How Cambodian Minnesotans built one of North America's largest Buddhist temples
(WCCO - CBS Minnesota) May 7, 2025: Cambodian refugees came to Minnesota in the early 1980s. Today, the town of Hampton, about 35 miles southeast of Minneapolis, is home to Watt Munisotaram — one of the largest Buddhist temples in North America. Watch the full special: cbsloc.al/432xqDL. Learn more: cbsloc.al/44WsmmL.
(WCCO - CBS Minnesota) Aug. 26, 2018: In this week's Finding Minnesota, we traveled to Hampton and found out why this Theravada Buddhist temple has become a destination for all kinds of Buddhists and non-Buddhist visitors. John Lauritsen reports (3:40). WCCO 4 News At 10 – Aug. 26, 2018
Bibi Netanyahu is really Benny Milekowsky from Philadelphia, raised in the USA and groomed by the CIA to assume the post of prime minister of Israel and do those things most favorable to the West with its money, weapons, and diplomatic support. His father was Ben Milekowsky, a professor at Cornell (Cornell Chronicle).
Israel bulldozes, shells humans and hospital: Kamal Adwan was only hospital in northern Gaza
(Al Jazeera English) Dec. 16, 2023: Days of intensive Israeli bombardment of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza have left it barely functional. It was the only working hospital in the North of Gaza…and one of only 11 still open in the country occupied territory. Al Jazeera's Tareq Abou Azzoum reports from Rafah. #KamalAdwan#GazaEmergency#GazaHealthSystem
Ness Ve Stilla isNessya Levi and Dor Soroker, two novice musicians just starting their careers. Their racist song is an angry rap tune that many young Jewish Israelis are embracing, according to mainstream media spin in the West. It has nearly eight million views on YouTube and millions more on Spotify, with several remixes.
It has topped all the Israeli charts and looks set for the top spot in the year-end music polls voted on by radio listeners [or manipulated by the powers that be in this police state]. “Harbu Darbu” (or "Harbo Darbo") is the mockery of an Arabic war cry from Syria that has crossed over into Hebrew slang.
Israeli dissidents expose Zionist
Israel's intent of GENOCIDE
Genocide is hard to prove because one must show intent: Israel's own words
The song is a departure from the apolitical or mournful songs that Israeli music lovers have been turning to since it launched its war on October 7, when Hamas retaliated after years of Israeli oppression, killing perhaps 1,000 Israelis [a number constantly being downgraded from early exaggerations to stir up Jewish sentiments for revenge, war, and crimes against humanity against Gazans], despite government number exaggeration and atrocity propaganda about what went on that day.
Hey, man, turn up the rap as we depopulate Gaza!
Captives were taken that Israel was happy to kill in accordance with its Hannibal Doctrine, which entitles that military to murder anyone taken hostage to spare the state of Israel grief having to work out their release by releasing Palestinian hostages it takes by the thousands, including and imprisoning and torturing Arab children. The attack resulted in the deaths of youngish Israeli militants and IDF veterans. Over 350 of them took place at the Nova Music Festival, where Israel retaliated with indiscriminate fire and hellfire missile attacks, charring many Jewish Israelis so badly they could not readily be identified as friendly fire victims, thus pumping up the Oct. 7 numbers.
Nearly all the attendees and staff were in their 20s and 30s, many of them armed and on active duty, and a new generation of racist Israelis is being thrown into a fight to die for Israel's settler colonial project of committing genocide or ethnic cleansing of all of Palestine, one or the other.
Related video: Israel-Hamas war | Israeli media: IDF dismissed warnings that Oct 7 music festival was going to be attacked (WION), but Netanyahu's government says it only knew about Hamas' attack on the Supernova Music Festival as an exercise
We will exterminate them, IDF spokesperson
Pro- “war songs give a feeling of togetherness and solidarity [like this genocide is being done by all of us for all of us, rather than just the older generation doing all the killing, occupation, and oppression],” noted Wachs.
Israeli Army operates by Hannibal Doctrine that states Israel will kill Jews taken hostage or that could be taken hostage so that they cannot be used to put pressure on Israel: Better dead than red
(10 Tampa Bay) Dec. 16, 2023: Three Israeli hostages who were "mistakenly" [or purposely executed in accordance with Israel's stated aim of following the Hannibal Doctrine to kill Israeli Jews taken hostage] shot by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip had been waving a white flag and were shirtless when they were murdered, a military official said Saturday, in Israel's first such acknowledgement of harming any Jewish "hostages" in its war on Palestinians, claiming they are all Hamas (or "ISIS" as Israel likes to say).
Anger over the mistaken killings is likely to increase pressure on the Israeli government to renew Qatar-mediated ceasefire negotiations with Hamas over swapping more of the remaining captives, believed to number more than 130, for Palestinians Israel has arrested and imprisoned in Israel as pawns for just such swaps.
Hamas has conditioned further captive releases on Israel halting its genocidal air campaign and ground assault on Gaza, while Israeli leaders have said the hostages' release can only be achieved by more killing of civilians [aka "collateral damage" or they're all Hamas anyways so who cares if we kill them] through military pressure.
The account of how the hostages died raised questions about the conduct of Israeli ground troops. Palestinians on several occasions have reported that Israeli soldiers opened fire as civilians tried to flee to safety. Hamas has claimed other captives were previously killed by Israeli "friendly fire" or precision targeted airstrikes, without presenting enough evidence [because how does one convict Israel of anything when there's no international court where the US is not providing diplomatic cover for Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, atrocities, or illegal acts?] for the mainstream media to find such claims credible. More(wtsp.com)
Wait, Hamas is human? We were told they were rabid "Jew haters," yet here this Jewish girl says "Thank you" (Shukran) to an Al Qassam Brigades fighter, her captor, upon her release. Look at the sweetness in her eyes and this kindness of his goodbye to girl and the revered Jewish elder accompanying her. Wait, are Hamas good Muslims caught up in a war Israel started by invading, occupying, then attempting to steal all the land while carrying out apartheid and state oppression? It's starting to make sense.
A brave Muslim woman describes the ugly truth to the whole world
(Samira Mahboub) She really expresses the unbelievable situation Palestinians find themselves in under Israeli Zionist Jewish oppression in Gaza, the West Bank, parts of Jerusalem, and refugee camps in neighboring countries. Poetry is one of the most esteemed arts in Islamic culture [particularly in the Sufi or mystical form of Islam, which produced the great Rumi]. Humanity has failed, but at least I tried.
'Shukran': Israeli hostage thanks Al Qassam Brigades; kind Gaza militants say 'goodbye' to freed captives
(Hindustan Times) Nov. 26, 2023: Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades has released the video of second batch of hostages who were handed over to Red Cross last night In Gaza near Rafah Crossing with Egypt. The captives are seen thanking the militants who reciprocate with 'Goodbye'. A total of 13 Israeli nationals and four Thai citizens were released by the militants from Gaza. Watch the video for more. #abuobaida#alqassambrigades#gazastrip
Abby Martin, The Empire Files, TeleSUR, 10/6/16; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Empire Files: Inside Palestine’s refugee camps
(TeleSUR English)
TeleSUR is funded in whole or in part by multiple Latin American governments. In her first on-the-ground report from Palestine, Abby Martin gives a first-hand look into two of the most attacked refugee camps in the West Bank: Balata and Aida camps.
With millions of displaced Palestinians around the world, hundreds of thousands are refugees in their own country — many have lived packed into these refugee camps after being ethnically cleansed from their villages just miles away.
Watch the introduction to The Empire Files coverage from Palestine, "How Palestine Became Colonized," here: bit.ly/2cBOdST
(Novara Media)
Oct. 31, 2023: Michael Walker reveals Israel's plan for genocide spoken in explicit terms by current Prime Minister of Israel Ben Netanyahu, a corrupt, American educated, CIA-groomed leader,
Been there. Done that. What did we learn?
Bibi Netanyahu in the midst of a legal trial on corruption charges (now placed on the back burner because he "declared war" on an ideology and political party, a war that he says will not end until that ideology and movement is completely exterminated along with all the nonhumans who support it or are suspected of supporting it).
While Netanyahu is making these vulgar promises to commit war crimes, biblical atrocities, and crimes against humanity, he is not doing so in English. He is speaking to Israelis of Israel in a foreign language so that the world press will have greater difficulty quoting him and dragging him to the Hague for a Nuremberg style tribunal to answer for his crimes against humanity.
Pacifist, peaceful and even moderate Jews do not support him, often congregating in large protests over Warlord Netanyahu and his country's extensive US-backed military. But that makes no apparent difference to the CIA, Mossad, Pentagon, Biden administration, or other Western governments engaged in the arms trade. Russia and China are calling for peace, but the U.S. and Israel block such calls in the U.S.-puppet organization U.N. (United Nations) and N.A.T.O.
Who will step in to stop the madness? The God of the Bible? No bl**dy likely, according to Bible quoting Jews who speak of an Old Testament figure named Amalek.
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Jews are welcome to live in peace as in the past
but not to takeover and claim it as all their own.
Roger "Pink" Waters, Mark Seddon; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
#43 "Hey, Israel, leave those kids alone!" live with Roger Waters
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palestinedeepdive.com. Let's go live on YouTube with legendary rock musician, songwriter, and founder of Pink Floyd Roger Waters.
He revolutionized progressive rock music as the founder-member and the creative force behind Pink Floyd who today continues to sell out the biggest venues across the world.
Read the Balfour Declaration: It protects the indigenous Palestinian Arabs, Bedouins, and others present in the land of Palestine (future state of Israel)
His arena tour of the U.S., "This Is Not A Drill," kicked off in July of 2022. It is described by Waters as “a groundbreaking new rock 'n roll/cinematic extravaganza...” which is a "stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive, and a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious and precarious planet home."
It is also no exaggeration to describe Wasters as a human rights warrior, who continues to champion the rights of marginalized peoples across the world, from Palestine to Ecuador.
Mark Seddon is in conversation with Waters, discussing Israel's ongoing assault on innocent Palestinian children [who are guilty of being Arab and existing], as well as the latest news from the region.
They also explore what is being done to challenge Israel's apartheid and settler colonialism around the world today, looking towards the growing Free Palestine student movement, the UK Labour Party conference hall, the ongoing occupation of Israeli weapons factories, and towards the stands and players of elite football bearing the Palestinian flag.
(BreakThrough News) "[Israel's] occupation is against human nature. It flies in the face of what it is to be human."
Breakthrough's Kei Pritsker speaks with Abby Martin (The Empire Files) about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the siege of the Gaza Strip, and other aspects of Israel's criminal occupation of Palestine.
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Millions of refugees seek one thing we all take for granted: a home.
While many of us are aware of the plight of the refugees, there has been very little focus on what can be done to help.
[What can YOU do? I don't know!] What you do know is that you #CantDoNothing. Choose to share your voice, money, or time to make a massive change in the world.
Step 1: Take a photo with your #CantDoNothing sign or film a video to share how you are choosing to help.
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(DOAM: Documenting Oppression Against Muslims)Greek Coast Guard deliberately sinking refugee boats: A Coast Guard vessel sank an inflatable boat full of refugees,
including women and children, that was trying to reach safety by landing on the Greek islands in the
Aegean Sea, video footage released by a Turkish Coast Guard officer
shows. Turkish security sources say the Greek Coast Guard
punctured the inflatable rubber dinghy with some sort of “lance.” The Turkish Coast Guard unit rescued 58 refugees and took them back to Didim Port.
Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa -- the Tibetan Buddhist Temple at 740 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City -- will continue its annual Prayers for Compassion through Sunday at 2:00 p.m., according to the Salt Lake City Tribune. Participants can engage in continuous recitation of prayers and mantras. Individuals can join in anytime during the day or night.
Feast day
Holy Apostles Orthodox Church, 280 W. Center St., Orem, will celebrate its parish feast day with a potluck after the 10 a.m. liturgy serviceSaturday. The next reader service will be Sunday at 10 a.m.
Dalai Lama’s birthday
The Utah Tibetan Association will mark the Dalai Lama’s 76th birthday on Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Indian Walk-in Center, 120 W. 1300 South, Salt Lake City.
Rumi Poetry
The Rumi Poetry Club will present "The Empty Flute," a series of talks on [Sufi] Rumi’s poetic vision and life philosophy, Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City.
A group of nine countries, led by the US have offered a solution to tragedy: resettlement in third countries for ethnically-Nepalese Bhutanese held in refugee camps in Nepal. The countries are the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, the UK, and Sweden. A total of 45,686 [Bhutanese] people have been resettled in the US and other countries until the end of May this year. “The Bhutanese people and the government are extremely grateful to the host countries for having offered a choice to the unfortunate inhabitants of the camps,” said Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley...
(Christopher Hitchens) JOSEPH LELYVELD SUBTLY tips his hand in his title. The word Mahatma is not Mohandas' first name, but an honorific Sanskrit title meaning “Great Soul.” It achieved currency in the West by association with Madame Blavatsky’s somewhat risible “Theosophy” movement, forerunner of many American and European tendencies to be found in writers, as discrepant as Annie Besant and T. S. Eliot, who nurture themselves on the supposedly holy character of the subcontinent.
China Intensifies Resettlement of Tibetan Nomads Michael Lipin, Washington (VOA, Aug. 28, 2009)
The Chinese government announced this week that it has moved about 50,000 Tibetan nomads out of a nature reserve in the west of the country as part of a resettlement program that began in 2005. Beijing says the program is meant to protect the ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. But Tibetan activists accuse the Chinese government of destroying an ancient nomadic culture that treats the environment with respect. More>>
Nomad village settlement in Darlag County, Golok Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China (VOA/File).
As refugees depart for US, camps in Nepal foster new resistance
Don Duncan, GlobalPost School children (above) in the last "Himalayan Buddhist kingdom" (WFP); Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal (boiseweekly.com); King Wangchuck of Bhutan passes throne.
BHUTAN — The impressive necklace of cliff-perched fortresses that dot this Himalayan nation's mountainous perimeter are a testimony to Bhutan's long-standing effort to keep out foreigners. In the 1980s, however, the tiny Buddhist kingdom of just 600,000 sandwiched between the People's Republic of China and India, found itself with what it considered to be a foreigner problem.
Bhutan's minority population of ethnic Nepalese had mush-roomed to represent one-third of the population, causing then-King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (left, seen crowning his son) to start a "one nation, one people" policy to deport and strip many of their Bhutanese citizenship.
The campaign ended with the expulsion of about 105,000 Nepalese through beatings, torture, and murder committed by the Royal Bhutan Army that lasted until the early 1990s, human rights groups and deportees say.
"We left because we were scared that they would imprison us, that they would beat us, that I would be raped," said Matimya Moktan, 41, who arrived in Nepal in 1991 and now lives in a small mud stick hut with her three children and husband in one of seven refugee camps in eastern Nepal. More>>
Bhutanese refugees Yamuna Gajmer, left, and her sister, Barsika, will perform at the 2nd Annual Tucson World Refugee Fest 6/20/09 (A.E. Araiza/Arizona Daily Star).
TUCSON, Arizona -- Sisters Yamuna and Barsika Gajmer are Bhutanese of Nepali descent, who along with their parents and older brother, were forced to live in a refugee camp in Nepal for 18 years.
The government of the Hima-layan Buddhist kingdom of Bhu-tan forced the Gajmer family, among some 133,000 refugees, into seven refugee camps in Nepal since the 1990s that are administered by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. They lived in bamboo huts in a tropical lowland region in the country couched between India and China.
They were forced into exile, their rights eroded, in an ethnic-cleansing by the government in an effort to create "one nation, one people," according to the story "Bhutanese Refugees: The Story of a Forgotten People" (bhutaneserefugees.com).
The sisters, their parents, Lal and Man Kumari Gajmer, and their brother, Hem Gajmer, resettled in Tucson two weeks ago with the aid of the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit organization that is among...More>>
Area controlled by Tamil Tiger separatist rebels in northern Sri Lanka. Separatists have just a few hours left to surrender by a government deadline, as tens of thousands of civilians flee from the sliver of jungle the guerrillas still control (AFP/Graphic).
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Tens of thousands of civilians trapped in Sri Lanka's northern war zone face a "catastrophic" situation, the Red Cross said today, amid fears a final assault against the Tamil Tiger rebels would lead to a dramatic rise in casualties.
The U.N. and others have called for a negotiated truce to allow civilians to leave the rebel-held coastal strip — and the government says more than 52,000 had escaped since yesterday. But it has refused to heed those international pleas to halt the fighting, saying it is on the verge of crushing the separatists and putting an end to the 25-year-old war.
The United Nations estimated more than 4,500 civilians have been killed in the past three months. The separatists said more than 1,000 civilians died Monday in a government raid, while the government said it rescued thousands after they broke through a barrier built by the insurgents that protects their last stronghold.
Human rights groups say the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are holding many people in the enclave against their will and using them as human shields. Those groups have also accused the government of indiscriminate shelling in the region. Both sides deny the allegations.
Thousands of civilians also fled in packed small boats, and they were picked up by navy patrols and transported to camps where Tamils who have escaped the war are being held. More than 2,000 people in about 100 boats were picked up Monday.
The Red Cross said about 50,000 civilians were still stranded, while Human Rights Watch put the number between 50,000 and 100,000.
A worker for Doctors Without Borders said hundreds of wounded were arriving at her hospital in Vavuniya, south of the war zone, in government-arranged buses, and some had died en route. The hospital is overcrowded with 1,200 people being accommodated in a facility with only 400 beds, said mental health officer Karen Stewart, according to a statement from the aid group.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres was concerned about the "dramatic situation" for civilians still in the war zone, said commission spokesman Ron Redmond.
"There are innocent civilians — women and children — caught in the middle of the conflict...so the high commissioner is saying there should be a pause in the hostilities and the LTTE should allow civilians to leave," Redmond said. More>>
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(WCCO - CBS Minnesota) Aug. 26, 2018: In this week's Finding Minnesota, we traveled to Hampton and found out why this Theravada Buddhist temple has become a destination for all kinds of Buddhists and non-Buddhist visitors. John Lauritsen reports (3:40). WCCO 4 News At 10 – Aug. 26, 2018
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A group of nine countries, led by the US have offered a solution to tragedy: resettlement in third countries for ethnically-Nepalese Bhutanese held in refugee camps in Nepal. The countries are the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, the UK, and Sweden. A total of 45,686 [Bhutanese] people have been resettled in the US and other countries until the end of May this year. “The Bhutanese people and the government are extremely grateful to the host countries for having offered a choice to the unfortunate inhabitants of the camps,” said Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley...
The Chinese government announced this week that it has moved about 50,000 Tibetan nomads out of a nature reserve in the west of the country as part of a resettlement program that began in 2005. Beijing says the program is meant to protect the ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. But Tibetan activists accuse the Chinese government of destroying an ancient nomadic culture that treats the environment with respect. More>>
Nomad village settlement in Darlag County, Golok Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China (VOA/File).
Bhutan's minority population of ethnic Nepalese had mush-roomed to represent one-third of the population, causing then-King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (left, seen crowning his son) to start a "one nation, one people" policy to deport and strip many of their Bhutanese citizenship. 
The government of the Hima-layan Buddhist kingdom of Bhu-tan forced the Gajmer family, among some 133,000 refugees, into seven refugee camps in Nepal since the 1990s that are administered by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. They lived in bamboo huts in a tropical lowland region in the country couched between India and China. 
