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• AsianCrush, July 14, 2019; CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Survivors of Parkland shooting die by suicide

Is suicide murder? - Yes, it is. - Who is the guilty party? - The killer or the bully? - The killer.

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Where are David Hogg and Emma González?

Ashley White reporting for theartistree.com via MSN (5/6/24):

Two survivors of the Parkland school shooting have committed suicide within the past week [but not according to Wikipedia, which states they killed themselves on March 17 of 2019 and a week later, respectively], leading to speculations about the enduring pain and trauma stemming from [staged or real school] gun violence [and their possible complicity and attempted activism with groomed media darlings Emma González and David Hogg, who have hogged the spotlight as tools or youth advocates for gun control].

• Are false flag school operations real or just conspiracy theories?

Nabbing the patsy, Nicholas Cruz taken down

Sydney Aiello, a recent graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, took her own life last weekend, while another survivor, a current student, Calvin Desir, has also died by suicide.

These deaths occurred over a year after the shooting that claimed the lives of 14 students and three teachers, sparking a nationwide debate on gun violence. Sydney Aiello, who was close friends with one of the shooting victims, Meadow Pollack, struggled with “survivor’s guilt” even after graduating from Stoneman Douglas. Her parents revealed that she had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), underscoring the lasting impact of such traumatic events on survivors. The Pollack family expressed their heartbreak over Aiello’s death, attributing it in part to the ripple effect of the shooting.

• (Wiki) Survivors of the shooting, teachers and students alike, are said to have struggled with survivor's guilt and other symptoms of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) [68, 75, 76]. On March 17, 2019, thirteen months after the shooting, 19-year-old Sydney Aiello, who survived and whose friend Meadow Pollack had been killed during the shooting, killed herself by suicide after struggling to attend college.
• She claimed she was terrified of being in a classroom and also had been treated for survivor's guilt and PTSD [77, 78]. Less than a week later, 16-year-old Calvin Desir, who had also survived the shooting, also murdered himself in an apparent suicide [79], compounding the tragedy.
• Ashley White (theartistree.com via MSN, 5/6/24); Jeff Rense (rense.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How to wow HS reunion: hire double (video)

VICE, Life Hacks with Oobah Butler, S1 E5, 11/9/20; Family Guy; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Sending an attractive lookalike to my high school reunion

(VICE) Like many (most) of us, Stephen didn’t have a good time in high school. He played saxophone in the school band, was a loser, got bullied, and struggled a little (a lot).

Can we get these two to play us as a couple?

Having graduated ten years ago, he hasn’t seen any of his former classmates since. So why not dupe them into thinking he "made it"?

Now his high school reunion is coming up and he wants to settle some scores. So he enlisted the help of VICE's Oobah Butler via his app, Oobah.

In the wake of sending doubles of himself to collect awards and be interviewed by media outlets around the world, Oobah auditioned lookalikes and sent a hotter, more successful but fake version of Stephen to attend his high school reunion to reinvent his image in front of his old classmates. But can he get away with it?

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:31 Step 1: Meet Stephen
• 04:08 Step 2: Visit High School
• 05:17 Step 3: Top Lookalike Attributes
• 05:34 Step 4: Find Lookalike
• 06:32 Step 5: Prepare Lookalike
• 07:34 Step 6: Shave
• 08:44 Step 7: High School Reunion Time
• 21:50 Did it Work?

Another planned mass shooting in FL (MK Ultra)

Rense.com; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Student says there was a 2ND SHOOTER at Florida high school

VIDEO: Another student says there were TWO SHOOTERS

SWAT terrifies students: Forces them to raise hands, threatens them not to take photos with phones

(Paul Preston, Feb. 15, 2018) Second shooter? Conflicting stories emerge

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• SPLC LIES exposed: Law enforcement says NO TIES between Florida H.S. shooter and FL militia Group

Students at Florida school shooting report "crisis drills" and multiple shooters

(Blackstone Intelligence Network, Feb. 15, 2018)

Several students at Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, report that they were in the middle of a drill -- a classic sign of a false flag operation -- and that there were multiple shooters, which means it was planned with a pre-arranged patsy/fall guy in an autistic SSRI user who can't defend himself against the allegations. This was definitely a classic false flag operation. It mirrors what took place at Sandy Hook. Crowd funding makes these Jake Morphonios investigations possible via patreon.com.

Gruff, grueling, goofy Alex Jones gets some good sources of information

• The FBI keeps "missing" mass shooters...before it’s too late 
• Probable MK-Ultra mind controlled shooter called "white supremacist" by...the mainstream media (ADL)!
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• V.P. Pence brags he ignored Kim’s sister at Olympics

Roger Stone tells Jones Sheriff Scott Israel will not cover this one up

• Parkland shooting has all the telltale signs of a False Flag: timing, MK Ultra, lone wolf, drills
• VIDEO: Body language at the Florida fake mass shooting
• VIDEO: DARK TRUTH about FL high school mass shooting
• Joe Rogan the Florida high school shooting
• RED ALERT! Evidence Florida shooting is giant false flag

Trauma, high school drama, crying Kimmel

Rebirth: Suffering high school again? (video)

Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly; STXmovies.com

I'm through with high school. Having suffered it once, I never want to have to suffer it again. Rebirth -- as imagined in the form of "reincarnation" where I get to come back but this time more beautiful, having learned lessons, evolved, less awkward, a second chance to avoid all the mistakes from the first time around -- is not that way for most of us.

Forget grammar, tell me it's not happening!

We will not be getting a chance to be human anytime soon, unless we tragically lost our opportunity due to some sudden and unforeseen unfair circumstance. A Tibetan lama might so influence things as to come back as a tulku to continue in these circumstances on this planet.

But there are many human planets and countless realities sorted into 31 planes of existence that it is a sign of a poverty of imagination to think that we will come back to circumstances like this. What if we did? Wouldn't it be excruciating, hellish, insufferable? 

This is unbearable, insufferable, impossible!

Wouldn't we continually be finding ourselves on The Edge of Seventeen, rich, white, privileged, unaware of how extraordinarily fortunate our (karmic) circumstances were compared to others and having very little knowledge of how to make them this way again in the future? Where will the Dharma be when you need it in the future?

• Rebirth: Not "reincarnation" but REBIRTH: punabbhava, Dependent Origination [of Suffering] (Links 3 and 10), karma

Sitting cross-legged with an iPhone and junk food like all teens do. (International dates)

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Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) and Krista Haley Lu Richardson) are inseparable best friends attempting to navigate high school together...until Nadine discovers that her super popular older brother and Krista have been secretly dating behind her back. They soon realize that there is a fine line between best friends and worst enemies. But that's not Nadine's biggest problem. High school is! And where's God (like the one in Persepolis) in all this? Is s/he even paying attention? Just look at this haircut!

The Edge of Seventeen

God, god damn it, are you even up there?

is a new coming-of-age movie in the vein of Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club -- an honest, candid, sexual, often hilarious look at what it’s like to grow up as a young female in today’s modern world.
 
Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine, who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother Darian (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best friend Krista.
 

Life is a slurpee: so suck it!

All at once, Nadine feels more alone than ever, until the unexpected friendship of a thoughtful boy (Hayden Szeto) gives her a glimmer of hope that things just might not be so terrible after all.

The film also stars Kyra Sedgwick as Nadine’s well-meaning but completely ineffective mother, and Woody Harrelson as Nadine’s history teacher, mentor, and reluctant sounding board.

The Edge of Seventeen marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig, and it is produced by Academy Award® winner James L. Brooks -- the filmmaker behind big-screen, character-driven classics such as Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, Big, Say Anything, The Simpsons, Jerry Maguire, and As Good as It Gets. More
 

Sex, high school, assault ("Audrie & Daisy")

Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Netflix; AudrieAndDaisy.com (twitter.com/audrieanddaisy); DemocracyNow.org; Ondi Timoner (LipTV)

Uh, charges were dropped and our attorney told us to keep shutted up 'bout it.

The documentary "Audrie & Daisy" is the story of Daisy Coleman, who in early January 2012 was a 14-year-old high school freshman. Coleman and her 13-year-old friend, Paige Parkhurst, were invited to a small party of high school athletes. The girls had already been drinking when the boys came to pick them up. Daisy blacked out at the party. She says Matthew Barnett sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious, while Jordan Zech, a star high school wrestler, videotaped (Democracy Now!)

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Will Hillary Clinton's lover's husband be watching? Probably not. Disgraced politician and new father Anthony Weiner has more sexting to do with random teens, and his wife, Huma Abedin, is busy with the election of her gay partner. But everyone else with Netflix can watch this powerful new documentary about high school rape culture.

 

No one prepared me for this.

(TheLipTV) AUDRIE & DAISY explores teenage sexual assault, trauma, power, and coming-of-age in the world of social media through victims Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman.

Filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk share clips from the film and detail the role sexting and social media have played in the growing rates of sexual assault among teenagers. Cohen and Shenk also discuss how they got involved in the film, interviewing the perpetrators and protecting anonymity in this Sundance edition of BYOD hosted by Ondi Timoner.

  

(DL) CNN's story on sexual assault in Missouri, Melinda and Daisy Coleman

 

WARNING: Strong content! Pornography.

The girls, two high school girls in different towns across America, were sexually assaulted by boys they thought were their friends. Both girls experienced social media bullying and were stigmatized -- and both attempted suicide.

Tragically, Audrie takes her own life, but Daisy survives, and her story becomes a journey to keep living. By juxtaposing their stories and drawing connections between the two teenage girls, bold filmmakers Cohen and Shenk illuminate the larger societal epidemic of sexual assault that has been exacerbated by today’s technologies.

I won't be watching! I don't have Netflix.

Rather than paint a simple picture, they also give voice to the spectrum of male perspectives involved in Daisy’s case: her assailants, the small-town sheriff, and her brother, who now works to change the next generation of boys. More

Grad Night and Intolerance (video)

Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Matt Bai (news.yahoo)

"Die-in" San Francisco protest (IM)

America's college students are back and resting at home this week, which is a good thing, because during the long months away they seem to have gone completely out of their minds.

 

Last weekend, The New York Times' Jennifer Medina reported on the latest bizarre demand on campus: "trigger warnings" to let students know if the text [book] they're about to study will expose them to some version of misogyny or homophobia, so they aren't unexpectedly [re-]traumatized by visions of things that can never be unseen -- like, say, every novel written by a white man before 1960 [Hey, by the way, I'm a privileged white male, but never mind that].

The Harvard Commencement Speech

PC on overdrive: Ali G. (Sacha Baron Cohen aka Borat) gives commencement speech at America's most prestigious university in 2004.

That followed the public [sham]ings of several commencement speakers whose invitations had to be rescinded, including such evildoers as [Bush Era war criminal] former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the International Monetary Fund's [bankster] Christine Lagarde, and [insider] Robert Birgeneau, the former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

All of this has provoked a torrent of eloquent condemnation from pundits and academics, who worry that our elite universities, in the words of an editorial published in Monday’s Washington Post, are being "impoverished by intolerance."

One of Obama's alleged alma maters, Oxy

[This] is a reasonable concern, except that it misses the point. It's not the students' fault that they expect to laze around in a world of ideological comfort. It's totally ours.

 

There's nothing new about the basic tension between speech and sensitivity on campus. When I was at Tufts in the late '80s, at the height of what we called political correctness [PC], we argued fiercely about whether the military belonged on campus [ROTC] or whether certain faculty members were denied tenure because of their politics. But, by and large, we were primed to have the debate, not chill it. More

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Court rules: Buddha’s fine, God is not

Wisdom Quarterly

Left to right: 1. Sumerian god, 2. Shakyamuni Buddha, 3. Jesus (St. Issa), 4. "Laughing Buddha" (Zen master Hotei), 5. blue Krishna, 6. holy cow (gopis), 7. shaman Tiki idol, 8. sinister crouching figure. (Interpretation: Wisdom Quarterly; image: weheartit.com).

(Cal Catholic) Appeals court says school can force California teacher to remove patriotic classroom banners mentioning God.

SAN DIEGO, California - A Poway high school math teacher who displayed patriotic banners in his classroom that mentioned God has lost his appeal in federal court and been ordered to pay substantial court costs.

Brad Johnson, a teacher at Westview High School in Poway, a suburb of San Diego, was ordered by school officials in 2007 to take down classroom banners [after 25 years on display] that contained historical slogans such as “In God We Trust, ” “One Nation under God, ” as well as the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, because, school officials said, “they may offend a Muslim student.”

...According to the Thomas More Law Center, which represented Johnson, the school district allowed religious classroom displays by other teachers, including one of a 35- to 40-foot string of Tibetan prayer flags with images of Buddha; a poster with the lyrics from John Lennon’s anti-religion song “Imagine;” a poster with Hindu [political] leader Mahatma Gandhi’s “7 Social Sins;” a poster of Muslim leader Malcolm X; and a poster of [Tibetan political "pope" and] Buddhist leader, the 14th Dalai Lama. More

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• Pleas of fighting domestic terrorism are exploited to justify human rights violations by the US; China takes the cue.
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"The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth" (book)

In a smart, entertaining, reassuring book that reads like fiction, New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Robbins manages to cross Gossip Girl with Freaks and Geeks and explain the fascinating psychology and science behind popularity and outcasthood.

Robbins reveals that the things that set students apart in high school are the things that help them stand out later in life. Robbins follows seven real people grappling with the uncertainties of high school social life, including:

• The Loner, who has withdrawn from classmates since they persuaded her to unwittingly join her own hate club;
• The Popular Bitch, a cheerleading captain both seduced by and trapped within her clique's perceived prestige;
• The Nerd, whose differences cause students to laugh at him and his mother to needle him for not being "normal";
• The New Girl, determined to stay positive as classmates harass her for her mannerisms and target her because of her race;
• The Gamer, an underachiever in danger of not graduating, despite his intellect and his yearning to connect with other students;
• The Weird Girl, who battles discrimination and gossipy politics in school but leads a joyous life outside of it;
• The Band Geek, who is alternately branded too serious and too emo, yet annually runs for class president.

In the middle of the year, Robbins surprises her subjects with a secret challenge -- experiments that force them to change how classmates see them.

Robbins intertwines these narratives -- often triumphant, occasionally heartbreaking, and always captivating -- with essays exploring subjects like the secrets of popularity, being excluded doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you, why outsiders succeed, how schools make the social scene worse -- and how to fix it.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth is not just essential reading for students, teachers, parents, and anyone who deals with teenagers, but for all of us, because at some point in our lives we've all been on the outside looking in. More

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When Facebook Rules the World

TIME.com

Social networking (images.com/Corbis)

Who got fat, who got hot, and is that old crush of mine still single? Whatever happened to that weird kid with the hair? Wait, am I the one who got fat?

MySpace slashes itself by 30 percent

Such are the essential questions at the core of every high school and college reunion. For decades, the routine has remained the same: a bunch of old classmates get together and catch up, settle (or renew) grievances, and swap glory-days stories.

• Facebook Wants to Read Your Mind
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Yet the ability to locate former classmates through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and, well, the Internet itself, has alumni organizations and other such groups wondering if the sun is setting on the traditionally organized reunion. More>>

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