(Katie Halper) Pink Floyd Co-founder Roger Waters eviscerates the cowardly capitalists Metallica for trying to go "apolitical" but liking torture (use of their music in literal torture of prisoners), a punk ethos to their heavy metal (which for long-term profit purposes they use PR recommended "heavy music" verbiage to describe). If memory serves, it was the bisexual or possibly gay Metallica drummer and leader Lars Ulrich who almost singlehandedly took down Napster fan music sharing for cutting into his and his "rebel" rock band's profits. Like Ed Sheeran, Metallica will say pro-Jewish things in favor of Ukraine or another country when it suits them and is safe, hopping on the bandwagon. But at the slightest whiff of blowback, it's all: We have no political opinions and never have. "Metallica's agenda is just to make moneylove, energy, and heavy music, baby!"
(The Awakening to Reality) Edgar Cayce: What happens to souls who fail their earth mission?
Been reborn on planet Earth? Don't know if you're "failing" to fulfill the purpose you set out before coming here? Living with purpose, passion, and profits?
A day at A.R.E. (Cayce's Association for Research on Enlightenment) Relax, Rejuvenate, and Rediscover: Meditation, spa, cafe, yoga, bookstore, lectures, and more Day at A.R.E.
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
Pastor preaches purpose
Pastor Rick Warren has 4.8 out of 5 stars (with 17,746 reviews) for this New York Times #1 bestselling book by that claims to help readers understand and live out the "purpose" of their life.
See, according to the pastor, before we were born, God [Karma?] already planned our life. God longs for us to discover the life he uniquely created us to live -- here on Earth and forever in the hereafter of eternity [the anionic or timeless reality behind time].
Let The Purpose Driven Life show the way. As one of the bestselling nonfiction books in history, with more than 35 million copies sold, it is far more than just a book; it's the road map for a spiritual journey, a journey that will transform life.
Designed to be read in 42 days, each chapter provides a daily meditation and practical steps to help discover and live out a unique purpose, starting with exploring three of life's most pressing questions:
The Question of Existence: Why am I alive?
The Question of Significance: Does my life matter?
The Question of Purpose: What on earth am I here for?
The book also includes links to 3-minute video introductions and a 30- to 40-minute audio Protestant Christian Bible study message for each chapter plus questions for further study and additional resources. More
(Religion For Breakfast) Why religions survive when prophecies fail: Have we all been left behind? The Rapture (as preached by Evangelical Christians) took place on Sept. 23-24, 2025, Julian Calendar (not Gregorian Calendar). It is good for a cult when their prediction and prophecies FAIL. It's the social psychology/sociology of religious thinking. Das Kapital? No, das Dispensationalism.
Even though the "rapture" did not take place, it is always a good day to repent, turn oneself around, and do better. "Go in peace and sin no more" was good advice from St. Issa. Mahayana Buddhism, which is very Hindu/Christian, has a long history of regular repentance ceremonies.
Is the Bible a lie? Spinoza reveals how God was invented to control us
(Wise Daily Reflections) April 25, 2025:
Is the Christian Bible a lie? Spinoza reveals how the Judeo-Christian God was invented to control people within the empire.
This video dives into one of the most radical and clear-sighted ideas in the history of philosophy: Baruch Spinoza exposes the political function of religion and explains how the twisted concept of God was constructed as a tool for control.
This is a powerful, timely, and unsettling analysis that challenges everything traditionally believed about faith.
God: An Anatomy
God made into an earthy Man
This is an astonishing and revelatory history that presents the Judeo-Christian God as "he" was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers -- with a distinctly male body, superhuman powers, and earthy passions.
Drawing on her academic expertise and scholarly examination of the Jewish-Christian Bible, University of Exeter Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Ph.D., Oxford) paints a vivid portrait of a very human-shaped deity, a product of a particular society, a particular time, made in the image of the people who created him, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world.
This is a god of stunning surprise and complexity. Whether one is a believer or not, this fleshy uncensored (monotheistic) "God" has shaped our Western concept of life and death, our assumptions about sex and gender, even our perception of what it is to be a person.
Arresting, elegant and passionately argued, it is cultural history on a grand scale. More
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(FX via HEXXXX) Oct. 27, 2023: Follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who lie, cheat, and steal in order to get to the exotic, faraway, and mysterious land known as "California," where everything is golden and easy. To succeed, they will have to save enough money, outmaneuver the meth heads at the junkyard on the edge of town and survive a turf war against a much tougher rival gang. This first-of-its-kind creative team tells a story that resonates with them and their lived experiences -- which is amazingly universal for nearly all American teens trying to grow up, rebel, and make something better of their lives than what they see around them.
The title may seem like a preposterous joke, but in fact the U.S. has made arrangements (calling the act the ASPA, loosely called the Hague Invasion Act) to invade and take over the Hague, the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands, if it ever is about to find the U.S. guilty of war crimes. Why wouldn't the U.S. do the same for its settler colonial spear tip in the side of the Middle East?
Jewish Israeli apologist get HEATED debating Palestinian comedian Bassem Youssef over Israel vs. Palestine
(Valuetainment) Jan. 12, 2024: Patrick Bet David, Israeli apologist Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana are joined by comedian Bassem Youssef as they discuss how economics factor into the conflicts in the Middle East.
Israel on trial: Damning TikTok videos prove Israel's genocide in Gaza | Briahna Joy Gray
(The Hill) Premiered Jan. 11, 2024: WASHINGTON, D.C. Briahna Joy Gray delivers a radar on Israel being accused of genocide by South Africa.
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Transcript #Israel #Palestine
stealing classified documents and keeping them at his house,
committing financial fraud for his businesses,
charging the government for use of his buildings when he's in them,
assaulting and raping women,
incestuous child molestation,
refusing subpoenas,
or endlessly lying...
When the court seems incredulous, the judge asks Trump's team if -- that being the case, that a sitting president can't be prosecuted for anything done in the official capacity of the office -- Biden, being president, could direct SEAL Team 6 to assassinate his rival Trump?
I miss Trump' who would slip up and tell the truth
Trump's lawyer was then pressed by Judge Florence Pan, who said: “I asked you a yes or no question. Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival...would he be subject to criminal prosecution?”
“Qualified yes – if he is impeached and convicted first,” replied Trump attorney D. John Sauer.
Would that be okay? The rhetorical question failed to shut Trump up. His own lawyers can't keep him quiet. Now he's in for the fine of his life, perhaps a quarter billion for financial fraud. Will that make him zip it?
But Trump, talking as much as he does, says he's always misquoted by the "fake media."
Morning NPR.org hosts were laughing at him today because they were reduced to arguing with him whether or not he wanted to be "dictator," which he did, and for how long.
He claims he just wants to for ONE day, but he might change his mind and make it a few more for all anyone knows. Trump imagines the country should let him try being an authoritarian autocrat, the way G. W. Bush put his foot in his mouth by admitting that he, too, wanted a dictatorship so long as he was the dictator.
These judge think they're smarter than me?
"Democracy is the WORST form of government...except for all the others," we are told. We have neither a democracy nor much of a republic. The US suffers under the weight of its ONE-party system, with two wings.
The Money Party is in power, with a monopoly of two wings, Dems on the left, Reps on the right, and everyone arguing and distracting while the movers-and-shakers laugh all the way to the bank, supporting Big Pharma, the Military-Industrial Complex, Central Bankers...
I said I wouldn't talk, but I did anyway. So what?
The deception is that elected members of Congress decide much of anything other than what they are induced to support, back, and vote on. The White House is no better, as Bill Clinton revealed. He could never decide if he was the king of the castle or the beneficiary of the best welfare housing had to offer.
Trump liked the hoopla, calling endless attention to himself, being the best kind of politician The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Book could ask for: not someone who wields power but rather distracts attention away from those who actually do.
Hey, look at me, Everybody, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox! (HHGTTG reference)
I don't want to go to jail for corruption, so this war will go on until I'm pardoned by the Knesset!
War analyst U.N. Weapons Inspector and U.S. Marine Scott Ritter say: Upwards of 2,000-5,000 Zionist Jewish militants (IDF members/state sponsored terrorists working as Israeli death troopers) have been permanently disabled and cannot return to the killing fields (Gaza) in addition to an impossible task of exterminating anything PM Netanyahu and his right wing Likud Party want to call Hamas fighters, voters, supporters, future supporters, likers, or helpless children, Israel actually lost their war to HAMAS (another U.S. proxy war since the American government unconditionally supports, funds, and weaponizes whatever Israel wants to do to complete its settler colonial project.
Holocaust scholar warns of literal "genocide" threat in Gaza, Palestine
(Owen Jones) Dec. 18, 2023: Israeli-born American Omer Bartov is one of the world's most esteemed experts on genocide. Prof. Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He's written several acclaimed books on the Shoah and Nazism.
Here he warns "ethnic cleansing" is under way in Gaza and warns: "Ethnic cleansing often deteriorates into genocide because people don't want to move, and so in order to encourage them to move, you kill them."
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Israel terrorist army the IDF had a sniper kill innocent Christian women taking refuge in a Catholic church. (Maybe they were members of Hamas?)
The IDF has been bombing civilian building with children inside, whose heads and/or limbs are blown off before the rubble collapses on them, hiding the numbers of innocents murdered in a war crime of "collective punishment." (Maybe the kids were applicants to join Hamas?)
The IDF has closed hospitals by bombing them, depriving them of electrical power and fuel, interfering by entering, taking doctors and others into detention and interrogation and planting guns near MRI machines to show the world, "Look, this is a command and control center for an underground city of tunnels built by billionaires living in Qatar and phoning it in!" (Maybe patients were members of Hamas, or doctors, nurses, and ambulance drivers?)
The IDF used a bulldozer to attack a hospital then to run over human beings in tents seeking shelter on hospital grounds only to have themselves murdered by a crazed IDF soldier-driver. (Maybe the people in the tents were thinking of supporting Hamas?)
The IDF shot Israeli Jewish hostages to death because they were waving a white flag with their shirts off, speaking Hebrew and pleading for help. (One never knows, with a redhead among them, maybe they were Hamas soldiers in disguise speaking great Hebrew?)
When people are occupied, is resistance justified?
(BreakThrough News) Dec. 18, 2023: Four days into Israel's genocidal bombing and siege of Gaza -- and torment, arbitrary arrest, and dispossession of the West Bank -- with a ground invasion launched, the West’s most prominent left-liberal intellectuals stood up and spoke out against…the U.S. and European leftists on the streets for Palestine. But three months later, a mass anti-war movement in solidarity with Palestine has rocked the US, leaving liberals who condemn Palestinian resistance, isolated.
Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News Ben Becker discusses the remarkable transformation of the US political environment in response to worldwide movement for Palestine. #BreakThroughNews
Israel bulldozed (crushing many innocent civilians) and shelled Kamal Adwan, the only hospital in northern Gaza
(Al Jazeera English) Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government. Dec. 16, 2023: Days of intensive Israeli terrorist bombardment massacring civilians and noncombatants in war crimes of "collective punishment," have left the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza barely functional. It was the only working hospital in the North of Gaza…and one of only eleven still open in the entire Israeli-occupied territory. (Though illegal Israeli settlements were famously removed, the Israeli military never left but remained as a brutal occupying force). Al Jazeera's Tareq Abou Azzoum reports from Rafah. #AlJazeeraEnglish#AlJazeeraLiveNews#AlJazeera
Disturbing video: Israeli terrorists (IDF) bulldoze people at Kamal Adwan Hospital, burying dozens alive
(The Free Press Journal) Dec. 17, 2023: Israeli troopers stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in North Gaza, bulldozing parts of it and brutally crushing inhabited tents outside. Dozens of human beings, displaced individuals, along with sick and wounded civilian Gaza patients injured by Israel's military, were purposely and tragically buried alive. Israel's occupation bulldozers also trampled the tents of displaced people in the hospital yard, probably by accident because Israel would never commit a war crime or atrocity on purpose, right? They're not that crazy.
00:00:00 Irresponsibly linking Oct. 7 to German Holocaust
00:01:20 What ACTUALLY happened on Oct. 7
00:02:06 The bodies found
00:02:23 Why we're not allowed to discuss what really happened
00:03:00 What is "Hamas" and why were they formed?
00:04:40 Hamas' charter
00:04:50 Hamas NOT Isis
00:06:50 Hamas is Israel's partner
00:07:53 Why won't Israel negotiate?
00:09:30 Why Netanyahu needs to extend genocide to save political life
00:10:00 "Unique opportunity" for Israel
00:10:50 How could people be shocked by Oct. 7?
00:12:00 Settler colonialism is violence and breeds violence
00:12:30 Apartheid consensus
00:13:51 Palestinian fractures
00:15:30 The Dahiya Doctrine
00:16:40 Biden's 40 beheaded babies lie
00:17:05 Biden is being politically self-destructive
ABOUT: Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, associate professor of Africana Studies at the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School and was a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professor in Palestinian Studies at Brown University.
Prof Erakat is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival.
She has served as legal counsel for a congressional subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives, as legal advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Erakat has also produced video documentaries, including Gaza in Context and Black Palestinian Solidarity. Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, and The Boston Review. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR, among others. Her awards include the NLG Law for the People Award (2021) and the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar award (2022).
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Anti Palestine TikTok
(Noah Samsen) Nov. 21, 2023: This video examines a handful of short-form content pieces from supporters of Israel and connects this content to broader Zionist-Jewish (pro-Israel) attitudes.
This video is not easy to watch, but it is hoped that it gives some context on what Israel is doing and good YouTube channels to follow.
Zionist anti-Palestine censorship is surging w/Dylan Saba | The Chris Hedges Report
(The Real News Network) The Chris Hedges Report. Dylan Saba, a lawyer for Palestine Legal, was asked to write a piece on the silencing of pro-Palestine voices by The Guardian — only to then be informed at the last minute that his piece had been killed and would not be published. Saba joins countless pro-Palestine activists and voices who have been targeted with termination, doxing, harassment, censorship, and even death threats. Saba joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the intensifying war on civil liberties unfolding as public revulsion at Israel's crimes in Gaza grows.
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