Noam Chomsky Tho Jul 9, 2025 UNITED STATES Noam Chomsky || The Last Days of Trump Have Begun Welcome to Noam Chomsky Thoughts! Why You Should Watch This Video: In this powerful and deeply moving 36-minute speech, inspired by the voice of Noam Chomsky, we explore the philosophical, political, and moral implications of the final unraveling of Trumpism. This is not merely a critique of a man—but a call to awaken from illusion, reject authoritarian systems, and reimagine a future rooted in justice, truth, and collective responsibility. This video is for thinkers, activists, educators, and citizens who want to understand not just what is happening, but why it happened—and what comes next. If you believe that democracy must be redefined from the ground up, and if you’re seeking spiritual and intellectual guidance during turbulent times, this speech is your compass. Timelapse: 00:00 – Introduction: When Power Starts to Crumble 03:50 – Authoritarianism Thrives in a Vacuum 08:10 – The Demagogue Is a Symptom, Not the Disease 12:25 – The Collapse of Illusions Is Underway 16:30 – Awakening and Engagement Are Growing 21:00 – Memory and Responsibility Are Crucial 26:05 – Rejecting a Return to the Status Quo 31:20 – Hope Lies in Vision, Not Just Resistance 35:45 – Conclusion: Rebuilding from the Ashes
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New Thinking Jul 10, 2025 Here Jeffrey Mishlove engages in a dialogue with himself about the paradigm shift that would be required for the paranormal to become normalized. He compares this to the paradigm change that occurred from the belief that witches must be put to death to the belief that there is no such thing as a real witch. He also shares information about the empirical data of parapsychology, practical applications of psychic ability, and the theoretical underpinnings of psi (the term parapsychologists use for ESP and psychokinesis). 00:00 Introduction 03:32 The biblical roots of the problem 06:52 Witch hunts 11:22 What is a paradigm shift? 14:34 The Helen Duncan trial 20:39 The empirical evidence 33:18 Practical applications 40:29 Theoretical explanations 50:43 Summary and conclusion (Recorded on June 19, 2025)
With Apologies to Churchill, a Speech for a State at War
By Joe Mathews July 8, 2025 (ZocaloPublicSquare.org)
This may be the most dangerous time in our state’s history, writes columnist Joe Mathews, but we mustn’t surrender to this American tyranny. Credit: AP Photo/Jill Connelly
This is the speech that I wish a California leader would give. With apologies to Winston Churchill.
From the moment Trump’s raids began, it became clear that the U.S. regime has declared war against California. A real civil war, not a metaphorical one.
It is hard to accept this truth. Because we Californians have done nothing—not one thing—to justify the national government sending secret police and thousands of military personnel to attack us.
Trump is offering no conditions and proposing no negotiations to end this war. That’s because the war itself is Trump’s goal, a realization of his violent delusions and his desire for unchecked power. He is invading California for the same reason Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine—because the Golden State is a sovereign and democratic entity that won’t accept dictatorship. Our very existence threatens his tyranny.
Trump is following Putin’s playbook.
Both lie the same way, saying that they did not start their wars, but are merely defending their nations against the real invasion being launched by Californians on the U.S. (or by Ukrainians on Russia).
Trump, like Putin, has launched a war using deceit and security personnel in disguise. In 2014, Russia sent its soldiers into Crimea with their faces masked, wearing unmarked uniforms, and without identification; Russia denied the presence of these soldiers even as they attacked local communities, creating confusion about who they were. Trump’s Homeland Security agents are also masked, favor unmarked clothing and unmarked vehicles, and refuse to identify themselves, and lie about their attacks on local people (even when they are captured on video).
Californians are underdogs in Trump’s war, just as Ukrainians are in Russia’s war. We face a powerful government and the world’s largest military, and we have no army. Trump has lawlessly seized control of our California National Guard, which is supposed to defend us in emergencies, so that he might use our own soldiers to help round us up.
The courts aren’t much help. While judges rule in California’s favor in some cases, Trump ignores some orders and delays response to others. Congress won’t save us. Trump’s secret police assaulted our senior U.S. Senator in a federal office building, on camera, and Trump-aligned colleagues falsely blamed the victim for the assault.
This may be the most dangerous time in our state’s history. Let us brace ourselves to our duty to stop this American tyranny.
Our very own local police seem to side with the regime. In Los Angeles, the sheriffs and police department have fired their “less lethal” weapons not against lawless federal agents kidnapping our people—but against Californians trying to protect their neighbors.
The hard truth is that no one in power is going to fight for California as hard as everyday Californians will.
The good news is that you and I can win this war. In some ways, we are already winning; Trump has sent his secret police and his troops, and still we are not conquered. Indeed, I declare here and now that we will win, because we have no other option than victory.
As Albert Camus once wrote: “The moment despair is alone, pure, sure of itself, pitiless in its consequences, it has a merciless power.” We Californians must channel our despair at being attacked into winning a war more challenging than any living Californians have ever fought.
Collectively, we will have to muster our discipline to remain non-violent. We will need to answer federal punches and shots and tear gas with songs and prayers, even when the reward for our non-violence will be relentless lies about us, and more violence from the Trump regime. We must play defense until this invading enemy loses heart and begins to retreat.
Then we must do more: We must seize ground.
We should march upon any federal facility where we expect our fellow Californians are being held in conditions that may constitute torture. We are Americans, and taxpayers, and those buildings belong to us, and those detained are our neighbors. And when federal officials, or even our own governor or mayors, tell us to not assemble in giant protests, to not insist on seeing those that the regime seizes, to compromise on due process and habeas corpus, let us ignore them. Protest more, insist more, demand more. These are our rights, and no one can take them away.
In this fight, we will need allies. Trump is alienating most of the world, so we should send emissaries abroad to ask for help. We need money and trade to blunt the effects of Trump’s economic war. We must convince other countries and states to exert their economic, diplomatic, and even military pressure to demand that the U.S. government ends its violence against California, and remove its secret police and troops from Los Angeles.
And since so much Silicon Valley is afraid to fight Trump, California’s communities and rapid response networks will need outside help securing what is called “PeaceTech,” the training and technology to monitor federal forces, avert confrontations, and protect vulnerable peoples from being disappeared.
All this will not be enough. Californians must use seduction, too. While we loathe the regime, we must befriend individual federal agents and soldiers. When it is safe to do so, we might invite them to our block parties, barbecues, ballgames, churches, film premieres. Trump is filling their heads with lies about Californians, so let these federal occupiers get to know us. Many will come to see that their federal masters are the real threat. Some may, covertly or not, join our side.
We will fight the U.S. regime in all these ways—with non-violence, global networks, tech, and hospitality.
This may be the most dangerous time in our state’s history. Let us brace ourselves to our duty to stop this American tyranny.
And let us bear ourselves so that, if our Golden State lasts another thousand years, future Californians will look back and say, “That was our finest hour.”
Joe Mathews writes the Connecting California column for Zócalo Public Square and is founder-columnist of Democracy Local, a planetary publication.
Drawing on the insights of physics and Jewish mysticism, Daniel Matt uncovers the sense of wonder and oneness that connects us with the universe and God. He describes in understandable terms the parallels between modern cosmology and ancient Kabbalah. He shows how science and religion together can enrich our spiritual understanding.
For two thousand years, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been effectively treating anxiety, depression, insomnia, and other conditions using herbal medicine and other healing modalities. In this book, Nina Cheng, founder of Chinese medicine company The Eastern Philosophy, and a team of renowned practitioners and scholars of Chinese medicine, share practical, accessible remedies and protocols you can use to improve your mental and emotional well-being.
This captivating book presents a new, unified picture of the everyday world around us. It provides rational, scientific support for the idea that there may well be more to our reality than meets the eye. Accessible and engaging for readers with no prior knowledge of quantum physics, author Ruth Kastner draws on the popular transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics to explain our ‘quantum reality.’ Her book focuses on modern-day examples and deals with big philosophical questions as well as ideas from physics.
Imagine having the opportunity to discuss humanity’s deepest, most challenging questions—from philosophy to quantum mechanics – with the greatest minds throughout history. Within these pages, Grossman shares conversations with Plato, Socrates, Benedict Spinoza, and William James, who guide him on a journey of discovery… not simply about the nature of humanity, but of reality itself. Through the art of casual, playful narrative, this professor of philosophy makes simple the principles of Idealism and the Divine, presenting solid and compelling evidence for why consciousness, not matter, represents the foundation of all things.
This small section of the Vera Rubin Observatory’s total view of the Virgo cluster shows two prominent spiral galaxies (lower right), three merging galaxies (upper right), several groups of distant galaxies, many stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and more. This newly opened observatory contains the largest digital camera ever built. (from New Thinking Allowed)
Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything.
The claims in a Translation may seem outrageous, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week.
1) Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore total, therefore complete, therefore whole, therefore sound, therefore sane. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore I, being, am Truth. Since I, being, am Truth, therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth. Therefore I, being, am total, complete, whole, sound, sane. Since I am mind (self-evident) adn since I (being) am Truth, therefore Truth is Mind. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.) Since Truth is Mind, therefore Mind has all the attributes of Truth. Therefore Mind is total, complete, whole, sound, sane.
2) Getting rid of the old to make way for the new can be a painful process.
Word-tracking: rid: to strip, to clear land, to free from something undesirable. desire: to want, to cease to see old: to age, vapid, stale, insipid (not tasty), dull, uninteresting new: recent, fresh, unfaded pain: opposition
3) Truth being all is therefore without limit. Being without limit is therefore without beginning or ending. Therefore Truth is ageless. Truth being ageless, cannot be old or new (both implying age), Therefore Truth is always now. Therefore Truth is the eternal now. Truth being whole, complete, nothing can be missing. So to desire something is to cease to see the wholeness of truth. But since Mind is Truth and since Truth is all, therefore Mind is all. Mind, being all, cannot cease to see anything. Therefore Mind sees everying. Truth being all, there is nothing other than Truth, therefore Truth is one. Truth being one, there is no opposition to Truth. Therefore there is no pain.
4) Truth is ageless. Truth is always now. Truth is the eternal now. To desire something is to cease to see the wholeness of truth. Mind is all. Mind sees everying. Truth is one There is no opposition to Truth. There is no pain.
5) Ageless Mind is all-knowing, painless and satiated.
Weekly Invitational Translation Group invites your participation. If you would like to submit a Translation on any subject, feel free to send your weekly Translation to zonta1111@aol.com and we will anonymously post it on the Bathtub Bulletin on Friday.
Those of us who care about climate change need to get off the mat and get back to work. There is still much we can do.
By Jonathan Foley
July 10, 2025 (SFChronicle.com)
Daisuke Sakagami views San Francisco from the Marin Headlands through the haze of wildfire smoke in 2023. While the U.S. is scaling back its climate action efforts, there are many pathways still available to building a better future.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/S.F. Chronicle
For Americans concerned about climate change, the passage of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is nothing to celebrate. The newly minted budget will essentially take a sledgehammer to the Inflation Reduction Act — the first significant federal action by the United States designed to try to address rising global temperatures.
The legislation, which passed without the vote of a single Democrat, won’t simply hurt our environment; it will hurt the country more broadly. With the stroke of a Sharpie, Trump rolled back critical tax breaks and federal investments that have created good-paying jobs and reduced household energy bills. The Inflation Reduction Act would have gone on to make the electrical grid more reliable, kick-start new technologies and companies, maintain America’s competitive edge, and improve air quality for all Americans.
Dismantling the Inflation Reduction Act was a remarkably shortsighted move, and no one — not Republicans or Democrats, city dwellers or rural inhabitants — will emerge unscathed.
For many of us who have dedicated our careers to fighting climate change, this was a gut punch. But all is not lost.
After Republicans secured passage of Trump’s budget last week, I sent a letter to the staffers at Project Drawdown, a nonprofit dedicated to global climate action where I’m executive director, assuring them that the antidote to fear and worry is action.
In the coming weeks and months, those of us who care about climate change need to get off the mat and get back to work. There is still much we can do. The federal government doesn’t have a monopoly on climate action, and there are many pathways still available to building a better future.
To start, we should focus on the international stage. While decisions made in the United States still matter a great deal, it is not the whole climate ball game. Indeed, over 90% of the world’s emissions are now produced outside the United States. And the atmosphere doesn’t care about national borders.
Fortunately, the rest of the world is not sitting still, and many climate solutions are accelerating in other countries. Whether we look at China, Europe, Latin America or elsewhere, it is clear that the future belongs to clean energy. Solar energy is now the fastest-growing energy source in human history, growing at 20%-30% annually. Fossil fuels’ days are ultimately numbered.
Even in the United States, we can still make tremendous progress.
Yes, the budget bill is all but certain to slow down the move to clean energy in America — and hand a huge economic advantage to China — but it will not stop the transition. The long-term future of energy in the United States, like everywhere else, will ultimately be green.
Economics are shifting, and clean energy is gaining momentum over fossil fuels. The smart money is on green energy, which is why investors and businesses continue to put their money there. And clean energy’s competitive advantage is only getting stronger. Clean energy will eventually be an unstoppable force in the market, no matter what “drill, baby, drill” Trump and his fossil fuel bankrollers want.
Looking beyond Washington, we can also leverage the critical role that cities, states and public utility commissions play in advancing climate action. Many states, including California and Minnesota, have been pioneers in clean energy through their ambitious investments and policies. (Minnesota, for example, will require 100% clean electricity by 2040, years ahead of most other states.) This cannot entirely replace federal action, of course, but it still advances critical work on the ground.
We should, of course, lament the additional progress we could have made if the Trump administration weren’t undermining science and climate solutions at every turn. However, we can still make meaningful strides on climate change.
For people striving to fight climate change — whether at nonprofits or on their own — the work ahead must look beyond Washington. Cities, states, businesses, investors, philanthropists and others can still do a lot of heavy lifting on climate change, and together, we can move mountains.
While Trump’s actions are a setback, I am confident that we will ultimately prevail. Climate solutions will continue gaining momentum and change the world. It might not unfold as quickly as we want, or in the exact way that feels most logical, but it is inevitable.
As writer William Gibson is credited with saying, “The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.”
Remember: When it comes to stopping climate change and creating a cleaner, more prosperous future for Americans, it’s not game over. It’s game on.
Jonathan Foley is the executive director of Project Drawdown. From 2014 to 2018, he was executive director of the California Academy of Sciences.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Jul 9, 2025 William Van Gordon, PhD, is a Chartered Psychologist who lectures and conducts research in psychology at the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. He sits on the editorial board for various academic journals including Mindfulness and Mindfulness and Compassion. He is also co-editor of two academic anthologies: Mindfulness and Buddhist-derived Approaches in Mental Health and Addiction, and The Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness. William has over 100 academic publications relating to the scientific study of meditation. Prior to joining academia, William was a Buddhist monk for ten years. Here he describes a multi-year research project involving advanced Buddhist meditators who were able to enter into a particular state of consciousness known as emptiness. This is something of a paradoxical state involving an investigation of the nature of the “self”. A year was spent selecting and recruiting meditators who were skilled in this practice. Detailed descriptions were collected of this unusual state of consciousness. A battery of psychometric tests revealed that “emptiness” produced more profound changes in these meditators than did “mindfulness”. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on September 26, 2019)
NOVA PBS Official Jul 3, 2025 Go behind the scenes as NOVA visits the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, where scientists fire up the world’s largest digital camera for the first time. Equipped with an 8.4-meter mirror and a 3.2-billion-pixel camera—the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy—the Rubin Observatory is poised to revolutionize how we see the cosmos. In just 10 hours of test observations, the telescope detected over 2,100 new asteroids.
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