| Happy Holidays from the north island of New Zealand. The rains are pouring and the weather a bit cooler than Fiji, but the scenery is amazing. We are travelling and staying in a camper van that is travelling through mountains, forests, hot springs, waterfalls and incredible beaches, all in the same day. The cost of petro for the car is $8 a gas and internet costs about $12 an hour at times for the links research. Most of our budget goes in that directions, so donations of any sort would be greatly appreciated. Any credit card gifts can be accepted through paypal at balivillasinga@yahoo.com Below is an address to send any paper donations to us. In any case, a great week to you Below are our freshest photos from the North Island, New Zealand George, Stephanie, Nicolette, Sophia (and John by proxy) GEORGE DOUVRIS c/o AARON GINGERELLI POBox 8975 Missoula, MT 59807 USA LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC: Organic River Festival 18/20 Jan 2008- Wellington New Zealand Dec 22 Global Orgasm Day "The psychedelic secrets of Santa Claus" A Swiss news article on 12/20 about the approval of our LSD study contained the following quote from Albert: "My wish has come true. I didn't think I'd live to find out that LSD had finally taken its place in medicine." In the midst of all of our struggles to keep MAPS moving forward, we've managed to achieve something priceless. In the race against time and against repression, we've won a small victory. Albert has lived to see the renewal of LSD psychotherapy research. http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/LSD_set_to_make_a_medical_comeback.html?siteS Albert Hofmann Foundation "The Peyote Way Church" youtube "Latest Marijuana Smoke Warnings Could Be Mitigated By Vaporization " "Darwinian Take on Drug War" "Aldous Huxley's wife, author Laura Archera Huxley, dead at 96 " "Kenneth Rexroth: The New Rock Music: San Francisco in the 70's" "Make love not war - a pretty good excuse for a Holiday" '60s survivor Ed Sanders" Interviews by Future Primitive with Ralph Metzner and others "The Six Wives of Timothy Leary" a controversial play by Philip de Gouveia "Is LSD making a comeback?" "MDMA for PMS?" Cheech and Chong news "Legalize Drugs!" "Death Penalty: Vietnam In Death Sentence Frenzy, 35 Condemned for Drugs in Past Two Weeks" Quicksilver music Rags: a magazine of
late 60's fashion "Mad Magazine Fan? The Complete Collection of "Spy vs. Spy" "Rex Caravan" Kelvin and Irene are a wonderful couple that we met in New Zealand. He makes superb pottery and her art is a panorama of portals. Check out the site. Jillyan has a beautiful home on the northern end of the North Island of New
Zealand available for rental stay. Workshops, healing retreat and a place to pause and enjoy the beautiful spirits of nature all around. "Ancient flood brought Gulf Stream to a halt" "UFOs ‘definitely?exist, Japan spokesman says" "Dozens of 'Certified' Organic Candidates Win Seats at State & Congressional Levels" "8 Skin Moisturizer Ingredients You'd Best Avoid" http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/smithfield_investigation?rk=p7_wRYdqGQSjW "Help Stop the Torture of Piglets and Mother Pigs by Major Meat Company!" Bali climate conference ends in farce as US vetoes emission targets http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/bali-d17.shtml "Indoctrination and propoganda versus education" "How the Nazis Stole Christmas" New World Order cartoon "Videos that Mormans don't want you to see " "The Grateful Dead - The History of a Folk Story" "Rainbow Radio" Visionary art of Sergei Aparin Our friend Sherri's beautiful meditation cd Water powered cars and motorcycles "The Cell Phone Industry Has a Nasty Secret That They've Known About For Some Time" "China's Pollution Problem Goes Global " "Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US" "America's Murderous Celebrity Culture" "Beyond 1984: Are You Ready to Be Micro-Chipped?" GLOBAL: "Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/food-d22.shtml "Thai military junta stages carefully managed election" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/thai-d22.shtml One-day general strike in Greece http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/gree-d22.shtml US backs Turkish military attacks on northern Iraq http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/turk-d19.shtml "Putin Agonistes: Missile Defense will not be Deployed" NATIONAL: Excellent news stories "US soldiers stage mutiny" "The torture tape fingering Bush as a war criminal" A criminal conspiracy White House, CIA hid torture tapes from 9/11 Commission http://dev.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/tape-d24.shtml "Mission Accomplished: Start a War, Increase Oil Company Profits" "Top Ten Iraq Myths of 2007" "US prepares to increase occupation forces in Afghanistan" http://dev.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/afgh-d27.shtml "What's on our Holiday Table" "Hoover planned mass US jailings: report" "We Are All Prisoners Now" By Paul Craig Roberts All Americans are now imprisoned in a world of lies and deception created by the Bush Regime and the two complicit parties of Congress, by federal judges too timid or ignorant to recognize a rogue regime running
roughshod over the Constitution. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18954.htm "New Orleans police attack residents protesting public housing demolition" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/newo-d22.shtml "Tent City in Suburbs Is Cost of Home Crisis" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122307Y.shtml http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_barbara__071219_women_s_rights_3a_a_st.htm "Women's Rights: A Step Backwards" "Rep. Wexler's Quarter Million Person Challenge " "Democratic Consultants Are Paid to Lose " "Cheney-Obama connection unites us all" ?? "Turning online popularity into real world votes: how Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich can win" Steve Kubby for president site "March 15 Peace March in Washington" "The new edition of "Issues & Alibis!" http://www.issuesandalibis.org "Wexler Hits 50,000 Impeach Sigs in One Day, Going for Half-Million "Is Satan Headed to the White House?" "More Evidence that Giuliani Had Buds Married to the Mob" "Marketers Brainwash Babies" "Barbaric U.S. Methods " Corporate oil giants scramble to plunder Iraq's energy
reserves http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/oil-d18.shtml "Suicides by US soldiers and war veterans surge" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/suic-d13.shtml "Central banks coordinate actions amid fears of a global financial breakdown" http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/cent-d13.shtml "Record inequality in the US: Billions for Wall Street bosses as workers¡¯ share of income shrinks" "Globalisation: sleepwalking to
disaster" "Russia may dump weakening US dollar in its energy deals " "Democrats Cave on Spending" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121307J.shtml ""Dems Cave -- Yet Again -- On Iraq War Funding ""The Planned Collapse Of USA "Intrusive Brain Reading Surveillance Technology: Hacking the Mind" "Ron Paul Compares Huckabee Ad to Fascism " "FCC Votes Monopoly" "Police State America
" "Internet Thought Control Bill Under Fire" "Like a Boiling Frog, Do You Only Know Things are Fascist When It's Too Late?" "The Mad Magazine War on Bush" QUOTES: "The fundamental purpose of all leaders, messiahs or visionaries is to find some means by which the two sides of the earth can live together in peace and harmony. Time is very short - it is necessary to achieve this harmony as soon as possible to avoid complete disaster. Philosophies, religions and other such movements have all failed to accomplish this aim, and the only possible way to accomplish it is through the individual development of man. As an individual develops his own, unknown potentialities, he will become strong and will, in turn, influence many more people. If enough individuals can develop themselves - even partially - into genuine, natural men, able to use the real potentialities that are proper to mankind, each such individual will then be able to convince and win over as many as a hundred other men, who will, each in his turn, upon achieving development, be able to influence another hundred, and so on? The separate, distinct growth of each individual in the world is the only possible solution." George Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff quote (from Fraser and UP!) Government by organized money is as much to be feared as a government by organized mob." ~~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons: - - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist = Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of them even unto death. But every one of us -- every single one of us -- knew and took great strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies, that we were better than them, that we, if the roles were reversed, would not disgrace ourselves by committing or countenancing such mistreatment of them: - John McCain, Republican US Senator = ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of
ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret: - Robert Parry, investigative reporter and author = The debate here isn't only how to protect the country. It's how to protect our values. If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human
beings, not just in America -- even those designated as 'unlawful enemy combatants.' If you make this exception the whole Constitution crumbles: - Alberto J. Mora, former Navy General Counsel [Feb. 27, 2006 issue of The New Yorker, entitled "The Memo"] = Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you: -Friedrich Nietzche 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 (1998)] = 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
= One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and torture rooms and rape rooms: George W. Bush [press availability in Monterrey, Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004] = Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management: - Edward Kennedy = 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] = "the actions of those folks in Iraq do not represent the values of the United States of America." George W. Bush = This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees: - Rudolf Hoess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free: HH the Dalai Lama: = If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day: Alex Noble: = We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage: James Russell Lowell: Only the winners decide what were war crimes: - Gary Will =
You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things: William, Lord Shawcross (b. 1902), British lawyer. Daily Telegraph - London, May 1, 1991. "If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied": Rudyard Kipling = The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Leo Tolstoy = There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld = When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. Jean Paul Sartre 1905-1980 French philosopher, writer, educator, anti-authority figure, regarded by scholars as one of the most important intellectuals of all time. The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. - Henry Steele Commager "It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin." -- James Monroe (1758-1831), 5th US President Source: First Inaugural Address, 1817 = "Under every government the dernier [Fr. last, or final] resort of the people, is an appeal to the sword; whether to defend themselves against the open attacks of a foreign enemy, or to check the insidious encroachments of domestic foes. Whenever a people... entrust the defence of their country to a regular, standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain under the direction of the most wealthy citizens." -- A Framer - Anonymous 'framer' of the US Constitution Source: Independent Gazetteer, January 29, 1791 "A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." -- Plato - (429-347 BC) Source: The Republic = "Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." -- Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), 31st US President = "He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid." -- Epictetus (ca 55-135 A.D.) Greek philospher Source: Discourses, ca 100 A.D. = "The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." -- John Stuart Mill - (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist Source: On Liberty, 1859 = "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." -John Maynard Keynes, British economist I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire = Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law," because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual: Thomas Jefferson = What county can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance: Thomas Jefferson MUSIC VIDEOS: "Tommy Chong on Jimi Hendrix youtube" "Hendrix Bolero youtube" Masters of Reality |