Crimea [river], Part II: Going to Russia

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

Exxkuse me, Hih'lahry, yuh're vut? - I, uh, I'm sorry. - Kee'ise me. - Okay. (veooz.com)

  

That man is like Hitler!!! (audio)

One cannot blame Vlad the Invader Putin too much. He is not "insane," according to author and honorary Pussy Riot member Masha Gessen.

 

And perhaps Hillary Clinton should be brought up on European charges for recently likening "Putin to Hitler" and the Nazis. They may both be dictator but she will, too, when given the chance. Isn't that the milk jug calling the bottle...? Uh, never mind.
 

Pres. Putin may seem crazy to us, for like the fox, there is a method to his apparent madness.

• Is Putin insane? Hardly! (Masha Gessen)
• VIDEO: Putin: "Crimea [a river, cry me a sea!]"
• VIDEO: Putin declares Crimea independent state after [sham] vote to secede from [West-leaning] Ukraine

I agree with that B! (Cartman means Bolshevik)

The United States of America is NOT the "world's police." Maybe it should be, but it's not: Not only are we not Top Cop in any moral/ethical or official sense of the word -- since we look the other way every time it is not in our economic or strategic interest to intervene to stop war crimes -- it is the CIA butting in to stir up trouble, overthrow democratically-elected governments, assassinate leaders (first sending in the Bankers, like the IMF and World Bank, then the Jackals to break kneecaps and depose resisters) and so on.

We only call in the military when corporations can make more money than they would without war -- but only after manufacturing a pretext. We never go without an artificial pretext.

Give WAR a chance? (veteransforpeace.org)

Genocides, invasions, seizures, it's all fine with us, the US. But if tiny Grenada, Somalia, or Haiti step out of line in the slightest -- it's call in the Navy, call in the Air Force, call in the imperial ground troops. The USA is open for business, and business LOVES asymmetric war profits. After the fiasco of Vietnam, why do mothers still send their sons and fathers their daughters?

• Why did Pres. Clinton invade Somalia, Africa?
• The Women of War (warisacrime.org)
• The failed American invasion, occupation of Haiti
• Democrats to take on Clinton for Prez in 2016
• St. Patrick would not have approved of Drones
• In Ukraine jobless, aimless replace revolutionaries
• U.S. Army Gen. pleads GUILTY in sex case; "I failed..."
• CIA suspends Chief of Iran Operations
• Marchers and mayors defy Venezuelan gov't
• VIDEO: Confessions of Economic Hitman (John Perkins) 
• PHOTOS: Topless and bored protests in Ukraine



So long, sucker. Now you're on your own.

• Hillary Clinton steps away from Pres. Obama In recent weeks, as the standoff over Ukraine escalated, Hillary Clinton did something she never did as secretary of state: She put considerable distance between herself and the president after four years. The worst blot on his first-term record, the embarrassing Benghazi scandal, didn't happen until the final months of the campaign, limiting the damage.

ZEN: The animated Alan Watts (cartoon)

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Alan Watts; Gábor Hényel; Krishnamurti

Buddha FGS Dong Zen Temple CNY Lantern and Flora Festival (Jimmy Chuah/flickr.com)

(GH) "All In One" - animated Alan Watts by the creators and animators of "Southpark"

The Principles of Parents to Children
(Spiritual Buzz)

Let us embark on "a pilgrimage of inquiry from which there is no return."

The mind that has really gone into all this, that has entered upon a pilgrimage of inquiry from which there is no return, that is inquiring not only now, during this hour, but from day to day -- such a mind [heart] will have discovered a state of creation which is all existence. 

 

It starts with preschool then the first grade.

It is what we call truth or "God." For that creation to take place, there must be complete aloneness, an aloneness in which there is no attachment, no companionship, either of words or thoughts or memories. It is a total denial of everything which the mind has invented for its own security.

 

The complete aloneness, in which there is no fear, has its own extraordinary beauty. 

A god with nothing else to do

It is a state of love because it is not the aloneness of reaction; it is a total negation, which is not the opposite of the positive. And I think it is only in that state of creation that the mind is truly "religious."

Such a mind needs no meditation: it is itself the eternal [a Hindu/Christian concept rather than, ultimately, a Buddhist one although the idea has seeped into Mahayana Buddhism and Zen]. Such a mind is no longer seeking -- not that it is satisfied, but it is no longer seeking because there is nothing to seek. It is a total thing, limitless, immeasurable, unnameable. 

 

- Jiddu Krishnamurti (the Chosen One, groomed to be the new World Teacher, as selected by Madame Blavatsky, the great Buddhist Colonel Olcott, C.W. Leadbeater, Annie Besant and other Buddhism-loving Theosophists)

Alan Watts: "Why Not Now" (video)

Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Mitch Jeserich (KPFA.org); TragedyandHope (youtube.com) 

"Why Not Now" and "Dhyana: The Art of Meditation" by Alan Watts (redtelephone66.com)

 

Alan Watts in Buddhist robes, California

January, 2014 - There is a new documentary film (two DVD set) on the life and works of British-American Buddhist broadcaster Alan Watts. Each film comes with "The Animated Alan Watts" and "The Essential Alan Watts," a bonus disc of video materials that did not fit into the film.

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One 23-minute DVD includes extracts from the 1972 series "The Fine Art of Goofing Off" as well as a couple of animations produced by SouthPark creators and animators. The reel has met with joyous laughter and standing ovations at recent film showings and is not to be missed.

"Why Not Now" follows the life of one of the most inspiring philosophers of our time -- Alan Watts -- as told though none other than Alan Watts himself accessing a wealth of material and lectures that were left behind after his passing.

"Why Not Now?" was created by Alan Watts' son, Mark Watts, who has given TragedyandHope exclusive rights to create the trailer for the documentary. More (alanwatts.org)

South Park: "Black Friday" on Cyber... (video)

Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Trey Parker, Matt Stone, South Park

Salesman Santa, Japan (AP/IS)

"Black Friday" is the mythical biggest shopping day of the year, which is far from the busiest. That title may belong to Cyber Monday or Better Savings Saturday. But we are nevertheless stirred to a froth in our consumer-minded frenzy of greed. For what? Senseless bargains to buy what we don't need with money we probably don't have to waste on discretionary purchases. But there's credit, so we live like there's no tomorrow and plunge ourselves into greater debt. What can a cartoon teach us that WalMart fight video does not?