Morning radio Zoo "The Woody Show" has made it ten years on air in Los Angeles without getting fired. So they're celebrating with rap-rock superstars Cypress Hill, the greatest Latin rappers of all time. These GOATs need no introduction. How Woody got them to play his $how, we can't imagine. But it will be something to see for listeners of the show and anyone who hates obese idiot Menace and his obese coworkers. Between Chubs and Chugs it'll set attendees back $25+fees and taxes so ~$38 (general admission, floor, standing room only). Starts at 7:00 pm on Saturday night, April 13, 2024.
VENUE: The Belasco, 1050 South Hill Street, L.A., CA 90015
The forests need protecting. It's not clear that the bureaucracy that is the USDA does that. But it might. In college at Berkeley, my roommate was majoring in forestry to become a forest ranger. Rather than doing anything interesting, he said the work was doing studies to prove polluters were reducing fish populations and gathering data to make a case even as they continued doing it. He was disheartened. It might be better to join the Sierra Club or an organization that isn't co-opted by business interests. Remember, if you think the System is working, you must be working for the System.
In his new book, Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America, due out this week from Oxford University Press, Bullivant reflects in often highly entertaining fashion about the trend lines.
Although it’s full of statistics, Nonverts remains a lively read for ordinary people — a rare feat in a sea of dry data-driven books.
As a researcher, Bullivant wanted to know why Americans, once considered the exception to the secularization that has happened in Europe and elsewhere, are suddenly losing their religion.
And it is sudden, he notes.
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“This kind of religious change in a society doesn’t normally happen in the space of 20 or 30 years,” he told Religion News Service in a Zoom interview. “It’s been within the space of one or perhaps two generations that we’ve seen a sudden surge.”
In the 1990s, nonreligion began climbing from its baseline of around 7% of the population to what is between three and five times that figure now, depending on the survey. (All national surveys show the same rising trendline, but they differ as to the degree.) More
Electricity has shaped the modern world. But how has it affected our health, environment, and climate? In the last 220 years, society has come to believe that electricity is safe and only a benefit for humanity and the planet.
Scientist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this view by conveying the story of electricity in a way never presented before: Taking an environmental point of view, he details the harmful effects of this social building block on people and the planet. It has caused flu pandemics.
I can't give my phone! How would I take pix?
Firstenberg traces the history of electricity from early in the 18th century to now and makes a compelling case that many environmental problems and major diseases of industrialized societies ― cancer, autism, heart disease, diabetes ― are related to electrical (EMF) pollution [interacting with metals in the body from vaccines and chemtrail bombardment used by HAARP for geoengineering, weather modification, and spying].
The Health Threat of 5G: Arthur Firstenberg is an American scientist, health activist, journalist, expert on electromagnetic (EMF) radiation, founder of the Cellular Phone Task Force, author of Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution (1997).
This coming 9/11 day marks the 18th anniversary of the fake (false flag) "terrorist" attacks in the U.S. that killed 2,996 people and injured thousands. In partnership with 911day.org, let's join hands for a day of service in Los Angeles. KFI (640 AM) listeners are invited to sign up and help pack over 3 million meals alongside radio hosts at Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center and in conjunction with volunteers across eight cities. SIGN UP HERE for a 2-hour shift to volunteer alongside a favorite radio host! Full schedule coming soon.
There are things inside this pyramid that defy all logic! Ancient Secret Discoveries thinks that this explains everything. Let's have a look into the Great Pyramid of Giza (Kheops) to see what has been found.
WANTED: Volunteers ("citizen scientists") to help count the number of bald eagles wintering over in Southern California. No experience necessary.
Bring warm clothes. It's the 39th year that the U.S. Forest Service and California State Parks have organized the seasonal count to monitor how many eagles come to visit.
Volunteers should show up at one of a number of lake (watch out for Sasquatches if it's Big Bear) with binoculars and a watch. This final bald eagle count is scheduled for March 10, 2108 between 9:00-10:00 am... More + DETAILS
UPDATE: More bald eagles spotted!
15 bald eagles spotted during final count of winter 2018 (latimes.com) Despite the rain U.S. Forest Service rangers and volunteers completed
their final eagle-spotting expedition for the 2018 winter season,
counting a total of 15 bald eagles in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto
mountains...
Final bald eagle count confirms 15 eagles (rotwnews.com) 10 adults, three juveniles, and the two
chicks from nest in Big Bear... bald eagle chicks hatched
live on webcam.
15 bald eagles spotted in SoCal count (ABC7.com) ...were spotted during an organized count at sites across
inland Southern California over the weekend.
Which way to the United States' Southwest? Go west, son, and dip to the south.
Tongva medicine woman leader Toypurina
For many years, the Santa Monica Mountains sustained the Chumash and Tongva (Kizh/Gabrieleno) Native American cultures of the greater Los Angeles Basin and Southern California.
Sycamore Canyon, which cuts through Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa(which means "the bluffs") and Point Mugu State Park was part of a Chumash trade route.
Satwiwa was the name of a nearby Chumash village. To reflect this heritage, Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center and Natural Area was established by the National Park Service in partnership with the Friends of Satwiwa.
Visit Satwiwa
A Native American guest host or a park ranger is on hand to answer questions from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Native American workshops, programs, and art shows occur throughout the year. Call for information on accessibility parking.
Come to the Satwiwa Native American Culture Center for Indian stories about the eclipse.
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What is covering the Sun?
(WQ) We spent the solar eclipse, August 21st, at Satwiwa trying to see Rahu eat Surya, or something block out the Sun (Roman Solor NorseSól), presumably but imperfectly the Moon. Imperfectly?
The lunar theory does not explain why the Moon (Chandra) is not visible approaching the face of the Sun just beforehand or why the Moon has been seen, and recorded in British records, on the horizon around the time of the eclipse on various occasions.
What is eclipsing the Sun and why, we do not know for sure, but consensus-reality scientists working as gatekeepers for the university system claim to have it all figured out -- despite the empirical evidence. A professor of earth sciences at Caltech couldn't tell us and was stymied by our persistent questioning as he contradicted and corrected himself. An official from the Goddard Space Center couldn't explain it to the unquestioning mainstream media.
Natives saw "strange lights in the sky."
Buddhist, Hindu, Jain and other Dharmic traditions have an explanation for eclipses as do local "Indians." (Calling them both "Indians" is not so mistaken in this instance since Buddhism and Indian mythology came to the Southwest US centuries before Christianity: SeeEdward P. Vining, Rick Fields, and others). Creation myths and stories, often symbolic nowadays but at one time quite literal, are interesting and instructive. Here is a great site on Tongva/Kizh mythology,native-languages.org:
Located at Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa in Newbury Park, California.
GPS Coordinates for Entrance (Via Goleta & Lynn Road): N 34.1569 W -118.9733
GPS Coordinates for Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center: N 34.1504 W -118.9613
From Ventura Freeway (US 101 Freeway) exit Lynn Road. Turn south on Lynn Road for 5.25 miles to Via Goleta. Park Entrance is on the left. Walk 0.3 mile up gravel road from the last parking area to the Culture Center.
NOTE: Driveway off Potrero Rd. is a service road and access to handicap parking only.
AGENDA: We will discuss the most recent opposition to the Indigeous Peoples Day, strategies to mobilize for the vote on August 30th at the LA City Council, and more.
Sunrise over Crater Lake, Oregon, Crater Lake National Park, which sits in a caldera of an ancient volcano called Mount Mazama that collapsed 7,700 years ago, according the NPS. It is the deepest lake in the US and is famous for its vivid blue color and clarity (Marc Adamus/The Register-Guard via AP).
Park Service marks centennial with new citizens, monument
The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday on Thursday with events across the U.S. including the creation of a giant, living version of its emblem in Washington, D.C., a naturalization ceremony on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and an outdoor concert at Yellowstone National Park.
( The centennial comes as the agency that manages national parks as well as historic places welcomes a new national monument and nature forces some changes in the party in the West.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says all Americans deserve the chance to experience the national parks.
Speaking below the Roosevelt Arch in Gardiner, Montana on Thursday night, Jewell said Americans from all walks of life should see themselves in the country's public lands. It was a full night of speeches and singing as about 6,000 people gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of the National Park Service.
The Billings Gazette reports two-time Grammy winner John Prine sang "Paradise" in honor of his father, who used to take him to state and national parks. Next, Emmylou Harris and a stage filled with musicians sang Woody Guthrie's [originally very radical] "This Land is Your Land" as the crowd sang along. More
Wildflowers around shrub in field near Badwater Basin during rare “super bloom” in Death Valley National Park. Park Service updates best spots to see flowers throughout bloom (AP).
DEATH VALLEY NAT'L PARK, California - A rare "super bloom" of wildflowers in Death Valley National Park has covered the hottest and driest place in North America with a carpet of gold.
It is attracting tourists from all over the world and enchanting visitors with a stunning display from nature's colorful paint brush.
The National Park Service updates information on the best spots to see flowers throughout the bloom (websites below).
The wildflowers are being brought back to Los Angeles (wildflowering.org)
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(March 4th, 2016) Here are some things to know about this once-in-a-decade event:
WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT WILDFLOWERS IN DEATH VALLEY?
Death Valley National Park holds a world record for the hottest temperature ever recorded: 134 degrees Fahrenheit (57 degrees Celsius) on July 10, 1913. It's also home to the lowest elevation in North America, a place that's 282 feet below sea level, called Badwater Basin.
Every spring, some wildflowers bloom before it gets scorching hot, but the abundance of flowers this year is extremely unusual and happens about once every 10 years.
The last time there was a bloom of this magnitude was in 2005, and the time before that was in 1998.
Orchid-like passion flowers are from space...or at least Asia, showing the tremendous diversity of the plant kingdom, as distinct from animals, mushrooms, minerals...
Death Valley's average annual rainfall is 2 inches a year, and sometimes, it gets no rain at all.
This season, the park got three very rare storms in the first two weeks of October that dropped more than 3 inches of rain in some parts of the valley. That was enough to trigger the growth of millions of wildflower seeds that have been dormant, awaiting significant rainfall.
No one knows how long seeds can wait for rain, but some flowers blossomed in 2005 that had never been seen in the park -- indicating their seeds had been dormant for many years.
The most abundant and eye-catching wildflower is the aptly named desert gold, a large, bright yellow bloom that looks like a daisy. The stems this year are growing to waist height, and the flowers cover entire hillsides and vast areas of the valley floor in the southern section of the park. These flowers are easily enjoyed from the car.
Patient sightseers who get out of their cars can see many more species. More than 20 species of wildflower bloom in the park at various elevations.
Some of the other more common flowers include the deep purple phacelia; the desert five-spot, a delicate pink flower with five burgundy spots around its center; the gravel ghost, a delicate white flower that appears to be floating above ground like a ghost because its stem is so thin it's almost invisible; and various types of desert primrose.
Now, the best flower show is at the south end of Death Valley National Park along Badwater Road, south of Furnace Creek. As the temperature rises, those flowers will fade, and the bloom will move north and to higher elevations.
The National Park Service updates information on the best spots to see flowers throughout the bloom. For updates, visit dvnha.org or nps.gov/deva. [Deva? A deva is a Buddhist, Hindu, Jain woodland fairy, elemental, angel, royal, celestial, being of light -- there being many kinds of devas or, literally, "shining ones."]
The show won't last forever. Most of the flowers will wither in the next few weeks as temperatures start to rise.
Some flowers may be around as late as June at higher elevations, but those won't be as easy to see from a car and could require hiking. More
Weekend to feature heavy rain and winds across California California's withering winter dry spell [or infamous geoengineering-chemtrail drought] will end this weekend as a series of storms move through the state, the National Weather Service said. More
Facts for Kids: Indians Gabrieleños/Tongva However, the Tongva tribe is working to teach their ancestral language to the children again. If you'd like to know an easy Gabrielino words, miyiiha...
CityDig: Tongva Tribe LA (Los Angeles Magazine) ...The original Angelenos were the Tongva (“People of the Earth”) tribe. Here they are identified as the Gabrielino Indians due to their proximity to a range the Spanish Christian conquerors renamed the "San Gabriel" (Saint Gabriel) Mountains...
Obama grants monument status to vast swath of California desert
Joshua trees display unusually abundant booms in the Cima Dome area of the Mojave Nat'l Preserve. Obama is granting national monument status to nearly 1.8 million acres of scenic California desert wilderness, including land to connect this preserve to other established national monuments and national parks in area(David DanelskiThe Press-Enterprise via AP).
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President B. Obama is granting national monument status to nearly 1.8 million acres of scenic Southern California desert, a move the White House says will maintain in perpetuity the region's fragile ecosystem and natural resources, as well as provide recreational opportunities for hikers, campers, hunters, and others. More
California growth spurt after spring rains will resultin an intense summer fire season.
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Electricity has shaped the modern world. But how has it affected our health, environment, and climate? In the last 220 years, society has come to believe that electricity is safe and only a benefit for humanity and the planet.
A Native American guest host or a park ranger is on hand to answer questions from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Native American workshops, programs, and art shows occur throughout the year. Call for information on accessibility parking.
The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday on Thursday with events across the U.S. including the creation of a giant, living version of its emblem in Washington, D.C., a naturalization ceremony on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and an outdoor concert at Yellowstone National Park.
Weekend to feature heavy rain and winds across California California's withering winter dry spell [or infamous geoengineering-chemtrail drought] will end this weekend as a series of storms move through the state, the National Weather Service said. More 
