Obamas monkeys on Planet of Apes, Trump?

Mr. Barry and his husband Michael Obama may be many things but not monkeys or apes.

(The Young Turks) Trump posts horrifyingly racist meme

A passionate rebuttal to Trump: "Eugenics"?

Speed (Adderall) freak Trump still pooping his pants as previously reported

Re-wilding buffalo prevents wildfires

How bison could be the natural solution to wildfire management

Who would return to tending the land after processed foods, booze, and casino money?

Stop killing and eating us. We can work together.

As wildfires increasingly ravage large swathes of land across the globe, scientists and conservationists are turning to an unexpected ally: the European bison.

Recent studies and conservation efforts in Spain suggest that these majestic creatures could play a crucial role in managing the overgrown vegetation that fuels wildfires.

White men shoot bison for genocide of Indians

Bison have long been recognized as ecosystem engineers, capable of significantly altering their habitats. Their feeding habits and physical strength allow them to clear dense undergrowth, creating firebreaks naturally.

These firebreaks can help contain fires and prevent them from spreading uncontrollably. More: How bison could be the natural solution to wildfire management

• Rewilding 170 buffalo (bison) in Europe could reduce carbon dioxide of 43,000 gas-powered cars
• Nine Native American Queens of Hollywood
• Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Excited over Sunday's Big Game 2023 (video)

Hope for Paws; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Puppy Bowl 2023: Hope for Paws!

(Hope for Paws - Official Rescue Channel) Feb. 11, 2023. It's that time of year ago when we all ask in unison, "Who let the dogs out?"! 😞 Are the "dogs" the rambunctious men acting like idiots over sports, or the unattractive females at the clurb, or the puppies in this year's bowl? It's time to get to rescuing our canine companions, the former wolves who helped along our evolution, keeping us safe from the beasts of the wild for table scraps. #HopeForPaws #PuppyBowl 2023. Go help at the local shelter, protest junk dogfood by big manufacturers using grains, stale oils, and loads of chemical preservatives, shortening the miserable lives of canines everywhere. Or a small donation may help many puppies directly to HopeForPaws.org. It's easy enough to find other deserving rescue outfits. Look for them. #puppies

(Animal Planet) Highlights and best of moments. More information

Puppy Bowl 2023: The Fourth Quarter

(KX News) Feb. 10, 2023. Stay informed about Western North Dakota news, weather, and sports! Follow KX News on its website and other social channels kxnet.com in case you're traveling to the sticks.

The REAL Planet of the Apes (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, S. Auberon, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; BBC; Motherboard; DiscoveryApes are not monkeys are not gorillas are not humans are not Bigfoot, dummy. Get it right!

Did you know there's a talking gorilla?

(BBC Earth, June 2016) Meet Koko, a western lowland gorilla that has been taught sign language. She's making us question what we think we know about animal intelligence. Join in the conversation on social media with #TalkingGorilla. The full documentary aired on BBC One on June 15th and was available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days afterwards. In the US it was broadcast on PBS on August 3rd. BBC Earth has a YouTube channel, too, as well as Facebook (ex-UK only), twitter, and a regular website at bbc.com/earth/world for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos from BBC Worldwide, trading as BBC Studios, who help fund new BBC programs.

 

The Real Planet of the Apes (documentary) 

(Motherboard) This crew traveled to remote Liberia, Africa, to find "Monkey Island," an area inhabited solely by former lab tested chimpanzees that have survived disease, unimaginable human cruelty, and two civil wars. Motherboard goes to the island, interviews the locals, and meets the cruel scientists involved in the testing facility 25 years ago. Read These Chimps Helped Us Find a Hepatitis Vaccine. Now They've Been Left to Die. This documentary is a Motherboard production, made possible by 20th Century Fox's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Check out Motherboard's fictional narratives, set in the world of "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes": Spread of Simian Flu: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 1). Struggling to Survive: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 5). Story of the Gun: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 10). Subscribe and follow on facebook.com/motherboardtv and twitter.com/motherboard.

 

Most brutal chimpanzee society ever discovered: Rise of the Warrior Apes 

(Discovery UK, March 2017) This video tells the epic story of an extraordinary troop of chimpanzees, as they brutally fight other chimp colonies and each other to be the largest apes known to man [other than Sasquatch, which leading researchers say is not an ape but which Native American tradition says is human, which would seem to make them as ape as modern humans]. Subscribe to Discovery TV for more great clips: youtube.com/subscription and follow Discovery on twitter.com/DiscoveryUK.

Earth Day: April 22, 2017

EarthDay.org; Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

EARTH DAY is April 22 with global teach-ins and the March for Science (against Trump)

Ancient wisdom has said our world is one way, whereas some scientists throw that all out.

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April 22 is Earth Day: This year’s campaign is all about environmental & climate literacy. Stand up! Join up! Take action! Read More  Act Now

 

Greening Our Schools: Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders. They deserve healthy schools in which to study, learn, and grow. Read More  Act Now
 

Trees for the Earth: Through the Canopy Project, Earth Day Network works on the ground to strengthen communities through tree planting. Read More  Act Now

Reforestation: Our planet is currently losing over 15 billion trees each year—that’s 56 acres of forest every minute. We’re working hard to reverse that trend by supporting global reforestation projects. Earth Day Network’s Reforestation Campaign benefits local communities, increases habitat for species, and combats climate change. Every Tree Counts!

If only we knew what our earth really looks like instead of the lies we are fed by NASA.

Buddhist monks live in peace with tigers (video)

Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; StrangeFeed.com

Tony, it's great! I'll karate chop massage you straight to Sleepy Town (strangefeed.com).

(Animal Planet)

Here, Kimba, try using chopsticks.

There is a temple in Western Thailand where devoted Buddhist monks live among unwanted tigers, nurturing them and releasing them into the wild when they reach maturity!

The controversial Tiger Temple (Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua) is a Theravada Buddhist monastery founded in 1994 as a Thai forest tradition temple complex that has become a sanctuary for abandoned wild animals.

The temple is in the Saiyok district of Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province, close to the border with Burma (which the dictators renamed "Myanmar"), some 24 miles (38 km) northwest of Kanchanaburi along the 323 Highway. 

Hey, your thirsty tiger scratched me!

The story goes that in 1999 a tiger cub was given to the temple by villagers because it had been abandoned by its mother. Unfortunately, it later died due to the inexperience of the monks regarding tiger keeping.

 

Soon several more tiger cubs were given to the temple to care for, and the rest is history. As of records up to 2012, there are more than 100 tigers living in the temple.

(Etienne Verhaegen) "The Little Buddhas and the Tigers" (Les Petits Bouddhas et les Tigres)

Big predator cats love milk (strangefeed.com).

Tourists are attracted from around the world, where they can see enormous tigers lazily lounging wild around monk caretakers who go about with their daily routines. Some wildlife organizations have claimed that the temple has no permit from the Thai Wild Animals Reservation and Protection Act of 1992 and should be closed due to shady dealings with a tiger farm in Laos, allegations based on an investigation between 2005 to 2008.

Fortunately, in 2008, ABC News reporters spent three nights in the monastery and found no evidence of calming drugs being administered to the tigers or any other mistreatment. Both Thai and Western employees who were interviewed claimed that the animals were well treated. The head of the temple was interviewed and stated that their mission is clear, "To breed tigers and release them into the wild.” When in Buddhist Thailand, visit this wondrous place!

(Journeyman Pictures) Thailand's Controversial Tiger-Taming Temple

Who's a good tiger? (strangefeed.com)

"Taming the Tigers" (2013): Thailand's Tiger Temple is one of the country's best known tourist attractions. Although marketed as a sanctuary to help conserve an endangered species, some activists claim it has a history of exploitation and abuse.

"If you're selling animal exploitation as a conservation project, then I have a serious concern," states Edwin Wiek of the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand. There's something undeniably mysterious and majestic about tigers, even in captivity. But while tourists are told the temple is a sanctuary for rescued animals, conservationist and animal rights activist Sybelle Foxcroft claims they are treated appallingly. "I personally saw sticks being broken across tigers' backs." The temple claims "assertive treatment" is the only way to train these powerful animals. In stark contrast, Foxcroft describes it as "probably one of the most horrific things I've ever seen."

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Thailand's Tiger Temple is full of real meat eating predators (Steve Winter/NatGeo).

(National Geographic Live) Steve Winter visits Thai Tiger Temple trembling with terror.

"Hypnodog" puts Skeptics in Trance (video)

Seven and Ashley Wells (Wisdom Quarterly)Animal X investigates the case of the hypnotizing dog

Ever since I heard about Hypnodog from Kevin & Bean, on MTV's former casting office, KROQ radio (Los Angeles), I couldn't believe it. He'd gone missing. They were reviewing British news reports: "If you see him, don't look him in the eyes. That's how he hypnotizes people!" I always dreamed it was true but feared shock-jocks Kevin Ryder and Bean Baxter were just pulling our chain. But it is true! There really is a dog that can hypnotize even skeptics and put them into immediate trance. If only he could come to the Zendo and do the same for me.

Is jhana (Japanese, Zen; Chinese, Ch'an; Sanskrit, dhyana; English, "meditative absorption") nothing but self-hypnosis? Jhana is far more than hypnosis. It's a fully lucid and concentrated state of mind that does not waver from the chosen object of attention, whereas hypnosis is a level of sleep. Maybe all states of waking reality are just levels of sleep. The way to Awakening (bodhi or "enlightenment") passes through stages of profound tranquillity and serenity. They purify the mind of the Five Hindrances that obstruct insight and wisdom.

Emerging from them, one turns the now wieldy mind to objects of liberating-insight (vipassana) with amazing results. One can see subatomic particles (kalapas), or traces of them, and even more subtle mental-processes (cittas and cetasikas). These are necessary to examine and reveal the true nature of materiality and mentality. Seeing things as they really are -- radically impermanent, disturbingly unsatisfactory, and utterly impersonal -- the mind pulls away from them. And light arises, knowledge arises, enlightenment blossoms. These liberating-insights lead progressively to knowledge-and-vision of nirvana here and now, in this very life.

O where, O where is Hypnodog to soothe my monkey mind?

(StorytellerMedia) Oscar is a 10-year-old Labrador-Retriever, but he's no ordinary family pet. He has hypnotized thousands of people across Britain. Hugh Lennon and his animal companion have toured venues around the country confounding sceptics and sending volunteers into a deep sleep. Just one look into Oscar's deep brown pools and participants go under. Hugh Lennon puts Oscar's talent down to his special stare. Even when he was a puppy Lennon noticed Oscar sitting and staring at him while the other dogs in the litter ran around. Dogs are well known for their special ability to sense things about people and put them at ease. They are often used in hospitals to lift the spirits of the ailing and calm the nervous. Oscar uses his huge eyes to relax people [and hold an intention or feeling] as they are hypnotized. But this sort of behavior isn't restricted to the stage. Animals in the wild are known to hypnotize other creatures with a threatening stare. Lions make their prey feel vulnerable with a hypnotic stare. And the mongoose is known to be able to hypnotize snakes.

Whale Wars: flashbang grenade attack

(Animal Planet TV) Check out animal.discovery.com for more "Whale Wars" video highlights. In this clip from Animal Planet's Whale Wars, Captain Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd crew are involved in a flashbang grenade attack while confronting a whale research vessel.

Kill Your TV?

(turnoffyourtv.com)

Question: Is TV harmful? Answer: It can be. It's all in how one uses it. Here are some better viewing options when television begins to seem like a weapon of mass distraction.

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