Proactive moral behavior is required of all of us, including Buddhists, many of whom fit the above description. ABN
Proactive moral behavior is required of all of us
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Russia offers safe haven for people trying to escape Western liberal ideals
Under the document, such foreign nationals will have the right to apply for temporary residence in Russia “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history and basic laws”
MOSCOW, August 19. /TASS/. Moscow will provide assistance to any foreigners who want to escape the neoliberal ideals being put forward in their countries and move to Russia, where traditional values reign supreme, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin.
Under the document, such foreign nationals will have the right to apply for temporary residence in Russia “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history and basic laws.”
Applications may be based on the rejection of their countries’ policies “aimed at imposing destructive neoliberal ideals on people, which run counter to traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”
The values are listed in the foundations of Russia’s state policy in this field, while the Russian government is expected to compile a list of countries imposing unhealthy attitudes on their citizens. The Foreign Ministry has been instructed to start issuing three-month visas to such applicants as early as in September.
In February, Putin supported the idea of Italian student Irene Cecchini that Russia should ease entry rules for those who share traditional cultural and family values. The head of state agreed that each case requires an individual approach.
Dozens of Israeli settlers attack West Bank village, burn cars and kill a Palestinian in violence condemned by US as mediators hold new round of talks to end war in Gaza
Dozens of Israeli settlers surged into a Palestinian village in the West Bank yesterday, burning cars and killing at least one person, Israeli authorities admitted yesterday.
The Palestinian health ministry said one 23-year-old man was killed and another suffered a critical gunshot wound in the chest when Israeli settlers opened fire in the village of Jit, the latest in a series of attacks by violent settlers in the West Bank.
Shocking footage circulated on social media showed houses and cars smouldering after being set alight by Molotov cocktails thrown by the Israeli settlers.
The fatal attacks came hours after an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank killed two other young Palestinians.
More than 600 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed since October 7, most of whom died as a result of incursions by Israeli settlers.
Given that 10/7 was a MIHOP attack, what we have been seeing ever since is Israeli tribalism, the cleanest moral explanation for which is it is based on their need to honor Israelis killed by the IDF both directly and indirectly on 10/7. Less clean is their perceived need to stick together and/or avoid the embarrassment of openly admitting the truth. There was a short pause after 10/7 as the tribe processed the event and absorbed its moral options. Then the savagery doubled and redoubled into wholesale slaughter and banishment of all Palestinians, while also provoking a regional war, even WW3. This illustrates the moral agony of being human. And also the moral agony of tribalism. Westerners who cannot see this with clarity should reflect on how much they have lost touch with human origins, which are manifestly tribal. Israelis or Jews are just one tribe in this world. Almost the entire rest of the world is tribal except the West. Digital babies, if we make it that far, will maybe work the tribal embolism out of human civilization, but the urge is so strong even that may fail and make it worse. ABN
Crooks body ‘released for cremation 10 days after assassination’, preventing proper investigation
The body of Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks has ‘gone’, a congressman revealed in a report last night accusing the FBI of a ‘scorched earth’ investigation.
Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican who was appointed to Congress‘ bipartisan task force reviewing the assassination attempt, tried to view Crooks’ body on August 5 as part of his own personal inspection.
The former police captain said his request to view the body ’caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact’.
It was at this point that he learned that the FBI had ‘released the body for cremation 10 days’ after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Higgins says ‘nobody knew’ that the body had been returned to the family, including the county coroner and local enforcement. He writes that the coroner still had ‘legal authority over the body’ when the FBI made this decision and accuses the agency of ‘obstruction’.
…’Again, similar to releasing the crime scene and scrubbing crime scene biological evidence… this action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort.’
Official coverups, like false flags, are typically 80% or more out in the open. When top authorities are malfeasant, there is no higher authority to stop them. We saw this with the bogus JFK and 9/11 investigations. We saw it with WMD in Iraq and the absurd pretext for the Ukraine War. We can see it ongoing in Israel where Israelis appear to have no choice but to accept the official story and revel in revenge based on that lie, which is too obvious for words. All of covid is and was yet another example. No higher authority to stop them is one explanation for transparent coverups, but three more are: 1) most people do not notice or are easily persuaded by official information channels; and 2) those of us that see often become jaded because the malfeasance is pervasive; and 3) sadly, many who can see sellout to bribes in the form of money, social media followers, or employment, or threats of loss of employment or worse. ABN
Walz false claim of military rank
Ohio ban on gender-affirming care for minors upheld by judge
Aug 6 (Reuters) – An Ohio judge on Tuesday upheld a Republican-backed state law banning gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors, rebuffing a challenge by families of transgender adolescents.
The ruling by Judge Michael Holbrook of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas came after a non-jury trial last month. Holbrook had previously blocked the law from taking effect while he heard the case.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost welcomed the decision, spokesperson Bethany McCorkle said in a statement.
“This case has always been about the legislature’s authority to enact a law to protect our children from making irreversible medical and surgical decisions about their bodies,” McCorkle said.
The First Amendment is NOT optional
‘This is unjust’ — Angela Carini
This ludicrous perversion of the Olympics is a testament to the power of the human imagination, which, as the Buddha taught, can dream of beautiful things while also overwhelming the mind with delusion. ABN
US Doctors Stunned By Number Of Gaza Children With Headshot Wounds
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Israel the “most moral army in the world,” but a high volume of deeply troubling wounds seen by American surgeons volunteering in Gaza is casting doubt on that claim.
Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an American surgeon with heavy catastrophe-zone experience, is among those stunned by the civilian devastation they’ve recently witnessed in Gaza, and especially by a high volume of what appear to be precision rifle-fire wounds on children — including toddlers.
“All of the disasters I’ve seen, combined – 40 mission trips, 30 years, Ground Zero, earthquakes, all of that combined – doesn’t equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians in just my first week in Gaza,” Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic surgeon and vice president of the International College of Surgeons, told CBS’s Sunday Morning.
What most struck him was his observation that the overwhelming majority of the patients he and his team treated were children:
“I’ve never seen that before. I’ve seen more incinerated children than I’ve ever seen in my entire life, combined. I’ve seen more shredded children in just the first week … missing body parts, being crushed by buildings, the greatest majority, or bomb explosions, the next greatest majority.”
Perlumutter, a Jew who grew up in New Jersey and who now lives in North Carolina, was also disturbed what what he attributed to precise rifle fire directed at children, some of whom were “shot twice.”
“I have two children that I have photographs of that were shot so perfectly in the chest, I couldn’t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately, and directly on the side of the head, in the same child. No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the ‘world’s best sniper.’ And they’re dead-center shots.“
His description of the phenomenon was confirmed to CBS News by more than 20 other doctors who’d recently visited Gaza. An American doctor had such a problem grasping what he was seeing that he double-checked using CT scans, saying he “didn’t believe that this many children could be admitted to a single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head.”
On this site I have often claimed that USA and the West have long been infiltrated and secretly attacked by a clandestine army that targets mainly boys and young men. This has been going on since the end of WW2, if not longer. The strategy is to disable boys and young men, especially those who are promising leaders, in order to weaken one generation after another. An army of clandestine operatives has over several generations completely changed the social structure of USA. The strong have been eliminated while the weak have been promoted. The linked article shows this is the strategy being used in Gaza, without the weak being promoted as in the West. Obviously, those IDF snipers are not the perps who have been destroying the West, but from their behavior we can see that the strategy of disabling boys and young men is a real-world military strategy. Unrestricted war. A major problem in the West, which is being gradually weakened into oblivion by this strategy, is the weak leaders who have been promoted to powerful positions are also too weak and too proud to understand how they got to where they are. ABN
‘The fact is I don’t think Bibi ever wanted to make a deal’ — President Donald J Trump
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano Refuses Vatican Summons
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has refused to obey a summons to the Vatican, and has restated that he does not recognize Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church, the Catholic News Agency reported on Friday.
“As I stated in my Communiqué of June 20, I do not recognize the authority of the tribunal that claims to judge me, nor of its Prefect, nor of the one who appointed him. This decision of mine, which is certainly painful, is not the result of haste or a spirit of rebellion; but rather is dictated by the moral necessity which, as Bishop and Successor of the Apostles, obliges me in conscience to bear witness to the Truth, that is, to God Himself, to Our Lord Jesus Christ,” Vigano’s statement begins.
Vigano is facing charges of schism due to his denial of the legitimacy of Francis as the Pontiff and rejection of the doctrines set forth during the Second Vatican Council.
Schism is a crime within the church. The Code of Canon Law defines “schism” as “the withdrawal of submission to the supreme Pontiff or from communion with the members of the church subject to him.”
The archbishop has accused the Pope of “heresy and schism” over his endorsement of COVID-19 vaccines, the “promotion of sodomy and gender ideology,” and the “climate fraud,” which Vigano describes as “a mad neo-Malthusian superstition engendered by those who, hating the Creator, cannot help but also detest creation, and man along with it, who is made in the image and likeness of God.”
Nepal convicts ‘Buddha boy’ of child sex abuse
A Nepali man whose followers believe him to be a reincarnation of Buddha has been convicted of child sexual abuse, a court official said Tuesday.
Ram Bahadur Bomjan, known as “Buddha Boy” by his devotees, became famous as a teenager after followers said he could meditate motionless for months without water, food or sleep.
“The district court on Monday found Bomjan guilty of child sex abuse,” said Sikindar Kaapar, information officer at the court in Nepal’s southern town of Sarlahi.
He is expected to be sentenced next month.
Bomjon, who faces up to 14 years in prison, could not be reached for comment. His lawyer, Dilip Kumar Jha, said that there was no evidence against his client and that they would appeal the case in a higher court.
The 33-year-old guru has a devout following but has long been accused of physically and sexually assaulting his followers, and had been hiding from authorities for several years.
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