Are you a woman? USA: 'So not our problem'

(The Babylon Bee) Satire, sexism, or sex role stereotyping? Signs you might be a woman

(The Daily Show) "So Not Our Problem" segment

Aloka Peace Walk Dog monk speaks out

(Walk for Peace Fan) They asked about rotten Trump...but they didn't expect this monk's answer

What he saw under Bodhi tree changed everything

• Aloka the Peace Dog became famous tagging along on the Monks' Peace Walk led by Ven. Paññākāra

Put me down. I can walk. I want to walk!

Trump's Iran disaster: economy destroyed

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Here's what happens if Trump attacks Iran: It's horrible

Trump sure can dance 🤪- Women’s rally in Tehran in support of Mojtaba Khamenei

Trump's sister is against the president

(RTE News) President's sister among those on Gaza flotilla | RTE News

Beginner's Mind or Comfortably Numb?

A "zen" mind near jhana is clear and pure.

Beginner's Mind (Japanese 初心 or shoshin) is a concept from Zen Buddhism. It means it's better to have an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of expectations or preconceptions when practicing meditation and exploring Dharma. Even at an advanced level, approach Truth as a beginner would.

Beginner's Mind is especially used in the study of Zen Buddhism and Japanese martial arts [1]. It became popular outside Japan because of Shunryū Suzuki's book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

Complete Illustrated Guide to Zen

The practice of shoshin acts as a counter to the hubris and closed-mindedness often associated with thinking of oneself as an adept or expert [2].

When we let ourselves think we know everything, we leave no room for surprises, but reality is full of surprises.

For example, in the Einstellung Effect, a person becomes so accustomed to a certain way of doing things that s/he does not consider or acknowledge new ideas or approaches [3], such as thinking outside the box. Like let's say someone asks you, "Who are YOU?"

• 

  One more TikTok, hookup, sext, hit of dopamine

  "I'm me," you say. Then this exchange takes place:
• "You're not who you think you are."
• "I'm who other people think I am."
• "No, you're not even that."
• "But, but, what else is there? If I'm not who I think I am, and I'm not who others think I am, do I just not exist?"
• "No, you are who you think others think you are."
• "Oh, yeah, because we're social creatures, right? There's always that [performative] factor of being watched, even if we only think we're being watched."
• "Something like that."
  
• "Ah, what do you know?"
• "Hey, at least I got you to think outside the box, realize it's not binary -- a this or that, thesis or antithesis. There's often a synthesis, an interaction, a third or fourth option not thought of within the confines of the assumptions surrounding the question."
• "Oh, yeah, huh?"
• "Monkey."

The word shoshin combines sho (Japanese 初, "beginner" or "initial") and shin (Japanese 心, "mind" or "heart") [4], which is not necessarily the brain but the intuition, knowing, heart, or the ability to discern. More

Comfortably numb?

LISTEN: (Angry Samoans) The punk rock classic "Gimme Sopor"

• There are other minds, and the worst of them is the restless Monkey Mind
• Dhr. Seven, Helena, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Sad Guru's truth about masturbation

(Shermaroo Spiritual Life) Sadhguru (Vasudev) reveals the truth about masturbation

O, Wick Men, give me your knuckle babies

The Christian and Jewish Bibles have so little to say about masturbation that in a mindboggling reach, Church officials (guilty Catholics or officious Protestants or killjoy Jews) could only come up with the story of Onan and the awkward, inapplicable synonymous term "onanism." Nothing could be less connected to masturbation.

A Jewish man's brother dies, leaving his wife without a child. By Jewish custom and (levirate) law, he has to impregnate her in his absence. But just as he finishes the fun part his duty, he thinks better of it, reflecting on how troublesome another child and/or wife will be for him and not wanting to be burdened by those responsibilities, he withdraws as he finishes. God is so p'd off, we're told, that He smites (murders) him on the spot for "spilling his seed" on the ground rather than the fertile woman. Voila! Masturbation. Which as we all know involves having procreative sex with a partner but then changing your mind, right? 🙄

• Buddhism and sexuality In Buddhism, prohibitions against masturbation apply to monastics. By extension lay people may undertake to avoid them, and that is healthy and good, but one can no more find a "commandment" against it for ordinary people in Buddhist texts as one could locate one in Christian texts. Inciting lust, particularly through porn, is terribly harmful, and the Buddha did say something to the effect that it would be better to swallow a red-hot iron ball. But even that is in reference to being an "immoral monastic" swallowing food offered as alms by laypeople. If one insists on having sex (or fornicating, which means doing it without being married), go Tantric.

One is reminded of a truly tasteless joke:

A man nudged his wife for some nookie in front of their child. She asked him, "What?" - "How about we, you know?" - "What, are you crazy? You're going to ask me for that in front of our baby?!" - "Well, what do you want me to do?" - "Next time you want some whoopie, ask me to do 'a load of laundry.'" - "Oh, O.K." - Later that night, the wife primps and preps and makes a dramatic entrance in the bedroom. But the husband rolls over, turning his back to her. She pokes him and angrily and says, "I thought you wanted me to do a load of laundry!?" - "Oh, that's O.K. It was a small load. I did it by hand."

Fortunately, Wiki has this caveat: The word onanism is not based on the biblical story of Onan itself but on an interpretation of that biblical story. For the word onanism is not found in any form in biblical texts. Thus, the etymological connection of onanism (as masturbation) with Onan's name is religiously misleading" [62][47]. More

What about it, Pope?

Pope Francis speaks on porn and masturbation

(Breaking Points) Filthy lawyer for Israel and Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, conspired to crush...

No Kings protests across USA (10/18)

ICE, get 'em! Bust their heads in My America!

The No Kings protests, also known internationally as the No Dictators or No Tyrants protests, is a series of demonstrations, largely in the United States, against what the organizers describe as authoritarian policies of Donald Trump and corruption in his administration [3][4][5].

(NBC Bay Area) San Francisco plans a massive Anti-Trump March

"Nothing says Traitor quite like a Trump sign"

What will it accomplish? - I'dunno. - What is it meant to accomplish? - Absolutely nothing, by design. - It just makes us feel good.

Protests first took place on June 14, 2025 (labelled as "No Kings Day" by the 5051 organizers and participants) on the same day as the U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Parade and Trump's 79th birthday.

We demand more experimental vaccines!

It's George Soros funded? Agenda 2030? Permits were applied for and police consulted for a nice autumn day of funny signs safe for everyone. Organizers have planned the "No Kings protests 2.0" for Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025 [6]. More

• Official website: NoKings.org
• Plague of 'frogs', 'dinosaurs', 'yip yip' protesters rally in Portland | ABS-CBN News
• Why protesters in giant animal costumes are smarter than you think | Strict Scrutiny
• Hanover Park armed cop (police officer) arrested by ICE
• Public Health Professor Craig Spencer warns Trump’s ‘eugenics’ shutdown health policy echoes Nazism
• This is how you can bamboozle ICE goons at No Kings protests | The Daily Beast

Colbert harmlessly mocks Trump, who eats at McDonald's | racist young

Republicans | Why Mike Johnson won't seat new Dem. Rep. Grijalva

The bad news about these protests w/ Mel K

(Official website: The Jimmy Dore Show) Mel K goes on the show to discuss: Don't be fooled.

The Power Belongs to the People

United against King Trump

(NoKings.org) In June 2025, millions of everyday Americans from every walk of life peacefully took to the streets and declared with one voice: "No Kings." The world saw the power of the people, and Pres. Trump’s attempt at a royal coronation collapsed under the strength of a movement rising against his abuses of power. Now, he’s doubling down — sending militarized [ICE] agents into our communities, silencing voters, and handing billionaires giveaways while families struggle. This isn’t just politics. It’s democracy versus dictatorship. And together, we’re choosing democracy. [And alone, Trump chooses dictatorship. Maybe we should crown him president and put him on the cover of TIME?]

Organizer Leah Greenberg: Keep it chill

(DemocracyNow.org) "No Kings. No Thrones. No Crowns." Millions to protest in across USA

Protest, eat cake, just don't ask me about Epstein

Even as Pres. Trump has cracked down on dissent and illegally sent military and paramilitary troops into multiple cities to conduct police activities (posse comitatus), organizers of Saturday's anti-authoritarian "No Kings" protests expect millions to join at least 2,500 rallies across all 50 states and several U.S. territories.

The turnout could surpass the 5 million protesters who turned out for "No Kings Day" events in June 2025.

We don't do kings...unless they do us first.

"We are engaging in the most American activity in the world, which is coming together in peaceful protest of our government," says Jewish Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of the progressive organization ⁠Indivisible.

ICE was invented using the pretext of 9/11.

Trump's threats against the protests are a "classic exercise of the authoritarian playbook, to try to create fear, to try to threaten, to try to make people back off preemptively," she adds.

"There will be no fear, but the fear of what will happen to us if we don't mobilize," says Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez of the 25th Ward in Chicago, where mass protests are expected.

A nice summer No Kings protest day in sunny SoCal, downtown Los Angeles, June 14, 2025

Is 'No Kings' real or controlled opposition?

Indivisible Movement is a crock. I did not authorize it. AOC, Hillary, and Joe don't back it.

Is Leah Greenberg a real rebel or actually just pro-Zionist controlled opposition?

1984: Emmanuel Goldstein (drawn by AI) during a 'Two Minutes Hate' : r/midjourney

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L. Goldberg in the role of 1984's E. Goldstein?

"Controlled opposition" means a group that stands as a placeholder for actual opposition, but who are completely ineffective.

Therefore, a ruler controls even the so-called "opposition" in an adversarial relationship. It is as if one's defense attorney were bought off by lawyers for the prosecution to ensure a conviction.

Hey, Leah, stay in your lane! I'm the Savior here

In this sense, everything is controlled by the ruling group, or the Uniparty, without necessarily a direct conspiracy taking place.

Example in 1984

In George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, anyone who thought s/he was rising up against fascism and the Dictator Big Brother would get behind the [Jewish] "opposition" leader Emmanuel Goldstein and his organization "The Brotherhood."

ICE/DHS is surveilling you.

It was fake, as the failed protagonist (Winston Smith) painfully found out. There was no real opposition. It was just a trick of the Inner Party (O'Brien) and Big Brother and the Thought Police, controlled opposition. Read the novel; there's a reason it's famous.

The Jimmy Dore Show is a sarcastic, satirical, and very informative show that, while on the Left, is accused of being on the Right because it dares to stick to the truth rather than following the mainstream media's talking points on my subjects dear to liberals, progressives, and radicals. It airs weekdays at about 4:00-6:00 pm on YouTube and Rumble and at jimmydore.com.

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations M-F 8:00-9:00 am ET. Go more in-depth and watch livestream at democracynow.org.

• Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

'Partying is down. That's worrisome' (BBC)

Dead Kennedys: "Happy Hour is now enforced by law" (Cali Uber Alles)

People are partying less. Here’s why that’s worrying. | BBC Global

Dead Kennedys (punk rock with Jello Biafra) "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" (in studio)

(BBC Global) Oct. 6, 2025: Over the last 20 years, there has been a decline in the amount time Americans spend at parties, especially among young people. Derek Thompson and Katty Kay dive into what the effects of decreased socializing are among young people and what can be done about it.

The BBC is a British public broadcast service. Subscribe to BBC Global. For the latest news, analyses, and features visit: bbc.com #BBC #entertainment #GenZ #Zoomers

Gen Z uprising goes worldwide?

Gen Z protests: this is just the beginning

How One Piece Is Shaping A Generation of Protests

(DemocracyNow.org) U.S. and World Headlines, Oct. 9, 2025

5 days in Israel's desert prison: Jewish flotilla activist David Adler on ordeal

(Middle East Eye) Prof. Grande on Israel losing Generation Z

Hot teacher repeatedly raped 14-year-old

(Ashley Banfield x Drop Dead Serious)

(Women of Crime) Christina Formella thought her super beauty would save her… It didn’t

• Ashley Banfield, Blabby Gabby (Drop Dead Serious); Women of Crime; Team Double Standard, Amanda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How gov'ts spy on protestors—how to avoid it

How governments spy on protestors—and how to avoid it | Incognito Mode | WIRED
(WIRED) Law enforcement’s ability to track and profile peaceful political protestors has become increasingly multifaceted and technology-driven.

In this edition of Incognito Mode, WIRED Senior Editor, Security, and Investigations Andrew Couts and WIRED Senior Writer Lily Hay Newman discuss the technologies used by cops that put citizens' privacy at risk — and how to avoid them.

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• 0:00 How governments spy on protestors
• 0:44 Facial recognition
• 5:31 Social media
• 9:24 IMSI catchers
• 12:17 Geofencing
• 13:40 Data brokers
• 16:46 License plate readers
• 18:33 Drones
• 20:10 Emerging tech
• 23:23 How to protect yourself

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• WIRED, April 16, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

US not going to church, cellphones say

Americans exaggerate how often they actually go to church

I'm the most religious of all. - Touch it. - No.

(ReligionForBreakfast) New research using smartphone location data reveals a massive gap between how often Americans say they attend religious services and how often they actually do.

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:43 Problems with self-reported surveys
• 2:20 How the smartphone study worked
• 5:12 The results

[Cellphones are spying on me, my location, activities, and every single thing we say in private like wearing a wire for The Man even when we think the phones are off?] Are surveys wrong? Are memories fuzzy?

Here's what the data really shows about religion in America.

Why Buddhism accepts other religions (while others do not)

(Buddha's Wisdom) Why Buddhism accepts OTHER religions (while others do not)

(Buddha's Wisdom) 🔍 BUDDHISM: THE WORLD'S MOST ACCEPTING RELIGION? In a world of religious conflict and division, one spiritual tradition does something revolutionary. It welcomes them all.

Discover how the historical Buddha's radical approach to religious and spiritual acceptance changed history forever and why this solution might be exactly what our divided world needs today.

This is the story of how the Buddha's Dharma or "Doctrine" built bridges while others built walls. DISCOVER:

• Why the Buddha shocked religious leaders with his revolutionary approach
• How ancient temples prove Buddhism's unique acceptance of other faiths
• The surprising reason other religions couldn't follow the Buddha's path
• How Buddhist ideas strengthened other religious traditions [particularly what came to be known as Hinduism, derived from the Vedic and Brahminical religions of proto-India]
• Why modern scientists are fascinated by Buddhism's inclusive approach
• Why companies the world over implement "mindfulness" (sati) training courses

🎬 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 The most accepting religion?
• 02:05 Pattern of history
• 04:26 The defense of faith
• 06:42 Buddha's revolutionary move
• 08:52 Mind-blowing success
• 11:57 The Buddhist secret
• 14:47 Challenge

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• Religion for Breakfast, March 27, 2025; Buddha's Wisdom, Jan. 8, 2025; Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Telephone Invention Day (comedy)

Now, if I could just figure out a way to get rid of this darn wire (actor portraying Bell in 1926)

"Who this?" Alexander Graham Bell places a phonecall from NY to Chicago in 1892.

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Telephone 1.0 by Gary Gulman. Sept. 29, 2016: What is a traditional phone to a modern mobile cellphone? The Orchard Enterprises Telephone 1.0 (Live). It's About Time ℗ 2015 Virtual Comedy Network, LLC Released on: 2016-09-30.

This day in history

My cellphone has an app to make voice calls

(UPI) Today is March 7th. On this date in history: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone.

[Bell may not have invented all of the components of the phone or even be the one who came up with the idea, but he is the one who gets all the credit for being the first to get a patent for a two-way transmitter-receiver that now rules our lives due to corporations like Apple and its line of iPhones. Who invented the radio? An Italian man named Gugli' Marconi. got the patent, so we say it was him. Who invented flying? Not the Wright brothers, but they get the glory. How about natural selection and the theory of evolution? If anyone answers Charles Darwin, meet Alfred Russel Wallace.]

When was the first WIRELESS phone invented?

• 
  It was invented in 1909 by American inventor William Dubilier (and, no, it was not a BlackBerry nor a walkie-talkie like in WW I).
• It was a new radio-powered device: #343 - Technical world magazine v.17 (1912) | HathiTrust Digital Library
• William Dubilier unveils an astonishing new "wireless telephone" to fairgoers at Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition on June 21, 1909 (HistoryLink.org)

Wireless phone made in 1909 by William Dubilier

In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence from Russia.

Mistakes were made, Hitler might now admit.

In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered Nazi troops into the Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles.

In 1945, the U.S. 1st Army crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany after capturing the strategically important Ludendorff Bridge (also known as the Bridge at Remagen). World War II in Europe ended two months later.

In 1965, hundreds of civil rights marchers trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, USA, were turned back by state troopers and sheriff's deputies, who beat and injured dozens of people in what became known as "Bloody Sunday." Marchers voluntarily turned around on a ceremonial walk to the bridge two days later and, on March 21, with protection by federal and National Guard troops, the main Selma-to-Montgomery march began.

In 1984, the U.S. Senate confirmed William Wilson as the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican [the independent country called the Holy See in the center of Rome, the capital of the current Holy Roman Empire known as the worldwide Catholic Church] in 117 years.

In 1985, "We Are the World," a song composed by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and recorded by a series of high-profile music stars was released worldwide with the goal of generating funds for the USA for Africa charity. The song and related promotions eventually raised about $63 million.

In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director for her film The Hurt Locker.

CIA: We owe much to Hitler and the Nazis

In 2013, the U.S. Senate confirmed John Brennan as director of the CIA.

In 2017, Malta's iconic Azure Window, a natural rock arch, collapsed into the sea during a storm.

In 2024, Sweden became the 32nd member of NATO after a longstanding policy of nonalignment.