Queen's funeral. Trouble with new King

Mike MacRae, J. Dore (TJDS); Guardian; Telegraph, 9/19/22; Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Queen Elizabeth II funeral at Westminster Abbey: key moments

(Guardian News) Sept. 19, 2022. The funeral service for Queen Elizabeth II was held at Westminster Abbey and led by Dr. David Hoyle, the dean of Westminster. The sermon was delivered by the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

(Guardian) The UK's new Prime Minister Liz Truss was among the speakers at the queen's funeral service, at which more than 20 world leaders were in attendance. The event ended at noon with a two-minute silence, followed by the national anthem.

#TheQueensFuneral #TheQueen #QueenElizabeth #LizTruss #WorldLeaders #RoyalFamily #UK

Grab the popcorn. Let's watch the whole thing

In Full: Queen Elizabeth II's funeral procession, service, and committal

(The Telegraph) Streamed live on Sept. 19, 2022. The day has finally come after seven decades to say farewell to Queen Elizabeth II at a state funeral she helped plan. Forever Britannia! Long live the Colonies. Britain's longest-serving monarch will be honored with a full state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday, Sept. 19, featuring every element of pomp and circumstance with personal touches from her late Royal Majesty and Holy Heir to God's Own Throne. It will be one of the grandest and most complex events on British soil since World War II, with U.S. Prince Joe Biden topping the bill of world leaders flocking in from across the flat surface of the planet. The eyes of the world will be fixated on its capital London, with a telly audience of billions upon billions of people expected in what could be the most-watched live broadcast of ALL time.

Full itinerary:

• 6:30 am: The lying in state ends and Westminster Hall is closed to the public.
• 9:30 am: Join associate editors Camilla Tominey, Gordon Rayner, and Regimental Historian of the Household Cavalry Christopher Joll for live commentary and Royal insights into state funeral proceedings.
• 10:44 am: The coffin will be loaded onto the gun carriage for the short procession to Westminster Abbey, followed on foot by her son King Charles and senior members of the Royal family, arriving at 10:52 am.
• 11:00 am: Funeral service begins.
• 11:55 am: Towards the end of the service, the Last Post will be played followed by a national two-minute silence observed in the Abbey and across the country. A lament played by the Queen’s piper will end the service.
• 12:00 pm: Around midday the coffin will then be placed back on the gun carriage and taken to Wellington Arch in a procession, led by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, together with NHS workers, officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and the British Armed Forces.
• 3:06 pm: Tthe coffin arrives at Windsor at the Shaw Farm Gate, with the hearse driving slowly up the Long Walk where the public is expected to line the route.
• 4:00 pm: Televised committal ceremony in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, at the end of which the Lord Chamberlain will break his stick of office over the coffin and it will be lowered into the royal vault, out of view.
• 7:30 pm: A private interment in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, the tiny venue where Queen Elizabeth II's coffin will be reunited with Prince Philip’s coffin, and they will be interred.

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UK Queen dead at 96, new King starts today

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King Charles: Beloved Princess Di (Diana) was meant to rule, not Mistress Camilla Bowles.

Why this 1969 Royal Family documentary was pulled (Smithsonian) Aug. 18, 2017. On June 21, 1969, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the Royal Family was aired on British TV and watched by 37 million people. Then Queen Elizabeth II ordered it taken off the air and never shown again.

King Harry (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) Windsor?

The UK (pronounced uck), Great Britain, Kingdoms United, The Protectorate, The Commonwealth, England, Britain, Dover Cliffside, British Isle, Anglo Saxon Land? It's all a little troublemaking land that once ruled the world, now doing so by proxy using the military-industrial complex of the United States of America, the current Empire soon giving way to China and perhaps Russia.

New King of England Charles vs. new UK PM Liz Truss
He may look familiar. He was once married to Princess Diana.

Why there is no Queen of England

Mummy, can we be royals when we grow up?

(The History Guy) July 20, 2022. The history of how the United Kingdom became united, and how united it really is, is quite complex. thehistoryguyguild.locals.com

This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration.

(VICE) Why does Brit David Icke say Queen is a Reptilian who eats babies?

Queen "Elizabeth Reigns" (The Beatles)

Ringo Starr, Ringo Rama, "Elizabeth Reigns" the Last Empress of India; Wisdom Quarterly

If the Queen Mother was so beloved, why does her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, eat babies in her transformation-body as a reptilian-human hybrid cannibal? Even this song of praise could lose Richard "Ringo" Starkey his knighthood, so don't talk about David Icke or his website davidicke.com. Just explain how in the world Ringo is the Beatles? He's the last living one, given that the Paul we have is not the original one, according to exhaustive investigation and video of the original Beatle, who was replaced by a friend and fellow musician early on. It sounds preposterous until one looks at the evidence. But let's say he's not. Why believe anything without seeing the evidence? There are still testimonies about this queen and evidence Icke has gathered and presented.



If it's impossible to think the current queen could be a private monster, who would of thought it of beloved Jimmy Savile? Or the American Confederacy and the lingering love for it in the South?

Bernie, Warren, Biden: comedy commentary

Jimmy, Ron, and Stef (jimmydorecomedy.com); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Profanity! Lizzy Warren, Bernie Sanders, Tommy Steyer, and Petey Boot-edge-edge.

Failed presidential candidate Johnny Kerry lies for crazy uncle Joey Biden

Science CULT leader busted in Silicon Valley

ReasonTV, 6/7/18; CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, and the Cult of Silicon Valley

Fraud female entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes became a Silicon Valley celebrity after she dropped out of Stanford University at 19 to start a biotech company called Theranos (therapy+diagnosis). Reason sat down with John Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal reporter who unmasked the medical fraud behind Holmes's growing empire. She is now facing serious charges, is ruined, and has set women in science and business back a few years.
 

Who is Holmes?

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You CAN'T arrest me! (femen.org/en)

By June 2016, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was estimated to have a personal net worth of $4.5 billion. That has since dropped to virtually nothing. Her company was near bankruptcy until it received a $100 million investment from Fortress Investment Group in 2017. By 2018, the company was again close to going bankrupt.

(CNBC) Multi-billionaire Liz Holmes fights back on Mad Money

 

Her company?

Theranos is a privately held health technology company known for its false claims to have devised revolutionary blood tests using very tiny amounts of blood.
 
The company was lauded as a major challenger to existing companies before it was revealed that the company had lied about its core capabilities.

I'm an angel (Hughes)

Founded in 2003 by 19-year-old drop out Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US $700 million from venture capitalists and private investors, resulting in a $9 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014.

Investors and the media hyped Theranos as a breakthrough in the large blood testing market, where the US diagnostic-lab industry posts annual sales of over $70 billion. Theranos claimed its technology was revolutionary for a number of reasons.

At the time, Theranos said its tests required only about 1/100 to 1/1,000 of the amount of blood that would ordinarily be needed and cost far less than existing tests.

Should women stick to fashion, Old Boys?

There was a turning point in October 2015, when investigative reporter John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal questioned the validity of its technology.

Since then, Theranos has faced a string of legal and commercial challenges from medical authorities, investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state attorneys general, former business partners, patients, and others. More

Bad Blood author and WSJ reporter John Carreyrou: She's a fraud!

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Eat Pray Love? Diet, Blapshemy, Hate (audio)

CC Liu, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! (NPR, 9-27-14)

Eat Pray Love author gets quizzed on Dieting, Blasphemy, Hate

Elizabeth Gilbert was a successful magazine writer in New York when she went through a life crisis and decided to travel the world. When she got back, her book Eat Pray Love become one of the biggest best-sellers of the past decade, along with its sequel Committed. Her latest novel is called The Signature of All Things.
 
We've invited Gilbert to play a game called "I refuse to eat, pray, or love." Three questions about dieting, blasphemy, and hate.

 

PETER SAGAL, HOST: And now the game where we take people who have accomplished big things and ask them to do a very little thing, that is, play our game, Not My Job. Elizabeth Gilbert was a successful magazine writer in New York when she went through a life crisis and decided to travel. When she got back, her book Eat Pray Love became one of the biggest bestsellers of the last decade along with its sequel, Committed. She has a new novel out called The Signature of All Things. She joins us now. Liz Gilbert, welcome to WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME. (APPLAUSE)

 

Author Gilbert (Jennifer Schatten/The Penguin Group/NPR)

ELIZABETH GILBERT: Thank you.

 

SAGAL: So there might be one or two people out there listening who neither read Eat Pray Love nor saw the film with Julia Roberts. So could you describe it briefly for them?

 

GILBERT: There might be one or two men out there.

SAGAL: Yes.

GILBERT: Yeah, to be very specific.

SAGAL: Who were afraid to admit it to their significant other.

TOM BODETT: No, my wife and I sat in the warm morning sun feeding each other grapes and read it to each other. (LAUGHTER)

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BODETT: Now I'm sitting between two women, I can't speak freely. (LAUGHTER)

 

SAGAL: Well, so this is -- you, as I said, you were going through a life crisis. Your marriage ended, it was not going well. You said, I'm hitting the road. You went to Italy, and then Indonesia and India. And then you wrote a book about these -- about the lessons that you learned. Am I summarizing it correctly?

 

GILBERT: Yeah, you just did it beautifully.

SAGAL: Thank you.

 

GILBERT: Yeah, I ate my way through India, and actually -- ate my way through Italy. What am I saying?

 

SAGAL: I was about to say, you haven't read the book, have you? (LAUGHTER)

GILBERT: I haven't, actually. I did it all in upstate New York. I was just hoping I wouldn't get busted.

SAGAL: And this -- didn't you sort of create a movement of women finding themselves?

Elizabeth Gilbert as played by Julia Roberts

GILBERT: I hope so. That wouldn't be such a terrible movement to be responsible for. I certainly didn't set out to do that. My first books, by point of comparison, sold upwards of dozens of copies each. So I was not in any way prepared for that kind of a response, but I'm so surprised by it but delighted by it.

SAGAL: Are there women or anybody who had negative experiences like, "Yeah, I tried to follow in your footsteps. I went to Italy, I got food poisoning, drugged, woke up with one kidney. Thanks a lot!"?

 

GILBERT: (Laughter) Yeah, but the kidney they woke up with was on their plate. It was actually their meal.

 

SAGAL: Oh yes, that's even better. So one of the things that's happened - and this was probably something you didn't expect when you were a working magazine writer, is that you'd become kind of a self-help figure. You just did a tour with Oprah, right?

 

GILBERT: Yeah. I'm actually on tour with her right now. Well, not right this very minute.

 

SHELBY FERO: Is she there?

SAGAL: Is she there? Is she there?

 

O'CONNOR: Could you put her on?

GILBERT: Hang on a second. Ladies and gentlemen -- no. Yes, that's been an amazing thing. That's sort of like getting a phone call from the president.

 

SAGAL: Oh, it's better than that. (LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: President has to call people, Oprah chooses. What is it like being part of like an Oprah revival meeting? More

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JuBu (Jewish-Buddhist) "Devotion" (video)

Kugel the Cougar (The Cougel Chronicles); Wisdom Quarterly; Dani Shapiro.com

"If Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love was about the fantasy of a spiritual journey, Dani Shapiro's Devotion is about the reality.

"Gilbert leaves her life to travel purposefully throughout the world, along the way checking gourmet cooking, enlightenment, and romance off her life list" (Columbus Dispatch).

Cougel the Jewish cougar (The Cougel Chronicles) was recently reading Dani Shapiro’s memoir.

"A friend recommended I read it because Dani’s story and voice reminded her of me (what a compliment). In her book, Dani charts her search for meaning (while leading a seemingly rich life) and how she finds it in her reinterpretation of religion -- a hybrid of Judaism and Buddhism (Buddish? Jewdist?) Dani grew up in an observant household, as I did, and after taking a detour away, like I did, she found her way back, unlike me. Not yet anyway." More

Roberts: "My daughter wants to live in India"

Roshmila Bhattachraya (Hindustan Times, July 3, 2011)

BOMBAY, India - Last year, Julia Roberts was in India to film "Eat Pray Love." She converted to Hinduism. Now back in the US, the pretty woman admits that Hinduism has always intrigued her.

Along with husband, Danny Moder, and their three children -- twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and four-year-old Henry -- she often visits temples to chant, pray, and celebrate.

“My children love it. Hazel says that when she grows up, she’s going to live in India. To be in India is to experience it. You don’t have to go looking for India, it’s all right there. For me, visiting the country was an unforgettable experience,” Julia asserts.

Eat, Pray, Love [the book, not the movie] is memorable for other reasons too. Tom Hanks and Roberts had met at clubs and conversed,] “Hi! I’m famous, you’re famous, and there’s a camera on us now!” before being paired in Charlie Wilson’s War five years ago.

Then, when Julia was in Rome shooting "Eat Pray Love," Tom sent her a script with the message, “Tell me what you think of it.”

She couldn’t stop smiling as she went through it. “It says, ‘You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself.’ It creates a self-excavated Utopia and I love the message... More

Actress Julia Roberts becomes a Hindu

Religion is a private and personal affair

Vir Sanghvi (Express Buzz)
Julia Roberts has become a Hindu. In an interview given to promote her new movie "Eat Pray Love," the actress declared that she discovered the Hindu faith and adopted it while filming. (Part of the story was inspired by author Elizabeth Gilbert’s experiences at the Muktanand Ashram in Ganeshpuri).

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Why the surprise when famous people become Hindus? Those who subscribe to cults are not regarded as being particularly Hindu. For instance, the Beatle George Harrison was an early convert of the Hare Krishna movement and had an on-off relationship with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. But Hindus regard Hare Krishnas as weird, not representative of mainstream Hinduism; Mahesh Yogi was a jet-set guru, not much of an advertisement for mainstream Hinduism.

Like Buddhism, Hinduism is a non-proselytizing, pluralistic faith. It does not seek "converts" nor does anyone need to join formally to practice. There are countless examples of prominent people in the West who have drawn inspiration from Eastern philosophy.

Hindus can deal with cultists and guru-worshippers since they do not follow mainstream Hinduism. But it is rare to find somebody who adopts mainstream Hinduism with its beguiling mixture of simplicity and complexity, ancient purity and latter-day practicality.

Hinduism may well be the oldest religion to come out of India but it is not the only one. Jainism is less well known outside of India. But Buddhism is probably better-known abroad than it is in India even though the Buddha was Indian.

The contrasts between Hinduism and Buddhism are interesting. Buddhism only became a global religion after King Ashoka converted to it after the conquest of Kalinga (around 273 BCE). Ashoka spread Buddhism throughout India and sent emissaries abroad to spread the Buddha’s teachings. It took a few centuries, but eventually Buddhism held sway in much of Asia: China, Japan, Thailand, and even Sri Lanka. Tibetan Buddhism took on a different form from Indian Buddhism and eventually Buddhist monks came to rule Tibet. (It is this tradition that the Dalai Lama is descended from.)

For some centuries Buddhism held sway in India till gradually Hinduism re-asserted itself and virtually pushed Buddhism out. (In contrast, Jainism which never spread globally retained its small and committed following within India.)

Vaguely conscious of this background, Hindus are not particularly surprised by the fervor with which Hollywood stars adopt Buddhism. Richard Gere is one of the Western world’s most famous Buddhists, and Uma Thurman was born into a family of Tibetan Buddhists. Buddhism welcomes converts and is more instantly appealing to followers of other religions.

Why has Hinduism — one of the world’s two oldest religions — remained an exclusively Indian religion? When Hindus are found abroad, they tend to be ethnic Indians rather than converts from other faiths. More>>

"Eat, Pray, Love" (movie trailer)

"Eat Pray Love -- Unforgettable" will be in theaters on 8/13/10

(Eat Pray Love the Movie) - Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) is a modern woman on a quest to marvel at and travel the world while rediscovering and reconnecting with her true inner-self in Eat Pray Love. At a crossroads after a divorce, Gilbert takes a year-long sabbatical from her job and steps uncharacteristically out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life. In her wondrous and exotic travels, she experiences the simple pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of love in Bali. Based on an inspiring true story, Eat Pray Love proves that there really is more than one way to let yourself go and see the world.

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"Eat, Pray, Love" - Elizabeth Gilbert speaks

TEDtalksDirector - Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses. She then shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius in a funny, personal, and surprisingly moving talk.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own enlightenment/stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery.

"TED" stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development, and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks.

Julia Roberts to star in "Eat, Pray, Love"

Julia Roberts was spotted walking down a Manhattan street yesterday as she filmed Eat, Pray, Love (Cory Schwartz/Getty Images/USAToday).

The author of that best-selling book, Elizabeth Gilbert, tells The New York Times that her new book will be out in January. It's about marriage, which is known from the author's March Elle interview. But it's got a new title: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage.

According to the Times, the publisher has announced a first print run of 1 million copies in hardcover, even though Gilbert knows it will be tough to follow the phenomenal success of Eat, Pray, Love.

“There’s something very scary about having millions of people waiting to see what you’re going to do next,” she said. “The people who love Eat, Pray, Love are very dear and are very encouraging, but they also have their expectations.” More>>

Eat, Pray, Love. Then What?

Author Elizabeth Gilbert, Gilbert with journey mates, and Julia Roberts as Gilbert.

Mr. Dorje Andersson (WQ Book Reviewer)

Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love is a remarkable feel-good read -- particularly for females. Every woman around the office lavished attention on any other female holding a copy. They could not get enough, praise enough, nor (it seemed) envy one another enough. I thought, it's not for me. It's obviously not for any man. But eventually, I browsed through it. I saw her talk about it. (See short video below).

And as with all great spiritual literature, I was drawn in. There is much for a man to be put off by but far more that intrigues. Ms. Gilbert's description of meditation is spot on. Her explanation of the attendant phenomena as kundalini awakens on her trip to India is compact and fascinating. I venture to guess that her guru is a man, yet for the best she leaves her unnamed.

Starting off as a gastronomic journey in Italy, searching for love and fulfillment -- or anything to fill the void after a divorce -- she travels as she goes along a momentous internal journey so many thoughtful people embark on. It is the Heroine's (and Hero's) Journey Siddhartha Gautama is famous for successfully completing. This is a remarkable read, and readers are quickly rewarded with much to learn from this author. And now there's a follow up:

Eat, Pray, Love. Then What? Get [re-]Married.
Motoko Rich (NY Times, Aug. 20, 2009)

A year after completely scrapping a 500-page follow-up to “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert has delivered a new book that Viking will publish in January.

Titled “Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage,” the book is a memoir of a tumultuous year that came 18 months after “Eat, Pray, Love” leaves off, as well as a meditation on wedlock.

Ms. Gilbert, 40, said the book, which recounts how she came to marry the Brazilian-born Australian lover she met in Indonesia in “Eat, Pray, Love,” was not just a straightforward memoir of what happened and how she felt about it. More>>

Elizabeth Gilbert Takes On Marriage
Catherine Strawn (Aug. 21, 2009)
Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, was published in 2006, and her followup book was touted in the back of at least 200,000 copies of the book.

Tentatively titled Weddings and Evictions, it was described as a memoir about Gilbert’s “unexpected journey into second marriage” and was supposed to hit shelves in 2009. But Gilbert scrapped her 500-page draft of the book and told her publisher she needed more time. What she had wasn’t working.

Because Eat, Pray, Love had been such a huge success, staying in the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list for 57 weeks, Viking wanted the followup to come out as quickly as possible. But her editor gave her another year, and this second draft, now called Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage will be published in January.

The delay wasn’t such a bad idea, in my opinion, since “Eat, Pray, Love,” the movie version starring Julia Roberts, Billy Crudup, and Javier Bardem, is currently filming in New York City, and Gilbert is back on everyone’s minds. More>>