Three Gods of Israel made God leave

(Bible Origins)

(Good Politic Guy) Face of Greater Israel's settler colonial project in Palestine

Real reason USA wages ENDLESS wars

The REAL reason America wages endless wars

(Kim Iversen) Sept. 1, 2025: Caleb Maupin, author, journalist, political analyst, founder of the Center for Political Innovation. Latest book: Trotsky and the Neoconservatives: The Whole Story.

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Scam: Trouble at Powerball lottery: delay

Powerball lottery's $1.3 billion jackpot drawing delayed (AP via MSN.com)

UPDATE: $2 billion Powerball lottery fraud: SCAM!

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The eighth-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history — $1.3 billion — is at stake in Saturday evening’s multi-state Powerball drawing.

• UPDATE: Who won the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon? We might or might not know anytime soon. Here's why

However, the drawing has been delayed. [Hmm, just like the time the lotto scammed us in Altadena, California, where one many bought a ticket and another man became a billionaire being sued by the first man and there was a very mysterious delay lied about by officials.]

The Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game, issued the following statement:

“The Powerball drawing scheduled for 10:59 pm ET on Saturday, April 6 has been delayed.

“Tonight, we have one participating lottery [Is it California, home of the most winners, by any chance?] that needs additional time to complete required pre-draw procedures, which have been enacted to protect the security and integrity of the Powerball game.

• UPDATE: $2b Powerball lottery fraud: SCAM!
• $1.3 billion Powerball drawing delayed (NBC/MSN)

Gambling? The fix is in.

“Powerball game rules require that every single ticket sold nationwide be checked and verified against two different computer systems before the winning numbers are drawn. This is done to ensure that every ticket sold for the Powerball drawing has been accounted for and has an equal chance to win. Tonight, we have one jurisdiction that needs extra time to complete that pre-draw process.

“Please hold on to your tickets for Saturday’s Powerball drawing. When the required pre-draw procedures are complete, the Powerball drawing will be performed under the supervision of lottery security officials and independent auditors.

“The drawing will be live streamed on Powerball.com, and the winning numbers and recorded video of the drawing will be posted to the Powerball website and YouTube channel.”

• Related video: Powerball draw for $1.3 billion jackpot delayed (KTLA-TV Los Angeles)
• Also tonight you want to hold on to those tickets

Powerball draw for $1.3 billion jackpot delayed

There have been 40 drawings since January 1, 2024, the last time a ticket with all six numbers was [chosen by someone and] sold, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.

Saturday’s drawing was initially scheduled to take place at 7:59 pm. Tickets sold after 7:05 pm were ineligible for the night’s draw, but are eligible for the following drawing.

In its announcement Friday that the estimated jackpot had grown to $1.3 billion from the previous estimate of $1.23 billion because of strong ticket sales across the nation coupled with a boost in interest rates used to fund the annuitized prize, the Multi-State Lottery Association also sought to debunk what it called top misconceptions about whether players can gain an edge to winning the Powerball jackpot.

One misconception is that Powerball jackpot-winning tickets are only sold in big cities and states. Powerball was designed to be a random game with every ticket having the same possibility of matching the winning numbers drawn, the association said.

The number of winning tickets in a location directly correlates to the volume of ticket sales. Typically, there are more winning tickets in cities because they have higher ticket sales compared to rural areas, and therefore, more winners based upon sales volume.

The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number are 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.

The jackpot for Saturday’s drawing is the fourth largest in the history of the Powerball game, which began in 1992. There have been four larger jackpots for the Mega Millions game, which began in 1996 as The Big Game and was given the new name Mega Millions in 2002.

The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. More + VIDEO

• MyNewsLA via MSN.com, 4/6/24; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How to foretell the future: demography

Ken Gronbach, KGC Direct, 11/21/23; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Where we were shapes where we're going. Demography reveals what will happen to 

Demography is the key to know what will happen in the future. Real demographic facts help one guide new reality strategies. Demographics precipitated economics, not the other way around.

The truth about what’s next and the tsunami of opportunity or doom is right ahead of us. Gronbach is not a motivational speaker. He's a motivated demographer, who can educate and entertain with real data. 

• Experts forecast what life will be like in 2100 | Coast to Coast AM
• L.A. Marzulli: Out-of-Place Artifacts: On the Trail of the Nephilim

His presentations are about people and the products and services they are interested in. He offers take-a-way messages for reality planning. He uses facts, not opinions, data, not guesswork or theory. What is a valuable take-a-way? Strategy.

The Age Curve (Ken Gronbach)

A real strategy incorporates facts and a simple demographic model to use right away to shape a successful plan. Sound too good to be true? It’s not.

Twenty-two years ago, as president of a successful retail advertising agency, he made a remarkable discovery about the relationship between shifting demography and changing markets.

The evidence was overwhelming. He could now forecast markets with uncanny accuracy. He shares his secret with audiences by educating, entertaining, and inspiring them. More

Drug dealing vs. McDonalds (Freakonomics)

Steven Lewitt (TEDTalks, 1/16/07); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The freakonomics of McDonalds vs. Drugs

(TEDTalks) Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing gangs. Contrary to popular conception, he says, being a gang-member street-corner crack dealer isn't lucrative: It pays less than minimum wage. And your boss can kill you.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED (technology, entertainment, and design) Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as enlightened neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al "Loser" Gore, and Arthur Benjamin. TEDTalks cover many topics and science, business, politics, and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at ted.com/index.php/talks/top10.

"Debt: The First 5,000 Years" (FREE)

Prof. David Graeber (libcom.org), London School of Economics; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (libcom.org)

FUNNY: Honest Gov't Ad: Trickledown (video)

Andrew Cheetham (HUMOR, davidicke.com, 5/15/18); Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

HUMOR: Honest Australia government advert: Trickledown Economics (Banking and Finance)

Can you? "You can't handle the truth!" (video)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Tom Tomorrow

Think you can handle the truth? Here it is

Crazy is the New Normal (TMW)

(CD) Who really rules the United States? Let's hope this opens people's eyes to how things really are in today's society. Even if one doesn't like President-Elect Donald Trump, voting for corrupt Hillary Clinton would be even worse and ruin our country. With Trump as president, it will be more like a slow-motion demolition or, possibly, more of the same with the regular players coming to his rescue to enrich themselves. We should have voted for Bernie or Jill Stein.

Now they want'em back! The Swing Voter Memory Hole" (jensorensen.com)

Fritjof Capra: Science gets closer to Buddhism

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly; Maria Armoudian, Prof. Fritjof Capra (Scholars’ Circle, 8-31-14)

The Buddha under a vast sky, Battambang, Cambodia (Samantonio/flickr.com)

Amazing visionaries from the Buddha to the guardians and more (Pete Karnevil/flickr)

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The Systems View of Life: a Unifying Vision

(Scholars' Circle) Fritjof Capra, the world-famous author of The Tao of Physics, talks about his more recent work, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision.

Capra, who is for all practical purposes now an Eastern mystic and one of Leonardo da Vinci's greatest proponents, also researched and wrote: The Turning Point, The Web of Life, The Hidden Connections, The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance, and Learning from Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius.

Dr. Capra is an eminent physicist, system theorist, science writer, and the founding director of Center of Ecoliteracy.

• AUDIO: PLAY NOW (download, Scholars' Circle)

Feeding students, sustainable living, thinking about ecosystems (ecoliteracy.org)

 

The Systems View of Life

Over the past three decades, a new conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science: New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organization leading to a novel kind of "systemic" thinking. Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi integrate the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life. They put it all into a single coherent framework Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, the authors examine the appearance of key concepts such as autopoiesis, dissipative structures, social networks, and a systemic understanding of evolution. The implications of the systems view of life for health care, management, and our global ecological and economic crises are also discussed. It is for college students and essential reading for graduate students and researchers interested in the new systemic conception of life with implications for a broad range of professions -- from psychology and law, economics and politics, to medicine.

KPFK (90.7 FM) Host Maria Armoudian (armoudian.com, The Scholars' Circle)

Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role

• Pacifica Radio host and producer Maria Armoudian (The Insighters, The Scholars's Circle) is author of Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World and a fellow at USC’s Center for International Studies, a doctoral candidate at the Univ. of Southern California, and a board member for the L.A. League of Conservation Voters.
• fritjofcapra.net

Thinking Like an Ecosystem (Frances Moore Lappe/ecoliteracy.org)

Mindfulness: Business and Behavioral Sciences

CC Liu, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; KPCC (SCPR.org), The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, The Crawford Family Forum

Mindfulness - where business and the behavioral sciences intersect

Innovation and creativity are understood as necessary skills for thriving in a dynamic economy, but what is often left out is the role of transforming the mind itself -- as the Buddha recommended.

Today's overwhelming challenges require leaders to move beyond "being effective" to fundamentally change themselves and how they see and relate to the world. How can individuals and organizations let go of ego and transform mindsets to evoke creativity, productivity, and innovation?

In this edition of Southern California Public Radio's Drucker Business Forum series SCPR hears about a new model for creative and productive leaders, a model in which innovation is actually a complete mentality, not a business-led process.

Nick Udall, Ph.D., is CEO of nowhere (now-here.com) and chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership, puts it this way: leaders have to "stop taking up space and start making and holding space" to help their organizations deal with facing the unknown.  They must turn the notion of leadership on its head and move beyond their own egos. Udall sits down with Drucker School Assistant Professor of Practice Jeremy Hunter, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate University, co-author chapter "Making the Mindful Leader: Cultivating Skills for Facing Adaptive Challenges" in the new The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership, Change, and Organizational Development.  They will explore how transforming the way leaders and groups relate, learn, and organize can lead to new patterns of thought and innovative action.

This insightful conversation will draw on their personal and organizational skills to show how awareness, perception, consciousness, and mindfulness can lead to more purposeful, sustainable, innovative -- and successful -- organizations.

 

Nick Udall works with CEOs and executive leaders of global businesses to develop breakthrough strategies and build cultures of innovation; Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership. His new book, Riding the Creative Rollercoaster: How Leaders Evoke Creativity, Productivity and Innovation, is out this month.

• WATCH live video stream, 8:30-9:30 am Feb. 13, 2014
• After event, let's go drink at DUMB Starbucks
• Cop goes undercover to talk to suspect in custody

Wage-slaves on Emancipation Day 2012

Maurice Jackson, WashingtonPost.com

Pres. Lincoln: Compassion or economic necessity for north that slaves be freed by south? Today's "wage-slaves" are worse off because owners do not have to feed, house, or care for workers (timeanddate.com).

On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Emancipation Act, which freed the city’s 3,128 slaves. This came nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation, which granted freedom to slaves in only parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion.

Emancipation of the slaves proclaimed Sept. 22, 1862, by President Abraham Lincoln. (Library of Congress ) “I trust I am not dreaming, but the events taking place seem like a dream,” the great orator Frederick Douglass wrote of the act. “Not only a staggering blow to slavery throughout the country, but a killing blow to the rebellion -- and the beginning of the end for both.”

• Am I a "wage slave"?

Perhaps this is why the marble federal city built with slave labor in the 1790s has often stood as the political “city on a hill” to the nation’s African Americans. Just as Puritan governor John Winthrop’s biblical image of Boston served as a symbol of “freedom” to many whites in the New World, Washington has served as a beacon to blacks seeking freedom from slavery, Jim Crow and racism.

Clearly, the original Puritan city on a hill proved easier to climb and conquer for white Americans of WASP and Irish-Catholic backgrounds. For generations of blacks born and raised here, and others who migrated, the hill has been steeper to climb and easier to fall off. More

The History of Money (Sacred Economics)

(Fierce Light Films) Directed by Ian Mackenzie, produced by Velcrow Ripper, Gregg Hill, Ian MacKenzie. Book: Sacred-Economics.com

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies [dana] to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity. It has destroyed community and necessitated endless growth. Today these trends have reached the extreme -- but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being in the world. This short contains some visuals from the upcoming feature documentary OccupyLove.org

What Not to Fear (SuperFreakonomics)

SuperFreakonomics What Should You Worry About?
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Parade.com),10/18/09)

Killer sharks? Disease? We're bad at assessing risk — we panic about the wrong things.

Humans are good at many things — typing, inventing stuff — but we're quite bad at assessing risk. Day after day, we get bent out of shape over things we shouldn’t worry about so much, like airplane crashes and lightning strikes, instead of things we should, like heart disease and the [government's newest] flu. So how can we find out what's truly dangerous? Economics. More>>

• Taking risks is part of life
• Can genetics determine your financial future

The Money Pope: one world economy?

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict called today for a "world political authority" to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat. The pope made his call for a re-think of the way the world economy was run in a new encyclical that touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected...

Pope Benedict with Muslim friend (aleksandrakristina.files.wordpress)

• Pope calls for a "global authority" on economy

Spiritual and moral auditing
Fr. Roy Cimagala (TheNewsToday.info)

Auditing need not only be financial. More important than financial, it should be done to verify the spiritual and moral conditions of our lives. Are we in good shape? Are we aware of the problems? Are we already thinking of the appropriate solutions and remedies?

This spiritual and moral auditing is done mainly through the examination of conscience, which we should try to do regularly, if not daily, just before going to bed. It will give us a good picture of our spiritual life, monitoring its developments and challenges, and defining its directions for growth and fruitfulness.

More importantly, it gives an occasion to say sorry to God [Sorry, Maha Brahma!], to patch up things with him and to begin again. It’s where the theories of spirituality are poised to practice, where desires are positioned to action. The examination of conscience is a wonderful tool for our spiritual maintenance, where we do a little tweaking here and there, a little tightening and oiling of the different parts of our life, a little self-motivating exercise for our tired if not harassed selves. More>>

• Karma And so, we have what we call the "Law of Karma," which is central in these religions: Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism (religions which were formed in India).
• Suicide clubs and this manic-depressive column According to my readings, it was during the advent of Buddhism in Japan when such glory of death was developed. It simply means the Japanese yet had to...
• The tower of Babel Concerned of different interpretations, I asked a Buddhist Chinese friend, he said Buddhism never mentioned about the origin of different languages and...

What is Reality (and Why)?

David Icke describes the nature of the global situation we are facing and how we can collectively change things for the better. This is no-holds-barred television interview with Ross Hemsworth. Edge Media TV sponsored the provocative broadcast, which was aired over the Internet on the 23rd of October, 2008. Icke predicted the current state of affairs and the debt-centric bank bailout solutions being offered by Obama and other world leaders.