Now her legal saga has taken a new turn, as a corporation files a civil [financial] complaint against her. Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber discusses the disturbing case details, as well as the new filing with former sex crimes prosecutor Marian Braccia. More
Trump's VERY BIG announcement, evil plan to defund NPR/PBS, search for New Pope, celeb prom stories
Hello, Fat Dum Dum, you're dumb
(Jimmy Kimmel Live)
May 7, 2025:
Weight Watchers has filed for bankruptcy, The Conclave to select the next Pope has officially begun, Trump has a very bigly announcement that will be coming out soon, his evil plan to cut public funding from public radio and television stations NPR and PBS is taking shape, ships that are carrying Chinese goods are arriving half-empty in an alarming sign, and Ike Barinholtz, Quinta Brunson, Will Forte, Michelle Monaghan, Bert Kreischer, Aaron Paul, and Chelsea Handler share their prom stories.
New footage of Trump in sexual assault case goes viral
Trump is sick and stinks like me.
(The Vote) New footage of Donald Trump related to his sexual assault case went viral as he begins his criminal trial for election interference in the furtherance of paying off a prostitute as he cheated on his wife shortly after the birth of his youngest son, Baron, and then lied about it as a legitimate business expense on documents submitted to the government? He sells Bibles, smells horribly, and evacuates in his pants because he cannot hold it in? Narcissism and megalomania
(LastWeekTonight) With over 43 million Americans paying off student loans, John Oliver discusses how so many people have come to take on student loan debt, why it’s so hard to pay off, and what we can do about it, Mama. (Let's ask Snookie for sympathy).
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Live Storm Tracker (KTLA TV LA); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Another storm system expected to bring rain to Southern California (KTLA Los Angeles)
Wet weather pattern persists: New storms to soak waterlogged California (AccuWeather)
Nothing can stop surfing aficionados (LA Times)
Why does rain keep coming? Now that we can manipulate the weather, modifying it with persistent aerosol trails and HAARP, the powers that be can place the rain and flooding anywhere by guiding atmospheric rivers to create downpours as desired. The damage to infrastructure and municipalities is no matter, just as it was not when the U.S. military created massive downpours in the jungles of Vietnam to inundate the jungle and flush out the Viet Kong guerrilla fighters trying to repel an imperial force there to rape, plunder, establish freedom-of-capitalism (aka "free trade") in the guise of democracy and opposing communism, just as the French had been doing for years. The ridiculously high weather anomaly preventing rain and causing a terrible drought throughout the West Coast while flooding neighboring states in the Southwest. Now the tables are turned and not enough water has been turned to too much. Enjoy the surf, and look up. Chemtrails are real and visible every time a storm is approaching and rain is "predicted." For footage, see ktla.com
(DW Documentary)
DW is a German public broadcast service. August 15, 2021, marked a turning point for formerly Buddhist Afghanistan [ancient Gandhara of the Scythians/Shakyians, birthplace of the Buddha, according to Dr. Ranajit Pal], which was once an oddly cosmopolitan, progressive, Westernized country on the hippie circuit.
That was the day of the final withdrawal of Western troops who illegally invaded on the slightest pretext, milking the incidents of 9/11 as preemptive justification to commit war crimes while all the world watches and does nothing in the world court.
It’s also when the "Taliban" [which was created by the CIA and ISI, Pakistan's secret spying service, like the U.S. set up the Mujahedeen to fight the former USSR] entered Kabul [an echo of Kapil or Kapilvastu, one of the three seasonal capitals where the future-Buddha grew up].
G.W. signs "Patriot Act" to spy on US
Protest movements were crushed. Twenty years of hope and effort gone in one fell swoop. After the 9/11 staged event the United States' ensuing "war" on a tactic, its never-ending "War on Terrorism" declared by Co-Presidents Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, Afghanistan had changed.
Now, the Taliban are back in charge and the country has slipped back into the past. As the undisputed rulers of the country, the Taliban satisfy their thirst for revenge and behave as "victors" over the U.S. [with many new weapons left behind for them on purpose], the "greatest military power" in the world.
In the Afghan style of the "palaces" the Buddha grew up in, monasteries were built for the "Monks of the Mines," as temple sites like Mes Aynak were built near gold mines for statues.
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Exquisite piece of Afghan-Gandhara Buddhist art
Their goals can be summed up in a few words: Restoration of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" and the introduction of "genuine Sharia law."
The new Taliban leaders continue to rely on international donors. As a result, they are trying not to offend them too openly. But they are tightening the noose.
Saving Mes Aynak(B. Huffman)
The few protest movements that have started have been nipped in the bud. Reprisals are handled discreetly. Civil society, which has been abandoned by the West and no longer receives financial resources, is helpless in the face of the new circumstances.
Twenty years of hopes and efforts have been dashed. What do the Taliban want for their country? "The future is in [the Abrahamic God] Allah's hands," says the new refugee minister, Chalil Hakkani, on whom the U.S. has meanwhile placed a five-million-dollar bounty [so he can be murdered as we keep our hands clean].
UCLA demo to save Mes Aynak, Afghanistan
Patrick de Saint-Exupéry and Pedro Brito da Fonseca toured Afghanistan in 2021 before, during, and after the arrival of the Taliban. This film documents what they saw.
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Alan Watts via Cosmic Jokes. Text: Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma B Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly WARNING: This Dharma talk might rattle long held belief systems of listeners! QOTSA knows:
Don't let the Devil know anything (Alan Watts)
(Cosmic Jokes)
Alan Watts talks about karma (intentional action). Escape karma and you escape the Devil. But how can we escape it? The historical Buddha laid down the path. And many are confused by it, including Watts, by confounding what the Buddha taught and what Hindus, Brahmins, and the Vedas teach about karma. It is not necessary to exhaust karma to break free of the cycle of rebirth and suffering. If it were, no one would ever be able to do it, as each act -- whether physical, verbal, or even mental -- lays down seeds that later bear fruit. It's happening all the time. In one life, one lays down enough karma for a thousand future lives or more. It's happening all the time. There's no need to do more, as the number of future lives we already face is endless. This is the problem of samsara, the endless round of birth and death. The solution is calm and mindfulness, which yields liberating insight into the true nature of things, which causes the heart/mind to let go. When one really lets go completely at this deep level, an irreversible change happens. One glimpses nirvana, the highest bliss, and one "changes lineage" from an ordinary worldling to a noble one (arya), having put a limit on how much future suffering is possible. One may yet live for a long time, but now there is a limit. It will no longer be endless and impermanent (dying from moment to moment between deaths and rebirths). Those who say we must exhaust all of our previous karma simply have not understood the historical Buddha's teachings or Dharma. And it is not what any other spiritual tradition teaches -- not Hinduism, Brahmanism, Vedanta, Jainism, Christianity, or New Age beliefs. The real way to "the end of all suffering," which is what nirvana means, is the Buddha's 37 Requisites of Enlightenment implicit in the Ennobling Eightfold Path.
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Dr. Gabor Mate, The Diary of a CEO, 11/6/22; Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Dr. Gabor Mate, MD: The childhood lie that’s ruining all of our lives | Ep. 193
(The Diary of a CEO) Dr. Gabor Mate is a multi-bestselling author and a leading expert on trauma and how it affects us throughout our lives. A Holocaust survivor and a first-generation immigrant, Dr. Gabor’s knowledge and wisdom on the scars trauma leaves behind is deep and drawn from personal experience.
TOPICS
00:00 Intro
02:04 Early context
08:16 How does someone correct their traumatic events?
09:33 How did your traumatic event show shape you?
14:54 What did you focus on in your career?
16:40 What did working with patients towards the end of their life teach you?
20:34 The importance of following our passion
27:13 The Myth of Normal
30:57 How would our approaches change if we took away the concept of normal?
41:06 How parents' behavior can impact a child
44:27 How do you define trauma?
46:57 Does everyone have trauma?
50:51 Why can two people with the same trauma turn out differently?
01:01:44 Being controlled by our trauma
01:04:20 Do we ever cut the putter master strings?
01:05:56 How does someone become more aware?
01:09:18 Additions and how we develop them
01:13:28 How do we find our sense of worth?
01:14:05 Why is authenticity so important
01:18:51 Taking personal responsibility
01:20:09 The 5 Rs to take control of your life
01:26:36 ADHD
01:40:40 Do you think society is getting more toxic?
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Where did Silk RoadBuddhism come from? Gandhara or what is now Afghanistan (the home of the Buddha and his extended family, the Indo-Sakas/Scythians known as the Shakyas) or proto-India (Bihar and Magadha, before the formation of modern "India" under Emperor Ashoka, or China, after Buddhism traveled from there and spread out from there?
Dr. Ranajit Pal (ranajitpal.com) would agree that while Buddhism began in what is now India, it co-arose in the Buddha's homeland, what we could call "Shakya Land," around the three seasonal capitals of Kapilavastu (Kabul/Kapil), Bamiyan, and Mes Aynak, all in modern Afghanistan, Central Asia.
Afghanistan, after all, has the largest and some of the oldest Buddhist statues in the world, and the Buddha visited it seven years after his great awakening, returning to his people, many of whom then ordained and either followed him back East or stayed and formed large monastic communities for nuns and monks, practicing in accordance with the Doctrine the Buddha was establishing all around the Gangetic plain and foothills of the Himalayas.
He was not from Nepal, not a Hindu, not a member of the formal caste system but a "warrior" and therefore labelled a kshatriya in accordance with the Brahmin priests and their Vedas ("Knowledge Books") and view of the four varnas or categories of social obligations (duty, dharma) one is necessarily born into, with the Brahmins placing themselves on top.
But the administrators, the warrior-nobles or Aryans reckoned themselves in accordance with this imposed system, in the vicinity of the remains of the once great Indus Valley Civilization. Gandhara in Indo-Pakistan (with Taxila or Takkasila as its capital) is ancient even by that time, according to Buddhist sources (Jāt. 96).
Tash Rabat is a well-preserved 15th century stone caravanserai in At Bashy District, Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan. It is located at an altitude of 3,200 meters (10,500 feet).
Research:
As early as 1888, Russian traveler Dr. Nicolay Lvovich Zeland suggested that it was originally a Nestorian or Buddhist monastery.
Research undertaken at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s by the Institute of History of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences [mistakenly*] concluded that Tash Rabat was originally built as a Nestorian monastery in the 10th century, although no Christian artifacts were ever found during excavations. More
*Later it was determined to be a Buddhist monastery as all inscriptions, artifacts, and references were found to be Buddhist in nature.
This was further supported by the fact that its inhabitants were Buddhist during the period of its construction (Khudyakov, Ju. (2009). Таш Рабат - Караван-сарай или замок [Tash Rabat - caravanserai or temple]. Priroda (in Russian). Russian Academy of Sciences (6): 55. Retrieved 2 May 2014).
[Its hollowed stupa and Mongolian-style compound, with yurts to weather the Central Asian snow and grassland, certainly appears more Buddhist than later Christian traditions influenced by Buddhist monasticism. It might have been both, built up for both purposes, as Russian Christian Nicolas Notovitch found at Hemis Gompa in his travels through Buddhist Tibet/India, Ladakh, where Jesus (Christ) of Nazareth had stayed and trained. See more at Jesus in India and in particular the works of Holger Kersten.]
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