NSA is spying on texts, emails, calls (video)

DemocracyNow.org (Apr. 20, 2012); Wisdom Quarterly

 

"Brain-whatting?" "Never mind, go to sleep."

(DN) National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower William Binney drops a bombshell: Domestic surveillance has become more expansive under Pres. Obama than Pres. Bush. 

  

He estimates that the NSA has assembled 20 trillion "transactions" -- phone calls, emails, and many other forms of data such as texts -- produced by ordinary law-abiding Americans. 

  

"We need more money like the NSA gets."

This includes copies of almost all of the emails sent and received from most people living in the United States. 

  

Binney talks about Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and challenges NSA Director Keith Alexander's assertion that the NSA is not intercepting information about U.S. citizens.

    

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Uprising!

10-25-12 8:00 AM

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Self-view, non-duality, and Zen (video)

Alan Watts (alanwatts.org); KPFK.org (Audio Archives); Wisdom Quarterly

• PLAY NOW ("Intellectual Yoga," Aug. 5, 2012 8:00 am)

Yoga (to yoke) means union. There are different ways (to yoke, to union). It opposes alienation, the view of separateness of "self" from all (sakkaya-drishti). Experiencing the ONENESS of all things is not enlightenment. But it is blissful, a  relief, giving a sense of connection longed for (connectedness) at a profound and innate level. How? Allow it.

   

We may be finding it difficult to meditate. That's common and to be expected for untrained hearts. Stress not. Relax more deeply. Wish for it less. But keep applying the "method" -- bring mind back to the object of meditation. What does that mean? It only means remember to give attention to what the mind is being centered on -- the present moment, this breath, a mantra, a sensation, a visualization, a fragrance. If one is engaged in the fundamental practice of not concentrating on the breath but simply allowing attention to go back to the breath again and again until it sits there. There is no effort to make other than persisting, waiting for a natural elevated state to come as a result of everything falling away, letting go, restoring consciousness to pure awareness without a goal.

Full-length "The Art of Meditation" by British Zen teacher Alan Watts

 

MCTB The Non-Duality Model

DharmaOverground.org

The Non-Duality Model essentially says that the goal is to stop a process of identification that turns some patterns of sensations into a Doer, Perceiver, Center Point, Soul, Agent, or Self in some very fundamental perceptual way. By seeing these sensations as they are, the process can gradually be seen through until one day: “In the seeing [there is] just the seen, in the hearing just the heard, in the thinking [otherwise experienced] just the thought”...

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Why men prefer "conspiracy" theories (audio)

Johnathan Kay, Among the Truthers; Sonali Kohlhatkar (Pacifica/KPFK/Uprising.org)

• Uprising! (July 17, 2012 8:00)
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Kay: There’s a very good piece on the Think Progress web site about the Drudge Report’s role in sending tens of millions of web surfers to two right-wing conspiracy sites, Alex Jones’ libertarian-conspiracist Prison Planet and Joseph Farah’s apocalypse-watching World Net Daily. Here’s an excerpt [of recent revelations via the blogosphere and alternative media]: More

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The Truth About Kashmir (audio)

AR (alternativeradio.org)

The 14th Dalai Lama visits troubled Kashmir, the gateway to Buddhist India (Ladakh)

• Alternative Radio (Pacifica), Monday, July 16, 2012 8:00 am
  

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Kashmir: Buried Evidence

Among the many issues plaguing South Asia, none is as violent or deeply contested as Kashmir.
  
The problem mirrors China's Tibet and America's Palestine -- an intransigent land issue of genocidal proportions.

   
The major unresolved issue of the disastrous British partition of India in 1947, Kashmir has been the site of wars and the threat of wars, and probably the world's longest and most extensive military occupation....

  

Dr. A.P. Chatterji (greaterkashmir.com)

Dr. Angana P. Chatterji is an anthropologist, activist, and feminist historian from Calcutta, India. She is a co-convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir.

  

Dr. Chatterji's research is closely related to her activism and focuses mainly on India. An anthropologist by profession, she has studied "militarized governance, gender and identity, and self-determination" in Indian-administered Kashmir and communal violence in Orissa.
 

In the context of the United States, she has researched issues related to "hyper-nationalism, diaspora, and identity politics" in American society.

  

She was formerly (1997-2011) part of the faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a private educational institution based in San Francisco, along with her husband, Richard Shapiro. More

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• Where was the Buddha really born?

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