| Greetings still from the Nimbin Australia area. It has felt very much like home here and are still exploring ways for long term residency. As our visa limit approaches we are organizing our visit to Fiji and then New Zealand. Last week we visited the National Park area south of here near Bellingen where we had nice viists to eco-communities as well as a Rainbow Gathering. Below are our latest travel photos. latest travel photos: LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC: "LEONARD PELTIER ONE LOVE BENEFIT CONCERT - FEB 3, PRESCOTT, AZ" "Summer 2008 Gathering of the Peacemakers - Boone, North Carolina - August 4-10" "One Heart Gathering of the Healers video" Robyn's Permaculture website and classes in Australia "GOP moves to halt money for Woodstock " "Save the Gnostics" My friend Allen points out that it could well not have been Crick who discovered the double helix, but that this discovery was from Rosaling Elise Franklin Our friend Yatra's various retreats including Ayahuasca and Live Organic Food Peter Gorman has been writing extensively on shamanism and entheogenics for many years. Check his site for samples of old and new work. "Psychedelics are Entheogens" by Julian Palmer "In Lebanon, a Comeback for Cannabis" "Led
Zeppelin to sell music online " My friend Michael Turner has a musical offering for the inner child as well as children of the world Health products formulated by our missed friend and mentor, Dr. Bernard Jensen "Cut Sugar and Supplements -- and Live 15 Years Longer? " http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=vUr4uPe9WBk Bill Mollison and permaculture "Ice Melt Opens Historic Route" "Miracle of the Frozen Zoo " "Corporate Greed, Intellectual Property Laws and the Destruction of Human Civilization" "Chemo Damage, Vaccine Side Effects, Radiation Poisoning - NewsGrabs 13 October 2007" "About the current American "health" industry" Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" Nobel Prize for Al Gore: "Old Europe" fires back at the Bush administration http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/gore-o13.shtml "Ron Paul talks to Grist about the environment," "U.S. agrees to $26 million debt-for-nature swap with Costa Rica," "Historic Victory for Tribal Peoples" AFRICA ACTIVE! By Dani McClain, WireTap A new generation of young African activists are trading violence for positive change through music and organizing. http://www.wiretapmag.org/activism/43260/ http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_7114905 "Threats to bumblebees fly under radar" Our son John is quoted in the interview during the intense hail storm we were caught in "Sept. 24, 1947: MJ-12 — We Are Not Alone ... Or Are We?" "Wild elephants converge on Indian island" "Scientists discover rare marine species "
"Early seafood, makeup found in S. Africa" "Pirate attacks up worldwide " "Giuliani Anticipates Space Alien Invasion" Cynthia Boaz | Thoughts About the True Miracle in the Andes http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101407A.shtml "Archbishop apologizes for giving Communion to gays dressed as nuns" "World clock" of assorted facts and statistics VIDEOS: Santana & Clapton
Syd Barrett with the Floyd on USA Tour - Apples and Oranges http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zl8MF0ZJmeY&mode=related&search= Rare Syd Barrett and Floyd backing psychedelic short http://youtube.com/watch?v=D8KBPleRA6U&mode=related&search= QUOTES: "We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they
lost the war, but that they started it. ": U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, Aug. 12, 1945 = To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole: Nuremburg War Tribunal regarding wars of aggression = "A Society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of "success" to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed." --- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills = "Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our [1787] Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us: Abraham Lincoln - Source: in an 1848 letter to William Herndon = The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction. Today there is a "NO" which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the "NO" to war: Subcomandante Marcos - Source: No to war, 2/16/03 = Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs: Arundhati Roy Source: Arundhati Roy,
"Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire," 8/24/04 http://www.democracynow.org/static/Arundhati_Trans.shtml = "No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue." -George Mason. (1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington = Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be a great and noble creed: Horatius Bonar, D.D. = The role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the priveleges and pleasures that comes from the immense profits of overseas investments. I'm convinced that if we are to get on the right side fo the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people; the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered: Martin Luther King - We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others--even when we cause it: - James Carroll = "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason": Thomas Paine - Common Sense -[January 10, 1776] http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11567.htm = "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.": Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), US civil rights leader = "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.": Rudyard Kipling - (1865-1936) 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 Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny: Barry Goldwater = He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man...The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people: Samuel Adams = The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity: George Bernard Shaw = "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 maneuveringfor the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers." -- R. Buckminster Fuller = An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, stays bought." - Simon Cameron (Lincoln's Secretary of War) "Japanese imperialists, Russian Communists, and German Nazis all have a kind of tense fanaticism which comes of living too exclusively in the mental world of certain tasks to be accomplished... Men as well as children have need of play, that is to say, of periods of activity having no purpose beyond present enjoyment." Bertrand Russel The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction.
Today there is a "NO" which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the "NO" to war: Subcomandante Marcos - Source: No to war, 2/16/03 = Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs: Arundhati Roy Source: Arundhati Roy, "Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire," 8/24/04 http://www.democracynow.org/static/Arundhati_Trans.shtml = "Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves.": Friedrich Nietzsche - (1844-1900) - Source: Twilight of the Idols, 1888 = "One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.": Lyn Nofziger [Franklyn C. Nofziger] Press Secretary for President Reagan = "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.": Theodore Roosevelt - (1858-1919) 26th US President - Source: letter 01/10/1917 Electricity will replace God. The peasants should pray to it." -- Vladimir Lenin "Far from the market place and far from fame exists all that is great." GLOBAL: "David Morse, A Collision Course in Africa" "Australian government resorts to anti-African witch hunt"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/suda-o12.shtml "Australian election: an ominous silence on US war plans against Iran" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/iran-o15.shtml Socialist Equality Party in Australia launches new election web
site http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/site-o16.shtml Somalia: Humanitarian disaster looms as government clamps down on insurgency http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/soma-o16.shtml "Chinese government acknowledges Three Gorges Dam "disaster" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/chin-o12.shtml Conflict between Turkey and the US intensifies http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/turk-o17.shtml US and Israel maintain menacing silence over air raid on Syria http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/syri-o17.shtml German train-drivers strike: Deutsche Bahn increases intimidation of train-drivers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/gdl-o17.shtml Australia: Howard's Aboriginal "reconciliation" pledge a cynical fraud http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/howa-o17.shtml Turkey warns US on Armenia genocide bill "More migrant deaths as Europe tightens border controls" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/migr-o13.shtml "China Protests Dalai Lama Honor" In Iran, Putin Warns Against Military Action http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101607A.shtml Putin in Tehran: US-Russia rift widens http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/iran-o18.shtml
NATIONAL: "Bush condemns House vote on Armenian genocide" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/arme-o12.shtml "My Nightmare About Our Fascist Future " "9/11 was an Inside Job - Here's proof" "About the current American "health" industry" "Smearing Al Gore: Here We Go Again" "The New World Order, Forged in the Gulf" "New Cold War: Simultaneously, Russia and America Conduct Major War Games" "A Must Read Frank Rich Column: The "Good Germans" Among Us." "Slaughter of the Innocents Something is
Rotten in Iraq and the Pentagon" By Dave Lindorff The truth: we are conducting a slaughter of innocents in Iraq that is as bad as anything the Nazis did in their Eastern Front campaign. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18557.htm "Ahmadinejad Sane, Bush Crazy" by Margaret Kimberly George W. Bush twice cheated his way into the oval office. Ahmadinajad was democratically elected. Iran is not at war with any other nation. Bush has occupied Iraq four years ago and is responsible for the deaths of one million people. Despite the clear differences in behavior and morality, the United States Congress has overwhelmingly approved three separate resolutions that will be used to authorize the warlike nation, America, to attack the peaceful nation, Iran. "Where are the Lawyers of America?" by Ralph Nader The rogue regime of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney — so widely condemned for its unconstitutional, criminal Iraq war, its spying on Americans illegally, its repeated illegal torture practices, its arrests and imprisonment of thousands in this country without charges and its pathological secrecy and corporate corruption — still has not felt the heat of the 800,000 practicing lawyers and their many bar organizations. "35% of US Americans Still Support Bush: Diagnosing the Insanity" by Jason Miller Cluster B Personality Disorders
1776.0 Americanistic Personality Disorder The essential features of Americanistic Personality Disorder include pervasive patterns of extreme self-absorption, profound and long-term lapses in empathy, a deep disregard for the well-being of others, a powerful aversion to intellectual honesty and reality, and a grossly exaggerated sense of the importance of one’s self and one’s nation. These patterns emerge in infancy, manifest themselves in nearly all contexts, and often become pathological. "Burma: The Back Story" by Rowan Wolf But there is perhaps a deeper and darker link to U.S. interests in Burma, and why for 40 years the U.S. has shown little concern for the people of Burma. That goes to the Vietnam war. Burma is part of the “Golden Triangle” - the rich opium producing region of Asia. In fact, until recently, Burma was second only Afghanistan in opium production. The French utilized the opium production and support of war lords to finance their covert networks, and when the U.S. stepped into France’s shoes they inherited that lucrative network (Alfred McCoy). The
CIA utilized the opium trade, and the network connected to it, in the Golden Triangle to finance covert operations in Laos and Cambodia (the secret wars). They also used it to help fund anti-communitist armies of people such as the Hmong (Djedje and Korff). ." Money Hunger" by Guy Zimmerman Aggression completes the process of reification, making boundaries permanent and fixed. Each man occupies his own private hell with death the only egress, and this, of course, does nothing to advance the cause of social justice. It becomes extremely challenging to feel compassion for the man with his boot on your neck but that compassion is, actually, the most effective way to rob him of power. Of course, one’s commitment to social justice can only extend so far, but at least when the issue is framed this way the underlying reality can be seen with some clarity. If one does not see the desperation fueling the aggression
of the fascist, for example, one is not seeing the fascist with clarity. Not seeing the fascist with clarity, one will be less efficient in removing from his grip the levers of power. BuzzFlash Interviews Naomi Klein on "Disaster Capitalism" "The following is an interesting exercise.... You answer a few questions then click the "find your candidate button" and the program selects the candidate whose position on the issues is most like your own.? You may be surprised at what you find.? I was.? Copy, past & click on the link below:" http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460 "Gun Love in
America" "Crack Use v. Manslaughter: Which is Worse?" John Cory | America, Land of Fear? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101707R.shtml | |||