Massive volcano and quake hit Japan

(Stefan Burns)

(The Lustre Archive) The global civilization that was erased 12,000 years ago) Graham Hancock

Oldest pyramid site in Asia: Koh Ker

Exploring the enigmatic Koh Ker Pyramid: Cambodia's hidden architectural marvel

Buddhist pyramids like the Maya of Mexico?

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

• Archaeologists found a smoking gun behind the end of the Maya kingdom’s reign

The Enigmatic Koh Ker Pyramid of Cambodia | Ancient Architects

Archeological marvels of Benghazi, Libya (Northern Africa)

Shattered megaliths in Buddhist Laos

Vat Phou's shattered megaliths: Clues to an ancient catastrophe in Laos

Secrets in Stone Podcast

(Secrets in Stone) Nov. 26, 2025: Secrets in Stone Podcast. Join me on a solo adventure to Vat Phou, a remote UNESCO site in southern Laos. This isn't your typical temple— it’s a lost megalithic sanctuary with serpent carvings and a peculiar crocodile stone, precision stonework, evidence of lost technology and signs of an ancient catastrophe that tilted boulders and reshaped the landscape. I'll walk you through the site's terraces, barays, and scattered ruins, sharing firsthand observations. Could this site predate the inscriptions by centuries or more, built by a lost ancient culture? From lathe-marked spindles to LiDAR, we'll explore why Vat Phou feels out of sync with other ancient sites in the region.

• Buddhism in Laos

Arrest made in Pacific Palisades Fire, LA

Jonathan Rinderknech arrested: ChatGPT, French rap, and Uber: Palisades Fire suspect's trail

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Neither of these suspects is Jon Rinderknech

The Palisades Fire was one of two major infernos that hit Los Angeles on Oct. 7, 2025. The other was the Eaton Fire in the foothills of Altadena, which was caused by Edison, likely a negligent utility that left its inoperable transmission tower standing for decades and uncared for, making it a known fire hazard, according to attorney Mikal Watts (lafirejustice.com). Until now the means by which the historic winds that day managed to burn down the ritzy coastal areas of Los Angeles have been debated. The fire he set, the Lachman Fire, has been blamed on homeless individuals and fireworks. But authorities are now saying Jonathan Rinderknech, 29, a former Palisades resident now living in Florida, committed arson a week earlier and that those flames were never fully extinguished, coming to life with the strong winds.

• 29-year-old former Uber driver arrested in connection with starting deadly Palisades Fire (NBC News)
• Suspect in Palisades Fire allegedly used ChatGPT to generate images of burning forests and cities (Rolling Stone)

Uber driver charged in connection with starting the Palisades Fire | LAist.com

(KTVU Fox 2 SF) Rare "supershear" earthquake could hit California

• Fox News; KTVU Fox 2 San Francisco, Oct. 1, 2025; Fox 11 News, Oct. 8, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Let's talk about better toilet paper

I am not my mom Demi Moore.

Rumer Willis doesn't mind if you see her breastfeeding her baby, Lou. And her sister Scout doesn't mind if you see her breasts/nipples even when she's not. Rumer's trying to get our attention about the dangers of common TOXIC toilet paper. [Switch to a bidet ASAP.]

Until switching there's a softer, stronger, smarter choice. PlantPaper is one company's response to an industry and a [poor] hygienic practice in dire need of an update. [That's where the bidet saves the day, using pure water.]

• Free The Nipple: Scout Willis goes topless
• Will we also see Rumer Willis protest topless? We think not
• Rumer Willis goes TOPLESS in breastfeeding photo for International Women’s Day
• Scout Willis walks NYC streets topless to protest Instagram nudity policy – NBC New York
• Scout LaRue Willis on [Rated] X: "What @instagram won't let you see #FreeTheNipple http://t.co/lASApy0W0S" / X
• (Who is Scout LaRue Willis (@Scout_Willis) / X?)

A clean butt is a healthy butt, but don't stare.

When this company first began developing PlantPaper in 2016, it knew it wouldn’t be enough just to make a cleaner toilet paper; it had to be a better toilet paper—a toilet paper the creators of the company themselves would want to use—a trade-up, not a trade-off, a toilet paper without compromise.

• [What to make it with since you don't seem to be getting off yer arse 'n gettin the message that a bidet is the way to go? Mmm, why not use material better than toxic wood pulp?]

Hey, what if we were to use bamboo?

Ah, I feel so much cleaner now.

The more bamboo is harvested, the faster it grows. A bamboo grove may be able to produce as much as 10 times more usable fiber for paper than a tree forest of equivalent size.

Bamboo stores up to 40% of its carbon underground, carbon that remains intact even when it’s harvested. [There's a better choice.] plantpaper.us

• Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dead bodies everywhere, one survivor

British national survives Air India plane crash, condition unknown

New CCTV footage shows Air India crash as British survivor shares shocking escape story

(ABC News) June 12, 2025: The Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, India, confirmed to ABC News that Ramesh Vishwaskumar, one passenger [in seat 11A] on the downed Air India flight, is alive and hospitalized there.

• Air India Flight 171 (Boeing 787)
• BREAKING: Air India plane crashes after takeoff with hundreds on board

Korn "Dead Bodies Everywhere"

• (ABC News) British national survives Air India plane crash, condition unknown; Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Eaton Fire victims meet Erin Brockovich

WHAT HAPPENED?

Erin Brockovich portrayed by Julia Roberts

The lawyer Watts laid out the case as if those present, many of whom were in the mainstream media with cameras rolling, inside a special seminar room in Lake Avenue Church. Attorney Boxer, son of former Sen. Barbara Boxer, was present. The utility Edison is guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, as the judge in Family Guy would say. The evidence is overwhelming. Whether Edison loses is not in question. How it loses is. If Edison presents itself as a competent and responsible company that made a mistake, it is eligible for 80% reimbursement for its legal losses (estimated to range from between 20 and 23 billion due to the Eaton Fire). However, if it is shown to have been incompetent and irresponsible, it will have to cover the entire amount from its own coffers. We were shown pictures of a grounding wire that was not in place but only jerry-rigged and held down with chicken wire, unable to serve its function of grounding electrical surges (into the ground as intended). There is film footage of the derelict "zombie" transmission tower maintained by Edison sparking (electrically arcing) and setting the forest ablaze. The most damning evidence, however, comes from Edison's own records of urgent work orders never completed to correct these issues to prevent such a disaster. Those records say it is a fire hazard; therefore, Edison had every reason to know what the danger was, what their incompetence would cause, what in fact their negligence did cause. They tried to hide all of this, but LA Fire Justice dug for it and found the evidence. The firm claims to have over 500 clients harmed by Edison. There are thousands more distributed among other lawyers, many who have rushed to the area to set up shop and cash in. They do not have the experience or skill to win big but winning in any way will likely make their move profitable.

Eaton Fire justice is LA Fire Justice's mission. Get started: INTAKE FORM

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Then the real-life Erin Brockovich took the stage with a command of the facts and gravitas, siding with LAFireJustice.com against Edison. She has decades of experience dealing with corporate irresponsibility, and this is a blatant case of it. This makes Edison worse than PG&E, which itself caused one or more infamous fires by not monitoring and shutting down aged electrical equipment. Corporations privatize profits and socialize costs; it's an age-old problem. This is why they have to be held accountable.

Brockovich emphasized that the cleanup is not being done correctly, meaning that toxic heavy metals are spoiling the area. So in ten years or so, there will be a new wave of lawsuits to deal with that shortsightedness. Just today the local mainstream media is reporting how the City of Pasadena below the burn area has closed two baseball fields. They are unsafe due to elevated lead levels from the fire (from homes painted with lead-based paints when they were legal in the forties and fifties).

Community activist Brooke Teal Robbins was present with her parents, who were harmed and displaced by the Eaton Fire. She was promoting another LA Fire Justice "public awareness presentation." It is on Friday, April 25, 2025, at 5:00 pm at 221 E. Walnut St., Suite 100, in Pasadena 91101. It is becoming the new hub for community for Pasadena, Altadena, and Sierra Madre.

Event details

Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich is a Julia Roberts film about a real person named Erin Brockovich (née Pattee, born June 22, 1960). She is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California for attorney Ed Masry in 1993.

Their successful lawsuit was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film, Erin Brockovich (2000), starring [American Hindu] Julia Roberts as Brockovich and Albert Finney as Masry. Since then, the real Brockovich has become a media personality, hosting various TV series. More

• What happened at Earth Day 2025 in Altadena?

Who is the REAL Erin Brockovich after all? (Getty Images)

Now she's aligning with LAFireJustice.com in Pasadena, California, to fight Edison for causing the massive Eaton Fire in 2025. See her live at The Eaton Fire Town Hall Meeting with Erin Brockovich and attorneys Doug Boxer and Mikal Watts. Free pizza!

• LA Fire Justice
• Thursday, April 17, 2025, 6:30 pm
• Lake Avenue Church
• 393 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena, CA

• RSVP: (Disclosure Project) Meet Erin Brockovich LIVE in Pasadena (Eaton Fire recovery), Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
• (PasaDharm) Meet Erin Brockovich LIVE in Pasadena (Eaton Fire recovery), Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) Meet Erin Brockovich LIVE in Pasadena (Eaton Fire recovery), Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Together, we will hold SoCal Edison accountable

Come meet Erin Brockovich in person

Brockovich: "I am so sorry for what you are going through right now. I know this wasn't just your home. It was your community and your way of life. I am sure you are asking yourself, where do I go from here? How do we even begin to recover from this disaster? Throughout my career as an advocate, I have talked to thousands of families that have had these same questions and have gone through what you are going through right now. I am here to tell you that we will get through this. And we will get through this together. Our team will be here every step of the way to help guide and support you through this challenging journey. We are ready to take on the fight to hold Southern California Edison accountable and get you and your community the justice you deserve."

• Refreshments will be served. Catering provided by Pinocchio's Pizza. Families are welcome. Standing with residents of Altadena, Sierra Madre, and Pasadena

• Eaton Fire Recovery Intake Form
• Dharma Buddhist Meditation
• Let's keep the community: APSCRH.org
• City Council, Supervisor Kathryn Barger to hold joint meeting on Eaton Fire recovery, Olympics, housing (Pasadena Now)
• Activist Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon, Momma Robbins (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Erin Brockovich, LAFireJustice.com via PasadenaNow.com

South, Midwest brace for rain, flooding

Where do Elon Musk's engineers and inventors steal their ideas, India circa 1990? (rense.com)

Regime Change! We've had it with both of them.

Is there a connection between human turmoil and weather chaos? Do we inadvertently impact our environment, stirring storms, droughts, plagues, and famines by our collective karma ("mass actions," such as group meditation or group prayer or rioting or demonstrating or going to see the Greek play Lysistrata)? Of course, the powers-that-be launch and manipulate many of these things, but we may also be having an impact without realizing it. We and our environment are not two separate things but are interdependent. A peaceful uprising might lead to peace in the skies, seas, and shaky grounds. The Buddha's Agganna Sutta certainly suggests we are always interacting and interdepending inside and out. Protests to continue: handsoff2025.com. Occupy.com is not real news.

Let's deport all protesters until they love America, Trump. - Good idea, Musk

(Democracy Now!) Top U.S. & World Headlines — April 7, 2025

South and Midwest brace for more historic rains, flooding

(NBC News) April 4, 2025:  The South and Midwest brace for more historic rains and severe flooding in a deadly multiday storm system. The 36-hour period from Friday evening into Sunday morning will be the most dangerous, as an additional 6 to 12 inches of rain will fall over already drenched areas. NBC News’ Kathy Park reports. #flood #extremeweather #midwest

IHIP News: Elon Musk being driven visibly INSANE from Tesla turmoil

Woolly Mammoth MOUSE created

Woolly mammoths still lived 1,000 years ago: 15 Facts About the Elephants (pinterest.com)

(AP 2013) Russian scientists find [not very old] frozen mammoth carcass with LIQUID blood

Woolly Mammoth could make a comeback after huge DNA progress

These mice might be the key to reviving woolly mammoths

This squeaker might be called Frankenmouse

A regular mouse sits near a genetically modified woolly mouse. The latter has been genetically modified to have the longer, golden hair, and fat stores of a woolly mammoth.

Who is responsible for this DNA monstrosity? Colossal Biosciences (colossal.com). We've all heard of the woolly mammoth. But how many have heard of the new woolly mouse?

This chimera was genetically modified by the Dallas-based biotech company Colossal to have the same "woolly" fur and fat appearance as the ancient elephants known as mammoths. Why would a corporation create a genetic chimera?

Human language gene inserted into mice led to some bizarre effects

Let's CRISPR this mutation in and ask them how they feel about it.

• Let's talk about the Woolly Mammoth Mice that were just created

The mouse, Colossal says, is a key step in the longer venture to de-extinct the original woolly mammoth. NPR's Rob Stein takes us to the Frankensteinian lab where it all happened. (Will it come with a GMO label if scientists decide to eat them?) More: Short Wave: NPR

• VIDEO: Russians find woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood (Associated Press) May 30, 2013: Russian researchers say they have discovered a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal. Hopes of making it de-extinct are nothing new. [Blend this un-freezable blood with a DNA contribution from a well-mannered modern Asian elephant and shazam.]
• AP, May 30, 2013; TIME News; The Project; NPR; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Death pays a visit, leaving ruin

The Temptation of Shakyamuni Buddha by Mara (Exotic India Art)

Evacuation warning in place after new wildfire erupts in West Hills area of Greater Los Angeles

We'll never die. We're not about to fall off this.

It's strange to face death. There Death is, here life be, who will win out? Eventually, Death (Mara) wins almost every time. It's the "almost" that's the key. When does it not win?

The Buddha and the arhats (fully enlightened beings) do not die. It may seem as if they do. They go away. The reason they do not "die" is because death necessarily entails rebirth. Where there is birth, necessarily there is death. With death comes rebirth, with birth comes redeath. This is the cycle of endless suffering known among the Indian religions as samsara.

We die and are reborn, not arhats who no longer cycle.

It is not quite correct to say "endless" because it can be brought to an end, to cessation, and deconstructed. It is just as well to refer to it as endless because it will not be ending by itself. Samsara has no expiration date, no natural completion, no coming to a standstill on its own.

So long as there is fuel, the fire keeps raging. What fuels samsara? Karma (activities) rooted in attachment, aversion, and ignorance (the Three Poisons usually rendered greed, hatred, and delusion or lobha, dosa, and moha). Since each act has the power to produce an exponential number of results (vipaka and phala), it will not be exhausted anytime soon.

This problem of death -- the loss of everything we love and are attached to in our foolishness as if the things we love and cling to were not of a nature to fall away -- was solved by the Buddha. This is the great significance of his great awakening (maha bodhi).

What does it matter to us? Good for him that he overcame all that can harm and upset. But what about us? That's just it! He did not awaken and depart. He awakened and stayed for 45 years, teaching until he established the Dharma (Teaching) and a competent Sangha (a spiritual community of those successfully Taught). Now, what does "successful" mean?

It means that the Buddha and his fully enlightened disciples established a method of teaching that produces more and more enlightened disciples, both humans and devas. The ordinary Monastic Sangha or Spiritual Community of monks and nuns are a great treasure in the world because they study, memorize, and retain the Teaching.

LOS ANGELES IS ON FIRE | The Kyle Kulinski Show

By their practice of it, as well as that of non-monastic disciples, there is a constant supply of arhats, non-returners, once-returners, and the various kinds of stream-enterers (the most fruitful field of merit) in the world. These four categories or pairs of individuals (counted as those who experience the supramundane paths and fruits or magga-phala) constitute the "noble ones" (Aryan disciples).

The first stage of enlightenment or awakening results in a guarantee of enlightenment within at most seven more rebirths, but the arhat has made an end of all suffering and all further rebirth in this very life.

The Buddha taught his Teaching in a way that an ordinary individual of average intelligence could successfully practice it to the end of suffering in this very life/

Death is coming

It's odd to be reminded that we are but ephemeral phenomena, arising and passing away, hurtling toward destruction. "Not having been, they come to be; once having been, they cease." What does? The Five Aggregates clung to as self. What are those?

They are the constituents of being, called "aggregates" because there are heaps of them, categories of them. There is the feeling group (vedana khandha), the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral. They are impermanent, unsatisfactory (disappointing), and impersonal.

It's unimaginable that they would be impersonal because they feel like they are the most personal things of all. But mindful observation of them with a mind intensified by the absorptions (jhanas) reveals how ephemeral they are, constantly rising and falling, unable to fulfill, and not at all under our control. They do not belong to us. Feelings feel and belong to feelings. It is, ultimately speaking, feeling that feels, not "us" -- not a me, myself, or I, not a self, soul, ego, personality, being, or atman.

We would never penetrate and accept this until we see it for ourselves with an open and intensified mind. In ignorance, we fear all sorts of things, including wisdom. But wisdom/the Truth has the power to set us free. Who will gain stream entry? Only those who penetrate this ultimate truth -- discerning in all things the Three Facts or Characteristics of All Existence.

Because the ultimate truth is everywhere the same, it can be realized anywhere. But it is much easier to realize in some places over others. The easiest place to realize it is on the human plane (the manussya loka), which extends far beyond the Earth we know.

Massive firestorm in Los Angeles 😱 Project Blue Beam is Live

• Project Blue Beam is live? (Blakwoodz) Jan. 9, 2025: The LA fire has become massively unstable, consuming almost everything in its way. And it totally seems like this whole fire is not natural. It surely looks like everything that's going on is a planned event. Someone very powerful might be in control. The Hollywood Hills are on fire and evacuations are taking place right now. This is beyond control. Winds are widespread. Speculations have been raised, questions about whether this is Project Blue Beam being activated. Is it the mythical Anti-Christ [what Dr. Ammon Hillman calls the "antidote"] before the second coming of Jesus [the kristos or "anointed," who dosed himself by the application of an ointment of medicinal psychedelic-like compounds from poisons]. The question, however, is Why are these things happening mostly in America? Prophecy: 2025 might be the final year of our life. Second channel: @blakwoodz2 All links: linktr.ee/Blakwoodz. Business contact: blakwoodzbusiness@gmail.com

Exciting stories of life and death

I'm from Hollywood to make killing 'n dying cool

The fire raged on the mountain there in the distance. The wind blew it away, up and over the foothills. Who dreamt is could turn back and eat the town? The wind raged, cars exploded, and houses -- homes of real people -- were set ablaze by embers (or directed energy weapons). They would soon be incinerated. One could fight the valiant fight with a fire extinguisher. But it was too late, the flames too far gone, eating the roof, crawling into the walls. Buildings set one next to the other, sharing a wall, they would all come down. No firefighters fought these flames, but looked on overwhelmed. What are they for if not to fight and save buildings, property, people? Who knows? There were overtime wages to collect. A planned catastrophe made to look like just the confluence of natural circumstances, who can prove otherwise? Sure, there were arsonists at play, but were they coordinated, acting alone, part of a conspiracy? Insurers collect premiums but provide no replacement. It's just too big to cover one's worth of premiums. Of course, people were paying for many, many years only to get the shaft when they needed that protection. The government (we the people by another name) will bail them out. The CEOs already made their billions, why not privatize the profits and socialize the costs? It's the disaster-capitalist way. Just ask Naomi Klein. How long will we go on spinning in this spin cycle?

‘It’s like Armageddon’: 10,000+ buildings decimated as LA burns | Stuff

Aren't you tired of the tide?

Samsara is an ocean that pulls us out to sea, where we bounce around, cold, alone, only to drown in a whirlpool. Even if we struggle, join others, and hang in a long time, Death wins by coming on again. Is there no end to it?

Tower of strength takes to the sea

Scours ocean via quay

Same old story: muscle bound and gory

Brand new story: death without glory

Infinite story: so new, so hoary

Build a tower of strength and watch it weaken

Construct high hopes as the brightest beacon

Watch the seagulls eat the trash

You contemptuously ditch

Do you know a seagull?

Do you know a wreck?

Are you tired of the tide?

Are you tired of the tide?

Roll in a rock pool, come let's hide

Do you know a raging wind?

Do you know a seagull?

Do you know a wreck?

Do you know a raging wind?

Are you tired of the tide?

Are you tired of the tide?

Roll in a rock pool, come let's hide

Tower of strength takes to the sea, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Flooding hits Spain, many dead (BBC)

• VIDEO: Trail of destruction after Spanish floods (BBC) Trail of destruction follows Spanish floods: At least 95 people were killed following flash floods in southern Spain

At least 72 158 people have been killed in Spain's rains and floods | BBC News

(AFP) Africa's Sahara Desert below Spain floods, brings Morocco's dried-up south back to life

(BBC News) Oct. 30, 2024: [Though the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain,] at least 72 158 people are known to be dead in the south-east, where flash flooding has caused “enormous destruction.”

Flash floods hit Spain: Muddy torrents sweep away cars (DW News)

Spanish rescue teams are working to find those feared missing, but damage to infrastructure (permanent structure used in day-to-day living) has made some communities hard to access.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez promised residents in affected areas that they would not be abandoned and announced a three-day mourning period.

• UPDATE: At least 158 people are now known to have died after flash floods hit parts of Spain, particularly devastating communities in Valencia. Almost all the deaths, 155, have been recorded in the region, with two more in Castilla-La Mancha and another, a British man, in Andalusia. Emergency teams are continuing to search for those missing and hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to Valencia to assist with the operation. More

(DW News) Spain’s flood death toll rises, authorities under fire for failure

There has also been criticism of the civil protection agency -- which is deployed during natural disasters -- as it did not issue an alert until 20:15 local time on Tuesday, when the flooding had already caused a great deal of damage.

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