Hidden along the Taldy River in Central Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region, this monument, known as the Pyramid of Karazhartas(Begazy Dandybai Mausolea)sheds light on a civilization that once thrived in the Late Bronze Age.
The Begazy-Dandibay culture, which built this structure, flourished in central Kazakhstan during this period.
These semi-sedentary people mastered metallurgy and relied on animal husbandry. Their ability to trade metals across Eurasia fueled economic prosperity and gave rise to a powerful aristocratic class.
Historians and archeologists leading the excavation believe the pyramid was a mausoleum for one of these elite figures.
I've got dementia and I'm old (80). I don't care what I say or do, I just have to stay out of jail.
Pres. Don John Trump's German dad, Fred Trunf, participated in a Nazi rally and white supremacist racist parade on the streets of New York, possibly ending up at Madison Square Garden. In any case, we know this because Father Trump was arrested for his racist outpouring of hate, which he taught his son, almost as if Hitler had had a father.
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In 1927, Don Trump's father Fred Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan meeting and demonstration. There is no conclusive proof, other than he presence there and arrest, that he supported all of the organization's goals [b, c].
From WW II onwards, to avoid further associations with Nazism, Fred Trump denied his German ancestry (and Nazi sympathies), even supporting Jewish causes [d, e, f], at least the white Ashkenazi/European Jewish kind since many of those kinds of Jews were German.
(See also: Trump family)
Early life and career
Fred Trump (far left) with his German Trunf family, circa 1915
The Germanic American Friedrich Trunf Trump, amassed considerable wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush by running a brothel (house of prostitution) and eatery for miners trying to get rich quick.
Friedrich returned to Kallstadtin 1901 and, by the next year, met and married Lizzy Christ [17]. They moved to NYC, where their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1904 [18]. Later that year, the family returned to Kallstadt [19]. Fred was conceived in Bavaria, where his parents wished to re-establish residency, but Friedrich was banished for dodging the draft [20, 19].
The family returned to New York on July 1, 1905, and moved to the Bronx, where [Donald Trump's father] Frederick Christ Trump was born on October 11 [21]. Fred's younger brother, John G. Trump, was born in 1907.
All three children were raised speaking German [22] with severe German discipline. In September 1908, the family moved to Woodhaven, Queens [23].
Many details of Trump's childhood come from autobiographical accounts and emphasize independence, learning, and especially hard work – to the point of being fictional [24][g].
At the age of 10, Trump worked as a delivery boy for a butcher [27]. About two years later, on Memorial Day, his German father died in the 1918 flu pandemic [28]. More
"This was a hate rally." AOC Responds on Morning Joe
(Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) Oct. 28, 2024: AOC: "This was a hate rally. This was not just a presidential rally. This was also not just a campaign rally. These are mini-January 6th rallies, these are mini-Stop the Steal rallies."
Trump's Madison Square Garden rally featured crude and racist insults
Meanwhile, JD Vance was helping the campaign by battling ferocious Jake Tapper, attack mannequin
(WHAS11)
Oct. 27, 2024: Speakers labeled Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and called Democratic Vice Pres. Kamala H. “the devil." Story: whas11.com/article...
Dori has the best sense of humor, racy and unassuming. Where did she get it from, watching old American television? Enter Paul Lynde and his affectations -- made famous in perpetuity by Seth MacFarlane's Roger the alien on "American Dad." He was once the US's risque go to man on daytime TV. He was not alone. Comic actors were expected to use their chops of skirting the censors and making the country laugh.
These great quips to questions make us wonder what has happened to American humor. The very tame "Hollywood Squares" game show really was a bunch of squares from Hollywood pushing the envelope with spontaneous rather than scripted responses. "We don't stop laughing because we grow old," it is said. Rather, "we grow old because we stop laughing.
Q: Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A: Paul Lynde: Loneliness.
(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show).
Q: Do female frogs croak?
A: Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q: If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A: Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q: True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years...
A: George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q: You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A: Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.
Q: According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A: Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.
Q: Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A: Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.
Q: What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?
A: George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.
Peter Marshall asks the questions in nearly two hours of "Hollywood Squares."
Q: As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A: Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question, Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.
Q: Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A: Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q: Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A: Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.
Q: In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A: Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.
Q: During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A: Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.
Q: Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A: Marty Allen: Only after lights out.
Q: When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A: Paul Lynde: Make him bark?
Q: If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A: Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.
Q: According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A: Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.
Q: Back in the old days, when great grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A: George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.
Q: Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A: Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?
Q: Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A: Charley Weaver: His feet.
Q: According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A: Paul Lynde: Point and laugh.
CAIRO, Egypt - Tahrir Square fell strangely silent on Monday as thousands of Egyptians across Cairo went to the polls. Pockets of resistance stood out in the square, but they were in their dozens rather than hundreds and nothing like the scale of recent weeks. A few protestors kept up chants, while others sat atop lamp posts and railings looking forlorn. Stewards continued to frisk and check IDs of those entering Tahrir, but the energy of the protest hub -- palpable from blocks away even in last night’s rain -- had certainly waned.
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Egyptian soldiers and police are brutally beating protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Unarmed protesters withstood beatings and battling with heavily armed military forces firing live rounds, buckshot, rubber projectiles, and a seemingly endless supply of crippling tear gas.
After protester demands for a more rapid transition to civilian rule were not met, the new liberation governing authority turned into an oppressive. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss," as it were. Protests against the military government have entered a third bloody day. Many of the same protesters who pushed former Pres. Hosni Mubarak from power now seek to rid themselves of new military dictatorial rule as well.
After right view and right intention, which concern wisdom, the next three factors in the Noble Eightfold Path are right speech, right action, and right livelihood -- all of which concern moral discipline.
In his text about the Noble Eightfold Path, [American Buddhist scholar-monk] Bhikkhu Bodhi points out that this “morality” is not so much “Thou shalt not...” as it is a mental purification we undertake.
Instead of uttering harmful words, we should keep [nobly] silent. When we speak, we speak to help others. We speak to spread happiness. We speak to comfort. We speak kindly.
Buddhism, with its nontheistic framework, grounds its ethics not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.
Being mindful about the words we say becomes a practice that benefits others -- as well as keeping one out of trouble.
Bhikkhu Bodhi further points out that right speech has two sides -- avoidance and performance. So while we work to avoid false speech, at the same time we are also working to perform correct speech.
What is “correct”? Here Bhikkhu Bodhi uses the familiar English word wholesome. The Buddhist use of this word steers clear of a moral judgment in favor of emphasizing something that is healthy, not sick.
When the opposite word is used -- unwholesome -- it refers to something that will make us ill. Buddhism [recognizes many gradients exactly in accord with the heart's intention, but it often sounds] somewhat [like a] black-and-white view of good and ill: If it’s going to harm anyone, it’s probably unwholesome. And that’s sick.
The Buddha divides right speech into four components, abstaining from: false speech, slanderous [divisive] speech, harsh speech, and idle [useless] chatter.
No lying. No dividing. No cruel words. No mindless gossip. That sounds like “Thou shalt not,” doesn’t it? No, says Bhikkhu Bodhi.
He quotes the Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, stating that it’s really about being honest, being devoted to the truth, being reliable, and being worthy of confidence.
The determinative factor behind the transgression is the intention to deceive. If one speaks something false believing it to be true, there is no breach of the precept as the intention to deceive is absent. Though the deceptive intention is common to all cases of false speech, lies can appear in different guises depending on the motivating root, be it greed, hatred, or delusion.
The venerable monk goes on to explain how lies corrupt and injure the liar, and how
the commitment to truth has a significance transcending the domain of ethics and even mental purification, taking us to the domains of knowledge and being. More
Wisdom Quarterly visits Harvard University and the Cambridge Zen Center
The way to Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center is as colorful as it offerings.
We went to see the scene at the Cambridge Zen Center, where Harvard elites can gather in silence. Until the questions start and life advice is sought.
Cambridge is the penultimate college town. And Harvard Square is its epicenter. MIT geniuses walk by remembering to chew, step, chew, step -- caught up in daydreams of ultimate reality and material sciences.
Modica Way in on the path to Cambridge Zen (Kwan Um school). And its array of heady graffiti is good preparation for the blank wall one will soon be staring at in zazen: Daydreams are as vivid as the imaginations of street artists.
Ah, to be bicoastal! Flying east and west, merging cultures, and watching Woody Allen movies in between would be the best of both worlds. The Midwest is the great divide, as most of Wisdom Quarterly's American readers hail from east of the Mississippi as our editors sit staring at the Pacific from under the Hollywood sign.
The Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum provides an opportunity for faculty, students, and participants to discuss approaches to Buddhist studies that are as diverse as philology, intellectual history, anthropology, art history, literary studies, and religious studies. In addition to being interdisciplinary, lectures discuss Buddhism within a variety of geographic contexts, including South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. More
VIDEO BEIJING, China – In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in the hands of tens of thousands who vented their grief and anger.
Two starkly contrasting faces of China were on display today, the 20th anniversary of the military's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators — from Beijing's rigid control in suppressing any dissent, to freewheeling Hong Kong, which enjoys freedoms all but absent on the mainland.
Tiananmen Square was blanketed by uniformed and plainclothes security officers who were ready to silence any potential demonstration, and there were few hints that the vast plaza was the epicenter of a student-led movement that was crushed on June 3-4, 1989, shocking the world. More>>
Propaganda poster of Mao Zedong, architect of a dictatorship (themarxistleninist).
BEIJING, China (AP) – Foreign journalists were barred from Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Wednesday as an Internet clampdown that blocked Twitter expanded to include more blogs on the eve of the 20th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
In a further sign of the government's unwavering hard-line stance toward the protests, the second most-wanted student leader from 1989 said he had been denied entry to the southern Chinese territory of Macau.
Police monitoring visitors on 5/29/09 at Tiananmen Gate in front of portrait of former leader Mao Zedong. On 6/2/09, Chinese authorities rounded up dissidents and shut down Internet sharing sites in an apparent clampdown ahead of the 20th anniversary of the bloody suppression of 1989's pro-democracy protests (AP/Andy Wong).
In exile since fleeing China after the crackdown, Wu'er Kaixi traveled to Macau on Wednesday to turn himself in to authorities in a bid to return home. Immigration officers at Macau's airport pulled him aside and demanded he fly back to Taiwan.
Authorities have also shut photo-sharing site Flickr and confined dissidents to their homes or forced them to leave Beijing, as they ramped up efforts to prevent online discussions about or commemorations of those who died in the military assault on demonstrators on the night of June 3-4, 1989.
The sweeping measures have been imposed even though there were few signs of efforts to mark the protests within mainland China, where the government squelches all discussion of them. More>>
Audra Ang (AP) Iconic image, Man vs. Tan, 1989 Tianamen Square student protest.
BEIJING – Twenty years after China's military crushed dissent around Tiananmen Square, the details are still fresh in Qi Zhiyong's mind. The acrid smell of tear gas. The people run down by tanks. The dizzying pain when a bullet tore through his left leg.
The student-led protests in the heart of the Chinese capital had gone on for weeks, an extraordinary call for political freedom and an end to gov-ernment corruption. Sparked by the April 15 death of a beloved Communist Party chief deposed by hard-liners, they were mostly peaceful, even after martial law was declared on May 20.
But late on June 3, 1989, the government lost its patience. "I saw people being run over. Blood sprayed everywhere," says Qi, then a 33-year-old construction worker. "The tanks kept moving, as if the people weren't there. My hair stood on end. I was chilled to the bone." More>>
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