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.

Moments on live TV scientists can't explain

Jon Stewart on Kamala, Joe, DJ (Daily Show)

Jon Stewart on why GOP doesn't know what to do with Kamala replacing Joe

(The Daily Show) July 29, 2024: Jon Stewart tackles [dead] Joe Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race, new presumptive presidential nominee VP Kamala Harris, and the reactions on both sides (from both wings of our one-party system), from a re-energized Democratic party to flailing Republicans' flimsy "coup" claims. Plus, Josh Johnson on the right's new strategic talking points against Harris, which range from sexist all the way to racist. #DailyShow #KamalaHarris #Democrats #Republicans

Hated presidential candidate and gay politician Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg on Kamala’s campaign, VP vetting, and JD Vance

(The Daily Show) July 29, 2024: “What’s the point of having a conversation if you’re not speaking to people who don’t already agree with you?” Pete Buttigieg talks to Jon Stewart about why he goes on Fox News, the significance of Pres. Joe Biden stepping aside to make room for Kamala as the presumptive Democratic nominee, the possibility of being vetted for vice president, and his thoughts on Trump’s own VP pick, JD Vance.

Who Speaks for Islam? 1 Billion Muslims

John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Who Speaks for Islam?

Based on the largest study of its kind, the book Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think is the first to present the fascinating findings of the Gallup poll of the Muslim world.

The staged events of 9/11 dramatically intensified what many saw as an ongoing conflict between the U.S. and parts of the Muslim world, the geopolitical "Middle East."

Extremism, encouraged by the CIA, has grown exponentially as many kinds of Muslims and non-Muslims continue to be victims of global terror. Fear-provoking "terrorist" attacks have occurred from Morocco to Indonesia and from Madrid to London, as U.S.-led wars are taken to Iraq, Afghanistan...and now Iran.

As of this writing, American wars and terrorism have already claimed more than 300,000 lives just since 9/11; the vast majority of the victims have not been terrorists, soldiers, or even fighters but civilians.

Hegemony: decadent West wins by "fashion."

As we face savage covert actions in a world that seems ever more dangerous and out of control, we are confronted daily by analysis from "terrorism experts" and media pundits who say the religion of Islam is responsible for global terrorism, rather than the nominally Christian antagonists provoking war everywhere.

At the same time, groups like al-Qaeda ("the List") are said to beam messages throughout the world that demonize the West as the enemy of Islam, responsible for the ills of the Muslim world.

Amid the rhetoric of hate and violence, both anti-Americanism in the Muslim world and Islamophobia — discrimination against or hostility toward Islam and Muslims — have increased precipitously.

In the aftermath of 9/11, chief terrorist Pres. George W. Bush emphasized that America was waging a terrifying war against terrorism, not against Islam. However, the continued acts of a terrorist minority, coupled with statements by preachers of hate (Christian and Muslim) as well as anti-Muslim talk show hosts and political commentators have inflamed our emotions and distorted our views.

Islam in Buddhist Bamiyan, Afghanistan (RP)

The religion of Islam and the mainstream Muslim majority have been conflated (treated as if they were the same thing) with the beliefs and actions of a tiny extremist minority.

The result was reflected in a USA Today/Gallup poll that found substantial minorities of Americans admitting to negative feelings or prejudice against Muslims and favoring heightened "security" measures with Muslims or anyone who looks different to help prevent terrorism.

Nearly one-quarter of Americans (22%) say they would not want a Muslim as a neighbor; fewer than half (< 50%) believe U.S. Muslims are loyal to the United States; and 44% say Muslims are too extreme in their religious beliefs.

Are the growing violence and negative perceptions on all sides only a prelude to a CIA-organized all-out war between the West and the world's 1.3 billion Muslims?

Muslim females standing up for Muslim females and Islam (worldhijabday.com)

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The vital missing piece among the many voices weighing in on this question is the actual views of Muslim publics. We've heard enough form the clerics. With all that is at stake for U.S. and Muslim societies, indeed for the future of the world, the time has come to democratize the debate.

Who Speaks for Islam? Listening to the Voices of a Billion Muslims (2008) is about this silenced majority. It is the product of a mammoth Gallup research study over the last six years.

Gallup conducted tens of thousands of face-to-face interviews with residents of more than 35 predominantly Muslim nations. Gallup’s sample represents urban and rural, young and old, educated and illiterate, women and men.

In total, Gallup surveyed a sample representing over 90% of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims, including Muslims in the West, making this the largest, most comprehensive study of contemporary Muslims ever.

Sex, repression, masturbation, hypocrisy...

The concept of this book is simple. After collecting vast amounts of data representing the views of the world’s Muslims, the authors asked the questions everyone wants answers to:

• What is at the root of anti-Americanism in the Muslim world?
• Who are the extremists?
• Is democracy a desired construct among Muslims, and if so, what might it look like?
• What do Muslim women really want?
• With questions in hand, they let the empirical evidence — the voices of a billion Muslims, not individual “experts,” CIA analysts, or other “extremists” — dictate the answers. More
  

• PHOTOS: The Buddha was a Scythian from ancient Gandhara/Afghanistan. See remnants of Buddhism in now Islamic Afghanistan (achco.org.af)
  
  

Gut bacteria hijacking, controlling our genes

Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; ScienceAlert.com; AP.org;

F**k those goddamn junkies in their shitholes!

Nature or Nurture? It turns out the bacteria that make up most of this body (with more bacteria than human cells in it) are in constant communication with the genes of this body. That leaves us estranged. It is, after all, just as the Buddha said: It is all impersonal.
 

Bacteria living in our gut are hijacking and controlling our genes

Our gut microflora isn't just sitting silently waiting for us to wolf down our next meal. It turns out there's a constant conversation going on between these bacteria and our body's genetic code. More

Governors beg Trump and Congress to do more on opioid crisis

To hell with sick people!!!

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey - Less than three months after Pres. Don Trump declared the U.S. opioid crisis a public health emergency [instead of a higher classification that would actually spur funding to counter the crisis], the nation's governors are calling on his administration and Congress to provide more money and coordination for the fight against the drugs, which are killing more than 90 Americans a day. More

• How Haiti became poor The U.S. president called Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries “shitholes” then lied about having said it then basically said it all over again. [Has the leader of Norway called the U.S. a “shithole” in public yet?]
• European germs wiped out Aztecs of Mexico
• Michael Jackson was a child molester: proof found!
• VIDEO: Dance like no one's watching

"Our minds can be hijacked" by smartphones

Paul Lewis (The Guardian, 10/6/17); Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dystopia: "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - 1984

Campaign launched to limit amount of time children spend online (Alamy/The Guardian)

"Our minds can be hijacked": the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

Google, Twitter, and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the Internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley "refuseniks" alarmed by a race for human attention

Justin Rosenstein had tweaked his laptop’s operating system to block Reddit, banned himself from Snapchat, which he compares to heroin, and imposed limits on his use of Facebook.

But even that wasn’t enough. In August, the 34-year-old tech executive took a more radical step to restrict his use of social media and other addictive technologies.
 
Rosenstein purchased a new iPhone and instructed his assistant to set up a parental-control feature to prevent him from downloading any apps.

He was particularly aware of the allure of Facebook “likes,” which he describes as “bright dings of pseudo-pleasure” that can be as hollow as they are seductive. And Rosenstein should know: He was the Facebook engineer who created the “like” button in the first place.

1984: "Refuseniks"? What the hell is that?

A decade after he stayed up all night coding a prototype of what was then called an “awesome” button, Rosenstein belongs to a small but growing band of Silicon Valley heretics who complain about the rise of the so-called “attention economy”: an internet shaped around the demands of an advertising economy.

• Are smartphones making our children sad? US psychologist Jean Twenge, who has claimed that social media is having a bad affect on the young, answers critics who accuse her of crying wolf.

Rise of Trump: holds attention (John Locher)

These refuseniks are rarely founders or chief executives, who have little incentive to deviate from the mantra that their companies are making the world a better place.

Instead, they tend to have worked a rung or two down the corporate ladder: designers, engineers, and product managers who, like Rosenstein, several years ago put in place the building blocks of a digital world from which they are now trying to disentangle themselves.

“It is very common,” Rosenstein says, “for humans to develop things with the best of intentions and for them to have unintended, negative consequences.”
 

Most of the US has low opinion of Trump.

Rosenstein, who also helped create Gchat during a stint at Google, and now leads a San Francisco-based company that improves office productivity, appears most concerned about the psychological effects on people who, research shows, touch, swipe or tap their phone 2,617 times a day.
 

"We shall overcomb."

There is growing concern that as well as addicting users, technology is contributing toward so-called “continuous partial attention,” severely limiting people’s ability to focus, and possibly lowering IQ.

One recent study showed that the mere presence of smartphones damages cognitive capacity -- even when the device is turned off. “Everyone is distracted,” Rosenstein says. “All of the time.”

“It is very common for humans to develop things with the best of intentions that have unintended, negative consequences.”

- Justin Rosenstein, creator of the 'like' button

But those concerns are trivial compared with the devastating impact upon the political system that some of Rosenstein’s peers believe can be attributed to the rise of social media and the attention-based market that drives it. More (Comments)

SEX, DRS, and EDM (video)

Allison Aubrey (NPR.org); Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; PRI.org

We shouldn'tve smoked that herb because now I'm starving for a snack after the show.

A new study finds that too little sleep boosts a signal in the body that may drive a stronger desire to eat. It's the latest evidence linking sleep...
 

Smoking weed/sleeplessness lead to "munchies"

Allison Aubrey

(NPR) There's lots of evidence that getting too little sleep is associated with overeating and an increased body weight.

 

The question is, why? Part of the answer seems to be that skimping on sleep can disrupt our circadian rhythms. Lack of sleep can also alter hunger and satiety hormones.
 

Now, a new study finds evidence that sleep deprivation (getting less than five hours of sleep per night) produces higher peaks of a lipid in our bloodstream known as an endocannabinoid that may make eating more pleasurable.

 

So what's an endocannabinoid [internal-cannabis]? Look at the word closely for a clue. The prefix endo means inner, or within. And cannabinoid is what it looks like, cannabis.

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll is bad for you, so don't do it. But sex, Drs, and EDM? No.

Dude! Oh, man, is that why it's harder to resist snacks when I'm hungry? It's science.

  

Our bodies produce compounds that seem to act on the same parts of the brain as marijuana does. We've all heard of the marijuana munchies, right?

The new study, based on blood samples, documents a novel finding: The daily rhythm of a particular endocannabinoid, known as 2-AG, is altered by a lack of sleep.

And these changes "could be driving intake for more palatable foods," Erin Hanlon, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago Medical Center, told us. She's an author of the new study, published in the journal Sleep.

"We found that sleep restriction boosts a signal that may increase the hedonic aspect of food intake," says Hanlon. In other words, being sleep deprived may produce a stronger desire to eat.

To study how sleep influences appetite and eating, Hanlon and her colleagues recruited 14 healthy, young adults to take part in an experiment at the university's sleep lab.

How weed hijacks brain = munchies

"These were all people who were...normal sleepers," says Hanlon. They typically slept about eight hours a night. 

• How marijuana hijacks brain, leads to munchies (The Salt)

The study was divided into two parts, each lasting four days. For one session, the participants were allowed to follow a normal sleep schedule, about 8.5 hours per night.

 

But during the other session, they agreed to a crazy schedule. They went to bed at 1:00 am and were woken up at 5:30 am, so that they got a maximum of just 4.5 hours of sleep per night.

 

In both sessions, study participants were offered buffet-style meals and plenty of snacks, including candy and chips.

 

"They were given way more food than they could ever eat," says Hanlon.

 

It turned out that when participants were sleep deprived, they ate about 400 more calories from snacks. That's "a lot more," Hanlon says.

Deeply split Supreme Court wrestles with abortion case after Scalia joins babies (AP)

 
Generally, circulating levels of 2-AG rise slowly during the day and peak in early afternoon. But this study found that when people were sleep deprived, their 2-AG levels peaked higher and stayed elevated longer.

 

And that peak "corresponds to the same time of day when [the participants] said they were feeling hungrier, or their desire to eat was stronger," Hanlon told us.

 

Frank Scheer, a chronobiologist at Harvard Medical School, wrote a commentary on the new study that also appears in the journal Sleep.

 

"The idea is that when the levels of endocannabinoids are higher, food [is] more appealing," Scheer explains.

He says this paper makes an important contribution. "We did not know whether there would be an effect of sleep restriction on endocannabinoids, so this is really the first study to nicely show that," Scheer says.

Scheer says the new findings fit with brain-imaging studies of sleep-deprived people. These studies have found "that the brain areas involved in reward show increased activity when people [see] images of food" -- especially salty, sugary, and fatty snacks.

 

There's still a lot to learn about all the ways that sleep can influence our appetites and eating behaviors, but these findings serve as a reminder of the importance of getting a good night's sleep. More

She's 23. Here's why she's biking around the world

• Raves Survive a Possible Los Angeles County Ban (L.A. Weekly) Raves survived a possible ban from Los Angeles County-run venues, but serious hurdles remain.
• LA County chooses not to ban raves, EDM music festivals... The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declined today to ban music raves outright, voting instead to move forward with an ordinance ...
• LA county supervisors vote to study a ban on raves after latest deaths ...The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on [Aug. 4, 2015] to study a ban on raves at county facilities after two women...
• ER doctors: Drug-fueled raves too dangerous and should be banned When raves occurred at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and....They said officials should go further and ban them because of the risk to...
• Following Teens' Deaths, Ban on Raves Proposed in Los Angeles... An L.A. County supervisor is proposing a temporary ban on raves in Los Angeles following the deaths of two teens who attended the HARD... 
• Los Angeles County task force wants more water, police and... (Pasadena Star News) L.A. County's Electronic Music Task Force will not ask the Board of Supervisors to ban rave-like festivals on public land, according to...

• How Marijuana Hijacks Your Brain To Give You The Munchies... ...Researchers have been probing different parts of the brain looking for the root cause of the marijuana munchies for years. Now, a team of...
• The Science of Munchies: Why the Scent of a flesh burger gives some a high ...Skipping a meal triggers the munchies in a way similar to marijuana, a study in mice finds. And it works, at least in rodents, by boosting...
• Winter Munchies: Do we eat more in colder months? (NPR) It seems like the minute the weather turns colder, we crave more to eat. But why? Some experts say it's vestiges of biology -- chipmunk...
• Way Beyond Brownies: VICE launches a marijuana cooking show... (Dec. 17, 2014) ...It's the first episode in a new series called Bong Appetit from Munchies, Vice Media's food channel. Vice is the media company that aspires to...
• Traces of anxiety drugs may make fish act funny Small amounts of the chemical pharmaceuticals (legal drugs) people take end up in wastewater and then in streams and rivers. It's usually not enough to harm the health of...

Stories from PRI's "The World" (pri.org)

French police begin a partial demolition of the "Jungle" in Calais, sparking unrest

When the beach was synonymous with tar on my feet

How will Brazil come through on its Olympic promises?

Elephants trampling your crops? Release the be (GlobalPost, Feb. 29, 2016)

Value tech? Then you'll have a tech genius. Art? An art genius (Innovation Hub)

Thanks to [fake] Zika [scare], now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world

Fleets of autonomous cars may one day end urban parking (Living on Earth)

How Delilah became the queen of sentimental love songs on the radio (Studio 360)

Olympic sailor Isabel Swan wants a clean bay in Brazil for the Olympics

As America's presidential race rages, Africans look on and wonder

• Sweden's dance craze, the "Lindy Hop" in Rio
• VIDEO: Secret 5,000-year-old time machine UFO (vimana) found in Afghanistan cave!
• Rep. Chris Collins: "It's Time" For GOP To Unite Behind Trump

News of the World: Fly Malaysia Airlines cheap

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (NEWS REVIEW)

Lose yourself! Dare to live, dare to fly, dare to fall into a hijacking black hole (cutideals)

(SH) A baby moose is stuck in the fence in the snow. Humans sneak up. What will happen?

1. Wells Fargo admits to defrauding homeowners out of their houses, robosigning, foreclosing, training employees to "lose" paperwork -- will not be charged with theft or any major felony but may have to pay small penalty to banking insiders.

2. DARPA is encouraging many academics and ametuers to work for the Killing Machine, the U.S. Imperial Military Service. But they don't know it. "I don't work for the military," they exclaim. "I just enter contests sponsored by DARPA; I can't help what they do with my invetions. If they want to build decision-making killer robots out of my contest winner, that's on them. I don't work for the military. I'm just a garage tinkerer, a code writer, a contest enterer." Oy vey.

3. "We Come As Friends" Anti-imperialist radio host Michael Slate (revcom.us) talks to the film maker showing just how "empire" is accomplished whether it's the British yesterday or the Americans today. The world's newest country is South Sudan on the continent of Africa. When Hillary Clinton visited, she invited investment and exploitation. Come, bankers, "do well while doing good," was her PR campaign's slogan. "There's plenty of money to be made" off of these black-skinned dummies, dark skinned needy, dimwitted pawns, poor, up-and-coming Third World youth. It is what the British did for centuries, and we're just following that Western lineage of invasion, occupation, and unadulterated exploitation while bringing "God" and "civilization" to these savages, those in need...while extracting everything we can via the railroads and infrastructure we first build to benefit ourselves. It's not for them, mind you, but for getting the goods to market by way of the exit ports for shipping. Thanks, future president Hillary; you're a Good Old Boy after all.

Dr. DeGruy, Fullerton College, March 28

4. Southern California progressives have become so open minded that they finally see that "mass incarceration" is a reality and a purposeful policy, a ALEC-style conspiracy? Have professors Michelle Alexander and Joy DeGruy finally broken into the popular imagination? What else could explain quizzing L.A. Sheriff candidates on their views of "mass incarceration"? Sure, they'll probably lie and do it anyway, but they can't say they were never asked. Then they can be called on their lying and voted out, and another set can be brought in and do the same thing, then voted out... See how well democracy works? Just ask the Great Communicator, our Fearless Leader Obama. He would never lie. He would sooner chop down a cherry tree and be spanked than fib about it.

Here's a handy chart provided by USAF

5. Dr. Roger Lear, M.D. (alienscapel.com) is dead? The only man brave enough to remove extraterrestrial alien implants, expose them, and live to tell about it... Well, perhaps not the latter. He has succumbed to medical interventions, one of America's leading killers (the iatrogenic effect). Was he assassinated for saying too much? He will be missed, and his evidence cannot be explained by ordinary means. The only way to ignore him is to ignore him. This leaves no messy questions about how inanimate objects, the "implants," have bundles of nerves going to them. Since when does the body not only not reject foreign matter but embrace it more than medical implants? His findings were shocking, so of course they could not be widely reported. To do so would mean having to find a way to dismiss the obvious: there are others, and they occasionally implant people.

6. Republican Chris "Christ" Christie has group sex and makes a polished porn movie about it? That's what Gawker is currently investigating -- with its near forensic analysis of the footage -- and reporting.

What goes up must come... Not necessarily.

7. Then there was something about some missing plane or something? Went off its route straight to Diego Garcia, a military base expert in secrecy for the clandestine military-industrial complex (MIC). It was probably just a coincidence that it was carrying 20 top secret chip researchers, many of them Americans, on their way to the capital of China. Sure the world is searching millions of square miles of sea for them, yeah. Hey, but did you hear about the discounted flights? Bring a cellphone (mobile) and call us the next time this happens so we won't worry so much.

• WARNING: Click on email, hackers could take control
• Washington landslide: 18 CA rescue specialists go to help

Update: Suspect in Hollywood Hills shooting dead; officer hit by small debris A police spokesman said the suspect in a shooting in the Hollywood Hills Monday morning has been executed by police is dead of apparent gunshot wounds but, more importantly, an officer has been slightly hurt during the altercation and is now doing well, according to Chief Charlie Beck. And as for the suspect Anaheim police recently executed for protecting himself against a vicious trained K-9 agent, uh, well, at least the doggie, whose name is Bruno, is making progress (video). But someone is trying to stop surveillance helicopters and their noise by complaining to the FAA when they are needed for police state protection law and order

"God wanted me to hijack jetliner"

Preacher says God wanted him to hijack jetliner

Mark Stevenson (AP)
MEXICO CITY – It was 1:00 p.m. when the control tower at the Mexico City airport got the first word of a bizarre drama that would play out over the next two hours: The pilot of Aeromexico Flight 576 radioed that a man aboard claimed to have a bomb and wanted to talk with President Felipe Calderon.

• Slideshow: Aeromexico plane hijacked
• Video: plane hijacked in Mexico

Jose Flores (pictured below in white with satanic figure in black, who is actually a federal agent), a 44-year-old Bolivian preacher who lives in Mexico, had gotten the word from God that he had to warn Mexicans of an impending disaster — an earthquake "like none there has ever been," he told reporters after being hustled off the plane by police without anyone being injured. More>>

• UPDATE: Hijacker is a gunslinging, singing Evangelical

While the story above suggests it isn't "God" communicating, here's "proof" positive that God may exist and be getting involved:

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• Messiah-child born today: 09-09-09 at 9:09 a.m.
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