Lifestyle of Zack de la Rocha: RATM

Rage Against the Machine (RATM) is, or was, a band. And Afro-Latin singer and sincere vegetarian activist Zack de la Rocha may have been the main reason for their success. Morello fans may disagree.

23andMe may sell all our data

(Forbes) 23andMe files for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki exits—Here's What We Know

(Danielle Romero/NYTN) Think your DNA test is wrong? Watch this first

We are told we are just coded protein strands.

What a rip-off, corporate @$#%$^&, this company's about to sell our data!

23andMe said we were Jewish (less than 1%), very Irish, Mexican, and who knows what -- Denisovan, Neanderthal, Ainu, Native American, Scandinavian, ET, surely there's got to be at least a drop of Sami in there. We were hoping for Basque and Hopi, something Iberian, Dravidian-Aryan, and Anasazi, but no such luck. Now the whole world is going to know it!

DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy | REUTERS

23andMe files for bankruptcy as CEO Anne Wojcicki resigns. What will happen to everyone's DNA samples and resultant data?

As another corporation flops or allows our data to be breeched before flopping, Americans are in danger of unwanted disclosures. Ever since the medical industry has been going online, hackers have been having at our data and selling it on the Web (mostly the Dark Web). What does the government do? Pass a report along to DHS, FBI, CIA, NSC, NSA? No, mostly it just sends records to Mormons, who are keen to store the records inside a hollowed-out mountain.

DNA tester 23andMe files for bankruptcy, CEO out | LiveNOW from FOX

That's what ancestry.com is all about or at least how it started. Someone has to hold on to those records, and it can't just be the Catholic Church and its system of official baptisms. What to do as 1984 is upon us? Big Brother, having been watching, will upload the records to AI ("Hal" 2001 a Space Odyssey) to sort out. Surely, Dave will figure it out. It's not like AI can read lips. Can it?

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, what's going on? Bonta says update profiles and delete data, requesting samples be destroyed before they fall into the hands of a new buyer with a new privacy policy.

• Forbes; Fox, Reuters, March 24, 2025; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Aliens have visited Earth, Congress hears

BREAKING NEWS: Boebert asks witnesses if DoD (Department of War) is creating 'hybrids' of human and non-human genetics

(Forbes Breaking News) Nov. 13, 2024: At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) questioned witnesses about UAPs, USOs, and UFOs.

Anna Paulina Luna asks ex-Navy official: 'Are you aware of any UFO 'hotspots'?

Space aliens (ETs) have visited Earth, US Congress hears

(The Project) Nov. 14, 2024: Mainstream mockery of a serious issue to discount it and shift public opinion away from taking it seriously as a decades-long cover up continues: While we all know ET has been to Earth, the U.S. Congress acts as if it just heard about ETs visiting for the first time. Congress has spent the last few days hearing all about how other space aliens and UFOs have visited earth, too. It's enough to make us want to phone home and check on Mum. #USCongress #Aliens #UFO. Source

Peace candidate Trump beats DS Kamala

Oops, I did it again, I lied to them all and got elected. Now what, revenge? (El Grafico)
Kamala Harris surrogate Mark Cuban concedes to Trump: You won fair and squeare

I am the Chosen One, scion of the Orange Messiah who saved us from the New Romans

Trump wins presidency for second time, completing improbable comeback (The Hill)

• VP Kamala Harris will not speak as tearful supporters leave watch party
• 5 takeaways as Trump wins White House for a second time

As she loses Pennsylvania to terrible Trump, peace in Ukraine is visible. They should not be inducted into NATO as an insult to neighbor Russia, who argued for peace since the beginning and invaded because the US and its European allies left it no choice. It was no surprise. This is all planned by the CIA trying to take over the world.

• Glee, despair as America reacts to 2024 presidential election results

• 

  Our beautiful LBGTQ+ Pres. Julie D. Vance

  The future is a President JD Vance because Trump will become ill (possibly heart disease), too sick to sit in the White House and pretend to rule while Project 2025 officials like Homan actually call the shots and get things done for conservatives. This was predicted by Stewart Swerdlow (expansions.com), who also said to expect civil unrest. Now rather than MAGA maniacs pulling another attempted Jan. 6th, will the nominal Left "rise up" and say "H*ll no to Trump"? So in a sense, though he wins or steals or is handed another election, Trump does not take office. That is the prediction from a back door channel between the Kremlin and Washington DC (aka The Swamp). Will he be sentenced to some prison time for his felony convictions? Maybe this gives him a heart attack with some thrombosis for his horrific meat and fried foods diet.
• 5 takeaways as Trump wins White House for a second time

• Harris will not speak, Trump speaks as if he won already, as tearful Kamala supporters leave watch party
• DJ Trump's swing state gains are ominous for Harris
• Trump projected to win Iowa Fox News reports
• Mushrooms for health from paleovalley.com (Neuro Effect)
• Scientist says human consciousness comes from another dimension
• Researchers in an isolated cave make discovery that could rewrite history
• US to test hypersonic nuclear missile tonight amid growing WWIII fears


• Trump wins big meme stock soars in China Harris shares drop
• Trump wins presidency for 2nd time, completing improbable comeback
• Kamala has already conceded the race to Trump through Mark Cuban; it was all called by 2:00 am today, as Pennsylvania went for Trump and against Kamala "Cheney" Harris, a disgusting panderer to the Republicans and centrists, turning her back on the Left, the moderates, and even DINOs.

Trump against the Black vote at NABJ

Opinion: The latest political cartoons on DJ Trump and JD Vance (msn.com)

• 'White dudes' rally to elect the first female president
• Democrats' new attack line leaves MAGA Republicans seething: Don't call us 'weird'

Trump questions Kamala's Blackness and Megan Thee Stallion rallies Harris supporters

(The Daily Show) July 31, 2024: Ronny Chieng tackles Trump's painful attempt at Black voter outreach, which included insulting Black journalists and accusing Kamala Harris of not being Black [because she was exclusively Indian-American raised in Canada for most of her life]. Plus, Megan Thee Stallion declares "Hotties for Harris" at an Atlanta campaign rally, and Michael Kosta has a plan to keep the Democrats' newfound excitement going. #DailyShow #Harris #Trump #MeganTheeStallion

Hottest day in the world with Lewis Black

Kamala gets everyone on Zoom and Dems slam JD Vance for "weird" cat lady comments | The Daily Show

(The Daily Show) July 30, 2024: Ronny Chieng zooms in on the white guys who are fired up for Kamala and finds out why the Democrats are calling Trump and Vance "weird." Plus, Grace Kuhlenschmidt gets the scoop on those childless cat ladies Vance has been trash-talking. #DailyShow #RonnyChieng #KamalaHarris

• 0:00 - Ronny Chieng’s TDS Welcome
• 0:21 - “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom Raises $4 Million
• 2:00 - Trump Makes Argument for Not Debating Harris
• 3:07 - Dems Call Out Trump for Being “Weird”
• 4:54 - JD Vance Slammed for “Weird” Cat Lady Comments
• 6:24 - Grace Kuhlenschmidt Weighs in on JD Vance Cat Lady Comments

• Trump: Kamala wasn't Black, criticism at NABJ: 'I didn't know she was Black' (usatoday.com)
• Trump accuses Kamala Harris of deciding to 'turn Black' [at age 51] with Black journalists (nbcnews.com)

• CARTOONS: The latest political opinions (MSN)
• Trump kicked off his NABJ appearance in a combative mood. It only got worse from there. (msn.com)
• Kamala responds to Trump NABJ remarks: divisiveness, disrespect, [calling her own for being an Oreo or Coconut]
• 9/11 'mastermind,' accomplices make plea deal with U.S. after 20+ years of torture and false imprisonment
• No, this clip doesn't show bullet hitting Trump's ear | Fact check
• Ronny Chieng, The Daily Show; NABJ event via Forbes; Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Lottery: Mega Millions jackpot millions

Brian Bushard, Forbes (MSN, 2/21/24); Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What's luck? Random chance? Falling ass backwards into it? Or Dr. Gallenberger's method?

The Mega Millions jackpot surged to $525 million Wednesday morning, making it the 12th biggest in the game’s history (Getty Images © provided by Forbes).

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Liquid Luck: Good Fortune HB

The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to a mouth-watering $525 million today (Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024) morning, after no successful tickets were drawn Tuesday night, making the jackpot the 12th biggest in the history of the game, though a lucky winner would see less than half of that amount after federal taxes are deducted.

Key Facts

A lucky ticket purchaser and holder who matches all five white balls and one “megaball” to claim the grand prize would have the choice of receiving the massive payout in 30 annual installments or as a one-time lump sum of $247.1 million, by far the more popular option among lottery winners.

Under the lump sum route, the winner’s payout would be reduced by a mandatory 24% federal tax withholding, cutting the prize to just under $187.8 million, while a federal marginal rate as high as 37% — depending on the winner’s taxable income and other tax deductions — could bring it down to just over $155.6 million.

If the winner opts for the annual installments, a full 37% federal marginal rate would reduce each payment to roughly $11 million.

State taxes could cut even more out of the grand prize, though not every state taxes lottery winnings. More

• How to start getting lucky: Dr. Gallenberger
• Powerball winning numbers for Feb. 21 drawing: Jackpot rises to nearly $350 million

Is "playing the lottery" gambling? (DN 27)

The Buddha gave this advice in The Book of the Sixes (Anguttara Nikaya, VI). We all want six things, one of which is wealth. The question is, Should we pray for it? Is petitionary prayer to some power the way to get it? The Buddha asks, If prayer were able to get it for us, who would not already have it? Better than praying is action (karma) so that one realizes the results without even asking for them. What deed results in receiving?

What is dumb luck?

Gender de-trans: What will the aliens think?

Detransitioner speaks to Mike Johnson about her prior gender transition

(Forbes Breaking News) July 28, 2023. At a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on gender confirmation treatments for minors, detransitioner Chloe Cole spoke about her prior sex change (gender reassignment or transition) treatments, explaining that it almost killed her.

(The Babylon Bee) Space alien Gen. Florg: "How many genders are there?"

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"How many genders are there?" (US Senate)

"How many genders are there?": Sen. John Kennedy questions Human Rights Campaign Chief Robinson about gender

(Forbes Breaking News) June 21, 2023. At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (Republican, LA) questioned HRC Pres. Kelley Robinson.

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What's a "woman"?

Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Amber Larson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

Hi. I'm a woman, I mean a geneticist.

That a dangerous question nowadays, politically fraught, a minefield. But we at Wisdom Quarterly do not mind answering it with scientifical accuracy. "Science" changes, but if what scientists have taught is true to this point (XY sex-determination system), then we can define womanhood as the presence of XY chromosomes. Manhood is XX.

See how the jaw is robust? That's nice, huh?

This brings up the sticky question of potential genetic anomalies: Do humans change? Are we born one way and stay that way. There are intersex beings between the sexes. There are masculine females and effeminate males. There may even be more "letters" than X and Y because apparently a Y is just an X with a broken X, the lower right foot missing. What then if some human beings are born with an X and a ~ (chromosomal foot or fragment)? Or another "letter"? Or neither? Or something completely different? Biological sex is tough, but it seems to be mutable.

Defend Piers Morgan's right to be a Black lesbian.

"Are you transphobic?": Sen. Mike Lee questions NCAA's Riley Gaines

(Forbes Breaking News) June 21, 2023 At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) spoke to Riley Gaines about the inclusion of transgender athletes women's sports. "Male gaze" is upsetting to biological female sports figures. Lia Thomas, "NCAA Woman of the Year," is excelling at the expense of athletes born female.

Gender is tougher. There is the genotypic and phenotypic distinction to be made -- what is in the genes (genotypic) and what is expressed (phenotypically). Gender is psychological and socially-constructed more than biological or biologically-determined.

No one may like to hear it, but Dr. Joseph Wallach (criticalhealhnews.com) has researched the matter and found that the increasing birth rate of transgender children is due to a nutritional deficiency in the mother during gestation. He has scientific evidence for this, but the LGBTQI+ community is not likely to be happy with such news. Pre-parents might like this news, but post-parents almost certainly will not. They'll say the mother is being blamed, as she was with SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), which Dr. Wallach cured by first discovering the nutritional deficiency that caused it then getting those nutrients into baby formulas.

What makes a person gay, bi, lesbian, homosexual, pansexual, trisexual (try sexual), nymphomaniacal, questioning, confused, malleable, situational, asexual...? It's not clear if Dr. Wallach has yet successfully researched that.

What does Buddhism say?

Fortunately, Buddhism has an answer as to what a "woman" is and what a "man" is -- and there may even be a third and fourth gender, if not more.

The personally verifiable answer to this is found in the Abhidhamma or the "Doctrine (Dhamma) in Ultimate Terms," a dense and profound work on ultimate reality in Buddhism.

Your own pronouns? Do I get my own adjectives?

What is ultimately real?

What is "truth" (sacca or satya)? The ultimate truth (paramattha-sacca) is distinguished from the conventional truth (vohāra-sacca). By distinguishing them one can learn to discern conventional mind-and-body (into ultimate nama-rupa, "name and form").

There's a level deeper than conventional truth, analogous to physics. If the conventional is psychological, at a deeper level there is the ultimate or physical: streams of cittas (which along with cetasikas, "mental concomitants," form the basis of Buddhist psychology) and streams of kalapas and their Four Elements (mahabhuta or dhatu, the Four Qualities of Matter, as distinct from the mind element).

Mind-moments and particles, these things are real. Through mental purification (visuddhi), one gains stillness/concentration (jhana) and is able to use this intensification of mind to discern the subtle and otherwise invisible: mind-moments and particles.

In so doing one becomes able to look at the characteristics of particles (kalapas), seeing them imbued with sex, biological sex. They do not have a gender, but they are imprinted with the biological sex (bhāva) of the person.

• Human nature or inborn "faculties" (indriya)
• The 18 constituents of a whole or being: dhātu
• What is a "person" (or living being)? The Five Aggregates

Come and see. This Doctrine and Discipline (dhamma-vinaya) called Buddhism invites investigation and personal verification. 

Then enter the debate with the certainty to be able to answer, "What is a woman?" Can it change? We speculate that biology is malleable (phenotypic plasticity and genotypic plasticity) as, for instance, seen with the use of biohazardous pesticides and other chemical toxins in the environment, particularly endocrine disruptors, which affect human hormones. It turns out we share hormones with animals and plants and even the mushroom kingdom (e.g., Vitamin D, which can be considered a hormone, is made in the fruiting bodies of fungi exposed to sunlight).

What does it mean to be "transgender"?

- FU, mofos, don't you ask me nuthin!

Did ancient Buddhism have anything to say about gender?

Playboy Hugh Hefner was motivated by Kinsey

In a word, yes. And that word is pandaka, an unflattering catch-all term for gender-role-transgressing individuals. That can include anything -- sex starved eunuchs resorting to homosexuality, hermaphrodites, gender nonconformists, crossdressers, transsexuals, butch and effeminate individuals, twin spirits, non-cisgender folks, gays, possibly even asexuals. The ancient world in and around what is now India, as known through the commentators, had their own explanations for such behavior. Sexual behavior falls along a spectrum, and deviating from the norm might earn one the label of pandaka or "pervert," particularly if one stood out. Dr. Kinsey may have done much to liberate modern thinkers from old norms, but he himself was almost certainly a pandaka dressed up in a scientific labcoat, promoted by academia, and accepted as positive cultural influence.

• VIDEO: [Cover up of murder continues] AP Explains: New details in Epstein's "suicide" emerge | (msn.com)

Psychiatrist debunks gender ideology "lies"

• VIDEO: Christian reacts to Riley Gaines leaving woke activist speechless for claiming men can't beat Serena Williams [who seems to be a man] in tennis
• VIDEO: Former trans kid Chloe Cole on why she LEFT transgenderism
• A Wagner [pronounced \vog-ner\] ex-convict returned from war and a Russian village lived in fear. Then he killed again | AP
• VIDEO: You have to see it to believe it! #shorts (msn.com)

Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky: US+USSR evil

Has Nadya been made a tool and dupe of the West, used as anti-Putin propaganda the way FEMEN's nudity was used to promote the West's interests? To say Pres. Putin is bad is not in any way meant to suggest that Biden or Trump are good.

Pussy Riot creator Nadya reveals Noam Chomsky's shocking comparison between US evil and USSR evil

(Forbes Breaking News) May 21, 2023. On "Forbes Newsroom," feminist art collective Pussy Riot creator Nadya Tolokonnikova spoke about the evil of Russian Pres. Vlad [the Impaler] Putin, and discussed the absurd comparison made by Noam Chomsky of the U.S. being evil like Russia is.

Pussy Riot's Nadya put on Russia's Most Wanted Criminal Suspects List

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Animal Liberation NOW: Peter Singer

Peter Singer, Forbes, May 22, 2023; Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

(Forbes) Forbes Talks. Famous author Peter Singer (Animal Liberation, The Life You Can Save, Animal Liberation Now) gives a progress update since his first book, the mass slaughter of animals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and cruelty in our food chain. Read the full story on Forbes: Subscribe to FORBES: youtube.com/user/Forbes... 

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Greta Thunberg arrested in Germany (video)

KHOU 11; Forbes News; Russell Howard; Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Greta Thunberg arrested, detained by police in Germany after protest

(KHOU 11) Jan. 17, 2023. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg -- woke darling of the media -- and several other protesters have been carried away by German police from the edge of an open coal pit mine.

COMMENTARY

Climate Book: Facts+Solutions

[Why? She was hauled off for daring to protest business "progress." How long before others are out throwing their bodies into The Machine that UC Berkeley's Mario Savio and Los Angeles' Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) warned us about? Her parents will be so proud, and her book sales should skyrocket. Our dad wouldn't be happy, and we have yet to publish a book about our artificially and purposefully-induced climate catastrophes can be countered.]

• VIDEO: Comedian tells Oxford Union about new generation of WOKE climate activists

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Greta Thunberg detained by German police at coal mine protest

(Forbes Breaking News) Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. [Behold the NAZI tactics of modern German riot squad police, wielding batons for capitalism, on horseback and aiming the trained biting dogs at peaceful demonstrators trying to slow down The Machine.] Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police on Tuesday during a protest of a German coal mine.

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The climate is in kids' hands

Greta Thunberg chats to the playground politics kids about the climate crisis

(Russell Howard) From The Russell Howard Hour (11/8/22), climate activist Greta Thunberg chats to the playground politics kids about what we can do to help the climate crisis, with a varying degree of useful answers... Welcome to the official #RussellHoward channel. Follow the show on Twitter at twitter.com/howardhour.

I want to rock 'n roll this Covid-19 bull (video)

Mark Beech (forbes.com, H&E, 4/9/20); Ellie Askew, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Pink Floyd live onstage, Earls Court, UK, Division Bell Tour (Mick Hutson/Redferns)

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Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Metallica, Radiohead... release unseen and rare footage on YouTube amid COVID-19 lockdown

Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Metallica, Genesis, The National are all releasing unseen, rare or archived material amid this coronavirus lockdown.

The Dead Kennedys: WWJD?

The concert footage is scheduled for the bands’ official channels on a weekly basis for fans around the world to enjoy, YouTube announced today. Many of the groups are using this live footage to raise funds and awareness for COVID-19 related causes.

Acts are varied as The National and Genesis are also offering free music as more than a quarter of the world’s population stays at home and the virus death toll climbs to more than 91,000 worldwide.

Radiohead starts April 9 at 5:00 p.m. ET with the first in a series of archived concerts. The opener is a premiere of Dublin - Live From A Tent, recorded in 2000 on the Kid A album tour. Each week, more of the Radiohead Public Archive will be revealed.

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• Kanye West, friend of Trump, is now officially a billionaire—not by music but sneakers, so please validate me

Pink Floyd has long been showing short-form videos from its archives every Friday at 12:00 p.m. ET. From April 17, the British band will put out full concert films, starting with the relatively well-known Pulse, recorded in 1994 at the now-demolished venue of Earls Court, London, during The Division Bell Tour.

The National is now live every Monday, promising rare footage to benefit its live crew members after the cancellation of concerts because of the virus. More