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Monday, September 1, 2025

Massive Afghan earthquake: collapse

'Covered in dust and too shocked to speak': Daylight reveals scale of Afghanistan quake's devastation

Quakes: Frequency more important than power

Hundreds dead as huge Afghanistan earthquake flattens homes

(Reuters) Sept. 1, 2025: One of Afghanistan's worst earthquakes has killed hundreds of people and injured thousands as helicopters ferried the wounded to hospitals after they were plucked from the rubble of homes being combed for survivors. Read the story: reut.rs/4n2y1xq. #Afghanistan #Earthquake

VIDEOS: Hundreds dead as huge Afghanistan earthquake flattens homes
2025 Afghanistan earthquake (Wikipedia)
Reuters, Sept. 1, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, August 22, 2025

Israel causes famine to kill babies

(LBC) Israeli diplomat and former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and current Jewish Zionist Fleur Hassan-Nahoum.

How to kill children in Israel (PBS)

(PBS News) Understanding the stages of starvation and famine

Int'l aid workers react to famine declaration

(ABC News Australia) Famine (mass starvation) officially declared as a result of Israeli war crimes

Gaza famine confirmed for first time; Israel reacts; UN chief shoots urgent warning | IPC | Gaza City

See The Katie Halper Show

(Hindustan Times) Aug. 22, 2025: For the first time, famine has been officially declared in Gaza. A UN-backed food security monitor revealed that over half a million people are already starving, with the toll set to rise further. The IPC report described “starvation, destitution, and death” spreading across Gaza, as Israel intensified its new military campaign in Gaza City. UN Chief António Guterres made an urgent plea, warning of a man-made catastrophe. But Jewish Zionist Israel swiftly dismissed the findings as biased and flawed, releasing its own counter-report [saying everything is going just as planned]. #Gaza #Famine #Israel

Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Monday, August 4, 2025

Autopsy results for Black Sabbath's Ozzy

Friday, July 4, 2025

Israel lying about damage to Tel Aviv

Humaniti | Save Palestine

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Science: How bad could one beer be?

How dangerous could one beer be?

(Howtown) Welcome to HOWTOWN! A small but mighty team of two (Joss Fong and Adam Cole) digs into the evidence behind commonly held "facts" and claims in the news.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro
01:22 Drinking appears beneficial
03:54 The first mistake
05:00 Hank's Razor
07:34 Rethinking drinking
08:53 A failed trial
10:43 A new genetic tool
13:04 How risky is drinking?
14:50 How dangerous is alcohol?

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SELECTED SOURCES

How much alcohol is healthy and safe to drink?
1981 Bay Area study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7258861
Association between daily alcohol intake and risk of all-cause mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
Lancet mega-study of 195 countries thelancet.com/journals/la...
Kiran Biddinger’s mendelian randomization study of cardiovascular effects jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
FULL SOURCE LIST: docs.google.com/document...

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Joss Fong, Adam Cole, Howtown, Jan. 10, 2025; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, March 28, 2025

7.7 quake hits Burma and Bangkok

Two of the most Theravada Buddhist (sometimes labeled "Southern Buddhism") countries in the world, Burma and Thailand, have been rocked by a massive quake with thousands dead from the collapse of buildings and powerful aftershocks.

2025 Myanmar earthquake (Wiki)

(The Sun) Up to 100 K feared dead in devastating Burma (Myanmar)

earthquake as Bangkok, Thailand, declared ‘disaster zone’

Earthquake strikes Myanmar, Thailand, destroying buildings in Bangkok

Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits Burma with damage reported in Bangkok, Thailand | BBC

A skyscraper under construction has fallen

(BBC News) March 28, 2025: A huge 7.7 magnitude earthquake has hit central Burma (Myanmar) with aftershocks, tremors, and damage felt in Thailand and south-west China. The epicenter was located 10 miles (16 km) north-west of the city of Sagaing, Burma, at a depth of 10 km, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says. Videos show cracks in roads in Burma's new capital Naypyidaw (moved by the totalitarian government from Rangoon/Yangon) and people evacuating into the street in Thailand’s capital Bangkok.

Evening update

UPDATE: Earthquake rescue teams face horror and

helplessness as trapped victims cry for help | BBC News

BBC News, analysis, features: bbc.com/news. #Burma #Myanmar #Thailand #BBCNews

What is to happen to California?

What does this seismic activity portend for San Andreas Fault California becoming an island?

What has happened today suggests what California is facing because of its massive San Andreas Fault. Experts warn that the most populated state in the USA is facing similar danger to today's catastrophe. Caltech Lucy is bound to be interviewed. California, most of which is still in Mexico (Baja and Sur), used to be an island (presumably not only because of a myth and misestimation but because of higher sea levels in the past).

The Island of California? History of Lake Cocoran ruined by climate change and agriculture

Then in 2023, with less drought, Lake Tulare returned

Water went up from the Gulf of California (near San Felipe, Mexico) and around to the Salton Sea, to surround part of Alta California, annexed by the USA for its empire, and link up with the ancient Lake Corcoran (to say nothing of Tulare Lake and Lake Manly) that once occupied most of the state until it was drained.

Earthquake Gifs, Gif-16.gif, Nat Geo; BBC News, March 28, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Post Malone: Penis tattoo goes too far

Post Malone tattooed my face

Forehead is not going far enough.

(Steveo, Summer 2024) I’m not an attention 'hore, more an attention pimp. Just ask Johnny Knoxville. I’ve had this tattoo idea for a long time, before the movie Jackass, and it finally happened (but only after the movie because Johnny chickened out and wouldn’t let me do it on camera for our MTV film). I told Post Malone to tattoo a dick on my forehead, giving penis tattooing a whole new meaning. You thought a Prince Albert was bad. At least that's hidden. It wasn't my first bad tattoo idea:

Mistakes were made: The tattoos I ~~ragret~~ regret the most | Steve-O

Ha ha, he paid me to put it there. What a dumb F

"Getting dumb, regrettable tattoos has been a hobby of mine for decades, and many of them arguably went too far. One, in particular, was such an unbelievable disasterpiece, I'm hereby asking you all for ideas to further transform it into something I can feel really good about. Please check out the video and leave your tattoo-cover-up suggestions in the comment section. Thanks!"- Steve-O, July 2019.

This is no joke! Well, it's kind of funny. Use condoms - Jackass too hot for MTV, so it goes Hollywood

It's not gay if...whatcha say?!

Evidence of explicit genital male representations [d*ck drawings?] have been found in "art" made in Europe approximately 11,000 to 38,000 years ago.

However, the primitive meaning of genital ornamentation is not clearly defined (Phallic Decoration in Paleolithic Art: Genital Scarification, Piercing and Tattoos | Journal of Urology). More: wiki

Come see my shame in person along with my brand-new live comedy show. Tickets available at steveo.com. #steveo #jackass #funny

I'm getting paper, and Steve-O looks a fool!

Subscribe for new videos: bit.ly/SteveOSub. Check out my merch to help me pay for its eventual removal and subsequent facelift, dental work, and arthritis treatments for entertaining all my fans) at steveo.com/merch. I need attention, so also follow me on IG steveo, Twitter steveo, Facebook steveo, YouTube Steve-O steveo. #steveo #jackass #funny #terribletattoos #tattooregrets

Steve-O, June 18, 2024; Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Deadly winds, fires, and Biden hit LA

Tragedy has struck, and we have been impacted. From the Santa Monica Bay to the foothills, Los Angeles is burning. Even Hollywood has not been spared. January 2025 Southern California wildfires. Is it natural? It's at least partially manmade because of the unnatural drought that uses a ridiculously high ridge of air to keep moisture away. Weather wars are real and have been in use by the military since the U.S. War on Vietnam. Paradise got it, Hawaii got it, why not the most populous city in the most populous state? All around us are scenes of devastation and normality, intermingled in a way that we did not imagine the Apocalypse. We were expecting "The Big One," a massive quake to end all services, civility, and any semblance of law and order. Instead, it's quite nice. People are pleasant, if not the best drivers. Mountains are smoldering, but otherwise most people are just carrying on their day-to-day existence without a visible change, except maybe rushing home to watch the news. The revolution will not be televised but the disasters will. We have an incompetent mayor and an even worse egomaniacal governor. What was anyone to expect? It's the perfect formula for imagining something fishy is going on, something willed. This is not just incompetence. But try to prove it.

Live KTLA 5 coverage: Wind-driven Palisades Fire in LA destroys homes

(KTLA 5) BREAKING NEWS: Firefighters are battling a fast-moving wildfire that has destroyed an undetermined number of homes (seaside mansions between the Hollywood studios and Santa Monica Bay) in the very affluent Pacific Palisades area of west Los Angeles. Watch KTLA 5 News team coverage. Liveblog: trib.al/tBDjKJ0

Brush fire in Pacific Palisades in LA destroys homes, forces evacuations

BREAKING: Wind storm hits peak as fires burn hundreds of Los Angeles acres, more coming

It was just wind damage in the morning

'Life-threatening windstorm' over SoCal

High pressure wind Diablo, Santa Ana

(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Jan. 6, 2025: The NWS said winds will reach "dangerous levels" by Tuesday afternoon, hitting LA and Ventura counties. Meteorologists estimated widespread gusts of 50 to 80 mph, with isolated gusts of 80 to 100 mph across the mountains/foothills possible. Red flag warning in effect.

SoCal sees its 'most destructive windstorm' in over a decade

(ABC7) Jan 7, 2025: Potentially destructive Santa Ana winds will blow through Southern California, elevating fire risk to dangerous levels for the next few days. abc7.com/los-angeles-weather-... Gusts up to 85 MPH, with sustained winds over 40 MPH, continuing for a few days.

Bag of wind visits SoCal to sign bill

We must not let Trump ruin this country like I ruined it, tried not to ruin it, y'know what I mean!

Is it true you tried to hang me on Jan. 6th?

Meanwhile, the weather is being worsened by a bag of hot air (Genocide Joe Biden) on the loose out there, east of Los Angeles, looking for a photo op as he declares public lands around Joshua Tree National Park a new monument dubbed Chuckwalla. Having arrived yesterday to disrupt the traffic, lame duck Biden is trying to leave a positive environmental legacy on top of all the destruction he has wrought with the U.S. War Machine as an old-timer with decades in Washington, DC, doing nothing to commend him or establish a good reputation.

SoCal bracing for potentially destructive windstorm, extreme fire danger

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Soldier karma: life with NO brain

Psychology of brain damage: shattered

How can we live in a world that makes no sense at all? How could we exist when every second of our lives is an unsolvable puzzle, and the tiny bits we do manage to recognize can’t come out?

That was the life of Russian soldier Lev Zasetsky (1920–1993), a young man who suffered a brain injury fighting in another useless war.

That was the life of Lev Zasetsky, who suffered a severe brain injury when thrown into World War II.

The 3,000-page diary he wrote following his injury became one of the most valuable and insightful texts on the study of the human brain in the history of biological science (popsci.com).

Zasetsky suffered from aphasia, a disorder or dysphasia that impairs a person’s ability to communicate or understand communication.

Patient Lev Zasetsky and Dr. Alex Luria

Zasetsky’s form of aphasia resulted in him being able to write without being able to read his own writing or understand all of what he had written.

Russian Dr. Alexander Luria, one of the Soviet Union’s most accomplished neuropsychologists, was assigned to care for Zasetsky and found that the young soldier “simply could not write and…had suddenly become illiterate.”

Dr. Luria pinpointed Zasetsky’s injury to “the second major block of the brain located in the posterior sections of the large hemispheres.”

This portion of the brain’s job is “for receiving, processing, and retaining information a person derives from the external world.”

The precise location of his shrapnel injury meant that “a very important function [had] been seriously impaired: he [could] not immediately combine his impressions into a coherent whole; his world [became] fragmented.”

That’s how the world existed for Lev Zasetsky: fragmented. But he didn’t give up. His fascinating story and undaunted attitude can inspire and reframe our modern understanding of psychology, history, language, communication, showing what the human spirit can accomplish.

From "He was the man who lived with no brain" (sort of), Popular Science, for more original Popular Science videos, subscribe on YouTube

SUTRA: Want to be a soldier? You might want to reconsider

The headman (gamini) was wise to ask the Buddha to clarify and dispel doubts (Yodhājīva Sutta)

The village headman Yodhajiva went to the Buddha, bowed, sat respectfully to one side, and said: "Venerable sir, I have heard it passed down through the ancient teaching lineage of warriors that:

'When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, if others strike one down and slay one while striving and exerting in battle then, with the breakup of the body after death, one is reborn in the company of angels (devas) slain in battle.'

"What does the Blessed One say about that?"

"Enough, headman, set that question aside and do not ask it." But a second time and third time the headman Yodhajiva asked it.

"Headman, I seem to be unable to get past by saying, 'Enough, headman, set that question aside and do not ask it,' so to reply simply: When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, one's mind is already seized, debased, and misdirected by the thought, 'May those beings be struck down, slaughtered, destroyed, annihilated, and no longer exist.'

"If others then strike one down or slay one while one is striving and exerting in battle, then with the breakup of the body after death, one is reborn in a hell called the Realm of those Slain in Battle.

Oh no, what will come of ignorance and killing?

"Moreover, if one holds a view such as, 'When a warrior strives and exerts in battle, if others then strike one down or slay one while one is striving and exerting in battle, then with the breakup of the body after death, one is reborn in the company of angels slain in battle,' that is his wrong view.

"There are, I say, two destinations for a person with wrong view, either hell or the animal womb" [rebirth in one of the many hells or the super-diversified animal plane].

When this was said, the headman Yodhajiva began to sob and burst into tears.

"Headman, that is what I was unable to get by you by asking you to set that question aside and not ask it."

"But, venerable sir, I am not crying because of what the Blessed One said but rather because I have been deceived, cheated, and fooled for a long time by that ancient teaching lineage of warriors who said that" (SN 42.3).

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Were the Sumerians ET star people?

Gilgamesh's tomb found under Euphrates River

US gov't secretly stole the tomb of Gilgamesh?

Ancient Aliens: Did the Anunnaki come from the stars?!

Enki and Enlil made a lot of trouble on this planet by genetically engineering monkeys.

Fierce lions were as pusillanimous kittens to us, for we were heroes and men of renown.

Chimeras DNA manipulation: Sumerian-Lammasu, Neo-Assyrian Empire (72-705 BC)

Sumerian merchants and the establishment of a new civilization on earth (history.com)

Maria Orsic channels Sumerian

(HISTORY) Oct. 3, 2024: Are the Sumerian people of the Middle East (Mesopotamia now Iraq) the descendants of extraterrestrial star beings? See more in this compilation from Ancient Aliens. Watch all new episodes of Ancient Aliens, Fridays at 9/8c, and stay up to date on all favorite shows on The HISTORY Channel website at history.com/schedule.