Born Jeffrey Block (Dec. 10, 1944), now known as Bhikkhu Bodhi [a], is an American Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk, a major inspiration for Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal, educated in California, ordained in Sri Lanka, and now teaching in New York and New Jersey.
Long ago at BPS, Bhikkhu Bodhi authorized our Dharma editor to promote his mail order Buddhist course called The Buddha's Teaching: As It Is, a ten-cassette set he recorded in the basement of the Washington Buddhist Vihara with glossary and notes. To reach a wider audience, we took it online with millions of views, our dhamma-dana.
Block was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1944 to Jewish parents. He grew up in Borough Park, where he attended elementary school P.S. 160 [4] and graduated from New Utrecht High School [5]. He then worked as a door-to-door salesman selling paintbrushes [6].
In 1966, he obtained a B.A. in philosophy from Brooklyn College, where he first encountered Buddhism in books at the bookstore [6]. In 1972, he obtained a doctoral degree (PhD) in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University [7, 8] in Southern California before deciding to move to Asia to ordain as a monk. More
We are all taught to celebrate Juneteenth (June 19th) as if that were when the USA abolished slavery. But that happened with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on Feb. 1, 1865. Of course, the American government didn't bother to tell slaves and thereby free them. But that is when it became de jure (by law) illegal. De facto (by fact) we still have slavery in many forms -- human trafficking, working convicts, secretly employing the vulnerable, sexual trafficking of women, children, and boys...
End Slavery NOW: February 1st is National Freedom Day in the USA. Celebrate it by learning about and sharing with others the importance of being a modern-day abolitionist to finally end slavery now.
Feb. 1st is National Freedom Day in the USA, celebrated because in 1865, Pres. Lincoln signed the joint resolution from the House and the Senate that eventually became the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—the amendment that officially ended slavery in the U.S. even though it still legally exists. More
There may have been more Native American (Indigenous, "Indians," Amerindians) slaves than Blacks or African imports. Most of them were worked to death or contaminated with diseases they had no immunity to deal with, and they are rarely spoken of; however, historians have documented this fact.
And when the USA invaded the Old West using the "Monroe Doctrine" and "manifest destiny" as pretexts, it stole half of the land that was Mexico, under Spanish rule. So a large part of this country is in fact Mexico except that "might makes right."
(HISTORY) Could space alien (akasha loka) extraterrestrials be keeping an eye on North America [like they have been recorded doing in other parts of the Americas, particularly in the rich hotspot region known as Mesoamerica with all its stone temples and pyramids]? Find out in this Ancient Aliens compilation!
Watch favorite episodes of Ancient Aliens on The HISTORY Channel website at history.com.
#AncientAliens
Dixieland Deceived: The Grand Conspiracy Behind the US Civil War
Author Mike S. King has 4.4 out of 5 stars with 37 ratings. The true story of the U.S. Civil War (aka the War Between the States, the War of Northern Aggression) does not “lie in the middle” somewhere. Rather, it is something altogether different from either the contemporary northern Establishment account or the Southern revisionist version. In reality, the brotherly bloodbath of 1861-1865 was not in essence a “civil” war as much as it was an attack launched on the U.S. from an invisible foreign power, traitor-agents, and sincere dupes operating in both the North and South. It was “the usual suspects” based in Rothschild’s Europe -- aligning with and using the empire-seeking Plantation Aristocracy of the South -- who planned and, under one false pretext after another, executed America’s greatest disaster. It was only the determined leadership of Pres. Abraham Lincoln that thwarted the elaborate scheme of this deadly cabal in the end. Acclaimed "correctionist" historian investigative journalist Mike King takes readers on an exciting, illusion-shattering suspense ride through important history that still has implications today. More
Lincoln Project mocks Trump in four humiliating ads
Help! I've never had to face consequences. I just throw stolen money at things. Send more money!
(American News Reaction) Advertisements can cut both ways, working against a brand or promoting it. The Lincoln Project does not like Trump, but lots of people don't. What can anyone do? He's a master of manipulation and propaganda, Hiter style with speeches that circle around and repeat, do more to mesmerize than make sense. It's as if it's all hand movements and NLP (neurolinguistic programming) techniques.
"Elect a clown, expect a circus," we like to say. Fail to elect him and get an insurrection. Will he ever be prosecuted for his Jan. 6th behavior, or will we all just have to wait for the fire next time? The Swamp is so bad that Trump is not the worst thing in it, but he's pretty bad. MAGA is for maggots? Maybe he's God's gift to America like some dentally-challenged folks in West Virginia say? It's not impossible, but if this is how God works, no thanks. Why not just expose Genocide Joe, O Lord, why? #msnbc #trump #foxnews
We'll storm the capital and Manhattan, I mean MAGA will storm them for me. I'll watch on TV
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Right-wingers IMPLODE over Trump's 34 felony count guilty verdict
The Cult of Trump
(The Young Turks)
May 30, 2024: Fox News' Judge Jeanine "Plastic Surgery Disaster" Pirro and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk are melting down over former Pres. Donald Trump's 34-count conviction for falsifying business records in his hush money trial. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Read more: x.com/JudgeJeanine...
"America has gone over a cliff. To convict a former president of crimes that are not even specified in the indictment and for which the president was not allowed to defend himself, is a sad day for this great country. November 5th cannot come soon enough." TYT is the largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian.
Support the show (https://tyt.com/team)? No, why bother? Support the jimmydore.com show instead. [Phony] Progressive battle plan: https://go.tyt.com/book-description. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET.
The Lincoln Project, American News Reaction, May 24, 2024; Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks), May 30, 2024: Rudi Kinsella (Irish Star); ABC News (Australia); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Lincoln Project humiliates Trump with twо hilarious ads (reaction video)
Why does the USA love rich narcissists?
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What is Juneteenth?
(ABC10) The holiday commemorating the freedom of African Americans, Juneteenth (Emancipation Day Jan. 1, 1863, delayed to June 19th, 1865), was recognized only after the last slaves were told about the Emancipation Proclamation. It is our country's Second Independence Day, the other being July 4th.
What is Juneteenth, and why is it important?
(TED-Ed) Let's get to know the history of Juneteenth, a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States [excluding wage slavery and mass incarceration and Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome].
At the end of the Civil War, though slavery was technically illegal in all states, it still persisted in the last bastions of the Confederacy, [with the help of police, authorities, and the KKK].
This was the case when Union General Gordon Granger marched his troops into Galveston, Texas on June 19th and announced that all enslaved people there were officially free.
Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio dig into the history of Juneteenth.
Lesson by Karlos K. Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio, directed by Rémi Cans, Atypicalist.
True History Textbooks Left Out with Donald Jeffries (Part 2) with Sarah Westall, 6/18/19. See Part 1
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Maverick historian Donald Jeffries suggests that American history has been left in the unreliable hands of Ivy League gatekeepers he calls "court historians."
In his previous C2C interview, discussing his book Crimes and Cover-ups in American Politics: 1776-1963, Jeffries had so much to share that he and Guest Host Richard Syrett only made it to the Civil War era. Jeffries returned to Coast to cover Part 2 of the discussion from Pres. Lincoln through to the 1913 Federal Reserve Act.
He called Pres. Abraham Lincoln "the greatest tyrant in American history" for overreaching his constitutional authority. Jeffries describes him as the first "imperial president," who suspended the writ of habeas corpus and illegally shut down hundreds of newspapers during the Civil War.
"By a show of force that killed almost a million Americans, Lincoln forever shattered the concept...about the consent of the governed. That alone, in my mind, makes him just an awful president," he says.
Pres. Lincoln, known as "the Great Emancipator," did not actually free the slaves in the north where he had the power to do so, only in the south where he had no jurisdiction, Jeffries notes.
Jeffries covers the Spanish-American War in 1898, which he called the first American false flag operation. "You begin to see really the final shattering of George Washington and the other Founding Fathers' desire to keep out of other nation's affairs," he explains.
Jeffries calls Pres. Theodore Roosevelt a phony populist and comments on the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, which critics at the time called "disastrous."
The Federal Reserve is as federal as Fed Ex. It is a private corporation, a private bank, that has never been fully audited. "Who knows what really would be revealed with a full independent audit," he ponders.AUDIO
THE BOOK: Crimes and Cover Ups It's time to scrutinize the accepted history of everything from the American War of Independence to the Establishment reputation of Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers, the Civil War, the Lincoln assassination, both World Wars, US government experimentation on prisoners, mental patients, innocent children, and whole populations, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and much, much more. Secular saints like Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt are examined in a critical way they have seldom been. Jeffries spares no one and nothing in this explosive new book. The atrocities of Union troops during the Civil War and Allied troops during World War II are documented in great detail. The Nuremberg Trials are presented as the antithesis of justice. In the follow-up to his previous, bestselling book Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics, Jeffries demonstrates that crimes, corruption, and conspiracies didn't start with the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy. History should be much more than cardboard villains and impossibly unrealistic heroes. Thanks to the efforts of the "court historians," most Americans are historically illiterate. Crimes and Cover-ups in American Politics: 1776-1963 is a bold attempt to sett the record straight.
One of Donald Trump’s most recent tweets has finally convinced me that he is literally an actor, strutting across the world stage. While Trump has displayed an incomprehensibly inarticulate nature, and an abysmal lack of spelling ability, this latest tweet is just too over the top. Hamberders? Are we actually to believe that the president of the United States -- a billionaire in the corporate world, one who attended Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance -- is not able to spell “hamburger” correctly? More
Time Travelers Claim They've Visited Parallel Universes
From U.S. Project Pegasus time travel participant Andrew D. Basiago, who was placed in an elevator-like device to move to specific coordinates using technology developed by Nikola Tesla, traveling back in time to witness Pres. Lincoln's Gettysburg address, assassination, and to Mars -- to the discovery of parallel universes, Slapped Ham looks at time travel and people who claim to have slipped into parallel universes.
10. Miriam Golding, 9. Carol Chase McElheney, 8. Andrew D. Basiago, 7. Dr. Eben Alexander MD, 6. The Man from Taured (Berhodrick Jenansfer?), 5. Lerina Garcia, 4. Pedro Ramirez (Spain), 3. Four Girls in the Nevada Desert, 2. Swedish Hakan Nordkvist, 1. Frances Peterson
Were there black U.S. presidents before half-black Obama? We the People were taught that Barack Hussein "Barry" Soetoro Obama was the first "black" president of the United States.
We were taught wrong, and it could hardly be an accident that we were not taught about the previous men of distinction being black. Remember, in our very racist country, qualifying as black used to take as little as 1/16th part, while many believed in their heart that "one drop" was too much black to call oneself "white." Some of the indigenous people of the Americas were black (aboriginal, African-descended, and others) in addition to the red and brown people living here.
Seven black presidents before Obama
Daddy, Mommy, don't make me an implicitly biased racist. Let me have my black dolls.
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They paint me as all-white. - J.H.
John Hanson(a Moor) was actually the first president of the United States. He served from 1781-1782, and he was black.
[Moors are Northern Africans, "Arabs," who moved into parts of Spain and may have taken over parts of Europe in what are now called the "Dark Ages" before the Renaissance, a terrible secret previously covered.]
John Hanson bronze statue
WIKI: John Hanson was a merchant and public official from Maryland during the era of the American Revolution. In 1779, Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress after serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland. He signed the Articles of Confederation in 1781 after Maryland finally joined the other states in ratifying them. In November 1781,he was elected as firstPresident of the Continental Congress(sometimes styled President of the United States in Congress assembled), following ratification of the articles. For this reason, some of Hanson's biographers have argued that he was actually the first holder of the office of U.S. president. ...
The idea that Hanson was the forgotten first POTUS (President of the United States)was further promoted in a 1932 biography of Hanson by journalist Seymour Wemyss Smith that asserted that the American Revolution had two primary leaders -- George Washington on the battlefield, and John Hanson in politics. Smith's book, like Douglas H. Thomas's 1898 book, was one of a number of biographies written seeking to promote Hanson as the "first President of the United States." Regarding this position, historian Ralph Levering stated: "They're not biographies by professional historians; they aren't based on research into primary sources."
According to historian Richard B. Morris, if apresident of Congresswere to be called the first President of the United States, "a stronger case could be made for Peyton Randolph of Virginia, the first President of the first and second Continental Congresses, or for John Hancock, the President of Congress when that body declared its independence." The claim that Hanson was a forgotten President of the United States was revived on the Internet, sometimes with a new assertion thathe was actually a black man; sometimes an anachronistic photograph of Senator John Hanson of Liberia has been used to support this claim.More
Our new country was actually formed on March 1, 1781 [some say a later date therefore explaining how anyone before that date could not properly speaking be called a "president" because this stolen land could not yet properly speaking be called the U.S.A.] with the adoption of the Articles of Confederation.
This document was actually proposed on June 11, 1776 but not agreed upon by Congress until November 15, 1777. Maryland refused to sign this document until Virginia and New York ceded their western lands. (Maryland was afraid that these states would gain too much power in the new government from such large amounts of land).
Many Native Americans were also black.
Once the signing took place in 1781, a president [not a "king who decides" but "one who presides over the elected representatives of the alleged deciders," i.e., we the people] was needed to run the country.
John Hanson was chosen unanimously by Congress, which included George Washington. In fact, all the other potential candidates refused to run against him, as he was a major player in the revolution and an extremely influential member of Congress.
I can't believe the history we were not taught.
As president, Hanson ordered all foreign troops off American soil, as well as the removal of all foreign flags. He established the Great Seal of the United States, which all presidents have since been required to use on all official documents.
He declared that the 4th Thursday of every November would be "Thanksgiving Day," which continues today. Although elected, one variable that was never thought through was that America was not going to accept a black president during the heart of the chattel slave period. Enter George Washington.
I had a black lover in the White House.
2. Thomas Jeffersonwas the third president of the United States. He served from 1801-1809, and he was black. His mother a half-breed Indian squaw, and his father a mulatto (half white and half black) from Virginia.
He fathered numerous children with Sally Hemmings, a mulatto slave with whom he lived with in Europe.
UK less prejudiced than US?
3. Andrew Jacksonwas the seventh president of the United States. He served from 1829-1837, and he was black. His mother was a white woman from Ireland who had Andrew Jackson with a black man. His father’s other children (Andrew Jackson’s stepbrother) was sold into slavery.
4. Abraham Lincolnwas the sixteenth president of the United States. He served from 1861-1865, and he was black. His mother was from an African tribe in Ethiopia, and his father was an African-American.
Free the slaves. Black Lives Matter.
It is said that his father was Thomas Lincoln. But this is said to cover the truth. Thomas was sterile from childhood mumps, and he was later castrated, making it impossible for him to have been President Lincoln's father. Lincoln’s nickname was “Abraham Africa-nus the First.”
5. Warren Hardingwas the twenty-eight president of the United States. He served from 1921-1923, and he was black. Harding never denied his ancestry. When Republican leaders called on Harding to deny his “Negro” history, he said: “How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence?”
"Our First Black President?" Beverly Gage, New York Times Magazine (nytimes.com, April
Warren Harding (Lib. of Congress)
Will Americans vote for a black president? If the notorious historian William Estabrook Chancellor was right, we already did.
In the early 1920s, Chancellor helped assemble a controversial biographical portrait accusing President Warren Harding of covering up his family’s “colored” past.
According to the family tree Chancellor created, Harding was actually the great-grandson of a black woman. Under the one-drop rule of American race relations, Chancellor claimed, the country had inadvertently elected its “first Negro president.”
In today’s presidential landscape, many Americans view the prospect of a black man in the Oval Office as a sign of progress -- evidence of a “post-racial” national consciousness.
If only Jesus had been Republican
In the white-supremacist heyday of the 1920s (the Ku Klux Klan had a major revival during the Harding years), the taint of “Negro blood” was political death.
The Harding forces hit back hard against Chancellor, driving him out of his job and destroying all but a handful of published copies of his book.
In the decades since, many biographers have dismissed the rumors of Harding’s mixed-race family as little more than a political scandal and Chancellor himself as a Democratic mudslinger and racist ideologue.
But as with the long-denied and now all-but-proved allegations of Thomas Jefferson’s affair with his slaveSally Hemings, there is reason to question the denials.
From the perspective of 2008, when interracial sex is seen as a historical fact of life instead of an abomination, the circumstantial case for Harding’s mixed-race ancestry is intriguing though not definitive. More
Pres. Trump loves black girls but not women.
6. Calvin Coolidgewas the twenty-ninth president of the United States. He served from 1923-1929, and he was black.
He proudly admitted that his mother was dark but claimed it was because of a mixed Indian [Native American] ancestry.
His mother’s maiden name was “Moor.” In Europe the name “Moor” [Spanish moreno, "dark-skinned"] was given to all black people, just as in America the name “Negro” [Spanish for "black"] was used.
7. Dwight E. Eisenhowerwas the thirty-third president of the United States. He served from 1953-1961, and he was black. His mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower, an anti-war advocate, was half black.
The U.S.A. has survived and even thrived through our first seven black presidents. We will survive and possibly thrive through the election of half-black (possibly all Kenyan and Muslim, at least on paper for the purposes of attending a good school in Islamic Indonesia) B.S. Obama, but the orange one is likely to take us out.
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