Terrifying noises are coming from a HAUNTED TOWN in Rajasthan, India 🇮🇳
(Itchy Boots) KULDHARA, India - In this episode, Itchy Boots leaves Jaisalmer and rides to Jodhpur. On the way out, she stops at the abandoned haunted town called the village of Kuldhara.
Want to learn how to use drones, GoPros, and 360 cameras to film your own solo motorcycle adventure? Check out: itchyboots.com/academy. This is where she teaches all her advanced filming techniques, including getting drone shots while riding.
Buddhism in the Netherlands: The first awareness of Buddhism in the Netherlands can be traced back to early books [2] with references to Buddhism appearing in 1651 [3], 1843 [4], and 1878 [5], with the first book on Buddhism being written in the Dutch language in 1879 [6]. The turn of the century saw more popular books on Buddhism published in Dutch... More
15 strange and crazy things only found in the Netherlands
We're the original flower people.
(Discoverize) First, what is this poor place in Europe called? It's called both the Netherlands (maybe because it's below sea level and constantly at risk of being underwater) and Holland, which is a coastal region of the country.
Second, this is the land of the Dutch, like The Little Dutch Boy (not to be confused with the Deutsche speaking people of Pennsylvania, who speak "Pennsylvania Dutch," which is German).
Third, welcome to Discoverize, which dives into the most exciting and unbelievable things that the world has to offer. From ancient artifacts to mind-blowing scientific theories, there's never a dull moment on this channel. Join in to embark on a thrilling journey of discovery and wonder about Holland. Get ready to have socks knocked off feet by the amazing things uncovered. Whether viewers are lifelong learners or just looking for a good time, this channel is sure to entertain and educate. Buckle up and get ready for an unforgettable ride!
On one thing, all demonstrators are agreed: "Ceasefire now" (except pro-Israel war criminals)
We were depending on the ICJ to do everything all at once? That was like expecting a government agent in the Mueller investigation of charging, prosecuting, and bringing down Donald Trump when he had the chance. It will take more time, but it's historic what the court decided.
Guilty or not, there will be no ceasefire.
In a highly anticipated ruling, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in the Netherlands has found that there is a “real and imminent risk” that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
And the ICJ supported “at least some” of the provisional measures the plaintiff, South Africa, had requested when it brought the case in order to rein in Israel’s war crimes and genocidal military assault.
We demand an immediate ceasefire.
Though the ruling falls short of calling for an immediate ceasefire, analysts say it is nevertheless a significant milestone.
Democracy Now! discusses the “unprecedented” decision by the World Court with a panel of experts:
Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu,
genocide scholar Raz Segal, and
scholar of colonialism Mahmood Mamdani.
So we go kill more Arabs, Bibi? (IDF)
“It becomes imperative upon the world community to now act,” says Buttu. “This is the beginning of a process of isolating Israel,” adds Segal.
How I see the US after living in Europe for five years
(David Wen) Feb. 19, 2023. UNITED STATES
- What is America like after experiencing life in Europe? Everything's BIG. Consumerism. Gun violence. Homelessness. Police abuse. "What do you do for work?"
This is how I see the USA after living in the Netherlands for five years. Sometimes it takes leaving a place for one to truly understand the pros and cons of that place. There are things I love and dislike about the US. Enjoy this short movie.
🇺🇸🇳🇱 David
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😁 WHO I AM:
I'm David, a Californian living in Amsterdam. I make videos about life in the Dutch world, hiking and traveling, and the Camino de Santiago.
🔸 If you live in the Netherlands, I'd love to interview you and hear your story.
Email: hidavidwen@gmail.com
CIA Operative the 14th Dalai Lama (dalailama.com); CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly
Compassion and Technology
HH the 14th Dalai Lama, Ven. Tenzin Gyatso, joins in two discussions, one on "Robotics, Telepresence, and Artificial Intelligence" and another on "Sickness, Aging, and Health" at De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, Netherlands, European Union, on September 15, 2018.
(TIME Feb. 28, 2017) Crowds gather to celebrate Mardi Gras, or "Fat Tuesday," New Orleans
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Quick, more beads for Shania Twain!
(WQ) Today is Mardi Gras (French for "Fat Tuesday") before Wednesday as "Lent" begins for the majority of people on the planet, who are nominal Catholics due to the Holy Roman Empire's lingering success from Mithra Headquarters at Vatican, Inc. Italy is a relatively new country, formed in 1861.
Before that, it was the Papal States when the Pope was a "god-king," ruling spiritual and secular matters, a form of governance followed by Tibetan Buddhists at the seat of power of their former Himalayan empire run from Potala Palace with a Dalai Lama and other rival lamas just like the papal system in what became Italy. It's clear these were regents for a sky "king" or "kings" who came, set up shop, and promised to return.
Faraway Ladakh, India/Tibet, is not so different than rugged Israel but higher (James Tissot)
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I'm supposed to be the Messiah, Sid. - Go for it.
The Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhists are still waiting for Maitreya ("Messiah") the Future Buddha to "come again," not as Shakyamuni Buddha who has attained nirvana and completely transcended rebirth, but of a recurring lama or rimpoche who comes again and again to guide his people, the Tibetans.
Could these two systems possibly have arisen independently? No, of course not.
(MardiGras.com) Watch Rex, King of Mardi Gras and Carnival, roll down St. Charles Avenue.
"One time of year people can act like fools"
Float riders toss beads during Krewe of Bacchus Mardi Gras parade, New Orleans, 2-26-17.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) - The streets of New Orleans are filled with costumed revelers, dazzling floats featuring kings and queens, and people of all ages screaming [and flashing breasts] for trinkets and beads. Lots of beads. Tuesday marks the culmination of the Carnival season, which started January 6.
It may be Mardi Gras, but don't DUI.
Mardi Gras is "the one time of year people can act like fools and get away with it," said one reveler [forgetting that Halloween and New Year's Eve are massive events], Craig Channell. Channell, his wife, Darlene Channell, and friend Dian Walsh were visiting from Tampa, Florida.
Host Bill Tucker pulled a wagon holding a big cooler and four roll-up chairs. The group was among 30 or so people who took the 7:00 am ferry Tuesday to Canal Street. The crowd included people in tutus and a half-dozen pirates.
Let loose, be who you want to be (AP).
The biggest parades take place along the St. Charles Avenue parade route, where the Krewe of Zulu kicked off the morning's parades and then was followed by the Krewe of Rex. Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Walking Club strutted from the famed Commander's Palace restaurant to the French Quarter, tossing beads and doubloons to recordings of his music.
This one year, a guy drove into the crowd.
Fountain, a clarinetist, died in August of last year, but the club members -- decked out from hat to shoes in nearly fluorescent spring green -- were carrying on the tradition.
The sidewalk along St. Charles Avenue near Canal Street barely had room for pedestrians. People were sitting two rows of chairs deep while families had set up ladders with seats on top for their children to sit on and catch throws. More
A CT scan reveals the body of a nearly 1,000-year-old mummified Buddhist monk inside a statue of the Buddha. [However, it is not likely meant to be the Buddha but the "immortalized" monk himself as a saint or ascetic (Drents Museum/Discovery.com).
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Monk is made into statue of himself not Buddha
Researchers at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands made a shocking discovery when they imaged an ancient Chinese statue and found a nearly 1,000-year-old mummy inside.
Sitting in the lotus position, the mummy fits within the statue perfectly.
"On the outside, it looks like a large statue of [the] Buddha," the museum said in a release. "Scan research has shown that on the inside, it is the mummy of a Buddhist monk who lived around the year 1100."
Glowing through the statue's golden cast, the human skeleton is believed to belong to Buddhist master Liu Quan, a member of the Chinese Meditation School [Ch'an the Chinese pronunciation of the Buddhist practice of Pali jhana, "meditative absorption," Sanskrit dhyana].
To further investigate the mummy, the researchers took the statue to the Meander Medical Center in Amersfoort [Netherlands] and carried out an endoscopy and additional CT scans.
They found out that Liu Quan's internal organs had been removed and replaced with scripts covered in Chinese writing.
The museum speculates Liu Quan may have "self-mummified" in order to become a "living Buddha."
Practiced mainly in Japan, self-mummification was a grueling process that required a monk to follow a strict 1,000-day diet of nuts and seeds in order to strip the body of fat. A diet of bark and roots would follow for another 1,000 days.
At the end of this period, the monk began drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap of the Japanese varnish tree, normally used to lacquer bowls and plates. The tea caused profuse vomiting as well as a rapid loss of bodily fluids, possibly making the body too poisonous to be eaten by bacteria and insects.
A living skeleton, the monk was then placed in a stone tomb barely larger than his body, which was equipped with an air tube and a bell.
Researchers thoughtremains dating back to the 11th or 12th Century were in the statue, but the CT scan revealed that the mummified monk's organs had been removed (Daily Mail).
Never moving from the lotus position, the monk would ring the bell each day to let those outside know that he was still alive. When the bell stopped ringing, the monk was presumed dead, the air tube removed and the tomb sealed.
After another 1,000 days the tomb would be opened to check whether the monk had been successfully mummified. Of the hundreds of monks that tried this horrifying process, only a few dozen actually became self-mummified and venerated in temples as [an actual] Buddha.
Budapest has Buddhism?
Researchers aren't certain when or how this monk's organs were then removed and replaced with scripts.
The Buddha statue is currently on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Budapest [NHMUS.hu/en]. It will remain there until May.More
Russian archaeologists resume excavation in a remote site near Arctic Circle to solve mystery of mummies clad in copper masks (Kate Baklitskaya/The Siberian Times).
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Copper, reindeer, beaver, wolverine, bear
The artifacts discovered near the copper-clad mummies included an iron combat knife, bracelets, silver medallions, and bronze figurines. The archaeologists also found bowls originating in Persia [Iran, Central Asia, geopolitical Middle East], some 3,700 miles to the southwest, dating from the 10th or 11th centuries. The finding suggests that around one millennium ago Siberia was not a remote and inhospitable site but an important trading crossroad (Natalya Fyodorova/Siberian Times).
The archaeologists admitted the graves feature burial rites they had never seen before. They hope to solve the riddle on the mysterious people by carrying further excavations and genetic tests (Kate Baklitskaya/The Siberian Times).
Archaeologists found 34 1,000-year-old shallow graveswith seven male adults, three male infants, and one female child. Buried with a hoard of artifacts, some of the bodies had shattered or missing skulls and smashed skeletons (Natalya Fyodorova/The Siberian Times).
Archaeologists investigating the Tuscan island of Elba have identified remains of villa belonging to real-life individual who inspired a principal character in epic tale of Ben-Hur.
Pyramids, Stonehenge, Richard III, Siberia, Asteroid, Ancient Villa (news.discovery.com)
With St.Nick's entry comes racial
controversy: Police detained anti-Black Pete demonstrators wearing
T-shirts reading "No to Black Pete" as St. Nicholas arrived in Gouda,
Netherlands, Nov. 15, 2014. Black Pete (Dutch Zwarte Piet), the traditional black-faced sidekick of Santa Claus (Sinterklaas),
walked side-by-side with yellow-colored "Cheese Petes" and "Cookie
Petes," a nod to the city's most famous products, but also a concession
to critics of the traditional Black Petes. The children's fairy tale
that has delighted kids for generations is being framed as a very
politicized debate in the Netherlands, where discussion about the place
in society of immigrants has simmered for years. (AP/mail.com)
"Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" (Sundance, 2014)
Missouri: We were thinking we'd execute them then leave them lying around for everybody to see. At least that was the plan. Y'know, keep everybody in their place. Makes our job of keeping them down easier (dayandadream.com).
"F the police" reads the mailbox, but police intend to F the community (slate.com, Aug. '14)
Ferguson: police state racism, murder of Mike Brown, provoking riots (socialesteemmedia)
(DN!) A new film explores how African American communities have used the medium of photography to shape how they are represented. "Through A Lens Darkly" is directed and produced by Thomas Allen Harris, who shares his own family's history in the film. Allen Harris is also the creator of the related project, the Digital Diaspora Family Road Show. Both were inspired in part by the book, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present by Deborah Willis, who also produced the film. Allen Harris joins Democracy Now! from the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where his movie premiered.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time
galvanized the U.S. and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil
rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early
life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of
racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative
document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the
centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both
black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by
The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession,
deposition, testament, and chronicle...all presented in searing,
brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our
literature.
(RYF) This is an excerpt from Baldwin's N-gger, spoken in 1969 in London about the Black experience in the USA and how it relates to the Caribbean and
Great Britain.
Ferguson October: Thousands march in St. Louis for police reform and the arrest of killer-cop Darren Wilson
Return of the Ferguson War Zone? Mo. Enacts State of Emergency ahead of Mike Brown Grand Jury
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency in advance of the grand jury’s pending decision in the Police Officer Darren Wilson murder case in the Michael Brown shooting. On Monday, Gov. Nixon issued an executive order to activate the state’s National Guard in response to what he called "the possibility of expanded unrest." Nixon cited the protests in Ferguson and the St. Louis area since Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was killed by police officer Darren Wilson on August 9. The grand jury has been meeting for nearly three months, and protests are expected to escalate if they choose not to indict. But while state officials say they fear violence, protesters say they fear a return to the militarized crackdown that turned their community into a war zone. As the grand jury nears a decision and all sides prepare for the unknown under a state of emergency, we are joined by two guests: Jeff Smith, a New School professor and former Missouri state senator whose new book is Ferguson: In Black and White, and Montague Simmons, chair of the St. Louis-based Organization for Black Struggle and a key organizer in the movement that has emerged since unarmed teenager Michael Brown’s murder.
France's Muslim "face veil" (burka) ban is just the latest
controversial law aimed at assimilating new immigrants in Europe. The
Netherlands now requires Dutch fluency to become a citizen. More
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.
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