Int'l Women's Day: Clashes, CV-19, Strike

Jason Slotkin, Diaa Hadid, Philip Reeves (NPR, March 8, 2020); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Marchers in Santiago, Chile, flooded the streets as part of International Women's Day marches. Confrontations with police were reported at events in Chile and Turkey and other countries (Esteban Felix/AP).

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Organizers and marchers have been out marking International Women's Day. A holiday with its origins in the labor and socialist movements of the 20th century, the day now recognized by the United Nations occasions rallies and events from Caracas to Baghdad to spotlight issues facing women globally.

This year, rallies in Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan were met with violence while marchers in Turkey and Chile were confronted by police. The COVID-19 outbreak forced cancellations while others boldly marched, defying fears of the epidemic.

Here's a round-up of the news and pictures to come from International Women's Day 2020.

Spectators chant "Justice!" after Chilean singer Mon Laferte was joined by Mexico's Vivir Quintana and a chorus of dozens to perform an anti-femicide song during a concert on the eve of International Women's Day in Mexico City Saturday (Rebecca Blackwell/AP).

This year's International Women's Day comes on the eve of a planned "women's strike" in Mexico Monday.

Spurred on by feminist activists, the strike comes in the wake of intensifying protests and demands for government actions against the often grisly murders of women in the country.

A woman helps paint the names of some of more than 3,000 victims of femicide on the plaza of the Zocalo in Mexico City, on International Women's Day, Sunday. Protests against gender violence in Mexico have intensified in recent years amid an increase in killings of women and girls (Rebecca Blackwell/AP).

Government estimates say 10 Mexican women are killed daily with more than 3,800 killed last year alone. Many of those cases involve sexual assault. The strike calling on women to abstain from work and school for a day has gained traction, The Associated Press reports, reaching far beyond the Mexico's activist circles.

Marta Patricia Ramírez, a housewife, told the wire service she organized a neighborhood event to discuss harassment. Dentist Jesica Solis will keep her office closed. Marta Pérez told the AP she won't lift a plate Monday and that her daughter will not go on social media.

The strike has also gotten the go-ahead from many large employers in Mexico. Walmart says its 108,000 female workers are allowed to join the action. Ford, banking and media company Grupo Salinas, and baked goods producer Bimbo are supporting the movement, The Washington Post adds.

The Post also reports that 21 million women are registered as workers in Mexico.

In the days leading up to the strike, women have been out in force with thousands attending events. On Saturday a concert performed entirely by female artists packed Mexico City's Zocalo, the metropolis's main square. Attendees chanted "justice" as a singers performed the anti-femicide anthem, "Song Without Fear," the AP reports.

On Sunday, activists painted more than 3,000 names of victims across that same square. Some 20,000 were expected to march in the Mexican capital Sunday.

• Coronavirus: events canceled, others march despite fears

Regions hit hardest by the spreading coronavirus outbreak felt its impact on International Women's Day celebrations. Both South Korea and China — the countries reporting the highest rates of infections — called off public events.

China used the day to highlight work of female medical staff fighting the coronavirus outbreak. Elsewhere in Asia, The Bangkok Post reports marches went ahead in Indonesia, the Philippines, as well as in Thailand, where women demanded increased labor protections and greater rights.

While Italy, the European country with the greatest number of infections, was in partial lockdown Sunday, celebrations, rallies and marches continued on as planned across the continent, according to Voice of America.

Women march as part of International Women's Day in Paris Sunday (Thibault Camus/AP).

Clashes at International Women's Day marches

Not every celebration of the day of women's rights advocacy went peacefully. In several countries, marchers were faced with opposition by both religious hardliners as well as local authorities.

In Islamabad, Pakistan, demonstrators at a rival rally of hardline Islamists attempted to break through a police barrier, hurling objects, including shoes and stones, at women participating in the march.

Marchers shout slogans during a rally in Islamabad Sunday (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images).

 

• International Women's Day: With Shoes and Stones, Islamists Disrupt Pakistan Rally

Islamist attackers were particularly enraged by one slogan of the International Women's Day ralliers, "My body, my choice!"

In Kyrgyzstan, women were also reportedly attacked by masked men, then detained by police while organizing a women's day event in the capital Bishkek.

Kyrgyz policemen detain an activist of the Femen women's rights movement during the celebration of the International Women's Day in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday (Vladimir Voronin/AP).

In Turkey, police blocked hundreds of women in Istanbul from entering the city's Taksim Square. The roads leading to the city's famed square were closed because they were "not classified as designated areas for assembly and demonstrations according to law," says a governor's statement quoted by Reuters.

Reuters adds last year's marchers in Turkey were met with tear gas by police attempting to break up their crowd.

Women are sprayed by a police water cannon during clashes near La Moneda presidential palace during a protest marking International Women's Day in Santiago, Chile Sunday (Esteban Felix/AP).

In Chile, there were several reports of clashes with police and a handful of arrests. In the capital Santiago, reports of crowd size conflicted, with organizers saying 2 million marchers flooded the streets while police said it was only 120,000.

The march happened amid ongoing tensions in Chile. Sometimes-violent anti-government protests over social inequality began in October and continue sporadically. Marchers on Sunday decried abuses they said Chile's security services carried out against women during those protests.

• Elsewhere around the world, in photos

Leaders of various women's groups raise their fists as they march near the Malacanang presidential palace to mark International Women's Day Sunday in Manila, Philippines (Iya Forbes/AP).

A woman holds an Iraqi flag and wearing a T-shirt with Arabic that reads, "No one in this world loves Iraq as much as I do," during a rally demanding women's rights in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday (Khalid Mohammed/AP).

A woman of the National Bolivarian Militia carries her daughter during a pro-government march on International Women's Day in Caracas, Venezuela Sunday (Ariana Cubillos/AP).

Participants take part in the women's "Beauty Run" in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday. Five thousand participants took part in the event in connection with International Women's Day, which is an official holiday in Belarus (Sergei Grits/AP).

Pakistani activists take part in an International Women's Day rally in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday. Pakistanis held rallies across the country, but were attacked in Islamabad (K.M. Chaudary/AP).

Mars vs. Venus brains: John Gray (TED)

John Gray (TEDx, 6/20/14); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Mars brain, Venus brain: John Gray

Bestselling author of 17 books sold in 45 languages, including Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray is arguably the world's foremost expert on relationships. Gray's focus is helping men and women understand, respect, and appreciate their differences in both personal and professional relationships.

He's appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The View, and Larry King and been profiled in Newsweek, Time, Forbes, USA Today, and People Magazine.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

What about Biden? (comedy)

Jimmy Dore (jimmydorecomedy.com); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dopamine (pleasure) addict (video)

How I tricked my brain to like doing the things I don't (didn't) like doing.

The Queen's Code: Relationships (video)

Relationship Expert Alison A. Armstrong, Host Elizabeth DiAlto (UntameYourself.com, 5/29/16, Episode #107); Kalyani, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

It's starting to feel like spring

(Elizabeth DiAlto) I’ve said this before: I don’t fan girl often over guests, but when I do it’s because someone’s work has literally changed my life. In today’s interview I chat with Alison Armstrong, author of The Queen’s Code (a book to help women that shook me up and rocked my world back in February), and several other courses and books that help men and women understand each other better and enjoy more satisfying partnerships. I asked her all the questions many have expressed about her work in comments, messages, and on group calls since I personally dove into her work and started sharing my own experiences. Ironically, we also got interrupted by men in my house during the interview. Watch what comes up when that happens, and enjoy!

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ABOUT: Alison Armstrong is a sought-after speaker in the areas of gender differences, well-being, empowerment, sexuality, and relationships. She is the author of The Queen’s Code and creator of the widely acclaimed “Queen’s Code” workshop series, plus a host of other products and programs designed to foster understanding and further partnership between men and women.

In her own words, “I’m passionate about partnership. I want to know everything about this paradigm – this magic that can happen between people. What makes a partnership possible, what makes one brilliant, what destroys a partnership, what expands the power of partnership? Everything I study and distinguish is to give greater access to the phenomenon of partnership.

“This is why I’ve spent so much time on male/female and masculine/feminine dynamics. The misunderstandings and misinterpretations between testosterone-based and estrogen-based creatures (usually known as males and females, but not always) devastate lives, destroy families, and put our dreams of love and fulfillment out of reach. And that’s just in the personal, romantic domain. Apply these misconceptions to education, work and community, and the real consequences of fundamentally not understanding each other are exponentially worse.” Info: understandmen.com. In this episode, Armstrong shares:

1. Understanding men and the ways women turn princes into frogs (often devastatingly AND unknowingly)
2. Clearing up how everything isn’t a woman’s responsibility even though it feels that way sometimes
3. Women’s innate ability to inspire men AND non-manipulatively get what they want as a result.

• Untameyourself.com/episode-107
• Understandmen.com

Buddhism in a nutshell: Ajahn Chah

Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org) via Ven. Sujato, Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

In a nutshell, the point of the teaching of the Buddha is to transform one's view. It is possible to change it. It only requires looking at things and then it happens.

Having been born we will experience aging, illness, death, and separation. These things are right here. We don't need to look up at the sky or down at the earth.

The Dharma that we need to see and to know can be seen right here within us, every moment of every day. When there is birth, we are filled with joy. When there is death, we grieve. That's how we spend our lives.

These are the things we need to know about, but we still have not looked into them sufficiently to see the truth. We are stuck deep in this ignorance. We ask, "When will we see the Dharma?" -- but it is right here to be seen in the present.

This is the Dharma (Teaching) we should learn about and see. This is what the Buddha taught about. He did not teach about gods and demons and nagas, protective deities, jealous demigods, nature spirits, and the like. He taught the things that one should know and see. These are truths that we really should be able to realize. External phenomena are like this. They exhibit the three characteristics: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self.

• [All phenomena are transient, disappointing, and impersonal. These are the three universal marks of all existence.]

If we really take an interest in all of this and contemplate seriously we can gain genuine knowledge. If this were something that could not be done, the Buddha would not have bothered to talk about it. How many tens and hundreds of thousands of his followers have come to realization?

If one is really keen on looking at things, one can come to know. The Dharma is like that. We are living in this world, we gain our knowledge from the world. The Buddha is said to be lokavidu, one who knows the world clearly.

It means living in the world but not being stuck in the ways of the world, living among attraction and aversion but not stuck in attraction and aversion. This can be spoken about and explained in ordinary language. This is how the Buddha taught.

Wise words from a British monk (video)

Ajahn Jayasaro via Culture Exchange Blog; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

A stupa in the mist, Amaravati (Jake Barnes)

Ajahn Jayasaro (born Shaun Michael Chiverton) is a British monk who trained with the famous Thai forest tradition Meditation Master Ajahn Chah.

Ven. Jayasaro was at Amaravati, a Theravada Buddhist monastic center in England, when he delivered this talk: "Your Ultimate Classroom is Here and Now."

Stillness Flowing (Jayasaro)

It is slow, calming, and remarkable for its depth of wisdom and the usefulness of its advice. It's easy for us to start meditating in a way that is ineffective. Then a little advice from the heart puts us back on track.

The talk begins with a quote from Chekov who once ended a message, "I'm sorry this is such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a shorter one." Brevity and editing are the heart of wisdom.

He then quotes Ajahn Chah: "You have to bring your heart to the Dhamma (Dharma). You don't bring the Dhamma to your heart." You don't pick and choose. There is a subtle difference of great significance.

• READ FREE: Stillness Flowing (abhayagiri.org)

Give time sitting as an offering to the Buddha

We gave the Buddha many things. What he wanted was for us to practice what he taught.

Who were the native people of Los Angeles?

Kizh Nation Tribal Archeologist Dr. Gary Stickel, Ph.D. (UCLA), pasadenastarnews.com, The Pasadena Star-News, 9/11/17; Dhr. Seven, Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Chief Ernest Salas Teutimes with modern day Kizh descendants, Los Angeles (facebook.com)

The original Native American or American Indian tribe of the greater Los Angeles basin and Orange County area has been referred to variously as the Tongva, Gabrielinos, and so on — which has lead to much confusion.

Let us clarify what they were called and what some prefer to be called today: Kizh. They do not want to be called Tongva -- and certainly not the Spanish colonial Catholic name "Gabrielinos" -- which for some reason caught on in the media and academia.

Prior to California's invasion by foreign nations by both the Spanish and Russian empires in the 1700s, California tribes had no pan-tribal names for themselves such as the ones North Americans are used to, such as the Cherokee or Navajo.

The local Kizh people identified themselves with their associated resident village, such as Topanga, Cahuenga, Tujunga, Pasadenga, or Cucamonga. This is how it was in ancient Greece; prior to Alexander the Great, the people there did not consider themselves "Greeks" but instead identified themselves with their city states, such as Athens or Sparta.

Getting the history right.

A problem in the nomenclature of the people came in the 20th century. Anthropologists, most notably the renowned Prof. A.L. Kroeber from the University of California at Berkeley, inappropriately referred to the Southern California tribe as "the Gabrielinos."

He was the first to deeply research and publish the history of California natives based on their subjugation by Catholic priests at the San Gabriel Mission. Their culture was thousands of years old, possibly more than 10,000 years old, before Spain brought Roman Catholicism.

Toypurina (Ernest Salas Teutimes)

The Joan of Arc of California was the unsung heroine Toypurina, who was the only female to lead an uprising against an invading foreign power. It was ultimately unsuccessful because the plot was discovered by soldiers, and she was arrested, sent away from her family and children, and forced to marry a white man.

The Kizh

Is "Kizh" any improvement? The origin of the name is the type of homes they built, which were neither teepees nor wigwams nor long houses. When the imperial Spanish soldiers and priests invaded the local territory in 1771, they set up headquarters at Whittier Narrows, 15 miles east of today’s downtown Los Angeles.

The occupying Spanish used the people from those villages as slave labor to build the first concentration camp called the "San Gabriel Mission" as part of the conquest, ethnic cleansing, and slow genocide.

Because the native people of Whittier Narrows collectively called themselves Kizh (pronounced keech), the Spanish referred to them as Kicherenos, a Hispanic term for the Kizh people. The word kizh refers to the houses they lived in, most of which were dome-shaped and made of a thatched framework of willow branches.

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After a few years the first mission compound was washed away by floods, possibly an El Nino condition. So the Spanish decided to move their outpost five miles north. Again using slave labor they built a new San Gabriel Mission in the modern-day City of San Gabriel in 1774.

Once the mission was relocated, the Spanish eventually dropped the term Kichereno and replaced it with Gabrieleno, when referring to the natives near the foothills they called the San Gabriel mountains.

Scholars continued to use Kizh, using various spellings. In 1871 the noted scholar Lewis H. Morgan published his “System of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family” through the Smithsonian Institution’s “Contributions to Knowledge.” In it he mentions various tribes, including the “Mission Indians, namely, the Kizhes of San Gabriel.”

• Facebook.com/KizhIndians

Father Sugranes verified that the name Kizh was initially recognized by Catholic clergy at the San Gabriel Mission, even though they went on to rename them Gabrielenos, as part of the further degradation of the culture.

But when the renowned Prof. Kroeber published his major work on California tribes, dropping the use of Kizh and replacing it with "Gabrielino," he influenced subsequent scholars, who also disregarded the original term. The appellation Gabrielino unfortunately became a standard term for the tribe among academics and the public.

Today the tribe, known to the government as the "Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians," prefers to call itself by a name that originated in their own language, one that is the closest thing to a pan-tribal name used by their ancestors at Whittier Narrows.

If Kizh is the preferred tribal name today, why has "Tongva" been so widely used? It turns out that in the middle of the last century, ethnographer C. Hart Merriam was studying the tribe’s culture. As he interviewed Rosemyre, one of the tribe’s female members at Fort Tejon, Merriam asked her the name of her tribe. He misunderstood when she could not accurately answer his question, as her people did not have such a concept.

The current chairman or chief of one band of the tribe today, Andrew Salas, thinks Rosemyre responded not with a tribal name per se but with her village name — in the customary manner of her people. She used the word “Toviscangna,” which was the name of her home village near the San Gabriel Mission. It is believed that Merriam's muddled understanding of her response became “Tongva” as if it were the name of the tribe.

• Others say that the word Tongva means "world," as in this part of the world or the world in its entirety, a name suggested to Gabrielinos by a graduate student at UCLA doing research as an improvement on the colonial Spanish term. Tongva could mean "people of the land."

Because the perpetrators have been so successful in promoting the mistaken concept, it will take a great deal of effort to correct the mistaken notion and replace it with the better option, Kizh. More

• AUTHOR: Dr. Gary Stickel, whose doctorate is from UCLA, is the tribal archeologist of the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians or Kizh Nation

Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival, LA (video)

Netflixisajokefest.com via Engadget.com; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Netflix is big on stand up comedy. Now it's looking to present comedy IRL. The Netflix Is A Joke Fest (netflixisajokefest.com), a weeklong comedy festival, comes to Los Angeles this spring. Tickets on sale today.

The festival promises over 100 shows with many of the biggest names in comedy, and it kicks off on April 27th.

Los Angeles' Jimmy Dore (KPFK 90.7 FM)

Comedians include Dave Chappelle, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld, Pete Davidson, Jamie Foxx, Arsenio Hall, Norm Macdonald, David Letterman, Amy Schumer, Michelle Wolf, Iliza, and Ali Wong. All are slated to perform live. They'll take the stage in venues like The Hollywood Bowl, Wilshire Ebell Theater, The Regent, and The Orpheum Theater.

One event, "The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand Up," will feature comedy by Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, and Wanda Sykes.

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin of Grace and Frankie will host an evening of stand up with an all-female lineup.

Netflix has invested heavily in comedy specials, and it has tons of great talent to work with. Creating an in-person experience makes sense for live comedy, but this is still a big step for Netflix. More

Native American has oldest DNA in America

Genetics Digest (Taboola/mail); Xochitl, Crystal Q., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

We arrived by boat before any land bridge.

We all wonder where we came from, as one Montana man did. Daryl "Dusty" Crawford, a member of the Native American Blackfeet tribe, had always been told at school that his ancestors came from Siberia, across a "land bridge."

However, his tribe members tell a different story. “We’ve always been here, since time immemorial,” says Shelly Eli, an instructor at Blackfeet Community College. “There [are] no oral stories that say we crossed a bridge or anything else.”

Dusty Crawford sought his own answers. Crawford traced his genetic timeline back 17,000 years — and he found out he is 83% Native American.

DNA discovery

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Crawford took an ancestry test at the urging of his brother, Willy, who passed away before Dusty could receive the results.

Crawford discovered something that would have shocked his late brother. With that DNA test, it was discovered that Crawford can trace his ancestry back 17,000 years.

Even more surprising than that, he found that his North American ancestry is OLDER than the land bridge that once connected Siberia to Alaska — a dubious story he’d been taught in school [more Lies My Teacher Told Me] was the place his ancestors came from.

Pacific Islanders not Siberians

Map before European invasion and colonialism

Instead, Crawford’s results suggest that his ancestors came not by bridge, but by boat — as his closest genetic ancestors come from the Pacific Islands, not Siberia.

The current theory is that Crawford’s ancestors — some of the first people to set foot in the Americas — came by boat to South America. They would have then worked their way north over many generations of travel.

An Indigenous Peoples' History

In fact, remains found in Peru contain DNA from the same haplogroup as Dusty Crawford — meaning that he can trace his lineage directly back down to Peru and back across the Pacific Ocean.

FROM FARMER TO FAMOUS

It’s an incredible story by the Great Falls Tribune (Kristen Inbody) picked up by USA Today and The Daily Beast.

CRI Genetics (sponsored in this instance by Taboola) claims their DNA tests are better because they are 100% privately owned and do not directly provide data to the government or Big Pharma companies, like certain competitors.* More

[*NOTE: This is deceptive because police, government, and Big Pharma can and do access test results all the time, which testing companies -- not test subjects -- own. CRI Genetics, like their competitors, are out to profit from tests as much as they can, so the results will eventually end up in the hands of authorities and corporations.]

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Bernie wins overall, establishment for Biden

Reuters.com, Super Tuesday results; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Early results show Bernie Sanders in the delegate-count lead. Warren out of contention.

Warren has to come to grips: The party bosses may like her but not the people. Tulsi smiles.

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March 3, 2020 was Super Tuesday in 14 states with 1,357 delegates to apportion. These primaries play a big role in determining which Democrat will challenge Don Trump for the 2020 presidency. For once, California will make a big difference early on. The Golden State went for Bernie Sanders over establishment candidate and moronic buffoon Biden, who continues to stammer and exhibit signs of dementia.

Sanders wins California, Biden sweeps the South

A resurgent Joe Biden completed a sweep of the South and pulled off a major upset in Massachusetts, beating both Elizabeth Warren in her home state and Bernie Sanders in his neighborhood. But Sanders won California, the biggest delegate prize of the evening.

• Late-deciding voters largely supporting Biden
• Key Congressional primaries also on the line
• Track the delegates in 2020 race

DNC fails again: Long lines at Fairfax High.

LOS ANGELES, California - At Fairfax High School near West Hollywood, people at the front of a line have been waiting for 90 minutes to vote. "Part of the reason is because five of the new digital [ballot marking] machines broke down," said Deborah Rankin, a clerk at the voting center. They haven't been able to replace them because other polling places have been experiencing the same issues. She added that there were more voters going to fewer polling places. "Many people told me they were waiting until today to vote because they wanted to make sure their vote wasn’t wasted on their primaries with people dropping out,” she said. (Reporting by Arlene Washington). More

Biden comes back from the dead. Bernie sighs

Hanna Trudo, Scott Bixby (Daily Beast, 3/4/20); Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

I'm a loser. I can barely beat Bernie. No, wait.

The axiom says "Democrats fall in love, and Republicans fall in line." But that axiom appears to have been dispensed with on Super Tuesday, when several states voted for the candidate they and their party leaders best felt could do the one task they’re desperate for come November: beat Trump.

Biden is a loser. He'll never beat Trump.

Former Vice President Joe Biden racked up a series of dramatic wins on Tuesday night, starting with Virginia and sweeping through several other Southern states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and delegate-rich Texas.

He scored a surprise victory in Minnesota over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who was expected to handily take the state, and a win in Massachusetts, the home state of primary rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

I spent half a billion for nothing! - Bloomberg

Sen. Bernie Sanders was also poised to make real inroads on the delegate count with a win in California — one that would undoubtedly keep him in competition for the nomination, if not in a good position to claim it. But Biden emerged from Super Tuesday noticeably jazzed by the results.

The few hundred people in attendance at his rally at the Baldwin Hills Recreation Center barely filled up a basketball court — as if his campaign hadn’t been anticipating the huge night it was having.

Trump slams Fox News for supporting Left

But by the time [moronic buffoon] Biden [who likely suffers from dementia and certainly exhibits signs of foot-in-mouth disease] showed up, the venue was buzzing, as the former VP screamed with delight into his mic.

“They don’t call it Super Tuesday for nothing,” he declared. After appearing to momentarily confuse his wife and sister, he noted that the pundits were predicting his campaign might have been over by now. “Well, it might be over for the other guy!” he said, an apparent reference to Bernie Sanders. “We are very much alive!”

You're both losers. Have you seen my girlfriend?

Indeed he was. A campaign that seemed on life support just one week ago suddenly found itself well positioned to lay claim to a delegate lead. And while the former VP certainly is beloved by a good chunk of the party, the people who helped him get there said the turnaround was driven by a pervasive, almost panicky, fear over Trump. More

Suppressed histories of women (video)

Max Dashu (suppressedhistories.net); Xochitl, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Suppressed Histories [of Women] Archives

This archive of images uncovers the realities of women's lives across place and time. It questions oppressive patriarchies and the his story of conquest, slavery, and aboriginals.

There are archives of mother-right, female spheres of power, indigenous philosophies of spirit, and his stories of repression. Moreover, it looks into the role of females in resisting oppression and their denied her-story.

The Goddess has many forms.

This global perspective on women’s past treatment and contributions offers fresh and diverse conceptions of women's power as well as men and gender borders.

It overturns stereotypes of race and class and the structures of domination that enforce them.

It digs under the usual story of lords and rulers, looking for hidden strands to reweave knowledge from diverse such as establishment-history, archeology, linguistics, and folk traditions.

Let's cast a wide arc, looking for patterns, gaps, and contradictions that are trigger points for controversy when vested power interests are at stake. Some of the flashpoints are:

• women's power
• neolithic female figurines
• gender-egalitarian mother-right cultures
• patriarchal versus matriarchal social systems
• witch-hunts
• "heresies"
• goddess veneration
• female shamans, and
• the rise and fall of empires
• including the doctrines of supremacy that prop up all systems of domination.

Why we need women's history... More

Amy quits, Tom is gone. Is Lizzy next?

Reuters.com live, 3/2/20; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I may be pretty and pleasant, but I am a Republican at heart. VP for Joey Biden?

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Super Tuesday: 14 states, 1,357 delegates

The best woman for the job is Tulsi Gabbard.

Where's Tulsi Gabbard? Tomorrow's primaries will play a big role in determining how soon Lizzy Warren drops out in humiliation and which establishment Democrat will challenge Donny Trump for the 2020 presidency. Amy Klobuchar is dropping out of the race today and plans to endorse Joey Biden [to curry favor and maybe be the first female vice president, much to Warren's chagrin], a campaign aide of Amy's confirms (9:39 AM PST).

Democrats blanket Super Tuesday states

Things are looking good, huh, wife? - Yes.

Front-runner Bernie Sanders, a reinvigorated Joey Biden, and the other remaining Democratic U.S. presidential candidates fanned out on today (Monday) to many of the 14 states that will hold Super Tuesday nominating contests. Can Bloomberg's billions beat Biden's sudden momentum? Will one capitalist Jewish candidate trump another socialist one? Petey Buttigieg saw the writing on the wall and dropped out of the race yesterday...and then there were five: Bernie, Joey, Mikey, Tulsi, and Lizzy... (10:06 AM PST)

Lizzy Warren thinking of bowing out

You knew as well as I did that I'd bow out.

Meanwhile, President Trump's been tweeting. He thinks Fox News is in the tank for the Radical Left (but he deleted the tweet). And he still doesn't like Bloomberg much. And Bloomberg, his old Republican buddy does like him but is pretending to be very nouveau-Democratic and being against his fellow New Yorker. More

Coronavirus: Fear over Comedy? (video)

John Oliver (HBO, March 1st, 2020); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Coronavirus: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Others say to poor Corona, "Stay over there!"

(Last Week Tonight) As the novel coronavirus "Covid-19" spreads to the U.S., John Oliver discusses what’s being done to fight the illness, what’s gone wrong, and how to stay safe (but no mention of the bioweaponization of it in Wuhan (a Chinese university town with many of the world's best genetic manipulation labs); leave that to Edge of Wonder to explore).

 Last Week Tonight channel for more almost news as it almost happens (youtube), find it like your mom would (FB), follow for news about jokes and jokes about news (Tw), or visit the official site for all that other stuff at once (HBO).

Bernie drums out Petey, Amy, Joey next

Petey Buttigieg; NBC News, 3/1/20; Seth Auberon (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly UPDATED

You're next Lizzy. That's it. - No, please, Bernie, I didn't mean it! - Hi, I'm Tom Steyer.

Pete Buttigieg’s quitting speech after losing bid

Is that Larry David or the real McCoy?

Openly gay millennial presidential candidate Buttigieg quit the race suspended his 2020 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination during a speech in South Bend, Indiana.

He is unable to tolerate the heat as Bernie Sanders makes incredible gains and comes closer to fulfilling his apparent destiny to be the first Jewish U.S. president the way Joe Lieberman tried with failure Al Gore.

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Hey, Tulsi, wanna be VP? - What about me?

Joey Biden may be the establishment-Democrat choice for the nomination, but the people's choice is Bernie. Will Warren be shoved down our throats? Will Klobuchar get out of the way already? Will Tulsi Gabbard be selected as vice president in a Bernie Tulsi ticket? Whatever happens, Biden must be kept out. It comes down to a choice between Bloomberg or Bernie.