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Diddy’s former protégé Aubrey O’Day issues ‘warning’ to aspiring musicians
‘The true warning is not that a jury may doubt your testimony, nor that a court’s sentencing guidelines may fail to reflect the years of suffering you endured,’ she cautioned.
‘The real warning is this: the moment someone in a position of power oversteps your boundaries or demands more than is legitimately required of you, walk away and do not look back.’
‘No dream, however bright, can outweigh the pain and exploitation that may follow if you remain,’ she wrote.
‘Too often, those who misuse their power, even when exposed, face far fewer consequences than the harm inflicted upon their victims.’
‘Protect yourself at the first sign of coercion or impropriety,’ she continued.
‘If something feels wrong, trust that instinct and remove yourself from the situation. Your well-being is worth more than any opportunity.’
The singer, now 41, was the breakout star of the girl group Danity Kane and is perhaps most famous for her public fallout with Diddy, who was the band’s mentor at the time.
She previously accused Diddy of ‘grooming’ her and for sexual harassment when she appeared on his MTV show, Making the Band, back in the early 2000’s.
Seeing that line, that boundary between good and evil is the crux of a good life. Everyone experiences this. Often many times. No exceptions. ABN
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Karma as drama
One way to understand the Buddhist term karma is to replace it with the word drama.
‘This is my karma’ becomes this is my drama, or better, this is the role I am playing in my drama.
It’s my role in my drama and thus I can play my part the way I want.
The best way to do that is to follow the Noble Eightfold Path, but it’s up to you.
Seeing your karma as a drama you are acting in removes the very deeply mistaken misinterpretation that karma is a form of punishment or reward.
Drama also implies group drama, other actors, and in one way or another some sort of playwright, which might be understood as the grand scheme of things or you yourself.
Buddhism is a mind-opening practice, so we are free to interpret it in a way we understand and can use creatively and productively.
Modern physics suggests a strong possibility that a fundamental quality or force in the cosmos is consciousness itself.
In that sense we are participants in the consciousness and unfolding dramatic evolution of the universe.
If you want to put God in there, go ahead, no problem.
The Buddha left God and many other lines of thought out of his descriptions of human existence to keep people from clinging to words or relying on a supreme being without doing anything for themselves.
There are many ways we can understand our lives, but a central theme in Buddhism is we progress through our own efforts and life is sort of drama, which resolves in whatever way it does due to our own thoughts, views, and behaviors. ABN
Japan’s ruling party elects Sanae Takaichi as new leader, likely to become first female PM
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the country’s first female prime minister.
In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the 64-year-old Takaichi makes history as the first female leader of Japan’s long-governing conservative Liberal Democratic Party. Takaichi is one of the most conservative members of the male-dominated party.
An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi is a protege of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ‘s ultra-conservative vision and a regular at the Yasukuni Shrine, seen as a symbol of Japan’s wartime militarism, which could complicate Tokyo’s relations with its Asian neighbors.
Israel prepares to implement ‘first stage’ of Trump’s Gaza peace plan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel was preparing to initiate the ‘first stage’ of Donald Trump’s peace plan.
Netanyahu’s government had told the Israeli Defense Forces to stop its invasion of Gaza City and to reduce activity in Gaza ‘to a minimum,’ Israeli Army Radio reported.
The IDF order to halt offensive operations marks a remarkable U-turn in the war against Hamas since the terrorist group’s invasion of Israel on October 7 two years ago.
They have been ordered to only act if in defense and will stop their plan to occupy the city and evacuate remaining residents.
It comes after Hamas announced it has agreed to release all Israeli hostages and return the remains of the deceased under Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza.
‘In light of the Hamas response [to the Trump peace plan], Israel is making preparations for the immediate implementation of the first phase of the Trump plan which is the immediate release of all of the hostages,’ Netanyahu said in a statement.
‘We will continue to fully cooperate with the president and his team in order to end the war in accordance with the principles that Israel laid out and which are in line with President Trump’s vision.’
On Friday afternoon, Trump posted a video celebrating the deal, though he similarly was waiting to get it ‘in concrete’ with Hamas and Israel.
He thanked Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey alongside others for having ‘helped me put this together.’
This looks good. Time will tell how it develops; and for Americans, how it indicates the status of USA vs Israel; and the status of Jewish Supremists in USA vs those who are not supremists, and most of all those who oppose Jewish Supremacy.
It is possible Trump is a figurehead of an elite faction that opposes JS in USA and the West.
In this context, the fast oncoming US security state might turn out well if the faction that opposes the JS elite (and the many other factions that ally with them) has or gets top control of the NSA database.
To be effective, this faction would have to be as secretive and strong and savvy as the JS faction.
If they are as secretive and strong and savvy, their control of the database and more will allow them to fully analyze all connections among the JS faction and their allies.
And this will allow them to bust the entire lot of all those parasites.
Busting them does not need to mean putting them in jail or killing them. It only needs to mean they will be decisively dismantled, rendered impotent and driven from control of USA and the collective West.
This would be an extremely good thing for all civilized people in the world and especially for Westerners who want to bring their looming demise to a screeching halt. ABN
Excuse me, you MFKR…
This is not about Gaza alone, this is about long sought PEACE in the Middle East — Trump
Based on the Statement just issued by Hamas, I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE. Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza, so that we can get the Hostages out safely and quickly! Right now, it’s far too dangerous to do that. We are already in discussions on details to be worked out. This is not about Gaza alone, this is about long sought PEACE in the Middle East.
The Old Prussians: the Lost Relatives of Latvians and Lithuanians
No Baltic tribe or tribal group seems to have had a history so dynamic, rich in incident and tragic as the Old Prussians.
They died out during conflicts between two medieval European cultures – Christian and pagan – and were physically destroyed or assimilated.
The Latvian and Lithuanian people have the Old Prussians to thank more than anyone else for their existence.
Under the cover of their heroic resistance against the crusaders, which lasted for almost the whole of the 13th century, the foundations of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were laid, which, in turn, became an obstacle to the mass inflow of crusaders and German colonists into the territory of Latvia.
The Old Prussians belonged to the Western Baltic group of tribes, which also included the Curonians, Samogitians, Skalvians, Galindians and Yotvingians. Around 3000 years before the birth of Christ, the Old Prussians broke away from the first Indo-European peoples and entered the land where they would live right up until their eventual disappearance.
Today the area where the Old Prussians lived is divided between Russia (the province of Kaliningrad) and Poland (the provinces of Elbląg and Olsztyn).
The 1st-century Roman historian Tacitus’s work Germania was the first text to mention the Western Balts. Tacitus called them as “Aesti”, which means “easterners”. This was also how their western neighbours, the Germans, referred to the Balts. The Aesti were described as industrious farmers and peace-loving people.
Starmer’s UK: Three migrants searching for money
It’s been reported that the homeowner has been arrested. ABN
Russia after 10 years absence
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The U.S. Army’s Grand Experiment: Putting Guns on Small Drones
The Army is experimenting with arming small, soldier-operated drones with guns to shoot enemy targets with either a 9mm pistol or tiny ink-pen-like gun barrel mounted on.
“We are looking right now at a remotely operated single-shot weapon which looks like a pen,” Col. Sam Edwards, Director of Robotics Requirements, Capability Development Integration Directorate, Ft. Benning, Ga., told The National Interest in an interview.
First and foremost, a small drone armed with a pistol controlled remotely by a human operator can attack an enemy soldier on the other side of a ridge, behind a rock, or even inside a building. It can enable point-to-point small arms fire while protecting the shooter. Such a possibility could clearly bring new possibilities to close quarter battle by offering new angles of attack. The presence of an armed drone might force enemies to reposition and move, potentially exposing themselves to targeting opportunities.
Armed drone aerial small arms attack would be very difficult to defend against, particularly if there were numerous mini-gun tubes loaded onto the drone as is the case with the ink-pen-like drone.
Unlike drones that are themselves engineered to become explosives, mini-armed drones could be recoverable and, for example, return to an operator for reloading and retasking. The system will need to have the right kinds of hardware configuration, software, and camera systems enabled by some kind of data link transmission sufficient to send targeting information.
This article is from 2020. If this weapon was made public at that time, you can be sure it was operable even sooner, let alone today.
A reasonable hypothesis today is Charlie Kirk was shot from a drone like this carrying a small caliber round fired through a ‘pen-like barrel’.
This would explain the super-fast drones observed on that day and the anomalous neck wound on Kirk; and, so far, the absence of an exit wound or a spent bullet.
I have posted on a drone doing the shooting several times.
The projectile could have been designed to home in on a signal coming from Kirk’s earpiece or it could have been aimed by a remote operator or AI program.
Only a nation or powerful private organization would have the means to obtain and use a weapon like this.
Kirk’s autopsy will reveal what happened if it is credible, which is highly unlikely. ABN
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