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Friday, 27 June 2014

News of the World: Earth Changes (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; CBS

Summer 2014: All concerts free and open to the public (levittla.org/KPFK.org)

(LIP TV) Documentary of "Code Black" about the first modern emergency room, C Booth, a trauma bay concept invented in Los Angeles' County-USC Medical Center, our "General Hospital"

Taking meds to feel normal?

LOS ANGELES, California - A notorious trauma bay in an inner-city ER earns its keep as the "hurt locker of medicine" as new, idealistic, and adrenaline-seeking doctors train in an environment akin to a war-zone.

When the hospital moves to a swank, new building the rush fades, and a bad bureaucracy gridlocks the state-of-the-art facility.

The doctors are faced with the unexpected realities of life and death in a safety-net health care system at the brink of overload. Now playing. Don't worry. "Nothing Bad Can Happen"...and if it does, there's always C Booth:

"Christian torture porn" from Germany, now showing in L.A.

There are no such things as UFOs
Google Earth Map catches image of UFO with passenger

Don't forget to watch the soccer/football match! But first take a shower, Hattiesburg, to wipe the stench of near-defeat off you as we were ready to rejoice.

EARTH FILES (@ earthfiles.com)

Moon (Chandra) seen from atop Earth (Bhumi)

Subscribe to Real X-Files and Archive - Books and DVDsConferences: Earthfiles' Linda Moulton Howe speaking about 12,000-year-old Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, and whistleblowers' leaks about ET self-activating technologies at MUFON Int'l. Conference (July 18-20, 2014), Cherry Hills, New Jersey. Contact in the Desert (August 8-10, 2014), Joshua Tree Retreat Center, California

AUDIO: Most of the water on Earth not in oceans but in mantle rocks 400 miles below crust (MP3) See lab-grown crystals of ringwoodite contain 1st% of H2O (Steve Jacobsen, Ph.D., Geophysicist, Northwestern University)
AUDIO: Eerie metallic scraping sounds heard from Michigan to Alaska: “If you had a snowplow going down a dry street and you had this loud sound of scraping metal against concrete, almost like a squealing as it's scraping.” - Pattie, Resident, Ann Arbor, MI, sound heard June 18, 2014. “All of a sudden I heard an extremely loud screeching noise. It sounded like a 10,000-gallon steel drum being drug over a bed or rocks.” - Gordon, Construction, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska 2011
AUDIO: Another “Dragonfly Drone” Sighting and Isaac Whistleblower, but the Year Was 1981. One of a dozen photos of dragonfly drone taken in Big Basin, Redwoods State Park northwest of Santa Cruz, California, on June 5, 2007. See 061707 Earthfiles.
CIA's “Anonymous Kewper” briefed Eisenhower and Nixon in 1959 About UFOs, Human Abductions and Animal Mutilations. Pres. Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, with his VP Richard Nixon in White House. “Anonymous Kewper Stein” briefed them both in Washington, D.C., along with his CIA boss, Anthony, about German discs, extraterrestrial craft, human abductions and animal mutilations in 1959.
June 21, 2014 - Summer Solstice: Today at 6:51 AM EDT, the Sun was shining directly above the Tropic of Cancer marking this as the longest day of 2014 for the Northern Hemisphere and beginning of summer. This same day marks the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere where winter begins. These seasons happen because Earth is tilted on its axis at a 23.5-degree angle.
June 20, 2014 - Earth's Core Changes Are Changing Magnetic Fields. Swarm satellite (ESA) measurements made the last 6 months show a dramatic decline over North and South America with a strengthening of the Earth's magnetic field over the southern Indian Ocean. June 2014 image by ESA's Swarm Satellite. Magnetic North continues to move towards Siberia where a large magma rise under the crust has been occurring for the past three decades. This new picture reinforces the concept that the Earth's magnetic poles are building up to a switch. Over the last 200 years, the magnetic field has weakened by about 15%. Over the last 20 million years, the poles have reversed on average about every 200,000 to 300,000 years. But the last pole reversal was 780,000 years ago, so Earth is long overdue for a pole change. What exactly happens to Earth life at such pole reversals is unknown. See 020111 Earthfiles.
June 20, 2014 - Labyrinth Crop Formation in Celle, France. See: video and ground shots, Cropcircleconnector. First reported on June 12, 2014. Aerial © 2014 by Yannick Pezeu. High altitude aerial of wheat labyrinth near Celle and Savigny-sur-Braye, Loir-et-Cher, France. Wheat pattern reported June 12, 2014. Vendome is 108 miles southwest of Paris, France, and only 19 miles east of Besse-sur-Braye and Celle, Loir-et-Cher, France.
June 17, 2014 - Puzzling Swarm of 5.7 Magnitude Quakes in Alaska since April 18th. “At this point, we don't really understand the nature of these earthquakes.” - Natasha Ruppert, Seismologist, Alaska Earthquake Center. Monday, June 16, 2014, at 4:01 AM, the fifth 5.7 magnitude earthquake since April 18th in same Alaska region northeast of Noatak, an Eskimo village of 560. Residents are not used to having the ground shake. There are no active faults in the region. The earth keeps moving miles below the Earth's surface, so human activities such as surface mining are ruled out as the cause. See: Alaska Earthquake Center.
June 15, 2014 - 1953 to 1981: Project AQUARIUS — 16 Volumes About UFOs and IACs. Click for Real X-File. “In the 1976 MJ3 report, it was estimated the Alien's technology was many thousands of years ahead of United States technology.” - Alleged historic MJ12 TOP SECRET Executive Briefing
June 12, 2014 - AUDIO: The Unexplained - Interview UK broadcaster Howard Hughes with Linda Moulton Howe. Bizarre MH370 disappearance; phenomenal Human-E.T. hybrids
June 10, 2014 - Illinois Is First State to Ban Microbeads. Click for report. “I'm optimistic that we've started a nationwide movement to protect not just the Great Lakes, but other bodies of water with high concentrations of microbeads.” - Illinois State Senator Heather Steans (D-Chicago), Bill Co-Sponsor.

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Perfectionism: Taking the Easy Way

Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Brianna Sacks (k llingthebuddha.com)

"K lling the Buddha" is a glib koan that became a Mahayana slogan for "do not put idols on pedestals." We can become awakened without depending on others, that is, when we awaken, the truth we realize does not depend on anyone or anything. But getting their does depend on noble friendship. So even the thought of harming the Buddha, a liberator, offends Theravada sensibilities. It makes light of one of the Five Heinous Karmic Acts.

Brianna Sacks (Huffington Post/USC)

Surrounded by ten other cross-legged and deeply breathing bodies rooted still in the thick India morning air, I felt a sense of triumph. I -- the buzzing, over-stimulated American -- was meditating.

My screaming hips and lower back quivered in resistance as I focused on the gentle rocking of my long breaths, silently repeating, “Hong Sau” as the monks directed. Swaddled in a red felt blanket under the swaying mosquito net of the Ananda Ashram’s makeshift temple, I had won. That’s how I saw my dip into the spiritual world -- something to check off my accomplishment list.

Some did try to kill the Buddha like Angulimala.

I pray to no religious leader, nor do I seek guidance from a higher power. I am a disciple of the great American religion of ambition.

[Be lamps (dipa) unto yourselves, be islands (dipa) unto yourselves taking no other as a lamp or island with only the Dharma as your guide was the historical Buddha's final admonition (DN 16). See exact wording below.]

It hasn’t always been that way. Two very loving, comforting, metaphysically aligned parents brought me into this world, and I thank these people for my unique, spiritual childhood -- parents who often meditated against the trunk of an ancient oak tree shadowing our home because of its “powerful energy” or gathered with their handful of spiritual friends, who opened chakras and performed healing treatments. At breakfast my brother and I discussed last night’s dreams from our booster seats. Crystals and worn, ripped copies of the Kabbalah were my playthings. Everything smelled like incense. I sang Hebrew blessings over my preschool lunches, attended Hebrew school, was bat-mitzvahed, and later dabbled in Christian youth groups and momentarily found Jesus.

“Meditate, it will save you,” is what I grew up hearing. But I couldn’t.

When I was six, my parents asked me to draw the hurt in my soul because, as my mother says, I was born with a painful wound burrowed into my being. They kept the drawing -- one of a gray, black mass resembling a cave that lived inside my giant red, lopsided heart.

My mother calls me a machine, a robot wrought of skin and bone that can always push harder, do more, be better.

My unrelenting quest for perfection often produces debilitating panic attacks and pitfalls of depression. The number of times I have spent trapped in my car, hyperventilating, sobbing, trying to breathe into the phone while my mom on the other end of the line tries to calm me begs the question: “What am I chasing?”

Pausing, forcing myself to pull back the restless, insecure pieces of myself and look deep inside is a task I have been running from, fearing that if I do, I will get lost.

“You’re already lost” is a thought that often rings far off in my consciousness. But ambition is still my accepted method of self-torture.

So when I learned that my journalism class would be spending almost three days at the Ananda Ashram in Pune, India, before our reporting week in Mumbai [Bombay], I silently cursed everything.

Meditation, which had haunted me my entire life, would put me on lockdown. In rural India, surrounded by grey shrubs, slow, shriveled cows, and red mountains, I would not be able to escape. More

What the Buddha said at the end
"The Great Final-Nirvana Discourse" (Maha Parinirvana Sutra, DN 16.33-35)

Theravada: The Buddha reclining into final nirvana, Thailand (DennisonUy/flickr)

33. "Therefore, Ananda, be lamps/islands (dipa) unto yourselves, guides (sarana) unto yourselves, seeking no external guide, with the Dharma as your island, the Dharma as your guide, seeking no other guide.

"And how, Ananda, is a disciple an island unto oneself, a guide unto oneself, seeking no external guide, with the Dharma as one's island, the Dharma as one's guide, seeking no other guide?

34. (1) "When one dwells contemplating (satipatthanas or The Four Foundations of Mindfulness) the body in the body, earnestly, clearly comprehending, and mindfully, after having overcome hankering and sorrow with regard to the world; (2) when one dwells contemplating feelings in feelings, (3) the mind in the mind, and (4) mental objects in mental objects, earnestly, clearly comprehending, and mindfully, after having overcome hankering and sorrow with regard to the world, then, truly, one is an island unto oneself, a guide unto oneself, seeking no external guide, having the Dharma as one's island, the Dharma as one's guide, seeking no other guide.

35. "Those disciples of mine, Ananda, who now or after I am gone, abide as a island unto themselves, as a guide unto themselves, seeking no other guide, having the Dharma as their island and guide, seeking no other guide: it is they who will become the highest (tamatagge), if they have the zeal to learn."

VIDEO: Buddhist monks bless new Thai restaurant's opening

Wednesday, 7 May 2014

War is a Lie! (David Swanson in L.A. May 10)

Pfc. Sandoval and CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; David Swanson (warisalie.org)

We are the future right now. Spanish-speaking girl yearns for peace: Guerra No ("No War")

David Swanson speaks in L.A. May 10th on

We are working to end ALL WAR with WorldBeyondWar.org. Progressive Pacifica L.A. radio host Lila Garrett (Connect the Dots) will introduce David Swanson, who is the host of "Talk Nation Radio." He helped plan the nonviolent occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. in 2011, having worked as a reporter and press secretary for the 2004 presidential campaign of Dennis Kucinich.

Kucinich will be in on the other side of town at the same time at rival UCLA's campus for the United We Stand Festival, a rap/hip-hop college concert with Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Luminaries, Immortal Technique, Jill Stein, and Marianne Williamson...

He was also communications coordinator for the targeted and wrongly tainted ACORN and Secretary of Peace in the Green Shadow Cabinet. Swanson's books include War No More: The Case for Abolition, War Is A Lie, When the World Outlawed War, and The Military Industrial Complex at 50 (all of which he will be signing). Find his blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsaCrime.org and WarIsaLie.org. More

Sat., May 10, 2014, 12:00-2:30 pm
United University Church
817 W. 34th St., L.A., CA, 90089
FREE, open to all, wheelchair accessible
Contact: Kathleen (310) 339-1770, sign-up
Exposition Light Rail: Jefferson/USC Station

Parking in the UUC lot and Lot M. Access to UUC parking is through Gate 5, McClintock/Jefferson entrance to USC. Get a parking permit at Gate 5 kiosk. Tell them you are going to the church. Turn left onto 34th St. and then next left onto Watt Way. Turn right into Lot M, and go through Lot M to UUC Lot.

Sponsored by California Peace Alliance, Code Pink, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, KPFK, Military Families Speak Out, MLK Coalition LA, Office of the Americas, Peace Center of United University Church, Progressive Democrats of Santa Monica Mountains, Project Great Futures, Topanga Peace Alliance, United Teachers of Los Angeles Human Rights Committee, and Veterans For Peace.

"Stop the Wars!" on other nations and the working people in the US (Occupy Oakland)

Monday, 21 April 2014

Free College Night: Himalayan Buddhism

Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Buddhist prayer flags flutter in the Himalayas (Bhakti Omwoods/facebook.com)

College Night is an evening at the Museum just for college students.

Meet the curators, attend tours, and listen to gallery talks with exclusive behind-the-scenes information about favorite paintings and sculptures.

Learn about the 20-foot-tall Tibetan Buddhist silk thangka in the special exhibition In the Land of Snow: Buddhist Art of the Himalayas.

Lamayuru gompa, Ladakh (DT)

et inspired by the photography exhibition Face It: The Photographic Portrait, and then channel that inspiration as by drawing in the galleries and enjoying music, food, and drinks with fellow art lovers in the Museum’s sculpture garden.

Students receive 25% off all food for sale in the Garden Café. Visit the Norton Simon College Night page for more information.

Friday, April 25, 2014, 7-9:00 pm
Open House, FREE with valid college I.D.
Registration recommended but not required

Friday, 11 April 2014

L.A. Festival of Books (April 12-13, 2014)

Ashley Wells, Seven, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; LATIMES.com; KPFK.org

The Los Angeles Times hosts the annual Festival of Books for all readers, free at USC

http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/

Books, books, so many books to read, to skim through on Kindle, to treasure in acid-free paper. Musty and crinkly, artsy and orthogonal, look at our library! We'll never read these...but we will reference them. We edit (see below), we cite (see at left), we treasure, and sleep on like Edgar Cayce (now David Wilcock) imbibing and absorbing information and knowledge -- maybe even a little wisdom. It's a dying art, maybe even a lost one, reading for the witty and well-read. But there are those great ones with all the nice pictures and the filthy ones that come in half a century of shades. Any how, here's a whole FESTIVAL of books and reading brought to us courtesy of the Los Angeles Times and USC.

The Buddha's "Higher Teaching" (Abhidharma) made easy to read by Sayalay Susila

Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Study: cheese, meat, eggs = Cancer (audio)

Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Stephanie O'Neill (scpr.org, 3-4-14)

Vegan beauty Alicia Silverstone wants moms to loan their breasts (news.softpedia.com)

Winner: "Best Vegan Pizza" using melting, dairy-free Daiya cheese (peta.org)

One Burger King Triple Whopper has 49 grams of dead animal protein, which is the maximum recommended daily total for a 130-pound adult (Joe Raedle/Getty Images).

Big Macs are made of cancer-causing flesh.

Middle-aged people with diets high in animal flesh protein -- such as meat, poultry, eggs, milk, and cheese -- face a dramatically increased risk of dying from cancer compared with those who eat low animal protein diets, according to a University of Southern California study published today in the journal Cell Metabolism.

If only cows lived on a compassionate planet

The study found 50 to 65-year-olds who consumed a "high-protein" diet -- meaning they got 20 percent or more of their calories from animal sources of protein -- were four times more likely to die from cancer, compared with those who consumed less than 10 percent of their daily calories in animal protein.

AUDIO: LISTEN NOW (download)

Lines at Vegan Pizza Contest, Animal Advocacy Museum, Throop UU, summer 2013 (WQ)

Vegan pizza rules (WQ)

A press release accompanying the study called that "a mortality risk factor comparable to smoking." The risk of early death from all causes soared by 74 percent among the high-protein consumers, researchers found.

But the picture changes for those over 65. For them, it appears that a moderate-to-high protein diet [not necessarily from animal sources] actually reduces cancer and overall mortality and is helpful in preventing age-dependent weight loss and malnourishment.

Researchers focused their study on a national cross-section of 6,381 people 50 and older who were tracked for nearly 20 years.

They also found that among all the age groups studied, a diet high in animal protein increases insulin production and the risk of dying from diabetes-related causes.

The higher risk of cancer and overall death among the middle-aged and the increase in diabetes deaths were "either abolished or attenuated if the proteins were plant derived," the study said.

Go veg for bliss (WQ/Larson)

Various health agencies recommend that daily intake of animal protein should be about 0.8 grams per kilogram. So a 130-pound adult should eat [no more than] between 45 and 50 grams of animal protein per day. A 160-pound adult should eat between 60 and 65 grams per day.

How much protein is that? It sounds like a lot. Here is some help in calculating:

Los Angeles bans e-cigarettes in smoke-free areas

Electronic cigarettes will be prohibited in L.A. parks, restaurants, and "meat-market" pick up bars under an ordinance approved today (3-4-14) by the Los Angeles City Council.