Ivanka-Jared: Albania's Flamingo Revolution

We're just trying to capitalize on Albania's poverty like my family did in New York.

(DemocracyNow.org) Albania's Flamingo Revolution: anti Kushner-Trump luxury resort protests rock government, threatening to topple corrupt regime

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

What has Trump caused? Live from LA

Live: Downtown LA protests

(NBCLA) Started streaming June 10, 2025: LIVE: Traffic was at a standstill in Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) after peaceful demonstrators and unruly protesters walked onto the 101 Freeway, angering commuters and infuriating authorities who will do anything to clear the roads for commerce even if that means breaking heads, bones, and possibly killing citizens exercising their right to dissent and make their wishes known to their local and federal governments: 4.nbcla.com/YtQwefS / Live: Downtown LA protests

• VIDEO: Police use batons, lethal weapons on protesters

Christian Broadcasting Network News: Alarmism in the UK with toupee-

rich Oliver JJ Lane of Breitbart London with hair/makeup by Trump's stylist?

• Sen. Bernie Sanders; NBCLA, June 10, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Anti-Trump Los Angeles protests

UPDATE: In Los Angeles, mass street protests have broken out in response to immigration raids. Local police and Border Patrol are cracking down on peaceful demonstrators and ardent protesters, while the Trump administration has called in the California National Guard without consulting California's governor yet lying about doing so. “They shot thousands of rounds of tear gas, flashbang grenades, all kinds of repressive instruments,” says Ron Gochez, community organizer with Unión del Barrio ["Union of the Neighborhood" or "Neighborhood Unity"] who helped organize some of the protests.

I'm loving this (Tom Homan)

He notes many of the protests have also been successful at turning back immigration agents, preventing ICE arrests and detention. “If we organize ourselves, if we resist, we can defend our communities from ICE terror, from the Border Patrol, or from any federal agency that wishes to separate our families.” L.A. Under Siege: Trump Sends in National Guard as Protests Continue over Militarized ICE Raids (Democracy Now!)

• “Absolutely unprecedented”: Trump deploys National Guard to L.A. and Hegseth threatens to send in Marines

• (10 News First) Los Angeles engulfed in police protests

Protests Unrest Inconvenience in LA: Protesters take over downtown freeways, Waymo cars set on fire

(NBCLA) Sunday, June 8, 2025: There’s still no timeline of how long federal paramilitary stormtroopers deployed by Trump (aka National Guard troops) will stay in Los Angeles.

Clashes erupt near LA Federal Detention Center amid Immigration Raids

Work at democracynow.org news organization

TROUBLEMAKING TRUMP: As protests against ICE raids spread across the city, would-be king Pres. Trump has deployed the California National Guard to Los Angeles, the first time in decades that a president has deployed the National Guard without a governor’s request. Trump’s border “Czar” Tom Homan [architect of Project 2025] threatened to arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, while Gov. Newsom says he plans to sue Trump. “This is absolutely unprecedented. It’s extremely dangerous,” says legal expert Elizabeth Goitein. “It’s going to escalate tensions rather than deescalating them.” “Absolutely unprecedented” | Democracy Now!

• Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, democracynow.org, June 9, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Int'l Women's Day, March 8, 2025

Women's March takes to the streets of downtown Los Angeles

(NBCLA) March 8, 2025: Thousands of protesters, women and allies, gathered at Pershing Square in downtown before marching several blocks to LA City Hall for a march on International Women's March. Amber Frias reports for the NBC4 News at 6:00 pm on March 7, 2025.

• International Women’s Day 2025 (United Nations)
• Enola "Gay," clumsy execution turns a bad anti-DEI idea into another humiliation for Trump (Rachel Maddow, MSNBC)
• Crowds march in Brussels, Athens, and Belgrade to mark International Women's Day

White women, did we invent feminism? No, but we take the credit. We made these caps.

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Pink pussyhat riots and disorderly marches, why not? It's also Be Nasty Day. What better way toward progress than civil disobedience?

• BE NASTY DAY - March 8, 2025

Fight the power. Buy the tee-shirt? DIY

Imagine a gender equal world: a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination, a world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive, a world where difference is valued and celebrated.

Together we can forge gender equality. Collectively for #IWD2025 we can all #AccelerateAction.

International women's symbol

International Women's Day (IWD) has been around for over a century, and now it's time to pack it up because women have achieved complete equality! 

No, many issues are still impacting women, holding back more than half the world. Since 1911, this day has been for all who care about women's equality.

Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness about discrimination. Take action to forge gender parity.

Um, "all IWD activity is valid," really?

All IWD activity is valid -- burning bras, leading Law of Attraction manifestation workshops, attending pricey DEI seminars, sewing white flags and giving up, gaining weight until obese, knitting pink caps with little ears and marching for corporate sponsors, making posters, forming a Pussy Riot punk collective or skittle band and playing in a church without permission, getting doodle tats, filing lawsuits, turning into men and fighting for the other side, sitting at home depressed, watching Pearl videos, all of it (well, maybe not all, Pearl Davis must be stopped!) -- that's what makes IWD so inclusive. More

• INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - March 8, 2025 - National Today

Pearls of Wizdumb (or brilliant irony?)

Pearl believes she's helping women by being honest as she sees it, even if women hate it. She has become a rallying point for women against Pearl and her outrageous pro-male views in a patriarchal society. So if SHE believes, is that "valid"? If someone thinks s/he's helping, is that enough? Is that the standard? Men males are allies, whether all women are or not, whether females think so or not.

Pearl will not stop, so should she be stopped? - What about Whatever? There's no patriarchy?

Xingonx Fest, Los Angeles

Xingonx (Chingona) Fest, 28th anniversary, FREE, March 8, 3-6 PM (Mujeres de Maiz)

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IWD teeshirt collection (amazon.com)

Join Mujeres de Maiz at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes for an afternoon of sisterhood, spirit, and solidarity, honoring International Women's Day and Mexica New Year among friends including poetry, performance, platica, prayer. This event is to highlight MDM's 28th anniversary, focusing on 28-day cycles of the moon and our coming into another lifecycle by bringing to one stage the writings, women, and work of 28 years of Mujeres de Maíz. Come early to see a wall in the Conexiones Exhibit at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and connect with like-minded gente. The time is now, Latinas, Latinos, [and Latinx?]! mujeresdemaiz.com

• International Women's Day Events
• Important health warning issued to women who 'don't have sex often' | Daily Mail Online
• Women who rarely have sex are at an increased risk of dying, [male] study finds
• Mujeres de Maiz (Women of Corn)
• InternationalWomensDay.com, 2025; I. Rony, Crystal Q., CC Liu, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Israel, I'm setting myself on FIRE: Get out!

Jon Farina (Status Coup News, 2/27/24); Robby Soave, Briahna Joy (The Hill/Rising); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Shauna Schwartz, Dhr. Seven COMMENTARY, Wisdom Quarterly

VIDEO: US military veterans burn their uniforms in solidarity with Airman Aaron Bushnell

(Status Coup News) Jon Farina is on the ground at Pro-Palestine, Anti-Genocide demonstrations as they occur, keeping an eye on Zionist-Jewish Israeli genocide troops and the Americans complicit in their war crimes.

(Rising) Aaron Bushnell memorialized by #FREE PALESTINE left

Look at the face, completely calm by dispassion

It's a terrible thing to set yourself on fire to get Netanyahu and his War Cabinet to notice you.

Will it move Zionist Jews to compassion or tolerance for the neighbors they have been abusing, raping, murdering, maiming, displacing, arresting, detaining, lying about, and discriminating against as they dislocate and dispossess them of their land in a "settler colonial project."

We're exterminating them. It's a final solution.

But as bad as all those things are, made worse by U.S. complicity, military funding, and diplomatic cover, ritual suicide is not the answer. Though one makes this a hell on earth for oneself in sympathy with the human beings of Gaza, the West Bank, and all of Palestine (all the Zionist-occupied land), it won't send Bibi, Genocide Joe, or their Ashkenazi and fundamentalist Christian cheerleaders there any sooner. Self-immolation is never a solution.

How to unsafely set yourself on fire

Who's worse, Genocide Joe or lying Trump? Even RFK is pro-CIA money for genocide.

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   Come into the present (Thich Nhat Hanh)

   Become a Buddhist monastic.
2. Practice meditation after ordination.
3. Develop "trance" (jhana, absorption).
4. Take up insight practices to let go.
5. Directly perceive ultimate body-mind.
6. Attain enlightenment (awakening) and nirvana (slaking all craving) by knowing-and-seeing things as they really are thereby becoming disenchanted and dispassionate, a Buddhist "saint."
7. Form the intention to show everyone how detached you've become: "Look, everyone, look how not attached I am to this body! And, politicians, please stop your mass killings."

It's this last one that's the problem. Will unenlightened, undetached, unabsorbed "ordinary uninstructed worldlings" see you and follow suit, ending up in a terrible rebirth for (self) murder, dying full of revulsion for the Mossad, Israel, Netanyahu, Biden, Pentagon, Shin Bet, CIA, and hypocritical genocide-defenders and apologists in the mainstream media.

Light candles, not human bodies

Instead, be safe. Protest but bring lots of water. One need not ruin oneself to rage against the machine or call the world's attention to war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and internationally-recognized genocide. Why? The slightest criticism already earns one the hateful labels "blood libel" and "antisemite," "self-hating-J," "baby beheader." Hypocrites have many kneejerk responses, reinforced by endless repetition on the TV, at their disposal.

• Jewish Voice for Peace
• US Veterans for Peace
• NOT IN OUR NAME (ifnotnowmovement.org)
• Code Pink: Women for Peace
• Israeli veterans against IDF (breakingthesilence.org.il)
• Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews against Israel
• Amnesty International
• ‎شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us) • Anti-Zionist Jews
• VIDEO: Research suggests cognitive ability associated with more controlled emotional response

This American (comedian Jimmy Dore) rages, brings light, and stays sane with dark humor

Magic? How to levitate over Grand Canyon

D. Copperfield; Mystic Knights; Dhr. Seven, Jen (Dharma Bud Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Who could fly, even with stage wires, across the great expanse of the smaller U.S. Grand Canyon or the far larger though far less famous Copper Canyon of Mexico? Not a trickster magician.

First we get still, then stillness sets in.

Wisdom Quarterly has always been interested in one magic feat above the others: the possibility of real yogic levitation. This is achievable through successful stillness (samadhi) meditation. But what does it take to still the mind, to still thought, to still the heart, to still emotions, memories, intrusive thoughts and feelings, loops, ruminating, planning, distractions, monkey mind frenzy, restlessness, sleepiness, laziness, lassitude, boredom, inattentiveness, ADHD, yearning, pining, speculating, skepticism, in brief, the many and varied manifestations of the Five Hindrances?

The goal is not control. It's not being controlled.

Those are the first five obstacles to even remaining on the cushion to begin to get still. Stillness temporarily purifies the mind/heart so that coherence can set in, when everything is in its place and doing its thing. That is the beginning of samma-samadhi, what we have for so long been misled to think means "right concentration." Unfortunately, in English, "concentration" seems like a doing, an intentional act, a strain, a holding of the breath, gritting of the teeth, a strong determination, and force... It may be. But this is not samadhi. Samadhi requires no hard doing, only allowing, accepting, awareness of what is (not embellishing, distorting, or departing the scene for some place more interesting or stimulating, more pleasant or profound). Be here now. It's so simple, it's impossible at the beginning. Just "be"? No, but LET IT BE. Allow. Exhale. Find contentment in this moment.

Right Concentration: Jhanas (L. Brasington)

Rest. It begins with calm, and calm begins with relaxation that is founded on simply letting things be just as they are and radically accepting them. Stay (rather than departing).

Mindfulness (sati) is wakefulness, bare (unembellished, undistorted) awareness of what is, whatever it is, vigilance (keeping a vigil), coming back again and again (if by habit the mind turns away in search of sensuality, anger/aversion, restless states, drowsiness, or skeptical disquietude).

Begin with quiet. If we are quiet on the inside, it will be easy to be quiet on the outside. Therefore, be quiet on the outside until the inside quietens. This will be the first step to the first absorption, being pulled into the object of meditation (the breath or whatever it is).

When there is no this-and-that but only that being with this (a nonduality between that meditation object over there and this meditator over here because of being so absorbed, so interested, so zesty for the sweet release of calm and bliss, piti (rapture). Stay with it. It gets better. Bliss increases. Then next bliss loses its charm, and calm is better. And next stillness is better. These first four stages are the ingredients of a solid foundation for learning to meditate.

And this is odd. We meditate to learn to meditate. That is, we let the natural happen -- this natural state of stilling and absorbing -- so that we can use that strength of mind to investigate two very important things, ultimate-materiality and ultimate-mentality. But that will come.

Practicing Jhanas (Snyder and Rasmussen)

For now, we must perform a lesser miracle, a mundane marvel, a magic that is no trick. It's time to levitate. The ancients knew how to do it. Non-Buddhist yogis knew how to do it. Catholic saints, sometimes not taking themselves too seriously, took themselves so lightly as to float, ascend, be raptured up. There are historical accounts of this in the West. Look them up.

We are going the way of the East, so it is more systematic. The secrets are buried in Buddhaghosa's manual of Buddhist meditation, The Path of Purification. It gives the instructions, not that they'll make much sense to the layperson, the nonpractitioner. Find a teacher who knows-and-sees. They exist. (Here's a list).

It will not even be possible to do anything in the first paragraph without morality, virtue, self-restraint. Immorality leads to disquietude, to worry, scruples, rumination, remorse, regret, repentance, fear and foreboding of what may come as a result. So take up virtue because, as the great musician Danny Elfman so aptly said so very long ago: "Peace of mind, peace of mind, hard to keep, hard to find, look ahead, look behind, looking for, peace of mind, peace of mind, can't relax, can't unwind, deep inside, secret mind" ("I'm Afraid" by the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo).

That is all for now.

• What about the magician David Copperfield? You don't think he took up Buddhist meditation or the Ashtanga (Eight Limb) Yoga and actually learned to sit cross-legged and move through the air like a bird, do you?

I don't know how he did it. It looks completely fake, a trick of the camera, an early version of green screen technology, using filming methods made famous by David Blaine street magic.

• What kind of "magic" was that?

If a sign of light comes, don't look. Let it be.

Because he was on the street, we assumed it was all filmed as performed on the street. But actually he was just filming real reactions to tricks. The tricks were enhanced later so that what we saw was assumed to be what the people on the street saw, which looked amazing. In fact, those people on the street were tricked with set up scenarios and magic helpers. They were illusions. But the real illusion is what we saw, people seemingly verifying on the street what we thought we were watching at home. For instance, he claims to levitate. From home, this is shown as coming up a foot or more off the ground. In real life, that is to say, on the street, he only came up an inch or two. And that he did by turning his body, having them stand at an angle, then tilting one foot, which from a particular angle looks like two feet leaving the ground. From another angle, it's clearly just one foot. He's supporting his weight totally on the other foot. It's laughable. But it freaked some people out because he's so weird, intense, and convincing. And something (a trick) happened that the people on the street react to -- not all of them -- but the very best reactions got put into his TV specials to vouch that he was "really" doing what he misled us to believe he was doing. Easy. Relatively easy. He's a very skilled deceiver, and that the stage magician's stock and trade. We're all in agreement with it. Ask Houdini. But that is not to say real magic doesn't exist. It does.

What technology exists in GC?

• The nimitta, if it comes, is a "sign" of progress; elation ruins it
• Binaural beats in headphones may advance progress by years
• Scientists identify how dietary restriction slows brain aging and increases lifespan
• Emotional Contagion: How humans catch and spread feelings without ever knowing (inverse.com)
• Rhythmically stimulating the brain with electrical currents could boost cognitive function, according to analysis of over 100 studies
• The strong emotion and unexpected joy of experiencing a total eclipse of the sun
• Genetics and brain functioning: Scientists uncover evidence of heritable neural activity

San Francisco protests APEC, pro-Palestine

Protesters demonstrate against world leaders, Israel's atrocities in Gaza as APEC comes to SF

(NBC Bay Area) Nov. 12, 2023: A large group of demonstrators took to the streets of downtown San Francisco on Sunday, opposing this week’s APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit. Christie Smith reports. Stay connected: Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/nbcbayarea

US intel by Scott Ritter: Israel, rave (WOW)

Scott Ritter, Danny Haiphong, 11/3/23; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

US Marine Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter: Israel is destroying itself and political Zionism and settler colonialism to get a state is over.

Scott Ritter: Israel in BIG TROUBLE as its War on Gaza inflames regional tensions

(Danny Haiphong) Friend of the show and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter reflects on Israel's war on Gaza and whether regional forces such as Hezbollah will enter into the conflict in a major way.

• Israel has been lying, spreading atrocity propaganda
• Israel was outwitted by Hamas/El Qassam Brigades
• Israel has been committing war crimes for decades
• Israel uses kibbutz system to steal land, spy on Gaza
• Israeli rave was half attended by armed active military
• The other half was former military young people
• What the US military knows and has warned Israel...

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9/11: the science and evidence (Dr. Wood)

Dr. Judy Wood; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dr. Wood: First, "know what you know." Start with the bare facts of what we have here.

“The Towers didn’t burn up, nor did they slam to the ground. They turned (mostly) to dust in mid air.” This is unprecedented in physics. They did not explode or burn. Rather, they were "dustified." What could do such a thing? A directed energy weapon striking from above. Who could have developed and deployed such an advanced technology secret weapon? Only one country -- the United States of America. The CIA has much to answer for this false flag operation, utilizing drone, holograms, actual windowless planes, manipulation of the media, confiscation of original video footage.

Few people will examine the tangible, forensic evidence, preferring instead to jump ahead can confuse things by shouting, "But why would they do it? They wouldn't! We wouldn't do that to ourselves." Science shows what happened and leaves the why till later. There is no doubt WHAT happened. Let's stick to that without confusing the issue or doing everything to obfuscate the facts. Dr. Judy Wood is a scientist and an expert in exactly the field that deals with what happened in this instance. There are many lines of evidence to show a conspiracy, but there's no need to go there yet. Let's start with the basics, free of the assumption and mantra of calling the event a "terrorist attack" to mislead thoughtless speakers and reporters.

• Dr. Judy Wood, mocking war criminal Rumsfeld psychobabble since he announced the loss of trillions of dollars in Iraq the day before 9/11 then never had to answer because the US has been at war in the Middle Easte ever since, just as planned with this 9/11 pretext: "Know What it is that You Know that You Know"
• PHOTOS: Rare 9/11 images show aftermath of attacks inside Pentagon (Daily Mail)

Dick: Still talkin about this? He's dead. Let it go!

The most exciting evidence not addressed by Dr. Wood, who's a scientist not a litigator, is: What about the "terrorists" on the planes that day that were still alive afterwards? They were alive and walking around trying to get attention even as their names and photos were vilified and circulated widely. Why wouldn't the mainstream media interview and clear them?

Where is there any evidence, such as airport photos or surveillance video from 9/11/01 that they even got on the planes they allegedly brought down?

Never mind all of the coincidences and circumstantial evidence and how only a fraction of the people who worked in the towers were in the buildings at the time of their controlled demolition. Forget all that. There's so much "loose change" to account for. It doesn't change the science and forensic evidence.

But, of course, no evidence is good enough for people who want not to believe. Why? Because you can't wake up people who are only pretending to be asleep. That's right, there-there, beddy bye-bye, good nighty night, and sweet dreams. 💖

A "plane" hit the Pentagon? And it was totally disintegrated and disappeared except for clues

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The rabbit hole starts here...

Jeff Rense research is aggregated at rense.com

• 9/11 in 2017: We know who did it and how
• The Jeff Rense Sept. 11th memorial tribute page and research archive (PDF) 
• The inside bombers of 9/22 revealed (rense.com)
• Audit the Pentagon: Trillions still missing since before 9/11
• The fake science of the official 9/11 story
• 2017: Humankind must face Sept. 11th truth
• America as an Israeli colony, Pt. 1 (must read)
• They did it: Dr. Alan Sabrosky (Jewish) Israel did 9/11
• A hurricane of media disinformation blew away a key 9/11 anniversary
• "9/11...Israel did it"
• Prof. James Fetzer: America was nuked on 9/11
• Bill Cooper predicts 9/11 "attack" and Bin Laden interview (June 18, 2001)
• The meaning of 9/11...fifteen year after
• Scholar: Twin Towers destroyed by micro and mini nukes
• The disturbing aftermath of 9/11
• Crucial 9/11 video (rense.com)

We have the real estate. How do we get insurance money AND use it as a pretext to invade those damn Afghans and Iraqis, and Iranians, Yemenis, Lebanese, Sudanese...and get this NDAA passed?

The Pentagon, home of the U.S. Dept. of War, was conveniently struck by a little missile.

Burning towers from "space," which would be 50 miles up, and this is not 50 miles, more like 20, where a flying vehicle equipped with a directed energy beam could sit for the duration of the dustification.