Greenwald: CIA and NPR propaganda (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Glenn Greenwald (The Intercept) Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Nermeen Shaikh (DemocracyNow.org, Aug. 13, 2014)

NPR propaganda uses CIA-linked firm's report on Snowden's whistle blowing

Iraq: Is U.S. "humanitarianism" only summoned to control oil-rich areas?

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The NSA illegally spies on everyone it can.

Earlier this month, The Intercept published documents provided by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden that revealed the deep ties between Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies.

In a recent article, investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald cites one 2013 document that described a "far-reaching technical and analytic relationship" between the National Security Agency (NSA) and its Israeli counterpart against "mutually agreed upon geographic targets."

The partnership includes a "dedicated communications line" supporting "the exchange of raw material, as well as daily analytic and technical correspondence." More

NPR's disinformation for the state

Whistleblower former NSA Agent Snowden

Furthermore, Greenwald’s latest article for The Intercept is headlined "NPR is laundering CIA talking points to make you scared of NSAb eporting." 

Greenwald takes a highly critical look at a story by NPR’s counterterrorism correspondent, Dina Temple-Raston, which aired on Morning Edition earlier this month. Temple-Raston’s propaganda-ridden report focused on claims by the tech firm Recorded Future that it has "tangible evidence" that NSA whistleblower Snowden harmed national security by inadvertently prompting "terrorists" to use better encryption programs to maintain their privacy.

 

Greenwald says the NPR report erred in failing to mention that the firm is funded by the CIA, even though Temple-Rason was well aware of this. "This was such a pure and indisputable case of journalistic malpractice and deceit," Greenwald charges. "NPR radically misled millions of people with this report." More

Rise of CIA's "ISIS": US re-invasion of Iraq, backing of Syrian rebels fuels Jihadis’ advance

LA Police Commission gives LAPD Chief Beck 2nd term Beck has worked for the LAPD for more than three decades. Violent crime has fallen under his tenure it's also come with controversy.

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Could I be EVIL? (TED Talks)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Guy Raz, TED Radio Hour (NPR.org)

Gunshot to the face or head right through the windshield? (Sascha Burkard/iStockphoto)

 

The Violence Within Us
Violence and brutality are grim realities of life. In one hour, four TED speakers explore the sinister side of our dim human nature -- and ask whether we're all capable of violence.
 
"Pray to the Moon when it's round. Death with you shall then abound..." sings Slayer (from "Hell Awaits"), one of the most popular bands for U.S. militants, along with all things porn, songs serial killers might whistle while engaged in their doings.

(Slayer) See Minute 4:15. Slayer and rap music were PMRC targets

U.S. tanks come equipped with CD players and premium music systems. Why? American soliders like to enjoy some music to kill by. "Driven by the instinct of centuries of horror/ Implanted along the brain of the sickening parasite/ Linked together by one trait/ The hell-filled need to kill, kill, kill, kill, KILL" (Slayer, "At Dawn They Sleep"). But the No. 1 song on the military hit parade is "Bodies" by Drowning Pool: "Let the bodies hit the floor"! What is more "evil" (Pali papa) than industrial-scale killing?

Psychology Prof. Phil Zimbardo on his Stanford Prison Experiment

AUDIO: What does the [brain] of a killer look like? (Jim Fallon)

Why don't domestic violence victims leave? (Leslie Morgan Steiner)

Is the world a [more or] less violent place? (Steven Pinker)

  
TED Censorship?

(RT, June 2014) Graham Hancock breaks the set on TED CENSORSHIP, Lost Civilizations, and War on Consciousness: Abby Martin interviews author Graham Hancock about the mysteries of ancient civilizations, hidden societies of the past, and censorship by TED Talks and the difficulty of getting new ideas accepted by mainstream archaeologists and historians.

 

The Super Full Moon Tonight

Moon over Auckland (TG)

 Supermoon lights up skies around the world – in pictures. The perigee Moon, or Supermoon, rises over Mount Eden in Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday morning. A dramatic Supermoon is set to accompany this year's Perseid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated events on the skywatcher's calendar. Given a dark, clear sky in a normal year, it is common to see more than 100 of the meteors an hour during the second week in August. But this year the Perseids have a bright shining rival. On Sunday, two days before the meteor shower reaches its peak, the Moon will become full. Coincidentally, it will also have reached the point in its orbit that is closest to the Earth, known as perigee. The Supermoon will be up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full moons during the year. On one level, this is bad news, according to Dr. Bill Cooke from NASA's meteoroid environment office. "Lunar glare wipes out the black, velvety backdrop required to see faint meteors, and sharply reduces counts." More

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Twins and Suicide; My Shink; N. Korea (audio)

Wisdom Quarterly; Glynn Washington, Nancy Lopez (SnapJudgment.org, #514)

Twin sisters Christa and Cara careen after tragedy

Christa Parravani and her twin sister, Cara Parravani, did everything they could to set themselves apart. They wore different styles of clothes, pursued different careers, listened to different music. But when tragedy struck and Christa found herself without her other half, the lengths she went to to get close to her sister were beyond incredible. Christa is a writer and photographer. For more on her life before and after her twin sister, check out her memoir Her.

Baby Steps (Agoraphobia): When trapped inside a jail of our own making, the only liberator up to the task is a fellow prisoner. Joshua Walters is a performer who explores language, creativity, and madness (Producer: Mark Ristich/Sound Design: Leon Morimoto).

Two Bowls (North Korea): From the "Risk" storytelling podcast comes a story by Christine Lee of love and sustenance in North Korea (Producer: Kevin Allison of Risk)

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  (Skuggi Snaps/flickr.com)

  Not being on or the other ...import/export, or business but to continue the Buddhist missionary work for the existing Japanese American community...
• Clues and Answers ...the dim cool room in which my grandma sat was filled with Buddhist artifacts. Teak dressers, and framed kimonos.  In the middle of...
• Creatures of Habit I have two tattoos and counting. I am a budding Buddhist. My spirit animal is Bill Cosby. I’m a writer and anti-hipster....
• It's not about the bike ... (for 20 minutes) until I regained my Yogic and Buddhist composure. Question: So what did I learn from this experience? 
• Not AGAIN! So there I was a peaceful little Buddhist boy. I prefer the term W.A.S.A.B.I or "White Anglo Saxon Buddhist Individual" getting ready for my new school. I mentioned offhandedly that... 
• Killer Camera ...the village where I stayed there was a new house blessing. Buddhist priests had a ceremony and most of the village was there for a...

Modern Native throat singer, "Animism" (video)

Crystal Quintero, Seven, Amber Larson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Tanya Tagaq (Q/CBC)

The Buddha had blue eyes? It's not so rare in Central Asia extending south from Gandhara/Afghanistan north to Kalmykia/Russia to the Far East of Buddhist Siberia, North Asia

A little bird told me, and it wasn't twitter. We are all interconnected (No Strangers)

Q's Jian Ghomeshi speaks with Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq about her new album, "Animism," and how she went from being a self-taught throat singing vocalist, honing her skills in the shower, to collaborating with the likes of the Kronos Quartet and Björk. Indeed, it was her lack of formal training that attracted Björk to her, says Tagaq, adding that the Icelandic artist didn't think she was "supposed to" sound a certain way. That's a perspective Tagaq shares.

• CBC Music: First play of Tanya Tagaq's Animism (free)

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  Inuk Tagaq reclaiming Nanook of the North

  Animism? (from Latin animus, -i "animator, soul, life") is the worldview that all entities (animals, plants, inanimate objects and phenomena) possess a spiritual essence. In the anthropology of religion it is used as a term for the underlying belief system or cosmology of some indigenous tribal peoples, especially prior to the infiltration of colonialism and organized "religion." Although each culture has its own mythologies and rituals, the term "animism" is said to describe the most common, foundational thread of indigenous peoples' "spiritual" or "supernatural" perspectives -- so fundamental and taken-for-granted that most animistic indigenous people have no word in their languages that corresponds to "animism" (or even "religion"). More

Shaman medicine (thefederationoflight.com)

"I like to live in a world that's not supposed to be. Or it's just there already as it is. It doesn't have to be anything, you know, because we put a lot of constraints on ourselves everyday in this crazy society," she says, adding that she gives "zero sh*ts about what people" think about her -- even as a trendy rave dancer -- but instead respects herself, her instincts, and her emotions. "And I every day do what I can to be a good person.... That's why breath is so important; it's the common denominator."  More

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(GSS) "Tantric Choir": Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist lamas of Gyuto chant in the Mongolian style of Bön "medicine men," shamans, and nomadic reindeer herders.

Standing by her #Sealfie: Manitoba's Tanya Tagaq addresses the controversial anti-Ellen campaign. Despite the considerable backlash after posting a photo of her daughter beside a dead seal, she supports native hunting and "being a part of what you [kill to] eat" (CBC.ca).

KARMA IS A B-TCH: When the "hunter" becomes the hunted, guilty of killing then mauled for it by another "hunter" in the samsaric wheel of survival. (LOL? Schadenfreude?) Don't kill.

Byzantine History Made Easy (audio)

Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Marc Haefele, John Rabe (Off-Ramp)

Archangel Michael (Buddhist Sakka, King of the Devas), 1300-1350 AD, Constantinople, tempera and gold on wood (Gift from Istanbul, Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens).

Byzantium: Heaven and Earth and Constantinople, too

Buddhist Messiah Maitreya (WQ)

What civilization lasted 1,100 years, almost into Columbus’ time, that hardly anyone thinks of as a civilization? Byzantium.

It was a Yelp-5-Star civilization that bridged ancient times to modernity. And it’s now showing at both of the Gettys in Los Angeles.
  

First the Romans took over the Greeks. Then, 800 years later, the Greeks took over the Romans. [Messianic Buddhism-influenced] Christianity came into the mix, and the result was the magnificent Byzantine Empire, which once spread from North Africa all the way to Crimea (Ukraine).

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  Greco-Buddha, Gandhara

  Greco-Indian Buddhist empires: Bactria, Seleucid, Sogdia, Gandhara
• Ancient Greece: the Buddhist monk and King Menander I (Milinda) In the land of the Bactrian Greeks, there was a city called Sagala, a great center of trade. Rivers and hills beautified it, delightful landscapes surrounded it, and it possessed many parks, gardens, woods, lakes, and lotus-ponds. Its ruler was King Milinda (Menander I), a man who was learned, experienced, intelligent, and competent, and who at the proper times carefully observed all the appropriate Brahminical rites, with regard to things past, present, and future. As a disputant he was hard to assail, hard to overcome, and he was recognized as a prominent sectarian teacher. One day, a large company of Buddhist saints (arhats) living in a well-protected spot in the Himalayas sent a messenger to Ven. Nagasena. He was dwelling at Asoka Park in Patna. They asked him to come, as they wished to see him, to have him go dispute the Greek king. 

While Western Europe was collapsing during the Dark Ages, Byzantium was a world center of art, literature, and culture. Yet, its story is largely forgotten in the deep dark gap between ancient and modern history.

• Read up on Byzantium after seeing double Getty exhibits
• What is Greco-Buddhism, Kingdom, Greco-Buddhist art?

"Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections" is at the Getty Villa through August 25. "Heaven and Earth: Byzantine Illumination at the Cultural Crossroads" is at the Getty Center through June 22, 2014.

Aphrodite, 1st century (NAM)

In a bid to remedy this, the Getty is hosting a rare doubleheader called Heaven and Earth. The art from several Greek museums is on display at the Getty Villa, while the manuscripts are at the Getty Center. This has never happened before. Nor has any art of the past millennium ever been shown at the classically dedicated Getty Villa.

• Eureka! Huntington opens Archimedes exhibit with text and puzzle

Why now? Not that the recovery of the civilization of Greeks who called themselves Romans isn’t much overdue. But the new consciousness or awareness of this rich and tumultuous Byzantine culture seems to spring from Greece itself.
 

Buddha, 1st century (Guimet)

“It was always there,” said Peter Poulos, an American-born official of the Bernaki Museum. “There are wonderful Byzantine churches all over Athens, built over almost every ancient pagan temple.”

• Getty to return illegally removed ancient manuscript to Greece

But in recent years, modern Greece has rediscovered this mighty culture that endured far longer than the glory that was Classical Greece. Byzantium continued that glory. That’s one reason Modern Greece wants to share this heritage to the world.

The Getty Villa has on show more than 160 ikons, sculptures, and other works of art, many of which illustrate Byzantine art’s connection to... The intricate passages of this great art through the medieval world were indeed truly byzantine. Some of the most fascinating stuff here shows the Byzantine effects on the art of Central Asia [land of the Shakyas, the Buddha's relatives]... LISTEN

• See the shows at BOTH Gettys (getty.edu)
• 7 Byzantium books to read after visiting double Getty exhibits 
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Charles Manson (LAPD photo archives)

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Punk Rock is Dying (sort of)

RIP Mike Atta: Hardcore punk founder, guitarist for OC band

John Rabe (Off-Ramp/SCPR.org)

The Middle Class may have invented hardcore, an important genre of punk rock, but to say they invented it implies intent.

"It's not like The Middle Class guys, who were all teenagers at the time, like 15-17, who had barely discovered punk, and kinda taught themselves to play. What they had heard was that punk was loud and fast, and be kind of crazy. So with that in their heads, they just started playing loud and fast, there was nobody around to tell them, 'Hey, you're playing too loud and too fast!'" - Chris Ziegler, editor and publisher of LA Record.

In any case, this group of teens from Santa Ana (Orange County) was doing something nobody else was doing, and they were successful and influential. LISTEN

• Off-Ramp is a lively weekly look at Southern California through the eyes and ears of radio veteran John Rabe (from Pasadena's KPCC FM). News, arts, home, life... covering everything that makes life here exciting, enjoyable, and interesting.

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (video)

CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Larry Mantle, Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (AirTalk/SCPR.org); SOAD; PBS.org

Hollywood Armenian Genocide Commemoration March (youngarmenians.com)

Armenian waves national flag along with Syrian national flag during a march north of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, commemorating the 98th anniversary of the Ottoman Turkish genocide against the Armenian people on April 24, 2013 (AFP/Getty Images).

  

(BBZ/SOAD) System of a Down "Holy Mountains." Hitler once said, "No one remembers the Armenian Genocide" thereby offering a rationale for another mass killing that the world would tolerate by looking the other way.

Little Armenia, L.A. protest (latimes.com/KTLA)

Thousands commemorated the 99th anniversary (2014) of the Armenian genocide on Thursday, with several high-profile events scheduled across Southern California. The observances come just days after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered condolences to Armenian descendants of the massacre -- an atrocity that Turkey still refuses to describe as a "genocide." 

(youngarmenians.com)

Roughly 1.5 million Armenians were killed starting in 1915 amid the chaotic collapse of the Ottoman Empire. With among the largest Armenian diasporas in the world, Glendale and East Hollywood will host a number of events Thursday, including a rally expected to draws thousands to Hollywood Blvd. in Little Armenia. A separate demonstration is planned for outside the Turkish consulate on Wilshire Blvd. in L.A., where the prime minister’s recent comment will likely be a hot topic. “We do not see this as being something that is an adequate and appropriate acceptance of responsibility for the international crime that had been committed,” Berdj Karapetian, chairman of the Glendale chapter of the Armenian National Committee of America, told the Glendale News-Press in response to Erdogan’s comments. More

That Armenian Genocide Thingy

WQ interviewee at NUU

Today, Wednesday April 24th, marks the annual remembrance day for the estimated 1.5 million Armenians who died in the former Ottoman Empire, present day Turkey.

 

President Obama's official statement for Armenian Remembrance Day did not include the word "genocide" despite his 2008 campaign promise to recognize the deaths of Armenians as such. 

"America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides," Obama said in 2008. "I intend to be that president."

 

Several California legislators including Rep. Brad Sherman and Rep. Adam Schiff called on Obama to use the word "genocide," but so far the White House has resisted.

 

Why is using the term genocide still a politically touchy subject?

 

Is the US concerned about preserving its strategic relationship with Turkey? What would be the political fallout if the president did use it? How is this omission seen by the local Armenian and Turkish communities? LISTEN (17:44)

The first genocide of the 20th century

(PBS) This 2006 television documentary exploring the Ottoman Empire killings of more than 1,000,000 Armenians during World War I was broadcast by most of the 348 PBS affiliate stations on April 17, 2006. Because of the controversial nature of the subject in Turkey, PBS attempted to give both sides a voice and produced a four expert panel discussion to be aired immediately afterwards. However, due to intense lobbying efforts by Armenian groups and some members of Congress, the follow-up panel discussion was cancelled on a third of the stations broadcasting the documentary over concerns of offending human rights groups and the descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors.

Killing on an industrial scale, it occurred in 1915 within the now collapsed Ottoman Empire. More than 1,000,000 innocent people were massacred in the event.

Ottoman-Turk soldiers marched people through the Syria desert, depriving them of food and water with the intention killing them (like U.S. soldiers did to Native Americans). The same soldiers sexually assaulted and raped young Armenian girls. And although the Allied powers of WW I knew what was going on, no substantive help was provided to victims.
 

Where does Israel, busy working on the Palestinians, stand? With Turkey

Today the Republic of Turkey denies that a "genocide" took place. Only 20 countries officially recognize the event for what it was -- including Italy, France, Canada, and Russia. It is noteworthy that the United States and Israel are not listed among them, even though official documents called it a genocide, and then-U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan mentioned it in a public address.

"Like the genocide of the [Christian] Armenians before it, and the genocide of the [Buddhist] Cambodians which followed it -- and like too many other such persecutions of too many other peoples -- the lessons of the [Jewish] Holocaust must never be forgotten..." Pres. R. Reagan

 

Nowadays a massively popular California Armenian-American rock band does more to spread the word than practically any other source. System of a Down is widely known for songs expressing their views on the Armenian Genocide and the criminal U.S. "war" on terror. 

Who cares about truth when business with Turkey is at stake?

In a statement, lead vocalist Serj Tankian has said:

Filipino gun culture has deep roots

"The constant, ridiculous denial of the Armenian Genocide, by not only Turkey but by consecutive U.S. administrations, made me aware of the world of disinformation and injustices around the globe. The Armenian Genocide was the first major genocide of the 20th century, and many people believe that had the Ottoman Turkish been punished for their crime of genocide after WWI, that Hitler would not have ventured his own."

• VIDEO: Turkish Prof. Ugor Ungor talks about the genocide The Genocide Education Project hosted Prof. Ungor's lecture based on his two recent books, The Making of Modern Turkey, which addresses how Western Armenia became part of the Turkish state, and Confiscation and Destruction, about Turkey's seizure of Armenian Property. There was not a single "genocide" but a series of policies from 1913-1950 as successive Turkish governments subjected the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire to violent policies of ethnic "homogenization" and forced assimilation.
  
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• Complex relationship: Asian Americans, affirmative action
  

Pacifica Radio on TV (coming soon)

Seven, Amber Larson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Sonali Kohlhatkar (UprisingRadio.org)

Watts was transformed by Asia

Uprising may be coming to a TV near all of us. Today host Sonali Kohlhatkar announced that a cable station wants to carry the show turning a radio program into an audio-visual odyssey. 

 

The best part is that this would mean the entire Los Angeles branch of Pacifica, second only to the flagship station in Berkeley (KPFA FM), would be televised. And here all this time we were told THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED. Of course, it may not be. A crowd funding campaign is being launched to make it a reality:

• LISTEN: PLAY NOW (or download)

Who cares? What's so special about Pacifica?

Buddhist TV?

1. Suffering, 2. Thirsting, 3. Cooling

Zen philosopher/entertainer Alan Watts -- who is still played weekly only in L.A. (in what we call "Buddhist Radio," thanks to Roy of Hollywood Tuckman's Thursday-midnight and Sunday-morning broadcasts) -- called Pacifica "the only truly free radio station" anywhere.

 

It's radical, it sticks it to The Man, and even though it could be bolder and more forceful, it touches on topics no one in mainstream media dares to touch.

Buddhism has already come to television but has never been quite what it could be -- although we can't find the BuddhistChannel.TV on our sets yet.