Lost tribe of Jews found in NE India?

Have you kept Jewish custom of Molech?

(Unpacked) Is this tribe in India secretly Jewish [Asian Jews]? Bene Manashe or Bnei Menashe

The warlike Bnei Menashe (Hebrew בני מנשה or "Children of Menasseh" known as the Shinlung in India [5]) is a community of Indian Jews from various Tibeto-Burmese [6] ethnic groups from the border of India, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar) who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel [7][5]: 3 , allegedly based on the Hmar belief in an ancestor named Manmasi [8]. Some of them have adopted Judaism [5] [though most seem to have been converted to Christianity by Western missionaries before realizing they were "Jews," though they have not been easily accepted by white supremacist Ashkenazi-dominated Israeli society even if officials offered them expedited conversion]. The community has around 10,000 members [1]. More

Israeli Jewish supremacy: inbred, incest

Jews will rule this world.

(Lion From Zion) Are European Israeli invaders "fake Jews" with land rights? DNA evidence destroys antisemitic myths. Meanwhile, it is illegal to use DNA tests in Israel or try to use them to establish one's ancestry. (Why? It might show no connection and that would be embarrassing for psyops, American imperialism, and the "Greater Israel" project where the tip of the Western spear pierces the geopolitical Middle East and brings it under CIA, Mossad, Shin Bet, and Bibi Netanyahu rule with the help of whoever's in the White House at the time).

• (Mario Nawfal) "Israel is a very inbred society" anti-Zionist Jewish American scholar Prof. Norman Finkelstein on Israel, genocide, Gaza, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, Oct. 7th, and Jewish psyops attempting to manipulate history...

Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

Norman Finkelstein, July 27, 2021

The Gaza Strip, Palestine

Prof. Finkelstein has 4.9 out of 5 stars (with 654 reviews). "In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone." — Dr. Noam Chomsky

"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza...is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book." — The Intercept

The Gaza Strip is [was] among the most densely populated places [outdoor prisons] in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under 18 years of age.

(TYT) Bibi and Israel (and the Mossad) want MORE war after Australia

Are you serious? Your God wants us to do this.

Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating [genocidal, war crime, crimes against humanity, atrocity] “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have been tortured and murdered, and tens of thousands have been left homeless.

In the meantime, "Israel" has subjected Gaza (a strip of what remains of Palestine) to a merciless illegal blockade [and illegal occupation]. What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster.

I'm half-Jewish and I run TPU$A now. Thx, Bibi

Based on scores of human rights reports, Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein's book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza’s martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has tried to justify its assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions constituted flagrant violations of international law.

But Prof. Finkelstein also documents that the guardians of international law—from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to the UN Human Rights Council—ultimately failed Gaza.

One of his most disturbing conclusions is that, after Judge Richard Goldstone's humiliating retraction of his UN report, human rights organizations succumbed to the Israeli juggernaut.

Prof. Finkelstein’s magnum opus is both a monument to Gaza’s martyrs and an act of resistance against the forgetfulness of history. More

• Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jews? Zionists have hijacked Judaism

What about the rest of Africa?

Isn't Israel in Europe or in the Middle of the East?

No, it's in North Africa, but they deceive everyone.

UK elects a Trump: Boris Johnson (comedy)

Host John Oliver (Last Week Tonight); Pat Macpherson, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Rise of the Ginger Redheads of Sodom -- the ET hybrid leaders of the West (ABC News)

WARNING: Naughty foxes acting naturally, and strong language in the service of HBO's irony!

Boris Johnson: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

(HBO, July 28, 2019) John Oliver explains how Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, has succeeded -- not despite his bumbling persona, but often because of it.

Hey, Israel's got their own Trump, too. (AP)

Find Last Week Tonight on Facebook like your mom would: facebook.com/lastweektonight, follow on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news: twitter.com/lastweektonight. Official site for more: hbo.com/lastweektonight.

Ivanka: Daddy, is that your wallet or my big inheritance? - Donald: Depends where I put it.

Spain gets its own Brexit: Catalonia

BBC.com; Seth Aubeorn, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Police moved in to prevent people voting in Sunday's disputed election (Getty Images)

Spain should crush Catalonia! - C. Columbus

CATALONIA - The Spanish government's representative in Catalonia has apologized to those injured during police efforts to stop Sunday's independence referendum.

 

But Enric Millo blamed the Catalan government for holding an "illegal" vote.

 

We're already like a police state. - Franco

Meanwhile, the government in Madrid has issued a decree making it easier for companies to move their headquarters away from Catalonia.

 

A Catalan minister told the BBC his government would go ahead with an independence debate in parliament.

 

Catalonia, like Portugal, is its own country

"Parliament will discuss, parliament will meet," said Catalan foreign affairs chief Raül Romeva.

"Every attempt the Spanish government has used to impede things to happen, they have been demonstrated completely not only useless but counter-productive," he told the BBC in English.

• Spain eases firms' exit from Catalonia
• Distressed police officer photo goes viral
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Catalonians proudly parade their flag

In the first apology by a Spanish government official over the violence on Sunday, which saw hundreds injured by police as police, trying to enforce a Spanish court ban on the vote, attempted to seize ballot boxes and disperse voters, Mr. Millo said he could not help but "regret it and apologize on behalf of the officers that intervened" [and legally beat the hell out of ~1,000 Catalonians trying to cast ballots in a democratic vote]. More + VIDEO

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"Miss Tibet" Life in Dharamsala, India (video)

Chance Love, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Journeyman.tv (video)

  

The Pope-like 14th Dalai Lama

The "Miss Tibet Beauty Pageant" claims to give women a platform to highlight Tibetan freedom issues, drawing attention to the the plight of the people as well as the depth and brilliance of the ancient Buddhist lifestyle and Himalayan culture.
 

Tibetan pomp and circumstance (sacbee.com)

For Director Lobsang Wangyal, the event is not only a [self-sabotaging?] beauty pageant but a political act, "celebrating our identity, our culture, and our proud tradition," while "implicitly asserting" that Tibet and Tibetans are a nation independent from China. But does the pageant really empower its women or exploit them further?

The Daily Love Extravaganza (July 15-19)

Lisa Garr (TheAwareShow.com)

An epic life-changing online event or hype? Mastin Kipp's inspirational TheDailyLove.com, which has been featured on Oprah's “Super Soul Sunday” calling Kipp an up and coming spiritual thinker, has come up with a fun and free online event: With posts from all kinds of amazing and inspirational people, Kipp has hand selected his favorite 30 people to be interviewed and is broadcasting all of them free! EXTRAVAGANZA

Who? Marianne Williamson, Robert Holden, Mariel Hemingway, Don Miguel Ruiz, Marci Shimoff, Agape and KPFK's Rev. Michael Beckwith, a batch of fresh young voices, and Arianna Huffington and her sister Agapi Stassinopoulos, who talk about how to re-define success beyond money and power.

Formerly Buddhist Maldives in turmoil (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; ABC News "Around the World" with Christiane Amanpour

The remarkable documentary "The Island President," which takes a closer look at the life of Nasheed, comes to theaters on March 28, 2012.

MALE, Maldives - There was once a set of idyllic Buddhist islands. One day a ship wrecked on its sandy bars. Aboard the ship was a Muslim saint who converted the islanders to Islam. This is the story of the formerly Buddhist Maldives, off the southern coast of India, west of Sri Lanka.

• The Maldive (Lakshadweep) Islands are the tops of a vast submarine mountain range in the Indian Ocean that form a terrestrial ecoregion. The atolls of Maldives encompass a territory spread over roughly 35,000 square miles (90,000 sq km), making it one of the world's most geographically dispersed countries. Its population of 328,536 (2012) inhabits 200 of its 1,192 islands. It is the smallest Asian country in both population and land area with an average ground level of 4 feet 11 inches (1.5 m) above sea level, it is the planet's lowest country. As the country with the lowest natural highest point in the world, at 7 feet 10 inches (2.4 m), its forecast inundation is of great concern.

Fast forward hundreds of years and climate chaos is raising sea levels (whether caused by human activity, solar flares, the dawn of a new age, galactic realignments, Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," the wrath of extraterrestrials, or whatever).


Who cares about the Maldives? Billabong surfer-model Catherine Clark's ghostwriters!

With an average height of four feet, the Maldives is most at risk from changes in water levels due to the melting poles. Meanwhile, we keep polluting the air. We keep tossing plastic into the ocean, leaking oil, wiping out fish stocks, and disregarding the rest of the world.

But it all comes back to us eventually. Ousted and exiled President Mohamed Nasheed speaks exclusively to Christiane Amanpour on Around the World. He did not step down. He claims he was deposed, forced to resign. What happens in the microcosm of the Maldives impacts the rest of the world.

Christiane Amanpour's exclusive interview with deposed President Nasheed

Pres. Nasheed became the first democratically elected president of the Maldives in 2008. These islands are known more for their diving and ritzy resorts than for their religious history or culture.

(Tourists are kept far from the people so as not to despoil uncorrupted native traditions). After the coup, Nasheed is hiding on the nearby island nation of Buddhist Sri Lanka, which has a considerable Indian Muslim, Tamil Hindu, British Christian, and Portuguese Catholic presence.

"Democracy is at stake," Nasheed believes. "What happens in the Maldives happens in the Middle East always two or three years later." More

Tibet unites Buddhist Cosmology and Science

TibetCustom.com; Wisdom Quarterly

DHARAMSHALA, India - Today [Dec. 17, 2011] the Dalai Lama inaugurated a three-day international conference on "Cosmology and Consciousness." It brought together Tibetan Buddhist scholars and top scientists to explore ways to promote the integration of spiritual values and scientific investigations.

The conference is an initiative of the Science for Monastics Program under the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA), which has taught science to Tibetan monastics since 2001 under the Dalai Lama's inspiration. The Sager Science Leadership Institute, Emory University, and John Templeton Foundation are part of this initiative.

This conference opens up the dialogue to the Tibetan monastic community in an unprecedented way. In addition to the panelists, 18 Tibetan scholars from 13 monasteries and nunneries will be engaged in the dialogue with scientists for the first time.

“It is not only the vision of...the Dalai Lama, but the need of the time for Tibetans, and particularly Tibetan Buddhist monastics, to become conversant with modern science,” said Geshe Lhakdor, the director of LTWA.

“Monastics studying modern science is a historic step in the history of monastic education and Tibetan Buddhism. Through becoming well-versed in traditional philosophical studies and modern science, it is our hope that monks and nuns can make a significant contribution to the betterment of the physical and mental health of people everywhere,” he said. More

• GLOBAL INTERVENTION TO SAVE TIBETAN LIVES

Tibet: China's hand in Dalai Lama succession

Ben Blanchard (Reuters)

Tibetan monks engage in a religious debate inside Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, 11/24/09 (Reuters/Nir Elias/file).

TONGREN, China - For Tibetans living near the birthplace of the Dalai Lama, one question is very much on their minds these days: Who will succeed the aging exiled spiritual leader once he dies?

The possibility that scares most of them, and is seen as the most likely to happen, is that the atheist Communist government in Beijing will simply appoint its own replacement, with a veneer of tradition and religion thrown in. One of the few certainties about the political future of Tibet is that the death of the current Dalai Lama will cause major ructions in Tibet and overseas.

• China says only socialism can save Tibet

Some Tibetans fear a violent backlash in what is now called the Tibet Autonomous Region and surrounding provinces with large Tibetan populations -- like Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan -- if Beijing unilaterally appointed the next Dalai Lama. There is precedent for that happening. China chose a rival incarnation to succeed the late 10th Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's second-holiest position, shortly after the Dalai Lama announced his choice in 1995.

"We think China will try to appoint its own Dalai Lama, as it did with the Panchen Lama," said Jigme, a monk in the Tibetan region of Tongren in the arid northwestern province of Qinghai. "If that happens, we will protest," he added, punching his fists into the freezing air. "The people will be very unhappy. This is a religious decision. There should be no politics."

The worry of violence is very real. Anti-Chinese protests erupted in March 2008, in which at least 19 people were killed in riots in Lhasa. Pro-Tibet groups say hundreds died in a subsequent crackdown across the region. The Beijing-anointed Panchen Lama is spurned by most Tibetans as a fake.

The whereabouts of the Dalai Lama-recognized Panchen Lama is one of China's most tightly guarded secrets. China has in the past insisted he is safe, healthy and wants his privacy. "We will not believe in a Dalai Lama chosen by the government," said another Qinghai Tibetan, who gave his name as Jokhar. "Look what happened when they appointed their own Panchen Lama. We don't believe in that one, and never will." More>>

Pres. Obama meets with the Dalai Lama in Washington on Feb. 18, 2010, against trading partner China's wishes (White House/Pete Souza).

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  (NPR: Listen) A boy who disappeared after being named Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest figure by the Dalai Lama is living with his family somewhere in Tibet, the Himalayan region's Chinese-appointed governor said Sunday. Padma Choling, Tibet's China-appointed governor, said Gendun Choekyi Nyima, the boy who disappeared after being named Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest figure by the Dalai Lama, is living with his family somewhere in Tibet.
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  Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, confirmed in 1995 by Tibet’s spiritual leader as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, is currently living in Tibet as an ordinary person, said the region’s governor Palma Trily. Probably 21 years old, he hasn’t been seen in public since he was named at the age of six. “As far as I know, he and his family are living a good life in Tibet,” Palma said...
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Thailand marks 3rd anniv. of coup

Buddhist monks in the midst of Thai protests (AP).

BANGKOK – As thousands of demonstrators marked the anniversary of a 2006 coup in the Thai capital Saturday, a rival group of protesters clashed with police and villagers near the Cambodian border (see video below), showing the country's long-running political crisis is far from settled.

In the three years since the coup there have been multiple violent demonstrations, court rulings that have purged two prime ministers from power, and massive damage to the tourist industry after protesters shuttered the airports last year.

The country now appears locked in an endless cycle of protest and counter-protest by supporters and opponents of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in the Sept. 19, 2006 coup on accusations of corruption, abuse of power and disrespect for the constitutional monarch. Thaksin himself remains in self-imposed exile, able to rally his followers only by phone.

"Thai politics three years after the coup has become more confused, convoluted, and the stakes have increased. There has been no progress, no headway towards reconciliation and reform," Thitinan Pongsidhirak, a political scientist at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University said this week. "The political situation has become more combustible." More>>

• Slideshow: Thailand

FACTBOX: Dalai Lama, China, Taiwan

TAIPEI, Aug. 28, 2009 (Reuters) -- The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader reviled by China as a separatist, is set to visit Taiwan next week. Following are key facts about the Dalai Lama, China, and Taiwan:

• Tibetan Buddhism holds that the soul of a high monk or a "living Buddha [Bodhisattva]" is reincarnated after his death and the resulting "soul boy" can be found through the interpretation of arcane signs.
• After the death of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1934, Tibetan officials asked local authorities to look out for remarkable baby boys with characteristics including large ears, tiger-striped legs, and palms bearing the pattern of a sea-shell.
• In 1937, the 14th Dalai Lama was discovered as a two-year old named Lhamo Dhondup, in Taktser village, in eastern Qinghai province, a region called Amdo by Tibetans.
• The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India since fleeing a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, and has suggested his reincarnation may be found outside China. Chinese leaders maintain that the next Dalai Lama will be approved by them.
• A visit to Taiwan by the Dalai Lama brings together two of China's most sensitive territorial claims -- over Tibet and self-ruled Taiwan, and thus strikes a raw nerve in Beijing.
• China brands him a dangerous "splittist," or separatist, and is furious with his popularity in the West. Angry at his trip to Europe last year, especially his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, China called off a summit with the European Union. The Dalai Lama says he is merely seeking greater autonomy for Tibet. More>>

PHOTO: Soldiers exercise during a training session at a beach on the Xisha islands, Hainan province August 26, 2009. China on Thursday urged the United States to "remove obstacles" to military ties, demanding the United States respect China's core interests so as to create conditions for further military cooperation, Xinhua News Agency reported (Reuters/China Daily). More photos

Nepal Tibetans mark Dalai Lama's birthday

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Hundreds of Tibetans gather-ed in the Nepalese capital to mark the Dalai Lama's 74th birthday on Monday, a day after the government said it would not tolerate anti-China activities on its soil.

More than 1,000 Tibetan exiles took part in the celebration, held under a heavy police presence at a huge Buddhist stupa on the outskirts of Kathmandu, an AFP photographer said. Nepal is home to about 20,000 exiled Tibetans who began arriving in large numbers in 1959 after their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled Tibet following a failed uprising against the Chinese.

On Sunday, Nepal's home ministry warned it would not allow any activities aimed at "undermining the friendship between the two countries."

"Nepal desires to maintain equal and friendly relations with both its neighbors," the ministry said in a statement released ahead of the Dalai Lama's birthday.

"It is also committed not to let its territory be used against any friendly country."

Sandwiched between India and China, Nepal has upheld Beijing's "one China" policy -- that Tibet is an integral part of China. It has repeatedly said it will not tolerate anti-China demonstrations as it seeks to preserve friendly ties with its northern neighbor. Last month, Nepalese police arrested 34 Tibetan exiles as they tried to stage a demonstration near the Chinese border.

China: Tiananmen Square clampdown

Propaganda poster of Mao Zedong, architect of a dictatorship (themarxistleninist).

BEIJING, China (AP) – Foreign journalists were barred from Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Wednesday as an Internet clampdown that blocked Twitter expanded to include more blogs on the eve of the 20th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

• Video: China clamps down on eve of anniversary
• Slideshow: 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests

In a further sign of the government's unwavering hard-line stance toward the protests, the second most-wanted student leader from 1989 said he had been denied entry to the southern Chinese territory of Macau.

Police monitoring visitors on 5/29/09 at Tiananmen Gate in front of portrait of former leader Mao Zedong. On 6/2/09, Chinese authorities rounded up dissidents and shut down Internet sharing sites in an apparent clampdown ahead of the 20th anniversary of the bloody suppression of 1989's pro-democracy protests (AP/Andy Wong).

In exile since fleeing China after the crackdown, Wu'er Kaixi traveled to Macau on Wednesday to turn himself in to authorities in a bid to return home. Immigration officers at Macau's airport pulled him aside and demanded he fly back to Taiwan.

Authorities have also shut photo-sharing site Flickr and confined dissidents to their homes or forced them to leave Beijing, as they ramped up efforts to prevent online discussions about or commemorations of those who died in the military assault on demonstrators on the night of June 3-4, 1989.

The sweeping measures have been imposed even though there were few signs of efforts to mark the protests within mainland China, where the government squelches all discussion of them. More>>

Dalai Lama Responds to Shugden Controversy

Part 1 of a Q&A with the Dalai Lama concerning teachings on "Lam Rim Chen Mo" at Lehigh University, hosted by the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center on July 14, 2008.

Tibetan Buddhism's Permanent Home

(Saransh Sehgal, April 13, 2009, AsiaSentinel.com)

With hope of return to Tibet diminishing, India's Dharamsala takes on the trappings of permanency.

After 50 years of exile and an uncertain future at best, the Indian hill city of Dharamsala (shown at right) in the North Indian state of Himal Pradesh is increasingly looking like the last stop for the thousands of Tibetans who settled here after their 1959 flight to escape Chinese domination.

Many in Dharamsala hoped that 2009 would be a watershed year in which some form of relaxation would take place with the Han Chinese. But if anything the Chinese have become more intractable than ever over any hint of negotiations. The Dalai Lama himself, who can often be seen on the streets, said recently that: "I have spent most of my life in this hill station. Now I feel like a citizen of Himachal Pradesh." More>>

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