829
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Rivollat et al. (2023) - "Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community"
Nature, 620:600-606
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Statistics know all. No one can beat the stats. If the stats say it, that's the way it'll be.
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(Saturday Night Live) Nov. 1, 2025: Zohran Mamdani [pronounced So Ran Ma'am Donny] (here played by Ramy Youssef), corrupt Andrew Cuomo (Miles Teller), and Curtis Sliwa (Shane Gillis) debate one another in the race to become New York City's next mayor. #SNL #MilesTeller #BrandiCarlile. NYC Mayoral Debate Cold Open - SNL. The election takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, so get out and vote.
See, Kids, sometimes it doesn't work out. If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. Corrupt Trump pardon's corrupt NY Mayor Eric Adams, who kissed the Orange One's butt and appeased his ego as well as pledging his allegiance to crooked Republicans. He had to to stay out of jail.
Sometimes it does work out, but who would bet on it? Trump keeps winning in court, the court of public opinion, and de facto on the ground.
I should run to be Trump's choice!
Judges may order him to keep ICE in his pants and out of our cities, but does he listen? Judges may order him to fund SNAP or food stamps to keep 1 out of 8 Americans from food insecurity (going hungry, malnourishment, malnutrition, and starvation), but does he listen?
He's got corrupt likely-rapist Justice Kavanaugh and others on the Supreme Court back his Agenda 2025 crimes, which Homan and Bannon must have had a grand time writing.
I run this country, Ghislane, I pick who wins.
Now if Andrew Cuomo can be resuscitated and put to work for Trump and Israel, what was the chance that millennials, youth, idealists, anti-Zionist Jews, and the diverse array of New Yorkers were going to be able to stop him?
What if Trump becomes official U.S. Dictator?
Progressive Democrat self-proclaimed socialist (like successful Kshama Sawant and hopeful candidate Katie Wilson) Mamdani meant well, even though progressive commentator Jimmy Dore points out that he has already caved to the power elite. He's an improvement but far from ideal, far from perfect, far from a real solution.
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration come under fire for underreporting COVID deaths in nursing homes after he controversially directed homes to accept infectious elders.
(Telerama) Jello Biafra (AlternativeTentacles.com), singer (original frontman) for the Dead Kennedys: "In some ways, maybe punk should die...that way it can be reborn" [and become something influential and important again]. Once a great independent thinker, what has happened now?
The Hippie Trail: The Story of the Original Travel Influencers
Our quest will take us high up to the very top
(Alive & Curious) Who were the original travel influencers? This is the story of the Hippie Trail, the ultimate road trip of the 1960s and 70s, a countercultural odyssey that saw free-spirited travelers journeying overland from the U.S. and Europe to Asia in search of enlightenment and adventure.
The journey usually began in Western cities like London, Amsterdam, and West Berlin (with plenty others coming from New York and Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Jersey) before weaving through Istanbul and venturing into Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and finally Freak Street in Nepal.
Entheogens are mind-expanding drugs that are capable of bringing out the divine that resides within. More than mere drugs and far from pharmaceuticals, these natural substances (like DMT, bufo, magic mushrooms, a fungus synthesized as LSD, harmaline, and even cannabis in some uses) may have been the lure -- along with the promise of "free love" -- of the Hippie Trail:
The Hippie Trail (or Overland) was a land journey taken by members of the hippie subculture and others from the mid-1950s, all through the 1960s, to the late 1970s [2], travelling from Europe and West Asia through South Asia via countries such as
The Hippie Trail was a form of alternative (sometimes spiritual) tourism. One of the key elements was travelling as cheaply as possible (on a shoestring, with a knapsack, rucksack, or backpack and a big thumb), mainly to extend the length of time away from home.
Pres. Dick Nixon killed Freak St.
This is part of the trail that started in the U.S.
The term "hippie" became current in the mid-to-late 1960s; "beatnik" (BG) was the previous term from the later 1950s, when everyone was reading Jack Kerouac's Buddhism-infusedThe Dharma Bums.
At every major stop of the Hippie Trail, there were cheap hotels, cozy restaurants, and far out cafés for Westerners, who networked with each other as they travelled West and East.
These hippies tended to interact more with the local population than traditional sightseers did [1], really wanting to experience each location fully.
The Hippie Trail largely ended in the late 1970s primarily due to both the Iranian Revolution resulting in an anti-Western government, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, closing the route to Western travelers [4, 5, 1, 6].
Nowadays, a handful of overlanders, van-dwellers, and adventure travelers follow roughly the route of the old Hippie Trail [7, 8] -- destination Freak Street (Jhochhen Tole). More
The Beatles destinations Pink Floyd Jimmi Hendrix The Pudding Shop Istanbul the Lale Restaurant Magic Bus Company Goa Volkswagen Kombi VW Combi Van Travel in 1960s Travel in 1970s Role of Psychedelic Music The Bikini Killer Serpent Bangkok Drug Tourism Rishikesh Ashram The Who
A person gets so sick of politics and politicians, business bullsitters and oligarchs, war profiteers and phony anti-war figures that what can one do but follow the words of Berkeley student Mario Savio? He gets to the point, and anyone who cares about freedom and what America's ideals are said to be might agree. Hey, why not? It's March Forth Day.
(pppaaatttrrriiikkk1) What's the alternative to metal? Nu metal (aka alt metal), at least it was back in the summer of 2003 when Deftones were live at Big Day Out or Big Day In in Sydney, Australia, down under where the fans go around the fur for their adrenaline. Fast forward to today, when the Deftones are in Los Angeles for a big show at the Forum, aka the Kia.
A call for civil disobedience when freedom is threatened
MARCH FORTH is an annual unofficial American holiday celebrated on March 4th to encourage everyone to work towards achieving their dreams. It aims to provide an opportunity for people to take calculated risks towards achieving their goals and developing themselves. It is a special day to take a stand against procrastination or the faux reasons that tend to creep into our heads and discourage us from even trying. The name was made up as a homophone of the day "March Fourth." It is also the shortened version of the full name — "March Forth and Do Something Day." More
When you think of pyramids, you think of Mexico, home of the largest known pyramid (Cholula) or maybe Bosnia and Indonesia with their mountain-sized pyramids that science is reluctant to certify as manmade structures. Maye it's Sudan, the country with the greatest number of pyramids. Sudan? (Which country has the most pyramids? It’s not Egypt | IFLScience). Formerly Buddhist Indonesia not only has an ancient and massive pyramid, it also has a Buddhist pyramid in the largest excavated Buddhist temple complex in the world, Java's Borobudur with its mysterious "bell" stupas atop it, each with a time traveling Buddha statue built inside it. It's very mysterious, with a pyramidal volcano in the distant mist. Egypt? Oh, yeah, the Giza Plateau has some famous African structures. There may even be more in the surrounding countries, showing how prolific a great people in the past were in passing on their technology and architectural expertise. They may not have been Earthlings or fully what we call human. But whoever built them, they must serve a purpose, like the black power plant in Alaska, that impossible structure in Antarctica, the one on Mars and maybe the Moon and a few other planets...what's going on? What were these magnificent buildings really for? The USA has some, too, across from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in a place called Cahokia. Lop the tops off and no one takes notice, but keep or restore the points, then suddenly they stand out like sore mysteries demanding explanation, like those superannuated structures in the Grand Canyon that keep the name but are eroding away. Okay, okay, so what if Mexico was mad about making pyramids? And Egypt, and mostly Sudan, so what? But China?
These prehistoric Chinese pyramids in China should NOT exist
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German Nazi scientists and engineers built the "Folk's Wagon" for the people (folks).
Everyone has something to hide...except me and my monkey. Where the Beatles at?
These photos were kept hidden for a reason
I'm in another dimension.
(Golden Rewind) Oct. 22, 2024: These Woodstock photos were kept hidden for a reason. They reveal a lot about the iconic music and arts festival might just shock viewers.
This video dives into newly unveiled images and the untold stories behind the historic event 55 years ago.
On August 15th, 1969, over 400,000 people gathered at a farm in Bethel, New York, for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, a festival that symbolized the spirit of the 1960s.
Photographer Baron Wolman was there to document the event, capturing unseen moments of this cultural phenomenon.
It was summer and I wanted demo for peace.
In June 2014, nearly half a century later, some of his hidden photographs were finally revealed in a London photographic exhibition.
Stay tuned to uncover the untold stories behind these rare photos and the festival that changed a generation.
Entrance was free for last minute ticket shoppers. It was copeacetic and totally far out.
There was lots of free food (hippie grub) and warm vibes serving it. Power to the people.
I can't see. Can you tell them to move their heads? - Just tune in, turn on, and drop out, Man.
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The fun-loving Dalai Lama gets a dance lesson from Christian Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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(DalaiLama.com) Is "His Holiness," the currentDalai LamaMr. Tenzin Gyatso, lucid enough to rule the USA? Here he is, honored in New York City, a beloved ally of the US military-industrial complex.
How could Wisdom Quarterly say such things about HHTDL?
Compared to enfeebled, demented, and ever so slightly senile Genocide Joe Biden, Tibet's spiritual leader (and former temporal leader or "god-king," "pope-emperor"), who at one time was in cahoots with the CIA (it's true) as an active "operative," fighting a proxy-war with China, turns 89 today, July 6th, 2024.
I had to do what I had to do for my people.
His great friendship with former U.S. Pres. G.W. Bush, the son of the former CIA Chief and former Pres. G.H.W. Bush, shows how he keeps close to power, a savvy move for a politician though an unsavory one for a spiritual leader, who seems to care not a wit that G.W. and his associates are war criminals.
The CIA paid me lots of $$
The Dalai Lama is not the "pope" of Buddhism. In fact, he is simply the church leader, a cardinal or bishop (rinpoche), of one school of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism known as the Yellow Hats. But his origin story is that he is the 14th rebirth of Avalokiteshvara, the "Bodhisattva of Compassion," neither enlightened nor universally honored even in Tibet. One group (Shugden Dorje followers of the Gelug school) hates him, as hard as that may be to imagine because he is so well spoken and kind, almost as if he were trained to be likeable, a politician, a wise meditator, and a savvy media personality from a very young age. Oh yeah, he was a tulku, after all, a candidate sought out and trained since childhood.
If Wisdom Quarterly could ask him anything, what would it ask?
Would we have to ask it through Prof. Robert Thurman (tibethouse.us) or actor Richard Gere?
No, directly ask him himself.
Oh, in that case, we would ask him, "What did the Dalai Lama say to the pizza maker when he ordering his pie?"
Why?
Well, that should keep him and his interpreters busy for a good long while.
No, seriously.
We would have to ask him if it had been worth it working for the CIA.
But that's taboo. He's the king!
Why is it taboo? He admits it (just as Pope Benedict admitted to being a member of Germany's Hitler Youth in his childhood), even if other well-meaning Buddhists try to hide the fact to preserve his public image. No wonder China is mad.
Okay, we would ask him what George W. Bush is really like. Is he as stupid as he seems, or are BUSH, DICK, and COLON nice fellows, even if they committed war crimes?
Are you mad at His Holiness?
The Dalai Lama loves children just like Jesus.
No, but seeing him playfully molest (massage the pre-pubescent penis of) the Unmistaken Child in the documentary of the same name was upsetting, making one wonder how similar Tibetan Vajrayana and Roman Catholic monasticism are, two cults dedicated to pederasty so much so that no involved seems to notice how much it would offend the general public not part of their secret sexual rites.
Does the Dalai Lama to tantric sex? With children?
Yab-yum: tantra for holy union
Sadly, although the Dalai Lama himself tells the truth and says he is just a simple monk who meditates everyday like any other monk (is not enlightened), and that he accepted money for years from the CIA (but it's not something he thinks about, just another source of international funding, probably with no strings attached, none whatsoever), and rather than molesting children in his room, palace, Dharamsala mansion, he exhibits it for all to see how innocent it is for a nearly 90 year old man to swap spit with a male minor, but his handlers and defenders want to lie for him and deny any facts inconvenient to the narrative.
Holy artifact and likeness dispenses blessings
Given what Dr. David Ammon Hillman has uncovered in the Ancient Greek texts about earliest Christianity, is it any wonder what these patriarchies/misogynistic all-boys clubs (the Vatican in the Holy See and Potala Palace in Lhasa) are up to? If the "pontiff" could talk about that, it would be nice. But all the Roman pontiff does is ask, "Who am I to judge?" and the Tibetan one just laughs heartily. This is why church and state should always be kept separate.
Make out with me. Come on, I'm the boss, and I say it's okay to swap spit. Here, you suck first.
The USA has fought China helped Tibet for a long time, and no one should think that our military and clandestine agencies would allow the Chinese Empire to steal a quarter of its land from its neighbor without a great geopolitical struggle.
This was glorified as was Nazi involvement in Tibet in the movie Seven Years in Tibet with Hollywood movie star Brad Pitt as the principal Nazi befriending the 14th Dalai Lama, though U.S. military involvement -- through CIA agents entering the forbidden land and brokering secret deals with Lhasa -- are conspicuously absent from the American film.
The Dalai Lama's message on his 89th birthday July 6, 2024, is a birthday message for the current leader of China, the world, and the Company.
Dalai Lama, (dalailama.com, July 5, 2024); John Oliver, Last Week Tonight on HBO; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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