Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Amazing Thailand: Buddhism in Bangkok

German iReporter Holger Bauer at Wat Bowon Niwet (CNNgo.com)
"Amazing Thailand: A Photographic Tour 2010" Day 2: Blessing Buddha statues, Golden Chedi at Doi Suthep Temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand (DocBudie/Sayid Budi/Flickr).

"My passion is to show how fascinating Bangkok looks off the tourist tracks and how Thais manage their daily lives."
- Holger Bauer

Wat [Temple] Bowon Niwet Vihara Rajavaravihara, a Buddhist temple off most tourists' radars, is located on Thanon Bowon Niwet and Thanon Phra Sumen, close to the backpacker's [paradise] of Khao San Road.

This stunning temple, [with] small canals (khlongs) and plenty of trees and flowers, provides visitors with a rare piece of calm in otherwise buzzing Bangkok.

But beautiful as the grounds are, be sure to visit the monks' retreat, which is made up of tiny, beautiful kutis with terraces surrounded by flowers. Visitors are allowed in, so you can sit with the monks as they study and have a talk, or just watch them go about their daily lives.

Many events take place at Wat Bowon Niwet, including Buddhist holidays, funerals and -- a highlight -- the inauguration of the new novice monks.

Also within the huge Wat Bowon Niwet compound is the Buddhist Thammayut Nikaya University, where the dean is more than happy to let visitors follow a lesson in one of the classes. Entrance is free... More

7 best Bangkok templesThailand goes from amazing to miraculous | CNNGo.comA great big mini-guide to Koh SamuiRandom bizarre video of the week: Laura and Dolly go to Bangkok

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

CIA/"Bin Laden" wants war in Afghanistan



Losing the Plot: The Afghan War after bin Laden
Jim Naureckas (fair.org)
With Osama bin Laden [Emmanuel Goldstein long gone and now "officially"] dead, can the United States finally bring an end to the Afghan War, its longest-lasting foreign military conflict?

It’s an obvious question, since the invasion of Afghanistan was largely portrayed as an effort to catch the leader of the group that carried out the September 11 attacks. [Create a problem, overcome reaction, and people will demand the "solution" you want -- because a pretext for war is easy if war is the goal.*]

Corporate media did sometimes address this issue.

On ABC (5/4/11), Christiane Amanpour asked in regard to bin Laden’s killing, “And many people are saying, well, does this require the U.S. to leave Afghanistan right now?”

She answered her question: “The job is not finished there. You’ll talk to the commanders. We’ll talk to them, it’s the Taliban there who are waging war against the United States, and that job is not finished.” More

*"Problem-reaction-solution" manipulation/propaganda technique explained by David Icke:


Monday, May 2, 2011

CNN: Osama bin Laden Buried at Sea

UPDATE: CNN reports that Bin Laden has already been buried at sea.

Bin Laden to Be Buried at Sea ASAP


Per Islamic tradition? No joke:

[Think of a cover story.] U.S. officials tell me the last thing they want is for his burial place to become a terrorist shrine.

[Use that pretext.] To avoid that, an informed source tells me, the intention is to bury his body at sea — leaving no definitive location for the final resting place of his body.

[Get mainstream media confirmation.] A senior administration official tells my colleague Jake Tapper this about the body: “We are ensuring it is handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition. It’s something we take seriously and therefore it’s being handled in an appropriate manner.‬”

[Use true peripheral details to distract from central lie.] Under Islamic tradition, ABC’s Zunaira Zaki reports, the body would be washed by Muslim men and buried as soon as possible, usually by the next prayer (since Muslims pray five times a day), although there may be delays under certain circumstances (e.g., for autopsies). The body is usually buried in a simple white sheet — whether buried in the ground or at sea.

UPDATE: He's already buried at sea according to CNN [a CIA propaganda outlet in its American version, which is very different from the ]. For what it’s worth, I’ve seen separate reports facial recognition software was used to do a preliminary I.D. and officials say DNA samples have been collected for more thorough testing.

The story is already falling apart!
Wisdom Quarterly
Pres. Obama knew a day before as he joked about Trump and other well known conspiracies and cover ups. He claims it took nine months to get the military team ready. He claims he ordered the kill (just when he was floundering in polls as he launches his re-election campaign and is being lambasted for not being born in the USA and hiding his records, with Donald Trump nipping at his heels, and Orly Taitz pointing out he doesn't have a real Social Security number).

Our crack troops, after nine months of planning, flew two helicopters into Pakistan without Pakistan or anyone else knowing. They lost a copter in the process and destroyed it, not a trace left. They caught bin Laden in a mansion, told him to give up, but he resisted. What could they do but shoot him in the head at close range (destroying the evidence of an impostor corpse? obliterating possibility of facial recognition software working? a statement used to cover up impostor's suicide?)

Pres. Obama stated DNA had already confirmed his identity, but not enough time had elapsed for such genetic confirmation. Oh, but never mind, we're sure it was him, so we need to dump the body in the sea where no one can ever find it and contradict us as they did with that pesky Hitler suicide after he ran off to Antarctica via Argentina. And never mind that Osama bin Laden was seen in American hospitals abroad.

This is STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE: Jack Ruby kills supposed JFK-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on TV before questions get asked and Oswald slips up on the cover story. Oops. FBI put Ruby up to it? Metal from Twin Towers carted away and sold as scrap or dumped at sea. No one wants it even though the building could not have gotten hot enough to melt steel into puddles as found at ground zero. Never mind that embedded particles proving demolition-style high explosives were used were nonetheless discovered on other debris....

Cold fusion discovered; perpetual motion machine built; cancer cure discovered... Oops, discoverer dies of heart attack/cancer/mysterious accident/suicide, and anyway discovery already disproven; papers burned to not mislead other with such nonsense. Bush slips up and mentions a plane crash that hadn't happened yet.... What a joke. Thank you, CIA/NSA/NSC for being so messy in your cover ups, false flag operations, and propaganda campaigns.


How to use an "Emmanuel Goldstein": He's threatening Israel, must attack! He's taunting us, must attack! He's making a fool of Americans, must attack! Lies in the fog of war aren't verified.


Friday, April 15, 2011

Sex Trafficking with Ashton and Demi (video)


Moore, Kutcher: Join our crusade to end child sex trafficking
Watch the full interview with Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher on "Piers Morgan Tonight," which airs weeknights on CNN/US.

Kutcher, Moore on using social media to stop child sex trafficking Piers Morgan - CNN.com Blogs

"There's between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today," Ashton Kutcher tells CNN's Piers Morgan. "If you don't do something to stop that -- that's when there's something wrong with you."

In their first-ever joint primetime interview, actress Demi Moore and actor Ashton Kutcher were on Thursday's "Piers Morgan Tonight."

The husband-and-wife team launched The Demi & Ashton Foundation (DNA) after a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in January.

They met a girl who had been trafficked into the United States by her pimp, who brought her into a field where she was repeatedly raped on a trash bag by 30 men. The DNA Foundation stands for the fundamental right to freedom for every person -- because it's within our DNA. More