NDE, CIA spy, Pema's 'When Things Fall Apart'

Pema Chodron; DOAC; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I was once a hot hippie, married, living in NM, then my husband said he was cheating on me...

How to grow in wisdom? Live.

Will the world end? Of course, it always ends and is always ending in the same way that we are always dying, only we don't usually notice until some misstep, stumble, or fall. But since birth, we have been dying, even though at the beginning, in our youth, we were growing and getting better and better until we started fading, then cycling, then having good days and bad. Yet through all of that, we have been hurtling toward destruction because impermanence (flux, change, alteration, uncontrollability) is the nature of existence, which is also impersonal and incapable of satisfying/fulfilling us. But we pretend it's not. So it might be good to prepare, to pull our head out of the sand and move out of the way just a little. It could be worse and will be better if we only look ahead. Here, two different voices say something about that, one through an NDE and the other, he alleges, through the CIA.

When Things Fall Apart

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart — when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed book, she shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy. More

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CIA Spy: "Leave the USA before 2030!" Why you shouldn't trust your gut! - Andrew Bustamante

(The Diary of a CEO) March 4, 2024: Andrew Bustamante is a former covert CIA intelligence officer and US Air Force combat veteran. He is the founder of EverydaySpy, an online education platform that teaches real-world international espionage techniques that can be used in everyday life.

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:47 Your time at the CIA
• 03:15 What is the CIA?
• 03:57 You've got it wrong about spies
• 06:43 Applying real spy skills to overcome any barrier in our lives
• 08:13 How to manipulate people
• 18:15 The psychological profile of a CIA agent
• 21:13 I held the key to nuclear missiles
• 23:15 It was a horrible job
• 25:00 Would you have pressed the nuclear button?
• 27:18 The CIA message that changed my life
• 29:13 The interview process for the CIA
• 31:31 How did you feel when you received that letter?
• 33:54 Did the CIA tell you to cut off from your social circle?
• 34:44 Your ethnicity factor to be recruited by the CIA
• 36:03 Do you have to change your identity?
• 37:14 How expensive is it to train a CIA agent/operative?
• 37:21 What's the CIA training scheme?
• 38:04 Do they show you how to kill?
• 39:06 How you teach the art of lying
• 41:00 Body language and lying
• 42:46 Demystifying lying signs
• 45:44 How to tell if someone is lying
• 47:34 Human psychology
• 50:32 The essence of manipulation
• 52:09 How to find someone's ideology to manipulate them
• 56:12 Have you changed the way you look at the world?
• 01:00:01 Perception vs. Perceptive
• 01:01:59 Leaning into Objective vs. Subjective feelings
• 01:03:25 How to train yourself to apply rational objective perspective
• 01:05:54 Your business success
• 01:09:01 What is SADRAT?
• 01:11:07 Change the game when selling your products
• 01:13:13 What is espionage?
• 01:14:08 What is our secret life?
• 01:18:16 How to snter someone's secret life
• 01:23:33 How to apply it to business
• 01:26:19 Adapting to change faster than your opponent
• 01:29:18 Were there times your life was at threat?
• 01:31:43 Sexpionage, What is it?
• 01:33:49 Disguise, did you ever do it?
• 01:38:44 Do CIA agents get trained to not feel fear and anxiety?
• 01:41:23 How do they train you to slow down your emotional brain?
• 01:47:28 Your wife and you leaving the CIA
• 01:48:55 America is going through a hard period
• 01:54:15 What's the advice for everyone to make that change?
• 01:56:27 How does your identity stop you from evolving?
• 01:57:39 What is something you used to believe that you no longer do?

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Judge bankrupts Trump: $454.5 million fine

Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The judge can't fine me that much, can he?

Trump has been handed an eviction of sorts: He's out of the BBC, the Billionaire Boys' Club, because he can no longer afford the steep membership fees.

• UPDATE: Fine now $454,500,000 because of backdated interest
• Nooooo'oh! Donald Trump ordered to pay $354 million in New York real estate fraud lawsuit (MSN)
• The total fine for the convicted Trump fraudsters is more like $364 million because sons Donald and Eric were also hits with fines and all are barred from being CEOs of any company in New York for three years.

Don't compare me to my dumb nepotistic sons!!

He may have to open up Mar a Lago to Airbnb rentals to cover his expenses.

He has allegedly run up a bill from defense attorneys of $500 million, or half a billion. He was fined $5 million for the rape of a woman he repeatedly defamed and was recently fined an additional $83 million for defaming her (and she has enough evidence to sue him again for doing it again after the trial).

Today's fine is $354 million. And he still faces about 90 criminal cases that may land him in federal prison unless he pays all the rest of his money on better defense attorneys or MAGAots rise up again and break him out of jail through another attempted insurrection that results in a second U.S. Civil War. Let's add it up:

• 354,000,000.00 (today's fine for fraud)
• 500,000,000.00 (defense attorneys' bill)
• 083,000,000.00 (fine for defamation)
• 005,000,000.00 (fine for rape/sexual assault)
• 500,000,000.00 (future legal fees)
• = more than the billion he started with

Will this cost Trump a young trophy wife?

Melania: I'll be taking my half and going now.

If Don John Trump started with a billion (1,000 million), and that's a big if -- given that he was convicted of financial fraud in New York for lying about how much his assets are worth or what he's spending his hush money on, and most of his tax documents do not seem to be examined by the mainstream media that allegedly worked so hard to have access to them -- he is down to almost nothing.

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What about our money/economy? (comedy)

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Angrynomics

Is there any sensible use of anger? Revolution?

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good?

While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive.

In Angrynomics, Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan explore the rising tide of anger -- sometimes righteous and useful, often destructive and ill-targeted -- and propose radical new solutions for an increasingly polarized and confusing world.

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Rome vs. USA: Fall of Empires (video)

Host Michael Maloney, "Hidden Secrets of Money," Episode 9 (GoldSilver, Oct. 29, 2018); Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Merriam-Webster.com

In Hidden Secrets of Money (Episode 9), Host Mike Maloney draws eerie parallels to the misguided leaders and monetary policies that doomed civilizations from Ancient Rome to modern-day America.

Will Pres. Trump save the American Empire -- or is he leading us to sure bankruptcy like he has all of his failed business attempts? Will the private "Federal" Reserve Board be able to pull off yet another round of extremist interference and postpone another crisis? Find out how Maloney believes it will play out.

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Occupy Movement four years later

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; C. Robbins (Gothamist); C. Robert Gibson

Occupy lawsuit accuses NYPD of repressing Free Speech during mass arrests

Christopher Robbins (Gothamist via occupy.com, Sept. 18, 2015)

RT.com; OccupyWallSt.org; Occupy.com

A new lawsuit filed in federal court aims to challenge a reality evident to anyone who has attended a large political gathering in Lower Manhattan over the past decade:

Lawful behavior is no safeguard against being arrested.

 

The lawsuit centers on more than 200 arrests made around the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in September 2012, when the NYPD "should have known that members of its police force would encounter individuals engaged in expressive speech activity."

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Take this, you goddamn filthy hippie pacifists and anti-bankers! (occupy.com)

   

Please, no more, officer, no more!!!

Instead, the NYPD continued to arrest and harass protesters for seemingly no reason other than that they were protesting.

The lawsuit asserts that this is part of a "pattern, policy, and practice of the NYPD misapplying the disorderly conduct statute to peaceful protesters in New York City."

 

"The City of New York has continually failed to appropriately police the many non-violent and lawful expressions of speech, resulting in the continual breach... More

Occupy: Four Years Later

C. Robert Gibson (occupy.com, Sept. 17, 2015)

#FloodWallStreet (occupywallst.org)

Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism -- but it did profoundly change the way people perceive it and how their voices impact institutions of power all over the world.

While the tent encampments of fall 2011 were evicted within months, Occupy lives on: Its organizers went on to build social justice movements and affect political outcomes on multiple continents.

 

Were it not for Occupy, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders might not be a frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary.

Jeremy Corbyn -- a sexagenarian vegetarian socialist -- would not have overcome the UK’s establishment political machine to become the new Labour Party leader. And Malcolm Turnbull would not have ousted Tony Abbott as Australia’s newest prime minister.

 

However, on the four-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, it’s important to reflect not only on its victories but to learn from its failures. Both were necessary. The movements that followed Occupy built off of triumphs by learning from downfalls. More

I could kill you and say I was in fear for my safety or my partner's. You know that?

The People's Budget (cartoon)

Blendingthelines.com

Tax the rich? There would be no national debt if corporations paid their share of taxes and the US stopped its imperial wars ("This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow).

Where is our tax money going? A third war overseas, and our congressmen have decided to increase the already-inflated defense budget. All told, over $1 Trillion will be spent on the U.S. military over the next year, while funds are cut from social services and education. With less federal support, state budgets are in the red. Local governments blame the unions and -- as in Wisconsin -- are peddling legislation to weaken our rights. Thousands of teachers will be laid off.

As we point out in our new documentary, Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action, the nation’s priorities are skewed.

Inequality continues to rise. Homes are boarded up while homeless sleep on the streets. The sick are still turned away because of a lack of health care. The banks are bailed out, while the people are left to suffer. Hardworking Americans pay the bulk in taxes, while multimillionaires hide their assets abroad. Corporations are subsidized or encouraged to move their production overseas. We are gutting the American dream -- if there ever was one.

But there are answers. As The Nation pointed out last week, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has drafted a "People's Budget," which members, Representative Michael M. Honda (D-CA) and Representative Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ) say, “eliminates the deficit, stabilizes the debt, puts Americans back to work, and restores our economic competitiveness.” More

Why our economy is no "accident" (video)

From Academy Award nominated filmmaker Charles Ferguson ("No End in Sight") comes "Inside Job." It is the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis that began in 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians, and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation, and academia.

The Great Recession in Numbers

The numbers tell the story

A year ago this weekend, the Dow Jones industrial average had just finished a slow-motion crash. Over eight days, it fell 2,400 points, or 22 percent, and stood at 8,451. One year later, the Dow is at 9,865. It's up 51 percent from a 12-year low of 6,547 on March 9 — when some investors feared the financial world was coming to an end. But the complete story of the Dow's journey since the economy soured goes back a little further. Two years ago this week, on Oct. 7, 2007, the Dow set its record high of 14,164. More>>

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