This former U.S.-ruined Asian colony known as the Khmer Republic was illegally bombed by the U.S. in a massive genocidal campaign during the U.S. War on Vietnam in Operation Menu and Operation Freedom Deal. Neighboring Buddhist Laos was also bombed along with Vietnam as it suffered CIA subterfuge in Laos as The Company (the CIA) destabilized the impoverished the poor post-colonial nation with the Laotian Civil War.
Why the imperial Americans saw fit to follow on France's colonialism with a genocide during the U.S. War on Vietnam only the U.S. government and CIA know. Three innocent Buddhist countries had to be ethnically cleansed and horrifically abused to make the world safe for American disaster capitalism and the threat of equitable improvements in the name of socialism or the dreaded C-word communism.
It occurs to us that this whole "summer" thing is a social construct. It is. What does "summer" mean. There are all those associations and connotations, but everyone knows it's when the sun's out, the clothes are mostly off, school is on break, and there's going to be a vacation, road trip, partying, and just plain old hanging around, maybe making some money.
It's a break from the routine. It's time away from the prison of the school system and the [bleep] warden who thinks s/he runs the place. Think of Project X or American Graffiti. Ah, summer, there's nothing like it. And this is Southern California, so all the more reason.
We say summer begins when school lets out. That was a week or two ago. Like gender assignment, who needs an objective measure? Well, many people do. And so we have the solstice, the astronomical measure that seems so scientific. But every American knows that summer begins on Memorial Day(May 25); that's the social reality overriding whatever others try to say is only objective and nothing else. It's both.
It runs through Labor Day (the unofficial end), a fake American holiday to remove Americans from the worldwide Labor Movement and May Day (May 1st), which idealistic socialists fight for, collectivists dream of, and New Age communists and college Marxists cheer for.
(NOVA PBS Official) Premiered Jan. 28, 2026: New evidence sheds light on the remarkable life – and mysterious collapse – of the ancient Buddhist/Hindu jungle city (150+ square miles in size like Denver).
Uncover the lost secrets of a once-mighty empire. The massive capital City of Angkor [aka Yaśodharapura, City of Yasovarman I (or Yasodhara?), with more than one million inhabitants in ancient times], the seat of the great Khmer Empire in Southeast Asia for 500 years, was once the biggest city in the world.
For centuries, this incredible civilization flourished, building the largest religious monument on Earth, Angkor Wat (one square kilometer wat "Angkor Temple"), and mastering urban engineering in a challenging landscape. But then it was mysteriously abandoned, swallowed by the jungle.
Now, cutting-edge technology and new discoveries are finally revealing how this astounding empire rose to global prominence – and what likely led to its devastating collapse.
Follow a scientific detective story that is challenging everything we thought we knew about this ancient Buddhist-Hindu metropolis.
CHAPTERS
Angkor Wat (globetrottergirls.com)
00:00 Introduction
04:03 True size of Angkor Wat revealed by LiDAR
15:45 Engineering a massive temple on a flood plain
(PraveenMohan) NOT BUILT FOR (OR BY) HUMANS: Impossible Buddhist-Hindu temple found in Cambodia [seems to have been constructed by and for nagas, "reptilian humanoids," "lizard people," extraterrestrial dragons, serpents, snakes hybridized with humans. It is called Neak Peanor "Entwined Nagas."
The Herbal Island (Garden) Hospital
We came from Draco and run this planet from below. Don't believe it? Just ask David Icke.
Neak Pean (or Neak Poan) [2] (Khmer ប្រាសាទនាគព័ន្ធ, "the Entwined Serpents") at Angkor, Cambodia, is an artificial island (ancient hospital and plant pharmacy) and reservoir.
It is a Mahayana Buddhist temple on a circular island in Jayatataka Baray, which was associated with Preah Khan Temple, said to have been built during the reign of King Jayavarman VII [3]: 389. It is the "Mebon" of the Preah Khan baray (the "Jayatataka" of the inscription) [4].
Caduceus: two entwined (winged) serpents are the Western symbol of "medicine"
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The Garden had a medicinal pond for plants?
Some historians believe that Neak Pean represents Anavatapta [5]: 174 , a mythical lake in the Himalayas whose waters are thought to cure all illnesses [6]: 124–125 [7].
The name is derived from the sculptures of snakes (nāgas,reptilians, dragons, serpents) running around the base of the temple structure, neak being the Khmer translation of the Sanskrit word naga.
"They are Nanda and Upa-Nanda, two nagas traditionally associated with Lake Anavatapta" [8]. More
Why would a watery snake live in garden?
Takshaka (Sanskrit तक्षक, Takṣaka, Taxaka) is a "dragon king" (naga-raja) in Hinduism and Buddhism. He is mentioned in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata as well as in the Bhagavata Purana. He is described to be a "King of the Nagas."
Takshaka(s) are also known in Chinese and Japanese mythology as being one of the "Eight Great Dragon Kings" (八大龍王 Hachi-dai Ryuu-ou) [1]. They are the only snakes [dragons] that can fly, and they are also mentioned as the most venomous snakes, among Nanda (Nagaraja), Upa-Nanda, Sagara (Shakara), Vasuki, Balavan, Anavatapta, and Utpala. More
Koh Ker (Khmer ប្រាសាទកោះកេរ្ដិ៍, Brasat Kaôh Kértĕ) is a remote Buddhist archeological site in northern Cambodia about 75 miles (120 kms) from Siem Reap and the ancient site of Angkor (and Angkor Wat). It is a jungle-filled region that is sparsely populated. More than 180 sanctuaries have been found in a protected area of 31 square miles (81 square kms) [1]: 13. Only about two dozen monuments can be visited by tourists because most of the sanctuaries are hidden in the forest and the whole area is not fully de-mined. Koh Ker is the modern name for an important city of the Khmer Empire. In inscriptions the town is mentioned as Lingapura ("City of Lingams") or Chok Gargyar [2]: 70 (translated as "City of Glance" [3] or as Iron Tree Forest) [1]: 8–9. More
Skies were mostly clear, but low clouds on the eastern horizon obscured the sunrise.
Even so, enough light filtered through the roof box for the effect to be visible. As the clouds lifted later in the morning, visitors lined up for a chance to enter the sacred chamber. More
They Just Found a Hidden Vault Beneath Angkor Wat — And It Changes History Forever
Temple at the center of Angkor: Angkor Wat
(The Explorer) Oct. 24, 2025: How could one of the world’s most beautiful temples be hiding something so dark under it? Cambodia's Angkor Wat has been a sign of peace and perfection for hundreds of years, but new scans have just shown a secret vault that has been locked for 900 years. It isn't gold or wealth inside. It is something much scarier. Why stay put to see what it is? What's below Angkor Wat will make everyone question everything we thought we knew about history.
The Ramayana (Sanskrit रामायणम्, Romanized Rāmāyaṇam [3]), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (Sanskrit epic) from ancient proto-India (Bharata), one of the two important epics of modern Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata [4], the story of "Great Bharata." The epic narrates the life of the god Rama, the seventh avatar of the [extraterrestrial] Hindu deity Vishnu, who is a prince of Ayodhya in the Kingdom of Kosala. The epic follows his 14-year exile
to the forest urged by his father King Dasharatha, on the request of Rama's stepmother Kaikeyi;
his travels across the forests on the Indian subcontinent with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana;
the kidnapping of Sita by Ravana, the king of [Sri] Lanka, which resulted in a bloodbath; and
Rama's eventual return to Ayodhya along with Sita to be crowned as a king amidst jubilation and celebration. More
The best place to be this morning is in the former Khmer Empire, modern Cambodia, in the center of one of the largest ancient cities in the world at the Buddhist-Hindu temple at the center of it, Angkor Wat. (Wat means monastery complex or vihara).
The second-best place to be is in the middle of New York City at the holy site of "Manhattanhenge" where signs of intelligent life must have built a megastructure aligned with the astronomical objects in the visible sky, possibly with extraterrestrial assistance.
Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles)
Some say massive structures like the "Empire State" Building were in fact pre-Mud Flood architectural feats being taken credit for by modern builders with widely circulated photos of men eating lunch in precarious worksites as if that were all the proof needed.
LONDON, England — As the sun rose Saturday on the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, a crowd erupted in cheers at Stonehenge where the ancient monument in southern England has clocked the summer solstice over thousands of years.
The orange ball crested the northeast horizon behind the Heel Stone, the entrance to the stone circle, and shone its beam of light into the center of one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments.
The solstice is one of the few occasions each year when visitors are allowed to walk among the stones, which are otherwise fenced off.
What did the ancients know and practice?
The miracle of Newgrange, Ireland, eclipses Stonehenge (likeAdam's Calendar, Africa)...so that's why we've never heard of it. Newgrange (Irish Sí an Bhrú [1]) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath, Ireland, placed on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, five miles (8 km) west of the town of Drogheda [2]. It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3100 BC [3], making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. Newgrange is the main monument in the Brú na Bóinne complex, a World Heritage Site that also includes the passage tombs of Knowth and Dowth, as well as other henges, burial mounds [which are a kind of stupa], and standing stones [3]. Newgrange consists of a large circular mound with an inner stone passageway and cruciform chamber More
The crowd gathered before dawn at the World Heritage Site to mark the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, beating the heat during the U.K.'s first amber heat-health alert issued since September 2023.
Temperatures later topped 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius) in Surrey, 80 miles (128 kilometers) east of Stonehenge, the hottest temperature recorded in the U.K. so far this year.
About 25,000 sun devotees (sun cult worshippers) and other revelers -- including Druids, pagans, hippies, locals, and tourists -- showed up, according to English Heritage which operates the site.
More than 400,000 others around the world watched a livestream. “This morning was a joyous and peaceful occasion with the most beautiful sunrise," said Richard Dewdney, head of operations at Stonehenge. “It is fantastic to see Stonehenge continuing to enchant and connect people.”
Stonehenge was built [and constantly re-adjusted] in stages 5,000 years ago on the flat lands of Salisbury Plain approximately 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of London.
The Sky People built mound-pyramids to the sun
[A few decades ago modern cranes and equipment were used to set up a pile of fallen stones, aligning them to their current positions; those photos were then forgotten, though they still exist, and everyone assumes ancient Druids built what is seen today 5,000 years ago before modern explorers stumbled onto the site. The walk from the carpark to the erected stones used to be lined with sandwich boards explaining the artificial evolution of the site with many adjustments over time, not one permanent setup millennia earlier.]
(PBS America) From PBS, PRAJNA EARTH explores the lost civilization of Angkor in Cambodia, the magnificent Angkor Wat temple, and Bali, Indonesia’s sacred landscapes.
Narrated by Sharon Stone, the trilogy's second film also shares trance dancers in the jungles of Java and the gigantic seven level mandala mountain of Borobudur (the largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world) and is described as “inducing an inner journey” by Asia Society, New York.
14th Dalai Lama endorsed film
Called “eye-opening and essential if you have an interest in Eastern spirituality” by the Boston Globe and an “illuminating meditation” by Variety, these visually stunning documentaries are cinematic pilgrimages to legendary places in Buddhist Southeast Asia and Tibet, including the spiritual wonders of Buddhist Laos, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), Bali, Cambodia, Java, and Central Tibet (China).
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Megalithic structures found all over Amazon jungle – Key to unlocking forgotten civilization
(FactFile) Sept. 27, 2024: Graham Hancock, what's going on? What is this? There was a Younger Dryas, okay. What does that mean? The Amazon rainforest and jungle and adjacent forests are all over Mesoamerica, Central America, and who knows how far down into South America they reach. The Americas are full of archeological wonders.
It parallels the Buddhist world all around Angkor, Cambodia, in Siem Reap, with Angkor Wat and new sites constantly surfacing thanks to LiDAR, with many more hiding. And look at neighboring Borobudur in Java, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, Burma (Pagan, Bagan), Sri Lanka, and now Central Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and the other -stans with their stupas, tumuli, kurgans, burial mound culture).
We have to get ready to throw out everything we thought we knew about the Amazon jungle. It turns out it’s not just a jungle. It’s hiding something much bigger. (Traces of a world culture?)
We’re talking ancient megalithic structures deep in the heart of the rainforest that are flipping our understanding of history upside down. Could this be the key to unlocking just how advanced ancient cultures truly were? They traveled, they knew each other, they were in communication with extraterrestrials from space, under the sea, and in the Earth. And we have been lied to by all our governments about it.
There's a black pyramid in Alaska, and the U.S. government stays quiet or denies it even as some blow the whistle and say it's absolutely there. Why are there pyramids all over the world and on Mars and maybe even the moon? #factfile
Welcome to the temple (wat) at Angkor! What we wish we’d known before visiting Angkor Wat (Sunrise Tour)🇰🇭
(Praveen Mohan) How old is Angkor Wat really?
(The Buddymoon and Probably Lost) April 27, 2023: CAMBODIA - Today's video embarks on a journey to visit the iconic Angkor Wat temple in the massive old city of Angkor, Cambodia.
We had heard so much about the beauty of Angkor Wat at sunrise, so we decided to wake up early and experience it for ourselves. But what we discovered was not what we expected. As we arrived at the temple, the sky was still dark, and we were surrounded by the sounds of nature.
As the sun began to rise, we were amazed to see the temple slowly coming to life with the golden light of dawn. The intricate carvings and architecture of Angkor Wat were breathtaking, and we couldn't help but feel a sense of awe and wonder.
But what surprised us the most was the number of visitors who had arrived to witness the sunrise. We had expected a peaceful and quiet experience. Instead, we were surrounded by a large crowd of tourists.
However, despite the crowds, the magic of Angkor Wat at sunrise was not lost on us.
We learned about the rich history of Angkor Wat, which was built in the 12th century as a Hindu temple and later converted to a Buddhist temple (though one religion seems to include the other). The temple complex is vast, and it takes at least three days to fully explore all the temples, each with its unique charm and beauty.
Overall, we recommend getting a three-day pass to Angkor Wat to fully appreciate its splendor and history. Despite the crowds, witnessing Angkor Wat at sunrise was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that we'll never forget. Join us on our journey to Angkor Wat and discover its magic with us!
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