This week is my 60th birthday and if you happen to be on the Big Island later in the month, Stephanie and I invite you to join us in celebrating our birthdays together on August 27.
Back and forward again into the 60's. Two excellent bands, Terrapin Station and The Love Machine, will keep us dancing to the sounds of Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd.
It will definitely be a fun and fine evening experience.
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Lots of stories this week in the blog ranging from ideas on the national debt arrangement, the Ken Kesey movie, drug legalization and oppression, plight of the Huichol Indians, shamanism, sustainability, cancer therapy, 9/11 info, chemtrails, music videos and much more. I try to weave the way the articles are presented so as to provide almost a "headline dialog" so that you can find it easier to browse with context and reference points. For more information on a particular story, the link can be clicked for the details and article.
Also some beautiful art added by one of my favorite artists MATI KLARWEIN and also another wonderful artist JUDY HURLEY.
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LIFESTYLE/ ARTS/ CULTURE/ ETC:
EVENTS:
Summer of Love, August 20, Brighton UK
A veritable Summer of Love distilled into one brimful cup of intoxication, illumination and revelation.
Cartographie Psychedelica:
Celebrating 25 Years of Research & Education,
Dec 8-12, Oakland California
HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS:
NAACP Calls for End to War on Drugs
National Poll Finds Support for Welfare Drug Testing
The Pot Republic:
One Sheriff's Quietly Radical Experiment
Federal Judge Throws Out Florida's Drug Law
Chicago to Stop Jailing Marijuana Users?
Bolivia to Buy Up Excess Coca Production
Debunking the Myth of a Link Between Marijuana and Mental Illness
From Neurons to Nirvana:
The Great Medicines
Psychedelics Make Us Human:
An Interview with the Mind-Bending Techno-Ecologic Scholar Richard Doyle
Natural DMT Mystical Experience Meditation Technique Revealed Finally!
Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary
by Joanna Harcourt-Smith
Michael Horowitz launches Flashback Books Canada eBay store:
"The initial offering are books on psychedelic drugs in which LSD is prominently featured.
The second in a few weeks will be books featuring psychedelic (entheogenic) plants,
especially psychoactive mushrooms, peyote, cannabis and ayahuasca.
Subsequent lists will include drug art, music and literature, Beat Generation and Sixties counterculture, vintage paperbacks (fiction, mystery and erotica), magazines
and journals, and possibly artifacts and archival materials."
Film Hitches a Weird Ride on Kesey’s Bus
My friend Peter Terry organized the famous Nambassa counter culture festivals in New Zealand and has an excellent website of consciousness to share. Please have a look
The Plight of the Huichol Indians
Maybe Gnosis:
KMO welcomes Erik Davis back to the program to talk about Gnosticism as the underlying stream of Western esoteric experience as well as its modern manifestation in pop culture.
Next AyasminA speaks with Dr. Tom Pinkson about life as a series of initiations and the real-life people and experiences that shaped the literary character of Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan.
Benefits of Meditation
The Point Of No Return For Humanity
Spiritual Lounge offers a free download of their magazine
My friend Pila of Hawaii has two excellent books to share with the world.
One is his classic "The Sacred Mysteries of Hawaii" and the other is his
new book "The God Link".
"Golf in the Kingdom" movie
A Mystical Tale, From Tee to Green
Garden of Eden originally a Pygmy myth?
World Sacred Forests Mapped Out
Awakening the Dragon Fire
Marie Laveau lived in New Orleans and became the Queen of the Voodoos.
Religious Satanism Today:
The details on the devil
ARTS:
Mati Klarwein was one of the world's best artists. His visions extend into many dimensions. Please have a look and experience the magic, alchemy and delights
Mati Klarwein soundtrack
Judy Hurley's magnificent art portals
10 TV Shows That Changed the World
"Think the boob tube's not progressive?
Think again. "
In Death, Amy Winehouse Becomes Most Recent Member of 27 Club
The Story of "Light My Fire" by The Doors
Ray Manzarek on Vinyl Justice
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Stairway to Heaven lyrics analyzed
Atari Teenage Riot
Atari Teenage Riot-downloads
"A cultural cold war divided along class lines, a new age of surveillance, heroes incarcerated in the worst conditions possible for speaking out against the military complex, a corrupt press core owned by multi-national corporations and raised to repeat soundbytes. This is the post-cyberpunk world on the brink of collapse Atari Teenage Riot’s fourth album Is This Hyperreal? is born into. Every track is an iridescent explosion of nervous energy requesting your attendance in Atari Teenage Riot’s campaign party of education and awareness."
ENVIRONMENT:
Radiation monitoring network
Melting Arctic Ice Releases Stored Toxic Chemicals
Environmental Pollutants Lurk Long After They "Disappear"
Ravenous wolves colonise France, terrorise shepherds
'Oldest Bird' Archaeopteryx May Not be Bird After All
Ancient footprints show human like walking began nearly 4 million years ago
Strength in numbers:
"New research sheds light on why, after 300,000 years of domination,
European Neanderthals abruptly disappeared."
The tallest tree in the land
Can U.S. cities stay above water?
Peter Yarrow:
Tim DeChristopher's Courageous Bid to Save Our World
Landmark Agreement Moves 757 Species Toward Federal Protection
Go Beyond Organic
"Our Mission is to provide high-tech, ecological products with NO pharmaceuticals, preservatives, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or any other toxic materials that fix your body while feeding it. Our unrivaled products will make you healthier than you ever thought possible"
Consensus points many practical ways for sustainable living
Mayor of Vilnius takes out Mercedes parked in bike lane—with a tank
Video of above story
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Friendly Competition
– Vancouver’s Bid to Become the World’s Greenest City
July 25th, 2011 | Author: Al Bredenberg
Urban acupuncture for a healthier city
SCIENCE:
Earth's Stabilizing Moon May Be Unique Within Universe
Higgs "God" particle to be found?
A few anomalous blips of data are giving scientists hope that the elusive Higgs boson,
or "God" particle, might soon be found, though it's too early to say whether
a discovery is imminent
CERN ‘gags’ physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment
10 Everyday Technologies That Are Now Dying
Converting water to gas
China sub makes first dive to below 5,000m:
report
Epigenetic 'Memory' Key to Nature Versus Nurture
US cryonics founder dies, has body frozen
HEALTH:
The Case Against Drinking 6-8 Glasses of Water a Day
Not your grandma’s strawberries
Red Wine, Dark Chocolate, Blueberries:
Is There Any Science Behind the "Superfood" Hype?
What's really in the food?
The A to Z of the food industry's most evil ingredients
FDA's new sneal attack on supplements
Health Cover-up Summary
270,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto
Salt or cocaine, a fix is a basic instinct
"Proven Unsafe But FDA-Approved:
Are YOU Still Consuming This Man-Made Poison?"
The Dangers of Aspartame (Artificial Sweeteners Sugarfree Diet Coke Zero No Sugar Added E951)
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The Drugging Of Our Children (Full Length)
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Barbara Loe Fisher On Vaccine Awareness
(Part 1/2) -youtube
"The Smear Campaign They Used to Try to Shut Us Up"
How Washing Your Hands and Germophobia Can Damage Your Brain
Toxicology Expert Dr. Jack Thrasher on Mold Exposure pt 1
"The "New" Hidden Pandemic Sweeping Across America "
Herbal Parasite Remedies
INSIDE Your Home:
The Ugly Invaders Which Can Make You Sick
Poor indoor air quality could be jeopardizing your health
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Cancer Smart Bomb,
Part I:An Idea from Ancient Chinese Medicine
Cancer Smart Bomb:
Part II Artemisinin Follow-Up
HEALTH NEWS YOU CAN USE:
6 Head Pains You Should Never Ignore
13 Most Difficult Diseases to Diagnose
Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride part 1
"How a Physician Cured Her Son's Autism... "
Why Do Women Fake Orgasms?
New Research Reveals Some Surprising Reasons
What It's Like To Be a Male Porn Star
GLOBAL NEWS:
URGENT:
Send water and food to the Horn of Africa now
Famine declared in three new Somali regions:
UN
Somalis Flee To Kenyan Refugee Camps
Who's Grabbing Africa's Land?
U.S. Speculators, Including Universities
BP 'Has Gained Stranglehold Over Iraq' After Oilfield Deal is Rewritten
Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant
Tepco Reports Second Deadly Radiation Reading at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
RSN Special Coverage:
Disaster in Japan
Haitian tent cities brace for huge tropical storm
Putin says U.S. is "Parasite" on Global Economy:
"They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of
their problems to the world economy,"
Far-right Russians cite Breivik as a 'hero'
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Russia's Far-Right on the Rise
US Sponsored "Democracy" in Colombia:
Political Assassinations, Poverty and Neoliberalism
By José David Torrenegra
Greece:
One World One Revolution
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Hundreds of Thousands of Protestors Take to the Streets in Israel
-- Are the Winds of Social Change Blowing?
Puppets in Revolt:
Afghanistan , Iraq , Pakistan and the United States
The US-Al Qaeda Alliance:
Bosnia, Kosovo and Now Libya.
Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists
Billion Dollar Bill &NATO's Attack On Libya-Video
It is not conspiracy -- it's structural economic behavior locked into
Western Foreign Policy and therefore the global economy.
NATIONAL NEWS
GENERAL INFO:
The President Surrenders
By Paul Krugman
For the deal itself, will take America a long way down the road
to banana-republic status.
Robert Reich | Ransom Paid Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog:
"Anyone who characterizes the deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither economics nor politics. The deal does not raise taxes on America's wealthy and most fortunate - who are now taking home a larger share of total income and wealth, and whose tax rates are already lower than they have been, in eighty years."
Anger, Deceit and a Billionaires' Coup
Debt Ceiling Agreement:
Don't Call It A Compromise
Welcome to the United States of Austerity
By Andy Kroll
Polluted water, smoggy skies, crumbling bridges, less education funding,
more unhealthy Americans: the impact of the debt deal's massive cuts.
Bullshit:
the perfect academic word for US debt, economic, war policies
Anti-Empire Report
Issues and Alibis news
Forbidden Knowledge TV
Ron Paul's Urgent Warning!
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Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?:
Cenk Uygur Leaves MSBNC over this show
The US Constitution Makes Default Illegal:
What a Real President Would Do on August 1, 2011
America Held Hostage to Two-Party Failure:
Government of, by and for the Corporations
Tom Tresser:
After the Cutting and Gutting:
Massive Privatization Schemes
Congressional Republicans Hack Away at Medicaid
While the Rich Hollow It Out From the Inside
Is it enough to tax junk food and subsidize good food?
Who put McDonald’s in charge of kids’ health?
Matt Damon:
Stand Behind Public School Teachers and Fight Against Standardized Tests
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back:
How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Shocking New Report:
Safest Place To Be a Black Man Is in Prison
Stuff white people like:
denying climate change
Why Do Conservatives Hate High-Speed Rail?
5 Reasons Right-Wingers Are Sabotaging Public Transportation Projects
$230,000 For a Guard Dog:
Why the Wealthy Are Afraid Of Violence From Below
Shell profits jump 77% on higher oil prices
Exxon Mobil profit jumps 41pc
A DIRTY BUSINESS:
U.S. Chamber Launches Effort To Support Bringing Dirty Tar Sands Oil Down South
Bulldoze:
The New Way to Foreclose
How Recession Is Hastening the Wal-Martization of America
Imperial Psychosis:
We Pour Trillions into Empire While Gutting Programs Americans Depend On
12 Ways Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire Has Made the World Worse
10 of America's Most Dangerous Hatemongers
Meet the Right-Wing Hatemongers Who Inspired the Norway Killer
Glenn Greenwald:
Why Do We Harass Muslims But Not White, Nordic Males?
"The response to the Norway attacks shows that the world "terrorism has no meaning
-- aside from when it's used to bash Muslims. "
White Families Have 20 Times the Wealth of Black Families:
How Racism's Legacy Created a Crushing Depression In Black America
So This Is Despair
Students Stripping, Doing Sex Work and Seeing Sugar Daddies?
In Hard Economic Times, This Media Obsession Is Based in Reality
Why Democracy Is Public:
The American Dream Beats the Nightmare
The American People Are Angry
15 Years in Prison For Taping the Cops?
How Eavesdropping Laws Are Taking Away Our Best Defense Against Police Brutality
What happened and what do we face in Fukushima?
Hawaiian sovereignty
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin' that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here and the desert far away
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen: Democracy
WAR:
Air Force Cites New Testament, Ex-Nazi, to Train Officers on Ethics
of Launching Nuclear Weapons
POLITICAL:
GOP on Verge of Huge, Unprecedented Political Victory
Republicans:
The People Grandpa Warned Me About
The US Dictatorship and its White House Servant ‘President’
The Cult That Is Destroying America
An American Theocracy:
"Rick Perry will be having his come to Jesus meeting this weekend.
He is the Governor of the entire state of Texas - but is he excluding members of other religions? How much should God and religion play a part in our government?"
New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked
The Bush Deficit
Donald Trump Tells GOP To Default Just to Screw Obama
ECONOMIC:
Progressives Complain Obama's Debt Deal
'Trades People's Livelihoods for the Votes of a Few Unappeasable Right-Wing Radicals'
Debunking the Big Lie Right-Wingers Use to Justify Black Poverty and Unemployment
Economic Armageddon:
Gretchen Morgensen on How Wall Street Broke the Economy
The 6 Biggest Lies About the U.S. Debt
6 Huge Items That Really Exploded the Debt
(That You Never Hear the Mainstream Media Talk About)
Super Wealthy CEOs Help Crush the American Worker,
Then Cry About Class Warfare
SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:
Air Force Pulls Christian-Themed Ethics Training for Nuclear Missile Officers
After Publication of Truthout Report
Norway Terror Attacks a False Flag:
More Than One Shooter on Island; Oslo Police Drilled Bomb Blasts;
Was It NATO’s Revenge for Norway’s Decision to Stop Bombing Libya?
U.S. Imperialism Creating Police State at Home
9/11: Who Really Benefited?
Fact and Not Fiction...
By Captain America
The Mena Connection - Exposing the CIA, Bush, Clinton, Iran Contra, And Drug Running.
''Tells the story of the lies of the US Government concerning the Iran-Contra Affair.
George Bush Sr. & Bill Clinton oversaw the smuggling of TONS of Cocaine in & out of Mena, Arkansas (the hub of traffic if you will where the 'Enterprise' conducted business clandestinely.)"
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Camp FEMA:
American Lockdown - Full Length
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Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
-An introductory programming manual
6 Creepy New Weapons the Police and Military Use To Subdue Unarmed People
"Smart Meters" Are Surveillance Devices
Which Violate Federal & State Wiretapping Laws
Smart Meters
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Security Expert Proves Hacking the Smart Grid Is a Snap
The Development of "Privacy Killing Technologies":
A Link to the Murdoch Scandal?
Black Ops for Major U.S. Banks and Corporations
#OpPayPal
- Is This A 21st Century Bank Run?
How The Rothschild Family controlled the Modern World
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NASA Warns Of Global Catastrophe Post Upcoming
'Huge Space Storm'
Elenin:
What SOHO May Soon Reveal
Alarming NOAA Data, Rapid Pole Shift
Pilot Films Plane Spraying Chemtrails.
Part Human/Part Animal Hybrid Monsters Are Being
Created By Scientists All Over The Planet
The Vatican's Holocaust:
"The sensational account of the most horrifying religious massacre of the 20th century"
An online book about the secret history of the Jesuits is here
The Vatican's role in causing the Vietnam war is here:
A really good researcher on the Jesuits current deviltry including
the JFK assassination and the 911 atttacks is here
Mystery Surrounds Loss of Records,
Art on 9/11
13 Freaky Facts About Roller Coasters
10 Kinkiest Cities In America
HUMOR:
Mayor of Vilnius takes out Mercedes parked in bike lane—with a tank
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QUOTES FOR THE WEEK:
What Senator Robert Kennedy said in 1966, speaking on the medical value of psychedelics, holds even more true today:
“I think we have given too much emphasis and so much attention to the fact that it can be dangerous and that it can hurt an individual who uses it…that perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that it can be very, very helpful in our society, if used properly.”
"Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers." David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian, "Of the First Principles of Government" 1758
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""How fortunate for leaders that men do not think." Adolf Hitler
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"The great are only great because we are on our knees." James Connolly - Irish republican and socialist leader. Executed by a British firing squad because of his leadership role in the Easter Rising of 1916.
"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled." John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience ... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves ... [and] the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem." - Howard Zinn
"Societies characterized by enduring deep divisions of income and wealth, such as most third-world societies, are wounded societies with little sense of the common good... As America drifts in this direction, ending poverty and redistributing income should be at the top of the national agenda."-- Charles Derber, Corporation Nation, p203..
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"This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security."-- Michael Lerner, journalist
"There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop, And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all." Mario Savio (1964)
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies. ... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' " --
Barack Hussein Obama 44th President of the United States - Source: 20 March 2006, prior to voting against a debt ceiling increase in the Senate
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" If there was ever a time in the modern history of America that the American people should become engaged in what's going on here in Washington, now is that time."
Bernie Sanders: July, 2011 - The longest serving independent member of Congress in American history.
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"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. Dalai Lama
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin' that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here and the desert far away
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
- Leonard Cohen: Democracy
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TWENTY-SEVEN
Ok everybody, it's July 27 and what could be a more fitting tribute than to say goodbye to Amy Winehouse while we look back at all the other artists that left this world at the much too young age of twenty seven...Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat, Pete Ham of Badfinger and blues legend Robert Johnson.
Using rare and unseen photos and footage (including unreleased Beatles footage), Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese traces the life of George Harrison. Coming this Fall.
To coincide with the release of the film, in late September, Abrams Books will publish Olivia Harrison's George Harrison: Living in the Material World, a personal archive of photographs, letters, diaries and memorabilia from George's life.
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