A few updates.

audiobooks.md

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 - [Gabriel Rockhill - Capitalisms Court Jester - Slavoj Zizek [audiobook] by dessalines v2](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:622b5b7b1678e1bb863e90f5c3314819c5c19fed&dn=Gabriel%20Rockhill%20-%20Capitalisms%20Court%20Jester%20-%20Slavoj%20Zizek%20%5Baudiobook%5D%20by%20dessalines%20v2)
 - [Domenico Losurdo - Stalin - The History and Critique of a Black Legend [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4609781a0abcb0e5bc9376e3d89f465bcf8a58c9&dn=Domenico%20Losurdo%20-%20Stalin%20-%20The%20History%20and%20Critique%20of%20a%20Black%20Legend%20%5Baudiobook%5D%20by%20dessalines)
 - [Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw - Practical Vipassana Exercises [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:53845d7e0245c6341ae517c0fd534fe4bd70f3b8&dn=Ven.%20Mahasi%20Sayadaw%20-%20Practical%20Vipassana%20Exercises%20%5Baudiobook%5D%20by%20dessalines)
+- [Domenico Losurdo - Non-Violence - A History Beyond the Myth [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:958ce6d1a9ba8b81048ea8a1794e2a07cc825b9b&dn=Domenico%20Losurdo%20-%20Non-Violence%20-%20A%20History%20Beyond%20the%20Myth%20%5Baudiobook%5D%20by%20dessalines)
+- [Stansfield Smith - Is Russia Imperialist [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:62d58388c20495cdbd50cae9d9ce0c53ec1f4c0c&dn=Stansfield%20Smith%20-%20Is%20Russia%20Imperialist%20%5Baudiobook%5D%20by%20dessalines)
+- [Zak Cope - The Wealth of Some Nations [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:41dbc3d90972ce215f2a80c95e9e2ee21304f7cc&dn=Zak%20Cope%20-%20The%20Wealth%20of%20Some%20Nations%20%5Baudiobook%5D%20by%20dessalines)
+- [Gabriel Rockhill - Imperialist Propaganda [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:cec5b0115355815a99c907f06afd31e4c0c5b2d6&dn=Gabriel%20Rockhill%20-%20Imperialist%20Propaganda%20%5Baudiobook%5D%20by%20dessalines)
+- [Domenico Losurdo - Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism [audiobook] by dessalines](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:17900753ee74b3a1207b79197701bc920291c902&dn=Domenico%20Losurdo%20-%20Towards%20a%20Critique%20of%20the%20Category%20of%20Totalitarianism%20%5Baudiobook%5D%20by%20dessalines)
 
 ## Read by others
 
@@ -104,3 +109,4 @@
 - [Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Loaded - A Disarming History of the Second Amendment audible](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:162963ae3b655a8259decfbf2d0f85078bcebb32&dn=Roxanne%20Dunbar-Ortiz%20-%20Loaded%20-%20A%20Disarming%20History%20of%20the%20Second%20Amendment%20%5baudible%5d)
 - [Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 other Myths about Native Americans [audible]](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:69d2d5b33665f9c7fd0bc7ab72d7254ed07919a2&dn=Roxanne%20Dunbar-Ortiz%20-%20All%20the%20Real%20Indians%20Died%20Off%20and%2020%20other%20Myths%20about%20Native%20Americans%20%5baudible%5d)
 - [Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung [audible]](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4ef97e58482bc6a48af28ffd86d1cfd269dfc194&dn=Quotations%20from%20Chairman%20Mao%20Tse-Tung%20%5Baudible%5D)
+- [William Blum - Killing Hope [audiobook] by hablini](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:386a3416b92a2c48adf0a2f547a4be3c841ded09&dn=William%20Blum%20-%20Killing%20Hope%20%5Baudiobook%5D%20by%20hablini)

buddhism/buddhist_questions.md

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Over-focus on detachment from what makes us human, and what has dominated our na
 
 Reread will durants critique of schoepenhauer for this.
 
+Reread the article on misogyny in buddhism.
+
+If we can look on a flower without selfish attachment, then why are relationships shunned?
+
 ## The focus on idealist, rather than materialist goals.
 
 Isn't the biggest source of suffering on the planet hunger, starvation, the unequal distribution of resources, the fact that 20 men own more wealth than all the women in Africa. Buddhism limits itself to the spiritual realm, yet this is not the primary realm of suffering. Without social and political organization devoted to eliminating this greatest source of suffering, which must first be sati.
@@ -26,4 +30,25 @@ McMindfulness, capitalist use of mindfulness. Our life comes from our mind, why
 
 Dipa ma for example, even claimed to have many supernatural powers, yet she used none of them to undo the horrors of capitalism or colonialism.
 
-If all these enlightened beings are doing is alleviating spiritual or psychological suffering, then they aren't doing anything remotely as positive as someone doing work to fight poverty. All their thousands of hours spent on the cushion aren't es worthwhile as a single flawed person giving food to the homeless, or organizing against capitalism.
+If all these enlightened beings are doing is alleviating spiritual or psychological suffering, then they aren't doing anything remotely as positive as someone doing work to fight poverty. All their thousands of hours spent on the cushion aren't as worthwhile as a single flawed person giving food to the homeless, or organizing against capitalism.
+
+## If you replace god with enlightenment, then why is enlightenment causeless, or outside of samsara? IE to the childs query, who created god? can't the same criticism be applied to who created nirvana?
+
+## Why is dancing, music, art, rejected?
+
+The buddha made rules for monks to not engage in these things, making a negative value judgement on art, creativity and the diversity and beauty of human experience.
+
+https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/10172/what-did-the-buddha-say-about-music
+
+## Why
+
+## Defense of feudalism, and not challenging the power of kings, who keep most people subjugated.
+
+Misogyny:
+
+- https://sujato.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/sexism-andocentrism-misogyny/
+- https://qz.com/india/586192/theres-a-misogynist-aspect-of-buddhism-that-nobody-talks-about
+- https://tricycle.org/article/putting-end-buddhist-patriarchy/
+- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Buddhism
+
+https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhist-renunciation/

recipes/coffee.md

@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ Start at full clockwise
 
 ## Recipe
 
-- Preheat and Rinse (Plastic) Brewer and Filter with Hot tap water (Hot to Touch)
-- Dig a mound in the middle of the Ground Coffee
+- Preheat and Rinse (Plastic) Brewer and Filter with Hot tap water (Hot to Touch)- Dig a mound in the middle of the Ground Coffee
 - Zero/Reset Scale with Brewer and Ground Coffee
 - Boil Water
 
@@ -93,7 +92,7 @@ Notes:
 
 [Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4bqjmdCwRY)
 
-- Equal grams of chocalate bar, and oat milk.
+- Equal grams of chocolate bar, and oat milk.
 - Heat in microwave for 30 seconds.
 - Mix it using a blender (try fork first).
 - Put it in a plastic squeeze bottle.
@@ -103,7 +102,7 @@ Notes:
 
 - 250g ice
 - 275-300g water
-- 18-30g light roast coffee . Brew as normal
+- 18g light roast coffee. Brew as normal
 
 # Favorites
 

recipes/hibiscus_tacos.md

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+# Hibiscus Tacos
+
+## Ingredients
+
+- 2 cups of dried hibiscus flowers
+- half white onion
+
+## Recipe
+
+- Wash flowers in sink thoroughly, to get off all gritty bits.
+- Put in pot, add 4 cups water (twice amount).
+- Optionally hydrate for an hour.
+- Bring to boil, simmer for 5 minutes
+- Strain liquid into bowl.
+- You can make agua jamaica by adding 4 more cups of water, and 1/4th cup sugar to the strained liquid.
+- Heat olive oil on med heat until translucent. Add flowers, cook for 10m. Add preferred spices.
+

recipes/lentils.md

@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@
 - Add 1 cup lentils per 3 cups water.
 - Boil
 - Simmer for 20-30m until soft.
+
+This makes ~ 2.5 cooked cups

socialism_faq.md

@@ -864,7 +864,6 @@
 - [South Korea boosts reward for defectors to $860k USD](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39170614).
 - [Are north korean defectors really paid to lie by the south? A short documentary.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ktE_3PrJZO0)
 - [What is everyday life like? A conversation with a North Korean Citizen.](https://cym.ie/2018/05/28/a-conversation-with-a-north-korean-citizen/)
-- [Is the DPRK really a monarchy? How does its political system work?](https://writetorebel.com/2017/03/28/socialism-and-democracy-in-the-dprk/)
 - [Why do some communists support the DPRK?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ypwmd/why_do_some_communists_support_the_dprk/)
 - [What exactly is Juche?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1y172i/what_exactly_is_juche/)
 - [Is the DPRK socialist?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ygskq/is_the_dprk_socialist/)
@@ -1155,7 +1154,7 @@ _Much credit to [this post.](https://politijohn.tumblr.com/post/186036319237/get
   - [Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times.](https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article226975319.html). [Accepted money from Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and a charter school magnate.](https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/01/19/california-senator-kamala-harris-enter-democratic-presidential-primary-mlk-day/2455046002/) [2](https://capitalandmain.com/reed-hastings-the-disrupter-1101)
 - [Voted to give Trump increased military spending](https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/23430/61033/120012/national-defense-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2018#.XQQgLtNKifQ) two [different times.](https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/25215/64284/120012/department-of-defense-and-labor-health-and-human-services-and-education-appropriations-act-2019#.XQQhV9NKifQ)
   - [Supports Trump escalating the war in Syria](https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/24/bipartisan-war-congress-trump-syria-iran-russia-hezbollah/). [Co-sponsored a "destabilize Iran" bill](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/722/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded).[2](https://thinkprogress.org/media-outlets-lawmakers-us-violated-iran-nuclear-deal-5907a0e5743a/)
-  - [Supports Israel’s right-wing government and cozies up to AIPAC](https://theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kamala-harris-israel-aipac/), co-sponsored resolution against Obama in [support of illegal settlements, does not support Palestinian rights](https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/31/kamala-harris-and-israel-taking-the-aipac-line/), and [calls BDS “anti-semitic”](https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin/status/1146595730489876480). [Another Anti-Palestine rant at AIPAC](https://twitter.com/acsofian/status/1351928124209045507?s=20), [2](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/11/netanyahu-top-cop-kamala-harris-israel-racism/).
+  - [Supports Israel’s right-wing government and cozies up to AIPAC](https://archive.ph/fbiyz), co-sponsored resolution against Obama in [support of illegal settlements, does not support Palestinian rights](https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/31/kamala-harris-and-israel-taking-the-aipac-line/), and [calls BDS “anti-semitic”](https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin/status/1146595730489876480). [Another Anti-Palestine rant at AIPAC](https://twitter.com/acsofian/status/1351928124209045507?s=20), [2](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/11/netanyahu-top-cop-kamala-harris-israel-racism/).
   - [Is against open borders, opposed calls to tear down 700 miles of border fence.](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-says-we-cant-have-open-borders-as-she-swipes-at-beto-orourke-far-left-dems)
   - [Fought to limit amount of land indigenous tribes could place in trust and tried to take reservation land away from a tribe just to keep them from evicting a non-indigenous man who had lived there without paying rent for 24 years.](https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/10/10/supreme-court-puts-end-to-case-challengi.asp)
 - [Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails”.](https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1090067362907340800?lang=en) [Mocks criminal justice reformers as unrealistic.](https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1089984902706200576).

us_atrocities.md

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 ### Prisoners
 
 - The US **currently** operates a system of slave labor camps, including at least [54 prison farms involved in agricultural slave labor.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm#In_the_United_States_.28partial_list.29) Outside of agricultural slavery, [Federal Prison Industries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries) operates a multi-billion dollar industry with ~ 52 prison factories , where prisoners produce furniture, clothing, circuit boards, products for the military, computer aided design services, call center support for private companies. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm#In_the_United_States_.28partial_list.29), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries), [3](https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/20/mass-incarceration-prison-labor-in-the-united-states/)
+- The US has the highest incarceration rates in the world. Even [individual US states outrank all other countries.](https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html)
 - Ramping up since the 1980s, the term [prison–industrial complex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_complex) is used to attribute the [rapid expansion of the US inmate population](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate#Growth) to the political influence of [private prison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison) companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. Such groups include corporations that contract [prison labor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_labor), construction companies, [surveillance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance) technology vendors, companies that operate prison food services and medical facilities, [private probation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_probation) companies, lawyers, and [lobby groups](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_groups) that represent them. Activist groups such as the [National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Organization_for_the_Reform_of_Marijuana_Laws) (NORML) have argued that the prison-industrial complex is perpetuating a flawed belief that imprisonment is an effective solution to social problems such as [homelessness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness), [unemployment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment), [drug addiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_addiction), [mental illness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_illness), and [illiteracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiteracy). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_complex)
 - The [War On Drugs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs), a policy of arrest and imprisonment targeting minorities, first initiated by Nixon, has over the years created a monstrous system of mass incarceration, resulting in the imprisonment of 1.5 million people each year, with the US having the most prisoners per capita of any nation. One in five black Americans will spend time behind bars due to drug laws. The war has created a permanent underclass of impoverished people who have few educational or job opportunities as a result of being punished for drug offenses, in a vicious cycle of oppression. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs#cite_note-59), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs)
 - In the present day, [ICE (U.S.\_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Case_samples), the police tasked with immigration enforcement, operates over 200 prison camps, housing over 31,000 undocumented people deemed "aliens", 20,000 of which have no criminal convictions, in the US [system of immigration detention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_United_States#Criticisms). [The camps](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/opinions/reyes-immigration-detention/) include forced labor (often with [contracts from private companies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement#Corporate_contracts)), poor conditions, lack of rights (since the undocumented aren't considered citizens), and forced deportations, often splitting up families. Detainees are often held for a year without trial, with antiquated court procedures pushing back court dates for months, encouraging many to accept immediate deportation in the hopes of being able to return faster than the court can reach a decision, but forfeiting legal status, in a cruel system of coercion. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_the_United_States#Criticisms), [2](http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/opinions/reyes-immigration-detention/)
@@ -521,7 +522,7 @@ Notes :
 
 ### Pervasive
 
-- In 2020, it was revealed that the Swiss company, Crypto AG, which provided secure communications services to ~120 governments throughout the 20th century, was [secretly ran by the CIA and West German Intelligence.](https://outline.com/tTTmh6) The CIA and later NSA were able to read encrypted communications for many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Jordan and South Korea.
+- In 2020, it was revealed that the Swiss company, Crypto AG, which provided secure communications services to ~120 governments throughout the 20th century, was [secretly ran by the CIA and West German Intelligence.](https://archive.ph/va2l7) The CIA and later NSA were able to read encrypted communications for many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Jordan and South Korea.
 - In August 2019, while [awaiting an impending trial](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-indictment-hes-out-luck/593512/), infamous predator and pedophile [Jeffrey Epstein, was found "suicided" in his cell, after being placed on suicide watch](https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/jeffrey-epstein-death-suicide-sex-trafficking-case-us-news-today-42484/). Epstein was a close associate of two US presidents (Clinton and Trump), British Royalty (Prince Andrew), and many global celebrities. Authorities claim he killed himself after guards were absent from the area. His death ensures that no further investigation will ensue, uncovering underage prostitution rackets used by the world's rich and powerful.
 - Police repression against minorities and the poor have been increasing in the last few years, leading to the establishing of several online databases, such as [this one by the washington post documenting shooting-deaths by police](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/), and [killedbypolice.net](http://www.killedbypolice.net/). US police shot and killed 952 people in 2017, 963 people in 2016, and 991 in 2015.
 - The [Paradise papers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers), first made public on November 5th, 2017, are a leak of 1.4 TB of electronic documents relating to offshore investments, detailing the secrets of the world's elites hidden wealth. The leaks implicated hundreds of the wealthiest people and companies on the planet in financial schemes. According to the papers, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Disney, Uber, Nike, Walmart, Allianz, Siemens, McDonald's, and Yahoo! are among the corporations that own offshore companies, as well as Allergan, the manufacturer of Botox. Some people implicated in tax avoidance schemes are Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth II, President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Rex Tillerson, Paul Allen (Microsoft), Bono, Carl Icahn, Sheldon Adelson, George Soros, and 3 former canadian prime ministers.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers), [2](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/paradise-papers-leak-reveals-secrets-of-world-elites-hidden-wealth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_New_Post)