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Covid -19 Exposes Science, Technology, Law and Medicine as Far from the Panacea for Modern Society

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The Reuter reported today that Moderna, Pfizer say updated COVID shots generate strong response vs newer variant. As someone who is super sensative to medicine, I was adamant not to take any covid-19 vaccine, although the rest of my family rushed to received shots and several boosts despite of my warnings. Government and big pharma has again and again showed their discrediability. But we also question the role of America Medical Association in protecting the public health. For decades, AMA had stauchly refuse to do any reform. Why do they desevrved the high price charge to intoxicate the public? And why doe the Supreme Court allow such violation of Constitution to continue to exist?

Irrational, unjustified fear is deadlier than the virus. Is it as much about destroying a people as it is about profit? One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half century before Robert Putnam documented the atomization of society in Bowling Alone, Nisbet argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. Tyranny & Misinformation in the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: Naomi Wolf Interviewed by Graham H. Walker. Naomi Wolf – Big Tech’s Stake in COVID Lockdowns. Everybody is writing books, but nobody is bringing these criminals to justice….. Robert Nisbet in “The Quest for Community,” makes a pretty strong case for how the state benefits from human isolation and how the institutions we use to cherish such as family, church, local community are barriers between us and the state. Some of the most totalitarian regimes (USSR, China, etc) had some of the loneliest people.

Based on passive surveillance reporting as of September 30, 2021 in the US, the risk of myocarditis after receiving mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines was increased across multiple age and sex strata and was highest after the second vaccination dose in adolescent males and young men. Post-vac syndrome: ‘There is no such thing as a vaccine without side effects‘ | DW News. People are still in denial simply because their egos can’t tolerate how wrong they have been this whole time. And on top of that they feel like they’re the intelligent ones. According to reports on myocardits, the number of myocarditis in young men has risen dramatically after they received their vaccinations, also the excess deaths of around 20% in most countries is worrying. You would think that governments and the WHO should be looking into it. Man with vaccine side-effect has message for unvaccinated. Thousands of people are reporting symptoms of ‘life-altering’ tinnitus after taking the covid-19 vaccine. Pharma DESPERATE To Blame Vaccine Injury On ANYTHING ELSE; 16K+ Report Tinnitus After Jab.

In the youtube program, Dr. John Cambell looked into damage to the brain, and damage to the myocardiyum after covid-19 vaccination, or is it caused by the natural infection? Question, is this damage to the brain and heart caused by the vaccine? Research and study has found out that damage to the brain and the heart was caused by the vaccine because they only found spike protein in the brain and in the heart. It is deeply concerning that these pathologists in Germany are being labeled as conspiracy theorists simply for carrying out their work. The fact that they are being threatened with having their academic titles revoked is completely unjust and unacceptable. It is vital that we support these pathologists in their work, and ensure that they are not unfairly targeted or stigmatized for doing their jobs.

There has been so many issues that distract your attention. With the report on Dr. Fauci’s mask comments, the causes of covid-19 and the damages again float to the top discussion. Any epidemic of this scale got to have invovled with the breakdown of the whole system. According to the book, Lies My Gov’t Told Me: And the Better Future Coming (Children’s Health Defense) Hardcover – December 6, 2022 tells it all. the author Dr. Malone is the original inventor of mRNA and DNA vaccination technologies (1989, with nine issued patents); including DNA and RNA vaccination as well as in-vitro and in-vivo RNA transfection. Dr. Malone is a specialist in clinical research, medical affairs, regulatory affairs, project management, proposal management (large grants and contracts), vaccines and biodefense. . This is given him intimate familiarity with the pharmaceutical industry. Malone emphasizes that he reports events as he sees them. He is not a psychologist. He does not want to delve into people’s motives. He can tell you what they do, not why they did it. In particular, he does not want speculate on the motives of a person such as Bill Gates. Malone barely touches on education, but he does write about a couple of subjects are closely related. One of them is groupthink. There is a great tendency in corporations to seek consensus. After everybody has been heard, there is an attempt to come to a group opinion of what to do.

The historical epidemic outbreak also shows there are people who are honesty and has integrity in America. Dr. Merle Nass, who has a chapter in the book, recounts her own experience being decertified by the medical Board of the state of Maine for prescribing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin off-label, despite the fact that this is a totally standard, long-standing procedure.

Another researcher, Brook Jackson, a Pfizer’s Vaccine Trials whistleblower has broke out to the public that data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial. She is the regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial. Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson , emailed a complaint to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails. was fired in September of 2020.

Has the Western Medical System Turned Murderous ? Paul Craig Roberts asked virologist and doctors invollved in clinical research, clearly majority of scientists toe the line of the official narrative, fearful of being cut off from research grants or fired for “spreading misinformation.”  Once facts were replaced by untrue official narratives, scientists were left without a leg to stand on.  Agendas are being served at the expense of the population. Corporate medicine and insurance companies have turned “health care’ into a murder machine.  Protocols are replacing independent scientific judgment.  The protocols are established by articles written with Big Pharma research grants and distributed through prestigious medical journals such  as The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine.  In American medicine, which is increasingly corporate, doctors are employees, not independent practitioners, and have no alternative to following protocols. 

Journalist Lee Fang also reported on his new Sustack piece in which he exposes how Pfizer paid organizations that were lobbying for vaccine mandates. Pfizer Quietly Financed Supposedly Independent Groups Lobbying for Covid VACCINE MANDATES. Although the whore media and the whore Medical Establishment continue to deny it, we have known for certain for some time from published articles by the world’s leading medical scientists that Covid-19 was a laboratory creation.  We know from released official documents that NIH’s Tony Fauci financed “gain of function” research both at the University of North Carolina and then at the Wuhan Lab in China.  There is no doubt about this.  It is in the grant records.

American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist, Naomi Wolf, speaks in an interview: Tyranny & Misinformation in the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis. She has found out why so many people have died. Audience comment that, Meredith Vieira tried to make Naomi look like a fool during a so-called “news show” interview she gave for her book, “Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot,” and Naomi stood her ground like an unshakable female Joe Louis in the ring. She dodged Vieira’s attempts to discredit and ridicule, and when she spoke, Naomi’s calm, assured words were DEVASTATING to her opponent. I have never forgotten that interview, and Meredith? Well, she became a GAME SHOW HOST. Clearly Meredith prefers the “tranquility of servitude” and “wealth” over the “animating contest of FREEDOM.”

The safety and effectiveness of ivermectin (which is very inexpensive) in reducing hospitalizations, intensive care, ventilation, and deaths due to COVID-19 is as well-established as anything in medicine, and yet the courageous doctors working on the front lines of the pandemic saving lives with this drug have been viciously persecuted and deprived of their livelihoods. This must rank as one of the greatest crimes in the history of medicine. Pierre Kory, author of the book War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic Hardcover – June 6, 2023, was in the center of this maelstrom from the beginning, and in this book he tells his personal story, along with the efforts of the drugmakers along with their minions in the health services industry, govt regulatory agencies, and the media to gaslight the public, censor the news, and destroy the careers of doctors dispensing this drug. He also explains how the drugmaker-funded “experts” concocted rigged studies to diminish the apparent effectiveness of ivermectin (although they were never able to erase it completely) and details the spectacular success achieved by Uttar Pradesh (a state in India with more people living in it than most nations) in ending the pandemic there by deploying this drug – a story completely ignored by the mainstream media.

Covid Is Genocide – A Biological Warfare Crime – Dr. David Martin Speaks To The European Parliament. Dr. David Martin is a Vice President for the European Parliament. Speaks at European Parliament Summit, he Claims COVID-19 Pandemic Was Pre-Meditated Domestic Terrorism. The speech makes various arguments suggesting US companies (mainly Pfizer) were behind Covid. Dr. Martin,  commenced his speech by asserting that COVID-19 was first isolated in 1965, more than 50 years ago. He highlighted that at the time, the virus was recognized as a pathogen with the potential for modification and utilization in various contexts. Dr. Martin underlined that the virus was identified as a potential tool for biological warfare, characterizing it as a “financial heist” and a “financial fraud” in which the scientific community was manipulated. This presentation took place on May 3, 2023, during the European Parliament’s International COVID Summit III held in Brussels.

It is unfortunate Medical Conspiracy Theory turned out can be true. America Medical Association has no reason to stay on business. AMA is a huge violation of US. Constitution. WATCH: Rand Paul DEMANDS Unanimous Consent To RESCIND Covid Vax, Mask MANDATE For U.S. Senate. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a resolution seeking unanimous consent to eliminate a COVID-19 vaccine mandate required for all high schoolers participating in The United States Senate Page Program. The resolution also would have prevented masking and most testing requirements for the pages. The resolution was blocked by Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) who said the decision “should be left to medical professionals.” He went on to say that a ban on masking and testing could create issues down the road if another public health emergency were to arise.

The US drug abuse epidemic is killing 300 Americans a day | The Bottom Line. Purdue Pharma introduced the opioid painkiller OxyContin in the 1990s and promoted it aggressively as non-addictive. United States government lawyers argued that the company’s owners, the Sacklers, knew how their medication was being abused widely, but doubled down on production – and profits. Recently a lawsuit was settled for $6bn. Barry Meier, the author of Pain Killer (soon to be a Netflix series), started writing about the opioid epidemic 20 years ago when it was killing about 20,000 people yearly. He tells host Steve Clemons how corporate greed and government dithering have led that number to exceed 100,000 deaths last year alone.

A society based upon peace, harmony, wisdom and compassion is possible, says Venerable Khandro Rinpoche—but we must all begin with ourselves: Compassion and Wisdom.

Among Culture and Religious Arguments, What Buddha Teaches us

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Buried in the metaphysical study, I have not been watch any movies for the last several years. However a recent commend about Movie Oppenhenimer from Palki Sharma of Vantage Media in India caught my attention. Sex scenes from the film Oppenheimer have triggered a backlash in India for using the Bhagavad Gita as a prop. The government has reportedly pulled up the censor board for approving the controversial scene. The India Informaion and Broadcasting Minister has good reason to feel upset about certain scene of the Movie. Why did the makers use the Hindu Holy Scripture in a scene involving nudity? Certain scene fits the PG-13 description. Palki Sharma is the Managing Editor and First post of Vantage Media. By breaking stereotypes, Vantage Media aims to challenge conventional wisdom and present an alternative view on global affairs, defying the norm and opening the door to new perspectives. This bring up the question that why would American glammorize profanity and put the nuikty in limelight and thus toxicate the minds of millions of people all over the world? Why would Hollywood insult ancient wisdom of holly scripture to condemn ourself? What does this speak of level of sanity on the mind of Hollywood and American culture as a whole?

Buddhism teaches that arrogance is inherent in our tendency to perceive our own value based on comparisons with others. It is a reflection of a very shallow and limited view of oneself. Impermanence is looking at reality from the point of view of time. No self is looking at reality from the point of view of space. They are two sides of reality. No self is a manifestation of impermanence and impermanence is a manifestation of no self. If things are impermanent they are without a separate self. If things are without a separate self, it means that they are impermanent. Impermanence means being transformed at every moment. This is reality. And since there is nothing unchanging, how can there be a permanent self, a separate self? When we say “self” we mean something that is always itself, unchanging day after day. But nothing is like that. Our body is impermanent, our emotions are impermanent, and our perceptions are impermanent. Our anger, our sadness, our love, our hatred and our consciousness are also impermanent.

Nothing can exist by itself alone. It has to depend on every other thing. That is called inter-being.  We think of our body as our self or belonging to our self. We think of our body as me or mine. But if you look deeply, you see that your body is also the body of your ancestors, of your parents, of your children, and of their children. So it is not a “me”; it is not a “mine.” Your body is full of everything else—limitless non-body elements—except one thing: a separate existence. Looking Deeply With the Three Dharma Seals: Impermanence, No-self, and Nirvana. The three seals are the marks to check against for any doctrines if they are in line with fundamental Buddhism teaching. In the Buddhist cosmology, the earth is not the only world, and human are not the only living beings. The 31 realms of existence are divided into three ‘worlds’ (loka); and existence in every realm is temporary. Rebirths take place in any realms according to one’s karma, wholesome and unwholesome actions. To free oneself from the cycle of birth and death, the Buddha recommends the Noble Eightfold Path. Another very intuitive diagrammatic representationof the Buddhist Universe JPG file can be download from here.

Again American’s exceptionalism tend to blindfold ourselves in cloudy head. In our current culture, talk about Jesus calls for courage. And it also calls for love and grace. The arrogrance of Christianity with its limit certainly deluded America in numerous religion/idilogious wars. The most offending thing in Christianity is the idea that Jesus is the only way to heaven. Unfortunately, American can easily come across as arrogant about the truth of Jesus, such as Evangelicals ask themselves “what would Jesus do?” and then do the opposite. According to Leeja Miller, a lawyer and researcher, How The Religious Right Ruined Everything breaked down all the ways the Religious Right and how white Christian nationalism poses an existential threat to our democracy. The religious right, the moral majority, evangelicals, and white Christian nationalists have, throughout the history of the United States, used religion to further personal greed, absolve themselves of guilt for heinous crimes, and force their morals and world view on an entire population, despite being neither particularly moral, nor the majority.

But we can squelch that impression if we listen to the other person’s views. Not arguing, just listening. We earn the right to be heard, and when our turn comes to share our views, we can couch the gospel in a lot of love and grace.

A similar case was the scandla over Netflix Cleopatra show. Egyptians are very upset about the Cleopatra documentary for black washing Cleopatra, falsifying Egyptian history and incorrectly representing Egyptians. The entire country of Egypt was pissed off. An Egyptian lawyer is even suing Netflix over this. They’re just trying to rewrite history. What is problematic is trying to meddle facts or editing real life history. This Egyptian young lady communicate well why they feel so offended. And since she went online to speak about Egyptian culture appropriation, she was heavily attacked by mutiple insults and offense of racism and religious dogmatism. In support of her righteousness, the audience offered three quotes:

  • Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. — Marilyn vos Savant
  • Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. — Gustave Flaubert

According to Candace owens youtube program Netflix Blackwashed Cleopatra, and Egypt Is Mad, black wash is happening a lot now. Used to be white washing is takes something the belons to black people, or it is about back people and you give it to white for treat. Now black washing is essential the same thing where you are blackifying everything. The Disney movie of Little Mermaid is another case in point.

Candace owen also mentioned the book The Rules , which put feminism into proper perspective, helpping women to have healthy relationship in the dating age. The five books series was published first in 1995, and now 2023 got an update with supplement. One of the author Sherrie Schneider was interviewed, she said, ” If you want to be happy in marriage, think about your husband’s needs like what does he want, meet with his mother more often. Too many women this days are all about themselves, they are me, me, me. ” Men are biologically programmed to like extreme sports like bunge jumping, courting was one of those games they don’t want to be deprived of the exicitment. Candace was also very fiery outspoken about Black Life Matter Movement. People this day are deluded and lied to by big medias.

Similarly, Hollywood has a very narrow view of Arabs. Why Hollywood misrepresents Muslim communities. The U.S. Department of Defense has a lot of influence over Hollywood — and that’s led to some damaging portrayals of Arab and Muslim communities. The audience feedback with the folk story “Frogs in the well” , where the elder frogs tells to the younger how cruel the outside world is while they enjoys the outside world… Another audience who was an malaysian said he agree on the point of view. “Pakistan been touted as terrorist country and that is what the media been telling all this while. One day, I got an opportunity to visit Pakistan due to work trip (it was an easy process because I’m a malaysian) . It’s an heaven on earth. Pakistan is surely an heaven on earth. The people all kind and angels. They treat me well. I went to islamabad and Karachi. Omg, surely I will visit again. Humanity exist in Islam and I observed it Pakistan. If anyone got chance to visit Pakistan, without hesitate, please visit Pakistan. Waiting for covid to end.” Accoring to this clip, another movie the Dictator is an insult to the Islam. Take the Netflix show Elite as an example, the way they portrayed a hijabi, Nadia, is disgusting and causes Islamophobia to spread even more. So the stereotyping is a reflection of our narrowness. Americans have much to learn about our Arab sisters and brothers.

All over the world, cultures reflect different dimension of human history and experience. Together the multi-culture combined into totality of human realm. There are many Near Death Experience research and reports PROOF OF THE AFTERLIFE. The Incredible REINCARNATION STORY of Sunny Ray | The Indian Rebirth Story that shocked the World | just a couple of the Reincarnation reveallations.

Buddhism told us that we have been rebirth millions and millions of times since eons. According to Buddhist teaching, all beings cycle continually through one lifetime after another before developing to the point where they can reach enlightenment. The Buddha was no different, although the stories of his past lives, known as the According to Buddhist teaching, all beings cycle continually through one lifetime after another before developing to the point where they can reach enlightenment. The Buddha was no different, although the stories of his past lives, known as the Jataka tales, indicate a pretty remarkable being. In the 547 story-poems about his past lives that are collected in the Pali canon, which includes some of the earliest Buddhist scriptures we know, the Buddha takes birth as various kinds of humans (ranging from murderers to sages to a princess), myriad animals (elephants, deer, monkeys, birds—you name it), and numerous deities and metaphysical beings (a tree sprite and the lord of gods, for starters). The tales are chock-full of wily criminals, evil seducers, and magnanimous kings.

The Jataka tales go back to the 3rd century B.C. Because of the limited literacy of the times, travelling storytellers known as Jataka bhanakas were selected and given the task of reaching the stories to every corner of the land and beyond. The Jataka Tales carried strong and inspiring messages of kindness, compassion, generosity, non-violence, self-sacrifice, charity and the need to abjure greed. The Jataka stories explain the concepts of karma and rebirth, and teach moral values. Though the Jataka Tales are more than two thousand years old, they carry a message for us even today. This is the reason for their popularity, especially as stories for children. Their interesting stories and moral teachings are a positive source of inspiration for the young people of today JATAKA TALES OF BUDDHA –1, JATAKA TALES 2A, JATAKA TALES 2B.

The Precept of not Steal Speaks of Violation of Universal Principle in U.S Government /Federal Reserve Monetary Operation

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As U.S.A is having its Pluto is returning, and the transit Saturn is retrograde and trine U.S.A Juipter and Venus – The Law of Responsibility is remind us to rethink about our value system and turning inward for self introspetion on our social political and economic structure that are dyfunctional. Any downfall start first from spiritual decay. Now when I rethink about the The Five Precepts of Buddhism and relate to some of the governmental issues, I want to bring it to public attention.

Christian regards stealing not just as a crime, but it’s a sin. Here’s what the Bible says about stealing: “Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with hishands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need” (Ephesians 4:28 NKJV).

Buddhism is also not about intellectual pursuit, it is actual about putting the wisdom into our speach, action, behavior and ethic code of everyday life. The second precept, Asteya,in practice implies to “not steal”, “not cheat”, nor unethically manipulate other’s property or others for one’s own gain. Asteya as virtue demands not only that one “not steal”, but that one should not encourage cheating through speech or writing, or want to cheat even in one’s thinking.

Now when we take the guideline and relates it to U.S. dollar, there is questions about American’s consience. Backed by the U.S government sovereity power, Federal Reserve print money out of thin air to lend it to U.S Treasury to spend on government budget and issue bonds. Just as former Federal Reserve Chairman of near twenty years, Greenspan said, “No Chance of Default, US Can Print Money“. U.S maybe able to temporary avoid nominal default because of our military dominance, but U.S.A can not avoid spiritual decay. Some have compared the spiritual life to walking upstream; if you are not fighting to move forward, then you are, by default, going backwards. There is a continual inertia drawing us and others towards spiritual decay. Law of Karma says, whatever thoughts or energy you put out, you get back — good or bad. In order to get what you want, you have to embody and be worthy of those things. It’s the concept of what you reap, you sow. Here are the 12 laws of Karma everyone should know about.

The US sovereign debt crisis. Plan to Liquidate its Debt through Financial Repression? Deficit in 2023 resulting in 122% growth.

Almost half of U.S debt will mature within the next two years. Considering the interest rate is much higher than last 10 years, as government borrow new debt to pay off the old debt, their interest expense is going to go through the roof.

As a reserve currency, when Federal Reserve print money, it dilute the purchasing power of the dollars in circulation in rest of the world. By complicit to the Federal Reserve operation, U.S government is in default of its morality. The U.S government does not obtain the proval of the governments in the rest of the world, and it is stealing, by definition above. Such operation has caused U.S.A intense crashes with the rest of the world. In addition, we lose any moral high ground to be the leader of the world, and if we do not make correction to the wrong doing, U.S.A will inevitable crumble under our own weight – how prone we are to fall back into sin and compromise. Maybe we should work with the global community to come up with a commonly accept currency to be more fair to everyone.

American has always been adament about loyalty to its Constitution. The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides that “[n]o person shall be … deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” With all the connectivity of the era of Globalization, shouldn’t this rule apply in our national conduct?

Publicize tax-efficient contributions to good causes, such contributions may be a relatively small price to pay compared with changing fundamental operational practices. Leeja Miller reported from Take back your financial freedom today.

When responsibility for public goods and services rests not with our democratic institutions but with wealthy private individuals. it is a system know as “philanthrocapitalism” which relies on charity of billionaires to support public projects, instead of just regulating and taxing those billionaires to begin with. According to a recent article in The guardian, Philanthropy serves to legitimize capitalism, as well as to extend it further and further into all domains of social cultural and political activity.” The piece goes on to say, “Exploitative labor practices or corporate malpractice are swept under the carpet as companies publicize tax-efficient contributions to good causes. Billionaires and multi-millionaires love to pat themselves on the back for their charitable giving. But what if we just taxed the rich and regulated their business practices instead of letting them get away with theft and atrocity while still getting to pad their reputation by giving away the millions of dollars they stole from their laborers? Even more irony is lawyers and law school are heavily invovled in these philanthropy scheme that is ruining America. The rapidly growing empirical literature on international tax avoidance by multinational corporations is even caught the attention of IMF

A 2021 document Addressing Tax System Failings That Favor Billionaires and Corporations. It revealed bombshell reports from ProPublica have confirmed what tax experts have long known and what many Americans have long suspected: Many of the country’s wealthiest people pay little or no tax because the U.S. system preferences income from wealth and offers the wealthy and corporations avenues to avoid tax that are not available to working people.1 These fundamental flaws in the tax code existed many years before the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) took things from bad to worse by giving massive new tax cuts to the highest-income Americans and largest corporations.2 These flaws have helped fuel the dramatic increase in inequality, leading to a less dynamic and less just economy.

A massive trove of tax information obtained by ProPublica, covering thousands of America’s wealthiest individuals, reveals what’s inside the billionaires’ bag of tricks for minimizing their personal tax bills — sometimes to nothing. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. In June 2021, The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax These IRS Files hold the secrets Inside the Tax Records of the .001% and the absurdity of U.S government. A Novermber 2021 story from IRS records reveal how Gov. Jim Justice, Gov. Jared Polis, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other wealthy political figures slashed their taxes using strategies unavailable to most of their constituents.

In the book The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Zucman offers an inventive and sophisticated approach to quantifying how big the problem is, how tax havens work and are organized, and how we can begin to approach a solution. His research reveals that tax havens are a quickly growing danger to the world economy. In the past five years, the amount of wealth in tax havens has increased over 25%—there has never been as much money held offshore as there is today. This hidden wealth accounts for at least $7.6 trillion, equivalent to 8% of the global financial assets of households. Fighting the notion that any attempts to vanquish tax havens are futile, since some countries will always offer more advantageous tax rates than others, as well the counter-argument that since the financial crisis tax havens have disappeared, Zucman shows how both sides are actually very wrong. In The Hidden Wealth of Nations he offers an ambitious agenda for reform, focused on ways in which countries can change the incentives of tax havens. Only by first understanding the enormity of the secret wealth can we begin to estimate the kind of actions that would force tax havens to give up their practices.

U.S had got used to use economic sanction to any government in the rest of the world that does not cooperate with its idiology. But we have to ask ourself where does that power come from? Is it mere force of bully? If we are violate the universal principle, we lose the divine precondition specified in the George Washington’s Thanks Giving Proclamation : “the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.” Besides, how can American take so granted that our idiology is better than rest of the world? What gives us the right to enforce rules on others without setting an example ourself? Is not that double standard? Pope Francis laments when ‘ideology replaces faith’ in segment of U.S. Catholics.

Even if we have valid reason to require other countries to cooperate with our rule, weaponize U.S dollar should not be the means to the end. And are should be many other avenues to deploy rather than using economic mean which is a new form of colonization. For example the sanction of nuclear weapon, US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record. One of the audience commented: “My Dad served in the Far East during WWII. He didn’t come home until May 1946. He was adamant that the US used the Atom Bomb because they were terrified of Russia overrunning Japan. The Red Army crossed Manchuria in 24 hours reaching the coast from which they could launch an invasion. All his friends and my uncles all agreed with my Dad.”

According to the article from Bible.org, What are signs of spiritual decay in our lives or others and how should we confront it? Misuse of Finances Is a Sign of Spiritual Decay. We must develop a righteous anger that leads us to confront sin. A Decrease in Time Given to Worship Is a Sign of Spiritual Decay. We must be people who truly desire to please God. Certainly, we see this decay in our churches and Christian communities. Why are so many of our churches in disarray? Statistics say that around 75% of youth fall away from the faith in college and never return.4 Seventeen hundred pastors leave the ministry every month in America.5 We have churches making all kinds of moral compromises as they disregard Scripture. We are seeing a very rapid spiritual decay happening in the church. When we compromise with the world, not only does it affect us, but it affects those close to us, like our children. They will grow up speaking and thinking like the world, instead of speaking and thinking like God.

We must be tenacious in seeking to practice a holy life and also fighting for holiness in our national standard as well as that of churches. Maybe behind the government/federal reserve’s compromise, we need to start with raising the conscience from the kindergarden and all the way of schools as well as that of the church community.

For reference, here is a article research on Christian, Buddhism and Muslim, the three religious are all against Usury. 星云大师：佛教对经济的看法 谈到佛教不但重视一时的财富，更重视永久的财富；不但重视现世的财富，更重视来生的财富。非法所得的财富，例如：窃取他物、违法贪污、抵赖债物、吞没寄存、欺罔共财、因便侵占、藉势茍得、经营非法、诈骗投机、赌博淫业、放高利贷等，则为佛教所不许。 … 佛教不但重视狭义的金钱财富，尤其重视广义之财，例如：佛法、信仰、 … 星云法师著述《当代问题座谈纪实》讨论“放高利贷”是否合乎“正业”？佛教过去办有类似今日的“当铺”，只向百姓收取非常微薄的利息，甚至完全不取分厘，以帮助贫苦人士经济上的周转运用，譬如北魏的僧祇粟、南北朝的寺库、唐朝三阶教的无尽藏院，都是佛教为了便民利国的金融事业。只是佛教创典当制度，不同于今日一般当铺的高利放贷，佛教是本着来之于十方，用之于十方的精神，把社会的净财做一个集中，然后再一次发挥其整体的力量，回馈于社会，属于服务大众的慈善事业，而且具有繁荣经济的功能。譬如前面提到的开酒家、赌场、卖钓鱼器具、卖打猎的猎枪，或者是算命、卜卦、看相等都是邪命的经济生活。佛教不提倡看风水、择日期，《佛遗教经》曾指示佛教徒不应去仰观星宿、推算命运，因为这些都不是合乎因缘法则正命的经济生活，都是佛法所不允许的。

Couple months ago, two of the most influential economic thought leaders of our time came together for a fireside chat: Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, and Raghuram Rajan, the Chicago economic professor. They explored key themes from Wolf’s latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (2023). They also reflected on some of today’s most pressing issues—including the rise of inequality, economic turmoil, and political instability—and examined the role of capitalism, democracy, markets, and civil society in shaping a more secure and prosperous future for all.

Richard Wolff on how Europe DESTROYED itself in America’s War on China. He said, for the last 25-30 years, major American Multinational Corporation had a wonderful profitable time trading with and investing in China. China was the capitalist dream, it offered capitalists low wage, disciplined, educated labor and the fastest growing market in the world. Corporations went head over heels making enormous amount of profits. All the major coporations in America want peace, deal and mutual finances between U.S and China. They don’t give a flying what about Taiwan or anything else. They don’t talk about Uyghurs or HongKong. The Chinese policies when provoked by the neocons pretened it didn’t happen. Becuase the Chinese government want what the American business community wants which is the profitable commerce. On the other hand, there is the political ideological sometimes captured neocons or neoconservatives who are out there being the Vanguard to try to stop what is happening which is the decline of USA relative to the rise of China. So they want the tariffs, they want the trade Wars. They got it half way with Trump, and a quarter of the way with Obama, and they got another halfway with Biden. But ti is always a quarter and a half becuase this conflict. Now the militar industrial complex has a particular position, they don’t want war, but they want perpetual trouble so that they can get the funding for defense. Put all these today, the rest of the world acutely aware of U.S.A’s decline and contraditory policy. Chinese state capitalism has sent western capitalist world in shock.

Freedom of Speech has Limit – Pope Francis

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In August 11, 1966, the Beatles icon John Lennon, who had wrote a song about God, made an off-handed remarks before a huge crowd as cameras rolled from each of the three major American TV networks. Eventually his remark that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” set off a wave of hysterical – and even threatening – protests against the group. “Christianity will go,” Lennon had said. “It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I know I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first – rock & roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.” Lenon may be expressed an personal opinion about religion, but karma on his arrogance manifested its effect strongly the way his life was end in December 8th 1980.

Explained the issue on a similar situation, Pope Francis said, “One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people’s faith, one cannot make fun of faith,” he said. “There is a limit. Every religion has its dignity … in freedom of expression there are limits.” Under the name of Freedom of Speech, people are abusing their liberty, and thus underlime the very foundation of democracy. Pastor John McArthur summons on what does God want from us.

In 2016, Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” “It’s, like, incredible.” Economist Robert Reich further renounced that Trump said he could kill and win – Covid and cheating may prove it. And after January 2021, ‘No regrets’: Evangelicals and other faith leaders still support Trump after deadly US Capitol attack.

Bellieving Donald Trump Is on the Wrong Side of the Religious Right, former Vice President Mike Pence step forward to tell the Hillsdale audience, “I came today to Christ Chapel simply to tell all of you that, even when it doesn’t look like it, be confident that God is still working, in your life, and in mine, and in the life of this nation.”

In the modern culture, there is a fallacy that runs rampant in popular culture including WSJ that “Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. ” For the purpose of propaganda, communication pundits from advertisers to politicians are taking advantage of this foible of human psychology. But voices of conscience like this article from The Times of India speaks from objective middle ground- Lies Repeated Hundred Times Will Not Become Truth. In the world’s oldest and most populous liberal democracies, the United States and India respectively, a populist, majoritarian vigilantism is slowly but steadily snuffing out the promise of multi-religious, multi-ethnic societies enjoying constitutional protections of civil liberties and equality before the law. White Christian nationalists in the United States and their Hindu counterparts in India are tearing apart the secular and democratic fabric of their societies. The difference, of course, is that in India, it is the state itself that supplies a steady diet of Hindu-First nationalism, while Christian nationalism (“take America back for Jesus”) is still mostly an underground current that dares not say its name openly.

Fake data is another problem with AI and computer technology dominance of our cognition and learning process. Why is academia so toxic? Six insider bombshells on Academia. The feedback from audience is, there is a rampant academia malaysis. Academia is toxic because the people at the top are not the thoughtful ones. The lying, conniving, treacherous ones climb over them. The system rewards bad behavior. Others commented that we tend to have fantasy of the most logical, mature, the most ‘scientific’ unbiased people in academia arena, but on the contrary, if anything it became far more toxic with more petty career jealousy than ever before. The only difference is that it was more sophisticated, clever, more elaborate.

Katy Milkman is one of the world’s leading behavioral scientists. In this youtube video by Pete Judo interviewing Katy milkman on the shocking event of Harvard Fake Data Scandal involving Francesca Gino, and also we talk about Megastudies which are a really exciting way to do better research. What the video trying to convey is that: Academia has HOPE! Behavioral Science has Hope! and the way research is published has hope.

Arguments over media bias, while a constant feature of politics, have recently burst into the limelight following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and his erratic policy-making and -unmaking regarding media labels, which blended, separated, then re-blended disparate outlets like the BBC, NPR, RT, Xinhua, and others. Confusion abounds and one question seems especially common – “who can we really trust?” Besides, media do not have to tell lies in order for it to be propaganda: selective reporting of one side/type of the story in line with its ideological values is enough to sway the popular opinion. This is ever more prevalent (and alarming) in an AI-driven algorithmic world, where you don’t get to dictate what you see anymore.

And I would add that I was heavily indoctrinated by the greatness of CCP and Chinese nationalism ideology, causing me to look at things with bias. If it is not with the helpping voices from many different culture and perspectives, I would still be in very froggy mind by all the media machines. Another event was Januay 6th Capital Hill storm, these experience taught me a good lesson that a healthy society can not just have one type of voice. We absolute need responsible journalsts and media outlets for the democracy and for keeping the standard of conducts. Of course, under the rips of the dualism, people can be over emphasize their view of an elephant as a tail or as a ear etc. A healthy society should allow for presentation of different perspective. That practice is totally different from purposely mispresentation or fraud in communication.

Underlying the Big and the Deep Lies is a shared political impulse, namely, to bend reality to fit political agendas and religious dogmas, and to feed the populist passions that these agendas arouse. If the spectre of Trump’s Big Lie haunts the United States, India is in the grip of the Deep Lie of myths turned into certified facts of history and science. It is twilight time for democracy.

One of the rare find this day is Spectacles News Project , which was established with the intention to uphold democracy, its values, its caretakers, and its ideas. It provides the transparency of source notes, citations and corrections, and the look of us series.

What could Buddhism shed the light on this situation? The fourth of the five precepts—Buddhist guidelines for an ethical life—is to refrain from false and harmful speech, often simplified as not lying. However, the fourth precept is more than a simple directive to tell the truth. It is often viewed in the context of the foundational Buddhist practice of Right Speech, a more thorough framework, contained in the eightfold path, for how best to thoughtfully and compassionately speak and listen.

Specifically in regard to communication, the Right speech, explained in negative terms, means avoiding four types of harmful speech: lies (words spoken with the intent of misrepresenting the truth); divisive speech (spoken with the intent of creating rifts between people); harsh speech (spoken with the intent of hurting another person’s feelings); and idle chatter (spoken with no purposeful intent at all). The Buddha also gave us five things to consider before speaking: Is what we’re about to say factual, helpful, kind (spoken with good-will), pleasant (“endearing”), and timely?

False speech includes any untrue statement as well as some factual ones. Straightforward lies clearly violate the precept but so do common behaviors like self-inflation, exaggeration, lying by omission, pretending to know something, and even some forms of humor, such as sarcasm, that may be hurtful. Gossip, true or not, is considered false speech, as is anything divisive or malicious, as well as idle chatter. 

The fourth precept covers all forms of communication—speaking, writing, even body language. As with the other precepts, violations are not evenly weighted. Telling a lie as part of a joke is not as serious as, say, lying to get a job or spreading harmful rumors. In Theravada Buddhism, there are four factors that lead to an infringement of the fourth precept. Intent is one, so saying something false that you believe to be true is not considered a violation. Whether or not the listener believes the falsehood is not a factor. 

Among all the contributions of Indian culture, the Buddha Dharma shines very brightly.  What is the Buddha Dharma: a religion, a spiritual path, a philosophy or a scientific method? It is all and none of these. Buddha Dharma has been influenced to many many countries for the last two thousand years, China, Japan, Vietname, Korea, Lao, Tailand, etc. It is so precious and powerful. But Indians have forgotten Buddhism a lot. And especially in the Himalaya region, Buddhism is being forgotten. This may not bother you right now, becuase you may be busy making money, just surviving. But down the road in 50 years, in 100 years, this will bother you. If you are really really care about your grandchildren, you should really preserve this heritage. The Perfection of Wisdom by Arya Nagarijuna, which are among the oldest sutras of the Mahāyāna Buddhist canon. For Mahayana practitioners, this sutra is the essence of the Buddha’s teachings.  Relating back to this article topic about freedom of speech, the sutra had many vivid stories on the effects of false communiction.

佛陀为什么要教我们不妄语，因为凡事都有因果，当我们在说谎时，就为自己种下了说谎要承担的苦果。世界上一切所产生的力就会相互作用的。当欺骗他人时，也就要承受这个曾欺骗他人的果。

在《大智度论》中讲到，妄语者要承受十种果报：“一、会生口臭，二、善神会远离，恶鬼等非人会得方便接近，三、就算说的是实话，人们也不信，四、常常听不得有智慧的人的言论，五、会得到他人的诽谤，名声变臭天下皆知，六、得不到人们的尊敬，虽然可以教他人，他人却不会听，七、内心常常忧郁忧愁，八、种下了诽谤的业因，九、此命终后会堕地狱，十、若生为人，常常受他人诽谤。”

Secularlism made modern people disconnect their speech with responsibility. Part of guarding against this illusion is the obligation it puts on us to stop repeating falsehoods. We live in a world where the facts matter, and should matter. If you repeat things without bothering to check if they are true, you are helping to make a world where lies and truth are easier to confuse. So, please, think before you speak.

The Astrology of America’s Desinty By Dane Rudhyar

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After intensive attempt trying to cope with the chaos in the last eight years, I am wearing out. With patisan contention here in USA, the controversy about January 6th Capitol Building upheavl in Washington, D.C., the US. Constitution dispute, the political and economic wreckage is weighting heavily. Meanwhile, the globalization brought about other agonies – ever incresing tentions with China, and nonstoped wars elsewhere in the world, the ever increasing threat of neclear destruction … etc. Collectively, we are all struggling to make sense the meaning and purpose of our existance within the larger world theater , amid the media news bombarding, court trials, regional conflicts as well as economic hardship.

Reading articles like “The Course of American History Now Depends on Getting Inside Trump’s Head“, my head is cracking. It is obviously we have not got passed the 2020 election dispute, and U.S Presidential Election is not just American’s political affair any more, the world is watching the U.S. vote. It isn’t just Americans who care — according to this article, the whole world is watching the race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Even the youtube program 【逸语道破】 2024美国总统大选 到底谁在阻止特朗普 hints of the danger of assasination when the poltical impass got overheat. Never interested in politics, and not used to so much arguments and underhanded rivalry, and as a U.S citizen, and a member of the human society, I simple do not have the ability to make further sensible comments on such issues that affect our collective karma. If you ask me what had come to my mind, it is currently Northnode in Aries is in conjunction with U.S natal Chiron at 20 degree of Aries. Is it that our destiny in conjunction with our wound?

Looking up in history, President Andrew Johnson who became assume President responsibility after Abrham Lincohn’s death by assasination in April 15 1865, who favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the newly freed people who were formerly enslaved. This led to conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress, culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives in 1868. There was a impeachment trial for almost three months, from March 7 1868-May 26 1868. This reminds of us “History may not repeat itself. But it rhymes”.

Inadvertently, I picked up a book by Dane Rudhyar – The Astrology of America’s Destiny. This book deals with the evolution of the USA from its inception through roughly the late 1970’s, getting into the esoteric meanings and processes involved. It also gave the spiritual meanings of the planetary transits. It is a booklet of about 200 pages divided into 8 chapters. I am still reading it, would need to quite sometime to digest the deep meaning Dane Rudhyar discussed. Fortunately, I found a on-line copy of the book from Dane Rudhyar’s Archival Project – The Astrology of American Destiny, saving me a lot of typing, and we can all study it and think about the implication relating to what is going on the world stage right now.


1. The Birth of the United States as a Collective Person
2. The Roots of the American Nation
3. America’s Place in the Cosmic Process
4. A Birth Chart for the United States of America
5. Two Hundred Years of Growth Through Crisis
6. A Chart for the Beginning of the Federal Government
7. America at the Crossroads
8. Prospects for the Last Quarter Century

Buddhism and Democracy 2 – The Function of Government

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佛教的核心思想，就是这七句话：

  • 第一句话，一切现象皆是因缘所生。
  • 第二句话：一切皆是因果。
  • 第三句话：苦、集、灭、度，人生的四条真理。
  • 第四句话：修行的方法是八正道。
  • 第五句话：中道才是大道。
  • 第六句话：四大、五蕴、万法皆空。
  • 第七句话：依照三法印，不迷失方向。

所以我们 俱须诸恶莫作。众善奉行，修福积德改命运。 相反如果违背真理 胡作非为，恣意妄行，违逆天地，果报现前就晚了。 三世因果，诸余罪中，杀业最重。 王赫文章：两组数据揭示中共迫害法轮功之惨烈，法轮功学员遭迫害人数之多，与迫害者遭恶报之众，从不同的方面揭示着中共这场“群体灭绝”运动的规模之大、程度之深、范围之广。文章更进一步揭露了 “疫情三年，中共也没放松对法轮功的迫害，某些方面甚至有所强化。例如，器官移植继续扩张，中共宣称2023年要成为世界第一器官移植大国。官方资料显示，中国脑死亡后器官捐献比例由2013年仅占10.7%，上升至2021年的62.3%。荒唐的是，迄今中国没有脑死亡立法，不能实施脑死亡判定，中共大肆宣传的脑死亡器官捐献移植实质上属于国家犯罪。2006年曝光的活摘法轮功学员器官这一“星球上从未有过的罪恶”，也在其中。“

恶有恶报，因果不虚。 文章报道了迫害法轮功的恶人遭报部分数据。仅2022年为例，至少555名参与迫害法轮功的中共人员遭厄运。从遭厄运的方式来看，这一年因贪腐而被查处的有409人，占总数的73%；其次，死亡人数达99人，占17.8%。前者如前黑龙江省公安厅厅长王大伟、前海南省政法委秘书长刘诚，后者如湖南省前政法委书记黄关春，等等。

中共迫害法轮功已持续整整24年。这场21世纪的最大规模人权迫害，人神共愤。 石铭：近期中共对迫害法轮功仍然特别严重！ 前中共政治局常委、中纪委书记尉健行的撰稿人王友群博士特别指出：蔡奇须正视的一个重大问题。文章指出，作为中央书记处第一书记，蔡奇实际负责中央书记处的日常运作，提交给中共政治局和政治局常委会讨论的所有重大问题，都要经过蔡奇。。。。本文谈到的重大问题，既是中国内政外交所有问题中最核心的问题，也与习近平一家老小的性命安全有直接关系。这个重大问题就是，由江泽民发动、已持续24年、给全中国人民和全世界人民带来巨大危害的迫害法轮功问题。

法轮功创始人李洪志大师曾发表《为什么要救度众生》，阐述了法轮功作为特定信仰体系的思想总结。读者麦克·吉尔德马彻评论：“这门功法看起来与西方精神教义紧密相连。这比大多数有组织的宗教更接近真理，应该提供给人评估，供他们自己选择。” 署名爱琳的罗马天主教徒回馈：“法轮功信仰体系是我们今天非常需要的。这种鼓励全世界的人尊重生命，在生活中遵循尊严、道德价值和爱全人类的信仰体系是美好的。” 其他读者也纷纷认为，“人类迫切需要一个信仰体系来指导他们的生活。如果所有人都能自由地实践一种信仰体系，帮助他们成为有爱心、关爱人类的人，那么，我们的世界会变得更加美好。”

作为一个佛教徒，我虽然对法轮功不了解，也不认同有一个创世主的观点，但是中国政府对法轮功的血腥镇压也让我感到愤慨。 中国政府希望维护社会的正常运转，指定有利于国家与社会的政策，推动社会的进步。但是对宗教和其他种族的信仰的不尊重和绝对的排斥，骚扰，绑架，和迫害，直至出卖人体器官，都是触目惊心，令人发指的罪行。 政府必须尽快加以纠正，对法轮功受害者予以补偿。 也奉劝迫害参与者悬崖勒马、将功折罪，为自己和家人选择未来，而不是在恐惧中等待恶报上门。

Noted historian, Indologist, A. L. Basham wrote the book The Wonder That Was India: Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims. Arthur Llewellyn Basham’s father was a British journalist who served in the Indian Army during WWI. His son became a scholar of Indian history and religion, teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and mentoring R. S. Sharma and Romila Thapar. Published in 1954, Basham avoided much of the esoteric density of contemporary European indologists such as Zimmer and Kramrisch. As others have noted, this is essentially an undergraduate level textbook. Basham’s literary inclination allows it at times to transcend the usual tedium implied. The reader is first taken through a quick chronology of the Indus Valley civilization, Aryan/Vedic period, advent of Buddhism, Greek invasion, Mauryan and Gupta empires, and the Chalukya and Chola dynasties. The larger remainder of the book is arranged thematically into the political, social, religious, technological and artistic spheres.

The Wonder That Was India has the following passages:

The Buddha himself, though a friend of kings, seems to have had a deep affection for the old republican organization, and in a remarkable passage he is said to have warned the Vrijjis shortly before his death that their security depended on maintaining their traditions and holding regular and well-attended folk-moots.

The above passage provoked the deep thinking of another writer. Jamyang Norbu is a Tibetan political activist and writer, currently living in the United States, having previously lived for over 40 years as a Tibetan exile in India. His article, The Buddha’s Discourse on Defending Democracy , Tricycle Magazine Winter 2020, came out his musing on reading A. L. Basham’s book.

The discussion inovlves citation of the Mahaparinirvana Sutra (Pali, Mahaparinibbana Sutta 《大般涅槃经 》(上座部)) is a part of the Digha Nikaya, (《长部》 (佛经))， the collection of the Buddha’s long discourses, was in fact his last discourse before his passing. Mahaparinirvana Sutra gave account of the Buddha’s discussion on seven qualities that lead to a republic’s prosperity. The Buddha’s questions are thus a litmus test for the health of a nation and are worth asking again today.

We are told at the outset that King Ajatashatru of Magadha was planning to wage war on the Vrijjis and intended to annihilate them. The Vrijjis (Skt.; Pali, Vajjis) were a confederation of republican tribal states and one of the principal sixteen major nations in North India during the time of the Buddha.  King Ajatashatru of Magadha sent his minister Vessakara to meet the Buddha in Rajgir at Vulture Peak, where the Buddha often taught. Ajatashatru was a ruthless, ambitious ruler who had murdered his own father, King Bimbisara, but had, strangely enough, absolute faith in the Buddha’s wisdom and integrity. He wanted honest feedback on his military plans and instructed his minister to tell the Buddha of his intention to wage war on the Vrijjis, adding: “Whatever the Blessed One should answer you, keep it well in mind and inform me; for Tathagatas [‘ones who are thus gone’] do not speak falsely.”

  1.  Did the Vrijjis hold frequent and regular assemblies, and were these meetings well attended? In present-day terms, do we have a functioning parliament (or Congress) with regular and well-attended sessions? We might even say that the Buddha was calling here for public participation, which right now, for Americans at least, would mean to get out and vote.
  2. Did the Vrijjis assemble and disperse from these assemblies peacefully, and did they conduct affairs in concord? In contemporary political language are we reasonably “nonpartisan” in our politics? Do we allow free participation, discussion, and criticism, without suppressing opposition?
  3. Did the Vrijjis proceed in accordance with their ancient constitution and not enact new laws or abolish existing ones? I think the Buddha was asking not whether the Vrijjis never enacted new laws or never abolished existing ones, but whether they were careful about such things and did not amend their constitution frequently or capriciously.
  4. Did the Vrijjis respect and honor their elders and think it worthwhile to heed their advice? In our time we might ask whether we listen to senior statesmen, experts, scholars, historians, and—in the context of our current health crisis—even “medical experts.”
  5. Did the Vrijjis refrain from abducting women and maidens of good families and from detaining them? Clearly the Buddha was saying that women should not be abused and should be treated with respect. His condemnation of aggression against women does bear repeating in our MeToo era. In another discourse, the Sigalaka Sutta (DN 31), the Buddha tells a householder not to disparage his wife but to honor her and “give her authority…”(trans. Bhikkhu Bodhi), in other words, treat her as an equal.
  6. Did the Vrijjis show respect and veneration toward their shrines? In a modern secular nation, the equivalent of such shrines might be public institutions such as museums, libraries, universities, and scientific foundations that demonstrate our confidence in our society and the endurance of our nation.
  7. o the Vrijjis make proper provisions for the safety and welfare of arhats, so that arhats may feel welcome to the Vrijjian land? An arhat was an enlightened person, or even simply someone advanced along the path, possibly including even non-Buddhists. Jains had their own arhats. If the Buddha were speaking in our time, he would probably be saying that we should welcome scholars, scientists, and religious leaders from other countries, perhaps in the way the United States welcomed Thomas Mann an Albert Einstein before World War II.

While the Buddha’s advice for political well-being may be cogent and apt, another lesson from the Mahaparinirvana Sutra—in fact, his last words—appears to supersede it: “Bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things must come to an end. Strive on, untiringly, for your own liberation.”

Another article by Riaan Kumar from IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Reflections of Buddhism on Modern Democracy – A 21st Century Perspective research into the compatibility between Democracy and Buddhism.

I think part of the charpters from above book: Buddhism and democracy pdf file.

The separation of church and state in the government structure is one of the symtoms of the modern society which separate mind and body, human and nature, disconnect our spirituality with the universe, had cause the huge conflict in human society derived from duality.

Buddhism and Democracy 1

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As July 4th approaching, it is once again the time for celebrating the birth of one of the first democratic countries in the world. In a time of huge disparity between haves and have-nots, high inflation, economic recession, technology dispution/destruction and possibilites of World War III outbreak, my mind kept on wondering from Great Master YinGuang who Nivarnaed on December 2 1940 （1940年农历冬月初四 ， 圆瑛法师：印光大师生西事实；又李炳南：印光大师圆寂十周年纪念回忆录 ）, then to the President Franklin Roosevlet’s Four Freedoms.

In State of Union Speech on January 6, 1941, 11 months before USA entered into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt addressing the difficult question, why and if America would join World War II. Roosevelt lay out the principle people “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech; Freedom of worship; Freedom from want; Freedom from fear. The address made a break with the long-held tradition of United States non-interventionism. Roosevlet outlined the U.S. role in helping allies already engaged in warfare, especially Great Britain and China.

American artist Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms illustration collection – Freedom from Want; Freedom of Speech; Freedom of Worship; Freedom From Fear 

Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms is very much in line with Buddha’s teaching about dana. Buddhism acknowledges that we exist in a vast network of life, continuously the recipients of the generosity of others. But there’s much more to giving than we think. There are three forms of dana, namely:

  1. Amisa dana (The gift of material things)
  2. Abhaya dana (The gift of life, protection from fear)
  3. Dharma dana (the gift of truth)

The United States 4th and 5th Amendments are a great example of gift of protetion from fear. And Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms goes beyond that listed in the Constitution. Roosevelt clarified his act of compassion with wisdom.

U.S Constintution of 4th and 5th Amendment is a form of Dana – gift for protection from fear.

In Buddhism view, social breakdown cannot be separated from broader questions about the benevolence of the social order. Poverty means lacking the basic material requirements for leading a decent life free from hunger, exposure and disease. The solution to poverty-induced crime is not to punish severely but to enable people to provide for their basic needs. There is a causal relationship between material poverty and social deterioration. Lion’s Roar Sutra tell the story of a monarch who at first relied upon the Buddhist teachings but later began to rule according to his own ideas. He did not give property to the needy, with the result that poverty became widespread. Then, from the not giving of property to the needy, poverty became widespread, from the growth of poverty, the taking of what was not given increased, from the increase of theft, the use of weapons increased, from the increased use of weapons, the taking of life increased . . . (Digha-Nikaya iii 65). A Buddhist Perspective on Poverty written by David Loy, using many real life example to illustrates to us how Buddha integrate wisdom and compassion to go on a middle way in all his teaching.

In other sutras, however, the Buddha teaches that the greatest wealth is contentment (santutthi paramam dhanam). Material well-being has become increasingly important because of our loss of faith in any other possibility of fulfilment — for example, an afterlife in heaven with God, or the secular heaven of socialism, or even (when despairing over the ecological crisis) the future progress of humankind. Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, one of the “poorest” countries in Asia, has been at the forefront of efforts to develop a new index for measuring human well-being:  “gross national happiness.” The corrosive influence of economic globalization and its development institutions on other human values needs to be challenged. 

According to the teaching of The Gradual Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim- stage of the path), we need to have a clear understanding of Worldly generosity versus far-reaching attitude of generosity  In the normal act of generosity a person gives out of compassion and kindness when he realizes that someone else is in need of help, and he is in the position to offer the help. When a person performs dana, he gives as a means of cultivating charity as a virtue and of reducing his own selfishness and craving. He exercises wisdom when he recalls that dana is a very important quality to be practised by every Buddhist, and is the first perfection (paramita)practised by the Buddha in many of His previous births in search for Enlightenment. A person performs dana in appreciation of the great qualities and virtues of the Triple Gem. While the act of giving is purely out of compassion or good will, or the desire for someone else’s well-being, dana is more about how we are than what we do.

Buddha taught us that when giving, a person should not just perform the act, but should with his heart and mind as well. There must be joy in every act of giving. Dana is not meant to be obligatory or done reluctantly. Rather, dana should be performed when the giver is “delighted before, during, and after giving.” At its most basic level, dana in the Buddhist tradition means giving freely without expecting anything in return. But giving should be evaluated by your ability and capacity, that is by your good judgement and wisdom.

Buddhists also argue that the reason one doesn’t hear so much about Buddhist charity is that Buddhism doesn’t seek publicity for charity. English translation of Letters From Patriarch Yin Kuang will show us much more about the THOUGHTS FROM GREAT MASTER YIN GUANG. 中国佛教协会：大德风范 高山仰止。

We Need a Peaceful Revolution – an Interview with Robert Kennedy Jr.

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While China’s harvesting human organ from falungong members is atrocity, Jeffery Epstein, who affliciated with a huge network of high profile elites, involving in the human trafficling crimes sexually abusing under age children horrifying, we are in another gilded age with big corporations dominate our society and international relations in a globalization setting. The general situation is the corrupt merger of the state and corporate power with revolving door between government politicians, government agencies and corporation power. Politicians entering their career with modest income end up millionaires and billionairs after decades in the position. Executives of big corporations got out of size compensations. The corruption had infiltriated mind, body and spirit of modern world. We need a total purification, we need a peaceful revolution from these toxics.

In an interview with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers, Robert Kennedy Jr. spoke of the traditional liberal Democratic value passed down from his uncle President John Kennedy and his father Senator Robert Kennedy. His father generation had an antipathy and suspicion of war and the military industrial complex. They did not want corporations running the American government. They were completely against censorship. They were against the use of fear as a governing tool, and they spoke out about it often.

Robert Kennedy Jr. had spent forty years litigating against the regulatory agenies in the United States. He spoke of the domination of democratic governments by corporate power as the center of issues. The government regulation started out not strong enough to protect the public interest. Widespread corruptions take advantage of legalizd bribery, as well as illegalized bribery. The rules supervising conflicts of interest are just ignored, systematicaly ignored. We have what they call honest graft and dishonest graft.

The result is a systematically hollowing out the American middle class, through wars, through bank bailouts, through lockdowns, etc. We are just printing money to make billionaires richer. During the COVID lockdown, there was a $4 Trillion shift in wealth fromt the American middle class to this new oligarchy of billionaires. We created 500 new billionaires with a lockdown and the billionaires we already had increased their wealth by 30%. The total cost of the lockdowns was $16 trillion. That is jus one of the assaults.

Then we got the bailout of the Silicon Valley Bank, the War in Ukraine, which is costing us $113 billion. The war in Iraq, and the wars that followed that have cost us $8 trillion. For all those wars we fought, American people bear all the cost and the consequence. That is $24 trillion in total loss! Is it any wonder that we don’t have a middle class left in the Unived States of America? Unless we rebuild the middle class and rebuild our economy, we can not maintain democracy when there are high concentrations of wealth in the same place with widespread proverty.

The political climate become more polarised than ever with good reason. To some extent co-opted by Bill Gates, by the World Economic Forum, and the billionaires’ boys club in Davos in the same way the COVID crisis was appropriated by them, to make themselves richer, to impose totalitarian controls on society. and to stratify our society with a group of very very powerful and wealthy people at the top, and then the vast majority of human beings with very little power, very little sovereignty over their own lives. Every crisis is an opportunity for those forces to clamp down controls.

In the same token, there is a shift from habitat preservation, regenerative farming. We need to reduce carbon, whether you believe in climate change or not. Anywhere there is carbon, there is also mercury, ozone particulates, aluminium, there is all these other kinds of really horrible toxins that come from burning hydrocarbons. What we see is a shift from those concerns, but more towards carbon capture, which can be monetized by the corporations and exploited without seeing any real benefits on the ground. There are also geo-engineering solutions, which Robert Kennedy Jr. oppose. Look at the kind of geoengineering solutions that are being pushed, tends to be by the same group of people who also have IP(patent rights) rights in a lot of those technologies. There is definitely an optic of self-interest and self-serving.

This combination of corporate and government power, which colluded to get farmers to switch over to heavily nitrate fertiliser dependent for farming and chemical dependent farming is very toxic. That was a deliberate systematic and GMO farming. Once you get all the farmers to switch to carbon-based fertilisers and to monocultures, this is a way of corporate power to destroyig small farmers. We want to have democracy, we need a broad ownership of our land by a wide variety of yeoman farmers, each with a stake in our system. As Thomas Jefferson said, wiping out small farmers and giving control of food production to corporation is not in the interest of humanity, and we need to help those farmers transition off the addiction that we imposed upon them in the first place.

With so many important issues going on, vaccine is a issue that for most American, is not on their top list, but they have far reaching consequence.

Examples most egregious of those issue are like the Environmental Protection Agency effectively run by the oil industry, the coal industry and the pesticide industry. The Big Pharma runs FDA – FDA get 50% of its budget from Big Pharma. The CDC spends half of its budget purchasing vaccines, NIH essentially is a incubator for new pharmacetical products. It doesn’t do the basic research people want them to be doing – where diseases, allergic diseases are coming from, autoimmune disease and neurological diseases, why are we seeing this explosion? Those kinds of studies don’t get done. Studies do get done are studies for the pharmaceutical products, and then NIH collects royalties when pharma company sells those product. You have the regulator that is essentially a partner with the regulated industry. Department of Transport is run by the railroads in our country, by the airlines. The banks have utterly corrupted the SEC. Media has corrupted the FEC. That was how pernicious the systems are, particularly polluting corporations, the military industrial complex, the financial industry.

If you want to achieve peace, you got to put yourself in the other guys’ shoes, you have to understand your opponents’ position. Robert Kennedy Jr. spoke of the end of cuba missle crisis happened because President John Kennedy reached out to Khrushchev directly and said, ‘let’s settle this between us’, and their settlement was secret and remain secret for many years. President Kennedy and Khrushchev were both surrounded by people who DID want to go to war.

We don’t want constant war in our country, we can not afford them. The CIA needs to be regoranised in a way. Most of the people who work at the CIA are very good public servants, and we need them to function. But we really need to separate the espionage functions of that agency and the plans division – the division that actually does dirty tricks, kills people, and makes wars that invovles itself in actions because what happens is, that operations tail begins to wag the espionage dog. The information gathering, analysis, that is the function that the CIA was created to perform. From very early on, Allen Dulles, essentially corrupted the purpose of it by getting the CIA invovled in assassinations and fixing elections. CIA has been invovled now in fixing coup d’etats or attempted coup d’etats in about a third of the countries in the world, most of them democracies. So our national policy as a country is to promote democracy. The CIA’s policy has been the opposite.

Where Did the American True Spirit of Democracy Come from?

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Pastor John MacArthur said in one of this sermons: ” You do’nt need information about the disappointments in our culture, the disappointments in our world, you don’t need to know that everything is upside down, as in Isaiah Chapter 5, bitter has been swapped with sweet, good has been swapped with bad, and we are living in an inverted and upside down world. But I want to give you a perspective biblically, so you can understand what is going on. The first thing I want to say is, you have to understand this, what is happening in our country and largely in our world, is a Divine Judgement. Mark that in your mind. It is a Divine Judgement. Joe Biden is not in charge of this, God is. “

Pastor MacAuthur continues to say, ” This is the wrath of Abandonment. This is historical as God allow all the nations to go their own way. The history of the world is the history of Nations going their own way and consequently experiencing the wrath of Divine Abandonment. This is what is the view in Romans 1:18. The wrath of God revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrightenousness. “

Spiritual leader Marianne Williamson spoke of Consciousness, Spirituality and Politics in America on in a presentation with Harvard Divinity School. She reminded people that William Penn, an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era, was an advocate of democracy and religious freedom known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans who had resided in present-day Pennsylvania prior to European settlements inthe state.

Is U.S Constitution and Supreme Court Outdated for Constructive Change ? – an Exploration of Public Trust and Social Contract

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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, one of our greatest intellectual treasures, was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He is boasted John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, amonst others his best friends. He had always said USA is a country founded by rich white wealthy men, FOR rich white wealthy men, the country they wanted was a nirvana for the small percentage of the wealthy, it was never built for majority of the poor. The United States of Amnesia-Gore Vidal (2013) [Documentary] What an amazing, brilliant man who lived life fully; and saw the whole picture.

Written by 55 of the richest white men of early America, and signed by only 39 of them, the constitution is the sacred text of American nationalism. Many Americans have opinions on the constitution but have no idea what’s in it. The book We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few – a class analysis of the US Constitution, (Pluto Press, 2022) is an adroit collection of essays exposing the constitution for what it really is – a rulebook to protect capitalism for the elites. Author Robert Ovetz’s reading of the constitution shows that the system isn’t broken. Far from it. It works as it was designed. The misplaced faith of social movements in the constitution as a framework for achieving justice actually obstructs social change – incessant lengthy election cycles, staggered terms, and legislative sessions have kept social movements trapped in a redundant loop. This stymies progress on issues like labor rights, public health, and climate change, projecting the American people and the rest of the world towards destruction.

In this Democracy At Work program – Economic Update: Why The US Constitution Is An Obstacle To Change, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the US banking crisis, plant closing injustice, growing child labor in the US, Biden’s budget’s tax “proposals,” and a new book that shows US homelessness is an economic problem. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Prof. Robert Ovetz on how and why the US Constitution blocks social change.

One of the premises within the US political parties is that private capital is to be left to those who are entrepreneurs, and not to go after the profit making. If businesses start being created under a democratic process brought on by the labor that produces the goods and services that creates those profits, the only response to stop would be outright fascism (we already operate under that in way already). Power that be always talk about free enterprise, until that freedom goes from the few to the masses.

The Homelessness is a Housing Problem discussion a very pressing issue offering a case in point about the homeless is an economic issue. Gregg Colburn, an assistant professor of real estate in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. Ph.D. in Public Affairs, … and Clayton Page Aldern, a writer and data scientist. They team up to seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities’ diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.

In the book Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people Hardcover – January 17, 2023, the non-fiction, award winning author, Tracy Kidder has given new insight into a difficult and disturbing feature of contemporary America: an ever increasing homeless population.  Kidder shadowed Dr. James O’Connell as he treated the homeless of Boston in clinics and from a mobile unit on the streets at night. The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. O’Connell and his colleagues as they served their thousands of homeless patients. It all started when Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, the chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? Jim took the job because he felt he couldn’t refuse. But that year turned into his life’s calling.

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor Paperback – Illustrated, August 6, 2019 is written by Virginia Eubanks is an American political scientist, professor, and author studying technology and social justice.  Eubanks launched a powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity. The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years―because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect.

Author aruges that since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems―rather than humans―control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. The U.S. has always used its most cutting-edge science and technology to contain, investigate, discipline and punish the destitute. Like the county poorhouse and scientific charity before them, digital tracking and automated decision-making hide poverty from the middle-class public and give the nation the ethical distance it needs to make inhumane choices: which families get food and which starve, who has housing and who remains homeless, and which families are broken up by the state. In the process, they weaken democracy and betray our most cherished national values.

Eubanks offers historical context about the role of the poorhouse in earlier American societies to explain how, through technology, we’ve built a digital poorhouse that is just as abusive and stigmatizing. This is a critical read for anyone who is trying to understand poverty in America and why well-intended technology is only going to be used to exacerbate existing social inequities. “Automating Inequality” is ethnography at its best, on par with Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed” or Matt Desmond’s “Evicted.” This book details how algorithmic technologies are upending basic government programs supporting the unhoused in accessing shelter, providing access to welfare, and managing child services programs. 

With so many school shooting, another topic at the center of debates is Gun control. As a Buddhist, I am strongly against the use of weapon for the danger of violating the precepts of not killing – one of the very important precepts in the Buddha’s teaching. But after these several years of research into American social political and economic system, I can understand why there are also strong arguments about keeping the gun for self protection. Just like Marijuana, Fentanyl and many other additictive drugs, the government did not spend any resources to prevent the usage in the first place – another case of resources misallocation.

One of these arguments came from John R. Lott, Jr., an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate, on his battle with disinformation over gun control! In this book, Gun Control Myths: How politicians, the media, and botched “studies” have twisted the facts on gun control Paperback – July 3, 2020 John brings together an impressive array of data and statistical analysis to argue that much of what we hear in the mainstream media — and from politicians — about gun violence and gun control is incorrect and biased. He has a point – well, several actually. This book should be read by anyone concerned about gun violence and, most importantly, by anyone who writes about gun violence. The book might not change many opinions, as positions in the gun violence and control argument are set pretty hard…but perhaps even those with the firmest-held beliefs will be forced to reflect and think carefully about some of John’s data, analysis and conclusions. They should, if they are truly interested in the truth.

Another book The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America Hardcover – June 1, 2021 Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a “pro-gun” nor an “anti-gun” book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans.

The recent instance of a young African teen were shot when knocking someone’s door is an reflection of the deep anxiety of America. Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education Paperback – November 1, 2006 The author Danielle Allen, a professor of public policy, politics, and ethics at Harvard University, brought focus back to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow “citizen” Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us. Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy working—and offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.

Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism Hardcover Using both individual and aggregate level survey data, Marc Hetherington, an American political scientist, shows that the rapid decline in Americans’ political trust since the 1960s is critical to explaining this puzzle. As people lost faith in the federal government, the delivery system for most progressive policies, they supported progressive ideas much less. The 9/11 attacks increased such trust as public attention focused on security, but the effect was temporary. Specifically, Hetherington shows that, as political trust declined, so too did support for redistributive programs, such as welfare and food stamps, and race-targeted programs. While the presence of race in a policy area tends to make political trust important for whites, trust affects policy preferences in other, non-race-related policy areas as well. In the mid-1990s the public was easily swayed against comprehensive health care reform because those who felt they could afford coverage worried that a large new federal bureaucracy would make things worse for them. In demonstrating a strong link between public opinion and policy outcomes, this engagingly written book represents a substantial contribution to the study of public opinion and voting behavior, policy, and American politics generally.

Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism Hardcover – November 24, 2020. takes on the media’s misreporting on Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, Joe Biden, Silicon Valley censorship, and more. For the past four years, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson has been collecting and dissecting alarming incidents tracing the shocking devolution of what used to be the most respected news organizations on the planet. For the first time, top news executives and reporters representing every major national television news outlet—from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN to FOX and MSNBC—speak frankly, confiding in Attkisson about the death of the news as they once knew it. Their concern transcends partisan divides. We have reached a state of utter absurdity, where journalism schools teach students that their own, personal truth or chosen narratives matter more than reality. In Slanted, Attkisson digs into the language of propagandists, the persistence of false media narratives, the driving forces behind today’s dangerous blend of facts and opinion, the abandonment of journalism ethics, and the new, Orwellian definition of what it means to report the news. 

With loving kindness taught by the Buddha, with divine principle as our guideline, with a sincre notion that we are all equal at the soul level, everyone of us all can strive to make this World Be A Better Place ! Because in uplifting others, we uplifting our own spirit.