Death of MAGA: Trump's sinking ratings 📉

(Let's Be Clear with Ana Kasparian) Megyn Kelly pronounces Death of MAGA: Tucker Carlson

(BRAINFOREST) Is Dusti Duke Don Trump's little [rape] secret?

Trump's world is about to collapse

Scott Ritter: To all Americans, the world is about to collapse under Trump

(Thom Hartmann Program) Trump and The Odyssey: America's curse

 Zeus' Law and Theo-Xenia (Greek), tradition of welcoming strangers

(Occupy Democrats) Israel blows up World Central Kitchen, Ro Khanna

Pope's message to Israel on its genocide

(DemocracyNow.org) Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 21, 2025

Whose side will Trump take, Bibi's or Gaza's?

(MoneyControl) The American pope is taking a stand against Israel and fellow Chicagoan Dictator Prime Minister Benji Netanyahu, who was recruited and groomed by the CIA to take the leadership role in the new State of Israel, even through scandals and defeats that would have removed any other candidate from still holding the position.

Israeli intelligence has proof that Iran is a danger to us, so we're going to bomb them for their safety. We'll be taking out nuclear production sites, contaminating the area for millions of years.

Holy smoke, new pope! Roman Catholicism's new emperor is American from Chicago: Leo

I could Make Rome Great Again. I'm willing to buy the office like they used in the good old days

• (CBS News) Who is American Robert Francis Prevost, now the newly crowned Pope Leo XIV?

I approve of this Peruvian Petro to be the new Rock, the new Roman

Holy Roman Catholicism's St. Peter's Square

Pope Leo the 14th (Robert Francis Prevost), 69, from Chicago, USA (a graduate of Villanova University), a trusted confidante of outgoing (deceased) Pope Francis. This is The New Pope.

Chi Town's nice, nicer than the Rock

Pope Leo XIV is an Augustinian cardinal who spent a great deal of time in the Americas, particularly in Peru, as a dual-citizen.

It's an unbelievable development in world history as the temporal leader (tough guy Trump) and the spiritual leader are from the same country, a rich nation that now rules the rest of the world outright instead of just militarily, financially, and hegemonically (in terms of disproportionate influence).

• Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes first American pope (NPR)

Pope Benedict Arnold: Why, God, why not me?

What is it about Chicago to produce the CIA-groomed dictator of Israel (Bibi Netanyahu), CIA-groomed Barry Soetoro Obama, Trump's favorite historical figure (Al "Scarface" Capone), AND now this holy man, the world's first American pope? To be sure, there are other popes (head patriarchs of various Christian churches) in the world. The only explanation given so far? "He's the least American American," which is a nice epigram. If the US is a War Machine, Pope Leo is a man of peace.

MAGA is mad at Marxist pope

(TYT) MAGA is big mad over the Catholic Church's choice for pope

That was fast. It's as if he were pre-selected.

However, this is the continuation of the Holy Roman Empire that rules the world through devotion of more than a billion adherents (1.4 billion total and 1 in 5 Americans) and untold riches stored away in public and secret investment bank accounts all over the world and booty stored in the Vatican (City) in the Holy See.

The grandeur of the Holy Roman Empire headquarters, the palace at Saint Peter's Square

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Rob Prevost: a modest parish priest

The "Holy See" is its own independent country/city-state in the middle of Rome, where Mithras was for so long worshipped until being swapped out for Jewish Jesus Christ and, more importantly, his mother, Goddess Virgin Mary (Jewish Miriam).

Peter the Roman?

You forced me out too soon!

If this is "Peter the Roman," that must mean the USA is the new ROME, the new world-dominating imperial power. Prevost is Italian (ROMAN) and French, on his father's side, with a mother who's French, African, and Spanish, a dual citizen born in the U.S. but also possessing Peruvian citizenship. Peru is as happy as the U.S. about his selection.

• Who's the next Pope? Trump or 'Peter the Roman'?
• Pope coverage on rense.com (mediaarchives.gsradio.net)
• Growing treason at the Vatican -- and what’s ahead
• Will the next pope continue Francis' legacy with LGBTQ Catholics? Is the papal conclave gay enough? (NPR)
• VIDEO: What we know about Leo XIV, the new American pope

Italian Catholic Kimmel likes new pope

Trump 1st agreement, MAGA loses minds over pope, MTG’s dumb-assery

• First American Pope Makes History and MAGA Catholics Already Have Issues | Desi Lydic, The Daily Show
• Team Recovering Catholics, Wisdom Quarterly, COMMENTARY and compilation

Science: Not white, what are Irish?

Typical Black girl: Irish redhead (Suburban Men)

When Science called the Irish "Inferior"

My scientific measurements show his skull is
Blackoid regressive. Look at his forehead

(NYTN) March 7, 2025: Race is a social construct. Here's proof. Irish American history goes deeper than St Patrick's Day parades. The Irish weren’t always seen as "white," particularly not in England or America. In the 19th century, they were depicted as inferior and often compared to apes in racial hierarchies. This forgotten history later shaped their place in America — as social rejects. Here’s what really happened.

Sources: H. W. H. “The Races of Britain.” Science, vol. 7, no. 155, 1886, pp. 84–86. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1762109. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025. L.P. Curtis, Anglo-Saxons and Celts: A Study of Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England (1968) Nancy Stepan, The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1800-1960 Coates, James, Ph.D., F.A.S, and Mcmanus-Young Collection. Phrenology Made Easy. New York: F.M. Lupton, 1894. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/93131464/.

(Danielle Romero) How Irish Americans became White: finding roots

(Danielle Romero/NYTN) Who were the Black Irish?

• Danielle Romero (NYTN); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

N. Ireland: Double standard in Israel (BBC)

Novara Media, 10/23/23, Pat Macpherson, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Israel's double standard on Palestine called out on BBC Question Time

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Buddhist statistics in the US

Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Number of Buddhists

Accurate counts of Buddhists in the United States are difficult. Self-description has pitfalls. Because Buddhism is a cultural concept, individuals who self-describe as "Buddhists" may have little knowledge or commitment to Buddhism as a formal religion or meditative practice.

On the other hand, others may be deeply involved in meditation and committed to the Buddha-Dharma but may avoid or refuse another religious label like "Buddhist."

In the 1990s, Columbia University Prof. Robert A. F. Thurman (Uma Thurman's dad and close friend of the Dalai Lama) estimated there were 5,000.000 to 6,000,000 Buddhists in America.

In a 2007 Pew Research Center survey, at 0.7% Buddhism was the third largest religion in the US after nominal Christianity [Christian in name only] (78.4%, most of them Catholic), no religion (10.3%), and Judaism (1.7%) [120].

• 
  [There are about 300 to 333 million people in the USA. Some say, and this may be too hard for most Americans to believe, that there have never been even one million US Jews. The number, now at its highpoint, may only be 800,000. There are far more Muslims than that, and hardly anyone knows a Muslim. Most Jews are not recognizable as such. It is a religion, a cultural identity, a race, a club, a network, a haplotype, and a bad word no one can call somebody else without risking getting in a lot of trouble. Because Jews are so disproportionately represented in the media, faculty, and business, it just seems there must be millions and millions of them. That's how all social minorities are viewed. Social psychology has a demonstration experiment to prove it: Ask someone, your uncle or a stranger at school, "How many Jews are there? How many Latinos? How many Asians? How many Blacks? How many Middle Easterners? Add up the percentages. It will be higher than 100%, and we haven't even gotten to how many Anglos there are, which is the numerical majority. It has always been nauseating that in the university, the school paper was crying that "whites will soon be in the minority." How were they counting? It's far and away the largest group, even now decades later. They were adding up every other race into one lump and themselves into the other lump. When we become only 49% of the country (and who knows where the blended/mixed race people are being lumped), the "minorities" will be the majority. For everything else, everyone is segregated in the Four Food Groups of color, ignoring the reds and pinks, beiges and blends. We're either white, brown, yellow, or Black. That's all there is, and much like Mexico and Latin America under Spanish influence, it isn't really about race so much as it is about looks: shadeism.]
• 12 Things That Ruined Religion (msn.com)

In 2012 on the occasion of a visit from the Dalai Lama, U-T San Diego said there are 1.2 million Buddhist practitioners in the US, and of them 40% live in Southern California [121]. [Hooray for the Golden State!]

In 2008 the "Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Religious Landscape Survey" estimated American Buddhists at 0.7% of the American population. During the same year the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), estimated this same figure at 0.5%. ARIS estimated that the number of adherents rose by 170% between 1990 and 2000, reaching 1.2 million followers in 2008 [122]. According to William Wilson Quinn "by all indications that remarkable rate of growth continues unabated" [123].

But according to Robert Thurman, Scholars are unsure whether the reports are accurate, as Americans who might dabble in various forms of Buddhism may not identify themselves as Buddhist on a survey. That makes it difficult to quantify the number of Buddhists in the United States [122].

Others argued, in 2012, that Buddhists made up 1 percent of the American population (about three million people).[79] By the year 2050 Buddhism is projected to become the third largest major religious group in North America, after Christianity and Islam [124].

Demographics of Americans who become Buddhists

A sociological survey conducted in 1999 found that relative to the US population as a whole, Buddhist converts are proportionately more likely to be white, upper middle class, highly educated, and left-leaning in their political views.

In terms of race, only 10% of survey respondents indicated they were a race other than white, a matter that has been cause of some concern among Buddhist leaders.

Nearly a third of the respondents were college graduates. More than half held advanced degrees. [As in the past, it's the influential and educated (in the past the royals) in a society who take the first interest in what the historical Buddha taught, often referred to as the Dharma.

See you in yoga, Mic? - I'll be in the temple-dojo.

Politically, 60% identified themselves as Democrats, and Green Party affiliations outnumbered Republicans by 3 to 1.

New Buddhists were also proportionately more likely to have come from Catholic or Jewish backgrounds.

[Why would this be? There are more Catholics to begin with, as the largest religion/sect in the world. Trying to explain Jewish interest in Buddhism, yoga, or Hinduism is a little more difficult to decipher. Like Jesus (Jewish Issa or Joshua or "Son of Zeus"), their cultural trappings left them free and yearning for authentic and direct spiritual experiences. Most Jews, particularly American ones, are Jewish in a cultural or relational sense, not in a religious or spiritual sense. It used to seem odd that so many Jews took a particular interest in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition until one notices how many are avid vipassana or Theravada "insight meditation" advocates and yoga practitioners.

American JewBu: Change

Who were the hippies, beats, protesters, and college students? A grossly disproportionate number of Jews who had a radical influence on whole movements. Think of Abby Hoffman and Richard Alpert. Most have been Mahayana Buddhists, which is what 90% of all Buddhists are, since American interest in Buddhism flared in the Sixties, given that all Vajrayana practitioners are part of the Mahayana or "Great Vehicle" school. Vajrayana is just a Himalayan subsect of Mahayana, and Mahayana is so closely allied with Hinduism as to be difficult for most casual practitioners to notice the difference, with most also thinking that Taoist (think Yin☯️Yang) views are Buddhist.

Future Buddha (Maitreya) as a Central Asian king

Mahayana Buddhism, devotional Hinduism (Bhakti Yoga), and Christianity (particularly the Catholic version) are very much alike with the worship of central Mother figure, not that much mention of the central male figure except as a princely youth who set out on a question, and strong messianic tendencies, waiting for the Second Coming of Maitreya/Messiah. This "savior figure," the Future Buddha or all-wise-and-compassionate teacher is a very popular belief at the root of Mithraism, which was the Roman religion before Roman Catholicism, the center of worship being the Vatican/Holy See. Mithra = Maitri = Maitreya (The Friend) = Messiah.]

More than half of these adherents came to Buddhism through reading books or other written material on the topic, with the rest coming by way of martial arts and friends or acquaintances.

The average age of the respondents was 46. Daily meditation was their most commonly cited Buddhist practice, with most meditating 30 minutes a day or more [125].

In 2015 a Pew Foundation survey found 67% of American Buddhists were raised in a religion other than Buddhism [126]. Of these, 61% said their spouses had a religion other than Buddhism [126].

The survey was conducted only in English and Spanish, so it may under-estimate Buddhist immigrants who speak Asian languages.

A 2012 Pew study found that Buddhism is practiced by 43% of surveyed Vietnamese Americans, 25% of Japanese, 15% of Chinese, 6% of Koreans, and 1% of Filipinos [127]. More

Catholics protest Dodgers: Sisters of Indulgence

I'm the pervy Nazi Youth pope who got fired, but no one is supposed to know that (Benedict).

Catholic Christians gather to protest Dodgers' "[Gay] Pride Night" event honoring LGBTQ+ "nun" [drag queen] group

(KTLA 5) Friday, 4:00 PM, June 16, 2023. Hundreds of religious protestors staged a procession outside Dodger Stadium Friday night in Los Angeles (near the city's downtown and its world-famous nightspot Hollywood) as the baseball team’s annual Pride Night kicks off in response to the honoring of an LGBTQ+ “nun” group.

(USA Today) Nonbinary, non-cisgender, gay, glitter goofiness for God?

After weeks of debate and controversy, The Los Angeles Dodgers will be honoring The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with a Community Hero Award prior to the Dodgers Game against the San Franciso Giants.

In a flyer advertising the procession, organizers said protestors will “unite in prayerful response to Dodgers’ godless decision to honor blasphemous, Christ-mocking ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.’”

The Sisters are a group of LGBTQ+ “nuns” who focus on philanthropic work while using “humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit,” according to the group’s website.

KTLA's Rachel Menitoff reports on Friday, June 16th, 2023.

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Opting out of Catholicism (NPR audio)

"A Quest for De-Baptism," NPR.org (Weekend Edition, Jan. 29, 2012); Wisdom Quarterly

(NPR) In France, an elderly man is fighting to make a formal break with the Catholic Church.

He's taken the church to court over its refusal to let him nullify his baptism, in a case that could have far-reaching effects.

Seventy-one-year-old Rene LeBouvier's parents and his brother are buried in a churchyard in the tiny village of Fleury in northwest France. He himself was baptized in the Romanesque stone church and attended mass here as a boy.

"The Voice of God is Government" (Bad Religion)

LeBouvier says this rural area is still conservative and very Catholic, but nothing like it used to be. Back then, he says, you couldn't even get credit at the bakery if you didn't go to mass every Sunday.

LeBouvier grew up in that world and says his mother once hoped he'd become a priest. But his views began to change in the 1970s, when he was introduced to free thinkers.

Biblical priests beat, molest, rape, and view of women (MORE)

"They sent me a copy of my records, and in the margins next to my name, they wrote that I had chosen to leave the church," he says.

As he didn't believe in God anymore, he thought it would be more honest to leave the church. So he wrote to his diocese and asked to be un-baptized.

Beautiful nuns (on stools) of a corrupt and patriarchal institution engaged in child molestation, cover ups, malfeasance, and worse (catherinemeyersartist.blogspot.com)

That was in the year 2000. A decade later, LeBouvier wanted to go further. In between were the pedophile scandals and the pope preaching against condoms in AIDS-racked Africa, a position that LeBouvier calls "criminal."

Again, he asked the church to strike him from baptismal records. When the priest told him it wasn't possible, he took the church to court.

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schemes orchestrated by the Catholic Church: English, Spanish, Portuguese

Last October, a judge in Normandy ruled in his favor. The diocese has since appealed, and the case is pending.

"One can't be de-baptized," says Rev. Robert Kaslyn, dean of the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America. More

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Pope sorry priests raped Irish kids (video)

Al Jazeera; Wisdom Quarterly

Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Catholic Church, has reprimanded Irish bishops for "grave errors of judgement" in their handling of clerical [trauma, homosexual sodomy, child molestation, beatings, brutality, chronic pedophilia, and satanic ritual sexual abuse he simply refers to as] sex abuse.

[Catholics in the Netherlands are suffering rates almost as high as are German Catholics.] In a pastoral letter to the Irish faithful on Saturday, he ordered a Vatican investigation into the Church's cover-up of the abuse of thousands of children [with molestation and brutality rates higher than any other Catholic country in the world] between the 1930s and the 1990s.

However, there was no mention of any Vatican responsibility in the scandal and no specific punishments meted out to bishops blamed by victims and Irish government-ordered investigations for having covered up years of abuse.

In the letter, Benedict said: "I am truly sorry" for the harm done to generations of Irish Catholics who suffered "sinful and criminal" abuse at the hands of priests, brothers, and nuns. "It is understandable that you find it hard to forgive or be reconciled with the church," he said. "In her name, I openly express the shame and remorse that we all feel." More

It's not gay, just "horseplay" with some bleeding

Irish Catholics seem to have suffered the most child molestation, sodomy, brutality, and psychological torment by bisexual bishops, priests, nuns, and other "celibate" Church officials. But Dutch (Netherlands) and German Catholics also suffer horrific rates of abuse at the hands of local Vatican franchises in Europe, to say nothing of Latin American and North American rates, which get the most attention as if pedophilia were a "liberal" American aberration.

• Dutch inquiry highlights Catholic child abuse
• Catholic Church abuse in Netherlands investigated with thousands of victims
• Making Web easier for bored priests to navigate
  

Court rules: Buddha’s fine, God is not

Wisdom Quarterly

Left to right: 1. Sumerian god, 2. Shakyamuni Buddha, 3. Jesus (St. Issa), 4. "Laughing Buddha" (Zen master Hotei), 5. blue Krishna, 6. holy cow (gopis), 7. shaman Tiki idol, 8. sinister crouching figure. (Interpretation: Wisdom Quarterly; image: weheartit.com).

(Cal Catholic) Appeals court says school can force California teacher to remove patriotic classroom banners mentioning God.

SAN DIEGO, California - A Poway high school math teacher who displayed patriotic banners in his classroom that mentioned God has lost his appeal in federal court and been ordered to pay substantial court costs.

Brad Johnson, a teacher at Westview High School in Poway, a suburb of San Diego, was ordered by school officials in 2007 to take down classroom banners [after 25 years on display] that contained historical slogans such as “In God We Trust, ” “One Nation under God, ” as well as the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, because, school officials said, “they may offend a Muslim student.”

...According to the Thomas More Law Center, which represented Johnson, the school district allowed religious classroom displays by other teachers, including one of a 35- to 40-foot string of Tibetan prayer flags with images of Buddha; a poster with the lyrics from John Lennon’s anti-religion song “Imagine;” a poster with Hindu [political] leader Mahatma Gandhi’s “7 Social Sins;” a poster of Muslim leader Malcolm X; and a poster of [Tibetan political "pope" and] Buddhist leader, the 14th Dalai Lama. More

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Pope starts "Holy Week" amid sex abuse crisis

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI opened Holy Week on Sunday amid one of the most serious crises facing the Church in decades, with protesters in London demanding he resign and calls in Switzerland for a central registry for pedophile priests. Pope Joe (aka, Benedict) made no direct mention of the scandal in his "Palm" Sunday homily. But one of the prayers, recited in Portuguese during Mass, was "for the young and for those charged with educating them and protecting them [and not homosexually raping them]." More>>

Video: Catholics shaken as child molestation scandals reach pope (AFP) - Slideshow: Papacy and the Vatican - Video: Pope under fire (ABC News) - Video: Vatican deals with Widening abuse scandal (ABC News) - Lawyer who found documents long pursued Church (AP)

Baby Boom in USA / Pope Dislikes Condoms

ATLANTA – More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation's history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday. There is both good and bad news from the more than 4.3 million births:

• U.S. population is more than replacing itself.
• Teen birth rate is up for the second year in a row.
• VIDEO: Teen Pregnancy on the Rise (ABC News)

The birth rate rose slightly for women of all ages, and births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend begun years ago. More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or older. More>>

Pope in Uproar over Anti-condom comments

A man dances alongside a "walking condom" at an AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa. Pope Benedict XVI's denunciation of condom use to prevent the spread of HIV sparked an international outcry on Wednesday as he toured Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease(AFP/File/Yoav Lemmer).

Pope sparks condom backlash on Africa visit
Pope Benedict XVI urged Cameroon's bishops Wednesday to defend the rights of the poor and essential values of the African family, on the second day of a visit dominated by his opposition to the use of condoms (AFP via Yahoo! News).

AIDS activists blast pope's rejection of condoms
Pope Benedict XVI's denunciation of condom use to prevent the spread of HIV sparked an international outcry on Wednesday as he toured Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease (AFP via Yahoo! News).

Pope Benedict XVI gives a press conference on the flight to Cameroon on 3/17/09. France slammed the pope's claim that condoms are worsening the AIDS epidemic, saying it would harm global efforts to tackle the spread of the disease (AFP/File/Christophe Simon).

Vatican defends pope condoms stand, criticism mounts
The Vatican on Wednesday defended Pope Benedict's opposition to the use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS as scientists and politicians criticized it as unrealistic and dangerous (Reuters via Yahoo! News).

Pope Benedict XVI courts new controversy
Pope Benedict XVI, fresh from an uproar over his decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust denier, has added AIDS activists to the growing list of groups he has angered (AFP via Yahoo! News).

France attacks pope condom comments
France on Wednesday slammed Pope Benedict XVI's claim that condoms are worsening the AIDS epidemic, saying it would harm global efforts to tackle the spread of the disease (AFP via Yahoo! News).

Pope in Africa says church must help the poor
Pope Benedict XVI urged Cameroon's bishops Wednesday to defend the traditional African family from the dangers of modernity and secularization and to spare the poor from the impact of globalization (AP via Yahoo! News).

Pope wrong on condoms say Catholic groups
US rights advocates and a Roman Catholic group on Wednesday condemned Pope Benedict XVI for saying condom use does little to help fight AIDS as he began a trip to Africa, the continent hardest hit by the deadly viral illness (AFP via Yahoo! News).