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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

New Yeti/Bigfoot ogre footage

(Top 15s) Top 15 most convincing Bigfoot (ogre, Yakshi, Yeti, Yaksha) sightings caught on tape

Tonight is a big night for cryptozoology and Sasquatch / Bigfoot / Abominable Snowman / Yeti / Yowie / Skunk Ape / Almas / Orang Pendek research as American anthropologist Dr. Mireya Mayor, Ph.D. (who discovered the world's smallest primate and is now looking for the largest) from Expedition Bigfoot appears on Coast to Coast to discuss her primate research and discoveries (such as the world's smallest primate).
Giants/Almas/Yetis in Buddhist Central Asia

Tibetan Buddhists from Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and Russia really believe in Bigfoot

Here are our names and us talking
These creatures are varieties of Yeti, different kinds of hominid primates. They are 100% real. (Some seem to be interdimensional with uncanny superhuman powers, which makes considering them "real" problematic).

Tibetan lore describes three main varieties of Yetis:
  • the Nyalmo, which has black fur and is the largest and fiercest, standing around 15 feet tall;
  • the Chuti, which stands around 8 feet tall and lives at an altitude of 8,000-10,000 feet (2,400 and 3,000 m) above sea level; and
  • the Rang Shim Bombo, which has reddish-brown fur and is only 3-5 feet (0.91 and 1.52 m) tall [12].
Other terms used by Himalayan peoples, many of them Vajrayana (Esoteric) Buddhists, do not translate exactly the same, but refer to legendary and indigenous wildlife:
  • Michê (Tibetan མི་དྲེད་, Wylie mi dred, ZYPY Michê), which translates as "man-bear" [8, 13].
  • Dzu-teh dzu translates as "cattle" and the full meaning translates as "cattle bear," referring to the Himalayan brown bear [7][10][14][15].
  • Migoi or Mi-go (Tibetan མི་རྒོད་, Wylie mi rgod, ZYPY Migö/Mirgö) translates as "wild man" [10][15].
  • Bun Manchi – Nepali for "jungle man" that is used outside Sherpa communities where Yeti is the common name [16].
  • Mirka – another name for "wild-man."
Local legend holds that "anyone who sees one dies or is killed." The latter is taken from a written statement by Frank Smythe's Sherpas in 1937 [17].

  • Kang Admi is the "Snow Man" [15].
  • Jungli Admi is the "Wild Man" [18].
  • Xueren or Yeren (Chinese  雪人) is the "Snow Man."
Other names and locations
In Russian folklore, the Chuchuna is an entity said to dwell in Siberia. It has been described as 6-7 feet tall and covered with dark hair.

According to the native accounts from the nomadic Buddhist Yakut and Tungus tribes, it is a well-built, Neanderthal-like man wearing pelts and bearing a white patch of fur on its forearms.

It is said to occasionally consume human flesh (cannibalism because it is understood to be a kind of human, not an animal), unlike their close cousins, the Almas, Almasty, or Almastis. More: Yeti


Sasquatch clears campground + Bigfoot encounters from the Northern Cascades of Washington
(Salish Sasquatch) Nov. 29, 2024: We travel to Concrete, Washington, to speak with a man named James and his wife, Sandy. They share an encounter where a Sasquatch (Yakkha) entered a campground and cleared it out. James also shares his other encounters, including g a fantastic recall of Sasquatch stalking.

(Flash of Beauty: Paranormal Bigfoot)

New Bigfoot videos you haven’t seen! *EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE*
(Maximum Fear) Dec. 3, 2024: This is new exclusive Bigfoot videos and footage that hasn't been seen! Today we take a look at new Sasquatch (Yakkha, Yeti, Rakshasa, Yowie, Sasquatch, Bigfoot) footage and sightings coming from India, Russia, Canada, Michigan (USA), and many other places, which is very convincing evidence of humanoid bipedal primates alongside humans around the world.

From HD Sasquatch trail cam videos to Bigfoot hunting clips, there is more new material to examine. This compilation showcases the best and clearest cryptid sightings and most convincing Sasquatch (wild men, bear men, monkey men) encounters.

So grab an "I Found Bigfoot" mug and allow fear to be maximized as we recap the Top 10 best Bigfoot ogre clips of all time. Caught on Camera 2024 2nd Channel: @MoreMaximumFear NEW BIGFOOT Maximum Fear Merchandise: maximumfear.myspreadshop.com

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Saturday Night Live w/ Charli XCX


We interrupt regularly scheduled programming for this earth-shattering Congressional hearing: UFO Hearing LIVE: Pentagon's UFO report finds 21 cases that can’t be explained (US News | N18G)

(CNBC-TV18) Started streaming on Nov. 15, 2024: UNITED STATES LIVE: US Congress Holds Second Hearing on UFOs in Exposing Truth with ‘Expert Witnesses’ | NASA LIVE.

The Pentagon’s latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) but no definitive indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin.
  • [This is probably technology that is light years ahead of anything known that we probably built and forgot about, like our anti-gravitic program to use free energy and no solid fuels to move craft at near light speed but forgot to tell Popular Mechanics about it.]
The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified balloons, birds, and satellites [not to much voluminous tons of swamp gas from the Deep South and their gumbo and chili cookoffs] as well as some that defy easy explanation, such as a near-miss between a commercial airliner and a mysterious object off the coast of New York.

While it isn’t likely to settle any debates over the existence of alien life, the report reflects heightened public interest in the topic and the government’s efforts to provide some answers. Its publication comes a day after House lawmakers called for greater government transparency during a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs — the government’s term for UFOs.

Journalist Michael Shellenberger tells members of the House of Representatives the orb was "joined by another orb that briefly comes into the frame from the left before rapidly moving again out of the frame."

A video showing a "white orb" UFO coming out of the ocean off Kuwait has been found on the US Department of Defense's own network, a congressional hearing has heard. Shellenberger, the founder of the public news service, said the 13-minute-long high-definition, color video was of the "orb" 20 miles off the Kuwait coast and was filmed from a helicopter.

Giving evidence to House representatives on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), the now-preferred term for UFOs, journalist Shellenberger said he had been told of the footage by a source in recent weeks.

U.S. House Oversight Committee holds a hearing on reports of “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UFOs), with former Department of Defense, NASA and others.

The United States Congress will hold a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the topic of UFOs that some lawmakers are hopeful will lead to new information on a subject that is the focus of many conspiracy theorists but has also recently attracted serious attention from government officials.

The House Oversight Committee’s hearing will be titled Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth. The title refers to UAPs, the new preferred acronym for UFOs, which has become an increasingly popular term among believers – and US officials – to describe mysterious airborne objects.

The hearing will be the second congressional hearing the US Congress has put together in order to “further pull back the curtain on secret UAP research programs conducted by the US government, and undisclosed findings they have yielded,” according to a House statement.

Wednesday’s hearing comes more than a year after the Pentagon was accused of running a secret UFO retrieval program by whistleblower David Grusch, though no evidence has ever emerged to back up these claims. The hearing will be led by Republican representatives Nancy Mace and Glenn Grothman.

The representatives argue in the House’s statement that Americans are frustrated with the lack of transparency by the US government on the topic of UAPs.



Can singer and internet-famous Charli XCX handle humor?

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Trump sleeps mouth open as Cohen testifies

That wasn't me. I didn't fart or poop into my adult diaper. I don't know who it was. It was her.

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Trump asleep with mouth wide open as Michael Cohen testifies
(David Pakman Show) May 15, 2024: Failed former Pres. Donald Trump is reported to have slept through former attorney and Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen's testimony with his mouth hanging wide open [like a pasty white decomposing beached sperm whale]. #davidpakmanshow #trump #michaelcohen

Trump defends dog killing

Trump defends dog killing by Gov. Kristi Noem in interview gone horribly wrong
(David Pakman Show) May 15, 2024: Donald Trump defends dog killer and dimwit Kristi Noem and her dog-killing exploits in an interview with Clay and Buck gone horribly wrong. #kristinoem

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Monday, April 15, 2024

Stormy tells all: bad sex with Trump

Which orange mushroom most resembles Trump's small, misshapen penis? - This tiny one!


Porn star Stormy Daniels EXCLUSIVE: Details of sex with Donald Trump
Is it small, very pale, with the odor of fungus?
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) In Stormy "Stephanie Clifford" Daniels' first interview for her new book Full Disclosure, she talks about meeting Donald Trump in Lake Tahoe, the details of the night they spent together in his hotel room for sex as Trump cheated on his wife, Melania, shortly after she had given birth to Trump's youngest son, Baron, where she demonstrates how she spanked him with a Forbes magazine, witnessing and overhearing a phone call he had with former U.S. Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, reveals what she found in his bathroom, why she prayed for death during sex with him, and picks which mushroom resembles Trump's penis the most from a line-up Jimmy-K provided for her. #Kimmel

Trump’s criminal trial begins in Manhattan with Arguments | Trump Trial Live
(CNN-News18) Started streaming Monday, April 15, Tax Day: Live outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York. The first criminal trial of an American president will begin Monday as prosecutors and defense lawyers convene in a Manhattan courtroom to begin selecting the jury that will decide Don J. Trump’s fate. The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, has charged Mr. Trump with 34 felonies, accusing him of falsifying documents to conceal a sex scandal involving prostitution with a porn star in the furtherance of election interference. The case, one of four indictments facing the former president and presumptive Republican 2024 nominee, could reshape the political landscape ahead of Election Day. Jury selection could last two weeks or more and the trial may spill into June. Mr. Trump is expected to be in the courtroom for much of it, bringing campaign theatrics to the sober atmosphere of a criminal proceeding #donaldtrump #hushmoney #hushmoneytrial #usanews #news18 #englishnewslive


Trump arrives at courthouse for hush money criminal trial | NBC News Special Report
(NBC News) April 15, 2024: Former Pres. Trump has arrived at a New York courthouse as jury selection is set to begin in the hush money trial against him. NBC News reporters walk through the case against Trump and how his team may argue his defense as the first criminal prosecution of a former president gets underway. #Trump #DonaldTrump #HushMoneyTrial

"Convicted felon Trump"?

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

The Serpent in the (Gnostic) Garden of Eden

Derek Lambert (Mythvision Podcast); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
There are different interpretations of the same ancient Sumerian story Jews appropriated and abrogated to themselves, which fundamentalists Christians imported and took at face value thereby confounding themselves.

What we didn't know about the Garden of Eden in Genesis - Dr. Elaine Pagels
(MythVision Podcast) Dec. 9, 2023: From the Princeton University religious historian Prof. Elaine Pagels (elaine-pagels.com) whose work, The Gnostic Gospels, won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of "Satan" and his role in the Christian tradition.

With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Prof. Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the "gospel of love" gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike. #MythVision #Gnostic #ElainePagels

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  • 00:00 - Becoming a patron of Myth Vision Podcast
  • 01:14 - Interpreting the story of Adam and Eve
  • 02:05 - The testimony of truth and the story of the serpent
  • 02:49 - The serpent in the wilderness
  • 03:36 - Different interpretations of the story
  • 04:25 - The original meaning and intention
  • 05:02 - The meaning of an ancient story
  • 05:43 - The importance of living according to the Torah
  • 06:35 - Following the Right Way
  • 07:18 - Comparative Mythologies
  • 08:01 - Hebrew response to Babylonian stories
  • 08:51 - The role of Orthodox circles
  • 09:37 - Rethinking our relationship with the environment
  • 10:30 - Caring for the Earth and its connections
  • 11:16 - The differences between Gods in different religions
  • 12:00 - The story of Prometheus and Zeus
  • 12:39 - Comparing origin stories (creation myths)
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Trump rocked by nightmare testimony

Brian Tyler Cohen, MSNBC, 11/15/23; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump rocked with nightmare consequences of leaked testimony
(MSNBC) Nov. 15, 2023: America's Netanyahu, Ex-Pres. Donald Trump, is confronted with the dangerous consequences of leaked testimony by former MAGA lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.

This can't be the end. I still have a billion.
The new videos obtained by ABC News shows them detailing Trump’s criminal plot to overthrow the election to Georgia prosecutors. Both Ellis and Powell pleaded guilty in the Georgia RICO case and agreed to cooperate fully -- meaning they will testify AGAINST Trump at trial.

MSNBC’s Brian Tyler Cohen breaks down the stunning videos and why it's likely a "fatal blow" for Trump. For more of Cohen’s collab with MSNBC click here: msnbc.com/btc. Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc. #msnbc #trump #briantylercohen

Saturday, July 8, 2023

Lesbian confessions: Jesus fixed me


I believed I was a gay butch lesbian basketball player, until in a dream a guy I feel was Jesus did this...
Don't smoke weed, Kids. Smoking is bad.
(Delafé Testimonies) Gays for Jesus, or anti-gays? Maryland's Kirsten Searcy (instagram.com/k_searcy) thought she was an active lesbian basketball player, having molested fellow girls. She went on to have sex with older females as well as watching porn and participating in Pride events...until she had a dream. All that smoking weed, masturbating, converting (turning out) straight girls to lesbianism and keeping score, participating in butch orgies, addictively watching porn, dressing up like a boy (boi), and acting out at school and at home because her dad was distant went away by magic: she was cured by a dream. Now she's a Catholic Christian evangelical promoting an easy conversion therapy.

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Credits: Directed by Eric Villatoro. Interviewed by Jessica Laureano. Edited by Joshua Gayle and Eric Villatoro. Audio mixed by Paul Nicholas. Production Assistance by Nija Jewel, Daniel Restrepo, and Joshua Gayle. Testimony recorded at King of the Nations Church in Rockville, Maryland.

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Trump lunged at Secret Police? (video)

Daily Show with Noah Trevor; Late Night with Seth Meyers; Trump on The List via MSN.com; Jimmy Dore; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump’s Jan 6th fury revealed by Cassidy Hutchinson and Giuliani lies about getting “attacked”
(The Daily Show, June 28, 2022) Rudy Giuliani gets tapped on the back by a Staten Island ShopRite employee and compares it to being “shot,” and former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson gives a shocking testimony of Trump’s violent behavior in a surprise Jan. 6th hearing.




What the hell kind of lawyer are you, Rudy?
It's funny if Trump tried to fight his Secret Service guard detail to do what he wanted, not realizing that he is their prisoner and charge rather than their "boss" in any way. They have a job, and it has little to do with him. Just ask former Pres. Billy Clinton, who at long last figured out that the White House is either a public housing castle or the crown jewel of the federal prison system. He figured out it was the latter, that he himself was a puppet for the real powers who rule, and that the only thing to do was become even more corrupt by getting his heinous wife the job to see what a real lawyer-shark could do with the position. Trump thought he was pulling the wool over the eyes of the powers-that-be, but they forced him to take Pence, take advice on how to win, and they manipulated the votes in his favor...until they did, having chosen an even more wooden and cooperative zombie (easily possessed and already compromised victim) to do the job.

Even Fox News was stunned by Cassidy Hutchinson's devastating testimony

Whistleblower Cassidy Hutchinson
(Late Night with Seth Meyers, June 29, 2022) Seth Meyers takes a closer look at former White House official Cassidy Hutchinson's shocking testimony before the January 6 committee, revealing that Trump orchestrated a violent coup and wanted to lead an armed mob to the Capitol to overturn the election. Meanwhile, will lawyer Guiliani face charges for lying about being patted on the back assault charges (as shown in next video on The Daily Show)?

"Fantasy land," "mental problems"
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Jimmy questions Cassidy

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Cassidy Hutchinson is a Trump administration official blowing the whistle on Pres. Trump. But Jimmy Dore and Company doubt her story.

Brad Pitt goes GAY. But it's just pretend for positive publicity

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Cohen testifies against Trump: "racist," "conman," "cheat" (video)

Crystal Q., Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; AP.org; Fox 10 (C-SPAN); SNL; Late Night/Seth Meyers; Daily Show/Trevor Noah; Jimmy Kimmel


Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Oversight and Reform Committee ranking Republican, left, takes his seat next to Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 26, 2019. The committee voted to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border, the first issued in the new Congress as Democrats have promised to hold the administration aggressively to count. The decision by the Oversight Committee will compel the heads of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services to deliver documents (AP).
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Cohen sticks it to Trump, shaking off GOP critics
The only national emergency is Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pres. Trump's former personal lawyer and "fix-it man" declared under oath today that Trump knew ahead of time and embraced the news when told that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Michael Cohen also testified that Trump is a "racist," a "conman," and a "cheat."

Cohen, called to testify by Democrats over the objections of Republicans, suggested that Trump also implicitly told him to lie about a Moscow real estate project.

Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the project, which he says Trump knew about as Cohen was negotiating with Russia during the 2016 election campaign.
 
The hearing was producing the most damning depiction to date of Trump's campaign and business operations from a onetime member of his inner circle. It was the latest step in Cohen's evolution from legal fixer for the president -- he once boasted he'd "take a bullet" for Trump -- to a foe who has implicated him in federal campaign finance violations.

"I am ashamed of my weakness and misplaced loyalty, of the things I did for Mr. Trump in an effort to protect and promote him," Cohen said. "I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump's illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience. I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is." More
Cohen details hush money lie to Mrs. Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Latest on Pres. Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (all times local): 2:40 p.m. Trump's former lawyer says he was pressured by the president to lie to first lady Melania (meh-LAH'-nee-ah) Trump about hush money payments made to a porn actress who alleged she had an affair with Donald Trump. More

Thursday, June 2, 2016

I quit Catholicism to save my mental health

Nneka M. Okona (Revelist via Huff Post, May 31, 2016); Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly
(Joseph Skinner) WARNING: Graphic testimony of Catholic nun! Vatican's Dark Secrets Exposed
  • (April 6, 2015) Shocking testimony of ex-Roman Catholic nun Sister Charletta and the atrocities and ritual sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of the wicked and barbaric priests of the Roman Catholic "Whore of Babylon" (spreaker.com)
How Quitting Catholicism Helped Me Get the Mental Health Treatment I Needed
Thank God I got out of God's House.
I learned at a young age that obedience to God is the key to a great life.

My family raised me as a non-denominational Christian, though we attended an A.M.E. church and later converted to Catholicism.

My earliest memories are littered with reading, musing about life in a notebook hidden underneath my mattress, and church, lots of church.
 
I was always in church, not just Sunday services. Fellowship afterward eating fried birds, cornbread, collards, an assortment of cakes and pies was a must.

Sunday school, Wednesday evening Bible study, Saturday afternoon activities. Church, school, and home were the three places my presence was mandated.
 
These were the supposed keys to leading a good life, a life in which I was happy, not just spiritually, but mentally, emotionally, and psychologically, too.

Your idols died for you...so feel guilty.
I fell in line without questioning anything because I wanted the happiness this life promised.

Church was at the hands of my mother, whose devout faith stems from her southern Baptist upbringing in Huntsville, Alabama. Even though she’s a spiritual mother, she is not nurturing or well-equipped to parent the emotionally sensitive person I am.
 
When I came to her for advice, her answer always involved a variation of "Everything happens for a reason" and "It’s time to pray." She also told me to make sure I diligently read my Bible, attended, church regularly, and faithfully tithed my 10% [of my money to the church]....

I stopped going to church
I stopped attending church around the fall of 2012. I lived without the restraint of religiosity choking me for two years, which coincided with an international move to Madrid, Spain, to teach English. It felt like freedom, but it also felt incredibly empty. I prayed very little those two years although I never stopped believing in God.....
 
Meditation
Christine Turlington (Vanity Fair)
I started meditating every morning and experimenting with other meditative states and practices.

From there, I researched crystals, as per the recommendation of a friend who had a large collection and bought my first ones -- citrine, green quartz, black obsidian. I felt really good. Great even for the first time in a long time. But eventually this blissful state wore off.

Depression
Depression first kills the will to resist it.
I went into a defensive fit of rage when my father suggested I was depressed. I couldn’t be depressed. I prayed. I meditated. I repeated my positive affirmations.

I even read certain passages of Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love and Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life in tandem almost every day. I was doing the hard inner-work every single day. So how could I be depressed?

I began to blame myself. My outer-world was reflecting my inner-world, so I had the power to shift it. Yes. This was on me. More