U.S. bombs Japanese civilians: Hiroshima

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan (DemocracyNow.org, Aug 6, 2014); CC Liu and Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Follow the White Rabbit (A Million Windows, Feb. 3, 2011)

American “Enola Gay” dropping the bomb on innocent Japanese civilians at home far from the war zone for the profit of the U.S. military-industrial complex (gtrebekah.edublogs.org)

Nagasaki civilians were bombed by the USA first major war crime, a crime against humanity so enormous that no American thinks much about it except to offer limp excuses that cannot hold up (Nagasaki Museum/US Army handout (latimes.com)

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 69 Years Later

Japan (sunrisejetphotogallery)

“I hate war,” Koji Hosokawa told me as we stood next to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan.

 

The skeletal remains of the four-story building stand at the edge of Japan's Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The world watches in horror this summer as military conflicts rage.

• [These "conflicts" are fomented by the U.S. military-industrial complex.]

The U.S. military-industrial complex loves to bomb Buddhists (amillionwindows)

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They're leaving destruction in their wake from Afghanistan, to Libya, to Gaza, to Syria, to Iraq, and Ukraine...

Protesting and demanding change in Ukraine

[Ukraine is where U.S. Senator, failed presidential candidate, released POW, torture survivor, Arizona Republican John McCain is both eliminating the civil rights of Americans with indefinite detention bills (written with a shameful Joe Lieberman). There he has been stirring up Cold War-era tensions with Russia by offering Ukraine covert U.S. military intervention and promises of overt sanctions].

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Never far from the dead and injured, nuclear-armed missiles stand by ready to rain down ultimate devastation, waiting for the horrible moment when hubris [our overarching American pride and exceptionalism], accident, or inhumanity triggers the next nuclear attack.

 

“I hate war,” Hosokawa reiterated. “War makes everyone crazy.”

Nagasaki Festival

 

(FTWR) Imagine 20 bulky, drunk Japanese men carrying a two ton golden shrine, hauling [it] up several flights of stairs.

We are experiencing the Kunchi matsuri Festival in Nagasaki City, Japan (where they affectionately call it O-kunchi).

Kunchi started as a festival to celebrate the harvest season, then came to be an occasion to oust hidden Christians, and nowadays it’s primarily just a holiday.

 

500,000 displaced, 10,000 injured by Israel

The city districts make their own floats; one float was a beautiful ship with kids playing drums, and one of them was also trying to catch as many painted wooden fish from the ground as possible. We also find traditional Dragon Dance and, of course, the use and abuse of sake [a distilled rice alcoholic spirit that leads us to wonder if the name Naga-saki isn't a reference to "dragon-brew," naga-alcohol]... More 

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7 Ancient Pyramids of Crimea, Ukraine (video)

Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

Jurassic Era pyramids resembling Egypt's and Mexico's found buried in Crimea, Ukraine

(Dahboo77, Spartakus90000) What is the real cause of the war? The oldest pyramids on Earth, a distinction formerly reserved for Bosnia and Egypt, found buried in Crimea?

Wheel-turning monarch (chakravartin)

The world is full of pyramids because there used to be world-cultures and world-rulers (chakravartins) with very advanced technology (anti-gravity vimanas, akasha-ships in the shape of wheels or chakras) usually arriving from the air or emerging from within the planet, according to ancient lore not just of India.

Indeed, India has a long history of life on Earth recorded in its sacred Vedic texts from the Indus Valley Civilization that preceded it. Sumerians, Egyptians, Near Easterners (now part of the geopolitical Middle East). There have been civilizations that ruled the globe at times, as suggested by Dr. Michael Cremo's "forbidden archeology." Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe confirmed the existence of an underground pyramid/power station in the U.S. state of Alaska.

War, prehistoric pyramids, inexplicable mummies, UFOs, and more all going on concurrently in Crimea. World leaders are desperate to keep it concealed in Ukraine.
 

Saka/Scythian/Shakyan princess draped in gold

This will blow minds. While empires face off, we have to wonder why. What could be so important to risk war? Pyramids have been uncovered in Crimea (QHA/ICTV), which is connected to Ukraine and the Central Asian 'stans where the Buddha, possibly a Scythian (Saka or Shakya), was born. The pyramids are there, and so are the Russians, who will not be ransacked by the West without a fight.

• Could the Buddha have been Ukrainian? Only if one gives the most generous definition to "Ukraine" as a northern part of Central Asia that ancient nomadic Indo-Scythians once roamed or united. Ukraine is now separated from the Indian border by frontier lands like Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan/Pakistan (Gandhara, India)...
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Gwyneth Paltrow's life is a WAR (video)

I. Rony, Wisdom Quarterly; Maeve Reston (latimes.com); Gwyneth Paltrow (goop.com)

What'd I say, right? Designer Amy Kehoe, superstar Gwyneth Paltrow, and designer Todd Nickey attend a Goop event in Los Angeles (Michael Buckner/Getty Images/latimes.com)

 
Cindy calls Gwyn's war comments ignorant, selfish

Online comments are hurt like war

When Gwyneth Paltrow stirred controversy this week by comparing her daily struggles with Internet trolls to the “dehumanizing” experience of soldiers at war, she messed with the wrong woman: Cindy McCain [wife of the horrible, Sarah Palin-picking, NDAA-promoting, Ukraine-stirring, Hillary-loving, Vietnam POW and Senate Republican war hawk].

 

Hillary Clinton-John McCain friendship blossoms (again)

Hearing about Paltrow’s comments, the wife of Arizona Sen. John McCain took to Twitter, calling the actress “a joke” and stating that “My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.” (McCain’s son Jimbo served in Iraq as a Marine, and her son Jack is a Navy lieutenant).

In an interview on Thursday with HLN Now TV, she went a step further, calling Paltrow’s comments “ignorant” and “selfish” and offering to take her to meet with veterans.

 

Katy Perry: I'm on meds

“I would encourage Gwyneth Paltrow -- and I would be happy to go with her -- to go sit down with some troops who have served in Afghanistan or Iraq and talk to them about what really goes on, and perhaps meet some of the young men and women who have lost limbs from this,” Cindy McCain said on HLN Now TV. “It’s Hollywood; I don’t know what else to say.” More

COMMENTARY

Shut your trap, shut it, shut it!

Hey, dummy! Leave Gwynny alone!!! Don't you realize she's going through the Holocaust of "conscious uncoupling" -- which ex-husband Chris Martin ends his silence on like Godzilla clearing his throat before doing an extended Coldplay whine song? Why don't you go send some care packages to your war brood? And leave the Gooper to carry on shining her superior light on the rest of the world? Pick on Katie FED UP Couric, or Ann Coulter or, hey, have you noticed he's talking to close family friend and Democratic war-loving elitist Hills Clinton?

(ABC News) GMA Buddhist Dan Harris takes Katie Couric's "Fed Up" 10-Day No Sugar Challenge. Why? Sugar is killing us, making us mental, sickly, and possibly obese.

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Russian jets over Crimea, Ukraine (video)

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Russian jets fly over Crimea, Ukraine, then annex it into Russian empire (englishrussia.tv)

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The predominantly Buddhist country -- now called "Myanmar" by the ruling military dictatorship led by Gen. Than Shwe in their new fortified capital as Naypyidaw, which was moved from Rangoon -- is hosting the summit at its remote and secretive showpiece capital.

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Was the Buddha Ukrainian? (video)

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The Buddha was a supremely handsome Central Asian royal with blue eyes, fair/golden complexion, black curly hair, and striking features, from the Solar Dynasty, a warrior-caste "noble" (Aryan or Iranian). See Rhys Davids' Jataka (trans.) with "Story of the Lineage" (MT)

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Buddha, Jesus Christ, and ancient Egyptians were Ukrainians
Pravda.ru, Real Life Stories

Venerated in Burma (oRi0n Fabio/flickr.com)

[The] Buddha, who is widely worshiped in Asia, was of direct relevance to Ukraine, the official publication of the country’s parliament wrote.

Jesus Christ actually lived 3,000 years before his canonical birth and spoke the Coptic language, which is a close language to the ancestors of contemporary Ukrainians...

“It is quite possible that [the] Buddha belonged to the Scythian nation of Budins [who] lived on the territory of ancient Ukraine during the first or the second millennium B.C.

Deposed Ukrainian [princess] prime minister

“The name of the nation is still preserved in the names of Ukraine’s contemporary settlements -- Seredina-Buda, Buda, and some others,” the newspaper of Ukraine’s Supreme Rada wrote.

Gorgeous Buddha in Asia

“Everything is clear from the ethnic point of view. [The] Buddha was a Scythian Arian [Aryan in Buddhism means "noble one," but is thought to derive from the word for Iran, people from the northwest implicated in ancient "Aryan Invasion" theories about the rise of the Indus River Valley and India], a member of the Budin tribe. The descendants of the tribe still live in the Sumsky and the Chernigov region of Ukraine, as well as on the neighboring lands of Belarus and Russia,” the newspaper said.

Buddhists far to the West and North
Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

• In another part of Russia, Buddhist Siberia (aka "North Asia") -- which long ago began to follow Buddhism from Central Asia (Gandhara and Afghanistan) arriving on the Silk Road and Vajrayana Buddhism that reached it through Mongolia (when Tibet was the head of a Himalayan empire that brought Buddhism to Bangladesh, formerly "East India," on the southern side of the mountain range where the Ganges river ends, according to Ven. Karunananda, Ph.D. -- some place names reflect a more prominent Buddhist past:
• See Sakha Republic/Yakutia (like Saka, Sakka, Shakya), which is situated next to Magadan Oblast.
• The Magha of the Maga people (like Buddhist Magadha of India in standard histories and the more ancient Vedic "Magadha" Kingdom) is the capital city of Alania, a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus.
• It is usual that emigrants name new cities after old ones in reverence of their history. This is all just teasing at loose and tantalizing threads in the tapestry of history, suggestions rather than any definitve proof.
• The Saka (Shakya) -- of formerly-Buddhist Tajikistan -- were a growing, itinerant, "wandering," spreading, shaman/shramana-favoring Scythian tribe of Iranian (Ariyan) origin
• The Buddha was from Afghanistan (ranajitpal.com), not Nepal's Terai region, as standard history claims, nor East India's Orissa (Odisha) as the government of Orissa attempts to promote.
• The "Great Tribe Footholds or Family-Clan Territories" (Maha Janapadas) do not place the Shakyans, who were the Buddha's family, in ancient "Greater India" (Maha Bharat)
• "Noble" (Aryan, Arya, Ariya) originally derived from the word "Iranian" when parts now listed as part of the "geopolitical Middle East" were still in Central Asia
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Yay, the Buddha's cool and Ukrainian! (FEM)

The “sensationalist” article was written by Valery Bebik, a doctor of Political Sciences, a professor, deputy principal of Ukraine University, and the chairman of the board of the All-Ukrainian Association of Political Sciences.

Mr. Bebik published a number of his articles in the official newspaper of the Ukrainian Parliament before. He wrote his previous articles for the paper to “prove” the remarkable role of the Ukrainian civilization, which endowed the world with spiritual enlightenment, outstanding prophets, philosophers, and leaders.

In 2008-2009, the Ukrainian professor shared his amazing observations of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the ethnic origin of Jesus Christ.

Hey, Obi, you don't tell me who to invade, and I won't tell you who to kill with your drones! Like with Libya, I said don't take out Kaddafi. - Hey, Vlad, relax! Don't make me sic McCain on ya. - You get that Munchkin out of Ukraine, you "lame duck," you would-be dictator. You and Merkel, stay out of my affairs! - Man, you crazy, Putty! I can't talk to you no mo'.

 

Blue-eyed reclining Buddha, final-nirvana (W)

“The name of Egypt’s major temple, Het-ka-Ptah, sounds very much like Ukrainian words hata and ptaha (“house” and “bird”). The pictures on the Egyptian pyramids show that Egyptian queens were blonde women with blue eyes, just like many Ukrainian women. One should also pay attention to the fact that the trident, which is currently the minor national emblem of Ukraine, can often be seen there too,” the [social] “scientist” wrote.

“We have already outlined the facts that placed in question the official church version of the ethnic origin and the biblical dates of the life of Jesus Christ and the historical epoch, in which the basis of Christianity was formed.

It looks like Christ actually lived 3,000 years before his canonical birth and spoke the Coptic language, which is a close language to the ancestors of contemporary Ukrainians,” The Voice of Ukraine wrote. More

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