Short Attn Span Theater: Underdogs

• Migrants moved from secretive UK/US military island after three years
• Diego Garcia asylum seekers feel unsafe on remote British island territory, where they are sexually victimized and worse
• Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

How to handle the cops (graphic video)

Role model drunk decides to run, oops, wrong car! - Dying to get out, man does impossible: Fly

25 Tricks Cops Don't Want You to Know [abuse so they can arrest you, impound your vehicle]

Keep the phone camera rolling for your protection no matter how police lie and change subject.

How to stop cops from TRICKING you during a traffic stop

WHY never to talk to police

(Regent University) Legally speaking, do NOT talk to police

Police are here to protect and serve (themselves) - There are corrupt police caught by FBI?

• LAWYER: The ONLY four things to say to cops
• Regent U (sage advice); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Do people really get abducted by ETs?

Aliens kidnapped these people, and what they report is sometimes chilling

(The Squeezed Lemon) June 4, 2024: They come in the night, leaving only whispers and shadows behind. Are they just figments of our imagination or something more? For decades, nobody believed victims, but now things are finally coming to light. The stories of people who were taken by extraterrestrials are here told in brief, summarizing many cases rather than focusing on one. For copyright issues, email: thesqueezedlemon1@gmail.com

NASA's "space" is made in Hollywood (video)

F.E. Admiral; Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.),  Wisdom Quarterly

NASA Space is fake: Here's proof

(John Bellizzi) Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement.

• Coroner: Baby whose remains found during eviction died nearly a year earlier 
• Customers wondering what’s going on after finding Upstate bridal store closed 
• Spartanburg Co. woman details affair with serial killer Todd Kohlhepp on national TV 
• Father of teen killed in freak accident: "We are living every parent’s worst nightmare"
• Florida woman makes a "single and sexy" sign in a bid to get power back 
• Search continues on Hartwell for man missing after storm 
• Woman’s complaint about Hobby Lobby’s cotton decoration goes viral 
• No, the world is not ending on September 23 
• Inmates break out of jail to burglarize business before sneaking back to jail
• Three kinds of sugar that are GOOD for teeth: xylitol, erythritol, sorbitol
• Green tea extract good for dental health
• Green tea is good for teeth 
• Coyote survives in car grill after getting hit

Driving under influence but not "high"? (NPR)

Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; SCPR.org/Staff, NPR, Feb. 23, 2014

Smells totally crunchy, bro! - I beg your pardon, valued patron? - Medicine for my girlfriend.

  

As cannabis becomes legal, driving concerns grows

Pot is safe until smoked (in a bikini)

Here a customer smells a strain of marijuana while being helped by employee Billy Archilla inside the retail marijuana shop at 3D Cannabis Center, in Denver.

• LISTEN NOW (11:40) DL

The Lodo Wellness Center in Denver, Colorado has been selling medical marijuana for several years. But since Jan. 1, 2014, when marijuana in Colorado officially moved from underground to behind-the-counter, they have also been selling legal, recreational pot.
 

Hey, monkey, don't drink and drive! (BO)

A majority of Americans now say they support full legalization, and the trend is spreading: Legal weed is coming soon to Washington state.
 
Meanwhile, the public health community is warning of a potential safety problem: more people driving while stoned, whatever "stoned" means. Health officials and law enforcement do not yet have the data or tools to define or address the concern.

A substance is something to abstain from and avoid if it is being used with the intention of getting high and dissociating. Mindfulness and acceptance would be better strategies.

  
Public perception
Inside the Lodo Wellness Center, shoppers do not seem particularly worried about getting behind the wheel with pot in their systems -- since it lingers in fat for days or weeks, long after one is "high."
 
"You could smoke about an ounce and still have your motor skills," says 39-year-old Dante Cox. "When it comes to one shot of alcohol, all that goes out of the window."
 
Like Cox, several others say it's okay to smoke before driving, and it's definitely safer than drinking [alcohol] and driving.
 

UCLA, USC students unite against racism

For advocates of traffic safety, their words are of concern. "I think this is the next big issue in highway safety," says Jonathan Adkins, executive director of the Governor's Highway Safety Association.

[And it is yet another issue that can be used to push for a more oppressive "police state" in America under every possible pretext.] He tells NPR's Arun Rath that there's a prevalent feeling in American culture that marijuana is no big deal.
 

POLL: Divide California into 6 states?

"Well, it is a big deal if you use it and then get behind the wheel," he says. "We need to have the same cultural intolerance for marijuana use behind the wheel as we do with alcohol."
 
Alcohol-related crashes still kill around 10,000 people a year, and research clearly shows how drinking alcohol affects driving. The impact of marijuana is much less clear. More

• Pot measure withdrawn, 2 others still aim for ballot
• Feds issue roadmap to banks on legal pot business
• What can the new legal pot industry learn from USA's failed alcohol Prohibition?
• Drug-sniffing dogs pose challenge with legalized pot 
• Jewish American held in Israel for murder killed
• As the economy struggles, Venezuelans hit the streets 
• Will AZ gov. sign controversial "religious freedom" bill? 
• Cal State Los Angeles debates the meaning of "diversity"
• Does gov.'s water proposal address CA's drought needs?

Ukraine gets a new president due to protests

Travel: Magic under the sea (video)

Text: Julia Butterfly Hill traveling in the Caribbean; Wisdom Quarterly
A taste of night diving in a paradise under another ocean

BELIZE - I stayed in a wonderful place right next to the sea. I rented it in part because it had a kitchenette, so I could make my own food because being vegan in Belize can be challenging....

Ah…the joys of island life! I share the building with a couple from England, a man from Georgia, and a wonderful couple from Kansas. The husband has just returned from a six-month stint in Afghanistan.

He is so ready to play, enjoy life, and see friends and family. His wife is wild, funny, and larger than life in the best possible way. The two together are fabulous, and on my second day, as the husband is coming down the stairs, he sees me inside my place with the door open to the delicious breeze.

And he says, “We are going on a night snorkel in about thirty minutes, and you need to come with us!” I thought to myself, “That sounds like a fun idea. Why not?” So I go with them and we proceed to have such a fun and wonderful experience.

The crew consisted of the husband and wife power-duo team, the young woman who manages and cleans the place, whom they have paid to come with us as she has never even snorkeled in all her years of living there, their friend Mike, whom they met who is a neighbor to us hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, a young guy from France, and another from Argentina, as well as the guy who is our guide and boat driver.

The slick presentation by the mainstream media...

We were behaving like a bunch of unruly rabbits free from a cage as he was trying to give us our safety instructions. I finally clapped my hands together and said, “Hey Team! This gentleman is trying to give us the information we need to have a safe and fun experience. Can we please get quiet and give him our attention please? Thank You!”

As the group quieted down, I turned to our guide and said, “Please, sir, go ahead. Thank you so much for taking such good care of us!” He beamed a beautiful smile and proceeded to give us the information we needed both for safety as well as for what we could expect to see at night time in the sea.

Then we all jumped into the water and had the most magical of journeys. There is something so beautiful and magical swimming in the great big sea at night! We saw squid, octopus, sting rays, electric rays, lobster, HUGE sea urchins, various fish[es], the largest crab I have ever seen in my life, and nurse sharks.

The way it really was by Earth Films documentarians

Being such visually oriented [beings], there is something otherworldly and wonderful about swimming in the sea at night. Hearing takes over, compensating for the lack of visibility. And the sounds become so much more pure and acute. And to top it off, away from the lights, the stars were unbelievably beautiful....

After the trip, we went home, cleaned up, went out for a few drinks and dancing. By the end of the night, I felt like I had new best friends for life [a frequent feeling while traveling]. I love it when I meet people whom I would not normally meet in my work life, who live such completely different lives than mine, and yet we instantly bond and have such a great time together.

That has happened a lot to me already in my time in Belize, and it is one of the many, many reasons I love this place.

After three days on Caye Caulker, I had enough and was ready to go, but I was sad to leave my new friends. I decided to follow my new pilot friend’s invitation and go to Ambergris since I was in the area after all.

I called a yoga retreat hotel on the island that has cheap dorm-style rooms and good veggie food options on the island to see if they had availability in the rooms. More

A victorious tree hugger and forest protector hits the ground

Spiritual Makeover: Christine, Buddhist Nun

Thomas (ContemporaryNomad.com)
Raised in Alberta, Canada and a Buddhist for many years, she wanted to become a Tibetan nun, renouncing the household life, a life-altering decision made with confidence.

[Ani] Christine is only the second Western Buddhist nun I have ever met. The first nun, whom we met a couple of weeks ago at Dargye Gompa (monastery), was an ascetic, standoffish German woman who had no interest in talking to us.

Ani Christine is different. She would always have a smile on her face and say hi when we passed each other in the hostel. This was my chance to talk to her and satisfy my curiosity about who she was, so I approached her to find out.

I think she was surprised that I came up to her because many people, as she told me later, shied away from talking to her maybe out of fear of asking the wrong questions. I wasn’t afraid and asked all the wrong questions anyway:

• “What color is your underwear?”
• “Didn’t it feel weird to cut your hair off?”
• “Why did you choose THIS new career?”

She patiently answered my questions with a great deal of humor and did not seem to be insulted at all.

Ani Christine became a nun only two weeks ago. Her excitement about becoming a nun is so contagious that we can’t help but feel completely happy for her. While talking about her past, she eagerly showed us some “before pictures” of herself with long hair and Western clothes taken only a few weeks ago and admitted that she had never had short hair.

She looks totally cute, though, with her buzz cut and her red [Tibetan] nun outfit, which she recently bought in a clothes store catering to nuns and monks. More

• Western Buddhist nun's monastic life

  • Is your underwear undermining your values?

Matrix (Secret) News Stories

liveh2o.tv (news)

• Iranian Elections: The Hidden Hand of the U.S.
• Ridiculous Safety Measures in UK
• Child Molester Goes Free while Father Who Attacked Him Gets Jail Time
• U.S. Beats War Drum as Iran Dumps the Dollar
• IRS Proposing Ban On Returns Filed by Anyone by "Experts"
• CIA Recruiting Laid Off Bankers
• Supersized Propaganda in New York: Carbon Counter
• Top 5 Most Sinister Corporate Logos
• Some in Congress Worried about Obama's Plans for Fed [Like putting the fox in charge of the chicken house!]
• Hemp...Cars?
• Antarctic Ice Shelves Show No Change Over Six Years.
• Crops Under Stress as Temperatures Fall
• Scientists Pan Obama's Scaremongering Climate Report
• E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress
• Audit Finds that U.S. Overpaid Blackwater $55 Million [That we know of!]
• By R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick
• House Passes $106 Billion War Funding Bill
• New H1N1 Strain Found [Beware Propaganda! - see WHO To Get Vaccination Donation elsewhere on this site]
• WHO To Get Vaccination Donation