Yamamoto wins it for LA Dodgers, Japan

Series was won by two incredible double plays.

Dodger pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto named World Series MVP (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

The most insane World Series Game 7 ever seen | Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Toronto Blue Jays

Dodgers are World Series champions after defeating Blue Jays in dramatic Game 7 | LAist

• Good sportsmanship 👼⚾🧢 means being friends after a fair win. Someone has to lose in capitalist competitions, and everyone knows that going in (only no one knows it might be them).

What is dukkha?

Dukkha: disappointment, not getting what one wants, suffering, ill, woe

(seerasan) Baseball is as Japanese as rice and Zen or mamasan and sushi

Happy b-day, Fernando's ghost

Mexican pitching marvel Fernando Valenzuela comes through for the Dodgers again. Although his contribution this year was posthumous, it is his birthday and it is the Day of the Dead, and something unseen pushed Yoshinobu Yamamoto to greatest tonight. It has to seem supernatural to overcome the odds and win the biggest game of his life. There may be trouble in celebratory Los Angeles, still reeling from Halloween Carnival in West Hollywood tonight, Samhain trick-or-treaters going all night, and the seasonal festivities of Christian-Pagan syncretism.

• VIDEO: The Dodgers' hopes rest on Yamamoto

MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto

Yoshinobu Yamamoto (山本 由伸, born 1998) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

He previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes, where he became one of the most decorated pitchers in league history.

Between 2021 and 2023, Yamamoto won three consecutive Pacific League Most Valuable Player Awards, three Eiji Sawamura Awards, and three Triple Crowns, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average in each of those seasons.

Shohei Ohtani is having fun, and that's gotta hurt.

He also threw two no-hitters and was a key figure in Orix’s 2022 Japan Series championship.

Following the 2023 season, Yamamoto was posted to MLB and signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers—the largest ever for a pitcher at the time.

In his rookie MLB season, he contributed to Los Angeles’ 2024 World Series title, becoming the first player in baseball history to win a World Series, an Olympic gold medal, and a World Baseball Classic title.

In 2025, Yamamoto was named to his first All-Star game. Internationally, he has represented Japan in multiple tournaments, earning gold medals at the 2019 WBSC Premier12, the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the 2023 World Baseball Classic. More

(Fan First Jays) Losing is unreal as Dodger fans shoot fireworks

Dodger fans react to World Series win for the ages | FOX 11 LA

• Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the clutch: every pitch the World Series MVP threw in Game 7 😱 | 山本由伸ハイライト
• Dodgers vs. Blue Jays Game 7 Highlights 🔥 World Series on FOX

Short summary: What happened?!

(MLB Vault) Ending of every Dodgers World Series championship (9 titles between 1955-2025)

• Somewhere there's a Shohei Ohtani Industrial Complex, and that somewhere is Japan, extending to other islands like Hawaii and California (which is also an island according to many European maps)
• Baseball Authority; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Jewel heist at the Louvre, France

What we worship: Monas over mountains

(Channel 4 News) No one cared about the Mona Lisa until someone stole it in 1911. Then it became famous, was recovered, became subjected to the Mandela Effect, and grew in fame every year since, until an entire wall then room became dedicated to it. When we visited, the rooms were beautiful, even the halls were grand, but the mob in front of this one painting was ridiculous. At that time it could still be photographed, but taking a photo of the photographers seemed more appropriate.

(CNN) "An amateur move," says a jewel thief of Louvre heist

Now it has a shield and guards, and goodness knows it's probably not the original, just a forgery with the real thing in a safe somewhere. The Louvre's security is behind the times, possibly because Pres. Macron's husband (and the couple's ridiculous fight with American Candace Owens about gender) and the riots in the streets are sucking all the oxygen and discretionary funds that should be applied to keeping the imperial booty and irreplaceable treasures in this pyramidal repository safe.

(Primal Space) The Greatest Art Heist in History: Hello, Mona Lisa

• Channel 4 News, Oct. 20, 2025; former jewel thief Larry Lawton, CNN, Oct. 20, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Nepal on fire: Gen Z uprising (video)

UPDATE: Nepal Gen Z protest | Nepal's revolution: organic or engineered?

(Likely engineered. Nepal is utterly and completely controlled by India.)

Nepal is on fire 🇳🇵

(wehatethecold) Sept. 9, 2025: On the ground in Nepal, I cannot believe what I saw today. Gen Z protests in Nepal and how they unfolded from my lens. The full journey back from Thailand to the UK on two wheels continues soon once I am able to get out of curfew here and fly the bike. It seems it might be a while until that happens. Love you all. Tell my mother I love her, too. 📹 Extended cut (37 mins): wehatethecold. Nepal is on fire 🇳🇵

(The Sun) Gen Z protesters torch Nepal parliament building after government bans social media

(On Demand News) Nepal protests: shocking scenes show moment protesters torch Parliament

Nepal's Gen Z protesters thrash ministers and set Parliament on fire | Vantage

• (New York Post) Nepal Parliament building set on FIRE as PM resigns amid deadly protests
• The Jimmy Dore Show

Trouble in Northern Ireland, UK: riots

Northern Ireland riots: Masked protesters set fire to buildings as violence spills across towns

(Global News) June 12, 2025: As clashes between [colonial] police and rioters continued for a third consecutive night in Northern Ireland [ruled by England], the violence spread to the town of Larne.

Masked individuals broke into a local leisure center with bricks and set fire to the lobby while swimming lessons were taking place. The unrest began Monday in Ballymena, after two 14-year-old Romanian boys were accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

What began as a vigil to show support for the alleged victim turned into chaos when some commenced in destruction of properties. Dozens of police officers have been injured since Monday, with authorities expressing suspicion the attacks are racially-motivated “hate crimes.”

Filipino nationals living in Ballymena shared their harrowing experience of what happened when masked looters came banging at their door. For more info, please go to globalnews.ca

#BallymenaRiots #NorthernIreland #GlobalNews

• Global News, June 12, 2025; BBC; Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

LA protests, parties, burns (Daily Show)

• How to PARTY in Los Angeles (RIP George Floyd)
• VIDEO: Car engulfed in flames at anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles area | LiveNOW from FOX
• Behind the Musk-Trump throwdown (Jimmy Dore Show)

The Posse Comitatus Act is (or used to be until this weekend) a United States federal law prohibiting members of the military [such as the Marines called out by Trump and Hegseth] from exercising powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property. What does right wing rense.com have to say about it and Trump's behavior?

(KTLA 5) Driverless Waymo EV cars avoiding downtown L.A.

Rioters bombard cops from overpass – hurling rocks, fireworks, and scooters

• Trump sends Marines and more National Guard to Los Angeles (NPR)
• Why Trump's deployment of the National Guard to LA is unprecedented, according to a general
• Jon Stewart on the L.A. ICE Protests and Trump's Escalating Response | The Daily Show

Santa Ana, Orange County, anti-ICE protest turns violent | FOX 11 LA

700 marines mobilized to LA after violent protests over immigration raids

The Calvary is coming 700 Marines rush to LA amid anti-deportation protests

ICE protest arrests in Lower Manhattan

(rockland video) ICE protest arrests in Lower Manhattan, New York (June 9, 2025) 26 Federal Plaza ICE Facility Federal Immigration Court on Saturday, June 7, 2025

Protests: Turkey rises up against Erdogan

Sixth night of protests in Turkey as Erdogan lashes out at unrest | BBC News

(BBC News) March 25, 2025: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed opposition parties for provoking a "movement of violence" as protests [against him] in the country continued for a sixth night. Unrest began in Istanbul last Wednesday when the city's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu -- Erdogan's main political rival -- was detained on [phony] corruption charges. Mayor Imamoglu said the allegations against him were politically motivated, a claim Pres. Erdogan has denied. Turkey's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party's (CHP), which announced Imamoglu as its presidential candidate on Sunday, said the demonstrations will end on Tuesday, without saying what the next steps would be. In figures released before Monday evening's gatherings, the Turkish government said 1,133 people had been arrested since the protests began. #Turkey

Biggest protests in Turkey since 2013 Gezi uprising | DW News

Inside Gen Z-led anti-government protests in Turkey (Fayn)

Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis, and features visit: bbc.com/news

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

New LA Fire, Trump disaster, comedy

Trump’s despicable disaster relief conditions and Republicans hard at work re-investigating January 6th

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Jan. 23, 2025: The nominations came out today for the 97th Academy Awards, Los Angeles had some new wildfires pop up overnight, Guillermo said he needs to evacuate even though he lives 30 minutes from the fire, Trump is visiting L.A. to blame Angelenos for their fires in person, he is threatening to not help Californians if he doesn’t get what he wants, he went on right wing Sean Hannity to rant about transgender surgeries for kids, he is planning to declassify the [illegal and covert CIA assassination] files on murdered JFK, RFK, MLK, the Republican-led Congress is hard at work finding out what happened on January 6th, the Bidens are in California now, drunkard and cheater Pete Hegseth will very likely be the next secretary of war defense, and Fox News has now lost so many people to Trump’s administration that there is a major shortage of on-air talent.

Trump's 20th wedding anniversary, kiss-@ss Mike Johnson, and QAnon Shaman celebrates pardon for J6

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Jan. 22, 2025: There is yet another Los Angeles fire spreading north of the city at Castaic Lake, Republican Mike Johnson is playing politics with federal aid to California, Florida got nine inches of snow today and people were having snowball fights on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, the mayor of Philadelphia misspelled the name of their hometown football team, Trump is headed to LA on Friday to survey the damage from the LA Fires and share his deep understanding of how we could easily get out of this mess, he has reportedly made ten [or is it six] billion dollars from the new crypto coin he launched right before his secnd inauguration, the mass deportations Trump promised are underway, he signed an order to lift all government DEI requirements (putting many out of work), blackout drinker Pete Hegseth is facing some disqualifying allegations in his bid to be secretary of war defense, one of the J6ers that Trump pardoned was the self-proclaimed QAnon Shaman, Jacob Chansley, today we celebrate free Donald and captive Melania’s 20th wedding anniversary, and Pres. Donny introduces a new set of 20th Anniversary Commemorative Plates. #Kimmel

Jews keep attacking Christians in Israel

Lazar Berman, March 30, 2023 (Times of Israel); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Toppled statue in Church of the Flagellation, Jerusalem 2/2/23 (Custody of the Holy Land)

As Jews attack Christians and this becomes more frequent, a crisis looms for Israel.

Journalist Lazar Berman

Christian church leaders point to an inhospitable political atmosphere as they lock compounds at night; government ministries insist they are actively combating ill-treatment.

• Under Israeli Dictator Netanyahu, violence against Christians by Jews is being normalized (msn.com)
• On Easter, some Christians become targets for persecution
• IMAGES: The vandalized sanctuary of the Beit Jamal Monastery seen on September 22, 2017 (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem).
• Catholic leaders, including Custos Francesco Patton (left), stand around a vandalized statue of Jesus, March 24, 2023 (Filippo De Grazia).
• Hosam Naoum, a Palestinian Anglican bishop, pauses where vandals desecrated more than 30 graves at a historic Christian Protestant cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount Zion in Jerusalem, January 4, 2023 (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean).
  
• Illustrative -- In this Oct. 9, 2016 photo, Armenian priests arrive for Sunday mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during its renovation in Jerusalem's Old City (AP Photo/Oded Balilty).
• The word "revenge" is graffitied in Hebrew on a wall in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, January 11, 2022 (Armenian Patriarchate).

“If you are a Christian in the Middle East, there’s only one place where you are safe,” claims [Dictator] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking to Christian Zionists in Rio de Janeiro [way back] in Dec. 2018. [The story has changed, and he's not mentioning the change to Christians.]

“There’s only one place where the Christian community is growing, thriving, prospering. That’s in the State of Israel.”

Netanyahu’s claim is a central element of the image Israeli officials put forward about the country when speaking to Western audiences. Ahead of Christmas 2022, Israel’s official Twitter account posted a video of the Foreign Ministry’s Digital Diplomacy Chief David Saranga on a “magical Christmas stroll” through Jerusalem’s Old City.

State of Jerusalem: The "Secular" Struggle
The picture of safe coexistence painted by Israeli officials is starkly at odds with the experiences Jerusalem’s Christian leaders themselves describe.

While they readily acknowledge that there is no organized or governmental effort against them, Christian clergy in the Old City tell of a deteriorating atmosphere of harassment, apathy from authorities, and a growing fear that incidents of spitting and vandalism could turn into something far darker.

And with Netanyahu already under scrutiny from Western allies over [draconian] policies toward the Palestinians and attempts at sweeping judicial [changes labeled] reform, deteriorating safety for Christians — or at least Church leaders disseminating that narrative — could become another serious diplomatic problem for Israel’s embattled government. More + GRAPHIC IMAGES

• Truth about Israel and Netanyahu?
  
• BIPOC Doing Racism: Rapist brags (Twitter)
• Pacifica Archives (KPFK 90.7 FM)

Is there a Jewish voice for peace?

(Jewish Voice for Peace) Free Palestine from Israeli oppression!

Riots in France over Dictator Macron (video)

France strikes: Violent clashes, fires, and teargas mar Dictator Macron's vision

(Bloomberg Television) March 27, 2023. Protests continue across France against Dictator President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular bill to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.

[That, of course, is not the only complaint but the one made much of by the Western press to belittle the French as if they were so lazy that this increase would cause French society to fall apart.] 

Bloomberg's Caroline Connan looks at what it means for his political future.

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Protests continue, escalate after Macron pushes through pension reform in France

(ABC News) March 28, 2023. #pension #abcnews #france ABC News’ Ines de la Cuetara breaks down the latest on the protests in Paris after French Dictator President Emmanuel Macron pushed through reforms to the country’s pension program.

ABC News live stream • WATCH LIVE: Latest.... Subscribe. More on abcnews.go.com. Facebook.com/abcnews. ABC News: twitter.com/abc #ABCNLUpdate #france #pension #protests #abcnews

"France is furious": Anger grows at Macron for raising retirement age as millions strike and protest

(Democracy Now!) March 24, 2023. French unions say nearly 3.5 million people took to the streets Thursday in a nationwide general strike to protest Pres. Emmanuel Macron's deeply unpopular move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

Dictator Macron forced the legislation through the French National Assembly last week, using a constitutional clause to bypass a parliamentary vote. Macron's government survived a vote of no confidence Monday by just nine votes, but public anger shows no signs of abating, with France's major trade unions planning another nationwide protest for Tuesday.

"Not only is the government trying to do this pension reform that people see as fundamentally unfair, but they're ignoring historically large protests even by French standards," says journalist Cole Stranger from Marseille. His new guest essay in The New York Times is headlined "France is furious." Latest shows

Riots: Iran's morality police kill woman (video)

Iran protest over 22-y.o. woman’s death in police custody turns violent

(Bloomberg Quicktake: Now) Sept. 20, 2022. Violence erupted in Iran’s capital over the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by authorities that police how women dress.

• Morality Patrol kills woman for immodesty

Riot police used a water cannon and fired tear gas to disperse crowds after hundreds of demonstrators skirmished with oppressive "security" forces in Tehran on Monday, amid anger sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini last week. Newest channel: Quicktake Explained.

American morality failing: Florida police chief caught in prostitution sting

Outing bad Kenosha cop Rusten Sheskey

Lee Brown (New York Post, Aug. 26, 2020); Sheldon S., Ashley Well (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

BLM activist Shaun King threatens to name innocent cops as Jacob Blake shooter

Accused fraudster Shaun King is threatening to name innocent cops as Jacob Blake’s shooter if the Kenosha Police Department doesn’t release the identity of the officer who did, [according to allegedly biased reporter].

“If you do not name the officer who brutally shot Jacob Blake on Sunday, we will simply begin naming officers from your department who may or may not be him,” the pro-police-reform Black Lives Matter activist threatened online.

“F–k it. Your protection of his identity is unethical. What’s his name?” King wrote in a message “to the Kenosha Police Department” that he pinned to the top of his Twitter thread.

The Brooklyn-based King later tweeted the names of two Kenosha officers.

In one case, he named an officer, saying “people thought he shot Jacob Blake.” In the other, he asked followers to compare photos of a named officer and an unnamed cop on the scene of the shooting.

“POLICE COULD END THIS RIGHT NOW. They are deliberately protecting the man who shot Jacob. What’s his name?” he wrote. More

Christian hypocrite Jerry Falwell, Jr., former leader of Liberty University

• CNN’s Don Lemon warns Dems about not addressing riots: ‘It’s not going to go away’
• Store owner sobs after business of 40 years is burned down during Kenosha riots
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• DC Mayor tells diners they should call cops on abusive BLM protesters
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• ‘Predator’ Jerry Falwell Jr. sent lewd photo of Liberty student, pool boy...
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• Cops ignored gunman during Kenosha riots as he seemingly tried to turn himself in
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• Florida woman arrested for alleged attack on dad for relentless flatulence