Truth hurts: (Earth to Rosita) The former Shah of Iran on Jews (1976)
Who were the Sakas (Scythians, Shakyians)? The Scythians or Scyths, also known as the Pontic Scythians [1, 2] were an ancient Eastern Iranic (Aryan) equestrian nomadic people (the Indo-Sakas, the Indo-Scythian Kingdom, near Maha Bharata, the future Empire of Greater India, being the Buddha's extended family) who migrated east to Bihar and later, during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from, Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained until the 3rd century BC....
Reservation Dogs is a cultural treasure because it is by and for Indigenous people and others (FX)
1% Cherokee? Who can identify as a Native American?
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What is a "binary"? It is a choice between two options, like computer code, 1 or 0. In other contexts, it is a black and white way of thinking. Even though there may be three options, we sometimes like two simplify the world into just two or even just one -- black or white, this or that, yay or nay. A gender binary is the idea that humans are born as either male or female.
Of course, there is "other," but as humans we often find that messy. It may be rare, but there is a third gender, a pandaka in Buddhist terms, and that can be further divided. Many today, because of past karma or xenoestrogenic compounds and other disruptive chemicals in the environment (thanks to Monsanto and Dow Chemical, Inc. and CIA experiments), feel other than or between genders and are or want to be trans (transitioning or transsexuals, crossdressers or transvestites).
Gender is not only a feeling (though that seems to be the only thing anyone goes on, conflating orientation, gender, sex, biology, and emotions). There is a biological reason for assignment into one category or another. But that assignment is constructed, as many things are. So some argue for more choices, more genders sometimes to the point of ridiculousness. Now there's a slap back, and Trump has taken advantage of it, just as he does the issues of race, misogyny, economy, implicit bias, and sexism. He's a con man, and that's what con men do. But the important thing is that his false words represent something very real in the society. There really are things happening that people are not happy with, gender things being shoved down our throats. If he wants to lead a popular revolt against them, it can come as no surprise that it's going to work.
In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a pot of gold coins in the ancient seaside city of Notion in Turkey (Türkiye).
This remarkable find offers unprecedented insights into a world 2,400 years ago during a period of significant political upheaval.
While excavating a house from the third century BC, archaeologists discovered an unexpected cache of riches intriguingly buried in its courtyard, according to The New York Times.
“The coins were buried in a corner of the older building,” stated archaeologist Christopher Ratté, a professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan, curator of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, and director of the Notion Archaeological Project.
“We weren’t actually looking for a pot of gold. [It's not like we're Irish or anything.]”
Andrew Meadows, an Oxford University archaeologist, although uninvolved in the project, emphasized the significance of this find, describing it as “of the highest importance.” He said no similar hoard has ever been discovered in [Anatolia or] Asia Minor.
“The archaeological context for the hoard will help us fine-tune the chronology of Achaemenid gold coinage.”
The treasure most likely belonged to a soldier [who probably stole it as booty]
Depicting a Persian king kneeling with a bow and spear, the gold coins, known as darics, were primarily used to pay soldiers of fortune [aka mercenaries]. This has led archaeologists to believe that the cache belonged to a mercenary who had to bury his gold for safekeeping [and then died, experienced the results of his soldier karma, and never even benefitted from his wages or theft].
“According to the Greek historian Xenophon, a single daric was equivalent to a soldier’s pay for one month,” added Ratté, as reported by Live Science. More
In those heady days of easy riches, they were calling any and everything "Covid." It paid to.
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I may have done a thing or two for the money.
Mainstream media FINALLY covers "excess deaths" due to undergoing an experimental medical procedure known as "taking COVID-19 shots" to become a GMO (genetically modified organism), which were induced on consumers by a Big Pharma payment schedule that went to shooters (medical providers) who scared their patients into taking them as a "medical necessity" (necessary to their fast and easy enrichment) whether those experimental vaccine shots worked or not.
"They, they," who are "they"? Blame Dr. Fauci
They certainly have never been proven to work; they have always been "experimental." It was right there in the fine print.
That's why the shots were rushed, when they were neither ready nor effective, in a big rush of government propaganda. Sadly, it was the Left (not the Right) taken in by this one.
No one cares about actual science
If consumers were injured in the rush to transfer billions in subsidies into the pockets of hospitals, doctors, and drug distributors (like Rite Aid, CVS, Savon, Walmart, and other pharmaceutical outlets, some may be able to avoid the immunity clause Big Pharma lawyers conned the government into giving them (for all the vaccines they make nowadays) and successfully sue.
Cases are being won, if not for the actual direct injury of taking toxic chemicals, metals, and agents that modify our human genes into our veins, at least for being fired for refusing such draconian and foolish Frankenstein-level medical interventions.
We could not admit that safe human medicine like anti-parasitic Ivermectin worked because then the government could not qualify for "emergency use authorization," which is not available when there is a treatment already existing for a disease. Never mind that the rollout of 5G was and is causing many symptoms of this so-called infectious agent.
(KTLA 5/GMA) Oct. 15, 2023: Iconic working class Catholic Irish American actress Suzanne Somers (née Mahoney) -- who fought against the "dumb blond" stereotype and pushed for income equality/equity -- has died rich of cancer just one day shy of her 77th birthday, her publicist confirmed to KTLA.
Rick Chambers reports for KTLA 5 News at 6:00 pm, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (KTLA 5 News -- Keeping Southern Californians informed since 1947).DETAILS: ktla.com/entertainment/suzanne...
Life is fleeting. It would have been better to practice the Dharma and pass away liberated in bliss. Or "I feel that if I had been uglier," sing Bauhaus, "it would have been easier." Gothy McGothison has a Bauhaus remembrance for Wisdom Quarterly:
Dear Diary, I will kick the living h*ll out of that li'l punk *ss b*tch anytime anywhere...
Who you call a "b*tch"?
In the red corner, the world’s richest manly man (human), and in the blue corner, the world’s richest and most effeminate millennial:
Twitter's Elon Musk (Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX) and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) have agreed to FIGHT in a cage match, after Musk jokingly suggested the bout in response to efforts by Meta to launch a Twitter competitor.
“I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb,” Musk tweeted on Wednesday in response to a post about Meta’s rumored Threads app.
The app, previously known inside Instagram as Project 92and Barcelona, has been pitched to celebrities and influencers as a “stable place to build and grow” their audiences.
How did Elon Musk get so rich? Same as Bill Gates: selling us all out to the surveillance state.
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I'll smoke that punk like weed. Ask Joe Rogan
“At least it will be ‘sane,’” Musk added. “Was worried there for a moment.”
When a follower warned that the Twitter boss should watch his words around Zuckerberg, Musk responded: “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”
What could have been one of many half-thought-out tweets dashed off by Musk -- whose itchy posting finger has already brought him a libel suit from a British diver he labelled a “pedo[phile]” and an SEC demand for a lawyer to vet his missives after he falsely claimed to have “funding secured” to take Tesla private -- became rather more significant when Zuckerberg responded.
In a post on his verified Instagram account, Meta Chief Executive Officer Zuck shared a screenshot of Musk’s challenge with the caption: “Send Me Location.”
The danger for Musk is that Zuckerberg is, apparently, quite good at fighting. [He's been practicing to impress his Asian gal-pal, Priscilla, and/or to overcome his worldwide reputation as a wuss and dweeb.]
Both men seem to have limitless reserves of energy [and money], but where Musk applies that to running five separate companies at the same time, Zuckerberg prefers to get really, really serious about hobbies.
In the past he has spent periods learning Mandarin (Chinese), touring America (in what was widely seen as a dry run for an abortive presidential campaign), and only eating meat he killed with a bow and arrow [like Republican rocker Ted Nugent].
Recently, though, his hobby has been Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), and when he made his competitive debut last month, he won two out of three bouts.
Amber, Johnny's nemesis, agrees with Grimes.
“Zuck’s been training,” said Elena Cresci, a former Guardian journalist and professional Muay Thai (Thai martial arts style kick boxing) champion, “whereas Elon Musk has been tweeting that he doesn’t train beyond throwing his kids up in the air. So on paper it’s [wuss] Zuck. He’s been having a good time doing his little BJJ competitions.’’
One wrinkle is the combatants’ sizes. At an estimated 1.87 meters (6ft 1in) and about 85kg (13stone 5lb), Musk is several weight classes above Zuckerberg, who measures a mere 1.71 meters (5ft 7ins) and less than 70kg (11stone).
All else being equal, that would put Musk at an advantage, even after taking account of the 12-year age gap between the two.
Musk is MUCH bigger [3==D~] than Zuck.
“Elon Musk is just a lot bigger than [the Zucker], so he could just lie on top of him and hope for the best,” Cresci said. That’s not far off Musk’s actual fight plan.
“I have this great move that I call ‘The Walrus,’ where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing,” he tweeted.
The ultimate question for the fight, if it does occur, is whether Musk takes it seriously or treats the whole thing as a joke.
I went from Grimes to Amber Depp and back.
“I’ve coached a couple of white-collar fights, and how it usually goes is when it’s their first fight, they get overexcited and gas themselves out in the first round,” Cresci said. “But these are two men with a lot of money at their disposal, so they can pay for as much training as they want.
Look at YouTubers like Logan Paul, who are actually decent boxers now because they can afford to train with the best.”
Stats: Musk vs. Zuck: tale of the tape
ELON MUSK
Age: 51. Net worth: $236 billion. Place of birth: Pretoria, South Africa. Education: University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS). Children: at least 10.
Monthly active users: 330 million (Twitter). Congressional hearings: one (national security in space launches). Money lost last year on flights of fancy: $30 billion on buying Twitter and running it into the ground.
MARK ZUCKERBERG
Age: 39. Net worth: $99.9 billion. Place of birth: White Plains, New York. Education: Harvard University (unfinished). [See movie Social Network for details.] Children: 3. Monthly active users: 2.9 billion (Facebook). Congressional hearings: two (Cambridge Analytica and Libra cryptocurrency). Money lost last year on flights of fancy: $13.7 billion on the metaverse. More
As part of British GQ's 30th-anniversary dissection of "masculinity," feminist Helen Lewis interviews controversial Canadian patriarch, academic, and bestselling author Jordan Peterson about the patriarchy, #MeToo, the alt-right, gay parenting, fascist ideologies, his all-beef diet, and much more pseudo-machismo... Photographer: Nigel Parry.
This column will change your life. How to tell whether you have a bullshit job: "Is the job you're doing, or applying for, one the world would be fine without?" (The Guardian)
My wage slave job has no point. Well, it has one point, as I found out one day at work.
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory review -- the myth of capitalist efficiency
The BS box tickers have taken over (Alamy)
Is your job one that makes the world a better place? If not, it is probably "bullshit," part of a system that is keeping us under control.
I had a bullshit job once. It involved answering the phone for an important man, except the phone didn’t ring for hours on end, so I spent the time guiltily converting my Ph.D. into a book.
I’ve also had several jobs that were not bullshit but were steadily bullshitized: interesting jobs in the media and academia that were increasingly taken up with filling out [bureaucratic] compliance forms and time allocation surveys.
I’ve also had a few sh*t jobs, but that’s something different. Toilets need to be cleaned. But to have a bullshit job is to know that if it were to disappear tomorrow, it would make no difference to the world: In fact, it might make the world a better place.
Tatted up butch cop giving out BS tickets
When I read [American anarchist London School of Economics Anthropology Professor] David Graeber’s essay "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs" in Strike! magazine in 2013, I felt somehow vindicated.
I had sat in the pub on many a Friday evening moaning to colleagues about data entry and inefficient meetings. But with the Martian gaze of the anthropologist, Graeber managed to articulate my plight in a way that made me feel part of some grand, absurdist outrage.
INTERVIEW: The Nature of Work and Paying for Time - author explains the bullshit jobs (iTunes) Anthropologist David Graeber talks about how over the years the concept of time has evolved to be used for control through hourly paid work ("wage slavery") leading to the proliferation of unnecessary jobs. He is known for his role in jump-starting the Occupy Wall Street Movement in 2011... LISTEN (KPFA, Berkeley)
I wasn’t alone. The essay went viral, receiving more than a million hits and being translated into a dozen languages.
“Guerrilla” activists even replaced hundreds of ads in London tube carriages [subway trains] with quotes from the essay, presumably in order to jolt commuters out of their apathetic stupor. As is the way in the world of reactive non-fiction publishing, a book followed.
The argument of both essay and book is this: In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological advances would enable us to work a 15-hour week.
Yet, we seem to be busier than ever before. Those workers who actually do stuff are burdened with increasing workloads, while box-tickers and bean-counters multiply.
In an age that supremely prizes capitalist efficiency, the proliferation of pointless jobs is a puzzle.
Why are employers in the public and private sector alike behaving like the bureaucracies of the old Soviet Union, shelling out wages to workers they don’t seem to need?
Since bullshit jobs make no economic sense, Graeber argues, their function must be political. A population kept busy with make-work is less likely to revolt. More
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