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The life of a wandering ascetic (Buddhist monk) includes going on alms round, England.
Say hello to Venerable Manapo. He’s a Buddhist monk or bhikkhu in Warwickshire, England. TrueTube's cameras followed him around to find out what he does all day. What does any Buddhist nun or monk do all day?
What's the point of doing it? This wandering ascetic is on a spiritual mission, the same one Siddhartha was on, a quest for enlightenment, awakening from all the painful illusions of life, the marriage of compassion and wisdom, escaping to reality. This is a short film by Jonathan Green.
JRE Clips from The Joe Rogan Experience #1284 with Graham Hancock, author of America Before, and #1293 with Andrew Santino, 2019; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
One of thousands of Amazon "Stonehenges," amazing archeology Europeans wiped out.
The Amazon jungle is a colossal mystery with Graham Hancock
J. Rogan Experience
(JRE Clips) Host Joe Rogan has hind mind blown by researcher Graham Hancock, author of America Before. The White man wiped out the New World with his European diseases like smallpox, greed, and war and domination mentality, developed it would seem from centuries of fighting each other all over Europe.
Smallpox seems to have killed an estimated former population of 20 million people in the Amazon basin, a massive garden fed by the use of terra preta ("dark earth"), a uniquely rich biochar soil containing a unique mix of microbes not found in adjacent soils. The basin is an area the size of India or 5.5 million square kilometers.
It is full of henges (like Stonehenge), sophisticated manmade earthworks, deep ditches with embankments and sometimes stone pillars, used by astronomers. There are thousands of them in the Amazon. LIDAR (light imaging and detecting radar).
As political awareness and participation increases, comedian Jimmy Dore is at the center of a lot of the action. Dore is a comic and political activist with a formidable following. He joins Host Mark Thompson (edgewithmarkthompson@gmail.com) for the entire episode of The Edge Show. stitcher.com/podcast...
Pizza Gate (Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Podesta the Molester Brothers' kiddie party) resurfaces.
Longtime politician, lawyer, and default presidential candidate Joe "Pizza Gate" Biden is demented and sounds more than a little senile. What this country needs is a general strike during the pandemic according to IWW Labor Organizer Maxim Baru in an interview on The Jimmy Dore Show, which has premium members, live shows, and a newsletter.
Demented Joe Biden (voiced by Mike MacRae) calls The Jimmy Dore Show
White people unnecessarily calling the cops on Black people
From Starbucks to the golf course to Dollar stores, White people are unnecessarily calling the cops on Black people. Here’s a look back at what's going on. #DulceSloan
There are very few government checks on what the USA’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with freedom-loving patriotic hero Edward Snowden live in Russia to discuss the NSA (National Spying Association of America), the balance between privacy and security, and dic-pics.
(Reuters) Remembering comedy icon Carl Reiner, dead at 98, June 30, 2020: Carl Reiner, a driving force in American comedy as a writer for television pioneer Sid Caesar, partner of Mel Brooks, and the creator and co-star of the classic sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show” with beloved American actor Dick Van Dyke (Mary Poppins) has died peacefully at age 98.
The very best of Mel Brooks (w/Gene Wilder, Anne Bancroft, and Carl Reiner)
(Best of Humans) Know a man by his close friends. This is a short documentary dedicated to Mel Brooks that shows the greatness of CARL REINER, one of our heroes on and off the stage.
(Corridor Crew) Here is a side-by-side comparison of the "Boston Dynamics: New Robots Now Fight Back" parody video. Big ups to Xsens for their excellent mocap (Xsens_MoCap_Suit) technology. Big ups to Clint for getting bonked and taking it like a big girl. Consider subscribing. Watch Season 4.
This is a list of the most advanced humanoid, industrial, and service robots changing the future with artificial intelligence.
1. Digit
Digit is envisioned to help take care of people in their homes, assist with disaster response and deliver packages to front doors. With its nimble limbs and a torso packed with sensors, Digit can navigate complex environments and carry out tasks such as package delivery. In May 2019 Ford Motor Company and Agility announced a partnership to develop a last-mile logistics solution that combines Ford’s autonomous vehicle technology and Agility’s Digit.
2. Pepper
Pepper is the world’s first social humanoid robot that is able to recognize faces and basic human emotions. Pepper has been adopted by over 2000 companies around the world. Perfect in retail and finance industries, Pepper has numerous functionalities including increasing store traffic by attracting the attention of shoppers, creating memorable in-store experiences, stimulating purchase and retain customers. Pepper can also gather comprehensive data to enrich the customer base and generate shopper insights.
3. Atlas
Atlas is the world’s most dynamic humanoid robot built by BostonDynamics, a company that was previously owned by Google and now by SoftBank. Atlas is becoming more sophisticated year by year, thanks to its state of the art hardware and algorithm that allows it to quickly understand instructions. With its 28 hydraulic joints, 4.9 feet of height and 176 pounds weight, the robot can perform both impressive terrifying acts including navigating uneven terrain, jumping around a parkour course, doing somersaults. All these activities demonstrate human-level agility so the robot can be perfect for search and rescue operations and performing human tasks in environments where humans could not survive.
4. Spot
Spot is a robot dog designed for industrial uses such as carrying goods through a warehouse and inspecting a remote site with an unfavorable environment for human operators. It can run at 5.2 feet per second, has 360-degree cameras, and can operate in temperatures ranging from 4 to 113 Fahrenheit. With its API and flexible payload interface, the robot can be easily customized for desired tasks. Spot is also manufactured by BostonDynamics and is now being leased to eligible companies.
5. HRP-5P
HRP-5P is an advanced humanoid robot designed to operate autonomously and carry out heavy labor in hazardous environments. It is equipped with environmental sensors and object recognition, full-body motion planning and control, and task description and execution management. HRP-5P is based on more than 20 years of humanoid research at AIST. In those 20 years, the institute has created 4 other robots which are the predecessor of HRP-5P.
6. Surena IV
Surena IV is the fourth generation of Surena humanoid robot series developed by the University of Tehran in Iran. With a height of 5.6 feet and a weight of 154 pounds, this robot is able to walk at a speed of 0.43 miles per hour. Its custom force sensors at the bottom of its feet help the robot step over uneven surfaces by adjusting the angle and position of each foot.
7. Aquanaut
Aquanaut is an advanced unmanned underwater transformer that can transform itself from a nimble long-distance submarine into a half-humanoid robot capable of carrying out complex underwater manipulation tasks. Designed by Houston Mechatronics Inc, Aquanaut can inspect subsea oil and gas infrastructure, operate valves, and use subsea tools with just a few mouse clicks. Operating completely untethered and without support ships, Aquanaut can travel more than 124 miles in submarine mode, has a max speed of 7 knots and a maximum operational depth of 984 feet.
8. Stuntronic robot
A Stuntronic robot is an animatronic stunt double designed to entertain the crowds at Disney theme parks and resorts. With its onboard sophisticated sensors, it can make its own real-time decisions—all while flying 60 feet in the air. It knows when to tuck its knees to perform a somersault, when to pull its arms to twist, and even when to slow down its spin to make sure it makes a perfect landing.
9. Handle
Handle is another robot from Boston Dynamics. With its deep-learning vision software, this robot can identify and locate boxes, unloads trucks, palletizes, and depalletizes at the push of a button. Its mobility enables it to operate in multiple work-cells, moving through facilities along with the flow of goods. It can pick up to 360 boxes/hr.
Dr. Julie Holland, author of the new book Good Chemistry, says that when antidepressants don't work, psychedelic plant medicines (entheogens) can be used in conjunction with talk therapy to help work through traumas.
People treated with synthetic chemical antidepressants for years are never cured. These profitable pharmaceuticals are not "cures" and make no such promise. After years some patients hit a wall, a point when such treatment no longer even eases symptoms. Dr. Holland, a psychiatrist, says that's where entheogenic substances -- often called "psychedelic drugs" as if they were recreational highs -- could help.
Dr. Holland was in charge of the psychiatric emergency room at Bellevue Hospital on weekends from 1996 to 2005. She currently has a private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan, NY.
She's also a medical monitor in research by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS, maps.org), which involves, in part, developing psychedelics into prescription medications.
Her new book, Good Chemistry, explores how she thinks psychedelic drugs, including LSD (acid), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), MDMA (ecstasy) and cannabis (high CBD marijuana), might be used more widely in psychiatry to make treatment more efficient and effective.
"There are certain plant medicines in particular — things like psilocybin orayahuasca — that really help people not only explore their personal trauma," she says, but also "this feeling of unity and connection. People really come away from these experiences having a new perspective."
Some Buddhists see value in entheogen use.
Dr. Holland acknowledges that the use of psychedelic drugs (entheogens) in psychiatry is controversial — but she says the practice is slowly gaining acceptance.
"Good psychotherapy takes years and there are a lot of fits and starts," she says, "and people run away when things get too heavy. But it's changing more and more.... The data is so compelling that in my opinion, people in my profession have no excuse for not knowing what's going on." More
Enlightenment is far better than ignorance...even if it upsets our worldviews and comfort. Here British historian Bettany Hughes stands in front of the Bodhi tree in Enlightenment Grove (Bodh Gaya, India), where Siddhartha became the Buddha or "Awakened One."
When the Moors Ruled in Europe (Part 1/11) with British historian Bettany Hughes - the shocking truth.
This is a myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
[The "Dark" Ages, according to British historian Bettany Hughes, are said to have been when for seven centuries black Muslim Moors ruled Europe.]
Many of the innovations we think of as hallmarks of Western science actually had their roots in the Arab world of the Middle Ages, a period when much of Western Christendom stagnated in intellectual darkness.
Author Jim al-Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history in The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance.
Given current East-West tensions, his book could hardly be more timely.
With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe's cultural awakening, and poses the question:
Why did the Islamic world enter its own Dark Age after such a dazzling flowering?More
Blacks ruled Europe?
Seven centuries of hidden European/African history
Join British historian Bettany Hughes as she examines a purposely-buried, hidden, and forgotten chapter of European history -- the risemof Islamic culture in what is now Spain and Portugal (bordering Northern Africa).
Although generations of Spanish rulers have tried to expunge this era from the historical record, recent archeology and scholarship have shed fresh light on the black Moors who flourished in Al-Andalus for more than 700 years.
The fascinating documentary WHEN THE MOORS RULED IN EUROPE explodes racist stereotypes and offers shocking new insights.
Black lives used to matter
Discover the ingenious mathematics behind Granada's dazzling Alhambra Palace, trace El Cid's lineage to his black Moorish roots in Africa, and learn how the population of the Iberian peninsula in white Europe willingly converted to liberal Islam in droves.
Through interviews with noted scholars, see how Moorish advances in mathematics, science, astronomy, art, and agriculture helped propel the West out of its Dark Ages and into its Renaissance ("Rebirth").
What emerges is a richly detailed portrait of a sensuous, inquisitive, and remarkably progressive black African Islamic culture dominating Christian Europe.
[The Moors (the definition of these people is constantly changed to make them less African, less black, and less brilliant, and less Muslim/Islamic) were royalty beyond the peninsula. They ruled throughout Europe, as many artifacts and revealed histories show.]
When it comes to protests, the CIA and police state like some and not others. The corporate media is very much for anti-China demonstrations in Hong Kong and even U.S. intervention to fight China by proxy saying it is for humanitarian purposes. As a result we are attacked online and tracked by Chinese cyber agents mad at the U.S. government and its disaster capitalist policies.
There was massive looting during the anti-police brutality and Black Lives Matter demonstrations, but not from the looters the police ignored as they attacked peaceful demonstrators. It came from the government handing out trillions to private corporate entities. And nobody much noticed.
Dylan Ratigan foresees a grim future for America post-corporate bail out.
A psychiatrist becomes a psychedelic researcher to explore the science of "connection" — why we need it, how we’ve lost it, and how we might find it again.
We are suffering from an epidemic of disconnection that antidepressants (Zoloft, Prozac, Wellbutrin, SSRIs, and other allopathic toxins) and social media can’t fix.
This state of isolation puts us in “fight or flight, freeze or faint mode,” deranging sleep, metabolism, and libido.
What’s worse, we’re paranoid of others! This kill-or-be-killed mentality is no way to live. But when we feel safe and loved, we can rest, digest, and repair. We can heal.
And it is only in this state of feeling like we belong that we can open up to connection with others.
If I were a tabby cat on a tab of catnip.
In this powerful book Dr. Julie Holland M.D. helps us understand the science of connection as revealed in human experiences from the spiritual to the psychedelic, from the mental to the entheogenic.
The key is oxytocin — a neurotransmitter and hormone produced in our bodies that allows us to trust and bond. It fosters attachment between romantic partners, friends, mothers and infants, and even with our pets and strangers at a Coachella or Lollapalooza, Grateful Dead or Phish show.
There are many ways to reach this state of mental and physical wellbeing that modern medicine has overlooked. The implications for our happiness and health are profound.
We can find oneness in meditation, in community, or in awe at the beauty around us. Another option: psychedelic medicines that can catalyze a connection with "self," with nature, or with the cosmos.
This will help us heal ourselves and our world... if the government doesn't ban it again in the interest of Big Pharma's profit motive in selling lifelong "treatments" instead of actual natural (non-synthetic) "cures."More
"There are some MURDERERS with badges in there" [the police station] (latimes.com)
A supporter holds a shirt on June 19 in Denver to bring attention to the police-killing of Elijah McClain last August in Aurora, Colorado (David Zalubowski/AP).
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Colorado police officers involved in death of Elijah McClain taken off the streets The deadly police confrontation with a young Black man in the Denver suburb of Aurora is getting renewed scrutiny.
But he was black in Colorado. That's what we do.
Three killer cops in Colorado involved in the killing of a 23-year-old Black man with impunity last year have suddenly been moved to "non-enforcement" duties due to the heat created by the George Floyd protests.
The Aurora Police Department said the action was "done in an effort to protect those officers" who arrested McClain on Aug. 24, 2019 then used so much force and poor judgment that they ended up with his death on their hands.
"They are now [comfortably] working in a non-enforcement capacity," Detective Faith Goodrich said. "This can be in a variety of different assignments but is usually administrative in nature." [It's like a vacation with the same pay and privileges and perks.]
Officers wrapped up in the homicide of Mr. McClain -- Nathan Woodyard and Jason Rosenblatt -- were moved to desk duty on June 13, and Officer Randy Roedema was re-assigned on June 20, officials said.
They had a hand in killing McClain, who was pronounced dead on Aug. 27, 2019, three days after they confronted him when answering a call about a suspicious [i.e., young Black] person in the area.
Officers then applied a deadly chokehold as they escalated their aggressive confrontation, authorities have said [though they used euphemisms to conceal the gravity of the situation]….
The coroner for the counties of Adams and Broomfield determined that McClain's death was due to "undetermined causes." But he did not rule out whether the violent police chokehold, in addition to the shocking administration of the dangerous sedative ketamine (street name "Special K") paramedics chose to inject into Mr. McClain, might have contributed to his death.
Protesters across the nation have been calling for action against systemic racism and police brutality since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.More
What is KETAMINE? This medication is mainly used for starting and maintaining anesthesia. It induces a trance-like state while providing pain relief [Why would he need relief unless police had used excessive force?], sedation, and memory loss. Other uses include sedation in intensive care and treatment of pain... Common side effects include agitation, confusion, or hallucinations as the medication wears off. Elevated blood pressure and muscle tremors are also common....More
The information in this documentary will change the way we all think about the history of humanity's origins as recorded in the Bible and the far older texts it plagiarized.
In Escaping from Eden author Paul Wallis asks, Does the Book of Genesis teach that the [current version of the] human race was created by a God or engineered by ETs?Website:5thKind.TV
Wallis documents that the pre-Jewish compilers of the Bible were borrowing (plagiarizing) the story from a far older Sumerian account of creation.
Sumerians list kings with very long reigns.
The Annunaki, or “those who came from the heavens to earth,” are the creators -- and their origins are extraterrestrial. [In Buddhism, Jainism, and Vedic Hinduism, they are called asuras and devas, titans and "shining ones."]
Many of the world’s oldest myths claim that the governors of human societies began as domination established by superior beings they thought of as “gods.” The job of ruling was then handed over to human-hybrid kings.
The books of the Bible have their origin in ancient Sumerian texts. They tell the same story and pre-date biblical accounts by thousands of years. They document the existence of ancient aliens.
The Sumerian story begins with powerful and long-lived beings coming down from space -- the heavens, the stars, the sky. The Sumerian glyph for these beings is a symbol that points to the sky.
The Annunaki came from the heavens. They are the sky people. Why are we here? The Bible is a watered down version of the scary truth behind what really happened to earth in the past.
Mark S. Smith and many other scholars like Zecharia Sitchen have figured it out.
This information might be a lot to take in, so for help de-stressing, check out the mind and body relaxation channel with guided meditations scripted and read by Paul Wallis.
Gilgamesh was an annunaki-human hybrid king, whose tomb was discovered in Iraq and part of the reason for the US War was to extract DNA to confirm this in 2003, claims Wallis.
Sumerian (𒅴𒂠) is the language of ancient Sumer that was spoken in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). A cultural symbiosis developed in the 3rd millennium BC between the Sumerians and the Semitic-speaking Akkadians, with influence on each other evident in all areas
The Story of Calculus: How Europeans claimed credit for a subject that India invented
Math is a religion! (Calvin & Hobbes)
If humans discovered calculus, they were from India and many were Muslim. [More likely, these sophisticated forms of calculation were handed down from the akasha deva loka, extraterrestrial worlds with technologically advanced beings from space.]
Sadly, due to his heavy and hard to decipher accent, the Frustrated Indian is unlikely to convince many Occidentals, Europeans, or Caucasians and zero racists. But there is much evidence that what he is saying is exactly true. And he offers references at the end of the video.
What is the discover and history of calculus (the language of change and motion) and the great European mathematicians behind its unique discovery [except for its previous discovery in India and appropriated by colonial British and European invaders].
Who discovered it, how and why? What is it used for? What is the infinitesimal, the derivative, the limit? What are the inverse operations of integration and differentiation?
Get the European version of its discovery. The maths (the British way of saying mathematics) behind integral and differential calculus do not jump from Ancient Greek calculations to European to British/English maths of the 17th century. Was it Eudoxus, Archimedes, Cavalieri, Newton, and Leibniz or great mathematicians who used to get credit but were erased and replaced by a make believe racist history that abrogates to itself all useful discoveries as Eurocentric white supremacy?
Say hello to Venerable Manapo. He’s a Buddhist monk or bhikkhu in Warwickshire, England. TrueTube's cameras followed him around to find out what he does all day. What does any Buddhist nun or monk do all day?
