Strange discovery about Chinese DNA

(Asian Ancestry) What did British musician and artist Brian Eno know about China? "China My China," he sang.

Brian Eno "China My China" (2004 digital remaster)

Hegseth and Trump declare war: 'FAFO'

'Hitleresque': Retired Major General Hertling links Trump speech to Nazi propaganda

Warlords Trump and Hegseth said all that? Wow

(MSNBC) Sept. 30, 2025: King Pres. Trump spoke today before the nation’s military, touting his decisions to deploy his National Guard to major U.S. cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also delivered a series of strange and embarrassing remarks [such as saying "FAFO," which is a belligerent threat and vulgar acronym that means "F around and find out"], sparking fresh calls for his immediate resignation. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) and Maj. Gen. William Enyart (Ret.) join The Weeknight to respond. #PeteHegseth #Hitler #Trump #NoMoreKings

(Really American) Lying cheater Trump and the Ugly Americans

Why I'm moving to Mexico (video)

Founding Father Emiliano Zapata wants you to join the US Army and get the heck out of MX

• The Spirit Nomad, YouTube; Amber Larson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Welcome to 'Rape Club,' Cali prison

Survivor of California prison ‘rape club’ shares her story

Inside the 'rape club prison': Former inmates tell | Elizabeth Vargas Reports

Whites of Japan: Ainu, Emishi, Jomon?

Why do the Ainu people seem to have Caucasian features? (vrogue.co)

The fascinatingly mysterious origins of the Ainu

(TREY the Explainer) This is TTE's first video on human diversity and evolution. It discusses ancient and prehistoric human migration and evolution into East Asia, specifically Japan. [Did the Ainu, Emishi, or Jōmon people come from mating with nearby Russians, Koreans, Tartarians?]

• 15 fascinating facts about the Ainu - Japan’s [bear worshiping] Indigenous people

We examine the strange and somewhat mysterious case of the Ainu tribe [with possible origins in Africa as "Black Asians," as happened with many groups like the early blue-eyed Blacks of Ireland and British Isles, or even the Australian aboriginals and ubiquitous Polynesians] and other members of Y-Haplogroup D. In doing so it breaks down what exactly happened in Asia during prehistory.

Background Music by Kevin Macleod: The Fascinatingly Mysterious Origins of the Ainu

• Untold History, Feb. 2, 2024; TREY the Explainer, 3/18/18; CC Liu, Amber Larson, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mexico's female president-elect to Trump

Dear Madame Presidente, you'll have to excuse our national embarrassment. He was recently shot in the head and has learned nothing from it but continues to be divisive and lie. We wish your administration all the success in the world. And perhaps you can tell Netanyahu to tone down his mass murdering? Thank you. - Mexican Buddhists

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The proud flag of our neighboring nation

Mexican Jewish President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum rebuked U.S. nominee Donny Johnny Trump after he appeared to mock Marcelo Ebrard, a high-ranking official from the current government who is set to be her economy minister when she takes office this year.

• Like father, like son: Trump is classy, but his father not so much: Claims about racist Fred Trunf are absolutely disturbing

Trump's offensive statements took place on Saturday during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan....The statements prompted a response from President-elect Sheinbaum, who took to X (Twitter) to defend Mr. Ebrard, whom she bested in the party's primaries.

He, he has, Como se dice? Marital problems. She hates him but loves money

Gus, can you answer Trump?

"I regret former President Trump's rude language and certainly disagree with his opinion of Marcelo Ebrard. To me, he is one of the best public servants in Mexico, and he will be a great Secretary of Economy of our country, which no one should forget is free and sovereign," she declared.

Ebrard, on his end, thanked Sheinbaum and said he will "defend Mexico's interests with dignity and strength."

The rift follows another episode concerning Trump and the Mexican government, as current Pres. López Obrador had said the day before that he was going to send a letter to his "friend" Trump as a result of his stance on immigration.

I'm better than Hey Zeus, everyone tells me.

"I think he is not being properly informed about the migratory issue and also about the importance of maintaining economic integration among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada," he said.

"When it comes to migration, I will prove to him that migrants are not smuggling drugs into the U.S. That is a vile lie. They go to work honorably. That country was built and became a superpower thanks to migrants around the world."

• Mexico's president-elect answers to Trump after he appears to mock a high-ranking official
• Jewish Voice for Peace
• NOT IN OUR NAME (ifnotnowmovement.org)
• Do American Jews prefer Trump to Genocide Joe?
• Demian Bio, Latin Times via MSN, 7/22/24; Meidas Touch; Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Fraud: JD Vance isn't a 'hillbilly' (LA Times)

J.D. Vance, Ex-President Trump's new running mate, is a classic example of a convenenciero — someone who goes through life with no principles other than getting ahead and no loyalty to a community other than his own (LM Otero/AP).

Yale lawyer J.D. Vance once had money and poll woes (Darcy Cartoon/cleveland.com)

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Me and my brown wife Usha are true Americans.

From the moment I learned about hillbillies as a child, I was entranced. Good ol' boys and girls born high up in the mountains?

[The trailer trash of Appalachia?] That’s my parents. People who moved from rural towns to metro areas in search of a better life?

We is downhome folks from them thar hills

Story of both sides of my family. Working class? My upbringing. Lovers of things — food, fashion, music, diction, parties — that polite society ridiculed? Yee-haw! Stubbornly clinging to their ancestral lands and ways? ¡Ajúa!

I learned to love toxic bourbon, bluegrass music, Hee Haw reruns, and Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be a Redneck If..." series.

LGBTQ flags in JD's Virginia neighborhood

As an adult, I drove through the small towns of central and eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, feeling at home in areas even my white friends warned wouldn't take kindly to "my type."

I might not have outwardly resembled the 'billies I met — I'm a cholo [Mexican style gang member] nerd, after all — but we got along just fine, because they were my brothers and sisters from another madre.

Ask A Mexican! (Gus Arellano)

That’s why I was intrigued when J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, was released in 2016.

From what I heard about it, the familial dysfunction, generational poverty, and inherent fatalism that Vance overcame were similar to the pathologies of my own extended Latino clan.

The up-from-bootstraps message he preached in interviews was what my parents had always preached and what I still subscribe to. Vance's critique of conspicuous consumption among the poor is something everyone should consider.

• VIDEO: J.D. Vance: I might vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump (MeidasTouch News)
• What is the Republican's Project 2025?
• Americans across aisles react to Vance’s Middle East policy
• Republicans could be overlooking a potentially devastating problem with JD Vance
• Divide and conquer: Trump floats outrageous claim that Black Americans are ‘going to die’ because immigrants are taking their jobs

Tacos USA (Westword)

But the parallels between the clean-cut Vance and me only went so far. He was a Yale graduate and venture capitalist, while I'm a community college kid who chose a dying profession [journalism].

He was far removed from his roots, while I experience mine nearly every other weekend at family parties. More importantly, Vance cast himself as an extraordinary exception to his fellow Appalachians, describing 'billies as encased in a toxic amber that kept them from improving their lot and left them embittered with a country that has moved on without them.

My Mexican hillbilly family never had time to whine and mope. My parents’ generation found blue-collar jobs, bought homes, and are now retired and enjoying the fruits of their blood, sweat, and tears.

Gustavo Arellano, Lalo Alcaraz: 'Hispandering'?

Most of my cousins got white-collar jobs or joined the public sector. Their children are going straight to four-year universities. More: Column: I know what a true hillbilly is, and it's not J.D. Vance (LA Times via MSN)

• Cleveland.com; Family Guy ("This Cowboy Hat Comes Right Off"); Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

CIA sex trafficking: Project Monarch

 

This will blow your mind, as Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com) finds out about Sidney Gottlieb, "Poisoner in Chief," and his CIA mind control program. Abandoned children in Russia are trafficked to Israel, the USA, and Germany [three countries where Nazis stealthily rule today?]

Dying, seeing, talking to God: Near Death

Shaman Oaks, Penny Wittbrodt, 9/14/21; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What God told her about your thoughts will shock you! (NDE)

(Shaman Oaks) Penny Wittbrodt's near death experience (NDE) and how she got out of a void. "God" showed her a future event with her grandson -- and taught her the power of thoughts, and why forgiveness is so important. This is her NDE Christian testimony.

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It's not "genocide"...when Israel does it

Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Shauna Schwartz (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Scott Ritter via Danny Haiphong, 12/20/23; Vivek Ramaswamy via Jimmy Dore (YouTube)

“Israel can defend itself however they want” – right wing Indian Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy

Vote for me! I'm just like my hero Dick Nixon!

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Dec. 20, 2023: Indian wunderkind Vivek "Dick Nixon II" Ramaswamy, the arch nemesis of Indian Nikki Haley, who is also vying for Trump to pick her to run alongside him for VP, is desperate for attention. He needs to appease hardcore, right-wing isolationist MAGA types, Q-Anon supporters, Jan. 6th insurrectionists (who were set up and taken down by the state), conservatives, evangelical Christians, fundamentalists, and Libertarians, and independents.

US Col. Mcgregor: "Israel has lost in every possible way! There is no going back..."

(Inner Vision) Dec. 19, 2023: Colonel Douglas Macgregor delivers a frank analysis, asserting that Israel has suffered defeat on multiple fronts in prosecuting its genocide against Palestine. Israel has suffered a profound negative impact on its military and international reputation, indicating a situation from which recovery seems challenging. Viewers are invited to explore Col. Macgregor's insights into the far-reaching consequences of this purported loss. Thanks to @cyrusjanssen #israel

Regular Republicans do not seem interested enough, so why not drill down to try to mine the extremists? When asked about Israel, its genocide, and US funding for decades of its war crimes, Ramaswamy gives a simplistic answer. He'll just not give them any more money and let them do whatever they want. Ignoring is the best deterrent, apparently. Israeli PM and early Jewish war criminal David Ben-Gurion made no bones about Israel's plans for war crimes and genocide to displace and dispossess the people of Palestine and strip them of their land or lives.

• IfNotNowMovement.org
• JewishVoiceforPeace.org
• VeteransForPeace.org
• Code Pink: Women for Peace

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World's quietest room less than zero decibels

Ryan Trahan (YT); BBC Future; Microsoft; Kelly Ani, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I survived the world's quietest room (-9 decibels)

(Ryan Trahan) 21,843,300 views. Oct. 18, 2021. What is the world's quietest room? It used to be this one, but they recently made a quieter one. It's time to defeat Dr. Phil to get him to adopt me. Lots of crazy things go through a person's head in a peaceful environment.

• The quietest place in the world (WIRED)
• Earth’s quietest place will drive one crazy in 45 minutes (Smithsonian Magazine)

Inside the quietest place on earth

Richard Gray (BBC Future, May 28, 2017) edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Testing headphones inside the chamber (wiki)

Microsoft has built a chamber so quiet that one can hear the grind of one's own bones – and it’s helping to fine-tune the next-generation of electronic goods.

If LeSalle Munroe stands still for a few moments in his “office,” something unsettling can happen: He can hear the blood rushing around his body and his eyes squelch as they move in his skull.

While many people work in places filled with the tip-tap of keyboards, the hubbub of chatter from colleagues, and a constant hum of computers, Munroe is surrounded by almost total silence.

His office is the quietest place on the planet. [There might be quieter places in the planet, deep in caves and caverns, or those isolation chambers in Altered States.]

Isolation chambers alter states

The specially constructed chamber is hidden in the depths of Building 87 at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where the firm’s hardware laboratories are based.

Products like the Surface computers, Xbox, and Hololens have all been developed here. Microsoft’s engineers built the room – known as an anechoic chamber – to help them test new equipment.

That includes sound muffling equipment that in 2015 set the official world record for silence when the background noise level inside was measured at an ear-straining -20.6 decibels. [Google has gotten it even lower. By comparison, a library is about 40 decibels, more than 60 decibels louder.] More

If only they were meditators, they could last longer

Yes, yes, more silence!

Imagine a Zen monk, a forest dwelling Theravada Buddhist wandering ascetic (an original shaman or shramana), lost in his or her object of meditation, fully absorbed (jhana-fied) in the bliss of stillness. With that as one's goal or abode, hours in an anechoic chamber could be bliss. That would be the place to get tested, the way UCLA has MARC or its Mindful Awareness Research Center to test people in Buddhist meditative states.

"Women Talking" (PG13)

 

Women Talking (PG13 • 1 hour 45 mins) Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, Women Talking follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony [think Amish, Mennonite, or Mormon] as they struggle to reconcile their [Germanic Christian Puritanical] faith with a series of sexual assaults [rape, child molestation, forced impregnation] committed by the colony's men.

 

Now playing at: Landmark Theatres, Pasadena, Los Angeles County. Genre: Drama. Director: Sarah Polley. Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley.

• landmarktheatres.com (trailer)
  

Alan Watts on "YOGA" (Buddhist Radio)

Alan Watts, Sunday, Sept. 4, 8:00 am (kpfk); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Pacifica Free Speech Radio Archives: ALAN WATTS on KPFK.org 90.7 FM

(Jofy/YouTube) What is Intellectual Yoga (jnana yoga) on the various paths to union, like Christian devotion (bhakti), karma ("action"), royal or integral (raja or kundalini), chanting (mantra), etc.

Go to "Alan Watts on Sunday, September 4, 2022, at 8:00 AM" in archives.kpfk.org

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ABOUT: "Buddhist Radio" is our name for programmer Roy of Hollywood Tuckman's show Something's Happening when, on Thursdays at midnight and Sundays at 8:00 am, it becomes Buddhist-centric, featuring British-Californian Alan Watts and other luminaries like Los Angeleno Shinzen Young, Pema Chodron, Tami Simon (Sounds True) interviews, and other great overnight listening. Tune in to Pacifica Free Speech Radio, Los Angeles (KPFK.org 90.7 FM).

Second historic solo trek across Antarctica

Associated Press (ap.org, Dec. 27, 2018); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

A British adventurer was close to becoming the second person to traverse Antarctica completely unassisted just a few days after an American became the first to conquer the feat, which was previously said to be impossible.

Louis Rudd's expedition blog on Thursday showed that the 49-year-old has only has about 50 miles (80 kms) left on the journey across the continent and is expected to finish Saturday. If Rudd — a Hereford, England, resident and captain in the British Army — completes the journey, he'll become the second man to do so after Colin O'Brady of Portland, Oregon, became the first on Wednesday.

Empire Beneath the Ice (Quayle)

The more than 900-mile (1448-km) trek took O'Brady 54 days. O'Brady and Rudd were competing to become the first to travel across Antarctica without getting new supplies or help from the wind. O'Brady won after he covered the last roughly 80 miles (129 kms) in one big, impromptu final push to the finish line that took well over an entire day.

"While the last 32 hours were some of the most challenging hours of my life, they have quite honestly been some of the best moments I have ever experienced," O'Brady posted on Instagram, where he has been documenting the arduous journey.

Rudd congratulated O'Brady on his blog late Wednesday. "I've just heard that the American Colin's finished," he wrote. "Fantastic, well done to him. He'd pushed really hard all the way across and done extremely well, so congratulations to him." Rudd wrote... More

Isolation (What is bordeom?) Mind Field (Ep. 1)

Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Vsauce, "Mind Field" (Google, Inc.'s YouTube Red, its new paid channel); The Thinning (YouTube Red)

YouTube, a subsidiary of Google Corp., is trying to charge money to watch. But how can it if we're all used to using it for free? It wanted to impose fees but would lose tens of millions of viewers it if did.

Rage Against the Machine...symbolically.

So Google Corp. -- itself a subsidiary of the Alphabet Agencies that give it power, funding, protection, access, and get from it all the help they (CIA, NSA, FBI, NSC, DHS, etc.) want with their domestic and international spying, social control, consent manufacturing, and investigations.

Yes, my pretties.

So the G-men decided to do the more American thing: entice us to want to pay to watch. Introducing "YouTube Red," paid access programming. This is CIA-assisted capitalism, which creates its own funding streams so as not to have to answer to Congress or the government for it secret activities.

FULL MOVIE: The Thinning, featuring Peyton List and Logan Paul, before YouTube starts charging for the privilege. Beware not to get addicted to the service.

The Thinning ft. Peyton List

This kind of capitalism charges us to be spied on and socially controlled. It's no longer enough to carry your iPhone like a "wire" spying on all your friends, relatives, secret meetings (with everyone packing a phone), innermost thoughts, and whereabouts to provide more data points for our own personalized government algorithm, which makes us more predictable and less trouble.

 

YouTube itself wants to warn us of what's happening, but it can't come right out and say so. So it created this YouTube Red teen thriller, The Thinning (wiki), following the massive success of The Hunger Games featuring Jennifer Lawrence and The Divergent Series featuring Shailene Woodley.

• Alternatives to YouTube? Vimeo, DailyMotion
• How to fet YouTube Red for FREE (forever)

What the war needs now...is a wall (Trump)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Mapcherson, Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; AP; SCPR, PRI

There is already a large, long border partition along parts of southern United States (AP)

SAN DIEGO, California - As Trump announced his plans for a wall on US-Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California on the lookout for drugs and smugglers drove all-terrain vehicles along a barrier that reaches 18 feet, topped by razor wire and reinforced by cameras and lighting (AP).

I want us to restart our torture, too (AP).

What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little of. But what Trump, sweet Trump, wants to dump dump dump along the border is a big f.u. to the US war on its enemies, the world.

Our dummy-in-chief is not the first president to embark on an aggressive buildup on the border. Here's a look at what is already there: 

SEMI-FORTIFIED BORDER

Drought ends, but water prices to stay high.

One-third of the U.S.-Mexico border, or 653 miles, is already studded with fence in a potpourri of styles, from menacing barriers to less formidable ones. The Ancient Chinese would be proud.

The barriers arose from pseudo-Pres. George W. Bush's "Secure Fence Act," which was passed quietly in the last year of his administration. You don't need to know what the "Patriot Act" actually says, so what do you need to know the full plan of taking over the U.S. from the inside out?

Let's make war on the world

Kahlo would dislike this war.

Mexicans shopped at an outlet mall that bumps up against the border. And dozens of migrants huddled in tents outside a shelter in Mexico hoping to get into the U.S. To them Trump's executive order Wednesday to build a wall seemed more like a symbolic gesture of a new chapter in U.S-Mexico relations than a real deterrent for people to enter the country without dealing with U.S. bureaucracy. More

A look at border security, fencing as Trump announces wall

HOUSTON, Texas - Trump announced his long-awaited plan today to build a "wall" on the 1,954-mile U.S. border with Mexico, calling for its "immediate construction" to stop illegal immigration, drug and human trafficking, and potential future acts of "terrorism." More

 

Trump has created Orwellian reality: read 1984 and Animal Farm to see why (pri.org).

Unpopular President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico says NO to Pres. Don Trump (AP)xxx

The easiest way to cross the US-Mexico border is to wade out a little at the beach (AP).

Don Trump orders a border "wall" because our fence is just not good enough (KPCC)

The Federalis, US Border Patrol cowboys on the hunt for trespassers on white man's land

Latin Border Patrol agent Olmos at secondary fence separating Tijuana, background, and US

We didn't cross "the border." The Border Crossed Us (vagabondpress.net)

The border dividing Mexico into Mexico and the US or El Norte and El Sur (AP)

• Real Donald Trump to increase deportation, but will he make records public? 
• Trump's plan to build a bigger border wall has plenty of critics
• Trump's wall met with skepticism, unease on US-Mexico border
• Scientist plan march on Washington due to Trump
• Juggalos (Insane Clown Posse fans) plan march on Washington 
• Mexican president cancels trip to US to meet Trump (Trump tries to pretend it was his idea)
• What the Mexico City rule means to women around the world
• Why does everyone hate Trump (except racists who hate being called racists)? 
• VIDEO: Kellyanne Conway, Koch Brothers' failed comedienne

1. Trump orders US-Mexico border wall, strips sanctuary city funding
2. How LA's multi-heritage kids navigate their identity
3. There are 63,000 homeless children in school in LA County
4. She turned the world on with her smile: Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80
5. LA affordable housing incentive program isn't working, audit finds
6. California's freeze on Aliso gas field use shatters in the cold
7. Who gets the drug Truvada? Study finds CDC guidelines miss HIV risk factors
8. 185-foot tower near Beverly Center gets council approval
9. UC president expected at Regents meeting after health scare
10. Medical debt named top reason collection agencies call

Water protectors weigh whether to fight or give up on Mother Earth

Water protectors stop ETP and police (rt.com)

CANNON BALL, North Dakota - Most of the peaceful demonstrators who gathered on the North Dakota plains to oppose the Dakota Access oil pipeline declared victory and departed their snowy protest camp last month after the Army announced it would halt the project, says the AP. But diehards knowing the corporation, the police, and the government are lying remained behind as "water protectors." Trump recent statements proves they were right to doubt the powers that be would choose the people and the environment over their profits and power grab. More biased reportage from the AP

(MSNBC) The Rachel Maddow gleeful on The Rachel Maddow Show