Jewel heist at the Louvre, France

What we worship: Monas over mountains

(Channel 4 News) No one cared about the Mona Lisa until someone stole it in 1911. Then it became famous, was recovered, became subjected to the Mandela Effect, and grew in fame every year since, until an entire wall then room became dedicated to it. When we visited, the rooms were beautiful, even the halls were grand, but the mob in front of this one painting was ridiculous. At that time it could still be photographed, but taking a photo of the photographers seemed more appropriate.

(CNN) "An amateur move," says a jewel thief of Louvre heist

Now it has a shield and guards, and goodness knows it's probably not the original, just a forgery with the real thing in a safe somewhere. The Louvre's security is behind the times, possibly because Pres. Macron's husband (and the couple's ridiculous fight with American Candace Owens about gender) and the riots in the streets are sucking all the oxygen and discretionary funds that should be applied to keeping the imperial booty and irreplaceable treasures in this pyramidal repository safe.

(Primal Space) The Greatest Art Heist in History: Hello, Mona Lisa

• Channel 4 News, Oct. 20, 2025; former jewel thief Larry Lawton, CNN, Oct. 20, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Protesters attack Mona Lisa with soup

The NY Post, 1/28/24; DW; Seth Auberon, Crystal Q., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What are you smirking at, B*tch? - Nothing, you see? Now my wry smile has gone away.

• What were they thinking?! Climate activists throw soup at the [bulletproof glass shied in front of the] 'Mona Lisa' (Smithsonian via MSN)

Protesters hurl soup at Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in Paris museum

(New York Post) A pair of female climate change activists hurled bright orange pumpkin soup at the Mona Lisa on Sunday at the Louvre (pronounced \lew'vrhh/) Museum in Paris as onlookers gasped, shocking new video shows.

Due to the Mandella Effect, she's different now.

“What is more important,” the crazed activists shouted in French, “art or the right to have a healthy and sustainable food system?”

The two caring females (young and old, of two very different generations) are members of the activist group called Riposte Alimetaire, or “Food Response,” which issued a statement saying the stunt was meant to highlight the need to protect the environment.

• Activists splatter 'Mona Lisa' with soup in Louvre (MSN)

Activists throw soup at Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa in Paris | DW News

(DW News) Jan. 28, 2024: Leonardo Da Vinci's world-famous painting "The Mona Lisa" has been attacked. Two climate change protesters threw soup at the priceless artwork, which is protected by thick bulletproof glass in Paris' Louvre Museum. The attackers then called for the reforms to the French agricultural system. #Paris #MonaLisa #Louvre

We want the original back!

“Two activists from the environmental movement ‘Riposte Alimentaire’ sprayed pumpkin soup on the armored glass protecting the Mona Lisa, this Sunday, January 28, 2024, around 10:00 am,” the museum said in a statement, according to CNN.

“The Louvre’s security staff immediately intervened.” [The world famous painting was not hurt in the slightest nor, apparently, was it meant to be. It's safe and well protected.]

• Read more at: nypost.com/2024/01/28/news/pr...  #monalisa #louvre #paris

Beyonce and Jay-Z sing in the Lourve (video)

Queen B, JZ; Washington Post; TBS; Bela, Crystal Quintero, S.Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(Washington Post, June 18, 2018) What is the meaning behind five pieces of art seen in the new Beyoncé and Jay-Z video dropped while they, The Carters, are on tour? Their joint video, “Apeshit,” was shot in the Louvre [loov] Museum in Paris. From the Mona Lisa to an Egyptian Sphinx, here is the meaning behind five of the art pieces seen in the video. More
 

Nagas in the News: Bus Beheading

Nagas (reptilians in Bud-dhist, Hindu, and Jain lore) are seen and unseen beings capable of great cruelty and irrational violence. Even mentally ill persons would not likely be inclined to great violence were they not driven on by a yakkha (ogre), asura (titan), rakshasa (demon), or naga. It's difficult to explain spontaneous cannibalism in ordinary terms. This is a follow up to an earlier WQ story of the Greyhound Bus Beheading.

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba – A Canadian judge ruled [3/5/09] that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible due to mental illness. The decision means Chinese immigrant Vince Li will be treated in a mental institution instead of going to prison. The family of victim Tim McLean said Li got away with murder. More>>

Vince Li, accused of stabbing, beheading, and cannibalizing another man on a Greyhound bus in Canada, is brought to a Portage La Prairie, Canada court on 8/5/08. Li pleaded not guilty at the start of his murder trial in Winnipeg on 3//3/09 (AP/The Canadian Press, John Woods).

Beheading and cannibalism victim Tim McLean's father Tim shows the tattoo of his son to media as his wife Nadine looks on outside the Law Courts in Winnipeg, Canada, on 3/5/09 after the end of the trial of Vince Li, the man who stabbed and beheaded McLean on a Greyhound Bus this past summer in Manitoba (AP/The Canadian Press, John Woods).

• VIDEO: The Louvre explores ancient Egyptian cult of afterlife