Tuesday, October 22, 2013

LINKS BY GEORGE NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 22, 2013









Ten years have passed since my first Links by George Newsletter. 

At that time, I was terrified of getting involved with computers and only when my 
friend Terence McKenna convinced me of the importance of information sharing 
did I slowly get involved. But even though I seem to spend most of my day researching 
stories, I am still not very digital or tech oriented. Now I extend thanks to my 
friend Paul who came to visit us from Australia and has been able to upgrade 
the presentation of my social networking through Facebook as well as the newsletter. 
I hope you find this new format easier to read and navigate as we set sail for new 
adventures of trying to make sense of the rapidly changing events in the world and 
how we can make clear decisions in the process. 

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  I would also like to ask if anyone has contact information for certain musicians that often come to Hawaii.  We are organizing a benefit here on the Big Island for needy people that are in critical need for medical help and are without insurance or money to cover the cost of any treatment. If any one knows how to reach Willie Nelson, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Neil Young or Mickey Hart, please let me know.

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networking articles from the 60's counterculture where a truly holistic newspaper
 included perspectives of a new age and cultural renaissance as well as the need 
for political activism and environmental awareness.


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LIFESTYLE/ART/CULTURE/ETC:

EVENTS:

SPIRIT PLANT MEDICINE CONFERENCE. Vancouver Oct 26-27 
 
Entheogens Film Immersion Weekend Nov 22 and 24 facilitated by Ralph Metzner in Petaluma California 


HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS:

The Origins of Halloween: Season of the Crone. Halloween, Samhain, All Hallows, All Saints or Hallow-Eve is the season of the Crone. In ancient paganism, the word Crone denoted an elder priestess or tribal matriarch; a cognate word is "crown," the symbol of a leader. The word was made pejorative when the Christian Church redefined all elder priestesses of the old religion as malevolent witches. Similarly, the word "hag" was once derived from Greek hagia—a holy woman—and also became a Christianized term for a witch. 

 

Entheogens and the Development of Culture by John A. Rush 
Marijuana Finally Decriminalized In Jamaica 
Romania Legalizes Medical Marijuana, Becomes 10th EU Country To Permit Therapeutic Use 
  
Switzerland decriminalizes cannabis 
Alberto Groisman - Ayahuasca Religions, Mediumship & Religious Agency: Health and the Fluency of Social Relations 
THE MUSHROOM DOCTOR: THE WISDOM WAY OF THE FEMININE SHAMAN is a new book written by my friend Camila Martinez which sounds like a fascinating, informative and inspirational journey and would be an excellent book to order. It is the story of Dona Julieta, a great curandera and shamaness from the Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico, and her teachings. Camila is a Curandera trained in Oaxaca, Mexico in a 20 year apprenticeship with Dona Julieta and is the first western woman to receive a graduate degree in Aryuveda and Tibetan medicine. She also is organizing a film called THE SEED MOTHERS TRANSMISSIONS about the sacred feminine in Mayan Culture. More information and donations for the film as well as purchasing a copy of the book as can be gotten from Camila by check : Camila Martinez, P.O. Box 751, Bolinas, CA 94924 the cost is $24.
Maps to the Landscape Beyond Death. In the Amazon there are shamans who claimed to have journeyed beyond death. Their stories are very similar to the ones told by Tibetans who have mapped the journey 
Foundation For Mind-Being Research where science and consciousness produce wisdom 


ARTS:

The timeless paintings of Stephen Meakin
An Experiment To Allow Us To See New Colors 


MUSIC VIDEOS:

India Bharti The Peace Song 
India Bharti plays Sickness and Death 
Willie Nelson and Lukas Nelson - "It's Floodin' Down in Texas" 

ENVIRONMENT:
An anti-GMO wave rising from Kauai? It's just one little Hawaiian island, but it's also a big biotech testing ground, so Kauai's move to regulate could ripple widely 
No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans. Stephen Leahy, News Report: Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world’s oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than eight hundred million people, a new study warns Tuesday. The study found that carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels are overheating the oceans, turning them acidic and reducing the amount of oxygen in seawater. This is happening too fast for most marine species to adapt and ocean ecosystems around the world will collapse 
Unregulated, agricultural ammonia threatens national parks' ecology 

Drift catchers use citizen science to fight pesticide pollution. Tired of watching chemicals blow across their fields, withering crops and threatening their own health, some farmers are taking matters into their own hands 

A Garden Shop With An Eco-Therapeutic Twist. Botanica, a Jerusalem social business, provides transitional employment for people with mental illness, and green activities to involve the public. 


SCIENCE:

The Perilous Road Ahead: Designer Babies and Other Patented Life Forms... Where Will It All End? The Frightening Genetic Engineering You Probably Haven't Heard About Yet 

HEALTH:

New Report: Preventable Medical Mistakes Account for One-Sixth of All Annual Deaths in the United States. Kills as Many as 4 Jumbo Jet Crashes Per Week, But Widely Ignored 
  
Can Adding Fluoride to Milk Help Improve Children’s Dental Health? Fluoride is a toxic substance that is biologically active in the human body where it accumulates in sensitive tissues over time, wreaks havoc with enzymes and produces a number of serious adverse health effects. 
  
Natural cures 

Want to Try Herbal Remedies? 4 Ways to Make Sure You Don't Get Ripped Off (Or Worse)Herbal products can work wonders, but sometimes the products on the shelf are overpriced, ineffective or even unsafe. 

This Mineral Deficiency Can Trigger Clumping of Proteins in Your Brain. Then Alzheimer's. How Agricultural Chemicals and Hospital Stays Contribute to Alzheimer’s 

Controversial Marijuana oil could help Bermudian cancer sufferers -- activist 


GLOBAL NEWS


Fukushima Leaks Radioactive Water Into Pacific 03 Oct 2013 A new leak of highly radioactive water is believed to be flowing into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's stricken nuclear plant after a storage tank overflowed. A Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) official said workers at Fukushima detected the toxic fluid dripping from the top of a tank when they were patrolling the site. Tepco estimates 430 litres of the water, which contains highly radioactive doses of strontium, has leaked outside a concrete barrier surrounding the tank. 


The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Friday ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to bring under control the massive amount of radioactive water gushing from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex, including by boosting worker numbers on-site 

Once-A-Decade Typhoon Threatens Already-Leaking Fukushima Nuclear Plant Wipha is the strongest typhoon to approach eastern Japan since Tokage struck in October 2004. 

Australia wildfires destroy homes, darken Sydney skies. Hundreds of homes are feared to have been destroyed by intense wildfires that tore across southeastern Australia in ferocious wind condition 

Further Proof Emerges of Turkey's Genocide By Robert Fisk. The Turks are preparing to smother the 100th anniversary of their Holocaust against the Christian Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. 

Christiana: "You Are Now Leaving the European Union" Forty years ago, squatters in Copenhagen set up the "free zone" of Christiania inside an old military base. The main drag is now a drug market called Pusher Street. But against all odds, and with a little help from the establishment, Christiania is doing just fine. 

Switzerland to vote on $2,800 monthly ‘basic income’ for adults. More than 100,000 residents in Switzerland have signed a petition demanding that the government ensure a minimum monthly income of $2,800 (2,500 Swiss francs) for all adults in the country. 

People of Ireland Begin Criminal Proceedings Against Banks Video. While golden handshakes are the order of the day for retiring civil servants and financial regulators, extra taxes, cutbacks in services and attending the funerals of family members and friends who could no longer cope with the stress and strain is now common place for many Irish people. 

Romanian villagers block Chevron frackers. Chevron tried to begin its Romanian fracking operations on Monday, but workers were sent home by protests. 

Vast majority of EU city dwellers breathe air below UN norms 

Two Car Bombs Explode in Syrian TV Building Behind Reporter During Live Interview In Damascus 

Pakistan TV Exposes bin Laden Killing Hoax By Paul Craig Roberts. This interview of an eyewitness to the entire event is powerful evidence that the Obama regime's story of the killing of Osama bin Laden and his burial at sea is a hoax and a lie. 

Assassination Pushes Libya Towards Civil War Two Years after Gaddafi Murder. By Chris Stephen in Tripoli. Fighting rages in Benghazi as Tripoli braces for fallout from the kidnapping of prime minister Ali Zaidan. 

Canada: Medical marijuana spinoff firms look to cash in on new rules Pot vending machine, software app among products on offer Ian Munroe CBC News 



NATIONAL NEWS


GENERAL INFORMATION:


Native History: Columbus--Icon and Genocidal Maniac--Lands in New World, This Date in Native History: On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani, now known as the Bahamas, wreaking hell and havoc as he went. 

Uncle Sam Shuts Down: The State Is Out Of Date by Gregory Sams. "Timing doesn’t get much more appropriate than this. On Oct 1st, the very day the US government grinds to a standstill, my book, The State Is Out of Date – We Can Do It Better, is released in its Kindle edition by Disinformation Books (special shutdown price: $2.99!)" 

‘Totally Self-Inflicted Damage:’ US on Verge of Default as Pain from 16-Day Shutdown Spreads. The partial shutdown of the federal government has entered its sixteenth day and the nation is now on the brink of a default as the government’s borrowing authority ends tomorrow. On Tuesday, Fitch Ratings warned it could cut the U.S. government’s AAA debt rating if a deal to raise the debt limit is not reached. 
  
Fox News Coverage Of Obamacare Was Extremely Misleading. Fact-finding expedition on Sean Hannity reveals Fox News deceived audience 

Food stamp recipients panic as federal EBT system crashes; government IT systems rapidly unraveling 

Food Stamp Outage Highlights Problems With Privatization of Public Services. The government shutdown was not to blame for the crashing of the food stamp program for poor families in 17 states over the weekend, just the latest in a long line of snafus by private contractors hired by government 
  
Chomsky: For Almost 70 Years the U.S. Has Been the World Leader in Spreading Destruction and Misery Across the Planet. Despite Obama's noble words, America has imposed vicious dictatorships and supported horrendous crime 
  
Americans Need to Discover How the World Sees Them. By Timothy Garton Ash The erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted - while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers. 

Letter To European Friends Understanding "The Stupid" In U.S. Politics By Bernard Weiner. I suggest that what might help you Europeans understand how Americans got to this dangerous political place is a bit of historical context: 

Martial Law and the Economy: Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse? Reports are that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is engaged in a massive, covert military buildup. An article in the Associated Press in February confirmed an open purchase order by DHS for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. According to an op-ed in Forbes, that’s enough to sustain an Iraq-sized war for over twenty years. DHS has also acquired heavily armored tanks, which have been seen roaming the streets. Evidently somebody in government is expecting some serious civil unrest. The question is, why? 

Americans Are Being Treated to Political Theater: Forget the Government Shutdown – It’s About Shutting YOU Down. The government is red, the middle class is dead & they want us all dead. Americans are being treated to political theater at its finest. It’s not a theater of entertainment, however, but a coliseum of enslavement where in the world of deception, perception becomes reality. This theater requires audience participation, where we, the theater-goers, become part of the play. We are a truly captive audience, entranced into mindlessly choosing sides at the frenzied urging of the corporate media and partisan cheerleaders firmly seated behind the microphones and television cameras of the nationally syndicated media 

Are Americans Dumb? By Sadhbh Walshe. For those of you who prefer to reserve judgment until definitive proof is on hand, then I'm afraid I have some depressing news. 

Sickening US Hypocrisy By John Haylett. Washington's self-appointed right to kidnap and kill across the world shows double standards. 

Issues and Alibis 

"A Corporate Trojan Horse": Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws 

A Caesar In Our Future? By Paul Craig Roberts. What Happens If The Shutdown Causes The Treasury To Run Out Of Money. 

Edward Snowden's Brave Integrity. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden speaking in Moscow on Oct. 9, 2013, after receiving an award from an organization of former U.S. intelligence officials. (From a video posted by WikiLeaks. President Obama says he welcomes the debate on post-9/11 surveillance of Americans and the world, but that debate was only made meaningful by the disclosures of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was then indicted and sought asylum in Russia, where he just met with some ex-U.S. intelligence officials, including Ray McGovern. 

Inside Silk Road's drug market: U.S. pot and cocaine are cheap 

US Globalized Torture Black Sites. Guantanamo is the tip of the iceberg. Dozens of US torture prisons operate globally. Afghanistan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and many other complicit US allies host them. America is by far the world’s leading human rights abuser. No nation in history matches its ruthlessness. It’s out-of-control. It’s unaccountable. It’s waging war on humanity. It’s doing it globally 

Libyan Captive Faces Interrogation Aboard Floating US 'Black Site'. Move signals Obama administration use of warship prisons to deny legal rights 

Killed by Cops Over a Movie Ticket: How Police Hurt the Disabled. A man with Down syndrome died in a confrontation with police. Officers need better training before more people die. 

How the FBI Manipulates Grand Juries to Intimidate Political Dissidents and Radicals. Grand juries have seen a resurgence as the FBI cracks down on radical communities. 

America's Police Are Looking More and More Like the Military. A Defense Department program transfers military-grade weapons and vehicles to local law enforcement. It's the last thing we need. 

Pentagon Spent $5 Billion on Weapons on Eve of Shutdown 01 Oct 2013 The Pentagon pumped billions of dollars into contractors' bank accounts on the eve of the U.S. government's shutdown that saw 400,000 Defense Department employees furloughed 

U.S. infrastructure boom in Afghanistan: $37 million aviation facility used to store opium 21 Sep 2013 The U.S.-led effort to train the Afghan air force faces big challenges ranging from security threats to possible repercussions from a new review of infrastructure and equipment projects, the U.S. general in charge said. 

Evidence Big Pharma Owns The U.S. Government. Pulling Back the Curtain on the Organized Crime Ring That Is the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel. Kills Far More People Than the Mob... Are They Jeopardizing YOUR Health? drug commercials misleading. They bribe their pawns with cash and sexual favors. They target whistleblowers right down to their home addresses. They've corrupted science, so what you see has a 4 in 5 chance of being false or misleading. And they're largely influencing your health... 
  
Government shutdown would close EPA, too. Congratulations, Congress! When you cripple the federal government, you'll also scuttle the agency that tries to keep polluters at bay. By John Upton 

Salmonella and Hepatitis Outbreaks Start Up as Government Shuts Down Dual outbreaks of salmonella and non-viral hepatitis sicken hundreds and leave one person dead, as thousands of federal food safety agency workers have been furloughed from a system neglected for years.
  
Over 865,200 Gallons of Fracked Oil Spill in North Dakota, Public in Dark for Days Due to Government Shutdown Though the spill occurred on September 29, the US National Response Center - tasked with responding to chemical and oil spills - did not make the report available until October 8 due to the ongoing government shutdown. 
  
After Sparking Outrage in Detroit, Koch Brothers’ Tar Sands Waste Now Piling Up in Chicago. Petroleum coke, a byproduct of tar sands refining, is building up along Chicago’s Calumet River and alarming residents, reported. Midwest Energy News. Petroleum coke is a high-carbon, high-sulfur byproduct of Canadian tar sands that are shipped from Alberta to the U.S. to be refined and is rapidly becoming a cause for concern in Chicago. "It’s growing by leaps and bounds," Southeast Environmental Task Force member Tom Shepherd, told Midwest Energy News. ‘It’s coming at a breathtaking rate." 

10 Things I Wish All Americans Knew About The Meat & Dairy Industries. David Simon writes "Are you being manipulated into buying things you don't want or need? In my book Meatonomics, I show that animal food producers control our everyday food-buying choices with misleading messaging, artificially low prices, and heavy control over legislation and regulation." 

Government "Washes its Hands" of Meat and Poultry Safety Inspections. Remember in the mid-1990s when USDA began telling people to wash their cutting boards and utensils after preparing meat and always use a meat thermometer? Because US meat and poultry is so full of pathogens, if you don't kill them they might kill you? That was the beginning of the government's move to pass food safety risks on to customers, and, more distressingly, to meat processors themselves. The move is continuing 

Unease in Hawaii’s Cornfields. The balmy tropical isles here seem worlds apart from the expansive cornfields of the Midwest, but Hawaii has become the latest battleground in the fight over genetically modified crops. The state has become a hub for the development of genetically engineered corn and other crops that are sold to farmers around the globe. Monsanto and other seed companies have moved here en masse, and corn now sprouts on thousands of acres where sugar cane or pineapples once grew. But activists opposed to biotech crops have joined with residents who say the corn farms expose them to dust and pesticides, and they are trying to drive the companies away, or at least rein them in. The companies counter that their operations are safe and that the industry is essential to Hawaii’s economy. In the last two weeks, legislative committees on the islands of Kauai and Hawaii have approved proposed ordinances that would restrict the ability of the seed companies to operate. The Kauai bill will go before the full County Council on Tuesday 

Petition against a Monsanto executive from winning this year’s "Nobel Prize of agriculture" -- the prestigious World Food Prize -- for creating GMOs. In an obscene development, a Monsanto executive is winning this year’s "Nobel Prize of agriculture" -- the prestigious World Food Prize -- for creating GMOs. Receiving it legitimizes the sort of rampant genetic modification Monsanto pioneered, and helps validate a ruthless business model that impoverishes farmers and monopolizes our food. If that wasn't baffling enough, the founder of Syngenta, the same biotech giant joining Bayer in suing Europe to keep selling bee-killing pesticides, will also win the prize -- and with it, a share of the $250,000 prize money. We cannot allow this prize to legitimize frankenfoods and bee killers. The ceremony is in less than two weeks, so we need to act now. 

Secret list of food companies funding GMO-labeling opposition slush fund revealed after illegal activities of GMA 
  
Is America Teetering on the Edge of the Hunger Cliff? Poverty rates have not gone down and hunger in our country may be at its highest levels since the Great Depression.
Salmonella breaks out around U.S. as feds stay home. As more than 100 people have been sickened by antibiotic-proof salmonella, 30 federal food-safety workers are ordered back on the job. 

Death of Impoverished Pennsylvania Professor Illustrates Plight of Adjuncts. The majority of college instruction in America is now provided by part-time workers. These professionals- called adjuncts- receive no benefits or security. Their pay is paltry. Their numbers are growing. Why are they treated so poorly? It's because college administrations realize that they comprise a cheap labor source. They are exploited in the name of naked profit 
  
4 in 5 in USA Face Near-poverty, No Work. By Hope Yen, AP Business Writer. "It's time that America comes to understand that many of the nation's biggest disparities, from education and life expectancy to poverty, are increasingly due to economic class position," 

The Bay Area's 1 Percent Forces Out the 99. Gibson writes: "The San Francisco Bay Guardian highlighted how speculators and hedge funds have figured out ways to game the system to their benefit by exploiting a loophole in housing law." 

The True Cost of a Flawed Health Care Paradigm 
Read Before Paying Your Next Hospital Bill: Could Save You Bankruptcy or Thousands of Dollars. 

How American Paranoia About Islamic Terrorism Parallels the War on Drugs. The author of the book 'Tripping With Allah' puts his Islamic identity in conversation with psychedelic drug use, and American culture. 

Autistic Teen Tricked into Buying Weed for Undercover Cop [Video]This is a grotesque example of how war on drugs policies encourage law enforcement officials to use predatory tactics. 

Why Didn't the Shutdown Cut Funding for the DEA? It's One of the Least 'Essential' Govt. Agencies. The DEA is a failed institution. 

US Supreme Court Rejects Marijuana Reclassification Appeal. So, marijuana remains in the category reserved for the most dangerous substances. 

Jerry Brown Vetoes California "Defelonization" Bill. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) Saturday vetoed a bill that would have allowed prosecutors or judges to charge simple drug possession as a misdemeanor instead of a felony. The bill would have made drug possession a "wobbler," meaning it could be charged either way, based on judicial or prosecutorial discretion. 

What Gives? California Gov. Jerry Brown Lines Up With NRA and Prison-Industrial ComplexThe only explanation for Brown’s maddening decisions is that he's positioning himself for re-election in November 2014 

Who Masterminded U.S. Pot Prohibition? Harry Anslinger testified that marijuana induces homicidal mania, but he was just one witness in a strange show trial. 

Ethan Nadelmann's Visionary Speech on How Society Should Deal with Drug UseThe failure of the War on Drugs has never been more obvious. 

The New Reefer Madness: Drug War Crusaders Blame Pot Growers for Dead Animals -- But the Drug War's to Blame. Law enforcement is now pointing to the environmental harms caused by illegal pot farms to justify the ongoing Drug War. But they've got it backwards 

Denver floats new rules that could make even the odor of pot a crime. Even the smell of marijuana wafting from your backyard could be illegal if Denver City Council in Colorado USA passes a new ordinance. Denver officials, responding to fears that public pot consumption could become an ever-present problem in the Mile High City, will propose a set of new rules for open consumption and possession of marijuana. The ordinance, being introduced at a committee meeting Monday in advance of the legalization of retail pot sales in January, would specifically ban marijuana from parks and the 16th Street Mall. It also would prohibit smoking on private property if it is visible to the public, such as on a front porch or in a car, or if the odor of pot could be detected from a neighboring property 

The truth about marijuana: Bridging the gap between health care and hippies. Americans can't seem to come to a consensus on pot. 

Vets and Seniors Are Ending the Drug War Our political system is still very much a democracy when this many people care. 

Alcohol Has Killed Thousands Of People Since This Morning. Pot Use Has Killed Zero Since Forever. 

The White Man's Last Tantrum. Parry writes: "The real question is not what policy concessions the Tea Partiers may extract, but rather can a determined right-wing white minority ensure continuation of white supremacy in the United States?" 

WAR:W

2500+ Murdered by US Drones in Pakistan, Names of Victims Now Available. Video By Real News U.S. government claims drone victims are mostly militants, but about half identified victims thus far are civilians and children. 

The government's reptile brain remains in full operation. It hasn't shut down war, just compassion and common sense 

POLITICAL:PO

4 Reasons Right-Wing Christians Salivate for the End Times. People like Michele Bachmann and Pat Robertson seem to yearn for the apocalypse. 
Will Obama Abandon Tens of Millions of Seniors to Get a Budget Deal with Right-Wing Republicans? Are cuts to Social Security and Medicare on the table? 
Tea Party Shows Racist Roots at White House Protest. Capehart writes: "If you want to curdle the blood of an African American and send a message of menace without resorting to burning a cross on the lawn or marching around in white sheets all one need do is wave the Confederate flag. So imagine my revulsion at the sight of one outside the front gates of the White House." 

The GOP's little rule change they hoped you wouldn't notice 
  
George W. Bush and the Real Story of the Great Recession. Grossman writes: "The bulk of the blame for the crisis must be assigned to the Bush administration's fiscal policy and the Greenspan Fed's monetary policy. Why? Quite simply: fear and greed."


ECONOMY:
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Get Your Fiscal House in Order: China Warns US as Asia's Expresses Concern for $1.3tn of Investments. 'Clock is ticking', says Chinese minister, as US fails to break deadlock over government shutdown and fast-approaching ‘debt ceiling’ deadline 

Interview with World Bank whistleblower - Economy is about to crash bigtime!
The Vipers of High Finance. Who controls your life? Who decides your future—and whether or not you're going to have one? Not you. Who do your kids depend on for the food on the table and the education—such as it is—that they receive? Not you and not their teachers. We live in what is essentially a vast slave state that is international in scope, upon which we are all dependent for our livelihoods and our lives. This slave state uses our work as collateral on which it loads endless masses of debt. It has mortgaged our futures, our children's and grandchildren's futures and—in fact—the future itself, in service to a vast, immeasurably cruel and universal system of servitude 

SURVEILLANCE/FRINGE POSSIBILITIES:


Search Engine Manipulation. Google and YouTube Suppress Controversial 9/11 Truth. With polls consistently showing that approximately 50% of Canadians and Americans doubt the official story of 9/11, the feat of keeping the lid on a public debate for over 12 years has been nothing short of miraculous. This article presents a simple case study showing that this miracle is being performed with the assistance of Google and YouTube search engine interference 


440hz music Conspiracy to detune us from natural 432hz harmonics. Most music worldwide has been tuned to 440 hertz since the International Standards Organization (ISO) endorsed it in 1953. The recent rediscoveries of the vibratory / oscillatory nature of the universe indicate that this contemporary international concert pitch standard may generate an unhealthy effect or anti-social behavior in the consciousness of human beings. Self test included on the site 

"September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor." A Documentary By Massimo Mazzucco. By David Ray Griffin 

Monsanto buys Blackwater-largest mercenary army in the world 

7 High Ranking Military Officers Fired By Obama, 1st Time In US History; Are These the Ones That Wont Cooperate With The Impending Martial Law In The US? (Video) 

World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World. The goal is control. They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into their campaigns. Since the elite also own all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works. Remember, this is not some "conspiracy theorist" that is saying these things. This is a Yale-educated attorney that worked inside the World Bank for more than two decades 
  
Russell Brand: Humanity Coming Out of The Cave 

Silk Road closes: Here's The Seemingly Ordinary Man Who Allegedly Ran The Internet's Biggest Black Market 

US Government Program To Control Religious Thought? Video. Is the U.S. Government working on a program to...well...program the way you view religion? A whistleblower who has worked on that program says yes and he wants you to know exactly what has been going on. 



HUMOR/WEIRD STUFF:


The Nazis’ Bizarre Plan To Breed Giant Angora Rabbits. A bizarre Nazi plan to breed giant Angora rabbits in concentration camps to provide fur-lined clothing for Hitler’s armed forces has been unearthed in a German archive. 

Mommie Dearest. Thepope beatifies Mother Teresa, a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud. 
Rare Oarfish Carcass Discovered Off the Coast of California. In a rare sighting off the coast of Catalina Island in California, a bizarre, snake-like carcass was discovered. The eighteen-foot-long oarfish was dragged to shore in what is being called a "discovery of a lifetime 
Cops Plotting Bizarre Gay Sex Sting Terrorize Disabled Child and Brutalize His Caretaker sex sting goes terribly awry. 
Sheep Revolt When Police Uproot Marijuana Plants Where Flock Grazed. Italian sheep "rebelled" when police swooped on a patch of land where the flock grazed on more than just green grass: the land was also used to cultivate marijuana plants. The sheep’s owner had set up an illegal marijuana plantation on his land in Coppito, L’Aquila. The sheep lived and grazed where he grew his marijuana plants, and became accustomed to munching on them. 


QUOTES FOR THE WEEK:
 QUOTES:
"If [America] becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable." - William Graham Sumner
Democracies become dictatorships if governments do not listen to the voice of the people." - Tom Van Meurs
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people." - Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis
"Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance." - George Bernard Shaw
"Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population..." - Jean-Paul Sartre
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too." - Marcus Aurelius
"Only the winners decide what were war crimes." - Gary Wills
"For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit." - Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
"Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts." - Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
"A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go." - Jack London
" Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on Earth." - Eugene V. Debs, Speech, June 16, 1918
"A people at war have become in the most literal sense obedient, respectful, trustful children again, full of that naive faith in the all-wisdom and all-power of the adult who takes care of them, imposes his mild but necessary rule upon them and to whom they lose their responsibility and anxieties. In this recrudescence of the child, there is great comfort, and a certain influx of power. On most people the strain of being an independent adult weighs heavily . . ." - Randolph Bourne, The State
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other." - Thomas Carlyle
"Not only do . . . rulers keep many millions of men whose only trade is war, but these must be supported in worse than useless idleness by the labor of the poor. Still other millions are trained to war and are ever ready to answer to their master's call, to desert their homes and trades and offer up their lives to satisfy the vain ambitions of the ruler of the state. Millions more must give their strength and lives to build forts and ships, make guns and cannon and all the modern implements of war. Apart from any moral question of the right of man to slay his fellow man, all this great burden rests upon the poor. The vast expense of war comes from the production of the land and must serve to weaken and impair its industrial strength." - Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein (attributed)
"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
"The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?" - Alexander Berkman
"Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone." - Ambrose Bierce
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
\Friedrich Nietzsche
"We place no race or people above any other, acknowledge no superiority in any culture, honor no special privilege in any nation, and have no respect for any creed that limits the absolute freedom of the human mind." - ClassWarFilms
'A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.' Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has." -
Margaret Mead
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." - Jack Layton
"Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?" - Peter Hitchens
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth."   
-William W. Purkey

Beatles

Beatles

Beatles

Beatles

Beatles

Beatles

Give Peace a Chance

Give Peace a Chance

John Lennon

John Lennon
Imagine

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Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

Dr. Albert Hofmann

Dr. Albert Hofmann
Godfather

Doctor Tim

Doctor Tim
Third Eye Past Infinity

Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones
Satanic Majesty's Request

Rolling Stones 2000 light years

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd
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Favorite Records./Musicians (1-50)

  • Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
  • Beatles: Sgt. Peppers
  • Beatles: White Album
  • Led Zeppelin: 1
  • Rolling Stones: Let it Bleed
  • Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
  • Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
  • Led Zeppelin: 2
  • Beatles: Revolver
  • Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced
  • Grateful Dead: Live '72
  • Cream: Disraeli Gears
  • Beatles: Abbey Road
  • Big Brother/Janis: Cheap Thrills
  • Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
  • Jeff Beck/Rod Steward: Faith
  • Jimi Hendrix: Axis Bold As Love
  • Grateful Dead: Anthem to the Sun
  • Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
  • Traffic: first one
  • Doors: first one
  • Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties
  • Ten Years After: Cricklewood Green
  • Spirit: The Family That Plays Together
  • Cream: Wheels of Fire
  • Stepenwolf: first one
  • Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxters
  • Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
  • Traffic: Dear Mr. Fantasy
  • Greatful Dead: Aoxoxo..
  • Animals: Love Is
  • Pink Floyd: Ungamunga
  • Miles Davis: In a Silent Way
  • Tim Buckley: Blue Melody
  • Tim Leary/Jimi Hendrix: You Can Be Anyone
  • Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow
  • Doors: Soft Parade
  • Joe Cocker: first one
  • Ravi Shankar: Monterey
  • Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
  • George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
  • Doors: Strange Days
  • Jimi Hendrix: Cry of Love
  • Weather Report: I Sing the Body Electric
  • Doors: Waiting for the Sun
  • John Coltrane: My Favorite Things
  • Grateful Dead: first
  • Zappa: Hot Rats
  • Traffic: Low Spark of High Heel Boys
  • Jethro Tull: Aqualung

Muses

Muses

Favorite Records/Musicians (50-100)

  • Tim Buckley: Greetings From LA
  • Allman Brothers: Live At the Filmore
  • Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire
  • John Mclaughlin: Love, Devotion and Surrender
  • Santana: first
  • Pink Floyd: BBC
  • Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
  • Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
  • Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Sessions/Another Bitches Brew
  • Grateful Dead: (live from the 80's)
  • Crosby Stills Nash and Young: deja vu
  • Bob Dylan: Subterenean Homesick Blues
  • Tim Buckley: Happy Sad
  • Weather Report: second
  • Santana/McLauglin: Love, Devotion and Surrender
  • Bob Dylan: Hwy 61 Revisited
  • Derek and the Dominoes: Layla
  • David Crosby: If I Could Remember My Name
  • Mahavishnu Orchestra
  • Jimi Hendrix: Rainbow Bridge
  • Led Zeppelin: III
  • Pink Floyd: Shine on You Crazy Diamond
  • Miles Davis: Live-Evil
  • Grateful Dead: live 90's
  • Beatles: Rubber Soul
  • Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
  • Jimi Hendrix: Cry of Love
  • Moody Blues: In Search of the Lost Chord
  • Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
  • John Mclauglin: My Goal's Beyond
  • Santana: Welcome
  • Country Joe: Electric Music
  • Pink Floyd: Pompei
  • Moody Blues: Tomorrow
  • Who: Tommy
  • Stevie Wonder: Talking Book
  • Jimi Hendrix: Midnight Lightning
  • Frank Zappa: Us and Them
  • Quicksilver: first one
  • Spirit: Fresh Garbage
  • Mothers of Invention: Only in it for the Money
  • Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishman
  • Bob Dylan: Another Side Of
  • Cream: Fresh
  • Yes: first
  • Who: Live at Leeds
  • Rolling Stones: High Tides
  • Tim Buckley: Safronia
  • King Crimson: Court of Crimson King

Sirens

Sirens

Favorite Records/Musicians(100-150)

  • Paul Butterfield-East West
  • Jean Luc Ponty: Enigmatic Voyage
  • Miles Davis: Seven Steps
  • Shawn Philips: Faces
  • Byrds: Notorious Bird Brothers
  • Steppenwolf: Monster
  • Raphael; Music to Disapear In 2
  • Buffalo Springfield: Retrospect
  • Neil Young: first
  • Beatles: Let it Be
  • Pink Floyd: Meddle
  • Neil Young: Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
  • Allman Brothers: Eat a Peach
  • Frank Zappa: Apostrophe
  • Gong
  • Miles Davis: Big Fun
  • Neil Young: Zuma
  • Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
  • Doors: Morrison Hotel
  • Soft Machine-first
  • Grand Funk Railroad: Closer to Home
  • Jefferson Starship: Blows Against the Empire
  • John Luc Ponty: Tales of...
  • Blind Faith
  • Neil Young: Harvest
  • Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers
  • Eric Burdon and War
  • Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons
  • Jefferson Airplane: Bless Its Pointed Little Head
  • Cream: Goodbye
  • Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
  • Who: Who's Next
  • Quicksilver: first
  • Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young: 4 Way Street
  • Tim Buckley: Happy/Sad
  • Lauro Nyro: Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
  • Spirit: Ice
  • Shawn Phillips: Colaboration
  • Rolling Stones: Only Rock and Roll
  • Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame
  • Pink Floyd: Animals
  • Traffic: Last Exit
  • Stevie Wonder: Talking Book
  • Pink Floyd: Obscured by Clouds
  • Jean Luc Ponty: Cosmic Messenger
  • Steve Stills: first
  • Bob Marley: Exodus
  • Pink Floyd: Saucer Full of Secrets
  • Traffic: Shoot Out at the Fantasy Farm
  • It's A Beautiful Day: first
  • Pete Townsend: Who Came First
  • Mothers of Invention: Freak Out
  • Doors: LA Woman

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