yGreetings from our journey through the spectacular beauty of New Zealand's south island. It feels as if the Alps and tropics have come together in a wonderful way. Below are our freshest photos. And as many friends have asked about John's music, our friend Peter Terry had filmed him at his home one day as he was covering some Neil Young tunes. I am adding the youtube of if on the bottom of the page as well. A great week to you George travel photos: LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC: "Living in the Heart", a gourmet raw, vegan, spiritual "recharge" at Eden Hot Springs, Arizona Feb 13th to Feb 17th (Wed. to Sun.)
2008. "Butterflies at UN Earth Summit +5" "Conference on religion and genomics" April 2-4, Tennesee Feb 29th event at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors with Neal Goldsmith in NY "If you are looking for a little adventure, please consider a guided tour through Egypt led by Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock. This is a 12-day tour through Egypt on March 19-30, 2008. For complete details please visit the following website: Our dear friend and tai chi teacher Sifu Fong Ha will be having workshops in Israel on April 3-12 Rainbow Wyoming 2008 Earthdance Festival "Anastasia eco village community in Shasta area" "Medical Marijuana and the Right to Work: Under Attack in California and
Oregon, At Risk In Most Other States As Well" "Death Penalty: More Drug Executions in Saudi Arabia, More Death Sentences in Vietnam, But a Rare Sign of Leniency in China" "Europe: German Police Use Grow Shop Customer Lists in
Massive Marijuana Garden Busts" "$1 Billion to Arrest Pot Smokers" Yatra is a very special and compassionate friend. Check out her Ayahuasca and Live Food Retreat in Brazil "Gandhi's Legacy" "Mayan priest, the new president of Guatemala" Ron Lindy and are a beautiful couple we met in New Zealand who make fine music together Paul is a wondeful and informative host in Golden Bay New Zealand that operates
a very comfortable homestay and internet facility in a beautiful location Having witnessed these Kauri trees in New Zealand, we feel as well that just looking at them can be a life changing experience "Getting Real with Paul Krassner" "Just the traditional stuff -- pot and tequila: " "Refined Sugar, Toxic Sweet Poison" "Blue-Eyed Humans Have A Single, Common Ancestor" "Snow in the holy land" "Flying Spaghetti Monster Inspires Wonky Religious Debate" "Ten Tricks to Using Google You Probably Don't Know " "Who is listening to your private phone calls?" "International Space Station" "Ayahuasca: A Strange Brew " "Psychedelic Healing" "LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US" "Is alcohol worse than ecstasy?" "Do Dems Do Drugs?" "a/k/a Tommy Chong DVD is here" "NASA Says, ‘Hello, Universe. Meet the Beatles." "Grateful Dead - Road Trips: Volume One, Number Two" "Indian guru Maharishi Yogi dies" Madhu is af friend in Maui with
a wonderful portal to spiritual awakening "The Sensitive Man at Personal Development at Viola Woolcott.com" Screwing the Country at Personal Development at Viola Woolcott.com "The Cell Phone "Tower of Doom" "Japan Moves In For The Kill As Anti-Whaling Activists Vow Big Operation Next Year" "Sea Shepherds are now reloading and recrewing." "Rain Forests Fall at 'Alarming' Rate" "'Doomsday' seeds arrive in Norway " "Big Mac: The Whole World On Your Plate" "Black death did not kill indiscriminatley." "Search For Extreme Organisms In Antarctica" Nice video from my friend Matt Barrett on Greek travel Entertaining super bowl video "Frozen in Time: Bring back the hippies" UP! "Technomancer" An exhumed VLS piece on PKD Electric Cars "Mass Control and the future of mankind teaser for Sat interview:" GLOBAL:
Africa quake toll rises as homeless add to aid crisis "The War that did not make the Headlines: Over Five Million Dead in Congo?"
"British-Iraqi survey confirms one million deaths as a result of US invasion" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/orb-f01.shtml "Government leaders pay tribute to Indonesia's former dictator Suharto" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/suha-j30.shtml NATIONAL: The new edition of "Issues & Alibis!" http://www.issuesandalibis.org "Get The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation"
"How to create an Angry American" video "As layoffs and prices rise, Big Oil posts record profits" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/oil-f02.shtml "The Dark Side of Super Bowl Ads" "Welcome to America ... You're Under Arrest" "What Orwell Didn't
Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (Paperback)" Annual War Cost at $171B and Rising http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012608A.shtml "For Bill Clinton, the Ties to JFK's Camelot Have Been Severed"
"CBS Falsifies Iraq War History" "Unimaginable Intentional Human Suffering" By Peter Chamberlin Humans tend to submit to those who claim authority, since it is easier to believe in symbols of power, than it is to personally submit to the tedium of the reasoning process. As a people, we tend to follow the natural order of things along the path of least resistance. By taking the easy way out, we give our blessing to the law of the jungle. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19212.htm "A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash" Ron Paul video on the US empire "G.W. Bush Is a Criminal, Like His Dad" "God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters" "Tet Plus 40: US-Vietnam Turning Point " "The End of Privacy" "In Opposition To The Protect America Act " By Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. The mis-named Protect America Act allows the US government to monitor telephone calls and other electronic communications of American citizens without
a warrant. This clearly violates the Fourth Amendment the US Constitution. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19254.htm "The Gulag Comes to America: A Political Prisoner: The Don Siegelman Case" By Ernest Partridge Today, Don Siegelman, former governor of the state of Alabama, sits in a federal prison, sentenced to a seven year term for bribery. Every day that Siegelman remains in prison every American citizen who openly dissents from the policies and protests the criminality of the Bush/Cheney regime is less free and more vulnerable to politically motivated
prosecution. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19241.htm "Secret Trials for Blackwater Protesters?" QUOTES: "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods": Albert Einstein: = "There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility": J. Bronowski = "The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice": Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi "The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses." -Edward Abbey I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them." - Admiral Gene LaRocque. = In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught: Baba Dioum = "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) = It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics: -Robert A. Heinlein "Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche = "A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming." - Ralph Waldo Emerson: = "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, science for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." Albert Einstein = During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism: Howard Thurman: = Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. Bertrand Russell: = When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? : Eleanor Roosevelt = Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear: -Thomas Jefferson = Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. -Jefferson "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." : Albert Einstein =
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." : Adolf Hitler = "If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom." : Robert Frost "Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice." - Alexander
Solzhenitsyn = "Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched." Aldous Huxley, Island = "The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering - a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons - a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face." George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four = "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you to contribute to making a better world. That's your choice." Noam Chomsky, The Chronicles of Dissent = "Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers." - R. Buckminster Fuller = "The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred." -Daniel Berrigan = "War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder." : Alexander Berkman = "It seems that 'we have never gone to war for conquest, for exploitation, nor for territory'; we have the word of a president [McKinley] for that. Observe, now, how Providence overrules the intentions of the truly good for their advantage. We went to war with Mexico for peace, humanity and honor, yet emerged from the contest with an extension of territory beyond the dreams of political avarice. We went to war with Spain for relief of an oppressed people [the Cubans], and at the close found ourselves in possession of vast and rich insular dependencies [primarily the Philippines] and with a pretty tight grasp upon the country for relief of whose oppressed people we took up arms. We could hardly have profited more had 'territorial aggrandizement' been the spirit of our purpose and heart of our hope. The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations." : Ambrose Bierce, Warlike America = "COWARDICE, n. A charge often levelled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These 'cowards' are to be contrasted with red-blooded, 'patriotic' youths who literally bend over, grab their ankles, submit to the government, fight in wars they do not understand (or disapprove of), and blindly obey orders to maim and to kill simply because they are ordered to do so-all to the howling approval of the all-American mob. This type of behavior is commonly termed 'courageous.'" : Chaz Bufe The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion": Thomas Paine = "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear": Harry S Truman = "The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution": Justice Louis D. Brandeis "It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes." George W. Bush = "each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office." Fyrefly1985 Niccolo Machiavelli =
"An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod" Franklin D. Roosevelt = "Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody." Franklin Pierce Adams = "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." John Quincy Adams = "A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security:" John Adams SON JOHN'S YOUTUBE: |