Dozens of delegates at the United Nations (U.N.) walked out in protest of dictator, pariah, and international war criminal Bibi Netanyahu as he denied he was committing genocide [even as he commits genocide], berating European countries for recognizing the State of Palestine, which he will not allow. He will not withdraw. He knows he has the CIA, NSC, NSA, and Trump behind him to continue his war crimes and aggressive imperialism for the future Empire of "Greater Israel." He's come a long way [down] since he was Ben Nitay, having been groomed by the CIA in the USA, where he lived in Chicago and attended MIT, as his father was a professor at Columbia, fooling the world that he was all-Israeli all-the-time:
Kehlani speaks the truth and offends local Jews, claiming to be "afraid" for their safety when they are opposed to being labeled Israeli Genocide supporters, Jewish supremacists, or sympathizers who back Jewish Dictator Bibi Netanyahu. More
Kehlani expressed solidarity with Palestine during Israel's genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza and war on Palestinian non-Jews.
In Instagram posts, they [Kehlani] voiced disapproval for celebrities who have chosen to remain silent on the matter, implying that they prioritize their personal business endeavors over addressing a pressing humanitarian crisis [88, 89].
They were a principal signer of the October 2023 open letter, Artists Against Apartheid [90, 91]. In November 2023, Kehlani signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire and an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip [92]. On May 27, 2024, Kehlani voiced their criticism on Instagram, this time directed specifically at fellow musicians for remaining silent about the Israel's war on Gaza and Palestine [93].
They further demonstrated their support for Gaza in the “Next 2 U” music video, which opens up with a poem by a Palestinian-American writer and has a Palestinian flag in the background of the entire video [70].
In April 2025, Kehlani's scheduled performance at Cornell University's annual Slope Day was canceled by university president Michael Kotlikoff over their support for Palestine. Kotlikoff claimed that Kehlani had "espoused antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments in performances, videos, and on social media."
In response, they responded on Instagram saying, "I am not antisemitic, nor anti-Jew. I am anti-genocide, I am anti the actions of the Israeli government, I am anti an extermination of an entire people, I am anti the bombing of innocent children, men, women—that’s what I’m anti" [94].
In May 2025, another scheduled Kehlani concert in New York was canceled after pressure from New York City Mayor Eric Adams citing "security concerns" [but not admitting to any undue Jewish influence]. The free concert had been scheduled to take place on June 26 at SummerStage as part of Pride events taking place in the city... More
Israeli Minister Orit Strook’s daughter accuses Jewish parents of sexually molesting her as a child
In the fog of war, eh, things happen. So what?
(Middle East Eye) April 11, 2025: This week, Shoshana Strook, the daughter of Israeli Minister of Settlements and National Missions [Mrs.] Orit Strook posted accusations on social media against her parents regarding sexual molestation against them.
Orit: It was to toughen her up to live in this world
According to Strook's daughter, her parents sexually assaulted her when she was a child, and she has now filed a complaint with the police against both of them.
The investigation has been subject to a gag order; therefore, Israeli news outlets are prohibited from publishing further details or even mentioning that the charges are against Minister Strook.
Right-wing journalists even called Strook's daughter a "complex case" and attacked those who published the molestation charges.
Minister Orit Strook, an extremist illegal occupier "settler" from the Jewish community of Hebron in the illegally occupied West Bank, Palestine, is married to Avraham Strook. The two have 11 children [which is not too many for a patriarch following biblical injunctions but is way too many for anyone else who is not expecting an apocalypse and a war in Armageddon].
We were victims, so we victimize [our kids]
More than a decade ago, their son, Zvi, was convicted of kidnapping and abusing [homosexually violating?] a Palestinian boy, who was found wounded, naked, handcuffed, and unconscious after the attack [or gay violation]. [It would be impossible and irresponsible to speculate that the boy learned such violations from his father or mother, Minister Strook and his breeder wife.]
The Cup (Tibetan ཕོར་པ། or Phörpa) is a Tibetan-language film written and directed by Khyentse Norbu in his feature directorial debut. It's about two young football-crazed Tibetan refugee novice Buddhist monks who desperately try to get a television for their remote Himalayan Buddhist monastery so they can watch the 1998 FIFA World Cup final. Though not nominated, The Cup was Bhutan's first-ever submission for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
In the Buddhist mountains of the world's most remote country, baseball takes hold
(MLB) High up in the Himalayas between Tibet and [Buddhist] India sits the small Buddhist country [former kingdom] of Bhutan.
Sometimes known as the world's last Shangri-La, this nation of snowy alpine peaks and untouched mountain streams has fewer than 700,000 people who call it home. Yet, what is perhaps the most remote country in the world is on its way to being a baseballing nation, growing from a few dozen kids playing on a concrete slab after school to more than 6,000 children who are fast becoming baseball fanatics despite few having ever seen a Major League game.
"Everything from the friendship I grew with my father to my brothers to everyone in my town growing up, it was all based around baseball," Matthew DeSantis, the co-founder and chairman of the Bhutan Baseball and Softball Association told me during a recent visit to New York.
"From a community perspective in Bhutan, it was a way for me to both be involved stronger, and also to give something back that I thought the kids would love and connect over," Matt went on to say.
Soft-spoken and thoughtful, the American was dressed in a warm brown gho -- a robe cloth that is part of the national dress, the traditional Bhutanese garb, on the day we met.
Though his trip to capitalist New York brought him close to where he grew up in nearby Wilton, Connecticut, one got the feeling that Buddhist Bhutan is where he always belonged.
Oddly enough, baseball wasn’t how DeSantis first discovered the small Himalayan country, but rather its young leader, Prince Dasho Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck, whom he met on the school basketball team while attending Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford.
(Bhutan is now a parliamentary democracy, but the royal family still holds its titles -- similar to the monarchy in England).
After DeSantis’ first three weeks in Bhutan, where he trekked through the dense and pristine southern rainforest and stayed in roadless villages, he decided to move there for good.
American Ron Teeguarden married a Bhutanese woman to access pure herbs for his tonic concoctions, which he used to sell from a tea shop in Santa Monica, California: Dragon Herbs
Bhutan used to be one of the hardest countries in the world to visit, due to severe limits on visas (and a necessary commitment to spend hundreds of US dollars a day when visiting) to keep it pristine and to limit hegemony and decadent outside influences. It's stilly pricey: MyBhutan
They had no grand design on establishing a baseball association, though: The two simply loved baseball. DeSantis learned the game back in America, while Dorji fell in love while attending the World Children's Baseball Fair in Japan. They wanted to offer it to the children who lived nearby the military barracks in Thimphu. More: mlb.com
The Sierra Club's next protest [against Phillips 66 petroleum polluting corporation and sponsor affiliated with the team] will be at the Dodgers' first home game, today, Thursday, March 27th, 2025, at 3:00 pm.
We meet for the pre-game outside Dodger Stadium on the south-east corner of Stadium Way and Vin Scully Avenue. Recommended parking: Lot 13 south of entrance on Stadium Way. All environmentalists are welcome. Wear Dodgers logos and fan gear if available. More
Trump starts the world’s dumbest trade war, doubles down on DEI, and turns on California's faucet
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Feb. 3, 2025: Punxsutawney Phil emerged and declared six more weeks of winter, Kanye West showed up on the Grammys red carpet despite not being invited, Illuminati member Will Smith was in attendance ostensibly to honor Quincy Jones (but really to remediate his destroyed reputation and that of his blank ex-wife), NBA star Luka Doncic somehow got traded to LA in maybe the most shocking move ever, Do Jo Trump is still posting about all of the water he thinks he sent Southern California, the White House is continuing to double down on his nonsensical assumption that DEI caused the tragic air crash last week in Washington, on Saturday Trump issued tariffs on Canada and Mexico before un-issuing them today, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial saying his tariffs would cause the dumbest trade war in history, and a brand new declassified files edition of Lie Witness News.
Jon on Trump’s trade war, the war on DEI, and myth of “meritocracy”
(The Daily Show) Feb. 3, 2025: Jon Stewart examines Trump's attacks on trans people, Canada, and DEI as his first presidential orders of business and asks: How is that making America great again? Plus, the Best F**kin' News Team debate on where they rank in the DEI hierarchy. #DailyShow #Comedy #JonStewart
Naked Bike Ride 2024 was covered by Allison Barr for The Oregonian/OregonLive. Even though the official ride was put on hold this year, a spin-off of theWorld Naked Bike Ride pedaled through Portland on Saturday afternoon.
The ride organizers emphasize that it’s first and foremost a protest against fossil fuel dependency.
Second, it’s a communal place to celebrate being ourselves, exactly how we are.
The “official” World Naked Bike Ride took a hiatus this year. But protesting cyclists still wanted to gather for a ride.
As one of the speakers before Saturday’s ride explained: It’s an effort to bring their qualms with Zenith Energy into the limelight. They also want to inspire others to commute via bike and celebrate body positivity.
Saturday afternoon, hundreds of bodies gathered at Colonel Summers Park in Southeast Portland around 4:00 pm. This was a change from the ride’s usual nighttime slot.
After people painted each other, danced to music blasting from multiple speakers, and delivered emotional speeches into microphones, a sea of naked and nearly-naked people on bikes headed out.
Their plan is to lie down at the Zenith Energy building in Northwest Portland for ten minutes before ending the ride at the waterfront.
As the ride organizer going by the name Spartacus said, “Give yourself permission to know it’s your body. And feel a sense of belonging to your life and your body because your body chooses clean air, clean water, clean rivers.” Source
Allison Barr, oregonlive.com, Sept. 21, 2024 (inspired by Agent Sebastian "Seabass" from The Woody Show, 12/17/24); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
(Firstpost) Nov. 4, 2024: Iran, in the fight of its life with genocidal Israel (backed by its US arms supplier) has no idea what PR means.
It has arrested a woman who stripped in protest at "abusive" hijab (burqa covering) policing after volunteer paramilitary Basij members physically harassed her for not wearing hijab properly.
Wisdom Quarterly widely followed the feminist nude protests of Femen and Pussy Riot's provocations against Russian oppression, which seem in retrospect to have been funded by the CIA/Western intelligence agencies to provoke Pres. Vlad Putin and Russia into war with NATO. Similar nude protests at the beach and on bike rides in the United States attract attention and coverage to important double standards. Large women's marches with pink knitted caps followed.
After the confrontation, the female student walked around the campus without her clothes on, in protest. Then she was manhandled and arrested, allegedly beaten up by the morality police squad.
While the woman's condition and whereabouts are currently unknown, she is being applauded on social media for her “bravery” to stand up against gendered violence and state oppression.
Meanwhile, it seems not much has changed for Iran, which was rocked by nationwide protests against the dress code after Mahsa Amini’s death in the custody of the morality police in 2022.
Iran | Protest | Hijab | Islam | Firstpost | World News | News Live | Vantage | Palki Sharma | News #iran #protests #hijab #islam #firstpost #vantageonfirstpost #palkisharma #worldnews
Palki Sharma, Vantage, Nov. 4, 2024; Men of Wisdom Quarterly, the women, not so much
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