Showing posts with label bank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bank. Show all posts

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Four Beatles remain: reunion time?


What in the world do you mean four? Half are gone, and there were only ever five. The Fifth Beatle (Brian Epstein or any of the others) didn't even play, just managed.

He can manage again, if he's around. There's the real Paul McCarthy living a peaceful life in England:


There's pretty boy Pete Best still cashing checks for a little sessions work, replacement Ringo Starkey doing everything he can to prove he was a Beatle after all, like this great song:


And there's Fake Paul, touring and making speeches like always:


The son of Yoko "Chuck Berry Fan" Ono and John Lennon, Julian, the inspiration for the song "Hey Jude." That's more than enough to reform and go out on tour, maybe even make a few mega mass selling singles with the help of AI, psychics (in touch with George and John in the beyond), and old found tapes that can be developed into something:

  • Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Scientists reveal bisexual genetics

AFP (MSN, 1/3/24); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Can we say heteroflexible or abrosexual? Lesbian sounds gross, and bi makes gays hate us.

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Rainbow flag at LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bi-
sexual, trans, intersex, queer) (Pau Barrena)
For the first time, scientists have identified genetic variations associated with human bisexual behavior and found these markers are linked to risk-taking and having more offspring when they are carried by heterosexual men.

University of Michigan Prof. Jianzhi "George" Zhang, senior author of the new research, told AFP it helped answer the long-standing evolutionary puzzle of why [Wallace and Darwin's] natural selection has not eliminated the genetics underpinning [homosexual] attraction within the same sex.
CIA has made gender and sex a mess.
The study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, was based on data from more than 450,000 people of European descent who signed up for the UK Biobank, a long-term genomics project that has proven a major boon for health research.

It builds on growing research including a seminal 2019 paper in Science that found genetic variants influenced to some extent whether a person engaged in same-sex behavior, though environmental factors [like being molested or traumatized in childhood] were more important.

"We realized that in the past, people lumped together all homosexual behavior...but actually there's a spectrum," Prof. Zhang said, explaining part of the motivation for the new work. More

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Jimmy Dore Show (LIVE)

The Jimmy Dore Show weekdays on YouTube; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Tech investor explains Silicon Valley Bank collapse! What does "woke" mean, anyhow? with David Sacks
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Thursday, November 17, 2022

FTX, WTF? Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto crimes

Kevin T. Dugan, Matt Stieb, THE MONEY GAME (NYMag.com, Intelligencer, 11/16/22); Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Awkward, on the spectrum, math genius Sam (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images)
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8 more disturbing revelations about Sam Bankman-Fried
The first stage of any collapse is confusion, maybe even schadenfreude (German for "delight in another's misery").

A polycule of 10 live in sex partners for Sam
It was no different during the wild week when [the new oversexed Bernie Madoff] Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the supposed crypto wunderkind and founder of FTX, tried and failed to sell his imploding empire only to find himself totally broke, his companies bankrupt, and his sexual polycule (FTX circle all "dated" each other in the Bahamas crypto mansion) perhaps no longer in the mood. (Read about all that sex story here).

OMG! I could have lived like Sam did!!!
The stage after that, though, is fear — and that is precisely where we are now. The sum of Bankman-Fried may have added up to less than his parts, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was deeply interconnected with the worlds of politics and finance beyond the relatively small world of digital currencies.

Since his bankruptcy filing, the crypto empire Bankman-Fried presided over has been subject to even more embarrassing and damning revelations, and he is the target of multiple investigations.

It is still too early to say that he’s headed for prison: If the prior big financial crisis taught us anything, it’s not to be shocked when nobody gets arrested for obvious crimes — but that is certainly a strong possibility. Here’s what we’ve learned about SBF since Friday.
FTX software had a very illegal-sounding back door for moving huge sums of money

Who can judge but a magistrate, so it’s not up to us to decide what’s against the law. But we’ve got eyes.

Over the weekend, it was revealed — first by Reuters — that a back door was written into the code at the FTX crypto exchange that allowed Bankman-Fried to move customer deposits from that platform to his (supposed completely separate) hedge fund, Alameda Research.

In essence, this was a way to keep quiet the alarm bells that would have started to ring if anyone else had been aware that he was moving this money. All told, Reuters reported that $1 billion was missing. More

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Catastrophe (Nakba) in Palestine under Israel

Amy Goodman (democracynow.org), Sharif Abdel Kouddous (live from Gaza, Palestine/Israel); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly

US refuses to blame Israel for their joint war crimes, but international court could launch war crimes probe into Israeli military's murder and maiming of civilians in Gaza

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A few Jews oppose Israel's war crimes (JVFP)
The Israeli military killed murdered at least 61 Palestinians in [the world's largest open-air prison] Gaza.

Israel has also deliberately wounded 2,700+ more, often maiming them, for daring to protest yesterday’s U.S. opening of an embassy in Jerusalem (rather than the capital of Tel Aviv).

They are also protesting Israel's colonial occupation and the attempted stealing of their land.

It was the deadliest day for Palestinian demonstrators since they launched the nonviolent "Great March of Return" on March 30th, 2018.

Jewish Finklestein speaks out against Israel
Palestinian leaders are accusing the Israeli military of carrying out of deliberate war crimes during yesterday’s crackdown.

More demonstrations, protests, and a general strike across the Palestinian territories [the tiny West Bank and even tinier Gaza] are planned for today.

Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, herself Jewish, gets an update from Gaza with war correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. More + VIDEO

Nakba: "Catastrophe" of US-Israel's genocide

BBC.com; Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands
You're my bitch, Donny. - Yeah! No, wait. You're my bitch, Bibi. - Yeah, we'll see.

Trump's move to Jerusalem is not about peace Why moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem was more about Trumpian politics than making peace (US news).
 
A relative mourns as she carries the body of 8-month-old Palestinian infant Laila al-Ghandour

World's largest concentration camp under Israel

Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org); Sheldon S. (JewishVoiceForPeace.org), Pfc. Sandoval (VeteransForPeace.org), Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
"Jews oppose Israel's war on civilians. End the siege of Gaza" (Jewish Voice for Peace)
S2 kushner us embassy ceremony
Jewish American leader, under Pres. Trump, Jared, husband of Jewish Ivanka Trump

Monday, May 14, 2018

What in the world is Israel doing? (video)

Who owns Pres. Trump? The Mercers. What are they telling him to do? Back Israel.
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Gaza: Israelis kill 50+ civilian Palestinians nonviolently demonstrating as U.S. provokes furor by moving embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
CIA Chief/Sec'y of State Pompeo with Bibi
GAZA, Occupied Palestine - Let's go to the great "'State' of Israel" for a live update from Sharif Abdel Kouddous (independent journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent) as tens of thousands of Palestinians have gathered near the heavily fortified border wall built by Israel for nonviolent demonstration against the moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. At the time of broadcast, the Israeli military has murdered at least 30 [50+] civilian Palestinians and injured at least 1,000. “No one is carrying any weapons here. There are no bullets being fired by Palestinians on Israeli soldiers. …And yet these killings [murders] continue,” Kouddous says. This comes as senior members of the Trump administration have gathered in Jerusalem for the embassy’s opening. More + VIDEO

Monday, April 9, 2018

FBI raids Trump's office and lawyer Cohen

The Last Word (MSNBC, Apr 9, 2018); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
I'm not in trouble. They'll never get me because I work for billionaires, the Mercers.

Stormy (Stephanie Clifford) Daniels' lawyer has a theory about FBI raid on Trump
Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is reportedly under investigation for bank fraud. Pornstar Stormy Daniels' lawyer speculates raid could be tied to the loan Cohen took out to buy Stormy Daniels' silence for $130,000. Tim O'Brien and Ari Melber join Lawrence O'Donnell.

"Make America Horny Again"
Pornstar and Trump sex partner Stormy on national MAHA Tour
Sex with Don John is awkwardly "generic." I didn't want to do it but let it happen.
 

Monday, August 7, 2017

ATS off the cushion, into the world (volunteer)

There are better things to eat.
For the fifth year in a row, Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society will send a group of volunteers to work at the LA Food Bank. Join in this easy way to give back to the community and take your meditation practice off the cushion (and into the world).
 
Volunteers at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank will assemble food packages for over 23,000 low income seniors, women with infants, and children in LA County.

The food packages consist of food items like canned fruit, canned vegetables, rice, cereal, and other non-perishable food items. By giving just a little of our time, we can make a big difference in our community.
  • Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
  • 1734 E. 41st St., LA, 90058
  • Saturday, Aug. 26, 8:30 am-noon
Interested in participating?
Eat, pray, love, and volunteer!
Click HERE and enter the password stream26 (case sensitive) to register. Sign up for Saturday, August 26, 8:30 AM-12:00 PM. Thank you for helping alleviate hunger in our community!
  • Once registered volunteers will receive email confirmation with all of the logistical details and forms.
  • Minimum age requirement is 14 (sorry, no exceptions)
  • All volunteers must wear closed toe shoes.
  • Parking is available on site but is limited. Parking is assigned on a first come, first served basis.
  • Free street parking available. Groups, please carpool.

Friday, April 14, 2017

A topical JOKE

Jokes4us.com; Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Three guys were talking in the local bar when the manager announced that he had just hired the strongest man around to work as bouncer. He was so sure that he offered a $1,000 bet that no one could beat him.
 
The challenge was that the bouncer would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran out then hand that lemon to the customer. Anyone who could squeeze even one more drop out of the lemon would win the money.
 
Over the next few days many people tried -- truck drivers, gangsters, karate masters -- and all failed. Then one day a geeky little fellow, a pipsqueek  of a man with heavy horn-rimmed glasses, came into the bar and inquired if he could have a go at the challenge.
 
After the laughter died down, the manager said it was only fair that he be given a chance. The bouncer picked up a lemon and started squeezing. Once he was done he handed the remains to the little guy, who promptly squeezed another drop out of it. Everyone was amazed and doubted he had actually done it. So just to assure everyone, he squeezed out 3 more drops onto the bar.
 
Everyone looked on in amazement as the manager was about to hand over the prize money. But he paused and asked the man, "Excuse me, but what do you do for a living that has given you this extraordinary ability? Construction worker, weightlifter, stage magician?" "No," replied the man, "IRS agent." Source

Friday, July 11, 2014

Boycott, Divest, and Sanction ISRAEL (video)

Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Sonali Kolhatkar (UprisingRadio.org via KPFK.org Los Angeles and KPFA.org Berkeley, July 7, 2014)
Let's face the awful truth about why Israel gets away with war crimes: "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media" - former CIA Director William Colby (DP).

That boy has a stone in his hand, annihilate him! Israel (an arm of the CIA) seeks revenge! Israel's invasion, occupation, and annihilation of Palestine was a Catastrophe or Nakba (EOI).
alestine burning as a result of Israeli government bombing supported by the majority of its Jewish, nationalist population calling for "revenge" against Arabs (electronicintifada.net).

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Are we, as Americans -- Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, animistic, atheistic, and hedonistic -- guilty of Israel's crimes against humanity? We as a country fund, support, direct, then defend Israel. And whatever our president does or does not do, there are real movers and shakers -- what we call the "military-industrial complex" working in lock step with the CIA, NSA, and corporations -- who actually call the shots, stage events, and manage the spin and public relations on the mainstream media.
 
Family Members of Slain and Beaten Palestinian Boys Speak Out about Israeli Brutality
I can make you president, Mitt. - Thanks, Bibi!
Two children -- one American, the other Palestinian, boys from the same family --are at the center of revenge killings and torture by Israeli Jewish terrorists.

Israel claims to be retaliating against captive Palestinians in the world's largest open-air prison (Gaza) for the kidnapping and murders of three Israeli teens. Sixteen year old Mo Abu Khadeir was found dead in East Jerusalem after being kidnapped by Jews who burned him alive, the cruelest form of murder.
  • (UPDATE: Six Israeli Jews have been arrested, and three have allegedly already confessed to these crimes against humanity who were answering open calls for "revenge" by their Prime Minister Netanyahu, the apparent head of the Israeli military and its chief CIA contact).
Autopsy reports have confirmed that the teenager was burned alive. Days of protests in Palestinian towns and cities culminated in the arrest of six suspects by the Israeli government.
Oh, Great Wall God, please help Bibi kill my enemies *sniffle-sniffle* (BBC/S401)
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Is/was "Israel is worth ten CIAs"?
Meanwhile, a 15-year-old boy from the same family, the American teen Tarek Abu Khadeir, was savagely beaten by undercover Israeli police while watching the protests.

It is fortunate that two separate cameras were filming Tarek as he was beaten unconscious. They did not manage to film him as he was denied medical treatment, jailed without charge, then fined to win his release as family members paid steeply for his freedom.
  • (UPDATE: Tarek was subsequently brought up on trumped up charges in an apparent attempt to protect Israel's paramilitary police, who beat him without justification in an extreme abuse of power. The U.S. government put out a meek statement calling for an investigation into the use of "unnecessary force" by militant Israeli agents).
Sexist, patriarchal Israel says it a democracy
Tarek, 15, is a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent. He was on vacation visiting relatives when beaten nearly to death then arrested and imprisoned without trial to cover up police crimes. After days of lobbying by advocacy groups and his family here in the U.S., he was sentenced by Israel to 10 days of house arrest in Palestine. His beating was captured on video by two neighbors and can be viewed online (and below).
 
Obama proves US is pro-AIPAC, pro-Jewish
Israeli raids have targeted and killed [100] Palestinians in the Gaza strip (the open-air prison Israel maintains, which no one is allowed to leave although they are civilians who have not been charged much less accused, tried, or convicted of any crime). While collateral damage is widespread, with many innocent civilians being killed by precision state-of-the-art Israeli weaponry, Israel claim members of the group Hamas among them. The Israeli government uses the pretext that it is blaming Hamas for the deaths of the three Israeli teens -- with no evidence, no trial, no formal accusation, no conviction, no due process at all.  More 

GUESTS: Mohammad’s cousin Amal Abu Khadeir and Tarek’s aunt Sanah Abu Khadeir. Special thanks to Haia Radwan, Uprising's newest intern, for help with this story.

The US, like Israel, gives the illusion of being a democracy but it's pay to play (occupy)
What's it like living under an "illusion of democracy"? Find out in Israel and U.S.

  
Beating a child into unconsciousness 
(AB) Black clad paramilitary Jewish Israeli police attempt to murder an American child in a hidden courtyard in Palestine, but it is filmed by neighbor for the whole world to see.

The infamous video of the American boy Tarek being beaten by Israeli police until unconscious then his body being dragged away to prison. This was before police realized he was an American.
  • There solidarity protests in California this week joining Palestinians against Israeli war crimes and attacks on captive Palestinian civilians. In San Francisco, people are gathered on July 7th from 4:30-6:30 pm in front of the Israeli Consulate, 456 Montgomery St. at California St.
  • In Los Angeles a demonstration was held on July 8th, from 4:00-7:00 pm in front of the Israeli consulate, 11766 Wilshire Blvd., West Los Angeles, CA 90025.
  • There are also protests across America by progressives condemning Israeli nationalists, the Obama administration, American Jews, and Christian fundamentalists who support right wing extremists in Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's military regime.
Too close for comfort?
Wayne Madsen (rense.com, May 24, 2010)
Gay bathhouse buddies, Rahm+Obi
Pres. Barack Obama and improperly-elected Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel are members of the same Chicago gay bath house). President Obama and his Jewish, pro-Israel Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago’s gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city. More
Where is there a free media?

...Alex Jones' wife is Jewish. Alex Jones' children and wife are de facto Israeli citizens. Alex Jones can become an Israeli citizen. Many PNAC members (read Neo-Con warmongers) are also dual citizens of Israel.

This group realized that [to make] major change in the U.S. would require a new "Pearl Harbor" event -- this was just before 9/11.
 
The president of GCN -- [Genesis Communication Network, the media corporation that owns Alex Jones' show], who pays ABC News, gives airtime to Alex Jones' disinformation and Jason Bermas' disinformation -- is also a sponsor of The Daily Paul. He owns Midas Resources. See the ads on the page?
  • In 1984 ABC was bought out by Capital Cities, [which was] founded in part by CIA Director Bill Casey (under then-V.P. George Bush Senior. ABC then became known as "The CIA Network."
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff -- also a dual Israeli citizen -- released Israeli spies from U.S. custody after 9/11.
 
Alex Jones' father was a member of the Jon Birch Society -- [a] suspected Zionist front with Freemason connections, which was funded by Nelson Rockefeller [and] had CFR members sitting on [its] board. Fred Schlafly, husband of Congresswoman Phyllis Schlafly, was also a Jon Birch Society board member. More

Have Israel and USA become terrorists bent on creating "enemies" then attacking them? (AJ)
A Jewish homeland already exists as a Russian oblast predating "Israel" in Palestine.