Quick News of the Day, Oct. 15 (DN!)

Amy Goodman summarizes headlines (democracynow.org)

(The Young Turks) Are we on the way to World War III?

LA Protests, Cop shoots journalist, Judge denies Newsom, Trump's Stephen Miller

Trump Advisor Stephen Miller lit the spark the blew up Los Angeles (The Jimmy Dore Show)

Is this the Israel King Trump arms and supports?

Judge denies Newsom's emergency motion to block deployment of Troops in LA

Marines will be deployed to LA to respond to immigration protests | 6:00 pm Update

(Democracy Now) Jean Guerrero, author of Hatemonger, w/Juan Gonzalez on Trump's motives

Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda (eBook)

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“A vital book for understanding the still-unfolding nightmare of nationalism and racism in the twenty-first century.”

— Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River

• Stephen Miller (Trump advisor) is angry right wing Jew from LA

Goebbels was nice. Stephen Miller, speechwriter

Stephen Miller was one of the most influential advisors in the White House. He crafted D Trump’s speeches, designed immigration policies that banned Muslims and separated families, and outlasted such Trump stalwarts as Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions. But he has remained an enigma. Until now.

• What is the Posse Comitatus Act?

Emmy- and PEN-winning investigative journalist and author Jean Guerrero charts the 34-year-old’s astonishing rise to power, drawing from more than 100 interviews with his family, friends, adversaries, and government officials.

After being radicalized as a teenager and attending Duke University, Miller served Tea Party Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and nativist Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions.

Recruited to Trump’s campaign, Miller met his idol. Having dreamed of Trump’s presidency before he even announced his decision to run, Miller became his senior policy advisor and speechwriter.

MSNBC Deadline White House: Stephen Miller's dystopian strategy

Together, they stoked dystopian fears about the Democrats, “Deep State,” and “American Carnage,” painting migrants and their supporters as an existential threat to America.

While Trump railed against illegal immigration, Miller crusaded against legal immigration. He targeted refugees, asylum seekers and their children, engineering an ethical crisis for a nation that once saw itself as the conscience of the world.

Miller rallied support for this agenda, even as federal judges tried to stop it, by courting the white rage that found violent expression in tragedies from El Paso to Charlottesville.

Hatemonger unveils the man driving some of the most divisive confrontations over what it means to be American—and what America will become. More

ICE raids Home Depot...as California collapses

(Cash Jordan) Riots break out...as ICE 'raids' Mexican restaurant

California's bomb cyclone, drought in NY

(Democracy Now!) Host Amy Goodman: Top U.S. & World Headlines — November 19, 2024

Atmospheric river begins to drop rain, snow in Northern California

(CBS News Sacramento) Nov. 20, 2024: Over the next several days, Northern California will continue to see rain and snow due to an atmospheric river that's just getting started. It's a bomb cyclone over Seattle and California's capital Sacramento.

• Extreme weather: Explosive cyclogenesis

(CBS New York) New York City, NJ, now under drought warning

Deporter in Chief: DJ's racist appeals

"Communities were destroyed": Mass U.S. deportations of 1930s and '50s show harm of Trump plan

(Democracy Now!) Nov. 7, 2024: DJ Trump has made the mass deportation of immigrants a centerpiece of his plans for a second term, vowing to forcibly remove as many as 20 million people from the country.

Historian Ana Raquel Minian, who studies the history of immigration, says earlier mass deportation programs in the 1930s and '50s led to widespread abuse, tearing many families apart through violent means that also resulted in the expulsion of many U.S. citizens.

"These deportations that Trump is claiming that he will do will have mass implications to our civil rights, to our communities and to our economy, and of course to the people who are being deported themselves," says Minian.

She also says that while Trump's extremist rhetoric encourages hate and violence against vulnerable communities, in terms of policy there is great continuity with the Biden administration, which kept many of the same policies in place.

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Ralph Nader explains Kamala's failure

• See full comments and context at democracynow.org
• Nancy Pelosi to blame for Trump win: Kevin McCarthy

Discount tee-shirts for sale!

I know I suck (blood) now, but when elected female president, I will be different.

That's right, Obi, get his old a*s outta here. The future is female. - Call me, Barry.

I got this, G-Joe. I don't need your help. Just bow out, STFU, and get out of my way.

It's nothing but sexism, sexism and racism, that Kamala lost -- and Anti-Doug-ism, too.

It's 292 to 224 and counting, when a candidate only needs 270 to win the election.

• Ralph Nader, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (DemocracyNow.org, Nov. 5, 2024); Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sen. Bernie Sanders wins in landslide

I'm the Boss, not Cami or Joe! They wouldn't listen to me no matter how I worked for them

• Sanders: Democratic Party 'has abandoned working class people' (The Hill)

Old Sen. Bernie Sanders wins U.S. Senate race in a landslide

If I ran against you, I'd win big. - STFU, Bern!

(KING 5 Seattle) Nov. 5, 2024: They (the Democrat Party) wouldn't listen to the Burner.  Kamala wouldn't stop kissing up to the war criminal Cheney family trying to win over Republicans to her failed vision of more and more war like her boss, Genocide Joe. And what happened? Sanders, who is now 83, won reelection for a fourth six-year term in the U.S. Senate. If asked how he managed his political longevity, what would he say? Quoting Bill, he would almost certainly parrot the well-worn line, "It's the economy, stupid."

As this presidential campaign comes to an end, let me say a few words

It's OK to be angry, but vote.

(Bernie Sanders) Nov. 4, 2024: Join me at berniesanders.com [so I can convince you to vote for Camela and Joe, if he runs again, because I say I'm independent but I completely depend and lean on the Democrats for constituents, echoing them -- unless it's on Gaza, and then I read the tea leaves and dare to differ from Camala and criticize my fellow Jews in the Netanyahu administration. By listening to constituents, I said the right things, siding with the little man rather than my elite friends and coworkers in the Swamp. And I tried to tell Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Jill Biden, Bear O'Bama, Michael O'Bama, and anybody who would listen that maybe Camilla should tone down the Cheney rhetoric and campaign with me so I could show her how it's done, but no one would listen to this old mean only Vermonters could love.]

(Democracy Now!, 2016) Senator Bernie Sanders wins landslides in

Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii; corporate media downplays them

Bernie "Feel the Burn" Sanders wins in a landslide again. He's been the only real match to populist Trump, but the dicky Democrat party won't go to the left, instead preferring to move further and further to the right.

In 1939, American Nazis rallied at MSG

Trump's night at the Garden: Racist campaign rally adopts language of fascism and violence

(DemocracyNow!) Oct. 29, 2024: DN! takes a close look at The Donald's campaign and racist rally at Madison Square Garden with Prof. of History and Italian Studies at NYU Ruth Ben-Ghiat (author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present [Guy]), an expert on fascism and authoritarianism, and filmmaker Marshall Curry.

• Future 1st Lt. Elon Musk says Trump's economic plans could cause 'temporary hardship' [but the austerity will be good for American weaklings who should live Spartan lives like Musky, Sieg heil!]
• Trump's purge worked: Supreme Court's conservative justices leave in place Virginia's purge of voter registrations [that will help minority Republicans win with fewer majority Democrats able to vote]
• Now for his next purge: Trump allies draw up plans targeting legal immigration

A Night at The Garden in 1939 (Field of Vision)

Prof. Ben-Ghiat argues that Trump's use of the hallmarks of "fascism and violence" -- including dehumanizing rhetoric, profane and crude discriminatory language, and threats to the "enemy within" -- echoes the rise of midcentury fascist rulers like and Adolf Hitler and Fran Franco.

Curry attended the rally and also directed the short film A Night at the Garden, about the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. He notes, "The demagogues in 1939 used the same tactics that we see today."

The 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden

(TheUntoldPast) One of the strangest events to take place around the time of WW II has to be the Nazi rally that took place in one of the world's most famous entertainment venues, New York's Madison Square Garden.

• Was Hitler-supporting Prescott S. Bush, the forebear of CIA Chief George H. Bush and US Pres. George W. Bush (puppet of fellow war criminal VP Dick Cheney) holding a swastika, a portrait of the Fuhrer, or a white supremacy banner?

Prior to the American involvement in Hitler's war, there was an American group that supported Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Known as the German American Bund, they had thousands of racist members in the USA. There were numerous white supremacist groups like this around the world outside of Germany.

However, what is the story of their 1939 rally in the most famous entertainment venue in the world (site of Led Zeppelin's greatest concert when the British invaded the US)?

(Democracy Now!) Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 30, 2024

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• Lucid: lucid.substack.com (by Ruth Ben-Ghiat)
• Curator's Corner: A 1934 (not 1939) Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden
• Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow.org; PBS (POV, 2020); TheUntoldPast, 4/28/20; Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Headlines: more bombs for Israel's genocide

• DemocracyNow.org, August 14, 2024

Kornfield: Who are the 12 Living Masters?

Sharon, Joe, Jack, Sylvia(?) The Best of Sharon Salzberg: Life, Teachings, Quotes (Awaken)

Living Dharma: Teachings and Meditation Instructions from Twelve Theravada Masters

• The full classic text FREE: Living Buddhist Masters by Jack Kornfield (Internet Archive)

Once upon a young American from the Bay Area in California decided to go on a spiritual quest.

(Yes, that's true of writers at Wisdom Quarterly, but this time we're talking about Jack Kornfield, who preceded us).

Kornfield decided to seek the wisdom of the East along with his hippie friends from the East Coast.

Jack Kornfield: Life is funny because karma is.

While working in the Peace Corps and learning languages in Asia, he trained to be a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India (just like we did, although we added Sri Lanka, where many of the sutra texts are stored along with their chief translator, Bhikkhu Bodhi, our teacher and inspiration.

Buddhism for Beginners (Jack Kornfield)

Wishing to visit Thailand, a friend who became Tan Jess, and I heard about Kornfield's guide to young seekers, which talks about a dozen living masters one might possibly study under in the original wandering ascetic forest tradition). Kornfield was good enough to write about his experiences under ten teachers, ten living Buddhist masters, for a Western audience back home. Not everyone is called to let it all go and go East. (But we were). Thankfully, Kornfield was.

The Wise Heart (Jack Kornfield)

Miraculously, he found what he was looking for, and not only he but at least four others. All seem to have attained the path of stream entry (the first stage of enlightenment) there under Dipa Ma and others.

There is Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein (IMS, IMS Forest Refuge), Sylvia Boorstein, and we could swear there was someone else who is not Trudy Goodman (founder of InsightLA.org) because she came into Kornfield's life much later and is now his wife, but maybe it was his previous wife, Liana.

Kornfield awakened (probably in Dipa Ma's living room in India), was sent back to the US, and is now the co-founder of the Bay Area's Spirit Rock Meditation Center near San Francisco and one of the co-founders of Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.

What does Kornfield teach?

Where does he teach? Spirit Rock and InsightLA

Kornfield has worked to make Buddhism accessible for Westerners [10], combining loving-kindness and self-compassion with the practice of mindfulness. He incorporates the wisdom of Eastern and Western psychology. In his book After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, he writes about the honest development of the wise heart within the cycles of day-to-day life.

Original 1977 cover of the book

For instance, "amid all the Western masters and teachers I know, some idealistic perfection is not apparent.

"Times of great wisdom, deep compassion, and a real knowing of freedom alternate with periods of fear, confusion, neurosis, and struggle. "Most teachers will readily admit this" (pg. xix).

Kornfield's early lectures were featured by Joe Frank on his radio series "The Other Side." More

• Jack Kornfield, Living Buddhist Masters (Internet Archive, archive.org); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ajahn Mahindo (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche online (5/18)

Don't say you can't meditate. Everyone can meditate and be mindful. It's as simple as this...

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I wandered a long time before I understood.

In his approach to teaching meditation, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Mingyur Rinpoche integrates traditional Buddhist practice and philosophy with the current scientific understanding of the mind and mental health, making the practices of meditation relevant and accessible to students around the world.

Compassionate Maitreya Buddha

“Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It’s always with us. It always has been and always will be. When it arises in us, we’ve simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.”

Join Minguyr Rinpoche for a guided meditation and talk on "Awareness and the Natural Arising of Compassion" followed by a 10-minute Q&A session.

Donations for this event are split between Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and InsightLA. Suggested donation: $35. (No one turned away for lack of funds). This class is donation-based; no one turned away for lack of funds.

Malaika Vaz in Nepal to meet Mingyur Rinpoche

You will be able to meditate.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a Buddhist teacher, best-selling author, and the spiritual leader of the Tergar Sangha worldwide. He possesses a rare ability to present the ancient wisdom of Buddhist Tibet in a fresh, engaging manner. Rinpoche’s teachings weave together his own personal experiences (as a very anxious and inept meditator) with modern scientific research, relating both to the practice of meditation.

• Special Event with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoch
• Saturday, May 18, 2024 9:00-10:00 am (PT)
• ONLINE through Insight Los Angeles

• InsightLA; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Byron Katie live in Los Angeles (7/11)

There are just four questions. Ask them.

"A Mind at Home with Itself with Byron Katie" is a special single day event at InsightLA.

Visiting teacher Byron Katie will be in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 11, 2024, from 9:00-11:00 am (PT).

Join Byron Katie and learn to question the thoughts that keep us from love and the radiant simplicity of the mind that abides nowhere.

• Register now (suggested donation $50)
• A Mind at Home with Itself with Byron Katie (InsightLA)

In this workshop, Byron Katie will not merely describe the awakened mind, she will support us in experiencing it for ourselves.

Come question the thinking and find the connectedness with ourselves and others, connection we’ve always longed for.

Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, says this of Byron Katie’s The Work:

“The Work is like a razor-sharp sword that cuts through illusion and enables you to know for yourself the timeless essence of your being.”

Purchase Byron Katie’s book A Mind at Home with Itself at InsightLA’s local bookstore partner Creating Conversations.

Loving What Is (Byron Katie)

ABOUT: Visiting teacher Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering.

As she guides people through this simple but powerful process of inquiry she calls The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs — about themselves, life, and other people — radically shift.

Lives are changed forever based on direct experience just as Byron Katie experienced.

Byron Katie is the female Eckhart Tolle, neither being Buddhist but teaching Buddhist ideas.

• Byron Katie (Wisdom 2.0); insightla.org; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Zoom: Insight w/ Melissa McKay (InsightLA)

Benedict Canyon Retreat House, Beverly Hills

This event is the in-person version of a hybrid retreat which will take place both in-person and online. To register for the online version of this event, click here.

To see clearly is to see things as they truly are, absent of our distortions, judgments, and stories. When we see clearly, we shed negativity and stress and live more freely.

Join Senior InsightLA Teacher Melissa McKay for a non-residential weekend insight meditation (vipassana) retreat.

Cultivate tranquility and clear inner seeing by spending time in silence, alternating between periods of sitting and walking meditation.

About Vipassana

Can I be mindful of chocolate for insight?

Vipassana is an ancient, transformative Buddhist meditation technique. Through self-observation, deep insight arises. In Vipassana, we focus attention on the body and mind, observing sensations and the movement of energy as it arises only to dissipate again.

Among the many benefits of Vipassana is the cultivation of inner peace and clarity. To see clearly is to see things, most importantly ourselves, as they truly are.

Who is this retreat for?

This weekend retreat is for anyone who is ready to deepen their meditation practice and live with greater lucidity and therefore with greater ease.

Suitable for all levels, this non-residential weekend experience is a good opportunity for those who would like to learn more about intensive retreat practice.

Where is it?

This event takes place in-person at the Benedict Canyon Retreat House, Beverly Hill and online via Zoom. Find directions, information on what to bring, and more at this link. As a non-residential retreat, participants will return home Friday and Saturday evening.

About Melissa McKay

The Buddha became enlightened by adding vipassana (insight) to his samadhi (stillness).

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Melissa McKay has been practicing meditation since the mid 1990’s. She has trained in Vipassana (insight, mindfulness) meditation and metta (loving-kindness) meditation in Burma and the United States.

Her first retreat was with Sayadaw U Pandita. The profound changes she saw in herself gave her a strong confidence (saddha, faith) and dedication to the practice. She continues to attend intensive meditation retreats yearly and has trained for over 10,000 hours. Learn more about Melissa McKay here.

“Melissa is one of the most experienced practitioners of the new generation of teachers.”

-Jack Kornfield

“Melissa is so obviously immersed in the teachings and shares them with such grace and eloquence. She makes herself so accessible and genuinely cares about her students. I felt so held in the light of her awareness.” -Anonymous Student “Melissa is a thoughtful teacher known for her deep care of students and skillfulness in making esoteric teachings accessible and relatable to modern day living.”

-Lodro Rinzler (author and teacher)

Schedule

Friday:

• 6:30 pm-7:30 pm Introduction and Talk
• 7:30-7:45 Stretch
• 7:45-8:30 Meditation

Saturday and Sunday:

• 6:00 am-6:45 am Meditation at home (optional)
• 6:45-8:00vBreakfast at home
• 8:30-9:30 Guided meditation
• 9:30-10:15 Walking meditation
• 10:15-11:00 Sitting meditation
• 11:00-11:30 Walking meditation
• 11:30 am-1:00 pm Lunch and rest
• 1:00-2:00 pm Sitting meditation
• 2:00-2:45 pm Walking meditation
• 2:45-3:30 pm Sitting meditation
• 3:30-4:00 Tea and optional talking
• 4:00-5:00 Questions and Discussion
• 5:00-9:00 Continue practice at home (optional Saturday only)
• (Hybrid: In-Person) Clear Seeing: A Weekend Vipassana Retreat - InsightLA Meditation
• Melissa McKay, insightla.org; Dhr. Seven, Jen Bradford, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Insight LA opens in Santa Monica (4/10)

[Online] Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction - InsightLA Meditation

Deepening Mindful Self-Compassion (Prerequisite: MSC) - InsightLA Meditation

BuddhaFest is past but lives on at InsightLA.org

Easter (Ishtar) Sunday was an amazing rebirth for Los Angeles-based InsightLA.org. No longer is it limited to Beverly Hills (Benedict Canyon or online). Now it is coming to Santa Monica. It actually already arrived with a series of soft openings.

On sacred Sunday, luminaries Trudy Goodman (founder) and her newish husband Jack Kornfield (who founded Spirit Rock in the Bay Area and co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society on the East Coast) spoke to a packed house of 75+ at the new reopening of the Santa Monica center (1430 Olympic) near the Santa Monica Co-op.

Trudy Goodman is semi-retiring and turning over day-to-day operations to Melissa McKay, who is going all donation-based for group activities in Santa Monica. (Meet and sit with Melissa on April 14).

Join InsightLA for its grand reopening on Wednesday April 10th for meditation Dharma and Community with some of InsightLA’s most senior teachers: LC Tran, Celeste Young, and Christine Wolf.

• This class is a donation-based class.
• No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
• Wed., April 10, 2024, 6:30-8:00 pm
• SMC, 1430 Olympic, Santa Monica

The evening will include a guided meditation, Dharma talk, Q&A, and ending in tea and social time to meet fellow community members and teachers.

Who is this practice group for?

InsightLA drop-in sitting groups are an opportunity for Angelenos to learn more about meditation practice in a welcoming environment.

All practice groups at InsightLA are drop-in and now donation-based. Let’s sit together! Register HERE to join in weekly Wednesday nights meditation practice group.

Where is this event located?

This event takes place in person at the Santa Monica Meditation Center and via Zoom online to the rest of the world.

For those attending in-person, find directions and accessibility information HERE. Please consider carpooling and click Sign Up for ride-share options. Suggested donation: $35

• SIGN UP: Santa Monica Community Dharma Nights (Grand Reopening) - InsightLA Meditation
• Sunday Morning Practice Group with Trudy Goodman (InsightLA Meditation)

RSVP for Sundays Youngish Adults Meditation

There are practice groups for everyone.

(InsightLA Meditation) Need a Sunday sangha ("spiritual community")? Interested in mindfulness meditation with a supportive hybrid in-person/online community of peer practitioners? Join in online via Zoom or in-person in the new Santa Monica Meditation Center. Share the collective wisdom related to sitting meditation practice. SIGN UP: Youngish Adults (20s, 30s, 40s) Practice Group

• Disclosure: Insight LA: Young-ish Adults Sitting Group (20s, 30s, 40s), Sunday, April 7, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup
• Valley Nature Center: InsightLA: Youngish Adults
• Pasadena Dharma: InsightLA: Youngish Adults
• Santa Monica Meditation Center, 1430 Olympic Bl.
• InsightLA, P.O. Box 7278, Santa Monica, CA 90406
• InsightLA.org; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly