Trump is still mad at Hillary and shopping cart TikTok elicits outrage
(The Daily Show) June 5, 2024: Ronny Chieng shares the latest news on Trump’s felony conviction, which has him seeking revenge on Hillary Clinton. Plus, Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) hates New York, a viral TikTok elicits discourse around shopping cart safety, and Troy Iwata provides updates on an Amazonian tribe ruined by Elon Musk’s Starlink internet. #DailyShow #Trump #ElonMusk
Trump's massive flip-flop on mail-in-voting and right wingers spew poison for Pride
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) The Boeing Starliner Spacecraft launched today after many delays with a pair of NASA astronauts onboard, Joe Biden touched down in Paris to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Trump has made a dramatic switch in his feeling about mail-in-ballots, he appears to be benefiting from some of the conflicted judges he complained about so much in New York, there is a very big gambling scandal in the MLB that is resulting in some major punishment, we reveal the least popular Pride floats of 2024, straight people are using the month as a time to do weird, angry things to get attention, a crazy young woman named Valentina Gomez is running for Secretary of State on quite an unusual platform, and right-wingers are pretending to be outraged by an animal documentary called “Queer Planet.” #Kimmel
MAGA faithful protest Trump verdict with upside-down flags and Lauren Boebert confronted during debate
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) June 4, 2024: Vice Pres. Kamala "Word Salad" Harris visits the show, Genocide Joe got a shoutout from Trump that was actually nice, turning the flag upside down has become a symbol of solidarity with Trump and he has already found a way to make money off of it, the son of Representative John Rose of Tennessee made quite an impression during his dad’s speech on the House floor, North Korea has been sending South Korea bags full of garbage, we got to meet the lively cast of characters challenging Lauren Boebert in Colorado, and since Americans don’t know very much, we went out onto Hollywood Bl. to administer the first ever VP S.A.T.
Jewish comedian Larry David (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Alien confused after being taken to Earth's Warlord Biden
(The Babylon Bee) The space aliens of planet Argonian V sent an emissary to contact earth, and he immediately said, "Take me to your leader." But even his advanced intelligence could not figure out what senile Genocide Joe was trying to say. Sad. Not good!
Jimmy Kimmel Live, June 5, 2024; The Babylon Bee, Feb. 24, 2023; Seth Meyers; Ronny Chieng, The Daily Show; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
NewScientist.com; Kelly Ani and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
We heard you were coming, sweet friend.
Evening primrose flowers can hear approaching bees and quickly make their nectar sweeter in response to the sound.
Lilach Hadany and colleagues at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, collected nectar from flowers before and after exposing them to a range of sounds, including recordings of bees and synthetic noises.
[Early Indian scientist and genius Jagadish Chandra Bose proved there was a secret life of plants, building and testing very sensitive instruments showing that plants (and even assumed to be inanimate metals) can hear and feel and respond to their environment and humans. He came to the attention of the world in a big way through syncretic Hindu-Christian guru Paramahansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi.]
Are orchids flowers from space like mandava?
Within three minutes of exposure to actual bee sounds or artificial sounds of a similar frequency, the flowers increased the concentration of sugar in their nectar by 20 per cent on average.
If the cold doesn't wipe them out, the pounding rains and terrible winds will de-petal them, then the snow will squash them. Wildflowers currently in bloom do not stand a chance.
California, which is named after fictional Mexican Queen Calafia, is the most beautiful state in the nation, except perhaps for somewhere full of redwood trees in the Pacific Northwest.
Spring was in the air, the sun was out, temperatures were warming, then the chemtrails started and an arctic blast was reported. Overnight we'll go from balmy Hollywood tourist weather to Frost Belt normal. What is this, Chi Town, Nome, Buffalo?
Plants 'n flowers are alive and talking (Dr. Bose)
The flowers are brilliantly in bloom, particularly the gorgeous California poppy, that entheogenic poppy seed pusher used in heroin production, like our military milked in Afghanistan with their G.I.'s (government issues, human hamsters, cannon fodder, expendable assets).
The snow, falling as low as 500 feet, and pounding rain forecast for this week and the next ten days bodes ill for the flower community, other than Leo/Miley Cyrus' hit.
Our Mexican queen on Earth, Queen Calafia commemorated in Los Angeles.
Instagrammers are killing this field of wild poppies (HBO)
The California poppy is the Golden State's official flower, which makes morphine and heroin.
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Golden Mexican Queen Calafia
(VICE News) LANCASTER, Los Angeles, California - The Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve has a few rules: Don’t bring your dog to the park, don’t eat food along the trail, and don’t fly drones overhead.
The most important? Stay on the trail. But during this season’s super bloom [of wild desert flowers, mostly the California poppy state flower], a semi-rare outbreak of golden poppies in spring, staff at the reserve have had a difficult time making sure swarms of kids, families, and sexy models posing for Instagram follow along without trampling the delicate wildflowers.
On a typical day, the park sees about 60 visitors. During super bloom season that number skyrockets to around 2,000 per day.
Jean Rhyne, who has been an interpreter at the reserve for 13 years, has been vocal about the long-term impact this can have on the park’s natural wildlife.
“This park was created specifically because of the poppies that are here,” Rhyne told Vice News, “and if they get stepped on or sat on to take a picture in...it compacts the soil and then the roots from the seeds of the next year can't get in. So we'll have scars in the habitat for many years to come.”
Super blooms in California tend to occur about once a decade on average, depending on how heavy the rainfall and whether temperatures are favorable afterward, but this season is the second the reserve has seen in three years.
In 2017, there was what Rhyne calls the “Apopalypse,” when park staff first saw a significant and unexpected rise in visitors, most of whom were drawn there to promote their social media accounts.
Since then the reserve has tried to adapt, hiring staff from other California State Parks, providing numerous trails and walkways, and even using their hashtag #DontDoomTheBloom to inform people about the potential harm before they visit.
But this hasn’t deterred people from getting their perfect shot. Fewer than 300 Instagram posts have the #DontDoomTheBloom tag, while more than 147,000 are tagged #superbloom. And 45,000 have the hashtag #CaliforniaPoppies.
This year (2019) has also brought some unique problems. In March, a pair landed a helicopter in the middle of a field of poppies. When a park ranger approached the couple, they ran back to the helicopter and flew away.
The reserve responded to the incident in a since-deleted post on Facebook: “We never thought it would be explicitly necessary to state that it is illegal to land a helicopter in the middle of the fields and begin hiking off trail. We were wrong.”
Rhyne, on the other hand, was not surprised. “You just never know what's going to happen out here,” she said. “People do weird things.”
Honeyland [official trailer] – in theaters July 26, 2019
All-natural beekeeper Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia (Eastern Europe, above Greece), making a living cultivating honey using ancient beekeeping traditions.
When an unruly family moves in next door, what at first seems like a balm for Hatidze's solitude becomes a source of tension as they, too, want to practice beekeeping but keep disregarding her sage advice.
This is the most-awarded film at this year's Sundance Film Festival, winning the "World Cinema Grand Jury Prize," a "Special Jury Award for Cinematography," and another "Special Jury Award for Originality."
Honeyland is an epic, a visually stunning portrait of the delicate balance between nature and humanity that has something sweet for everyone.
(Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, 2/6/19) The situation in Venezuela is rapidly deteriorating, but Elliott Abrams is rebooting his Iran-Contra game plan from the 1980s. Totally boss and/or incredibly frightening! Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/9:30c on TBS.
The "Green New Deal" has sparked a second red scare among the typically Christmas-loving Fox News crowd as they race to batten down their cows and protect their private jets. Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new on Wednesdays at 10:30/9:30c on TBS. youtube, twitter, facebook...
Dr. Niamh Shaw is an Irish scientist who wants to go to Mars. Among the many things she has done to help her realize her dream are spending two weeks in a simulated space lab in the middle of the Utah desert and visiting Space City for a zero-gravity flight.
Now she's written a play that imagines her life on Mars in a space colony. She writes for Culture about her very own space odyssey:
For as long as I can remember I have loved everything to do with space. My whole family did. That was our thing. Together [we were] fascinated by moon landings, the planets in our solar system, the moon, and the stars in the night sky. More
The Sacramento PD released body cam footage of the murder of innocent, unarmed, uninvolved black man Stephon Clark whom officers nevertheless shot to death for holding a cellphone (SPD).
He was at least the sixth unarmed person [murdered] by police this year.
On Sunday night, Sacramento police were responding to a call about a man breaking windows [clearly to them a death penalty offense] when they shot a black, unarmed father of two [standing at his grandmother's house].
Hands up, don't shoot (all over again)
Killer cops mute their body cams after shooting. Why? To conspire to cover up murder?UPDATED: ‘Show me your hands.’ Police video shows death of Stephon Clark in a hail of [unwarranted police] gunfire (Sacramento Bee, March 21, updated March 22, 2018) Sacramento police fatally shot Stephon Clark on Sunday night within seconds of encountering him next to his grandparents’ home in south Sacramento, video released Wednesday by the department shows. About six minutes after the shooting, after backup arrives, an officer can be heard telling another officer, “Hey, mute.” Sound then cuts out as officers apparently turn off their microphones [and begin to conspire to perjure themselves and cover up their crimes]. But video continues and the officers can be seen speaking to each other and to at least one civilian on scene for about two more minutes before the video ends.More + VIDEO
Institutional racism kills! "ICE out of CA." "No Human is Illegal." Stop deportations.
Black Lives [DON'T] Matter: mass arrests
The two fear-stricken, on-duty officers [claim that they] believed Stephan Clark [who was on a cellphone] was holding a gun before firing at him 20 times (10 times each), leaving Clark dead [shoot now, ask questions later].
The encounter lasted roughly six seconds, and after approaching Clark's corpse they determined he'd actually been holding an iPhone.
We're watching, and we'll shoot no Q's asked
The incident echoed a 2016 shooting by Sacramento police of an innocent mentally ill black man. After police [murdered] Joseph Mann, it became department policy to release body cam footage of critical incidents like this within a month of them happening.
On Wednesday, the department publicly released footage from officer body cams and a support helicopter dispatched to help with pursuit. More
There's a word we use in American English two mean two opposite things. There are a handful of words like this in English with some special name, like cleave and cleave. Cleave means both to "cling to" (as cleavage clings to the chest) and to "cut off" as with a cleaver (a big chopping knife).
Then there's the all-useful Polynesian aloha (hello, goodbye, how are you, whatever, da kine, good times) and the out-of-this-world marklar (which, as used on South Park, means any and everything). But let's stick to English. What is that English word we misuse? "High."
What does it mean to "get high"? Before you answer, consider that you're about to say two different things, two opposite things, to mean the same thing, as if they did mean the same thing when they do not.
On the one hand, getting "high" means having a mind-expanding experience, dosed, ecstasy, a mind-blowing thrill, a peak experience, a psychedelic experience, an entheogenicexperience, an awe-inspiring experience, to see things much more deeply or how they really are rather than how they seem.
On the other hand, we all mindlessly say that it means getting stoned, wasted, f*cked up, sh*t-faced, doped, obliterated, checked out, dropped out, intoxicated (full of mind-dulling toxins), hallucinating, seeing things exactly as they are not (as when drunk and imagining everything is okay).
Many people use alcohol, heroin, pharmaceutical opiates, analgesics ("painkillers"), and even strong (high THC, low CBD) cannabis to get "obtunded," dull, dense, senseless/painless.
Others wisely limit use of the word "high" to the first and original meaning. If someone consumes, for example, DMT, the "spirit molecule," it might be to stimulate sensitivity of the mind's eye (Buddhist dibba cakkhu), the pineal gland, creativity or psychic powers, the third or "all-seeing eye."
Why would anyone want to see with that eye? Our other two eyes are subject to optical illusions, easy deception, distortion, hallucination, (vipallasa/perversioninstead ofvipassana/insight). That's not so scary, more like going to a horror film. The scary part is believing the distorted perception and developing a wrong view.
Maybe the only good "drugs," if there are any, are entheogens (things that release the divine or theos within), DMT-stimulators, like harmaline, low dose LSD, iboga, mescaline, psilocybin, ayahuasca (yage or natema, a DMT brew of three Amazonian ingredients), Syrian rue.
Maybe this is the only correct use of the word "high." But don't count on it catching on. We're lazy about language in the US, and as whip-smart Marilyn Manson famously says: "Drug abusers give drug users a bad name" or something like that. We're lazy about language.
The Spirit Molecule investigates di-methyl-tryptamine (DMT), an endogenous (internally-produced) psychoactive compound, which exists in humans and numerous species of plants and animals.
The documentary traces Dr. Rick Strassman's U.S. government-sanctioned, human DMT research and its many trials, tribulations, and inconceivable realizations.
A closer examination of DMT's effects through the lens of two traditionally opposed concepts, science and spirituality, The Spirit Molecule explores the connections between cutting-edge neuroscience, quantum physics, and human spirituality.
Dr. Strassman's research and the experiences of the human test subjects before, during, and after the intense clinical trials raises many intriguing questions. A variety of experts voice their unique thoughts and experiences with DMT within their respective fields.
As Dr. Strassman's story unfolds, the contributors weigh in on his remarkable theories, including the natural synthesis of DMT in the human brain's pineal gland and its link to near-death experiences.
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"Rhododendron: an ethnopharmacological and toxicological review," Journal of Ethnopharmacology
The cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, the great bee die off, seems to be neonicotinoids, a deadly new ingredient in pesticidal chemicals brought to market by genetic-manipulation giant and future owner of all the world's seeds, Monsanto Inc. (wikimedia.org).
(Irene Lainika/flickr.com)
Monsanto -- the massive biotechnology [poison, seed manipulating] company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population -- has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations.
Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of the vital insects.
It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet.
It can be found in public company reports hosted
on mainstream media that Monsanto scooped up the Beeologics firm back
in September 2011.
During this time the correlation between Monsanto’s
GM crops and the bee decline was not explored in the mainstream, and in
fact it was hardly touched upon until Polish officials... More
THE MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT (HuffPost Live) Does the newly signed Farmer Assurance Provision, aka the "Monsanto
Protection Act," mean that GMO crops can evade any serious scientific or
regulatory review? More
Monsanto's corporate irresponsibility has a new ally -- Pres. Obama. He recently ignored liberals, progressives, and independents by signing the Newspeak/Orwellian "Farmer Assurance Provision" to ensure that Monsanto, Inc. is immune from the harm it is doing to bees (crucial to the farming of many valuable plants dependent on them as their pollinators), the environment, human health, and small farmers. When the government gets into bed with corporations, former Dictator Mussolini called that "fascism." Business with the support of politicians and the military, becomes an unstoppable force.
HOUSTON, Texas - The Dharma Bee contest,
organized by HSS (Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh) is getting an enthusiastic
response from children of all ages across the USA.
Learning from
the popularity of spelling bee contests among Indian students, HSS has
come up with the Dharma Bee to encourage children to learn about Hindu
culture and heritage -- which incorporates the Buddha as"The Refiner" of the Eternal Dharma, an incarnation of the Lord Vishnu -- in a fun environment.
Lord Krishna and Radha (iloveindia.com)
The topic is Bhagwan Sri
Krishna (early childhood stories) and Swami Vivekananda (life and
message).Although the registration deadline
is March 10th, over 2,300 children have already registered for the contest. “Children who have registered and are participating are
really enthusiastic and are having fun while learning. In many places,
as soon as asked if they wanted to participate in such a contest, almost
all children raised their hands,” said Sreevidya Radhakrishna, a
national coordinator.More
Bee is electrically charged harmlessly drawing pollen and sweet nectar (smart-kit.com)
Flowers
are nature's ad men. They'll do anything to attract the
attention of the pollinators that help them reproduce.
That means
spending precious energy on bright pigments, enticing fragrances, and
dazzling patterns. Now, scientists have found another element that
contributes to flowers' brand: their distinct electric field.
Anne Leonard, who studies bees at the University of Nevada, says our
understanding of pollinator-flower communication has been expanding for
decades.
"Flowers do a lot of things you might not expect,"
Leonard says. "We observe they have these distinct bright, beautiful
colors, patterns, scents."
But we don't often stop to consider
that this incredible display is all an attempt to attract bees and other
pollinators. These displays don't just consist of things humans notice.
There are also patterns in the ultraviolet spectrum, petal temperatures
and textures and shapes. LISTEN
Flowers for the Buddha, Buddhist Island, Sri Lanka (Simonmonk/flickr.com)
"I sing the body electric," and so do birds and bees.I saw the flowers come to life -- the colors, the colors!
What if all such talk referred to expanded sensitivity of the human eye or brain? There is much more light than we are generally aware of. Think of the devas.
The humble bumble bee is not bumbling. It is generating a field and attracting pollen to itself. A harmless quest for nectar keeps Nature alive. We can learn from that.
Who acquires wealth in harmless ways, Like a bee who without harm its nectar gathers -- Riches soon mount high for such a person, Accruing like an anthill with stunning growth.
With riches acquired in this way, The layperson fit for household life In four portions divides such wealth. Thus does one friendship win:
One portion for one’s wants one uses, Two portions on one’s business spends [Satisfying the past, ensuring the future]. The fourth for times of need one saves.
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