Finally, NEW Lana Del Rey music (video)

(Lana Del Rey) "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter"

Now, finally, Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift has more to copy, lift, and blatantly ripoff. Thank you, Lana. TayTay may have been running out of ideas for her next mega-corporate release.

Mexican Buddhist Cholos of Bangkok

The threat of cancel culture kills free expression

The Google Corporation (Alphabet, Inc.) is mad at us for daring to run an AFP story on the "Mexican Buddhist Cholos of Thailand."

Perhaps the algorithm did not like the use of the word Mxn or gngstrs or maybe it's the combination of the two terms too close together. They don't tell you; they just cloak it behind a censorship warning.

But this is an amazing phenomenon showing American hegemony and its unintended consequences.

Imagine traveling to Asia and seeing all these homeboys and homegirls straight outta Los Angeles standing around, all tatted up, with lowriders, the de rigueur fashions, and gesturing to each other as they smoke, drink, and presumably g*ngbang. lol. You'd never imagine you were in Japan, but you would be.

It would be a sight, the Chicano Movement spread to Asian Buddhists with a fashion sense. How did it go from LA to Tokyo to Bangkok? Much of it has also spread to strange midwestern states in the USA, but that's due to drugs and dealers.

It is all supposed to be Nuestra Cosa, y'know, an L.A. thang. Y'all wouldn't understand, just as so much of what goes on in the South is a [Confederate] thang.

Inside Chicana Lowrider Culture - on the mean/fashionable streets of Los Angeles, Cali 🇺🇸🇲🇽

The Chicano/Mexican Cholos of Buddhist Bangkok | Coconuts TV Exclusive

B Real and Cypress Hill, Los Angeles g*ngbangers and Latino rappers with their fresh track "Crazy"

• Buddhism in Thailand (Siam, Southeast Asia)

(Coconuts TV) Coconuts TV Exclusive [is nuts and has] weird, wonderful, and real stories from Asia. Subscribe: bit.ly/CoconutsTV. There's a curious new trend that has emerged in Bangkok, Thailand [LA's parallel city in Asia, both sharing a very long name and both being about the same size, two megalopolises.] Young Thai men [and females, too] are dressing up like Latino gangsters. Most of these guys say they are motivated by their passion for the "gangster" lifestyle and clothes [but the more recent ones have gotten into the world-fanmous lowrider car culture, probably due to rap videos glorifying it]. Coconuts TV met up with three [faux Theravada Buddhist] "gangs" -- Balcony Pain, Fratez, and D Sixty -- for a photoshoot and to learn more about the quizzical phenomenon. #cholos #bangkok #thailand Music: Down AKA Kilo - "Lean like a Cholo"

• Coconuts TV, March 20, 2014

Mexican Buddhist Cholos of Thailand

WARNING: Graphic use of recreational cannabis (ganja, weed, pot, dope, marijuana, Maryjane, etc.)

Oh, is this why Cypress Hill likes "Fat Happy Buddha" (actually not the Buddha but Budai) so much?

• SHOCKING VIDEO: Meet Thailand's 'Chicano' [Mexican-style gangster] community (AFP, 3/19/22)

Meet Thailand's 'Chicano' Buddhist community

(AFP News Agency) AFP (Agence France-Presse) is funded in whole or in part by the French government. [Did some Thai people just get back from Tokyo, Japan, or Los Angeles, California?]

Dressed in baggy t-shirts and jeans, with bandanas and wraparound sunglasses only partially obscuring their intricate tattoos, Thai Buddhists can now be seen gangbanging on Bangkok's sweaty gangland streets, celebrating a fusion of their own Buddhist and Mexican American (Chicano) culture each weekend.

But while the Chicano Movement in the US began as a political and social force aimed at battling oppression, its Thai interpretation is focused more on its aesthetics and cool style.

The dangerous goings on of gangbangers in LA and the Mexican border

Interested in licensing this video investigation? [We don't need no stinking...] Get in touch with AFP 👉 u.afp.com/UBbQ N.B.: AFP’s services and content are for professional use only [so no horsing around with yellow or amateur journalism.]

• AFP, March 19, 2022; Cypress Hill (LA Latino gangster-rappers); Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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Saffron Revolution: gloom one year later

Monks participated in the protests in large numbers. Many monks want to make the next revolution but the government is putting more limitations on them (BBC).

A year has passed since popular protests against Burma's ruling junta filled the streets of Rangoon. A military crackdown finally brought the demonstrations to an end weeks after they began. Here Burmese describe their gloom and pessimism about the future.

WIN, RANGOON: "I took part in the events on the street last year. Nothing has obviously changed in this time except our people are getting poorer and poorer. I feel pessimistic about the future. The UN can't take any effective action against our government. They talk a lot but there is no action.

And the cyclone has not affected the political atmosphere at all. In fact, after the cyclone, our people have had to face inflation and many more troubles than before. But people are talking about what happened last year. They don't forget about it. Many monks want to make the next revolution but the government is putting more limitations on monks because the first anniversary of the September revolt is getting close.

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AUNG, RANGOON: I didn't take part in the protests last year. But I was a leader in the 1988 protest in my home town and I was imprisoned and fired from my government post. I believe nothing will change and no-one can make the regime change because they have guns. I feel pessimistic about the future of our country if the junta is in power. As long as they stay in power no one can help us. More>>