How to get rich now: capitalism (M. Parenti)

(Free Speech TV) The fake philosophy behind capitalism | Michael Parenti

• “The wealth of the few rests on the poverty of the many”
• Cicero: The rich pauci (“few”) in the Roman Senate
• The 99% vs. the 1%? It's much smaller a group than 1%
• The secret to instant wealth now: Find a product, sell a lot of it, and cash in as you laugh all the way to the bank
• Play the Market: “Buy low, sell high”
• Dead Kennedys: “You’re a star-belly Sneetch, you suck like a leech/ You want everyone to act like you/ Kiss ass while you b*tch so you can get rich/ But your boss gets richer off you”
• The Grayzone with Max Blumenthal
• 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film

Michael Parenti spoke truth to power: CIA complicit in assassination of JFK

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Get rich with artificial intelligence?

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Capitalism: extract energy | Sin | Religion

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(Prof Jiang Media) The SECRET extraction of human energy - Prof. Jiang Xueqin

Why the Elite practice the Religion of 'Sin' | Prof. Jiang Xueqin

Protestant-Catholic: Why we traded Salvation for wealth | Prof. Jiang Xueqin

Dalai Lama, only money makes me happy

(༄།ནང་ཆོས།། ☸️) Dalai Lama: Does inner happiness come from money? #Buddhism #love #fypシ

Greed is good [karma], Snidely Whiplash?

Yeah, but, hey, Dolly Lamar, I like money. I love money. My Christian friends, who all want to be rich, say "THE LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil" (Ecclesiastes 5:10, 1 Timothy 6:10). I don't know what "evil" they're talking about, but I'm pretty sure the historical Buddha's main donor, Anathapindika (whose name means "giver of alms," "feeder of the hungry," born Sudatta), was super rich merchant banker, a billionaire in his day and one of the "noble ones," that is, an enlightened person (stream enterer, the first stage of awakening). So it seems to me that it isn't "money" that's the problem so much as the clinging to it -- craving, grasping, longing, yearning, striving, and being greedy and rapacious for it. I'll never have enough. There is no "enough" of an intangible idea of "rich" or "wealthy" or "having enough."

(Laugh Factory) Joe Wong at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood on religion

• Dalai Lama via ༄།ནང་ཆོས།།; Joe Wong on religion in USA; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Gen Z mindset is like Medieval China's

Then as now, it's all about looksmaxxing to be tough and look tough! Bang your face!

(Medieval Mindset) Why Gen Z culture is basically Medieval China

Crazy Alex Jones wasn't wrong about gay frogs? - RFK Jr.: "I'm declaring war on fat gay kids"

Ghetto snack foods, alcohol, sugar, caffeine. - Vote MAGA or Dem to be naive and stupid?

• VIDEO: Alex Jones, financially ruined, cries on TV
• Atrazine (gender bending pesticide toxin)?
• Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) - PMC

(PopMojo) Ariana Grande, comedic genius, acts out, SNL impersonations

Generation timeline simple - Gen Z in the United States - Wikipedia

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• Ariana Grande: more Millennial, Z, or Zillennial?
• Tang Dynasty and the History of China
• Outline of ancient China

Lottery: Mega Millions jackpot millions

Brian Bushard, Forbes (MSN, 2/21/24); Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What's luck? Random chance? Falling ass backwards into it? Or Dr. Gallenberger's method?

The Mega Millions jackpot surged to $525 million Wednesday morning, making it the 12th biggest in the game’s history (Getty Images © provided by Forbes).

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Liquid Luck: Good Fortune HB

The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to a mouth-watering $525 million today (Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024) morning, after no successful tickets were drawn Tuesday night, making the jackpot the 12th biggest in the history of the game, though a lucky winner would see less than half of that amount after federal taxes are deducted.

Key Facts

A lucky ticket purchaser and holder who matches all five white balls and one “megaball” to claim the grand prize would have the choice of receiving the massive payout in 30 annual installments or as a one-time lump sum of $247.1 million, by far the more popular option among lottery winners.

Under the lump sum route, the winner’s payout would be reduced by a mandatory 24% federal tax withholding, cutting the prize to just under $187.8 million, while a federal marginal rate as high as 37% — depending on the winner’s taxable income and other tax deductions — could bring it down to just over $155.6 million.

If the winner opts for the annual installments, a full 37% federal marginal rate would reduce each payment to roughly $11 million.

State taxes could cut even more out of the grand prize, though not every state taxes lottery winnings. More

• How to start getting lucky: Dr. Gallenberger
• Powerball winning numbers for Feb. 21 drawing: Jackpot rises to nearly $350 million

Is "playing the lottery" gambling? (DN 27)

The Buddha gave this advice in The Book of the Sixes (Anguttara Nikaya, VI). We all want six things, one of which is wealth. The question is, Should we pray for it? Is petitionary prayer to some power the way to get it? The Buddha asks, If prayer were able to get it for us, who would not already have it? Better than praying is action (karma) so that one realizes the results without even asking for them. What deed results in receiving?

What is dumb luck?

LA Dodgers buy Japanese phenom Yamamoto

KTLA.com, AP.org; Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.) Wisdom Quarterly

Bought and sold like modern chattel

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just over six years after Yoshinobu Yamamoto [hired for hundreds of millions in a 12-year contract] watched a playoff game from the raucous Dodger Stadium stands and decided he absolutely had to play in the major leagues one day, the right-hander put on his white No. 18 jersey and a blue cap in the center field pavilion.

The consensus best pitcher outside North America reached one of his goals Wednesday, joining the Dodgers on a 12-year contract that’s reportedly the largest and longest ever guaranteed to a major league pitcher.

Yamamoto shows Americans how baseball is played.

• LA Dodgers officially introduce Yoshinobu Yamamoto (KTLA) “I am beyond ecstatic to become a member of this historic franchise,” Yamamoto said at Wednesday’s press conference. “And I cannot express how much it means to me to be able to call Los Angeles my new home.”
• VIDEO: How Yamamoto got all that money (Jomboy Media)
• Dodgers' Double Play: Yamamoto to join Ohtani (laist.com)
• Is he Zen from Bizen or Shinto from San'yō? He's capitalist now. Who is Yoshinobu Yamamoto? Meet Japanese star
• These American Buddhist monastics want their faith to be known for more than just mindfulness | WUNC

But the 25-year-old ace of Japan’s top league won’t be satisfied without many chances to experience the Los Angeles playoff atmosphere he absorbed as a teenager watching Kenta Maeda on the mound at LA's Chavez Ravine in 2017.

Japanese Buddhist monks compete in test of skills in the Japanese style

While he plays alongside Shohei Ohtani with his star-studded new club, Yamamoto also intends to inspire any dreaming youngsters in the Dodger Stadium stands.

“From today moving forward, I promise to all the fans of LA that I will focus my everything to become a better player, and to become a world champion as a member of the Dodgers,” Yamamoto said through his interpreter.

“I will stop simply admiring the players that I have looked up to, but rather strive to become the player that others want to become.” Yoshinobu Yamamoto joins the LA Dodgers, vows to compete for championships alongside Ohtani | KTLA

Yamamoto will learn English now that he's rich

"Rewired with Dr. Joe Dispenza" (Gaia TV)

Dr. Joe Dispenza (gaia.com); Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I can make you supernatural. Yes, even you.

Author, lecturer, chiropractor, researcher, and star of What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Dr. Joe Dispenza’s profound work has touched the lives of millions, enabling them to conquer pain, chronic conditions, and even what were once thought to be terminal illnesses.

Through the power of neuroscience, epigenetics [the study of the genes that turn other genes on and off], and quantum physics, Dr. Joe shows the way to greater health and self-actualization.

I could have done this myself...if I knew how.

In his first-ever Gaia.com series, Rewired, Dr. Joe teaches viewers how to rewire their brain and recondition their body to go beyond our current limitations and become supernatural. Discover more of Dr. Dispenza’s remarkable work on Gaia. More

ABOUT: Dr. Joe Dispenza caught the public’s eye from the film What the Bleep Do We Know!? He is a researcher, chiropractor, and New York Times bestselling author, who explores the science behind spontaneous remissions. He empowers people to change from the inside out by combining quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics. He explores the effects of meditation on how people can heal themselves.

He received a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Life University and did his post-graduate training with a focus on neuroscience and cellular biology in response to memory formation, aging, and longevity.

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Five benefits to obtain through wealth (sutra)

Dhr. Seven and Amber Dorrian Adiya Sutra (AN 5.41) translation, Wisdom Quarterly

Buddha, Phutthamonton, Nakorn-Pratom province, Thailand (Gift-of-Light/flickr.com)

   

Then Anathapindika the [Buddhist multi millionaire stream-enterer] householder went to the Buddha, bowed, and sat respectfully to one side.

 

While sitting there the Blessed One said to him: "There are five benefits that can be obtained by wealth. What are these five?

 

1. "A disciple of the noble ones -- making wise use of the wealth earned through one's own effort and enterprise, amassed through one's own strength, and piled up through effort (sweat), honorable wealth rightly gained -- provides for oneself pleasure and satisfaction and maintains it. One provides one's mother and father with pleasure and satisfaction and maintains it. One provides one's children, spouse, slaves, servants, and assistants with pleasure and satisfaction and maintains it. This is the first benefit that can be obtained by wealth.

 

Anathapindika trades gold for land to donate.

2. "Furthermore, a disciple of the noble ones... provides friends and associates with pleasure and satisfaction and maintains it. This is the second benefit that can be obtained by wealth.

 

3. "Furthermore, a disciple of the noble ones... wards off calamities arising from fire, flood, rulers, thieves, or spiteful heirs and one keeps oneself safe. This is the third benefit that can be obtained by wealth.

 

Offering land after purchasing it for the Buddha

4. "Furthermore, a disciple of the noble ones... performs the five offerings to relatives, guests, those who have passed away, rulers, and devas ("shining ones," light beings, angels). This is the fourth benefit that can be obtained by wealth.

Giving upholds the world

5. "Furthermore, a disciple of the noble ones... institutes offerings toward the supreme aim, or a heavenly [rebirth], resulting in happiness, leading to a heavenly rebirth, given to Brahmins and shramans (wandering ascetics) who abstain from intoxication and heedlessness, who endure all things with patience and humility, taming themselves, restraining themselves, bringing themselves to nirvana [salvation, emancipation, final liberation]. This is the fifth benefit that can be obtained by wealth.

 

"If it happens that a disciple of the noble ones, having obtained these five benefits through wealth, sees one's wealth exhausted, the thought may occur, 'Although my wealth is exhausted, I have obtained the five benefits that can be obtained by wealth,' and one is free of remorse.

 

Helping oneself can be helping others. Live.

"If it happens that a disciple of the noble ones, having obtained these five benefits through wealth, sees one's wealth increase, the thought may occur, 'I have obtained the five benefits that can be obtained through wealth, and my wealth has increased,' and one is free of remorse. One is free of remorse in either eventuality."

'My wealth I enjoyed,
My dependents supported
And protected from calamities.
I have given with a supreme aim
And performed the five offerings.
I have been charitable to virtuous and
Restrained pursuers of the supreme-life.
For any aim a wise householder might desire
Wealth, that aim have I attained.
I have done what leads not to future suffering.'
When this is a person's recollection,
One established in the Dharma of the noble ones,
One is praised here and now and rejoices hereafter.

WARNING: Obscenity (F-bomb) and base aspiration for billionaire-status by Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars

Lottery results

Wisdom Quarterly

It is inspiring that Wisdom Quarterly has readers in Maryland, Illinois, and Maryland.

• Mega Millions Jackpot: 46, 23, 38, 4, 2, Megaball 23
• Obama won’t buy Mega Millions ticket, White House says
• Math challenge: What are the odds? (lotteryusa.com)
• Who won? (Results: USAmega.com)
• There were 3 jackpot winners in the Friday, March 30, 2012 Mega Millions drawing: 1 from Illinois, 1 from Kansas, and 1 from Maryland. They will equally share $640 million jackpot. They have not come forward. And 158 gamblers matched the first 5 numbers for a $250,000 each before taxes.
  

Official winning lottery ticket sold in Maryland

CHICAGO (AP) - Maryland lottery officials announced early Saturday their state sold what could become the world's largest lottery payout of all-time, but it wasn't immediately clear if that ticket holder would get sole possession [she would not instead having to divide it with at least two others who each won at the odds of 170,000,000:1] of the $640 million jackpot or have to split it with other winners. More



Mega Millions lottery hits $640 million
The already record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot has surged again — to an unprecedented $640 million. The Mega Millions game is played in 40 states, along with Washington, DC and the U.S. Virgin Islands. #IfIWonTheMegaMillions has been trending on Twitter this week, with players offering ideas on how they'd spend the record-breaking jackpot.

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How to Win the Lottery in 3 Steps

Wisdom Quarterly (EDITORIAL)

One of the most important karmic elements is to be happy in the happiness of others who win (mudita). Warning: these simple instructions contain two imponderables, the working out of karma and the range of someone absorbed in jhana.

$640 MEGA MILLION - Why do things happen? That is the central question motivating Wisdom Quarterly. Perhaps the question is better understood as, Why do things really happen?

Common wisdom answers, "God knows." The uncommon explanation of this statement is: karma. But it would be easier to understand "God" (Maha Brahma) than to get a handle on karma. Experiencing nonduality is relatively easy, and that will mean feeling like GOD (Brahman) through the Divine Abidings (Brahma Viharas). Brahma figuratively means "supreme" or divine, a superlative for ultimate.

You have to be in it to win it
While not technically true, it helps. (Couldn't you, wouldn't you find it or come into possession if it is meant to be?) Karma means intentional action. The important karma in this case is in the past, for it cannot happen that one would win the lottery (or mega millions by virtue of gambling and "luck") and hold on to such riches without the karmic support for doing so.

At some time in the past, whether proximate or remote, one has to have performed some intentional action of a superlative sort. Due to the number of past lives in our past, nearly all humans will have a cache of merit (punya). Will it be enough? If it is not, one can win as a part of a group and have her or his cut be commensurate with the quality of the deed coming to fruition (phala). Most karma takes time to ripen, but its result can technically be experienced opportunistically at any time after the seed is planted.

This being the case, how will it be brought forward. Think only good thoughts -- either in memory or out of faith (saddha) in the good done any from this moment back. For example, in the past I did such and such. Or in the present, at this very moment, I am cultivating the intention to make this a better world with the winnings: What would make it better?

Normally meritorious deeds can be done any time anyway. So this will require a higher order of profitable karma. What is the gift that excels all gifts? The Dharma excels all gifts. It is certainly the most valuable. But here riches are defined more broadly. The value one is aspiring towards is material and of a much lower order. Giving or intending to give in kind is more important.

More important still is the purity of consciousness generating this intention. Concentration is the way to purity. The mind absorbed on a single object is, by virtue of exclusion, temporarily purified, freed of mental defilements and effluents (inflows and outflows).

With all this theory in mind: Here is the way to win in three easy steps.

"Karma: It's everywhere you're going to be."

STEP 1. Be ready to withdraw a great deal of good karma that would have served you very well in the future. You will not have it because you are spending it here to be rich for no very good reason during this very, very brief lifespan. At the end of this life, all the money will be lost. (You can't take it with you, and you can't keep from going). The only way to "hold" onto it will be to give it away. If you are not willing to give it away, you will surely lose it. If you intend to cling to it, since it is certain to go, you are better off without it. If you are generating the karma now, remember: Mental karma is very powerful as is verbal. So delight in appreciation, admiration, approval, and applaud those who by right and honest means have gained as much wealth as you imagine.

• (The problem is obvious. We want a kajillion, and the only people we can think of with that kind of money are the scum of the Earth, the One Percent, thieves robbing this world blind by dishonest capitalist means. So the rich, of the present or the past, need to be admired, appreciated with mudita, sympathetic or altruistic joy, and by doing so one will share in their store of karma for having become rich while engaged in right livelihood.)

STEP 2. Concentrate on a single thing -- not the money or the diversity of how it will be spent. Focus on an absorbable object of meditation. Enter the absorption, emerge while standing in line, ask for a ticket using either an INSPIRED number, one divined by some means unseen external agents are able to manipulate in your favor, or LET THE MACHINE PICK. Greed stands in the way of winning, and most people will simply choose their baby's birthday or other drivel while thinking they are being original. The number that is going to come up is not set, it is matched with the one having been chosen, so let the machine decide.

STEP 3. Be open to receiving, and that includes coming into possession of the ticket. The easiest way to do this is to buy one. The key is ONE. This is NOT a statistic, not a game of chance, not a probability. One is enough. Technically, one is more than enough. One dollar, one ticket, or whatever the price may be.

If you win, remember who helped you -- but keep the money for yourself. Don't send us any. We'll make do with our karmic inheritance helping living beings find what they wish for as they search samsara. The amazing thing is if people answer why they want hundreds of millions of dollars, what they say they want (like happiness, contentment, security, or enlightenment) cannot be bought but can be gotten without winning a lottery.

WARNING: An insightful Buddhist nun, whose wisdom had gone beyond, observed that if one were to become rich as a human on Earth, that would be a tragedy. Asked why, she explained that that person's karma came to fruition at a time and in a place where at best one could only enjoy the money for 120 years, likely much less. By contrast, if that same karma had come to fruition during rebirth in a superhuman state, that would benefit the individual for much longer with much finer strands of sensual pleasure to access. If it ripened outside of the sensual realm, in the fine material world, the benefit would be exponentially and inconceivably superior to anything in the sensual sphere. Be happy if no one wins because the $640 million will become more like $1 billion a week later. And these instructions will prove fruitful for some with more time to cultivate samma samadhi, right concentration. And our greed and depravity during times of economic uncertainty will have a chance to come into sharper relief. The winner, there is only one, will instantly become twice as rich as Willard Mitt Romney but have only 1/45th the riches of a Koch Brother with very few prospects of doing anything but losing it. Remember, riches beyond imagination are only three steps away, and the key is karma.

Piggy Bank of America caves in: No $5 fee

(mccarthysweekly-paxvobiscum.blog)

(WP) In a rare reversal, Bank of America announced today that it will drop a highly criticized fee for customers who swipe their debit cards. The bank had intended to begin charging the $5 fee next year, citing new federal regulations that it says have hurt its bottom line. But the debit charge drew a torrent of fury from customers, lawmakers, and even Pres. Obama. Faced with consumer backlash, Wells Fargo recently abandoned its own testing of a fee. Regions Bank and SunTrust have also dropped their charges. More

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The Hero/Heroine's Journey ("Finding Joe")

Gina (TheAwareShow.com)

Patrick Solomon's film about the work of luminary Joseph Campbell whose philosophy has touched people worldwide. It opens at LAEMMLE MONICA 4 PLEX in Santa Monica on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. findingjoethemovie.com

(TheTubeTrailers) Rooted in deeply personal accounts and timeless stories, "Finding Joe" shows how American mythologist Joseph Campbell's work is relevant and essential in today's world.

It provides a narrative for living a fully realized life -- or as Campbell famously put it, how to "follow your bliss" (an expression beloved by the divinely inspired Hicks-Abraham in the Law of Attraction work).

The film features interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields including Deepak Chopra, Mick Fleetwood, Tony Hawk, Rashida Jones, Laird Hamilton, Robert Walter, Robin Sharma, Catherine Hardwicke, Sir Ken Robinson, Akiva Goldsman, and many others.

While studying myth and writing on the human experience (and famously appearing in PBS specials), Prof. Campbell was at Sarah Lawrence College, where he worked for 38 years. His A Hero with a Thousand Faces was published in 1949 and greatly influenced generations of artists and writers, including Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, and the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia.

"I AM" is everyone's journey to a great life.

Ordinary Joes have mixed feelings on Wealth

Population groups under each tax bracket and tax generated by those groups

Ordinary Joes have mixed feelings on wealth
Adam Geller (AP)

NEW YORK – The war of words waged by John McCain and Barack Obama for the votes of plumbers and other average Joes is a reminder of the nation's long-standing doubts about concentrated wealth — and its qualms about doing something about it.

Americans have voiced concerns about putting too much wealth in to too few hands since the country was founded, but the public's views also come with contradictions.

Now it's clearer than ever — thanks to Obama's much scrutinized talk about taxes with a certain Ohio voter and McCain's dogged criticism — that these mixed feelings about income inequality are a long way from being resolved.

"I think that when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody," Obama told the man — maybe you've heard of him — Joe the Plumber. More>>