British Empire entered and robbed the richest country/empire in the world, what is now called India. The British and their colonial rule extracted resources on a mass scale, impoverishing the richest country the world had ever know, enriching themselves and promoting racist white elitism and European commerce. The East India Company is much to blame, but the Crown took it over and bears the responsibility for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and theft beyond human comprehension. It did not only steal tangible resources, it stole mathematical ideas, first giving due credit to the original inventors of things like the concept of zero then misappropriating, taking credit, enlarging the reputations of white scholars, denigrating and finally erasing others. Many of the great Islamic/Muslim discoveries in math and architecture were also marginalized, erased, and absorbed into British and white European lore. Whites did it all. India, Africa, and the New World contributed nothing.
(Miki Nebulah) A week after the U.S. became guilty of the worst crime against humanity in history by bombing Buddhist Nagasaki (on Aug. 9, 1945), the nation of Tokyo had still not surrendered. If the Japanese had not surrendered on August 15, 1945, as it did, the U.S. war criminals would have struck again with a third experimental and potentially more powerful atomic bomb a few days later. How tiny our differences are in the vastness of space yet how magnified on earth. The draconian ETs must be proud. Nov. 10, 2010.
LYRICS: "Unorthodox Manifesto"
The memories far beyond their reckoning/ Have begun to lurk in the distance/ Like visual objects dearly known/ The grace of devil's hands/ As they walk with me like a medium/ Well I choose and require a burnout/ Resting in expanded malicious force/ Drained for murderous weapons/ Knowing where you stand/ In the magnitude of this thought/ Looking at the spirit of fire and flames/ Enduring on the throne of the black heart. [Repeat Verses 1-3]
The Jewish Holocaust in Palestine
It's very simple: We kill them all, no more POWs
A bringer of evil I am/ And therefore also a carrier of light/ As I use this focus through the dark/ And face the shine in the dead end/ Limitations do not exist/ When you are ahead of the crowd/ With the art of confidence/ I reign at the throne of my soul/ The value of this darkness unwinds/ Travelling the other path/ A hidden triumph/ But obvious to the strong and wise/ By understanding this reality/ I remain in a twice-colored cloud/ With feet connected solid in the ground/ And thus I get peace of mind/ A bringer of evil I am/ And also a carrier of light/ As I use this focus through the dark/ And face the shine in the dead end.
CJ Werleman, July 3, 2025; Dimmu Borgir; Middle East Eye, July 3, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The Purge is a terrible trilogy about people using violence, channeling collective anxiety to slaughter each other. It's their way of attempting to burn through rising tensions between clans, tribes, neighbors, and so on, in a nearby town.
Perhaps the writers intended the film’s message to be a wake up call for how we need to work to remember the value of being neighborly (as modeled by Mister Rogers’ decades-long testament showing the usefulness of uplifting TV programming).
Wiktionary says the Latin root of the word “purge” is purgo, “to make clean” or “purify.” Unfortunately, the Purge perpetuates ultraviolent fantasies propagated on TV and in Hollywood since the 1980s. It might even be older than that.
Purgatory is a terrible series of purifications
During a recent caffeinated conversation, Dante’s Divine Comedy came up: It's a classic, a three-part work consisting of Paradiso (“Paradise”), Purgatorio (“Purgatory”), and Inferno (“Hell”).
In Purgatorio, a “middle-place between heaven and hell,” people are trapped by their own devices, until whatever “impurities” or stains of their souls are expunged and they can move forward on their spiritual paths.
A few years ago, I had the unique opportunity to attend meetings, which usually included the same elixir, with a remarkable man. I’ll refer to him as "the Alchemist."
A master of many arts, such as motorcycle maintenance, he had resolved to devote his remaining time on earth to experimenting and researching mystery schools, Raja Yoga, soul-forms, astral travel and how to apply these ideas to everyday life.
Of the many meetings I remember sitting in on, one involved the Alchemist's commentary on the topic of purgatory. His reflections were derived from a Gnostic idea. (The Gnostic Gospels were edited out of the official Roman Catholic version of Christianity, leaving out the story of chief apostle Mary Magdalene and the surprising Gospel of Judas, where Judas plays a key role in the plan).
Civilizations exist INSIDE our hollow earth? We're unaware of Agartha
In India, as St. Issa, I learned the wisdom of the East.
The "Gnostic idea" is that the surface of earth is a reform school overseen by a group of stern superintendent-wardens who are responsible for maintaining the quarantine of all “embodied-humans” in this realm. This includes ensuring that no embodied human escapes until she or he has completed the necessary spiritual-schoolwork required for graduating from “Terra,” our surface world.
The Alchemist went on to clarify that a primary step in the process of “graduating” from this realm is to “purify” oneself from all illusory thoughts that keep us karmically entangled, that is, earthbound.
According to these claims and his own research, experiments, and observances, the Alchemist concluded that what we call “normal life” on the earth's surface is, in fact, the purgatory realm described by Dante.
Yazoo Kristos: Jewish Essene Gnostic mystic
During its nascent years (approximately 1682-1772), the Religious Society of Friends, now colloquially called the “Quakers,” testified to the necessity of individual purging as a requisite for mystical self-initiation.
This mysterious practice of purging among the early Quakers has maintained little to no how to instructions as far as I've discovered. However, the desired result of purging is allegedly related to a cleansing of one’s body, mind, and spirit so as to receive divine revelation.
Another requisite the Alchemist shared with us was the necessity of internalizing and embodying the act of sacrifice (i.e., “making sacred”).
Dating as far back in recorded history as the Olmec and Mayan cultures, humans have immortalized the act of sacrifice in drawings, writing, societal mores and traditions.
Instances of such traditions are evident in Chac Mool statues of ancient Mexico. A man holds a sacred fire offering bowl over his abdomen while laying in a strengthening supine position.
The Jewish and Christian traditions used bread and wine and made a symbol of the Christ (the Kristos or "Anointed One") as a sacrificial lamb.
There were tithings to the Jewish priestly caste rabbis, who slaughtered donated animals and turned them into "burnt offerings" to JHVH -- four letters commonly misinterpreted as “Jehovah.” which actually represent the anglicization of the Hebrew letters: יהוה or “Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey.”
Some Essene rabbis claim these letters symbolize “that which cannot be named,” which relates to the divine order.
According to Godfrey Higgins' Anacalypsis, “the surplus of the burnt-offering meats [was] regularly sold for profit by the [stewards] of the temple.”
The hidden profit motive behind requiring temple-goers to bring sacrificial livestock to appease a “god” exposes the gradual corruption of what was originally taught as a symbolic parable in the ancient mystery schools of the East.
As the Alchemist revealed, the original wisdom teaching of “sacre-fice” had everything to do with a human activity done alone by an individual seeker focused on cultivating conscious contact with his or her “Higher Self,” the “over soul,” “thinker,” “guardian angel,” “inner light,” “Christ/Krishna consciousness,” or “Nirvana.”
This self-discipline focused “sacrifice” was actually a number of daily practices that includes but is not limited to:
renouncing the consumption of animal flesh,
daily rigorous physical survival-training,
restraint in the use of one’s words and actions,
daily hour-by-hour contemplation of the spiritual principles of one’s religious upbringing
(with quarterly 17-85 hour solo commune-with-nature wilderness survival wanderings).
The list continues, but suffice it to say the archaic practice of animal sacrifice had absolutely nothing to do with capturing, raising in slavery, or ritualistically murdering innocent animals.
It had absolutely everything to do with learning and reinforcing self-control over one’s own limbic-system-dominated “animal-nature” mind, clearly illustrated in Hindu and Jewish symbols of controlling the horses of our chariot and Ezekiel’s vision.
The Alchemist would often emphasize, “Any so-called preacher or so-called religious scholar who condones (a) the ritualistic murder of innocent animals or (b) eating the rotting carcass of murdered innocent animals* is -- at the very least -- untrustworthy and corrupted by “inimical thoughts” and at worst criminal and probably prone to violent predatory activities in their modus vivendi (“life outside the public eye”).
*The only exception being that an individual must capture, prepare, and eat a wild animal because no other foods (vegetable, root, fungi, or cacti) are available within a 17-mile radius, such as we find among the Inuit huddled up in igloos in a frozen wasteland.
The Alchemist taught me well.
The Alchemist would often add, “Any astute seeker who has chosen to listen to my “Dharma talk” up to this point would do well to trust-but-verify the truth behind these statements by deeply researching:
(a) the recorded history of religious clerical corruption (Eastern and Western) over the past 6,850 years,
(b) the plant-based lifestyle of Mahayana Buddhists, Hindus, and the (original Christian cult known as) Essenes, and
(c) the esoteric symbolism contained in Mayan, Hindu, and Jewish myths. More
What would middle-aged Hindus think of black speedmetal from King Diamond's Mercyful Fate? They like it but don't think Indians will understand [unless they're from Bangalore metal fest].
I went to India's metal festival -- pure Mayhem
(Karl Rock) Premiered April 3, 2023. India has its own extreme metal festival, and New Zealander Karl Rock went this year to see how it compares to other foreign music festivals.
Let's go backstage at the Bangalore Open Air Festival in the Indian state of Karnataka to see behind-the-scenes of Mayhem's pre-show prep.
The lineup also included death metal from Pestilence, Born of Osiris, Godless, Dying Embrace, Kryptos, and Amophia.
Follow the Bangalore Open Air Festival on Instagram to get details about the next festival instagram.com/bangaloreopenair.
Thinking of attending? There's more information available on the blog "Everything You Need To Know About Bangalore Open Air Festival" blog.karlrock.com
Bangalore Open Air is India's premier hard rock and heavy metal music festival. It started in 2012 and has featured bands like Mayhem, Iced Earth, Napalm Death, and Marduk.
When your cellphone is pickpocketed, find it for sale at the night market
Bangalore Open Air is a music festival in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, that was founded in 2012 by Salman Syed.
From thrash titans Kreator and Destruction to legendary heavy metal stalwarts Iced Earth and extreme metal luminaries like Mayhem, Rotting Christ, and Vader, Bangalore Open Air has been bringing legendary and cutting-edge acts to India for more than a decade.
The festival brings together 6,000 Indian metal music fans every year, and it's continually growing.
With its combination of great music, good food, and a lively atmosphere, the Bangalore Open Air Festival is an experience not to be missed for anyone visiting the city.
00:00 India's biggest metal festival
00:25 Bangalore city overview
00:41 Do I listen to metal?
01:30 The bands
01:55 My favorite Indian metal band (Godless)
02:26 Why is there a metal festival in India? (Salman Syed interview)
04:04 Tour of the venue
05:38 What happens backstage?
06:57 Pestilence performing in India
07:24 Foreigners at the festival
07:41 What's the food like?
08:14 Meeting Indian metal fans
10:04 Backstage with Born of Osiris
11:16 Mayhem stage and backstage tour
12:46 Mayhem arrives backstage
13:27 Mayhem takes the stage
15:16 Should you attend next year?
Undercover in a stolen phone market in India
(Karl Rock) June 22, 2023. MUMBAI (Bombay), India: Karl went undercover in a stolen cellphone market in India. This is where stolen phones might end up. Pickpocket gangs steal them and fence them here, along with old phones from electronic recyclers. Fake Chinese iPhones are sold here, too. Avoid shopping at these black markets. And avoid pickpockets with these practical tips:
Stay vigilant and be aware of surroundings. Pay attention to the people around. Stay alert in crowded areas, public transportation, tourist spots, and busy streets.
Keep all valuables hidden: Avoid displaying valuable items such as expensive jewelry, cash, and flashy electronic devices. Put them in a secure place like a money belt, hidden pocket, or bag close to the body. Or leave them behind hidden in a hotel room. More
Hindustan Times; Dalai Lama (dalailama.com); Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Dalai Lama on why he never wants to leave India; slams 'narrow minded' Chinese leaders
(Hindustan Times) November 10, 2021. Tibet's spiritual leader, the current (14th) Dalai Lama, has hailed India as a country of peace and religious harmony, announcing that he has no plans to leave to some other nation -- or even back to Tibet/China -- and that he would like to stay until the time he is no longer alive.
The exiled spiritual and former political leader of Tibet said as much as he was was addressing an online press conference, where he took potshots at Chinese Communist Party leaders for being "narrow minded" and said that he has no plans to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.
On the issues of Tibet and Xinjiang, the Dalai Lama accused the current Chinese government of not understanding the local cultures and traditions of its empire and instead forcing its will on the people living in those two places. Watch this report for more.
#DalaiLama #China #Tibet #India #XiJinping #CCP. Music
SONG: "Something is Going On" by ARTIST
Godmode from the ALBUM
Something is Going On.
India claims the entire state of J&K (Jammu and Kashmir) based on a document signed in 1947. Partition from Pakistan came in 1947. Muslim-majority Pakistan claims J&K based on its majority Muslim population. China strategically claims the Shaksam Valley and Aksai Chin (wikipedia).
The conflict started after the partition of India in 1947 as a dispute over the former princely state of J&K (Jammu and Kashmir) and escalated into three wars between India and Pakistan and several other armed skirmishes.
China has also been involved in the conflict in a third-party role. Both India and Pakistan claim the entirety of J&K. India controls approximately 55% of the region's land area and 70% of its population, whereas Pakistan controls approximately 30% of the land, and China controls the remaining 15%.More
(BBC) Nuclear-armed neighbors India (former Bharat) and Pakistan (former India) have fought two wars and a limited armed conflict over Kashmir. Why do they dispute the territory, and how did it start?
Kashmir is an ethnically-diverse Himalayan region, covering around 86,000 square miles (138 sq km), famed for the beauty of its Switzerland lakes, meadows, and high snow-capped mountains.
Even before India and Pakistan won their independence from Britain in August of 1947, the area was hotly contested.
Under the Partition plan provided by the Indian Independence Act, Kashmir was free to go with or "accede" to either India or Pakistan.
The Maha-raja (great local ruler) Hari Singh initially wanted Kashmir to become independent. But in October 1947 he chose to join India. In return he got India's help against an invasion of tribesmen from Pakistan. More
Video produced by Angad Singh, Zubair Ahmed Dar, Supreet J. Bargi, and Akash Bisht. Video editing by Adam Deniston. This segment originally aired on VICE News Tonight on HBO on Aug. 15th, 2019.
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Prime Minister Modi is "like a god" to Indian nationalists over Kashmir
NEW DELHI, India - Chants of “Long live Mother India!” and “Down with Pakistan!” rang out in the streets, as crowds gathered to hear PM Narendra Modi speak atop the massive, Mughal-era, Red Fort for Independence Day.
As Indians celebrated the birth of the world’s biggest democracy, India, members of Modi’s massive fanbase hailed his recent revision to the constitution -- ending the state of J&K (Jammu and Kashmir)’s special semi-autonomy.
“I must say Modi is like a god to India today. Terrorism will end. The fact is that Kashmir is ours now,” Vijay Rashtravadi, a demonstrator in New Delhi told VICE News.
Modi’s decision splits India’s only Muslim-majority state in two parts -- and into “Union Territories” -- which means Kashmir will lose representatives in Parliament, and the central government will gain direct control.
The move has angered Pakistan, which lays claim to Kashmir. Pakistan’s leader compared Modi’s “arrogance” to that of Hitler’s in a tweet on Thursday (Aug. 15th).
“It’s my hope that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir will be ours soon also,” Rashtravadi said. “It’s my hope Modi will quickly make it ours, too.”
While people paraded in the nation’s capital, Independence Day celebrations in Kashmir’s capital, Srinagar, were orchestrated -- largely missing attendance by Kashmiri folks who actually live there.
“Kashmiris have lost 5,000 years of history as a country,” Kashmir University Professor Hameeda Nayeem told VICE News. “Overnight their identity, their dignity, their everything has been lost.”
The Kashmir valley has been under lockdown for 12 days, as the government moved an additional 35,000 soldiers into the region. Internet and communications are blacked out, opposition politicians have been detained, and large public gatherings are banned.
“This is all bullsh*t,” Nayeem said. “They are actually hiding a dark Hindu fantasy of destroying Kashmiri Muslims and reducing them to a miniscule minority so that they can always rule them and they will be enslaved.”
Kashmiris still protested: Many waived Pakistani flags, and some were seen unfurling banners of a local Islamic-state affiliate.
While India initially denied there were any protests last week, calling such media reports “fabricated” fake news, they eventually recognized “widespread unrest.”
Today, India announced it would start to ease its restrictions in Kashmir gradually.
“You are creating a dynamic which is pushing violence forward. Why is that done? That is also done deliberately to provoke this violence,” said Dr. Ajai Sahni, executive director at the Institute for Conflict Management, to VICE News. “So you create this whole demonization of the Muslim, which assists in your Hindutva [Hindu Nationalist] consolidation.”
Downgrading democracy is Kashmir is likely to push people towards an insurgency that Pakistan is accused of sponsoring -- feeding the popularity of recently re-elected Modi, who has styled himself as India’s Chowkidar or “Guardian.”
How people of Kashmir are reacting to India's crackdown
(PBS News Hour, Aug. 16, 2019) Nearly 4 million (mostly Muslim) people in Kashmir have been confined to their homes in a total communications blackout since Indian Prime Minister Modi stripped the primarily-Muslim Indian state of its semi-autonomous status 13 days ago. Civilians are not handling the situation well, but why hasn’t there been more resistance?
Pope Francis visits Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka to spread colonial-era Catholicism
Buddhist monk, Roman Catholic Pope Francis, and Hindu sadhu in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka explosions: More than 200 killed as churches and hotels targeted
Deadly explosions strike across Sri Lanka
At least 207 people have been killed and 450 hurt in explosions at Christian churches and secular hotels in predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka, police say.
Eight blasts were reported, including at least three churches in the cities of Negombo, Batticaloa, and Colombo's Kochchikade district during Easter services.
The Shangri-La, Kingsbury, and Cinnamon Grand [Sri Lanka is the origin and source of cinnamon] hotels and one other, all in the capital, Colombo, were also targeted.
A national curfew has been put in place "until further notice," and social media networks have been temporarily blocked.
[NOTE: This was done to stem the spread of rumors on social media, in the event people want to jump to conclusions and blame Islamist radicals, which have never been a problem on the island, or the Hindu Tamil Tiger rebels with whom they fought the longest civil war in Asia, a war that wrapped up nearly a decade ago with many Hindus still being oppressed and abused by the Sinhalese Buddhist majority and the Sinhalese-dominated government, military, and police. It is possible that Buddhist extremists led by politicized monks are to blame.]
A foreign ministry official said 27 foreign nationals were among the dead.
(NPR) Recent disclosures about NSA (National Security Agency) surveillance have affected U.S. relations with allies and tainted America's image around the world.
Now the fallout seems to be creeping into the U.S. tech sector. Cisco Systems, which manufactures network equipment, posted disappointing first-quarter numbers this week and warned that revenues for the current quarter could drop as much as 10 percent from a year ago -- partly as a consequence of the revelations on widespread NSA spying.
When NSA cubicles rule the world (Reuters)
The company's chief financial officer, Frank Calderone, told analysts that reports that the NSA is intercepting electronic data transfers have created "a level of uncertainty or concern" among customers, particularly in emerging markets.
Cisco shares plummeted, losing more than 11 percent of their value, on Wednesday's news. Though the impact of the NSA revelations isn't evenly shared across the tech sector, other companies are also feeling the bite. Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, cited Cisco's problems during remarks at a conference Thursday in Washington, D.C., saying... More
Reunion: Google's "India Strategy"
Iconic Muslim art and architecture of Taj Mahal is symbol of Hindu India (sjpaderborn)
India and Pakistan have fought three wars, countless skirmishes, and
engaged in a decades-long standoff over Kashmir. But a new Google ad has
warmed the cockles of subcontinental hearts, leading to an outpouring
of goodwill on social media and newspaper websites.The ad centers on two friends
separated by Partition [the division of India into two countries to create Pakistan]. That's the period in 1947 that led British India
to be divided into two countries -- Pakistan, a homeland for Muslims, and
India, which is predominantly Hindu but officially secular. Partition
occupies a central place in the collective memory of the two nations.
Millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs were killed, and millions were
uprooted from their homes. The legacy of that era clouds much of the
relations between the two countries even today. Enter [the CIA and MIC through] Google. More
1858- The India Act: power transferred to British Colonial government. 1885- Indian National Congress founded by Allen O. Hume to unite all Indians and strengthen bonds with occupying Britain. 1905- First Partition of Bengal for administrative purposes, which gives Muslims a state majority. 1906- All India Muslim League founded to promote Muslim political interests. 1909- Revocation
of Partition of Bengal, which creates anti-British and anti-Hindu sentiments
among Muslims as they lose their majority in East Bengal. 1916- Lucknow Pact, the Congress and the League unite in demand for greater self-government, which is denied by British rulers. 1919-
Amritsar Massacre, when Gen. Dyer opens fire on 20,000 unarmed Indian
civilians at a political demonstration, causing Congress and the League to lose
faith in the British occupation. 1919- Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
(implemented in 1921), when communal representation was institutionalized for the
first time, and reserved legislative seats are allocated for significant
minorities. 1920- Mahatma Gandhi launches a non-violent, non-cooperation movement, or Satyagraha (Truth Movement) against the British for a Free India. 1929- Congress calls for full independence. 1930- Dr.
Allama Iqbal, a poet-politician, calls for a separate homeland for
Muslims at the Allahabad session of the Muslim League. Gandhi starts civil disobedience movement against the Salt Laws by which British
have a monopoly over production and sale of salt.
Google's earlier heart-wrenching story from the
subcontinent to
advertise its [CIA] products. Australian man adopted from India uses
Google Maps to reconnect with his birth family. Keep tissues
handy!
1930-31- The Round Table conferences are set up to consider dominion status for India, which fail because of non-attendance by the Congress and because Gandhi,
who does attend, claims he is the only representative for all of India. 1931-
Irwin-Gandhi Pact, which concedes to Gandhi's demands at the Round
Table conferences and further isolates Muslim League from Congress
and British. 1935- Government of India Act proposes a federal
India of political provinces with elected local governments but British
control over foreign policy and "defense." 1937- Elections, when Congress gains majority. 1940- Jinnah calls for establishment of Pakistan in an independent and partitioned India. 1942- Cripps
Mission to India to conduct negotiations between all political parties
and to set up a cabinet government, and Congress adopts Quit India
Resolution to rid India of British rule, when Congress leaders are arrested for
obstructing war effort. 1942-43- Muslim League gains more power, ministries formed in Sind, Bengal, and North-West Frontier Province, and
greater influence in the Punjab. 1944- Gandhi released from
prison, unsuccessful Gandhi-Jinnah talks, but Muslims see this as an
acknowledgment that Jinnah represents all Indian Muslims. 1946- Muslim League participates in interim government that is set up according to the Cabinet Mission Plan. 1947- Announcement
of Lord Mountbatten's plan for partition of India, June 3rd, Partition of
India and Pakistan on August 15, with Radcliffe Award of boundaries of the
nations on August 16th. 1971- East Pakistan separates from West Pakistan whereby Bangladesh is born.
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