As the 20th century came to a close, 40 percent of all Buddhists in America resided in Southern California. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has become unique in the Buddhist world as the only place where representative organizations of every major school of Buddhism can be found in a single urban center [145]. The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Northern California and Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles, Southern California, are two of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere. More
(Feb. 18, 2026) Los Angeles is known for being the home of Hollywood and having some of the world's best beaches, but it also has a much darker side: a notorious hub for human sex trafficking Pimp Epstein and Madame Maxwell would envy. More: abc7.com/post/sex-plain-sight...
(Inside Politics) What just happened in the House Judiciary Committee was a blistering, evidence-driven rebuke of Attorney General Pam Bondi — and Congressman Jésus "Chuy" García left no doubt why he called her “one of the worst AGs in our history.”
I brownnose the right asses to get ahead. Jealous?
In this video we break down García’s specific allegations:
selective prosecutions,
weaponized DOJ priorities,
a heavy-handed immigration enforcement shift, and
disturbing claims that federal agents and local victims in Chicago were mishandled — including cases involving ICE and CBP.
García also pressed Bondi on the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein Files and alleged cover-ups that protected powerful figures tied to the Trump administration. He cited reporting from the Wall Street Journal, showing even the President Tryno privately criticized Bondi as "weak." He named local cases — including allegations around Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, René Good, and Alex Peretti — and a chilling example of a Montessori teacher, Marimar Martinez, who was reportedly labeled a domestic terrorist. This is not a partisan rant — García’s critique is supported by court outcomes, career prosecutor resignations, and pushback from conservative judges. Watch the full breakdown to understand the scope of the allegations, the legal and political stakes, and what this hearing could mean for DOJ accountability going forward.
(Optic Expedition) Feb. 21, 2026: In 1982, a U.S. Navy flight engineer made an emergency landing on a ridge in Antarctica and saw something in the ice that was not supposed to be there.
It was geometric, angular, massive, made of a material that was neither ice nor rock. He was ordered never to speak of it. He signed papers that silenced him. He kept the secret for almost 20 years. Then, dying, he picked up the phone and called one person — Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe (earthfiles.com).
(YouTube Movies & TV) A hidden network of female journalists and activists are dedicated to UFO disclosure, so they uncover shocking truths about the U.S. government's firsthand knowledge of extraterrestrial (space alien, UFO, UAF) phenomena.
She recorded every word he said. Then she waited because over the next 25 years, more witnesses called: Navy personnel, scientists, U.S. contractors, NORAD officers, all of them describing pieces of the same thing buried beneath Antarctic ice.
All of them had been silenced, all of them. One by one, deciding before they died that she was the only person they trusted to tell the world. Now, at age 81, Linda Moulton Howe has finally compiled every testimony, every coordinate, every classified detail — and she is talking.
She has said, "Before I die, I must tell the truth — because the people who told me these things are dying. And if I do not share what they revealed, this knowledge dies with us." This is what they found.
Hitler and the Nazis knew what was in Antarctica(protected by an unprecedented universal treaty agreement when the world can universally agree about nothing else), so they claimed it and named it Neuschwabenland ("New Swabia") with access to extraterrestrial intelligences with high technology that gave them UFOs (vimanas) and Die Glocke ("The Bell," a means of accessing time travel).
American soldiers committed bacha bazi (forcing abducted and enticed boys to cross dress and dance for gay and bisexual rapists, who keep them as sexual slaves, torturing, kidnapping, and human trafficking/prostituting them to other men as well as producing child pornography and profiting from it in rings) at American military bases in foreign lands AND at home in U.S. in places like Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where drug dealing internally and externally to civilians is also conducted:
Mind you, ancient Mexicans are the same people who gave the world chocolate or xocolatl (bitter cocoa water), which they called Theobroma cacao, "The food of the gods." Who were these celestial visitors or "gods," who pointed out the potent nutritional seeds and delicious flavor of the cacao fruit?
The first chocolate drink is believed to have been created at least 5,300 years ago, starting with the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in what is present-day Ecuador [3] and later consumed by the Maya around 2,500–3,000 years ago. A cocoa drink was an essential part of Mexico's Aztec culture by 1400 AD [4]. The drink was introduced by Mexico (New World) and became popular in Europe has undergone changes since. Until the 19th century, hot chocolate was used medicinally to treat ailments such as liver and stomach diseases. More
Amaranth (family Amaranthaceae) delivers complete protein, survives drought, and for centuries fed 20+ million people. Then in 1519, Spanish Conquistadors made growing it punishable by death in Mexico (Mesoamerica) and the Americas.
Amaranth contains 13-14% complete protein with all 9 essential amino acids, one of the very few vegan plant sources of a complete protein, along with quinoa.
Amaranth produces more usable protein per acre than cattle grazing and thrives in conditions where wheat dies.
The Aztecs mixed it with honey to create tzoalli—sacred dough shaped into gods, worshipped, and eaten for supreme nourishment.
To the European Spanish invaders, this was demonic and cannibalistic. To modern agriculture, it's a threat.
By 1970, amaranth had nearly gone extinct. Today it is sold as a $30-a-pound (lb) superfood in health food stores while wheat and corn—both harmful and incomplete proteins—dominate 90% of global grain production.
The amaranth ban ended, but the seed companies never brought it back. This is the story of how religion, colonial conquest, and industrial agriculture buried the most nutritious grain in the Americas.
🔍 IN THIS DOCUMENTARY:
Why amaranth was banned under penalty of death (2:15)
The complete protein the Aztecs discovered (4:30)
How Spain weaponized food to destroy a civilization (6:45)
Why modern agriculture still refuses to grow it (10:30)
Where amaranth survived for 500 years in hiding (12:00)
📚 SOURCES AND RESEARCH:
Florentine Codex (Bernardino de Sahagún, 1600)
Aztec tribute records and archaeological cultivation data USDA nutritional database comparisons
Robert Rodale's Organic Gardening research (1975)
International Center for Tropical Agriculture yield studies
🌿 RELATED LOST VAULTS: → The painkiller growing in ditches (wild lettuce) → The Omega-3 weed in our driveway (purslane) → The Native American fruit that vanished (pawpaw)
⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational and historical purposes only. Always consult qualified professionals before making dietary changes. Historical events are presented based on documented sources and scholarly research.
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England's PM Keir Starmer: claims to be an atheist who chose to take a "solemn affirmation" (rather than an oath) of allegiance to the UK monarch (King Charles). Although he says he does not believe in God, he is supportive in raising his children as Jews [388, 389, 390]. He attends religious services with his family at a Jewish synagogue in North London [385, 391]. More
What went on inside Jeffrey Epstein's monument to Zionism in Israel's blue and white?
Biblical worship of Moloch, Baal, human sacrifice for bloodthirsty god like Demiurge/Yahweh?
Roy M. Cohn (Feb. 20, 1927–Aug. 2, 1986) was a Jewish American lawyer and prosecutor who trained Donald Trump to be a shark in a swamp like the business world. Cohn first gained fame as a prosecutor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in their trials (1952–53) and as Sen. Joe McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954. Cohn had been assisting McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists. In the 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent legal and political fixer in New York City [2, 3]. He represented and mentored Donald Trump during Trump's early business career [4]. More
[One of the most important things Cohn taught Trump was how to blackmail businessmen and how to avoid being blackmailed, which is why Trump does not drink alcohol, but Trump could not resist the temptation of Israeli spies Epstein and Maxwell's underage sexual honey trap.]
*Joan Halifax collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof in the 1970s, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph Campbell and Alan Lomax. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation in California, which she led from 1979 to 1989. As a socially engaged Buddhist, Halifax has done extensive work (palliative care) with the dying through her Project on Being with Dying, which she founded. She is on the board of directors of the Mind and Life Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the relationship of science and Buddhism.
“Consciousness has kind of become the secular substitute for the soul [Ancient Greek psyche as in psychology and psyche-delic],” Pollan tells interviewer Terry Gross.
Pollan also talks about current studies on consciousness and whether other animals, plants, bacteria, algae, and programmed hardware/software combinations known as "artificial intelligence" have or can eventually have consciousness. More + AUDIO
Buddhist author Michael Pollan has a Number 1 best seller
in Consciousness & Thought Philosophy. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who/what has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: It feels [not thinks] like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience (sentience) of the world remains one of nature’s greatest mysteries.
What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like, when we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of water in the sea?
In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives—scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic—to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.
When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy [tofu like] gray matter could generate a subjective point of view—assuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality.
Pollan takes readers to the cutting edge of the field, where neuroscientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness.
He introduces us to “plant neurobiologists” searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants, scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of this slippery stream of consciousness.
In Pollan’s dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than this everyday reality.
Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears takes us into the laboratories of our own brains and minds, hearts and feelings, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with the world and what we assume to be our deepest selves. More: A World Appears
See all formats and editions for savings. Book comes out Feb. 24, 2026. Pre-order price guarantee. Named a "most anticipated book of 2026" by The New York Times, TIME, and Oprah Daily.
Guest Michael Pollan, Terry Gross, Tonya Mosley, Adam Staniszewski, NPR.org, Feb. 19, 2026; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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