Is Black Lives Matter a scam? (TJDS)

Has corruption set in at Black Lives Matter?

Rapper Lil Yachty CALLS OUT Black Lives Matter (BLM) because Patrisse Cullors spent millions of dollars (taken from the BLM foundation) buying mansions in Los Angeles and Canada, while Blacks suffered grievously under police, state, and court oppression.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

"Black lives do not matter until all lives matters," for anyone who thinks Blacks are being selfish to single themselves out as being in need of fair treatment as if we were not all in need of it.

Indeed, everyone needs it, but it should be obvious that everyone does not get it, and Black are among the most oppressed groups in society along with Indigenous and Hispanic folks. This is a demonstrable fact, and if anyone who points it out makes others uncomfortable, it may be necessary to look up Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, white privilege, white fragility, and most of all IMPLICIT bias.

The New Jim Crow

We are becoming more aware of an inequitable system based on race, just as the Me Too Movement brought attention to the disparate treatment of women in Hollywood's movie and music industries. Awareness has not been enough. Systemic change is needed.

Reparations are needed because the same whites who say they did not own slaves and should not be blamed for the past are benefitting from the country's past system of oppression that advantaged them in the past and present and is doing so into the future. See the work of Dr. Joy DeGruy and Prof. Michelle Alexander for starters.

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier implicated in Penis Diddy Combs rape case

after his strangely coincidental involvement in the Las Vegas mass shooting 

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JnJ sells nasal ketamine for depression

What is the worst source of info on drugs? - Big Pharma press releases on their own product.

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SPRAVATO® (esketamine) approved in the US as the first and only monotherapy for adults with treatment-resistant depression

Special K (ketamine) is called a psychedelic.

[Matthew "Chandler" Perry would love it, wouldn't he?] Following U.S. FDA Priority Review, approval is based on data demonstrating SPRAVATO® alone met its primary endpoint at 4 weeks and led to rapid and superior improvement in depressive symptoms compared to placebo as early as 24 hours [1].

SPRAVATO® alone showed a rapid and superior improvement vs. placebo in the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) total score, with numerical improvements across all 10 MADRS items seen at day 28 in a post-hoc analysis [2].

• AUDIO: Article with jnj.com press release

Monotherapy data adds to well-established clinical efficacy and real-world safety profile

TITUSVILLE, New Jersey, Jan. 21, 2025 – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for SPRAVATO® (esketamine) CIII nasal spray, making this innovative treatment the first and only monotherapy for adults living with major depressive disorder (MDD) who have had an inadequate response to at least two oral antidepressants.

MDD is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, with an estimated 21 million adults in the U.S. living with the disease. About one-third of adults will not respond to oral antidepressants alone, which has a significant negative impact on the quality of life of those affected. MDD has a high economic burden, with nearly half of it attributable to treatment-resistant depression (TRD) [3,4,5]. More

• Johnson & Johnson (jnj.com), 1/21/25; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

California man 'cured' of cancer, HIV (AIDS)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Jess Cockerill, ScienceAlert.com, 2/25/24; MSN.com

Wrong "medical" advice comes at a HIGH price.

The medical industry, a for-profit business endeavor, tells us things are incurable.

It further says, settle for a treatment because all we can offer is alleviation of symptoms through "sorcery" (poison pharmaceutical intervention), surgery, radiation: burn, kill, cut off things in the body, block enzymatic processes, destroy the liver trying to protect and keep us alive in spite of the efforts of allopathic prescriptions and procedures.

• BIBLICAL SORCERY: The word pharmacy (pharmaceuticals, pharmacology) is derived from Greek word φάρμακον, pharmakon, meaning "poison" or "drug," together with -λογία, logia, which means "knowledge of" or the "study of" [3,4]. (Compare with the etymology of "pharmacy"). Pharmakon is related to pharmakos, the ritualistic sacrifice or exile of a human scapegoat or victim in Ancient Greek religion. As in the Vietnam War, the authorities as, "What can we kill in you, or for you, to "save" you?

We never said it "cured" anything!

It might not be so bad if they worked as promised. They don't. So the promises are kept to a minimum. Nothing in the headline says "cure." Shut up, take this, pay the bills when we send them, and if you pass away, well, at least we tried. So you can't sue us.

In fact, it has become illegal to refer to anything as a "cure." Nothing cures. And Big Pharma has no interest in "cures" because they make no money that way; money is made by endless "treatments," with medications or interventions we stay on the rest of our miserable lives.

• How foolish are knee replacements putting metal in the body that at best can last ten years and at worst will soon need to be redone for big profits to the surgeon and hospital?

Capitalism is the "cure" for poor executives.

And if Big Pharma stumbles on a cure by accident, like the cancer cure it once found in a patented medicine that already went into the public domain and therefore could not be milked for profits and exploited by a private corporation, it backpedals and explains why it can't be used.

How about safe and effective antiparasitic Ivermectin for Covid? Fuhgeddaboudit. So how to explain today's ScienceAlert headline that a California man is now free of HIV [~AIDS] and cancer in astonishing medical recovery?

Stem cells can "cure" incurable diseases?

I may look sickly but I'm alive and healthier than this doctor. Paul Edmonds (center) with doctors Jana K. Dickter and Monzr M. Al Malki (City of Hope, Duarte, California)

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More shots!? - If this doesn't kill you, you'll live

On the list of illnesses that nobody wants, cancer and HIV [AIDS] both rank pretty high, and Californian man Paul Edmonds had both.

But ever since one particular [stem cell] "treatment" five years ago, he's been free of both cancer and HIV. The patient is now considered in remission from acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).

Let's see how TOXIC we can make this batch.

In another two years, he could be considered "cured" of HIV, as that will mark five years from his last treatment.

To celebrate, the medical team behind his astonishing recovery have published a letter describing the case in the New England Journal of Medicine.

• California man free of HIV and cancer in an astonishing medical recovery (MSN)

Wild Mushroom Hunt, spiritual uses (2/24)

Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Wisdom Quarterly

Wild plants and mushrooms

Let's go on a Mushroom Hunt, Ethnobotanical Nature Walk, Forest Meditation: Saturday, Feb. 24, 10:00 am-12:00 pm ($25.00).

This walkabout focuses on identifying wild medicinal mushrooms and plants and includes discussion of the therapeutic, shamanic, entheogenic, hallucinogenic, and psychedelic uses of plants that offer alternative treatments.

The native and non-native plants in our local environment have many surprising uses.

This leisurely stroll with guided meditation offers a chance to see and identify various mushrooms in this gloriously wet period. The weather has the mycelium running and fruiting bodies emerging from the ground, like we learned at last week's Wild Mushroom Fair at the LA Arboretum.

"Ego death"?

For a moment, I saw what was real!

Q: Why would anyone want the ego to die, even temporarily? A: The ego is an illusion (maya), an unreality, a painful mirage. That's why. Of course, the ego will never believe it. The ego won't let the ego die. But DMT, the "spirit molecule," makes it see what ultimately real and what is not. This could be enough for a start on a journey to Truth, the Beyond, the Beyond the Beyond. Or one may cling to the fleeting even worse than before, spiraling in delusion, taking the unreal for real, the impermanent for permanent, the disappointing for pleasure with a promise of fulfillment.

• Ego death

Wear comfortable footwear. We’ll meet in Pasadena, near the Rose Bowl, at a predesignated location provided at registration. This is a group event, but individual tours may also be arranged. RSVP:

• Wild Mushroom Foraging, Psychedelic Uses, Shamanic Plant Healing, Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup
• Wild Mushroom Foraging, Psychedelic Uses, Shamanic Plant Healing, Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 10:00 AM | Meetup
• WILD PLANTS & MUSHROOMS: Ethnobotanical Walk – School of Self-Reliance

Rockefeller: no natural meds, all Big Pharma

Mike MacRae as "Mitt Romney," Guest Host Craig "Pasta" Jardula, comedic sidekick Kurt Metzger (TJDS at jimmydore.com); Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What is the goal of Big Pharma? - Big Profit$

John D. Rockefeller KILLED natural medicine and started Big Pharma to consolidate Big Oil, war for profit, and "allopathic" toxic synthetic chemicals as "medicine," giving symptomatic relief -- costly "treatments" -- while outlawing the use of the word "cure" for any medical claim. Natural medicinals, which worked for centuries or longer in the case of Native American herbs and wholistic care.

Thoughtcrime is a de facto crime (1984).

Who was behind the takedown of Russell Brand? When mainstream media giants investigate, fabricate, and insinuate, it's over. But why did Brand need to silenced? And who was behind the push to dredge up 20-year-old incidents no one was complaining about? Was Brand a promiscuous slut? Admittedly so. Was YouTube eager to find any reason to deplatform the popular influencer? He had to be stopped at all costs. So what if he's not been found guilty of anything? He wasn't being investigated, so an investigation was opened to justify maligning him and keeping him off the utility that YouTube has become for so many influencers. Censor yourself or be censored.

Psychedelic Therapy (Last Week Tonight)

 

Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

(LastWeekTonight) Feb. 19, 2023, #3 on Trending. He's back! John Oliver discusses psychedelic (entheogenic) assisted therapy: its history, its potential, and what it has to do with A$AP Rocky’s relationship to rainbows.

 

Connect with Last Week Tonight online...Subscribe on YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens, on Facebook like your mom would, on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news, or visit official site for all that other stuff at once.

Depression: real causes, real solutions (TED)

Johann Hari, TED Talk, The Weekend University, Feb. 17, 2019; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Johann Hari - Depression: The Real Causes (& Unexpected Solutions)

Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed...

(The Weekend University) What really causes depression and anxiety – and how can we really solve them?

In this talk award-winning journalist and author of Chasing the Scream Johann Hari discusses his recent 40,000-mile journey across the world, where he interviewed social scientists uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a "chemical imbalance" in our brains.

Rather, they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Johann Hari’s journey took him from an Amish community in Indiana, to a mind-blowing series of experiments in Baltimore, to an uprising in Berlin.

Along the way he uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, which eventually led him to the scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions – ones that really work.

Chasing the Scream: Search...

ABOUT: Johann Hari is a New York Times best-selling author. His book Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope has been translated into 15 languages and is currently being adapted into a major Hollywood film and into a non-fiction documentary series.

With over 20 million views, he is one of the most-watched TED speakers of all time. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and was twice named "National Newspaper Journalist of the Year" by Amnesty International.

LINKS: Get latest psychology lectures by email. Check out next event: theweekenduniversity.com/events. Support: patreon.com. Website: thelostconnections.com.

Dhamma Detox: ordain to recover? (film)

Indie documentary filmmaker Thida Nathalie, featuring Americans Dave and Sarah, Thabarwa Nature Center, Los Angeles; Dr. Gabor Mate; Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sam Kinison in the 1980s

Drug-abusing stand-up comedian Sam Kinison once pointed out that rehab facilities don't accept credit cards.

If you want to check yourself in to rehab to rid yourself of, say, a bad coke habit, it's going to cost you $10,000.00 cash.

Then he quipped, "You show me a guy with ten thousand dollars in cash, and I'll show you a guy who doesn't have a bad coke habit."

Insatiable craving is the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

It's counterintuitive, but drugs are not addictive. Addiction and Recovery Specialist Dr. Gabor Mate explains: That's not to say that people never become addicted. They do. How could it be?

If drugs (or anything) were addictive, everyone who consumed them would become addicted. Only some do. Those are the people with histories of childhood trauma, which is nearly all of us. That's due to the broad definition of "trauma."

"Ordain." - "I'm hungry! Gimme! Gimme!"

Verbal, sexual, physical, psychological, economic... -- trauma comes in many varieties. We may not remember, but the body remembers. And When the Body Says No, sickness shows up. There's a hidden cost to stress (nervousness, worry, strain, hyper-vigilance, always being on high-alert).

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How can I make merit, by giving or letting go?

Dr. Mate wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction after more than 30 years of treating addicts. He explains in Zeitgeist: Moving Forward how we abuse children, traumatize them, set them up for addiction, get them addicted as adults, then blame, shame, and punish them for those addictions.

Theravada Burmese Buddhism has a long tradition of temporary ordinations. It is a way to make merit, giving young people a chance to learn Buddhism, practice the path intensively, a rite of passage to become an adult (or a human in case one is currently more of a "hungry ghost").

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (addiction)

Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Dr. Gabor Maté (drgabormate.com)

Hungry Ghost Realm next to humans as depicted in ancient art (Buddhism.about.com).

Dr. Gabor Maté, author of the Buddhist inspired In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, talks about the root causes of addiction and how to deal with them. If no substance is addictive in and of itself (not even crack, heroin, Oxycontin, or Vicodin), and no substance is or else everyone who took it would become addicted, why do we become addicted? We certainly do become addicted not only to substances like white sugar and intoxicating chemicals but to self-soothing behaviors, dysfunctional ways of thinking, and our neuroses and bad habits (masturbation, sex, food abuse, etc.) The reason, Dr. Maté explains, is because early childhood trauma makes us susceptible to addiction. The combination leads us into the tormented Realm of Hungry Ghosts, the Peta Loka in Buddhist terms. This talk is taken from the Q&A portion of TJ Dawe's show, "Medicine."

• Nationwide: Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society (Dharma Punx)

What is addiction? Canadian specialist with decades of treatment experience explains.

The Buddha's Noble FOURfold Path

Bhikkhu Bodhi (beyondthenet.net), Four Truths; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Eightfold Path? I was into it back when it was the Fourfold Path" (Elephant Journal)

 
An Elephant's Footprint

Elephant at Borobudur (TrevThompson)

The recorded teachings of the Buddha are numerous. But all these diverse teachings fit together into a single unifying frame: the teaching of the Four Noble [or Ennobling] Truths.

The Buddha compared the Four Noble Truths to the footprint of an elephant. Just as the footprint of an elephant can encompass within it the footprints of any other animal -- lions, tigers, wolves, foxes, cats, dogs, and so on -- so all the different teachings of the Buddha fit into the single framework of the Four Noble Truths.

Punk rock Buddha (Saara/Arkiharha/flickr)

The Buddha makes it clear that the FULL realization of the Four Noble Truths precedes the attainment of enlightenment itself, which means touching or glimpsing nirvana, final liberation from all disappointment.

He says that when a teaching-buddha appears in the world, what is taught are the Four Noble Truths. The special purpose of the Dharma is to make known this path to spiritual-nobility, to ultimate truth and liberation from illusions and suffering.

And the special aim of those treading the path to enlightenment is to personally know-and-see (experientially verify) the Four Noble Truths:

1. The truth of disappointment (dukkha, unsatisfactoriness, unhappiness, pain, suffering, misery, the unpleasant),
2. The truth of the origin of disappointment,
3. The truth of the cessation of disappointment,
4. The truth of the path, the [eightfold] way to complete and final liberation from disappointment.

Elephant's Footprint sutra (BPS.lk)

The technical Buddhist term dukkha has often been translated as suffering, pain...misery. But dukkha or "disappointment," as used by the Buddha, has a much wider and deeper meaning.

 

It suggests a basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all forms and planes existence, even the most exalted and long lasting, all forms of rebirth, due to the fact that all forms are impermanent (even when they do not seem to be changing in heavenly planes) and without any inner core or substance.

The term dukkha indicates a lack of fulfillment, a lack of perfection, a condition that never measures up to our standards and expectations. Each word in the phrase "Four Noble Truths" is significant. What is the doctor's prescription?

• The Lesser Simile of the Elephant's Footprint (MN 27)
• The Greater Simile of the Elephant's Footprint (MN 28)
• Family Dharma: Elephant's Footprint (Tricycle)
• Chinese Buddhism owe a lot to Gandhara Civilization

Dr. Buddha, Master Physician (Prescription)

Amber Larson, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; BuddhaNet.net; Molly Hahn

Cats are good friends when they sleep in under the Sun (Molly Hahn/buddhadoodles.com)

 

The Buddha and my cat (Dee McIntosh/flickr)

The Buddha sets out the Four Truths as a formula a doctor would use to deal with a patient, a suffering person.

 

1. The Buddha first establishes the basic affliction, which is determined to be the problem of liability to disappointment and unsatisfactoriness; living beings are in pain.

2. Thereafter, he makes a diagnosis. That is, he explains the cause for this disease. This is the second truth, namely, that craving is part of the problem [explained in full in the 12 causal links of Dependent Origination], and craving is the link we can do something about right here and right now.

Accept what is. Let go of judgment. Remain aware of it. And you will know and see (BD).

 

3. As a third step a good doctor gives a prognosis, the possibility of the cessation of the problem. That is to say, a doctor determines whether a cure is possible. Is there some means of bringing about the end of our affliction, our problem, the pain we are sore from, complaining about, and seeking a cure for? Fortunately for living beings, the Buddha says YES: Suffering can be ended in this very life! We can stop all our suffering.

4. Finally, in the fourth step, perhaps the most important from the standpoint of the ailing patient, the doctor prescribes the course of treatment. The Buddha prescribes a fourth truth: the Noble Eightfold Path, the way to the end of all suffering, the treatment, the actions to take for enlightenment that leads to the goal of nirvana, which the Buddha very specifically defined as the final solution, the antidote, the cure, "the end of all suffering."

The Tail that Wags the Dog: DSM-5 (cartoon)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly (REVIEW); BarnesandNoble.com

Better living through poison and pricey pharmaceutical-grade chemicals (weheartit.com)

DSM-5 is the most comprehensive and current resource for rich mental health clinicians.

 

BAD: Yohimbe, cannabis, rock 'n roll...

There is a new edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). It is used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders.

But its main function has become a means of getting insurance companies to pay for outlandish pharmaceutical treatments for ALL kinds of things.

You're CRAZY if we vote and say that behavior is an official "disorder" included in the APA Bible, the manual used to diagnose who is and isn't bonkers. Homer Simpson found out when he asked, found out how it is decided just who is "INSANE" and who is not. The diagnosis was actually quite elegant.

(FOX TV) Homer and Michael Jackson institutionalized for being different

GOOD: Viagra, Valium, and harp Musak...

This new revision, fifth in the bestselling series, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international "experts" in all aspects of mental health -- not least of which is getting paid, and making a maximum profit with the help of drug peddlers (Big Pharma agents, not the grimy kind in suburban schools and flashy clubs). 

 

Their dedication and hard work have yielded an "authoritative" volume you can take to your school official (any counselor, nurse, occupational or rehabilitation therapists, social workers, forensic, and legal specialists) and demand Ritalin or other pharmaceutical-grade forms of speed and horse, super-addictive amphetamines and narcotics of all kinds.

DSM-5 defines and classifies "mental disorders" in order to [maximize and] improve diagnoses, treatment (never profit-stifling "cures," only "ongoing treatments"), and research.

 

This manual, which itself is an excellent sedative for those suffering from insomnia, makes not only for a  good snooze read, but also creates a common language for clinicians involved in the diagnosis of mental disorders.

It includes concise and specific criteria intended to facilitate an objective assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings -- inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical, private practice, and primary care. So what could be wrong with that?

The problem, at least one of them, is that it implies that these are naturally-occurring illnesses existing in nature, merely being defined by science. The book is the tail that wags the dog. The dog is the pharmaceutical industry, which uses the DSM as a justification for medicating every and any "aberrant," disruptive, or simply inconvenient behavior.

Mmm, Prozac-flavored icing (fluoride)

Any? Yes, any, because there are many "off label" uses for drugs that make them particularly good moneymakers for corporation that manufacture them. Unless, that is, they actually work. One old patented drug was discovered to cure cancer. No one wants to cure cancer; cancer treatments make too much money for everyone involved -- poison makers (look up pharmakos), radiation promoters, wig makers, hospices, hospitals, surgeons, chemotherapists who attempt to poison parts of the body to death without killing the whole body in the process, fast food makers, and so on.

 
The information contained in the manual is valuable to right-thinking physicians and health professionals, not just psychologists.
 
At $149.00 plus tax, DSM-5 is the most profitable and definitive resource for the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders. Oh, and remember to renew your American Psychiatric Association membership dues; we take them and make more money for you until we're all happy. And keep this review under your hat, NOT for release to the general public. Buy your copy today! (No refunds).

• "Dumbass" (Ai Weiwei's heavy metal protest video)

Study: Could LSD treat alcoholism?

Study: LSD could treat alcoholism

The drug could also ease anxiety and chronic pain, new research shows. How it works and other health benefits. In a truly mind-bending acid flashback, a new study reports that LSD could help alcoholics kick their addiction. Based on a new analysis of six randomized controlled trials from the 1960s and 70s, and published in The Journal of Psychopharmacology, researchers from Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Harvard University found that a single dose of the hallucinogen “had a significant beneficial effect on alcohol misuse” for up to 12 months. More

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