Buddhist monks' Peace Walk across USA

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Buddhist Monks' Walk of Peace brings hope to Jackson, Mississippi

(16 WAPT News Jackson) Dec. 10, 2025: "They have sacrificed so much. Some of them are out here walking in sandals. Some of them are walking barefoot. So they're making sacrifices," says fan Kiffany Dugger. "They were welcomed with open hearts as Mississippians clung to every word they shared on the capitol steps," the reporter states.

• Buddhist monks walking (pindapata, kinhin, Sati in (Buddhism), mindfulness practice, Four Foundations of Mindfulness is satipatthana)

(Walk for Peace)

(KALB Central Louisiana News, Weather & Sports) A group of Theravada Buddhist monks from Southeast Asia living in America bring message of peace to Louisiana, walking 2,300 miles over 120 days, having begun on Oct. 26, 2025, with their trusty dog Aloka.

(One Breath Stories) Song for Walk for Peace, true story, monks and Aloka walk Texas to DC

(Ed and Pete) What is driving these Theravada Buddhist monks to walk across the USA?

• With Robes and Bowl (Buddhist Publication Society)

(Ed and Pete) TRIBUTE: Walk for Peace w/ 19 Theravada Buddhist monks and Aloka the Dog [whose karma is such that it was coincidentally born with a heart shaped patched over its third eye, a mark of mixed past karma good enough to be beautiful, bad enough to fall onto the animal plane but among good people]

Yogi in India climbing barefoot to mountain top

PEACE WALK: a peace march, sometimes referred to as a peace pilgrimage (yatra), is a form of nonviolent action where a person or group marches a set distance to raise awareness for particular issues important to the walkers.

• Animals in Buddhism
• Karma (deed-seeds) in Buddhism
• Theravada Buddhism in Laos
• Peace walk (pilgrimage) in the USA

(KPRC 2 Click2Houston) UPDATE: Good Samaritan donates new escort vehicle to Peace Walk

Buddhist monks peace walk from Texas to DC

They left their cozy and tranquil Buddhist temple in Fort Worth to send Trump et al. a message

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(KFDM YouTube) Nov. 24, 2025: A group of Theravada Buddhist monks is persevering on their peace walk from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., despite facing challenges, including a recent auto accident in Dayton that injured two monks.

Western Zen kinhin practice

The monks or bhikkhus began their journey on Oct. 26th, 2025, at the Hong Dao Buddhist Temple and have covered nearly 300 miles. They aim to complete the 2,300-mile trek in 120 days.

The monks say their mission is to support a suffering society and promote healing worldwide.

"We try to spread that love, loving kindness, compassion, and hopefully that everyone will be living in harmony and unity, and that is our purpose of walking," they said.

Is there a Buddhist way to walk? Yes, mindfully

Supporters have been inspired by the monks' dedication. One supporter shared, "I woke up my daughter and I was like, 'Hey, we got to go! And we flew here... I think it's awesome what they're doing."

Despite the accident involving a pickup truck hitting the monks, which left one hospitalized, the group remains committed to their journey.

"The surgery went well, and he's well, and he's happy. He supported this walk, and he wanted all the monks to continue walk in to finish this journey," they said.

The monks express gratitude for the support they have received along the way, as they continue their walk for peace.

• Walk for Peace: Buddhist monks and their dog Aloka (plus Western participants)

Buddhist monks walking meditation (ar.inspiredpencil.com collection)

Walking Meditation Mastery: Embrace mindfulness and movement for well-being

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• KFDM, Buddhist monks peace walk from TX to DC, Nov. 24, 2025; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

SNL: Swapping jokes (Season 50 finale)

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This is the Black Pope, Afro-Caribbean mix of Italian, French, African, American ancestries

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SNL continues into 51st year: WU

There's Sandler. Where's Farley? Oh yeah.

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is in Year 51 after half of century of satirical jokes and memorable sketches. So it had a three-hour special, which strangely aired on a Sunday night and may not have been live, looking back at great moments and ahead to what might come. Yet on the very next Saturday, it's a rerun. Maybe the special was just that good, meriting a double take. Old hosts like genius Martin Short and his sidekick Steve Martin and other comedy legends made it out to celebrate Lorne Michaels. Canada has Kids in the Hall, the UK has lots of crass and brilliant comedy and satire, Mexico has "Saturday Night Live México," and Egypt has satirist Bassem Youssef. If we're lucky, we'll have SNL for a few more years.

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in Egypt speaking a foreign language until it goes to English at Minute 2:35

Saturday Night Live turns 50 (satire)

Nearly 15,000,000 Americans tuned in, 202% more than usual, for SNL's 3-hour special celebrating America's favorite satirical look at American culture, current events, and the news. Does this mean that at 50, it's better than ever, or are people just nostalgic for the first season and all the comedic talent that unleashed in Hollywood?

🚨 MAGA raging over brutal new Tom Hanks SNL skit

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Black Jeopardy – SNL50 with Tracy Morgan

Close Encounter 50th – SNL50

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Mindful not to react to politician's name

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?

Gobekli Tepe: shocking update (video)

Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods: The Temple
of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden

If space aliens built Gobekli Tepe, like Turkish mayor suggests, we'll never know it now:

Disturbing Gobekli Tepe update

Gobekli Tepe: The History and Mystery of One of the World's Oldest Neolithic Sites

10 stunning images of 12,000-year-old Gobekli Tepe site in Turkey (curiosmos.com)

Read meat labels: You are already being fed insects, bugs, and worms. Says so on label.

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Carl Schwab wants you to eat bugs and worms

(Bright Insight) Premiered June 10, 2024: #30 on Trending. This 2024 update on progress to excavate at Göbekli Tepe is genuinely shocking and disturbing.

• Gürcü Tepe: ancient village or settlement (megalithic portal map)

What is underneath?

"We are going to leave further excavations (beyond the 5% so far uncovered) to future generations"?  That's what someone said and what the team intends to do because of Schwab. Attention is being turned to an older neighboring site, another tepe or tell (Karahan Tepe or Gürcü Tepe?) instead. Which billionaire is making this decision? What does Klaus "World Economic Forum" Schwab (not to be confused with the original German archeologist to excavate here Klaus Schmidt) have to do with it? What are they hiding under structures and by planting an orchard of trees on an arid and barren hillside that cannot easily be dug up the more it grows and becomes established? Even ground penetrating radar will have trouble seeing what's underneath. What are they keeping buried, unexcavated, and therefore secret?

• Israeli archaeologists find hidden pattern at ‘world’s oldest temple’ Göbekli Tepe (Haaretz)
• 4,000-year-old Crete hilltop site mystifies archaeologists
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More surf, snow, and rain coming to California

Dashel Pierson (Surfer), Tony Kurzweil (KTLA 5) via MSN.com; Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly UPDATED

Wet pattern persists: New storms to soak flood pronce California (msn.com)

Hawaii's north beaches brace for monster waves reaching 45 feet Thursday (msn.com)

Weekend storm: It's so bad that meteorologists have forgotten how to spell "California."

• .VIDEO: Another round of storms on the way for California
• Millions in California to be hit by 'one-two punch' brought by Pacific storm after break from floods

Another round of storms on the way for California (AccuWeather)

My blond baby's the next big thing in surfing!

How young is too young to surf? How old is too old? "You're never too old to rock 'n roll," as Jethro Tulls sings and the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and others prove.

But riding waves on the professional circuit? Surfing (like skateboarding), unlike other sports, has an interesting relationship with age.

Hang Ten, motherfathers! Eat my wake foam!

Depending on how one practices the sport -- from big waves to small, longboards to short -- one can pretty much do it from the day one starts walking until, well, the day one stops [walking and breathing].

• More rain and snow? Another big storm may be headed to LA and SoCal
• Death Valley Lake, California, inundated by rain in rare weather event
• VIDEO: Massive avalanche rolls down in northern India
• Utah gets hit with multiple avalanches, snow, winds, rain

Will one be charging the whole time? Probably not. At least not like 11-year-old young gun Kalama Jedidiah Stratton at Waimea Bay, as seen below. More: VIDEO: 11-year-old surfs giant Waimea Bay with breaching whales in the background

• VIDEO: Big wave surfer Nic von Rupp chases insanely huge waves in Ireland (Surfer)
• VIDEO: This perfect wave at the Surf Ranch is absolutely mesmerizing
• Ben Gravy continues quest for perfect Caribbean surf

Swift Conspiracy, Trump loses big $$$ (SNL)

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In addition to losing cases brought against him, Trump loses more cases he tries to bring.

Weekend Update: MAGA's Taylor Swift Super Bowl Conspiracy, Trump's $50 mil legal fees, $83 mil verdict, $5 mil rape fine

(Saturday Night Live) Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Nikki Haley targeting Biden and Trump with "grumpy old men" campaign ads. Stream Saturday Night Live now on Peacock (pck.tv/3n1IyzK). #SNL #AyoEdebiri #SNL49 #JenniferLopez

Humpy Trump: Trey K and Tay-Tay are CIA psyops dummies

and candidate Nikki Nirmada Haley makes a surprise appearance

Why anyone votes for Trump EXPLAINED

CNN; Host Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point, Jan. 22, 2024, NPR.org, 1/23/24; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I beat Nimrada bigly now that I ran Ron out of the race: DO'H! Who'da thunk it?

(CNN) Trump cannot track or sustain a thought but is as disorganized in his thinking as his auditors, caring more about spectacle than substance. Let's all eat cake. Ooh, yummy, cake. Oh, and let's kill everybody for crimes.

Ron DeSantis likes history the way he likes voters: white, straight, easy to manipulate (al.com)

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What Republican party elites [the donor class right wing Establishment types] don't understand about Trump voters

On Point is a solid and intelligent daily show.

Polls show Don John Trump dominating the race for the Republican presidential nomination. How does he do it — and can anyone catch him?

Batya Ungar-Sargon, Sarah Longwell, and Heather Cox Richardson join On Point Host Meghna Chakrabarti to explain to everyone how this is happening.

Right wing Florida Gov. Ron crying: Vote Trump

ABOUT: Hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point is WBUR's award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast (carried nationwide by NPR). Its unique combination of original reporting, first-person stories, and in-depth analysis creates an experience that makes the world more intelligible and humane.

Deep dives, original stories, fresh takes, Chakrabarti produces a quality show that sometimes panders to NPR types but other times actually provides insights and challenges assumptions. This is important for the left to have. Otherwise, it ends up being no better than the right. Polemics aside, liberals are different because they listen to both sides and make a decision rather than just accepting pre-packaged narratives. Correct? As Plato said in ancient Greece, "The consequence of apathy [being too lazy to listen to all sides and make an independent decision] is being ruled by evil men." We certainly are ruled by such men.

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• ABORTION: Biden has a plan to win: kill more [babies like Israel does but do it through] more abortions, but his rally in Virginia was interrupted by Anti-Zionist-Israel's genocide protesters
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Trump can't shut up, faces fine of $370 million

Nikki Haley wins 100% of votes in NH so far...but falls behind Trump by end of day

Voters wait in line to cast ballots at Bedford High School on Tuesday, Bedford, N.H. (NPR)

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A Southern gal can dream, can't she?

Wait, how is this possible? The Establishment candidate is ahead of populist Trump? Well, as it turns out, there's a place in New Hampshire (Dixville Notch) that always wants to be first. So it holds is caucus at midnight and finishes before anyone else even gets started. Population 12. Six voted, and all of them, both Republicans and Independents, picked Haley. See: New Hampshire primary live updates and latest news on Haley and Trump | The Independent

I'm not racist, I just sound racist because I'm, alright, I'm racist and people love it.

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You're not winning, Nimrada. - Shut up, Vivek!

Live updates: Nikki (Nimrada) Haley aims for a surprise win, and Democrats hold a primary too (sort of) Only two candidates lead the Republican ballot: Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. A party rift means President Biden is not on the ballot, but many plan to write him in anyway. Election 2024: Nikki Haley aims for an upset over Trump in New Hampshire | NPR

Binaka, please! Even if you trump Trump, you ain't getting it over on me and Big Papa Joe.