Greetings from Australia again. Still meeting wonderful people, enjoying beautiful scenery and events. The Rainbow Gathering was a nice "welcoming home" even though our rental car didn't manage too well on the forest roads. The leaches and tics are not as bad a challange as the immigration laws that we don't seem to qualify for long term stay.
A great week to everyone
"Odyseus" George and the mobile family tree
 
LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:
 
Nov 3 to Dec 3 Entheogensis Australis Gathering near Melbourne
 
 
European Rainbow Gathering updates
 
 
fantuzzi + and the lovalution fri sc sat mill valley and around the world
 
 
"Government-funded researchers and private companies are working on a new breed of pharmaceuticals designed to police your blood, identify illegal drugs, and block them from entering your brain. The CCLE is concerned that some courts may require use of these new "anti-drug" drugs as a condition of receiving probation in drug possession cases. One such drug, known only as SR141716 targets marijuana inside the body. If SR141716 is imposed as a probation condition it, alone, could affect nearly 700,000 people each year who are arrested for marijuana-related offenses."
 
 
 
This web page, "Nobel Prize genius Crick was high
on LSD when he discovered the secret of life",
is very interesting.
Recommend you take a look:
 
http://www.serendipity.li/dmt/crick_lsd.htm

 
 
Timothy Leary's latest book "The Fugitive Philosopher"
 
 
"Panama Red "
 
 
 
"10 Million Americans Busted for Pot: Enough is Enough"
 
 
"Marijuana in the Holy Oil?"
 
 
"Psilocybe cubensis/Psilocybe subcubensis"
 
 
Amanita image
 
 
"Kumbha Mela" India
 
 
"Shaking Medicine:The Healing Power of Ecstatic Movement"
 
 
August/September Erowid Featured Artist: Petrus Books
 
http://www.erowid.org/culture/art/artists_b/art_boots_petrus.shtml
 
 
 
"Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era at the WHITNEY MUSEUM"
 
 
 
"TRIPS FESTIVAL" films  Oct 4 to 14 Mill Valley, CA
 
 
 
"Various Artists: Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970"
 
 
Led Zeppelin Mothership
 
 
"Living in the Material World: Music: George Harrison"


"Grateful Dead Lyric And Song Finder"
 
 
Friends Salli and Gabriel Butterfield's site dedicated to the great blues harmonica maestro and true "soul man" Paul Butterfield. Enjoy their fresh photos from the recent festival.
 
 
 
Our friend Alicial Bay Laurel, singer and muse extraordinare"
 
 
"Ancient remedies soothe modern pains"
 
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/2007/09/24/4521082-sun.html 
By DR. RICHARD BELIVEAU, ATTENTION ON PREVENTION
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Fiddling with figures while the Earth burns"

 
"Parallel universes exist - study"
 
 
 
"Battling Cthulhu"
 
 
"Peru crater: meteorite, secret satellites and zombies"
 
 
"Human Ancestors More Primitive That Once Thought"
 
 
"Feminism Vs. Fembots"
 
 
"Is Artificial Beauty the New Feminism? "
 
 
"Michael Moore and Oprah Ask Audience: Why Should US Health Care Be for Profit?"
 
 
"Thermodynamics of Organisms, Wireless Health Risks and the Peak Oil Scam - NewsGrabs 30 September 2007"
 
 
"Greenland's melting ice could change its political landscape"
 
 
"What Can Brown Do for You? "
 
 
"Solar airconditioning"
 
 
Essential movie to watch and share: the role played by church and state in mass control
 
 
GLOBAL:
 
 
"Groups Struggle to Tally Burma's Dead"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100107R.shtml
 
 
"World roars on Burma"
 
 
"Australia pushes further Web  censorship"

 
"Israel's collective punishment of Gaza"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/gaza-s22.shtml


"Mounting press speculation India will face early elections"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/indi-s22.shtml
 
 
 
"Polish elections offer no alternative for the broad masses"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/pola-s29.shtml

 
 
NATIONAL:
 
 
 
"Iraq Claims Extensive Evidence of Blackwater Massacre"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100107A.shtml
 
 
"Seymour Hersh: Bush is Engaged in Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq."
 
 
Seymour Hersh | Shifting Targets: New Plans for Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100107J.shtml

 
 
 
 
"Arrest warrant for Bush/Cheney" video
 
 
"The Bush-Aznar tapes: glimpse of a gangster preparing for war"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/bush-s29.shtml
 
 
 

"US prison population at all time high"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/pris-s29.shtml
 
 
http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p102/484384.pdf
Federal Approval To Travel WITHIN The US Soon.
"Come with me into a nightmare world where American citizens¨T will have to obtain permission from the government before they can travel¨T by air in the U.S."

 
 
"Christian Conservative Third Party?"
 
 
"Tomgram: Having a Carnage Party"
 
 
 
"Q and A For The People Of A Forsaken Republic
Addressing the origins of the Whose-Your-Daddy Nation"
By Phil Rockstroh
When a nation manifests a mixture of mass ignorance and official mendacity, in combination with uncheck power emanating from an insular and arrogant elite, a golden age of peace and plenty is as possible as holding a tea dance in a tsunami.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18491.htm
 
 
 
"Let's Try Partitioning The US"
By Linda S. Heard
Isn't Iraq supposed to be a sovereign nation with an elected government? If so, then why is the US Senate attempting to meddle in its affairs by overwhelmingly passing a resolution calling for the country's partition into three, which is tantamount to ethnic cleansing?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18493.htm
 
 
Very Bloody Oil by Rowan Wolf
"How much is it costing? Well there are the measurable costs, such as $10 Billion a month, or the almost 3,800 U.S. troops that have given their lives, or the almost 38,000 U.S. troops who are casualties, or the 144 who have taken their own lives. But all of that pales in magnitude to the estimated 1.2 million Iraqi¨ˆs who have died as a result of the U.S. invasion and the dominoes that has set falling."
 
 
 
The Empire Stumbles on©¼by John Steppling
"The invention of a *war on terror* is a product of the need for more military spending, and the US needs military spending to keep the economy afloat. US workers are so without class consciousness that they do not notice they are being used to help prop up an ever shakier Imperialist economy. Reagan helped destroy unions, and today that word has simply disappeared. The empire of propaganda has expanded too, and all opposition has been neutralized. Since 9/11 the free press, limited as it already was, has totally disappeared."
 
 
 
Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy by Joe Bageant
"Like most modern Southerners who've fled their native states for long periods of time, I have the standard love/hate relationship with my home town -- Winchester, Virginia. On one hand, it is a backward and mostly irrelevant place where the question of whether Stonewall Jackson had jock itch at the Battle of Chancellorsville still rages right alongside evolution and abortion. To be sure, it is the standard venal Southern place, where poverty and ugliness are thrust into one's face daily, with all the gothic family melodramas of greed and intrigue so often written about Southern novels. On the other hand, it is the place that made me who I am, a moralizing, preachy and essentially lazy bastard who likes to drink. I was raised a Pentecostal Baptist, steeped in the gloomy ultra-Protestant assumption that man is a worthless, evil thing from birth and only goes downhill from there. And I still managed to become a raving, socialist heathen. Which proves there's hope for everyone."
 
 
 
 
The Radical Right¨ˆs Weakness by The Rockridge Institute
"The radical Right is acutely aware of cases where the general public has progressive values and would ordinarily reject their agenda. The Right¨ˆs approach to such cases is deception, often through the use of Orwellian language ¡Ö language that means the opposite of what it says."
 
 
"The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West"
 
 
"John Dean's "Broken Government," With Autographed Bookplate"
 
 
"Jimmy Carter's An Hour Before Daylight : Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood"
 
 
"A buck here, a buck there..."
 
 
"Blackwater: We Kill People For Money [VIDEO]"
 
part 2:
 
LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:
 
 
Oct 28 to 30 line up at Bellingen festival
 
 
"New Ayahuasca Study Confirms Therapeutic Potential"
 
 
Dean Jefferys excellent Ayahuasca documentary and last Terence McKenna video, "Shamans of the Amazon"
 
 
Our friend Morgan Brent discussing Ayahuasca
 
 
"Here is the PDF file for the new study on Altheizmers disease treatment with Cannabis."
 
http://www.nature.com/bjp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/0707446a.pdf
 
 
 
"Proponents of a marijuana reform initiative that would make adult pot use the city’s lowest law enforcement priority..."
 
 
 
 
"Public Health Link: Update on seizures of cannabis contaminated with glass particles"
 
 
 
"The Nation’s Borders, Now Guarded by the Net"
 
 
Burning Man photos 2007
 
 
Nimbin Mardi Grass 2007
 
 
"Concert poster auction"
 
 
"La. protests hark back to '50s, '60s"
 
 
"Anti-war song of the 60's still applies today. Listen to this:"
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=jFrEMySvTjY& watch_response
 
 
"YouTube - Bob Dylan/The Band - Highway 61 Revisited (1969)"
 
 
"A Visit to the Alakha Nath Temple in Bareilly"
 
 
"Empower the Nuns of Bhutan" (thank you Kutira for the link)
 
 
Don Jose Ruiz Toltec spiritual teachings on video
 
 
 
"STARGATE 2012: LIVING THE RE-EVOLUTION, with William Henry. An ancient
prophecy, a miraculous new spiritual technology, a bright new world."
 
 
This Moon's Natural Time Update can be found at:
http://13moon.com/emailer_WIZ_03.htm
 
 
Our friend Sherri's beautiful Big Island spa in Hawaill

 
 
My friend Vickie's colorful and useful "upcycled furniture,satchels", and other fun items to look at.
 
 
"Box house eco home renovation"
 
 
"Mountain bike conversion kit"
 
 
"Biodiesal motor bike sets records"
 
 
"Electronics companies green up their act"
 
 
 
"Jubilation as UN approves indigenous peoples declaration"
 
 
 
"Iguazu Falls | The Most Spectacular Waterfalls in the World"
 
 
"Age shall not wither them: Earth's oldest trees"
 
 
 
"Algae for Fuel"
 
 
My friend in Australia Dean Jefferys and his efforts for the whales
 
 
 
"Arctic sea ice sets melty record"
 
 
"Warming 'opens Northwest Passage'  {BBC}"
 
 
"In Ladakh, glacier melt raises fears of water woes"
 
 
"Greenhouse Earth: Methane powered runaway global warming"
 
 
"How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs"
 
 
 
"Yam Bean A Nearly Forgotten Crop"
 
 
 
"FDA Continues Pushing Natural Herb Sweetener Stevia Out of U.S."
 
 
"AIDS Diagnosis Based on Pseudo Science?"
 
 
"Just Five Minutes on a Cell Phone Can Trigger Cancer"
 
 
 
"The Tragic Consequences of Drugging Our Children"
 
 
"The Weird Russian Mind-Control Research Behind a DHS Contract"
 
 
 
"When You Have Love, All Things Are Possible "
 
 
"Sexy vegetarians"
 
 
"Fewer window prostitutes in Amsterdam"
 
 
"From Russia with lust"
 
 
 
 
"Susan Sarandon talks with Colbert about her new Iraq War-themed movie "In The Valley of Elah" and much more"
 
 
Cheap and free places to stay around the world
 
 
"Burmese Monks Seeking Freedom Get Nothing But Lip Service From Bush."
 
 
 
MUSIC VIDEOS:
 
Dennis Brown: Only dread can come over
 
 
James Brown: There was a time
 
 
 
Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil"(Stereo) (with African drummers-classic)
 
 
Randy Hansen/ Buddy Miles: "Are You Experienced"
 
 
Buddy Miles "Down by the river"
 
 
Al Green: "Tired of Being Alone"
 
 
GLOBAL:
 
 
"Parliamentary elections in Greece
Conservatives gain at expense of PASOK"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/gree-s20.shtml
 
 
Australia: "Bipartisan political praise for police violence at APEC
summit"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/apec-s20.shtml


France: "Communist Party mayor calls police on the homeless"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/fran-s20.shtml


"Report shows Afghanistan mired in corruption"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/afgh-s20.shtml
 
 
"Cuba's Castro looks healthy in new video"
 
 
"Lessons of Empire: India, 60 Years After Independence"
 
 
 
 
NATIONAL:
 
 
The new edition of "Issues & Alibis!"
http://www.issuesandalibis.org
 
 
"CNN: The war with Iran has begun "
 
 
OpEdNews: "A Child's Guide To US-Iran Relations"
 
 
 
 
"Picking Up the Pieces: Practical Guide for Surviving Economic Crashes, Internal Unrest and Military Suppression"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
'A Coup Has Occurred'
By Daniel Ellsberg
If there's another 9/11 under this regime ... it means that they switch on full extent all the apparatus of a police state that has been patiently constructed, largely secretly at first but eventually leaked out and known and accepted by the Democratic people in Congress, by the Republicans and so forth.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18456.htm
 
 
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/feedback/97410-american_spy_satellite-0
"American spy satellite downed in Peru as US
nuclear attack on Iran thwarted"
 
 
"Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1"
By Juan Cole
Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18453.htm
 
 
"Bush at the UN: a war criminal lectures the world on "human rights"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/bush-s26.shtml
 
 
William Rivers Pitt | Dan Rather's Magnum Opus
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607A.shtml
 
 
 
 
 
FOCUS | Bush Seeks $200 Billion to Continue Iraq Occupation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092307Z.shtml
 
 
 
"US Snipers Lure Iraqis with 'Bait' Each Day"
 
 
"Blackwater mercenaries resume patrols in wake of Baghdad civilian
killings"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/blac-s24.shtml
 
 
 
Senate Endorses Plan to Divide Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092607R.shtml
Reporting for The Washington Post, Shailagh Murray says, "Showing rare
bipartisan consensus over war policy, the Senate overwhelmingly
endorsed a political settlement for Iraq that would divide the country into
three semi-autonomous regions."



http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2323126720070923
"Report: Cheney Tried to Get Israel to Bomb Iran to Set Off a War"
 
 
"The Afternoon Buzz: By 72-25 vote, U.S. Senate passes resolution condemning MoveOn ad."
 
 
 
"Hard Lessons from MoveOn Fiasco"
 
 
"Ominous Capitulation by the NY Times"
 
 
"Dan Rather Decries Corporate Control Of News"
 
 
"Olbermann to Bush: ‘Your hypocrisy is so vast’"
 
 
"George W. Bush's Thug Nation"
 
 
"Tomgram: Bush's Free World and Welcome to It"
 
 
"Military Recruiters' Scams"
 
 
"Bush / Big Pharma conspiracy? White House to oppose open disclosure of clinical drug trials"
 
 
Jason Leopold | Schwarzenegger Takes Lead on California Health Reform
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092007J.shtml
 
 
Jason Leopold | Experts: Schwarzenegger's Plan, Industry Give-Away
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092107J.shtml
 
 
"UAW begins national strike against GM, first since 1970"

 
 
"U.S. Banks Brace for Storm Surge as Dollar and Credit System Reel"
 
 
"The Police State Is Right Here, Right Now"
By Carolyn Baker
The two major parties are like two crime families-the Genoveses and the Gambinos. They function like players in a crap game that feign opposition to each other, but when the chips are down, they will always unite to serve their common interests.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18426.htm
 
 
 
"The Nightmare of DHS´s *Secure Flight*
 
 
"
The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates and statements by government officials.
The personal travel records are meant to be stored for as long as 15 years, as part of the Department of Homeland Security's effort to assess the security threat posed by all travelers entering the country. Officials say the records, which are analyzed by the department's Automated Targeting System, help border officials distinguish potential terrorists from innocent people entering the country.
But new details about the information being retained suggest that the government is monitoring the personal habits of travelers more closely than it has previously acknowledged. The details were learned when a group of activists requested copies of official records on their own travel. Those records included a description of a book on marijuana that one of them carried and small flashlights bearing the symbol of a marijuana leaf...."
 
 
"Neo-Nazis Go After Jena Six"
 
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"Fears of Dollar Collapse as Saudis Take Fright"
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18428.htm
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Bush Vows to Abandon Millions of Sick Children"
 
 
 
"Are USAID Funds Being Used for Covert Operations in Central Africa?"
 
 
"US Military Control of Africa’s Resources"
 
 
 
"The Sino-Russian Alliance: Challenging America's Ambitions in Eurasia"
 
 
"China Claiming "Major Advances" in U.S. Relationship"
 
 
"The Book that Taser Man Was Holding and Citing When Questioning Kerry"
 
 
Craig Unger's "The Fall of the House of Bush." On the Road to Armageddon"
 
 
"Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of New Global Economy"
 
 
 
"No End in Sight (2007), Fully Exposes the Bush Fiasco in Iraq"
 
 
"The Siege of Mecca and the Birth of al-Qaeda"
"There has been such a tsunami of lies, diversions and dissembling from the Bush Administration over the years, it is baffling as to where to begin to unravel the truth."
 
 
Naomi Wolf's "The End of America."