Methuselah a gnarled bristlecone pine from California between the Sierra Madre mountain range and Death Valley desert wasteland
But a tree named Alerce Milenario (Gran Abuelo, "Great Grandfather") was recently discovered in Chile, South America, that may be centuries older, according to tree experts attempting to date it
Coastal redwood Hyperionof California (over 370 feet) is the tallest tree in the world, discovered in 2006, next to other very tall trees.
The largest (not tallest, not widest, but overall biggest, assuming someone has compared it to those massive Tree of Life trees in Africa, the baobab) is General Sherman, who lives in California's Sequoia National Park
Today, August 25, the focus shifts from commercial deals to celebrating and supporting America’s natural wonders. Many parks, like Yellowstone, Yosemit, and Grand Canyon, often offer free admission on this special day [though everyone can get into national parks around the country free for the rest of the year due to a special dispensation that is not widely advertised if one were to look it up], encouraging visitors to experience their beauty firsthand. Organizations like the National Park Foundation and Friends of the National Parks groups host fundraising drives and volunteer events, often partnering with brands like REI and Patagonia for donation matching. Local businesses near park entrances may offer special discounts to park rangers and staff as a token of appreciation. More
(VoteSport) Despite her pretty looks, Dakota Ditcheva, 27, displays an unprecedented knockout rate in the cage. The spotlight belongs to the long-legged PFL champion, who studied Muay Thai in Buddhist Thailand, might soon outshine any MMA (mixed martial arts) star. 11,805,895 views.
Dakota Ditcheva, Vote Sport, 12/26/24; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
We pretend we (USA) don't have royalty, but we have "stars" and a king in the White Castle
Now that our stars are settling down and aging, what will they look like in a few years?
Swift's not the only Nazi Barbie. Amatue, too
The news (spectacle) gets to be so much nowadays that there's no way to consume it except maybe in TikTok morsels. But that sort of chunkification is not good for the attention spans, focus, or dopamine addiction and serotonin levels in the mind. More sugar! It's almost as if some giant PR firm working on Fleet Street is bombarding us to keep us constantly distracted and spinning. That way no one notices real news items like Zionist Israel's atrocities, Trump's long history of inc3st and child s3x crim3s, the economy, the enrichment of the military-industrial complex under a leader who was supposed to be the peace candidate pulling us out of foreign involvements.
It's almost as if Zionists run the Deep State and therefore the country, with blackmailed Trump their witless victim. He has no power to stand up to anyone but fellow moles in the blue wing of his party, the Money Party, the duopoly that rules the swamp.
Some kids got shot in Catholic Church by possible LGBTQIA+ individual, 23, in Minneapolis, MN
Two parents accidentally kill their baby then lie about it, claiming it was kidnapped before cops figure out there was no kidnapping
Trump is covertly trying to take Greenland...
What's the most important story grabbing our attention gay demon worshipping pop rapper Lil Montero Hill Nas X getting a visit from the contract signer to make good on his deal with the devil? Maybe he should have referred to Lil Uzi Vert for advice on the wording because he's barely had a few hit songs to already be out of his gourd on drugs walking nearly naked down the streets behind Tinsel Town?
Diddy is in even BIGGER trouble? We thought Trump was ready to pardon him and his other close, personal, child molesting associates like Ghislaine Maxwell. Hulk Hogan didn't die of a heart attack from working out too much and shooting up steroids? It was a surgical disaster during an operation that killed him, medical malpractice, fourth degree negligent murder???
Did Lil Nas X make a Deal with the Devil? (Faust) Is it possible Mr. Hill (Lil Nas X) struck a bargain with a demon from some dimension and, being tricked, is now getting his card pulled early? Say he gets sent to prison through the racist testimony of some LAPD type cops in our illegal system, and the judge sentences him severely for multiple felonies? Downcast, depressed, cheated from worldwide fame, he may unalive himself in his cell as the Devil laughs like that Ozzy song that made Black Sabbath a hit: "What is this that stands before me? Figure in black which points at me?" (lyrics)
"Old Town Road" (rejected country hit)
Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” explained: The music video serves as a commentary on religious views on the LGBTQ community, with a gay relationship portrayed through the famous biblical Garden of Eden story. He flips the script with a descent into hell that’s viewed not as torturous but erotic. (lyrics and tracklist | Genius)
Will he make a comeback after catching charges while intoxicated and being arrested, spending a "terrifying" four days in jail and getting traumatized? It seems like only a few years ago he was living at his sister's house, being thrown out, throwing a Hail Mary pass with a song-idea combining country and rap in his breakout hit "Old Town Road." Then came the over Satanism, Illuminati behavior, overt homosexuality, and Garden of Eden themes. Did Diddy or Beyonce's hubby Mr. Carter produce this?
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The moon (Luna, Chandra, Soma) is NOT what we have been (mis-)led to believe (Gaia) Premiered March 14, 2025: #Gaia #moon #extraterrestrial
8,000+ films, shows, classes on Gaia.com. Start a free trial: cs-link.gaia.com/3XMgbEQ. Inside information concerning earth's moon is revealed by David Adair, who worked to develop technology for secret American programs.
He explains that the moon is not what many of us have been led to believe. It is in fact a hollow vessel [much like the earth and at least one other planet in this solar system] that was transported to our planet eons ago.
The denizens of this not-so-natural (but quite artificial and apparently indestructible, perfectly spherical) satellite have not been pleased with humanity's forays onto the lunar surface. Adair reveals inside information concerning the moon as an artificial body brought here by an ancient E.T. civilization and why it is important that they do not take their moon away.
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There, that hole right there. It's tiny from here but enormous when standing on the surface.
Scientists have long suspected the moon may harbor tunnels, caves, and dark labyrinths. They now have proof that at least one exists. In 2010, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a satellite orbiting the moon, captured imagery of an intriguing "skylight" pit on the moon's surface, in the same region where the Apollo 11 astronauts allegedly landed.
It was not known if this was part of greater caverns, but planetary scientists have reanalyzed the spacecraft's observations and determined it is indeed a cave.
And elsewhere on the moon, there could be many more. "We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg," Wes Patterson, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who coauthored the new research in Nature Astronomy, told Mashable.
Different pits observed by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: The middle pit in the top row, labeled for the region "Mare Tranquillitatis," leads to the recently identified cave (Mashable).
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These caverns are most likely [synthetic, created by some intelligent life form holding captive those inside the hollow core where earthlings are forced to work or submit to exams, but since that's crazy talk and not allowed by gatekeepers, it must be natural, like maybe] a lava tube, a geologic phenomenon created by volcanic eruptions [from all those volcanoes we see on the surface, billowing smoke into the smog of the lunar atmosphere from all the plate tectonic activity so apparent from the air. Oh, wait].
Found in regions around Earth, lava tubes are created by molten rock, or magma, leaking up near or onto a world's surface, and forming these natural tunnels. Tubes form from crusted-over lava, and the conduits are emptied when lava drains out or is diverted elsewhere.
One can walk though giant lava tubes on Earth [such as in Australia, where they extend for many, perhaps even hundreds of miles].
To determine if the pit was part of a greater tunnel system, the researchers looked at other data collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, specifically from a radar instrument called the Miniature Radio-Frequency.
While flying over the pit in the volcanic plains of Mare Tranquillitatis (popularly called the "Sea of Tranquility"), the spacecraft sent a signal into the opening, which bounced back, ultimately providing (with the help of geometry and computer simulations) evidence of a tunnel at least some 130 feet (40 meters) wide and perhaps as much as 80 meters, or some 260 feet, long.
It turns out the pit is actually a skylight. "This is our first direct evidence of a conduit associated with one of those pits," Patterson said.
To buttress their lunar results, the researchers performed a similar analysis on a lava tube here on Earth. Their process worked. More
Why do things grow so big and healthy along the Pacific Ocean high in California?
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There's prana energy coming up from trees.
There used to be a time when Buddhism had the oldest tree in the world, the Buddha's Bodhi (Enlightenment) tree, a pipal or sacred fig (Ficus religiosa), which is still the oldest documented and attested tree in the historical record.
It may seem a coincidence that the historical Buddha had an "enlightenment tree," but in fact all samma-sam-buddhas ("supremely awakened ones") do. The Buddha spoke of buddhas of the distant past, naming their chief disciples and other features, including the type of tree they awakened under.
This hints at just how important trees are. Save forests, save earth!
But a California bristlecone pine dubbed Methuselah took the crone for being far old, as proved by rings. Such trees do not even look alive, but are beaten down, shriveled, with gnarled bark and a few green sprouts that show they do yet live.
In a grove of ancients, the oldest among them was recognized.
California has it all -- the world's tallest tree (hidden in Northern California in dense underbrush, kept secret to avoid visitors who might damage it unintentionally, although the secret is out and maps to it exist). And there's the world's largest tree, the photogenic "General Sherman" in the Gove of Giants (or is that the Grove of Titans?), Sequoia National Park on the Pacific Coast near Yosemite National Park, which also has a grove of massive California redwoods.
The giant sequoia is the world's largest tree, and there are many such enormous redwoods.
Thank you, Bodhi Tree
So the oldest completed the trifecta, on the road to Sequoia Nat'l Park and Yosemite from Los Angeles, near the fork in the road -- along the California Alps (Sierra Madre range visible from the 395 Freeway) -- where one can turn right and plunge into Death Valley and Nevada beyond that.
Now the world will focus on Chile (until the next discovery in Tartary, the Tartarian Empire, or the realization that there are no trees left in the world because the ancient trees, made of silica rather than carbon, were cut down and are now mesas, flattened mountains clearly visible from helicopters).
In the distant past, "trees" were gigantic and made of silica
It's not just one giant tree. There are many massive stumps
Old California "trees" are cacti? (Joshua trees)
Of course, that's too mind blowing to even mention, so scratch that from memory, and let's go to Jeremiah Budin, who is not a Buddhist so far as we know, in the Latin South American country of Chile.
Though trees across the globe are under threat from the corporate logging and agriculture industries and the chaotic changing climate, one tree in Alerce Costero National Park in Chile (western South America, the real Down Under, the world's southernmost country) is believed to have survived for more than 5,000 years — and experts say it is the oldest living tree in the world.
The tree, known as Gran Abuelo (“Great Grandfather”), is believed to be even older than the currently recognized oldest tree in the world, California’s 4,850-year-old Methuselah Pine.
The newest oldest tree in the world
This is the Gran Abuelo ("Great Grandfather"), the oldest tree in the world known to science.
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Why did Siddhartha sit under a tree? To meditate
Scientists are in the process of measuring the tree’s age in an effort to get it officially recognized as the world’s oldest. “It’s a survivor; there are no others that have had the opportunity to live so long,” said Antonio Lara, one of the scientists working on determining the tree’s age.
Gran Abuelo, a Patagonian cypress (Fitzroya cupressoides) was discovered by a park ranger in 1972. [And luckily it had its birth certificate stapled to it in protective plastic? How did the ranger know? Was it psychic intuition? Did the tree spirits talk like inthat famous Buddhist tree story?]
Buddha Boy, when out of jail, should sit here
Though its exact location was initially kept secret to protect the tree (as is still the case with the Methuselah Pine), tourists are now allowed to trek about an hour through the forest to take pictures alongside it.
The Jimmy Dore Show, Feb. 21, 2023; Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Shut up, Melinda! You want me in prison? You stupid loudmouth b, buh, buh, billionairess.
Bill Gates’ wife UNLOADS over his “Epstein relationship”!
I like to grab them by the p*ss*, Bill, don't you? - I sure do, Donny. Jeff land Hillary let me!
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(The Jimmy Dore Show) It’s apparent that Bill Gates really doesn’t like being asked about his close relationship with child molester Jeffrey Epstein, the owner of Pedophile Island who was murdered in custody to keep him quiet.
They want to release our names? No, God, no!
But now that there are rumblings of an impending release of additional information about the criminal activities that transpired on “Epstein Island,” the questions keep coming.
Meanwhile, Gates’ ex-wife Melinda is not shy about sharing her misgivings about Epstein and her husband's close relationship with him. He was “evil personified,” she says, which led her to divorce multi-billionaire husband Bill.
(Gaiam TV) As we have seen in past episodes of "Wisdom Teachings," the physics that underlie our reality are very different from what conventional science tells us and what we think we know.
Expanding on this we gain a glimpse into the role of the observer co-creating the four densities of our reality.
Many of the unconventional scientists who have gotten close to understanding these strange physics have met with dire consequences and have had their experiments shut down.
David Wilcock (in a former life the American psychic Edgar Cayce) explains just what it is that the cabals do not want us to know yet are powerless to fully repress in this presentation.
The great thing about the "Hunger Games" is the message that in the future, everyone is hot! This record breaker is a new Hollywood remake of old Hollywood's "Logan's Run." But now it's about starving teenagers under an elite 1% rather than a forever-young society where anyone who turns 30 gets killed by prior agreement -- unless one decides to run. That's where sandman Logan comes in. The tables are turned on the establishment. This cheesy futuristic film of the seventies looks a lot better here with its deleted scenes restored and alternative footage (thanks to Greathall75, who explains that the primary audience for this extended trailer was theater owners deciding whether or not to carry the film). "Logan's Run" became a classic, and the "Hunger Games" franchise is sure to be a massive blockbuster and golden goose. Read the books. More
(TrailerObsessed) The Dalai Lama appears along with many Buddhist images and references. A couple in love live in an apartment high above the city. He's an actor. She's a painter. This afternoon is like any other, except with one difference: The world will end tomorrow at 4:44 am. The final meltdown comes with a warning but with no means of escape. There will be no survivors. (Watch it at mubi.com).
Asura mythology: "Wrath of the Titans"
(MovieclipsCOMINGSOON) Perseus embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, who has been targeted for capture by his traitorous son, Ares, and his brother, Hades. Five years after his first adventure, Perseus rules Argos with Andromeda at his side and a newborn baby as their heir. But in the shadows lurks Calibos, the cursed "demon" thought dead now out for revenge. Not only the Greeks but ancient Indians and Buddhists believed in the lore of the titans (asuras) and demigods (devas), who mated humans. A collective or archetypal memory of advanced alien visitors, Annunaki or Nephilim, who descended from space to establish empires in ancient pre-biblical lands of Sumer, Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, Babylon, and the mysterious East. Teaser. The same theme was explored in the films "Immortals" (with beautiful oracles) and "Thor" (about Nordic space aliens). PROMETHEUS: A team of explorers (with Charlize Theron) discover a clue to the origins of humankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. A movie by Ridley Scott.
Blaze of Glory: The Toulouse Gunman Story
(ITN) In a world where European jihadists go apesh*t on Jewish school children and innocent cops, where it takes a paramilitary force of 300 to try to bring in one man alive, Mo Merah ain't going out like that. Not with Al Qaeda's blessings and Sarkozy's political future on the line. Watch the gripping true life tale of an angry pretext for a French clampdown on civil liberties and Internet freedoms. It's all in the name of greater "security," so fear not Francophiles. The safety you demanded is now mandatory. Read more in the US and directly from the BBC.
"The Expendables II"
(AllBallsEntertainment) Can't get enough killing with your extra large popcorn? Ultra-violence is the playground of a sexually repressed society. So if you haven't gotten enough of war-glorifying movies (that quietly normalize empire), how about films with real soldiers as actors and the US military winning Hollywood's help to find recruits for the US/MIC's wars abroad and spying on the homeland? Here is the ultimate testosterone-poisoned movie event of the year: Sylvester Stallone (Rambo), McGarnical (The Simpsons), Chuck Norris (Texas Ranger), Arnold Schwarzenegger (aka "McBain," failed California governor), Ashton Kutcher's dad (that bald guy, Demi's ex), and every action star with, inexplicably, the exception of Buddhist Steven Seagal.
From "Top Gun" to disgusting acts of murder, preemptive invasion, war crimes, and imperialism collectively renamed an "Act of Valor," this *ick flick is sure to keep the men in the family cooing and calling their friends: "Act of Valor" - How Hollywood Helps the M.I.C.
(MovieclipsTRAILERS) When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a deadly "terrorist" plot against the US, a team of SEALs is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt. As the [mercenaries] of Bandito Platoon race to stop a coordinated attack that could kill and wound thousands of American civilians, they must balance their commitment to country, team, [apple pie], and their families back home. "Act of Valor" uses active-duty US Navy Seals as ham "actors." The characters they play are fictional and their thespian skills laughable, but the deadly weapons and tactics used are REAL. And now that the NDAA (the indefinite detention bill signed into law by Commander in Chief Obama) makes every American civilian a legitimate target simply under a secret allegation of anyone being a "belligerent," a "domestic 'terrorist,'" or an Occupy protester, the guns may be aimed at us. "Hell and Back Again" (real life war)
(MovieclipsTRAILERS) Embedded with US Marines' Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine gun bullet (shot by a jihadist trying to defend from infidel thieves after an oil pipeline, rare earth minerals, and world domination through strategic influence of the region) has on the life of an invading 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris, an imperial soldier for the US military-industrial complex. The film seamlessly transitions from stunning war reportage to an intimate, visceral portrait of one man's personal struggle at home in North Carolina, where Harris confronts the physical and emotional difficulties of re-adjusting to civilian life with the love and support of his wife, Ashley. Masterfully contrasting the intensity of the frontline with the unsettling normality of home, "Hell and Back Again" lays bare the true cost of war.
"Last Days Here" - destruction turned inward
(MovieclipsTRAILERS) This documentary from Don Argott and Demian Fenton is a raw, real-life, yet unexpectedly touching portrait of cult metal legend Bobby Liebling, chronicling his bid to resurrect his life and career after decades of wasting away in his parents' basement. Liebling made his mark in the '70s as the outrageous frontman of Pentagram, a "street" Black Sabbath whose heavy metal riffs once blew audiences' minds. But various acts of self-destruction, multiple band break-ups, and botched record deals eventually condemned his music to obscurity. Now in his 50s, wasted by hardcore drug (heroin, meth, and crack) use and living on the charity of his ever-patient mother and father (a former Nixon advisor), Bobby's music is finally discovered by the heavy metal underground. For over three years filmmakers (and metal musicians) Argott and Fenton are witnesses to his unbelievable journey, following the triumphs and downfalls of this underground icon at the crossroads of life and death. More Bjork's Army of Me ("Sucker Punch" remix)
(RobbieAlterno) Imagine if someone thought to mix senseless violence and demeaning sex? "Sucker Punch" explored the concept in a futuristic fantasy film about Nazis, strippers, and very strong girls who can at least dream of fighting and killing the way men are taught to heartlessly fight and kill. "Go along to get along," or what was the message being sent by Hollywood accompanied by a great Bjork song?
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