| Greetings from the southern tip of New Zealand's south island. The Antarctic winds blow cold and wet, but the scenery in beautiful and none of the pesty sandflies. Our partners in Bali would like to sell the "villa" that we also have a share in. The income would help
finance our possible move, so if you are interested or know of anyone that might be (either in renting or purchasing), here is the website: www.balivillasinga.com And for the request of latest travel photos, we just uploaded these from the southern part of our New Zealand journey: LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC: "Byron Bay Film Festival: My Peace film and a whale docomentary" Feb 29 to March 8 "4th International Amazonian Shamanism Conference: Iquitos, Peru" Psychedelic blog "Summer 2008 Gathering of the Peacemakers "- Boone, North Carolina - August 4-10 "LSD Johnny Appleseed" "BBC Psychedelic Science video" "Psilocybin, Science, and Sacrament: A Look at the Research of and Response to the Johns Hopkins Study on Psilocybin and Mysticism" Alan Moore's interview on the Summer of Love video Nimbin Aquarius Foundation The Peyote Way Church youtube "Shamans and Charlatans: Assessing Castaneda's Legacy" "Ayahuasca and Kabbalah" "Vancouver Conference Sends a Message to the UN" "Why Is Marijuana Illegal?" "Medical Marijuana: New Northern California US Attorney Hints the Era of DEA Raids May Be Coming to an End" "Search and Seizure: The Smell of a Burning Joint Does Not Justify a Warrantless Entry, US Fourth Circuit Holds" "Death Penalty: Hash-Selling, Drunkenness Earn Ultimate Sanction, Two More Beheaded in Saudi Arabia" "Briton jailed for four years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe" "Southeast Asia: Philippines Court Orders Life Sentence for Selling Two Grams of Marijuana"
"Just Say Maybe" Karamea is a beautiful location on
the south island of New Zealand and Brian and the other folks at this hostel make staying even more of an oasis just at the start of the Heaphy Track trail. "Ecovillage Life with Thomas" Wonderful new cd from my friend Stephen Miller of integrative nature and consciousness sounds The magnificent art of Ernst Fuchs Visionary art of Jaroslaw Kuwoski "Medicinal Plants Face Extinction" "The Muddled World of Medicine" "Legal drug craze is new killer" "The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity" by Stanislav Grof "Save the
Indigenous Altai lands" Foundation for the "Law of Time" "Humans Inhabited New World's Doorstep For 20,000 Years" "Australia releases gruesome footage of Japanese whale hunt" "Cattle Industry Concerned Over Mass Consumer Demand for Healthy, Fair Labor, Humane, Sustainable & Organic Food" "The Ancient Future of Food" "Who Owns Your Favorite Organic Brand?" "Gov't Censors Cancer Data" "Lake Mead could dry up" "Apocalypse - Revelation - Apokalupsis"
"Amazing moment the world's biggest Christ was struck by lightning" Photo Geekery: The Art of Photographing Psychoactives http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives_article1.shtml "Three Generations of Psychonauts: G1" 1980s MDMA Flyer http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma_info12.pdf http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/76576/ "Breaking the Drug Taboo: Group of Traumatized Veterans Get Ecstasy Treatment" "Making Pot Legal: We Can Do It -- Here's How" http://www.alternet.org/story/76698/ "Debunking the Hemp Conspiracy Theory" "Carl Sagan and marijuana" "Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop" "No Relief in Sight: Reynosa, Mexico, Military Occupation Yields No Let-Up in Drug War Violence" Australia: Queensland Passes Tough New Drug Law Friends Nathan and Shelli invite you to check out the many fine photos and news on the Woodstock Museum Dionysius "Rock Stars and UFOs"
Country Joe and the Fish Jack Johnson interview
Bread Project "The Cottonwood Research Foundation" "Five discussions with John Lash" including Joanna Harcourt-Smith on Rapture and Revolution “NOT BY BREAD ALONE” (Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevesky’s THE GRAND INQUISITOR) by Gaither Stewart In this short chapter, the Grand Inquisitor articulates his (the Church’s) devastating message: God is God and the Church is the Church; the
Church does not believe in God and man no longer needs God; the Church promotes His work like a product and uses His name, but it renounces Christ; the Church does God’s work for Him; it is a Church without God. "The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript" "The Big Religion Chart" Brave New World or Island - The
World Must Decide by Ram Dass Interior Alchemy classes in the UK "The Pachamama Alliance" "Creating Reality - From Consciousness and Free Will to Three Dimensional Networking" "Scientists capture giant Antarctic sea creatures" Raw Food Vitality in Chicago "New Way to Kill Viruses: Shake Them to Death" Permaculture classes in Nimbin Australia "GMO crops proliferate" "Cheese from Human Breast Milk?" "Most Grocery Store Eggs Far More Likely to Be Infected" "Prince Charles compares climate crisis to war"
"PROTECT THE SPIRIT BEAR'S ONLY HOME ON EARTH There are only about 400 of them left in the world " "Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands (Coffee Table Photography Book)" "Remembering the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior" Kelpie Wilson | Improving Our Green Job Prospects http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021508J.shtml Global Community caring video "Gravity powered lamp" "Ann Jones, The War against Women Never Ends" "The Dumbing Of America " ZBS podcasts Inspirational quotes GLOBAL: "Castro Resigns as Cuba'a President " "Almost 1,000 dead from cold snap in Afghanistan: official" "Australia: Press blacks out Aboriginal protest over Northern Territory intervention" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/nter-f15.shtml "E.U. Police and Military Intervention to enforce Secession from Serbia" "Kosovo's declaration of independence destabilises Europe" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/koso-f18.shtml "Canada's secret war in Iraq" "Abu Dhabi unveil plans for sustainable city" "The Mediterranean Union: Dividing the Middle East and North Africa" "The Growing Military-Industrial Complex in Asia" Iraqi parliament in turmoil as sectarian rivalries flare http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/iraq-f11.shtml "As Asia food prices bite, analysts warn of worse to come" "Australian Prime Minister apologises to "stolen generation": rhetoric versus reality" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/rudd-f13.shtml NATIONAL: "Top Political Sites" "Gore May Broker Peace at Convention" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021608Z.shtml "Clintons Plumb Absurd Depths" "Hillary Crockett and Jawbone Willie to make last stand in Texas"... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?hp "For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk" "Worse than Watergate: Bush scores lowest presidential approval rating EVER!" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19376.htm 'Europeans Hide Behind the Unpopularity of President Bush' An Interview with Henry Kissinger " 9/11: The "Perfect Opportunity" for North American Integration" "Bush defends torture" http://dev.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/bush-f16.shtml "Rigged Trials at Guantanamo" "Risk of cholera multiplied by sewage collapse in Baghdad" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/sewe-f21.shtml "Agribusiness Taking Over Schools" "The Great Global Power Shift: It's Already Here" "Mythical America, R.I.P" "The Ring Of Power: humany history revised" "How George Bush became the new Saddam"
"No Border Fence for the Rich" "Secret CIA Jail on British Island to Be Investigated" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101907J.shtml Excellent news and activism updates from Velvet Revolution "Chavez Threatens US Oil Cutoff" "Bush budget: programs slashed to pay for tax cuts and war" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/budg-f05.shtml http://lessjobsmorewars.com/?utm_source=rgemail "Less jobs more war" film "Bush Turns US Soldiers into Murderers" "Bush Family Chronicles: The Patriarchs" Jimmy Carter Revealed: "Man From Plains" Libertarian candidate Kubby "Why Has Ron Paul All But Suspended His Presidential Campaign?" "NORTH AMERICAN UNION & VCHIP TRUTH " scary film "The Federal Reserve" video "How The Spooks Took Over The News" by Nick Davies
Shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion - and that the media simply swallow it wholesale. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19328.htm === In case you missed it "Coverup: Behind The Iran Contra Affair" Video The shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives and top US military personnel who were
running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the Reagan/Bush administration's plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and ultimately suspend the Constitution. Strikingly relevant to current events. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19325.htm === "The Mother of
All Rip-offs" "Get Ready For A Real Hosing" by Mike Whitney Trillions of dollars have been lost, the financial system is reeling, and the nation is headed into recession. We want scalps---not excuses! http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19324.htm "This is What A Police State Looks Like" Video "Rape By Any Other Name Guantanamo Comes to Main Street U.S.A." By Mark A. Goldman Warning This Article Contains Very Disturbing Video They say that the difference between how democracy in Europe has evolved compared to that of the United States is that in Europe the government is afraid of the People whereas in the United States the People are afraid of the government. That's a dangerous state of affairs and it looks like it's going to get worse. http://snipurl.com/1zhhg "Death Cult Memes and the Future of America " QUOTES: "It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion."- Aristotle in Politics, J. Sinclair translation, pg. 226, 1962 = "...it is a government by the corporations, for the corporations."--Rutherford B. Hayes 19th President of the USA. = "Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.''-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary = "Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy" ---John Pierpont Morgan = But that's the whole point of corporatism: to try and remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run -which include production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything-are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power. In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public.- Professor Noam Chomsky, interviewed in Corporate Watch = "Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?" Alexis de Tocqueville 1805-1859 Protection against government is now not enough to guarantee that a man who has something to say shall have a chance to say it. The owners and managers of the press determine which person, which facts, which version of the facts, and which ideas shall reach the public: Commission On
Freedom Of The Press = If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds: Bill Moyers = Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen: William E. Borah = "It's hard to imagine a con much more audacious than making Christ the front man for a program of tax cuts for the rich or war in Iraq. We have made golden calves of ourselves --- become a nation of terrified, self-obsessed idols." Bill McKibben = "when an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery." Ray McGovern = "I have served my country for almost thirty years in some of the most isolated and dangerous parts of the world. I want to continue to serve America. However, I do not believe in the policies of this Administration and cannot --- morally and professionally --- defend or implement them. It is with heavy heart that I must end my service to America and therefore resign." Ann Wright = "The role of the U.S. in the new world corporate order is going to be to export security. That means endless wars and weapons in space. The Pentagon will send our kids off to foreign lands to suppress opposition to corporate globalization. How will we ever end America's addiction to war and violence as long as our communities are dependent on military spending for jobs?" Bruce Gagnon "Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom" - Friedrich August Hayek = "It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people" Gore Vidal = "Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us." Dan Quayle = The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. Adlai E. Stevenson = Truth is not determined by majority vote. Doug Gwyn "They are torturing people. They are torturing people on Guantanamo Bay. They are engaging in acts which amount to torture in the medieval sense of the phrase. They are engaging in good old-fashioned torture, as people would have understood it in the Dark Ages". Richard Bourke, Australian attorney = [torture] "presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others' suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness".. . - Ariel Dorfman [from his book "Torture: A Collection"] "Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason." Octavio Paz quotes = "The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world. " James Baldwin [From chapter one of "The Devil Finds Work" (orig. pub. 1976), page 489 of Collected Essays = "What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in
the likeness of the believer" Bertrand Russell = "The healthy man does not torture others " Carl Gustav Jung = "We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country". George W. Bush [Interview with Australian TV - October 18, 2003] "Hitler killed only one person in his lifetime: himself. All the other
atrocities that are attributed to him were carried out by people who were only following orders" Mark A. Goldman = The men that American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest the most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -- H L Mencken (attributed: source unknown) = Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant -- H L Mencken = Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.- H L Mencken MUSIC VIDEOS: George Harrison: Wha Wha RINGO: · "Boys": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMx4Z4dDTE0 · "Photograph": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc7RUHXsjxU · "With A Litttle Help From Friends": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPhKhZUCP38 · Traffic - Paper Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cp_3NEWTzU "Tommy Chong on Jimi Hendrix youtube" "Hendrix Bolero youtube" |