(Channel 4 News) No one cared about the Mona Lisa until someone stole it in 1911. Then it became famous, was recovered, became subjected to the Mandela Effect, and grew in fame every year since, until an entire wall then room became dedicated to it. When we visited, the rooms were beautiful, even the halls were grand, but the mob in front of this one painting was ridiculous. At that time it could still be photographed, but taking a photo of the photographers seemed more appropriate.
Now it has a shield and guards, and goodness knows it's probably not the original, just a forgery with the real thing in a safe somewhere. The Louvre's security is behind the times, possibly because Pres. Macron's husband (and the couple's ridiculous fight with American Candace Owens about gender) and the riots in the streets are sucking all the oxygen and discretionary funds that should be applied to keeping the imperial booty and irreplaceable treasures in this pyramidal repository safe.
Suicide? - How dare you suggest such a thing of our best and brightest detectives! - Incompetence? - Well, suddenly self-elimination is looking like a better explanation, with their big families to worry about. Why, if they were incompetent, that might put a smudge on the badge of the Sheriff's Department. Quick! Let's look for someone else to blame, like the owner who left grenades in a storage locker that our brave paramilitary investigators stumbled upon, x-rayed, and were surprised to find out were live munitions.
Never be angry: How to stay calm in every situation
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There's no comparison to Beatle George Harrison, who wrote and sings this masterpiece, while nearly all the credit for the band's greatness goes to the other two competing with each other, and no one even remembers Pete Best. What about Ringo? Who?
LYRICS: I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping / Still, my guitar gently weeps // I don't know why nobody told you / How to unfold your love / I don't know how someone controlled you / They bought and sold you // I look at the world and I notice it's turning / While my guitar gently weeps / With every mistake, we must surely be learning / Still, my guitar gently weeps / I don't know how you were diverted / You were perverted, too / I don't know how you were inverted / No one alerted you / I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping / While my guitar gently weeps / (I look) Look at you all / Still, my guitar gently weeps / Oh, oh / Yeah, yeah
We weep for the world -- steeped in ignorance, the root of all harm, giving rise to greed (lust) and aversion (fear), liking and disliking, the Roots of Good and Evil. Who cares if someone is good or evil? That person is going to care when the RESULTS come around. Karma really brings about what we experience, what we are experiencing now. So it is vital to grasp what "karma" means and what it doesn't. The greatest karma meme ever sums it up, a picture of credit card with the slogan: "Karma: It's everywhere you're going to be." (That's based on an old credit card commercial, which if people have never seen it because the successful marketing campaign ended a long time ago, may not get the impact of why it's a clever meme and a vital message/warning. If we knew that everything was going to follow us, none of it unseen or forgotten, we might behave differently, very differently. But we think we're getting away with everything, think there is nothing to come of this (what we do, say, and think). Pink Floyd has a great song about this from the CD Animals called "Sheep."
What do you get for pretending the danger's not real?
Meek and obedient shall follow the leader
down well-trodden corridors into the Valley of Steel
What a surprise, a look of terminal shock in your eyes!
Kamala D. Harris campaign in tatters as she’s smashed during another ‘awful’ week
I can do better alone than with G-Joe Biden
(Sky News Australia) Grey (b/w) Democrat Kamala Devi Harris’s campaign is in tatters after consecutive weeks of disastrous gaffes, stumbles, and mumbles on the campaign trail.
Sky News All Stars James Morrow, Joe Hildebrand, and Danica De Giorgio take a look at Kamala’s latest word salads and ask if she’s ruined her chances at election victory for women, Blacks, Indians, and Democrats.
The Olympics are a nasty business, even back in ancient Greek days. The Greeks came up with the gymnasium, from gymnos or "nude," a nasium (training facility) for nudity, where older married men went to:
ogle younger single men,
form gay relationships with them involving pederasty,
stand around naked in front of each other while oiling their bodies,
training or socializing, pursuing intellectual and physical hobbies,
getting rub downs, showing off wealth and status, and what not.
We really just watch to see cute athletes in leotards and form fitting bikinis, tights, and swimsuits jumping around, trying to make their country proud. China was No. 1 in Paris, but no American could say so. Patriotism depends on blind devotion. And the Chinese may have been cheating by juicing with steroids, rumor has it.
The original Olympics Games were, it is said, played in birthday suits -- naked, nude, without clothes. No females got to play, and they probably weren't allowed in the audience either. One is reminded of the gay hit song It was a Greek gay fest.
What went wrong?
Does no one think it ironic that he has a wrap-around snake tattoo on his bicep?
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(Page Six) French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati speaks out after his "bulge" (schwanz, wang chung, full monty, johnson, package) cost him an Olympic medal. Losing due to his clumsy knee and slo-mo "boing" has gotten him an offer from an adult website.
If you don't reign it in, that snake will ruin you.
Aug. 6, 2024 (12:05 pm) "When one door closes, another one opens," it is said. Ammirati was left disappointed after his “big” slug, shlomo, shank, pocket pool stick cost him an Olympic medal.
The French pole vaulter went viral losing over the weekend after failing to clear the bar because his knees and crotch got in the way — eliminating him from competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Take the money and run [all the way to Bhutan]?
However, the unfortunate circumstance may have opened up other opportunities for Mr. A. as he was offered a quarter of a million dollars ($250K) to show off his manhood for 60 minutes.
(Wiki) The Gosford Glyphs, also known as Kariong Hieroglyphs, are a group of approximately 300 Egyptian-style hieroglyphs located in Kariong, Brisbane, Australia. They are found in an area known for its Aboriginal petroglyphs, between Gosford and Woy Woy, New South Wales, within the Brisbane Water National Park. Academics and authorities have tried to dismiss them as a hoax after their discovery in the 1970s, but there is no proof other than disbelief. These authorities are still attempting to prove the false belief that they were carved by ancient Egyptians about 4,500 years ago [1]. So far they have been unable to do so. But to think the ancient Egyptians made it not only to the Grand Canyon in the Southwest USA. More
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I'm not a "lesbian"! I'm a straight man in a female body, which is the wrong body for me, trying to transition so I can date gals as a straight guy. Now I want to go back to being a girl. Who knows who I'll date.
Detransitioning: They regrets transitioning from female to male
(Dr. Phil) The number of young people who identify as transgender has nearly doubled in recent years.
Some people say this is because the transgender community is more embraced, but others say teens are rushing [being prompted to rush by medical authorities motivated by profit and their professional associations] to get medical treatments without counseling or knowing the facts.
In some extreme cases, this can even lead to what’s called “detransitioning.”
As a teen, Ryan transitioned from a female to a male but says she then realized she made an epic mistake, reversed her decision, and detransitioned to be female again.
Over 20 years ago, Kara had medical treatments and later gender reassignment surgery and says policy has greatly changed. She says it's concerning that today, there are far less requirements for children seeking puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and irreversible surgery.
However, Reece says he knew he was male as a small child, and these medical treatments saved his life as a teen.
He says denying teens the right to choose these procedures as underage kids is “trans genocide.”
Founder of Trans Student Educational Resources Eli Erlick adds that the percentage of people who detransition is small and the number one reason for detransitioning is transphobia.
And, NewsNation Correspondent Rich McHugh weighs in to discuss what he has found after a lengthy investigation on the increased numbers of teen transitions in recent years. (21107) Transcript
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Is it Siri, Alexa, Harmony the sex robot? I bet it's that darn lady who keeps us on hold!
Experts say she will end humanity. Here's the fix with Elon Musk, ChatGPT, AI robots
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Thus have I heard. On one occasion a certain Buddhist monk was dwelling among the Kosalans in a forest thicket. At that time, after his meal on returning from alms gathering, he went to a lotus pond and [absentmindedly] sniffed a fragrant red lotus.
Then the deva (woodland fairy) inhabiting the forest thicket, feeling sympathy for the monk, desiring his benefit, desiring to bring him to his senses, approached him, and addressed him in verse:
[Deva:] You sniff this water-born flower which has not been given to you. This, dear sir, is a factor of stealing. You are a thief of a scent.
[Monk:] I do not take, do not damage. I sniff the lotus from a distance. So why do you call me a 'thief of a scent'? One who digs up the stalks or damages flowers, one of such ruthless behavior, why not say it of him?
[Deva:] A person ruthless and grasping, smeared like a diaper, to him I have nothing to say. It is you to whom I would speak. To a person unblemished, constantly searching for purity, even a hair-tip's worth of evil seems as large as a cloud.
[Monk:] Yes, yakkha, you understand me and you show me sympathy. Yakkha, warn me again whenever again you see something like this.
[Deva:] I neither depend on you for my living nor am I your hireling. You, monk, you yourself should know how to go to the good destination.
The monk, chastened by the deva, came to his senses.
Stealing Scent ALTERNATE TRANSLATION: Andrew Olendzki (SN 9.14), Gandhatthena Sutta
[Deva:] This lotus blossom you sniff,
Though it's not been offered to you,
Is thus something that's been stolen.
You, sir, are a stealer of scents!
[Ascetic:] But I take not nor break;
I sniff the flower from afar.
So really what reason have you
To call me a 'stealer of scents'?
One who uproots them by the stalk
And consumes the pale lotuses,
The one engaged in such cruel work,
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE:This lively exchange between a forest-dwelling wandering ascetic and a benevolent woodland spirit is filled with poetic movement and gives us a glimpse of the care with which some people practiced toward enlightenment in the time of the Buddha. Since the working definition of "stealing" was "taking what has not been given," the deva is correct -- in the very strictest sense. Notice how the Buddhist monk reacts at first -- defensive, denying that he is doing anything wrong. Then he tries to deflect blame, shifting it to others who do even worse. After recognizing a veiled compliment, he finally realizes that the deva is trying to help him, at which point he encourages further help. But the deva has been put off and ends the exchange abruptly, revealing an intriguing and capricious character [characteristic of fairies in legends from around the world] who is willing to help but only on its own terms. This is a role often played by woodland spirits and other minor fairies in the Pali texts.
Native Americans perform tribal ceremony before peace rally at intersection of Florence and Normandie, 25th anniversary of LA Rebellion, April 29, 2017 in LA, California. This intersection was the flashpoint for rebellion that was sparked by racist police acquittals in the Rodney King beating (Warrick Page/Getty Images/scpr.org).
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How should California reconcile its (very) racist history?
We still exist in L.A.
Two weeks ago, armed white supremacists, racist protesters, and counter-protesters converged on Charlottesville, Virginia.
What started as a rally against the removal of a Jim Crow Era Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee quickly devolved into a melee.
The violence added fuel to a national reckoning already underway -- a debate over how we as a nation remember infamous men, now on the wrong side of history.
In California, the timbre of that conversation sounds a little different, but there are some common threads: There are 109 federally recognized American Indian nations here. Several suffered at the hands of the state's earliest settlers.
"California's legislature convened for the first time in 1850, and one of its very first orders of business was banning all Indian people from voting, barring those with one-half of American Indian blood or more from giving evidence for or against whites in criminal cases," Madley said.
Racist hero and slave driver Robert E. Lee
The legislation effectively stripped the state's Native Americans of their ability to participate in the legal system.
"This amounted to a virtual grant of impunity to those that attacked them," Madley said.
The state's early leaders did not stop there, however. Madley says they soon legalized "white custody" [forced slavery] of American Indians, leading many Natives to become "unfree" laborers and indentured servants.
"Right here in Los Angeles, one lawyer recalled that: 'Los Angeles had its slave mart and thousands of honest, useful people were absolutely destroyed in this way,' " Madley said.
He adds that, between 1850 and 1870, L.A.'s American Indian population fell from 3,693 to just 219. That drop, he said, is due in large part to California's American Indian labor policies.
Infamous names live on
O, Great Spirit Sky God, where are you?
Prof. Benjamin Madley said the names of the men responsible for the systemic oppression and killings of California's native people continue to be "hidden in plain sight."
"In 1878, Serranus Hastings donated $100,000 to found the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco," Madley said. "So California's oldest law school is named after a man who helped to lead the assembly, the financing, and the state sponsorship drive for the genocidal Eel River Ranger state militia expedition of 1859, which killed perhaps 500 or more California Indians," Madley said.
And there are more. Madley said names like Stanford (University), Fremont (City), Carson (Carson Pass), Kelsey (Kelseyville), each played a pivotal role in the eradication of California American Indians.
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Time for healing?
Native/black slaves: Jim Crow
"Addressing the complex legacies of the genocide in California is an ongoing process," Madley said.
Governor Jerry Brown recently acknowledged Madley's book, saying, "Madley corrects the record with his gripping story of what really happened: the actual genocide of a vibrant civilization thousands of years in the making.”
Madley said acknowledging the past, as Gov. Brown has, can set a standard for other states reviewing their histories through modern eyes. But he said that's only part of the struggle -- determining the next steps will require collaboration.
"That's something that needs to happen with the joint participation of state officials, government officials at the federal level, California Indian people, and other California citizens." More + AUDIO
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California's wine industry was built on slave labor(The Daily Beast, June 24, 2017) ...from the luscious fruit of the vineyard the juice so soon to ferment into wine.” ...But of the 3,700 Native Americans in LA at the time, only 334 [survived]... Bell wrote in his book, Reminiscences of a Ranger.
History of enslavement of indigenous peoples in California (wiki) Although the Spanish Empire forbade and actively persecuted slavery of indigenous people over a century before California was settled by the Spanish, some instances of forced labor are recorded in California under their rule.
American Indian boarding schools haunt many (npr.org, May 12, 2008) Early in the history of American Indian boarding schools, the U.S. government... Children were beaten, malnourished, [raped, molested, sodomized] and forced to do heavy labor.
VIDEO: Authors discuss slavery, Apr. 23 2017(c-span.org) Authors Sharla Fett, Benjamin Madley, and Christina Snyder talk about slavery and genocide at the 22nd annual LA Times Festival of Books.
Making and Remaking America: Immigration into the US (hoover.org, Sep. 15, 2003) As a country of immigrants... it is evident to most Americans that large-scale... and Pacific Islanders (3 percent) and about two million Native Americans...have helped to revive economies of LA, NY.
Black Americans - Who they really are (realhistoryww.com) Black African slaves were introduced to substitute for Native American labor... Africans, who were taken aboard slave ships to the Americas, were primarily... Rates of natural decrease ran as high as 5 percent a year.... Well over 90 percent of African slaves were imported into the Caribbean and South America.
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