The House approved the rule governing debate on H.R. 8800 by a 214-211 vote Tuesday, July 21, 2026. The vote allowed the chamber to proceed with the NDAA but excluded the amendmentfrom [heroic and maligned peace warriors] Reps.Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (Democrat-California) that would have removed Section 219.
Lawmakers will not receive a separate vote on the bipartisan [both side, Republicans and Democrats] amendment that sought to remove the section, a proposal to expand U.S.-Israel defense technology cooperation that has garnered strong rebukes in certain political and defense circles.
The House expects to hold a recorded vote on the complete NDAA on Wednesday.
Bibi: I'm Polish from Chicago, and this is all going to plan just like we planned at the CIA.
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What Section 219 would do
I may be a Neo-Nazi, but I'm not Anti-Semitic. I love me my Zionist Israel and King Bibi!
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Your Majesty, welcome to the USA-DOW! - Pete
Section 219 would direct Defense [Trump's Department of War] Secretary [Pete Hegseth] to designate a Pentagon “executive agent” to oversee the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. That official would coordinate bilateral defense research, development, testing, evaluation, and industrial cooperation [as in the Christion Zionistmilitary-industrial complex].
Every year, Peace Class goes on hiatus from July through September. There is this meeting tonight and again next week (June 24th), then summer hiatus begins. Join me for final two classes of this cycle. This is the text of the peace talk delivered last week:
When all beings can clearly see everything-that-is, all beings will choose to live in peace, in harmonious coexistence with one another.
Harmony (akin to kshanti) happens effortlessly when everyone has access to all-that-is. Harmony is what happens when everyone is engaging their full intuitive powers, seeing with clarity, gazing at the world through their higher consciousness, through their Peace Minds.
Harmony happens effortlessly when all is known by all. But we aren't there yet.
We are at the end of the age that precedes all beings knowing all. We are at the beginning of the time of revelation that bridges two ages. We are at the beginning of the revelation that gets us from not-knowing to knowing.
What does this transition period look like? What does it feel like? Imagine that all-that-is-true were shown to us as a huge sweeping picture, a massive wall-sized image, one enormous scene.
Then imagine that wall-sized picture sliced up into 10,000 pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Yes, one would be able to reassemble the full picture, if one had all of the puzzle pieces.
What's happening during this time of revelation is that some people are receiving some of the pieces of what-really-is, whereas most people hold just a handful of the pieces. And rarely do two people hold the same pieces.
That means we might hold a few puzzle pieces of what-really-is, and our neighbor might hold a few pieces, and those pieces could be from different quadrants of the picture. Those assembled pieces could show entirely different things.
Our neighbor might hold three pieces that seem to be part of a barn and might say, "I've seen what is, and we're in the countryside."
We might hold a few pieces that seem to make a skyscraper and might say, "I've seen what is, and we're in downtown."
A third neighbor might be holding pieces that show part of a cloud and might say, "We're in the clouds—not touching ground at all!"
All three of these neighbors might have glimpsed some aspect of what-really-is yet not understand how those things fit together. So they might be tempted to turn to each other and say, "You're wrong!"
They might even be in despair wondering, "How can so many people think that this is an image of clouds we're in when I know it's a picture of a barn?"
This is what the Time of Revelation feels like, especially in the beginning. It feels to many like deep confusion. And such confusion can lead to despair.
But when we realize what's really going on, which is that all-that-is is being revealed, slowly, we can cross this bridge and transit this period with grace.
We can hold compassion for ourselves, knowing we are all undergoing a process that takes time. We can hold compassion for our neighbors, benighted as they seem. We can hold compassion for ALL beings.
Kill Iran so we can build up Israel. - OK, Bibi.
These are not easy times to transit. Our politics are polarized. Many of us look at our neighbors and say, "How can you believe that? How can you possibly see things that way?!"
What's happening is a literal difference of seeing, not a figurative one. This is not just a duel of differing opinions. Some have seen what's-really-happening by way of direct exposure or spiritual revelation, and others have not. Some have seen one slice of what's-really-happening, and others have seen a slice of a different portion.
We are stepping into knowing-what-really-is at vastly different rates. And this is exactly as things are meant to happen. What-really-is is that we're a group of beings evolving towards discovery and an expression of our own peaceful and loving truest nature. That's what's really happening!
We are evolving forwards. And eventually, we will know who we are. We are beings of peace. And eventually, we will feel as we are. We will feel the urge to choose to live peacefully, to express compassion-for-all.
We will choose to fully express our unique selves and selfhood, while creating space for others to express themselves fully. We will choose compassionate coexistence.
The trees have been waiting patiently in peace.
We will choose harmony with others, harmony with the waters and the forests and the soil and the air, harmony with the animals of this planet.
We will choose selfhood, and we will choose harmony. But we have a ways yet before arriving there. We are departing from one shore, sailing towards another.
We are departing the shore of believing our community is dog-eat-dog, that the rules are an-eye-for-an-eye. That's the shore we're leaving.
I like it better when we ALL get along in peace.
We'll arrive at the shore of dog-celebrate-dog, dog-help-dog. That's where we'll land.
Revelation is the time to discover who we truly are as a species. This is the time to learn, not later in peace. Right now, we can learn that dog-eat-dog was never our true nature. We were living through a dog-eat-dog phase, just as people, while they're babies, are living through growing pains in a diaper phase. A child grows out of using a diaper: A child becomes a grownup. We are now growing into dog-celebrate-dog.
Higher we rise, easier to see the big picture
We get from one shore to another by learning the truth about who we are. Now, there's a lot to know. The full picture of who we are as beings is a lot to take in. The full picture of what our planet is, how it fits into the greater universe, is a lot to take in.
The full picture of what's been happening in our societies, what's been happening of which we have been unaware, is a lot to take in. A lot.
Revelation arrives in pieces. It arrives as different pieces that are in the hands of different people fall into place at different rates. Eventually, all will know all. As for now, some know some.
So when we look at our neighbor and think, "How can that [bleep] think that way?" we must understand that our confusion is natural and know that our neighbor will eventually see everything. And so will we.
All will eventually see all.
In the beginning
The light slowly began to dawn.
What does revelation look like at its beginning? It can look like deep differences between how we see the world and how our family members, partners, children, and those pesky neighbors see the world.
If we choose to walk with compassion, we will understand that the children of earth are doing the work of waking up and becoming enlightened in perfect pace, with appropriate timing for everyone, at the right rate for each individual.
Everyone has the right to choose how quickly to evolve. Some will choose to cling to the dog-eat-dog way-of-being, and some will let go of such thinking, feeling, and being.
What happens when a person sees the completed puzzle, the full image of all-that-is? That person knows and chooses peacefulness, one's own peaceful way of being in peace. And what one feels for others at that moment is compassion-without-end.
Once we understand that all who can see the full puzzle will carry peacefulness, and once we understand that the puzzle pieces are arriving into the hands and lives of most people we know, at varying rates, this era of revelation begins to make sense.
I never saw it that way! It makes sense now.
This is what revelation looks like: It looks like a few more puzzle pieces arriving into the hands of a few more individuals.
Revelation happens in stages, dependent on an individual's desire to know more. And individual who really wants to know more creates space within oneself.
If we create openness in mind, if we cultivate compassion in heart, with non-judgment and non-attachment (letting go), more puzzle pieces will begin to fall into our hands.
I'm starting to see, but my eyes are blurry.
It may take five or 10 or 20 years to have enough puzzle pieces to get a full sense of what's really going on, but we are so loved. Every human alive is so loved through this process, so loved by the divine, so loved by our ancestors, so loved in all phases of self-discovery and self-actualization. All who walk this process do it perfectly.
This summer, we might spend time with family members whose puzzle pieces imply a completely different picture than ours, and if we allow the lower mind to run the show, we are very likely experience, at best, frustration being around them, at worst, anger and hate, at very worst, expulsion of others from own compassionate heart because they're holding different pieces of the puzzle and they imagine that the shape of the puzzle is different than what we imagine it to be!
We get to choose how we walk this moment of revelation. We can do it with compassion, we can do it with grace, or... Walk in the way that builds the world you want. When you see all, you will know your own peace, and you will choose your own peacefulness.
If we choose peace now, even before we see all, we will walk through challenging times with the most possible ease. And our presence here, among those of earth, will be a living slice of grace.
L.A. Zoo elephants' whereabouts a mystery amid relocation battle
(ABC7) May 21, 2025: Where are LA's elephants Billy and Tina? The Los Angeles Zoo's two remaining manacled/shackled Asian elephants appear to have been transferred in the dark while demonstrators let their guard down. abc7.com/post/activists...
UPDATE: The elephants have been secreted away overnight (May 21, 2025) and shipped via truck to the Tulsa Zoo rather than the animal sanctuary anti-animal-cruelty demonstrators were demanding.
To herald the coming birth of the Future Buddha, pregnant Queen Maya dreamed that she conceived of Prince Siddhartha when a white double tusker royal elephant entered her side: Queen Maya's Dream
In Buddhism, elephants get names like Parileyya and Girimekhala, usually after the woods in which they reside.
'Not another zoo': Critics want LA Zoo elephants moved to sanctuary
(TODAY) May 13, 2025: Elephants Billy and Tina, the last two Asian elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo, were set to be relocated to another animal prison at the Tulsa Zoo, but there is pushback from animal-loving demonstrators and critics online alleging, “They will suffer in an inhumane environment.” NBC’s Morgan Chesky reports for TODAY. #elephant #animals #zoo
Pārileyyaka Sutta: When the Buddha was staying in a forest near Pārileyya, some meditative monks asked Ananda to take them to him. He did, and the Buddha, reading their thoughts, taught a sutra on the destruction of the cankers (āsavas) by the full realization of the impermanent and impersonal nature of all existence: all things are transient and devoid of any self (S.iii.95ff.) Translation: Pālileyya Sutta translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (SN 22.81)
Conscious elephants in Buddhism: The Full Moon Honey Offering Festival
Animal karma (deeds) also bear karmic results
The Honey-Offering Festival is a Buddhist religious ceremony that commemorates the service and sustenance provided by animals to the Buddha.
According to legend, during his retreat to solitude, a wild monkey brought an offering of a honeycomb to give to the Buddha to eat, as an elephant named Parileyya brought fruit and protected the Buddha from fierce animals in the forest.
When the Buddha accepted the gift of the honeycomb, the monkey became so overjoyed that he began to leap from tree to tree, and in his exuberance fell to his death due to his reckless jubilation. However, because of his generous gift, that monkey was immediately reborn on a celestial plane called the World of the Thirty-Three (Tavatimsa), the second of the six heavens in the Sensual Sphere (below many other heavens of the Fine Material Sphere and Immaterial Sphere).
Since these events are believed to have taken place on the day of the full moon, the occasion has come to be commemorated as Madhu Purnima, or “Honey Full Moon.” The festival is observed on the full moon of the tenth lunar month in Theravada Buddhist countries in South and Southeast Asia. More
The Commentaries (e.g., DhA.i.48ff.; iv.26 ff. UdA.250f.; see Thomas, op. cit., 117 n) say that the elephant's name was Pārileyya (also Pārileyyaka) and describe in vivid detail the manner in which the elephant looked after the Buddha, omitting nothing, even to the extent of finding hot water for his bath.
Later, when the Buddha's attendant Ananda came with many others to invite the Buddha to return to Sāvatthi, the elephant Pārileyyaka provided all of them with alms food. The Buddha agreed and returned.
But such was the attachment the elephant had formed toward the Buddha that he died of a broken heart when the Buddha left the forest.
However, as a result of all his good deeds (wholesomekarma) toward these enlightened beings, he was immediately reborn as a deva (angel, offspring of the gods) in Tāvatimsa in a golden palace (vimana, mansion) said to be 30 leagues high, where he is now known as Pārileyyaka devaputta.
This elephant is also identified with the elephant in the Bhisa Jātaka (J.iv.314). Source
Civilian intelligence analyst and psychotherapist Robert Morningstar discussed his research on the origins of the MK-ULTRA (the CIA's trauma-based mind control program) and Montauk Project (militarized time travel experimentation).
The CIA committed to assassinating JFK and Dallas was the backup plan. They targeted him previously in Miami and ordered the SS (Secret Service) to stand down to permit its shooting teams to hit their mark. Pres. Kennedy was mad that CIA Director Allen Dulles was helping, being helped, and sheltering NAZIs. The CIA's structure (as the OSS) seems based on NAZI Germany's Gestapo secret police. See more at foia.cia.gov
Why did CIA publicly assassinate JFK?
Ever get the feeling the CIA doesn't like you?
Morningstar posits that JFK's attempts to dismantle the CIA and expose UFO interactions with the U.S. government were pivotal in the reasons for his very public assassination and the coup d'état that followed.
It was very important to traumatize the nation by showing the brutal assassination on TV, repeating it until it was seared in the nation's collective imagination, traumatizing the American public as part of the Company's mind control programming. This trauma must be repeated regularly, each time with more flare and emphasis, leading to 9/11, wildfires, hurricanes, gore, destruction, Jan. 6th to cement the control.
"I think...the intention to reveal the UFO presence and interaction with U.S. government was the final [straw and] nail in his coffin," Morningstar says, noting that Pres. Kennedy's efforts to dissolve the CIA's rogue actions and prevent nuclear proliferation were also factors.
That guy doesn't know how to play ball.
Expressing sympathy for patsy Lee Harvey Oswald, whom he described as a patsy set up by larger forces to take the blame and fall for a crime he did not commit, Morningstar suggests that he actually sacrificed his life for his country and was betrayed.
Headshot on TV with FBI in audience filming
Studying "hundreds of photographs, articles, documents," and CIA files, Morningstar concludes that "the CIA hired the Chicago mafia to contract out the assassination of President Kennedy."
Morningstar specifically named JAMES FILES as the shooter who fired the fatal bullet from the Grassy Knoll but indicated that there were "four teams shooting" that day, including French assassins brought in by the CIA.
Montauk Project
You want trauma? I'll give you...
According to Morningstar, the Montauk Project in Montauk, New York, involved mind control experiments and the programming of assassins (such as Monarch Butterflies, sexy female assassins), including James Files, who had been recruited into the program as a young boy.
CIA official Cord Meyer, whom Morningstar associates with the New World Order, was the person tasked with starting MK-ULTRA, the CIA's mind control program. More + AUDIO coasttocoastam.com/show/2024-10-23-show
(Joshua Vineyard) A lot is made about how expensive attending Burning Man can be or what goes on there. Is it the young person's Bohemian Grove? What kind of ancient Greek Bacchanalian, Dionysian, oracle mind alteration is really going on? Is it too expensive or actually quite reasonable, even a bargain, compared to other vacation options. There's a bus one can take, with a free ticket from joining a theme camp. Everything is free once one arrives. Everything is given in the spirit of dana (spiritual sharing, mutual supporting, communal love, metta/agape). It's not Woodstock with Limp Bizkit and Korn. It's not Coachella or Stagecoach, Lollapalooza, or some other corporate capitalist exploitation fest. It's a vision of a new world (a kind of Brave New World with lots of soma). This video looks at how much it actually costs to attend one of the most amazing multi-day festivals on the planet.
#burningman#festival
Raising the Flag HD - Temple of Together - Burning Man 2024
(Rand Larson) Aug. 16, 2024: The first work-progress video for the Temple Crew building the Temple of Together on the playa for Burning Man 2024.
VIRGIN BURNER GUIDE
Virgin Burner Guide (includes how to get tickets, costs, preparation, complete prep)
(The Brown Vanlife) Feb. 5, 2023: Without a doubt, Burning Man is a must-go for everyone at least once in their lifetime. This is a detailed video on what we did to prepare for our first burn and our real experience. Feel free to comment below for more information or message us on Instagram.
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